Royal Bank of Scotland is to compensate up to 12,000 small business customers that it allegedly mistreated in the wake of the financial crisis.

The bank has announced a fund of Â£400m for affected firms.
Its Global Restructuring Group (GRG) had been accused of buying assets cheaply from failing firms it claimed to be helping.
However, regulators found RBS did not "artificially engineer" the transfer of customers to GRG.
Last month, RBS said it had let some small business customers down in the past but denied it had deliberately caused them to fail.
On Tuesday, RBS chief executive Ross McEwan said: "We have acknowledged for some time that mistakes were made. Some of our customers went through what was a traumatic and painful experience as a result of the crisis.
"I am very sorry that we did not provide the level of service and understanding we should have done."
The bank will automatically refund complex fees paid by about 4,000 small business GRG customers between 2008 and 2013, and will set up a new complaints process.
The process will be overseen by retired High Court judge Sir William Blackburne. Complaints will initially be dealt with by the bank, and any that are not resolved will then be considered by the third party.
Customers who feel they have lost out may have to fight for redress through the courts.
Mr McEwan told the BBC: "It would be fair to say that consequential loss needs to go to the court at the end of the day, because it will be up to a court process in most of these situations for them to determine whether... those businesses were going to be viable, and be a very successful business going forward."
In the case of businesses that have gone bust but are due compensation, it will be up to administrators to decide whether to reconstitute the firm, said RBS regulatory affairs officer, Jon Pain.
It may be the case that only creditors of a dissolved firm will benefit from any compensation, rather than the business owner, he said.
In 2014, the FCA commissioned a review of the work of GRG.
On Tuesday, the FCA said it found there was no widespread practice of transferring customers to GRG for their value, or requesting cash injections when the bank had no intention of supporting the business.
Small businesses that were transferred to GRG "were exhibiting clear signs of financial difficulty," the FCA said.
However, the bank did fail to support businesses "in a manner consistent with good turnaround practice", including "placing an undue focus on pricing increases and debt reduction without due consideration to the longer term viability of customers".
RBS's announcement coincides with the appearance before the Treasury Select Committee of Andrew Bailey, FCA chief executive.
A report three years ago by the government's then entrepreneur in residence, Lawrence Tomlinson, accused the taxpayer-owned bank of deliberately putting viable businesses on a path to destruction while aiming to pick up their assets on the cheap.
The allegations were supported by a cache of documents, passed by a whistleblower to BuzzFeed News and BBC Newsnight last month.
The documents confirmed that bank staff were rewarded with higher bonuses based on fees collected for "restructuring" business customers' debts - cutting the size of their loans and getting cash or other assets from the customer.
In what was described by an RBS executive as "Project Dash for Cash", staff were asked to search for companies that could be restructured, or have their interest rates bumped up.
Last month, the bank told Newsnight: "RBS has been very clear that GRG's role was to protect the bank's position... In the aftermath of the financial crisis we did not always meet our own high standards and we let some of our SME customers down.
"Since that time, RBS has become a different bank and significant structural and cultural changes have been put in place, including how we deal with customers in financial distress."


Glenn Delaney has left his job as head of rugby operations at London Irish as part of a restructure at the club.

Delaney, an ex-London Irish player, returned in 2012 and had spells as forwards coach and interim head coach before taking the role in 2015.
However, changes have been made to the rugby department following relegation from the Premiership last season.
"The difficulties of relegation have meant that inevitably people have moved on," chief executive Bob Casey said.
He told the club website: "Glenn has been a great servant to London Irish and has been passionate about moving it forward. We will all miss him and wish him and his family well for the future."
Delaney added: "It is unfortunate that my time at London Irish has come to an end. It is a club I hold dear and have many fond memories of.
"The players and staff have been magnificent to work with and I am sure they will serve the club well."
Meanwhile, Samoa back row forward Ofisa Treviranus has extended his contract with the club by two years.
The 32-year-old has made 85 appearances for the Exiles since joining in 2011 and captained his country at the 2015 World Cup in England.


French authorities should deploy soldiers in order to secure the port of Calais, a UK haulage boss has demanded following fresh incursions by migrants.

The port in northern France was closed on Saturday and services were disrupted overnight after about 50 migrants briefly boarded a UK-bound P&O ferry.
The incident happened during a protest at the port in favour of migrants.
Richard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, called for authorities to back "decisive action".
He said the incident was the latest in a string of recent incursions in Calais, warning it was "only a matter of time before our worst fears become a reality and a UK-bound truck driver is killed".
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"This shocking breach of security clearly shows that the migrant mayhem in and around Calais is not being tackled," he said.
"It is now time for the authorities to acknowledge and meet our demand for the French military to be deployed to secure the port and its approaches."
He added: "The number of migrants in the camp has escalated, the number of attempts - violent attempts against drivers - has been escalating, and we think now, after yesterday's incident, enough is enough, the time for discussion's over - we need action."
Damian Collins, Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, backed Mr Burnett's call, telling the BBC it was "incumbent on the French authorities to protect the port".
"If that requires deploying the military, then the French should do that," he added.
P&O Ferries tweeted that services on Sunday were "operating to schedule", following delays of up to two hours on Saturday night.
The latest incursion happened as a demonstration, held in support of migrants, was reported to have attracted a crowd of about 2,000 people.
Some of the protesters at the demonstration carried banners saying "refugees welcome here". People from Britain were among the demonstrators.
It comes as thousands of migrants are currently living in camps known as "the Jungle" on the edge of Calais.
The population of the camp has risen steadily in recent weeks to about 2,500, including about 250 children, according to medical volunteer group, Medecins Sans Frontieresâ€Ž.
In August last year, the UK and France signed an agreement on new measures to try and alleviate the crisis, including a new command centre to help tackle trafficking gangs.
The situation in Calais comes amid an influx of migrants to Europe - caused largely by people fleeing war and oppression in countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Jeremy Corbyn visited a migrant camp in northern France and spoken of the "dreadful conditions" there.


Former US President Jimmy Carter has revealed he is to be treated for cancerous tumours on the brain, in his first public comments on his illness.

Mr Carter said he would start his radiation treatment later on Thursday.
Mr Carter, 90, was recently treated for liver cancer, after which it was discovered the disease had spread.
He said he would "cut back fairly dramatically" on public works. "It is in the hands of God and I am prepared for anything that comes," he said.
A Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was a relative unknown in the US political world when he was elected president in 1976. He served from 1977 to 1981.
Mr Carter told a press conference on Thursday he had at first thought the cancer was confined to his liver and that an operation this month had completely removed it.
But an MRI scan the same afternoon showed four spots of melanoma on the brain.
"I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease. I've had a wonderful life," he said.
"I have got thousands of friends and I have had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence."
Mr Carter said it was likely doctors would find cancer elsewhere in his body as his treatment continued.
But he said: "I feel very good. I have had no pain or debility."
Source: American Cancer Society
Since leaving the White House in 1981, Mr Carter has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center in recent years.
Mr Carter's health has been closely watched this year.
In May, he returned early from a trip to observe elections in Guyana because he was "not feeling well".
Mr Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.


A violin made by a German soldier at an Essex prisoner of war camp has been restored and is to be played again.

The instrument is marked "1944" inside and was crafted at High Garret in Braintree, which held German and Italian prisoners during World War Two.
Russell Stowe, of Woodbridge Violins in Suffolk, said it was so well made it had to be the work of a professional.
"I've seen many violins in the past 25 years, but stringing this up was quite amazing," he said.
It is understood the craftsman was unable to take the violin back to Germany after the war, so he handed it to a British officer as a thank you for allowing him to make the instrument.
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Inside is inscribed "Hergestellt in Englischer fangenschaft" (Made in English captivity).
The violin is now owned by David Powell, of Woodbridge, whose parents lived in Braintree and were given the instrument by an officer in 1945.
He is due to hear it played for the first time later on Thursday.
"It was always in and around the house, but I don't think it had any strings back then," he said.
"We have no idea where he got the wood from but he even boiled up his own glue.
400,000
German prisoners were brought to Britain in World War Two
1,500 camps were created in stately homes, old barracks or huts
20% of all farm work was being done by German PoWs in 1946
250,000 Germans had been repatriated by 1947 but 24,000 decided to stay
1948 last German PoWs left Britain
"It's a labour of love."
Mr Stowe, who first saw the violin on Tuesday, said it only required minor repair work to make it playable.
"It's very, very well made and I've known amateur makers in proper workshops who do not make violins as good as this.
"The thing is very unusual because it was not made from the usual pine or maple - and that will influence how it sounds."
He said it was possible the violin body was made from a type of mahogany, with a packing material similar to a tea chest also used.
"This has got the touch of somebody who knows what they were doing and may have been a violin maker before the war started," he said.
"There were many violin-making families in Germany in the 1880s and 1890s."


Rory McIlroy says he is yet to decide whether he will opt to represent Britain or Ireland at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Media reports on Monday suggested the Northern Irishman would represent Britain at the 2016 Games when golf returns to the Olympics.
However, McIlroy said he had not yet made up his mind.
"I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics," said the world number one.
"On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour.
"However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won't be making any decisions with regards to participation any time soon," added McIlroy, who is from a Catholic background.
With competitors from Northern Ireland having the choice of representing either Great Britain or Ireland, McIlroy acknowledged he is in "an extremely sensitive and difficult position".
"I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots, winning Irish Boys, Youths and Amateur titles and playing for Ireland at all levels.
"I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. That is my background and always will be.
"I receive huge support from both Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated.
"As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be."
Golf will return to the Olympics in Rio after a 112-year absence.


The partner of former EastEnders actress Sian Blake has admitted murdering her and their two children.

Ms Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found at the family home in Erith, London, on 5 January after being reported missing on 16 December.
Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, entered guilty pleas before Mr Justice Singh at the Old Bailey via video link from Belmarsh prison.
Outside court, Ms Blake's sister Ava said the family were "really relieved".
Simpson-Kent, a hairdresser, was remanded in custody ahead of a three-day sentencing hearing, starting on 4 October.
He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in February after being extradited from Ghana.
Ms Blake and her sons died from neck and head injuries, a post-mortem examination found.
Their bodies were found buried in the garden of the family home by police after Simpson-Kent had left.
Days after the bodies were found, he was arrested on a beach in Ghana by local police.
The arrest came after locals recognised him from a photo shared on social media and tipped off the authorities
Det Ch Insp Graeme Gwyn said: "Arthur Simpson-Kent has never given a reason as to why he killed Sian, Zachary and Amon in the way that he did.
"Sian's close-knit family are devastated by the loss of their much loved sister, daughter and cousin.
"The deaths of Zachary and Amon have compounded their grief and they have lost two entire generations of their family to a violent and completely senseless act of murder at the hands of Simpson-Kent."
Ms Blake played Frankie Pierre in 56 episodes of EastEnders between 1996 and 1997 and had been living with motor neurone disease before she died.
The EastEnders actor appeared in the 1998 film Siberia and TV movie May 33rd in 2004 under her stage name Syan Blake, according to her profile on IMDB.
The Met has referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over its handling of the investigation.
A serious case review is also under way.


Six-time champion Serena Williams overcame a first-set blip to reach Wimbledon's last eight with a straight-sets win over Svetlana Kuznetsova.

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Williams, 34, defeated the Russian 7-5 6-0 to set up a quarter-final with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Kuznetsova failed to serve out the first set and before rain halted play the top seed was far from her best.
But under the Centre Court roof, Williams was supreme, winning eight games on the trot to secure victory.
From trailing 3-1, two-time Grand Slam champion Kuznetsova twice broke Williams' serve for a chance to serve for the set, but the defending champion immediately broke back to level at 5-5 before play was suspended because of light rain.
When the players returned to the court the roof had been closed and the indoor conditions favoured Williams' big serve, with Kuznetsova failing to win a game as the world number one confidently secured the first set and, without further loss of a game, the match.
"She has played really well against me in the past and beat me earlier this year so I knew I had to play well to win," Williams told BBC Sport.
"It was really tricky out there. It wasn't raining hard but was dewy and on the grass you can fall easily - then you think 'should I run or not' and it became more difficult because of that."
Having played on middle Sunday, Williams will now play on three successive days at SW19.
"In order to win a tournament you usually have to play quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals back-to-back," said Williams.
"So I thought 'Serena, you have done this over 70, 80 times', so for me it is an easy transition."
Joining the defending champion in the last eight is her sister Venus, the five-time champion.
She beat Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Court One to progress to the last eight at Wimbledon for the first time since 2010.
The 36-year-old, who last won the title at SW19 in 2008, lost her opening two service games to trail 3-0 but fought back to take the first set to a tie-break, which she led 4-2 before rain stopped play.
When the match resumed the American confidently wrapped up the tie-break and then broke her opponent's serve in the third game of the second set.
Although Navarro levelled at 3-3, Williams immediately broke again in the next game and served out to take the second set and the match after an hour and 35 minutes. She will next play Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
In one of the matches of the tournament, Dominika Cibulkova beat Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3 5-7 9-7 in a thrilling dual that lasted nearly three hours.
Cibulkova will play Russia's Elena Vesnina in the next round.
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Fifth seed Simona Halep will come up against fourth seed Angelique Kerber of Germany in the quarter-finals after seeing off Madison Keys 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-3.
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To some people who knew him, Michael Brown was an ordinary US teenager with much to like about him.

Court documents, however, portray him as a suspect in a convenience store robbery who assaulted the police officer who killed him.
These two profiles have framed the debate around his death on 9 August, when the black 18-year-old was shot dead by the white officer during an incident on a street in Ferguson, Missouri.
That shooting inflamed passions in Ferguson and across America, stirring up America's debate over race and justice.
In the weeks before his death, Mr Brown's life certainly seemed ordinary.
He had just left secondary school and was planning to study to become a heating and cooling technician.
In his spare time, he played video games, saw friends and spent time with his family.
On his Facebook page he posted photos of himself with his baby niece.
His friends and family knew the 6ft 4in (1.9 m) teenager as Big Mike or Mike Mike - so big, friends say, they named him twice.
Neighbours at the Northwinds apartment complex where he lived remember him as respectful. "If his grandma said 'go upstairs', he went," Kevin Seltzer told the Los Angeles Times. "He didn't bother people."
Despite his size, Mr Brown is remembered as a gentle giant. By all accounts he shied away from confrontation, using his bulk to intimidate people from fighting with him.
Shortly before his death, at the urging of his grandmother with whom he lived and his uncle the Rev Charles Ewing, he embraced Christianity.
When a New York Times profile described Mr Brown as being "no angel", the comment sparked anger across social media, with people insisting he had only behaved as most teenagers do.
Like many teenagers he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol.
Some of the amateur rapper's songs contained violent lyrics such as "my favourite part is when the bodies hit the ground".
And then on 9 August he allegedly stole a pack of cigarillos from a shop, pushing the store clerk into a display case when confronted.
Shortly after this incident, caught on CCTV, police officer Darren Wilson received an alert in his patrol car.
Stopping Mr Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson for walking in the middle of the road, the policeman grew suspicious that he had carried out the robbery.
Reports vary on the exact details but all say there was an altercation, Mr Wilson's gun was fired and the pair ran.
Mr Wilson fired more shots, hitting the unarmed Mr Brown a total of six times in the head and right arm.
The body lay in the street for four hours in a pool of blood before it was removed.
On Monday a grand jury ruled that they would not charge Mr Wilson over the shooting.
Mr Brown had received his leaving certificate only eight days before his death and had been due to start college that Monday.
His mother, Lesley McSpadden, told reporters the family had never had the time to celebrate her son's school-leaving. Instead they had had to organise a funeral.


Great Britain women finished their Eurobasket 2017 qualifying campaign with a 97-55 victory over Albania.

GB were playing for pride after defeat by Italy on Saturday ended their chances of reaching the finals.
However, they ensured they finished on a high with a dominant performance led by Chantelle Handy.
The 29-year-old Olympian scored 31 points while Ella Clark (16) and Rachael Vanderwal (15) were also among the high scorers.


The Israeli government has passed a law banning the use of underweight models in advertising and on the catwalk.

The new law requires models to provide medical proof of their weight, and for adverts to state if an image has been altered to make a model appear thinner.
Supporters of the bill believe images of extreme thinness are to blame for eating disorders in young girls.
Critics say the legislation should have focused on health not weight, as some models are naturally very thin.
Models in Israel are now required to have a body mass index (BMI) - a calculation based on a ratio of weight to height - of no less than 18.5.
They will need to have an up-to-date doctor's report certifying their weight when they go for jobs. Publications will have to specify if the image of a model has been manipulated to make them appear thinner.
Around 2% of girls in Israel aged between 14 and 18 have severe eating disorders - a rate similar to other developed countries - anthropologist Sigal Gooldin is quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Rachel Adato, the Knesset member who pushed for the bill, said she hoped the law would encourage the promotion of a more healthy body image.
"Beautiful is not underweight, beautiful should not be anorexic," she said.
The fashion industry has long been blamed for encouraging anorexia and bulimia among girls of an impressionable age by its use of very thin models on catwalks and in magazines.
Adi Barkan, an Israeli model agent and fashion photographer who helped Ms Adato promote the bill, said action needed to be taken.
"I look (back) 15 to 20 years ago, we shot models (sized) 38. Today it's 24," he said. "This is the difference between thin and too thin. This is the difference between death and life."
But Eli Edri of the Roberto Models Agency told Haaretz newspaper that the BMI index on which the law is based was "arbitrary" and "not appropriate for every model", some of whom are naturally thin and cannot gain weight.
"I know many models who are totally healthy girls who might be disqualified because of the law," he said. "Such a law would disqualify them without determining whether they are really sick or not."
Top Israeli model Adi Neumman has said she would fail to qualify for jobs under the new legislation as she has a BMI of 18.3, even though she eats well and exercises.


Wales rugby player Dan Biggar is BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality 2015.

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The Ospreys fly-half succeeds cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won in 2014.
Results of a public vote were revealed at the Wales Sport Awards in Cardiff where BBC Cymru Wales and Sport Wales celebrated Welsh sporting success.
The Wales football team were named team of the year award after qualifying for the Euro 2016 finals and their manager Chris Coleman is the elite coach of the year.
Biggar reacted to the award by saying: "I'm so thrilled to bits that enough people voted.
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"I'm very, very privileged to receive this and thank you everyone for voting.
"There are some great names on there and it's scary to think that mine name is on there with them.
"It doesn't feel right but I'm very, very pleased."
Biggar gave outstanding performances for Wales during the Rugby World Cup, the Six Nations and for regional side Ospreys.
The 26-year-old scored 23 points in a man-of-the-match performance in the 28-25 win over England in the pool stage at the World Cup, including a long-range winning penalty.
In total he scored 56 points in four matches as Wales were knocked out in the quarter-finals against South Africa.
In the 2015 Six Nations, he scored 26 points in five games as Wales missed out on the Championship on points difference with four wins from five. He also helped Ospreys to the semi-finals in the Pro12.
Biggar secured the public vote ahead of second-placed Geraint Thomas and world featherweight boxing champion Lee Selby.
Thomas became the first British rider to win the formidable E3 Harelbeke race in Belgium in March and as a key member of Team Sky helped Chris Froome claim his second Tour de France title.
Selby became the 12th Welsh world boxing champion by beating Russia's Evgeny Gradovich to claim the IBF featherweight title and defended his crown against Mexican Fernando Montiel in the USA.
The other nominees chosen by an expert panel for BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality 2015 had been footballers Gareth Bale and Ashley Williams, triathlete Non Stanford, taekwondo competitor Jade Jones and para-athlete Aled Sion Davies.
Wales' footballers ended a 57-year wait when they qualified for the final stages of a major tournament for the first time since the 1958 World Cup.
Under manager Coleman, and inspired by on the field by Bale, Wales finished second behind Belgium in their qualifying group.
Legendary rugby player Sir Gareth Edwards received a lifetime achievement award.
Edwards played 53 consecutive Test matches for Wales between 1967 and 1978, winning three Five Nations Grand Slams.
He inspired the British and Irish Lions to Test series wins against New Zealand in 1971 and South Africa in 1974 and scored the most famous try in history for the Barbarians against the All Blacks in 1973.
The Carwyn James Award for the best young sportswoman was won by sprinter Hannah Brier. The 17-year-old Swansea Harrier won the 100m and 200m at the 2015 Welsh Championships and then equalled the Welsh 100m record of 11.39 seconds at the World Youth Championships.
The best young sportsman award went to tennis player Matt Story, who won the Welsh National Junior Championship Under-18 title for the third year in a row.
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Volunteer of the Year: Wendy Pressdee
Community Coach of the Year: Angeline Tshiyane
Young Coach of the Year: Lowri Haf Barker
Young Volunteer of the Year: Elan Môn Gilford
Coach to Disabled People of the Year: John Wilson
Lifetime Achievement Award (Community): Dorothy Neyland MBE
The Unsung Hero award has already been given to Jane Roberts and Nerys Ellis for their work at Llanrwst Swimming Club. They were at the ceremony to collect the award and will go on to represent Wales at the UK BBC Sports Personality of the Year event in Belfast on Sunday, 20 December.
The 2015 Rugby World Cup final referee Nigel Owens was recognised during Monday's event for his achievements and contribution to the worldwide game.
A review of the sporting year will be broadcast on BBC Cymru Wales television on Friday, 18 December at 21:00 GMT.
Please note the event is not connected with the UK Sports Personality of the Year and is for the Wales award only.


British cyclist Jonathan Tiernan-Locke wanted to undergo extra testing to counter rumours of performance-enhancing drug use after wins in 2012, his former team has said.

It emerged on Sunday that the Team Sky rider has been notified of a potential discrepancy in his biological passport.
He raced for Endura prior to joining Sky in October 2012.
Endura defended their anti-doping policy, one they stressed Tiernan-Locke has been fully compliant with.
They said in a statement: "Endura Racing's culture has always been entirely at odds with cheating in any form including the use of PEDs [Performance Enhancing Drugs] and nothing in Jonathan Tiernan-Locke's conduct during his 2012 season with the team gave rise to concerns that his approach was at odds with this in any way."
Tiernan-Locke enjoyed the best year of his career in 2012, winning the Tour Mediterraneen and Tour du Haut Var early in the season, before becoming the first British winner of the Tour of Britain in 19 years last September.
But a report in France raised doubts over his performances early in the season, prompting Endura and Tiernan-Locke to make a request to the International Cycling Union for the Devon rider to be put on a biological passport.
As a UCI Continental-level team, Endura were not part of the UCI's biological passport scheme.
"Endura, with the full support of Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, made a request to the UCI to be allowed to pay to have him put on a biological passport in order to counter the rumours of performance enhancing drugs that circulated after his wins in Tour Mediterraneen and Tour du Haut Var in 2012," the team added.
"However this request was refused by the UCI."
An individual, electronic record for each rider, in which results of all doping tests are collated. Passport for each rider contains:
Source: UCI
Endura also said that Tiernan-Locke was made available to both Team Garmin-Sharp and Team Sky in April and May last year - two teams who had shown interest in him - for physiological testing and no adverse results were reported.
They also added that irregularities in biological passport data can be caused by tiredness and ill health.
"At this early stage, without detailed information, it would be inappropriate to speculate on the reasons for inconsistencies in Jonathan Tiernan-Locke's biological passport data," Endura said.
"It is known that there are many possible legitimate causes including fatigue and ill-health, both of which we understand he has suffered from in the last year."


Funerals have been held for some of the victims of a bomb attack in a crowded market in northwest Pakistan on Sunday.

At least 24 people died in the blast, with more than 70 injured.
The attack hit the Eid Gah clothes market in the town of Parachinar, in the Kurram tribal agency, near the Afghan border.
Most people in Parachinar, which has a history of violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims, are from the Shia minority.
Previous agreements to calm tensions between the communities have not been implemented.
A hardline Sunni militant group in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, says it was behind the bombing and linked its attack to the war in Syria, saying it was in revenge for killings carried out by the Syrian president and his Iranian allies.
The Reuters news agency reported on Thursday that a unit of Shia Pakistani fighters, many from Parachinar, is in Syria. They were, the report said, recruited by Iran to fight for President Bashar al-Assad against Syria's mostly Sunni rebel forces.
Iran is a majority Shia Muslim nation and is militarily backing Syria's President Assad, who is Alawite - a Muslim sect close to Shia Islam.
Authorities say 30kg of explosives were used in the device, which was remotely detonated.
Violence in the country overall has fallen since the Pakistani army embarked on an offensive against the Taliban and other militants in the North Waziristan agency, bordering Kurram.


An Iranian scientist who provided the US with information about the country's nuclear programme has been hanged for treason, the government has confirmed.

Shahram Amiri was executed for giving "vital information to the enemy", a judiciary spokesman said.
Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the US, where he claimed to have been abducted and interrogated by the CIA.
He subsequently returned to Iran and was given a long prison sentence.
News of his execution emerged on Saturday, when Amiri's mother said the body had been handed over with rope marks around his neck.
On Sunday a spokesman for Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, told reporters: "Through his connection with the United States, Amiri gave vital information about the country to the enemy,"
Amiri, who was born in 1977, went missing after taking a pilgrimage to Mecca.
After reappearing in the US in 2010, he said he had been kidnapped and put under "intense psychological pressure to reveal sensitive information".
However US officials at the time said Amiri had defected of his own accord and provided "useful information".
He initially returned to Tehran to a hero's welcome, but was later arrested and tried for treason.
Iran has long been suspected of seeking to develop nuclear weapons - an allegation it denies, saying it is pursuing civilian nuclear energy.
In January, Tehran reached a deal with foreign powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.


Prominent jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has announced he has gone on hunger strike demanding "freedom for political prisoners".

In a video leaked from prison, Mr Lopez called for an end to censorship, and for the government to set a date for parliamentary elections.
He also urged Venezuelans to join peaceful marches next Saturday "for peace and democracy".
Mr Lopez is accused of inciting violence during protests last year.
More than 40 people, from both sides of the political divide, were killed in months of protests against the government of Nicolas Maduro.
The authorities say Mr Lopez incited violence and encouraged demonstrators to vandalise government buildings at the end of a protest in February 2014.
He was charged and arrested a few days later.
Mr Lopez said fellow jailed opposition politician Daniel Ceballos was also on hunger strike.
The video was recorded in Mr Lopez's cell, in the Ramo Verde prison, near Caracas.
Wearing a white shirt and a crucifix, Mr Lopez says the Venezuelan economic crisis has deteriorated since his arrest.
"One year and three months after our call for change, the situation has got even worse. More queues, more inflation, more scarcity, more crime, more corruption," Mr Lopez said.
"We want to call for a demonstration. A strong, massive, peaceful demonstration without any kind of violence in the streets of Venezuela next Saturday.
"Let's go out for peace and democracy. Let's not lose hope, let's not lose faith."
'End of censorship'
The video was uploaded on YouTube and tweeted by his wife, Lilian Tintori.
Shortly before the video was released, Mr Ceballos was transferred from Ramo Verde to a prison away from the Venezuelan capital.
Mr Ceballos is the former mayor of San Cristobal, an opposition stronghold.
"We have three clear demands - freedom for all political prisoners, the end of censorship and repression and that the date for the parliamentary elections is set," Mr Lopez added.
Last month a group of former world leaders sent an open letter to the Venezuelan government expressing its concern "for the difficult social, economic and political situation" in Venezuela.
The group also urged the release of opposition leaders who were jailed for allegedly inciting violence.


Some 1.5 million people in southern Madagascar are facing hunger because of a severe drought, the UN says.

Production of staple foods has declined sharply, resulting in higher food prices. Residents are said to be eating seeds and selling animals to cope.
More than half of those affected are acutely food insecure, the UN adds, meaning that they need urgent humanitarian assistance.
The situation has been made worse by the El Nino weather phenomenon.
The lack of sufficient rains in the southern region of Androy alone resulted in an 80% decline in maize production this year compared with the already reduced levels of 2015, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report.
The drought also affected the production of another staple food, cassava, in Androy and also in Atsimo-Andrefana, where production dropped by approximately half, the agency added.
The situation was also critical in Anosy region.
"Households are reducing consumption of locally produced crops," the report said.
"[People are] adopting survival strategies such as consuming seeds, selling their animals and agricultural tools and increasing their consumption of nutritionally inadequate wild foods, such as red cactus fruits."
Across the country, rice production was also affected, the agency said, with declines of up to 60% in some regions.
Working with the World Food Programme, the FAO said it would help residents and small farms in the worst-affected districts with food, seeds and farm tools, so they could take advantage of the planting season, which starts in November.
Other African nations have also suffered from severe droughts recently, made worse by the El Nino phenomenon.
El Nino is a naturally occurring weather episode that sees the warm waters of the central Pacific expand eastwards towards North and South America, causing unusually high temperatures.


An unidentified drone came close to hitting a plane as it landed at Heathrow, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has confirmed.

An Airbus A320 pilot reported seeing a helicopter-style drone as the jet was 700 feet off the ground on its approach to the runway at 1416 GMT on 22 July.
The CAA has not identified the airline or how close the drone came to the plane, which can carry 180 people.
It gave the incident an "A" rating, meaning a "serious risk of collision".
This is the highest incident rating the CAA can give.
Investigators were unable to identify the drone, which did not appear on air traffic control radar and disappeared after the encounter.
In May the pilot of an ATR 72 turbo-prop plane reported seeing a helicopter drone only 80 feet away as he approached Southend airport at a height of 1,500 feet.
The incidents have prompted a warning from the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) that the rapid increase in the number of drones operated by amateur enthusiasts now poses "a real risk" to commercial aircraft.
The association's general secretary, Jim McAuslan said drones could cause a repeat of the "Hudson River experience", when a plane was forced to land in water in New York in 2009 after birds were sucked into its engines.
"The risk of a 10 kilogram object hitting a plane is a real one that pilots are very concerned about" he said.
"A small drone could be a risky distraction for a pilot coming into land and cause serious damage if they hit one."
Sales of drones have increased rapidly, with UK sales running at a rate of between 1,000 and 2,000 every month.
They are expected to be very popular as Christmas presents.
They cost as little as Â£35 for a smaller model - more advanced drones capable of carrying a high definition camera and travelling at 45 miles per hour cost almost Â£3,000.
Only a very small minority of people operating drones have attended training courses in how to fly them.
A spokesman for the CAA said it had to depend on people using their common sense when they operated drones.
He said the current level of risk should be "kept in perspective" but warned that breaking laws governing the use of drones could potentially threaten commercial aircraft.
"People using unmanned aircraft need to think, use common sense and take responsibility for them", he said.
"There are rules which have the force of law and have to be followed."
Drones may not be flown higher than 400 feet or further than 500 metres from the operator, and they must not go within 50 metres of people, vehicles or buildings.
There are exclusion zones around airports and the approaches to them for drones weighing more than seven kilograms.
Mr McAuslan said there was an urgent need for rules to be tightened before much larger unmanned cargo planes - potentially the size of a Boeing 737 - took to the skies.


Climate-change scientists are to travel to the Himalayas in a bid to become the first team to successfully drill through the world's highest glacier.

The Aberystwyth University-led group will use a drill adapted from a car wash to cut into the Khumbu glacier in the foothills of Everest.
They will work at an altitude of 5,000m (16,400ft), in the hope of finding out how climate change affects Khumbu.
Project leader Prof Bryn Hubbard said there will be "particular challenges".
The 10-mile (17km) long glacier, in north eastern Nepal, flows from as high as 7,600m (25,000ft) down to 4,900m (16,000ft) and is often used by climbers on their way to Everest base-camp.
Once the drilling is done, the team will be able to study the internal structure of the glacier - measure its temperature, how it flows and how water drains through it.
But it will be no walk in the park.
"Working in the field is challenging at best, but this mission presents some particular challenges," said Prof Hubbard, a winner of the prestigious Polar Medal for his previous work.
"We don't know how well our equipment will perform at altitude, let alone how we will be able to contend with the thin air."
Half of the EverDrill team's 1,500kg (236-stone) equipment will be airlifted on to the glacier by helicopter in several trips while the other half will be carried by Sherpas and yaks.
The adapted car wash drill produces a jet of hot water at a pressure high enough to cut through Tarmac.
It will be powered by three Honda generators, which will probably only be able to operate at 50% capacity due to the lack of oxygen.
"What we need to drill a bore hole through ice is ...hot, pressurised water," said Prof Hubbard. "You think 'hot, pressurised water, what can supply that? It's a car wash'."
While the equipment is lifted on to Khumbu, Prof Hubbard's team will fly to Nepal on Sunday before enduring a gruelling eight-day trek from Lukla airport, during which they will acclimatise.
Prof Hubbard, who will be joined by Prof Duncan Quincey from Leeds University, said understanding what happens in these glaciers, is "critical" to predicting their response to climate change.
"Equally important is developing a better understanding of how they flow so that we can better predict when dams that form on these glaciers are likely to be breached, releasing vast volumes of water to the valleys below.
"This is a real risk in the Himalayas as it is in other regions such as the Andes, and has the potential to endanger the lives of thousands of people," he added.
Scientists have previously warned lakes and ponds forming on the glacier threaten settlements downstream if they overflow.
PhD student, Katie Miles, who is also heading to Khumbu, said it is a "fantastic experience" to be involved in a project which could potentially gather ground-breaking data.
While "quite a lot" is known about the glacier from surface work and satellite imaging, we know "almost nothing" about its third dimension below, Prof Hubbard said.
He has been drilling bore holes since 1992 and has worked in places like Antarctica, Greenland and Svalbard.
So you might imagine he likes the cold.
"Strangely enough, no," he said. "I really don't like the cold. I'm quite used to working in the cold, I just don't like working in the cold."
But there will be a little room for creature comforts.
"I have a little stove-top espresso machine so a coffee in the morning and some Welsh whiskey at night," Prof Hubbard added.


Norfolk's failing children's services will be overseen by a commissioner under new government measures.

David Hill, from Essex County Council, has been appointed in the role, and will report to the education secretary every three months.
If it does not improve within a year, the entire department will be taken over by another authority or trust.
Director Michael Rosen agreed the situation was "embarrassing" but performance had been improving.
The department was rated inadequate in 2013 and "widespread weaknesses" were found earlier this year.
In its last inspection, Ofsted said leadership, management and governance still needed improving and the pace of change was too slow.
A report in October said the council had lost contact with 190 children who had been in care, 26 of whom were aged 16 and 17 and could still be at risk.
It also found 16 out of 1,052 "in care" children did not even have their own allocated social worker.
Just seven out of 35 children who could be reunited with their parents had been returned home.
In once case, it took four months to hold a meeting about a five-year-old in care.
Source: Essex County Council
Mr Rosen said "children were being let down right across the system in 2013".
"The inspection we have just had shown that we have made a lot of improvement, in terms of health and protection, and we now have an effective system of school support.
"What remains to be improved is the service for looked-after children.
"It's great that the government wishes to put this extra pressure on us and I think staff will react in exactly the right way, which is 'come on, let's get the job finished'."


The use of natural gas for electricity generation in the UK may have to decline significantly over the next 30 years, according to a new study.

Without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, gas-fired electricity would have to fall to 10% of the mix to meet emissions targets for 2050.
The new study also warns that current government policies will deter investment in gas.
The report has been published by the UK Energy Research Centre.
Last November the government signalled that the UK's remaining coal-fired power stations would be phased out by 2025.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said those closures would only go ahead if nuclear and gas-fuelled generation could fill the gap, and act as a bridge to a decarbonised future.
This new report raises questions about the implications of a new "dash for gas".
The authors calculate that without carbon capture and storage technology, unabated gas could only make up 10% of the electricity mix in 2050, if the government wanted to meet current legal obligations to restrict carbon.
Legislation on the statute books in the UK requires an 80% cut in CO2 emissions below the 1990 level by the middle of this century.
"There is limited scope for gas to act as a bridge (to a decarbonised future)," said Prof Jim Watson from the UK Energy Research Centre.
"If we stick to carbon targets and have CCS, you've got a significant amount of gas being burned in the energy system, perhaps half the current levels by 2050.
"But if we stick to carbon targets and don't have CCS you are down to the 10% level compared to current gas demand by 2050."
However, UK research on CCS was dealt a severe blow following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, when the government confirmed it was scrapping a Â£1bn carbon capture and storage competition on the grounds of cost.
According to the authors of this new report, the cancelling of the UK CCS competition will make it "risky" as to whether the technology will be available when needed.
"If you look around the world at where CCS is at, my view would be there isn't enough going on to guarantee you'll have that available," said Prof Mike Bradshaw from the Warwick Business School.
"The UK was one of the few countries that was actually serious about this - a charitable interpretation of the government's decision was that they were just hoping that someone else will bring the cost down and we'll buy it in when we need it, but that is quite a risky decision to make."
The scenario outlined by the report highlights the scale of the challenge of trying to reduce emissions while keeping the lights on.
While the government is keen on natural gas as an alternative to coal, investors have yet to be convinced that gas-fired stations are a good long-term investment.
To ease their fears the government has developed a "capacity market", where generators are paid for future supplies of energy that they can provide at short notice to ensure continuity of supply as renewables provide more of the energy mix.
According to the new report, the current capacity market mechanism is simply not attractive enough for investors to build new gas-generating capabilities.
The authors argue that any new gas plants built to replace coal without CCS will only operate intermittently, meaning a poor return on investment.
"Even if you want more gas to replace coal in the power sector, the policy framework clearly isn't working," said Prof Watson.
"The capacity market isn't doing what it needs to do, and I suspect they will have to put in place much stronger economic incentives for new gas developers."
The authors say that using gas for electricity is a question that needs to be answered over the next 10 years.
Beyond that they say reducing the role of gas in domestic heating and industry will be the "critical" challenge on the way to meeting the 2050 targets.
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Arsenal's appeal against defender Gabriel's red card during Saturday's defeat by Chelsea has been successful.

Gabriel, 24, was sent off by referee Mike Dean for violent conduct after a clash with Diego Costa during the Blues' 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge.
The successful appeal means he will now not serve a three-match suspension.
The Brazilian is subject to a separate Football Association charge of improper conduct to which he has until 18:00 BST on Thursday to respond.
That relates to him failing to leave the pitch immediately after being sent off.
Chelsea striker Costa, meanwhile, was found guilty of violent conduct and banned for three matches following a clash with Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny.


The mother of April Jones, whose disappearance sparked one of the UK's largest police searches, has spoken at a service to remember missing people.

Coral Jones said the service was a chance for families to "pay tribute to their loved one".
The body of five-year-old April has never been found after she was abducted and murdered by Mark Bridger in 2012.
The sister of Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards was also at the event. He disappeared in 1995.
The event was organised by the charity, Missing People.
Talking about her "beautiful daughter," Mrs Jones said: "Despite huge support from the police and the public, our search for her ended in tragedy.
"This is a chance for families who are suffering the heartache of missing someone to come together with supporters of the charity and pay tribute to their loved one."
April was abducted by Bridger as she played with friends near her home in Machynlleth, Powys, in October 2012.
Her body has not been found.
However, blood and fragments of bone consistent with a young human skull were found at the house Bridger rented.
The property has since been bought by the Welsh government and demolished.
Rachel Elias, sister of rock star Richey Edwards, also attended the event at Cardiff's Tabernacl Welsh Baptist Chapel.
The Manic Street Preachers's guitarist was presumed dead in October 2008, 13 years after he disappeared on February 1995.
Some believe Edwards, from Blackwood, south Wales, took his own life at the age of 27, and his car was later found near the Severn Bridge.
Jo Youle, the head of Missing People, said: "We know that Christmas is a particularly hard time for people searching for their loved ones.
"Families with someone missing tell us that having the public attend events like this offers them comfort and hope."


DUP leader Arlene Foster is a prominent figure on the front pages as the post-election analysis continues.

'Foster faces revolt' is the headline in the Belfast Telegraph as it states up to 10 of her MLAs have privately expressed disquiet about her.
Suzanne Breen says senior DUP sources have told the newspaper that Mrs Foster should reconsider her decision and not put her personal pride before what is best for the "party and the people of Northern Ireland".
Elsewhere, columnist and former editor Ed Curran believes the question is whether the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA as first minister can command sufficient respect after a "bruising and brutal month of electioneering".
He says unionists of all shades need to engage in a soul-searching inquest.
That point is emphasised by a story underneath on the Ulster Unionist leadership battle which indicates that Robin Swann and Steve Aiken are the likely front-runners after Mike Nesbitt announced he is stepping down.
The News Letter's Sam McBride says Mr Nesbitt's announcement leaves the UUP no closer to knowing what it stands for.
He says he was frequently struck by how freely the former television presenter  "expressed opinions without apparently realising how controversial those might be within his party", but says he departed the main stage with dignity
The Irish News and News Letter also consider the future of Mrs Foster.
The Irish News says public expressions of support for Mrs Foster over the weekend were "conspicuous by their absence", although it acknowledges that Simon Hamilton was batting for her on the BBC's Politics Show.  Columnist Alex Kane says the DUP leader's campaign comments about feeding a crocodile were a "crass blunder" that enraged a Sinn Féin voting base which "hasn't come out for years".
The News Letter acknowledges that Mrs Foster's future has been debated by senior party figures, but that there has not been an open challenge to her and there are no plans to hold the customary Monday meeting of the DUP Assembly group.
The Irish News reports that there are serious concerns for the health of former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness and that he has spent the last two weeks in hospital.
It says it is believed Mr McGuinness is suffering from a genetic condition and that he was admitted to Altnagelvin Hospital "due to the severe side-effects of his ongoing treatment".  Sinn Féin has declined to comment saying the 66-year-old's health is a private matter.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror reports that the UK and Irish governments have warned time is running out for parties in Northern Ireland to restore devolution.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has said there is a "limited window" in which the executive and assembly can return, while Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said both of them agreed it was of the "utmost importance" that the Northern Ireland political institutions "promptly resume their work".
Money might be tight at Stormont, but the Mirror highlights the raft of Northern Ireland celebrities making the Sunday Times rich list for 2017.
Ballymena's Liam Neeson is probably the best person to ask if you are short of a fiver, he is reportedly worth a cool £96m. Other big earners include Rory McIlroy (£82m),  Sir Van Morrison (£53m) and Sir Tony McCoy (£40m).


Muscle-ups, front lever, and the human flag are exercises that you will rarely see in the gym.

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They are extreme body weight only movements performed by competitors in the growing sport of street workout.
The sport can be practised anywhere, at any time and for free.
Smith Mangena, from Soweto in South Africa, was the first African to compete in the world championships.
He is now taking the sport back into the townships to help keep young people healthy in a nation with one of the highest obesity rates in the world.
Video journalist: Christian Parkinson


The Secretary of State said it would be "helpful" if Northern Ireland politicians could agree a provisional budget.

The Stormont administration is facing a multi-million pound shortfall due to the continuing failure to implement welfare reforms.
The DUP is to table a 'fantasy' budget to executive colleagues later this week in a bid to break the deadlock.
Theresa Villiers said agreement would buy more time to resolve the crisis.
It is estimated Northern Ireland will lose out on around Â£600m this year if welfare reforms are not introduced.
Ms Villiers, who met business leaders in Belfast to discuss the economic impact of the crisis, said a provisional budget was better than no budget at all.
"Failing to agree a budget of any kind would mean we face those emergency budget measures which could detrimentally start to impact on public services.
"I think agreeing a budget on a provisional basis would be helpful," she said. "It at least gives a little bit more time to see these matters resolved."
The DUP are proposing the 'fantasy' budget in an effort to clear an imminent legislative requirement to sign off on an agreed spending plan for the rest of the year.
Sinn Fein has not ruled out backing the plan, which will be based on the assumption that the Stormont House Agreement has actually been implemented.
Currently, the executive would not have the money to see through many of the funding commitments in the provisional budget.
However, funds could become available if the welfare reform dispute is resolved.
The failure to agree has left the executive facing a funding gap of hundreds of millions of pounds this financial year.
The defeat of the Welfare Reform Bill in the Assembly last month, due to a Sinn Fein/SDLP veto, has endangered other political and economic developments.
These include the devolution of corporation tax powers, access to Â£2bn of increased borrowing powers from the treasury, a major civil service redundancy scheme and new structures to address the legacy of the Troubles.
If executive ministers fail to set a budget for the second half of the financial year, then a senior civil servant will be forced to take over departmental purse strings at the end of July.


(Close): Well-received results from Taylor Wimpey and DCC helped to lift London's stock market.

The benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 1% in early trade before falling back. By the close it was 22.75 points higher, or 0.34%, at 6,753.18.
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey rose 3.1% after it said trading had been "strong" in the second half of the year.
Despite uncertainty after the Brexit vote, the market "has remained robust and trading has remained resilient".
Taylor Wimpey said it had sold on average 0.70 homes per outlet per week in the second half of the year, compared with 0.74 in the same period a year earlier.
Another riser was Dublin-based support services firm DCC. Its shares added 2.8% after it said full-year operating profits were set to beat expectations. The company also announced it was buying a 97% stake in French gas business Gaz Europeen.
Shares in William Hill were up 1.5% after the bookmaker gave an upbeat forecast for full-year profits as its online business improved.
The FTSE 250 firm now expects full-year operating profits to be at the top end of its predicted range of £260m-£280m.
Online net revenue rose 4% in the four months to 25 October, after falling 3% in the first half of the year.
However, banks were the top gainers on the 100-share index, with Barclays and RBS adding 5.2% and 4.4% respectively, buoyed by the rise in bond yields and the prospect of higher interest rates as a result.
On the bond market, yields on UK 10-year government bonds neared six-month highs, reaching 1.491%, as the bond market sell-off continued. When bond prices fall, yields rise.
US bond yields have risen following the election of Donald Trump, on the expectation that his policies will lead to a pick-up in inflation.
Bonds also had an impact on the currency market, as the pound fell against the dollar. Sterling dropped 1.1% against the dollar to $1.2464, but edged up 0.2% against the euro to €1.1624.


A rare copy of the comic in which Superman made his debut has been sold at auction for $956,000 (£728,000).

Action Comics No 1 cost 10 cents when it first went on sale in 1938.
The copy sold by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions is one of about 100 originals known to still exist. Its condition was rated 5.5 out of 10.
But it is far from the most expensive comic ever sold - a nine out of 10-rated copy of the same edition fetched $3.2m (£1.9m) in 2014.
Heritage said the copy sold on Thursday came from the collection of an unnamed East Coast comic book fan who had bought it in the 1990s for $26,000 (£19,800).
After his appearance in Action Comics No 1, Superman soon became a hit and was given his own dedicated comic in 1939.


Everton midfielder Ross Barkley should be sold if he does not sign a new contract, says manager Ronald Koeman.

The 23-year-old England international, who set up the first of Romelu Lukaku's two goals in Sunday's 4-2 victory over Leicester, has a year left on his deal.
"We offer him a new contract, and there are two possibilities," said Koeman.
"One, he signs that contract. If he doesn't sign that contract then we need to sell the player. It's simple, it's not so difficult in my opinion."
Barkley, who was born in Liverpool and came through the Everton academy, has scored five goals and provided eight assists this season.
Team-mate Lukaku, the Premier League's top scorer with 23 goals, last month turned down a new five-year deal thought to be worth about £140,000 a week.
The Belgian, whose contract expires in 2019, recently stated his desire to play in the Champions League next season.
The Toffees are seventh in the table - seven points shy of a Champions League spot.
"We try to keep the best players," said Koeman. "We spoke a lot about Ross and Rom because they are really important.
"Most of the time the quality of the players can be the difference between Everton and the opponent, and they played really well.
"We know Rom is a great finisher but Ross played really good football between the lines.
"I think he should have scored one but it is what you like to see - your best players performing like they showed, because they were outstanding. The whole team was outstanding."
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Can you chemically "grow" a military drone?

It sounds like an idea for a science fiction film, but here in the UK scientists and engineers are spending time and money to see if they can do exactly that.
British warplanes are already flying with parts made from a 3D printer.
Researchers are already using that same technology to build drones.
The military advantage is obvious - building equipment quickly and close to the battlefield - without long waits and long supply chains - gives you an enormous advantage over any enemy.
But the latest innovation being developed by Prof Lee Cronin at Glasgow University takes 3D printing to another level.
With industrial advice from BAE Systems, he is developing something called a "chemputer" which, in theory, would be able to "grow" small scale unmanned aircraft, or drones in a laboratory.
While a 3D printer physically makes the parts for a machine, the "chemputer" speeds up the chemical reactions from the molecular level.
Such a breakthrough could mean it would take weeks rather than months or years to build an aircraft from scratch.
An animated video of what it might be like is almost a scene out of Star Wars "Attack of the Clones".
Prof Cronin admits that creating even small aircraft out of chemicals "would be very challenging".
But he says that by developing an autonomous digital synthesis engine they will be able to assemble "complex objects with minimal human assistance". At least at some point in the future.
That still seems a long way off. But another innovation may be much nearer.
A small British company, Reaction Engines Limited, is already developing a rocket that could one day fly at hypersonic speeds.
Hypersonic speed is roughly defined as Mach 5 and above (Mach 1 is about 760mph).
BAE Systems has already invested more than Â£20m in the project.
It sees the potential for developing military aircraft that could reach a target much faster than any jet.
Flying at high speed and high altitude in space, it could also avoid air defence systems and anti-aircraft missiles.
BAE System has produced an animation that shows such an aircraft delivering swift support to special forces troops thousands of miles away.
Rather than bombs, the rocket releases small surveillance drones.
But it is clear the defence industry is already looking at their potential use on the battlefield.
The advance for commercial flight too is pretty obvious, slashing the time to cross the Atlantic.
Before dismissing such ideas as the stuff of nonsense, it is always worth remembering the speed of change.
3D printers are being used widely by the military.
I was recently on board a US Navy aircraft carrier which has its own 3D printer.
Armed forces across the world are also relying much more on unmanned land, air and underwater vehicles that can work remotely.
The US Air Force now trains more drone operators than fighter pilots.
In fact its newest aircraft - the F35 - has been called the last manned fighter.
As Prof Nick Colosimo of BAE Systems notes, "the world of military and civil aircraft is constantly evolving".


The man who led the abuse inquiry into Jimmy Savile and others has admitted police "got some things wrong".

Peter Spindler, a retired Metropolitan Police commander, said Operation Yewtree was set up too late.
Some detectives working on the inquiry "didn't have the knowledge and skills" needed, he told a debate, organised by the children's charity, NSPCC.
The debate was on whether historical sexual abuse investigations had descended into "media witch-hunts".
Operation Yewtree was set up in 2012 to examine alleged sexual abuse by Savile, and subsequently dealt with sexual assault cases involving other celebrities including Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter, Max Clifford and Dave Lee Travis.
Mr Spindler said: "We have learnt a lot in this type of investigation. We have got some things wrong.
"One of the things we didn't get right was we completely underestimated what was going to happen.
"We didn't have sufficient resources in place. We didn't have the knowledge and the skills amongst our more general detectives.
"We have been investigating non-recent abuse for years ... this was something different. We needed to create a major inquiry team. We didn't get it set up early enough.
"We completely underestimated the swing in the public mood at the time and the coverage this was going to get. I have no doubt we got the coverage because it involved celebrities and it involved the BBC."
He also said police investigators had "benefited" when the media named suspects, because it had encouraged other victims to come forward, but he denied this showed the police were guilty of "double standards", having refused to make the names public themselves.
Operation Hydrant, set up by the National Police Chiefs' Council, was overseeing 262 child sexual abuse investigations, and had the names of more than 2,000 suspects and 670 institutions where abuse was said to have happened, he said.
"These people can't all be making it up, they haven't all got it wrong," Mr Spindler said.
He added that 30,000 victims who had yet to report abuse were expected to come forward to the Goddard inquiry - the independent investigation into child sexual abuse.
But he had concerns about young people's understanding of a "healthy sexual relationship".
"The images that teenage boys view on their phones and handheld devices are miles away from the sorts of things we would have chuckled over as young boys," he added.
Operation Yewtree has three strands. One concerns Savile's crimes exclusively, whilst another relates to allegations against Savile and others,
The third strand concentrates on accusations unconnected to the Savile investigations but which emerged as a result of the publicity surrounding Savile.


A large fire has broken out at a recycling firm in Dorset.

More than 30 firefighters were sent to W&S Recycling, on the Nuffield Industrial Estate in Poole, at about 15:45 BST.
Black plumes of smoke can be seen coming from the site, near a residential area.
Waste recycling has been affected by the blaze but there are no reports of any injuries, the fire service said. Nuffield Road has been closed.
Six pumping appliances, an aerial appliance and water carrier have been deployed to the scene, it added.


The "very mild, stormy winter" at the start of 2014 has led to Guernsey's warmest year on record, according to the island's Met Office.

The record of 12.4C (54F) is the highest average annual temperature since records began in 1947.
Senior Met Officer Martin Crozier said the winter was behind the high.
He said: "We had a pretty warm spring, the summer was okay, but August was actually a bit below normal temperature."
Mr Crozier said: "The new record is in place not so much because of the heat of the summer but because we never really had any cold weather at all."


Football fans should combat abuse by reporting "anything which makes them uncomfortable", a senior Police Scotland officer has said.

Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said fans should report incidents to officers or stewards.
Mr Higgins told BBC Scotland bigotry was no more acceptable in a football ground than anywhere else.
And he warned that someone could be seriously injured, or even killed, by fans setting off flares at matches.
Speaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Higgins said: "This season so far, we've had 32 incidents of pyrotechnics or flares being thrown or discharged at matches. Some of the incidents it's been three, four, five, six flares that have been thrown.
"That's a real danger, someone is going to get hurt. We've had a couple of real near misses. But it is potentially really quite life threatening.
"It compromises the safety of the event."
Speaking about sectarian incidents, the senior officer said: "Somebody once talked about the 90-minute bigot, but there is no such thing."
"If you are sitting at a game and you're uncomfortable because of something you see or something you hear, the reality is people around you will probably be uncomfortable as well.
"That's unacceptable. What I would urge you to do is go and report it to the steward or go and report it to a police officer."
Much of the abuse heard at football grounds is a potential breach of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
That legislation was introduced in 2012 in a bid to clamp down on sectarianism.
Earlier this week, the Scottish Parliament's public petitions committee heard calls for the law to be scrapped.
The Fans Against Criminalisation campaign group argued the legislation had eroded trust between supporters and police and had failed to tackle bigotry.
But Mr Higgins said a report of offensive behaviour need not lead to heavy-handed action.
He said: "We don't necessarily have to arrest everybody. We've got a whole range of options available.
"The stewards can go and warn an individual to calm down - as can my officers - right the way through the whole quantum of stewards deciding to eject the person and, as an ultimate sanction, my officers arresting them."
In the BBC interview, Mr Higgins said offensive behaviour was not just a problem for Celtic and Rangers.
"We've arrested people associated with 16 different clubs in Scotland," he said.
"So it's not exclusive to the Old Firm, it's not exclusive to the top flight. That's 16 clubs right the way through all divisions."


Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has urged Australians to support same-sex marriage in a looming postal vote.

In May, Mr Joyce vowed to press charges against a man who struck him with a pie over his support for same-sex marriage, which is not legal in Australia.
Mr Joyce has also faced criticism from some politicians who say he should not take a political stance on behalf of the airline.
However, he said his company "would be active out there" in campaigning.
"I believe we have to get behind it and make sure that we have a 'yes' vote and certainly I will be out there strongly campaigning for a 'yes' vote," he said.
"We believe the social issues are very important of all of your [company] stakeholders and are very important for this country."
Australians will be asked their views on same-sex marriage through a voluntary, non-binding ballot to begin next month.
If it shows support for changing Australia's Marriage Act, it is expected that a vote in parliament will follow. However, MPs would not be bound to vote in line with the public.
Mr Joyce was one of 20 company chief executives who signed a petition in March calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to legalise same-sex marriage.
It led to criticism by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who said it was "unacceptable that people would use companies and the money of publicly-listed companies to throw their weight around".
"If Alan Joyce and any other CEO wants to campaign on this or any other issue in their own time and on their own dime, good luck to them," Mr Dutton said at the time.
Two months later, Mr Joyce was giving a speech in Perth when an intruder shoved him in the face with a meringue pie.
"From my reading, it would appear that Alan Joyce is very much part of a network trying to subvert the federal parliamentary process around the issue of marriage equality," the intruder, Tony Overheu, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Mr Joyce later said he would press charges against Mr Overheu.
Polls in recent years have shown a majority of Australians support same-sex marriage.


Barnes & Noble, the US bookseller behind the e-book brand Nook, has announced it will cease selling digital books in the UK on 15 March.

Many British Nook owners received the news on World Book Day.
The UK versions of the online book shop, Android app and store accessed via Nook devices will all close.
Barnes & Noble said it is teaming up with supermarket giant Sainsbury's to ensure that customers can still access content they have already paid for.
"We thank you for your patronage and are working closely with Sainsbury's to make this transition as smooth as possible," it said in a statement to customers.
Customers must take action by the end of May in order to retain purchased content, it added, with instructions to follow by email.
30%
share of UK book purchases
47% share of adult fiction
Â£393m spent on e-books
Â£1.7bn amount spent on print books
Nook was launched in the UK in 2012 but the market continues to be dominated by Amazon's Kindle, said analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"It's pretty tragic - it shows that Amazon is the powerhouse in the e-book market despite the best efforts of everybody else," he told the BBC.
"But it's a sensible move - if it's clear that the growth opportunity doesn't exist, it's better to pull out of the market than keep flogging a dead horse."
In its last quarterly results, released this week, the US company said overall sales were down by 1.8% but its net profit had increased by around Â£5.7m ($8m) year on year.
British Nook owner Tim Glenton, from Suffolk, said he had taken advantage of a special offer to purchase a Nook device but regularly used a Kindle.
"It's a shame there's a lack of competition in the market but it's not going to massively change my life," he said of the news.
"Nook never really quite took off in UK."


The Restaurant Group, the owner of the Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito chains, will sell or close 33 outlets.

Restaurant Group, which runs 500 theme restaurants, said it had been a "challenging trading period".
It said its Frankie & Benny's chain had "suffered due to insufficient focus on value, unsuccessful menu development and poor operational execution".
Those outlets had lost customers after "significant price increases and the removal of popular value offers".
The company said it was "taking action" to change this, adding it would stick with the Frankie & Benny's brand as it remained "relevant and popular".
The group said the introduction of "more 'authentic' menus without sufficient testing of the concept", and the removal of many popular dishes from menus had failed to please.
The dishes also took longer to prepare.
A spokesman for the group said that customers cited price as their main concern about the new menu, which was introduced across the 250-strong chain in 2015.
Around half of the restaurant closures planned would be across the Frankie and Benny's chain, leaving it with around 235 outlets.
The restaurant critic and broadcaster, Jay Rayner, told the BBC that mid-market restaurant chains, like those owned by The Restaurant Group, were potentially among the sector's most lucrative.
As a consequence, consumer choice had proliferated, leaving competition for premises and personnel intense.
The firm said it would take a £59.1m charge linked to the site closures, pushing it into a half-year loss of £22.5m.
Across Restaurant Group as a whole, total revenue rose 3.4% to £358.7m in the first half of the year, but like-for-like sales dropped 3.9%.
Earlier this month, the company made key management changes, including removing chief executive Danny Breithaupt, and replacing him with the former boss of Paddy Power, Andy McCue.


Two late goals from Anthony Forde and Tom Bradshaw gave Walsall the advantage over Preston in the Football League Trophy northern area final first leg.

The hosts almost took the lead in the first half but Jermaine Beckford's header was kept out after a diving save from Saddlers keeper Richard O'Donnell.
Forde broke the deadlock on 84 minutes with a powerful free-kick.
And Bradshaw doubled their lead when he latched on to a poor passback from Scott Wiseman and slotted home.
Walsall, who sit 10 spots below third-place Preston in League One, are now a step closer to their first ever Wembley final.
If they hold on to their advantage in the return leg at the Banks's Stadium next month, they will face either Bristol City or Gillingham in the competition final on 22 March.
It was promotion-chasing Preston who looked the most likely to score in the first half, but the Saddlers had O'Donnell to thank for keeping the Lilywhites at bay.
Paul Gallagher's cross was met by Beckford inside the six-yard box, but O'Donnell produced a phenomenal stop to somehow deny his downward header.
Chris Humphrey then blazed over and Beckford again forced O'Donnell into a save, before the visitors responded with Andy Taylor's free-kick which came back off a post.
The Saddlers shaded the second period and they were rewarded with two strikes in six minutes.
Forde hit a 25-yard free-kick into the far corner of the net and then Bradshaw capitalised on Wiseman's error and placed the ball through Thorsten Stuckmann's legs.


The youngest cricketer to play in a first-class match in England has retired from the sport, aged 19.

Yorkshire Academy player Barney Gibson cancelled his contract with the county to pursue other career opportunities.
Wicketkeeper Gibson was just 15 years and 27 days old when he made his debut against Durham University in April 2011, his only appearance for the side.
He was given special dispensation from school to miss his science, maths and religious education lessons to play.
Previously, he had spent four years with the academy of Championship football side Leeds United as a goalkeeper before turning to cricket.
"This was a difficult decision to make," said Gibson.
"I would like to thank the players and staff at Yorkshire for their support. I have been involved with the club since I was 11 and I feel that now is the right time for me to look at a career change."
The county's director of cricket development Ian Dews added: "Everyone at the club wishes Barney well.
"It is very much his decision. We hope that the next chapter in his life is very successful."
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The names of 77 men and women killed during World War One are being added to the 1914-1918 War Memorial at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.

The individuals had not previously been commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
It said they may have come home and died of injuries or illnesses from the war and it had not been informed.
The CWGC said there were "still many cases to be resolved" and the memorial had room for further names to be added.
The new memorial to the fallen of World War One was unveiled at the cemetery last year.
Most of the names have been inscribed on panels at the CWGC's workshop in France, but more than 15 have been engraved at the site.
The Brookwood 1914-1918 War Memorial commemorates the missing and casualties with no known grave.
The majority are servicemen and women from the land forces of the UK.
Brookwood Military Cemetery contains 1,601 Commonwealth burials from World War One and 3,476 from World War Two.


Events are to be held to recall a medieval castle demolished in the 1970s to make way for a road bridge.

Helmsdale Castle at Helmsdale in Sutherland was built in the 15th Century on the orders of a countess.
It was the scene of a triple murder involving poison. The plot is said to have inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Timespan Museum and Art Gallery will lead the events, which include a screening of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2010 production of Hamlet.
It starred Scots actor David Tennant in the title role.
Taking place next week, the events will also include marking out the lost boundaries of the castle with balloons.
A storytelling session and a picnic are also to be held.
The castle was constructed on the instructions of Margaret Baillie, Countess of Sutherland and the wife of William, Earl of Sutherland.
It was rebuilt and repaired in 1616 by Alexander Gordon of Garty and was later used as a hunting lodge for landowners and their guests.
Helmsdale Castle fell into ruin and was demolished to clear the site for a road building project in the 1970s.
The triple murder said to have fired the imagination of Shakespeare was committed in 1567.
The 11th Earl of Sutherland and his countess were poisoned over dinner after a day's hunting.
The assailant was the earl's own aunt, Isobel Sinclair, who had also hoped to dispatch her nephew's son and heir in a plot so her own son could inherit the earldom.
In an ironic twist, Sinclair mistakenly administered the poison to her own son too and killed him.
She was sentenced to hang in Edinburgh for her crime, but took her own life before she could be executed.


Arsenal legend Tony Adams has been appointed head coach of Spanish top-flight side Granada until the end of the season.

On the face of it, giving Adams - whose previous managerial experience amounts to ill-fated spells in charge of Wycombe, Portsmouth and Azerbaijani side Gabala - the task of saving La Liga's 19th-placed club from relegation seems a strange decision.
But, as Spanish football writer Andy West explains, the appointment is a more logical one than it might first appear.
Although Adams' elevation to manager of La Liga strugglers Granada looks extremely bizarre, upon closer inspection it makes a reasonable amount of sense.
Granada are owned by Chinese businessman Jiang Lizhang (often referred to as John Jiang), also the part-owner of NBA basketball team the Minnesota Timberwolves, who bought the Andalusian club last summer from Italian entrepreneur Gino Pozzo.
Adams is a vice-president of Jiang Lizhang's DDMC Football Club Management Company, and last year he had a spell in China as sporting director for the Chinese Super League team which is owned by DDMC, Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.
After leaving China, Adams moved to Spain midway through the current season, working in a similar role for Granada with the aim of helping Jiang Lizhang construct his plans for the club's long-term future.
So, Adams already had a strong personal involvement at Granada as the chief advisor on all footballing matters to the club's owner.
And when the position of Granada manager Lucas Alcaraz became untenable after Sunday's 3-1 home defeat by Valencia, in many ways Adams was the logical choice to deepen his role by becoming a part-time interim coach before, assumedly, the appointment of a long-term successor in the summer.
It's obvious that Granada have been deeply mired in a painful 'transitional period' since last year's takeover by Jiang Lizhang.
But in fact, the instability at the club goes back much further because former owner Pozzo - who is also in charge of Watford and Udinese - based his recruitment strategy upon an endless recycling of players between his three clubs.
Although that strategy helped earn Granada promotion into the top flight in 2011 and has kept them (just) in the top division ever since, it is hardly an ideal recipe for long-term success when most of your best players are either on loan from - or destined to join - one of the owner's other clubs.
Regular changes on the bench also pre-date the Jiang Lizhang era, with Adams becoming not only the club's third manager of the current season but also their seventh in just over three years.
Interestingly, Adams criticised the approach of the previous regime during a recent interview about his then-advisory Granada role on the club's official website, explaining: "We inherited 106 players, of whom only 44 actually belong to Granada.
"Our aim is to return Granada [Football Club] to Granada so the people here can identify fully with their team and their players.
"I'm here to put the Spanish structure in place, with players who will belong to Granada CF and who will fight for Granada."
Now he'll be putting that structure in place from a lot more close-up than he probably initially envisaged.
Realistically, Granada have very little chance of staying up.
Sunday's defeat against Valencia left them eight points adrift of safety, with just seven games remaining and only one point gained from their last six outings.
Granada will probably need to win at least four of their remaining games to have any chance of survival and, as their upcoming opponents include Real Madrid, Sevilla and fierce local rivals Malaga, that's a major ask.
However, they do have a kind run-in, with the final two games coming away to bottom-placed Osasuna, who will almost certainly already be relegated by then, and mid-table Espanyol, who will have nothing to play for.
If Adams can even extend Granada's season that long it will be regarded as a big success, and an awful lot will depend on his first game in charge: at home to Celta Vigo on Sunday evening.
Celta are the perfect opponents for Adams' La Liga debut. The Galician team's league campaign has more or less ground to a halt while they focus their energies on the Europa League, and their trip to Granada is sandwiched between the first and second legs of their quarter-final meeting with Genk.
Adams, therefore, is highly likely to face a virtual reserve team when Celta come to Granada next weekend, giving him a wonderful opportunity to make a flying start. If he doesn't, it will probably be curtains.
It would make much more sense for Adams' new role to be a temporary one, buying some time while the club makes longer-term plans for next season and beyond.
Certainly, Adams being named permanent manager would not fit very well with the 'Spanish structure' he spoke about in his interview last month.
And until today, everything Adams had said about his role at Granada suggested that he was happy to take a backroom director's role rather than holding ambitions to become first-team manager, and that remains the most likely scenario beyond the current season.
But considering his strong relationship with the club's owner, of course he could end up getting the job on a permanent basis.
If he has success in the next few weeks, Adams may acquire a taste for the dugout, and he may convince decision-maker Jiang Lizhang that he is the right man to lead the team's bid to return to top-flight football.
This, after all, is that most illogical of businesses… football. So don't rule anything out.


A heritage railway line has apologised for allowing the attraction to be used to shoot a hardcore pornography movie.

The Epping Ongar Railway, set to host an Easter egg hunt this weekend, featured in a video by adult film company Brazzers.
Dean Walton, business development manager at the heritage railway in Essex, apologised to customers for what he called "an error of judgement".
He said any further approaches for such productions would be refused.
Ongar station is clearly recognisable in the opening sequences of the 28-minute movie.
Mr Walton said the railway, which describes itself as "family friendly", had been made available for commercial hire "on a number of occasions" to generate money to run the trains.
He said: "Earlier this year we took a decision to allow an adult film, subject to certain conditions, to be filmed on the railway.
"We are sorry that our decision may have caused offence. It is clear that this decision was an error of judgement."
Mr Walton said the railway had no "editorial control" over the content of the movie and that filming took place when the attraction was closed to the public.
A spokeswoman for the railway said conditions included insisting Brazzers worked in line with the legislation governing the porn industry and that it showed "discretion".
She said officials "would have imagined there would be a film that did not look like it took place at the railway".


London Irish were promoted back to the Premiership after beating Yorkshire Carnegie in the play-off final.

The lead changed hands four times in the first 20 minutes after Ciaran Hearn ran in for Irish inside a minute.
Seb Stegmann touched down for Carnegie before Brendan McKibbin's converted try gave Irish the lead only for Mike Mayhew to put the visitors back on top.
Fergus Mulchrone put the Exiles in front before they ran in three second-half tries to seal a top-flight return.
The hosts went into the game leading by 11 points from the first leg of the Championship final and aside from an early scare they never looked like relinquishing their advantage.
Alex Lewington crossed straight after the restart, McKibbin touched down for his second and Lewington got his second after a misplaced pass from Carnegie as Irish built up a big lead.
The visitors then scored four second-half tries of their own with Ben Wes, a penalty try, Sione Faletau and Stegmann keeping the score on the night reasonable but Tommy Bell's boot meant a comeback was never on the cards.
Irish's Ben Franks and Carnegie's Charlie Beech were sent off for punching late on.
The game was Bryan Redpath's last in charge of Yorkshire Carnegie as the former Scotland international is leaving the club to take up a job outside of the sport.
Irish's return to the Premiership comes at the first attempt and just over a year after their relegation from the top-flight under former head coach Tom Coventry.
New Zealander Coventry departed soon after following a season in charge and was replaced by former Irish second row Nick Kennedy as director of rugby.
With coaching assistance from fellow ex-players Declan Danaher, George Skivington and Paul Hodgson, Kennedy swiftly guided Irish to the Championship summit as they lost just once in the regular season.
South African Brendan Venter, also a former Irish player, helped oversee the coaching transition in his role as technical director in between working with Italy and more recently South Africa as defence coach.
Following promotion, London Irish will hope they can fare better than Bristol, whose own return to the Premiership lasted just one season.
With just more than three months before the Premiership resumes, the race will be on for Irish to recruit new players and secure existing ones on new contracts.
But, with a squad already containing more than a dozen internationals and highly-rated teenage winger Joe Cokanasiga, selected in England's squad to tour Argentina next month, the foundations are there.
Off-the-field, the club will also need to appoint a new chief executive to succeed club stalwart Bob Casey, who returns to the Republic of Ireland with his family this summer.
London Irish: Bell, Lewington, Hearn, Mulchrone, Ojo, Marshall, McKibbin, Hobbs-Awoyemi, Paice, Franks, De Chaves, Sinclair, Coman, Cowan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Porecki, Court, Hoskins, Robson, Narraway, Steele, Tonks.
Yorkshire Carnegie: Elder, Holmes, Lucock, Casson, Stegmann, Ford, Davies, Beech, M. Mayhew, Cusack, Smith, Myerscough, Stedman, R. Mayhew, Burrows.
Replacements: Graham, Boyce, Faletau, West, Beck, Green, Wright.


Defender Craig Dawson has signed an improved one-year contract extension at West Bromwich Albion.

The 25-year-old has made 97 appearances and scored four goals since joining the Baggies from Rochdale in August 2011.
Dawson's current deal still had a year to run but his new contract will keep him at The Hawthorns until 2018.
"I'm really enjoying my football, especially over the last year and a half when I've been a regular in the first team," he told the club website.
"I've been down here a few years now, the family is settled in this area, so it was a very easy decision to extend my contract.
"It means I can just concentrate on playing and doing everything I can to stay in the team and carry on contributing to things."


Two cousins have set off on a 1,100-mile (1,770km) trek in honour of their late grandfather who fled Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia as a teenager.

Sam and Chris Ogrizovic's grandfather Nicola escaped from Brlog in Croatia aged 14 as it came under siege.
He eventually settled in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, after a five-year journey which saw him taken prisoner.
The cousins, who set off from the village on Friday, are travelling the route he took in reverse.
They are raising money for the Alzheimer's Society.
Mr Ogrizovic, known as Nick, died from Alzheimer's last year, aged 86.
He had seen his father shot dead in a revenge attack by Nazi soldiers in Brlog.
He fled the village in 1942, leaving behind his mother and two sisters.
It took him five years to make his way to Nottinghamshire, having been captured and imprisoned in Italy, where he was saved by British soldiers and brought to the UK.
Under the name Papa's Journey, the cousins will travel along the route taken by their grandfather, but in the opposite direction.
They will either walk or hitchhike, or find other ways of travelling free of charge. They have just Â£20 to spend.
The pair, who have already raised more than Â£3,000, plan to arrive in Brlog in eight days.
The cousins said they were undertaking the challenge to raise awareness of Alzheimer's and to remember a "great man whose stories will remain in the family for generations to come".
Sam Ogrizovic, 30, from Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, said: "We've had our ups and downs on the first day.
"When we got a few things going our way we were buzzing and when you get a few 'noes' from people it is soul-destroying.
"We are up against the clock now and trying to focus on the positives."
His cousin Chris, from Birmingham, is the son of former Coventry City goalkeeper Steve.


House of Cards author Michael Dobbs has revealed he is working on a "very major project" with the creator of Danish political drama Borgen.

The Conservative peer said the project had "a pretty good pedigree" and would "hopefully be on BBC screens" in 2014.
Dramatised by the BBC in 1990, Dobbs' House of Cards novel recently inspired a US remake starring Kevin Spacey.
Borgen, created by Adam Price, tells of a politician who becomes Denmark's first woman prime minister.
Lord Dobbs confirmed to Sunday's edition of The World This Weekend on Radio 4 that he had "got together" with Price to work.
No details of the collaboration were forthcoming, though the author and politician did express an interest in telling the "real story" of Denis Thatcher.
"What a brilliant, brilliant character to base a play on," he said of Margaret Thatcher's late husband, describing him as "misunderstood" and "wonderfully strong".
The original House of Cards told of a conniving chief whip, played by Ian Richardson, who uses duplicity and guile to have himself elevated to the post of Conservative prime minister.
The US remake, produced by the online streaming service Netflix, stars Kevin Spacey and relocates the action to Washington DC.