Troy Deeney fired in a hat-trick as Watford thrashed newly promoted Bournemouth to go top of the table.

Gabriele Angella - a summer signing from Udinese - opened the scoring when he scrambled in from close range.
Bournemouth levelled when Ryan Fraser crossed for Lewis Grabban to convert, before Angella headed his second and Deeney scored via a deflection.
Lewis McGugan slotted in and Deeney smashed in from 20 yards before completing his treble with a penalty.
Troy Deeney is the first Watford player to score a hat-trick at Vicarage Road since Kevin Phillips on 1 March 1997
Deeney missed the start of last season  but returned to score 20 goals and help Gianfranco Zola's side to the play-off final.
He was decisive again as the Hornets proved too strong for Bournemouth - who were the better side for large periods of the first half.
Sloppy defending allowed Angella to hook Watford ahead but the visitors' spirited response was rewarded when the lively Fraser burst into the penalty area and squared for Grabban to slide home his third of the season.
Watford were much improved after the interval though as Angella again escaped his marker to meet Almen Abdi's free-kick with a powerful header, before Deeney ran on to a neat through-pass to fire across Ryan Allsop and in with the aid of a deflection.
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McGugan added the fourth with a neat finish from an angle for his first goal since joining from Nottingham Forest in the summer, before Deeney's spectacular second.
The striker took the ball on his chest and shrugged off two challenges to score from the edge of the area.
Deeney then completed the scoring in stoppage time when he steered home from the spot after Diego Fabbrini was tripped.
Watford manager Gianfranco Zola:
"Bournemouth probably didn't deserve to lose 6-1 because especially in the first half they played well and they played in the right way.
"In the second half my team really put a good performance in and it was just what they needed because otherwise it was going to be difficult.
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"We changed gears because in the first half we were playing under rhythm and we pushed a little bit higher up the pitch and that made it more difficult for them."
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe:
"If we're guilty of anything it was still chasing the game at 3-1.
"We felt we could still try and get back into it but they were ruthless in exposing that and we were a little bit naive towards the end where we kept giving the ball back to Watford and you can't do that against a good team.
"I always knew it was going to be a huge step up for our squad and for everyone at the club.
"If you look at our history we've hardly played in the Championship and history is always a good gauge and this is a big step up."
Full Time   The referee ends the match.
Goal!  - Troy Deeney -    Watford 6 - 1 Bournemouth        Penalty scored by Troy Deeney. Watford 6-1 Bournemouth.
Penalty awarded for an unfair challenge on Diego Fabbrini by Ryan Fraser.
Elliott Ward makes a clearance.
Corner taken by Santos Iriney from the left by-line.
Elliott Ward makes a clearance.
Ikechi Anya produces a cross.
Goal!  - Troy Deeney -    Watford 5 - 1 Bournemouth        Troy Deeney scores with a right foot finish. Watford 5-1 Bournemouth.
Free kick taken by Daniel Pudil.
Foul by Simon Francis on Daniel Pudil, free kick awarded.
Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Booking
Marco Cassetti is cautioned by the ref for unsporting behaviour.
Marco Cassetti challenges Harry Arter unfairly and gives away a free kick.
Lloyd Doyley restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Brett Pitman on Lloyd Doyley, free kick awarded.
Corner taken by Andrew Surman from the left by-line.
Marco Cassetti takes a shot. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
Lewis Grabban restarts play with the free kick.
Gabriele Angella concedes a free kick for a foul on Lewis Grabban.
Substitution      Lewis McGugan goes off and Cristian Battocchio comes on.
Shot by Harry Arter missed to the right of the target.
Substitution      Eunan O'Kane joins the action as a substitute, replacing Marc Pugh.
Substitution      Fernando Forestieri leaves the field to be replaced by Diego Fabbrini.
Clearance made by Daniel Pudil.
Assist on the goal came from Almen Abdi.
Goal!  - Lewis McGugan -    Watford 4 - 1 Bournemouth        Lewis McGugan slots the ball right footed into the goal. Watford 4-1 Bournemouth.
Assist by Almen Abdi.
Goal!  - Lewis McGugan -    Watford 4 - 1 Bournemouth        Lewis McGugan scores with their right foot. Watford 4-1 Bournemouth.
Lewis Grabban manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken by Almen Abdi.
Substitution      (Watford) makes a substitution, with Daniel Pudil coming on for Marco Faraoni.
Centre by Ikechi Anya.
Lewis McGugan takes a shot. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
Substitution      Brett Pitman joins the action as a substitute, replacing Shaun MacDonald.
Ikechi Anya crosses the ball.
Clearance by Gabriele Angella.
Troy Deeney takes the chance to get an effort at goal.
Clearance by Gabriele Angella.
Goal!  - Troy Deeney -    Watford 3 - 1 Bournemouth        Troy Deeney scores with a right foot finish. Watford 3-1 Bournemouth.
Substitution      Charlie Daniels leaves the field to be replaced by Ian Harte.
Assist on the goal came from Almen Abdi. Almen Abdi crosses the ball.
Goal!  - Gabriele Angella -    Watford 2 - 1 Bournemouth        Gabriele Angella heads the ball into the goal. Watford 2-1 Bournemouth.
Free kick taken by Almen Abdi.
Santos Iriney fouled by Simon Francis, the ref awards a free kick.
Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Santos Iriney concedes a free kick for a foul on Harry Arter.
Booking for Marco Faraoni for unsporting behaviour.
Booking
Free kick awarded for a foul by Marco Faraoni on Harry Arter.
Simon Francis makes a clearance.
Lewis McGugan takes a shot. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
The referee starts the second half.
Half Time    The half-time whistle blows.
Almen Abdi shoots direct from the free kick.
Handball by Harry Arter.
Troy Deeney has an effort at goal.
Shot by Marco Faraoni. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
Free kick taken by Marco Cassetti.
Lewis Grabban challenges Marco Cassetti unfairly and gives away a free kick.
Shot by Elliott Ward.
Ikechi Anya manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Simon Francis.
Marco Faraoni manages to make a clearance.
Ryan Fraser crosses the ball.
Simon Francis takes the free kick.
Marco Faraoni receives a yellow card.
Clearance by Lloyd Doyley.
Corner taken by Marc Pugh from the left by-line.
Lloyd Doyley makes a clearance.
Assist by Ryan Fraser.
Goal!  - Lewis Grabban -    Watford 1 - 1 Bournemouth        Lewis Grabban scores with a right foot finish. Watford 1-1 Bournemouth.
Ryan Fraser produces a cross.
Free kick taken by Elliott Ward.
Unfair challenge on Harry Arter by Lewis McGugan results in a free kick.
Ryan Fraser takes the chance to get an effort at goal. Manuel Almunia catches the ball.
Simon Francis restarts play with the free kick.
Lewis McGugan concedes a free kick for a foul on Ryan Fraser.
Harry Arter has an effort at goal.
Clearance made by Gabriele Angella.
Lewis McGugan takes a shot and goes harmlessly over the bar.
The ball is crossed by Charlie Daniels.
Corner taken by Charlie Daniels.
Clearance made by Gabriele Angella.
Corner taken by Charlie Daniels from the right by-line.
Lewis Grabban takes the chance to get an effort at goal.
The ball is swung over by Ikechi Anya.
Goal!  - Gabriele Angella -    Watford 1 - 0 Bournemouth        Gabriele Angella scores with a left foot finish. Watford 1-0 Bournemouth.
Shot by Lewis Grabban went wide of the right-hand post.
Simon Francis takes the free kick.
Foul by Marco Cassetti on Ryan Fraser, free kick awarded.
Clearance by Simon Francis.
Fernando Forestieri delivers the ball.
Shot by Marc Pugh went over the bar.
Free kick taken by Ryan Allsop.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Charlie Daniels by Fernando Forestieri.
Free kick taken by Marco Cassetti.
Harry Arter receives a yellow card for unsporting behaviour.
Booking
Harry Arter gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Ikechi Anya.
Shot on goal comes in from Lewis McGugan from the free kick. Ryan Allsop safely holds on.
Lewis McGugan takes the free kick.
Shaun MacDonald challenges Fernando Forestieri unfairly and gives away a free kick.
The referee gets the match started.
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A week after the earthquake hit, scores of rescue workers are still flying in to Nepal.

They face a monumental task. The death toll is uncertain - it teeters around the 6,000 mark.
For emergency staff though it is the living, trapped in remote areas, whom they are desperate to reach.
Many have broken bones. Some face the threat of crush syndrome - where the kidneys start to fail.
But the Nepalese health system was stretched even before the quake. The charity Save the Children says it is now at breaking point.
Most people live in remote areas that can be difficult to access even when natural disasters do not stand in the way.
Some of the most critical needs now are obvious - surgeons are arriving to fix broken bones, injured spines and head trauma.
And Save the Children medical teams are hearing reports that thousands need operations.
Another charity in the area, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has deployed an inflatable hospital so treatment can be given in otherwise inaccessible places.
But some are concerned that people who have been trapped under rubble remain at risk of crush syndrome.
This is when the body releases toxins in response to massive and sustained injuries- and these can overwhelm the kidneys as they try to flush them out.
Dialysis - artificial kidney machines - can help.
But according to MSF, Kathmandu's main hospital only has eight.
Such life-saving equipment only counts if people can be transferred to safety.
At the moment though, there is an urgency for more basic needs -  shelter, safe water, sanitation and food.
At least 2.8 million people have been displaced - either because their houses have been destroyed or because they are too afraid of aftershocks to remain at home.
And without safe ways to dispose of waste, drinking water is in danger of being contaminated by fatal bugs.
In some places, public toilets are overflowing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is on alert for any outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases including infections such as cholera.
According to their experts, there have been some sporadic cases of diarrhoeal illness reported in makeshift camps.
Though things aren't near outbreak proportions, the coming rainy season could make things worse.
Dr Prince Mathew, from MSF, said: "With the monsoon season approaching, we're worried that the window of opportunity to reach people in these areas is rapidly closing."
Katrin Kisswani, medical co-ordinator for MSF arrived in Kathmandu two days after the quake hit.
She told the BBC: "The most difficult thing is to reach the people most at need.
"We have managed to start mobile clinics using helicopters to get to remote villages in the mountains. But many roads are still blocked by landslides."
Some survivors have managed to reach the capital.
Ms Kisswani added: "They are very, very shocked and traumatised.
"Many have lost their livelihoods, their relatives and sometimes almost entire villages are gone."
Psychological help is also required urgently, she said.
While many people will see images of the destruction and naturally want to help, the World Health Organization cautions they should think carefully and ensure they are not a burden on local efforts.
Dr Ian Norton said: "There are small teams that have been launched after watching the news and that are trying to respond with the best of intentions, but unfortunately they do not have the sustainability to be able to deploy into the remote areas where we need them the most."


A 40-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital after being injured in a "sustained attack" in Edinburgh.

The incident, which police said involved the use of an unspecified weapon, took place in Coatfield Lane, Leith, at about 20:30 on Saturday.
The victim is being treated for "multiple and significant injuries" in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder.
Det Ch Insp Martin Maclean said police were following a "positive line of inquiry".
He added: "It was a violent and sustained assault and included the use of a weapon.
"It does appear that those involved were known to one another and, consequently, I would like to reassure the local community that this has not been a random attack.
"There will be an increased police presence in and around Coatfield Lane whilst my team carry out investigations and officers search the area."


Fit-again Ulster player Jared Payne has been included in a 36-man Ireland squad for the Six Nations matches against Wales and England later this month.

Payne, 31, made his return in Ulster's Pro12 win over Zebre after three months out because of a kidney injury.
Leinster fly-half Joey Carbery comes in at the expense of Munster counterpart Ian Keatley, while forwards Dave Kilcoyne and Jack Conan are recalled.
There is no place in the squad for Ulster winger Tommy Bowe however.
Carbery, who made his three international appearances to date in the November autumn international series before injuring his ankle, will offer back-up for Johnny Sexton and Paddy Jackson at number 10.
Loose-head prop Kilcoyne boasts 17 international caps and has recently scored tries for Munster against the Dragons and the Ospreys in the Pro12.
Ireland play Wales in Cardiff on 10 March and then face England in a potential title decider in Dublin on 18 March.
Full-back Rob Kearney underwent a scan on Monday after being forced off in Saturday's win over France because of a groin injury.
While no details of the scan results have been revealed, the Ireland management appear reasonably confident that the Leinster man will be available for the Wales game.
If Kearney was ruled out, Payne would be a full-back option although a switch for Simon Zebo from wing to the number 15 jersey, with Andrew Trimble coming into the starting line-up. might be a more likely scenario.
Payne came off the bench in the second half of Ulster's game in Italy on Sunday to make his first appearance since sustaining a fractured kidney in Ireland's game against Australia in November.
The New Zealander, who has been a regular at centre alongside Robbie Henshaw since Brian O'Driscoll's retirement, is expected to get further game time with Ulster against Treviso on Friday.
Connacht lock Ultan Dillane is recalled to coach Joe Schmidt's squad, with Quinn Roux providing additional cover in the second row.
Ireland extended 36-man squad for the Six Nations against Wales and England:
Forwards (19): Rory Best (Ulster), Jack Conan (Leinster), Ultan Dillane (Connacht), Tadhg Furlong (Leinster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Iain Henderson (Ulster), Dave Kilcoyne (Munster), Dan Leavy (Leinster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Sean O'Brien (Leinster), Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), Peter O'Mahony (Munster), Quinn Roux (Connacht), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), John Ryan (Munster), Niall Scannell (Munster), CJ Stander (Munster), Devin Toner (Leinster), James Tracy (Leinster).
Backs (17): Joey Carbery (Leinster), Andrew Conway (Munster), Keith Earls (Munster), Craig Gilroy (Ulster), Robbie Henshaw (Leinster), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Rob Kearney (Leinster), Kieran Marmion (Connacht), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Luke McGrath (Leinster), Conor Murray (Munster), Tiernan O'Halloran (Connacht), Jared Payne (Ulster), Garry Ringrose (Leinster), Johnny Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Simon Zebo (Munster).


South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in South African media.

The reports suggest deepening ties between President Zuma and the controversial Gupta business family.
But the president's spokesman has dismissed them as an utter fabrication.
Pressure on Mr Zuma has been mounting in recent months because of corruption scandals, cabinet sackings and his handling of the economy.
Senior members of Mr Zuma's governing ANC tabled a motion of no confidence against him on Sunday at a closed-door meeting of the party's national executive committee.
But the chairman of the meeting blocked the move because it was not on the official agenda, state-owned  broadcaster SABC said.
It is the second time in six months that party rebels have mounted such a challenge and they are thought likely to try again.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says the ANC now looks like it's in permanent firefighting mode
Emails between President Zuma's son Duduzane and figures from a company owned by the controversial Gupta family - who reportedly wield considerable influence over Mr Zuma - include a letter to the Abu Dhabi royal family, our correspondent says.
"I am happy to inform you that my family has decided to make the UAE a second home," the president is quoted as saying. "It will be a great honour for me and my family to gain your patronage during our proposed residency in the UAE."
This opens up questions as to whether this is part of an exit strategy, with Mr Zuma's party appearing to be turning against him, our correspondent adds.
Meanwhile Zuma loyalists will continue their efforts to block any no-confidence motion on technical grounds.
A motion submitted by opposition parties is being pushed through parliament and is now being examined by the constitutional court.
The president's successor is expected to be selected at a major conference of the ANC's top brass in December.
Until then the party looks set to limp from crisis to crisis, our correspondent says.
Mr Zuma's allies say he will remain in office until his term ends in 2019, but evidence of his unpopularity seems to be growing. He was forced to abandon a May Day rally this year after he was booed by workers demanding his resignation.
His ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa are vying to succeed him.


Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman and North Norfolk MP, has accused clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the East region of being "a disgusting and outrageous shambles" when it comes to organising the treatment of patients with psychosis.

Leading a Parliamentary debate into the national provision of treatment for the serious mental disorder, Mr Lamb said freedom of information requests had revealed that many CCGs were failing to implement new national guidelines on the early treatment of psychosis.
Since April, anyone with psychosis should have been able to start treatment within two weeks of suffering their first episode, but Mr Lamb says the implementation of the new standard has been fundamentally flawed.
His research found that more than a third of CCGs couldn't say how many people in their area were in need of early intervention or how much money had been given to tackle the problem.
Eleven percent of CCGs appear to still be negotiating their funding for psychosis, several months after the new guidelines had come into force. Mr Lamb added that 23% of trusts, including Norfolk, were only providing the service to those under the age of 35, although the national standard was supposed to help people up to the age of 65.
"Why is this not being treated with the same seriousness as the standard for cancer treatment?" Mr Lamb asked.
"It is critical that people with cancer get access to treatment quickly but why should not someone with psychosis? It is scandalous."
Mr Lamb praised the southern region for being organised when it came to implementing the new guidelines, but said that in some regions virtually nothing had been done.
"The situation in the Midlands and East in particular is in my view a disgusting, outrageous shambles which should not be tolerated."
The new Health Minister Nicola Blackwood said the government was in the process of creating a mental health service to be proud of, but added: "It is not going to happen overnight.
"We have got to follow it through, no matter how bumpy the journey may become at times."
Ms Blackwood invited Mr Lamb to meet her and give her the benefit of his advice, "because I suspect I am going to need it".
Mr Lamb has been a long standing campaigner for better mental health services. He is likely to take her up on her offer.


The National Crime Agency (NCA), is to lead the investigation into the sale of Nama's NI property portfolio.

It will also investigate claims about money contained in an Isle of Man bank account.
It is understood the PSNI asked the NCA to take the lead because of the complexity and scale of the investigation.
It is the NCA's first major investigation since it began operating in Northern Ireland in May.
Investigators from the agency are expected to meet the PSNI shortly.
In a statement on Thursday, the NCA, the UK equivalent of the FBI, confirmed it had agreed to investigate the sale of Northern Ireland assets owned by the Republic of Ireland's National Assets Management Agency (Nama).
NCA deputy director of operations Graham Gardner said: "The NCA has considered a request from [the] PSNI and has agreed to lead an investigation, calling on support as necessary from PSNI officers.
BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney
This takes the investigation to a new level.
The NCA has a level of expertise and resources not available to the PSNI.
They include a specialist economic crime unit and a financial intelligence unit.
Those units contain specialist investigators like forensic accountants and technical experts.
The NCA also has an international reach and works with other agencies throughout the world, including Interpol, whose members include the Republic of Ireland and the United States.
"We will not be providing a running commentary on our progress but will provide updates as and when appropriate."
Earlier, an Irish parliament (Dáil) committee was told a former Nama adviser was in line for a £5m payment after the sale of Nama's property loan portfolio in Northern Ireland.
US investment firm, Pimco, pulled out of the tender bidding process after discovering the fee arrangement to Nama's former adviser, Frank Cushnahan.
The revelation came during a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
It is examining Nama's sale of its 850-property NI portfolio last year.
The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank", set up to deal with toxic loans during the Irish banking crisis, and the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland portfolio is known as Project Eagle.


The chief executive of Australia's Woolworths, Grant O'Brien, is stepping down after nearly four years at the supermarket chain.

His departure comes amid plans to cut about 1,200 jobs as part of a "strategic change" plan.
Woolworths is looking to cut millions of dollars in costs and improve sales after its first-half profits fell.
It hopes to win back customers from rivals such as Coles and Aldi by lowering prices and improving stores.
The retailer recently trimmed its profit guidance for the year to June, which would be only the second fall in annual profits for the company.
Since going public, the only other year that Woolworths' annual profits fell was 1999.
"The recent performance has been disappointing and below expectations. I believe it is in the best interests of the company for new leadership to see these plans to fruition," Mr O'Brien said.
Woolworths said it would start the search for a new chief executive. The company's head of retail services, Penny Winn, will also quit.
Shares in Woolworths rose by 2.4% in Sydney trading following the news.


Arlene Foster, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), could be about to become the second most important person in British politics.

Her party is making a deal with the Conservatives to keep them in power.
Mrs Foster has plenty of experience of unlikely political marriages, having spent years in coalition government with unionism's long term political opponents, Sinn Féin.
Given that the IRA once tried to murder her father, she knows more than most about political compromises.
The DUP's deal with the Tories is likely to fall well short of a formal coalition - Mrs Foster's party is more likely to prop up a minority Conservative government.
However, the opportunity to play a role at the heart of the UK government comes after a very difficult few months closer to home for the DUP leader,
For many years, Mrs Foster was viewed as a strong and capable government minister, whose traumatic personal experiences shaped her passion for the unionist cause.
She became leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in December 2015 and, the following month, she was appointed first minister of Northern Ireland.
Mrs Foster is the first woman and the youngest person to hold both jobs.
But she lost her job as first minister of Northern Ireland in January after Sinn Féin pulled the plug on their power-sharing coalition at Stormont in protest at her role in a controversial green energy scheme.
Dubbed the "cash-for-ash" scandal, the costs of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme she set up in 2012 has spiralled out of control and saddled taxpayers with a multi-million pound bill.
The controversy brought both her leadership, and the very future of Stormont, into doubt.
Born Arlene Kelly in 1970, Mrs Foster grew up on a farm in rural County Fermanagh, close to the Irish border.
Her mother hailed from Belfast's Sandy Row while her father, farmer John Kelly, was also a reservist police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
The Troubles played a significant role in her childhood - when she was eight years old, the IRA attempted to kill her father by shooting him outside their family home.
"My father came in on all fours crawling, with blood coming from his head," Mrs Foster told the Belfast Telegraph in 2015.
Mr Kelly survived the attack, but the family was forced to sell their farm and move away, under a government scheme set up for Troubles victims under threat.
But leaving their home did not stop the attacks.  About 10 years later, the IRA set off a bomb on her school bus.
The target of the attack was the bus driver, who was also a part-time soldier in the Army's Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR).
The teenage Arlene Kelly was not hurt in the explosion, but a schoolgirl sitting next to her was seriously injured.
Interviewed by BBC News in the aftermath of the bombing, the young Arlene said: "Gillian fell on top of me, sideways, and then there was about two or three seconds silence.
"Then everybody started to scream, I got up and said: 'Don't panic, don't panic'... Everybody get out'.
"Ernie, the bus driver, was coming down, helping us all get out and Gillian said 'I can't move' and that's when I saw her arm; it was completely covered in blood."
When she left grammar school in Enniskillen, the future Mrs Foster became the first member of her family to go to university, taking a law degree at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB).
She became politically active at university, joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and becoming chair of QUB Ulster Unionist Association.
After university, she qualified as a solicitor and began working in private practice in Enniskillen and Portadown, County Armagh.
On 24 August 1995, at the age of 25, she a married a nephew of the veteran UUP politician, Sam Foster.
The couple went on to have three children.
In 2003, Mrs Foster was elected as a UUP Assembly member for her home constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
However, she vehemently opposed the Good Friday Agreement and the following year, she defected to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
The DUP quickly recognised her as an asset and Mrs Foster was appointed environment minister when the party entered government with Sinn Féin in 2007.
The following year she was appointed minister of enterprise, trade and investment - a role she would hold for the next seven years, staying in post throughout Northern Ireland's deepest economic downturn through to the beginning of its recovery.
One of the highlights of her Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) ministry was the opening of the Titanic Belfast - which has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading tourist attractions.
The £77m exhibition centre was delivered on time and on budget, facts that she emphasised at its official opening.
An indication of just how highly she was regarded by her party came in early 2010.
The then DUP leader, Peter Robinson, stood aside as first minister for a few weeks in the aftermath of a financial controversy, following his wife Iris's affair with a teenage businessman..
He appointed Mrs Foster to replace him on a temporary basis, while he was investigated and cleared of any wrongdoing relating to his wife's business dealings.
When Mr Robinson returned to his job, Mrs Foster enhanced her reputation as his key ally, often accompanying him to significant meetings and news conferences.
And during rocky times, she was frequently the party's first choice to go on the airwaves.
She had proved herself in high-profile government roles, and when Mr Robinson resigned as first minister in late 2015, Mrs Foster was elected unopposed as his successor.
The mother-of-three passed her first electoral test in May 2016, when the DUP consolidated its position as the largest party in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP both lost seats in the 2016 poll, while her former party, the UUP, failed to challenge her dominance as the voice of mainstream unionism.
The following month, Mrs Foster was on the winning side of the Brexit debate when the UK voted to leave the European Union.
However, her critics, including Sinn Féin, regularly point out that 56% of the Northern Ireland electorate voted to remain in the EU.
As first minister, she took a strong stand against terrorism, but her office has faced questions after it gave almost £2m to a community organisation led by a man with recent loyalist paramilitary links.
In October 2016, Mrs Foster was photographed alongside with Charter NI's chief executive, Dee Stitt, who is also a leading member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
Days later, Mr Stitt launched a foul-mouthed attack on the government in a Guardian newspaper interview, vowing to "defend north Down against anybody".
Mrs Foster said he had become a "distraction" to Charter NI's community work, but did not add her voice to calls for Mr Stitt to step down as its chief executive.
Mr Stitt has previous challenged allegations that he was a UDA leader.
In December 2016, Mrs Foster found herself at the centre of a controversial green energy scheme, the so-called cash-for-ash scandal.
The aim of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was to encourage businesses to switch to renewable fuel systems, such as wood pellet burners.
Mrs Foster launched it in 2012 when she was Stormont's economy minister.
However, a lack of cost controls and overly generous subsidies meant boiler owners could profit from the scheme - the more fuel they burned, the more money they earned.
A whistleblower claimed the subsidy scheme was being abused, with claims that one farmer aimed to collect about £1m over 20 years for heating an empty shed - fuelling "money to burn" claims. It was never proven.
The whistleblower wrote to Mrs Foster to report her concerns, and the then DETI minister passed the details to her officials for investigation, but the scheme continued to operate.
RHI was closed to new applicants in February 2016 by Mrs Foster's successor in the DETI department, DUP minister Jonathan Bell.
But in an extraordinary interview with the BBC 10 months later, Mr Bell broke ranks to claim Mrs Foster and two top DUP advisers tried to prevent him from shutting it down earlier.
Mr Bell also claimed that Mrs Foster was verbally abusive when she "overruled" his attempt to close the scheme.
In response, Mrs Foster apologised for the lack of cost controls in the RHI scheme but denied any wrongdoing.
Despite being shut to new claimants, payments continue to be made to boiler owners whose RHI applications were approved before the scheme was closed.
As a result, it was projected that more than £1bn of public money was to due to be paid out by the UK government over the next 20 years - with £490m coming from Stormont's block grant.
Cost controls have since been introduced for 2017/18 which will greatly reduce that amount, but RHI recipients who will lose out are set to challenge cost-cutting measure in the courts later this year.
The DUP leader faced calls for her resignation when the full implications of RHI were made public, but she resisted saying she had done nothing wrong.
Sinn Féin then demanded that she step aside temporarily for an inquiry to take place, and when she refused, the late Martin McGuiness resigned as deputy first minister.
The nature of their joint office meant that when he quit, she lost her job as first minister.
The collapse of the coalition government in January 2017 meant Northern Ireland's secretary of state had to call a snap assembly election.
During a bitter, and in her own words "brutal" election campaign, Mrs Foster repeatedly warned unionist voters that Sinn Féin could overtake the DUP as the biggest party at Stormont.
Controversially, she compared Sinn Féin to a "crocodile" that would keep coming back for more when she was asked about their demand for an Irish Language Act.
The reptilian insult resonated with republicans, with some commentators suggesting her remarks galvanised the Sinn Féin vote.
In the end, the DUP won the election and retained their place as the biggest party at Stormont.
However, Sinn Féin snapped at their heels, narrowing the gap to a single assembly seat and 1,168 first preference votes.
Perhaps more significantly, the result brought an end to unionists' overall majority in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The SDLP overtook the Ulster Unionist Party for the first time, and nationalists now hold the same number of seats as unionists, in Stormont, with non-aligned parties holding the balance of power.
Author and academic Prof Jon Tonge, who has written a book about the DUP, called the assembly election an "absolute disaster for unionism".
"They may never, ever regain their overall majority in Stormont. So, from going from a very powerful position only last May 2016, suddenly unionism is in crisis."
Mrs Foster remained in post as DUP leader, but appeared to adopted a more conciliatory tone.
In April, she spoke in the Irish language for the first time at a school in Newry, County Down.
Meeting staff and students at Our Lady's Grammar School, the DUP leader used the phrase "go raibh maith agat" [thank you] in a visit filled with political symbolism.
However, week of talks between Stormont's biggest parties continued in deadlock, with Sinn Féin reiterating their demand that Mrs Foster step down or face another assembly poll.
After the Easter recess, Prime Minister Theresa May pulled the rug from under all UK parties by calling a snap Westminster election.
The shock move meant that the talks were put on hold during campaigning.
The results of the Westminster vote further polarised politics in Northern Ireland, with the DUP and Sinn Féin carving up the map between them, with the exception of a single seat.
Centre-ground parties - the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - were wiped out at Westminster, losing all their seats.
Mrs Foster hailed the result, saying unionist voters had responded to a "wake-up call" after losing their majority in the last assembly vote.
However, it was the loss of another majority - that of the Conservative Party - which catapulted Mrs Foster into a position of considerable influence.
After it became clear that Theresa May was a handful of seats short of a government, the DUP's 10 MPs suddenly became very important indeed.
The party's website crashed on the day after the poll as a result of a surge of interest and the DUP became the most searched term on Google.
Critics of the Mrs Foster's deal with the Tories expressed concern over they price the prime minister might have to pay to stay in power.
National newspapers were scathing about some of the DUP's more controversial policies, including its opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have voted five times on whether or not to introduce same-sex marriage, and on the fifth time of asking, in November 2015, they voted in favour by a slim majority of 53 votes to 52.
However, the DUP then used a Stormont veto, known as a petition of concern, to block the motion and prevent any change in the law.
Discussing the move the following year, Mrs Foster insisted her party was not anti-gay and claimed they had been the target of "very, very vicious" abuse on social media by some gay rights supporters.
She said: "Do they seriously think they are going to influence me by sending me abuse?
"No, they are not going to influence me by sending me abuse - in fact, they are going to send me in the opposite direction and people need to reflect on that."
Last weekend, her party became the target of some piercing satire on social media as the UK public at large wondered who their government was considering going into partnership with.
However, the DUP leader, who refers to Westminster as the "mother of parliaments" has vowed to act in the "national interest".


Police are asking boat owners at an East Midlands marina to help in the search for a missing 22-year-old man.

Josh Cotton, who lived on the narrow boat The Spirit at Sawley Marina, was last seen on 11 March.
More than 100 boat owners live on the site on the River Trent, which is largest inland marina in the UK.
Leicestershire Police have carried out searches but say they want all boat owners are aware of his disappearance.
Police divers have already searched the water around Mr Cotton's boat and a police helicopter has carried out searches of the area around the marina using thermal imaging cameras.
Sgt James Cross, of Leicestershire Police, said: "We want to make Josh's face well known, not only to the boating community but also to the wider public."


An £8.5m conservation scheme to protect threatened upland habitat has been set up by the Woodland Trust.

The trust is buying the 1,700 acre (690 hectare) Smithills estate, on Winter Hill near Bolton, from the council.
It hopes to protect wildlife, increase access to the countryside and demonstrate how uplands can be managed sustainably.
The estate was the site of a mass trespass in 1896 when 10,000 people demanded rights to access the land.
It has historically supported industries, ranging from farming to shooting and coal mining, but is in decline as a result of under-investment, the trust said.
Smithills is a "mosaic of habitats", with farmland, woods and streams stretching up the valley to moorland, project lead Mark Gordon said.
The trust hopes to double the tree cover on the estate over five years, with oak and lime in lower areas and birch and rowan on the higher ground, and increasing woodland up the cloughs or gullies which streams run down.
It is hoped the work will boost species such as brown hares, lapwings and peregrine falcons.


Accrington Stanley kept pace with their League Two promotion rivals as two goals in two first-half minutes secured victory at Newport County.

Billy Kee opened the scoring with a close range finish after Joe Day could only parry Matty Pearson's shot.
Josh Windass doubled the lead two minutes later when he converted Piero Mingoia's cross from the right.
Stanley move up to fourth but remain one point outside the automatic promotion spots.
Newport's third successive defeat sees them drop to 18th in the table, but they remain 13 points clear of the relegation zone.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales: "They are an honest bunch but today they let me down. I thought it was a below par performance after the goals.
"My son's eight and he would probably run around the pitch more enthusiastically than some of them.
"The aim was to stay up and get over the line and we're getting closer. The quicker we do it, the better."


A 10-year-old boy's mountain bike crash has prompted a plea to cyclists to always wear a helmet.

David Jackson was involved in an accident at the Glentress site in the Scottish Borders on Friday evening.
He came off his bike and crashed face first with a large stone getting lodged in the helmet he was wearing.
He suffered concussion and cuts and bruises but his mother said that without the helmet the outcome could have been much more serious.
Pip Jackson, of Innerleithen, told the BBC Scotland news website: "It was Friday evening and he was out on an organised ride.
"They were up doing the red route at Glentress, a spot that he had done lots of times before but this time he got it a bit wrong.
"He overcooked the jump a wee bit, came off and landed on his face and then flipped over onto his back."
His father, Neil, was following him and watched the scene unfold.
He is a member of Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team and has helped out at similar incidents in the past which is one of the reasons why they insist on wearing a helmet on a bike at all times.
"The helmet did its job," said Ms Jackson. "It has taken the full brunt of the impact.
"There is a stone lodged in his helmet which would have been lodged in his skull.
"If he had not put his helmet on there would have been a completely different outcome."
The TVMRT were on the scene quickly to help David before he was transferred to hospital by ambulance.
There were initial concerns that he might have suffered a spinal or neck injury in the crash.
TVMRT deputy team leader Dave Wright said: "Any incident that involves a mountain bike rider coming off at any sort of speed could potentially lead to serious consequences.
"We immobilised his neck and treated David for a suspected neck injury.
"Eleven team members responded and David was taken to hospital."
Mr Wright agreed that it showed the importance of wearing a helmet.
"If he had been hit on his head with that rock it would have been a very different outcome," he said.
"It shows how serious it could have been if he had not been wearing the helmet."
David has suffered a concussion which means he will have to stay off his bike for a couple of weeks, as well as cuts and bruises.
His parents do not let him out on his bike - even in the garden - without a helmet and they hope others will follow their example.
Ms Jackson said that was why they had put pictures onto social media via TVMRT to share their story.
"If one person now puts a helmet on that normally wouldn't then that's done its job," she said.


Injuries to central defenders have not yet forced Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark to change his January signing targets.

But negotiations with parent clubs over five players who are at Rugby Park on loan could alter his plans.
Kilmarnock presently have two fit central defenders, but two should return for their Scottish Cup fourth-round tie following the winter break.
"In January, we expect Miles Addison and Scott Boyd to be available for the Hamilton cup tie," said Clark.
"We are looking at one or two things, we've already been looking at certain positions and that hasn't changed our mindset.
"If we were to get some kind of setback with those lads' injuries, we might have to reconsider that."
The Scottish Premiership club also have six players who could potentially return to their parent clubs at the end of their loan spells.
Clark signed 17 players, including nine on loan, in a major overhaul of his squad this summer.
Burnley midfielder George Green was the latest to return to his parent club.
The former Everton 20-year-old followed the path of Swansea City goalkeeper Oliver Davies and Stoke City defender Mark Waddington after only four appearances for Kilmarnock.
However, defender William Boyle and striker Florent Bojaj both remain on loan until January from Huddersfield Town, along with Luke Hendrie from Burnley and fellow midfielder Charlee Adams from Birmingham City.
Defender Jonathan Burn is another who is presently sidelined and unlikely to be fit again until after his loan deal with Middlesbrough expires at the start of January.
As well as being injured, there is uncertainty over Boyd's future at Kilmarnock because the terms of his season-long loan from Ross County mean their Premiership rivals have the option of recalling the 30-year-old next month.
"We are not in total control of their destiny," Clark said of the six loan players.
"Even if we want them to stay, it is whether their parent club wants them to stay and whether they want to stay."
Clark had previously stressed that there would be no repeat of the summer overhaul of his squad during the January transfer window.
"Continuity is a big thing," he said when asked if he would like to extend the players' loans.
"The lads have grown into playing for the club, they've grown into the group and progressively we've improved over the course of the first half of the season and all those lads have made a contribution."


An extra £7.6m a year will be invested to improve mental health services for children and young people in Wales.

Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the money would be used to improve areas of concern, including out-of-hours help and access to psychological treatment.
Campaigners have raised concern that the budget for child mental health services has not been protected.
The money is an 18% rise on last year's £42.8m Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) budget.
Last year, Mr Drakeford announced a review of the service after childcare experts told BBC Wales it was in crisis.
The number of CAMHS referrals almost doubled between April 2010 and July 2014, from 1,204 to 2,342.
During that time, more young people (2,410) waited for treatment than the elderly (634) and other adults (1,291).
Mr Drakeford said that while money alone was not the answer for all challenges facing the NHS, the changes the Welsh government was seeking to make were the "most significant for many years".
Mair Elliott, 18, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, welcomed the extra money.
She has autism and has suffered with depression, anxiety and anorexia and has received help from her local CAMHS team for the past four years.
"It's very good news," she said. "The staff really try to do their best to provide the service you need but they are under-funded and under-resourced."
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), which represents doctors in child health, said demand for the service had long been outstripping supply.
Dr Mair Parry, officer for Wales, said this often meant children faced long waiting times, had to travel long distances for support or some missed out on care altogether, which she said "can be disastrous."
She said expanding access to psychological therapies and focussing on early intervention would see much-needed help given to young people in urgent need.
But Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams has expressed reservations.
"It's all very well putting the resources in, but unless they're put in in a way that is really going to make a difference, is going to be effective, then we won't get value for money and the people who really need the money won't get the help they need in a timely fashion," she said.


Bosses from Uber and Deliveroo have told MPs they would have to reduce flexibility and offer less work if they were forced to offer greater employment benefits.

The Work and Pensions Committee is examining the welfare system's capacity to support self-employed workers in this sector.
Committee chair Frank Field said it was one-sided flexibility.
Some five million people work in the so-called "gig" economy.
They are mostly employed in sectors such as food delivery or taxi driving.
The UK and Ireland managing director of online delivery food service Deliveroo, Dan Warne, said flexibility was extremely important to its riders because 85% of them used it as a supplementary income stream, working on average 15 hours a week.
He said its business model also allowed people to work for competitors and no-one was penalised if they did not turn up for work.
"We cannot offer that amount of flexibility to those riders if we're forced to pay a given wage and a given hour to every single rider," Mr Warne added.
"We would have to restrict the number of riders who login. We'd have to restrict their earning capacity during peak [hours]."
The company has also confirmed that it is dropping a controversial clause in its contracts that prevents couriers taking the company to an employment tribunal, contesting their self-employed status.
Mr Field said to Mr Warne: "You actually forbid that before you give them work."
Mr Warne replied: "This is not something that's enforced, so there is no need to have it in there."
All the companies insisted they were paying the National Minimum Wage.
But Mr Field expressed scepticism about the fairness of all their business models.
"You are not paying national insurance, you're not covering costs which taxpayers will have to pick up. It is a marvellous model if you can get away with it," he said.
Andrew Byrne, Uber's head of public policies in the UK, said: "94% of people when we ask them to say the thing they like about working for Uber is the freedom to choose their own hours and that is something that is difficult to hold on to in a market where you have different requirements and different working models."
The online private hire company is currently appealing against an employment tribunal ruling from last year  that said UK Uber drivers can be classed as workers and not as self-employed.
This means they should be entitled to a range of benefits such as the National Minimum Wage, and holiday pay.
Carole Woodhead, the chief executive of courier Hermes UK, said the benefit of its model was that couriers were their "own bosses" and they could choose to ask other people to fulfil their deliveries if they were unavailable.
She said if a substitute could not be found, they had to inform the company who would provide cover.
Frank Field described this as "strange self-employment", since it meant there was some obligation on behalf of the courier.
He said if employees were unwell, they could claim sick pay and would not be expected to provide a substitute.
Ms Woodhead said Hermes took "its responsibilities seriously" and that the UK tax authorities had found it offered genuine self-employment.
She said the company had also met with HMRC officials last December and was awaiting the outcome of those discussions.


With its breathtaking mountains, rugged coastline and old mining valleys, Wales is the perfect playground for adventurers.

Now survival expert Bear Grylls and extreme athlete Richard Parks have teamed up as adventure ambassadors to promote the country's Year of Adventure in 2016.
The Welsh government campaign aims to boost a section of the tourism industry which already contributes Â£481m to the Welsh economy and supports more than 8,000 jobs.
So what exactly does Wales have to offer keen adventurers and adrenaline junkies?
There was a time when a visit to a former slate quarry in Wales would probably have amounted to a tour around a grey, desolate landscape.
Not any more.
Adventure tourism operators have taken advantage of Wales' industrial legacy and given it a new lease of life for a new generation.
In the last few years, Gwynedd has become a mecca for thrill seekers, with what is believed to be the world's largest underground trampoline at Bounce Below being opened in the abandoned Llechwedd slate quarry.
Some of the world's longest zip-wires are also in Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda and in Cwmorthin, a Victorian former slate mine near Blaenau Ffestiniog, where visitors can also walk, abseil and climb their way through 5km (3.1 miles) of the mine's tunnels.
Paul Donovan, chair of the Wales Adventure Tourism Organisation, said the attractions were helping to attract new people to Wales, adding to the growth of adventure tourism in the last five years.
"Adventure tourism now counts for 10% of all tourism in Wales and I hear these attractions are continually busy," he said.
"They are using old, industrial landscapes and invigorating them. A lot of the heritage is still there - for example the old train line used by miners is being used to take visitors down to Bounce Below. That must add to the appeal and it's showing people things they'd normally never see, like the interesting features inside the caves."
With some 1,680 miles (2,740km) of coastline in Wales, the sea is the natural attraction that draws so many to the country.
Mr Donovan said the three most popular coastal activities were sea kayaking, coasteering and surfing.
"The one activity that keeps going from strength to strength is coasteering," he said.
"Pembrokeshire and Anglesey in particular are truly amazing locations for it.
"It's the ruggedness of the environment, the range of tide, the rock formation...
"There's also some fantastic wildlife - not just in the water but on the rocks as well.
"Part and parcel of the experience is that the guides give visitors a guide to the environment and educate them."
Surfing has long been a staple for Welsh coastal communities and a new surfing park, which is due to open in Dolgarrog, Conwy county this summer, aims to build on that.
It will offer of a continuous wave for people to ride and Steve Davies, managing director of Conwy Adventure Leisure Ltd, said it was among the new facilities helping to bolster Wales' image around the world.
"Surf Snowdonia already has an extraordinary international following; we've had surf fans as far as Australia and Hawaii getting in touch to ask when they can come to north Wales to ride our waves," he added.
In the same way former quarries have been given a new lease of life by zip wires and trampolining, former mining valleys are experiencing a new boom - but this time it's mountain biking, not coal, which is king.
Out of the wreckage of collieries and coal tips, a number of mountain bike trails have been created which experts say are amongst the best in the world, including in the Afan, Merthyr, Gwent and Rhondda Valleys.
Wales' large forestries have also helped attract bikers, with other popular centres in north and mid Wales.
"Wales as a nation is in top 10 for mountain biking destinations in the world," said Mr Donovan.
"People will travel from all over the world to experience mountain biking."
Wales' mountains and the 870 miles (1,400km) of the Wales Coast Path - the longest continuous path along a nation's coastline - are also a draw for people to explore and enjoy the outdoors.
Former Wales rugby player turned adventurer Richard Parks said he believed Wales was an "untouched gold mine"
"I think there's such a wide variety for opportunities," said the newly-appointed adventure ambassador.
"We have some of the most hostile and brilliant mountains and regions  for the more hard core, like Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons. The fact the SAS hold one of the hardest parts of their selection process there says it all.
"But we also have the wonderful coastal path which is a different end of the spectrum and can be enjoyed by all ages and abilities."
Fellow ambassador Bear Grylls added: "The beautiful, rugged and wild terrain of Wales lends itself so well to so many activities and adventures."


Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has discussed the issue of over-capacity in steel production with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing.

Mr Hammond met Wang Yi on his way to Hiroshima for the G7 foreign ministers' meeting and had an opportunity to talk about "issues of mutual concern".
China's steelmakers are accused of dumping excess on the global market.
This is considered a factor in Tata Steel's decision to sell its UK plants, including Port Talbot in south Wales.
Mr Hammond said: "I urged China to accelerate its efforts to reduce levels of steel production.
"The UK's focus is on finding a long-term sustainable future for steel making at Port Talbot and across the UK, and I welcomed the potential interest of Chinese companies in investment in UK steel making."
The BBC understands a deal to save another of Tata's plants in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, could be signed as soon as Monday.
Mr Hammond added that he and his counterpart had also spoken about the UK's continued concerns over the case of five Hong Kong booksellers who were detained by Chinese authorities.
"Our diplomatic and economic relationship with China is strong and delivering benefits for both countries," he added.
"We are building on the global partnership established during last year's successful state visit by President Xi Jinping, by working together closely on international challenges and strengthening our trade and investment links."
Examples included new security and peacekeeping dialogues, a new fund on antimicrobial resistance, and co-operation on Syria, Iran and North Korea, he said.
After Hiroshima, Mr Hammond will travel to Vietnam on his tour of Asia.


Anthony Joshua has dismissed suggestions he has been given an easy ride since turning professional and is aiming for another early finish when he fights Dillian Whyte on Saturday.

Olympic champion Joshua, 26, faces Whyte for the vacant British heavyweight title at London's O2 Arena.
"I don't want to go many rounds. If I can knock him out in the first round, beautiful," Joshua told BBC Sport.
"I'll stand over him laughing, for talking all that rubbish about me."
Whyte, weighing in at 17st 9lb, turned his back on Joshua (17st 7lb) while Spike O'Sullivan landed a kiss on Chris Eubank Junior as the top-of-the-bill fighters hit the scales.
Joshua, whose Commonwealth belt is also at stake, has won all 14 of his professional fights inside three rounds, leading Whyte to suggest he has yet to face "a young, live opponent".
But Joshua is already looking forward to a potential clash with Britain's former world heavyweight champion David Haye, who returns in the new year.
"Some time, down the line, our paths will cross - whatever it's for. You've got two great athletes," he said.
Londoner Whyte, who beat Joshua in the amateur ranks in 2009, has also called his Watford rival "a scumbag and a fake".
But Joshua described their previous meeting and Whyte's attempts to goad him as "irrelevant".
"He's trying to get me to take my eye off the ball and abandon my game plan," said Joshua. "But it's not going to affect me.
"I have trained for a long fight. I am looking to box clever, pick my shots and break him down.
"He's capable of taking me past three rounds, but that will be the achievement he takes from the fight - he'll be the man that took me past three rounds.
"When I turned pro, [Britain's former heavyweight world champion] Lennox Lewis said to me, 'Forget what you did as an amateur, you are a pro now.' I take that attitude into this fight.
"He [Whyte] has said that I have only fought old men. But I don't see any champions on his resume.
"I hear the same thing every time, that I haven't boxed anyone yet.
"When I beat a young and hungry guy like Dillian, the next opponent will have to come up with something else."
Whyte, 27, is unbeaten in 16 pro fights, with 13 knockouts. He is trained by Johnathon Banks, who was in Wladimir Klitschko's corner when the Ukrainian lost his world heavyweight titles to Tyson Fury in November.
Former British champion and world title contender Dereck Chisora is appearing on the undercard and could fight the winner of Joshua-Whyte next year.


Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will miss England's friendly against Australia on Friday - because he is getting married just two days before.

The 29-year-old postponed his wedding last year and then moved it from June so he could play at Euro 2016.
England manager Roy Hodgson said Vardy "deserves" time off to get married.
Vardy, who scored the winner as England beat Turkey 2-1 on Sunday, said: "The boss has given me Wednesday off but I'll be back training after that."
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Hodgson added: "I don't think his place in the team or the squad at the moment is under enormous threat and we do have other players that we need to look at."
Vardy, who scored 24 Premier League goals to help Leicester win the title, started the victory over Turkey at Etihad Stadium on the left of a front three.
He later moved into the centre and scored the winner after Tottenham striker Harry Kane had given England an early lead.
England face Australia at Sunderland's Stadium of Light in the second of two warm-up games for the European Championships in France.
England also face Portugal at Wembley on 2 June but Hodgson must cut his preliminary squad of 26 by three before the 31 May deadline.
Players from Manchester United and Liverpool will join the squad on Monday.
United were in FA Cup final action on Saturday, while Liverpool had played and lost in the Europa League final on Wednesday.
Marcus Rashford, United's 18-year-old striker, impressed in the FA Cup win against Crystal Palace but suffered a knee problem.
"We believe it is not a serious injury but he obviously took a nasty knock and we'll have to wait and see how he turns up," said Hodgson.
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The government's controversial plan to extend the Right to Buy to Housing Association tenants has been sharply criticised by a group of MPs.

A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has questioned how the policy will be funded, and whether proper replacement homes will be built.
The MPs also said there was evidence that Right to Buy could increase overcrowding for those in housing need.
The government said it made no apology for encouraging home ownership.
The idea of the scheme is to allow Housing Association tenants to buy their own homes, with discounts similar to those currently enjoyed by council tenants.
Members of the Committee said there was also a danger that increased discounts for Housing Association tenants would lead to greater fraud.
Meg Hillier, chair of the PAC, said the approach to paying for the policy was entirely speculative.
"There are no costings or workings out. We are not talking about a 'back of an envelope' calculation - there is no envelope at all."
The policy has previously been criticised by the Local Government Association, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
It has also been rejected by the governments of Wales and Scotland.
The government has said that the extension of Right to Buy - which is already being piloted in five areas of England - will be funded by councils selling off their most valuable council houses.
It promised that all the homes would be replaced.
But the MPs concluded that the government's commitment "will not ensure that these will be like-for-like replacements".
They said new homes "can be a different size and in a different area, and may cost more to rent".
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In their report, the MPs also said it would be difficult to replace homes on a one-for-one basis. They said such a target would require a five-fold acceleration in housing starts.
As a result, the policy could "lead to those in need of social housing suffering greater overcrowding."
But the government insisted that all the replacement homes would be built.
"This government makes no apology for helping people into homeownership," said a spokesperson for the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
"Our voluntary agreement with housing associations will mean 1.3 million tenants will have the chance to own their own home, while every home sold will be replaced with a new affordable property."
The scheme is due to be rolled out across England later this year.


Cavan cruised into the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers second round thanks to an impressive win over Offaly.

Offaly held an early lead but Cavan finished the first half strongly to go in 0-11 to 0-9 ahead at the break.
Cavan won the game early in the second half with a Gearoid McKiernan goal and five unanswered points putting the Ulster visitors in control.
Offaly tagged on late points with the outcome already settled while Cavan had James McEnroe sent off in added time.
There was little to choose between the teams in a tight opening 35 minutes at O'Connor Park on Sunday evening.
Nigel Dunne's double gave the Leinster men a 0-4 to 0-2 advantage but both sides would enjoy a first-half lead with midfielder McKiernan firing over four Breffni points.
Cavan's burst of 1-5 without reply started with Niall McDermott and Ciaran Brady scores before the break.
Gerard Smith, McDermott and Liam Buchanan slotted over the opening three points of the second half before McKiernan's goal on 43 minutes.
Buchanan burst through and passed to Dara McVeety, who set up McKiernan to blast into the net from eight yards.
That left it 1-14 to 0-9 and a close encounter suddenly became a one-sided affair.
Cavan substitute Thomas Corr was shown a black card minutes after entering the fray while Offaly cut the gap by registering the final four points of the game.
Breffni defender McEnroe was dismissed for two yellow cards but it mattered little as Cavan remained in the championship.


A museum where a seven-year-old boy was crushed to death under a ride has been told to improve safety, an inquest has heard.

Karl Doran, from Darlington, died when he fell under the trailer of a steam traction engine driven by his father Philip at Beamish Museum in July 2012.
The open air museum has since been issued with an improvement notice by the Health and Safety (HSE) executive.
Durham coroner Andrew Tweddle recorded a verdict of accidental death.
The hearing at Crook Civic Centre was told that Mr Doran, a volunteer at the museum, had been driving the vintage vehicle around the attraction on 22 July, with his son sitting on the tow bar.
Mr Doran had told Karl to join him on the engine after he began dragging his feet, but he then felt the trailer wobble and saw his son lying dead in the road.
Beamish was issued with an improvement notice to make sure steam engines driven by volunteers were properly risk-assessed.
Mr Tweddle said: "This is a very simple case but an incredibly tragic one at the same time.
"No-one, particularly Karl's dad, would have expected things to turn out in the way that they did that day.
"I hope through the evidence being given there will be lessons learned which will reduce similar fatalities in the future."
Richard Evans, director of the museum, said the safety of visitors was a top priority and they wanted to exceed existing standards.
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating the circumstances surrounding the youngster's death.


Five football fans have been arrested in connection with anti-social behaviour during Celtic's Scottish Cup win over Stranraer.

It follows a police investigation into complaints of sectarian singing at the match at Stair Park on 10 January.
The probe also focused on flares, smoke bombs and fire crackers set off and thrown on to the pitch.
The five are due to appear at Stranraer Sheriff Court "in due course", police said.
A further four people were arrested for football-related and public order offences on the day of the match.
Match commander Supt Steven Lowther said the behaviour of a minority on match day was "unacceptable".
He said: "What was supposed to be an enjoyable event for all was tarnished by a group of individuals who were intent on singing sectarian songs as well as letting off smoke bombs and pyrotechnics within the crowd.
"It is evident that those involved had no concerns for either the safety of others or how their behaviour spoiled what should otherwise have been an event where the post-match discussion should have centred on football and not their antics."


Tropical Cyclone Rusty has hit the coast of Western Australia, bringing with it pouring rain and strong winds.

Rusty had been forecast to make landfall in the Pilbara region's Port Hedland iron ore port, but instead touched down in nearby Pardoo town.
The storm has been downgraded from category four cyclone, one notch short of the top category, to category three.
It is bringing gusts of up to 165km/h (103mph), said Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
"It looks as if Hedland has dodged the bullet, so to speak, because the worst of the winds are away from Hedland," Neil Bennett of the BoM told AFP early on Wednesday.
"Hedland though has been experiencing a constant period of gale-force winds for over 36 hours now," he said, adding that this was unprecedented for the area.
The cyclone had veered away from Port Hedland, 800 miles (1,287km) north of the city of Perth, and landed in the tiny community of Pardoo 120km to the north-east at 5pm (09:00 GMT).
Australia's Department of Fire and Emergency Services had issued a red alert for Pardoo and nearby Whim Creek.
Ian Badger, a Pardoo resident, said that the winds were coming in strong.
"I've got some leaking in the roof and I've got water coming in through. As long as the building holds together I'll be alright," he told ABC News.
But he said that the amount of water was "worrying".
"The ground is very sodden, very soft. As soon as you get a get a bit of strong wind, trees start going over."
Port Hedland had closed three main iron ore ports in the Pilbara region, the world's largest source of iron ore, as the cyclone approached. Schools were also closed.
Port Hedland Deputy Mayor George Daccache told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) news agency that the winds and rain had been "relentless for the past two or three days".
Bureau of Meteorology spokesman Mike Bergin said that they are still expecting "a very significant storm surge" in the Pardoo area.
People in Port Hedland have been stocking up on essentials following warnings to take shelter. Other low-lying areas have also been evacuated.


When Roger Dingledine talks about the dark web, he waves his hands in the air - as if not quite convinced of its existence.

I give him the benefit of the doubt - his arguably blasé attitude, I think, is a symptom of being consistently called upon to defend his creation.
He is the co-creator of Tor, the most popular software available for gaining access to the part of the internet unreachable using a conventional browser - including what is often referred to as the dark or underground web.
To some, Tor is a menace: a (largely) impenetrable system that enables some of the most depraved crimes to take place on the internet.
To others, it is a lifeline, the only way to safely access the online services that most of us take for granted.
Dingledine would rather we talked about the latter. The scale of the dark web - with its drug deals, weapons sales and child abuse imagery - is insignificant when considered in the bigger picture, he argues.
But we must talk about the former. I meet Dingledine at this year's Def Con, the large underground hacking convention held in Las Vegas.
The timing was ideal - the event came just over a week after the closure of two huge dark web marketplaces. The biggest, Alphabay, was said to boast more than 200,000 users and $1bn (£0.7bn) a year in revenue.
Dingledine's talk was the day prior to our meeting, and in it he criticised misinformed journalists for sensationalising the size and scale of the dark web.
"I think a lot of it comes down to incentive mismatches," he tells me, "where journalists have to create more controversy and get something so that everybody will want to read their article.
"The story is privacy is under threat around the world, and that's been the story for a while - so they need a new story."
The Tor Project's website has a section called "Abuse FAQ".
It is here the group attempts to address the most controversial side of Tor use: that it is an enabler of criminals intent on carrying out the most shocking and sickening crimes.
When talking about this, Dingledine invokes the "guns don't kill people" defence. Tor does not commit crime, he says, criminals do.
"I would say that there are bad people on the internet and they're doing bad things, but Tor does not enable them to do the bad things.
"It's not like there's a new set of bad people in the world who exist because Tor exists."
I guess not. But I suggest that Tor indisputably provides a way in which a novice can make themselves essentially untraceable online.
"I still think that most of the bad stuff on the internet has nothing to do with Tor," Dingledine insists.
"Most of the bad stuff on the internet is due to huge criminal organisations. There's a lot of crime out there."
In layman's terms, Tor hides your identity by pinging your connection around many different servers across the world, making your actual location extremely hard to track.
There have been rumours that law enforcement has "cracked" Tor but, aside from isolated vulnerabilities, Dingledine says the concept remains solid.
"As far as I know, no, they haven't [cracked Tor].
"Tor is the best option there is out there, but that doesn't mean Tor is perfect. No software is perfect."
Any major busts and arrests have been traced back to human error - good old, old-fashioned policing.
"Which is frustrating," Dingledine interjects, "Because the modern police world wants to just click a button and have the bad guy show up. Old-fashioned police work is hard, takes energy."
Tor was mentioned in the documents leaked as part of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing in 2014. Under the delicate heading "Tor Stinks… but it could be worse", the National Security Agency (NSA) noted: "We will never be able to de-anonymise all Tor users all the time."
Given this, you would think the US (and others) would be taking every step to weaken Tor. Ban it, even. But in fact, the US government has done more than any other to keep it alive - donating several million dollars to Dingledine and team since the project's inception in the nineties.
He is confident that funding will continue.
"A lot of the US government funding for internet freedom tools comes from Republicans. The current congress is quite supportive of giving people tools to keep people safer on the internet."
The reason? The FBI, CIA, military and others all value anonymity too. In their ideal world, Tor would exist, but they would hold a secret key to break in.
In 2014, Facebook's London team announced it had set up a way for users to access Facebook through Tor. More than a million people use the site in this way every month.
"About 97% of Tor traffic has to do with people going to Facebook, and Wikipedia, and BBC, and ordinary websites on the internet, and they want to go there more safely," Dingledine says.
"Whereas 3% of the traffic has to do with this 'dark web' thing…. I have to wave my hands when I say the phrase."
The ability to access social networks anonymously is invaluable to people living in oppressive regimes or countries with high levels of surveillance around what citizens do online.
But given the majority of users can be found in the US and Europe - in places not typically considered to be oppressive - I argued that Tor's justification hinging on the needs of activists perhaps seems less than convincing.
"I think the line is getting a lot more blurry between the free countries, and the un-free countries," he says.
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The Scottish Parliament's committees have published their reports on the government's budget plans, with less than a week until the first vote.

The budget has divided Holyrood's political parties, with Finance Secretary Derek Mackay yet to win vital opposition support for his tax and spending proposals.
Common to all the committee reports were concerns about the constrained timetable for this year's budget, with MSPs across the board calling for more scope for scrutiny in a revised budget process.
Mr Mackay delayed publication of his draft budget until late December, after the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, and while many committees acknowledged the reasons for this there was "frustration" with the "unrealistic" timetable, which members said was "clearly not sufficient".
Elsewhere, there were several calls for clarity about funding for local authorities and about the potential impact of Brexit on budgets.
Here is a summary of what each committee has published so far.
As the lead committee on the budget, the finance committee's report was the longest and most detailed of those published, and they had the most time to deliberate, taking evidence from Mr Mackay on several occasions.
The group highlighted that the "historic" 2017-18 budget marks the first time Holyrood will set rates and bands of income tax, using new devolved powers.
But they warned that this adds complexity to the system, "potentially introducing a much higher level of uncertainty and volatility to the budget process", adding that added uncertainty arising from Brexit "significantly increases the challenge".
Members said this meant it was "critical that there is a sufficient level of transparency to ensure public confidence" in the operation of new financial powers.
Meanwhile, MSPs were split on the allocation for councils, noting that "due to the different presentation and sets of numbers relating to the local government settlement some members were concerned about the level of financial resource available to local government in the settlement."
Read more on the finance committee report here.
One of the most contentious areas of Mr Mackay's draft budget was the allocation to local authorities and local services.
As the committee noted, the core council budget grant fell in the budget proposals - however, the government included a range of "other sources of support", such as money going directly to schools and to health and social care partnerships, which when added together showed an overall increase in funding for services.
Members said this use of money from other budget lines made the local government allocation "very difficult to follow". They said it was "essential" that parliament was clear on "exactly how much money local authorities can be expected to receive", demanding "greater transparency" from the government.
They asked for "detailed proposals" from the government on how they could make the local government settlement more transparent in future budgets.
Elsewhere, the committee welcomed the lifting of the council tax freeze, and recommended a move towards multi-year budgets.
Committee members said they were "concerned" about cuts to the budget of Scottish Enterprise, questioning whether this was "prudent in the interests of promoting economic growth" in the post-Brexit landscape.
They did welcome increases in support for international trade, but asked for assurances from the government that increases would not be "undercut" by reductions in funding elsewhere.
Noting the "frustrations" around the budget timetable, the committee said they "expect nothing less than clearly defined arrangements better suited to effective parliamentary scrutiny to be in place in time for the next budget".
Members also highlighted fuel poverty as an area of concern.
Their report said the government's failure to meet a target of eradicating fuel poverty by November 2016 was "entirely predictable" but "no less disappointing for that", urging ministers to "examine forthcoming policy initiatives through 'a fuel poverty lens'".
The education committee pulled no punches in its assessment of education funding, and the recently introduced Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) in particular.
They said said it was "clear" the Scottish Qualifications Authority still needs resources to develop CfE - contrary to claims from Education Sectary John Swinney that the framework has been devolved to "a very advanced stage".
Their report concludes that the committee "does not believe it is accurate that the CfE has reached the stage of maturity that the Scottish government believes is the case", questioning whether the government was allocating funds based on the support needed, or "due to budget pressures".
Members said they were "very concerned that there is a lack of clear accountability in the delivery of CfE".
They also said the committee was "unclear how a cash funding reduction of 1.3% in higher education resource matches with a commitment to protect core research and teaching grants".
Elsewhere, the report highlighted the confusion over local authority funding, noting that "the value of the overall settlement to individual local authorities and whether this represents a net gain or loss is complex and dependent on a number of factors".
Like the local government committee, members asked for "full clarity" on this issue, warning that they "may return to this matter" in future depending on the final outcome for councils.
And members noted "concern" at reports the Scottish Funding Council will have to return a Â£50m underspend to the Scottish government, asking for "a much more detailed explanation of the circumstances".
While making "no specific recommendation" about the budget, the environment committee raised concerns about the potential loss of EU funding for groups like Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), which have seen budgets cut in recent years.
They said there was "considerable uncertainty" about the loss of funding, with "no doubt as the to the potential impact of both a reduced budget and the removal of EU funding might mean to Scotland's landscapes, habitats and wildlife".
The committee asked the environment secretary to provide further details on the implications of losing EU funding.
Members also said they were "concerned with the reduction of overall funding" for climate change research, asking the government what it would do to address any negative impact of this cut.
The Equalities and Human Rights Committee also raised concerns about Brexit, saying it was "expected to place additional pressures on third sector and voluntary organisations".
While the equalities budget has been maintained in real terms, the committee pointed out that this meant a real-terms cut after inflation, saying that this combined with the loss of EU funds "could see the Scottish government's equalities policies being undermined and progress rolling back".
Members called on the government to push for talks between the third sector and voluntary organisations, the UK government and EU authorities on how funding gaps could be addressed.
The Justice Committee voiced "concern" about the unchanged cash settlement for the Crown Office, which equates to a real-terms cut.
Members said this might mean the prosecution service "will have to absorb inflation increases and other costs", and asked the government for assurance that extra funds would be available should the Lord Advocate deem it necessary to ask for it.
They said "any reduction in staff numbers" at the Crown Office would be a concern.
The committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the role and responsibilities of the prosecution service, and noted that the new leadership within the service "provides an ideal opportunity to take a fresh look at the priorities, resources and demands" upon it.
The rural economy committee made some of the strongest comments about the budget timetable, saying it was "unrealistic" and "severely undermined the ability of the committee to conduct scrutiny of sufficient depth and quality".
Members welcomed increased tree planting levels, targets for superfast broadband rollout across the country by 2021, and a rail fares discount scheme.
However they said they were "concerned" about the amount of loan funding going to Prestwick Airport and said the government should take "all possible action" to make sure past issues with common agricultural policy farm payments were not repeated.
The committee highlighted real-terms cuts to the budgets of VisitScotland and Creative Scotland, commending the groups for their ability to manage their finances in light of these cuts.
Members encouraged the government to "consider" the point at which funding freezes would "result in a reduction in the projects, support and services that can be delivered" by the bodies.
MSPs did welcome the increases in international aid and humanitarian aid budgets, and the government's approach to trade hubs in light of "the need for Scotland to promote itself internationally following the EU referendum".
They also called for multi-year budgets, recommending a three-year cycle in relation to cultural bodies in particular to allow them to plan ahead.


Mahershala Ali has made history as the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar, for his portrayal of a drug dealer in the coming-of-age drama Moonlight.

It was also the first time that Ali, who converted to Islam 17 years ago, had been nominated for an Oscar.
In an emotional speech, the actor thanked his "wonderful" teachers and his wife, who had given birth to their daughter just days earlier.
Moonlight also picked up the award for best picture.
"I'm so blessed to have had an opportunity. It was such a wonderful experience," Ali said, as he thanked the film's director Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, the writer of the play that Moonlight was based on.
"I also want to thank my wife, we just had our daughter four days ago, so I just want to thank her for being such a soldier through this process and really carrying me through it all," he added.
The independent film tells the story of Chiron, a young gay African-American boy coming to terms with his sexuality as he grows up in a tough Florida neighbourhood.
Ali, who was born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore, won the best supporting actor award for his part as drug dealer Juan, who acts as a father figure to Chiron.
In a bizarre turn of events in Los Angeles, the night ended with the wrong film - La La Land - initially being announced as the winner of best picture.
Ali said that the announcement "threw me a bit". "I don't want to go up there and take anything from someone," he said, adding: "It's very hard to feel joy in a moment like that."
Ali, whose mother is a Christian minister, converted to Islam in 1999 and joined the minority Ahmadiyya Community in 2001. He said that he and his mother put aside the differences in their beliefs, which are "not that important".
In January, Ali delivered a powerful speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, explaining how the film Moonlight demonstrates what can happen when people are persecuted.
"What I learned from working on Moonlight is that we see what happens when we persecute people, they fold into themselves," he said.
"And what I was so grateful [for] about Juan was playing a gentleman who saw a young man folding into himself as a result of the persecution of his community and taking that opportunity to uplift him and tell him he mattered, that he was okay. And accept him. I hope that we do a better job of that."


A dig in Jersey has yielded a stash of hunter-gatherer artefacts from the end of the last Ice Age, including stone pieces criss-crossed by carved lines.

They are similar to engravings found from the same period in continental Europe, but are the first of their kind in the British Isles.
Archaeologists are in the early stages of analysing the finds, but estimate them to be at least 14,000 years old.
This places the camp among the earliest in northern Europe after the freeze.
It would also mean that the markings pre-date the earliest known art in the UK, which was found carved into stone walls and bones at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire in 2003.
However, the team wants to study the engravings more closely and hopefully find more of them, before making any grand claims.
Dr Chantal Conneller is co-director of the Ice Age Island project, which for five years has been working on the Les Varines site in the south east area of Jersey. She told the BBC: "We're feeling reasonably confident at the moment that what we've got fits into this broader idea of non-representational Magdalenian art."
The Magdalenians were one of several hunter-gatherer cultures which gradually re-colonised Europe as the ice retreated, 16,000 to 13,000 years ago.
Stone fragments like these, apparently from smashed-up larger tablets covered in repeated lines, are known from Magdalenian camps in France and Germany.
"We're hoping this is a hint of what is to come, because at some other sites you get hundreds of these pieces. What we've got at the moment is only a fragment of something much larger," said Dr Conneller, a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.
Her colleague Dr Silvia Bello, from London's Natural History Museum, is currently analysing the fragments using different microscopic techniques.
She cautioned that the work is still preliminary, but said: "We can already say the stones are not natural to the site, they show clear incised lines consistent with being made by stone tools, and they do not have any obvious functional role."
Ruling out more mundane explanations, such as the rocks being used as cutting boards, was a complicated process. Dr Conneller explained: "The microscopic study... shows that there is organisation to the design, with two groups of lines, one set straight and made with a fine tool, and another more curved and often broader.
"This suggests to us something beyond a functional explanation."
Flat, engraved stones found at other Magdalenian sites sometimes contain representations, such as horses or other figures, and often appear to have been reused.
The team can see the imprint of several different stone tools in the Jersey fragments, which suggests - along with other clues - that they have a similarly complex history. "It certainly seems to be something that's re-engraved over time," Dr Conneller said.
As for the precise timing of the camp, the archaeologists hope to get a firm idea by dating pieces of bone that were also among this summer's haul from the dig.
In the meantime, they can look at the cultural similarity between this camp and other, well-studied Magdalenian sites in Europe.
"I feel reasonably confident it dates to sometime between 15,000 and 14,500 years ago. That's based on some very good sites, with quite good typology, in northern France. And what we have would certainly fit into that 500 years," Dr Conneller said.
"It might well represent some of the first hunter-gather communities to re-colonise the north of Europe after the coldest period of the last Ice Age."
This summer's discoveries are the high point, thus far, of a long-running project.
"This has been the culmination of five years of patient work, tracing thousands of flint tools within slope deposits back to the mother lode," said Dr Ed Blinkhorn, from the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
"We knew a significant hunter-gatherer camp lay in this field and it seems we've finally found it."
Dr Conneller agrees. "What's really exciting about this year is we seem to have found part of the site pretty much intact. We're beginning to get hearths, bits of bones - and these exciting engraved stones as well," she said.
The discovery of the camp is particularly important, she added, because so little of this ancient landscape remains accessible.
"The sea level would have been much lower at the time. To the north of Alderney would be a massive channel river, with a really wide valley - this seems to be a big barrier to human movement.
"But we don't really know anything that was going on in this drowned landscape."
The team's research, which has been supported for the past three years by the Jersey Tourism Development Fund and the Capco Trust, is now on display at the Jersey Museum.
The exhibition will run throughout 2016 and includes one of the engraved stones.
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US congressional leaders have passed a $1.1 trillion (Â£730 billion) spending bill, avoiding a government shutdown.

The massive bill includes both Republican-backed initiatives and Democratic priorities.
The spending bill, passed in combination with a tax plan, easily made it through the House and Senate.
President Barack Obama has promised to sign the legislation, which includes spending increases for the National Institutes of Health and the military.
Republicans scored victories in the bill, including ending a decades-long ban on exporting US crude oil.
"The bipartisan compromise secures meaningful wins for Republicans and the American people," said Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Over the past few years, the budget has become a place of bitter fighting between Democrats and Republicans, becoming a tool to threaten a government shutdown if certain items are not included or excluded.
The government shut down for 16 days in 2013 when Congress could not agree on a budget. Passing a budget successfully marks an early victory for the newly elected House speaker.
Increased spending in the budget signals an end to Congressional belt-tightening. Members of Congress had said previously approved spending cuts were hurting the US military.
Members of the so-called Freedom Caucus had said they would not support the bill because, among other things, it does not deny funding to family planning clinic Planned Parenthood or tighten US screening of Syrian refugees.
The spending bill does include changes to the "visa waiver" programme that allows for travel without a visa to the US for 38 countries.
That includes France and Belgium, where some of the perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks were from.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had said she was concerned about the tax bill because of "special interest tax breaks".
Veterans and medical research receive spending boosts in the bill, along with funds for transportation projects and emergency first responders.
Two taxes that were meant to help finance President Obama's Affordable Care Act were delayed in the bill.
Passing the bill was the last thing on Congress' agenda before heading home for the holidays, adjourning until January.


School governing bodies are to be given new powers to sack maverick, corrupt and incompetent parent governors.

Head teachers have campaigned for the change, saying the "destructive actions" of rogue governors can stop schools in England running smoothly.
The new Department for Education guidelines close a loophole that prevents elected governors from being removed even if they misbehave.
Governing bodies are responsible for overseeing the running of schools.
Some are appointed - for example by a local authority or the church in the case of a faith school - and some are co-opted by the governing body itself.
These can be removed, for behaving in a way that is likely to bring the school, or its governing body, into disrepute or in a way that is inconsistent with the ethos or religious character of the school.
However, others elected by parents or staff cannot presently be removed, even if there have been repeated grounds for suspension or where serious misconduct has taken place.
Some governing boards had resorted to prosecuting a parent governor before they were able to disqualify them from a board, said the National Governance Association (NGA).
And in the so-called Trojan horse schools in Birmingham, conservative Muslims allegedly used their positions on school governing bodies to try to influence the ethos of the schools in question.
The National Association of Head Teachers has been pushing for the change, which comes into force in September, for some time.
Senior policy adviser Ian Hartwright said: "This new measure fills an important gap in the existing powers to deal with maverick or incompetent governors, the actions of whom can mean that the school leadership team is diverted away from its core tasks in order to manage difficult governors or trustees.
"In the worst cases, the destructive behaviour of individual governors has damaged the education of children, while the careers, lives and health of school leaders have been chronically affected."
He added that the union supported mandatory training of governors so that they are better equipped to understand and carry out their functions.
The Department for Education made changes on 30 March by amending legislation covering school governors from 2012.
The DfE says the power should be used only as a "last resort" to ensure bodies can function effectively.
Gillian Allcroft, deputy chief executive of the National Governance Association, said: "The vast majority of elected governors (parents and staff) do a great job for their schools and this is one of the reasons why NGA campaigned very strongly for the retention of elected parent governors.
"We supported this change in order to provide a mechanism for governing bodies to deal with individuals who are adversely affecting effective governance, but we also said that boards need clear guidance on when it is appropriate to use these powers."
In 2015, the DfE said it would create a national database of school governors by toughening up requirements on schools to publish the identities of their governors.
It added that schools should publish "details of where they serve on governing bodies of schools elsewhere" to enable "more effective oversight".
The pledge was made by Nicky Morgan, then education secretary, in the wake of the Trojan Horse inquiry.


Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder says losing eight players to England is a "massive compliment".

Saints have contributed a quarter of the talent in Stuart Lancaster's Six Nations squad, leaving Mallinder short of resources in February and March.
"If you were being really selfish you wouldn't want to lose any," he told BBC Look East.
"But if you were thinking like that you would go and sign a squad full of overseas players."
Uncapped trio Calum Clark, Phil Dowson and Lee Dickson, plus Dylan Hartley, Courtney Lawes, Tom Wood, Chris Ashton and Ben Foden have all been included in England's 32-man Elite Player Squad.
Mallinder's club has also seen Ryan Lamb and Paul Doran-Jones being selected for England Saxons.
"We take it as a massive compliment and not just me," added Mallinder.
"So do the coaching staff, the performance staff, the fitness and conditioning staff, the board and everybody who works within the club. They deserve a lot of credit for these lads getting selected.
"We want players to be the best they possibly can. We are an English club so we want generally English players.
"I think an English-first policy has got to help England. I'm sure they'd like all English teams to be full of English players but that's not the way it is.
"We've not brought anybody here who's an international player, they've all developed themselves and worked hard.
"Our challenge now is to make sure the other players are good enough, skilled enough and have played enough game time for when the others disappear."
Dickson is one of three Saints to receive his first England call-up after an impressive season for the Franklin's Gardens side.
"People say its been a long time coming but I've just had to keep my head down, keep playing well here, and that's paid off," said the 26-year-old scrum-half.
"I'm going there to be myself and hopefully I can show what I'm like at the next step up."