Labour's Andy Burnham has been elected as the first "metro mayor" of Greater Manchester, winning 63% of the vote.

Mr Burnham, 47, who served in Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's governments, was chosen by voters in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan.
He received 359,352 votes. Conservative Sean Anstee was second with 128,752.
Mr Burnham will lead the combined authority.
A total of 28.93% of the region's electorate turned out to vote in what has been described as a "historic" election after the then chancellor George Osborne announced in 2014 certain powers would be devolved from central government.
Mr Burnham will control transport, housing and police budgets.
The 47-year-old, who has been MP for Leigh in Wigan since 2001, will not stand in next month's general election.
Mr Burnham said he had been given a "big job to do and a big mandate with which to do it".
The Liverpool-born politician joked how he had won a bigger percentage of the vote than the newly-elected mayor for Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, and declared it was "Manchester, one, Liverpool, nil."
Greater Manchester would "take control" and create a "new politics", he said, adding, "I won't let you down".
"We will give power and purpose to the people and places which Westminster has left behind," he said.
Mr Burnham said rising homelessness had been a defining issue in the mayoral campaign.
He said: "In this great city we will never accept as an inevitable fact of modern life that for some to succeed others have to sleep rough on our cold streets."
A mayor's homelessness fund will be set up and he will donate 15% of his salary to it, he said, reiterating his manifesto commitment to end rough sleeping by 2020.
Andy Burnham (Lab) 359,352 (63%)
Sean Anstee (Con) 128,752 (23%)
Jane Brophy (Lib Dem) 34,334 (6%)
Will Patterson (Green) 13,424 (2%)
Stephen Morris (English Democrats) 11,115 (2%)
Shneur Odze (UKIP) 10,583 (2%)
Mohammad Aslam (Independent) 5,815 (1%)
Marcus Farmer (Independent) 3,360 (1%)
Born in Liverpool, the Everton fan joined Labour at the age of 14, saying he was inspired by the BBC drama Boys from the Blackstuff about life on the dole.
He was initially seen as a Blairite but was promoted to cabinet duties by Gordon Brown, under whom he served as chief secretary to the treasury, culture secretary and health secretary.
Mr Burnham came second in the Labour leadership contest in 2015, which was won by Jeremy Corbyn.
Along with Steve Rotheram he was involved in the campaign for justice concerning the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.


Donald Trump said the alliance between the US and Japan was the "cornerstone of peace" in the Pacific, after meeting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

After talks at the White House, Mr Trump said the US was committed to "the security of Japan".
Echoing his words, Mr Abe also stressed on the importance of strengthening economic and trade relations.
Mr Trump had previously taken issue with the US trade deficit with Japan, threatening tariffs on carmaker Toyota.
At a joint press-conference on Friday, President Trump described Japan as "an important and steadfast ally", adding that Washington was committed to bringing bilateral ties even closer.
He also said the two nations would continue to build up defensive capabilities in the Pacific, promoting shared interests - including freedom of navigation.
The US army maintains a significant presence on the island of Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan, a key security lynchpin in the vast region.
Japan is looking for guarantees of a US military commitment to maintain stability in the region, as China continues its ascent as a military superpower while North Korea develops its nuclear programme despite UN sanctions.
A joint statement by Mr Trump and Mr Abe specifically mentioned that a bilateral security treaty covered the Senkaku Islands.
The islands, in the East China Sea, are controlled by Japan, but are also claimed by China, which refers to them as Diaoyu Islands.
China has been increasingly assertive in the area in recent years.
Addressing trade ties, Mr Trump stressed that his administration would seek "free" and "fair" relations with Tokyo.
Mr Abe agreed, but added that there needed to be dialogue to iron out differences on some key issues.
He earlier expressed hopes that his visit to the US would "usher in a new era of our bilateral relations".
And he described US-Japanese trade ties as a "truly win-win relationship".
The two leaders are expected to discuss over the weekend Mr Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the controversial 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, which Tokyo had lobbied hard for.
Last month, Mr Trump tweeted that Toyota was planning to build a plant in Mexico that would produce cars bound for the US, saying: "NO WAY! Build Plant in U.S. or pay big border tax."
Toyota responded saying production and employment levels in the US would not decrease.
Mr Trump has also previously criticised Japan for not buying enough US-made cars, in comments reminiscent of the 1980s trade friction between the two economic powerhouses.
He has also named Japan as one of several countries contributing to the US trade deficit, and accused it of currency manipulation.
The Japanese government has in turn taken pains to point out that as a top US direct investor, Japan has created hundreds of thousands of US jobs, and that other countries such as China have far larger trade surpluses than Japan.
Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said last month it was "absolutely not the case" that Tokyo was devaluing the yen to benefit its exporters, and that it had embarked on monetary easing to stabilise prices domestically.
Mr Trump will be hosting Mr Abe and his wife at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, where the two leaders will play golf.
They last met in November when Mr Abe visited Mr Trump in New York shortly after the latter won the US presidential election.
Mr Abe is the second foreign leader Mr Trump has met since taking office, after Britain's PM Theresa May.


A primary school teacher found stabbed to death in Sunderland was "beautiful inside and out", her family have said.

Mother-of-two Julie Parkin, 39, was found dead at an address in Kirkwall Close in the city on 27 June.
She taught at West Boldon Primary School, where staff said they were "deeply shocked" at the loss of the "highly respected" teacher.
A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.
In a statement released through Northumbria Police, Mrs Parkin's family said: "Julie was the best person anyone could ever meet. She was the perfect child.
"She was beautiful inside and out and she brought something special to everyone she met.
"We are all utterly devastated. Her children are devastated. It is so tragic and we can't ever understand why anyone would do this.
"We would like to thank the school for their support.
"The teachers and kids have been brilliant and their support means so much to us. Julie was like a mam to them all."
Earlier the head teacher of West Boldon Primary School, Joanne Weightman, described Mrs Parkin as a "highly valued" member of staff who was popular with pupils and colleagues.


Jersey's government will give a copy of a holographic portrait of the Queen, commissioned in 2004, to the National Portrait Gallery.

The artwork, called Equanimity, was produced by artist Chris Levine to mark 800 years of the island's allegiance to the Crown.
The original has already been on show at the gallery as part of a tour.
Chief Minister Senator Ian Gorst will present the copy on behalf of the island to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
The work that will be given to the National Portrait Gallery is a new, more technically refined version of the original piece.
It was the product of two sittings with the monarch where more than 10,000 individual photographs were made using a tracking camera.
Senator Gorst, who is hosting an official reception in London on 21 May, said: "Equanimity is a remarkable portrait and a fitting tribute to Jersey's long-standing allegiance to the Crown."
The work will also appear on a Â£100 note and holographic stamp to mark the Jubilee.


Pope Francis has approved the beatification of a Jesuit priest from Dublin for his work with the sick and dying in the early 20th century.

Fr John Sullivan  (1861 - 1933) was one of 39 to be named in a decree signed by Pope Francis to be beatified - officially recognised as 'Blessed'.
He was declared a 'Servant of God' in 1960 and in 2014 he was made a 'Venerable' by Pope Francis.
In certain circumstances beatification can later lead to sainthood.
Fr Sullivan was brought up by a wealthy protestant family and was a later teacher at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare.
Since the 1940s Fr Sullivan's supporters have been campaigning for him to be made a saint.
The attribution of a miracle is given to those who have died for the faith, while receiving a sainthood requires a miracle.
Those named on the decree include Albanian Bishop, Vincens Prenushi, who died in prison in 1949 after being tortured for demanding the formation of a breakaway Albanian church under the country's former communist regime.
Albania was declared as the world's first atheist state in 1967.
Pope Francis also recognised a further 37 Albanian clerics and aspiring clerics, who were killed between 1945 and 1974, as martyrs.
During a visit to Albania in 2014, Pope Francis paid tribute to all those who died.


A busy road in Cheshire will be closed for seven months as works continue on the Mersey Gateway Project,

The southern section of the Central Expressway, stretching from Halton Lea through to the Lodge Lane Interchange, will be closed in both directions from 7 November.
The northbound Southern Expressway - heading from Hallwood Junction to Lodge Lane Interchange - will also be closed.
Closures are expected to remain in place until June 2016, Merseylink said.


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At least 12 passengers on board an Indian Jet Airways Boeing 737 aircraft have been injured when it veered off the runway at Goa airport while preparing for take-off, officials say.

Jet has said the plane, carrying 154 passengers to Mumbai, came off the runway because of a technical failure.
But the exact details of what the accident are unclear, officials say.
December is the busiest month for Dabolim airport, located near the Goa state capital Panjim.
Television coverage depicted injured and traumatised passengers - a few on stretchers - in the dark.
The plane's front undercarriage and one of its wings appeared to have been damaged as it came to a halt supported only by its body frame and engine casings.
Most of the injured only seemed to have cuts and bruises, although some injuries were more serious.
"I fractured my leg," passenger Dinesh Kumar said. "The moment the plane started running on the runway, it slipped into the nearby field and there was smoke inside the flight."
Air travel is becoming increasingly popular in India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Passenger numbers on internal flights increased by 21% in 2015 to more than 80 million, with the government predicting numbers to rise substantially over the next five years.
Jet Airways is India's second largest airline and flies on both domestic and international routes.


Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has agreed a three-year deal to join Middlesex's coaching staff.

The 37-year-old will take up the position of head coach for the club's T20 Blast campaign, starting in 2017.
Vettori is head coach of Brisbane Heat in Australia's Big Bash League and Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bangalore.
"Daniel will strengthen what is already an outstanding coaching unit," managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said.
Vettori represented New Zealand on 442 occasions between 1997 and 2015, playing 113 Tests, 295 one-day internationals and 34 Twenty20s.
In total the Auckland-born all-rounder took 705 wickets for the Black Caps, as well as scoring 6,989 runs.
Since retiring, he coached the Heat to a sixth-placed finish in the Big Bash last season, while Royal Challengers were runners-up in this year's edition of the IPL.
Middlesex have only qualified from the group stage of England's domestic T20 competition on three occasions since the tournament was first played in 2003, going on to win the trophy in 2008.
The Lord's side, who won the County Championship title last season, were beaten in the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast in 2016.
"Cricket is becoming ever more specialised," Fraser added.
"The skills required by players in the different forms of the game are wide-ranging - why should coaching be any different? As a club we are always looking to improve."
Vettori will work alongside Middlesex head coach Richard Scott and assistant coaches Richard Johnson and David Houghton, and will be in charge of the club's T20 strategy and preparation.


Andy Murray believes he can become the first British winner of the French Open since Fred Perry in 1935 as he prepares to face Stan Wawrinka in the last four.

Murray, 29, plays the defending champion from Switzerland on Philippe Chatrier after 14:00 BST on Friday.
"I believe I can win the event. It's possible and only a couple of matches away now. I'll just give everything I've got the next few days," he said.
World number one Novak Djokovic plays Dominic Thiem in the other semi-final.
In the women's draw, Serena Williams takes on Kiki Bertens and Garbine Muguruza plays Sam Stosur, with both matches getting under way at 12:00.
British number one Murray has been to the last four at Roland Garros on three previous occasions, losing to Rafael Nadal in 2011 and 2014 and Djokovic in five sets last year.
Murray has won eight out of 15 previous meetings with 31-year-old Wawrinka, but has lost their last three - and all three on clay.
However, Murray has improved significantly on the surface in the past two years and beat Djokovic in the Italian Open final before heading to Paris.
"Stan is obviously playing great tennis," Murray said. "It is going to be extremely difficult [but] hopefully I can play my best tennis and reach my first final here."
Third seed Wawrinka, who won the tournament last year and the Australian Open in 2014, still feels his career is inferior to Murray's despite matching the Scot's tally of two Grand Slam titles.
"Now that I've won a second Grand Slam people say I'm closer to him," the Swiss said.
"If you were to compare our two careers, he's well ahead of me given all the titles, the finals, number two in the world.
"He's in the 'Big Four' [along with Djokovic, Nadal and Roger Federer]. There is a reason for this. Maybe he has fewer titles than the other three, but he's always been with them during the semis, the finals. His career is very, very impressive."
Murray has racked up 36 titles, compared to Wawrinka's 14.
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Troops from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) have marched through Wokingham to mark the regiment's departure from its Berkshire base.

REME is moving from Arborfield Garrison to Lyneham, Wiltshire.
A new Â£121m Defence College of Technical Training is currently being built at the former RAF base, which closed in 2012.
The move is part of changes across all three services of the armed forces.
Wokingham has had a military presence for more than a century -  the Army first established a horse depot at Arborfield in 1904.
The parade saw the 300-strong contingent march down Peach Street.
Led by its brass band, it was then met by an inspection party on Broad Street, which included the town mayor Philip Mirfin.
The new college at Lyneham is the first stage of a Â£230m transformation of the airbase.
REME training will cease at Arborfield and also Bordon Garrison, in Hampshire, in September, and is due to begin at Lyneham by November.
Wokingham Borough Council plans to construct a secondary school at the Arborfield Garrison site, as the first phase of a "village-style suburb".


A management buyout could save jobs at a lamb processing business on Anglesey.

Up to 350 jobs are under threat at Welsh Country Foods in Gaerwen after Asda ended its contract with the firm.
But Gaerwen's site director Eddie Ennis said the parent company, Dutch food firm Vion, is considering the offer.
However, any deal would only safeguard between 50 and 70 jobs as just the slaughterhouse and boning departments would remain open.
However, Mr Ennis said if the site can remain open and functional then the business can possibly be rebuilt.
He said: "I've made a formal offer that's being looked upon in a good way because they would like to support a management buyout."
Mr Ennis said the decision should be made by the end of next week.
He said: "I'm fairly hopeful - we've got lots of support."
Vion plans to close the site unless a buyer can be found by April, when a 90 consultation with staff comes to an end.
The Unite union has said it pledged to work "strenuously" to see if a new business plan can be produced to save the threatened jobs.
Asda said the decision was not taken lightly but made after a "strategic review of our lamb business".
The Welsh government said it had given a "substantial offer of support" to develop the site and the offer could be extended to any potential new owner.
Eindhoven-based food group Vion said supplying Asda represented about 50% of business at its Gaerwen plant.
It handles 640,000 lambs a year.
Vion took over from Grampian Foods in 2008, when the plant employed nearly 600 workers.
Leader of Anglesey council Bryan Owen said a delegation will discuss the future of Welsh Country Foods with Business Minister Edwina Hart next week.
Nearly 3,000 jobs were safeguarded at three poultry and meat processing plants in Wales after a buyout by a meat suppliers last week.
The Birmingham-based 2 Sisters Food Group said the purchase of Vion would help the company meet growing demand.
About 300 jobs in Llangefni, 1,300 in Sandycroft, Flintshire, and 1,300 in Merthyr were safeguarded.
Vion announced in November that it was selling its operations in Britain.
The 2 Sisters Food Group, which is owned by Boparan Holdings Limited (BHL), said the move would secure the future of 11 sites across the UK and the jobs of 6,000 employees, while helping the firm meet growing demand and the allow expansion into the red meat industry.


Carmarthenshire councillors have agreed to shelve plans for big increases in sports pitch charges after meeting to set council tax rates and confirm next year's budget.

They approved plans for a 4.77% council tax rise and £12m savings.
But the executive board will come up with new proposals on pitch fees.
Meanwhile Blaenau Gwent councillors have approved £10m of cuts and a council tax increase of 4.6% as they confirmed their budget.
Blaenau Gwent council leader Hedley McCarthy said they had to make some very unpopular decisions and were asking the community to help retain some services.
"We are now no stranger to collaborating with other local authorities to deliver some services, as we have found this can provide better value for money and secure the future of those services," he said.
"Teaming up with people in the local community has also meant the retention of some facilities which were facing closure.
"Where possible, we will consider alternative ways of delivering services to local people."
The latest round of authority budget meetings follows a decision by Powys council on Wednesday to make savings of about £20m which will result in the loss of around 400 jobs.
Speaking before Carmarthenshire's meeting, its council leader Kevin Madge said he could not rule out redundancies either.
"Nobody wants to put up council tax," he said.
"We are trying to protect services, services that people want us to protect - lollipop people, street cleaning, highways - but we do have to save £12m in the next financial year and £31m over the next three years.
"This is the start of some very tough times. I have been in local government for 35 years and I've never known it be this bad.
"It's a problem facing all my colleagues around Wales. I don't think there's a council that's not facing cuts."
Mr Madge said he was unsure how many redundancies the council would have to make and there had been appeals for people to take early retirement.
A call to shelve planned increases in charges for sports clubs using council-owned facilities pending further discussions won unanimous backing.
The plan was aimed at saving almost £300,000 in subsidies currently enjoyed by the clubs involved.
One club, Tumble RFC, claimed they faced a near five-fold increase in pitch feeds from £49 per match to £235.
Colin Evans, executive board member responsible for sports facilities, said: "I fully appreciate the major concerns expressed by the clubs and sports associations on this whole issue of fees and charges, and we have listened to these concerns.
"We recognise the value of sport on health and well being of people and communities. That is why we will continue to work with town and community councils and local sports clubs and associations to resolve these issues."
Emlyn Dole, a Plaid Cymru councillor whose motion to freeze the fees was unanimously backed, said:  "I am pleased for sporting clubs that this has been approved by council.
"It has caused considerable concern across the county."


Susie Wolff admits she feels "very far away" from becoming the first woman to race in Formula 1 for 40 years.

The Scot will drive for Williams at the Spanish Grand Prix first practice on Friday but realises she may never race.
"I have shown I am capable, I'm in a very competitive team, I drive a car which is capable of podium positions," Wolff said.
But she admitted that Williams's decision to sign Adrian Sutil as their reserve driver this season was a blow.
"That was a sign that, 'Yes, you're close, but you are still very far away'," she said.
Williams went into the season without an official reserve driver, with Wolff designated as test driver and British GP2 driver Alex Lynn their development driver.
But when race driver Valtteri Bottas suffered a back injury and was forced to miss the season-opening grand prix in Australia, the team had no one able to stand in at short notice.
Wolff only has a licence to drive in practice, not races, and the team felt that it would be too big a risk to ask her to drive in a grand prix when her last single-seater race was a decade ago in Formula Three.
Wolff, now 32, has not raced at all since 2012, when she completed the last of seven years in the DTM German touring car championship.
And a new point-based qualifying system for super-licences to be introduced next year will make it all the harder for those who have not won junior or qualifying championships.
"To find the budget to go through all those formulas, to get into the right team so that you actually win the championship in those formulas, that is a huge task for any driver regardless of gender," Wolff added.
"I hope it will get tweaked and adjusted.
"Love it or hate it, motorsport is not purely talent. It never has been and never will be."


The captain of the South Korean ferry that sank in April has said he was in a very "confused" state during the incident, as he started giving evidence in his trial.

More than three hundred people died, most of them schoolchildren, when the Sewol passenger ferry capsized.
Lee Joon-seok, 69, is charged with negligent homicide - a crime punishable by death in South Korea.
The trial, being held in the city of Gwangju, began in June.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Gwangju said Capt Lee repeatedly told the court that he was confused and not in his normal state of mind when the ship began to sink on 16 April.
Capt Lee said he had ordered the ship to be abandoned but that the order was not followed. The prosecutors say this contradicts what he had previously told the police.
Investigators have said a combination of cargo overloading, illegal modification of the vessel and inexperienced helmsmanship was behind the disaster.
A less-experienced crew member was steering the ship when it made a sharp turn causing it to list sharply to one side.
The parents of some of the teenagers who died during the incident have been attending the trial.
Our correspondent said throughout the trial, relatives of the deceased teenagers have intervened, often with wails of anguish mixed with anger.
Eleven other members of the crew are also facing trial on lesser charges.
A separate trial is under way for officials of the company that operated the ferry Chonghaejin Marine Co.
The billionaire businessman Yoo Byung-eun, the owner of the company, went missing shortly after the disaster and was later found dead.
The incident sparked widespread grief and anger in South Korea.


Rolls-Royce's chief executive has said the company will be more transparent about the risks it faces and will cut up to Â£200m of costs a year.

Warren East said the engineering group had developed an "accounting fog" which had left investors unclear about the direction it was going.
He said investor "confidence was not in a good place", and the company must make shareholder returns a priority.
Rolls-Royce's share price has plunged after a series of profit warnings.
Earlier this month, the company saw one of the sharpest falls in its share price since it floated in 1987 after announcing that profits could be Â£650m lower than expected next year. The share price fell by a fifth.
Mr East's comments came as he unveiled details of a review of the business.
He insisted that despite a downturn in the aircraft engine business and oil exploration, Rolls-Royce was still a fundamentally strong company.
He said it would focus on boosting its engineering skills and reducing the number of senior managers.
Although the company is cutting costs, Mr East refused to be drawn on the precise number of jobs that might be lost.
"I don't actually know the job numbers right now," he said, explaining that more will be revealed when the company reports its full-year results in February.
Rolls-Royce employs more than 21,000 people in the UK, with more than 12,000 employed at its Derby aerospace engines and submarines division.
Mr East said he wanted to employ more engineers, so it appears that any job losses will be a relatively small addition to the 3,600 already announced.
"The last thing I want to do is lose engineers," he said.
Rolls-Royce will become a "simpler" business which will operate with more "pace" after Mr East admitted that the business was "over-managed" and cumbersome.
For example, Mr East told investors that the company had 27 management structures to deal with different types of technology - a number Mr East would like to see reduced to eight.
He said this cumbersome set-up was to blame for the firm's sluggish responsiveness to market changes.
Mr East also said Rolls-Royce would aim to present fresh medium-term business targets in 12 to 18 months.
On the long term, he said: "There's a very strong engineering base and there's a very strong business model and operational execution is really masking the strength of both of those at the moment."
Pressure for an overhaul of the business has been intensified by US-based activist investor ValueAct, which took a stake in Rolls-Royce not long after Mr East's arrival at the helm.
It recently doubled its holding to 10%, making it Rolls-Royce biggest investor. It is reported to want the engineer to sell off its marine business to focus on its main aero-engine business.
"The notion that we're going to sell big chunks is just wrong," Mr East said.
ValueAct has also asked for a seat on the Rolls board, but has so far been rejected by the company.
Mr East said it was up to the Rolls-Royce board as to whether the US investor fund was given a seat.
"ValueAct... they're quite supportive, they asked some very constructive questions and they absolutely share our view on the strength of the business in the long term," he added.


Misconduct in public office is an ancient common law offence, created by judges, which can be traced back to the 13th century.

Applying it to the 21st century news media involved the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) striking a balance between the freedom of the press to probe and find out what is happening on the one hand, and protecting and maintaining impartial and incorrupt public services on the other.
It has always been a difficult balance.
For many years some journalists have paid public officials for information.
In 2003 Rebekah Brooks, then editor of the Sun, told a committee of MPs that News International had paid the police for stories.
For decades the practice was largely ignored or tolerated.
The phone-hacking scandal proved to be a game changer.
In early 2007, when the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for phone hacking, the true extent of the practice was not exposed - despite copious evidence of it.
The criminal justice system failed.
When it was revealed in 2011 that the phone of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked, the system kicked into action.
A fuller and broader investigation, Operation Weeting, rigorously investigated the practice.
Evidence was given to the police by News International's "management and standards committee", set up to investigate internal business practices in the wake of the hacking revelations, which showed that some of its journalists had also made corrupt payments to public officials.
Operation Elveden was established.
This time law enforcement was determined to investigate and prosecute the misdeeds of the press with rigour.
For the offence of misconduct in public office to be prosecuted, a public official has to misconduct himself to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in his office, without having a reasonable excuse or justification.
Prosecution guidance focused on whether there was a strong benefit to the public interest in the story.
Applying this and other guidance, the CPS decided not to prosecute 14 journalists but did prosecute 29 others.
In this context, the offence itself is essentially one of bribery, and it criminalises both the giver and the taker of the bribe.
However, only one Elveden conviction against a journalist now stands.
Thirteen others have been acquitted, including last month four senior figures at the Sun.
In recent trials juries simply did not seem keen to convict the giver of the bribe, the journalists.
Expensive prosecutions failed and that put pressure on the CPS.
However, it was the intervention of the Court of Appeal that has led to today's change in prosecuting policy.
In March the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas gave judgement in two appeals against conviction in Elveden cases.
His ruling emphasised the high threshold of seriousness needed to prosecute the offence.
Critically, it also said that more consideration should be given to the potential harm, or lack of it, to the public interest in the disclosure of information, as opposed to relying on the strong benefit to the public interest in any resulting story.
A subtle but important difference.
Under the new guidance, sustained corruption of police officers is seen as particularly grave.
The police have access to confidential databases with information about suspects, victims and witnesses.
A journalist who corrupts a police officer over a period of time would certainly face prosecution.
However, it may not be in the public interest for journalists paying other public officials to be prosecuted.
Here the degree of harm to the public interest by the corrupt payments and lack of harm caused by any story that results from it, may mean it is not appropriate to prosecute.
The CPS has accordingly amended its prosecuting guidance and dropped many of the Elveden prosecutions against journalists.
It may claim that this is a result of the normal development of the law where prosecutors amend their policy in response to Court of Appeal judgements.
However, the very press that has been on the receiving end of CPS decisions to prosecute its journalists, will not be so kind in its assessment.
A simmering fury at the treatment of those arrested and prosecuted for paying money to the likes of prison officers for stories is about the erupt.


Belfast man Kevin Seaward put himself in line for Olympic Games selection after comfortably achieving the marathon standard  in Berlin.

Seaward, 29, cut almost four minutes off his personal best as he clocked 2:14.52 - the Rio standard is 2:17.00.
Fellow NI runner Paul Pollock was also inside the standard but his 2:15.38 was only the fourth Irish finisher.
Moldovan-born Sergiu Ciobanu clocked 2:15.14 with Raheny's Mick Clohisey just ahead of Pollock in 2:15.35.
Ireland will only be able to send three male marathon entrants to Rio so Pollock now faces the prospect of having to run quicker next spring if he wants to maintain his Rio dream.
Clonliffe athlete Ciobanu declared for Ireland during the summer and has been a regular on the distance running scene in his adopted country for several years.
"I thought I'd run around 2:15 but I didn't think I could go inside it so I'm absolutely delighted," said Loughborough-based teacher Seaward after his impressive run.
The St Malachy's athlete set his previous personal best of 2:18.46 at the Manchester Marathon last year.
Pollock lamented some recent injury problems which hindered his efforts.
"Three weeks ago I had an 11 centimetre tear in my quad so I wasn't able to run for about 10 days and then it was a week of two or three miles a day," said the 28-year-old, whose time was 52 seconds inside his previous personal best set in Dublin in 2012.
"I caught Mick with four or five miles to go but he caught me with 3K to go.
"In the Brandenburg Gate, it was a kick for the finish and everything seized up and I walked over the line. I'm gutted I'm fourth Irishman."
Lizzie Lee has no such worries over her Rio selection after moving to fifth on the all-time Irish list with a 2:32.51 clocking, which was over nine minutes inside the Olympic standard.
The 35-year-old Cork mother set her previous best of 2:38.09 in Berlin two years ago.


As Theresa May gives her first speech to party conference as leader, what did her predecessors say and how were they received?

In 1965 Ted Heath made two speeches and stayed at the conference throughout, which represented a break with tradition. Before then, the leader descended on the conference at the end to deliver their oration. He said in his memoirs he "wanted to show that members of the shadow cabinet and I were interested in all the views expressed on different resolutions at the conferences".
On the economy: "Did you notice that [secretary of state for economic affairs] George Brown in one of his happier moods said, 'This has been a great year for Britain.' A great year for Britain? Do we really read it aright?
"Where has he been living all this time? Has it been a great year for industry? The longest period of 7% bank rate since 1921. The toughest credit squeeze since the twenties. Investment and modernisation programmes curtailed. Costs rising and production static."
On Rhodesia: "A unilateral declaration of independence would be invalid. Its impact would have the gravest consequences."
Best gag: "Poor Mr Jay [president of the Board of Trade] - reduced to carrying George Brown's bags to international conferences. When there is good news, that is; when there is bad news he has to open the bag and read it himself."
How it went down: The Times reported that the party faithful saw their leader in a "new light", writing: "Gone was the dry atonic dullness of the Brussels negotiator; gone were the strident polemics of the opposition front bench. The Mr Heath who presented himself to the faithful today was calm and unemphatic, but he had also acquired a new light and shade in delivery which held his audience even through the dull patches."
Margaret Thatcher addressed her party conference as leader for the first time in 1975, and paid tribute to her predecessor Ted Heath. She did not dwell on her own story and the only policy she outlined was scrapping hospital pay beds, but she set about her critique of Labour and her alternative vision in a way which was to make a lasting impression on her party.
On the economy: "It is the Labour government that brought the level of production below that of the three-day week in 1974. We have really got a three-day week now, only it takes five days to do it. It is the Labour government that has brought us record peace-time taxation.
"They have the usual socialist disease: they have run out of other people's money. It is the Labour government that has pushed public spending to record levels. How have they done it? By borrowing and borrowing. Never in the field of human credit has so much been owed."
On communist regimes: "Whenever I visit communist countries their politicians never hesitate to boast about their achievements. They know them all by heart; they reel off the facts and figures, claiming this is the rich harvest of the communist system. Yet they are not prosperous as we in the West are prosperous, and they are not free as we in the West are free."
Best gag: "I sometimes think the Labour Party is like a pub where the mild is running out. If someone does not do something soon all that is left will be bitter, and all that is bitter will be Left."
How it went down: Mrs Thatcher was received with "rolling breakers of cheers, shouts, and foot-stamping" in a scene which was "for all the world like an American convention", according to The Times. That paper's political editor saw that those who had helped her to the leadership are "only now beginning to fully realise her formidable strength and skills".
John Major took over from Margaret Thatcher in November 1990, so he did not address conference until the following year when he opened on a rather more personal note than his predecessor. He told conference it was a "long road from Coldharbour Lane (in Brixton) to Downing Street".
On choice: "I want to give individuals greater control over their own lives. Every mother, every father, a say over their child's education. Every schoolchild, a choice of routes to the world of work. Every patient, the confidence that their doctors can secure the best treatment for them."
On Europe: "I believe strongly in partnership in Europe. Britain, as a great European power, has gained from our membership of the (European Economic) Community. That is the verdict of those people in our country who live by business, banking and trade, the very people on whom our prosperity and jobs depend. But it must be the right Europe."
Best gag: "A great deal has been written about my education. Never has so much been written about so little."
How it went down: The Times observed his speech "may not have sparked the frenzied flag-waving abandon of the Thatcher years", but he was judged to have "won the affection of constituency activists with his quotes from personal experience" and by "emphasising his image as a man of the people". He found a "nice holding line" on Europe, and was described as "the party's biggest electoral asset".
William Hague made his first conference speech as leader in 1997 - but of course it was not the first time he had addressed the party faithful. That came 20 years earlier, when he made a memorable speech in Blackpool aged 16. Mr Hague's leader's speech ended a conference that was seen by many as a bloodletting process at a time of deep divisions in the party.
On the party: "I have no illusion about the mammoth task ahead of us. But I pledge with every breath in my body to do everything in my power to rebuild this party."
On the Amsterdam Treaty: "Amsterdam was a bad treaty. Bad for Europe and bad for Britain. And Tony Blair signed up to it lock, stock and barrel."
Best gag: "Remember how Harold Wilson had his famous labrador? Now, for the second time in our lifetime, we have a Labour prime minister with a faithful pet called Paddy."
How it went down: It was perhaps lacking the laugh-out-loud lines which he is known for. The Times called it "an unshowy and old-fashioned speech delivered with relaxed good humour, the new leader steadied nerves a little. He was received with something better than acquiescence and something less than rapture."
Iain Duncan Smith's most memorable conference moment was surely his speech in 2003 when he attempted to silence critics of his leadership style, saying: "The quiet man is turning up the volume." But his first speech as leader in 2001 came four weeks after 9/11 and had a heavy focus on terrorism and security.
On 9/11: "This war against terrorism is our war. The cold, callous and merciless attacks in America were the work of terrorists who knew no moral limits. They have struck before, they will strike again - we are right to strike at them.
"We cannot secure peace by standing aside from war. We cannot end danger by putting safety before our friends. We cannot conquer fear, by fearing to act ourselves."
On his background: "I was brought up in a family where public service wasn't just a shorthand for the public sector: it was a way of life. Life in the Forces left an indelible imprint on my childhood, so much so that I too became a soldier. I don't want to idealise Army life. But it was a life where loyalty, duty and honour counted."
He didn't go in for gags, unsurprisingly, in what was a rather sombre speech, but there was some playful understatement in his acknowledgement that life as an MP "had frankly had its ups and downs".
How it went down: The Times said Mr Duncan Smith "had been suffering from a cold and occasionally appeared to struggle with his delivery" and "some senior Tories expressed surprise" he didn't mention the 2001 general election defeat, or his predecessor William Hague. Peter Riddell's verdict was that on this occasion "obscurity and harmony have gone hand in hand".
Michael Howard's first speech as leader focused more on policy and timetables than any attempt to revamp the party's underlying philosophy. "I'll give it to you straight," he told conference.
On his message: "So when people ask you on the doorstep, 'I can't stand Tony Blair, but why should I vote for you lot?' Here are 10 words to remember. School discipline. More police. Cleaner hospitals. Lower taxes. Controlled immigration."
On Europe: "Power has gone from Britain to Brussels. And that's not what the British people voted for. Let's face facts. What has happened on tax and on Europe has damaged people's faith in politics. So it's hardly surprising that people don't trust politicians today."
On his background: "My grandmother was one of those killed in the concentration camps. If it hadn't been for Winston Churchill, and if it hadn't been for Britain, I would have been one of them too. That's why when I say I owe everything I am to this country, I really do mean it. I owe my life to it."
Best gag: "I was born and grew up in South Wales. As you may have heard, we've just been left off the new EU map. I know people in Brussels feel strongly about Neil Kinnock, but I really do think that is going too far."
How it went down: The Times found that Mr Howard "stamped his personality and authority on the Conservative Party" with a "hardline message on crime, immigration, tax and discipline". His speech was described as "softly spoken" and "there was no synchronised flag-waving - it was all very grown up."
David Cameron gave his first speech as leader in 2006 - and it was seen as relatively restrained compared with his outing the previous year when he gave a memorable speech without notes on accepting the leadership and urging the party to embrace "modern, compassionate" Conservatism.
On success: "Our party's history tells us the ground on which political success is built. It is the centre ground. Not the bog of political compromise. Not the ideological wilderness, out on the fringes of debate. But the solid ground where people are.
"The centre ground is where you find the concerns, the hopes and the dreams of most people and families in this country."
On Europe: "Instead of talking about the things that most people care about, we talked about what we cared about most. While parents worried about childcare, getting the kids to school, balancing work and family life - we were banging on about Europe."
On the future: "Let optimism beat pessimism. Let sunshine win the day. And let everyone know that the Conservative Party is ready. Ready to serve. Ready to fight. Ready to win."
Best gag: "Tony Blair says it's all style and no substance. In fact he wrote me a letter about it. Dear Kettleâ€¦ You're black. Signed, Pot."
How it went down: The BBC's analysis called it "a low-key performance at the end of a low-key conference" which was "designed to send out some core signals to his party and voters".
He was seen to have "put the NHS and the family centre of his agenda, to go green even if it hurt and - once again stealing Tony Blair's discarded clothes - to be tough on the causes of crime". But "there were a couple of sentences which sent distinct shudders through some of the delegates" such as references to the NHS being one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century and support for same-sex marriage .


David Leatherdale is to leave his post as chief executive of Worcestershire to take up a similar position with the Professional Cricketers' Association.

Leatherdale, 48, will leave New Road in March to end a 30-year association with the club as a player and administrator.
"It is a sad day for Worcestershire and a massive loss to the club," said chairman Stephen Taylor.
"It's one of those prestigious roles and I can fully understand David taking it."
An all-rounder, Leatherdale spent his entire playing career at New Road, making his debut in 1988 and helping the club win and retain the Championship title in his first two seasons.
In all, he won six major trophies, scored more than 15,000 runs and took more than 300 wickets in all forms of the game.
Leatherdale became commercial director after retiring in 2005 and replaced Mark Newton as CEO five years later.
With Leatherdale staying at New Road until mid-March, Taylor said there was no rush to find a successor - especially as the role may change.
"There are not many chief executives out there now who are past professional cricketers and, as a club, we will start the process of looking at finding the right person for the right role," Taylor added.
"The role may look slightly different to the current role is as these will be big shoes to fill."


Papiss Cisse led the tributes at a memorial for former Newcastle United team-mate Cheick Tiote in China.

Tiote, 30, died after collapsing during training for Chinese second-tier side Beijing Enterprises on 5 June.
Friends, family and former team-mates attended the memorial and his coffin was draped with an Ivory Coast flag.
"I lived some extraordinary moments with this man and today he is gone," said Senegal striker Cisse, who spent four years at Newcastle.
"He was like a brother. We shared a lot in life. His family was my family," added the Shandong Lueng player, who was in tears at the service.
In his seven years at Newcastle, Ivory Coast international Tiote made over 150 appearances, including three last season.
He joined Beijing Enterprises in February.
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A scheme set up to help future flood victims has raised £300,000.

Watermark sells products including food, drink and artwork in shops around the Calder Valley with a percentage of the profits going into the fund.
The money is doubled by Community Foundation for Calderdale and can then be distributed in the area if a flood hits.
More than 3,000 properties were flooded in the region on Boxing Day 2015 with damage estimated to be £150m.
The initiative is one of several led by Community Foundation for Calderdale which has raised more than £3m since the December floods.
Chris Sands from Watermark hoped similar schemes could be started in other areas around the UK at risk from flooding.
He said: "Anyone can contribute, even if they have no chance of being flooded.
"Lots of people are doing that because they want the place where they live to be sustainable."
Euan Noble, producer of Watermark Gin, said: "The objective is to grow our business and to give money back into the watermark fund - it's a win for everybody."
Earlier in December, a council report setting out plans to invest more than £92m in flood prevention said the threat of loss of life from flooding was "ever present" in the area.
Calderdale Council said the total cost to the authority was not yet clear but it was estimated that it could exceed £50m.
Work was "well under way" on multi-million pound flood alleviation schemes for Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge, the council added.


Three out of five young people in rural areas of England do not have adequate public transport to get to secondary school, according to research from Rural England.

The State of Rural Services report says lack of public transport is harming opportunities in education.
There are also concerns about gaps in access to broadband in rural areas.
Margaret Clark, of Rural England, said rural youngsters were losing out because of "poor transport services".
The report warns that young people's choices in secondary school and further education are significantly narrowed in rural areas by patchy and expensive public transport.
Most young people in these countryside areas cannot get to school in a "reasonable travel time" by public transport or walking, which means their choices depend on where they can be driven by their parents.
The Rural England study says there are more people with low qualifications in rural areas - but being able to improve their skills in further education is made difficult because of weak transport links.
Local authority funding for buses in rural areas has fallen by 25% in the past four years, says the report, and about half of people in smaller villages do not have access to any public transport.
It also shows that the amount spent on transport by rural students is 20% higher than in urban areas.
The report says that 17% of England's population live in a rural area - and this tends to be an older population than the national average.
But for those young people in the country there are concerns that they are being isolated from services expected elsewhere in the country.
It is harder to get apprenticeships, there are few big employers to help with work experience and a lack of broadband can be a barrier to online learning and help with homework.
David Hughes, chief Executive of the Association of Colleges, said choices about education should be based on what was the best option and "not just making the decision based on the cheapest bus or train fare".
Kirstie Donnelly, managing director of City & Guilds, said the study raised "significant concerns" about access to education outside of towns and cities.
"The sad reality is that we are seeing signs of a reduction in learning opportunities for many young people across the country, with access to post-16 education under threat from college mergers or closures resulting from the ongoing area-based reviews.
"As this report shows, learners in rural areas already face a number of obstacles in accessing training or apprenticeships.
"It's crucial that policymakers consider how they can help people overcome them, rather than creating new barriers."
A government spokeswoman said that the responsibility for school and college transport rested with councils.
"We know that buses play a key role in helping children to get to school, especially in rural areas. We provide around Â£250m to support services in England every year, which councils can use to decide specific bus routes.
"Our Bus Services Bill will also give councils power to work in partnership with local transport companies to improve service to people in the area," said a government spokeswoman.
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The best ice hockey players in the world will be missing from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after the National Hockey League said it will not allow players to go to the Games.

The owners of the league's 30 clubs are unhappy at having to halt the season for three weeks for the Games.
The NHL is regarded as the world's top ice hockey league, featuring players from every major hockey-playing nation.
"We now consider the matter officially closed," an NHL statement said.
The NHL had been seeking concessions from the International Olympic Committee to compensate it for interrupting its season but will now not schedule a mid-season break for the Games.
It had been in long-running talks with the IOC and NHL Players' Association as well as the International Ice Hockey Federation, which had offered to cover travel and insurance costs for NHL players as a concession to the league.
"A number of months have now passed and no meaningful dialogue has materialised," the NHL statement read.
NHL players have appeared at every Winter Olympics from 1998, with an average of more than 140 players leaving for the Games during Olympic years.
Countries made up almost entirely of NHL players, such as Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States and Canada, now face having to draw players from junior and minor leagues.
However, many players were reportedly still keen to play in South Korea. Russia's Alex Ovechkin, a winger for the league-leading Washington Capitals, has previously said he will attend the Games regardless of the NHL's decision.
The United States Olympic Committee's chief external affairs officer, Patrick Sandusky, said he was "disappointed" by the decision.


Research in Aberystwyth to develop a "pollination control bag" to increase the yield of crops like wheat has been given a funding boost.

Aberystwyth University and three partner organisations were given Â£239,512 by the UK government towards developing the bag.
It will protect the crops against excess humidity, disease, drought and pests.
The money is a share of Â£16m distributed by the Agri-Tech Catalyst.


A large fire has broken out at a major shopping outlet in Oxfordshire.

Bicester Village has closed as a consequence and five fire engines are on the scene battling the blaze.
One eyewitness told the BBC: "Carluccio's restaurant is on fire, flames are coming out of the roof. It's chaos, with people running in all directions."
The fire service confirmed it was called at 08:40 GMT. Bicester Village said it was closed.


The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed that abortion guidelines for the medical profession are to be published.

Northern Ireland's abortion law differs from the rest of the UK and access to termination is more restricted.
Abortion is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health.
The long-awaited guidelines are aimed at providing clarification for medical staff on when a termination is legal.
The lack of clarity on the issue has been a sticking point for decades, and clinicians have expressed fear that they could face prosecution for carrying out abortions, based on their interpretation of a permanent or serious risk to woman's mental or physical health.
The publication of the latest set of abortion guidelines follows years of talks between the Department of Health, the Department of Justice and senior clinicians.
It also comes after a series of legal challenges against the current law and a high-profile but unsuccessful campaign to legalise abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
A fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis means doctors believe an unborn child has a terminal condition and will die in the womb or shortly after birth.
The campaign was led by Northern Ireland woman Sarah Ewart, who spoke out about her own experience of travelling to Great Britain for an abortion in 2013, after doctors told her  she was carrying a baby with anencephaly, that had no chance of survival.
Reacting to Thursday's development, she said the new guidelines "may help some women, but it won't help me and other women with fatal foetal diagnoses".
"All the guidance in the world cannot change Northern Ireland's 19th Century law and that is what is needed," Ms Ewart added.
"I live every day knowing that I have a raised risk of a recurrence of anencephaly with any future pregnancy.
"If I am faced with the same diagnosis again, I do not want to be put through the trauma of having to travel again to access the type of healthcare available to women in every other part of the UK."
Ms Ewart lobbied politicians for more than two years on the issue but in February, Northern Ireland Assembly members voted against legalising abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
Breedagh Hughes of the Royal College of Midwives said she hopes that the guidance provides clarity for medical professionals.
"They need a very clear exposition of what the law is and what the law says is legal," said Ms Hughes.
"They need to know the legal context within which they are working.
"Until the legislation is changed, midwives and medics are working with the legislation that stands and that is the legislation that must be outlined in the guidelines."
Ms Hughes said a major concern for medical professionals is the rise in the numbers of women accessing abortion pills on the internet.
"If women present themselves at an emergency department or a maternity admissions unit and say they have taken these pills, do midwives and medics have to report them to the police?" she asked.
"And if they don't, are they themselves subject to the law?"
Amnesty International, which supported Ms Ewart's campaign, said it would study the new draft legal guidance for medics but repeated its call for urgent reform of Northern Ireland's "restrictive abortion law".
However, anti-abortion campaigners have campaigned against any relaxation of the legislation, saying unborn children with life-limited conditions have a right to life and should be cared for until their death.
Politicians also agreed on Thursday that the working group on abortion set up by Health Minister Simon Hamilton will now include the Department of Justice.
Mr Hamilton was asked to set up the working group last month by First Minister and Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster.


A gay man has launched a legal bid for his husband to have the same pension rights a wife would have if he was in a heterosexual relationship.

Ex-cavalry officer John Walker launched an equal treatment case at the Court of Appeal.
His lawyers claim his husband would receive around 1% of the amount that would be paid to his spouse if he were married to a woman.
The government says "full equalisation" of pensions would cost around Â£3.3bn.
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said it would also have complex implications for pension schemes.
"We must consider the full impact of this issue before considering changes to legislation," he said.
Mr Walker retired from chemical group Innospec Ltd, where he had worked for 23 years, in 2003.
He has been in a relationship with his partner since 1983. They entered a civil partnership in 2006, which has since been converted into a marriage.
His legal action is against Innospec, which he claims fails to treat surviving same-sex spouses and civil partners as equal to surviving spouses in a heterosexual marriage.
In 2012, an Employment Tribunal in Manchester ruled Innospec's scheme contravened European laws. The company appealed, with the support of the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled an exemption in the Equality Act 2010 disapplied pension rights accrued by Mr Walker before 5 December 2005 - the date when the Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into force and required benefits to be provided equally to civil partners and married couples.
The EAT said those rights did not have retrospective effect or allow inequalities in pay based on sexual orientation prior to that date to be addressed.
Mr Walker is now asking appeal judges to rule that decision was flawed and breaches his human rights.
He also contests it is contrary to EU laws setting out the framework for equal treatment in employment.


Tom Barkhuizen scored twice to help Preston keep alive their Championship play-off hopes by beating Reading.

Barkhuizen gave the hosts the lead when he curled in from the edge of the box after good work by Daryl Horgan.
Horgan then doubled the advantage, slotting in at the second attempt after his first shot had been saved.
Barkhuizen volleyed in the hosts' third after the break from Horgan's free-kick, as Preston moved within six points of the play-off places.
Reading stay fifth in the table, but they are now only four points above seventh-placed Fulham following the Cottagers' 3-1 win at leaders Newcastle.
The Royals had a penalty appeal turned down early on when John Swift went down in the box, and they were denied the opening goal when Chris Maxwell produced a fine save to keep out Garath McCleary's long-range effort.
Preston controlled the game from then on, with Barkhuizen having scored four goals in three starts for Simon Grayson's side since arriving from Morecambe in January.
The Lilywhites have now won four straight league games at Deepdale, while Reading have lost three successive away games for the first time under manager Jaap Stam.
Preston North End boss Simon Grayson: "I'm obviously delighted when you beat somebody who are in the play-off positions 3-0, keep a clean sheet, with very good individual performances and could have had a lot more goals if we'd taken our chances.
"It's enhanced our opportunity of trying to catch the teams above us. We've always said over the last few weeks, we'll just see where it takes us. We've got nine games to go, I think if we win the next nine then we might have a chance but we've got some tough games from now until the end of the season."
"Wherever we finish, we'll have had a great season because they're an honest bunch of players and we'll keep fighting till the end and see where it takes us."
Reading boss Jaap Stam: "Everybody knows where we are, if you want to stay there, you need to defend and play in a certain way with a certain aggression and it's not only now towards the end of the season, it's the whole season because this is a tough league.
"It's very difficult to stay in the top six. All the teams, they want to stay up there, they want to do well, we do as well. I'm not interested in other teams, I'm focusing on our team, what we need to do and what we need to improve.
"If we keep on winning then we still can end up there and we need to be aware of that as well."
Match ends, Preston North End 3, Reading 0.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 3, Reading 0.
Attempt blocked. Roy Beerens (Reading) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by John Swift.
Chris Gunter (Reading) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Chris Gunter (Reading).
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Alan Browne with a cross.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jermaine Beckford replaces Jordan Hugill.
Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by Chris Gunter.
Foul by Jordan Obita (Reading).
Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Preston North End. Aiden McGeady tries a through ball, but Callum Robinson is caught offside.
Foul by Reece Oxford (Reading).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Greg Cunningham.
Attempt saved. Danny Williams (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Obita.
Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Alan Browne.
Substitution, Reading. Roy Beerens replaces Lewis Grabban.
Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Preston North End. Callum Robinson replaces Tom Barkhuizen because of an injury.
Substitution, Reading. Reece Oxford replaces Paul McShane.
Attempt missed. Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Daniel Johnson following a set piece situation.
Foul by Chris Gunter (Reading).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Joey van den Berg (Reading).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Preston North End. Alan Browne replaces Daryl Horgan.
Attempt saved. Tom Barkhuizen (Preston North End) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordan Hugill with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Danny Williams (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Garath McCleary with a cross.
Attempt missed. Lewis Grabban (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Yann Kermorgant with a cross.
Attempt missed. Tom Barkhuizen (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Chris Maxwell.
Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading).
Daryl Horgan (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danny Williams (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Pearson (Preston North End).
Offside, Preston North End. Daryl Horgan tries a through ball, but Tom Clarke is caught offside.
Foul by Joey van den Berg (Reading).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).


A new programme to get pupils from remote or deprived backgrounds on the path to a medical career has recruited its first students.

The Gateway2Medicine (G2M) programme is aimed at giving students both the experience and qualifications needed to study medicine at university.
It is being jointly run by the University of Aberdeen and North East Scotland College.
It is hoped it could help meet targets to widen access to higher education.
The initial 20 students will be taught science and laboratory skills, and will also get work experience with NHS Grampian.
School pupil Emma Bowden, 17, from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, has just been accepted onto the programme.
She told BBC Scotland: "I got in, I cannot believe it.
"Growing up somewhere rural, it's really hard to get work experience and the opportunities you need to get into medicine.
"This is a new route.
"I am so excited - my family are ecstatic. It's going to make a big difference."
Prof Steve Heys, head of the University of Aberdeen's school of medicine, medical sciences and nutrition, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for young people who had never thought of pursuing a career in medicine to do so.
"We believe widening participation in medicine is key, both to address inequality for those from social and geographically disadvantaged situations and to create a diverse environment that benefits all our students and medical practice in Scotland.
"Our nationally-acclaimed research in this area shows that highly-achieving school pupils at schools in deprived areas are less likely than those from other school backgrounds to ever consider medicine as an option.
"When they do, the practical support available is often limited or even discourages medicine as a career."
Susan Grant, director of curriculum at North East Scotland College, added: "Although we have been delivering science in the curriculum for many years, this is an exciting new avenue for us and we are delighted to be part of this innovative opportunity for students who may not have traditionally considered medicine as a career."


The planned M4 relief road could cost £1.1bn, new figures show, despite the first minister saying it would be much lower than that.

The preferred route, south of Newport, would cost £857m to build but factors including buying land increase the bill, a report detailing the Welsh Government figures said.
In November 2015, Carwyn Jones said the M4 road would cost "nowhere near" £1bn.
But the government said revised estimates included ten new bridges.
It comes as officials launch a consultation on the compulsory purchase of land - an important step to launching a public inquiry.
The new six-lane stretch of motorway - the so-called black route - has proved controversial with environmental groups and politicians, and the Labour government currently has no agreement with any other party for the plan.
Ministers will be unable to give the go-ahead until after the assembly election on 5 May.
Despite Mr Jones' previous assurances about costs, the Welsh Government document puts the project estimate, excluding VAT and inflation, at £1.093bn.
The estimate, based on prices at the end of 2015, includes:
The document, called a scheme assessment report, also says that the scheme would involve 35 new bridges. Most would be needed to allow the new motorway to pass over or under side roads.
A new bridge would be needed to carry the M4 over the River Usk. The crossing would be high enough for the passage of ships, the government says.
The figures have emerged ahead of the publication of draft orders on the compulsory purchase of land  by the Welsh Government on 24 March.
Some 12 residential buildings would require demolition, including a Grade-II listed vicarage in Magor.
Other draft orders relating to the route and an environmental statement were published on Thursday.
People can object to the plans from now until 4 May and ministers will then decide whether to hold a public inquiry.
The road could be open by autumn 2021, with work potentially starting in spring 2018.
Exhibitions are set to be held in areas affected, including Magor, Newport and Nash.
A Welsh Government spokesman said "revised estimates" show construction costs for the M4 relief road of about £816m.
It is understood that the £816m figure quoted by the spokesman does not include £41m listed in the report as cash to cover risks for the contractors.
The spokesman said: "This revised cost also includes the construction of an additional 10 bridges, including one to accommodate the new 'cycle superhighway' between Newport and Cardiff and, further to stakeholder feedback, additional measures to improve connectivity between the existing and new M4.
"With contingency allowances of £147m and property compensation payments, the estimated overall costs for the project will be around £1bn.
"We remain committed to delivering this vital infrastructure investment at the best value for money."
So we now know that, despite claims from the first minister, the latest estimates from officials indicate that it will indeed cost £1.1bn.
The consultation on compulsory purchase orders ends on 4 May, the day before the assembly election.
There's nothing new in the timeline here but it shows that Labour is pressing ahead and taking things as far as it can before the vote.
If there are significant objections then a decision will be made by ministers before the summer on whether to press ahead with a public inquiry.
By that stage, we will know the make-up of the assembly, and we will know whether all of this has been a waste of time, or whether political agreement can be reached.
The political maths is difficult for all of those who support the £1bn option, rather than upgrading an existing road.
So far Labour is the only party to come out in favour. The only other party that's considering a new motorway is the Conservatives, all of the others have come out against.
On that basis, it seems as if the only way this is going to get through the assembly would be as a result of a Labour-Tory deal.


Willie Mullins once said that if he hadn't been a racehorse trainer he'd have liked to have been a film director.

After the jumps season he's experienced, were Mullins to play the starring role at the sport's Cheltenham Festival this time, in the dominant manner he has in recent years, it would surely make for the most compelling of film scripts to direct.
In September, about 60 horses owned by airline tycoon Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud operation were removed from the stables after Mullins increased his fees.
Barely a month later, brilliant chaser Vautour died in a freak accident, while the run-up to Cheltenham has been marked by injuries to big-name Festival hopefuls Faugheen,Annie Power and Min, all owned [like Vautour] by financier Rich Ricci and his wife Susannah.
To make the potential plot line thicker still, Mullins trails rival Gordon Elliott - Gigginstown's biggest trainer - in the prize money-decided Irish trainers' championship by more than 300,000 euros (£255,000).
What a story it would be if Mullins could put all that behind him with another 'clean-up' at Cheltenham, which takes place from 14-17 March.
But, as he prepares for the four most significant National Hunt days of the year, Mullins remains resolutely philosophical about the situation.
The Irishman, 60, told BBC Sport: "The season's been tougher, but we've had some fantastic years, and it goes up and down.
"The other side of the coin is that we've been there in the past four or five years thinking 'Look where we are, and how well things are going', and that kind of thing can't last forever.
"I've just forgotten about it [the Gigginstown split]; as far as I'm concerned, they're gone and we just get on with what we have.
"We knew what we were doing [raising fees] and what was going to happen and we said we'd take the consequences, and that's it."
Even to a string with the strength in depth of Mullins, losing 60 horses, including likely big-race stars like Apple's Jade, Petit Mouchoir and Don Poli, was a hammer blow to other trainers.
He believed it would adversely affect his chances of fielding quite the calibre of the raiding party on Cheltenham to which we've become accustomed.
And at about 40 runners, numbers are indeed down. But seven are the favourite for their races, and Mullins describes himself as "totally surprised" at the amount of talent that will be taking the well-trodden route from County Carlow to the Cotswolds.
Many will be taking on rivals whose jockeys are wearing the maroon and white silks of the Gigginstown operation, some of them former stablemates indeed, and the possibility of exacting 'revenge' is sure to be a major Festival talking point.
Mullins compared the feelings he had at their departure with the feelings that he imagined manager Claudio Ranieri might have had after being sacked by Premier League champions Leicester. Mullins smiled and said: "We'll be going out to try to beat everyone - we won't be targeting ex-horses or anything like that.
"We'll just be trying to win races and get on with our job of training, doing what we can as best we can."
While the Mullins team have enjoyed plenty of success at recent Cheltenham Festivals, the Champion Hurdle, which they have taken in four of the past six seasons, is the only one of the 'Big Four' trophies to have been won.
Heading the reckoning for this season's Champion Hurdle looks likely to be the filly Limini, who looks all set to be added to the list of runners as a late entry.
The seemingly peerless Douvan is odds on for the day-two feature, the Queen Mother Champion Chase; Shaneshill gets good mentions in connection with the Stayers Hurdle [day three]; and, after two second places, Djakadam looks to shake off his pageboy image in the Festival's highlight, the Gold Cup.
Having been the winner of 14 of his 15 races [unbeaten since joining Mullins], most  eyes will probably be on Douvan, also owned by the Riccis and already a two-time Festival winner.
"Douvan is in good order, everything has gone well," Mullins said.
"He's a lovely, relaxed individual and is always in control with his jumping. He has scope, he can go close [to jump] or he can stand back.
"He seems to have everything, and going there, expectations are high, not only because of what you all think of him, but also because of what I have thought of him and what he could be.
"He's not there [at the top] yet, but the bar keeps rising and he keeps meeting it, and he could end up being the best I've had - though he has a way to go to get past [two-time Champion Hurdler] Hurricane Fly."
Douvan then leads the charge towards Cheltenham… and, who knows, towards the silver screen as well.
The Cheltenham Festival runs from 14-17 March, with extensive coverage on BBC Radio 5 live.


Wales hooker Ken Owens will miss the British and Irish Lions tour opener because of an ankle injury.

He missed Scarlets' Pro12 final win against Munster at the weekend and will not face New Zealand Barbarians in Whangerei on Saturday.
Owens said: "I've got a couple more boxes to tick, but hopefully [I'll be] fit for the second or third game."
However, captain Sam Warburton hopes not to miss early tour action as he did in Australia in 2013.
The Wales flanker missed their two opening tour games in 2013 because of a knee injury.
On arrival in Auckland, Warburton said: "I presume a lot of the guys who have been involved in training for the last two and a half weeks will be involved in that [opening] game.
"I'm hoping that's going to happen this time round.
"That's what frustrated me four years ago.... I was pretty jealous waiting for that game. You just want to get the Lions jersey in the kitbag. And then I just want us to win, and I don't care how we win.
"The good thing is, when the first game gets under way they start coming think and fast. It's nice to get that first game under your belt.
Warburton also said the tourists would trade a defeat in any of their warm-up games if it benefited their chances in the Tests.
"These games are important to win, you get a good feeling, but we've got to realise that the next three, four weeks are big learning weeks for us," said the 28-year-old.


A woman has pleaded guilty to abandoning her newborn baby girl in a park.

The infant was found in a bag wrapped in a towel in the Stechford area of Birmingham in October.
She was named Jade by hospital staff, after the dog that found her, then given a new name and put into foster care.
The woman in her 20s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on 3 July.
West Midlands Police said the baby could have died within an hour if she had not been found, due to her low body temperature.
She was discovered inside the bag in a bush by Roger Wilday, who was out walking his German shepherd dog in the park on 31 October.
The baby, who was thought to be about 24 hours old when she was found, was taken to Heartlands Hospital where she stayed for a week while being treated for an infection.
She is now eight months old, has been renamed and is in foster care, police said.
At Birmingham Crown Court the woman admitted wilfully abandoning the baby "in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health".
Det Insp Richard Cox, who led the investigation, said: "Jade was a helpless newborn child, abandoned by her mother on a cold winter day in a park, in a place where she was not visible to passers-by and where she could easily have been attacked by wild animals.
"It was only a huge stroke of luck that a local dog-walker stopped to investigate after his dog became interested in a carrier bag hidden in undergrowth."
Judge Murray Creed ordered psychiatric and probation reports to be prepared on the woman, who was granted conditional bail until the sentencing hearing.


Reading defender Jake Cooper says his mother pays more attention than he does to reviews of his performances.

Centre-back Cooper, 21, hopes to help the Royals to an FA Cup fifth-round upset against West Brom on Saturday.
"My mum looks for the reviews more than I do, but I try not to get too involved in what people are writing about me," he told BBC Radio Berkshire.
Cooper, who has been with the club since 14, hopes to emulate Reading's semi-final run from last season.
"I want to make the fans and club proud," he added. "I do hear about what people are writing and saying about me, but I don't really want to think about it too much.
"I always feel I can do better and that I have a lot of room for improvement. I think I still have a long way to go in my game."
Cooper, who has made 14 appearances this season, signed a new contract at the Madejski Stadium in October, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2018.
"Last season, the FA Cup run helped us gain confidence in our league performances," he said. "We're hoping we can do the same again this year."


A court in China has ordered Apple to pay compensation to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights.

They had claimed that unlicensed electronic versions of their books had been sold on Apple's online store.
The court ordered Apple to pay them 1.03m yuan ($165,000; Â£100,000) in compensation, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
This is the second time Apple has been fined for copyright violation in China.
In September, a Chinese court ordered Apple to pay compensation of 520,000 yuan to a Chinese encyclopaedia publisher for alleged copyright violation. The US technology firm has appealed against that decision.
Carolyn Wu, a spokeswoman for Apple said the company takes "copyright infringement complaints very seriously".
"We're always updating our service to better assist content owners in protecting their rights," she added.
Apple has had other legal issues in China as well.
Earlier this year, it faced a lawsuit from a Chinese firm Proview, which claimed that it owned the rights to the "iPad" name in the Chinese market after registering it in 2000.
Apple said it had bought the global rights to the "iPad" from Proview's Taiwanese affiliate for $55,000 (Â£35,000).
However, the Chinese firm had argued that its affiliate did not have the rights to sell the iPad name rights for China, which is one of the fastest-growing markets for Apple's products.
The dispute between the two firms resulted in Apple's iPads being pulled off the shelves in some parts of China.
In July, Apple agreed to pay $60m to Proview to settle the dispute.


Victor Ponta - the Romanian prime minister who has resigned after mass streets protests over a deadly nightclub fire - is one of the country's most controversial politicians.

Even before his surprise move on Wednesday, the 43-year-old was Romania's only sitting prime minister to face trial over allegations of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
He has repeatedly denied the charges, accusing prosecutors of being "totally unprofessional".
Mr Ponta - himself a former prosecutor - has also faced accusations of disregard for democratic standards and the rule of law, after he spearheaded a successful campaign to oust the heads of both houses of parliament and even tried - but failed - to impeach the then President Traian Basescu in 2012.
The move was widely criticised by senior politicians in Romania and across the European Union.
"Confrontation has been his trademark during his tenure in office," London-based Romanian journalist Petru Clej told the BBC.
He added that Mr Ponta "has become something of a liability to the European Union", as some politicians simply felt uncomfortable dealing with him.
However, it seems that the street protests in the capital Bucharest finally forced the experienced political bruiser to step aside.
"I can carry any political battles, but I can't fight with the people," Mr Ponta told reporters after his resignation.
Mr Ponta became Romania's third prime minister in less than six months when his left-leaning Social Liberal Union (USL) alliance took charge in May 2012 after toppling its predecessor in a confidence vote.
But later that year he was hit by yet another scandal.
A report in the science magazine Nature suggested more than half of Mr Ponta's doctoral thesis work in 2003 was made up of copied text.
The prime minister categorically rejected the plagiarism claim as politically motivated.
In December 2012, Mr Ponta's Social Democratic Party (PSD) won a landslide victory at parliamentary elections, capitalising on mounting public discontent over austerity policies.
However, several months later Mr Ponta was at the centre of another row when his deputy Liviu Dragnea was charged - along with dozens of other people - with trying to rig the 2012 referendum that failed to oust President Basescu.
The Social Liberal Union partnership fell apart in 2014 when the National Liberal Party left because of a row over a cabinet reshuffle, prompting Mr Ponta to form a new coalition - this time with a party representing ethnic Hungarians.
In 2014, Mr Ponta stood for the post of president and was favourite to win.
He won the first round, but then unexpectedly lost in the run-off to Klaus Iohannis - a centre-right provincial mayor and anti-corruption campaigner.
Analysts say that that election was decided by the votes of Romania's large diaspora, who favoured Mr Iohannis, a member of Romania's ethnic German community.
Earlier this year, President Iohannis repeatedly called on Mr Ponta to resign over the ongoing corruption trial.


More Anglicans in England support gay and lesbian couples marrying than oppose it, a poll has suggested for the first time.

Of more than 1,500 Anglicans polled, 45% said same-sex marriage was right while 37% thought it was wrong.
The Yougov poll also indicates a large increase in support of same-sex marriage over the past three years.
The Church of England's official stance is that marriage can be only between a man and a woman.
Three years ago, a similar YouGov poll found 38% of Anglicans in support and 47% believing same-sex marriage to be wrong.
In the latest poll, support was highest among younger Anglicans, with at least half of those aged under 55 believing it was right and 72% of those aged 25-34 also in favour.
The lowest support rate was found in Anglican men aged over 55, with 24% backing same-sex marriage.
Support for same-sex marriage was higher among the general population, with 56% of the more than 6,000 British people surveyed backing it, compared with 27% of people who opposed it.
Jayne Ozanne, a gay evangelical Anglican and a member of General Synod - the Church of England's ruling body - commissioned the survey.
She said the figures showed the Church was "seriously out of step" with its members "and even more so with society at large".
"It is deeply worrying that the one group that appears less open to change than any other is Anglican men over the age of 55, who are the least likely to approve of same-sex marriage," she added.
"Unfortunately, this is exactly the profile of those in the senior positions of power and influence power within the Church."
A spokesman for the Church of England said it was holding "shared conversations" on the issue and would continue to do so at General Synod this summer.
Earlier this month, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologised for "hurt and pain" caused by the worldwide Anglican Church to the LGBT community.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby made the comments as he defended the decision to restrict a liberal US branch of the Church for allowing same-sex marriage.


Tottenham have signed MK Dons midfielder Dele Alli on a five-and-a-half-year deal for an initial £5m fee.

The 18-year-old will be loaned back to the League One side for the rest of the season as part of the deal.
Spurs have also released defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto from his contract, which was set to expire in June.
England Under-19 international Alli, who was also wanted by Newcastle United, has scored 12 goals in 25 league games for MK Dons this season.
"It's a massive club and I'm really happy to be here. I'd love to play for Spurs and at White Hart Lane," he said.
"It won't be easy and I'll have to fight for my place in the team but I'll work hard to do that."
Milton Keynes-born Alli made his Dons debut as a 16-year-old in November 2012 after progressing through the club's youth set-up.
The midfielder, who has also been watched by Liverpool and Bayern Munich, marked his second appearance by scoring against Cambridge City in an FA Cup tie.
He signed a contract with MK Dons until 2017 in September.
Left-back Assou-Ekotto, who joined Spurs from Lens in 2006, had not played for the club since May 2013, and spent last season on loan at Queens Park Rangers.


The new prime minister should only come from the Leave camp, ex-Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has said.

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr show it would be "very difficult" for a public who voted to leave the European Union to have a leader who had opposed this.
PM David Cameron announced on Friday that he would step down by October.
He had urged the country to vote Remain in Thursday's referendum, but the Leave campaign won by 52% to 48%.
Since Thursday's vote there has been intense speculation about who will replace Mr Cameron, and when and how the UK will begin formal negotiations to exit the EU.
Meanwhile, potential leadership contender Boris Johnson has been meeting with Conservative MPs Jake Berry and Ben Wallace at his home.
The BBC understands he also met with justice secretary and fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove.
Several sources have told BBC political editor Laura Kuennsberg that Mr Gove will co-chair Mr Johnson's leadership campaign, if he runs.
Mr Johnson, who is widely expected to announce his leadership bid in the coming days, plans to run on a "unity" ticket, with a prominent Remainer part of the campaign leadership, our editor said.
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Theresa May has been canvassing opinion among MPs and is expected to announce her leadership bid in the next couple of days.
Our political editor said there was a growing sense among Tory MPs that only two or three names will enter the leadership contest because it is about choosing the next prime minister, rather than a wide field that would be narrowed down by the Parliamentary party.
International Development secretary, Justine Greening, suggested today that Boris Johnson and Theresa May should come to a deal rather than having a drawn out contest at all.
Mr Duncan Smith, who campaigned for Leave, said: "The government itself now had a view... which was to remain, and so now we need to change that position and actually deliver on this very clear mandate from the British people."
He said he was "incredibly sad" Mr Cameron had chosen to go as he wanted him to "remain to help stabilise the situation and get us moving".
"But I do think it would be very, very difficult for the public who have voted for leaving the European Union to find that they then had a prime minister who actually was opposed to leaving the European Union.
"So I think it is quite clear that - at least the leadership end of it - but I would like all the others, Remain and us, to come together."
Mr Duncan Smith also ruled himself out of the future Conservative leadership contest.
He said the House of Commons had "an obligation to deliver on the British people's verdict" and progress with leaving the EU.
"The Conservative party is in a majority in the House of Commons and my view about this is there are also a number of Labour MPs who are very clear they want this to be delivered on," he said.
When questioned about the Leave campaign's assertion that leaving the EU would free up Â£350m a week extra to spend on the NHS, Mr Duncan Smith said the NHS would receive "the lion's share".
"It is not a promise broken, I never said that during the course of the election," he said.
"What I said was we would be able to spend the lion's share of that money, now the government is now able to spend, so people can say that there is more money available now for the NHS, categorically more, which is what's required and that's the key point."
Asked if UKIP leader Nigel Farage - a key Leave figure - would be involved in the cross-party exit negotiations with Brussels, Mr Duncan Smith suggested the party's sole MP Douglas Carswell would be consulted.
"There is a UKIP MP who is part of that process in a parliamentary sense, and I'm very happy to discuss... with UKIP about what their expectations are, but the government itself, right now, actually dictates how this will happen," he said.
On immigration, he said the Conservative government had to honour its manifesto pledge to bring net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to the UK for at least a year and those leaving - down to below 100,000.
Mr Duncan Smith said: "I said consistently throughout that we need to get control of our borders and the only way to do that is to leave the European Unionâ€¦
"Once we do that we are in a much stronger position to achieve that objective of bringing down migration to tens of thousands within this Parliament - I will stand by that."


Lewis Hamilton produced a masterful performance to win a wet, chaotic, crash-strewn Brazilian Grand Prix and take the title fight to the final race.

His ninth win of 2016 came in a race with several high-speed accidents, two stoppages and five safety cars.
The victory cut the lead of his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who finished second, to 12 points.
Rosberg will secure the championship if he finishes third in Abu Dhabi on 27 November even if Hamilton wins.
As one of the most dramatic races for years unfolded, Hamilton was supreme at the front in treacherous conditions, lapping consistently faster than anyone.
After each restart, Hamilton cruised easily away from Rosberg - building at one stage an 18-second lead in 14 laps before another safety car cut his lead to nothing.
His victory is the 52nd of his career, making him the second most successful race winner of all time ahead of Alain Prost (51). Michael Schumacher is way ahead on 91.
"Not too bad, huh," said Hamilton. "I was generally just chilling up front. When it rains it's usually a good day for me. It was tricky for everyone. There were definitely opportunities for aquaplaning, which everyone did.
"No mistakes, no issues, no spins. It was kind of interesting to hear how many people were spinning, but I didn't have that problem.
"I have always wanted to win since I watched Ayrton [Senna] win here in 1991. It has taken me a long time to get here and it is a historic day for me. To stand on the podium in Brazil where Ayrton was so loved was really special."
Rosberg said: "Lewis just did a great job. It was very difficult conditions and I can live with second for sure."
Hamilton's closest rival for much of the race was Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen, who passed Rosberg around the outside of Turn Three on lap 32 on one of several restarts after a safety car period.
Had Red Bull not gambled on fitting intermediate tyres to Verstappen's car on lap 43, the Dutchman would almost certainly have split the Mercedes drivers and left Rosberg needing a second place in Abu Dhabi.
However, Verstappen's decision backfired. As the rain intensified, it became clear during a subsequent safety car period caused when Felipe Massa crashed on the pit straight on lap 48 that he needed to switch back to the full wets.
That left Verstappen down in 13th place but he set about recovering lost ground with incredible skill and gusto and fought up to pass Force India's Sergio Perez to take third into the fast Mergulho corner with two laps to go.
It was without question the most outstanding drive of an already stellar career that started only last year.
And it also included an almost unbelievable moment when Verstappen had a half-spin on the straight but recovered the car and got going again without losing second place to Rosberg.
The race started under the safety car, and when it released the field after eight laps, Hamilton built a three-second lead in five laps before a crash by Sauber's Marcus Ericsson on the pit straight brought the safety car back out.
Six laps later there was a restart, only for Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari to suffer a frightening-looking crash on the straight just after the start line, prompting race director Charlie Whiting to stop the race for the first time.
Thirty-five minutes later, the race started again under the safety car, only to be stopped again seven laps later when conditions were deemed too dangerous.
After another 25-minute delay, it was restarted, the safety car pulling in after three laps and there were 16 laps of racing before Massa's crash.
That led to another safety car period, this time for seven laps, before the race was restarted and ran to the end.
Perez held on for fourth, less than a second ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who survived a spin earlier in the race out of the last corner.
At the bottom of the top 10, Felipe Nasr scored a critical ninth place for Sauber. The result gives the Swiss team their first points of the season and moves them ahead of Manor into 10th in the championship.
If they hold on to that, it will be worth in the region of $16m in prize money to the team.
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Massa's crash prompted emotional scenes as he waved to the crowd, some holding signs saying "Obrigado, Massa" - thank you Massa.
The popular Brazilian is retiring from F1 at the end of the season and was in tears as he walked back to the Williams pit draped in the Brazilian flag, cheered on by the crowd and applauded by members of other teams, before being embraced by his wife, son Felipe Jr, and then his crew members.
Several members of other teams, including his old team Ferrari, then walked out of their garages to the edge of the pit boxes and applauded him as he walked down the pitlane back to his garage as the cars continued to race. An impromptu guard of honour proved just how much he is admired across the sport.


The Football Association is "considering" its relationship with gambling firms and alcohol companies, says the governing body's chairman.

Greg Clarke has ordered a report into whether it is appropriate to have official partnerships with gambling and betting.
"The sport has a duty to consider and ask itself what is right," Clarke told The Times.
The FA board is expected to make a decision this summer.
It has commercial agreements with the alcoholic drinks companies Carling, Budweiser and Carlsberg, as well as a long-term deal with betting firm Ladbrokes.
In April, Burnley midfielder Joey Barton was banned from football for 18 months after admitting charges in relation to betting.
The 34-year-old was fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after being charged with breaking FA rules for placing 1,260 bets on matches over a 10-year period.
But Barton questioned the FA and said it should "look at its own dependence on the gambling companies" instead of "blaming" the players.
Clarke added: "We are actively considering what our position will be and should be. It is right we consider it and then make a positive decision on what we are going to do or not."