The collapse of champions Chelsea and the sight of Leicester City bucking all trends to top the table illustrates the unpredictability that has been the Premier League's hallmark this season.

Newly promoted Watford's rise to seventh place under manager Quique Flores and Bournemouth's victories over Chelsea and Manchester United in their last two games have made this term a tale of the unexpected.
And with no-one grabbing the title race by the scruff of of the neck, it seems impossible to predict the unpredictable. So here goes...
Chelsea were my pre-season picks - and no-one can surely have predicted the alarming decline that has left them a point off the relegation zone in 16th place after Monday's 2-1 loss at Leicester City.
Just seven months on from winning his third title at Chelsea, then putting his name to a new four-year contract, Jose Mourinho is left fighting for his job, pleading to stay on and put right what has gone wrong.
So no title for Chelsea this season and despite being the undisputed team of the season in the opening months of the campaign, it is too much of a stretch to imagine Claudio Ranieri's Leicester upsetting all odds and winning the league.
This leaves the title, realistically, as a battle between Manchester City, twice champions in recent seasons, and Arsenal, as they chase their first Premier League crown since 2004.
With City showing inconsistency, Arsenal and boss Arsene Wenger will never have a better chance to relieve the pressure and criticism that has built up in those barren Premier League years. If the Gunners do not win the league this season, it will be a desperate missed opportunity.
The question is can they be trusted when the pressure is on?
History suggests they can be fragile at those pinch points while City, if they can get Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and David Silva up and running for long periods, should surely have enough.
The heart says Wenger's principles will finally prevail. The head says City will (and should) possess enough quality to win their third Premier League title in the past five seasons.
In 23 previous Premier League terms, the team that has been top after 16 games has finished on top 14 times. What will history say this season? Leicester will want to find out.
Champions: Manchester City
Ranieri's side are the story of the Premier League season so far - in tandem with the history-making feats of striker Jamie Vardy after he set a new record of scoring in 11 straight Premier League games.
And here it is time to enter the confessional and add an apology at the same time. I felt Ranieri's appointment was a poor one and would result in Leicester's relegation. I could not have been more wrong.
Even their most ardent fan will be pushed to predict a title win, but this team has shown enough to suggest it is enjoying the ride and is on board for the long haul.
If reality suggests Leicester will not end up as champions, despite the best start to a top-flight season in their 131-year history, can they maintain their excellence long enough to claim an unlikely Champions League place?
Again, and this is not a slight on Leicester, they face a hard battle to do so.
The two players who Ranieri describes as "the pinnacle of the iceberg", Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy, must avoid injury - and the January predators have already been told to keep away - while the Italian must decide whether to rotate his squad and make additions in January.
"The Tinkerman" of old has shredded the reputation earned in his Chelsea days, making just 13 Premier League changes this season, the same as that other surprise package, Watford.
Leicester play with such an intense, high-energy style that may tell on them later in the season and this is where the added depth of the likes of Tottenham, or even Liverpool and Everton, may come into play.
So it is with a heavy heart that the prediction is for Leicester City to finish outside the top four - but right in contention for the European places, which would still rank as a magnificent achievement.
Top four: Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham.
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Not anywhere near the top four or arguably even the top 10 on any of the evidence presented this season - and it is hard to see them beating Paris St-Germain in the Champions League if they remain mired in such mediocrity.
Whether Mourinho survives deep into the season is another matter, while all logic says the talent in the squad must surely start giving performances in line with their ability sooner or later.
The joke about who was the last team to win the title one season then get relegated the next will raise a few belly laughs, but it is unlikely Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will be amused.
Chelsea have two home games coming up against Sunderland and Watford but Stamford Bridge is no longer a guarantee and they are followed by visits to Manchester United and Crystal Palace. Who would back them with confidence there?
There have been 96 Premier League teams who have gained 15 points or fewer from their opening 16 games. Fifty ended up being relegated and the average position of those 96 teams was 17th, with only two finishing in the top half - Palace last season (10th) and Fulham (8th in 2010-11).
Chelsea still have to visit Arsenal and Liverpool and the old aura has gone. They might scrape into the top 10 at a push but you would not predict European football next season with any assurance. A shocking fall from grace.
Aston Villa look like they will be taking one of those places with the appointment of Remi Garde to replace Tim Sherwood the catalyst for a flop rather than a bounce.
Years of flirting with relegation look like becoming a full-blown embrace. The team have no goals, no confidence and six points from 16 games. A pathetic return as Villa are locked on course to pay the price for years of mediocrity.
Norwich City also look in trouble, despite battling draws at home to Arsenal and Everton recently. The Canaries have superb support but a lack of Premier League quality could be their undoing.
Newcastle United's revival with wins at home to Liverpool and away to Spurs has lifted the spirits on Tyneside but a home defeat by Watford has got the alarm bells ringing at Sunderland.
Sam Allardyce is an expert in this sort of situation but as the likes of Bournemouth become more accomplished, so the Black Cats look in even more danger.
Relegated: Aston Villa, Sunderland and Norwich City - with apologies to Watford and Leicester City, who I predicted would go down in August.
The usual suspect is Manchester City's Sergio Aguero - but injuries this season have allowed Leicester City's Vardy and Everton's Romelu Lukaku to lead the way with 15 and 12 Premier League goals respectively.
Vardy's pace and movement have been allied to composure as a finisher, while 22-year-old Lukaku is now making Chelsea and Mourinho regret parting with him in a £28m deal in summer 2014. He is a potent mixture of power, pace and huge potential.
The Leicester striker is getting chances every game, helped by the brilliant Riyad Mahrez, while Lukaku is being served goals on a plate by the precocious Gerard Deulofeu.
If Vardy can stay fit and Leicester's momentum continues, he can continue his golden run to be top scorer - but Lukaku will run him close.
Top scorer: Jamie Vardy
Manchester City - then it is a question of just how far Manuel Pellegrini's side can go in the Champions League, a tournament that has tormented them.
Topping their group finally gave them a favourable last-16 draw against Dynamo Kiev, while Arsenal and Chelsea suffered a tougher fate as they were paired with Barcelona and PSG.
On current form, despite Arsenal's excellence on occasions this season, it is impossible to make a compelling case for either of the London sides to go through.
Manchester City will make the last eight - and may well be last men standing in the Champions League as far as England's elite is concerned.


Famous Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld could appear in future 007 films now that a long-running legal dispute has been settled.

Kevin McClory, who came up with the story for Thunderball with Ian Fleming, had been locked in a battle over Bond rights since 1959.
McClory, and later his estate, asserted he had created the Blofeld character.
Now film studio MGM and Bond film company Danjaq have acquired all the rights from McClory's estate.
A joint statement from the three parties involved said the deal brought "to an amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically over 50 years".
The agreement means that Bond producers are clear to use the Blofeld character again if they wish.
Blofeld's face was often concealed in the films as the camera focused on him stroking his white cat.
The character has appeared in six official Bond films - From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as well as McClory's Never Say Never Again (1983).
He has been played by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow.
The dispute began when McClory worked on the script for Thunderball, which first introduced the character of Blofeld.
It was then used by Fleming to form the basis for his novel of the same name.
But McClory and another scriptwriter, Jack Whittingham, were unaware the novel was being published and were not credited.
This led them to sue Fleming successfully in 1963.
McClory, who died in 2006, produced the movie of Thunderball in 1965.
But the dispute raised its head again in the 1970s, when McClory wanted to make another Bond film - he won the right to do so in court and the result was his 1983 movie Never Say Never Again.
He brought back Sean Connery as agent 007 after a 12-year hiatus, and the film was again based on the Thunderball novel.
However the movie has never been welcomed into the official Bond canon.
McClory lost another legal case in 2001 over the rights to the James Bond film character.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed his case, saying McClory had waited too long to make a claim.
The next Bond film, starring Daniel Craig and directed by Sam Mendes, is due for release in 2015.


The US Army has been ordered to allow the construction of the final section of a controversial oil pipeline.

North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said the Army Corps of Engineers had been directed to allow work under Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River.
Native Americans, who have protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline for months, vowed legal action to stop it.
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order signalling his support for the pipeline.
But the president has insisted the order was contingent upon pipeline makers using US-made materials and equipment.
The US Army Corps of Engineers, which has approval authority, decided last year to explore other routes for the pipeline amid huge protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
In an announcement on Tuesday, Mr Hoeven said that the acting Secretary of the Army, Robert Speer, had ordered the corps to allow the work necessary to complete the pipeline.
The US Army said on Wednesday it had taken the first steps to "expeditiously review requests for approvals" to build and operate the pipeline, but that does not mean the project is set to move forward.
"The Assistant Secretary for the Army Civil Works will make a decision on the pipeline once a full review and analysis is completed in accordance with the directive," the Army said in a statement.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had earlier said that the Army has to wait for the results of a scheduled environmental impact study (EIS) that was ordered in January.
"The Army Corps lacks statutory authority to simply stop the EIS," they said in a statement.
The $3.7bn (Â£2.8bn) pipeline is designed to transport about 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day across four states, from North Dakota to a terminal in Illinois, where it can be shipped to refineries.
The Sioux say the final section would contaminate drinking water and damage sacred burial sites. They and their supporters have set up a Sacred Stone spiritual camp near the Missouri river.
Just four days after taking office, President Trump signed an executive order in favour of the pipeline. He told the Army to quickly reconsider its decision to explore other routes.


A student protest in London is calling for the abolition of tuition fees and wants to stop the scrapping of maintenance grants.

Students taking part in the "free education" protest will march through central London.
They are expected to hear a statement from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn read out and a speech from shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
The campaigners say university is being made "inaccessible" to poor families.
The National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees says that students from campuses around the country will be taking part in the demonstration.
It wants to remove tuition fees, currently up to Â£9,000 per year in England, and to reverse a decision to convert means-tested maintenance grants into repayable loans.
"The government is impoverishing the poorest students for minimal gains," said the campaign's Callum Cant.
"It is an attack on the least privileged students which doesn't save much money and causes misery.
"It is austerity which targets the poorest students. Our worry is that it will make university a lot more inaccessible."
But a spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which is responsible for universities, said it was "committed to ensuring everyone with the potential to benefit from higher education has the opportunity to do so, regardless of their background".
The student funding system was operated so that "lack of finance should not be a barrier to participation and more funding is available to support living costs than ever before".


"We talk about it all the time in the canteen, amongst drivers, our concerns about the safety and comfort for our customers," said Stephen Hopson, a Bristol bus driver.

He is one of many drivers worried about the state of local roads.
A new survey suggests potholes are an increasing a problem across the UK.
One in six roads across England and Wales is in such a bad state it must be repaired within the next five years, local authorities have said.
Mr Hopson told the BBC that while the local council does repair potholes, those repairs are not built to last.
"The potholes have got worse. After repair, it cracks up again, and we've got the pothole back," he said.
Some road users have had accidents caused by holes in the road.
Ellie in Chessington told the BBC that her car had been damaged by a pothole: "It had burst two of my tyres, and also dented the actual alloy wheel as well."
And Vanessa in Lowestoft said: "On Monday afternoon I had an accident on my bike where I hit a pothole and fell forward off my bike."
These experiences are backed up by the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey (ALARM), which is produced by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA).
It found that almost a fifth of roads were in "poor" condition.
Councils were almost £730m short of what was needed to keep the road network in "reasonable order", it said.
However, that is a smaller shortfall than the previous year.
The government is planning to pump £1.2bn into roads this year, including for repair and maintenance.
But authorities say it will take an average of 12 years and £12bn to bring the local network "up to scratch".
Councillor Judith Blake, from the Local Government Association, said: "It is becoming increasingly urgent to address the roads crisis we face as a nation.
"Our roads are deteriorating at a faster rate than can be repaired and it would take more than £12bn and be 2030 before we could bring them up to scratch and clear the current roads repair backlog."
The AIA says that roads need to be resurfaced every 10 to 20 years.
Only London comes close to this, with the capital's roads repaired every 23 years on average.
In England, roads are resurfaced every 55 years on average, while in Wales it is every 63 years.
Alan Mackenzie, chairman of the AIA, said the message from the survey was that "highway teams simply do not have enough money to arrest the terminal decline in the condition of our local roads and the network is not resilient enough to meet the challenges ahead".
He added that although the percentage of local roads in England and Wales classed as "good" rose from 48% to 53% last year, so did those in a poor condition, rising from 13% to 17%.
Mr Mackenzie said: "This is clearly not sustainable in the long-term and many highway engineers have warned of a tipping point ahead."
Last year, the government announced £1.1bn for road repairs for 2017 to 2018.
This was increased to £1.2bn in January to include money from the National Productivity Investment Fund and the Pothole Action Fund.
The Department for Transport said: "It is vital councils keep our roads in a good condition to deliver better journeys for drivers.
"We are providing councils more than £6bn over six years to maintain roads and repair potholes.
"On top of this, we announced last autumn an additional £1.1bn to upgrade and repair roads for communities across England."


A team of British Red Cross workers who treated people injured in the Shoreham Airshow disaster have been given the organisation's highest honour.

The 66 staff and volunteers who worked on the day the Hawker Hunter crashed on the A27 and in the weeks afterwards have received the Dunant Award.
The award was last made to British Red Cross team members following the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland.
Eleven people were killed in the Shoreham disaster on 22 August.
"It's an award for teams of volunteers that go over an above their normal day's work," said Richard Tyler, the team manager, who was also awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours.
"I am a staff member but all of the team around me were volunteers.
"I can't praise them enough."
Among the volunteers on duty on 22 August was Terry Alexander, who has worked with the British Red Cross for 20 years.
She treated 23-year-old Thomas Millburn, who was taking pictures of the airshow from the A27 and was badly burned.
"We couldn't get him out of the site straight away, which meant he was going to be in pain for longer and that was really difficult," she said.
"He was an incredibly brave young man."
A team of 42 British Red Cross personnel were working at the airshow to provide first aid and ambulance support for the event.
As well as helping the South East Coast Ambulance crew, which was first at the scene of the crash, volunteers treated the walking wounded.
They also helped those among the 20,000 spectators who needed medical treatment.
In the days that followed, British Red Cross emergency support teams helped the emergency and recovery teams clear the site and manned a telephone for anyone affected by the disaster, which took 30 calls over two weeks.
Tony Kemp, a nurse who was among the team who pulled pilot Andy Hill from the wreckage of the plane, has been awarded the Special Service Cross by the British Red Cross.


Leyton Orient began their first campaign in non-league football in more than a century with defeat at Sutton United.

The O's, who finished bottom of League Two last season, went behind when Jamie Collins scored from the penalty spot after Joe Widdowson brought down Craig Dundas.
Dean Beckwith doubled Sutton's lead before the break, bundling home Ross Lafayette's cross.
Orient rarely threatened in attack and Lafayette missed a good chance to make it 3-0, firing wide from inside the box.
Match ends, Sutton United 2, Leyton Orient 0.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 2, Leyton Orient 0.
Substitution, Sutton United. Tommy Wright replaces Nicky Bailey.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Romuald Boco replaces James Dayton.
Aswad Thomas (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Craig Clay replaces Charlie Lee.
Jamie Collins (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Josh Koroma replaces Jobi McAnuff.
Macauley Bonne (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Sutton United 2, Leyton Orient 0.
First Half ends, Sutton United 2, Leyton Orient 0.
Charlie Lee (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Sutton United 2, Leyton Orient 0. Dean Beckwith (Sutton United).
Goal!  Sutton United 1, Leyton Orient 0. Jamie Collins (Sutton United) converts the penalty with a.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Patrick van Aanholt was pulled out of Sunderland's 1-0 defeat at Tottenham because of medical advice from heart specialists, says manager David Moyes.

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Netherlands left-back Van Aanholt, 26, was replaced by Jason Denayer just 15 minutes before kick-off.
"He had the statutory checks with the cardiologists," said Moyes.
"The FA panel of cardiologists looked at it and advised us really late on Sunday that he should not play until further tests had taken place."
Moyes refused to elaborate on Van Aanholt's late withdrawal when first asked about it following Sunday's game.
However, speaking before Wednesday's EFL Cup match at Queens Park Rangers, the Scot said the Dutchman had since had more tests and would travel with the squad for the game at Loftus Road (19:45 BST) after being cleared to play.
"We are just surprised the FA panel didn't contact me or my doctor until 3.55pm on Sunday afternoon," added Moyes.
"I have never in my career been put in a situation like that. It was completely outside our control.
"We knew we had to make the correct decision for the player and for the football club."
The Football Association said clubs could receive advice from expert members of its panel, but added the governing body had not directly advised Sunderland.
"This cardiac screen was not conducted as part of the FA's cardiac screening programme. Therefore the FA had no involvement in the player's referral, the screening process or the communication of the results with the club," it said.
"On occasion, clubs may seek independent advice on a player's cardiac health from an expert cardiologist who sits on the FA consensus panel, which is an expert body in this area."
Van Aanholt told Dutch football magazine Voetbal International he had been sick, but added: "There is really nothing to worry about.
"I picked up a virus and that would have crept around my body, possibly even to my heart. So we had to make a scan."


Sunny Afternoon, a new musical about the early career of pop band The Kinks, has impressed critics amid predictions of a West End transfer.

"You really got me!" read the headline of the Daily Mail's five star review by Quentin Letts. "After an indifferent year for new musical shows in London, here is a belter," he said.
The show, written by Joe Penhall, features many Kinks classics and is named after their 1966 hit single.
It is running at the Hampstead Theatre.
"This show is far better than a mere tribute evening, though it includes lots of Kinks hits. It gives you a strong sense of period - some terrific short hemlines on the girls -  yet also well-drawn characters that evolve with the band," Letts continued.
The Telegraph's Charles Spencer also awarded five stars at Thursday's opening, noting the show had "the whole audience up on its feet and in state of blissful euphoria by the end".
He said director Edward Hall "marvellously nails the humour and the pathos of the piece" and praised Miriam Buether's set design featuring scores of speaker cabinets.
"It is an irresistibly enjoyable and touching night, and anyone who loves pop music at its greatest would be mad to miss it," Spencer concluded.
"The songs joyously reach out to the audience, even as they are shown to be rooted in a wider, difficult and daft world of class, family, professional struggle and private agony," said Nick Hasted in his four-star review for The Arts Desk. "In The Kinks' 50th Anniversary year, their spirit could hardly be better revived."
Also awarding four stars, the Evening Standard's Henry Hitchings praised the lead performances.
"John Dagleish is immense as [Ray] Davies, capturing his quirkiness and charisma. His guitarist brother Dave is given an exciting wildness by George Maguire.
"And if at the end we're pretty much coerced into a dancing ovation, some of the show's best moments are in fact its more melancholy and reflective ones. Sunny Afternoon illustrates the brilliance of The Kinks and the incisive songwriting of Davies, and it's surely destined for the West End."
The Stage's Mark Shenton likened Sunny Afternoon to a British version of Jersey Boys, which tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
"Though Joe Penhall's script may not be as sharp or well-defined as that of Jersey Boys, it is generously full of heart and especially the soul that propelled The Kinks' music.
"The result is dramatically a bit rough, ready and ragged but it lends the evening a useful whiff of improvisation and spontaneity."
Sunny Afternoon is at Hampstead Theatre until 24 May.


French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says some EU sanctions on Iran could be lifted as early as next month, as part of a nuclear deal with world powers.

He was speaking after crowds in Tehran cheered negotiators who had agreed to curb some of Iran's nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief.
The six-month interim deal agreed in Geneva prompted a fall in oil prices on markets on Monday.
But Israel's prime minister has warned the agreement is a "historic mistake".
On Monday Benjamin Netanyahu announced that an Israeli team led by national security adviser Yossi Cohen would travel to Washington for talks on the deal.
"This accord must bring about one outcome: the dismantling of Iran's military nuclear capability," he said.
On Sunday, US President Barack Obama told Mr Netanyahu in a phone call that the US understood Israel "has good reason to be sceptical about Iran's intentions" and promised to consult its ally closely, the White House said.
Mr Netanyahu has warned that Israel "will not allow a regime that calls for the destruction of Israel to obtain the means to achieve this goal."
Saudi Arabia - Iran's regional rival - cautiously welcomed the deal on Monday.
"This agreement could be a first step towards a comprehensive solution for Iran's nuclear programme, if there are good intentions," a statement said.
However, a London-based Saudi official earlier told the BBC his country had been lied to.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the Geneva accord, but said it was only a "first step".
"We are right to test to the full Iran's readiness to act in good faith," he told the House of Commons.
Mr Fabius told French radio that "Iran is committed to giving up the prospect of nuclear weapons. It's perfectly clear".
However, he insisted the temporary deal could be reversed if its terms were not adhered to.
Asked when sanctions could start to be lifted, he said it could begin "in December."
France, the UK, Germany, the US, Russia and China took part in the talks with Iran, hosted by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
Baroness Ashton's spokesman Michael Mann said the timing would be co-ordinated with Iran.
"It could be in December, it could be in January, it depends how long the legislative process takes," he told reporters.
Under the deal which will last six months, Iran would receive some $7bn (Â£4.3bn) in "limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible [sanctions] relief" while a permanent agreement is sought.
In return, Tehran has agreed to a series of measures.
Key points of the deal include:
Arriving at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, Iran's negotiators were welcomed by hundreds of cheering supporters carrying flowers and flags.
Addressing state TV, Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said Iran was prepared to take the necessary steps to keep the deal on track.
World powers have suspected Iran of secretly trying to develop a nuclear bomb - a charge Iran strongly denies.
A raft of sanctions has been imposed on Iran by the UN, US and the European Union.
President Obama welcomed the deal, saying it would "help prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon".
It has also been revealed that the US and Iran held a series of face-to-face talks in recent months that paved the way for the agreement but were kept secret even from their allies.
The interim agreement with Iran - the world's fourth-largest oil producer - prompted a fall in oil prices in early Asian trading with Brent crude falling by more than 2%.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
Although Iran will not be allowed to increase its oil sales for six months, analysts say the deal is perceived by the markets as reducing risk in the Middle East.
Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry told ABC's This Week programme that he hoped Congress would not pass new sanctions on Iran.
Some senators have expressed concerns about the deal and say more sanctions are possible.
In a nationwide broadcast on Sunday, President Rouhani repeated that his country would never seek nuclear weapons.
"No matter what interpretations are given, Iran's right to enrichment has been recognised," he said.
The deal comes just over three months since Mr Rouhani - regarded as a relative moderate - took office replacing the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
It has also been backed by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in nuclear matters.


Hereford FC have appointed Peter Beadle, the last manager of Hereford United's 90-year history, as the reformed club's first boss.

The much-travelled 42-year-old will be assisted by Matt Bishop.
Bishop, formerly number two to Dean Holdsworth at Aldershot, currently works for the Football Association as a coach educator.
"I'm very proud to have been appointed as manager of Hereford FC and cannot wait to get started," said Beadle.
"It will come as no surprise to people when I say that Edgar Street has a special place in my heart
"Matt and I are hugely excited by the journey that lies ahead and, although we are under no illusions about the challenges we will face in our new roles, we have no doubt that we are the right people to take this club forward.
"We have a lot of work to do between now and the start of the league season in August because we are going to be putting a squad together from scratch. However, with our contacts, we believe we can put a squad together that Hereford FC supporters deserve."
Beadle's appointment came only after a five-week selection process that went to a round of second interviews.
Hereford FC football director Martin Watson added: "This is an extremely important decision for the club and one that we have taken a lot of time over.
"However, we felt that the way Peter Beadle and Matt Bishop intend to work together as a team offered us the best possible chance of achieving the targets we are setting in terms of climbing up the leagues."
The club have already been granted a lease to play their future home games at Edgar Street, but it has not yet been ratified in which league they will play next season.


A drug dealer who escaped from a prison van as he was being driven to court has been cleared of murder.

John Anslow,  33, from Tipton, had been charged with killing Richard Deakin when he was freed by a masked gang near HMP Hewell, Redditch in January 2012.
The fugitive was arrested in Cyprus and brought back to the UK, but was cleared by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court.
He admitted a charge of conspiracy to escape from lawful custody and was jailed for seven years in December.
Staffordshire Police said they were disappointed with the verdict but revealed for the first time that Anslow was already serving a "significant prison sentence".
Det Ch Insp Darren Harding said Anslow had also been sentenced, in September 2012, to 22 years for his involvement in large-scale drugs supply.
"Reporting restrictions in place at the time meant Anslow's involvement could not be revealed," he said.
"We are satisfied this longstanding investigation has finally come to an end.
"It also means we can expose Anslow's involvement in the previous cases and the public can finally learn what a pivotal role he played in drugs supply in the region."
Mr Deakin was shot by a masked gunman as he lay in bed at his home in Chasetown, Cannock, on the morning of 5 July 2010.
Anslow was charged over the killing in January 2012 but was freed from a prison van as he was being driven to a court hearing.
Police launched an appeal to find him and he was eventually traced to the Alancak region of Northern Cyprus, in March 2013.
Upon his return to the UK, Anslow was charged over the prison van ambush.  He admitted escaping lawful custody in September, but denied any role in Mr Deakin's murder.
Two men - David Harrison, 63, and Daryl Dickens, 34, from the Bilston area, were handed life sentences for Mr Deakin's murder in December 2012.


Germany has become Europe's first country to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female.

Parents are now allowed to leave the gender blank on birth certificates, in effect creating a new category of "indeterminate sex".
The move is aimed at removing pressure on parents to make quick decisions on sex assignment surgery for newborns.
However, some campaigners say the new law does not go far enough.
As many as one in 2,000 people have characteristics of both sexes.
They are known as "intersex" people because they have a mixture of male and female chromosomes or even genitalia which have characteristics of both genders.
The intense difficulty for parents is often that a gender has to be chosen very quickly so that the new child can be registered with the authorities, the BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin reports.
Sometimes surgery is done on the baby to turn its physical characteristics as far as possible in one direction or the other, our correspondent says.
The law in Germany has been changed following a review of cases which revealed great unhappiness.
In one case, a person with no clear gender-defining genitalia was subjected to surgery. The person said many years later:  "I am neither a man nor a woman.  I will remain the patchwork created by doctors, bruised and scarred."
German passports, which currently list the holder's sex as M for male or F for female, will have a third designation, X, for intersex holders, according to the interior ministry.
It remains unclear what impact the change will have on marriage and partnership laws in Germany.
Current laws define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and civil partnerships are reserved for  same-sex couples.
Silvan Agius of IGLA-Europe, which campaigns for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex people, said the law needed to go further.
"While on the one hand it has provided a lot of visibility about intersex issues... it does not address the surgeries and the medicalisation of intersex people and that's not good - that has to change," he told the BBC.
While Germany is the first country in Europe to legally recognise a third gender, several other nations have already taken similar steps.
Australians have had the option of selecting "x" as their gender - meaning indeterminate, unspecified or intersex - on passport applications since 2011. A similar option was introduced for New Zealanders in 2012.
In South Asia, Bangladesh has offered an "other" gender category on passport applications since 2011.
Nepal began recognising a third gender on its census forms in 2007 while Pakistan made it an option on national identity cards in 2011.
India added a third gender category to voter lists in 2009.
While transgender or intersex people have long been accepted in Thailand and are officially recognised by the country's military, they do not have any separate legal status.


(Close): The FTSE 100 struggled on Monday as Unilever shares fell 6.6% after Kraft Heinz abandoned its proposed merger.

At the end of the day, the index was fractionally down at 7,299.86.
Shares in the Anglo-Dutch food giant surged by 13% on Friday when the bid was announced.
Possible UK government opposition to the deal may have been one factor that dissuaded Kraft Heinz from increasing its offer.
"Kraft Heinz evidently didn't feel up to the mergers and acquisitions battle this rejection suggested," said Connor Campbell of SpreadEx.
Housebuilder Bovis fell 10.2% after it said annual profits were hit by setting aside Â£7m to compensate customers who had complained about poor workmanship, and to improve customer service.
Royal Bank of Scotland rose 6.8% after saying on Friday that it may no longer seek to sell its Williams and Glyn subsidiary.
The European Commission had ordered the bank to sell the division to address competition concerns, but RBS has struggled to find a buyer.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley said the move could add 10% to profits by 2019.
RBS is expected to report a ninth consecutive annual loss on Friday, although Ross McEwan, chief executive, said the bank would return to the black next year.
Rolls Royce rose 6.3% after Goldman Sachs uprated the stock from neutral to buy.
Shopping centre owner Hammerson enjoyed a 4.25% rise in its shares, despite reporting a 56% fall in annual profits.
It said the valuation of its shopping centres, including Birmingham's Bullring, had dropped by Â£6m, with the value of its retail parks down Â£39m.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.4% against the US dollar at $1.2461 and 0.33% higher against the euro at 1.1735 euros.


Two people have been arrested after a burglary in which a homeless woman claimed to have stopped the culprit.

Lottie Pauling-Chamberlain, who sleeps outside Lush in Oxford, said she challenged a thief as they left the store early last Wednesday.
A woman, 29, of no fixed abode, has been held on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle and possessing Class A drugs, police said.
A man, 42, also of no fixed abode, has been arrested on suspicion of burglary.
Thames Valley Police said its policy was not to name those arrested.
Staff at the shop in Cornmarket Street realised a laptop and large box of cosmetics had disappeared when they opened the shop last week.
The next day Ms Pauling-Chamberlain, who sleeps rough in the area with her dog Marley, returned the stolen items.
Staff started a fundraising bid to thank her which has reached Â£9,000.


Turkish police say they have detained nearly 140 people following clashes during May Day protests in Istanbul.

Some of the demonstrators threw stones and set off fireworks near Taksim Square - a traditional rallying point for left-wing protesters.
Police used rubber bullets and tear gas. Twenty-four people, including six policemen, were wounded in the clashes.
Opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have accused him of repressive tactics ahead of elections in June.
The May Day march was the first major protest since the Turkish parliament passed a controversial law giving police increased powers in March.
The law widens powers to conduct stop-and-search and detain demonstrators.  Much of Istanbul's public transport had been shut down because of security concerns.
The government had said Taksim Square would only be open to those who came peacefully, not for "illegal demonstrations".
While Istanbul police said nearly 140 people were detained, activists said the number was nearly double that.
The square was at the centre of nationwide anti-government protests for weeks in 2013.
On Friday, tens of thousands of people also held a peaceful march in the capital Ankara.
Meanwhile, protests took place elsewhere in Europe for International Workers Day, including:


The goal to get HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has already been met, says the United Nations Aids agency.

The landmark figure was reached in March - nine months ahead of schedule.
It follows decades of global efforts and investment to get antiretroviral drugs to those in need - such as people living in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2000, when the UN first set goals to combat HIV, fewer than 700,000 people were receiving these vital medicines.
According to UN Aids, which has a report out today, the global response to HIV has averted 30 million new HIV infections and nearly eight million Aids-related deaths since the millennium.
Over the same time frame, new HIV infections have fallen from 2.6 million per year to 1.8 million, and Aids-related deaths have gone down from 1.6 million to 1.2 million.
Meanwhile, global investment in HIV has gone up from £3.1bn ($4.8bn) in 2000 to more than £13bn ($20bn) in 2014.
And concerted action over the next five years could end the Aids epidemic by 2030, says UN Aids.
But progress has been slower in some areas.
A major gap seems to be in awareness of HIV status, which is the biggest barrier to treatment access, says the report.
And treatment access for children has lagged behind adults - although this is now improving.
The proportion of children living with HIV who receive antiretroviral therapy almost doubled between 2010 and 2014 (from 14% to 32%), but coverage "remains notably lower than it does for adults", says the report.
Even though new HIV infections have gone down, there is still an unacceptable number of new HIV infections each year, contributing to the burden of the epidemic.
In 2014, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 66% of all new HIV infections. And at the last headcount, there were an estimated 25.8 million people in this region living with HIV. The estimated count for the whole world was 36.9 million.
This year sees the switch from Millennium Development Goals to broader Sustainable Development Goals.
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations said: "The world has delivered on halting and reversing the Aids epidemic.
"Now we must commit to ending the Aids epidemic as part of the Sustainable Development Goals."
The report says the next five years will be critical and recommends front-loading investment to "sprint" towards an ambition of ending the Aids epidemic by 2030.


A guard carrying a shotgun paces back and forth outside a commercial building in central Guatemala City.

On the bustling Avenue Reforma in the capital of Guatemala, in Central America, he has to keep his wits about him.
He has to be prepared at all times for the very real threat of armed robbery, a kidnapping attempt, or even murder.
With an average of 13 murders per day across the country last year, Guatemala is one of the most dangerous nations in the world, outside of a warzone.
Bedevilled by drug gangs, grinding poverty and an abundance of guns, violent crime rates are sky high.
In the capital, no suburb "including the upscale shopping, tourist and residential areas" are "immune to daytime assaults", warns the US State Department.
It adds that the situation is a "serious concern", not helped by "weak law enforcement and judicial systems", or the country's "legacy of societal violence" - a reference to the Guatemalan Civil War that ran from 1960 to 1996.
Under such circumstances it is perhaps no surprise that the country's private security sector is booming.
"The demand is always increasing," says Alredo Rosenberg, a manager at one such security firm, Sedicop. "Unfortunately this comes from the problem of insecurity that we all experience as Guatemalans."
Sedicop is one of almost 100 legally registered private security firms protecting citizens and businesses in Guatemala. A similar number of other security businesses work without government approval.
In total, there are estimated to be as many as 150,000 private security guards in the country, compared with a police force of just 30,000. This is in a country with a population of 15.5 million, of which 4.5 million live in and around the capital.
Sedicop and its 500 employees offer a range of services. If a business would like to see a shipment safely delivered, Sedicop can send a patrol car to drive with the van or lorry, for a price of $2 (Â£1.50) per km.
Want a security guard to watch a business premises? Prices start from $545 a month. Need a bodyguard? That's from $775 a month.
"People will pay for security," says Sedicop operations director Hans Castillo. "That's because it's a person's life we are talking about."
For fans of US heavy metal band Metallica, the group's 2010 concert in Guatemala City was an incredible night full of crunching guitar riffs and pounding drum solos.
But for Julio Colon, the outdoor gig of 27,000 people simply screamed "security hazard".
Mr Colon, a manager at private security firm Seguridad Integral, was given overall responsibility for the safety of the event.
He equipped the football stadium where the concert took place with metal detectors, formulated an exit plan, and ensured that security personnel with walkie-talkies were stationed everywhere. Thankfully the event passed without incident.
With people in Guatemala wanting life to go on as normal despite the daily security concerns, concerts and football matches continue to be held in the country. And Seguridad Integral has now provided security at thousands of such events since it was founded in 1990.
"At the time there weren't any companies that specialised in covering large events," says Mr Colon.
"Overseeing an event where there is movement of a lot of people in a few hours is very different to just looking after a building."
While most security firms in Guatemala provide general security services for companies, Seguridad Integral continues to specialise in large events, carving out its own niche. It charges as much as $26,000 per event.
Mr Colon says that demand has steadily grown, and that the firm now has 150 employees.
Such is the continuing demand in Guatemala for private security firms, that it has attracted entrants from overseas.
Ohad Steinhart moved to the country in 1994 to work as a firearms instructor after completing his service in the Israel Defence Forces.
About two years later he opened his own private security firm, Decision Ejecutiva, which offers personalised security packages, mainly to Guatemalan, Mexican and American businesspeople.
At the time his clients' biggest concern was kidnapping.
However, Mr Steinhart says he needs to continue to adapt to an ever-changing security situation in Guatemala. He adds that in recent years there has been a big rise in the number of extortion cases.
"In this country when you close one hole, another two open," he says in regard to Guatemalan security issues.
Decision Ejecutiva charges from $1,500 per month for a personal bodyguard, and now employs 300 people.
While Guatemala now has more than 200 private security firms, Mr Steinhart says there is ample work for all of them. And this situation is not likely to change any time soon.
Adriana Beltran, a security expert at US think tank Washington Office On Latin America, says that private security firms are so in demand in Guatemala because people don't believe that the police or other state institutions can protect them.
"Those who can afford it turn to private security firms for protection," she says.
Back on Avenue Reforma the security guard is still walking back and forth, and doesn't stop to talk.
He was hired by a building that has cafes and restaurants at street level, with offices above containing a law firm, travel agent and TV station.
Hector Bernhard, the building's administrator, says: "We had lots of robberies, so we had to put guards outside... when there are guards people think more carefully [about committing a crime]."
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A nurse has apologised for failing the family of a teenager with learning disabilities who died at an NHS unit.

Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, drowned in the bath after an epileptic seizure at Slade House, in Headington, Oxfordshire, in July 2013.
Nurse Winnie Betsva told Connor's mother at the inquest into his death: "I am so sorry that I failed Connor."
She admitted a lack of experience of doing care plans for people with epilepsy.
The nurse agreed to complete the plan five days after Connor was admitted.
When asked by Paul Bowen, representing the family, "did you carry out a risk assessment in relation to Connor's epilepsy and bathing arrangements?", she replied "no".
At the inquest, she asked to address Connor's mother and said: "I am so sorry Sara that I failed Connor and on behalf of your family I failed your family.
"I take full responsibility for failing Connor with his epilepsy care plan."
Jurors also heard about an incident on 20 May, 2013, where Connor was found to have bitten his tongue.
Following this Ms Betsva was instructed to create an epilepsy management plan but said she "forgot".
The inquest previously heard Connor was to be woken early on the morning of 4 July, 2013, to be taken on a bus trip.
But he was discovered submerged and unresponsive in a bath shortly after 09:00. Staff called an ambulance but he died later in hospital.
Pathologist Dr Ben Phillips said his death was likely to have been caused by an epileptic seizure.
An independent report commissioned by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust into the death found that the level of bath time observation failed to safeguard Connor.
The inquest continues is expected to last two weeks.


Brentford centre-back Andreas Bjelland will not face Derby, but could return for the Bees at Barnsley on Monday.

Midfielder Josh McEachran is not yet fit to return from an ankle problem which has kept him out since February.
Jason Shackell (back), Nick Blackman (knee), Craig Forsyth (knee) and George Thorne (leg) are long-term absentees for Derby.
Cyrus Christie, Ikechi Anya, Darren Bent, Will Hughes, Abdoul Camara and Matej Vydra are all hoping for recalls.


A council is searching for equipment to enable contractors to remove unsafe cladding from a tower in Oxford.

Evenlode Tower in Blackbird Leys is one of two high-rise buildings owned by Oxford City Council where cladding failed fire safety tests.
The authority is looking for mast climbers - a type of moveable platform - to enable cladding to be removed.
An Oxford City Council spokesperson said it was "awaiting a timetable" for when the process could begin.
Cladding removal has started on Windrush Tower - the other Oxford City Council high-rise where cladding failed tests - because mast climbers were already in place for a refurbishment project.
'Pressure on suppliers'
Cladding on 137 high-rise buildings across 41 local authority areas in England has failed fire safety tests, according to the latest figures.
Oxford City Council said it had no confirmed date for installing new cladding on the Evenlode and Windrush towers.
It expects "pressure on suppliers" could lead to increased delivery times and said residents would be the first to know once a timetable was agreed.
Oxfordshire's fire service has said residents are safe to remain in the towers, which both have sprinkler systems fitted.


A man has died after being found with serious head injuries on the seafront in Bognor.

Ivars Rubenis, 46, from Belmont Street was found unconscious in Marine Drive West at about 06:00 GMT on Saturday morning and was taken to hospital in Southampton.
He died on Sunday, and a post-mortem examination is due to take place later, Sussex Police said.
The cause of his injuries is still unexplained, a police spokesman said.


New tests should be introduced to assess whether a defendant facing criminal charges is mentally fit to stand trial, the Law Commission says.

Currently two doctors, including a psychiatrist, advise judges on a defendant's fitness before a trial.
But the commission, an independent body that reviews laws in England and Wales, wants advice from psychologists to be allowed, along with wider testing.
The Ministry of Justice said it would carefully consider the recommendations.
The commission said existing rules to decide whether or not a defendant was mentally fit were "out of date, misunderstood and inconsistently applied".
It called for a "shift in focus" from the existing tests, which it said prioritised "intellectual ability".
Tom Symonds, BBC home affairs correspondent, said the commission was concerned "too many defendants face criminal trials despite lacking the ability fully to take part, often because of poor mental health".
Defendants should have a statutory entitlement to assistance to enable them to have a fair trial, the commission said.
Judges and other legal practitioners should receive training to help identify defendants who need support, it added.
Currently, if a judge decides a normal trial cannot go ahead, a so-called trial of the facts is held, in which a jury decides if the defendant is guilty.
However, the commission said the prosecution in such situations should also be required to prove the defendant intended to break the law.
It also wants judges to have the power not to hold a trial of the facts at all - if it is in the interests of justice.
Last year, former Labour MP Lord Janner was declared unfit to stand trial over allegations of child sexual abuse, which he had always denied.
The decision not to prosecute the peer - who died last month - because he had been suffering from dementia faced criticism.
Professor David Ormerod QC, law commissioner for criminal law and procedure, said it was "in the interests of justice" that defendants who can play a meaningful and effective part in their trial should have the opportunity for a full trial.
"Our reforms would modernise the law to bring unfitness to plead into line with current psychiatric thinking, making it more effective, accessible and fair for vulnerable defendants and victims, and providing greater protection for the public."
He said it was "extraordinary" that unfitness to plead procedures were not currently available in magistrates' and youth courts, "where some of the most vulnerable defendants in the criminal justice system can be found".


The suspension of the West Midlands Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner was "heavy-handed", a meeting heard.

Yvonne Mosquito was suspended last month over allegations she visited a murder victim's family without informing officers.
But Maxie Hayles said Ms Mosquito was "an ordained minister giving condolences to a grieving family"â€Ž and a councillor for the area.
He chaired a meeting of more than 100 people to discuss the suspension.
Monday's public meeting at the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre in Winson Green, Birmingham, discussed community concerns over the suspension.
Kenichi Phillips, 18, was killed as he sat in a car in St Mark's Crescent, Birmingham, on 17 March.
Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson previously said he took the "very difficult decision to suspend the deputy PCC" with immediate effect, pending an internal investigation into potential gross misconduct.
Allegations against Ms Mosquito were reported by a "senior officer from the force" and if proven "could have potentially hindered and jeopardised a complex, sensitive and ongoing murder investigation", he said.
The union Unite said it was "appalled" more detail about the allegations "that should be private and confidential" had been put into the public domain by the PCC.
The BBC later revealed Ms Mosquito had complained about the PCC four weeks before her suspension.
There was "no connection between the decision [to suspend] and any other issues," the PCC's office has said.
Peter Pennant, local pastor from the Council of Black Majority Churches, told Monday's meeting Ms Mosquito's visit was not in her capacity as deputy PCC, but in a "church pastoral capacity".
Ms Mosquito has not yet commented.


A Maltese shopkeeper whose evidence helped convict Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi of the Lockerbie bombing has died, the BBC has learned.

Tony Gauci died in Malta of natural causes, a retired senior police officer involved in the case told the BBC.
Gauci said he had sold Megrahi clothing found wrapped around the bomb which exploded as flight Pan Am 103 flew over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people.
Some doubts have been raised about his reliability.
Convicted in 2001 before being flown to Scotland to serve his sentence, Megrahi maintained he was innocent until his death in 2012.
The Libyan lost one appeal against the conviction in 2002. Five years later, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ruled that there were six grounds for a second appeal.
The Commission questioned the evidence regarding the date on which the prosecution said the clothes were bought from Gauci's shop.
It also said that evidence which cast doubt on Gauci's identification of Megrahi had not been made available to the defence, a breach of rules designed to ensure a fair trial.
In particular, it said there was evidence that four days before he identified Megrahi, Gauci had seen a photograph of him in a magazine article about the bombing.
There have also been questions raised about money reported to have been paid to Gauci in connection with his participation in the inquiry.
In November 2013 the Crown Office said: "No witness was offered any inducement by the Crown or the Scottish police before and during the trial and there is no evidence that any other law Âenforcement agency offered such an inducement."
The retired officer spoke of Gauci's "great honesty, integrity and bravery in the face of constant threats as a result of the evidence he gave".
In 2014, Scotland's top prosecutor, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland reaffirmed his belief that Megrahi is guilty.
He said no Crown Office investigator or prosecutor had ever raised concerns about the evidence used to convict him.
The Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie, in the south of Scotland, on 21 December 1988.
As well as 259 people on board the aircraft, 11 residents of Lockerbie died on the ground as a result of a giant fireball as the plane crashed to the ground.
The Scottish government released Megrahi on compassionate grounds in August 2009 after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given six months to live.
He returned to Libya, where he died in May 2012.


When Private James McLaughlin lost his life during World War One there was no funeral, no memorial service and it is not even known where his body is.

9 January 2017 Last updated at 20:02 GMT
He was killed in action on 9 January 1917 fighting Turkish soldiers in Mesopotamia, in what is now known as Iraq.
He left behind a baby daughter who never knew him.
His grandchildren were determined that the sacrifice of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment soldier should not be forgotten, so held a remembrance service at Preston Minster 100 years after his death.


The wait continues for families in Port Talbot in Wales, who don't know what will happen to the steelworks in the town.

31 March 2016 Last updated at 08:02 BST
On Tuesday, the Tata Steel company announced its plans to sell its UK factories including Port Talbot, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
Prime Minister David Cameron will hold a special meeting to discuss the future of the steel industry in the UK.
Steelmaking has a long tradition in Britain, which has lasted well over a hundred years.
Lots of children in Port Talbot have parents who work at the steel plant or know someone who works in the factories as Ricky's been finding out.


Ospreys scored two tries in the final two minutes to secure two bonus points in their European Champions Cup defeat at Clermont Auvergne.

The home side opened a commanding 20-3 half-time lead with tries from David Strettle and Aurelien Rougerie.
Tries from Justin Tipuric and Eli Walker put Ospreys back in contention, before Strettle and Wesley Fofana scored to take Clermont clear again.
But Ospreys salvaged bonus points when Sam Parry and Tom Habberfield crossed.
Habberfield's try was a spectacular length of the field effort in the final play of the game from the re-start following Parry's score two minutes from time.
And the two bonus points mean Ospreys return to the top of Pool 2 with six points from two games, with Exeter and Clermont - playing their first game after their opening game was postponed after the Paris attacks - level on five points.
The late drama - that saw 19 points scored in the final four minutes - was a fitting end to an engrossing game of skilful and incisive attacking play.
Strettle, who pulled out of England's extended World Cup squad in favour of moving to France over the summer, exploited a loss of defensive concentration to score the first try with relative ease.
An aimless clearance kick went straight to full-back Nick Abendanon, and his quick pass found Strettle in acres of space with only Ospreys full-back Dan Evans to beat.
The England winger did that with an audacious side step that sent Evans sprawling.
Camille Lopez, whose earlier penalty had cancelled out Dan Biggar's drop-goal, added the conversion and the French tails were up.
If the first try was down to individual brilliance, the second was an example of exemplary team work.
Superb link-up play outmanoeuvred the visitors and the flowing move ended with centre Rougerie cantering over from a few yards after a perfectly timed Lopez pass.
The break came at the right time for Ospreys and they turned the game on its head in the opening minutes after the restart.
Prop Dmitri Arhip was a blade of grass short of grounding the ball on the tryline, but Ospreys maintained field position and a driving maul ended with Tipuric going over.
Walker's piece of opportunism two minutes later resulted in the second score when he pounced on Noa Nakaitaci's hesitancy to ground a loose ball after Tipuric's kick ahead.
Biggar's superb conversion from the right cut the deficit to 20-17 and the momentum had shifted entirely.
But Clermont, who have not lost a home European game since 2008, showed all their pedigree to wrestle the game back in their favour as Strettle displayed more classy footwork to score his second.
A crossfield kick from effective replacement Brock James then allowed Fofana to score Clermont's fourth try that secured a bonus point and seemed to settle the game as a contest, making it 34-17 with four minutes remaining.
But Ospreys, down to 14 men after a yellow card for Sam Davies, persevered and they were rewarded when Parry ran in unopposed before Habberfield scored a contender for try of the season that secured a losing bonus point and another bonus point for scoring four tries.
Clermont wing and man-of-the-match David Strettle: "It seemed very good until the very end.
"We're kicking ourselves a bit because there was a few errors in the game.
"We thought we'd obviously managed to stop them going away with a bonus point, but you know credit to them, they played until the end and even though we knew what they were going to do we still couldn't stop it.
"A win is a win and we've got to be happy with that, but we've got to move on to the next game now and back it up."
Ospreys forwards coach Chris Gibbes: "I think it's definitely a good result.
"That's what we came here to do was score four tries and see where that led us, and we're just really happy with the effort the boys put in.
"For them to have the courage to play from their own line like that sort of sums up the night really.
"We knew we had to go 12 rounds with this team and the boys stuck to it and we're just incredibly proud to come away with two points."
Clermont Auvergne: Abendanon; Strettle, Rougerie, Fofana, Nakaitaci; Lopez, Parra, Domingo, Kayser, Zirakashvili, Cudmore, Vahaamahina, Chouly, Lapandry, Lee.
Replacements: Vulivuli for Nakaitaci (72), James for Lopez (58), Radosavljevic for Parra (76), Chaume for Domingo (62), Kotze for Zirakashvili (62), Van der Merwe for Vahaamahina (54).
Not Used: Van der Westhuizen, Kolelishvili.
Sin bin: Lapandry (12).
Ospreys: D. Evans; Grabham, Spratt, Matavesi, Walker; Biggar, Leonard, James, Baldwin, Arhip, Ashley, Jones, Lydiate, Tipuric, King.
Replacements: Davies for Grabham (68), Habberfield for Leonard (59), Bevington for James (72), Parry for Baldwin (47), Baker for King (62).
Not Used: Jarvis, Thornton, Dirkson.
Sin Bin: Davies (72).
Att: 18,000
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: David Wilkinson and Olly Hodges (both Ireland)
TMO: Marshall Kilgore (Ireland)
Citing Commissioner: Tony Lanaway (England)


German football legend Franz Beckenbauer is one of six men being investigated for their part in the country's 2006 World Cup bid.

The ethics committee of world governing body Fifa has decided to act after examining a report commissioned by the German Football Association (DFB).
In October, Beckenbauer, 70, said he made a "mistake" in the bidding process for which he took "responsibility".
Germany beat South Africa 12-11 in the vote, which took place in July 2000.
German news weekly Der Spiegel reported last year that an alleged slush fund of 6.7 million euros (£4.8m) was used to buy votes for Germany. The allegation was denied by the DFB.
Beckenbauer, Zwanziger, Schmidt and Hans are to be investigated for "possible undue payments and contracts to gain an advantage in the 2006 World Cup host selection", while Niersbach and Sandrock will be investigated for a "possible failure to report a breach of the Fifa code of ethics".
Beckenbauer was the head of the World Cup organising committee, which reports allege made a payment to Fifa in return for a financial grant.
He captained West Germany to victory as hosts at the 1974 World Cup and was coach when they next lifted the trophy, in Italy 16 years later.
The former defender went on to manage French side Marseille and German giants Bayern Munich, where he is now honorary president.


Russia has used its veto at the UN to block a draft resolution to set up an international tribunal into the MH17 air disaster in July 2014.

It was the only nation at the 15-member UN Security Council to oppose the move, triggering widespread condemnation.
The Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
Pro-Russian rebels in the area have denied shooting down the aircraft.
Western nations and Ukraine say there is evidence it was hit by a Russian-supplied Buk anti-aircraft missile - a claim also denied by Russia.
Malaysia pushed for an international tribunal to try those responsible. The move was backed by the Netherlands - which had 196 nationals on board - Ukraine, Belgium and Australia.
Moscow has blamed the government in Kiev for the disaster.
Speaking earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the establishment of a tribunal would be "premature" and "counter-productive".
Russia exercised its veto at the Security Council session in New York during a vote on Wednesday, while 11 other members backed the draft resolution. Angola, China and Venezuela abstained.
"Russia has callously disregarded the public outcry in the grieving nations," said Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop called the Russian veto "an affront to the memory of the 298 victims of MH17 and their families and friends".
She said Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Belgium would seek an alternative prosecution mechanism, without giving further details.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said: "There can be no reason to oppose this [draft resolution] unless you are a perpetrator yourself."
Russia's envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, defended his country's actions, saying any criminal prosecutions would have been carried out in a "closed fashion".
He also criticised "aggressive propaganda" and said Russian investigators had been denied equal access to the crash site.
Moscow drafted an alternative resolution that did not include a tribunal, but called for a full international investigation.
Malaysia's transport minister had urged council members to vote in favour of a tribunal, saying it would be best placed to "deliver justice to the families of the victims".
A final report on the cause of the crash by the Dutch Safety Board is due to be released in October.
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A fresh meeting to consider nominations for the new Bishop of Llandaff is set to take place.

Last month, an electoral college of 47 people, including all the bishops in Wales, met over three days to vote on a confidential candidates list.
But it ended with no result as none of the candidates received the two-thirds majority needed.
On Tuesday, the bishops will consider new nominations which were put forward in a consultation.
Under the terms of the Church's constitution, the responsibility of filling the vacancy following the first failed vote falls to the Bench of Bishops.
The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, John Davies, who is president of the electoral college, had called for a "wide-ranging" consultation involving both the laity and the clergy.
From that, the bishops will now consider the names put forward as potential candidates.
The election follows the retirement of Dr Barry Morgan at the end of January.


The number of staff reported to their professional bodies over care at a Denbighshire mental health ward has risen to 12.

It follows a damning report into the Tawel Fan ward at Glan Clwyd Hospital.
Simon Dean, interim chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr health board, confirmed nine staff have been reported to the Nursing and Midwifery Council and three to the General Medical Council.
He will give an update on action being taken at a meeting on 11 August.
Nine members of staff have been suspended, another four redeployed and three placed on restricted duties.


The past year was when the planet's biggest pop stars went missing in action.

Kanye West was supposed to have an album ready for his (divisive) headline performance at Glastonbury - but the record, at first titled So Help Me God, then renamed SWISH, has failed to materialise.
Fans even petitioned the White House to get it released - but hope is on the horizon. Ten days ago, the star tweeted "I'm finishing my album"
He wasn't the only one dragging his sequinned heels. R&B star Frank Ocean's follow-up to the groundbreaking Channel Orange was scheduled for July, then disappeared - prompting a foul-mouthed outburst from Adele.
And Rihanna held a lavish launch party for her eighth album, ANTI, in November - but has subsequently failed to produce any new music. In fact, the Bajan star is still auditioning new material, songwriter Sia told BBC Radio 2 a fortnight ago.
"The other night she came over and listened to half of 25 songs I played her because she's still looking for songs for her new album," said the songwriter, who previously wrote Rihanna's number one single, Diamonds.
"It was a business meeting for sure. She took four [songs], but I don't know if they'll end up [on the album]."
Rihanna kicks off a world tour, ostensibly in support of ANTI, in February - but don't assume we'll get new material before the opening night.
"Every album needs to be an 11 out of 10 these days because the reviews are instant," one music industry executive told BBC News.
Agenda-setting releases from Kendrick Lamar, Adele and Dr Dre sent pop stars scrambling into the studio to improve their records this year - so don't expect Rihanna, Kanye or Frank to release anything until they're sure they'll make a similar impact.
Less timid is David Bowie, whose 25th album â˜… (Blackstar) was directly influenced by Kendrick Lamar's expansive take on jazz, hip-hop and funk on the 11 times Grammy-nominated To Pimp A Butterfly.
Assembling a crack team of nimble-fingered jazz maestros, the aim was "in many, many ways, to avoid rock and roll," producer Tony Visconti told Rolling Stone magazine. It comes out on 8 January- Bowie's 69th birthday.
Travelling in the other direction is Elton John, whose Wonderful Crazy Night is a return to the rollicking rock sound of his 1970s heyday, inspired by his domestic bliss.
"I wanted to do something joyous because I was so happy with my children and my husband," the star told the BBC.
Also lining up new releases are Gorillaz, whose new album will be "really fast," with "a lot of energy," says Damon Albarn; and Katy Perry, who promises a new direction on her fourth album. "I can't keep topping myself because I'll just combust at some point," she told the Associated Press.
Primal Scream, who headline the 6 Music Festival in February, have teased six seconds of their 11th album Chaosmosis, on YouTube; while R&B band TLC are working on a fan-funded new album - their first since 2002's 3D.
Will it include another Waterfalls or No Scrubs? Who cares, when contributing to the recording costs can earn you a "TLC slumber party" with T-Boz?
Pop star Lorde has been in the studio since March working on the follow-up to her debut, Pure Heroine - but she has warned fans: "I'm taking my time to make the new stuff as good as I can."
PJ Harvey has also been biding her time. She allowed fans to witness the creation of her new album in a public art installation earlier this year but the results have yet to see the light of day.
And if you're interested in new music, check out multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt, who cherry-picks sounds from rock, pop, dubstep and electronica, with his soaring vocals the sole connective tissue.
He's already won the Brits Critics' Choice award, and is on the longlist for the BBC's Sound of 2016.
Other artists in the running include indie-rock quartet Blossoms, Afrobeat-inspired rapper J Hus and Canadian singer Alessia Cara, who recently cracked the US top 10 with her anti-party anthem, Here.
Outside the BBC's influential list, newcomers to watch include Frances, whose wistful piano ballads will appeal to fans of Adele, and soul singer Jones - whose single Indulge was one of the steamiest records of the last 12 months.
Other artists preparing new albums include:
The hottest ticket for 2016 is Adele, whose tour kicks off in Belfast on Leap Day; while 2015's comeback king Justin Bieber has sold out six night's at London's O2.
Coldplay start the year at the SuperBowl before heading off to visit the world's biggest enormodrones; while Muse are playing "in the round" for the first time on their ambitious Drones tour, in support of their album of the same name.
Singer Matt Bellamy told BBC Radio 2 the show would feature "a whole swarm of drones" flying over the audience. Hopefully they won't slice anyone's fingers off, Enrique Iglesias-style.
At the other end of the musical spectrum, Little Mix will be hitting arenas across the UK with their Get Weird tour. "The way it opens is just epic," Jesy Nelson told the BBC - but the band wouldn't spill any more beans.
"It's all a surprise," said Perrie Edwards. "You'll have to get tickets if you want to know."
Film composer Hans Zimmer is staging his first tour, performing music from Inception, Gladiator, The Dark Knight trilogy and The Lion King to name a few. But we're mainly hoping he'll resurrect his finest moment - the theme song to Going For Gold.
Queen are reuniting with Adam Lambert to headline the Isle of Wight Festival, while Tears For Fears are a wily booking for Camp Bestival.
Glastonbury has yet to announce its headliners, but Adele, AC/DC and Muse are said to be in the running. David Bowie has also been rumoured - more out of tradition than expectation - while Rihanna has a Glastonbury-sized gap in her touring schedule, after playing Wembley Stadium earlier in the week.
I wonder if she'll have finished her album by then?


A woman found dead in a Bournemouth flat was stabbed to death, an inquest has heard.

The body of Kuwaiti student Mashael Albasman, 25, was found on Sunday in a first-floor flat at a property on St Michael's Road.
An inquest which was opened and adjourned in Bournemouth earlier, heard the cause of death was stab wounds.
A man, 58, who was at the property, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.
Police were called to what they described as a "serious incident" shortly after noon on Sunday.
The man was known to the victim, said police, and suffered injuries that later needed hospital treatment.


The film trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey is the most watched YouTube preview of the year reaching more than 36 million views in less than a week.

The trailer gave a taster of the adaptation of the popular erotic trilogy is set to a new version of Beyonce's hit single Crazy in Love.
The film stars Calvin Klein model-turned-actor Jamie Dornan as billionaire Christian Grey.
Dakota Johnson is shy student Anastasia Steele.
The preview beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which got 31 million views in March according to figures from technology firm Zefr.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and co-produced by author EL James, the film is due for release in UK cinemas on Valentine's Day 2015.
The S&M trilogy has sold more than 100 million copies, making it one of the biggest and fastest-selling book series of all time.
A spokesperson from YouTube said that each click on the video is a view and the numbers are calculated globally.
YouTube have "sophisticated technology to count views consistently in order to prevent abuse of the system".
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Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan has been found guilty of eight charges of misconduct but will be allowed to return to work.

Mr Gargan, 48, was suspended following allegations of data protection breaches and inappropriate behaviour with women.
A panel found him guilty of misconduct - but cleared him of gross misconduct.
Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said Mr Gargan's suspension would be lifted and a phased return to work prepared.
In a statement, Mr Gargan said he accepted the panel's findings and apologised that his actions had "fallen below the standards expected of a chief constable".
"I am pleased that the more serious gross misconduct allegations were found not to be proven, including any allegation of inappropriate advances towards female colleagues," he said.
"I am relieved and very pleased that my suspension is at an end."
Mr Gargan, who has been suspended on full pay since May 2014, faced 10 charges of gross misconduct and three charges of misconduct. The PCC said he was found guilty of eight charges at a level of misconduct.
There was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges over the alleged data protection breaches.
The chair of the Avon and Somerset Police Federation, Kevin Phillips, said there would be "an awful lot of concerned police officers".
Mr Phillips added: "The people who have stood up and said something should be protected and can't be victimised.
"I have no doubt whatsoever that they will have concerns and they will be looking over their shoulders."
Panel chair Dorian Lovell-Pank QC will now write a report of its findings and will recommend any sanctions Mr Gargan should face under police regulations.
The panel met behind closed doors even though Ms Mountstevens wanted the proceedings held in public.


Stories about heroic pigeons, poisoned cakes and living with a stammer were among the winners at this year's 500 Words competition.

Now in its fifth year, the BBC Radio 2 contest challenges under-13s to write a story about any fictional topic.
A record 120,421 entries were received, with thousands of volunteers helping to whittle down the entries.
Chris Evans unveiled the six young winners in a live broadcast from St James's Palace.
"Every single young writer in this competition deserves a round of applause, a hats off and a whopping well done for creating such sensational stories," he said.
"They've all been so moving," said teacher Jen Morgan, who helped judge the prize. "It's just a privilege to read some of them."
The winners were:
Gold: Amabel Smith (10) - It's A Wide World
Silver: Hannah Sennouni (12) - Londoner Pigeon
Bronze: Lara Akhurst (11) - Blue
Gold: Sofia Zambuto (9) - Fight For Life
Silver: Robyn Fielding (8) - The Word That Wouldn't Come Out
Bronze: Emily Potts (9) - Cake Wars
Sofia Zambuto's gold award-winning story recounted a mother's desperate attempt to save her family from what appears to be a tsunami.
"Children we must move now," she wrote. "We must leave our home now. We must find a new home. The wave, the flood is coming again. Run with me now, as fast as your legs will carry you. Follow me now."
Judge Charlie Higson said the nine-year-old had "managed to achieve a piece of mature action writing, which is a very difficult thing to do well," and praised the "fantastic twist".
Zambuto had missed the deadline for the 2014 competition by 30 seconds. "I'm kind of pleased I missed it now," she laughed.
The top prize in the older category went to 10-year-old Amabel Smith's It's A Wide World, a story set in a not-too-distant future where the "government uses weight to control society".
Richard Hammond, who chaired the judging panel, called it "astonishing" and "frightening".
"The idea of the government using obesity as a controlling mechanism is such a fresh and original idea."
Cake Wars told the story of a baking contest where the contestants sabotaged each other's entries.
It was written by nine-year-old Emily Potts, who said it was inspired by her grandmother's "terrible cakes".
London Pigeon was a first-person/first-pigeon account of a bird's life, while The Word That Wouldn't Come Out described a stammer from the point of view of a stubborn word, stuck in the speaker's mouth.
Lara Akhurst's Blue was described by children's laureate Malorie Blackman as "a mature, personal story which I found immensely moving".
Celebrities including Sir Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Sally Hawkins and Charles Dance read out the short stories during the prize-giving ceremony.
The event was hosted by the Duchess of Cornwall, who is a patron of the National Literacy Trust.
"Whenever I have a chance - and I don't often get a chance to talk on Radio 2 - I tell everybody we must never forget how important reading and story-telling is," she said.
"Like climbing though the wardrobe into Narnia, stories open doors into different worlds.
"We meet impossible people, travel to remote places and make hundreds of new friends.
"We look around with new eyes and recognise Horrid Henry next door or Professor Snape the chemistry teacher in the school down the road.
"The best stories show us what we all have in common."
1. Fairy tales: princess, charming, unicorn
2. Royalty: coronation, Queen, majesty
3. Family: BFF, grandmother, aunt
4. Shopping: Prada, make-up, shopaholic
1. Dinosaurs: stegosaurus, Jurassic, raptor
2. Superheroes: Batcave, Gotham, Avengers
3. Football: Aguero, Neuer, Suarez
4. Science fiction: teleport, continuum, tardis
An analysis of the 50 million words used in the stories showed that new technology featured strongly in children's imaginations.
One of the most common plotlines in the short story competition was achieving sudden internet fame after posting a YouTube video; while #hashtags were incorporated into the stories with increased frequency.
"Children are not tweeting and using Twitter, but they are using the word hashtag and the symbol # for dramatic effect, it is heightening tension," said Vineeta Gupta, head of children's dictionaries at the Oxford University Press.
But the top 10 nouns were reassuringly related to home, family and daily life.
You can read all the finalists, including the six winning stories, on the 500 Words website.


A third man has been arrested over the death of a West Sussex bomb disposal expert who was last seen in April 2014.

Mark Manning, 54, of Brighton Road, Lancing, was a former military bomb disposal expert
A 42-year-old man from West Worthing was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Two men, aged 50 and 39, were arrested in May also on suspicion of murder. All three have been bailed until 15 October.
Mr Manning had worked for the Mines Advisory Group, a charity that removes landmines and other dangers.
A murder inquiry began in June 2014, but no-one has reported hearing from or seeing Mr Manning and his body has not been found.


Plans for a transparent 'shield' device to protect drivers' heads have been criticised by Haas driver Kevin Magnussen, who says it could make racing dangerous in wet conditions.

On Tuesday, the FIA said it will prioritise testing a clear screen over the controversial halo device, which was tested by all teams last year.
The FIA is committed to introducing additional protection in 2018.
Magnussen, 24, said: "We've seen some pictures. I'm not for it."
Speaking before the weekend's Russian Grand Prix, the Dane added: "I think it's going to be difficult, especially in the wet, with the screen. Even without a screen, in the wet it's difficult to see anything.
"I'm sure with that as well, it's going to be impossible and more dangerous in wet conditions."
The halo - a metal frame that arches over the driver's head from behind his shoulders and meets at central point at the front of the cockpit - is the only head-protection device that has so far proved suitable for the task of protecting drivers from large flying debris.
The FIA said the halo device would be used next season if a shield did not work.
Red Bull trialled a screen system last season - which was dubbed the 'aeroscreen' - but it failed its FIA tests.
A new screen system, known as the shield, has now been proposed with a shallower angle than on the aeroscreen. This is the device that will be tested this year.
The FIA tests will focus firstly on ensuring that the screen is strong enough to deflect a wheel and tyre fired at it at 150mph, and then on whether there are other major issues such as visibility.
The halo has passed all these tests and is ready for introduction, but F1 has already backtracked on a plan to introduce it this year and continues to vacillate over it.
Doubts have arisen from some drivers and team bosses, who feel that its aesthetics are not appropriate for the sport.
Force India's Mexican Sergio Perez: "It [the screen] looks better. It's probably not at the level of halo in terms of safety but there is a lot of improvement that the FIA think can be done. It's a matter of how much development they can do."
Haas' Romain Grosjean: "Can we choose nothing? I was not a huge fan of the halo and not of the shield either. I don't want to affect safety but I don't want to change what I have seen in F1 since ever. The next step is a closed cockpit and I don't want to see F1 being closed cars."
Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat: "I agree with Romain. I think it is enough for now. The way F1 cars should look now should remain the same. I am quite against both options."
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas: "I don't mind the shield, it looks OK. It is definitely a good step on the halo in terms of how it looks. Safety it is always important to keep improving. I wouldn't mind trying out the shield and seeing if there are any issues but in terms of safety it would be a good step in terms of what we have now."
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen: "I have only seen a picture of the shield. Until we try it's very hard to say how it is. Is it better than the halo? I don't know. Looks-wise I don't think there is an awful lot of difference."
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo: "We got a presentation in China about the shield and we still have to see a bit more. First impressions seemed OK and I guess we will now get some development on that and run it in practices as soon as they can put it on the car. It's good they're still looking for the head protection stuff."


Scotland's licensing boards have been urged to do more to protect communities from alcohol harm.

A report published by Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS) claimed often concerns of local people were ignored by boards.
It suggested more boards highlighted the economic importance of the licensed trade than the damaging consequences of alcohol.
And it found more than half had extended licensing hours over the past six years.
Boards must publish statements of licensing policy every three years, with the latest round to run until 2016.
AFS analysed the 25 which had been published by the end of April 2014 and said some progress has been made in how they are controlling the availability of alcohol.
But its chief executive, Dr Evelyn Gillan, said the licensing process was too removed from the people and neighbourhoods most affected by the boards' decisions.
She said: "Licensing boards have an important role in trying to minimise the harm that alcohol can cause because they have the power to control how much alcohol is available in their areas.
"The good news is that some boards are working well with the police and health professionals, declaring more areas of overprovision and actively seeking the views of local communities in licensing decision-making."
However, she added: "There is a lack of transparency about how the evidence of alcohol harm presented to licensing boards by health, police, and local people has been listened to and acted upon."
The number of alcohol licences in Scotland has remained broadly static in recent years, according to government figures.
In 2012/13 there were 16,237 premises licences across Scotland - 11,363 on-sales and 4,874 off-sales.
That was slightly down on the previous 12 months (16,379), and on the figure for 2010/11 (16,377).
Among the findings of the report were:
Ch Supt Mark Williams, police commander in Edinburgh said: "My staff and other public agencies have made strong representation to the licensing authority highlighting the very clear link between the availability of alcohol and increased harm.
"In a policing context this usually manifests as anti-social behaviour, disorder and violence."
AFS said there was some good practice where boards had taken into account the views of police, health professionals and local community groups.
They included in Glasgow, North Ayrshire, Aberdeen, Dumfries and Galloway, Highland and East Lothian.
Fiona Moss, head of health improvement at Glasgow City Community Health Partnership said: "We were invited to give evidence during the consultation process and I was pleased with the way the licensing board considered this evidence and listened to the principal health messages.
"I welcomed the board's decision not to further extend routine licensing hours and not to grant further breakfast licences within the new policy."
The AFS report recommended boards should produce detailed statistics to enable effective monitoring of the licensing system.


Most of us have seen one of these at some point...

But you've probably never seen one of these...
Yep, that's right. Google Street View has evolved into "Camel Cam".
The trial in the United Arab Emirates' Liwa Desert has made it possible for each and every one of us to carry out a virtual tour of those sandy dunes from the comfort of our own homes.
The company says using using camels meant they could take "authentic imagery" with minimal disruption to the environment.
Street View now covers parts of around 230 countries.
But the project's had its fair share of controversies since it started in 2007.
When it launched in the UK, many people were appalled at what they saw as an invasion of their privacy by a Big Brother American business.
In the village of Broughton, near Milton Keynes, residents chased a Street View car away and accused Google of trying to peer through their windows.
In Germany, the reaction was much stronger, with entire streets blanked out as residents rebelled against the idea.
The company responded by saying "it's not like we are driving in one place at one time, it's not like a camera is pointing at you all the time".
In 2010 it also came out that some of the cars had been collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks and that some emails and passwords were accidentally downloaded.
The company apologised and promised to learn from what had happened.
But at least one thing Google can rely on this time, surely there won't be any such complaints in the desert.
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Germany's jobless rate has fallen by 6,000 to 2.78 million, as Europe's biggest economy continues to recover.

The seasonally adjusted figure is at its lowest level since a year after German reunification in 1990.
The head of the Federal Labour Office, Frank-Juergen Weise, said strong consumer consumption was helping to drive the downward trend.
A recent survey showed Germans are feeling more optimistic than at any point since October 2001.
The chief economist at the government-owned KfW Development Bank, Joerg Zeuner, said demand for staff was rising in almost every sector, although it was weaker in manufacturing.
Private consumption has overtaken exports as the main impetus behind Germany's growth.
The government is hoping household spending will help the economy to expand by 1.8% this year, but economists at Deutsche Bank have lowered their forecast to 1.6%, because of weaker-than-expected first-quarter growth.


A police sergeant accused of lying at the 2012 inquest into the death of a man in custody has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Sean Rigg, a 40-year-old musician from south London, died of a cardiac arrest while he was being held at Brixton police station on 21 August 2008.
The officer, on restricted duties, did not enter a plea to the perjury charge.
He was ordered to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 22 September for a preliminary hearing.
Mr Rigg, who suffered from schizophrenia, had been arrested on suspicion of attacking a man in Balham, south London.


Roads have been closed around Aberdeen beach following the discovery of an ordnance device.

Police Scotland said it was informed about the find at 15:40 on Sunday.
The beach esplanade was expected to be closed "for some time" as a public safety precaution.
The road has been shut from the roundabout with the Beach Ballroom, the junction with Park Road and the junction with King Street.


Three soldiers were unlawfully killed by a rogue Afghan soldier in Helmand in July 2010, an inquest has ruled.

Maj James Bowman, Lt Neal Turkington and Cpl Arjun Purja Pun died in a suspected premeditated attack by an Afghan National Army member.
Maj Bowman was shot as he slept. His comrades were shot in their command centre, where four others were injured.
The inquest in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, concluded that there was no evidence of failure to properly protect the men.
Wiltshire coroner David Ridley said: "I am satisfied that all three were killed as a result of the actions of the member of the Afghan National Army (ANA)."
The inquest heard that Sgt Talib Hussein, 23, of the ANA, shot Maj Bowman, 34, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, dead in his sleeping quarters in Patrol Base 3 (PB3) in Nahr-e Saraj district, near Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah.
Using an Afghan-issue light machine gun, an M16 rifle and a grenade launcher, he then fired into the base's command centre, killing Lt Turkington, 26, from Craigavon, Northern Ireland, and Cpl Pun, 33, from Nepal, before escaping.
Post-mortem examinations found all three soldiers had died from gunshot wounds, the inquest was told.
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The key question facing the inquest was this: had the army done all it could to protect the men from the risks posed by the Afghan National Army soldiers with whom they were embedded at Patrol Base 3 in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand?
Their commanding officer, Lt Col Strickland, told the inquest the external threats posed by Taliban insurgents were far greater than the threat from inside the base, and that his men would have been at greater risk if they had not sought to build mutual trust and respect in partnership with the Afghan National Army.
The inquest heard there had been friction between the British and Afghan troops, including a row over bottled water following which the Gurkhas' Hindu temple was vandalised.
But Maj Bowman, the base commander, had not been concerned. And the inquest was told that nothing about the assailant himself, Talib Hussein, remotely suggested that he posed a risk.
The coroner concluded there was no evidence of any systematic failure by the army in its duty to protect its soldiers while they were on a British base.
Mr Ridley accepted the Army had a duty to protect those on the base under the European Convention for Human Rights but said he saw no evidence it had failed to do so.
"One must guard against hindsight," he said.
"In this case the possibility of an ANA attack was known but it was never perceived at any level, either by those based at PB3 or higher up, as a real risk, an actual risk."
Speaking of Hussein, Mr Ridley said: "The general perception was that he was a quiet individual but (he) had the respect of those with the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf)."
He was one of the better members of the ANA, with nothing to suggest he posed a safety risk, the coroner said.
After the inquest, Lt Turkington's father, Ivor, said he was pleased at the judge's acknowledgement of the Army's duties in relation to the human rights of personnel on bases outside the UK.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission had backed him in raising the point.
Its director Virginia McVea said the ruling would have a "major impact" on future inquests.
"It ensures a fuller investigation where there is a suggestion of systemic failures to protect soldiers' lives," she said.
Brig Richard Felton, then commander of Taskforce Helmand, had told the inquest that his main concern was the "thousands and thousands" of attacks on bases from insurgent forces.
Jonathan Laidlaw QC, representing the family of Lt Turkington, told the brigadier they were concerned that no steps had been taken prior to the attack to prepare the troops for the threat from ANA soldiers.
Brig Felton said: "There was no evidence for the threat. We had been living cheek-by-jowl with the ANA for four years with no incident."
He said the relationship between the British troops and their ANA counterparts depended on trust.
"If you are facing real and present danger then you have to have that trust and you do not build up that trust by putting up physical barriers where it's not appropriate."
Nothing suggested that Hussein was a member of the Taliban who had infiltrated the ANA, the inquest heard.
However, after the killings, a man calling himself Talib Hussein contacted the BBC bureau in Kabul to claim he carried out the killings, saying he had been angry at the conduct of British troops and that he had acted alone.
He said he had joined the Taliban after the attack.
Capt Peter Houlton-Hart told the Trowbridge inquest he thought Talib Hussein may have been threatened with retribution if he did not carry out the attack.