China has deployed ships to search new areas for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, as Thailand said its radars may have tracked the flight shortly after it lost contact.

China has sent nine ships to waters south-east of the Bay of Bengal and west of Indonesia.
Teams from 26 countries are trying to find flight MH370, which went missing on 8 March with 239 people on board.
The entire search area is now roughly the size of Australia.
Malaysia says the plane, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was intentionally diverted and could have flown on either a northern or southern arc from its last known position in the Malacca Straits.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the aircraft's crew - or other individuals on the plane - were involved in its disappearance.
The Chinese vessels set off from Singapore early on Wednesday, to search an area of around 300,000 sq km (116,000 sq miles), state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The ships would focus on waters near Sumatra, away from regions being searched by other countries, it added.
On Tuesday, China began searching its territory along the northern arc for the aircraft, following a request from the Malaysian authorities.
However, Foreign Minister spokesman Hong Lei said on Wednesday that China had not yet found any sign that the plane entered its territory, Reuters reported.
Australia is leading efforts along the southern arc in the Indian Ocean.
However, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) said on Wednesday that neither military aircraft deployed on the search, nor merchant ships transiting through the area, had seen anything in connection to the aircraft.
"It is a challenging search operation and Amsa continues to hold grave fears for the passengers and crew on board the missing flight," Amsa said.
Meanwhile, Thailand's air force said on Tuesday a re-examination of its radar data found what may have been the plane travelling west towards the Malacca Straits at 01:28 Malaysia time, shortly after it lost contact with air traffic controllers.
This would be consistent with Malaysia's military radar, which spotted the plane over the Malacca Straits - the opposite direction from its planned flight path - early on 8 March.
Thai air force spokesman Montol Suchookorn said that the plane did not enter Thai air space and he could not confirm whether it was flight MH370.
Thai radar later spotted the plane heading north and disappearing over the Andaman Sea, AFP reported, citing the spokesman.
The Thai military had previously said it had not detected any sign of the aircraft.
On Thursday, there were reports that residents in the Maldives saw a "low-flying airplane" above Kuda Huvadhoo island the day the plane vanished.
However, Malaysian authorities said they had spoken to Maldives officials, and determined that the reports were untrue.
The entire search area is now 2.24m square nautical miles (7.68m sq km).
Several countries, including Australia, the US, New Zealand, Korea, Japan and the UAE have committed planes and ships to the search and rescue effort.
Meanwhile, there was a disturbance as two relatives of passengers were dragged away from journalists ahead of the daily press briefing in Kuala Lumpur.
The relatives had been trying to speak to reporters before the briefing began.
Relatives of the passengers have become increasingly frustrated with the lack of information.
Wen Wancheng, whose 33-year-old son Wen Yongsheng was one of 153 Chinese nationals on the plane, told the BBC in Beijing: "We think the Malaysian government is not doing enough work.
"The airline hasn't given us a satisfactory answer and the Malaysian officials are not here with us. If this situation continues, we will consider taking actions such as staging a protest."


England strengthened their grip on World Cup qualifying Group F with a clinical 3-0 victory over Scotland at Wembley.

BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty assesses the victors' display, while former Scotland striker Steve Thompson gives his marks out of 10 for Gordon Strachan's team.
A quiet night but did what he had to do effectively.
Has a licence to cause damage in attack and did so with fierce cross for Daniel Sturridge's goal.
Decent evening despite picking up a booking. Scored England's third headed goal from a corner to kill off Scotland.
Sloppy, too risky and conceded possession in the first half. Vital block from Snodgrass early in the second.
Excellent all-round performance and always willing to lend weight in attack. Provided a fine cross for Adam Lallana's goal.
Disappointing. Unable to exert his influence or act as the base in midfield.
Energetic and improved as the game went on, with Scotland fading in the middle of the park.
Good corner for Gary Cahill's goal did not really sparkle otherwise.
Mixed bag. Subjected to physical attention from the Scots, underlining his threat, but missed an incredible second-half sitter.
England's best performer. Good control, vision and another important England goal, with a very well taken header.
A performance that justified Gareth Southgate's faith with a brilliant instinctive header to break the deadlock.
Did nothing of note.
No chance with goals and had little else to do other than pick the ball out of his net.
A surprise choice but the Derby winger defended well considering he wasn't in his natural position.
Scotland's best player on the night after a long absence from the international scene. Offered a real threat going forward and worked tirelessly.
Played better than in Slovakia and unlucky at first goal after making a good block. Wasted a great chance to equalise, failing to hit the target from a free header.
Given a rare start and did well to keep England's danger men quiet for large periods.
The captain's desire and work rate are never in question but he was too often loose in possession.
Back from his short-lived international retirement but for how long? The Celtic captain gave the midfield energy and aggression as expected.
Largely ineffectual. Didn't get on the ball enough to make a positive impact. Again, a surprise inclusion given his lack of game time at West Brom.
Missed a glorious opportunity to level the game early in the second half, dragging a shot wide from near the penalty spot. Another player guilty of giving the ball away too often.
Provided some threatening set-pieces. Really should have scored not long after James Forrest's miss when he had a good sight at goal.
Led the line well with positive energy in the first half. However, made a poor decision not to play in Robert Snodgrass on a good counter-attack. Tired in the second half as Scotland meekly surrendered.
The game was over when he came on, very difficult to make an impression.
On for the injured Anya. Not given much to do since England were content to keep the ball and didn't pose much of a threat.
Too late to make an impact.


Government-sponsored museums that have stopped charging since 2001 have seen combined visitor rates more than double in the past decade, figures show.

Almost 18 million people visited the 13 attractions in 2010-11, compared with 7 million in 2000-01.
Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the Labour government's decision to end charges at England's national museums.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said free museums and galleries "ensure that culture is for everyone".
Entrance fees to museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum, both in London, were scrapped on 1 December 2001 as part of a government plan to widen access to the nation's culture and heritage.
The then Labour Culture Secretary Chris Smith, now Baron Smith of Finsbury, said at the time the move marked "an exciting new beginning for the arts and cultural life of this country".
Figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) suggest that eight of the top 10 most-visited attractions in the UK are free, government-sponsored national museums.
The British Museum, the National Gallery and Tate Britain are among museums that have never charged for entry. Tate Modern opened free from May 2000 and the Imperial War Museum North from July 2002.
Government figures show visits to museums that had previously charged for entry in London increased by 151% between 2000-01 and 2010-11. The total visitor numbers to DCMS-sponsored museums for 2010-11 was 43.8m.
In that 10-year period, visits to the National Maritime Museum were up 200% - from 800,000 to 2.4m; visits to the Natural History Museum rose by nearly 190% - from 1.6m to nearly 4.7m and visits to the Victoria & Albert Museum rose by about 180% from close to 1m to 2.6m.
Museums that still charge an entrance fee include Tate St Ives, the Imperial War Museum's HMS Belfast, the Cabinet War Rooms and the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Full list of DCMS-sponsored museums
The DCMS says free admission attracts huge numbers of international visitors. In comparison, it says, museum charges apply at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ($25; £21), the Louvre in Paris (€10; £8.50) and the Vatican Museum in Rome (€15; £12).
According to tourism body Visit Britain, Britain's major museums and galleries earn the country £1bn a year in revenue from overseas tourists.
Mr Hunt said: "Our free museums and galleries ensure that culture is for everyone, not just the lucky few.
"I am particularly proud that we have secured the future of free museums despite the current financial climate."
Lord Smith said he had been determined to change the rising tide of charging for entry to museums.
"I had always felt that it was important to open up these storehouses of our nation's culture and history and art and science and knowledge to the widest possible range of people, and charging, in some cases quite steep admission charges, was a barrier facing very large numbers of people who might otherwise want to come," he said.
"Removing that barrier was, I thought, a really important thing to do and it has proved to be very successful."
Michael Fayle, chairman of the British Association of Friends of Museums, an independent organisation that represents friends and volunteers across the UK, said the figures showed there was "true benefit" to the public in having free museums.
But he said museums often had to foot the bill for extra visitors. For example, longer opening hours mean there is a need for extra staff.
Many museums have cafes, while others ask for a minimum donation to support the attraction.
Mr Fayle believes this is justified.
"One of the comments I heard this morning was that if you make the wider availability as free as you can at a time when central government funding isn't available, there simply has to be an alternative way of making money," he said.
However, he said charging for "blockbuster" exhibitions was a "difficult equation".
Such exhibitions bring in large numbers of visitors but the high cost of running them - and the need to recoup that money through entrance fees - means some people miss out, said Mr Fayle. He added that many visitors might find the experience diminished because of overcrowding.
"One wonders whether [holding paid-for exhibitions] is in the spirit of the free access that everyone wants to achieve," he said.
Continued access to free museums is part of the coalition government's agreement and funding to secure this was put in place in last year's Spending Review.
National museums in Scotland and Wales have been free to enter since 2001. In Northern Ireland, one of its three national museums - the Ulster Museum in Belfast - is free while the other two charge a fee.


Bottom club Aston Villa secured their first win under Remi Garde after an awful mistake by Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.

Hennessey allowed Joleon Lescott's header from a corner to squirm from his grasp and trickle over the line.
Palace almost took the lead when Wilfried Zaha hit a post after just 42 seconds at Villa Park.
In a much improved Villa display, returning striker Libor Kozak forced a fine save when the game was goalless.
Garde deserves credit for his side's first win since the opening day of the season after making sweeping changes to the team defeated at Sunderland last time out in the Premier League.
Keeper Brad Guzan and defender Micah Richards were among those left on the bench, with striker Kozak starting for the first time in the league since Boxing Day 2013.
Palace started brightly, Zaha hitting the base of the post in the opening minute after Jason Puncheon's threaded pass before Bakary Sako fired over from 25 yards and Damien Delaney got between two defenders before shooting just wide.
Villa settled with Kozak impressing in attack and forcing a fine save from Hennessey before the Wales international failed to hold Lescott's tame header, the ball dropping between his feet and rolling over the line.
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This was a long overdue committed performance, one which Villa fans have been crying out for.
But despite a highly encouraging result, Villa remain in deep trouble at the bottom of the table, eight points from safety with 17 games remaining.
Yet Garde's new-look team showed more heart and energy in these 90 minutes than they had displayed in the previous 19 games since the opening day win at Bournemouth.
A huge turnaround in fortune is needed to get out of the mess they are in but this was a move in the right direction, a far cry from the lacklustre performance in the FA Cup third round draw at League Two Wycombe which angered their fans so much.
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What has happened to Palace?
Away wins at Chelsea and Liverpool seem a long time ago and Alan Pardew's side are now without a win in four league games.
Victory at Villa Park would have put them level on points with sixth-placed Manchester United but talk of Palace gate-crashing Europe next season is premature after a lacklustre display.
There are some big tests around the corner for Pardew's men and they will certainly have to perform much better than they did against Villa.
Aston Villa manager Remi Garde: "We won only 1-0 but we created many good opportunities.
"We earned our luck by being very aggressive on the ball. We didn't sit back after we scored, we tried to score a second. We had a very good attitude."
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: "A lot of things went wrong.
"We lacked energy, we lacked quality, one of our poorest displays of the season. Villa really deserved their victory - they worked so, so hard.
Despite victory, it does not get any easier for Aston Villa with second-placed Leicester City visiting Villa Park on Saturday (17:30 GMT). On the same day, Palace are at third-placed Manchester City (15:00 GMT).
Match ends, Aston Villa 1, Crystal Palace 0.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 1, Crystal Palace 0.
Foul by Libor Kozák (Aston Villa).
Mile Jedinak (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Aston Villa. Conceded by Yohan Cabaye.
Corner,  Aston Villa. Conceded by Pape Souaré.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Ciaran Clark replaces Carles Gil.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Yohan Cabaye tries a through ball, but Marouane Chamakh is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Scott Dann (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mile Jedinak with a cross.
Foul by Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa).
Marouane Chamakh (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ashley Westwood.
Offside, Aston Villa. Carles Gil tries a through ball, but Libor Kozák is caught offside.
Idrissa Gueye (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marouane Chamakh (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Idrissa Gueye (Aston Villa).
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joel Ward (Crystal Palace).
Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Mile Jedinak replaces James McArthur.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa).
James McArthur (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Aston Villa. Ashley Westwood tries a through ball, but Libor Kozák is caught offside.
Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace).
Jordan Veretout (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Scott Dann tries a through ball, but Marouane Chamakh is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Pape Souaré.
Jordan Veretout (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Attempt blocked. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jordan Veretout (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jordan Veretout (Aston Villa).
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa).
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Marouane Chamakh replaces Bakary Sako.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa).
Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Aston Villa 1, Crystal Palace 0. Joleon Lescott (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Veretout with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Aston Villa. Conceded by Damien Delaney.


A Dorset mayor's car and chauffeur have been scrapped in a bid to save the council money.

Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Councillor Richard Kosior, will now have to use a his own car, or hire a taxi or limousine and driver, depending on the type of engagement he attends.
It comes after former mayor Christine James chose not to use the service and instead opted for her own transport.
The annual cost of running a car and providing a chauffeur was Â£21,000.
However, providing alternative transport for the last financial year was about Â£3,100, the borough council's scrutiny and performance committee said.
"Therefore there is the potential to make a significant budget saving in this area," a committee report said.
Mr Kosior, who was elected mayor on 19 May, said: "In these days of austerity and council cuts we can't be seen to be squandering money on chauffeuring me to various functions."
Hired taxis or cars would bear the coat of arms of the borough "for that sense of occasion", he added.
He said he had asked for a review in six months to ensure the new format was still saving cash.


The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the Glasgow bin lorry crash which killed six people has heard the driver blacked out before while driving a bus.

Glasgow Sheriff Court has previously heard that Harry Clarke was unconscious at the wheel when the lorry hit pedestrians on 22 December last year.
First Bus inspector John Stewart told the FAI that Mr Clarke had blacked out while unwell at a bus stop in 2010.
The inquiry is examining the bin lorry, its route and Mr Clarke's health.
Mr Stewart told the second day of the FAI, which is being overseen by Sheriff John Beckett QC, that he was an inspector and had been with First Bus Glasgow for 12 years.
He referred to notes he had taken on a Blackberry, detailing an incident involving Mr Clarke, while he was a bus driver, on 7 April 2010.
The notes of his daily report from that day state Mr Clarke "blacked out for a couple of minutes" while at a bus stop having "taken unwell".
Mr Stewart said he was alerted by a passenger on the number 54 bus that the driver had collapsed at the wheel.
The witness said Mr Clarke was still in the driver's seat of the bus when he arrived at the scene, but there were no passengers on board.
An ambulance was called and paramedics arrived to attend to Mr Clarke who was given the all clear and refused to go to hospital.
He was not allowed to drive the bus back, which was returned to the depot by Mr Stewart.
The witness said his involvement ended as soon as he left Mr Clarke and that he assumed the driver would have been sent to the company doctor.
Mr Stewart, under cross-examination from Dorothy Bain QC, agreed that "other people could be killed" due to a driver being "out of control" of the bus.
The witness said he did not know if a driver who had blacked out would be suspended, but he said he would not let them drive.
Going back over Mr Stewart's report, it was noted that Mr Clarke had driven the bus to the stop he was at after blacking out.
Mr Stewart said Mr Clarke "should have used his common sense" and not driven the bus, but said "you would have to ask him".
Ms Bain asked Mr Stewart if knew that Mr Clarke was suspended from driving and had to attend doctor's appointments. The witness said he did not.
The court was then shown a letter from a First Bus doctor saying Mr Clarke had suffered "loss of consciousness".
In a letter, the doctor said Mr Clarke was advised that "he does not need to inform the DVLA of the incident".
Ms Bain asked Mr Stewart if he knew Mr Clarke had reported passing out in a canteen at work that same day in 2010. The witness said he did not know.
Mr Stewart said he could not confirm if Mr Clarke had been suffering from dizzy spells, but said he would have stopped him driving if he had.
Mr Stewart will give evidence on Friday when the FAI resumes for a third day.
Earlier, the inquiry heard again from Henry Toal, who was a member of the three-man crew of the bin lorry on the day of the crash.
He told the inquiry on Wednesday that he was not aware of Mr Clarke having any serious medical condition and would have reported any issue.
On Thursday, Mr Toal told the court that the first he knew of any problem on board the lorry was when his fellow crewman, Matthew Telford, asked Mr Clarke what he was doing.
The witness said Mr Clarke was slumped over to the left side and "didn't look conscious".
Mr Toal recalled that Mr Telford loosened his seatbelt, leaned forward and hit Mr Clarke in the back but there was no response from the driver.
He said Mr Telford was shouting, "Harry, you're killing people", but he could not remember if he shouted anything himself.
The witness told the court that he was "terrified" and thought they had initially hit poles and bins on the left-hand side of the truck.
He then recalled that the lorry "hit a few people" and a taxi before hitting the wall of the Millennium Hotel.
Mr Toal said he kept his seatbelt on and pushed himself into the wall of the cab as it sped along Queen Street and could not remember doing anything.
He said he suffered a "burst eye" in the incident.
Solicitor General Lesley Thomson, Scotland's second most senior law officer, who is leading the FAI, read from a police statement the day after the crash in which Mr Toal said Mr Clarke's hands were on the wheel.
Mr Toal said "it was a long time ago" but agreed that Mr Clarke's hands were on wheel, but he may not have been gripping it.
The issue of unopened beer bottles in the lorry cabin, which Mr Telford denied having any knowledge of during Wednesday's evidence, was raised again.
The witness said he only learned about the beer bottles the day after the crash when asked by police.
Mr Toal agreed that bin lorry crews were sometimes given gifts, such as alcohol, at Christmas but said he did not remember any given on the day of the crash.
While being cross-examined by Alastair Forsyth QC, for Gillian Ewing's family, Mr Toal agreed that accepting gifts or bringing beer on to the lorry would constitute misconduct.
Questioned about the handbrake, the witness said it never crossed his mind that he could have tried to engage it as he could not have reached it.
The court also heard from Glasgow City Council employees, Alan Kernaghan and Ian Quigley, who are both bin lorry drivers of significant experience.
Both men told the court they had seen Mr Clarke on the day of the crash and had no concerns for his health of ability to do his job.
The court was told of some procedural changes to bin lorry collections following the crash, such as shorter routes and smaller vehicles for the city centre and pedestrianised areas.
The court also heard that Mr Clarke had since returned to work since the tragedy, although not on driving duties.
The first day of the inquiry heard from Mr Toal's fellow crewman, Mr Telford.
The inquiry, which is expected to run for several weeks will examine the medical background, employment record and training of the driver, Mr Clarke.
It will also look at technical aspects of the vehicle and whether any measures could have brought it to a controlled stop, and the safety of the route taken by the vehicle given the time of day and year.
Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died in the incident in the city's Queen Street and George Square.
Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed when the truck mounted the pavement before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel.
A further 15 people were injured.
The Crown Office has already concluded that there will be no criminal prosecution over the crash, with senior lawyers deeming it a "tragic accident".


Labour has revealed a four-women shortlist from which it will choose its candidate in Cynon Valley at the next general election.

Ann Clwyd, the sitting MP, has made it. Her rivals include Sue Pickering (a Unite member, councillor and AM's caseworker), another councillor, Aysha Raza, and union official Katie Antippas.
Aysha Raza is a scientist and Labour councillor in Ealing, west London. According to her Facebook profile, her hometown is Aberdare, although her website tells a slightly different story.  "Quite simply," she writes, "Ealing is home. And that's why it's the only parliamentary seat I'm interested in.
"Ealing is in the very fabric of who I am. I have lived in Ealing all my life and I know it inside out. I have played on its streets, attended its schools and have a vast extended family dotted all over the borough."
She has even gone to the trouble of publishing a photograph of a stick of rock bearing "Aysha Raza 4 Ealing & Acton" to demonstrate her local commitment. I suspect she is currently working on a different flavour rock.
She told my colleague Mark Hutchings: "Quite right. Hands up in the air. Guilty as charged" .
She said she hadn't changed her mind but she hadn't realised that the Cynon Valley seat would be coming up. Ealing and Cynon Valley are the only seats she'd stand for. (She was born in Aberdare and moved at the age of about 3 or 4).
"I don't go shopping for an MP's seat like going shopping for shoes", she added.
She says some people had mentioned the website in the meet and greet in Cynon Valley and she would now be changing it.


Data gathered during a record-breaking occupation of the remote islet of Rockall has shown it is lower than previously recorded.

The rock was found to have a mean height above sea level of 17.15m - some 0.85m below the previous estimate.
However, the calculations also showed that previous estimates of Rockall's position were accurate.
Adventurer Nick Hancock collected the data while he spent 45 days on the rock in the North Atlantic in June, 2014.
The chartered surveyor connected to satellites and Ordnance Survey (OS) radio stations to try to update United Kingdom Hydrographical Office (UKHO) records relating to the position and height of Rockall.
They were last calculated in 1977, as part of a major survey into the sea bed around the islet.
Following multiple hi-tech tests, the position of Rockall - 230 miles off the Western Isles - was confirmed to be the same as had been calculated almost 40 years ago.
Mark Greaves, OS satellite positioning expert, said: "Nick's occupation of Rockall for such a long time is a fantastic achievement and Ordnance Survey was happy to be involved with advice and data processing facilities.
"The satellite positioning data that Nick recorded on Rockall was of high quality and it enabled the island's position to be determined to just a few centimetres.
"This provided a very useful check on the official chart position of Rockall."
During his occupation in June and July, Mr Hancock, who lives near Edinburgh, installed a fixed permanent survey marker on the summit plateau of the rock.
The latest coordinates are said to have pinpointed its position with an accuracy of within two centimetres.
The difference between the new data and the previous collections is only about 1.3m in an east/west direction and 0.3m in a north/south direction.
It means that Mr Hancock's aim of "relocating" Rockall was not realised.
He said: "I had hoped that my survey results might significantly relocate Rockall.
"But being able to finally establish the true height of the rock means that my time spent there has even greater long-term significance than just breaking the previous occupation records and raising funds for Help for Heroes."
It is estimated his summer exile raised more than Â£10,000 for the services charity.
The height of Rockall was previously estimated by the Royal Geographical Society in its first map of Rockall as about 18m from sea level to the summit.
It had earlier been estimated at 19.2m, but the summit was removed by the Royal Engineers in 1971 when they installed a light beacon.
The UK claimed Rockall in 1955 when a party of Royal Marines planted the Union Flag on it.
Ireland, which is 270 miles away, disputed its ownership, but this was resolved in March 2014 when exclusive economic zone (EEZ) limits were published following an investigation by the United Nations.


Twenty years ago a young, blonde-haired man who drove a yellow Volvo with a surfboard strapped to the top killed 35 people at Port Arthur, a historic tourist town in Tasmania.

It was the worst mass shooting in Australia's history and for many years it has defined the town, although among locals it is a sensitive, almost taboo topic. The gunman, Martin Bryant, is one of the country's most notorious villains, but his name is rarely spoken in Port Arthur.
So people were surprised and dismayed in March this year when an actor drove a yellow Volvo around the massacre site at the behest of a major Australian television network.
"To hire a yellow Volvo with a surfboard on the roof and a have a blonde, long-haired man drive around the site so they could film it was an extraordinarily horrible thing to do," said local mayor Roseanne Heyward.
The media rehashing of Australia's Port Arthur shooting massacre in the lead-up to Thursday's 20th anniversary has been upsetting for the community, leaving many people keen for the day to be done.
Since March there has been an outpouring of reports on the massacre, boasting of never-before-seen material, first-time accounts, graphic retellings and television re-enactments.
Capping that was news this week of a graphic movie of the massacre, playing to conspiracy theories Bryant wasn't the killer, that is due to start filming this year.
Stephen Large is chief executive of the Port Arthur Historic Site, the former penal colony and world heritage-listed site where Bryant shot most of his victims.
Mr Large said the television re-enactments and rehashing of the massacre were disappointing, particularly the Volvo drive-by re-creation.
"That rocked quite a few people here and certainly upset a lot of people in the local community, and I'm sure a lot of people that were directly affected by 1996," Mr Large said, adding that any requests to film a movie at the site would be assessed on their merits.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull heads the dignitaries attending a Thursday ceremony marking 20 years since the massacre.
The two-hour ceremony, the first at the site since the 10th anniversary, will be broadcast live on two of the country's television networks.
Former prime minister John Howard, who moved swiftly and decisively to ban the possession, use and importation of semi-automatic and automatic rifles following the shootings, will also be among those at the ceremony.
Despite the reluctance of some locals to mark the tragedy, many victims' relatives were determined to hold a milestone ceremony. Some survivors will return to the site for the first time since that Sunday in 1996.
Mayor Heyward said compassion for these people made the service a necessity. "How could you refuse them?" she asked.
"But we have moved on, we'll never forget, but we have to get up every morning and get on with our lives and that is what this community has done."
Martin Bryant, now aged 48, is serving 35 consecutive life sentences.
Many people object even to the use of Bryant's name, with local media often bombarded with complaints if he is mentioned in reports.
Tasmania Times news website editor Lindsay Tuffin said Tasmanians wanted Bryant excised from memory.
"There is no doubt that they do not want to even ponder it," he said. "They just wish he never existed."
The feeling is so strong that visitors to the Port Arthur Historic Site are usually urged not to ask questions about the massacre.
"Rather than ask a guide, please read the plaque at the Memorial Garden or pick up a brochure at the Visitor Centre," an instruction reads.
Hobart Mercury editor Matt Deighton said local media approached the topic in a completely different way to mainland publications.
"It's as sensitive an issue as I've experienced in 26 years of journalism," he said.
"Our coverage will be subtle and respectful, focusing on the anniversary and how the community has tried, at varying levels of success, to move on."
Thursday's ceremony may be unsettling for those who would rather forget the senseless violence in 1996.
But Stephen Large from the Port Arthur Historic Site is hopeful that it will be a positive experience for victims and the community.
"There are some people coming who we know haven't been back to the site for 20 years so it will be particularly poignant for them and we hope it's worthwhile for them," Mr Large said.


Wales have risen a place to 10th in the Fifa world rankings, one spot above Spain, following their 4-0 World Cup qualifying win over Moldova.

England are also up one place to 12th after beating Slovakia 1-0.
Scotland's 5-1 triumph in Malta means they are the biggest climbers among the home nations, up seven spots to 44th.
However, after their 0-0 draw with the Czech Republic, Northern Ireland are down two slots to 30th, a place above the Republic of Ireland.
Wales went into the top 10 for the first time in July 2015 and reached a record eighth in October that year.
In August, 2011 Wales were ranked 117th, but their rise to be alongside some of the world's strongest nations included qualifying the 2016 European Championship.
It was the nation's first major tournament since 1958 and they progressed to the semi-finals in France, where they were knocked out by eventual winners Portugal.


A woman whose middle name is "Skywalker" has been told by passport officials her signature might be valid - despite being told last week it was an infringement of copyright.

Laura Matthews, 29, added the extra name "for a bit of fun".
She has now been asked to return a disclaimer form in order to use "L. Skywalker" as her passport signature.
The Home Office said no decision had yet been made, but it would consider Ms Matthew's application.
Ms Matthews, who lives in Southend, ended up missing a holiday as her passport renewal had not been completed in time for her flight last month.
"It's been an awful mess with many calls in tears to the customer service main line team over the last nine weeks," she said.
A spokesman for Her Majesty's Passport Office said: "The reputation of the British passport is a key factor in ensuring that UK citizens are able to travel freely across borders with minimal hindrance.
"We will not issue a passport in a name which breaches copyright law or which undermines the integrity of the British passport."


A tenant has been found for a £1m farm who will pay £1 a year rent to look after it and its "fragile" landscape.

The National Trust will hand the keys to Parc Farm on the top of Great Orme, near Llandudno, Conwy county, to 38-year-old Dan Jones from Anglesey.
It stepped in to protect the land last year as it was on sale as a potential site for a golf course.
The site has rare habitats and species - some of which the charity said existed nowhere else on Earth.
"I couldn't quite believe it when I got the call to say I was successful. I was in shock," said Mr Jones.
"My wife Ceri, son Efan and I are just super excited. This opportunity will change our lives.
"Y Parc is a dream farm, it is such a beautiful location, the views are amazing and I'm really looking forward to farming in a different way to make a difference for nature.
"With the tenancy at just £1, it allows us to be able to farm far less intensively, focus on improving the habitats, share more of what we'll be doing with visitors and still produce great food."
This is not the first time Mr Jones, who farms 1,000 sheep on Anglesey, has won a National Trust search.
Two years ago, he was given the role of support shepherd on the slopes of Snowdon for the National Trust.
William Greenwood, National Trust general manager, said: "All applicants had to show how they could make the farm work with a clear vision and business plan, and explain how they could use their knowledge and experience to implement a specific grazing regime as a written application.
"These applications were measured against a strict set of criteria and only the top seven were shortlisted for interview."
The best candidates then faced practical assessments and had to do presentations in front of a panel.
Mr Greenwood added: "We are convinced that in Dan and Ceri, we found that elusive combination of skills and experience we were looking for, and have a couple who view a productive farm as one which maintains healthy wildlife and encourages visitors to act for nature, as well as produce good, healthy food."


Victoria Thornley says her desire to emulate Olympic champion Katherine Grainger's achievements make them a force to be reckoned with.

The 28-year-old and rowing partner Grainger, a 2012 gold medallist, compete in the women's double sculls heats at the European Championships.
Thornley, from Wrexham, is confident of securing a place at Rio.
"With it being Katherine's fifth Olympics there's no-one else you'd want sat behind you," she said.
"She knows how to handle pressure so well.
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"I haven't won an Olympic medal and haven't had that feeling of being on an Olympic podium.
"That, of course, is what I wake up to do every day and to achieve. That brings strengths into the boat from different sides."
Grainger won gold in the double sculls at London 2012 with Anna Watkins after three consecutive Olympic silver medals.
The 40-year-old returned in September 2014 after a two-year sabbatical.
She partners Thornley at the European Championships, which get under way in Brandenburg, Germany on Friday.
"Obviously it's exciting, in Olympic year, to be selected for the first race of the year," Thornley added.
"But there's a long way to go in terms of sessions to do and days of training to do.
"Every day I'm waking up and making sure I'm improving every single day.
"Yes, we're looking to Rio but there's a lot of things to put in place before then.  It's about keeping the focus on the here and now."


Mustard gas was used in an attack on a town in northern Syria in August, chemical weapons experts are reported to have concluded.

Journalists who have seen the report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it found the gas was used in the town of Marea.
Islamic State (IS) militants were accused of using mustard gas during fighting with a local rebel group.
The OPCW report said a baby "very likely" died as a result of its use.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said at the time of the 21 August attack that it had treated four members of a family who were suffering from breathing difficulties and had developed blisters after a mortar hit their Marea home.
Local rebels said the shells had been fired from an IS-held village to the east.
Assessing Syria's chemical weapons
Chemical weapons suspected in Syria attack
The OPCW report has not yet been published, but journalists who have had access to its findings say it concludes "with utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulphur mustard".
The report does not apportion blame, but diplomatic sources have confirmed the weapon was used in clashes between IS and another rebel group taking place in the town at the time, Reuters news agency reports.
Sulphur mustard - commonly known as "mustard gas" although it is liquid at ambient temperature - is a powerful irritant and blistering agent which causes severe damage to the skin, eyes and respiratory system and internal organs.
There are growing fears that IS is using chemical weapons in both Syria and Iraq.
Earlier in August, the US military said the group was suspected of having used them in an attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
Reports of a sulphur mustard attack on Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq are also being investigated.
US officials have suggested IS might have obtained the sulphur mustard in Syria.
The Syrian government declared that all of its stockpiles had been destroyed under a disarmament deal agreed following a deadly sarin nerve agent attack in the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August 2013.


Police in Zimbabwe have arrested the editor of a state-owned newspaper who was appointed two months ago.

Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi was detained after computers were seized from his office on Thursday.
A police spokeswoman told the state-owned Herald paper that he was being held over articles he had written.
Earlier this month President Robert Mugabe accused his information minister of using state-owned media to sow divisions in the ruling Zanu-PF party.
Correspondents say there is tension in the party over who should succeed 90-year-old Mr Mugabe, who was re-elected president last year.
Mr Kudzayi was among several newspaper editors recently appointed by Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.
Mr Mugabe had referred to Mr Moyo as the "devil incarnate" for firing editors at state-owned newspapers who were loyal to Zanu-PF.
Mr Moyo has fallen in and out of favour with Mr Mugabe and was re-appointed as his information minister last September.


US presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have maintained their status as front-runners in the latest round of voting for their party's nomination.

Despite defeats to Ted Cruz in Kansas and Maine, Republican Mr Trump won in Louisiana and Kentucky.
Other Republican contenders Marco Rubio and John Kasich made little progress.
Mrs Clinton lost to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic races in Kansas and Nebraska, but also won in Louisiana.
Mr Cruz now appears to be the only candidate who can stop Mr Trump, analysts say, after a week in which the Republican establishment did everything it could to attack Mr Trump
US elections: Results as they come in
Observers also point out that Mr Cruz and Mr Sanders both won in caucuses but appear to have lost in the Louisiana primary elections, involving far more voters.
The Democratic race there also appears to have exposed Mr Sanders' lack of support among African-American voters.
"God bless Kansas," Mr Cruz said during a rally in Idaho, which votes in three days. "The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington DC, is utter terror at what we the people are doing together."
Earlier, at a rally in Florida, Mr Trump said: "Everyone's trying to figure out how to stop Trump."
The election itself, on 8 November, will see America vote for a successor to Barack Obama, a Democratic president standing down after two terms in office which have seen the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress.


Indian sprinter Dutee Chand says she is glad others will not face similar abuse to her after being cleared to compete following a landmark gender case.

Chand, 19, had been banned since last summer after failing a hormone test.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport has suspended "hyperandrogenism" rules, which will be scrapped if athletics bosses cannot provide new evidence.
"I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost," Chand said.
"My friends used to start asking what's wrong with me, and started to avoid me. In training centres, where girls used to share rooms, I was kept separately."
The ruling will allow Chand to compete for India in the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in August.
Chand told BBC Hindi that she "always knew" she was going to win the case but admits she has also suffered from a loss of form.
"I never thought I would lose, because I always knew I was not at fault," she added.
"I am very thankful to the judges that they have taken a close look at my case and given the decision in my favour. I have got justice. I am a normal girl.
"When I got to know the judgement - I can't tell you how I felt. I am happy that no-one else will have to hear all the abuse that I had to hear."
Chand, who missed the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games during her suspension, has been the first athlete to challenge the regulations, introduced in the wake of the Caster Semenya affair in 2009.
The South African teenager was asked to take a gender test shortly before winning the 800m at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin but subsequently returned to the sport, winning an Olympic silver medal at London 2012.
In a statement, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said the new regulations had been adopted "following a lengthy and comprehensive consultation exercise" with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Athletics' governing body said it would meet the IOC and experts as soon as possible "to discuss how best to address this interim ruling" which lasts for two years.
Chand's initial suspension was applied by the Athletics Federation of India in line with the IAAF's guidelines on women testing for high levels of naturally occurring testosterone.
The Indian champion's legal team argued the ruling was discriminatory and flawed at a hearing in March.


Turnout in Liberia's presidential run-off appeared low after an opposition boycott call over fraud claims and deadly clashes on Monday.

Opposition candidate Winston Tubman said he was pulling out of the vote, but the election commission had urged Liberians to cast their ballots.
Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, was the only candidate.
A BBC reporter says her re-election will be tainted by a low turnout.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in central Monrovia was at a polling station when voting began. He says just eight people were waiting to cast their ballots, compared to hundreds last month.
Our reporter says he received similar reports from other parts of Liberia, including the second city, Buchanan.
All polling stations closed on time at 18:00 GMT and some closed before then when it became clear that no more voters would show up, he says.
It seems many people felt it was pointless to vote because Mrs Sirleaf was assured of victory, our reporter says.
She was elected in 2005, in the first election since the end of a 14-year civil war.
Mrs Sirleaf cast her ballot in her home town, Fefee, near Monrovia, promising an investigation into the violence that broke out on Monday, the Reuters news agency reports.
"Liberia is going to move forward. We will find a way to heal the wounds," she is quoted as saying.
Nigeria's election commission chief Attahiru Mohammed Jega, who is monitoring the polls on behalf of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), told the BBC there were no reports of major problems.
"Voting has been very orderly," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
"The turn-out, of course, is very low compared to the first election, but that is to be expected."
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A mechanic in Monrovia, Sundayguy Cougbue, 24, told the AFP news agency that he had heeded Mr Tubman's call for a boycott.
"My big man said I should not take part in the election so I not take part. I just come to do some work today," he said in pidgin English.
But another resident, Sandy Masekwe, 50, said he cast his ballot for Mrs Sirleaf.
"We suffered here [during the conflict]. With this woman in power, we sleep sound," he said.
Our reporter says UN peacekeepers and Liberian police were searching vehicles entering the city and deployed tanks at strategic places - including the presidential residence - following Monday's violence.
A UN helicopter also circled the city, he says.
Officials from Mr Tubman's Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) said at least four people died after police opened fire on supporters, but this could not be confirmed.
Our reporter saw one body, and three or four other injured people who said they had been shot.
The UN confirmed two deaths, Reuters reports.
These are the first elections organised by Liberians since the 14-year conflict ended. The previous ones were run by the large UN peacekeeping mission, which still has some 8,000 troops in the country.
Our reporter says armed policemen stormed and closed down two radio stations on Monday night - King's FM, owned by Mr Tubman's running-mate, former football star George Weah, and Love FM, owned by opposition politician Benoni Urey, whose National Patriotic Party (NPP) is in alliance with the CDC.
Police also tried to close a third broadcaster, Power-FM/TV, our reporter says.
Mr Weah condemned the shooting of "unarmed protesters" and called for the elections to be postponed.
President Sirleaf won the first round last month but failed to pass the 50% threshold needed for outright victory.
Mr Tubman and the CDC say there was widespread vote-rigging - charges denied by the election commission.
Earlier, its interim chairperson, Elizabeth Nelson, urged people not to threaten stability.
"I call on all of you to put Liberia above self. This is the only place that we have to call home," she said.
"We must do everything possible to preserve the peace. As a registered voter, turn out and vote."
The US, EU and African Union have all condemned the opposition's decision to pull out of the run-off.
"It's a bad signal... political leaders must be prepared to win or lose," said former Ugandan Vice-President and head of the African Union observer mission Speciosa Wadira Kazibwe, according to the AFP news agency.
Prince Johnson, a former warlord who came third in the first round, has backed Mrs Sirleaf in the run-off.


Life in "captivity" can be sometimes unusually good for India's lawmakers.

Ask 124 legislators belonging to the ruling AIADMK party in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who have been shut away in a resort by their leader outside the capital, Chennai (Madras), for 10 days now.
Their leader, Sasikala Natarajan, wanted to make sure that no lawmaker was poached by a rival camp during a dramatic week of jostling for power two months after the death of charismatic and influential party leader J Jayalalitha.
Last week, the lawmakers were bussed out to a backwater beach resort, some 80km (49 miles) out of Chennai, where rooms, according to a website, rent between $79-86 (Â£64-70) a day.
The resort offers "simple rooms", two restaurants, spa, sauna, gym, a hot tub and an outdoor pool, and enjoys an uninspiring one-and-a-half star rating in Google user reviews.
This was quite at odds with one excited newspaper report that the lawmakers were "in a lap of luxury - swimming, sauna, massage and fine dining at a floating restaurant".
A leading news website said the lawmakers were staying in a "reclusive resort" on a "sizzling seashore" with "plenty of food and drink" and a "Valentine's Day in between".
"What do these things add up to? Plenty of sleaze between the sheets, of course", it said with considerable authority.
More seriously, most lawmakers appeared to be having some good downtime.
"Life is good here. It is a big resort, and it is quite fantastic. We get vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. I spend my day watching TV and reading the papers. Others play cards, cricket, volleyball and kabaddi. You can even get a massage, if you want," Arjunan, one of the "captive" lawmakers told BBC Tamil.
Two legislators told a newspaper that they were enjoying their stay.
"I am a second term MLA, and I have been to many five-star hotels. But this is an unique experienceâ€¦actually life is not boring here". One said his enjoyment "is limited to a variety of food, liquor and TV news". Another said they "also go for massage and swimming". Unverified pictures circulating on WhatsApp showed mountains of rice and prawns laid out on tables, and beer being poured into glasses from steel water jugs.
According to reports, the "captive" lawmakers were divided into small groups under a minder - usually a minister - and shared rooms at the resort.
They had to deposit their mobile phones with their minder during tense early days to stop them for making calls to rival camp leader O Panneerselvam. Doctors from a private hospital visited the place to examine lawmakers suffering from diabetes and blood pressure.
Security was tight. One journalist who tried to check into the resort last week was refused a room, saying it was sold out. Six people were held for allegedly entering the place "illegally". Private guards guarded the place.  Local fishermen told journalists "that they were strict orders not to give anyone boat rides", lest a recalcitrant lawmaker escaped by water.
There was high drama when one lawmaker managed to avoid the tight security and escape to the rival camp.
"I disguised myself, changed my get-up, scaled the wall, jumped and escaped," SS Sarvanan told journalists. His disguise was apparently a "T-shirt and Bermuda shorts". Many took his bravado with a pinch of salt: "This resort is not some fortified place. He must have walked out," said a journalist.
A captive legislator told a reporter that Mr Sarvanan actually played cricket in the morning with fellow "captives" before escaping.
"He batted well, he bowled well. And then he took a long jump to escape the resort," he said wryly.
Mr Sarvanan's was actually the second defection. Earlier lawmaker SP Shamuganathan made a quiet exit, even before boarding the bus to the resort. He said "he was feeling giddy and wanted to take medicines." He never returned, and surfaced later at Mr Panneerselvam's residence.
In the end, the lawmakers at the resort appeared to have won the battle of disguised attrition, but not before a twist in the tale.
Their leader Sasikala was convicted of corruption, but she managed to nominate a confidante Edapaddi Palaniswami, to become the new chief minister.
For the moment, the political stand-off that plunged the government into crisis appeared to have ended, and Mr Palaniswami was sworn in on Thursday evening.
"There was much merriment when news reached the resort that Sasikala's chosen candidate was to become the new chief minister. They had a big dinner party outside and Remy Martin cognac inside the rooms to avoid the drones deployed by TV channels hovering over the resort," said a journalist.
The lawmakers hope to vacate the resort when they travel to the assembly assembly for a confidence vote on Saturday. It is not clear whether their stay was funded by the taxpayers or the party.
Mr Arjunan told our correspondent that their memorable stay at the resort was only marred by one distraction: "hundreds of phone calls from the rival camp", which wooed and abused them alternately.
"The calls kept coming until early in the morning. Some of them were so abusive, my ears hurt."
Defections have been the bane of India's fractious democracy for a long time. Lawmakers usually defect when governments fail to gain majority or are roiled by rebellions in the ruling parties.
Between 1967 and 1971 alone, there were 142 defections in parliament and 1,969 defections in India's state assemblies. More than 30 governments collapsed and 212 defectors were rewarded with ministerial positions.
A law to combat "the evil of political defections', was passed in 1985 and has acted as a deterrent for a quarter of a century now. But many say the law has led to "chaos, with every conceivable loophole discovered and exploited" and also eroded a lawmaker's independence.
The crisis in Tamil Nadu began after Jayalalitha, one of India's most influential and colourful politicians, died in December. She had led her party to a landslide win last year, winning 135 of the 234 seats in the state last year.
Two months after her death, her successor O Panneerselvam quit, alleging he was forced to resign to make way for Sasikala Natarajan, a controversial confidante of Jayalalitha, who prefers to be known by her first name.
Mr Panneerselvam said he was ready to take his resignation back, claiming that at least 10 lawmakers were backing him, and more would defect from Sasikala's camp in the resort.
The state was plunged into further uncertainty after the Supreme Court convicted Sasikala of corruption, ending her attempts to become chief minister.
Before going to prison, however, she nominated Edapaddi Palaniswami, for the post. Mr Palaniswami was sworn in on Thursday, and will have to prove that he is supported by the majority of his party's 134 lawmakers in a vote in the state assembly on Saturday.
Lawmakers in India have been corralled into hotels and guest houses by their camp leaders to stop them from defecting.
In 1995, for example, a group of legislators owing allegiance to by local leader N Chandrababu Naidu were locked up in a hotel in Hyderabad for a week after Mr Naidu revolted against his father-in-law NT Rama Rao. Eventually Mr Naidu won and took over power.


The Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal opened in 2006 - the same year that Twitter launched.

So, you'd think that when one of the tech sector's biggest events - TechCrunch Disrupt New York - moved to the birthplace of hipsters, that cutting-edge development and a good amount of facial hair would be on display.
But this year's New York Disrupt didn't seem very disruptive.
TechCruch's biggest Disrupt conference in San Francisco, its London version, and past New York events have always attracted innovative technology developers.
Jordan Crook, senior writer for TechCrunch, was unconcerned by what seemed to be a slow burn in the sector, even in areas like virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
"It's easy to see with hindsight that what seemed to be a slow transition was really a massive shift," she says.
Take the technology for drones, which started as toys. Over the last year this has shifted and drones are being used for farming and policing and are being tested by companies like Amazon for delivering packages.
SeaDrone, a finalist in Disrupt's start-up battlefield, is using drones to improve fishing.
But along "start-up alley" many companies seemed focused on disruptive ideas from the past like dating apps, search engines and coffee-makers.
Tony Xu, the creator of delivery company Door Dash, pushes back on the idea that there is limited disruption going on.
"You need to understand your segment of the market," he tells the BBC.
His company connects people looking to order food from local restaurants with "dashers" - ordinary people who can collect and deliver food from restaurants that don't typically offer this service.
"Delivery isn't novel, but we claimed this space," he adds.
Since 2013 Door Dash has given the 85% of US restaurants that don't deliver, the opportunity to participate in this market. Mr Xu points out disruption doesn't have to be totally new, simply changing the way we think a certain industry operates is enough.
Ever heard of Uber?
Connecting riders with taxis didn't seem that novel when it launched. Uber's success - connecting drivers and passengers in a given area and allowing them to pay via their phone - has spurred hundreds of businesses to copy the model for other industries.
K. Kavi Raj, founder of app development company On Demand Bay, saw this as his chance for innovation.
"When Uber became big we got a lot of requests for similar apps, so we thought we should come up with something ready-made," he explains.
His company has sold mobile platforms to companies all over the world, helping to launch an "Uber" for tutors, for delivering alcohol and for musicians.
One of the most disruptive things about tech start-ups has been their ability to change the way we do everyday tasks and there was a big focus on that at the conference.
For example, Dog Parker offers dog owners peace of mind for a small fee. The company puts dog houses outside shops so owners can ensure their pets are safe while they are inside.
Peloton is looking to break into the fitness industry with a stationary bike that allows users to follow a gym class on a tablet screen in real time at home and to track and compare their performance.
For cyclists keener to be out on the streets, Lumenus is looking to solve the issue of limited visibility. The company sells jackets and backpacks with LED lights linked to the user's smartphone. The lights flash to indicate where the cyclist will be turning, based on directions from Google Maps.
New York's Disrupt was not devoid of exciting announcements.
Dag Kittlaus, the creator of Siri, launched his newest project Viv. The artificial intelligence (AI) platform acts like a digital assistant acting on voice instructions.
With an instruction like "order flowers for Mother's Day" Viv would find mum's address in the contacts list, figure out the date of Mothering Sunday, connect with flower delivery sites and send them a customer's payment details.
The winners for the start-up battlefield, Beam, found their niche in the gaming industry.
The company hopes to capitalise on the growing market of gamers who watch each other play online. Its founders developed a platform where users can interact directly on the games they are watching through crowdsourced controls.
"While this may seem like a slow burn I think it's just another step and we will look back at 2016 and say this was the year of a lot of development," says Ms Crook.
It is worth remembering too that New York is not the best barometer of transformation for the tech sector. Start-ups in New York tend to focus on the industries already established in the city.
But it is too soon to tell whether 2016 turns out to really be a year of transformation or if the time of disruption is over.


Mitsubishi Motors is proposing higher salary caps that could triple the annual pay packages of its top executives.

The new limits come as the scandal-hit Japanese carmaker prepares to appoint Carlos Ghosn as chairman.
The firm wants to raise the cash limit on executive pay from 960m yen (Â£6.7m, $8.4m) to 2bn yen. There could also be non-cash rewards worth 1bn yen.
The new salary caps need approval by shareholders.
They are due to vote on that at an extraordinary meeting on 14 December.
Shareholders will also be asked to approve the appointment of Nissan and Renault boss Carlos Ghosn as chairman, and three other new executives with experience at Nissan.
If approved, the total annual pay packages of all 11 executives on the company's new board could amount to more than $290m.
Mitsubishi Motors says the new salary caps are designed to attract outside talent to the company.
Its reputation was hit badly after it admitted in April to falsifying the fuel efficiency of several models.
The admission led to a suspension of sales of the vehicles and prompted a sharp drop in Mitsubishi Motors' share price.
Mitsubishi has suffered heavy losses resulting from the scandal. It has forecast a net loss of 145bn yen for the current financial year.
In May, Nissan helped to bail out Mitsubishi Motors by taking a 34% stake in its smaller rival.


The removal of the Elephant and Castle roundabout has been causing chaos for commuters, with motorists complaining of queues of more than an hour.

The roundabout, which saw more than 80 collisions and 90 people injured in 2012-14, was replaced with two-way traffic on Sunday.
Transport for London (TfL) said congestion was due to "traffic getting used to the new layout".
"It's a very busy junction and it always will be," a spokesman said.
The reintroduction of two-way traffic at the junction for the first time in 50 years was a "key milestone" in the £25m transformation at Elephant and Castle, TfL said.
In addition to the new road layout, left turns from Newington Causeway towards New Kent Road and right turns from New Kent Road to Newington Causeway have also been banned.
But road users took to Twitter to complain about their Monday morning commute.
"It's 8am and the queue for the new #elephantandcastle junction starts somewhere south of Camberwell. allow extra 1hr 4 journey (or walk!)", a Twitter user posted.
"Shock horror! All approaches to Elephant and Castle worse than ever. Only TfL could spend millions and millions to make something worse!" tweeted @tango97.
Andy Woodward tweeted: "Delays around Elephant and Castle even worse today. If this was the tube there would be outcry. Commuters use buses too!"
Road users had been advised of traffic changes with a countdown to the traffic switch and advisors and police were on site to help keep traffic moving, the TfL spokesman said.
A spokesman for London TravelWatch said: "It's early days - we need to wait and see how it pans out."
TfL plans to convert the space created by removing the roundabout into a new public area.
It will replace subways with new pedestrian crossings, create new cycle routes and introduce a 20mph speed limit, TfL said.


A Welshman has told how he walked away from a promising career in football because of abuse he suffered at the hands of a coach as a child.

Matthew Monaghan, from Pwllhelli, Gwynedd, played for Manchester United's and Wales' youth teams after the abuse at another club.
But Mr Monaghan said panic attacks forced him to give it all up.
It comes after several former players made allegations of historical child sexual abuse against football coaches.
Mr Monaghan, who now lives in Warrington, said he would have panic attacks, which were "without a doubt" down to the abuse, during training and matches.
"It's a weird feeling. It's as if you've lost four or five seconds of what's just happened and you don't know where you are, and I just had to get off the pitch," he told the BBC's Radio Cymru.
"I always used to say I was injured. That was my excuse, because you can't just run off a football pitch.
"I just thought I was cracking up, basically, losing the plot. I was drinking, late for training. I was always in trouble."
Mr Monaghan said he believed now that if he had told the club what had happened, "they would have got me counselling and the help that I needed".
Drinking, he said, was "the only way I could cope" at the time.
He said he was playing a match for Wales Youth when he realised he could not continue that way.
"I had a panic attack in the middle of the game and I thought 'I can't do this any more,' he said.
"Then I went back to united a couple of days later, had a bit of an argument with the coach, and I went in the office the next day and quit.
"I thought if I left football it would make me better."
He said he then booked into a hotel and spent all of his money - about Â£6,000 - in three weeks.
He said he did not tell the club about the abuse at the time because "it's not the sort of thing you talk about is it? Especially in football".
Mr Monaghan said he was 23 when he first told his mother what had happened, but only now felt able to speak about it publicly.
He said he had no doubt he could have made it as a professional footballer had he not been abused.
Mr Monaghan added: "I'm not being big-headed, I've played with some of the best players in the world and I've held my own against them."
He said he thinks about what could have been "every Friday when I pay the bills", but now just wants to move on.


A campaign is under way to save one of the spiritual homes of the St John Ambulance charity in Wales.

Dwindling congregations meant St John's Church in Ysbyty Ifan, Gwynedd, closed as a place of worship last month.
Campaigners say it is an important historical location and want to preserve the building.
A Church in Wales spokesman said it was "working with the local community to try to see if there is a new future for the church building".
Located on a busy medieval pilgrim route, a hospice was first established there by the Hospitaller Knights of St John of Jerusalem in 1190.
At the time, they provided pilgrims across Europe with rest, refreshment and spiritual care.
Centuries later, the Order of St John is today a major humanitarian charity, perhaps best known in the UK for its volunteer ambulance first aiders.
The hospice at Ysbyty Ifan was one of the knight's first in north Wales, located about half way along the pilgrim's route between Holywell, Flintshire, and Bardsey Island, off the Llyn Peninsula.
The village was first known as Dolgynwal, but with time the name Ysbyty Ifan - roughly meaning John's Hospice - was adopted.
A hospice in Slebech, Pembrokeshire, is believed to be the order's first in Wales.
The Friends of the Church of St John has been set up and are in discussions with the Church in Wales as to how the building can be preserved.
A spokesman for the Church in Wales said: "We are in the early stages and the nature of any future arrangements are not yet clear.
"But we will certainly work with the community representatives to see what can be achieved - this may involve outright sale or lease of the building.
"The precise use of the building will also become clearer as the community considers future options."


A town centre brewery which shut last year is set to be demolished and redeveloped, mainly for housing.

The closure of the 50-year-old Molson Coors complex ended a 250-year history of brewing in Alton, Hampshire.
A newly-published development brief includes plans for 140-200 new homes and at least 100 jobs on the site.
The Alton Society said the brief, to be considered by the district council next week, was "one of the most exciting things to happen to Alton for years".
The group's chairman Bob Booker said the blueprint had the "wow factor", including a new "green corridor" along the River Wey, linking the High Street to King's Pond.
He said it would help to attract tourists to Alton, which neighbours the South Downs National Park and Jane Austen's House Museum at Chawton.
The brief has been compiled by Molson Coors, East Hampshire District Council and Alton Town Council to guide future planning applications for the site.
It says 100-120 jobs should be created, possibly in a new hotel or micro-brewery.
There could also be an unspecified "community facility", possibly replacing the town's community centre.
The brewery closed in May 2015 with the loss of around 108 jobs, after losing a contract with Heineken.


Sheffield Wednesday have signed Crystal Palace midfielder Barry Bannan for an undisclosed fee on a one-year deal.

The 25-year-old Scotland international joined Palace from Aston Villa in August 2013 and made 27 appearances for the Eagles.
Bannan ended last season on loan at Bolton Wanderers, featuring 16 times.
He tweeted: "Glad to have joined @swfc on a permanent transfer today new start and glad to be going somewhere to play regular football and a fresh start."
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Fifteen men and two youths have appeared before magistrates in Grimsby charged with violent disorder after trouble at a football match.

Glasses, bottles and other items were thrown at a pre-season friendly between Grimsby Town and Sheffield United.
A total of 29 people were charged after rival fans clashed outside Blundell Park, Cleethorpes, in July.
Those appearing on Wednesday have had their cases moved to Grimsby Crown Court to be heard in January.
Of those charged, 17 are from the Grimsby area with 12 from Sheffield.
Those from Sheffield are due before magistrates in Grimsby on 14 December.


Defending champion Angelique Kerber gave a much-improved performance as she beat Czech Kristyna Pliskova for the loss of just four games to reach the last 16 at the Australian Open.

The German top seed, who needed three sets in both of her opening two matches, won 6-0 6-4 in Melbourne.
Kerber faces Coco Vandeweghe in round four after the American beat Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 6-4 3-6 7-5.
Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka are in action later on Friday.
Russian eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova was another winner early on day five, needing three hours and 36 minutes to beat Serbia's Jelena Jankovic 6-4 5-7 9-7.
"Jelena was in total control in the third set but I was trying to hang in, it was amazing that I could turn it around," said Kuznetsova, who trailed 3-0 in the final set.
"I just waited and tried to recover some breaks. I was not playing my best."


World champions Non Stanford and Helen Jenkins head the triathlon squad for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Stanford, 25, and Jenkins, 30, won the ITU World Championships in 2013 and 2011 respectively.
Jenkins is currently fourth in the ITU standings, although Stanford has struggled with injury that has spoilt her title defence hopes this year.
However, there is no place for Ironman world champion Leanda Cave, with Holly Lawrence taking the third women's spot.
Morgan Davies, Liam Lloyd and Alex Matchett make up the men's team for Glasgow 2014.
I think we'll have one of the best teams going forward to the Commonwealth Games
Stanford won the ITU World Triathlon Title in 2013, though a foot injury ruled her out of early races in this year's championship and has made a title defence unrealistic.
"I have to let go of that hope of defending my world title," Stanford told Sport Wales.
"But it does mean I can put all of my focus into the Commonwealth Games and hopefully deliver the goods."
Speaking about fellow Welsh triathlete Jenkins, Stanford previously said: "It will be fantastic being in the same team as her.
"Hopefully we can work together to produce the results that Wales want."
Jenkins came fifth in the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics, higher than any British woman in the history of the Games.
She is currently in fourth position in the ITU World Triathlon Series with four races still to go, while two of the three athletes above Jenkins are from the United States - making them ineligible for Glasgow 2014.
"I think we'll have one of the best teams going forward to the Commonwealth Games," Jenkins told BBC Wales.
"I haven't actually raced Non for over a year, and obviously she's coming back from an injury.
"I think the women's triathlon... might be the first medal event of the games.
"To have a Welsh medal would be amazing at the first event.
"I don't really mind which one it is, so long as it's a medal that would be great."
TEAM
Morgan Davies (Porthcawl)
Helen Jenkins (Bridgend)
Holly Lawrence (Swansea)
Liam Lloyd (Llanelli)
Alex Matchett (Haverfordwest)
Non Stanford (Swansea)


Britain's Andy Murray has the momentum to become world number one for the first time after winning his second Wimbledon title, says Tim Henman.

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Murray, ranked second behind Novak Djokovic, earned his third Grand Slam by beating Milos Raonic on Sunday.
"Trying to get to number one is a realistic opportunity now because he and Djokovic are so far ahead," said Henman, a former world number four.
"He can use this win as a springboard to push on and win several more Slams."
Murray, 29, returned to number two in the world rankings in October 2015, but still has plenty of ground to make up on Djokovic - despite the Serb's shock second-round defeat by Sam Querrey at SW19.
The British number one is likely to need to win September's US Open and the ATP World Tour Finals in December to move anywhere near 29-year-old Djokovic, who has held the top spot since July 2014.
Murray's first major title was the 2012 US Open and he followed that up with his maiden Wimbledon title a year later.
But he had lost his previous three Slam finals before ending that miserable run against Canadian sixth seed Raonic.
It was the first major showpiece the Scot had not faced either Djokovic or 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer.
"In terms of being ranked among the all-time greats, it is a numbers game - how many more he can win," said former British number one Henman, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals four times.
"Obviously he has to stay injury-free and maintain his momentum - which he will - to win more. It is going to be great to watch."
Boris Becker, the six-time Grand Slam champion and now Djokovic's coach, agrees Murray can extend his tally and believes more SW19 success is almost inevitable.
"At 29 he is at the peak of his career," said the 48-year-old German. "He has been playing great tennis for the past 18 months and I'm sure he will go on to win a few more.
"Grass is his most natural surface compared to the other players around him. He will always be a big threat at Wimbledon and he will be winning a couple more."
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Murray is the first British man to win multiple Wimbledon titles since Fred Perry, who won three titles between 1934 and 1936.
And Henman believes the Scot's latest success makes him Britain's most eminent sportsperson.
"Right now he is top of the pile," he said.
Former US Open finalist Greg Rusedski went even further than his old rival Henman, saying Murray should be considered as one of "Britain's greatest ever sportsmen".
"What he's accomplished is tremendous," said the Canada-born former British number one.
Lleyton Hewitt, who won the Wimbledon title in 2002, believes Murray is the perfect role model for aspiring youngsters.
"He does everything right, he is so professional and wants to do the small things to turn himself into a better player," said the Australian.
"It is also particularly impressive how he deals with losses.
"It couldn't have been easy losing the Australian Open final for a fifth time earlier this year and then, in his first French Open final, losing to the one guy - Djokovic - who has held the weight against him for so long."
"For him to come and respond, I couldn't be happier for him."
Murray avoided becoming the first man to lose the first three Grand Slam finals of the year, easing past the big-serving Raonic on Centre Court.
The second seed's straight-set win meant he only dropped two sets - both against French 12th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a gripping quarter-final - on his way to the title.
"He didn't put a foot wrong all tournament," said Hewitt. "He got off to a great start by getting through the first week very comfortably. The only hiccup was against Tsonga, where he had to dig deep at start of the fifth set.
"But he played a faultless match against Raonic. He went out there with the perfect game plan."
Raonic reached his first Grand Slam final with a remarkable five-set win over seven-time champion Federer, but was unable to trouble Murray's solid defence - despite serving with up to speeds of 147mph.
"There is no doubt the whole scenario of the draw opening up after Djokovic went out put extra pressure on him," said Henman.
"He knew how good an opportunity it was against Milos Raonic - but to go out and deliver, especially against someone with the firepower of Raonic, it is not easy.
"But Murray was clinical in every area. Raonic had served 137 aces in his previous six matches and midway through the second set had just served two - and that was credit to Murray.
"He is such a good returner, he gets the ball back in play and makes life so difficult for his opponent."
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Murray managed to win 36 return points against the Canadian, including 24 on his first serve. Raonic managed to create just two break points, at the start of the third set, failing to convert either.
Henman added: "Returning big serves is obviously something he has worked hard on over the years and it is all about his technique.
"You saw Federer standing close to the baseline when he was trying to return against Raonic and he was almost a little static, allowing Raonic success by going into the body.
"Murray stands further back then probably anyone else and then takes step forward to meet the ball.
"He has got short swings and doesn't try to generate power because he doesn't need to and with a firm block able to get ball back into play."
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Divers have been deployed to the River Taff in Cardiff to search for a 57-year-old woman who has been missing for more than three weeks.

Lorraine Ridout, from Cardiff, was last seen at the Premier shop on Gabalfa Avenue on 31 January and there have been no confirmed sightings since.
Police said the river was also searched using sonar equipment as it was "where the family believe Lorraine might be".
There was no evidence Ms Ridout had entered the river, police added.
On Tuesday, police dogs were searching the Gabalfa area. To date the police search has involved a specialist search team, house to house inquiries and air support.
Charity Missing People has produced more than 1,000 appeal posters.
South Wales Police asked anyone with information to call 101.


Barbara Windsor is among the leading entertainment and arts figures to be recognised in the New Year Honours.

The veteran star of EastEnders and the Carry On films said she was "thrilled" to be made a dame for services to charity and entertainment.
Actress Sian Phillips also receives a damehood for services to drama, while choreographer Matthew Bourne is to be knighted for services to dance.
Luther star Idris Elba receives an OBE, as does Blur singer Damon Albarn.
Actress Imelda Staunton, whose recent successes include her award-winning turn in the West End musical Gypsy, receives a CBE for services to drama.
The same honour is awarded to Tamara Rojo, the Montreal-born Spanish dancer who became the artistic director of English National Ballet (ENB) in 2013.
Spooks and Selma star David Oyelowo gets an OBE, as does tennis player turned BBC sports commentator Sue Barker.
Cold Feet actor James Nesbitt also gets an OBE, for services to drama and "the community of Northern Ireland".
Drum and bass star Goldie - real name Clifford Joseph Price - receives an MBE for services to music and young people.
There is also an MBE for Jacqui Oatley, the sports broadcaster who became the first female commentator on BBC One's football highlights show Match of the Day.
Reports of Windsor's damehood began circulating on Saturday, following a news story in The Sun with the heading "Arise Dame Babs".
The 78-year-old, who was made an MBE in 2000, told the BBC she had initially thought the letter informing her of her latest honour was a letter from her bank.
"I'm just thrilled that they've honoured me," she told the BBC's Lizo Mzimba. "I'll do my best to be a very good dame - and I don't mean in pantomime."
Known to millions as Peggy Mitchell, landlady of EastEnders hostelry The Queen Vic, the Shoreditch-born actress made her stage debut at 13 and appeared in nine Carry On films between 1964 and 1974.
In addition to her roles on stage and screen, Windsor has supported and raised funds for such charities as Help the Aged, Variety, the Royal British Legion and the Amy Winehouse Foundation.
"I feel so lucky to live in a country I love [and do] a job I have always adored which has allowed me to be in a position where I am able to help others," she said.
"For a girl from the East End born into a working class family and an evacuee during World War Two, this is truly like a dream," she continued. "I am so happy and blessed to say it's real."
Phillips is perhaps best known for playing Livia in the BBC's landmark adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius.
The Welsh actress won a Bafta for her work in the 1976 series, in which she played the to the emperor Tiberius, played by George Baker.
Phillips, who was made a CBE in 2000, made her first radio appearance at the age of 11 and was married to actor Peter O'Toole for 20 years.
She was recently heard on BBC Radio 4 alongside cast members of The Archers in a production of Calendar Girls, a play in which she first appeared in 2008.
The 82-year-old said her damehood was "totally unexpected... and something I could never have imagined when I decided to be an actress at the age of six.
"I idolised all the dames like Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans and couldn't quite believe then that we inhabited the same planet.
"I feel the same way now - though I also feel deeply honoured and very grateful."
Bourne is known for his modern takes on such ballet classics as Swan Lake, which he boldly staged with a company of male dancers as the swans.
The Hackney-born choreographer, who was made an OBE in 2001, has also enjoyed success and acclaim with his productions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Edward Scissorhands.
"This news has come as a great surprise to me, but I couldn't be more thrilled and honoured," the 55-year-old said.
"I am particularly proud to be, I believe, the first dance knight outside of the National Ballet companies."
Imelda Staunton is a three-time Olivier award winner who received a Bafta for her role in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, a role for which she was also nominated for an Oscar.
The 59-year-old, who was made an OBE in 2006 and is married to Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter, is also known for her role as Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films.
Also honoured with a CBE is screenwriter and playwright Peter Morgan, whose credits include The Queen, Rush and Frost/Nixon.
The two-time Oscar nominee, 52, said he was "surprised, delighted [and] a little embarrassed" to be recognised, admitting he had "opened the brown envelope" notifying him of his honour "expecting it to be a speeding ticket."
Rojo, 41, came to ENB after a glittering career at the Royal Ballet that saw her described in 2012 as "one of the greatest ballerinas alive today".
Speaking in 2013, the dancer said she had decided to become the company's artistic director because she "needed to do things for other people".
Elba is known for the powerful, brooding presence he has brought to everything from HBO's The Wire and detective drama Luther to Nelson Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom and Marvel's Thor films.
The 43-year-old, who was raised in Hackney by his Sierra Leonean father and Ghanaian mother, said his OBE was "beyond special, as it comes from Queen and country".
"I couldn't be more proud for receiving this right now," he continued, adding: "On me head son!"
Oyelowo appeared in the BBC's spy drama Spooks and on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company before heading to Hollywood to play Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oscar-winning Selma.
At the age of 18, Oyelowo received a grant from the Prince's Trust - the charity Prince Charles established to help disadvantaged young people - that enabled him to join a youth theatre production.
"To be honoured by the Queen in this way having been aided by her son's charity feels like a beautiful full-circle moment," said the actor, now 39.
Born in County Antrim in 1965, Nesbitt made his name playing Adam Williams in ITV's popular romantic drama Cold Feet.
He has since been seen in such TV dramas as Murphy's Law and The Missing and appeared as a dwarf in Peter Jackson's recent Hobbit trilogy.
The 50-year-old became chancellor of Ulster University in 2010 and is a patron of Wave, a charity that supports people bereaved or injured by the years of violence in Northern Ireland.
"I've been very blessed with my work and very blessed to come from Northern Ireland, and for those two things to be on the citation was really rather gratifying," the actor said.
The music world is represented in the New Years honours by Albarn and Goldie, who receive an OBE and an MBE respectively.
The former shot to fame with Blur in the early 1990s but has enjoyed success since as both a solo artist and a member of cartoon collective Gorillaz.
He has also helped create works for the stage, most recently Wonder.land - a modern reworking of Alice in Wonderland that had its premiere this year at the Manchester International Festival.
The latter is a former graffiti artist whose pioneering role in the field of jungle and drum and bass saw him named as a "New Elizabethan" by Radio 4 in 2012.
The musician, who is also recognised for his charity work, said his MBE made him "look back at everything [and] all these people that influenced my life as a kid growing up in a really bad environment".
As well as Barker and Oatley, honourees from the world of broadcasting include former newsreader Martyn Lewis, who receives a knighthood for services to charity.
Also knighted is Colin Callender, a former president of HBO Films who is recognised for "promoting British film, theatre and television in international markets."
Phyllida Barlow, the Newcastle-born sculptor known for her large installation pieces, has been made a CBE for services to art.
Sherlock's executive producer Beryl Vertue, meanwhile, said she was "chuffed to bits" to receive a CBE for services to television drama.
Music industry executive David Joseph, chair and chief executive officer of Universal Music UK, receives a CBE for services to music.
There is also an OBE for Piers Haggard, the 76-year-old director whose credits include 1978 Dennis Potter serial Pennies from Heaven.


Many huge questions are raised by the EU referendum result.

In Scotland the biggest and most pressing question is whether this vote could spell the break up of the UK and hasten the day we see an independent Scotland.
Every region in Scotland voted to remain but the UK-wide result means that Scotland will nonetheless be leaving the EU.
This is exactly the scenario the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon envisaged when she said that if Scotland is "dragged out of the EU against its will" that could trigger a second referendum on Scottish independence.
Already her predecessor as SNP leader Alex Salmond is saying that Ms Sturgeon will now call for a second referendum - indyref 2, as it is known in Scotland
All we have heard so far from Nicola Sturgeon is a statement saying: "Scotland has delivered a strong, unequivocal vote to remain in the EU".
She has also said: "Scotland sees it future as part of the EU"
Hints there about the possibility of indyref 2 - but no commitment yet.
She will deliver a statement later this morning that may clarify her position but I would be surprised if she actually sets a date for another vote.
She will tell us that the Scottish government will immediately start to take steps to try to preserve the country's relationship with the EU.
And she will undoubtedly point out that it is difficult for Scottish voters to accept such a momentous decision when they clearly voted the other way.
SNP politicians will point out - repeatedly - that during the Scottish referendum in 2014 voters in Scotland were frequently told that they should vote to stay in the UK if they wanted to stay in the EU.
Many arguments were had about whether an independent Scotland would be able to join the EU and on what terms. That argument looks rather different now - to say the least.
And if there is significant anger from Scottish voters that their wishes are being ignored that could swell support for Scottish independence
But there are other issues that mean a Brexit might make it harder for the nationalists to win indyref 2.
The question of which currency an independent Scotland would use is even more complicated if rUK is outside the EU.
We almost certainly would be talking about a hard border between England and Scotland.
And no-one knows what the potential emotional shock of being taken out of one union might do to voters sentiment.
Nicola Sturgeon understands all these complications very well.
She did not want to find herself in this situation.
But here we are and the pressure from her supporters and party members to go for another independence referendum may be irresistible.
She is a cautious politician - more cautious than Alex Salmond, who is keen to go for indyref 2.
She will not want to make any hasty decisions.
But if this EU result does produce polls showing a majority in favour of Scottish independence it may be her best chance to achieve her overriding political ambition.


Britain's Jamie Cooke secured his place at Rio 2016 by finishing ninth in the Modern Pentathlon World Championships.

Cooke was second quickest in the opening event of swimming and remained consistent in all five disciplines.
The 25-year-old finished strongly in the riding and combined event, while France's Valentin Belaud took gold.
"Our objective for Jamie was to secure Olympic qualification and we succeeded with that really well," said Pentathlon GB men's coach Marian Gheorghe.
Cooke won two World Cup wins earlier in the year prior to the World Championships in Moscow.
"To finish ninth in the World was an excellent achievement and Jamie should be very proud," Gheorge added.
"We now have two months before Rio where we can focus on final preparations. We want to build upon Jamie's recent form and performance today to give him the best chance of success at the Olympic Games."
Cooke's finish was the best individual GB performance of the week after Samantha Murray and Kate French finished 16th and 24th respectively in the Women's final on Friday.
The British team for the Olympics will be announced on 8 June.


The UK's Department for International Development has announced Â£100m of funding to help 175,000 of the world's poorest girls get an education.

The push will include smartcards that monitor attendance and offer incentives for families to send their daughters to school.
It will also deploy satellite broadband to improve connectivity in rural areas.
Putting girls through school is increasingly seen as one of the best long-term ways to end poverty.
International Development Minister Nick Hurd said: "It is only through making use of the latest technological innovations that we will reach every girl.
"Already in Kenya, thanks to UK-funded attendance monitoring software, satellite broadband connectivity and interactive learning platforms, we have seen attendance increase by 15% in schools we work with."
The iMlango programme is currently working in more than 200 schools in Kenya and includes:
The money will be mainly spent in sub-Saharan Africa in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, Malawi and Rwanda but will also fund work in Afghanistan, Myanmar, also known as Burma, and Nepal.
The investment was announced at the first Girls' Education Forum in London.
Julia Gillard, chair of the charity Global Partnership for Education, said: "Investing in girls and women isn't just morally right, it is essential for the development of families, communities and countries.
"When we educate girls, we see reduced child deaths, healthier children and mothers, fewer child marriages and faster economic growth."
It is estimated that 63 million girls around the world are out of school, with over half of these in sub-Saharan Africa.


An artist who painted the official picture for the Tour de France's Grand Depart from Yorkshire in 2014 has won the accolade of Best-selling Published Artist 2015.

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Alister Colley, who has a studio in Pateley Bridge near Harrogate, said to hear he had won was "almost unbelievable".
The title means he has become the most sought-after and collected artist in the country.
Colley said creating the official picture for the Grand Depart had put him on "a whole new international platform".
He has now been asked to be official artist for next year's Grand Depart.


Fifty-six people were killed on Northern Ireland's roads last year - eight more than in 2012, according to provisional police figures.

PSNI Superintendent David Moore said the number of deaths for 2013 was still one of the lowest recorded in 80 years.
But he added that one death is "one too many".
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries on Northern Ireland's roads was vital.
"It only takes one bad choice to ruin a life. We all share the road, so we all share the responsibility to prevent these collisions," he said.
"Our ambition is now that of zero road deaths and I urge all road users in Northern Ireland to commit to sharing the road to zero."
Road to Zero is a safety campaign launched by the government in April 2013 that aims to portray the human sorrow behind road deaths by showing the impact on the families left behind.
The minister said that, subject to executive approval, a Road Traffic Amendment Bill would be introduced in 2014 to take further steps to tackle those who choose to drink and drive.
It would also seek to address the high numbers of young people killed on the roads.
Supt Moore said: "If everyone slowed down, did not drive after drinking or taking drugs, wore a seatbelt and drove with greater care and attention, then more people would live. It really is that simple."
The latest statistics show that 24 people who died in car accidents last year were driving.
Twelve of those killed were passengers; 10 were motorcyclists; seven were pedestrians and three were cyclists.
Two children died on Northern Ireland's roads last year, compared with five in 2012.
A total of 14,626 people have lost their lives on NI roads since records began in 1931 and 75,070 have suffered serious injuries since these were first recorded in 1971.
In 1931, there were 114 road deaths. This number increased over the years and peaked in 1972 with 372 deaths.
In 2012, road fatalities were the lowest on record.