Fourteen people have appeared in court after a bikers' Halloween "ride-out" that caused traffic chaos in Leeds.

About 50 bikers rode through the streets on 31 October, bringing a major route through the city to a standstill and going into pedestrian areas.
Thirteen men and one woman, from Leeds, appeared before Leeds Magistrates charged with causing a public nuisance.
All the defendants were bailed to appear before Leeds Crown Court on 1 June.
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One of the men is also charged with driving while disqualified and without insurance, and another with perverting the course of justice.
The police investigation came after motorbikes and quad bikes congregated in Kirkstall Road before they were ridden together through the city.
The defendants:
Omar Ahmed, 24, of Stonegate View, Meanwood
David Armitage, 26, of Brookfield Road, Headingley
Jamie Ayres, 26, of Lupton Avenue, Burmantofts
Hernani Banza, 27, of Shafton View, Holbeck
Ashley Benson, 25, of Whingate Road, Armley
Michael Clough, 27, of Torre View, Burmantofts
Ben Colley, 26, of Butterbowl Road, Farnley
Dean Fawcett, 28, of Intake View, Middleton
Nicholas Flaherty, 29, of Prospect Street, Farsley
Joshua Hawley, 22, of Mead Grove, Colton
Dylan Lockwood, 23, of Torre Grove, Burmantofts
Adam Nicholson, 26, of Henley Terrace, Bramley
Anton Rojas, 26, of Skelton Avenue, Burmantofts
Rachel Taylor, 29, of Nowell Lane, Harehills
Ben Colley has also been charged with driving while disqualified and without insurance
Nicholas Flaherty has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.


Clydesdale Bank, including Yorkshire Bank, has reported a rise in retail customer savings and lending for the year to September.

However, it has cut back on business lending, as it prepares for a float on the London and Australian stock markets.
That is now scheduled for early February 2016, later than planned. It will see 25% of the group sold to institutional investors by its current parent company, National Australia Bank (NAB).
It will distribute 75% of the shares to the Melbourne lenders' existing shareholders.
NAB has had to inject £620m of capital into the Clydesdale group to build up its core capital from a ratio of 9.4% of liabilities to 13.2%.
The parent company has agreed to set aside £465m as compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance and mis-sold business loans.
This is in line with a statement to the stock exchange in August, and is added to £1.2bn set aside in previous financial years.
NAB is providing a further £120m for future costs of mis-selling and mis-conduct. That reduces its maximum exposure to future mis-conduct costs (which has been required by the UK financial regulator, as a condition of the float) to £1.1bn.
Earlier this year, Clydesdale was fined more than £20m for its handling of customer claims. The regulator found that it had been falsifying customer records and presenting those to the ombudsman.
The Glasgow-based lender issued results as part of NAB's full-year figures.
They showed cash earnings were down by £2m to £156m.
Customer lending was up £1.1bn or 4% to £28.7bn.
UK mortgage lending was up 11.2% to £20.5bn, slightly increasing Clydesdale's share of the mortgage market to 1.61%.
Customer deposits were up £2.5bn or 10.3% to £26.3bn.
Business lending fell, however, by 11.3% to £7.1bn. This was due to a run-off of poorer quality assets, plus "subdued demand for credit and competitive pressures".
The bank saw its operating expenses rise by £45m or nearly 7%, partly due to the cost of restructuring and preparing for the break from NAB, and partly due to marketing investment.
Its reduction in charges for premium current accounts, to make them more competitive, hit earnings.
Bad and doubtful debts fell by more than half to £38m.
The number of branches fell from 294 to 271, while the number of customers choosing to bank online rose by 10%.
Clydesdale Bank's new chief executive, David Duffy, said they were "positive results".
He added: "Our balance sheet is robust, with improved asset quality and stronger capital ratios. We are challenging the way we have worked historically, questioning the commercial viability of everything we do and creating more agile working practices.
"By keeping our focus on how and what we deliver for customers, we have created a strong platform on which to build an exciting future for us as an independent bank.
"In doing that, I believe we have the ability to offer our customers an attractive alternative to the status quo of banking in the UK."


Northern Ireland's health regulators have severely criticised a nursing home after the quality of care fell below minimum standards.

The Graan Abbey nursing home in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, provides care to more than 80 elderly people.
The inspection was triggered by a whistleblower who raised concerns over several issues including the respect and dignity of elderly patients.
The nursing home has now been served with an enforcement notice.
An announced inspection was carried out by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA), after it was contacted by the whistleblower in April.
RQIA inspectors found a number of breaches to health and safety regulations when they visited the nursing home.
They also discovered some patients dressed in day clothes but still in bed by mid-morning, as staff did not have time to move them to the day room.
Inspectors were also concerned about some unattended medication; cold food including porridge being served; out-of date care records and insufficient staff training.
Despite the owner being advised to address these issues urgently - when inspectors returned in June, the nursing home had not complied with the recommendations.
The home has now been served with an official warning. This is the first stage in a series which could potentially lead to a home's closure.
While many homes receive warnings, this one is significant as the regulators acted swiftly after being contacted by a whistleblower.
In a statement, the owner of Carewell Homes, Tom McCaffrey, said the business had been established since 1990, and since then "had complied with all nursing home and residential home regulations".
"Just last week, Graan Abbey Nursing Home was issued a failure to comply notice," he said.
"We cannot comment further on this as we have 30 days to make representation to RQIA.
"We are continuing to provide the highest standard of care to our clients and in accordance to their assessed needs and wishes, at Graan Abbey, Millcroft and Millverne."
Aidan Hanna of Patients First, an organisation which campaigns for openness in the health service and gives support to whistleblowers, said he was positive that the RQIA had acted on the concerns raised.
"The issues that the whistleblower raised were found by the inspector when they went into the home, so the RQIA have acted swiftly," Mr Hanna said.
He added that the complaints process was becoming easier.
"Hopefully things are changing with families, patients and staff speaking out if they are unhappy with their care."


The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Northern Ireland rose for the second consecutive month in March.

The number was up by 200 to 38,600 following a rise of 200 in February.
The government statistics agency, Nisra, said it was too early to say whether it was the start of a trend of rising unemployment.
In the UK as a whole, unemployment rose by 21,000 to 1.7m in the quarter between December and February.
Unemployment in Northern Ireland has been on a downward trend for the last three years, falling by 26,100 since the most recent peak in February 2013.
The rate of improvement has been slowing down.
The number of people leaving the unemployment register in the year to March 2016 was 6,600 compared to 11,800 in the year to March 2015.
The other measurement of unemployment, measured by the Labour Force Survey, showed a rate of 6.3% in the quarter between December and February.
It was also up slightly, but Nisra said the change is not considered to be statistically significant.
Other labour market measurements in Northern Ireland show some improvement.
The employment rate, which is the proportion of people aged 16 to 64 in work, is 68.9%, which is close to its pre-crisis level.
The economic inactivity rate, which measures people out of work but not looking for a job, now stands at 26.3% after a fall of 0.5 percentage points over the quarter.
That is an all-time low though is still noticeably higher than the UK rate of 21.7%.


Banks must do more to tackle scams where people are tricked into transferring money to a fraudster, the regulator has said.

The Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) was responding to a "super complaint" from consumer group Which?.
This complaint highlighted the problem of "push" fraud whereby victims are conned into paying the wrong person.
However, the PSR stopped short of recommending that banks should be forced to compensate customers.
In response, Which? said that banks had been let off the hook, and they would have little incentive to protect account-holders.
It had wanted banks to refund consumers in cases where customers accidentally transferred money to a fraudster, similar to the protections provided on credit card transactions.
At the moment banks pay up in about a third of such cases. But mostly they do not admit liability, leaving consumers out of pocket.
Such transfers work instantly, and cannot be recalled.
In one example highlighted by Which?, Christopher Mills, from York, was tricked into paying a Â£10,000 house deposit to a fraudster who posed as his estate agent.
The bank refused to cover the loss.
"Tens of thousands of people have, combined, lost hundreds of millions of pounds to these scams," said Hannah Nixon, the PSR's managing director.
"We need a concerted and co-ordinated industry-wide approach to better protect consumers, and we need it to start today."
The regulator said banks needed to work together to help detect this type of fraud, adding they could do more to identify potentially fraudulent payments.
It is recommending that:
However Which? accused the regulator of letting banks off the hook.
"The outcome for people is unfortunately that they will continue to be scammed out of millions of pounds," said Alex Neill, managing director of Which? home and legal services.
"We need to see swift action and not see this kicked into the long grass."
When you transfer money from your bank account, you are asked to enter three pieces of information:  The name of the payee, their account number, and the sort code. However only the last two are cross-checked by the bank. So putting in the correct name is no guarantee that person will get the money.
Financial Fraud Action UK offers the following advice:
The PSR has already proposed a series of improvements, such as "confirmation of payee", which would enhance payment security.
However, such changes are not due to take effect for several years.


Ellie Robinson is the star swimmer who's returning to school this week as a Paralympic champion.

27 September 2016 Last updated at 07:16 BST
The 15-year-old won an incredible gold medal in the women's S6 50m butterfly in Rio, setting a new Paralympic record with a time of 35.58 seconds.
She also came third in the S6 100m freestyle final, winning a bronze.
Watch Ellie's classmates and teachers give her a special welcome on her first day back at school.


Division Two leaders Nottinghamshire put themselves in a strong position for a fourth straight win as they bowled Glamorgan out for 187 in reply to an impressive 448 all out.

England paceman Stuart Broad took 2-40 and Luke Fletcher 3-60.
Aneurin Donald's 53 was the home side's top score in a disappointing display.
Earlier, Notts batted through the showers until mid-afternoon thanks to Chris Read (88) and Brett Hutton (61), who put on 97 for the seventh wicket.
Read, who batted with a runner and did not keep wicket because of a bruised hip, was caught on the square leg boundary when in sight of becoming the visitors' third centurion.
The last four wickets went for 21, Timm van der Gugten claiming a five-wicket haul on his Championship comeback when he bowled last man Harry Gurney.
But the visitors reduced Glamorgan to 51-4 as their seamers struck either side of tea, aided by Chetashwar Pujara's run-out of Will Bragg.
Donald and David Lloyd (34) added 72 before Broad grabbed two quick wickets in his second spell, and Donald's dismissal to a brilliant leaping boundary catch by sub Luke Wood off Fletcher signalled the end of the specialist batting.
Nottinghamshire lead by 261 on first innings and are likely to enforce the follow-on on day three.
Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"Chris Read bottom-edged one onto his hip, it's swollen up, it's sore and it's making him immobile so he'll ice it up overnight, but it's doubtful he'll keep (on day three).
"It was a really good score on the pitch, a lot of the damage was done by Chris and Riki Wessels in the last session (on Friday), then Brett Hutton played well - it was nice to get a very competitive score.
"Everybody chipped in with the ball, we bowled some really good balls and took some great catches. The fielding was one of the stars today and it's been significant for us."
Glamorgan batsman Aneurin Donald told BBC Wales Sport:
"I felt pretty good out there, I applied myself getting in but it is pretty criminal to get out the way I did and when I did.
"If you did graft your way through the first 20 to 30 balls it did open up a bit, they did that very well and to be fair they took all their chances again today.
"It is a tough day for the team, we really stuffed it up with the bat. It is difficult to take and we are going to come back and really show a bit of fight."


A painting thought to be the earliest replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been discovered at Madrid's Prado Museum.

The Prado said it did not realise its significance until a recent restoration revealed hidden layers.
The artwork features the same female figure, but had been covered over with black paint and varnish.
The painting is thought to have been created by one of Leonardo's students alongside the 16th century original.
There are dozens of surviving Mona Lisa replicas from the 16th and 17th centuries - when, as a new US exhibition illustrates, copying famous artworks was a thriving business.
The Art Newspaper, which reported the discovery, said the "sensational find will transform our understanding of the world's most famous picture".
The original painting, which currently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured by several layers of old, cracked varnish.
However, cleaning and restoration is thought to be too risky because the painting is fragile.
The Art Newspaper said the removal of the black paint on the replica had revealed "the fine details of the delicate Tuscan landscape", which mirrors the background of Leonardo's masterpiece.
Martin Bailey, who reported on the discovery for the paper, told the BBC: "You see Lisa's eyes, which are quite enticing, and her enigmatic smile. It actually makes her look much younger."
In fact, the new painting has led experts to speculate that the woman who sat for the Renaissance Masterpiece was in her early 20s - much younger than the Louvre's original appears to show.
As the replica remained hidden for so long under the overpaint, experts had believed it was painted long after Leonardo's death.
But after using x-rays to analyse the original drawings underneath, conservators have concluded the work was carried out at the same time as Leonardo's original.
The museum presented its findings at a conference on Leonardo da Vinci at London's National Gallery.
There is still some restoration to complete on the painting but, once it is finished, it will be exhibited at the Louvre in March, allowing visitors to compare the two works.


Nearly 100 subsidised bus routes have been scrapped by councils in Wales in the past three years, with further cuts expected as authorities make savings.

The figures obtained by BBC Wales reveal that nearly one in seven routes across 19 council areas have been axed.
The charity Age Cymru warned of the impact this could have on older people saying they could become increasingly isolated and cut off from services.
The Welsh government said it was reviewing ways of funding services.
But a spokesperson also added that decisions on support for local service remained with councils.
Responses to a Freedom of Information request show 93 services have been cut from 656 subsidised routes between 2011 and 2014.
Some councils warned they were continuing to review bus services following cuts to transport budgets after a 25% reduction in Welsh government funding.
Nineteen out of Wales' 22 councils responded to the BBC Wales questions on bus routes:
Mavis Jones, a regular bus user in Brymbo, is near a bus route which is at risk in Wrexham.
She said: "I'd be stuck in the house and I wouldn't be able to go out at all because we haven't got a car and we don't drive, so the buses are very important.
"It would affect the elderly dreadfully. They wouldn't be able to go out to contact anybody, to have a chat or go anywhere at all to meet anyone. They'd be like prisoners in their own home."
In a statement, Wrexham council said: "At this time, no services have yet been identified as being cut or withdrawn.
"The budget will be discussed by full council on 26 February and we are awaiting to see what funding, if any, will come from the Welsh government after April."
Rob Lewis, deputy leader of Pembrokeshire council, told BBC Radio Wales it was becoming more challenging for councils to provide the same level of service when faced with tough budget decisions.
He said the local authority had received more than 700 responses from bus users, which it would use to design a revised service.
"What we are trying to do is provide a service, although it may not be the perfect service we would like to see, but to ensure that people do at least have an opportunity... for them to move around the county albeit on a limited basis," he said.
The latest figures on service cuts follow a report by the charity Age Cymru last December.
In it, the charity claimed there was a lack of bus services in many communities.
Spokesman Iwan Rhys Roberts said: "Older people will become increasingly isolated and cut off from services. They will not be able to access the services that they need. It's a big concern for us."
Responding to the bus service cuts, a Welsh government spokesman told BBC Wales that the transport minister was looking for "innovative solutions" to deliver an efficient, sustainable bus service across Wales.
"But local authorities are responsible for determining how they spend the funding we provide and identify which services should be supported and at what level," added the government spokesperson.


Comedian Jason Manford has called the BBC's decision to "ban" all-male panels on comedy shows "brilliant", but said it should not have been made public.

"I just don't think they should have said it out loud," he told the Radio Times. "Why say it? Just do it.
"By saying it, you're undermining the female on the panel show because now she's thinking, 'Am I here because I'm funny or because they needed one?'"
Danny Cohen, the BBC's director of TV, announced the policy change last year.
"We're not going to have panel shows on anymore with no women on them," he told the Observer. "It's not acceptable."
Last year Mock the Week host Dara O Briain also questioned the way the change was revealed, saying female guests would now just be seen as "token women".
"I have nothing against this idea that there be women on panel shows," he said. "My only objection was to announcing it."
Responding to that criticism, Mr Cohen said he introduced gender rules because some shows were taking too long to catch up.
"It was like pushing water up a hill," he told a BBC panel on diversity last year. "We kept saying it, and it wasn't happening.
"We got to the point where we thought, this is not acceptable anymore, this doesn't reflect the world we live in.
"In a leadership role, I can either keep pushing and hope it's going to evolve, or I can set some really clear examples to provide a beacon for what our expectations are."
Manford, soon to be seen in new BBC One drama Ordinary Lies, said he liked female comedians to appear on comedy line-ups as it "makes [the night] better".
"Me and my brother have got some comedy clubs and we always make sure there's a female either on the bill or a female MC, because it just makes blokes act differently.
"When I see a female act who's totally nailing it, I think, 'Well, she's worked harder than most blokes to get to this point,'" he continued.
"That's why you only see brilliant female acts on the telly whereas there's a lot of mediocre male comics on TV. Because there's loads of us."
The former One Show host is currently playing Leo Bloom in a touring production of Mel Brooks's musical The Producers.


Ann Fong, 28, works as a proposal planner, helping lovers in Hong Kong orchestrate the perfect way of popping the question.

Planning wedding proposals is a relatively new business for me and for Hong Kong. We have plenty of wedding planners, but Hong Kong men are busy and women are keen on romance so increasingly people want planners to help with the proposal as well.
My day is long. It starts at about 10:00. I also work for an advertising company - who are very happy for me to develop my proposal planning business.
People always do the same old thing: they pop the question over dinner at a restaurant, there are flowers and a ring. This is not enough for some here who want a bigger display of sincerity. Most of my clients are from Hong Kong or mainland China.
It isn't your typical nine-to-five job - a lot of it is about when you get inspiration or an idea to make somebody's proposal really special.  Sometimes I just get inspiration looking out of the window.
I work on about two or three proposals each month- the ideas occupy me throughout the day.
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It all started with a YouTube video where a music band helped a man propose in a restaurant - it was so popular and went viral. That's what gave me the idea.  After I first launched the business, it took about a month before somebody got in contact.
That first proposal was a real learning experience. The girlfriend was a flight attendant who was due to go to Frankfurt. He wanted me to plan a proposal there.
We arranged for her hotel to give her a card telling her to get into a waiting limousine. That would take her to a restaurant which had been decorated with photographs of the two of them and flowers - the proposal location. But the girl never showed up. She told me later that they had already broken up.
I learned a lot from that - to get much more detail in order to make sure a proposal can actually happen.
Our starting price is HK$6,000 (Â£470)  but people are increasingly spending about $8000. I spend a lot of my day thinking up ideas and organising the event -  we need to employ photographers, videographers, all sorts of people involved in the process.
Most of the work planning proposals happens in the late afternoon and early evening when it is easiest to meet the client without their partners suspecting anything is up.
I meet my clients in cafes and we scope out places with atmosphere - these meetings are when we brainstorm to come up with big ideas and talk about the role-play side of things.
Sometimes they know exactly what they want. I remember one client asked me to write "marry me" on the beach in fire.
Once we created snow on a beach. We rented a snow machine, put LED candles to create a romantic atmosphere at night and got a friend to bring our client's girlfriend to the beach on a pretext.  Once she was on the beach we began the snow. She was so surprised. We put up a dome with lots of flowers and her partner was waiting there to propose. She walked along a pathway lit up by LED lights. She said yes.
My time at night is also important. At night there is more silence. I have more time to think of romantic ideas. I watch television and I watch videos and that's how I get these ideas.  Sometimes I don't finish working and preparing for a proposal until midnight.
Once we arranged a proposal for a woman who worked as a waitress at a restaurant.  We enlisted the help of her colleagues who told her a company was having an event and to prepare drinks and snacks. During this "event" we sent restaurant staff out, saying the company needed some private time.
We then decorated the room with balloons and when the staff returned her boss took her to the middle of the room and everybody - all 40 people in the room - sang a line of a song for her. She kept crying. She was so tearful. Her boyfriend then came out to sing the chorus.
This was one of those ideas that came to me late at night after I met the client for a brainstorming session.
Romance doesn't come easily to people in Hong Kong in my view - they worry about security, property and money.  The most expensive proposal I had was to decorate a home, to fill it with flowers and balloons - that actually cost $30,000.
But still I'm not sure there is enough of a market in Hong Kong for planning proposals to be a full-time job.  Most people in Hong Kong take a bad view of this. There are comments like: "why waste money on this when you can save it for your wedding?"
I've had a few women make inquiries, but in the end shyness overcame most of them and they pulled out.
My husband proposed to me in the car. He played me some music on his phone, gave me some drawings, I thought it was a lazy Christmas gift but then he opened my car door and spoke some romantic words. I wasn't aware it was a proposal.
Even when I don't have a proposal on the go I am always working and thinking of ideas right down to the shape of the ring box - these details matter.  I want people to have romance in their lives.
Ann Fong was talking to the BBC's Samanthi Dissanayake in Hong Kong


About half of a £2bn cash boost from the 2014 Autumn Statement for frontline health services in England was spent outside the NHS, research has found.

The Health Foundation analysis for the Financial Times showed £901m was spent on buying services from private and non-NHS providers in 2015/16.
It said £800m was spent buying the same kind of care from NHS trusts.
The government said it showed the NHS was "making clinical judgments about delivering high-quality care",
Ex-chancellor George Osborne said in his final Autumn Statement before the 2015 general election that the money for NHS England was a "down payment" on a plan drawn up by NHS bosses, which called for an extra £8bn a year above inflation by 2020.
The Health Foundation report also found that £1 in every £8 of local commissioner's budgets in England is spent on care provided by non-NHS organisations.
Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation, said: "Rising demand for emergency care meant that NHS providers haven't had the capacity to deliver planned care and patients had to be diverted outside the NHS.
"NHS hospitals were left squeezed by sharply rising drug and staff costs with little additional funding.
"The result was big deficits that had to be covered by raids on investment budgets."
She said the NHS had to "urgently" consider how to ensure additional funds reach NHS providers.
"The health service needs to plan better for emergency demand, fund emergency care fairly and make sure it gets the best possible price for care provided outside the NHS," she said.
The Department of Health said it spends less than 10% of its budget on independent providers.
A spokesman said: "This report simply shows the NHS is making clinical judgments about delivering high-quality care for patients.
"The truth is that for many years the independent sector has made a contribution to helping the NHS meet demand, now amounting to less than eight pence in every pound the NHS spends."


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Around half of the UK's growing deer population needs to be shot each year to stop devastation of woodlands and birdlife, a group of scientists says.

A study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management says this would keep numbers stable.
The deer population is currently estimated at around 1.5 million.
The researchers from the University of East Anglia suggest harvesting the animals for meat to make a cull ethically and economically acceptable.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) commented that any cull must be carried out in a humane and controlled way and be supported by "strong science".
There are now more deer in the UK than at any time since the last Ice Age.
In the absence of natural predators deer populations are continuing to expand, threatening biodiversity and causing road traffic accidents and crop damage, say researchers.
Britain has a total of six deer species, four of which were introduced since Norman times. The most recent newcomer is the Chinese water deer, which became established in the wild in the 1920s.
Dr Paul Dolman, ecologist at the University of East Anglia and lead author, said: "We know deer are eating out the... vegetation of important woodlands, including ancient woodlands.
"Deer are implicated as the major cause of unfavourable conditions in terms of woodland structure and regeneration.
"There is evidence that deer reduce the number of woodland birds - especially some of our much loved migrant birds species like Blackcap and Nightingale, and resident species like Willow Tit.  We have a problem."
Dr Dolman led a census of roe and muntjac deer populations across 234 sq km (90 sq miles) of woods and heathland in Breckland, East Anglia.
The researchers drove more than 1,140 miles at night using thermal imaging cameras to spot deer and provide an accurate estimate of their true numbers.
The results indicate that existing management strategies are failing. Although deer numbers appeared stable in the area, this was only because thousands of the animals were being pushed out into the surrounding countryside each year.
The new research suggested that only by killing 50% to 60% of deer can their numbers be kept under reasonable control.
Such a cull would be on a far greater scale than the 20% to 30% rates recommended previously.
With total deer numbers conservatively estimated at about 1.5 million, it could result in more than 750,000 animals being shot every year.
In a statement, the RSPCA said it was "opposed in principle to the killing or taking of all wild animals unless there is strong science to support it, or evidence that alternatives are not appropriate.
"Even if a cull is supported by science, it is very important that it is carried out in a humane and controlled way.
"Any decision to carry out a cull must be taken on a case by case basis based on the specific issues which impact a specific area. We don't believe this should be rolled out in a uniform way across the whole country. It is certainly not a case of one size fits all."
The Deer Initiative (DI), which is dedicated to a sustainable, managed deer population in England and Wales, has carried out research into how a cull might be carried out. They say that data on deer numbers and those culled need to be continually reviewed to assess whether culling levels need to be adjusted.
But its says that one off, heavy culls, followed by little or no culling, never achieve a sustained drop in numbers. Reduction culls need to be substantial and usually need to run over a number of years to be effective. They must then be consolidated by following with a realistic maintenance cull.
Dr Dolman said: "We are not killing something and then incinerating the carcass - what we are talking about is harvesting a wild animal to supply wild free-ranging venison for our tables - for farm shops, for gastro pubs.
"What we are advocating isn't removing deer from the countryside - what we are advocating is trying to get on top of the deer population explosion and try to control the problems that are being caused.
"And in a way, [venison] provides a sustainable food source where you know where it comes from, you know it is ethically sourced, you know it is safe to eat, and that puts food on people's tables. As much as I love deer, to be a meat eater but then to object to the culling and harvesting of deer seems to be inconsistent."
Previous culling estimates have been lower. The Deer Initiative had previously said that maintaining a static population will require a cull of at least 20% of the population for the larger species (red, fallow, sika), and a cull of around 30% of the population for roe, muntjac and Chinese water deer.
Peter Watson, director of the DI, commented: "The DI welcomes any research that gives us a better understanding of wild deer populations and their impacts.
"We were happy to support this work by UEA and will look at the evidence to see how it should affect our Best Practice Guidance.  Our aim is promote a sustainable wild deer population that is in balance with the habitat. It is for local landowners to examine the evidence and decide how best to respond to the UAE report."
But he added that this was a single study on two species (out of six) that could not be extrapolated to the whole of the UK, therefore suggesting a cull of 750,000 was not valid. He also said deer had to be managed at a landscape-scale that reflected the ecology of the deer and not man made ownership boundaries.


A man has died in a crash with a lorry on the M1 in an incident that is believed to be linked to the death of a woman in a Derbyshire village.

Derbyshire Police confirmed a murder investigation has been launched after a 38-year-old woman was found injured in Borrowash and later died in hospital.
Thirty minutes later, the man, 44, died in the collision on the southbound carriageway near Trowell services.
Both sides of the M1 have now reopened, Nottinghamshire Police said.
Officers were called to Station Road, Borrowash, at 11:00 GMT on Friday after a 22-year-old man - who had also been injured - raised the alarm. He is now being treated in hospital, Derbyshire Police said.
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The disruption on the M1 has affected those travelling to East Midlands Airport, and several public transport providers across the region have warned of severe delays.
A cameraman for BBC East Midlands Today reported seeing a body on the carriageway, while eyewitnesses told of bloody scenes in Borrowash.
Michael Nightingale from Station Road said a "young lad" ran into a flower shop with "stab wounds over his face".
"I saw the police wrapping up a young lad in tin foil," he said.
"He was on the ground, so I drove down into my drive and then a police van turned up and cordoned off the house.
"I have lived here for 10 years and I have never seen anything like this.
"He ran over the road - that's where they wrapped him up. He was shouting: 'Help me, help me'."
Florist Louise Winson said: "I just heard shouting: 'Help me, please help me'.
"I looked round, the guy's just stood there, I couldn't even see his face for blood - it was just pouring.
"I just shut the door to be honest, I was in absolute shock and then I picked my phone up to ring 999 but somebody had already done it and then I went out and he was laying on the side of the road. [It was] just a mess."


The Irish police commissioner, Noírín O'Sullivan, is coming under pressure over her views towards a whistleblower.

The Garda commissioner has been asked to explain apparent contradictions between her public support for Sgt Maurice McCabe and reports that her legal team were under instructions to "attack" his character and motivation.
Sgt McCabe had claimed that senior police officers had inappropriately wiped the penalty points from the driving licences of often well-connected offenders.
He also complained about flaws and failures in criminal investigations in the Cavan-Monaghan division.
A 349-page report published last week by former High Court judge Kevin O'Higgins described Sgt McCabe as a "dedicated and committed" member of the force.
It said he acted out of genuine and legitimate concerns about Garda behaviour in the Cavan-Monaghan division and in Bailieboro Garda station in particular.
While some of his complaints were upheld in the O'Higgins report, others were said to be overstated or exaggerated and some were unfounded.
In her second statement on the report in a number of days Commissioner O'Sullivan said: "I want to make it clear that that I do not, and never have regarded Sgt McCabe as malicious."
But last week, the Irish Examiner newspaper said it had obtained documents relating to the O'Higgins' commission's work in which the barrister for senior Garda officers, including Ms O'Sullivan, agreed with the commission that their line of enquiry would be to attack Sgt McCabe's motivation and character.
Commissioner O'Sullivan has repeated in her second statement that  she cannot by law discuss the proceedings before the commission, but this has been rejected by opposition politicians who say the law refers to evidence and not statements made by lawyers.
Sinn Féin and the Labour party have called on her to clarify her position on the apparent contradiction.
While the O'Higgins report was largely supportive of Sgt McCabe, it also noted that his allegations of corruption against the previous Garda commissioner, Martin Callinan, were "hurtful" and rejected them.
The report also found that the former justice minister, Alan Shatter, had handled the sergeant's complaints in an "appropriate manner" and also, effectively, cleared him of any wrong-doing.
With Ms O'Sullivan's statements likely to be raised in the Dail the Housing minister, Simon Coveney, has said people should take the Garda commissioner at her word when she said she had never regarded Sgt McCabe as malicious.


Former Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has been appointed assistant coach with Chinese club Beijing Sinobo Guoan.

For the last few years McGuinness has been a performance consultant with Scottish Premiership champions Celtic.
He joined them when Neil Lennon was manager and he worked mainly with the reserve team at Celtic Park.
It is understood McGuinness, 44, was recruited by Roger Schmidt, who was recently appointed coach of the Chinese Super League club.
McGuinness was Donegal manager in 2012 when the Ulster county famously won the All-Ireland Gaelic Football Championship.


A mechanic trying to fix a lorry was killed when he put his head between the wheel and its arch in a "moment of pure madness".

Peter Hummel suffered brain injuries and died instantly in the accident in August.
Forensics investigator, Brian Johnson, said the 56-year-old had decided to "place his head in the crocodile's mouth".
An inquest jury in Northampton returned a conclusion of accidental death.
Mr Hummel, a recovery manager for Leicestershire-based Crouch Recovery, had stopped to help a colleague who was towing a broken down truck.
It had problems with an air bag controlling its suspension and too much air had been pushed into one of the bags, creating a large gap between the wheel and wheel arch.
They were forced to stop at Rothwell, Northamptonshire. In attempting to fix the problem, Mr Hummel had put his head into what Mr Johnson called "an inviting gap".
Mr Johnson said Mr Hummel, from Braunstone, Leicestershire, had most likely cut tie clips which had been holding a metal arm in place.
This caused the arm, which controls the amount of air in the bag, to fall.
Air was pushed from the bag and the wheel arch fell back towards the wheel.
Heavy vehicle recovery driver, Adam Collett, said he had been working on the truck with Mr Hummel at the time.
"I heard a sudden rush of air and felt the chassis of the vehicle drop very quickly," he said.
"I scrambled out as I feared getting trapped. Pete was underneath the wheel arch."
Paramedic Shay Cullen said he found Mr Hummel with his "head trapped under a lorry".
He said the wheel arch had been lifted from Mr Hummel's head and he was moved on to the road.
"He had a serious laceration on the back of his head and blood was coming from his ears," Mr Cullen added.
Despite receiving treatment at the scene, Mr Hummel was pronounced dead soon afterwards.


Lithuania is the largest and most southerly of the three Baltic republics.

Not much more than a decade after it regained its independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, Lithuania was welcomed as a Nato member in late March 2004.
The move came just weeks before a second historic shift for the country in establishing its place in the Western family of nations as it joined the EU in May 2004. These developments would have been extremely hard to imagine in not-so-distant Soviet times.
Russia, anxious about the implications of the eastward advance of the EU and Nato to include the three Baltic republics, has a particular eye on Lithuania which has an important border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Population 3.3 million
Area 65,300 sq km (25,212 sq miles)
Languages Lithuanian (official), Russian, Polish, Belarusian
Major religions Christianity
Life expectancy 67 years (men), 78 years (women)
Currency euro
President: Dalia Grybauskaite
Dalia Grybauskaite was voted in as Lithuania's first woman president with an emphatic election victory in May 2009.
She was re-elected in May 2014, in a presidential runoff held amid widespread apprehension over a resurgent Russia.
Ms Grybauskaite is sometimes dubbed the "Iron Lady", the nickname of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a steely free-marketeer she describes as one of her political models.
Prime Minister: Saulius Skvernelis
Former national police chief Saulius Skvernelis became prime minister after voter anger at the established political parties propelled his centrist Peasant and Green Union (LVZS) to a surprise victory in parliamentary elections in 2016.
Mr Skvernelis formed a coalition with the Social Democrats of outgoing Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, which came third, and promised to curb social inequality, boost sluggish growth, limit emigration to Western Europe and boost defence spending in the face of a resurgent Russia.
Previously a minor agrarian party led by farming tycoon Ramunas Karbauskis, the LVZS campaigned on Mr Skvernelis's reputation as a corruption fighter, as well as on promises for a more interventionist economic policy.
Lithuania's private TV and radio stations compete with public networks run by Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT).
The media are free and operate independently of the state. There are no government-owned newspapers.
Some key dates in Lithuania's modern history:
1915 - Lithuania occupied by German troops during World War I.
1918 - Lithuania declares independence.
1920 - Soviet Russia recognises Lithuania's independence under Treaty of Moscow.
1939 - The Soviet Union compels Lithuania to accept Soviet military bases.
1940 - Soviet army invades. Smetona flees. Lithuania incorporated into USSR.
1941 - Thousands of Lithuanians deported to Siberia. Nazis invade USSR and occupy Lithuania.
1944 - Soviet army returns, presaging further deportations and repression of resistance.
1989 - Parliament approves declaration of Lithuanian sovereignty, stating that Lithuanian laws take precedence over Soviet ones.
1991 - Following failed coup in Moscow the previous month, USSR recognises Lithuania's independence. Lithuania joins OSCE and UN.
1992 - New constitution introduces presidency. The former Communist Party, renamed Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party, wins more seats than Sajudis in general election. Coalition government formed.
1993 - Lithuania joins Council of Europe. New national currency, the litas, introduced. Soviet troops complete withdrawal.
2004 - Lithuania is one of 10 new states to join the EU. Lithuania also joins Nato.


According to one Wales team-mate, he is the scaffolder who is living the dream, but for full-back Liam Williams much of 2015 was an injury nightmare.

The Scarlets man missed Wales' build-up to the World Cup with a broken foot, and sobbed in the changing room at Twickenham when a recurrence ended his comeback after less than three games.
Now Williams, 24, is looking forward to returning to the scene of his darkest moments when Wales face England in the Six Nations.
Both teams are unbeaten, and the winners will be hot favourites to claim the title.
"This is the biggest game you can play in and the one that you really want to be involved in," says Williams.
But flashback to 10 October and Williams cut a desolate figure in the changing rooms after limping off during the Pool A match against Australia.
Sitting alone, he knew his tournament was over and he faced another long spell on the sidelines.
"I lasted until 72 minutes against Australia when I broke the foot again. I knew straight away it was broken because of the pain," said Williams.
"Normally you go back out to sit with the other lads but because the injury was so close to the end of the game I sat in the dressing room on my own.
"It was a pretty dark place. I put my head in my hands and had a bit of 'me-time' and a bit of a cry."
If that admission of sensitivity is at odds with the fearless, all-action image which makes Williams a firm favourite with fans, then his background is also a paradox in the world of professional rugby.
Because Williams had a normal job before his talent turned him into a professional sportsman. He was a scaffolder.
Williams is not convinced that gives him a different attitude to the majority of his team-mates who came through rugby academies.
"I don't know if that's true or not. I think I'm different because that's just my character," he said.
"I know [fly-half] Rhys Priestland worked on a building site when he was young, and maybe [hooker] Scott Baldwin.
"I have worked hard to get here and had to quit being a scaffolder, but that wasn't really a hard thing to do."
Williams admits he was afraid of heights when he first started rigging scaffolding "over the top of a blast furnace, 300 feet from the ground" and that fly-half Dan Biggar still enjoys a joke at his expense.
"Biggs calls me the scaffolder who's living the dream. He asks people, 'have you ever seen a scaffolder who's living the dream?' And then points and says 'he's over here'."
Williams played in Wales' World Cup win at Twickenham but could not enjoy the celebrations.
Having been accidentally kicked in the head by England's Tom Wood, he woke up in the dressing room.
"Geoffrey Davies [Wales' doctor] was there. We were chatting and as soon as he walked off I heard this massive roar.
"It was the moment when Lloyd Williams kicked inside and Gareth Davies had scored. He came back and told me we were up. After that, I don't remember much because I was groggy.
"Someone told me we had won and I was over the moon. My head didn't feel too bad but I was driven back to Cardiff so I wasn't part of the celebrations."
Williams is not taking his selection for granted, but it would be a major surprise if coach Warren Gatland were to leave him out of his team at Twickenham.
And the Scarlets full-back acknowledges this fixture has an added edge.
"I don't really get nervous before a game, or at least not until the morning of a game," he continued. "But this is different and I'll be nervous all week.
"England are different to the team that played at the World Cup because they have a new head coach.
"They have tweaked a few things. But if we get our own house in order then there isn't an international team that we can't go out and beat.
"I'm looking forward to it - if selected."
Beat England, and Wales will have a home game against Italy to clinch the title. A dream scenario, if there ever was one.


A car deliberately hit a police van before bursting into flames in the Champs Élysées area of central Paris, police officials say.

The driver died in the incident. Police found a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles in the car.
Police say the situation is now under control, and neither law enforcement officers nor civilians were injured.
France is under a state of emergency after being hit by a wave of deadly terror attacks in recent years.
A policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in an attack on the Champs Élysées in April, just days before the first round of the presidential election.
The latest incident comes a day after the end of parliamentary elections in France, which saw President Emmanuel Macron's party win a landslide majority.
A white car could be seen standing in the middle of the empty avenue with one door open and sniffer dogs were sent in, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
Our correspondent says there are always many police and gendarme vehicles near the spot, as it is next to the local police station.
Reports say officers had to smash the windows of the car - a Renault Mégane - to pull the driver out.
The man was known to intelligence services, the BFMTV news channel reports.
Police earlier warned people to respect a security cordon around the area.
The anti-terrorist section of the prosecutor's office has opened up an investigation into the incident, which happened close to the Élysée presidential palace and the US embassy.


An Indian businessman has bid more than 12m rupees ($194,000; Â£125,000) for a suit worn by PM Narendra Modi at the first day of a three-day auction.

Textiles millionaire Rajesh Juneja told BBC Hindi he would place the suit next to a statue of Mr Modi and talk to it every day to gain inspiration.
Mr Modi wore the suit, decorated with pinstripes made from his name, at a meeting with US President Barack Obama.
He was criticised after reports said it cost nearly 1m rupees to make.
The proceeds will be used to clean the heavily polluted river Ganges.
The clean-up is a pet project of the prime minister, and his government has set a target to complete the task within three years.
The auction is due to close at 17:00 (11:30 GMT) on Friday.
Within hours of the sale opening, textiles millionaire Rajesh Juneja had bid 12m rupees.
"I am big fan of Narendra Modi," the 57-year-old told BBC Hindi.
"I like his style of functioning and after buying this suit I will keep it my office along with his statue and talk to it everyday as it will inspire me to achieve more."
His offer overtook several other businessmen in Mr Modi's home state of Gujarat who had already bid huge sums for the suit.
But experts say the suit is likely to sell for much more by the time the auction ends.
It is being sold along with more than 450 presents that Mr Modi has received since taking over as the prime minister.
Mr Modi was photographed in the suit at meetings with Mr Obama during the US president's three-day state visit to India in January.
Senior Congress party politician Jairam Ramesh had called Mr Modi a "megalomaniac".
Mr Modi is not the first high-profile figure to opt for the pattern - in March 2011 former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was photographed in a similar suit.


This is the first Russian military operation beyond the boundaries of the former Soviet Union since the end of the Cold War.

But the US and its coalition partners have already conducted more than 7,000 air strikes in Syria and Iraq against the so-called Islamic State (IS). And even on the most optimistic assessment their impact has been limited.
IS is contained but in no sense defeated. So why should Russia be able to do any better?
Russia of course is restricting its strikes to Syria. Its initial combat missions suggest that its fundamental aim is to relieve pressure upon President Bashar al-Assad's embattled forces and that its list of targets will go well beyond those exclusively linked to IS.
But what military capabilities do the Russians actually have? What weapons can they use? How does the Russian air force compare to its Western equivalents? And what ultimately can it achieve?
The air expeditionary force that has been despatched to Syria represents a microcosm of the Russian air force as a whole.
As Michael Kofman, a US-based analyst with the CNA Corporation notes, Russia has some 34 fixed-wing aircraft based at Latakia - a mixture of types, comprising: 12 Su-25s;  12 Su-24M2s; four Su-30SMs; and six Su-34s.
"This," he told me, "represents both the older generation of venerable Soviet strike aircraft and the new, most modern, multi-role strike aircraft Russia has to offer.
"The Su-25," he explains, "is a close ground support and strike platform, used throughout Russia's wars, including Chechnya and the Russia-Georgia war. This aircraft is quite capable of close support, but rather vulnerable and easy to lose, particularly to MANPADS (man-portable or shoulder-fired surface to air missiles) which have proliferated across the Syrian battle space.
"The Su-24M2 is the classic tactical bomber, modernised from Soviet days and capable of a variety of strike missions but a rather worn and older aircraft."
The more interesting elements of the deployment, says Mr Kofman, are the Su-30SMs and the Su-34s. "The Su-30SM is a heavy multi-role fighter, capable of both air-to-air combat and a variety of precision strike missions at higher altitudes."
The recent arrival of Su-34 ("Fullbacks" according to their Nato code-name) completes the picture. "These are much more advanced strike aircraft, essentially replacements for the Su-24M2, and are able to conduct the full spectrum of bombing and defending themselves in air-to-air. These have never been to war and Russia may not just be using them, but indeed testing them."
So much for the Russian aircraft then, but what about the munitions they can deliver?
The first few days of Russia's air campaign in Syria have enabled us to get a better idea of the munitions being used by the Russian air force.
Video material released by the Russian ministry of defence along with stills and other video material show a variety of weapons being used, the overwhelming bulk of which appear to be dumb - that is to say unguided - bombs rather than the precision-guided munitions that dominate Western air campaigns.
OFAB 250-270 fragmentation bombs have been seen being loaded on Russian aircraft at Latakia as well as OFAB 250-500s and OFAB 100-120s.
Some GPS-guided KAB-500S bombs have also been seen. Evidence has emerged of the use of cluster munitions (the SPBE-D) another Russian system, though this could have equally been dropped by a Syrian jet.
According to Douglas Barrie, Senior Fellow for Military Aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London: "The Russian air force today lacks the breadth of precision weapons and targeting systems fielded by the most capable of its Western counterparts. This is not a new problem for the air force, since this issue was exposed during the Georgian war in 2008.
"Since then," says Mr Barrie, "Russia's air force and industry have re-invigorated efforts to finish development and acquire weapons and target designation systems akin to those fielded by the likes of the US and leading European countries. The problem originated with the collapse of the Soviet Union and almost decades of very little investment in developing advanced weapons systems."
There are some other notable differences in technology.
While the Russians do have semi-active laser and electro-optically guided bombs and missiles, and laser target marker systems on the Su-25 Frogfoot and Su-24 Fencer, they do not deploy the kind of targeting pods carried by Western aircraft which help both to acquire a target and to guide weapons to it.
Though some drones have been deployed to Syria, Mr Barrie notes that the Russians "also lack the level of unmanned aerial systems for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance that the US and it allies used widely in Afghanistan. Nor has it had the same level of experience of air-ground integration in recent years."
As well as air strikes, Russia has launched rocket attacks on IS targets in Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea - about 1,500km (930 miles) away.
Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said four warships fired 26 sea-based cruise missiles on 11 targets, destroying them and causing no civilian casualties.
Western experts believe that the missiles fired from the Russian warships in the Caspian Sea were something called a Kalibr-Nk, part of the 3M-54 family of weapons which include land attack and anti-shipping versions.
The Kalibr-Nk is a land attack missile - broadly equivalent to the US Navy's Tomahawk - and has a range of up to 2,600 km.
The decision to use cruise missiles fired from warships represents a new twist to Moscow's growing involvement in the crisis.
It is not clear yet why these particular weapons were chosen in preference to air strikes - but the missiles would have had to fly a considerable distance over Iran and then Iraq to reach Syria.
Sea-launched cruise missiles have long been a favourite US weapon of choice in interventions overseas, so there may be an element of Russia demonstrating that it has the full military panoply of any other "superpower".
But it adds yet a further complication to the air campaign in the skies over Syria. Of more significance may be early signs of Syrian government counter-offensives - aided by their allies - which could be linked to the Russian air campaign.
The Caspian Flotilla, together with the Black Sea Fleet, is a maritime part of Russia's Southern Military District, stationed in the port city of Astrakhan. According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the flotilla consists of several brigades and divisions of surface ships and coastal troop units, carries out anti-terror activities and protects trade and oil interests.
The Russian air force may in some respects be behind its most advanced Western contemporaries, but it certainly has the capacity to mount an effective air campaign. So what then exactly is its mission in Syria?
It is here that there are perhaps the greatest differences between the Russian and US-led air campaigns.
A fundamental weakness afflicting the US and its allies is the absence of credible forces on the ground. Air power can achieve a lot in concert with troops to occupy and hold territory, but in the absence of ground power its impact is limited.
Not so for the Russians. The Syrian government army may not be what it was, having suffered serious losses and defections, but in local terms it is still a force to be reckoned with. Bolstered with new Russian equipment and now backed up by Russian air power, it could hold its own against most of the opposition forces.
Russia does not have the elaborate intelligence-gathering panoply of the US. But much of its targeting will be based upon tactical intelligence obtained from Syrian units on the ground.
This, then, is the key to Russia's strategy. It is to consolidate the Assad regime, to relieve the pressure points and to ensure that its ally remains a factor in any future diplomatic settlement.
To this end - and there are strong indications of this even from Russia's initial air strikes - Moscow will hit any opponents of the Syrian regime where necessary.
Russian air power is not there to roll back the opposition forces and enable the Assad regime to regain control over the large areas of the country that it has lost. It is about buying President Assad time; changing the regional and diplomatic calculations. And to this extent Russian air power could prove a decisive factor.


Peru says it will sue activists from the environmental pressure group Greenpeace after they placed a banner next to the Nazca Lines heritage site.

The activists entered a restricted area next to the ancient ground markings depicting a hummingbird and laid down letters advocating renewable energy.
Peru is currently hosting the UN climate summit in its capital, Lima.
A Greenpeace spokeswoman said the group was investigating but its activists had been "absolutely careful".
Luis Jaime Castillo, a Peruvian deputy culture minister, said Peru would file charges of "attacking archaeological monuments" against the activists from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Italy and Spain.
He said the Nazca Lines, which are an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 years old, were "absolutely fragile".
"You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or thousands of years," he said.
The lines, depicting animals, stylised plants and imaginary figures were declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1994.
"They haven't touched the hummingbird figure but now we have an additional figure created by the footsteps of these people," Mr Castillo told local radio.
Greenpeace spokeswoman Tina Loeffelbein said the activists had been "absolutely careful to protect the Nazca Lines" when they laid out yellow letters in cloth reading "Time for Change; The Future is Renewable" on the desert ground  on Monday.
Mr Castillo said the Peruvian government had nothing against the message "but the end doesn't justify the means".


A man was stabbed to death on his 19th birthday while he was at a friend's birthday party in north-east London.

Ziggy Worrell-Owusu, from Hackney, was attacked at the Basement Shisha Lounge in Goodmayes Road, Ilford, in the early hours of Thursday, the Met Police said.
He was celebrating his friend's 18th birthday and was attacked during a row, police said.
He was taken to hospital but pronounced dead at 01:45 BST. Post-mortem tests found he died from a single stab wound.
No arrests have been made, police said.
Ten teenagers have been stabbed to death in London this year.
A Met Police spokesman said: "It has been established that Ziggy had attended an 18th birthday party with a group of his friends at the venue and there were approximately 100 people in attendance.
"At some point during the evening an altercation occurred which led to Ziggy being stabbed."


Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has signed a settlement with a hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, a New York judge says.

Details of the 63-year-old's agreement with Nafissatou Diallo will remain confidential, the judge added.
Mr Strauss-Kahn was held in New York in May 2011 after Ms Diallo, 33, said he assaulted her in his hotel suite.
Prosecutors later dropped charges amid concerns about her credibility.
The incident was widely seen as having ruined Mr Strauss-Kahn's chance of becoming the Socialist presidential candidate in his native France.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon announced on Monday that after lengthy negotiations, the parties "came together and put terms of a settlement on the record".
By Laura TrevelyanBBC News, New York
Now that there has been a settlement, we will probably never know exactly what transpired between the head of the IMF and the immigrant hotel maid from Guinea at the hotel Sofitel in Manhattan. There was forensic evidence of a sexual encounter of some kind. Mr Strauss-Kahn insisted it was consensual, Ms Diallo said he attempted to rape her.
The criminal case collapsed after the prosecution said Ms Diallo had credibility issues. Now her attempt to bring a civil case has been settled for an undisclosed amount. Two very different lives have been turned upside down by the encounter, and Mr Strauss-Kahn's ambitions to be president of France lie in ruins.
The amount of the settlement was kept confidential.
Mr Strauss-Khan did not attend the hearing, but Ms Diallo was in court.
After the settlement, the judge thanked all parties and said it was a "privilege to work with all of you".
Outside the courtroom, Ms Diallo made a short statement: "I thank everybody all over the world and everybody at the court, and God bless you all."
Her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, said afterwards that she was "ready to move on".
In May 2011, Ms Diallo, a Guinean immigrant with a teenage daughter, said Mr Strauss-Kahn had forced her to perform oral sex when she went to clean his hotel room.
He was arrested, charged with attempted rape and forced to resign from his post at the International Monetary Fund.
Mr Strauss-Kahn had previously admitted to a "moral failing", but insisted their sexual encounter was consensual.
In the wake of Ms Diallo's accusations, other women came forward with sexual assault allegations against him.


Two adventurers have completed a record breaking free-climb of the El Capitan mountain.

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson have been climbing the Dawn Wall of El Capitan, a rock formation in Yosemite National Park, USA.
It's been described as the most difficult climb in the world, because the face is so steep, so tall, and so smooth.
Pictures: How climbers conquered El Capitan
The two climbers took 19 days to complete it and are the first people to free-climb this route.
Free-climbers use just their hands and feet to climb a mountain, rather than using tools or pulling themselves up on ropes.
They wear rubber shoes to help their feet cling to the rock face, and climb up the rock face using their fingertips.
But the men were also attached to safety ropes to stop them from falling all the way down if they slipped.
Even so - if you slip, you fall 20 or 30m before the rope catches you - so you have to climb all that way up again.
The Dawn Face of El Capitan is one of the hardest rock faces in the world to free-climb.
It's a massive 914m tall - three times the height of The Shard in London, and taller than the biggest skyscraper in the world.
The rock face is made of smooth granite stone and there aren't many places to hold on.
Leo Houlding, a professional climber, said: "Hanging on to tiny little holds with all your bodyweight, and all the power you can create, starts to shred your fingertips!"
He added: "After a week you have very little skin left."
The climb took more than two weeks so the men had to sleep in beds hanging from the rock on ropes.
They also had to take breaks to let their fingers heal.


A consumer group has revealed its latest list of shrinking supermarket items that still cost the same, or more.

Toilet roll, chocolate biscuits, orange juice and antibacterial wipes were all on the list of shrinking items reported by Which?.
The consumer group argued that making products smaller was a "sneaky way" of increasing prices.
It is further evidence of a trend towards shrinking products.
In January Unilever revealed that a number of ice creams it makes would be getting smaller.
The latest list from Which? includes:
Most brands, responding to the Which? research, said it was up to supermarkets to set the price. However, they would not disclose if they had charged the stores a lower wholesale price.
"Shrinking products can be a sneaky way of increasing prices. We want manufacturers and supermarkets to be upfront about shrinking products so consumers are not misled," said Which? editor Richard Headland.


Two men have died in a microlight plane crash at a mountain range in Stirlingshire.

The aircraft is understood to have gone down near the summit of Ben More near Crianlarich around 12:00 BST Saturday.
Central Scotland Police said neither man had been identified and inquiries were at a very early stage.
Ben More is a Munro 1,174m (3,852ft) in height. In 1973 four people died when a British European Airways passenger plane crashed into the mountain.


Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a £500m fund to help Scottish businesses as she set out her government's plans for the next year.

Ms Sturgeon told MSPs at Holyrood that the move was an "exceptional response to an exceptional economic challenge".
She also insisted that education was the "defining mission" of the Scottish government.
Proposals to help close the attainment gap were among the 14 bills the Scottish government will introduce.
The plans include a Child Poverty Bill, which Ms Sturgeon said was arguably the government's most important legislation.
The bill would establish Scotland as the only part of the UK with statutory income targets on child poverty, and see a "baby box" given to every newborn.
But much of Ms Sturgeon's focus was on boosting the economy in the wake of the Brexit vote, with the first minister promising £4bn will be spent on infrastructure next year alongside the £500m Scottish Growth Scheme package of support for private businesses.
Ms Sturgeon said the growth scheme would offer individual investment guarantees, and some loans, of up to £5m to small and medium sized firms who would otherwise be unable to grow because of a lack of investment finance.
As financial guarantees, the support will not come from existing spending plans, and will instead see the Scottish government share some of the risk faced by small companies, when they make big investment decisions.
The first minister described the fund as a "half-billion pound vote of confidence in Scottish business, Scottish workers and the Scottish economy".
Ms Sturgeon's SNP formed a minority government after winning 63 seats in May's Scottish Parliament elections.
She told MSPS that Holyrood was operating in a "new political, economic and constitutional context" following the UK voting to leave the EU.
The first minister said the Scottish government would use its newly devolved powers over tax and welfare to adapt to those changes.
Ms Sturgeon has already ordered ministers to start drawing up legislation for a second independence referendum, which she said is "highly likely" - although not inevitable - following the Brexit vote.
Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that the Scottish government would consult on the draft referendum bill in case an independence referendum was the "best or only" way to protect Scottish interests - sparking groans and laughter from opposition politicians.
They have called on the Scottish government to "focus on the day job" of improving public services instead of pushing for independence.
It was, we were assured, a programme for different - and troubled - times. Hence a renewed emphasis on bolstering economic growth alongside the priority accorded to education.
Not, to be clear, that the economy has ever been far from ministers' minds. However, Nicola Sturgeon's narrative is that Brexit will add considerably to the challenges facing Scotland and the UK. Requiring additional support.
But, even in these post referendum days (EU, that is, not the 2014 version), there is still scope for a few familiar notes.
And so Ms Sturgeon lambasted the Tories, characterising them as the right-wing enemies of her social democratic programme.
Ruth Davidson, who leads said rightist cabal, smiled benignly from her new elevated status as the principal opposition party, accusing Ms Sturgeon of preparing to hike Scottish tax by failing to pass on UK Treasury concessions to higher rate payers.
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Ms Sturgeon said four of her government's bills would focus on some of the new powers that have been devolved to Scotland, with proposals to cut Air Passenger Duty, incorporate British Transport Police in Scotland into Police Scotland, and to promote gender equality on public boards.
The fourth bill would set out proposals for a Scottish welfare system based on "dignity and respect", the first minister said, with the SNP having already pledged to increase carer's allowance and create a new grant for low-income parents.
Among the government's other plans are:
Ms Sturgeon said education was the "defining mission of my government", and that she was aiming for "truly transformational investment" in childcare.
She added: "I have said that I want to be judged on our success in narrowing and ultimately closing the attainment gap.
"We must not tolerate a situation where some children from deprived areas do less well at school than those from affluent areas.
"The measures we will implement over the next five years constitute a comprehensive approach to tackling that".
Responding to Ms Sturgeon's proposals, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson urged the first minister to ditch the "threat" of a second referendum and focus on governance, adding that she was disappointed by the SNP's "failure to listen" on the economy.
Energy is being "diverted into an endless political campaign", she said, with Ms Sturgeon's list of legislation serving as "a warm-up act to nudge the independence caravan another few inches along the road".
"I do not subscribe to the view that we are helpless to act in the face of Brexit  - nor do I think that breaking up a union worth four times more to Scotland than the EU is going to help matters very much," she said.
"I said two weeks ago I wanted a new type of Scottish government and what I mean is one which no longer asks - how will this boost independence? But one that asks - how are we growing the country?"
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the programme lacked ambition and failed to address the "big questions" Scotland faces in areas such as public services and jobs.
She added: "Over the past decade, this parliament has become more and more powerful, but the government's programme has become less and less ambitious.
"The first minister and the SNP have had nearly a decade. They now have another five years.
"Let this be five years where focusing on jobs, public services and our economy rank as highly as the SNP's fight for independence."
Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie reminded the first minister that she was leading a minority government, and that there would need to be compromise and open-minded discussion in order for its legislative programme to be passed by Holyrood.
He said the new challenges brought by Brexit were against a backdrop of pre-existing challenges, and that there had not been enough progress made in working towards a "fairer, more equal and healthier society".
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "Nine years after they came to power there is no sign of the SNP are willing to drop independence and get on with the job of making our economy and services the best again.
"The first minister spent the whole summer talking up the prospect of a second independence referendum instead of getting on with the day job."


Northampton Saints will face no sanction following the investigation into their treatment of Wales wing George North's latest head injury.

However, the concussion review panel concluded that the 24-year-old should not have returned to the field of play after he fell in a mid-air tackle against Leicester on 3 December.
The panel's 17-page report stated that head injury assessment (HIA) protocol was followed correctly, but the Saints medical team have accepted that North may have lost consciousness.
"The Concussion Management Review Group's (CMRG) view is that there was sufficient evidence to conclude not only from the video evidence but also George North's history and risk stratification that he should not have returned to the field of play," said the report.
"The CMRG considered the welfare of North was always at the centre of Northampton's actions, and does not consider that the medical team [or the club] failed to complete the HIA protocol nor intentionally ignored the player's best interests."
The report states that, although North appeared to lie motionless after the incident, he told medics he had stayed still because he was "concerned about his neck".
North also "continued to deny any loss of consciousness with immediate recall of events", with the "only symptom recorded being neck pain".
The Northampton back suffered four head blows in five months between November 2014 and March 2015, leading to a spell on the sidelines that lasted from 27 March until 29 August.
The review - the first of its kind since the concussion management system was introduced in the Premiership at the start of this season - also made nine recommendations.
These include consideration being given to the introduction of a pitchside video reviewer to ensure video feeds continue to be monitored throughout the match.
It has also recommended that the entire HIA assessment must be completed off field, even if part of it had already taken place on the pitch.
And it re-enforced "the necessity to review footage before starting the HIA assessment and the criteria in respect of permanent removal from the field of play".
Since the concussion review panel first met to assess the incident on 6 December, it has taken 15 days for their findings to be published - with North having been stood down from playing in the meantime.
"We wanted the review - which was primarily around the medical management and treatment of George North - to be thorough and rigorous to ensure that we fully understood the circumstances of this case," said the group's independent chairman Dr Julian Morris.
"While the challenges in the consistent delivery of best practice in the on-field management of head injuries in professional sport are recognised, player welfare is paramount to the game of rugby."
North has since resumed training and, according to Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder, is set to return to the Northampton side for their league match against Sale Sharks on Friday.
After the report was published on Wednesday, Northampton said in a statement that they "accept the conclusion that George should not have been allowed to return to the field of play, but are pleased that the CMRG has reflected our concerns about the current technologies and processes available to medical teams when assessing concussion".
The statement added: "The club believes that this is now an opportunity for the whole rugby community to reflect on the CMRG's recommendations to ensure the highest levels of player safety and well-being.
"In the meantime, the club continues to offer George its full support and looks forward to seeing him on the pitch again as soon as he is ready."
BBC Radio 5 live's rugby union reporter Chris Jones
"The decision not to sanction Northampton will inevitably be met by widespread scepticism, especially as it is accepted that the club didn't manage the incident properly.
"The Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby have long vaunted their approach to concussion and head injuries, and there is no doubt they have been at the front of the field.
"But for a situation like this to occur is highly unsatisfactory and, while the governing bodies will want this to be a line in the sand when it comes to managing such injuries, it is clear there is still some way to go.
"And amongst it all is a lingering feeling that while players are culpable for their actions - especially when it comes to acts of foul play - other bodies in rugby are not being held to account in the same way."
Meanwhile, Northampton have also discovered they will receive no punishment for fielding an under-strength team in their 60-13 European Champions Cup defeat by Leinster on Saturday.
European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) officials have assessed the matchday squads and ruled that Saints did not break any tournament regulations.
"It is the obligation of the participating clubs to select the best possible squads for matches," said an EPCR spokesman.
"EPCR reserves the right to take action in the interests of the integrity of the tournaments."


It's the debate of the year so far - well - on Twitter at least and has been the top trending topic worldwide.

It's all about #TheDress and whether it's blue and black (#blueandblack) or white and gold (#whiteandgold).
The whole debate started when Scottish singer Caitlin McNeill posted a picture of a dress on her Tumblr blog.
She asked her followers: "Guys please help me - is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can't agree and we are freaking... out."
Caitlin told Newsbeat that it all started when her friend's mum wore the dress at a wedding.
"Two of my very good friends were getting married and they has asked me to put together a band to come and play at the wedding," she says.
"This was a wedding on the tiny island that we come from on the west coast of Scotland called Colonsay and about 100 people were there.
"A week beforehand the bride had been sent by her mother a picture of the dress she was going to wear and when the bride showed her fiance, they disagreed about what colour it was.
"She was like, 'It's white and gold' and he said, 'It's blue and black'.
"So they posted it on Facebook to try and see what their friends were saying but that caused carnage on Facebook.
"We forgot about it until we saw it at the wedding which the mother of the bride was wearing and it was obviously blue and black."
Read Newsbeat's interview with Caitlin McNeill
YouTube talent manager Sarah Weichel then spotted it on Tumblr and the rest is Twitter history...
Turns out a lot of people cared and thousands are still debating the colour of that badly-taken snapshot.
Various US news outlets have written stories about how the human eyes see different colours and why some people see blue and black while others see gold and white.
BuzzFeed's original article has been shared more than 20 million times and tech site Wired explains the science of colour.
The prime minster of Singapore liked the bit about science so much, he posted about it on his Facebook page.
And photo experts Adobe got involved as well, sending out this tweet.
It got celebrities talking on Twitter.
And then the memes started...
It's all great news for the makers of the Â£50 dress.
A quick check online shows Roman Women's Lace Detail Bodycon Dress is available in Royal Blue - so blue then...
And the company says it's looking into doing a gold and white version of the dress.
A spokesman told Newsbeat: "We're looking into getting it through the approval stages.
"We want to do it but it depends on the speed. We're trying to get it done as soon as possible.
"We are in contact with the suppliers to establish if we can get it manufactured in white and gold."
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The number of sex crimes recorded by Police Scotland has gone up, according to the force's own figures.

In 2016/17 there were 10,822 cases reported - an increase of 5.2% on the previous year and a record high.
Two reports containing the latest statistics are due to be presented to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) next week.
They also highlight the fact that much of the increase came from non-recent cases and online offences.
BBC Scotland's home affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson said the persistent rise in sexual offences, including rape, was against a general trend of reduced crime and had caused concern among police.
In the year to the end of last March, 1,755 rapes were reported - with the figure up by 2.3%.
However, 41.5% of those rapes were classed as non-recent which means they were reported more than one year after they were committed. Recently-committed rapes were slightly down (1.6%).
According to campaigners, such as Rape Crisis Scotland, this reflected an increase in historical reporting as victims gain confidence that they will be believed.
The number of indecent or sexual assaults recorded rose 9.8% to 6,996. Of these, more than 2,000 were classed as non-contact - a rise of almost 10%.
Many of these were related to indecent communications by mobile phone or online.
The reports also looked at children and sex crimes.
As of the beginning of April 2017, the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit had been notified of 32 significant child abuse investigations from local policing divisions since January 2017. All were still live and ongoing and four of them had an "online footprint".
The reports said that the majority of rapes reported, where the victim was under 13, were non-recent and most were committed by a family member.
In reported rapes where the victim was 13-15, the majority were recent, but again, the majority were committed by a family member. Most reported rapes of children took place in either their own home or that of the abuser.
The two reports due to go before the SPA are Police Scotland's Performance Summary Report Quarter 4 and The Sexual Crime Overview.
The second of these concluded: "Police Scotland is committed to sustain and where possible improve its focus against sexual crimes to support and seek justice for those affected."
Last month, new laws came into force aimed at improving the way sexual offences are dealt with in courts in Scotland.
Judges are now required to give special information to jurors in some trials.
In March, the inspector of constabulary (HMICS) strongly criticised the treatment by the NHS and police of victims of sexual assault and said services offered to some were "unacceptable."
The Scottish government said it was establishing a group to improve the responses to victims of rape or sexual assault.


Danes have rejected adopting EU rules on cross-border policing in a referendum that could have seen the country take closer ties with the bloc, according to final results.

Denmark's centre-right government had wanted to abandon some Danish opt-outs from EU home affairs legislation.
But with all votes now counted, more than 53% said No to the proposals.
The vote comes weeks after the Paris attacks and as Europe struggles to deal with record numbers of migrants.
"It is a clear no," Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, adding he had "full respect" for the voters' decision.
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The government, backed by the opposition, had campaigned for Yes, saying it would help Danish authorities in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Ultimately, voting No means Denmark remains exempt from large parts of the EU's criminal justice and home affairs system, a position it negotiated in 1993.
It risks losing access to Europol, Europe's crime and intelligence-sharing agency, a service frequently used by Denmark.
The confusing wording of the referendum question seems to have been a factor.
One voter described it as "the most baffling in the history of the EU", and on the foggy, wet streets of Copenhagen, that sentiment seemed to be shared by voters as they left polling stations, saying the question was too complicated and technical, and that explanations from politicians were not comprehensive.
For Denmark's government, urgent talks will now take place between Copenhagen and Brussels, to work out the ramifications of what the No vote means.
The result is likely to have been monitored by British politicians, interested to see with the upcoming UK referendum battle about to play out, how the gut instinct of the voters can be tied to current European events, and how the particular phrasing of the question can discourage or influence how tied-in to the European project Britons want to be.
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Several of the Paris attackers were French nationals who had been living in neighbouring Belgium. At least one surviving gunman, Salah Abdeslam, is thought to have fled across the French border in the aftermath of the shootings and suicide blasts in Paris on 13 November.
The result means Denmark will have to negotiate a special agreement to stay inside Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency which tackles organised crime and terrorism.
"We will work very hard for the Danes to get the best possible agreement. But it will be difficult," Soren Gade of the governing Venstre party told the Ritzau news agency.
The anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DPP), which props up Mr Rasmussen's administration in parliament, had urged voters to say No to avoid giving away further sovereignty to Brussels.
Although a Yes vote would not have affected Denmark's opt-out on immigration, the DPP argued that it could eventually have led to immigration policies being dictated by the EU.
Unlike Denmark, the UK and Ireland have opt-ins on justice and home affairs legislation, which enable them to choose whether to accept or reject legislation on a case-by-case basis.
The result of the referendum is likely to be of interest in Britain, whose government is trying to renegotiate its relations with the EU before holding a vote on whether to remain in the bloc.


A 66-year-old woman and six-year-old boy have died in a fire which swept through an overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Two others suffered serious burns and several more migrants were injured in clashes with police at the Moria camp.
Nearly 16,000 migrants have been blocked on Greek islands near Turkey since the EU's March deal with Turkey to curb the migrant influx to Europe.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he might let that influx resume.
He reacted angrily to a non-binding European Parliament vote on Thursday to freeze Turkey's EU accession negotiations.
"If you go any further, these border gates will be opened. Neither me nor my people will be affected by these empty threats," Mr Erdogan warned.
Turkey threatens to open border gates
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Migrant camp attacked on Greek island
Since March there has been a dramatic fall in the numbers of migrants making risky journeys in crowded, unstable boats from Turkey to the Greek islands.
Reports say an accident probably caused the blaze which killed the woman and boy in Moria. It is suspected that a gas canister exploded while she was cooking in her tent.
According to Greek police, some migrants then set fire to other parts of the camp and clashes broke out. The fires were later brought under control, but there was extensive damage.
Moria has been afflicted by unrest for months, as migrants endure long waits to have their asylum requests processed.
Under the Turkey deal, failed asylum seekers are supposed to be sent back to Turkey, which is already housing about 2.7 million Syrian refugees.
Last month migrants in Moria set fire to temporary EU offices during a protest.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson is predicting the outcome of every game at the 2016 European Championship.

Lawro correctly forecast that France, his pre-tournament pick to win the tournament, would beat Germany in their semi-final, but wrongly thought Wales would beat Portugal and make Sunday's final.
He picked the winner in two of the four quarter-finals, six of the eight last-16 ties and enjoyed a 42% success rate in the group stage, correctly guessing the outcome of 15 of the 36 games.
The only group he failed to get a single result in was Group F, which saw Hungary and Iceland spring a surprise by finishing first and second.
Before the tournament Lawro chose 11 of the 16 teams that went through to the first knockout stage.
Along with more than 375,000 of you, Lawro is taking part in the new BBC Sport Predictor game. He is going head-to-head with pundits, presenters and commentators from across BBC Sport.
He's doing well, but he is only in the running for a podium place - with a maximum of 40 points still to be won, commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball is certain of victory with one game to go.
You can make your own prediction for the final and take on your friends and other fans using the BBC's Euros Predictor.
Portugal have got to the final without playing well in any of their six matches in the tournament so far.
Other than putting a lot of crosses into the area for Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani, I am not sure what they offer going forward other than sitting back and waiting and waiting for the the opposition to make a mistake.
Their problem with doing that in this game is that they have not played a team as dangerous as France before. They have got so many players who will hurt Portugal if they give them time and space on the ball.
When you look at how France have got their goals, and who has got them, then they have got a lot of options on the field and on the bench in terms of who can do the damage.
I know it has been said that France are vulnerable at the back but they dealt pretty well with Germany in their semi-final.
Samuel Umtiti has come in and been outstanding in defence and, behind them, they have one of the best goalkeepers in the world in Hugo Lloris.
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Euro 2016 has not been a great tournament in terms of brilliant matches, but in terms of a spectacle, I just hope that France score early in the final.
Even if they go behind, I do not think they will be in trouble in the same way Wales were in their semi-final.
France have got more attacking weapons than any other team in the tournament and on top of that they have got momentum and home advantage.
Many of the best players over the past month have been French and in Antoine Griezmann they have the player of the tournament. He is an outstanding number 10 but what I love about him is that he is perfectly happy to track back and work when he is asked to as well.
I am convinced France will win but it is difficult to say whether this will be the start of a period of dominance for Les Bleus. Most of their talented attacking players are young, but it is hard to know how they will shape up as a team by the time the next World Cup comes round in 2018.
Lawro's prediction: 0-3
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.


A property deal has been agreed to keep the AA in Basingstoke and safeguard 750 jobs in the town.

The motoring association is to leave its current headquarters at Fanum House and move to new offices at Basing View.
The borough council has approved a deal to release the AA from its existing lease in return for a compensation payment and on the condition that it takes over the new premises.
The AA called it "positive and great news".
A spokesman for the firm said: "We have been in negotiations with the council for some time now as Fanum House was no longer fit for purpose, we had looked at other locations to move to but why would we change course and cause all the disruption that it would put on staff by moving when we could stay in the town which has been our home for a long time?
"It's saving the jobs in the area which can only be a good thing for Basingstoke too."
Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council's member for development, John Izett, said the deal vindicated the council's decision to invest in the land preparations before leasing it to developer Abstract.
He said: "This will send out a strong message to other companies, investors and developers that Basingstoke is the place to do business."
The AA has occupied the building for more than four decades but still has 56 years remaining on its 99-year lease with the council.
The value of the deal has not been disclosed but the authority said independent advisers had confirmed it would "obtain good value".
The AA - whose business includes breakdown assistance, maps, driving lessons and financial services - is to demolish Fanum House and hand the site back to the authority for redevelopment.


The chemical formaldehyde has been found after a primary school was closed because a smell made some children ill.

About 20 pupils were affected at Flash Ley Community Primary School and Nursery in Stafford on Friday.
The county council said the school would be shut until "all issues have been addressed". Arrangements are in place for children to go elsewhere.
Long-lasting health problems were unlikely following the "strong odour," the council said.
Formaldehyde is a toxic compound often used as a disinfectant and for embalming.
It can irritate the skin and cause breathing and digestive problems.
Ben Adams, council cabinet member for education and skills, said: "Symptoms of sore eyes, sore throats, runny noses, tightness of the chest, nausea and vomiting could be related to exposure to formaldehyde in the air, but for some children there could be other causes."
The council said testing revealed "high levels of formaldehyde, a common substance that is used extensively in buildings, internal furnishings and household products".
It said it was working closely with Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to investigate the cause of the incident, which was believed to be linked to work carried out on floors during the summer.
Public Health England said it was "satisfied that children and staff are not at risk of ongoing exposure".
Arrangements to educate children at the nearby Chetwynd Centre, Tillington Manor and Stafford Manor High were put in place, the council said.
Head teacher Simon Barker said offering alternative school provision was to allow for "more tests to be conducted within the school and to ensure all the issues have been addressed".
A helpline has been set up for parents.


The mother of a County Tyrone teenager who drowned in a quarry has called on vandals to stop damaging life-belts.

Rhys Jack, 17, fell into the water from a makeshift raft in the Backtown area of Strabane in May 2012.
In December, a rescue charity warned that lifesaving equipment was being thrown into the River Mourne "at least twice weekly".
Lorraine McGarrigle told the BBC that those responsible need to stop their "mindless behaviour".
"I live every single day with an emptiness in my heart, like half of my heart's gone," she said.
"Obviously the people who are destroying them don't realise this, I think it is just mindless and reckless."
Rhys Jack was the third member of his extended family to die in a drowning tragedy.
Mourne Search and Rescue said that people entering the water to recover the vandalised equipment were putting their own lives at risk.
Jeff Barr from the group said the repeated vandalism was "causing major public concern" and warned that if equipment is damaged or lost, people could die during an emergency.
Ms McGarrigle said her son might have survived had there been life belts available on the day he died.
"I think the water was just absolutely freezing and he panicked and that was it, he just drowned and nobody could help him that day," she said.
"It's awful because even at the quarry that day, if there had been a life ring, maybe something could have been done but unfortunately that wasn't to be.
"I would never want any parent to go through what I went through."