A dramatic late comeback saw Edinburgh snatch victory from the jaws of a potential 10th straight defeat to deny Newport Gwent Dragons at Myreside.

The visitors built a 20-3 lead with 10 minutes left after tries from Pat Howard and Carl Meyer and two penalties from Angus O'Brien.
Edinburgh's Blair Kinghorn had a try disallowed for an Allan Dell offence but crossed with seven minutes left.
Damian Hoyland added a second before Grant Gilchrist plunged over late on.
Referee Dan Jones referred the try to the television match official, but it was belatedly confirmed to end a wretched run stretching back to Edinburgh's only other victory since moving to Myreside - against Romanian minnows Timisoara Saracens in the European Challenge Cup back in January.
For the Dragons, it was an agonising finale as they slipped to an eighth straight Pro12 defeat, and 11th in a row in all competitions.
Edinburgh had made a bright start, going ahead with an early penalty from Jason Tovey and dominating possession and territory, not that they could do anything with the ball they had.
For the first 20 minutes they had 70% of the ball against one of the Pro12's worst defences, a side that conceded six penalties in the opening quarter and who had not won a match away from home in a year. The Dragons had lost 18 in a row on the road before coming to Myreside.
Edinburgh, once again, proved the most obliging of hosts. They created some good opportunities but did not have the wit to break the Dragons down. Edinburgh had not won in nine games and the Dragons had not won in 10. The opening half-hour reflected that. It was wretched stuff.
The Dragons had more about them, though. When Tovey and Glenn Bryce collided trying to gather the same ball, the visitors went downfield and eventually scored when Howard went through weak Edinburgh defence. O'Brien put over a fine conversion to make 7-3 to the Welsh side.
The Dragons are living in troubling times but O'Brien boomed over a penalty just before the break to stretch their lead to seven points. Edinburgh's ownership of the ball had long gone at that point. What few attacks they mustered, the Dragons dealt with comfortably.
The visitors struck out again. A drive into the Edinburgh 22 by Nic Cudd was the beginning of it, then Junior Rasolea shot out of the line into no-man's land and the Dragons took advantage. Sam Beard put Meyer away and O'Brien lashed over the conversion.
Edinburgh's capacity to load the gun and empty both barrels into their own feet was seen again when they looked to have scored through replacement Kinghorn just after the hour. No. Instead, the try was ruled out, correctly, for a Dell shoulder-charge on Meyer, who was competing for the ball at the pivotal breakdown. No points and no Edinburgh loose-head prop either. Dell was binned.
O'Brien's unerring boot landed another penalty to make it 20-3, but it did not last. Charlie Davies, the Dragons scrum-half, was binned and Kinghorn crashed over just after. Tovey's conversion made it 20-10.
Edinburgh drove on. They had life about them at last. Six minutes after scoring their first try, they scored again, Hoyland taking Tovey's lovely inside pass and going over at the posts. The conversion was good and, suddenly, its was a three-point game at 20-17.
Only a couple of minutes remained and things got utterly frenetic. Cudd was binned as Edinburgh went for broke. They won a penalty under the Dragons posts, tapped it in search for a try instead of kicking it for a draw. Gilchrist ploughed over in a dramatic endgame.
Tovey's conversion completed a remarkable comeback - from 20-3 down after 70 minutes to 24-20 at the end. Not pretty, but remarkable all the same.
Edinburgh interim head coach Duncan Hodge: "It is fantastic.  The first four league games here we have lost by a score, so it is nice to win one by a score.
"We started brightly but couldn't quite score, made a couple of mistakes and then we nose-dived. We just needed a bit of a shot in the arm to give us confidence and as soon as we scored, we scored three in 10 minutes.
"We probably worked harder in that last 15 minutes than we had for most of the game, and that is what we will take from this. We had to work that hard for the whole game.
"Some of the intensity wasn't there for most of the game. It was there for 20 minutes and then it nose-dived until the final 15 minutes. To be honest we were probably a bit desperate at the end.
"It's probably not been easy for our fans to watch but it is great to get the  win in front of them at Myreside. Hopefully that will give us some confidence for next season and we can have a real crack at Glasgow next week now."
Edinburgh:  Glenn Bryce; Damien Hoyland, Chris Dean, Junior Rasolea, Rory Scholes, Jason Tovey, Nathan Fowles; Allan Dell, George Turner, Simon Berghan, Grant Gilchrist (capt), Ben Toolis, Viliame Mata, Hamish Watson, Cornell du Preez.
Replacements: Ross Ford (for Turner, 55), Murray McCallum (for Mata, 68), John Hardie (for Dell, 76), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (for Fowles, 50), Blair Kinghorn (for Rasolea, 61).
Not Used: Kevin Bryce, Fraser McKenzie, Duncan Weir.
Yellow card: Dell (65)
Newport Gwent Dragons: Carl Meyer; Adam Hughes, Sam Beard, Jack Dixon, Pat Howard, Angus O'Brien; Charlie Davies; Thomas Davies, Thomas Rhys Thomas, Brok Harris, Matthew Screech, Cory Hill, Lewis Evans (capt)), Nic Cudd, Ollie Griffiths.
Replacements: Craig Mitchell (for B. Harris, 66), Rynard Landman (for Screech (66), Harrison Keddie (for Evans, 70), Geraint Rhys Jones (for Meyer, 68).
Not Used: Rhys Buckley, Phil Price, Owain Leonard, Tom Prydie.
Yellow cards: C Davies (72), Cudd (80)
Referee: Dan Jones (Wales)
Assistant referees: Wayne Davies (Wales), Cammy Rudkin (Scotland)
TMO: Jon Mason (Wales)


A man has appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a grandmother was killed in a crash in Newport.

Christine Rowe, 70, from Newport, died after her Vauxhall Zafira collided with a Ford Transit van on Chepstow Road, near Beechwood Park, on Monday.
An 80-year-old man was also injured in the crash on Monday.
The 34-year-old van driver was remanded in custody to appear at Newport Crown court on 5 July.
He is also charged with causing serious injury to Mr Rowe and with failing to stop after a collision.
In tribute to Ms Rowe, her family said in a statement: "Loving wife, mum and nan, who will be missed by everyone who knew her. A piece of our hearts has been taken away."


A bogus workman stole an 80-year-old woman's life savings after conning his way into her house in Glasgow.

The man told the woman he had spotted a leak in her bathroom while working on the roof of her block of flats in Summerston.
She allowed him into a flat where he stole a five-figure sum of money before fleeing.
The robbery happened in Rothes Drive at about 13:00 on Thursday.
Police said the pensioner was not injured during the incident but was "extremely upset".
The suspect is described as white, between 40 and 50 years old, 5ft 8in tall and of medium build. He was clean-shaven and was wearing a beige jacket.
Det Con Gary Boyle, of Maryhill CID, appealed for witnesses, saying: "Although the lady involved may not have been physically injured during incident, she is extremely upset about what happened and very saddened by the fact that someone she thought was there to help her has taken advantage of her and stolen her life savings.
"We do not think the lady was specifically targeted, we believe it was more opportunistic, and so would ask if anyone in the area has, in the last few days, been approached in the same manner by a man fitting the description.
"If you have any information that will assist officers with their enquiries, then please contact Maryhill CID via 101."


Defending champions Saracens survived a first-half examination from Munster before taking control to reach a third Champions Cup final in four years.

Munster dominated the first half but somehow trailed 6-3 at the break, Tyler Bleyendaal landing one penalty to two from Owen Farrell.
A converted Mako Vunipola try saw Saracens start to pull away.
And, with Farrell landing his shots at goal for a 100% record, a Chris Wyles try saw them home with some ease.
Saracens will face the winner of Sunday's Clermont Auvergne v Leinster match in the final in Edinburgh on Saturday, 13 May.
The scoreline might suggest it was yet another ruthless performance from Saracens, who did the English and European double last year, but for the first 40 minutes it looked as though it might be two-time former winners Munster heading to Murrayfield.
Their run to the last four has been hugely emotional, with head coach Anthony Foley dying the night before they were due to face Racing 92 in their opening match in this season's European Champions Cup.
Determined to honour the memory of a true Munster man, they had rekindled memories of their European reign a decade ago and their passionate supporters filled nine-tenths of the 51,300 seats in the Aviva Stadium.
Roared on by their fans they had two-thirds of the territory and three-quarters of the possession in the opening half, but superb defence from Saracens kept them at bay and ensured that the romantics hoping for a Munster victory were denied by the pragmatists from north London.
Saracens are renowned for the ruthless efficiency of their game, content to kick for territory before launching attacks, and happy to use their 'Wolfpack' defence to not only keep the opposition at bay but drive them back behind the gainline.
And it was their defence that kept them in it during an opening 40 minutes that saw them pinned inside their own half by the accurate boots of Munster half-backs Duncan Williams and Bleyendaal.
Indiscipline prevented Saracens from building any momentum of their own.
But no matter how hard Munster pressed they could not break down the Londoners' defensive wall, and so obdurate were they that, despite being under the cosh for long periods, the champions turned round three points to the good.
After the restart it was the most workmanlike part of the game that saw them wrest the upper hand, with their front row increasingly dominant in the scrums as tight-head Vincent Koch turned on the power.
A trickle of penalties enabled England sharp-shooter Farrell to edge them further into the lead and after cutting out the silly penalties of the first half they assumed total control.
They were still far from perfect and added two more bad misses to one in the first half, when Richard Wigglesworth had dropped the ball with a clear run to the line.
First Alex Goode passed behind Chris Ashton with a try begging, before George Kruis showed his rugby intelligence to pick and drive from a ruck, only to drop the ball as he reached to score.
But England prop Vunipola rumbled over to give them a 10-point lead and with their big carriers - brother Billy prominent among them - now smashing over the gainline, the momentum had swung entirely.
Replacement Wyles latched on to a Farrell grubber kick to put them out of sight and although Lions tourist Stander scored a late consolation, it was long since clear that it was the businesslike Londoners who were headed to the final.
Saracens boss Mark McCall:
"I thought our defence was extraordinary. We soaked up a lot of pressure and coped with their attack really well.
"The game started exactly as they would have wanted. We couldn't really escape our half in the first half but our defence remained good.
"It was a brilliant occasion. Munster's supporters are as good as any in the world. In the face of that, the fight and the togetherness we had to show, to win the game was brilliant."
Munster boss Rassie Erasmus:
"We played against a team that were better than us. That's a reality.
"Even though there were stages that were close and we had a few opportunities, I thought the scoreboard was a true reflection of the game."
Munster: Zebo; Conway, Taute, R Scannell, Earls; Bleyendaal, Williams; Kilcoyne, N Scannell, J Ryan, D Ryan, B Holland, P O'Mahony, O'Donnell, Stander.
Replacements: Saili for Taute (55), Sweetnam for Earls (63), Keatley for Bleyendaal (71), Cronin for Kilcoyne (56), Marshall for N Scannell (60), Archer for J Ryan (63), D. O'Callaghan for P O'Mahony (52), Deysel for O'Donnell (50).
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt, Maitland; Farrell, Wigglesworth; M Vunipola, George, Koch, Itoje, Kruis, Rhodes, Wray, B Vunipola.
Replacements: Lozowski for Bosch (74), Wyles for Maitland (62), Spencer for Wigglesworth (71), Lamositele for M Vunipola (71), Brits for George (50), du Plessis for Koch (71), Hamilton for Itoje (74), S Burger for Wray (55).
Sin Bin: Wray (22).
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Turkey's foreign minister says it has agreed with Russia a proposal for a ceasefire in Syria, where they back opposing sides in the civil war.

Mevlut Cavusoglu said a document outlining a political solution to the conflict was also "ready", and that both could be "implemented any time".
His comments came hours after Turkey's state news agency said a ceasefire might start at midnight (22:00 GMT).
A Kremlin spokesman said he could not comment on Anadolu's report.
Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russian officials were "constantly in touch with our Turkish colleagues" to discuss details about possible peace talks in Kazakhstan next month.
There was also no immediate response from the Syrian government, while rebel officials could not confirm that anything had been agreed.
Russia - which has carried out an air campaign in support of President Bashar al-Assad - and Turkey - a major backer of the rebellion - announced last week that they were ready to help end the war.
Along with Iran, another staunch ally of President Assad, they agreed a set of principles for any peace deal.
Earlier this month, Moscow and Ankara negotiated a ceasefire in the northern city of Aleppo that led to tens of thousands of rebel fighters and civilians being evacuated from an enclave besieged by government forces.
On Wednesday morning, Turkey's official Anadolu news agency cited an unnamed Turkish source as saying the two countries had "agreed on a plan for the warring parties in Syria to declare a nationwide ceasefire".
The source said it would come into force in areas where government and rebel forces were fighting, and that "terrorist organisations" would be excluded, without giving further details.
Mr Cavusoglu was later asked about the report by a small group of journalists on the sidelines of an awards ceremony at the presidential palace in Ankara.
"There are two texts ready on a solution in Syria. One is about a political resolution and the other is about a ceasefire. They can be implemented any time," he was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
The foreign minister also stressed that Syria's opposition would never agree to President Assad remaining in power as part of any political transition.
One Syrian rebel official told Reuters that there had been discussions about the proposed ceasefire with Turkish officials, but could not confirm whether anything had been agreed. Another said nothing had been presented officially.
The last round of UN-brokered talks aimed at finding a political solution to the conflict ended in April, after a nationwide cessation of hostilities negotiated by Russia and the US the previous month collapsed.
Another cessation of hostilities agreed in September was meant to see the US and Russia co-ordinate air strikes against two UN-designated terrorist organisations - so-called Islamic State and the rival jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. But it also broke down within days.
In a separate development on Wednesday, Russia's foreign ministry said its embassy in Damascus had been shelled, but that there were no casualties.
Meanwhile, activists said at least 22 civilians, including 10 children, had been killed in an air strike on an IS-held village in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that unidentified warplanes had bombed the village of Hajna on Tuesday night.
IS-held territory in Syria is frequently targeted by the Syrian and Russian air forces, as well as a US-led multinational coalition battling the jihadist group.


Fifty jobs could be lost with the possible closure of the grocery department at a west Belfast branch of Dunnes Stores.

The company have informed staff that the Park Centre food hall is at risk of closure.  A further 50 employees work in the clothing section of the store.
Over the last year, the firm has closed three Northern Ireland stores at Antrim, Ballymoney and Connswater.
The Unite union described it as "a severe setback" for the area.
"This is a cruel blow which will mean dozens of workers face redundancy in the weeks before Christmas," the union's Sean Smyth said.
"Those who face redundancy include full-time and part-time workers from every background, including students."
Paddy Lillis of the shopworkers' union, Usdaw, said the possibility of redundancies ahead of Christmas would be "devastating for the staff affected and raises substantial questions about the business case for this".
"The next two months are traditionally the best in the retail calendar, so it is very concerning that this decision has been made before there could be a proper assessment of the viability of the food hall," he added.
Sinn FÃ©in MP for west Belfast Paul Maskey called on Dunnes Stores management to meet him in the "immediate future in the interest of protecting the workers' rights and ensuring adequate arrangements are put in place surrounding the proposed redundancies".
"I have contacted Dunnes Stores to speak with me as the local MP for two weeks now on any possible announcement," he added. "They failed to meet with me.
"We now have a situation where 50 people have lost their jobs with little clarity around the terms, conditions or timeline. This is unacceptable and no way to treat a workforce."
"I think this is really a story about the huge competition in the food retail sector in Northern Ireland.
"Dunnes is a reasonably small player in that sector and I think one of the things we have to look at is what I call the "Lidl factor".
"Lidl, the German discount supermarket is expanding all the time, it is growing market share, and it is really forcing the other retailers to compete on price.
"Dunnes seems to be particularly badly affected by that because we just have to look at the Dunnes Store in Portadown, it has done the same thing it is doing in the Park Centre. It is keeping the clothing side of the business but closing down the food side of the business - so clearly it is under pressure in terms of food retailing."
Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (NIIRTA) chief executive Glyn Roberts said it had been "a truly dreadful week for job losses in Northern Ireland".
Dunnes is an anchor tenant at the Park Centre.
It also recently closed the grocery section in its Portadown store, while the average number of staff fell from about 1,700 to 1,600 throughout Northern Ireland.
Recently filed accounts for its NI registered business, Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd show that in the year up to the end of January 2015 it made a pre-tax profit of Â£11m on turnover of Â£137m.


Parties campaigning in the March Assembly election spent less than half of what they spent on the previous election 10 months earlier.

Nine parties paid a total of £150,080, compared with £343,558 in May 2016, according to the Electoral Commission.
The Electoral Commission is investigating why a third of parties submitted returns late or not at all.
Sinn Féin was the highest spender at £46,591, Alliance second at £32,456, while the UUP spent £26,443.
The DUP, which won most seats with 28, was the fourth highest spender on £21,929. The SDLP spent £14,971.
Parties that contested the election were required to submit a campaign spending return for the regulated period which ran from 16 January 2017 to polling day, on 2 March 2017.
The figures show the snap election appears to have strained party finances, says BBC News NI political correspondent Gareth Gordon.
The Conservative and Unionist Party, Cross-Community Labour Alternative, The Workers Party and UKIP all submitted "nil returns" - meaning the parties submitted the forms but said they had not spent any money on the campaign.
Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance, the Conservative and Unionist Party, Cross-Community Labour Alternative, The Workers Party and Traditional Unionist Voice all submitted their returns to the commission late.
The Progressive Unionist Party of Northern Ireland failed to submit its return.
Ann Watt, head of the Electoral Commission in Northern Ireland, expressed disappointment at the failures and said they were being considered "in line with the Electoral Commission's enforcement policy".


A complex containing a multi-screen cinema and restaurants is set to be built on a former hospital site which has been derelict for 10 years.

Loughborough General Hospital on Baxter Gate, which closed in 2003, was demolished last year.
Developer Citygrove said it hoped to finish construction in 2015 and create about 180 jobs.
Charnwood Borough Council said the new development "fits in with the town centre's master plan very well".
Councillor David Slater, leader of the council, said: "That part of town has been run down ever since the NHS departed from the old hospital.
"The building was knocked down and there was a big gap there and the traders on Baxter Gate aren't getting many people walking up there."
Les Cope-Newman, from Loughborough's Business Improvement District, said: "The site has been empty and long overdue for development.
"It's going to be a massive improvement to that side of town and Baxter Gate as well."


A rare folio of Shakespeare's work is being displayed at Durham University.

The 1623 first edition of the bard's work was stolen from the university in 1998. Its bindings and some pages were removed to try to disguise its origins.
Visitors to the exhibition at the new Wolfson Gallery at the university can view it in its current condition.
It will be conserved to protect it from damage after the exhibition. It is one of the earliest examples of a gathering together of the playwright's work.
Raymond Scott, 53, of Wingate, County Durham, was cleared of stealing the book, but found guilty of handling stolen goods and jailed for eight years in July.
He was also convicted of taking stolen goods abroad.
The folio, which has an estimated value of £1.5m, will form the centrepiece of the Treasures of Durham University in the refurbished Wolfson Gallery.
The new gallery has undergone a £2.3m refurbishment, funded in part by a £500,000 donation from the Wolfson Foundation - a charity that awards grants to support excellence in the fields of science and medicine, health, education and the arts and humanities.
Chancellor of Durham University, Bill Bryson, is the guest curator of this first exhibition, which covers topics including culture, science, faith and religion, reform and rule, and local history.
The treasures have been drawn from collections across the university.
The Shakespeare First Folio will be on display until 6 March.


An Australian man detained in the US for overstaying his visa by 90 minutes has been released, his family says.

Baxter Reid, 26, had tried to enter Canada for a holiday just before his US visa expired at midnight on 23 April.
Relatives said Mr Reid was held up by Canadian officials before being sent back to the US, by which time his visa was invalid.
He was released from custody on Wednesday and will not be deported, according to his brother, Alex Reid.
"He's free to leave of his own accord," Alex Reid told the BBC, adding that his brother would be allowed to return.
"He's not angry, he's not upset, he doesn't hold grudges. He's just happy."
Mr Reid was with his American girlfriend, Heather Kancso, when he was handcuffed at the border in upstate New York.
According to his family, Mr Reid was on a visa that required him to leave the country before six months elapsed. He had planned to return to the US after visiting Canada.
It was not clear why Mr Reid had been turned away by Canada, his brother said.
"He's just a typical Australian tourist just travelling America with his girlfriend," Alex Reid said.
Ms Kancso had set up an online campaign to pay for an immigration lawyer, raising more than $10,000 (Â£7,700).
She wrote online: "I am beyond happy to say that Baxter's court case went well."
He had been given 120 days to exit the US voluntarily, she said.
Alex Reid said he expected his brother to return to Australia this month.
"He just wants to have a beer with his mates," he said.
The Australian government confirmed it had offered consular assistance.


US actor Nate Parker has said he is "filled with profound sorrow" at the news that a woman who accused him of rape in 1999 later took her own life.

Parker was acquitted of raping the woman while at university.
But the details have re-emerged as the release of Parker's Oscar-tipped film The Birth of a Nation approaches.
Parker said he had not been aware of the woman's death until it was reported on Tuesday, adding he "should have used more wisdom" during that period.
The actor was 19 when he was accused along with his roommate of assaulting an 18-year-old fellow Penn State University student.
The unnamed woman said she was unconscious at the time and did not consent to having sex. Parker testified it was consensual and he and the woman had previously had sex.
He has gone on to appear in films including Beyond the Lights, Non-Stop and Red Tails.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, he said he was "devastated".
"I can't tell you how hard it is to hear this news," he wrote. "I can't help but think of all the implications this has for her family.
"I cannot - nor do I want to ignore the pain she endured during and following our trial. While I maintain my innocence that the encounter was unambiguously consensual, there are things more important than the law.
"There is morality; no-one who calls himself a man of faith should even be in that situation. As a 36-year-old father of daughters and person of faith, I look back on that time as a teenager and can say without hesitation that I should have used more wisdom.
"I look back on that time, my indignant attitude and my heartfelt mission to prove my innocence with eyes that are more wise with time.
"I see now that I may not have shown enough empathy even as I fought to clear my name. Empathy for the young woman and empathy for the seriousness of the situation I put myself and others in."
He added he had "never run from this period in my life and I never ever will" and was not trying "to solve this with a statement".
Parker's roommate Jean Celestin, who has a story credit on The Birth of a Nation, was convicted of sexual assault, but that was later overturned when the woman opted not to testify again for a 2005 retrial. She sued Penn State and was awarded a settlement out of court.
The incident has come back into the press ahead of the October US release of The Birth of a Nation, a drama about Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion.
Parker, who plays Turner, has also written, directed and co-produced the film, which has been tipped for big things after winning a grand jury prize and an audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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A gorilla has celebrated her 40th birthday with gifts, flowers and a vegetable cake made by her keepers.

Salome, a Western lowland gorilla, was conceived at Bristol Zoo Gardens in 1975 and turned 40 on Saturday.
To mark the occasion she was given cake, treats and bunches of roses - which gorillas can eat.
The five other gorillas at the zoo - including Salome's four-year-old son Kukena - also joined in the celebrations.
Lynsey Bugg, the zoo's curator of mammals, said she was one of the most intelligent of her troop.
"She really is very clever and calculated and loves working out different puzzles - particularly if it means she gets a food reward at the end of it," she said.
"She will ensure that anyone new understands they need to work hard to get her respect. Once you gain it, she is so fantastic to work with."
Salome has mothered three offspring, including Kukena, and has a respectful relationship with Kukena's father, the troop's silverback Jock.
Shorter in height than the other adult gorillas at the zoo, she can also be easily spotted by her wrinkly nose and the gingery hair on the top of her head.
John Partridge, senior curator, said she was a "very special member of the troop" helping "younger females to develop".
"Gorillas in the wild often only live into their late 30s to early 40s. In human care, it's not uncommon for gorillas to reach the grand age of 50, or hopefully even older," he said.
"It's hugely positive to see Salome still enjoying her life."
The wild population of Western lowland gorillas is estimated between 90,000 and 110,000.


Jose Mourinho says he "trusts Wayne Rooney completely" and believes the Manchester United captain remains an important player despite dropping him for the 4-1 win over Leicester.

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It was the first time Mourinho had dropped Rooney, and United were 4-0 up before half-time against the champions.
"He's my man, I trust him completely. He's as happy as I am at this moment and that's the team," Mourinho said.
"He's a big player for me, for United, a big player for this country."
Rooney was last dropped for a Premier League game on Boxing Day last year.
Without him on Saturday, United overcame a slow first 20 minutes to score through Chris Smalling, Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba.
Mourinho introduced Rooney for the final seven minutes and the manager was frustrated by further questioning in his post-match news conference.
"If I don't play Rashford you ask me why, if I don't play Jesse Lingard you ask me why and you prefer always to ask why somebody is not playing," he said.
"Sometimes when I read you, I feel I know nothing about football.
"But there is one thing I know and that is the rules of the game and I can only start with 11. Until somebody tells me there is a change to that I can only start with 11."
Ruud Gullit on Match of the Day:
"Sometimes you have to follow your instinct as a coach and do the things you think is right. The crowd, the fans, the press and others will react but you have to stick to your plan and get on with it. Jose Mourinho did that and afterwards he doesn't want to talk about it. I can understand that because it becomes a bigger issue than it needs to be."
Mark Lawrenson on Football Focus:
"I think Wayne Rooney has played himself out of the team. His form has been poor and he's not playing well enough to be in the starting line-up. It's as simple as that. When has he last played well for Manchester United or England? It's been a while. He's a great player, but he's just not playing well."
Danny Mills on Final Score:
"Jose Mourinho wanted a bit more pace and dynamism up front. Most fans were saying 'leave Wayne Rooney out' and I feel a little bit sorry for him. I'm not sure what he does now. He's not a goalscorer, he's not an out-and-out striker and he's not a central midfielder either. What's his specialty in that team?"
Garth Crooks on Final Score:
"Wayne Rooney has far too much to offer Manchester United to be on the bench for long. United are in the Europa League, have a league challenge to mount and the FA Cup to compete in. He also has a crucial role to play in the dressing room as both the United and England captain."
BBC Sport's Simon Stone at Old Trafford
"There is no great disconnect between Wayne Rooney and club or manager, as there was in 2013, when Rooney sat in an executive box and watched Sir Alex Ferguson's final Old Trafford game as Manchester United manager behind glass.
"Rooney politely applauded back when he was sent out to warm up for the first time, and the home fans' reception was enthusiastic when he ran on to the field after replacing Rashford near the end.
"It won't stop the chatter around Rooney though. His United future is on the line.
"Mourinho's decision is not about this lunchtime - or Thursday, when United face Zorya Luhansk in the Europa League and Rooney is likely to start.
"It is about next month, and January and June next year. About the day when Henrikh Mkhitaryan is going to be fit and in form. When transfer windows open and close.
"Rooney did not get dropped for the man Mourinho bought to be his new number 10. He got dropped because Mourinho needed to do something to wake his team from their September slumber.
"What we don't know yet is whether England's captain is surplus to requirements permanently."
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Haley Rosen's first half goal against Spartans was enough to maintain Glasgow City's lead at the top of the SWPL.

Closest challengers Hibernian Ladies ran out 5-0 winners against Stirling University, with the match played at Easter Road ahead of their up coming Champions League clash with Bayern Munich.
Elsewhere, Celtic came from behind to beat Rangers 3-1.
And Aberdeen were 1-0 winners at home to Forfar Farmington.
Glasgow City head coach Scott Booth was frustrated despite the 1-0 win.
"We created so many chances and should have been far more clinical in taking some of them," said Booth.
"That said, it is another three points and with only four games left in the title race, another vital three points to keep us clear at the top of the table."


In our series of letters from African journalists, Sola Odunfa in Lagos considers what makes one of Nigeria's many kings so special.

For the last week there has been great excitement in Ile-Ife, the centuries-old city in south-west Nigeria that ethnic Yoruba people regard as their spiritual home.
Residents have been celebrating the appointment of a successor to the throne of Ooni of Ife, which became vacant in July on the death of the incumbent, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.
Political, religious and social leaders from across the country have been sending congratulatory messages to Ile-Ife on this new epoch.
And on 28 October the people of Ile-Ife turned out in their hundreds of thousands to receive their son Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, who left home for Lagos several years ago in pursuit of economic opportunities.
He returned not only as a real estate tycoon but also as Ooni of Ife - their paramount ruler and the spiritual leader of all Yoruba people at home and in the diaspora.
The Yoruba are the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria.
As I watched that event on TV I found the communal joy infectious and I swayed in my seat to the beat of gangan drums and, especially, the voices of old women chanting the praise of the forebears of the king-elect and the founders of Ile-Ife.
I was happy for them and, as we say in Yorubaland, for myself.
Ooni of Ife:
But for the Ooni-elect the public fanfare has now ended.
He is in total seclusion, being attended to and spiritually strengthened by traditional priests.
When, after 21 days, he emerges, after meekly following secret religious rites, he will be another being - the Ooni proper, second in rank to the Yoruba deities.
But I can only hope that the obeisance being paid to him as Ooni Ogunwusi by Nigeria's high and mighty will not lead him to really believe all he might hear about his "highness".
Indeed the Ooni of the 21st Century is not comparable in power and majesty to the Ooni of the days of yore.
Today the Ooni and other traditional rulers nationwide are, when push comes to shove, senior employees and under the authority of state governments.
They are paid salaries and allowances from the public purse.
Country of kings:
If in doubt about the traditional king's place in the modern scheme of things in Nigeria, drive down to Onitsha in the south-east and talk to the Obi, who was a close friend and confidant of his own predecessor Ooni Oba Okunade Sijuwade.
The late Ooni and his two friends - the Obi and the then-Emir of Kano in the north - took a holiday to Israel at their own expense; when they returned for their trip they were suspended from office for travelling without obtaining government permission.
They were lucky - they could have been sacked from their gilded thrones.
Up to a few decades ago an Oba, the Yoruba word for a king, could send his servants or chiefs to summon any woman - young or married - and when that woman reported to the palace, the king would pronounce her one of his wives and that would be the end of the matter.
These days hardly any of Nigeria's hundreds of kings would attempt that.
These monarchs do perform useful functions.
They hold court in their palaces daily, settling matrimonial issues, land matters, minor chieftaincy disputes and other not-too-serious matters among their people.
They are also very useful for the vanity of their subjects and friends as they award chieftaincy titles at their discretion - though at times these are given on inducement, meaning such honorary titles perhaps do not garner the respect they once did.


Computer maker Lenovo has been forced to remove hidden adware that it was shipping on its laptops and PCs after users expressed anger.

The adware - dubbed Superfish - was potentially compromising their security, said experts.
The hidden software was also injecting adverts on to browsers using techniques more akin to malware, they added.
Lenovo faces questions about why and for how long it was pre-installed on machines - and what data was collected.
The company told the BBC in a statement: "Lenovo removed Superfish from the preloads of new consumer systems in January 2015.  At the same time Superfish disabled existing Lenovo machines in the market from activating Superfish.
"Superfish was preloaded on to a select number of consumer models only.  Lenovo is thoroughly investigating all and any new concerns raised regarding Superfish."
Users began complaining about Superfish in Lenovo's forums in the autumn, and the firm told the BBC that it was shipped "in a short window from October to December to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping".
User feedback, it acknowledged, "was not positive".
Last month, forum administrator Mark Hopkins told users that "due to some issues (browser pop up behaviour, for example)", the company had "temporarily removed Superfish from our consumer systems until such time as Superfish is able to provide a software build that addresses these issues".
He added it had requested that Superfish issue an auto-update for "units already in market".
Superfish was designed to help users find products by visually analysing images on the web to find the cheapest ones.
Such adware is widely regarded in the industry as a form of malware because of the way it interacts with a person's laptop or PC.
Security expert from Surrey University Prof Alan Woodward said: "It is annoying. It is not acceptable. It pops up adverts that you never asked for. It is like Google on steroids.
"This bit of software is particularly naughty. People have shown that it can basically intercept everything and it could be really misused."
According to security experts, it appears that Lenovo had given Superfish permission to issue its own certificates, allowing it to collect data over secure web connections, known in malware parlance as a man-in-the-middle attack.
"If someone went to, say, the Bank of America then Superfish would issue its own certificate pretending to be the Bank of America and intercept whatever you are sending back and forth," said Prof Woodward.
Ken Westin, senior analyst at security company Tripwire, agreed: "If the findings are true and Lenovo is installing their own self-signed certificates, they have not only betrayed their customers' trust, but also put them at increased risk."
Although Lenovo has said that it has removed Superfish from new machines and disabled it from others, it was unclear what the situation would be for machines where it had already been activated.
Prof Woodward said: "Lenovo is being very coy about this but it needs to explain how long it has been doing this, what the scale is and where all the data it has collected is being stored.
"There will be remnants of it left on machines and Lenovo does not ship the disks that allow people to do a clean install."
It raises wider questions about the deals that computer manufacturers do with third parties and the amount of software that comes pre-installed on machines.
Mr Westin said: "With increasingly security and privacy-conscious buyers, laptop and mobile phone manufacturers may well be doing themselves a disservice by seeking outdated advertising based monetisation strategies."
Users were particularly angry that they had not been told about the adware.
One Lenovo forum user said: "It's not like they stuck it on the flier saying... we install adware on our computers so we can profit from our customers by using hidden software.
"However, I now know this. I now will not buy any Lenovo laptop again."
The problem also caused a storm on Twitter, where both Lenovo and Superfish were among the most popular discussion topics.


A British man who reportedly travelled to Iraq to join the so-called Islamic State group is being investigated by UK authorities.

Jack Letts, 20, from Oxford, has been labelled "Jihadi Jack" by some newspapers, which reported he left the UK to join the group when he was 18.
But his parents have dismissed the claims as "false" and said he travelled to the region for humanitarian reasons.
Police confirmed Mr Letts had been under investigation since March 2015.
The South East Counter Terrorism Unit (Sectu) said it was aware of the recent media reports and "can confirm we are investigating".
"This investigation began in March 2015 and is ongoing," Sectu added.
"We are unable to comment [on] any specifics... but would like to say that anyone who knows of someone who may be potentially vulnerable to being drawn into terrorist-related activity, including travelling abroad to conflict zones, should contact local police."
On his Facebook page Mr Letts also said the reports were false.
Speaking to the Oxford Mail newspaper his parents John and Sally Letts described their son as "a really kind, funny kid who is very gentle".
They said he travelled to Kuwait in the summer of 2014 to learn Arabic, before travelling to Syria in September 2014.
They believe he is now in the war-torn country, possibly working in hospitals or as a translator.
His mother said media reports claiming he had adopted the name Ibrahim or Abu Muhammed and had a son in Iraq were "absolutely ridiculous".
But she said he had converted to Islam and reports he was married could be true.
On Facebook, Jack Letts said: "Maybe they got bored worrying about what colour socks certain celebrities wear and took out the frustration on me."


Two youths who threw fireworks at a group of children out walking a dog in Fife are being sought by police.

The incident happened in Hill of Beath on Friday between 19:00 and 20:00.
The group of young children were walking home with the dog in Allan Park, when two male youths threw a lit firework, which narrowly missed them.
As an adult tried to get them to safety, another lit firework was thrown at the adult. Witnesses are being urged to come forward.
The youths are about 16 or 17 years old, white, of average height and of medium build.
One was wearing a jumper and grey jogging bottoms with elasticated ankles and the other was wearing stonewash jeans.
Sgt Caine McIntyre, of Police Scotland, said: "This is a dangerous and reckless act which could have caused serious injury to the parties involved."


A student almost lost her sight when an infection she caught from using contact lenses started eating into her eye.

Jess Greaney was hospitalised by the infection and said her swollen eye looked like a "huge red golf ball".
Miss Greaney, 18, of Birmingham, believes she caught the infection from water at her University of Nottingham halls of residence.
Many water sources contain the microscopic organism she was affected by, but infections are rare.
Miss Greaney told BBC 5 live's Afternoon Edition she first sought medical attention when her eye started to close sporadically.
"It was originally diagnosed as an ulcer," she said.
A week later she was diagnosed with an infection called acanthamoeba keratitis,
"It was eating through the cornea of my eye, which obviously affects your sight," she said.
"How they managed to start the treatment was intensive eye-drops every hour for four days and then it slowly decreased."
She said she was "really, really careful with my lenses", but believes water splashed on them when they were next to her sink, in a glass of solution.
Specialists at Moorfields Eye Hospital have noticed a rise in eye infections among contact lens wearers and are warning users to take extra care.
Source: Moorfields Eye Hospital
Miss Greaney wants other contact lens users to be aware of the risks.
"There was a moment where I asked the doctor I said 'Am I ever going to get better?' and it was really hard for them to say," she said.
"Everything was completely blurry. I could just see colours rather than actual things."


Bristol City Council is to change the way it provides care home services after acknowledging many aspects of the current model "need to be improved".

A 12-week consultation has begun into how all aspects of care home services are commissioned and delivered.
Residents, their families and carers are being asked their views on service quality, choice and independence.
A new commissioning model will then be made for more than 170 homes where the council commissions placements.
"While satisfaction with services is generally high there is room for improvement," said Netta Meadows, Bristol City Council service director.
"There is a general need for higher quality care provision and a wider understanding within homes that residents should be encouraged and supported to be as independent as possible."


Scientists are copying geckos' unique skills in the mission to clean up space junk.

5 July 2017 Last updated at 13:31 BST
Experts reckon there are 500,000 bits of space rubbish floating around the earth.
Most of them are man-made bits of metal left over from satellites, rockets and other space missions.
They're going at 17,000 miles per hour and are a danger to other satellites and even to the space station!
And leaving junk up there isn't exactly environmentally friendly.
So how can geckos help?
Well, the lizardy reptiles have a special sticky grip which experts hope could be used to grab metal floating around the Earth.
Watch this...


A man has admitted attacking a 17-year-old girl with a hammer, leaving her with "life-changing injuries".

James Hemming, 29,  pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. A charge of attempted murder will lie on file.
The attack on 11 April took place at a property in Shearer Road, Portsmouth, which had possible links to the sex trade, said police.
Hemming, of Cross St, Portsmouth, will be sentenced on 2 December.
Detectives had previously said the girl was subjected to a "vicious attack" which left her with "life-changing injuries".
She was treated in hospital for wounds to her head.
Hampshire Constabulary had offered a Â£5,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.


A race involving traditional wooden boats is to take place on Lough Erne for the first time in more than a century.

Cots were once the main mode of transport around the Fermanagh lakelands.
In the early 1900s they brought people, livestock and goods across the water.
Now Lough Erne Heritage, which was formed last year to revive interest in the history of traditional boats, has built and launched two new cots.
The boats will take part in a race at the Crom Estate near Newtownbutler on Saturday.
The group's chairman Fred Ternan said cots have been used on Lough Erne for "possibly 2,000 years" and that they were once as familiar a sight in the area as cars on roads today.
"All the activity and all the life around the lough depended so much on boats and obviously the boat builders were an essential part of it as well," he said.
"There are a number of fundamentals in a cot's design - the bottom is flat and the two ends slope up and each of those sections is roughly the same size.
"Originally when the cots were built, the bottoms were made first and then planks were put on the side and then the crutches were made from bent branches and they were found on trees and cut off and put in to support the structure."
The two new cots took three months to build by volunteers from Cavan Town Men's Shed, including Peter O'Hanlon.
"Through building the cot, we're learning age-old traditions - 100 years old or more," he said.
"We're learning how to work the wood, understanding how boats are built, how specifically cot boats are built which were specific to the Erne.
"We're learning all new skills, but they're so old, but they're new to us - it's fabulous."
Bert Robinson from Lough Erne Heritage said they used specifications on a drawing of a cot that was used on Upper Lough Erne by Bernadette Began, the former principal of Wattlebridge Primary School.
Mr Robinson said she told them it was a very stable vessel in the water.
"She went across as a young girl with her father to land which was across water," he said.
"They milked the cows on the farm across the water and they took the buckets of milk across every day and made sure that they didn't as much as spill one drop of milk."
The new cots were launched by Lord Erne, whose family have lived in Crom Castle and have a long association with the boats.
Lord Erne said the two new boats were "wonderful".
"Growing up at Crom, living at Crom, we've known nothing else but the Lough Erne cot," he said.
"My sisters got married from it, we took my late father over for his funeral in it in December, so it means a lot and it's lovely to see it being reinvented."
Fred Ternan hopes to reintroduce cot racing on Lough Erne.
"With the two cots now that we have built we will be able to demonstrate cot rowing or pulling as it's known, how they can be brought in ashore and goods put on to them, how they can be used for racing, because the cots actually were raced and there were regular cot regattas for racing."
On Saturday, Lough Erne Heritage will recreate what is known as the "famous cot race" that took place at Crom in 1856.
The winners turned down the prize money on offer and instead asked Lord Erne to help arrange the return of their parish priest.
Fr Clarke had fled to America after being told he was going to be arrested for officiating in a mixed marriage.
Lord Erne was able to get the charges dropped and the priest came back to serve out his days in Newtownbutler.
Now that their boat building project has been completed, Peter O'Hanlon said the Cavan Town Men's Shed would have to come up with a new project.
"You spend all this time and put a huge amount of energy into actually building the boat and that's where the fun is and the craic is and the slagging and all the rest, and then you see the boat in the water and it's brilliant.
"But then it's finished, so where to next?"
When asked whether they would build another cot he laughs: "Possibly, or maybe two!"


The daughter of a British businessman thought to have been murdered in India says the body Punjab police have sent to the UK is not her father's.

Hotel owner Ranjit Singh Power, from Wolverhampton, 54, was last seen at an airport in Amritsar, Punjab, on 8 May.
Taxi driver Sukhdev Singh was charged with his murder after police said he had confessed to killing Mr Power.
The hotelier's daughter told BBC Hindi that dental records and DNA of the body did not match the family's samples.
Mr Power's body was found in a lake and was in poor condition. A family friend who identified the body in June had said it was the right height and wore "exactly the same bangle" as the businessman.
Senior Punjab police official Amrik Singh, who investigated the case, said they tested the DNA samples after recovering the body and sent it to London only after it was identified by Mr Power's friend.
Police require the DNA sample of his mother to be able to match them, he said, adding that they had conveyed their request to the British embassy in Delhi and also to Mr Power's family.
"The DNA of my grandmother has not been sent to India as requested, because we found out that the body was not my father's so it was no longer necessary," Ms Power told BBC Hindi.
"We believe the body that was brought to the UK is now the responsibility of the coroner in the UK," she added.


A small energy firm has seen a record proportion of customer complaints for any supplier over a three-month period, figures from Citizens Advice show.

Extra Energy, which launched in 2014, attracted 1,682 complaints per 100,000 customers between January and March.
This is the highest ratio of complaints over the five years the data has been collected.
The company described the start of the year as "challenging" and has apologised to customers.
Extra Energy has more than 500,000 customers after consistently offering some of the cheapest tariffs in the market since its launch, but said it had struggled to cope with demand.
"It is true to say that the first quarter of the year was a challenging period and some customers were affected. We apologise unreservedly to every single customer who has experienced problems," said  Ben Jones, managing director of operations at Extra Energy.
"Unfortunately we did not put customer service resources in place quickly enough. Thankfully these problems are largely a thing of the past."
Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said: "Energy consumers continue to face a gamble when it comes to good customer service.
"The latest league table results show both small and large suppliers delivering a good service, proving that a company's size is no excuse for poor performance.
"It should be every consumer's right to receive a high quality service from their supplier and standards must be improved across the board."
SSE was the best performer in terms of how effectively customer complaints were dealt with by energy companies, according to the Citizens Advice table.


The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has struck a "landmark" deal to cut tariffs on $1.3 trn (£838bn) worth of technology products.

The deal will update the 18-year-old IT Agreement and add 200 products to the zero tariff list.
It is expected to give a boost to producers of goods ranging from video games to medical equipment.
The WTO says the sum is equal to global trade in iron, steel, textiles and clothing combined.
"Today's agreement is a landmark," said WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo.
"Eliminating tariffs on trade of this magnitude will have a huge impact," he continued.
"It will support lower prices - including in many other sectors that use IT products as inputs - it will create jobs and it will help to boost GDP growth around the world."
The final technical details will be worked out until December.
The existing 1996 IT agreement was seen by industry and policy makers as woefully out of date as it did not cover devices and products invented since then.
Products added range from advanced computer chips to GPS devices, medical equipment, printer cartridges and video-game consoles
Technology manufacturers such as General Electric, Intel, Texas Instruments, Microsoft and Nintendo are among the many companies expected to benefit from the deal.
Negotiations on updating the technology agreement began in 2012.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, BBC World Service economics correspondent
Finally, the WTO has brought its Information Technology Agreement (ITA) into the 21st century.
This was the first tariff cutting agreement the WTO has managed since ITA 1.0, as it is not officially known, was agreed.
The key political deal was done in 1996 at a WTO ministerial conference in Singapore. Sadly, you might think, I was there and am still covering the same story, though I have had very little reason to think about this one since.
Still this is an important step, and it is the second one the WTO has taken in two years - a very short period in the geological timescales of trade negotiations.
The other was an agreement on simplifying trade procedures, the one concrete achievement of the negotiations called the Doha Round launched in 2001.
So a significant step towards more liberalised trade has been taken. But the WTO has the rest of the wide ranging and complex Doha Round still to do.


Nottingham Panthers saw off defending champions Cardiff Devils in overtime to lift the Challenge Cup for the sixth time in seven years in Sheffield.

Evan Mosey scored the winner with four minutes, 25 seconds of overtime left, two days after the Panthers had beaten the Welsh side 6-1 in the Elite League.
The victory keeps alive Corey Neilson's fourth-placed Panthers side's hopes of a league-and-cup double this season.
It was a fourth consecutive defeat in all competitions for Cardiff.
The Panthers had the best chance in a cagey first 20 minutes when Robert Lachowicz hit the side-netting with the Devils on a powerplay midway through the period.
Cardiff, who beat Sheffield Steelers 2-1 in last year's final, improved in the second period with player-coach Andrew Lord shooting narrowly wide.
The Welsh side, second in the Elite League behind leaders Sheffield, applied plenty of pressure in the final period of regulation time, but could not find the breakthrough.
The Panthers came agonisingly close to finding a sudden-death winner with Stephen Schultz and Brad Moran both striking the woodwork, while Devils' Ben Bowns made a string of fine saves.
But Cardiff's netminder could do nothing to stop Mosey's powerful, long-distance strike into the top corner, as the game threatened to go to penalty shots.
The Devils had beaten Belfast Giants 8-4 on aggregate in the last four while hosts Nottingham saw off Sheffield Steelers to reach the final.
Nottingham now travel to Coventry Blaze in the league on Wednesday, 9 March.
Cardiff's next game is against Belfast Giants in the Elite League on Saturday, 12 March - the Devils' first match at their new home, the Ice Arena Wales.


A detective accused of giving a misleading account of an interview with Andrew Mitchell in the 2012 "plebgate" row has been cleared of misconduct.

Det Sgt Stuart Hinton had praised the Tory MP for his "candour" at a meeting after the incident before telling the BBC he had been evasive, a tribunal heard.
However, the officer's barrister said hindsight had supported his view.
Det Sgt Hinton has been cleared of breaching policing honesty standards.
Mitchell called PCs plebs, judge says
'Plebgate' row: Timeline
Transcript and audio of the Andrew Mitchell police meeting
The "plebgate" row centred on a 15-second confrontation in September 2012 between Mr Mitchell and PC Toby Rowland, in which - according to the Sun newspaper -  the then Conservative chief whip called the officer a "pleb" for his refusal to permit him to cycle through the main gates at Downing Street.
Mr Mitchell was forced to resign from the cabinet over the row but vowed to clear his name in the libel courts, launching an action against the Sun.
But a judge ruled in 2014 that the MP probably had called PC Rowland a "pleb" and Mr Mitchell was ordered to pay damages as well as the Sun's legal costs.
A gross misconduct case against serving Warwickshire Police officer Det Sgt Hinton heard he and two Police Federation members met Mr Mitchell on 12 October 2012 at his constituency office, weeks after the incident at Downing Street.
A recording of the meeting showed Det Sgt Hinton thanking Mr Mitchell for his "candour", later telling him, "Everybody can have a bad day" after the MP had admitted to swearing at a police officer but had denied calling him a "pleb".
But the hearing heard Det Sgt Hinton told BBC Radio 5 Live the following day: "He [Mr Mitchell] still won't say exactly what he did say, which suggests that the officer's account is more likely to be the accurate one."
In that interview Det Sgt Hinton, described by colleagues as a "model detective", also called for Mr Mitchell to resign.
In his closing statement to the panel, presenting officer Aaron Rathmell said the officer had "passed judgment" and not given a fair and accurate account of the meeting.
But the detective's barrister Adrian Keeling said a man of "integrity" had been charged with "inaccurately reporting the lies told by a dishonest man".
"Hindsight absolutely supports Sgt Hinton's honest, accurate and candid view, relying on his good sense and judgement, which no doubt he's relied upon all these years [as a detective]," said Mr Keeling.
A string of glowing references from senior officers, including a retired chief constable, had also described Det Sgt Hinton's character as "beyond reproach".
A misconduct panel at the force's former headquarters found his on-air comments did not amount to dishonesty, discreditable conduct or a breach of integrity.


Voters across Spain have their chance on Sunday to deliver the year's first nationwide verdict on a political class whose reputation has suffered greatly as a result of the country's economic crisis and a perception of rampant corruption on the part of public officials.

All the country's town and city councils are on the slate, as well as 13 of Spain's 17 regional parliaments ahead of a general election due at the end of 2015.
Nowhere are the effects of crisis and corruption more visible than in the region of Valencia.
Four years ago the centre-right Popular Party (PP) racked up a comfortable majority in the Valencian parliament after winning 49% of the vote, despite the fact that the regional leader was being investigated as part of a sprawling kickbacks-for-contracts scandal, which affected Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's party nationwide.
The PP's traditional rival, the socialist PSOE, has also faced corruption scandals, most notably the systematic misappropriation of jobless subsidies in Andalusia by party officials, trade unions and business associates.
Now Valencia's electorate seems eager to punish the conservatives after four years in which the regional government became effectively bankrupt and needed a bailout from Madrid.
During this period, more than 100 Valencian PP officials have been targeted in slow-moving judicial corruption probes. In 2013 the party's leader in Castellon was given a four-year sentence for tax fraud.
According to an opinion poll published by El Pais newspaper, the PP's vote is set to halve, down to 24.5%.
But the same poll predicted that PSOE would pick up only 21%, also well down on 2011, while the centrist Citizens and left-wing Podemos - both new to Spain's national political scene - stood on 18% and 17%, respectively.
Eduardo Vicent, a 30-year-old sociologist from Valencia who works as a waiter, plans to vote for Compromis, a local grouping aiming to improve on its 7% result in the 2011 regional election.
"It's not so much their left-wing policies that attract me as the fact that it is an alternative to the PP and the Socialists," says Eduardo.
"The PP's legacy is a disgrace. They have created a crony network and it's time to try to destroy it."
The PP is set to lose its majority in almost all of the 10 regions it currently controls.
Coalitions or minority governments will be the order of the day, a situation the Andalusian parliament is still trying to work out, after the election there two months ago left PSOE short of a majority.
Both Citizens and Podemos have so far conditioned their backing on anti-corruption measures.
In the run-up to the 2011 local elections, thousands of "indignant" demonstrators occupied Madrid's Sol square in protest at Spain's electoral system, the ingrained corruption of the big two parties who traditionally benefited from it, and the influence of global capital.
Four years on, the ballot papers are covered in new offers of participatory politics and anti-corruption platforms.
Podemos is running in Spain's regions, but does not have official candidates at the municipal level, instead lending its support to ad hoc platforms.
Among the candidates supported by Podemos is Barcelona en Comu, whose leader, anti-eviction activist Ada Colau, has taken the lead, according to opinion polls.
Her platform is simple:
In the capital, the lead candidate for the Podemos-backed Ahora Madrid is Manuela Carmena, a 71-year-old former judge and pioneer of women's rights and the labour movement under dictator Gen Franco.
Ms Carmena promises a "different form of government" to the outgoing PP team of Mayor Ana Botella.
"We want the citizens to enjoy a participative budget because then we will begin to see a different way of appreciating what taxes mean."


Scotland's Josh Taylor has all the elements it takes to make it to the top in boxing, says trainer Shane McGuigan.

McGuigan and father Barry, the former world champion, signed Taylor to their Cyclone Promotions company when he won 2014 Commonwealth gold and turned pro.
"I thought you saw the complete article," said Shane McGuigan of the man from Prestonpans in East Lothian.
"He looked like he could punch - now he can really punch since changing the technique a bit."
In addition, the trainer said he was keen to work with Taylor because "he has a great personality, he's a good-looking lad, he's fast and he can really fight - he ticked a lot of boxes".
He added: "Also, I felt dad, with his background, a hall of famer, being a Celt himself, can appeal to a lot of the public in Scotland."
Taylor left Edinburgh's Lochend club, where he worked under Terry McCormack, and now trains for his pro fights at the McGuigans' gym in Wandsworth, south London.
He is aiming for a 10th consecutive win when he defends his Commonwealth super-lightweight title against Hackney's WBC Silver champion Ohara Davies at Glasgow's Braehead Arena on 8 July.
"Josh is a phenomenal talent, a phenomenal force," added McGuigan junior.
"He's been pro for a short time and he's already the Commonwealth champion and within six to 10 months he will be knocking on the door of a world title.
"We've been working together for nearly two years now and he has excelled so quickly.
"He has come out of the elite level amateur system and he is still progressing.
"He has shown me so much in the gym and now it is our chance to really showcase that talent on the main stage in front of big audiences on television and at Braehead."
Cyclone Promotions hopes Taylor will generate the same level of appeal as his stablemate, Belfast's Carl Frampton, a two-weight world champion.
"With Carl, we built him up at home and then we took him to America and then to Manchester for a unification fight," said Shane McGuigan.
"That's the same sort of platform we would like to set up for Josh Taylor.
"We'd like to make him a star back home in Scotland and then filter him out to London, Manchester and the bigger arenas and then eventually go to the States. That is where he is inevitably going to end up, that's where the money is.
"It is very rare that you have the Errol Spencers coming to fight for world titles over here. If you build loyalty with your fans they will go anywhere."
The McGuigans have already had Taylor on the road, with three of his nine fights being in El Paso, New York and Las Vegas.
"The American public loved his crowd-pleasing style, just like they loved Ricky Hatton," said the trainer.
"People want to see a good fighter go to work and they will get that with Josh Taylor."
Shane McGuigan is anticipating a "tricky" fight against undefeated Davies next month, expecting it to go to the later rounds.
However, he believes the home fighter will prevail and take over the mantle of Ricky Burns, for so long Scotland's main boxing attraction but who, in April, lost his WBA belt in Taylor's weight class to Namibia's IBF champion Julius Indongo.
"Ricky Burns has been a fantastic ambassador for Scottish boxing and a great champion but I don't see him reclaiming any world title; he's a step below that now.
"Josh Taylor is the man. He is going to be holding the flag and going on to bigger and better things. If he can inherit some of Ricky's fans then that would be fantastic."


The Bank of England has cut its 2015 growth forecast from 2.9% to 2.5%, and for next year from 2.9% to 2.6%, as governor Mark Carney unveiled his quarterly inflation report.

And it backed expectations interest rates may rise in about a year's time.
Mr Carney also said deflation could emerge during the year, but that inflation was expected to pick up notably towards the end of the year.
Inflation was 0% in March for a second month, well below the Bank's 2% target.
The figure marks the lowest rate of Consumer Prices Index inflation since estimates of the measure began in 1988.
The Bank's base rate has been at a record low of 0.5% for more than six years.
Mr Carney blamed falling inflation on a sharp fall in energy prices, lower food prices and strong sterling. He said these factors explained about three-quarters of the fall in inflation.
However, the Bank's governor said he was relaxed about the low inflation rate and said the factors which had driven it to zero would be "relatively short-lived".
"A temporary period of falling prices should not be mistaken for widespread and persistent deflation," he said, emphasising that the economy was growing and that there was no evidence household spending was being delayed.
He said inflation should return to its 2% target within two years before rising slightly above this.
Analysis:  Robert Peston, BBC Economics Editor
Just to remind you of the point of all this soothsaying by the Bank, the Governor Mark Carney sees inflation rising back to the 2% target over the two-year policy horizon.
That is based on market expectations that the interest rate it sets will finally rise from the current 0.5% rate to 0.75% some time between April and July next year.
So interest rates to rise in roughly a year.  You have been told.
Read Robert's blog in full
The Bank also downgraded expectations for wage growth in 2015 from 3.5% to 2.5%.
Meanwhile, Mr Carney warned of "underlying weakness" as the Bank gave a gloomier picture for productivity growth. The Bank revised down its productivity forecast because it sees a disproportionate number of new jobs as low-skilled and low-output.
Productivity growth is now expected to improve only modestly in the coming year before remaining below past average rates.
"Today's report should leave nobody in any doubt about the fundamental role of productivity growth in the UK economy's performance," said Aberdeen Asset Management chief economist Lucy O'Carroll.
"The Bank of England has downgraded its growth outlook, and Mark Carney has put poor productivity right at the centre of the story.
"He may have put part of the productivity disappointment of recent years down to a disproportionate pick-up in low-productivity jobs, but he has also admitted that underinvestment has played a role.  He's right."
Mr Carney also warned that "persistent headwinds continued to weigh on the UK economy", which would mean more gradual increases in interest rates than previously.
"The Bank of England's latest inflation report supports financial markets' (and our own) view that the MPC [Monetary Policy Committee] is in no rush to raise interest rates," said Vicky Redwood, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.
"This suggests that the MPC sees the market expectations on which the forecast is based - for interest rates to start rising in the middle of next year and reach just 1.25% by the end of 2017 - as broadly correct."


A six-foot mechanical polar bear that dances and sings Christmas carols is being investigated after a council received a noise complaint.

The bear - named Bernard - bursts into song when people walk past Loft CafÃ© in Shefford, Bedfordshire, where he has stood since 1 December.
An enforcement officer told owners Rob and Teresa Farndon there had been a complaint about "noise nuisance".
Central Bedfordshire Council said there was an "ongoing investigation".
Bernard sings snippets of five or six Christmas songs, including Andy Williams' It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and is activated either by movement or by pressing a button.
He stood outside the cafe in North Bridge Street every day last December with no complaints and has been put away at 16:00 GMT every day so far this year.
The owners' son Connor Farndon said the complaint was "so petty".
"We put the bear outside for the kids to get them in the Christmas spirit and all the kids love him," he said.
"You can't even hear him over the traffic when it is standing stationary at the traffic lights outside.
"It's not the council's fault - they're just following up a complaint. It's the person who's complained who is ridiculous."
Mr Farndon said he thought the only thing the council could do was "tell us to take it away".
A council spokesman confirmed the premises had been visited "on a number of occasions" but that "Bernard has not been deemed a nuisance".
"We have written to both parties, explaining the situation as part of an ongoing investigation," he said.
"The council takes noise complaints seriously and has a legal obligation to fully investigate them, but we also want everyone in Central Bedfordshire to enjoy themselves over the Christmas period and would urge residents and business owners alike to be mindful of their neighbours when planning festivities."


Ignoring the outcome of the EU referendum would lead to public outrage, MPs have been told as they debated the future of Brexit.

Ex-Tory minister John Penrose said any attempt to bypass the Leave vote would be "corrosive" to public trust.
But Labour MP David Lammy said the public had been "lied to" and a further vote on the Brexit deal was the only way out of the "constitutional crisis".
A public petition urging a new EU vote has attracted four million signatures.
The debate came as Brexit Secretary David Davis told MPs leaving the EU would offer "new freedoms and horizons" but the government would take time to get it right.
As Parliament returned from the summer recess, and with Theresa May under pressure at the G20 summit to give details of the UK's plan for life outside the EU, research for the BBC suggests mixed feelings about what impact people think Brexit will have on them.
A poll for BBC Radio 5 live, conducted by the polling firm ComRes, suggests 62% of the 1,032 British adults canvassed say they are positive about Britain's future post-Brexit.
On the other hand, 26% of those spoken to have considered leaving the UK and moving elsewhere - including 43% of 18-34 year olds.
MPs are obliged to consider any petition which receives more than 100,000 signatures for debate in Parliament.
The EU petition urging a re-run of the vote has now attracted 4.14 million signatures - more than any other in the past five years - and was debated in Westminster Hall.
SNP MP Ian Blackford said June's referendum vote was flawed because of a lack of detail on the issues and the fact 16 and 17 year olds and EU citizens were excluded.
While not arguing that the outcome of the referendum should be "overriden", Mr Blackford said he was making the point that the Scottish people had voted to stay in the EU and their views could not now be ignored - adding "remain should mean remain".
"Brexiteers wanted out of Europe but they did not have a plan for the day after or the days after that," he said.
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas said a re-run of the referendum would be an affront to democracy but there was a case for a further vote when the time came on the terms of the exit deal that the UK government negotiated - a point echoed by Mr Lammy.
But former Conservative minister John Penrose said the UK public had voiced their opinion and to have another vote would be "corrosive" to public trust and lead to "absolute shattering" howls of outrage from the electorate.
"We have been given our marching orders. Brexit must mean Brexit. It is up to every red-blooded democrat to accept the verdict...and pull together to deliver it."
Although the petition was launched in May, interest in it intensified in the 48 hours after the historic vote on 23 June - with 3.2 million people having signed it by 26 June.
But the man who started the petition, Oliver Healey, has claimed that it has been "hijacked" by Remain supporters.
Mr Healey, an English Democrat activist and Leave supporter, has disassociated himself from the petition saying he started it in the run-up to the vote because he was worried that the UK would opt to remain in the EU by a narrow margin on a low turnout.
As it turned out, the Leave campaign won the referendum by a margin of 51.9% to 48.1% while turnout was a higher than anticipated 72%.
The House of Commons petitions committee subsequently launched an investigation amid claims some of the names on the online document were fraudulent.
Monday's debate will not alter the outcome of the referendum since the rules by which it was held were agreed by Parliament and cannot be changed retrospectively..
The Lib Dems, SNP and some Labour MPs have called for the details of the UK's eventual settlement for leaving the EU to be ratified by the British people in the form of a second referendum but the government has ruled this out.
In a statement to Parliament on progress made over the summer, Mr Davis, one of the key figures in the cabinet tasked with formulating a strategy for the UK's negotiations with the rest of the EU, argued that the UK should set its sights much higher than just "making the best of a bad job".
"It is about seizing the huge and exciting opportunities that will flow from a new place for Britain in the world. There will be new freedoms, new opportunities, new horizons for this great country."


Sadiq Khan, now Mayor of London, moved fast to condemn Ken Livingstone at the end of last month for his remarks about Hitler and Israel.

Hardly a surprise - a week before polling day, he would have been well aware how his opponents in the mayoral election could have exploited his failure to condemn his Labour predecessor.
The Conservatives had worked hard to suggest Mr Khan was a fellow sympathiser with those of extreme views, especially Islamic hardliners.
Politically astute, there is also no doubting the sincerity of his reaction. A week on, he has the added advantage of being Labour's most senior directly elected politician.
Condemnation of remarks seen as anti-Semitic, delivered by the man who is now Britain's most prominent Muslim politician would have considerable resonance - both here and abroad.
As Mr Livingstone never tired of reminding people, the voting system gives the mayor a personal mandate unmatched even by the prime minister (who, after all, is elected by 35,000 people in Witney, whereas Mr Khan was the first choice of 1,148,716 and picked up the second preference votes of a further 161,427).
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There is another way in which Mr Khan can use the power of what Americans call the "bully pulpit" (a prominent position that allows someone to speak out on any issue): by tackling the harmful aspects of South Asian politics that have taken root here.
In 2000, when Tony Blair was trying to stop Mr Livingstone winning Labour's mayoral nomination the first time around, he attended a rally in Ealing, organised by the late Piara Khabra, the octogenarian MP for Southall.
The diminutive, enthusiastic Mr Khabra proudly - and publicly - reassured the prime minister that everyone in the room would vote for the candidate Mr Blair preferred.
The vote itself was secret and the people there may well have ignored their MP's direction, but there was some discomfort visible on the platform.
Those present understood this was not simply hubris. In Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, politics is a mass activity, in which people often trust their community leaders to make decisions for them, including advising who they should vote for.
Mr Khabra, who described himself as a secular Sikh, was one of the generation of activists who had transplanted some of that system here when they emigrated to Britain.
What happens inside a political party is a private matter, but when it affects public elections, the law becomes involved.
There are those who would see nothing wrong in letting someone else use their vote. But what's known as personation is a criminal offence (as opposed to the perfectly lawful process of appointing someone as your proxy, on the understanding that they will cast what is still your vote as you direct).
This is not a specifically a Muslim issue. In the early 1990s, a colleague was investigating the "harvesting" of the proxy and postal votes of people living in care homes in one district in Cornwall. Political activists were offering to fill in the forms for the residents, but in doing so ensuring the votes went to their preferred candidate.
In January 2015, the Electoral Commission published a report examining why Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities are vulnerable to electoral fraud. It identified a number of factors, including language barriers, kinship networks and a lack of mainstream political party engagement.
Hierarchical and patriarchal by tradition, the report's authors warned these community networks "may undermine the principle of voters' individual and free choice through a range of social pressures such as respect for the decision of the elders".
Mutual support, a community that believes in self-sufficiency and which has family loyalty at its heart has a lot to be admired. A harsher verdict, though, should be delivered against those who exploit it.
In April last year, Lutfur Rahman, the directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, a borough in east London, was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices and removed from office. The case against him vividly illustrated some of the concerns identified in the Electoral Commission report.
Richard Mawrey QC, the presiding judge who specialises in election law, delivered a devastating assessment of the way loyalty and conservativism among the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets had been exploited, in his words, because of "the ruthless ambition of one man" (see paragraph 681 here).
According to the 2011 census, 32% of Tower Hamlets residents were born in Bangladesh or were children of those who were. (Bangladeshis make up 3% of the London population, and less than 1% of people in the UK.)
The most troublesome part of the case, according to the judge, was the return of an old-fashioned offence, the exercise of undue spiritual influence. It dates from a time when priests would endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
About a week before the 2014 Tower Hamlets mayoral election, the Weekly Desh newspaper published a letter in Bengali, signed by 101 imams and religious teachers. According to the translation accepted by the court it was an appeal to voters:
"As a cognisant group of the community and responsible voters and for the sake of truth, justice, dignity and development we express our unlimited support for Mayor Lutfur Rahman and strongly call upon you, the residents of Tower Hamlets, to shun all the propagandas and slanders and unite against the falsehood and injustice." (paragraph 549)
In a culture to which faith is so central, challenging the authority of imams is controversial.
During his election campaign, Sadiq Khan made much of his willingness to confront views with which he disagreed, for example, over same-sex marriage - a position which did not endear him to some faith leaders, and which he says even resulted in death threats.
Challenging the old style of community politics may prove a good deal easier. There's a younger generation who were born in the UK, who speak English fluently and who are less responsive to the ties of kinship.
This form of politics is already starting to break up, helped by politicians who have reached the top on merit, and can demonstrate that there is another way. The newly-elected mayor of London is an example.


Parents in north Wales are being urged to help stamp out deliberate fires during the Whitsun holiday.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said there was often a rise in deliberate fires during school holidays and the warmer weather.
The service has asked parents to be aware of what their children are up to over the half term break.
All the Welsh forces saw a rise in fires over Easter - with about 500 in south Wales alone.
Suspected fire starters, some as young as 11, have been arrested for deliberately sparking fires in south Wales.
In north Wales, 145 fires were deliberately set in March and April, including 62 grass fires.
Arson reduction manager Kevin Jones warned deliberate fires tie up crews, preventing them from attending life-threatening incidents.
"My appeal is directed in particular to parents and guardians," he said.
"Please try to be more aware of the whereabouts of your children and impress upon them the fact that deliberate fires endanger lives."


A woman has admitted causing the death of two leading agricultural scientists by careless driving on one of Scotland's busiest trunk roads.

Elizabeth-Anne Dixon, 35, pled guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
Dr Stewart Rhind and Dr Julian Dawson suffered fatal injuries after the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle on the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen road two years ago.
The loss of both lives was described as an "immense loss" to Scottish science.
According to court papers, the 35-year-old drove her blue Volkswagen Golf from the central reservation onto the southbound carriageway of the road, near Fordoun, when it was "unsafe to do so".
Her actions then caused fellow motorist William Spiers to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
In doing so Mr Spiers was said to have lost control of his black SAAB 9-3 estate, crossing the central reservation before colliding with the silver Vauxhall Astra estate carrying a scientific team from the Institute.
Dr Dawson and Dr Rhind, who were based at agricultural research centre the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, both died from their injuries at the scene.
They had been returning to Aberdeen with colleagues after attending a meeting in Stirling.
Mr Spiers and the driver of the Vauxhall, Geoffrey Elliot, were also injured in the crash.
The A90 was closed for more than eight hours to allow collision inspectors to examine the scene.
Dixon, from Laurencekirk, had her sentence deferred until next month for reports and she was released on bail.
She has been disqualified from driving in the interim.
Dr Rhind, from Westhill in Aberdeenshire, worked internationally and had collaborated with scientific teams in the US and Australia on animal research issues.
He had worked at the Hill Farming Research Organisation, which later became the James Hutton Institute, since 1979 and had worked there ever since.
He was also the postgraduate student liaison officer for the Aberdeen branch of the Institute.
Dr Dawson, 42, was a graduate of Aberdeen University and had returned to the city to work for the Hutton Institute three years before the fatal crash.
He had completed his PhD at the University of Aberdeen in 2000.
Staff at the Hutton Institute described the pair as "valued and respected colleagues".


A man has appeared in court accused of leaving an "incendiary device" in a busy shopping centre.

The homemade device, which was found in the toilets at the Fishergate Shopping Centre in Preston on 17 December, ignited but did not explode.
David Rutherford, 24, of Barry Avenue, Preston appeared at the town's magistrates' court accused of unlawfully making an explosive with intent to endanger life.
He was remanded in custody for 14 days.
Paolo Passerini, defending, told the court he did not object to his client being remanded in custody but told magistrates there were "issues" over the defendant's mental health and his ability to understand proceedings.
No pleas were entered and there was no application for bail.
There will be a further hearing by video link on 8 January before the defendant's next court appearance on 14 January.


An exhibition of late works by artist Salvador Dali opens this weekend in Atlanta, including several pieces not seen in the US for half a century.

The collection of 40 paintings - plus films, sculptures and photographs - focuses on the period from 1940 to 1983.
Works have been brought in from countries around the world - including Canada, Scotland and Japan.
The exhibition runs at Atlanta's High Museum of Art until 9 January.
"It's become a really interesting area for investigation because you have Dali's career which spans almost all of the 20th century, but historically people have really only looked at the 1930s," exhibition curator Elliott King told the Associated Press. "It was almost like he died in 1940."
The exhibition includes photos by American photographer Philippe Halsman showing the artist displaying what King describes as Dali's "wacky showman" side.
Atomic explosion
The exhibition also reflects two recurring influences on Dali's later work - his return to the Catholic Church and nuclear physics.
One work that illustrates this theme is Santiago El Grande - which shows a crucifixion scene and a horse rearing up above an atomic explosion.
Another is The Madonna of Port-Lligat - showing the Madonna and Child breaking into particles. The painting is on loan from a museum in Japan and has not been seen in the US since 1951.
The work Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapilazulina - which features Dali's wife as the Virgin Mary - has been in private collections and has not been exhibited since 1959.
The exhibition also includes the 1960 documentary film Chaos and Creation - an early example of video art which includes pigs, popcorn and a motorbike.


West Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis has lost a £3.7m High Court battle with former club Crystal Palace.

A Premier League Managers' Arbitration Tribunal ruled earlier this year Pulis should pay £3.7m damages to the club in a dispute about the way he left at the start of the 2014-15 season.
Palace bosses said Pulis told them he was committed to the club but left two days after getting a £2m bonus.
Pulis, 56, denied deceiving them into paying the bonus.
He challenged the order in the High Court but a judge ruled against him.
Details of the case have emerged in a written ruling published by Sir Michael Burton on Monday.
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Pulis had a contract with the south London club which promised him the bonus if he kept them in the Premier League at the end of the 2013-14 season and stayed in the manager's job until 31 August 2014.
He secured Palace's place in the top flight but did not stay until the required date, instead asking for the bonus earlier than agreed and then informing the club a day later he wanted to leave.
He departed Palace the next day, on 14 August, on the eve of the new season.
Pulis said his reason for asking for the bonus early was due to an imminent purchase of land for his children and he "urgently needed the money" to enable that, the arbitration tribunal heard.
And he said had decided to leave the club as a result of a "heated" players' meeting on 12 August but the panel rejected that claim, with the judgement saying the meeting had actually happened on 8 August.
"Since the panel has concluded that the heated players' meeting occurred on 8 August, Mr Pulis's explanation for his sudden desire to leave the club cannot be true. There must therefore be another reason," it said.
The ruling also said: "There was in truth no pressing need for the money at all, since at no time was there a plot of land on the market which Mr Pulis was remotely close to purchasing."
The panel concluded it was satisfied Pulis intended to give the club the "false impression" he had a pressing need for the money for the land purchase and that "he knew or was reckless to the fact that the impression he was giving to the club was a false one".
"His motive in doing so was to secure early payment of £2m," the tribunal panel said.
Pulis had said he only wanted to leave if it was "mutually agreeable for him to leave on the eve of the new season", and that it had been "mutually agreeable".
He also said he was "committed" to the club.
But the panel disputed that, saying he had not told the truth and had "deliberately misled" Palace chairman Steve Parish.
Palace bosses gave Pulis the £2m on 12 August and the day after "he dropped the bombshell on the club" leaving them "in the lurch".
"By any standards his conduct [prior to and during the litigation] has been shown to be disgraceful," the panel said.
A spokeswoman for Crystal Palace told BBC News the club would not be making any comment on the ruling.
Pulis, who managed Stoke City from 2006 to 2013, became manager of West Brom in January 2015.


Liverpool have formally rejected a second bid from Manchester City for England forward Raheem Sterling.

It is understood the new offer was a basic £35.5m, which would have risen to nearer £40m when various extras were added.
The Reds value the 20-year-old, who has also been linked with Arsenal and Real Madrid, at £50m.
Last week, Liverpool turned down a bid of £25m, plus add-ons, from Premier League rivals City.
Sterling joined Liverpool from QPR in 2010 and is under contract until 2017, but has rejected the offer of a new £100,000-a-week deal.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said last month he expected Sterling to stay at Anfield for the remainder of his current deal.
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Housebuilders were the biggest fallers on the 100 share index throughout Friday  after a report raised the prospect of the government's Help to Buy scheme being wound down early.

The scheme - which aims to help first-time buyers - is to be reviewed, according to a report in Property Week.
Among the housebuilders on the FTSE 100, Barratt fell almost 5% and Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey about 4%.
The FTSE 100 index closed up 36.94 at 7,547.63 points.
Shares in Merlin Entertainments were the best riser, closing up 6%, despite the firm - which owns the London Eye. Legoland and Madame Tussauds - saying recent terror attacks had led to fewer visitors to its city centre sites.
The company reported half-year profits of £50m, unchanged from a year earlier, although it said full-year profits were still set to meet expectations.
RBS shares rose 2% after the bank reported its first half-year profits for three years.
It made a profit of £939m in the first six months of the year, a big turnaround from the £2bn loss in the same period of 2016.
On the currency markets, the pound reversed gear against the dollar after the US jobs report came in stronger than expected, it ended in London down 0.78% at $1.3037.
After flirting with new nine-month lows against the euro around 1 euro 10, it ended up 0.26% at  1.1097 euros.


The London borough of Newham, home to the Olympic Stadium, enjoyed the biggest rise in house prices across the UK in 2015, according to the Halifax.

The average house price there rose 22.2% over the year compared with 2014.
Homes in Newham, situated five miles east of the City of London, are now worth an average £319,522 as against £261,399 previously.
Wales fared far worse, with Merthyr Tydfil and Colwyn Bay topping the list of worst performing areas for 2015.
According to data from the Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, average house prices in Merthyr Tydfil fell by 3.8% to £103,983. Colwyn Bay recorded a fall of 2.3%, sending the average price of a home there down to £148,272.
A surprise inclusion in the worst performers was Kensington and Chelsea, the borough that includes the UK's most expensive and exclusive areas. Prices there rose just 1% to an average £807,407.
Stamp duty changes introduced in the 2014 Autumn Statement meant buyers at the top end of the market paid more tax, sending buyers outside London for more affordable homes.
Of the top 10 biggest average house price gainers in 2015, five were in the South East, with Royston in Hertfordshire the second-best area, rising 19.1% to £357,049. This contrasts with 2014, when Greater London dominated the best performers.
Martin Ellis, housing economist at the Halifax, said: "Those areas that have seen the biggest house price increases over the past year are either in outer London or within close commuting distance of the capital.
"Demand in these areas has risen as rapid house price rises in central London in the past few years have caused increasing numbers of people to look for property in more affordable areas.
He added: "A few towns have experienced modest price falls. These areas are typically still suffering from relatively weak employment and economic conditions, which has dampened local housing demand."


Super League side St Helens have announced a profit of more than £30,000 for the 2015 financial year.

Revenues at the Merseyside club increased by 10% from £7.1m in 2014 to just below £7.8m.
The financial result is a turnaround for Saints, who lost more than £370,000 during the 2014 season, when they won the Grand Final at Old Trafford.
"It reflects the state of the financial position and commercial performance," said chairman Eamonn McManus.
"The financial position is undoubtedly more challenging in the 2016 season, deriving largely from a number of months when the rugby results were not as we would hope for and expect. This inevitably had a detrimental effect on crowd numbers and their related revenue streams."