England require their best-ever fourth-innings run chase to beat Pakistan in the second Test after a dire third day.

Resuming in a strong position at 182-3, the tourists were bundled out for 242 in a dreadful morning session in Dubai.
Joe Root, Ben Stokes and the out-of-form Jos Buttler fell victim to Wahab Riaz's pace, before Yasir Shah's leg-spin bamboozled the lower order.
By the close, Pakistan reached 222-3, a lead of 358 runs, with Misbah ul-Haq 87 not out and Younus Khan 71 not out.
After coming so close to winning the first Test, and contesting the first two days of this match fiercely, this was a hugely disappointing day for the tourists - and one that seriously imperils their chances of getting a result in this series.
Alastair Cook's men will have to hope they can dismiss the hosts quickly on day four, then set about a huge run chase - but their chances of avoiding defeat on a turning fourth-innings track with the wily Yasir in operation appear slim.
England's chances of getting close to, or even overhauling, Pakistan's first-innings total of 378 were always likely to depend on the influential Root - unbeaten on 76 overnight.
But the day got off to the worst possible when the Yorkshire batsman swished at a wide delivery from Wahab and was caught behind for 88.
From then on, England's increasing over-reliance on Root and Cook was horribly exposed as the remaining six wickets tumbled for only 30 runs.
Wahab, bowling with real hostility to exploit England's uncertainty against genuine pace, had Stokes (4) and Buttler (0) caught behind in quick succession in a superb spell of 3-15 in nine overs.
Then it was over to Yasir - bowling in tandem with Wahab for the first 18 overs of the day - who justified his status as the world's top-ranked spin bowler with a display of high-class leg-spin.
Memories of England's awful performances against spin on their last tour of the UAE were revived as Adil Rashid (0), Jonny Bairstow (46) and Mark Wood (1) all perished with poor shots to Yasir.
After conceding a first-innings lead of 136, England desperately needed early wickets, and their seamers got two quick breakthroughs.
James Anderson dismissed Shan Masood (1) for the fourth time in the series before Shoaib Malik (7) was bowled trying to drive Mark Wood.
But England could not capitalise on that good start as their spinners struggled.
Mohammad Hafeez smashed Moeen Ali and Root for sixes before he was caught at slip off Wood for 51.
That brought first-innings centurion Misbah to the crease with Younus - a partnership with a combined age of 78 and one that has thwarted England throughout this series.
Playing cautiously against the seamers and looking to dominate the spinners, the duo - who have now put on a fifty partnership in nine out of the last 10 occasions they have been at the crease together - batted England further and further out of contention.
To win, the tourists will have to surpass the highest-ever fourth-innings chase at Dubai - 137 - and record at least the fifth-highest run-chase this century.
While Stokes is averaging just 24 since the start of the Ashes and Bairstow remains without a Test century, it is the form of Buttler that is the biggest concern in England's malfunctioning middle order.
The wicketkeeper - whose average after his first eight Tests was 52.67 - is averaging just 13.55 in his last seven matches against Australia and Pakistan, with 149 runs in 11 innings.
"Buttler's numbers are not good," said former England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special. "He's got a huge problem: he's not lining up the ball, he's playing it two feet away from his body."
In addition, even his usually reliable keeping faltered as he dropped a simple chance presented by Shan Masood off the bowling of Stuart Broad, and saw another chance fly between him and Joe Root at first slip.
Bairstow is also capable of taking the gloves and James Taylor could replace Buttler in the middle order should England decide to change their side for the third Test in Sharjah.
Ex-England spinner Graeme Swann on BBC Test Match Special: "I think there will be two changes [for the next Test]. The way they're going, they're going to lose unless something ridiculous happens.
"Barring a big score from Buttler or Bell, I think they'll be asked to sit out the last Test. That will allow you to bring in an opening batsman in Alex Hales, and James Taylor at three, with Moeen Ali moving to seven. He's not an opening bat, he showed in Abu Dhabi it's not his natural game."
Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: "My frustration with England is that they keep having these horrible sessions that lose them the game. Losing seven wickets for 36 runs... it's over. You can say I'm being negative but this game is done."


The Northern Ireland Secretary of State Teresa Villiers has said the UK government will release funding to allow a public sector redundancy scheme to go ahead.

The move is seen as vital to getting Stormont's budget on a sustainable footing.
The redundancy scheme formed part of the financial package attached to the Stormont House Agreement.
The Westminster government would allow the Northern Ireland Executive to borrow £700m over four years to pay off up to 20,000 public servants.
A £200m portion would be used to cut up to 3,000 jobs in the Civil Service alone by March 2016.
The agreement was signed in December but fell apart within three months over the vexed issue of welfare reform
In March, Ms Villiers told an audience in Washington DC that the financial package could not go ahead without welfare reform.
But by this weekend, that position was clearly no longer sustainable.
The decision to grant the extra borrowing powers, while the rest of the agreement is not implemented, is simply a recognition of the perilous state of Stormont's finances.
The Northern Ireland Executive is already operating a provisional or 'fantasy' budget - one which assumes that welfare reform has happened when, of course, it has not.
On top of this, Stormont departments have already built the savings from the redundancy scheme into their budgets for the rest of this year.
If the scheme did not proceed, it increased the risk that budgets would be bust right across Stormont.
The head of the Civil Service, Malcolm McKibben, expects that in this financial year the scheme will knock about £25m off his pay bill.
By next year, he said the accrued savings will be £95m to £100m and, in all, he expects the scheme to have paid for itself with 14 months.
Those savings will start almost immediately with the first 864 civil servants due to take redundancy at the end of this month.


A cyclist has said he is lucky to be alive after being hit by a car whose driver is believed to have tweeted about the crash.

Toby Hockley was on the 100-mile Boudicca Sportive ride in Norfolk on Sunday when he was struck by a car and flung into a hedge, he said.
The incident is being linked to a comment on Twitter by a Norwich woman.
It read: "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier. I have right of way - he doesn't even pay road tax!"
The tweet included the hashtag "#Bloodycyclists".
The message has been forwarded to Norfolk Police, who are investigating.
Mr Hockley, 29, from Norwich, was riding with Iceni Velo cycling club on a narrow country lane, about five miles away from the end of the route at Snetterton.
"A car came tearing round the blind corner and narrowly missed a cyclist in front of me," he said.
"She came on to my side of the road, I took the wing mirror off and I went flying off my bike into a hedge.
"She hit me hard, really hard. I am lucky to be alive.
"But I managed to get out of the hedge and stand up.
"The car was nowhere to be seen. She hit me and she was gone.
"All I know is that it was a blonde girl driving."
The freelance chef said he felt battered and bruised but was able to finish the course after a few roadside fixes to his bike.
"I burst out laughing, I couldn't believe how lucky I was and that I was still in one piece," he said.
The comment on Twitter suggested Toby Hockley, as a cyclist, does not pay "road tax".
A road tax does not exist in the UK but the term is commonly and incorrectly used to refer to the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), or "car tax" paid on most motorised vehicles as a tax on emissions.
Roads are funded by all UK taxpayers under general and local taxes.
Source:Gov.uk
"I had a hug with my co-rider at the side of the road and was just full of adrenaline.
"But when I finished, the aches and pains set in and I had a bit of sulk in the cafe and had an ice-cream."
Mr Hockley said he was planning to keep the incident to himself so as not to worry his girlfriend but changed his mind after reading Twitter.
"I think she came across as a very silly girl and made herself look like a bit of a fool," he said.
"I'm not angry, I would just like it known that her stupid comment that I don't pay road tax is not an excuse to treat cyclists like second-class citizens."
The woman's Twitter account has been removed.
Norfolk Police said it was investigating and had spoken to both parties.


An Aberdeenshire subsea business has won a contract worth more than £1m to remove explosives from around the world's longest pipeline.

M2 Subsea - headquartered in Westhill - will tackle explosive devices lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea since World War 2.
Two remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) will work from the Go Electra support vessel.
The contract was awarded by Next Geosolutions.
M2 Subsea chief executive officer Mike Arnold said: "This contract award from Next Geosolutions is great for the business and a significant scope of work for us to win.
"It highlights both our capabilities to negotiate what is a very challenging subsea environment.
"Safety is a key factor on every project and in particular where it involves surveying the seabed to identify undiscovered explosive devices for removal."


Winger Adam Mekki has agreed a new one-year deal with Tranmere Rovers, with the option of a further 12 months.

The 24-year-old joined Rovers on trial last summer but ended up scoring four times in 39 National League appearances after earning a contract.
Boss Gary Brabin told the club website: "I'm really pleased to keep Adam. He progressed a lot last season and became an important player for us.
"Hopefully he can continue to develop his game in the coming season."


Toilet paper issued to Hitler's army, the Wehrmacht, during World War Two is up for sale at an auction in Dublin.

The unopened roll of Edelweiss brand Klosettpapier (toilet paper) has been valued at between 80 euros (Â£67) and 120 euros (Â£100).
The roll is in a "remarkably unused condition", say Whyte's auctioneers.
German soldiers' helmets, minefield warning flags and a police dagger are among the other items going under the hammer on 17 September.
A private Irish collector had assembled the collection over a 25-year period and it was fascinating that the toilet paper remained intact, said Whyte's Head of Collectibles Stuart Purcell.
It was one of the more bizarre artefacts he had come across, added Mr Purcell.
"We had a German World War Two helmet on sale in March which sold for 10,000 euros and the guy whose collection it is was one of the bidders," he told the BBC.
"The private collector's raison d'etre in the early days was to try and collect the kit of the average World War Two soldier - everything from what he used for cleaning his gun to his butter dish.
"It is fascinating that someone in 1945 would say: 'We will put that toilet paper aside because someone will find that interesting in the future.'
"You would have thought it would have been used during the war."
Mr Purcell acknowledged that some people would think the concept of collecting Nazi militaria was "sinister" but said their retention had historical significance.
"The people who collect these items are usually serious collectors," he said. "For some people though it is like collecting stamps.
"If they weren't still collecting it, in a generation's time people would say we don't have anything to show as nobody bothered to collect it."
The private collector selling the toilet paper had collected some 30 German helmets dating back to World War One, said Mr Purcell.
"There are WW2 paratrooper helmets and a number of Waffen SS helmets, which are very rare," he said.
"We also have a Nazi railway police dagger which is rare and is on at 1,500 to 2,000 euros."


League Two side Crawley Town have appointed ex-Leeds United and Liverpool winger Harry Kewell as their new head coach, replacing Dermot Drummy.

Kewell, 38, joined Watford as an under-23 team coach in June 2015, before leaving the club earlier this season.
The former Australia international scored 45 goals in 185 Premier League games for Leeds, before spending five seasons with Liverpool.
He retired in June 2014 after spells at Galatasaray and Melbourne.
Former Newport County manager Warren Feeney, who was sacked by the Exiles in September 2016, has been appointed as Kewell's assistant.
"During his interview Harry showed us great passion - that's needed to make this team move onwards," director of football Selim Gaygusuz told the club website.
Crawley had been without a head coach since Drummy left the club by mutual consent on 4 May.
The Reds finished 19th in League Two this season, five points above the relegation zone.


Former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has been injured by an explosion inside his car in Athens.

Reports say the blast may have been caused by a letter bomb.
Mr Papademos, 69, and his driver have suffered leg injuries but their lives are not believed to be in danger, the reports add.
Mr Papademos was appointed caretaker prime minister in November 2011 amid political and economic turmoil. He served in post until May 2012.
Mr Papademos has also served as vice-president of the European Central Bank.
Current Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who is attending a Nato summit in Brussels, is being kept informed of the incident, Greek news agency ANA said.
Mr Papademos and his driver, who has not been named, were reportedly rushed to Evangelismos Hospital.
Some reports say two banking officials were also in the car, but their condition is not known.
No group has said it was behind the blast.
In March, a letter bomb sent from Greece exploded at the International Monetary Fund office in Paris.
The employee who opened the letter suffered hand and face injuries and staff were evacuated.
Days earlier, a parcel bomb meant for German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was intercepted and destroyed in Berlin before it could explode.
Greek far-left group Conspiracy of Fire Cells said it was responsible for sending that device


An inquiry should take place into how a man was able to try to rape a nine-year-old girl while on bail for rape, a councillor says.

Steven Partridge, 24, was jailed for eight years for attempted rape and abducting a child in Westcliff-on-Sea near Southend, Essex, in November 2014.
Kent Police said he had been arrested and bailed for a sex assault on a 19-year-old in Folkestone in August 2014.
Southend councillor Martin Terry said he was "outraged" by what had happened.
"If someone's a known offender, that should be notified to the council by the police. My question is, how was he out on bail?" Mr Terry said.
"I've written to the chiefs of Essex and Kent Police and the police and crime commissioners asking for an inquiry into how this came about."
Last week, Partridge, of Southend, was given an extended sentence of six years' imprisonment for the earlier rape, and a three-year concurrent sentence for sexual assault.
He was also given a three-year extension to his three-year licence period, bringing his total sentence to 14 years in prison and six on licence.
The BBC has asked Kent Police to confirm Partridge's bail conditions at the time of his arrest in August 2014.


"I wish everything could go back to the way that it was," sighed Najat, remembering her 19-year-old son.

Last month, jihadist group Islamic State (IS) claimed that Abdelmalek Boutalliss had blown himself up in Iraq.
Originally from the Belgian city of Kortrijk, he had been preparing for his exams when he told his mother, "Don't expect me for dinner".
The next day he sent her a photo from Turkey of him with his best friend, saying he was heading to Syria.
One of hundreds of young Belgians lured by IS to Syria and Iraq, he was given the nom de guerre Abu Nusaybah al-Baljiki. His family are Berbers, an ethnic group from North Africa.
Idriss Boutalliss followed his son to Syria twice, in a desperate attempt to bring him back.
On the second occasion, after a 10-day search, he finally managed to meet him near Raqqa - the self-proclaimed capital of IS.
Abdelmalek refused to leave, telling his father that he would be jailed immediately if he returned to Belgium.
"I spoke to the police and they assured me if you return you will not go to prison," his father told him. But the teenager said he was lying.
At around the same time, in July 2014, Belgian researcher Montasser Alde'emeh spent three weeks in Syria trying to understand what made so many young people from Belgium go there.
"There are about 500 Belgian jihadis [in Syria and Iraq]," he said. "About 70 of them have been killed."
On his return, he set up a centre aiming to counter extremism and convince Belgians in Syria and Iraq to come home.
That was how he came into contact with Abdelmalek Boutalliss, who had put his name down on a list of willing suicide bombers.
These lists can reportedly be found in jihadist training camps.
During a series of conversations via the Whatsapp instant messaging service, the Belgian academic tried to change the teenager's mind, urging him to think what effect it would have on his mother.
This WhatsApp conversation originally took place in Dutch. It has been shortened and edited by the BBC.
Montasser Alde'emeh: You should not do that. Remove your name from the list of suicide bombers.
Abdelmalek: Allah willing, I will carry out a "martyrdom operation"
Montasser: Do not blow yourself up, brother. Do not do it. Can't you imagine how sad your parents will be?
Abdelmalek: You are still looking for the truth, unlike me.  I found the truth. I kept searching in Belgium and found it.
Montasser: I hate that you are doing that. Don't you realise to what extent I care about you?
Abdelmalek: I don't care. My path to paradise is not in your hands. Whatever you say, I won't listen.
Montasser: Your parents are still Muslims and they want you to return.
Abdelmalek: If they are real believers they should come here.
Many young European men have been lured by IS via the internet but Abdelmalek Boutalliss was recruited locally in Belgium.
His mother, Najat, said he had begun to show interest in Islam when a teacher began asking him about the religion.
At that point he started visiting a local mosque and his family thinks he was recruited there by a jihadist who had previously fought in Syria.
Young Muslims are still being radicalised in Belgium.
Observers believe they feel alienated from society and angered by Western involvement in Syria.
Since October, the number of Belgian jihadists has risen by 39, according to Belgian expert Pieter Van Ostaeyen.
Last month, 130 people died in co-ordinated attacks claimed by IS on a concert hall, cafes, restaurants and a stadium in Paris.
Several Belgian jihadists took part in the atrocities and the suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud came from the Brussels district of Molenbeek.
Three days before the attacks, on 10 November, IS militants announced that the Belgian teenager they had dubbed Abu Nusaybah al-Baljiki had carried out a suicide attack in Haditha in western Iraq.
IS said he had destroyed three Iraqi military vehicles and killed everyone inside. Iraqi officials insisted his attack had been foiled and he blew himself up some distance from the vehicles.
Whether or not Abdelmalek Boutallis committed murder in western Iraq, his mother Najat still refuses to believe he is dead.


Giant panda Ying Ying, who was due to give birth to Hong Kong's first giant panda cub, has suffered a miscarriage.

Ying Ying's pregnancy was confirmed in late September and she has since been closely monitored for signs of labour.
However, ultrasound scans conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday showed that the foetus no longer had a heartbeat.
Doctors at the Ocean Park amusement park said they are very disappointed as they have been trying for four years to get Ying Ying pregnant.
The scans "clearly showed the foetus that we had been monitoring had stopped developing and the foetal structures were no longer distinct, thus confirming it is no longer viable," said Ocean Park vet Dr Lee Foo Khong.
Earlier this year, 10-year-old Ying Ying mated naturally and was also artificially inseminated.
However, the staff at Ocean Park are unsure which method resulted in the successful pregnancy.
The 100kg female - described by the park as "inquisitive, active and vigilant" - attempted to mate naturally with two male pandas on five different occasions and one of the attempts was deemed successful.
But to improve the chances of a viable pregnancy, Ying Ying was also artificially inseminated.
Panda reproduction is a notoriously difficult process, with females only ovulating once a year.
It is also common for giant pandas to re-absorb the foetus into the womb in the late stages of pregnancy, "especially for first-time mothers due to their inexperience," said Dr. Wang Chengdong of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda.
The gestation period is typically five months and one or two cubs are usually born.
Ocean Park, along with Wolong specialists, will continue to closely review the data gathered during the pregnancy in an effort to learn more about giant panda miscarriages.


A woman who bought a souvenir jug in Turkey more than 50 years ago is to return it after discovering it is a bronze-age urn.

Thelma Bishop from Gatley in Stockport bought the ceramic jug for a few dollars while on holiday in the 1960s.
Its history was discovered by auctioneers after Ms Bishop decided to sell it.
She was told she could have been prosecuted for removing it. Turkish officials are said to be "delighted".
Ceramics expert Jason Wood at Adam Partridge Auctioneers said: "It is being returned to the Turkish authorities because it would have exposed the owner to legal proceedings if (Ms Bishop) had gone ahead and made a sale.
"That is because when she took it out of the country, inadvertently it was breaking a Turkish law which dates back to the 1880s.
"It is an early bronze age ceramic vessel, made specifically to be a grave good, so it was buried in cemeteries. (It was) commonly found in Western Anatolia in Turkey."
Mr Wood said the item was "fairly rare".
He said: "Its archaeological value is why it is important. There are a few examples; there is one in the British Museum, one in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and they crop up periodically, a few in Turkey as well, but to have one turn up in Stockport of all places and in such remarkable condition is quite unusual."
Ms Bishop has been offered a free museum pass in Istanbul for returning the jug to the Turkish authorities who are said to be "delighted".
The ceramic vessel will go on display at The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.


Campaigners believe a proposal to establish a vast marine reserve in the seas around Antarctica will finally be accepted this week.

An international commission is looking to safeguard a massive section of the Ross Sea, home to penguins, petrels and killer whales.
The proposed marine protected area (MPA) would ban fishing and drilling in a region dubbed "the last ocean".
Experts say it could set a precedent for other areas of the high seas.
Consisting of 24 countries plus the European Union, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) was established in 1980 with a mission to protect the common resources of the Southern Ocean.
While Antarctica itself is protected by the Madrid Protocol which declares the region a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science", the surrounding waters have increasingly become the focus for commercial fishing fleets, attracted by vast quantities of krill and toothfish.
One of the first attempts to limit these activities came from the UK which proposed the creation of the South Orkney Marine Protected Area at CCAMLR in 2009.
While this was successful in limiting fishing in an area of some 94,000 sq km around the South Orkneys, attempts since then to give protection to much larger bodies of water around Antarctica have become bogged down in political disputes.
At the end of negotiations last year, Russia was seen as the one country holding out against a consensus on the Ross Sea.
Other proposal for MPAs in East Antarctica and the Weddell Sea are also on the table this year but there is a growing belief that Russia will support the Ross Sea option this time round.
President Putin has designated 2017 as the Year of Ecology and the country has recently expanded an MPA around Franz Josef Land in the Arctic.
"People have come into it feeling very positive that this could be the year," said Cassandra Brooks, a phd student at Stanford University who has recently published a study on the workings of CCAMLR.
"Despite the US and Russian tensions in other parts of the world, historically countries have worked wonders in the Antarctic and I hope this will be a case where we see science and diplomacy working."
While the Ross Sea,  its shelf and slope only comprise 2% of the Southern Ocean they are home to 38% of the world's Adelie penguins, 30% of the world's Antarctic petrels and around 6% of the world's population of Antarctic minke whales.
The region is important to the rest of the planet as the upwelling of nutrients from the deep waters encounter currents which carry them around the world.
Krill are a staple food for species including whales and seals, and their oil is critical for salmon farming. However there are concerns that overfishing and climate change are having significant impacts on their numbers.
The current proposal, introduced by New Zealand and the US, would see a general protection "no-take" zone where nothing could be removed including marine life and minerals.
There would also be special zones where fishing from krill and toothfish would be allowed for research purposes.
"Right now, 24 countries and the EU are negotiating what could be the first-ever large-scale marine sanctuary in international waters," said Mike Walker, from the Antarctic Ocean Alliance, a coalition of environmental campaigners.
"An agreement would be an historic move to protect the ocean," he said.
One of the key questions in the negotiations is how long the MPA should last. China is on the record as stating it believes that 20 years is long enough. Many conservationists say this is far too short, given the lifespan of creatures that life in the Ross Sea, such as whales.
"We'll see what it is," said Cassandra Brooks.
"It will have value for the times it's in place but can it meet its objectives in such a short duration? That's something that a lot of people are worried about."
One of the other big concerns that could halt the Ross Sea proposal is the fact that it might set a precedent for other high seas negotiations around the world, such as in the Arctic and in attempts by the UN to develop a new marine biodiversity treaty.
"For some states it comes down to economics, for others it is about setting a precedent," said Cassandra Brooks.
"For others it might be cultural, a lot of people might say that MPAs are a very western thing so there could be some breakdown there.
"I am optimistic, sometimes it just takes time and the political window of opportunity - are we in that? It remains to be seen."
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Luton were too strong for struggling Hartlepool as they eased to a 3-0 victory at Kenilworth Road.

The Hatters led after just five minutes when Luke Gambin's clipped pass was controlled by Danny Hylton and he fired in his 18th of an impressive season.
Alan Sheehan was denied by goalkeeper Joe Fryer before the home side doubled their advantage after just 10 minutes, Gambin driving into the area and finding the bottom corner to score his first Luton goal.
It took Pools 30 minutes to register an attempt of note, defender Scott Harrison heading narrowly wide from a corner.
In the second half, Hartlepool winger Nathan Thomas fired wildly off target for the visitors, while Hylton should have doubled his tally only to fire wastefully over the top.
Isaac Vassell was denied by a good low stop from Fryer, before Pools almost had one back, Michael Woods firing inches over.
Town wrapped up the points late on as Ollie Palmer came off the bench and when the ball ricocheted back into his path, he beat Fryer to open his account for the Hatters.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Luton Town 3, Hartlepool United 0.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 3, Hartlepool United 0.
Corner,  Luton Town. Conceded by Joe Fryer.
Attempt saved. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Glen Rea (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United).
Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Hartlepool United. Conceded by John Mullins.
Attempt blocked. Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Brad Walker (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ollie Palmer (Luton Town).
Attempt saved. Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Michael Woods (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Woods (Hartlepool United).
Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonathan Smith (Luton Town).
Goal!  Luton Town 3, Hartlepool United 0. Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United).
Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Hartlepool United. Conceded by Matt Macey.
Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Glen Rea (Luton Town).
Attempt saved. Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Luton Town. Ollie Palmer replaces Danny Hylton.
Substitution, Luton Town. Jack Marriott replaces Isaac Vassell.
Scott Harrison (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Isaac Vassell (Luton Town).
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Gambin (Luton Town).
Attempt blocked. Jack Senior (Luton Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Hartlepool United. Conceded by Danny Hylton.
Attempt blocked. Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Smith (Luton Town).
Substitution, Luton Town. Jonathan Smith replaces Lawson D'Ath.
Corner,  Hartlepool United. Conceded by Pelly Ruddock.
Corner,  Hartlepool United. Conceded by Stephen O'Donnell.


It's been compared to Scotland's Vietnam - a 14th century attempt to unify the Celtic nations, invade Ireland and try to drive the English out of it.

It briefly saw Robert the Bruce's brother made king of Ireland and featured a 300-ship invasion of Ulster, sieges and battles that marked turning points in Irish history.
Yet the war, which began in 1315, lasted for three years and could easily have been the source material for Game of Thrones, has been largely forgotten.
A new two-part BBC documentary drama series aims to address that fact.
War of The Three Kings is narrated by actor Brian Cox and features Clive Russell as Robert and Douglas Russell as his brother Edward.
It combines stunning locations, dramatic re-enactments and CGI, to recreate the harsh and often violent medieval world of 700 years ago and features a variety of academics and experts, among them Dr Gavin Hughes of Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Hughes said there were different theories about the motive for the invasion, including that Robert the Bruce wanted his ambitious brother and heir Edward out of the way.
"There's an idea that they send him across just basically because Robert wants rid of him and thinks we'll make him king of Ireland and that'll keep him happy - there's possibly a little bit to that," he said.
"But there's also the idea that if a Scottish army establish themselves in Ulster and take Carrickfergus, then the whole seaboard route is theirs and they can cut off supplies to Carlisle where Robert is having a huge siege."
The invasion also owed something to the idea of Celtic unity.
"You get to the end of the 13th century when Kind Edward I is on the throne and he's hammering the Welsh and he's also hammering the Scots with Wallace and that kind of thing," Dr Hughes said.
"And the interesting thing is this whole sense of Celtic consciousness begins to develop outside England."
Whatever, the motives for the invasion, Dr Hughes said people in Ireland took sides for different reasons - some to settle old scores, while some were motivated by who they thought would ultimately win.
"It ends up being an almighty mess. There are Irish fighting Irish, there are English fighting English, on the Scottish side of the water there are Scots fighting against Bruce because they support the Plantagenets as well," he said.
"It's all intrigue and a lot of warfare and of course the warfare comes right at the wrong time for a campaigning season, because it comes smack bang in the middle of a famine as well and that's what really does for the Scots army in Ireland."
The high point of the Scots in Ireland was 1316 when they cut a swathe through Louth and almost down to Dublin.
Dr Hughes said they could have taken Dublin in 1317, "Dublin was wide open, but for some reason they head off to Limerick.
"After that they're sort of dead in the water because they're not really getting resupplied as much as they should be," he said.
The key battle was fought in October 1318 at Faughart outside Dundalk and the outcome sounds reminiscent of an episode of Game of Thrones.
"Massive, massive battle and he [Edward the Bruce] is killed there," Dr Hughes said.
"His body is apparently cut into four and sent to all four corners of Ireland as a warning and his head is placed in a casket in salt to be taken to King Edward II [of England].
"It's probably the biggest medieval battle in Ireland, certainly since Clontarf. You think people know about Clontarf, they don't know about Faughart."
There were also a number of key battles in Ulster, which the Scots retained control of for three years.
"The main battle is the siege of Carrickfergus, the first battle is one that very few people know about called Mounthill, overlooking Larne," Dr Hughes said.
"The Anglo Norman lords of Ulster gathered on this very large hill from where you could see Carrickfergus and Larne and the landing points where the Scottish army came in in May 1315 - 300 ships coming towards east Ulster, it must have been a real powerful sight.
"I kind of think it as the Scots' moment of D-Day in medieval terms, because they've got to have a foothold in Ulster and they have to break out towards Carrickfergus and if the Anglo Normans had beaten them at Mounthill, then the chances are the invasion would have been dead in the water.
"As it turns out the Scots absolutely decimate the Anglo Norman lords."
So why is so little known about such a pivotal moment in the history of Ireland and the rest of the British Isles?
"Both sides seem to have deliberately forgotten about it," Dr Hughes said.
"It's the classic thing that history is written by the winners and Edward Bruce was a very big loser, but he did die as king of Ireland.
"It's something that people didn't want to remember and it probably wasn't politically wise for them to remember it in the aftermath of the invasion.
"Seven hundred years on, it's nice to see it actually remembered, because it was a really important military campaign."
The first of the two-part series is available here.


Residents at a Warrington care home were "at risk of dehydration and malnutrition", a report found.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors said staff at Birch Court lacked basic knowledge and skills on managing challenging behaviour.
Some residents were put in a locked, quiet room and, because staff failed to grasp the proper use of safeguards, "human rights were not protected."
The home said it had suspended admissions and made improvements.
The care home, run by private health firm Bupa, provides nursing, convalescence, palliative and respite care, as well as nursing or residential care for those with dementia.
The CQC report, based on an inspection in August, identified a number of breaches in safe care and treatment and staff training.
It said the service was "not effective" because staff did not have a thorough understanding of the Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards (DoLS), resulting in people's human rights "not being protected."
DoLS ensure when someone is deprived of their liberty, decisions are made in their best interests.
"Staff lacked basic knowledge and skills on the management of challenging behaviour and medication was not always managed safely," the CQC found.
"Monitoring of food and fluid intake was ineffective which meant vulnerable people were at risk of dehydration and malnutrition," it said.
Four people nursed in beds did not have access to a nurse call alarm as it was either missing or out of reach.
Relatives described care staff as "kind and caring" and "overall they were satisfied with the standard of care provided."
A previous inspection in June rated it as "good."
Inspectors also identified that there was a risk of medicines being given unnecessarily.
A patient prescribed medicine for extreme agitation was given it consistently for 23 days "even when there was no evidence of extreme agitation or aggression," the report said.
Inspectors were also told by family members they were prevented from taking their loved one on a day trip.
The house manager said it had come about as a result of "a misunderstanding of how the person's deprivation of liberty safeguards were applied and a lack of information in the person's care plan."
Inspectors found there was no care plan and care staff told them they did not read care plans.
The CQC made recommendations to ensure medication is managed, how care records are kept and that treatment is appropriate to meet the needs of residents.
Earlier this month, Warrington Borough Council officials stopped referring patients to the care home amid concerns that basic needs of residents were not being met.
A spokesman for Birch Court said: "We are absolutely committed to making the required changes highlighted in the recent CQC report, which are isolated to one unit.
"We have acted immediately to ensure we meet the high standards of care that we expect  - putting additional training in place for staff, reviewing our medication management process and all residents' care plans."


Tackling a blaze isn't just a job for firefighters - fire dogs play an important role too!

11 July 2017 Last updated at 07:55 BST
Scrappy the fire dog helps the fire teams in the North East of England.
But he's now putting his paws up and retiring.
So who will take over his job, and what does it take to be a brilliant fire dog?


Charlton Athletic have signed striker Nicky Ajose from fellow League One side Swindon Town for an undisclosed fee.

The 24-year-old, who scored 25 goals in 40 appearances for the Robins last season, has agreed a three-year deal with the Addicks.
"Nicky is a fantastic addition," Charlton boss Russell Slade told the club website.
"He's a proven goalscorer, is very strong in the box and has got a great work ethic as well."
Ajose, who began his career at Manchester United and has had spells at Peterborough and Leeds, is Charlton's fourth signing of the summer.
He has also previously spent time on loan at Bury, Scunthorpe, Chesterfield, Crawley and Crewe.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Corporation tax should be replaced with a levy on firms' UK sales, according to the former Chancellor Lord Lawson.

It was "unsatisfactory" tax had to be collected from big firms through "ad-hoc" deals, he told the Telegraph.
His comments come after an agreement for Google to pay £130m in tax dating back to 2005 was condemned by critics.
The government and HMRC defended the deal and the Chartered Institute of Taxation said corporation tax should not be abandoned.
Labour has called for the public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, to investigate what it criticised as a "sweetheart deal".
Earlier this week, the European Commission said it was considering how to respond to a letter of complaint from the SNP about Google's tax deal with the UK.
Former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson told the Telegraph: "It is profoundly unsatisfactory that corporation tax has to be collected from large multinational corporations by a series of ad hoc compromise deals, as we have once again seen with the Google affair.
"It is also grossly unfair on smaller businesses, who are unable to shift profits between tax jurisdictions and have to pay the full amount due under UK law."
Google tax row: What's behind the deal?
Google's tax agreement came after years of criticism of it and other multinational firms over their tax arrangements in the UK and across Europe.
The payment by Google, praised by Chancellor George Osborne as a "victory" for the government, covered money owed since 2005 and followed a six-year inquiry by HMRC.
Lord Lawson said the arrangement showed corporation tax should be replaced with "a much lesser tax, bolstered by a tax on corporate sales".
He added: "While multinationals can artificially shift profits to whatever tax jurisdictions they choose, sales are where they are, and can't be shifted.
"Instead of endless discussion at international conferences of one kind or another, the UK should take the lead in implementing this much-needed reform."
But John Cullinane, tax policy director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, said: "Frustration at the problems of taxing global businesses should not lead us to abandon corporation tax.
"There are more workmanlike solutions.
"In the round, it's still a nice little earner for the Exchequer and the country."
Limited companies, a foreign company with a UK branch or office, or a club, co-operative or other unincorporated association such as a sports club, must pay corporation tax on profits.
Taxable profits for corporation tax includes the money the company or association makes from doing business, investments and selling assets for more than they cost.
Companies based in the UK pay corporation tax on all profits from the UK and abroad.
Foreign companies that have an office or branch in the UK only pay corporation tax on profits from its UK activities.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has written to Mr Osborne demanding details of the Google settlement.
A senior HMRC official insisted that it was collecting the "full tax due in law".
Google, which makes most of its UK profits through online advertising, paid £20.4m in UK taxes in 2013. The value of its British sales that year was £3.8bn.
The US company has its European headquarters in the Irish Republic, which has a lower corporation tax rate than the UK, and it has also used company structures in Bermuda, where the corporation tax rate is zero.


When Carlos Ghosn made his not-very-veiled threat about the future of the giant Nissan plant in Sunderland last week, he might have thought locals would have quailed and rallied to his cause.

He has longer to wait.
People in Sunderland don't always do as they are told; before the vote on Britain's membership of the European Union, the Nissan chief executive urged people to vote to remain, stressing the advantages to Nissan, the region's biggest employer, of staying in the single market.
They ignored him, with just under two-thirds of the Sunderland electorate voting to leave.
Paul Watson, Labour and Co-operative leader of the city council since 2008, says people value Nissan's contribution to the local economy - it is the region's largest employer, providing work for 7,000 people - but that Sunderland is used to the vagaries of the world economy having big effects at home.
The coal industry here powered the empire, employing hundreds of thousands to work the Durham field in scores of pits.
The industry still shapes the local culture; Washington, the new town beside the Nissan plant, remains in reality an amalgamation of about a dozen pit villages, where people still identify with their immediate area rather than the wider north east.
When the pits closed in the 1980s - a victim of high costs relative to imported coal and a protracted battle for supremacy between mining unions and the Thatcher government - people learned the hard way that the tide of global commerce can go out quickly.
In Washington, they do not bemoan the loss of the pits themselves, as they brought their own horrible legacy of occupational diseases, but they rue the lack of something to replace them.
Shipbuilding was Sunderland's other great loss. At one stage the River Wear, which divides the city, could boast that it accounted for one-quarter of the world's new ships. Only 50 years ago it was still an international force, but now there are few signs the industry ever existed.
Mr Watson says the real dark days for Sunderland - the 1980s, when the town reeled under the combined closures of pits and shipyards - are now behind it. The economy has been reinvented, with call centres, Nissan and now a burgeoning tech scene picking up the slack.
"The big monolithic industries have gone," said Mr Watson, who once worked in a shipyard, "but other things have come in. It is about having a strategy, and our strategy is simply to make Sunderland prosperous."
At Sunderland Software City, a tech hub that would not be out of place in London's Silicon Roundabout, part of that vision is coming true. There are special effects firms, web designers and games makers.
David Van der Velde, managing director of Consult and Design, a digital agency based in the centre, says people in the North East have a natural inventiveness that lends itself to technology companies.
"Sunderland has always been a place where people make things, people are inventive. We've moved from making things out of steel to making things out of software, but we're still making things"


Barcelona forward Neymar will miss El Clasico against Real Madrid on 23 April after being banned for sarcastically applauding a referee.

The 25-year-old was given an automatic one-match ban following his red card in Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Malaga.
However, his applause directed towards officials as he walked off has resulted in an additional two-match ban.
Spanish football's governing body RFEF judged his actions to show "attitudes of contempt or disregard for referees".
The Brazil international will now miss Saturday's home game against Real Socieded, the vital game against rivals Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and a match against Osasuna on 26 April.
Barcelona are currently second in La Liga, three points behind leaders Real Madrid, who also have a game in hand.


Road-rage killer Kenneth Noye has been recommended for transfer to an open prison, the Parole Board has said.

Noye, 70, was convicted of murdering 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in an attack on the M25 in Kent in 1996.
He went on the run but was arrested in Spain two years on.  He was sentenced to life, with a minimum of 16 years.
The recommendation comes after Noye won a High Court challenge in February against a decision refusing a move to open prison conditions.
A Parole Board spokesman said: "We can confirm that a three-member panel of the Parole Board has not directed the release of Kenneth Noye.
"However, they have recommended that he be transferred to open conditions.
"This is a recommendation only and the Ministry of Justice will now consider the advice and make the final decision."
Under current legislation, Noye will be eligible for a further review within two years, on a date set by the Ministry of Justice.
One of Britain's most notorious criminals, Noye was also convicted of conspiring to handle gold from the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery and conspiring to evade VAT payments.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: "The independent Parole Board has made its recommendation.
"We will carefully consider this and make a decision in due course."
In 2015, the Parole Board recommended Noye be transferred to an open prison after it declined to order his release.
But the then Justice Secretary Michael Gove rejected the recommendation.
After a challenge by Noye in the High Court, Mr Justice Lavender quashed the refusal decision.
He said in February: "It will be for the current Secretary of State to take a fresh decision whether or not to transfer the claimant to an open prison."


A US underwater investigator has said he believes he has found the wreck of the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus's famed expedition.

Barry Clifford said evidence "strongly suggests" a ruin off Haiti's north coast is the Santa Maria.
Mr Clifford's team has measured and taken photos of the wreck.
He says he is working with the Haitian government to protect the site for a more detailed investigation.
The Santa Maria, along with the La Nina and La Pinta, were part of Columbus's expedition in 1492, which explored islands in the Caribbean in an attempt to find a westward passage to Asia.
The flagship was lost during the expedition, shortly before Columbus returned to Spain.
"All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus's famous flagship, the Santa Maria," said Mr Clifford.
Columbus and his flagship
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Smithsonian Magazine
"I am confident that a full excavation of the wreck will yield the first-ever detailed marine archaeological evidence of Columbus' discovery of America," he added.
Mr Clifford said he identified the potential location of the Santa Maria through earlier archaeological findings that pinpointed a likely location for Columbus's fort - a building that experts always thought was erected near to where the ship ran aground.
He also used information from the explorer's diary, and a recent diving mission near the site further burnished Mr Clifford's belief the wreck was the Santa Maria.
Mr Clifford told US broadcaster CNN the "smoking gun" was a cannon of 15th Century design found at the site.
A marine archaeologist who accompanied Mr Clifford on that mission told the newspaper there was "very compelling evidence" but an excavation of the site would be necessary to confirm the wreck's identity.
Further investigation will be supported by the government of Haiti and the History Channel, which plans to make a documentary programme about the wreck.
Mr Clifford is best known for the excavation of the first fully verified pirate shipwreck, the Whydah.


European Union foreign ministers have said they will not renew an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition, due to expire on Saturday.

But there was no immediate decision to send arms to Syrian rebels and all other sanctions remained in force.
Even so, Russia said it would "directly harm" the prospects of an international peace conference on Syria.
Meanwhile, the BBC has heard evidence that 200 people were killed in a massacre in western Syria this month.
Opposition activists said they had documented the civilian deaths in al-Bayda and Baniyas after government troops and militias entered the towns.
The government described the operation as a strike against "terrorists".
By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut
While the lifting of the EU arms embargo is theoretically good news for the fractious Syrian opposition, it is clearly going to be some time before it has any effect on the battlefield.
Its authors, especially Britain, hope the decision itself will send a strong enough signal to President Bashar al-Assad that it is time to hand over power. That is extremely unlikely. For a government that has shown every sign of determination to fight to the end, it is hard facts on the ground that count.
Government forces have recently been making significant gains. To reverse that trend will take time and sacrifice by the rebels - and the kind of quality weapons they have so far been denied, especially armour-piercing and anti-aircraft projectiles.
The Americans in particular insist that much-needed shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles must not be given, lest they end up with extremists. But for the rebels at least the eventual possibility of carefully-controlled arms deliveries is there, in what looks like being a bloody, long-haul struggle.
The EU declaration on Syria came after 12 hours of talks in Brussels. Foreign ministers were unable to reach the unanimous decision required to extend the current arms embargo, and so agreed to renew the other sanctions - including an assets freeze on President Assad and his aides, and restrictions on trade in oil and financial transactions - without it.
The BBC's Jim Muir, in Beirut, says it is clear that the EU decision will not make much difference on the ground in the immediate future.
Member states can now decide their own policy on sending arms to Syria, but agreed not to "proceed at this stage with the delivery" of equipment.
The EU's Foreign Affairs Council is to review this position before 1 August, in light of fresh developments to end the conflict including the ongoing US-Russia peace initiative.
Britain and France had been pressing for the ability to send weapons to what they call moderate opponents of President Assad, saying it would push Damascus towards a political solution to the two-year conflict.
There has been increasing pressure on the international community to act since allegations emerged of chemical weapons being used in the conflict. Syria has denied using chemical weapons.
By Ian Pannell,BBC News
Syrian activists document 'massacre'
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the outcome of the Brussels talks, saying it was "important for Europe to send a clear signal to the Assad regime that it has to negotiate seriously, and that all options remain on the table if it refuses to do so".
But other countries had opposed opening the way for weapons to be sent, saying it would only worsen the violence that has already cost at least 80,000 lives.
Austria had been a key opponent of arms being sent.
"The EU should hold the line. We are a peace movement and not a war movement," Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the EU move "a manifestation of double standards". Russia and the US are leading efforts to organise a peace conference on Syria next month.
The Syrian opposition has not said whether to attend the conference, and was locked in talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as an unofficial deadline to decide on its attendance passed.
Source: EU - April 2013
A spokesman for the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Louay Safi, was quoted by news agency AFP as saying that the EU move was "a positive step", but that the coalition was "afraid it could be too little, too late".
George Jabboure Netto, a spokesman for the Syrian National Council, another opposition group, said the dropping of the arms embargo was a "step in the right direction".
He told the BBC that the SNC was willing to negotiate an end to the conflict, but only on the condition that there was no place for President Assad in the new Syria.
"We think coupling the arming of [the] Free Syrian Army with diplomatic efforts is a must for any hopes for the diplomatic efforts to succeed."
The EU embargo, first imposed in May 2011, applies to the rebels as much as the Syrian government.
But in February this year, foreign ministers agreed to enable any EU member state to provide non-lethal military equipment "for the protection of civilians" or for the opposition forces, "which the Union accepts as legitimate representatives of the Syrian people".
UK aid agency Oxfam has warned of "devastating consequences" if the embargo ends and more arms are sent into Syria.
In other developments:


Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles most of the world's iPhones, has offered about 625bn yen ($5.3bn) to take over struggling Japanese electronics firm Sharp.

Sharp is also said to be reviewing a rival offer from the Innovation Network Corp of Japan, a government-backed investment fund.
A decision by Sharp is reportedly expected by the end of the month.
Shares of Sharp surged by as much as 25% in Tokyo trading.
Sharp is a major producer of display screens for smartphones, tablets and televisions, but has become saddled with heavy debts.
The consumer electronics maker has been bailed out twice in the last three years by its banks.
In 2015, Sharp announced major losses for the fiscal year ending in March and cut more jobs.
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, first offered to invest in the troubled Japanese firm in 2012, but talks collapsed.
In the past, Japanese officials have expressed reservations about allowing Sharp to be bought by a foreign competitor because of its proprietary technology.


A man has gone on trial accused of raping a four-year-old girl in Moray.

Paul Moffat allegedly carried out various sex attacks between January 2014 and April 2015 at an address in Kinloss.
The jury at the High Court in Glasgow heard a recorded interview with the girl, a police officer and a social worker when she described what allegedly happened to her.
Moffat, 30, denies the charges against him.
The child, now six - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said the accused had her carry out sex acts on him and touched her.
The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.


Cardiff City manager Russell Slade has warned the scramble for Championship play-off places could go down to the final day of the season.

With ten games remaining, the seventh-placed Bluebirds are just one point off the top six as they host eighth-placed Ipswich Town in Cardiff on Saturday.
Cardiff face fellow play-off contenders Birmingham City on 7 May, when Derby - currently in fifth - will host Ipswich.
Slade predicted: "It will be intriguing and probably will go to the wire."
Slade's side are currently only ahead of Ipswich on goal difference and one point ahead of ninth-placed Birmingham - both of whom have a game in hand on Cardiff.
Slade believes another 20 points should seal a play-off spot and said: "Maybe we would take playing Birmingham at home to ensure it - that is the sort of scenario you could end up with."
The Bluebirds will be without Brazilian defender Fabio on Saturday, who is banned for one game after his second half dismissal in Tuesday's 2-0 home loss to Leeds United.
But the club are hopeful defender Lee Peltier will be able to return after a foot injury to fill the right back berth.
Slade believes there is a unity between the club and their fans, demonstrated by the ovation the team received after the Leeds defeat.
He added: "Football can be very fickle at times. It can be a tough journey. I have been in many journeys. And it just feels we are slowly turning a corner.
"But do I think we are there? Do I think there is more to come? I do think there is more to come.
"I said that to the players - 'don't put any limit on what we can achieve over the remaining 10 games' because there is always more to find, always more to give, always more improvement to come.
"We are making that improvement, we are getting better."
Striker Federico Macheda has been linked with a loan move to Championship rivals Nottingham Forest and Slade confirmed there had been interest from a number of clubs.
"There may be a possibility, we shall see whether he goes and gets a few games. But if he goes, there will be a 24-hour recall," said Slade.


British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland could take charge of New Zealand one day, says Sir Graham Henry.

The tourists' 24-21 victory in Wellington on Saturday was their first victory over the All Blacks since 1993.
Henry, who steered the All Blacks to win the 2011 World Cup, believes Wales coach Gatland, 53, could follow in his footsteps with his native country.
"Warren's done a great job in getting them all together and he's possibly a future All Blacks coach," Henry said.
Current New Zealand coach Steve Hansen guided the All Blacks to 2015 World Cup victory and is contracted until the end of the 2019 tournament.
Gatland was appointed Wales coach in 2007 and has also signed a deal to take them through to the 2019 World Cup.
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The New Zealander also took a break to coach the Lions in 2013 when he led them to a 2-1 series win over Australia.
Gatland has also coached Ireland and was in charge at Wasps when they won the European Cup in 2004.
Henry was the first overseas coach to take charge of Wales and also coached the Lions on their 2001 tour of Australia, when they lost the Test series 2-1.
"He [Warren] is one of the most experienced coaches in the world, he's had a long run with Wales and won a couple of Six Nations," Henry told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
"He's been with the Lions for some time and done exceptionally well."
Gatland and Hansen are now preparing for the series decider at Auckland's Eden Park on Saturday.
The Lions are attempting to win a Test series in New Zealand for the first time since 1971.
"The All Blacks are currently the world champions and ranked number one in the world," said Henry.
"So to beat the All Blacks at home with a side which has had very little rugby together would be an astronomical achievement."


Legal powers should be used to remove anti-abortion campaigners from the grounds of a hospital in Nottingham, a pro-choice group has said.

Forty Days for Life has been holding a "vigil" at the Queen's Medical Centre, where abortions take place.
Nottingham Pro Choice said their presence near the hospital's treatment centre is "intimidating" to women.
But Louise Aldred said the group is "raising awareness" of the issues surrounding terminations.
More on this story and other news in Nottinghamshire
The group said about 50 people have been taking part at different times of the day since 1 March and plan to continue with their "prayer vigil" until the end of Lent.
Ms Aldred, who defended the choice of location, said: "We believe this is a good place to raise awareness about the issue of abortion.
"We want to say 'there is another way'... we don't approach women but if they want to talk to us that's fine."
She said the international campaign has saved "many babies" across the world by offering their help and support.
However, Rachel Strong from Nottingham Pro Choice said this was a "patronising standpoint" and their presence was "intimidating" for women accessing healthcare there.
"It's not their right to protest that we have an issue with, it's the location and the effect it's having on women already having a difficult time," she said.
She is calling for officials to take out an injunction or use a dispersal order to remove them from the hospital grounds.
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust said: "While we respect people's legal rights to express their views, our priority remains the safety and wellbeing of our patients, visitors and staff.
"The police will be asked to take action in the event of any disturbance, nuisance or anti-social behaviour demonstrated by the group."


Wales' Aled Sion Davies broke the Paralympic record to win F42 shot put gold in Rio.

The 25-year-old threw new bests in the first, second and third rounds, setting a new mark of 15.97 metres with his third throw.
And there was more Welsh success when archer Jodie Grinham secured silver with John Stubbs in the mixed team compound.
Cardigan-born Grinham and Stubbs were beaten 151-143 by China in the final.
"John and I have competed together in a few competitions but have never done better than bronze, so to do so at the Paralympic Games is amazing," said 23-year-old Grinham.
Welsh athletes have now contributed four medals to Paralympic GB's total in Rio - after Rachel Morris won rowing gold and Sabrina Fortune claimed a bronze in the F20 shot.
Davies won bronze in the shot at the 2012 London Paralympics, where he also won gold in the F42 discus.
Iran's Sajad Mohammadian claimed silver with a throw of 14.31m, while South African Tyrone Pillay picked up bronze.
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The International Paralympic Committee dropped the discus event from its programme afterwards, meaning Davies was unable to defend his title in Brazil.
But the 2013 and 2015 F42 discus and F42 shot put world champion added Paralympic shot put gold to his career medal tally with an impressive display in Rio.
Davies' third-round throw of 15.97 was 16 centimetres short of his world record of 16.13m.
The Welshman, who has a combined disability of Talipese and Hemi-hemilia in his right leg, topped his nearest rivals by more than one metre.
"I'm not really happy with the distance because I'm in shape to throw close to 17m and I really did want to knock it out of the park," said Davies.
"It's the Paralympic Games and, at the end of the day, no-one cares what you throw - it's all about who comes first and I'm just happy I can walk away with that gold.
"I'm so happy now, it's hard to put into words."


Barnsley have signed Senegalese forward Mamadou Thiam on a three-year contract, plus Leicester City midfielder Harvey Barnes on a season-long loan deal.

Thiam, 22, arrives from French Ligue 1 club Dijon, having netted nine times in 38 games on loan at Clermont last term.
Barnes, 19, spent the end of the 2016-17 season on loan at MK Dons, scoring six goals in 21 League One games.
Barnes has featured once for the Foxes, coming off the bench in the Champions League loss to Porto in November 2016.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


The government has published an analysis of the UK's options if it left the EU - suggesting they would all be worse for the economy than staying in.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the aim was to "smoke out" Leave campaigners who had "avoided" spelling out their vision of a post-EU Britain.
The document says the UK would lose influence and exporters could be hit with damaging tariffs.
But Leave campaigners said the "dodgy dossier" was misleading.
Iain Duncan Smith - one of five cabinet ministers campaigning in favour of a vote to leave the EU - said it misrepresented the Leave case by suggesting Britain could follow the example of other non-EU countries, such as Norway or Switzerland.
He said: "The truth is, we won't copy any other country's deal. We will have a settlement on our own terms - and one that will return control of our borders, and money to Britain. That's the safer choice."
He said the government was "in denial" about the risk of remaining a member of the EU. "This dodgy dossier won't fool anyone," he said, adding that the "real uncertainty is the future of the EU project".
Cabinet ministers are allowed to campaign freely on either side of the debate, but the official government position is in favour of staying in a reformed EU in the 23 June referendum.
The document says Norway and Switzerland's trading arrangements outside the EU require them to make financial contributions, accept the EU principle of free movement of people and be subject to other EU laws.
Meanwhile, Switzerland and Canada's arrangements provide only limited access to the single market, it adds.
In a speech in London, Mr Hammond said Britain would be locked in talks with the EU for two years after an exit, while "our competitors, including our EU competitors, forge ahead".
He said there was no guarantee the UK could reach a deal within the two year limit, and talks could drag on for many years because there would be no "goodwill" from member states to help the UK get a deal.
He claimed Leave campaigners had "deliberately avoided" sketching out what a post-exit trade deal would look like because there were no "credible" options that "come close to the deal we already have on the table" that had been negotiated by David Cameron.
Mr Hammond said Leave campaigners should be "honest" with voters and say "they are prepared to sacrifice jobs and growth in order to get a clampdown on migration, in order to stop paying into the EU".
He said he hoped the dossier would force Leave campaigners to "put some flesh on the bones" of their vision of a post EU Britain.
The official government analysis of UK membership of the EU is required by law under the EU Referendum Act, which paved the way for the in-out referendum on EU membership.
If Britain votes to leave the EU, it will have to negotiate a new trading relationship with what would then be a 27 member organisation, to allow British firms to sell goods and services to EU countries without being hit by penalties or sparking a trade war.
The government paper runs through examples of other countries, such as Norway, Switzerland and Canada, who have trade deals with the EU without being members - as well as the option of breaking free from the EU altogether and striking deals with individual countries through the World Trade Organisation.
These scenarios have been mentioned by anti-EU campaigners in the past.
Speaking to the BBC, Norway's prime minister, Erna Solberg, said she would like her country to be part of the EU because it lacked influence over important decision making and had "basically... left part of our democracy to Europe".
Asked if she thought Britain could retain access to the single market without being subject to free movement of people, she said: "To believe you'll get everything you want without giving something back does not happen in any political body."
The government paper says they each carry serious risks for business - but Leave campaigners say the analysis is flawed because it does not consider the possibility of a bespoke trade deal between the UK and the EU, with no tariffs or trade barriers.
Gerard Lyons, of investment managers Black Rock and chief economic adviser to London mayor and Leave campaigner Boris Johnson, said it would be "a shock for both sides" if Britain left but it would be in the EU's interest to reach a trade deal with the UK as it was one of the EU's biggest export markets.
Meanwhile, Lord Lamont has become the latest Conservative grandee to nail his colours to one side or other of the EU debate.
Lord Lamont, who was chancellor in the early 1990s when Britain crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, is calling for Britain to leave, arguing in the Daily Telegraph  that the country could succeed economically and would regain control of immigration.


Andy Murray has won Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time.

19 December 2016 Last updated at 10:24 GMT
It tops an amazing year for him, after he won Wimbledon and later become the world's number one tennis player.
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Plans to revamp three entertainment and leisure facilities in Hull are to go on show later.

People are being asked for their views on proposals to redevelop the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull New Theatre and Woodford Leisure Centre.
The gallery will get a £4.5m facelift ahead of it hosting the Turner Prize in Hull's City of Culture year in 2017.
Other proposals include a new front of house and café bars for the theatre and a new 25m pool for the sports centre.
Detailed plans for the Ferens and New Theatre will be displayed inside a bus that will be parked in Queen Victoria Square from 10:00 to 16:00 BST. They will also go on show at each of the three venues from Monday.
Under the proposals, the gallery would receive a major overhaul of its existing lighting and temperature control systems, as well as a new café and lobby area, the council said.
The theatre's backstage areas would be improved "to bring in bigger, more ambitious shows", while the leisure centre would get a learner pool, new sauna and steam facilities and a café.
Comments from the public will be included in a planning application, which is expected to be submitted next month, the council added.


UK construction picked up in March, suggesting that the sector is reviving after a slow start to 2015.

Construction output rose 1.6% compared with the same month last year, and by 3.9% compared to February 2015, the Office for National Statistics said.
Private sector house building grew 2.3% in March, after five successive months of contraction.
UK construction growth slowed at the end of 2014 and remained sluggish through the start of this year.
Overall, output in the first quarter of 2015 was down 1.1% compared to the last quarter of 2014.
"Following the fall in output over January and February, today's figures represent encouraging news," said Gareth Hird of property consultancy McBains Cooper.
"However, it would be premature to call this a recovery just yet. In all likelihood it is fragile at this stage," he said.


A driver who police were chasing on the M1 near Northampton has died after he got out of the car and was hit by another vehicle.

The crash happened at about 03:25 GMT near junction 16 northbound.
Northamptonshire Police, who had been investigating the theft of a vehicle, said the man stopped in the road and ran across the southbound carriageway when he was hit.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been notified.
Live updates on the crash and other Northamptonshire stories at BBC Local Live.
The southbound carriageway remains shut between junctions 18 and 16, but two lanes have reopened northbound.
Queues southbound have been backed up to Lutterworth in Leicestershire, with knock-on effects also spreading to the nearby M6, A14, A5 and the M45.
One driver told the BBC he had been stuck in M1 queues for four hours.
Accident investigators were examining the closed section and oil was being cleared from a carriageway.
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Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Adam Simmonds, said: "I am aware of the tragic incident on the M1 this morning and await the results of the police investigation and the view of the IPCC."
BBC reporter Martin Heath, who was close to junction 16, said the motorway was completely empty and there was stationary traffic on local roads "as far as the eye can see".
He added there was no immediate sign of the situation changing, adding "everyone is being affected by this".


Counter-terror police are investigating after two police officers were injured while arresting a man with a knife outside Buckingham Palace.

Officers saw a "large bladed weapon" in the man's car when it stopped near the palace on Friday evening.
As they arrested him, both men suffered minor arm injuries, police said.
The 26-year-old man was also treated for minor injuries. He was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assault, and under the Terrorism Act.
No members of the Royal Family were in Buckingham Palace at the time.
The incident happened outside the Mall roundabout near Spur Road - which runs along the corner of the Palace grounds - at about 20:35 BST, police said. The man had stopped his car in a "restricted area" and police saw the weapon.
Det Supt Guy Collings said the "quick and brave" actions of the officers meant the man was detained very quickly, and that no members of the public had any contact with him.
The two officers and the suspect had all since been discharged from hospital and the suspect was taken to a central London police station for questioning, police said.
Enquiries into the full circumstances are ongoing, they added, and there was still a police cordon at the scene.
Eye-witness Kiana Williamson said: "We turned up and there was one police van and one car; there was also a civilian's car that had veered towards the police car.
"They were trying to get the man out of the car, shouting; more police were arriving on to the scene and the man was fighting back.
"I saw one injured policeman with an injury to his arm, although it didn't look severe.
"He was being tended to by another officer.
"The man had been restrained and looked almost unconscious by the side of the road."
Another passer-by, who did not want to be named, said her partner initially thought he had seen a sword.
She told the Press Association: "The police didn't just run up to the car. There was some shouting prior to this; I couldn't tell you what, I was a bit panicked...
"My partner saw a sword, which I didn't see, as well as a policeman with blood on him, looking like his hand or chest was injured.
"The police officer had it in his hand, walking away with it."


President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as "ridiculous" a CIA assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour.

He told Fox News the Democrats were putting out the reports because they were embarrassed at the scale of the election defeat.
On Friday, CIA officials told US media they had concluded that Russians hackers were trying to help Mr Trump.
Russian officials have repeatedly denied the hacking accusations.
Mr Trump said it might have been Russia but it was impossible to know.
"They have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody sitting in a bed some place," he said.
President Barack Obama has ordered a complete review of the hacks, which targeted emails at the Democratic Party and the emails of a key aide to presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The contents of the emails, passed to Wikileaks and posted online, were embarrassing to the Democrats and shook up the presidential campaign.
Senior Republicans have now joined Democrats in calling for a full investigation.
Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a joint statement on Sunday with top Democrats that the CIA's report "should alarm every American".
He said in an interview that the congressional investigation should be more thorough than the one ordered by the White House.
In October, US government officials pointed the finger at Russia, accusing it of meddling in the campaign to undermine the electoral process.
But on Friday, the intelligence community went further when US media reports said the CIA had "high confidence" that Russians were trying to influence the election in Mr Trump's favour.
Russians had hacked the Republican party but chose not to reveal the contents of what they found, the reports said.
But Mr Trump told Fox News Sunday: "I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it."
He said the Democrats were behind the news reports, not the CIA, because they suffered such a big defeat.
While backing the Obama review, the president-elect warned that it should not pin the blame solely on Russia but on other countries or individuals too.
Republican party spokesman Sean Spicer said the party had not been hacked and the intelligence report was wrong.
Mr Trump also said in the interview he did not need daily intelligence briefings.
"I'm a smart person, I don't need to be told the same thing in the same way for eight years."
Elsewhere in the interview, he said:
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Jeremy Corbyn has said the Port Talbot steelworks is "not expendable" as thousands of jobs are on the line.

The Labour leader has joined growing calls for UK government intervention after Tata Steel said it wanted to sell its loss-making UK business.
Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones said a UK government take-over would "buy time" for Tata Steel plants but such a move has been played down.
The assembly will be recalled on Monday to discuss the situation.
The Indian firm said it would "explore all options", including "divestment".
Mr Corbyn is the first senior Westminster politician to visit after the announcement was made.
In a speech he pledged support for "immediate government intervention to protect our steel industry and not see it destroyed on the altar of a global corporation that decided somewhere along the line that Port Talbot is expendable".
"Sorry, it's not. We've got a different story," he added.
Mr Jones told BBC News a UK government takeover of the plants would "buy time... to find a buyer".
Asked whether the Welsh Government has powers to help, he said: "We don't have powers to nationalise, and financially, no. We don't have resources the UK government does."
He added: "What we are looking for is a way the two governments can put together a stop gap solution in order to give the industry time to restructure itself and become profitable in the future."
A Downing Street spokesman said David Cameron had spoken with Mr Jones "to discuss the urgent situation" in Port Talbot, with the afternoon call described as "constructive".
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns told BBC Wales it was a "sensitive matter", but "every option" to save the plant was being explored by the UK government.
Politicians from all parties have urged ministers to step in amid fears Tata could shut its UK plants before a buyer can be found, but Mr Javid said nationalisation was not the solution.
Andrew RT Davies, leader of the Conservative group in Cardiff Bay, called for the UK government to be prepared to take a temporary stake in the Port Talbot steelworks.
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams also called for temporary renationalisation to save the Port Talbot plant.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood told BBC News: "This industry is as important to Wales, I would argue, as the banking sector is to the whole of the UK.
"If the banks could be bailed out, then the steel industry should be bailed out too."
The actor Michael Sheen, from Port Talbot, also highlighted government backing for banks.
Writing for The Guardian, he said: "I hope that we can see as much support for the steel industry and its workers now that they face their time of greatest need."
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill claimed "the shackles of restrictive EU regulations" prevented a "democratic UK government" from tackling the problem of high energy costs.
UK Business Minister Ms Soubry said the UK government was looking at all options to save the Port Talbot plant, including taking a stake in the business.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid is heading back from Australia to visit the town.
"There are buyers out there. It might require some kind of government support. We are more than ready to look at all ways that we can provide commercial support to really secure the long term future of steel making in Port Talbot."
Tata Steel finance director Koushik Chatterjee confirmed on Wednesday the firm had rejected a rescue plan submitted by the unions, saying: "We found that risks to the plan are very significant."
An evidence gathering meeting of the business and enterprise committee on the steel industry is to be held on Monday.
The key question is whether the Welsh Government can do something other than providing the usual level of support for regeneration and training for workers who have lost their jobs.
The Scottish Government recently bought two mothballed steel plants in Lanarkshire from Tata before selling them to a private company on the same day.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has said he'd consider something like that but admits there are major differences in the scale.
The buy-out in Scotland will secure about 200 jobs. We are now talking about thousands, and the future of the biggest steel plant in Britain.
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A temporary one-way system will be introduced on a busy road bridge in Rhondda Cynon Taf as £1m repair works are completed.

Work to strengthen Pontypridd's 148-year-old Victoria Bridge over the River Taff starts on Saturday and will take 27 weeks.
Vehicles travelling from the A470 across the bridge into the town centre will be unaffected.
All other routes will be diverted and some bus routes will be affected.
Victoria Bridge carries the A4223 over the river and is one of the main routes linking Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valleys to the A470.
The work will involve demolishing the structures that support the bridge footway and installing a new bridge deck.
Pedestrian access will be unaffected but some overnight and weekend closures will be carried out and will be advertised in advance.


The Scottish government is to launch a consultation with NHS staff on reviewing the approach to targets in the health service.

Health Secretary Shona Robison led a Holyrood debate on "delivering a healthier Scotland".
She said she would consult with NHS staff and stakeholders, along with social care and clinical partners, to review the approach to targets.
The Conservatives, who have called for a review of targets, welcomed the move.
Ms Robison said the NHS's record was one "that everyone working in health and social care can be proud of".
She said she wanted to review the number, structure and roles of health boards, and wants GP practices to become more of a community service, involving teams of health professionals and others working together under the guidance of a GP.
She also called for trade deals like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to include "explicit protection" for public services.
Downing Street has already said it will accept a move to exclude the NHS from TTIP, having faced a revolt over it prior to the Queen's Speech.
Ms Robison lauded the NHS as "the country's most cherished public service", and noted that it "must remain free at the point of need and be publicly owned, funded and operated".
She also backed the SNP's election pledge to increase NHS budgets by Â£500m more than the rate of inflation by the end of the term, and to develop a 10-year plan for mental health care.
Her motion also included criticism of the UK government's reforms to the welfare system, which Ms Robison said were "exacerbating inequalities and putting more pressure on the NHS".
And there was also a warning that it would be "totally unacceptable if the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or any other trade agreement were to go ahead without explicit protection for the NHS and public services on the face of the agreement", calling on the UK government to demand this be part of the deal.
Opposition MSPs had the chance to respond to Ms Robison's motion and lay out their own party plans for health in the coming term.
The Scottish Conservatives, who support "gradually reintroducing prescription charges" to raise extra funds for the NHS, had put forward an amendment calling for a review of target-setting in the health service.
MSP Donald Cameron said he was "very grateful" for Ms Robison's announcement, saying some top-down targets imposed on the NHS should be reviewed, and also welcomed the new commitment to mental health care.
He called on the Scottish government to come up with a plan to deal with the "GP crisis", and said patients should be put in charge of their own treatment and care, using the slogan "no decision about me, without me".
Mr Cameron also underlined the UK government's previous pledge to include protection for the NHS in the TTIP deal.
Labour, meanwhile, used the debate to push for a cut in cancer treatment waiting times.
The party's health spokesman Anas Sarwar put forward an amendment saying the 62-day waiting time standard has not been achieved in three years, calling on the government to "prioritise achieving" this goal.
Mr Sarwar warned against the review of targets simply "moving the goalposts" so that the government could "avoid its failures".
He said health inequality statistics "make grim reading for all of us", calling them "shameful", adding: "It is Scotland's shame that 270 Scots died last year waiting for care packages."
He also said that if a GP suspects a patient has cancer, "they should be entitled to see a specialist and get results within a fortnight".
Both Labour and the Conservatives saw their amendments voted down, before Ms Robison's motion was passed by MSPs, 89 votes to 35.
Alison Johnstone, of the Greens took the chance to call for "an end to funding cuts of wider public services under the Scottish government's control" in a bid to reduce pressure on the NHS.
Ms Johnstone also said parliament should note that TTIP and similar deals "pose a serious threat to the NHS and other public services", and urge the UK government to oppose them.
Alex Cole-Hamilton of the Lib Dems said it should be noted that "funding for the NHS in Scotland has slipped", asking for it to "stay ahead of inflation and keep pace with that in the rest of the UK".
After his party campaigned strongly on better mental health care during the election, Mr Cole-Hamilton also called for a "step change" in the sector, including a doubling of funding for services for children and adolescents.


T in the Park organisers are urging anyone with drugs at the festival to dump them in special bins around the site.

They said people who got rid of their drugs would not get into trouble.
The plea follows the deaths of two 17-year-olds at the festival campsite in separate incidents.
Police Scotland said the deaths were not suspicious. Officers are looking into the possibility that they were drug-related.
The 17-year-olds, named locally as Megan Bell from Seaham in County Durham and Peter MacCallum from Lochgilphead, Argyll, died on Friday.
Ch Supt Angela McLaren warned all festival-goers that there was "no safe way of taking drugs".
By Saturday afternoon, Police Scotland said there had been 23 arrests at the three-day event at Strathallan Castle in Perthshire. More than 80,000 people are expected to attend.
The teenagers who died are a 17-year-old male from the west of Scotland and a female of the same age from the north of England. They have not been named.
Festival organisers said they were "shocked and saddened" by the news.
There have been deaths in previous years at the festival, which moved to its new location in Perthshire last year.
A 36-year-old man was found dead in the toilets in 2015, and a 24-year-old man collapsed and died during the night in 2010.


A multi-million pound building which was meant to house a regional emergency control centre for the fire service has been put on the market.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has hired a property adviser to find a tenant for the Zenith building at a rent of £500,000 a year.
The building cost about £23m and was one of nine regional centres intended to replace 46 local control rooms.
The building at Cambridge would have covered the eastern region.
The plan, conceived by the last Labour government, was scrapped at a cost of £469m leaving the nine purpose-designed buildings empty.
The building in Cambridge has been lying empty for several years.
Property adviser GVA is marketing the building and said: "The large control room could be used for dedicated emergency response, as an operations room, call/control centre or for hi-tech teaching."


Chancellor George Osborne has said if Britain voted to leave the EU it would cause a profound economic shock.

He told the BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg that it was the "very worst time" for Britain to take such an "enormous economic gamble".
But ex-Conservative leader Michael Howard said the UK should have the "self-belief" to go its own way.
He said the EU was "outdated, flawed and failing" and an Out vote would force its leaders to think again.
The prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Cameron had "huge respect for Michael Howard but on this issue they disagree".
The UK will hold a referendum on on 23 June on whether to retain its EU membership or to leave.
Lord Howard, who led the Tories between 2003 and 2005, when he was a close political ally and mentor of Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron, said it was not the PM's fault he had not been able to secure "fundamental and far-reaching reform" of the EU.
He blamed EU leaders for imposing a "rigid straitjacket of uniformity" across the continent.
He told Radio 4's Today programme that, as the world's fifth largest economy, the UK would prosper outside the European Union, arguing that "the Germans would still want to carry on selling us their BMWs and the French would still want to carry on selling us their wine".
"So it is in everyone's interest to want to have an agreement that allows each of us to have access to each other's markets."
Michael Howard was never the most popular politician with the public, but many of his party's grassroots felt he shared their views when he was home secretary. His catchphrase was "prison works".
And perhaps more importantly, they still feel a debt of gratitude for his willingness to take over his party's leadership just after the Conservatives had fallen to a new nadir in the polls under Iain Duncan Smith.
So they will give him a hearing.
If a local Conservative association member is wavering over whether to vote to leave the EU, it will undoubtedly be reassuring to them that they don't have to - in David Cameron's words - "link arms with Nigel Farage".
Instead, they can now grasp the extended hand of friendship from their former leader.
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Lord Howard rejected suggestions that negotiating a trade-based relationship with the EU, similar to that which Norway and Switzerland have, would leave the UK with the "worst of all worlds" - with reduced access to the single market but still bound by a lot of EU rules and regulations.
"Norway is a country of five million people. We are a country of 65 million people. We won't have Norwegian-style agreement with the EU, we will have a British style agreement.
"We need a bit of self-belief and national self confidence. We are a great country - everyone wants access to our market. We won't be supplicants."
If the UK voted to leave, he suggested it could force EU leaders into negotiating a "different" kind of agreement with the UK, which could then be put to voters in a second referendum - a sequence of events that has been rejected by Mr Cameron as "for the birds".
Speaking in Shanghai, where he is attending a meeting of G20 finance ministers, Mr Osborne told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the economy faces more risks of uncertainty than at any point since the financial crisis in 2008.
Mr Osborne said talk of leaving the EU was "not some political parlour game", highlighting the recent fall in the value of the sterling to illustrate his point.
"This is about people's jobs and their livelihoods and their living standards, and in my judgement as chancellor leaving the EU would represent a profound economic shock for our country, for all of us and I'm going to do everything I can to prevent that happening."
Mr Cameron will highlight the economic case for membership on a visit to Wales as he continues to tour the UK campaigning to stay in the 28-member bloc.
He will tell voters that nearly half of Welsh trade is with the EU and the nation will be "better off" if the UK remains in.


The Colombian army says it has killed a top commander from the country's second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

Jose Amin Hernandez Manrique, known as Marquitos, was killed in the north-western province of Antioquia, the army said.
He led 13 ELN units in Antioquia and Bolivar provinces, according to the military.
The region is known for drugs and arms trafficking and illegal mining.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, said on Twitter: "Alias Marquitos, commander of the Dario Martinez front and member of the national leadership of the ELN, has been killed. Congratulations to the armed forces."
The authorities believe Marquitos, also known as Marcos, was responsible for the 1999 hijacking of an aircraft with 46 passengers on board.
The ELN was founded in 1964 to fight Colombia's unequal distribution of land and wealth. It is now estimated to have about 2,000 active fighters.
The ELN has had exploratory talks but has not entered into peace negotiations with the government, unlike the country's largest left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
In April, the ELN's commander in chief, Nicolas RodrÃguez Bautista, told Reuters news agency that the agreement to start formal peace talks was 80% completed.
It is unclear whether Marquitos's death will affect preliminary talks, although many Colombians feel they have stalled, says the the BBC's Colombia correspondent Natalio Cosoy.
The Farc has called several times for the ELN to join their peace talks in the Cuban capital Havana.


A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death near tennis courts in a west London park.

Harjit Singh Dulai, 44, from Uxbridge, was attacked in Rosedale Park, off Albion Road, Hayes, on Wednesday.
He was taken to hospital but pronounced dead at about 20:30 GMT.
Five other men were arrested on suspicion of murder. Four were bailed and one released without charge.
The 16-year-old was arrested on Sunday and is being held in custody, Met Police said.
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A post-mortem examination gave the cause of Mr Dulai's death as a stab wound.
Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh, who appealed for witnesses to contact police, said: "There are people who will know exactly what happened to Harjit."


(Close): US shares closed higher on Wednesday as a better-than expected earnings report from JP Morgan lifted bank stocks.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 187.03 points to 17,908.28.
The S&P 500 climbed 20.70 points to 2,082.42, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 58.68 points to 4,554.72.
Shares in JP Morgan climbed 4.2%, despite reporting a first quarter drop in profit to $5.52bn from $5.91bn a year earlier.
The news lifted shares of other US banks.  Bank of America gained 3.9% and Wells Fargo was up 2.6%. Both banks report their earnings on Thursday.
Cable and wireless company Verizon fell 1.3% after 40,000 workers walked off the job. Verizon and labour unions have failed to reach a deal for a new contract and the strikes attracted the attention of presidential candidates.
Investors mostly ignored lacklustre US data suggesting the economy had stumbled in the first quarter.
US retail sales fell 0.3% in March as households cut back on purchases of cars and spending in restaurants, the Commerce Department said.
In a separate report, the Labor Department said its producer price index slipped 0.1% last month after dropping 0.2% in February.