Nottingham Forest legend Stuart Pearce has ruled himself out of the running for the manager's job for family reasons, BBC Radio Nottingham reports.

Pearce, 51, was a hugely popular figure among fans during 12 years as a Forest player, but has rejected the chance to replace Billy Davies after initial talks with owner Fawaz Al Hasawi.
Pearce spent 12 years at Forest where his trademark crunching tackles earned him the nickname "Psycho". His playing days ended in 1997 after a brief stint as caretaker player-boss.
He played for Newcastle United, West Ham and Manchester City after leaving Forest and was Manchester City manager for two years from 2005 before taking over as England Under-21 boss in 2007 - a job he held until June 2013.
Former England Under-21 boss Pearce had emerged as the preferred choice.
Forest are still keen on Gianfranco Zola, Glenn Hoddle and Malky Mackay.
Ex-West Ham manager Zola, 47, resigned as head coach of Watford with the club in 13th place in December, having led them to the Championship play-off final last season.
It has been almost eight years since former England boss Hoddle, 56, last had a job in management, when he was in charge of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Mackay, 42, was controversially sacked as Cardiff City boss in December, having seven months earlier overseen their promotion to the top flight for the first time since 1962.
Neil Warnock has already rejected the chance to take over as manager.
Forest are seventh in the Championship, two points outside the play-off places following a nine-game winless run, with eight games of the season remaining.


People who use their mobile phones illegally while driving are more likely to be sending texts or using social media than making a phone call, the Department for Transport says.

It carried out observations at 60 sites in five areas of England and 30 locations in Scotland last October.
Overall, the DfT found 1.1% of drivers holding a mobile in their hand compared with 0.5% with a phone to their ear.
Van drivers used their phones the most, with 2.7% falling foul of the law.
Legislation was introduced  in 2003 making it illegal to use a hand-held mobile phone while driving or riding a motorcycle.
Drivers may be issued with a fixed penalty notice, resulting in three penalty points on the driving licence and a fine of £100. If a case goes to court, they face disqualification and a fine of up to £1,000.
The use of hands-free phones is permitted but a driver can still be stopped if police believe they are distracted.
The DfT says the purpose of its surveys in South East England, Manchester, Newcastle, Durham, Norfolk and Scotland was to "assess compliance".
Observations were made of drivers of cars, vans, taxis, lorries, buses, minibuses and coaches between 07:30-12:00 and 13:30-18:00 on weekdays. Some locations were surveyed again at weekends.
The DfT said: "A distinction was made between drivers holding the phone to their ear (indicating that the driver was receiving or making a call) or holding it in their hand (indicating that the driver may have been receiving or making a call, texting or reading a text, or using it for some other interactive function)."
It acknowledged that "it was not possible for observers to determine what the mobile phone was being used for".
However, it said the finding "suggests that most mobile phone usage whilst driving was for the purposes of sending or receiving a text or using social media rather than making a call".
Among car drivers, 1.4% were found to be using a mobile.
Although 2.7% of van drivers were using a phone, most (1.9%) were holding it to their ear rather than in their hand.
Only 1.2% of goods vehicles and lorry drivers were on a phone, with bus, coach and minibus drivers having the lowest usage rate at 0.4%.
Officials spotted 1.7% of male drivers using a hand-held mobile phone, compared to 1.3% of females.
The DfT said the proportion of car drivers in England observed using a mobile was about the same as in 2009, when a previous survey was carried out.
Transport minister Robert Goodwill said: "No phone-call is worth risking an accident. This research shows that the problem isn't just drivers making phone calls, it is their use of phones to text or use the internet.
"While this only provides a snapshot, it is an interesting insight that will help inform future policy. We will keep further deterrent measures under consideration."
A survey commissioned by ministers in Northern Ireland last year suggested 1% of drivers were using a mobile. There has been no similar research in Wales.


Bob the Builder's signature tune may be just what's going through the minds of officials at the Chinese central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) these days.

On Friday, the PBOC decided to guide the Chinese currency - the yuan - higher by the biggest percentage gain (0.56%) seen since 2005.
You might wonder why the yuan is going UP when only last year markets were turned upside down because of concerns that the PBOC was guiding the yuan lower.
Here's why: the PBOC needs some global credibility after last year's debacle.
At a time when the Bank of Japan appears to be attempting to weaken its currency - the yen - to boost exports (but failing miserably), China's move could help to assuage concerns that it is also fighting the currency wars. It may help boost China's image in financial markets.
But wait.
Won't this hurt exports? And in turn hurt the Chinese economic engine from re-starting?
Not really.
Exports haven't been the main reason why the Chinese economy has stabilised in recent weeks.
It's been the government pumping money into the economy. So it doesn't hurt China that much if it fixes the yuan rate higher.
It also makes imports slightly cheaper. China imports a lot of high-end Korean raw materials to help manufacture higher-end goods that the country is now making for the world, as it moves up the value-chain.


The European Commission has stepped up efforts to tackle tax avoidance.

It has published measures to "hamper aggressive tax planning".
One proposal is for tax authorities to share information on multinationals among themselves, as agreed in the  OECD deal signed by 31 nations on Wednesday.
However, the UK Chancellor George Osborne said  he wanted to "see that information made public," in line with the Conservative Party's manifesto.
The Commission said it was currently looking at the issue of public country-by-country reporting and will publish its findings the spring.
Billions of euros are currently lost to tax avoidance every year, according to the Commission.
The proposals come amid criticism of Google's Â£130m deal with UK tax authorities to settle a back tax bill.
On Wednesday, 31 OECD members signed an agreement reached last October laying out new rules to stop companies using complex tax arrangements to avoid paying corporation tax.
The idea is to make it harder for firms to hide money in tax havens or play one country's tax authority against another.
And the European Commission says its anti tax avoidance package also calls on EU members to take a "stronger and more coordinated stance against companies that seek to avoid paying their fair share of tax".
The key points laid out in today's Commission statement include:
The Commissioner for economic and financial affairs, taxation and custom Pierre Moscovici said  billions of tax euros were lost to tax avoidance every year: "Money that could be used for public services like schools and hospitals or to boost jobs and growth.
"Europeans and businesses that play fair end up paying higher taxes as a result. This is unacceptable and we are acting to tackle it".


Some familiar faces are level on points at the top of La Liga after winning at the weekend - Barcelona, Real Madrid and, um, Celta Vigo.

It was business as usual in France and Germany, with Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich - who broke a Bundesliga record - victorious.
But what are the stories you might have missed? A league title won, a Premier League cult hero scoring a hat-trick and the tightest of title races, BBC Sport has dug beneath the surface of European football this weekend - and this is what we have found.
There are no easy games in football these days. Unless you're BATE Borisov, in which case every domestic game is pretty easy. The Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics boys clinched their 10th Belarusian title in a row this weekend.
Friday's 2-0 win over Vitebsk was enough to wrap up the league with four games remaining.
Former Arsenal midfielder Alex Hleb, who won the 1999 and 2012 league titles with Bate before rejoining them for a third spell this year, missed the game through injury.
The 34-year-old is a doubt for their next game, which might not be quite as easy... at home to his old club Barcelona in the Champions League.
No silverware is handed out at this stage of the season. But to be honest they can already start engraving Ferencvaros's name on the Hungarian league trophy.
The Budapest side have not worn the metaphorical crown of champions since their 2004 title triumph but would need a spectacular implosion not to end that drought after building up a 15-point lead after 12 games.
The only points they have dropped so far have been in a goalless draw against one of Europe's unlikeliest top-flight clubs, the Ferenc Puskas Football Academy.
You might have spotted a theme to this weekend's European things you might have missed (ETYMHM as nobody is calling it) and that's teams having an easy life.
Red Bull Salzburg are not the most popular team in Austria after the energy drinks company took over and rebranded Austria Salzburg in 2005, but they are the best.
The capital side, chasing their third consecutive title, went top of the Austrian Bundesliga with an 8-0 win over Admira, who are fourth in the table. It is the third time they have scored eight in a league game in just over two years.
After bringing you tales of dominance from across Europe, it's time for a change of pace. Going into the final day in Finland's top flight, there are three teams that could clinch the title.
SJK, who have British players Richie Dorman and Wayne Brown at the club, top the table by one point, and are at home to bottom-placed FF Jaro on the final day (Sunday, 25 October at 11:00 GMT).
The club from Seinajoki were formed in 2007 and have never won the league.
Another team chasing their first ever title are second-placed RoPS, who are at FK Lahti on the final day.
The third team in the mix, HJK of Helsinki, have a slightly different pedigree. The current champions have won more Finnish titles than anyone else, with 27. They need both teams above them to drop points to have any chance.
Dirk Kuyt scored his first hat-trick since Liverpool's 3-1 win over Manchester United in 2011 as Feyenoord beat Heerenveen 5-2.
The 35-year-old, in his second spell at the club, had helped his side lead 5-0 at the break with a 39-minute hat-trick before they eased up after the break.
Kuyt's sixth Eredivisie treble ensures his team are only behind league leaders Ajax on goal difference.
It's another Champions League (and Europa League) week, so how did the opponents for English and Scottish clubs get on?
Dynamo Kiev, who host Chelsea on Tuesday, were thrashed 3-0 at home by title rivals Shakhtar Donetsk.
Bayern Munich, who visit Arsenal, became the first club to win their opening nine Bundesliga games with a 1-0 success at Werder Bremen.
Manchester United's opponents CSKA Moscow beat Ural 3-2, while Sevilla - who go to Manchester City - drew 1-1 at Eibar.
In the Europa League, Liverpool are at home to Rubin Kazan, who beat Ufa 3-1. Celtic are at Molde, who saw off Mjondalen by the same scoreline.
Anderlecht, who are at home to Tottenham, won 4-0 at Zulte Waregem.


Campaigners hoping to build a new art gallery in Swindon say a huge number of visitors to a Turner painting exhibition has helped the cause.

A display at the existing gallery has attracted 3,400 visitors since it opened in October - a threefold increase on the same period last year.
The borough council wants to relocate the museum and art gallery to a new bigger building.
It says the show of local support will help with a Heritage Lottery fund bid.
Curator Sophie Cummings, said she was pleased with the number of visitors.
"Even if you're not the biggest fan of art, Turner is a name you recognise, and I had a feeling Turner in Swindon would get people excited.
"But we've been really, really pleased with the number of people who've come through our doors."
Earlier this year, Swindon Borough Council launched a project to relocate the town's museum and art gallery to a new building in the town centre.
A spokesman said it would allow more of the collections it owns to be put on display, and have better access and facilities.
A bid for Â£12m will be submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund, which Swindon Borough Council has pledged to match with another Â£5m if successful.
The landscape painter JMW Turner is one of Britain's most celebrated artists.
The visiting exhibition, called Turner - Watercolours from the West, has been on display since 15 October.


A referendum over whether NHS hospital beds should be returned to a Flintshire town is being held.

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) shut the hospital in Flint in 2013, with the loss of ward beds, despite protests by up to 1,000 people.
The referendum will ask the question: "Do you agree that NHS inpatient beds should be reinstated in Flint?".
Health officials do not have to act on the outcome but campaigners hope it could force a rethink.
Polling stations in the town will be open from 16:00-21:00 BST on Thursday with the count held at the town hall.
BCUHB says its Â£5m plans for purpose-built health centre in the town is designed to ensure "that care is local, tailored to individual patients needs, and meets clinical standards - now and for the future".
Opponents have described the planned health centre as "nothing more than a GP surgery with a clinic attached".
They argue some people in Flint will have to catch a train and then a bus to reach Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire.
Now the Save Flint Cottage Hospital campaign group wants the ward beds reinstated following the loss of them and a minor injuries unit at the site of the former Flint community hospital.
Last year a petition signed by 5,000 people calling for the health board's decision to be overturned was handed in to Wales' health minister.
And last month more than 750 people voted for a referendum under the Local Government Act 1972 which allows for one to be set up if enough people - 150 - seek to hold one.
The town council is funding the estimated Â£3,000 cost of the referendum.
Colin Everett, Flintshire council chief executive and returning officer, said the referendum would not be run in the same way as a full election or by-election.
"This is the first community poll we have run in Flintshire," he said.
"We are aiming to reduce this cost through officials waiving their fees and voluntary effort."


The fascinating bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres have come into sharper view.

What were initially thought to be just a couple of brilliant, closely spaced features at one location now turn out to be a clutch of many smaller dots.
The latest pictures were acquired by the US space agency's Dawn spacecraft on its first full science orbit since arriving at Ceres on 6 March.
The spots were seen from a distance of 13,600km.
Researchers on the mission concede they still have much to learn about the dots' true nature, but the new data is hardening their ideas.
"Dawn scientists can now conclude that the intense brightness of these spots is due to the reflection of sunlight by highly reflective material on the surface, possibly ice," said Chris Russell, who is the principal investigator on the mission.
With a diameter of 950km, Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Dawn will spend the coming months studying its geology and surface chemistry with a suite of cameras and remote-sensing instruments.
The intention is to get some insights into the processes that have sculpted the dwarf since its formation with the rest of the Solar System some 4.5 billion years year ago.
Having completed its first science orbit, Dawn is now heading downwards to get even closer to the body.
This second mapping campaign, which will commence on 6 June, will see Dawn moving just 4,400km from the surface.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos


Plans by the Scottish government to keep any communication between ministers and the royal family secret are in direct conflict with the public interest, MSPs are to hear.

Scotland's Information Commissioner has described proposed reforms to freedom of information law as setting a "worrying precedent".
Rosemary Agnew is due to give evidence to Holyrood's Finance Committee.
It is looking at changes to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Bill.
As part of the reforms, ministers want to give an "absolute" exemption to communications between the Scottish government and senior members of the royal family.
At the moment, information about the Royal Family can be published in Scotland if it passes a public interest test.
Ministers want to remove that test thereby banning any release and bringing the situation in Scotland into line with legislation in other parts of the UK.
The amendment would exempt communications with the monarch, the heir to the throne or a member of the royal household acting on their behalf.
But in her response to the proposed changes, Ms Agnew said: "The amendment will create a provision which requires absolute secrecy in relation to any aspect of communications with senior royals in all circumstances - regardless of how far removed the information is from the content of communications, or of the weight of the public interest in favour of release.
"It is my considered view that it will... have the effect of unnecessarily restricting rights and create a worrying precedent with the introduction of a wide-ranging absolute exemption which sets aside the public interest.
"The amendment is therefore in direct conflict with the public interest."
Ms Agnew believes current protections for communications between ministers and the royals are sufficient.
A spokesman for the Scottish government said: "The amendment on correspondence on (or behalf of) Her Majesty provides for consistency of approach across the UK and in doing so ensures an appropriate level of protection for Scotland's current and future heads of state by safeguarding the well established conventions of confidentiality.
"Key elements of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill include greater flexibility in reducing the lifespan of exemptions paving the way for more information to be made public earlier.
"The bill also makes the legislation stronger by making more effective the ability to bring a prosecution where requested information has been deliberately altered, destroyed or concealed."


A champion golfer who said he was too ill to walk but played the sport regularly has been found guilty of a £26,000 benefit fraud.

Alan Bannister, 56, of Barry, claimed a higher rate disability living allowance after exaggerating the severity of his arthritis, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
He claimed his chronic arthritis left him in constant pain and he struggled to walk and lift a saucepan.
But secret video footage showed him completing 18 holes in four hours.
His trial heard the former mechanical engineer made a claim for more benefits after he quit work on health grounds and saw his income halved.
As well as getting a benefit payment usually reserved for people who cannot walk, he was also given a car - which he drove to golf tournaments.
Bannister told the court he had been advised to play golf by his doctors and maintained he had not claimed anything he was not entitled to.
On his claim form for increased benefits, he said his difficulties had got worse and he needed help getting dressed and cooking food.
But that same year he joined the 18-hole St Andrews Major Golf Club in Dinas Powys - and soon racked up some impressive scores on the course.
He won the club's championship and also lifted a number of other trophies.
Bannister claimed he had "good days and bad days" and golf helped ease his pain.
"I would have ended up in a wheelchair if I did not take up golf. I'm more exhausted not playing golf.  Am I a freeloader? No," he said.
In 2012, the DWP received an anonymous tip-off, prompting officials to investigate Bannister.
Footage filmed by officers showed Bannister holding a golf bag with one hand and appearing to have no trouble raising clubs above his head.
In his closing address Mr McLeese, prosecuting, said: "Is this someone out for a leisurely stroll while playing a game of golf on a Saturday morning? Or is this a man virtually unable to walk?"
"He misrepresented enormously his true capabilities."
A jury found Bannister guilty of obtaining money transfers by deception after making false representations.


A chorus of 'me toos' echoed across the land when David Cameron declared, in the wake of the Scottish Referendum result, that "we must re-empower our great cities".
Inevitably, attention focused on how the Birminghams, Manchesters and Newcastles might be granted new powers to compensate for yet more political muscle being devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This has intensified still further with the publication of the RSA City Growth Commission's study calling for 15 major cities including Birmingham to be given a greater say in tax and spending which, it says, could boost economic growth by Â£79bn by 2030.
Economist Jim O'Neil, who led the study, confidently expects the plans for big cities to generate more spending power for themselves and rely less on government grants will be the centrepiece of Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement on 3 December.
Eager not to miss out, the shire counties are sharpening their message that in any general decentralisation of politics, they too should have a share of the action.
Within the Local Government Association (LGA) representing 400 council in England and Wales, the County Councils Network (CCN) is a cross-party group voicing the the special concerns of the shires.
Its West Midlands members are the county councils of Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire as well as the unitary authorities in Shropshire and Herefordshire. The CCN points out that English counties together represent over 50% of the country's population and account for 40% of Gross Value Added to its economy.
The LGA's new chairman, Councillor David Sparks, the Labour leader of Dudley Council, has already told me how he will be pressing for councils to be given a greater say in how they raise taxes and have more freedom over how they spend the proceeds.
But as so often, it's one thing to sign up to an idea in principle, another altogether to tie down how it should be implemented.
Take for example, the idea of city regions.
Wyre Forest in North Worcestershire, on the outskirts of the West Midlands conurbation, is an enthusiastic member of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Economic Partnership. But it is also one of the county's most densely populated areas and also belongs to the Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership.
So when I talked to Wyre Forest's Conservative MP Mark Garnier recently, he expressed concerns about the possibility that city regions could make the urban areas unduly dominant so far as surrounding counties were concerned.
Were the fault lines already starting to appear even before the serious negotiations about 'devo England' have begun, I wondered?
Absolutely not, according to Adrian Hardman the Conservative Leader of Worcestershire County Council. He sees no contradiction between boosting cities and similar measures for the counties. Indeed, he believes the two can go hand-in-hand.
"Empowering the city regions is essential to any new English devolution settlement," he tells us, "But the great counties of England have an equal role in ensuring the economic success of the UK.
"Worcestershire is one of the fastest-growing areas outside the South East with a track record of business innovation and better than average new business survival rates.
"Our commitment is always to keep Worcestershire 'Open for Business' and I do not intend to let us fall behind.
"I want us to reap the benefits of driving growth. We are world class Worcestershire and that will harness the same economic possibilities that would become available to our cities."
If we detect a hint of defensiveness in councillor Hardman's comments, it is understandable.
Above all, he clearly wants to guard against the danger of Worcestershire not being among the 'Names in the Frames' in any devolutionary process. But with a general election fast approaching, this is also a question of timing.
The CCN says it wants to support which ever government is in power after next May to "transform public services and deliver sustainable and balanced economic growth; reducing costs to the Treasury and delivering more cost-effective and efficient service to residents."
In other words, it is suggesting a bargain with the political parties as they prepare their election manifestos: "You give us more clout for us and we'll deliver value for you".
The Liberal Democrats have been championing the cause of decentralised politics for 150 years. But this could be the moment when all the parliamentary parties, after a century of centralisation at Whitehall and Westminster, could have the sincerity of their newly discovered devolutionary instincts put to the test.


Dylan Hartley should continue as England captain despite his latest disciplinary issue, according to Rugby Football Union boss Ian Ritchie.

Hooker Hartley, 30, will find out on Wednesday if he will be available for the Six Nations next year after he was sent off for the third time in his career while playing for Northampton.
In total, Hartley has served 54 weeks of suspension during his career.
"I think Dylan's got credit in the bank," Ritchie told BBC Sport.
"I think most people would say it's been a fantastic year. We've had 13 wins out of 13 and Dylan has made a huge contribution and he should be allowed to continue that."
Former England head coach Stuart Lancaster dropped Hartley from his 2015 World Cup squad after the player headbutted Saracens' Jamie George.
But he was reinstated as captain when Eddie Jones succeeded Lancaster in November 2015, and England remain unbeaten under the Australian.
Hartley returned to his club in October, following the autumn internationals, and came on as a replacement in Friday's 37-10 defeat by Leinster in the European Champions Cup.
But after only six minutes on the pitch he was shown a red card for a swinging arm on Sean O'Brien and will now appear at an independent hearing to find out his punishment.
"Obviously it's disappointing when he gets sent off but we'll wait and see what happens," RFU chief executive Ritchie added.
"If he's eligible to be in contention for the Six Nations then it's a matter for Eddie.
"He's been a great leader and his performances on the pitch, and the way he's helped Eddie with the team... I think he's done a fantastic job.
"Ever since Dylan's been involved in the set-up, he has been the perfect ambassador on and off the pitch."
On the same weekend as Hartley's card, Wasps' Kurtley Beale was sin-binned for a high tackle on Connacht's Niyi Adeolokun - a decision which prompted Wasps director of rugby Dai Young to call officiating "a bit of a joke".
In response to Young's comments, Ritchie said: "We need to look at high tackles and we need to be aware that concussion is a major challenge for the game.
"It's right that World Rugby have increased some of the tariffs in those disciplinary matters. I don't think it's going soft but those areas around the head we should be rigorous about."
Hartley's club Northampton Saints have been under scrutiny after an incident involving Wales wing George North.
TV replays appeared to show North lying motionless after a fall in Saints' recent game with Leicester, but he returned to play after passing a pitch-side assessment.
A concussion review group has now been formed to investigate the handling of the case and RFU boss Ritchie said: "They will come to a conclusion by the end of the week and we should learn lessons from that, where there are ones to learn.
"Concussion is definitely a big challenge. We have to address it head on."


Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku have been nominated for both the Professional Footballers' Association player of the year and young player awards.

They join Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez, Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante on the shortlist for the main prize.
Michael Keane, Leroy Sane and Jordan Pickford are up for the young player of the year award, alongside 2016 winner Dele Alli.
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The winners, voted for by PFA members, will be announced on 23 April.
To be eligible for the young player of the year award, players must be 23 or under at the beginning of the season.
At 24, Burnley defender Keane is the oldest player nominated, followed by 23-year-old forwards Kane and Lukaku, of Tottenham and Everton, and Sunderland goalkeeper Pickford. Spurs midfielder Alli and Manchester City winger Sane are both 21.
Women's Super League champions Manchester City have three players on the shortlist for the women's award, with the City trio of Lucy Bronze, Jane Ross and Jill Scott joined by Karen Carney, Ellen White and Caroline Weir.
City also provide a trio of nominees for the women's young player of the year prize - Nikita Parris, Georgia Stanway and Keira Walsh - with Weir, Millie Bright and Jess Carter completing the nominations.
Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez won the 2016 player of the year award, while Manchester City forward Izzy Christiansen won the women's award.
Sunderland striker Beth Mead, 20, was named women's young player of the year.
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Men's PFA Players' player of the year nominees
Men's PFA young player of the year nominees
Women's PFA players' player of the year
Women's PFA Young player of the year


Less than a quarter of couples eligible for marriage tax allowance are bothering to claim it, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

The allowance - introduced in April 2015 to incentivise marriage - is worth £220 in 2016/17.
However those eligible can also back-date a claim for last year, meaning £432 can be claimed in total.
Out of 4.2m couples who could claim that amount, only 1m have done so, despite an HMRC advertising campaign.
Marriage tax allowance lets one half of a married couple transfer part of their tax-free allowance to their partner.
However one of the partners must not be earning more than £11,000 - the personal allowance - while the other must be paying income tax at the basic rate.
A spokesman for HMRC said it takes less than five minutes to apply online.
"We don't know the reason why so few couples have taken up this allowance, but the fact is, it's a fairly quick and simple process and could save couples up to £430 - which can go a long way especially around this time of year," said Sam McFaul, a personal finance writer at MoneySavingExpert.com.
Anyone wanting to claim can go to this page.


A dog attack on a girl on a beach has led to police releasing a picture of the animal's owner.

The four-year-old was in Skegness, Lincolnshire, when a Jack Russell-type dog allegedly bit her a number of times at about 13:45 BST on Saturday.
The owner of the animal allegedly refused to provide her details to the parents of the child.
Police are treating the incident as an offence of having a dog dangerously out of control in a public place.
The dog had allegedly been sitting under the owner's chair at the time and was not on a lead.
The girl required hospital treatment following the incident off Grand Parade.
Dogs are banned from this area from 1 May to 30 September.


Yahoo has called on the US government to publish a surveillance order it received so it can respond to claims it scanned its users' emails.

Earlier this month, a news report claimed the firm monitored millions of incoming messages on behalf of intelligence officials.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer was also criticised for not appealing the order.
But on Thursday, Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell called the claims "misleading" and said the order must be published.
"At Yahoo, we are deeply committed to transparency and to protecting the rights of our users," he said in a letter to US director of national intelligence James Clapper, published on Yahoo's blog site Tumblr.
"Yahoo was mentioned specifically in these reports and we find ourselves unable to respond in detail."
He asked Clapper to confirm the existence of the surveillance order, to declassify all or part of it, and to "make a sufficiently detailed public and contextual comment to clarify the alleged facts and circumstances".
The government should explain to the public the "national security orders they issue to internet companies to obtain user data," he added.
"As we've said before, recent press reports have been misleading; the mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems," he said.
Earlier this month, Reuters news agency said the firm built special software last year to comply with a classified request. The software allegedly scanned all Yahoo Mail users' incoming messages to isolate those containing specific data, as requested by intelligence officials.
At the time the firm told the BBC that Yahoo was "a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States".
The firm said that while its letter to Mr Clapper made specific reference to the recent allegations against Yahoo: "It is intended to set a stronger precedent of transparency for our users and all citizens who could be affected by government requests for user data."
Other internet firms including Google, Twitter and Facebook said this month they had not been asked to carry out email scanning by the US government, while Microsoft said it had "never engaged" in such an activity.
US law allows the country's intelligence agencies to order the release of customer data that they believe could prevent a terrorist attack, among other reasons.
Companies can challenge such orders behind closed doors in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.


Marilyn Monroe is being celebrated in a pop-up photo exhibition marking what would have been her 90th birthday.

The show covers 16 years of the star's life and features both well-known and rarely seen images.
Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortenson on 1 June 1926, became one of history's most enduring stars but died from an overdose at 36.
The Happy Birthday Miss Monroe collection runs from 2-30 June in London.
It is being presented by online gallery ONGallery and the Playboy Club London at the Showroom Presents.
The prints range from those taken in 1946,  when Monroe was still known as Norma Jean Baker in her hometown of Los Angeles, to those entitled the The Last Sitting.
The Last Sitting images were taken by photographer Bert Stern not long before Monroe's death on 5 August, 1962.
Stern took around 2,500 photos of Monroe for fashion magazine Vogue over a three-day period.
His resulting book of the shoot was published in 1982 and again in 2000.
The images include the "crucifix" shots, taken from negatives and which Monroe didn't like and drew a cross through.
The pictures took on a more poignant meaning several weeks later.
Other well-known images in the show include pop artist Andy Warhol's famous technicolour portraits.
Showbusiness photographer Frank Worth's picture of her most symbolic outfit - the billowing white dress she wore in the  romantic comedy The Seven Year Itch - can also be seen.
It will feature alongside rarer images in the Happy Birthday Miss Monroe collection, such as some signed by Playboy entrepreneur Hugh Hefner, including a naked shot of Monroe celebrating her first Playboy Sweetheart of the Month award.


A female pedestrian has died after being struck by a car in Aberdeen.

The accident happened on Saturday at about 19:10 on the A90, near Nigg Way.
The 33-year-old had been walking on the southbound carriageway of the road when she was struck. She died at the scene.
The driver and passengers in the vehicle were uninjured. The road was closed for six hours while investigations were carried out. Police appealed for any witnesses to contact them.


A man has described the moment his wife was killed when her scarf became tangled in a wheel of their open-top car.

Gillian Sandle, 62, was in a VW beach buggy, driven by her husband, when the accident happened in Havant.
The couple, from Hayling Island, had gone to buy mince pies after visiting a car show, on 18 December 2016, an inquest in Portsmouth heard.
The coroner described the death as a "freak accident".
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Roy Sandle, a classic car enthusiast, did not attend the hearing, but in a statement read out on his behalf he described hearing a bang as he pulled away from a junction.
He said: "I couldn't understand what it was as I knew there were no cars around to have hit me.
"Gill had not shouted out or screamed - that was when I looked around and saw Gill slumped to her left side in her seat.
"My first thought was she had a diabetic fit, not that she had ever had one before, although she was diagnosed with diabetes some years ago.
"I reached out to touch her and called her name but there was no response."
Sgt Melanie Adcock of Hampshire police said Mrs Sandle's scarf was found in the road and it was "more than likely" it had become "entangled in the nearside rear wheel, causing fatal injuries" to her neck.
Assistant coroner Lincoln Brookes recorded a verdict of accidental death and said: "This is a relatively unheard-of incident. It's right to describe this as a very unfortunate freak accident."
He warned other drivers to ensure items of clothing or straps did not come into contact with their vehicle's moving parts.
A statement from Mrs Sandle's family said: "We're totally devastated at the sudden and tragic loss of such a wonderful lady."


Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson who carried out unnecessary cancer operations has been struck off.

Paterson, 59, was sentenced in May to 15 years in jail for 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding.
Nottingham Crown Court heard he exaggerated or invented the risk of cancer in patients.
A tribunal has now ruled his actions were "serious, calculated, and sustained" over a 14-year period.
Paterson, of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, was sentenced on 31 May for procedures he carried out while working at at the privately-run Little Aston and Parkway hospitals in the West Midlands.
He was not legally represented at the two-day disciplinary hearing in Manchester and had previously expressed the desire to be struck off without the need for a hearing.
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Delivering its ruling earlier, the panel said: "The 10 patients who attended Mr Paterson were anxious about the physical symptoms they were experiencing.
"They put their trust in Mr Paterson to provide them with truthful medical advice, based on the results of assessments.
"The tribunal determined that Mr Paterson exploited this trust in order to carry out unnecessary procedures."
He showed a "pattern of behaviour which involved deceit and violence, and resulted in life-long consequences for the patients involved", the panel added.
He was suspended by the GMC after his initial arrest.
The NHS has paid almost Â£10m in compensation to his victims, while more than 600 private patients will pursue civil action against him later this year.


Worcester City boss Carl Heeley has resigned after 22 years at the National League North club.

Heeley, 48, made over 500 appearances for City as a player after joining in 1994, and became manager in 2010.
He guided the club to the second round of the FA Cup in 2014, when they lost in a then-record 32-penalty shootout to League One side Scunthorpe.
But they have failed to win in their past 10 games and are currently 18th in the table.
"This football club's took over my life for 22 years, it's non-stop, I've got a young family and it's maybe time for me to reassess," he told BBC Hereford & Worcester following Saturday's defeat by Gloucester.
"The chairman at this football club is a lovely man and he doesn't get any thanks for anything he does - he gets continually criticised.
"I'm starting to get continually criticised and quite frankly I've got far better things to do with my life, like looking after my family and spending some quality time with my daughters."


Brazil's biggest construction firm, Odebrecht, has admitted in the US to bribing officials to secure contracts.

The company and Brazilian petrochemical firm, Braskem, have agreed to pay at least $3.5bn (£2.8bn) to the authorities in the US, Brazil and Switzerland.
The US Justice Department said it was the largest foreign bribery case yet.
Odebrecht will pay fines of at least $2.6bn and Braskem will pay $957m for bribery across the globe.
One of the biggest examples of corruption involved Odebrecht paying bribes to officials of Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, which is itself at the centre of a huge corruption scandal.
Odebrecht executives have signed a deal to cooperate with that investigation into Petrobras - known as Operation Car Wash - naming more than two hundred politicians allegedly involved in the kickback scheme.
William Burck, a lawyer for Odebrecht, said the company was "glad to be turning the page and focusing on its future".
Earlier in December, the company apologised for being part of corruption scandals that have already led to its former chief executive, Marcelo Odebrecht, being sent to jail for 19 years for paying $30m (£21m) in bribes to Petrobras officials.
US deputy assistant attorney general, Sung-Hee Suh, said: "Odebrecht [the firm] and Braskem used a hidden but fully functioning Odebrecht business unit - a 'Department of Bribery,' so to speak - that systematically paid hundreds of millions of dollars to corrupt government officials in countries on three continents."
The US authorities said that starting in 2001, and lasting for more than a decade, Odebrecht paid $788m (£627m) in bribes to government officials, their agents and to political parties in several countries, to win business orders.
The US Department of Justice said: "The criminal conduct was directed by the highest levels of the company, with the bribes paid through a complex network of shell companies, off-book transactions and off-shore bank accounts."
Braskem took part in the scheme and between 2006 and 2014, and paid about $250m (£201m) into Odebrecht's bribery system, US authorities said.
The money was used to bribe politicians and their parties in Brazil as well as to officials of Petrobras.
The result, said the US Justice Department, was that Braskem obtained cheap deals when buying Petrobras materials, obtained contracts with Petrobras, and also gained sweetheart tax deals in Brazil.
"These resolutions are the result of an extraordinary multinational effort to identify, investigate and prosecute a highly complex and long-lasting corruption scheme that resulted in the payment by the defendant companies of close to a billion dollars in bribes to officials at all levels of government in many countries," said US attorney Robert Capers.
"In an attempt to conceal their crimes, the defendants used the global financial system - including the banking system in the United States - to disguise the source and disbursement of the bribe payments by passing funds through a series of shell companies," he added.
Braskem is jointly owned by Odebrecht and Petrobras.


People with mild mental illnesses such as anxiety or depression are more likely to die early, say researchers.

They looked at the premature deaths from conditions such as heart disease and cancer of 68,000 people in England.
The research suggested low level distress raised the risk by 16%, once lifestyle factors such as drinking and smoking were taken into account.
More serious problems increased it by 67%, the University College London and Edinburgh University team said.
The risk among those with severe mental health problems is already well documented.
But researchers said the finding among those with milder cases - thought to be one in every four people - was concerning, as many would be undiagnosed.
The Wellcome Trust-funded study, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at data over 10 years and matched it to information on death certificates.
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This is the largest study so far to show an association between psychological distress and death, according to scientists.
Lead author Dr Tom Russ said: "The fact that an increased risk of mortality was evident, even at low levels of psychological distress, should prompt research into whether treatment of these very common, minor symptoms can modify this increased risk of death."
John Williams, head of neuroscience and mental health at the Wellcome Trust, said: "This study highlights the need to ensure they have access to appropriate health care and advice so that they can take steps to improve the outcome of their illness."
Paul Jenkins, chief executive of the charity Rethink, said: "Sadly, these findings do not come as a surprise.
"While this study looks at depression and anxiety, people with severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia die, on average, 20 years earlier than the rest of us. It's an absolute scandal.
"There is a huge lack of awareness amongst health professionals about the increased risk of physical illness for this group, which means people are dying needlessly every day."
Marjorie Wallace, the chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, said: "Even what may be considered mild depression can cut short a person's life, not only through the use of alcohol, cigarettes and other substances, but by directly affecting the recovery from physical illnesses such as heart disease.
"The debilitating effects on a person's life can lead them to neglect themselves and their management of long-term conditions such as diabetes or cancer."


A group of 157 asylum seekers held at sea will be brought to the Australian mainland to be detained, Australia's immigration minister says.

The group have been held at sea by customs officials for almost a month.
Rights groups had voiced serious concerns about their treatment.
The case came to light earlier this month as Australia detained a separate boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers, screened their asylum claims at sea and returned them to Sri Lanka.
Human rights activists filed a legal challenge aimed at preventing similar handling of this second group of people.
Lawyers say the group, which departed from India, includes Sri Lankan Tamils.
Rights groups say Tamils can still face intimidation and violence in Sri Lanka, five years after the end of the civil war, which pitted the majority Sinhalese Sri Lankan military against Tamil separatists.
Under international treaties, Australia cannot return people to places where they might face persecution. UN refugee body UNHCR has also expressed concern about the fairness of on-water screening of asylum claims.
Australian officials have not revealed where the group were being held.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that - following talks with Indian officials - they would be brought to Australia.
Consular officials from the Indian High Commission would be given access to determine identities and "arrange where possible the return of any persons to India".
India would also consider taking non-nationals who were Indian residents, he said.
It was not clear what might happen to those who did not fall into this category, nor was the extent to which asylum claims would be assessed addressed.
But Mr Morrison said no members of the group would be allowed to settle in Australia.
He declined to comment on where the group would be detained but local reports say they are being transferred to the Curtin detention centre via the Cocos Islands.
The move is an apparent set-back for the government, which enforces tough policies aimed at ending the arrival of asylum boats.
Australia detains all those who arrive by boat. In recent months detainees have been processed offshore, in camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Those found to be refugees will be settled in PNG and Nauru, not Australia.
Reports have also emerged in recent months of Australia towing boats back to Indonesia, the most common embarkation point.
The government says the aim is to save lives by preventing people getting on dangerous boats. But refugee advocates and the UN have voiced increasing concern about the policies, with severe criticism of conditions in Australia's detention camps.
Responding to Mr Morrison's announcement, Amnesty International said the development showed that "stranding a boatload of people in the middle of the sea, in an effort to 'stop the boats', has achieved nothing".
"All it has done is prolong and exacerbate the suffering of more than 150 asylum seekers and their families," said Graeme McGregor, the group's refugee campaign co-ordinator.
All asylum seekers must have the opportunity to undergo a "full, fair and rigorous" assessment for refugee status, he said.


Tyson Fury says there is more to come from him after he beat Wladimir Klitschko to become the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion of the world.

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The 27-year-old Briton outpointed the 39-year-old Ukrainian in Dusseldorf, Germany to bring his nine-year reign to an end.
"I think you have seen 65% of what I am capable of," the self-styled 'Gypsy King' told Sky Sports News.
"That wasn't as good as I can do. I can go up another level."
The Manchester fighter insisted he would beat Klitschko again if the former champion takes up the option of a rematch - and would be happy for it to be in Germany.
"If he had 10 years to train, the result would be the same next time," Fury said. "I think he will take the rematch, but who knows when he gets home and has time to think about it.
"It doesn't really matter to me where I fight. Japan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, America - wherever it has to be. I'd like to come back to Germany again to fight Wlad. I enjoyed it here and I got a great reception from the German fans."
He added. "I might be allowed a voluntary defence [before a potential rematch with Klitschko] and I would like to have that back in England, probably in Manchester.  It would be great to bring the titles back."
Fury is keen to spend time over the festive period with his family, including pregnant wife Paris, who he serenaded at ringside after his victory. The couple already have a daughter, Venezuela, and a son Prince.
But attention has already turned to who else Fury could face in defence of his titles.
Irish legend Barry McGuigan told BBC Radio 5 live that David Haye, the British former world champion, making his comeback in January after three years in retirement, is "the obvious fight" for Fury.
He added: "Anthony Joshua is full of promise but hasn't done anything at the top level yet.  Deontay Wilder [the American WBC world champion] would be a great fight for him.  Wilder is a slashing, hard fighter but he was hurt himself in his last defence by a journeyman fighter.
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"I don't think either of them are that fantastic to be honest. Both can look vulnerable at times. Fury is unbeaten and would be favourite but Wilder is a great puncher."
Fury himself has played down a potential bout against Wilder. "Why do we need to mention Deontay Wilder? Let's laugh at his name, shall we? Why would I be bothered about a novice like Wilder?
"He's a basketball player who took up boxing a couple of years ago. I'm a true natural fighter. I've been doing it all my life. You get horses and dogs and it's bred into them to be what they are, whether it's racehorses or show dogs. And it's bred into me to be a fighter.
"So, if Deontay Wilder wants a unification fight he is going to have to wait, because Wladimir Klitschko has a round two....ding ding ding!"
The pair were due to fight twice, in 2013 and 2014, but Haye pulled out on both occasions because of injury, leading to bad blood between the pair.
"I hope Fury can win a rematch and take the titles back to Britain again as a free agent," Haye told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek.
"It throws the division up in the air and makes it really exciting for once.
"We now have a crazy guy with the belts. It might be negative but it makes you laugh and it's better than being bored to tears by Klitschko.
"I would like my opportunity to work my way up the rankings and have a crack at him. As long as he takes belts away that makes him my target.
"Because of the history between us, Fury's camp won't give me any voluntary fights. We don't get on that great so I will have to work my way up to become the mandatory challenger for one of his titles."
Fury has paid tribute to his uncle and trainer Peter, who he believes revitalised his career after they started working together in 2012.
"When I started with Peter, I was going to stop boxing," he said. "I was flat, I was out of shape, I was 24 stone. I wasn't doing the right things, I was drinking and going out a lot," he said.
"But we stuck at it, trained every day, week on week. Since January 2012, we have only taken about two or three weeks off - and Peter has to take a lot of credit for that.
"It has been a long road to get here but I am finally here, parked up in front of view, in the shop window."
"Money, fame, glory…nothing changes the man unless they want it to," Fury said. "I am really comfortable with the man I am today. I will be the same person I was when I started boxing. Nothing is going to change me."
Fury has previously claimed he has no interest in being a role model and has been a controversial figure in the build-up to the Klitschko fight.
One of Britain's former world heavyweight champions, Lennox Lewis, believes he may need to modify his behaviour to assume the responsibility that comes with the title.
"Now he's champion he has to behave himself a little bit more because there are a lot of kids and people looking up to him," Lewis told Sportsweek.
"There are a lot of different boxers and people who will have a lot of things to say about him. If you allow [Fury] to say what he wants without coming back then you are soft to him. He won't respect you unless you directly come back at him.
"But he's a different character in the heavyweight scene. His character captures the imagination of people."


An American school's dance video tribute to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' number one hit Uptown Funk has gone viral.

30 January 2015 Last updated at 08:16 GMT
It's racked up more than seven million YouTube views in less than a week!
The video sees theatre arts teacher Scot Pankey dancing through the corridors with his students at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas.
Mr. Pankey said he wanted to do something fun after Christmas.
He got all six of his classes involved and they rehearsed for about two weeks.
Believe it or not - they filmed the video in one take!
It's even had approval from Bruno Mars. "I cried at the end," the singer wrote online. "Thank you to everyone involved in making this video."
Uptown Funk is currently spending a sixth week at the top of the UK singles chart.
Watch a clip from the video.
Pictures courtesy of Scot Pankey/A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School


The safety of detainees held in court cells in Wales is being put at risk by low staffing levels in some areas, an inspection has found.

The review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons also found handcuffs were used excessively and some people spent too long in cells.
But a report concluded care and safety was generally better in north Wales than elsewhere.
HM Court and Tribunals said it was working to improve secure custody.
During the July 2015 inspections of 26 courts, assessors raised concerns some custody staffing levels compromised detainees' safety and care.
They pointed to Wrexham Magistrates' Court, where cell bells were not answered quickly, some defendants were not checked regularly and staff were sometimes left alone in the custody suite.
Inspectors said the process of identifying vulnerable detainees was inconsistent across Wales and staff needed more training to better understand mental health, drug and alcohol problems.
They also found some workers put too much focus on security rather than the treatment of detainees, but said aspects of care in north Wales were better than elsewhere.
This could be down to workers having more time than their colleagues in busier areas such as south Wales, the report said.
But the review found the use of force to restrain people when needed was rare and most custody staff had good people-skills which helped them calm conflict.
Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons, Martin Lomas, said: "This report raises concerns about safety and risk management, as well as staff training, and we have made a number of recommendations, some to be resolved nationally, that would contribute to improvements in the care of detainees, particularly the most vulnerable."
A spokesman for HM Courts and Tribunals said it was working to improve and deliver safe and secure custody and to make better use of video links to avoid prisoners being brought to court unnecessarily.


Welsh 800m runner Gareth Warburton is out of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after being charged with anti-doping rule violations.

The 31-year-old was fourth at the Games in Delhi in 2010 and was part of Team GB at London 2012.
"The news of this anti-doping rule violation has come as a great shock to me," he said in a statement.
"From the outset, I would like to state that I have not knowingly taken any banned substance."
UK Athletics has confirmed that Warburton has the opportunity to respond to the charges against him and can also have the charges determined at a full hearing before the National Anti-Doping Panel.
"I recognise that the responsibility for this situation lies with me and I'm committed to working with UK Anti-Doping and will fully cooperate in the legal process," Warburton said.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to wish the best to all my team mates heading to the Commonwealth Games and apologise that I won't be able to join them as part of Team Wales."
Team Wales Chef de Mission Brian Davies said: "Team Wales can confirm that one of the competitors selected for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has been provisionally suspended after being charged with committing an anti-doping rule violation.
"As a result Gareth Warburton will no longer be able to compete at the Games."


The European Medicines Agency has begun a review of HPV vaccines, looking into possible rare side-effects.

Vaccination was introduced in 2008 for UK girls, to immunise them against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The agency says its review does not question that the benefits of vaccination outweighs any risk.
It will focus on rare reports of two things - complex regional pain syndrome and a condition where standing up causes dizziness and rapid heart rate.
Both these conditions can occur in non-vaccinated individuals, and "it is considered important to further review if the number of cases reported with HPV vaccine is greater than would be expected", says the EMA.
Based on this review, it will decide whether to recommend any changes to product information to better inform patients and healthcare professionals.
While the review is ongoing, there is no change in recommendations for the use of HPV vaccines.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common, mainly sexually transmitted infection.
Dr Sarah Branch, Deputy Director Of Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines at the UK's drug regulatory body, the MHRA, said: "More than eight million doses of HPV vaccine have been given in the UK, with close to 90% of eligible teenagers vaccinated. With this very high level of vaccine uptake, such reports are to be expected. But the vaccine isn't necessarily the cause and coincidental illness is a factor."
The MHRA says it has been notified about 12 cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and 10 cases of complex regional pain syndrome.


The world premiere of a film about the friendship forged between former political enemies Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness took place at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night.

8 September 2016 Last updated at 10:49 BST
Entitled The Journey, the film is a fictional drama based upon the relationship during the Northern Ireland peace process between the veteran politicians from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn FÃ©in.
Actors Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall, who are playing the politicians in the film, told BBC Newsline what it was like to take on the roles.


A Highlands port is having its busiest day of 2017 for visits by cruise ships.

Four liners are to visit Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, with many of the passengers taking coaches to make trips to Inverness and other places.
AIDACara, Disney Magic and Nautica are already in the firth with Hebridean Princess due to arrive later.
The ships carry more than 4,000 passengers, smaller than Invergordon's record of 6,600 passengers in a single day earlier this year.
Two large cruise ships were involved on that day.
Disney Magic previously visited Invergordon last year.


Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have lifted a ban on publication of newspapers.

The three-day ban was imposed after violent protests sparked by the killing of a prominent separatist militant.
But the publishers have delayed print runs, saying the government should guarantee freedom of operation.
More than 40 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 people and 1,600 security forces have been injured in clashes since 9 July.
Last week, the Kashmir government asked newspapers to stop publication for a few days, saying that the ban was a "temporary measure to address an extraordinary situation".
However, the government's political adviser, Amitabh Mattoo, said the decision was made without the knowledge of the state's Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
"Sometimes decisions taken at a local level are not something the highest authority approves of. There was some miscommunication,'' he told the NDTV news channel.
But newspaper editors in Kashmir said they would resume publishing if the government assured freedom of operation.
"The government must own the ban and issue a statement guaranteeing that media operations are not being hampered from the movement of staff, to news gathering, printing and the distribution of the newspapers," Masood Hussain, editor of the English weekly Kashmir Life told the Associated Press news agency.
The ongoing crisis in Kashmir was sparked by the killing of a prominent separatist militant, Burhan Wani.
A curfew remains in place - along with curbs on mobile and internet access.


Glasgow-based cloud computing company Iomart has reported a rise in revenue of 18%, to £66m.

The firm's final results for the year ended 31 March 2015 also show a rise in pre-tax profit by 11% to £10.8m.
Without one-off costs, adjusted profit rose to £16.6m.
Iomart listed its "highlights" as "strengthened relationships" "with major vendors such as Microsoft and EMC" and better "opportunities from the market for Hybrid Cloud solutions".
A hybrid cloud is where some resources and provided and managed in-house where others are sourced externally.
Iomart said it had benefited from the increasing complexity of a hybrid cloud.
These include questions about cost, value, effectiveness, security and compliance, around the core business of providing data storage capacity in several centres.
Chief executive Angus MacSween said customers were seeking to combine their own IT hardware with contracts for use of private space in a separate data centre, along with use of the publicly-available cloud.
"The effective management of all these is the opportunity for Iomart which we would collectively term the hybrid cloud," he said.
The company has been buying other firms over the past year, helping to drive up those revenue figures figures. Including acquisitions, the hosting of cloud data rose in value by 23% to £55m, though without them, growth was 9%.
Revenue fell slightly in Easyspace, the division which supports clients' websites and email.
On Monday, it was announced that Iomart had bought the London-based cloud computing consultancy, SystemsUp, for at least £9m.


Lots of you are heading back to school tomorrow after the Easter holidays, but many of you still have another week to go.

What's been your best bit of the holidays? Have you enjoyed having a break from school or have you missed your classmates and can't wait to see them again?
Have you had good weather where you live and you've been heading to the park? Or have you stayed in and read a brilliant book? Maybe you went somewhere special?
Whatever you've been up to let us know - get typing and send us your comments!
This chat page is now closed. Below are some of the comments you sent in.
I went to Devon to see my cousins and we stayed in a hotel in Exeter to celebrate my grandpa's 70th birthday early because it is on a another day.
Jessica, London
My best bit of the holiday was when I went to Madrid - it was really sunny!
Isabella, 8, London
My best part of the Easter holidays has to be when my mum, dad and I went to the Lake District for a friend's wedding! The scenery was beautiful and the wedding was amazing!
Charlotte, 10, Oxfordshire
I got a trials bike and I went to my friend's dad's yard and he brought his KTM and we rode it in the woods - it was really fun.
Marcus, 8, East Sussex
I'm in Japan right now and I went to Tokyo DisneySea!
Ren, 11, London
My best bit of the holiday is finding 10 eggs in two hunts.
Stirling, 7, Essex
It's my birthday tomorrow so I'm very excited.
Patrick, North Yorkshire
The best bit of my holiday has been watching ice hockey for the first time. GB beat Poland on penalties in Coventry.
Joseph, 8, Worcestershire
I still have another week to go but my favourite bit was going to the cinema to see a film!
Finn, 9, Bristol
My favourite thing this Easter was going on a massive family walk.
Alfie, 9, Merseyside
My favourite bit of the Easter holidays was definitely my birthday because I got a phone and my ears pierced!
Lilia, 11, Somerset
I've been to Cadbury World.
Ashton, 8, Hull
Missed my favourite teacher Mr Waters.
Ross, 10, Africa


The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has received a controversial freedom of speech award at the PEN Literary Gala in New York on Tuesday.

Six prominent authors boycotted the event, saying it celebrated the magazine's "cultural intolerance".
Islamists stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris in January after the magazine published drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.
On Sunday, two gunmen were killed at a draw-the-Prophet competition in Dallas.
PEN president Andrew Solomon said: "The defence of people murdered for their exercise of free speech is at the heart of what PEN stands for.
"Charlie Hebdo's current staff have persisted, and tonight's award reflects their refusal to accept the curtailment of lawful speech through violence."
Charlie Hebdo's editor in chief, Gerard Biard and Jean-Baptiste Thoret, a film critic who arrived late for work on the day of the attack, were at the gala to accept the award.
Mr Thoret has rejected any comparison between the Paris and Dallas attacks.
"To be honest, I can imagine the kind of comparison you can make between the Charlie Hebdo attack of January 7 and this event, but there is nothing. There is no comparison, absolutely no comparison,"  he told PBS's Charlie Rose.
The film critic added that the attack in Texas was part on an "anti-Islamic movement" in the US.
The decision to award the magazine the Freedom of Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo caused six high-profile authors to withdraw, including The English Patient writer Michael Ondaatje.
They said PEN - known for defending imprisoned writers - was stepping beyond its traditional role.
Authors Peter Carey, Rachel Kushner, Teju Cole, Taiye Selasi and Francine Prose also boycotted the event.
Booker Prize-wining author Mr Carey told the New York Times that the boycotting writers felt PEN's role was to protect freedom of expression against government oppression.
"A hideous crime was committed, but was it a freedom of speech issue for PEN America to be self-righteous about?" asked Mr Carey.
"All this is complicated by PEN's seeming blindness to the cultural arrogance of the French nation, which does not recognise its moral obligation to a large and disempowered segment of their population."
In addition, more than 100 other writers signed a letter of protest against the award.
The boycott has been criticised by the author Salman Rushdie, a former president of PEN who was in hiding for years over Islamist threats in response to his novel The Satanic Verses.
He said his friends were "horribly wrong" and he hoped nobody ever came after them.


A clutch of about 200 Montserrat tarantulas has hatched at Chester Zoo - the first time this rare spider has been bred in captivity.

Very little is known about the species, found on just the one Caribbean island.
A dozen of the hairy brown animals were brought back by a zoo keeper in 2013, after observing them in the wild on multiple field trips.
Three years later, after much study and behavioural management, one female has produced 200 British-born baby spiders.
"It's kind of a race against time, whether you can synchronise the sexual maturity between individuals," said Chester Zoo's curator of lower vertebrates, Gerardo Garcia.
Part of the problem is that male Montserrat tarantulas live for about 2.5 years at the most, whereas the females live much longer and develop much more slowly.
The few males Dr Garcia had collected, therefore, were a precious resource. There were nervous moments for the team when they started match-making.
As with many other invertebrates, those encounters were risky for the males.
"The female can take it as a prey, rather than a partner," Dr Garcia told the BBC. "There were a lot of sweaty moments."
He and his colleagues observed a very tentative courtship ritual, in which the male drums out an elaborate rhythm on the female's web - which is spun on the ground near her burrow.
Even after three apparently successful encounters, there was another anxious wait for Dr Garcia. All three pregnant females disappeared.
"They literally dig a burrow in the ground, and they're gone," he said. "They don't feed, they don't show up, we don't know what's going on. You just have to leave it for several months and see what happens.
"Then eventually... spiders started popping out of the earth like crazy. From one single burrow, one female, we had about 200 tarantulas - tiny spiderlings."
Those babies - the first spiderlings of their species to be observed by scientists - are now being very well looked after.
"We're keeping them in small, individual pots," Dr Garcia said. "A member of staff is feeding them one-by-one with small flies, at the beginning. Then we'll go for bigger prey like crickets."
In a year or two, these spiders will in turn become part of the breeding program. After all, there are no males left in the small colony of adults; they die after mating.
Being able to see the tarantula's complete life cycle is valuable, Dr Garcia explained, because there is much to learn about these animals.
"We don't know too much about tarantulas in general, in the Caribbean. It's a taxonomic group that's very uncertain."
In fact, the Montserrat species has only been formally described on the basis of a single, male specimen, collected 100 years ago.
"At the moment we're working with a specialist at the Natural History Museum to describe the other sex, the female."
It was that lack of knowledge that led Dr Garcia to collect some wild adults on a conference trip to Montserrat three years ago.
He became interested in the tarantulas on a previous field trip, when he and a team of other zoologists made a striking observation: these 15-20cm spiders are a prey item for the Caribbean's famous - and critically endangered - mountain chicken frog.
These very large frogs had been known to eat crickets, millipedes, smaller frogs and lizard, and even bats. But when Dr Garcia and colleagues reported three of the frogs eating tarantulas in the wild, it was a surprise.
"You would never imagine a frog would go for a big tarantula, but in fact it does," he said.
This evidence plays into Dr Garcia's view of the hairy spiders as a beautiful part of the natural world, rather than a threat.
This particular species does bite, and is too jumpy to be a good pet, but is not dangerous to humans.
"We try to avoid that perception about dangerous, poisonous or horrible species," said the zoo keeper, who opened his Montserrat tarantula shipment at home with his children.
"If a frog can kill and eat a tarantula, they cannot be so bad!"
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Birmingham twice came from behind to claim a point against Preston.

Preston led as Alex Baptiste poked home a corner at the far post but Blues were soon level through defender Ryan Shotton's powerful header.
However the visitors reclaimed the lead within five minutes courtesy of Daniel Johnson's well struck free-kick.
Birmingham struck the crossbar through David Cotterill before Che Adams found a right-foot volleyed finish from Jonathan Grounds' cross to equalise.
The draw stretches Birmingham's unbeaten run to six league games and keeps them inside the top six on goal difference, but Gary Rowett's side almost fell to a second home defeat of the campaign late on.
Callum Robinson fired in a shot from substitute Aiden McGeady's throughball which forced Adam Legzdins into a smart save.
Robinson was twice denied by the Birmingham goalkeeper in the closing 10 minutes as Preston pushed for just a second away win of the season.
Legzdins was also on hand to palm a powerful Greg Cunningham shot over the crossbar just after half-time.
Match ends, Birmingham City 2, Preston North End 2.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 2, Preston North End 2.
Attempt saved. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aiden McGeady.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jonathan Grounds (Birmingham City) because of an injury.
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Browne (Preston North End).
Attempt missed. Viv Solomon-Otabor (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Michael Morrison.
Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Johnson (Preston North End).
Substitution, Birmingham City. Viv Solomon-Otabor replaces Jacques Maghoma.
Foul by Michael Morrison (Birmingham City).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alan Browne (Preston North End).
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by David Cotterill with a cross.
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Johnson (Preston North End).
Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Preston North End. Aiden McGeady replaces John Welsh.
Attempt missed. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Hugill with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by David Davis.
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card.
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt blocked. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Birmingham City. Jonathan Spector tries a through ball, but Lukas Jutkiewicz is caught offside.
Corner,  Birmingham City. Conceded by Alex Baptiste.
Attempt missed. David Davis (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma following a corner.
Corner,  Birmingham City. Conceded by Bailey Wright.
Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Substitution, Preston North End. Paul Huntington replaces Chris Humphrey.
Substitution, Preston North End. Alan Browne replaces Ben Pearson.
Goal!  Birmingham City 2, Preston North End 2. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds with a cross.
Corner,  Birmingham City. Conceded by Bailey Wright.


A helicopter pilot who died when he hit a crane in London was responsible for avoiding obstacles and not air traffic control, an inquest has heard.

Peter Barnes, 50, died when the helicopter struck St George Wharf Tower, Vauxhall, in January 2013.
Pedestrian Matthew Wood, 39, from Sutton, was killed and 12 were injured.
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) investigator told Southwark Crown Court it was a pilot's responsibility to avoid obstacles.
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Geraint Herbert told the court a pilot had to maintain a 500ft buffer from all obstacles even if details from air traffic controllers restricted a pilot's altitude.
He said: "It's the pilot's responsibility to avoid the obstacles and air traffic control does not absolve him from obeying the rules of the air.
"Not only did he not take the direct route, he descended into a restricted area he was not permitted to be in."
Mr Barnes, from Berkshire, had been flying from Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey to Elstree in Hertfordshire but was diverted to Battersea heliport due to bad weather, the inquest was told.
A pilot with 25 years' experience, he had been due to collect Richard Caring, the owner of the Ivy restaurant franchise, from Elstree to fly him to a shoot with a cousin of the Queen in Whitby, North Yorkshire.
Mr Caring said they spoke about low-lying cloud and freezing-fog at Redhil and at Elstree and he told Mr Barnes not to take off.  Mr Barnes continued the flight but found he was unable to land.
A short time later Mr Caring contacted the pilot to say Battersea heliport was open but did not put "one iota" of pressure on him to divert the flight so he could be picked up from there instead.
"I didn't say, 'Battersea is open, please land there', I just said, 'Battersea is open'. I didn't tell him to land there." he said.
"I don't see how much more you can do than to say to the pilot, 'don't take off'."
Shaun Tinkler-Rose, a friend and fellow pilot who spoke to Mr Barnes hours before the flight, previously told the inquest Mr Barnes had felt under "extreme pressure".
The inquest continues.


The Northern Ireland Housing Executive has been criticised after a World War One memorial garden it paid for was re-imaged with a paramilitary tribute.

The Â£22,000 memorial garden, in south Belfast's Village area, was built by the NIHE to commemorate the WW1 dead.
Recently however, loyalists have added a memorial stone to Ulster Volunteer Force members killed in the Troubles.
The NIHE said it is trying to reach agreement with the local community to have the paramilitary display removed.
NIHE staff have also been denied access to the garden after the locks they placed on the gates were changed.
The garden was built by the NIHE as a replacement for a previous paramilitary-style UVF memorial that had been removed during housing redevelopment in the Village.
In a statement, a NIHE spokesman said: "The Housing Executive did not provide a UVF memorial.  Instead, we provided a garden that reflects the sacrifices of men from south Belfast during the First World War."
The garden was paid from the NIHE's own budget and money provided by European Union peace funding.
The EU fund is designed "to encourage greater levels of social integration in the housing sector" and "help promote the idea of a shared society".
But the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MLA John Dallat said the scheme will now have the opposite effect.
"I am very disappointed and very angry that public money intended to bring communities together is being spent in a way that promotes division and regenerates paramilitary groups that should have been gotten rid of," Mr Dallat said.
"The UVF memorial stone should be taken away because it dishonours and disfigures  the very men the project was intended to honour."
However, the NIHE spokesman said: "Great care was taken in consultation with the local community about the design of this garden in order to ensure there would be no paramilitary imagery included. The contract also clearly stipulated this."
"We are disappointed that since its construction, other images have been added to the garden. We did not agree to any additional images.
"We are now trying to reach agreement with the local community to remove the additional images. The lock currently on the garden was not provided by the Housing Executive."
UKIP Belfast City Councillor Bob Stoker, who works in a neighbourhood renewal scheme in the Village area, said: "We are looking at moving on and putting the past behind us.
"We can't go on whinging and complaining at every turn.
"It is in a local area that is not going to give offence to anyone, and I have not heard anyone making an complaints about it," Mr Stoker added.
A spokesperson for the Housing Executive added: "Issues around expressions of cultural identity and sense of place, which manifest themselves in mural, monuments and flags, are extremely difficult and often dangerous to deal with.
"The Housing Executive has been at the forefront of moving towards more acceptable expressions of cultural identity.
"Over recent years we have been working with others to roll out a successful programme of re-imaging to encourage communities to move away from aggressive expressions of cultural identity to more inclusive, historically accurate and informative depictions of our history.
"Despite the work that we and others have carried out over recent years, many of our existing estates are single identity and segregated."
It is thought there are around 100 memorials -  53 of them republican and 47 loyalist - on NIHE property.
According to the executive, the Village memorial and another at Annadale in south Belfast were the only two of this type paid for and built by the NIHE.
"We have however, provided support for numerous re-imaging projects across Northern Ireland, helping communities to move away from more aggressive expressions of cultural identity," the executive's spokesman said.


New Zealand leg-spinner Ish Sodhi hopes his stint playing in Nottinghamshire's T20 campaign this summer will lead to a longer stay in England.

The 24-year-old has played 41 international matches in all formats.
He has been particularly effective in T20, with 21 wickets at 14.47 and a strike-rate of a wicket every 13 balls.
"In the last year or so I have definitely been a lot more successful in the T20 stuff than in the other stuff," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"But in the last six months I have been finding my way in the four-stuff and one-dayers.
"In the future I would love to come over and play all the forms. At this stage the T20 is the main focus. It is still a wee, wee way away but I will continue to look to hone my T20 skills and try to be in tip-top condition when I come over."
Sodhi says playing in England is a "great opportunity" with the 2019 World Cup in mind.
"It's great to play at these grounds where I will potentially play a World Cup, which I am targeting," he said.
"It will be great to get used to conditions. The opportunity came up and I will try to grab it with both hands."
Sodhi will be the second of two overseas players at Trent Bridge, with Australian all-rounder Dan Christian returning after being a member of the side that won nine matches in a row in 2016 to reach T20 Finals Day.
"It's a fantastic competition and I am big fan of Finals Day," he added. "We get most of the live stuff back here. It's a great concept playing two T20 games in a day - it is not something we get over here.
"In T20 sometimes being instinctive and being on a roll, the quicker you do things the better."


Residents are beginning to return to their flooded homes, even as more rains are expected in the state of Louisiana.

About 40,000 homes have been damaged by floods caused by heavy rains, and 20,000 people have been rescued.
In Livingston Parish, home to 138,000 people, officials estimate that 75% of homes have been completely destroyed.
Residents returning to their homes are finding standing water, mould, and pest infestations, while the threat of further flooding and rainfall remains.
David Key arrived at his house in Prairieville by boat this morning to find five inches (12.7 cm) of "muddy nasty bayou water".
"I'm not going to lie, I cried uncontrollably," he said. "But you have to push forward and make it through. Like everybody says, you still have your family."
The National Weather Service is predicting that the chance of thunderstorms will continue in the region throughout the week, with temperatures expected to reach 32C (92F).
At an afternoon press conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards updated the death toll to eight people, and described how emergency crews are continuing with rescues.
"Nobody is going to be forgotten and we're going work around the clock," Mr Edwards said, calling the disaster a "historic flooding event".
"It's unprecedented," he told reporters. "We understand that there are a lot of people who are suffering."
Emergency crews are checking washed away cars for the bodies of motorists who may have become trapped inside.
Floodwaters have been receding today in most of the effected areas, however water levels are rising in the southern parts of the state as the excess water washes downriver and out to sea.


Doctors in the UK routinely lied to patients with disorders of sex development known as intersex conditions, the BBC has found.

A leading paediatric consultant told BBC Radio 4 that withholding the truth of patients' diagnoses had been "widespread".
Jeanette, now 71, was operated on at the age of 16 to remove her hidden testes.
She discovered the truth only when she was 50.
Jeanette was born with complete androgen insensitivity (CAIS), a genetic disorder occurring in between one in 20,000 and one in 60,000 births.
A child born with CAIS is genetically male but their body does not respond to the hormone testosterone properly, so the external appearance of their genitals will look entirely female.
Jeanette was 12 when doctors told her mother that Jeanette would not develop like other girls or be able to have a baby.
Jeanette says: "I couldn't understand at that point why she [my mum] was crying and what was wrong with me.
"Then, at 14, I started realising that things were not right with me, as I never had periods or anything."
Two years later, aged 16, Jeanette was taken to hospital and operated on, still unaware of her diagnosis.
At that time, she was told nothing - just that she needed major surgery.
"I've got an 8in [20cm] scar right across my stomach. I was feeling perfectly healthy and I can remember sitting up in up in bed, thinking, 'What the hell am I doing here?'"
Surgeons had removed internal testes from Jeanette's body, but Jeanette didn't even know she had them and doctors didn't tell her why they had operated.
Life became very difficult for Jeanette.
At 28, she got married but found sex with her husband too painful. "I was in so much pain afterwards I couldn't walk.
"So my mother came with me to hospital and they told me, 'Go home, things will get better.'"
She left her partner two years later, saying she was too "frightened" to have another physical relationship.
She did not find out the truth about her medical history until she was 50, when saw the words "testicular feminisation", another term for CAIS, on the front her medical file by chance at an outpatient appointment.
She talked with her GP, who then gave her her medical records to read.
"I read my notes and that's when it said I had the womb the size of a matchstick and two fully grown testes, and I cried my eyes out."
Ieuan Hughes, emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge and an expert in hormone disorders, says cover-ups used to be routine in cases such as this.
"In those days the consensus in the medical profession was that the truth would not be disclosed to the patientâ€¦ and the general advice was for parents not to disclose the true diagnoses to the children.
"The explanation for why the person could not have periods, could not have children - a story was spun that the ovaries had not developed properly and were at risk of developing  cancer, therefore they needed to be removed."
He says a number of women who had been told "a pack of lies" by the medical profession have since contacted the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG), with which he works.
"Apparently there had been a couple of examples where patients had been so upset they had taken their own lives - sadly."
A AISSG representative told the BBC the practice of routinely withholding the truth from patients didn't stop until 2012.
British Association of Paediatric Urologists president Stuart O'Toole said most patients were now managed within a team, with input from specialist surgeons and medics and psychologists.
"The parents of the child are involved at every stage.
"Irreversible surgery is rarely performed in infancy, and a gonad would be removed only if there was a credible risk of cancer."
The British Medical Association, the doctors union, declined to comment, but General Medical Council chief executive Charlie Massey said: "Medical practice has evolved dramatically over the last 50 years, with more and more emphasis on working in partnership with patients, openly and honestly.
"Our guidance makes it clear doctors should involve children and young people as much as possible in discussions about their care, even if they are not able to make decisions on their own.
"We are clear that doctors should not withhold information from patients, unless they believe that giving it would cause the patient serious harm."
Holly Greenbury, who co-founded Intersex UK, a campaign group founded to end stigma around intersex variations and to fight for equality and protection of intersex people, told BBC Radio 4 that some families were still feeling forced to make decisions over surgery in the UK, before children were of an age at which they could make an informed decision and consent themselves.
"What this highlights is that there is a break down of communication, a lack of education and, currently, the UK is not following internal human rights law and ensuring that our legislation protects the future wellbeing and the bodily autonomy of infants and young children."
Malta became the first country to outlaw non-consensual medical interventions on intersex, in 2015.
Intersex UK is one of several British organisations now lobbying for corrective surgery to be outlawed in the UK.


A pot of money to give cancer patients access to expensive, life-extending drugs is about to get controversial.

The Cancer Drugs Fund in England is certainly popular with patients - too popular, in fact.
This week it will be culling some of the drugs it funds because it is cruising towards a £100m overspend.
The move has already angered some, raised questions about how the NHS pays for innovative new drugs and led to calls for the fund to be scrapped entirely.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approves drugs for widespread use in the NHS.
It is prepared to fork out up to £30,000 for a course of drugs to extend life by a year (adjusted to take account of the quality of life achieved).
It will pay around double that for "end-of-life" drugs including those for cancer.
Yet the latest wave of cancer medicines are coming with hefty price tags, some costing £100,000 per quality-adjusted life year (to use the technical jargon).
In a moment of election campaigning in 2010, the now Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a Cancer Drugs Fund, a £200m-a-year pot of money to pay for these super-expensive drugs.
The fund was supposed to expire last year, but has been extended until 2016.
It has been great for eligible patients. Around 55,000 have used the scheme; some will have gained months or even years of life through drugs which the NHS could never normally afford.
Yet it divides loyalties, as Dr Mangesh Thorat, a cancer doctor at Queen Mary University of London, has argued:
"This issue presents me with a dilemma - as a cancer clinician, I am happy that this Cancer Drugs Fund prevents my patients from being denied treatments towards the end of their life.
"However, on the other hand I think this fund not only undermines NICE but also discriminates against patients in similar situations who have diseases other than cancer."
The Cancer Drugs Fund is about to introduce price-caps on the drugs it will fund.
The pharmaceutical industry has already been told some of their drugs - including Jevtana, Zaltrap and Halaven - are being pulled as a result.
There will inevitably be outrage in some quarters when the announcement - expected Monday or Tuesday - is made.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has already said it would "deplore any decision to restrict or remove patient access to cancer medicines".
Yet there is a much more fundamental conundrum that needs addressing.
The Cancer Drugs Fund is a sticking plaster - it exists because the old system no longer works.
So how does the industry make a profit (out of drugs that are often taken for just a few months) while the NHS gets a price it can afford?
Breakthrough Breast Cancer describes the Cancer Drugs Fund as "a short-term fix for a long-term problem" adding that "the long-term solution is now long overdue".
All eyes are on the government's "Innovative Medicines and Medical Technology Review" which is expected to report before the Autumn.