The local authority workers' union, Unison, has won an equal pay case at the Supreme Court.

It was pursuing the claim for Dumfries and Galloway Council female staff including nursery nurses and support for learning and classroom assistants.
It argued their terms and conditions should be in line with male manual workers like refuse collectors.
The Supreme Court found in their favour and referred the case back to an employment tribunal.
It will now decide if the women's work should considered equivalent to the men's.
More than 200 equal pay claims were brought on behalf of classroom assistants, support for learning assistants and nursery nurses working at schools in Dumfries and Galloway.
By Reevel AldersonHome affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland
This is a highly technical ruling -which Unison has hailed as an historic equal pay victory.
A total of 251 workers, mainly female, working in Dumfries and Galloway as classroom assistants and nursery nurses claimed their pay conditions should be the same as in predominantly male occupations such as refuse collectors and groundsmen.
The men get a supplement to their basic pay; the classroom assistants do not.
An employment tribunal said it could look at the issue, but the council appealed against that decision in a case finally concluded  today at the UK Supreme Court.
Judges there ruled the tribunal can, after all, make a decision, although it will be some time before it will hear the case.
Unison said the Supreme Court ruling could cost councils across Scotland Â£12m in compensation payments.
Dumfries and Galloway says it will consider its response.
They are seeking the same treatment as male manual workers such as leisure attendants, road workers, groundsmen, refuse drivers and collectors working at local depots and swimming pools.
The female staff are employed on conditions set out in a what is known as the Blue Book while their male counterparts have a Green Book.
The latter allows for bonus payments and pay supplements while the former does not.
An employment tribunal allowed the claim to proceed but an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned that decision.
It ruled there was no "real possibility" of the male workers doing their jobs in schools.
The Court of Session disagreed with that finding but still dismissed the appeal on the grounds that if the men were to be employed in schools their terms and conditions would not be "broadly similar" to their existing terms.
The union took the case to the Supreme Court which upheld its appeal.
Unison said the decision paved the way for nearly 2,000 of its female members to share Â£12m in compensation after the seven-year case.
Dave Prentis, Unison general secretary, said: "I am delighted that the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of our women members.
"It is a shame, though, that they have had to go through this process and endure a seven-year wait, just to get equal pay.
"Dumfries and Galloway Council should take immediate steps to correct their pay and I urge other councils to follow suit."
Dumfries support for learning assistant Elaine North, one of the appellants, said it had been a "very long fight".
"We have won what is rightfully ours and 251 women employed by Dumfries and Galloway Council will be celebrating tonight," she added.
A statement for Dumfries and Galloway Council described it as a "complex case" which had seen both the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Session find in its favour.
"The Supreme Court judgment is the most recent stage of the legal process," it said.
"The appellants, including classroom assistants and nursery nurses, now have won the right to have their jobs compared to those of male manual workers, such as road workers and groundsmen.
"This judgment has implications for many local authorities and other public bodies.
"Our council will now consider its position in response to the Supreme Court judgment."


MPs have voted against a move to compel the government to cut tax on sanitary products, dubbed the "tampon tax" by campaigners.

The Finance Bill amendment, which would have forced a negotiation with the EU for a reduction in the 5% VAT rate, was rejected by 305 to 287 votes.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says the VAT rate charged on the items is the lowest allowed under EU law.
The government said change would need the agreement of every EU member state.
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, said during the debate that the government "sympathises [with] the aim of this clause" but said: "The UK does not have the ability to extend unilaterally zero rating to new products."
He said he would raise the issue with the European Commission and other EU member states.
Labour cut the rate when it was in government from the then standard rate of 17.5% - imposed in the 1970s - to the lower rate of 5%, but was prevented from going any lower by the European rules.
A petition calling for a change in the law has more than 250,000 signatures.
Labour MP Paula Sherriff's amendment, backed by shadow chancellor John McDonnell, would have required Chancellor George Osborne to publish, within three months, a strategy for negotiating an exemption with EU institutions.
One of the Conservatives supporting the motion, Bernard Jenkin, said the situation was "an example of where the EU has taken over jurisdiction over our tax where it should not have".
SNP MP Alison Thewliss added: "It is absurd that while men's razors, children's nappies and even products like Jaffa Cakes, exotic meats and edible cake decorations are free from VAT, women are still having to  pay additional costs on what is already an expensive yet vital product."
A Treasury spokesman said: "The UK has set the VAT on sanitary products at the minimum rate permissible under EU rules."
Any change would require a European Commission proposal and the unanimous agreement of all 28 member states.
Asked about the calls for a zero VAT rate, the prime minister's spokeswoman said: "What is being proposed is not something that being looked at we think is achievable."


A man who arranged for a 14-year-old girl to be taken from a Lincolnshire children's home to London for sex has been jailed.

Billal Amin sent a taxi to collect the teenager and her 15-year-old friend and take them to a hotel in East London.
The two girls were given alcohol before the 14-year-old performed a sex act on Amin and had sex with another man.
Amin was jailed for 12 years and put on the sex offenders' register for life at Lincoln Crown Court.
Martin Hurst, prosecuting, said after the assaults Amin took a taxi with the girls telling them they were going to his home.
When they left the taxi Amin disappeared abandoning the girls in London in the middle of the night.
The court was told they sought help and police were contacted resulting in an investigation that led to Amin's arrest.
The inquiry revealed two months earlier Amin had met the girl in London when she had also performed a sex act on him.
Jailing him for 12 years, Judge Simon Hirst said he acted "disgracefully".
He told him: "Abandoning a 14-year-old girl in London in the middle of the night beggars belief."
Amin denied a charge of trafficking for sexual exploitation in March 2013 and two charges of sexual activity with a child but was convicted by a jury on a 10 to two majority.
He was cleared of a further charge of trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The 33-year-old, of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, was also given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order banning him from having contact with any child under 16.


Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino believes the league title is still within reach after his side cut the gap to leaders Leicester with a 1-1 draw at Liverpool.

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The Foxes can go seven points clear with six games left, should they win at Southampton on Sunday.
But after Harry Kane's 22nd league goal of the season, Pochettino said: "We dropped two points but with six games, we need to believe and fight.
"We showed we are ambitious and want to fight for the title."
Spurs host Manchester United a week on Sunday, by which time they could be 10 points behind Claudio Ranieri's side, who travel to Sunderland earlier the same day.
Tottenham, searching for a first top-flight title since the 1960-61 season, are now four points ahead of third-placed Arsenal, who have a game in hand.
But Pochettino said: "Leicester have a tough game against Southampton and deserve to be in the place they are but in football anything can happen. We have to fight until the end of the season.
"It was difficult to come here and try and win the three points but we were calm and believe in our quality.
"We feel disappointed but we still need belief and to be ready for the next game."
Kane's goal, following Philippe Coutinho's opener, made him Tottenham's leading scorer in a Premier League campaign.
His 22 league goals are the most scored by a Spurs player since Gary Lineker's 28 in 1991-92, the season before the Premier League began.
Pochettino said of his striker: "Harry Kane, for me, is one of the best strikers in the world. Today, again, he showed I am not wrong."
Kane said: "I am very proud of my achievement. You want to score in every game you play in. They feel even better when you get the three points. It would have been nice to go on and win the game."
The England striker added: "I think it's two points lost - we wanted to put the pressure on Leicester."


Former Glentoran midfielder Jordan Stewart, Andrew Mitchell of Crusaders and Portadown's Robert Garrett will play for Linfield next season.

David Healy's double winners announced the signings on Monday night.
Garrett is returning for a second spell at Windsor Park having left to join the Ports in 2014.
The versatile Mitchell was out of contract after two years at Crusaders while Stewart returns to the Irish League from Swindon Town.
Stewart, 22, had been on Linfield's books as a youth player but made his name as a promising player with Glentoran.
"We want to attract more quality players who can strengthen the squad and help us try to bring further success to the club," said Blues boss Healy whose team beat Coleraine 3-0 in Saturday's Irish Cup final, a week after lifting the Premiership title.
Meanwhile, Sean Ward, Ross Gaynor and former Northern Ireland Sammy Clingan are leaving Linfield.
Ward has been linked with Crusaders who were runners-up behind Linfield in this season's title race.


Fighting has intensified in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish forces have been holding Islamic State at bay since September.

IS militants launched at least four suicide attacks, with reports saying at least 25 people were killed.
The first of the attacks was near the Turkish border crossing. It is thought to be the first fighting in that area.
The battle for Kobane has left hundreds of people dead and forced more than 200,000 to flee into Turkey.
The US-led coalition is supporting the town's defenders with air strikes.
Turkey has allowed some Kurdish fighters from Iraq to travel through its territory to assist in defending Kobane.
However, Turkey views Kurdish forces with suspicion, following a decade-long battle for autonomy by its own Kurdish minority.
IS controls large swathes of both Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The militants have been trying to overrun Kobane for the past two months.
In the early stages, it looked as though the town's fall was only a matter of time. But the Kurdish fighters have defended tenaciously and kept hold of roughly half the town.
They have been supported by a small number of well-armed Iraqi Kurdish fighters, some other Syrian opposition units, and of course by the coalition air strikes.
The first suicide vehicle bomb targeted a Kurdish position close to the Turkish border at dawn on Saturday.
Kurdish sources said the bomber had crossed from Turkey, but Turkish officials denied this as "lies".
Clashes followed at the site of the attack and to the south-west of the town.
The UK-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said there were three more suicide bombings - one an individual with a suicide vest and the other two vehicle bombs.
As the clashes intensified, there were reports that IS had brought up tanks to join the fighting.
Meanwhile two US-led air strikes were carried out against IS positions in the east of Kobane.
In all, 25 people were killed in the clashes, most of them IS fighters, reports said.
IS has captured parts of the town and dozens of villages in the area around it in an offensive lasting more than two months.
But it has met stiff resistance from local Kurdish fighters, who have held about half the town assisted by small numbers of Iraqi Kurds and Syrian Arabs, and backed by US-led air strikes.


An overnight vigil is to be held at Scotland's National War memorial as part of national commemorations of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.

The public can apply for places to join the silent procession through the shrine at Edinburgh Castle on Thursday.
A whistle, which was sounded to lead men over the top, will be blown by a Scots soldier to mark, to the minute, 100 years since the battle began.
At 07:30 on 1 July, Alan Hamilton will blow a whistle used by his great uncle.
The Battle of the Somme was the largest Western Front battle of World War One, beginning on 1 July 1916 and ending 141 days later on 18 November.
Over one million men were wounded or killed, 420,000 of them from the British Army.
British casualties on the first day were the worst in the history of the British army, with 57,470 casualties of whom 19,240 died.
Major General Mark Strudwick, chairman of the Battle of the Somme Vigil, whose grandfather was wounded in the battle; Able Cadet Samantha Kaszuba from TS Valiant (Dunbar Sea Cadet Unit), one of the candle bearers at the vigil, and Major William Wright representing the Royal Regiment of Scotland were joined by descendant Mr Hamilton at a memorial on Tuesday ahead of the event.
Mr Hamilton, one of the sentinels at the vigil, said: "I am honoured and humbled to be a participant in the vigil to commemorate that 100 years ago, fathers, brothers and sons of thousands of families lost their lives or were wounded in mind and body in one of the greatest battles in our history.
"My great uncle Robert, then a young officer, blew this whistle and led his men into a fierce battle where many of them, his friends, were killed and wounded.
"He was with them until he, himself, was wounded.  Throughout the vigil I will stand with others in silent reflection in an unspoken comradeship with those who went before us."
Major General Strudwick, chairman of the trustees of the Scottish National War Memorial, said: "The courage and sacrifice of the British soldiers who fought at The Battle of the Somme should never be forgotten. Few words conjure the tragic scale and staggering loss of life during the 141 days that battle raged.
"One hundred years on, we come together to honour them, to remember them and to ensure their memory and legacy lives on for generations to come."


England all-rounder Ben Stokes says he is "devastated" to miss the rest of the series against Sri Lanka after undergoing knee surgery.

Stokes, 24, injured his left knee while bowling in the first-Test victory and has been ruled out for six weeks.
He suffered a cartilage tear that he says has been "an ongoing issue for two to three years" but which he has "managed to play through until now".
Bowlers Reece Topley, David Willey and Mark Wood also remain sidelined.
Topley will miss the next three months with a stress fracture in the spine, Willey should return next month following an abdominal muscle tear and Wood will begin bowling again this week after ankle surgery.
Stokes will miss the remaining two Tests, five one day internationals and T20 international against Sri Lanka, but aims to return to the England side in time to face Pakistan later this summer.
Warwickshire bowler Chris Woakes was named as his replacement in the current squad on Monday and celebrated his call-up with career-best figures of 9-36 against Durham.
Woakes will vie with pace bowler Jake Ball, who is yet to make his debut, for a place in the XI for Friday's match at Chester-le-Street.
England will win the three-Test series with victory at Stokes' home ground.
England squad for second Test v Sri Lanka: Cook (c), Hales, Compton, Root, Vince, Bairstow (wk), Moeen, Broad, Finn, Anderson, Woakes, Ball.


A decision not to name on-the-run suspects has left West Midlands Police "looking like bureaucrats trying to hide criminals", a top officer says.

Deputy Chief Constable Dave Thompson said the decision not to identify the 10 longest-hunted would be reviewed.
It comes after the force refused to release the names on privacy grounds, in response to a freedom-of-information request from the Birmingham Mail.
They include crimes such as murder, attempted murder and rape.
Responding to the Mail's request, the force originally said the information was being withheld as it "would breach the third party's data protection rights".
It went on to say: "It would be unfair to release this information where any person could be identified from the data and in this case the right to privacy outweighs any public interest in release."
Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood, told the Birmingham Mail the decision was "absolutely bizzare".
Now Mr Thompson has told the BBC "we got this one wrong" and looked "silly", although there were some circumstances when information should not be provided through such requests.
One suspect has since been named by the force - Luke Anderson, 33, is wanted in connection with an attempted murder in 2001.
West Midlands Police said two of the other nine suspects were believed to have died outside the UK, while there were "ongoing active investigations" into two others wanted for murder who are believed to be abroad.
In one historical child sex offence investigation, police said the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to take action against an 81-year-old wanted in collection with an allegation made in 2010.
"We have to strike this balance with people who are wanted and not convicted, when people are charged with offences, clearly we name them as part of a policy and that goes through the courts, it's about transparent justice," Mr Thompson said.
"I just think in this case actually there's probably some things we should have done with that information that would have made us look perhaps a little bit more sensible.
"We've ended up looking like bureaucrats who are trying to hide criminals. We're not, we're in the business of catching them."


A woman is in a critical condition after the car she was in hit a pony.

The crash happened on the A35 near Holmsley on Wednesday night, in a section of the New Forest normally fenced off to animals.
The 18-year-old passenger was taken to hospital with "life-threatening" injuries.
The pony died at the scene. A second pony found on the carriageway was caught and returned to the forest.
The driver and a second passenger, both 18, were uninjured. The road was closed overnight but has since re-opened.
Major roads through the New Forest National Park, including the A35, are not usually accessible to animals.
However, ponies, donkeys, cattle and pigs roam free on minor roads.
It is believed the animals may have got loose after a gate was left open by a member of the public.
The New Forest pony is classed as a rare breed by animal charity, The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST).


Welsh netball side Celtic Flames have earned their first win in the inaugural International Super Cup competition in New Zealand.

They beat Fijian team Marama Vou 68-41 with shooter Chelsea Lewis named Player of the Match.
The Welsh team lost 65-41 to the host nation's Pulse Netball in Nelson in their opening game.
Kiwi club SkyCity Mystics are Celtic Flames' next opponents in Pool B. They face each other on Wednesday.
The Welsh team brought in two New Zealand international players for the tournament with Anna Thompson, 31, and 22-year-old Temalisi Fakahokotau joining 10 Wales players in the squad.
Teams from Australia, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago make up the eight-team competition.
Celtic Flames included eight of the Celtic Dragons line-up from the UK Superleague, plus former Dragons Chelsea Lewis and Nia Jones.
Fakahokotau normally plays either goal keeper or goal defence, while Thompson covers all three attacking roles.


Former Bath head coach Mike Ford has been appointed backs coach at French side Toulon.

The 50-year-old left the Recreation Ground at the end of last season after a disappointing ninth-place finish in the Premiership.
Ford, who has also served on the coaching staff for England, will work alongside head coach Diego Dominguez at the three-time European champions.
"Toulon is the greatest club in Europe, it is an honour for me," said Ford.


The UK satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat has launched the second of its I5 series of spacecraft.

The 7m-long, 6.1-tonne platform went into orbit on a Proton M rocket, despatched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
The I5s - there will be four in total - make up Inmarsat's next-generation constellation called Global Xpress.
And with an investment of Â£1bn ($1.5bn), they represent the single biggest commercial space project in Britain right now.
The I5-F2 was released into its super-synchronous transfer orbit at 04:02 GMT on Monday, following a mammoth 15-and-a-half-hour journey aboard the Proton and its Breeze upper-stage.
Currently, this orbit takes the satellite out to a distance of 65,000km from the Earth.
Over the coming days, the platform must use its own propulsion system to circularise this path and bring itself into a "stationary" position some 36,000km above the equator.
Engineers will then drift the I5-F2 to its operational station at 55 degrees West to serve customers in the Americas and Atlantic region.
"We couldn't be happier right now," said Ruy Pinto, the chief operations officer at Inmarsat.
"We have acquired the satellite successfully, we have checked all the sub-systems, and we have just completed the first big re-orientation manoeuvre.
"Our first orbit-raising burn will be conducted on Wednesday. We'll have seven in total and then we'll fully deploy all the solar panels," he told BBC News.
Inmarsat is a dominant force in the so-called Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) market.
Its principal customer base is the shipping sector, but the company also caters for any groups that need connectivity away from a fixed line. These include oil and gas installations, armed forces, aid agencies and NGOs in disaster areas, and TV news crews reporting from trouble zones.
Customers can use Inmarsat services to make phone calls, to transfer audio-visual material or simple data.
The company's fastest growing sector currently is aviation, and the GX constellation is looking to boost that trend still further.
Inmarsat made worldwide news last year when its equipment aboard the lost Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet was able to direct investigators to a search zone in the Indian Ocean.
The London-based operator has subsequently proposed a free basic tracking service for all long-haul flights.
Global Xpress sees the company take its first, firm step into Ka frequencies to deliver communications.
Traditionally, its spacecraft have worked in the L-band, but this is becoming saturated.
Inmarsat says there is more opportunity to grow its business in Ka.
The higher frequency allows faster throughput connections, giving the I5s broadband speeds that are 100 times faster than the company's fourth generation (I4) satellites.
Inmarsat's continued use of the Russian-built Proton is a show of faith in a rocket that has experienced a number of failures in recent years.
The rocket, which is marketed by US-based International Launch Services (ILS), was used to loft the I5-F1 in December 2013 and will be used again to send up the I5-F3, most probably in the second quarter on this year.
Mr Pinto said it was important for satellite operators that they had a choice of launch vehicles available to them, to open up schedules and keep prices low.
"ILS is gradually coming back to the launch market with an improving track record. We also have a SpaceX, which is up-and-coming and demonstrating its current and future hardware. And we have an Arianespace that is investing in an Ariane 6-class rocket to keep its place in the market. All those are developments that give us cause for cautious optimism."
The I5-F4 is regarded in the first instance as a back-up in case of a launch or in-orbit failure of any of the first three GX satellites, but it will eventually be launched. This should happen in 2016 and it will be sent to augment the region of the globe with the highest growth potential.


Shopping centres across Scotland have reported their busiest Boxing Day in years as bargain hunters took advantage of post-Christmas discounts.

Some shoppers queued from as early as 03:30 to be first in line for the opening of the sales.
Silverburn in Glasgow said it was expecting about 60,000 shoppers on Saturday - up about 10% on last year.
General manager David Pierotti said: "Boxing Day is always one of our busiest days of the year."
He said: "We were delighted to welcome shoppers on the official start of the post-Christmas sales, with queues from 04:30."
Glasgow Fort said people started queuing outside the centre's Next store from 03:30, with about 300 waiting when the doors opened at 06:00.
Crowds also formed outside Marks and Spencer ahead of its 08:00 opening.
In Edinburgh, shoppers traditionally flock to luxury department store Harvey Nichols for cut-price designer goods.
About 100 people queued outside the St Andrew Square shop ahead of its 10am opening, with handbags among the most sought-after purchases.
Around 57,000 shoppers were expected at Aberdeen's Union Square.
At intu Braehead, outside Glasgow, manager Gary Turnbull said it was the busiest start to the Boxing Day sales the centre had seen "for years".
Ian McLelland, director at the EK centre in East Kilbride, said: "The centre has been packed all day. Despite many retailers starting their sales pre-Christmas, shoppers are well aware that there are still plenty of deals to be found across fashion, toys, games, jewellery and electronics."


The father of one of two climbers missing on Ben Nevis said he is "haunted" by the thought they may have been buried alive in snow.

Tim Newton, 27, and Rachel Slater, 24, failed to return from an outing on the Scottish peak on 14 February.
Mr Newton's father Chris, from Leicestershire, believes the Bradford couple were caught in an avalanche.
No attempts to find the pair have been made since "hazardous weather" forced rescuers off the mountain.
The couple were described as experienced climbers who "loved life" and had everything to live for.
Mr Newton's father, who lives near Hinckley, said he believed that it was no longer a rescue but a recovery operation.
"I think there was an avalanche. Basically snow must have come off the hill side and I think they are buried deep down in one of the gullies," he said.
"The agony for me was the thought that they might be alive but absolutely buried under the snow. How could I cope with my child suffering like that?"
Mr Newton was first alerted by police on 15 February after a report that the couple had failed to return from Britain's highest peak.
Mountain rescue groups conducted several searches, including a coastguard helicopter, but they were called off because of "increasingly hazardous weather".
Mr Newton said: "I do remember him saying [before the climb] 'oh dad I've had such a tough week at uni. I so need and am looking forward to the climbing'.
"They were so young and enthusiastic, full of life and they had everything in front of them. They were so happy."
The families of the couple recently went to Scotland and climbed to the Charles Inglis Clark Memorial Hut, close to where they were thought to be camping.
"We all had a cry together... and climbed up to the mountain hut where Tim and Rachel had camped. It made you realise when you climb there how hostile the environment can suddenly become."
No further searches are planned for the pair.


England drew 3-3 with Argentina at the Hockey World League semi-finals in London, despite having taken a 3-0 lead.

After goals from Mark Gleghorne, Sam Ward and Barry Middleton, Argentina scored three times in four third-quarter minutes.
In the final quarter, George Pinner made an excellent save from a penalty stroke to keep the tie level.
The result saw both teams seal a quarter-final place.
After three games, England are top of Pool A, above Argentina on goal difference.
They next play South Korea on Tuesday, while Argentina play China on Monday.
Earlier on Sunday, in Scotland's group, India hammered Pakistan 7-1.
Scotland, level on points with Pakistan with zero from their two games, play Pakistan next on Monday.


Derbyshire recorded their second win in three days as they opened their One-Day Cup campaign with a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Worcestershire.

Alexei Kervezee hit a stunning 77 in 50 balls as the hosts were bowled out for 295 in the last of their 50 overs.
But New Zealand international Hamish Rutherford (104) shared a second-wicket stand of 132 with Billy Godleman (61).
Wayne Madsen was then unbeaten on 69 as Derbyshire reached 298-3 with 11 balls to spare at New Road.
He shared an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 104 with Neil Broom (45 not out) as the visitors posted their highest-ever score against Worcestershire in 54 seasons of one-day cricket.
After slumping to 17-2 following their decision to bat first, the hosts were rescued by Kervezee, who followed on from the form he showed in steering Worcestershire home with an unbeaten 52 in their T20 Blast win over Yorkshire.
Having put on 116 for the third wicket with Joe Clarke (44), Kervezee's efforts were then bolstered by 61 from Ross Whitley.
But Derbyshire's sequence of five defeats in six visits to New Road was ended thanks to their two century partnerships, with Rutherford proving particularly aggressive, hitting seven sixes in his 76-ball innings.
Their opening One-Day Cup win followed Friday night's T20 Blast win against Leicestershire, in the wake of the resignation of elite performance director Graeme Welch.
Worcestershire assistant coach Matt Mason:
"Obviously we are disappointed. The lads are very quiet in the dressing room. At the start of Derbyshire's innings, we thought we had enough runs.
"It was a tough wicket to score on, a bit two-paced and getting slower, but hats off to the Derbyshire lads. There were two great partnerships that killed us off.
"We just couldn't get the early breakthroughs to put them on the back foot and Hamish Rutherford's innings was fantastic."
Derbyshire century-maker Hamish Rutherford:
"It was nice to score some runs and contribute to a good team performance to get off in this competition in the right way.
"Worcestershire's total was maybe a touch light on what we thought par was but again the wicket was a touch slow and with variable bounce.
"I figure 300 on that was probably all right. As we showed, we took it deep and managed to get the runs."


The body which regulates health and social care in England admits it could have acted more quickly after a rape was reported at a home for people with learning disabilities in north London.

The rape is alleged to have happened in November 2015 and the home closed a year later.
An article in the Times on Thursday accused the Care Quality Commission of a cover-up.
The CQC says it will now investigate what should have been done differently.
The regulator said it inspected the residential care home, run by Hillgreen Care, following the alleged rape of a former resident, and carried out further inspections in January and March 2016.
At the same time, the incident was being investigated by the police - and this concluded in December 2016.
There was insufficient evidence for charges to be made, the Times article reported, because the victim was not able to speak and his clothing, containing potential DNA evidence, was washed soon afterwards.
Sir David Behan, chief executive of the CQC, said: "Whilst we did take action that led to the closure of this and two other services run by the Hillgreen Care Ltd, I believe that we could and should have taken action more speedily, both to ensure people were safe and in prosecuting this provider."
As a result, he said, he was commissioning an independent investigation, "which will report publicly to the CQC board and identify what has happened, what we should have done differently and which will make recommendations to strengthen our future work".
Sir David added: "We expect openness and transparency from those we regulate and we will hold ourselves to account to those same standards."
The CQC now has criminal powers to prosecute providers and individuals when people in their care have been harmed or placed at risk of harm.
It said it was "actively pursuing" what further action it could now take against Hillgreen Care.
A CQC inspection report from January 2016 found that the care home had serious issues with food safety, hygiene and cleanliness. There was also no registered manager in position in the home.
It concluded that "people were at risk because the service did not have effective systems and management oversight".
Hillgreen Care Ltd did not respond to the BBC's requests for a comment, but the Times said that solicitors for the company described many of the criticisms as "unfair and inaccurate".


The ways in which university watchdogs protect standards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland face a major overhaul in plans expected next week.

It could mean the end of a regular cycle of university inspections.
There are believed to be proposals for a more "risk-based" approach, with higher levels of scrutiny for less established institutions.
There have also been questions about the future of the current watchdog, the Quality Assurance Agency.
The plans for discussion, which will be published next week, will set out major changes in how standards are assessed and monitored in universities.
The plans aim to create a way of ensuring quality at a time of increasing consumer pressure from students and doubts about standards in some new private providers.
An annual survey published this month by the Higher Education Policy Institute showed that less than half of students believed they had had good or very good value for money from their courses.
The shake-up is expected to propose different levels of supervision for different parts of the higher education sector. Universities are said to be resistant to a "one-size-fits-all" monitoring system.
This could mean that established, mainstream universities would no longer face a cycle of inspections of the kind carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).
Newer entrants offering higher education courses would face a tougher level of scrutiny.
For established universities, there would be a stronger emphasis on student "outcomes" - such as data on the employment record of graduates and information from the National Student Survey.
There would also be a strengthening of the "external examiner" system, in which experts from other universities are used to check on the quality of degrees being awarded.
If there were particular concerns about an institution, there would be a formal, hands-on inspection.
It is expected that university governing bodies would have a bigger role in being accountable for quality.
And the plans are expected to "embed" the idea of a way of measuring the quality of teaching in universities. The Conservatives' election manifesto promised a way of comparing university teaching standards as well as research.
The intention is to move towards a regulatory system with a stronger focus on what courses mean for students and employers, rather than monitoring the internal processes of universities
A number of leaks - including in the Times Higher Education magazine and the Wonkhe higher education website - have fuelled debate within the higher education sector.
But there are suggestions that there are still some final decisions to be taken.
There are questions about whether there will in effect be a two-tier system - with a more light-touch approach for established universities and more robust scrutiny for those outside this group.
There were concerns earlier this year from the Public Accounts Committee about an "abuse of public money", when ineligible overseas students had been accessing funding for courses in private colleges.
The Quality Assurance Agency had also raised questions about the quality of higher education courses taught in further education colleges - with inspectors failing about a third of college providers last year.
The future of the agency itself is also uncertain, if it were no longer to carry out regular inspections.
Last October, a public tendering process was announced to run the university inspection system from 2017. But it now seems that it is going to be a different kind of system from the one currently operated by the QAA.
The proposed changes are also likely to raise questions about the independence of a regulatory system that no longer has regular external checks.
Universities might be offered a more light-touch form of accountability, but in an international market will there be a need for evidence of an independent evaluation?
Would relying on an in-house check be a long-term risk for standards and reputations?
The questions about how university standards are monitored come as students are being increasingly voluble about challenging the quality of their courses.
The increase in tuition fees has brought into sharper focus value-for-money questions about teaching standards, contact hours and how degree standards compare between different institutions.
The plans will be presented jointly by the higher education funding councils for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But even if the plans are adopted in England, it is possible that Wales and Northern Ireland could go in different directions.
Scotland's universities operate under a different regulatory system.


It is to the horticultural industry what the catwalks of Paris and Milan are to the fashion industry.

But at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show the gardens are the stars.
They are conceived months in advance and assembled at the Royal Hospital site only weeks before the event.
Among them this year is one called Mind Trap - by Ian Price from Mallusk, County Antrim. The garden tells the story of Ian's experience living with depression.
"Its purpose is to help those that suffer in similar ways to be assured that they are not alone in their own personal struggles," he said.
He is the first designer from Northern Ireland to create a garden at the show for many years.
At its centre, this garden is a dark foreboding place. It features a pool with water which is dyed black so onlookers don't know the depth.
The planting inside the four huge central walls is sparse and virtually colourless.
"The walls are hugely symbolic, as they can create a feeling of security, as well as feel like a prison, depending on your perception," Ian said.
From the centre the onlooker has four possible ways to exit towards more lush and colourful planting.
"This is symbolic of the choices that we make to help us to get better and that some of those paths may not be the right path to take to improve our mental health," Ian said.
Ian's first RHS show was at Tatton Park in 2014. He said the Chelsea experience has been a tough one, but he hopes it will not be his last.
"Well, I suppose I can say this is both my most relaxed and my most stressful Chelsea to date given I have only done it once," he joked.
Ian studied Landscape and Garden a Design at Writtle University College in England and some students currently doing the same course assisted with planting the Mind Trap garden.
As celebrities, visitors and the resident Chelsea pensioners watch on, Ian's biggest hope is that his garden will help to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health.
"There is no shame about suffering and it is ok not to be ok," he said.


Some patients sectioned with psychotic conditions, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, may actually have a treatable immune disorder, say Oxford University scientists.

A study in the Lancet Psychiatry suggests up to one in 11 cases of psychosis may involve antibodies attacking parts of the brain.
Blood samples were taken from 228 people in a UK-wide trial.
The finding is controversial, but opens up a new way of treating patients.
Sarah Galloway, 25, from Gateshead, is now recovering after her immune system turned on her.
She was in the final year of her chemistry degree when things started to go wrong.
"I deteriorated in a matter of days," she says.
"I hallucinated that my body has morphed spiders' legs or rabbit ears, I've seen them there, I've felt them there.
"I get strange ideas in my head that someone is trying to kill me or I have to kill someone, and then a lot of it has resulted in self-harm."
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Sarah was rapidly sectioned by doctors, given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and treated with anti-psychotic medication.
However, a chance blood test turned up something unusual in her immune system.
Antibodies should protect the body, but instead Sarah's were attacking the surface of her brain's cells and disrupting their function.
That transformed Sarah's treatment, and she was given drugs to suppress her immune system.
She even had troublesome antibodies filtered out of her blood.
Prof Belinda Lennox, a clinical psychiatrist at the University of Oxford, is concerned other patients may be slipping through the net.
She led a UK-wide trial that took blood samples from 228 people when they developed psychosis for the first time.
The strongest evidence was for antibodies that attack the NMDA receptor which helps brain cells communicate with each other.
These were the antibodies found in Sarah and turned up in 3% of people tested.
Prof Lennox told the BBC: "The implications of this are that there are patients in mental health services now who will have these antibodies and could potentially be treated in a very different way.
"I think this is a really exciting advance for psychiatry as a whole, and every psychiatrist and patient with psychosis needs to be aware of this and to look for it and treat it assertively when we find it."
But this remains - at least in part - a controversial finding.
The immune system attacks the brain in autoimmune encephalitis, and again it is the NMDA receptor that is involved.
"However, the large majority of patients develop other symptoms for example seizures or abnormal movements," said Dr Josep Dalmau, from the University of Barcelona, who made the key breakthrough in understanding autoimmune encephalitis.
He added: "These usually bring the diagnosis to the doctors, so I think [considering] the number of patients you may have in a psychiatric institution with well established psychotic disorder for several months or years, the likelihood they have these antibodies is extremely low."
Clinical trials are under way to see if this fledgling field of immuno-psychiatry can actually benefit patients.
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Brazil says the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 28% between August 2012 and last July, after years of decline.

The government is working to reverse this "crime", Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said.
Activists have blamed the increase in destruction on a controversial reform to Brazil's forest protection law.
Last year Brazil reported the lowest rate of deforestation in the Amazon since monitoring began.
The provisional statistics from August 2012 to last July suggest that the area suffering deforestation was 5,843 sq km (2,255 sq miles), compared to 4,571 sq km (1,765 sq miles) in the previous 12 months.
The 28% rise interrupts a period of declining deforestation which began in 2009. However, it still remains the second lowest annual figure for forest loss in absolute terms.
The worst year on record was 2004, when 27,000 sq km of forest was destroyed.
Monthly data from several scientific institutions had suggested the deforestation rate might be on the rise.
Environmentalists say the controversial reform of the forest protection law in 2012 is to blame for the upwards trend in Brazil.
The changes reduced protected areas in farms and declared an amnesty for areas destroyed before 2008.
Forest change mapped by Google Earth
The reform, a long-standing demand of the country's farmers' lobby, known as the ruralists, was passed after several vetoes by President Dilma Rousseff.
Agriculture accounts for more than 5% of the Brazilian GDP.
"If you sleep with the ruralist lobby, you wake up with deforestation," Amazon expert Paulo Adario from Greenpeace wrote on Twitter.
Ms Teixeira said the destruction rate was "unacceptable" but denied President Dilma Rousseff's administration were to blame.
"This swing is not related to any federal government fund cuts for law enforcement," she told reporters, adding that around 4,000 criminal actions have been taken against deforesters in the past year.
As soon as she returns from Poland, where she is representing Brazil at the United Nations summit on climate change, Ms Teixeira said she would set up a meeting with local governors and mayors of the worst hit areas to discuss strategies to revert the trend.
The majority of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions, believed to be one of the main causes of global warming, stem from deforestation.
The Brazilian government made a commitment in 2009 to reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 80%  by the year 2020, in relation to the average between 1996 and 2005.
A new interactive online map, created by the University of Maryland, shows areas of global forest loss and gain from 2000 to 2012.
Brazil showed the best improvement of any country, cutting its deforestation rate in half in the period 2000-2012, from approximately 40,000 sq km per year to approximately 20,000 sq km per year.
But overall the planet saw a net loss of of 1.5 million sq km of forest - an area the size of Mongolia.


A look at work inside the new critical care ward at the £545m Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where injured troops evacuated from Afghanistan are being treated.

At the hospital, 23-year old Pte Andrew Garthwaite is greeted warmly by a man he doesn't remember.
It is the trauma surgeon who operated him in the crucial hours immediately after he was badly wounded in Helmand some six months ago, when a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade took off Andrew's right arm and killed one of his comrades.
Wing Cdr William van Niekerk was working at the field hospital at Camp Bastion when Andrew was brought in, and remembers him well.
Now, the surgeon is back in the UK working at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which treats all the military casualties evacuated from Helmand. He is pleased with how well the young soldier's wounds are healing.
Andrew, who is serving with the Queen's Royal Lancers, is now undergoing rehabilitation at Headley Court in Surrey, but comes back to the hospital regularly for his injuries to be reviewed. He is hoping to be able to receive a "bionic arm", so he can continue his career in the Army.
"It's called Target Nerve Reinnervation, and what happens is they're going to pull the nerves from the stump around and into my chest area - and the nerves are going to talk to the muscles within the pec and when I think about doing stuff, my pec will move and operate the arm by using different muscles of my body, so with my thinking, the arm will move," he explains.
That stage is still some way off, but in the meantime, Andrew has nothing but praise for both the medics and his own regiment since he was wounded.
"I've been treated like you would at a five-star hotel," he says. "I just cannot believe how much the Army has done for me, and my family and girlfriend and friends. They have been so good with my treatment, and the  prosthetics side of life.
"Hopefully, I'll return to work, but I might have to change the sort of job I do because obviously holding the weapon is going to be quite hard - but with this new arm I might be able to. You never know."
In a ward nearby, the civilian and military medics are preparing to receive a new military patient, who is being brought in on the latest medical evacuation flight from Helmand.
The team here have conference calls several times a day with their colleagues in Afghanistan, to ensure that both sides are prepared for the day ahead and know all they can about the patients about to be moved.
Those working on the military-managed ward and in critical care say that much has been learned over the past years in terms of ensuring seamless care from the point of injury to discharging military patients for rehabilitation at Headley Court.
Gp Capt Ian Sargeant is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon from the RAF who has worked at Selly Oak, and now the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, for several years.
He says that the high standard of care on the front-line is key to patient survival for the hundreds of military patients from Iraq and Afghanistan who often have complex injuries from bombs.
"There are many guys who would not be alive were it not for that care in Helmand," he says. "Here, we're looking at teamwork between many different surgical specialities. We have microbiologists who are meticulous about treating infections, and our nurse specialists manage these extraordinary wounds.
"We've also learned the importance of trying to integrate treatment of the injured limb with rehabilitation. So it wouldn't necessarily be that the limb is fixed or put in plaster to immobilise it. Instead, we do our best to get these limbs moving, while balancing the need to treat one wound against the other."
The NHS hospital treats 520,000 patients each year, military and civilian. According to figures from the MoD Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) website, the medical staff here have treated 218 very seriously injured and 222 seriously injured service personnel from Afghanistan between 2006 and October 2010.
Of those military patients, 105 were given surgical amputations as a result of injuries sustained in Afghanistan. Figures from the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association, suggest that of those patients, 12 are triple amputees, while 48 have lost both legs - often arriving at the hospital with a level of injuries which few would have been expected to survive only a few years ago.
The new military-managed ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital where most are treated is a designated trauma and orthopaedics ward, where military patients are now cared for in single rooms or four-bed rooms, just as other NHS patients are in the new hospital.
However, it also has a common room and a quiet room where wounded military patients can be with their families or talk to welfare staff. A new physiotherapy area for military patients is also nearby.
For most, the initial period will be spent in the new critical care ward, Europe's biggest on a single site. Each bed bristles with hi-tech equipment, and the entire space is a lighter, more modern environment than the old Selly Oak equivalent.
The staff here care for military and civilian patients alike, with beds screened off by curtains, and ward sister Lisa Kennedy, one of the civilian staff, says there are no tensions between the needs of each, nor between the medical staff themselves, although there can be differences in recovery rates.
"The good thing that a military patient has going for them is their age," she says.
"They're usually young, fit healthy men who are used to running miles and miles, so they're used to repairing themselves better. Though it is a bit of a double-edged sword. They get better quicker, but they can also get sicker more quickly. But the recovery rates within the unit are very good."
Her military colleague, Leading Naval Nurse Su Jeffreys, agrees. "We all do the same job here, and we all do the same work side by side. The military and civilian patients don't get different care, but their injuries and their recovery time can be different."
She has also worked at the field hospital in Camp Bastion for several months. "When I came back from Afghanistan, I said that Birmingham was like Bastion but without the weather.
"The patients are in Bastion for a much shorter time. They come in, they're stabilised, and then they're sent back here, but it is a continuation of the same care."
Su admits that even for nursing staff used to dealing with trauma injuries, it can be difficult to witness the kind of wounds suffered by Britain's young service personnel.
"When you see someone badly injured who's just 18 years old, it can affect you. But I'd expect it to affect anyone, seeing someone who is injured, sometimes in pain, sometimes frightened and awake. We just have to give them the best care that we can."


A paedophile has been jailed after being trapped by a group of online vigilantes.

Robert Hawes, 56, thought he was chatting to two girls aged 10 and 11 when he met them online.
The group tipped off police after Hawes arranged a meeting.
He pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to attempting to incite a child to sexual activity and attempting to meet a child after grooming. He was jailed for 20 months.
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The court heard that Hawes, of Jubilee Road, Daventry, Northamptonshire, thought he was conversing with the girls he was actually exchanging messages with a group called The Hunted One.
They tracked him down to a holiday park in Woolacombe, North Devon where he was staying with his son, who was taking part in a junior rugby tour.
Police arrested him before the group had a chance to confront him.
Evidence of the chat logs and recorded phone calls led him to admit what he had done.
Mr Jonathan Barnes, prosecuting, said Hawes began his online conversations in internet chat rooms and sent his targets sexualised messages.
The vigilantes recorded his chat logs and a phone call in which he tried to arrange a meeting in the London area in April.
Miss Emily Pitts, defending, said Hawes had no intention of going through with the meeting and there was no risk to any child, even if the girl had been real rather than fictitious.
She said her client has been diagnosed with early stage dementia which he fears is deteriorating.


Richie Ramsay is pleased to be over the worst of his eye infection as he ended the first day of the BMW Masters in a share of ninth place.

The 32-year-old Scot shot a four-under-par 68 in Shanghai and is four shots behind early leader Sergio Garcia.
Ramsay was forced to miss events in October due to blurred vision.
"It's just nice to be back playing," he told BBC Sport. "My eye is much better, although I'm still on drops for another couple of weeks."
The Aberdonian returned for last week's Turkish Airlines Open, finishing in a tie for 56th.
But he is well placed this time after a good opening round in China as he looks to finish the season on the good form he showed at the beginning of the year.
"I had a few weeks off and my game feels good," explained the three-time winner on the European Tour.
"I had a thing called anterior uveitis, which was causing inflammation in my left eye. The only thing to treat it is steroids but it stops your eye from focusing, so everything is blurred.
"For a while I really struggled with reading and trying to focus on the ball was really tough; seeing the target was near-impossible.
"It was a strange feeling since my eyes were pretty much 20-20 beforehand.
"I've got nothing to lose over the next two weeks, so I'll go out and try and push for a high finish."


India's Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to stop the government making a controversial biometric identity card mandatory for social welfare schemes.

The government's policy  was challenged over data security and privacy concerns.
Aadhaar, which means foundation, started out as a voluntary programme to help tackle benefit fraud.
However, it has become increasingly critical for any financial transactions and for access to welfare schemes.
States have been using Aadhaar to transfer government pensions, scholarships, wages for a landmark rural jobs-for-work scheme and benefits for cooking fuel to targeted recipients, and distribute cheap food to the poor.
The government argues that Aadhaar has cut waste, removed fakes, curbed corruption and made substantial savings.
But questions have been raised about the moral authority of the government to force citizens to share biometric data. Activists say it is in breach of the UN's Fundamental Right of Privacy.


A wristband that monitors people with dementia alerting carers when things go wrong is just one of the inventions featured in a new BBC Northern Ireland series.

Made in Northern Ireland, presented by Stephen Nolan, features local entrepreneurs with their wise and sometimes wacky ideas.
The wristband is the brainchild of a Belfast man and will feature in the first programme.
Other ideas include a personalised hip flask and a portable ramp for skateboarders.
The inventions have been designed in homes, sheds, garages and workshops across Northern Ireland and the show launches them to the public.
Four people will be given the chance to say what gets the thumbs up and what is a "no, no."
Later in the series, Stephen Nolan interviews a man from Randalstown who has created lavender-scented pet grooming mats. These are designed to soothe dogs and prevent cross contamination.
He also travels to Newtownabbey to see a phone app designed to help deaf people contact emergency services using their mobile phones.
Established entrepreneurs who are blazing a trail with their inventions also feature - these include the owners of a company selling GPS player analysis technology for sport and a couple who started a craft gin distillery and are now exporting their product to Dubai.
Made in Northern Ireland is on BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday 26 September at 19:30 BST.


Swindon Town have signed defenders Ben Purkiss and Olly Lancashire on free transfers from Port Vale and Shrewsbury respectively.

Right-back Purkiss, 33, spent most of his career at York and Walsall, before moving to Vale in 2015.
Centre-half Lancashire, 28, has signed a two-year deal after having his Shrewsbury contract cancelled.
The former Rochdale man made his senior debut for Southampton in 2008 and played 16 League One games last season.
"The target this season will be to get promoted. We'll be grafting and working with that in mind," said Purkiss, who has signed an undisclosed-length deal.
Lancashire added: "You want to win silverware as a footballer and the last time I was in League Two I won promotion with Rochdale, so I'll be looking to do the same here."
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Would-be-homeowners in large parts of England are being priced out of a government scheme to help first-time buyers, a BBC investigation has found.

The Help to Buy Individual Savings Account (HTB Isa) was introduced last year to help people save for a home.
In many areas, the average price of a starter home exceeds the maximum purchase cap of £250,000, or £450,000 in London.
Chancellor George Osborne said the scheme was aimed at first time buyers.
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The HTB Isa was introduced in December to allow first time buyers to put their deposit into a tax-free savings account and get a 25% bonus, up to a maximum of £3,000, when they buy their home.
However, the bonus is only available if the purchase price does not exceed the cap.  Housing charity Shelter said it only helped "the lucky few" and the government should focus on building more homes.
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Personal finance commentator Martin Lewis, of MoneySavingExpert.com, said savers should not be put off opening a HTB Isa.
He said: "It is a cash giveaway from the taxpayer.
"Even if you don't end up using it to buy a house, you still have savings with a very favourable rate of interest."
He added that from next year the government was launching its Lifetime Isa, with a limit on house purchases of up to £450,000 and that people could transfer in their savings from an HTB Isa.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, said: "Soaring housing costs have left millions of people stuck in a rent trap and struggling to save anything towards a home of their own.
"The Help to Buy Isa only helps the lucky few who are better off, or able to live with their parents while they save for a deposit. For the vast majority of renters who want to move forward in life and put down roots, this scheme brings them no closer to that dream.
"If the government genuinely wants to help the nation's renters get a foot on the housing ladder, it needs to look beyond quick-fix schemes, and invest in homes that people on ordinary incomes can actually afford."
Speaking to BBC South East Today in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, Mr Osborne said: "We want it to be available for people getting on the housing ladder rather than [for] more expensive homes.
"The scheme goes from strength to strength and we can always look to improve it."
A Treasury spokesman added: "The property price cap allows the government to target support at those who are saving to buy their first home."
He added that by March 2016 more than 150,000 people had used the government's other Help to Buy equity loan and mortgage guarantee schemes.
The cap on purchase prices for a Help to Buy Isa should encourage house builders to develop smaller homes, a property expert says.
Richard Donnell, research and insight director from Hometrack, said: "In order to appeal to a wider group of buyers, builders need to start building smaller houses to offer at the lower price point to help first time buyers get on the housing ladder.
"There is a lack of supply of two-bedroom homes and this keeps the price gap narrow and relatively close to three-bedroom home prices."
Hometrack figures, based on prices paid for homes between June 2015 and January 2016, show how prices for two-bedroom homes at the higher end of the range cost as much as or more than the lowest-priced three-bedroom properties in the same area.
In Elmbridge in Surrey, an average two-bedroom home in the upper price range went for an average of £459,963, while a lower range three-bedroom home sold on average for £430,000.
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North Korea has claimed that the missile it tested on Sunday was a new type of rocket capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead.

The missile, launched at a steep angle, reached an altitude of 2,000km (1,242 miles) and travelled about 700km, landing in the sea west of Japan.
North Korea said on Monday it was a test of the abilities of a "newly developed ballistic rocket".
South Korea's military said it could not yet verify the North's claims.
But it said the North's missiles did appear to be able to leave and re-enter the atmosphere, which is crucial to developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the Yonhap news agency reported.
Repeated missile tests by the North this year - not all of them successful but all a breach of UN sanctions - have sparked international alarm and raised tensions with the US.
The US and Japan have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
North Korea's KCNA state news agency said on Monday that the test of a "newly developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12" had gone to plan.
"The test-fire aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly developed ballistic rocket capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead," it said.
North Korea is known to be developing both nuclear weapons - it has conducted five nuclear tests - and the missiles capable of delivering those weapons to their target. Both are in defiance of UN sanctions.
But it remains unclear whether it has the ability to make the weapons small enough to be mounted on a rocket, and it has never tested a long-range ICBM which could reach, for example, the US.
ICBM's are considered to have a range of about 6,000km, but analysts believe the missile tested on Sunday would have travelled about 4,000km if it had been fired at a standard trajectory rather than upwards.
The KCNA report said that, as ever, the test had been overseen by the North's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
It said he had told the scientists and technicians involved "not to be complacent" but to build further "nuclear weapons and methods of delivery" until the US made "the right choice".
The White House has mooted talks with North Korea under the right conditions, which would include a halt in missile tests.
But in a statement on Sunday, it said Pyongyang had been "a flagrant menace for far too long" and that this "latest provocation" should "serve as a call for all nations to implement far stronger sanctions".
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said on Sunday that until Mr Kim meets the US conditions, "we're not sitting down with him".
South Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in, who is seeking deeper engagement with the North, said it was a "reckless provocation" while China, North Korea's only real ally, is urging restraint.


Former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan says Cardiff's new Ice Arena will attract high profile boxing to Wales.

McGuigan has announced a partnership with Sanigar Promotions, who feature several Welsh boxers on their books.
The new partnership will begin when Bristol's Lee Haskins defends his IBF world bantamweight title against Ivan Morales on 14 May at the new venue.
"We are here partly for this arena," McGuigan said.
"It is a fantastic venue in a developing part of Cardiff. We are looking forward to trying to fill it.
"It is a new page for Welsh boxing. We have turned over a new leaf."
Ice Arena Wales in Cardiff Bay which opened earlier this month. as the new home of the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team and McGuigan is impressed with the venue.
Cardiff's Craig Kennedy and Barry-based Andrew Selby will also feature on the bill, with a crowd of over 3,000 expected.
Unbeaten Selby, 27, will face Louis Norman in what could be a British flyweight title fight, subject to British Boxing Board of Control ratification.
Selby, brother of current World IBF Featherweight champion Lee Selby, is one of the fighters McGuigan believes can benefit from the agreement.
"Andrew Selby has a lot of talent. This kid has been an elite fighter for seven years," McGuigan said.
McGuigan believes boxing rivals the popularity of rugby in Wales.
"In Wales apart from rugby, and on some occasions as much as rugby, the sport of boxing has done more than maybe any other sport," he said.
"There's a wealth of talent and that inspires another pool of talent, so we are entering very exciting times.
"There are so many young kids there on the back of Nathan Cleverly, Enzo Maccarinelli and Joe Calzaghe.
"The Celts love their boxing, they're different.
I have been down here in the days of Joe Calzaghe and Steve Robinson and it was a brilliant atmosphere and full of passion. This is the place to be."


Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini underlined the importance of Yaya Toure to his side's title challenge after the Ivorian's hat-trick inspired them to a 5-0 thrashing of 10-man Fulham.

City's victory took them third in the Premier League with a superior goal difference over their title rivals.
Toure's first professional hat-trick took his season's tally to 20 goals.
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"He's a very important player and scoring 20 goals for a midfielder is not easy," said Pellegrini.
"At the beginning of the season, Toure received some criticism for not defending well, but it's easy to tell him to stay back and not give him freedom."
Pellegrini's side moved above Arsenal, who were hammered 6-0 at league leaders Chelsea, with second-placed Liverpool winning 6-3 at Cardiff.
City are six points off the top but have played two games less than Liverpool and Arsenal and three matches fewer than Jose Mourinho's side.
"I don't think it's just between Chelsea and Man City as favourites," added the Chilean.
I'm not happy with our performance after the second goal
"We must continue considering what Liverpool are doing because they are playing well and scoring goals.
"Arsenal had a bad game but are seven points behind Chelsea with one game in hand so the four teams have the same chance to win the title."
City, who have not conceded a league goal in their last four matches, have 10 league games left beginning with the Manchester derby on Tuesday and a trip to the Gunners next Saturday.
"It was a complete performance because we kept a clean sheet again, it's important in the last part of the season," said Pellegrini. "We must be very balanced, not only scoring but not conceding easy goals."
With top goalscorer Sergio Aguero missing, Alvaro Negredo started up front for City in place of the sick Edin Dzeko, although the Bosnian could return for Tuesday's trip to Old Trafford.
Negredo won the first of two City penalties, which Toure converted, after Fernando Amorebieta clipped the City forward.
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Fulham boss Felix Magath was unhappy with that decision, but there were no complaints about the second spot-kick as Amorebieta scythed down David Silva to receive a red card.
Toure, 30, grabbed his third with a stunning strike before late goals by Fernandinho and Martin Demichelis sealed the convincing victory.
Magath, whose side remain bottom of the table and are four points from safety with seven games left, said the second penalty after 54 minutes led to his side giving up.
"I'm not happy with our performance after the second goal," said the German coach.
"Sure it was a bad moment for us, but that's no reason to stop playing, we have to play 90 minutes with 10 or 11 players."


Treating common ailments like coughs and colds at community pharmacies could save the NHS over £1bn a year, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society claims.

A study carried out by the body concluded such a move would reduce the number of accident and emergency visits by 650,000 and GP consultations by 18m.
While minor ailment centres are common in Scotland and Northern Ireland only a third of English pharmacies have them.
The RPS is now calling for them to be rolled out across England.
They said the clinics - which could also deal with eye problems, stomach ailments like diarrhoea, and aches and pains - could ease the pressure on an overburdened NHS as well as save money.
Treatment results were the same regardless of whether patients were treated at a pharmacy, GP practice or in A&E, according to the study.
RPS President Ash Soni said: "The NHS can't afford to wait any longer to create capacity in the system. We need to be more strategic and change the services on offer to the public to make best use of the NHS workforce.
"Pharmacists are central to relieving the ever-increasing demand on A&E and GPs and enabling them to focus their skills on diagnosing and treating patients needing their care.
"Fast, same-day access to community pharmacists will be of huge benefit to patients, doctors, nurses and the bank balance of the NHS."
The RPS claims treating common conditions at A&E or in a GP practice costs the NHS an extra £1.1bn each year.
The research, led by the University of Aberdeen, estimated that 3% of all A&E consultations and 5.5% of GP consultations for common illnesses could be dealt with in local pharmacies.
Lead researcher Dr Margaret Watson said: "Treating these common problems places a substantial burden on A&E and GP services, especially over the winter period.
"This can increase waiting times, reduce availability of care for more serious conditions and incurs much greater expenditure on treatment than necessary.
"We must make the best use of NHS resources and give people the right advice in the right place, whilst making the most of the skills of NHS staff. You don't need an A&E consultation to treat a short-term cough or a simple upset stomach."
Common ailment schemes operate nationally in community pharmacies in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Welsh Government is running trials of the service which will be evaluated in 2015 and aims to develop a cost-effective model for the management of common ailments for Wales.
In England, approximately one-third of pharmacies operate the scheme.


President Donald Trump's choice of Senator Jeff Sessions as his attorney general was initially dogged by allegations of past racism.

The controversy has now moved on to meetings Mr Sessions had with the Russian ambassador during Mr Trump's election campaign.
Mr Sessions was one of Mr Trump's earliest supporters in his White House bid. As a key loyalist, he was a senior adviser to the New York tycoon on politics, national security and policy.
He was also a vice-chairman on the Trump presidential transition team.
Mr Trump's campaign was dogged by allegations that some of his team had met with Russian officials and that Moscow had interfered in the election on his behalf.
Mr Sessions was revealed by the Washington Post to have met Ambassador Sergei Kislyak twice, despite telling his January confirmation hearing that he had had no contacts with the Russians during the campaign.
Democrats have accused him of "lying under oath" and say he must resign.
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They have also called on him to step aside from an investigation by the FBI - which he oversees as attorney general - into the alleged Russian interference.
Mr Sessions insists he "never met any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign". Mr Kislyak was one of 25 foreign ambassadors he met as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee last year.
They held a private conversation in Mr Sessions's office in September and had spoken earlier in the summer, along with several other ambassadors, the Post said.
The latest controversy follows that of alleged racist remarks by Mr Sessions in the past, which proved a roadblock in his political career and put him under fresh scrutiny for the attorney general post.
A Senate committee denied Mr Sessions a federal judgeship in 1989 after lawmakers heard testimony that he had used a racial slur.
He had also joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were OK until he heard they smoked marijuana.
The Alabama senator told the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation testimony that allegations he had once supported the KKK were "damnably false".
Mr Sessions was also accused of calling a black assistant US attorney "boy" and telling him to be careful about how he spoke to "white folks".
He denied to the committee ever having called the lawyer "boy" and insisted he had merely advised him to be cautious about what he said to "folks".
Mr Sessions also rejected claims he had labelled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "un-American".
Democrats were outraged when Senator Elizabeth Warren, who opposed Mr Sessions' appointment as attorney general, was silenced by Republicans while trying to read a letter by Coretta Scott King that criticised him.
Writing in 1986, the civil rights activist alleged that he had "used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters".
Mr Sessions' supporters deny he is a racist, pointing to his votes to extend the Voting Rights Act and to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Rosa Parks.
Mr Sessions has spent much of his career fighting immigration battles, ranging from amnesty bills on creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants to visa programmes for foreign workers.
Mr Sessions supports limiting legal immigration, arguing that it protects American jobs.
He also backs Mr Trump's plan to build a wall along the US-Mexican border.
In a 2005 Washington Post op-ed, he argued that, "legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States".
The government, he argued, should be focused on "slowing the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together".
His strident views on immigration were laid out last year in his 25-page manifesto, "Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority". In the report, he argues immigration was responsible for job losses and welfare dependency.
He called claims by technology entrepreneurs that immigrant workers with elite skills were part of the innovation process a "hoax".
Born Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III, he became Alabama's attorney general before he joined the Senate in 1996.
He sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee.
The lawmaker, who helped Mr Trump craft his foreign policy plan, was one of the few Republicans to come to his defence after he proposed a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.
When asked if he supported a temporary ban in his hearing, Mr Sessions said he did "not support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States".
He has backed Mr Trump's amended proposal, now an executive order, banning individuals from countries with a history of terrorism, which is now being challenged in court.
Like many Republicans, Mr Sessions has opposed the LGBT-rights movement, and in particular the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
In 2000 and 2009 he voted against legislation which would expand the definition of a hate crime to include offences based on sexual orientation.
In 2015 after the Supreme Court voted to allow same-sex marriage across the US, he dubbed the decision an "effort to secularise, by force and intimidation".
But Mr Sessions testified in Tuesday's hearing he would follow the law of the land on gay rights.
As Alabama's attorney general in 1996, he fought vigorously to prevent an LGBT-rights conference from meeting at the University of Alabama.
He promised to prosecute school administrators under a state law passed in 1992 that made it illegal for public universities to fund a group that promotes "actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws".
When the university pledged to allow the conference to meet, he sought a court order to prevent it, but ultimately the 1992 order was overturned by a federal judge.
Mr Sessions has challenged calls to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and he has also questioned whether terrorism suspects have the right to be tried in civilian courts.
During his confirmation hearing, Mr Sessions said he accepted the law "absolutely" prohibits waterboarding.
He also said Guantanamo Bay was a "safe place" that fits the purpose of keeping prisoners "marvellously well".
The National Rifle Association (NRA) applauded Mr Sessions' appointment as America's top prosecutor, saying he would "make America a safer place by prosecuting violent criminals while protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners".
Mr Sessions is rated A+ by the group, indicating that he has a pro-gun voting record.
He has previously voted against background checks at gun shows, and in favour of banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers, and allowing firearms in checked baggage on trains.
In a statement at his confirmation hearing he promised a crackdown on gun violence, saying: "If I am confirmed, we will systematically prosecute criminals who use guns in committing crimes."
Many in the law enforcement community have voiced support for Mr Sessions, believing he will be a strong advocate for the police.


Natural tunnels known as lava tubes could safely house permanent bases on the Moon, scientists have said.

The underground volcanic structures have previously been proposed as ideal sites for human settlements.
Scientists have now assessed how stable these features might be, and found that tubes of 1km in size and bigger would be structurally sound.
They could protect against the challenges posed by the lunar environment.
Details of the work were presented at the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas.
Unlike Earth, the Moon lacks a thick atmosphere and magnetic field to protect it against cosmic radiation. The absence of an atmospheric buffer also means that the Moon's surface receives more frequent meteorite impacts and more extremes of temperature.
For example, the Moon's surface temperature can vary by several hundred degrees C during the course of a lunar day.
But housing bases underground, inside lava tubes, could offer shielding against these risks.
The lunar tunnels are expected to be larger than those already discovered on our planet, because of the Moon's lower gravity. No-one has yet definitively discovered an example on the Moon, but spacecraft have revealed cave entrances called skylights that may open into lava tubes.
Using existing data, David Blair and colleagues from Purdue University in West Lafayette used computer modelling to determine the stability of lunar lava tubes with different widths, roof shapes and roof thicknesses.
"It's the first modern re-assessment of how stable these can be," he told BBC News.
He found that tunnels with widths of 1km and greater could remain standing beneath the lunar surface.
In his poster at the meeting, he displayed a diagram showing his home town of Philadelphia sitting neatly within a lava tube with a width of 5km - which was found to be the rough theoretical maximum for stability.
The underground structures are thought to have been formed during basaltic lava flows during the Moon's history. When the upper layer of a lava flow cools and hardens, molten rock may continue to flow beneath it. Once this drains, it can leave behind a hollow space.
Long, snaking features on the Moon called sinuous rilles are thought by some to be lava tubes that have collapsed in on themselves. However, this interpretation is controversial among scientists.
Nonetheless, researchers are continuing to look for clear evidence of their existence in spacecraft data.
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North Korean hackers are capable of attacks that could destroy critical infrastructure and even kill people, a high-profile defector has warned.

Speaking exclusively to BBC Click, Prof Kim Heung-Kwang said the country had around 6,000 trained military hackers.
The warning follows last year's Sony Pictures hack - an attack attributed to North Korea.
Korean technology expert Martyn Williams stressed the threat was only "theoretical".
Prof Kim has called for international organisations to step in to prevent North Korea launching more severe attacks.
For 20 years Prof Kim taught computer science at Hamheung Computer Technology University, before escaping the country in 2004.
While Prof Kim did not teach hacking techniques, his former students have gone on to form North Korea's notorious hacking unit Bureau 121.
The bureau, which is widely believed to operate out of China, has been credited for numerous hacks.
Many of the attacks are said to have been aimed specifically at South Korean infrastructure, such as power plants and banks.
Speaking at a location just outside the South Korean capital, Prof Kim told the BBC he has regular contact with key figures within the country who have intimate knowledge of the military's cyber operation.
"The size of the cyber-attack agency has increased significantly, and now has approximately 6,000 people," he said.
He estimated that between 10% to 20% of the regime's military budget is being spent on online operations.
"The reason North Korea has been harassing other countries is to demonstrate that North Korea has cyber war capacity," he added.
"Their cyber-attacks could have similar impacts as military attacks, killing people and destroying cities."
Speaking more specifically, Prof Kim said North Korea was building its own malware based on Stuxnet - a hack attack, widely attributed to the US and Israel, which struck Iranian nuclear centrifuges before being discovered in 2010.
"[A Stuxnet-style attack] designed to destroy a city has been prepared by North Korea and is a feasible threat," Prof Kim said.
Earlier this year, the South Korean government blamed North Korea for a hack on the country's Hydro and Nuclear Power Plant.
"Although the nuclear plant was not compromised by the attack, if the computer system controlling the nuclear reactor was compromised, the consequences could be unimaginably severe and cause extensive casualties," Prof Kim said.
Martyn Williams is a journalist who follows closely the development of technology in North Korea.
He told the BBC: "I think it's important to underline that this is theoretical and possible from non-North Korean hackers too.
"It's conceivable that hackers would try something and lives could be at risk.
He noted an attack in 2013 on South Korean broadcasters, which he said was "an attempt to throw the country into confusion".
"If TV had gone off air and then ATMs stopped working, people might have panicked."
Inside Bureau 121
When it comes to cyber-attacks, few groups are as notorious as North Korea's Bureau 121, which has operated since the late nineties.
Most security researchers agree that the group operates out of China. Specifically, in the basement of a restaurant, rated highly on TripAdvisor for its tremendous Korean food.
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Prof Kim has called on international organisations to take action over North Korea's cyber-activity.
"We need to collect the evidence of North Korea's cyber terrorism and report them to UN Human Rights Council and other UN agencies," he told the BBC.
"If North Korea continues to cause damage in this way, an organisation such as Icann should ban North Korea."
Icann - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - manages the distribution of domain name including .com and .net.
It could, theoretically, shut down the use of North Korea's domain, .kp.
In a statement, Icann said its powers in this regard were limited.
"Icann does not have the power, nor remit, to ban countries from having a presence on or access to the Internet," said Duncan Burns, its head of communications.
"Icann's primary role is the coordination of the internet's unique identifiers to ensure the stability, security and resiliency of the internet.
"We rely on law enforcement and governmental regulatory agencies to police reported illegal activity."
Furthermore, disabling .kp would have minimal effect if, as is widely believed, much of North Korea's hacking force conducts its operations outside of the country.
Other measures, such as sanctions imposed by the US in the wake of the Sony Pictures hack, might have a greater impact.
But Prof Kim added: "This issue can't be solved by one or two countries.
"The international community needs to pay attention to North Korea's attempts to destroy the internet."
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A man who stole a sheikh's £97,000 Rolls Royce and tried to steal a number of other high-value luxury cars has been jailed.

Mohammed Humza, 25, from Watford, told the DVLA he was the new owner of Sheikh Mohammed Alibrahim's Phantom Coupe after seeing it parked in London.
He ordered new keys and sold the car for cash and part-exchange.
Humza admitted theft and five counts of fraud and was jailed for four years and two months at Southwark Crown Court.
The court heard the sheikh's Rolls Royce was checked "every couple of weeks" by his chauffeur.
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However, on 21 April 2015 he noticed it was missing from its parking place in Mayfair and reported the matter to police.
Humza had filled in a V62 form informing the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) he was the new owner.
The court heard that after receiving this form, the DVLA contacts the owner about the change of ownership, and if there is no reply, a new logbook is issued.
Hamza sold the car to a dealer for £27,500 and a part exchange for a BMW car and a Mercedes-Benz.
He tried the same scam with the DVLA in attempts to obtain ownership of a £127,000 Ferrari, a £75,000 Porsche and a £21,000 Aston Martin, prosecutor Margia Mostafa said.
However, each of the owners responded to the DVLA to confirm they were still the registered keepers of their cars.
Jailing Humza, Judge Martin Griffiths told him: "You have been involved in what to my view is a professional and highly selective car theft business.
Humza, he added, had played the lead role in a "high culpability sophisticated fraud".


A woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife has been cleared of his murder after telling jurors she feared he would kill her.

Elizabeth Hart-Browne, 27, broke down in tears as she was cleared of all charges at the Old Bailey.
Miss Hart-Browne cried "I have just killed the man I love" after stabbing Stephen Rayner, 25, on 17 September in Acton, west London.
The mother of two said he had hit her and grabbed her by the throat.
The court heard that with young children sleeping feet away, she picked up a large kitchen knife and stabbed Mr Rayner three times, inflicting a fatal wound to the neck.
Mr Rayner staggered outside and collapsed in a pool of blood as neighbours rushed to help.
Meanwhile, Miss Hart-Browne, who worked as a jewellery designer, said she panicked and went back to clean the knife and clear up blood around the television.
When the police arrived at their home, Miss Hart-Browne was hysterical telling officers: "I didn't mean to do it, I'm so sorry.
"I have just killed the man I love."
The jury in the six-week trial took 15 hours to find Miss Hart-Browne not guilty of murder.
The court heard a row erupted after Miss Hart-Browne came home from a family party.
Miss Hart-Browne told jurors she regretted not just going to bed when she got home that night. She said if she had, Mr Rayner, originally from Bournemouth, would still be alive.
The jury was also told of the couple's volatile six-year relationship, during which Mr Rayner had attacked the defendant many times.
After one incident outside Liquid nightclub in Uxbridge in 2012, Mr Rayner threatened to throw himself into the Thames and went on to plead guilty to battery.
In 2015, Miss Hart-Browne said she had become so fearful she took out life insurance because "I believed I was in danger of him killing me and I didn't want my kids to be left with nothing".
The defendant, who was described as having had a troubled upbringing in Somerset, said her boyfriend would take on the persona of his hero Charles Bronson during his terrifying attacks.
She said: "He had a fascination with Charles Bronson. He liked his aggression.
"There were lots of stories about him attacking prisoners and guards.
"He would take on that persona sometimes when he was angry.
"His whole accent changed, his whole being would change and I couldn't get through to him."


Ospreys must keep their feet on the ground after gaining six points in their opening two European Champions Cup games, captain Alun Wyn Jones says.

Ospreys top Pool 2 ahead of Exeter and Clermont Auvergne, although the French side have played only one game.
Clermont beat Ospreys 34-29 on Sunday, but the Welsh region's two bonus points made it a successful trip.
"It's an interesting group, we can't afford to get carried away," Jones said.
"The kick-in to see where we actually stand will be when Clermont play the game they didn't last week."
The French side were runners-up in last year's tournament and have now won 24 European matches in a row at their Stade Marcel Michelin home.
Their opening weekend match against Bordeaux-Begles was postponed following the Paris attacks, with no date yet set for the re-scheduled game.
Bordeaux are Ospreys' next opponents in the competition, with the teams meeting on consecutive weekends in December.
"We go back-to-back with Bordeaux. I think we'll approach it in the same way [as the Clermont game], we'll have to come at it with confidence but we've got a couple of Pro12 games we've got to do well in as well," Jones said.
The Wales and Lions second row added he was proud of the way the team had rallied from 34-17 down with two minutes left to score two tries in the dying seconds and claim a losing bonus point, and a point for scoring four touchdowns.
"To come away with two [points] we should be proud - there aren't many teams that will come out here and score four tries," he added.
"Credit to the team, we didn't say we'd turn them over and we haven't, but we didn't lack confidence and I think that showed."
Ospreys face Cardiff Blues in a Welsh derby on Saturday.


Police are failing to investigate alleged cases of modern slavery due to "chronic weaknesses" in crime recording, the UK's anti-slavery commissioner says.

In his first annual report, Kevin Hyland said police in England and Wales had received 3,146 allegations, but recorded just 884 crimes.
He said there were "too many gaps" for victims to fall through.
The National Police Chiefs' Council said the crime had "unique challenges".
The report comes as Prime Minister Theresa May calls for the UK to lead the global fight against human trafficking, promising it will "work tirelessly" to combat modern slavery.
Mr Hyland, who was appointed by Ms May last year, said there would need a "first-class response across the UK" for the UK to achieve this ambition.
His analysis indicated that, at best, 28% of referrals in England and Wales were recorded as crimes last year.
When the referrals are not recorded as crimes, investigations are not launched and victims do not receive the justice and support they need and deserve, Mr Hyland warned.
Police Scotland fared little better - of the 154 potential victims identified through the National Referral Mechanism, only 13 crimes were recorded.
But in Northern Ireland 100% of referrals were recorded under a human trafficking and exploitation offence.
Mr Hyland said this showed it was possible to record modern slavery crime accurately.
The report said: "Inadequacies in this area impact not only present and future victims, but could also allow organised crime groups to act with impunity, compromising the UK's national security."
The National Police Chiefs' Council said modern slavery was a "complex and cross-border type offence" but that officers could do more.
Its spokesman said: "It does not excuse the gap between national referrals and recorded crime in some areas. We also believe there are many victims of modern slavery who are yet to be identified."
The Home Office estimates there are between 10,000 and 13,000 potential victims of human trafficking in Britain, with 45 million worldwide.
Mihaela was trafficked three times across Europe from Romania to work in the sex trade against her will.
"In the mornings and afternoons I'd have 15 clients," she says.
"In the evenings, through to the next morning, they'd bring another 20 to me."
The 26-year-old says she was trafficked out of Romania to Hungary, Austria and Switzerland with a gun to her head - the first time when she was aged just 16.
"I had a lover and he was part of the mafia traffickers," she says.
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As home secretary, Mrs May was responsible for passing the UK's Modern Slavery Act last year - the first of its kind in Europe.
Speaking at a service in Westminster in honour of 18th-Century anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce later, Mrs May will say: "Our challenge is to ensure that the fight against slavery carries on - to free people from the bonds of servitude, to free those in mental chains, and to free people from the clutches of slave-drivers and traffickers.
She will promise Â£33m from the aid budget to focus on high-risk countries, from which victims are regularly trafficked to the UK - these include Nigeria, Vietnam, Romania, Poland and Albania.
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 says an offence is committed if someone holds another in slavery or servitude or requires them to perform forced or compulsory labour.
The legislation increased the maximum jail term for people traffickers from 14 years to life, and gave courts in England and Wales powers to impose orders to restrict the activities of suspected traffickers.
It was aimed at consolidating offences used to prosecute those who enslaved others into a single act.