Taxpayers could face being "ripped off" by private consultants hired to help with Brexit talks, the chairwoman of a spending watchdog has warned.

The government is short of expert staff to negotiate Britain's exit from the EU - and is already seeking help from the private sector.
But Public Accounts Committee chairman Meg Hillier says consultants have to be carefully monitored and controlled.
And she is concerned the civil service is not up to the job.
"They have got to be really savvy about how they let and manage these contracts," she told BBC News.
"After all, Brexit is supposed to save us money."
The head of the civil service, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, said he had "no doubt at all" that the service was "well equipped to deliver all of this government's priorities - including the UK's exit from the EU".
Ms Hillier's committee has just published a report into how one consulting company "took advantage" of "poor decision making" in a government department to increase its profits, two years before Britain voted to leave the EU.
PA Consulting was brought in by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) - the forerunner of Liam Fox's International Trade Department - to provide specialist advice in a three-year contract to boost trade.
But the deal was terminated in 2016, after two years, over concerns about "hidden overcharges" and poor communication with officials.
"It (PA) sold UKTI a service it is not clear it needed and failed to give the fair breakdown of its costs and profit that UKTI asked for," the committee said.
"Instead, it used the negotiations to pass on costs to UKTI that it had said in its bid that it would bear, and to increase its profit from the contract while telling UKTI that its profit had not increased."
UKTI paid £18.8m for the first 11 months' work by PA Consulting - but it believed it lost £5m on "hidden overcharges" in the contract and was only able to recover £3m in the final settlement.
"UKTI and PA must share the blame for the dismal failings in the procurement and operation of this contract," said Labour MP and committee chairman Ms Hillier.
She told BBC News many of the failings had been seen before in the management of government contracts but this was a particularly bad example.
Ms Hillier has urged the government to commission spending watchdog the National Audit Office to carry out a forensic audit of UKTI and PA accounts to "get to the bottom of what happened".
PA Consulting, which is reported to be bidding for Brexit consultancy work, said it welcomed a forensic audit, which it was confident would find the company "charged in accordance with the agreed contract".
"PA won this work in open competition, in response to a government procurement  process, responding to a requirement set entirely by UKTI," the company said in a statement.
"UKTI acknowledges that PA over-delivered against the target outcomes, including creating or safeguarding 29,010 jobs.
"We have accepted our share of the responsibility for misunderstandings between us and our client.
"We have conducted a review, and assured government that there are no other misunderstandings on existing contracts.
"We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that such misunderstandings will not happen again.
"PA has worked successfully for government for over 70 years, always seeking to act ethically, transparently, and in the best interests of our clients and UK citizens."
The Department for International Trade said the problems highlighted by the committee would not be repeated.
A spokesman said: "UKTI delivered a critical role in supporting UK businesses to grow and export their goods and services abroad - attracting inward investment to benefit the UK economy.
"This contract was an isolated incident and we took swift action to resolves issues as soon as they were uncovered."
The department's director general Catherine Raines has blamed the problems with the PA contract on commercial "naivety" among UKTI staff who have since left the organisation.
PA Consulting is reported to be one of five consulting companies, including KPMG, EY, Deloitte and PwC, bidding for a £1.5m contract to help civil servants pull together Brexit plans from across government departments and advise on policy issues.
It is the first of what is expected to be a string of commercial contracts as the government gears up for talks on a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.


Andrew Balbirnie has replaced injured Kevin O'Brien in the Ireland squad for next week's Intercontinental Cup game against Afghanistan.

All-rounder O'Brien suffered a hamstring injury in the recent one-day series against Afghanistan and will return to Ireland for treatment.
Balbirnie played in the one-day series and his 85 not out helped Ireland win the third match.
Ireland levelled the series before Afghanistan won Friday's decisive game.
The Irish top the Intercontinental Cup table having won all four of their matches in the competition to date.
Afghanistan are in second place on 61 points - 19 behind the Irish - heading into the four-day game which starts on Tuesday.


Sales at Asda have fallen, hit by what the retailer called "a shockwave" in the supermarket sector.

Asda, which is owned by US grocery giant Wal-Mart, said sales at stores open more than a year were 1.6% lower in the third quarter, compared with the previous three months.
In the second quarter, sales rose 0.6%.
Asda's chief executive, Andy Clarke, said that despite the fall in sales, he was pleased Asda was gaining market share at a difficult time.
"A year ago we took clear action to address the changes in our market and implement a five year strategy to redefine value retailing. That is a long term strategy that won't be delivered overnight."
He said the company's focus on offering value for money and promoting internet shopping was working but that conditions in the market were very difficult.
"The last quarter has seen a shockwave go through our industry and others are starting to respond to the challenges they face. I expect that we will see another tough quarter and I'm under no illusions that the battle continues to rage."
Asda vies with Sainsbury's to be the UK's second largest supermarket after market leader Tesco.
In a briefing with journalists, Mr Clarke and his team dismissed what they described as "gimmicks" used by rivals to boost short term sales.
Asda's chief merchandising officer, Barry Williams, said he had never seen as many money-off vouchers in 25 years, likening several of Morrisons' promotions to quantitative easing.
"These are desperate measures," he said.
"You can win a quarter with a voucher... We're not immune from the turbulence, but we judge our performance over a much longer period of three to five years."
Yesterday Sainsbury's announced Â£150m worth of price cuts as part of its new strategy to win shoppers.
" It feels like a drop in the ocean. Our price gap is already double-digit with Sainsbury's," said Mr Clarke.
He also said Asda was continuing to close the gap with the discounters through its Everyday Low Prices strategy.
"We are pulling away from the other three. There are very clear winners and losers in our market. We can see we're a very clear winner," he said.


The first female chief of business lobby group the CBI has criticised business dinners as "not very inclusive" for women.

Carolyn Fairbairn said she had rarely stayed to the end of such corporate functions because she was bringing up her three children.
Along with sporting events, the black-tie dinners are seen as places to do business, she said.
But she has "never been a fan", and added that "a lot of women aren't".
"They'd rather go home to their families in the evening," Mrs Fairbairn said. "Maybe the business dinner is a vestige of old business life."
An alternative, she said, might be to host an "early evening discussion panel, hold a proper debate, and then people can go home by 7.30pm".
In one of her first interviews since taking over earlier this month, Mrs Fairbairn said it would be "terrific" if her appointment inspired women to look at business careers.
"There has been good progress on reaching the 25% target of women on boards, but there is a long way to go, especially among senior management," she added.
The new CBI director general also expressed confidence that Europe would not tear the employers' group apart.
Campaigners have criticised the CBI for being too pro-EU, but Mrs Fairbairn said most of its members "want to stay in a reformed European Union".
She was also optimistic about the UK economy, as long as issues such as productivity, skills and infrastructure were tackled.


Delaying fatherhood may offer survival advantages, say US scientists who have found children with older fathers and grandfathers appear to be "genetically programmed" to live longer.

The genetic make-up of sperm changes as a man ages and develops DNA code that favours a longer life - a trait he then passes to his children.
The team found the link after analysing the DNA of 1,779 young adults.
Their work appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Experts have known for some time that lifespan is linked to the length of structures known as telomeres that sit at the end of the chromosomes that house our genetic code, DNA. Generally, a shorter telomere length means a shorter life expectancy.
Like the plastic tips on shoelaces, telomeres protect chromosomal ends from damage. But in most cells, they shorten with age until the cells are no longer able to replicate.
However, scientists have discovered that in sperm, telomeres lengthen with age.
And since men pass on their DNA to their children via sperm, these long telomeres can be inherited by the next generation.
Dr Dan Eisenberg and colleagues from the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University studied telomere inheritance in a group of young people living in the Philippines.
Telomeres, measured in blood samples, were longer in individuals whose fathers were older when they were born.
The telomere lengthening seen with each year that the men delayed fatherhood was equal to the yearly shortening of telomere length that occurs in middle-aged adults.
Telomere lengthening was even greater if the child's paternal grandfather had also been older when he became a father.
Although delaying fatherhood increases the risk of miscarriage, the researchers believe there may be long-term health benefits.
Inheriting longer telomeres will be particularly beneficial for tissues and biological functions that involve rapid cell growth and turnover - such as the immune system, gut and skin - the scientists believe.
And it could have significant implications for general population health.
"As paternal ancestors delay reproduction, longer telomere length will be passed to offspring, which could allow lifespan to be extended as populations survive to reproduce at older ages."
Prof Thomas von Zglinicki, an expert in cellular ageing at Newcastle University, said more research was needed.
"Very few of the studies that linked telomere length to health in late life have studied the impact, if any, of paternal age. It is still completely unclear whether telomere length at conception (or birth) or rate of telomere loss with age is more important for age-related morbidity and mortality risk in humans.
"The authors did not examine health status in the first generation offspring."
It might be possible that the advantage of receiving long telomeres from an old father is more than offset by the disadvantage of higher levels of general DNA damage and mutations in sperm, he said.


Eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater will be out for up to six months after breaking his foot in the J-Bay Open in South Africa.

The 45-year-old American was taken from the water at Jeffreys Bay and rushed to hospital after he was struck by his board prior to his second-round heat.
Slater said the incident was "like smashing my foot with a big hammer".
Writing on Instagram, he said he is likely to need between four and six months to recover.
In an earlier post, which included an X-ray of his foot, he wrote: "You ever folded your entire foot backwards? If you try it sometime, this is what it might look like.
"Sorta feels like I'm giving birth out of my foot right now.
"It sucks but so many people deal with such horrible things around this world every day that a broken foot is pretty minor in the scheme of things. Sometimes a bad thing is a good thing."
Meanwhile, Australia's Mick Fanning and Brazilian Gabriel Medina were pulled from the water in Jeffreys Bay after a shark was spotted swimming into the competition zone.
Fanning, 36, escaped a shark attack while competing in the same event two years ago.
Surfing is one of five new sports confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.


Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for his second novel The Garden of Evening Mists.

He travelled from his home in South Africa to be at the ceremony in Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
He received his prize from the Duke of Buccleuch at a special event during the Borders Book Festival.
The Garden of Evening Mists is the first novel by an overseas writer to have won the four-year-old prize.
A new rule was introduced last year making books by authors from the Commonwealth eligible for entry.
The novel prevailed over a strong shortlist including Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, which has already carried off some of the UK's most prestigious literary awards, and novels by English writers Rose Tremain, Pat Barker, and Anthony Quinn, and by Australian author Thomas Keneally.
Earlier this year Tan Twan Eng won the Man Asian Literary Prize with the same book.
The Scott Prize judges commented: "All the authors on this year's shortlist have written wonderful books, illuminating times and breathing life into personalities in a way that is enlightening and which brings lasting pleasure to the reader.
"However, The Garden of Evening Mists is the book that left the deepest imprint on us.
"The poignancy of both remembering and forgetting is what this book is all about."
They said one of the strengths of the Walter Scott Prize was its "broad reach".
"Set in the jungle-clad highlands of Malaya, this year's winner leads us into the troubled aftermath of World War Two," they added.
"It is pungent and atmospheric; a rich, enigmatic, layered novel in which landscapes part and merge, and part again."
The award ceremony in Melrose was presented by James Naughtie.
Earlier in the day, the authors had the opportunity to tour Scott's home, Abbotsford House, which reopens to the public on 4 July following extensive refurbishment.


Formula 1 teams are to be given the chance to buy shares in the sport for the first time following a takeover by US giant Liberty Media.

The first stage of a buyout was completed on Wednesday, with Liberty taking 18.7% in a deal that values F1 at $8bn (£6.25bn).
The full takeover, which will see Liberty with a controlling 35.3% stake, is due to be completed by early 2017.
Liberty said teams "will be given the opportunity to participate in the investment", adding that some had expressed interest.
The leading Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull and McLaren teams are considered the most likely to take up the opportunity.
Bernie Ecclestone, the current boss of F1, is to remain on board as chief executive.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, a close ally of Ecclestone, said the takeover "feels like a positive move and the ongoing involvement of Bernie Ecclestone as CEO is key to that".
He added: "Bernie's been central to every development of Formula 1 for the past 40-odd years. He will be intrinsic to the new owners establishing themselves and being able to lead the sport successfully in the future."
A McLaren spokesman said: "It is obviously a significant development, which has only just occurred, but from what we already understand we are confident that it will be a positive step for Formula 1."
Ecclestone, 85, will work alongside the new chairman, US media magnate Chase Carey, who is a long-time lieutenant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Carey said the aim of the takeover was to expand the sport and extend its reach.
"The opportunity is to grow and develop this sport for the benefit of the fans, teams, partners and our shareholders by increasing promotion and marketing of Formula 1 as a sport and brand," he said.
"Enhancing the distribution of content, especially in digital - currently a very small percentage of revenue."
Liberty identified a number of areas for growth:
Ecclestone's stewardship of F1 under CVC in recent years has marked a decline in the number of races in Europe, the sport's traditional heartland.
This is because countries in western democracies find it harder to justify the huge race fees demanded by Ecclestone, compared with countries with authoritarian regimes such as Bahrain, Russia, Azerbaijan, who are all reputed to pay at least $40m annually for their races.
Carey said new markets were "opportunities" and he wanted to "expand the sport in places like the Americas and Asia".
But he added races in Europe were "the home and foundation" of F1 and "of critical importance".
He said: "Building the sport in Europe, building on that foundation, has got to be second to none. We do want to take advantage of the global footprint of this sport, we want to focus on it."
Carey also hinted Liberty would invest in expanding the popularity of F1 in the US, where the sport has found it difficult to find a consistent base.
There is one race in the US, in Austin, Texas, which has hosted it since 2012, before which there was a five-year absence following the collapse of the previous race in Indianapolis in Indiana.
Carey said: "In the longer term, markets like the US and key Asian markets are opportunities to develop. We're not going to do that overnight.
"But there are huge audiences there. If we reach those fans using digital platforms and some of the tools that haven't been exploited aggressively, we can build a whole new generation of fans in places that, historically, have been as significant a part of the Formula 1 fanbase."


One of the main roads through Coventry will be renamed in honour of football legend Jimmy Hill.

The A444, currently known as Phoenix Way, is expected to be officially renamed Jimmy Hill Way at a special ceremony later this year.
Hill, who died in December aged 87, is seen by many as Coventry City Football Club's most successful manager.
Coventry City Council's decision comes after a campaign from the Coventry Telegraph newspaper.
Council leader George Duggins said: "We're really pleased that we are able to honour the man that revolutionised football, both for this city and throughout the sport.
"He transformed Coventry City Football Club into a major league team and introduced a range of revolutionary changes."
The A444 runs past the club's former Highfield Road home and past the Ricoh Arena, where the team currently ground shares with Wasps Rugby Club. There is a statue of Hill outside the Ricoh Arena.
Bridges that go over the road are being restored and the lower sections painted light blue as a further tribute.
Councillor Jayne Innes added:  "It will be a prominent, and fitting tribute to the man that did so much for the game and our city."
Hill led Coventry City to two promotions before leaving to work with ITV in 1967. He returned to Coventry as managing director in 1975, later becoming chairman, while still working as a presenter and pundit on the BBC's Match of the Day.
A memorial service for him was held at the city's cathedral in February.


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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is recovering from prostate surgery, state media say.

The operation, which took place on Monday at a government hospital in the capital, Tehran, was said to be "routine".
An announcement about the surgery ahead of the procedure was unprecedented, as the Ayatollah's health is traditionally a confidential subject.
The 75-year-old cleric has led Iran since 1989 and is its top authority.
Earlier on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei was seen on Iranian state television asking people to pray for him, but said there was "no room for concern".
Ayatollah Khamenei's health has always been a secret topic in Iran, like other aspects of his personal life, says BBC Persian's Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.
In January 2007 a rumour of the Ayatollah's death spread in Iran and the world, simply because he did not announce he had a bad case of flu and could not attend public ceremonies, our reporter says.
The Ayatollah's appearance on TV before the surgery and announcement of the news by himself is a clear change of approach. Either he knows that the critical situation in Iran and the region cannot bear another rumour of his death, or he has decided to be more open about his personal life, our reporter adds.
In 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei succeeded the first Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, following Khomeini's death.
As the country's highest authority, Ayatollah Khamenei's power outranks all politicians, including the country's President Hassan Rouhani.


Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a massive victory in Myanmar's landmark elections last month, has met President Thein Sein to discuss the handover.

She also met army chief Min Aung Hlaing in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.
Both men have pledged to assist in a smooth transfer of power putting an end to decades of military-backed rule.
However, Ms Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from becoming president and the army retains a quarter of seats in the upper and lower houses of parliament.
The constitution of Myanmar (also known as Burma) bars anyone whose children are foreign nationals from becoming president - Ms Suu Kyi's sons have British passports.  However, she has repeatedly said that she will be above the person she nominates for the role.
The meetings each took about 45 minutes.
A spokesman for Thein Sein said his discussion with Ms Suu Kyi focused on how to achieve a peaceful transition of power.
Ye Htut told the BBC's Jonah Fisher that she did not broach the subject of changing the constitution to allow her to become president, nor was there any discussion around who the next president might be.
Her National League for Democracy (NLD) won about 80% of the seats up for election in the 8 November poll.
Despite hundreds of thousands of people, such as the stateless Muslim Rohingya minority, being denied voting rights, the elections were the most democratic in Myanmar in 25 years.
Ms Suu Kyi called on the president, parliament Speaker and army chief to meet her for talks after the elections - but full details of the talks are not expected to be released for some time.
The current parliamentary session ends in January. After that the new NLD-dominated parliament session, where they will choose a new Speaker before selecting two vice-presidents and a president, will begin.
The NLD secured the necessary two-thirds of the seats to control both houses of parliament, enabling it to choose the next president. But the army's quota of a quarter of the seats in both the upper and lower houses allows it to veto constitutional change.
It also controls key security ministries.
The army ruled Myanmar from 1962 until 2011, when a military-backed civilian government came into power led by Thein Sein and ushered in a series of reforms.


Two sisters have been awarded £300,000 by the National Lottery despite their winning scratchcard being ripped in half while they celebrated.

Lucy Dixon, 46, of Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands, said it had been folded in her pocket and was torn when she jumped in the air with 38-year-old Annie.
The National Lottery said "a range of security checks" had to take place, but it was glad to be able to pay the sum.
Annie said they had been "lucky but unlucky" and "the wait was worth it".
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Her sister, a mother-of-five, said after "checking and checking and checking" the Lucky Lines Yellow Scratchcard on 8 April, she rushed around to Annie's house for her to check it.
Lucy added: "She looked, we gazed at each other and then when we had realised we had won we started screaming and then jumping up in the air."
She said that night she slept with the ripped card bought from a Tesco Express in Castle Bromwich under her pillow and "spent most of the night waking up to check.... the scratchcard was still there safely hidden".
Lottery operator Camelot said it had "a number of security procedures" to ensure "we are comfortable that both parts are from the same ticket, that it is a valid winning ticket and that the player is the rightful ticket-holder".
It said it was rare to receive a ticket in two pieces and it sees "torn or folded tickets, or ones which have been written on, more often".
A Camelot spokesperson said: "It is essential that we ensure we are paying the rightful ticket-holder, and in situations like this, it can take a little time for these investigations to take place."
Lucy said she wanted to treat her family "to a holiday, maybe Spain" and added: "I don't know about the rest."
Mother-of-two Annie said she would go on holiday and have "an extra special celebration" for their parents who celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
She also said she had bought an Alfa Romeo that "just looks lovely".


The government has not yet finished paying the legal costs of its Supreme Court challenge over Brexit.

In January, the Supreme Court upheld the High Court ruling that Parliament had to be consulted before Article 50 could be triggered.
Labour MP Gloria de Piero tabled a written question asking when the cost of the appeal would be published.
Brexit Minister Robin Walker replied: "The department has not been billed for all costs related to the case."
He continued: "Details of the total costs associated with the case, including the costs of the Supreme Court appeal, will be published in due course after they have been settled."
The government has rejected Freedom of Information requests for the cost to be revealed, saying it will be made public at a future date.
Investment manager Gina Miller and other campaigners won a case in the High Court last year against the government's assertion Article 50, the mechanism which kickstarts the process of leaving the EU, could be activated by royal prerogative.
Ministers appealed the decision in the Supreme Court and lost again.
They swiftly introduced the European Union (Notice of Withdrawal) Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.
If the bill is passed as expected next week, it will have taken longer to pay the legal bills for the appeal than to get MPs' and peers' approval to start the Brexit process.


The Scottish FA have confirmed venues for the Scottish Cup fourth-round ties between Bonnyrigg Rose and Hibernian and between Albion Rovers and Celtic.

Bonnyrigg v Hibs on Saturday 21 January (15:00) will take place at Hearts' Tynecastle Stadium in Edinburgh.
And Celtic's away tie against Albion Rovers on 22 January (15:00) will be played at Airdrie's Excelsior Stadium.
Raith Rovers v Hearts also takes place on 22 January (13:05) and will be shown live on BBC One Scotland.
Rangers v Motherwell on 21 January kicks off at 12:30, with the 13 other ties that day at 15:00.
BBC Radio Scotland will provide updates from the fourth-round ties and there will be highlights on Sportscene on 21 and 22 January.
Junior side Bonnyrigg usually play at New Dundas Park while League One Albion Rovers' regular home ground is Cliftonhill. Moving the ties involving those clubs will allow for bigger capacity.


Portsmouth goalkeeper Paul Jones has been ruled out of the remainder of the club's League Two campaign.

Jones, 29, suffered a thigh muscle tear in Pompey's 1-0 win at AFC Wimbledon on Tuesday and was replaced by substitute Brian Murphy in the first half.
Murphy is expected to start against Hartlepool on Saturday.
"Paul will unfortunately join our injury list, which seems to be growing and growing," Portsmouth manager Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent.
Portsmouth have secured a place in the League Two play-offs and still have a mathematical chance of automatic promotion if they can win their remaining two games.


A woman has been seriously injured in a crash involving a coach carrying school children.

The collision, involving the coach and a Ford Focus car, happened on the A272 between Petersfield and Rogate shortly before 08:00 GMT.
The 13 children on board and the driver of the coach are believed to be unhurt.
The woman, 24, who had been driving the car, suffered serious leg and head injuries and has been airlifted to Southampton General Hospital.
Hampshire Constabulary said the children were checked over by paramedics.
The crash happened near the border of Hampshire and West Sussex, near Durford Abbey Farm, between Rogate and Petersfield.
The road was closed between the B2070 London Road in Sheet and the Habin Hill junction in Rogate for about two-and-a-half hours.
It reopened westbound shortly after 10:30 but remained shut eastbound until after 14:00.
Emergency crews from both counties were called to help.
West Sussex Fire & Rescue said its crews used hydraulic rescue equipment to release the woman from the car.
Police are appealing for witnesses.


Despite financial inducements and efforts by financial regulators to get more people to switch bank accounts, fewer people are doing so.

In the last 12 months, 1.05m people moved their current accounts, according to Bacs, which operates the service.
That represents a drop of 4.7% on the previous 12 month period.
"With 65 million current account holders in the UK, movement is minimal," said Hannah Maundrell, editor of money.co.uk.
"Even with big cash incentives on the table, people just aren't switching."
Marks and Spencer offers up to £220 worth of incentives, with the Co-Op offering £150 to new account holders, and the Halifax £125.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has spent more than 18 months looking at ways of getting more people to switch accounts.
It has said that consumers could save £116 a year by doing so.
However, the Bacs figures show that the number of people switching in the past six months was 4% up on the same period last year.
Of those who did switch, the Halifax proved to be the most popular new bank, attracting 31,000 customers.
Barclays was the biggest loser, with a net loss of 27,000.
Previously Santander was one of the most popular banks to switch to, as it offers a cashback scheme of up to 3%. However in January it raised the fee for its 123 account to £5 a month.
"Details of the intended price hike first came to light on 14th September 2015, and it appears to have had a dramatic impact on the net number of new accounts opened," said Andrew Hagger of Moneycomms.co.uk.


A woman who was threatened with a needle during a hijacking has managed to stop a man from taking her car, with help from members of the public.

Police said a man forced out of her vehicle at a car park on Bankmore Street in Belfast city centre at about 18:25 BST on Monday.
The suspect got into the woman's car but was preventing from driving off when other people came to her aid.
Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of hijacking.
He is also being questioned on suspicion of criminal damage and possessing an article with blade or point in a public place.
A PSNI spokesman said the woman was not injured but was "left shaken by her ordeal".


A boy who punched a man and left him lying unconscious in the road before he was then killed by a careless driver has been detained for five years.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked Bradley Moore outside a McDonald's restaurant in Ashton-under-Lyne on 27 July 2016.
Seconds later, the 43-year-old was struck by Jonathan Carter's car.
Carter, 44, was given a nine-month jail sentence - suspended for two years - at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.
The teenager, found guilty of Mr Moore's manslaughter at trial in January, was sentenced to youth detention.
Found guilty of causing death by careless driving, Carter was also disqualified from driving for two years.
After the trial, senior prosecutor David Hartley said it was "unusual" for two people who did not know each other to both be convicted, but each had "independently contributed" to Mr Moore's death.
He said Mr Moore had been attacked by the boy and three of his friends outside the restaurant, who had thrown "numerous punches and kicks" before the 16-year-old "struck him with one punch which caused him to fall into the road".
They then fled, leaving the 43-year-old "lying prone" on the street and "moments later, Carter - who was having a text argument with his partner - got in his car, and drove away", he added.
Duncan Thorpe, the senior investigating officer, said Carter was "driving the wrong way up a one way street" when he ran over Mr Moore and had told police that he had "felt a bump" but thought he had "clipped the kerb or a tree".
He said Mr Moore died from multiple injuries, including over 30 chest fractures, a tear to his liver, a broken jaw and internal bleeding.
The 16-year-old also pleaded guilty to affray along with three other boys.
They were sentenced to referral orders at an earlier hearing at Tameside Youth Court.


Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie has confirmed that he will not be leaving to take a role with Cricket Australia.

The 41-year-old Australian has led Yorkshire to back-to-back County Championship titles and had been linked with a position in his home country.
The former Test bowler revealed he had met with Australia coach Darren Lehmann but had not been offered a job.
"I informed him I wouldn't be applying for a role so we can end the speculation," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
"I was not offered a job and I have made it very clear that I would not be applying for any role with Cricket Australia."
He added: "Darren had mentioned on radio in Australia that he'd be keen to get me back into the system over there.
"I was always going to catch up with Darren when he was over here because he's one of my best mates but I got stuck into him a bit because he didn't need to mention my name on the radio."
Gillespie, who has lost just four of his 69 County Championship matches as Yorkshire coach, also has a role with Big Bash side Adelaide Strikers.
But he said his family commitments would make taking a job with a national side a difficult proposition.
"It's well known I have a young family and the consideration is do I want to be away from home for 250-plus nights a year? At this point in my life I am not prepared to be away from my family for that kind of time," he said.
"I'm a young coach and I have a lot to learn."


The Irish justice minister Frances Fitzgerald has asked for a report into an allegation police in the Republic of Ireland covered up the murder of a civilian by a member of the force.

Independent TD Clare Daly told the Dáil two weeks ago a garda witnessed a colleague shooting a member of the public.
She claimed he was told by senior officers to say he was not present.
Ms Fitzgerald said anyone with information should produce evidence.
She said the matter would then be investigated
RTÉ reports that Garda Commissioner Noírín O'Sullivan said she was not aware of the details of any such case but that anyone with information could report it to her or to the Garda Ombudsman.
Ms Fitzgerald said An Garda Síochána was the appropriate body to investigate the claim.
Ms O'Sullivan said she was aware of the allegation but not the specifics and said there was no police investigation under way.
She said police would need more details before concluding that this was an allegation of murder.
Ms Fitzgerald said all information in relation to the statements made in the Dáil were now being examined and would be followed up.
She said she had asked for a full report on the matter.


Budget airline Flybe is to launch a new daily service between Edinburgh and Liverpool on Sunday.

It will include mid-morning flights on weekdays, early morning flights on a Saturday and a Sunday afternoon service.
Edinburgh Airport described the new service as "great news" for business and leisure passengers.
It added that the airline and airport "shared a commitment to improving UK connectivity".


Qualifier Sam Baird said a mid-match chat with a fan in the crowd helped relax him in his shock 10-7 first-round win over world number 15 Michael White in the World Championship.

Baird led 5-4 overnight only for a tentative start to the second session see him trail 7-6.
But a seemingly nerveless four-frame burst, which included a break of 103, took the Devon man through.
"I don't mind chatting. It kind of lightened the mood," said Baird, 27.
"It was stressful out there. He was a nice guy.
"He asked me what the table was like because he heard on commentary they weren't very good."
World number 59 Baird was thrilled to have shown his talents on snooker's biggest stage, having been brushed aside 10-2 by Stuart Bingham in his only previous Crucible appearance in 2013.
"I didn't think it was too high quality all the way through," Baird added. "We were both under a lot of pressure.
"I am thrilled with how I finished it, but I don't really know where that came from. I am over the moon. I don't know what happened to me.
"I really wanted to give a good account of myself. Winning never crossed my mind. It has all been a bit of blur, but I just wanted to play well and near how I can play."
Baird took advantage of an outrageous fluked red to win the 15th frame and go 8-7 ahead and he closed out the win with breaks of 103 and 62.
His victory, which has guaranteed him £22,000, could see him face Mark Selby in the second round. Selby leads Robert Milkins 7-2.
"It's my biggest pay day by miles and has put me up the rankings a fair bit," he said. "But the money hasn't sunk in yet.
"Playing Mark would be an incredibly tough game. He is the world number one and would be a be a big favourite against me over a long match."
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Newcastle Falcons will sign back-rower Ryan Burrows from Championship side Yorkshire Carnegie at the end of the current season on undisclosed terms.

The 28-year-old, who joined Carnegie from Rotherham in 2011, has scored 28 tries in 138 games at Headingley.
He is the fifth confirmed signing by Falcons for 2017-18, following the Matavesi brothers, Maxime Mermoz and DTH van der Merwe.
"Dean Richards really sold the vision and the ambition," Burrows said.
"They are playing a style of rugby which really appeals to me, and overall it's just an attractive prospect."
Director of rugby Richards said: "Ryan is an experienced performer who has played to a consistently high standard in the Championship over a number of years now, and really deserves this chance to step up."


Iran has detained 10 US sailors after their vessels were stopped in the Gulf, US officials said.

"We lost contact with two small US naval craft en route from Kuwait to Bahrain," the official said.
He said that the Iranians informed the US that the sailors were safe and "will promptly be allowed to continue their journey".
The sailors are likely to be released on Wednesday morning, US officials said.
The incident happened near Farsi Island after one of the ships encountered mechanical problems.
Iran's semi-official news agency FARS reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard detained the nine men and one woman, and that they had been "trespassing" and "snooping" in Iranian waters.
After the incident, US Secretary of State John Kerry immediately called Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to begin negotiations.
An unnamed official told the Associated Press that Mr Kerry "personally engaged with Zarif on this issue to try to get to this outcome".
Mr Kerry and Mr Zarif developed a personal relationship throughout three years of negotiating a nuclear deal.
The conservative Tasnim news agency reported that the American boats were equipped with machine guns.
"Frequent calls by US official urging Tehran to free the detainees continues," reads the Tasnim report.
The Revolutionary Guard has aggressively protected Iranian sea borders in the past.
Fifteen British sailors and marines were held for 13 days in 2007 after they were captured in disputed area between Iran and Iraq.
Tensions between Iran and the US remain despite the breakthrough nuclear deal.
In December, Iran's navy conducted rocket tests near US warships and other commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
The tests were "highly provocative", a US military commander said at the time.


Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has named Carlos Tevez in his 25-man squad for the remainder of the season - and admitted he could pick him again.

Mancini said a fully-fit Tevez could wear the sky blue shirt again, despite previously asserting that the Argentina international was "finished" at City.
Tevez remains at City after interest from AC Milan, Inter Milan and Paris St Germain failed to turn into a transfer.
"If he comes back - and he is fit - it is possible," conceded Mancini.
I hope for him he has been training in the last three months to help his condition
Tevez, 27, remains in Argentina and, as yet, there has been no indication when the striker may return.
"Carlos is not an option at the moment but it is possible in the future if he comes back," added Mancini.
"I hope for him he has been training in the last three months to help his condition.
"There is only one thing on my mind, the Barclays Premier League."
Mancini has confirmed Owen Hargreaves remains available but has struggled to gain any consistent form during his time at City, triggering the deadline-day loan deal that saw David Pizarro move from Roma.
"Owen always has these little problems," said Mancini.
"When he came to us in the summer we took a gamble because he had not played for two years.
"We thought we could try and get him fit in two or three months and then he would be able to play.
"But, like any player who hasn't played for two years, when they start to train, every day there is a problem, with his knee or his hamstring.
"I hope for him he eventually is able to play all the time. He deserves to."
Club captain Vincent Kompany has insisted City have the mental strength to keep their title challenge on course.
City have had a mixed set of results in January, allowing Manchester United to draw level with them on points at the top of the Premier League table.
If people want to underestimate us, then please do so
But Kompany expects his team-mates to thrive on the pressure as they aim for a first top-flight title since 1968.
He said: "If anything it will give us a boost to carry on and if people want to underestimate us, then please do so."
The pressure has increased on City in recent weeks, with their 1-0 league defeat at Everton on Tuesday night coming at the end of a period which included cup defeats by Liverpool and neighbours Manchester United.
The Goodison Park defeat marked Kompany's return to the City team after a four-game suspension following his red card in the 3-2 FA Cup third round loss to United in January.
And he says he expects City to bounce back from the disappointment against Everton with a win against Fulham at Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
"There is no shame in going under at Everton," he said.
"It wasn't enjoyable, but we believe we can go back to our best football and win the games that are left to play."


A cricket match between two fourth XI teams had to be abandoned after players ended up in a fight, it has emerged.

The altercation involved a player from each side and happened at Basildon and Pitsea's ground during its fixture with Stanford-le-Hope on Saturday.
A Grays man in his 60s was taken to hospital and a man in his 40s arrested after what the Shepherd Neame Essex League called "a serious incident".
Essex Police said the arrested man was later released without charge.
Andrew Kennedy, chairman of the Shepherd Neame Essex League, said the two clubs would be carrying out their own investigations.
The man taken to hospital suffered a cut to his head. His injuries, Essex Police said, were not serious.


Serbia's PM Aleksandar Vucic has been chased away by stone-throwing protesters from a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

About 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys died at the hands of Bosnian Serb forces amid the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Serbia backed the Bosnian Serbs and Mr Vucic was praised for attending the event.
The Serbian foreign ministry has now issued a formal protest note to Bosnia.
Speaking in Belgrade after the attack, Mr Vucic urged Serbs not to show hatred towards Bosnian Muslims, adding he wanted friendly ties.
"My hand remains outstretched and I will continue with my policy of reconciliation," he added.
Serbia's interior minister, Nebojsa Stefanovic, said: "This is a scandalous attack and I can say it can be seen as an assassination attempt."
Bosnia's main Muslim SDA party said the attackers had "embarrassed Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims)", in a statement quoted by FENA news agency.
The Bosnian War saw Bosnian Serb forces, backed by Serbia, fighting the Muslim-led Bosnian government.
In July 1995, thousands seeking shelter in what was supposed to be a UN refuge in Srebrenica were shot dead. It was Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
The Bosniak people, most of whom are Muslims, are descended from Bosnian Slavs who adopted Islam under Ottoman Turkish rule in the Middle Ages.
Mr Vucic is a former radical Serb nationalist who served under Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the late 1990s.
He is now a pro-Western politician seeking to steer Serbia into the European Union. His government managed to secure support from its ally Russia on Wednesday to veto a UN resolution calling the events in Srebrenica a genocide.
Upon arriving in Srebrenica, he published an open letter which did not use the word genocide but said: "Serbia clearly and unambiguously condemns this horrible crime and is disgusted with all those who took part in it and will continue to bring them to justice."
A funeral service for more than 100 victims whose remains were recently identified using DNA analysis was also held on Saturday.
Attending the ceremonies, Bill Clinton, the US president at the time, apologised that it had taken so long to end the war, adding: "I never want to see another killing field like this."
The commemoration provided a perfect illustration of just how difficult reconciliation can be - in Bosnia and across the region.
Tens of thousands of people came to pay their respects to the victims of Srebrenica and show their solidarity with the people of this much-diminished town. They heard international dignitaries speak of the horror of what had occurred here and how it must never be repeated.
Then former US President Bill Clinton made a specific point of praising the courage of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic for turning up in the face of hostility from many ethnic-Bosniaks. They are angry that while Serbia has condemned the massacre, it has never used the word genocide to describe what happened.
Sadly, but predictably, Mr Vucic was loudly jeered by many in the crowd. Some even threw objects as he paid his respects in the cemetery. The imam reminded the crowd that it was time to pray. But the anger here remains.
Srebrenica tries to move on from massacre
Mr Clinton praised Mr Vucic for being there.
However, later the Serbian leader was heckled by crowds shouting "Allahu Akbar" as he entered to lay flowers.
As some chanted "responsibility" and "genocide", others proceeded to throw objects - reports suggested stones, water bottles and a shoe were among the items used.
One hit Mr Vucic on the lip and his glasses fell to the ground as the delegation scrambled away and were broken.
Srebrenica Mayor Camil Durakovic said the attack was "the work of sick minds who abused this solemn event".
Munira Subasic, head of the Association of Srebrenica Mothers said she was "terribly disappointed" by the scenes.
Fourteen individuals have been convicted at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague in relation to the Srebrenica killings.
The former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic are both on trial at The Hague in separate processes.
They are both accused of crimes relating to the massacre.
The ICTY - and the International Court of Justice - have called the events genocide.
6-8 July 1995: Bosnian Serb forces start shelling Srebrenica enclave
9 July: Bosnian Serbs step up shelling; thousands of Bosnian Muslim refugees flee to Srebrenica
10 July: Dutch peacekeepers request UN air support after Bosnian Serbs shell Dutch positions. Large crowds of refugees gather around Dutch positions
11 July: More than 20,000 refugees flee to main Dutch base at Potocari. Serbs threaten to kill Dutch hostages and shell refugees after Dutch F-16 fighters bomb Serb positions. Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic enters Srebrenica and delivers ultimatum that Muslims must hand over weapons
12 July: An estimated 23,000 women and children are deported to Muslim territory; men aged 12-77 taken "for interrogation" and held in trucks and warehouses
13 July: First killings of unarmed Muslims take place near village of Kravica. Peacekeepers hand over some 5,000 Muslims sheltering at Dutch base in exchange for the release of 14 Dutch peacekeepers held by Bosnian Serbs
14 July: Reports of massacres start to emerge
Timeline: Siege of Srebrenica


An acid attack victim is offering a £10,000 reward to help catch the culprits still at large more than a year after the assault.

The victim, who wants to remain anonymous, has described how his "face looked like it was melting" when he was targeted outside his business in Luton in May 2016.
He has been left severely scarred since the attack and fearful of his safety.
Despite police appeals, nobody has been been caught and charged.
As first reported in the Independent, the victim was approached by a stranger who had been in a car outside his shop with a man.
The white, bald man with light-coloured eyes asked him if he was opening up as he wanted to buy some jeans.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: "I knew there was clearly something not right and as soon as I replied he had this little bottle of liquid and squeezed it.
"Then there was this very cold sensation like ice on my face and then a burning sensation and I shouted that I had 'been done' with acid."
He then went into a chemist and asked for water.
"About 101 things were going through my mind," he said.
"With the tap on my face there was a feeling of burning, burning, burning and everybody was screaming.
"I looked at my reflection in brushed aluminium and my face looked like it was melting."
The victim told how the attack has changed his life both physically and mentally, leaving him frightened for his own safety.
After the attack he spent about two days trying to remember if he had slighted somebody, he added.
"I don't believe I have caused any problems and I have always addressed problems head on so whether this is a case of mistaken identity or not, I just don't know."
He said the reward would be paid to the person who supplies evidence which leads to a successful prosecution in his case.
Bedfordshire Police said it was unable to comment at the current time.


England stormed to a resounding victory over India inside three days at Old Trafford to take a 2-1 lead in the Test series with one match to play.

The hosts took nine wickets in an extraordinary session after tea to bowl India out for 161 and win the fourth Test by an innings and 54 runs.
For the second match in a row, spinner Moeen Ali was instrumental in the final push, taking 4-39 as England made light of the absence of the injured Stuart Broad, whose nose was broken by a Varun Aaron bouncer at the end of England's first innings.
James Anderson claimed 2-18 and Chris Jordan took the final two wickets in two balls to the delight of a full house at a sun-drenched ground.
The hosts had earlier posted 367 all out, with Joe Root's 77 and Jos Buttler's 70 giving them a lead of 215 runs, with 61 overs left in the day to bowl out India before Sunday's predicted downpours.
In the end they needed only 43, completing an extraordinary turnaround by a team that was heavily beaten in the second Test at Lord's to extend their winless run to 10 Tests.
Even more remarkable is the transformation of Moeen, who took only 10 wickets at an average of 45 in his first four Tests this summer, but now has 12 victims at 14 in his last two.
England will hope to carry their winning momentum into the final Test at The Oval, starting on Friday, where only an India victory can deny them the series.
Chris Woakes, taking the new ball in Broad's absence, got the breakthrough for England with a delivery that nipped back slightly and rapped Murali Vijay's pads in front of leg stump.
But the real havoc was wrought after tea in a breathless period in which five wickets fell for 13 runs in 29 balls.
Gautam Gambhir nicked Anderson down the leg side for 18 and, from the first ball of the next over, Cheteshwar Pujara was given out lbw to Moeen, although TV replays - unavailable to umpires in this series with India refusing to use the Decision Review System - suggested the ball was missing leg stump.
Ajinkya Rahane was superbly caught by Moeen off his own bowling and Anderson continued his hold over Virat Kohli by having the India batsman taken at second slip by Ian Bell.
In the 30 balls he has faced from Anderson in the series, Kohli has scored seven runs and been out four times.
Ravindra Jadeja was out for four in Moeen's next over as he pushed forward and edged to Jordan at slip, Mahendra Dhoni's counter-attacking 27 was ended when he dragged Moeen to Gary Ballance at mid-wicket and Bhuvneshwar Kumar was run out attempting a suicidal second run.
Roaring in from the Brian Statham End with the crowd cheering him on, Jordan then had Varun Aaron caught behind off a short ball and Pankaj Singh bowled off his toes before wheeling away in celebration with his jubilant team-mates in pursuit.
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Pankaj had earlier ended his wait for a maiden Test wicket in his 70th over, but only after England had pushed their lead beyond 150 runs.
As the heavy rain that prevented any play after 14:15 BST on Friday gave way to bright sunshine, Root and Buttler played positively in a partnership of 134.
Buttler mixed good fortune - he was dropped by Kohli in the gully on 34 and badly missed by Dhoni when he should have been run out for 44 - with fine strokeplay to record successive fifties in his first two Test innings.
Root was more cautious as he reached fifty off 103 balls, only to be denied a third Test century of the summer by Pankaj's unlikely intervention.
The Yorkshire batsman could not resist dabbling at a ball down the leg side and walked away cursing himself after the delivery flicked his gloves and was taken by Dhoni.
Having waited 69.2 overs to take his first Test wicket, Pankaj only had to wait two more for his next. Buttler, driving on the up, spooned a slower ball straight to Pujara at mid-off.
The runs continued to flow as Woakes cracked a fluent unbeaten 26 and Broad - the man of the match following his destructive bowling in the first innings - twice cleared the ropes before trying to repeat the shot and top-edging the ball between his helmet and his grille.
He received treatment to his gaping nose wound on the field and was later taken to hospital for X-rays, where the break was confirmed.
But by then, England were well on the way to a comprehensive Test win.


Holders Hibernian thumped Motherwell 11-0 to seal their place in the third round of the Scottish Cup.

And they were joined by their Edinburgh rivals Hearts who also put 11 goals past Tayside.
Last season's beaten finalists Glasgow City saw off Spartans 5-0 while Celtic were 6-0 winners over East Fife.
Rangers squeezed past Aberdeen in extra-time despite having goalkeeper Joanna Viollaz sent off five minutes from the end of the 90 minutes.
Hamilton beat Kilmarnock and Stirling University defeated Edinburgh University Hutchison Vale in the other games involving SWPL 1 sides.
Elsewhere, Granite City won 2-0 on penalties against Edinburgh Caledonia after an exhilarating 4-4 draw between the pair.
Glasgow Girls, Renfrew Ladies, Cumbernauld Colts, Queen's Park, Jeanfield Swifts, Buchan and Blackburn United also won.
SWPL 2 runaway leaders Forfar Farmington completed the last 16 line-up after a 5-2 win away to Raith Rovers.
Mark Nisbet's side arrived in Kirkcaldy buoyed by a 10-game unbeaten run in the league which has them nine points clear of nearest rivals Motherwell and Glasgow Girls.
It was easy to see why Forfar have been so dominant this season. Strong and pacy, they will be a match for any of the top-flight sides in the competition.
The home side, two divisions below Forfar, put up brave resistance until the 18th minute when Julia Scott was allowed a free run down the right hand side and finished beyond stand-in goalkeeper Michaela McLachlan.
Danni McGinely was inches away from adding a second when she failed to connect with Kayleigh Noble's swinging cross to the back post, then Scott's free-kick was brilliantly tipped over by McLachlan.
However, on 35 minutes Kayleigh Brough was given too much space at the edge of the box to pick her spot in the bottom right hand corner with a deftly struck shot.
McLachlan denied McGinley again with a fine save low down, and Gemma Collier was unlucky when the ball bounced off her shin a yard from goal.
The third did arrive before half-time; McGinley finally finding the goal her performance deserved with a close-range finish.
Raith refused to fold though, and they fired an early second-half warning when Leanne Philp raced clear of the defence, but could not find the power to trouble goalkeeper Fiona McNicoll.
Five minutes later though and they pulled one back; a long ball finding Kerri Dinnel who saw the goalkeeper off her line and cracked a laser over her head and into the net.
Within two minutes though Forfar restored their two-goal lead when Brough added her second from long range.
And in 58 minutes Scott cut inside from the right onto her left foot and found the far corner to make it five.
The result was not in doubt, but that did not stop both teams going for it.
Raith's Tiegan Clark's forced a fine save from Dinnel's lay-off, and at the other end Sophie Young hit the bar.
And then the home side found a second goal when Scott was penalised for a handball in the box, and despite the goalkeeper guessing correctly Clark stroked home the penalty.
Brough had a shot blocked on the line by Raith's Alicia Paterson, and McLachlan tipped over Ellie Cook's shot, but Forfar had done enough to reach the third round.
Forfar Farmington head coach Mark Nisbet: "I'm obviously happy to score the five goals. We probably should have got another couple there.
"The more annoying thing for me is conceding goals and I thought they were a bit soft. At times defensively we were not as good as we've been in previous games.
"It doesn't bother me who we get in the next round. Whether it's a lower division team or it's someone from premier league one, I'm quite happy. It would probably be quite a good thing for us at this time just to see where we are against one of the top teams, so a draw against one of them would be fine."
Raith Rovers head coach John Fettes: "I couldn't be prouder of the players today. They were outstanding, each and every one of them. They are all a credit to themselves, their parents and to the club.
"Special mention to centre backs Alicia (Paterson) and Sophie (Aitken) who I thought had an outstanding game, but every single player was awesome today."
Bayside 0-3 Queen's Park
Blackburn United 1 v 2 Boroughmuir Thistle
Buchan 6-0 Inverness City
Cumbernauld Colts 3-1 Falkirk
Deveronvale 1-7 Renfrew
East Fife 0-6 Celtic
Edinburgh Caledonian 4-4 Granite City (Granite City won 2-0 on penalties)
Edinburgh University Hutchison Vale 0-4 Stirling University
Glasgow Girls 8-0 Bishopton
Hearts 11-0 Tayside
Jeanfield Swifts 3-0 Westerlands
Kilmarnock 1-4 Hamilton Academical
Motherwell 0-11 Hibernian
Raith Rovers 2-5 Forfar Farmington
Rangers 2-1 Aberdeen (after extra-time)
Spartans 0-5 Glasgow City


Wales forward James King says Ospreys are desperate to play in next season's European Champions Cup.

The Swansea-based region have to beat Ulster in their final Pro12 game of the season on Saturday and hope Munster get fewer than two points against Scarlets.
Ospreys have played in the top flight of Europe every season since 2003.
"There are financial implications, but standards come into it as well. We all want to be playing at the highest level of rugby," said King.
"We've got a massive game this weekend, we've given ourselves a lot of work to do, but there still is a mathematical chance that we can do it."
Seventh-placed Ospreys have picked up maximum points from their last three Pro12 matches and are aiming to do the same again against fourth-placed Ulster.
They need to overtake Munster - who are sixth and four points ahead of them - to get into the Champions Cup.
Beating Ulster could do a favour for Ospreys' local rivals Scarlets who are trying to displace the Irish province in the last play-off place.
The Scarlets in turn could help Ospreys by beating Munster at Thomond Park.
King was named man-of-the-match in Ospreys 40-27 win over Cardiff Blues, but is frustrated that the team have left themselves with so much to do.
"We've got 15 points from our last three games it's just a shame that we've left it so late in the season to start playing a bit of rugby and scoring those tries that we've needed," he said.
"There have been a couple of results in the season when we should have won, realistically, and if we'd picked up a couple of points here on there we wouldn't be having to get 20 points in our last four games.
"Ulster have something to play for so they are going to come out all guns blazing so it's going to be a massive test this weekend."


Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori has conceded to rival Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in run-off elections.

Ms Fujimori promised in her concession speech on Friday that she would lead a "watchful" opposition.
She said her rival had won the run-off race through the support of "promoters of hate" and that official election results were "confusing."
Ms Fujimori, 40, is the daughter of incarcerated ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
With all ballots counted for the run-off vote, Mr Kuczynski won 50.1% to Ms Fujimori's 49.9%.
Ms Fujimori was initially widely tipped to win, but lost ground in the final stretch of campaigning.
"In a democratic spirit, we accept these results," she said on Friday.
As she spoke, the defeated candidate was surrounded by members of her Popular Force party, who will have a majority in congress from late July.
Mr Kuczynski warned repeatedly throughout the campaign that the corruption and criminality many associated with Alberto Fujimori's authoritarian tenure in office could reappear if his daughter was elected.
Analysts said that corruption scandals in the Popular Force Party may have dented Ms Fujimori's support since April.
Mr Kuczynski on Thursday urged Peruvians to unite for the future of the country.
He is an ex-Wall Street financier who has promised to use his international financial experience to promote economic growth.
The president-elect has the support of prominent figures such as Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and left-wing candidate Veronika Mendoza, who came third in the first round of voting.
But he has faced scrutiny over his close relationship to Peru's business elite.


Britain's four-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny will miss this month's National Track Championships after injuring a hamstring.

Kenny, 24, will also miss the Six Day Berlin event, which begins this week, but hopes to be fit for April's World Championships in Hong Kong.
A British Cycling statement said: "Laura is undergoing treatment and hopes to return to full fitness soon."
Kenny has won seven world gold medals, including two in London last year.
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They make you laugh, drive you mad... and will be your friend for life - brothers and sisters are among the most important people to us.

17 February 2016 Last updated at 06:45 GMT
Newsround meets children from all over the world and hears some incredible stories of sibling relationships.
Fabio becomes a big brother for the first time, four identical sisters show us what life is like for them, and Syrian refugee Milad is desperate to see his brother again. Will he get his wish?
Take a look at more of Newsround's special siblings stuff!


The US space agency's (Nasa) Messenger spacecraft is starting to open up a whole new vista on the planet Mercury.

The probe went into orbit around the inner-most world in March, and has been relaying a stream of data ever since.
Its latest pictures from just a few hundred kilometres above the surface are expected to provide important new clues to the origin of the planet and its geological history.
Nasa believes much of what we thought about Mercury will need to be revised.
"We had many ideas about Mercury that were incomplete and ill-formed that came out of our three flybys with Messenger and the flybys in the 1970s by the first spacecraft to visit Mercury, Mariner 10," said Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, US.
"Many of those ideas are having to be cast aside as we see orbital data for the first time. We are confirming a few theories but many others are being cast into the dustbin of science."
Messenger has now returned more than 20,000 pictures, a great many at resolutions that finally allow scientists to begin a proper interpretation of surface features.
This is particularly true of the polar regions, where previous imagery was poor or even absent.
At the north pole, Messenger can discern a huge expanse of smooth plains some four million square kilometres in area - about half the size of the continental USA.
"From our more detailed look at this beautiful large unit of smooth plains, we're seeing all kinds of evidence for volcanism and tectonic deformation," explained Brett Denevi, a mission scientist from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.  "You can see 'ghost craters' that were impact craters that were later covered over by lava."
Messenger went to Mercury to prove or disprove a number of cherished theories.
One concerned a 20-year-old hypothesis, supported by radar observations from Earth, that suggested some polar craters might hide reserves of water-ice.
On the face of it this seems an extraordinary proposition given that surface temperatures on Mercury, certainly at the equator, can exceed 400C - hot enough to melt lead.
But without a thick atmosphere to trap heat, it is possible that permanently shadowed regions could stay cold enough to preserve ices for millions, if not billions, of years.
Messenger has begun testing this theory by deploying a laser altimeter to map the shape of craters at the poles - with some encouraging results.  Already it has found a depression that is deep enough and dark enough to have the right conditions.
"Stay tuned," said Dr Solomon.  "This is a very exciting hypothesis that has stayed with us for 20 years, and it has passed its first test with flying colours.
"We look forward to results from our geochemical remote-sensing instruments - the neutron spectrometer, in particular - which will demonstrate whether or not the material at the poles is likely to be water-ice on the basis of excess hydrogen."
Messenger's X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) has been investigating the presence and abundance of different atomic elements in surface materials, and has established rapidly that the rocks have a distinct signature that sets Mercury apart from its planetary neighbours.
"What's clear here is that Mercury is not the Moon and it's not the Earth," explained Larry Nittler, also of the Carnegie Institution.
"The surface of Mercury occupies a fairly unique location on the diagram for the surfaces of terrestrial planets.  It's got lower aluminium and more magnesium relative to silicon, so it has a lower abundance of feldspar [minerals], and so it has clearly undergone a unique geological history."
XRS observations also reveal significant quantities of sulphur - at least a factor of 10 times higher than is seen at Earth.  Why that should be is not clear, but probably points to the fact that Mercury formed in a different part of the Solar System to Earth where the raw materials for planet growth had a different composition.
Another new discovery concerns Mercury's magnetic field.   The planet, along with Earth, is alone among the terrestrial planets in having a global magnetic field.
The probe has now identified a north-south asymmetry in this field which will allow far more charged particles streaming off the Sun to strike its south pole than its north.
These impacts are what lift atoms off the surface - sputtering, as scientists call it - to create Mercury's super-tenuous atmosphere (more properly described as an exosphere).  The impacts also change the colour, reflectance and chemistry of the surface over time.
"What we thought on the basis of our flybys was that Mercury's magnetic field was a miniature version of Earth's magnetic field, produced by similar processes and with broadly similar geometry," said Dr Solomon. "Now we are in orbit, we can measure that magnetic field every day, and what we are seeing is that it is not a miniature of the Earth's field."
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A Bollywood-infused production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is to be broadcast online from the Globe theatre in London.

It will mark the first time any play has been live streamed from the venue.
The broadcast will be available to online audiences for free on the Shakespeare Lives website and via the BBC iPlayer on 11 September.
The production, which opened in April, is Emma Rice's first since becoming the Globe's artistic director.
Rice said: "I'm thrilled that my first production at the Globe is being filmed in this innovative and energetic way."
The play received warm reviews from critics when it opened at the theatre, located on London's South Bank.
The live stream, which will be introduced by actress and comedian Meera Syal, will mark the final night of the play's residency at the Globe.
Shakespeare Lives is an online digital festival co-curated by the BBC and the British Council, running all year to celebrate 400 years since the playwright's death.
Cortina Butler, the director of the project, said: "We're delighted to play a part in making it possible for a truly international audience to experience a magical, modern production from Shakespeare's Globe."
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Campaigners opposing plans for a new Lower Thames crossing east of Gravesend have begun a postcard protest.

Shorne Action Group has claimed the crossing will have a devastating impact on the 10-mile radius around north-west Kent villages.
Highways England has said a tunnel connecting Tilbury to Gravesend is its preferred route for the crossing.
It said the tunnel offered the best economic benefits and journey time improvements.
Campaigners said their campaign had given residents in the villages of Shorne and Chalk a chance to put questions to government ministers and decision-makers.
Spokesman Sharon Goring said: "We are on track to send over 1,500 individual, personal questions and we hope - and expect - the courtesy of individual responses."
The postcards include scenes of traffic congestion and schoolchildren wearing pollution masks to show the tunnel's potential impact, she added.
She said other villages in the area, including Higham, were planning to join the campaign.


Welsh artist James Richards has opened an exhibition at the world's biggest art event.

The Venice Biennale showcases the best contemporary art from around the world.
Richards has worked with Cardiff's Chapter arts centre to stage the show, which includes a 20-minute sound installation, a 40-minute film and still images.
The Cardiff artist was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2014.
He uses archive material and new recordings to create work that seeks to challenge the emotions of visitors to the exhibition.
A former chapel and school rooms on the banks of a Venetian canal host the exhibition, which is financed by the Arts Council of Wales with a budget of Â£375,000.
Richards, who lives most of the time in Berlin and London, follows previous artists Helen Sear and Bedwyr Williams in representing Wales at the Biennale, and he said it was an opportunity to "experiment" at a high-profile event.
"I don't reinvent the wheel with every work but each time you do something - especially a big project, a commission that's going to be exhibited on a highly visible platform - I want to use that as a chance to experiment and expand my language as an artist," he said.
"Often, my work is about my own encountering of a particular material that makes me want to try working with something. So you build from experiments and start thinking about setting a brief for yourself, almost.
"But also, in the meantime, you find things that you realise you want to somehow explore through the work."
James Richards: Wales in Venice
What do visitors see?
Room 1: Sound installation
The installation is called Migratory Motor Complex. Richards collaborated with Kirsten Evans and Samuel Williams, students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, to create a surround-sound six-channel electro-acoustic experience that "explores the capacity of sound to render artificial spaces and locate sonic and melodic events within them".
Room 2: Book
Visitors collect a small yellow book, Voce di Testa, published by Richards with Chris McCormack which "moves between the intimate and the scientific" in exploring the process of a male voice breaking.
Room 3: Film
A 40-minute film called What Weakens The Flesh Is The Flesh Itself. Made by Richards and collaborator Steve Reinke, the film shows a German man obsessed with tattoos and and large piercings, which the artists have combined with other archive footage that seeks to make the body a work of art in itself.
Room 4: Silent video
Music for the Gift. Two silent television monitors display abstract black and white images.
Room 5: Still images
An installation called Rushes Minotaur, which includes inkjet prints of human skin and the tarpaulin faÃ§ade of a shop that have been cut together and rescanned to create new images that represent the way that images themselves can be as fragile as their subjects.
The exhibition takes place inside the Santa Maria Ausiliatrice. It incorporates work by students of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in its sound installation.
Richards has also collaborated with the artist Steve Reinke for the video work, while a short publication is given to visitors written by Richards and Chris McCormack which reflects upon the breaking of the male voice.
The exhibition has been curated by Hannah Firth, who said it was the result of a "year-long dialogue" with Richards, which included a residency at Chapter in Cardiff and then there was five weeks of installation.
"We had to ensure everything down to the last nail came on a truck from Wales to Venice," she said.
"We took on an agency within Wales which drove the trucks to the edge of Venice, where all traffic has to stop.
"All the work had to be then loaded onto a boat and it's incredible how it's all stacked up like a sardine tin and then it had to be uploaded up at this end."
She said there had been a "fantastic response" from visitors so far.
"One of the exciting and interesting things about James Richards' work is it's very visceral - you feel it and sense it. He's made a sound piece, which is in the main exhibition - the church space - and which you can really feel in your body as well as hear. And certainly with the film it's a very vivid, aesthetic experience.
"We really hope people will take away a very subjective reading, which has stimulated their sense while they've been here."
Phil George, chairman of Arts Council of Wales, said it was really important for Wales to be part of the international debate about art.
He called Richards' work a "remarkable exploration of the tension of what it is to be a human being in a very difficult world."
James Richards' work will be displayed at the Venice Biennale until 26 November 2017. It will then be exhibited in Chapter in Cardiff next year before going on tour.


At least 400 people have been arrested in Venezuela after rioting and looting over food shortages.

Over 100 shops in the coastal town of Cumana were hit and at least one person died according to local media.
Venezuela has one of the world's highest inflation rates at 180% and people can queue for hours for subsidised food.
Opposition politicians blame government mismanagement for the shortages.
But the government says the shortages are part of an economic war being waged to drive President Nicolas Maduro from office.
Most of the shops were looted for food according to opposition congresswoman Milagros Paz.
She is quoted in Venezuelan newspaper El Universal as saying that the authorities "have not admitted the food distribution emergency".
But according to the socialist governor of Sucre state, Luis Acuna, it was off licenses, opticians and clothes shops that were targeted in the looting, reports El Nacional.
Food and medicine are in short supply and street protests have become increasingly agitated.
More than 10 attempts of looting happen every day, according to the non-governmental organisation Venezuelan Violence Observatory.
Diosdado Cabello, a lawmaker from Mr Maduro's PSUV party, blamed the opposition for inciting violent protest.
"These are fascist groups which are generating unrest," he said.
"Don't come to me with this fairy tale that these are spontaneous protests," he said on his television programme.


Scientists hope to find out more about how our planet was formed by studying the rocks buried deep under our feet.

14 January 2016 Last updated at 07:55 GMT
A special ship will drill more than 5000 metres down through the ocean floor to reach the super hot rocks of the planet's crust.
The team have picked an area in the Indian Ocean because the earth's crust is thinner there than in other places.
They also hope to find out if anything can survive the heat and pressure to live down there.
Watch Leah's report to find out more...


The Kingsway road has affected trade "more than the recession", a business owner in Swansea has claimed.

Another trader said temporary barriers put up in April following the death of Sgt Louise Lucas in March are not keeping pedestrians safe.
A man was hit by a bus on The Kingsway on Monday and suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Swansea council said it was still looking at ways to remove eastbound traffic.
The circumstances surrounding the latest incident are not known.
Businesses on The Kingsway claimed some people are walking down the central reservation so they did not have to wait at the crossings.
Jonathan Coffey, owner of Rogues hair salon, said work on the road over the past few years had affected his business "more than the recession".
But he added that people were beginning to get used to the temporary barriers.
"When it was first done the traffic did affect us," he said.
"Traffic and pedestrians don't mix but you can't blame it all on the road system.
"People do need to be careful, it only takes one slight lapse in concentration."
Another trader, who did not want to be named, told BBC Radio Wales that publicity of incidents on The Kingsway is portraying visiting the city centre as "taking your life into your own hands".
"It's killing businesses, people don't want to come to town any more," the trader said.
"The Kingsway is absolutely terrible, the traffic is chaotic, people don't know how to cross the road basically. It's dangerous."
But Julie Williamson, chairwoman of the Federation of Small Businesses in Swansea Bay, said it was a temporary transition period.
"Traders have suffered greatly since the reorganisation of the traffic," she said.
"But quite a lot of us are confident that once the planned building works and the offices coming into The Kingsway is complete, I really do feel that Swansea is going to be a much, much better place.
"There were fears that maybe the barriers would be misused. I'm not aware of it but I think the council realise it's only a step they're taking to keep things safe for the time being."
A council spokesman said: "We have recently introduced safety barriers on Kingsway's central reservation that follow on from the introduction of 20mph (32km/h) limits and pedestrian signage last year.
"We're also still examining a scheme for the removal of eastbound traffic on Kingsway. It would be inappropriate to comment on any incident before the full information is available."


A driver who is blind in one eye went through a red light and struck a man on a crossing leaving him fatally injured.

Christine Hussey hit Simon Cheung in Hitchin, Hertfordshire as he walked to work, Luton Crown Court heard.
Mr Cheung, 33, died in hospital a week after the crash on Cambridge Road, in January 2014.
Hussey, 58 and of Luton who was legally fit to drive, was given a suspended five-month jail term after admitting causing death by careless driving.
The defendant, of Crawley Green Road, was on her way to Letchworth when she hit Mr Cheung, who was on his way to work at his family's restaurant.
In addition to the jail term, which was suspended for 12 months, the accounts assistant was ordered to carry out 180 hours' unpaid work.
Although blind in her left eye she had been passed fit to drive, the court was told.
She was also banned from driving for two years and ordered to pay Â£1,200 costs.
Prosecutor Beverly Cripps said Mr Cheung had properly used the crossing near the Willian Road junction, at 07:30 GMT on Wednesday 15 January 2014.
The lights changed but Hussey failed to notice, braking only after she hit Mr Cheung.
She said later she thought the lights were green.
Paul Rogers, defending, said: "Mrs Hussey understands very much the effect of what she did on that day. Her inattention caused the loss of a friend, a brother and a son.
"She recalls the lights being green and can't understand why she did not see the lights change.
"All she can do is express her very real remorse."
Judge David Farrell QC said: "No sentence the court can pass can truly reflect the tragic loss of the life of Simon Cheung. It was all caused by your carelessness."


A number of rail safety recommendations have been made after a steam locomotive came to a stop over a mainline junction in Wiltshire last year.

Three of the five recommendations are addressed to West Coast Railway (WCR) which was operating the charter service when it passed a signal at danger.
No-one was injured and no train was damaged as a result of the error.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) says WCR's safety culture should be reviewed, among other conclusions.
Its 89-page final report also calls for the Rail Safety and Standards Board to review the arrangements which mitigate risks associated with steam travel.
In addition, a recommendation about implementing emergency and temporary speed restrictions has been addressed to Network Rail.
The incident happened on 7 March 2015 when the driver of the 'Tangmere' locomotive, hauling 13 coaches from Bristol Temple Meads to Southend, was unable to stop in time after realising it was in danger, according to the RAIB.
An automatic brake application had also been by-passed by the train's crew, the report says, which rendered the Train Protection and Warning System "ineffective".
The signal SN45 was showing a danger warning because a high-speed passenger train had recently passed through the junction, situated near Wootton Bassett.
Lancashire-based West Coast Railways has been in operation since 1998 and operates charter trains "along some of the UKs most famous and scenic routes", such as the Jacobite steam train in Scotland and The Scarborough Spa Express, according to its website.
The RAIB's purpose is to investigate railway accidents and incidents in the UK to improve safety, not to establish blame.


South London rap prodigy Nadia Rose has taken fifth place on the BBC Music Sound of 2017 list.

The 23-year-old, who has won praise for her whip-cracking, witty wordplay, hails from Croydon and is the cousin of grime artist Stormzy.
The annual award aims to showcase the best new artists of the coming year, and is voted for by 170 DJs, music critics, radio producers and writers.
"That is epic!" said Rose on learning she had made the top five.
"Being on the longlist was an honour. This is just... wow. I really wasn't expecting that."
Rose, who began making music in her spare time while working in a betting shop, has scored viral hits with songs like Skwod and Tight Up.
She describes her sound as "really bassy, full of fun and full of energy".
The Sound of... list launched in 2003 and has a track record in championing new and innovative acts, including Adele, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding, Frank Ocean and Florence + The Machine.
This year's top five will be revealed on BBC Radio 1 and online throughout the week, with the winner announced on Friday.
Last year's victor was Jack Garratt, who praised the "very diverse" range of acts on the 2017 list, and encouraged fans to embrace new talent.
"There's more music out there than just your favourite act," he said. "It all deserves respect and it all deserves love.
"Even though there are 15 names on the longlist, there are hundreds more that definitely could have been. I think 2017 is going to be a very interesting year."
According to the rules, the on the longlist acts should not be well known - so talent show contestants and members of famous bands launching a solo career are excluded.
Artists must not have had a UK top 20 single or album before 30 October 2016 - although guest vocalists remain eligible.
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A 4.2 magnitude earthquake has been recorded in Kent, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has said.

The tremor originated near Sandwich at a depth of 15km (9.5 miles) underground at 02:52 BST, it reported.
Residents in areas including Margate, Canterbury and Southend-on-Sea in Essex felt the tremor, with some saying they thought it was a plane crash or a bomb.
Kent Police said a number of calls had been received but no injuries or structural damage had been reported.
But Herbert Smith tweeted that he and his wife Doreen were taking refuge in their caravan after being evacuated from their damaged home in Flete.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), which monitors seismic activity across the continent, also recorded the earthquake.
Theresa Foord, from Eastry near Sandwich, said: "I heard this massive crash and then the whole house started to shake.
"Plates came off the wall, doors came open - it was all very frightening.
"It seemed to go on for ages but it was about three to five seconds."
About 200 earthquakes take place in the UK every year but not all are as large as this tremor, according to BGS seismologist David Galloway.
"We probably get one of this size once every three or four years so it is quite significant for people if their houses are shaking or they are woken from sleep," he said.
"But in world terms, it was about 260,000 times smaller than the earthquake in Nepal.
"In the UK the biggest earthquake happened in 1931 off East Anglia at Dogger Bank. That had the magnitude 6.1."
BBC South East reporter Simon Jones, who lives in Canterbury, said he was woken up when his house started shaking.
"The initial thought was perhaps something had gone into the house, like a lorry but then I turned to social media and people right across east Kent were reporting an earthquake," he said.
Vikki Petts tweeted: "So we just had a 4.3 magnitude earthquake in Kent and my housemates slept through the entire thing. certainly woke me up!"
Caroline Knott, from Ramsgate, said the earthquake woke her up, adding "I thought maybe a bomb's gone off".
Jonathan Tapp said: "Earthquake in East Kent and now can't get back to sleep. Despite months spent in [New Zealand] this is my first one that I've felt."
Iain Buchanan, from Ramsgate, said: "So I'm not going mental, my house shook due to an earthquake in Kent of all places."
Police said they began receiving reports of the tremor in east Kent at about 02:57 BST.
Neither the force nor Kent Fire and Rescue Services had received any reports of structural damage or injuries, they said.
Hundreds of homes in Folkestone were damaged by a 4.3 magnitude tremor which struck parts of Kent in 2007.
More than 70 buildings were so dangerous residents could not return to them because of loose chimney stacks, tiles and masonry.
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A rare Chinese vase, bought for £10 at a Hampshire car boot sale, has been sold for more than £60,000.

The enamel "two quails" vase, is thought to have been made at Beijing's Imperial Palace at least 220 years ago.
Auctioneers Woolley & Wallis said the owner only realised its true value after he put it on eBay.
It had been estimated as being worth up to £30,000, but sold at auction in Salisbury for £61,000, including the buyer's premium.
The seller, who did not wish to be identified, picked up the vase at a car boot sale near Lymington.
When eBay bidding reached £10,000 he withdrew it and took it for a valuation.
Woolley & Wallis Asian art expert John Axford confirmed the vase bore the four-character Qianlong mark - the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty - and would have been made by Imperial command in the palace workshop between 1736 and 1795.
He said it had turned out to be an "excellent investment".