Ex-Wales rugby captain Ryan Jones who won 75 caps for Wales and three Grand Slams has received an honorary degree from Swansea University.

The former Ospreys number eight, from Newport, who retired last year, got a MSc (Master of Science) degree.
He follows Rugby World Cup referee Nigel Owens who got an honorary LLD (Doctor of Laws) from the College of Law on Monday.
Mr Jones said he was "delighted" to received the honour.


Cardiff defender Fabio Da Silva was left out of their opening game of the season because of interest from another club, manager Paul Trollope has said.

Newly-promoted Premier League club Middlesbrough are interested in signing the 26-year-old Brazilian.
Cardiff drew 0-0 at Birmingham City and Trollope said Fabio's future could be resolved next week.
"Coming into the first game of the season we wanted everyone fully focused on the job in hand," Trollope said.
"The timing wasn't great for us but hopefully there will be a resolution next week.
"There has been an interest from another club and that was the reason he was left out."
Fabio joined Cardiff from Manchester United in January 2014 and has made 64 league appearances for the Bluebirds.
Wales international Declan John was preferred to Fabio at left wing-back against Birmingham at St Andrews.
John, 21, has been handed his chance by Trollope having not featured under previous boss Russell Slade and sent on loan to Barnsley and Chesterfield.
"I think he'll get stronger," Trollope added. "He hasn't played football regularly at this level for a while so I think there's more to come from Dec.
"I've got a belief in him and what he is and what he can bring to the team. I'm delighted to see him out there putting in a good performance."
Cardiff and Birmingham fought out an entertaining goalless opening day stalemate at St Andrews.
Trollope, appointed Cardiff boss in May, was encouraged by his side's performance in his first competitive game in charge.
"We've tried to be really positive in the final third, tried to be brave and take chances when they come," Trollope said.
"The game plan worked to a certain extent. There's always things to improve on and we'll learn from this."


A 5 live investigation has discovered that laws banning the touting of football tickets are being flouted, leaving supporters vulnerable to dubious online brokers.

In a bid to clamp down on illegal trading, Manchester United have seized more than 1,700 tickets during the last two seasons.
There are also concerns that some websites allowing fans to legitimately resell tickets for other types of show may be in breach of consumer protection legislation introduced last year.
The Society of Ticket Agents & Retailers warns the online trade allows unscrupulous firms to "dupe unsuspecting ticket buyers" on an "industrial scale". The society is developing an industry code of practice for legitimate ticket resellers.
Precious Efford from Portsmouth ordered two tickets through a ticket sharing website called Ticketbis at a combined price of £190 for the Manchester United v Stoke City match on 2 February.
She says she was assured the tickets would arrive a week before the game, but in the event they only arrived at lunchtime on the day of the match.
"That was no good for my boyfriend," Precious explained. "He was already up in Manchester for the weekend, and was not going to be able to pick them up."
A letter from the seller accompanying the tickets - which were, in fact, season tickets - warned the user that to avoid detection they should pretend to be a guest of the genuine owner.
And there was a further condition. Precious was warned that if the season tickets weren't returned promptly after the match, in a pre-paid, addressed envelope, she would face an additional £150 charge.
"The problem was that there was no addressed envelope to use to send the tickets back. I've sent texts to both the contact numbers I was given, and kept on texting them, and they just didn't get back to me with the address to send the season tickets back to.
"The whole thing - it makes me so angry thinking about it. I don't how they get away with it all."
The general resale of football tickets was banned in 1994, because of safety fears over the possibility of rival fans mingling together. Only outlets officially authorised by clubs can offer unwanted seats.
Ticketbis, which is based in Spain, said it is a "secure online platform that works as an intermediary between individuals that want to buy and sell tickets in 40 countries".
They said they will provide Efford with a refund. The company did not comment on the illegal sale of football tickets.
A spokesman for Manchester United told 5 live Investigates: "Ticketbis are not an authorised seller of Manchester United tickets."
They added: "We are aware of this company through our own research, as well as supporters who come to us after having bought from the website and not receiving valid tickets for games; the Premier League and other clubs are also aware of this company."
The club also revealed that last season they seized around 1,000 tickets as part of their anti-touting operations, with a further 750 seized so far this season.
They warned that fans whose tickets end up in the hands of unauthorised resellers have their seats cancelled and are usually banned from matches indefinitely.
Aside from football, the secondary market in tickets is a legitimate business. Secondary sales in music tickets are worth an estimated £1bn per year, but fraud is not uncommon.
There were more than 4,000 complaints made to the City of London Police, home of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, in 2015 alone.
Despite that only 32 ticketing sites were suspended.
The City of London Police said they face particular difficulties where a website is hosted abroad.
The police have to submit requests for sites to be taken down and although this is usually done "swiftly and effectively" in the UK, they said: "When the website is hosted by a foreign registrar we have found it much more difficult to reach an agreement over whether it should be taken down."
There is also evidence that laws introduced last year to protect consumers using legitimate ticket resellers are sometimes being ignored.
An amendment to the Consumer Rights Act says that ticket sellers should identify specific seats or area where a ticket is located, details of any age restrictions, and the face value of the ticket. In practice that does not always happen.
More generally, the secondary ticketing market is controversial because critics say professional touts can "harvest" tickets in large quantities as soon as they go on sale, restricting the overall supply. It means that genuine fans often have to pay significantly more than face value or miss out altogether.
Stars such as Adele and Prince have recently tried to deny resellers access to tickets, but with limited success. Tickets for Adele's forthcoming UK tour with a face value of £106 are now being sold through resale sites for more than £700.
Christoph Homann, managing director of resale at Ticketmaster, which owns the secondary ticketing site Get Me In! as well as Seatwave, defended fans' rights to sell tickets above face value.
"What's really important from our perspective, is that tickets have been legally bought, and people have had a fair chance to buy those tickets. What they then do with these tickets is really up to them." he said.
Hear the full report on 5 live Investigates on BBC 5 live on Sunday 21 February 2016 at 11:00 GMT. Or download the programme podcast.


The UK's national air traffic service (Nats) has been accused by Vince Cable of "skimping on large scale investment" after an IT glitch led to widespread disruption across UK airports.

The business secretary said Nats had been "penny wise and pound foolish".
He said it was running "ancient computer systems, which then crash". "We have to maintain a high level of capital investment," he added.
Nats said it would be spending Â£575m over the next five years on systems.
Mr Cable told BBC's The Andrew Marr Show that Nats, under financial pressure, had decided to "forego capital investment" for many years.
He said: "We have to maintain a high level of capital investment."
His comments follow Friday's disruption to UK flights caused by a computer malfunction at Nats's Swanwick centre, which typically handles about 5,000 flights every 24 hours.
The problems caused dozens of arrivals and departure flights at airports across southern England, and as far north as Aberdeen and Edinburgh, to be delayed or cancelled, and almost 40 were cancelled at Heathrow.
The disruption affected thousands of passengers.
The problem was caused by a single faulty line of code in one computer system, Nats chief executive Richard Deakin confirmed.
He told the BBC that the software problem was "buried" among millions of lines of computer code.
"The challenge is that we have around 50 different systems at Swanwick and around four million lines of code. This particular glitch was buried in one of those four million lines of code.
"We haven't seen that particular issue before," he added.
Labour MP Paul Flynn has called for Mr Deakin to be docked bonuses in his salary because of the disruption.
Mr Flynn, who sits on the public administration committee, told the Sunday Times: "I hope after the chaos, which was dreadful, though a rare event, he will have his bonus stripped from him."
It has emerged that Mr Deakin had his pay package increase by more than 45% this year, to more than Â£1m, due to the maturing of an incentive scheme.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin is likely to face questions from MPs  on the issue when he appears before the Transport Select Committee on Monday.
On Friday, he said the situation was "unacceptable" and asked for a full explanation from Nats about what had gone wrong and what it would do to prevent such an incident happening again.
Labour has called for ministers to "get a grip" and the chairwoman of the transport select committee, Louise Ellman, said it was "vital that we establish what happened".
It has also emerged that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had previously criticised Nats in a report into a telephone failure which grounded flights in December 2013.
The CAA's warning came after Nats completed a report into the problem, again at the Swanwick control room, which resulted in 300 cancelled flights.
The CAA responded that the service's "themes on avoiding a recurrence" were a "good first step but lack detail and clarity".
A spokesman for Nats said it subsequently provided a further more extensive and detailed report, which satisfied the CAA there were no safety issues.


Wales could have 50 vineyards in 20 years' time, according to one grower who is selling Welsh wine to France.

Richard Morris, from Ancre Hill estates winery near Monmouth, said other countries with similar climates, such as Nova Scotia in Canada, have already developed a successful wine industry.
There are about 17 vineyards in Wales, according to the Welsh Vineyards Association.
Wales produces around 100,000 bottles of wine annually.
He told BBC Radio Wales' Country Focus programme: "We're predicting by 2035 that we'll have four to six wineries in Wales, that we'll have about 50 vineyards.
"That's based on the growth of the wine industry in Nova Scotia, for example, on the eastern seaboard of Canada.
"It's a massive industry there and Wales can quickly get to that level, I'd say, within 10 to 15 years."
The company's selling point is that the wine is "bio-dynamic" which means only natural products are used in production and the broader eco-system is considered.
And it has recently started supplying a wholesaler in the historic wine growing region of Bordeaux, France.
"I know everybody laughs at this but it's the honest truth - we've just had a wine order from a wholesaler in Bordeaux who's interested in selling good wine from around the world," he said.
According to the Welsh Vineyard Association, Welsh wine started with the Romans, who are thought to have brought grapes and wine-making to Wales.
Then, in 1875, Lord Bute planted a commercial vineyard at Castell Coch, near Cardiff.
From just a few vineyards in the mid-80s there are now about 17 across Wales and Wine Trail Wales has also been launched to show the part they can play in the tourism industry.
Welsh vineyards are producing around 100,000 bottles of wine a year, up 70% in the decade.
White Castle vineyard near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, has been going since 2008. It offers tours and tastings as a way of selling its wines.
Ancre Hill estates is the latest to expand with another 11 acres (2.8 hectares) of vines.
Its owners say south facing land with sheltered areas and good drainage provide ideal conditions for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes.
And each field is expected to make 20,000 bottles.


Anyone thinking this was a wasted year for Rory McIlroy should think again.

After collecting his third Race to Dubai crown in four years, the Northern Irishman is taking stock of a 2015 season in which he won four times but failed to add to his quartet of major titles.
The setback of his July ankle injury, picked up playing football with mates, cost him the chance of defending his Open Championship at St Andrews and effectively ended his hopes of claiming a third PGA title in August.
It ripped the heart out of his year and Jordan Spieth and Jason Day filled the vacuum left by the 26-year-old's misfortune.
The 22-year-old American and the Australian, 28, surged past the Northern Ireland star in the world rankings and McIlroy learned important lessons in the process.
"You definitely can't be complacent," McIlroy told BBC Sport after the victory in the DP World Tour Championship on Sunday that completed his Race to Dubai defence.
"I had a big lead in the world rankings and you see Jordan and Jason play the way they did. Fields are so deep, you can't let up at all.
"Tagging along with that, you know, this is my time to capitalise on my career. The next 10, 15 years is my time.
"I really can't be doing silly things like playing football in the middle of the season to jeopardise even six months of my career. It's a big chunk where I could make some hay and win a major or two.
"I won't be making those mistakes again next year."
McIlroy was close to his very best over the final weekend of the European season. His imperious ball-striking was allied to a surer putting touch in closing rounds of 65 and 66.
It is refreshing to hear him accept he cannot take his foot off the gas in the coming seasons. Spieth's victories in the Masters and the US Open and Day's triumph at the PGA have demonstrated that McIlroy will not be able to rely on raw talent alone.
The Ulsterman is the most naturally gifted golfer on the planet, but to turn that into domination he has to harness a work ethic to match that of the duo who narrowly lead him in the rankings.
Certainly the evidence in Dubai suggests that McIlroy is more than aware of this and his victory sent the emphatic message that he remains a fearsome force at the top of the game.
Not that the player himself views his latest victory in such a way. "I'm not sending a message to anyone," he stated.
"I'm just going out there to play my best. I had goals and objectives which had nothing to do with Jordan Spieth or Jason Day.
"I wanted to win the Race to Dubai, I wanted to beat Danny Willett over the week and I wanted to beat Andy Sullivan.
"Whether it's Jordan Spieth or Jason Day or anyone else, I have certain objectives throughout the year and it doesn't matter who it is, I just want to play the best golf possible.
"I know if I do play to my best or close to my best then I am able to win big tournaments."
McIlroy will not compete again until the European Tour returns to the Middle East for the Abu Dhabi Championship in late January.
Much of that time will be spent on conditioning work in the gym before he picks up his clubs for serious practice in the new year.
This strategy makes perfect sense because the 2016 season will be like no other with the return of golf to the Olympics. Players must make sure they have plenty in the tank for July and August.
The Open and PGA are both played in a three-week window before Rio. Then, once the Games are completed in August, they will head straight into the PGA Tour playoffs before the Ryder Cup.
It is a mouth-watering prospect, particularly with such exciting figures at the very top of the game. And McIlroy, having learned the lessons of the ups and downs of 2015, seems much better equipped to capitalise.
Last summer was the most miserable of his career to date. The available evidence suggests a stark contrast next year.


Disney has reported rising profits due to strong theme park attendance and income from its television channels.

The global media giant reported profits of $1.6bn (Â£1.05bn) for the period between July and September compared with $1.5bn at the same time last year.
Television revenue has climbed, despite Americans dropping cable subscriptions in favour of on-demand providers such as Netflix.
Revenue for Disney's parks and resorts reached $4.4bn.
The company attributed the growth to increased visitor numbers at parks in the US and Disneyland Paris.
The company's television channels also saw a rise in revenue, which climbed 12%.
Investors had been concerned because audiences have been abandoning traditional television, but in the event profits from cable TV increased by $381m for the quarter to $1.7bn.
Analysts had been watching to see what Disney would say about the number of ESPN subscribers, which were down last quarter.
Disney said subscribers had increased in this quarter and attributed the growth to the new ESPN affiliate channel, SEC Network, which launched in August 2014.
The sports network makes up 40% of Disney's revenue.
Last month ESPN announced it was cutting 300 employees or 4% of its global workforce.
The film arm of Disney came in flat bringing in $1.8bn in revenue during the quarter.
The company is expecting a marked increase in this area next quarter when it releases the latest film in the Star Wars series.
"The next focus for investors is how much Star Wars is going to bring in," said Martin Pyykkonen senior research analyst at Rosenblatt Securities.
"There has been a lot of hype, pre-order ticket sales have been high and there will be a lot of merchandise that flows from that," he said.


Fifa has denied reports that president Gianni Infantino is being investigated for a possible ethics violation.

German newspaper Die Welt reported that Infantino had improperly ordered the destruction of the minutes of a Fifa executive committee meeting.
According to Die Welt, Fifa's independent ethics committee is looking into the matter and could impose a 90-day ban on the new president.
Fifa spokeswoman Delia Fischer said the allegations were baseless.
"The email exchange that makes mention of the deletion of audio files refers to a copy of the original audio file of the meeting that was improperly stored on a local drive," she said.
"This mention does not refer to the officially archived audio file. That file exists and is properly saved at Fifa."
A spokesman for the ethics committee's investigatory arm, Roman Geiser, told the AFP news agency that "there are no formal proceedings going on against Mr Infantino".
The executive committee meeting took place in May at world football's governing body's congress in Mexico City, the first since Infantino replaced former president Sepp Blatter.
It included the resignation of Fifa's audit and compliance chief Domenico Scala, who claimed the new Fifa council would compromise the independence of key committees, including auditing, ethics and finance.


A controlled trial of a controversial method of catching razor clams using electricity has been authorised by the Scottish government.

Electro-fishing involves probes being slowly dragged across the sea bed.
Razor clams - or spoots - are increasingly in demand by overseas markets and fishermen can command a high price for their catch.
They can currently only be legally harvested by hand, by divers or by different types of dredges.
The move to allow a trial of electro-fishing comes after a Scottish government consultation.
It was launched after a report by Marine Scotland found that electro-fishing had a lower environmental impact than methods like dredging and it had little short-term effect on other species.
Electro-fishing uses electricity that flows between two submerged terminals, with the water being used to conduct the charge. When the method is used to catch razor clams, the equipment is typically powered by a generator on board a small vessel. The electric rig is dragged across the seabed with a diver following to pick up the clams.
Q&A: Electro-fishing and razor clams
Permissions to undertake electro-fishing would require the Scottish government to inform the European Commission.
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said the trial would investigate the size and potential for commercial razor clam production and ensure fisheries could be operated sustainably with appropriate harvest rates.
Marine Scotland will now consult on the best locations for trials to take place.
Mr Ewing said: "Scotland has a rich and diverse natural environment with a coastline that is world renowned - not only for its unique habitats but also for high-quality seafood.
"Responses to our consultation and previous research suggests that, where properly applied, electro-fishing can be a sustainable and safe method of harvesting razor clams in a way that is less intrusive than traditional methods like dredging.
"We will now undertake scientific trials in specified areas to ensure we fully understand the potential of the industry, and how we best access the economic possibilities in this area."
Objections to the technique include fears that it could kill or harm other fish in the vicinity.
Green MSP, Mark Ruskell said: "Dredging the sea bed for razor clams has a horrific impact, but to switch to electro-fishing instead won't allow our precious marine environment to recover.
"EU laws that protect the environment should not be undermined by the Scottish government in its eagerness to grow industries beyond the carrying capacity of the ecosystems they rely on."
Liane Veitch, fisheries team leader for environmental lawyers ClientEarth said: "Innovation in fishing is more important than ever, but we need to make sure that any policy changes are backed up by good scientific evidence.
"There is currently very little information about the environmental impacts of electro-fishing for razor clams, and in particular what the medium to long-term impacts on the seabed might be. We encourage the Scottish government to assess this as part of the pilot study.
"If the environmental impacts turn out to be lower than currently approved methods, it will be critical to make sure this gear is used sustainably - that it won't overexploit razor clam populations - and that it is effectively monitored and controlled."


Labels should be added to food and drink to show how much activity would be needed to burn off the calories consumed, the Royal Society for Public Health says.

It argues people underestimate the time it takes to exercise off calories in everyday products.
A mocha coffee containing 290 calories takes 53 minutes to walk off and a blueberry muffin takes 48 minutes.
The food and drink industry said the idea was worth exploring.
A policy paper from the RSPH says the most common cause of obesity is consuming more calories than are burned off - and those taking lots of exercise are more likely to lose weight.
It says activity symbols on packs would prompt consumers to choose healthier options or exercise more.
Research shows that some consumers find current nutritional labels on the front of products confusing because of information overload.
They also spend just six seconds looking at food before buying it.
This means the information on the front of packs should be easy to understand and calorie information should be presented in a clear way, the paper said.
The RSPH says pictorial icons on the front of packs, as well as existing information, would be a good idea.
These pictures would show how much exercise is required to walk or run off the calories contained in the product.
The labelling would also remind the public of the importance of being physically active, which is known to boost mood, energy levels and reduce stress and depression.
A survey of 2,000 adults by RSPH found that more than 60% of people would support the introduction of "activity equivalent calorie labelling".
More than half said it would encourage them to choose healthier products, eat smaller portions or do more physical exercise.
Men should consume around 2,500 calories and women 2,000 calories on average each day to maintain a healthy weight, the paper says.
Two-thirds of adults in the UK are currently overweight or obese.
Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, said: "Although nutritional information provided on food and drink packaging has improved, it is evident that it isn't working as well as it could to support the public in making healthy choices.
"Activity equivalent calorie labelling provides a simple means of making the calories contained within food and drink more relatable to people's everyday lives, while also gently reminding consumers of the need to maintain active lifestyles and a healthy weight."
A spokesperson for the Food and Drink Federation said activity equivalent information was "an interesting concept" which was worth exploring.
"As an industry, we are looking at what more we can do to help people use the existing nutrition information provided to understand how different foods and drinks fit within a healthy lifestyle.
"We support RSPH's call for further research into whether activity equivalent calorie labelling could be an effective way of encouraging consumers to use labels."
The FDF said EU rules which dictate what companies are allowed to put on their food labels would need to be considered in any proposals.


Securing a Championship play-off place is the very least Derby County should be aiming for this season, says new signing Tom Huddlestone.

The 30-year-old has joined from Hull City for a fee believed to be about £2m, 12 years after leaving the Rams to join Tottenham.
Huddlestone told BBC Derby Sport he was "buzzing" to be back at Pride Park.
"We should definitely be looking at automatic promotion. But the play-offs are a bare minimum," he said.
Huddlestone, who has four full England caps, has played the majority of his career in the Premier League since his move to London in 2005 and is eager to return to the top flight.
He said the experience and strength of the squad mean Gary Rowett's team are in a great position to enable them to make a swift return having been relegated with Hull last season.
"It is an unbelievable facility to come to work," added Huddlestone. "Once the move was on the table I was very excited.
"Tactically and physically I feel as good as I ever have done. I think the manager has got a good blend.
"I left at 18 after two years in the first team. It's a long time ago, but I know a few of the lads from other clubs and it's nice to see some familiar faces.
"I am buzzing. When I left I always said I would like to come back at some stage and I am only 30. I have a good few years left in me and hopefully we can get back in the Premier League."


Two women have been accused of an alleged fraud plot that resulted in a man with dementia losing £60,000.

Former Wolverhampton City Council employee Karen Corr, 54, and ex-Wolverhampton Homes worker Joanne Lewis, 50, face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud by abuse of position.
Ms Corr, of Sandy Lane, Bushbury and Ms Lewis, of Victoria Road, Wednesfield are due before magistrates on 5 July.
The council said it was supporting the police inquiry.
A spokesman added: "The council and Wolverhampton Homes are aware of the charges that have been brought against former employees of each organisation and have supported the police fully in their enquiry."
West Midlands Police said the victim's money was stolen from him over a two year period.
Ms Corr and Ms Lewis, both from Wolverhampton, are due to appear at Walsall and Aldridge Magistrates Court next month.


Wasps director of rugby Dai Young joked about James Haskell's "outstanding" contribution after he lasted just 35 seconds on his return from injury.

Haskell, 31, made his first appearance since playing for England against Australia last summer as a replacement in Wasps' 22-16 win over Leicester.
He appeared to be knocked out after tackling Freddie Burns but was then able to walk off the pitch.
"The most important thing is that he is fine," said Young after the match.
Speaking to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, he added: "He would have obviously have wanted a lot more, but thankfully he is OK.
"Everybody was concerned initially but once they seen he was OK, he is getting a little bit of stick in the dressing room.
"It was an outstanding 35 seconds, wasn't it?"
Asked about Haskell's chances of playing against Toulouse in the Champions Cup next week, Young said: "It all depends on what the medical team say now and after looking at him.
"It will be tight and fingers crossed he will be available, but obviously player welfare is the most important thing."
Young said that Haskell would have to "go through the protocols" introduced around concussion, adding:  "It's a six-day protocol, so he has got to tick all the boxes."
England head coach Eddie Jones will surely be relieved that Haskell's latest setback appears not to be serious, as he has several injury problems among his forwards in the build-up to the Six Nations.
Billy and Mako Vunipola have already been ruled out of the tournament and former skipper Chris Robshaw is to see a specialist about a shoulder injury.
Meanwhile, Joe Launchbury has a calf problem and George Kruis is out of action with a fractured cheekbone.


Online retailer Amazon will be creating more than 1,500 seasonal jobs at its Swansea distribution centre - up by half on last year's total.

Workers are being recruited on temporary contracts to work over the busy Christmas period.
The internet company is hiring more than 15,000 extra people across the UK in the run-up to December.
Amazon said it expected "many hundreds" of the seasonal workers to move into permanent posts as a result.
The Swansea base, which opened in 2008, has more than 1,000 permanent staff.
During its busiest day last year, Amazon said customers ordered a total of 3.5m items in 24 hours - a rate, it said, of 44 per second.
In 2012, Amazon created more than 10,000 seasonal jobs in the run up to Christmas across the UK, including 1,000 in Swansea.


Ambulance emergency response times to the most critical 999 calls fell in the last month - but are still well above the target.

Latest figures for December show 75.8% of responses to red calls arrived within eight minutes.
This is down from 78.9% in November 2016 but above the target of 65%.
The Welsh Ambulance Service also received the highest average daily number of calls on record - 1,344.
During December 2016, the service received 41,668 calls which was 7.4% up on the same month in the previous year.
Calls are graded red, amber or green and the most urgent or life threatening calls made up 4.8% of the total or 2,010 red calls.
The 75.8% response rate was better than the 72.4% which the service achieved in December 2015.
Performance ranged from 67.6% in the Hywel Dda health board area to 84.4% in Cardiff and Vale.
But average response times for less critical amber calls lengthened by over three minutes between November and December as demand increased.
There has been a general  improvement in ambulance response times to the most critical calls since a new "clinical model" came into force in October 2015
Before an eight minute target applied to around 40% of calls received by the Welsh Ambulance Service.
Now the eight minute target applies to just 4% to 5% of the most critical calls, received for example if someone is unconscious and not breathing.
Meanwhile, ambulances are reaching more life or death incidents despite an increase in calls, according to another set of quarterly figures.
The NHS's Emergency Ambulance Services Committee looks at 24 different quality indicators - not just time but the quality of care patients receive.
Figures for December show in 53.9% of cases, ambulance staff handed over patients at the hospital within 15 minutes of arriving and in the last three months of the year, 14,199 hours were lost due to handover delays.
Plaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth AM focused on the percentage of patients who received the appropriate care at the scene.
"The figures are very concerning for patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Stemi) heart attacks and hip fractures, with a significant number of patients not only waiting longer for the ambulance to arrive, but not receiving the appropriate care bundle when it does arrive," he said.
"This is then made worse by almost half of patients having to wait longer than 15 minutes before being handed over to hospitals."
Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said there was a "real scandal" of the Welsh Government moving the goalposts on how it measures ambulance response times to give the impression of good performance.
"Under the new model, just over 4% of ambulance calls are time-targeted," she said. "This betrays an incredible lack of accountability, particularly where conditions such as heart attack and stroke depend on the speed of treatment".
A Welsh Government spokesperson said it was testament to all those working in the service that the average response time to the most serious calls was under five minutes despite record levels of activity.
"Over 1,300 calls were made on average per day to the ambulance service last month, the highest daily rate recorded and an indicator of the pressure NHS staff have been under over recent weeks," said the spokesperson.
"There is more work to be done by NHS Wales to reduce patient handover delays and longer waiting times for non-life threatening calls and we continue to monitor the situation closely."


The luxury yacht at the centre of Ireland's largest ever drugs seizure has been sold at auction for £49,416 (€70,000).

Cocaine worth an estimated £150m was seized after the Makayabella was stopped off the coast of Ireland last September.
She was taken by a boarding party from the LÉ Niamh after they found 1,025 kgs of cocaine on board.
An anonymous Irish sailing enthusiast is its new owner.
The Makayabella was purchased by Cork solicitor, Barry O'Meara in trust for his client.
"The owner has a keen interest in sailing and the boat will be for his own personal use," he said.
The auction took place at a hotel in Carrigaline, County Cork, on Thursday.
In all, eight people in the UK and Ireland have been charged in connection with the drug smuggling operation.
The Makayabella was built in 1986 in a naval shipyard in Antibes, France.
She was in poor condition when she was intercepted in the Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles off the south-west coast of Ireland.


Jihadist militant group Isis has said it is establishing a caliphate, or Islamic state, on the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria.

It also proclaimed the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph and "leader for Muslims everywhere".
Setting up a state governed under strict Islamic law has long been a goal of many jihadists.
Meanwhile, Iraq's army continued an offensive to retake the northern city of Tikrit from the Isis-led rebels.
The city was seized by the insurgents on 11 June as they swept across large parts of north-western Iraq.
In a separate development, Israel called for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in response to the gain made by the Sunni rebels in Iraq.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) announced the establishment of the caliphate in an audio recording posted on the internet on Sunday.
Isis also said that from now on it would be known simply as "the Islamic State".
The BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, says the declaration harks back to the rise of Islam, when the Prophet Muhammad's followers conquered vast territories in the Middle Ages.
The Sunni-Shia split has its origins in a dispute over the succession to Muhammad.
It's easy to dismiss the latest crop of Isis videos and statements as mere propaganda (however well produced), but the announcement of the establishment of a caliphate is rich with religious, cultural and historic significance.
Generations of Sunni radicals have dreamt of a moment when, in the words of Isis spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Muslims "shake off the dust of humiliation and disgrace" and a new caliphate rises out of the chaos, confusion and despair of the modern Middle East.
Many Sunnis, and all Shia, will recoil in horror from the barbarism that has accompanied this moment, but the sight of old colonial-era boundaries being erased is a powerful statement, designed to attract new recruits to this whirlwind jihad.
In one of the Isis videos uploaded on Sunday, a bearded fighter called Abu Safiyya guides the viewer around a newly demolished border post. The video, with its arresting imagery and impressive production values, is designed to electrify the group's followers.
The fact that Abu Safiyya is described as being from Chile merely adds to what the authors hope is now the organisation's global appeal.
Isis said the Islamic state would extend from Aleppo in northern Syria to Diyala province in eastern Iraq.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group said, would become the leader of the state and would be known as "Caliph Ibrahim".
In the recording, the rebels also demanded that all Muslims "pledge allegiance" to the new ruler and "reject democracy and other garbage from the West".
On Sunday, Iraqi government jets struck at rebel positions and clashes broke out in various parts of Tikrit, witnesses and officials said.
"The security forces are advancing from different areas", Lt-Gen Qassem Atta told journalists. "There are ongoing clashes."
Troops had reportedly pulled back to the nearby town of Dijla as Saturday's initial offensive met stiff resistance.
The heavy fighting over the two days caused many casualties on both sides, eyewitnesses and journalists told the BBC.
Insurgents were reported to have shot down a helicopter and captured the pilot.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in response to gains made by Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
In a speech in Tel Aviv, he said the Kurds were "a nation of fighters and have proved political commitment and are worthy of independence".
The Kurds have long striven for an independent state but they remain divided between Syria and Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
The international community, including neighbouring Turkey and the US, remains opposed to the breakup of Iraq.


Banning smoking in prisons in England and Wales could make them more unstable, the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has warned.

Ministers are drawing up plans to convert the first jails to be smoke-free next year.
PGA president Andrea Albutt "cautiously" welcomed the move but said it must be done in a "safe and staged" way as 80% of prisoners smoked.
The Ministry of Justice said safety and security remained its "top" priorities.
The government intends to ban smoking in all 136 prisons in England and Wales to reduce health risks - it is currently allowed only in prison cells and exercise yards.
The move follows a series of legal challenges by prison officers and inmates who have complained about the effects of passive smoking.
Mrs Albutt, who has governed four prisons, most recently Bristol, is heading a team that will be implementing the changes.
The privately run Parc Prison, in south Wales, is expected to go smoke-free next year, and publicly-run jails in Wales and south-west England are likely to follow.
Speaking on behalf of the Prison Governors Association, Mrs Albutt said the organisation agreed with the ban but said it had to be done in a managed and gradual way to avoid unrest, as about 80% of prisoners were smokers.
Stopping them smoking could result in "stability issues", she told BBC News, in her first interview since becoming the organisation's president on an interim basis.
She added that banning tobacco would create "potential problems" because it risked turning it into an illicit item to be smuggled in and traded by prisoners as "currency".
Joe Simpson, assistant general secretary for the Prison Officers Association, compared the effects of passive smoking on prison officers with the risks posed to bar workers before smoking in pubs was banned.
"All we are asking is for something that will help protect our members," he said.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "We are continuing to consider how to reduce the prevalence of smoking across the prison estate but the safety and security of prisons will always be our top priority."
Razor Smith, who served three decades in prison for a spate of armed robberies, said:
I served time in a juvenile prison in the 70s where there was no smoking and I can tell you... there was a great black market in tobacco goods.
There's a black market in anything, in any banned goods.
Whether you like it or not, tobacco is a way of dealing with stress and a lot of prisoners smoke.
If you were to take it away from them, after they've had it for so many years, it becomes like a war of attrition with the prison system and they then see the prison system as taking something away that is legitimate, that you're allowed to do outside - and obviously there will be violence.
They tried it in Australia a couple of weeks ago I think and there was an immediate riot.
Scotland is also considering tighter restrictions on smoking in jails.
The Scottish Prison Service said it aimed to have plans in place by December 2015 on how indoor smoke-free prison facilities would be delivered.
But the Northern Ireland Department of Justice said it had no plans to change the current rules, under which smoking is permitted in prison cells and certain open spaces.
Mrs Albutt, the first woman to lead the Prison Governors Association since it was founded 28 years ago, said the current priority of governors was to address the problems caused by new psychoactive substances (NPS), sometimes referred to as "legal highs" - synthetic drugs that mimic the effects of cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine.
"The problem is... an epidemic across the prison estate. As such it needs to be tackled strategically," she said, adding that many offenders would not be able to engage in education and training until prisons were clear of the "mind-altering" drugs.
The Ministry of Justice acknowledged the "huge challenge" posed by NPS and agreed it had to be tackled before preparing offenders to lead better lives.
The move has prompted debate on both sides of the argument:


A woman jointly accused of murdering a man and dumping his body in a bin has said she was "gobsmacked" to hear he was dead.

Stephen Thomas Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, are jointly accused of murdering Owen Creaney at Moyraverty Court, Craigavon, in July 2014.
On Tuesday, the court heard transcripts of police interviews conducted after they found Mr Creaney's body in a bin.
In them, she described the moment when Mr Hughes told her he had died.
Ms Boyle, from Edenderry Park, Banbridge, said she was shocked, "gobsmacked" and described going into the room to look at his body.
It was "pure yellow", she said and she could not look at him.
In the interviews, she repeatedly denied having anything to do with putting Mr Creaney's remains into the bin.
The investigating officer asked how she felt and she replied: "Disgusted. "
Owen Creaney was her friend, she said, and she would not like that done to her son.
Mr Creaney, a disabled man who used a walking aid, was assaulted in the hallway of Mr Hughes's Moyraverty Court home in the early hours of 3 July, 2014.
It took two days for him to die. His body was then dumped into a recycling bin.
Both Ms Boyle and Mr Hughes, whose address was given as Maghaberry Prison, have admitted being present during the attack.
However, both have denied murder and have blamed each other for the violence.
The murder trial at Belfast Crown Court continues.


Becky James' return to the GB cycling team ended in disappointment when she was eliminated in the first round of the individual sprint at the Track World Cup in New Zealand.

The former double world champion was beaten by fellow-Brit Kay Marchant.
James was competing for GB for the first time in nearly two years following injury and illness.
"I'm a long way off but I'm hoping I'm going to keep progressing," said the 24-year-old from Abergavenny.
"I've got a lot more work to do so hopefully in the next few months I'll be back to my best."
James last rode for GB in 2014, but since then has had surgery to remove abnormal cells following a cervical screening, and suffered a knee injury after winning the sprint and keirin titles at the 2013 World Championships in Belarus.
She returned to competition in August this year, and says she was happy to be back in a GB vest.
"It's been really nice to be back racing again in this environment," she added.
"I was a little bit nervous and didn't really know what to expect, but I'm happy to gave got to this level in such a short time so it's a good step forward."
James is hoping to gain selection for the GB team at the Rio Olympics in 2016, but missed out on qualifying points and will not compete in Sunday's keirin.


A record five women were elected to the Manx parliament as a new generation swept into the House of Keys.

Kate Beecroft said she was "delighted" to retain her Douglas South seat.
She will be joined in the lower chamber by Ann Corlett (Douglas Central), Julie Edge (Onchan), Clare Bettison (Douglas East) and Daphne Caine (Garff).
Half of the parliament's 24 members will be newcomers - the highest number since 1976 - as former infrastructure minister Phil Gawne was edged out.
Full list of results
How the dramatic night unfolded
Mrs Beecroft said: "It's been a long campaign but I don't feel tired after hearing the result. I am ready to hit the ground running."
Mrs Edge added: "I am absolutely delighted to get the chance to represent the people of Onchan and the Isle of Man. It is a brilliant day and I thank all those who have helped me to get here."
Meanwhile Ms Bettison promised to enter the House of Keys "not as an individual but as part of a team for the benefit of the Isle of Man".
Mr Gawne, an MHK since 2003, missed out by just 19 votes in the newly formed Arbory, Castletown and Malew constituency, behind Jason Moorhouse and former minister Graham Cregeen.
After learning his fate, the former farmer said he "would be back in the garden in the morning digging up spuds".
There was better news for his erstwhile government colleagues though.
Former Health Minister Howard Quayle finished second in the Middle constituency behind Bill Shimmins.
While Lawrence Skelly (economic development) and Juan Watterson (home affairs) took the Rushen seats.
Both Mr Quayle and Mr Skelly indicated they would be willing to throw their hats in the ring to become chief minister - discussions are expected to dominate the next few days.
Chief Minister Allan Bell, as well as Environment, Food and Agriculture Minister Richard Ronan and Treasury Minister Eddie Teare all announced their retirement before the general election.
Alex Allinson topped the poll in Ramsey where Mr Bell is vacating his seat after more than 30 years.
Mr Allinson received the highest number of votes for any candidate - securing the backing of nearly 3,000 voters.
John Houghton, who in May became the first MHK to ever be suspended indefinitely from Tynwald after a row over bullying, was comprehensively beaten in Douglas North.
He secured 775 votes - some way behind the successful candidates, Ralph Peake (1177) and David Ashford (1219).
Tynwald is made up of two chambers: the directly elected House of Keys (lower house) and the Legislative Council (upper house).
As well as the 24 elected MHKs, the Legislative Council has three automatically appointed members (the Bishop of Sodor and Mann, the President, and the Attorney General) plus eight other members who are elected by MHKs.
The two chambers process legislation which requires Royal Assent but sit together as Tynwald to debate policy and financial issues.
The new MHKs will be sworn in on Tuesday.


With more teams, more prize money and more substitutions than ever, Euro 2017 will be the largest Women's European Championship yet.

England and Scotland are among the 16 teams who will compete in the Netherlands, with the tournament starting on Sunday and sell-out crowds expected.
The competition comes around once every four years, and Germany are the holders following their 2013 triumph in Sweden.
BBC Sport looks at the key things you need to know.
The Women's Euros have expanded to include 16 teams, with the top two teams from each group of four progressing to the quarter-finals.
The competition gets under way when the Netherlands meet 2013 finalists Norway in Group A after the opening ceremony.
The group stage concludes on 27 July, before the quarter-finals on 29-30 July, the semi-finals on 3 August and the final on 6 August.
England and Scotland are in the same group, alongside Spain and Portugal.
England's Group D fixtures: Scotland (19 July), Spain (23 July), Portugal (27 July).
Scotland Group D fixtures: England (19 July), Portugal (23 July), Spain (27 July).
There will be two matches on each day of the group stage, with one at 17:00 BST and another at 19:45 BST.
A total of 31 matches will be played at seven different venues in the Netherlands, which is hosting the competition for the first time.
Utrecht will host England v Scotland on 19 July, as well as three other group games.
Deventer, Doetinchem, Rotterdam and Tilburg will all stage group matches, plus a quarter-final each.
Breda, which will also host four group games, and Enschede are the venues for the semi-finals, with FC Twente's 30,000-capacity stadium in Enschede the venue for the final.
Germany have dominated the European Championship for decades.
They have won it six times in a row, stretching back to 1995, and also arrive as the Olympic champions.
However, they are expected to face tough competition from France, who have not won a major tournament but triumphed in the SheBelieves Cup in March, drawing with Germany and beating world champions the United States 3-0.
At club level, French women's football has enjoyed rich success in Europe in recent years, with Lyon winning their second consecutive Women's Champions League title in Cardiff in June - and the national team is targeting European glory too.
"Germany's record is unparalleled, but their current team is relatively unknown," former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis, now a pundit, told the BBC World Service.
"They were a brick wall before and - psychologically - you felt like you were beaten before you kicked a ball. But a lot of their big names have retired.
"So they have seen wholesale changes, but you can never write them off at all and they're probably still the favourites, even if their squad is on a bit of a journey.
"France are probably the most in-form team. They are so gifted and talented, and that group of players have been playing together for quite a long time."
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Also tipped for a strong tournament are England, who want to improve on their impressive third place at the 2015 World Cup.
The Lionesses were unbeaten during qualifying for the Euros, winning seven of their eight matches, and conceded only one goal in the process.
Manager Mark Sampson named his squad more than three months before the tournament, and his side have performed well during their warm-up fixtures, beating fellow qualifiers Austria, Switzerland and Denmark.
"I do think England are very, very strong," Brown-Finnis added. "They've got young, up-and-coming players.
"This could be the one, getting them over the line for gold. France are the only team England have not beaten in this modern era of women's football.
"The reasons Mark Sampson gave for naming a squad early were justified. I've learnt to trust Mark and his methods.
"There will be a number of players who I expect to announce their retirement after this European Championship, so for them, this is a last opportunity."
After their silver medal at Rio 2016, Sweden should not be underestimated.
Spain also have a talented squad, and four years ago they stunned England with a 3-2 win in the group stages of the Euros.
Norway, runners-up in 2013, have reached two of the past three finals and - as two-time winners - are the only country other than Germany, or West Germany, to have won the competition since 1984.
The Norwegian side includes 2017 BBC Women's Footballer of the Year Ada Hegerberg, who helped club side Lyon win another treble this term.
Hosts the Netherlands, meanwhile, have six players from English Women's Super League clubs.
Leading the attack for the Oranje will be new Arsenal Ladies striker Vivianne Miedema, who scored 14 goals in 22 Bundesliga games for Bayern Munich in 2016-17.
They will be backed by lively home crowds, with all three of their group-stage games having sold out well before their opener against Norway on Sunday.
Scotland Women have qualified for their first major championship at the 14th attempt.
Led by coach Anna Signeul, who will leave her role following the Euros after 12 years in charge, the Scots qualified as runners-up to Iceland thanks to wins - home and away - over Slovenia, Belarus and Macedonia.
But injuries have robbed them of some of their key players, including Arsenal playmaker Kim Little and Manchester City centre-back Jen Beattie.
The Scottish Football Association and women's national team had been involved in a dispute over financial, commercial and equality matters, but the issue was resolved in June.
The players had refused to take part in media or promotional work, but once resolved, hailed the agreement as a "historic moment" towards "achieving equality".
The total prize money for the tournament is 8m euros (£7m) - nearly four times more than the 2.2m euros (£1.9m) available in 2013. The tournament winners will earn 1.2m euros (£1m).
Each of the 24 nations at last year's men's Euro 2016 received 8m euros for participating, while champions Portugal won 27m euros (£23.7m).
Uefa only introduced prize money for all the finalists of the women's Euros as recently as the 2009 tournament.
Teams will be allowed to make a fourth substitution during extra time of matches, as Uefa continues a trial of the rule.
European football's governing body has already trialled the change at the men's European Under-21 Championship and both the men's and women's under-19 tournaments.
Additionally, referees will have the power to show yellow and red cards to non-playing staff in the technical area.
Rachel Brown-Finnis was speaking on the BBC World Service's Euro 2017 preview show, which is available as a podcast here.


A farmer in South Lanarkshire was able to lead 35 livestock to safety after a fire broke out at a building storing machinery and hay bales.

Fire crews were called to the farm, in the village of Quothquan, near Thankerton, at 22:45 on Wednesday.
They used four hose jets to contain the fire to one section of the building.
The farmer removed livestock and about 150 bales of hay to allow firefighters better access. An investigation into the cause of the blaze is under way.
Crews worked through the night to extinguish the blaze and a single crew remained at the scene on Thursday morning to continue dampening down operations.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was "liaising with police to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident".


Leicester Tigers have signed loose-head prop Matias Aguero as cover for injured duo Michele Rizzo and Logovi'i Mulipola, reports BBC Radio Leicester.

The 34-year-old Italy international played 46 times for Saracens and most recently played for Zebre in the Pro12.
Aguero has been registered and is eligible to play against Stade Francais in Leicester's opening Champions Cup game on Friday.
The match at Welford Road starts gets under way at 19:45 GMT.


Rotherham secured their return to the second tier by beating Leyton Orient 4-3 on penalties after an enthralling 2-2 draw in the League One play-off final.

Moses Odubajo gave Orient the lead with a brilliant 25-yard volley before his low cross set up Dean Cox to tap home.
Alex Revell stabbed home from close range to make it 2-1, before levelling with a stunning 30-yard strike.
The victory was Rotherham manager Steve Evans's first at Wembley, having never managed a club at the national stadium before.
The O's were 3-2 ahead in the shootout before Adam Collin saved penalties from Mathieu Baudry and Chris Dagnall.
Orient looked on their way to ending a 32-year absence from the second tier after Lee Frecklington had missed his spot-kick.
But, with James Tavernier and Richard Smallwood both finding the net with their attempts, keeper Collin's heroics sealed a dramatic victory and a second successive promotion for Steve Evans's side.
The dramatic shootout had followed an entertaining game, which saw both sides playing some decent attacking football.
Rotherham had the best chances early on, with Wes Thomas seeing a scuffed shot saved by Jamie Jones before failing to connect with a dangerous James Tavernier free-kick.
Odubajo fired high and wide on the volley at the other end before showing a further glimpse of his potential by setting up a decent chance for David Mooney, who failed to connect with the winger's looping cross.
And, despite Tavernier firing a couple of attempts at Jones's goal, the young winger put Russell Slade's side ahead by chesting the ball down and unleashing a terrific 25-yard volley.
Odubajo then turned provider, collecting Tavernier's headed clearance before sending over a low cross for Cox to tap in.
Ben Pringle went close to reducing the deficit with a dipping 35-yard strike before Rotherham assistant manager Paul Raynor, a fixture on the touchline in his lucky gillet, was then sent to the stands at half-time.
The second half saw the Millers dominate with a succession of free-kicks and and it was from one of these they forced their way back into the game.
Tavernier's set-piece into the box caused havoc for the O's defence and allowed former Orient striker Revell to stab the ball in from close range.
Orient boss Russell Slade also lost the last time he managed at Wembley, when he was in charge of Yeovil for their League One play-off final in 2007.
Having conceded twice in five first-half minutes, Rotherham then completed the reverse as Revell controlled a high ball with his thigh before smashing a looping 30-yard half-volley over Jones, which prompted a mad dash down the touchline from ecstatic Millers boss Steve Evans, who has never managed in the second tier.
The equaliser seemed to swing the momentum back in Orient's favour with crosses from Odubajo and Lloyd James causing problems for the Millers defence.
Rotherham's danger was now more often coming from counter-attacks and Kieran Agard should have done better when he fired wide from the edge of the box.
Agard had an even better chance with just a minute of normal time remaining, heading Frecklington's cross wide when through on goal.
Orient continued to press, but the Millers had the final chance of normal time when Pringle fired over from distance.
Rotherham went close to making it 3-2 when Jones prevented O's defender Scott Cuthbert from heading in an injury-time own goal by tipping the ball away.
Mooney then fired over at the other end before Clarke leapt above the Millers defence but headed well wide when the goal was in sight.
Rotherham then lost Revell to injury and despite the O's continuing to dominate possession, the game headed to its dramatic conclusion.
It looked as if Orient, who finished third in League One, would be heading to the second tier, after Frecklington, who had recovered from an injury, saw his low spot-kick tipped away by Jones.
But there was to be one final dramatic twist as Millers keeper Collin pushed away the final two Orient attempts to secure the Millers' return to the Championship for the first time in nine years.
Match ends, Leyton Orient 2(3), Rotherham United 2(4).
Penalty Shootout ends, Leyton Orient 2(3), Rotherham United 2(4).
Penalty saved! Chris Dagnall (Leyton Orient) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2(3), Rotherham United 2(4). Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty saved! Mathieu Baudry (Leyton Orient) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2(3), Rotherham United 2(3). James Tavernier (Rotherham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2(3), Rotherham United 2(2). Nathan Clarke (Leyton Orient) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2(2), Rotherham United 2(2). Ben Pringle (Rotherham United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2(2), Rotherham United 2(1). John Lundstram (Leyton Orient) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty saved! Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2(1), Rotherham United 2(1). Lloyd James (Leyton Orient) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal!  Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2(1). Kieran Agard (Rotherham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Shootout begins Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2.
Attempt blocked. Mathieu Baudry (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Romain Vincelot with a headed pass.
Corner,  Rotherham United. Conceded by Mathieu Baudry.
Attempt blocked. Haris Vuckic (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Tavernier.
Attempt blocked. Lloyd James (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Moses Odubajo (Leyton Orient).
James Tavernier (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. John Lundstram replaces David Mooney.
Second Half Extra Time begins Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2.
First Half Extra Time ends, Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Haris Vuckic replaces Alex Revell.
Attempt missed. Nathan Clarke (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lloyd James with a cross following a set piece situation.
Shaun Batt (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Pringle (Rotherham United).
Offside, Leyton Orient. Chris Dagnall tries a through ball, but David Mooney is caught offside.
Offside, Leyton Orient. Mathieu Baudry tries a through ball, but Chris Dagnall is caught offside.
Attempt missed. David Mooney (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Romain Vincelot.
Corner,  Rotherham United. Conceded by Scott Cuthbert.
Corner,  Rotherham United. Conceded by Jamie Jones.
David Mooney (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Mooney (Leyton Orient).
James Tavernier (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
First Half Extra Time begins Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 2, Rotherham United 2.
Attempt missed. Ben Pringle (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kieran Agard.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Kári Arnason.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Kári Arnason.


Tottenham midfielder Nabil Bentaleb has signed a new five-year contract with the Premier League club.

The Algeria international, 20, joined Spurs in January 2012 after a trial period at White Hart Lane.
He made his first-team debut in a win at Southampton in December 2013 and has since established himself as a first-tem regular.
Bentaleb played at the 2014 World Cup and made 35 appearances for Tottenham last season, scoring one goal.


National League side Guiseley have signed experienced striker Derek Asamoah.

The 35-year-old was released by League Two side Carlisle earlier in January when his short-term deal with the Cumbrian club expired.
Ghana-born Asamoah failed to find the net in 11 appearances for Carlisle this term.
Guiseley are 22nd in the National League, two points from safety, and are away at Macclesfield on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.


A 100-year-old former RAF pilot has flown in a Spitfire to mark the centenary of a famous wartime airbase.

Ray Roberts, from Margate, Kent, was a passenger in the twin-seat aircraft as part of the celebrations at Biggin Hill Airport.
The airport played a pivotal role in the Battle of Britain when it served as one of the principal fighter bases.
Fellow centenarians Lily Osborne and Trudy Baxter flew behind in a Learjet 75 as part of the celebrations.
Mr Roberts, who was flown by Captain Peter Kynsey, joined the RAF in 1940.
He trained as a pilot before being injured that year when his parachute failed to fully open after he bailed out of a Spitfire.
In 1941 he joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and spent the remainder of World War Two delivering aircraft to service units.
Mr Roberts' daughter, Lyndi Roberts, said: "He is just amazed to be given the opportunity."
Biggin Hill served as one of the vital command bases for the Hurricanes and Spitfires of RAF Fighter Command.
In the 1950s it began accepting civil flights alongside its role as a rapid reaction station.
Biggin Hill managing director Will Curtis told guests at the centenary celebrations: "We are aware that Biggin Hill sat at the very tipping point of the Second World War."


Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen claimed the opening stage victory in this year's Tour de Yorkshire.

The LottoNL-Jumbo rider triumphed in a sprint ahead of Australia's Caleb Ewan, with Briton Chris Opie third.
That came after several riders fell heavily in a dramatic crash in the final metres in Scarborough.
Britain's Adam Blythe also finished in the top 10, placing eighth on the 173km run from Bridlington, the first of three stages.
Groenewegen also took narrow victory ahead of Ewan in the opening stage of the 2016 event, eventually won by Thomas Voeckler, who is defending his title this year.
"The last climb was hard but the team brought me back into position so I could sprint for the win. It's a beautiful race with a lot of people on the road, that gives you a lot of motivation," he told ITV.
"Today was one chance and tomorrow is another but we'll see."
Saturday's second stage will start on the bridge in Tadcaster that has been rebuilt after being damaged by floods, and is expected to end in a bunch sprint in Harrogate.
Sunday's finale is a gruelling 194.5km ride from Bradford to Sheffield which takes in eight King of the Mountain climbs, including the Cote de Silsden and the cobbles of Haworth's main street, with four ascents saved for a final 22km circuit.
The women's race, featuring Britain's former world champion Lizzie Deignan, takes place over the same 122.5km route earlier in the day.
The Tour de Yorkshire, now in its third year, began as part of the legacy of the county hosting the 2014 Grand Depart for the Tour de France.
Overall classification after stage one:
1. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/LottoNl-Jumbo) 4hrs 09mins 28secs
2. Caleb Ewan (Aus/Orica-Scott) +4secs
3. Chris Opie (GB/Bike Channel Canyon) +6secs
4. Angel Madrazo (Spa/Delko) +8secs
5. Nacer Bouhanni (Fra/Cofidis) +10secs
6.. Steele von Hoff (Aus/One Pro) Same time
7. Kristian Sbaragli (Ita/Dimension Data) Same time
8. Andre Looij (Ned/Roompot) Same time
9. Adam Blythe (GB/Aqua Blue Sport) Same time
10. Baptiste Planckaer (Bel/Katusha) Same time


A number of  attacks took place in Paris, the capital city of France on Friday.

18 November 2015 Last updated at 08:08 GMT
Sadly, more than 120 people lost their lives and the French police and army were called in to help keep people safe.
The country held three days of national mourning and people around the world showed their support for France.
Newsround's Jenny has been speaking to kids there about how they're dealing with what happened.


Chocolate maker Mars has asked people to return some sweets after a customer in Germany found bits of plastic in their Snickers bar.

The company don't know for sure whether any other chocolate bars are affected but they're recalling the products just in case.
Chocolates have been recalled in 55 European countries, including the UK.
Product recalls like this are rare because the companies that make food have strict safety rules.
In the UK the products affected include some packs of funsize Mars and Milky Way bars and boxes of Celebrations:
People who have bought these chocolate bars should contact Mars customer service.


Three people have been declared winners of GCHQ's Christmas puzzle challenge.

More than 600,000 people tried to solve the puzzle series, with 30,000 making it to the final round of the challenge.
David MacBryan, 41, from Edinburgh, US-born Kelley Kirklin, 54, from London, and Wim Hulpia, 40, from Lovendegem in Belgium, came closest to completing the series of puzzles.
They win a GCHQ paperweight, a pen and a signed copy of Alan Turing Decoded, by Turing's nephew Dermot Turing.
Mr MacBryan, who is originally from Dublin and describes himself as a professional quiz master, told the BBC: "The more puzzles you do, the better you get at doing puzzles - and I have done a lot of puzzles. I am a bit of an addict."
The first stage of the puzzle series appeared on the Christmas card sent out by GCHQ director Robert Hannigan.
Filling in squares produced a Quick Response, or QR code, which when scanned took people to a website with the subsequent stages.
The puzzles were developed by a team from GCHQ - working in their spare time out of the office, they stress - over a period of months.
"I don't think there's any coincidence that you find a bunch of people setting these sorts of problems who are also working on the kind of problems GCHQ works on," one of the team - who requested anonymity - told the BBC.
"We are faced with problems where there is incomplete information, there is ambiguous information, you have to decide whether you have pushed an angle far enough… that's the sort of thing we expect people to do with these sort of questions."
Another of the quiz-setters explained how one of the puzzles was solved - it involved not just interpreting a series of letters as Roman numerals to solve an equation, but also recognising that the Xs could be multiplication symbols rather than just representing the number 10.
Another puzzle involved arranging squares to get the first word of the title of films consisting of two words.
Arrow and dice surrounding the word point you to one of the letters from the second word of the film title.
When you have all of these letters they reveal the answer. The full set of answers will be published on GCHQ's website.


Bosses have met with unions in a bid to prevent further strikes at Scotland's regional airports.

A joint statement from Highlands and Islands Airports (Hial) and the Prospect union said both parties were "hopeful of finding a solution".
Security staff staged a 48-hour walkout earlier this month as part of an ongoing dispute over pay.
Hial operates 11 Scottish airports in Dundee, Inverness, Argyll, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland and Wick.
After the earlier strike saw flights cancelled at Dundee airport, Hial bosses said they were ready to make a "formal offer" to the union, which represents more than 120 staff from security firm AMSL.
The joint statement read: "Hial met with Prospect today to discuss potential solutions to the recent dispute.
"These discussions are on-going and both parties remain hopeful of finding a solution."


A "bustling" marketplace that offered tools and services to mount massive web attacks has been shut by its owners.

The marketplace, on the Hack Forums website, was notorious for making it easy it launch attacks that knocked servers offline.
The section was "permanently shut down" because several attacks known to be co-ordinated via the forum caused web-wide disruption.
One regular victim of attacks arranged via Hack Forums welcomed the closure.
"Unfortunately once again the few ruin it for the many," wrote Jesse LaBrocca, founder of Hack Forums, in a message explaining why the section was being closed.
"I'm personally disappointed that this is the path I have to take in order to protect the community," he wrote. "I loathe having to censor material that could be beneficial to members."
Mr LaBrocca hinted that the whole site could be shuttered if the web attack section was not closed, adding a reference to "recent events" that had prompted the decision.
The "recent events" are likely to be the attacks of 21 October that briefly took down popular websites such as Reddit, Twitter and Spotify as well as many others.
Analysis revealed that historic amounts of data had been used to cause the disruption.
An attack tool called Mirai is known to have launched the tidal waves of data that made sites hard to reach.
Source code for this tool was shared on Hack Forums shortly before the attacks took place.
Mirai helped malicious hackers launch what are known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by hijacking insecure webcams and digital video recorders and using them to send endless data requests to targets.
As well as the big attacks, the Hack Forums marketplace also gave people access to so-called "booter" and "stresser" services.
These low-cost DDoS services were often used by gamers keen to knock rivals offline or to inconvenience people that malicious hackers wanted to harass.
Security journalist Brian Krebs, whose site has been regularly hit by attacks carried out by cyber-thieves he has exposed, said he was glad the Hack Forums market had gone dark.
"The removal of booter services from Hack Forums is a gratifying development for me personally and professionally," he wrote.
"My site has been under near-constant attack from users of these booter services for several years now."


A 51-year-old man who attempted to buy a nightclub and a hotel in Norwich for £1.4m with money he did not have has been jailed for 21 months.

David Roberts, from Croydon, had claimed he had £4.8m in a trust fund shared with his sister.
He conned professional people including Antonio Degouveia, owner of Mojos and the Belmonte Hotel in Norwich, into providing services he had no money for.
At Norwich Crown Court Judge Alasdair Darroch described him as "a conman".
He persuaded surveyors and other professional people to carry out work worth £14,000 but never paid them, the court was told.
William Carter, prosecuting, said his activities were fraudulent from the beginning and told the court he had four previous convictions.
He was found guilty of six counts of fraud.
Shaun Wallace, defending, said Roberts was now a self-employed gas and electrical engineer earning more than £70,000 and that he intended to repay the money.
Judge Darroch said: "It is extremely difficult for anyone to believe anything you say.
"You are a smooth talking conman and on this occasion a substantial amount of money was involved."


UK budget hotel chain Travelodge has reported a surge in profits of more than 60%, three years after its near-collapse.

It comes as Travelodge's owners are thought to be preparing to sell it for a potential £1bn.
Travelodge said underlying profits for the year to 31 December 2014 were up 63.5% to £66.2m.
Revenue last year rose 14.9% to £497.2m, while the key measure of revenue per room rose 16.8% to £34.24.
Goldman Sachs, Avenue Capital and GoldenTree Asset Management took control of Travelodge in 2012 when it faced collapse with debts of £500m.
The owners are now understood to be looking to appoint advisers to examine strategic options, including a possible stock market flotation, according to newspaper reports.
Earlier on Monday, Travelodge chief executive Peter Gowers told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money: "There's probably never been a better time to run a value hotel business than now because the value hotel sector is huge. Britain is becoming a nation of value shoppers."
He added Travelodge's current owners were "not natural long-term holders of the business".
"I think you'd expect them always to be thinking about ways to realise value from their shareholdings, but for now we stay focused on running the business we have got," he said.
Travelodge said a £100m modernisation programme was now nearing completion, while five of 15 hotels new properties expected for 2015 were already open.
The chain has opened more than 500 hotels since launching in 1985 and has identified 250 more sites across the UK.
Mr Gowers said the first 150 were expected to be ready over the next eight years.


There may not be monkeys swinging from the canopy - but Snowdonia's 10,000-year-old Celtic rainforest shares other links to its Amazonian cousins.

Coed Felinrhyd is a place where geography and legend meet, and was named in the 12th Century Mabinogion Welsh myths.
Much of the woodland dates from the last Ice Age.
Now the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) has created a trail through one of the UK's "most magical" ecosystems.
Hidden off a lay-by near the picturesque village of Maentwrog, this 221-acre pristine woodland is home to flora and fauna scarcely seen elsewhere, including otters, bats, and rare birds.
"You'd associate most rainforest with central or south America - but this wood has a lot of similar processes going on," explains Jo Kemp, project officer with the RGS's Discovering Britain project.
The wood's sheltered gorge setting, together with the streams and waterfalls that cross the landscape, have created an ecosystem where plant life thrives.
"There's an oak tree canopy which maintains the moist humidity you can really feel here, and it remains sheltered from the hard frosts of Snowdonia and the strong winds of the coastline," Jo says.
"There are elements of this wood that potentially remain untouched since the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago - which makes it particularly unique not only in Wales, but in the whole of Britain."
As soon as you enter the rainforest, it immediately looks different to any other Welsh woodland.
The oak at the walk's entrance is covered in tree lungwort, a lichen now limited to only a few wild areas of Britain.
"It only likes less acidic bark," Jo explains. "As oak trees get older, their bark becomes less acidic.
"So its presence tells us that this bit of woodland is quite special and particularly ancient."
A rare Ice Age species of lichen was identified in Wales for the first time at Coed Felinrhyd in 2015, evidence that the forest dates back to a time when trees first re-colonised the country.
As we move further through the woodland, Jo points out the filmy fern plant growing from a tree base. "It's just one cell thick - and it's really quite scarce," she says.
"The fact it is here demonstrates just how unique an environment this is.
"It also shows us how all the small bits of life interlink to create a truly ancient and complex woodland."
The forest's age is reflected by its special place in Welsh folk history.
According to the Mabinogion myths, it was the place where two great leaders fought to the death and where the body of one lies in an unmarked grave.
Yet the forest - bought by the Woodland Trust in 2015 - was, until recently, endangered by aggressive species of rhododendron and conifers.
But a process of "halo thinning", where trees are cleared to allow native species to enjoy a "halo" of light and space, has seen positive results.
In some areas of the forest, walkers can see how the oak woodland is slowly taking back land once planted with conifers.
"The Woodland Trust are trying to preserve and re-energise the ancient woodland, so we can build these habitats back up," Jo explains.
The RGS's Â£500,000 Discovering Britain project has been set up to "shine a light" on hidden corners of wild Britain like Coed Felinrhyd.
The project has created a new guided 2.5 mile (4 km) trail round the rainforest.
It is one of 26 long walks, trails, viewpoints and aerial views created by the RGS in Wales.
Director of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr Rita Gardner CBE, said: "Through this trail, we hope to encourage people to explore this magical rainforest, left nearly untouched by human hands."


Investment in new offshore oil and gas projects is collapsing despite cost-cutting efforts, according to a report.

Industry Body Oil and Gas UK said that less than £1bn was expected to be spent on new projects this year, compared to a typical £8bn per year in the last five years.
Its new 2016 activity survey said this was despite costs dropping.
Oil and Gas UK said exploration remained at an all-time low with no sign of improving.
The survey said the industry's drive to improve efficiency, reduce operating costs and increase production has had "marked success".
And success per exploration well drilled in 2015 was the highest for 10 years,
However, the industry body warned if the oil price remains at about $30 for the rest of 2016, more than 40% of all UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) oil fields were likely to be operating at a loss - deterring further exploration and investment.
The number of fields expected to cease production between 2015 and 2020 has risen by a fifth to more than 100.
Deirdre Michie, Oil and Gas UK's chief executive, said: "The UKCS is entering a phase of 'super maturity'.
"While the industry's decades of experience provide great depths of knowledge and expertise which can be applied to recover the still significant remaining resource, the report highlights the challenges that the falling oil price poses in our capability to maximise economic recovery of the UK's offshore oil and gas.
"The basin has to compete fiercely in the global market to attract price-constrained capital to the UK.
"A coherent approach by the industry, regulator and government will be critical to boost the industry's competitiveness and its investors' confidence.
"Together we need to transform the basin into a highly competitive, low tax, high activity province, which is attractive to a variety of operators and sustains and supports the important supply chain based here."
She added: "We have a huge task ahead but the prize is worth fighting for."
Oil industry veteran Sir Ian Wood acknowledged the current downturn was "probably as tough as it gets" but said it was "completely wrong" to think that the North Sea oil industry was finished.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We produce about 44 billion barrels and there is a view that there could be another 20 billion to come, so it's almost a third still to come.
"I think that's a bit high but it could be 15 to 16 billion barrels to come, so there's a huge prize out there and it's quite wrong to think that the North Sea is finished. The North Sea will recover.
"I'm prepared to guarantee in the next four or five years we won't perhaps be back to where we were but we will be back to a pretty active, strong industry with a lot of prospects ahead of it."
There are pleasant surprises for Britain's oil and gas industry from its annual activity survey.
1 Output increased by nearly 10% last year - far more than expected, and after steep declines in recent years. It's expected to rise another 2.3% this year.
2 More than half of exploration wells were successful in 2015 - the best hit rate for 10 years, and with bigger finds than in the previous three years.
3 Cost-cutting was ahead of plan. Whereas falling production and 10% annual inflation for four years had driven up the cost per barrel extracted, the reverse was true with rising production and a sharp cut in industry pricing.
For instance, the cost of the average exploration well fell from £44m to £30m in only one year.
The average cost of producing a barrel of oil from British waters is on track to fall by 42% in only two years.
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A UK government spokesperson said:  "This government is clear that the broad shoulders of the UK are 100% behind our oil and gas industry and the thousands of workers and families it supports.
"We have established the Oil and Gas Authority to drive greater collaboration and productivity within industry, and announced a radical £1.3bn package of tax measures in the March 2015 Budget to ensure the UKCS remains an attractive destination for investment and safeguard the future of this vital national asset.
"In January this year we announced a further package of measures including another £20m funding for a further round of seismic surveys, and our strategy to maximise economic recovery of the UKCS.
"We look forward to the industry capitalising on this, to deliver efficiencies and make the industry more robust now and for the future."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "The North Sea still holds significant potential but this report highlights that further action is needed to encourage investment. Maximising economic recovery from our oil and gas resources will require the appropriate business conditions for investment in exploration, appraisal and development.
"The Scottish government will continue to do all that we can to support the sector. It is clear, however, that the UK government must take urgent action to substantially reduce the headline rate of tax at the March Budget and incentivise exploration. The fiscal regime must not be a barrier to investment and activity in the North Sea."
Scottish Labour's energy spokesperson Lewis Macdonald said: "It's unlikely that the North Sea will ever produce the billions in tax revenues it did at its peak, and government has to recognise its importance to jobs and the economy is much greater than its future role as a source of government tax revenues."
Tommy Campbell, from  the Unite union, said "the worst may still be yet to come".
He said: "It's too late for tens of thousands of workers across the oil and gas sector who have already lost their livelihoods but tens of thousands more are reliant on the next steps of our political leaders and they are desperately looking for commitments and common purpose."
Lang Banks, from environmental campaigners WWF Scotland, said the report underlined the need for a new approach to North Sea oil and gas.
He said: "Given the urgent need to address climate change and wean ourselves off of fossil fuels, knee-jerk tax cuts are not the solution to securing a sustainable future of oil and gas workers and the communities that depend upon them."
Last month, a report by accountancy firm Moore Stephens blamed plunging oil prices for a sharp rise in the number of UK oil and gas companies going bust.
The Scottish and UK governments recently unveiled details of a £250m "City Deal" for Aberdeen, which will see them jointly invest in the area.
Separately, the Scottish government promised an extra £254m of investment in key infrastructure projects in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.


A female Pakistani fighter pilot has died after her aircraft crashed in Punjab province.

Marium Mukhtiar was on a routine training mission when her plane met an "in-flight emergency" over Mianwali district, the air force said.
She and her co-pilot ejected. She later died from her injuries in hospital.
Flying Officer Mukhtiar was one of a small number of women to work as fighter pilots in Pakistan, and the first to die on operational service.
She told BBC News last year of her journey into a traditionally male-dominated world and desire to "do something different".
Marium Mukhtiar was among about 20 female fighter pilots in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which only began inducting women in combat roles in 2006.
It was not immediately clear why her aircraft crashed. The male pilot was not badly injured and is recovering in hospital.
"Both the pilots handled the serious emergency with professionalism and courage and tried to save the ill-fated aircraft till the very last minute," a PAF statement said.
Pakistan's military has suffered a series of air disasters in recent months.
In September a trainer jet crashed near Mastung in Balochistan province. The pilot ejected to safety.
A military helicopter crash in May killed seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines. Another military helicopter crashed near Mansehra district in August, killing 12 people.


Colchester United have signed winger Kyel Reid on loan until January from League Two rivals Coventry City.

The 29-year-old made 37 appearances for the Sky Blues last season as they were relegated from League One.
Reid, who has also had spells with Charlton, Bradford and Preston, could make his debut for the U's in Wednesday's EFL Cup first-round tie against Championship side Aston Villa.
Colchester started the season with a 3-1 defeat at Accrington on Saturday.
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The Electoral Commission has opened an investigation into UKIP's finances after allegations it misspent EU funds.

A European Parliament probe alleged on Monday that funds for the group of MEPs that UKIP belongs to had wrongly been spent "for the benefit of UKIP".
It said the group should repay Â£146,696 of the funds intended for European Parliament business.
The Electoral Commission is now looking into "whether there has been any breach of UK election law".
In response to the news a UKIP spokesman said: "We are confident we will be found to be in the clear."
The European Parliament investigation claims that the UKIP-dominated grouping - the  Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe - broke rules banning the use of the funds on "financing of national political parties, financing of national election campaigns and candidates or referendum campaigns".
In a statement the European Parliament Bureau said: "The activities of the ADDE which were found to breach the rules for European party financing, were nine opinion polls held in the UK ahead of the 2015 general elections as well as ahead of the EU referendum in 2016, and a report on these polls.
"The expenditure linked to the services of three consultants was considered non-eligible by an external auditor and by the Parliament's administration."
When the European Parliament allegations first emerged last week, a spokesman for the ADDE group accused the parliament of "harassment", with UKIP MEP Roger Helmer adding: "Call it revenge for Brexit if you like."
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said it was understood the Electoral Commission inquiry related to whether UKIP spent some of the European money on the Brexit referendum.
UKIP would face a possible fine up to Â£20,000 if it was judged to have accepted "impermissible donations".


"Revelatory" information about the murder of a newspaper boy 40 years ago has emerged, a criminologist claims.

Carl Bridgewater, 13, was killed at Yew Tree Farm, Stourbridge, in 1978 after it is thought he disturbed a burglary.
Prof David Wilson, who has called for the case to be reopened, interviewed Bert Spencer, an initial suspect, for a Channel 4 documentary and found he showed "psychopathic traits".
Mr Spencer denies any involvement in the crime and has never been charged.
He served 15 years in jail for shooting dead 74-year-old Hubert Wilkes at Holloway House Farm in Kingswinford in 1979 and has written a book about the Bridgewater case.
He told the documentary "Interview with a Murderer", which was screened on Sunday, he accepted Wilkes' murder had "eerie similarities" to that of the schoolboy, but said he was was not connected to the teenager's death and refused to be "a scapegoat".
He admitted he "took the life" of Mr Wilkes, adding "I'm fully aware of the awfulness of it".
Mr Spencer, a former ambulance driver, says he was working at a hospital all day when Carl was shot in September 1978.
In the film, Prof Wilson went with Mr Spencer to meet a former secretary who the criminologist said had backed Mr Spencer's "cast-iron alibi".  However, in the film, she says she was unsure at what time Mr Spencer took his lunch on the day of the murder.
Prof Wilson told Mr Spencer he believed he "no longer had an alibi".
He said he also scored in the "high range" of a PScan test for psychopathy, raising "serious concerns" about his personality.
"You are someone it registered as a liar who has bent the truth," said Prof Wilson.
The professor, who interviewed Mr Spencer for more than 20 hours, also said he had shown "huge narcissism" and "could switch on and off emotionally".
Mr Spencer's first wife Janet told the programme "deep down" she suspected Mr Spencer of killing Carl, or of some involvement. She said there was "no concrete evidence", but would like Staffordshire Police to reopen the case.
Meanwhile, his daughter told the programme she remembers her father standing by the fire" talking about robberies".
Mr Spencer refuted the claims of both women.
Prof Wilson said the comments provided "enough information to allow us to bring justice to Carl and his family" and called for police to reopen the case.
"A lot of people think I killed Carl Bridgewater but I know I didn't and I can't change their opinion," he told Wilson.
Four men, who became known as the Bridgewater Four, were jailed for Carl's murder in 1979 but their convictions were quashed in 1997 after the Court of Appeal found two Staffordshire police officers had fabricated evidence.
Three of them had spent 18 years in prison, while the fourth man, Patrick Molloy, died in prison in 1981, aged 53.
Following the documentary, Staffordshire Police said the matter was not currently under investigation.
"However, police will review the investigation in light of any new information or evidence being made available," a spokesman said.


Plaid Cymru says human error led to its election manifesto being published online with watermarks on photographs.

The initial web version of the general election manifesto was taken down for a time because some photos showed the words "iStock by Getty Images".
The document was then restored without the photographs' watermarks.
A Plaid spokesman said the mistake was quickly corrected after a previous version containing watermarks was put online momentarily.
BBC Wales has since found that some of the stock images used in the manifesto can also be found advertising health services in Cinncinatti, advice on sexually transmitted diseases in New Zealand and a detox clinic for substance abusers in Utah.


Sunderland midfielder Lee Cattermole thinks they can earn maximum points from their remaining games and avoid relegation from the Premier League.

The Black Cats beat relegation rivals Norwich on Sunday to move one point from safety with five matches left, but still have to play Arsenal and Chelsea at the Stadium of Light.
"I'm seeing five games left and I think we can win every one of them," he said.
"It would be unbelievable if we did but that is what we are aiming to do."
Cattermole has made 27 appearances for Sunderland in the Premier League this season and has fought to keep his place in manager Sam Allardyce's starting 11.
"I've been out of the team this season and changed positions and you find yourself frustrated but you've got to look away from yourself at times and look at why the manager is doing it," he told BBC Newcastle.
"He knows what's best for the team and you've got to follow him. We've got a lot of good professionals in the squad and it's important we all believe and hopefully not find ourselves in this position again."
Sunderland's final run-in begins against Arsenal on Sunday, followed by matches against Stoke, Chelsea, Everton and Watford.
Cattermole added: "One thing we have done over the years is focus on ourselves. After the game you think 'how did they get on?' which is normal and you want to know if the results have gone our way.
"We haven't managed to get the goals we deserve and hopefully on Sunday we can find a bit of space and get the shots off."