Many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) young people still encounter harassment in public spaces, according to a Scottish charity.

LGBT Youth Scotland said its research suggested more needed to be done to ensure LGBT young people felt safe.
It urged those affected to understand their rights and report discrimination.
The charity said not every young person was aware of what constituted a criminal act under hate crime legislation .
In an online survey of LGBT people aged 13 to 25 conducted by the charity, 49% of the 273 respondents said they felt safe and supported by the legal system. The figure fell to 40% among those who identified as transgender.
Half of those surveyed said they were aware of their rights, while a similar proportion (53%) said they would feel confident in reporting a crime they experienced to the police.
Among transgender young people the figure dropped to 48%, while bisexual women were the least likely to feel confident reporting a hate crime at 46%.
Just over half (51%) of transgender young people said they felt safe using public transport.
While the charity has welcomed an increase in the reporting of hate crimes, YGBT Youth Scotland has recommended that campaigns, activities and lesson plans be developed for use in schools, with specific reference to hate crime.
Chief executive Fergus McMillan said: "In Scotland, we are fortunate to have strong hate crime legislation that is inclusive of transgender identities yet the safety report shows a gap in knowledge and confidence for transgender young people in particular.
"When young people know about their rights, and have confidence in the process, they are more likely to be willing to report.
"An increase in reported crimes since the introduction of the legislation is certainly positive, yet more must be done to ensure that LGBT young people feel safe in their communities, understand their rights and how to report discrimination and harassment, and have the confidence to report."


Striker Chris Martin has described his input during Derby County's dismal recent run as a "bit non-existent".

The Rams ended an eight-game winless Championship streak with a 3-1 comeback victory at Brentford on Saturday.
Martin came off the bench with the Rams trailing 1-0 and helped create one goal before scoring the third - just his second goal in 19 games.
"It's nice to finally contribute. I feel a lot lighter with that monkey off my back," Martin told BBC Radio Derby.
"I have been a bit non-existent for the last couple of months."
The 27-year-old's strike was his 10th league goal in 31 appearances, but only his second since finding the net against Huddersfield Town in October.
But Martin said Derby would not be over-reacting after earning their first league win this year. Their last victory was a 2-0 success over Fulham on Boxing Day which took them top of the Championship table.
"It's not a time to celebrate and dwell too much because the win should have come much earlier and we understand that," Martin said.
"I don't necessarily think I am not contributing if I don't score, but the big thing is I want to contribute to winning performances and we hadn't managed to win in a long, long time.
"The main feeling is elation and relief at winning the game. But it's not a time to really celebrate.
"But this is a great lift. We have started the week extremely well and hopefully we can kick on again."
Derby are at home against Blackburn Rovers on Wednesday and away to Wolves on Saturday.


Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi's order to reconvene parliament has been rejected by the highest court, which says its ruling that led to the assembly's dissolution is binding.

The speaker of the dissolved house has already responded to Mr Mursi's decree, calling on MPs to meet on Tuesday.
Army units outside parliament have left and some MPs have gone in.
The decision by Mr Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood has most seats, sets up a potential showdown with the military.
By Jon LeyneBBC News, Cairo
On the face of it, the court's pronouncement means that President Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood are on course for a confrontation, both with the military and with the courts.
In practice it's not quite so simple.
All the court did last month was to rule that part of the election for parliament was unconstitutional. It didn't order the dissolution of parliament -- that was done by the military. So President Mursi is not going directly against a court order.
As for the military, they are not acting at the moment as if they are preparing for a showdown with the Brotherhood - rather the opposite.
Security outside parliament has been reduced, not increased. So it's still possible this crisis could be resolved without a major confrontation.
However the situation is unclear as Egyptians elected Mr Mursi without a constitution and without his powers being defined.
Because parliament has been dissolved, he was sworn in before the constitutional court rather than before MPs.
It was the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) that made the decision to dissolve parliament in June, after Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that part of the election for parliament was unconstitutional.
Meeting on Monday, the court said that all its rulings and decisions were "final and not subject to appeal".
In a statement, it emphasised that the court was "not a party to any political confrontation".
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo said that the court had not itself ordered the dissolution of parliament so Mr Mursi was not directly challenging a court order.
While MPs could meet, any laws they passed were most likely to be ruled invalid, he said.
Despite the apparent tensions, the president and Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who heads Scaf, appeared together at a military cadet graduation ceremony on Monday.
Parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni, also a member of the Brotherhood, said MPs should return for a session of parliament on Tuesday afternoon.
A Salafist MP, Nizar Ghurab, was the first to go into the building as guards outside allowed MPs to return, Mena news agency reported.
But Mr Mursi's decree was criticised by some of his political rivals.
Presidential candidate Hamdin Sabbahi was quoted as saying it was a "waste of legal authority" while another, Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh, was said to have denounced his move as unconstitutional.
Liberal MP Mohammed Abu Hamed urged Scaf to challenge what he called "this constitutional coup".
The constitutional court says it has received a number of appeals against the president's order. The head of the court Maher el-Beheiry told Reuters news agency it would hear the cases on Tuesday.
The Scaf took over the reins of power last year, after the revolution that ended former President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
The army move was initially welcomed by many of the anti-government protesters, but its presence became increasingly unpopular as critics accused its leaders of wanting to hold on to power.
Mr Mursi won the country's first free presidential election last month, and army chiefs formally handed over power on 30 June.
But before his inauguration, the military granted itself sweeping powers.
The commanders' constitutional declaration stripped the president of any authority over the military, gave military chiefs legislative powers, and the power to veto the new constitution, which has yet to be drafted.
In his decree, Mr Mursi said new parliamentary elections would be held 60 days after the new constitution had been agreed by referendum.
The Muslim Brotherhood has consistently opposed the decision to dissolve parliament.


Olivia Colman is to star in a new play at the National Theatre "about sisters and particle physics".

Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood will have its world premiere in the Dorfman Theatre in July 2017.
The NT's artistic director Rufus Norris said he had persuaded the Broadchurch and Night Manager actress back to the stage over a coffee.
"I'm totally thrilled that she'll be coming and joining us," he said.
Announcing the theatre's 2017 plans, Norris said the play centred around two sisters - one of whom is a leading scientist at the opening of the Large Hadron Collider.
Colman's last appearance at the National Theatre was in Richard Bean's England People Very Nice in 2009.
Norris, who will also direct the play, last worked with Colman on his film version of the musical London Road.
"Since then I've been trying to woo her back into the theatre," he said. "I had a coffee with her not long ago and managed to trick her into stepping back over the line.
"She's a fantastic asset to our creative industries," Norris added.
"When actors get that kind of success in television and film, before you know it you can have five or 10 years going by without them being on stage.
"So it's important to get those people back in and to keep that side of the craft up."
Other big names appearing at the National Theatre in 2017 include Imelda Staunton in Stephen Sondheim's Follies and Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield in Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
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Health bosses at Wales' largest hospital say thousands of motorists are using the site as a daily 'rat-run'.

Officials say nearly 8,000 cars appear to be cutting through the grounds of the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff every morning.
A report to the hospital's health board warned it was causing "gridlock", with delays for patients and staff.
It is now reviewing routes in and out of the hospital, as well new parking enforcements plans.
"The UHW site is a small community and we see thousands of people using it every day, and managing this city centre location in Cardiff will remain a challenge," said board estates director Geoff Walsh.
Proposals under investigation include installing automated bollards on the Gabalfa Gateway at the hospital, stopping an estimated 2,500 vehicles a day from cutting through the site.
The entrance to King George V Drive could also be closed to private vehicles, while access to the emergency unit could be limited to ambulances and public transport.
A report to the health board warned that a review of cars using the site found that "commuters were treating the site as a general extension to the local road network and were ignoring signs that the site was private".
In addition to access changes, the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has re-appointed the firm Indigo to manage its car parking at UHW, including issuing parking charge notices.
The board said it will mean "more rigorous enforcement of parking restrictions".
However, the charges for breaking parking rules on the site will be lowered to Â£20, or Â£10 if paid within two weeks.
But even then, the board said it recognised that car parking demands at the hospital will always exceed the number of spaces available.
"We will need to consider parking requirements together with a more robust sustainable travel plan," added Mr Walsh.
"The health board continues to work closely with our bus operators and other relevant stakeholders to improve transport links to the UHW site."


The response of public bodies to child sex abuse allegations against former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith is to be examined by a child sex abuse inquiry.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will scrutinise how he remained in public life.
Lead counsel to the inquiry, Brian Altman QC, said it will adopt the same method it used for claims about late Labour MP Lord Janner.
Accusations about abuse by Smith in Westminster will be covered separately.
The far-reaching inquiry will not require "specific findings" into allegations against the Liberal MP, who died aged 82 in 2010, its counsel said.
He is suspected of sexually abusing children at Knowl View school and Cambridge House Boys' Hostel in Rochdale.
The two institutions, where children were placed in the care of Rochdale Borough Council, are currently being examined by the IICSA.
Mr Altman, QC for the inquiry, told a preliminary hearing its work would focus on the authorities' responses rather than any offending.
He said this was partly informed by the "inability of Cyril Smith to respond to those allegations".
He stated the inquiry is interested in the extent to "which a public figure like Cyril Smith may have been able to target young men" who lived at Cambridge House and "how he was able to remain at the centre of public life in Rochdale despite awareness of the part of some of the allegations against him".
The inquiry will consider:
The Rochdale arm of the inquiry is one of 13 areas of public life being scrutinised for child protection failings, ranging from the Army to the Roman Catholic church.
Smith acted as a governor for several schools in the town, including Knowl View, which shut in 1992.
The Crown Prosecution Service and Greater Manchester Police said in 2012 Smith would have faced prosecution if the allegations had been in the current era.
Public evidence hearings for the investigation begin in October.


A mother who campaigned for the law of joint enterprise to be used to bring her son's killers to justice has said she does not believe a Supreme Court ruling will affect their convictions.

The law allows suspects to be convicted of murder, even if they did not inflict the fatal blow, provided they could have foreseen violence by associates.
It was used in the case of Penny Holloway's son Thomas Devlin.
The Supreme Court has now ruled the law has been wrongly applied since 1984.
Thursday's judgement said it was wrong to treat "foresight" as a sufficient test to convict someone of murder.
What is the controversial 'joint enterprise' law?
Ms Holloway led a high-profile campaign after her 15-year-old son was stabbed just yards from their family home after he went out to his local shop to buy sweets on a summer evening.
The schoolboy and his two young friends were chased and injured in an unprovoked attack by older youths, during which Thomas was beaten and stabbed nine times.  He died of his injuries.
During the murder investigation, Ms Holloway expressed frustration at the authorities' approach to joint enterprise, accusing the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) of failing the people of Northern Ireland.
In 2008, she called on the PPS to follow the "robust" example of the Crown Prosecution Service in England, where everyone involved in a murder would be held responsible for it.
A mother's fight for justice
The criminal case took almost five years to complete, but in 2010 his killers, Belfast men Gary Taylor and Nigel Brown, were both jailed for life for murdering Thomas.
As he passed sentence, the trial judge said: "It is plain that you Gary Taylor were the principal, you are the killer."
The judge then told Brown that although he had played a "secondary" role in the murder, his "conviction demonstrates that those who engage in violence willingly must take full responsibility, not just for what they do themselves, but for the actions of others that they go about with and with whom they act in concert".
The murder convictions were upheld after both men appealed in 2012, but the following year the Court of Appeal has ruled Brown's 22-year tariff should be reduced by two years because he had disclosed his involvement in the attack.
Ms Holloway said both Taylor and Brown had shown intent before and during the attack.
"The basis on which the convictions were delivered in terms of Thomas's case was that the courts decided that there was clear intent by both people to engage in that attack," she said.
"So I think it is different to the case that was before the Supreme Court.
"They both left that night with weapons and they both engaged in that attack on the three boys and that was decided in a number of court hearings and the court of appeal decision by the lord chief justice is clear about that."
Thursday's Supreme Court ruling does not mean those convicted under joint enterprise would automatically be able to appeal, as they would have to prove that they have suffered "substantial injustice".
Ms Holloway said it would be up to the courts to decide if her son's killers have any basis to appeal their convictions.
"Obviously the people who were involved will decide whether they want to pursue an appeal on the basis of this supreme court decision," she said.
"It will be for the courts to decide whether they have a case under this new ruling or not."
Gerard McNamara, a solicitor representing Nigel Brown, said they have been waiting on the ruling from the Supreme Court.
"Joint enterprise formed an important part of the prosecution case against our client," he said.
"He has always denied being part of a joint enterprise. We will be consulting with him immediately with a view to an application to reopen his case."


Ronnie O'Sullivan failed to reach the World Championship quarter-finals for just the second time in 13 years as he suffered a thrilling final-frame defeat against Barry Hawkins.

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Five-time champion O'Sullivan looked to be in desperate trouble at 12-9, but hit breaks of 124, 88 and 63 to level.
World number 11 Hawkins fluffed his first chance in the decider.
But, after O'Sullivan carelessly went in off, Hawkins wrapped up the win and will play Marco Fu in the last eight.
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Until this Crucible decider, Hawkins, who went into the final session leading 9-7, had not beaten O'Sullivan in 10 matches over 14 years.
His sole victory came in their first meeting in 2002.
But Hawkins showed commendable nerve to hold off an opponent who scored four tons and eight fifties in a performance full of devastating long potting and astonishing break-building.
"He makes it look so effortless sometimes," said Hawkins, the only player to have reached the semi-finals in the past three seasons.
"It winds me up to be honest. There's me twitching about and he's flowing.
"I don't know what he thought of his performance, but overall I thought he played really well.
"I am pleased with the way I held myself together because it was the most pressure I have ever been under. It was never in doubt!"
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O'Sullivan said playing a tense final frame counted against him and also apologised for his media no-show after his first-round win over Dave Gilbert.
"For various reasons, I wasn't in a fit state to really come and speak to you guys," he said.
"It wasn't that I was being arrogant or thinking I'm shirking my responsibilities."
As for the final-frame loss to Hawkins, he said: "If it hadn't been that type of scrappy frame, I would have fancied my chances.
"When a frame goes like that, it's a toss of a coin.
"I'm a bit ring rusty. If there was a weakness in my game, it was definitely on the tactical side because I haven't played a lot really."
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On the other table, four-time world champion John Higgins secured his 11th Crucible quarter-final appearance but only his first since he won the tournament in 2011.
Resuming 10-6 ahead, the 40-year-old Scot capitalised on an error-strewn first frame by Walden to stretch his lead to five frames.
Although the ninth seed won the next two with breaks of 62 and 84, Higgins knocked in successive 90 breaks to win 13-8 and set up a meeting with fellow Scot Alan McManus.
Higgins, who has won the title on the three occasions he has made the quarter-finals, said: "Ricky didn't play at his best but I'm just delighted to get through.
"It will be great to play one of my best mates on tour."
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(Closed): Markets on Wall Street closed slightly higher on Wednesday, after several strong earnings reports and positive jobs data were released.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 41.23 points to 18,355.
The wider S&P 500 climbed 6.76 points to 2,163, while the tech-rich Nasdaq gained 22 points to 5,159.
Private companies in the US added 179,000 jobs in July according to payroll firm ADP. The number was slightly better than expected.
That news lifted Goldman Sachs shares, which rose 1.5% and JP Morgan, which was up 1.6%.
Strong earnings from media company Time Warner and the announcement that it was taking a 10% stake in streaming site Hulu led its shares up 2.7%.
Shares in insurer AIG shot up by almost 7.3%, after reporting better-than-expected profits.
But luxury retailer Kate Spade plunged over 18% after it cut its full-year earnings forecast.
Oil prices rose sharply after several days of declines. US crude was up 4% to $41.09 a barrel, while Brent crude rose 3.7% to $43.36.
The move sent ExxonMobil shares up 0.5% and Chevron up 1%.


Motorists in Westminster who sit in a stationary car with the engine running and refuse to turn it off are to be fined £20.

The move reflects concerns from local residents and businesses about air quality, Westminster City Council said.
A team of traffic marshals will patrol the borough and ask car idlers to switch off their engines, it said.
The London Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) said the move would not help abate London's air pollution problem.
The penalties will come into force on 1 May, as a "last resort".
The new policy follows Camden Council's fines for buses which idle for too long, introduced in 2011, and Islington Council's fines for idling vehicles introduced in August last year.
Westminster has the highest proportion of deaths attributable to air pollution, excluding the City of London, in the country, a report by the council said.
An air pollution monitoring station in Oxford Street, in the borough, recorded the acceptable limit set for air pollution - 200 micrograms per cubic metre - was broken 1,503 times in 2014.
A comparable station in Sutton did not break the limit at all last year.
Steve McNamara, general secretary of the LTDA said the fines were "absolute tosh" and a public relations and money raising exercise from the council.
He said: "It is not going to do anything constructive to tackle the pollution crisis in London. When was the last time you saw someone idling in the city? It doesn't happen.
"One of the real problems is cars stuck in traffic - research has shown pollution is up by 30% in areas of heavy traffic. Do something to help get the traffic moving."
Mr McNamara said another key factor was the number of diesel cars in the capital which emit greater levels of nitrogen oxides - which can cause health problems.
He said the move was "ironic" considering Chancellor George Osborne's incentives to diesel vehicles which were exacerbating the problem.
Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said the "key issue" would be how the marshals enforced the fines.
He said: "If they target private car drivers pulling up for a moment in relatively clean, modern cars in a draconian way - whilst ignoring old buses, coaches, large trucks, utility company vans or taxis idling for long periods - then it will quickly be seen as yet another revenue-raising exercise."


Hundreds of protesters in the Mexican state of Guerrero have attacked government buildings in the capital, Chilpancingo, burning cars.

They accused the government of involvement in the murder of 43 students in the town of Iguala in September.
The protest came after the attorney general said gang members had confessed to the killings.
He said the students were killed by the criminals acting on police orders.
Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said three alleged gang members had claimed the students were handed over to them by police.
They said some were already asphyxiated and they shot the others dead, before setting fire to all the bodies.
The suspects from the Guerreros Unidos drug gang were recently arrested in connection with the disappearances.
Mr Murillo warned that it would be difficult to identify the charred remains and that authorities would continue to consider the students as missing until DNA tests confirmed the identities.
Mr Murillo showed videotaped confessions by the suspects who said they had loaded the students into dumper trucks and taken them to a landfill site in Cocula, a city near Iguala.
About 15 of the students were already dead when they arrived and the rest were shot, according to the suspects.
Mr Murillo said the bodies were then burned with petrol, tyres, firewood and plastic in an inferno that lasted for 14 hours.
The case has shocked Mexico. The protests on Saturday in Chilpancingo echoed weeks of protests across the country where demonstrators have insisted there is collusion between officials and organised crime, along with government inaction.
A phrase used by Mr Murillo to abruptly conclude his press conference on Friday has gone viral on social media.
He told journalists "Ya me canse", meaning "Enough, I'm tired".
The phrase became a hash tag on social networks and is being seen in graffiti, political cartoons and videos online.
Variations of the phrases were tweeted: "Enough, I'm tired of Murillo Karam," or "If you are tired, why don't you resign?".
Other people used it to vent their frustrations, protesting "Enough, I'm tired of living in a narco-state" or "Enough, I'm tired of corrupt politicians".
The missing students from a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa in Guerrero state had travelled to nearby Iguala to protest against what they said were discriminatory hiring practices, and to collect funds for their college.
But they went missing after clashes with the police.
More than 70 people have been arrested in connection with the disappearances, including the Mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, who were detained in Mexico City last Tuesday.


At least three people were killed when a small plane crashed into water south of Melbourne in Australia, say police.

The six-seater plane came down off Barwon Heads on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, about 25km (15 miles) south of Geelong.
The accident happened just before 12:30 local time (01:30 GMT), said Victoria Police.
The cause of the crash is not yet known, but weather conditions were reported to be poor.
The emergency services were dispatched to the area, including two air ambulances and Coast Guard boats.
Police later said three people had been found dead. It was not immediately clear how many people had been on board.
Barwon Heads is on the south coast of Victoria in one of the southernmost points of mainland Australia.


MPs have published plans to allow people to send e-petitions directly to the House of Commons.

The proposals, from the Commons Procedure Committee, would extend a system of e-petitions which already exists for government departments.
A new Petitions Committee would be set up to consider the documents and communicate with petitioners.
Petitioners would be called to give oral evidence in parliament and their campaigns would trigger debates.
Since 2011, people have been able to lobby government departments electronically. Petitions receiving more than 100,000 signatures can trigger a debate in the House of Commons.
Under the new plans, the existing e-petition site would be redesigned and jointly run by the House of Commons and the government.
A new Petitions Committee would back up the system.
Its proposed chair, Conservative backbencher Charles Walker, said: "Our proposals will enable the House to respond more effectively to petitions than it does now. Setting up a committee of MPs to consider the petitions presented to the House, hear petitioners' concerns and scrutinise the government's response to them is a fundamental part of the system we propose."
"This should improve the information available to the public about what the Commons does and the many ways in which MPs can respond to the people's concerns.
Proposed role of Petitions Committee:
The proposals will now be submitted to the government and will be subject to a vote in the Commons. They are expected to be agreed early next year so the new e-petitions system will be available by the start of the next Parliament.


Belfast Film Festival has defended its plan to show two horror films - The Exorcist and The Omen - at a former Catholic church in the city.

It follows criticism from a priest who called it a "cheap stunt" and accused festival organisers of insensitivity.
The screenings are due to take place next month in the former Holy Rosary Church - a deconsecrated building on the Ormeau Road in south Belfast.
The derelict site has not been used as a place of worship for almost 40 years.
However, west Belfast priest Fr Patrick McCafferty said the organisers had shown a lack of "basic human respect" for its former parishioners, many of whom would have attended family funerals in the church.
Fr McCafferty told the Belfast Telegraph they should reconsider their plans and move the event to a "more appropriate venue".
"What is their motivation for showing those types of films in what was once a sacred building, that will have such special memories of spiritual occasions for lots of people?" he asked.
The priest added: "Should they not be sensitive to the fact that many people in that area have fond associations and is sacred to the memories of many people that were baptised or married or buried [from] there?"
However, a festival spokesperson defended the chosen setting, saying it would added to the "eerie atmosphere" for film-goers.
"Belfast Film Festival is well known for its site-specific special events," said the spokesperson, citing its 2015 screening of Jaws on Portrush beach as one example.
"The locations chosen add an extra dimension to the screening, and we think the stone cold surroundings of an abandoned church will make for a suitably chilling viewing experience for The Exorcist."
The Holy Rosary church opened in 1898 to cater for a growing Catholic population in the area, but by 1980 it was judged to be too small and parishioners moved across the road to the larger Good Shepherd church.
None of the clergy from the parish was available for comment.
The abandoned building, which fell into disrepair, is no longer owned by the Catholic Church.
It was recently acquired by Tullymore House Ltd, a Ballymena-based firm which also owns the Galgorm Resort and Spa.
The new owners plan to spend more than Â£1m to redevelop the former church as an Italian restaurant, so horror film scenes of spinning heads could soon be replaced by spinning pizza dough.
Tullymore House Ltd said the firm had granted permission for the screening "as a reflection of our continued support of the arts community in Northern Ireland".
The listed building's brief foray as a pop-up cinema has proved to be an instant hit with horror film fans.
Tickets for the 180-seat screenings went on sale on Tuesday and about 100 tickets for The Exorcist have already been sold.
The festival spokesperson indicated this was brisk business compared to other events in the festival's line-up.
"Many people will have their own personal reasons for disliking The Exorcist, and we respect their right to that opinion, but the truth is that it was one of the most widely acclaimed films of the 1970s, nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture," said the spokesperson.
The film won two of the 10 categories, taking the Oscar for Best Sound and Best Writing in 1974.
Fr McCafferty told BBC News NI he has watched neither The Exorcist nor The Omen, but "knew enough about them" to be aware of their content.
A woman who had been baptised at the church had also expressed her opposition to the screening, he said.
The priest said he had no objection to the building being turned into a restaurant or used for another "normal purpose", as many former churches had been redeveloped and the new owners had the right to do as they wished.
However, he said the film festival plan was "very immature" and "doesn't deserve the publicity" it has generated.


Essex head coach Chris Silverwood says his team must refocus quickly after Monday's T20 Blast quarter-final defeat by Nottinghamshire.

The Eagles missed out on a Finals Day place after a dramatic batting collapse saw them slump to a 39-run loss.
But Essex are top of Division Two in the County Championship and still in the quarter-finals of the One-Day Cup.
"We are still in two competitions, I think it's important we remember that," the 41-year-old told BBC Essex.
"Obviously we're really disappointed, it hurts, as it should do, we have to build ourselves back up now," the former England and Yorkshire paceman added.
Monday's match at Trent Bridge came just 24 hours after the conclusion of their drawn County Championship match against Sussex at Colchester which sent Essex one point clear at the top of Division Two.
But Silverwood said they were not using that as an excuse.
"We had a few tired bodies kicking around but it is what it is, the schedule is how it is, we've got to get on with it," he added.


PayPal is changing its terms and conditions to state users must accept automated marketing calls, emails and text messages.

The changes - which come into force in July - will only apply to its US customers.
The eBay-owned company told the BBC that it  "would honour any customers' requests to decline marketing outreach".
But no such opt-out is included in the terms and conditions.
Instead customers are invited to either accept or decline.
"If you do not agree to the amended user agreement, privacy policy or acceptable use policy, you may close your account before July 1, 2015 and you will not be bound by the amended terms," the document states.
A spokesman told the BBC that customers wanting to opt out of receiving marketing materials could do so by unsubscribing "notifications" in their settings.
"Privacy is central to the trusted relationship we have with our customers and we take this very seriously," he said.
The updated PayPal user agreement states: "You consent to receive autodialed or pre-recorded calls and text messages from PayPal at any telephone number that you have provided us or that we have otherwise obtained."
It goes on to say that it "may share your phone numbers with our affiliates," who the user must also agree to receiving so-called robocalls from.
The calls could be on a range of topics, including notifications about their account, troubleshooting and resolving disputes.
But they must also agree to calls that could "poll our opinions through surveys or questionnaires" and "offers and promotions".
The US's Federal Communications Commission is working to crack down on robocalls and spam email.
It plans to legalise technology that blocks such calls and wants telephone companies to offer the tools to their customers.
"People won't have to fill out a form and mail it in to stop unwanted calls and texts. Any reasonable way of saying "no" is allowed," wrote FCC chairman Tom Wheeler last month.
There have been 215,000 complaints to the FCC about the issue.


Northampton moved up to fifth in the Premiership table thanks to a second-half comeback against Bath.

Saints dominated possession and territory in the first half but trailed 14-0 at the break through two converted tries from winger Jeff Williams.
After Bath's Chris Cook was sin-binned, Teimana Harrison touched down in the corner and a penalty from Stephen Myler reduced the arrears.
Mikey Haywood powered over late on and Myler converted to seal victory.
Bath capitalised on their scant first-half opportunities, with Williams pouncing on a slip by Saints full-back Harry Mallinder to open the scoring and adding a breakaway second after hacking on a clearing kick.
The hosts had a score from George North ruled out just before half-time for a forward pass from Mallinder but worked their way back into the game when Cook was shown a yellow card for kicking the ball out of Lee Dickson's hands at the breakdown.
Northampton's game was marked by handling errors and a lack of penetration but they kept their composure at the end as Harrison finished well before Haywood dived over following a rolling maul.
Saints' victory keeps their hopes of European Champions Cup qualification alive but if Harlequins win at London Irish on Sunday, Jim Mallinder's side may need to win at Gloucester on the final day of the season to ensure a top-six finish.
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder: "It was similar to the Leicester game last week, conceding two tries out of the blue.
"We were attacking and then we lost two tries and were suddenly 14-0 down.
"But we talked about them having a big set of forwards and tiring in the second half, so we wanted to keep putting them under pressure and thankfully we got the results.
"I was worried all the way through from the first minute to the last to be honest. But we've seen Myler time and time again kick goals like that."
Bath head coach Mike Ford: "We just lost our composure where we wouldn't have done that last year. It's an issue and one we've got to get right for next season.
"We've been competitive all year, but clearly our confidence of winning those small margin games like today has been tough.
"You can analyse too much and start thinking everything's wrong. Once we couldn't make the top six, we took a deep breath and we've played some good rugby in the past few weeks.
"It's difficult to put your finger on it and there are different factors, but I'm confident that this club will be there or thereabouts next year."
Northampton Saints: Mallinder; K Pisi, G Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Lawes, Day, Gibson, Wood, Harrison
Replacements: Marshall, Ma'afu, Hill, Matfield, Nutley, Fotuali'i, Hanrahan, Wilson.
Bath: Watson; Williams, Joseph, Devoto, Banahan; Priestland, Cook; Catt, Webber, Wilson, Ewels, Attwood, Garvey, Louw (capt), Denton.
Replacements: Dunn, Auterac, Lahiff, Day, Houston, Homer, Ford, Clark.
Sin bin: Cook (48)
Referee: Wayne Barnes.


The last male northern white rhino on earth has joined the dating app Tinder - as part of fundraising efforts by conservationists to save the species.

At 43 (or 100 in rhino years), Sudan is described as "one of a kind", who likes to eat grass and chill in the mud.
Attempts to mate the animal - who lives in Kenya - with only two surviving females have failed.
Conservationists say they need to raise $10m (Â£7.8m) to develop in vitro fertilisation (IVF) methods for rhinos.
"It's never ever has been done in rhinos before," Richard Vigne, head of Ol Pejeta Conservancy, told the BBC.
"This is a 10-year programme to recover that species.
"We'll hopefully keep him alive as long as we can - but we are in a race against time if we are going to recover this species."
On Tinder, Sudan's profile reads: "I don't mean to be too forward, but the fate of my species literally depends on me.
"I perform well under pressure... 6ft (183cm) tall and 5,000lb (2,268kg) if it matters."
In a joint campaign launched by Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Tinder, app users now have an option to donate when they open Sudan's profile.
Scientists in several countries are currently testing how to use IVF techniques on the two northern white rhino females.
They also do not rule out using Sudan's sperm for IVF with southern white rhinos - although they are a distinct species. Still the crossing option would be better than extinction, they say.
Sudan - who is often described as "the most eligible bachelor in the world" - has his own team of armed bodyguards, who are protecting him around the clock.
Countless TV shows have been made about the ageing animal.
Northern whites are the only rhinos that can survive in the wild in central Africa.
But they have been hunted into near extinction by poachers who target their horns.


Meng Meng the panda is a bit of an acrobat.

24 April 2017 Last updated at 14:46 BST
She's been wowing her keepers in China by performing a series of energetic forward rolls.
But perhaps she needs a bit more practice, because she accidentally rolled straight into a wall....
Check out her moves.


Six people have been arrested in Cheltenham as part of a large-scale police operation into drug dealing in the county.

2 September 2016 Last updated at 10:43 BST
Two 16-year-olds, three men aged 19, 20 and 21, and a 15-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs.
Their arrests follow a week long crackdown on drug dealing in Gloucestershire.
Police have charged six people with drug offences following earlier raids in Gloucester, Cheltenham and Crawley.
Supt Richard Cooper says the operation was aimed at disrupting some of the major supply lines into the county: "It will come as no surprise that many of the drugs sold in Gloucestershire are brought in by dealers from places like London.
"It's the culmination of months of work by officers and we hope it will reassure local residents that police are taking the issue seriously".


Wrexham extended their unbeaten run to nine games as three second-half goals secured victory over cross-border rivals Chester.

Connor Jennings hit the Chester bar in the first half, while Rhys Taylor denied Danny O'Brien at the other end.
Wrexham were awarded a penalty when Kayden Jackson was fouled by Ryan Astles, who was sent off before Jennings converted.
Jackson's clinical finish doubled the lead and Robbie Evans sealed the win.
Wrexham are now seventh in the National League, three points outside the play-offs, while Chester are 16th and six points clear of the relegation zone.
Wrexham manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales: "I think Chester away was our worst performance of the year and today was our best.
"As a team, we were excellent and could have scored more goals.
"This was a performance for 93 minutes and I thought it was incredible. We are bang in there."


Hull is to host the Turner Prize, one of the biggest events in British art, when it is UK City of Culture in 2017.

The contemporary art award and corresponding exhibition will be staged at the city's Ferens art gallery.
It is the first event to be announced for Hull's City of Culture year. The gallery will get a £4.5m facelift to bring it up to the required standards.
The prize is held outside London biennially, with Glasgow playing host this year.
Hull 2017 chief executive Martin Green said the prize would boost Hull's image in the art world and attract more visitors to the city.
"You can only see it if you come to Hull and that's what's great about these major events. They act as a honeypot," he said.
"All those people who come will spend money here and stay, drink and shop here. So this is great world-class culture being used as a regenerative and economic boost to the city."
Mr Green is hoping that the year's festivities will attract a million visitors to Hull and be worth £60m to the city's economy.
Hull will be the fifth city outside London to host the Turner Prize, following Liverpool, Gateshead, Londonderry and Glasgow.
The Tate's director of national and international programmes Judith Nesbitt said she was "confident that the Turner Prize is going to be an enormous success" in Hull.
"We know there's a real appetite for art here," she said. "This is a gem of an art gallery with a cracking collection.
"And it does revitalise and keep the prize really dynamic to have it as something that is on the move, literally."
The total City of Culture budget will be almost £100m, including £80m for capital building projects and £18m to stage events.
Councillor Steven Bayes, Hull City Council's portfolio holder for UK City of Culture, said: "We've not got a major international event coming to the city, which we've always wanted, because it's about raising the city's profile."
The long-term goal is to replicate the success of Glasgow and Liverpool after they were European Capitals of Culture, he added.
"We look at places like Glasgow and Liverpool, which are now key city destinations for people to visit. That's where we'd like to get to," he said.
"Twenty years ago, no-one would have thought of going to them as tourist destinations. So that's the change we're trying to make with our city, and hopefully bring more wealth to our city."
Film artist Duncan Campbell won the £25,000 Turner Prize in 2014.


Antrim lost 2-06 to 0-09 to Limerick in their All-Ireland Qualifier Round 1B game at Corrigan Park on Saturday.

Limerick had not won a competitive game all year but early goals from Ian Ryan and and Sean McSweeney, a penalty, set them on their way to victory.
The hosts led 2-2 to 0-6 at the interval and kicked on to the win thanks to points from McSweeney, Ryan and Stephen Cahill.
Goalkeeper Donal O'Sullivan made three crucial excellent saves for Limerick.
Antrim's championship campaign came to an end in disappointing fashion as the Saffrons were unable to follow up their promotion to Division Three of the Football League.
Antrim used the wind to their advantage in the opening half and a free from Ryan Murphy after 40 seconds and a Kevin Niblock score from the right saw the home side into a 0-2 to 0-0 lead.
The visitors got a huge boost when Seanie Buckley picked out Ryan at the edge of the square and the St Senan's man hit the net with a low shot past Chris Kerr after five minutes.
Antrim conceded a second goal just three minutes later from McSweeney's penalty kick. Midfielder Darragh Treacy was fouled when he managed to get in behind the Antrim cover.
McSweeney kept his nerve to drill the ball into the bottom right corner of the net to push Limerick into a 2-01 to 0-02 advantage.
Those goals gave Limerick a lot of confidence but Antrim responded well.
Matthew Fitzpatrick was the first Antrim man to find his range with a good score from the right in the 13th minute - maybe he could have gone for goal - and four minutes later Patrick McBride kicked his side's fourth point to cut the gap to three points.
Tommy Childs was a late introduction for injured Limerick captain Iain Corbett, and he impressed around the middle and laid on a fine score from the right for Ryan after 18 minutes.
Ryan had a great chance for his second goal nine minutes from time when he got up ahead of substitute Martin Johnson, only for Kerr to deny him with a great save with his feet.
And Antrim then finished the half strongly and McBride and Sean Burke pointed to make it a two-point lead at the interval.
Armed with a two-point lead and a strengthening wind at their back, Limerick were bright from the off in the second period and after some solid defensive play, it was corner-back Cahill that extended their lead to three in the 44th minute.
After shooting just six points in 50 minutes Antrim were always going to need a goal to launch a comeback and that chance came to Martin Johnson as he cut in from the right, but Donal O'Sullivan pulled off a super save to keep his goal intact.
The introduction of Tomas McCann gave Antrim a much needed injection of pace up front and he followed a free from Ryan Murray with one of his own to cut the Limerick lead to two points with nine minutes remaining.
Ryan pushed that out to a goal with a free but Antrim twice went close to finding the net in the closing stages but O'Sullivan produced great saves to deny Ryan Murray and Martin Johnson and book their place in the next round.
Limerick: D O'Sullivan; P Browne, S Cahill (0-1), S O'Dea; B Fanning, J McCarthy, P Ranahan; D Treacy, S Buckley; G Noonan, P Nash, T Childs; S McSweeney (1-3, 1-0 pen, 0-3f), I Ryan (1-2), H Bourke.
Subs: E Hogan for Bourke (50 mins), P Hannon for Nash (63 mins), I Corbett for Childs (66 mins).
Antrim: C Kerr; K O'Boyle, J Crozier, R Johnson; P McBride (0-2), P Gallagher, M Sweeney; S McVeigh, M McCann; J Laverty, M Fitzpatrick (0-1), K Niblock (0-2, 1f)); R Murray (0-2f), N McKeever, S Burke (0-1).
Subs: M Johnson for McVeigh (20 mins), D McAleese for Laverty (30 mins), C Murray for Gallagher (h-t), P McAleer for R Johnson (h-t), T McCann for McKeever (56 mins), J Carron for Burke (66 mins).


Natalie Bennett has announced she will stand down as leader of the Green Party in England and Wales this August, after four years at the helm of the party.

Ms Bennett said she would not stand for re-election when her second two-year term in office expires this summer.
The Australian former journalist said she intended to remain "fully engaged" in the Green Party after stepping down.
Green peer Baroness Jones and London mayoral candidate Sian Berry have said they do not want the job.
Baroness Jones tweeted that she had "no leader ambitions", while Ms Berry wrote on Facebook that she "definitely will not be standing in the election for a new leader".
Ms Bennett said she had been "proud to lead a party through a period of phenomenal expansion and increased impact".
An ex-journalist who worked for the Telegraph, the Independent, the Times and the Guardian, she became party leader in September 2012.
She succeeded Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's MP for Brighton Pavilion.
Earlier this month, she defended her leadership after the Greens lost four councillors in local elections in England, and won a 2.5% share of vote in the Welsh Assembly elections, behind UKIP.
In a statement, Ms Bennett said: "With the support of our passionate members and supporters we have been able to achieve much in a relatively short period.
"There's greatly increased public understanding that when you want the honest, caring, committed view - one that isn't guided by the views of the latest focus group or fear of a tabloid backlash but by fundamental principles and values."
Ms Bennett took part in televised leaders' debates ahead of last year's general election.
Last year, she had to apologise to members following a radio interview in which she blamed "brain fade" for her inability to explain a series of party policies.
Speaking to the BBC following her decision to stand down as leader, she criticised the "soundbite" culture in politics and the media.
"I'm not smooth," she told Radio 4's World At One.
"Sometimes I get stuck for words. But what I think is, we also need to think about what kind of politics we want. Some of our political reporting is very much aggressive attacks on quite minor points, refusing to engage in the broader issues and that really doesn't do the public, the voters, any kind of favours."
Ms Bennett said she did not know who would run for Green Party leader.
Richard Mallender, chairman of the Green Party Executive, thanked Ms Bennett for "her outstanding leadership over the past four years."
Baroness Jones said it was a "really tough job" and she was "disappointed" Ms Bennett was stepping down.
"What we need now is some new people to come forward," she said. "There is incredible talent in the party who are not well known because they are not elected."
Nominations for Ms Bennett's successor will open on June 1 and close on June 30.
A campaign period will run from 1 July until 24 July, at which point a one-month balloting period will begin with the result to be announced at the party's autumn conference in Brighton in early September.


The National Football League and former players who say it hid the dangers of concussion have reached a $765m (£490m) settlement, a judge says.

The NFL would pay the sum to fund concussion-related compensation, medical exams and research.
Federal Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia announced the deal after months of court-ordered mediation.
More than 4,500 former players had sued the league, alleging it concealed the risks of long-term brain damage.
The class action accused the NFL of hiding research that had shown the harmful effects of concussions, while glorifying and promoting violent play.
Many former players with neurological conditions believe their problems stem from knocks to the head.
Helmet-to-helmet impacts are common in American football as strong, heavy and fast-moving players collide on the field of play.
Studies have linked repeated concussions with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease with symptoms including memory loss and mood swings.
As part of the settlement, the NFL will neither admit liability nor that the players' injuries were caused by football and will likely not have to disclose internal files that could show what it knew about concussion-linked brain problems and when.
"This agreement lets us help those who need it most and continue our work to make the game safer for current and future players," NFL Executive Vice-President Jeffrey Pash said in statement.
"We thought it was critical to get more help to players and families who deserve it rather than spend many years and millions of dollars on litigation."
The deal is still subject to Judge Brody's approval, as well as that of the retired players who brought the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs in the case include at least 10 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the family of linebacker Junior Seau, who took his own life last year, and former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who filed the first lawsuit in 2011 but later killed himself.
The settlement comes immediately before the start of the new season for the league.


The optimism at the Rise technology conference here in Hong Kong is palpable.

Hundreds of booths have been set up by start-ups hailing from all over Asia. And they're all after one thing: piquing an investor's interest to raise funds, so they can turn into the next Asian Facebook or Uber.
Asia has become the new playground for investors looking to find the next big start-up.
In the past 12 months, more than $30bn (Â£19bn) has been pumped into this sector - a jump of 45% on the year before, according to a recent report from the auditing group KPMG.
Pranoti Nagarkar is a young entrepreneur who has benefited from the interest in the Asian tech scene. She started her company Rotimatic in 2012 with only $20,000.
Just a few years later, she raised $11m from mainly Asian investors.
"It's crazy," she told me. "Initially you don't even have enough money to hire people, but then you win a business competition and you get funding and you can start building a small team."
Singapore-based Rotimatic uses modern technology to solve a traditional problem: making rotis - or Indian flatbreads - using a machine.
"People want to eat more healthily," Pranoti says, "and we have seen huge demand for our machines since we put up a video online about how it works."
Rotimatic is just one example of Asian technology start-ups that has recently been able to attract funding.
Analysts say there's been a flurry of hot money - mainly from increasingly wealthy Asian investors, many of whom have made fortunes on the Chinese stock market that's behind the boom.
But with the recent turmoil in Chinese shares, some experts are now warning the sector is in for a nasty shock.
Peng T Ong co-founded the popular US dating site match.com. He is one of the pioneers of the global tech boom.
He spends most of his time investing in companies in China - but now he's getting concerned.
"China's valuations have been pretty much on the high side," he told the BBC. "It leads me to believe that there's some kind of bubble going on - just like there was in the US."
Mr Ong is talking about the US dotcom bubble that burst in 2000. It was an age of hyperbole in the US tech sector, as investors fell in love with the idea of the internet, and pumped millions of dollars into start-ups - turning teenagers into tycoons overnight.
Now there are fears that the same thing is happening in Asia.
"I wouldn't call it a bubble," Rajesh Joshi, an Indian angel investor who is attending the Rise conference told me. "But I would certainly say there's some froth in the market."
Adding to those fears, China's stock market collapsed over the past few weeks. It dropped by 8.5% last Monday - the steepest fall in eight years. This despite government-backed measures to infuse confidence in the market.
But some say it's time for a correction there.
"China's tech valuations in the past year look a lot like what happened in the US in the late 90s," US venture capitalist Dave McClure told me.
"There's a lot of private individuals in Beijing borrowing on margin to bet on the stock market, and lots of folks hoping for the next Alibaba or Xiaomi betting on start-ups - that's what's driving the crazy valuations."
That's not deterred the ambitions of young entrepreneurs who are trying to strike it big, though.
Hong Konger Jeffrey Liu and his partner Robert Pachter moved from the US, where they were living, and set up GuavaPass in Singapore.
They started the company by initially funding it themselves and were able to close their angel round within the second month of operations.
Their start-up currently offers customers access to premium fitness studios across three Asian cities - Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok - and they're planning on rolling out to additional cities across Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
"There's so much excitement and energy in the start-up scene here," Robert told me. "It's an awesome time to be an entrepreneur in Asia."


Tom Curran's half-century helped Surrey draw with Durham at The Oval.

Paul Collingwood completed his 32nd first-class ton on day four as the visitors declared their first innings on 607-7, a lead of 150 runs.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes produced a devastating spell of bowling, taking three wickets in 16 balls for 12 runs, as Surrey collapsed to 65-3.
But Ben Foakes (36 no) and Curran (54) held firm to ensure the hosts secured the draw, with four wickets in hand.
Having resumed on 75, former England batsman Collingwood breezed his way to a club-record 22nd century for Durham, in an innings which included 11 fours and a six.
With the away side looking for a first win of the Championship campaign, Stokes trapped Arun Harinath lbw before having Rory Burns caught behind and Kumar Sangakkara caught at second slip.
Surrey's top-order struggled and when Scott Borthwick took a stunning catch in the slips to dismiss Jason Roy off Brydon Carse, the hosts were still trailing by 11 runs with only five wickets remaining.
However, Foakes and Curran's 83-run sixth-wicket partnership helped Surrey to 244-6 at stumps, giving them their second draw of the season and Durham's third.
Surrey bowler Tom Curran told BBC Radio London:
"We came in today in a decent condition, they batted well to get a lead and credit goes to the Durham bowlers - they bowled well to get in a position where they thought a win was on the cards.
"We came out fighting and in the grand scheme of things we are pleased with the draw.
"When I came in, Ben [Foakes] and I broke it up into small 10-15 minute intervals, they came hard at us.
"Ben Stokes is a true competitor, you couldn't get the ball out of his hand and he kept coming in on a tough wicket to bowl on and I enjoyed the battle with him today."


Britain's Andy Murray overcame a shoulder problem to beat Italy's Andreas Seppi in four sets and secure a place in the second week of Wimbledon.

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Murray, seeded third, won 6-2 6-2 1-6 6-1 to set up a fourth-round match with Croatian 23rd seed Ivo Karlovic.
There were worrying moments for the 2013 champion as he failed to win a game for 40 minutes and had treatment to his shoulder in the fourth set.
But having lost six games in a row, Murray, 28, swept through the last six.
Asked about the shoulder issue, Murray said: "It's something I had the last two, three days. I only really feel it when I'm serving but it's not something that's of major concern to me.
"It's stiffness and every time I finish a practice or anything, I have my back manipulated.
"The physio came on the court and said it was like a machine gun going off when he laid on top of me. Literally my back cracked a lot. That's been the case for the last few days."
Murray had won his last six matches against 25th seed Seppi and appeared on course for another straightforward win when he led by two sets after little over an hour.
With all areas of his game working smoothly, the Scot was in complete control thanks to four breaks of serve, only for two medical timeouts to shift the momentum.
It was Seppi, 31, who first called the trainer to work on his ankle, and the break in play had a major effect on both men, with Murray double-faulting twice on the resumption to drop serve.
An unexpected lapse threatened to become something more serious when Murray dropped serve again, clutching his shoulder, and Seppi then broke at the start of the third set as his opponent screamed "Useless!" at his own efforts.
The British number one was now in real trouble, requiring an intensive bout of treatment to his shoulder at the changeover, but once again the break in play benefited the injured party.
Urged on by a now fired-up Centre Court crowd, Murray resumed with the positive intent of his early play and recovered the break to end a 40-minute period without winning a game.
The world number three dominated the closing stages, clambering all over the Seppi serve as he broke three times to secure victory in two hours and eight minutes.
Murray confirmed that Seppi's medical time-out had contributed to his shoulder problem, saying: "Obviously when you do take a break, it does stiffen up and my serve was pretty bad after that happened.
"Once I had the treatment, I served much better."
Seppi said he had called the trainer because his ankle hurt and joked that the physio had brought both men good fortune.
"It looks like if he touches you, you can't lose any more," said the Italian.


At least seven people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir when the wire supporting a cable car snapped in the high-altitude tourist resort of Gulmarg, officials say.

The cable car was sent crashing to the ground, killing everyone in it.
Scores of people are reported to be trapped in other cable cars amid high winds. A rescue operation continues.
The cable is reported to have snapped after a tree was blown over in the gales. The dead include two children.
The cable-cars at Gulmarg are among the highest in the world.
Officials say they are working hard to repair the damaged cable and get people stranded in 15 other cable cars safely back to ground.
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah  alleged "carelessness" by the authorities.
"If this is what happened it begs the question as to why the cable car operations weren't suspended in high winds. That is a laid-down SOP [standard operating procedure]," he tweeted soon after the accident.
The cable cars at Gulmarg transport passengers to a height of 4,100m (13,450ft) and provide scenic views of the Himalayas which remain snow-capped even at this time of the year.


Great Britain and England hockey strker Lily Owsley has capped a roller-coaster year by winning the sport's rising star award.

Owsley beat stiff competition from players in Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand to take the global young player of the year honour.
After the heartache of narrowly missing out on a Commonwealth Games gold medal, and suffering serious illness, it completes a remarkable turnaround.
Here the 21-year-old tells of her surprise at winning the award, how she opted for hockey ahead of athletics and football, and going from Olympic spectator to competitor.
Listen: Owsley tells BBC World Service about her 2015 dramas
Owsley won the female Rising Star of the Year award, given by hockey governing body FIH, after votes cast by fellow players and the public.
She beat competition from fellow shortlisted contenders Xan De Waard and Maria Verschoor (both from the Netherlands), Charlotte Stapenhorst (Germany) and Rose Keddell (New Zealand).
So how did the University of Birmingham student find out about the accolade?
"I was just on a train on my way up to Nottingham having a coffee and I just looked at my phone. It blew up a bit. The support and messages I got after were just amazing," she said.
"I was in a carriage and people were kind of looking and I just went: 'Yay, I'm so happy' and let it all out. A few people were looking at me like: 'Can you be quiet? I'm trying to get to work here.' I was annoying a few people, I was in shock."
Less than a year ago, the forward was hooked up to a drip in hospital after contacting meningitis. Within six months, she had fully recovered, helped Great Britain to qualify for the 2016 Olympics and England to win the European Championship.
"Just like all quite serious illnesses, you don't know what's going to happen, but it was very short-lived luckily and no bad repercussions. It wasn't the best thing to get and not great timing but it feels so long ago now," she recalled.
In the summer of 2014, Owsley put England ahead in the Commonwealth final and they were 11 seconds from gold before an Australia equaliser and defeat on penalties.
Fast forward 12 months, and she equalised for England in the European final before they won gold in a penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands.
"It was unbelievable. I can't really describe it. It's got to go down as my all-time favourite moment of my career when Maddie [Hinch] made the last save and we all went mental. I probably reached my highest speed running to celebrate," she said.
"I was watching in the Olympic Park and thinking these girls are just ridiculous. I thought I would never, ever, be as good as these girls."
Owsley is talking about the last Olympic Games, in London, four years ago when GB's women won Olympic bronze. Now she is preparing to compete herself at the Rio Olympics this summer.
"I'd never watched senior hockey before because I was a bit of a football 'hooligan', always watching football, and it was absolutely incredible to watch them - they were athletic, skilful, at the peak of their game.
"You get to realise when you're in it that they are talented but they work that bit much harder, they are up earlier, training, faster, fitter, more skilful. It is completely doable, and possible to be like that."
A talented footballer, Owsley played for Bristol City's junior women's team, and was coached at one staged by Mark Sampson, who went on to lead England to a historic third place at the Women's World Cup last year.
"It's Bristol, we breed 'em," she joked on mention of Sampson's own recent spell in the limelight, shortlisted for coach of the year at the Fifa Ballon D'Or awards.
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"I played under Mark for quite a long time and he's such a great guy, such a good coach, which has been shown through what he's done with the Lionesses. I'm glad everyone has seen what he can do."
Owsley, who had also excelled as a middle-distance runner, took up hockey when she moved to a new secondary school aged 13.
"They chucked a stick in my hand and I was terrible. I was awful but after three or four sessions, I slowly moved up the ranks. This much later I am still obsessed with the sport, I absolutely love it.
"For young people to try to get inspired by a sport, you just have to try everything. Everyone has a different preference and skill set, you're bound to find somewhere you do belong. Don't try to specialise too early.
"Hockey needs fitness, speed, skill - it's everything in one game. It's fast, athletic and on top of that you have to think under fatigue and pressure. It's such a big range of skills."
How tough is it?
"If you get knocks, bruises, cuts, it's not until you get in the showers after games that you realise: 'Wow that hurts.' It is rough," she admitted.
"I do now wear a mouth guard. I was told I had to. It's so dangerous and so many people get hit in the mouth, it's not worth it. It took me about 10 years to realise a hockey ball was harder than a football."
Younger brother Freddie, 19, is also on the path to sporting success, having plumped for athletics over rugby union, and joined a sprint group headed by top coach Tony Hadley, as he bids to reach the world junior championships this year.
"I actually live with him. He's an inspiration to me - he's so dedicated and determined to make it in his sport. The 400m is his event, where inches and centimetres make all the difference. We really spur each other on," said Lily.
"There's a massive family competition rivalry. If I can do something, he will try to top that. We really push each other on. It's kind of unbelievable to watch him change from this teenage boy to this mature professional athlete.
"He's got his eyes set on the 2018 Commonwealths on the Gold Coast. It would be a dream come true to be in a competition with my brother. The rest of the family would be immensely proud. To watch him and compete in the same tournament for the same team would be unbelievable."
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Before that Owsley and her Great Britain team-mates will go to Rio as genuine Olympic gold medal contenders.
"If any year has, 2015 has shown we are a team to be reckoned with," she says.
"We've proved that through the Olympic qualifiers [by being] unbeaten, then the Europeans unbeaten. I think in the last year we have beaten every top team in the world.
"The Olympics is a chance for us to show we are the best team in the world and we can win gold."


The family of a man with mild dementia who was seriously injured in a road traffic accident says people living with the condition are being let down badly and not given the urgent medical care they need.

Philip Blewett was diagnosed with early Alzheimer's disease in 2013 at the age of 64.
George, his older brother, says he was living a very full life - "you would hardly have known about the diagnosis".
Philip was living on his own, happily managing his own affairs. He also enjoyed travelling to Upton Park to watch his beloved West Ham play football and was in regular contact with his family.
At the same time he was voluntarily attending a memory clinic and taking medication to control his condition.
When he was hit by a delivery van while crossing a busy road in east London in April 2014, Philip was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, including severe head trauma, broken ribs, a broken vertebra and cuts.
A CT scan showed he had suffered a 'severe traumatic brain injury' but instead of receiving urgent treatment in a neurological ward, which was recommended at the time, he was later transferred to an assessment ward for dementia patients where his condition deteriorated rapidly.
His family believe he was 'written off' as a dementia patient, which meant he wasn't given the rehabilitation treatment he needed to recover from his brain injuries.
George explained: "If he'd been treated early for his brain injury, everything would have been so different.
"He was let down badly."
His family became increasingly concerned by the care he was receiving.
Early on, Philip wandered out of the general hospital in his dressing gown and found his way home. Thanks to the actions of his window cleaner he was safely returned to hospital, but the family were unaware of the incident until they bumped into the window cleaner several weeks later.
When he was moved to the dementia assessment ward, Philip's physical and mental condition worsened - he started having seizures, his behaviour became erratic and confused and he lost a lot of weight. On two occasions he was treated for severe dehydration.
By this time his family were frustrated and distressed by the complete lack of neurological assessments or rehabilitation, despite the diagnosis of a serious brain injury.
After getting law firm Fieldfisher on board, Philip's family were finally able to fund his move to a medical centre for neuro-rehabilitation, but the delay meant the opportunity for recovery had already been missed and Philip died earlier this year, unable to walk or talk.
Lilian Blewett, Philip's sister-in-law, said he - and the family - went through two years of torment.
She said the family was determined to confront the injustice of Philip's treatment.
"He was discriminated against because he was responsible enough to be holding a dementia card in his wallet after he was diagnosed with slight memory issues.
"But the card actually hindered him. They dismissed him and didn't take his care seriously.
"It was just tunnel vision - they looked at his dementia and didn't look at anything else," she says.
"It took a long time for people to recognise he had a severe traumatic brain injury."
And she says it wasn't just the NHS which was slow to respond to the family's requests for information after the road accident.
The police have since apologised to the family for not investigating the road traffic incident properly or prosecuting the van driver involved.
The family believe the police simply jumped to the conclusion that Philip was to blame for the incident.
With legal help, the family eventually received compensation from the driver's insurers which helped to pay for Philip's care.
The NHS trusts which treated him investigated his care after the family complained. In their response, East London NHS Foundation Trust said that although Mr Blewett's Alzheimer's was mild, doctors were of the opinion that it would reduce the chances of a full recovery from his brain injury.
A spokesman for the Trust said: "We recognise that this would have been a very difficult and challenging time for the Blewett family.
"A complaint was submitted on behalf of Philip Blewett which the Trust responded to in July 2015. The Trust takes all complaints seriously and consequently undertook a thorough investigation into the issues raised. The findings of the investigation were shared with the family."
Dr Dominic Healey, consultant neurologist at UCL Hospital Trust, who gave his expert opinion on the case, said: "In contrast to most patients' recovery following a traumatic brain injury, Philip's condition did not improve and instead, over the following weeks it deteriorated progressively, rapidly and relentlessly."
Jill Greenfield, lawyer for the family at Fieldfisher, said Philip's family was not listened to.
"Time needs to be taken to look through patient records, to look at the whole person and to listen to the family. It's so easy for quick assumptions to be made."
A recent report from the Alzheimer's Society found that too many people with dementia were receiving unacceptable care while in hospital.
Kathryn Smith, director of operations at the Society said: "Among some clinicians, there seems to be a lingering perception that people with dementia can't be rehabilitated. The upshot of this is that their other medical conditions are not treated with the same urgency.
"Good dementia care should never be a gamble, yet time and again we hear of people with dementia seemingly being deprioritised."
She added: "Poor care can have devastating, life-changing consequences. For people with dementia in hospital, it can mean the difference between returning to your own home or never going home at all."
Both George and Lilian Blewett believe there is a complete lack of understanding about dementia by people in authority in the NHS.
"He was put in the wrong place; he didn't see the right people and he didn't receive the right help.
"If we can't speak up for him, who is going to?" says Lilian.
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Household water charges in Scotland are set to rise by an average of £6 a year but will remain among the lowest in Britain.

Scottish Water said an increase in household charges was being limited to 1.6% for all council tax bands.
This means the average Scottish Water household charge in 2017/18 will be £357 - less than £1 a day.
The current average charge of £389 in England and Wales is £32 higher than in Scotland.
Charges for 2017/18 in England and Wales have yet to be announced.
Scottish Water has promised that by 2021 household charges overall will have fallen in real terms.
The company plans to invest £3.5bn in projects across Scotland between 2015 and 2021.
It said the six-year investment would be made in water treatment works, pipes and networks - providing customers with improved service, enhancing the environment and supporting jobs in the Scottish economy.
Ongoing projects include:
Chief executive Douglas Millican said: "Scottish Water customers continue to enjoy the benefits of one of the UK's best value water and waste water services.
"The quality of drinking water received by our customers has never been higher, while we've continued to achieve excellent customer satisfaction results.
"We are firmly focused on meeting our customers' expectations of us. That's why we're building on the significant improvements we've made to water services by providing value for money, stability and certainty in charge levels.
"By 2021, we expect to deliver further improvements to drinking water quality and environmental performance while at the same time ensuring that overall household charges have fallen further in real terms."


Authorities in New York state are to ban registered sex offenders from playing the popular mobile phone game Pokemon Go while they are on parole.

The measure will bar nearly 3,000 people now and others in future.
It is aimed at safeguarding the children who play Pokemon Go, walking through the real world looking for virtual characters.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said new technologies must not be "new avenues for dangerous predators".
He said: "Protecting New York's children is priority number one."
Under the proposal, all sex offenders leaving state prison will be banned from playing the game.
New York state law already requires them to submit home addresses and online account names as well as going on a publicly accessible online register of offenders.
Mr Cuomo has sent a letter to the game's developer, Niantic, asking for help with how to stop people with convictions for sexual offences from playing Pokemon Go.
He has reportedly suggested that the company cross-reference people playing the game with the state's sex offenders register.
Another politician, Senator Jeff Klein, has proposed requiring Niantic to make sure Pokemon creatures and other collectable in-game items do not pop up within 100ft (30m) of sex offenders' homes.
In the game, players use augmented reality on their mobile phones to look for Pokemon creatures near them.
When individual creatures appear they can be "caught" for a limited period of time.
Since the game's launch the creatures have appeared in several places where they were unwelcome, including the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. A spokesman for the museum called for people to show respect by not playing.
The company's marketing director JC Smith has claimed future versions of the game will be respectful of real-world locations.
Niantic's website states that users of Pokemon Go must be 13 years old or older, and "not barred from using the services under applicable law".


A 500lb World War Two bomb found on the site of a former school in Bath has been defused and made safe.

The discovery of the bomb on Thursday led to the evacuation of hundreds of homes and many road closures in the Lansdown area of the city.
A cordon around the site was lifted on Friday evening, more than 24 hours after residents were asked to leave their homes.
The bomb was destroyed in a controlled explosion late on Friday.
The Army took the device to Torr Quarry near Shepton Mallet where it was blown up.
Ch Supt Ian Smith said: "First and foremost, I would like to thank each and every resident who has been affected by this incident and numerous businesses in the local area.
"We have worked as quickly and diligently as possible to limit the disruption caused but, as you can expect with an incident of this nature, public safety has to be our primary concern."


Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus joined those hailing Rory McIlroy after the 22-year-old re-wrote the record books in winning the US Open by eight shots.

"He's ahead - and his score is way ahead of my pace," said Nicklaus, almost five months older than McIlroy when he won his first major in 1962.
"I think this kid's going to have a great career - I don't think there's any question about it."
Compatriot Graeme McDowell added: "He's potentially the next Tiger Woods."
Some of the sport's biggest names have been paying tribute to the brightest youngster on the circuit.
"It was obviously an unbelievable performance. I thought he played just fantastic golf. It is so great to see a nice young man play well, to do well.
"We are all aware that he has been there before, but he showed that he learned from his mistakes, and he showed that he knew how to play the last two days with a big lead. Not only did Rory know how to play with a big lead, he played it confidently, played it smartly, and he never put himself in position to be in trouble.
"He's humble when he needs to be humble and confident when he needs to be confident. I like his moxie - he's cocksure and I like that. You've got to have that.
"He obviously had a couple of disappointments at the Masters and last year's Open [McIlroy started 63-80 at St Andrews and finished with an 80 at Augusta], but I didn't think that was going to happen again and it hasn't."
"I first heard about him when he shot that 61 at my home course in Portrush.
"You hear rumours about people and good players come and go, but this kid was something a bit special.
"It's great to see him out there fulfilling his potential. He's been like an accident waiting to happen.
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"He's been groomed to be a superstar and he'll handle it very well. It's not a monkey off his back, it's a gorilla. He could go on and do some big things.
"He's probably the best driver of the ball I've ever seen. We nicknamed him the 'BMW' because he is the 'ultimate driving machine'.
"Nothing this kid does ever surprises me. He's the best player I've ever seen.
"I didn't have a chance to play with Tiger when he was in his real pomp, but this guy is the best I've ever seen, simple as that.
"He's great for golf. He's a breath of fresh air for the game and perhaps we're ready for golf's next superstar and maybe Rory is it."
"If you are going to talk about someone challenging Jack's record there's your man.
"Winning majors at 22 with his talent - he would have 20 more years, so probably 100 more majors in him where he could be competitive.
"It would give him a great chance.
"Rory has proved in playing the majors so far that he is comfortable making the scores."
"You can tell that Rory has had this type of talent in him for some time now, and to see him putting it together is pretty neat to see."
"As I've said before, I think he has probably the most talent I've ever seen from a golfer.
"It's lovely to watch him play, he has such a fluid motion and he hits it far."
"Rory has always had the potential to play at this level. He's done a lot of work this year on his body.
"We look at the swing a bit more often now to make sure the good swings are in place more often.
"He's developing a level of consistency now that we haven't seen before."
"The way he's playing out there, it's almost Tiger-esque. To have the lead that he has in the US Open is pretty ridiculous and at such a young age.
"Obviously the next generation is starting to kick up now and he's the guy that's leading it."
"He's got a lot of talent and he's only 22. He's got the world in front of him really.
"His game looks flawless. His swing looks great. I think it looks just as good as when Tiger was in his prime and swinging at it at his best. You just don't see any flaws.
"I think fundamentally he's as good as we've seen ever in my era, take Tiger Woods out of it.
"When Tiger was going well, that's as good as I've ever seen. I think Rory is in that same boat.
"His swing is mechanically sound, and he's got a great short game and he putts it well, and he's long. So he's got all the tools. So it's pretty impressive."
"Rory has more talent in his pinky than I have in my whole body."
"He's about 27 in golf years. He's very polished on experience.
"I don't think we've seen a rookie come out with his composure and be ready to play on our Tour right away like he is."
"What he's been doing is really something unbelievable. He's probably got one of the nicest swings in the world, if not the nicest.
"It's been fantastic to watch what he's been doing in this tournament. In my opinion, right now he's playing at a different level to the rest. So for sure he is an inspiration. I admire him a lot."


A man charged over a spate of aggravated burglaries and robberies in Lincolnshire has appeared in court.

Clinton Sentance, 36, from Gainsborough, appeared before Lincoln magistrates earlier.
He is accused of a series of thefts in the town including one in which a 75-year-old surrendered his bank details after being threatened with a knife.
The defendant was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on 30 May.
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Mr Sentance was due to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on Tuesday accused of aggravated burglary at Portland Terrace in Gainsborough on 19 March 2017.
Minutes before Tuesday's scheduled hearing, he was charged with the four offences detailed above and the crown court hearing was adjourned.


Dundee United have signed Dutch defenders William Edjenguele and Frank van der Struijk on one-year contracts, subject to clearance.

Edjenguele, 29, joins from Veria in Greece while Van der Struijk, 31, was at Willem II in his homeland last term.
"We had to be patient with both these signings," manager Ray McKinnon told Dundee United's website.
"We worked on these deals for a good few weeks and I am delighted to get them on board."
United have taken five points from their four Scottish Championship matches this season, are through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup and host Peterhead in the Challenge Cup on Saturday.
Van der Struijk has spent his club career so far in the Netherlands while Edjenguele has played in England, France and Switzerland. Both have made over 200 senior appearances.
"They will add experience and quality to our squad in an area I have been looking to strengthen. Both will play a part in Saturday's game versus Peterhead," added McKinnon.
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Lewis Hamilton has one main target this year - to win back the Formula 1 title he felt was unfairly stolen from him in 2016.

Not unjustifiably, in Hamilton's view his former team-mate Nico Rosberg managed to win the championship only because of a reliability record at Mercedes skewed in his favour. As such, in Hamilton's mind, he might have lost, but he was not beaten.
Rosberg has gone this year, replaced by the former Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, but that is a detail that does not change Hamilton's primary focus.
"I definitely don't want to finish second," the three-time champion says. "Every year you generally set the same goals but you might add more. All drivers want to win but not everyone has the ability or the opportunity.
"I am looking for that fourth world championship. It's there for the taking again. I am up against another great driver in Valtteri and hopefully Red Bull and Ferrari will be up there as well."
Losing out to Rosberg in 2016 clearly hurt. And, unsurprisingly perhaps, Hamilton has been distinctly prickly when asked about how he was affected by it.
"Nowhere near as much as you think," he said at the launch of the Mercedes car. "It doesn't change my life. You just move onwards and hopefully upwards." And that was your lot.
Hamilton turned 32 in February, is heading into his 11th season in F1, and has described himself as "the same old" Lewis this year. But Mercedes people detect a subtle shift.
Rosberg's decision to retire was always going to shift the dynamic in the team.
He and Hamilton were the same age and their rivalry went back to their teens, when they were karting contemporaries, team-mates and friends.
The friendship died, killed by the intensity of being each other's only rival for the biggest prize in motorsport. But there was always an inherent balance between the two.
Hamilton's talent and fundamental superiority on the track meant he was always the dominant figure in the team. But the German had been at Mercedes for three years longer and, a much less demanding character, had a more stable relationship with the team and the company.
He was Mr Corporate and Dependable, whereas Hamilton, for all his greater status and appeal, was harder to manage.
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In one sense, little will change with Bottas' arrival. Hamilton is who he is, and he will be just as determined to win again. He will remain the superstar in the team; the low-wattage Bottas likely an even more hassle-free employee than Rosberg was. The two will have equal status and they will compete for wins in the same way as Rosberg and Hamilton did.
Hamilton has made clear some things will not change for him personally. The restless lifestyle, the frequent trips to New York and Los Angeles to pursue his wider interests are still very much on the agenda.
"Self-motivation is difficult for the human race to find each year and each day," Hamilton says. "I am very lucky I have fans, family and friends who motivate me to grow and be better every day. I will always do the things I do and explore the world and meet new people and new cultures."
Some in F1 see this as a negative, as a reflection that Hamilton is not fully focused on the job in hand if he is flying back and forwards across the Atlantic so often. For Hamilton, it is a way of keeping boredom at bay and using a creative outlet to stimulate him and keep him centred.
In another way, though, there has been a reset for Hamilton this year.
The baggage and residual complications of Hamilton's rivalry with Rosberg have gone and been replaced with a more fundamentally straightforward team-mate relationship. And removing that tension has simplified matters within Mercedes.
Inevitably, Mercedes will lean on Hamilton more - because of his record, his length of time with the team, and because Bottas is inevitably still learning the ropes and does not yet carry the gravitas that repeated success brings.
That gives Hamilton an opportunity to strengthen his position, which he is already doing by exploiting the influence and motivational possibilities his status gives him.
Hamilton, it is said, has if anything been working harder and better than ever during preparations for the season - and so far has stepped up to the leadership opportunity that Rosberg's departure presents.
There were plenty of frictions between driver and team last year - Hamilton's controversial comments about engine failures; his behaviour at the Japanese Grand Prix when he walked out of a news conference; the team's attempt to interfere in his battle with Rosberg at the final race of the season.
But these were sorted out in a clear-the-air meeting in the kitchen at team boss Toto Wolff's pristine Oxford home before Christmas.
The result of all these factors, insiders say, is that they are seeing a more mature and reflective Hamilton so far this year.
Wolff said at the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday: "There was a point towards the end of the year where we sat down and it felt like a reset of the relationship and so many things came out which needed to be discussed. And since then I have perceived him as being in a really good place. He is happy, he is motivated and I have seen the strongest Lewis that I have seen so far consistently over the weekend."
How the pressures of the on-track battle affect all this will be clear only as the season unfolds.
Pre-season testing had suggested Mercedes would face some genuine opposition from Ferrari this season, and the opening grand prix weekend in Australia has confirmed it.
Hamilton took pole, and looked superb all weekend, but this is a track on which he has usually excelled and Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari was only 0.268 seconds behind him.
And the 32-year-old is now expecting a close fight with Ferrari, not just in Melbourne on Sunday, but over the whole season.
"They are obviously very close and that is great for the fans," Hamilton said. "I wouldn't say there is relief. I truly believe in all the work they have done but in testing I really couldn't have done the lap he had done.
"But coming here I felt even if we were behind, it doesn't matter because I have the strongest team. The fact we have come here and we are still ahead is a beautiful thing but they are very close I have to keep applying the pressure and that is what I am here to do."
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The fact Bottas was within 0.3secs of him in his first qualifying session with Mercedes will have made Hamilton sit up and take notice - he praised the Finn for doing a "great job" afterwards. And the prospect of a battle with Vettel is just another reason for Hamilton to be on top of his game this year.
It is no secret that Hamilton regards McLaren's Fernando Alonso as his only true rival out on track in terms of outright ability - each has expressed their admiration for the other's talent often enough - and the fact Vettel has won more titles than them burns both Hamilton and the Spaniard.
This season is Hamilton's chance to put the record straight, equal Vettel's tally of four titles and beat him in a straight fight doing it.
"Ferrari have done such a great job so we have to stay on our toes," Hamilton said. "I am down for the battle with anyone. He is a four-time world champion so of course I want to be racing with him because if I finish ahead it makes me look good, it makes me look better."
It was a theme Hamilton had already addressed over the winter.
"I've never wished to go out and dominate," he says. "Of course I want to have a car I can fight for a title with, but for the fans it's best when there's multiple teams fighting."
For the first time since the start of Mercedes' domination in 2014, it looks like Hamilton will get his wish.
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Jason Day says his mother's cancer diagnosis means victory at this week's Masters would dwarf the emotion of his maiden major win at the 2015 US PGA.

Australian Day, 29, pulled out of the WGC Match Play two weeks ago to be with his mother before she had lung surgery.
The operation was a success and he is now focused on a second career major.
"I was very emotional when I won my first. You can just multiply that by a hundred I think," he said before Thursday's first round at Augusta.
Day's mother, Dening, was initially told by doctors in Australia that she only had 12 months to live, but her prognosis has improved since she joined her son in the United States for treatment.
"At the start it was kind of tough to get her over here because she's very, very stubborn," the former world number one said.
"She was coughing up blood for three months and she didn't even bother telling anyone about it.
"She went through a successful surgery on her left lung and she was told by the doctor we don't have to do chemo, which is really, really exciting stuff.
"Obviously we have to be cautious because the first two to three years are very, very important."
Day's father, who introduced him to golf after rescuing an old three wood from a rubbish dump, died from stomach cancer when his son was 12.
His mother subsequently took out a second mortgage to help send a wayward teenage Day to a school with a golf academy.
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After getting the positive news, Day says he feels "a lot lighter" as he prepares for his seventh Masters campaign.
He finished tied for second in 2011, third in 2013 and in a share of 10th last year.
"I'm going to just do the best job I can with what I've got," the world number three said.
"Obviously my priority and my main focus was my mother, and now that's kind of evolved and taken care of and I can start to focus more on the golf side of things and do the best job I can."


Leicester midfielder N'Golo Kante will miss the Premier League leaders' next two games after injuring a hamstring.

Kante, who was injured during Saturday's 1-0 win over Norwich, will miss Tuesday's home game with West Brom and the trip to Watford on Saturday.
The 24-year-old, who joined the club in the summer, has played in every league game so far this season.
Boss Claudio Ranieri said he was confident Andy King would be an able deputy for the Frenchman.


Glasgow's Willow Tea Rooms has reopened at Watt brothers department store after leaving its former home in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed building.

The Sauchiehall Street building was taken over by the Willow Tea Rooms Trust in 2014 and is being refurbished.
The Willow Tea Rooms inside was a separate business and had to relocate.
Its owner, Anne Mulhern, chose to recreate the Tea Rooms, which she has run since 1983, inside the nearby Watt Brothers store.
The Sauchiehall Street building and interiors were designed by Mackintosh and built in 1903 for Kate Cranston, who ran several tearooms in the city.
The Willow Rea Rooms Trust closed the building earlier this year for a major refurbishment which aims to restore the structure to its former glory.
Ms Mulhern opened her business there in 1983 after the building had been used as a retail unit.
She said it was "exciting" to be based at another building with a "fascinating history".
"Creating the new tea room has been a really exciting project and we have returned it to its original grandeur with a nod to Miss Cranston's original tea room designs," she said.


Derby County have signed former England striker Darren Bent and ex-Reading defender Alex Pearce on free transfers.

Bent, 31, scored 12 goals in 17 appearances during a loan spell with the Rams last season and will become a Derby player when his Aston Villa deal runs out at the end of June.
Republic of Ireland international centre-back Pearce, 26, has signed a three-year contract.
The pair are the first new signings for new manager Paul Clement.
Clement succeeded Steve McClaren as Derby boss on 1 June and has the final say on transfers, but the deals for Bent and Pearce were already close to being finalised before the former Real Madrid assistant boss was appointed.
Clement said: "Darren Bent is a proven goalscorer. He is going to be key in our plans."
Pearce played 51 times for Reading last season but, like Bent, was a free agent.
"I have been at Reading since I was 12 years old," Pearce told the club website. "But there is always a time in your life when you have to move on with certain things and this is the time for me.
"I need a fresh challenge and this with Derby is exactly what I'm looking for."
McClaren was sacked last month after the club finished eighth in the Championship and missed out on a play-off place.