The gunman who killed one person at a German nightclub was the Iraqi Kurdish son-in-law of the nightclub's owner, German authorities said.

He returned to the Grey nightclub in the southern city of Konstanz armed with an M16 rifle after having been thrown out following an argument, a state prosecutor said.
The victim was a doorman. Several others were wounded including a police officer.
The gunman was killed by police.
Hundreds of revellers are thought to have been at Grey at the time of the shooting. They either fled outside in terror or found places to hide as the shooting unfolded.
The wounded police officer's life had been saved by his helmet, which deflected a bullet fired by the gunman, Andreas Stenge from the Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg criminal investigation office said at a press conference.
Mr Stenge said the M16 was an "absolute war weapon" and said the gunman appeared to know how to handle it.
The 34-year-old had come to police attention twice in the past, police said.
Police chief Ekkehard Falk said a police strategy to swiftly disable the gunman had prevented further casualties.
The Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg authorities have ruled out a terrorist motive for the incident.


Three young children are being treated for burns in Cork after a petrol canister exploded in their home.

Five-month-old twins and their 17-month-old brother were airlifted to Cork University Hospital on Tuesday evening.
The twins, a boy and a girl, are suffering from moderate burns, their brother has less serious injuries.
Their burns were sustained when a petrol canister accidentally exploded at about 18:30 BST.
The canister was brought into the family home on Tuesday evening and GardaÃ are investigating the cause of the fire.
Police and paramedics treated the children at the scene at the family home in Drinagh, near Drimoleague.
The Shannon coast guard helicopter later airlifted the children, accompanied by their parents, to hospital in Cork touching down at about 19:50 BST.
The siblings are understood to have injuries to their bodies.
One of the twins is being treated in the hospital's intensive care unit.
All three children are expected to make a full recovery.


Brennan Dickenson and Denny Johnstone scored on their home debuts as Colchester beat Cambridge United for their fist win of the season.

Colchester started well and made their breakthrough in the eighth minute - Chris Porter and Sammie Szmodics pouncing on goalkeeper Will Norris' poor clearance before Dickenson unleashed a low, left-footed shot that flew into the far corner.
The hosts almost doubled their lead two minutes later when Norris superbly tipped Szmodics' swerving 20-yard effort over for a corner, while Colchester keeper Sam Walker pulled off a magnificent save to foil Cambridge striker Joe Pigott soon after.
Leon Legge almost diverted Porter's low cross into his own net in the opening minutes of the second half, but substitute Medy Elito came close to equalising against his former club when his free header clipped the top of the crossbar.
Norris parried away Porter's fierce effort before substitute Johnstone headed in Dickenson's cross from close range with eight minutes remaining.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Colchester United 2, Cambridge United 0.
Second Half ends, Colchester United 2, Cambridge United 0.
Foul by Drey Wright (Colchester United).
James Dunne (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Colchester United. Craig Slater replaces Kurtis Guthrie.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United).
Attempt missed. Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Kinsella (Colchester United).
Goal!  Colchester United 2, Cambridge United 0. Denny Johnstone (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Brennan Dickenson.
Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Sean Long.
Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Attempt missed. Denny Johnstone (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Drey Wright (Colchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Joe Pigott (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Colchester United. Denny Johnstone replaces Chris Porter.
Drey Wright (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Richard Brindley (Colchester United).
Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Substitution, Colchester United. Doug Loft replaces Sammie Szmodics.
Attempt saved. Tom Eastman (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Will Norris.
Attempt saved. Chris Porter (Colchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.
Drey Wright (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Foul by Luke Prosser (Colchester United).
Joe Pigott (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Medy Elito replaces Ben Williamson.
Attempt missed. Chris Porter (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Kurtis Guthrie.
Attempt saved. Tom Eastman (Colchester United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Drey Wright.
Attempt missed. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right misses to the right.


A Jersey road has been named after a fighter pilot who was shot down during World War Two.

Henri Gonay, from Belgium, died in June 1944 after his aircraft crashed into a farm.
The road at the northern end of Route de Grantez, St Ouen, which was unnamed, has been called Rue Henri Gonay.
Parish Constable Michael Paddock said: "He was a well-decorated pilot and was part of the forces which helped to secure our future."
A number of Belgian delegates attended a ceremony to mark the unveiling.


South Africa's Haydn Porteous won his first European Tour event after a bogey-free three-under-par final round of 69 saw him claim the Joburg Open.

The 21-year-old triumphed by two shots on 18 under from compatriot Zander Lombard (71) with both securing a place at July's Open at Royal Troon.
Porteous hit every green in regulation, birdieing the eighth, 14th and 18th.
Londoner Anthony Wall, the highest-ranked of four players tied for third, also booked his Open spot with a 72.
Wall had two bogeys and two birdies in his opening 10 holes before closing with eight successive pars to finish on 15 under.
With the top three in South Africa guaranteed a place at The Open, the 40 year old qualified ahead of Sweden's Bjork Akesson, American Daniel Im and home hope Justin Walters.
Porteous had missed the cut at his two previous European Tour events this season but he became the second first-time winner in consecutive weeks after Brandon Stone, 22, won the South African Open last Sunday.
"I have been lucky," said 40-year-old Anthony Wall after earning a place at the Open Championship for the second year in a row - but only the seventh time of his career, and his first appearance at Royal Troon.
"I was second last year and got a spot right on the nail, and this year the same. It's been a truly wonderful week.
"I get to play in the greatest event in the world again. It's the greatest honour a golfer can have. It's the greatest place to play golf."
The Joburg Open was the third event in the Open Qualifying Series for Royal Troon.
Three Aussies, Matthew Jones, Rod Pampling and Nick Cullen, booked their places at the Australian Open in November, while victor Jamie Donaldson, England's Lee Westwood, Frenchman Clement Sordet and Thai Phachara Khongwatmai claimed the four qualifying places on offer at the Thailand Golf Championship.


Thailand will put an activist on trial for insulting the monarchy, after he shared a profile of new King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, an opponent of the military-backed government, shared the profile published by BBC Thai on his Facebook page.
He was detained two days after the new king ascended the throne in December.
Thailand has very strict lese-majeste laws, which ban any criticism of the monarchy.
Human rights groups accuse the government of using the law to crack down on opponents.
The BBC post was shared by 2,410 people, but Mr Jatupat is the only one to have been charged.
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Mr Jatupat appeared briefly at the court in Khon Kaen, north-east Thailand, to hear the charges on Friday. Formal proceedings will begin in late March.
His lawyer said he had also been charged with violating the cyber crime law for sharing the link.
"He is still in good spirits and will fight," his lawyer Krisadang Nacharut told AFP news agency. He has denied both charges.
Mr Jatupat, who has been involved in anti-government protests in the past, could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
He is thought to be the first person charged with lese-majeste since King Vajiralongkorn, 64, officially became monarch.
King Vajiralongkorn's father, the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, died on 13 October at the age of 88 after seven decades on the throne.


A collection of 40 paintings by an 11-year-old boy has sold for £390,000.

Kieron Williamson, from Norfolk, saw his watercolours, oils and pastels sell at Picturecraft Gallery in Holt on Friday in just a matter of minutes.
The child prodigy, who is worth about £2m after selling pieces at auction since the age of seven, was exhibiting his latest work alongside pieces by his East Anglian hero Edward Seago.
His mother Michelle Williamson said she was "amazed" at the demand.
"You never know how each year is going to go," she said.
"Keith [her husband] and I are always a little pessimistic, but it's really lovely that people still want his work."
Twenty-nine of the landscapes sold for £265,000 through a pre-exhibition sale on Thursday, with the remaining 11 pieces fetching £125,000 on Friday.
People in New York, Thailand and Germany were among the buyers.
The most expensive lots, including the piece Sailor Boy, sold for £22,675 each.
Gallery owner Adrian Hill said: "It's stunning in this day and age that someone can sell their work at this speed, let alone when they're Kieron's age."
Kieron's next exhibition will be held next year.


A contemporary arts festival will mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.

Called ROOT 1066, it will run from 1 September 2016 to the anniversary on 14 October.
There will be exhibitions plus a "large scale sound and light event" on the seafront which will be beamed across the Channel to Normandy.
Hastings Borough Council leader Peter Chowney said the impact of the Norman Conquest could not be underestimated.
"It laid down the bedrock of English language and culture," he said. "That's why we've called the festival 'ROOT' 1066."
He added: "We hope that people from across the country, Europe and beyond will be able to visit our town and enjoy this festival, and appreciate how this corner of Sussex became the birthplace of modern English culture, in all its diverse and kaleidoscopic variations."
During the festival the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings; the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill and Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will hold exhibitions
The series of events are being funded by Hastings Borough Council and Arts Council England.


Cameroon will deploy an extra 2,000 troops along its northern border with Nigeria to fight militant Islamist group Boko Haram, state television reports.

It follows an upsurge in attacks blamed on the Nigerian militants.
Three suicide bombings killed 33 people in Cameroon's main northern city, Maroua, since last week.
The reinforcements will raise the number of troops deployed to the north to 8,500, AFP news agency reports.
Cameroon's army uses Maroua as the headquarters for its operations against the group.
Authorities in the region have announced several measures, including a ban on wearing the full-face veil, in an attempt to prevent suicide bombers from disguising themselves as devout Muslim women.
They have also closed some mosques and Islamic schools and banned large gatherings of Muslims without permission.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is due in Cameroon on Wednesday for talks with President Paul Biya in a bid to strengthen the regional alliance against Boko Haram.
After several months of delay, a multinational force of 8,700 soldiers, police and civilian personnel is due to start operations at the end of July.
It will be based in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, which has also been affected by the violence.
At least 17,000 people have been killed since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in northern Nigeria 2009, according to Amnesty International.


A 45-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged in connection with an arms and explosives find in west Belfast.

Kevin Nolan, of Whitchurch Close in Sunderland, appeared before Belfast Magistrates on Tuesday.
Semtex, explosives, two guns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition were discovered during a raid of a house on Ballymurphy Road on Friday.
Mr Nolan was arrested in Sunderland on Sunday.
A defence lawyer told the court Mr Nolan was not yet seeking to be released.
"There's no application for bail at this stage, it will be kept under review," he said.
Mr Nolan will appear in court again by video-link on 20 October.
Meanwhile, a 21-year-old woman arrested in west Belfast on Sunday over the arms and explosives find has been released pending a report to the PPS.
A 29-year-old man was earlier released without charge.


Discount chain Poundland has agreed to an improved takeover offer from South African retail group Steinhoff.

The new bid values Poundland at about Â£610m, compared with a Â£597m offer that had been agreed between the two firms last month.
There had been speculation that Steinhoff would have to up its offer after US hedge fund Elliot increased its stake in Poundland.
Steinhoff said that the new offer was final.
Poundland operates more than 900 stores across the UK, Ireland and Spain, and employs 18,000 people.
Steinhoff owns 40 retail brands in 30 countries, including Bensons for Beds and Harveys in the UK.
Elliot currently holds a 17.5% stake in Poundland. It has played a part in extracting higher prices from bidders before, being one of the activist investors that managed to get AB InBev to improve its offer for SABMiller last month.
Under the revised offer, Poundland shareholders will receive 227p in cash per share, consisting of Steinhoff's 225p-per-share offer and a final dividend of 2p per share. Under the previous offer Steinhoff had offered 220p per share plus the 2p dividend.
Independent retail analyst Nick Bubb described the increase as "a pretty modest victory for shareholder activism".
Steinhoff chief executive Markus Jooste said the improved cash offer aimed to "bring certainty to the transaction".
The new offer represents a 43.4% premium to Poundland's share price before Steinhoff announced its interest in the group in June.
Mr Jooste said both the boards of Steinhoff and Poundland considered the offer "to be at a highly attractive premium to the Poundland undisturbed share price".
"We believe there is significant merit to both Poundland and Steinhoff in bringing Poundland into our global operations, and the Steinhoff directors and management are enthusiastic about the related opportunities that will arise."
Steinhoff has been trying to increase its exposure in Europe. Its pursuit of Poundland comes after an unsuccessful attempt to buy Argos owner Home Retail Group, when Sainsbury's ended up as the successful bidder.
Steinhoff also failed in an attempt to buy French electronic goods retailer Darty when it lost out to French retail chain Fnac.


The search is still on for survivors after a massive earthquake hit the country of Nepal in South Asia on Saturday.

At least 3,300 people have been confirmed killed in the country's worst earthquake in more than 80 years.
The quake had a magnitude of 7.8 and tremors were felt in nearby Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
Many countries and charities from around the world have offered help to Nepal to deal with the disaster.
Cities of tents have popped up in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu.
People who are too afraid to return to their homes, or have nowhere to go, are being sheltered there.
"We don't have a choice, our house is shaky," said shopkeeper Rabi Shrestha in an interview with AFP news agency.
Rescue helicopters are heading out to Mount Everest to help 210 stranded climbers down.
The UK is sending a team of experts to help Nepal deal with what has happened.
Their priority is to reach people who are trapped and injured, and provide shelter and protection to those who have lost their homes.
Read more: Why is it dangerous after a quake?
Many countries, including America, Pakistan, China and India, have promised aid like food supplies, tents, doctors and search and rescue helicopters.
The search continues to find survivors from the earthquake, but rescue efforts have been made harder because many mountain roads are cracked or blocked by landslides and rubble.
It's also meant access to remote areas is difficult.


A body has washed ashore near to where two teenagers went missing after getting into difficulty in the sea last week.

Waseem Al-Muflehi, 15, and Yahya Mohammed, 14, both from Birmingham, disappeared in the water at Barmouth beach, in Gwynedd, last Sunday.
Coastguard teams searched for them for three days but the hunt was called off on Tuesday.
The body has not yet been identified but the families have been informed.
The boys were part of a group of about 500 people from the Somali and Yemeni communities in Birmingham, who were visiting the area last weekend when the incident happened.
Emergency services were called to the beach on Sunday after one of the boys was seen to "disappear under the water".
Members of their group tried to help them but the wind and waves were said to have been too strong.


A decline in the overall number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland has "slowed", according to the latest results from the 2011 Census.

The previous Census results recorded an 11% drop in speakers, while the new figures suggest a 1.2% fall from 59,000 to 58,000.
The latest results also show a 0.1% increase in Gaelic speakers aged under 20.
The Scottish government said the results were encouraging.
The results also include detail on what languages are used in Scottish homes.
They suggest that 93% of people aged three and over reported that they used only English at home. About 1.5 million people reported that they regularly spoke Scots.
The figures also show 1% of the population - 54,000 people - used Polish at home, while 13,000 people reported using British Sign Language.
Alasdair Allan, minister for Scotland's languages, said: "While the census shows a slight fall overall, we can take real encouragement from the growth in Gaelic speakers under the age of 20.
"This increase in the next generation of Gaelic speakers, helped by a 12% increase in pupils entering P1 of Gaelic Medium Education clearly demonstrates that our investment in the language is paying off."
He added: "Our efforts to support Gaelic and create more learning opportunities for all ages has also significantly slowed down the decline in the overall numbers of speakers, many of whom tend to be in older age groups."
Iain Campbell, chairman of Gaelic language organisation Bord na Gaidhlig, said the "marked decrease" in Gaelic speakers recorded in 2001 was being addressed.
He said: "Given the growth in the numbers in Gaelic medium education over the last two decades, we expected that the rate of decline would be further reduced as a result of further growth of the numbers of children and young people now speaking Gaelic.
"This is clear evidence that the policy aims of the National Gaelic Language Plan are taking effect."
The growth in Gaelic medium education includes the opening this week of Edinburgh's first dedicated Gaelic school.
A total of 213 pupils, including 53 P1 youngsters, have enrolled for the new school, where lessons will be taught entirely in Gaelic.
The first Gaelic medium primary school department in Caithness opened in August.
It is based at Mount Pleasant Primary School in Thurso which is home to a Gaelic nursery with 19 children.
Michael Hance, director of the Scots Language Centre, said Scots had suffered from "centuries of neglect".
He said: "It is good to see figures being produced for the first time on the number of those speaking Scots and now that we have these figures we are calling on the Scottish government to draw up a Charter for Scots outlining how the language and its dialects can be supported more effectively.
"The data gathered during the 2011 census means that we can now begin to plan how to support communities of Scots speakers and to encourage those communities to value their language and pass it on to future generations."
Mr Hance added: "Children are the key to the future health of the language and we'd like to see new efforts being made to encourage innovative projects aimed at creating a sense of pride and self-worth amongst Scots speaking school pupils."


New Zealand top the first rankings for women's Test rugby, with World Cup holders England third.

Results from every official women's international have been assessed to produce the inaugural standings.
"It's a positive step for one of the fastest growing team sports in the world, as it brings parity with the men's game," said World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset.
France are second, with Ireland fourth, Wales 10th and Scotland 13th.
All four join England and Italy, who are eighth, in the Women's Six Nations, which begins on Friday.
Points awarded to teams in future Tests will be dependant on the difference in ranking points between the teams.
Lapasset added: "World Rugby is committed to driving forward the competitiveness of the women's game and the new rankings are yet another significant milestone."


As crunch time nears for an Iran nuclear deal, Washington heavyweights are piling on the pressure.

Bob Corker, the Republican Senator who has led the charge for Congressional oversight, has written to the president, warning against the erosion of red lines.
Five of Barack Obama's top former Iran advisors have signed an open letter expressing concern that the deal might lack sufficient safeguards to deter Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
And the administration has intensified briefings with lawmakers amid a series of media leaks suggesting concessions in the negotiations.
These interventions add to the challenge of the end game, and raise questions about the sustainability and credibility of whatever it might produce.
Much of the ongoing opposition on Capitol Hill is about support for Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effect appealed to Congress to block a deal.
And much of it is about partisan Republican politics targeting the foreign policy of a Democratic president.
But Democrats also share some Republican concerns about the negotiations and whether a viable deal is possible with an old enemy still deeply distrusted.
Several felt strongly that Congress had an institutional responsibility to weigh in on such an important agreement.
The president felt very differently, but he backed down in the face of rare bipartisan support for legislation giving Congress that right of review.
Lawmakers now have 30 days to examine any deal during which time Mr Obama could not suspend US sanctions. And they have the option of rejecting it, although he would veto that.
Common wisdom in Washington says Congress would not be able muster enough votes to block the agreement by overriding a veto.
That calculation is based partly on a letter expressing strong support for the talks signed by 150 House Democrats two months ago.
But in the run-up to the deadline, mounting concern about possible US concessions has created a climate of uncertainty.
There is unease about the formula which sharply curbs Iran's nuclear activity but leaves the infrastructure intact.
The restrictions end after 10 years although the verification regime does not.
"We're now managing their proliferation," rather than dismantling their enrichment programme, Senator Corker told the BBC, reflecting a view that President Obama has crossed some red lines since he embraced diplomacy with Iran.
Tough inspections "anytime, anywhere" are a red line for Congress, he said, including of military sites, which the Iranian leadership has publicly refused.
He also stressed that Iran must reveal the past military dimensions of its nuclear programme to help guard against such activity in the future.
He was responding to recent suggestions by the Secretary of State John Kerry that Tehran would not be pressed on this point.
Senator Corker said his intervention aimed to "stiffen the spine" of negotiations, not scuttle them.
The statement released by a bipartisan group of arms experts and former senior officials also urged the White House to negotiate a stronger deal.
"This is not roll back of sanctions for roll back of nuclear infrastructure, it's roll back for transparency," said Dennis Ross, one of President Obama's former Iran advisors who signed the open letter.
"If the transparency element of the understandings turns out to be less far reaching, if it looks like roll back for partial transparency, then it becomes more questionable whether Congress could block it. But I think the administration understands that as well as anybody."
Administration officials have pushed back against media reports that they are softening their position. They insist negotiators are holding the line, and conduct briefings on the Hill several times a week to spell out the details.
"They need to regain control of the message," said one observer.
Whatever the concerns and criticisms, lawmakers are aware that polls show public support for a proposed deal with Iran.
And many fear the risks of walking away from the table - which would free Iran to return to large-scale nuclear activity - especially if the US were seen as responsible for sinking an agreement.
"If the United States were to abandon negotiations or cause their collapse, not only would we fail to peacefully prevent a nuclear armed Iran, we would make that outcome more likely," the House Democrats wrote in their letter
But even if President Obama prevents Congress from blocking a final agreement, attempts to do so could still cause Iran and the rest of the world to question America's commitment.
And if he wins because of support from a very small margin of lawmakers, the opposition could continue trying to defeat the deal.
It may have many opportunities if the Iranians are not seen to be meeting their commitments.
Either way, as the presidential election campaign gathers pace the issue is likely to become more partisan, not less.
So if President Obama is able to seal a hard-won deal in Vienna, he may have to work just as hard to sustain it at home.


Cheltenham Town took a valuable three points in their quest to move away from the League Two relegation zone with victory at fellow strugglers Leyton Orient.

Carl Winchester's goal earned them the points against second-from-bottom Orient at Brisbane Road.
Winchester scored the only goal of the game on 21 minutes but it was visiting keeper Scott Brown who earned the plaudits with a string of outstanding saves.
The Robins created the early chances but Tin Plavotic and then Kyle Wootton fired wide when well-placed.
The O's stormed back and were only denied the lead because of the heroics of visiting shot-stopper Brown who was in scintillating form.
He twice blocked point-blank shots from Gavin Massey and then produced another double save, firstly denying Paul McCallum and then Nigel Atangana.
Winchester broke the deadlock when he collected a pass from Billy Waters before unleashing a powerful drive into the net from outside the penalty area.
Orient squandered a wonderful opportunity to restore parity on 56 minutes when Massey was fouled in the penalty area but man-of-the-match Brown flung himself to his left to palm Callum Kennedy's spot kick around the post.
From thereon, Cheltenham had little difficulty in protecting their lead to leave Orient with their 14th home league defeat of the season.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Leyton Orient 0, Cheltenham Town 1.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 0, Cheltenham Town 1.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Jack Barthram.
Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Attempt saved. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town).
Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town).
Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Teddy Mezague.
Foul by Michael Collins (Leyton Orient).
Carl Winchester (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Rowan Liburd (Leyton Orient).
Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Rowan Liburd replaces Paul McCallum.
Attempt missed. Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Billy Waters.
Sam Dalby (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town).
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by William Boyle.
Attempt missed. Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Sam Dalby replaces Josh Koroma.
Attempt missed. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Kyle Storer replaces James Rowe.
Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Michael Collins.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Penalty saved! Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Leyton Orient. Gavin Massey draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by William Boyle (Cheltenham Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by William Boyle.


Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has lost his East Renfrewshire seat as a series of high-profile Labour politicians were defeated by the SNP.

Kirsten Oswald defeated Mr Murphy by 23,013 votes to 19,295.
The result saw a 24.2% swing from Labour to the SNP in the constituency, where the SNP had finished fourth at the last general election.
Speaking after his defeat, Mr Murphy said "the fight goes on" and vowed to continue as Scottish Labour leader.
He confirmed his intention to lead his party into the 2016 Holyrood election at a news conference in Glasgow before lunchtime on Friday.
Former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and Margaret Curran are among the other Labour politicians to have been ousted by the SNP.
All seven seats in Glasgow went from Labour to the SNP as the nationalists look on course for a landslide general election victory in Scotland.
Ex-Labour MP Ian Davidson, who lost his seat in Glasgow South West, called for Mr Murphy to resign.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Mr Davidson said the party had lacked inspiration or direction in its campaign.
"Morally, as the man who has led us to the biggest ever disaster that Labour has suffered in Scotland, then of course he can't continue," he said.
"Jim has got to do the honourable thing and resign."
Mr Murphy had held East Renfrewshire for nearly 20 years.
He said it was an "enormous" moment for the SNP, but added: "The fight goes on and our cause continues.
"I know hundreds of thousands of Scots still believe in the progressive policies the Labour party stands for.
"The Scottish Labour Party has been around for more than a century. A hundred years from tonight we will still be around.
"Scotland needs a strong Labour Party and our fightback starts tomorrow morning."
Scottish Conservative Ruth Davidson leader tweeted a tribute to Mr Murphy. She said: "We've had more than our share of differences, but I have to say, that was a wonderfully dignified speech from @JimForScotland"
Student Mhairi Black, 20, beat former government minister Douglas Alexander in Paisley and Renfrewshire South, the seat he had held since 1997.
Mr Alexander said: "This of course has been a very difficult night for Labour.
"Scotland has chosen to oppose this Conservative government, but not place that trust in the Labour party. It will be our responsibility to re-win that trust in the months and years ahead."
Shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran lost her Glasgow East to the SNP.
She said: "It's not a great night for the Labour Party but I will tell you one thing that I absolutely believe, there is great social and economic injustice in Scotland.
"Tonight, I think, has been a clash of nationalisms. To me, the bigger cause, the greater cause, is equality and you will always need a Labour Party to fight that."
In Gordon Brown's former seat, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, which had been the safest Labour seat in Scotland, the SNP overturned a majority of more than 23,000 to defeat Labour candidate Kenny Selbie.
Across Scotland there has been record swings from the SNP to Labour with the biggest - 39.3% - in Glasgow North East. In Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, veteran Labour MP Tom Clarke lost his seat with a swing to the SNP of 36.2%.


The former head of the child sexual abuse inquiry has strenuously denied a newspaper report of allegations of misconduct and racism made against her.

Dame Lowell Goddard is alleged to have said Britain had so many paedophiles "because it has so many Asian men", according to a report in the Times.
The senior New Zealand judge has hit back at the claims, calling them "false" and "malicious".
The Home Office said it had received no formal complaint about Dame Lowell.
She resigned as head of the inquiry on 4 August, after 18 months in the role.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is investigating the extent to which institutions in England and Wales have failed to protect children from sexual abuse.
The Times also reported allegations that Dame Lowell had expressed shock at the size of the UK's ethnic minority population and mentioned having to travel 50 miles from London to see a white face.
The paper said senior Home Office staff and advisers knew about the alleged derogatory comments and other complaints.
Dame Lowell said: "I confirm my absolute rejection of this attack. I am confident that in New Zealand my known reputation from my work over many years will provide its own refutation of these falsities."
In a detailed statement issued later, she added: "The specific allegations of racially derogatory remarks are totally false. I categorically never said that 'Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men'.
"I never expressed shock at the number of ethnic people in Britain. I have never held the views and opinions attributed to me, nor is the language in these allegations vocabulary which I either used or would consider using."
Dame Lowell said any suggestion that she "threatened at any time 'to take this inquiry down with me'" was "totally untrue". She also rejected claims of being rude and abusive to staff.
Andrew Norfolk, chief investigative reporter at the Times, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the sources for the story were "several people who are at a senior level and have a detailed awareness of what has been going on within the headquarters of that inquiry".
"These people, over many months, were thinking 'what can we do about this? This judge is seriously impacting on the work of the inquiry,'" he said.
"They forwarded those concerns to a place they thought was a fit place for them, the Home Office, and Theresa May had the power to terminate her contract. The frustration intensified as nothing was done."
The Home Office said it had been "made aware of concerns about the professionalism and competence of Justice Goddard" on 29 July, six days before she was to resign.
"The permanent secretary advised the inquiry that as they were independent they should raise this directly with the chair," its statement said.
"It is understood that they did this. No formal complaint was made to the Home Office."
Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said Mrs May and her former department had "serious questions to answer" over "suggestions that Home Office officials turned a blind eye to allegations of impropriety".
"How can the victims expect this inquiry to uncover child abuse when it has faced multiple setbacks of its own?
"After years of waiting for justice, they deserve better. It is crucial that this inquiry gets on with its vital task."
Labour MP for Streatham Chuka Umunna, some of whose constituents are among the abuse victims, said concerns about the scale of the inquiry could be addressed by giving it a "federal" structure, with a national body overseeing the work of several smaller investigations.
"That's the way to change the scale of the inquiry, but to change the scope would very much worry the survivors," he said.
Peter Saunders, a member of the Victims and Survivors' Consultative Panel, which forms part of the inquiry, said the accusations reported by the Times were not behaviour he "recognised" with Dame Lowell and he worried about the effect the claims would have.
"[The inquiry] has had far too many setbacks, far too many people sniping at it," he told Today. "There are people out there listening to this programme who most definitely want this inquiry to fail.
"It has evolved a lot in the last few weeks. It has turned a big corner and there is a determination."
Norfolk said: "I know for certain that the people who have been speaking to me and my colleague only have an interest in ending the deep frustration of people, men and women, who for years, for decades, have been waiting for the institutions that turned a blind eye to their abuse to be held to account.
"I think what really compounds all of this is the sense that an inquiry set up to oppose a culture of secrecy and cover-up has become itself an exemplar of the sins it was supposed to expose."
7 July 2014 - government announces independent inquiry into the way public bodies investigated and handled child sex abuse claims. Baroness Butler-Sloss chosen as head
9 July - Baroness Butler-Sloss faces calls to quit because her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s
14 July - she stands down, saying she is "not the right person" for the job
5 September - Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf named the new head of the inquiry
11 October - Mrs Woolf discloses she had five dinners with Lord Brittan from 2008-12
22 October - abuse victim launches legal challenge against Mrs Woolf leading the inquiry, amid growing calls for her resignation
31 October - victims' groups tell government officials they are "unanimous" Mrs Woolf should quit. She steps down later that day
4 February 2015 - Justice Lowell Goddard, a serving judge of the High Court of New Zealand, announced as the new head of the inquiry
13 July - Dame Lowell's pay is revealed as more than Â£480,000 a year
November - inquiry begins hearing directly from victims and survivors
4 August 2016 - Dame Lowell writes to Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign from her post
14 October The Times reports accusations of racist remarks being made by Dame Lowell when in the job. She denies the claims.


A man who says he is allergic to electricity should not have had his payments from Cardiff council refused, a judge has ruled.

Peter Lloyd, 45, lives in a tent in the garden of an "uninhabitable" house, Cardiff Civil Justice Centre heard.
Mr Lloyd, who has electromagnetic hypersensitivity, said he was entitled to direct payments to employ a helper.
The council, which was ordered to pay Â£12,000 in costs, had claimed he was not capable of managing money.
Quashing the council's decision on Wednesday, Mr Justice Singh said electromagnetic hypersensitivity was not a recognised condition in the UK.
He added it was "not a matter for the court to say what the decision would have been if the authority went about its decision correctly".
Direct payments are given to individuals by councils so they can buy help or services instead of having them supplied by the authority.
Mr Lloyd lives in the back garden of a privately-owned home in Thornhill and has refused alternative accommodation and a portable toilet, the court heard.
He urinates in plastic bottles and defecates in bed pans lined with black bin bags.
He has no running water and an insurance company deemed the house uninhabitable after flooding and the discovery of asbestos - although that has since been removed.
When council workers went to collect Mr Lloyd's waste in May, they found 90 litres of urine and 40 bags of faeces.
He has meals delivered five times a week, including supplies for the weekend on a Friday. As he has no fridge, he has to have food which will not go off.
Representing Mr Lloyd, Christian Howells said: "Where he lives has to be adapted because the symptoms are very real to him."
He described the situation as "chicken and egg" - Mr Lloyd wants the money to pay for help to improve his day-to-day life but the council felt he was not in a position to be given the funds.
Rebecca Stickler, for the council, said: "The housing department has offered housing in a field and various properties and he has refused them all.
"It can't possibly be the case that a local authority should be compelled to use the public purse to pay money to someone who they know cannot manage that payment."
Mr Lloyd's private landlord has begun eviction proceedings in county court, he is estranged from his family and the council recognises him as homeless.
Speaking after the hearing, councillor Susan Elsmore, cabinet member for social care, health and wellbeing, insisted the council had never said Mr Lloyd was not capable of managing money.
"The council's role as a social services authority is to ensure that individuals have the opportunity to benefit from an appropriate assessment of their needs, and any services that may be necessary to meet them," she said.
"The council maintains that it has acted in keeping with its responsibilities, and in relation to this case that it has acted in good faith."


A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges against a professional hunter alleged to have helped an American dentist to kill a famous lion named Cecil.

It ruled that the charges against Theo Bronkhorst "were too vague to enable to him to mount a proper defence".
His lawyer, Perpetua Dube, told the BBC the offence did not have the force of the law and was not criminal in nature.
American dentist Walter Palmer who killed the famed lion last year was not charged.
The lion - a favourite at Hwange National Park - was shot by Mr Palmer with a bow and arrow.
He is said to have paid about $50,000 (Â£32,000) to hunt the lion.
Cecil's killing sparked international outrage, and prompted a global campaign to end lion trophy hunting.
Mr Bronkhorst said in court that he had obtained all the permits required to kill an elderly lion that was outside the national park boundaries.
He is now a free man, though the state could still press fresh charges, the BBC's Shingai Nyoka in Zimbabwe's capital Harare reports.
Cecil attracted photographic safaris and was part of an Oxford research project into lions at the Hwange National Park.
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A Labour government would set up a task force to target firms who encourage low skilled migration and undermine the minimum wage, Ed Miliband has said.

The unit would slap heavier fines on firms that exploit low paid workers, the Labour leader said in a speech on immigration.
The Conservatives said Labour was "in denial" and "nothing" being proposed would help to control immigration.
Meanwhile, the Lib Dems have outlined plans to boost apprenticeships.
And David Cameron pledged to make pensions campaigner Ros Altmann a minister for consumer protection, if the Tories are re-elected.
In other election news:
In a speech in the Wirral, in the north-west of England, Mr Miliband repeated his admission Labour had made mistakes in immigration policy, highlighting the party's failure to ensure there were maximum transitional controls when new countries joined the European Union in 2004.
But he said his party had "listened, learned and changed".
He said it was not "prejudiced" to be concerned about immigration. "As prime minister, I will always address concerns not ignore them. As prime minister, I will always put working families first and that's why we'll have proper controls and rules," he said.
He set out five principles to help tackle the issue: "Securing our borders; restoring the principle that you contribute before you claim; achieving integration in our communities; ending the undercutting of wages of local workers through the exploitation of migrant workers and rebuilding trust by only making promises we can keep and proposing solutions that will work."
Mr Miliband announced plans to create a 100-strong new task force to target firms who exploit migrant workers and do not pay the minimum wage. The enforcement unit based in the Home Office would fine firms that exploited low paid workers, he said.
According to a written parliamentary answer last October, there were four prosecutions of employers who failed or refused to pay the national minimum wage between 2006 and 2014.
HMRC, which enforces the minimum wage, said it employed "selective and exemplary criminal investigation" for "deliberate non-compliance or obstructive behaviour". Most cases of failure to pay are settled without recourse to the civil or criminal courts.
Responding to Mr Miliband's task force plan, the CBI warned about "burdening" firms with inspections, saying any changes should target criminals.
"Mixing up employment rules with criminal offences like trafficking and illegal migration issues should be avoided," added deputy director-general Katja Hall.
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Policy guide: Where the parties stand on immigration
Labour said the unit would bring together teams from the Gangmasters Licensing Authority and specialist police units with extra Home Office staff.
The coalition has increased penalties on employers who pay less than the legal minimum and has placed a cap on non-EU migration.
UKIP has said the the new policy on gangmasters is necessary only because of Labour's lax control of Britain's borders in the past.
But Steve Murphy, general secretary of the building workers union Ucatt, said: "This commitment demonstrates that Labour is serious about ending the misery caused by the exploitation of migrant workers and rightly targets the employers who profit through the mistreatment of workers."
Mr Miliband also said in his speech that "everyone in Britain" should know how to speak English and this was "especially important" for those working in public services.
He acknowledged the "crucial contribution" people from overseas played in the NHS, adding in future "all healthcare professionals will be required to speak English to a sufficient standard so they can care effectively for patients".
The coalition government has given some health regulators the power to impose language tests, but Labour says the process has been too slow and does not cover all staff, such as paramedics, social workers and physiotherapists.
Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, for the Conservatives, said: "Nothing Ed Miliband is proposing today would help control immigration. Labour sent out 'search parties for people' and under them net migration increased more than five-fold."
He said the Conservatives had cracked down on illegal working and would seek to change EU free movement rules if they won the election.
The Liberal Democrats also mention English language in their manifesto, saying people who cannot speak good English and want to claim Jobseeker's Allowance should have to attend courses.
The Conservatives say EU migrants should have to wait four years before they can claim certain benefits or social housing and that child benefit payments should not be made for children living outside the UK.
Recently, some Labour figures complained about the party's messages on immigration. David Lammy warned that the party should not be "trying to out-UKIP UKIP".
The Conservatives' key announcement on Saturday is that pensions campaigner Ros Altmann would be made a Tory peer and given responsibility for financial education and consumer protection.
David Cameron says he wants the "country's leading expert" on these issues to be at the heart of government, helping give people "more power to save, to access their pension, to pass their pension on to their children".
The Liberal Democrats focused on apprenticeships, with a promise the party would double the number of employers offering apprenticeships to young people. Business Secretary Vince Cable said this would mean 360,000 firms offering on-the-job training.
Companies would be offered exemptions from National Insurance and apprenticeship grants as extra incentives. The policy would mean the creation of "more apprenticeship starts per year than Germany", he said.
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The Environment Agency has started a criminal investigation into a fly infestation which has left people unable to cook food in their own homes.

Shows Waste Management, which run the site in Derby, has applied insecticides to the rubbish to control the problem.
The company said it was left in this situation by another firm who provided them with the waste.
The government body said "waste crimes" had been committed and its needs to find out who is responsible.
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Campaigner Diane Hanrahan, who lives in the Slack Lane area, near to the site, said: "We want all the waste shifted, every little bit, then sanitised, dowsing, fogging, the lot, so then it starts fresh.
"But then we do not want a waste recycling premises on our estate."
One resident, Mellissa Marriott, said she had to resort to using an electric fly killer as the problem was so bad.
"I can't even go and have a bath without getting them in my bath water," she said.
Steve Prophet, from the Environment Agency, said: "This is about environmental crime, we've started a criminal investigation against those responsible and we're going to be perusing that and taking appropriate enforcement action.
"Those people providing this company, [Shows Waste Management] with waste have responsibility, they have a duty of care to give their waste to appropriate people.
"They've clearly not exercised that, so there's a broader web of our investigation."
He added that Shows Waste Management, which was issued with a suspension notice, had so far done everything required of it.
Businesses on the nearby Kingsway Retail Park, including Subway, Greggs, Sainsbury's and Hobbycraft, were forced to close on 22 May due to the amount of insects.


Leo Hickman, among other talents a realistic candidate for the title of "world's most prolific enviro-tweeter", posts an analysis of the US political scene in The Guardian this week.

His conclusion: "The world needs to prepare for a climate sceptic defeating Obama".
The analysis rests on the quantifiable. In the first place, virtually all declared Republican presidential candidates have man-made climate change down as a hoax, or at least as something where the jury is out.
In the second place, President Obama's approval numbers are the worst they've been since he took office - 43%, as opposed to 53% who disapprove.
To be sure, climate change isn't the issue that's put him there - it's the economy, stupid.
But that doesn't alter the conclusion that he is potentially beatable.
There are of course many months to run in this campaign, and the shape and persuasion of the eventual Republican candidate is far from certain.
It's also possible that the Republicans will end up in the situation that befell the UK Conservative Party just a few years ago, wherein hard-core party members chose leaders on the basis of ideological purity, and in doing so ended up with prime ministerial candidates who were so unpalatable to the wider and more moderate electorate as to be virtually unelectable.
In particular, the question arises of whether the public approves or disapproves of the shenanigans in Congress over the recent budget.
An analysis by retired Republican staffer Mike Lofgren raises the really profound question of whether the current crop of congressmen actually want to make the government work, or whether their anti-big-government credo now permeates their thinking and tactics to the extent that they actually work towards gridlock, stalemate, and general public dissatisfaction with the political process.
"Everyone knows that in a hostage situation, the reckless and amoral actor has the negotiating upper hand over the cautious and responsible actor because the latter is actually concerned about the life of the hostage, while the former does not care," he writes of the budget negotiations that threatened to put the US in default, and that did lead to a downgrading of the nation's credit rating.
"The attitude of many freshman Republicans to national default was 'bring it on!'"
If this brand of what my colleague Jonny Dymond referred to as "red-meat Republican politics" does appeal, then presumably one of the rawest of the candidates will win the race, and a climate sceptic (or denier, as you prefer) will indeed line up opposite Mr Obama.
If not, Jon Huntsman or Mitt Romney - according to a New York Times analysis, the one-and-a-half candidates who don't plug the hoax line and who are more moderate on most other issues too - may yet win the nomination.
Suppose one of the "red-meat" candidates does come out on top, and does defeat Mr Obama - how does that change the outlook for US climate and energy policies, and for international discussions such as those within the US system on climate change, or within the G20 on clean energy?
In one sense, it'll change little. The balance of power in Congress, even in the Democrat-controlled Senate, means that comprehensive legislation to restrict carbon emissions is already further away than it has been at any point since George W Bush handed over the keys to the Oval Office.
Legislation is definitely not going to happen if a climate sceptic takes over - but it isn't going to happen if Mr Obama wins either. Ditto a strong US commitment in international climate change talks.
On the energy front, the G20 and Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum pledged to phase out fossil fuel subsidies back in 2009.
One suspects a red-meat Republican would cast such a pledge from his or her plate. But whether it makes any practical difference is another matter, given that the pledge had no timescale, no financial levers and no legal form.
Domestically, it's tempting to ask how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would fare if the stabbings it's currently receiving from the forks of right-wing Congressmen are complemented by slicings from the knife of a right-wing Republican president.
As former Friends of the Earth chief Tom Burke wrote in the ENDS report in July (paywalled, unfortunately), the vitriol levelled at the agency is particularly ironic given that it and the swathe of legislation it administers were largely created by a very Republican president, Richard Nixon.
But the impacts of an EPA neutering would be largely confined within US borders, and reversed relatively easily if voters came to mourn its absence.
Decisions will have to be taken fairly soon on oil drilling around US coasts, especially in the Arctic, and whether to pursue more exotic fossil fuels such as methane hydrates.
But these decisions are not for the federal government alone. States will have their say; and in the north, native American peoples and their concerns will also be factors.
Already, the green fervour engendered by Mr Obama's election has subsided to such an extent that the most dramatic programmes on topics such as renewable energy, carbon taxation and automobile fuel standards are coming from states, not Capitol Hill; and a national election won't necessarily negate those programmes.
Given the politics yet to unfold, it may be a bit premature to assume that a climate change sceptic or denier will be running the White House when the dust settles.
But the rest of the world has to recognise that whatever transpires, the US is unlikely to be pushing a radical green line any time soon.
Then again, it has been this way since the hanging chads of Florida carried Mr Bush to the White House in 2001.
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US President-elect Donald Trump says he is handing over his business empire to his sons, Donald Jr and Eric.

He told a news conference he had formally given "complete and total" control to them in a bid to avoid conflicts of interest.
Mr Trump's lawyer said the President-elect had "isolated" himself from his businesses.
Sheri Dillon said Mr Trump wanted to be clear that he was not using his presidency for his personal benefit.
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Speaking at Mr Trump's first news conference since he was elected in November, Ms Dillon explained that all of the Trump Organization's businesses would be transferred to a trust controlled by his sons and the chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, before Mr Trump takes power on January 20.
"Together, Don, Eric, and Allen will have the authority to manage the Trump Organization and will make decisions for the duration of the presidency without any involvement whatsoever by President-elect Trump," said Ms Dillon, whose firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius has been instructed by Mr Trump to draw up a structure to keep his business interests separate.
Ms Dillon added that an ethics adviser would be appointed to the management board of the trust to oversee any potential conflicts of interest.
No new foreign deals will be made during Mr Trump's presidency, according to Ms Dillon, and domestic deals will be subject to a "rigorous vetting process".
And she said the group has cancelled more than 30 pending deals in recent weeks, in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
Earlier in the news conference Mr Trump said he had rejected a $2bn deal in Dubai last weekend, demonstrating he was putting his business activities behind him.
Previous presidents have relinquished control of their business assets by putting them into what is known as a blind trust, run by independent trustees.
Mr Trump spoke last year about dealing with his holdings in this way. However, he then questioned whether it would be a blind trust if his children were in charge of the company.
His daughter Ivanka, whose husband has been named as a senior adviser to the President-elect, will not be involved with the Trump Organization in the future, said Ms Dillon.


The company which bought the UK's oldest coal-fire power station after it closed says it has since re-employed more than 40 staff.

Eighty three jobs were put at risk when Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) failed to find a bidder for the power station in Uskmouth, near Newport, in May, 2014.
But SSE confirmed the station's sale in December, 2014.
New owner, Simec Group Ltd, says it will be converted to biomass fuel.
The station, which was built more than 50 years ago, was described before its sale as the UK's least efficient coal-fired power station.
Hong Kong-based Simec said it had restarted production at the station and hopes to employ more staff as production increases.


Former Newcastle United goalkeeper Pavel Srnicek has died at the age of 47, nine days after suffering cardiac arrest in his native Czech Republic.

A big favourite with fans during his first spell at St James' Park between 1991 and 1998, Srnicek collapsed while jogging on 20 December.
He was taken to a hospital in Ostrava and placed in an induced coma.
Srnicek, who also played for Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth and West Ham, made 49 appearances for his country.
His agent, Steve Wraith, said brain scans had shown "irreversible damage" and the decision "had to be taken" to switch off his life support machine.
Wraith added: "Pav passed away on the afternoon of Tuesday, 29 December 2015, with his family by his side."
The son of a woodcutter, Srnicek joined Newcastle in 1991 and played under Jim Smith, Ossie Ardiles, Kevin Keegan and Kenny Dalglish.
While Keegan was in charge, Srnicek helped the Magpies win promotion to the Premier League and was an integral part of the squad that came close to winning the title in 1996.
The Magpies led by 12 points in January but tailed off badly to finish four points adrift of champions Manchester United.
Wraith said that his "final conversation" with Srnicek was about getting the 1995-96 team back together for a charity event next year.
He added: "We will make that happen and celebrate this great man's life together. United. Fans and players alike."
Srnicek returned to the club on a season-long deal in September 2006 as cover for the injured Shay Given but was released in May 2007 after making 190 appearances for Newcastle across his two spells.
Before his death, Srnicek was the goalkeeping coach at Sparta Prague and was on Tyneside recently to promote his autobiography.
Following his collapse, Newcastle supporters chanted his name during their Premier League match against Everton on Boxing Day.
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In a statement, Newcastle United said: "The thoughts of everyone at Newcastle United are with Pavel's family, many friends, former colleagues and supporters at this very difficult time."
Former central defender Steve Howey, who played with Srnicek at Newcastle, said it was a "devastating day".
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "There aren't enough words to describe such a wonderful, strong, lovely man.
"He was such a big, strong character and fantastic personality and I feel blessed that I was able to be a good friend. We've lost an amazing person, one of our own, and he'll be sorely missed."


It's almost time to don your Jedi robes, grab a lightsaber and test out your mind tricks, because Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits the big screen this week.

From the diameter of the Death Star, to Darth Vader's personal destroyer, here at Newsround HQ we've put together a quiz even C-3PO might struggle with.
You might think you're the Yoda of Star Wars fans, but can you answer these questions?
May the force be with you...
CHEWBACCA LEVEL: QUITE EASY
R2-D2 LEVEL: PRETTY TESTING
YODA LEVEL: MORE DIFFICULT THAN DARTH VADER
The Answers:
Chewbacca Level: 1) Tatooine, 2) The Phantom Menace, 3) Green, 4) Astromech, 5) Darth Sidious
R2-D2 Level: 1) Princess Leia, 2) For being clumsy, 3) The All Terrain Scout Transport, 4) The Devastator, 5) A Wookiee
Yoda Level: 1)Tython, 2) Darth Bane, 3) C-3PO, 4) 120km, 5) 'There's good in him. I know... I know there's still...'


President Donald Trump had been considering firing former FBI Director James Comey since he was elected, a White House spokeswoman says.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders told media there had been an "erosion of confidence" in Mr Comey over the last year.
The administration maintains he was removed on Tuesday for his handling of the Hillary Clinton emails inquiry.
But US media report Mr Comey recently asked the Justice Department for more resources for his Trump-Russia inquiry.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has invited Mr Comey to testify next week.
The White House is rejecting calls to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin in last year's US presidential election.
"We don't think it's necessary," Ms Huckabee Sanders said on Wednesday. "No one wants this to be finished and completed more than us."
If Donald Trump is trying to avoid comparisons with Richard Nixon's scandal-plagued presidency, welcoming Henry Kissinger - the man probably most closely connected with the former president - in the Oval Office probably isn't the best move.
The whole group meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak was a bit strange, starting with the fact that it happened at all. Given the allegations that Mr Trump fired James Comey because of the FBI investigation into Russia ties to the Trump campaign, meeting Moscow's envoy the very next day isn't exactly good optics, as they say.
Neither is keeping US media out of the room and having Russian state photographers provide the only public images of the event - images that are sure to feature in Democratic campaign adverts in the not-too-distant future.
During the campaign, Mr Trump famously joked that he could shoot somebody, and his supporters would stick by him. Smiling with the Russian ambassador in the midst of a growing Russian hacking controversy is the diplomatic equivalent - a brazen move sans firearms.
Many in Washington will howl, but there's no guarantee it will move the needle among the president's legions.
The White House insists it was because of how he handled the investigation into Mrs Clinton's use of private email while she was secretary of state.
But many are sceptical that the FBI director would be fired because of actions that have been widely attributed for Mr Trump's shock election victory.
The White House spokeswoman said Mr Comey had committed "atrocities, circumventing the chain of command" within the Justice Department.
The White House said the "final catalyst" was Tuesday's letter from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recommending Mr Comey be fired for "serious mistakes".
Mr Rosenstein faulted Mr Comey's decision last July to announce the Clinton emails case was closed, and for revealing in October - 11 days before the election - that the inquiry had reopened.
The deputy attorney general said Mr Comey's conduct had "usurped" the then-attorney general.
Unnamed White House officials briefed Reuters news agency that Mr Trump finally lost patience with the FBI director last week over a perceived act of insubordination.
They said Mr Comey had refused to preview for top presidential aides his planned testimony to a 3 May Senate hearing on the Clinton email issue.
Critics accuse the Republican president of firing the nation's top law enforcement official because he was leading an inquiry into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in last year's election.
On Wednesday, Democratic senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Durbin told US media that Mr Comey had asked the deputy attorney general for more resources - mainly staff - for the FBI investigation.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores called those reports "totally false".
Either way, Republicans and Democrats vowed the House and Senate Intelligence Committees' investigations into the Russia claims would continue.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said if Mr Trump believed replacing Mr Comey would halt the inquiries "he made a big mistake".
The president stood by his actions on Wednesday during a surprise meeting with Nixon-era Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing a good job".
His remarks preceded a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak - his first with any Russian official since taking power.
Mr Trump later tweeted: "Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites!"


Glasgow's George Square is being transformed into a tournament arena as it prepares for the Homeless World Cup.

The event, which runs from 10 to 16 July, features 48 men's and 16 women's teams from 52 countries.
Three football pitches and seating for 3,500 spectators is being built in George Square, ready for the 14th year of the cup.
Scotland last hosted the tournament in 2005, in Edinburgh. The first took place in Graz, Austria, in 2003.
The aim of the competition is to inspire homeless people to change their lives.
It was set up by the International Network of Street Papers and Mel Young, founder of the Big Issue in Scotland.
Scotland's men take on Hong Kong with the women's team playing against Norway in their opening fixtures of the competition.
The matches follow the opening ceremony which starts at 12:30 on Sunday.
The Scotland teams are managed, selected and coached by social enterprise Street Soccer Scotland. They include players from across Scotland picked after a series of selection days throughout the year.
Ally Dawson, manager of Team Scotland, said: "The Homeless World Cup is a very special event for everyone involved and being host nation brings an added honour.
"The men's and women's squads have been training very hard over recent weeks in preparation for the start of the tournament.
Every year the Scottish teams are determined to do their country proud but this year has an added edge as they look forward to playing in front of what will be a very noisy home support."
Scotland's men's team won the tournament for the first time in Denmark in 2007 and again in Paris in 2011. The women's team finished 5th in Paris in 2011 and 7th last year in Amsterdam.
About 100,000 spectators are expected to come to watch matches during the week-long tournament. Entry is free and no tickets are required.


Thursday's first test flight of the US space agency's Orion "Mars ship" has been postponed because of weather and technical issues.

The capsule had been due to launch atop a Delta rocket on a short journey above the Earth to prove key technologies.
Its maiden voyage was to have taken place from Cape Canaveral in Florida between 12:05 GMT and 14:44 GMT.
But the countdown was interrupted by gusty winds and by sluggish fuel valves in the Delta's big boosters.
Engineers will try again on Friday. The launch window will be exactly the same as on Thursday, with the aim as ever to try to get away right at the start of the window at 12:05 GMT (07:05 local Florida time).
"We'll go make sure we've got a happy rocket and as soon as we do that we're going to get back to the pad and send Orion off to a very, very successful test flight," said Dan Collins from the Delta's operating company, United Launch Alliance.
The conical capsule is reminiscent of the Apollo command ships that took men to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s, but bigger and with cutting-edge systems.
For this demonstration mission, Orion is being flown without people aboard.
The first two delays on Thursday were weather-related (although a cargo ship travelling close to the launch range was a concern for a period, also). Sensors detected unacceptably strong gusts of wind in the vicinity of the rocket at ground level, and this automatically stopped the countdown clock.
A third stop on the clock was caused by sticky fill/drain valves on the rocket's big boosters. These had become excessively cold in the presence of the Delta's liquid hydrogen propellant.
Lockheed Martin, the company developing Orion and running this test flight for Nasa, has another two days to get the mission off the ground before negotiations must take place for an extension.
Other space missions have bookings on the launch complex and they would have to agree to step back, potentially delaying their operations as well. And ULA has a lift-off to manage on the West Coast of the US next week, and this could be impacted if the company's staff are detained in Florida.
Unfortunately, the weather in some respects looks to be less favourable for a Friday attempt.
If it deteriorates further, a decision could be made simply to jump to Saturday. This would save on supplies of liquid hydrogen, some of which is lost every time the rocket is tanked up, while also giving launch crews a bit of rest.
Orion is being developed alongside a powerful new rocket that will have its own debut in 2017 or 2018.
Together, they will form the core capabilities needed to send humans beyond the International Space Station to destinations such as the Red Planet.
For the time being, the Delta IV-Heavy rocket - currently the beefiest launcher in the world - is being used as a stand-in.
If all goes well on Friday, the Delta will send Orion twice around the globe, throwing the ship up to an altitude of almost 6,000km (3,600 miles).
This will set up a fast fall back to Earth, with a re-entry speed into the atmosphere close to 30,000km/h (20,000mph) - near what would be expected of a capsule coming back from the Moon.
It should give engineers the opportunity to check the performance of Orion's critical heat shield, which is likely to experience temperatures in excess of 2,000C (4,000F).
They will also watch how the parachutes deploy as they gently lower the capsule into Pacific waters off Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos


The secure mobile messaging app Telegram has started cracking down on propaganda from so-called Islamic State group (IS), nearly eight weeks after the terror group set up its own public broadcast channels there.

IS and other jihadist groups have been exploiting new functionality introduced by the app in late September, which allows users to broadcast their messages to an unlimited number of members via their own Telegram "channel".
In an announcement on Wednesday evening, the Berlin-based Telegram said it had shut down 78 IS channels and promised to make it easier for users to flag "objectionable public content" shared via the app.
"We were disturbed to learn that Telegram's public channels were being used by ISIS [alternative name for IS] to spread their propaganda," said a statement from Telegram, which was set up in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Pavel and Nikolai Durov.
The action followed claims by IS for the 13 November Paris attacks and the downing of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on 31 October.
Shortly before the key IS propaganda channel on Telegram was shut down on 18 November, it had been used to publish IS's English-language magazine Dabiq which hailed the Paris attacks and featured an image of the bomb IS claims to have used to bring down the plane.
IS had shifted its propaganda distribution to Telegram from Twitter on 26 September, just four days after Telegram trumpeted the launch of its new "Channels" tool.
An official IS channel dubbed Nashir, which translates as "Distributor" in English, quickly became the platform where IS propaganda started appearing first, often several minutes before being posted to Twitter - IS's other favoured outlet.
The channel had amassed over 16,000 subscribers before it was shut down along with a raft of other IS channels used to distribute the group's propaganda in a wide range of languages, including English, French, Russian, Turkish and Urdu.
But many other jihadist Telegram channels continue to be active, including official channels operated by al-Qaeda's branches in Yemen and North Africa and others supportive of IS.
And the clampdown by Telegram has not stopped IS getting its message out, with the group reverting to its network of accounts on Twitter to publish its latest material.
Since July 2014, when IS's last official branded accounts were suspended by Twitter, the group's media operatives have been caught up in a cat-and-mouse game with the site administration, which routinely suspends IS's quasi-official, non-branded accounts.
IS's hopes that Telegram would offer it a more stable and resilient platform for its propaganda appear to have been dashed.
But Telegram has indicated that it does not intend to act against terrorists' use of the app's private messaging service, saying it would only move to suppress illegal "publicly available" material.
"All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them," the company says on its website.
Even before IS launched its latest propaganda channel via Telegram, there had been evidence that the group and its members were using the app's private messaging facility.
In September, IS had advertised an Iraqi mobile phone number, which people could use to get in touch with the group via Telegram in order to pay a ransom for two hostages being held by the group.
And jihadists inspired by IS, including a British teenager convicted recently, have used the app's secure encrypted messaging to conduct attack planning.
Jihadists have been drawn by Telegram's boast to provide a "secret chat" facility, which heavily encrypts messages user-to-user with a unique key to avoid interception by hackers or government agencies.
Telegram is so confident of its security that it twice offered a reward of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the first person who could crack its encryption.
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Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and are also being threatened by security services, says a new report.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) made its latest claims two days before Russia finds out whether it can send athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
They were banned from international competition after Wada accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.
Athletics chiefs meet on Friday to decide whether to lift the ban.
It says that:
The report details the lengths athletes from different sports allegedly went to, both to avoid tests and fool doping control officers (DCOs).
It says one athlete was seen running away from the mixed zone after an event, while another left the stadium during a race and could not be located.
Wada also highlighted the case of an athlete who, it says, used a container - "presumably containing clean urine" - that had been inserted inside her.
When she tried to use the container, it leaked onto the floor.
The athlete is alleged to have tried to bribe the DCO before providing a sample that subsequently returned an adverse finding.
The report also says that:
As a result, tests were not carried out at the national weightlifting and national Greco-Roman wrestling championships.
In some cases, testers were not told where an event was taking place.
"What really comes through, when you read through it page by page by page, is the number of occasions when there was simply no co-operation given,"  former Wada president Dick Pound told the BBC World Service.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) voted to suspend Russia's athletics federation on 13 November after an independent Wada report alleged "state-sponsored doping".
The report was commissioned to investigate claims made in a documentary shown by German broadcaster ARD in 2014.
The programme alleged widespread doping in Russian athletics, claiming as many as 99% of athletes had cheated.
The claims were made by whistleblowers, among them Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official, and his wife Yulia, a former 800m runner who was banned for doping.
Russian athletes, including former London Marathon winner Liliya Shobukhova, also admitted to taking drugs and observing corruption.
The Wada report found evidence of state involvement, as well as evidence that samples had been destroyed, doping controls had been interfered and bribes had been paid to conceal positive tests.
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The IAAF meets on Friday in Vienna to discuss what Russian authorities have done to tackle doping and whether its athletes should compete in Rio.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said the country could take legal action if its athletics federation was not reinstated, Interfax news agency has reported.
"It is a big and an important message whatever is decided," said Pound.
"If they are held to be excluded, that's a message. If they are allowed to come back in, there is going to be another message that all of the sporting authorities are going to have to deal with."
Pound said a ban on Russian athletes competing in the Olympics would be extremely difficult for the Russian government to explain to its citizens.
"You can explain all sorts of economic sanctions and political sanctions and what not if you are the state," he said.
"But it is very hard to explain to a country that really enjoys its sport and likes to watch it why it is that nobody will play with you."
Meanwhile, Russian Olympic medallists and world champions have appealed to the head of the International Olympic Committee to let athletes with no history of doping to compete at the Rio Games.
"The fraud of dishonest people should not jeopardise the career of innocent fellow athletes," said 13 sports stars in a letter to Thomas Bach.
The 13 include Alexander Popov, a four-time Olympic champion swimmer, and judo champion Tagir Khaibulaev.
The Olympic athletics programme begins in Brazil on 12 August.


The end of a scheme to improve the standard of swimming among primary school children has brought a warning from the sport's governing body.

Scottish Swimming said the government had pulled funding from its Â£1.72m programme to support school lessons.
It said it was concerned it could lead to greater numbers of adults who lacked confidence in the water.
The Scottish government said the top-up scheme had ended but swimming was still well-funded.
Swimming is not a compulsory part of the curriculum in Scotland, unlike in England.
The provision of primary school swimming lessons varies extensively between local authorities, with children living in the most socially deprived areas having the highest number of non-swimmers.
Scottish Swimming claimed that as many as 40% of children, about 15,000 each year, headed to high school as non-swimmers.
Its "Top Up" swimming programme supported local authorities to deliver swimming lessons for pupils.
Scottish Swimming said "Top Up" helped up to 30,000 children to improve their swimming skills.
Sports Minister Jamie Hepburn said: "The Top Up programme was designed to help develop a model to enable swimming clubs and local authorities to teach children to swim by providing some initial additional investment to assist local provision. The programme received Â£1.72m over four years.
"Although the top-up programme has now ended, Scottish Swimming received more than Â£5m (over four years) in the latest funding round from sportscotland. This is the largest funding settlement of all the Commonwealth Games sports."
Shelagh Dow, the head teacher at Granton primary in Edinburgh, said financial pressures stopped many families from going swimming.
She said the loss of the programme would have an impact.
"That is going to make a huge difference for them," Ms Dow said.
"Swimming is ultimately a life skill and because a lot of them don't manage to pick up the swimming with the funded lessons that they have in primary 4 they really need that top-up.  Quite often financial constraints stop them going swimming at other times."
Sharon Macdonald, development officer for Scottish Swimming, said: "It is very concerning for us. The programme has been in place for the past four years.
"We've seen a massive impact from the programme in the region of 25,000 to 30,000 children who have either improved their swimming or become what is our new national standard for school swimming.


A party can't build a governing majority with moral victories.

On Tuesday Democrat Jon Ossoff came close to beating Republican Karen Handel in a Georgia congressional district that has been historically conservative but trending left. In the words of the immortal Ricky Bobby of Talladega Nights, however, "If you're not first, you're last".
There have been four congressional special elections this year where Democrats and Republicans have gone head-to-head, and the Democrats have been "not first" in all of them. That prompted Donald Trump to take a Twitter victory lap on Tuesday night.
"Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O!" he wrote. "All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0".
The president's math is a bit off, of course. He's probably counting the Georgia primary, in which Mr Ossoff finished first, as a "win" and ignoring a California congressional election where no Republicans made it to the final round of balloting.
Nevertheless Georgia's result has to be considered a demoralising blow to Democrats nationwide, who may be wondering if they'll ever be able to break through against a president whose low approval ratings, in their view, should make him, and his entire party, toxic.
Here's a closer look at what it all means - and where both parties go from here.
Republicans win key Georgia election
The battle of Gettysburg was important not because the tiny Pennsylvania town had any strategic significance. It was the turning point of the US Civil War because that's where the two armies decided to fight.
A similar dynamic was at play in Georgia over the past few months. Democrats and Republicans made the Atlanta-area congressional district a pivotal battleground because both sides committed unprecedented resources to the effort. Mr Ossoff raised tens of millions from donors across the US, and the Democratic Party added hundreds of thousands of dollars from its campaign coffers.
Republican outside political groups and deep-pocketed donors, like casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, also poured money into the race.
Even though the Georgia seat is just one of 435 that will be up for grabs again next November the race became pivotal because both sides acted like it was.
Strategic concerns. Cue the circular firing squad. Already Democrats are questioning whether Mr Ossoff ran too cautious a race. Although he was the darling of the Democratic base - drawing on the same passionate small-money donors as populist Bernie Sanders in his presidential bid last year - he ran as a moderate, emphasising fiscal responsibility, "humility" and modest reforms of the current healthcare system, rather than the more sweeping liberal policies advocated by many on the left. The loss here is already starting to rekindle some of the Clinton v Sanders acrimony from last year's Democratic primary.
Pelosi questioned. The long knives are also starting to come out for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who some Democrats view as an ill-suited leader for the party. Republicans repeatedly hit Mr Ossoff for his supposed ties to the San Francisco liberal who has become a bogeywoman for conservatives, and on Wednesday one Democratic congressional hopeful announced his candidacy with the promise to support someone other than Ms Pelosi if he's elected.
Dollars at risk. Mr Ossoff's disappointing finish despite his record fundraising haul could also discourage future Democratic donors, left wondering whether their contributions have been well-spent. The Democrats' $23m war chest would have gone a long way to help candidates across the nation in next November's mid-term elections. They better hope there's more where that came from.
Warm bodies in demand. One of the keys to a successful mid-term election is putting as many seats in play as possible by recruiting capable, compelling candidates. Congressman Ossoff would have been a perfect poster boy to encourage other Democrats to take the plunge next year. If a 30-year-old former filmmaker can come from nowhere to win, why can't they? Now, however, it may be harder to get quality candidates to commit to the meatgrinder that is a modern US campaign.
Non-toxic Trump. According to a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, Mr Trump's approval rating in Georgia's sixth congressional district stood at 35%. Despite the president's low popularity, Republicans turned out for their party's candidate in record numbers for a special election. While they may not love the president, they either continue to dislike Democrats more or see their cause as bigger than one man, even if that man is the supposed face of the party.
Agenda back on track. If Ms Handel had lost on Tuesday Republicans would be running for their political lives. Members of Congress staring at close elections would likely bail on any legislation that could cost them votes, including efforts to enact relatively unpopular conservative healthcare reforms, which are entering their critical final stages, and the upcoming contentious fight over tax reform.
Retirement parties delayed. One tell-tale sign that a party sees an electoral rout on the horizon is when its senior politicians start heading for the exits. The prospect of a cushy lobbying job or a life of honorary board memberships can seem preferable to defeat at the ballot box or the frustrations of minority-party status. If Mr Ossoff had prevailed, a lot of Republicans would have been facing some hard choices. Instead, there may be reason to stick it out. Although the closeness of the race means the Republican House majority is still at risk, the Georgia seat is one that would likely fall in a wave midterm election.
A pleasant distraction. Mr Trump and the Republicans had been on the ropes of late, with a seemingly never-ending stream of stories about White House palace intrigue and unpleasant revelations from the ongoing investigations into possible Russian ties to the Trump campaign. Tuesday's win gives the party the opportunity to change the conversation, at least temporarily, and may give the media cause to reconsider whether all the eye-popping headlines and blockbuster scoops are really resonating outside the environs of the nation's capital.
Those on the left will note that the Georgia race, decided by just under 4%, marked a significant tightening over past few races, where incumbent Republican Tom Price often doubled his opponent's vote total. The Democrats there, it appears, are trending in the right direction
If the party faithful want some real encouragement, however, they should look to the congressional race in neighbouring South Carolina, which also took place on Tuesday.
The South Carolina seat, previously occupied by current White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, largely flew under the national radar, but the Republican margin of victory there turned out to be narrower than in Georgia.
In a midterm wave election that cuts against the incumbent party - which is what Democrats are hoping for next year - the challengers tend to benefit from motivated voters on their side and the apathy of their opponents. The bright spotlight and vast resources spent on Georgia prevented that from happening on Tuesday, but next November - when all 435 seats in the House are up for grabs - the races might end up looking a lot more like South Carolina's low-turnout affair.
If that's the case, there are plenty of places where political balance is a lot closer than South Carolina's, perhaps suggesting the seats could tip to the Democrats.
Two moral victories on Tuesday instead of one probably isn't much of a comfort to Democrats right now, but it's a place to start.
It's going to be a long summer for Democrats, as the next chance for their party to post some - any - electoral wins won't come until November. At that point, the terrain becomes friendlier, as the big prizes will be governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey.
With higher expectations comes greater pressure, however. A loss in either of those races will turn Democratic discouragement into outright despair.


When birds flock, or gather in a group, they can fly thousands of miles.

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3 February 2015 Last updated at 07:59 GMT
But how do they do it without running out of energy?
Well scientists think it's all down to the way they fly as a group.
They've studied the northern bald ibis - Martin has more.


A proposal to improve access to a major Surrey industrial estate is to be delayed for up to 18 months following public consultation.

Guildford council is keen to connect Slyfield Industrial Estate with Clay Lane, in Jacobs Well, via a link road.
But it said residents were concerned about the effect on Highways England's plans for an A3 upgrade.
The council now plans to take more time - until plans for the A3 are clearer - before submitting an application.
Guildford Borough Council said the industrial estate was an important economic hub, providing more than 2,000 jobs.
It believes the link road - which would cost an estimated Â£7.3m - would attract new business and create many more jobs.
The proposal is made up of two phases - the road infrastructure within the industrial estate and the actual link road.
The council said it had been assured by Highways England that the link road proposal would have no effect on its A3 plans.
But the council said it was keen to see how the A3 plans developed to ensure they would not change the design of a second access to the estate.
At a council meeting on 23 February it will now seek to delay the planning application for the second phase, until A3 plans are clearer, taking a decision to submit an application for the first phase only.


The mother of American Kenneth Bae, who is imprisoned in North Korea, told the BBC his health had improved following two months of medical treatment.

But Myunghee Bae said her worst fear was that he would get sent back to a labour camp.
The Korean-American was arrested last November and sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in May.
Mr Bae, described as a tour operator and Christian missionary, was accused of plotting sedition.
Mrs Bae was allowed to visit her son - who is reportedly suffering from a series of ailments including diabetes, an enlarged heart and back pain - on 11 October
In an interview with the BBC, Ms Bae said she was not initially worried when she first heard the news that her son was arrested.
"He always told me he was welcomed in North Korea. He brought tourism over there that helps the economy," she said, adding her son wanted to change the perception of North Korea to the outside world.
Kenneth Bae was transferred from a labour camp to hospital earlier this year as his health deteriorated.
Mrs Bae said she was trying to hold back tears when they met, and both of them were very emotional.
"But my heart was aching when I saw him in a hospital garment, confined in a small space," she says. "How can I describe my heartache to leave him behind as a prisoner over there?"
US citizens held by N Korea
When asked if she had hope of seeing him released soon, she said: "That's really uncertain because as a family, we don't have any power to bring him home. We feel really helpless."
But she said her family had faith and hope that the US government would bring him home.
Known in North Korea as Pae Jun-ho, Mr Bae was arrested in November 2012 as he entered the north-eastern port city of Rason, a special economic zone near North Korea's border with China.
His trial and conviction came at a time of high tension between the US and North Korea, in the wake of the communist state's third nuclear test on 13 February.
Tensions have since eased somewhat. In August, North Korea issued and then revoked an invitation for US envoy Robert King to travel to Pyongyang to seek Mr Bae's release.
North Korea has arrested several US citizens in recent years, including journalists and Christians accused of proselytising.
They were released after visits to Pyongyang by high-profile officials, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
The US accuses North Korea of using detained citizens as bargaining chips.
Meanwhile, North Korea said on Thursday it would allow six detained South Koreans to return home on Friday.
The group will cross over at the truce village of Panmunjom, North Korea's Red Cross said in a statement.
The identities of the six are not clear, but it is possible four are are South Koreans that North Korea said it had detained for illegal entry in February 2010, officials said.


Eight million tonnes of plastic rubbish is dumped into the ocean every year, but this new invention might help to clean it up.

19 January 2016 Last updated at 07:21 GMT
Pete and Andrew both love to surf, but got fed up of sharing the ocean with tonnes of rubbish.
They decided it was time for a clean-up, and have invented a 'sea bin' which is specially designed to float on the surface of the ocean, and vacuum up the rubbish.
And it's not just surfers who will benefit - rubbish in the ocean can cause much more serious problems for sea-life.
Experts say that animals like turtles, dolphins, whales, and sea birds are all at risk because of the litter.
The inventors are hoping that their creation can help to protect the environment, and make oceans a nicer place for everyone.