The clocks have gone forward an hour marking the start of British Summer Time.

The change happened at 1am on Sunday 30 March.
It means you've lost an hour's sleep, but the good news is it'll stay lighter for longer in the evenings so there's more time to go outside.
So with longer days, warmer temperatures and sun on its way (hopefully!) we asked what are you looking forward to this summer?
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I am really looking forward to having lots of sleepovers and water fights with my friends and family!
Romilly, Richmond-upon-Thames
I'm going to India in the Summer Holidays to see my family, we are also going to a wildlife reserve. I cant wait!
Medha, Maidenhead
I will go and play out with my friends.
Madi
I'm looking forward to going to the sea this summer but I've broken my toe.
Joe, Pembrokeshire
I'm most looking forward to when the movie 'Minions' comes out in cinemas as I think the minions from Despicable Me are extremely funny!
Olivia, Belfast
I am going on holiday in a couple of weeks so I am glad - maybe I'll get to stay at the beach for longer!
Osha, Walsall
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Filled with goodwill, unfathomable optimism and a slightly heavy heart, you embark on a health kick.

With all the walking, running, cycling and gym activity you intend to do, obviously you need an activity tracker -a small, trusty device that you can wear 24/7 to monitor every footstep, every mile clocked up, every calorie burned, and even the quality of every moment's shuteye.
You'll believe what it says. I mean, why wouldn't you?
Millions of these things have been sold, and you're not exactly going to buy multiple devices to check they come up with the same results.
And that's why I felt compelled to carry out this experiment for you.
I've spent a full week wearing four of the latest and best-known trackers to see if they all came up with the same results.
My findings? They don't. This isn't about which device presents your text messages to you, or comes in three shades of pink, but about cold, hard data.
The Garmin Vivosmart, Fitbit Charge, Misfit Shine and Jawbone Up Move are all in the dock.
At their worst, one day saw a variation between them of 23% in distance covered, and over the course of a week a difference in opinion between the Fitbit Charge and Jawbone Up Move of 2,649 calories burned - that's more than an entire day's calorie intake for someone of my build.
Both companies are united in saying that it's not the figures that matter, but the pattern.
Managing director of Fitbit Europe Gareth Jones advises people to simply be aware of the trend.
"Rather than get down to the half step or the next calorie is to look at the trend in their step pattern," he says,
"Are they increasing the number of steps in their day all week? Are they increasing the calorie burn day to day, week to week? Because it's that trend that's going to make you healthier."
It's a sentiment echoed by Jawbone's head of international partner and product development, Jorgen Nordin.
"What's important really is that our system is all about getting better, becoming a better version of yourself," he says.
And maybe there is something in that.
Goodwill, good intention, motivation to improve your lifestyle and upping your own activity may become so enshrined in this new active tracked you that you transform your entire being.
Yet rely too much on the tech, inviting in third-party apps, inputting what you've eaten, and taking the figures as gospel, and you may just find it all going the wrong way.
But, surely buying a device is buying into the idea that precise data matters to you?
Well, Misfit's medical director Matthew Diamond explains it's not an exact science.
"Variations in algorithms, the sensors used, the characteristics of the individual wearing the device, like height and gait, as well as wearing position, can result in observed differences," he says.
That's not dissimilar to Mr Jones's view - he puts inaccuracies down in part to the lack of a standardised algorithm.
Yet it is acknowledged that trackers that incorporate heart-rate monitoring sensors offer better calorie burn accuracy, which could be interpreted as a nod to the fact they need to.
"Garmin's activity trackers are all about motivation, nudging the user to make healthier choices," says Chrissy Winchcombe, Garmin's marketing executive of wellness.
"You can also use it with a heart-rate monitor for more accurate calorie counting when exercising."
Right now it feels as though a new device is launched weekly, some with looks to replicate mere watches. Others, like the Swarovski crystal, solar-powered Misfit - tracking abilities aside - would put J-Lo's bling to shame.
But providing stats and prompting "do more exercise" notifications are just the start of their makers' ambitions.
"With wearables and looking at the Jawbone band, you know so much about the individual that you can actually start using that information to make the internet of things more like the internet of you," says Jawbone's Jorgen Nordin.
"For example, you've been out running, you come home. Your house knows you've been running, not just because of the temperature of your skin, but it also knows you've been sweating based on sensors.
"Based on that information your stereo system could be playing some cool jazz to cool you down. Your Nest thermostat can cool down the house to help you get cooler.
"If you're in a house with a boiler connected to your shower, that could be turned on as you walk into your house."
Mr Nordin has connected his Jawbone UP to turn his coffee machine on as soon as he wakes.
For most of us though, the simple question now is more likely to be: "Is it still worth me wearing an activity tracker then?"
Sensors are still improving, and as we've seen, we can't expect military precision, but this is a personal choice.
Will I be laying mine to rest? No chance.
It makes me think more about my activity. It makes me walk instead of getting the bus.
It makes me feel smug at the end of the day (usually).
My husband I can compete over footsteps - don't worry, we have the same device.
And now, maybe I'll work that extra bit harder just in case it's going easy on me.


British explorer Mark Evans has successfully crossed one of the world's most inhospitable deserts.

He was accompanied by Omani companions Mohammed Zadjali and Amer Al-Wahaibi.
The trio arrived on Wednesday in Doha, Qatar, after a 49-day trek on foot and by camel across 1,200 kilometres of Arabian desert known as the Rub' Al-Khali, meaning "The Empty Quarter".
They are the first people to complete this coast-to-coast journey, from Salalah in Oman to Doha, in 85 years.
They were following the route of an earlier British explorer, Bertram Thomas.
Mr Evans, 54, told the BBC the worst part was negotiating 250m-high dunes "like Alpine peaks" where their camels sank to their knees in the sand.
In a week that has seen the tragic death of another British explorer, Lt Col Henry Worsley, 55, after crossing Antarctica, this desert journey is a welcome piece of good news.
More than 1,000 well-wishers saw the team off in Salalah when they set out in December, carrying all the food they would need for the seven-week crossing.
Some accompanied the men for the first few kilometres and Evans said they were overwhelmed by hospitality from local tribes people in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
"Twenty-eight goats, seven camels and three sheep have been slaughtered in our honour," he said.
Snakes and scorpions were frequently sighted and in southern Oman there was plentiful wildlife, which was all protected by law.
But once they crossed into Saudi Arabia, said Evans, there was almost no wildlife to speak of.
Just before halfway through, they reached towering sand dunes that left all three travellers dripping in sweat while the camels bellowed in protest, their knees sinking into the sand, and sometimes refusing to budge.
Throughout their journey their thoughts turned often to Bertram Thomas, who took 60 days to cross the sands with his Bedu guide. When he reached Doha in 1931 telegrams of congratulation poured in, including from King George V.
"Sometimes we went to wells that had been visited by both Bertram Thomas and [legendary British explorer] Sir Wilfred Thesiger," Mr Evans said.
The latter, who undertook a similar crossing in the late 1940s but did not reach as far as Doha, wrote in his book Arabian Sands of the extraordinary beauty and solitude of the desert.
He also complained that the discovery of oil had ruined the region.
He once told me that since it was now possible to drive across the desert in a 4x4 vehicle, "walking across it would be completely pointless".
That is clearly not a view shared by the trio who completed their crossing today.
"I have just sat in a chair for the first time in 49 days," Mr Evans added.
"We're about to have a big meal nowâ€¦ What a great adventure that was."


Dartmouth bids to give the Queen a landmark victory on Saturday in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

Her colt, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, could go off favourite as she seeks her first win for 62 years in the race named after her parents.
Olivier Peslier takes the ride on Dartmouth, who won the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot last month.
Rivals include Highland Reel, who was a narrow runner-up in that race.
The Queen's last winner in the Group One contest, a mid-season highlight of the British Flat racing season, came with Aureole in 1954.
"It's a huge showpiece at Ascot and a real highlight of the sporting calendar," the Queen's racing manager John Warren told BBC Radio Four.
"The Queen will be fascinated to see how this young, improving horse is going to develop going into Group One company. It's hugely exciting."
Dartmouth's chances have increased during the week following the withdrawal of both 2015 winner Postponed and second favourite Hawkbill.
The Queen is not expected to be back at the Berkshire track on Saturday due to another commitment in Scotland.
Stoute is seeking a record sixth victory in the mile-and-a-half contest with Dartmouth,  who was added to the £1.15m race as a late entry on Monday at a cost of £75,000.
As well as Highland Reel, Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien also runs Sir Isaac Newton.
Dante Stakes winner Wings Of Desire leads the other contenders, with Erupt, Second Step and Western Hymn completing the field.


The death of a 25-year-old with borderline personality disorder could have been prevented, an independent report seen by BBC Wales has found.

Chris Wood, from Cardiff, killed himself in January 2013.
Charity Hafal said the Welsh Government needed to ensure health boards complied with care planning laws for people with mental ill-health.
Cardiff and Vale health board has apologised and said the findings had been recognised and accepted.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said it wanted to "see an end to inconsistency in mental health care".
Mr Wood took his first overdose when he was 21 in 2008. He attempted suicide a further 31 times in the four-and-a-half years after that.
An independent report into his death was commissioned by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Mr Wood's mother Debbie's solicitor.
It said: "On the balance of probability, had Chris been provided with a reasonable standard of care, including being provided with a care co-ordinator and being provided with specific interventions for the personality problem with which he presented then on the balance of probability, his death would have been prevented."
Mr Wood had regular contact with mental health services from 2008.
The report raised concerns about the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's care of Mr Wood.
It said: "â€¦that Chris's care plan, such as it was, was inadequate and, in the matter of family involvement, I need to reiterate my grave concern regarding the lack of family involvement."
Mrs Wood feels there was confusion about her son's diagnosis and that life became very difficult as his condition worsened.
"Day-to-day life was as chaotic as his care, to be honest," she said.
"He didn't seem to be able to control how he was feeling and we hadn't really been given any explanation and we were struggling to understand it and to cope with it.
"He would disappear at night and my husband would be out late at night looking for him.
"Sometimes he would be found on the top of a bridge, on high buildings, other times he'd overdose or he'd harm himself in some other way."
The report, written by Prof Kevin Gournay CBE, said: "In the records that I have seen there is no evidence, in my opinion, that the risk of self-harm/suicide was competently and correctly assessed in 2012."
Mrs Wood said the family became increasingly dismayed as time went by.
"We spoke out about how we felt - that he needed more help and we needed more advice on how to deal with it - and in the last few months of Chris's life there were several crises."
Things became worse and on 26 January 2013 Mr Wood hanged himself. He was found by his parents.
"For my lovely son who we'd fought so hard to keep safe, to die in the street like that, it was just horrendous, it really was," said Mrs Wood.
"If anybody had actually just listened to anything we said and given Chris the appropriate help, this could have all been avoided.
"For us, that is the worst thing and will haunt us forever."
The coroner at Mr Wood's inquest did not find that neglect had contributed to his death.
However, the report was published three years after the inquest and Mrs Wood says it raises questions about the care her son received from Dr Sudad Jawad, who was his consultant psychiatrist from 2008 until his death.
Dr Jawad has since retired and Mrs Wood's complaints are being investigated by the GMC. He said it would be inappropriate for him to comment while the investigation was ongoing.
Hafal chief executive Alun Thomas said: "We hear too much that we've learned lessons from these kinds of cases, enough is enough and if people don't want to deliver to the Mental Health Measure they need to give up delivering the mental health services.
"We have some excellent services in Wales but we also have some very poor services in Wales and if it comes to a single health board improving that, then we'd be all for it."
A Cardiff and Vale University Health Board spokesperson said: "The health board has taken steps to address the issues raised in the independent report and has met with the family regularly and settled the case in line with the legal process.
"We are unable to go into the exact details of this difficult and lengthy legal case but would like to reassure the family and the public that changes have been made in response to the issues raised to mitigate this happening again.
"The health board has further developed the personality disorder service, Cynnwys, to provide better support for people with severe emotional, behavioural and relationship difficulties and the recommendations of the coroner have been implemented in full."
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "We want to see an end to inconsistency in mental health care.
"We expect services to comply with national guidelines such as NICE and have introduced a Mental Health Measure to ensure that all individuals in secondary services have a care and treatment plan, and can ask for a reassessment if they are discharged.
"Mental health treatment, support and prevention services will be a priority for this government, with greater access to talking therapies at earlier stages in order to help people cope with emotional challenges."


Blackpool have released 10 players following Sunday's play-off final win and promotion to League One.

The Tangarines were promoted from League Two at the first time of asking after a 2-1 win over Exeter City.
Ian Black, Henry Cameron, Luke Higham, John Herron, Dean Lyness, Eddie Nolan, Jack Payne, Jack Redshaw and Macauley Wilson have left, but the club are still in talks with Sam Slocombe.
Tom Aldred and Nathan Delfouneso have both been offered new contracts.
Mark Cullen, who scored the winning goal at Wembley and finished the League Two season as the club's top scorer with 13 goals, heads the list of players who have had options activated on their contracts.
Brad Potts, who also netted at Wembley, and captain Andy Taylor have also had their extensions triggered, along with Myles Boney, Colin Daniel, Jim McAlister, Kelvin Mellor, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Clark Robertson and Kyle Vassell.
Will Aimson, Raul Correia, Seb Des Pres, Armand Gnanduillet, Jamille Matt and Danny Philliskirk remain under contract with Blackpool, while loanees Neil Danns, Jordan Flores and Sanmi Odelusi have returned to their parent clubs.


Police should use stop and search to "confront" an increase in acid attacks, the home secretary has said.

Writing in the Times, Amber Rudd said officers using the powers "appropriately" had her "full support".
Theresa May curbed the use of the controversial tactic when she was home secretary amid concerns black people were being unfairly targeted.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott warned against "a return to the bad old days of discriminatory stops".
Ms Rudd - who is under pressure to tackle a rise in acid attacks - said stop and search powers had been "badly used" in the past.
"I want to be crystal clear - we have given the police the powers they need and officers who use stop and search appropriately, with reasonable grounds and in a targeted and intelligence-led way, will always have my full support," she writes in The Times.
"This includes using stop and search to confront the use of acid as an appalling weapon of violence."
In July, the Home Office said "indicative figures" from 39 police forces across England and Wales suggested there were over 400 attacks with acid or other corrosive substances in the six months to April 2017.
The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, also writing in the Times, described stop and search as "an extremely important power when properly used" and highlighted its use to combat knife crime in the capital, as well as the carrying of acid or drugs.
She wrote: "I will support my officers in the if the number of stop and searches rises in the fight against knife crime and street violence."
She added: "Stopping and searching should never define our relationship to young people of any community in London.
"For most of those I've met in recent weeks, including in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, fear of violence is the main concern."
The article followed an interview Ms Dick gave to the BBC's Asian Network, in which she rejected the "perception" that the police targeted people because of the colour of their skin.
For Labour, Ms Abbott said: "Labour supports evidence-based stop and search, not a return to the bad old days of discriminatory stops that focus on particular communities."
She added: "Police officers should be confident in doing their job, but the Tories have overseen a huge cut in police numbers. Simply granting police additional powers won't make up for that shortfall."
There were 387,448 uses of stop and search in England and Wales in 2015-16, down more than 150,000 on the previous year, following Theresa May's crackdown on the tactic.
Some 15% of stop and searches resulted in an arrest, compared with 10% at the time of the overhaul three years ago.
However, black people were still six times more likely to be stopped than white people.


A worker has died in an accident on a south of Scotland wind farm site.

Emergency services were called out to reports of a man being injured at the under-construction Kilgallioch wind farm at about 18:45 on Wednesday.
The 37-year-old was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene.
Police Scotland said the site - which straddles the Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire border - had been shut for investigations and the Health and Safety Executive had been informed.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The man, who was working for turbine manufacturer Gamesa, was inside a tower under construction when the accident occurred.
A spokesman for the firm said: "Gamesa is conducting a thorough investigation together with the authorities to establish the root cause of this fatal accident.
"Work at the wind farm has been stopped while the investigation takes place.
"We are very saddened and our thoughts go to the family of the employee."
A spokesman for developers ScottishPower Renewables confirmed the man had been working as a contractor on the site.
"A full investigation is now under way by the police and the Health and Safety Executive," he said.
"ScottishPower Renewables will support and co-operate fully with these investigations.
"Our thoughts are with the family of the technician involved in the incident."


Bristol City winger Scott Wagstaff says he was delighted after making his first start for more than 12 months.

The 25-year-old was on the fringes of the first-team last season and has been plagued by a calf injury this campaign.
Wagstaff started in the 1-0 defeat by West Brom in the FA Cup third-round replay, after a cameo role in the win over Middlesbrough on Saturday.
"It is nice to get back on the pitch because that is what I have missed," Wagstaff told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I don't want to just be sitting around doing nothing. I have been training hard, working hard to get back in the team and got my chance."
Wagstaff completed 85 minutes against the Premier League side before being substituted.
Before Tuesday, his last start - which was also in the FA Cup - came against Doncaster Rovers on 13 January, 2015.
"It has been a tough season for me personally but I have kept myself going and tried to keep myself fit," the ex-Charlton midfielder added.


A head teacher whose husband was sentenced for outraging public decency has been banned from the classroom.

Sarah Cooke was principal of Foxhole Academy in St Austell, Cornwall where her husband Peter Cooke was a handyman.
He was caught by neighbours watching porn and masturbating in his garden and was handed a suspended sentence.
Mrs Cooke also failed to report that her husband was cautioned for stealing women's underwear in 2012. She has now been banned indefinitely from teaching.
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The Education Secretary made the ban following a panel hearing last month. It prohibits Mrs Cooke from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) panel said Mrs Cooke had breached professional standards and found her guilty of five charges of wrongdoing.
The panel also said she showed "a lax attitude" to safeguarding before recommending a prohibition order.
Mrs Cooke resigned after her husband of 30 years was arrested early last year, over the garden incident.


A 67-year-old motorcyclist has died after a road crash near Machynlleth, Powys.

The collision, involving a red Xsara Picasso and a silver Kawasaki motorcycle, happened in Aberhosan at 09:30 BST on Monday.
Dyfed-Powys Police is appealing for witnesses.


Wembley Stadium will host the final and semi-finals of Euro 2020, European governing body Uefa has confirmed.

Glasgow's Hampden Park and Dublin's Aviva Stadium will host last-16 matches and three group games.
The English Football Association won unanimously after the German FA (DFB) withdrew just before the Uefa vote to focus on a bid to stage Euro 2024.
Cardiff missed out as one of the 13 venues that will host matches for the first pan-continental Euros.
England's FA chairman Greg Dyke, 67, said: "This bidding process was open to more than 50 Uefa countries so for Wembley to be recognised in this way is testament to a lot of hard work behind the scenes."
Dyke confirmed that the FA had held discussions with their German counterparts but said there was no deal in place to back DFB's bid for Euro 2024.
"There is no agreement other than we will not bid for 2024, as we wouldn't get it," Dyke said.
England manager Roy Hodgson said the opportunity to play a final at Wembley would be excellent motivation for his players.
"For the young team that is emerging, many of those players will be at their best football years in 2020," the 67-year-old said.
"If the young players of today do not use this to spur them on then they are making a mistake.
"By 2020 some of them will be playing their fifth tournament and that is the type of experience you can't buy."
The quarter-finals and three group matches will be held in Munich (Germany), Baku (Azerbaijan), Rome (Italy) and St Petersburg (Russia).
The other host cities that will hold three group games and a last 16 game are Copenhagen (Denmark), Bucharest (Romania), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bilbao (Spain), Budapest (Hungary) and Brussels (Belgium).
Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan said the backing of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and the long history of football in Scotland had been key to their bid.
"Glasgow was the city that held the first ever football match at international level - between England and Scotland - back in 1872 and we played heavy on the history," Regan said.
"Sir Alex Ferguson, last week, supported us, and spoke very passionately. Football has won today and we are delighted."
On Cardiff's failed bid, Welsh FA chief executive Jonathan Ford said: "We had a very strong technical bid, we have an excellent stadium and record in staging major events.
"But it came down to a vote and, unfortunately, Wales were not successful this time."
Stockholm, Skopje, Jerusalem, Sofia and Minsk were the other cities not included in the 13.
The current multi-country format is the brainchild of Uefa president Michel Platini and is expected to be a one-off to mark the 60th anniversary of the European confederation.
Platini said: "This is a historic moment because we'll be able to bring this competition to all the countries of Europe and especially to countries that would never otherwise have the chance to host such a competition."


All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said.

It is hoped the move will improve access to education in a country where many cannot afford sanitary products like pads and tampons.
According to the UN's education agency, one in 10 girls in sub-Saharan Africa misses school during their period.
Some girls reportedly lose 20% of their education for this reason, making them more likely to drop out of school altogether.
The amendment to the education act, signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta this week, states "free, sufficient and quality sanitary towels" must be provided to every girl registered at school, as well as providing "a safe and environmental sound mechanism for disposal".
It comes more than a decade after Kenya scrapped taxes on sanitary products in an effort to make them more affordable.
Despite this, some 65% of women and girls still find them to expensive, according to figures cited in a 2016 report by non-profit consulting firm FSG.
As a result, charities like the ZanaAfrica Foundation have been providing sanitary pads for girls around the country.
The move to legislate the provision of sanitary towels to school-going adolescent girls has been well received by many Kenyans.
Since 2011, the Kenyan government has been setting aside funds to buy and distribute the commodity to girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In the 2017-2018 financial year, $5m has been budgeted for that purpose, up from $4m in the current year ending this month.
The new legal provision, however, requires government to provide the towels to every school-going girl who has reached puberty  - it becomes an obligation rather than an option - so it will require a bigger budget.
There generally exists non-partisan political goodwill to fulfil this goal.
But the authorities will need to ensure the prudent use of that money to ensure every girls who needs the sanitary towels gets them.
School management teams will be charged with the responsibility of purchasing and distributing the towels.
The high price of sanitary products and the impact on girls' education is not just a problem in Kenya.
According to a 2014 campaign, girls are also missing school in countries like India, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone for the same reason.
The issue has not just caused issues in developing countries.
Freedom4Girls - which usually provides sanitary pads to girls in Kenya - was asked to step in by a school in Leeds in northern England which was concerned about girls missing school.
One teenager told BBC Radio Leeds that she "wrapped a sock around my underwear" just to get through the school day.


Newport County caretaker manager Mike Flynn has revealed how Thierry Henry has lent his support to the Exiles' bid for League Two survival.

Flynn, who was appointed after Newport sacked boss Graham Westley, has won both his games in charge.
And the morning after Tuesday's victory at Morecambe, the Welshman received a congratulatory text message from former Arsenal striker Henry, with whom he has been qualifying as a coach.
"It was surreal," said Flynn.
"He's one of my heroes in the game. He's just pure class and he's like that off the pitch as well.
"I asked him to put his boots back on but he wasn't so forthcoming!
"For a football fan, which I am, it was unbelievable, and something which made me smile on Wednesday morning when I had my little boy waking me up at 6.30 in the morning, after getting back from the game at 4am."
Newport moved off the foot of the League Two table and are now seven points from safety after beating Morecambe.
County were bottom and 11 points adrift when they sacked Westley but have won their two games under Flynn.
The 36-year-old former Newport midfielder has been studying for his coaching badges with the Football Association of Wales, under the tutelage of Wales assistant manager Osian Roberts.
Former Barcelona and France forward Henry has been on the same course, and watched Wales' rugby team train earlier this month.
Now a television pundit as well as Belgium's assistant manager, Henry has told Flynn he can call him for advice whenever he needs it.
"It's just nice to see that support," added Flynn, whose Newport side host Blackpool on Saturday.
"Learning from people like that - Patrick Vieira, David Ginola, Sol Campbell - it's a great mix of people.
"It's all put together by Osian and Lennie Lawrence, and it's attracting the right calibre of manager. Picking their brains and seeing how they work is invaluable."


Manchester United goalkeeper Joel Pereira is expected to be given his Premier League debut on Sunday.

Demi Mitchell, Angel Gomes, Josh Harrop and Scott McTominay could make their senior bows, while Paul Pogba and Timothy Fosu-Mensah will play.
Marouane Fellaini and Chris Smalling have minor injuries and may be rested ahead of the Europa League final.
James Tomkins should be fit for Crystal Palace after an ankle problem but Yohan Cabaye is a doubt due to a foot injury.
Andros Townsend will miss the game because of an Achilles injury, while Scott Dann is expected to be absent with a knee problem.
Steve Bower: "So it's the game Jose Mourinho didn't want, on the day he didn't want; the week ahead will determine if it turns out to be the season he didn't want, with events in Stockholm on Wednesday determining whether he has restored the Champions League nights for Manchester United.
"Before that, some of his players will get important minutes ahead of the Europa League final and some will get their first experience of the Premier League.
"Crystal Palace are just delighted that they aren't heading to Old Trafford full of nerves and in need of some sort of result to secure their top-flight status.
"They will be determined that in 12 months time, after a full season under Sam Allardyce, they will be higher up the table."
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "For the kids it will be a great experience to play in the Premier League in the last match of the season.
"It will be a big occasion but I think the best [scenario] for a young player is in the middle of an experienced structure, where he can be supported.
"We have tried to bring the guys who are more adapted to playing at this level at the moment. Lots of them [starting] together, no."
Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: "Whether Jose plays a weakened side or not, it will always be a difficult task because the younger players at Manchester United are definitely very talented.
"The higher you can finish in the league, the bigger and better the prize money, so if we can get a result at Old Trafford then that will be fantastic.
"The club should be interested in the money because it gives us a bigger budget. But the players shouldn't be interested in the money until they've won."
I have no idea what sort of team either manager will put out, so it is very difficult to predict the outcome.
Jose Mourinho will make lots of changes before Wednesday's Europa League final, but he has such a big squad that it could still be a strong Manchester United side, if he wants it to be.
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This giant rocking horse has been built in Taiwan to help celebrate Chinese New Year.

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The massive yellow statue is more than six metres high and around 10 times the size of an ordinary rocking horse!
The Chinese zodiac follows a 12-year cycle. Each of the years is named after an animal and this is the year of the horse.
"The reason we decided to make the rocking horse is that it's something everyone has played with in their childhood," said head of Sanxing township, Huang Yang-yong.
Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in Taiwan and many are decorating their homes with horse-shaped ornaments and red banners.
People also celebrate by lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
This year Chinese New Year falls on 31 January. Officials hope the horse will bring good fortune, prosperity and many smiles to the town.


Portugal reached the semi-finals of the European Championship for the fourth time in five tournaments with a penalty shootout victory over Poland.

Ricardo Quaresma scored the winning spot-kick after Jakub Blaszczykowski's effort was saved by Rui Patricio.
Robert Lewandowski had fired Poland ahead in the second minute with teenager Renato Sanches equalising via a deflected strike.
Portugal's semi-final opponents will be either Wales or Belgium.
Remarkably, Portugal have reached the last four without winning a game in normal time following three draws in a group in which they finished third and an extra-time win over Croatia in the last 16.
No side has ever got this far in a European Championship without winning a match inside 90 minutes.
Portugal have also only led a match for 22 minutes during the whole tournament, while Poland have not trailed for a single minute.
However, for a second dour and conservative knockout game running, Fernando Santos' side did what was required when it mattered.
Neither goalkeeper came close to saving the first three penalties from either side.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Sanches and Joao Moutinho all scored excellent penalties for Portugal, with Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Milik and Kamil Glik following suit for Poland.
However, after Nani had put Portugal 4-3 ahead, Patricio dived full length to his left to palm away Blaszczykowski's effort with one hand.
Lukasz Fabianski got his fingertips to Quaresma's decisive effort but could not prevent it finding the roof of the net.
For much of the game, the overriding image of Ronaldo was of him slapping his thigh and screaming towards the French sky in frustration.
Barring a few exceptional moments - his two goals against Hungary and assisting Quaresma's winner to see off Croatia - this has been a disappointing tournament for the finest European player of his generation.
He was barely recognisable from the figure who has terrorised defences across the continent for more than a decade as a series of scuffed and miscued strikes took him from 31 to 36 efforts for the tournament without an addition to his two group-stage goals.
Worst of all was a couple of air shots - one from a low Nani cross, the other following a chipped ball over the defence and into the box by substitute Joao Moutinho.
He should have had a first-half penalty, when he was clumsily shoved in the back in the box by Michal Pazdan, but his anguished appeals were waved away by referee Felix Brych.
However, he led from the front in the shootout, firing home the first penalty with aplomb and remains in the tournament, unlike Poland's own star man.
Having scored 13 goals in qualifying and 42 in 51 appearances for club Bayern Munich in 2015-16, Lewandowski had spent much of Poland's four games prior to Thursday being frustrated, through both fair and foul means from opponents - he is the most fouled man in the tournament.
It was only a matter of time, though, before a striker of his class made an impression on the tournament, although few would have imagined Portugal to be so accommodating so early in Marseille.
Southampton full-back Cedric Soares was at fault, allowing a cross-field ball to evade him and reach Kamil Grosicki, whose low cross was struck home first-time by his captain with just one minute and 40 seconds on the clock.
It is the second fastest goal in Euros history - beaten only by Dmitri Kirichenko's 65-second strike for Russia against Greece in 2004 - and ends a 645-minute goal-drought for Lewandowski in the finals of this competition.
Now brimming with confidence, the 27-year-old then beat Pepe to the ball in the box but saw his low shot saved by Patricio as Poland took the game to their opponents in the first 25 minutes.
Unfortunately, they were unable to build on this, offering precious little in attack and relying instead on a resolute defence that has conceded just twice in five games (two of which have gone to extra-time) to see give them through to the shoot-out.
It has been some year for Sanches.
The teenager only made his first-team debut for Benfica in November, but since then he has made his international bow, claimed a Primeira Liga winners' medal and agreed to join Bayern Munich for £27.5m.
He now has a full-debut international goal to his name, making him - at 18 years and 316 days - the youngest goalscorer in the knockout stages of a European Championship.
Picking up the ball wide right he played a superb one-two with Nani before finding the net with a well-struck shot from the edge of the box that took a deflection off Grzegorz Krychowiak.
However, barring an extra-time pitch-invader, this was to be the last real moment of excitement until the shootout.
Portugal goalscorer Sanches: "It is a wonderful moment for the team and for me for scoring. We have been working very hard and we have been doing our best. People criticise us but we don't care because we are in the semis."
Poland coach Adam Nawalka: "It's definitely a tough moment for us. The players put a lot of heart into this match and played bravely throughout this tournament. We haven't lost a match - we were knocked out on penalties. We have to look with optimism to the future and the European qualifiers. There will soon be time for detailed analysis but this defeat hurts."
Wales and Belgium face each other in Lille on Friday to decide Portugal's last-four opponent in Lyon on Wednesday, 6 July.
Match ends, Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5).
Penalty Shootout ends, Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5).
Goal!  Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5). Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty saved! Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(4). Nani (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal!  Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(3). Kamil Glik (Poland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Poland 1(2), Portugal 1(3). João Moutinho (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Poland 1(2), Portugal 1(2). Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Poland 1(1), Portugal 1(2). Renato Sanches (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal!  Poland 1(1), Portugal 1(1). Robert Lewandowski (Poland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Poland 1, Portugal 1(1). Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt missed. Lukasz Piszczek (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Bartosz Kapustka (Poland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec.
Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danilo Pereira (Portugal).
Corner,  Portugal. Conceded by Artur Jedrzejczyk.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match  (Poland).
Corner,  Poland. Conceded by Pepe.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by João Moutinho (Portugal).
Attempt missed. Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec.
Attempt blocked. Bartosz Kapustka (Poland) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Arkadiusz Milik.
Second Half Extra Time begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt saved. Nani (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cédric Soares.
Foul by Tomasz Jodlowiec (Poland).
João Moutinho (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nani (Portugal).
Attempt missed. Nani (Portugal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Substitution, Poland. Tomasz Jodlowiec replaces Krzysztof Maczynski.
Attempt blocked. Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Renato Sanches.
Substitution, Portugal. Danilo Pereira replaces William Carvalho.
Attempt blocked. Renato Sanches (Portugal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
First Half Extra Time begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Second Half ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.


Angus Council's sheltered housing provision should be reduced by a third, a report has recommended.

The homes would instead be converted into accommodation for older people, in proposals being considered by the council over the next few weeks.
If the plans are approved, 210 of the council's 626 sheltered housing units would become retirement housing.
The council said it needed to develop a "more sustainable and affordable" housing solution for those over 60.
The report will be considered by the Social Work and Health Committee on 12 January and by the Communities Committee the following week.
Council leader Iain Gaul said there was a "lessening demand" for other sheltered housing in Angus.
"Five years ago the total losses from void properties was just over Â£91,000 - last year it was just under Â£217,000," he said. "We cannot sustain that level of lost income to housing.
"It is well known that the overall financial position for council services has never been so severe. In that context we have to ensure that all of our services operate as effectively and efficiently as possible."
The committee has recommended that community volunteers are used to support the sheltered housing provision for adults of any age that have medical or support needs.
It said that "universal provision" of sheltered housing did not comply with the Scottish government "self-directed support" policy which was introduced in 2013.
The new policy requires that individuals can choose who provides care and support services.
Mr Gaul added: "The council remains committed to ensuring that tenants care and support needs are met, but we must also comply with the requirements of self-directed support."
The council also plans to expand the caretaker service and invest in the communal facilities at the elderly housing complexes over the next four years.
The report follows a consultation with sheltered housing tenants.


Broadcaster Sky is launching its own mobile phone service.

Sky Mobile will offer flexible monthly payment plans and the ability to roll over unused data each month for up to three years.
Sky will become a "quad play" provider, offering broadband, television fixed-line telephone and a mobile service.
And existing Sky TV customers will not have to pay for calls or texts and can compile playlists of their favourite shows to watch on their mobiles.
According to Sky, some 46,000 have pre-registered for the service.
The service comes with three data plans:
Non-Sky TV customers can add on unlimited calls and texts for £10 per month, or pay for calls and texts on a pay-as-you-use (PAYU) basis.
According to Sky, UK consumers use less than half of the mobile data they buy from mobile network operators, adding up to an annual £2bn of wasted data.
Stephen van Rooyen, UK and Ireland Sky chief executive, said:  "We felt it was time to shake up the mobile market and give customers a completely new way to manage their mobile plan.
"We've designed it based on what people told us they want - it's easy, flexible and transparent and it puts the customer in control."
Ewan Taylor-Gibson, a telecoms expert at uSwitch said: "Sky's first mobile offering is very competitive, as long as you're already a Sky TV customer."
He compared Sky's Sim-only deal with that already offered by giffgaff, another service that piggybacks on O2's network and allows customers to alter their package depending on their usage.
"The key differences between the two are that Sky ties you in for 12 months, while giffgaff users can cancel anytime, and giffgaff also offers unlimited everything for £20 a month, beating Sky's top package, which delivers 5GB," said Mr Taylor-Gibson.
Sky's decision to let people roll over data and store it for three years was "both unique and compelling", he said, but it may have to offer bigger data bundles.


It was the look between the midwife and her husband that Victoria Hughes remembers.

She had just given birth to their first son Dylan.
But rather than congratulations, she was told: "We're sorry, your son has Down's syndrome."
With her background in nursing and her husband's as a doctor, the couple had some knowledge of the condition.
But it still did not prepare them for the negative information that came flooding their way.
"No-one spells out all the things that could possibly go wrong for a child when they're born," she said.
"But when you have a child with a disability, with Down's syndrome, they tell you the average life expectancy is 50; they won't go to mainstream school; they won't do this and that.
"They just say all the negatives."
Fourteen years later and Dylan has defied those initial expectations.
He is flourishing in year 9 at mainstream school and has made the Down's Syndrome GB swimming squad.
But that initial lack of support led to his mother and two other mothers of children with Down's syndrome to take matters into their own hands.
When Dylan was a toddler, a health visitor introduced his mother to Katharina Barker and Nicky Williams.
Both women also had babies with Down's syndrome.
And all three discovered they had shared similar experiences in terms of a lack of support for people with Down's syndrome and their families.
Katharina said although she had had a "very positive, supportive" experience with the birth of her daughter Amelie, she quickly struggled to find specialist support.
"One of the things I found hugely frustrating, unless you are pointed in the right direction you are not going to find services, they are not coming to you," she said.
They decided to host a coffee morning for parents with children with Down's syndrome to make friends and share experiences.
The success of it led to the trio setting up a charity and the support it offers includes speech and language therapy, school help and annual education conferences.
Although Nicky has since stepped down from the Monmouth-based 21 Plus charity, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, Victoria and Katharina are determined to expand its reach as much as possible.
And their hard work and dedication led to them becoming finalists in the national St David Awards citizenship category.
They want to continue helping children with Down's syndrome "achieve their potential and increase access to opportunities".
"One of the mums said to me yesterday that one thing she loves is being able to ask any question, even if it sounds daft and she wouldn't have the nerve to ask anyone else, she can ask us," Victoria said.
"I guess that's why I do it. I don't want any of our families to think, 'I wish I'd known aboutâ€¦'  or 'I wish I'd known that earlier'."
"I believe in expert parents and I want to make it possible for our families to become experts if that's what they want."
Katharina added: "We want to give children the chance to access schooling, to access learning and to access the world.
"The greatest thing is to see the children grow up, to see them developing and how well they're doing.
"It makes it so worthwhile, it's wonderful."


US Republican Ben Carson has officially ended his campaign for the presidential nomination for the 2016 election.

Speaking to conservative activists, he said: "I'm leaving the campaign trail."
Dr Carson, a surgeon, had been an early front-runner but his campaign stalled in recent months after he performed badly on foreign affairs and questions about his background story.
He has not said which of the remaining four candidates he plans to endorse in the race for the Republican nomination.


A hairdryer-wielding grandmother who became an internet sensation says schoolchildren in her area now consider her a "national hero".

Jean Brooks uses the hairdryer as a pretend speed gun outside her home in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
A video of her has been viewed more than 33 million times on the BBC Radio Nottingham Facebook page.
Since her new-found fame, she said she is asked for selfies and fans visit her home.
"People come up to me and hug me and say 'thank you for making the street safer'," said the 63-year-old.
"As far as the local school kids are concerned, I'm a national hero.
"If the traffic slows down nobody's going to get hurt. I've already got a cat that's only got three legs because he didn't know his green cross code."
The video has since spawned memes quoting parts of the interview, in which Ms Brooks said: "If we can't be safe in our own streets, how the hell are we going to be safe in the world?"
People have also quoted the "neooooow, neooooow, neoooow" noise she made when imitating the sound of vehicles speeding past her home.
A hitchhiker from Germany turned up at her home with a gift on Wednesday after seeing the hairdryer video.
"I nearly burst into tears when I saw him," she said.
"I hugged him so hard I thought I was going to crack his ribs, bless him."
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Bartek Zabel, from Hamburg, said: "It's brilliant because you don't need expensive equipment to slow the drivers down."
He has sent the video to his friends and said they loved it too.
"I just had to visit her because she's like a local hero and like a celebrity," he added.
A man who viewed the hairdryer video also delivered a van of nearly 200 toys to her home on Saturday night, which she gave to children on her estate.
"It's not often I'm made speechless but I was speechless," said Ms Brooks.
Ms Brooks, who is a biker herself, contacted the BBC after it published a video of irresponsible quad bikers and motorcyclists who rode dangerously in Nottingham city centre.
She claimed the gang of bikers - who were caught on CCTV doing wheelies, driving the wrong way and weaving in and out of traffic - regularly went down her road.
She said she wanted the hairdryer to become symbolic of communities taking back their streets.
She encouraged people to vote - particularly young people - and said they should take a hairdryer with them when they do.
"Don't say anything, don't do anything, just carry a hairdryer," she said.
Ms Brooks does other work for her community, including running a charity cafe in her garden to encourage people to talk to each other.
In 2015, she collected Easter eggs then delivered them to children's homes and hospitals with the help of a group of bikers.


Action to combat anti-social behaviour in Wrexham town centre comes into force on Monday.

An order gives police and council officials powers to disperse anyone causing a nuisance, rough sleeping, consuming alcohol or taking drugs.
People in breach of the public space protection order (PSPO) will be issued with a £100 fixed penalty fine.
Councillor Hugh Jones, who is helping to lead the project, said it "aims to reduce inappropriate behaviour".
But North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones raised concerns that the order may move problems elsewhere and not solve them.
A council report in June said there had been more than 300 incidents in the last 12 months involving drink and drugs, fights and harassment.
It said vulnerable people would be given welfare help and warnings before any action was taken.


Millions of children across the Middle East have been unable to begin the new school year, with those in countries plagued by armed conflict finding themselves, their teachers and their schools in the line of fire.

Some living in Syria, Yemen and Libya are nevertheless braving the journey to school, hoping to lead as normal a life as possible.
Maarouf, a nine-year-old boy from Damascus, welcomed the start of the academic year with "fear and apprehension".
But his fear is not of the five-year war that has seen forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.
"I am afraid I will not get good grades. I do not want my teachers to punish me. Last year, the subjects were easier," Maarouf told the BBC.
All that Maarouf wants is to perform well at school and receive his teachers' praise.
Unlike some other parents in the capital, who have opted for home-schooling or taken their children out of school altogether, Maarouf's mother is keen for him to continue going despite the security concerns.
"Although I live in a secure place in Damascus and the school is just three minutes away from our place, I have to accompany him on his way to and from school every day," she told the BBC.
"In the past, I had serenity. I would send my son to school with enthusiasm, but now there is discomfort," she added.
But she stressed: "I want my son to go to school because I want him to have a normal life."
Meanwhile, the aerial bombardment of besieged rebel-districts of Syria's second city of Aleppo by the government and its ally Russia continued unabated as children went back to school there.
Attendance was reportedly poor on the first day and many school buildings remained closed, but those children who did turn up for classes gave their teachers a glimmer of hope.
"For Aleppo, back to school means back to life. A revolution without education is just a war... Children like going to school. We insist on keeping schools open because without education, [life] would be pointless," Wissam al-Zaraq, a teacher at a school in rebel-held Aleppo, told the BBC.
More than 2 million Syrian children and adolescents are out of school and those who are still receiving education are increasingly being withdrawn to act as breadwinners, placing a growing number of girls at risk of forced marriage, and leaving boys vulnerable to child labour and exploitation.
Some 700,000 refugee children in neighbouring states are also not in school.
The new school year in Yemen was overshadowed by the continuing war between the Houthi rebel movement and forces allied to the government, which is backed by a Saudi-led multinational coalition.
Due to violence and the closure of schools, more than 350,000 children were unable to resume their education in the last school year, bringing the total of out-of-school children in Yemen to 2 million.
"Children were killed on their way to school or while at school," said Julien Harneis, representative of the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) in Yemen. "Parties to the conflict should keep children and schools out of harm to give education a chance."
Despite the dire security situation, Yemenis still want the best for their children.
"People still send their children to school because they want to resume their normal life, and going to school is part of it," Moustafa al-Rifai, a grandfather of a 10-year-old boy who lives in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, told the BBC.
Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has been plunged into chaos and left deeply divided, with dozens of armed groups holding sway on the ground.
School enrolment rates across the country have dropped by an average of 20% over the past 12 months, a trend that has seen 150,000 children deprived of education.
The unrest has turned many schools into shelters for displaced people.
Yet parents are still keen to provide their children with education, even in the eastern city of Benghazi, which has been decimated by conflict and where 73% of schools are no longer functioning or are inaccessible.
For seven-year-old Malaak, who lives in Benghazi, going back to school means "meeting her friends".
Malaak was sad when her school was forced to close over security concerns.
The situation is "slowly improving but not yet stable", says her aunt, Hoda Abdallah, an English teacher at a private school in the city.
"Many parents are resorting to private schools, although these schools are exploiting the situation in the country and raising their fees," Ms Abdallah added.
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An opposition MP in Myanmar is recovering after being attacked by men wielding knives and swords at a campaign rally.

The attack comes just over a week before a historic election in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
National League for Democracy (NLD) MP Naing Ngan Lin was rushed to hospital with head and hand injuries, but the party said his life was not in danger.
The attackers were detained by police, who said the motive was not clear.
Witnesses told the BBC's Jonah Fisher that several men, some armed with swords, interrupted the opposition rally in Thaketa township on Thursday.
"We have no idea what are the motives for the attack and who is behind it. It's important to take effective legal action after investigation," said NLD spokesman Nyan Win told Reuters.
The violence comes ten days before Myanmar's election and three days before NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due to hold a large rally, also in Yangon.
The poll on 8 November will be the country's first openly contested general election in 25 years. The NLD is expected to win the most seats.
Public threats had been made before the rally warning the opposition to cancel, but they were ignored.


Belfast flyweight Brendan Irvine booked his place at the Olympic Games thanks to a box-off victory in Turkey.

The 19-year-old lost his Olympic qualifiers semi-final but with three fighters going through to Rio he had another chance in the box-off.
Irvine was on the backfoot against Bulgarian Daniel Asenov in the first round but he won the second round.
There was split decision in the final round and Irvine won the contest on points.
Irvine was beaten by Armenia's Narek Abgaryan in the semi-finals of the European Olympic qualifying event on Friday.
The Belfast teenager forced Abgaryan to take a late standing count in the closing seconds of their flyweight fight but the Armenian took a deserved unanimous verdict in Samsun.
It will be a first Olympic appearance for Irvine, who was a silver medallist at last year's inaugural European Games.
Fellow Irish fighter David Oliver Joyce faces Turkey's Volkan Gokcek in the lightweight box-off on Sunday.


Cardiff has an ongoing problem with the radicalisation of young Muslims, said an academic who has studied the issue.

23 June 2014 Last updated at 14:32 BST
Two men from the city have been identified taking part in what appears to be a Jihadist recruiting video, which was posted online last week.
It is thought Reyaad Khan travelled to Syria with friend Nasser Muthana who also appears in the footage.
An expert on radicalisation, Dr Suraj Lakhani of Cardiff University, said: "As far as I'm aware, there has been an issue in Cardiff for a while now."
Nicky Smith spoke to one of the families and the local community, while Jordan Davies speaks to Sheikh Zane Abdo, Imam at the South Wales Islamic Centre.


Part of Czechoslovakia until the "velvet divorce" in January 1993, the Czech Republic has a robust democratic tradition, a highly-developed economy, and a rich cultural heritage.

It emerged from over 40 years of Communist rule in 1990, and was the first former Eastern Bloc state to acquire the status of a developed economy. It joined the European Union in 2004.
Communist rule had lasted since 1948, when the restored pre-war democratic system was overthrown in a Soviet-backed coup. The "Prague Spring" of 1968, when Communist leader Alexander Dubcek tried to bring in liberal reforms, was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks.
In 1989, as the curtain was coming down on communism in the Kremlin, the dissident playwright Vaclav Havel emerged as the figurehead of the country's "velvet revolution" and became the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia.
Population 10.6 million
Area 78,866 sq km (30,450 sq miles)
Major language Czech
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 75 years (men), 81 years (women)
Currency koruna
President: Milos Zeman
Former prime minister Milos Zeman won the first direct Czech presidential election in January 2013, beating conservative Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg by a margin of 55% to 45%.
Like his predecessor, Vaclav Klaus, Mr Zeman thrives on confrontation and has not hesitated to exercise his presidential authority, even when this has meant entering into conflict with the Czech government.
He has irked many people - both within the country and among the Czech Republic's western allies - by defending Russia's stance on Ukraine and by voicing opposition to the western sanctions against Russia.
Prime Minister: Bohuslav Sobotka
Social Democratic party leader Bohuslav Sobotka heads a coalition formed after a 2013 snap election triggered by the fall of the centre-right government of Petr Necas over a spying, sex and bribery scandal earlier in the year.
On his appointment, Mr Sobotka pledged to end the political gridlock that had paralysed policy making for seven months and revive economic growth following the country's longest recession on record.
He promised to boost the economy by reversing the former centre-right government's austerity measures.
Private radio and TV stations provide stiff competition for their public rivals.
Public broadcaster Ceska Televize (CT) operates two TV networks and a 24-hour news channel. Public radio, Cesky Rozhlas (CRo), operates three national networks and local services.
Leading private TV channels Nova and Prima are foreign-owned and broadcast nationally. There are scores of privately-owned radio stations, including market leaders Impuls and Frekvence 1. BBC World Service is available on FM in many cities and towns.
Some key dates in Czech and Czechoslovak history:
1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia proclaimed. Tomas Masaryk elected president.
1935 - Masaryk succeeded as president by Edvard Benes.
1939 - Nazi invasion of Czech Lands which become a German protectorate. Slovakia is proclaimed an independent state under profascist leader Jozef Tiso.
1940 - Benes establishes government in exile in London.
1945 - Soviet troops enter Prague. Benes returns and issues decrees which lay the foundation for the expulsion of over two and a half million Sudeten Germans and more than half a million ethnic Hungarians.
1946 - Czechoslovak Communist Party (CPCz) leader Klement Gottwald becomes prime minister in power-sharing government following national elections.
1968 - 'Prague Spring' under reform-minded leader Alexandr Dubcek is crushed when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invade.
1969 - Gustav Husak replaces Dubcek as Communist Party leader.
1975 - Husak becomes president.
1977 - A group of dissidents including playwright Vaclav Havel publish Charter 77 calling for restoration of civil and political rights.
1989 - Massive protests on the streets of Prague force the resignation of the hard-line Communist Party leadership in what is dubbed "the velvet revolution." Federal Assembly abolishes Communists' constitutional hold on power. Vaclav Havel elected president.
1990 - Country renamed Czech and Slovak Federative Republic. First free elections since 1946.
1991 - Soviet forces complete withdrawal.
1993 - Czechoslovakia completes "velvet divorce" which results in two independent countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Vaclav Havel elected president of the Czech Republic.
1996 - Vaclav Klaus reappointed as prime minister in a minority coalition government following the Czech Republic's first general election since independence.
1998 - Havel re-elected president for a further five years.
1999 - Czech Republic becomes full member of Nato.
2004 - Czech Republic is one of 10 new nations to join the EU.


Suddenly it's politics by numbers: predominantly negative numbers.

The  Midlands stands to lose six MPs and 63,400 voters in two separate, but not entirely unconnected, projects to redesign and reconstruct our electoral machinery. We are told both are aimed at fairer voting. Campaigners warn they could have the opposite effect.
First, the review of our constituency map.
The Boundary Commission for England has started work on radically redesigning it as part of the government's drive to reduce the number of MPs by 50 to 600.
It also aims to iron out some of the disparities in the sizes of constituencies so each has no fewer than 71,031 and no more than Why equal votes are an unequal struggle78,507 voters.
This would bring them up to date with population shifts, otherwise known as 'the demographics'', to make sure a vote cast in any one constituency weighs more or less the same as one cast in any other.
In the process, even in this smaller Parliament, it is estimated to be worth up to 20 more seats to the Conservatives as the number of constituencies in urban areas with falling populations is reduced and the number in surrounding suburbs and shires where populations are growing, is increased.
But critics warn this 'snapshot' effect may itself be misleading: populations in some urban areas such as inner city Birmingham are now rising fast.
Some of our most hotly-contested marginal 'see-saw' seats are bound to be redrawn: Wolverhampton South West, which Labour's Rob Marris reclaimed from the Conservatives at the last election, has an electorate of just 57,301. Gloucester, a Labour seat through three successive general elections, has been held by the Conservatives Richard Graham since 2010: it has an electorate of very nearly 80,000.
The case for at least a measure of standardisation would appear unanswerable. But how exactly it takes effect is proving increasingly controversial.
Many of our key seats look set either to disappear altogether or to undergo fundamental alterations when the Boundary Commission for England publishes its proposals in the Autumn.  Already there is speculation that this could be the opportunity for local Labour activists to 'purge' MPs who have spoken out against Jeremy Corbyn: Tristram Hunt (Stoke Central), Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East) and Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East) are among the prominent names being bandied about.
The Commission's Secretary, Tom Hartley said: "We will need the help of residents in all regions to ensure our proposals take account of local ties and best reflect the geography on the ground."
And that's where the two separate electoral projects I mentioned earlier begin to interact.
The other factor in play here is known as Individual Electoral Registration or IER, which was vigorously opposed by campaigning organisations including the Labour Party.
It warned it would lead to millions of people disappearing from the electoral rolls altogether: people such as students or others living in multi-occupancy accommodation who had until now been registered among lists of voters.
The government said making voters register as individuals would deal with anomalies such as the 'phantom  voters' who still appeared on the lists even though they had moved away or died.
But campaigners were suspicious. They said you didn't need to be obsessed with conspiracy theories to see a Tory plot to remove predominantly Labour-supporting voters including students from the electoral register.
And now from the Office for National Statistics come the figures which show that there has indeed been a 1.5% fall in the number of people registered to vote here in the Midlands, down from 4,363,741 to 4,300,343. Falling numbers are reported in 47 of our 63 constituencies.
What's more, the two seats witnessing the biggest falls both have significant student populations: in Birmingham Selly Oak, adjoining the University of Birmingham. the electorate is down by 6.7% and Newcastle-under-Lyme, home to Keele University, has seen a fall of 4.6%.
The "Hope not Hate" campaigner John Page describes it as "the biggest single act of electoral disenfranchisement in our history".
When I interviewed him on the "Sunday Politics" recently, he wondered: "Why on earth would the government want to do a boundary review based on undercounting of voters? We will be stuck for a generation with the number of votes at 1st December 2015 when everyone knows that's under-representation."
Now that the electoral numbers have been duly crunched, published and the boundary review put under way, we'll be returning to this in our programme this weekend.
Joining me in the studio will be two MPs who have witnessed more than their share of constituency boundary upheavals on their own home turf.
The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright must have one of the most chequered constituency histories of any of our MPs. When he was first elected in 2005 he was the Conservative MP for Rugby and Kenilworth. But in 2010 with boundaries redrawn he switched to Kenilworth and Southam. Now it is set to be redesigned yet again, straddling the border between Warwickshire and the West Midlands as the new seat of Kenilworth and Dorridge.
Steve McCabe was elected Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green in 1997. But after the 2010 boundary changes he switched to the Selly Oak seat which, as we have seen, is home to thousands of students and where the biggest fall in the electorate has been reported after  Individual Voter Registration.
Also joining us will be Mick Temple, Professor of Politics at Staffordshire University to explain the political significance of the changes and their effects on the student communities with whom he works.
And I hope you can join us too. That's "Sunday Politics Midlands", BBC One, this Sunday 6 March 2016.


Teenager Lance Stroll will make his Formula 1 debut with Williams in 2017, replacing Felipe Massa, who is retiring at the end of the season.

Stroll, 18, will be the first Canadian to race in the sport since 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve.
He will partner experienced Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas at the Mercedes-powered team.
European Formula 3 champion Stroll is set to be the youngest driver on the starting grid next season.
However, he will not be the youngest ever to start a race.
That accolade belongs to Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who was 17 years and 166 days old when he made his debut for Toro Rosso in Australia in 2015.
Stroll has prepared for his graduation with a series of tests in old Williams cars.
The son of Canadian billionaire businessman Lawrence Stroll, he says he deserves his spot in F1 with his achievements in other competitions.
"I come from money and I am not going to deny that," said Stroll. "But I believe I earned my shot in F1 because I have won every championship that I have competed in.
"Now, the FIA has put in the super licence for just that reason so people can't just buy their way into F1. You have to prove yourself and win in junior categories."


As New York reflects on probably the most painful episode in the city's history, how are people there marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11?

Tourists carrying US flags, barricades closing off streets and police stationed on every corner. For Lower Manhattan, this was a Sunday morning charged with emotion and tension.
People who could not get close to the World Trade Center because of the security arrangements still wanted to be as near as they could be. "I needed to be here," was a common sentiment.
About a dozen uniformed military police were gathered on Broadway before making their way to the ceremony for the families of those who died.
Lt Moshe Grusscott describes the mood as one of sadness and pride.
"Ten years later, it didn't destroy us, it made us more patriotic, the way the country rallied round. It didn't defeat us."
Further uptown, the scene was very much like any other early Sunday in New York - the city never sleeps, as everyone knows, but there are times when it appears a little drowsy.
In a deserted Times Square, retired postal worker Ron Wasserman, 61, recalls how 10 years ago, the streets were filled with pieces of burnt office paper, falling through the air like confetti.
Three people he knew died that day, he says with a tear in his eye, and the country instantly changed.
"We are so security-conscious now. It's way over the top and yet it's necessary."
The country also feels more vulnerable, he says. He and his wife and have not flown since 9/11.
"The anniversary is just a chronological mark. It should be commemorated and we will never forget it, but I hope we won't dwell on it."
The moment of silence at 08:46 was observed by a couple of hundred people in Times Square, mostly tourists, although the morning traffic on 7th Avenue meant it was anything but quiet.
There were many ways that New Yorkers did something differently, to show it wasn't just another Sunday.
Some wore badges depicting the lost landmarks.
Others put up US flags outside their home or business to show their patriotism was unbowed.
One artist expressed her feelings through an installation composed of all the office papers that landed in her apartment after the towers fell.
For 500 volunteers gathered at Nathan Straus School, the day was all about making something positive come out of the tragedy, whether that be making cards for military overseas or giving a school playground a makeover.
And a charity called Muslims Against Homeless spent the day making and distributing 1,300 meals to homeless people in New Jersey and Manhattan.
A weekend of anniversary events in the city had begun on Saturday morning, when thousands of people in white T-shirts saying "Reflect, Remember, Unite" joined hands in Battery Park, in a community event intended to show unity at the time the North Tower was struck.
Under the watchful eye of the Statue of Liberty from across the Hudson River, and within sight of the soaring new World Trade Center building, the chain of hands was a simple but powerful gesture.
Nearby, 3,000 flags which had been planted in the park as a "field of remembrance" fluttered in the breeze.
For Joe Zammataro, who travelled from Florida to take part, the 10th anniversary marks a new, inspiring beginning.
"Everyone who visited Ground Zero afterwards, prior to the reconstruction, felt a sense of loss and hollowness," he said. "But now sadness is replaced with hope.
"Holding hands, there was a spirit and energy I felt surge through my body. It was a resurrection, an uplifting feeling.
"They can knock us down but they can't knock us out. That's not the American spirit but the human spirit."
There were private expressions of grief too, like the woman who wiped a tear from her face as she looked up at the new tower, or the retired fire fighter who tried to compose himself on the subway platform.
Across the bridge from Lower Manhattan, the borough of Brooklyn may not bear the scars of 9/11 but it feels the pain just as deeply.
Many of the people who died lived in the borough, especially within the firefighting community. Red Hook's Engine 279 lost five men that day, and five fire jackets bearing their names still hang on the wall.
Just a few blocks away, Engine 202 has seven helmets in a glass cabinet, one for each of the men who left the station that day to attend to an emergency in Manhattan and never returned.
"Three companies in this area lost all their men that day, and the loss is still felt today," says Engine 202's chief officer Ed O'Donnell.
"There's a danger with the job, absolutely, and some of the guys feel it. We're like a family so when you lose one, it's like losing a brother."
Heading north from Red Hook and into Carroll Gardens, the sound of a British brass band fills the air. It's not something you hear every Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn.
An annual street party for 9/11 was under way, thrown by the residents of 3rd Street and attended by more than 100 British police officers, including the members of the West Yorkshire Police Band.
They were all due to attend a ceremony on Sunday for the 67 British lives lost in 9/11.
Posters praising the British bobby adorn the Brooklyn brownstones. And the appreciation is mutual.
Stephen Jones, from Humberside Police, says: "A lot of policemen died and no matter what country you're in you have the same shared values, so it's important for us to show that we care.
"It wasn't a crime just against America, it was worldwide."
The repercussions from that day were felt keenly in another Brooklyn neighbourhood, Bay Ridge, which has the largest Arab-American community in the New York area.
The Arab-American association shares its anniversary with 9/11, having been formed in response to the anti-Muslim backlash that followed the attacks.
In the past week, it has experienced a spike in hate mail, says its associate director Jennie Goldstein.
But in a show of unity, and following a plea from President Barack Obama for Americans to use the anniversary to do acts of service, it has thrown open its doors and about 40 volunteers from places as diverse as Scotland, Sudan and Kansas have helped to give the place a makeover.
Back in Lower Manhattan, a 10-minute walk from the World Trade Center site, Minas Polychronakis is sitting out the front of his shoe repair business on Wall Street, warmly greeting passing customers.
He arrived in the US from Crete in 1969 with $138 and no English. After starting life on American soil as a dishwasher, he soon had his own shoe business.
He was one of the first tenants in the World Trade Center in 1976.
Twenty-five years later, along with an estimated 750 other companies, he lost his premises under a pile of rubble, while friends and customers lost their lives.
The district became a ghost town and he nearly lost his business, he says, but he felt a loyalty to the neighbourhood and refused to relocate uptown.
Years later, business is picking up again, but the 70-year-old is determined to be back in the World Trade Center when it reopens in 2013, and won't hear talk of retirement.
"I have to go back there," he says. "I spent 25 years there, so it will feel like going home."


Europe's Rosetta probe has ended its mission to Comet 67P by crash-landing on to the icy object's surface.

Mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, was able to confirm the impact had occurred when radio contact to the ageing spacecraft was lost abruptly.
The assumption is that the probe would have been damaged beyond use.
In the hours before the planned collision, Rosetta sent back a host of high-resolution pictures and other measurements of the icy dirt-ball.
"I can announce full success of this historic descent of Rosetta towards Comet 67P," said European Space Agency mission manager Patrick Martin.
"Farewell Rosetta; you've done the job. That was space science at its best."
Researchers expect all the data gathered at 67P in the past two years to keep them busy for decades to come.
How Rosetta ended its mission
In pictures: Rosetta's final descent
Social media reaction
The loss of signal, which happened at 11:19 GMT (12:19 BST; 13:19 CEST), was greeted by muted cheers and handshakes - not so surprising given the bittersweet nature of the occasion.
Some of the scientists watching on here in Darmstadt have spent the better part of 30 years on this project.
"People are very sad today but I think they really understand how proud we are and how proud they should be that we've pulled this mission off," said Esa's senior science advisor, Mark McCaughrean.
Throughout Friday morning, the instrument teams had followed every twist and turn as the probe aimed for a touchdown spot on the head of the 4km-wide, duck-shaped comet.
The researchers had wanted the descending probe to get a look inside one of the many pits that pockmark the surface.
These sinkholes are often the places where 67P ejects gas and dust into space. But they also afford an opportunity to look at the object's interior, to see the lumpy ice blocks that may have come together to build the comet billions of years ago.
Some of the images that came back were acquired just seconds before the collision. These pictures will have resolutions that can be measured in millimetres. "They're super-duper," enthused Holger Sierks, the head of the Osiris camera team. "I've got goosebumps just thinking about all this," he told BBC News.
Goodbye Rosetta: Watch the Sky at Night special this coming Sunday, BBC Four at 2200 BST
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - to give the object its full name - is currently heading away from the Sun, limiting the solar energy available to Rosetta to operate its systems.
Rather than put the probe into hibernation or simply let it slowly fade into inactivity, the mission team determined that the venture should try to go out with a bang.
European Space Agency project scientist Matt Taylor said that even if Rosetta was sent to sleep with the intention of waking it up again when 67P next visited the brighter environs of the inner Solar System - there was no guarantee the technology would still be working properly.
"It's like one of those 60s rock bands; we don't want to have a rubbish comeback tour. We'd rather go out now in true rock'n'roll style," he said just before the impact.
Because Rosetta was not designed to land, some of its structures very likely broke on contact with the comet. Controllers left no room for doubt in any case by pre-loading a software sequence that would jump the computers into a shutdown when the probe felt a big jolt.
Rosetta arrived at 67P in August 2014, after a 10-year journey from Earth.
In the time it has lived alongside the mountainous object, it has unlocked the secrets about its behaviour, its structure and chemistry.
Rosetta even dropped a small robot called Philae on to the surface in November 2014 to gather additional information - a historic first in space exploration.
The European Space Agency says the mission has been an outstanding success and will transform our understanding of the huge icy dirt-balls that wander among the planets.
The American scientist Alan Stern, whose Alice instrument has made far-ultraviolet observations of the comet to study composition and activity, said all the science teams involved still had much work to do: "We've got 70,000 spectra; we've barely scratched the surface in terms of looking at the data."
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos


The British Mountain Bike Marathon Championships are returning to the Borders town of Selkirk in May.

They will be held on a "challenging 75km single-lap course".
It is part of the "ever popular" Selkirk Mountain Bike Marathon open cycling event on 2 May.
A British Cycling spokesman said Selkirk had "rapidly become the home" of the championships and had a "fine reputation for the excellence of its trails" as well as its infrastructure.


The DUP MP Gavin Robinson has said the party is not ruling out an ultimatum from Sinn Féin for the DUP leader Arlene Foster to step aside temporarily but said it would be her decision.

Sinn Féin reiterated on Saturday that it would not go back into government with Mrs Foster as first minister until her role in a botched heating scheme was "cleared up".
Political talks will begin on Monday.
Mrs Foster set up the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme in 2012.
It was designed to encourage businesses to switch from fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly energy sources. But subsidies were overly generous and initially there was no cap on the payments.
It later emerged the scheme was expected to cost the Northern Ireland tax payer £490m.
Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness, from Sinn Féin, resigned from his post in January after Mrs Foster rejected his calls for her to temporarily stand aside as first minister while an investigation into the scheme is carried out.
His decision to quit led to a snap election which saw Sinn Féin increase its vote, cutting the DUP's lead to one seat.
Mr Robinson told BBC 5Live's Stephen Nolan show: "I'm not ruling it out on the basis that if it was a decision for Arlene to take and one she made herself then the party would discuss that and consider it."
He added that it had been a "difficult election" and a "bad day for unionism".
Mr Adams hailed the election result as a "watershed" moment but said Sinn Féin was making contact with all party leaders to discuss the return of power-sharing.
He said the party's call for Mrs Foster to step aside during an investigation was "not a precondition" to Sinn Féin entering talks with the DUP.
Under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday agreement, unionists and nationalists must agree to share power for devolved government to function.
"We have never said that Arlene Foster has to step aside before negotiations happen.  Arlene Foster is the leader of the DUP and we accept that absolutely," Mr Adams told reporters.
"The first position that we put to them [the DUP] was that Arlene Foster should stand aside until there was a preliminary report.
"We're now being told that there's not going to be a preliminary report - where all this comes from, none of us know, the inquiry hasn't set out its mode of operation."
Mr Adams said the inquiry team "might decide that it could bring forward a preliminary report" or deal with the issues "in modular form", but added the inquiry could also take up to a year.
He pointed to Mrs Foster's predecessor Peter Robinson, who stepped aside twice until to allow preliminary inquiries into allegations against him.
"Our position is very, very straightforward.  We will not be consenting to Arlene Foster being the first minister until this issue is cleared up," the Sinn Féin president said.
There is now a three-week deadline for unionists and nationalists to form a power-sharing government.
The Sinn Féin delegation will be led into talks on Monday by its northern leader, Michelle O'Neill.
She said: "The task is not easy, but it is achievable if people come at it with the right attitude."
The nationalist SDLP also overtook the Ulster Unionist Party for the first time, meaning Stormont no longer has a unionist majority.
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt announced he was stepping down as a result of his party's disappointing performance.
If a government cannot be formed within the next three weeks, under law, another election will be called.
Ultimately, if no power-sharing government is formed, devolved power could return to the UK parliament at Westminster for the first time in a decade.
Secretary of State James Brokenshire said the election had demonstrated the desire by the overwhelming majority of voters for inclusive, devolved government.
"Everyone now has a shared responsibility to engage intensively in the short period of time that is available to us, to ensure that a strong and stable administration is established," he said.
The BBC News NI website will carry all the latest on the election throughout the weekend.


Imagine logging onto your bank account just by glancing at your phone.

That's what some TSB customers will be able to do from September when the bank introduces iris recognition to its mobile banking app.
It will be the first bank in Europe to introduce the technology, but its arrival will test customers' trust in biometric technology.
Customers will need the latest Samsung Galaxy S8 to use the new way of accessing their TSB accounts.
Once they have registered their irises, they will be able to log in by simply looking at the phone.
TSB's chief information officer Carlos Abarca said iris recognition was the most secure form of biometric authentication currently available. "It takes advantage of 266 different characteristics, compared with 40 for fingerprints."
He said it offered customers a combination of security and convenience: "It's extremely fast - it takes less than a second to get in - and the gesture is very natural. And you don't have to remember secret numbers or passwords."
Samsung added iris scanning to the biometric security options, alongside face recognition and fingerprint scanning, when the phone went on sale earlier this year.
In May the German hacking group the Chaos Computer Club said it had fooled Samsung's iris scanner with a photo used to make a dummy eye.
Samsung insisted that it would take an extraordinary set of circumstances, where someone had access to both the phone and a high definition photo of its owner's eye, to beat its system.
TSB's Carlos Abarca said he was confident in the security of iris scanning: "There's no security option that is absolutely perfect. We're relying not only on the biometrics but the digital certificate on the phone. To fake your eyeball is potentially possible - but it is extremely difficult."
Biometrics has been touted as the solution to establishing someone's identity for the last twenty years but has made slow progress.
You can see facial recognition and iris scanning in use at automated passport control systems in various parts of the world, but it's the widespread adoption of smartphones which promises to supercharge adoption of the technology.
The fingerprint scanning which arrived on Apple's iPhone in 2013 and is now a feature of many Android smartphones allows millions of users to pay for anything from a cup of coffee to a train journey by touching their phone.
Isabelle Moeller of the Biometrics Institute has been working to promote adoption of the technology since 2001.
She says consumers have two major concerns: "Privacy and safety - they want to know their data is secure and the system can't be spoofed."
But she says the industry is establishing benchmarks for best practice: "If we can get that right the convenience that biometrics offers can create a fantastic customer experience."
TSB customers can already log on to their mobile banking app using fingerprint recognition. The minority with a high-end Samsung may try out iris scanning when it becomes an option in September.
But in the biometric battle the simplicity of just putting a finger on your phone may prove more attractive than holding it up and looking at it.


Underwear which once belonged to jailed fraudster Bernard Madoff have been sold for $200 (Â£120) as part of an auction of items confiscated from his mansion.

The event also saw the sale of furniture and household goods, shoes, golf clubs and art, US media report.
Organised by the US Marshals Service, the $400,000 raised will go towards victims of Madoff's $65bn fraud.
Madoff is serving a 150-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2009.
His ponzi scheme, which had been running since the early 1990s, deprived thousands of investors of their savings.
According to the Miami Herald, 14 pairs of Madoff's boxer shorts, confiscated from his Palm Beach mansion, fetched a total of $200.
"It went about as expected," the newspaper quotes auctioneer Bob Sheehan as saying.
"When we sold the stuff from his house in New York, it brought in millions, but that included boats and cars and jewellery. This one was mostly household goods."
Another buyer paid $31,000 for Madoff's 1952 Rolex watch, while a work entitled "Nude" by photographer Edward Weston sold for $4,600.
About 6,000 online bidders took part in the auction along with 150 people who attended in person.


Watford have signed Chelsea's Kenedy on a season-long loan and re-signed defender Adrian Mariappa on a three-year deal.

Brazilian Kenedy, 20, who can play as a forward or left-back, made 20 appearances for the Blues last season.
Mariappa, 29, was released by Crystal Palace in the summer after making 39 Premier League appearances for them in three seasons.
The duo could feature for the Hornets against West Ham on 10 September.
Jamaica international Mariappa started his career with the Hornets and made 216 league appearances for the club before leaving for Reading in July 2012.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A Spanish bullfighter has been referred to prosecutors after he posted a picture of himself training while carrying his baby daughter.

Andalusia's Ombudsman for Children's office said it showed a "situation of unnecessary risk to a minor".
Animal rights activists and others have branded Francisco Rivera Ordonez "irresponsible" and "an idiot".
But fellow bullfighters have tweeted their support and shown pictures of other children around the animals.
A caption accompanying the photograph, which was uploaded to Instagram on Monday, refers to the episode as the five month old's "debut".
Mr Rivera has responded to the row by saying: "She is never going to be safer than she is in my arms."
However, the Andalusian authorities said they "totally rejected" his actions and had referred the case to prosecutors.
"We hope that such behaviour is not repeated and that the social media reaction ensures that it is not accepted as normal," the ombudsman's office said in a statement (in Spanish).
The move followed a storm of criticism online.
"Putting your daughter in danger, even if it is a calf, I don't understand," wrote one person quoted by El Pais.
"If I were your wife, I'd kill you," read another message.
British comedian Ricky Gervais, a well known animal rights campaigner and bullfighting critic tweeted that he "sorta fused animal abuse with child abuse" before deleting the post, according to El Pais.
But he later tweeted that bullfighting was "mental, dangerous and cruel. With or without a baby".
However, Mr Rivera has been staunchly defended by other bullfighters, who have posted their own images of them holding children in the ring.
"What's the problem in showing our children a profession that we love and is filled with values?" tweeted bullfighter Manuel El Cordobés Díaz.
"With my nephew in support of @paquirri74," tweeted Álvaro Oliver. "Respect our life, respect our values."
"With my wife Elisabet Pinero's permission, I'm sending my support to @paquirri74 with this photo with Rodrigo taken three days ago," tweeted Andres Sanchez.
However, the Spanish animal rights group Pacma tweeted that bullfighters were "entrenched in error" and were "violating moral principles".
One of the country's most popular bullfighters, Mr Rivera is taking a break from professional fights since he was gored through the stomach by a bull in August 2015.
His father, known across Spain as Paquirri, was gored to death by a bull in 1984, at the age of 36.