If he could, he'd wind the clock back to his youth and do it all again in New Zealand, the highs and lows of a Lions tour, the intensity, the brutality, the ecstasy and the agony.

When Gavin Hastings says that the 2017 Lions are about to experience the "hardest weeks of rugby they will ever have faced in their lives, but at the same time, the most incredible weeks", he speaks from experience, some of it bitter, some of it glorious, all of it unforgettable.
"These guys have the opportunity to make history," he says. "Let's get it straight, this is not a question of life or death, they're not going away with Bear Grylls on an island to fend for themselves. They're going to be worshipped when they arrive, probably not by New Zealand fans, but by the 25,000 Lions fans that are going to be there.
"If you asked every person who ever played for the Lions in the past would they like to be young again and be on that plane, then most of us would say, 'Yeah, we'll do it'. Captaining the side in 1993 was the greatest honour I could have achieved."
That was quite a tour, the last of the amateur era - 13 matches, a dramatic and controversial Test series, a calamitous midweek side and so many memories that are still vivid in Hastings' mind's eye.
The first of them was the strange way he was offered the captaincy.
Ian McGeechan was the Lions coach in 1993 and Geoff Cooke, of England, was the manager. There were three men touted for the leadership of the team - Will Carling, who had captained the English to two Grand Slams, Ieuan Evans, the brilliant Welsh wing, and Hastings, who had just assumed the captaincy of Scotland that season.
"I was sitting at home one Sunday evening when Geech rang and said that he'd been asked to call me to find out what I would say if I was offered the captaincy. I said, 'Geech, you know the answer to that question, I don't know why you're phoning to ask me'. And I kinda put the phone down.
"Then he phoned me again a couple of hours later and he asked me the very same question and I said, 'Geech, I've given you the answer'. He phoned me back half an hour later and said, 'Congratulations, you're the captain of the Lions'.
"I don't know if he, and Geoff, were just doing their homework and wanting to find out if I was nervous in any way, but I wasn't. It was a very good time in my life."
The Lions won their first four matches in New Zealand, beating North Auckland 30-17, North Harbour 29-13, coming from 20-0 behind to beat the Maori 24-20 before taking care of Canterbury 28-10.
Everything was going well, almost too well. When the Lions arrived in Dunedin to play Otago, the first crisis of the summer was about to hit them.
In scoring five tries and 37 points, Otago gave the tourists a record kicking. Jamie Joseph and a young Josh Kronfeld ran amok. Stuart Forster, their brilliant scrum-half, lorded it over the game and then trash-talked in the aftermath. "We stuffed it right up them," said Forster. As much as Hastings would liked to have protested, he couldn't.
Twenty-four years later, he says his boys were "mullered" that day.
The pain of the loss was added to by the injury sustained by his brother, Scott. He fractured his cheekbone and was invalided out of the tour.
"We had a night out after the Otago game," says Hastings. "I wasn't feeling too good, but I got up early the next morning and went to see our doctor, James Robson, to ask how Scott was doing and he said he wasn't doing great.
"He said, 'I'm going in to see him (in hospital) if you'd like to come'. I said 'OK' and when I saw his face I was just about ill all over the floor of the room he was in and it was as much to do with the way he looked as the amount of drink I'd had the night before. He was like the elephant man."
A week later, the Lions played the first Test at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. In the opening minutes, New Zealand were awarded a try even though Frank Bunce, their centre, never grounded the ball. Brian Kinsey, the referee from Australia, said the try was good.
"Kinsey - is that who he was? I've tried to erase his name," says Hastings.
Still, with only seconds left to play the Lions were 18-17 ahead. It was at that point that Kinsey made another intervention. He gave the All Blacks a penalty at the breakdown, an opportunity that Grant Fox took with a long-range kick. All these years later, it's still hard to see what Kinsey saw that day.
"I've never really watched it again, but my abiding memory is the look on (Lions scrum-half) Dewi Morris' face when the penalty was awarded," Hastings recalls. "It was a look of utter disbelief. We should have won that game."
A split soon developed in the squad between the Test players and the dirt-trackers, some of whom were out of their depth and then started to go off the rails. There were losses to Auckland and Hawke's Bay.
After the Lions levelled the series with an outstanding 20-7 victory in Wellington, the midweek boys folded against Waikato in the penultimate game of the tour. Peter Winterbottom, the Test flanker, said he was disgusted watching it. He felt they weren't trying.
A lot of fingers were pointed at the Scottish forwards. Peter Wright, Kenny Milne, Paul Burnell, Andy Reed and Damian Cronin made up the Lions front five against a rampant Waikato who had, at hooker, a 29-year-old by the name of Warren Gatland.
"It's true that the midweek team wasn't strong enough and that one or two of the players went off piste," says Hastings. "Well, maybe three or four. Perhaps half a dozen. Who knows. The game was still amateur. That's just the way it was.
"In New Zealand, you had to have the right mentality. I had it and lots of others had it, but not everybody had it.
"Speak to a guy like Damian Cronin and he probably has a touch of regret that he didn't perform to the best of his ability and maybe took it as a bit of a jolly.
"It's a tough place to go. You're in Rugby Park in Invercargill and the Southland boys are kicking lumps out of you, but you've got to face up to it. There's no hiding place. There never has been and never will be. I remember a game against North Harbour and those guys are tough hombres and they're after you and you have to meet them face to face.
"We were 10-0 ahead in the third Test , but we didn't see the ball after that. We lost 30-13. Ah, it was a series we should have won. We were very unlucky in the first Test. There's a lot of regret there.
"The margins between victory and defeat are so small. Those incidents in the first Test  - people don't remember them. They remember 1997 and 2013. They don't remember 1993."
Some people do. The Kiwis, for a start. The Lions may have lost but they haven't been forgotten. Hastings made many friendships on that tour, some with All Blacks that are strong to this day.
He remembers Gatland in that Waikato match. The Lions coach scored a try in the rout, getting on the end of a pass on the left wing and strolling over unopposed like he was playing in a practice match, which was largely what it had become.
"Warren was a guy who looked 20 years older than anyone else," says Hastings. "He sat on the bench for New Zealand for years as understudy to Sean Fitzpatrick, but he never got an All Black cap.
"If there's one New Zealander who can harness the frustration of missing out an All Black Test jersey, one New Zealander who will really, really want the Lions to win, it will be Warren Gatland. I said that to him and he had a smile on his face.
"He's got a strong squad and the biggest competition for Test spots than on any previous Lions tour. We came close in 1993 but we couldn't do it. It's been 46 years since the Lions won a series in New Zealand. I hope the time has come."


Six men, including five from the same family, have been jailed for conspiracy to steal railway cable.

The gang were responsible for more than 35 thefts across Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottingham and Yorkshire over 11 months in 2013.
Lincoln Crown Court heard how the gang targeted three major rail improvement projects being delivered by Network Rail, and stole signalling cable.
They then stripped the cabling and sold the copper inside.
The men targeted sites where Network Rail were carrying out work to upgrade signalling.
Gordon Aspden, prosecuting, said "It was organised, well-planned and professional thieving.
"Over 11 months between February and December 2013 the defendants were responsible for the large-scale theft of power cables being used in these projects. Most of the thefts took place in isolated locations.
"There is a strong suggestion that at least one person with inside information, an employee within the rail network, played some part in providing information to these defendants."
He said: "Once cabling was stolen it was stripped of its sheathing. It was a very valuable commodity. It was sold as scrap to dealers. The total cost to Network Rail was in excess of £1m. That figure dwarfs the sums these defendants gained."
Mr Aspden said that on one occasion the line between Lincoln and Spalding had to be closed for two days following a theft at Sleaford that cost Network Rail £23,000.
Recorder Simon King, passing sentence, told them: "I have no alternative but to impose immediate custodial sentences. This was organised and professional thieving. It was plainly worth your while to engage in that."


A New York State cab driver has been fined $2,500 (Â£1,930; C$3,400) for overcharging asylum seekers for rides to the Canada-US border.

The state's attorney general said he launched a probe after hearing reports cabs were scamming migrants.
Northern Taxi's owner Christopher Crowningshield was caught in a subsequent sting operation.
He later admitted to regularly charging four to six times the normal price for fares heading to the border.
"Unfortunately, frightened and desperate people are the number one target of scammers," Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement on Wednesday.
A growing number of asylum seekers have been illegally crossing into Canada in recent months, mainly into Manitoba, Quebec and British Columbia.
In the first three months of 2017, some 1,860 refugee claimants were intercepted by Canadian law enforcement after making their way into Canada from the US.
Mr Schneiderman said he had been hearing "troubling" reports of Plattsburgh-area cabbies overcharging migrants heading to the border, which is a roughly 40-minute journey along Interstate 87 from the New York town.
He sent an investigator to look into those reports.
She hailed a cab - Mr Crowningshield's - at the Plattsburgh bus depot and handed the driver a note asking to be taken to a specific point where people can walk across the border into the Canadian province of Quebec.
Mr Crowningshield agreed to the ride, but refused to answer the investigator's repeated questions about fares.
He only told her the trip would cost $200 well into the journey.
He later admitted that he sometimes charged up to $300 for the trip.
Mr Crowningshield has been ordered to pay the fines and penalties, to prominently post rates in his taxi, and to quote clients the fares in advance.
He also cannot charge more than $77.50 for trips from Plattsburg to the border.
Two other cab companies - C&L Taxi and Town Taxi and Medical Transport - were also fined for failing to properly post rates.


West Brom needed penalties to defeat League One side Peterborough in an FA Cup fourth-round replay.

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With the Premier League team leading 4-3 in the shootout, Posh striker Lee Angol had his spot-kick saved by Ben Foster to take the Baggies through.
Earlier, Jon Taylor - who scored the equaliser at The Hawthorns to take the tie to a replay - put Posh ahead.
But Darren Fletcher smashed in an equaliser for the visitors, who will play Reading in the fifth round.
Like Angol, Peterborough midfielder Martin Samuelsen also had a spot-kick saved in the shootout, but his miss was cancelled out when Fletcher slid his penalty wide.
Relive West Brom's win over Peterborough
Listen: "West Brom have got off the hook"
On the balance of play, Posh may feel aggrieved not to have won.
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Led by a superb man-of-the-match display by West Ham loanee Samuelsen, Posh looked equal to a side 36 places above them in the football pyramid.
And the team eighth in League One almost opened the scoring when Harry Beautyman's effort was blocked by a diving James Chester.
Beautyman had another chance in the first half, but allowed the ball to run across him instead of taking an instinctive shot in the area, which allowed Foster to get across to save.
Posh got their reward when Taylor latched on to a ball by Angol, ran into the area and shot across Foster to put Graham Westley's side ahead.
West Brom came into the match having won just one of their past eight away matches, and without a Premier League win in five.
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Manager Tony Pulis was dealt an early setback when defender Gareth McAuley had to come off injured.
But after a sustained spell of pressure from Posh, the Baggies, without a shot on target in three of their past four league games, finally found their feet late in the first half.
However, defender Chester somehow missed the target from a few yards out following a corner.
After another lull early in the second half, going behind gave them a second wind, and Fletcher scored his first FA Cup goal in eight years when he smashed home after James McClean's cross was only partially cleared.
A West Brom win seemed inevitable after the equaliser, and Pulis' side had the better of the extra 30 minutes.
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But Michael Bostwick and Gabriel Zakuani, making his first start since 7 November because of injury, were equal to everything and blocked numerous attempts on goal. Zakuani's goalline clearance from Craig Gardner's half-volley was perhaps the pick of their efforts.
Saido Berahino should have won it for Albion in the final seconds but, when free at the back post, he headed Gardner's free-kick wide before penalties settled the tie.
Peterborough boss Graham Westley: "Our lads will gain so much from that experience. They performed tremendously but now we have the league to concentrate on, as any manager would say.
"I never think it's a big deal with a missed penalty. Anybody can miss a penalty. Both Martin Samuelsen and Lee Angol showed courage to go up there and will learn from the penalties they took."
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West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "That's what the FA Cup is all about - the smaller team pushing the bigger team to the limit. Credit to them and British football. It is nerve-wracking but Peterborough should take a lot of credit.
"We want to do well in the FA Cup but it has certainly affected us with injuries and pressure on the players. I want to do well in the cup as I have tremendous respect for it."
West Brom have a trip to Everton for a 15:00 GMT kick-off on Saturday, while Peterborough host Bradford in League One on the same day.
Match ends, Peterborough United 1(3), West Bromwich Albion 1(4).
Penalty Shootout ends, Peterborough United 1(3), West Bromwich Albion 1(4).
Penalty saved! Lee Angol (Peterborough United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1(3), West Bromwich Albion 1(4). James Chester (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1(3), West Bromwich Albion 1(3). Andrew Fox (Peterborough United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Darren Fletcher should be disappointed.
Penalty saved! Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1(2), West Bromwich Albion 1(3). Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1(2), West Bromwich Albion 1(2). Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1(1), West Bromwich Albion 1(2). Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1(1), West Bromwich Albion 1(1). Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Peterborough United 1, West Bromwich Albion 1(1). Sébastien Pocognoli (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Peterborough United 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Peterborough United 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Attempt missed. Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Craig Gardner with a cross following a set piece situation.
Andrew Fox (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andrew Fox (Peterborough United).
Stéphane Sessegnon (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. James Chester (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Craig Gardner with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Souleymane Coulibaly (Peterborough United).
Cristian Gamboa (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Lee Angol (Peterborough United).
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Martin Samuelsen.
Attempt blocked. Souleymane Coulibaly (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Maddison with a headed pass.
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stéphane Sessegnon.
Lee Angol (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonas Olsson (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Stéphane Sessegnon.
Second Half Extra Time begins Peterborough United 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Erhun Oztumer replaces Jon Taylor.
First Half Extra Time ends, Peterborough United 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Chester.
Corner,  West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Jon Taylor.
Attempt blocked. Sébastien Pocognoli (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Gardner.
Attempt missed. Jon Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Marcus Maddison replaces Harry Beautyman.


The Scottish Parliament has voted to support an outright ban on fracking after SNP MSPs abstained.

Labour tabled an amendment saying there "should" be a full ban as part of an environment debate headed by new cabinet secretary Roseanna Cunningham.
After SNP members abstained, the motion was passed by 32 votes to 29.
Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse said there needed to be proper research and a public consultation before a decision was taken on fracking.
Scottish Labour said it would be "outrageous" if the SNP "ignored" the result of the vote.
The amendment is not a binding policy, but represents a defeat for the SNP, which supports a moratorium on fracking but stops short of backing a full ban.
The SNP's manifesto for the Holyrood election committed to there being no fracking in Scotland "unless it can be proven beyond doubt that there is no risk to health, communities or the environment".
Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens favour an immediate and outright ban, while First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she was "highly sceptical" about the technique.
Ms Cunningham's motion for Wednesday's debate asked parliament to agree that "Scotland's stunning natural environment is one of its most precious assets", and says that "wise and productive use of the country's natural capital is at the heart of a strong, sustainable, low-carbon economy".
She told MSPs that the SNP is "deeply sceptical" about fracking, but said there was "thorough" scientific research being undertaken on the issue.
The environment secretary also pledged to "build resilience" against flooding, and to "work with nature" in habitat restoration and species protection.
On land reform, Ms Cunningham called for greater transparency in land ownership and management, and said consultation over a mandatory public register of landowners would begin this summer.
Labour MSP Claudia Beamish put forward an amendment asking parliament to "recognise that, to meet Scotland's climate change goals and protect the environment, there must be an outright ban on fracking in Scotland".
She said parliament could "send out a very clear signal" by backing a ban, and warned that the SNP was faced with a choice "to side with centre left parties like Labour to stop fracking, or side with the Tories to go ahead with this dangerous plan".
A number of other Labour MSPs also spoke out backing the motion, with several repeating the slogan "no ifs, no buts, no fracking".
Green MSP Andy Wightman lodged another amendment which noted, among other things, that fracking is "incompatible with Scotland's low-carbon ambitions".
Mr Wightman also addressed land reform, describing it as "a process of changing the legal, political, economic and fiscal relationship between society and land across urban, rural and marine Scotland" and calling for "radical and ongoing reform to democratise land".
Calling for a new Land Reform Bill to be introduced in the new term of Holyrood, Mr Wightman called for measures to democratise land use with an emphasis on fairness.
He also called for the council tax to be scrapped and said action should be taken to improve engagement with local democracy.
However, several Scottish Conservatives, led by new MSP Maurice Golden, spoke out in favour of fracking.
Mr Golden said the "left wing cabal" of Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems was "out of step" with scientific evidence and what consumers want and need.
He said fracking would boost jobs and the economy, and called on the SNP to "make up its mind" and stop blocking it.
Mr Golden said there was a greater impact on the environment from shale gas being shipped to Scotland than there would be from extracting it locally.
SNP energy minister Paul Wheelhouse said he was disappointed that Labour had tried to "sideline" the environment debate by putting fracking front and centre.
He said the government was "deeply sceptical" about fracking, but said its position was "clear"; that there would be "no fracking in Scotland" unless there was clear evidence that it would cause no harm.
He said scientific research and a full public consultation would be carried out.
When members came to vote, SNP members abstained, meaning Labour's amendment passed by 32 votes to 29, with 62 members abstaining.
Mr Wightman's amendment was also passed, before the motion itself was passed by 32 votes to 30, with 61 abstentions.
Read Holyrood Live's coverage of the full debate here.


A kitten that was accidentally trapped in a washing machine on a 60C cycle has made a full recovery.

Lisa Keefe, of the Meadows in Nottingham, did not realise her Bengal crossbreed Bobby had climbed inside the appliance for a nap.
She raced to get him out after hearing "a loud thudding noise" from inside the appliance.
A vet at the clinic who treated him said: "In my 15 years as a vet, I've never seen a case like this."
Nine-month-old Bobby was taken to Nottingham Pet Hospital on the verge of collapse and needed IV fluids to treat shock.
His brush with death has seen him nominated for a PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) Pet Survivor award.
Ms Keefe, 47, said Bobby was known to climb in the machine and she had put him outside before putting in a new load.
But she said the curious puss must have snuck back in and hidden under a duvet before she switched on the appliance.
"As soon as I heard the noise I rushed to the machine and could see the colour of his fur mixed in with the quilt. I was petrified and raced to get him out," she said.
The kitten was in the washer "for about two minutes", vet James Kellow said.
"Bobby has learned his lesson the hard way, he doesn't go anywhere near the washer any more", his owner added.
Vet Tamsin Thomas said: "Bobby was on the verge of collapse as his body was soaked through and his temperature was dangerously low.
"We gently dried him out, kept him warm and gave him IV fluids to treat shock."
Mr Kellow, who treated Bobby, said the kitten had sore eyes from the detergent, but within a couple of hours was "as right as rain".


A £100m redevelopment of Holyhead Marina which will include new homes, a hotel and a maritime museum has been given the go-ahead.

Anglesey councillors granted outline planning permission for a 500-berth marina, despite 4,000 people having signed protest petitions.
Objectors are concerned about the impact on Newry beach and say the homes and a bigger marina are not needed.
Protesters packed the public gallery of the council chamber in Llangefni.
The plans, put forward as a joint venture between Stena Line and the Conygar Investment Company, were voted through with seven votes in favour and none against.
The proposals, which have been adapted in response to initial complaints from locals about loss of views, include:
It is understood 700 jobs will be created by the new marina and its construction.
Councillor John Chorlton voted in favour of the plans.
He said: "Holyhead has to reinvent itself and look at the bigger picture.
"What's the future for our youngsters?"
Mr Chorlton said that "every major development near Holyhead" had been opposed by people who were opposed to development if it was in their locality.
He looked to the public gallery and commented: "You can look over the roofs of the houses.
"If you carry on this way, there won't be a future for Holyhead. You're putting a gate on the Four Mile Bridge and saying 'don't come here, we're all dead'!"
Anglesey council received about 370 individual letters of objection, together with eight petitions containing some 4,170 names.
One letter of support had been submitted at the time the council report into the development was written.
Councillor J Arwel Roberts told the committee: "I can't support this plan.
"It's a private company coming in for its own gain. Yes I want to see jobs and investment in Holyhead and, yes, Holyhead has employment problems.
"So it's with a heavy heart that I say I can't support this. To take the Newry Beach area away from residents is not acceptable."
Councillor Robert Llewelyn Jones, who represents part of the area where the new marina will be built but is not a member of the committee and was not able to vote, told the committee: "The developer is asking for permission to take away the only public seafront that Holyhead has.
"If you've got a promenade, you've got to have a view. That will disappear.
"The flats and apartments will have a view, and I'm sure they'll be worth a lot of money, though they'll be too expensive for local people of course."
Robert Ware, chief executive of Conygar, said he was delighted that the council had granted planning permission for the marina development.
"It has been a massive effort by all concerned and this exciting and ambitious regeneration scheme which should bring significant benefits to the town and area can now move forward with confidence," he said.
Michael McGrath, area director for Stena Line, said: "The proposed marina development at Holyhead is not only an important facility for the people of Holyhead and surrounding area but it also represents a significant opportunity to help drive future economic prosperity across the region with the provision of one of the most innovative mixed-use marinas in the UK."


Survivors of one of the worst bushfires in Australia have won a payout of almost A$500m ($470m), in the country's largest class action settlement.

Some 10,000 plaintiffs sued a power company for negligence over the fire.
The case centred on the most deadly blaze on Black Saturday, on 7 February 2009, when wildfires swept across several areas in the state of Victoria.
This fire, in the Kilmore East area north of Melbourne, killed 119 people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
A 2009 Royal Commission found that the fire began when an electricity line failed between two poles. Contact between the live conductor and a cable stay supporting the pole caused arcing that ignited vegetation, the report said.
The plaintiffs accused SP AusNet of failing to adequately maintain its power lines.
They also sued Utility Services Corporation Ltd, the line maintenance contractor, and the Department of Sustainability and Environment for inadequate prevention measures.
The group were awarded a settlement of A$497.4m ($467m, Â£274m), of which SP AusNet will pay A$378.6m.
The settlement represented "a measure of justice and some real compensation to help ease the financial burden of their suffering," lawyer for the plaintiffs Andrew Watson said.
SP AusNet said the settlement came without an admission of liability by the company.
"SP AusNet's position has been, and continues to be, that the conductor which broke and which initiated the fire was damaged by lightning, compromising its fail-safety design in a manner which was undetectable at the time," it said in a statement.
"It is a tragedy that the conductor eventually failed on one of the worst days imaginable."
A total of 173 people died in the Black Saturday fires.


A UK trader accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" has protested his innocence in court, saying he did not "do anything wrong".

Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, has been charged with wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation by the US Justice Department (DOJ).
Mr Sarao denies the charges but was remanded in custody for the third time after failing to raise £5.05m in bail.
His lawyers' request that bail be lowered to £50,000 was refused.
His legal team told Westminster Magistrates' Court he had been unable to raise the funds required by US authorities because they had frozen his assets.
Wearing a grey sweatshirt and tracksuit bottoms, he had sat calmly in the dock until he heard his bail conditions would not be changed.
He then spoke out to in court to plead his innocence claiming he had not "done anything wrong apart from being good at my job".
"How is this allowed to go on, man?" he added.
Mr Sarao's legal team will now consider an appeal to the High Court.
Two weeks ago, Mr Sarao was granted bail pending a full extradition hearing later this year provided he produced £5.05m and met other bail conditions.
Those bail conditions state that he must stay at his parents' address in Hounslow, west London, each night, and cannot travel internationally or use the internet.
A review date of the case remains as 26 May, but the date for a full extradition hearing has been pushed back from August to 24-25 September.
The DoJ claims that Mr Sarao and his firm, Nav Sarao Futures, made £26m ($40m) illegally over five years.
He has been accused of using an "automated trading program" to manipulate markets, and of contributing to the flash crash of 6 May 2010. On that day, the Dow Jones index lost 700 points in a matter of minutes - wiping about $800bn off the value of US shares - before recovering just as quickly.
Regulators blamed high-frequency traders placing multiple sell orders for the crash.
High-speed trading is where share dealers use computer algorithms to buy and sell stocks in milliseconds.
The DoJ said a fortnight ago that "Sarao's alleged manipulation earned him significant profits and contributed to a major drop in the US stock market on May 6, 2010".
Its statement continued: "By allegedly placing multiple, simultaneous, large-volume sell orders at different price points - a technique known as 'layering' - Sarao created the appearance of substantial supply in the market."
It is alleged Mr Sarao was then able to buy and sell futures contracts tied to the value of the share indexes.


Fifty years on from Sir Winston Churchill's state funeral, one Dundee man looks back on the important role he played in the proceedings as Britain laid its wartime leader to rest.

A few days shy of his 93rd birthday, Harry Nunn is still hard at work with horses.
A volunteer at the Brae Riding for the Disabled Centre in Dundee, Harry has been around the animals his entire life.
And 50 years ago, he played an important role in one of the biggest events of the 20th century - the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime leader and one of history's great statesmen.
Churchill of course has his own Dundee links - before his two stints as Prime Minister, he was the MP for the city for 14 years.
His state funeral was a grand occasion, attended by world leaders and broadcast on television, and massive crowds packed the streets of London to see the procession pass by.
Yards behind the gun-carriage which bore Churchill's lead-lined and flag-draped coffin, his widow and family rode in a horse-drawn carriage - driven by Harry Nunn.
"At the time it didn't even seem like you were doing it, but you could see the cortege in front of you the whole time," he said.
"What amazed me was, I'd never seen so many people. Right from when we came out of the House of Lords, right along Whitehall and all the way up, it was chock-a-block.
"And when you left St Paul's to go down to the boat, there were just as many people - you wondered where they'd all come from."
Mr Nunn was a groom at the Royal Mews, a member of the Royal household who looked after the Queen's horses and carriages.
Having served in the Army during World War Two, he briefly came face-to-face with Churchill a few weeks before the D-Day landings.
But he was chosen for one of the most important jobs at the funeral simply because of his familiarity with the horse chosen to draw the Churchills' carriage.
"I'd had the horse when he was young, so they thought I should go with him as it was his first trip out in public," he said.
"If anything went wrong he might understand things better if I was with him. That's how it all started."
And things did nearly go wrong, with the horse uneasy with the funereal pace of the solemn procession.
"The young horse did well - he got a bit frustrated with going so slow, as they were hardly walking, it was at crawling pace. A young horse, he wanted to go," said Mr Nunn.
"When you get a big horse, they stride out well, so I got down and walked beside him for a little while, and gave him a tap to say 'behave'.
"It must have been hard for him, it was his first time out and there were all these crowds standing there."
After the funeral, Mr Nunn and the other grooms received a letter of thanks from Lady Churchill, which was pinned up on a notice board at the Royal Mews.
And although the letter eventually disappeared - Mr Nunn suspects it was binned by a fellow groom keen on keeping the place tidy - he still looks back with pride at the part he played that day in 1965.
"I was honoured and pleased that I'd done it, as it's something you don't get to do twice in a lifetime," he said.
"It was great to be asked to do it."


A request to release details of an investigation into the death of a Swansea City football fan is being "carefully considered", South Yorkshire Police has said.

Terry Coles was struck near Rotherham's football ground in 2000 and an inquest concluded his death was accidental.
His family want evidence disclosed and "fresh eyes" to look at the case.
Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris has also asked for a meeting with the Home Secretary to discuss it.
Mr Coles had travelled to Rotherham's Millmoor ground with other Swansea City fans for the final game of the season on 6 May 2000.
But before the match started, trouble broke out between opposing fans and Mr Coles died after suffering abdominal injuries after he was struck by a police horse.
An inquest at Doncaster Magistrates' Court in 2003 heard the incident was unavoidable as Mr Coles, who was four times over the drink-drive limit at the time of his death, had walked into the horse's path.
Ms Harris said: "Somebody has to take responsibility for what happened that day.
"Whether it is an organisation like South Yorkshire Police for the way they organised the planning for that football match, or whether it is an individual, somebody made a decision that it would be policed in such a way, the consequence of that was Terry Coles lost his life.
"We need to find out what went wrong."
She said an inquest finding 96 Liverpool fans were "unlawfully killed" at Hillsborough in 1996, "has opened the door to other people" and the case must be looked at again.
A review by the Independent Police Complaints Commission found the actions of three officers; Supt Dave Turner, Chf Insp Paul Cropley and PC Dave Lindsay amounted to "a failure of duty".
Supt Dave Turner, received a verbal warning, but no action was taken against the others who had retired and were no longer subject to the police disciplinary code.
Mr Coles' wife Christine took civil action against South Yorkshire Police but lost the High Court claim for compensation in 2005.
The IPCC said it has considered whether it should review previous findings but "does not intend to".
Mr Coles' family have said they are "disappointed" and are now waiting to hear more from South Yorkshire Police, who said they are considering whether to disclose all evidence.
Their solicitor Andrew Sivertsen said: "I would like the police to look at this case with fresh eyes and from an objective point of view in light of the criticism that's been levelled at certain police officers in South Yorkshire Police.
"In particular the officers that were involved in both Hillsborough and at the Rotherham football match where Terry Coles died. "
He said this was "sufficient reason for there to be a whole-hearted review".


Radio 1 has announced a new Sunday show which will replace the current Official Chart slot when it moves to Fridays next month.

Hosted by CBBC presenter Cell Spellman, the new show will split into two parts, one devoted to new pop music with the other playing number one hits.
The 19-year-old called his new posting "a privilege and an honour".
The Official Chart will move to Fridays on 10 July to coincide with a new global release day for music.
Presenter Greg James will kick off at 16:00 BST every Friday as 45 countries launch New Music Fridays.
Spellman made his Radio 1 debut in 2013, standing in for Dan and Phil on Radio 1's Request Show. He presents CBBC's Friday Download and the CBBC Official Chart.
Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said: "Radio 1 and CBBC are changing the way radio and TV work together to create great content for young new music fans on their radio and phone.
"Cel has proven how influential he is to young audiences and I can't wait for him to start."
Spellman said: "The best station on national radio has been responsible for introducing me to so much incredible and varied music over the years, I just hope I can return the favour and help make those car journeys a little more memorable for the listeners with a mix of fun, top tunes and a little bit of cheeky chat!"


The Obama administration has said it will ask the US Congress for $1.8bn (£1.25bn) in emergency funding to combat the Zika virus.

The virus, which is transmitted primarily through mosquitoes, has spread rapidly through the Americas.
It has been linked to a condition called microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains.
The money will go to mosquito control efforts and vaccine research programmes among other initiatives.
The White House says that some of the money will go towards "enhancing the ability of Zika-affected countries to better combat mosquitoes and control transmission" of the virus.
The virus is currently being transmitted to new patients in 26 countries in the Americas, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
Additionally, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed 50 cases of the virus in the US among people who had travelled to affected regions and returned to the US.
There is a growing fear that as warmer months approach in the northern hemisphere and mosquitoes become active, local transmission could become a problem - especially in the southern US.
Last week, the first case of locally transmitted Zika was reported in Dallas, Texas. Notably, the virus was spread in this case through sexual contact, not a mosquito bite.
The virus has had a considerable impact in Brazil, which has seen a spike in microcephaly cases - totalling around 4,000 in recent months, stirring fears ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The World Health Organization declared an emergency over the cases last week, prompting research and aid to be fast-tracked.
The Reuters news agency reported that the US Olympic Committee has told its athletes and staff who are concerned about the virus to consider skipping the games.
However, the virus did not keep revellers home from Carnival in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend - some 70,000 fans were said to have been in attendance.
Still, fears remain on the international stage.
Across the Atlantic, the European Medicines Agency - Europe's drugs regulator - has said it had established a task force of experts to advise drug companies which are working on vaccines and medicines against the virus.
"Early and regular interaction with the agency can significantly speed up the development of medicines," the group said in a statement.


Students at a Ceredigion college have been chosen to be part of an international project to create a World War One memorial.

The group of six, aged 16 to 18, study at Hyfforddiant Ceredigion Training in Aberystwyth.
A 23ft (7m) 12-tonne Flanders poppy, surrounded by a field of steel poppies will be placed at the Langemark German war cemetery in Belgium.
It is being made by blacksmiths and farriers from across the world.
Dai Price, the farriery training adviser at HCT, said: "We are delighted and honoured to be involved in this fantastic project, the young people that are working on the production of these poppies have been given a once in a lifetime opportunity to help commemorate the blacksmiths and farriers that lost their lives in World War One and I'm sure their involvement is something that they will remember for ever."
The students are crafting five poppies for the memorial, which will be finished in front of In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, in September.
School children from Wales have also taken part in the project.


Three women in north Pakistan have been shot dead by a male relative who seemed to have believed that they had brought shame on their family, police say.

A mother and her two daughters - one aged just 17 - were allegedly killed by her stepson.
He had apparently seen a family video in which the daughters were shown laughing in front of their family home.
The woman's stepson appears to have considered the footage an assault on the family's honour.
So-called honour killings are common in northern Pakistan where women are seldom seen by men other than their relatives.
The latest attack took place in Gilgit Baltistan after recordings of the women were circulated in recent months in the remote and mountainous area which is renowned for the conservative lifestyle of its inhabitants.
In the mobile phone footage - seen by the BBC - the young women are filmed smiling and laughing in the rain outside their family home, with some little girls.
An audio recording was also passed around, of a woman allegedly thanking an admirer for a gift.
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad says that five young women and two men were reported killed in the same region last year after footage emerged of them singing and dancing together at a wedding.
The killings were said to have been ordered by a tribal Jirga, or local council.
But locals denied anyone had been killed when Pakistan's Supreme Court send a fact-finding mission to the area,
Leading human rights campaigners however expressed fear that all those in the wedding video were dead.
Campaigners say more than 900 women were killed in Pakistan last year in the name of family honour.
In spite of reform in the law they say conviction rates are not encouraging and in most cases the killers escape justice.


A Northumbria Police officer has been sacked after downloading indecent images of children, the force said.

PC Paul Sharp, from North Tyneside, was dismissed after receiving a suspended jail term by magistrates last month.
The 34-year-old admitted two counts of making indecent images of children and one of possessing extreme pornography.
In a statement, the force said it "completely condemned" PC Sharp's actions, which had been dealt with by its Professional Standards Department.
The statement added: "Both we and the public quite rightly expect the highest standards from our police officers and staff.
"When the behaviour of one of our officers falls below our high standards we investigate thoroughly and take appropriate action, which in this case led to Paul Sharp being dismissed from Northumbria Police."


A man on trial for murdering his estranged wife had talked about "paying someone to get rid of her", a court has heard.

Gytis Griskevicius is alleged to have attacked Marina Erte, 33, at her flat just hours after celebrating his birthday at a barbecue with friends.
Lincoln Crown Court was told the attack was motivated by jealousy as Ms Erte was in a relationship with another man.
Griskevicius, 32, of St Ann's Lane, Boston, denies murder.
The court heard Griskevicius was so angry after the couple separated in 2015 that he wanted her out of the way.
Anita Zeleznova, a friend of Ms Erte, told the jury the accused loved his wife very much and could not stand to see her with another man.
"He said he was willing to pay someone to get rid of her," she said.
"As far as I understood he meant to murder her," she told the court.
Ms Zeleznova denied a defence suggestion that she was deliberately trying to make things bad for Griskevicius.
She told the jury: "I don't have any motive to lie."
The court also heard from another friend who claimed Ms Erte was concerned Griskevicius was stalking her after he found out where she lived.
The court previously heard the attack "was motivated by jealousy" after the defendant discovered Ms Erte was in a relationship with another man.
It is alleged Griskevicius drowned his estranged wife with a shower attachment before setting fire to her flat in Boston to destroy the evidence.
Ms Erte's naked and badly beaten body was found in the bath at her flat by firemen who had been called out by neighbours in May.
The trial continues.


Schools and colleges are being warned to expect "more variation" in AS-level results in England this year, the first since they were split from A-levels.

Results in the 13 decoupled subjects have been "relatively stable in recent years", says exams regulator, Ofqual.
But this year "we expect that there will be more variability than between 2015 and 2016", warns the report.
Students and teachers are "getting to grips" with the new system, says Ofqual associate director, Cath Jadhav.
"We know that students tend to do less well in the first year of a new qualification," writes Ms Jadhav, in a blog.
"That, in part, reflects the time it takes for teachers to become comfortable with new content and assessment design."
AS-levels have been split from A-levels since last September and no longer count towards the final A-level grade.
Ms Jadhav says there could also be changes in the ability range of students taking AS-levels this year which would also affect overall results.
Ofqual has noted that the number of entries for AS-levels has fallen by 20% on 2015 in subjects where the grade will no longer count towards the final A-level.
It is possible that for some students this exam could be their final school qualification, explained Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
Some schools may have decided that students who are aiming for A-levels should skip AS-levels altogether, said Mr Trobe.
In her blog, Ms Jadhav says the regulator will rely on statistical predictions to ensure students are not disadvantaged by being the first cohort to sit the new linear AS qualifications.
She warns that exam boards "won't be slaves to the predictions" when they set grade boundaries.
But "exam boards will need to be able to justify any grade boundaries that are different from those suggested by the predictions", she adds.
"We would expect to see some variability," said Mr Trobe.
"What is important is that there will be appropriate checks and balances in place so that young people are not disadvantaged in any way.
"It would be good to have an absolutely clear and transparent system in place so that schools can see how it has operated this year."
Ofqual plans to publish its 2016 AS-level analysis when the results come out on August 18.
The 13 AS-levels affected are:


Cycling chiefs were warned giving just seven weeks' notice for the Para-Cycling Track World Championships could affect attendance, British Paralympic champion Sarah Storey has revealed.

Governing body the UCI only announced on Monday the event will take place in Los Angeles from 2-5 March.
Storey, 39, told BBC Radio 5 live athletes "deserve a lot more notice".
"All these things were posted to the UCI to advise them, but they decided to still go ahead," she said.
"Some people may not even get a visa if they have the finance to travel. Some athletes work full-time and they need this time to re-bank favours with the boss."
The 14-time Paralympic gold medallist added she had "been pressing for a decision for a number of weeks".
Her fellow Paralympic champion Jody Cundy had earlier described the decision as a "joke".
"The frustrations being aired are quite right," said Storey. "It is just a shame."
There were no major track championships scheduled for 2017 prior to the announcement, and this is the first time a World Championships has been held in the year after a Paralympics.
"There is no current structure," Storey said. "The whole of track cycling needs to be put on the map to allow track specialists to race.
"I've been on the commission for three years and every year, every meeting I ask when we are going to have track World Cups. When are we going to have a proper structure?
"My questions have gone unanswered."
In announcing the date for the event on Monday, UCI president Brian Cookson said the organisation was "conscious" some athletes are yet to return to full-intensity training.
"We believe that holding these UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships for the first time ever in a post-Paralympic season signifies notable progress and will enable our athletes to benefit from an enriched calendar as the discipline continues to develop," he added.


Two British teenagers stole items including buttons and a rusted hair clipper from the Auschwitz death camp, a court in Poland has heard.

Guards at the site saw the pair pick up the items from the ground, the judge at a court in Krakow was told.
The pupils, from the independent Perse School in Cambridge, say they picked them up to show their guide.
They deny stealing artefacts of special cultural importance during a school visit in June 2015.
The court in Krakow heard the items were found on the students by police.
The pupils were in an area of the Nazi death camp where the belongings of Jews who were sent to the gas chambers were kept, the court was told.
The court heard police also found a fragments of a spoon and glass on the pair, who were 17 at the time.
Initially they pleaded guilty to the charge and accepted a fine, but once back in the UK they changed their pleas.
If found guilty, they face prison sentences of up to 10 years.
The Nazis murdered 1.1 million people at Auschwitz in occupied Poland during World War Two.
The trial continues.


An auction to sell a property belonging to Indian drinks baron Vijay Mallya has failed to attract any bidders.

Kingfisher House, near the domestic airport in the western city of Mumbai (Bombay), was being sold by lenders to recover losses.
However, bidders appeared to be deterred by the asking price of 1.5bn rupees ($22m; Â£15m).
The businessman is said to have some $1.4bn of unpaid debts after his Kingfisher airline collapsed in 2013.
Speculation rose about his whereabouts after a consortium of banks and creditors approached the Supreme Court over  unpaid debts.
They demanded that his passport be impounded, and that $75m in severance pay he was to receive from Diageo be blocked and used to repay them.
The payout was blocked, but it emerged that Mr Mallya had already left India.
Later in a series of tweets he denied that he was "absconding" as was being alleged in India.
Media reports say Mr Mallya is currently living in London.
Opposition MPs have demanded that the government bring him back to face the law.
Mr Mallya, who is a household name in India, sold a large chunk of United Spirits, which he inherited from his father, to Diageo in April 2014.
He was to receive the $75m payout as settlement after being ousted from the firm in February.
Mr Mallya, once dubbed by Indian media as "India's Richard Branson" and the "King of Good Times" for his lavish lifestyle, also owns a stake in the Formula One team Force India.


It is "frighteningly easy" for criminals to get security details for a Visa debit or credit cards, according to research from Newcastle University.

Fraudsters are able to work out expiry dates and security code numbers by making multiple invalid attempts on different websites, the team claims.
It is thought a similar method was used in the recent Tesco Bank fraud hack.
Visa said the research did not take into account other layers of security such as its Verified by Visa system.
According to the research, which has been published in the journal IEEE Security & Privacy, fraudsters use a so-called Distributed Guessing Attack to get around security features put in place to stop online fraud.
Mohammed Ali, a PhD student at the university's school of computing science and lead author, said: "The current online payment system does not detect multiple invalid payment requests from different websites.
"This allows unlimited guesses on each card data field, using up to the allowed number of attempts - typically 10 or 20 guesses - on each website.
"Also, different websites ask for different variations in the card data fields to validate an online purchase. This means it's quite easy to build up the information and piece it together like a jigsaw.
"The unlimited guesses, when combined with the variations in the payment data fields make it frighteningly easy for attackers to generate all the card details one field at a time."
The team said MasterCard's security network detected similar attacks after less than 10 attempts.
A spokesman for Visa said: "The research does not take into account the multiple layers of fraud prevention that exist within the payments system, each of which must be met in order to make a transaction possible in the real world.
"Visa is committed to keeping fraud at low levels and works closely with card issuers and acquirers to make it very difficult to obtain and use cardholder data illegally."
It said it also had its own Verified by Visa system which offered improved security for online transactions.


Aberystwyth University should "pull the plug" on its "struggling" Mauritius campus if it fails to increase student numbers, an AM has said.

The campus, which opened in 2015, was built to accommodate 2,000 but has just 106 enrolled students.
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas said the venture had been considered an "unwise move" from the outset.
The university said it was a "long-term investment" and it was "committed to eliminating losses in Mauritius".
In May, the university announced potential job losses as it tries to make £11.4m of cuts by April 2019.
The campus has international and UK students, and offers courses including criminal law, business finance and computer science.
The income from fees is split between the university and Boston Campus, the company responsible for building it.
Last year, a former vice-chancellor for the university described the venture as  "madness" after just 40 students enrolled during its first academic year.
The institution made a loss of nearly £200,000 from the venture during that year.
The two other British universities to open in Mauritius - Wolverhampton and Middlesex - both had about 90 enrolments in their first year on the island, according to figures gathered by the country's higher education regulator.
The University of Central Lancashire also offers courses in Mauritius.
Last year, Wolverhampton announced it was closing its campus four years after it opened.
Responding to figures seen by Newyddion 9, Mr Thomas, AM for Mid and West Wales, said: "The first impressions are this venture is somewhat struggling and is finding it difficult to fulfil its potential as it was advertised at the time.
"Of course, many people thought it was an unwise move by the university to go to Mauritius in the first place. The aim of the scheme surely was to attract new money that would support the university in Aberystwyth.
"If that doesn't happen the plug must be pulled on the scheme."
A spokesman for Aberystwyth University said: "Our Mauritius campus opened in 2015 as a long-term investment aimed at offering an Aberystwyth educational experience to students from east Africa, the sub-continent and Asia, as well as the island of Mauritius.
"As part of our ongoing sustainability implementation plan, we are committed to eliminating losses in Mauritius."


Scots risk "sleepwalking into obesity" if they do not take more exercise, an expert has warned.

Professor Steven Blair, from the University of South Carolina, said a "greater emphasis" had to be placed on physical activity to prevent the problem reaching US proportions.
He suggested exercise could be "prescribed" to patients by their doctors or other health professionals.
He was speaking ahead of a major conference in Edinburgh.
The event has been organised by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
It will focus on sports and exercise medicine ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July.
Prof Blair, from the university's Arnold School of Public Health, claimed physical inactivity had become "the biggest public health challenge of the 21st Century" and said people must consider their levels of activity as well as their diet.
He said much of the internationally-published scientific literature on the causes of obesity was "flawed", arguing that it placed "an over-emphasis on dietary intake, at the expense of measuring the positive effect of physical activity".
Prof Blair said: "Obesity rates continue to rise and in international obesity terms, Scotland is not far behind the US. If we wish to prevent levels in Scotland reaching that of the US, greater emphasis has to be placed on exercise.
"This could involve creative solutions such as considering the provision of exercise advice, or indeed the prescribing of exercise to patients by doctors and other health professionals.
"We have to become more active if we are to stop collectively sleepwalking into obesity."
Prof Blair added: "In simple terms, we are talking about changing the mind-set from thinking 'I must go on a diet' to 'I must become more active'.
"By bringing together leading experts in the field of sports medicine in the year of the Commonwealth Games, we hope to shine a light on developments in sports medicine, stimulate wider awareness about the many benefits of physical activity and creative thinking about this can be applied to improve health."
The conference will hear from a number of other speakers including Scotland's Chief Medical Officer Sir Harry Burns, former Scotland manager Craig Brown and ex-footballer Pat Nevin.


A reality TV star who refused to use public transport to carry out community service after saying she did not want to mix with "scallies" has been jailed.

Chelsey Harwood, 29, was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work after previously admitting benefit fraud.
But she failed to attend probation appointments and told a judge at Liverpool Crown Court she would rather go to jail.
Judge Andrew Menary has sentenced her to three months in prison.
He said the probation service had "bent over backwards" to accommodate the former This is Liverpool and Celebrity Botched Up Bodies star, who is transgender.
The court heard she had failed to attend two appointments and had sent in sick notes referring to stress or depression.
Harwood, of Cleveland Street, St Helens, told the Liverpool Echo the probation office was 25 miles from her home and she refused to use a bus as she did not want to mix with "scallies."
Her defence lawyer John Rowan said she had attended an office in St Helens, but a man there had threatened her on social media.
Mr Rowan said that Harwood, who admitted breaching a court order, is fearful of putting herself at risk of harm.
Asked by the judge if she had told police about her concerns, Mr Rowan said she had not.
He added that "she is anxious in relation to public transport".
Harwood shouted from the dock: "Am I allowed to answer any of these questions? This is ridiculous, it's not fair.
"He threatened to burn my house down. Yes, I took them seriously. No I didn't go to the police because I would be in more danger."
Judge Menary criticised Harwood's own social media posts.
"There is nothing particularly edifying or positive about the image you have created for yourself," he said.
"Following your sentence you deliberately posted or encouraged the posting of images celebrating the type of sentence you received.
"If that was an attempt to ridicule the sentence or the court it failed, and none of that is of any concern to me today.
"My only concerns were that you completed the requirements properly and on time. You have completely failed."
Harwood's original sentence included a four month suspended jail term.
The judge said he would now activate this, but only in part as she had completed an eight week curfew he had imposed.


Reports of sex offences on the capital's transport network have risen by 36%, figures show.

Between April and December 2015, police received 1,603 reports, compared with 1,117 complaints in the same period the year before.
The number of arrests also went up by 40%, from 311 in 2014 to 438 in 2015.
Police and Transport for London (TfL) said the rise was partly due to a campaign encouraging passengers to report incidents.
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Offences reported include groping, leering, sexual comments, indecent acts and taking photographs without consent, in addition to serious sex attacks.
Both British Transport Police (BTP) and the Met said officers would take "every report of unwanted sexual behaviour seriously".
The rise in recorded sexual offences in London is in line with the picture across England, Scotland and Wales.
Last year, BTP released figures suggesting sex offences on trains and at stations had risen 25% since 2014.


David Cameron's former director of strategy has called for a vote to leave the EU, saying membership "makes Britain literally ungovernable".

Steve Hilton, who was one of the PM's closest aides, attacked Brussels' "statism, corporatism and bureaucracy".
In an article for the Daily Mail, he said the PM's "relatively modest" reform demands had received "arrogant and dismissive treatment".
Mr Cameron said evidence was more important than people's opinions.
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The PM was asked about Mr Hilton's comments as he unveiled a new Treasury report warning a vote to leave the EU could trigger a recession.
He said "everyone is entitled to their opinion" but added that the "evidence" he was presenting was "far more important than the view of one person or another person".
The Treasury report marks the latest in a series of warnings about the economic consequences of leaving, including from the Bank of England and the IMF.
In his article, Mr Hilton said "establishment stooges" were being "wheeled out to attempt to persuade us to stay".
He said "no-one really knows" what the economic impact would be, adding: "It's clearly ridiculous to claim that it's settled in either direction; there are risks whatever we do."
How far the UK has the ability to make its own laws and decide how it is governed.
Mr Hilton, who left Downing Street in 2012 for a post at Stanford University in the US, was one of the driving forces behind Mr Cameron's flagship "Big Society" project.
He said the EU had "become so complicated, so secretive, so impenetrable that it's way beyond the ability of any British government to make it work to our advantage".
After a "pragmatic, non-ideological assessment", he said he had decided: "Membership of the EU makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country."
Leaving the EU would allow the UK to "regain control over our country's destiny" he said, claiming the EU was not interested in anything other than "superficial change".
In other EU referendum news, a prominent Conservative MP and EU exit backer accused her fellow Leave campaigners of handing out "deliberately misleading leaflets about the NHS".
Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Commons Health Select Committee, said the "current preoccupation with exploiting the NHS" was a "cynical distortion which undermines the credibility of their other arguments".
Vote Leave has said it is standing by its claim that leaving the European Union could save Britain £350m a week, money is says could instead be pumped into the NHS.
The UK Statistics Authority has called the £350m figure "potentially misleading".


Two primary schools in Shropshire which closed due to snow have now reopened.

Brown Clee in Ditton Priors and Clunbury closed on Wednesday, Shropshire Council announced.
However, both schools said they had now reopened and pupils had returned to class.
The Met Office has a yellow weather warning in place for Shropshire. It predicted more wintry showers later, which may be heavy at times, with a risk of hail and thunder.
The council said: "As far as we know, all schools are back open today after the snow yesterday."


A £1.7m birthing centre will be built at a Powys hospital as part of major refurbishments.

The new midwife-led unit - the first phase of £5.3m of works at Llandrindod Wells Memorial Hospital - is expected to be finished by April.
Improvements include a new birthing pool.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford, who will visit the site on Monday, said it would provide "modern facilities" and a "first-rate patient environment".
During the development, it will be "business as usual" for patients, with the hospital "fully operational", the Welsh government said.
Chair of Powys Teaching Health Board, Prof Vivienne Harpwood, said: "This development is very welcome. It is so important that mothers and babies throughout Powys have access to the best possible care in a modern midwife-led unit."
Work on further improvements to the hospital building, including to the roof, will begin in May.


Mexican police are investigating after a group of 25 German tourists and three Mexicans were robbed by armed men.

The tourists were on their way to the Mayan archaeological site of Palenque in southern Chiapas state.
The bus driver had to take a lengthy detour after he found the road leading to Palenque blocked by protesters.
Police escorted the bus for part of the way, but stopped just short of Palenque because the officers said their jurisdiction ended there.
Shortly afterwards, a group of seven armed men boarded the bus as it was driving slowly along a tricky stretch of the road.
They threatened the driver with a gun so he would not drive off and forced the passengers to hand over their cash and cameras, one of the Mexican guides on board the bus said.
The incident happened on Saturday but did not become public until Monday.
The bus had left the city of San CristÃ³bal de las Casas in the morning for Palenque, just under five hours' drive away.
After encountering the roadblock, the driver took a 200km (125-mile) detour.
The bus was boarded by the armed men shortly after the police patrol had left them and just before it was due to arrive at the archaeological site.
Police arrived minutes after the robbers took off with their loot.
The incident came just days after the Chiapas state government announced it would launch an operation to increase patrols on the highway linking San CristÃ³bal and Palenque.
More than 650,000 people visited Palenque in 2016.


Nuclear operators in Japan have applied to restart 10 reactors, potentially paving the way for a widespread return to nuclear power in coming years.

The four companies applied under new rules introduced following Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) says it will take at least six months to review each reactor.
All but two reactors have been offline since the earthquake and tsunami which crippled the Fukushima plant.
Hokkaido Electric, Kansai Electric, Shikoku Electric and Kyushu Electric submitted applications to restart the plants under the new regulations on Monday. They sent applications for a total of 10 reactors at five plants.
The new rules require nuclear operators to put in place better safeguards against disasters including tsunamis, earthquakes and terrorist attacks.
NRA chairman Shunichi Tanaka said that bringing safety standards to international norms would "take a long time".
The NRA is responsible for determining whether the reactors meet the new safety standards.
The nuclear companies are then required to seek approval from national and regional politicians.
"It is important that assessment will be done in a strict manner by the Nuclear Regulation Authority based on the new standards," Katsunobu Kato, deputy chief cabinet secretary, said.
"It is a precondition that host communities agree on the re-firing," he added.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants Japan's nuclear reactors to be restarted. The country relied heavily on nuclear power for its energy supply prior to the 2011 disaster.
However, many in Japan are opposed to restarting the reactors.
The earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011 crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing meltdowns at three nuclear reactors.
Engineers have since stabilised the plant but years of work lie ahead to fully contain the disaster and tackle its effects.


Defender Chris Gunter says it would be "madness" to let Wales manager Chris Coleman leave the job after Euro 2016.

Coleman says he and the Football Association of Wales are currently "apart" in negotiations over a new contract.
His deal ends after Euro 2016, the first major tournament Wales have qualified for since the 1958 World Cup.
"Every player would be absolutely gutted if he was to leave," said 26-year-old Reading full-back Gunter.
"You'd like to think that the FAW are doing all they can to make sure he stays.
"I'm sure they are because it would be absolute madness to watch Chris Coleman walk away from our squad.
"What he's achieved stands alone, really and it would be crazy if he was to leave us as our manager now because the biggest thing is the respect he has of every single player in the squad.
"And that is pretty much the biggest compliment you can pay him."
Contract negotiations opened on 15 March, but no further talks between the FAW and their manager are scheduled with Coleman in "game mode" for Wales' friendlies against Northern Ireland and Ukraine.
Wales play their penultimate warm-up match before the start of Euro 2016 against Ukraine in Kiev on Monday evening.
That follows a 1-1 draw with Northern Ireland on Thursday, when Coleman was without eight players, including key performers Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.
Tottenham defender Ben Davies is available for the Ukraine match, and Walsall's Tom Bradshaw could make his debut.
But Andrew Crofts is back with Gillingham.


The husband of a former GCHQ worker believes on-site demolition work may have led to his wife's death.

Jayne Eustace, 48, died in March after a battle with pericardial mesothelioma - an aggressive form of cancer.
Her husband Andy's legal team has instructed lawyers to pursue whether protection against asbestos dust should have been given to her at the ex-Oakley base.
A GCHQ spokesman said they could not comment on individual members of staff.
He added they would "deal appropriately with any legal correspondence received".
Mr Eustace said the "only way you can get [mesothelioma] is from asbestos" and he is concerned other workers might also have been affected.
"At autopsy, they took the lungs out [of Jayne] and for every gram of dried tissue she had 4,200 asbestos fibres, and she never ever worked with the stuff.
"All she did was walk along corridors to her desk, and from her desk to her car which was dusty from demolition work GCHQ was carrying out."
Before her death, Mrs Eustace recalled how a wrecking ball was used to demolish buildings close to where she was working, according to Irwin Mitchell solicitors.
"She remembered her car being dusty from the demolition works and she and her colleagues were not provided with any protective clothing or equipment whilst the maintenance work was carried out in areas containing asbestos," said lawyer Hayley Hill.
Mrs Eustace worked at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) from 1983 to 1990, based at their Oakley site in Cheltenham.
The site was formally closed in 2012, after more than 60 years of use by the intelligence agency, when the 'doughnut' building in Benhall became the central base.


A new inquest has been ordered into the death of soldier Pte Cheryl James at Deepcut barracks in Surrey.

The 18-year-old from Denbighshire died in November 1995. The High Court ordered a fresh inquest after a challenge by her family.
She was one of four soldiers who died at the barracks between 1995 and 2002, sparking allegations of bullying and abuse.
An inquest held soon after Pte James's death recorded an open verdict.
Pte James, who grew up in Llangollen, died from a single bullet wound. Her parents believe she had suffered sexual harassment and bullying.
Pte Sean Benton, 20, from Hastings, East Sussex, was found dead with bullet wounds at the barracks in June 1995, months before Pte James's death.
Profiles of the Deepcut four
In September 2001, 17-year-old Pte Geoff Gray, from Seaham, Co Durham, was found with two bullet wounds to his head, and six months later, Pte James Collinson, from Perth, also 17, was found with a single bullet wound upwards through his chin.
Mr Justice Mitting and Judge Peter Thornton QC agreed that there was "an insufficiency of inquiry" at the 1995 inquest and quashed the open verdict recorded at the inquest into Pte James's death.
Judge Thornton said "the discovery of new facts or evidence" made "a fresh investigation including a fresh inquest necessary or desirable in the interests of justice".
Pte James was undergoing initial training at Deepcut when she was found dead with a bullet wound between her right eye and the bridge of her nose.
Her parents Des and Doreen James, who live in Llanymynech, Powys, applied through human rights campaign group Liberty for a new inquest after the Human Rights Act was used to secure access to documents held by the authorities about the teenager's death.
Mr and Mrs James said they were "delighted" to have a fresh inquest but "a meaningful inquiry into Cheryl's death is almost 20 years late".
In a statement, they said: "When young people die in violent circumstances, a rigorous and transparent investigation should be automatic.
"Something went dreadfully wrong at Deepcut yet until now no-one has bothered to look at how and why our daughter died."
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Mrs James said: "We're absolutely over the moon. It's been a long 20 years.
"It's dreadful to lose a child but when you really haven't had the opportunity to find out what happened, you never can get closure.
"I hope for all the other families that have lost their children that this will lead to other investigations."
Liberty solicitor Emma Norton, who represented Mr and Mrs James, said the family had "refused to let her death be swept under the carpet".
A Surrey Police investigation was launched into the deaths in 2002, following pressure from the families who rejected suggestions the soldiers had committed suicide and called for a public inquiry.
Later, a report by the Adult Learning Inspectorate, commissioned by the armed forces minister, called for substantial reforms in the training of new recruits.
A later investigation by deputy high court judge Nicholas Blake QC called for an independent ombudsman for the armed forces, but rejected the families' calls for a public inquiry.
It also concluded that Ptes Gray, James and Benton had committed suicide.
Judge Thornton said Surrey Police at first refused full disclosure of the reinvestigation report to Pte James's family, but handed over 44 lever arch files of documents after being threatened with legal action.
The force said it had now voluntarily provided all relevant material to the family - since being asked to early in 2012 - and what had been disclosed "affords fresh grounds for an inquest".
The documents handed over included "important material relating to ballistics, the noise of the gunshot, bullet fragments, the finding of the body, the credibility of some witnesses, and further witnesses".
A police statement said the force had also received similar requests for disclosure from the representatives of the families of the other soldiers who died.
It said: "Our thoughts remain with the family of Cheryl James at this time and the force will continue to work with all interested parties throughout the inquest process.
"A dedicated team of officers are currently working towards the new inquest and the disclosure process to families through their legal teams as soon as possible."
A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: "Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Pte Cheryl James.
"The inquest will now be a matter for the coroner, but we will of course continue to co-operate with and provide support to the coroner where needed."
The new investigation is to be carried out by the current senior coroner for the Surrey area, who did not conduct the original inquest, or by a coroner to be agreed by the senior coroner, the Chief Coroner and Judge Thornton.


The new Queensferry Crossing over the Firth of Forth will open to traffic on 30 August.

The Â£1.35bn bridge will then close temporarily to give the public a "once in a lifetime" chance to walk over it on 2 and 3 September.
There are 50,000 spaces for the Queensferry Crossing Experience, which will be allocated by a ballot.
The route will be given motorway status once public transport links north of the Forth Road Bridge are completed.
Within hours of the ballot opening, 50,000 people had applied from more than 25 countries.
The crossing will replace the Forth Road Bridge as the main road route between Edinburgh and Fife.
The speed limit will initially be 40mph but it is understood the new crossing will become a motorway with a 70mph speed limit in September.
The bridge was originally due to open in December, however, the completion date was delayed twice due to "adverse weather conditions".
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "I am very pleased to be able to confirm the Queensferry Crossing will open 30 August 2017.
"The bridge will be used by vehicles up to 1 September, before closing to allow the public the chance to walk across it as part of the Queensferry Crossing Experience on 2 and 3 September.
"This Queensferry Crossing Experience will allow for up to 50,000 people to have the once in a lifetime chance to walk across the Queensferry Crossing before it becomes a motorway with no pedestrian access."
The structure is 207m above high tide (683ft), equivalent to about 48 double decker buses stacked on top of each other.
It is 50m (25%) higher than the existing Forth Road Bridge
The steel required for the bridge deck weighs a total of 35,000 tonnes -equivalent to almost 200 Boeing 747s
The combined steel required for North and South viaducts weighs 7,000 tonnes - enough to make another 23 Kelpies.
The bridge has windshielding to almost entirely eliminate the need for closures during the frequent periods of high winds in the Forth estuary
Cables can be replaced with more ease than on the Forth Road Bridge - it can be done as part of normal maintenance works without closing the bridge.
Michael Martin, project director for the consortium building the Queensferry Crossing, Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC), said: "The Queensferry Crossing is one of the world's great bridges.
"It's the largest bridge of its type and its fast track design and construction has presented many challenges.
"The safety of our workforce, who have worked relentlessly through the hostile weather conditions in the Forth estuary to deliver the earliest completion of this project, has always been our number one priority and it will continue to be so as move towards the completion of the project."


Edin Dzeko scored twice as Roma trashed Fiorentina to set a new club record.

The capital club have won their last 14 home games in Serie A, breaking their record which had stood since 1930.
Dzeko, who is now the league's top scorer with 17 goals, opened the scoring before Federico Fazio headed in a second.
Radja Nainggolan turned in Kevin Strootman's cross and Dzeko capitalised on a Davide Astori error to complete the comfortable victory.
Roma, who move up to second, are four points behind leaders Juventus, although they have played a game more than the champions.
Match ends, Roma 4, Fiorentina 0.
Second Half ends, Roma 4, Fiorentina 0.
Substitution, Roma. Clément Grenier replaces Radja Nainggolan.
Foul by Matías Vecino (Fiorentina).
Federico Fazio (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Bruno Peres (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Francesco Totti.
Corner,  Roma. Conceded by Ciprian Tatarusanu.
Attempt saved. Edin Dzeko (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Roma. Leandro Paredes replaces Daniele De Rossi.
Goal!  Roma 4, Fiorentina 0. Edin Dzeko (Roma) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Roma. Francesco Totti replaces Stephan El Shaarawy.
Foul by Davide Astori (Fiorentina).
Radja Nainggolan (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Emerson (Roma) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Kostas Manolas with a cross.
Substitution, Fiorentina. Sebastián Cristóforo replaces Federico Chiesa.
Attempt missed. Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Davide Astori with a cross.
Goal!  Roma 3, Fiorentina 0. Radja Nainggolan (Roma) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin Strootman following a fast break.
Substitution, Fiorentina. Cristian Tello replaces Federico Bernardeschi.
Attempt missed. Edin Dzeko (Roma) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Emerson with a cross following a set piece situation.
Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matías Vecino (Fiorentina).
Corner,  Roma. Conceded by Milan Badelj.
Attempt missed. Edin Dzeko (Roma) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (Roma) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Emerson following a corner.
Corner,  Roma. Conceded by Carlos Sánchez.
Attempt blocked. Edin Dzeko (Roma) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Strootman.
Josip Ilicic (Fiorentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Emerson (Roma).
Attempt saved. Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan with a cross.
Attempt saved. Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Milan Badelj.
Substitution, Fiorentina. Josip Ilicic replaces Maximiliano Olivera.
Offside, Fiorentina. Matías Vecino tries a through ball, but Borja Valero is caught offside.
Radja Nainggolan (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Milan Badelj (Fiorentina).
Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina).
Goal!  Roma 2, Fiorentina 0. Federico Fazio (Roma) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniele De Rossi with a cross following a set piece situation.
Gonzalo Rodríguez (Fiorentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Edin Dzeko (Roma) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gonzalo Rodríguez (Fiorentina).


A new shortlist of candidates to become the next Bishop of Llandaff has been drawn up, the Church in Wales has said.

Its bishops have been meeting for three days to discuss the appointment, after a previous attempt to agree a name failed.
It followed the retirement of Dr Barry Morgan at the end of January.
The panel of Welsh bishops said they hoped to make a decision "as soon as all necessary formalities are finalised".
Last month, an electoral college of 47 people, including the Welsh bishops, met to vote for a replacement to lead the diocese from the Cardiff cathedral.
But none of the candidates received the required two-thirds majority support needed.
It means the appointment will now be made by the Church in Wales Bench of Bishops.
The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, John Davies, who is the senior bishop, thanked everyone following a fresh consultation on the appointment.
"We received a wide variety of responses to the consultation and heard from a particularly large number of people suggesting possible candidates," he said.
"We have now considered those responses and, after a lengthy but productive meeting, we are ready to move to the next stage in the appointment process."
Church officials said there was no fixed timetable for the decision to be made but bishops wanted to make the appointment as soon as possible.


Scottish-based travel firm Skyscanner has reported double-digit growth for the seventh consecutive year.

The flight search engine website reported revenues of Â£120m for 2015, up 28% on the previous year.
The company saw gross bookings of $11.2bn, up 49% on 2014, with visitors to the website up 48%. On average, 50m people used the website each month.
Company founder and chief executive Gareth Williams said the company had seen "excellent growth".
He said: "2015 was another strong year for Skyscanner, showing solid progress in our strategy of expansion beyond our home market, into mobile and beyond flights.
"Our first-half focus on investing in our product drove momentum for the business in the second half. We also saw excellent growth in travellers planning their trips on Skyscanner all around the world, especially on mobile and in the important regions of Asia Pacific and the Americas."
The Edinburgh-based company saw a rise in the number of people using its mobile app, with 40m downloads and an increase of 24% in mobile bookings.
Particular growth was recorded in the Asia-Pacific region, while visits in China were up 67% after Skyscanner bought a Chinese search firm in 2014.
The company opened new offices in London and Sofia as well as expanding existing operations in Budapest and Miami, increasing its global staff to 770.


Bill Clinton has told mourners at Martin McGuinness' funeral that the people of Northern Ireland must finish the work he started.

The former US president was speaking following Mass for the former IRA leader who, a priest said, "became a mainstay of the peace process".
Mourners also included  Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster, who received a round of applause.
At the graveside, Gerry Adams issued an appeal to "our unionist neighbours".
Mr McGuinness, an ex-paramilitary turned Sinn Féin politician, died on Tuesday aged 66, after a short illness.
Thousands of people packed the streets of his native Bogside, a republican area of Londonderry, as his funeral took place, and many of them followed the coffin of Mr McGuinness onward to the city cemetery.
President Clinton, who was central to the Good Friday Agreement peace negotiations, told mourners he "came to treasure every encounter" with Mr McGuinness.
"Our friend earned this vast crowd," he said. "Even more, he earned the right to ask us to honour his legacy by our living. To finish the work that is there to be done."
Fr Michael Canny, who was a personal friend of Mr McGuinness, said there were people in the church "whose presence would have been unthinkable only a generation ago".
"The presence of those political rivals and opponents who have come to pay their respects is the most eloquent testimony to the memory of Martin McGuinness," he said.
Mr McGuinness was a "man of simple tastes who ascended to the political summit," he continued.
"He visited the White House, Downing Street and Windsor Castle, but only ever felt at home in his beloved Bogside, returning to his wife and family at every opportunity," Fr Canny said.
Mr McGuinness was a "complex man, born into a community where faith, Catholicism and nationalism were intertwined" and his life was a "remarkable journey", he added.
"He was the Sinn Féin leader who first shared power, then became friends with the late Dr Ian Paisley; he was the IRA commander who became a mainstay of the peace process."
Mr McGuinness' grandchildren read prayers and the Rev Harold Good, a former Methodist Church president, and the Rev David Latimer, from First Derry Presbyterian Church, also spoke.
A message was read out on behalf of Archbishop Eamon Martin, leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, who could not attend the funeral but had visited the McGuinness family on Wednesday.
Mr McGuinness' coffin was draped in an Irish tricolour but there were no paramilitary trappings for the one-time IRA commander.
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, Irish President Michael D Higgins, Secretary of State James Brokenshire and former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond were among the high-profile political figures at the church.
By Ciaran McCauley
On Thursday afternoon, the city of Derry came to a standstill for the funeral of Martin McGuinness.
Thousands lined the short route from his home in Westland Street to his parish church, Long Tower.
Onlookers crowded along pavements and stood on balconies as he made his final journey.
They often broke into applause as he passed through the Bogside, an area that saw some of the most infamous events of the Troubles.
Mr McGuinness' legacy and impact - his shift from IRA leader to pivotal architect of the peace process - will be debated for decades.
Regardless, this is the closest the city of Derry has ever come to hosting a state funeral.
Numerous politicians from Northern Ireland's Assembly were also there, as was police chief George Hamilton.
There had been reports that former British prime minister Tony Blair, who worked with Mr McGuinness to secure the Good Friday Agreement, would attend but they were denied by his spokeswoman.
Writing in the Belfast Telegraph, Mrs Foster said she recognised some would be critical of her decision to attend the funeral of a former IRA leader but added she wanted to pay "respect to his family".
Following the service, Mr McGuinness was buried in the republican plot in the city cemetery where Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams delivered a graveside eulogy.
He said Mr McGuinness "was not a terrorist" but a "freedom fighter".
"He was also a political prisoner, a negotiator, a peacemaker, a healer," he said.
He also appealed to unionists.
"Let us learn to like each other, to be friends, to celebrate and enjoy our differences and to do so on the basis of common sense, respect and tolerance for each other and everyone else - as equals," he said.
"Let me appeal also to nationalists and republicans - do nothing to disrespect our unionist neighbours or anyone else."
Folk singer Christy Moore sang the final song at the graveside.
The Irish tricolour is flying at half mast at the official residence of the Irish president as well as the Dáil (Irish parliament) as a mark of respect to Mr McGuinness.
Mr McGuinness had been suffering from a rare heart condition, and he died at Altnagelvin hospital, with his family by his bedside.
Many tributes from across the political spectrum have been paid to the republican figurehead.
However, some victims of the Troubles have expressed revulsion at media coverage of his death, with critics saying that Mr McGuinness was lauded as a peacemaker despite never having apologised for his IRA past.


A teacher from the Canadian Arctic has been named as the winner of the annual Global Teacher Prize.

Maggie MacDonnell, who teaches at a remote village school, spoke at the award ceremony about the problem of youth suicides in the Inuit community.
The winner was announced by a video-link with astronauts on the International Space Station.
She was congratulated by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - who said she was "shaping the future".
"You chose to teach at the Ikusik school in Salluit, a remote village in the Canadian Arctic.
"There are no roads to Salluit - it is only accessible by air and it gets cold, really cold, -20c this time of year," said Mr Trudeau.
"I'd like to say thank you to every teacher out there."
Ms MacDonnell has worked to improve the health and life chances of an isolated community of young Inuit people who have faced deprivation - and she spoke of the impact on the community of high levels of youth suicides.
She described how it felt to be a teacher after the suicide of a student.
"As a teacher, when I come to school the morning after, there is an empty desk in that classroom. There is stillness and silence," she told the award ceremony.
Ms MacDonnell said the memory of such deaths haunted her and she wanted the prize to cast light on the problem.
"I didn't know until I came to Salluit that that was a Canadian reality," she said.
The $1m (Â£810,000) prize for teaching excellence was announced at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai.
The prize is aimed at raising the status of teaching - with a show-business style ceremony with glamour and famous names.
The adventurer and TV presenter Bear Grylls and Italian singer Andrea Bocelli took part in the prize giving.
A video message from Prince Harry was screened and the ceremony was attended by the vice president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, speaking from the International Space Station, said: "I'd like to be the first person in history to thank all the world's teachers from space."
The top 10 finalists included a UK teacher, Raymond Chambers, who teaches computer science at Brooke Weston Academy, Corby, Northamptonshire.
Sunny Varkey, founder of the Varkey Foundation that organises the prize, said: "I hope Maggie MacDonnell's story will inspire those looking to enter the teaching profession and shine a powerful spotlight on the incredible work teachers do all over the world every day."
Aside from Maggie MacDonnell, the other finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2017 were:


Leigh Halfpenny says British and Irish Lions players face a challenge to acclimatise in New Zealand before their opening tour game on 3 June.

Halfpenny is one of several players who could be part of big domestic matches on the weekend of 26/27 May.
His side Toulon might play a Top 14 semi-final, with the Aviva Premiership and Pro12 finals the same weekend.
"That's one of the challenges in terms of the staff with the Lions with the physical preparations," he said.
"Everyone will be doing everything possible to help with the recovery and the sleeping patterns to try and get over the jet lag as quickly as possible and help the team to prepare for the first game."
The Lions' 10-match schedule has been criticised for being too tough, with the opening match against New Zealand Barbarians followed by games against five Super Rugby teams, the Maori All Blacks and three Test matches against New Zealand.
Coach Warren Gatland's squad fly to New Zealand on Monday, 29 May
Halfpenny, man of the series in the 2-1 victory over Australia in 2013, says the key thing is for the squad to gel together off the field.
"It's a short space of time for the squad to get together and gel and that has to happen quite quickly," he added.
"There's not much preparation time and the matches come thick and fast, and before you know it the Tests are upon you.
"That's the biggest challenge from my experience.
"In 2013 one thing we were hugely successful in was gelling off the field and that showed on the field."
Halfpenny will be taking part in his third Lions tour, having first been selected for the 2009 trip to South Africa.
He is one of three players in the 41-man strong party to have played for Gorseinon RFC, near Swansea, with fly-half Dan Biggar and forward Ross Moriarty also having spent time in the junior ranks at the club.
"The three of us came through the ranks in Gorseinon and it's a real special occasion for the club," he said.
"I'm hugely proud to have represented that club made a huge contribution towards where I am today.
"I played alongside Dan Biggar as well in the same junior team and I'm just absolutely delighted for Dan and Ross on their selection and for the rugby club.
"They are their hugely proud of them as well."