Defending champion Andy Murray was knocked out of the Aegon Championships in the first round by world number 90 Jordan Thompson on a day of shocks.

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The world number one lost 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to Thompson, a late replacement for the injured Aljaz Bedene.
It is the first time since 2012 that Britain's Murray has lost his opening match at Queen's Club.
Second seed Stan Wawrinka and third seed Milos Raonic also lost their first-round matches.
However, it was Murray's straight-set defeat that left the crowd packed into the new 10,000-capacity Centre Court stunned.
"It's a big blow, for sure," said Murray.
"It has happened in the past where guys haven't done well here and gone on to do well at Wimbledon.
"There is no guarantee that I won't do well at Wimbledon, but it certainly would have helped to have had more matches.
"He played better than me. I didn't create loads of chances. I didn't return particularly well. He served big. He served well."
Australian Thompson, a lucky loser who lost in qualifying and only made the first round after Briton Bedene withdrew because of a wrist injury, played superbly.
The 23-year-old from Sydney sealed the most famous victory of his career with an ace after one hour and 43 minutes.
"Andy's the world number one. I've looked up to him and that's definitely the biggest win of my career," Thompson said.
"I took each point at a time. I didn't expect it to be winning in straight sets.
"I was sitting around yesterday hoping to get a match. Here I am, I got in the draw and I was so lucky to be here."
Murray, 31, could not find any rhythm, dropping serve twice in the second set and failing to convert the three break points which came his way as his forehand in particular let him down.
The defeat was the Scot's first at the tournament since 2014 and ended a 14-match winning streak on grass stretching back to 2015.
Both his Wimbledon titles, in 2013 and 2016, followed victories at Queen's Club.
Murray had to adjust his game plan after the late change in opponent, and hot, blustery conditions were not ideal, but the five-time champion was still surprisingly out of form.
Thompson had not won an ATP main-draw match in 2016 but reached the final of the lower level Surbiton Challenger on grass last week, and was sharp from the outset.
He denied Murray a single break point in the first set, failing to convert three chances of his won in game two, and then recovered from 3-1 down in the tie-break.
A Murray double-fault changed the momentum and the Briton could only tamely guide a backhand smash into the net on set point.
The comeback appeared on when Murray moved 0-40 up at the start of the second set, but Thompson played his way out of trouble without any nerves and went on to dominate.
Murray's forehand gave up the first break of serve at 4-2 and Thompson made sure with a second successive break before serving out the match.
A final tally of 26 errors to nine winners illustrated Murray's lack of form.
Peter Fleming, seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion on BBC Two
Andy clearly doesn't feel comfortable hitting a tennis ball and that's what he's been great at throughout his career.
What Jordan Thompson did so well was chase balls down and made very few unforced errors. Andy, after a few unforced errors, really just didn't want to do it.
John Lloyd, former GB Davis Cup captain on BBC Two
Andy looked unsure and looked unbalanced. He was hooking his forehands and was all over the place. He was looking at his box and was getting very negative. It was poor by his standards.
There was no physical presence. "I'm number one in the world and you're not beating me" - that was not there. But I think he'll be fine - there's no reason to panic whatsoever.
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Murray's exit means there is no British interest left in the draw at Queen's after all five home players suffered first-round defeats.
After British number two Kyle Edmund lost on Monday, James Ward, Cameron Norrie and Liam Broady were also beaten on Tuesday.
Ward, 30, was playing only his third match since an eight-month absence with a knee injury, but lost 6-2 6-2 to France's world number 87 Julien Benneteau.
Norrie, 21, also received a wildcard - as the leading player on the US college circuit - but he was beaten 6-1 6-4 by American Sam Querrey, the 2010 champion.
Broady, 23, lost 6-4 6-4 against France's Jeremy Chardy after replacing the injured Pierre-Hugues Herbert as a lucky loser from qualifying.


A part-time volunteer police sergeant who pushed an 87-year-old woman and shouted in her face has been given a final written warning.

Alec Bedford later showed a video of the incident to colleagues at Daventry Police Station.
A misconduct hearing in Northamptonshire concluded Special Sgt Bedford had been guilty of misconduct but not gross misconduct.
The officer, aged 26, did not attend the hearing.
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Sgt Bedford had been called to a house in Daventry in July 2015.
A 90-year-old man had refused to go to the police station after being arrested.
The man, referred to at the hearing as JA, had been accused of threatening behaviour towards a neighbour and of pulling his wife - JMA - by the hair two weeks previously.
The hearing heard Sgt Bedford had adopted a "confrontational approach".
At one stage he had bodily moved JMA across the room and had then pushed her in to a chair. JMA had scratched his arm and he decided to arrest her.
David Ring, a solicitor acting for the police force, said Sgt Bedford had acted unprofessionally by shouting at and "roughly handling" JMA.
JA was eventually taken to Daventry Police Station. His wife was given bail.
Sgt Bedford later showed video of the arrest to colleagues at Daventry Police Station.
Mr Ring said the officer had "behaved unprofessionally by laughing" and his actions constituted "a very complacent attitude to confidentiality."
Sgt Bedford pleaded guilty to charges relating to the use of excessive force, failing to act with courtesy and deliberately breaching confidentiality.
The misconduct panel's independent chairman, Geoffrey Payne, said: "This was a deeply disturbing and entirely unacceptable matter."


A man and a woman have been found dead at an address in Birmingham.

The pair were found at a property in Floodgate Street, Digbeth, on Thursday.
Officers from West Midlands Police went to the address at about 14:30 BST while looking for a missing woman on behalf of the Thames Valley force.
Police do not believe anyone else was involved in the deaths and it is understood the incident is being treated as a murder-suicide.
The man was aged 55 and the woman was 49-years-old, West Midlands Police believe.
Post-mortem examinations are due to be completed on Saturday and formal identification has not yet taken place, the force said.


Less than 24 hours after the horrific van attack, the people of Barcelona set out to reclaim their beloved city.

Under the watchful eyes of heavily armed police, they streamed around the centre on foot, strolling up and down the re-opened boulevards of the Ramblas.
Only the clusters of people standing around little vigils of candles here and there, and the camera tripods of the media, broke the flow.
Stop at a tree where a little stuffed toy had been placed among the candles and flowers, and you could make out the sound of several women crying inconsolably as a man with a guitar led others in a rendition of John Lennon's song of peace and tolerance, Imagine.
To hear such weeping, you would wonder how anyone could put on a brave face but, each in their own way, people have been pushing back at the horror of Thursday's events.
She will not let me publish her name but she tells me everything else, this mother of four from a town near Barcelona.
How she heard of the attack while enjoying a day out on a French beach to the north with friends, the alerts pinging on their phones.
"We all have kids and we are always walking around PlaÃ§a de Catalunya (Barcelona's main square) and the Ramblas, so it could have been any of us," she said.
On Friday she cut flowers from her own garden and, as public transport was disrupted, she set out on a slow, hot journey into the city to lay them on the Ramblas.
On the central square, she stood in the crowd, near the staff spilling out of the Apple Store, as people observed a minute's silence at noon.
They applauded King Felipe and Spanish and Catalan political leaders who had set aside their political differences to turn out together in an extraordinary show of solidarity with the victims.
"We are all human beings," she said. "This has nothing to do with Catalan independence or friction. This is a terrorist attack and we are defending peace. This could have happened to you, to me, to my children, to anyone."
Why did they attack Barcelona, I asked.
"Because Barcelona is always in the papers," she said. "When you're a terrorist, no-one will pay attention if you attack a little village lost in the middle of nowhere, yes? But attack Barcelona and everyone is going to read about it."
Then we said goodbye and she headed off to the city's Vall d'Hebron hospital to give blood.
Human rights activists Luca Gervasoni Avila and Josep Maria Royo also turned up to observe the silence.
"We are all in shock," said Luca. "It was not easy to come here, just 100 metres from the place where the attack started."
For him, the key message was that "we have no fear and we are a city of peace".
While this was a moment for giving support to the victims, there had to be a rethink on how to combat terrorism, he said.
Mass surveillance and intensive use of the military and the police did not work, he argued. Instead, "human rights, tolerance and democracy" should be promoted.
"We are a city with a large number of immigrants, a city that wants to welcome refugees, a city that wants to offer a different model of response in the event of terrorism," said Luca. "Now is a moment to think different."
Josep Maria Royo's immediate response to the violence in Barcelona was to go on social media in an effort to calm people down.
"People were sharing images of their crime which showed children, blood, injured people," he said.
"It's easy to spread a message of hate against the Islamic population. We must stop these expressions of hate."
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Slough's MP Fiona Mactaggart has announced she will not stand in June's general election.

In a letter to constituents, she wrote: "I have been bored by political squabbles over personalities and I know I don't still have the passion which has driven my politics for 20 years."
She has become the ninth Labour MP to quit the Commons after several others announced their retirement, including Alan Johnson.
The 63-year-old was elected in 1997.
Ms Mactaggart was one of 13 MPs who voted against holding a snap general election after Theresa May called for a poll to be held by the summer.
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In the letter to her constituents, she added: "I have decided to give someone else a chance to do the wonderful job which I have been privileged to hold for so long.
"I know I'll miss it, and I didn't want this to happen so fast. I foolishly believed the prime minister when she said again and again that she wouldn't call an early election."
Ms Mactaggart, who was an active campaigner against slavery and trafficking, is currently a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee.
Continuing her letter she explained: "I have been frustrated by cruel immigration rules which prevent families from living together in this country where they are citizens while inefficient administration means that some people easily flout the rules.
"I am embarrassed to discuss with our head teachers how they will cut spending to fit the meagre budgets they face.
"I have been depressed by the way the fantastic capacity in the voluntary sector is being run down by lack of funds or poor leadership."


Welsh Labour's promise to increase free childcare could cost considerably more than it has predicted, the author of a report on the matter has said.

In an election pledge, Labour said giving working parents 30 hours free childcare a week for 48 weeks of the year would cost an extra £84m annually.
Economist Gillian Paull told BBC Wales the "upper limit" could reach £200m if "nearly all" parents took up the offer.
The Welsh Government said it was currently analysing the likely costs.
The promise to provide 30 hours free childcare a week was one of Labour's key election pledges and is now part of its five-year programme for government.
The childcare will be made available to working parents of three- and four-year-olds for 48 weeks of the year.
In a report for the Welsh Government in February, Ms Paull, of Frontier Economics, produced various cost estimates for the policy.
It said the cost would be £84m a year if the childcare was offered to working parents and if 87% of them took up the offer at a cost of £5 per hour.
However, Ms Paull warned that she thought the policy was unlikely to encourage many non-working parents to take up jobs.
The Welsh Government insists the policy will remove one of the "major barriers to employment".
Ms Paull said if the policy proved to be successful in enabling large numbers of parents take up jobs, its annual cost would increase considerably.
"The cost estimate [in the report] is based on a very small response in working behaviour," she told the Sunday Politics Wales programme.
"If there is a bigger response, the cost could be considerably higher.
"A reasonable upper limit would be around £200m, based on an extreme response of nearly all parents becoming eligible by working."
David Dallimore, a social policy researcher at Bangor University, warned that money would also have to be spent expanding the availability of childcare in Wales, which he claimed was already "patchy".
"It's very dependent on where you live," he said.
"Wales has a measurably lower rate of childcare than other nations in the UK.
"In Wales it's about 30 childcare places for every 100 children - it's about 40 in England and it's nearly 50 in Scotland."
He added: "I think there's a lot of concern within the sector that there isn't enough provision to be able to deliver this [policy] in the current form we have."
Indicating the end of the Communities First anti-poverty programme on Tuesday, Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant cited the childcare policy as a way of helping parents find work.
"Across government we are ensuring prosperity for all," he said.
"The creation of a generous childcare offer for working parents will help to remove one of the major barriers to employment."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said:  "We know there are issues with capacity and cost in some parts of Wales and we are working with the childcare sector to address this.
"We are also currently undertaking complex modelling of costs.
"We have a cost range, and the purpose of our modelling and analysis is to look at key factors such as the number of eligible children, take-up rates, number of hours utilised and hourly cost, all of which impact on the overall cost estimates."
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sunday 16 October at 1100 BST


A very thirsty koala has been caught on camera drinking water from a drain in Adelaide in Australia.

24 December 2015 Last updated at 10:05 GMT
The southern Australian city has seen temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celcius - for at least four days.
Motorist Paul Jansen, who filmed the koala said the animal drank from the gutter for more than 15 minutes.
"It didn't mind the attention or the road noise, it was just focused on the drink."


A national campaign, led by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, has released a film featuring celebrities talking about how they faced their own mental health problems.

Rapper Professor Green, cricketer Freddie Flintoff, comedian Ruby Wax and others say admitting their problems for the first time made them realise they were not alone.
But for many, asking for help can be much harder.
"We didn't really know what we were being sent to," Dan Farnworth, a paramedic in the north-west, says. "The next thing I knew, a child was just placed into my arms."
It was 2015, and Dan had just been sent to a 999 call that would change his life.
"When we arrived we knocked on the front door, but we couldn't get in. We didn't know what had happened inside," the 31-year-old told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
It quickly became apparent the call involved the murder of a young child.
"All of a sudden this little girl was just placed in my arms," Dan, a father-of-four, says.
"I just remember looking at her. I remember thinking she looked like one of my own children. She had the same colour hair as one of my children.
"I just felt like I froze. It was scary. It is the worst thing I have ever seen in 12 years of doing this job."
That night, the horror of what Dan had witnessed began to dawn on him.
He finished his shift early and went home, but couldn't sleep. He soon realised something more serious was wrong.
"I started having nightmares and flashbacks," he says. "My mind started filling in the gaps, seeing things happen that I hadn't actually seen.
"It was awful. I had flashbacks during the day and I was becoming like a recluse and not talking to people at work."
In the days and weeks that followed, Dan says he became "a different person".
"I realised something was wrong but didn't know where to turn. It was like I was in a deep dark hole, I was scared and drinking and smoking more heavily."
Dan says he was struggling to deal with his mental health problems, but feared being honest with his employers might have seen him lose his job.
He had always wanted to work in the emergency services.
Starting in the ambulance control room answering 999 calls, he then spent time dispatching the air ambulance, before finally applying for a job as an emergency medical technician.
He had been on the road since 2010.
"I was actually scared that by opening up and talking about what was going on, someone would turn round and say 'this job isn't for you'."
Eventually Dan reached out to his friend and fellow paramedic Rich Morton.
Dan says he typed out a text message, telling Rich what had been going on. However, he deleted it before he could send it.
He re-wrote the message, but again deleted it.
He wrote the message for a third time, and this time pressed send.
Dan was so scared of what his friend would say that he hid his mobile phone under a pillow.
"He texted me straight back, saying 'put the kettle on, I'm coming over'," he says now.
"That text message was the first day of the rest of my life."
Dan was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He was signed off work for five months.
He says he was offered "unbelievable" support from his GP and received counselling.
According to the charity Mind, he is not alone in working in the emergency services and suffering mental health problems.
The charity says nearly 90% of blue light staff have reported stress and poor mental health at work.
Emergency workers are twice as likely to identify problems at work as the main cause of those mental health problems as the general workforce, Mind says.
Dan and Rich have since started their own charity, called Our Blue Light, aimed at improving the mental health of blue light services workers.
And through their involvement with Mind, Dan and Rich have also rubbed shoulders with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
Last year, the three royals launched a new campaign called Heads Together, aimed at ending the stigma surrounding mental health.
On Wednesday, Heads Together released a series of films to encourage "a national conversation" about mental health.
Celebrities including cricketer Freddie Flintoff, comedian Ruby Wax and ex-Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell have released films about their mental health struggles.
In a statement, the royals said: "We have seen time and time again that shattering stigma on mental health starts with simple conversations.
"When you realise that mental health problems affect your friends, neighbours, children and spouses, the walls of judgement and prejudice around these issues begin to fall."
The royals say attitudes towards mental health are now "at tipping point."
As for Dan, Prince Harry had a more specific challenge.
"He told me we should run the London Marathon," Dan says, "so we started running the very next day."
"Stigmas still exist and [mental health] is a taboo subject," Dan says.
"People think mental health is a big issue, but I'm Dan, I'm 31 years old with a job and a family and my life is normal. But I have a mental health problem."
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Lewis Hamilton is not there yet, but he might as well be.

The Briton's victory in Russia on Sunday, his ninth win in 15 races this season, has moved him to within touching distance of a third world title. It would take something akin to a shift in the space-time continuum to wrench it from his grasp.
Hamilton is 66 points clear of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, and 73 ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who retired early from the race in Sochi.
With a maximum of 100 points available over the remaining four races in the USA, Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi, the size of the task facing Hamilton's pursuers is clear.
To look at it another way, if Hamilton wins in Austin, Texas, on 25 October, Vettel needs to finish second to keep the championship alive. Rosberg, meanwhile, has to beat Hamilton at the Circuit of Americas to have any hope of maintaining even the slenderest of interests in this season's title race.
When Hamilton wins the title - because it surely is now a 'when' and not an 'if' - it will be no less than he deserves.
In truth, the trophy has appeared destined for his mantelpiece ever since he got off to a flying start by winning in Australia back in March and raced into a 27-point lead - more than a clear race victory - after just four grands prix.
Rosberg has had his moments, but at no point since then has he looked like getting back into the fight.
It took the German five races to beat Hamilton for the first time. When he did, he went on a run of three wins in four grands prix, but two of those wins were aided by problems for his team-mate. Even then, the Englishman's incredible run of pole positions meant he always maintained a sense of superiority.
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That sequence - 11 poles in the first 12 races - has come to a halt since F1 began the long-haul dance around the globe that brings the championship to its conclusion.
But the victories have kept coming and the title will soon follow.
"I've never felt it's ever been done and dusted," Hamilton said during his BBC Sport interview following the post-race celebrations with his Mercedes team.
"The goal is to make sure when you cross the line [at the final race] in Abu Dhabi, you're ahead. I feel amazing but there is still a long way to go and a lot of points available. I am just going to take my time and come back at the next race and work as hard as we have."
He's kidding no-one, however. It is surely only a matter of time before Hamilton achieves his lifelong ambition of matching his hero Ayrton Senna's tally of three world titles, having surpassed in Russia the great Brazilian's mark of 41 career victories.
Hamilton has always looked on course to win the title before the season concludes in Abu Dhabi, but Rosberg has suffered bad luck; a significant reason why the championship battle is likely to be over so early.
The German's retirement in Russia, during a race he might well have won, was his second in four events - and one more in total than Hamilton has had this season.
Rosberg has weekends when it comes together for him and he can beat Hamilton. Russia was looking like it might be one of them, although it's difficult to know how the race would have turned out had he not run into problems.
Be that as it may, Rosberg has never looked a consistent threat to Hamilton, any more than he did last year, when it was only bad luck for the Englishman that made the the championship as close as it was.
The last two seasons have confirmed a widespread impression in the F1 paddock that Hamilton is just too good for Rosberg, and it's difficult to see right now what the man in the number six Mercedes can do about it.
So comfortable has Hamilton seemed this year, in fact, that one team boss remarked at the last race in Japan: "Lewis has Nico in his pocket.
"He's so comfortable that he can jet off to New York between all the races and still come back confident he can beat him. If he had Vettel or Ricciardo or Alonso in the other Mercedes, I doubt he would be able to get away with that."
That, of course, is a matter for debate. But for all Rosberg talks a good game, insists he won't give up, claims that only "small differences" separate him from his team-mate, he remains behind.
Russia did - eventually - secure one title for Mercedes, when Kimi Raikkonen's penalty for an over-ambitious overtaking attempt on Valtteri Bottas's Williams on the final lap demoted him to eighth. That sealed the constructors' championship for Mercedes some hours after the race had concluded.
Mercedes have won that title at exactly the same point as they did in 2014. As Hamilton mentioned in his BBC Sport column in the days before this weekend's race, that is an impressive achievement, given that they have not quite been as dominant in performance this year as they were last.
Ferrari have definitely put the frighteners on Mercedes at times this year - starting with Vettel's unexpected victory in the second race of the season in Malaysia.
Coming two weeks after Mercedes had dominated in Australia, that result was a shock for Toto Wolff, Paddy Lowe and their team.
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In hindsight, though, it was clear that it was based on a set of unique circumstances - Ferrari had better-enough tyre life in the tropical heat of Sepang to be able to close the performance gap between themselves and the world champions, and Mercedes gifted them the lead with what many believe was a strategic error during an early safety car period.
Vettel won again in Hungary in July, but again this was more to do with Mercedes failings - or, to be more precise, errors by Hamilton - than anything else.
Only in Singapore last month have Ferrari had a performance advantage over Mercedes.
And the events of that race - which marked a 2.5-second swing in performance away from Mercedes compared to the preceding and subsequent grands prix in Italy and Japan - were so surreal as to be mystifying even now, despite Mercedes' claims that they think they have a logical explanation for them.
The bare facts of 2015 are that Mercedes have had a pace advantage over Ferrari of an average of 0.6 seconds a lap in qualifying this year - an enormous margin for any rival to close in one winter.
Ferrari technical director James Allison said after the race in Russia that they need to take as big a step this winter as they did during the last to be able to close the gap on Mercedes before 2016.
That is going to be no easy feat, especially as at least two-thirds of that margin is accounted for by the chassis - an area in which Ferrari have struggled for many years, and which the highly-regarded Allison has been employed to put right.
Mercedes have made this new hybrid era of F1 their own, through investing in the car and engine earlier and more substantially than their rivals. They have reaped the rewards with two years of domination as complete as any era in history.
Behind them, all their rivals lack in one way or another, and it is going to take something special from one of them to stop Mercedes taking title number three next year, and Hamilton earning title number four.
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About 55,000 homes around Lancaster are without power and could be cut off for days after an electricity substation was flooded during Storm Desmond.

Electricity North West said flood defences upgraded five years ago to cope with a "one-in-a-100 years flood" were breached on Saturday night.
All but emergency operations have been cancelled at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on Monday.
And at least 10 schools in Lancashire will remain closed due to flooding.
Engineers were only able to access the substation in Caton Road on Sunday after it had been "fully submerged". Operations director Mark Williamson said they were assessing the damage.
He said it was not know how long repairs would take but it "could be days" before power is restored.
Some students at Lancaster University were leaving the campus due to the power cut and problems with running water.
Lancashire County Council said the 10 schools known to be closed on Monday are:
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust said it was cancelling all non-urgent operations and a number of clinics at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary including audiology, ear, nose and throat and maxillofacial clinics and breast screenings.
A trust spokesperson said: "We are trying, where possible, to contact those patients affected, but due to significant problems with phones in the Lancaster area, this is difficult.
"Therefore, we are asking for the public's help in passing on the message to any friends and family members that may have appointments tomorrow."
About 350 army personnel have been made available from 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, based in Weeton Barracks near Preston, to assist with the general flooding response from the early hours.
They arrived with two vehicles to help evacuate and warn residents in Carlisle - and sent a Chinook helicopter to move high-velocity pumping equipment needed at an electricity substation.
Updates on this story and more from Lancashire and Cumbria.
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said Storm Desmond has proved to be "a really difficult time for all emergency services".
Chief fire officer Chris Kenny said their efforts on Saturday night focussed on moving vulnerable people who were stranded where ambulances couldn't get through.
"Our focus then was trying to stop the power outage at the Lancaster substation," he said. "You're battling against rising water and it's relentless."
The county's firefighters dealt with more than 300 calls for help in Lancaster and surrounding areas as flooding hit the Cable Street, Water Street, Chapel Street, Damside Street and St George's Quay parts of the city centre last night.
Crews from all over the Lancaster and Morecambe district attended a range of situations including helping cars stuck in floodwater, affected electrics, flooding and road traffic collisions and two fires.
Marco Petagna, a senior forecaster at the Met Office, said parts of Cumbria and Lancashire have been hit with more than a month's worth of rain in just 24 hours.


Hooker Rob Buchanan has extended his contract with Harlequins, although terms are undisclosed.

Buchanan, 25, came through the Quins academy set-up to make his debut against Leicester in 2010, and has since made 116 appearances.
He toured Argentina with England in 2013, but did not play a Test match.
"Rob has made significant strides this season in nailing down the starting hooker position," director of rugby John Kingston said.
"His love of the club is there for all to see and he will play a significant role in the quest for more silverware over the coming years."
The front-rower joins Charlie Mulchrone, Ross Chisholm and Dave Ward in agreeing extended deals with the club.
Quins' academy side has brought through a strong contingent of first-team and international players, with Buchanan, recent England and British & Irish Lions call-up Kyle Sinckler, George Lowe and Joe Marchant all adding depth to the squad.
"I have been with this club since I was 16 and it was an easy decision to extend my time," Buchanan said.
"To be able to work under the guidance of Adam Jones and Graham Rowntree for the coming seasons is incredibly exciting for me, and I am grateful to John Kingston for the opportunity to continue my career here at Harlequins."


A pilot scheme to ban parking outside primary schools in Edinburgh has led to an increase in the number of pupils walking to school.

Evaluation of the School Streets scheme also showed lower vehicle speeds on surrounding roads and a reduction in the number of cars around schools.
A report to the city council's transport and environment committee recommended making the pilot permanent.
The Living Streets Scotland charity wants it rolled out nationwide.
The 18-month scheme began in Edinburgh in September 2015.
The nine primary schools in the scheme are: Abbeyhill, Colinton, Cramond, Duddingston, Sciennes, St John's, Clermiston, St Peter's, and Towerbank.
Living Streets Scotland said other councils should also look at implementing the scheme.
It is not calling for a complete ban on cars around all schools as it said each should be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Stuart Hay, Living Streets Scotland director, said: "We are calling on all local authorities to look at this scheme.
"All local authorities have similar problems.
"The main problems identified in Edinburgh were dangerous parking and manoeuvring by parents."
Lesley Hinds, City of Edinburgh City Council's transport convener, said: "The whole aim of School Streets was to create a safer, more relaxed atmosphere around schools, encouraging children to walk and cycle and parents to leave their cars at home.
"Therefore I'm delighted to see fewer cars around participating schools, slower speeds in nearby streets and more children walking in every day, contributing to a more welcoming environment for all.
"We now want to build on the lessons learned from the pilot so far to bring School Streets' benefits to even more children, families and residents across the city."


A man died and three others were injured after several stabbings in Croydon on Halloween.

Three men in their twenties were found in Gloucester Road at around 20:00.
Two were taken to hospital with serious injuries. A man, 22, died at the scene. A fourth man presented himself to hospital with stab wounds.
An eyewitness told the Express they saw a woman believed to be a relative of the dead man running down the street screaming "he's dead, he's dead".
The Met said next of kin had been informed but no arrests had yet been made.
Several residents told the BBC there had been problems in the area since the local police station closed.
One woman said she "knew something like this was going to happen".
Another added: "Things have been heading that way for a while. This is not a very god area, there's drugs and all kinds of things going on."
Another resident, Miroslaw Misiukiecz, said: "I was attacked around three weeks ago on my doorstep by a young man.
"It's since they closed the police station at Norwood Junction a couple of years ago. Before it was safe, but now it's not."
The wounded men are aged 21, 22 and 27. Their injuries are not considered to be life-threatening, police said.
Ch Supt Andy Tarrant said such attacks were "rare" and Scotland Yard were "doing everything we can to catch those responsible."


Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said it will be "very difficult" for midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger to play for the club again.

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Schweinsteiger, 32, who won 120 caps for Germany, has trained alone and with the under-23s since Mourinho took charge in the summer.
Schweinsteiger said on Wednesday he "will be ready if the team needs me".
Mourinho said: "We have five players for two positions. It's very difficult that an opportunity will arrive."
World-record signing Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini started in midfield for United in last Friday's Premier League win over Southampton, while Morgan Schneiderlin, Ander Herrera and Michael Carrick are also in the squad.
Schweinsteiger, who signed a three-year contract in July 2015 under Mourinho's predecessor Louis van Gaal, has said that United will be his last club in Europe.
Mourinho said on Friday that he had "no problem" if Schweinsteiger chose to stay at the club despite not playing.
"I cannot answer for him. It's his life. It's his career," said Mourinho.
"He has a contract and has the right to make that decision to stay. That's not a problem for us."
Meanwhile, 20-year-old Brazilian midfielder Andreas Pereira will join Spanish club Granada on a season-long loan.
"I love Andreas Pereira as a player and I would love to have him in my squad, but he will go to Granada," said Mourinho.


Toshiba has said it will split off its operation that makes memory chips for smartphones and computers, and will sell a stake in the new business.

The Japanese company needs to raise funds after revealing a heavy one-off loss at its US nuclear power business.
Toshiba will unveil the size of the writedown next month, but some estimate it could be around $6bn (Â£5bn).
It is widely reported that 20% of the chip business will be sold off, and the firm is expected to confirm this later.
Toshiba's chip business is the second biggest in the world after Samsung's, and has been valued at between $9bn and $13bn.
The firm says it hopes to have struck a deal by the end of March.
Reports suggest Canon, Western Digital and the Development Bank of Japan could be potential buyers, though analysts expect Toshiba may be forced to accept a cut-price offer given its financial woes are well-publicised.
Toshiba: What's going wrong?
Shares in Toshiba have fallen more than 45% since late December, when it revealed the problems in its nuclear arm, linked to a deal done by US subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric.
Westinghouse bought a nuclear construction and services business from Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) in 2015. But assets that it took on are likely to be worth less than initially thought, and there is also a dispute about payments that are due.
Toshiba has also reported "inefficiencies" in the labour force at CB&I, along with other factors driving up costs.
The damage to its finances threatens to undo efforts to recover from 2015 revelations that profits had been overstated for seven years. The accounting scandal led to the resignation of the company's chief executive.
Since then, Toshiba has been trying to slim down the business, including selling its profitable medical devices operation to Canon in 2016.


Algeria coach Georges Leekens has resigned following the team's early exit from the Africa Cup of Nations.

The Desert Foxes were one of the pre-tournament favourites but were knocked out of the finals on Monday after failing to win a game in Gabon.
"For the good of all I decided to quit even though I do it with heartache," Leekens told the Algerian Football Federation website.
"I wish all the success in the world to the national side."
The 67-year-old Belgian was appointed to the role only in October, for what was his second spell in charge following a four-month stint in 2003.
He had been expected to take Algeria deep into the latter stages at least in Gabon, coaching a side that contains BBC and Caf African Footballer of the Year Riyad Mahrez and his Leicester team-mate Islam Slimani, Porto's Yacine Brahimi and Napoli's Faouzi Ghoulam.
But the team underperformed at the tournament, beginning their Group B matches with a shock 2-2 draw with Zimbabwe - in which they scored an 82nd-minute goal by Mahrez to rescue a point.
That was followed by a 2-1 defeat by their north African Neighbours Tunisia, which left them needing to beat Senegal in their final match on Monday to have any chance of making it to the quarter-finals.
But they were held 2-2 by a reserve Senegal side, who had already won the group before the match, and suffered an embarrassing elimination.
Algeria are also struggling to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
They are bottom of Group B - which also contains Nigeria, Cameroon and Zambia - after two matches, having drawn one and lost one.
Only the group winners go through and they already trail Nigeria by five points.
"Given the pressure on the federation and the national team, I preferred to end my contract out of friendship for the president of the FAF (Algerian Football Federation) who deserves respect," Leekens added.
Leekens was Algeria's third coach in a year, following on from Milovan Rajevac and Christian Gourcuff.


Controversy has erupted over the distribution of aid in the flood-hit south Indian city of Chennai (Madras).

Relief workers allege that they are being forced to paste stickers of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalitha on aid coming into the city.
The allegations have caused widespread anger in the city which was largely submerged by the floodwaters.
Ms Jayalalitha's party, the AIADMK, has denied the reports and promised action against "errant" party workers.
At least 280 people have died in floods in the state since last month and a massive relief operation is continuing to get food and medicines to tens of thousands of people. Many residents are still living in shelters.
A social media post about how volunteers were being forced to add stickers of Ms Jayalalitha, known as "Amma" or mother in the state, went viral over the weekend.
"Many of my friends who had gone to Cuddalore with relief materials complained that thugs and goons are forcibly pasting Amma stickers on every box and only then clearing the vehicles," the post on Facebook said.
A group of volunteers from social organisations also told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi that a local politician told them that "people will not accept the food and milk packets without the photo of the chief minister".
In other areas, relief workers were not allowed to distribute aid until the local minister arrived.
"In Padikuppam [a Chennai suburb], our volunteers were asked to wait until the minister came. We waited for almost three to four hours but the minister did not turn up,'' Magesh Kumar, a spokesperson of the Lok Satta party, told BBC Hindi.
A local reporter from Chennai told the BBC that a company which had sent a consignment of drinking water to Chennai was asked to pay five rupees per bottle if they did not paste Amma stickers on them.
The latest allegations, compounded with disenchantment with what many have called Ms Jayalalitha's "absence" during the floods, have led to an outpouring of resentment on social media.
Apart from angry posts, people began creating and sharing memes and tweets that mocked the chief minister.
However, the AIADMK has asked people making allegations against party workers to provide proof, so that they can take action against them.
The party issued a statement reiterating that it had not issued any order to workers to paste stickers of Ms Jayalalitha on aid material.
It even went to the extent of saying that if anyone provided "video or voice" evidence, the party would initiate action against those who were misusing the chief minister's name.


They have been described as audio postcards, soppy spoken love letters and mementoes from a day out.

Voice recording booths were popular in the UK and USA between the 1930s and 1970s and were fixtures at train stations, seaside arcades and tourist attractions.
While the discs they created have largely disappeared, one featuring women singing to a baby found in a Cardiff charity shop was the catalyst for the rediscovery of a long-forgotten way of communicating.
The story is told in a Radio 4 podcast called Keepsake For My Lover.
It began when the boyfriend of BBC radio producer Hannah Loy came across an old recording while sifting through records in a Cardiff charity shop.
"When he got it home, it actually played and we heard two women singing to a baby," she said.
"It was so exciting and evocative to hear those voices from the past, we created a whole back story to their lives."
Along with presenter Janine H Jones, Ms Loy began looking into the history of the booths, summing up their role in British culture by adding: "If you've seen Brighton Rock you'll know what we mean."
The 1947 movie, based on a Graham Greene novel, is a gangster film where a voice recording made at a fairground plays a central part in the plot.
One of the characters does not have a gramophone to play it on, with the content only revealed towards the end of it.
While most traces of the booths have long-since disappeared, the pair found details of somebody who still repairs them, living near Washington DC in the United States.
"Luckily, Janine was going on a trip to the states anyway so that's when everything fell into place," Ms Loy said.
"She spoke to everyone she could over there about the discs and the booths and came back with some amazing recordings."
Booths had a strict time limit and you spoke or sang when a green light came on.
Ms Loy added: "I think that flummoxed people, it was like a performance, people got tongue tied or their minds went blank.
"Often they spoke about mundane things."
To try and recreate the feeling of the booths, the pair set one up at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, putting on a time limit and one chance to record.
"People engaged with it straight away but what struck us was how similar some of the recordings were to the ones from over 60 years ago featured in the documentary," she said.
The podcast Keepsake for My Lover is part of the Seriously podcast collection for Radio 4.
"(It) emphasises the power and timelessness of recorded speech and the beauty and significance in mistakes and the mundane," Ms Loy added.
"[It is] particularly poignant now, when we live in a world where everything can be airbrushed, faked and edited."


Britain's Dina Asher-Smith and Greg Rutherford won gold medals at the European Championships on Thursday.

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British record holder Asher-Smith, 20, ran a season's best 22.37 seconds to win the 200m in Amsterdam.
Olympic and world champion Rutherford, 29, retained his European long jump title with a leap of 8.25m.
However, after missing out on the 800m final and picking up an injury, former world and European medallist Jenny Meadows, 35, said she will now retire.
Britain's defending 100m hurdles champion Tiffany Porter took bronze in a time of 12.76 seconds.
Asher-Smith is the first British woman to win the 200m at the European Championships, while Rutherford is the first man to retain the European long jump crown in 54 years.
Both athletes admitted there is work to do before they compete at the Olympic Games in Rio, which begin on 5 August.
"I'm absolutely over the moon - my first senior title," Asher-Smith told BBC Sport. "I've still got bits to work on, I got a bit tired in the last 30m.
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"Nothing really changes for me. I just want to go out there and run the fastest times when it really matters at the Olympic Games in August. My goals stay exactly the same for the summer."
Gold for Rutherford means he maintains the long jump grand slam, holding the Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles.
"Although 8.25 isn't very big, it's good to be the best of Europe again," he said.
"It's now about being the best of the world again. I now have five major titles and not many athletes can say that.
"If I win the Olympics in Rio, then I'll have each title in double."
Britain's Richard Kilty was disqualified from the 100m after a false start in the final, which had to be restarted.
GB team-mate James Ellington finished fifth, with the 30-year-old earlier setting a personal best 10.04 seconds to reach that stage.
Dutch veteran Churandy Martina, 32, edged French favourite Jimmy Vicaut to claim the gold medal.
There was also a memorable victory on the second day of action of the championships for Thomas van der Plaetsen, the Belgian decathlete just returning to competition after having suffered testicular cancer last year.


Residents "need a voice" on Coventry's plans to join a proposed West Midlands combined authority, says a woman petitioning the city council.

Rachael Bermingham's petition calling for a referendum so that residents can decide if the city joins up has been signed by more than 3,100 people.
Mrs Bermingham said it was a very important decision which deserved "the proper exercise of democracy".
The council said there was no legal requirement for a referendum.
A spokesman said that a statutory process ahead of any proposal about a combined authority would include consultation, while the government "will make the final decision".
The Labour group which runs the council voted to support the move in principle last week but the matter will be discussed further at a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
All this talk about the "Northern Powerhouse" seems at last to be concentrating minds in the West Midlands. The combined authority proposed six months ago by four Black Country councils plus Birmingham now has the support of Coventry's Labour administration. Their Conservative counterparts in Solihull, always the most reluctant partners, have agreed to recommend their authority should join in too.
Solihull's participation would be crucial because a Midlands powerhouse which did not include Birmingham Airport, the National Exhibition Centre and a potential high-speed rail interchange would be something of a nonsense.
The prize being held out by the chancellor is unprecedented devolved political and spending power worth billions of pounds, along the lines of that already being handed over to authorities in and around Manchester.
With it would come extra clout for local decision-makers in important areas like housing, transport, skills and planning. In return, they may have to stomach a "metro mayor". Despite overwhelming evidence that such a move is generally unwanted here, George Osborne is adamant that the new-style regional boss is a "pre-requisite".
Councils controlling Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton are among those who have backed the plans.
The petition says that many residents are concerned about Coventry "playing second fiddle to Birmingham, as it did in the old West Midlands County Council days".
Mrs Bermingham, 63, said she remembered the county council providing "an additional layer of authority and bureaucracy" until its end in 1986. She believes the development of Coventry's city centre was among areas which lost out.
Mrs Bermingham, a retired civil servant and mother of a daughter, said she was "shocked and surprised" to read that the council supported the plan which would "have an impact for decades" and should involve extensive public discussion.
She hopes the petition will get at least 15,000 supporters, meaning the issue is debated at a full council meeting under council e-petition rules.
Council leader Ann Lucas has said it was about moving power "from Whitehall to the West Midlands" - not from Coventry to Birmingham, and that councils working together could make the best decisions about major investments for the area.


A City of London event where the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, was due to give a key speech has been cancelled following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

He had been due to speak at the annual Mansion House dinner on Thursday night.
Mr Hammond said he had withdrawn from the speech "in view of the Grenfell Tower tragedy", adding: "My thoughts are with the local community."
A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation, which organises the event, echoed the chancellor's comments.
"In the light of the tragedy at Grenfell Tower we are cancelling tonight's Mansion House Dinner. Our thoughts are focussed with the victims and their families and friends."
Figures including Bank of England governor Mark Carney and the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Andrew Parmley, had been due to attend the Bankers and Merchants Dinner along with the chancellor.
A Treasury spokesman said Mr Hammond would deliver the speech intended for the Mansion House dinner in the near future.
His address was set to offer clues on the government's approach to the Brexit talks.
The chancellor had been expected to say that Â£48bn of funds from the European Union's investment bank would not be put at risk following Brexit.


Early trial data shows a drug developed using artificial intelligence can slow the growth of cancer in clinical trials.

The data, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, showed some tumours shrank by around a quarter.
The compound will now be taken into more advanced trials.
Scientists said we were now in an explosive stage of merging advances in computing with medicine.
Spotting every difference between a cancerous and a healthy cell is beyond even the brightest human minds.
So the US biotechnology company Berg has been feeding as much data as its scientists could measure on the biochemistry of cells into a supercomputer.
The aim was to let an artificial intelligence suggest a way of switching a cancerous cell back to a healthy one.
It led to their first drug, named BPM31510, which tries to reverse the Warburg effect - the phenomenon in which cancerous cells change their energy supply.
Data from 85 patients showed signs the approach could kill tumours.
The trial was designed to test only for toxicity, but in one patient the tumour shrank by a 25%.
Dr Niven Narain, one of the founders of Berg, said it was still early days for the drug, but claimed supercomputing was the future of cancer.
He told the BBC News website: "I think we're at a very explosive stage, this fusion of biology with technology in helping us understand the basis of this disease more fundamentally.
"It's going to allow us to make better decisions on how we develop drugs, to whom we give these drugs to so that we're able to increase the survival outcome."
The results from these patients are being fed back into the artificial intelligence in order to further target the therapy at those most likely to respond.
The company thinks cancers with high energy demands will benefit the most and is planning a more advanced trial in patients in pancreatic cancer.
Dr Alan Worsley, from Cancer Research UK, said we were only at the beginning of harnessing the huge advances in computing to understand cancer.
"We still don't fully understand how cancer cells get the energy they need to grow or how this differs from normal cells.
"It remains to be seen if a drug developed using this information will help cancer patients, but we need to keep finding new ways to find innovative treatments for patients."
But he said that in order to deliver personalised cancer treatment - that responds to the genetic changes taking place inside each patients tumour - then computers, not doctors, will be analysing the data.


Retired RUC officers have cleared the first stage in a High Court challenge to watchdog claims that police did nothing to alert the public to an IRA bomb that killed three neighbours.

The claims were made in a Police Ombudsman's report.
Eugene Dalton, 54, and Sheila Lewis, 68, were killed in the explosion at a house in Londonderry.
A third victim, 57-year-old Gerard Curran, died months after being pulled from the rubble.
Proceedings were issued over an ombudsman probe into the booby-trap bombing in August 1988.
The report concluded there had been a failure by the police to protect the victims of the attack in the Creggan area of the city.
The Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers Association claims there was no legal power to make findings, which it claims contain inaccuracies.
Leave to seek a judicial review was granted on the basis that an arguable case has been established.
The attack became known as the "Good Samaritan bomb" because the three friends had gone to check on the whereabouts of a neighbour kidnapped earlier by the IRA.
The IRA later apologised, admitting it planted the booby trap device in a bid to kill soldiers.
Nearly two decades later, members of Mr Dalton's family lodged a complaint with the Police Ombudsman's Office that the RUC had been negligent and failed in its duty to uphold their father's right to life under Article Two of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In July last year, the Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, published his findings that police officers had information about an IRA booby trap bomb in a house in the Creggan estate, but did nothing to warn residents of the possible danger.
He identified a failure in the police obligation to protect the lives of the public.
The report provoked a furious reaction within the association and a threatened boycott of ombudsman investigations into historical cases of alleged human rights breaches.
A legal challenge has now been initiated in a bid to have the findings quashed.
Papers lodged in the High Court claim the report contains a number of inaccuracies, failed to take into account relevant issues on intelligence at the time and denied the retired officers a chance to comment.
Lawyers for the association also contend that the ombudsman had legally overstepped the mark.
According to their case, he had no power to make findings in relation to Article Two of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A High Court judge granted leave to seek a judicial review on Wednesday after no contrary arguments were advanced at this stage.
The case will now proceed to a full two-day hearing in May when the ombudsman's legal representatives will defend the allegations.
Outside the court the association's solicitor, Dorcas Crawford, set out why the case was brought.
She said: "It's important to establish their rights as retired officers because they are being implicated and criticised without the right to reply."


Wales forward Hal Robson-Kanu says he will be fit to start their first game at Euro 2016 against Slovakia.

Robson-Kanu is set to miss Wales' final warm-up game with Sweden due to a leg injury, but says he will be fit for Wales' opener on 11 June in Bordeaux.
He is joined on the sidelines by injured pair Joe Allen and Joe Ledley.
"I have a training schedule to build up for the Euros and I will be very good to go for the [Slovakia] game," Robson-Kanu told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"I am feeling good in myself, I picked up a little knock but I am just managing it now," he continued.
"I am stepping up my training over the next few days. The aim is to be fit for that first game."
Manager Chris Coleman, who recently signed a new deal to remain national team coach, has dismissed concerns over the fitness of Gareth Bale who was just suffering from cramp at the end of the Champions League final.
Midfielder Emyr Huws and striker Wes Burns will travel to France with the Wales camp to provide cover for the injured players.
Former Reading striker Robson-Kanu, who is a free agent this summer, is hopeful all of Wales' injured players will be in contention to start the tournament, their first major finals appearance since 1958.
Meanwhile, Allen has been ruled out of the trip to Stockholm, while Ledley is still recovering from a fractured leg suffered on 7 May.
"We have got professionals on the medical team who advise us and direct us so we are good and fully fit for the tournament, so we will see how it goes," Robson-Kanu said.
"It is great to have Joe Ledley around, I think everyone was fearing the worst when we heard the news, but he has made a bit of a miraculous recovery and by the time the first game comes around, hopefully everyone is fully fit and ready to go."
The 27-year-old former Arsenal trainee says it will be a big error if Wales underestimate Slovakia, ahead of their hotly-anticipated meeting with Roy Hodgson's England, who face Russia in their opening Group B clash.
Slovakia are without top scorer Robert Vittek, but do have Premier League representation in Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel. Slovakia defeated world champions Germany in their latest warm-up before France.
"Every team here has qualified, there will be no mugs, there is going to be a lot of quality in the tournament," Robson-Kanu added, "Martin Skrtel is a top player, but we will be looking to expose their weaknesses and work on our strength.
"Walking out in the first game will be a special feeling but we feel 1-11 we are as strong as anyone."


Profit-taking by investors in China sent the Shanghai Composite lower by more than 5% in Tuesday trade.

The benchmark index gave up 163.9 points or 5.4% at the close, to end at 2,856.27 points.
That is the biggest one-day percentage fall since August 2009.
Investors went on a profit-taking spree one day after the benchmark index broke past the 3,000 mark for the first time in more than three years.
Shares of Chinese financial and property firms were caught in the selloff.
The profit-taking filtered into neighbouring Hong Kong, where the benchmark Hang Seng index closed lower by 2.3% to 23,485.83 points.
Other Asian shares also traded lower on Tuesday, following losses on Wall Street prompted by slumping oil prices and worries about global growth.
In the US the S&P 500 closed down 0.7% - its biggest daily percentage drop since 22 October - weighed down by energy shares.
Brent crude prices sank to a new five-year low, falling to $65.33 - its lowest since September 2009.
In Japan, the Nikkei snapped a seven-day rally and closed down 0.7% to 17,813.38 as the yen strengthened.
The dollar was at 119.99 yen, down from 120.78 yen.
Among the stock movers in Asia, Takata shares jumped in Tokyo trade following reports that Honda's President Takanobu Ito said the automaker would step in to assist the hard-hit auto parts-maker if necessary.
The company, which is involved in a massive airbag recall, saw shares rise as much as 6% before falling back to close up 0.3%.
Meanwhile in Australia the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 1.7% at 5,321.8 under pressure from resources and energy stocks.
Shares of heavyweight miner BHP Billiton fell more than 4% to their lowest since March 2009.
Investor sentiment was also weighed on by a private survey that showed that business confidence continued to decline in November.
National Australia Bank's survey showed that business conditions also fell in the period with the biggest drops in the finance, property and recreation sectors.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index ended down 0.4% at 1,970.95 points.


Ronny Deila is an engaging character who's done well in the bread and butter of Scottish football, but it's jam that Celtic crave and Europe is the only place where it's on offer.

In his relationship with the supporters, Deila flits between two vastly contrasting worlds - a world of doubts and boos in Europe running parallel with a life of success and optimism in other competitions at home.
No bridge has been built between these two existences.
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You can't look at what Celtic have done in the Europa League this season and conclude that Deila is beginning to get an angle on things in that environment, as Gordon Strachan and Neil Lennon did in their second season as Celtic manager.
Strachan motored in year two in Europe, taking Celtic to the last 16 of the Champions League. Lennon didn't get anywhere close to that level in his second season but at least in the performances of his team in the Europa League in 2011 there were discernible signs of improvement.
Those signs don't exist for Deila's Celtic.
Admittedly, Lennon's team beat Rennes 3-1 at Parkhead and drew 1-1 away. Rennes finished sixth in the French league that season. They weren't bad. Celtic drew 1-1 with Udinese, home and away.  Udinese went on to finish third in Serie A. They were useful.
The best side that Celtic faced that season was the Atletico Madrid of Thibaut Courtois, Diego Godin, Felipe Luis, Mario Suarez, Arda Turan, Koke and Juanfran with Radamel Falcao appearing off the bench. They lost 2-0 away but 1-0 at home against a side that would go on and win the competition by beating Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in the final.
There is a narrative, among some Celtic fans, that Lennon showed no sign of getting it together in Europe until his third season when they beat Barcelona and qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League.
This is held up in support of Deila being given more time to make an impression on the bigger stage, but it's a flawed argument based on a misreading of the signs in Lennon's second European campaign.
It's almost certainly too late for Deila to rescue a grim situation in his team's Europa League group, but he has two games in which to provide a shred of evidence that he can get it right next time - if there is to be a next time.
Think of it as two opportunities to show majority shareholder Dermot Desmond and chief executive Peter Lawwell that he warrants another shot at Europe next season. His case is looking pretty flimsy right now.
The first of those chances is against Ajax in Glasgow on Thursday. It's a match in which the failures of Molde, who beat Celtic home and away, need to be purged.
A repeat of the defensive tomfoolery, mental frailty and tactical confusion that saw Celtic routed 5-2, over both ties, by the sixth best team in Norway and Deila will know again what it is like to be booed up the tunnel by his own fans.
Right now, there is hardly a single result in Europe this season that Deila could point to that suggests his team is learning and getting better. The draw in Amsterdam was admirable, for sure. The draw against Fenerbahce at Celtic Park was far from a failure.
The fact that Celtic led 1-0 and 2-1 in the Netherlands and 2-0 against the Turkish side in Glasgow is more of a problem.
It was history repeating, Last season, Celtic lost leads in Europe and it cost them. And they're still doing it. Throw the Molde failures in on top of that and you have a significant case for the prosecution.
There's an air of denial in certain quarters of Celtic. Molde manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would have been entitled to scoff had he seen John Collins' comments in the aftermath.
"Against Molde we were the better team in the two games," said Celtic assistant manager Collins. "They defended, sat behind the ball, weren't bothered about any kind of possession, even at home.  They get away with the way they play, sitting back, but we don't want to play like that."
Yes, poor Molde, having to make do with two victories, five goals and 21 attempts on Celtic's goal over both matches not to mention their thumping win over Fenerbahce in the opening round, the kind of result that Deila's Celtic always talk about achieving but never do.
There are 48 teams in this Europa League and only four of them have out-scored Molde. They have 10 points from four games and have qualified for the knockouts with two matches to spare, but their style is "not something that excites me," said Collins.
That's quite a comment from the assistant manager of a club that's sitting bottom of the group without a single win to its name.
A victory over Ajax and Deila can press the pause button on those conversations that have become damning of his record in Europe. Another defeat and the sense of rewind increases. As does the board's temptation to hit eject.
David Moyes has come on the market and Roy Keane, assistant manager with Republic of Ireland, has made it known he hopes to get back into club management after Euro 2016. Desmond was sweet on Keane for Celtic pre-Deila.
The Norwegian may not be able to save his team but a win against Ajax would be no harm when it comes to the business of saving himself.
Martin O'Neill's Republic of Ireland will never be accused of being football's equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters, but there was a joyousness about what they achieved on Monday night in Dublin.
In Scotland, the navel-gazing continues about the state of the game. Some argue that qualification for Euro 2016 would have done nothing to address the real problems, that a place in France would only have papered over the cracks.
The Football Association of Ireland reckon that making the Euros after their play-off win against Bosnia-Herzegovina could bring as much as £10m into football in the Republic. You can do a lot of grassroots development with £10m.
It's not just the kudos that Scotland missed out on, it's the much-needed cash.
Tennis is a simple and beautiful game. It's just the administrators who make it unfathomable sometimes.
As we lurch from one sporting scandal to another, the case of the Serbian player, David Savic, is worth thinking about. It's a relative dot on the landscape of sporting fraud, but it has its place in the pantheon of the bewildering all the same.
Four years ago, Savic was banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of attempting to match-fix. On Thursday, Savic had his ban adjusted on appeal.
The Serbian's life-ban from playing remains in place but as of March next year he will be allowed to act as a coach and attend tournaments.
The twisted logic of this is bizarre. Savic, 30, is not trusted to play but is deemed suitable to help somebody else to play.
The decision to relax the ban was taken in consideration of his "substantial assistance" to the Tennis Integrity Unit's player education programme - "in which he has appeared in a film to warn other players against involvement in betting-related corruption".
Very few people outside of tennis have heard of Savic. In the grand scheme of things, he doesn't matter. In the sporting cesspool, there are bigger fish to fry. His reprieve, of sorts, is grim all the same.


Staff at social media company Twitter have donated more than $1m (Â£790,000) to the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU  has pledged to fight President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The civil rights group has reportedly raised more than $24m in online donations in the past few days.
Taxi hailing company Lyft previously said that it would donate $1m to the ACLU over the next four years.
Nearly 1,000 Twitter employees donated more than $500,000, which was matched by chief executive Jack Dorsey and executive chairman Omid Kordestani, according to TechCrunch.
In an email sent to Twitter staff and obtained by the tech news website, lawyer Vijaya Gadde said: "Our work is far from done.
"In the coming months we'll see a flurry of legal challenges, legislative pushes and public pronouncements.
"But as long as civil liberties are threatened, I'm proud to know that as individuals we will stand up to defend freedom and look after people."
It is also reported by Bloomberg that some of the largest US technology companies are preparing an open letter to President Trump, expressing concern about his order on immigration and offering help to "fix it".
Meanwhile, messaging platform Viber has offered free international calls to the affected countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.


New Wales squad member Phil Dollman initially thought his surprise call-up was a joke, believing that at 32 his international chance had passed him by.

The Exeter full-back has been drafted in for June's two-Test tour against Tonga and Samoa to replace injured Cardiff Blues teenager Rhun Williams.
He has had to cancel a family holiday to seize his chance for a first cap.
"I thought I had missed out... I am ecstatic," said Dollman, who was in just a towel when he got the call.
Dollman got the nod ahead of the likes of Ospreys' Dan Evans and Rhys Patchell at Scarlets.
"At 32 I thought and looked at that and saw they had some good young players so they are bringing guys on," he said.
"I thought it had probably passed by but gladly I have the opportunity now."
Leigh Halfpenny and Liam Williams are away with the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand, so Dollman is the only specialist full-back in Wales interim coach Robin McBryde's squad.
Blues' Gareth Anscombe and Sam Davies of the Ospreys - who both prefer the fly-half berth - are the other options at 15 to face Tonga on Friday, 16 June and Samoa a week later on Friday, 23 June.
Dollman also qualified for England through residency and his father was born in England, while the former Newport Gwent Dragons player also had an Italian grandparent.
But Dollman, who represented Wales at Under-18 and University level, never looked at other options.
"It has always been Wales for me," he said. "I am Welsh at heart and I have always wanted to play for Wales since I was a young age and that was probably the reason I took up rugby.
"Playing for your country is probably one of the biggest things I have tried to achieve.
"Hopefully I can do that and make a good account of myself and move forward from there."
Dollman relived the moment he discovered his international call-up, as he was preparing for Exeter's Premiership final against Wasps on Saturday.
"I was a bit surprised when I got the phone call from Robin," Dollman admitted.
"I got in the shower after training and noticed I had a few missed calls on the phone.
"I got showered and thought I would catch up with things afterwards.
"I listened to the answer-phone message in my towel and it was Robin McBryde asking me to give him a call back.
"I was half kind of thinking it was a joke and it was one of the boys leaving me an answer-phone message.
"I went to speak to one or two of the backroom staff and they said Wales had been in touch the day before, so it gave me the confidence to ring him back and have a chat.
"It went well. I can't remember much of what I said, some silly things."
Dollman has had to cancel a family holiday with his wife and two children to the Balearic Islands after receiving his call-up.
"I haven't had much time to think about things but we will have to look into how we are going to sort that out," said Dollman.
"We were moving house as well and getting a new dog, so there is plenty to be getting on with the next month.
"But rugby comes first and hopefully that side of it can go well and everything else can take care of itself.
"The family understand that and have always been very supportive."
Dollman played for Caerphilly and Bedwas, and left the Dragons in 2009 after being not offered a new deal before linking up with Exeter in the Championship.
"It was a bit of a quick scenario," said Dollman.
"I had a good time at the Dragons and made quite a few appearances for them.
"I was quite young, 23 or 24, and quite an immature rugby player and had not developed that quickly.
"They were unable to offer me a contract and luckily I went out on the market and found Exeter.
"It was a big move for us and my girlfriend and we didn't really hesitate, because I knew rugby was what I wanted to do and felt confidence.
"It was a big decision and I have not looked back since."
After the Premiership final on Saturday, Dollman will link up with the Wales squad alongside Exeter team-mate Tomas Francis.
He could be wearing the Wales number 15 jersey against Tonga in Auckland, in a double header with New Zealand also taking on Samoa at Eden Park, on 16 June.
"If someone had told me that a few months ago I would have laughed," said Dollman.
"That sounds nice and hopefully I can put my claim forward."


A new BBC One show will see 10 budding painters put through a "boot-camp" in a bid to be crowned Britain's best amateur artist.

The Big Painting Challenge will be hosted by Mariella Frostrup and the Rev Richard Coles.
Mark Bell, head of commissioning for BBC Arts, said it was "very different" to a show with the same name hosted by Una Stubbs and Richard Bacon in 2015.
The new Sunday prime-time series begins in mid-February.
"The objective is to engage people actively in the process of making art," Mr Bell said at a launch event at London's National Portrait Gallery.
"This is an arts programme but absolutely designed to go beyond the core arts audience. It feels fresh, exciting and different."
Two artistic mentors, Diana Ali and Pascal Anson, will guide the 10 contestants through different disciplines such as portraiture, landscape and still life.
At the end of each episode, the contestants' work will be exhibited to members of the public before three judges - Dr David Dibosa, Lachlan Goudie and Daphne Todd - decide which contestant will be eliminated.
Anson - who previously painted eight British Airways planes for the London 2012 Olympic Games - said viewers would see "lots of high emotion" as the artists were pushed out of their comfort zones.
"Both Diana and myself really push them hard because that's when you get the best out of someone," he said.
"Concentrating for six hours on a painting is very draining and can lead to all sorts of emotions - from crying at one end to being very elated at the other."
The BBC Arts winter line-up also includes programmes about a range of cultural figures including Maya Angelou, Francis Bacon, Phyllida Barlow, Marlon Brando, Chrissie Hynde, Dame Vera Lynn and Terry Pratchett.
And BBC Four's Britain in Focus season will celebrate the art of photography.
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A giant Christmas goat effigy, erected each year in the Swedish town of Gavle and a favourite target of arsonists, failed to last 24 hours this year.

The straw and wood structure was put up on Sunday, the first day of Advent, but was burnt down soon after despite extra security measures.
Last year the famous goat survived until 27 December before arsonists set it alight.
It is the 35th time in 50 years that the goat has been destroyed.
This year the town reportedly spent 2.3m kronor (Â£200,000; $250,000) on constructing the goat and subsequent festivities.
Closed-circuit TV had been set up to monitor the structure.
Local council official Helene Akerlind told newspaper Gefle Dagblad (in Swedish).: "We'll have more guards. We're going to try to have a 'goat guarantee' the first weekend."
But despite Gavle's best efforts, The Local reports, an arsonist managed to get past a security guard who had briefly left to use the toilet.
The police launched a preliminary investigation but there were no immediate arrests.
The "Gavlebocken" went on Twitter hours after the fire to say it hoped for better luck next year.


Oscar hopefuls Cate Blanchett and Matt Damon were among the winners at Palm Springs Film Festival, with Damon saying director Ridley Scott deserved an Academy Award.

Damon, who starred in Scott's film The Martian, said of Scott: "I hope that this is his year".
Carol star Blanchett thanked the festival for giving its honourees "a moment of glory" even if "we are not nominated for any other award".
The festival also honoured Johnny Depp.
Depp, who won the achievement award for actor for Black Mass, joked about making a lengthy acceptance speech, saying: " I  hope you guys are planted well in your seats, this is going to take about 35 minutes. Maybe 37.  We'll just wing it shall we?  Yeah, I'm going to take 45."
Damon, who was given the chairman's award, added that he thought Scott already had an Oscar for best director - for Gladiator, which won five Academy Awards in 2001 - but he had lost out to Traffic's Steven Soderbergh.
"What he's given to cinema, it's not an accident," Damon said of Scott.
"He's just a master director. There are a handful of them on planet earth, but he is one of them. Gladiator won best picture, but he wasn't a producer on Gladiator. And so, the bottom line is, he's given more than enough to cinema, so I hope that this is his year."
Blanchett joked as her achievement award for actress was presented by Brooklyn star Saoirse Ronan: "Thank you, Saoirse, you can get off the stage now. You're too young, talented and gorgeous.  It's all me."
Ronan won the international star award for actress and told the audience of around 2,000 people that since she was recently given a prize by actor Ryan Gosling, "everyone can pronounce my name".
"He got up and he said her name is Saoirse like an 'ursher' and since he said that everyone noticed and everyone listened," she said.
"I've been saying it for years and no-one listens but as soon as Ryan says it everyone listens, so just get Ryan to spread the word.  If you need something done, just get him to do it for you."
Michael Fassbender, who starred in Steve Jobs as the Apple co-founder, paid a light-hearted tribute to his co-star Kate Winslet.
"Kate, you had my back from day one and yes, I did hold on to you longer than I should. Your wicked sense of humour and just maternal nature kept everyone's spirits buoyant and that's not to mention your acting ability. You're a class act and I owe you big time," he said.
Brie Larson won the breakthrough performance prize for starring in the thriller Room, saying: "I mean it's all over-exciting and overwhelming and I've never experienced it before so I'm just trying to take it one step at a time."
The Danish Girl's Alicia Vikander won the rising star award while director Tom McCarthy was awarded the visionary prize for Spotlight. Roony Mara took the spotlight award for actress for Carol while the actor spotlight award for Trumbo went to Bryan Cranston.
The Big Short won the ensemble performance award.
A total of 11 awards are given at the international festival's gala evening, but the recipients are told beforehand if they have won, which Blanchett said was "a relief".
This year's Oscars take place on 28 February.


A vice-president of Glentoran football club has said the club has rejected his alternative plan to the proposed £10m redevelopment of its Belfast grounds.

David Long wants the club to adopt a £17m proposal to develop the Belfast city council-owned Tommy Patton Park, off Holywood Road in east Belfast.
He said it would include a 5,000-seat stadium; outdoor grass and 3G floodlit pitches and other new facilities.
But the club wants a new £9.2m 6,000-seater stadium on its existing ground.
A sum of £10m has already been earmarked for the project in the Northern Ireland Executive's sub-regional stadia programme for soccer which was published a year ago this week.
It invited suggestions about how to spend £36m of public money on improving Northern Ireland's football facilities - the money left over after the £28m rebuild of the new national stadium at Windsor Park, home of Glentoran's big rivals, Linfield.
But Mr Long, believes the Glentoran plan does not "stack up".
"I have supported Glentoran for 65 years", he told the BBC One programme, The View.
"In recent times I've put a lot of money into the Glentoran Academy, so I have a great interest in the club.
"And I did share my plans with the club but it would appear that, of the various potential stakeholders in this project who I've shared it with, sadly Glentoran are the only ones who have given it a thumbs down.
"It's their prerogative to make their choice. I can only opine that I don't think the Mersey Street redevelopment stacks up."
But does his own plan "stack up?"
His proposals for the Tommy Patton Park site also includes fitness suites, lecture rooms, a restaurant, changing rooms and sports medicine facility.
"Yes, I believe my plan stacks up. I've had some of the best engineering minds in the country; some of the best economic minds and business minds in the country help to put the plan together," Mr Long said.
Another club with big plans is the Irish League champions Crusaders.  It wants £3m of the stadium cash to pay for a new stand at its Seaview ground as well as £1.7m for a community scheme being developed with Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.
Crusaders director Mark Langhammer claims Glentoran FC is getting preferential treatment.
He said: "The consultation said there would be £36.2m, £10m of which was ring-fenced to Glentoran and Glentoran could also bid to some of the other pots. So you could see Glentoran getting £13m or £14m.
"Now that's as a direct result of a political carve-up that we oppose virulently. We're very concerned about it.
"If you look at clubs throughout the League, Ards don't have a ground, they have plans; Carrick have plans, Clinftonville have plans, Coleraine, Ballinamallard, Dungannon, all of these clubs have genuine needs. So we do need a rational way of spreading those needs to meet particular priorities."
Glentoran FC declined to comment, but the Alliance MLA for East Belfast, Chris Lyttle, defended the club's plan for its existing Oval grounds.
"The proposals were an executive agreement," he said.
"They were put out to public consultation over a year ago. We think they're exciting plans for Glentoran.
"We think they have a key role to play in the Irish League. Other clubs have had investment where Glentoran have not and we certainly hope, on this occasion, that they will get the investment they need to bring their exciting plans to fruition."
The Department for Communities said a report on the way forward on the sub-regional stadia programme is being prepared for the minister, Paul Givan.
The BBC understands it will be published before Christmas.
It means the stadium funding will be open for bids, and clubs like Crusaders and Glentoran will have to wait a little longer... though the game is entering the crucial stage.


Awareness rides are taking place to try and cut the number of people on horseback injured or killed on roads.

The Pass Wide and Slow Wales campaign has collected 1,300 signatures on the assembly's e-petition website.
It wants an annual road safety awareness campaign explaining to motorists how to react around horses.
The British Horse Society found that since 2010 there have been 2,000 road accidents in the UK, with 1,500 because of cars passing too closely.
As a result of these, 180 horses and 36 riders have died.
Awareness rides were planned for Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Swansea, Neyland in Pembrokeshire, Machynlleth, Powys, Flintshire and Porthmadog in Gwynedd.
Any petition with over 50 signatures is considered by a committee to be debated in the assembly.


Seven-time champion Roger Federer came back from two sets down to win a classic against Marin Cilic and advance to the Wimbledon semi-finals.

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The 34-year-old Swiss saved three match points in the fourth before breaking Cilic's resistance 6-7 4-6 6-3 7-6 6-3.
Federer initially struggled against Cilic's big serve and heavy groundstrokes, but reignited the magic of old in the final three sets.
The third seed will play another big server Milos Raonic in the semi-finals
Raonic, the sixth seed and 2014 semi-finalist, sealed a 6-4 7-5 5-7 6-4 win over Sam Querrey, the man who defeated Novak Djokovic.
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Federer has come from two sets down nine times before, but seldom in such circumstances.
And with reigning champion Novak Djokovic and number four seed Stan Wawrinka already out his hopes of an 18th Grand Slam title remain alive, four years after his last triumph - also at Wimbledon.
He had played well in the first set, hitting 17 winners and twice setting up break points on the Cilic serve.
But he could take neither, and in the tie-break Cilic's serve and underrated return quickly opened up a 5-0 lead.
Federer saved two set points but then put a backhand slice long, the Centre Court crowd groaning as Cilic clenched his fist.
The Croat then broke Federer for the first time in the third game of the second set, and while Federer had break point on a second serve in the next game, his backhand return slunk into the net.
Never again did he threaten the mighty Cilic serve in that set, but in the eighth game of the third he rapidly worked three break points and took the last of them to deafening applause to keep his hopes alive.
Cilic kept coming, and with two break points at 2-1 in the fourth had a great chance to re-establish control.
Federer saved both, and after failing to capitalise on two break points of his own then had to save a match point at 4-5, Cilic sending an inviting second serve return beyond the baseline.
He saved a second at 5-6, taking the match into a second tie-break, and had a simple forehand to take it - only to mishit long.
Both men spurned chances to win it, Federer staying alive on yet another match point, and it took a fifth set point until Cilic finally crumbled, his backhand hitting the tape and falling on his side.
The decider saw both men locked in combat until, at 4-3, Federer put a sweet forehand winner down the line to snatch the decisive break.
And when he held serve to move into his 11th Wimbledon semi he raised his arms to the sky in triumph as his adoring audience rewarded him with a standing ovation.
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Querrey, 41st in the world, was playing in his first Grand Slam quarter-final but could not cause another upset and defeat Raonic.
Raonic, who lost to Federer in the 2014 Wimbledon semi-finals, said it was "exciting" and "humbling" to have reached the last four.
"I have to go out there and give it all I've got and I hope for a better result than last time," said the 25-year-old.
Asked what difference new coach John McEnroe has made to his game, Raonic added: "He's added a little bit of a demeanour change on the court, told me to be more positive and get more out of myself so I don't disappear for too long during the match.
"I volleyed great and he's definitely helped me with that."
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St Johnstone moved seven points clear in fifth place in the Scottish Premiership with victory at Kilmarnock.

Murray Davidson slotted the game's only goal two minutes before half-time, side-footing home from inside the box.
Killie's Souleymane Coulibaly had a free kick saved by Zander Clark, before his counterpart Jamie MacDonald brilliantly denied Graham Cummins.
Kilmarnock's Luke Hendrie was sent off in the dying minutes for two bookable offences in quick succession.
Storm Barbara subsided enough to give the players a fighting chance of providing some football and they made a decent fist of it.
Danny Swanson, close to signing a new deal with St Johnstone, was again outstanding for his team, inventive and creative in the middle of the park - although he did fade and was eventually replaced by Liam Craig.
Kilmarnock were forced to replace the injured Rory McKenzie with Dean Hawkshaw after just 32 minutes and that was a blow, for McKenzie had been closest to scoring for them in the first half with a low shot which troubled Zander Clark.
It was a better game than the crowd of 3,056 had any right to expect, given the weather conditions.
However, Davidson's goal was all too easy from a Kilmarnock perspective.
Blair Alston floated in a corner from the right and almost casually Davidson stepped on to it to open his right foot and slot it beyond goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald.
The home support had MacDonald to thank for keeping them in the game with a fabulous double save, but it was to no avail.
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And Kilmarnock's night ended with further problems. Hendrie was first yellow carded for a crude challenge as St Johnstone tried to waste time at the corner flag.
He followed that up within seconds with a second yellow for what looked like comments made to referee Stephen Finnie.
The result saw Lee Clark's men drop to eighth, while St Johnstone moved to within one point of fourth-placed Hearts.
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark: "We didn't deserve anything. We started average at best. We have to be more ruthless, we can't keep relying on Souleymane Coulibaly to score wonder goals. The second half deteriorated into long balls.
"I take responsibility for the way we deteriorated. I made the wrong decision with the first substitution. Not that putting Kris Boyd on was the wrong one, but the person I took off, Nathan Tyson, was the wrong decision, I should have had Kris and Nathan on together."
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: "Kilmarnock looked threatening in the first half. We gave away silly free-kicks and gave them an opportunity to put balls in our box, but we dealt with them well.
"As the second half wore on I thought we looked the more threatening and we saw the game out which was important."
Match ends, Kilmarnock 0, St. Johnstone 1.
Second Half ends, Kilmarnock 0, St. Johnstone 1.
Attempt saved. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Second yellow card to Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Luke Hendrie.
Attempt blocked. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock).
Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock).
Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Foul by Innes Cameron (Kilmarnock).
Chris Millar (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Brian Easton (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam Craig (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Joe Shaughnessy (St. Johnstone) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Iain Wilson.
Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Gary Dicker.
Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by Souleymane Coulibaly.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Innes Cameron replaces Steven Smith.
Corner,  St. Johnstone. Conceded by William Boyle.
Attempt missed. Steven Smith (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone).
Attempt saved. Souleymane Coulibaly (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Souleymane Coulibaly (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Wotherspoon (St. Johnstone).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Liam Craig replaces Danny Swanson.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock).
Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing.


Pro12 champions Connacht have signed  Irish qualified tight-head prop Dominic Robertson-McCoy from New Zealand.

The 22-year-old has played for the Auckland Blues Development side as well as Northland in the ITM Cup.
"He is a young prop who can play on both sides of the scrum and I believe he has huge potential," said Connacht coach Pat Lam.
"I know he will continue to thrive and develop in a full-time professional environment."
He added: "I first saw Dominic as he came through the Auckland Schools system and played for the Blues U18s in New Zealand.
"We're looking forward to getting him over for the pre-season as we build towards the start of a new season in both the Pro12 and European Champions Cup."
Robertson-McCoy is Irish qualified through his grandfather, who hails from Mowhan in Co Armagh.


A Roman Catholic priest has been charged in connection with more than 3,000 indecent images of children.

Paul Clarke, 71, from East Sussex, but now living in Manchester, is due to appear before Brighton magistrates on 15 October.
He is charged with possessing an indecent image of a child, possession of prohibited images and making a total of 3,100 indecent images of children.
All charges relate to images taken off the internet, Sussex Police said.
Mr Clarke, of Redclyffe Road, Urmston, Greater Manchester, but formerly of Watchbell Road, Rye in East Sussex, was charged after an investigation by the paedophile on-line investigation team of Sussex Police.
He was arrested after a search of his Rye address - the residential presbytery attached to St Anthony's Church - on 13 November 2014.
"All the charges involve images allegedly taken from the internet," a police spokesman said.
"There is no evidence of contact offending and none of the images are of local children."


Blackpool have signed midfielder Jimmy Ryan on a two-year contract after he rejected a new deal with League One rivals Fleetwood Town.

Ryan joined Fleetwood from Chesterfield in June 2015, making 67 appearances in his two seasons with the club.
The 28-year-old has also previously had spells with Accrington Stanley, Scunthorpe and Shrewsbury.
"He has an unbelievable passing ability and is able to take control of games," Blackpool manager Gary Bowyer said.
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A rare cloud phenomenon over Singapore has delighted people in the city-state.

The multi-coloured glow appeared in the sky on Monday in the late afternoon, lasting for about 15 minutes, and was seen across the island.
Media reports said it was likely a fire rainbow, which occurs when sunlight refracts through ice-crystal clouds.
Others have also said it could have been cloud iridescence, which happens when water droplets or crystals scatter light.
Fazidah Mokhtar, who works in a childcare centre, told the BBC that she spotted it around 17:10 on Monday (09:10 GMT).
"It started as a small orange circle and then grew bigger and bigger till all the colours came out... It lasted for about 15 minutes and it slowly went off.
She said "all the children in the school, some parents, and other staff were very excited and commenting that it was very, very rare to see such a beautiful and unique rainbow".
The phenomenon prompted jokes online, with many comparing it to a Paddle Pop, a rainbow-coloured frozen dessert popular in Australia and Asia.
"The rainbow bridge is broken," joked one Facebook user, while another person asked: "Is this a case of Monday Rainbows?!"