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Question: Andrew Lloyd Webber has said ticket prices for West End shows are "incredibly reasonable" given the cost of bringing a production to the stage.

The composer, whose hits include The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Evita, is charging between £25-£95 for his latest London musical School of Rock.
The average ticket price for a West End musical in 2016 was £49.28 - up almost 6% on the previous year.
"Theatre is incredibly labour intensive," he said.
"On the whole, the prices of West End theatre are incredibly reasonable considering the cost of what it is to put something on."
Last year, Lord Lloyd-Webber revealed that the physical running costs for one of his theatres was £38,000 per week.
On top of that, there are the costs of staging the production itself. The Financial Times estimated that the total weekly costs of a top musical are £150,000-£250,000.
And most musicals spend years in development. The Stage estimated that the budget for the Broadway production of Groundhog Day - not a Lloyd Webber production - was $18m (£14m).
Elsewhere in the West End, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has a top price of £140, while Hamilton has £200 premium tickets for when it officially moves to London in December.
The topic of ticket costs often arouses strong feelings. Actor Andrew Scott recently called the high prices "disgusting", while last year, Mark Gatiss said theatre was an "exclusive club for rich white people".
Lord Lloyd-Webber also pointed out that UK theatre tickets include 20% VAT - while tickets in the US are not taxed.
The composer was speaking to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz's Heat Map programme on BBC 5 live, and also said he is currently looking for an idea for a new musical "rather desperately".
"I must say I don't think I've ever felt more excited about musicals," he said. "I feel like I'm back when I'm started."
That is partly down to a resurgence of the genre in the US with hit shows like Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away. In comparison, the UK is coming up with few successful original musicals.
"Everything is so vibrant in America, which has always really been the home of musicals. Fourteen new musicals this year. I mean, fourteen. This year we've only had two in Britain."
Lord Lloyd-Webber made his name in the 1970s collaborating with lyricist Tim Rice on shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Evita.
The pair haven't worked together on a full show since - but Lord Lloyd-Webber hasn't ruled out a reunion.
"It's a shame in a way we didn't go on writing together but we are very different people in several ways," he said.
"Never say never, but Tim has written the lyrics to the most successful musical currently playing in the world, which is The Lion King. He's got Beauty and the Beast, he's got Aladdin.
"He doesn't exactly need to write. If he wanted to do something, if he wanted to come to me with an idea... I think it would have to be him wanting to do the idea.
"If I went to him and said, 'Look, shall we do this?' I don't think he'd want to do that."
Lord Lloyd-Webber was speaking ahead of receiving an outstanding contribution honour at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards on Sunday.
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The most expensive tickets for the Dominion theatre show are £100 more than the equivalent for the Lion King.
Cheaper tickets for the musical, out in time for Christmas, cost a minimum of £50, but with a fee of £15 for each ticket booked online or over the phone.
A family of four booking the cheapest tickets would pay £267.
Many people expressed their anger at the prices on Twitter.
Gemma-Louise Fowler wrote: "Was looking forward to Elf the musical but the ticket prices are beyond ridiculous. Think I'll be giving it a miss for now!"
Joash wrote: "Wait why are Elf ticket prices so high!? £240 is extortionate! Calm down London."
And Chris Chilton wrote: "The Elf ticket prices are a total disgrace!! For a family show? I would rather take my kids on holiday."
Elf is a musical based on the film starring Will Ferrell. It is about a young orphan who crawls into Father Christmas's bag of presents and travels to the North Pole.
The show also outpriced several others such as Les Miserables at Queen's Theatre, where the ticket price ranges from approximately £16 to £159.
It also was more expensive than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Drury Lane Theatre Royal, which costs between £23 and £121.
The producers of Elf, who decide the ticket prices, said: "Ticket prices are set according to the commercial terms and budgets for the show. These prices - like all things - will fluctuate depending on supply and demand.
"Elf is a large-budget show with only a ten-week run in the West End - and we have been delighted with the interest shown in this London premiere run."
David Pearson, general manager at the Dominion Theatre, said the decision to charge the commission to the public was the producer's, as the producer can either opt to pay the commission itself or charge the public.
He said the theatre charged 7% of the ticket price "regardless". "This is in line with other theatre companies," he added.


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Question: US retail sales rose by 0.6% in August, compared with the previous month, driven by car purchases, the US Commerce Department said.

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On a yearly basis, they rose by 5%.
Increases in spending came from car sales, up 9.5% from August 2013, and healthcare stores, up 8.1% from last year.
Retail sales account for 70% of the US economy and analysts said the figures pointed to stronger overall economic growth.
"With further jobs gains, rises in income growth and a loosening in credit conditions in the pipeline, consumption growth should strengthen in the fourth quarter and in to next year too, " said Paul Dales, US economist at Capital Economics.
July's figure was revised upwards to a 0.3% rise.
A separate consumer survey, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index, showed more optimism, with the index rising to 84.6 in September, from 82.5 in August.
The general pick up in the US economy has prompted discussion as to when the Federal Reserve might begin to start raising interest rates. The US central bank is next scheduled to meet 16-17 September.
Chris Williamson, economist at Markit, said the retail sales figures "add to the likelihood of the first rise in interest rates occurring earlier than mid-2015".
"Both the official and survey data therefore point to ongoing strong momentum of the US economy in the third quarter, suggesting that the recent slowing in non-farm payroll growth seen in August may prove temporary and that policy makers will be encouraged that further strong job creation will be sustained in coming months," he added.
The US economy added just 142,000 jobs in August, far fewer than analysts' had been expecting.

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The Dow Jones closed up 12.81 at 17,827.75 while the S&P 500 was up 5.8 points at 2,072.83.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index rose 29.07 points to 4,787.32.
Initial claims for jobless benefits rose to 313,000 last week, figures showed, the first time it has been above the 300,000 mark since September.
Figures from the Commerce Department showed orders for non-defence capital goods excluding aircraft, fell 1.3% in October - the second month in a row the measure has fallen.
Separate figures from the Commerce Department showed that consumer spending - a key factor behind US economic growth - rose 0.2% in October.
Among individual stocks, shares in farm equipment maker Deere fell 3.2% after it predicted that sales would fall in the current quarter.
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Question: A man has been detained by police after what officers described as a "disturbance" in Falkirk on Friday afternoon.

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Police had been called to the town's Glenburn Road at about 16:50.
They have refused to comment on reports that the incident involved the attempted abduction of children.
A police presence remains in the area but officers said they were not seeking anyone else in connection with the incident.
Insp Jo Jollie said: "We appreciate that this was a very concerning incident for the local community and we are treating this with the utmost seriousness.
"I'd urge anyone who was in the area around this time that hasn't spoken to officers and may be able to help with the investigation to contact us."

Hugh Cushnaghan, 63, from Irvine in Scotland, is due before Preston Magistrates Court on Tuesday, Lancashire Police said.
The un-named victim was found with a stab wound following reports of an altercation at a property in Fishwick Parade, Preston on Sunday morning.
He was taken to hospital, but died a short time later.


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Question: A mother deliberately started a house fire in which she died alongside her severely disabled son, an inquest has found.

Audrey Swallow, 70, and son David, 48, died as a result of the blaze in Dunston, Lincolnshire, last August.
The inquest at Lincoln Coroners' Court heard how caring for David had taken a toll on the family.
The hearing concluded David's death was accidental and recorded an open conclusion in respect of Mrs Swallow.
Coroner Paul Smith said he was unable to give a verdict of suicide as evidence showed she had attempted to get out and call for help.
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Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue told the inquest the most likely cause of the fire was an ignited naked flame held deliberately to a combustible material.
Mrs Swallow is said to have told her husband Patrick shortly before the fire "I've had enough darling".
The inquest also heard how Mr Swallow, who was outside when the fire started, told medical professionals: "She did it, I tried to save her and get to her but I couldn't,  - she's tried to do it before".
He later said he could not remember this conversation.
As well as serious health issues, Mrs Swallow had suffered depression and had previously attempted to take her own life.

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She was found in a burning first-floor bedroom in Brynards Hill in Royal Wootton Bassett but could not be saved.
Police have not released her name yet, though a man, believed to be her husband, escaped the fire and was treated for smoke inhalation.
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Question: Salford Red Devils winger Justin Carney has been banned for two matches for Grade C contact with a match official.

Carney, 28, who denied the charge but was found guilty by the Rugby Football League, was also fined £300.
He will miss Salford's trip to Leeds Rhinos on Friday and the visit of Warrington Wolves on Saturday 4 March.
Meanwhile, Rhinos second row Jamie Jones-Buchanan, 35, pleaded guilty to a charge of of Grade A dangerous contact and was fined £300 by the RFL.
Neither player was initially cautioned by match officials during their respective Super League games.
Carney's Salford won 30-20 at Huddersfield, while Jones Buchanan's Leeds beat Leigh 17-14.

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Acton, 25, was charged with "other contrary behaviour" after an incident in their defeat by Catalans on 1 July.
The case was adjourned on 4 July for one week after Leigh requested more time to prepare for the hearing.
He is accused of grabbing Greg Bird's shirt, lifting him and then pushing him to the floor as he lay injured.
The secondary delay request was granted, provided Acton does not play for Leigh in Friday's match against Huddersfield.
Acton has already missed a 50-10 defeat by Warrington after the case was adjourned the first time.
He was charged with a Grade F offence, the most serious on the Rugby Football League's disciplinary scale, which carries a minimum ban of eight games if found guilty.
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Question: There is "no new credible evidence of criminality" in files from an east London borough, to suspect fraud, the Metropolitan Police has said.

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It follows claims broadcast on the BBC's Panorama that grants were made to charities in return for electoral support in Tower Hamlets.
Three files of material were handed to the police by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
The Met said there would be no new investigation into the files.
However the Met said there was an continuing investigation by police into alleged irregularity concerning money awarded by Tower Hamlets Council to an organisation within the borough.
Panorama had alleged the council, run by directly-elected mayor Lutfur Rahman, had diverted Â£3.6m of grants to Bangladeshi and Somali-run charities in return for political support.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said the files had been reviewed by a team of officers over the past six days.
It said: "In addition, officers have liaised with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PWC) who are conducting a full and wide-ranging audit of financial matters at The London Borough of Tower Hamlets."
Tower Hamlets Council insisted it had "seen no evidence" that its processes had been run inappropriately.
A spokesman for the council said: "The news from the Metropolitan Police is to be welcomed and Tower Hamlets will continue to work with the auditors and DCLG."
Panorama had said it found Bangladeshi-born Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities.
In a statement, it said: "We continue to stand by the programme's findings which uncovered serious concerns about the use of public money, which are still being investigated by the government.
"Our programme did not say there was evidence of criminality."
The inspection by PWC is continuing to look into the authority's payment of grants, the transfer of property, spending decisions in relation to publicity, and other contractual processes, from 25 October 2010.
It has been asked to report back to Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles by 30 June.
The Met Police said before the three files were handed to officers a report concerning irregularity was made to police by Tower Hamlets Council on 20 March.
Tower Hamlets Criminal Investigation Department is currently investigating irregularity concerning money awarded to the Brady Youth Forum in January and April 2013, which was identified in an internal review by the council.
There are elections in London on 22 May, including for the directly-elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets. A list of candidates will be published after the close of nominations next week.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Samantha Gainard had signed off invoices for legal services "over a number of years".
The police watchdog is looking into her role in instructing the company.
It is also investigating whether she declared a potential conflict of interest.
A separate investigation is looking into her relationship with the force's deputy chief constable Carl Langley.


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Question: Exeter Chiefs have improved enough this season to win their first Premiership title, says captain Gareth Steenson.

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The Chiefs face Wasps in next weekend's final at Twickenham after dramatically beating European champions Saracens in Saturday's semi-final at Sandy Park.
"We're in a much different place. Even in the changing room after the game it feels different," Exeter fly-half Steenson told BBC Sport.
"We've talked very much about building and being champions this year."
Exeter, who were promoted to the top flight for the first time in 2010, lost to Saracens in last season's Twickenham showpiece after a poor first half.
But they made amends by scoring in the final seconds in front of a partisan home crowd to overcome Sarries, who looked to be heading for a shot at a third successive domestic title after a late try of their own.
"Maybe last year wasn't exactly the same way of thinking, maybe we were just happy to be in that final," added Ulsterman Steenson, who kicked eight points in Exeter's win.
"It was our first experience and a lot of people say you've got to go through finals and lose them to put yourself in a good position."
Steenson's thoughts were echoed by forwards coach Rob Hunter, who felt Saturday's win over Saracens was the high point of his Exeter career.
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"The final was a grand day out last year, it was all very new to us, whereas this year we're a different side, we expect a little bit more of ourselves.
"We've been there before, we're a bit more resilient, we've got a bit more experience.
"Two months into this season we did what we should have said in the changing room last year after the final, which was 'how do we win this next year', rather that 'it's been a great season'."

The 24-year-old joins Luke Cowan-Dickie, Henry Slade and Jack Nowell in signing new deals with the Aviva Premiership side in recent weeks.
Francis joined Exeter two years ago and has 14 caps for Wales.
"Hopefully we can help keep developing him as not only a Premiership and European quality player, but also as an international," said coach Rob Baxter.


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Question: Switzerland has suspended the citizenship process for the family of two teenage Muslim brothers who refused to shake hands with female teachers.

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The brothers aged 14 and 15 said physical contact with women who were not family members was against their faith.
Officials in Therwil then told them not to shake male teachers' hands to avoid gender discrimination.
But politicians insisted that shaking hands was part of the national culture.
The case has sparked a debate about religious freedoms, and the Basel-Country canton has requested an expert legal opinion on the matter.
A spokesman for the canton said naturalisation proceedings for the family had been put on hold, but added that such suspensions were common in citizenship procedures.
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The boys' father is a Syrian imam who moved to Switzerland in 2001 and was granted asylum.
Basel's migration office was seeking more information about the circumstances under which the father's asylum request was approved, AFP news agency reported.
There are about 350,000 Muslims in Switzerland, which has a population of 8 million.
Some Swiss Muslim groups said there was no religious justification for refusing to shake a female teacher's hand and urged the Swiss not to give in to extremist demands. But one Islamic organisation said a handshake between men and women was prohibited.
There have been similar disputes where Muslim parents have demanded that their daughters be exempt from swimming lessons.
However, Muslim families have won court victories against schools that attempted to ban the full face veil.

Fourteen asylum seekers from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya are at the centre of the probe.
But contrary to earlier reports police said no arrests had been made among the 11 men and three women.
Local media say a white powder was found in one of the flats, but police say they have found no evidence of a concrete threat of attack.
Those being investigated are aged between 21 and 31, police say.
Most are suspected of financing terrorism and one 28-year-old man is suspected of planning to join so-called Islamic State jihadists in Syria, police said.
But they now say previous reports that he was arrested were wrong.
The raids took place early on Tuesday morning, with 12 flats and a shelter for asylum seekers searched in states around Germany, from Thuringia and Saxony in the east to Bavaria in the south, Hamburg in the north and North Rhine-Westphalia in the west.
The Russian region of Chechnya is home to a number of jihadist groups, including some aligned with Islamic State.
The raids come just weeks after a Syrian refugee was arrested because large amounts of explosives were found in his apartment.
The man was on the run for days, before being overwhelmed by other Syrian refugees, who handed him over to the police.
The suspect had reportedly been planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport, but later killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig.


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Question: Bromley have appointed former Gillingham coach Steve Lovell as assistant manager.

The 55-year-old former Wales international had been at the Gills for three seasons and was caretaker manager when Peter Taylor was sacked in 2014.
"His experience will be invaluable this season," said Bromley boss Neil Smith.
"I have known Steve for over 20 years as both player and a coach. I cannot wait to start working with him," Smith added to the club website.
Lovell began his playing career at Crystal Palace and also had lengthy spells with Millwall and Gillingham.

Bartlett, 31, made 29 first-team appearances during an 18-month spell at Victoria Park.
The ex-Kidderminster, Hereford and Gateshead player has previously coached in a part-time capacity at Newcastle.
Pools still have keepers Ben Dudzinski, Ryan Catterick, injured Trevor Carson and on-loan Joe Fryer in their squad.
"Everybody at the club would like to wish him all the very best in his new career," the Hartlepool statement read.
Meanwhile, former Bristol City and Wolves goalkeeper Adriano Basso has been appointed as the new goalkeeper coach at Victoria Park.
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Question: The world's oldest person, a woman from Japan, is turning 117-years-old.

Misao Okawa, who was born on 5 March 1898 in Osaka, spent time with family the day before her actual birthday, to mark the occasion.
Speaking at Wednesday's celebrations she said that 117 years didn't seem like such a long time.
She now lives in a nursing home in Osaka and staff there said she has slowed down a bit in recent months and has trouble with her hearing.
Despite this she is still in good health and eats well.
Born to a kimono maker, Mrs Okawa married her husband Yukio in 1919. He died in 1931.
They had two daughters and a son. Mrs Okawa now has four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
She was officially recognised as the world's oldest person in 2013 by Guinness World Records.
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Gertrude Weaver was born in 1898 and lives in a nursing home in the city of Camden.
She celebrates her birthday on 4 July, but it's unclear whether she was born on this date as there's no record.
Ms Weaver is a fan of President Barack Obama and she's hoping he'll join her to celebrate her 117th birthday.
In an interview with CBS, Ms Weaver said her secrets were trust in the Lord, working hard, and loving everyone you meet.
She's outlived all but one of her four children, Joe, who turns 94 this month. He visits regularly along with other family members and friends.
The announcement comes after the previous record holder, Misao Okawa from Japan, died a few weeks after her 117th birthday.
Ms Weaver has a few years to go to beat the oldest person ever to have lived - Jeanne Calment from France lived until she was 122 years and 164 days old.
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Question: The Rolling Stones have told Donald Trump to stop playing their songs during his presidential campaign.

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The band have issued a statement saying that the US presidential candidate does not have permission to use the band's music.
"The Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trump campaign to use their songs and have requested that they cease all use immediately."
The candidate has been playing their songs at his rallies for months.
Their 1969 hit You Can't Always Get What You Want has been a particular favourite.
The band are not the first to protest at the reality TV star and businessman - now the Republican front-runner - using their music during his campaign.
In February, Adele issued a statement distancing herself from Trump, after he had been playing Adele's hit Rolling In The Deep as his "warm-up" music at his rallies.
The singer issued a statement making it clear she had "not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning," .
Aerosmith have also protested over their music being used in Trump's campaign
Singer Steven Tyler's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter, saying the use of the band's song Dream On "gives a false impression" he endorses Mr Trump's presidential bid.
Tyler, who is a registered Republican, said it was not a "personal" issue but one of permission and copyright.
Prior to that Neil Young demanded that Trump stop using his song Rockin' in the Free World, which the billionaire had used when he announced his candidacy in June last year.
Young demanded that Trump stop using the song and declared his support for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
Michael Stipe from REM issued a strongly worded statement when Trump then used the band's song It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
"Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign," the statement read.
Trump who presented the US Apprentice is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, after his last Republican rival John Kasich quit the race on Wednesday.

Donald Trump hasn't made a secret of his dislike of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, with the duo having had numerous public clashes, so it was a surprise to find out his daughter, Ivanka Trump, was spotted having breakfast with the broadcaster at the Four Seasons hotel in New York. Not only that, but they talked for two hours, according to Politico Playbook. Talking of surprises, October typically has lots of them, so we've looked at whether they ever swing a US election.
Meanwhile, Trump Halloween masks are flying out of the shops, outselling Clinton masks by 55% to 45%, according to the Spirit Halloween costume chain. The top reason why Americans choose a Trump mask is to be funny, while Clinton is typically chosen because people like her, their survey says.
Interestingly, the store's best-selling Halloween mask has correctly forecast the outcome of every presidential election since 1996, according to NBC.
In other news, not content with blaming the media and the "Clinton machine" for "rigging the election," Mr Trump has now directed his anger at social media, lashing out at Facebook, Twitter and Google for "burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton".
But as Mashable points out, a quick glance at Google News on Sunday showed the FBI investigation was the top result, both #Election2016 and the Clinton were at the top of Twitter's "featured tweets" section and it's hard to track what's trending on Facebook because it's personalised, so it's not entirely clear what the Republican candidate believes has been buried.
Meanwhile, proving that Donald Trump isn't the only candidate that can go on a twitter rant, independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin unleashed a Twitterstorm at Mr Trump after his rival called him the "puppet of a loser" on Fox News.
Channelling a bit of Mrs Clinton - who drew comparisons in the presidential debates between her 30 years of public service with Mr Trump's bid for stardom on the Apprentice - the former CIA officer attacked Mr Trump: "Yes you've never heard of me because while you were harassing women at beauty pageants, I was fighting terrorists abroad."
But it wasn't just Mr Trump that was the subject of his wrath. He also threw some punches at Mrs Clinton.
Finally remember the story about Mr Trump's tax returns at the beginning of the month? It seems they definitely won't be made public before the election, meaning he will be the first presidential nominee since Gerald Ford, in the 1970s, to not release his tax returns during the campaign.
And if you are confused about how two such such unpopular candidates rose to the top of their parties, watch our video explainer below.
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The number of likely voters who are Republicans or lean that way that disapprove of House Speaker Paul Ryan's decision not to campaign for Donald Trump, according to  a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Hillary Clinton is off to Ohio for two campaign events in Cleveland and Cincinnati. It's a key battleground state and the Real Clear Politics polling average currently has her rival ahead 45% to 44%. Her running mate Tim Kaine is holding events in North Carolina.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump will be campaigning in Michigan, holding rallies in Grand Rapids and Warren.
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Question: Memorable names, breakthrough stars, sporting soap operas, strangest moments and spats not involving Kevin Pietersen - chief sports writer Tom Fordyce hands out his alternative 2014 sports awards.

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One of the early highlights of the Commonwealth Games: spotting the Sri Lankan cycling team out on a quick training ride - along the M74 motorway.
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Humiliation on a greater scale came with Brazil's 7-1 demolition by Germany in the semi-final of their home World Cup. It was 0-5 before half an hour had been played; David Luiz and his errant fellow defenders should be grateful away goals don't always count double.
And then there were the struggling batsmen of Wirral Cricket Club. Coming up against Haslington CC in April, they were all out for a grand total of three. The number 11 scored a single. The other two runs came from leg byes.
When your track record includes pushing over mascots in consecutive European Championships and having a punch-up with a compatriot at the conclusion of a high-profile Diamond League 1500m, merely taking your running vest off and waving it round your head on the home straight seems a little bland. But it cost French maverick Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad steeplechase gold at this summer's Europeans, even if he then took partial revenge by winning 1500m gold a few days later. Gesticulating rudely at a booing crowd as he did so.
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United States golfer Patrick Reed added a nice pantomime element to September's Ryder Cup when, after making a par putt against Henrik Stenson in the Sunday singles, he placed a finger to his lips and ostentatiously shushed the Gleneagles galleries. His subsequent implosion at the WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai - admonishing himself for a three-putt with a homophobic and x-rated tirade - was a touch less matinee.
Twice banned for doping, distrusted by fellow athletes, trained in the past by a notorious doping coach and now by another man once banned for drugs. What's not to like about unrepentant US sprinter Justin Gatlin? This summer he ran the fastest 100m and 200m times by a man in his thirties and the fastest ever one-day sprint double. The world raised a weary eyebrow.
The marathon world record of two hours, two minutes and 57 seconds set by Kenya's Dennis Kimetto in Berlin in September was the equivalent of running 105 consecutive laps of an athletics track in 69.93 seconds. Try running one lap in that time to put it in perspective.
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Three weeks before beating twice-champion Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, then world 144 Nick Kyrgios was losing in the first round of a Challenger event in Nottingham to world 185 John-Patrick Smith.
There was a smaller margin between gold and silver in the Commonwealth Games 10,000m final (0.03 sec between Moses Kipsiro and Josphat Bett) than in the Commonwealth 100m final (0.10 sec between Kemar Bailey-Cole and Adam Gemili.
A year short of his 40th birthday, having not won on the European Tour until his 37th year, Welshman Jamie Donaldson sealed Europe's Ryder Cup triumph with a brilliant approach to within two feet of the pin on the 15th to force a battered Keegan Bradley into concession. He later rode team-mate Thomas Bjorn into the victory press conference like a half-cut shire horse.
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Before Kiribati boxer Taoriba Biniati arrived in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games, she had never been in a ring. The boxing club on her archipelago home consists of a punch bag hanging from a breadfruit tree. She had never before had a single bout. She still made it through to the end of her debut.
Grand National winner Pineau de Re was not only a 25-1 shot; jockey Leighton Aspell had come out of retirement to ride, trainer Richard Newland was a doctor who only looked after horses part-time. Owner John Provan had certainly bought the horse with the intention of winning the National - the Midlands National, that is.
Before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi, the Russian Interior Ministry Police choir (threatening and camp in equal measure) performed Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky', a sight even more surreal than Barry from EastEnders performing Labi Siffre's 'Something Inside So Strong' at the World Indoor Bowls Championships in Great Yarmouth.
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A month later, we had Lewis Hamilton, in full Mercedes kit and helmet, being stopped by a security guard at the paddock in Melbourne and asked to show his pass (Hamilton: "Ah, I'm one of the drivers…").
And then, as the year drew to a close, Tiger Woods - after battling illness during the third round of the Hero World Challenge in Florida - performed an uncanny impersonation of Clint Eastwood. "I know what you're thinking - did he fire 70 shots or only 69? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself…"
Spare a thought for Diego Godin, scorer of Atletico Madrid's goal in the Champions League final, which had them ahead of Real Madrid until the 93rd minute before Sergio Ramos, Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo reduced him to the status of footnote.
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Wonder too how different Steven Gerrard's year would have been had he not slipped just before half-time against Chelsea on the penultimate weekend of the Premier League season, handing Demba Ba a chance he could not miss and the title back to Manchester City.
And place an imaginary arm around the shoulder of jockey Richard Johnson, second behind Pineau de Re at Aintree aboard Balthazar King to set a new record of 18 Grand National rides without a win.
He has also been runner-up 15 times in the jockeys' championship to 19-time winner AP McCoy.
Hurrah for Geraint Thomas at the Commonwealth Games road race on a filthy Glasgow day, a first cycling gold for a Welshman at a Commonwealths and a reward for countless hours aiding Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish to their own triumphs.
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Hurrah for Euan Burton, eliminated 100 seconds into his quest for judo glory at London 2012 ("I feel like I've let myself down, I've let my coaches down, I've let my mum and dad and my brother down..."), out of retirement aged 35 to win Commonwealth gold in Glasgow having carried his nation's flag at the opening ceremony.
And hip-hip hooray for Jo Pavey, at 40 years old the oldest woman ever to claim gold at a European Championships when she won a thrilling 10,000m just 11 months after giving birth to her second child Emily.
Pavey has been running for her country for so long that she made her debut in a British vest in the same year her team-mate Morgan Lake was born.
A British record of 80,000 fans turned up at Wembley for the rematch between Carl Froch and George Groves at Wembley, a new post-World War II record for a boxing event in Britain and noisier by far than the last fight at the old Wembley Stadium, when Frank Bruno beat Oliver McCall to win the WBC heavyweight title in 1995.
Approximately 4.8 million turned up along the streets of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex and London to watch the first three days of the Tour de France. Nowhere was the support more impressive than on the Col de Buttertubs, a vast seething 'V' of fans, flags and astonished riders.
And then there was the first tee on the final morning of the Ryder Cup: an hour before sunrise, most of Perthshire still as dark as a cave, a weird, ghostly glow lighting up one small circle of the Centenary course as a thousand mobile phones sent texts and tweets: "I'm here, I'm in, did you get your hip-flask through?"
What's that? Roger Federer is pulling out of his ATP World Tour final against Novak Djokovic with a back injury, just after an epic semi-final against Stan Wawrinka?
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At least that was only one man down. Britain's big hopes at the Tour de France went down like tenpins - Mark Cavendish in the first stage sprint, Chris Froome once on the fourth stage and then twice, ending his title defence, on the fifth.
Does England's football team's performance at the World Cup count as an anti-climax? Despite all the past failings and pre-tournament lack of expectation, it surely does; they failed to win a single game, spending less time in Brazil than at their training camp in Miami.
Going into the last day of La Liga season, all three of Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona could have won the title.
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Going into the final set of the Roger Federer v Novak Djokovic Wimbledon final - Federer having reeled off five successive games from 5-2 down in the fourth set - no-one dared leave their Centre Court seat for a second.
And going into the last minute of the last match in the Six Nations, only a disallowed Damien Chouly try for France - ruled out for a forward pass - finally sent the title to Ireland rather than England.
The spurned Kevin Pietersen versus England players, coaches and management.
Leeds owner Massimo Cellino versus the Football League and Italian judicial system.
The 2022 Qatar World Cup bid versus ethical voting procedures and ethical internal investigations by Fifa.
Former head coach Andy Flower: "Contagiously sour, infectiously dour," said Pietersen, in the style of a cricketing Morrissey. "He could walk into a room and suck all the joy out of it in five seconds." Again like Morrissey.
Former wicketkeeper Matt Prior, mocked for his cycling obsession and nickname 'Big Cheese': "Our Cheese was out there, growing runny in the heat. A Dairylea triangle thinking he was a brie."
Returning head coach Peter Moores, dismissed by this reflection on his previous spell: "The team wasn't happy, things weren't right, and England cricket was going nowhere."
Moments after the United States team had been thrashed 16½-11½ at Gleneagles - their eighth defeat in the last 10 Ryder Cups - Phil Mickelson spelled out exactly why: his captain Tom Watson. Mickelson, said former Europe leader Sir Nick Faldo, had "thrown his captain under the bus".
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The 64-year-old Watson, by the end, resembled a granddad mistakenly put in charge of a stag-do: exhausted, confused, alone.
So long had Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora been at each other's throats that it was a relief when Fury's fists finally ended the lame linguistic scuffling at the Excel Centre in late November.
And what of the skinny world of cycling? Russian Ivan Rovny and Italian Gianluca Brambilla were thrown out of the Tour of Spain after punching each other mid-ride on the 16th stage, but Spain's Vicente de Mateus and Italy's Enrico Rossi topped that in the closing kilometres of the 100-mile sixth stage of the Volta a Portugal by first crashing into each other and then engaging in a furious cleat-to-cleat exchange in the middle of the road.
In 2008 Lizzy Yarnold was a struggling heptathlete, disillusioned enough with her progress to sign up for UK Sport's Girls4Gold talent search scheme. Winning skeleton Olympic gold in Sochi meant that search could be called off.
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Great Britain's young female sprinters had remarkable success individually - a first medal by a British woman in a European 200m final in 32 years, the first in a 100m final for 40, an 18-year-old World Junior champion.
As a 4x100m relay squad, they won European gold and broke a national record that had stood for 34 years twice in 11 days. Here come the girls.
Before the Commonwealth Games it would have been easy to overlook 4ft 6in gymnast Claudia Fragapane. Not by the end, when the 17-year-old had become the first British woman in 84 years to win four gold medals at one Commonwealths.
David Moyes as Manchester United manager.
Andy Murray being coached by Ivan Lendl.
Kevin Pietersen ending an Ashes series as England's leading run-scorer.
Each had their fans: Sultana Frizell, Canadian hammer thrower, whose retention of her Commonwealth title in Glasgow confirmed her as the event's 'currant' champion, and Ivory Coast goalkeeper Boubacar Barry, surely a Catchphrase picture waiting to happen.

But when you look back over 2016, who would you pick in your team of the year?
Pick your way through our shortlist, agonise over who to select and share you choices with your friends.
Shortlist selected by BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty.
As we bid farewell to a truly unforgettable year of Premier League action - who would make your team of 2016?


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Question: BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.

Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Mark Radcliffe.
Radcliffe, who also hosts The Folk Show on BBC Radio 2, is a season-ticket holder at Manchester City and is backing them to beat Chelsea on Sunday.
You can make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
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Radcliffe has been a City fan since he was a boy and watched them regularly since 1976 when he moved to Manchester.
"It is difficult to pick out one moment as the highlight of my time following City," he told BBC Sport. "It is tempting to pick the glory days and I suppose when Sergio Aguero scored that goal to win us the Premier League in 2012, I was there watching it and wondering 'has that actually just happened?'
"It seemed impossible. It was so surreal and the sort of thing that never happened to City.
"I suppose that is my greatest moment although I am always drawn back to Paul Dickov scoring at Wembley, with his famous 95th-minute equaliser in the play-off final in 1999, because I do think that was the key moment in the City story of recent times.
"Lose that, and we were staring into the abyss but we won and it felt like we were on the way back. So my head would say Aguero but my heart would go back to Dickov, on his knees at Wembley."
You can hear more of Mark's tales about following City on Football Focus at 12:15 BST on Saturday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.
Our scoring system has changed this season and a correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is now worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last weekend, Lawro got two correct results from 10 Premier League games, with no perfect scores.
His score of 20 points saw him draw with former England cricketer Graeme Swann who also picked two correct results.
The Premier League team top of the Predictor leaderboard after week one is Watford, with an average score of 57 points, while the 13-15 age-group has the highest average score of 55 points.
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Mark's prediction: Manchester United 'nil' is my favourite score so why veer from that? 1-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Mark's prediction: 3-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Radcliffe's prediction: Sunderland seem to have gone straight into a nervous relegation battle from the first game, while Norwich were quite unlucky last week. 0-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Mark's prediction: 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Mark's prediction: I think Stoke will do well this season but I would not call them a surprise package because I think people are expecting them to do quite well. I've just got a funny feeling that Kane won't have the season he just had and that Spurs might falter. 1-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Mark's prediction: West Brom looked pretty indifferent on Monday night but they were playing us and Pulis got his team wrong. 1-0
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Mark's prediction: 0-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Mark's prediction: After what happened to Arsenal against West Ham, Palace will have great belief and I think they could do this. 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-0
Mark's prediction: We looked like we meant business against West Brom. I have got to go for a City win again although I can't see there being much in it. 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Mark's prediction: Everybody wants Bournemouth to do well but you have to fancy Liverpool. 2-0
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.

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Lawro picked the winner in two of the four quarter-finals and six of the eight last-16 ties.
He enjoyed a 42% success rate in the group stage, correctly guessing the outcome of 15 of the 36 games.
The only group he failed to get a single result in was Group F, which saw Hungary and Iceland spring a surprise by finishing first and second.
Before the tournament Lawro chose 11 of the 16 teams that went through to the first knockout stage, including France, his pick to win the tournament on 10 July.
Along with more than 375,000 of you, Lawro is taking part in the new BBC Sport Predictor game. He is going head-to-head with pundits, presenters and commentators from across BBC Sport. He's doing well, though he's not top as things stand:
You can make your own predictions and take on your friends and other fans using the BBC's Euros Predictor.
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Wales to win on penalties)
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2


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Question: So, the Conservative leadership has begun asking Tory MPs for their views about the possibility of military action against Islamic State.

One Conservative MP told me he had been asked two specific questions by his whip, an MP who enforces discipline in the House of Commons for the government.
The MP was asked: what did he think about military action in Iraq and what did he think about military action in Syria?
Government sources at Westminster insisted that Tory MPs were not being consulted about any specific proposals for military action. They were simply being asked for their views about a range of issues that included the situation in the Middle East but also touched on Ukraine and domestic matters.
They said government whips were taking the chance to gauge MPs' views ahead of a big House of Commons debate on foreign affairs next Wednesday. They were also using the opportunity of the short parliamentary session to test the water before MPs leave Westminster for a month while the Scotland referendum and party conferences take place.
It is not clear yet how widespread this consultation is. The views of many MPs on military action will be well known already to the whips.
But the fact that the questions are now being asked represents the most substantial evidence yet that the government is preparing for the moment when it may consider joining US air strikes in the Middle East.

It's got diplomats, generals, bishops, former foreign secretaries, savants, super-lawyers, mandarins, ex-chancellors, immigration campaigners, authors, business folk, and even ex-policemen.
I can predict with confidence that, by tea-time on Monday, everything will have been said, although in the best House of Lords tradition, not everyone will have (yet) said it.
It seems unlikely that the debate will even end in a recorded vote.
The House of Lords normally gives an unopposed Second Reading to government legislation, so it would be a breach of tradition (which is a very big deal on the Red Benches) to force a division - and the only motive would be to record the individual votes, because a thumping majority for the Bill would be the certain result.
Incidentally, with 191 peers down to speak at the moment, the total tops the previous record of 182 who joined the list to speak on the 1999 House of Lords Bill (Hat-tip to Matthew Purvis, Head of Research at the Lords Library).
So what is to be learned from the debate? Watch the crossbenchers. The crossbench or independent peers are not a party - they have no agreed policies, still less a whip, and their main rule is that their members must carry no taint of party allegiance, which means no local membership, and no financial donations.
It follows that there is no crossbench line on Brexit, but the crossbenchers could well provide the swing vote on the key amendments to be debated at the bill's committee stage, a week after Second Reading.
So any indication that they are breaking in a particular direction will be significant. One key figure may be the super-lawyer, Lord Pannick, who led the legal team which forced the Government to introduce this Bill in the first place.
In debates on legal issues, in particular, he has been able to persuade the Lords' legion of retired judges and senior QCs to back his initiatives, and his name appears on an amendment from Labour's shadow Brexit spokesperson, Baroness Hayter, requiring prior Parliamentary approval for agreements with the European Union, which bears a considerable resemblance to the "Meaningful Vote" proposed by Labour in the Commons.
The "Meaningful Vote" looks likely to provide the toughest test for the government whips, although the issue of the status of EU citizens resident in the UK will also be raised - and here the support for the amendment from the Joint Committee on Human Rights could be important.
So the two days next week will provide an opportunity for sensitive antennae to gauge the mood in the Chamber - will peers feel they have no right to meddle with a bill which gives expression to the referendum verdict?
Will those who're tempted to tamper be frightened off by menacing rumblings about abolishing them? Will they dismiss the warnings - or will some decide that if there is any cause worth risking their status for, the EU is it?
Meanwhile this week should also see the final flourish of HS2, and some interesting manoeuvres around the campaign to crack down on international human rights abusers and a chance for (English) MPs to complain about the funding for their police and local councils.
The Commons kicks off at 14.30 GMT with Work and Pensions Questions
The main legislating will be on the Report and Third Reading stages of the Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill which implements the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
The convention was prompted by the widespread destruction and looting of cultural property in the second world war - and has been given new resonance by the destruction of ancient monuments in the Middle East, like the city of Palmyra.
MPs then move on to what will probably be their last rites on the HS2 Bill, or to give it its full title, the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill.
They're due to consider Lords amendments - and the changes made in the Lords are pretty detailed tweaks - so unless opponents of the Bill are planning some last minute theatre, this will be the final episode in the marathon four-year process of approving the first phase of HS2.
In Westminster Hall at 16.30 BST MPs debate two e-petitions arguing opposite views of President Trump's proposed state visit to the UK.
Petition 171928 says that "Donald Trump's well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prince of Wales. Therefore during the term of his presidency Donald Trump should not be invited to the United Kingdom for an official State Visit."
On the other hand, Petition 178844 says: "Donald Trump should be invited to make an official State Visit because he is the leader of a free world and UK is a country that supports free speech and does not believe that people that oppose our point of view should be gagged."
As always on these occasions, there is no vote - although a minister will give the Government response. (Incidentally, the Government petitions website generates maps showing where the signatures come from - take a look; it's fascinating!)
In the Lords, the usual half hour of questions to ministers will be but a brief appetiser for the mammoth Second Reading debate on the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - which will also encompass most of Tuesday's sitting.
The Commons opens at 11.30 GMT with Foreign Office Questions
The SNP's Chris Stephens has a Ten Minute Rule Bill  to end to the premium-rate charges on phone inquiries about benefits, which he calls the "telephone tax".
He says disabled people who use the government hotline to appeal against benefits sanctions are charged more than millionaires calling to query their tax bill, and he wants the Department for Work and Pensions to drop costly 0345 numbers that have seen his constituents paying up to Â£9 to make an inquiry on their benefits status.
Then MPs turn to the Criminal Finances Bill - which extends the powers of law enforcement agencies to tackle money laundering from the proceeds of tax, evasion, organised crime or for financing terrorism.
The annual amount of money laundered globally amounts to $1.6 trillion, while the National Crime Agency believes many billions of pounds are laundered into or through the UK as a result of international corruption.
Watch out for an "Magnitsky" amendment from the former Justice Minister Dominic Raab, who has assembled impressive cross-party backing for a change in the law to tackle those implicated in gross human rights abuses, such as the murder of Sergei Magnitsky a lawyer who uncovered corruption and tax fraud in Russia, and was killed in prison.
This is a cause Mr Raab has been pursuing for several years - along with his call for a ban on UK visas for those implicated in such crimes.
There's now a competing amendment from the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, which looks to be an attempt at a compromise on the issue, so look out for some close questioning of ministers on the detail of their amendment.
Then the House will vote on motions to up-rate social security benefits and pensions.
In the adjournment debate, the Conservative former defence minister, Dr Andrew Murrison, marks the centenary of the sinking of the SS Mendi - which claimed the lives of more than 600 South African servicemen whilst travelling from Plymouth to France.
In Westminster Hall, my eye was caught by Helen Grant's debate between 9.30 and 11.00 GMT on a Better Defence Estate Strategy - the Ministry of Defence owns about 1.8% of the UK's land mass; it costs Â£2.5bn a year to maintain; and 40% of our assets are more than 50 years old.
Given the Armed Forces are 30% smaller than at the end of the last century while the estate has only reduced by 9%, there may be scope to sell some of it off.
The latest plans earmark 91 of the most expensive sites for disposal, with the thought that this will make an important contribution to the government's target to release land for 55,000 homes. This could attract considerable interest from MPs whose constituencies include some of the land in question.
Helen Grant's main focus will be on the decision to close Invicta Park Barracks, in her Maidstone constituency, and in particular on the Queen's Gurkha Engineers, who serve there, and their families. Unlike most of the regular army the Gurkhas tend to remain located at one base, where they make their permanent home.
As a result, Maidstone has become the home of a very close knit Nepalese community, which is well integrated within the life of the town. She fears the closure of the barracks would see this community broken up, which could amount to a breach of the military covenant.
I'm also intrigued by Sir William Cash's debate between 16.30 and 17.30 GMT on the future of the London Stock Exchange, which presumably deals with its proposed Â£21bn merger with Frankfurt-based Deutsche Borse.
The veteran Eurosceptic is rather coy about what he plans to say, other than to mention that he's been doing some detective work. Perhaps there will be some clues in the Sunday papers....
In the Lords, peers open for business earlier than usual at 11.00 GMT to continue debating the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - with a half-hour respite for questions to ministers at 14.30 BST.
The Commons opens at 11.30 BST with International Development Questions followed, at noon by Prime Minister's Questions.
The day's Ten Minute Rule Bill, from the Conservative James Berry, aims to end the ability of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority in North London, to raise a levy on the council tax charged by all London Boroughs. He says few people from his South-West London constituency ever go there.
Then MPs debate motions to approve the coming year's grants to English Police Authorities and local councils - both could be pretty contentious this time around.
In Westminster Hall, the three Hull MPs - Alan Johnson, Diana Johnson and Karl Turner - have a debate between 9.30 and 11.00 BST on changes in council funding and social care. In what I suspect will become a familiar debating subject, they aim  to draw attention to the effect of changes to funding formulas on the levels of care provided and on preventative health services.
Mr Johnson accuses the government of using "smoke and mirrors" to try to suggest that local authorities don't have a problem.
Between 14.30 and 16.00 GMT, the Conservative Jake Berry will be pushing for the government to use the forthcoming Commonwealth trade ministers meeting in March to start the ball rolling on post-Brexit free trade deals with Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
In the Lords, the day's main event is the first of two Report Stage days of the Digital Economy Bill, covering such issues as online pornography and Intellectual Property.
There's also a short debate on improving standards of nutrition for women and girls globally led by the Conservative, Baroness Manzoor.
The Commons opens (9.30am) with Transport Questions, followed by the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House, David Lidington, setting out forthcoming Commons debates.
Next comes an Opposition Day Debate on a subject to be chosen by the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party
And that will be followed by a backbench debate on unaccompanied children in Greece and Italy
In Westminster Hall at 13.30 GMT, the SNP's Dr Lisa Cameron leads a debate on publicly accessible amenities for disabled people and at 15.00 GMT MPs will debate the Transport Select Committee's report on road traffic law enforcement. This notes that the decline in fatalities in road accidents has slowed in recent years, and the most recent annual figures show a small increase.
Look out for contributions from members of the extremely active All Party parliamentary Group on Cycling - they are conducting an inquiry of their own into the way the courts deal with accidents involving cyclists, and have noticed that the Transport Committee have highlighted the increase in injuries to pedal cyclists.
In the Lords at 11.00 GMT, as is usual as the end of the parliamentary year approaches, peers have dropped their normal Thursday backbench debates in favour of polishing off less controversial legislation.
So it's the Third Reading  of the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill - which aims to give the Government powers to cut the cost of drugs to the NHS, and it's the first Report Stage day on the Neighbourhood Planning Bill.
It's private members bill day in both the Commons and the Lords. In the Commons at 9.30 GMT, the first business is the SNP MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford's Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence Bill - which puts the "Istanbul Convention", a Council of Europe Convention, into UK law.
The convention requires countries to take action to eliminate violence against women and assume extra-territorial jurisdiction to prosecute offences, where necessary. Concerns over the technical complications involved in this have delayed ratification by the UK, since 2014.
There are a number of amendments down from the Home Office Minister Sarah Newton, while Women and Equalities committee member Philip Davies proposes that "everything in the [Istanbul] Convention will be deemed, across the United Kingdom, to apply equally to men and women".
Next comes Conservative Gareth Johnson's Awards for Valour (Protection) Bill, also known as the Walter Mitty Bill, which aims to stop people wearing medals they have not been awarded with the intention to deceive.
As I write, there are no amendments proposed for its Report Stage, and if that remains true, it should be waived through to the House of Lords with minimal delay.
There is a Report Stage amendment down for the next Bill on the agenda, Conservative John Glen's Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill - which aims tidy up the law on this issue.
His Conservative colleague Chris Chope wants to make the repeal of sections 146(3) and 147(3) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 retrospective to the date they came into operation - effectively quashing any convictions under them.
After that, I'm not sure MPs will have much time, if any, to devote to the Second Reading of Kevin Foster's Wild Animals in Circuses (Prohibition) Bill.
In the Lords at 10.00 GMT, peers have their first debate on Bob Blackman's Homelessness Reduction Bill - now being promoted by Lord Best. The Bill will require local authorities to help single people who are homeless or in danger of losing their home, and previously didn't qualify - and it has strong cross party support, and, crucially, government backing.
Then come two more private members bills, hot from the Commons.
The Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill - which aims to promote digital community radio, and the Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Bill, which gives local authorities flexibility to vary parking fees, before peers get to the Conservative Lord Shinkwin's Abortion (Disability Equality) Bill, which aims to ban abortion on the grounds that the child may be disabled.


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Question: The number of people claiming unemployment benefit in Northern Ireland has fallen for a 14th month in a row.

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According to official statistics, 700 fewer people were on the register in March.
The total number of jobless is about 57,000.
However, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.7%, which is above the UK average of 6.9%.
Other data published on Wednesday revealed that the Northern Ireland economy continued to grow in the final months of 2013.
There have now been three consecutive quarterly increases.
Stormont economy minister Arlene Foster said: "This is good news in relation to economic performance."
"The various business confidence surveys also continue to give us reasons to be to be positive about the prospects for further improvements in business and economic conditions," she added.
Mrs Foster said the continuing decrease in unemployment benefit claimants was "the most sustained fall since June 1995".
"The rate of unemployment in Northern Ireland (7.7%) is above that of the UK (6.9%) but compares favourably to the rates in the European Union (10.8%) and the Republic of Ireland (11.9%)," she said.

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Figures released from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the rate of unemployment in Wales has stayed at 4.4% of 16-64 year olds.
This compares with 4.7% for the UK as a whole.
Between November and January there were 66,000 people in Wales available for work but not employed.
That is 12,000 fewer than the same period 12 months earlier.
The unemployment rate in Wales has been below the UK rate for a year now.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the statistics showed that the  jobs market in Wales "is continuing to outperform almost every other part of the UK".
"We are continuing to work hard to grow the Welsh economy and are constantly looking to the future."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "It is great news that the UK unemployment rate has reached its lowest point since June to August 1975 and that Wales' rate continues to stay below this average.
"The increase in employment levels in Wales highlights business confidence in the Welsh economy and its ability to face the challenges ahead."
Analysis: Faltering wage growth is becoming Mayâ€™s headache
Analysis by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent
Wales has had lower unemployment than the UK as a whole for many months now, with only the south west, East Midlands and south east England having a lower rate.
But Wales also has a relatively low level of employment and a relatively high proportion of people between 16 and 64 who are not working but also not available for work.
This may be because they are ill or caring for someone, referred to as economically inactive. In Wales 23.3% come into that category. Inactivity rates are only higher than Wales in north east England and Northern Ireland.
In Wales, 73.3% of people aged between 16 and 64 are working - only the north east, north west, Yorkshire and Humber and the West Midlands have lower levels of employment.
Wales has seen one of the biggest falls in the unemployment rate in the 12 months to the November to January quarter. Proportionately only Scotland has seen a greater fall.
But Scotland also saw a significant reduction in the number of people working during that period and a big increase in people not working and not available for work.
Other figures out on Wednesday show there has been a 13% increase in people employed on zero hours contracts across the UK in the past year to December, a total of 900,000 people or 2.8% of the workforce


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Question: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace has announced.

The Queen and both families are said to be "delighted with the news".
As with her previous two pregnancies, the duchess, 35, is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.
She will no longer carry out her planned engagement at the Hornsey Road Children's Centre in London today.
Catherine is being cared for at Kensington Palace, the statement said.
The duke and duchess have one son, George, and one daughter, Charlotte, aged four and two.
With the previous two pregnancies, the couple announced them before the 12-week mark - when most women have their first scan - because of the duchess being unwell with hyperemesis gravidarum.
Her first pregnancy was revealed when she was just a few weeks pregnant with Prince George after she was admitted to hospital in December 2012.
Her second pregnancy with Princess Charlotte was announced in September 2014, when she was treated at the palace for the condition.
Hyperemesis gravidarum affects about one in every 200 pregnancies and results in severe nausea and vomiting - with one of the main dangers being dehydration.
The BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the couple had "clearly been forced" to make the announcement because of the duchess' condition.
"It is quite a significant week for them because Prince George is due to start at big school," he told BBC News.
"Presumably his mother would be keen to take him to that, [but] whether she is going to be well enough to do that remains to be seen.
"It had also been expected that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would be taking a foreign trip this autumn," he added.
"Whether they will be able to do that or whether the duchess will be well enough to do that also remains to be seen."
The expected child will become the fifth in line to the throne behind Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
A change - which stops royal sons taking precedence over their female siblings in the line of succession - came into force in March 2015.
The child will be the Queen's sixth great-grandchild.
To become King or Queen as the third-born royal child is rare - and has yet to happen within the current House of Windsor.
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The Hanoverian king acceded to the throne aged 64 when his older brother, George IV, died without an heir.
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Arriving in Manchester for a royal visit, Prince Harry - who will drop to sixth in line to the throne when the child is born - said the news was "fantastic" and he was "very, very happy".
Clarence House has tweeted on behalf of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to say they are "delighted".
Prime Minister Theresa May has tweeted her congratulations to the couple, calling it "fantastic news".
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The prince, whose birthday is on Tuesday, was pictured at the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at London's Natural History Museum.
The image was taken a few weeks ago by the Press Association's John Stillwell.
Prince George's parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expected to hold a birthday party on Tuesday at their Kensington Palace apartment.
Mr Stillwell also photographed the prince's first public appearance the day after he was born and his christening last October.
"Prince George was very lively and very sure of himself and confident - a very determined young boy," he said.
Prince George Alexander Louis - known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge - was born on 22 July last year.


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Question: Pakistan says it will pursue more information from the British government over claims that the MQM party was funded by Indian's government.

MQM officials told UK investigators they had received money from the Indian government, the BBC has learned.
A Pakistani official also told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants over the past 10 years.
Indian authorities say the claims made to the BBC are "completely baseless". The MQM also denies them.
Party spokesman Saif Muhammad Ali told BBC Urdu that the MQM had never received any funding or training from India. He said authorities in Pakistan were running a campaign against the party.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan's interior minister, said on Thursday he would write to the British government on Friday.
He said they had a duty to "extend as much help as possible" to Pakistan on the investigation.
With 24 members in the National Assembly, the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has long been a dominant force in the politics of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.
British authorities investigating the MQM for alleged money laundering held formal recorded interviews with senior MQM officials.
They told investigators the party was receiving Indian funding, the BBC was told. UK authorities also found a list of weapons in an MQM property.
A Pakistani official told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants in explosives, weapons and sabotage over the past 10 years in camps in north and north-east India.
Before 2005-2006, the training was given to a small number of mid-ranking members of the MQM, the official said.
More recently, greater numbers of more junior party members have been trained, the BBC was told.
The claims follow the statement of a senior Karachi police officer in April that two arrested MQM militants said they had been trained in India.
Asked about the claims of Indian funding and training of the MQM, the Indian High Commission in London said: "Shortcomings of governance cannot be rationalised by blaming neighbours."
The UK authorities started investigating the MQM in 2010 when a senior party leader, Imran Farooq, was stabbed to death outside his home in north London.
In the course of those inquiries, the police found around Â£500,000 ($787,350) in the MQM's London offices and in the home of Mr Hussain.
That prompted a second investigation into possible money laundering.
Pakistan's powerful but absent politician
British investigators then found a list itemising weapons, including mortars, grenades and bomb-making equipment in an MQM property, according to Pakistani media reports that the BBC believes to be credible.
The list included prices for the weapons. Asked about the list, the MQM made no response.
The MQM insists it is a peaceful, secular party representing the interests of the middle classes in Pakistan.

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"The campaign will go on through the winter months," he said during a three-day visit to London. "There will be no turning back."
The Pakistan army operation in the militant stronghold of North Waziristan began last summer, long before the attack on a school in the city of Peshawar, in which Pakistani Taliban militants killed more than 130 children.
But, the general said, the massacre had given the army extra resolve to fight the militants. "We didn't expect them to attack children," he said.
Gen Sharif told Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon that militants near the Afghan border remained in "just a few pockets".
But in Peshawar analysts and journalists report that, in fact, the militants still control significant amounts of territory in North Waziristan, and that the army offensive has so far only managed to clear the urban areas.
There are also question marks over the way the army defines its enemies. While it is fully engaged against the TTP, Punjabi-based militant groups such as Lashkar e Toiba, which carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, are free to operate in Pakistan without interference.
Privately Pakistani military officials argue that, with so much fighting going on near the Afghan border, they cannot be expected to simultaneously confront Punjabi groups. Critics argue that in fact the army has no desire to confront Punjab-based groups, most of which focus their attacks on Indian targets.
There are similar debates concerning the army's attitude towards the Afghan Taliban and the cross-border Haqqani network, which in 2011 was described by the then chairman of the US joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, as a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's most powerful intelligence agency, the ISI.
Despite all lingering questions about Pakistan trying to distinguish between the so-called "good" and "bad" Taliban, Gen Sharif insisted that Pakistan had reviewed its Afghan policy and was genuinely committed to the establishment of a broad-based government in Kabul under the leadership of President Ashraf Ghani.
As well as discussing Pakistan's desire to receive more military equipment and training from the UK, officials from the two countries traded requests for co-operation in relation to individuals on each others' soil.
Gen Sharif asked that the British take action against Baloch separatists living in London, including Hyrbyair Marri, who Pakistani officials say is the leader of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). The general requested that the BLA be listed as a terrorist organisation and that legal measures be taken against any of its leaders based in London.
For more than a decade the BLA has been in open rebellion in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. A long-running army campaign has contained the insurgency but not managed to bring it to an end.
Mr Marri was cleared of terror charges in a British court in 2009. Human rights activists complained at the time that he was only put on trial at the request of Pakistani leader Gen Pervez Musharraf.
Given that Mr Marri was found not guilty, it would seem all but impossible for the British authorities to retry him.
For their part, British Home Office officials asked for Pakistani co-operation regarding the MQM political party. The MQM has 20 members in Pakistan's National Assembly, most elected from constituencies in Pakistan's biggest and richest city, Karachi.
The MQM leader, Altaf Hussein, has lived in north London for more than 20 years and successive Pakistani governments have complained that British officials have turned a blind eye to the party's willingness to use violence to get its way.
Following the murder of the MQM deputy leader, Imran Farooq, in London in 2010 the party has been the subject of a major British police investigation.
The UK is pressing Pakistan to release two men - Mohsin Ali Syed and Mohammed Kashif Khan Kamran - who they suspect of carrying out the murder and who are currently thought to be in ISI custody in Pakistan.
Despite all the warm words expressed by the Pakistani delegation and its British hosts it is unlikely that either government will move to help the other.
While the British authorities can't see what they could charge the Baloch separatists with, the Pakistanis are reluctant to give up the MQM suspects. For as long as they remain in ISI custody, they provide the army with a valuable lever over the MQM's parliamentary bloc.