Clamping down on the problem of Nigerians being trafficked to the UK is a main priority, the first independent anti-slavery commissioner says.

Kevin Hyland told the BBC it was "deeply concerning" that hundreds of Nigerians were brought in every year for prostitution or forced labour.
Mr Hyland said the problem of such exploitation was "enormous".
The Home Office said it was "committed to tackling modern slavery" and was addressing specific issues in Nigeria.
The commissioner, who has only been in post for six months, says he can't think of anything more worrying than women and children being raped and forced into domestic servitude.
Latest figures from the National Crime Agency show that more than 2,000 potential trafficking victims were referred to the authorities in 2014 - 244 of whom were from Nigeria, a 31 per cent increase from the previous year. The highest number of potential victims were identified as being from Albania.
Campaigners believe the real figure of potential trafficking victims from Nigeria could be much higher, however.
Mr Hyland, the former head of the Metropolitan Police's human trafficking unit, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I am extremely concerned about this. And we're talking about several hundred every year.
"This isn't just a one-off - it's continuous - so the treatment of these people, what they go through, is actually a very serious crime, so for me it's a big problem.
"But also I think the fact that there is a demand for this kind of exploitation in the United Kingdom really concerns me, that there are people who will want to buy sex, will want to exploit, will want to have children as what are current-day slaves, so that is a really serious problem."
Research published by the Home Office in December estimates that there are between 10,000 and 13,000 potential victims of slavery in the UK.  Home Secretary Theresa May, speaking last year, described the scale of abuse as "shocking".
Melissa (not her real name), who is in her 20s, was trafficked to the UK to work for a Nigerian woman in London as a domestic slave.
From the age of 10, she was made to clean the kitchen, sell food on a market, feed and bathe other children, and go to school and do her homework.  She was beaten regularly, and locked in her room if she answered back.
She said: "I know that this sounds unbelievable and the reason it sounds unbelievable is because, you know, who does that to someone?
"I don't understand the hatred because that's how I feel - hated. I felt I didn't do anything to deserve that and at some point I actually thought I was the one that was the problem, that there's something about me that's making her do that to me."
Trafficking for the purpose of domestic service and other forms of exploitative labour is a widespread phenomenon in Nigeria.
Children and women are recruited to serve middle-class families in Nigeria or abroad. Domestic servants are sometimes poorer relatives, whose families think they will get a better life in a wealthier household. And this can happen, alongside the cases of abuse. Others servants are procured from rural areas, where there are few economic opportunities.
Women are also trafficked for prostitution, with a promise of a well-paid job but they end up realising too late that they have been lured into a debt bond by criminal gangs. This is a particular problem in the southern Edo state, where there is a long tradition of trafficking women to work as prostitutes in Italy.
Debbie Ariyo, executive director of the charity Africans Unite Against Child Abuse, is adamant that the real number of those trafficked to the UK from Nigeria is much higher because many victims are reluctant to speak out.
She deals with hundreds of victims and believes the reasons for these people coming to the UK in the first place are the same.
She said: "There is a notion among the families in Nigeria that once their family has come over here, they will have a better life, they will get better education, they will have better food and material things.
"A lot of people don't see the abuse and exploitation and many of the young people who've tried to tell their parents back home, it's difficult for the parents to accept that something like this could be happening in Britain."
The anti-slavery commissioner is calling for further prosecutions and for more victims to be identified, saying that a "handful of convictions is not enough".
Mr Hyland said: "It's about working with the law enforcement agencies in Nigeria - working with all those in the communities and telling them this could happen - and that's never been brought together before so it's unique.
"This is a new idea - Europol, Interpol, National Crime Agency, all must work together. It's up to me to oversee this.
"This is not about lack of resources but about using them effectively."
Tatiana Jardan, director of the Human Trafficking Foundation charity, believes that combating this problem is easier said than done because it's a complex issue.
She said: "We believe the role of the commissioner is crucial but solving this is not going to be easy.
"This is a difficult type of trafficking because Nigerians believe in witchcraft so they're worried about speaking out in case some harm comes to them. The police and other authorities desperately need more education so that they understand these complexities."
A Home Office spokesman said: "This government is committed to tackling modern slavery, including human trafficking, which is why the Modern Slavery Act 2015 was passed earlier this year.
"This legislation, the first of its kind in Europe, gives law enforcement the tools they need to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice and enhances protection for victims.
"The Modern Slavery Strategy, which was published in November last year, sets out an ambitious plan, including work with international partners, to increase collaboration and target human traffickers.
"We are already addressing the specific issue of human trafficking in Nigeria. This includes working closely with the National Crime Agency and the Nigerian National Agency for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons to identify and disrupt Nigerian networks involved in the movement of potential victims."
With the commissioner only having been in post for six months, campaigners say it would be unfair to make an assessment now.
Some argue the creation of his role in the first place is a sign the issue is being taken seriously.


Rail ticket machines cause so much confusion that one-fifth of passengers who use them buy the wrong ticket, according to the rail regulator.

While 7% of people underpay and could be fined, 13% are paying too much.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) wants train companies to refund passengers who accidentally buy tickets that are too expensive for their journey.
Train operators said that vending machines were designed for simple ticket requirements.
They say plans to simplify fares will help them to give clearer information on ticket machines.
The ORR employed mystery shoppers to buy rail tickets from machines.
"Despite investment in new technology and the removal of jargon from ticket machines, our new research shows passengers may be paying more for their journey than necessary," said John Larkinson, ORR director of railway markets and economics.
"We are calling on train companies to commit to refund anyone who finds that they could have bought a cheaper ticket for the same journey," he added.
Rail operators C2C and Scotrail already have a price guarantee in place for when passengers overpay.
Earlier this month, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, announced a trial scheme to simplify fares.
It said the 16 million fares on offer were "baffling" for passengers.
As part of the trial, which begins in May, ticket machines on stations will also be updated, to make sure they show the cheapest fares available.
"To quickly benefit passengers, the Rail Delivery Group must set out what improvements to ticket machines will be made in the short term," said Mr Larkinson.
Paul Plummer, chief executive of the RDG, told the BBC that operators were aware that there was a problem with machines, and that they had formulated a 10-point plan to improve them.
Yet he pointed out the machines were designed as "queue-busters" for passengers with relatively simple requirements, but "expectations [of passengers] had evolved".
He said that the system of fares was far too complicated.
The RDG also added: "Complex, decades-old government rail fare regulations make it more difficult for train companies to offer the right, simple options on ticket machines.
"Simplifying the number and types of fares in the system will let train companies provide customers with clear information and help them to make better informed choices," they added.
by Ben Morris, business reporter
In the British Rail era, rail fares were a relatively simple affair, with ticket prices worked out on a cost-per mile basis.
But in the 1990s, in an effort to make the network more efficient, the operation of rail services was handed to private train operating companies (Tocs).
The Tocs were given some freedom to set ticket prices, with advanced ticket bookings particularly important to them, as it helps them to keep their trains full.
To protect passengers, other fares were regulated, including season tickets and off-peak fares.
The result is a patchwork of fares, that becomes even more complicated when a passenger wants to cross several train regions.
Savvy travellers have been taking advantage of this by splitting their journey into several tickets, rather than one through-ticket.


Prosecutors in South Africa have filed papers calling for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder, days before he is due to be released on probation.

Pistorius has spent 10 months in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his conviction for manslaughter last year.
The Olympic athlete insists he mistook Ms Steenkamp for an intruder.
State prosecutors want his conviction to be reviewed and converted to murder, with a minimum sentence of 15 years.
Pistorius was jailed for five years in 2014 for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, a charge equivalent to manslaughter.
Under South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under "correctional supervision", having served a sixth of his sentence.
After being freed, he would serve the rest of his term under house arrest.
During sentencing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the state had failed to prove Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired.
His defence team now has a month to file its response.
Ms Steenkamp's parents have said that the time he has served is "not enough for taking a life".
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The double amputee shot and killed Ms Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home, believing she was an intruder, he told his trial.
In March a Johannesburg court blocked his legal team's attempts to stop the prosecutors' appeal.
Pistorius was born without the fibulas in both of his legs, and had surgery to amputate both below the knee while still a baby.
He went on to become one of South Africa's best-known sports stars, and was the first amputee to compete against able-bodied athletes, at the 2012 London Olympics.


A walker with a broken leg and dislocated ankle has been winched off Snowdon during a Christmas Day rescue.

Fifteen members of the Llanberis mountain rescue team were called out to at 07:00 GMT on Friday.
The man, 51, from Cerrigydrudion, Conwy county, had fallen whilst walking on the Pyg trail.
He was winched aboard a coastguard helicopter and flown to hospital in Bangor.


The knighthood awarded to former BHS boss Sir Philip Green is being kept "under review", the Cabinet Office has said.

It comes after the collapse of BHS this year and criticism of his decision to take money out the firm before selling it for £1 to a former bankrupt.
A Cabinet Office official confirmed his case was under consideration in a letter to Labour MP Jim McMahon.
A spokesman for Sir Philip has declined to comment on the matter.
However, the spokesman did say: "We will await the report of the [Commons] Work and Pensions Committee on Monday."
The committee of MPs will publish its report on Monday into the demise of BHS, which caused up to 11,000 job losses.
Mr McMahon was among a number of MPs who wrote to a Whitehall honours committee, calling for Sir Philip to be stripped of his knighthood.
The retail tycoon bought the BHS chain for £200m in 2000, before selling it to Dominic Chappell, a former bankrupt with no retail experience.
Sir Philip has come under scrutiny for that sale, along with the £400m in dividends taken out of the firm during his 15-year ownership and his management of the pension scheme, which had a £571m deficit when the retailer collapsed.
He told a Commons inquiry committee last month that he would "fix" the pension problem at BHS.
The decision to revoke an honour is considered by a committee of civil servants following a recommendation from the Cabinet Office.
Officials said in such cases, any decision would be taken only after formal investigations had been completed to establish the facts.
In the letter to the MP, the official wrote: "I hope you will understand that I cannot comment on the particular circumstances of Sir Philip, but I can assure you that the case is being reviewed."
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "Applications for forfeiture are considered by an independent committee.
"They have been clear that they will not consider reviewing an honour until any formal reviews or investigations which establish the facts of a case have been completed. However, we continue to keep the case under review."
Meanwhile, 20 BHS stores ceased trading on Saturday. These are in:


Midfielder Danny Rose has signed a two-year contract at League Two side Portsmouth after turning down a new Northampton Town deal.

The 28-year-old helped the Cobblers win the League Two title this season, having joined from Oxford in February until the end of the campaign.
Rose scored once in his 15 Northampton games and will join Pompey on 1 July.
He is Pompey's first signing of the summer, after they lost in the play-off semi-final to Plymouth.
The former Manchester United trainee told the club website: "There's no hiding the fact that this is the biggest club in this division and there will always be certain expectations.
"But I'm sure that the squad we've got here - and the players who are sure to arrive - are capable of challenging for promotion."
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England reached a World Cup semi-final for the first time in their history as victory over hosts Canada set up a tie with reigning champions Japan.

The Lionesses made a dream start with two goals in three minutes as Jodie Taylor, making her first World Cup start nine weeks after knee surgery, capitalised on Lauren Sesselmann's blunder.
Lucy Bronze then headed in Fara Williams' free-kick to double the advantage.
England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley continued her mixed World Cup when she gifted Christine Sinclair a goal three minutes before the break.
But in a second half in which Mark Sampson's side became disjointed, England held on for a famous win that sparked joyous celebrations at the final whistle.
England had already broken new ground by winning their first World Cup knockout game in the last 16, when they beat Norway.
But the result means Welshman Sampson has guided a senior England side, men's or women's, to a World Cup semi-final for the first time since 1990.
As in their final group game win over Colombia, England started fast and then dug deep to keep Canada out as they matched the victory they inflicted over John Herdman's side in this year's Cyprus Cup.
Although they did not reach the heights of their second-round win over Norway, they will now travel to Edmonton to face a team they beat in the group stages of the last World Cup before Japan went on to lift the trophy.
England's preparations were disrupted shortly before the game when vice-captain Jordan Nobbs posted an update on social media to say her World Cup was over because of a hamstring injury - although the Football Association denied the story was true.
But it had little effect on England, as 29-year-old Taylor showed signs of her growing status  just 10 months after making her debut by robbing Sesselmann and drilling low past hosts' goalkeeper Erin McLeod for her first World Cup goal.
The nightmare continued for Canada when England won a free-kick deep in Canadian territory.
Williams picked out Bronze at the back post, and the right-back managed to loop her header over McLeod and in off the crossbar.
England's goals came against the run of play - Melissa Tancredi guilty of being wasteful for Canada - and Katie Chapman almost added to England's tally when her header clipped the top of the crossbar.
Sinclair was then presented with a chance to get Canada back in the match when Bardsley, who was also at fault when she conceded late on against Mexico, could not gather Ashley Lawrence's centre and Canada's record goalscorer converted from close range.
Bardsley's game came to a premature end when she departed five minutes into the second half with what looked like a swollen eye and was replaced by Siobhan Chamberlain.
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But it did not disrupt England.
Taylor was denied a second when McLeod brilliantly tipped her curling effort wide.
With the game becoming scrappy, it felt like another England mistake might lead to a Canada equaliser.
But after Sophie Schmidt fired over seven minutes from the end, the Lionesses remained resolute and roared wildly as the hosts were eliminated in front of 54,027 fans.


One in every 14 adults in England and Wales suffered sexual abuse as a child, a survey suggests.

According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, about 11% of women and 3% of men said they had been sexually assaulted during childhood.
The Office for National Statistics introduced new questions about childhood abuse in 2016's survey, which was released on Thursday.
Some 35,000 adults and 3,000 children were questioned for the report.
The survey also suggested that 567,000 females aged between 16 and 59, and 102,000 males in the same age bracket, had experienced "sexual assault by rape or penetration" when they were children.
The report also found:
The report also found that three in four victims of these assaults said they did not report what happened at the time, most commonly because of "embarrassment or humiliation, or thinking that they would not be believed".
Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, said: "The sheer scale of those who reported witnessing or being abused as children is utterly staggering. It is everyone's responsibility to keep children safe."
An NSPCC spokeswoman said the report "confirms the horrifying fact that a vast number of adults were abused as children and that many told no-one about the ordeal they had suffered".
She added: "Whilst it's crucial that those who have suffered are heard and the perpetrators of these awful crimes are brought to justice, the authorities' primary focus must be on identifying those who are enduring abuse right now, helping them rebuild their lives, and catching offenders to stop them from inflicting even more harm."
Norfolk Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection, said police would continue to encourage any victims of child abuse to report it "in the knowledge that they will be listened to, believed and an impartial investigation launched".
Labour MP Sarah Champion called on the government to take action over the findings, saying: "If we are to prevent another generation growing up with the consequences of widespread child abuse, we have to teach children how to protect themselves from abuse."
Safeguarding minister Sarah Newton said the government had "done more than any other to lift the lid on non-recent child sexual abuse and ensure the mistakes of the past are not repeated".
"We have also increased funding for violence against women and girls' services to Â£80m between now and 2020," she added.


An Australian man has been left bloodied and embarrassed after being hit in the face by a catfish.

A member of the public spotted the injured man near a Darwin beach in the Northern Territory on Monday night and phoned police.
Police arrived to find the 45-year-old man with a lot of blood on his head.
The man said he was fishing with a friend when he tried to reel in his catch but the catfish flew up and struck him.
"The impact caused the venomous back spine of the fish to lodge into the side of his head," Duty Superintendent Louise Jorgensen said in a statement.
"He writhed in pain and bled profusely while his friend calmly took possession of the prize catch," she said.
"Remember folks, its Northern Territory Water Safety Week - be careful out there."


Bruno has been installed as Brighton's captain for the coming season.

The Spanish right-back, 35, was an ever-present in the league last season and takes over from Gordon Greer.
"Bruno is hugely respected by everyone in the squad, throughout the club, and by the fans," manager Chris Hughton told the Seagulls' website.
"He's a fantastic professional and sets a superb example on and off the pitch. He stood in for Gordon Greer last season and he was the obvious choice."
Bruno was signed by Albion in 2012 after leaving Valencia and has made 148 appearances for the Sussex club.
"I'm really proud and it's a big responsibility for me," he said.
"It's about being an example for the young lads and the rest of the players."


The Australian government and its contractors have offered compensation totalling A$70m (Â£41m; $53m) to refugees detained in Papua New Guinea.

The 1,905 claimants had alleged they suffered harm while being held on PNG's Manus Island between 2012 and 2016.
The government said it "strongly denied" the allegations but that settling was a "prudent" decision.
Australia turns away any refugees and asylum seekers arriving by boat and sends them to PNG and Nauru.
It says this deters migrants from attempting the life-threatening voyage to its shores in trafficking boats.
But the policy has been heavily criticised both at home and internationally, including by the United Nations.
The Manus case was due to be heard in the Victoria Supreme Court on Wednesday.
But shortly before the trial began, lawyers for the claimants said the government and its service providers had offered a last minute settlement of A$70m.
They also offered to cover costs estimated to be more than A$20m.
The full details of the settlement and the financial package are yet to be fully approved by the court.
Despite the millions of dollars it has cost, and the critical headlines it has generated, the Australian government is unlikely to regret its policy of sending asylum seekers offshore.
Telling refugees that they will not be allowed to enter Australia until their case has been processed seems to have been a powerful deterrent.
Just yesterday the prime minister boasted that more than 1,000 days had passed without a successful people-smuggling expedition to Australia.
The more pressing problem is what to do with the hundreds of refugees who remain on Manus Island and Nauru.
While the US has agreed to honour a deal to consider them for resettlement, it seems unlikely that all would pass the "extreme vetting" procedure.
And with the Manus Island centre due to close in October, time is running out for a long-term solution.
The principal lawyer for the claimants, Andrew Baker, said the settlement would help them to "put this dark chapter of their lives behind them".
But Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government "strongly refutes and denies the claims made in these proceedings".
In a statement, he said that had the case gone to trial it would have cost "tens of millions of dollars in legal fees alone, with an unknown outcome", and the government decided a settlement was a "prudent outcome for Australian taxpayers".
As of last year, residents were allowed to freely come and go from the facility but the debate over their resettlement is ongoing.
Australia has insisted that no-one held on Manus or Nauru will ever be re-settled in Australia.


To mark 50 years of Botswana's independence, author Alexander McCall Smith has written an exclusive short story featuring the two main characters from his No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

30 September 2016 Last updated at 00:00 BST
Mr McCall Smith's detective books are set in the southern African country, which gained its independence on 30 September 1966.


The downturn in the oil and gas sector may be having an impact on the broader Scottish economy, according to a report.

Scottish Chambers of Commerce said the effect of falling oil prices seemed to be "extending beyond those businesses operating directly in the sector".
It attributed contraction in financial and business services to the low global market price for Brent crude.
Its latest quarterly economic report drew responses from 477 firms.
The construction and manufacturing sectors reported strong results in the fourth quarter of 2015, indicating continued growth following positive results in the previous quarter.
However, the Scottish tourism sector had mixed results, while retail and wholesale experienced a decline. Both industries overall had "considerably poorer" results, compared with the same quarter a year before.
Business optimism was lower in the fourth quarter for the majority of sectors in comparison with the same period of 2014.
The report said that could be due to concerns firms had over the impact that the Living Wage, low oil prices and business rates will have on their business.
Scottish Chambers of Commerce director Liz Cameron said: "Our latest economic indicator points to continued success for many businesses, but the shadow of the continued decline in global oil prices now looks to be extending beyond those businesses operating directly in the sector.
"Last year, the Scottish construction sector was one of the primary drivers of growth.
"This remained the case right up until the end of 2015 and, despite the fact that optimism in the sector is less strong than it was a year ago, prospects for employment in the sector remain positive.
"However, this is one of a number of sectors where businesses are facing skills shortages, with nearly two-thirds of businesses who were hiring having experienced difficulties in recruiting."
She added: "Despite a slowdown in exports, there remain some grounds for optimism for Scotland's manufacturers, many of which recorded a broadly positive end to 2015.
"Both revenues and orders remained in positive territory but expectations are for investment to ease in the early part of 2016.
"Results for tourism have been more mixed, where the sector is markedly less optimistic than it was at the turn of 2015, and retail, where lower revenues and profitability may be a consequence of early and prolonged pre-Christmas discounting."
On Wednesday, official figures showed that Scotland's economy grew only slightly over the summer and continued to lag behind the UK as a whole.
Total output grew 0.1% between July and September -  which was 1.7% higher than the same quarter last year.
By comparison, UK growth was 0.4% and 2.1%, respectively.
Earlier this week, a report by the Fraser of Allander Institute indicated that the Scottish economy slowed down towards the end of 2015.
Its analysis suggested the rate of recovery was constrained by companies in the north east.


Welsh navy veterans who served with the Arctic Convoys in World War Two are being honoured by the Russian government.

They are being presented Ushakov medals for their part in delivering supplies to the Eastern front.
Eleven veterans are receiving medals at a ceremony at Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, on Tuesday.
And 67 medals will be awarded at an event in Cardiff on Wednesday attended by First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Campaigners long believed veterans should have been able to receive the Russian accolade and in 2013 the UK government made an exception to its rules.
Referring to the veterans, Mr Jones said: "They not only fought enemy ships, U-Boats and airplanes, but also battled extreme weather, sailing with ship decks covered in ice in ferocious conditions of towering seas and hurricane force winds."


A man received facial injuries after a gas bottle exploded at an engineering firm in Carmarthenshire.

Dyfed-Powys Police was called to 3K Engineering in Llanelli at about 09:15 BST and a nearby supermarket and GP surgery were evacuated.
The man has been taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital for treatment but his injuries are not thought to be serious.
The building has been declared safe and people have been allowed to return.


Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes expects Saturday's match at Motherwell to go ahead despite the outbreak of a virus affecting the first team at Fir Park.

Well boss Mark McGhee said he could call for a postponement if any more players are struck down.
He was left with only six of his regular first-team players training on Thursday, but McInnes is "confident and positive the game will go ahead".
'It's very unusual for the league to postpone a game," he said.
"I think it would be very unusual for a game to be cancelled for that, but I have every sympathy for Mark.
''It happened to me before at St Johnstone when it ransacked the club. We had to deal with it. Hopefully the game will go ahead as planned.''
Motherwell were forced to postpone an under-20s game against Celtic on Tuesday after the vast majority of the squad were laid low.
And a request to the Scottish Professional Football League would follow about the Aberdeen game if the illness continues to spread among the first team.
But an SPFL spokesman said that as of 1730 GMT on Thursday, no request from Motherwell had been received.
"We had to shut down the club yesterday," McGhee said.
"If we had another three or four showing these symptoms and unable to train then it would leave me with no choice.
"I might only have nine players including the entire under-20s. I can't go into a football match with eight or nine players."
McGhee believes his team have "a responsibility to the competition", with Celtic also to visit Fir Park on 9 April.
"I don't particularly want to go into the Aberdeen game with half a team and then have my full team out against Celtic," he said.
"I want it to be fair. I want to beat them both with the same team."
Motherwell already had Stephen Pearson ruled out with a punctured lung and broken ribs, with fellow midfielder Keith Lasley a major doubt with a dead leg and defender Louis Laing still sidelined through injury.
"We had the entire under-20s wiped out by a virus," said McGhee. "We had six of the first-team squad showing symptoms.
"At the moment, our count seems to be about 15, which includes two or three of the young boys who have never been involved at first-team level.
"So it's looking pretty grim at the moment with Lasley, Pearson and Laing all injured.
"But if I have nine or 10 of the ones that have been playing every week then I will be quite content to go into the game. I don't want to go in with six though."
Motherwell are hoping to consolidate their place in the top six following their 2-1 win over Dundee United last Friday, while the Dons will arrive aiming to maintain pressure on leaders Celtic at the top.
''Motherwell will be no different to us, they'll want to get all three points, they've got their own motivation," McInnes added. "I can sympathise with Mark - he'll want to get his best team out there.
"They're very competitive and there's no doubt they have some good players, a lot of know-how and they score goals so it'll be tough. But we aim to be a tough opponent for them too."
Ross County's failure to beat St Johnstone on Wednesday means Aberdeen will finish at worst third in the Premiership and have already secured European qualification.
McInnes is confident top scorer Adam Rooney will be fit to bolster their title challenge in the next few weeks, the striker responding well to treatment on a thigh problem.
''He's had another scan and the healing is going well," he added. "I'm confident he'll be back after the split for the last five games. He has a lot to do in terms of coming back before that.''


President Vladimir Putin has said he wants to make Russia the fifth-biggest economy in the world.

It currently stands at number 11.
He wants to boost foreign investment as part of his new economic plan.
But some foreign investors are worried about Mr Putin's return as head of state for another term of six years after allegations of vote-rigging and protests both before and following his re-election.
Furthermore, despite Russia's rich resources and its place among the world's fastest-growing economies, there remains a general feeling that the country is underperforming and falling far short of its potential.
According to Angus Roxburgh, former BBC Moscow correspondent and later a public-relations adviser to the Kremlin, there is one overriding reason why Russia is failing to achieve its economic potential and failing to attract outside investors: corruption.
"It is something the government acknowledges but seems powerless to combat, despite a regular stream of anti-corruption decrees and initiatives," he says.
"In fact, it gets worse year by year. According to official figures, the average bribe in Russia is more than $10,000," he notes.
Transparency International, which ranks countries according to perceived levels of corruption, says Russia has slumped from 46th place in 1996 to
          143rd in 2011
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That makes it one of the most corrupt countries on earth.
Bureaucrats in charge of state tenders routinely ask for enormous bribes from companies bidding for the contracts, which adds to the cost of the bills that the state pays.
"A year or so ago, three seniors officials were convicted - a rare occurrence - for demanding $1m to take the Japanese company Toshiba off a fictitious blacklist, which was preventing the company bidding for a contract," Mr Roxburgh recalls.
The case of Sergei Magnitsky, the lawyer employed by a western investment fund, who exposed corruption and then found himself thrown in prison by the very people he had accused, and who then died in prison, has served as a dire warning to all potential investors.
Russian businessmen hate the climate too.
"Dozens of entrepreneurs are in prison on charges trumped up by officials trying to get their hands on their companies," says Mr Roxburgh.
The Central Bank reported capital flight from Russia in the first four months of 2012 of $42bn.
The answer seems clear: root out the corrupt officials.
"But how do you do that if, as most Russians say, the fish rots from the head down."
Leaders in the Kremlin are aware of the paradox.
During his four years as President, Dmitry Medvedev made it his priority to modernise the Russian economy by creating the conditions for manufacturing and especially for hi-tech industries to develop.
"His approach was rather top-down though. He founded an innovation centre in Moscow in a suburb called Skolkovo, which he hoped would become a Russian Silicon Valley," Mr Roxburgh points out.
"He also appointed a former Kremlin chief of staff to establish a global financial centre in Moscow," he says, "But is that how innovations really come about?"
Some people have managed to prosper despite the real or perceived corrupt climate.
Serguei Beloussov, the founder of Parallels, one of the largest software companies in Russia, says it is always difficult to build a multi-hundred-million-dollar company in any country.
"The difficulties are just different," he explains.
"For example, in the US there are certain difficulties, such as access to talent, and costs and competition," he says.
"And in Russia, when we were starting our business in 2000, there were other difficulties such as lack of infrastructure, bureaucracy, but it wasn't particularly difficult," he maintains.
He acknowledges that political instability can affect his business.
"I don't think that's a serious concern right now in Russia. Imagine how difficult it would be to do business, for example, in Egypt." he says.
"When I drive from the airport and see how the city looks today, how many large superstores, car dealerships, expensive cars and restaurants you see along the way, and you think how bad the same route was during the Soviet Union, you see how a capitalistic and more democratic system can make a huge return," he says.
"In fact, people in Russia now live in the best way they ever lived in the last 1,000 years in terms of both freedom and in their material wealth."


Former Chelsea boss Avram Grant has been appointed the new coach of Ghana.

The 59-year-old has signed a 27-month deal to take over from Maxwell Konadu, who had been in temporary charge since Kwesi Appiah left in September.
He will start work on Monday and his contract will finish at the end of February 2017 - after that year's Africa Cup of Nations finals.
Israeli Grant has only six weeks to prepare the Black Stars for the 2015 Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea.
The Ghana Football Association have given Grant a target of "doing well" at the upcoming tournament and to win the event two years later.
GFA president Kwesi Nyantekyie told BBC Sport: "It would be unfair to ask a coach appointed only one month before a tournament to win the trophy.
"But he must do well and then the FA will assess his performance after the Nations Cup and determine whether he has done well or not.
"Avram Grant is a motivator and an organiser. We needed someone with a certain stature or pedigree who can manage the egos of our players as well as their expectations and those of Ghanaians in general.
"He has managed a lot of top-class players, and [coping with high profile players] has been the bane of many African coaches. We believe his quality will turn things around for us."
Ghana, who topped their qualification group for next year's showpiece, will find out their opponents in Equatorial Guinea when the draw is made on 3 December.
The tournament will be held between 17 January and 8 February.
Grant, who as Chelsea boss suffered defeat by Manchester United in the 2008 European Champions League final, was most recently the technical director at Thai side BEC Tero Sasana.
His previous coaching role was at Partizan Belgrade from 2012 to 2014, during which time he steered the club to their  fifth consecutive Serbian championship.
As well as spells in charge of English clubs Portsmouth and West Ham, Grant has international experience having spent four years at the helm of Israel's national side.
There had been been concerns that Grant's nationality could prevent him gaining access to some North African countries.
Earlier in the week, Nyantekyie told BBC Sport "that is an issue" but says the two parties will deal with it.
"The holder of an Israeli passport will not only be denied entry into North African countries, he will be denied into some Arab countries," he said.
"He has brought an alternative way of dealing with it. There is a satisfactory arrangement to arrest his threat. Very soon, in a matter of months, we should clear that."


A mobile cinema, the "sole survivor" of seven commissioned by the government in the 1960s, has been sold for nearly 100 times the price its owners paid.

The rusty Bedford was discovered in a field in Essex and bought for just £1,200 in 2005 by Emma Giffard and Ollie Hall, from Wookey, Somerset.
The couple spent five years and £35,000 painstakingly restoring it before taking the 22-seat cinema on tour.
Posted on eBay a month ago, the bus has now been sold for "close to £120,000".
It was one of a fleet of custom-built cinemas commissioned by the Ministry of Technology for £1m.
They toured the country's factories, showing promotional films about modernisation.
In 1974, the government sold them off and by 1990 the last bus - with just 11,000 miles on the clock - was left in a field with a seized engine and no gearbox before it was bought by the couple.
"It was hopeless optimism," said Mr Hall.
"I didn't have a clue how to repair it and by the time I'd spent £15,000 on it, it didn't look any different."
By 2010, however, it was back on the road with a new projector housed in its plastic dome.
"It's reasonably easy to drive, although the mileage is still under 18,000," said Mr Hall.
Featured on BBC2's The Reel History of Britain with Melvyn Bragg and on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, the "one-off vehicle" was sold with the original "unrestored" trailer it was built to tow.
"I was tempted to rebuild the trailer but when the day came, I didn't have it in me - it was too big a job," he said.
"But the new owner is going to convert it into a cocktail bar and continue to use the cinema, so it's in safe hands."


Respect leader George Galloway has been reported to police for allegedly breaking election law.

He is said to have retweeted his party's own exit poll before voting ended.
Bradford Council's returning officer made the report to police, according to BBC Radio Leeds.
Mr Galloway lost his seat to Labour candidate Naz Shah, who said his campaign "demeaned democracy".
It is against the law to discuss voting while polls are open, under section 66 of the Representation of the People's Act.
A spokesman for Mr Galloway told the BBC: "The returning officer is wasting police time. It's a storm in a thimble."
West Yorkshire Police said it would be reviewing the matter.
Mr Galloway snatched the traditionally held Labour seat in a by-election in 2012 with a majority of 10,140 votes.
It is not the first time he has hit the headlines over election laws - he was accused by Labour of making false statements about their candidate, Naseem Shah, in April.


Customers who only buy landline services from BT are set to get at least £5 a month taken off their bills under plans set out by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom.

It said those customers, who are often elderly or vulnerable, were not getting value for money.
BT has nearly 80% of the UK landline market, and Ofcom is hoping other providers will also cut prices.
The telecoms giant said it took its responsibilities "very seriously".
"Unlike other companies, [we] have many customers on special tariffs for socially excluded or vulnerable customers," BT said.
"Recently, we have frozen the cost of line rental for all of our customers who take a BT phone line."
The planned price cut will effectively reverse cost rises seen in recent years, Ofcom said. BT customers, who pay £18.99 per month for a landline-only contract, would pay no more than £13.99.
Ofcom has the power to set prices for firms that have significant market power.
The regulator's chief executive, Sharon White, told the BBC: "We believe there are about two million elderly and vulnerable [BT customers] - strikingly about half are in their late seventies - and for this group of people their landline is their lifeline.
"It's a group of people who have seen the cost of their landline bills rise by about a third in recent years, while BT's costs have fallen by about a quarter."
She said most people on bundled packages - which include landline, broadband and/or pay TV - can shop around for better deals.
BT is not alone in raising its prices. Major industry players increased line rental prices by between 25% and 49% in real terms between December 2009 and December 2016, while wholesale prices fell by about 26%, Ofcom said.
The regulator launched its review of landline phone prices in December.
Richard Neudegg, head of regulation at price comparison website Uswitch, said that the group of consumers affected are "the most reliant on voice-only services and least likely to leave BT for a better deal".
"The demographic tend not to be online, and are the least likely to engage with the market and switch their services, and it is right Ofcom is looking closely at what can be done," he said.
Andrew Ferguson of broadband comparison website Think Broadband said that while the price reduction would be welcome for landline-only customers, "a lot hinges on whether those who buy bundles will just end up subsidising those who buy standalone products".


The number of people participating in sport in Scotland has increased in recent years, according to new figures.

The SportScotland statistics showed the overall number of people registered to sports clubs had risen from 706,764 to 768,212 since 2013/14.
The rise applied to almost all sports for which data was available, and was recorded across all age groups.
Cricket has seen a 50% rise in participation to 17,000 over the past two years.
That was largely due a  big increase in the number of children playing the sport.
Golf, basketball, athletics and tennis have also seen increased participation in recent years.
SNP MSP Clare Haughey, the deputy convenor of Holyrood's health and sport committee, said the figures showed the success of the Scottish government in getting more people of all ages into sport.
She added: "Scotland is a nation with a fantastic sporting heritage. It is great to see people's participation rates rising - improving people's health across the country, as well as helping develop our potential stars of the future."
Meanwhile, five groups are to share almost Â£750,000 of Commonwealth Games legacy funding in a bid to encourage Scots to become more physically active.
The money is being awarded to Clyde Gateway, Creative Scotland, Street Soccer Scotland, Spirit of 2012 and Young Scot.
The awards are the latest from the Legacy Active Places Fund, which has distributed a total of Â£10m to 188 projects across Scotland since the Glasgow 2014 Games.
The Legacy Active Place Fund is a Scottish government project supported by SportScotland.
Aileen Campbell, minister for public health and sport, announced the latest awards during a visit to Ettrick Forest Archers in Selkirk.
The group were awarded Â£12,044 in 2014 to fund the creation of a clubhouse and storage facility.
Ms Campbell said: "We know how important an active lifestyle is for both our physical and mental health, so it's fantastic to see communities right across Scotland embrace the Games legacy and come together to deliver projects that are helping people become more active."
Louise MacDonald, chief executive of Young Scot, said the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games made a "huge impression" on young people across Scotland.
She added: "We recognise how important it is to ensure that the lasting legacy of the Games continues by providing young people with opportunities to engage and lead activity, remove barriers to participation and recognise their achievements."


A "seriously fed-up" chef has blasted customers who "take the mick" by not showing up to dinner reservations.

Alex Claridge, who runs The Wilderness in Birmingham, said he spoke out on Twitter after 16 "no-shows" in one night.
"Last week, the cost of no-shows was about Â£2,000. People say 'don't be angry', but Â£8,000 a month is serious money," he said.
The chef said some customers had apologised after reading his tweets.
"I appreciated that," he said. "I know why things happen - life gets in the way.
"We are a business, but we are people too, so let's chat and make this work."
The chef tweeted his disgust after being left with empty tables at Monday night's "no rules" event, which allows diners to pay what they choose.
"People just take the mick. Hospitality is a two-way street," he tweeted.
Mr Claridge, who runs his restaurants with sous chef Oliver France, said the culture of people not bothering to turn up - and failing to cancel tables - was seriously affecting his business.
"My restaurant has 24 covers, so if a table of two doesn't turn up, that's 10% of our takings. If it's a table of four, that's 20%.
"If people don't turn up to Pizza Express, then it's probably going to be OK. But when you're a small business, with 24 covers, with a small and passionate team working hard then it's going to hit more.
"When something like this happens, it puts me off doing it. I just want to cook some nice food and make people happy.
"We do it because we want to make a fine dining experience accessible to everyone - it's inclusive, not exclusive," he said.


A husband has filed for legal separation from his wife and former teacher, who had served a jail term for having sex with him when he was 12.

Vili Fualaau, now 33, submitted papers to a court in Washington state, US, to end his 12-year marriage to Mary Kay Fualaau (formerly Letourneau), aged 55.
Mrs Fualaau was a married 34-year-old mother of four when she began a relationship with him.
After she had served her prison term, the pair married in secret in 2005.
Mr Fualaau filed for separation early this month without stating the reason for his decision, it has emerged.
In the petition, he writes that neither he nor his wife own any property or have debts, US media report.
Mr Fualaau, who has two children with his wife, also states that they are no longer dependent, asking for a fair division of the couple's joint assets.
His wife has so far made no public comments on the issue.
Mr Fualaau was a sixth-grade student when the relationship began in Seattle in 1996.
The teacher  was arrested in 1997 when she was pregnant with the couple's first child, and later admitted second-degree child rape.
Her initial six-month sentence was then commuted to three months - under the condition that she would have no contacts with her former pupil.
But within weeks the pair were caught having sex, and she was jailed for seven years.
She gave birth to the couple's second child in prison.


A rail union is to hold a vote on industrial action on services in the north of England in a dispute over pay.

The RMT union described Northern's pay offer as "unacceptable" and claimed it did not meet "benchmarks for pay deals that RMT has set elsewhere in the industry".
Northern said it was "disappointed" at the ballot and had offered staff "an above inflation pay rise".
Voting will take place at the end of January.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash claimed Northern staff were being offered "a below the rate for the job pay deal".
"Industrial relations with the firm were already at a low and the latest pay offer shows continued contempt for the workers who run the service and make the company's profits," he said.
"Our members deserve to paid properly for the work that they do."
A spokesman for Northern said: "Northern has offered over 5,000 employees a guaranteed, above inflation pay rise over the next three or four years.
"The offer is a 2% increase in year one, followed by Retail Price Index (RPI) plus 0.1% in each of the following two or three years."
Northern, which is owned by Arriva Rail North Ltd, took over the franchise on 1 April 2016.
It runs services between cities and towns across the north of England.


Jose Reyes has become the first player to be suspended under new Major League Baseball rules brought in to address domestic violence issues.

The Colorado Rockies shortstop, a four-time All-Star player who earns $22m (£15.7m) a year, has been placed on paid leave while he faces criminal proceedings.
Reyes, 32, who was arrested at a Hawaii resort in October following an argument with his wife, has pleaded not guilty to an abuse charge.
His trial is due to start on 4 April.
The date coincides with the start of the new MLB season, when the Rockies play at Arizona.
The new policy was agreed in August following a number of high-profile domestic violence cases in a number of US sports, including baseball, American football and basketball.


Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and original star of stage musical Hamilton, talks about writing songs for Moana - a Disney animation that features the voice of wrestler turned actor "The Rock".

Having already managed to turn the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton into a Broadway sensation, getting Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to sing a few bars must have posed little challenge for Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In fact, the challenge was more to be found in getting him to stop.
"Everyone has been asking, 'How do you get The Rock to sing?'" laughs Miranda, the Tony-winning writer of Hamilton whose latest project, Disney animation Moana, draws on his strengths as a composer and lyricist.
"As soon as The Rock signed up, he was like, 'Where is my song?' He knew that was one of his favourite parts of the Disney animated musical tradition."
Moana sees Johnson play Maui, a Polynesian demigod whose feats and exploits are part of the mythology of the Pacific islands that provide the film's backdrop.
It is Maui to whom the film's eponymous teenage heroine must turn if she is to lift a curse that has bedevilled her little corner of this Oceanic idyll.
"The character of Maui is involved in all kinds of creation myths, depending on which island in the Pacific you go to," explains Miranda.
"The fun of that was already knowing the personality of the character I was writing towards, as well as writing something worthy of The Rock."
The result is the tuneful You're Welcome, a brash and humorous exclamation of egotism that includes some of Miranda's trademark rhyming patter.
Other songs in the movie include the uplifting How Far I'll Go, a number Miranda describes as "an 'I want' song" in the tradition of The Little Mermaid's Part Of Your World.
"The first time I sat at my piano to work on it I said, 'Don't think about Let It Go!" laughs Miranda - a reference to the chart-topping earworm from 2013's Frozen.
"But the job is to tell the truth about our characters and really make you feel about where they are in the journey, so you try to treat it as honestly as possible."
The Little Mermaid is something of a touchstone for Miranda, who is part of a team tasked with turning that 1989 animation into a live-action feature.
"My main role is as a super fan of the original movie," the 36-year-old explains. "I'm just on deck to make sure the fans of the original film are happy."
Miranda, indeed, is such a "super fan" he named his son Sebastian after the crab who warbles Under The Sea, perhaps that film's best-known number.
There are plans afoot also for an unnamed Disney animation, though Miranda claims "there will be men in coats" to whisk him away if he says anything about it.
Before that, Lin-Manuel will be seen as "an actor for hire" in Mary Poppins Returns, a belated follow-up to Disney's PL Travers-inspired 1964 classic.
The New York-born performer will be playing a new character called Jack, a street lamplighter who joins Emily Blunt's Mary on her magical adventures.
The original Mary Poppins is perhaps best remembered, on these shores at least, for Dick Van Dyke's lamentable stab at a broad Cockney accent.
Miranda, though, confidently predicts that his London brogue will be even worse.
"I'm going to manage expectations right now and tell you it's the worst accent you've ever heard in your life," he tells the BBC.
"You're not going to know what planet I am from, much less which street in London."
With Hamilton coming to London next year and an all-star Hamilton "mixtape" released this month, these are busy times for a polymath whose prodigious talents have made him very much in demand.
They have also brought him a measure of controversy, evidenced last month when he helped write a message to vice president-elect Mike Pence that was delivered to the politician from the stage of New York's Richard Rodgers Theatre.
That drew a heated response from president-elect Donald Trump, who called on the Hamilton cast to apologise to Mr Pence for their "terrible" behaviour.
Moana too has not been immune from criticism, with some accusing Disney of cultural misappropriation after it offered for sale a child's costume bearing a facsimile of Maui's all-over tattoos.
There has also been censure over how the character is depicted, with some viewing the Disney version as an obese caricature of Polynesian men.
Yet Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, insists the film's production was built around "research and empathy" and that its makers "consulted on every decision".
"We wanted to make sure it was something that people of the Pacific Islands could point at with pride, and hopefully that's the case," he continues.
It is certainly a film Miranda takes pride in, if only for having his own vocals feature on the version of You're Welcome that accompanies its end credits.
"It's crazy and overwhelming," he says. "I now know how Phil Collins feels when he sees Tarzan."
Moana is out now in the UK.
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The operator of the CairnGorm Mountain snowsports centre, near Aviemore, plans to revamp the site and add new features including an artificial ski slope.

Natural Retreats also wants to make improvements to the restaurant, offer conference space and increase its facilities for making snow.
The company has started a consultation on its plans.
The ski centre in the Cairngorms National Park is owned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
Highland Council has been informed of the proposals.
Natural Retreats owns holiday accommodation at a number of locations in the UK and elsewhere.
It has a 25-year lease for the running of CairnGorm Mountain.
The company said last year that it would invest more than £6m in the resort over five years.


Clermont bounced back from their shock defeat by Exeter to thrash the Chiefs in the return Champions Cup fixture.

Exeter came from behind to record a famous 31-14 victory at Sandy Park last Saturday, but the Top 14 leaders were unstoppable on home soil.
David Strettle, Alexandre Lapandry, Fritz Lee, Sebastien Vahaamahina and Wales' Jonathan Davies all went over.
Exeter grabbed a late try through Tom Johnson, when Clermont were reduced to 13 men, but it was a mere consolation.
The bonus point win for the French side throws Pool Two wide open, with all four teams still in with a chance of qualification to the quarter-finals.
Ospreys occupy the top spot - and automatic qualification place - in the group after earning two bonus points in their defeat by Bordeaux-Begles on Saturday.
Clermont jump from fourth to second and are level with third-place Exeter on 10 points, although the French side have a game in hand.
Bordeaux are bottom of the group with six points but have also played on game less than Ospreys and Exeter.
The five teams that finish top of each pool progress to the knock-out rounds of the competition, along with the three best runners-up.
Clermont, last season's losing finalists, were left reeling after their away defeat by Premiership Exeter, but they turned the tables on their Pool Two rivals at the Stade Marcel Michel.
The hosts were dealt an early blow when Camille Lopez was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle and Gareth Steenson slotted the resulting penalty, but Clermont went on to run in 42 unanswered points.
Morgan Parra and Scott Spedding kicked the French side ahead and Strettle's try opened up a 10-point lead. The former Saracens wing darted inside from the edge of the 22 and finished off under the posts, and Parra duly converted before adding a second penalty.
Exeter's woes continued when number eight Thomas Waldron, whose tries orchestrated the Chiefs' comeback last weekend, received a yellow card for stripping the ball in the tackle.
Clermont made the extra man count, as influential fly-half Parra delivered a back-handed offload for Lapandry to make it 21-3.
With Waldron still in the sin bin after the break, Lee touched down from a catch and drive, and Vahaamahina then barged his way over for Clermont's fourth try.
Wales centre Davies marked his return from seven months out with a knee injury by crossing over in the corner for the bonus point, after receiving a looping ball over the top from Lopez.
The game was out of sight for Exeter but they went on a late attack and, with Vito Kolelishvili and Clement Ric sent to the bin for collapsing two drives, Johnson was able to power over.
Exeter coach Rob Baxter: "The bigger picture is that this result may not mean too much. We still have two games to go and we would have had to have won at least one of them - now we have to win them both.
"If we use this experience of coming to France to win another game in France later in the pool, then great.
"We have got to use the frustrations, disappointments and errors, both collectively and as individuals, the next time we come over here because there will be a similar amount of pressure and we will be playing in front of an even bigger crowd."
Clermont Auvergne: Spedding; Strettle, Davies, Gear, Nakaitaci; Lopez, Parra (c); Debaty, Kayser, Kotze; Cudmore, Vahaamahina; Kolelishvili, Lapandry, Lee.
Replacements: Vulivuli for Davies (67), Fernandez for Lopez (69), Radosavljevic for Parra (48), Domingo for Debaty (50), Ulugia for Kayser (64), Ric for Kotze (64), Jedrasiak for Cudmore (69), Chouly for Lee (55), Kotze for Lapandry (78)
Sin Bin: Lopez (2), Kolelishvili (70), Ric (71).
Exeter Chiefs: Dollman; Jess, Nowell, Whitten, Short; Steenson, Lewis; Rimmer, Yeandle (c), Francis; Parling, Welch; Armand,  Salvi, Waldrom.
Replacements: Campagnaro for Dollman (41), Hooley for Steenson (64), Thomas for Lewis (64), A. Hepburn for Rimmer (50), Taione for Yeandle (50), Low for Francis (50), Lees for Welch (50), Johnson for Waldrom (64).
Sin Bin: Waldrom (35).
Att: 18,000
Ref: Marius Mitrea (Italy).


Thousands have bid Prince Harry farewell as his Australian army secondment ends - including a woman who asked him to marry her.

Victoria McRae donned a plastic crown and popped the question before surprising the prince with a kiss at a Sydney Opera House event.
He responded with a coy smile and told his admirer that he would have to think about it.
Prince Harry has spent the last month with army units in Perth and Sydney.
It is not the first marriage proposal he has received, but he has yet to accept any offers from his eager fans.
Speaking later at a function at Macquarie University in Sydney, the prince said he had had a "fantastic" time in Australia.
"I never expected that many people to turn out [at the Opera House] ... I got more than one kiss," he added.
The event was his last official engagement in the country.
Part of the prince's secondment was spent with the North-West Mobile Force (Norforce) - the mostly indigenous unit which patrols northern Australia.
"I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have worked with these guys," he told local media, referring to members of the Australian Defence Force.
Last month, he joined his father Prince Charles in Turkey for the centenary commemorations of the landing of Australian, New Zealand and other Allied troops at Gallipoli.
The Prince has said he is looking forward to a "new chapter" in his life after it was announced in March that he would be ending his 10-year UK military career in June.
He took up a staff officer role with the Army last year and has served twice in Afghanistan.


A GP has been given a formal warning over his treatment of a woman who died after taking a contraceptive pill.

Charlotte Foster, 23, from Newport, Shropshire, died from a blood clot in January last year, after seeing GP Sunil Simon.
The General Medical Council (GMC) said he failed to consider a link between her "symptoms and the contraceptive medication".
But no restriction on his registration was required, it said.
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Following an inquest last summer Dr Simon was referred to the GMC by the coroner.
Miss Foster went into cardiac arrest at work and died three days later at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital on 25 January, after she went to the doctor with breathing difficulties and leg pain.
In July last year, coroner John Ellery concluded it was more likely than not she would have survived had her pill - Dianette - been stopped and treatment started when she saw a GP.
Miss Foster was presenting symptoms of a pulmonary embolism during her final GP appointment on 4 January but was instead being treated for lower back pain, the inquest found.
She died after a thrombosis caused a "massive" embolism in her lungs.
The warning said on 4 January and in a telephone consultation on 24 December 2015 Dr Simon failed to obtain an adequate history and "consider deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolus as differential diagnoses".
It said he also did not "arrange investigations to eliminate/confirm deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus" and formulate an adequate treatment plan including her stopping taking the contraceptive medication.
The warning will be published on the List of Registered Medical Practitioners for five years and disclosed to anyone "enquiring about his fitness to practise history".
It will be disclosed to employers on request after five years.


Tobacco giant Philip Morris is suing the Australian government over a new law making plain packaging mandatory for cigarettes from December 2012.

Australia's parliament has passed legislation that means all tobacco will need to be sold in plain olive-brown packets with graphic health warnings.
Canberra said the law was "one of the most momentous public health measures in Australia's history".
But Philip Morris Asia said the move breached a bilateral investment treaty.
It said it had served a notice of arbitration under Australia's Bilateral Investment Treaty with Hong Kong.
PMA's Australian affiliate Philip Morris Ltd (PML) will also pursue claims under Australian domestic law.
PMA is arguing that removing its trademarks from tobacco packaging will cut its profits and see fake brands flood the market.
Spokesperson Anne Edwards said: "The government has passed this legislation despite being unable to demonstrate that it will be effective at reducing smoking and has ignored the widespread concerns raised in Australia and internationally regarding the serious legal issues associated with plain packaging."
PMA said it wanted the legislation to be suspended. It said it would ask for compensation for the billions of dollars it said the new law would cost it.
British American Tobacco, another big cigarette company, has previously said that the legislation infringes international trademark and intellectual property laws.
Under the new law, the only thing distinguishing tobacco brands on packets will be the brand and product name in a standard colour, position, font size and style.
Australia's Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon said while the tobacco industry was "fighting to protect its profits, we are fighting to protect lives".
"We know that packaging remains one of the last powerful marketing tools for tobacco companies to recruit new smokers to their deadly products. In the future, cigarette packets will serve only as a stark reminder of the devastating health effects of smoking," she said.


An 81-year-old man has completed a challenge to spend 50 hours locked inside a perspex box.

Colin Hough, of Shrewsbury, volunteered to spend time in the box, in a 24-hour Tesco supermarket, to raise money for children's charity Cauldwell Children.
He went into the box at midday on Thursday and came out at 14:00 BST on Saturday.
He said the toughest part had been the nights, with lights on in the shop and people shopping around him.
Former bus driver Mr Hough volunteered for the challenge after reading about the charity's Locked in for Autism campaign. The box in the supermarket measures 3m by 2m.
"The store staff have been so supportive, tapping on the glass to see if I'm okay," he said.
"I was a bit nervous going into it but I thought, it's for a really good cause, and it's actually opened up my eyes to what children with autism go through.
"One little girl gave me a card she had made, thanking me for what I'm doing, that made me feel very proud."
Mr Hough can be supported through his Just Giving page.


The government has chosen not to make the economy the priority in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations, according to George Osborne.

The ex-chancellor said he respected the decision to prioritise immigration controls and withdrawal from the European Court of Justice instead.
He was speaking as MPs began a second day of debating the draft legislation that will allow formal talks to begin.
Downing Street said: "The former chancellor speaks for himself."
The government is expected to win the vote later, with most Tory and Labour MPs set to back its bill.
If the bill is passed, Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, triggering formal Brexit talks, can be invoked.
Mr Osborne said the Government had chosen "not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation, they have prioritised immigration control", while the EU's priority will be to "maintain the integrity of the remaining 27 members of the European Union".
He predicted the talks with the EU would be bitter, and a trade-off between "access and money".
Mr Osborne said he had "passionately" campaigned for a Remain vote in the EU referendum and had sacrificed his position in government for the cause.
But he said for Parliament not to allow Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to be invoked would "alienate people who already feel alienated" and could cause a "deep constitutional crisis".
Earlier MPs were told that European Commission chiefs plan to ask the UK to pay up to 60bn euros for its separation from the EU.
Sir Ivan Rogers, the UK's former ambassador to the EU, told a Commons committee the commission's chief negotiator Michel Barnier and other key figures were "openly" saying the UK's total financial liabilities would be in the order of 40 to 60bn euros.
He said the "unreasonable" figure represented a "predictably hard line".
In other Brexit news, Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed a White Paper setting out her Brexit strategy would be published on Thursday.
The official document, which will include a desire to secure the status of EU nationals in the UK and Britons abroad, is separate to the Brexit bill being debated by MPs.
The vote on the bill is expected at about 19:00 GMT.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faces a rebellion by a number of his MPs, including several frontbenchers, while the SNP and Liberal Democrats are also promising to oppose ministers.
Mr Corbyn has imposed a three-line whip - the strongest possible sanction - on his MPs to back the bill, which is only two lines long.
If the vote goes the government's way, the bill will return to the Commons next week for the committee stage, when opposition parties will try to push through a series of amendments.
The bill was published last week, after the Supreme Court decided MPs and peers must have a say before Article 50 could be triggered.
It rejected the government's argument that Mrs May had sufficient powers to trigger Brexit without consulting Parliament.


Tottenham produced a superb performance to increase the pressure on Sunderland.

The league's bottom side began well when Lee Cattermole punished a defensive error, but Spurs levelled soon after when Emmanuel Adebayor converted Christian Eriksen's cross.
Eriksen then supplied the ball for Harry Kane's tap-in before he got on the scoresheet with a low strike.
Adebayor poked in his second after Vito Mannone had saved Kane's shot before Gylfi Sigurdsson smashed in a fifth.
Although Spurs were not undeserving of the 5-1 scoreline, they owed their crushing win to poor Sunderland defending as much as a great attacking display.
A fourth successive defeat for the Black Cats means they remain seven points off safety with only two games in hand over Norwich and one over West Brom, who occupy 17th and 16th respectively.
They now face a huge struggle to survive and the way his side capitulated at White Hart Lane might have led Gus Poyet to doubt his side's chances.
The visitors made a great start on a very wet night in north London thanks to a horrible Spurs error.
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Romanian defender Vlad Chiriches played a one-two with his keeper Hugo Lloris and then elected to play the ball to team-mate Younes Kaboul, unaware Cattermole was lurking.
The Black Cats midfielder, who had not scored in the previous 112 games, pounced on the loose pass and placed the ball just inside the post.
However, Tottenham were level 11 minutes later. Eriksen, arguably the best player on the pitch, delivered a teasing cross from the left that Wes Brown tried to clear only to see it ricochet in off Adebayor.
Kane scored his first Premier League goal after the break. Eriksen was again the supply line, finding the 20-year-old Englishman with an in-swinging ball that was tucked away from close range.
The Dane was pulling the strings in attack and moments later demonstrated his own ability in front of goal with well-placed sidefoot effort past Mannone.
Sunderland were then caught out again in defence, when Brown's attempt to head the ball clear found Kane, whose shot was saved by the Sunderland keeper only for Adebayor to touch in.
And deep into injury time, substitute Sigurdsson extended the advantage with a thumping finish.
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This huge win will temper the pre-match speculation surrounding Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood's future.
A run of three defeats in the last four league games, reports strongly linking Dutch coach Louis Van Gaal to the job and a club statement released earlier in the day helped intensify that speculation.
But Sherwood dismissed the hullabaloo, stating he was focused on the first of his "six cup finals". Five more similar performances would help his cause.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 5, Sunderland 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 5, Sunderland 1.
Attempt missed. Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Andros Townsend following a corner.
Corner,  Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Craig Gardner.
Attempt blocked. Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Emmanuel Adebayor.
Goal!  Tottenham Hotspur 5, Sunderland 1. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Younes Kaboul following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Santiago Vergini (Sunderland).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Milos Veljkovic replaces Paulinho.
Attempt saved. Craig Gardner (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal!  Tottenham Hotspur 4, Sunderland 1. Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Andros Townsend replaces Aaron Lennon.
Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Vlad Chiriches.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Gylfi Sigurdsson replaces Nacer Chadli.
Attempt saved. Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Rose.
Goal!  Tottenham Hotspur 3, Sunderland 1. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Foul by Paulinho (Tottenham Hotspur).
Liam Bridcutt (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Vlad Chiriches (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fabio Borini (Sunderland).
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Adam Johnson (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Paulinho (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ki Sung-Yueng (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Attempt missed. Ignacio Scocco (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Fabio Borini with a headed pass.
Foul by Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur).
Marcos Alonso (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sunderland. Craig Gardner replaces Carlos Cuéllar.
Substitution, Sunderland. Ignacio Scocco replaces Lee Cattermole.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Corner,  Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Lee Cattermole.
Attempt blocked. Paulinho (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Attempt saved. Fabio Borini (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ki Sung-Yueng.
Corner,  Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Liam Bridcutt.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Naughton (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Emmanuel Adebayor.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Delay in match Wes Brown (Sunderland) because of an injury.


A long-awaited £450m waterside development could be taken over by a foreign investor.

Developers want to build a hotel and casino on land reclaimed from Southampton's River Test.
Its current investor, KMG Capital Markets, said the Royal Pier Waterfront scheme now had "buildability concerns".
Developers RPW Southampton Ltd said it hoped the new investor would buy the rights to develop the land "within three to four months".
Project director Nick Condon said the scheme needed new funding to progress.
Southampton City Council, which owns Mayflower Park where the 14-acre extension is proposed, said it still had "confidence" in the project.
Plans to revamp the waterfront include reclaiming land from the river.
But in its latest report to shareholders, KMG said surveys of the river bed had shown "significant concerns with buildability".
The firm said a new "concrete basement structure" had been proposed to resolve issues with a deep layer of "contaminated silt".
A plan to build an extra 450 flats to make the project "viable" had been shelved following opposition from landowners, the report added.
It said increased costs, together with economic uncertainty caused by Brexit, had "caused significant impact on the value of this asset".
The council chose an initial preferred developer, Morgan Sindall Investments, in 2011.
RPW submitted an outline planning application in 2015 saying building work would start the following year.
However, the application for a "gourmet epicurean market", upmarket shops and approximately 730 flats, is yet to be approved by the council.
Council leader Simon Letts said he had recently held meetings with two potential investors.
He said: "Discussions are quite advanced and I have some confidence that it will progress."


Wales captain Sam Warburton will miss Friday's match with Pau with a neck injury.

Warburton has been out for three weeks after suffering a fractured cheekbone.
Cardiff Blues say Warburton is completely recovered from the cheekbone injury, but is suffering with "residual stiffness in his neck".
Warburton had a metal plate inserted in the injury suffered against Leinster and said he had been given the all-clear to return.
"From a head point of view the plate is absolutely fine to play now," said the 2013 British and Irish Lions captain.
Warburton is still hoping to lead Wales against Australia in Cardiff on 5 November.
Blues face Pau at the Arms Park after winning their opening Challenge Cup game at Bristol 33-20.
Warburton says there were no issues in recovering from his cheek bone injury.
"It was a fractured cheekbone - it sounds worse than it was - it was only a minor fracture," he said.
"I had the operation just under two weeks ago and they say as soon as the stitches have healed you're OK to go.
"The stitches have come out, it's all healed up nicely - just protect it with a bit of tape so it's a nice quick turnaround."
The inch-long metal plate inserted in the injury will remain in place.


A 77-year-old driver whose mistakes caused the death of a woman taking part in a charity cycle ride has been spared jail because of his age.

Kenneth McClelland overtook without making proper checks and collided with Sally Preece who was coming the other way on her bike in September 2014.
Ms Preece, from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, died of her injuries the following day.
The crash happened on the A85 near Killin, Stirling.
The 49-year-old cyclist was a week into a nine-day Land's-End-to-John-O'Groats cycle to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society.
McClelland, from Largs in Ayrshire, had earlier admitted causing her death by careless driving.
At Stirling Sheriff Court, the sheriff sentenced McClelland to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work, banned him from driving for five years, and ordered him to re-sit his test before ever driving again.
Sheriff William Gilchrist said McClelland's offence could have led to imprisonment.
"However, given your age, I do not think it would be appropriate to impose a short period of imprisonment, which would be essentially a matter of weeks," he said.
The pensioner, who suffers from angina and arthritis, was returning with his wife from a caravan holiday, when he overtook a "slow, elderly campervan", and the car behind it on a mountain pass, ploughing into mother-of-two who was coming the other way on her bike.
The wing mirror of his Volvo S40 caught Mrs Preece's handlebars, and then she was caught by the wheel of a bike that McClelland himself was carrying on a rack on the back of his car.
She was thrown more than 30 metres, coming to rest in the middle of the single-carriageway A85 trunk road.
Solicitor Alexander Currie, defending, said McClelland, who had a 55-year unblemished driving record before the accident, "tendered his condolences" to Mrs Preece's family.
Sheriff Gilchrist told McClelland: "These were tragic events, obviously for Mrs Sally Preece, but also for her family.
"I have read victim impact statements from her husband, her mother and her father, and it is quite clear, as it inevitably would be, that they are suffering terribly as a result of the loss of Sally.
"The consequences of your driving that day were the most serious -- they resulted in a fatality."
Mrs Preece's husband Phil and other members of her family were in court to see McClelland sentenced.
Mr Preece looked dumbstruck as the sheriff announced that McClelland would avoid jail, but afterwards he refused to comment on the outcome.


Donald Trump has beaten Hillary Clinton in the race to be president of the United States.

53%
of men; 41% backed Clinton
42%
of women; 54% voted for Clinton
58% of white voters - 37% backed Clinton
8% of black voters - 88% voted for Clinton
29% of Hispanics - 65% supported Clinton
Much of the narrative ahead of the election had been that Mr Trump was supported by angry, white men. To get an insight into which groups actually voted for him, you can look at the exit poll conducted across the country by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, a consortium of ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News.
It is very difficult to get a genuinely representative sample of how more than 120 million people have voted. It is a big survey - of almost 25,000 voters - and they are the best figures available, but they should be used with caution.
It throws up some odd results, such as that 10% of people who support the idea of a wall along the Mexican border nonetheless voted for Mrs Clinton, while 5% of people who thought the next president should continue the policies of Barack Obama voted for Mr Trump.
Bear in mind that the proportions are unlikely to add up to 100%, because not everybody answered all the questions and there were other candidates standing in the election, who received about 5% of the votes.
The poll suggests that 53% of men voted for Mr Trump, with 41% voting for Mrs Clinton - those proportions are almost exactly reversed for women.
Among white voters (who made up 70% of voters), Mr Trump won 58% to Mrs Clinton's 37%, while the Democratic candidate won the support of a huge majority of black voters - 88% to Mr Trump's 8% - and Hispanic voters - 65% to his 29%.
Looking specifically at white women, they favoured Mr Trump, with 53% supporting him compared with 43% for Mrs Clinton.
It has been widely reported that the 29% of Hispanic voters who supported Mr Trump was greater than the 27% who voted for the Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, despite Mr Trump's comments about Mexicans and plans to build a wall on the US's southern border.
Mrs Clinton had the majority of voters on lower incomes, with 52% of those on incomes below $50,000 (Â£40,000) a year supporting her compared with 41% voting for her opponent. Among those earning more than $50,000, it was 49% to Mr Trump compared with 47% to Mrs Clinton.
Mrs Clinton's support among those on incomes below $30,000 was well down on President Obama's in 2012. He had 63% support from that group compared with 35% voting for Mitt Romney, while Mrs Clinton had 53% support to Mr Trump's 41%.
There was also a big swing for voters without a high school diploma, with Mr Trump leading 51% to Mrs Clinton's 45%. Four years ago, President Obama had 64% support from this group compared with Mitt Romney's 35%.
Mr Trump won the rural vote by 62% to 34% and the suburban vote by 50% to 45%, while Mrs Clinton won the urban vote by 59% to 35%.
And he had a clear majority among those aged 45 and over, while Mrs Clinton was more popular with younger voters.
There were stories before the election of Republicans planning to vote for Mrs Clinton because they did not like their own candidate, but the exit poll actually suggested that 7% of people who identified themselves as Republicans had voted for Mrs Clinton, while 9% of those who identified as Democrats had voted for Mr Trump.
Of people who gave their opinion of the candidate they voted for, 41% strongly favoured them, 32% had reservations and 25% said they disliked the opponents.
Also among the slightly odd findings of the poll, 18% of respondents who felt that Mr Trump was not qualified to be president nonetheless voted for him, as did 20% of those who felt he did not have the necessary temperament.
And 2% of respondents who said they would feel scared if Mr Trump won, still voted for him, compared with 1% who voted for Mrs Clinton, despite saying they would be scared if she won.


AFC Wimbledon captain Barry Fuller will miss the rest of the season with a pectoral muscle injury.

The 32-year-old sustained the injury in the draw with Charlton Athletic on 11 February, and is due to undergo surgery this weekend.
"We had that news on Wednesday morning which was a bit of a blow, particularly for Barry," Dons boss Neal Ardley said.
"This puts him out for more than a five-month period. Barry is very influential and will be missed."


Brexit and the UK's hung parliament should not hold up crucial projects such as the expansion of Heathrow airport, the government's top infrastructure adviser has said.

There must be a limit to the "dither and delay", said Lord Adonis, head of the National Infrastructure Commission.
He told the BBC that Brexit meant the UK had to be "open for business".
The government approved a third runway at Heathrow last October, but it was not mentioned in the Queen's Speech.
The National Infrastructure Commission is an independent body that provides the government with impartial, expert advice on major long-term infrastructure challenges.
It was set up by former Chancellor George Osborne in 2015 to oversee Â£100bn of spending on national projects.
Lord Adonis, a former transport secretary, has the backing of business groups including the CBI in his effort to press ministers for action.
He told the BBC's Today programme: "At the moment, Heathrow is running at capacity. We cannot be open for business if you can't get in and out of the country.
"It's 14 years since the original decision in principle was taken to proceed with Heathrow.
"There really is a limit to the dither and delay that we can engage in as a country when it comes to these massively important national infrastructure projects."
Lord Adonis also called for the government to press ahead with plans for a new Â£18bn nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, despite last week's report from the National Audit Office calling it "a risky and expensive project".
He rejected suggestions that the government should rethink the project, saying: "All that 'think again' would do is put in jeopardy a large proportion of our electricity generating capacity for the future."


A German woman narrowly escaped injury after picking up an object she believed to be amber but which then spontaneously combusted.

She had plucked the small object from wet sand by the Elbe river near Hamburg and put it in a pocket of her jacket, which she laid on a bench.
Bystanders soon alerted the 41-year-old to the fact her jacket was ablaze.
The stone was actually white phosphorus, which had reacted with the air as it dried.
Police say the two are easily confused.
They are warning local beachcombers to collect amber in tins, saying pieces of phosphorus dropped in incendiary bombs by the Allies in World War Two still wash up.
White phosphorous burns at 1,300 C (2,370 F) and its flames cannot be put out using water. It can cause horrific burns that often require skin grafts.
Fortunately, this time, only the jacket was damaged.


Police have warned about the dangers of legal highs after two people in Stirling were hospitalised.

An 18-year-old man fell ill earlier this week after ingesting a legal high substance. He was treated at Forth Valley Royal Hospital.
The following day a 26-year-old woman fell and suffered a head injury after taking a legal high.
Police described the consumption of these types of substances as "a dangerous game of chance".
Neither the man nor the woman suffered life-threatening injuries and both were said to be recovering well.
Police said legal highs, sometimes referred to as herbal highs, plant food or research chemicals, are psychoactive drugs and often contain a mix of unknown substances, many of which could be dangerous.
Ch Supt David Flynn said: "Anyone who takes legal highs, or herbal highs as they are also known, can have no idea of what they actually contain. The reality is that they could have been mixed with illegal drugs or other potentially harmful substances and could be putting their life in danger.
"It is a dangerous game of chance and the drug taker places their life in the hands of others every time they take these substances.
"People should be aware that some of these substances do contain drugs that are controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, with more of these drugs being made illegal as they are identified. This means that charges can and will be brought."


A late burst from Matt Henry gave Worcestershire the edge over Gloucestershire at Bristol, despite an unbeaten 81 from Chris Dent.

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Resuming on 297-5, Liam Norwell claimed the crucial wickets of Ben Cox (69) and Joe Clarke (135) as Worcestershire were bowled out for 411, a lead of 31.
Dent hit 10 fours to help the hosts reach 204-4 with six overs remaining.
But Henry bowled George Hawkins and Kieran Noema-Barnett as Gloucestershire closed on 217-6, a lead of 186 runs.
The Kiwi bowler enjoyed a fruitful day with the bat and ball as his 3-60 followed an entertaining 42 off 40 balls which gave Worcestershire their slender first-innings lead.


Will Young has said the issue of students using the word "gay" as an insult in schools needs to be dealt with.

He says local councils have not been taking the problem of homophobic bullying seriously enough.
Writing in the Independent on Sunday, the Pop Idol winner says: "Through the various seminars I attended I picked up one recurring theme, teachers and heads of schools were more than often not backed up by local authorities when it came to homophobic language."
The 34-year-old has revealed he's spoken to the Education Secretary Michael Gove about his concerns.
The two met at a conference in London earlier this year and Young said Mr Gove's reaction was "encouraging".
Research carried out in schools last year by the charity Stonewall found 55% of gay young people experience homophobic bullying and 99% hear the phrases "that's so gay" or "you're so gay" in school.
In July the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, launched a campaign to try to stop homophobic bullying in Church of England schools.
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The jacket, hat and whip of big-screen adventurer Indiana Jones will be displayed for the first time in the UK as part of a new exhibition in Cardiff.

The famous items, worn by Harrison Ford in the films, will be displayed next year at the National Museum Cardiff.
Fans will be able to see the items as part of the Treasures: Adventure in Archaeology display from 26 January.
The original trilogy, directed by Steven Spielberg, made more than Â£560m at the box office in the 1980s.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth and most recent film in the franchise, was released in 2008.


Success can have a sting in the tail, and in Andy Murray's case it is the surprise provoked by a Grand Slam quarter-final defeat.

Before Stanislas Wawrinka's breathtaking straight-sets victory in the last eight of the US Open, the Scot had reached at least the semi-finals in nine of his previous 10 majors,  equalling Fred Perry's overall British record of 13 in so doing.
Yet here at Flushing Meadows, Murray's serve lacked some pop and his groundstrokes were not laced with their customary attacking intent.
The intense humidity and the wind seemed to bother him more than they otherwise might, and he became increasingly fractious as he strove, in vain, to attain the high standards he sets himself.
He even wrote off his racquet after losing the first set to Wawrinka, in a flash of anger rarely seen since he began working with coach Ivan Lendl nearly two years ago.
The Swiss produced a golden performance - full of rasping baseline winners and devastatingly good volleys - but Murray still made too many unforced and uncharacteristic errors, and threw in a few double faults at critical times.
Two months ago, he recovered from two sets to love down to beat Fernando Verdasco in the Wimbledon quarter-final, but he wasn't playing with the same belief here in New York.
And Murray was honest enough to admit, as he left the court and headed directly to the interview room, that winning Olympic gold, the US Open and Wimbledon within a 12-month period had taken its toll.
"When you work hard for something for a lot of years," he said, "it's going to take a bit of time to really fire yourself up and get yourself training, you know, 110%.
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"Physically, I played some extremely tough matches in that period. Mentally, as well, it was very challenging for me... the last few games of Wimbledon to you guys may not seem like much, but to me it was extremely challenging."
The 1987 Wimbledon champion Pat Cash warned before this event that it would be very difficult for Murray to climb another peak so soon after winning at SW19.
And Boris Becker - who did manage to win both Wimbledon and the US Open in 1989 - told BBC Sport just how tough it is to win back to back Grand Slams.
"If it was so easy, you would do it every week. He's certainly had a few very emotional highs over the past 18 months, and it's not easy to digest that, and to come to terms with that and find new motivation and inspiration, and that's what coming across. He's doing everything he's supposed to do but the extra 10% is missing."
Becker thinks Murray should now set himself new goals, so that he has new reasons to work harder. He suggests targeting victory in the Australian Open, trying to become the world number one, and attempting to win the World Tour Finals for the first time.
Murray pours his heart and soul into every Grand Slam, and it has reaped handsome dividends, so he's unlikely to change tack too much - even if his results in the Masters Series events are surprisingly erratic for a player of such outstanding ability.
I am confident that Murray will have rediscovered his vim and vigour in time for January's Australian Open, where he should once again feel he is at least the equal of every other player in the draw.
But there are signs that winning Grand Slams are about to become even tougher.
The semi-finals used to be the almost exclusive preserve of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray (with David Ferrer as a very hard working understudy), but this year Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Juan Martin del Potro, Jerzy Janowicz, Richard Gasquet and now Stan Wawrinka have all reached the last four.
And as they grow in confidence, so too will the threat they pose.


A man has been charged with causing the death of a driver in a crash in County Durham.

The 50-year-old driver of a Seat Ibiza, which crashed with a BMW 320 in Shotton Colliery on Saturday, died at the scene.
Durham Police said a 26-year-old man from Hartlepool had been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
Two men from the Shotton area, aged 33 and 28, were bailed after there arrest on suspicion of assisting an offender.


(Close): Standard Chartered was the biggest faller on the market, dropping 8.7% after the Asia-focused bank announced plans for a big rights issue.

The bank said it aimed to raise $5.1bn through the rights issue and would cut 15,000 jobs by 2018.
The news came as Standard Chartered announced a third-quarter pre-tax loss of $139m for the three months to September.
After falling for much of the day, the FTSE 100 index closed higher.
It rose by 0.34%, or 21.81 points, to 6,383.61, boosted by oil firms and miners, helped by a rise in the price of crude oil.
Shares in housebuilders fell after broker Liberum cut its ratings on a number of companies in the sector arguing valuations were "too optimistic".
Taylor Wimpey fell 5%, Barratt Developments dropped 3.85% and Persimmon was 2.4% lower.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.11% against the dollar to $1.540 but rose 0.55% against the euro to â‚¬1.4074.