If news stories could have a soundtrack, then this scrapping of tests in the early years of primary school would have the unmistakable sound of a pendulum slowly swinging back.

The Department for Education is proposing that national curriculum tests taken by seven-year-olds in England could be ditched.
Instead there would be an assessment of five-year-olds by a teacher - a so-called "baseline test" - which would be used as a starting point for measuring progress through primary school.
It represents a step backwards from more and more testing - a shift in attitude as much as policy.
And it raises again the thorny question of what kind of tests young children should face in primary school.
Are such tests a helpful indicator for identifying pupils' needs? Or are they an unnecessary pressure - a case of too much, too young? And are such tests going to mean a paper mountain of extra bureaucracy for teachers, hindering rather than helping learning?
The teachers' unions have broadly given their support to the government's announcement to row back on the tests for seven year olds in reading, writing, maths and science.
But the National Union of Teachers still says the idea of a baseline test for four or five-year-olds remains a "triumph of hope over experience".
The teachers' union questions whether this can ever be a sufficiently reliable test to be used as a fixed point against which to measure all the following years of a child's progress.
But the counter-argument to this is that you have to start somewhere.
If schools are to be held to account for how much progress children have made by the age of 11 - then it has to be measured against a starting point.
And isn't the natural starting point in the first year?
There is also a strong argument that it is the low achievers and the disadvantaged who will be most in need of the extra help that a test might identify.
And at the last general election, all three main political parties were sympathetic to the principle of baseline testing.
But the announcement on testing also raises another great back and forth of the education pendulum. How much data is too much?
Parents' evenings, with spreadsheets and targets, can feel like a chat with the accountants.
And for the schools themselves, the accumulation and analysis of data has become a major part of their working lives.
It is make or break too, because Ofsted inspectors will also be using the same crowded panel of charts and indicators, tracking progress on computer screens like mission control following a space probe or some trader overseeing the foreign exchange markets.
This has often prompted the accusation that an over-emphasis on testing undermines those cultural and mind-expanding things that can't be tested - like putting on plays, debating ideas and playing sport.
And there is an argument that tests shape all around them. Once a test is set, with rewards and penalties, then that metric becomes the priority that overrides everything else. It isn't so much the testing, as the use to which it is put and the consequences built upon it.
But Sats tests have been part of primary school life in England for more than 25 years - and there is little chance of them completely disappearing.
Supporters of testing will point to the importance of holding schools to account for all their pupils.
Tests have been seen as a way of focusing attention. It means that schools that are failing their pupils can be identified and improved.
If there were no tests and targets, wouldn't it be easier for an underachieving youngster to drift through school without recognition of the support and intervention they might need?
England's relative success in education rankings compared with Wales has been claimed as being linked to the absence of Sats tests and league tables in Wales.
But the battle over testing will continue - often as much about perception as anything else.
The international TIMSS tests - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study - which have been measuring international education standards since the 1990s, recently examined the almost universally-accepted truth that testing had becoming increasingly frequent and pupils were under more scrutiny and pressure.
Except, when this was investigated across a wide range of countries, it was broadly speaking untrue. Testing was not particularly more common than in the 1990s.
The Sats tests in England were once at the ages of seven, 11 and 14 - with the test for 14 year olds scrapped when Ed Balls was education secretary.
And in striking out the test for seven-year-olds, the education secretary has pushed the pendulum a little further away from testing.


Amiens were promoted to the top flight of French football for the first time with a stoppage-time goal that carried them from sixth to second.

In a remarkable climax to the Ligue 2 season, the top six were separated by three points before Friday's games.
Amiens were set to finish sixth - and not even make the play-offs - when Emmanuel Bourgaud scored a 96th-minute winner at Reims to trigger a pitch invasion from club officials and players.
Club president Bernard Joannin said: "It is an extraordinary moment.
"I saw a fighting team again. At the start of the season, our ambition was to stay up - and now we are in Ligue 1.
"Football is a play every Friday night. We gave this evening an extraordinary drama."
Joannin also said that he had offered new French president Emmanuel Macron - born in Amiens - a signed shirt before the game which had brought them both luck.
Strasbourg sealed the title after a 2-1 home win over Bourg en Bresse.
Third-placed Troyes came from two goals down to beat Sochaux 3-2 but Bourgaud's late goal for Amiens means they now face a play-off against the side who finish 18th in Ligue 1 following the final round of top-flight games on Saturday.
Both Strasbourg and Amiens have now won back-to-back promotions, with the latter having never played top-flight football during their 116-year history.
It is also a fourth promotion in six years for Strasbourg, who return to Ligue 1 for the first time since 2008, having entered liquidation in 2011 and been placed in the fifth tier.
Final-round results
Strasbourg 2-1 Bourg-en-Bresse
Reims 1-2 Amiens
Sochaux 2-3 Troyes
Lens 3-1 Niort
Brest 6-2 Ajaccio
Laval 1-2 Nimes


Theresa May is "waging a war against the poor" and risks leaving the country more divided than at any time in 50 years, former PM Gordon Brown has said.

Addressing Labour activists in Fife, he said poverty levels were set to eclipse those last seen in the early 1990s.
He acknowledged the challenge facing Labour but said "no Tory prime minister should ever be given a free hand".
Mrs May has urged lifelong Labour voters who feel "deserted" by Jeremy Corbyn to put their trust in her.
In his biggest intervention to date in the election campaign, Mr Brown attacked the record of the Conservatives and the SNP in power and said a Labour government was needed more than ever.
Earlier on Saturday, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson warned of a "Margaret Thatcher-style landslide" for the Conservatives if his party fails to turn around current poll numbers.
Labour had a "mountain to climb" to catch up with the Tories before 8 June's vote, he conceded in an interview with the Guardian.
Mr Corbyn said both he and Mr Watson were "working flat out to get Labour elected" on 8 June.
Asked whether senior party figures were already admitting defeat, he replied: "Not at all."
He added: "I am out round the whole country, the party is out round the country putting out the message we are for the many, not the few."
Mr Brown - campaigning in his former constituency, which Labour lost to the SNP in 2015 - defended the legacy of the Labour governments of which he was a key figure and suggested they were under threat from the government's squeeze on welfare spending allied to the rising cost of living.
Citing figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Trust, he claimed the number of people deemed to be living in poverty had risen last year to levels last seen in the early 1990s and that the numbers were set to rise sharply by 2022.
"Mrs May says she wants to unite the country but she will create a country that is more divided economically and more socially polarised than at any time in the last 50 years," he said.
"We have got to get MPs to Parliament to fight a war against poverty and stop this war against the poor."
The prime minister, he suggested, wanted to turn the election into a "one-issue" campaign on Brexit and marginalise important subjects such as the future of the NHS, education and levels of inequality.
"She wants you to strengthen her hand with Europe but won't tell you what that hand is. What she wants is a free hand.
"She wants carte blanche to do whatever you want. No prime minister should ever be given a blank cheque. No Conservative prime minister should ever be given a free hand."
In his interview, Mr Watson asked for voters to consider that "a lot of local MPs are running on a good track record" when people head to the polling stations next month.
Speaking on a tour of marginal seats in Wales, Mr Watson said Labour had "terrifically exciting" proposals in its manifesto - a draft of which was leaked earlier this week - but he was concerned about how far behind Labour were.
"If we get to 8 June and [Theresa May] still commands the lead in the polls that she had at the start of the election, she will command a Margaret Thatcher-style majority," said Mr Watson, referring to the Tories' 144- and 101-seat victories in 1983 and 1987 respectively.
Appealing for voters' backing, he added: "A Conservative government with a 100 majority... it will be very hard for them to be held to account in the House of Commons. "It means there won't be the usual checks and balances of democracy. All those things go out of the window."
On Friday, Mrs May travelled to Tyne and Wear to appeal to an area that traditionally voted Labour.
"Proud and patriotic working-class people in towns and cities across Britain have not deserted the Labour Party - Jeremy Corbyn has deserted them," she said.
"We respect that parents and grandparents taught their children and grandchildren that Labour was a party that shared their values and stood up for their community.
"But across the country today, traditional Labour supporters are increasingly looking at what Jeremy Corbyn believes in and are appalled."


The Court of Appeal has ruled that the home secretary can use secret court hearings to defend a damages claim being brought by a former IRA informer.

Martin McGartland is suing MI5 for breach of contract and negligence after he was shot by the IRA in 1999.
A High Court judge said because of sensitive evidence in the case, "closed material proceedings" could be used in the interests of national security.
Three appeal judges have agreed that judge was entitled to take that view.
Mr McGartland, 43, was given a new identity after he was shot in Whitley Bay on Tyneside.
A former agent of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Branch, Mr McGartland claims the security services failed to provide care for post-traumatic stress disorder and access to disability benefits.
Mr McGartland blames "years of neglect" by MI5 for leaving him traumatised and unable to work because of his secret life.
A judge said that "sensitive material" relating to protecting and training security service "handlers" arose in the case.
Upholding the declaration, an appeal judge said he had read the High Court decision as going no further than "opening the gateway" to closed material proceedings being a "possibility".
He added that he expected any application to use them to be "scrutinised with care", and the court must consider serving a summary of the evidence.
The ruling means Mr McGartland and his lawyers will not be able to hear parts of the case or see material deemed to be sensitive.
Special advocates will be appointed to protect his interests at court hearings.
Mr McGartland, from west Belfast, has written a book about his experiences, 50 Dead Men Walking, that was made into a film in 2008.


Police firearms officers who cornered an ATM theft gang at an Arbroath McDonald's restaurant shot at a car not involved in the crime, it has emerged.

Officers fired tyre-deflation rounds at the raiders' Mercedes after they tried to ram a police car to escape.
Two further rounds were discharged at another car which was mistakenly thought to be involved.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) said the officers' response was "wholly justified."
No members of the public were injured during the incident on 12 February last year.
The five men were arrested outside the restaurant after stealing an ATM in Carnoustie earlier that day.
Seven men were convicted of blowing up cash machines at banks and supermarkets across England and Scotland at Liverpool Crown Court this week.
The Pirc report said the police firearms response was "necessary and proportionate" due to the high risk posed to the public.
Commissioner Kate Frame said: "The police response, to what was a significant threat to public safety and the officers themselves, was wholly justified.
"They had reliable intelligence to indicate they were dealing with suspects who had access to firearms, a history of extreme violence and who had previously used high-powered stolen vehicles to ram police vehicles and escape.
"When the suspects then used the same dangerous tactic to try and avoid arrest during this incident, the use of tyre deflation rounds to disable their vehicle was not only necessary but proportionate."


The employers group, the CBI, is calling on the government to abandon an immigration target which was set by David Cameron and which then proved part of his undoing.

Net migration measures the number of people coming to Britain, minus the number of people leaving.
Given that it's pretty hard to control the number of people leaving, it's arguably a dangerous thing on which to pin your political career.
But that's what the former prime minister did when he pledged to get the number down to the "tens of thousands" from over 300,000 a year.
David Cameron failed, and unease about the number of people arriving from the EU was the defining issue of the referendum.
The message was clear: without control of our borders we have no chance of ever controlling net migration. The rest is now history.
Britain's biggest business group is attempting a very difficult balancing act.
The CBI needs to acknowledge public concern over immigration while at the same time warning about looming labour shortages in key industries like agriculture, care and construction.
Its answer - abandon the net migration target in favour of a more nuanced measure.
The CBI favours one which recognises the challenges faced by these industries and also reflects the public's differing attitudes towards certain jobs.
In its report, the CBI argues that, although polling after the referendum showed that the public looks on unskilled migration unfavourably, when asked about care workers and construction workers, 75% and 60% respectively said that the numbers of migrants should stay the same or be increased.
That, says the CBI, is evidence that we need a better way of measuring the cost and benefits of immigration.
In one sense, the CBI has a strong case.
Unemployment is at an 11-year low of 4.8% and there are a record number of people currently in a job.
There's little evidence that immigration has pushed UK nationals out of a job.
And without the EU nationals already here, many industries would face crippling labour shortages.
The CBI also insists that immigration has had little impact on wages, particularly in low-skilled areas.
But privately, many bosses acknowledge that immigrants, who often sleep several to a room, and often leave their families back in Eastern Europe, are prepared to work for lower wages.
And that depresses wages at the bottom of the pay scale.
A Bank of England study found that although small, there was a "statistically significant" negative impact on wages in some unskilled occupations which had high concentrations of immigrant workers.
The impact may be small, but it plays big when amplified by other social concerns.
The CBI raises some very real challenges facing UK businesses and the economy as a whole.
There are serious questions about who will build Hinkley C nuclear power station, an expanded Heathrow airport, the HS2 railway project, and hundreds of thousands of new homes.
An ageing population will need more carers, and turnips don't pick themselves.
The government has been making some conciliatory noises.
Speaking to business leaders in Cardiff, Brexit Secretary David Davis said that while freedom of movement will end in its current form, the government does not want to end up with damaging labour shortages in key areas.
That raises the potential for work permits or visas to be issued on a sector-by-sector basis, as required by particular industries.
If that need increases, the government may be in a position where it has "retaken control", only for immigration to stay stubbornly high.
It may want to abandon the net migration target, but it knows that reducing it was one of the messages that the public really heard during the referendum campaign.
Given that, the CBI's plea may fall, at least for now, on deaf ears.


A man arrested on suspicion of murdering a homeless woman whose bones washed up on an Essex island has been released on police bail.

The 51-year-old, from Westcliff, was questioned in connection with the death of Angela Millington, 33, of Southend.
Her remains were found on Foulness Island in June by a group of ramblers, but have only recently been identified using DNA tests.
The man has been bailed pending further inquiries until 17 November.
Det Ch Insp Simon Werrett said some of Ms Millington's remains were found on part of Foulness Island known as New Burwood Head.
There had been no definitive sighting of her since November 2013 when she visited a housing officer and withdrew money from her bank account, but there have been reports of possible sightings in Southend in January and mid-February this year, Essex Police said.
Mr Werrett added: "We continue to receive valuable information from the public and we are currently looking into the possibility of her living or associating with someone in February this year.
"We are keen to trace this person so urge them to get in touch."


Officials in Russia have been keeping an eye on a giant sinkhole, which has tripled in size.

5 September 2015 Last updated at 12:01 BST
The massive crater first formed 10 months ago, and is now a whopping 120 metres wide.
The sinkhole is thought to have been caused by flood erosion in an underground mine.
Although it has destroyed lots of empty holiday homes, officials say there is no danger to local residents who live nearby.
Mine surveyors are keeping an eye on the hole and taking measurements every ten days, and local media say work is being done to help stop the crater from getting even bigger.


A man has been charged with the murder of a mother and daughter who were found dead at a house in Liverpool.

Karen and Jade Hales, aged 53 and 28, were found at the property in Cathedral Road, Anfield, on Monday.
Post-mortem examinations found they died from severe blunt force head injuries, police said.
Anthony Showers, 42, of Clarendon Road, Anfield, appeared before magistrates in Sefton and was remanded to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 20 June.
Neighbours said that Jade looked after her mother as her full-time carer and was regularly seen walking her dog, Tyson, a Staffordshire bull terrier, that was also found dead.


Manchester United made it eight goals in two games with their 4-0 thrashing of Swansea.

Newcomers Huddersfield and West Brom also made it two wins from two, while champions Chelsea got off the mark with a thrilling win over Tottenham at Wembley.
Bournemouth, Newcastle, Brighton, Crystal Palace and West Ham are still looking for their first points of the season.
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It's great to see Jack Butland between the sticks again and his performance was outstanding against an Arsenal side who were denied two penalties and a perfectly good goal.
I have no intention of being an apologist for Arsenal - they have caused me enough heartache over the years - but how they never came away with at least a point against Stoke I will never know. Gunners duo Hector Bellerin and Danny Welbeck had perfectly clear penalties turned down, and how anyone could argue Alexandre Lacazette's toe was offside is so tenuous it beggars belief.
What's the game coming to? Is this what TV evidence was created for: to examine if a toe is in an offside position or not? What next - forelocks?
What TV evidence did clearly portray was performance - and that's what it was designed to do. In that regard, Butland is slowly coming back to his best and, in my opinion, is currently England's number one choice.
Of course, he will have to prove that by having an outstanding, injury-free season - but if he achieves that it will be great news for Stoke and even better news for England.
Now this lad looks promising. It's been a long time since Liverpool have had a full-back with a left foot like Andrew Robertson.
His crosses, against a Crystal Palace side much better organised and purposeful than they were last week against Huddersfield, reminded me of Germany and Hamburg legend Manny Kaltz.
Although Kaltz was a right-back, his quality of crossing was legendary and Robertson appears to have that ability. The young Scot also looks comfortable on the ball with an eye for goal - a feature clearly demonstrated when he forced Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey to tip the ball over the bar at full stretch.
The issue is, of course, can the full-back defend? Palace didn't really test him, but better teams will.
Robertson is obviously part of Liverpool's future, unlike midfielder Philippe Coutinho. There is no doubt that Coutinho has already mentally left Anfield and the club would be foolish not to accept his position.
However, what the Reds don't have to accept is any old Barcelona offer. They are perfectly entitled to squeeze every last penny out of this deal, and when they do finally settle on the transaction - and they will - I hope it makes Barcelona's eyes water.
I want to like this player, but he always gives me the 'willies'.
Eric Bailly, on his day, is a class act - a point clearly demonstrated against Swansea - but why does he give me a sense of nervous apprehension every time he plays?
I can't help feeling he's a tackle away from a red card or giving a penalty away. Against the likes of Swansea he will be fine, but it's in the big games, when it really matters, that I find myself asking the question: can he be trusted?
This was almost a complete performance from Harry Maguire against a Brighton team in desperate need of quality.
I saw Maguire play for Hull against Chelsea last season at Stamford Bridge and he was outstanding. Since then, he has developed into a Premier League player and looks like making the transition from Hull to Leicester City quite comfortably.
During that time he has won admiring comments from pundits like Martin Keown and Gary Lineker. Having worked with both, I can assure you that neither of my BBC colleagues are easily pleased, particularly when it comes to evaluating defenders, with the former an uncompromising centre-back and the latter an exceptional centre-forward. I get the feeling that both would have welcomed the no-nonsense Maguire in their teams.
However, Brighton failed to put Maguire under any pressure whatsoever - a feature captured when the camera caught owner Tony Bloom with his head in his hands in frustration, having seen another one of his team's attacks come to nothing.
There is one simple solution to all this anguish, Mr Bloom: put your hand in your pocket and bring in the quality the club requires to survive in the best league in the world. Otherwise there will be far more moments like this.
What an excellent choice of captain by United manager Jose Mourinho. Antonio Valencia proved to be an excellent player under former boss Sir Alex Ferguson and looks even more valuable to United in this season's title-chasing campaign under Mourinho.
The Ecuadorian can still deliver the first-time cross when in advanced areas - unlike most full-backs in the Premier League - and is as quick in recovery as any defender in the top flight.
Against a totally outclassed Swansea, Valencia looked unflappable and reflects a calm demeanour not normally associated with a Mourinho side.
The Swans, meanwhile, hardly laid a glove on United (regardless of the score on 79 minutes) and with midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson gone to Everton, the measured manager Paul Clement needs to replace his best player with another talisman very quickly, otherwise his season could be over quicker than a verse of Land Of My Fathers.
Last week it was striker Steve Mounie who stole the show. This Sunday against Newcastle - another promoted team short in quality - it was Aaron Mooy who ripped the heart out of the Magpies with a moment of sheer magic.
I said last week, after the performance against Crystal Palace, that Huddersfield were going to have to call on players like Mooy and Mounie if they intend to stay in the league. His goal was of the highest quality, but more importantly the Australian possesses the tools to unlock any defence.
Meanwhile, Newcastle have one of the best managers in the world who is having to suffer the indignation of an owner who cannot match his ambition. So can someone explain to me what's Rafael Benitez doing there?
To keep midfielder Ander Herrera out of the team tells its own story, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan is doing much more than that at the moment. The Armenia international complements this new-look Manchester United team perfectly.
This is a very uncomplicated footballer. He doesn't fuss when things don't go his own way and loves to get involved in the action.
Mkhitaryan was responsible for striker Romelu Lukaku and midfielder Paul Pogba's goals, which both came within a matter of minutes. It was also Mkhitaryan's performance that put the game well out of Swansea's reach.
Pogba's header from the corner was impressive during the 4-0 win over Swansea, but why on earth did defender Federico Fernandez not just clear the rebound from the underside of the bar instead of trying to protect his goalkeeper? Lukasz Fabianski didn't need protecting, he needed a clearance.
To be perfectly honest, it wouldn't have mattered anyway because, without Sigurdsson, the chances of Swansea winning this fixture were so remote it wasn't even worth a bet.
Regardless, this was a Pogba performance worth noting. Apart from the ridiculous brown patch in his hair, he produced a game free of the showboating and scored a goal of real class. His yellow card was justified, but what took place thereafter was so measured and so utterly professional and selfless, it was in stark contrast to anything I had seen from the player before.
I keep hearing pundits (mostly his mates) telling me Pogba is capable of almost anything. Well, I think we are finally starting to see it. It is about time.
All credit to Blues manager Antonio Conte for the way he reconstructed a side ravaged by injury and suspension to face Tottenham and beat them at Wembley. Premier League fixtures don't come much bigger than this and managers need players with a strong mentality and bags of courage.
Up steps Marcos Alonso. The wing-back could have easily ducked the moment and let Willian - also a dead-ball specialist - take the free-kick. But he didn't, he took control of the situation and buried it. The Spaniard didn't stop there either - his overall contribution to this Chelsea performance was immense. How this lad hasn't yet emulated his father and grandfather and represented Spain is a mystery to me.
This victory will also solidify Conte's managerial position. Make no mistake, the Italian has not handled the Diego Costa situation well and his top scorer last season will be very hard to replace. But the way the Chelsea players have rallied behind their boss to win such an important game speaks volumes about the manager and his players.
West Ham's day fell apart when, after missing two glorious chances, midfielder Marko Arnautovic threw an elbow into the head of Southampton's Jack Stephens.
His sending off was totally justified and Hammers boss Slaven Bilic is now under the sort of pressure he brought Arnautovic in to alleviate after just two games.
Thank goodness Bilic has invested in the services of someone who is considerably more reliable and far less combustible. Javier Hernandez scored two goals of the type that has become his hallmark during his career.
I have no doubt the Hammers are going to be all right this season, but I'm less sure about Bilic's future after their mauling at Old Trafford last week and now this spirited defeat with 10 men at St Mary's.
However, if Bilic can hold on until striker Andy Carroll is fit, he could have a really exciting forward line, with the Englishman, Hernandez and a slightly reformed Arnautovic as a front three.
Once Neymar arrived at Paris-St Germain, Jese Rodriguez was out of that club like a shot.
Stoke fans had every right to be stunned by the arrival of the former Real Madrid forward. Not since the arrival of Switzerland winger Xherdan Shaqiri have Stoke fans seen such a high-profile player land on their doorstep practically unannounced.
It clearly suited Jese to come to the Potteries - it is Premier League football after all, and not even Neymar is getting that.
Manager Mark Hughes is almost beside himself having landed the player and couldn't resist putting the Spaniard straight into the team to face Arsenal after only a few days of training with the squad. What a stroke of good management.
Jese needs somewhere to play, not to mention an environment where he will be loved. The Stoke fans will bring the best out of him - all he has to do is acknowledge it and let them know he cares.


Lil Wayne is to release a book consisting of diaries he wrote during his time in prison.

The rapper served eight months of a one year sentence in New York's Rikers Island jail after pleading guilty to gun possession.
The book, called Gone Till November, is due to be released later this year.
The memoirs will feature Lil Wayne's thoughts on family, children and the people he has met in his lifetime, Grand Central Publishing said.
The 29-year-old, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, has also written about his plans for the future.
Ben Greenberg, executive editor at the publishing company, said the journal would be "revealing".
"[Lil Wayne] kept detailed journals of his inner and outer life while he was on Rikers Island, and they certainly tell a story. They are revealing," he said.
The book is set to be released on 28 November 2012.
The rapper is best known for his singles Lollipop, Drop The World and BedRock - which reached number nine in the UK singles chart.
In September, his current album Tha Carter IV broke iTunes sales records.
Carter is nominated for four Grammy awards at next month's ceremony, including best rap album and best rap song for Look At Me Now - a collaboration with Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes.
Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Bruno Mars and Foo Fighters are due to perform at the event.


Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy says he is ready to listen to Catalonia's new regional government after the separatist victory in Sunday's polls - but will not discuss Spain's unity.

The separatist alliance's leader, Artur Mas, has said he will now push for the creation of an independent state.
His group will have a majority in the Catalan parliament if it can carry the support of a smaller separatist party.
Catalonia has 7.5m people and provides about one-fifth of Spain's GDP.
The Madrid government has reaffirmed its opposition to a vote on secession, noting that nationalists failed to get a majority of Catalonia's popular vote.
"I am ready to listen and to talk, but not in any way to liquidate the law," Mr Rajoy said in his first public remarks since Sunday's election.
"I am not going to talk about either the unity of Spain, or sovereignty."
The main separatist alliance and a small pro-independence party won 72 of the 135 regional parliament seats.
The separatists took 47.8% of votes cast.
Mr Mas's "Junts pel Si" (Together For Yes) coalition has vowed to implement a "roadmap" to achieve an independent Catalan state within 18 months.
The future of Catalonia is expected to be a crucial issue in Spain's general election in December.
The turnout of 78% was a record for a regional vote in Catalonia.
Junts pel Si won 62 seats. It can secure a parliamentary majority by combining with the far-left separatist CUP party, which got 10 seats.
Pro-independence Catalans argue that their region gets an unfair deal, contributing too much tax to Madrid in return for insufficient state investment. In terms of GDP, theirs is the richest region in Spain.
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The pro-independence parties said ahead of the vote that they considered it a de facto referendum on independence from Spain.
They argue that the Spanish government has consistently refused to allow a legally recognised referendum to take place, ignoring an unofficial vote backing independence in November 2014.
Opinion polls suggest a majority of Catalans favour a referendum on independence but are evenly divided over whether to secede.


Andy Murray has beaten veteran hardcourt specialist Mardy Fish to secure his place in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters.

Britain's Murray, 28, continued his preparations for the US Open at the end of the month with a 6-4 7-6 (7-1) win over the 33-year-old American.
The Scot will now face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the next round.
Murray replaced Roger Federer as world number two following his Rogers Cup win over Novak Djokovic in Montreal.
Fish recently spent 18 months out of the game with a heart condition and will retire after the US Open.
However, he held his own in the first set against Murray and managed to force a second-set tie-break having surrendered a 4-3 lead.
Murray tweeted that Fish had been "one of my trickiest opponents" who had "been very unfortunate these last few years" as he wished him "all the best for the US Open and your life after tennis".
The British number one's next opponent, Dimitrov, enjoyed the benefit of a day's rest having beaten Vasek Pospisil in the second round on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old has beaten Murray twice in seven meetings, knocking him out of Wimbledon in 2014 and winning a semi-final in Acapulco earlier the same year.
World number one Djokovic, for whom victory here would complete a career clean sweep of all nine ATP 1000 Masters titles, booked his place in the third round with 7-5 6-2 win over France's Benoit Paire.
Elsewhere, Spain's former world number one Rafael Nadal was made to work hard for his 6-3 6-4 win over Jeremy Chardy, finally getting past the Frenchman by converting his fifth match point.
Switzerland's French Open champion Stan Wawrinka was given a scare by world number 38 Borna Coric as he came from a set to down triumph 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 in nearly two and a half hours.


Police need to "take a firm line" on anti-fracking protesters who target businesses, company bosses have said.

Protests have been held at the Preston New Road site in Lancashire since work began in January and one group has now promised "escalated action".
The local chamber of commerce said the tactics used by protesters were like those of "animal rights extremists".
Lancashire Police said it provides an "effective and proportionate" response, while facilitating peaceful protest.
Fifty-nine people were arrested at the site between 27 January and 17 March, with 47 of those being charged, police said.
Campaign group Reclaim The Power - which supports action already taken, including "slow walking, roadside protests and lock-ons" - has announced two weeks of "escalated action" to disrupt companies.
North and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce (NWLCC), which coordinated a letter to MPs and councillors about the protests, said businesses had endured "weeks of harassment and intimidation", with a St Annes concrete supplier withdrawing after it was "blockaded by an intimidating group of activists wearing hoods and masks".
NWLCC chief executive Babs Murphy said over 800 businesses wanted to supply the site and "deserve the chance [to] without fearing that they will be targeted".
The letter's signatories include East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, the Civil Engineering Contractors Association and the GMB union.
Reclaim The Power said the letter was "yet another attempt by pro-fracking groups to falsely attack people who oppose them, and to distract from the fact that the industry doesn't have public backing".
Lancashire Police said the force was trying to "ensure a balance between the rights of people to lawfully protest [and] the rights of the wider public, including local businesses, to go about their lawful activities".
The government approved energy firm Cuadrilla's plans to extract shale gas at the site at Little Plumpton in October 2016.


Ancient proteins dating back 195 million years have been found inside a dinosaur bone.

The discovery pushes back the oldest evidence for preserved proteins by 100 million years.
Scientists have also found traces of a mineral that probably came from the blood of the early Jurassic dinosaur.
Soft tissues provide new insights into the biology of dinosaurs and how they evolved.
They are rarely preserved during the process of fossilisation, during which bones and teeth are slowly transformed into "rock".
Robert Reisz, a palaeontologist from the University of Toronto Mississauga, in Canada, said: "We hope to be able to learn more about the biology of these animals and the more we know about their soft tissues the more we will know about them overall.
"We are actually looking at the preservation of the original materials that were in the living organism rather than an impression of the soft tissues that were there."
The researchers studied the fossils of a Lufengosaurus dinosaur using infrared spectroscopy with a synchrotron in Taiwan.
Preserved fragments of collagen and iron-rich proteins were found within the walls of blood vessels running through rib bones.
They think the remains of dinosaur blood may have preserved the collagen for almost 200 million years.
Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, who is not connected with the research, said the discovery was "a jaw-dropper".
"To find proteins in a 195-million-year-old dinosaur fossil is a startling discovery," he told BBC News.
"It almost sounds too good to be true, but this team has used every method at their disposal to verify their discovery, and it seems to hold up."
He said the fact that proteins can survive for so long has two big implications.
The preservation of microscopic proteins for nearly 200 million years tells us that there is still much to learn about how fossils form.
And the findings appear to corroborate previous reports of similar proteins in other dinosaurs, that are about 70 million years old.
"This discovery tells us that yes, you really can probably preserve soft, microscopic proteins inside dinosaur bones for tens or hundreds of millions of years," Dr Brusatte added.
"And that opens up entirely new avenues for studying dinosaurs."
Lufengosaurus belongs to a group of dinosaurs which lived during the Early Jurassic Period in what is now south-western China.
A site in south west China has produced dozens of skeletons of the plant-eating dinosaur.
The discovery follows research by the same team on the oldest dinosaur embryos ever found.
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The research is published in the journal, Nature Communications.
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It's time to build another snowman - Disney bosses have confirmed that a Frozen sequel is in the works.

The company tweeted on Thursday: "Forecast: Winter weather ahead! @DisneyAnimation developing #Frozen2."
It was accompanied by a picture of sisters Elsa and Anna, with Sven the reindeer and Kristoff.
Disney also confirmed that the directors of the first film, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, are returning.
Jennifer Lee tweeted: "At last, I can say - FROZEN 2!!!! I'm beyond excited to create alongside my Frozen family!"
There's no news on a release date yet.
Those of you who can't wait for the sequel can see a seven-minute follow-up film called Frozen Fever in cinemas later this month.
It's being shown at screenings of new Disney film Cinderella.
Frozen was released at the end of 2013 and went on to become the highest-grossing animation of all time, and the fifth biggest film overall.
So far it's raked in $1.274 billion (Â£857 million) worldwide.
The movie won two Oscars in 2014 - best animated feature and best original song for Let It Go.
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Long-standing trade sanctions against Myanmar are to be lifted, US President Barack Obama has said.

The news came as Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, arrived in Washington on her first official visit.
Myanmar's access to trade benefits for poorer nations had been suspended in 1989 over human rights abuses.
President Obama said the country should now be allowed to benefit from preferential tariffs as it emerges from decades of military rule.
He confirmed the move in a letter to Congress on Wednesday, adding Myanmar - also known as Burma - to the Generalised System of Preferences, a list which exempts certain countries from high import taxes.
Though many companies will now enjoy lower tariffs, there are some sanctions which remain in place.
These include a "blacklist" of at least 100 companies and individuals with links to the former military junta, as well as trade in jade and rubies.
President Obama said the lifting of some sanctions would happen "soon", but did not give further details.
"It is the right thing to do to ensure the people of Burma see rewards from a new way of doing business, and a new government," he said.
He also paid tribute to the efforts made towards peace in the country, and the "enormous potential" of the country.
Ms Suu Kyi called on the US Congress to eliminate all remaining sanctions against Myanmar.
"Unity also needs prosperity," she said. "People, when they have to fight over limited resources, forget that standing together is important."
"We think that the time has come to remove all of the sanctions that hurt us economically," she said.
Ahead of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit, Human Rights Watch said the sanctions targeted military officials, and "shouldn't be fully lifted until the democratic transition is irreversible."
Ms Suu Kyi, who as opposition leader was kept under house arrest for 15 years, led her National League for Democracy party to victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election for decades in November 2015.
She is barred from the role of president under the country's constitution - instead holding the title of state counsellor - but is widely seen as the country's leader in all but name.


Audience members will be invited to pay what they like for what they hear at an upcoming Halle Orchestra concert.

Priceless Classics on 6 September will see the orchestra play 10 short pieces at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
Holders of pre-booked free tickets will then be able to pay whatever they think the event was worth.
Chief executive John Summers said it would let new audiences "experience the Halle and enjoy some incredible music, but on their own terms".
"If people have not heard the Halle's music before, this is the perfect event for them."
Programmes will be distributed free at the concert, which will feature selections from Bach, Mozart and eight other composers spanning three centuries of music.
The concert will be conducted by Stephen Bell, who has spent the last two years as associate conductor of the Halle's Pops Series.


A police officer has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually assaulting black women in the poor part of Oklahoma where he worked.

Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, stopped the women while out on patrol in Oklahoma City and forced himself on them.
Last month, he was convicted of assault on eight victims, including a grandmother and a 17-year-old.
On Thursday, a district judge sentenced him to 263 years, in line with what jurors recommended.
During the trial, Holtzclaw's lawyer insisted his client had been attempting to help the drug addicts and prostitutes he encountered in his work. Many of the women had arrest records or histories of drug abuse.
The court heard from several women who described abuse at the hands of the officer and the feeling that their lives were threatened.
All of his accusers were black. Holtzclaw is half-white and half-Japanese.
He cried when the verdicts were delivered last month.
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Cyclists have called for action to prevent tram track accidents after claiming more than 200 crashes had occurred in the past two years.

Campaign group CycleSheffield said a lack of safety provision by Sheffield City Council is putting people off.
A total of 228 incidents have been reported to the group since 2014.
Sheffield City Council said accidents are an issue for any city with a tram service but that it was looking in to "possible solutions" in some areas.
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Ian Carey, from CycleSheffield, said a number of the accidents had resulted in "very serious injuries".
"This demonstrates an ongoing and serious problem," he said.
"CycleSheffield is calling for the Sheffield City Council to take action to reduce tram track accidents.
"25 years ago we were campaigning for this. We were not listened to then and the result is we've got lots of people getting seriously injured and it is putting people off cycling in Sheffield."
One cyclist told BBC Radio Sheffield catching a bike wheel on the track was "like hitting black ice or an oil patch, you're down before you know what's happened".
A spokesman for the council said it was keen to work with cyclists in the city to improve safety on the roads.
He said the council had investigated specific areas where accidents have occurred and "will soon be in a position to report on the best possible solutions".
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive said half of the city's 29km (18 mile) tram network runs on the road and urged cyclists to "take extra care" near the tracks.


The first woman bishop in the Church of England could be selected this week.

Candidates for bishop of Southwell and Nottingham are being interviewed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Applications from women have been considered for the vacancy. After the interviews, a preferred candidate and a second preference will be put forward.
No announcements will be made until 2015 as the appointment needs to be approved by the Queen on the recommendation of the prime minister.
In November, the Church of England formally adopted legislation allowing women to become bishops.
The first women priests were ordained in 1994, but they had not been able to take on the Church's most senior roles.
It has been a divisive issue for the Church - some Anglicans feel the move is consistent with their faith but the traditionalists disagree.
In November the general synod, the Church's law-making body, gave the final seal of approval to the legislation, which had passed through Parliament in October.
The vacancy in Southwell and Nottingham arose after Bishop Paul Butler left to become the Bishop of Durham in January.
Gloucester, Oxford and Newcastle are among the other dioceses where new bishops will soon be appointed.


Kent's Sam Northeast made his first Championship century of the summer as promotion-chasing Lancashire failed to pick up a single point on day two.

The Red Rose county could not add to the one point gained on the opening day at Canterbury as the home side piled up 570-8 before declaring.
Skipper Northeast hit two sixes and 14 fours in his 139 and shared a stand of 183 with Darren Stevens (92).
Jordan Clark took 3-87 for Lancashire, who were 25-0 when rain ended play.
The visitors only need to draw to be certain of Division One cricket next season, but they could still do so even if they lose the game, providing they score at least 350 in a maximum of 110 overs, to earn four batting bonus points.
Northeast, who was dropped twice early in his innings, passed 1,000 runs for the season when he reached 77, and went to his hundred by striking three fours and a six off successive deliveries from spinner Simon Kerrigan.
The slow left-armer (2-95) later gained a measure of revenge by having him stumped, having previously had Stevens caught at deep square leg by Haseeb Hameed after the all-rounder had hit a six off the previous ball.


Members of the public have teed off at US tycoon Donald Trump's multi-million pound golf resort for the first time.

Mr Trump officially unveiled his Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire last week.
The course opened to the public on Sunday morning, with rounds available on a "pay-per-play" basis.
Discounts of 20% have been offered to residents of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
Mr Trump was piped onto the 18-hole course, which is three miles long, before cutting a ribbon and striking the first ball with former Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie to declare the resort officially open on Tuesday.
He has clashed with local residents, environmentalists, wind farm manufacturers and the Scottish First Minister since buying the land on the Menie Estate seven years ago.
Plans for a hotel and houses on the estate have been put on hold until a decision is made on a proposed wind farm off the coast of the Links.
Mr Trump has already dubbed it the "greatest golf course anywhere in the world".
At the opening on Tuesday, he said: "It's the whole structure that makes it special - the dunes, being on the North Sea - the architect has done an amazing job.
"It's a special place, Scotland is a special place. I think this is great for golf, and what's great for golf is good for Scotland because Scotland is the home front for the game."
Mr Trump also said he remains confident that the offshore wind farm proposal in the North Sea will be rejected and plans to expand the resort will continue.


A vote of no confidence in the leadership of Carmarthenshire council amid "unlawful" payment claims has failed.

The vote against council leader Kevin Madge and deputy leader Meryl Gravell was lost 28 votes to 41.
Councillors agreed to accept the findings of a Wales Audit Office (WAO) report which ruled payments made to its chief executive were "unlawful".
Mr Madge admitted the situation had damaged the authority.
"We will learn from this, we'll move forward and we'll deliver for the people of Carmarthenshire the things that we promised them and we'll carry on in the next years to come," Mr Madge said before the vote.
Pembrokeshire council, which was also criticised by the WAO over similar "unlawful" pension payments, has already agreed to accept its report.
Carmarthenshire council's chief executive Mark James has stepped aside while police investigate why he was allowed to opt out of a pension scheme and receive cash instead.
Payments for this and for libel action costs were unlawful, the WAO ruled.
The council has defended its actions and welcomed the police investigation.
The meeting saw tense exchanges between councillors.
Plaid Cymru councillor Darren Price told the chamber: "This council's name has been dragged through the mud.
"The chief executive is no longer at his desk. Members are at others' throats.
"Valuable officer and member time has been wasted and redirected away from what we are here to do and that is to provide quality services to the people of Carmarthenshire. And the question to those who made the decision is - was it really worth it?"
Mr James maintains that neither he nor any of his officers had done anything wrong.
He has also said it was "right and proper" he should not be at work while Gloucestershire Police conclude their inquiries.
Auditors said Carmarthenshire council acted unlawfully when it indemnified Mr James in a libel counter-claim he brought against blogger Jacqui Thompson.
Mr James won the case and Mrs Thompson was ordered to pay costs of Â£23,217.
The row began when the blogger was arrested after filming a council meeting on her mobile phone.
On Thursday, councillors agreed to withdraw the provision in the council constitution which allowed such indemnities to be granted.
The motion also said the council recognised that "the legal position is still as yet unresolved".
The WAO's Anthony Barrett said: "The council's accepted the recommendations in both reports so that's very much an end of it from my point of view.
"It clearly isn't for the council, they've got some things to look at from the governance arrangements etc and we will be monitoring that very closely."
The Wales Audit Office also found Pembrokeshire council made "unlawful" payments to its chief executive Bryn Parry Jones and another Pembrokeshire official.
Despite calls for him to step aside, Mr Parry Jones has said he will remain at work while police investigate the matter.
Pembrokeshire, which has also vigorously defended the payments, has already held an extraordinary meeting to debate the rulings.
A full meeting of that authority earlier this month was due to vote on suspending Mr Parry Jones, but a number of councillors staged a walk-out after allegations that some people had already pre-determined the outcome.
Meanwhile, two senior council officers at Caerphilly council in south Wales are due in court in April on charges following a police investigation into pay rises they received.
Chief executive Anthony O'Sullivan and his deputy Nigel Barnett face charges of alleged misconduct in a public office.


Properties in Crosshands, Carmarthenshire, have been evacuated following a gas leak.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they were called in by police at 11:25 GMT on Saturday to an area near the Crisp and Fry cafe on Llandeilo Road.
Fire crews said about 100 people were evacuated from their homes, along with 150 in a supermarket.
The incident is now over, and people have returned to their homes.


Callum Hawkins equalled the best performance by a British athlete in the men's marathon at the World Championships by finishing fourth.

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Scotland's Hawkins, 25, missed out on the medals but put in an impressive performance with a personal best time of two hours 10.17 minutes.
Kenya's Geoffrey Kirui won gold with a season's best of 2:08:27.
Bahrain's Rose Chelimo won the women's race in 2:27:11, as two-time champion Kenya's Edna Kiplagat took silver.
She pipped the USA's Amy Cragg to the line, although they both finished in a time of 2:27:18. That was USA's first medal in the event since 1983.
Great Britain's Aly Dixon led the race up until the final nine miles when she was caught by the pack. The 38-year-old Sunderland runner eventually finished 18th in 2:31:36.
Windsor-born Charlotte Purdue, 26, was the best-placed Briton, coming home in 13th in 2:29:48.
"It was amazing," she told BBC Sport. "I was aiming for a top-20 finish. I knew I could do it.
"When I caught Aly, I gave her encouragement. There was also a British guy shouting at me, 'come on Aly Dixon' - he kept doing it. But apart from that, the crowd were great."
Earlier, Hawkins said he could have finished among the medals had he changed his tactics.
"It is bittersweet. I could just see third place in the distance," said Hawkins, who was ninth in the marathon at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
"The last five kilometres, I kept the same distance, which was quite frustrating. Maybe I left it a bit late.
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"I wanted to get a medal but fourth is still pretty good I guess. I was just hanging on towards the end.
"I'm still young. Hopefully, in the future I can get in the medals. Hopefully, I will push on in the Commonwealth Games and Tokyo 2020 after that."
Hawkins' performance equalled that of fellow Briton Peter Whitehead, who was fourth in the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg.
Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola took silver in 2:09:49, two seconds in front of Tanzania's Alphonce Simbu.
Britain had two other runners in the race, with Andrew Davies 31st in 2:17:59 and Josh Griffiths 39th in 2:20:06.
Griffiths was the club runner who beat Britain's elite men in the London Marathon to qualify for the World Championships.
In the men's 400m hurdles heats, Britain's Jack Green hit a hurdle on the final bend.
However, despite finishing fifth and outside the top four automatic qualifying spots, he went through to Monday's semi-finals as a fastest loser.
"I was running really well. I was really pleased until I managed to wear one," said the 25-year-old.
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"I should've been in a position where I could have taken that on and won the race but that's the 400m hurdles for you. At least I am through so I have to make those changes for tomorrow."
He described it as his "worst race of the year", adding: "I will make sure tomorrow is much better."
Kyron McMaster, of the British Virgin Islands, was one of the favourites but the 20-year-old was disqualified for a lane infringement.
In the men's 110m hurdles, Andrew Pozzi was the only Briton from three athletes to reach the semi-finals on Sunday evening as David Omoregie and David King failed to progress.
Pozzi, who claimed the European Indoor 60m hurdles title in March, won his heat in 13.28 seconds in the same race as one of the main contenders, Jamaican Ronald Levy, failed to finish.
"I knew I got out very well so once I got to halfway it was about staying clean over the barriers and avoiding any big mistake," said Pozzi.
"Ronald is a big loss to the competition but I'm happy to make it through and make it to the semis tonight.
"I need a little bit faster to go into the final but I'm ready to do that."
Meanwhile, in the women's 400m heats, Zoey Clark was the only Briton to qualify for Monday's semi-finals as team-mates Emily Diamond and Anyika Onuora missed out.
Clark, 22, claimed the third of three automatic qualification spots from her heat with a time of 51.88.
Olympic gold medallist Shaunae Miller-Uibo, of the Bahamas, and world champion Allyson Felix, from America, each won their heats to ease through to progress.
Elsewhere, Britain's Zak Seddon, Ieuan Thomas and Rob Mullett failed to progress to the men's 3,000m steeplechase final on Tuesday.


Almost three thousand seals, porpoises, dolphins and whales have been spotted in the River Thames, in London, in the past ten years, according to the Zoological Society of London.

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The results of their latest Marine Mammal Sightings Survey has found that Canary Wharf, which has lots of tall buildings and people, is London's seal watching hotspot.
Their presence is a good sign that the Thames, which used to be polluted, is getting cleaner and supporting many fish species.
It also shows that urban environments, where there are lots of people and buildings, are still important for wildlife.


It has been like a drawn test match for Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan.

He played a long, dogged innings, and though he could not lead his team to victory, he has avoided a defeat.
His party has emerged as the largest in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a region that has borne the brunt of attacks by Taliban militants.
He has also won one, and may win another, of the 12 parliamentary seats from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a strip of land adjacent to KP where Taliban militants fighting the Nato forces in Afghanistan have sanctuaries.
It wasn't until final results were released that it emerged that Mr Khan had only narrowly missed out on securing the legally important position of leader of the opposition in the national parliament.
For many, however, his has been a remarkable achievement, and one which will see his party make further inroads into the Punjab heartland from where it bagged a substantial amount of votes, though fewer seats.
But that will depend on how quickly he can recover from the back injury he sustained when he fell off a fork-lift during an election rally last week.
He suffered three minor fractures in the spine but his nervous system was unharmed. His doctor has told the BBC that Mr Khan will have another two weeks of bed rest before walking again with the help of a brace. He is set to make a full recovery over the coming weeks, his doctors say.
In an end-of-the campaign speech from his hospital bed last week - which was broadcast to a rally in the capital Islamabad via a video link - he seemed to open his heart to his audience when he talked about the long struggle which was about to come to fruition, and the sacrifices he had had to make, including the pain of losing his wife.
"My wife, poor woman, she had to leave me because they wouldn't let her live in peace," he said in an emotional moment.
An international cricketing celebrity, Mr Khan led Pakistan to its cricket World Cup triumph in 1992.
But he made a shaky start of his political innings back in the mid-1990s.
He was harassed by the conservative and Islamist circles who accused him of being a "Zionist agent".
This was because he had married an English heiress, Jemima Goldsmith, whose father, Sir James Goldsmith, came from a Jewish background.
The marriage lasted nine years and produced two children, both boys.
To the electorate, he came across as a political lightweight who had no ideological moorings and only ambiguous views on crucial issues.
His message of Islamic values and the formation of an Islamic welfare state that would not be a slave of the West were interpreted by many as the ramblings of a "playboy-turned-puritan".
He suffered an early scandal when a widely respected welfare activist, Abdus Sattar Edhi, took temporary refuge in London, saying he was being threatened by a group that included Mr Khan and Hamid Gul, a former chief of Pakistani intelligence (ISI).
In a 2010 interview, Mr Edhi explained: "They wanted to topple [Prime Minister] Benazir Bhutto's government, and wanted to fire their guns from my shoulder. When I refused, they threatened to kidnap me. I'm not the political type, so I caught a flight to London."
The charge was denied by Mr Khan's party which said that Mr Khan only wanted Mr Edhi to join him in a pressure group "to push the government into spending more on health, education and welfare".
More recently, there were allegations that another former ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, helped boost his political support, a charge the party denies.
Despite his celebrity appeal and hero's status, he could only win one seat in the 2002 elections. He boycotted the elections in 2008.
But during the last couple of years he seems to have burst into aggressive batting, and has suddenly caught the fancy of the crowds.
He has done this by promising a "new" Pakistan, and getting rid of the old guard who he says have been "fixing the matches so that they can take turns at power".
As election results show, he holds greater appeal in the north-west - inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns - presumably because he himself comes from the Pashtun Niazi tribe, settled in the Mianwali region of Punjab province.
And his opposition of the US-led war against militancy has also touched a chord with the people of this region.
His argument that militancy in Pakistan is the direct result of the American invasion of Afghanistan, and that it would end once the Western troops leave that country, has gone down well with the youth in the north-west.
His rhetoric to shoot down the American drones also appealed to the Pashtun people in the tribal areas, who have been at the sharp end of the drones for several years.
Whether he will interfere with Nato's 2014 exit through Pakistan if he is able to form a government in KP is a question that only time will answer.
One thing is clear. He is going to have a solid block of votes on the opposition benches in the national parliament and he will use them to maximum effect to pave the way for a victory in the next elections.
He is just 61 years old and generally in good health. If nothing serious has happened to his back, he will soon be back on his feet. The match is over, but the series is on.


West Ham captain Mark Noble has called the win over Swansea their "biggest in a few years", as his team moved eight points clear of the relegation places.

Cheikhou Kouyate scored the only goal at London Stadium, as the Hammers ended a run of five straight defeats.
West Ham are 14th with six games left and midfielder Noble says one more win should secure their top-flight status.
"We haven't been good enough for a couple of months, but this should release the pressure," he said.
Before Saturday's game, Slaven Bilic's side had gone seven matches without a victory and won only one in nine to be dragged into the relegation battle.
There had been speculation about the Croat manager's future, but the club released a statement saying they had "100% faith" in him.
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Swansea stay 18th after the defeat, while West Ham next face bottom club Sunderland on 15 April.
"That's our biggest win in a few years," said 29-year-old Noble.
"I thought we played well under pressure. Swansea were only a few points behind us. It was so important.
"One more win should see us safe. Hopefully we've broken that run of losses - games we shouldn't have lost.
"Sunderland away is massive and then we have some tough games."


Ticket site Twickets, which allows fans to sell unwanted concert tickets at face value, has set up a "drop and collect" service in Fopp record shops.

Sellers can drop tickets at the store ahead of a show, at which point the buyers receive a text alert.
It has already launched in Fopp's Manchester store, and will roll out nationally by the end of the year.
Founder Richard Davies said the initiative was about "convenience".
"It enables people to drop off and pick up tickets in their own time and in a secure way at locations at the heart of many UK cities, and close to most venues," he said.
Davies launched Twickets in 2011, after he saw a fan offering to give away tickets to a show for free on Twitter instead of letting them go to waste.
The London-based web designer believed many other people would rather sell tickets to music, sport or theatre events at cost price, or less, to real fans, rather than cash in and sell them at a profit through secondary ticket websites like Seatwave and Viagogo.
His service began as a Twitter account, putting buyers and sellers in touch with one another. But it grew quickly, launching an app in 2013, and attracting the attention of artists like One Direction and Adele - both of whom have encouraged fans to use the service.
The site is currently selling tickets to the V Festival, and Morrissey's Manchester show, both taking place this weekend, this year for less than face value.
One Direction even sold 6,000 tickets for their On The Road Again tour directly through the site - although it is worth noting that Twicket's backers include artist management company Modest, whose clients include One Direction.
Twickets adds a 10% fee to every sale. "Drop and collect" tickets will attract a further Â£2.50 handling charge per transaction.
Specialist music retailer Fopp, which is part of the HMV Retail group, currently has nine branches across the UK.
It said the partnership with Twickets was "a great fit".
Other secondary ticketing websites, including the Ticketmaster-owned Seatwave, already offer collection points near major venues; and say that about 10% of their inventory sells for less than face value.
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Lord Mandelson has warned Labour against a quick "beauty contest" for its leadership, saying it needs a profound rethink about its future.

The former business secretary said his party was in the same predicament as the late 1980s and had made "terrible mistakes" in strategy since 2010.
Meanwhile Liz Kendall became the first Labour MP to confirm she will stand.
Other likely contenders Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt also set out their visions and said they may stand.
However, backbencher Dan Jarvis - a former paratrooper tipped as a candidate - has ruled himself out.
The Barnsley Central MP, who recently remarried after losing his first wife to cancer, wrote in the Times: "It's not the right time for my family. My eldest kids had a very tough time when they lost their mum and I don't want them to lose their dad."
Earlier, Mr Umunna told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show Labour could win the next election "if it made the right decisions now" and said he wanted to play "the fullest part in rebuilding our party".
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt told BBC 5 live's Pienaar's Politics he was considering his options and wanted to be "one of the voices" contributing to the party's rebuilding process, saying Labour found itself in a "terrible hole".
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Following Ed Miliband's resignation on Friday prospective Labour leaders have been  setting out their views about why Labour lost and what it needs to do to win again.
Mr Umunna said the party was "down but not out" and rejected suggestions it could take a decade to recover. While it was "too early" to say whether he would stand for the leadership, he said he wanted to be involved in taking the party forward.
"We can do this in five years as long as we make the right decisions," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr. "You can change the leader but if you unless you get the message right we won't win."
Labour election rules
MPs wishing to stand as leader and deputy leader have to be nominated by 15% of their colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party to be eligible to stand. As Labour now has 232 MPs, this means prospective candidates must get at least 35 signatures.
The party's national executive committee is expected to set out the timetable for the election next week.
Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system. When the election is held, they will be asked to rank candidates in order of preference.
If no candidate gets 50% of all votes cast, the votes will be added up and the candidate with the fewest votes eliminated. Their second preference votes will then be redistributed until one candidate has 50% of all votes cast.
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Both Mr Umunna and Mr Hunt suggested Labour had focused too much on those at the top and bottom of society and had too little to say to the millions of those in the middle.
"We often had a message which spoke to people on zero hours contracts and the minimum wage. But for middle-income voters, there was not enough of an aspirational offer there," Mr Umunna told Andrew Marr.
Mr Hunt told Sky News the "cumulative effect" of Labour's proposed tax changes, including its plan to raise the top rate of tax and introduce a mansion tax, "made people fearful about whether we were on their side".
As she confirmed she was running, Ms Kendall told the BBC's Sunday Politics that Labour had to set out something "genuinely new and positive rather than being the moaning man in the pub".
Labour, she said, had to move on from the Blair-Brown era by "keeping our working class supporters while reaching out to Conservative supporters and Middle England".
Lord Mandelson, a key architect of Labour's three election victories under Tony Blair, said the party could have won the election but instead had lost "badly".
He suggested Labour "discarded" the centre ground in 2010 instead of "revitalising" its approach in the face of new economic times and thought it could "wave our fists angrily at the nasty Tories and wait for the public to realise how much they miss us".
Comparing Labour's economic strategy to a polo mint "with a great hole in the middle", he said it gave the impression it was "for the poor, hate the rich, ignoring completely the vast swathe of the population who exist in between who do have values like ours".
"The scale of the challenge we face and the need for rethinking and re-modernisaton of the party is akin to the sort of the scale of challenge we faced in the late 1980s," he told Andrew Marr. "That is how serious it is."
"Far from embarking on a sort of short term beauty contest of leaders what we really need is a very through debate in the party of the sort that was denied us in 2010."
But Labour MP Ian Lavery told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend he did not believe Ed Miliband's agenda could be called too "left-wing" and the party, between 1997 and 2010, seemed to some to "forget" the working classes.
After his election victory, prime minister David Cameron is continuing to piece together his new Cabinet.
He has named Michael Gove as justice secretary, succeeding Chris Grayling who becomes leader of the House of Commons.
Nicky Morgan has been reappointed as education secretary and minister for equalities while Mark Harper has been given the crucial job of chief whip - responsible for maintaining discipline among Conservative backbenchers.
Former Conservative leader Lord Howard has urged MPs to exercise "a considerable degree of self discipline", particularly in the run-up to a planned referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union in 2017.
And senior backbencher David Davis said the leadership should treat his colleagues "with respect".
David Cameron's latest Cabinet appointments follow the reappointment of Chancellor George Osborne, Home Secretary Theresa May, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon..
Mr Gove, a former chief whip and education secretary, will be in charge of implementing the Conservatives' pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. He will also take on the role of Lord Chancellor.
A wider reshuffle is expected on Monday, with posts held by Liberal Democrats under the coalition yet to be filled.


Three alpacas have been seriously injured in a dog attack in a field in the New Forest.

The three animals were each mauled around the neck area by at least one dog in their field in the eastern part of the forest on Thursday.
They were treated by vets and underwent surgery for their wounds. They are all now in a stable condition.
Hampshire police confirmed officers had been called to the scene following the attack and were investigating.
An alpaca in the same field had also been the victim of a dog attack earlier in the year.
The owner, Susan Sears, has farmed the animals for six years and has a herd of about 80 animals which are bred for their wool.
"It's devastating.  We've bred these animals and get to know them individually - they've all got their own characters," she said.
She has set up a crowdfunding appeal to help raise money for the animals' treatment.


England's target of reaching the 2019 World Cup final is "virtually unrealistic", according to head coach Tracey Neville.

England's players will go full-time in June this year, aiming to better their semi-final exit at the 2015 tournament.
"That's a really difficult target," Neville told BBC Radio 5 live.
"To say you're going to get there over four years when we've only got 20 athletes who are full-time is virtually unrealistic."
England are currently ranked third in the world, behind Australia and New Zealand, who have contested the past five World Cup finals.
England have reached the final only once before, in 1975, and were defeated by New Zealand 50-39 in the last four in 2015.
"We are just trying to get to that number one status," added Neville. "It will be a long time - it might be an eight-year or a 12-year plan.
"Hopefully we can start supporting athletes as we go through and this is the first time that netball has ever done it."
England will face Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland in the Netball Europe competition in May.


As the latest domestic abuse figures show more people are being prosecuted and convicted for domestic abuse, a victim of abuse who was beaten, locked in her house and controlled to the point she could not see any way out tells her story.

Domestic abuse and sex offences now make up 18.6% of CPS cases, with prosecutions and convictions at record levels. In Wales 76.3% of cases are successfully prosecuted.
A spokesman for Welsh Women's Aid said: "While we welcome the progress that has been made we are also aware that this report does not cover the thousands upon thousands of women who feel too scared to report or to pick up the phone to ask for help."
Ellie* was one of these women. After a whirlwind romance she ended up married to an abusive husband.
She was left partially deaf in one ear and has permanent damage to the tissue inside her mouth from a year of abuse.
Eventually she went to the police and her husband was convicted of actual bodily harm.
Here, she tells her story.
I was in school with Sam*. I knew of him but he was in the year below me.
I moved away when I was 16, but when I moved back home 20 years later he kept sending me messages on Facebook.
I finally went out on a date with him in January 2012 and we just hit it off straight away.
I had been married before, but had been single for a long time and I just thought "wow". He seemed like a lovely guy, down to earth, and we just were inseparable.
I moved in with him in June with my children aged nine and six in tow. And it was amazing, everything was great.
Within a couple of weeks of me moving in we went out for a meal, and as we came back he was basically quite offish with me, and I just didn't understand.
When we got back to the house I put some music on and he said: "I don't like this effing music."
I went upstairs into my daughter's bedroom, my children weren't there at the time. He came upstairs screaming at me and was shouting in my face.
He grabbed me by the back of the head and threw me down to the floor, and dragged me from my daughter's room into the other room.
He hit me back on the back of the head and he raped me. That was the first time.
He began to be very controlling of me. It would be little outbursts of him coming up to me and shouting in my face, just screaming.
It could be one little thing that he thought I had done wrong, but I hadn't. But it would just be a trigger. It was like the film Sleeping With The Enemy.
If there was something out of place he used to get worked up. But it wasn't like arguing, it would just be out of the blue, a sheer force of violence from him.
He never did anything in front of the children, he always waited until his and mine were gone.
He wasn't very tall but he was strong. When he kicked off he was like an animal. It was a rage. It was something else.
Once, when we were out, I called him by my ex-husband's name when he was shouting at me. With that he just punched me full force in the side of my head. I could feel the blood pouring down the side of my head.
I learnt to not fight back. I knew if I did he would snap my neck.
We had planned to get married that October, and I honestly didn't want to do it.
Prior to that everything was worse, the rapes were worse and he was very manipulative. Even on my wedding day I had a big bruise on the inside of my arm from where he had held me down.
One of my best friends was up in the room with me before the wedding begging me not to marry him, but I was gone. I wasn't the person I am now. I lost myself.
I was just so under his control, so scared and so intimidated by him.
I thought he would change, because he was my soul-mate and it was so amazing between us at the beginning.
England were playing Wales in the Six Nations, so I dropped him to town with his friends to watch it.
Even though Wales won convincingly, I knew I was going to get in trouble as I always would when there was a match. He would drink so it was inevitable.
I went out with my friends, but he called me at about 7pm saying he was on a train coming back and told me to meet him from the station.
He was an hour late because something kicked off on the train. I knew he would be annoyed.
When he got off his face was like thunder. We got in a taxi and as soon as we got home I knew I would get it.
He hit me on the back of my head and raped me, and I remember thinking it was getting worse and worse.
When I told him I was thinking about leaving him he was trying to be as nice as possible.
The next day we went to the wedding of one of his friends in Margam Park. He bought me a dress to wear because he wanted me to be the best looking person there with him. That's all it was for him, a faÃ§ade.
He wanted us to go out the next night, but I said: "No, I don't want to go out with you anymore, you're so horrible, you're vile. Look at all the things you do to me."
I went upstairs and he came after me and was swearing and screaming in my face. Then he punched me in my mouth so hard I thought he could have killed me.
The pain was awful. I thought he had broken my teeth and I was screaming. He just stood there as if to say he didn't care. I ran into the bathroom and leant over the bath and the blood was just pouring out.
He locked me into the house. I tried to get out, but he wouldn't let me. He took everything off me, my keys and my phone.
I was just sat on the settee bleeding. It was horrific. And he was still having a go. I had to have every strength I could just to be quiet and sit there.
He went up to bed and my face was throbbing, I was sobbing. I thought I can't go on like this anymore.
The next day Sam wanted to go to the pub down the road. I said I needed to go to the hospital.
He said: "Man up. I've had more injuries in rugby than that."
And that was it. I turned around and walked away. It was May 2013, so I had been with him for just over a year.
Obviously when I left him I lost my husband, I grieved for that as well. But friends of mine rallied around me, put me up and helped me get back on my feet.
I moved into a new home six weeks after leaving him, and in that time he got cautioned three times for following me. My house was put on police watch as I was by myself with my two children.
At Cardiff Crown Court he was found guilty of two offences of ABH and given a community order for two years. I found out I wasn't the first woman he had abused.
You can rebuild your life. Money, bricks, whatever, you can restore all that.
I'm back on my feet but I'm still healing, it's been a very long journey.
I have been left partially deaf in the one ear from the head injury, I've got permanent damage to tissue inside my mouth from where he punched me, and my speech has also been affected very badly.
I've met somebody else now, and I never thought in a million years I would be with someone else, but he is amazing. He has picked me up off the floor so many times.
But there's still days when I come home and just burst out crying. Things will trigger it off.
Our divorce came through last month and now I look at him for what he is - a monster. It took me a long time to get that through my head.
*All names have been changed


Liverpool stretched their unbeaten run against Everton at Anfield to 17 years with an eye-catching performance in Jurgen Klopp's first Merseyside derby.

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The Reds impressed against the lacklustre Toffees who also had Ramiro Funes Mori sent off.
Divock Origi headed his side into the lead, with Mamadou Sakho scoring a second.
Daniel Sturridge drove in a third before Philippe Coutinho's curled finish completed an emphatic win.
The result keeps Liverpool in with an outside chance of a top-four finish. They are seventh on 54 points, six points behind Arsenal in fourth while Everton are 11th on 41 points.
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Everton have not won at Anfield since 1999 and, in truth, they never looked like getting anything from their latest visit.
The Reds looked more organised from the outset, attacked with pace and in numbers, and only a couple of good saves from Joel Robles prevented the hosts from taking the lead much earlier than the 43rd minute.
The sending-off of Funes Moris, after he stood on Origi's ankle, arguably ended any hopes of an Everton fightback but there had been little to suggest that was ever on the cards.
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Liverpool finished with 37 shots on goal, 13 of those on target, while all three of Everton's efforts were wide.
This was the 226th Merseyside derby and one of the most one-sided but it did come at a cost for Liverpool as Klopp confirmed Origi had twisted his ankle.
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The first Merseyside derby this season proved to be the final game in charge for Klopp's predecessor Brendan Rodgers.
Pressure had been mounting on the 43-year-old after a disappointing start to the season in which the Reds had won just three of their opening 10 games and, after a 1-1 draw at Goodison on 4 October, he was sacked.
The situation Rodgers found himself in before his departure mirrored Roberto Martinez's going into this game. The Everton boss was under pressure to get a positive result on Wednesday, having overseen just three wins in the 10 games prior to the trip to Anfield.
That pressure now shifts to Everton's next game, with Martinez needing to pick up his players for an FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United at Wembley on Saturday.
Since Klopp arrived at Liverpool shortly after Rodgers' departure, the transformation of some of the club's once-out-of-favour players has been impressive.
Origi was sent out on loan to Lille last year and failed to shine as he was named in L'Equipe's worst Ligue 1 team of the season, while Sakho found himself a peripheral figure at Liverpool in the latter stages of Rodgers' reign.
Both, though, have become important parts of a Liverpool side that have now won four straight games games in all competitions - including last week's impressive victory over Borussia Dortmund in the Europa League.
Just as on that night, both Origi and Sakho scored against Everton while Lucas Levia, who almost left the club at the start of this season, provided the assist for Sturridge's goal.
On top of that, Klopp was able to make nine changes from the side that beat Bournemouth 2-1 at the weekend. The former Dortmund boss has found a way to get the best out of the players in his squad.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "It was really difficult for Everton: red card, injuries, good opponent.
"The second half changed completely with the red card and then the next change when John Stones had to come off that was really not easy for Everton.
"There was no real fight any more. That is not usual. There have been a lot more intensive derbies for sure and there will be a lot more intensive derbies."
Liverpool host relegation-threatened Newcastle on Saturday while Everton play Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals.
Match ends, Liverpool 4, Everton 0.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 4, Everton 0.
Foul by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.
Offside, Liverpool. Adam Lallana tries a through ball, but Daniel Sturridge is caught offside.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Joel Robles.
Attempt missed. Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Alberto Moreno.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Adam Lallana with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Jordon Ibe (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Foul by Jordon Ibe (Liverpool).
Bryan Oviedo (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joe Allen (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Pienaar (Everton).
Attempt missed. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho following a corner.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Leighton Baines.
Attempt missed. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Adam Lallana following a corner.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Leighton Baines.
Hand ball by Bryan Oviedo (Everton).
Substitution, Liverpool. Jordon Ibe replaces James Milner.
Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucas Leiva.
Goal!  Liverpool 4, Everton 0. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joe Allen.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.
Attempt blocked. Joe Allen (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.
Offside, Liverpool. Joe Allen tries a through ball, but Daniel Sturridge is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Joe Allen (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alberto Moreno.
Attempt missed. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James Milner following a set piece situation.
Joe Allen (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Leighton Baines (Everton).
Attempt saved. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.
Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne with a cross.
Substitution, Liverpool. Joe Allen replaces Roberto Firmino.
Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Bryan Oviedo.
Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.
Foul by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool).
Muhamed Besic (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Everton. Steven Pienaar replaces John Stones because of an injury.
Goal!  Liverpool 3, Everton 0. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucas Leiva with a through ball.


DUP assembly member Carla Lockhart has revealed she suffered a miscarriage.

The DUP politician told the BBC Evening Extra programme that the issue can often be a taboo subject and Nichola Sturgeon discussing her loss helped her to talk about it.
At the weekend, Scotland's first minister spoke publicly for the first time about her miscarriage.
Ms Sturgeon told author Mandy Rhodes, who is writing a book about her, that the experience was "painful".
"Sometimes, having a baby just doesn't happen, no matter how much we might want it to," she said.
It is estimated that about one in six pregnancies end in miscarriage.
Ms Lockhart said it can be something people "don't really want to talk about".
"People haven't been in those shoes, they don't know the hurt and the pain," she said.
"People need to realise how many women are going through this."
The MLA for Upper Bann said she wanted to use her platform as a politician to help other women.
"I believe it will help raise awareness," she said.
"I see this as an opportunity to let women know it's OK to hurt, it's OK to cry."
Ruth Bender Atik, director of the Miscarriage Association, told Evening Extra it could be difficult to talk about miscarriage.
"It's very private," she said. "You don't know what response you are going to get.
"It sounds medical, but it is the loss of a baby - a hidden loss."


Vice-chancellors at UK universities received average salary packages of £272,000 last year - up by some £12,000 on the previous year, a study suggests.

The University and College Union research indicated universities spent thousands more on hotels, flights and other expenses for vice-chancellors.
The UCU says staff pay is held down but bosses get "inflation-busting" rises.
Universities UK said the pay of bosses was in line with similarly sized public and private organisations.
The UCU used Freedom of Information requests to ask UK universities and colleges questions about vice-chancellors' pay deals, including benefits and pensions, for the year 2014-15.
The union also asked about money paid out for air fares, hotel accommodation and personal expenses.
The findings suggest the average overall salary package for university heads in 2014-15 was £272,432  (based on figures from 152 institutions) - up from £260,290 in 2013-14  (based on figures from 150 institutions).
The report also suggests:
Eighteen of the 159 institutions contacted did not respond to the Freedom of Information request.
A Universities UK representative said: "The remuneration packages of vice-chancellors are determined by independent remuneration committees at each individual institution and are publicly available in universities' annual reports and accounts.
"The salaries of university leaders in the UK are in line with those in competitor countries and comparable to similarly sized public and private organisations."
A spokesman for Oxford University said the institution was consistently ranked as one of the best in the world.
"Its research output is vast, it has more than £1bn a year in turnover, not including the colleges and Oxford University Press, and it has great institutional complexity," he said.
"The vice-chancellor's salary reflects that."
A spokesman for Glasgow Caledonian University said Prof Gillies "maximises the value of each business trip by fulfilling a full schedule of engagements".
"GCU is transparent in reporting costs incurred, and Prof Gillies's travel and accommodation costs are subject to scrutiny by independent governors on the university court."
A University of Strathclyde spokesman said: "The principal is a global ambassador for the university, and forging links with international institutions, academic partners and industrial collaborators is an essential part of his role."
But UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said: "The time has finally come for a frank and open discussion about pay and transparency in higher education.
"The huge disparities in the levels of pay and pay rises at the top expose the arbitrary nature of senior pay in our universities.
"While some continue to enjoy inflation-busting pay hikes and all the trimmings of first-class flights and luxury hotels, staff pay continues to be held down.
"We will continue to campaign for a proper register of pay and perks at the top of our universities."


Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has made a rare public appearance amid ongoing questions about the state of his health.

Photos and a video posted on Twitter showed Mr Buhari, 74, attending Friday prayers at a mosque in the presidential villa in the capital Abuja.
The footage showed the president shaking hands with fellow worshippers.
Aides say Mr Buhari has been resting after receiving medical treatment in London for an undisclosed illness.
Earlier this week, the president missed his third cabinet meeting in a row, stoking further debate about his condition. Until Friday, he had not been seen in public for two weeks.
Mr Buhari returned from the UK in March after seven weeks of sick leave. When he returned home he said he had never been so ill in his life.
Since then he has rarely been seen outside of his official residence. His wife, Aisha, has said that her husband is not as sick as is being perceived.
Correspondents say a power vacuum in Nigeria, or even the perception of it, could have damaging effects.
The country is at a crucial stage as it struggles to emerge from recession.
Last week, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said Mr Buhari was "taking things slowly, as he fully recovers from the long period of treatment".
Buhari's unhealthy start to 2017
19 January - Leaves for UK on "medical vacation"
5 February - Asks parliament to extend medical leave
10 March - Returns home but does not resume work immediately
26 April - Misses second cabinet meeting and is "working from home"
28 April - Misses Friday prayers
3 May - Misses third cabinet meeting
5 May - Appears at Friday prayers in Abuja


A man who killed an 18-year-old motorist in a crash that split her car in two has been jailed for six years.

Kuba Oles was travelling at a minimum of 80mph (129km/h) when he hit Georgie Ann Evans' car in Dudley on 27 October.
Oles, 25, who had sped down Priory Road, only suffered minor leg injuries, West Midlands Police said.
Oles, from Beaconview Road, West Bromwich, admitted causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
He was also disqualified from driving for 14 years.
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PC Alan Wood, who headed the police investigation, said: "His driving on this day was extraordinarily dangerous and inevitably put other road users in peril.
"During police interviews he attempted to blame Georgie for being an [inexperienced] driver and pulling out too slowly.
"That was proved in court to be completely false and Oles was described as a dangerous person who posed a significant risk of causing the public harm."
Oles was also sentenced to nine months in prison, to run concurrently, for another dangerous driving offence which he also admitted.
Ms Evans's family said in a statement: "We give our thanks to the justice system for handing down the sentence they were able to.
"Unfortunately we are paying the ultimate sentence - the loss of our daughter."