For his first and last spring Budget, Philip Hammond did seem to have a spring in his step.

He smiled as he held the red box aloft in Downing Street, knowing that inside his Budget speech painted a better picture of the public finances than had been previously predicted.
In the House of Commons, his first sentence from the despatch box described an economy that had "confounded commentators" with its "robust growth".
But despite the chancellor's confident demeanour through a speech littered with jokes and jibes at Labour, this was a Budget steeped in caution.
Borrowing figures were better than expected, but the UK still has a hefty deficit, so true to his nickname "spreadsheet Phil" wasn't prepared to splash the cash.
He brushed off the suggestion that lower borrowing made the case for more spending and spoke of the need for responsibility.
He might have relaxed the rules set by his predecessor around eliminating the deficit, but Mr Hammond made the case for balancing the books and placing the economy on a "strong and stable" platform ahead of Brexit.
The UK's impending departure from the EU was barely mentioned, but undoubtedly shaped this Budget.
With Brexit negotiations approaching, the chancellor was keen to keep any financial flexibility to one side in preparation for the uncertainty ahead.
Giveaways were followed by takeaways; measures to help businesses facing hefty rate rises preceded a rise in National Insurance contributions for the self-employed.
There were echoes of George Osborne when the chancellor spoke of the need for a strong economy in order to improve the lot of ordinary working people, as the prime minister has long promised.
But while his speech was heavy on rhetoric, it wasn't packed full of announcements compared to budgets of the past.
Mr Hammond's self-imposed economic restraint was designed to reassure, but Labour called it complacent, criticising the lack of investment in key public services or measures to raise living standards.
And while the government wants to portray confidence about the Brexit process, the chancellor's caution shows he's not entirely convinced there won't be some bumps in the road.


There are "strong" links between June's Tunisia beach massacre and the killings at the Bardo Museum in the country's capital in March, British police say.

Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officers say they are now connecting the two attacks based on evidence.
The Bardo Museum attack saw 22 people killed, while 38 tourists, including 30 British nationals, were killed in the resort of Sousse in June.
The militant group Islamic State (IS) have said they are behind both attacks.
Tunisian authorities have arrested 150 people to date over the Sousse attack.
Of those, 15 have been charged with terrorism offences.
Those charged face allegations including being involved in a terrorist plot, not informing police of a plan and providing logistical or other support.
A trial in relation to the murders is not expected to take place for up to 18 months.
Commander Richard Walton, of the Metropolitan Police, which supplied officers to help the Tunisian investigation into the massacre, gave no details of the suspected connection between the attacks but said it was based on "strong" evidence.
Tunisian authorities have also drawn a connection between the attacks, saying that the Sousse attacker likely trained at the same Libyan jihadi camp as the two Bardo attackers.
In Sousse a gunman, who was later identified as Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui, opened fire on the beach after coming in from the sea using a jet ski or speedboat.
After shooting on the beach, he entered the Hotel Imperial Marhaba, where explosives were detonated and more tourists were shot. Rezgui then ran out of the hotel and police shot him dead.
Tunisian authorities believe the 23-year-old's suspected accomplices provided a Kalashnikov assault rifle and helped Rezgui get to the scene, interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told AP.
Mr Walton also disclosed that Rezgui's body has not been claimed due to the shame his family feel and fear of reprisals if they do so.
In Tunis - Rana Jawad, BBC North Africa correspondent
The announcement by the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism unit is not surprising, but it provides some credence to what has so far remained cryptic rhetoric from Tunisian officials.
Less than a week after Saifeddine Rezqui's rampage in Sousse, authorities here said the gunman had "likely" trained in Libya at the same time as the Bardo Museum assailants.
How and why they reached that conclusion was unclear.
By mid-July security services here had arrested more than 100 people they describe as being "suspected members of terrorist gangs" - in the majority of these cases, it's unknown what happens to these detainees or what "gangs" they belong to.
The Bardo Museum in Tunis was stormed by three gunmen on 18 March. British, Japanese, French, Italian and Colombian tourists were among the 22 they killed.
Witnesses said the gunmen, carrying assault rifles, opened fire on tourists outside the museum in front of a row of buses before charging inside and taking hostages.
Two of the gunmen - identified by the authorities as Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui - were killed by security forces.
Nine people have now been arrested in connection with the museum attack.


Jon Rahm is "amazed" by comparisons with his "idol" Seve Ballesteros but says he can never live up to what his fellow Spaniard achieved in the game.

Rahm arrives at Royal Birkdale for The Open aged 22, the same as Ballesteros when he won the first of three titles.
The United States-based Spaniard has won twice since turning professional last year, and risen to seventh in the world rankings, from 137 in January.
"If I do a quarter of what Seve did, I'd probably be satisfied," said Rahm.
Ballesteros, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008 and died in 2011, aged 54, won two Masters titles to add to his three Claret Jugs and was loved for his charismatic personality and revered for his ingenuity on the course.
He had shot to prominence in 1976 when he finished runner-up at Royal Birkdale and he played his final Open in 2006.
Rahm said: "I wasn't fortunate to be able to watch Seve much.
"I've seen his video here in 1976, his one winning in 1979 about a million times, how he plays the back nine without hitting the fairway, and makes four under par, it's absolutely unbelievable.
"To whoever compares me to him, I'm never going to be Seve. Seve was so unique, so special. If I'm somewhat compared to him, to see the hopes people have in me, it's amazing.
"I try to take it as a positive and embrace it. He's a great idol of mine and I try to emulate a lot of things he used to do, and a lot of that is the inspirational power he had, the way he brought masses together and people together."
Rahm won the Irish Open two weeks ago - a tournament Ballesteros won three times - to add to his Farmers Insurance Open victory on the PGA Tour in January.
After winning by six shots at Portstewart, Rahm said it proved to him that he could "perform properly on a links course".
He added: "I know I can read the putts right, I know I can interpret the wind and I can hit the shots and I can manage myself around the golf course properly enough to have a chance to win The Open."


Plymouth Argyle director Simon Hallett has invested £4.1m into the club to help finance the building of a new grandstand at Home Park.

The Plymouth-born USA-based businessman has increased his stake in the League Two club to 41.9%, making him the second-largest shareholder after owner and chairman James Brent.
Hallett will be repaid over the next 30 years at a rate of 'less than 3%'.
Argyle had plans for their Mayflower grandstand approved back in 2013.
All the loans currently owed to Hallett, Brent and directors Tony Wrathall have been turned into equity in the club, reducing Argyle's debt level.
"It's a labour of love for me," Hallett, who has supported the club for over 50 years, told BBC South West.
"The new investment made by me is clearly not made on commercial terms, it's been made on very soft terms, so it's mine and my wife's contribution to Plymouth Argyle and towards the city of Plymouth.
"The return of our money is spread over 30 years, I'm 61, my life expectancy is 81, so I don't expect this money to be repaid in my lifetime," added Hallett, who says he has no ambition to become the club's chairman.
No date has yet been set for work to start on the new grandstand, but Brent hopes it will go ahead by the start of 2018, if planning applications are approved later this year, and be ready by 2020.
However, plans to build a 10-screen cinema, ice rink and a hotel on the site have been shelved.
"There was an alternative development in the city centre that attracted the restaurants out of Home Park," Brent told BBC South West.
"The difference between that scheme and this scheme is this one is not dependent on enabling development, it's being funded through additional investment from Simon Hallett and his wife."
Brent added: "It creates an environment for our existing fans that is modern and 21st century. The old grandstand is wonderful but very dated and doesn't work for modern purpose.
"It creates an environment where we can bring new fans in and it creates a revenue stream which will enable us to invest back into the club and the first team.
"The estimates are that once the conferencing and banqueting is up and running we'll be generating additional net income of over a million pounds a year at this level, and when we're in the Championship £2m a year, that's every year and inflation-proofed, so it makes a huge difference to what we can do for the football club. "


A government proposal to bar HIV patients from using public bathhouses has been condemned in China as discriminatory.

The proposal orders public bathhouses to display signs prohibiting "people with sexually transmitted diseases, Aids and infectious skin diseases".
It has been posted online for public consultation by China's State Council.
But Aids activists and ordinary users of Weibo, China's version of Twitter have strongly criticised the move.
"There is no evidence that people can be infected with HIV in public bathhouses," Wu Hao, from the Beijing Research Centre on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Aids, was quoted as saying by the Beijing Morning News.
"Apparently, the rule to bar HIV patients from entering public bathhouses is way over the top," he said.
The paper also quoted an unnamed Aids activist as saying he was extremely disappointed with the draft proposal.
"Banning HIV patients from using public bathhouses and spas will only exacerbate people's misunderstanding, discrimination and fear of HIV/Aids, and will not help reduce the transmission of the disease," he said.
The proposal has also been condemned by the United Nations' Aids agency.
Hedia Belhadj, China country coordinator for UNAIDS, said it was concerned by the provision and called for it to be removed, the AFP news agency reports.
She said that there was no risk of transmission of HIV in a spa or bathhouse setting.
"UNAIDS recommends that restrictions preventing people living with HIV from accessing bath houses, spas and other similar facilities be removed from the final draft of this policy," Ms Belhadj told AFP.
The proposal has also drawn strong criticism from China's Weibo users.
One user said that the decision to ban HIV patients using public bathhouses must be based on scientific facts about the ways HIV was transmitted.
"In reality, many public bathhouses have already implemented the ban. The practice is discriminatory and must be stopped, and must not be institutionalised.
"HIV patients are already very vulnerable. They should be protected and respected. We must not further harm them with discrimination," the user said .
But there are also Weibo users who agree with the ban.
One Weibo user said that HIV patients should be advised not to use public bathhouses or at least they should check whether they have any open wounds before entering.
According to government figures released in 2012, China has 430,000 people infected with HIV.
But the United Nations has said that the real figure could be 620,000 to 940,000.
Among them, 146,000 to 162,00 have developed Aids.


NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have warned businesses they may have to charge them to accept deposits due to low interest rates.

The move, if enacted, would make them the first UK banks to introduce negative interest rates, in effect, charging to deposit money.
"Global interest rates remain at very low levels... this could result in us charging interest on credit balances," it wrote in a letter to customers.
Personal customers are not affected.
However, charities and community groups are counted as business clients and so would be affected by the changes, the banks said.
A spokesperson for Royal Bank of Scotland, which owns NatWest, told the BBC the letter was sent to just under 1.3 million of the combined business and commercial customers of the two banks.
"We will consider any necessary action in the event of the Bank of England base rate falling below zero, but will do our utmost to protect our customers from any impacts," they said.
Jack: The weird world of negative interest rates
The Federation of Small Businesses, which has 170,000 members, called on other banks to update customers of any changes to their Business Current Account (BCA) "during this uncertain economic period".
Mike Cherry, National Chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said the warning from Natwest and RBS "will be deeply concerning to small firms".
The FSB also urged the Bank of England to consider the impact on smaller firms of cutting interest rates.
Mike Amey, a managing director at investment firm Pimco, said the two banks were "giving themselves wiggle room in the very unlikely event" that the Bank turns the official interest rate negative.
"The Bank of England sets the interest rate next week, so the fact they put this out this week... is possibly a bit of a reminder to the Bank of England there are negative consequences," he told the BBC.
UK interest rates have been unchanged since the Bank of England cut them to a record low of 0.5% in March 2009 at the height of the financial crisis.
The Bank kept them on hold earlier this month, despite speculation it would cut rates further.
But Bank governor Mark Carney has said it is likely "some monetary policy easing" will be required to boost the UK economy in response to the Brexit vote.
However, he has said he does not favour rates falling any lower than 0.25%.
Nevertheless, some economists believe that rates could still be cut to zero or lower later this year.
When the rate goes below zero, the normal relationship between banks and customers is reversed. Instead of the lender getting paid interest by the bank for allowing it to use their money, the lender has to pay the bank for holding their money.
The underlying idea is much the same as cutting interest rates in more normal times. The aim is to encourage more borrowing and spending by firms and less saving.
In 2014, the European Central Bank was the first major central bank to introduce negative interest rates, with the aim of encouraging banks to lend to businesses rather than hold on to money.


A fire broke out on the set of EastEnders a few hours after the BBC soap broadcast "live inserts" as part of 30th anniversary celebrations.

Firefighters were called to the set in the BBC's Elstree studios in Hertfordshire just after 23:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Flames were reported in parts of a building on Albert Square.
A firework is believed to have caused the fire, which did not lead to serious damage.
The blaze, which was in the first floor and roof space of the building, was soon "contained and extinguished" by crews, said Ian Parkhouse from Hertfordshire fire and rescue service.
"We're pleased that we were able to deal with this incident quickly, so it shouldn't affect the 30-year celebrations taking place this week," he said.
A spokeswoman for the soap said: "There was a very small fire on set on Tuesday night after rehearsals had finished.
"It has not affected any #EELive week plans and nobody was harmed," she added.
The show is broadcasting live inserts in all its episodes this week, and will screen a fully live episode on Friday to celebrate its anniversary.


After one month on the International Space Station (ISS), Tim Peake is going to be the  first British person ever to do a spacewalk.

That means that he will step outside the ISS, and take a walk in space.
The ISS is 250 miles above the earth, and travelling at 17,500 miles per hour.
Tim will be joined by his crewmate, Tim Kopra who has done a spacewalk before.
Before they can go outside the spacecraft, astronauts have to put on a spacesuit to keep them safe.
There's no air in space, so the suits are filled with oxygen for them to breathe.
Once they've got their suits on, the astronauts breathe pure oxygen for a few hours, to get rid of other gases in their bodies which could make them ill in space.
Once they are ready to go, the astronauts go through a special door, into an airlock.
The airlock has two doors. Once they're in it, astronauts lock the first door tightly behind them, so that none of the air in the spacecraft will escape when they open the second door to go outside.
When they are outside, it's really important that they don't float away, so the astronauts use special ropes to keep them tied to the spacecraft.
They also tie all of their tools to their spacesuits so that they don't float away either.
In case the rope ever failed, astronauts have got a special backpack with a jet that they can control so that they could fly back to the spacecraft.
Floating in space is a lot like floating in water, so astronauts practice their spacewalk on earth, in a big swimming pool. For every hour that they'll spend on the spacewalk, they practice for seven hours in the pool.
Astronauts also practice using a virtual reality headset and special gloves. It's a bit like playing a video game that looks and feels just like doing a spacewalk.
There are lots of reasons for astronauts to go on spacewalks:
Tim Peake and his crewmate Tim Kopra are going to replace a broken bit of equipment called a voltage regulator, to get the ISS back to full power.
For more amazing space facts, check out this guide on BBC Bitesize.


Huddersfield Town have sacked boss Chris Powell after just three league wins this season.

The 46-year-old former Charlton boss was appointed Terriers manager in September 2014 and guided them to safety in the Championship last season.
However, Tuesday's 2-2 draw at Reading saw them drop to 18th in the table.
Town assistant Alex Dyer has also left the club, so academy manager Mark Lillis has been put in temporary charge for the game against Leeds on Saturday.
Terriers chief executive Nigel Clibbens said in a statement: "We have decided to make this change after very careful deliberation.
"It is made with the long term interests of the club in mind. It signals a change of direction by the club and a new approach.
"Chris worked to represent Huddersfield Town to the best of his ability; to develop us, improve us and take us forward. He now leaves us well placed for the future challenges ahead."
Powell is the fifth Championship manager to lose his job this season.
He gave no indication that he expected the match against the Royals to be his final one in charge of the club.
"I suppose when I wake up in the morning it'll feel like a good point but as I stand here now I am disappointed," he told BBC Radio Leeds after the game.
"The level of performance was fantastic when you look at the fact we had two players making their first league starts."


More than 60 people died and thousands were forced to flee their villages when Hindu-Muslim riots erupted in two districts of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 2013.

The violence, sparked by the alleged harassment of a young Hindu woman by a Muslim man, lasted two days.
A few days later, seven women, all Muslims, went to the police alleging that they were gang-raped during the violence that broke out in their villages. The police took a year to arrest all the 29 accused, who were later released on bail.
The trials were supposed to be completed in special fast track courts within two months. But nearly four years on, the women are still waiting for justice.
Amnesty International's Mariya Salim has worked on a report tracing the legal journey of the women and says there is a clear lack of will on the part of the administration to ensure they get justice.
"Research tells us that there have been only three convictions in rape cases during Hindu-Muslim communal riots since the country's partition, and that hasn't changed even now. We have seen delays at every stage", Ms Salim says.
The BBC's Divya Arya travelled to the area to listen to the women's stories.
"No video recording and no photos on the internet," was how Rubina greeted me when I visited her new home, 30km from the village where she lived before the riots.
In the aftermath, many Muslims were forced to leave and settle elsewhere.
The Muzaffarnagar-Shamli districts are now dotted with ghettos, where those displaced by the riots have bought land and constructed houses after the Supreme Court directed the state government to pay them compensation.
Rubina is a middle-aged woman. She stood before me with a baby resting on her elbow and shoulders and two young children tugging at her tunic.
"I am tired of having my grandchildren complain to my daughter that they are humiliated at school because some child saw their 'rape victim' grandmother's photo," she told me later.
Rubina said she was gang raped by four men, including her neighbours.
"I fell unconscious, and when I came to, I just ran, with everyone else in the village."
They had no time to pack or take any money with them.
Together they lived in relief camps for months on end. Shared trauma and difficult circumstances bred strength and sisterhood.
But then there were the threats.
"The accused threatened to kill my children, so I once retracted my statement, but after my husband and lawyer reassured me I testified before the judge with the complete truth."
Charges have still not been framed in her case, despite her giving testimony, undergoing medical tests and attending endless rounds of court hearings.
Rubina said she didn't see the point of continuing. Struggling to make ends meet, she feels uprooted and lost.
"All I've got is the tag of fallen woman, I'm exhausted. Why should I pursue the case?"
Just like the other alleged rape survivors, Nafeesa cannot read or write.
"I had only ever heard of the Delhi gang rape incident before my own rape, so I thought the accused would get punished as soon as I identified them in my complaint," she said.
"Little did I know these cases can take so long."
Nafeesa grew quiet as if remembering that night all over again, where she says she was raped by five men, all known to her.
She alleged they threatened to kill her two-year-old son to stop her screaming.
Nafeesa now lives in a colony of the riot-displaced only 2km from her village.
"We would never go back there, there is nothing left for us, and they (Hindus) would dare not come here. We are safe here among people of our own religion," she said.
But it's a tough life. Many of these colonies have no electricity connections, drainage or roads.
Then she said: "Sometimes I wonder why I filed this case. I haven't got any justice, and the threat to my life still remains."
"They [the accused men] live in their villages and roam free, they lost nothing; we lost everything."
Her voice stood out clear, crisp and fresh. If there were any signs of fatigue with the long legal battle, she hid them well.
"I won't leave them unpunished", she said over the phone.
"I haven't lost courage and I haven't forgotten anything, they will have to pay for my countless sleepless nights."
Khalida is exceptionally brave. She has left Uttar Pradesh, where she alleges she was attacked by three men during the riots. They found her in fields where she had fled.
She is now in hiding with her children, but I was able to speak to her after meeting her husband.
He told me that the threats to their family are still grave and the pace of the trial very slow, so Khalida's lawyer has petitioned that her case be heard outside Uttar Pradesh.
But that petition was filed a year ago and is still waiting to be heard.
Just like the other women who have come forward, their livelihoods have also been disrupted by riots and fighting the rape case is as much a legal matter as it is a financial one.
But Khalida's husband told me he'd go to any length to support his wife's quest for justice.
As I began to hang up the phone, Khalida said: "He is very fond of me... I'll continue to fight with his strength."
Names of all the rape survivors have been changed


Hearts head coach Ian Cathro brushed aside questions over his future following the 2-2 draw with Dunfermline that saw his side exit the League Cup.

Only a late goal from Isma Goncalves saved Hearts from defeat within the 90 minutes, but the Championship visitors won 3-1 on penalties.
Even a win in the shoot-out would not have been enough for Hearts, who needed all three points to progress.
"Of course things need to improve," Cathro, 31, told BBC Scotland.
"It's important that today we just talk about today's game. It doesn't need to be anything that's more grand than that."
Don Cowie's opener for Hearts was cancelled out by Joe Cardle's stylish finish.
Declan McManus fired the Pars in front before Goncalves' scrambled equaliser.
The result means Hearts finish third in Group B behind the Pars and Peterhead, who beat Cathro's side in midweek.
That adds to the growing pressure on the former Rio Ave, Valencia and Newcastle coach, who was appointed as Robbie Neilson's replacement in December when the Edinburgh club were third in the Scottish Premiership.
They missed out on a place in the Europa League with a fifth-placed finish last season, while a Scottish Cup defeat by city rivals Hibernian also did not endear him to supporters.
Cathro has lost half of his 30 games in charge and won just eight of them.
When asked if he had a message for the fans who made their feelings known as Cathro headed down the tunnel following the Dunfermline defeat, he said he will "not waste my time making comments or asking for anything".
He added: "I don't say anything, I will quietly continue to do my job professionally, believing in the work that we do.
"If we had the urgency and intensity that we did when we felt that we needed to push at the end for the entirety of the 90 minutes then we'd be discussing a different situation.
"Earlier in the game we were playing reasonably well, we scored a good goal. Dunfermline did well and it's a good individual goal.
"After that we started to be below the levels that we needed to be at. John Souttar is involved in an error for the goal but I take responsibility for that. I think John should have come off at half-time."


All staff at the Michelin factory in Ballymena, County Antrim, have been called to a meeting at 12:00 GMT.

The company has not said what the meeting is for, but political sources have told the BBC "bad news" is expected.
The factory, which has been operating in the town since 1969, employs about 1,000 people.
It makes truck and bus tyres mainly for export to the US.
In recent years, Michelin executives had warned that high energy costs in Northern Ireland have been making the Ballymena plant uncompetitive.
BBC News NI Business Editor John Campbell said he had been told by a source at Michelin that production was to stop at 11:00 GMT for a briefing at 12:00 GMT and that there would be no production on Tuesday night.
Otherwise, he said the source did not know what was happening.


The Northern Ireland Office has signed off on a bid to stop secret files from being accessed during an inquest into the death of a murdered schoolgirl.

Arlene Arkinson, a 15-year-old from Castlederg, County Tyrone, vanished in 1994 and police believe she is dead.
She was last seen with the convicted child killer Robert Howard.
Northern Ireland Office Minister Ben Wallace has approved a Public Interest Immunity (PII) application to withhold documents linked to the case.
The details were revealed at a preliminary hearing into the long-delayed inquest at Belfast's Laganside Court on Friday.
PII applications can be used when it is believed disclosure of state documents could be harmful to the public interest, such as concerns over national security or police informers.
However, the coroner will take the final decision on whether the PPI application will be granted.
Timeline - child killer Robert Howard
Analysis - BBC NI Home Affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney
This is an extraordinary development.
Public Interest Immunity certificates are normally granted in cases where there are concerns about national security.
They have been used many times in court cases during the Troubles.
Reasons given have included the protection of methods the police use to gather intelligence, and protecting the identities and lives of informers.
As far as I am aware, they have never been issued in a case like this one, the killing of a schoolgirl.
The Northern Ireland Office says it has agreed to a request from the PSNI for some information to be redacted, which means it would be blanked out.
We may never know precisely what sensitive information the police are seeking to hold back.
Coroner Brian Sherrard will hear legal submissions on the application on Tuesday and at least part of that hearing is likely to be held in secret.
Even when the coroner makes his ruling, he may not be able to say much about the reasons for his decision.
During Friday's hearing, a barrister for the coroner advised him: "You have to decide whether the materials should be released for the purposes of the inquest."
Howard, who was the main suspect in the Arlene Arkinson murder investigation, died in prison last year aged 71.
In 2005, he was found not guilty of murdering the schoolgirl.
The jury was not informed during his trial that, by then, Howard was already serving life for raping and killing English schoolgirl Hannah Williams in 2001.
In a statement, a Northern Ireland Office spokesperson said: "At the specific request of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, some of the documents submitted to the court in relation to this inquest were subject to careful redactions.
"These related only to material the police judged would compromise their ability to bring murderers, rapists and other serious criminals to justice in future."


Veteran all-rounder Rikki Clarke's planned move from Warwickshire to Surrey and batsman Dom Sibley's switch in the opposite direction have been brought forward to this season.

Clarke, 35, and Sibley, 21, were due to join their new clubs in 2018, but the deals will now take place immediately.
It means both are available for Friday's T20 Blast matches.
"This loan for the rest of the season makes perfect sense," Alec Stewart, Surrey director of cricket, said.
The former England captain continued: "Adding Rikki to our squad will add quality and valuable experience."
Coming on top of Olly Stone's delayed debut last month following his winter arrival from Northants, Sibley follows the signings of fellow young hopefuls Will Rhodes (Yorkshire) and Adam Hose (Somerset) as the Bears' fourth new arrival from another first-class county in 12 months.
"I have spoken about our need to undergo a transformation process," said Warwickshire sport director Ashley Giles. "And we're very happy to reach this loan agreement.
"Dom's addition is a key part of achieving this, along with the previous signings of Adam Hose and Will Rhodes. All three are excellent prospects and, with several home-grown young players also showing great promise, we will have fantastic competition for places in all formats."
Sibley, who came through Surrey's academy, turned down a new three-year contract to move to Edgbaston, while Clarke signed a two-year deal at The Oval last week.
"Despite my huge disappointment with Dom leaving us, I do accept his reasons but it doesn't make it any easier," Stewart added.
"He's been a Surrey player as a boy and man and is very popular with everybody in and out of the dressing room.
"With a very heavy heart, we wish him all the very best and hope perhaps one day he may return."


A man has been arrested in connection with historical sexual offences at a children's home in Nottingham.

The 63-year-old was arrested on suspicion of six offences relating to five victims in the early 1980s at Hazelwood Children's Home.
The arrest was part of an investigation into allegations of historical abuse at children's homes and other institutions in Nottinghamshire.
Operation Equinox has been informed of more than 600 alleged offences.
It is investigating claims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse between the 1940s and 1990s.
More on this and other stories in Nottinghamshire
In October, a letter to victims from Nottinghamshire Police confirmed 530 of 636 reported crimes were on council property.
Later that month, a 59-year-old woman was arrested and bailed on suspicion of indecent assault, actual bodily harm and indecency with a child.
In March, former social worker Andris Logins was jailed for 20 years.
Two other men have been jailed for historical attacks not connected to children's homes and three more trials are due to begin in early 2017.


Australia will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest final for the third year running after making it through the first semi-final in Kiev.

Isaiah Firebrace progressed despite failing to hit a high note during his performance of Don't Come Easy.
Poland, Sweden and hotly tipped Portugal also made it through along with six other countries.
But Montenegro's hair-twirling Slavko Kalezic exited the competition along with seven other acts.
The fates of the 18 countries involved were decided by a combination of votes from national juries and viewers.
Another 18 countries will take part in the second semi-final on Thursday ahead of the grand final on Saturday night.
Isaiah's vocal hiccup occurred near the end of his performance of his swooning ballad, the third competing song to be heard on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old indigenous Australian was one of the youngest performers on an evening that featured the usual Eurovision mix of kitsch, spectacle and questionable fashion choices.
Azerbaijan's Dihaj was joined on stage by a man on a ladder wearing a horse's head, while Moldovan trio Sunstroke Project were supported by three female singers in wedding gowns.
One of the warmest receptions of the night went to Portugal's Salvador Sobral, whose arrival in Ukraine this month was delayed by health problems.
Among the unsuccessful semi-finalists was Montenegro's Slavko Kalezic, whose four-foot man-braid had made him a favourite with many Eurovision fans.
Slovenia's Omar Naber, who represented his country the last time the contest was held in Kiev in 2005, was also sent packing.
The UK's hopes this year rest on Welsh singer Lucie Jones, who will perform her ballad Never Give Up on You during Saturday's final.
As one of the so-called "big five", the UK get an automatic pass through to the final along with four other countries and host nation Ukraine.
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Five disabled people have lost their High Court challenge over the government's decision to abolish the Independent Living Fund (ILF).

Their lawyers had asked the court to declare "unlawful" the consultation process that led to the proposed axing of the £320m fund.
The five are among 19,000 people who receive money from the ILF, which the government plans to scrap in 2015.
The scheme aids independent living and the average pay-out is £300 a week.
The government has said that councils, which administer most social care, will take over funding this help.
On Wednesday, a judge dismissed the application, saying the consultation process had been lawful.
The claimants feared that disabled people could be forced out of independent living arrangements and into residential care, or trapped at home by the fund's closure.
At a hearing in March, they had argued that there have not been clear reasons given for closing the fund; the consultation featured inadequate information on the differences between the fund and local authority assessment and provision; and there had not been proper assessment of the impact of the change on disabled people's ability to live and work independently.
The Department for Work and Pensions has previously said that help for disabled people has been fundamentally changed by personal budgets, intended to give recipients more control, and that it makes sense to have a single system administered by local authorities.
The ILF was established in 1988, but the government decided in 2010 that it had become "no longer appropriate or sustainable" to keep running the scheme outside the mainstream social care system.
The fund closed to new applicants soon afterwards.
One of the five applicants,  Gabriel Pepper, from Walthamstow, east London, has accused the government of imposing "appalling cuts" which were "a vicious attack on the disabled".
The claimants have said the money enables them to employ personal assistants to help them with their personal needs and to "go out and have a full life".
Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope, said: "Expecting councils to pick up the tab when they are facing the biggest funding cuts in history is an impossible ask."
"Not getting the support to wash, dress and leave your home is unacceptable."


Japanese author Haruki Murakami has been shortlisted for 2015's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, as well as first-time translations from Colombia and Equatorial Guinea.

Murakami's book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage sold one million copies in one day in Japan.
Bestselling authors from Germany and Belgium are also up for the prize.
Dissident Juan Tomas Avila Laurel has been described as Equatorial Guinea's "most important living writer".
His novel By Night the Mountain Burns is only the second work from Africa's only Spanish-speaking country to be translated into English.
The Los Angeles Review of Books reported last year that the 48-year-old had been forced into hiding after protesting against the country's dictatorial regime.
Neither he nor Colombian Tomas Gonzalez - shortlisted for In the Beginning Was the Sea - have been translated into English before.
The prize's 25th anniversary shortlist also features Erwin Mortier from Belgium, whose book While the Gods Were Sleeping was translated from Dutch.
Two celebrated German authors are also shortlisted, Jenny Erpenbeck for The End of Days and Daniel Kehlmann for his novel F.
Both those authors and Murakami have been shortlisted for the prize before, as have their respective translators.
"Books play an increasingly important role in our understanding of the world around us," said The Book Trust's Claire Shanahan, who chaired the judges.
"This shortlist encapsulates the excitement of looking outwards and discovering new and different voices."
The 2014 prize was won by Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim and translator Jonathan Wright for The Iraqi Christ. This year's winner will be announced at a special ceremony at RIBA in London on 27 May.
This year's shortlist:


A trustee of an animal charity has admitted stealing a family's pet dog.

Samantha Rogers, trustee of the Last Chance Hotel, which rehomes dogs, stole the Gordon setter named Indi after it went missing from its home in February.
Rogers, 48, then gave permission for surgery to be carried out on the 10-year-old pet and renamed it Molly.
She was given a conditional discharge by Truro magistrates and ordered to return the dog but claims she no longer has it.
Magistrates heard the dog went missing near Goonhavern in Cornwall on 1 February and was handed over to the charity by a woman who found it.
The woman told the dog's owner Peter Bennett in a message on Facebook that she had given the dog to Rogers in a Tesco car park.
The court heard when Mr Bennett spoke with the charity he was told by Rogers, of West End, Chacewater: "You either sign the dog over to me now or I'm going to ring the police."
Prosecutor Gail Hawkley said the dog had a "particularly special place in the family's heart" as she had belonged to Mr Bennett's late wife.
She said the family was desperately concerned for the pet's health as it required constant treatment for a pancreatic condition.
Lucy Bryant, defending, said Rogers "doesn't have the dog or know its whereabouts".
The prosecution said Rogers "must know where it has gone".
The court was told Rogers would no longer be a trustee of the charity as a result of her conviction.
The court made a restitution order demanding Rogers return the dog within 21 days.
A 12-month restraining order was also put in place and Rogers will have to pay costs of £300.
The charity said Rogers "will only ever act in the best interest of the animal no matter the consequences to herself as a person".
A spokesperson for the charity said: "There has been enough upset and distress for everybody involved."


The father of a teenager with disabilities who was left alone on a school bus for almost three hours has said his daughter now rarely lets her parents out of her sight.

Jon Kerr told the BBC that 17-year-old Sophie Kerr "doesn't really trust anybody now".
Sophie, from Enniskillen, is mute and relies on a wheelchair.
She was left alone after both a bus driver and special needs escort failed to deliver her to school.
The Education Authority have issued a public apology to the family, but Mr Kerr said he was still waiting for a written apology.
The Willowbridge special needs school pupil was on the bus to school on the morning of 19 October, but was forgotten about and taken to the bus depot on the Sligo Road.
Mr Kerr said he was contacted by the headmistress of the school at 12.30 GMT that day to say she had just arrived.
He said: "She was left unattended, we don't know what happened or what could have happened to her in that time.
"As far as the school were concerned she was maybe off sick or had an appointment, as far as we were concerned she was at school, so there was a grey area where nobody knew where she was for that length of time."
It is understood that Sophie's escort got a lift from the bus at the school into the town and left Sophie unattended in the back of the bus.
Mr Kerr told the Fermanagh Herald the bus dropped off two or three other children who weren't in wheelchairs and the driver then drove off with Sophie sitting in the back and went on to the bus depot.
He said when his daughter, who requires regular medication, was found in the back of the bus she was "cold, distressed and very upset".
He said: "We want processes to be put in place so that this can't happen again to any other child in Northern Ireland."
Sophie now travels by taxi to and from school.
"We won't let her on an Education Authority bus at the moment, at least until we build up a trust with them again," he said.
The family have since received assurances from the Education Authority that both the bus driver and the escort have been suspended pending further investigation.
In a statement, the Education Authority said it is currently investigating the incident.
It said: "On becoming aware of this incident, the authority took immediate action and contacted the pupil's parents to offer an unreserved apology.
"EA regional managing director Barry Mulholland has also written a formal letter of apology to the parents, providing assurances that all necessary steps will be taken to prevent such an incident occurring again.
"The safety and wellbeing of all pupils is the authority's primary concern.
"The authority takes this incident very seriously and a robust investigation is ongoing, including a full review of processes and safeguards relating to the transportation of pupils."


It is enough to make bowlers pack up their boots and take the first flight home.

If it's not Chris Gayle heaving over the leg side, it's Brendon McCullum charging down the pitch and flat-batting through the covers. If it's not Kumar Sangakkara torturing fielders like a sadistic surgeon, it's AB de Villiers sweeping fast bowlers for six - with one hand.
The 2015 World Cup has been the most run-thirsty of all time: record scores, more sixes and more centuries than ever before. Fielders have become spectators and spectators have become fielders.
Why is the bat so dominant? Why are bowlers so powerless? And does a run-fest actually make good cricket?
In case you need proof, the statistics provide conclusive evidence that this World Cup in Australia and New Zealand has been all about the batsmen.
Much is made of the advantages given to batsmen - better bats, smaller boundaries, pitches that encourage dazzling strokeplay.
But the increase in runs is most often attributed to the 2012 change in ODI playing conditions. Whereas teams were once allowed five fielders outside the 30-yard circle, they can now have only four.
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"If you have one less man outside the ring, batters are targeting where the gap is," Ireland batsman Ed Joyce told BBC Sport.
"The skill level of the batters is exceptionally good and they are making bowlers bowl differently. When bowlers do something they don't want to do, they don't do it as well."
However, the change in regulations does not fully explain the heavy scoring, because batsmen are only just taking full advantage.
At the 2011 World Cup, the average runs per over was 5.03, while between 2013 and 2014 it was 5.20. In this tournament, that figure has jumped to 5.63.
With Twenty20 now more than 10 years old and fully embedded into a batsman's psyche, are we seeing the shortest form of the game finally impose a total influence on 50-over cricket?
"The batsmen have taken T20 cricket into the one-day game," said former Australia all-rounder Andrew McDonald.
"They have taken it to a new level with so many shots, the ability to score through 360 degrees. They have the confidence to play them in any game."
Have batsmen drunk the bar dry or is there an inexhaustible supply of runs to be lapped up? The facts provide no optimism for bowlers.
This is the third successive World Cup where the average runs per over and the number of totals in excess of 300 have both increased.
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The records for the fastest fifty, century and 150 have all been broken in 2015 and all five individual scores of 200 have come since 2010. Rohit Sharma's record score of 264, made against Sri Lanka last year, hinted that an ODI triple century is possible.
"At the moment, who knows? We are seeing so many different shots with so much power," said Australia captain Michael Clarke.
"Someone like David Warner, Chris Gayle or AB de Villiers - on a smaller ground they possibly could make 300."
The good news - if you can call it that - for bowlers is that the record for the highest team total in ODIs is yet to be threatened. Although this World Cup has seen three scores in excess of 400, Sri Lanka's record of 443-9, made against the Netherlands, has stood since 2006.
Still, there are those who believe 500 is within reach.
"There's a very good chance that a team could get 500, especially on a small ground," said Joyce. "The way batsmen play without fear, it's incredibly difficult to stop them scoring."
At the moment, not a great deal.
Even a rule change that was thought likely to help bowlers has gone the other way. Using two balls, one at each end, was supposed to offer more assistance, but instead keeps the balls harder for longer so they travel further and faster off the bat.
"It's always tough to be a bowler. All the rules are against us," said South Africa pace bowler Dale Steyn.
"We're starting to realise if bowlers can go for between eight runs and 10 an over in the last 10, you're actually doing a pretty good job."
Those who have made the ball swing - the likes of Australia's Mitchell Starc and New Zealand pair Tim Southee and Trent Boult - have had success, but how do bowlers curb scoring when there is no assistance, particularly in the final overs of an innings?
"There are different theories - bowl short to use the square fielders - but I still feel the yorker is the best ball," said Pakistan coach Waqar Younis.
"I'm glad I'm not playing, because it is unfair to bowlers."
Seeing the ball constantly flayed to the boundary might be entertaining for some, but it makes for one-sided contests in more ways than one. Not only is the ball struggling to compete with the bat, but a huge first-innings total often means the game is over by the halfway stage.
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Of the 20 completed World Cup games in Australia, 14 have been won by the side batting first. On the 20 occasions across the whole tournament that a team have posted in excess of 300, the side batting second have won only three times.
"A massive first-innings score kills the game," said BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew. "The team batting second is under so much pressure that they feel they have to go hard all the way through. They lose early wickets, then the game is gone."
In contrast, some of the most thrilling matches have been low-scoring. New Zealand chased Australia's 151 to win by one wicket, the same for Afghanistan as they overhauled Scotland's 210.
"The world wants entertainment, fours and big sixes," said Waqar. "Weighting the game in favour of the batsmen is a crowd-pulling thing, but it should be an even contest."
The speed of Test run scoring has been increasing for some time. Of the seven completed Test innings with a run-rate above five per over, only three happened between 1902 and 2005, but four have come since 2012.
The very best batsmen - the likes of De Villiers and Sangakkara - are always best placed to have success across all forms of the game, but players like Australia's Warner, who made his name in limited-overs cricket, are transferring to the Test arena.
However, Tests will always provide a fairer battle between bat and ball: no boundary fielding restrictions, red leather more likely to swing, and pitches that deteriorate over five days.
"ODIs are so weighted in favour of the batters, but Test cricket is completely different," said Joyce.
"The Test mindset is different. There's been some increase in Test scoring, but I don't see any reason why it would get to the level of ODIs."


The Conservatives' Andy Street is the new metro mayor for the West Midlands.

He defeated Labour's Sion Simon in a closely fought count, by 3,766 votes. Voting had gone into a second round.
The former John Lewis boss will now lead a population of nearly three million across Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry.
Addressing the count at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena, Mr Street said it was the beginning of a "new, urban Conservative agenda".
The result could be seen to defy the widespread perception that the West Midlands is and always will be "a Labour area", says BBC Midlands Today political editor Patrick Burns.
Election 2017: Full results from across England
Mr Street polled a total of 238,625 votes, compared to his Labour rival's 234,862. Turnout was 26.8%
Mr Street stepped down from his role as managing director at the John Lewis chain to run his mayoral campaign.
He has pledged to eradicate youth unemployment, deliver 25,000 new houses and to invest in public transport.
He added he felt "very humbled" by the "huge responsibility" he was taking on.
For more on this and other stories Birmingham and the Black Country
After a "little celebration and a rest" he would be talking to Prime Minister Theresa May about two subjects in particular - "making a success of Brexit" and telling her that the West Midlands "is a region that is going places" and she must invest to make it even more successful.
"The encouraging thing for us, which I said at the beginning of the campaign, is that we should reach every community of the West Midlands, we did respectably well in every borough," he said of the results.
"The job of mayor is to pull the leadership of the whole region together."
Mr Simon, currently one of the West Midlands' Members of the European Parliament, said the campaign had been run in a "spirit of decency" and added Labour nationally, was out of touch.
"What we have heard coming from the doorsteps time and time again during this campaign is that traditional Labour supporters tell us that they're not feeling confident enough that we, in Labour, are strong enough with traditional Labour values."
However, the former Birmingham Erdington MP refused to blame leader Jeremy Corbyn and did not rule out standing again in three years' time.
Mr Street will have powers over economic development, education and skills, housing and transport and head the new West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
The mayor will control a £1.1bn investment fund over 30 years, or £36m a year. The costs of the mayor's office itself will be covered by this fund until April 2018.
By about 14:00 BST when four out of seven councils had declared, it was clear neither candidate could reach the necessary 50% mark to win outright after the first round, and the result would be decided after second preferences were counted.
At that point, Labour's Mr Simon held a 23,000 vote lead over his Tory rival.
The individual results after the first round showed Mr Simon took Coventry, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Sandwell and Mr Street came top in Walsall, Dudley and Solihull.
In Sandwell, out of the approximate 9,000 people who voted in first round, only half cast valid second preferences, the BBC's Phil Mackie reported.
The first region-wide count put Mr Street ahead on 216,280 with Mr Simon just behind on 210,259.
Beverley Anne Nielsen for the Lib Dems was third with 30,378 and UKIP's Pete Durnell a close fourth with 29,051.
More than 7,000 ballots had been spoiled, officials said.
Results from the second round vote, showed Mr Street won in Dudley, Walsall and Solihull and Mr Simon in Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Coventry and Birmingham.
After five council declarations in the second round, Mr Street had a slender 6,454 lead over Mr Simon.
Birmingham was the last to declare at about 16:45 BST and that confirmed the win for Mr Street.
Results from first count:
Results from second count:
Who is Andy Street?
The businessman quit his £800,000 a year role as the boss of high street giant John Lewis to run for mayor.
He has pledged to use the business skills he has learnt at the retailer to help drive investment and create jobs in the region.
He wants Birmingham to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The former managing director has received the backing of the party's leadership with Theresa May telling the Conservative Party Conference in October: "A success in business running John Lewis. An action man in Birmingham, playing his part in transforming this city. A man to get things done, the future Mayor of the West Midlands - Andy Street."
Mr Street, who is unmarried, read politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford and became president of the University Conservative Association.
He originally wanted to be a social worker.
He is well known in the West Midlands, having served as the chair of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) - which brings together business and political leaders to channel Government investment in business and transport infrastructure in the region.
His high-profile campaign is reported to have cost about £1m.
Analysis - Nick Watson, BBC Sunday Politics producer:
Andy Street's election as West Midlands mayor was one of the stand out victories for the Conservatives in this round of local elections. Less impressive, though, was the turnout.
Little more than one in four voters in the West Midlands bothered to turn out to vote. Part of the reason for this is that the mayoral election was held in isolation. There were no local council elections taking place on the same day which may have helped elevate the turnout above a disappointing 26%.
Also, there has been no great appetite to have metro mayors in the West Midlands. Referenda held in both Birmingham and Coventry in recent years rejected the idea.
The elections took place after the government warned West Midlands political leaders that they would not get full devolution unless they accepted the role of metro mayor.
Critics have said this amounts to devolution being imposed on the West Midlands from above.
One of Mr Street's primary tasks may therefore be to convince a sceptical public that they need a metro mayor at all.


Five players from Nigeria's victorious side have been included in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations All Stars team, while Burkina Faso's Jonathan Pitroipa was named the tournament's best player.

Chosen by the Confederation of African Football (Caf), the award will be some consolation for Pitroipa after his side lost Sunday's final to the Nigerians.
The Rennes winger's outstanding performances resulted in two goals.
Sent off in the semis, he played in the final after Caf rescinded his ban.
Man of the Tournament: Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso)
Goal of the Tournament: Youssef El Msakni, Tunisia v Algeria
Fair Player of the Tournament: Victor Moses (Nigeria)
The incident proved to be one of the competition's biggest talking points, after Pitroipa picked up a second yellow card for simulation late in the semi-final victory over Ghana.
Thankfully for Pitroipa, referee Slim Jdidi admitted he had made a mistake in his match report, so allowing Caf to overturn the ban and allow him to take to the field in Johannesburg on Sunday.
Pitroipa's compatriot Bakary Kone also made the team but the bulk of the players came from the Super Eagles, who lifted the trophy for the first time since 1994 - and for the third time overall - after their narrow 1-0 win.
Vincent Enyeama, who pulled off a brilliant and important save in the final to deny Wilfried Sanou with the score at 1-0, was named as the team's goalkeeper.
The Israel-based goalkeeper was joined by several compatriots in the side: defender Efe Ambrose, midfielders John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses as well as striker Emmanuel Emenike.
Chelsea winger Moses, who was superb in the final, also picked up the fair play award and Emenike, who missed the final through injury, won the golden boot as the tournament's top scorer.
"Winning my first African Nations Cup - and ending as the joint top scorer, I am so, so happy," Emenike told BBC Sport.
"This tournament has been very great, starting from the first game when I scored against Burkina Faso, because I hadn't been doing great for the national team before that."
One player was picked from each of the losing semi-finalists Mali and Ghana, as well as quarter-finalists Cape Verde and Ivory Coast.
There was no place for Ghana's Mubarak Wakaso, who found the back of the net four times to finish as the joint top scorer alongside Emenike.
Africa Cup of Nations All Stars:
Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria)
Defenders: Efe Ambrose (Nigeria), Bakary Kone (Burkina Faso), Nando (Cape Verde)
Midfielders: Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso), Siaka Tiene (Ivory Coast), John Obi Mikel (Nigeria), Seydou Keita (Mali), Victor Moses (Nigeria)
Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Emmanuel Emenike (Nigeria).


Leicester's fifth 1-0 win in their past six games has got everyone talking about the importance of sneaking those tight victories if you want to win a Premier League title.

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Watford striker Troy Deeney's BBC Sport analysis focused on Leicester's rock-solid defence forming the foundation of their seven-point lead over Tottenham at the top of the table.
Only Spurs and Manchester City have scored more goals than the Foxes this season, but after captain Wes Morgan scored the only goal to beat Southampton at the weekend, Claudio Ranieri's side have now recorded an impressive seven 1-0 wins this campaign.
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said this week: "Think of the man who won most leagues - Sir Alex Ferguson - how many times you have to win games 1-0."
But do the stats back that up? Here's some interesting findings from Opta.
Sorry Leicester fans, not really.
Only seven Premier League titles out of 23 have been claimed by the team with the most 1-0 wins (30.4%). Last season, Chelsea were the first champions with more 1-0 wins than their rivals in five years.
And Manchester United (7) missed out to Blackburn Rovers (5) by a single point in 1994-95, while Newcastle (7) were pipped to the post by Manchester United (8) who recorded five 1-0 victories in the title run-in, including a memorable victory on Tyneside.
However, seven 1-0 victories helped Arsene Wenger's double-winning side of 1997-98 seal the title by a point from Manchester United (4), as the same amount did for United (7) in their Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired 2007-08 campaign - finishing two points clear of Chelsea (9).
But the same amount (7) was no-where near enough for the Gunners to stop Jose Mourinho's Chelsea juggernaut of 2004-05 (11) who won the league that year with a record 95 points.
Nine 1-0 wins would be almost a quarter of the season's matches, and Leicester's next three fixtures against Sunderland, West Ham and Swansea would appear to give the Foxes a chance to reach that target.
Yet the three sides to have recorded that many narrow victories in a Premier League campaign have not won the title.
Arsenal (9) fell one point short of treble-winners United (4) in 1998-99.
And a post-Mourinho Chelsea finished second behind United for consecutive seasons in 2006-07 and 2007-08 despite more 1-0 wins (9 in both seasons) than the Old Trafford side (4 and 7).
Nope.
It probably won't happen to Leicester this season, but remarkably, Liverpool finished third despite 10 1-0 victories in the 2005-06 campaign - nine points behind winners Chelsea (5) and a point behind runners-up United (4).
And a further stat that puts the nail in the 1-0 theory coffin comes from Arsenal's Invincibles side, which went unbeaten on their way to the 2003-04 title.
They only won three games 1-0, but finished a whopping 11 points ahead of Chelsea, who picked up 10 1-0 wins... managed by Claudio Ranieri.
Manchester United - in the season that no doubt cemented the old adage "Champions win when they are not playing well" - did take the title with 10 1-0 wins in 2008-09, ahead of Liverpool (4).
In fact, United clocked up eight 1-0 wins in 11 games in the space of nine weeks from the end of November to the start of February.
Eleven. That would do it. Eleven 1-0 wins would not only match Chelsea's record tally from 2004-05, but make mathematically sure that Leicester City become Premier League champions.


Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park has launched a public consultation on its priorities for the next five years.

The draft National Park Partnership Plan 2018-2023 aims to widen the park's "social, environmental, cultural and economic benefits".
The 12-week public consultation on the draft plan will run until 3 July.
The plan's three priorities cover conservation and land management, visitor experience and rural development.
This includes attracting and retaining more skilled working age and young people and encouraging people of all abilities and backgrounds to enjoy the outdoors.
The park's new convener, James Stuart, said: "The national park is a truly special place and this plan proposes how we along with a wide range of other organisations, can work together over the next five years to look after, enhance and make the most of it.
"By working collaboratively with all of our partners we can achieve a much greater impact."
Chief executive Gordon Watson said work was already underway in the park to provide young people with opportunities to gain skills and experience to support future employment.
He said: "We want to build on that by working closely with our partners to broaden that range of opportunities, whether it's through training, volunteering, modern apprenticeships and employment so that young people growing up in the national park aren't missing out on the opportunities that those living in more urban areas have access to.
"We are confident that this along with measures to address the lack of affordable housing options and efforts to protect and enhance local services and infrastructure, will ensure a bright future for young people living and working within the national park."


A TV wildlife expert has said he is upset at "damage" to a nature reserve following a failed city council bid to build a cycle track there.

Derby City Council was taken to court over concerns for rare birds after work was approved and started on the track at The Sanctuary, in 2014.
David Lindo, known as the Urban Birder, said huge mounds of remaining rubble are ruining views at the beauty spot.
The authority said it has "no budget" to carry out the work at the site.
Mr Lindo has appeared on BBC One's Britain's Big Wildlife Revival among other programmes.
In 2012, council plans showed a 1.5km road circuit running between two bird hides and the reserve at Pride Park, near to where the city's velodrome was being built.
The move angered conservationists as the sanctuary was only established in 2003 and had since been successfully attracting rare birds.
Work began in 2014 but was stopped after Derbyshire Wildlife Trust took legal action.
Mr Lindo, who first visited the site in 2010, said he was "dismayed".
"There are ugly heaps of soil, rock, concrete, that are not conducive to nature. You can't see a thing.
"It's a beautiful oasis in the city given over to the people of Derby... the council should make it the gem it should be."
Derby City Council said in a statement: "Any replacement work at the nature reserve will require a new planning application and no budget has been identified for this or any work at this time.
"Given the current financial challenges this still remains the case."
Threatened birds including the skylark and ring ouzel have both been spotted at the site and a pair of little ringed plovers have also nested there.
The Sanctuary Bird Reserve - timeline


A drone company specialising in aerial photography has agreed to pay a record-sized fine to avoid the risk of an even larger penalty.

Chicago-based Skypan International had been accused of conducting 65 illegal flights in "congested airspace" over its home city and New York.
The Federal Aviation Administration had threatened a $1.9m (Â£1.5m) charge.
However, Skypan settled the case by agreeing to pay a $200,000 civil penalty.
It must also help the watchdog's drone-use education efforts and pay up to a further $300,000 if it breaks the law again.
The company pitches its service to architects, hotels and property developers as a way to envisage how planned projects will fit into their surroundings.
"SkyPan's flights were conducted two years before the FAA's first rule for commercial UAS [unmanned aerial systems] went into effect in August 2016," the company said in a statement.
"SkyPan has never had an accident, and SkyPan has never compromised citizens' privacy or security."
Prior to August, drone operators needed to have a pilot's licence to carry out commercial flights.
In addition, they had to seek permission from the FAA for each operation.
Under the new system, commercial drones can be flown as long as the pilot:
The regulator is expected to issue further rules about flying drones over crowds in the coming months,


Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer.

Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the image of the Hollywood icon.
Hopper died on Saturday morning surrounded by friends and family at his home in Venice, California.
He was last seen in public in March when he was honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"Dennis Hopper died this morning at 8:15 am from  complications of metastasised prostate cancer. He died at home in Venice surrounded by family and friends," manager Sam Maydew said in a statement.
Hopper directed the 1969 counter-culture road movie Easy Rider, which he co-wrote with and starred alongside Peter Fonda. The pair were nominated for a best screenplay Academy Award.
"Dennis introduced me to the world of Pop Art and 'lost' films. We rode the highways of America and changed the way movies were made in Hollywood. I was blessed by his passion and friendship," Fonda told the TMZ website following Hopper's death.
Hopper was seen as a Hollywood hell-raiser
Obituary: Dennis Hopper
In pictures: Dennis Hopper
Following a promising start to his career, with a role in James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause, Hopper developed a reputation as a hell-raiser with a penchant for drink and drugs.
Following his success with Easy Rider, and the disastrous The Last Movie, his on-set clashes with directors and fellow actors saw him effectively blacklisted by Hollywood.
It took nearly 10 years for Hopper to win back starring roles, with his critically acclaimed role in David Lynch's Blue Velvet marking a turning point in his career, although his personal life remained turbulent.
Wed five times, his final marriage, to Victoria Duffy, turned into an acrimonious split in 2010 when she accused his family of trying to cut her out of his life.
In April a judge ruled that Duffy, who shared a young daughter with Hopper, could remain at the marital home.
It was during the court hearings that it was revealed Hopper was terminally ill with prostate cancer, following his diagnosis last year.


Bolton Wanderers fans have paid tribute to one of the last survivors of the 1946 Burnden Park disaster, who has died aged 102.

Fans held a minute's applause for lifelong supporter Phyllis Robb, 10 minutes into their team's home game with Charlton.
Mrs Robb was the subject of a famous photo which showed her being lifted above the crowd.
Thirty-six fans died in the crush at the FA Cup Tie against Stoke.
Mrs Robb, who was born in 1914, died on 19 January. Her nephew David Kay said his aunt would have been very touched by the tribute.
Her funeral is on Wednesday and her ashes are going to be scattered on the pitch at a later date.
Last year Mrs Robb told the BBC she retained vivid memories of the disaster.
She said: "I can remember barriers breaking down and they were all rushing out.
"I was more bothered about my father because he was still inside the ground."
A tribute from the club said: "The image of her escape has become one of the most powerful and iconic images of that fateful day."
Club chaplain Phil Mason added: "To see Phyllis as a young woman among all those people was very powerful indeed.
"She was so full of life and every day was an excitement for her - I remember she went pitch-side on her 100th birthday and it was hard to keep up with her."


Scotland snatched a first World Sevens Series title with a last-gasp victory over South Africa in the London Sevens final at Twickenham.

The Scots trailed 26-15 with 30 seconds left but Edinburgh wing Dougie Fife scored twice - the second in added time - to clinch a thrilling 27-26 win.
Scotland upset England 17-0 in the quarter-finals before beating USA 24-17 in the semis to reach a first final.
Fiji secured the overall title by reaching the last eight in London.
"It is just an unbelievable feeling," said Fife, 25.
"This team have come a long way and we believe we can beat anyone on our day. I think we surprised a few people today."
Scotland's previous best finish in a World Series event was fourth.
Their squad included three of the five Scots - Jamie Farndale, Scott Riddell and Mark Robertson - named in a 25-man Great Britain squad for the Olympics.
That GB squad - which includes Glasgow centre Mark Bennett and another Scotland Sevens player, Gavin Lowe - will gather on 30 May for an intensive seven-week training block to compete for the 12 places available for the Rio Games.
South Africa grabbed an early lead in the final via Seabelo Senatla but tries from Farndale and captain Scott Wight saw the Scots lead 10-7 at half-time.
Converted scores from Roscko Speckman and Cecil Afrika put South Africa in control at 21-10 before Scotland's James Fleming made it 21-15.
Speckman's second try appeared to have sealed it, but Fife, who has won six Test caps for Scotland, pounced with 25 seconds left.
Then, after South Africa failed to retain possession at the kick-off, he sprinted over again in added time to clinch a dramatic victory.
"It has probably not sunk in yet," said captain Wight. "We were a long way behind in the final, but we stuck to task and got there in the end."
England, who topped their pool after wins over Fiji, Australia and Wales, were beaten 35-10 by New Zealand in the Plate semi-finals after their last-eight loss to Scotland in the main event.
"Today is very tough to take," said head coach Simon Amor. "Scotland are a good team and you can't afford to give them time and space with the ball.
"They moved us around brilliantly, we couldn't get our hands on the ball, and in sevens possession is everything."
Wales lost all three pool matches on Saturday but won the Bowl final 24-19 against Australia, after earlier wins against Kenya in the quarter-finals and Canada in the semis.


In a speech that lasted for more than an hour, Chancellor George Osborne revealed his financial game plan and how this will affect the wallets and purses of the watching public.

The speech, made up of an Autumn Statement and a Spending Review, included a significant change of tactics - by scrapping his recent plan to cut tax credits.
He threw himself into some big challenges - not least with buy-to-let landlords who could face a tax rise.
But what does it mean for the finances of spectators on the sidelines - the UK public?
Tax credits are benefit payments for those on low incomes, aimed at topping up pay. They are the biggest welfare cost to the government apart from the state pension.
In his summer Budget, Mr Osborne announced a plan for a £4.4bn cut to tax credits from April 2016. This meant cutting tax credits sooner and faster as a claimant's income rises.
Having lost a key vote on the House of Lords, he promised to reconsider.
He did so by scrapping the planned cuts.
That means some low-income families who were expecting cuts in tax credit payments of up to £1,200 a year will no longer face that loss.
He says he can do this because the state of the economy and the continued record low interest rates mean that he expects to have more money available than previously thought.
No. Changes to the criteria of Universal Credit - a benefits system that sees tax credits and five other benefits merged into one in the next few years - were voted through recently and will also put a squeeze on some families making new claims.
New claims for tax credits will be switched to Universal Credit from 2018.
Groups such as the Resolution Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Citizens Advice say that by 2020, some families with children could be hit if parents are not working full-time.
Plans to limit on tax credits for new claimants when they have more than two children remain.
The rate of housing benefit in the social sector will also be capped at the same rate as is paid to those in the private rented sector, in order to make savings of £225m by 2020-21. This will apply to tenancies signed from April and affect housing benefit from April 2018 onwards.
Money will be spent to encourage house builders to construct starter homes. These will be offered at a 20% discount on prices up to £450,000 in London and £250,000 elsewhere. The policy was first announced in October 2014.
There will also be investment in a shared ownership scheme, reduced rent for those saving for deposit, and specialist homes for the elderly and those with a disability.
The aim is to shift to aspirational home ownership, and help to reduce the housing benefit bill.
There will also be a London Help to Buy scheme for those within the capital who can save a deposit of 5% of the value of the property they want to buy. They will be able to get an interest-free loan, for up to five years, worth up to 40% of the value of that home.
Mr Osborne said that there was a crisis of home ownership among young people.
A total of £1bn will be raised by 2021 owing to a change to stamp duty in England and Wales.
A 3% surcharge on stamp duty when some buy-to-let properties and second homes are bought will be levied from April.
This means it will add £5,520 of tax to be paid when buying the average £184,000 buy-to-let property. The new charge would have hit 160,000 buyers if it had applied last year.
Commentators have already suggested this could hit the sector hard.
This is the second big change to stamp duty, after reforms announced a year ago which affected the higher end of the property market.
Councils which have responsibility for social care will be able to add 2% to council tax bills in a bid to provide up to £2bn for that care.
Taxpayers will have to wait to see exactly how that affects them in pounds and pence when they receive their council tax bill.
The state pension for existing pensioners will rise by 2.9%, or £3.35, to £119.30 a week from April, to match the rise in average earnings.
This is the result of triple-lock pledge on pensions - a government promise for the next five years - which means the state pension rises each April to match the highest of inflation, earnings, or 2.5%.
Next year is a significant one for new retirees as it is the start, from April, of the new "flat-rate" state pension, set at £155 a week.
However, not everyone will get the full amount, such as some of those with a private or workplace pension provision. Some who have built up an additional state pension may get more.
They have been protected from a lot of cuts by this government.
However, the chancellor said that pension credit payments will be stopped for people who leave the country for more than one month.
At present, pension credit is paid for up to 13 weeks while claimants are temporarily abroad. If they go overseas for medical treatment under the NHS, then it is paid for longer.
The same new restriction for those going overseas will also apply to housing benefit.
Graduates in England and Wales who started university on or after September 2012 will see their student loan repayment threshold frozen until April 2021, rather than rising in line with inflation.
These graduates can earn up to £21,000 before making student loan repayments. Freezing the threshold could make repayments more expensive.
Nursing students will no longer receive government bursaries. They will have to take out loans instead.
We already know that a 1% cap on rises in public sector pay will be in place for the next four years. We also know a compulsory Living Wage - basically, a new minimum wage - will be paid to people aged 25 and over, starting in April 2016 at £7.20 an hour and reaching £9 an hour by 2020.
The government had previously said it would give further support for childcare costs.
The chancellor announced 30 hours of free childcare for three and four-year-olds will be available from 2017 in England, but only to parents working more than 16 hours and who each earn £100,000 or less.
Many parents already get a free 15 hours of childcare for three and four-year-olds.
The chancellor announced a plan to end the right to cash compensation following crashes on the roads.
This, he says, will make it harder for people to get compensation for exaggerated or fraudulent whiplash claims.
Should the insurance industry pass on these savings, then motor insurance premiums could fall.
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Stephen Fry is to step down as the host of BBC Two comedy quiz show QI after 13 years.

The presenter said it was "one of the best jobs on television" but felt "it was time to move on".
He will be replaced by Sandi Toksvig, who described it as her "dream job".
Show creator John Lloyd said Toksvig would be "the first female host of a mainstream comedy panel show on British television - an appointment that is well overdue".
Fry's departure would be the "end of an era", Lloyd added.
He said: "Though we are all very sad he's decided to move on, I am confident that we have found the perfect person to occupy his gigantic shoes."
Toksvig hosts Channel 4's Fifteen To One and stood down as chair of BBC Radio Four's The News Quiz earlier this year after a 10-year run.
QI was first broadcast in 2003. Fry was originally hired to be a team captain opposite Alan Davies, but he agreed to host the show as a last-minute replacement for Michael Palin "just for the pilot [episode]".
Fry said: "For 13 years I had one of the best jobs on television. Behind the camera squadrons of quite extraordinarily brilliant researchers, programme makers and uniquely curious (in both senses of the word) people making that job so much easier.
"In front of the camera generations of lively minds and above all of course the wonder of nature that is Alan Davies."
Davies will remain as resident panellist.
The show covers topics under one letter per series, and Fry said "after passing the alphabetical halfway mark I thought it time to move on, but I will never cease to be grateful to John Lloyd for devising QI and for everyone else for making it such fun".
The upcoming M series will be Fry's last.
Toksvig said QI was her "favourite television programme both to watch and to be on, so this is absolutely my dream job".
She said: "Stephen has been utterly brilliant with the first half of the alphabet. Now I look forward to picking up the baton, mixing my metaphors and sailing towards the Land of Nod (i.e. Z).
"Who knows what lies ahead?  It should all be quite interesting."
Last year, Toksvig spoke out after the BBC announced a policy of having at least one woman on every panel show.
Rather than recruiting more female panellists, she suggested having more female hosts would be a better way of ensuring more women were represented.
"If you get more female hosts, you'll... have more women taking part," she said.


Commuters faced delays as soaring temperatures affected train services on the hottest day of the year so far.

The highest UK temperature was 33.5C (92F) in Oxfordshire, while it reached 32.4C in Wales and 29C in Scotland.
Heat buckled a rail in North Yorkshire, and speed limits were put in place on some lines due to "high rail temperatures".
In Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, on Monday, a 46-year-old man died after reportedly jumping into a canal to "cool off".
A yellow warning of rain is in place from Tuesday evening onwards covering most of the UK apart from south Wales and southern England. The Met Office has also warned of the risk of flash flooding.
Some rail companies announced train speeds had been reduced, because of fears of hot rails buckling.
Great Western Railway made a series of changes to timetabled services as track temperatures threatened to exceed 50C in parts of London.
The train operator warned many of its services would take 10-15 minutes longer because of the hot conditions.
The high summer temperatures were blamed for delays on First Transpennine Express, Northern and Hull Trains services.
A rail buckled in the heat at Selby, North Yorkshire, and trains were delayed by up to 60 minutes.
The Met Office said at about 16:15 BST that 33.5C had been recorded at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
It became the hottest day of the year so far in the UK at about 11:30 BST, when 30.2C was recorded in London's St James' Park, and 30.1C was recorded at Charlwood in Surrey, Heathrow and Northolt in Greater London.
On Twitter, #hottestdayoftheyear trended throughout the day.
The highest reading recorded in the UK in July was 36.7C (98F) in 2015.
Though many described Tuesday's conditions as a heatwave, the Met Office said it uses the World Meteorological Organization definition - that the daily maximum temperature exceeds the average maximum temperature by 5C for five consecutive days.
However, it declared a level three heatwave alert, meaning there was a 90% probability of heatwave conditions until Thursday morning.
London Ambulance Service said it had received 300 more calls than usual on Tuesday and Public Health England urged people to take care, with advice to drink plenty of water, and wear sunscreen and loose clothing.
St John Ambulance also issued advice, urging people to be aware of headaches, dizziness and cramp, which can be signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
The RSPCA said it had also seen a spike in calls from members of the public concerned about dogs left in hot cars, conservatories, sheds and caravans.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK was 38.5C (101.3F) in Faversham, Kent, in August 2003.
BBC Weather's Carol Kirkwood warned the high temperatures could spark isolated thunderstorms in Northern Ireland on Tuesday evening, which would travel across north and west Wales, northern England and Scotland through the evening and overnight.
"Some of those could be torrential; we'll see a lot of rain in a short amount of time, lots of lightning flashes and big hail and gusty winds. It's going to be a humid night as well," she said.
Meanwhile, in the House of Commons, MPs proposed employers should be legally forced to provide water, breaks or air conditioning to combat "uncomfortably high" temperatures.
There is no law for minimum or maximum working temperatures, but guidance suggests a minimum of 16C (61F), or 13C, if employees are doing physical work.
There is currently no guidance for maximum working temperature, but an early day motion tabled in the House of Commons called for a legal limit of 30C or 27C for those doing strenuous work.


Proposals for a new helipad over a car park at a hospital in Nottingham have been given planning approval.

Hospital bosses said it was "an important milestone" in a £3.2m project to cut patient handover times at Queen's Medical Centre (QMC).
Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust said the helipad could reduce patient transfers by up to 10 minutes.
It is hoped the helipad, which is set to be built on stilts, will be in use from early 2018.
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The hospital trust had plans to build the helipad on top of a new research building approved in 2015, but that project was deemed unviable and was never completed.
The helipad will now be built on stilts on top of one of the hospital's car parks.
Patients will then be transferred from the helipad to a lift and then a land ambulance, which will take them for treatment.
Helicopters currently land at a helipad at Highfields Park a mile away and patients are transferred by road ambulance.
Andrew Chatten, from the trust, said: "There remains much to do but this formal planning approval is an important milestone.
"This facility will help improve the care to the most critically injured patients from across the region helping them to be treated more quickly, reducing the transfer time from 15 minutes to less than five minutes from helicopter to our major trauma centre."
The helipad is being funded by a £2.5m donation from the Nottingham Hospitals Charity and a £700,000 investment from the hospital trust.


Welsh boxer Joe Cordina claimed his second stoppage win in seven days as he overpowered Sergej Vib on the the Joshua-Klitschko bill at Wembley.

Cordina dominated from the opening bell of his super-featherweight contest halt the Russian inside a round.
It followed a fourth-round stoppage against Jose Aguilar on his professional debut on 22 April.
Cordina fought for Team GB at the Rio Olympics and was a bronze medallist at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
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Self-made businessman CY Leung has been chosen as Hong Kong's new leader after an unusually turbulent campaign.

He was elected by a committee of 1,200 business leaders and other influential citizens, mostly loyal to Beijing.
The Chinese government switched its support to Mr Leung late in the campaign after a string of scandals rocked early frontrunner Henry Tang.
Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters gathered outside the convention centre where the vote took place.
The tumultuous campaign has fuelled calls by pro-democracy activists for Hong Kong's 7.1 million residents to be able to directly elect their own leader, something China has promised will happen in 2017.
Mr Leung, 57, was declared Hong Kong's new chief executive after securing 689 votes. With most of the votes counted, Henry Tang had 285 and pro-democracy candidate Albert Ho 76, election officials said.
Before the vote, Mr Leung had told reporters he would work hard to "get rid of people's negative perception about this election".
The son of a policeman, he had originally been seen as having only an outside chance of securing the leadership.
But Beijing's early choice, Mr Tang, was wounded by a series of gaffes and scandals. The heir to a textile fortune confessed to cheating on his wife and building an illegal underground basement, which was reported to have housed an entertainment suite, jacuzzi and wine cellar.
Mr Ho's outspoken pro-democracy stance meant he was widely seen as being unacceptable to Beijing.
Mr Leung will replace Donald Tsang, who served two terms and could not run for the post again.
Hong Kong, a British colony until 1997, has been enjoying high degree of autonomy from Beijing.
But Communist leaders in Beijing have resisted public pressure for full democracy in Hong Kong.


Vodafone's New Zealand unit is merging with the country's biggest pay television provider Sky Network in a $2.4bn (£1.7bn) deal.

UK-based Vodafone, the world's second-biggest mobile carrier, will own 51% of the combined company.
Sky will pay Vodafone NZ$1.25bn in cash and issue new shares at a 21% premium to its closing price on Wednesday.
Analysts say the deal might result in Vodafone leaving the New Zealand market.
"As far as Vodafone is concerned, it's about them getting out of the New Zealand market altogether," said Morningstar analyst Brian Han. Mr Han thinks that Vodafone might also be looking to exit the Australian market as well.
Vodafone NZ has more than 2.35 million mobile accounts, while Sky has 830,000 subscribers. Combined the business will be one of the biggest on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
The head of Vodafone's New Zealand operations Russell Stanners will be the chief executive of the new company.


Dan Holman scored the only goal as National League champions Cheltenham won at Macclesfield.

The decisive moment came when James Dayton played in Holman who smashed the ball past Richie Branagan.
Amari Morgan-Smith had his strike saved as the Robins threatened to extend their lead, while Chris Holroyd saw the hosts' best effort saved.
Cheltenham will top 100 points if they win against Lincoln next week while Macclesfield remain 10th.


Part of a prison wing that was taken over by about 60 inmates has been reclaimed, the Prison Service has said.

Specialist "Tornado" teams were sent into HMP Swaleside, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, after a disturbance at about 19:00 GMT on Thursday.
A Prison Service spokeswoman said all those involved at the category B jail had "surrendered and were back in cells by 1am".
No prisoners or staff were injured, she added. A police inquiry is under way.
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The disturbance happened less than a week after inmates at HMP Birmingham rioted for 12 hours - the latest in a number of disturbances in the past two months.
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and former home secretaries Ken Clarke and Jacqui Smith have said the incident at Birmingham should act as a "wake up call".
In a letter to the Times, they said jails had become unacceptably dangerous and called for inmate populations to be reduced by about half from their present levels to 45,000.
The Prison Service said "challenges in our prisons are longstanding and won't be solved overnight".
But, it added, Justice Secretary Liz Truss was "committed to making sure our prisons are stable while we deliver wholesale reforms to the prison estate to help offenders turn their lives around and reduce reoffending".
'I lived in fear every day'
HMP Swaleside is a category B jail, which houses 1,100 male prisoners serving terms of more than four years. It has eight wings made up of single cells.
During the disturbance, the Prison Service said the incident had been "contained to one landing on A Wing".
The A wing of the prison houses the Open Academy, a study centre with a computer suite.
The rest of the jail was put on "lockdown" while the prison was brought back under control.
Earlier, Prison Officers Association (POA) chairman Mike Rolfe said fires had been lit.
Mr Rolfe described Swaleside as "a particularly difficult place to work".
He said: "Staff recruitment and retention there has been poor.
"In the last few years they've lost lots of experienced staff and new recruits haven't wanted to stick the job out due to the toxic nature of the job."
Gordon Henderson, Conservative MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, said prison officers are better off financially if they get a job in a local warehouse than if they stay in the prison service.
"They've got to pay prison officers what they're worth," he said.
A man claiming to be an inmate at the jail contacted the BBC and said the unrest had been sparked when officers raided cells.
He made further claims, which have not been verified, that the use of inexperienced staff and a reduction in certain privileges had caused "tension" between prison officers and inmates.
An HM Inspectorate of Prisons report in July said the centre was used by 50 of the 126 prisoners on the wing, who were enrolled on open and distance learning courses.
The report described the prison as "dangerous" and found levels of violence at the jail were "far too high" with many incidents classed as serious.
Some 550 prisoners were moved to other jails after last week's Birmingham riot was quelled, but the Ministry of Justice did not say whether any had been sent to Swaleside.
Richard Burgeon, Labour's shadow justice secretary, told the BBC: "In July the Independent Monitoring Board said this prison is not safe and staff shortage is the major cause.
"As with Birmingham prison, the public will once again wonder what action the justice secretary actually took in response to the board's concerns.
"She needs to tell us."
John Podmore, a former prison governor at HMP Swaleside, said: "We should be sending fewer people to jail in absolute terms but we need to be looking at who we are locking up, why we are locking them up and how we deal with the way in which they are offending against society.
"We need a much more subtle approach than what we have at the moment."
A clearer sense of what happened is coming to light. The Prison Officers Association said there were disputes between inmates and prison staff over how many hours people would be locked up over Christmas.
There were raids of cells where personal possessions were then confiscated.
After that a riot broke out and prison officers lost control and retreated.
Prisoners were brandishing snooker balls which are often used as weapons and they let off fire extinguishers.
Tornado squads were brought in and by 01:00 the wing was under control.


An opera about people trapped in one of the Twin Towers during the 9/11 attacks has been called a "remarkable piece of work" by one UK critic.

Between Worlds, an English National Opera (ENO) production at the Barbican in London, "tears at the heart", wrote the Daily Telegraph's Ivan Hewett.
The opera, wrote Michael Church in The Independent, "reflects crazy courage" and "comes across with awesome power".
The Guardian, though, said it was not "as affecting as it ought to be".
Nor is there any "real sense", wrote Andrew Clements, of the "sheer chaotic terror" of the events of 11 September 2001 dramatised by composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake.
The Arts Desk also found fault with Deborah Warner's production, saying it is "peppered with problems" that include a "lack of clarity" and "monochrome pace".
"As a meditative lament on this human tragedy, Between Worlds succeeds," wrote Jessica Duchen.
"But as a metaphysical drama of the day itself, there is more to question, and much to clarify."
Between Worlds, the second ENO production to be co-commissioned by the Barbican after 2013's Sunken Garden, runs until 25 April.
It is the first opera to be written by Davies, a previous winner of the BBC's Young Composers' Competition who has written works for the LSO, the City of London Sinfonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.