Unionist politicians have submitted an official challenge over a Sinn FÃ©in proposal to change the name of Londonderry to Derry.

A motion supporting the name change was passed at a meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council in July.
All previous attempts to change the name have failed.
DUP councillor Drew Thompson said: "We've been through this before and we know a lot of people are interested in keeping the name as Londonderry."
He added: "We have been approached by an overwhelming number of people since our last council meeting. They want the city to remain named Londonderry.
"A decision was taken last month to seek more details from the DoE minister about how the name changing process would work.
"Challenges can be put forward to council if a minority is not happy and that's what we have done.
"There is a process that we can go through if this doesn't work out and that is a legal process.
"We wouldn't be exercising this particular challenge if we didn't think it would be successful.
"The DUP and other unionists didn't raise this in council but we will speak up if we are not happy about something."
The London prefix was added to Derry when the city was granted a Royal Charter by King James I in 1613.
In 1984, the name of the nationalist-controlled council was changed from Londonderry to Derry City Council, but the city itself continues to be officially known as Londonderry.
The issue was addressed in the High Court in 2007 when the judge ruled that only legislation or Royal prerogative could change the city's name.
A spokesperson for Derry City and Strabane District Council confirmed that the challenge had been received.
The Council will be now seek legal advice as required by law and this will be brought before the council after the summer break.
A spokesperson for the Department of Environment said: "The department has not been contacted by Derry City and Strabane District Council.
"Any correspondence received will be considered very carefully."


Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams says talk of a hung parliament and whether his party would eventually take seats at Westminster is "a distraction".

He was speaking in Belfast as his party launched an election billboard entitled: "A People's Pact".
The election advertisement which states that the party wants "equality not austerity" was unveiled at Belfast Castle.
Senior party figures and election candidates were present.
"Any parties which contemplate endorsing or supporting a cabinet of millionaires who are behind budget cuts, cuts to public services and cuts to social protections are ignoring the needs of the people in favour of narrow self interest," Mr Adams said.
The Louth TD said if local parties did a post-election deal to support larger parties at Westminster, they were  effectively "signing up to austerity".
Even in the event of a hung parliament, he said that his party would not reverse its long-held policy of abstentionism.
Questioned over whether his party might be tempted to take their seats if it came to down  to three or four seats, he said Sinn Féin would not reverse their position.
"All of this is a distraction," he said.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Adams said: "We are active abstentionists."
He stressed that there were no moves to discuss the party policy of boycotting the House of Commons chamber.
"The party is very settled on this issue," he said.
The party's billboard calls for voters to back candidates who embrace reconciliation, equality and progressive politics.
"We want to see a society based on equality, inclusion and safeguards for children with disabilities, adults with severe disabilities and the long-term sick," Mr Adams said.
"We are committed to defending the core public services of health, education and the welfare system."
He said that previous Conservative and Labour British governments had imposed cuts and he told the BBC that whoever won the general election  would be "committed to more austerity".
Asked if he would choose between a Conservative government or a Labour administration, he rejected both options saying that in "the last 100 years very little good has come out of Westminster".


A US dentist has killed a lion in Zimbabwe, Africa.

Walter Palmer from the state of Minnesota is believed to have paid about ??32,000 to hunt lions in the wild.
Cecil, the lion he shot, was a massive tourist attraction and famous in Africa for being relaxed around humans.
Mr Palmer said he thought the hunt was legal and didn't know the lion was protected.
Cecil's death has prompted a huge reaction from many on social media, with tens of thousands of people signing a petition asking for Cecil's killer to be punished for what he did.
Hunting lions is not illegal in Zimbabwe, and in many other countries in Africa, but hunters have to have special permits from the government allowing them to kill certain animals.
Some people in Zimbabwe also argue hunting can have a positive impact.
They say the money paid by tourists can be used for conservation and to create jobs for local people.
I don't think people should hunt animals for sport, it's wrong and what did Cecil do to Walter in the first place? Nothing! It's not fair, money can't buy what that lion gave to us, love. If Walter can't see that he should open his eyes and see what really is important in life - money or love?
Daisy, Monmouthshire, Wales
I believe that it is a cruel sport that shouldn't be done anywhere because the killing of animals will increase extinction. Even though the killing of animals is still done in certain countries I believe it is a cruel and unforgiving sport. From what has happened I believe that if anyone spends money to slay an animal they should still be arrested. In my opinion if anyone would want to pay to kill an animal I would consider them 'sick in the head'.
Ellie, Leeds, England
I think it's wrong to hunt animals for sport because the hunter doesn't benefit from it and it's strange that someone gets a buzz from taking an animal's life. I know people that hunt deer but they do it for food and appreciate the fact that they've had to kill an animal to get the meat.
Jake, Essex, England
It's not right to kill animals or hunt them for sport as they have a conscience and mind. They didn't do anything to harm you, so why should you harm them?
Jonnie, Buckinghamshire, England
Sport is about feeling good about yourself but killing the eco-system is not a sport especially when a vital animal is killed.
Honor, London, England
It is certainly not right to hunt animals for sport. How would the hunters feel if a lion chased after them with a weapon (or, of course, without - those teeth can be deadly anyway)? They'd be scared, stressed, and worried. These animals all have a family to go back to, just like us humans do. We can't keep thinking we're the only living things on Earth that matter.
Amy, United Kingdom


Guernsey FC could bring in loan players from Bristol City after agreeing a tie-up with the Championship club.

The deal, which also includes helping island-based coaches and young players, came about through City's Guernsey-based chairman Steve Lansdown.
Guernsey FC boss Tony Vance has had talks with City manager Lee Johnson about the possibility of bringing in players to his side.
"It will benefit Guernsey football, which I'm excited about," Vance said.
Guernsey FC are just four points off the relegation places in the Isthmian League Division One South and often face problems being able to get enough players together to form a competitive side for away games.
They have gone almost a year since their last away victory.
The club has never used loan players before, with the rules of the team being that players must be based in Guernsey in order to qualify to play for the club.
"It's a realistic thing to do, all the other clubs do it in our league," Vance told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"We're a Guernsey football club, there's no doubt about that, and I've emphasised that so much that I'm looking at the pathway of our players.
"It won't be any way detrimental to our pathway, it will enhance us.
"It's well documented that we struggle away from home with getting players, so they're only a phone call away.
"Somebody from Bristol City might be boosting our numbers, which will be much needed when I've looked at every resource possible in Guernsey."


A laser pointer was shone into the cockpit of a search and rescue looking for a missing man in the River Ness, police have said.

The green laser is thought to have been aimed from the Merkinch area at about 19:00 on Sunday.
The Coastguard helicopter was being used in the search for a man who is believed to have fallen into the river in Inverness earlier that day.
Police said using the laser in this manner was "extremely reckless".
A spokesman added: "Such use could have dangerous consequences for the person distracted - who in this particular instance, was the pilot of an aircraft - in addition to any crew on-board and also the general public."
Police have appealed to anyone with information about the incident to contact them.


A 1912 car owner's journey from Land's End to John O'Groats is being recreated by his three great grandchildren.

William Warn made the road trip in a 1907 Singer car.
His descendants Frank, Craig and Heidi Clapp, along with family and friends, are making the journey in the same kind of 25 horsepower car.
The team, all from England, have reached the Highlands. They had planned to travel in a modern car but were convinced by a friend to use a Singer.


The DUP have secured the highest number of seats in Northern Ireland's local council elections.

They gained 130 ahead of Sinn Féin on 105.  The Ulster Unionist Party claimed 88, the SDLP 66 and Alliance 32.
The remainder of the seats, 41, were made up by smaller parties and independents.
Counting ended in the early hours of Sunday morning for the 462 seats in the 11 new super councils which were contested by more than 900 candidates.
Counting for the European elections begins on Monday.
Following the council vote, both Sinn Féin and the DUP can lay claim to the largest party title.
Sinn Féin because it polled the biggest share; the DUP because it won the most seats.
By Martina PurdyBBC News NI Political Correspondent
The DUP has clearly lost a bit of ground to the TUV and Jim Allister will continue to be a thorn in the flesh.
The Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt is buoyant.
The SDLP leader has a comfort blanket in that the vote mostly held up, although Derry is a disaster.
The party has been outpolled in their citadel by Sinn Féin.
There's still the Euro-poll to come.
Sinn Féin can relax. It's expected to top the poll in Northern Ireland and make gains in the Republic.
On the unionist side, the DUP's Diane Dodds and the UUP's Jim Nicholson, based on the last Euro-poll, are best placed to win the other two seats.
But the question has to be: just how many votes did Jim Allister, TUV, win? Will he out-do the 66,000 he won the last time - or did he peak in 2009?
The DUP has dipped from a 27% share in 2011 to 23%.
The Ulster Unionists are up around 1% to 16.5%.
On the nationalist side, Sinn Féin has dropped by about 0.5%, remaining steady at around 24%.
The SDLP is down from 15% to around 13.5%.
Alliance has marginally dipped by less than 1% and is on around 6%.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said it was the start of a revival for his party.
"We are on a journey and it is an upward journey and it is a positive journey," he said.
However, the DUP's Gregory Campbell said the UUP vote had only increased by 0.9% and said the party's leader was in danger of becoming known as '.9% Nesbitt'.
He said the DUP vote "held up tremendously well, given that we were at a very high plateau".
Sinn Féin's Niall Ó Donnghaile rejected suggestions that his party had not received the "bounce" in votes in Northern Ireland some had predicted after leader Gerry Adams was arrested and then released over the murder of Jean McConville.
"We don't look at the party in those sort of confines, we look at the party nationally, we'll look to see how we do overall and the news coming from the rest of the country is that Sinn Féin certainly has bounced," he said.
Naomi Long of Alliance said the party was now the third biggest in Belfast City Council where "a wipe-out had been predicted".
"The fact we held our ground in what was the most testing 18 months for Alliance is actually remarkably good for the party," she said.
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said he had set out to renew and rebuild the party.
"We have mustered at the level that I had anticipated, 40% of our councillors are women - some of them 22 or 23 years of age - and 40% are new, the party is renewing," he said
In terms of seats, some smaller parties have made gains.
The Traditional Unionist Voice saw its vote rise from 2% last time to 4.5%.
Northern Ireland's newest political party, NI21, had one councillor elected despite the controversy that overshadowed the party in the days running up to the election.
Johnny McCarthy won a seat in Lisburn.
In the European election, the results will not be known until Monday when all 28 countries have voted.
Ten candidates are in the race for Northern Ireland's three seats in the European parliament.
BBC News Online NI provided its most comprehensive coverage ever with live and detailed news and results for each of the 11 new councils.


The family of terminally-ill Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery has revealed he only has weeks to live.

The six-year-old from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, suffers from neuroblastoma and is receiving palliative care at home.
An X-ray has now shown his tumours are spreading rapidly, and there is little room left in his lungs for oxygen.
A posting on the dedicated Facebook page read: "My heart is broken in two, it is too soon for this to happen."
Bradley, who was recently named Child of Courage at the Pride of North East Awards, became Sunderland's mascot and also led out the England team for its World Cup qualifier against Lithuania in March.
His family said that he had been receiving radiotherapy as he was in a lot of pain, but became unwell on Thursday, with very low oxygen saturation levels.
He was rushed to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) where it was found that his cancer had spread so far there was very little room left in his lungs.
A Facebook posting read: "Yes I knew this was coming but I thought it was going to be months not weeks.
"My baby has had to put up with so much over the past 4 years and now he has to suffer a painful death. How is that fair??? Why should any parent have to be put through this heart ache???"


Shares in Swiss agribusiness group Syngenta have risen 12% after its takeover by ChemChina was given the go-ahead by a US regulator.

The $43bn (£33bn) deal is set to be the biggest ever foreign takeover by a Chinese company.
The deal was cleared by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which checks deals for national security implications.
About a quarter of  Syngenta's sales are in North America.
China National Chemical Corporation offered $465 per share for Syngenta in February. Syngenta's shares subsequently fell to about 20% below that because of concerns that CFIUS would not clear the deal.
However, now competition authorities elsewhere are expected to give the deal the go-ahead.
In a joint statement, Syngenta and ChemChina said: "In addition to CFIUS clearance, the closing of the transaction is subject to anti-trust review by numerous regulators around the world and other customary closing conditions.
"Both companies are working closely with the regulatory agencies involved and discussions remain constructive. The proposed transaction is expected to close by the end of the year."
When the deal was announced earlier this year, Syngenta chairman Michel Demaré said that it would help the company's pesticides and seeds business to expand further in China.
"ChemChina has a very ambitious vision of the industry in the future," he said. "Obviously it is very interested in securing food supply for 1.5 billion people and as a result knows that only technology can get them there."
The Chinese company owns a variety of businesses, included the Italian tyre maker Pirelli, German machinery-maker KarussMaffei and Israel's biggest pesticides producer.
The deal would be the second-biggest takeover in the chemicals industry in the past year after the $130bn Dow Chemical-DuPont merger announced last December.


Julia Gillard has been sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister after a surprise leadership vote in the ruling Labor Party ousted Kevin Rudd.

Mr Rudd chose not to take part in the ballot knowing he would suffer an embarrassing defeat to his deputy.
Ms Gillard said she believed "a good government was losing its way" and vowed to revive Labor ahead of a general election expected in October.
The party has suffered a sharp drop in support in opinion polls this year.
A turn-around on a carbon trading scheme and a wrangle over a controversial mining tax led to a sharp slide in approval ratings for Mr Rudd's government.
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Ms Gillard, who was deputy prime minister before the surprise Wednesday night challenge to Mr Rudd, stood unopposed at a vote of the Labor Party's 112 members of parliament at a meeting on Thursday morning.
Treasurer Wayne Swan was elected the new deputy leader, also unopposed.
Ms Gillard was born in Barry in south Wales, moving to Australia with her family at the age of four.
Emerging victorious from the party vote at Parliament House in Canberra, Ms Gillard told reporters: "I came to the view that a good government was losing its way.
Australia's pioneering Welsh PM
"I believe too I have a responsibility to make sure at the next election that Labor is there at its strongest."
On the issue of a planned "super tax" on mining, which had dogged Mr Rudd, she said she wanted a consensus.
"We need to do more than consult, we need to negotiate... we need to end this uncertainty," she said.
"Today, I am throwing open the government's door to the mining industry and in return I ask the mining industry to open its mind."
On Mr Rudd, she said: "He was the leader who saw us through the global financial crisis.
By Nick BryantBBC News, Sydney
The tumble of events has been extraordinarily fast, for at the start of this year the polls suggested Kevin Rudd remained Australia's most popular PM in 30 years - since the days of Bob Hawke.
But the pivotal moment came when he decided to shelve the centrepiece of his environmental strategy, an emissions trading scheme. Many thought it was an act of political cowardice - gutless was the oft-heard word.
Since becoming leader of the Labor party in 2006, he had always been much more popular with the Australian people than with his colleagues in the Labor party.
But after picking a fight with the resources sector over his plans for a super tax on their super profits, the polls slumped again.
The party powerbrokers and factional leaders decided the government would fare better at the forthcoming federal election with Julia Gillard at its head.
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"He came within a breath of brokering an international agreement on climate change."
Mr Rudd, 52, repeatedly choked back tears as he and his family appeared before the media in Canberra.
"I have given it my absolute all and in that spirit I am proud of the achievements we have delivered to make this country fairer," he said.
Mr Rudd said he would devote himself to helping Labor get re-elected, adding that they were "a good team led by a good prime minister".
"I'm proud of the fact that we kept Australia out of the global financial crisis," he said.
"I'm proud of the fact that had we not done so, we would had had half a million Australians out there out of work."
Opposition Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott dismissed the change of leadership, saying Ms Gillard was committed to the "same dud policies" of her predecessor.
"They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product," he told reporters.
Mr Rudd had called a late-night news conference on Wednesday to announce the ballot after Ms Gillard said she would challenge him for the party leadership.
Mr Rudd, who led Labor to a landslide election victory against the Liberal government in 2007, blamed "a number of factional leaders" within the party for plotting against him.
Mr Rudd had initially insisted he would stand in the leadership ballot, but the BBC's Nick Bryant in Australia said that by Thursday morning Mr Rudd could not even muster enough support to contend the ballot.
Mr Rudd started this year as the most popular Australian prime minister in three decades and was widely expected to win the federal election expected in October with ease.
But his popularity plummeted following a number of policy setbacks, our correspondent adds.
He shelved the centrepiece of his environmental strategy, an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which led to accusations of political cowardice.
Mr Rudd then entered into an advertising war with the country's powerful mining sector over his plans for a super tax on their "super profits".


A tractor driver was almost three times the legal alcohol limit when he reversed into an 11-year-old boy, an inquest has heard.

A trailer and tractor backed into Harry Whitlam at Swithens Farm, Rothwell, West Yorkshire, on 9 August 2013. He died later the same day.
Leeds Coroners' Court heard Harry was struck at an area of the farm not usually open to the public.
Tractor driver Gary Green was arrested but never charged.
Mr Green had 90 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath at the time of the accident. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.
The court heard Mr Green was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and causing death by dangerous driving but was later released and never charged.
West Yorkshire Police said a criminal prosecution could not be brought because the incident occurred on private land.
Jurors were told Harry had gone into the area where he was run over just after 09:00 BST.
His mother, Pamela Whitlam, who worked at the farm's cafe, said she had not explained to him where he could or could not go because she was not familiar with the layout of the site.
In a statement to the court, she described how just before the accident she told her son: "Be careful."
Moments later she ran outside to find him lying on the floor after being hit by the vehicle.
Jurors heard Mr Green had drunk "three of four pints" at the pub the night before the accident and continued drinking at home until 01:45.
Following his arrest, he told police officers: "I don't know where he came from because no-one should be down the back of the tractor."
The inquest continues.
Update 31 July 2015: This story has been amended following updated information supplied by West Yorkshire Police about why a prosecution could not be brought.


A police officer was stabbed when a "spontaneous water fight" on the hottest day of the year so far turned violent, the Met has said.

Bottles and other items were thrown at officers in London's Hyde Park after the "increasingly large crowd became hostile to police" at about 20:40 BST.
Another officer was hit with a bottle, Scotland Yard said, while two members of the public suffered stab wounds.
All four injured people are being treated in hospital, police said.
The gathering had been attended by police since 15:00. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information has been urged to contact police or Crimestoppers.


Sharm el-Sheikh is a holiday resort in Egypt, which is popular with many people from the UK.

Thousands go there on holiday every year and large numbers of Brits are currently stranded there, unable to get home.
It's because the British government has stopped all UK flights going in and out of the area until they are sure everyone travelling is as safe as possible.
Here we explain why.
The UK government made the decision to stop all flights after a plane crash that happened last week.
A flight set off from Sharm el-Sheikh airport in the early hours of Saturday morning. It was headed to Russia but the plane crashed soon after taking off and everybody on board lost their lives.
Events like this are really rare so authorities are still investigating why the plane crashed but the British government suspect that a bomb onboard could have been the cause.
Officials in Russia and Egypt are currently trying to find out more about what happened to make sure it doesn't happen again.
They believe that more evidence is needed before anybody can say, for sure, what happened.
At the moment, there are around 20, 000 people from the UK who are on holiday in the area.
Anyone who was due to travel home has been sent back to their hotel to wait for more information.
The resort of Sharm el-Sheikh is considered to be safe, and the authorities say tourists there are not at any risk.
Events like this are extremely rare, and the government just wants to make sure that British tourists are as safe as possible.
They sent people to Egypt to help with security at the airport, and officials are continuing to investigate the reason for the crash.
It's hoped that flights will start again on Friday but, for the time being, the British government doesn't want anyone travelling to, or from, the area until they make sure everything is as safe as it can be.


Two prison staff were taken to hospital and more were injured after they were attacked by inmates.

One staff member is thought to have suffered a broken jaw while another suffered injuries to his head, back and ribs during the disorder at Swinfen Hall, Staffordshire.
Up to 25 inmates at the prison, near Lichfield, are thought to have armed themselves with chairs and table legs.
A prison service spokesman said the disorder was quickly resolved.
According to a prison service report staff were attacked on Thursday morning with five inmates then barricading themselves into a cell.
The prison services spokesman said police were investigating.
"A number of offenders at Swinfen Hall prison were involved in a disturbance on Thursday," the spokesman said.
"This was quickly resolved by staff, the offenders involved have since been moved to other establishments and the police are investigating.
"We do not tolerate violence against our hardworking and dedicated prison officers.
"Those responsible for violence face spending longer behind bars."
In August ,Swinfen Hall, a prison and young offenders institution which houses more than 600 inmates, was put on lockdown after inmates reportedly took over a wing and tried to flood it.
Peter Dawson, deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust, said the situation was worrying and it would be interesting to see what the investigation into it will find.
But he said Swinfen Hall was not a prison in crisis.
"It has had a good inspection report and has an outstanding governor," he said.
He said the prison housed mainly young inmates who were serving long sentences and the prison was much bigger than it used to be.
"The difficulty for the prison service is that it, like a lot of other public services, has had to make significant staffing reductions over the last three years," he said.


Newcastle Falcons' hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the European Challenge Cup suffered a blow as they lost 24-7 to Enisei-STM in Sochi.

Falcons ran out 55-7 winners in the corresponding game at Kingston Park.
But the Russian side led 14-7 at the break as tries from Denis Simplikevich and Davit Kacharava sandwiched Calum Green's score.
Kacharava's second try and a penalty from Yury Kushnarev wrapped up a deserved victory for Enisei.
It was Enisei's second victory of the pool stages, while Newcastle have now lost three of their five games.
Falcons must now beat Brive at home next Saturday and hope other results go in their favour to stand any chance of reaching the last eight.
Enisei: Gaisin; Baranovs (c), Kacharava, Babaev, Simplikevich; Kushnarev, Shcherban; Volkov, Gasanov, Zykov, Saulite, Krasylnyk, Orlov, Temnov, Rudoi.
Replacements: Selskii, Polivalov, Pronenko, Sidorov, Kuzmenko, Serkov, Simonov, Butenko.
Newcastle: Penny; Kibirige, Powell, Socino, Agulla; Catterick, Booth; Rogers, McGuigan, Ryan, Green, Witty, Mayhew (c), Temm, Chick.
Replacements: Hawkins, Harris, Foster, Botha, Thompson, Dawson, Redman, Marshall.


Fresh fighting has been reported in the southern Yemeni city of Aden between Houthi rebels and militiamen loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.

Several houses in the central Crater district were set on fire after being hit by rockets as the rebels advanced, residents told the Reuters news agency.
Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition, which backs the government, meanwhile bombed rebel targets to the north.
Iran is also reported to have sent navy vessels to the Gulf of Aden.
Navy commander Rear Adm Habibollah Sayyari was quoted as saying by state-run Press TV that a destroyer and another ship would be deployed off Yemen as part of an anti-piracy campaign "safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region".
Tehran has denied Saudi accusations that it is providing military and financial assistance to the Houthis, who adhere to a branch of Shia Islam known as Zaidism.
The campaign by Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, which seeks to "defend the legitimate government" of Mr Hadi, has so far failed to stop the Houthis' assault on Aden.
The president took refuge in the second city in February after fleeing the capital, Sanaa, where he had been held under house arrest by the rebels. When the Houthis reached the outskirts of Aden on 25 March, he left the country.
On Wednesday, dozens of rebel fighters and allied troops reportedly pushed into the district of Crater, near the city's port. Residents told Reuters that the rebels were backed by a tank and two armoured vehicles.
They also said that from loudspeakers on Sunni mosques a call had rung out for local people to "rise for jihad" against the attackers.
Reuters also reported three explosions in northern areas of Aden, which residents said were strikes on rebel weapons depots.
Little is going in or out of war-torn Sanaa these days, apart from Air India.
The airline has been running rescue missions for its own nationals and for foreigners from more than 26 countries. We flew with them from Djibouti to Yemen - a four-hour round trip.
Once on the ground, there were signs of the escalating conflict. We taxied past aircraft hangers targeted in the recent air strikes. From the runway we could see smoke rising in the distance beyond the airport.
A lone Houthi rebel was waiting on the tarmac. After asking a few questions he posed for a group photo with the Air India crew.
Within minutes passengers were rushing onto the plane. Young and old were crammed in, some sitting six to a row. The aircraft had a capacity of 182, but took off with about 240 on board.
Air India hoped to leave no-one behind but around 200 people remained in the terminal. One man on board told us he had to pay a $1,000 (Â£669) bribe to the Houthis to get his family through the airport.
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After days of street fighting, conditions for civilians in Aden have been described as catastrophic.
But a boat carrying 1.7 tonnes of medical aid for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has managed to dock in Aden for the first time since the air campaign began.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also said it had now received clearance from all warring parties in Yemen to deliver aid supplies.
A ship, carrying medical supplies and a surgical team, is expected to arrive in Aden later on Wednesday, and two planes will fly in further medical supplies as well as generators, tents and equipment for repairing damaged water systems.
An ICRC spokeswoman called the development "very good news" but said big challenges lay ahead, particularly in the distribution of aid to hospitals already damaged by the conflict.
The World Health Organisation has said that at least 560 people, including 76 children, were killed in Yemen between 19 March and 4 April. Another 1,700 people were wounded and 100,000 fled their homes.
Meanwhile, the US has said it is stepping up its support of the coalition.
"We have expedited weapons deliveries, we have increased our intelligence sharing, and we have established a joint co-ordination and planning cell in the Saudi operations centre," Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Riyadh after meeting Mr Hadi and Saudi officials.
Mr Blinken accused the rebels, and allied security forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, of wrecking Yemen's economy and institutions, and creating instability that jihadist militants would seek to exploit.
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Every day more than 30bn WhatsApp messages are now sent, according to new figures revealed by the company's CEO, Jan Koum.

There are also a record 700m monthly active users.
Koum says the organisation is "humbled and excited" by the amount of users it now has.
But the numbers are so huge that they are almost impossible to understand - so let's break them down into something a bit more straightforward.
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League of Gentlemen and Psychoville duo Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are looking relaxed ahead of the second series of their dark comedy Inside No 9.

Its first outing, which aired on BBC Two last year, garnered rave reviews from TV critics, with the Daily Mail giving it five stars and describing it as "like nothing else on TV".
The series resurrected TV's anthology format - think Play for Today or Tales of the Unexpected -  with six unrelated episodes, all with different characters and storylines but all set in a place linked to the number nine.
It boasted a stellar cast including turns, including Helen McCrory, Gemma Arterton, Julia Davis, Tamsin Grieg, Oona Chaplin, Timothy West and Anna Chancellor.
This time round, Shearsmith and Pemberton have managed to enlist the talents of Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman, Jack Whitehall, Paul Kaye, Jane Horrocks, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Mark Benton, to name but a few.
Shearsmith says the well-received first series was a "calling card... people knew what to expect a little bit; it's like doing a half-hour play, it's quite delicious for an actor".
"You can pull in these amazing actors, if this series was [one storyline] across six or seven weeks, we probably wouldn't have been able to get half the people," adds Pemberton.
This series includes episodes based in a French train sleeper carriage (number nine of course), a Victorian villa and a volunteer call centre.
An anthology is a very different format compared with their previous work on League of Gentleman - primarily sketch-based in the early days - and sitcom Psychoville.
Shearsmith and Pemberton star in the all the episodes of Inside No 9, although some roles are more minor.
"It felt very strange having done years of League where we play lots of different characters all week long... it's quite nice to settle into that part and enjoy playing that one person," says Shearsmith.
"They all feel a bit more real, the tone is hopefully subtler than stuff we've done before,"
The writing process for the pair was also a novelty.
"The biggest tyrannical thing is the blank piece of paper," says Pemberton.
Shearsmith says once they got going it was "a lot more work".
"Each time you're creating a new world but that's its own reward. You get to create six different worlds and that's enjoyable."
Doubtless due to their reputation, the duo were lucky enough to be allowed total creative freedom, not a privilege afforded to many in an industry often chasing ratings.
"We don't tell anyone what we're working on, we just get left alone," says Pemberton.
"That's the really successful thing about it, it's not driven by what the channel thinks they want or what the head of comedy thinks they want. It's driven by us two completely, which makes it unique."
But there is one area they don't have control over - scheduling.
And it's a source of frustration.
"We want people to watch them but because they're on at 10pm on BBC Two, they pass people by and that's the only frustrating thing," says Pemberton.
It's an obvious slot for cult comedy but Inside No 9 is probably their most accessible work yet.
"We're wise enough to think some people really love it; we're not trying to do a thing that's massively popular. It's a very niche thing although I think out of all the things we've done, these are broader," says Shearsmith.
With transmission looming closer, he admits to feeling apprehensive about the reaction.
"It's like presenting your baby to the world and them passing judgement on it. You feel protective of it, you want it to be liked," says Shearsmith.
"But that's what you learn - what the viewing figures are, what the reviews are, awards you win or don't win, it's all out of your control," says Pemberton.
"The one thing you can control is how good the programme is. We were lucky, we've been very lauded for what we've done, we've won some awards, we've not won other awards, it all evens out.
"It's a nonsense anyway, the really important thing you've got to focus on is to keep your quality of work up.
"We felt more pressure when Psychoville came out. It  was the follow‐up to the League of Gentleman, an impossible thing to follow," says Pemberton.
"But Psychoville was its own thing, it had a big fanbase and we were really pleased, so this time it felt like 'we've done that second album syndrome'.  Luckily, reaction to series one [of Inside No 9] was really brilliant, we were proud of it, we knew it was different."
But the bigger your body of work and the more success it brings, the more difficult it can be to pull something new out of the bag.  But the pair use this challenge to spur them on.
"We strive to surprise in the worlds we're creating, you can't become lazy. I don't think we could ever be accused of doing the same thing over and over again," says Shearsmith.
Each tale is notable for its succinctness, which can leave you wanting more.
"Sometimes you feel you could have done a whole series [from one episode], it feels like six pilots," says Pemberton.
"But it only works because it is only happening in that half-hour and you don't go any further with it, you wring out all your peaks and then it's done and you never return and that's why it's good," Shearsmith interjects.
And it's clear the pair delight in wrongfooting the audience, a device enjoyed by fans of the show.
"Any element you can put into a comedy - horror, drama, emotion - none of it is what you normally get out of comedy, so it's suddenly very heightened," says Shearsmith.
"What we want is for people to watch all of them and each week to think, where's this going to go this week? That's what we enjoy about it."
The second series of Inside Number 9 begins on BBC Two on Thursday 26 March at 2200 GMT.


Police have named the teenager who died in a crash in Conwy county on Thursday.

Jack Keene, 17, from Hertfordshire, was involved in a collision between a Renault Clio and a minibus on the A4086 near Capel Curig in which five other people were injured.
His family described him as a kind, loving and selfless person who "touched the lives of all he met".
They thanked the emergency services and the people at the roadside who tried to save Jack.
In statement, they said: "As a family we are beyond heartbroken to have tragically lost our treasured and much loved son, brother, uncle and friend to so many."
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses.
Officers want to speak to the occupants of a silver or grey coloured pick up vehicle that overtook a white mini bus between Plas y Brenin and Penygwryd before the incident at about 07:00 BST.
Police said it was not involved in the crash, but the driver may have seen the other vehicles before the incident.


Leon Britton says Swansea City must invest in their playing squad if his fellow midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson leaves the club.

Swansea have rejected £40m offers from Everton and Leicester for the Iceland international, whom they value at £50m.
"You do live in hope that he will stay," Britton told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I don't know if it's going to get done. If he does go, it's vitally important to replace him with the same kind of quality."
Sigurdsson scored nine goals last season as the Welsh club managed to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
The 27-year-old did not travel with Swansea for their tour of the United States and was also left out of Saturday's 2-0 pre-season win at Birmingham City because of the transfer speculation.
The Swans are being linked with Las Palmas midfielder Jonathan Viera, who would be a potential replacement should Sigurdsson depart.
"It's a difficult one, it has maybe dragged on longer than a lot of people have expected," Britton, 34, said.
"Gylfi wasn't in America, he didn't travel with the squad for Birmingham away. When things like that happen you do think that 'yes, the transfer will happen'.
"Things do change overnight, maybe Everton move on to another target they think is better value for money, maybe a new target becomes available.
"But it would be a massive blow, you can't deny the influence he had on the team.
"When you see Gylfi's stats last year you think he would be playing for one of the top-half clubs, he is a big influence at the top end of the pitch.
"Unfortunately at the kind of club we're at, when the biggest teams come calling it is hard to keep him."


Cyclist Dame Sarah Storey led the way as ParalympicsGB achieved their best medal haul since Seoul 1988 on the final full day of action in Rio.

Britain now have 147 medals - surpassing the 131 at Sydney 2000 - with six more golds won on day 10.
However, the death of Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad overshadowed the action on Saturday.
The 48-year-old suffered fatal injuries during a crash in the men's C4-5 road race.
The Iranian Paralympic Committee released a statement in which they paid tribute to an "exemplary Paralympic sportsman who, with love and energy, tried his best to promote the name of Iran".
The name of Bahman Golbarnezhad will be inscribed in the proud history of Iranian Paralympics
The statement added: "The name of Bahman Golbarnezhad will be inscribed in the proud history of Iranian Paralympics."
International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven said: "This is truly heartbreaking news and the thoughts and condolences of the whole Paralympic movement are with Bahman's family, friends and team-mates as well as the whole of the National Paralympic Committee of Iran."
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Storey, Britain's most decorated female Paralympian, won her third Rio gold with victory in the women's C4-5 road race. She was one of six Britons to win on day 10 as ParalympicsGB's gold medal tally moved up to 64.
Britain also matched the highest number of gold medal sports at a Paralympics - 11, which is equal with China at Beijing 2008.
Storey who finished the 75km in two hours, 15 minutes and 42 seconds, struck out alone to finish three and a half minutes before China's Jianping Ruan.
The 38-year-old from Manchester has now won 14 Paralympic golds from both cycling and swimming.
Her GB team-mate Crystal Lane, 31, took bronze.
Kadeena Cox, who became the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics in Rio, pulled out of the race before the start, citing a hamstring injury.
Storey now has two gold medals fewer than swimmer Mike Kenny, the most successful British Paralympian of all time, who won his 16 medals between 1976 and 1988.
"I keep pushing myself in the knowledge my rivals are going to catch me and thankfully it's not yet," Storey said.
Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby, who both won gold in the velodrome earlier this week, took bronze in the men's B road race (for the visually impaired).
There was a ParalympicsGB 1-2-3 in the W1 individual archery as Jess Stretton defeated Jo Frith in the final and Vicky Jenkins took bronze.
Sixteen-year-old Stretton beat 55-year-old Frith 137-124 in their final, and Jenkins defeated Kim Ok-geum of Korea 125-124 in the bronze medal match.
Teenager Stretton told BBC Radio 5 live: "I had to try to tell myself to keep calm because I did feel under pressure and sometimes I can freak out because of that.
"I had to trick myself into thinking it was just another shooting session which was quite difficult - but I managed it."
Jenkins almost did not have the chance to compete - the 39-year-old told BBC Radio 5 live she was in hospital on Monday, unable to move, and was only released on Friday night.
Frith had her starring moment later when both she and John Walker won the mixed team archery event with a 139-129 win over South Korea.
It was Walker's second gold of the Games after claiming the W1 individual title on Friday.
Britain excelled again at the Aquatics Stadium on the final day of competition.
Northern Ireland's Bethany Firth, 20, blew away the field to win the SM14 200m individual medley and secure her third gold medal of the Games. Team-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate took silver.
Mansfield's Ollie Hynd, 21, won his second gold by taking the SM8 200m medley title in a world record time of two minutes 20.01 seconds. And Hannah Russell also won her second title with victory in the women's S12 50m freestyle final.
Another double gold medallist, Stephanie Millward, took silver in the women's 200m individual medley with 18-year-old Tom Hamer powering to silver in the men's version.
Ellie Robinson, 15, won bronze in the S6 100m freestyle. Andrew Mullen, 19, added to his S5 50m backstroke silver and 200m freestyle bronze with third place in the 100m freestyle. Brazil's Daniel Dias won the race and his fourth gold of the Games.
But, from a British perspective, it was a swimmer two years younger than Robinson who stole the show. Scot Abby Kane, who turned 13 in August, produced a sensational performance to clinch silver in the women's S13 100m backstroke.
"I don't really know what to say," she told Channel 4. "I'm speechless because I'm so happy.
"It's been a great experience."
Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team won bronze by beating Turkey 82-76 in a thrilling finish.
Terry Bywater's long-range three-pointer with a minute left gave Britain a lead they did not relinquish.
Simon Munn, confirming his seventh Paralympics would be his last, said: "It was up and down throughout the game and I can't believe that finish.
"Terry Bywater, what a man. Tremendous heart from the GB boys, just unbelievable."
Bywater, at his fifth Paralympics, said: "To pick ourselves up after that Spain defeat [in the semi-final] shows what we're all about.
"I can't wait to see my family with that medal round my neck, I don't care what colour it is, it's a Paralympic medal."
Briton Maria Lyle, 16, won bronze in the women's T35 200m, to match her 100m run and add to her silver from the T35-38 4x100m relay.
Battling in lane six, she ran a superb bend to record a season's best 29.35 seconds, but saw the two competitors outside her vie for the gold, with China's Zhou Xia (28.22secs) pipping Isis Holt of Australia (28.79secs) in a new world record time.
In the sailing, Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell won bronze in the two-person keelboat and Helena Lucas repeated the feat in the one-person keelboat 2.4mR.


A 25-year-old dissident republican has been jailed in Dublin for five years.

Donal Ó Coisdealbha from Killester, north Dublin was arrested on explosive charges in the run-up to the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland in 2015.
Ó Coisdealbha admitted to the Dublin's Special Criminal Court that he was a dissident republican.
He was arrested during a Garda operation when explosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered.
It was six days before the visit of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall to the west of Ireland in May 2015.
O'Coisdealbha had been under audio and visual surveillance for five months and was seen meeting convicted republicans in a pub near Dublin airport and in the city centre. He was also seen acting suspiciously at the back of Glasnevin Cemetery in north Dublin.
Gardaí (Irish police) believe an attack had been planned to coincide with the royal visit.


Ocado has shown off a prototype driverless van designed to deliver goods at short distances.

The vehicle, a cross between a small milk float and a large tuk-tuk, spent two weeks completing autonomous loops of a two-mile (3km) semi-pedestrianised area of Greenwich, south-east London.
The electric CargoPod has a top speed of 25mph and can do 18 miles on a single battery charge.
It can carry only eight crates and is not big enough to deliver large orders.
"We have chosen it to work specifically in this type of environment, where bigger vehicles are not allowed," said Graeme Smith, chief executive of robotics company Oxbotica, which developed the vehicle.
"This is not about trying to solve all the delivery problems in the world.
"Over the next two or three years, you should expect to see a lot more vehicles on the road from car companies, from delivery companies, from shuttle companies.
"We're very much at the start of this innovation."
The CargoPod trial was part of a broader Â£8m research project into driverless technology, using the Greenwich area as a test location.
For the purposes of the test, the van's speed was capped at 5mph and two people were inside for safety reasons.
It was fitted with three Lidar (laser) sensors and a stereo camera as well as standard sensors used in modern vehicles.
In order to complete the delivery, when it came to a stop one of the numbered crate doors would light up to indicate where the goods were stored.
The door would then open when the recipient pressed a button.
During the demonstration, journalists were not allowed inside the pod while it was on the move.
"The low speed, the lack of traffic, the safety drivers are all part of the test process we need to go through to make sure that driverless tech is really safe to use in the public," said Simon Tong, principal research scientist at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL).
Online retailer Ocado has always sought to automate as many processes as possible within its business.
The company has previously demonstrated robots assembling delivery orders in its warehouses and is currently developing a humanoid maintenance engineer called Second Hands.
Chief technology officer Paul Clarke said driverless delivery was "a natural stage in the progression of our transport technologies".
"This technology is on its way. I think we need to adapt to it in the same way we've adapted to cars and other kinds of vehicles driving around us," he told the BBC.
However, he said, the company's 12,000 human employees were still important.
"We have two human touch points to our service - one is on the doorstep and the other is in our call centres, and they are both very precious to us," he said.
"We see this as being about choice. Some customers will want their full order brought to their kitchen table, others may want click and collect, others may be happy to come to the kerbside to interact with a driverless delivery truck."
Aidan Bocci, chief executive of Commercial Advantage, a consumer goods consultancy, said such services were "absolutely the future".
"More and more people are living in big cities and this satisfies a massive craving for convenience," he said.
"There will be demand, but the question is whether economically you can make it work."
While Amazon is developing a drone delivery service, Ocado had no immediate plans to follow suit, Mr Clarke said.
"Drone technology is very interesting  to us, and we use it quite a lot in our business for surveying and looking around our large premises," he said.
"But do I think 35kg [77lb] of groceries are going to be flying over your head any time soon? No, I don't."
While politicians say the UK is at the forefront of driverless car technology - in its election manifesto the Conservative Party said the country was "leading the world in preparing for autonomous vehicles" - they are not nearly as visible as they are in places such as California, where 27 car manufacturers are testing vehicles.
"Given the regulatory environment, it's a lot easier to test driverless vehicles in the UK," said Prof David Bailey, from Aston Business School.
"Small firms are doing a lot of research, Jaguar Land Rover is doing a lot of research. But the big expenditure is taking place elsewhere."


Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry has announced his retirement from snooker after a heavy 13-2 defeat by Stephen Maguire at the Crucible.

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The 43-year-old, who looked out of sorts against Maguire in a one-sided World Championship quarter-final, said he made the decision three months ago.
He said: "There's a few reasons - the schedule, the fact I'm not playing the snooker I want to play, and the fact I'm not enjoying practice.
"It was quite an easy decision."
He added: "I didn't tell many people [before the tournament], but this is me finished from tournament snooker."
Asked whether he would have changed his mind if he had won the tournament, Hendry replied: "No not at all. If I had won, it would have been a better way to go out.
"I was delighted to have made a maximum here [against Stuart Bingham in the first round] which is why I was more animated when I achieved it. I was delighted to do it on my last appearance.
"I've had so many memories here; my first time here, my first win, obviously my seventh world title. I could write a book about the memories that I had here.
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"It's a sad day that I won't play here [at the Crucible] again, I love playing here but it's a relief as much as anything.
"I want to do other things now. I've got a lot of commitments now in China, which I've signed up for and I can't do that and play snooker because I would never be at home."
Hendry, who was making his 27th consecutive appearance at the World Championship, looked back to his fluent best as he hit his third Crucible maximum - a record he shares with Ronnie O'Sullivan - in his first round victory over Bingham.
He went on to beat defending champion Higgins 13-4 which prompted him to declare that he could win a record eighth world title.
But Hendry made a flurry of mistakes against Maguire, which his opponent ruthlessly punished to win the last-eight tie with a session to spare.
Jimmy White, who was beaten by Stephen Hendry in four World Championship finals, tweeted: "He was and is an unbelievable snooker player & has nothing to prove. I hope he enjoys his retirement, he really deserves it.
"He's always put snooker first, been a model professional, a credit to the game and I'll see him in the legends tour this year for more battles.
"It is his brutal frankness about his love of winning, more than the winning itself, that takes the breath away."
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"I thank him sincerely for some of the best matches and memories of my own career. I'm not sure his records will ever be equalled."
Chairman of World Snooker Barry Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live: "There's no question he's the finest player ever to pick up a snooker cue. He always had the extra gear of focus. He got a maximum recently, showing there's life in the old dog still.
"This announcement has come as a little bit of a shock. He will be missed. I don't think he's made the right decision to bow out.
"But he was a phenomenal player and a really nice bloke. When you watch someone like Hendry in action, it's an art form."
Former world champion Terry Griffiths, who once coached Hendry, added: "I thought he should have retired a while ago but he had the belief that he could continue.
"He was blessed with a skill. His will and desire to win was frightening.
"Everybody says they want to win, but Stephen Hendry wanted to win even more."
Maguire added: "I'm shocked, I wasn't expecting that but Stephen has obvioulsy thought long and hard about it.
"I'm just pretty sad that he's retired. I think he's retired too early but Stephen knows best."
Hendry became the youngest-ever world champion, aged 21 in 1990, before adding six more in the next nine years.
He held the world number one ranking for eight consecutive years between 1990 and 1998 and then again briefly in 2006 and 2007.
Hendry, who lost to Willie Thorne on his World Championship debut in 1986, holds the record for the most world ranking titles (36) and the most competitive century breaks (775)
He also shares the record of most competitive maximum breaks with Ronnie O'Sullivan at 11.
After dominating the 1990s, Hendry's form started to tail off and he reached just one World Championship final in the next decade.
His last ranking tournament final was in the 2006 UK Championship where he lost to Peter Ebdon.
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Fulham struck twice in the second half to secure a comfortable passage into the second round of the EFL Cup with victory over Wycombe.

The Whites had the better chances of a goalless first half, while Marcus Bean fired narrowly wide for the League Two hosts after the break.
On-loan Chelsea midfielder Lucas Piazon finally gave Fulham the lead with a shot into the top corner from 25 yards.
Denis Odoi then headed in from a corner to see the Championship side through.
It was the second time in three seasons that Fulham have won at Adams Park at this stage of the competition.
Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Fulham 2.
Foul by Dan Rowe (Wycombe Wanderers).
Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Marcus Bean.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Sessegnon (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Denis Odoi (Fulham) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is too high.
Hand ball by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Marek Rodák.
Attempt saved. Nathan Tyson (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Nathan Tyson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Madl (Fulham).
Attempt blocked. Max Müller (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Madl (Fulham).
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Goal!  Wycombe Wanderers 0, Fulham 2. Denis Odoi (Fulham) header from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Piazon with a cross.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Sessegnon replaces Matt O'Riley.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Adam El-Abd.
Attempt saved. Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Dan Rowe (Wycombe Wanderers).
Lucas Piazon (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Müller (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Michael Madl (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Nick Freeman replaces Jack Williams.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Michael Harriman.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Adebayo Akinfenwa replaces Paul Hayes.
Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Marek Rodák.
Attempt saved. Nathan Tyson (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Wycombe Wanderers 0, Fulham 1. Lucas Piazon (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Hand ball by Paul Hayes (Wycombe Wanderers).
Max Müller (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham).
Attempt missed. Steven Sessegnon (Fulham) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers).
Ibrahima Cissé (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Paul Hayes (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.


The Facebook page of US newspaper USA Today has been swamped with fake users, its parent company has said.

Gannett Co has now asked the FBI to investigate, after it estimated that half of the newspaper's Facebook following was automated.
Facebook has removed millions of the fake accounts, but it has detected more suspicious activity since.
And the number of "likes" on the page has fallen from 15.2 million to 8.2 million due to the account deletions,
"We don't know why the scope of impact on USA Today's Facebook page appears greater than any other publisher," said Facebook spokeswoman Shabnam Shaik, in a report by USA Today on the issue.
The bots were observed commenting on stories, replying to each other and "liking" posts - as well as "liking" the USA Today page itself.
"From our point of view, we have done as much as we can in our control to solve the problem at hand," said Maribel Perez Wadsworth, an executive at Gannett Co.
"We look forward to Facebook resolving this issue on their platform so that we can move forward and positively engage our Facebook audience."
Proofpoint, a cyber-security firm used by Gannett Co, told the BBC it is continuing to investigate and track suspicious accounts on the page.
The BBC asked the FBI to confirm whether it had launched an investigation, but the bureau declined to comment.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.


The skeleton of a young Viking woman found in an intact timber coffin has gone on display for the first time.

The skeleton was unearthed during a large-scale excavation of the Swinegate area of York in 1990.
The York Archaeological Trust (YAT) said more than 100 burial sites were discovered, many dating from between the 9th and 11th Century.
The skeleton and coffin are being displayed at the city's Jorvik Viking Centre.
York was occupied by the Vikings from the late 9th Century until the middle of the 10th Century, when it was absorbed into the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England.
The Swinegate dig explored the churchyard of the former church of St Benet, which had stood on the site from the 8th to the early 14th Century.
Unusually, a number of timber coffins had survived.
Sarah Maltby, director of attractions for the trust, said: "As we found in the Coppergate dig of the late 1970s, York's waterlogged soil conditions preserved the timber of several coffins, including this one, so what our archaeologists unearthed represents a series of previously undisturbed burials with complete skeletons, some of which date back more than 1,000 years."
She said the condition of the wood gave the coffin a national significance, as so few similar examples exist.
The coffin was made for a young woman, estimated at being between 26 and 35 at her death, and dates from the late Viking period.
The YAT said recent analysis of the bones revealed the woman had inadequate nutrition or disease as a child and a degenerative joint disease in the spine and hips.
There was no indication of what caused her death.


Nineteen-year-old Olympian Duncan Scott prefers to focus on April's British Championships than dwell on his achievements in the pool in Rio.

The University of Stirling swimmer earned two silver medals in the relays in an impressive Olympic debut.
He told BBC Scotland: "British Swimming talk about it (the Olympics) being in the past and that's right.
"What's behind us is behind us. I need to set out and try and prove myself again for the next four-year cycle."
The British Championships in Sheffield act as qualifiers for the World Championships in Budapest in July, but should Scott make the British team he insists he does not feel under any pressure to follow up on his Rio accomplishments.
"Obviously it would be great to carry on that success but nothing is easy in sport," he said.
"If people want to try and put pressure on me, they can. I'm not really too bothered. Myself and my coach have got a game plan of what we want to do and what we want to achieve."
That plan starts in Sheffield from 18-23 April, an event which also serves as the trials for next year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.
"At the British Champs I've got quite a challenging programme," said Scott.
"I'm going to be swimming five individual events (100m and 200m butterfly, 100m and 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley).
"But it will then hopefully prepare me for the likes of mixed relays, on top of semi-finals, etc, later in my career, so it'll be challenging but I'm looking forward to it.
"It's really hard to qualify for the British team. They're one of the best teams in the world at swimming, but the idea is to hopefully make it to the Worlds in the 100m and 200m freestyle and I might then have other events too."
Scott's Stirling University team-mate Ross Murdoch is also gearing up for the British trials and will go to Sheffield in confident mood, given his recent form.
"I'm feeling good. I was pretty happy with my races at the weekend at the Edinburgh International competition," said the 23-year-old.
"It was a lifetime best for me in-season in the 200m breaststroke, so I'm really excited to get going."
Murdoch insists he has "definitely recovered" from his Rio disappointment, where he failed to qualify for the final of the 100m breaststroke.
"It's one of those things, you wake up every morning and you've got to realise how much you want it, to truly want it," he says of his desire for success.
"It's enough to say it, but actually wanting it? I can safely say that I wake up every morning wanting it these days."
Like Scott, Murdoch acknowledges the importance of next month's Sheffield event.
"It secures you two years' worth of teams to be on, so it's very important, as a British athlete in terms of making the World Championships, but also as a Scottish athlete making these Commonwealth Games.
"I definitely want to see myself making the Gold Coast as well as Budapest."


A convicted killer who escaped from Cornton Vale woman's prison in Stirling has been arrested.

Amy Stewart, 31, failed to return to the Stirling jail on Sunday.
She was jailed in 2004 for the murder of a 21-year-old man in Glasgow.
Police Scotland said she had been arrested in the Rutherglen area of Glasgow at about 16:30.


(Close): Wall Street's main markets edged lower, with rises in technology stocks offset by falls in healthcare shares.

US shares jumped on Wednesday after hints from the Federal Reserve that interest rates could rise in December.
But on Thursday, the Dow Jones eased 0.02% to 17,732.75 points, while the S&P 500 lost 0.11% to 2,081.24. The Nasdaq shed 0.03% to 5,073.64.
Intel led the Dow's risers, up 3.44% after announcing a dividend hike.
The S&P healthcare sector was the worst performer among the 10 major sector on the index with a 1.63% fall. Drugmaker Pfizer fell 3.06% after reports that its talks to buy Allergan and re-domicile in Ireland were in final stages. Allergan lost 2.82%.
Electronics retailer Best Buy dropped 2.11% after its third-quarter revenues fell below analysts' expectations.
Revenues fell 2.4% to $8.82bn, although profits rose 16.8% to $125m.


Oldham Athletic have decided against signing convicted rapist Ched Evans following threats to the club's "staff and their families".

A club director told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that a staff member was informed a named relative would be raped if the deal went ahead.
There has also been "enormous pressure from sponsors", the board member said.
Evans has released a statement apologising for "the effects of his actions" but maintains his innocence.
The Wales international was jailed in April 2012 for raping a woman.
He was released from prison in October after serving half of a five-year sentence and the owner of the League One club, Simon Corney, had said on Wednesday that a deal for the 26-year-old striker was "80% likely".
But after days of intense speculation Oldham have called off the move.
Greater Manchester's chief constable Sir Peter Fahy said his force would be launching an investigation into threats to the club's staff and their families.
"It is totally unacceptable," Sir Peter told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We will be contacting Oldham Athletic to make sure that it's investigated."
Jim McMahon, the leader of Oldham Council, urged "all sides of the debate to show restraint and calm".
"In recent days we've seen an horrendous 'trial by social media' with intimidation, abuse and harassment on a scale that has cast a terrible shadow," said McMahon.
"The whole episode has divided the town and public opinion and there are no winners in all this - not least the reputation of our club and town."
More than 60,000 people signed a petition calling on Oldham not to sign former Sheffield United player Evans, while a number of campaigners and politicians voiced opposition to the move.
Club sponsors were told on Wednesday to prepare for confirmation of the Evans deal after days of negotiations.
That prompted Verlin Rainwater Solutions to end its association with the club immediately, while a second backer, ZenOffice, revealed it would sever ties if Evans signed.
It is the second time a club has abandoned attempts to sign Evans.
His former club Sheffield United ended their interest following another public outcry, with more than 160,000 people signing an online petition against his return.
Evans continues to protest his innocence, and an investigation into his conviction by the Criminal Cases Review Commission is under way.
Earlier on Thursday, Harry Redknapp, manager of Premier League side QPR, had told reporters Evans should be given a second chance.
He added: "Once you've done your time you've done your time, and somewhere along the line you've got to come out and make a go of your life.
"So it's a very difficult situation at the moment with the lad who is a footballer and wants to play football.
"He can't just not be allowed to carry on with his life."


A fourth series of the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones will be filmed in Northern Ireland, it has been confirmed.

The show is produced by the American film company, HBO.
First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said they had received confirmation that HBO had commissioned Game of Thrones for a fourth season.
NI Screen, Invest NI and the European Regional Development Fund will fund it,
Mr Robinson said: "Securing the filming of series four is proof that Northern Ireland can host large-scale productions with positive spin-off into other sectors such as tourism, where we can showcase stunning locations such as the Causeway Coast and the Glens, Ballintoy and Murlough Bay, to name but a few.
"The success of Game of Thrones shows our commitment to leave no stone unturned when seeking to secure such international productions. We travelled to Los Angeles to press the case for the Northern Ireland film industry and to encourage HBO to return to film their fourth series.
"We have seen the economic impact of an estimated Â£65m across the three seasons and we want to grow our local film industry to attract more international projects of this scale."
Mr McGuinness said: "Meeting with HBO senior executives at the launch of Game of Thrones series three in Los Angeles last month shows we are prepared to go the extra mile to secure such an internationally renowned production for our local film industry. The credibility associated with a project of this scale has significant potential for our economy.
"A very important part of this large-scale inward investing production is the training and skills development for the local industry.
"We are focused on maximising the economic value of series four and building on the employment levels of the previous series where over 800 people were working on the production.
"NI Screen is working in partnership with the NI Tourist Board and Titanic Belfast to exploit the success of HBO's production through the Game of Thrones exhibition in June."
Major parts of the first three series of the medieval fantasy drama were made in Northern Ireland with the assistance of Â£9.25m in grants.
The third season of Game of Thrones premiered in the UK on Monday.
Production for seasons one, two and three of Game of Thrones was based in Belfast with filming in the Titanic Studios and at locations across Northern Ireland including the North Coast, Tollymore Forest Park, Castle Ward and the banks of the Quoile in Downpatrick.
Parts of the series were filmed on location in Malta, Croatia, Iceland, and Morocco.
The first series premiered on HBO in the United States on 17 April, 2011.  The series, based on George RR Martin's best-selling books, has won numerous awards and nominations.


The government's electronic monitoring agency GCHQ is releasing its first computer app.

Cryptoy was created by three industrial placement students and tells the story of four historical cyphers, including the German Enigma code, cracked at Bletchley Park during World War Two.
The free app for Android tablet devices also encrypts messages using the codes.
GCHQ says it is hoping it will help to encourage teenagers to be the next generation of cyber security experts.
Cryptoy also showcases the substitution and vigenere cyphers, and the shift, which dates back to Roman times.
A spokeswoman for Cheltenham-based GCHQ said the app is intended as a "fun teaching aid" to help 14-16 year olds studying at the Key Stage 4 level learn something about code making and code breaking.
She said it aims to encourage them to become interested in associated disciplines such as mathematics, as well as problem solving and the necessary programming skills to create such an app.
"All of this is extremely relevant to today's world where information security is increasingly important and where we need young people to study the subjects necessary," she added.
The app was initially produced by the industrial placement students for the Cheltenham Festival cultural event last year.
The GCHQ spokeswoman said the agency was keen where possible to be open about some aspects of its work.
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said the public should have no qualms about downloading the app.
Cryptoy will be available to download directly from Google Play or through the GCHQ website. It is understood that a version for Apple iPads will not be available until next year.


Interim England manager Gareth Southgate is the right man to take the job on a long-term basis, according to Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.

Wenger, whose club contract runs to the summer, has been linked with the job.
Southgate succeeded Sam Allardyce in September and oversaw England's 2-0 win against Malta as well the disappointing 0-0 draw with Slovenia on Tuesday.
Wenger said Southgate "has accumulated experiences and is a good observer of what's going on in the national team."
Of his own links to the role, the 66-year-old Frenchman added: "I focus on my job, that's what it is about."
Former England international Southgate, 46, has a World Cup qualifier against Scotland at Wembley on 11 November and a friendly against Spain four days later to persuade the Football Association to give him the job on a permanent basis.
Wenger continued: "We're in a job where you get questioned, especially if you have less experience, and the only answer he can give is by showing the decisions he makes are right.
"There's always a demand for big names but the most important thing is the person's competency. He has a good opportunity and I'm happy he has a chance to show he has the quality."
Speaking before his side's game against Swansea on Saturday, Wenger added that 21-year-old defender Hector Bellerin would be offered a new contract by the club.
The Arsenal right-back has been linked with a move, with both Barcelona and Manchester City said to be interested, but Wenger said he was "surprised" by the speculation surrounding the Spain international, who progressed through Barcelona's La Masia academy before joining Arsenal in 2011.
"He has nearly three years to go and we always try get the players to the level where we think they deserve to be. So we try to extend, certainly, his contract," said Wenger.
"For me, his long-term future is here."
Wenger added that midfielder Aaron Ramsey, 25, will miss "one or two" more games, having injured a hamstring during Arsenal's opening-day Premier League defeat by Liverpool on 14 August.
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Max Porter has won The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award for his novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

The prize is awarded annually to the best work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged between 18 and 35.
Porter beat off competition from Jessie Greengrass, Benjamin Wood and Andrew McMillan to win this year's award.
As the winner, Porter will receive £5,000, with each of the other nominees winning £500.
Grief is the Thing With Feathers tells the story of a widowed man who, together with his two young sons, must come to terms with the death of his wife.
The novel has already won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and at the BAMB Readers Awards, in the fiction category.
The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award was judged by BBC books editor James Naughtie, historian Stella Tillyard and The Sunday Times's literary editor Andrew Holgate.
Naughtie praised Porter's novel for its "diamond-sharp prose with an affecting poetic pulse, and surging emotions that are perfectly tempered and managed".
Tillyard said it "defied definition", adding that the book was "a novella, a prose poem, a comic elegy and a meditation on the progress of grief all at once".
Previous winners of the Young Writer of the Year Award include Zadie Smith and Simon Armitage.
The award has been running since 1991 but took a five-year break from 2010. Its return last year saw Sarah Howe crowned the winner for her poetry collection Loop of Jade.
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Police in the Republic of Ireland believe a man whose remains were found in a suitcase in the Grand Canal in County Kildare was killed elsewhere.

The discovery was made at about 15:30 local time on Saturday in Ardclough, a village south of Celbridge.
People walking along the Grand Canal spotted a suitcase in the water.  They then discovered there was a body in it.
Police believe the murder took place in the last five days.
RTÃ‰ reports that Sunday's post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death proved inconclusive and further tests are required.


Michael Jung sealed a £240,000 Rolex Grand Slam on La Biosthetique as he became the first German to win a Badminton Horse Trials title.

Jung, 33, had already won at Burghley and Kentucky and completed the treble with a flawless showjumping performance in Sunday's final event.
Fellow German Andreas Ostholt finished second on So Is Et, with Britain's Gemma Tattersall third on Arctic Soul.
Jung is the second winner of the Grand Slam, emulating Pippa Funnell in 2003.
"I think we need a bit of time to realise this very special moment. It's a very big situation," he said.
Zara Tindall achieved the Olympic qualification mark on her way to a 23rd-place finish aboard High Kingdom, the horse that took the Queen's granddaughter to team silver at London 2012.
Team GB places will not be announced until July but Tattersall has hit the qualifying standard, alongside Tindall, Kristina Cook (seventh on Star Witness), Izzy Taylor  (eighth on Allercombe Ellie) and Ben Way, who came 12th on Galley Light.
Jung led after each discipline - dressage, cross country and showjumping - and finished with 34.4 penalty points, a record low at Badminton Park.
Ostholt was on 43.4 and Tattersall had 44.6.
Tattersall - who had previously finished no higher than 16th at Badminton - made a firm case for Olympic selection.
She flawlessly cleared all 13 obstacles in the showjumping finale, as did Ostholt and Jung, ensuring the places stayed the same as at the end of Saturday's cross country.
Such was Jung's lead, he could afford to knock down two poles on his final run but sailed through unblemished to earn a standing ovation from a sell-out crowd.
Jung will now be a firm favourite to retain his Olympic individual eventing crown and possibly lead his nation to a team title in Rio.
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He spoke of La Biosthetique's trust and called the horse "the best in the world" on Saturday - perhaps unsurprising considering the pair became the first horse-rider combination to hold Olympic, world and European titles in 2012.
Ominously for Great Britain - who finished second in team eventing at London 2012 - Jung looks to be in relentless mood as he broke a Badminton points record set in 2006.
He also became the first rider to lead from dressage through to conclusion since 2007 but it is the fact he is just the second rider to win a Grand Slam which will make Badminton 2016 live long in the memory of eventing fans.
In all, 46 of the 77 horse-rider combinations which started the week made it to the conclusion.
A strong New Zealand contingent saw Sir Mark Todd place fourth, raising hope he could compete at a seventh Olympic Games at the age of 60.
Todd won individual gold in 1984 and 1988 with a team bronze in Seoul and further bronzes in 2000 (individual) and 2012 (team).


A remarkable spell by Stuart Broad inspired England as they beat South Africa by seven wickets in the third Test to secure a series victory.

In one of his trademark hot streaks, Broad took 5-1 in 31 balls as the hosts were bowled out for 83 in Johannesburg.
Broad ended with 6-17, while Ben Stokes claimed 2-24 and James Taylor held two stunning catches at short leg.
England, earlier bowled out for 323, were taken to their target of 74 by Alastair Cook's 43 for a three-day win.
Cook's men go 2-0 up, with only the fourth Test still to play, for a first overseas series victory since 2012.
Regardless of the result of the final match in Centurion, South Africa - now without a win in nine Tests - will be replaced by India at the top of the Test rankings.
Broad had taken five wickets in a single spell on six previous occasions, the most famous of which were Ashes-winning hauls at The Oval in 2009, Chester-le-Street in 2013 and Trent Bridge in 2015.
This was just as devastating, not least because the match was finely poised, with England holding only a 10-run first-innings lead.
On a pitch offering bounce and seam movement, and under a grey sky, Broad's hostility and accuracy was too much for a South Africa batting line-up that did little wrong, but had no answers.
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Immediately after lunch, Broad bowled six overs to claim the first five wickets to fall - the one run he did concede was a dropped catch. This is how the collapse unfolded:
Ex-England batsman Geoffrey Boycott: "Broad bowled with wonderful pace, rhythm, accuracy; he cut the ball, made it bounce - and he fully deserved it. One or two of those balls might have got anybody out."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "Broad just keeps producing these spells. He's just got that X factor, when he gets in rhythm on any surface, that knack of taking wickets.
"When he's hot, he's roasting. And when he has those moments he just flies through teams."
Broad was not alone in his brilliance - he was supported by the rest of the England pace quartet and Taylor under the helmet at short leg.
His first catch, to remove Amla, was impressive in that he managed to stay low to hold the ball inches off the turf after it had been turned off the middle of the bat.
The second, to dismiss Dane Vilas from Steven Finn's second delivery, was breathtaking. As Vilas clipped the ball off his hip, Taylor dived full-stretch to his right and clung on in one hand.
After that, Stokes found prodigious swing to york Chris Morris and have Kagiso Rabada caught behind, James Anderson pinned Hardus Viljoen leg before and Broad completed his haul by athletically taking a catch off his own bowling when Faf du Plessis swiped the ball into his thigh pad.
England's emphatic victory seemed unlikely after South Africa had the better of the morning session. From 238-5 overnight, the tourists lost their last five wickets for 81 runs.
Joe Root added only four to his 106 before playing a loose drive at Rabada, who would go on to claim his first five-wicket haul.
Bairstow's 45 nudged England into the lead, but when he skied to mid-on to become the last man to fall it looked as though Cook's side had wasted the opportunity for a match-winning lead.
Then came Broad's devastating spell and, after that, England's chase was a formality.


A woman arrested after a 16-year-old girl was found stabbed to death on a path near Rotherham has been bailed.

The body of Leonne Weeks was discovered just off Lordens Hill, in Dinnington, on Monday at 11:00 GMT.
South Yorkshire Police said a post-mortem examination revealed she had died from multiple stab wounds.
A 26-year-old woman held on suspicion of assisting an offender was released on Wednesday night pending further inquiries.
An 18-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.
On Thursday afternoon South Yorkshire Police said they had been granted an extra 24 hours to quiz the man.


"I've been ridiculed, called deluded, told to get a life and all sorts of things," says 65-year-old semi-retired wildlife enthusiast Frank Tunbridge.

He is passionate about a species of which its mere existence is hotly debated: Wild big cats in the UK.
"I know they are out there," said Mr Tunbridge, who has spent nearly 25 years investigating Gloucestershire's reported big cats.
He said that on average he received two sightings a week from across the county.
His passion is equalled by that of Rick Minter, 50, who has written a book about big cats in the wilds of Britain.
"The main candidates for the larger types of feral big cats being reported in Britain are puma-type cats and panthers," he said.
"A puma is a sandy-grey coloured cat, also known as cougar and mountain lion. A black panther is biologically a leopard or a jaguar in its black form."
Mr Minter admitted some people just found the idea of big cats roaming wild in the English countryside too incredible to believe.
"You do feel largely like you are beavering away in your own little world," he said.
"Then, suddenly January 2012 comes along and half the nation's media are tracking your every step.
"You're suddenly engulfed with emails and reporters and programmes wanting to know about the latest deer carcass or your view on 'X' in relation to big cats."
The incident he refers to came about when the National Trust announced that it had called for DNA tests to be carried out on a deer carcass found on its land near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
A trust spokesman had initially said the deer's injuries - and way the carcass had been eaten by its killer - were thought to be "highly indicative of big cat activity".
But three weeks later the results are back and they are negative to the idea of a big cat predator. Fox and deer DNA are the only traces found on the swabs taken.
But Mr Tunbridge said he still believed the big cats were out there - and said he had his own close encounter to prove it.
"It was dead quiet," he said, remembering a night he spent tracking wildlife near Minchampton, Stroud, last September.
"You could hear a pin drop, and this big cat growled behind me - just warning me.
"Through my night vision equipment I just saw it swoop down, sweep up a rabbit and disappear into a small wood.
"They are so elusive, so stealthy - especially leopards and pumas - they see you before you see them."
Mr Minter, meanwhile, said he had seen three big cats in the wild - a black panther in Cumbria, a puma-like cat in a Cotswold woodland and a smaller cat, "like a jungle cat", near the River Severn in Gloucester.
Between June 2007 and April 2011, Gloucestershire Police took 38 calls about big cat sightings.
According to the force's records, most of the animals were described as large black cats although there was one reported sighting of a lion.
So, why would big cats be found in the far-from-tropical conditions of the Cotswolds?
Both of the big cat hunters said they believed the most likely explanation is that such animals have been released from domestic situations and small private collections.
Following the introduction of the 1976 Dangerous Wild Animals Act, more costly and rigorous conditions were applied for keeping such animals.
Natural England, the government's advisory body on the natural environment, has stated it is confident there is no breeding big cat population in this country.
A spokesman said reports were occasionally received, but no sightings had ever been confirmed and the evidence it had looked at had either been unsubstantiated or attributed to other causes.
But this is not the line taken by those who are convinced they have seen, heard or tracked a big cat in the wild.
As for DNA testing of animal carcasses, previous cases have shown up different results, Mr Minter said.
He claimed that in 2003, tests on a black animal hair found after a sighting in Lincolnshire gave positive results for a leopard.
Two years later, DNA results consistent with a puma were found on a hair recovered after sightings in Neath, South Wales.
And in 2009 the
          Forestry Commission confirmed
 that rangers had twice spotted big cats while conducting deer surveys in the Forest of Dean.
"Recent community surveys have indicated a strong desire for big cat evidence to be researched as robustly as possible, and for all aspects of this subject to be considered in a responsible way," added Mr Minter.
"We are coming to a time when we must learn about them."


Supply teachers are being exploited by the agencies that hire them, according to Wales' largest teachers' union.

A BBC Wales investigation has found that supply teachers are paid substantially less when hired through an agency rather than by a school.
NASUWT Cymru called for regulation and for an investigation into agencies' employment practices.
A recruitment body denied exploitation, saying agencies provided skilled teachers, quickly.
The Welsh government said it was up to head teachers as well as the governing body to manage absences.
Speaking to BBC Wales, a supply teacher who did not want to be identified said he and his colleagues were treated unfairly.
"A teacher who has been working for nine or 10 years would get £27,000 or £28,000 a year," he said.
"The most they would be paid through an agency would be £17,500, and that is if you are in continuous employment.
"If you are hired directly by a school you might get £150 or £160 a day, but the maximum you would be paid by an agency is £100 and you could be paid as little as £60.
"There is no regulatory body so there is nothing to say what rate of pay supply teachers get.
"We are the fodder at the bottom of the pile. We only get paid what agencies want to pay us."
Suzanne Nantcurvis, north Wales executive member of the teaching union NASUWT Cymru, said the treatment of supply teachers by agencies was dire, and she believes it could impact on educational achievement.
"I am really shocked by the amount of exploitation and the very poor employment practices of the agencies. One thing necessary is that they are regulated," she said.
"Given that the Welsh government has a standards agenda, it needs to regulate the agencies to make sure qualified teachers are being paid what they should and that classes are being taught by qualified supply teachers when staff teachers are absent."
There are around 5,000 supply teachers in Wales and around 40 agencies that recruit them.
David Pedwell, head teacher of Oakfield Primary School in St Mellons, Cardiff, said schools relied on agencies to book supply teachers.
"Ten years ago we would use a local authority list," he said.
"The emergence of agencies has changed things and they are convenient for schools.
"You need an immediate response when a teacher is sick - the agency is very quick to respond and can provide us with someone within an hour."
If a supply teacher is employed for 12 weeks they are entitled - under Agency Worker Regulations - to the pay of a permanent member of staff doing the same job.
However, agencies are asking supply teachers to sign a contract - known as a Swedish Derogation - to waive this right in exchange for continuous employment or a minimum payment if work is not available.
There are claims that workers have to sign the contract or they will not be offered work.
The supply teacher who spoke to BBC Wales added: "You are pushed into a corner. If you do not sign that contract, you would be out of work a day after the 12 weeks."
Tom Hadley, policy director for the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, the professional body for the UK recruitment industry, denied supply teachers were being exploited.
"The main benefit is that you can get a highly skilled teacher in place in a matter of hours who has all the right checks with all the right skills, so the school is paying for a crucial service," Mr Hadley said.
He said the Swedish Derogation had advantages for supply teachers.
"Even if you're not out on assignment you get paid. It is a trade-off but it is not exploitation. It is legitimate and was included in the regulations after substantial consultation."
The Welsh government said it was the duty of head teachers as well as the governing body to manage absences and that teachers' pay was the responsibility of the UK government.
It added that the school inspection body Estyn was working with the Wales Audit Office on a review which should be completed by the summer.


A diabetic schizophrenic who was the subject of a hospital trust bid to force the amputation of his "putrefying" foot has outlived medical expectations, a lawyer has revealed.

The Wye Valley NHS Trust asked the Court of Protection - which deals with people who lack the capacity to make their own decisions - to force the man to have his foot removed in September.
It said he could have died in days.
But lawyers said the man, in his 70s, is still alive six months later.
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Mr Justice Peter Jackson, who heard the case in London last year, ruled the request for an "enforced amputation" below the knee would have been against the best interests of the patient, who cannot be named, after visiting and talking to him.
A lawyer from the Official Solicitor's office, which provides legal support to vulnerable people, backed the trust's plans to stop the infection spreading from the foot around the body.
Mr Justice Jackson has now agreed the man's survival can be reported.