Proposals for the renewal of the BBC charter will be published in a government White Paper later.

Culture Secretary John Whittingdale is expected to set out a tougher regime for the broadcaster in plans for a new royal charter for the next 11 years.
Reports have claimed the BBC will scale back online services, including losing recipe pages and magazine content.
The BBC said it was reviewing online services but such claims were "speculation".
The royal charter expires at the end of December and a public consultation into its future was launched last year.
Earlier in May, Labour accused Mr Whittingdale of "meddling", following reports he would allow commercial broadcasters to challenge the BBC over peak-time scheduling, a claim that was denied.
Mr Whittingdale, speaking in the Commons on Wednesday, said media reports ahead of the publication of the paper had ranged from "complete fantasy" to "quite well-informed", adding: "But certainly not informed by me or my department."
A government source told the Sunday Times the White Paper was intended to "set a broad set of principles and guidelines".
"How that is applied to individual programmes and scheduling is a matter for them. But they will be subject to external regulation."
The Guardian has claimed the licence fee would be subjected to "top-slicing", with a portion of it being handed to commercial rivals in areas such as children's programming.
Newspapers have also speculated Mr Whittingdale will make the BBC publish how much it pays top talent earning more than Â£150,000.
At Sunday night's TV Bafta awards, Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky was one of a number of people who spoke out against alleged government plans.
He claimed ministers were trying to "eviscerate" the BBC and that now was "a dangerous time for broadcasting in Britain".
In a speech at the British Museum, Prime Minister David Cameron said the broadcaster was one of the "most recognised brands on the planet", while Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester of Herne Hill warned a public protest march would follow any "stupid" decisions in regards to the BBC's future.
The White Paper is also expected to address the conclusions of Sir David Clementi's report into the BBC Trust, which recommended "fundamental reform" of the body.
The document follows 2015's Green Paper, which was a consultation paper about the future of the corporation.
In that paper, Mr Whittingdale said there was a "need to ask some hard questions in charter review if we are to ensure the future success of the BBC and, indeed, UK broadcasting".
"I believe the BBC can continue to thrive. But to do that it will need to evolve," he said.
In an email to staff, BBC director general Tony Hall said the White Paper "must give us a mandate for a secure future".
He said he would address staff following the paper's publication.
Lord Hall wrote: "It's a big moment. Of course, every Charter matters - but perhaps this one even more so, as it's taking place in the middle of a global media revolution."
He said the BBC must have a "certainty of funding, as well as control over its own revenue streams".
"This debate should lead us to a position where our creativity can flourish rather than be constrained...
"We need to change the way we're governed to make it simpler and clearer. But, any changes must protect the independence of the BBC."
Meanwhile, the corporation has announced the commissioning, publishing and some of the production of BBC Three's short-form content is to move from London to  Birmingham by 2018.
The TV channel, which became online-only in February, will create new commissioner and assistant commissioner roles in the city.
Birmingham will also be the home of a team within BBC News supplying content for BBC Three's Daily Drop web stream.
The BBC said its proposed partnerships with local news organisations are also expected to be based in Birmingham, alongside the existing English Regions HQ.


Mobile phone company Three has apologised after some of its customers were unable to make calls or texts.

The company said it had a "temporary network issue" which affected calls and texts during Saturday afternoon and evening.
It said calls had since been restored and that it is working to restore full service.
But some users on Twitter complained of their texts being sent to random numbers instead of their contacts.
A spokeswoman said the company was "currently investigating the cause of the service disruption" and that it apologised for any inconvenience.
It also said that some "customers and non-customers" may have received a message from an unknown sender on Saturday.
In a statement on its website, the company said its advice "is to ignore all text messages that you deem incorrect".
Three, which has about nine million customers, experienced a data breach last year which saw personal details, including names and addresses, accessed unlawfully.
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A "hard Brexit" could have a "crippling effect" on homebuilding in the capital, the mayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned.

One in four construction workers in London is from the European Union (EU), a report by City Hall has found.
The 'Housing in London' study found that 95,000 of the capital's 350,000 construction workers are from the EU.
The government has so far refused to confirm what the status of EU workers in the UK will be after Brexit.
Just over half of London's construction workforce are from the UK, while nationally overseas workers make up 13%, City Hall reported.
In the last two decades the population of London has grown by 25% but the number of homes has only increased 15%, it was claimed, placing huge pressure on the city's housing market.
Last week, a study by the campaign group Fifty Thousand Homes found a third of London homes granted planning permission had not been built.
The government has said it wants a million homes built across England by 2020.
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London needs up to an extra 13,000 new construction workers each year until 2021 in order to plug skills gaps and meet the additional demands on the construction industry, according to City Hall.
Mr Khan said: "London is in the grip of a serious housing crisis."
"A 'hard Brexit' could leave a quarter of the skilled construction workforce in the capital high and dry which would have a crippling effect on our plans to build the homes Londoners so desperately need," the Labour mayor added.
GLA Conservatives spokesperson for housing, Andrew Boff, said: "London depends on migrants".
"We also need to train British workers to meet demand but we can't expect the industry to wait for us to catch up," he added.


Fast food giant McDonald's is facing pressure from both workers and investors, who are increasingly unhappy with the firm's business strategy.

Hundreds of fast food workers and supporters converged in front of McDonald's corporate headquarters on Thursday morning before the company's annual shareholder meeting.
They demanded the fast food giant raise wages to $15 per hour, from $9.
Separately, investors voted to change how board members are elected.
They are unhappy with the firm's slumping sales.
McDonald's - the once invincible-seeming US corporate food giant whose arches are seen across the globe - is struggling, as health-conscious consumers eschew its food in the US and workers stage day-long protests against the company.
That has made this shareholder meeting - the first since British-born chief executive Steve Easterbrook took over the firm in January - a crucial focus of both worker angst and investor frustration.
McDonald's banned media from attending the event, and has sought to dismiss both worker complaints and investor efforts to change the management of the firm.
On a chilly morning outside the company's headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, hundreds of protestors chanted slogans such as "supersize my wages" as shareholders arrived at the meeting.
A dozen police prevented the protestors from interacting with the attendees, who were required to show their shareholder ballots emblazoned with a large red 2015 stamp to a security guard before being allowed in.
Some protestors carried oversize checks with the weekly wages of "actual McDonald's workers" - $62.18 and $34.07.
Many had travelled from across the country - New York City, Tampa, and Philadelphia - to hand in a petition of a million signatures demanding McDonald's raise the minimum wage it pays workers.
They said they were energised by the Los Angeles' city council's announcement on Tuesday that it had voted to increase the minimum wage in the city to $15 per hour by 2020.
Since 2012, the group - known as the Fast for 15 coalition - has been putting pressure on corporations to increase wages from the current US federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to a "living wage" of $15.
Many experts have said that the group has been successful in exerting pressure on firms such as Walmart, Target, and others to raise wages.
"Part of the [wage increases] are due to the fact that as the economy has improved, [corporations] need to do something to hold on to workers - Walmart was having trouble keeping goods stocked in their stores," Professor Ken Jacobs, head of the University of California-Berkeley's Labor Center, told the BBC.
"But I don't think McDonald's, without all the protests, would have acted.
"I think the workers [who], really quite courageously, went out on strike have really inspired and moved something that's very big and will have long-term repercussions."
Lawrence Yancy, a lifelong Chicagoan, has worked in fast food since he graduated high school in 1989, after which he got a job at Wendy's.
He is just one of many workers here who are frustrated with the gap between how much McDonald's executives are paid versus the restaurant employees.
"I'm tired of struggling all the time," he told the BBC during a break from the protests at his small and slightly run-down one bedroom apartment in the Kimball neighbourhood. The area is close to Hyde Park, near where US President Barack Obama lives.
He has worked as a grill cook at a Chicago McDonald's since January 2003 and says he was inspired to join the movement after labour organisers visited his store last year as part of an effort by the Service Employees International Union to get fast food workers to join a union.
He says he is frustrated that his wages have barely budged from the $5.50 per hour he started making when he first joined the company, to the $8.40 he makes now.
"I just want to be able to save - and maybe buy some new clothes," he said.
McDonald's has dismissed the protests as not being indicative of workers at the firm and its franchises more generally.
This "is the latest instance in an $80m publicity campaign organized and paid for by the Service Employees International Union and its members," said the company in a statement.
"As has been the case in earlier protests, very few McDonald's or independent franchisee employees are participating."
But many shareholders took pictures of the protests as they headed into the meeting - which could further add to investor concerns, as well as influencing voting at the meeting.
Late on Wednesday, large institutional investors released a letter calling for McDonald's and other firms to amend the way investors can decide who sits on the company's board through a move known as "proxy access".
The investors include the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) and the New York City Pension Funds - who control a combined $860bn in assets.
The heads of pension funds in New York City, Chicago, and California wrote in a letter that the move was an effort to challenge the company's decision to buy back shares to please investors, at the expense of long-term growth.
"McDonalds is facing serious performance challenges. But despite a recently announced and much needed turnaround plan, the company continues to direct capital towards an aggressive share buyback programme," they wrote in a letter.
They said that these buybacks should instead be directed at increasing worker wages, in addition to being reinvested in the company.
McDonald's urged shareholders to vote against the move. Despite the opposition, 61% of voting shareholders approved the proxy access bylaw.
"We'll be evaluating the advisory vote, and the board will consider it to determine what's appropriate," McDonald's said in a statement.


A Swedish rights activist, released after being held in China on charges of damaging national security, has called for his colleagues to be freed.

After arriving back in Sweden, Peter Dahlin made the plea on national radio.
The 35-year-old was detained in early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists.
Last week he appeared on state media apparently confessing to breaking the law through his organisation's support of local Chinese rights lawyers.
His organisation, Chinese Urgent Action Working Group (China Action), called the report "absurd" and said the confession appeared to have been forced.
Speaking on Swedish Radio on Tuesday, Mr Dahlin thanked Swedish diplomats for their efforts to get him freed, but expressed concern for his colleagues still being held.
"I'm obviously quite happy to be back but three of my colleagues and close friends are still incarcerated without a quick solution in sight," he said, without naming those he was referring to.
He stressed that he had been released on medical and diplomatic grounds, so the allegations against him remain and if he returned to China he could face trial.
Mr Dahlin is the co-founder of China Action, which describes itself as a legal aid organisation.
It provides assistance to uncertified "barefoot" lawyers who provide legal aid in rural areas, and provides direct help to disadvantaged groups and individuals who have experienced rights violations.
The group had said Mr Dahlin was detained on 4 January while en route to the airport for a flight to Thailand.
More than 280 lawyers, legal assistants and associates were detained in a seemingly orchestrated government campaign last year - most have since been freed, but others now face trial while the whereabouts of others are still unknown.
Such moves contradict China's implementation of reforms explicitly aimed at strengthening the rule of law, say correspondents.
China Action's US-based co-founder, Michael Caster, tweeted on Monday that Mr Dahlin's Chinese girlfriend, Pan Jinling, was also no longer in detention "but... has not left the country".
Earlier Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said she remained "greatly concerned" about the status of detained Swedish national Gui Minhai.
Mr Gui is one of five people linked to a Hong Kong publishing house to disappear in recent months. He vanished while on holiday in Thailand in October last year.
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He also appeared on Chinese TV earlier this month, saying he had voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities over a drink-driving fatality years ago.
The case has sparked protests in Hong Kong from those who believe they were kidnapped by China and are being held because of allegations in a book they were working on, critical of the mainland.
Ms Wallstrom said Sweden's "efforts to get a clear picture of his situation and the possibility to visit him continue with undiminished force".
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UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill has been told to stop "double jobbing" or face having his right to stand for election removed by the party.

In a letter leaked to BBC Wales, UKIP chairman Steve Crowther asks Mr Gill to honour a commitment to stand down as an MEP now he is an AM for North Wales.
His UKIP colleagues in the assembly made a similar plea last month.
A source close to Mr Gill said his overall salary is lower since he became an AM. He declined to comment.
In the letter, sent on 6 July, Steve Crowther said: "The NEC [UKIP's National Executive Committee] has resolved that our MEPs should not double-job as assembly members, and received assurances from both you and David Coburn [MEP in Scotland] that this would not be done.
"In addition, you stated in your election address for the Welsh candidacy that you would resign as an MEP if elected to the Welsh Assembly.
"The NEC asked me to reiterate to you that it stands by that resolution.
"It requests that you respond within seven days with an indication of your intention.
"It also instructed me to inform you that if this is not resolved satisfactorily it will consider taking action which may include removing your right to stand for election in the future."
During UKIP's assembly selection process in February, Mr Gill said he would "resign as an MEP" if elected to the assembly.
He became an AM in May's election. But after the EU referendum he said he would stay on as an MEP because it had become a "non-position".
Mr Gill has previously said he receives a 300 euro a week allowance rather than a normal MEP salary.
A source close to the UKIP Wales leader said, because of tax rules, his overall combined salary is now lower than before he became an AM.
"He's lost money by doing this," the source said.


Scores of migrants are spending another night stuck on the Greece-Macedonia border after they were not allowed to continue their journey.

Groups of people have been seen trying to warm up around bonfires on a cold night on the Greek side of the border.
About six migrants earlier sewed their lips together in protest.
Macedonia and other Balkan nations said last week they would only let in people fleeing conflicts - such as in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hundreds of migrants have been protesting for several days against the decision.
About 2,900 people crossed into Macedonia in the 24 hours before 06:00 (local time) on Monday, down from more than 6,000 on the previous day, the Associated Press news agency quoted local police as saying.
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Europe's border controls have come under renewed scrutiny since the attacks in Paris on 13 November.
At least two of the militants involved had passed through Greece, apparently posing as migrants, early last month.
Balkan countries said last week they would only open their borders to people fleeing countries affected by war such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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US troops have targeted and killed a leading member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in a commando raid in Syria, military officials say.

The attack took place near the town of Mayadin in eastern Syria.
Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, who was believed to be from Uzbekistan, is said by the Americans to be a close associate of the IS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The US says he played a key role in an attack on a night club in Istanbul on New Year's Eve which killed 39 people.
Turkish police arrested Abdulkadir Masharipov, the main suspect in the attack, on 17 January after a huge manhunt.
"It was a ground operation. I think that's all we're willing to say about that," US Central Command spokesman John Thomas said in Washington in relation to Friday's attack.
For the most part, the US has used unmanned drone strikes with Hellfire missiles to kill what they term "high value individuals", often targeting them in vehicles to minimise the possibility of collateral civilian deaths.
But while using troops on the ground to target IS leaders is unusual, it is not unheard of.
In 2015, US special forces troops killed Abu Sayyaf in Syria not far from the site of this recent operation. Abu Sayyaf was described as chief financial officer for IS and his wife was captured and interrogated.
Another such raid took place in January of this year in which US forces hoped to capture an individual for interrogation, but he was killed in a shootout.
Using ground troops is of course more risky than flying drones. But it can often bring greater rewards as special forces can capture computers and other sources of intelligence which would otherwise be vaporised by a Hellfire missile.
At any one time there are around 500 members of US special forces in Syria, mainly advising and assisting Kurdish and Arab groups fighting IS.
An "expeditionary targeting force" has operated inside Iraq and Syria to target senior IS and al-Qaeda leaders since late 2015, ABC reported, but usually details of their operations on the ground are not disclosed.
Mr Thomas was quoted by ABC as saying that the US has "a pretty good record of finding these folks and killing them".
Reina at the time of the attack was one of Istanbul's best-known clubs, with a view across the Bosphorus towards Asia and attracting singers, actors, sports stars and tourists.
Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed to have mounted the assault on the club, rushing through the entrance with a long-barrelled gun and firing randomly at people celebrating the new year.
Citizens of Israel, France, Tunisia, Lebanon, India, Belgium, Jordan and Saudi Arabia were among the victims, and dozens of people were injured.
IS said it orchestrated the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
Police arrested Masharipov more than two weeks after the attack, when he was found along with his four year-old son at the home of a Kyrgyz friend in Istanbul.


A woman who was stabbed to death by her neighbour in north-west London said she felt the harassment from him would "never end", a court has heard.

Trevor Gibbon, 48, is accused of murdering Alison Morrison, 45, in Harrow, on 18 December 2014.
Ms Morrison said in a statement from an earlier magistrates' case the "constant unending harassment" was draining.
Mr Gibbon denies murder but has admitted the killing, arguing he was suffering a mental abnormality.
The Old Bailey heard Mr Gibbon said he was "suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning", which impaired his ability to form rational judgment and exercise self-control.
The mother-of-one was stabbed 33 times as she made her way to work after a four-year dispute over noise, the jury previously heard.
The day before he ambushed Ms Morrison, Mr Gibbon had pleaded guilty to harassing her family and was issued with a restraining order, the court heard.
The prosecution said the dispute started when Ms Morrison, her husband Cedric and their son moved next door to Mr Gibbon and his partner, Maria Perrett, in Windsor Crescent, Harrow, in 2011.
Almost immediately, Mr Gibbon began complaining about the teenage boy's skateboarding, the court heard.
In the handwritten notes, read out in court, Ms Morrison said the police did not initially believe her after she complained about how Mr Gibbon was treating her family.
She said: "It felt like I was being stalked, that any time Cedric or my son left or returned to the house he was waiting and watching for us and planning what he would do next."
Ms Morrison said she was worried about Mr Gibbon's inability to stop despite the police "constantly visiting him".
"Even now I don't believe he knows how to stop doing what he did and fully expect him to start again when he knows things have quietened down," she wrote.
Ms Morrison also said she was forced to to install Â£2,000 of CCTV equipment and buy a camera for her husband's bike helmet because of the harassment.
She added: "I have suffered a great financial loss to protect my family from my neighbour and to make sure they are safe."
The case continues.


A senior police officer is under investigation over allegations of bullying towards another officer.

Essex Police's professional standards department referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Neither Essex Police nor the IPCC would identify the senior officer under investigation or that person's rank.
The investigation involves allegations of verbal and physical abuse on three occasions in 2015 and 2016.
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IPCC Commissioner Cindy Butts said: "It is crucial to securing public confidence in the police that allegations of this nature concerning a senior officer are independently investigated.
"We will thoroughly examine the reports of alleged bullying behaviour to determine whether or not the officer has acted inappropriately, or breached the standards of professional behaviour."
The officer, who holds a rank above superintendent, has been served with a gross misconduct notice informing them that their conduct is under investigation.
An Essex Police spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment further.


A woman whose body was found after an explosion destroyed a house died of stab wounds, police have said.

The bodies, believed to be Shelley Saxton-Cooper, 45 and Simon Saxton-Cooper, 50, were found after emergency services were called to a house in Riddings, Derbyshire.
Post-mortem examinations found Shelley died as a result of stab wounds and Simon died from smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Police launched a murder inquiry after the couple were found dead in the partly-collapsed building on Sunday.
The blaze destroyed much of the building's roof and fire crews had to wait several hours for the remaining structure to be declared safe before they could recover the victims' remains.
On Monday, Ch Supt Sunita Gamblin said: "We believe that Shelley was wounded before the explosion and fire. We are treating her death as murder.
Police and fire services are conducting an ongoing investigation and a report is being compiled for the coroner.
It is not believed anyone else was involved, Derbyshire police said.
A pet dog which escaped the blast is being looked after by relatives of the couple.


Manchester United's £36m signing Anthony Martial came off the bench to make his France debut in a 1-0 friendly win away to Portugal.

Martial, 19, has four goals in 12 France Under-21 games, but could not make an impact after replacing Karim Benzema in the 74th minute.
Euro 2016 hosts France won the game through a superb late free-kick from Lyon midfielder Mathieu Valbuena.
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Portugal, who remain at the top of their five-team qualifying group despite not being in competitive action on Friday, fielded a strong line-up with captain Cristiano Ronaldo joined by former Manchester United team-mate Nani and current Real Madrid colleague Pepe.
However it was Didier Deschamps' visitors who created more of the chances in the first half with Blaise Matuidi twice going close before Newcastle's Moussa Sissoko wasted a good chance as he attempted to pick out Benzema rather than shoot.
Ronaldo was replaced by Ricardo Quaresma in the 67th minute and the game appeared to be heading for a stalemate before Valbuena's curling effort dipped over the wall and out of reach of goalkeeper Rui Patricio five minutes from time.
Match ends, Portugal 0, France 1.
Second Half ends, Portugal 0, France 1.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (France).
Bernardo Silva (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Raphael Varane (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eder (Portugal).
Substitution, France. Olivier Giroud replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Corner,  Portugal. Conceded by Raphael Varane.
Corner,  Portugal. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Portugal) left footed shot from long range on the left is blocked.
Substitution, Portugal. Bernardo Silva replaces Danilo Pereira.
Corner,  Portugal. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Goal!  Portugal 0, France 1. Mathieu Valbuena (France) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Antoine Griezmann (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jose Fonte (Portugal).
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Miguel Veloso (Portugal).
Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Patrice Evra with a cross.
Substitution, France. Mathieu Valbuena replaces Moussa Sissoko.
Substitution, Portugal. Danny replaces João Mário.
Attempt missed. Nani (Portugal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Attempt missed. Eder (Portugal) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Eliseu with a cross.
Substitution, France. Anthony Martial replaces Karim Benzema.
Attempt missed. Cédric Soares (Portugal) right footed shot from long range on the right misses to the right. Assisted by João Mário.
Attempt blocked. Eder (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Raphael Varane (France) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann with a cross.
Corner,  France. Conceded by Rui Patrício.
Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (France) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Danilo Pereira (Portugal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Karim Benzema (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danilo Pereira (Portugal).
Foul by Karim Benzema (France).
Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Laurent Koscielny (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal).
Substitution, Portugal. Ricardo Quaresma replaces Cristiano Ronaldo.
Attempt missed. Nani (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by João Mário.
Blaise Matuidi (France) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Miguel Veloso (Portugal).
Corner,  Portugal. Conceded by Raphael Varane.


Fleetwood Town have signed former Barcelona youngster Godswill Ekpolo.

The 21-year-old Nigerian, who can play at right-back or centre-back, played for the Spanish giants' B team last season.
Ekpolo spent 11 years in the La Liga side's youth system and has been on trial at Highbury Stadium for the past two weeks.
He was named in the League One club's starting line-up for their FA Cup first-round tie at Southport on Monday.
Fleetwood have not disclosed the length of Ekpolo's deal.


Forest Green Rovers have signed striker Matt Tubbs on a one-year deal after his contract at Portsmouth was cancelled by mutual consent.

Tubbs scored 14 goals in 39 League Two games for Pompey after joining from Bournemouth in January 2015.
The 31-year-old ended last season on loan at Eastleigh, where he found the net twice in 14 appearances.
"He's scored at this level and the two above - Matt is a really big signing," Rovers manager Mark Cooper said.
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After launching with the slogan "Life is short, let's live it well", the New Day is set to close after just nine weeks.

Low sales figures were blamed for its demise but both the publisher and the editor said readers had really engaged with the paper and it had built a strong following on Facebook. Within two hours of the announcement, hundreds of people had left comments on editor Alison Phillips's goodbye post.
Here readers and commentators describe why they think the paper failed to keep up on the news stands.
When the paper launched in February it promised an "optimistic approach" to news that would be politically neutral and was aimed at "time-poor" readers who no longer buy a paper.
Many women reacted on Facebook saying the content had really appealed to them.
Sharon said: "I enjoyed reading it. Unbiased, unpolitical. Thank you for showing us a better read", while Kara wrote: "Really disappointed. Others newspapers just don't work for me and I really enjoyed the new day! Such a shame!"
John added: "Conjured something innovative and daring. You were conjuring something quite different from the start. Valiant effort from some sterling writers."
Others were more critical, saying that the content was not what they were looking for.
Beth wrote on Facebook: "The whole concept of it (news in a fast and simpler format) is exactly the same as the i, which is well established and still only 40p a copy - most people will go for that."
Steve Hewlett, presenter of the BBC Radio Four Media show, said the paper "didn't create any traction" and "found no market".  "It had all the hallmarks of something that was designed by research, without a beating heart, if you like."
At a time when many newspapers are struggling against a tide of free newspapers and online content, many thought the New Day started out facing an uphill battle.
John McGrath wrote: "I understand the principle of what you set out to achieve, but I can't say I'm surprised! In this digital age, I was more shocked that there would be an actual new newspaper. I just think, why buy a newspaper when you get the news on your phone for free?"
Phil added on the BBC website: "Only read the local freebees that endless(ly) fall on my doormat - three or four pages of local issues. Not read a national daily or weekend paper for 25 years - am I missing anything that is not on the TV, radio or www?.. they are all just a waste of resources in the digital age."
Meanwhile, Andy wrote on Facebook: "Hard copy circulation figures are haemorrhaging all over the country. You have to ask who and why was it decided to launch this product in the first place. Surely an e-edition with dramatically lower overheads would have made better business sense. The investment wasted on print could have been better spent on acute marketing."
But Kerry adds: "I'm sick of reading all the comments about everyone reading news online. Some of us don't have access to internet or can't afford it. I like to hold and read a newspaper in my hand... I will be sad to see it go."
The cost of the newspaper was a factor for some. After a free launch issue the price rose to 25p and then to 50p two weeks later.
Alan Johnson wrote on Facebook: "Had a cost advantage when it was 25p, but when it became 50p, a similar price to other papers, was off putting, as seemed to be thin for 50p compared to rivals."
Another BBC News reader said: "New Day would obviously fit into the quick grab, quick scan, then chuck away on your way to work city environment. OK for London but not much anywhere else."
Many readers were shocked the newspaper was not given a longer time to get going.
Mark Harris wrote: "50 issues? Have you given it enough time?" while reader Rainie Daze added: "Surely you'd need to give it say six months to get known before you can judge how many copies can be sold?
"Most people I know still haven't heard of it and I live in a rural area where quite often I haven't been able to buy it when I wanted as some shops didn't stock it or only had a few copies that had ran out before I got there."
Johnny Fox commented: "It's extraordinary that the budget for a launch period wasn't six months and it's been cancelled in two. Even if they learned quickly that 'positive thinking' doesn't sell papers, there should have been time to try alternative editorial strategies if they really were launching a brand new national daily."
But Amol Rajan, editor-at-large at the Independent, said it was the right time to close. "If it's not working, it's better to pull out quickly rather than lingering on."
Editor Alison Phillips has commended the New Day team "for having the guts to take a chance and to try something new when they knew there were few guarantees of success".
Its closure also follows on from the Independent and Independent on Sunday ending their print editions.
Peter on Twitter commented: "New Day newspaper was aimed at people who didn't buy papers. It's closing. I think I can spot the flaw in their business plan!"
Media commentator Roy Greenslade agreed it was a bad business idea from Trinity Mirror.
"Did no-one at the company stop to wonder at the unlikelihood of convincing a target audience composed of people who dislike newspapers to buy a newspaper?" he wrote in the Guardian.
"If the publisher was to have any hope of winning them over then the obvious requirement was massive publicity over a prolonged period."
In it's trading update Trinity Mirror said: "Although the New Day has received many supportive reviews and built a strong following on Facebook, the circulation for the title is below our expectations.
"Whilst disappointing, the launch and subsequent closure have provided new insights into enhancing our newspapers and a number of these opportunities will be considered over time."


Goalkeeper Boubacar Barry saved and scored the crucial spot-kicks that handed Ivory Coast a dramatic 9-8 penalty shootout win over Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations final.

Barry, who appeared to cramp up during the shootout, denied fellow keeper Brimah Razak - one of five efforts missed - before slotting in the winner.
Victory gave the Ivorians their second title, in a repeat of the 1992 final.
That year, Ivory Coast won 11-10 on penalties also after a goalless draw.
They will be delighted to have emulated the feat having gone close twice since - in 2006 and 2012 - on the latter occasion losing to Zambia, who were then coached by current Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard.
The Frenchman's success as coach of the Elephants makes him the first man to win the title with two countries.
By contrast, Ghana coach Avram Grant has now suffered defeats on penalties in two major finals, having lost the 2008 Champions League to Manchester United when he was Chelsea boss.
It had looked like the Black Stars might end their 33-year wait for a fifth Cup of Nations title when Ivory Coast missed their first two spot-kicks - Manchester City's new signing Wilfried Bony hitting the crossbar and substitute Junior Tallo dragging wide with his first touch of the game.
But Afriyie Acquah and Frank Acheampong failed with their efforts for Ghana and the sides were back on level terms.
After every outfield player had taken his turn, Barry - who had annoyed some of the Ghana players by going down with cramp - brilliantly saved keeper Razak's effort. He then kept his composure to slot home before being mobbed by his team-mates.
Defeat was perhaps a little harsh on Ghana, who had the better of the chances in the scoreless 120 minutes that preceded the shootout and twice hit the woodwork.
Christian Atsu was unlucky to see a superb 25-yard shot come back off the keeper's left-hand post, while Andre Ayew struck the outside of the other upright from a tight angle.
But there there was a sense of inevitability throughout the match that it would go the distance as neither team appeared to be prepared to take the risks that might bring a victory.
The big names - Ivory Coast's Yaya Toure and Bony, and Ghana's Ayew and Asamoah Gyan - failed to have a decisive influence on a game that never really flowed.
Match ends, Côte d'Ivoire 0(9), Ghana 0(8).
Penalty Shootout ends, Côte d'Ivoire 0(9), Ghana 0(8).
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(9), Ghana 0(8). Boubacar Barry (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Boubacar Barry (Côte d'Ivoire) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty saved! Razak Brimah (Ghana) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(8), Ghana 0(8). Serey Die (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(7), Ghana 0(8). John Boye (Ghana) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(7), Ghana 0(7). Eric Bailly (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(6), Ghana 0(7). Abdul Baba (Ghana) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(6), Ghana 0(6). Wilfried Kanon (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(5), Ghana 0(6). Harrison Afful (Ghana) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(5), Ghana 0(5). Kolo Touré (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(4), Ghana 0(5). Emmanuel Badu (Ghana) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(4), Ghana 0(4). Salomon Kalou (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(3), Ghana 0(4). Jonathan Mensah (Ghana) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(3), Ghana 0(3). Yaya Touré (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(2), Ghana 0(3). André Ayew (Ghana) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(2), Ghana 0(2). Seydou Doumbia (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Frank Acheampong (Ghana) left footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Frank Acheampong should be disappointed.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0(1), Ghana 0(2). Serge Aurier (Côte d'Ivoire) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty saved! Afriyie Acquah (Ghana) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Junior Tallo (Côte d'Ivoire) right footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Junior Tallo should be disappointed.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0, Ghana 0(2). Jordan Ayew (Ghana) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty missed! Still  Côte d'Ivoire 0, Ghana 0(1). Wilfried Bony (Côte d'Ivoire) hits the bar with a right footed shot.
Goal!  Côte d'Ivoire 0, Ghana 0(1). Mubarak Wakaso (Ghana) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Côte d'Ivoire 0, Ghana 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Côte d'Ivoire 0, Ghana 0.
Substitution, Côte d'Ivoire. Junior Tallo replaces Gervinho.
Substitution, Ghana. Emmanuel Badu replaces Asamoah Gyan.
Jordan Ayew (Ghana) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eric Bailly (Côte d'Ivoire).
Jordan Ayew (Ghana) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Serey Die (Côte d'Ivoire).
Attempt blocked. Serge Aurier (Côte d'Ivoire) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wilfried Bony.
Foul by Frank Acheampong (Ghana).
Wilfried Kanon (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Asamoah Gyan (Ghana).
Kolo Touré (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Ghana. André Ayew tries a through ball, but Asamoah Gyan is caught offside.
Jonathan Mensah (Ghana) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


The UK can "deal with whatever the world throws at us" if it votes to leave the EU, Michael Gove says.

The pro-Leave justice secretary said there were "risks to our future" whatever the outcome of the poll.
David Cameron and George Osborne say people will be worse off and that there is "no turning back" if the UK leaves.
In his Andrew Marr Show interview, Mr Gove also said he "shuddered" when he saw UKIP's "breaking point" poster showing a queue of asylum seekers.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who launched the poster last week, described it as "a statement about the whole of the European Union".
But Mr Gove said: "I thought it was the wrong thing to do."
He said he believed in free speech and did not want to "deny anyone a platform", adding that people would only support helping refugees if they felt the government could control migration numbers.
Mr Gove was interviewed as the EU referendum campaign restarted after being suspended following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox.
He said leaving would be an opportunity for the UK to establish itself as a "progressive beacon to the world".
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
The Remain campaign has said such an outcome would be a "gamble" but Mr Gove rejected this term.
"Whether we vote to leave or remain there are risks to our future, there are challenges in the global economy," he said.
"My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers, we will have control over money we send to the European Union, we will have control over our own laws, and as a result we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us."
Vote Leave has set out a string of policies it wants to see enacted if it wins Thursday's referendum, including extra cash for the NHS and cutting VAT on fuel bills, in what has been seen an alternative manifesto for life outside the EU.
Mr Gove said it was a "clear outline of the things that we could achieve if we leave" and that he would say to David Cameron "now is the time for us to implement these proposals".
He also defended his campaign's claims about Turkish membership of the EU. The Remain campaign says the UK has a veto on whether Turkey is able to join, and David Cameron has said it would be "literally decades" before Turkey was considered ready to join.
But Mr Gove said both the UK government and the EU supported Turkish accession.
He defended Vote Leave's references to the birth rate in Turkey, saying it was important to take into account the number of people that could come to the UK.
And despite being on different sides to David Cameron and George Osborne in the EU debate, he strongly defended both men's record.
The PM, meanwhile, has said the UK faces an "existential choice" in the EU referendum.
"Are we going to choose Nigel Farage's vision - one which takes Britain backwards; divides rather than unites; and questions the motives of anyone who takes a different view," Mr Cameron wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.
"Or will we, instead, choose the tolerant, liberal Britain; a country that doesn't blame its problems on other groups of people; one that doesn't pine for the past, but looks to the future with hope, optimism and confidence? I think the answer will determine what our country feels like for a very long time."


An ex-Sunday school teacher who raped and sexually abused young girls under his care has been jailed for 14 years.

John Laister was convicted at Bradford Crown Court of three counts of rape, four counts of indecent assault and four counts of indecency with a child.
Some of the offences were committed more than 40 years ago when he worked at a children's care home in Bramhope, Leeds, and at a church in Bradford.
Judge Benson said Laister was "a sexual predator of monstrous proportions".
Laister, 72, of Sunningwell, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, previously admitted four counts of indecent assault and will be added to the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.
He was a former "house parent" at the now-closed Hilton Grange home when he raped a vulnerable girl under his care.
After being moved on following allegations against him, he continued to abuse young girls while acting as a Sunday school teacher at the Thorpe Edge Evangelical Church.
The court heard one of the victims, who was raped and abused at the home, had suffered an epileptic fit after giving evidence via a videolink.
The judge said "the main object of his loathsome activities" was a victim who found the courage to come forward in 2012.
Det Con Naomi Brown, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "Laister took advantage of his victims' young ages and vulnerabilities to carry out these attacks over a period of time.
"We would like to thank them for reporting these offences to the police, and we hope that the lengthy sentence passed down today will help to give them some closure."


A woman killed by her ex-boyfriend suffered injuries which could have been caused by a crowbar, a court has heard.

David Nicholas Davies, 25, of Clynnog, near Caernarfon, has admitted murdering Emma Louise Baum at her home in Penygroes, Gwynedd, in July 2016.
However, he disputes the full case against him and denies using a knife or taking a weapon to the murder scene.
On Tuesday, Mold Crown Court heard the injuries were "entirely consistent" with the use of a crowbar.
Ms Baum had at least 20 injuries to her head, including stab wounds, which the prosecution alleged were consistent with the use of a knife.
But Home Office pathologist Dr Alison Armour, who carried out the post mortem examination, told the court the injuries were caused by "deliberate, thrusting actions" with the sharp end of the crowbar.
Simon Mills, prosecuting, said no crowbar had been found despite extensive police searches.
"The prosecution contends that if a crowbar had been discarded or thrown in this area, it would have been found, even if underwater," he said.
Earlier, the court heard from witnesses who claimed Davies said he wanted to kill Ms Baum and "could put her in a box".
Dafydd Roberts, defending, said his client denied making the comments.
The case, known as a Newton hearing, continues.


Jenson Button will have to wait until at least September to find out whether McLaren want to retain him alongside Fernando Alonso in 2017.

Chairman Ron Dennis says he will not consider whether to choose Button or reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne until the Italian Grand Prix.
"We're not even talking about it until Monza," Dennis told BBC Sport. "Why should we decide now?"
Button, the 2009 world champion, is out of contract at the end of the season.
Dennis said there was no advantage in deciding now because, among other reasons, "you just disenchant a driver".
The team are believed likely to choose Belgian Vandoorne, who out-qualified the Briton and scored a point on his grand prix debut in Bahrain this year, where he was standing in for the injured Alonso.
But the decision could yet go in favour of Button, who has strong marketing appeal, vast experience and proven capability.
Alonso and Button are 14th and 15th respectively in the drivers' championship standings.
If McLaren did choose Button, they would likely try to retain a contractual relationship with Vandoorne and perhaps farm him out to another team to gain experience and better judge his potential.
Dennis said in May that he considered the Belgian "an integral part of McLaren-Honda's future", adding: "Any team that imagines they may be able to poach him is very much mistaken. You may rest assured Stoffel is not for sale."
Vandoorne, who is considered the hottest prospect not yet in a full Formula 1 seat, is of interest to Renault, whose team principal Frederic Vasseur rates the 24-year-old extremely highly having run him in the GP2 feeder series, of which he is the reigning champion.
But Vandoorne cannot sign for another team until an option date in his McLaren contract lapses in the autumn.
Button is also of interest to Williams, who are likely to drop Brazilian Felipe Massa for next season.
Button's manager Richard Goddard said the 36-year-old had not yet decided what he wanted to do next season.
Williams have an option on Finn Valtteri Bottas and are likely to retain him, but have made no final decision on their driver line-up.
Alonso is under contract to McLaren until the end of 2017 and has said he will not make a decision on his future beyond that until he has experienced the new cars and Pirelli tyres that are being introduced next season.
These are aimed at making the cars a greater challenge to drive with the tyres able to withstand being driven much harder for a longer period than the current design, which have to be managed extensively.
The two-time champion told BBC Sport earlier this year that the tyres would be "a big factor" in his decision but added that if he stays in F1 into 2018 it will be with McLaren.


Red Bull's Max Verstappen becoming Formula 1 world champion is "just a matter of time", says his former Formula 3 team boss.

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Verstappen, 18, became the youngest race winner in the sport's history at Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix.
It was the Dutchman's first race for Red Bull since being promoted from its junior team Toro Rosso.
"He's an exceptional guy. I think he's one of the biggest talents in decades in racing," said Frits van Amersfoort.
"For the insiders Max's talents were pretty obvious 10 yeas ago when he was still doing karts," Van Amersfoort, team boss to Verstappen at Van Amersfoort Racing in 2014, told BBC World Service.
"Everyone knew there was a brilliant talent coming up. It's just a matter of time until he is champion, I have no doubt about that."
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Verstappen made his F1 debut at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix at the age of 17 years, 166 days.
With new rules in the sport meaning a driver can no longer compete until the age of 18, his record as a race winner aged 18 years and 228 days looks a mark which will prove hard to beat.
In 32 starts in Formula 3, Verstappen recorded 10 wins to finish third in the FIA European Championship.
Van Amersfoort said Verstappen has "special feeling" and "timing" and credits his father - former F1 driver Jos Verstappen - with schooling the teenager in how to communicate in order to set a car up efficiently.
"Before he came to us he had that ability to talk about car behaviour," added Van Amersfoort.
"Max is brilliant in terms of car control and also in the feeling of when he is fast and not fast. That is very difficult and in racing terms we are speaking about a few tenths [of a second] a lap, which makes it hard to identify if you are quick or not."
Verstappen, who came from fourth on the grid to beat the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel into second and third in Spain, will next race in Monaco on 29 May.
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Somerset have released Ireland international left-arm spinner George Dockrell, as well as fast bowler Adam Dibble and wicketkeeper James Regan.

Dockrell, 23, made his Championship debut for Somerset in 2011.
Dibble, 24, has played four first-class matches between 2009 and 2015, while 21-year-old Regan made only one first-class appearance.
"It is always tough to release young players," said Somerset director of cricket Matt Maynard.
"But ultimately we do have to make the types of judgments that are in their long-term interests, as well as the club's.
"In the cases of Adam, George and James, that task is made all the more difficult because they are outstanding young men. I am sure all of them will have a promising future in whatever direction life takes them."
Dockrell, who has taken 126 first-class wickets, spent time on loan with Sussex this season.
He said: "I first came over to Somerset when I was 15 years old. Since then I have enjoyed all of the time that I have been involved with the club.
"I would like to thank Brian Rose for signing me in the first place and giving me the opportunity to play for the county where I have felt so at home."


A former teacher has been jailed after admitting making indecent films of more than 120 pupils using hidden cameras at a boarding school.

Jonathan Thomson-Glover, 53, of Wadebridge, pleaded guilty to making the films at Clifton College, Bristol, and also at an address in Cornwall.
Taunton Crown Court heard the victims aged between 12 and 17 were secretly filmed over a 16-year period.
Judge David Ticehurst jailed Thomson-Glover for three years and nine months.
He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely and banned from working with children.
"You are a man looking at a life that is now in ruins. That life was a good life and you have made a positive contribution," Judge Ticehurst said.
"It is a life now reduced to rubble as a result of your fatal flaw.  You are the author of your own misfortune and there can be little sympathy for you.
"It is impossible to calculate the harm and damage you may have caused to those who trusted you or were in your care."
Thomson-Glover had pleaded guilty to 36 counts of making, taking and possessing indecent images of children.
But the court heard there is no evidence the footage was shared or that Thomson-Glover behaved "improperly" to any child.
Clifton College said it was "shocked and appalled" at the findings... which amount to an "unforgivable breach of trust".
"The college has taken considerable steps to ensure... nothing like this can ever happen again," a spokesman said.
"As part of this we have carried out a series of specific reviews, including an external review of safeguarding and related polices; and a review of our IT systems.
"We have also carried out physical searches of college buildings and no hidden cameras were found fixed to college property.
"We are committed to ensuring the safety of our pupils... if there are any further lessons to be learned, we will learn them."
'Extreme anger'
The court was told police found more than 300 VHS tapes, which included more than 2,500 hours of covert video footage.
The prosecution claimed the material involved more than 130 young victims.
Det Insp Andrea Kingdon, from Devon and Cornwall Police, said some of the images were of girls, boys and adults showering, changing, using the toilet, and in some cases "conducting private acts".
"The way he's behaved is abhorrent, it's a massive breach of trust, an invasion of privacy... and when you imagine the position he's in in relation to his victims he's captured them doing the most private of acts," she said.
"When we had to approach these victims, it's something that's come out the blue and they've acted in a variety of ways from extreme anger to bitter disappointment."
A parent of a 14-year-old victim said Thomson-Glover gave the impression he was "illiterate" when it came to technology, "but obviously he wasn't".
"He was absolutely charming. He was Mr Chips, he lived and breathed the college," she said.
"But there was the general feeling he was too close to the boys."
Dr Lauren Devine, a senior lecturer in law at the University of the West of England, said the case questioned the level of safeguarding that exists in schools.
"The fact this has gone on for 16 years is quite extraordinary and unusual in the level of subterfuge that would have had to have taken place to remain undetected," she said.
Howard Phillips, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said, Thompson-Glover was an educated and intelligent man who "used and abused his position to further his abuse of children in his care.
"I hope the sentence passed will bring some closure to the victims and deter others from acting in a similar way," Mr Phillips said.
The NSPCC said Thomson-Glover collected a decade-worth of indecent images and videos of pupils he worked with every day at Clifton College - young people who looked up to and trusted him.
"Any allegation of child sexual offence made against a teacher is of course a cause for concern and it's vital that it is properly investigated," a spokesman for the children's charity said.
"And staff must be trained to take action to investigate any suspected inappropriate behaviour between a colleague and a child."
Thomson-Glover was arrested in August 2014 after the National Crime Agency discovered his computer IP address had been used to download indecent images of children.
Officers seized four computers, discs and a number of Hi-8 camcorder tapes, with 330 VHS video tapes from three address they searched.
Clifton College was founded in 1862 and describes itself on its website as "a leading independent public school".  The fee for boarders is about Â£30,000 a year.


Arsenal ended Manchester United's 25-match league unbeaten run to keep alive their own hopes of Champions League qualification - as Arsene Wenger finally beat Jose Mourinho in a competitive match.

On Friday, Tottenham slipped up at West Ham - meaning Chelsea can move seven points clear at the top of the Premier League with victory over Middlesbrough on Monday.
At the bottom of the table, Hull slipped into the relegation zone as Swansea defeated Everton, while Boro will return to the Championship if they lose at Stamford Bridge.
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I'm still trying to work out how Sunderland managed to pull this result off and the only plausible suggestion I can think of is Jordan Pickford. This was the sort of game that could haunt a team for a long time but Marco Silva's boys need to get over this result fast.
This stage of the season is all about teams at the bottom holding their nerve. Sunderland are relegated and played like a team who have their eyes on winning promotion back to the Premier League next season.
Pickford started his superb performance by getting a hand to a fabulous strike by Sam Clucas. He then pushed a wonderful header from Lazar Markovic over the bar, before producing a great reaction save from Oumar Niasse.
Sunderland seem to have recognised that chopping and changing managers is futile, and that David Moyes is the right man to bring the Black Cats back into the big time and I agree.
However, the real challenge for Moyes is to keep Pickford at the Stadium of Light. The player has proved he can play in the Premier League and needs the intensity of that environment to assist his progress.
Pickford failed to keep Sunderland in the Premier League but without him the Wearsiders might fail to get out of the Championship.
I had never even heard of this lad before this fixture. Making your debut for any team is an ordeal but it's an entirely different matter when it's for Manchester United and away at Arsenal.
What made the occasion even more intense was the amount resting on the match for both teams. Well, what a performance by Axel Tuanzebe. The approach from the 19-year-old was just perfect. He did exactly what his senior professionals in the United line-up told him to do and played everything simple.
He never once over-complicated the game when in possession and although United lost, Tuanzebe took care of Alexis Sanchez as if he was playing a youth team game and looked a star in the making.
We've already seen Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard come through at United. Where are they getting these kids from? It's great to see a Premier League club bringing through home-grown talent. I was beginning to think we'd forgotten how.
Arsene Wenger has invested in a number of top-class French players during his 21 years at Arsenal. Some have been better than others, and whilst my personal favourite - Patrick Vieira - takes some beating as arguably Arsenal's all-time best French player, Laurent Koscielny is the latest in a line of great Frenchman to have played for Wenger.
I admit he can be erratic at times but when he is on top of his game there aren't many better defenders in the league. Against Manchester United, and a very lively Anthony Martial, he coped comfortably.
Even when United's speed merchant Marcus Rashford came on, Koscielny didn't seem the least bit concerned about the threat posed. And why should he be? He's seen it all before and coped admirably.
Whatever decision Wenger makes about his future at Arsenal in the days and weeks ahead, the manager can look back at a career where his countrymen have never let him down. And, for that matter, he hasn't let them down either.
What a finish by Vincent Kompany. I've seen top strikers struggle to convert opportunities like the one presented to him against Crystal Palace on Saturday. However, his ability to score the occasional impressive goal is not the reason I have selected him for my TOTW.
What impresses me about Kompany is his ability to lead. Since his return to first-team action from a horrendous run of injuries, the Belgium captain has shown a tremendous run of form.
His very presence engenders confidence and belief in everyone who plays alongside him. The improvement in Nicolas Otamendi's performance, for example, has been amazing.
Some players command respect and Kompany is clearly one of them. If he can somehow remain injury-free next season then Manchester City must be taken seriously as title contenders. The problem for Kompany is that is a big if.
Any win for Swansea at this stage of the season could be a lifesaver as we approach the season's finale.
If ever there was a game where a Swansea player could be forgiven for taking a stiff drink at half-time then this was it. This was a game that needed cool heads and Swansea played against Everton with a cold clarity of purpose.
Swansea's entire defence was brilliant but the standout player for me was Alfie Mawson. The ball that Romelu Lukaku flashed across the face of goal was an instant cure for constipation but somehow Mawson kept his head and cleared the danger when a lesser defender might have panicked and deflected into his own net.
Mawson's decision-making was so impressive, and with two games left to play, Swansea now have their Premier League future back in their own hands.
This lad has become a top-class performer. To watch his development at Southampton has been a real pleasure. We all knew that he was a player as a youngster at Chelsea - the question was: What sort of player?
He showed maturity beyond his years when he surprised us all and performed so well in the 2012 Champions League final in Munich, but it all seemed to come too soon.
Since leaving Stamford Bridge he has become the master of his own destiny and looks more accomplished the more I see him. Against Liverpool, who appeared to get more desperate with every minute, Bertrand look composed and in control.
Even when he picked up his yellow card for kicking the ball away he knew precisely what he was doing; stopping the ball from re-entering the field of play before the Saints could reassemble. He took a booking for the team.
Should Liverpool qualify for Champions League football next season I seriously suggest Jurgen Klopp gets his chequebook out and pay whatever it takes to take Bertrand to Anfield. The player is in that class.
It's official: West Ham are safe and they can look forward to next season in the Premier League. There will be fans who expect much more than mid-table mediocrity from the Hammers, some of whom spend most of their time sitting in the directors' box.
However, they are deluding themselves. West Ham have gone through a tremendous upheaval this season and in my opinion they are lucky to have survived.
In fact, without Slaven Bilic and Manuel Lanzini I doubt whether they would have. Bilic has been the man given the responsibility of managing the transition of moving to a new stadium and the departure of Dimitri Payet - a wonderful player but a disruptive influence.
Lanzini has been West Ham's and Bilic's saviour. The Argentine has not only filled the vacuum left by Payet but produced a quality and a style of football that has made West Ham look more like a team and not one dependant on the performance of one individual.
Meanwhile, Spurs looked like a side whose season had come to a predictable end. And although they have blown the league title for the second consecutive year, this team is very close to winning something major.
The only way that they can do that is to keep every one of their players. Add to them if you must, but lose any of the current team and it will be a testimony to Tottenham's lack of ambition. In other words, put up the 'not for sale' signs now, or otherwise stop talking about Premier League titles.
Top four is the name of the game for Manchester City now, and it took Pep Guadiola's team less than three minutes to get their first goal.
The king of the assists Kevin De Bruyne didn't score it but he might as well have done. He was involved in everything City did. It was De Bruyne's inviting pass that encouraged Kompany to smash the ball past a stranded Wayne Hennessy.
De Bruyne clearly loves providing openings for his team-mates but make no mistake - he enjoys scoring goals just as much.
I've played alongside many midfield players who can either provide goals from that position or score them but there are not that many who can do both. De Bruyne's goal (City's third) was struck home with such authority it was in the back of the net the moment it left his foot.
I don't even know why Wayne Hennessey even bothered to dive. De Bruyne is a class act but he will need to produce this sort of performance on a more consistent basis if City are going to make a real challenge for the title next season.
Well, what a difference a few days make. I said after last week's defeat at Spurs that Arsenal could still finish fourth and win the FA Cup and nothing has changed.
In order to keep this dream alive the Gunners had to take care of Manchester United and they did it without a great deal of fuss. Admittedly, Jose Mourinho's priority is no longer finishing fourth but winning the Europa League.
If United were to win that competition they would secure a Champions League place and win a major trophy at the same time - all in Mourinho's first season.
Aaron Ramsey, on the other hand, could, by winning the FA Cup and finishing fourth, provide Arsene Wenger with the perfect leaving gift. Wenger would be mad to subject himself to any more of the vicious bile that has been thrown in his direction from some of his own supporters.
If I were him I wouldn't stay at the club for one second more than was absolutely necessary.
There are some players that you just love to watch. They move well across the turf, glide past opponents, make goals for others and on their day make the team tick.
Riyad Mahrez is one of those players but unfortunately I don't see it often enough. Against Watford he looked amazing, but he is also one of the reasons Leicester have had an indifferent season.
Claudio Ranieri has gone but Leicester have retained their Premier League credentials, a point that was threatened under the Italian's regime.
The suggestion that Mahrez could follow Ranieri out of the King Power Stadium door to play Champions League football next season may be posed by the player's agent.
However, the reality is that, whilst he has the quality to be effective in that competition the question is: Does he have the mentality to cope with the requisite demands? Having the ability is great but it's the courage and consistency you need most to play at that level.
Congratulations to Burnley, who have survived another season in the Premier League. To have amassed 40 points with two games to play is an amazing team effort by Sean Dyche and his boys.
The only way to guarantee survival is to score goals and Dyche has shown great faith in Sam Vokes and Ashley Barnes. Both have taken time to acclimatise to top-flight football but look the real deal in the fortress that Turf Moor has become.
Against West Brom, who have not given up on producing a record Premier League points tally, Vokes looked as sharp as I have seen him, which would also account for his first brace in the big time.
What Burnley have done is provide teams coming up into the Premier League with a template for survival. Which is, if you get relegated don't sack your manager, keep your players, add one or two more to your squad and retain the same regime that got you promotion in the first place. Brighton take note.


A 10-year-old boy has become the youngest person to climb a world famous sea stack off Scotland's north coast.

Ollie Buckle, from Flax Bourton near Bristol, made the 450ft (140m) ascent of The Old Man of Hoy with his father, Ben Buckle, and a professional guide.
Sir Chris Bonington, who first scaled the rocky crag in 1966, and adventurer Bear Grylls both recorded good luck messages for Ollie before he set off.
Ollie said he was "amazed" and "felt like he could do anything".
The previous record for the youngest person to climb the Orkney Islands landmark was held by renowned British climber Leo Houlding, who scaled it when he was 11.
Ollie, who will not celebrate his eleventh birthday until next Monday, began climbing seven years ago.
He raised more than Â£2,700 for charity by completing the climb.


China has tightened its rules on internet usage to enforce a previous requirement that users fully identify themselves to service providers.

The move is part of a package of measures which state-run Xinhua news agency said would protect personal information.
But critics believe the government is trying to limit freedom of speech.
The announcement will be seen as evidence China's new leadership views the internet as a threat.
The Chinese authorities closely monitor internet content that crosses its borders and regularly block sensitive stories through use of what is known as the Great Firewall of China.
However, it has not stopped hundreds of millions of Chinese using the internet, many of them using micro-blogging sites to expose, debate and campaign on issues of national interest.
In recent months, the internet and social media have been used to orchestrate mass protests and a number of corrupt Communist Party officials have been exposed by individuals posting criticisms on the internet.
The new measures come a month after a new leadership, led by Xi Jinping, was installed by the ruling Communist Party.
The new man in charge of the internet, Liu Qibao, has a reputation for taking a hard line on media control. He recently called for "more research on how to strengthen the construction, operation and management of the Internet and promote mainstream online themes".
The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
Real-name registration was supposed to be have been implemented in 2011 but was not widely enforced.
China's biggest internet firm, Sina Corp, warned earlier this year in a public document that such a move would "severely reduce" traffic to its hugely-successful micro-blogging site Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter with more than 300 million users.
Under the new rules, network service providers will also be required to "instantly stop the transmission of illegal information once it is spotted" by deleting the posts and saving the records "before reporting to supervisory authorities".
The measures are designed to "ensure internet information security, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of citizens... and safeguard national security and social public interests", and were approved by China's top legislature at the closing session of a five-day meeting on Friday, Xinhua reports.
The calls for tighter controls of the internet have been led by state media, which said that rumours spread on the web could harm the public and sow chaos and confusion.
The government has said officially that it welcomes the exposure of official abuses, but a new generation of ever bolder bloggers and commentators pose a threat that the leadership seems determined to counter, the BBC's Charles Scanlon reports.


There has been an intense war of words throughout the junior doctors contract row in England.

But unlike previous disputes between the government and the public sector, some of the most acrimonious exchanges have come over statistics.
Doctors by definition are experts on assessing evidence and data and coming to rigorously worked out conclusions.
They have been quick to forensically analyse and challenge any arguments by ministers based on statistics. Nowhere has more heat been generated than in the debate over the so-called "weekend effect" in the NHS and whether patients receive inferior care on Saturdays and Sundays compared to weekdays.
Ever since the row over junior doctor contracts first flared up last autumn, ministers have pointed to research suggesting higher death rates after admission to hospital at weekends.  This, they claim, highlights why more doctors are needed in hospitals on Saturdays and Sundays.
This has been rebutted by junior doctors who say they already work at weekends.
The issue rose rapidly up the agenda after the publication in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) of a study last September by Prof Nick Freemantle of University College, London and other academics.
It  covered patient data on deaths within 30 days of hospital admission in England in 2013/14.  It suggests there were 11,000 excess deaths between Friday and Monday compared to mid-week.
For Saturday admissions, there was a 10% higher risk of death than those on a Wednesday - and for Sunday a 15% higher risk. The study adjusts for the fact that patients tend to be sicker at weekends.
The study became a political football, much to the irritation of the authors who argued it was a statistical analysis and they were not attempting to draw firm conclusions on whether hospital staffing was a factor in higher weekend death rates.
Junior doctors have consistently criticised ministers' use of the study to back up their rhetoric over a seven day NHS.
Now a new study on weekend death rates has been published and junior doctors  highlighted it.
The research by the University of Manchester, published in the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, concluded that those attending A&E  (as opposed to those actually admitted to a hospital bed) at weekends were no more likely to die than those arriving during the week.
The Manchester study showed that those who were unwell enough to be admitted to hospital did have a higher chance of death within 30 days if this happened at a weekend.
But they point out the percentage rate was higher simply because it was calculated from a total number of admissions which was lower than during the week.
The authors say in effect there is a higher bar for admission at weekends.
Like the research for the BMJ, the Manchester work also took account of the fact that patients who arrive on Saturdays and Sundays are usually sicker.
There are differences between what the two studies analysed.
The Manchester research looked at patients who died in hospital (including those who had been discharged and then had to go back to hospital).
The BMJ work included those who were discharged and died away from the hospital.
The Manchester piece included the sickest patients who died within three days of getting to hospital while the BMJ research did not.
The Manchester work spanned 11 months of data, the BMJ article covered 12 months.
Both articles used Hospital Episode Statistics (known as HES) covering hospital patient data.  Some have questioned whether this data is collected consistently and robustly across all hospitals in England.
So what are we to conclude? Articles with different methodologies can come to differing results.  The use of statistics in a highly charged dispute can lead to misleading claims and counter-claims.
The government and NHS England believe there is a "weekend effect".  What is still far from clear is what the underlying causes of that are.


Zinedine Zidane's son Enzo scored 18 minutes into his Real Madrid debut - with his first shot for the club.

The 21-year-old midfielder was brought on by his father, the Madrid coach, at half-time in their Copa del Rey victory over Cultural Leonesa at the Bernabeu.
Madrid won the tie 6-1, beating their third-tier opponents 13-2 on aggregate to reach the competition's last 16.
Norwegian teenager Martin Odegaard, who signed as a 16-year-old in January 2015, also made his full debut.
Former France midfielder Zidane senior, 44, played 227 matches for Real after joining from Juventus for a then-world record £45.8m in July 2001, famously scoring their winner in the 2002 Champions League final.
Enzo, the eldest of Zidane's four sons, made almost 50 appearances for Madrid's reserve team before being given his senior debut.


Wales could benefit from the expansion of Heathrow Airport if direct links can bring visitors in more quickly, the deputy tourism minister has said.

The Airports Commission has backed a third Heathrow runway, saying it will add Â£147bn in economic growth and 70,000 jobs by 2050.
Reacting to the news, Ken Skates said it was a better option than expanding Gatwick as it was nearer to Wales.
But he added that he was "very keen" that Cardiff Airport continued to grow.
"Air traffic is increasing," Mr Skates told the Jason Mohammad programme on BBC Radio Wales.
"If we are going to capture as many visitors, tourists and businesses as possible on this island then it's essential we are able to offer the access points in to the country.
"That's why I'm very keen Cardiff Airport continues to grow and get support and continues to enable people to come to Wales."
On the matter of Heathrow's likely expansion, he said: "It is essential we get smooth direct links from Heathrow to Wales - that could include swifter journey times as well from the airport direct to Wales."
In 2013 an appeal to expand Cardiff and other regional airports to ease the pressure on London was rejected by the Airports Commission, which said there was "little scope" to move the demand to other parts of the UK.


Wolves owner Steve Morgan has placed the Championship club up for sale after eight years in charge.

Liverpool-born Morgan, 62, who founded the Redrow house-building company, will step down from the board with immediate effect.
Chief executive Jez Moxey will manage the club's day-to-day business affairs.
A club statement said: "Steve's ongoing commitment and financial support to Wolves will continue until a new owner can be found."
Cheshire businessman Steve Morgan had previously tried to buy Premier League giants Liverpool prior to taking over Wolves  from Sir Jack Hayward in August 2007.
After 17 years in charge, Hayward's wish then was that "we did not want to go the way of so many clubs and hand over to foreign investors".
Morgan paid a nominal £10, alongside a guaranteed £30m investment, which included the construction of a new stand at the North Bank end of the stadium.
Morgan's decision follows mounting criticism from fans in the last few weeks about the club's perceived lack of investment and the sale of popular defender Richard Stearman to Championship rivals Fulham.
The club will make no further comment.
"With the club declining to comment, it may be some time before we discover why Steve Morgan has made the surprising decision to seek a buyer.
"There will be no end of speculation, much of it no doubt suggesting that he is unable or unwilling to offer enough investment to enhance the club's chances of returning to the Premier League.
"Whatever the truth is, any such speculation will obscure the more pressing issues, which are whether Morgan will find it any easier to dispose of a large West Midlands club than neighbouring owners at Albion and Villa.
"If it takes time, how much will he be prepared to invest to keep the club up with the relentless scramble for promotion in the interim, if that's what it takes."
"Steve Morgan is a hugely successful house builder. But as the 'For Sale' sign is hammered into the Molineux turf, not many Wolves fans will remember him as a hugely successful football club chairman.
"Yes, he took Wolves into the Premier League - but he also took us, rather embarrassingly, into League One.
"He fired Mick McCarthy after a humiliating defeat against West Brom, but could offer no Plan B as we slid pathetically out of the Premier League.
"Then he left us bemused by the hiring and firing of Stale Solbakken. Then he left us bemused by the appointment of Dean Saunders.
"Then he got it right as Kenny Jackett rebuilt Wolves from the depths of League One, but now we are bemused again. And I sense growing anger among fans.
"We are drifting along in the bottom half of the Championship when last season we were strong contenders for the play-offs."


Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has accused dozens of current or former politicians, officials and judges of links with illegal drugs and told them to surrender to be investigated.

In a nationally televised address, Mr Duterte named those he was accusing and ordered their security to be withdrawn.
"If you show the slightest violence in the resistance, I will tell the police, 'Shoot them'," he said.
Local media reports say some of those named have been misidentified.
Duterte: 'Punisher' to president
The Inquirer newspaper said one judge named by Mr Duterte as an alleged protector of the illegal drugs trade had been dead for eight years.
Its attempt to verify those on the president's list also revealed that some no longer or had never held power and others were identified with the wrong municipality or province.
The full list included seven judges, as well as current or former mayors and congressmen and a large number of serving or retired law enforcement officers.
Referring to the mayors he had named, Mr Duterte said: "I am removing their operational authority over them [police]. Twenty-four hours, everybody, military police, attached to them, report to your mother unit. I give you 24 hours or I will whack you and dismiss you from the service."
Mr Duterte said he would take full responsibility for any who turned out to be innocent.
The president said he had been forced to announce the move because of the scale of his country's illegal drug problem. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were addicted, he said.
Mr Duterte was sworn in as president in June, after winning a landslide election victory a month earlier.
He had previously been mayor of the country's third biggest city, Davao, for 22 years where his tough approach and controversial comments earned him the nickname "The Punisher".


Leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who is on trial for embezzlement, has called on the judge to throw out the case against him.

In his first defence statement, he said the case's primary purpose was "pushing me out of the legal political field".
He claimed it was ordered by President Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party he has denounced as corrupt.
Mr Navalny is accused of involvement in the misappropriation of $500,000 (Â£300,000) from a state timber company.
The 36-year-old activist faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Addressing the court after pleading not guilty, Mr Navalny said the charges were revenge for his exposure of high-level corruption and were intended to prevent him from running for office.
By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Kirov
Turning occasionally to the phalanx of cameras behind him, Alexei Navalny sat at the front of the court in his trademark open-necked shirt. His lawyers challenged every aspect of the case - the venue, the length of time they have had to read the documentation, and the "self-contradictory" charges.
Mr Navalny has been quite clear - he says this is a political trial.
Many of those who have followed his rise tend to agree with him. He has become a threat to the Russian political establishment. He has hit them where it hurts, by exposing the extraordinary levels of corruption in their ranks. He has written about it with savage ferocity laced with poisonous sarcasm.
Many of the tens of thousands who took to the streets last year were there because of him. He has become one of the Putin government's most successful opponents.
Eventually he attracted the attention of Russia's equivalent of the FBI - the Investigative Committee - which has become an increasingly politicised force. Now, in front of a judge who has not acquitted anyone in more than 130 cases, it seems likely that he is going to prison.
"The most important reason for this case's existence... is pushing me out of the legal political field," he said. "This case is absolutely politically motivated and fabricated.
"It is political revenge for the activities of me and my supporters. In particular our campaign to vote for any party but United Russia. It is revenge for that campaign, and the next one, aimed at preventing the election of President Putin, who seized power illegally."
Mr Navalny's trial in the city of Kirov, about 900km (560 miles) north-east of Moscow, began a week ago but was quickly adjourned after his lawyers said they needed more time to read the case files.
The trial resumed on Wednesday but was twice adjourned as Judge Sergei Blinov withdrew to consider requests by the defence to send the case back to prosecutors, citing a lack of specifics and inconsistencies.
Mr Navalny's lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, also argued that the judge should recuse himself, saying that in just two days of the trial he had already "sided with the prosecutors and in fact acted as a 'defence lawyer' for the prosecutors, who had failed to conduct a proper investigation and shape up the indictment".
However, the judge dismissed the motion, stating: "The claims by the defence that this court is limiting their rights are unfounded."
Also on trial is Pyotr Ofitserov, who ran the timber company which Mr Navalny advised while working for the governor of the Kirov region in 2009. Prosecutors alleged in March that the two defendants had also defrauded the firm.
Aside from the embezzlement charges, three other criminal cases have been opened against Mr Navalny.
Last Thursday, the federal Investigative Committee announced that he and his brother were suspected of organising a 3.8m-rouble (Â£79,000; $121,000) fraud involving mail deliveries in 2008.
A spokeswoman for the activist said the latest allegations were the authorities' "reaction to the massive public support that we're receiving".
Mr Navalny is the most high-profile opposition figure to be tried since anti-Putin protests 16 months ago, which saw the biggest demonstrations in Moscow since the fall of the USSR.
Since Mr Putin's re-election in March 2011, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly. Tough laws have been passed on public order offences and tight curbs placed on non-governmental organisations.
Analysts say Mr Navalny's conviction would be a major blow to an opposition which for years suffered the lack of a central figure or platform.
Two leading human rights organisations published reports on Wednesday condemning President Putin's clampdown on democratic freedoms - a year into his third term.
The separate reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International express concern over a "witch hunt" against political activists and NGOs.
Amnesty spokesman John Dalhuisen warned: "Civil society risks being suffocated and isolated not behind an iron curtain, but a legal one."
Mr Navalny's case is highlighted by  yHuman Rights Watch, which warns that Russia is violating its international human rights commitments.
"Russia's international partners should leave no doubt about the seriousness with which they view the crackdown under way in Russia, and impress upon Moscow the urgent need to stop abuses," said Hugh Williamson, HRW's Europe and Central Asia director.


Annegret Raunigk, 65, is reportedly due to give birth to quadruplets.

The German primary school teacher is said to be in her 21st week of pregnancy and feeling "fit".
If her pregnancy progresses well, as hoped, Ms Raunigk will be the oldest to give birth to quadruplets, but not the oldest mum to give birth to a child - that official record is held by Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara, who give birth to twins in Spain in 2006, at the age of 66, although some say it belongs to Omkari Panwar, who is believed to have been 70 when she gave birth to twins in India in 2008.
How are these "elderly" pregnancies medically possible?
Women who have gone through the menopause will not be able to get pregnant without help.
They will need to use eggs from a donor - or a frozen stash of their own eggs - to be able to conceive.
For women, fertility declines with age, and this is fairly rapid after the age of 35, although it will vary for the individual.
It's all down to eggs.
Girls are born with all of the eggs they will ever have, and after puberty they begin to lose them as they menstruate.
By the age of about 40, a woman's supply of good quality eggs will be dwindling.
Before the fertilised donor egg can be used, doctors will need to make sure the woman's womb is ready to receive and nurture it.
Doctors can give the woman a short course of oestrogen therapy to thicken the lining of her womb and prepare the environment for the embryo.
Once the fertilised egg has been transferred into the womb, the woman will need to take more hormones to support the pregnancy - unlike younger women with fully functioning ovaries, she won't be able to make the hormones herself.
Dr Sue Avery, a fertility expert at the Birmingham Women's Fertility Centre and a member of the British Fertility Society, says: "It's pretty much the same process as we would use for a younger woman who, for some reason, has had to have her ovaries removed."
Dr Avery says older expectant mothers do need a careful watch because they are at higher risk of pregnancy-related complications such as high blood pressure and gestational diabetes.
But when the donor egg comes from a younger woman, this may change things.
Dr Avery says: "Although the woman is older, because the eggs are from a younger woman and the pregnancy is supported hormonally, it's like a younger person's pregnancy really."
A US study of 101 older expectant mothers found the risk of pregnancy complications for women over 50 who became pregnant via egg donation were similar to those of younger women conceiving in this way.
Ultimately, it comes down to how physically fit the mother is, not just her age.
Arguably, the most significant risk factor in Ms Raunigk's pregnancy is the number of babies she is carrying, says Dr Avery.
Multiple pregnancies - twins, triplets, quads or more - are always deemed higher risk by doctors.
It increases the likelihood of premature delivery and smaller birth weight, as well as dangerous complications for the mother, including high blood pressure and pre-eclampsia.
Carrying four babies means it is unlikely that Ms Raunigk will give birth naturally, and she will instead deliver by Caesarean section.
The 65-year-old is already a mother to 13 other children - she gave birth to her youngest daughter a decade ago.
Her physician, Dr Kai Hertwig, was quoted by German Broadcaster RTL as saying that quadruple pregnancies were always a strain, but everything was going well for Ms Raunigk.
Like any new parent, for the first few months Ms Raunigk will face the challenge of coping with little sleep while having to change lots of nappies.
Then there will be the future to plan for.
Dr Avery says: "If she has four babies at 65, she will soon be chasing round four toddlers. Good luck to her!
"Even if you are fit, you do not have the same energy at the age of 45 as at 25, let alone at 65."
Dr Avery says few clinics in the UK offer IVF treatment to women over the age of 50, for social reasons.
"We have to consider the welfare of the child when making a decision," she says.
She says it is up to individual clinics to decide if a woman, who at the age of 65 might reasonably expect to live for another 20 years or so, should be eligible for treatment.
"There is no regulation that says you can't treat a woman older than a certain age," she says.
"There is no upper age, but you will need to take into account the welfare of the child."


Tottenham striker Harry Kane has set himself the target of reaching 100 Premier League goals by the end of the 2017-18 season.

The 23-year-old scored four against Leicester on Thursday to take him to 75 league goals in 115 appearances for Spurs, including 26 in 29 to lead the race for the golden boot this campaign.
Only 26 players have reached a century of goals in Premier League history.
"It would be a fantastic achievement," said Kane.
"I said to someone the other day it would be great if I can get to that 100 club by the end of next season.
"The biggest thing I'm proud of is that I had two big injuries and was out for 11 weeks so to still be there at the top of the Premier League and to score 30-plus goals [in all competitions] is a big achievement."
Kane missed seven weeks from the middle of September to early November and also a month between March and April, both because of ankle injuries.
However, seven goals in his past six league appearances has propelled him to the top of the league scoring charts, two ahead of Everton's Romelu Lukaku with one game to play.
Kane won the Premier League golden boot last season, scoring 25 goals in 38 games.
Danny Murphy told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Football Social that he believes Kane will score the 25 goals he needs to reach his century.
However, the former Spurs midfielder fears Kane's approach could hamper his attempts to beat Alan Shearer's Premier League record tally of 260.
"The biggest strength of Kane is his mental strength," said Murphy.
"Ability-wise he can do it. But he plays with such passion and energy, so to play every game, season in season out, will take a toll.
"He is a big powerful boy, but he puts so much in."
Kane continues to be linked with a move away from Tottenham, despite manager Mauricio Pochettino's assertion that the club can keep the players who have excelled during a campaign they will finish in second place.
Another ex-Spurs midfielder, Jermaine Jenas, told 5 live: "I would put my name on the line and say he [Kane] will not go anywhere.
"When Kane starts to look elsewhere, it is a sign that team is weakening and you can't see that happening."