Wasps have signed Scotland centre Nick de Luca on an initial short-term deal from French second-tier club Biarritz.

The 32-year-old who has won 43 caps, the most recent in 2014, began his career at Edinburgh before moving to France in 2014.
"I followed the team's success last year and I'm excited by their ambition and their style of play," he told the club website.
De Luca is the Premiership club's 11th signing ahead of the 2016-17 season.
Director of rugby Dai Young has bolstered Wasps' midfield following the retirements of Andrea Masi, Ben Jacobs and James Downey and injuries to Samoa international Alapati Leiua and Australia's Kurtley Beale.
"We have initially signed Nick on a short-term deal as injury cover," said Young. "But we are not ruling out a longer-term agreement.
"I have only seen and heard good things about Nick in terms of his attitude, ability and application. He has already proven himself as a top professional and an international rugby player."
Wasps scrum-half Joe Simpson has been ruled out of contention for the Olympics Games sevens in Rio after dislocating an elbow in training.
Simpson, who was one of a handful of XV-a-side players in the wider Team GB 7s training squad, is still expected to be available for the start of the Premiership season in September.
"We're obviously all really gutted for Joe," said Young. "He was progressing well and pushing hard for a place in the squad and it's desperately unfortunate that he has picked up an injury that will now rule him out.
"On the flip side of that, we're all looking forward to having Joe return to Wasps. He is an influential character and will now be getting his head down to prepare himself for the start of the new season."


Super League clubs chasing a play-off spot should all start on zero points again in the Super 8s competition, says Widnes chief executive James Rule.

Currently, teams in the Super 8s and third-tier Championship Shield carry over points from the regular season.
However, The Qualifiers, often referred to as the Middle 8s, start fresh on zero for their seven matches.
"I would change it. The interest in the Middle 8s is because of the jeopardy," Rule told BBC Radio Merseyside.
Defeat by Catalans Dragons in their Super 8s opener last week leaves Widnes Vikings 10 points adrift of the top four with just six games left in the Super 8s.
"I think after this weekend, realistically, if Saints beat Catalans and Wigan beat Castleford - I'm not saying they will or they won't - that is the top four done.
"So the Super League will be finished two rounds into the format.
"I think that you could create a League Leaders' Shield at the end of 23 rounds and then create a top eight road to Old Trafford, where everyone starts on zero points."
Only the top four teams in Super League after 30 rounds go into the play-offs for a chance to reach the Grand Final.


Newcastle United winger Rolando Aarons is to face a charge of violent disorder over a bar brawl in the city.

The 21-year-old has been summonsed to court following a fight at Livello in October.
Police said "a large altercation" broke out at the club which resulted in a number of people being arrested.
The Jamaican-born winger, who has made five first-team appearances for the EFL Championship leaders, is due in court on 4 April.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said one man was taken to hospital with facial injuries.
Two other men, aged 21 and 22, and two women aged 23 and 45 have also been summonsed for violent disorder.
Two men, aged 22 and 23, have been summonsed for violent disorder and assault.
All seven have been granted bail.
Aarons, who joined the Magpies in 2012, made his first senior outing during pre-season in July 2014 and scored away at German club Schalke.
He has been unable to play since November as the result of a knee injury.


The death and funerals industry is due for a shake-up, a growing number of tech start-ups believe.

After you die, how do you fancy springing back to life in the form of a digital avatar?
Your digital ghost could jump onto Facebook and join in a light-hearted argument about Friends, or  post Instagram updates reminiscing about that Italian road trip you took with an ex-lover.
Living a digital afterlife might sound strange - a possible episode of satirical TV show Black Mirror perhaps - but some start-ups are investing serious time and money in the concept.
Eternime, for example, plans to combine your online footprint - made up of everything you've ever posted on social media, your thoughts, smartphone pictures and so on - with artificial intelligence to create a digital version of yourself.
This digital representative could interact with your loved ones - and your descendants - long after you've died.
"Depending on the facts it has collected, the avatar will be able to offer anything from basic biographical data to being an engaging conversational partner," says Marius Ursache, Eternime's founder.
It is set to launch next year, and according to Eternime, more than 37,000 people have already signed up for the service.
But if you feel such a digital imprint might be a step too far - not to mention creepy - you could always schedule a few social media messages via DeadSocial.org to be published online after you've died.
It might be best to pre-warn your nearest and dearest of your intentions, though.
More pragmatically, technology is also helping people organise their funerals before they die.
Rebekah Doran is only 28, but the Los Angeles-based travel consultant has already planned her funeral through a firm called Cake.
On the day, guests will be served chicken and waffles and glasses of French wine, while listening to classic folk music.
"Having an end-of-life plan is even more important for young people, because should the unthinkable happen, we are the least likely group to be prepared," she says.
Boston-based Cake lets consumers plan their end-of-life preferences, from the funeral to what happens to their Facebook page. All the information is stored, appropriately enough, in the cloud or shared with family or friends.
"As generations of digital natives age, it is inevitable that people will seek a digital solution for end-of-life planning," says Cake co-founder Suelin Chen.
"Your end-of-life plans are exactly the type of information that should live securely in the cloud, where they can be accessed and updated from anywhere, and not just on pieces of paper stuck in a drawer somewhere," she says.
The business of death in general has not been known for its technological innovation.
Yes, we've had ashes being blasted into space, and biodegradable coffins and urns - some containing seeds - but a growing number of start-ups around the world believe this is an industry needing to be shaken up.
In the UK, two companies - Co-operative Funeralcare and Dignity - dominate the Â£1.7bn funerals market, with shares of 25.2% and 18.4% respectively.
That's bad for competition, thought Funeralbooker, so it developed a marketplace that lets people compare the prices of funerals across the UK.
"Until we launched, there was zero transparency of pricing online," says Funeralbooker chief executive Ian Strang.
"Your only way to compare prices was to go round town and bargain with different funeral directors, all of whom have different pricing schemes."
Not only does Funeralbooker enable customers to shop around from the comfort of their own homes, he says, but it provides independent funeral directors with "a collective presence online to counter the spending power of the large chains".
Since the company launched last November, "several thousand" people have used its service, says Mr Strang.
In the US, Parting allows users to search for funeral directors by zip code (the US equivalent of postcode), while Stockholm-based online funeral planner Fenix organises funerals across Sweden online or by phone.
Making a will is also one of those unwelcome tasks too many of us put off.
But Alice Walsh, 37, used Farewill, a website offering will preparation and funeral-planning services for just Â£50.
"My husband and I had been meaning to do a will for about five years, but we never got round to it," says Ms Walsh, who runs her own accessories and jewellery brand.
"A will, to me, was always a slow, serious document that needed to be done with a lawyer. Instead, we found a pragmatic organisational tool that we can manage and update as our life develops.
"If I'm happy to bank online, shop online and run my business online, then having my will online is a given," she says.
Of course, such simple online will-preparation services may not be suitable for people with complex estates and children from multiple marriages, but as Mr Walsh says, it helped her cross off an unpleasant task from her list quickly and easily.
Dan Garrett, Farewill's founder and chief executive, says one of his clients "insisted his wife wore his green crocs to his funeral because of how intensely she hated them.
"That's real love to me, the kind of wish that makes you cry and laugh at the same time when you get it in real life," he says.
From live-streaming of funerals to after-life digital avatars, it's clear that technology is infiltrating this most staid of sectors.
"Technology is coming in and making the industry more transparent in many ways, from finding a funeral director, to end-of-life thinking," says Louise Winter, funeral director at Poetic Endings and the former editor of the Good Funeral Guide.
But she believes further innovation is needed. And Mr Strang agrees, saying: "Other sectors such as healthcare and artificial intelligence are more interesting to investors right now.
"Death is less sexy and far more difficult to disrupt due to the slow pace of change."


Yorkshire Diamonds made a winning start to the 2017 Women's Super League, easing past Lancashire Thunder by 28 runs in the Roses match at Headingley.

England's Lauren Winfield (44) and Sri Lanka's Chamari Atapattu (41) survived several dropped chances to put on 72 for Yorkshire's first wicket.
Katherine Brunt and Alice Davidson-Richards accelerated late on to get the hosts to 162-4 from their 20 overs.
Davidson-Richards then took 3-20 as Lancashire were restricted to 134-7.
New Zealand's Amy Satterthwaite top-scored for Thunder with 28 off 26 balls, but the efforts of Katie Levick (3-30) and Davidson-Richards with the ball meant the visitors were always well behind their required run rate.
Yorkshire and Lancashire finished fifth and sixth of the six teams in the inaugural competition last year, both winning only one of their five group games.


It has emerged that a popular tool meant to ward off malware contained a flaw that put millions of people's personal data at risk.

AVG's Web TuneUp software is marketed as a free way for users to defend themselves from "hidden threats".
But earlier this month Google's security team spotted that it was overriding safety features built into the search firm's Chrome browser.
AVG said it had addressed the problem, but it now faces repercussions.
Google's Tavis Ormandy first flagged the issue to other members of his Project Zero team on 15 December.
He highlighted that Web TuneUp was "force installing" a plug-in into Chrome, meaning that users of the product had no way to opt out of it altering the browser's settings.
As a result, he said, people's internet history and other personal data could be seen by others if they knew where to look online. Furthermore, he said, the code could potentially let hackers spy on people's email and other online activities.
On 15 December, he contacted the Amsterdam-based cybersecurity firm.
"Apologies for my harsh tone, but I'm really not thrilled about this trash being installed for Chrome users," he wrote.
"My concern is that your security software is disabling web security for nine million Chrome users, apparently so that you can hijack search settings and the new tab page.
"I hope the severity of this issue is clear to you, fixing it should be your highest priority."
Messages between the two organisations reveal that AVG's initial attempt to address the flaw did not work.
But on Tuesday, Mr Ormandy confirmed that a new version of the plug-in had resolved the issue.
AVG confirmed the fact in a statement.
"We thank the Google Security Research Team for making us aware of the vulnerability with the Web TuneUp optional Chrome extension," it said.
"The vulnerability has been fixed; the fixed version has been published and automatically updated to users."
However, Mr Ormandy also informed AVG it would be prevented from auto-installing the plug-in for new Web TuneUp users as a consequence of the debacle.
"Inline installations are disabled while the CWS [Chrome Web Store] team investigate possible policy violations," he wrote.
An independent security expert said the case should serve as a warning.
"The vulnerability Google discovered is very serious, and allowed any website to access the passwords and other confidential information for any other website the AVG customer had visited," commented Dr Steven Murdoch from University College London.
"Although it is now fixed, it shows that almost any software installed on a computer can introduce security vulnerabilities, even if that software is intended to improve security."
This is the second time a problem with AVG's products has been highlighted this year.
In March, researchers at Ensilo flagged that the firm's Internet Security 2015 program had contained a bug that made it possible for hackers to add code to Windows PCs that would disable some of Microsoft's own protection measures.


A 14-year-old girl who died while under the care of social services had "intended to kill herself", a coroner has concluded.

Seren Bernard, who was in the care of Pembrokeshire council at the time, died in Milford Haven in April 2012.
Coroner Paul Bennett said there had been "communications issues" over her care but found they did not "cause or contribute" to her death.
He recorded a conclusion of suicide.
Mr Bennett said text messages sent by Seren were like a suicide note, and had shown an "unequivocal intention to take her own life".
The inquest heard the teenager was being assisted by social workers, a drug and alcohol worker and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) after an earlier suicide attempt.
Mr Bennett said a social worker's message about her low mood was "not flagged as urgent", an invite for a child protection meeting had been misplaced and CAHMS had not been included on a correspondence list.
However, he found there to be "no causative link" between these issues and the 14-year-old's death.
Organisations involved have been given until the end of next week to submit reports outlining what action they intend to take to address communication issues.
The coroner said he would relate his findings to the relevant authorities.
In a statement, Pembrokeshire County Council said it would "reflect upon all of the issues that have been raised... and consider what lessons can be learned".


The man who shot dead his partner and teenage daughter outside a leisure centre was not a shotgun certificate or firearms licence holder.

Charlotte Hart, 19, and mother Claire, 50, were killed by father Lance, 57, near the Castle Sports Complex in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday.
He then took his own life with the shotgun he used in the killings.
In a statement, police said the "provenance of the weapon used is an active line of enquiry".
Officers also said they could "confirm that the deceased was not a shotgun certificate or firearms licence holder".
Tributes have been paid to Charlotte by her former school.
Spalding High School said the community was "deeply shocked and saddened" to hear of Charlotte's "tragic death".
In a statement on its website, the school said: "Charlotte had many close friends and her polite and caring nature endeared her to all who met her.
"Charlotte was incredibly driven to achieve her dream of studying midwifery at university. Academically, Charlotte excelled and her final grades were a tribute to her hard work and dedication."
The teenager became a midwifery student at Northampton University after leaving Spalding High.
After the shootings police entered the family home in Hatt Close, Moulton, where tributes have been left outside.
One said: "Rest in peace Charlotte and Claire, kind and lovely people who will be missed deeply", while another read: "Claire and Charlotte, two beautiful lives taken too early. Sleep peacefully you lovely girls."
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A neighbour, who only gave his name as Peter, said Mr Hart worked as a delivery driver for a builders' merchants.
"Last time I spoke to him, he had put the house on the market because they were hoping to downsize, buy somewhere in the village. He was a very nice guy, he went out of his way to be helpful so it comes as a great shock."
South Holland District Council told the BBC the shooting was believed to be a "domestic incident".
A post-mortem examination is due to take place later.


An elderly Catholic nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for damage caused while breaking into a US nuclear defence site.

Sister Megan Rice, 84, and two other protesters cut fences and entered the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, facility, which processes and stores uranium.
The other two, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, were sentenced to more than five years in prison.
The July 2012 incident prompted security changes at the Y-12 site.
"Please have no leniency with me," Sister Megan told the court at Tuesday's hearing in Knoxville.
"To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest gift you could give me."
During the trial Sister Megan, from Washington DC, said her only regret was waiting so long to take action.
The peace activists, members of the group Transform Now Plowshares, had initially faced up to 20 years in prison after their conviction last May.
Walli and Boertje-Obed received tougher sentences because they had longer criminal histories.
The trio were also found guilty of causing more than $1,000 (Â£643) of damage to government property.
After cutting a fence to enter the site, the three walked around, spray-painted graffiti, strung out crime-scene tape and chipped a wall with hammers.
They spent two hours inside.
The trio also sprayed the exterior of the complex with baby bottles containing human blood.
When a guard approached, they offered him food and started singing.
US lawmakers and the Department of Energy later launched an inquiry and uncovered "troubling displays of ineptitude" at the facility.
Top officials were reassigned, including at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
WSI, the company providing security at the site, was dismissed and other officers were sacked, demoted or suspended.


Tributes have been paid to the three-time British Supersport champion, Karl Harris, who died while riding in the Isle of Man TT on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old from Sheffield crashed in an area known as Joey's Corner on the final lap of the Superstock race.
Clerk of the TT course Gary Thompson said: "Karl's infectious enthusiasm and sense of humour lit up many race meetings.
"He was a hugely talented racer and will be sorely missed."
He is the second racer to die at this year's event after Bob Price lost his life in Monday's Supersport opener.
MotoGP star Cal Crutchlow said on Twitter: "Really sad to hear Karl Harris passed away at the TT. One of most natural talented riders I ever raced against. Great guy too."
Formula 1 driver Jenson Button tweeted: "Another legend lost to the Isle of Man TT. My thoughts are with all of Karl 'Bomber' Harris's family and friends at this difficult time."
World Superbike rider Jonathan Rea said on Twitter: "Terrible hearing that Karl Harris has died. A great guy who'll be remembered as one of the most naturally gifted on a motorcycle!"
Former MotoGP star and BBC commentator Steve Parish tweeted: "Really sad to lose a mate, Karl 'Bomber' Harris today. Chasing his passion. RIP. My thoughts are with his family."
Isle of Man TT star Conor Cummins said he was an "unbelievable rider and a top bloke".
Seven-time world champion Carl Fogarty said he was "gutted beyond words".
Organisers said the coroner of inquests had been informed and an investigation was under way.
Harris made his debut at the Isle of Man event in 2012, finishing 21st in the Superbike race and 28th in the Superstock race, lapping in excess of 121mph.
A spokesman for organisers ACU said: "The ACU wishes to pass on their deepest sympathy to Karl's family and friends."


Leeds defender Liam Cooper has admitted an FA charge of violent conduct after a "stamp" on Reading's Reece Oxford.

The 25-year-old missed United's defeat at Brentford on Tuesday, but is yet to find out the length of his suspension.
The incident, which was not seen by the match officials, occurred in the 75th minute of Saturday's Championship match, which Reading won 1-0.
"We spoke to Liam and decided together to plead guilty for the recklessness of it," said Leeds boss Garry Monk.
"But 100% not for any intent - Liam's not that type of lad, we know that, and he's very clear on that as well."
Centre-back Cooper could face a longer ban than the standard three matches, the Football Association said.
A panel of three former top-level referees reviewed the video footage to determine whether Cooper committed an act of violent conduct.
The FA said it had submitted a claim that the usual three-match ban was "clearly insufficient".
Monk added to BBC Radio Leeds: "We'll have to see what it [the ban] is and then understand it and take it from there."


At least three people were injured when a train derailed while pulling out of a station in Switzerland, officials said.

Passengers were initially trapped when a carriage tipped on to its side at the station in Lucerne.
The incident occurred at about 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Wednesday, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said.
There were 160 passengers on board the train, owned by Italian operator Trenitalia, which was travelling to Basel from Milan, Italy.
The fourth carriage of the train struck a power cable when it derailed, delaying rescue efforts, a spokesman for Lucerne police, Urs Wigger, said.
Lucerne police said the passengers were evacuated and at least three people required treatment and were taken to hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Services in and out of the station were suspended for the rest of the day, SBB said.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately clear.


A juror who carried out internet research during a trial has been given a suspended jail sentence at London's High Court.

Karl Stoddart, 29, was on a jury hearing a case at Newcastle Crown Court in July 2014 when he researched the defendant's previous convictions.
He said he did not tell his fellow jurors until after they had all agreed on their verdict of guilty.
The part-time chef from Gateshead accepted he was in contempt of court.
He was given a sentence of four months in jail suspended for 12 months and he was ordered to pay Â£1,000 costs within three months.
After the matter came to light, the defendant's conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal and a retrial was ordered, although it did not take place.
Mr Stoddart, of Swalwell, Gateshead, said he was ashamed of his stupidity and said the proceedings had hung over him like a "living nightmare".


Chinese netizens have given a warm welcome to Prof Stephen Hawking after he joined microblog network Sina Weibo.

The British astrophysicist amassed two million followers within hours of launching his account on Tuesday.
His first message was a greeting to his "friends in China" posted in both English and Chinese.
Some Weibo users were comparing the experience of interacting with Prof Hawking online to making contact with the universe.
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Prof Hawking's second post, on Wednesday, described the interstellar project Breakthrough Starshot which he is backing, saying it was "exciting to be involved in such an ambitious project".
Both posts were quickly flooded with excited comments expressing admiration and awe.
One wrote: "I'm writing this comment, even though you probably won't read it and understand it, so that it will at least flash on your phone for a second... This fragile connection is like using my fingers to gently touch the universe."
"Since I was a child I would always cite you in my school essays, you are an example for all of us!" said one commenter, while another wrote: "OMG, you have pulled up the average IQ of all the users on Weibo."
Others urged fellow netizens to be on their best behaviour around him.
"I hope there won't be any idiots who ask the professor brainless questions, please do not take him as a joke, and do not shame us Chinese people," said a commenter.
Still others peppered him with questions on the existence of aliens and quantum physics.
Prof Hawking has enjoyed a substantial following in China, with a Xinhua article on his last visit in 2006 noting he has "a cult status among Chinese youngsters much like that of Tom Cruise".
"The appeal of Hawking largely comes from his ability to be a great thinker despite his physical challenges," it said.


Glenurquhart atoned for defeat by Lovat in the 2013 and 2014 MacTavish Cup finals by ousting their local rivals 5-0 at Drumnadrochit in the tournament's quarter-finals.

James MacPherson bagged three of his side's five goals, completing his hat-trick in the final minute.
The other three ties were encounters between Marine Harvest Premiership and National Division sides and Newtonmore made heavy weather of that difference.
The holders had to come from behind to edge Caberfeidh 3-2 at the Eilan and Kilmallie similarly squeezed past visitors Inverness 1-0.
But, on a day of huge winning margins, the gulf showed at Beauly, where visitors Kinlochshiel handed out a 7-1 thrashing.
In the corresponding South Championship, the GCC Celtic Society Cup, there was a much bigger mismatch when Kyles demolished South League side Kilmory 18-0 after reaching double figures by half-time.
Glasgow Mid Argyll made their Premiership status show when they eclipsed Glenorchy 8-0 and Inveraray won 2-0 at Bute.
Conor Golabek and Neale Reid put Glenurquhart 2-0 up after only 10 minutes and MacPherson put the game beyond Lovat before half-time, going on to complete his treble.
It was much harder going for Newtonmore, who, by their own high standards, have had an uninspiring start to the season.
Glen MacKintosh put More ahead, but the game swung the other way after Colin MacLennan and Kevin Bartlett gave Cabers the lead.
However, that lead would only last nine minutes as MacKintosh completed a hat-trick for Newtonmore to prevail.
Ryan Stewart's early goal for Kilmallie, who had Duncan Rodger sent off, was enough to eliminate lower league Inverness.
Two each from John MacRae and Jordan Fraser and strikes from Keith MacRae, Oliver MacRae and Gordie MacDonald meant Kinlochshiel overwhelmed Beauly, whose consolation came from Jack MacDonald at 6-0.
Mismatches are relatively common in shinty, but, even by those standards, Kyles' 18-0 obliteration of Kilmory, who sit second-bottom of the league two tiers below them, was extreme.
Grant Irvine opened the scoring in the second minute and reached five before half-time, at which point Kyles led 10-0.
Roddy MacDonald and Gordon Whyte both knocked in four, Sandy MacKenzie two and Brandon Wilson, Martin MacFadyen and Thomas Whyte one each.
This made Glasgow Mid Argyll's 8-0 rout of Glenorchy seem rather tame despite a Craig Anderson hat-trick and a score apiece from Calum McLay, Duncan MacRae, Mark Bain, Gary Luke and Stuart Reid.
A Lewis Montgomery first-half double helped Inveraray through at the expense of Bute.
Skye, 4-1 winners away to Strathglass, and Fort William, 3-1 winners at home to Oban Celtic, now occupy the top two places in the Marine Harvest National Division.


Portsmouth had Conor Chaplin's late strike to thank for earning a draw away against Barnet.

Both sides looked out of sorts as passes repeatedly went astray in the opening exchanges.
Pompey eventually had the first effort on goal, Eoin Doyle heading wide from eight yards, while Curtis Weston met Mauro Vilhete's cross just after the half-hour mark to force David Forde into a sharp save at the other end.
Portsmouth boss Paul Cook brought on Chaplin and Danny Rose at the break but the Bees almost went ahead after an hour as Ruben Bover's free-kick clipped the side-netting.
The Spaniard had gone off when Barnet won another set-piece in a similar position but Vilhete deputised brilliantly, bending the ball over the wall to give the Bees an 82nd-minute lead.
However, the home side could not hang on as Chaplin fired a dramatic equaliser into the top corner from 20 yards in the 89th minute.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Barnet 1, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Barnet 1, Portsmouth 1.
Attempt missed. Justin Amaluzor (Barnet) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Dan Sweeney (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Goal!  Barnet 1, Portsmouth 1. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Amine Linganzi.
Michael Nelson (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth).
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal!  Barnet 1, Portsmouth 0. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Justin Amaluzor (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Substitution, Portsmouth. Carl Baker replaces Gary Roberts.
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Substitution, Barnet. Justin Amaluzor replaces Simeon Akinola.
Tom Champion (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barnet. Dan Sweeney replaces Ruben Bover.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
John Akinde (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth Evans (Portsmouth).
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth).
Tom Champion (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Ricardo Santos (Barnet) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Tom Champion (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth).
Foul by Tom Champion (Barnet).
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Barnet. Conceded by Gary Roberts.


Britain's hopes of a first women's Champions Trophy title look over after a disappointing 1-0 defeat by New Zealand in London.

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After a draw against Argentina and loss to the Netherlands, GB needed a win to retain realistic gold medal prospects but conceded within the first minute.
Stacey Michelsen capitalised on slack defending before defender Crista Cullen left on crutches with a leg injury.
"We're gutted about the result," forward Sophie Bray told BBC Sport.
"We created the chances and just couldn't put them away, but ultimately you probably learn more from a loss."
Having faced the two strongest teams in the tournament already in Argentina and Netherlands, GB were hoping to secure their first win at the 2016 Champions Trophy campaign against the world number four side.
However, despite the best efforts of Bray, Lily Owsley and Susannah Townsend, GB could not find a way past New Zealand keeper Kayla Whitelock.
Britain need to win their remaining two matches and hope for an unlikely sequence of results between the other five nations to go in their favour in order to reach Sunday's gold medal final.
A more realistic aim is the bronze medal match, which would be achieved by defeating both USA on Thursday and Australia on Saturday.
GB head coach Danny Kerry told BBC Sport: "I actually thought we played well for three quarters today and they need to be tournament resilient and not be too down."
Kerry said it was "too early to say" how serious Cullen's injury is, but with the Olympic team due to be revealed in just a week's time, it will be a concern.


Proposed collaboration between North and South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics has been welcomed by the International Olympic Committee.

According to reports, South Korea sports minister Do Jong-hwan said North Korea could host some skiing events.
He also said the countries may enter a combined ice hockey team.
"We are happy to discuss his ideas. The Olympic movement is always about building bridges, never about erecting walls," said an IOC spokesperson.
"We are looking at the comments of the new minister of sport, culture and tourism with great interest."
The Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will take place from 9-25 February.
In comments reported by the Korea Herald, Do suggested the North and South could enter one women's ice hockey team, helping to make Pyeongchang a "peace Olympics".
He said he would discuss co-hosting at the Masikryong ski resort with Jang Woong, North Korea's delegate to the IOC.
Earlier this month, South Korea's new president Moon Jae-in said North Korea could be part of a bid to co-host the 2030 football World Cup across north-east Asia.
Moon, the son of refugees from North Korea, advocates greater dialogue with their neighbours.


Almost a third of the new teachers who started jobs in English state schools in 2010 had left the sector five years later, ministers have confirmed.

Of 24,100 state school teachers to qualify in 2010, 30% had quit by 2015, Schools Minister Nick Gibb revealed in a written parliamentary answer.
The Liberal Democrats say the figures are a "damning record" of Michael Gove's term as education secretary.
The government said teacher retention had been broadly stable for 20 years.
The figures were confirmed by Mr Gibb in a written parliamentary answer to a question from Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland.
They show that in November 2010 24,100 newly qualified teachers entered English state schools.
After one year 87% were still there.
This fell to 82% after two years, 77% after three years, 73% after four years and 70% after five years.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said he blamed changes brought in by Mr Gove, who turned more than half of secondary schools into academies, reshaped the curriculum and rewrote the exam system.
"It is bad enough that dedicated teachers are being driven away from the profession they love, but this is also laying the foundations for a disastrous teaching shortage in years to come if we cannot train new teachers fast enough to replace the ones which leave," said Mr Pugh.
"The government must urgently work with the teaching community to address the many factors which are making teachers feel demoralised and under-valued; as well as reversing their devastating cuts to school budgets, which are putting increasing pressure on teachers and schools."
Teacher supply expert Prof John Howson, who runs recruitment website TeachVac, says he believes the poor teacher retention rate has "more to do with economics than politics".
He said the last teacher recruitment crisis, at the turn of the millennium, was resolved by the Labour government "taking the brakes off the advanced pay scale" which meant young teachers received rapid pay rises.
The economic crisis saw a clampdown on public sector pay but it was not until the economy improved in 2012 that state school teachers found they could get better pay elsewhere, Prof Howson added.
He says they do not always leave teaching - some join private schools or teach overseas.
He suggests that as the secondary school-age population starts to rise there could be problems ahead, particularly in shortage subjects like physics or design technology "where this is the fifth or sixth year when we haven't trained enough teachers".
The Department for Education says more teachers are "entering our classrooms than those choosing to leave or retire".
A spokesman said the annual average teacher salary in the UK was higher than the OECD average and higher than in many of Europe's high-performing education systems, like Finland, Norway or Sweden.
He added: "We want every child to have access to great teachers that aren't weighed down with unnecessary workload so they have the time and freedom to do what they do best - inspire the next generation. We recognise teachers' concerns and are continuing to work with the sector to find constructive solutions to this issue."


"I can see the confusion on your face, you may be thinking there is something wrong with the translation but no, that's what really happened."

Sitting in an industrial unit in Newport, Memet Ali Alabora is telling the story of how he ended up in Wales.
Alongside him are the writer Meltem Arikan and the actress Pinar Ogun - three Turkish artists who now call Cardiff their home.
In the summer of 2013, Turkey was in turmoil. An estimated 3.5 million people were on the streets.
What began as a small protest against plans to redevelop Gezi Park, one of Istanbul's rare central green spaces, mushroomed into huge demonstrations across Turkey.
Memet, Meltem and Pinar were there and what started as an environmental protest would end up changing their lives forever.
"I still get affected by talking about it," Pinar recalled.
"When I think about it, it makes me feel sick."
A number of people were killed in the unrest and thousands more were injured during that summer.
Soon Memet, Meltem and Pinar were thrown into the heart of the turmoil.
Some pro-government media accused them of inciting the protests through a play they had put on some six months prior to when the demonstrations began.
"Mi Minor was the first of its kind in terms of combining social media and a theatre play," Memet said.
"It has a unique style where the audience can stand alongside the actors and shout and protest."
The play's story is one of repression and rebellion, and some media played clips of the performance alongside images of the protests.
"We were accused of making the rehearsal of the Gezi Park protestors with our play," Memet said.
"Then we were accused of being a terrorist organisation that wanted to overthrow the government.
"It got to the point where it became such a violent and threatening point that we felt it would be better to leave the country."
Meltem, who wrote the play, giggled, her head in her hands - she explained she feels there is not much else she can do.
"I wrote an absurd play but then our lives became more absurd. I choose laughing," she said.
While time may have helped to ease the pain, the group find it hard to think about their lives back in Turkey, where they still have many friends.
The group left Turkey three-and- a-half years ago and came to Wales, where despite their story the biggest question they face is why they moved to Cardiff.
"It's as if the story is so normal but the abnormal thing is why we chose Cardiff or Wales," explained Meltem, who arrived here in 2004 and said she felt she belonged here.
Memet explained: "The story starts in 2004 when Meltem first arrived in Wales. And the first thing she ever felt was, I belong here and I have to live here.  And from that day on she tried to convince us."
Pinar says the group are very happy in their new home city of Cardiff: "I remember just walking one day during Christmas in 2013.  I was crying because of the pain and that feeling of loss.  And the city was just smiling back at me and saying, this is going to be fine.  So the energy and the beauty of the city, I think it cuddled us and that's how we managed to heal ourselves to be honest."
The group are now putting on their first production in Wales, called Enough is Enough.
It focuses on themes of sexual violence and how society deals with them and gives the audience the chance to "shout out" their concerns and figure out how to take action.
"What we always want to do is to challenge and agitate the audience," Memet said.
The focus again has the potential to be controversial and it starts its tour across Wales on Tuesday.


Violence is soaring to new levels in Pakistan, with militants unleashing a wave of deadly attacks - and the government is dithering about what to do, writes guest columnist Ahmed Rashid.

Tuesday 21 January was a fairly normal day in Pakistan. Twenty-nine Shia Muslims were killed by Sunni militants near Quetta in Balochistan province after a suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into the bus they were travelling in. Meanwhile, in Karachi, three Shias were shot dead, in another attack claimed by Sunni extremists.
And on the same day, renowned Urdu writer and professor Asghar Nadeem Syed was wounded by unknown gunmen in Lahore.
Meanwhile three anti-polio vaccinators, including two women, were gunned down in Karachi by Taliban militants - the third such attack in Karachi in a week.
Meanwhile, the army claimed it had killed 40 militants in a bombing raid that was itself retaliation for a suicide attack near army headquarters in Rawalpindi the day before. That attack left 13 people, including eight soldiers, dead.
A day earlier, 20 soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on an army convoy in the north-west of the country.
That attempted army show of force only encouraged further attacks by the Taliban, who killed 12 security personnel in different incidents on 22 January.
The violence is unsparing, unprecedented and reaching frightening proportions.
There has been a flight of capital in recent months and many of the elite are sending their children out of the country.
For months, Nawaz Sharif's government has had a fruitless policy of wanting to negotiate with the militants, but that has made no headway and now lies in a shambles.
Yet Mr Sharif appears paralysed, with no sense of urgency over tackling the crisis, which would entail abandoning the false hope of talks and giving the army orders to go after the extremists.
Since he came to power last June, Mr Sharif has moved very slowly on his entire promised agenda of economic reform, making peace with India, encouraging reconciliation in Afghanistan and countering militancy at home. He appears overweight and ill, and many people fear he has given up.
Strains between the army and the civilian government are multiplying - with the army now extremely frustrated at the government's policy paralysis while its soldiers die in unprecedented numbers.
However, neither the army nor the government have shown any signs of adopting a zero-tolerance approach to terrorism, which would mean going after all terrorist groups, including those Punjabi groups who fight against Indian rule in Kashmir.
Yet the militants are gaining ground every day by demoralising the public and the security forces with their persistent attacks.
Pakistani Taliban attacks on military personnel and civilians now include mass bombings of mosques, churches and bazaars. And in recent months the Taliban have become adept at targeted killings of politicians, bureaucrats and senior officials in the army and police, too, using suicide bombers, gunmen on motorbikes or mines laid in the road.
Meanwhile the Sunni extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, whose leaders live openly in Punjab but have not been arrested, is carrying out a virtual genocidal campaign against Shias across the country.
The anti-Shia campaign is now nationwide and affecting every city and province, including Punjab, which was considered safe until recently.
''Militant groups... operate with virtual impunity across Pakistan as law enforcement officials either turn a blind eye or appeal helpless to prevent attacks,'' said Human Rights Watch in its annual report released on 21 January. The report says that Taliban attacks now amount to war crimes.
So dire is the situation that Bill Gates, whose foundation is helping fund the campaign to make Pakistan polio-free, has suggested suspending that aim because of the violence, with nearly 30 polio vaccinators killed in the past 24 months by the Taliban. ''The Pakistan violence is evil,'' Mr Gates told reporters in New York on 22 January.
It is clear to everyone what needs to be done.
People think Mr Sharif needs to address the nation on TV and describe how dire the situation is. He then needs to rally as many opposition political parties to his side as will join him - and those which do not can be deeply embarrassed by the government and the army for supporting terrorism. Finally, he needs to order the army to clear up the main hub of militancy in North Waziristan.
However, the problem has become more complicated in recent months as Islamic extremists in Karachi, Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan, who were once separate, isolated and operating independently, now appear to have come under the banner of the Movement of Pakistani Taliban. Collectively, they are aiming at toppling the system, defeating the army and imposing a caliphate in the country.
The world has seen the dramatic resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, which has greatly complicated the civil war in Syria. Nobody would have thought that al-Qaeda had the power to conquer cities, but that is exactly what it has done in Iraq with the capture of Falluja and Ramadi.
Similarly, so bad is the security situation in the Pakistani border towns of Peshawar and Quetta, as well as the sea port and trading hub of Karachi, that it may not be far off when an urban area - or part of one - falls into the hands of the Pakistani Taliban.
If the present security situation worsens, the next step for the Taliban is an urban insurrection, while tensions between the military and civilians could lead to a military-led state under emergency or even martial law.


A 24-hour bus strike in Leeds will start on Monday after union members voted to reject a pay offer from FirstLeeds.

Members of the Unite union at Hunslet Park and Bramley are to strike from 02:00 BST.
FirstLeeds said all Leeds routes would be affected "to some degree" but the park and ride service would run.
First buses from depots in Bradford, Huddersfield and Halifax will not be affected.
Live updates on this story and others from West Yorkshire
The company said the rejected offer would have delivered a pay increase of more than 3% in a one-year deal.
But the offer was rejected by members of the Unite union at Hunslet Park and Bramley at a meeting on Thursday.
The two sides had met with the conciliatory service ACAS on Wednesday.


A German yachtsman is believed to have been abducted by Filipino Islamist militants, the Philippines' army says.

The naked body of a woman found on an abandoned yacht is thought to be his wife, army spokesman Filemon Tan said.
In an audio message, the leader of the Abu Sayyaf group, which often kidnaps for ransom, said it was behind the raid, the military spokesman added.
The couple, Jurgen Kantner and Sabine Merz, were held captive for more than a month by Somali pirates in 2008.
Their passports were found on board the yacht, Mr Tan said.
The German authorities have yet to confirm the incident.
Abu Sayyaf is one of the smallest and most violent jihadist groups in the southern Philippines, known for its brutality, including beheadings.
In recent months it has been behind a series of attacks at sea between the Philippines and Malaysia, with tug boats and fishing vessels intercepted and their crews kidnapped and held for ransom.
The German couple's yacht, the Rockall, was found off Laparan Island in southern Sulu Province, Mr Tan said.
The woman on board had been shot dead - it was not clear why she was killed but she might have fought back, military officials said.
According to Abu Sayyaf, the couple were cruising off Malaysia's Sabah state when the militants intercepted them, the Filipino military said.
Mr Kantner, 70, and his wife were held for 52 days in 2008 by Somali pirates - and were released after a ransom was paid, the AFP news agency reports.
"My boat is my life and I don't want to lose her... I don't care about pirates and governments," Mr Kantner told AFP in 2009 when the couple returned to the self-declared republic of Somaliland to collect their yacht.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is due to hold talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak this week - and tackling Abu Sayyaf is expected to be on the agenda, the Reuters news agency reports.
Mr Duterte, who came to power in June, has vowed to eliminate the group - and the military has launched a major military offensive against the militants.
According to a confidential government report, seen by the Associated Press news agency, the insurgents have made at least $7.3m (£5.8m) from kidnappings for ransom in the first six months of this year.
Mr Tan appealed for people to adhere to the Philippine government's no-ransom policy.
"If we give in to ransom, a greater damage will be done. They can use the money to buy arms and to feed their bandits and that will fuel again the tendency for them to kidnap," AP quoted him as saying.


Italy's new Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni is known as a reserved diplomat with an untainted image but he might be forced out of his shell to meet the demands of the job.

Paolo Gentiloni is a one-man refutation of almost every Italian stereotype. He is quiet, organised, and unflashy. He is reminiscent of the butler in the novel Remains of the Day, whose greatest ambition was to be in a room without anyone noticing he was there.
"Paolo is a very reserved person," says Stefano Menichini, a journalist who has known Mr Gentiloni for almost 30 years.
"There is never gossip about him," he continues, "Nothing. You will never see him in famous holiday spots - he actually goes to the mountains in Austria."
He is not alone. The UK's Theresa May and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, also seen as reserved, spend their respective holidays there too.
Paolo Gentiloni comes from an aristocratic Roman family, the class that has provided courtiers for the city's respective Italian and Vatican governments for centuries.
He began his career as a journalist, and then rose through the centre-left of Italian politics.
From 2006-08 he served as communications minister in the government of Romano Prodi. In 2014, Matteo Renzi appointed him as foreign minister.
During the recent constitutional referendum campaign, Mr Gentiloni warned that Italy risked being caught by the wave of populism.
"It's easy to say 'No, I'm not worried'," he told the BBC during the campaign, "but in fact every single Western country should consider very seriously the risk that people who are in some ways the victims of globalisation can react against the traditional parties, both the right- and left-wing moderate parties.
None of his words, delivered to the BBC in impeccably aristocratic English, translate into easy slogans. It's hard to imagine Mr Gentiloni leaping on a platform and rousing a crowd.
He is about to face opponents who know how to do just that. The opposition Five Star Movement takes a populist approach to politics.
The party has already worked out its line of attack against the new prime minister.
"He is just Renzi's puppet," says Manlio di Stefano, a Five Star member of parliament, "They needed someone to put there and give Renzi the time to wipe his image after the referendum disaster."
Mr Gentiloni faces a struggle to show that he is his own man. Matteo Renzi remains the leader of the Democratic Party, of which Mr Gentiloni is a member, and shows every sign of wanting to come back as prime minister at the next election.
That poll is, at most, 14 months away. Paolo Gentiloni risks becoming little more than a placeholder whilst Matteo Renzi and the Five Star Movement begin the campaign for the next election.
But even a stopgap prime minister has things to do. Mr Gentiloni's most immediate priority will be to safeguard Italy's banks, which have €286bn (£240bn; $303bn) of bad debts.
Of particular concern is Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank, which needs to arrange a rescue by the end of the year.
"He is a person who has the qualities that are needed when there is too much mess in a country," says Stefano Menichini.
While he might be austere as a person, his friend insists he can also be very funny.
In public, that sense of humour is well-buried. Perhaps Italy's prime minister keeps his jokes for his hikes in the Alps.


Fire crews have tackled a major blaze at an industrial laundry in Dumfries.

They were called out to the Shortridge building on the Lochside Industrial Estate shortly after 04:00 on Wednesday.
They managed to save the main factory building from being destroyed but it still caused considerable damage to the premises.
A spokesman said six engines were in attendance and confirmed there were no casualties.
Police have appealed for anyone who was in the industrial estate overnight to contact them.
Sgt Amy Ritchie said: "We are currently carrying out inquiries into the cause of this serious fire and a joint investigation will take place today between the fire and rescue service and Police Scotland.
"No-one was injured in this incident, however, the damage is extensive."


Students who attended a state school were significantly more likely to get top degree grades at university than those who went to private school.

The higher education funding council has analysed last year's degree grades awarded by England's universities.
It shows 82% of former state school students achieved a first or upper second degree, compared with 73% of private school students.
The figures also show that women achieved better degree grades than men.
The Higher Education Funding Council has published an analysis showing the wide range of grades being awarded to different groups of students who graduated in 2014.
Earlier this year, figures were published showing record levels of first class degrees - with 21% graduating with this top grade. There were a further 51% of students awarded upper seconds.
The funding council figures provide a more detailed profile of where the top grades are being awarded.
Private school students are significantly behind - and the analysis says that this is only partially explained by state school students entering with higher A-level grades.
About half this nine percentage point gap remains unexplained - with state school pupils performing better than might have been predicted.
State school pupils consistently outperform private school students relative to their A-level grades on admissions.
For students entering with three B grades, 75% of independent school students will achieve a first or upper second class degree, while about 84% of state school students will achieve these top grades.
There is also a big variation in degree grades by subject. Among students taking medicine, 90% received a first or upper second, compared with 73% for maths and 69% for law.
Women are ahead of men in degree grades, with 74% achieving firsts or upper seconds compared with 70% of men.
In a further profile of the stronger performers, students from richer backgrounds tend to get higher grades and white students get significantly higher grades than those from ethnic minorities.
Disabled and part-time students also tend to do less well than those without disabilities and those studying full time.
The rising levels of top degree grades has prompted complaints about grade inflation - with the number of first class degrees having doubled in a decade.
The analysis shows that for students entering with the equivalent of three C grades at A-level, 70% will achieve a first or upper second class degree. For students with three B grades, 80% are awarded a first or upper second.
Among those entering with three C grades, about 15% achieve a first class degree.
"Once again, robust analysis shows persistent unexplained differences in degree outcomes for particular groups of students," said Madeleine Atkins, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
"Students who are disabled, or from a disadvantaged background, or from an ethnic minority group, continue to achieve lower degree outcomes than their non-disabled, white, advantaged peers.
"We must ensure that all students regardless of background or characteristics fulfil their potential and achieve the degree outcomes they deserve."


A BBC parliamentary programme described as "Britain's longest-running soap opera" reaches a historic milestone this month after 70 years and more than 10,000 episodes chronicling the daily doings and derring-do of our legislators.

Today in Parliament on Radio Four, or "TIP" to its staff, is the BBC's nightly round-up of the Parliamentary day, its longest-running Parliamentary programme, and the sole survivor of the journalistic Night of the Long Knives when detailed daily coverage of Parliament was axed by the broadsheet national newspapers in the 1990s.
Now, TIP stands alone... its late-night audience averaging an impressive half a million listeners.
Barring the very occasional power cut or Act of God it's been broadcast every night that Parliament is sitting since October 1945.
The tape containing one edition was notoriously left in a taxi on the way from Westminster to Broadcasting House, but was fortunately recovered in time for transmission at 23.30 as usual.
As a BBC Parliamentary correspondent from 1992 to 2013, I presented the programme - among others - for many years and, to mark its 70th anniversary, I have been looking back at its most memorable moments.
Broadcasters had a long battle to report Parliament at all, but the mood among leading politicians changed during World War Two and that commitment was written into the corporation's new post-war Charter, making it the only programme the BBC is obliged to broadcast - though which radio or TV channel it appears on, and how long the programme should last, are up to BBC bosses.
We have unearthed fascinating archive material - including the original dog-eared script from the very first programme in 1945.
And there is the oldest-surviving recording of the programme, broadcast in October 1963, with the announcer - in suitably plummy BBC English - regaling listeners with the colourful prose of the then opposition leader, Harold Wilson.
He was lambasting the Conservatives for delaying the next session of Parliament so that its new leader - Alec Douglas Home - could fight a by-election and become an MP after renouncing his peerage.
Douglas Home had "emerged" to become PM after Harold Macmillan resigned, but was currently neither an MP nor a peer. The announcer - in a voice of fastidious disdain - quotes Wilson's vivid characterisation of democracy in the Tory Party: "It was nature in the raw, red in tooth and claw."
And there's the very first, experimental, day of broadcasting clips from the Commons in June 1975, with Margaret Thatcher joining Prime Minister Wilson in "rejoicing" at the Yes vote in the referendum to stay in the Common Market! How times change.
She goes on to praise Ted Heath - the main she had just ousted as party leader - for leading the Yes campaign.
One former editor of Today In Parliament, BBC veteran Bob Clifford, describes the programme as "Britain's longest-running soap opera".
"It's been going longer than The Archers, Coronation Street, Eastenders... All human life is there. You have got tragedy, drama, love, betrayal, new characters come and characters go."
And if it's a soap opera, many MPs and peers seem hooked: the Father of the House, 85-year old Sir Gerald Kaufman, says he started listening soon after TIP started after the War.
"I can't do without it. It is more important than it has ever been... A credit to straight reporting," he says.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg calls it "a wonderful programme, that makes Parliament sound better than it sometimes is!"
It was such a fixture in his politics-obsessed family when he was growing up, he says, that his little sister could do an excellent impression of Speaker George Thomas's lilting Welsh rendition of "Order! Order!" at the age of four!
Lady Boothroyd, the 86-year old former Commons Speaker, is another big fan of the programme and also living proof that its late-night slot makes it - for many listeners - what former editor Bob Clifford calls "duvet listening".
As the now crossbench peer says, "I have three or four feather pillows and I settle down with my book and think: 'Oh Betty, this is champion! Why didn't I come to bed earlier?' Then, I put down my book when the programme comes on."
No duvet for Jacob Rees-Mogg: he confesses he usually listens while lying in the bath.
For Robert Rogers, recently retired as Clerk to the Commons, the Chamber is "incredible theatre" and TIP often the only way it's properly heard.
Now Lord Lisvane, he recalls a day 25 years ago, and the sharp intake of breath on the government front bench when the late Sir Geoffrey Howe delivered the most devastating lines in his deadly resignation speech which triggered the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.
He also remembers the night Tony Blair won Commons backing for war in Iraq in 2003, despite the largest government rebellion of modern times. "It was an electric occasion... MPs were coming up to us with tears in their eyes, saying they didn't know which way to vote. It was very memorable."
In the early days, before broadcasting from the Commons was allowed, the programme was put together in Broadcasting House, several miles from Westminster, with BBC journalists re-writing news agency copy sent via the ever-chattering teleprinters.
The 15-minute programme, consisting entirely of a script read by one of the BBC's top announcers, was, in the words of former producer Bob Clifford, "a nightmare" to produce. To start with, there was no "colour" in the reports.
"If an MP made a joke it would be reported dead straight, followed by a pause and the words: "There was some laughter."
One of those best-known announcer voices belonged to Brian Perkins, now retired. He recalls presenting the programme in the mid-1960s and describes it at that time as little more than a "15-minute humourless dirge".
I first arrived in Westminster in 1984, reporting initially for BBC local radio and BBC Wales. We shared dingy windowless offices - in a long-demolished building where Portcullis House now gleams - with a transient Today in Parliament staff, who seemed rather a breed apart.
The current Director General, Tony Hall, did a stint on the programme too, in those far-off days.
Things changed a lot in the early 1990s. With BBC Westminster now ensconced in the rather more salubrious surroundings, most of the Today in Parliament staff became reporters: each taking a separate story - Prime Minister's Questions, a government statement, a Lords Question - and writing it up and reporting it on air.
Finally, the 'Received Pronunciation' of the BBC's top announcers was replaced by the more demotic accents of our own correspondents, myself included.
In the 70 years since TIP began, it's reported on many momentous events but, for me, no Parliamentary story in my time can compare with that extraordinary destruction - on the floor of the Commons - of Margaret Thatcher, who had won the Tories three elections. The 25th anniversary of that political earthquake falls next month.
The current government's wafer-thin Commons majority suggests eyes will be focused more often than in the recent past on the Posh End of the Palace - the House of Lords - where the Conservatives are still outnumbered.
Lady Boothroyd rails against David Cameron for stuffing the Lords with what she calls "lobby fodder" to get his bills through, but the Upper House will still be crucial, and TIP will be there to report it.
The cross-party committees in both Houses increasingly merit coverage on TIP for their inquiries. To me, they're where much of the best parliamentary work gets done. They've grilled bankers, industry fat cats, media bosses, the great and the good, and the not so good. Their role can only grow in importance.
And while filling Today in Parliament can still be a challenge some days, recent changes in procedure to increase topicality... and moves by the Speaker, John Bercow, to champion the rights of the Commons have made Parliament, and so TIP, more newsworthy, and more relevant to the listener.
In the early days, the BBC Director General, Sir William Haley warned that the programme should guard against including MPs' "undistinguished wisecracks".
These days, a good joke with a political bite is sometimes the best way to get on the programme.
One need only recall how Vince Cable became a household name in 2007 with his "Stalin to Mr Bean" put-down of Labour's new prime minister, Gordon Brown.
So finally, the main news from Parliament again: After more than a thousand episodes and 13 prime ministers, Britain's longest-running soap opera, Today in Parliament is ready for the next 70 years.


A senior RAF officer said a bright light being shone at Hawk jets made it "too dangerous" to land them.

Wing Commander Nicholas Gatonby told Mold Crown Court a light was repeatedly shone from the ground at a jet near RAF Valley on Anglesey.
He said it "obliterated" their ability to see anything from the jet.
John Arthur Jones, 66, of Bodffordd, Anglesey, denies 13 charges of endangering aircraft between November 2013 and September 2014.
Mr Gatonby, the former commanding officer of 208 Squadron at RAF Valley, said he was instructing a pilot in December 2013 on how to carry out a "touch and go" landing where the jet would be on the ground for four to five seconds before accelerating off again.
He said jets slowed from 400mph (643km/h) to 120-140mph (193-225km/h) for the touchdown at RAF Mona, a relief landing strip close to Mr Jones's house.
During his approach "there was a very bright light shining from the ground on to the aircraft," he said.
He told his student not to look, hoping it was a temporary flash, but said the light stayed on the aircraft for 15 or 20 seconds.
"Because it was a very bright light  in our eyes it destroyed our night vision completely," he told the court.
The landing was abandoned, but when they returned 15 to 20 minutes later "the light illuminated us again from the same position," he said.
They did a "go around" again but the light shone on them three or four times. He decided it was too dangerous to stay there and they flew off.
Mr Gatonby said as the light had been shone at them so many times, he could narrow down the location of the light with quite a degree of accuracy and it was from an area near the Cefni Reservoir.
The trial continues.


Luton Town have signed Leyton Orient striker Ollie Palmer and goalkeepers Stuart Moore and Matt Macey on loan until the end of the season.

Palmer, 25, has five goals from 23 games this term, scoring against Luton in his side's 2-1 defeat in October.
Arsenal keeper Macey, 22, made four appearances for Accrington Stanley on loan last season.
Moore, 22, has joined from Reading, where he has yet to play for the first team since coming through the ranks.
He made two appearances for their Under-21s in this season's EFL Trophy, conceding six goals, and also featured in four League One games on loan at Peterborough last season.
The two keepers come in after Christian Walton was recalled from his loan spell at Kenilworth Road by parent club Brighton.
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David Clarkson scored twice as St Mirren beat Livingston in a five-goal thriller in the Scottish League Cup.

Nicky Cadden equalised for Livingston just after the break and Dale Carrick then put David Hopkin's side ahead 60 seconds after coming on.
Lewis Morgan equalised for the visitors after 74 minutes before Clarkson scored the St Mirren winner nine minutes from time.
Elsewhere in the group, Ayr United defeated Hamilton Accies 2-1.
After a short early spell of Livingston pressure the visitors took the lead.
A long ball was played up to John Sutton who used his strength to hold off the attentions of Livi defender Sean Crighton. The former Motherwell and Hearts striker nodded the ball down to Clarkson who fired a sweet crisp volley beyond goalkeeper Liam Kelly from 12 yards out.
Saints began to play the ball around with great purpose but Livingston always looked dangerous when breaking forward.
Cadden, who made the move to Livingston from Airdrie in the summer, looked in the mood and a magnificent piece of skill by the teenager almost brought about an equaliser.
The winger clipped the ball over the head of the stranded Irvine before driving forward and firing a shot inches over the crossbar.
Cadden was again in action with a free kick from 20 yards out that Scott Gallacher in the Saints goal had to dive low to his right hand side to push away for a corner.
Morgan almost doubled the advantage after his mazy solo run took him deep inside the Livingston 18 yard box, but his shot was blocked by Kelly in the home goal.
Livingston began the second half in fine style and within six minutes the West Lothian side duly equalised.
Cadden decided to try his luck from the edge of the 18 yard box and the ball squeezed in beyond Gallacher at his near post.
And the visitors keeper was caught napping again as the home side took the lead.
Gallacher waited for a Cadden cross into the box but substitute Carrick nipped in to volley the ball home ahead of the keeper.
It was the former Hearts and Kilmarnock strikers first goal for the club with his first touch of the ball.
The lead though was short lived as St Mirren equalised through Morgan.
The 19-year-old sent in a deep cross that looped over the outstretched arms of Kelly and into the corner of the net.
St Mirren regained the lead with the goal of the game that also proved to be the winner.
Clarkson decided to have a crack at goal from 25 yards and the ball thundered beyond Kelly into the roof of the net giving St Mirren all three points in their opening match.
Hamilton Academical fielded new goalkeeper Remi Matthews, but he was soon beaten from the penalty spot as Alan Forrest scored after two minutes for Championship side Ayr United.
Robbie Crawford cut inside and unleased a shot from 22 yards out to make it 2-0.
Louis Longridge managed a late consolation for Martin Canning's side.
Ayr United manager Ian McCall: "A certain element of Hamilton's support need to take a look at themselves.
"To give their manager stick, who kept them in the Premiership last season, after 15 minutes is utterly outrageous.
"Other than that, I'm very pleased. It's a good exercise for us, I'm pleased and we'll get a good bit of fitness for us, but it has come way too early."
Hamilton Academical player/manager Martin Canning: "I don't need that to tell me what we need to do - I know we need to bring players in.
"We were disappointed with the goals we conceded, it was too easy.
"There was a little bit of desire missing that needs to come back in, that bit of determination not to get beat, not to concede, not to let them get the better of you.
"I don't want to overreact because it is early in pre-season, our big aim is to make sure we're ready for the league, but I would expect us to come down here and do better."
Match ends, Livingston 2, St. Mirren 3.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Kyle Hutton replaces Calum Gallagher.
Second Half ends, Livingston 2, St. Mirren 3.
Foul by Scott Pittman (Livingston).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Jordan Stewart replaces Rocco Quinn because of an injury.
Goal!  Livingston 2, St. Mirren 3. David Clarkson (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Stephen Mallan.
Substitution, Livingston. Thomas Orr replaces Daniel Mullen.
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Scott Gallacher.
Attempt saved. Nicky Cadden (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal!  Livingston 2, St. Mirren 2. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the top left corner.
Dale Carrick (Livingston) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rocco Quinn (St. Mirren).
Goal!  Livingston 2, St. Mirren 1. Dale Carrick (Livingston) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Nicky Cadden.
Substitution, Livingston. Dale Carrick replaces Liam Buchanan.
Attempt missed. Sean Crighton (Livingston) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Livingston. Scott Pittman replaces Jordan Sinclair.
Goal!  Livingston 1, St. Mirren 1. Nicky Cadden (Livingston) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Irvine (St. Mirren).
Second Half begins Livingston 0, St. Mirren 1.
First Half ends, Livingston 0, St. Mirren 1.
Craig Halkett (Livingston) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Sutton (St. Mirren).
Nicky Cadden (Livingston) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Irvine (St. Mirren).
Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Rocco Quinn (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Scott Gallacher.
Attempt saved. Nicky Cadden (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Webster (St. Mirren).
Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Jackson Longridge.
Attempt missed. Nicky Cadden (Livingston) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Nicky Cadden (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Naismith (St. Mirren).
Goal!  Livingston 0, St. Mirren 1. David Clarkson (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by John Sutton.
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Andy Webster.


Veteran Labour MP and former minister Michael Meacher has died after a short illness at the age of 75.

Mr Meacher had been MP for Oldham West and Royton since 1970, retaining the seat with a 14,738 majority in May.
Mr Meacher, seen as being on the left of the party, spent 29 years on Labour's frontbench including six as an environment minister under Tony Blair.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was a "man of enormous breadth and intellectual vision".
He served in junior ministerial roles in the Wilson and Callaghan governments in the 1970s and at one time was spoken of as a future Labour leader.
Mr Meacher, an Oxford University classics graduate who had been a lecturer before becoming an MP, stood as the left's candidate against Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership of the party in 1983, but was defeated.
He quit Tony Blair's government as a minister in June 2003 reshuffle, saying he planned to speak out on a range of issues from the back benches.
In 2007, he attempted to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership before standing aside to allow John McDonnell, now the shadow chancellor, to stand as the candidate from the party's left wing.
Green MP Caroline Lucas said Mr Meacher was a "great politician, championing climate action".
Mr Meacher had two sons and two daughters from his first marriage in 1962 to Molly, now cross-bench peer Baroness Meacher, who has been leading attempts to block the government's controversial tax credit cuts. He wed again in 1988 to Lucianne, a charity director, who survives him.
Michael Meacher's life and career
Mr Corbyn released a lengthy statement paying tribute to Mr Meacher, who he first met in the early 1970s.
The Labour leader said Mr Meacher had urged him to stand in the leadership contest and given him "huge support".
"He was a valued friend and commentator utterly committed to democracy in our party and movement, as well as in the wider community," he added.
Prime Minister David Cameron described Mr Meacher as a "dedicated Parliamentarian who worked tirelessly on behalf of his constituents".
Peter Dean, Mr Meacher's PA and office manager, told the Oldham Evening Chronicle: "We are extremely sad and it has been quite a short illness he has had and we just don't know the details at present.
"He was such a well respected person and we will just try to deal with any problems people in the area have ongoing. We will still try to assist in any way we can.
"We are extremely sad for his family but all of his staff here at his office have worked with him for 20 years so it is almost like a family bereavement for us. Our office usually deals with around 5,000 cases every year so he has impacted on an enormous amount of people's lives."
Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, said: "He was a tremendous figure in the Labour movement, devoting his life to the advancement of working people and for that he will always be remembered with deep fondness.
"As a personal friend I always welcomed his views and guidance as well as his optimism and commitment to improving ordinary people's lives. He was a true friend of the trade union movement."
Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband called him "principled, kind... committed to a fairer, more just world".
The death means a first by-election for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.


England's search for a global one-day title goes on after they collapsed to a five-run defeat by India in a pulsating Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston.

Chasing a modest 130 in a game reduced to 20 overs per side by rain, the hosts were set for a historic triumph with 20 needed off 16 balls and Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara at the crease.
However, Morgan's departure for 33 was the first of four wickets to fall for three runs in eight balls as England were struck by a bout of nerves.
They finished on 124-8 after James Tredwell missed the last ball of the innings with six required for victory.
1979 World Cup: Lost to West Indies by 92 runs
1987 World Cup: Lost to Australia by seven runs
1992 World Cup: Lost to Pakistan by 22 runs
2004 Champions Trophy: Lost to West Indies by two wickets
2010 World Twenty20: Beat Australia by seven wickets
2013 Champions Trophy: Lost to India by five runs
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 2-14 and slow left-armer Ravindra Jadeja 2-24 to complement his vital unbeaten 33 off 25 balls in India's 129-7.
England are left to reflect on a fifth defeat in a major final - and another agonising loss in the Champions Trophy showpiece after going down to West Indies in 2004 - following the sort of woeful batting display that many thought had been consigned to the past.
A jubilant India, meanwhile, can add the Champions Trophy to the World Cup they won in 2011.
They - and the thousands of India fans among a sell-out crowd - also owe a debt of thanks to the International Cricket Council, which extended the close of play by more than an hour to allow the match to finish at 20:30 BST.
The manner in which England floundered against spin - two batsmen were stumped, albeit one, in Ian Bell, despite replays suggesting otherwise - took the gloss off a fine performance with the ball.
Bopara's 3-20 was therefore in vain, while his dismissal for a punchy 30 - what looked like being the game's most pivotal innings - is likely to be remembered as part of an infamous collapse.
A fifth-wicket stand of 64 between Morgan and Bopara aside, England were rarely comfortable during a pursuit that was undermined when Alastair Cook edged Umesh Yadav to first slip in the second over.
"India have been the team of the tournament and nobody can begrudge them this victory. Thank goodness the close of play time was extended because we had a fantastic game of cricket. It was a remarkable over from Ishant Sharma and it was that which turned the match around."
Jonathan Trott, criticised for his strike-rate in this tournament, batted like he had a point to prove in making 20 off 17 balls, only to over-balance as he attempted to work Ashwin to the on side. Mahendra Dhoni completed a smart stumping off a leg-side wide.
Joe Root swept Ashwin to short fine-leg and Bell was stumped - some replays suggested his foot was grounded - when he dragged his foot out pushing at man of the match Jadeja, leaving England 46-4.
Bopara hit two huge leg-side sixes and Morgan one as they restored the balance of power, but the game changed in one remarkable over from the wayward Ishant Sharma.
He bowled two successive wides before Morgan, swiping across the line, found mid-wicket off a slower ball, and when Bopara pulled the next delivery to backward square-leg, England were reeling.
As if to illustrate the panic that had infested the dressing room, Jos Buttler was bowled first ball aiming an unsightly heave at Jadeja, then Tim Bresnan was run out after he went in search of an impossible single to point.
England's precipitous slide put the contributions of Virat Kohli, who made 43, and Jadeja into greater context, on a pitch that turned more as the evening progressed.
1983 World Cup: Beat West Indies by 43 runs
2002 Champions Trophy: Shared trophy with Sri Lanka
2007 World Twenty20: Beat Pakistan by five runs
2011 World Cup: Beat Sri Lanka by six wickets
2013 Champions Trophy: Beat England by five runs
They helped repair a scorecard that read 66-5 after the loss of Suresh Raina and Dhoni in the space of five balls, with Jadeja leading a late assault that brought 33 - ultimately crucial - runs off the last three overs.
England had to wait almost six hours to capitalise on overcast conditions thatwere little different from when they won the toss.
However, Stuart Broad struck in the fourth over when he nipped one back to beat Rohit Sharma's drive.
The scalp of Shikhar Dhawan, the tournament's leading run-scorer, was more highly prized, not least because he uppercut Broad for six and took successive fours off Tredwell before he drove a Bopara slower ball to short extra-cover to depart for 31.
Dinesh Karthik top-edged a sweep off Tredwell to short fine-leg, the first of three wickets to fall for two runs in 12 balls as Bopara had Raina taken at mid-on courtesy of a mistimed drive and Dhoni cut to third man.
Cue Kohli's counter-attack, which emboldened Jadeja and featured a mighty pulled six off Broad moments after he was dropped above his head by Trott at short third man.
Although Kohli lifted James Anderson to Bopara at long-off in the penultimate over and Ashwin was run out by Bell's direct hit, India's late wobble was nothing compared to England's.


A teenager accused of plotting mass murder at his former college wrote a note blaming it for his "miserable life", a court has heard.

Liam Lyburd, 19, also wrote that it was "beautiful" to think people were oblivious to the fact they were going to die that day at Newcastle College.
He has admitted possessing weapons, including pipe bombs, but denies intent to endanger life.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the note was recovered from his laptop.
Lyburd was arrested at home in November following a tip-off from a concerned member of the public.
A jury was told the embittered former Newcastle College student had built up a collection of weapons and explosives at his home near the city's St James's Park stadium.
The court heard analysis of his laptop found a file called "Newcastle College" which he attempted to delete.
But experts recovered the contents, including a note that said: "I'll see you in Newcastle College today. It's my first day back since 2012 the year in which my life became miserable after being kicked out for nothing.
"I'll get my power back today haha. I'm just looking forward to getting out of the house after spending three years in my bedroom alone."
He said he held the college "personally responsible for my miserable life, kicking me out for nothing and making me look a fool by not answering my message on Twitter and Facebook.
"You ruined my whole life, don't expect me to show any mercy today. No-one disrespects me and gets away with it. I will teach you a little lesson on respect with my 9mm hollow points ;).
"It's time for extreme civil disobedience. Fantasy will become reality for sure. Where the mind goes the body will follow and yes people will die there's no question about that.
"It's funny to think as I'm writing this the people that will die are walking around as if everything is normal, not knowing they're going to die today. It's a beautiful thought."
It was signed Felix Theodore Burns, a name he also used.
The laptop contained a clip from the film Tower Block, which showed a sniper shooting residents, police computer expert Paul Wells said.
The two-minute extract of blood-spattered victims falling as they were shot was played to the jury.
Mr Wells found Lyburd's Toshiba computer was used to access a Dark Web marketplace site called Evolution. The username Donald Trump was used, the court heard.
Payment for items, apparently Glock gun parts and ammunition, was made in the online currency Bitcoin.
The jury was also told Lyburd paid tribute on Facebook to Jaylen Fryberg, the American teenager who shot dead four classmates in Washington state before turning the gun on himself in October.
The entry read: "No-one listens to you when you say you are going to kill people, they only listen to you after you killed the people. No-one takes it seriously anymore.
"RIP Jaylen Fryberg."
The trial continues.


Thomas Cook chief executive Harriet Green has resigned, saying her work at the travel firm "is complete".

Shares in the travel company plunged more than 17% in reaction to the news. The company also warned of tougher market conditions in the coming year.
Ms Green will be replaced by chief operating officer Peter Fankhauser, who will take over with immediate effect.
Harriet Green joined the company two years ago when its share price was 14p. It closed on Tuesday night at 139.9p.
Ms Green said: "I always said that I would move on to another company with fresh challenges once my work was complete. That time is now."
As expected,  the company reported a 44% jump in earnings before interest and tax  to Â£323m ($507m) for the year ended September.
However, it warned that growth in the coming year would be slower due to a tougher trading environment.
Ms Green's decision to step down took the markets by surprise.
In a tweet, BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed described the news as a "huge shock".
Shares were trading around 110p on Wednesday morning. In March they reached a high of 190p.
Brenda Kelly, chief market strategist at IG Markets, said: "The resignation is bound to have a negative effect.
"But there are other problems out of Thomas Cook's control. Over the last few months the market has not looked so good - with the weaker UK currency and a struggling eurozone all having a negative effect."
The travel industry has gone back to one of their own.
Harriet Green - new to the travel business - took over Thomas Cook when it was on its knees, fixed it at a whirlwind pace and has left, I am sure, earlier than she thought she would.
Her replacement is a travel sector veteran who has been at Thomas Cook for 13 years, including when it suffered its near death experience in 2011. Before that he was at Kuoni.
Although Ms Green has always made it clear that being a long haul chief executive was not for her (she told the BBC last year "I generally think [chief executives] spend far too long in the same business") her abrupt departure points to some tensions in the business that could not be reconciled.
The chairman, Frank Meysman, said this morning that Thomas Cook now moves into a "fresh phase" where the strategy put in place by Ms Green is executed by her successor. "Everybody has their qualities," he said this morning.
That suggests that the board felt that the new chief executive, Peter Fankhauser, is better suited to running the business.
Investors are voting with their wallets over the departure of a chief executive who saw the share price rise by nearly ten times in two years. Since the announcement of her resignation at 7am, the shares have collapsed by more than 20%. Chief executives who transform businesses are clearly valued.
Thomas Cook underwent a thorough reorganisation under Ms Green that reflected new trends in the travel business.
"Her great achievement was to restructure the company, realising that having so many Thomas Cook outlets around the country was based in history not reality," said Ms Kelly.
"She recognised that people were going on line and looking for deals, that holiday booking tradition was different from Thomas Cook's heyday in the 70s and 80s.
"It meant huge closures here in the UK and in Ireland, but those difficult decisions meant getting to grips with what's happening today in the travel market," according to Ms Kelly.


A cancer survivor has criticised a new trend for cancer awareness photos on Facebook as "distasteful" and "fake".

Rebecca Wilkinson, who has undergone a double mastectomy, dismissed the craze for posting black and white "selfies" with the phrase "#challengeaccepted".
In response, the 36-year-old from Lancaster uploaded a topless photo of herself to show cancer's effect on her, The Huffington Post reported.
The mother-of-two was diagnosed with Stage 2b breast cancer in 2013.
Ms Wilkinson, who has had reconstructive breast surgery, also had to have her ovaries removed after tests revealed there was an 80% chance of her breast cancer returning.
She told the BBC: "This latest craze just makes me mad.
"Having cancer is scary, knowing you could die and be taken from your children.
"It is not the subject for some fake selfies as if it's some fun activity.
"People think just because they stick a black and white photo on Facebook they are supporting people with cancer.
"But I've spoken to a lot of people in the cancer community, and it's upset most people as well.
"They are not supporting people with cancer - they should really visit people in hospital with cancer or hold their hand while they're going through the trauma of chemo.
"It's just so fake and these people are just Facebook narcissists."
Her own internet post read:  "Everyone on Facebook is aware of cancer, so you cannot play the awareness card. Particularly as this time it's not even a *type* of cancer. You're not raising money. You're not showing support either."
Ms Wilkinson, who also has bipolar disorder, tested positive for the BRAC1 cancer gene after her own mother Sheila died aged 43 from breast cancer.
Hollywood film actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with the same gene.
There is a 50% chance that Ms Wilkinson's two children Connie, eight, and six-year-old Freddie might have the gene, but they will have to wait until they are 18 to be tested.
She added: "Having cancer is scary, knowing you could die and be taken from your children.
"It is not the subject for some fake selfies as if it's some fun activity."
The #challengeaccepted trend was very popular in India early in the summer and arrived in the UK last week.
Not all cancer sufferers share Rebecca's view of the trend.
Grandmother Jean Haines, 72, of Heald Green, Greater Manchester, who has had breast cancer twice, said: "I think any support for cancer sufferers is welcome.
"It can be such a frightening time... it's nice people are thinking of those suffering from this terrible disease."
Cancer charities approached by the BBC declined to comment.


Carrie Fisher is given an "amazing" send-off in her final Star Wars film, according to co-star John Boyega.

The London-born actor said he shares "many scenes" with the late actress in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and that the sci-fi franchise "keeps her alive".
Fisher, who played the part of Princess - later General - Leia, died last December aged 60.
Her final film performance will be seen when the latest Star Wars blockbuster is released at the end of the year.
Boyega, who played stormtrooper Finn in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, told US broadcaster ABC: "It sends her off in a very amazing way.
"She is still kept alive in this franchise and that's the beauty of it - she lives forever in a sense."
Boyega was with family in Nigeria when he found out about Fisher's death, which came four days after she was taken ill on a flight from London to Los Angeles.
"It was a strange, strange feeling," said the 25-year-old, currently promoting his role in race drama Detroit.
"I felt like everybody in the cast and obviously around the world [and] went silent for a bit."
His comments came as Fisher's actress daughter, Billie Lourd, spoke about the last time she saw her mother.
"The last time I saw her in person, this episode of Scream Queens was on, and it was a big episode for me," she told fellow actress Sarah Paulson in Town & Country magazine.
"I had tons of scenes, and I was so hard on myself about it - I hated how I looked, hated my performance. I was really frustrated.
"She told me, 'Come over right now. I want to watch this with you.' And she made me sit down and watch it, and she forced me to see the good parts.
"She was incredible like that. But she was really hard on me, saying, 'Shut up, you're great in this. Have faith in yourself. Be more confident."'
Lourd lost her grandmother Debbie Reynolds the day after her mother's death and admitted she had always "lived in their shadows".
"I love being my mother's daughter, and it's something I always will be, but now I get to be just Billie," she added.
Elsewhere in the Star Wars universe, it has been revealed that the next film in the series - Star Wars: Episode IX - is to be rewritten by British writer Jack Thorne.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is working on the ninth instalment, to be directed by Jurassic World's Colin Trevorrow.
Meanwhile, director Ron Howard has told the same publication the Han Solo stand-alone film is "coming along great".
"It's a fantastic script, a great cast and I am having a fantastic creative experience with it," he is quoted as saying.
Howard took over the film from Christopher Miller and Phil Lord after they left the project, citing "creative differences" with producers.
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A 16-year-old girl was grabbed from behind and raped as she walked through a park.

Police said extra officers are on patrol in the People's Park in Ashington, Northumberland, after the victim was targeted on Wednesday.
Her attacker was in his late 20s, around 5ft 6ins tall, with very short, dark hair. He was wearing a dark tracksuit and blue Nike Air trainers.
Anyone who was in the park around 18:00 BST is urged to call police.