American football player Colin Kaepernick has again refused to stand for the national anthem as he continues his protest against the plight of black people in the US.

A week after staying seated during The Star-Spangled Banner, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback kneeled during the anthem before a match on Thursday.
Team-mate Eric Reid also protested, but they were booed by some in the crowd.
Kaepernick was joined by a former soldier who he met before the game.
Nate Boyer, a former staff sergeant with the US Army Special Forces, or the Green Berets, wrote an open letter to the quarterback last week.
While some have criticised Kaepernick, calling him unpatriotic and disrespectful of those willing to die for their country, other in the military have pledged their support online using the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick.
"Even though my initial reaction to your protest was one of anger, I'm trying to listen to what you're saying and why you're doing it," Mr Boyer wrote in his letter.
"There are already plenty people fighting fire with fire, and it's just not helping anyone or anything. So I'm just going to keep listening, with an open mind."
Kaepernick invited Mr Boyer to join him at the game against the San Diego Chargers after the two met earlier on Thursday. Mr Boyer stood for the anthem as Kaepernick kneeled in protest.
Kaepernick said he will continue to sit out the national anthem until he sees improvements in US race relations. On Thursday, he pledged to donate $1m (Â£753,000) to community organisations.
The 28-year-old stirred controversy last Friday when he sat during the national anthem before the San Francisco 49ers played the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game.
Racial tensions are mounting in the US, where a string of recent police killings and subsequent revenge killings have sparked protests across the nation.
After the pre-season game in San Diego, he said he loved America, and respected the military.
"The message is that we have a lot of issues in this country that we need to deal with," Kaepernick said. "We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, that aren't given equal opportunities."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticised the player earlier in the week, saying: "I think it's a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him.
"Let him try. It won't happen."
Also on Thursday, Seattle Seahawks player Jeremy Lane sat during the national anthem before a game in Oakland, but he has not elaborated on his reasons for doing so.


Western Isles Council (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar) is to hold a seminar to examine ways of halting depopulation of the islands.

The population of the Outer Hebrides is 27,070, according to the most up-to-date figure which was released in June last year.
The number of people is 180 fewer than there were in 2014.
The comhairle said the framework for a policy to tackle population decline would be developed at the seminar.
Islands Minister Humza Yousaf will be invited to attend the event in autumn, the local authority added.
Councillor Angus Campbell said: "Attracting people to our islands is something we have worked on for many years and positive net migration is an essential part of counteracting the negative natural change that the Outer Hebrides continues to experience.
"These islands offer a good quality of life, but we also need to provide the infrastructure for people to fulfil their aspirations and for that we need good and affordable housing, good services and most importantly a multi-agency approach."
Depopulation has been a long running issue for the Western Isles.
Nine years ago, research commissioned by the comharile suggested that more women than men were leaving the islands.
The Hebrides Migration Study also found that fewer women were moving to the islands.
The study said there had been long-term decline between 1901 and 2001, which was steepest in Harris, the Uists and Barra.
But it also gave a forecast that there would be more people by 2019 - but fewer schoolchildren, people of working age and women of child-bearing age.


Commonwealth Games gold medallist Euan Burton has been appointed Scotland's high-performance judo coach.

The 36-year-old takes over from from David Somerville, who led the team - including Burton - at the 2014 games.
Burton, who ended his competitive career on a high by taking the half middleweight title in Glasgow, is relishing the opportunity.
"I truly believe in the power of judo to make a positive impact on Scotland's people and its communities," he said.
"I am, however, fully aware of the size and responsibility of the job at hand and do not underestimate the numerous challenges that we will meet on our journey."
Burton, who was a world and European bronze medallist, thought that Somerville, who moves to a similar role with Sportscotland, was handing over a programme that is in "a strong position".
Sportscotland director of high performance Mike Whittingham said: "Euan's credentials as an athlete need no elaboration, but he has also shown the same aptitude and dedication in his role as assistant high-performance coach.
"The fact that he won Commonwealth gold while combining the two roles speaks volumes and is an inspiration to those who follow in his footsteps."


A large house in the New Forest has been severely damaged in a fire.

The blaze broke out in the detached property in Hangersley Hill, Ringwood, just after 06:30 BST. The owners were not at home and no-one was injured.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said flames had spread through the entire building, but crews had surrounded the fire and brought it under control.
Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising into the air at the height of the fire from the nearby A31.


World Rowing has called for tests for viruses to be carried out in waters to be used at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

It follows the International Sailing Federation's confirmation it will carry out research on the water quality.
An Associated Press investigation found that the sailing venue at Guanabara Bay is badly polluted, as is Rodrigo de Freitas lake, which will host rowing and canoeing.
It is claimed the levels of raw sewage pose a serious health risk to athletes.
World Rowing chief executive Matt Smith said: "We will ask that viral testing is done. If there is a problem, we will react. It's our moral duty.''
Olympic test events in sailing, triathlon and rowing have been taking place this week.
Peter Sowrey, chief executive of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), said the Associated Press' findings have helped "wake us up again".
"I want to make sure everyone who goes out in the water is safe," Sowrey added.
"We're going to find someone who can do the testing for us that can safely cover what we need to know from a virus perspective, as well as the bacteria perspective."
The investigation also showed venues for triathlon and open-water swimming off Copacabana Beach had high virus levels that pose a threat to athletes and tourists.
Up to 1,400 athletes will compete in water sports at the Games and, in a statement to AP, the World Health Organisation said it has suggested the International Olympic Committee start monitoring for viruses at the Rio venues.
When Rio was awarded the Olympics in 2009, it promised that cleaning its waters would be an Olympic legacy, but Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes has repeatedly acknowledged this will not be done, calling it a "lost opportunity".
Sowrey said a "backup plan" included sailing all the events outside Guanabara Bay in the open Atlantic.
The ISAF has three courses there, and three inside the bay, but Sowrey said it would be "heartbreaking" to sail outside the bay and lose the picture postcard backdrop of Sugarloaf Mountain that will be a focus of television coverage.


South Africa captain Faf du Plessis conceded his side's gamble on Vernon Philander's fitness backfired during their third Test defeat at The Oval.

Philander was taken to hospital on the second evening with a stomach virus, with the Proteas going on to lose by 239 runs despite the all-rounder's return on the third morning.
"Vern's such a good player you'd almost take him at 50%," Du Plessis said. "The plan was to win the toss, bat and give him a day to get better, so not to have him for two days was a big loss."
As it transpired, England won the toss and batted first with Philander taking regular trips from the field as the hosts eventually made what proved to a decisive first innings score of 353 all out.
Philander, 32, who has 141 Test wickets from 41 matches, bowled only 32 overs in the match and was wicketless in the second innings as England took a 2-1 series lead.
"It's obvious to say someone like Vernon Philander missing out on that first innings was costly," said Du Plessis.
"They got 100 runs too many in that innings, but you have to say England batted well."
England bowled out the tourists for 175 in their first innings, taking seven wickets inside 18 overs under the floodlights in drizzly, overcast conditions on Friday afternoon.
Opener Dean Elgar made a gritty 136 in the second innings but the Proteas were eventually bowled out for 252 before tea on the final afternoon.
"The end of day two was probably the most difficult conditions you'll see in Test cricket," said Du Plessis, who made one and a first-ball duck - dismissed padding up and offering no shot on both occasions.
"It's been a strange series - mistakes were made in this Test, we don't have to scratch our heads to know what to do about it.
"Dean's knock was amazing, and something our batters can look towards to make sure they go out and fight.
"We lost most of our main batters yesterday but the guys fought really well today so there are positives to take. Dean showed us what was needed."
The final match in the series begins at Old Trafford on Friday.


Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik is Britain's richest man with a £13.17bn fortune, according to the 2015 Sunday Times Rich List.

He takes the top spot from brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja, now worth £13bn.
The total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the survey reported.
The Queen, who topped the first list in 1989, has dropped out of the top 300 for the first time.
There are now 117 billionaires on the list, up from 104 in 2014, with 80 of them living in London.
Mr Blavatnik, who was born in Odessa in the then Soviet Union and became a US citizen in the 1980s, has investments that range from metals and oil to music publishing and digital media. He owns a £41m home in London and has donated £75m to Oxford University to found the Blavatnik School of Government.
The highest risers in terms of wealth are the retail family headed by Galen and George Weston, who run Selfridges and Primark in the UK.
Their fortune has grown by £3.7bn - more than 50% in a year - to £11bn.
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich comes in at number 10 on the list with a fortune of £7.29bn, down £1.23bn on last year, while Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has seen his wealth rise from £3.6bn to £4.1bn, making him 20th richest in Britain.
A personal fortune of £100m is now required to become one of the 1,000 richest people in the country, up £15m compared with last year's entry point of £85m.
In 1997 it took a fortune of just £15m to join Britain's richest 1,000 people.


A Chinese airline has reportedly warned passengers that "precautions" should be taken when visiting areas in London mainly populated by "Indians, Pakistanis and black people".

Air China included the comments as part of a feature in its in-flight magazine on visiting the city.
It also advised tourists not to go out alone at night, and for females to always be accompanied when travelling.
A London MP has written to the Chinese ambassador to the UK for an apology.
The comments were noticed by Beijing-based producer Haze Fan from US news channel CNBC.
They were published in its monthly Wings Of China magazine and read: "London is generally a safe place to travel, however precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people.
"We advise tourists not to go out alone at night, and females always to be accompanied by another person when travelling."
Air China has not commented on the article.
But MP Virendra Sharma said: "I am shocked and appalled that even today some people would see it as acceptable to write such blatantly untrue and racist statements."
The Labour MP for Ealing Southall, which has a high Indian population, said he had requested for the magazine to be removed from circulation immediately.
"I have invited representatives of Air China to visit my constituency of Ealing Southall to see that a very multi-cultural area is safe, and would be of great value for those visiting London to see.
"I will await their response, and if an appropriate one is not forthcoming I shall feel forced to question whether Air China is a fit company to operate in the UK."
The airline operates two flights per day from Beijing to London Heathrow.
The number of trips to the UK from China rose by 46% last year to 270,000 according to VisitBritain.
The Chinese government has previously raised concerns about how its citizens act abroad.
In 2013, a senior Chinese Communist Party official called for authorities to "guide tourists to conscientiously abide by public order and social ethics, respect local religious beliefs and customs, mind their speech and behaviour... and protect the environment".


Thousands of torch-bearers will form a kilometre-long river of fire during celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge.

There will then be a huge bridge party in South Queensferry with live music headlined by Scottish rockers Big Country and guests Bwani Junction.
The finale will be a fireworks display at 10:06pm in recognition of the bridge's 1,006m span.
Tickets for the procession and party, on 13 September, go on sale on Friday.
The event will end with a giant outdoor ceilidh, the "Forth Fling". There will be a free shuttle bus as there will be no local parking.
The procession is only open to over-16s. The party is open to under-16s if they are accompanied by an adult.
The bridge will close to all traffic in both directions at 22:00 for 30 minutes during the fireworks display.
Lesley Hinds, convener of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority, said: "The Forth Road Bridge was a huge engineering achievement for Scotland when it opened in 1964, and in the 50 years since it has provided fantastic service, carrying over double the weight and volume of traffic envisaged by the engineers who designed it. The bridge has transformed the economy of the east of Scotland and the lives of millions who now take crossing the Forth for granted.
"With the new Queensferry Crossing set to open in 2016, this is a pivotal moment in the history of the bridge."
Funding for the event has come from Homecoming Scotland, Edinburgh City Council and Fife Council.


Midfielder Adam Clayton has signed a contract extension to commit to Middlesbrough until 2021.

The 28-year-old, whose previous deal expired in the summer of 2018, has made 26 appearances for the club this season.
"To get it over the line and guarantee myself coming here for the next couple of years is really good," he said.
Clayton was named player of the season last campaign by the club's official supporters' club.


Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is stepping up asset disposals as part of a strategy that will see the company "changing emphasis" in 2014.

The changes will involve Shell stopping its exploration programme in Alaska.
On Thursday, Shell posted 'clean' profits - which strip out the impact of oil price movements - of $2.9bn (Â£1.7bn) for the last quarter of 2013, down from $5.6bn on the period in 2012.
It comes a week after Shell issued a "significant" profits warning.
Shell 'B' shares were up 3% in early afternoon London trading, but closed up just 1%.
New chief executive Ben van Beurden, a month into the job, said on Thursday that "the landscape the company had expected has changed".
On 17 January, Shell, the world's third-largest publicly-quoted oil company, surprised investors with a warning about profits for the quarter to the end of December, blaming high exploration costs, pressures across the oil industry and disruption in Nigeria.
Thursday's quarterly profits were broadly in line with expectations following the profits warning, and took full-year 'clean' profits to $19.5bn, against $25.3bn in 2012.
Mr van Beurden took over as chief executive on 1 January, replacing Peter Voser.
The new boss said in a statement on Thursday: "Our overall strategy remains robust, but 2014 will be a year where we are changing emphasis, to improve our returns and cash flow performance."
Capital spending will fall to $37bn this year from $46bn in 2013, Shell said, adding that, for the time being, it was also scrapping a controversial exploration programme in Alaska.
'Hard choices'
Last week, a US court ruled that a full assessment of the environmental risk associated with the Alaska exploration had not been carried out by the US government.
Shell had spent around $4.5bn exploring for oil off the coast of Alaska since 2005, but has faced strong environmental opposition.
"We are making hard choices in our world-wide portfolio to improve Shell's capital efficiency", Mr van Beurden said.
The Anglo-Dutch company said it would increase the pace of asset sales, targeting disposals of $15bn this year.
Mr van Beurden said: "The landscape the company had expected has changed. Factors such as the worsening security situation in Nigeria in 2013, and delays to non-operated projects in several other countries, have altered the outlook.
"Oil prices remain high globally, but North America natural gas prices and associated crude markers remain low."


Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in a straight fight as Formula 1's new era started at the Australian Grand Prix.

Vettel's first win since the Singapore GP in September 2015 was final proof Mercedes' domination is over after the introduction of faster cars.
Hamilton started in pole but Vettel had an advantage on pace and tyre wear.
The German pressured Mercedes into an early pit stop and benefited when Hamilton was held up by Max Verstappen.
Ferrari were simply quicker in Melbourne and the world champions were forced into a position where they had to make a decision that did not work out.
Mercedes were telling Hamilton he needed to up his pace to build a gap before his pit stop. The Briton was complaining his tyres were going off and he had no more pace.
Mercedes had the choice of leaving him out and risking Vettel passing him by and stopping earlier, or bringing him in and hoping Red Bull's Verstappen would stop soon afterwards or that Hamilton could pass him.
Hamilton returned to the track 1.7 seconds behind Verstappen. He soon caught him and was told by his engineer Peter Bonnington: "This is race-critical - you need to pass Verstappen."
Hamilton replied: "I don't know how you expect me to do that."
Sure enough, Hamilton was quickly on Verstappen's tail but could not pass for four laps.
Vettel stopped on lap 23 and rejoined right in front of the Red Bull and Hamilton, fended off Verstappen's challenge into Turn Three and disappeared off into the distance.
By the time Verstappen stopped himself on lap 25, Vettel was nearly six seconds up the road.
Hamilton could keep pace but no more, and found himself being caught by team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who had struggled in the first stint, dropping back 10 seconds in 17 laps, but closed in on the former world champion in the second stint to finish just 1.2 seconds behind. This was because Mercedes had turned down Hamilton's engine once they realised he was not going to catch Vettel.
Ferrari's pace was not exactly unexpected - the red cars had looked competitive in pre-season testing and Vettel qualified less than 0.3 seconds behind Hamilton.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday evening that his team faced "a hell of a fight" this season - and they are right in it following Vettel's imposing victory.
Mercedes accepted that the Ferrari was simply a faster race car on Sunday - something that was clear from Vettel's ability to stick close to Hamilton in the opening laps despite the turbulent air from the Mercedes costing him aerodynamic downforce.
The leaders might have made only one pit stop, which some might not like, but the intensity of the fights created by cars that test drivers to their  limits for the first time in years made for a compelling afternoon.
However, the suggestion from this race is that a corollary of the quicker cars may well be that racing is harder.
As FIA president Jean Todt said before the race in a media briefing, this may have been a price the sport had to pay to return it to a position closer to its essence than the tyre-managing era of the previous six years.
Home hero Daniel Ricciardo had a turbulent afternoon. The Australian's Red Bull stopped on the way to the grid.
It was returned and Red Bull were able to get it going again, but not before the race was two laps old.
Ricciardo was sent back out and told "to have some fun" but the car stopped for good after about 30 laps.
Britain's Jolyon Palmer also had a difficult weekend, starting from the back after a troubled qualifying and suffering brake problems before an early retirement.
Fernando Alonso looked poised to rescue a surprise point for a McLaren-Honda team that came to the race in disarray after reliability and performance problems with the Japanese company's engine.
But while running in 10th place and holding off Force India's Esteban Ocon, which had been behind for a long period, the Spaniard's car suffered what he suspected was a suspension problem.
He was passed by Ocon and Renault's Nico Hulkenberg in one go and then was told to retire the car.
Australian Grand Prix results


The UN warned at the weekend that the world was facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, with 20 million people facing the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

Readers responded to our story by asking what they could do to help.
Here's some advice and some links for anyone wanting to donate time, money or goods.
UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945
Most charities encourage financial donations above all.
"In the event of a disaster, we don't send volunteers abroad because we already have thousands of volunteers on the ground, already established and working in these areas," said Ben Webster, head of emergencies at the British Red Cross. Managing new volunteers "can make this a little bit trickier".
Lily Caprani, from Unicef UK, agreed, saying that "while we appreciate all volunteers... the best thing the public can do to help is to donate so organisations like Unicef can continue their life-saving work".
Donations to the disaster fund make a much bigger difference - especially when Gift Aid is used to add another 25% from the UK government. For the Red Cross, that resulted in an extra Â£15m in 2015.
Some of the main charities working in the regions highlighted by the UN are:
However, there are still ways you can volunteer on the ground.
The UN has about 7,000 volunteers working in the field and you can apply online to join a pool run by the UN Volunteers programme (UNV).
You need to be over 25, speak English, Spanish, or French and have a university degree or higher technical diploma and two years' relevant experience.
"Yes, you can sign up to physically go to a destination," a UN spokesperson said - but "there is a very stringent selection process".
By joining the UNV's talent pool, you'll be allocated where your skills are needed. They are currently appealing for medical doctors to work in Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, among other areas.
"We recruit people with a desireâ€¦ but we wouldn't field someone anywhere there isn't a need for them."
If successful, volunteers get all the same professional and security training that a full UN agency staff member receives.
But the United Nations isn't the only option.
Most large UK-based charities don't send volunteers abroad, preferring to work with local staff instead.
But charities such as Save the Children, Oxfam, and Unicef work with volunteers in the UK in a range of capacities.
They have information on their websites about how you can sign up.
The UNV also doesn't just dispatch people to foreign countries - but uses online volunteering you can do from home to provide humanitarian support. That can include mapping data for safe transport routes, or translating messages.
The Red Cross run a similar programme through their Missing Maps Project - a collaboration with their American counterparts and Doctors Without Borders. Thousands of volunteers worldwide take part to map regions that are not well recorded.
In southern Haiti, they mapped parts of the country in a few days before Hurricane Matthew struck - maps that were used to get aid to people in the weeks that followed.
Most charities don't accept goods donations, such as second-hand clothes, as they are too costly to process - often costing more to send than the items are worth.
"Whenever possible, we buy the items we need to respond to an emergency in the affected country or in the region," Ben Webster from the Red Cross said.
"This benefits the local economy by helping local markets and traders and helps us reduce transport costs and speed up delivery times."
But the Global Hand organisation can help you offer goods and services and partner you with people who need them.
Goods can also be donated to charity shops in the UK, which pass on proceeds to the charity, and you can volunteer your time to work in shops or on other UK-based projects.
Oxfam has a well-established network of more than 650 shops, which they use to turn material goods into funds for their overseas operation. Volunteers sort and price every item, sell them in store, online or abroad - and, in a worst-case scenario, recycle them so they don't end up in landfill.
No matter how they ask for help, all the charities agreed on the seriousness of the current crisis.
Fay Hoyland, currently in Somalia for Save the Children, said she had never seen a situation as bad.
One clinic she visited in Garowe has had its caseload double in a month. "It is full of extremely sick children, and their mothers told me they are terrified their children might die," she said.
And with just half of the UN's appeal for $825m pledged so far, donations matter, she said.
"We're here to save lives, we're water trucking, distributing food and deploying mobile health units, but we need more money to be able to reach everyone that needs our help."


Lord Bilimoria speaks openly and honestly about the difficulties his company Cobra Beer faced back in 2008.

The producer of one of the UK's most popular lagers, his business had grown too fast and over-extended itself. It was making a loss, and had built up substantial debts which it was struggling to service.
While this situation may have been rectifiable in benign economic conditions, the global financial crisis that exploded in 2008 meant that Cobra had to put itself up for sale in November of that year.
"We had lots of debt and we didn't see the crisis coming," says Lord Bilimoria, speaking at Cobra's headquarters in London.
At the time the company had been growing by an average 40% every year since it was set up in 1989.
All potential profits had been invested back into continuing to grow the company, so its cash reserves were running very low at a time when Lord Bilimoria says "cash didn't just become king - it became emperor".
He adds: "What I could have done - should have done, with hindsight - is proven the profitability [of the business] for two or three years, and slowed down the growth. But at that stage... the mindset when you are growing at 40% is that you are on a roll."
Cobra was saved in May 2009 when, under a so-called "pre-pack administration" deal - a pre-arranged agreement that saw the firm go quickly in and out of administration - Lord Bilimoria bought the business back in a joint venture with North American brewing giant Molson Coors.
The deal wiped out Cobra's debts, leaving creditors Â£71m out of pocket.
However, Lord Bilimoria, who is Cobra's chairman, says he is paying back every single person, despite having no legal requirement to do so.
"It is my belief that if you go through a tough time it is not just what you do, but how you do it," he says.
Born in India in 1961, Karan Bilimoria is the son of a general in the Indian army.
His father, Faridoon Bilimoria, commanded a regiment of Gurkhas when India fought on the side of Bangladesh in its eastern neighbour's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
By the time the late Lt Gen Bilimoria retired, he was commander-in-chief of the central Indian army, with 350,000 men under his command.
It was as a teenager that Lord Bilimoria decided to go into business instead of joining the army like his father.
"I decided that the army for me would have been too constraining. And if I had followed in my father's footsteps I was worried that I would always be compared to him, and be in his shadow," he says.
"Also I wanted more blue sky, and a career in business offered me a much broader opportunity."
After gaining a degree in commerce at the University of Hyderabad, Lord Bilimoria moved to London, where he qualified as a chartered accountant.
He then completed a law degree at Cambridge University in the late 1980s, which was when he came up with the idea for Cobra.
A lover of beer since his teenage years, Lord Bilimoria was unhappy with the quality of British lager, especially when drinking it with a curry.
He says: "The lager was too fizzy, too harsh and too bloating. It meant that I couldn't eat or drink as much as I would like.
"At the same time, I found real ale to be great in a pub, but too bitter and heavy with food.  So I came up with the idea of creating a beer with the refreshment of a lager, but with the smoothness of an ale.
"I wanted it to not just be drinkable in its own right, but a great accompaniment to all food, and particularly Indian cuisine."
Undeterred by having no experience of the beer industry, Lord Bilimoria went to the head brewer at what was then India's largest independent brewery, and together they developed the recipe for Cobra.
And so Cobra Beer was born in 1989, with the first deliveries from India arriving by container ship into the UK in 1990.
Basing himself in an office in the Fulham area of south-west London, for the first year Lord Bilimoria delivered bottles of Cobra door-to-door in his Citroen 2CV, targeting Indian restaurants.
Initially Cobra was only available in big 660ml bottles, as such a large size is the most popular in India.
Lord Bilimoria says it gave the business an immediate advantage, as the bottles stood out in curry houses.
"People sitting at other tables would see the bottle and say, 'What is that?' The popularity spread like wildfire, people loved the taste, and we got 99% reorders."
With the business growing rapidly, in 1997 brewing was switched to the UK from India to help meet demand.
"We first checked with consumers, who said they didn't mind where we brewed. This is logical as the Indian food you eat here is not flown over from Delhi," says Lord Bilimoria.
Knighted in 2004 for his services to business and entrepreneurship, he was appointed to the House of Lords two years later.
Despite Cobra's financial problems in 2008, he is keen to stress that there was never any impact on production of the beer.
"Throughout the whole crisis the sales never dropped, and we maintained a seamless supply."
With Molson Coors owning a majority stake in the business since 2009, sales of Cobra have continued to grow strongly, albeit at an average of "either high single digit or 10%". And it is Molson's most profitable UK brand.
While Cobra continues to dominate the UK's Indian restaurant market, being sold at more than 98% of licensed curry houses, it is now also available at all the main supermarkets.
"I'm very proud of the beer," says Lord Bilimoria.
And with plans for a renewed push to get Cobra into more UK pubs and bars, he is confident the brand has a bright future.


A 97-year-old man who died after being hit by a car in Powys was "out on his daily constitutional stroll".

Richard Wood died on 16 February following the crash in on A4113 Bridge Street in Knighton.
His family said he liked to go for his "constitutional" walk from his care home to a bench he liked to sit on or to get a newspaper.
They said he was "a regular figure on that route... waving to the folk who knew him and with a word for everyone".
Mr Wood moved to the area in the early 1970s and was a keen photographer and painter of the surrounding countryside.
In a tribute, his family said: "Anyone who knew him will miss his knowledge of music, the arts, history and current affairs.
"Renowned for his cheery, gentlemanly and optimistic nature, he will be sadly missed by his family, friends and the many people in the community who knew him."


Instagram said it had fixed a "bug" that saw users geo-tag themselves as being in Singapore in a bid to go viral - even though they were not there.

Some users claimed the apparent hack increased the chances of a post reaching the coveted Explore page on the photo-sharing app.
Posts in that section are likely to get many more likes and attract followers.
Instagram confirmed to the BBC that it was a "bug that impacted engagement" when posts were tagged with Singapore.
Like on Facebook, what appears on your Instagram is based on the firm's algorithm. The spokesperson added that they have now fixed the issue.
The trend started when dozens of prominent "influencers" were seen tagging their Instagram photos with the location "Singapore, Singapore", despite being nowhere near the South East Asian city-state.
In a technology feature published earlier this week, Tech Mic reported that the trick caught on with internet stars like King Bach and Christian Collins, who began geo-tagging their posts to gain wider reach.
Step One: Create a post on Instagram, setting 'Singapore, Singapore' as your location.
Step Two: Publish your post and watch it attract likes and comments from random strangers across the world.
Step Three: Once you see the higher engagement, remove the odd and incorrect location.
The confusion soon spread to Twitter, where users began to express their disbelief, wondering if their favourite Instagram stars were in town.
"Why does everybody have 'Singapore, Singapore' as their location on Instagram? Did I miss something," asked one Twitter user.
Another user Ellie Thompson wrote: "This Singapore location thing on Instagram proves how much people only care about likes."
Singapore-based digital strategist Anna Lee described it as the "Singapore boost".
"Having a large number of likes on your Instagram posts feels good and being featured on the Explore page is a great way to find new followers," Ms Lee told BBC News.
She added that she was "puzzled" as to why the tiny city-state in particular added such a boost.
"It is probably just a fad and will pass. The only way to continually engage and enlarge your fan base boils down to having interesting content that will add value for your followers."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen in Singapore.


YouTube has enlisted the help of Prof Stephen Hawking in the hunt for budding young scientists.

The site - which is owned by Google - is launching a competition for teenagers to create an experiment that could be carried out in space.
Two winning ideas will be tested by the crew of the International Space Station.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently criticised science and technology education in the UK.
Delivering the annual McTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Mr Schmidt said the country needed to reignite children's passion for subjects such as engineering and maths.
In addition to having their experiment run in space, the winners will get to experience weightlessness on a zero-g airplane flight, and have the option to either undergo astronaut training in Russia, or to watch the rocket launch in Japan which takes their idea into space.
When the experiments are eventually run, the results will be streamed live on YouTube.
The competition is divided into two age groups. 14-16 years, and 17-18 years.
Alongside Prof Hawking, the judging panel consists of former Astronauts Leland Melvin, Frank De Winne, Akihiko Hoshide and noted "space tourist" Guy LalibertÃ©.


Leicestershire have signed Ireland all-rounder Kevin O'Brien for this season's T20 Blast campaign.

The 31-year-old joins New Zealand international Grant Elliott in the Foxes squad for the competition.
O'Brien has played 125 T20 games, scoring 1,980 runs with a strike rate of 132, and has taken 68 wickets at an average of 22.94, with an economy rate of just under 7.5 runs per over.
In 2011 he hit the fastest-ever World Cup century as Ireland beat England.
O'Brien, who played in the recent tournament in Australia and New Zealand, is the brother of Leicestershire batsman and wicketkeeper Niall and will be at Grace Road between 15 May and 26 June.
He has had previous spells with Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset and Surrey, and has played in the Bangladesh Premier League and Caribbean Premier League.


DR Congo striker Cedric Bakambu helped Villarreal to move back to within eight points of the Spanish La Liga top four with a controversial stoppage-time winner to deny Leganes.

Leganes goalkeeper Iago Herrerin complained that Bakambu handled the ball for the winner in the 92nd minute.
"It was a handball that everyone saw," Herrerin told beIN Sports. "It was impossible not to see it."
Leganes sit just above the relegation zone, while Villarreal stay fifth.
Bakambu had put Villarreal ahead on 68 minutes, before Miguel Angel Guerrero looked to have salvaged a vital point for Leganes, equalising in the 90th minute.
However, Bakambu struck again just two minutes later and the winner was allowed to stand, despite the Congolese striker having appeared to handle the ball to turn home Jonathan dos Santos's cross.
The dramatic late win for the Yellow Submarine kept them in the hunt for European places.
Bakambu later simply tweeted: "Job's done."


Everton boss Ronald Koeman says the loss of Yannick Bolasie has increased the need to make signings in January.

The DR Congo winger, 27, will have knee surgery next week after scans confirmed he suffered serious ligament damage against Manchester United on Sunday.
"The necessity now is a little bit more than before because we have lost Yannick for a long time," said Koeman.
Koeman has previously spoken about his interest in taking Manchester United's Memphis Depay, 22, on loan in January.
Bolasie injured the right anterior cruciate ligament in the 68th minute of Sunday's 1-1 draw at Goodison Park and is unlikely to feature again this season.
Koeman said the priority now was for the club to ensure the £25m summer signing from Crystal Palace gets the best possible treatment.
"He is going to London for an opinion about his knee, what is the best thing to do and the kind of operation, and then maybe he will go somewhere else to get a second opinion," he said.
"Normally I think the operation will be next week but it is a big disappointment for everyone."
Meanwhile, Koeman has challenged midfielder Ross Barkley to prove he is worth a place in the team.
The England international, 23, was dropped for Sunday's 1-1 draw at home to United and appeared to be visibly upset when he did not feature.
"If you like to play you need to show that to the manager during the whole week and he is trying to do his best," said Koeman, who also dropped Barkley for a league game against Manchester City in October.
"Sometimes it can be a tactical reason, sometimes I expect more from Ross Barkley.
"He needs to accept it. He needs to show it on the training pitch and that is the best way to give the best answer as to why he doesn't play.
"He is always trying to do his best but it is not always about the mentality of the player, it is about tactics, his movement, his productivity."


Fire crews have rescued an unconscious person from a river in Merthyr Tydfil.

Emergency services were called to Abermorlais Terrace at about 19:15 BST on Thursday to reports of someone partly submerged in the water.
Jennie Griffiths head of joint fire control for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said the person had fallen from an embankment.
They were revived by crews at the scene and treated by paramedics.


Nine babies found alive in the rubble of a Mexican children's hospital after a gas blast have undergone DNA tests to help reunite them with their parents.

The testing was necessary as the babies were not wearing identity bracelets, Mexico City Mayor Angel Mancera said.
The explosion on Thursday killed a nurse and two infants and injured more than 70 others.
It is believed to have been caused by a leak in a hose from a gas lorry fuelling the hospital's tanks.
"There are parents who have identified their children, but as the babies did not have bracelets on, we have to follow a protocol to identify them," Mr Mancera was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Tank workers struggled for about 15 minutes to repair the hose while a large gas cloud formed, witnesses said.
The explosion shot a fireball into the sky, and was so powerful that much of the building collapsed.
Mothers inside shielded their infants to protect them for the blast. Many of those injured suffered burns or cuts from broken glass.
Rescuers searched under rubble and twisted metal but by late on Thursday said no one was still trapped.
Mr Mancera said a bigger tragedy was avoided as the hospital was able to evacuate many of the people inside before the leak turned into an explosion.
The three operators of the gas lorry have been detained.
There have been a number of other fatal gas explosions in Mexico over recent years.
In February 2013, 37 people died in a blast at the headquarters of the state energy firm Pemex.


Jack Tweed, the widower of reality TV star Jade Goody, has been sentenced for assaulting a McDonald's staff member.

Tweed admitted four offences including assault by beating and criminal damage at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court.
The 27-year-old, from Buckhurst Hill, Essex, was given a community order, 100 hours of unpaid work and told to pay compensation to the staff member.
He was also ordered to pay Â£2.50 to McDonald's to cover damage to cups and napkins at an outlet in the city.
During an appearance at the same court in January, prosecutor Phil Pearson said Mr Tweed had been to the McDonald's outlet in Boreham at around 03:30 BST on 9 October while "under the influence of alcohol".
Mr Pearson said Tweed started to become disorderly and began throwing cups, napkins and other items around with his friends.
Tweed married Big Brother contestant Jade Goody, 27, days before she died from cervical cancer in March 2009.


Thousands of pupils are preparing to sit the new look Higher qualifications as the exams period gets under way in Scottish schools.

Changes were made to tie them in with the new National 4 and 5 qualifications that replaced Standard Grades.
Some students will sit a mix of both the old and new exams, with many schools choosing to defer some new of the new Highers for a year.
The first exams taking place are in drama and economics.
More than half a million exams will be sat by more than 132,000 candidates, who are taking courses at 473 schools and colleges.
The new Highers are directly comparable with the old ones and are worth the same when students apply to colleges and universities.
Schools were given the option to phase in the new Highers, with provisional figures released by Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) earlier this year showing almost half (45%) of pupils will sit the existing and not the new qualification this year.
All pupils are due to study for the new qualifications from the 2015/16 school year on, but teaching unions have raised concerns about the implementation of the reforms and their impact on teacher workload.
This year also marks the last year of the Intermediate courses - which were stepping stones on the way to more advanced qualifications.
Minister for Learning Dr Alasdair Allan insisted the reforms are benefiting young people as he wished exam candidates well.
He said: "Scottish education now offers more flexible learning opportunities for our young people.
"This year marks an important milestone in the ongoing implementation of Curriculum for Excellence with the introduction of the new Higher.
"Curriculum for Excellence has been designed to equip our young people with the skills they need to succeed both in Scotland and in the global workplace, with local authorities having the freedom to shape education to meet the needs of our pupils, whatever their background."
Dr Janet Brown, SQA chief executive and Scotland's chief examining officer, said: "All of our qualifications, including the new Higher, provide candidates with the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding they've acquired and prepare them for further study, employment or training.
"Our qualifications are robust, relevant and designed to equip young people with a wide range of skills."
The exam period will finish on 5 June with candidates due to receive their final results on 4 August.


Switzerland defender Steve von Bergen has been ruled out of the World Cup after breaking a cheekbone in the 5-2 defeat by France.

Von Bergen had blood pouring from a cut under his eye after he was accidently kicked in the face by France striker Olivier Giroud in the sixth minute.
The 31-year-old was taken to hospital in Salvador.
Young Boys Berne centre-half Von Bergen will now return to Switzerland to receive treatment from specialists.
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In these days of austerity, even Premier League clubs - buoyed by their new-found TV millions - are keen to find a bargain buy.

Monday's transfer deadline day saw Arsenal break their spending record as they signed Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid for £42.4m, while Manchester United bought Marouane Fellaini from Everton for £27.5m.
But the marquee signings are not always the ones which prove to be the best value - you only have to look back 12 months to Swansea's £2m signing of Michu or the £7m spent by Aston Villa on Christian Benteke to see the quality that can be found lower down the market.
A combined total of 37 Premier League goals later and it was clear that, despite the reams of data and hours of footage now available from around the world, there are still talents waiting to be found.
BBC Sport asked European football experts to name the best sub-£10m signing going from their country to the Premier League.
Prof Chris Anderson, football analytics experts and author of The Numbers Game, also gives an insight into the best way to find undervalued talent.
Name: Jose Canas
Age: 26
Position: Defensive midfield
Move: Real Betis to Swansea for free at end of contract
Spanish football writer Andy West: Swansea have unearthed another Spanish gem with the capture of defensive midfielder Jose Canas on a free transfer from Real Betis.
Although he's a different kind of player from Michu, and consequently won't grab the same kind of headlines as last year's Spanish signing, he could become just as important to Michael Laudrup's team.
The 26-year-old's midfield partnership with Benat, now with Athletic Bilbao, was one of the key factors in Betis' unexpected success last season.
He is a committed performer who keeps his passes simple and uses excellent positional awareness to protect his back four. His physical attributes should ensure he doesn't encounter any problems in adapting to the pace and power of the Premier League either.
And when the South Wales derby takes place, the renewal of Canas' personal battle with equally tough-tackling Cardiff new boy Gary Medel, formerly of Betis' fierce city rivals Sevilla, will certainly be worth watching.
Name: Emanuele Giaccherini
Age: 28
Position: Striker
Move: Juventus to Sunderland for £6.5m
Italian football writer James Horncastle: Some have got a little carried away by Sunderland's signing of Emanuele Giaccherini.
His status as an Italy international, the performances he put in at the Confederations Cup and the part he has played as a member of Juventus' back-to-back Scudetto-winning squads, have given the impression he's a star.
He isn't.
How then do you explain the lamentations of Juventus coach Antonio Conte and many of the club's fans following his move to Wearside more? One newspaper claimed it hadn't been this upset even when Zinedine Zidane left for Real Madrid.
Well, it's because Giaccherini is a trier, a player who's overcome his small size - see his first Sunderland goal, an uncharacteristic header - to leave a big mark on his peers with his versatility and willingness to do a job no matter how laborious.
He never complains and always gives 100%, which is all a coach and fans can ask for, really.
Name: Yaya Sanogo
Age: 20
Position: Striker
Move:
French football writer Matthew Spiro: Capturing Yaya Sanogo on a free from Auxerre could prove a masterstroke by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger if the precocious Frenchman avoids injuries.
The tall, powerful attacker first caught Wenger's eye when starring for France Under-19s three years ago.
The Gunners, and a host of other top clubs, sent scouts to see the 17-year-old make his Auxerre debut in May 2010. Sanogo impressed, but suffered a horrific double leg fracture five months later.
That injury, and the knee problems that followed, sidelined him for two years.
Ready to quit and seek employment at the post office, only the steady flow of text messages from Hatem Ben Arfa and Abou Diaby prevented him.
Wenger never forgot Sanogo's raw ability. When the fit-again Frenchman scored four in 17 minutes for Auxerre against Laval earlier this year, he made his move.
Wenger did well to act early. Sanogo top-scored for France as they won the Under-20 World Cup in July.
The big question now is: can he stay fit?
Name: Marco van Ginkel
Age: 20
Position: Midfielder
Move: Vitesse Arnhem to Chelsea for a reported £8m
De Telegraaf football writer Marcel van der Kraan: Marco van Ginkel's personality, technique and attitude towards the game are absolutely phenomenal. And the way he moves on the pitch is reminiscent of a young Dennis Bergkamp.
He doesn't hit the headlines, so he may not strike people as a big young star immediately, but over the next two years he will emerge as a real bargain for Chelsea.
He has already entered the Dutch national team and was a star player in the Under-21 European Championships in Israel this summer.
Vitesse owner Merab Jordania has a very close relationship with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, and Patrick van Aanholt, Gael Kakuta, Piazon and Cristian Cuevas have all gone in the opposite direction to Van Ginkel on loan this season.
Ajax, PSV and all the other big clubs in the Netherlands offered him all sorts of great contracts, but he said that if he left it would be for Chelsea.
And the Blues have maybe got him for a price that other clubs may not have done.
Name: Ricky van Wolfswinkel
Age: 24
Position: Striker
Move:
European football writer Andy Brassell: There are two factors that make the money Norwich paid for Ricky van Wolfswinkel a bargain.
There's the fact that all Premier League clubs have ended up paying a hefty premium for players after the well-publicised new TV rights deal.
Secondly, the Canaries did their business early, sealing a deal back in March and paying straight away - so buying him for under market value as Sporting Lisbon were desperate to get cash in immediately.
Having arrived from Utrecht in 2011, Van Wolfswinkel progressed well in Portugal and scored 45 goals in all competitions over two years in an oft-struggling team.
Today's Van Wolfswinkel is strong, takes no nonsense from defenders and is powerful in the air, as well as a versatile finisher. His arrival is a triumph for Norwich's forward planning.
Name: Jores Okore
Age: 21
Position: Central defender
Move:
Editor-in-chief of Danish football magazine Tipsbladet, Troels Bager Thogersen: The name Jores Okore isn't a household one in England like Didier Drogba or the Toure brothers, but the Danish stopper with Ivorian roots could be the next big thing in the Premier League.
It took him just 16 months to go from an unknown teenager at Nordsjaelland to being his team's best performer in the Champions League and a full Denmark international.
He has the strength, pace and mental toughness to be a star.
Some continental clubs, including Champions League finalists Borussia Dortmund, chose not to pursue a deal for Okore because of his perceived lack of height at 6ft.
But with a great leap and impeccable timing, Okore should be able to subdue the biggest aerial threats in the Premier League.
Aston Villa arguably underpaid for Okore because of the height and they should be very happy they were the ones to secure Okore's signature.
Name: Kolo Toure
Age: 32
Position: Central defender
Move:
BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty: The wisdom of Liverpool's free transfer acquisition of the experienced Kolo Toure from Manchester City has already been underscored by manager Brendan Rodgers.
Looking for a player with experience, pedigree, a track record of success and leadership qualities to fill the void left by Jamie Carragher's retirement, Toure covered all those bases and came in as a bargain financially.
Toure may have suffered an injury in the Capital One Cup tie against Notts County, but Rodgers and Liverpool's players were starting to extol the virtues of the former Arsenal and City defender after clean sheets in wins against Stoke City and Aston Villa.
Liverpool have strengthened in central defence with the addition of Paris St-Germain's Mamadou Sakho and Sporting Lisbon's Tiago Ilori, but Toure's presence around Anfield will be invaluable and Rodgers already feels he has a figure of authority he can trust when the need arises.
Name: Nathan Redmond
Age: 19
Position: Winger
Move:
Former Fulham, West Ham and QPR striker and BBC Football League Show analyst Leroy Rosenior: I think at around £3m Nathan Redmond is a fantastic bit of business for Norwich.
He has all the attributes to be a really good addition. He is quick, direct, confident and has an eye for goal.
He has got loads of ability but plenty of potential to develop as well. And he looks like a lad with his feet on the ground as well.
You look at the money that players are going for at the moment and £3m is absolutely nothing.
There may have been a few raised eyebrows at the price but you look at Tom Ince, the same kind of player doing well in the Championship, and Blackpool are apparently asking £8m.
Prof Chris Anderson: A huge inefficiency in the market is that as you move further up the pitch, players become more expensive, but that does not mean that they will contribute more to a club's fortunes.
Defence and defensive players are misunderstood and undervalued.
It is hard to overpay for a terrific goalkeeper or players with strong defensive capabilities and, even if you are looking at attacking players, the ability to switch quickly and effectively to defensive play is also an important consideration.
During his years as Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson  He also signed Rio Ferdinand as the most expensive defender ever. Those buys indicated that he understood the value of top-quality defensive players to his team.
Prof Chris Anderson: It is a myth that British players carry a premium. We have analysed the prices of British players and what we found is that they are significantly cheaper than the rest.
You may not overpay for an English player on average, but it is true that we overpay for British players at the very top end.
The very best ones, those who play for England, tend to command more of a price than they should compared to other players who are playing on their level. But the average British player is cheaper than the average non-British player.
Prof Chris Anderson: Great talent can be found anywhere because teams are not looking to recruit a whole league, but just one or two players.
Generally speaking though, Croatia is an area to which a lot of people are paying attention as their recent membership of the European Union means getting a work permit is easier.
Any place where players are not being paid a lot is a great place to look. You will find a significant increase in the number of Spanish players in the league over the last few years.
That is because tax laws in Spain have changed to make it more expensive to be a player and clubs are having such terrible financial problems.
Italy is not a place where Premier League clubs have recruited heavily in recent years and I think that is an overlooked market.
It also has had economic problems and I would argue that it provides as good, if not better, value than France which has received much more attention.
Prof Chris Anderson: Technologies are coming online that generate more information than ever about players, but that does not necessarily mean more insight.
What clubs are struggling with is to make sense of that mountain of data, so the old school scouts are still important.
Often it comes down to the issues of finance, who got there first and who can work out which of the players' representatives calls the shots.


Labour MP Jim Murphy has suspended his Scotland-wide tour ahead of the independence referendum, citing "co-ordinated abuse" from "Yes" voters.

Mr Murphy, who was hit by eggs on Thursday, claimed the Yes Scotland campaign was organising "mobs" to intimidate him and undecided voters.
The campaign for independence condemned "all forms" of abusive behaviour.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister David Cameron also spoke out against the egg attack.
Mr Murphy, the shadow international development secretary, has been on his 100 Towns in 100 Days tour, on behalf of the Better Together campaign to keep the Union.
After being egged while speaking in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the Scottish MP said he was suspending the tour for 72 hours to take police advice on the safety of continuing.
In the meantime, he also called on "Yes" campaigners to "call off their attack mobs".
Mr Murphy said his claims had been backed up by footage released by Better Together, which the campaign described as a compilation of several 100 Towns in 100 Days events, including dates in Ayr, Motherwell and Glasgow.
In the footage, the MP is seen being loudly jeered by members of the public, some of whom accuse him of being a "traitor", "parasite", "terrorist" and "quisling".
Mr Murphy told the BBC the first 70 dates of his tour had been "good fun" and "passionate", but recently had taken a "sinister turn for the worse".
"In the past 10 days or so, the Yes Scotland campaign has organised mobs to turn up at every meeting that I'm taking part in to try and silence undecided voters and to try and intimidate me," said the Scottish MP, who pointed to evidence on social media sites to support his claims.
"This isn't about people throwing eggs, this is about a mob mentality trying to silence a quiet patriotic majority.
"It won't work. It turns off undecided voters and it embarrasses the vast majority of good, decent 'Yes' campaigners."
The egg incident was witnessed by Allan Crow, editor of the Fife Free Press newspaper, who tweeted that "Yes" supporters had chanted over Mr Murphy as he attempted to speak.
The prime minister, who has been campaigning in Scotland, said people who threw things at politicians had no place in the democratic process.
"I think the responsibility for the people doing these things lies with the people doing these things," said Mr Cameron, who was visiting a Royal Navy supplier in Midlothian.
"I've always thought that it isn't right to throw eggs at people - I had one myself in Cornwall once, it's an interesting experience - and I'm sure other party leaders would take the same view."
The prime minister added: "It's a vigorous debate with lots of argument, there's nothing wrong with a bit of heckling but throwing things isn't necessarily part of the democratic process."
Mr Salmond said people had "every entitlement to peaceful protest", but added: "People shouldn't throw eggs at somebody full stop, that's something that happens in elections.
"I remember John Prescott getting a bit energised about it in a UK election. It shouldn't happen - I don't think it's at the serious end of things - but it shouldn't happen."
The Scottish first minister also recalled a "road rage" incident, in which he said he was tailed by another motorist waving a "No" sign at him, as a "very bad example" of what could happen in political campaigns.
Mr Salmond also said no responsible politician should seek to take advantage of such protests, as he insisted the overwhelming majority of Scots were "enjoying the most invigorating, scintillating, exciting debate in our political history".
He added: "I don't make the death threats from a few daft people I've had an issue, because I know know 99.9% of people in Scotland are enjoying and being energised by a wonderful political debate."
A spokesperson for Yes Scotland said: 'We condemn all forms of abusive, dangerous and offensive behaviour, whether it be Jim Murphy having eggs thrown at him, or Alex Salmond being harassed by a road rage motorist.
"For the most part, the independence debate has been conducted in a responsible, peaceful and enthusiastic manner with only a very small minority on both sides behaving badly.
"The eyes of the world are on Scotland and it is vital that everybody - regardless of which side of the debate they are on - helps to show off Scotland at its best."
The Courier newspaper reported on Wednesday that Mr Murphy had been verbally abused while campaigning on the streets of Dundee and Montrose.
Also on Wednesday, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown had a speech in Dundee interrupted by a pro-independence protestor.


A written statement from Lord Lucan's sister suggesting another man was at his house around the time of the murder of the family nanny has been uncovered.

Lady Sarah Gibbs told police at the time the Lucans' young daughters talked about a "boyfriend" at the home, BBC Inside Out has learned.
The 7th Earl of Lucan vanished after the death of Sandra Rivett in 1974 and an inquest found that he murdered her.
His brother Hugh Bingham has called for the evidence to be looked at afresh.
In the statement from November 1974, Lady Sarah said her four-year-old niece Lady Camilla Bingham told of a mystery man who sometimes slept in "nanny's room and nanny sleeps with us" and sometimes slept in "mummy's - she's got a gigantic bed".
Lady Sarah, who died in 2001, said in the statement: "We were talking about home, that is 46 Lower Belgrave Street and Camilla said the boyfriend always stays upstairs while we have lunch until we ring the buzzer.
"I said to her 'What's his name?'. She said 'I don't know, he hasn't told me his name'.
"I said 'Where does he live?'. She said 'He lives in the house with us'."
When asked whether the man was the boyfriend of Lady Lucan or the nanny, Lady Sarah  said: "I wouldn't know, I'm assuming she meant the nanny because Frances [10-year-old Lady Frances Bingham] referred to the boyfriend when I told her that the nanny was dead."
Lord Lucan claimed later in a letter that on the night of the murder he witnessed a man fighting with his estranged wife Lady Lucan in the basement of the family home but the man fled.
Speaking from his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mr Bingham told BBC Inside Out South East he was annoyed the witness statement was not presented at the 1975 inquest into Mrs Rivett's death.
The jury found that Lord Lucan had murdered the nanny.
Mr Bingham added: "It is certainly the first time that I've heard of a second man established in the house.
"I'm encouraged by the idea that there is a fresh source of evidence and that I feel wants to be given a fair hearing and this seems to me to be one way of achieving that.
"Let us hope that now with the way in which the evidence seems to be gathering, there is a chance that maybe the inquest result could be set aside.
"If that happened then the warrant of arrest would fall away and my brother's situation would be restored to the normal situation of a man innocent until proven guilty."
Neil Berriman, who discovered in 2004 that Mrs Rivett was his birth mother, has backed calls for the claims in the witness statement to be investigated.
Mr Berriman, from Haslemere in Surrey, said: "As far as I'm concerned, he [Lord Lucan] murdered my mother - and if he never murdered my mother and if there is another murderer I need to get to the bottom of it."
Retired Det Sgt Graham Forsyth, who witnessed Lady Sarah's statement, told Inside Out he believed Mrs Rivett may have had a boyfriend who stayed over at the house.
He did not think the man was traced because the police believed Lord Lucan was the murderer "as was subsequently found at the inquest".
Lord Lucan's estranged wife Lady Lucan has not commented on the witness statement.
The new evidence came to light after BBC Inside Out South East was handed three boxes of notebooks, diaries, tapes and address books found by the daughter of the late Det Ch Insp David Gerring, a key detective in the Lucan case.
The documents also reveal that police believed Lucan may have visited a Scottish estate in the late 1970s and could have been in Mozambique up to 2002.
Lord Lucan, born Richard John Bingham in 1934, has not been seen since the day after Sandra Rivett was found murdered.
His car was later found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex.
The peer was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999.
Since his disappearance at the age of 39 there have been more than 70 reported sightings of him in countries across the world including South Africa, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One South East, South and London on Monday, 10 December at 19:30 GMT. It is also available nationwide on the BBC iPlayer for seven days thereafter.


Facebook has rejected Pakistan's demand to link new accounts on its main service to users' mobile phone numbers.

Officials had requested the feature to tackle fake accounts, which they say had been used to spread hate material.
They noted WhatsApp - which is owned by Facebook - already had the requirement.
The social network met with the local authorities last week - a month after a man was sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly posting blasphemous material on Facebook.
The public prosecutor involved said he believed it was the first time the death penalty had been awarded in a case related to social media.
Earlier in the year, the Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar threatened to permanently block any social media platform that refused to co-operate with his anti-blasphemy crackdown.
The minister recently met with Facebook's public policy chief Joel Kaplan to discuss the matter.
The country briefly blocked Twitter in 2012 after some users reportedly encouraged others to draw images of the Prophet Muhammad, which is forbidden under Islam.
For now, Facebook will continue to authenticate new accounts via an email address rather than a mobile number.
However, a government spokesman said the firm had promised to "look into the government's concerns on a priority basis", after the most recent discussions.
For its part, the US company put a different spin on proceedings.
"Facebook met with Pakistan officials to express the company's deep commitment to protecting the rights of the people who use its service, and to enabling people to express themselves freely and safely," said a spokeswoman.
"It was an important and constructive meeting in which we raised our concerns over the recent court cases and made it clear we apply a strict legal process to any government request for data or content restrictions."


Scotland's largest life sciences company is to invest £8.7m in its newest technology.

LifeScan Scotland makes products for the treatment of diabetes and currently employs 1,100 people in Inverness.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is supporting the company with an investment of £1.85m, which will support more than 600 jobs.
The products include meters and software so people can self-monitor their blood glucose levels.
Confirming the HIE contribution to the plans, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said: "LifeScan is a global leader in diabetes research and a great example of an innovative company that is benefiting from what Scotland has to offer as an attractive location for global life sciences companies.
"The continued investment in Scotland by LifeScan and the contribution from HIE is testament to our thriving life sciences industry and its position as a key growth sector for the Scottish economy and proof of the skill and value of the Scottish workforce."
There are more than 70 life sciences organisations operating in the Highlands and Islands, with the sector worth an estimated £131.1m.
LifeScan Scotland is part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies.


Celtic's Ronny Deila has won the Scottish Premiership manager of the month award for January.

The league leaders won all four of their matches in the division last month, scoring 16 goals in the process.
They also progressed to the fifth round of the Scottish Cup by beating Stranraer, but lost in the semi-finals of the League Cup against Ross County.
Deila's side, who hold a six-point lead, take on nearest challengers Aberdeen on Wednesday evening.
"Thirty days [of January] were very good," said Deila, referring to Sunday's loss against County.
"We're disappointed of course after the weekend but the team has improved lately and we have had a lot of good performances.
"In the league we have played some great games and scored a lot of goals."
Deila has bolstered his squad this month, with the arrivals of Erik Sviatchenko, Patrick Roberts and Colin Kazim-Richards, declaring himself "very happy with the window".
"Erik showed on Sunday that he's going to be a good signing for us," he said.
"Patrick comes from Manchester City with great skills. He's a talented boy and we have him for a good length of time.
"Kazim-Richards is an experienced player and he can be a leader in the group. At Feyenoord he had a lot of young players around him and we think he will suit the style of play here."


The next president of the Royal Society will be the Nobel-winning Cambridge researcher Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan.

Prof Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering the precise structure of ribosomes - the molecular machines that manufacture proteins inside all living cells.
He will succeed geneticist Sir Paul Nurse in December 2015.
The society's council met on Wednesday to confirm the appointment.
Prof Nurse took on the role in 2010 and will step down after the customary five-year term.
After hearing of the confirmation, Prof Ramakrishnan told BBC News he was "very honoured" to be the society's president elect.
The position is one of the most important in British science. The Royal Society has existed since 1660 and its president is a key advocate for science in the UK and the world.
"I feel very touched that the Royal Society has chosen me for this job," Prof Ramakrishnan said, "especially because I only came to Britain 16 years ago from the US."
The eminent, American-British structural biologist was born in India and works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He is one of 14 Nobel winners from that laboratory.
He has previously said that upon winning the Nobel Prize in 2009, he had insisted it must be a hoax call. The new appointment comes as less of a surprise, since it is follows a vote by the society's fellowship - now confirmed by its council.
Other fellows have greeted the news warmly - though it is widely acknowledged that Prof Nurse has set a strong example for advocacy and will, of course, be a hard act to follow.
The research for which Prof Ramakrishnan shared that the Nobel was commenced in the US, where he has spent much of his working life. He moved to Cambridge in 1999.
His predecessor, Prof Nurse, was also a Nobel laureate, as has been the case with many previous society presidents.
More unusual is for two successive presidents to come from the biological sciences; the role has been held by scientists across nearly every discipline - including chemistry, physics, astronomy, mathematics and zoology.
The presidency has never been held by a woman.
Royal Society fellow Sir Colin Blakemore, a neuroscientist and former head of the Medical Research Council, told the BBC it was "an excellent appointment" in many ways.
"Firstly, appointing the first Indian-born president of the Royal Society sends a strong message about the importance of the contribution of immigrants to British science," said Prof Blakemore, from the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
"Secondly, Venki is distinguished not only for his superlative science, but also for his forthright and intelligent opinions on science policy. So this suggests that under his leadership, the Royal Society will continue its good work advising and influencing the government on science policy."
The new president elect expressed similar sentiments.
"I think in some ways the Royal Society, ever since its inception, has reflected the best traditions of openness in Britain," Prof Ramakrishnan told the BBC. "I think of Britain as a particularly open and tolerant society."
He gave the example of the society's welcoming stance towards European scientists in its early years - notably the Dutch "father of microbiology" Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
"All of his important work was published by the Royal Society, and that changed our view of microorganisms," Prof Ramakrishnan said.
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A dog missing for four days has been rescued close to death having swum to two different islands.

Black Labrador Ella fled after being hit by a car on Mersea Island on Thursday.
Ella, who had earlier escaped from Kate and Tyson Burns-Green's West Mersea garden, was spotted swimming to Ray Island and Packing Shed Island before eventually being rescued on Sunday.
The Blackwater Veterinary Surgery said she was 95% dehydrated.
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During her rescue by boatmen from Mersea, she plunged into the water again and and attempted to swim towards Tollesbury.
Hundreds watched and applauded as nine-year-old Ella was brought ashore and reunited with her owners.
Mrs Burns-Green told how, after the dog went missing, appeals for information were put out on social media.
She said: "Although she loves swimming, she usually asks before going into the water.
"It all culminated on Sunday evening when a family spotted a black Labrador on Ray Island and they rang my husband.
"Their dog pushed her out of some bushes and Ella ran off into the water and swam to Packing Shed Island.
"She ran to the end of Packing Shed Island and jumped into the water where two boats cornered her, grabbed hold of her and brought her back to shore.
"All this while the sun was going down.
"I was totally overwhelmed by the amount of love and support out there."


President Barack Obama has vowed the US will not be intimidated, after Islamic State militants released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

He said the US will build a coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
Another US journalist, James Foley, was similarly killed last month.
Separately, the UK held a meeting of its emergency Cobra committee after threats to kill a British hostage who was also shown in the latest video.
Islamic State has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, declaring a new caliphate, or Islamic state, under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The US has launched more than 120 air strikes in the past month to try to help Kurdish forces curb the IS advance.
After the latest video emerged, Mr Obama ordered the deployment of another 350 troops to Baghdad to protect US diplomatic facilities.
His announcement came as campaign group Human Rights Watch said it had uncovered new sites of Islamic State mass killings in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
The militants are believed to have murdered more than 500 Iraqi soldiers after taking over a large Iraqi army base in June.
US National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said that US intelligence agents had "analysed the recently released video showing US citizen Steven Sotloff and has reached the judgment that it is authentic".
Speaking in Estonia, Mr Obama said the beheading was a "horrific act of violence and we cannot begin to imagine the agony everyone who loves Steven is feeling right now. Our country grieves with them".
He added: "Whatever these murderers think they will achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed.
"They have failed because, like people round the world, Americans are repulsed by their barbarism. We will not be intimidated. Their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve.
"Those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget, that our reach is long and that justice will be served."
Mr Obama said the US strategy was to "try to ensure Isil is not an ongoing threat to the region". Islamic State is also often referred to as Isil or Isis.
Vice President Joe Biden added his voice to the calls for justice, by saying the US would pursue the killers "to the gates of hell".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs the two American beheadings were "utterly abhorrent and barbaric", adding: "We will not waver in our aim of defeating terrorism."
Analysis: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
This second video from Islamic State is significant, even though it was largely expected and dreaded. It shows that the recent US air strikes which have halted the lightning advance of IS across northern Iraq are causing the organisation real damage, upsetting its plans to extend by force its rule into Kurdistan.
Unable to hit back militarily against America's jets, IS has responded with a form of information warfare that it knows will horrify most people in the West.
Secondly, by threatening to murder a British hostage, IS shows it makes little or no distinction between the US and Britain as its enemy. This is despite Britain so far restricting itself to dropping aid to refugees and flying in supplies to the Kurdish military, leaving air strikes to the Americans.
A spokesman for the Sotloff family had earlier indicated they believed the video was genuine, issuing a statement that said: "The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time."
US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said it was believed that "a few" other Americans were still being held by Islamic State.
Mr Sotloff, 31, who also held Israeli citizenship, was abducted in northern Syria in August 2013.
He had appeared in a video last month which showed James Foley being killed.
The latest video, entitled "A second message to America", is about two-and-a-half minutes long and was apparently recorded in a desert.
Next to a masked figure, Mr Sotloff reads out a text addressed to President Obama saying: "You've spent billions of US taxpayers' dollars and we have lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?"
The militant spoke with a British accent similar to that of the man who appeared to carry out the beheading of James Foley.
Mr Hammond told the BBC it seemed to be the same person.
US media reaction
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas L Friedman warns that the US strategy on Islamic State must avoid the "fire, ready, aim" approach that followed the 9/11 attacks. He says: "There are no words to describe the vileness of the video beheadings of two American journalists by Isis, but I have no doubt that they're meant to get us to overreact, a la 9/11, and rush off again without a strategy. Isis is awful, but it is not a threat to America's homeland."
The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post carry tributes from Mr Sotloff's friends and colleagues. His former Time editor Ishaan Tharoor praises the "breadth and commitment of his work" across many Middle East countries.
Writing in the Boston Globe, Farah Stockman says: "We couldn't save Sotloff. But we can ensure that his death... was not in vain. He risked his life knowingly, so the rest of us could understand a terrible war better - so that the rest of us could read more, think more, and understand more about Syria. We owe it to him to do just that."
The man says: "I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State... despite our serious warnings."
He also threatens to kill the British hostage shown in the footage. The family of the British hostage have asked the media not to release his name.


Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez snatched the lead from Jorge Lorenzo on the final lap to win a thrilling Australian Grand Prix.

Honda's 22-year-old Spaniard, who started on pole, overtook his compatriot on the last turn to win his fifth race of 2015 by 0.249 seconds.
Lorenzo is now 11 points behind Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi in the overall standings with two races to go.
Rossi was narrowly beaten to third by Ducati's fellow Italian Andrea Iannone.
Seven-time world champion Rossi, 36, was racing in a record-equalling 328th grand prix. He was aiming for his 16th podium on his 19th trip to Australia but was ultimately unable to match Iannone's greater speed.
Marquez's win - his 24th in 52 race starts - was his first in a premier-class race at Phillip Island after he crashed out while leading last year and was disqualified in 2013.
It came at the end of an exhilarating battle between the top four riders, who were separated by just 1.058 seconds.
"During the race I felt well but at the beginning there were many overtakes between me, Valentino, Andrea and Jorge who opened some gaps," said Marquez, who had been fastest in all four practice and qualifying sessions and produced a track record of one minute, 29.280 seconds on the final lap.
"I didn't expect to overtake Jorge but I'm really happy with this victory because we've pushed really hard."
Cal Crutchlow finished seventh on his Honda, with fellow Britons Bradley Smith and Scott Redding 10th and 11th respectively.
Danny Kent is aiming to become he first British rider to win a grand prix championship in any class since Barry Sheene in 1977.
The 21-year-old could have sealed this in Australia, but spectacularly crashed during Sunday's race, allowing Portugal's Miguel Oliveira to win and narrow the gap between himself and Kent in the overall standings to 40 points.
Kent, who needed to finish in the top two to claim the world championship at Phillip Island, had a heavy fall on a bend on the 14th lap of the 23-lap race.
"I'm a little bit disappointed about the outcome. I felt really strong on the bike during every session and also in the race," said Kent.
"I felt very confident we could have left the island as champions. We need to keep working hard in the last two races, starting fully focused next week in Malaysia."
Kent can win the title in Malaysia with a top-five finish. Oliviera must get at least a podium place to take the fight onto the final race in Spain.
Spaniard Alex Rins won the second race of his debut Moto2 season for Paginas Amarillas HP40 ahead of Speed Up Racing's Sam Lowes and Forward Racing's Lorenzo Baldassarri.
Rins is second in the world standings behind France's Johann Zarco, who has already claimed this season's title.


India's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi.

Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh were given the death penalty by a court in 2013.
Rejecting their appeal, Justice R Banumathi said the men committed "a barbaric crime" that had "shaken society's conscience".
The brutal gang rape led to nationwide outrage and new anti-rape laws.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was attacked on a bus that she had boarded with her male friend as they returned home from watching a film in December 2012. Her friend was also beaten up.
Jyoti Singh - whose name was publicly revealed by her mother only in 2015 - died from injuries in a hospital 13 days later.
Media reports said relatives of Ms Singh applauded as the judgement was read out in court.
"This is a historic message to all the people, the criminal mindset who wrong women, who inflict violence on women, to know that if you do something like this you will be also paying for it by the severest punishment that exists in our laws of the land," Ranjana Kumari, a women's rights activist, told news channel NDTV.
Legal experts say it could still be months or even years before the sentences are carried out.
The four men still have the right to file a review petition in the Supreme Court. Their last hope lies with a plea for clemency to the president.
Six men were arrested over the attack on Ms Singh. One suspect, Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in March 2013, having apparently taken his own life.
Another, who was aged 17 at the time, was released in 2015 after serving three years in a reform facility - the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India.
Convicting the four men in 2013, Judge Yogesh Khanna said the case fell into the "rarest of rare category" which justifies capital punishment in India.
16 December 2012: A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is gang-raped by six men on a bus in Delhi, her male friend is beaten up and the pair are thrown out after the brutal assault
17 December: Key accused Ram Singh, the bus driver, is arrested. Over the next few days, his brother Mukesh Singh, gym instructor Vinay Sharma, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, a helper on the bus Akshay Thakur, and the 17-year-old juvenile, who cannot be named, are arrested.
29 December: The victim dies in hospital in Singapore from injuries sustained during the assault; body flown back to Delhi
11 March 2013: Ram Singh dies in Tihar jail; police say he hanged himself, but defence lawyers and his family allege he was murdered
31 August: The juvenile is found guilty and sentenced to three years in a reform facility
13 September: The four adult defendants are convicted and given the death penalty by the trial court
13 March 2014: The Delhi high court confirms the death sentence
March - June: The convicts appeal in the Supreme Court and the death sentences are put on hold until the court takes a decision


A prolific paedophile has been jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 16 years for 45 sex offences against young boys in England and Thailand.

Retired English teacher Mark Frost, 70, had admitted abusing nine children in Thailand between 2009 and 2012.
He had pleaded guilty to all of the charges, including six relating to abuse of two pupils at a Worcestershire school during the 1980s and 1990s.
Judge Mark Lucraft called the abuse "horrific and deeply disturbing".
Previously known as Andrew Tracey, Frost was brought to justice following an international investigation involving the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), and authorities in Thailand, Spain and the Netherlands.
The charges included multiple rapes, sex assaults, inciting children to engage in sexual activity and making indecent pictures.
Judge Lucraft handed Frost 13 life sentences, to run concurrently, during the hearing at the Old Bailey.
He said Frost was responsible for "the most appalling catalogue of sexual abuse" and it was clear he had an "ongoing obsession" with young boys.
"Your conduct towards each and every one of these victims is horrific and deeply disturbing," the judge said.
Frost raped impoverished Asian boys and encouraged them to engage in sex acts after he groomed them with money, sweets, computer games and swims in his pool.
He skipped bail to avoid prosecution in Thailand but was extradited from Spain last year after his activities were uncovered by Dutch police on the computer of a man in the Netherlands.
Frost had got the boys, aged between 10 and 14, to give thumbs-up signs and make heart gestures with their hands while being filmed on a webcam engaging in sexual acts.
The court also previously heard details of Frost's abuse of two pupils at a school in Worcestershire during the late 1980s and 1990s.
He had sex with the boys in a school storeroom, during breaks, at his home where he lived with his adopted son, and also at a car park in Woking, Surrey, the Old Bailey heard.


US bank JP Morgan Chase has reported better-than-expected quarterly profits, helped by growth in loans and a clampdown on operating expenses.

Net profits fell less than forecast to $6.2bn (Â£4.6bn) in the three months to the end of June, compared with $6.29bn last year.
In the previous quarter, the bank's profits had fallen by 6.7%.
"JP Morgan Chase continued to perform well in all of our major businesses," said chief executive Jamie Dimon.
"We saw strong underlying performance, with record consumer deposits (up 10%), credit card sales volume (up 8%), merchant processing volume (up 13%) and broad core loan growth (up 16%) - particularly in mortgage and commercial real estate.
"Outside of energy, both wholesale and consumer credit quality remained very good," he added in a statement.
Profits were dented by the bank's provisions for loan losses, which rose to $1.4bn in the second quarter from $959m in the same period a year earlier. The bank was building up its reserves for potential bad corporate loans in the oil and gas sector, and bad credit card and car loans.
"JP Morgan continues to execute really well in a tough environment," said Evercore ISI analyst Glenn Schorr.
JP Morgan is the first of the big US banks to report results for the second quarter, and the first since last month's vote by the UK to leave the EU.
"Throughout the recent uncertainty and turbulence in the markets, we continued to be there for our clients - solid and steadfast to meet their needs, execute their transactions and provide liquidity," said Mr Dimon.


Jamie Donaldson was pleased with his opening-round score at the WGC-Cadillac Championship but acknowledged there was room for improvement.

Welshman Donaldson carded a two-under opening round of 70 at the Trump National Golf Club in Miami.
The 40-year-old is four shots behind joint-leaders Scott Piercy of the USA and Australia's Marcus Fraser.
"I'm happy with the score but I didn't really play that good," Donaldson said.
"I don't really know where I'm going to hit it, which is interesting so I'm just literally pegging it up and smashing it.
"I've hit left and right all over the place so I'm happy with two under.
"The last couple of weeks in the last two tournaments over here I've hit in places that I didn't even know were there on golf courses.
"It's good because it gives your short game good practice and if your short game is good then generally you're going to get up and down more times than you're not."


A suicide bomber has killed at least 27 people at a Shia Muslim mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Many more were wounded in the blast at an annual Shia ceremony at the Baqir ul Olum mosque in the west of the city.
The attacker arrived on foot and blew himself up among worshippers inside.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said that it was behind the blast. It is the latest of several recent attacks on Afghanistan's Shia community claimed by the Sunni Muslim militant group.
Monday's bombing took place at 12:30 local time (08:00 GMT) during a service to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson and a Shia martyr.
Sunnis and Shia: Islam's ancient schism
Eyewitnesses said the service was almost over when the bomb was detonated.
Police gave the figure of 27 dead, but the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said 32 were killed and more than 50 injured. Some reports suggest a higher number of wounded.
IS said the attack was carried out by an IS "fighter" but gave no other details on its self-styled Amaq news agency.
"I was inside the mosque and the Mullah was reading the prayer," Ewaz Ali, 50, who suffered minor injuries, told the Associated Press news agency.
"Suddenly a huge explosion happened, then everywhere was dark."
Another worshipper, Nadir Ali, told AFP news agency the blast had created a cloud of dust: "When the dust settled down, I saw the mosque was full of flesh and blood. I was injured in my waist and had to crawl out of the mosque."
Local reports suggested children were among the dead.
There has not been a proper census for more than 40 years, but it is estimated that around 20% of the Afghan population are Shia Muslims - the rest are Sunni. Most Shia Muslims come from the Tajik and Hazara ethnic minorities.
They have been spared levels of sectarian violence seen in Pakistan and Iraq, but they have been targeted at least three times in recent months:
All three attacks were claimed by IS.
Groups affiliated to IS, present in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar along the Pakistan border, seem intent on fomenting sectarian violence, says the BBC's Harun Najafizada in Kabul.
What is really worrying is that fragile national unity now seems to be targeted, with possibly devastating results if such attacks continue, our correspondent adds.
Taliban militants were quick to distance themselves from Monday's attack.
"We condemn this blast," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the BBC. "This act cannot be our work and has nothing to do with us."
President Ashraf Ghani called the attack an attempt "to sow seeds of discord".
Afghan government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah urged the country not to fall victim to "enemy plots that divide us by titles".
"This attack targeted innocent civilians - including children - in a holy place," he said via Twitter. "It is a war crime and an act against Islam & humanity."


Slovakia will entertain Scotland on Tuesday with both sides smarting from Saturday disappointments, according to left-back Andrew Robertson.

He does not think the hosts' hopes of reaching the World Cup finals would end with a third straight defeat against visitors who drew with Lithuania.
"I don't think anyone can be eliminated at this stage," said Robertson.
"We've got them next and they will be wanting to put that right, but we'll also want to put things right too."
While the Scots were drawing 1-1 at Hampden, Slovakia were losing 1-0 in Slovenia on the back of an opening defeat at home to England.
However, Robertson thinks it is too early to say whether either result will be significant as they vie with Gareth Southgate's group leaders for the automatic qualification spot.
"We won't know if it was a bad result or a good result or just a decent result until the end of the group," said Hull City full-back Robertson.
"You've seen Slovenia beating Slovakia, so we are still sitting on four points in second place and the second seeds have taken no points from two,"
Gordon Strachan's side rescued a point when James McArthur's late equaliser cancelled out Fedor Cernych's excellent second-half strike.
Robertson thought the Scots were unfortunate not to take all three points after a Grant Hanley header was cleared off the line in the dying seconds.
"We probably went a little more direct than we should have," he suggested. "We should have kept the ball moving because we were creating chances that way.
"But, luckily, James has popped up and got the header and then we've moved on and we've probably nearly nicked it at the end with big Grant's chance.
"I don't think they surprised us. The manager warned us all week that they are no mugs - they are a very good team.
"I thought they did play well. They had a shape behind the ball and it was difficult to break down and, when they went forward, they looked dangerous.
"They have hit us on the counter attack and it is an uphill battle from then, but luckily we got the goal in the end."
Robertson said his emotions were a mixture of frustration and relief.
"If you are at home and you draw then you are frustrated, but we can take a lot of heart from it because the boys stuck at the job in hand and we managed to get the goal when everything was against us," he added.
"The effort and endeavour was there, but we've missed a few chances when, on another night, we could have won comfortably."


Troubled shipping giant Hanjin plans to seek court protection to prevent its ships from being seized by creditors.

South Korea's financial regulator said the company wanted to file for bankruptcy protection in more than 40 countries to protect its fleet.
Under bankruptcy protection a firm can reorganise its debts and block assets from being seized.
According to Hanjin, 68 out of its fleet of 141 ships have been stranded since the firm's collapse last week.
Several ships have already been seized in ports.
Hanjin cargo fleet stranded at sea
Hanjin last week filed for receivership in South Korea after attempts to raise fresh funding for the indebted firm failed.
On Friday, the firm had filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, a spokeswoman said on Monday, which would help protect its ships from being seized in US ports where many of the ships from Asia are heading.
The world's seventh-largest container line has been unprofitable for four of the last five years.
The global economic downturn in recent years years severely affected profits across the cargo shipping industry.
Fierce competition and falling prices have lead to a $5.4bn (Â£4.1bn) debt for Hanjin before its creditors refused to offer a new lifeline.
Hanjin shares plunged 30% when they resumed trading on Monday, but then recovered.