Midfielder Chris McCann has joined League One side Coventry City until 31 December, before he links up with new MLS franchise Atlanta United.

The 29-year-old joins the Sky Blues on a loan agreement before the American side begin their inaugural MLS season.
"When I spoke to the gaffer he was full of confidence about what he wants to achieve here this season," McCann said.
"The way he speaks and his ideas about the way he wants his team to play, it breeds confidence into players."
McCann agreed a move to Atlanta earlier this summer after he left Wigan, where he made 82 league appearances during a three-year stay.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Police in Mexico have arrested more than 250 people for looting shops and barricading roads amid protests over a rise in petrol prices.

The government raised petrol prices by up to 20% on 1 January as part of a gradual, year-long price liberalisation.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said the increase was "a necessary measure".
A litre of premium petrol now costs 18 pesos ($0.85; Â£0.70) in Mexico City.
Following the price hike, the average price of a gallon of petrol is almost as much as the daily minimum wage.
The raise has caused outrage among people dependent on petrol for their jobs such as taxi, lorry and delivery drivers.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said 23 shops had been looted and almost 30 barricades set up in the capital.
There were also protests in surrounding Mexico state and in Hidalgo and Michoacan, to the north and east of the capital, and the port city of Veracruz.
"These acts are outside the law and have nothing to do with peaceful protest nor freedom of expression," Deputy Interior Minister Rene Juarez said.
Environment Secretary Rafael Pacchiano defended the price hike in an opinion piece [in Spanish] published in the Excelsior newspaper.
He said Mexico's subsidies had led to the country becoming the world's fourth largest consumer of petrol and had caused environmental damage.


Capita has announced plans to create 200 new jobs in Glasgow, with an expansion of its Scottish IT and customer management divisions.

The firm already employs about 5,000 people in Scotland in areas including IT, telecoms, utilities and financial services.
It said it would spent Â£5m expanding Capita Customer Management Ltd (CCM) and Â£6m growing its IT services division.
The new jobs will be based at Skypark.
They have been supported by two Regional Selective Assistance grants from Scottish Enterprise totalling Â£1.24m.
Capita also has offices in Aberdeen, Forres, Edinburgh and Stirling.
First Minister Alex Salmond, who met Capita's business development director Gordon Lee as part of a business engagement programme during the Ryder Cup, welcomed the news.
Mr Salmond said: "International companies estimate general cost savings of around 30-40% can be achieved in Scotland when comparing similar operational, property and employment costs to London.
"Capita, as one of our largest employers, already employ thousands of people across Scotland and I welcome their commitment to create an additional 200 jobs in Glasgow and the number of other ventures planned in coming years."
Gordon Lee said: "Our presence in Scotland has grown significantly in the last few years and this investment demonstrates Capita's continued focus in the country."


A talented artist and musician, Elizabeth Daplyn lived in Highgate, north London, with her partner Rob Brennan.

They parted at 0810 BST on 7 July 2005 on their way to work and Ms Daplyn boarded the Piccadilly Line train. She died in the blast.
The 26-year-old administrator worked at University College Hospital in the neuro-radiology department.
When she was reported missing, her father Michael returned to the country and travelled to London to meet her mother, who lives in Swansea, and sister.
Ms Daplyn was born in Leicester but spent her early years abroad before attending schools in Rochester, Kent.
After an art foundation course, she studied Fine Art at Oxford University.
Graduating with a 2:1, she set herself the difficult task of making a living in the art or publishing world.
But after several unpaid internships, her pragmatic streak surfaced and she began to look for paid work.
In 2002, she moved to London and worked in a number of administrative roles before joining the hospital.
During her short life she moved all over the UK and around the world, from Kent to Lahore and Newport to Nigeria.
This fuelled her love of travel and food, which she shared with others in person and on blogs.
At the inquest into her death five years on, her sister Eleanor Daplyn said in a statement: "From a young age, she had the ability to fit in to almost any location and situation readily, with humour, and with a sizeable appetite for all that was new and interesting."
Her sister went on to say that at the time of her death, Ms Daplyn had been as settled and content as she had ever known her, and was very happy to be living with Mr Brennan.
"When thinking about what she might have done in the future, I honestly have to say I don't know," she said.
"The scope of her intellect and imagination mean that it could have been everything and anything."
Speaking shortly after her death, her uncle, the Reverend Tim Daplyn, in Somerset, said: "She was very bright, and a talented singer who had a lot of friends.
"We didn't realise she had so many until she disappeared."


The Mexican authorities are reopening the investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero.

An international panel of experts had said the investigation was flawed.
Relatives of the students have disputed the government's account of what happened in September 2014.
The government says that police in the town of Iguala handed the students over to a drugs cartel who killed them and incinerated the bodies.
The panel of experts, working for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, criticised the government's version of events.
The 43 were all students at an all-male teacher training college in the town of Aytozinapa, in south-western Guerrero state. The college has a history of left-wing activism and the students regularly took part in protests.
They disappeared from the nearby town of Iguala on the evening of 26 September 2014 amid a confrontation between municipal police and the students during which six people were killed.
Independent forensic experts have matched charred bone fragments reportedly found at a rubbish dump near Iguala to Alexander Mora, one of the 43 missing students. They also say there is a high probability another set of remains could belong to Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz, another of the students. However, experts from the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights say the chain of evidence was broken and they could not be sure the bone fragments had been found at the dump.
According to the official report, the students were seized by corrupt municipal police officers who handed them over to members of a local drugs gang. The drugs gang mistook the students for members of a rival gang, killed them and burned their bodies at the dump before throwing their ashes into a nearby stream.
They think officials have failed to investigate the role soldiers from a nearby barracks may have played in the students' disappearance. The government has refused to let the soldiers, who were in the area at the time of the disappearance, be questioned by anyone but government prosecutors. The families also point to the report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights which said that there was no evidence the bodies of the 43 were burned at the dump.
The panel of experts concluded that the government's account that the students were burnt beyond identification at a rubbish dump was physically impossible.
It said official reports appeared to downplay the presence of federal police and troops near the areas where the students were seized.
The experts said the army had refused to allow them to interview soldiers.
They came up with a list of 10 recommendations which the Mexican government has agreed to abide by.
In line with one of the recommendations, the search for the students will be relaunched, following outlines laid down by the experts and carried out in coordination with the victims' families.
The experts also want the government investigation to follow up other recommendations and to address other issues from the report.


A brothel madam who went on the run abroad for seven years has been jailed.

Diana Jones from Llangain, Carmarthenshire, lived a "life of luxury" in Northern Cyprus - which has no extradition treaty with the UK - after refusing to pay back £2.6m she earned from brothels in Cardiff and Swindon.
But she was arrested in May at Stansted Airport after flying back into the UK, reportedly due to concerns about her health.
She has been jailed for four years.
Plaid Cymru assembly member Phil Williams died of a heart attack while visiting her parlour Twice As Nice in 2003.
Cardiff Crown Court was told in 2008 police were aware of what went on in her massage parlours and regularly checked no under-age girls were employed or there was any drug use.
But she was arrested after taking two eastern European women she suspected of being human trafficking victims to police.
A probe found Jones had nothing to do with trafficking but detectives found evidence of money laundering.
She was given a 12-month suspended sentence and told if she did not pay back £2.6m she would go to prison.
But she had already left the UK and she refused to come back.
Police said the interest on her debt meant the figure had risen to £3.7m.


A serial conman wanted in the UK for a Â£21,000 fraud but arrested in Spain for an unconnected crime has been released.

Norman Fowler, 38, from Colchester, went missing in 2014 after being sentenced to nine months in jail for fraud.
He was being held in custody while on remand for gun licensing matters, but has now been released.
Thomas Tailford, a victim of Fowler, has criticised Essex Police for not seeking extradition quickly enough.
Essex Police said a request for a European Arrest Warrant had already been made, adding: "The officer in the case has been in contact with the relevant authorities to expedite the request."
Fowler has been on the run for two years after skipping bail at Norwich Crown Court.
Last week the BBC tracked him to Spain, where he was being held in a jail in Alicante.
Spanish sources have confirmed to the BBC Fowler has been seen back on the streets in Spain after being released on bail.
Videographer Mr Tailford, from Norfolk, who had cameras stolen by Fowler, set up a website to expose him and track him down.
Mr Tailford told the BBC: "Following the BBC investigation I expected the police would certainly make an effort to ensure Fowler's arrest so he could be brought to justice.
"Obviously I'm frustrated again thinking that Norman Fowler could abscond again and feel the police should really have been in touch with the authorities in Spain to advise he has a previous history of evading police."


Plants have a built-in capacity to do maths, which helps them regulate food reserves at night, research suggests.

UK scientists say they were "amazed" to find an example of such a sophisticated arithmetic calculation in biology.
Mathematical models show that the amount of starch consumed overnight is calculated by division in a process involving leaf chemicals, a John Innes Centre team reports in e-Life journal.
Birds may use similar methods to preserve fat levels during migration.
The scientists studied the plant Arabidopsis, which is regarded as a model plant for experiments.
Overnight, when the plant cannot use energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into sugars and starch, it must regulate its starch reserves to ensure they last until dawn.
Experiments by scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, show that to adjust its starch consumption so precisely, the plant must be performing a mathematical calculation - arithmetic division.
"They're actually doing maths in a simple, chemical way - that's amazing, it astonished us as scientists to see that," study leader Prof Alison Smith told BBC News.
"This is pre-GCSE maths they're doing, but they're doing maths."
The scientists used mathematical modelling to investigate how a division calculation can be carried out inside a plant.
During the night, mechanisms inside the leaf measure the size of the starch store. Information about time comes from an internal clock, similar to the human body clock.
The researchers proposed that the process is mediated by the concentrations of two kinds of molecules called "S" for starch and "T" for time.
If the S molecules stimulate starch breakdown, while the T molecules prevent this from happening, then the rate of starch consumption is set by the ratio of S molecules to T molecules. In other words, S divided by T.
"This is the first concrete example in biology of such a sophisticated arithmetic calculation," said mathematical modeller Prof Martin Howard, of the John Innes Centre.
The scientists think similar mechanisms may operate in animals such as birds to control fat reserves during migration over long distances, or when they are deprived of food when incubating eggs.
Commenting on the research, Dr Richard Buggs of Queen Mary, University of London, said: "This is not evidence for plant intelligence. It simply suggests that plants have a mechanism designed to automatically regulate how fast they burn carbohydrates at night. Plants don't do maths voluntarily and with a purpose in mind like we do."


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Arkansas will become the first US state in 17 years to hold two executions on the same day, if two inmates are put to death as planned on Monday evening.

Lawyers for Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are seeking stays of execution on grounds of poor health.
Arkansas initially planned to execute eight inmates over 11 days before a drug used in executions could expire.
On Thursday, Ledell Lee was put to death in the state's first execution since 2005.
Another inmate, Kenneth Williams, is due to be put to death on Thursday, though his lawyers say he is intellectually disabled.
The remaining four of the eight planned executions have been placed on hold by court order.
But the state's top prosecutor has vowed to overcome legal obstacles and haul the condemned back to the death chamber.
The last time a US state executed two inmates on the same day was in 2000 in Texas.
Both inmates due to be put to death on Monday have admitted they are guilty.
Jones was convicted in 1996 of raping and strangling Mary Phillips and attempting to murder her 11-year-old daughter.
He was also convicted of rape and murder in Florida.
Williams was sentenced to death in 1997 for kidnapping, raping and murdering Stacy Errickson.
He also abducted and raped two other women.
Jones is scheduled to be put to death at 19:00 local time (midnight GMT) at Cummins Unit prison, while Williams is due up next in the chamber at 20:15.
They applied on Sunday for a stay of execution to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has yet to rule.
It is expected to be among a last-minute flurry of legal motions.
Jones and Williams argue that obesity and related conditions mean midazolam, a sedative used in the three-drug cocktail for lethal injections, may not work on them.
Attorneys for Jones say he could suffer from a "torturous death" because he may be resistant to midazolam.
They say he is already taking high doses of two other drugs for a host of maladies, including diabetes, high blood pressure and neuropathy.
Lawyers for Williams say it may be difficult to find a vein on their client for the lethal injection because he weighs 400lb (180kg).
A federal judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, last Friday rejected a challenge on health grounds from Williams and Jones.
James Phillips, the husband of the woman murdered by Jones, told the BBC: "It don't matter if they suffer a little bit as far as I'm concerned, because my wife suffered big time.
"She was sexually abused in every way possible and as she was suffering he took a cord off a coffee pot and strangled her.
"And I don't know how much meaner a man can get to do something like that."
The state attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, says the inmates' appeals are merely delaying tactics.
A lawsuit from the company that makes one of the execution drugs has been among a wave of legal challenges to the state's unprecedented execution schedule.
Arkansas Supreme Court last week threw out the manufacturer's lawsuit, which had argued that the state did not make clear it wished to use the supplies for executions.


At 1am on Easter Sunday, the clocks moved forward by one hour, marking the start of British Summer Time.

Normally, clocks are put forward an hour on the last Sunday in March, and then put back an hour on the last Sunday in October.
In 2016, summer time will last from 27 March to 30 October.
During that time, we move our clocks forward by an hour - so, if you normally get up at 8am, it will feel like 7am.
The change is called 'daylight saving', and the idea is to make the most of natural daylight, by arranging for the hours of the day when we do the most things to happen when it's light.
Starting the day earlier means that mornings are darker, but it stays light for longer in the evenings.
It was first done in the UK in 1916 - 100 years ago - during the First World War.
The aim was to save fuel, and give people more time to work in the fields.
Now, some people think that we should have British Summer Time all year round.


Russia's culture minister has proposed charging Russians more to watch Hollywood films as a way to support the nation's struggling film industry.

Vladimir Medinsky told MPs that the state budget for Russian cinema was less than half the Hollywood budget for a hit like The Fast and the Furious.
He said there were both financial and ideological grounds for restricting Hollywood films in Russia.
Russian cinema-goers ought to pay extra to see US movies, he argued.
"Currently a ticket for a Hollywood movie and one for a Russian movie costs the same - 230 roubles (Â£3; $4) - and that's wrong," he said.
Earlier a Communist Russian MP and film director, Vladimir Bortko, complained that the culture ministry was spending 35m roubles (Â£467,000; $608,000) on Russian cinema, whereas the typical budget for one Hollywood movie was $12m.
Mr Medinsky agreed that Russian cinema needed more state support, because "there is no suggestion that these films can compete with the sales of Hollywood blockbusters".
Some Russian arthouse films nevertheless became box office hits in Russia, he said.
He asked MPs to consider whether Russians would buy a Russian-made car if a US car was on sale for the same price.
According to Mr Bortko, 156 Russian films were shown in Russian cinemas last year, but they drew only 18% of the audience.
Russian film hits abroad


Australian stocks have fallen after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recalled parliament and brought the budget forward, setting the scene for an early election.

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 reversed early gains and is down 0.6% in Sydney.
Mr Turnbull has been trying to pass through labour reform bills but has faced hostility to it from the senate.
As a result, he's threatened to dissolve both houses of parliament and call an early election on 2 July.
Polls indicate his party are likely to win, even though Mr Turnbull's approval ratings have recently fallen.
Asian stocks overall are trading mixed with markets in New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore in negative territory.
Japan's financial markets are closed for a public holiday.
In China, Hong Kong's Hang Seng opened 0.2% higher while the Shanghai Composite also rose, increasing 1.7%.
However mainland investors may trade cautiously after China's central bank governor warned over the weekend that the country's corporate debt levels were too high and that more reforms in its capital markets were needed.
People's Bank of China (PBOC) governor Zhou Xiaochuan said in a speech at the China Development Forum conference that lending as a ratio to gross domestic product "is too high".
Analysts said the admission from the PBOC could dampen investors' risk appetite.
This week the "market mood, rather than data, will rule the roost in Asia," Vishnu Varathan from Mizuho Bank said.


A man has been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an 81-year-old man in Larkhall.

The victim was found with stab wounds in his home in the South Lanarkshire town's Castleview on Wednesday afternoon.
He was taken to Wishaw General Hospital, where his condition was said to be stable.
Police said a 47-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the incident.
He is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.
Officers had said the victim was subjected to a "brutal attack" in his own home.


Nepalese Sherpas have a physiology that uses oxygen more efficiently than those used to the atmosphere at sea level.

This is the finding of a new study that investigated high-altitude adaptation in mountain populations.
The research involved taking muscle samples from mountaineers at 5,300m altitude and even putting them on an exercise bike at Mt Everest Base Camp.
The Sherpas owe this ability to an advantageous genetic mutation that gives them a unique metabolism.
It has long been a puzzle that Sherpas can cope with the low-oxygen atmosphere present high in the Himalayas far better than those visiting the region.
Mountaineers trekking to the area can adapt to the low oxygen by increasing the number of red cells in their blood, increasing its oxygen-carrying capacity.
In contrast, Sherpas actually have thinner blood, with less haemoglobin and a reduced capacity for oxygen (although this does have the advantage that the blood flows more easily and puts less strain on the heart).
"This shows that it's not how much oxygen you've got, it's what you do with it that counts," concludes Cambridge University’s Prof Andrew Murray, the senior author on the new study.
"Sherpas are extraordinary performers, especially on the high Himalayan peaks. So, there's something really unusual about their physiology," he told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme.
Unravelling what is different involved a substantial scientific expedition to Everest Base Camp  where the high-altitude response of 10 mostly European researchers and 15 elite Sherpas could be compared.
For participants like James Horscroft, whose PhD was based on the data he got from this Xtreme Everest 2 venture, this meant not just a chance to explore one of the planet’s most remote regions, but also a lot of pressure.
“It was very stressful, because we only had this one chance to get our data, high in the Himalaya."
For James, like all the others, those data included samples of muscle punctured from the thigh. While some samples were frozen to be taken back to university labs, others were experimented on in a makeshift lab at the base camp.
“We had to start at seven in the morning, because it took four hours to do all the tests on one sample," James said. "At that time, the temperature could be 10 degrees below freezing, so we'd be all wrapped up and wearing gloves. By late morning it would rise to plus-25, and we'd be taking all our kit off!"
What the biochemical tests on the fresh muscle showed was that the Sherpas' tissue was able to make much better use of oxygen by limiting the amount of body fat burned and maximising the glucose consumption.
"Fat is a great fuel, but the problem is that it's more oxygen hungry than glucose," Prof Murray explained.
In other words, by preferentially burning body sugar rather than body fat, the Sherpas can get more calories per unit of oxygen breathed.
The result impresses Federico Formenti of King’s College, London, whose own trekking study a decade ago, monitoring oxygen consumption through breath sensors, suggested Sherpas can produce 30% more power than lowlanders.
"This paper provides a cellular mechanism for what we found at the whole body level; that Sherpas use less oxygen to do the same job," he says.
James Horscroft agrees the difference in performance is impressive. "It was pretty clear straight away that our tissue experiments were showing different metabolisms for the two groups. In fact, the difference was so astounding we were worried if the tests were working."
But back in Cambridge the results were borne out. And a genetic variation altering the way fats are burned was established, too. While all of the Sherpas carried the glucose-favouring variant of the metabolic gene, almost none of the lowland volunteers did.
Sherpas are a specific population amongst the Nepalese ("the Ferraris of the Himalayans", Formenti calls them) who migrated to the country 500 years ago from Tibet, which has been occupied by humans for at least 6,000 years. That is plenty of time for a beneficial gene to become embedded, Prof Murray argues.
"It's not down to one gene, of course. We see better blood flow through the capillaries; and they appear to have a richer capillary network as well so that the oxygen can be delivered better to the tissues. But this gene would also have given them some advantage."
Other recent studies have shown that some genes that help Tibetans survive at high altitude come from the recently discovered extinct human species known as the Denisovans, although there is no evidence yet that the metabolic gene is among them.
The Sherpa study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
You can hear an interview with Prof Murray on this week's Science In Action programme, to be broadcast first on Thursday.


Self-styled revolutionary "Carlos the Jackal" has lost an appeal against his life sentence for deadly attacks in France in the 1980s.

The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has always denied playing any role in the bomb attacks that killed 11 people.
But a court in Paris upheld his jail term on Wednesday.
The 63-year-old, who is also serving a life sentence for a triple murder in 1975, was captured in Sudan in 1994.
By that time he had earned global notoriety as a Marxist militant who masterminded deadly bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings.
Ramirez addressed the appeals court for four hours ahead of the judgement.
He said evidence against him had been falsified by "manipulators serving foreign powers" and accused French investigators of being "agents of the American embassy", according to AFP news agency.
After the ruling, his lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre said her client would appeal once again, saying the verdict was decided "without a shred of proof by a discredited justice" system.
Ramirez began his six week-long trial by saying he had decided to drop his lawyers and asking for a court-appointed defence team.
Prosecutors had struggled to secure a conviction until the release of secret files from East Germany's notorious secret police, the Stasi.
During his trial in 2011, Ramirez described himself as a "man of combat" and a "professional revolutionary".
"I am a living archive," he said. "Most of the people of my level are dead."
He also read a text in memory of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is known to have funded anti-Western attacks.
His convictions in France relate to attacks in 1982-83
Ramirez was born into a wealthy Venezuelan family and studied in Moscow before joining the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He converted to Islam in 1975.
He got his nickname after a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal was found among his belongings.


The al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group fighting government forces in Syria, has reportedly posted a video saying it has captured five Yemeni soldiers sent to help quell the uprising.

The video shows five men asking Yemen to stop supporting Bashar al-Assad.
The four-minute video's authenticity has not been verified.
A Yemeni rights group said five Yemeni officers had been studying at a military academy in Aleppo but went missing in August, Reuters reported.
They had reportedly disappeared en route to Damascus from Aleppo on their way home after completing their studies, Reuters quoted the Hood group as saying.
The four-minute video, which was posted on jihadist forums, shows the identity cards of five men, one of whom appears to be a lieutenant colonel, as well as pictures of them in military uniform.
The five are pictured sitting below a black flag emblazoned with "al-Nusra Front" in Arabic.
The video includes an interview with one of the men who says the group were sent to Damascus to help quell the uprising.
The man, who identifies himself as Mohammed Abdo Hezam al-Meleiky, says: "I ask the Yemeni government to cut all logistical and military ties because Bashar al-Assad's regime is a regime that is killing its people and that is what we saw with our own eyes when we came here."
The al-Nusra Front - or The Front for the Defence of the Syrian People - says it comprises jihadis who have returned from other wars to fight in Syria. It has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on pro-government targets.
Activists estimate more than 27,000 people have died in the violence since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began last year.
Yemen's government - which is battling its own Islamic insurgency at home - has refused to criticise Mr Assad's tactics to quell the uprising in Syria.
Last November, it was one of just three Arab League states - along with Syria and Lebanon - to vote against suspending Syria from the bloc over its crackdown.
Aleppo has seen days of fighting as government forces and rebels seek to gain control of Syria's largest city.


Hundreds of people have gathered for the funeral of a man once dubbed Salford's Mr Big.

Security boss and convicted criminal Paul Massey, 55, was shot by a masked gunman at his home in Clifton, Salford, last month.
Supt Mark Kenny, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), urged criminal gangs "not take action into their own hands".
He said uniformed officers were not at the funeral, but armed response teams were on standby.
They stopped the traffic on a busy road in Salford to allow a funeral cortege to pass by.
A pipe band played and crowds lining the street applauded as the white, horse-drawn carriage came into view.
But they weren't here to say farewell to a local dignitary or celebrity.
This was the funeral of Paul Massey, once dubbed the Mr Big of Salford's criminal underworld.
He'd served time for stabbing a man in 1999.
In recent years the 55-year-old had attempted to rebrand himself as a businessman and politician - standing for mayor of Salford in 2015.
He was shot dead outside his home last month - bringing to fruition his own prophecy, made years earlier, that one day he would fall to a bullet.
The search for his killer continues.
"Do not take action into your own hands," said Mr Kenny in a BBC interview, appealing directly to criminals.
"Speak to the police, speak to us.
"I very much hope it is a family day and it is very much about respect for the family.
"If anything did happen we will respond appropriately and deal with it."
He said, contrary to some reports, that Mr Massey was "absolutely not" a mediator for police.
Mr Kenny denied Salford was "a lawless city" and "at the heart of it there is a really good community".
But he acknowledged there were "areas of deprivation and individuals who sometimes come together and cause serious crime".
Mr Kenny said although there were 19 gangs in Salford, "clearly they are a minority in Salford engaged in criminality."
GMP officers have targeted gangs in the city and since January have made 100 arrests and have eight money-laundering investigations.
They have also seized 26 firearms, more than Â£9m of drugs money and large amounts of ammunition.
In 1999, Mr Massey was sentenced to 14 years for stabbing a man in the groin outside a nightclub.
He was given the title Mr Big by the late Salford councillor Joe Burrows at a meeting to discuss civil disturbances in 1992  - which he always denied having anything to do with.
In 2012, he was unsuccessful in his mayoral bid, polling 1,995 votes - 4.45% of the poll - and coming seventh out of 10 candidates.


Pakistani police have denied they did nothing to stop a so-called honour killing in front of a court in Lahore.

Farzana Parveen was bludgeoned to death by her family for marrying a man of her own choice. Police say she had died by the time they were able to intervene.
Ms Parveen's husband Muhammad Iqbal has maintained that officers stood by as the attack took place.
Meanwhile, Iqbal himself has admitted killing his first wife six years ago in order to marry Ms Parveen.
Ms Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was pelted with bricks and bludgeoned by relatives furious because she married against their wishes.
In a report given to the chief minister of Punjab state on Friday, police say one of Ms Parveen's relatives accosted her "several hundred feet" from the court premises and shot her in the shin.
There was no police deployment in that area, the report says, but a police inspector happened to be nearby and managed to snatch away the gun.
However, according the police, a scuffle ensued between about 20 members of Ms Parveen's family and 10 to 15 of Iqbal's, during which one of Ms Parveen's brothers struck her with a brick three times, wounding her fatally.
Police say one of Ms Parveen's uncles, two of her cousins, and the driver who brought them to Lahore were arrested on Friday.
Her father surrendered to police shortly after the killing.
'Honour' killings in Pakistan
•In 2013, 869 women murdered in so called "honour killings"
•Campaigners say real number is likely to be much higher
•Of these, 359 were so called "Karo Kari" cases, whereby  family members consider themselves  authorised to kill offending relatives to restore honour
•Rights groups say conviction rate in cases of  sexual and other violence against women is "critically low"
Source: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan annual report 2013
Further reading: Why do families kill their daughters?
Ms Parveen's relatives had filed a case against Iqbal at the High Court, accusing him of abducting her.
The newlyweds were at the Lahore court to contest this case. Ms Parveen had already testified to police that she had married of her own free will.
Analysis - M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad
The twists and turns in the events since Farzana Perveen's murder on Tuesday have transformed a case of honour killing into a tricky tale of love, greed and murder.
We have a man who now admits to have killed an earlier wife, and a woman who the police claim was already someone else's legally wedded wife - which would make her an adulteress under Pakistani law. In addition, the father, brothers and cousins who are accused of murdering Farzana are also said to have killed a woman of the family before.
A recent police report does little to explain this, except for its emphasis on the point that the Farzana case was not a case of stoning, suggesting that it did not merit the attention it got. This is reflective of a deeply conservative society which tends to condone such crimes, and is helped by a set of Islamic laws dating from the 1980s that "privatise" murder as a crime against the individual instead of the state, and give the heirs of the victim the right to pardon the killer.
So there is often minimum police interest in these cases, and as a result, there are few successful prosecutions. Many believe it is this atmosphere of impunity that emboldened Farzana's relatives in the first place to kill her in broad daylight.
In other developments in the case, Iqbal himself has admitted that he killed his first wife six years ago in order to be able to marry Ms Parveen.
Iqbal's son by his first marriage Aurangzeb told the BBC's Ilyas Khan that relatives persuaded him to forgive Iqbal, enabling his release from prison under Pakistani law.
"They said that my mother was gone anyway and would never return, and that I had two younger brothers to take care of," Aurangzeb said.
"So if my father came back, our life would be much better. And he was my father after all. So I agreed," he added.
Aurangzeb also said Ms Parveen had told him that her elder sister had also been killed by the family. In that case the sister had reportedly refused to leave her husband.
A police spokesman told the BBC they could not confirm this allegation. There has been no comment from Ms Parveen's family.
There are hundreds of so-called "honour killings" in Pakistan each year.
The latest incident has prompted particular outrage, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif describing it as "totally unacceptable".
Arranged marriages are the norm in Pakistan, and to marry against the wishes of the family is unthinkable in many deeply conservative communities.


Initial proposals for a £22m hospital to replace two community hospitals in Denbighshire have been approved by the health minister.

Mark Drakeford agreed £750,000 funding for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) to progress plans to replace Rhyl's Alexandra Hospital and Prestatyn Community Hospital.
If approved, the new hospital would be developed on the Rhyl site.
Mr Drakeford said he looked forward to seeing the new building in 2016.
The BCUHB wants the new hospital to serve Rhyl, Prestatyn, Rhuddlan, Dyserth and surrounding areas.
As well as replacing the Rhyl and Prestatyn hospitals, the new integrated community hospital will replace other services including, dental clinics and the child and adolescent mental health service.
It will also include 30 in-patient beds and 18 in-patient beds for older people with mental health problems as well as younger people with early on-set dementia.
The hospital will also have x-rays, ultrasound, a pharmacy and other facilities.
Mr Drakeford has now approved the strategic outline case for the development - the first of three business case stages to obtain capital investment.
He said he hoped the new hospital would provide services "in a way that we hope will be replicated across Wales in the coming years".
He added: "I and colleagues within the health sector have made it clear over the past 12 months that we cannot continue to provide health services in Wales in their current format. It is untenable.
"We must aim for an integration of services and enable better access to services for patients closer to home or at home so that we can free up the rest of the service and allow it to do what is fit for purpose."
He said he hoped the next stage - submission of an outline business case - would come in July 2014, and he looked forward to visiting the new hospital in 2016.
Dr Peter Higson, Chairman of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, said " We are delighted that the first stage of the business case for the new North Denbighshire community hospital has been approved by the minister.
"We look forward to progressing with the next stages which will, when completed, see the development of a modern and vibrant centre not just for healthcare services but for a much wider range of services, support and information that will meet the needs of local people for years to come."
But David Morris, former chairman of Prestatyn Community Hospital's League of Friends, said he felt "sad" for local people because the old hospital was "fantastic".
He added: "It was closed on 1 March - St David's Day of all days.
"I had to dissolve the League of Friends because we had no patients, no hospital left. It was one of the saddest things I've had to do.
"There was tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment in there that we bought over the years. I just hope it's all kept local."
He said the League of Friends still had £94,000 of raised money - most of which would go to the Wales air ambulance and St Kentigern Hospice in St Asaph.
He added: "It's our money. They can't touch that.
"It will be distributed to small local charities as well."


Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo said he felt "screwed" by the pit-stop error that cost him victory in Monaco.

The Australian was poised to take the lead from eventual winner Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes only for a slow pit stop because his tyres were not ready to delay him.
The problem followed a mistake costing him a win in Spain two weeks ago.
"I got called in and the tyres weren't ready. I didn't make the call," Ricciardo said.
"The guys were running around like ducks, I don't like being up here and being miserable because I got a podium in F1 and it should be a good day but when it happens two races in a row it is hard to take."
He had earlier told the team over the radio on the slowing-down lap: "Nothing you could say would make that any better. Save it."
Watch: Allan McNish explains Red Bull's "colossal mess-up"
Ricciardo pitted a lap after Hamilton finally made a stop to switch from his 'extreme' wet tyres, which he had used from the start of the race, and had built enough of a margin on that tour to reclaim the lead. But the delay at the stop meant Hamilton blasted past as he rejoined the track.
He added: "I felt it should have been me. If Barcelona wasn't clear, this one was crystal clear. I took Barcelona on the chin and this one I don't know if I can handle it as good as I did.
"This is such a prestigious race. I may win it in the future but this one I will never get back so it hurts a lot more than any other."
As for any explanation from the team, he said: "Right now I don't want to hear it. I just want to get out of here. It will be talked about but now is not the time to do it."
Red Bull motorsport chief Helmut Marko said: "We presented it to Mercedes. Unfortunately, a lot of misunderstanding and not the right communication.
"We will investigate and find out [what happened], but it was a human mistake.
"We will check it, make an investigation, and then we can tell you more. I feel really sorry [for Ricciardo], all we can do is apologise to him."
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The commissioner who represents victims of the Troubles has said they have been let down by politicians.

Judith Thompson said they are "utterly disillusioned" by the failure to reach agreement on how to deal with the past.
The victims commissioner said that she believes progress is still possible on the issue.
But she added that it will require political courage because all sides have something to fear.
Ms Thompson was responding to Secretary of State James Brokenshire who said a public consultation on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles is on hold until he achieves "broad political consensus".
In a BBC interview, she accepted that going public with proposals that have not been agreed could "kill the process", but said progress must be made.
"It's going to require a lot of courage on all parts because what will come out through the proper investigation of these 2,000 deaths is not going to be comfortable for anybody," she said.
"But the consequences of not doing it are very, very far reaching and will bring us back to this point again at some point."
The Stormont House Agreement set out a plan for dealing with the legacy of the Troubles two years ago.
The British government and DUP are at loggerheads with Sinn FÃ©in on the issue and the two sides have been unable to reach agreement on how that will be done.
In recent weeks, each side has blamed the other for the lack of progress.
"This is something that is far, far too important to be playing political ping pong around whose fault it might be," said Ms Thompson.
"I have sat down with victims' groups over the last number of days, and I think people feel utterly disillusioned.
"What people have said to me is, look people bring us in, everybody says they care about us, everybody says we are at the centre of what is happening and then they don't do anything.
"So what does that tell us? It tells us that we actually aren't important at all."
Asked if she also felt disillusioned by the lack of agreement on the issue, the commissioner said she desperately felt the "injustice" of the situation.
"Yes, there are political objectives, there are strategies and long-term strategies for all the players in the political arena, for where they want to get to, but the people I talk for, they don't have that time," she said.
One of the main sticking points in the negotiations on legacy is the issue of national security, and how much sensitive information the government and security agencies have said should be released into the public domain.
The commissioner has previously said the government cannot use national security as a rock under which to hide from Troubles-related issues.
Ms Thompson said she believes efforts to reach agreement on the past are now "teetering on the edge", and that victims have been let down.
"Collectively everybody has (let them down). Collectively victims have not been served well in the out-workings of our peace, and our peace has served most of us very well," she said.


Neil Patrick Harris' debut turn as Oscars host was one of the most forgettable for years - although one moment will define him forever.

Just as David Letterman had his painfully awkward "Uma, Oprah" routine and Seth Macfarlane his catastrophically misjudged song We Saw Your Boobs, Harris will be recalled mostly as the guy who presented in his pants.
It was certainly an arresting image, the How I Met Your Mother star clad only in socks, shoes and what are referred to in America as "tighty whiteys." It was a reference to a scene from Birdman, and - like any time Johnny Depp sings - you had to admire the courage, if not the execution.
And at least it was memorable, unlike almost anything Harris actually said.
Bafflingly, given the amount of potential material to work with - the Sony hack; the Interview row; the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter campaign - the script saw Harris referring to Reese Witherspoon as someone he could eat "with a spoon."
The actor was one of a team of 12 Oscar writers. Just think - one of them worked on that humdinger. The other 11 approved it.
Even more puzzling, things had started brilliantly. The first line was by far the best - "tonight we honour Hollywood's best and whitest - sorry, brightest" - a reference to the #OscarsSoWhite debate that followed the nominations.
Then there was the opening song, about the wonder of "moving pictures", featuring Harris, Anna Kendrick and Jack Black - and dancing Stormtroopers.
Harris, a Tony Award-winner on Broadway, pulled it off like Steve Martin or Billy Crystal at their best, putting himself into classic movie scenes while pulling off clever rhymes like "Argo / And Fargo / Or when Marty made his car go".
Having nailed it, he turned to the camera and smiled. "That whole thing? Completely improvised."
It was pretty much the last big laugh he achieved. From there on, flat setups began crashing into flubbed punchlines with the alacrity of a drunk sailor inviting the entire pub to have a go if they think they're hard enough.
There was a predictable joke about Harvey Weinstein (there always is); a bit where he started to talk to the seat fillers and then seemed to immediately lose heart; a routine about his Oscar predictions so laboured it was on the verge of setting up its own union.
By halfway through there was terror in Harris' eyes whenever the camera came to him. A part where he asked David Oyelowo to read an insult about the remake of Annie - which had recast the lead with a black actress - was fist-gnawingly uncomfortable.
It's worth noting, however, that it was this undercurrent of racial politics that gave the night its most memorable moments.
Oyelowo was in tears as he listened to the performance of Glory by John Legend and Common from Selma. It was an intense, powerful performance which had the entire audience on their feet as it finished.
When Glory shortly afterwards gained Legend and Common (under their real names of John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn) the best song trophy, they electrified with a passionate joint speech.
"Nina Simone said it was an artist's duty to reflect the times we live. Selma may be 50 years ago, but it is now, because the struggle for justice is right now," they insisted, and the music that normally strikes up to urge the winners off the stage stayed silent.
Indeed it was a night for politics. Best Actress Patricia Arquette called for equality for women; Best Adapted Screenplay winner Graham Moore urged young people confused about their sexuality to "stay weird"; Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu spoke about the Mexicans "who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation".
Meanwhile, at the end - in every sense - Harris fluffed a gag about mispronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor's name.
In the context of what had preceded it, it struck a particularly flat note. The Oscars aren't going to stop being seen as white and elitist if every year the writers insist on mining this seam of "exotic names are weird and hard to say."
That is hardly Harris' fault. Nevertheless, it really did highlight the contrast of the night: That between black politics and white pants.


A life-sized cast iron sculpture by Sir Antony Gormley that stood on rocks at a Dorset beauty spot has toppled over into the water following a storm.

Part of a commission entitled "Land", the sculpture at Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge Bay, was created to mark 50 years of UK building conservation charity Landmark Trust.
At the time Gormley said the artworks were "catalysts for reflection".
The figure was supposed to remain in place until May 2016.
Howard J Curtis, who spotted the statue lying in the bay, said: "I know it wasn't popular with everyone."
The Landmark Trust told the Bournemouth Echo: "We are aware that the "Land" sculpture has come down in the storm at Kimmeridge Bay and we are taking steps to deal with it asap."
Four other statues in the series stand at Lengthsman's Cottage, Lowsonford, in Warwickshire, Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, Martello Tower, Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, and Saddell Bay, Mull of Kintyre, in Scotland.


A British couple who are still officially classed as missing following the Tunisian beach attack are among the dead, the BBC understands.

Eileen Swannack, 70, and partner John Welch, 74, both from Wiltshire, have not made contact since the shootings at the resort near Sousse on Friday.
Police said relatives of Ms Swannack and Mr Welch, of Corsham, were getting family liaison officer support.
It is feared up to 30 UK citizens were killed, but only 18 are confirmed dead.
Speaking to the BBC on Saturday, Mr Welch's grandson Daniel Welch said: "You know that we're going to get some sort of news at some point, whether it be today, tomorrow or the next day, and you know it's probably not going to be great, because they haven't been able to make contact themselves by now."
Tunisian authorities have arrested several people on suspicion of helping the gunman, who had links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).


Cladding on five high-rise buildings in Sunderland has been removed.

The housing association, Gentoo, said the material had been removed as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze in which 79 people are believed to have perished.
So far 60 buildings in 25 council areas have failed combustibility tests.
Those which had cladding removed in Sunderland were Zetland, Church North, Dock, Dame Dorothy and the Victor block of flats.
Gentoo said none of its buildings had the same cladding as Grenfell Tower, but it went ahead with the cladding removal to reassure residents.
A statement from company said: "We took the precautionary measure to remove a small amount of decorative panelling from five of our blocks in the St Peter's area.
"We are also carrying out face to face reassurance meetings with our residents as part of this exercise to ensure the ongoing safety of our customers."
One elderly man, who lives on the 13th floor of the Victor building and did not wish to be named, said he was not nervous as the housing association carried out fire safety checks "all the time".
He said: "Gentoo is always doing things to keep the residents happy."
Meanwhile a petition has been set up calling on the owners of another student block to tell residents if their building is affected.
Brookfield Student Real Estate owns St James Point which houses 80 Newcastle University students and more than 200 students from elsewhere.
A company spokesman said the building had been designed to the highest fire safety standards.
Steph Mosley of Acorn, a community group campaigning for renters' rights, said: "We don't know what is in the cladding.
"We've been told that it follows regulations.
"But people at Grenfell were told that regulations had been followed.
"We are after specifics - is the cladding the same? What is it made of? Is it flammable? The residents really need to know."
Gentoo said it was not planning to remove any further cladding from its properties.


Police investigating the fatal stabbing of an 83-year-old dog walker have asked people living nearby to check their bins for a weapon.

The victim's body was found on Saturday near Fiveways Junction, three miles south of East Harling in Norfolk.
He died from multiple stab wounds to his neck and head, a post-mortem examination showed. The murder weapon has not yet been found.
Police have yet to name the father-of-two who lived in a nearby village.
The victim was walking his two dogs in woodland when he was killed.
A nine-year-old foxhound and a 13-year-old trail hound cross dog belonging to victim were recovered at the scene and are both safe and well.
Ch Supt Mike Fawcett addressed a press conference and asked residents in a five-mile (8km) radius of the scene to check their bins for "any weapons or anything unusual".
He also urged anyone in the area with CCTV or dash camera footage to contact Norfolk Police.
The victim was described as 5ft 7in (1.68m) with grey hair and glasses. He was wearing blue/grey trousers, a black T-shirt and brown shoes and drove a red Skoda Fabia car.
There was nothing to suggest anything was stolen from the victim, police said.


Female Afghan MP Fariba Ahmadi Kakar has been released by her Taliban kidnappers, the Taliban and Afghan officials say.

She and her children were abducted at gunpoint last month by insurgents in the central province of Ghazni on the main highway from Kabul to Kandahar.
Officials say that she was handed over by the Taliban to local elders on Saturday night.
She was reportedly freed in exchange for five Taliban fighters.
Six family members of Taliban militants were also released, officials say.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan handed over with dignity the female Member of Parliament to her relatives in Ghazni province in the form of a prisoner exchange after four wronged women and their children were released by  the Kabul government," the militant group said in a statement.
Ms Kakar's three children and her driver were released by the Taliban soon after they were abducted on 14 August.
Kidnapping has been an increasing problem in Afghanistan in recent years - government officials, wealthy people or their relatives are abducted mostly by criminal groups who either demand a ransom or sell them to the insurgents.
Ms Kakar's kidnapping was the first time a female MP was snatched by insurgents. Correspondents say that it marked a sinister milestone in violent attacks against prominent women.
Officials say that she was released following mediation by tribal elders and clerics in Ghazni. They say that she is in good health and has been reunited with her family.
Ms Kakar was elected in 2005 as an independent member of the lower house - one of  69 female deputies in the 249-seat chamber - after previously working as a teacher.
As Nato troops prepare to leave the country at the end of next year, there are concerns that limited freedoms won for Afghan women are starting to unravel.
On Thursday militants in Paktika province shot dead Indian diarist Sushmita Banerjee, who had written a memoir about life under the former Taliban government that was turned into a Bollywood movie.
In July the most senior policewoman in southern Helmand province was shot dead on her way to work.


Planning permission has been granted for the redevelopment of two leisure centres in Belfast.

The city council says transforming the Robinson Centre in Castlereagh and Brook Activity Centre in Twinbrook will cost about £35m.
Councillors also approved revised plans to create the city's biggest and tallest hotel.
Windsor House will be converted into the Grand Central Hotel, with the number of rooms up from 200 to 304.
Belfast City Council said the £20m transformation of the Robinson Centre will see the existing building replaced with a state-of-the-art facility, including an eight-lane pool and leisure waters.
The centre closed in 2015 due to health and safety concerns over asbestos.
The £15m rebuilding of the Brook Activity Centre will focus on outdoor leisure, such as a new Gaelic football pitch, two football pitches and three indoor and three outdoor five-a-side pitches.
The developments are part of Belfast City Council's £105m programme to improve leisure centres across the city.
Cllr Peter Johnston, chairman of the council's planning committee, said the two redevelopments were an "investment in the future health and well-being of both the city and its citizens".
"We now look forward to construction work on both these projects beginning over the summer, and to the facilities becoming operational in the early part of 2019," he added.
At Tuesday night's planning meeting, the green light was also given to revised plans for Windsor House, Ireland's tallest office block - bought by Hastings Hotels in 2015.
The Grand Central Hotel will have 304 bedrooms plus serviced apartments and offices.


Two men have been charged after police seized what they believe to be cocaine worth an estimated £300,000.

The incident happened on the Templepatrick Road near Doagh in County Antrim on Friday afternoon.
Two men, aged 27 and 36, have been charged with possession of a Class A drug and possession of a Class A Drug with intent to supply.
They are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
All charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.


A 10m whale made from recyclable plastic has been in Cardiff Bay as part of a UK tour.

The 32ft-high exhibit - made of bags, bottles and other single-use items - is part of a campaign to encourage people to use less plastic.
It follows independent research by Sky Ocean Rescue which found 87% of Britons are concerned by UK plastic usage.
Sandy Luk, of the Marine Conservation Society, said it highlighted "huge issues" facing British seas.
More than 65% of the 2,000 people questioned as part of the Sky Ocean Rescue-commissioned research said they were willing to see a 5p charge, similar to that made for plastic bags applied to other single-use plastics, such as straws, bottles and cups.
The whale, unveiled by former Olympic rower James Cracknell, was in Cardiff Bay until 15:00 BST on Sunday.


The first of eight new Type 26 frigates being built for the Royal Navy has been named HMS Glasgow.

The name was revealed by Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon as he cut the first steel on the ship at BAE System's Govan shipyard.
The new anti-submarine warfare frigates will be known as the City Class.
Earlier this month the Ministry of Defence announced a Â£3.7bn order for the first three Type 26s, which are due to enter service from the mid-2020s.
The contract for the second batch of five ships is expected to be negotiated "in the early 2020s".
The MoD said the work would "support and sustain" 3,400 jobs - half at BAE's Govan and Scotstoun shipyards - with the rest in the supply chain.
Sir Michael told BAE's workforce at the steel-cutting ceremony: "Today marks a historic milestone for the Royal Navy, Scottish shipbuilding and UK defence more widely.
"HMS Glasgow and the other seven frigates in this new class will protect our powerful new aircraft carriers and nuclear deterrent, helping keep Britain safe across the world.
"The Type 26 is a cutting-edge warship that will maintain our naval power with a truly global reach.
"Designed for a service life of at least 25 years, the Type 26 frigates will form a backbone of the future Royal Navy surface fleet well into the future."
There have been eight Royal Navy ships bearing the name Glasgow since the early 1700s.
In more recent history, two ships served during the world wars, including the Arctic convoys and the Normandy landings.
The last HMS Glasgow - a Type 42 Destroyer - was awarded the "Falkland Islands 1982" battle honour. During the Falklands War, the ship was damaged when a bomb struck it but failed to detonate. Glasgow was decommissioned in 2005.
Admiral Sir Philip Jones, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, said: "The Clyde was the birthplace of some of the greatest fighting ships the world has ever known, and so cutting steel there today for the future HMS Glasgow is symbolic of a Royal Navy on the rise once again.
"As an island nation, we are utterly dependent on the sea for our security and prosperity, and the City-class names have been chosen for the Type 26 to provide an enduring link between the Royal Navy and our great centres of commerce and industry.
"The name Glasgow brings with it a string of battle honours, stretching from the Arctic Circle to the South Atlantic.
"As one of the world's most capable anti-submarine frigates, the Type 26 will carry the Royal Navy's tradition of victory far into the future."
An initial development deal to build Type 26 combat ships in Glasgow was signed in February 2015.
Construction of the ships was initially expected to start in 2016, but Sir Michael said in June last year that no deal to build the frigates would be signed until it offered "value for money".
The Type 26 frigate is principally designed for anti-submarine warfare and will partially replace the current Type 23 frigate.
Each ship will carry a crew of 118, have a top speed of more than 26 knots and a range of 7,000 nautical miles.


A woman who conned a business out of more than £14,000 after claiming to have terminal cancer has been ordered to pay back £1.

Kelsey Whitehead's employers loaned her £5,000 to fund private treatment and gave her almost £10,000 in sick pay.
Whitehead, 38, shaved her hair and inserted a drip into her chest as part of the deception.
She was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence in March after admitting two counts of fraud.
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At a confiscation hearing at Lincoln Crown Court Judge John Pini QC ordered that Whitehead should pay a nominal sum as no assets had been identified.
The court heard that Whitehead, of Lea Road, Gainsborough, told her boss at Hull-based firm Carbon Electric that she had stage four metastatic osteosarcoma that had spread throughout her body.
She went on to claim the NHS had refused to pay for her treatment and would only fund palliative care, forcing her to go private.
Phil Howes, prosecuting, said Whitehead displayed symptoms she had researched on the internet.
He added Whitehead also shaved off her hair and used make-up to give the impression she was not sleeping at night and would vomit at work.
Whitehead's wife Sophie was so taken in that she gave up her job to care for her.
The hoax came to light in May 2016 after Whitehead took an overdose and was admitted to hospital.
Mr Howes said when her partner informed medics that Whitehead had cancer "they did the checks and there was no record of it".
"This was an elaborate hoax in order to get money that she wasn't entitled to and get a loan she wasn't entitled to," he added.
During a previous sentencing hearing, Whitehead's lawyer claimed in mitigation her client had had a history of lying since she was a teenager which stemmed from abuse she suffered as a child.


Lettings agents in England will be banned from charging fees to tenants "as soon as possible" under plans announced in the Autumn Statement.

Tenants can be charged fees for a range of administration, including reference, credit and immigration checks.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said shifting the cost to landlords will save 4.3 million households hundreds of pounds.
The move could spur competition as landlords, unlike tenants, can shop around for the cheapest agent.
In Scotland, lettings agency fees to tenants have already been banned.
In England and Wales since last year, lettings and managing agents have been legally obliged to clearly publicise their fees.
Fees vary widely, with costs in some big cities much higher than elsewhere.
Tenants face charges when agents draw up tenancy agreements along with the possibility of a non-refundable holding deposit paid before signing up to the deal.
Natalie Lightman says it is "incredibly hard" to find a place to live in London, but eventually she found a "cosy but expensive" flat.
"Then I paid £150 just for the privilege of putting down a deposit," she says.
In total, she paid upfront costs of £2,000 before setting foot in the flat, of which the letting fees were a part.
"Banning fees is a good idea as it will drive up competition," she says. "A lot of people cannot afford these costs."
But Julie Turner, who is a landlord, says the extra costs faced by landlords will lead to higher rents.
"We do not make a profit on our property we rent out because there is the service charge and insurance and mortgage, and there is a new tax law coming in," she says.
"If the administration fees come back to the landlord the rent will have to increase. It is not being greedy, it is just we need to cover our costs."
Charities have said that these primarily upfront fees have risen in recent years.
The latest English Housing Survey shows fees typically cost £223. However, Shelter research in 2012 found that one in seven tenants pays more than £500.
The charity said renters had no choice over the agent they dealt with after finding a house or flat. Landlords, on the other hand, were able to choose between agencies to act for them when renting out their property.
Many tenants are angry that, with more competition for decent places, they are forced to pay to guarantee somewhere to live. Some argue that the fee for drawing up a tenancy agreement far outweighs the actual cost to the agent.
Overall, along with rent in advance and a deposit, the average upfront costs faced by renters using a letting agency are more than £1,000 nationally and over £2,000 in London, according to Shelter.
The industry has argued that administration has a cost and has argued for stronger consumer protection through regulation of the sector, rather than a ban.
David Cox, managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla), said: "A ban on letting agent fees is a draconian measure, and will have a profoundly negative impact on the rental market.
"It will be the fourth assault on the sector in just over a year, and do little to help cash-poor renters save enough to get on the housing ladder. This decision is a crowd-pleaser, which will not help renters in the long-term. All of the implications need to be taken into account.
"Most letting agents do not profit from fees."
Agents saw some of the biggest falls in company share prices in early trading, with Foxtons down 11%, Countrywide down nearly 6%, and Savills also falling slightly.
Two agents based in Rugby have the following upfront fees:
Archer Bassett: First person application and referencing charge - £200; additional applicants - £150 each; tenancy agreement charge - £100 per property; guarantor application and referencing charge - £150 per guarantor; same day bank transfer refunds (where agreed) - £30
Brown and Cockerill: Sole tenant set-up fee - £180; additional tenant - £120 per tenant; guarantor fee - £96; tenancy agreement fee - £75; pet deposit - £300
The ban on fees in Scotland was tightened from 2012.
A report by Shelter assessing the effect of the change in Scotland suggested that:
Campbell Robb, Shelter's chief executive, said banning them elsewhere was welcome.
"Millions of renters in England have felt the financial strain of unfair letting agent fees for far too long, so we are delighted with the government's decision to ban them. We have long been campaigning on this issue and it is great to see that the government has taken note," he said.
Mr Hammond also announced plans to increase the construction of affordable homes.
It is estimated that at least four million people of working age in England would need affordable housing by 2024, according to the Local Government Association.
The average first time buyer paid just under £30,000 for their new home in the 1980s compared with more than £150,000 now, according to the Resolution Foundation.
Between the late 1940s and late 1950s councils built more homes than the private sector.
Local authorities were building 100,000 homes a year up to the late 1970s, but the election of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives in 1979 led to a fall in house building by local authorities.
In the year to the end of June, local authorities built 1,500 homes in England out of a total of 131,370 - that is just over 1%.


Many Asian markets fell on Tuesday as the decline in the oil price appeared to weigh on investor sentiment.

In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 2.4% at 15,732.82, the sixth session in a row that the index has fallen.
In South Korea, the Kospi index closed down 0.8% at 1,962.74, the lowest close in a month.
US stocks ended lower on Monday after the price of US crude oil fell 3% in New York trade.
The drop extended falls from the previous two trading sessions, as hopes faded that oil producers would agree to curb production at their meeting on 17 April.
Oil prices hit a peak of $115-a-barrel in June 2014, but have plunged by more than 70% since then because of oversupply and sluggish demand.
The oil producers' meeting later this month will take place in the Qatari capital, Doha. It will involve Opec and non-Opec members and will discuss freezing supply at January levels to help push the oil price back up.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 fell 70.92 points, or 1.4%, to 4,924.40.
Shares of Australian energy producers Santos and Woodside Petroleum both fell more than 3%, under pressure due to the slide in oil prices.
The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank, left its key lending rate at 2% following its monthly meeting. The decision to keep rates at the record low had been widely expected by economists polled by Reuters.
Meanwhile the Reserve Bank of India trimmed its key lending rate to commercial banks to 6.5% from 6.75%. The central bank governor there, Raghuram Rajan cites a fall in inflation for the latest rate cut. This is India's first rate cut this year.
In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng index fell 1.6% to 20,177.00, while China's Shanghai Composite index rose 43.54 points, or 1.5%, to 3,053.07.
Taiwan remains shut for a public holiday and markets there will re-open on Wednesday.


Work on the second part of a major upgrade to the railway line between Londonderry and Coleraine is to get under way at the cost of a further £6m.

The Department of Regional Development contracts to complete re-signalling works and a passing loop on the line have been awarded.
Transport Minister Danny Kennedy said that the scheme will now cost £46m.
The original cost was estimated at £20m which then rose to £40m.
The project had been held up at the start of the year because of problems with the contract.
Work on the railway line is to begin at the end of June.
A local firm has also been awarded a contract for the construction of a passing loop at Bellarena.
Danny Kennedy said: "I am very pleased to announce today that work can now progress on this important project.
"My commitment to the Coleraine to Londonderry rail line has always been clear and I have worked hard to ensure that this line remained open.
"The project is a key Programme for Government commitment and is evidence of the executive's determination to invest in our rail network.
"It also signals our continuing commitment to invest in the North West and improve connections and frequency of service between Belfast and Londonderry."
The minister commissioned an independent review in 2014 of the project following concerns that the original cost estimate for the scheme was significantly underestimated.
"The overall cost at £46m is higher than originally envisaged but reflects the market we are competing in.
"I will make the funding available from my capital budget and the project should be largely completed by December 2016.
"The path to today's announcement has not been straightforward. It has not been without criticism."
Clive Bradberry of Translink said: "The line is already extremely successful boosting strong passenger growth up 12% last year.
"This announcement today is great news for the North West.
"When the work is completed it will mean a more resilient rail service to and from Derry, including the potential for more frequent and faster journeys.
"There will be some temporary travel arrangements needed during the course of the project, such as weekend line closures, but we will communicate these and any interim travel arrangements in good time, once confirmed."


A Tory AM effectively de-selected by the party has said he was the victim of an "orchestrated campaign".

William Graham dropped from first to fifth place in a party members' ballot for the South Wales East regional list for the 2016 assembly election.
He said he had "upset too many people" by being pro-devolution and backing projects such as an M4 relief road.
Mr Graham told BBC Wales that Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies was "intrigued" by the result.
Speaking on Good Morning Wales, Mr Graham said he was "a victim of a bit of an orchestrated campaign, to come from first to fifth this time".
"I suppose I've done pretty well to survive the last four elections.
"I think also that I've upset too many people in my party."
Mr Graham said he had campaigned against creating a Welsh assembly in the 1979 and 1997 referendums, but Conservatives were "pragmatic".
"I've certainly come to passionately believe in devolution now [as] the only real way to save the United Kingdom, so that upset the right.
"And on the left, I suppose my championing of many of the infrastructure projects - particularly the motorway solution to the M4, I'm very keen on the circuit of Wales in Ebbw Vale, electrification and the metro - hasn't exactly made me a favourite with the left."
In February, Mr Graham was one of three Conservative AMs "spoken to" by their leader following an argument on Twitter about the party's M4 policy.
Asked if he would remain in the Conservative Party, Mr Graham replied "you bet", saying he would be out canvassing for the Tories on Saturday morning.
The other sitting Tory AM in South Wales East, Mohammad Asghar, topped the poll, with Laura Anne Jones coming second on the list.
She was previously an AM between 2003-07.
The 60 AMs in Cardiff Bay include 20 elected via regional lists, aimed to give a fairer reflection of support for each party.


The death of a girl found at a flat with the body of a woman thought to be her mother remains unexplained after post-mortem tests, police have said.

They were found inside the Trafalgar Street property, in Gillingham, Kent.
The woman has been named as Lillian Elizabeth Oluk, 36. Post-mortem tests failed to establish her cause of death.
Police said neither death was being treated as suspicious, and they were liaising with the Health and Safety Executive.
They said further tests would be carried out on the body of the child, who has not yet been formally identified.


The amateur metal detector, who unearthed a massive hoard of Viking treasure in Scotland, has been telling Newsround how he did it.

14 October 2014 Last updated at 16:02 BST
Finding buried treasure might sound like a dream but it's one that came true for Derek McLennan.
He dug up more than a hundred objects, including gold jewellery and a silver Christian cross.
Derek tells us how we can get involved in metal-detecting.


A member of Jeremy Corbyn's new shadow cabinet has threatened to quit if the Labour leader campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union.

Lord Falconer said he believed the UK should remain a member "come what may" and his position would be "impossible" if Labour's leadership said otherwise.
Mr Corbyn has said David Cameron should not have a "blank cheque" in his negotiations ahead of a referendum.
Unions warn they may argue for an "Out" vote if workers rights are eroded.
Mr Corbyn, who has taken a Eurosceptic stance in the past, has faced questions from his own MPs over his stance on the EU ahead of referendum due by 2017.
He has signalled he will support a vote to stay in but warned David Cameron must not be given a "free hand" in talks and indicated Labour should only support the "right changes" in areas such as social and employment rights.
New shadow chancellor John McDonnell has reinforced this message, by saying it is "fairly reasonable" for the opposition to see what package the prime minister secures before determining its position.
"At the moment it's trying to get a good Europe, trying to get a Europe that serves all our interests, and I think we can do that," he said on Monday.
But Lord Falconer said he could not support any equivocation about the UK's future in Europe.
"If the Labour Party adopts a position which says we might leave the EU and might argue against it then of course my position would become impossible at that point," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. "But that's not the current position."
The Labour peer said he could envisage "no circumstances" in which it would be beneficial for the UK to leave the EU.
"My view is we should stay in the European Union come what may. So whatever the result of the negotiations, I believe that Britain would be so damaged by leaving the European Union - or indeed saying it's going to leave the European Union - that we should stay."
Mr Corbyn did not mention the issue of Europe during his speech to the TUC Congress on Tuesday.
The congress is expected to pass a TUC General Council Statement later that says: "We are issuing a warning to the prime minister: you will lose our members' votes to stay in the EU by worsening workers' rights."
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Over the past 20 years, Labour MPs openly calling for Britain to leave the EU have been on the fringes of the party but one of their number, Kate Hoey, said the situation was changing and there were members of the shadow cabinet who would quit if "fundamental reform" was not achieved.
"The dam has opened and we can now have proper debate with people being listened to on all side," she told BBC News.
The leader of the UK's largest union Unite, Len McCluskey, said the union movement had been a "bulwark" of support for the European Union but he was "nervous" about the prime minister's negotiating strategy and what it meant for rights to public holidays, rest breaks and limits on working hours.
"We support, on balance, staying in Europe and that key question of on balance is based on the social charter," he said. "We hope the prime minister takes a step back from that and we will remain a pro-European union."
But the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was a serious prospect of the union movement "switching sides" on the issue.
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has attempted to calm fears among many Labour MPs on the issue, insisting that Labour "has always been committed to not walking away, but staying in to work together for a better Europe".
A number of former shadow ministers have refused to serve under Mr Corbyn since his election, citing his views on the economy, defence and Britain's place in the world.
Chuka Umunna ruled out joining the shadow cabinet after claiming he had not received the assurances he was seeking from Mr Corbyn on Britain's continued membership of the EU.


A student activist who helped run last year's Hong Kong protests has been denied entry to Malaysia by immigration authorities.

Joshua Wong, 18, had been invited to the country to take part in academic talks on democracy in China.
He was detained shortly after arriving at an airport on the northern island of Penang and sent back to Hong Kong.
The organisers of the event at which Mr Wong was due to speak have demanded to know why he was refused entry.
"We're angry at the government's actions," said Ng Yap-hwa, a human rights activist.
"There's no reason that the Malaysian government should stop us from organising any international talk on the democracy movement."
Penang immigration authorities have yet to comment.
Mr Wong was one of the main leaders of the Hong Kong protests, which saw tens of thousands of demonstrators flood the streets demanding the right to fully free leadership elections.
He was arrested twice and took part in a hunger strike in a bid to force the Beijing and Hong Kong governments to engage in talks about the 2017 election.
His Facebook page showed he had been invited to participate in a series of seminars across Malaysia including one in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Writing on the social networking site he said: "Malaysia's government doesn't allow me to enter, now on my way back to Hong Kong."
Mr Wong said a Malaysian immigration official told him a "government order" had been given to deny him entry.
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi  said he had knowledge of the incident, according to news website Malaysiakini.
A spokesman for Hong Kong's immigration department said the entry of its residents to other countries was "out of the control of the Hong Kong government".


US president-elect Donald Trump tapped into "real problems" faced by voters but has failed to offer a remedy, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Instead of offering solutions to issues such as falling wages and underfunded public services, Mr Trump has only blamed others, Mr Corbyn said.
He accused the Tories of being like Mr Trump by offering "slogans, but not solutions for most people in Britain".
The Conservatives said Labour was "out of step" with "ordinary people".
In a speech to the Labour South East Regional Conference, Mr Corbyn described Mr Trump's shock election victory over Hillary Clinton as a "global wake-up call".
Mr Corbyn said millions of people in the US and UK feel "left behind" and "marginalised" by the current economic system - something Mr Trump had tapped into during the election campaign.
"There is deep anger at a political elite that doesn't listen," he said.
"But instead of offering real solutions or the resources to make them work, he offered only someone to blame - everyone that is apart for those actually responsible for the broken economy or the failed political system.
"That's Trump in his election campaign in the USA. Now cross that Atlantic to here. The Tories do exactly the same."
The Labour leader said the US and UK electorate both feel left behind by a economic system that makes them work harder while rewarding a small elite.
He told supporters the UK will be unable to "take back control" by simply leaving the EU and instead needed to "take on corporate vested interests".
The Conservatives have "opened the door to UKIP and fanned the flames of fear", he added.
"Theresa May as home secretary fed the idea that immigration was the real problem, made promises she knew she couldn't deliver about slashing numbers," he said.
"And she whipped up hate with those notorious go home vans. No wonder she didn't even temper her welcome to Donald Trump.
"She has used the same strategy herself - if delivered with a more refined voice."
A Conservative spokesman said: "Jeremy Corbyn presides over a Labour Party that is divided, divisive and utterly out of step with the concerns of ordinary working people.
"Labour would bankrupt our country like they did last time, erode our armed forces, making us less safe - and they also don't think there should be any limits on immigration at all."


Uncertainty about Brexit may have stopped the rising trend of UK students going to a leading Dutch university.

Maastricht University has seen a 6% downturn in UK students - after successive years of increases in the wake of tuition fee rises in England.
Leaving the European Union could mean UK students losing access to lower fees in Dutch universities.
But a Maastricht spokeswoman said the dip in UK students was temporary.
She said there was still a 35% increase over five years - and it was still too soon after the EU referendum to see any long-term trends.
Thousands of UK students are in Dutch universities - which have been promoting themselves as a high quality and low cost alternative - with Maastricht among the most prominent recruiters, with about 380 UK students enrolling for the current year.
Courses, taught in English, have fees of about Â£1,500 per year - compared with fees that are rising to Â£9,250 in England.
But the Maastricht enrolment figures - covering courses starting in September and February - show a 6% year-on-year decline in UK students after five years of increases.
The University of Maastricht spokeswoman, however, said this was more of a matter of "wait and see" than a long-term reversal of the trend for more UK students to opt for the Netherlands.
And another Dutch university, the University of Groningen, has reported an increase in its UK students for September 2016 compared with the previous year.
The Brexit vote also may have affected applications in the other direction too, with a 7% decline in applications from EU students for UK universities.
But Maastricht also points to a survey it has commissioned of independent school head teachers in the UK.
This survey, of members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, suggests interest among pupils in studying abroad was continuing to increase.
It found "record levels" of interest, with 89% of heads saying pupils were "more attracted to the idea of studying at an overseas university".
Half of the heads reported a "significant or moderate" increase in interest over the past five years.
Mark Huntington, from the Study in Holland website, said that the overall trend was still upwards for UK students choosing Dutch universities.
And he said the figures could have been complicated by a number of UK-resident young people being entitled to other EU passports and using them when applying to Dutch universities.
Maastricht University president Prof Martin Paul said the finding from independent school heads that sixth-formers were not being put off from considering studying abroad was "reassuring".
"At a time when political changes appear to encourage a more insular outlook, it is particularly important for young people to keep an open mind and a global mindset," said Prof Paul.
Mike Buchanan, who chairs the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said sixth-formers were likely to keep seeing the benefits of studying abroad.
"They and their families know that an international outlook is more important than ever in helping to shape their individual careers and help Britain to remain an outward looking nation," he said.


Transport Scotland has warned motorists of likely disruption on a stretch of the A9 where work has started on upgrading the road to dual carriageway.

Five miles of road from Kincraig to Dalraddy is involved in the first phase of a Â£3bn project to dual the A9 from Inverness to Perth.
A 40mph speed restriction will be in place on the five-mile section from Monday, Transport Scotland said.
Average speed cameras will be used to enforce the speed limit.


A ferry has been raised from the sea bed, three years after it sank in one of South Korea's deadliest disasters.

The Sewol sank off the south-western island of Jindo on 16 April 2014 killing 304 people, almost all school children on a trip.
It has been winched to the surface so a platform can be inserted under it for it to be towed ashore.
It is expected to arrive at port in less than two weeks, where it will be met by the families of victims.
The bodies of nine victims are believed to still be trapped inside the sunken ship, and raising it was one of the central demands of their families.
The government bowed to pressure to raise the 6,825 tonne vessel, one of the most complex operations ever attempted, said the the BBC's Stephen Evans on Jindo Island.
The 16-year-old daughter of Huh Hong-Hwan was one victim whose remains were never found.
"To see the Sewol again, I can't describe how I'm feeling right now," Mr Huh told the AFP news agency as he watched the raising of the ship from a boat nearby.
The sinking was blamed on a combination of illegal redesigns, cargo overloading, the inexperience of the crew member steering the vessel, and lax government regulations. The ship's captain was later convicted of murder.
Anger over the response of the authorities after the disaster contributed to the unpopularity of former President Park Geun-hye, who was recently ousted.


A man originally convicted of the Real IRA murders of two soldiers in 2009 has been found not guilty in a retrial.

Brian Shivers, 47, had been jailed for killing sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, of Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, of London, at Massereene barracks, Antrim.
Mr Shivers was also cleared of several other charges including six counts of attempted murder.
He had been convicted of the offences in January 2012 but was retried following a successful appeal.
The soldiers were shot hours before they were due to fly to Afghanistan.
They served with the 38 Engineer Regiment.
They had ordered pizza and left the base to collect it at about 21:20 GMT on 7 March 2009, when they were attacked by two gunmen.
Four other people were seriously injured in the shooting.
In Belfast Crown Court on Friday, the judge, Mr Justice Deeny, described the killings as "ferocious and ruthless".
He said the prosecution case against Mr Shivers was based on circumstantial evidence.
The judge said he could not be sure that DNA found on matches and a phone was not an innocent transfer by Mr Shivers.
"It could have been a quite innocent touching," he said.
"And of course the transfer may have been secondary and not direct; shaking hands with someone who then handled the phone.
"In the same regard, the DNA on the matches does indicate contact with the box of matches used by the person who did set fire to the vehicle on 7 March.  But that contact with that object might have been an entirely innocent one."
He also put weight on the evidence given by Lisa Leacock, Mr Shivers' fiancee.
The judge referred to Mr Shivers' significant medical disability and his previous good character.  He said these factors suggested he would be an unlikely associate for "this determined gang" to rely on.
Mr Justice Deeny asked himself whether the prosecution had eliminated other possibilities than the guilt of the accused as they were obliged to do and whether he was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of Mr Shivers' guilt.
He concluded that the answer to both questions was "clearly no" and found him not guilty.
Sappers Quinsey and Azimkar were the first soldiers to be murdered in Northern Ireland since Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick was killed by an IRA sniper in 1997.


The number of sexual offences against children reported to police across Scotland reached almost 2,500 last year, according to new figures.

NSPCC obtained the statistics through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.
They include cases of rape, sexual assault, sexual activity and communicating indecently.
The charity warned the number - which equates to seven a day - might only be "a fraction of the true amount" as many others could be afraid to speak up.
The charity sent FoI requests to police forces across the UK covering the period April 2014 until March 2015.
The statistics showed that a total of 2,483 offences were reported to Police Scotland, with those recorded against girls being significantly higher than that of boys.
There were 323 sex assaults of females aged between 13-15 compared with 35 for males of the same age.
Matt Forde, the charity's head of service in Scotland, said: "The reality that right now seven children are being abused every day is an appalling one and shows that there is a desperate need to support children who have suffered from sexual abuse.
"For too many children, our court system adds further trauma to their earlier experiences of abuse. We welcome proposals to reform our legal system to better support child witnesses in Scotland.
"We would urge the government to replicate Scandinavian models as part of this reform, to free children from further suffering and allow the therapeutic support they need to begin more quickly."
Throughout the UK, the total reported child sex offences for 2014/15 was 45,456 - the equivalent of more than 124 per day, or more than five per hour.
The charity has launched a campaign, called It's Time, urging the government to increase funding and to ring-fence money for support services for children who have been abused.
Mr Forde added: "Sexual abuse can shatter a child's mental health. It can leave them anxious, depressed and even suicidal.
"That is why it is crucial every single child who has endured abuse and needs support must get timely, thorough help so they can rebuild their lives."
Det Ch Supt Lesley Boal, Police Scotland's lead for public protection, said there had been an increase in reporting sexual offences.
"Alongside the ongoing efforts to tackle abuse, new threats are emerging which require different responses, threats like child sexual exploitation and online child sexual abuse," she said.
"Police Scotland has seen a significant increase in non-recent reporting, with around 40% of recorded child sexual offences being non-recent.
"We are aware that many children, for a whole host of reasons, may not initially disclose they have been abused and the true extent of child sexual abuse taking place in Scotland now is unknown."
She added: "Police Scotland supports the excellent work of the NSPCC. We are aware of the Norwegian barnehus model and similar models in other countries, such as young witness advocacy centres in England.
"We would support the development of a child-centred Scottish model that would meet the needs of children in all communities across the country and we are fully involved with the ongoing evidence and procedure review in Scotland which is considering children and vulnerable witnesses."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "There are now more measures in place than ever before to protect children, including Keeping Children Safe, a nationwide sex offender disclosure scheme which enables parents, carers and guardians to find out whether people who have access to their children have convictions for child sex offences.
"This government is committed to tackling offences against children and it is extremely encouraging to see recent figures which show more convictions for those who sexually abuse and harm children.
"An increase in the number of victims coming forward and a more consistent investigation and prosecution approach to sexual offences are all potential factors behind this rise."


Two BBC schemes to boost black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in broadcasting have been launched.

Six places are available on the Senior Leadership Development Programme, offering experience alongside BBC head Tony Hall and his leadership team.
The Assistant Commissioner Development Programme is seeking six candidates in comedy, drama, factual, daytime and children's programming.
Lord Hall said the launch was an "important step".
The move is aimed at helping the corporation to become more representative of its audiences.
"I want the BBC to be the first choice for talented people, whatever their background," Lord Hall added.
"The launch of these two leadership programmes is an important step towards a more open broadcast industry.  We're working with some very exciting partners on this - and I'm convinced that together we'll make a tangible difference."
The successful candidates for the senior leadership scheme will be given 12 months of training alongside one of the BBC's board members, including director general Lord Hall and James Purnell, director of strategy and digital.
The programme is open to people from both outside and inside the BBC, with successful applicants starting in January 2015. The aim is to encourage those selected to consider and apply for careers as senior leaders in the broadcast industry.
BBC One Controller Charlotte Moore said of the assistant commissioner scheme that it was "crucial for the BBC and other broadcasters to broaden the range of voices and backgrounds at commissioning level".
The successful candidates will go on a 12-month paid development programme, "to deepen their understanding of commissioning, and encourage them and others to put themselves forward for commissioning roles, at the BBC and elsewhere".
Lord Hall announced plans for the leadership scheme and for greater BAME representation in broadcasting in June. He said the BBC was putting Â£2.1m into a fund intended to help BAME talent, on and off screen, to develop new programmes.
BBC targets call for around one in six people (15%) on-air to be from BAME backgrounds within three years -  an increase of nearly 5%.
The 15% target would be across all BBC television output including news, drama, comedy and documentaries. Lord Hall said BBC News had set local targets in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leicester to reflect the population.
The BBC is also bringing together a group of experts, including Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, actor and comedian Lenny Henry, Asian Network presenter Nihal and Lady Floella Benjamin to form an Independent Diversity Action Group, chaired by Lord Hall.
In March Henry called for funds to be set aside to boost the presence of BAME people in the broadcasting industry.
He gave a lecture at Bafta, saying the the BAME presence in the creative industries is 5.4%. He called it "an appalling percentage because the majority of our industry is based around London where the black and Asian population is 40%."
Henry added that the situation behind the camera was also "patchy" and that between 2006 and 2012, the number of black and Asian people working in the industry had gone down by 30.9%.
In 2008, he told the Royal Television Society: "When I started, I was surrounded by a predominantly white workforce, and 32 years later, not a lot has changed."
Since then, he has become involved in mentoring schemes to try to change the status quo.