China has asserted its "indisputable sovereignty" over parts of the South China Sea after the Trump administration vowed to prevent China from taking territory in the region.

The Chinese foreign ministry said Beijing would "remain firm to defend its rights in the region".
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Monday the US would "make sure we protect our interests there".
Barack Obama's administration refused to take sides in the dispute.
It did, however, send B-52 bombers and a naval destroyer last year, and the then US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke out over what he called "an increase of militarisation from one kind or another" in the region.
Several nations claim territory in the resource-rich South China Sea, which is also an important shipping route.
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The new US president has taken a tough stance against China, and Mr Spicer told reporters "the US is going to make sure we protect our interests" in the South China Sea.
"If those islands are, in fact, in international waters and not part of China proper, yeah, we'll make sure we defend international interests from being taken over by another country," he said, without giving further details.
The Chinese government responded by saying that the US was "not a party to the South China Sea issue".
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said China was "committed to peaceful negotiations with all countries concerned" in the dispute, and said it "respects the principles of freedom of navigation and over-flight in international waters".
But, she went on: "Our position is clear. Our actions have been lawful."
Mr Spicer's comments echo those of Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
During his nomination hearing, Mr Tillerson said the US should block access to islands being built by China in the South China Sea, likening it to Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
"We're going to have to send China a clear signal that first, the island-building stops and second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed," he told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Chinese state media responded by warning that such actions would lead to a "devastating confrontation".
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
Beijing has been building artificial islands on reefs and carrying out naval patrols in waters also claimed by these other nations.
Although the Obama administration insisted it was neutral, it spoke out strongly against the island-building and sought to build ties with, and among, the South East Asian nations whose claims overlap those of China.
In July an international tribunal ruled against Chinese claims, backing a case brought by the Philippines, but Beijing said it would not respect the verdict.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with global consequences.


BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of guests.

Lawro's opponent for this week's fixtures is comedian Lloyd Griffith, who supports his hometown club Grimsby.
He has recently been acting as a chauffeur for footballers as part of his 'Taxi to Training' series. for BBC Three.
"I drove Christian Fuchs around Leicester and we got on like a house on fire," says Griffith. "He's a great lad and we message all the time now. I mean, he hasn't replied to any of them, but there have been a lot of messages."
You can make your predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got six correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 90 points.
He beat 80s pop legend Rick Astley, who got three correct results, with one perfect score, for a total of 60 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Burnley 1-2 Man City
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Lloyd's prediction: 3-0
Match report
Hull City 1-1 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Lloyd's prediction: 0-2
Match report
Leicester 2-2 Middlesbrough
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Lloyd's prediction: 3-0
Match report
Liverpool 2-0 Sunderland
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Lloyd's prediction: 2-1
Match report
Swansea 5-4 Crystal Palace
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Lloyd's prediction: 1-1
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Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Lloyd's prediction: 2-2
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Watford 0-1 Stoke
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Lloyd's prediction: 3-0
Match report
Arsenal 3-1 Bournemouth
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Lloyd's prediction: 5-0
Match report
Man Utd 1-1 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Lloyd's prediction: 3-1
Match report
Southampton 1-0 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Lloyd's prediction: 0-0
Match report
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week three v Laura Trott)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)


A 50-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car on the carriageway of the A90 north of Edinburgh in the early hours.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the incident near Cramond Bridge at about 03:15.
Officers said the man was understood to have been walking on the northbound carriageway when he was struck by a blue Volkswagen Touran.
He was taken by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.


Ricky Burns will become one of the greats of Scottish boxing if he wins a world title at a third different weight, according to Alex Morrison.

Burns will face Michele di Rocco for the vacant WBA light-welterweight belt in Glasgow on 28 May.
"You're talking about Ken Buchanan, Jim Watt and Walter McGowan," Burns' manager Morrison said.
"For Ricky to win at three different weights would put him up there with them - true greats."
After securing the first of his world crowns at super featherweight in 2010 against Puerto Rican Roman Martinez, Burns won the interim WBO lightweight title a year later against Michael Katsidis from Australia, going on to make four successful defences.
But after losing his belt to American Terrance Crawford in March 2014, Burns, who turns 33 next month, now has a shot at reaching the top again.
"He wants to show the world how good he is," Morrison said.
"He's hungry for a third world title. The move to super lightweight was the only option to get him a shot but he's shown in the past how versatile he is in making weights so I think it's good for him."
Morrison also believes fighting in front of Scottish fans will be a "massive boost" for the Coatbridge boxer and that it could play a significant factor against the Italian Di Rocco, who is unbeaten in almost nine years.
"Ricky loves fighting in front of his own fans," added Morrison.
"The noise and atmosphere generated by them really lifts him. Di Rocco is a good fighter but he'll be up against the crowd and an inspired Ricky Burns."


UBS says it is in "advanced talks" with the US Department of Justice to settle allegations that it attempted to rig foreign exchange markets.

The Swiss bank is being investigated in the US and around the world for possible market manipulation.
UBS has already suspended at least five traders in relation to the allegations.
UBS's allocations to cover settlements with the Department of Justice and other authorities are "adequate", said UBS in its quarterly results.
It reported a pre-tax profit of 1.98bn Swiss francs (Â£1.4bn; $2.2bn) for the first three months of the year, more than double its profit for the same period last year and beating analysts' expectations.
Regulators globally have been investigating suggestions that some foreign exchange traders at several banks have, for years, colluded in the artificial fixing of rates in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market.
They have already imposed fines worth $4.3bn on six banks, including UBS, for failing to stop traders trying to manipulate the foreign exchange market.
UBS approached US authorities last year with information in the hope of gaining anti-trust immunity if charged with wrongdoing.


Labour leader Ed Miliband is to accuse David Cameron of presiding over the "biggest loss of influence for our country in a generation".

Mr Miliband will use a foreign policy speech to criticise the PM's approach over Libya, Ukraine and the EU.
He will promise to "speak up for Britain's values" on the world stage if he wins the election.
The Conservatives say they will "ensure Britain is a major player on the world stage".
The Tory manifesto promises to "maintain Britain's strong global role and our capacity to project British power and values around the world".
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Labour supported military intervention in Libya in 2011. But Mr Miliband will say the deaths of an estimated 800 people when their boats sank off the Libyan coast on Sunday were "in part a direct result of the failure of post-conflict planning".
He will say: "The tragedy is that this could have been anticipated.  It should have been avoided.
"And Britain could have played its part in ensuring the international community stood by the people of Libya in practice rather than standing behind the unfounded hopes of potential progress only in principle."
His comments come after David Cameron pledged military assets to boost search and rescue efforts in the Mediterranean after an emergency EU summit.
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The prime minister said: "I think it is right for Britain to step forward,"
Mr Miliband will also accuse the Conservatives of "inward-looking, pessimistic isolationism" on the world stage and say the prime minister was "left on the sidelines" during the Ukraine conflict.
A loss of Britain's influence has happened "because the government he led has stepped away from the world, rather than confidently towards it," he will say, saying Mr Cameron had "taken us to the edge of European exit" with his pledge of an EU referendum.
He will also set out his own foreign policy vision, saying the country should "look boldly, confidently outward to the world", promising a "genuine and hard-headed multilateralism with our values at its core".
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The English Football League is to provide live streaming of every non-televised game to overseas supporters from the 2017-18 season onwards.

Fans in the UK are currently limited to audio commentary by rights issues, but Championship, League One and Two matches will be available to watch abroad from August.
The digital platform, called iFollow, will cost £110 for full access.
Currently, 61 of 72 EFL clubs have signed up to the EFL Digital platform.
However, the EFL says that 11 clubs still have the provision to offer the streaming through their own digital providers including Aston Villa, Bristol City, Queens Park Rangers and Accrington Stanley.
Streaming packages in other sports have given fans the opportunity to follow their teams from afar, particularly in the United States.
The North American-based National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball League governing bodies have web-based streaming packages, while in Australia, rugby league and Australian Rules followers can subscribe to NRL and AFL streaming.
"The new iFollow platform represents a potentially significant new revenue stream for clubs," EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey said. "While enabling enhanced engagement with existing fans now living abroad.
"iFollow will also present the EFL with an important opportunity to stimulate the interest of new groups of supporters who follow our clubs overseas, which in turn will help support the growth of our competitions on the international stage."


Police have begun a murder inquiry after a disabled man in his 70s, who was stabbed with a hook during a robbery at his County Armagh home in August, died in hospital.

Eugene Carr, 73, died in the Royal Victoria Hospital on Tuesday night.
A post-mortem is to be carried out, but police said it is believed he died of his injuries.
Mr Carr was attacked at his home at Clogharevan Park, Bessbrook, in the early hours of 31 August.
Police said three men broke into the house and went into the bedroom where the pensioner was in bed.
They stabbed him and beat him before stealing cash.
Mr Carr was taken to Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry before being transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast where he died on Tuesday.
Chief Inspector Lee McNevison said Mr Carr had been the victim of an "horrendous attack whilst he was in his bed at his home".
A 25-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man arrested in the Newry area on 4 September in relation to the attack were later released on police bail pending further enquiries.
Sinn FÃ©in councillor Roisin Mulgrew said: "We now know that Eugene Carr has lost his fight to live and unfortunately is dead, so that will be treated with a lot of shock and disappointment and sadness by the whole Bessbrook community.
"Eugene was a very well-liked and gentle person."


Scotland's national food body has attacked measures announced by UK ministers to curb childhood obesity in England.

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) said it was disappointed there had been no discussion to develop a "UK-wide approach" to tackling the issue.
Measures announced by ministers in England include a voluntary target to cut sugar in children's food and drink.
The FSS has called for action to tackle promotions and marketing of junk food.
Poor diet is one of the most significant causes of ill-health in Scotland and contributes to the country having one of the highest obesity rates in Europe.
The FSS published proposals in January saying that the food industry should be given 12 months to come up with alternative ways of reducing sugar consumption or face the prospect of a "sugar tax".
They also concluded that radical change was needed to address Scottish eating habits and that curbs were needed on the promotion and advertising of certain foods, and portion size.
Chairman of the FSS Ross Finnie said: "It is vitally important that we give children the best possible chance in life.
"Unless we take action now, we risk condemning our children to the same habits and poor diets that have led to current obesity levels of 30%, and on this current trajectory, projections that 40% of the population in Scotland will be obese by 2030."
He added: "It is disappointing that, despite the clear benefits that could be achieved with a UK-wide approach to tackling obesity through advertising and marketing, there was no discussion with Scotland before the UK government decided not to pursue this option."
David Thomson, chief executive of the Scottish Food and Drink Federation (SFDF), said: "There are significant elements of UK Government's Childhood Obesity plan which present a major challenge to food and drink companies.
"It's right that reformulation and portion control are a major focus of the plan and this is where industry is focussing its efforts to make a difference. We will, as an industry, continue to work in partnership with FSS and Scottish Government to deliver effective actions to tackle obesity."
The UK government's Childhood Obesity Strategy has also been criticised by the British Medical Association, which said ministers had "rowed back" on promises, and the CEO of Sainsbury's said the plan did not go far enough.
The strategy asks the food and drink industry to cut 5% of the sugar in products popular with children over the next year.
It says the ultimate target is a 20% sugar cut, with Public Health England monitoring voluntary progress over the next four years.
However, new curbs on price promotions of unhealthy food and TV marketing were absent from the strategy.
A spokeswoman for Westminster's Department of Health said: "The childhood obesity crisis has been decades in the making and it will take years to sort it. We will measure progress carefully and are not ruling out further action if results are not seen."
The Food and Drink Federation said the soft drinks industry was already making progress to reduce the quantity of sugar in their products.


Hip-hop bluesman Rag 'N' Bone Man has been named runner-up in the BBC's Sound of 2017, which aims to predict the year's biggest new acts.

Born Rory Graham in Uckfield, near Brighton, the 31-year-old started his musical career as a jungle MC before his parents encouraged him to sing.
His first big break came in 2012, when he supported Joan Armatrading, after his girlfriend sent promoters his early recordings - including videos of him singing on the toilet.
"I didn't know anything about it," he told his local newspaper The Argus. "I made some of my early recordings while sitting on the toilet... They seemed to like it though."
Through constant gigging, he built a loyal fanbase until the emotive Bitter End, from his 2015 Disfigured EP, won support from Huw Stephens on Radio 1 and Jo Whiley on Radio 2.
With a rasping voice not unlike Joe Cocker, he recently scored a major hit with the gospel-inspired single Human, which has topped the German charts for the last 13 weeks, and challenged Clean Bandit for the UK Christmas number one.
He spoke to the BBC about his pirate radio past, becoming "big in Germany" and his favourite Disney songs.
5.Nadia Rose
4.Jorja Smith
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2. Rag 'N' Bone Man
1. Ray BLK
5. Nadia Rose
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1. Ray BLK
Congratulations on making the Sound of 2017's top five! How does it feel?
It's a pretty exciting thing to be part of. It feels like I've put in all the hard work for a reason.
Where did you get the name Rag 'N' Bone Man?
I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch re-runs of Steptoe and Son on BBC Two. I thought it was hilarious - and Rag 'N' Bone Man sounded like a blues name to me. It reminded me of people like Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Mama Thornton.
Imagine how different it would have been if you'd been watching repeats of Fawlty Towers.
Yeah, I could have been called Basil!
Did anyone ever advise you to go back to being Rory?
I was asked if I wanted to change it a couple of times, but I like it. Whether you think it's stupid or not, it's memorable.
Human has been number one in Germany for more than three months now. Is it strange to be big in Europe first?
It's really crazy. I never expected it at all.
I've been working as a musician for the last five or six years, but I saw myself as an underground artist and I was kind of happy doing that. But then, you know, when it started getting bigger I thought, "Well, why not? Why shouldn't it be spread to a wider audience?"
In the UK, the song only entered the chart after Emily Middlemas performed it on X Factor. How did you feel about that?
I didn't have any choice in the matter! X Factor isn't my thing. I don't watch those shows. But somebody showed me her singing the song on their phone and, actually, she kind of nailed it.
You spent a long time making hip-hop as a teenager. Were you a good MC?
I think I was - but I always had the feeling everyone was better than me, you know? When I started singing, I left it behind.
What prompted you to start singing?
Me and my dad used to go to these jam sessions and open mic nights but I was always scared of singing on stage. It felt different to rapping - more pressured.
But it literally took one time for me to do it, and for people to come up and say, "Dude, do you realise what your voice sounds like?" for me to be like, "OK, maybe I should do this more often!"
Where was that gig?
It was my 21st birthday at a pub in East Grinstead. My dad said, "You should get up and sing" and because it was my birthday and I'd had a few drinks I went, "Alright, yeah, I'll do it!"
What did you sing?
The guys on stage were all double, if not triple, my age, and they were playing old blues tunes and standards. I knew all the words because my dad used to play them on a slide guitar when I was a kid.
The first song you uploaded to YouTube was an old American folk song, Reuben's Train. I was surprised to see you playing guitar on it, because you don't anymore...
I don't much, no, but I've just decided to start doing it again.
What age did you start to learn?
I always knew a little bit because my dad played but I didn't really have that much interest. You know what it's like when your dad tries to get you into something!
But when I started singing, and I wanted to try and write songs, I realised I'd have to teach myself a bit more.
So you had no formal training?
My mum always wanted to send me to a music school but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.
What else were you into as a kid?
I played a lot of basketball  - but I was a little terror as a kid. I caused a lot of problems for my mum. We used to have the old bill round my house a lot.
I grew up in a little town called Uckfield and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, "Rory's been up to this again."
Then you got into jungle music?
Yeah, when I was 16 or 17. We used to do little pirate radio stations and put out jungle mixes.
What were those pirate radio shows like?
Well, we have a couple of tapes, which are never allowed to be shown to anyone, ever! They are really bad. I listened back to one the other day and it is terrible. I'm keeping them firmly locked away.
What's the most embarrassing bit?
It's my voice. It's only just broken so I kind of sound like Scooby Doo.
You've been making music as Rag 'N' Bone Man for five or six years, now. Did you have to work to support yourself at the beginning?
Yeah, I was a carer, looking after people with Asperger syndrome and Down's syndrome.
My sister does something similar. It's a very rewarding job but quite a draining one.
Mentally draining, yeah. But most of the time it was pretty fun, to be honest.I looked after a brother and sister who had Down's syndrome, and we used to drive around in the car, stick on Disney songs and sing along. That was my life for about four years.
What was their favourite Disney song?
I used to do impressions of the Jungle Book characters to the kids; and we loved The Aristocats as well. That was one of our favourites - Everybody Wants To Be A Cat.
During that period, you gave away your Wolves EP for free. Why?
Wolves marked a point where I wanted to write songs properly and I wanted a wider audience to hear them. So I thought, "Why don't we just give it away? How can that be a bad thing?"
People love free stuff. And it worked. If definitely widened the audience.
Was there a song that people really responded to?
There's one called Life In Her Yet. I wrote it after I spoke to my granddad about living on his own again, after losing his wife. I can't imagine being with someone for 50 years and then being on your own.
That was the first song where I felt I could write about stuff like that.
Where did Human come from?
A friend asked me a question I didn't really feel qualified to answer, and I was like, "Why are you asking me?" That's what prompted the line, "I'm no prophet or messiah". Like, go and ask someone else. I don't have the answers for you!
It's funny, because I spoke to other people and they think it's about humanity. Maybe it isâ€¦ but that's what's good about music - people can interpret the song for themselves.
I saw you play in Brixton recently, and you told the audience: "It's hard to write sad songs when I feel so happy." How big a problem is it?
There was a period where I felt a lot of frustration and  and I wasn't happy in my relationship - and that definitely did make me write in a certain way. But I'm still learning as a songwriter, so I think I've definitely got it in me to write happier songs. Whether they'll be good or not, I don't know.
You recently tweeted you'd been up at 3am writing rap lyrics about EastEnders, so that can always be the basis of album number two.
Haha! Yeah, I still have that really childish side to me. I have a couple of tracks on the new album that I rap on. I need people to hear that side of my music, as well.
Rag 'N' Bone Man's debut album, Human, will be released on 10 February by Sony Music.
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The Moon could be a "beautiful" source of minerals and energy, a top Chinese scientist has told the BBC.

Exotic materials including helium-3 and the potential for solar power could prove invaluable for humankind, he says.
The comments come from Prof Ouyang Ziyuan of the department of lunar and deep space exploration.
His first interview with the foreign media provides insights into China's usually secretive space programme.
Prof Ouyang was speaking ahead of the first Chinese attempt to land an unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface.
The Chang'e 3 lander is due to launch imminently, perhaps as soon as Sunday evening, UK time.
It will be the first to make a soft touchdown on the Moon since an unmanned Russian mission in 1976.
No humans have set foot on the lunar surface since America's Apollo missions ended in 1972.
Prof Ouyang is an adviser to the mission and his comments reveal the scale of Chinese thinking about the Moon.
He said the forthcoming venture would land in an ancient crater 400km wide called Sinus Iridum, thought to be relatively flat and clear of rocks, and explore its geology.
He explained that there were three motivations behind the drive to investigate the Moon.
"First, to develop our technology because lunar exploration requires many types of technology, including communications, computers, all kinds of IT skills and the use of different kinds of materials. This is the key reason," he told BBC News.
"Second, in terms of the science, besides Earth we also need to know our brothers and sisters like the Moon, its origin and evolution and then from that we can know about our Earth.
"Third, in terms of the talents, China needs its own intellectual team who can explore the whole lunar and solar system - that is also our main purpose."
After the first two Chang'e craft orbited the Moon, the next two missions will try to land on it and the following two will attempt to bring samples back to Earth.
Manned expeditions will then take place, according to Prof Ouyang.
"After all of this work, which is that China can make the achievement of arriving at the Moon and safely landing and that we can bring samples back; and once we finish all these unmanned projects, we will send Man there."
A rationale for this long-term programme is that "there are many ways humans can use the Moon", and he outlined a startling vision for its exploitation.
With no air on the Moon, solar panels would operate far more efficiently, he believes, and a "belt" of them could "support the whole world".
The Moon is also "so rich" in helium-3, which is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion, that this could "solve human beings' energy demand for around 10,000 years at least".
Prof Ouyang highlighted the combination of an extremely thin atmosphere and massive temperature extremes offering a unique possibility for manufacturing that does not exist on Earth.
He also spelled out the potential riches in lunar minerals and metals - a feature highlighted in an exhibition about the Moon which I visited in his home city of Guiyang.
"The Moon is full of resources - mainly rare earth elements, titanium, and uranium, which the Earth is really short of, and these resources can be used without limitation.
"But it's unnecessary to get them now because it's very costly."
Prof Ouyang summed up his vision for the goal of lunar exploration: "There are so many potential developments - it's beautiful - so we hope we can fully utilize the Moon to support sustainable development for humans and society."
Coming from a representative of a poorer, less ambitious nation, these ideas might be seen as purely wishful thinking.
But China has been methodically and patiently building up the key elements needed for an advanced space programme - from launchers to manned missions in Earth orbit to unmanned planetary craft - and it is investing heavily.
This comes as China is seen by neighbouring countries in Asia as flexing its muscles, most recently over control of airspace over the South China Sea. Chinese officials stress their desire to cooperate on space projects but lunar exploration is also regarded as a statement of national prowess.
Ouyang has himself been blunt about this in the past, as here in 2006: "Lunar exploration is a reflection of a country's comprehensive national power," he said in an interview with the official newspaper People's Daily. "It is significant for raising our international prestige and increasing our people's cohesion."
One leading British space scientist, Prof Richard Holdaway of the government-funded laboratory RAL Space, has long experience of working with China.
He believes China could have astronauts on the lunar surface by 2025.
"They started from a long way back but now they're catching up fast - they want to monitor what's happening on the ground, they want to be part of the analysis of climate change and a much bigger programme looking at the Moon for mining or as a staging post to other parts of the Solar System."
I asked him if the idea of a Chinese moonbase extracting minerals was remotely plausible.
"It's perfectly plausible from the technical point of view, absolutely plausible from the finance point of view because they have great buying power, so I think, yes, there's nothing at all to stop them doing that probably within something like 10 years.
So a great deal is riding on the Chang'e 3 launch - national prestige, the quest for technological prowess and the desire to harness all available natural resources.
If all goes according to plan, the spacecraft will take six days to reach the Moon and then face the challenge of a soft landing.
But it is clear that a successful mission will pave the way for the next boots to walk on the lunar surface to be worn by Chinese astronauts.


Bournemouth have completed the signing of Brighton defender Tommy Elphick on a three-year-deal.

The 24-year-old came through the club's academy making 182 appearances for the Seagulls but missed all of last season with an Achilles injury.
The central defender is set to compete with Steve Cook, Miles Addison, Stephane Zubar and Adam Barrett.
Elphick told the club website: "It's exciting, I've had a tough 14 months with injury, this is a new challenge."


We are accustomed to thinking about policy in binary terms - domestic politics on the one hand, foreign affairs on the other.

But as the tragic events in Brussels demonstrate once again, home and away are not so easily separated.
Indeed, in a fundamental sense, the problems of a fragmenting Middle East are fast-becoming Europe's problems too.
Whether it be terrorism, the tide of migration, Libya's future, Iran's nuclear policies, or the problematic relationship with Turkey, the wider Middle East is now intruding into the European consciousness on a day-to-day basis.
In some ways, this is a reversion to a long-standing historical norm.
Think back to the colonial era, when France, Italy and Great Britain controlled huge swathes of territory in the Middle East.
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the World War One prompted an expansion of the French and British government's responsibilities in the region, with mandates in Syria and Palestine.
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Indeed, the map of the Middle East so much under threat today was largely set by these same European powers after the Great War.
In the past, terrorism too has battered on Europe's doors.
The struggle for Algerian independence in the late-1950s brought terror attacks against French targets.
And a generation later, in the 1990s, Algerian extremists again attacked France, both to highlight their own campaign and to exact revenge against what was seen as the former colonial oppressor.
But what is happening today seems fundamentally different.
In part, the nature of the Middle East's crisis is more severe.
While geography may be immutable, in tangible ways the proximity of the region to Europe has increased.
And the varied forces of globalisation have at one and the same time increased the attractiveness of the European economic area and highlighted the deficiencies of much of the Arab world.
A globalised culture has served to reduce distance as a factor in world affairs.
European governments are struggling to deal with what first presents itself as a security crisis.
Think of the many European citizens who have travelled to join so-called Islamic State.
Belgium, for whatever reason, seems to be the country that has pro-rata produced the largest number of mobile jihadists.
But think then of the significant, and, in many cases, long-established immigrant communities from North Africa in a country such as France and the infamous anomie of the French suburbs.
Problems of identity, xenophobia and lack of integration produce significant minorities within these communities who may be susceptible to the jihadists' message.
What too of the proven role of prisons in radicalising young rootless individuals?
Once again, in Belgium, these links between alienation, petty crime, and radicalisation are apparent.
Then add in the question of how to deal with the wider ramifications of the crisis in the Middle East.
At one level, this is a security and foreign policy matter - should the West intervene? If so, how? And to what end?
Decisions were made with regard to Col Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
One was removed, the other not.
And both these decisions have influenced the current context.
The refugee crisis raises even deeper questions about Europe's values and the nature of the wider society the European Union countries are seeking to establish.
Indeed, problems that in many cases have their roots abroad are now having a significant impact on domestic politics too.
Think of the rise of populist parties in Scandinavia, the strength of the National Front in France or the gains made by the far-right at the recent regional elections in Germany.
This, in truth, is a problem from hell.
The certainties that informed policy throughout the Cold War and that appeared to triumph at its close are no more.
History didn't end.
It returned to bite the Europeans on the backside.
What governments now face is a Rubik's Cube of problems.
Twist the faces of the cube as much as you like, but you will never align foreign policy, security, immigration, domestic political trends or whatever.
There are just too many moving parts.
And none of the answers is simple.
Europeans know they want to be secure.
But they do not know exactly how this state is to be achieved.
How must security be set against privacy?
Should traditional views about freedom of expression be changed in the light of European countries' changing social make-up?
Does military involvement overseas make matters worse?
Or does not intervening simply lead to the mass migration of refugees seeking safety within Europe's borders?
The European Union countries are facing a profound crisis.
The Middle East - just a short distance away across the Mediterranean - is no longer a collection of foreign countries linked to a barely remembered colonial past.
The Middle East should perhaps rightly be described as Europe's "near-abroad".


An Australian vessel has arrived in East Antarctica in a renewed bid to free a scientific mission ship trapped in dense pack ice since Tuesday.

But bad weather is hampering efforts to reach the Russian Akademic Shokalskiy, says the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
Earlier rescue attempts by Chinese and French icebreakers were foiled by the thick ice.
Seventy-four scientists, tourists and crew are on the Shokalskiy.
The vessel is being used by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition to follow the route explorer Douglas Mawson travelled a century ago.
The Shokalskiy remains well stocked with food and is in no danger, according to the team.
Despite being trapped, the scientists have continued their experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice.
AMSA which is coordinating the rescue, said the Aurora Australis was having trouble reaching the Shokalskiy because of "poor visibility".
"The Aurora Australis is travelling slowly due to the conditions to ensure the safety of all on board," the agency said in a statement on Sunday night.
Expedition member Chris Turney earlier posted a video message online saying winds had picked up and it was snowing again.
The powerful Australian icebreaker can cut ice up to 1.6m (5.2ft) thick, but it is uncertain whether it will be able to plough through the estimated 3m wall surrounding the Shokalskiy.
If this latest relief operation fails, passengers could be winched to safety by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker, which had to abort its rescue mission on Saturday.
The Snow Dragon came within seven nautical miles (11 km) of the Russian ship before stalling and being forced to return to the open sea.
The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker, who is part of the expedition, said the helicopter flew around the Shokalskiy on Sunday to see if the Snow Dragon could launch another attempt to break through the ice.
A change in wind direction and slightly warmer temperatures had caused the ice to crack and form pools of water.
But our correspondent warned that Antarctica's extremely unstable weather made predictions very difficult.
The Shokalskiy was trapped on Christmas Day by thick sheets of ice, driven by strong winds, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart - the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania.
Science volunteer Sean Borkovic earlier told the BBC: "I'll always remember this, that's for sure. It's brilliant. We've got some lovely light and the weather's pretty mild considering. The ship looks solid. I think we'll be good."
A visit from Secret Santa and a sumptuous Christmas dinner contributed to the mood of optimism.
The goal of the modern-day Australasian Antarctic Expedition is to repeat many of the original measurements and studies of the Mawson expedition to see how facets of the environment have changed over the past century.


Fylde Ladies have retired the number 19 shirt worn by England Under-19 player Zoe Tynan, who died on Tuesday aged 18.

The former Everton and Manchester City midfielder died after being hit by a train at West Allerton station in Merseyside. The death is not being treated as suspicious.
To honour Tynan, a minute's applause is also being held at Women's Super League and Women's Premier League matches.
The Football Association said it was "deeply saddened" by the death.
WPL Northern Division side Fylde said on Twitter that they were retiring Tynan's shirt in her "loving memory".
"We want to remember Zoe in the best possible way: a hugely talented player and an immensely likable character," Fylde manager Luke Swindlehurst said.
Tynan played for England at various youth levels and was recently included in the under-19 squad for a training camp at St George's Park.


The number of people falling ill with the vomiting bug norovirus in England this winter is at higher than average levels, figures suggest.

Lab testing has revealed there have been 1,704 cases so far - 9% higher than the average seen at this stage in the previous five winters.
This will be a fraction of the total number because it only captures people seeking NHS help.
In hospitals, there have been 100 outbreaks of the bug.
These outbreaks cause hospitals to close down beds and whole wards at what is the busiest time of the year.
According to latest figures, over 850 beds are closed because of norovirus out of a total of 100,000.
But Public Health England warned people not to be alarmed, saying the levels being seen were still within an expected range and it may just be a sign that norovirus is peaking earlier this year than previous ones.
Nick Phin, of PHE, said continued outbreaks should be expected.
"Norovirus is a common cause of illness during winter.
"Exactly when the peak in activity occurs will be different each winter, but levels seen so far this year are not unexpected compared with the previous five years."
Meanwhile, NHS England has released it first winter statistics of the year.
The figures, which cover the first four days of December, showed eight hospitals declared a major alert - or what used to be known as red and black alerts.
This happens when hospitals have bed shortages, ambulances queuing outside and patients waiting longer inside A&E.
To cope, hospitals have to start calling in extra staff, cancelling routine treatments, such as knee and hip operations, and diverting ambulances away from their hospital.
The ultimate step is a full closure of A&E, although none of them took this step.
It comes after the BBC revealed this week the number of so-called "trolley waits" - the long delays patients experience waiting for a bed after emergency admission - had risen five-fold over the past five years.
Currently more than one in 10 patients face a wait of over four hours.
John Abercrombie, of the Royal College of Surgeons, said it looked like it would be a "bleak winter" for the health service.


Historic tram and trolley bus sheds could become a new cultural centre for the Welsh capital.

The Grade II listed buildings in the Grangetown area of Cardiff were put on the market 18 months ago.
The council has confirmed its received offers for the Victorian buildings, and is looking for a "viable and sustainable solution" for the site.
Local politicians say arts and culture must play a part in any new development.
A deadline for interest parties has now ended and the council has confirmed bids have been received.
A spokesman said the council was now looking to "see the building fully refurbished in line with its listed status, including potential community uses".
It is understood one of the bids involves a mix of business and living space.
The building at Pendyris Street, which is on the edge of Grangetown, is across the river from a new enterprise zone which is seen as key to the city centre's regeneration.
Conditions of the sale for business use have been to include a community room, with hopes also of potentially developing arts and dance studios, an auditorium or cinema, alongside small businesses and work units.
The building was formerly earmarked as a contemporary art gallery as part of the city's failed European City of Culture bid more than a decade ago.
Over the last year, pop-up photographic exhibitions have been held as part of a city-wide festival, as well as a dance and animation event to showcase the building's potential.
The depot was used to house trams, which ran in the area from the early 1880s, and then trolley buses until they stopped running 60 years ago.
The building had been used for repairing council vehicles over recent years but its redbrick facade with arches is listed.
David Drake, director of Ffotogallery - which is looking for a new Cardiff home - has met with universities, arts organisations and innovations group Nesta, about a partnership to develop the building.
He said it was good news a credible developer had come forward and he was keen to speak to them once negotiations with the council were complete.
"We think it's a fantastic space and we'd love to do something again there with the Diffusion festival next year," he said.
"With the BBC's plans for the front of the station, that whole area will be changing in character and it would bring the Tramsheds back towards what's going on in the city centre.
"It's also a very interesting building with a lively residential community in Grangetown and Riverside nearby and it would be fantastic to develop community and cultural provision for that area."
Local councillor Ashley Govier said he was encouraged there had been interest.
"I still want to see a cultural centre, similar to what you see at Chapter but reflecting the different cultures in this area."


Parents are being told to "get control" of their children after manhole covers were thrown from a Bristol bridge.

Five youths dropped concrete posts and manhole covers off an A4174 bridge on 6 April, the Bristol Post reported.
A dispersal order has been put in place in Longwell Green following the "dangerous and reckless" behaviour of children.
Ch Insp Mark Evans, said: "We don't want to criminalise children, but we need to take action."
Over the past six weeks the anti-social behaviour of a group of children - some as young as nine - has escalated in the Barrs Court, Longwell Green and Oldland Common areas, according to Avon and Somerset Police.
Last week, two 15-year-old boys were arrested for breaching a dispersal order.
In addition, an 18-year-old man was given a street caution and a 16-year-old boy was arrested and street bailed for possessing cannabis.
Ch Insp Evans said children are being dropped off by parents who are not "fully aware of the danger their children are putting themselves or others in".
"What we're finding now is they're stepping up their behaviour and it's becoming more reckless and is beginning to put lives in danger," he said.
"Up until now we've been using dispersal powers to move on those causing problems, but we've now reached the stage where we're making arrests with the intention of bringing offenders to justice for their actions.
"So the appeal to parents is to get control of your children."


In a packed courtroom, with Reeva Steenkamp's family hanging on every word, a judge at South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal said Oscar Pistorius was guilty of murder.

Overturning a previous conviction for culpable homicide, Justice Eric Leach told the court that when Pistorius decided to fire four shots through a closed toilet door in his home in February 2013, he gambled with a person's life.
Mr Leach, speaking on behalf of a full bench of five judges at the Bloemfontein court, painted a grim picture of how Ms Steenkamp had no escape as Pistorius fired shot after shot into the confined space.
He described Pistorius and Ms Steenkamp's life as Shakespearean - the double amputee had overcome great odds to rise to fame while she was a model with a promising career, until her life was cut tragically short on Valentine's Day.
Handing down the murder verdict, Mr Leech said Pistorius had offered "no acceptable explanation on why he fired shots through a locked toilet door". He said a reasonable person would have foreseen that his actions could kill someone.
It was a severe blow to the defence team's case, which rested on the claim that Pistorius thought he was shooting at an intruder. According to the court, the identity of who was behind the door was irrelevant in establishing liability.
Judge Thokozile Masipa, who presided over Pistorius' original trial, acquitted the former athlete of murder based on his claim that he thought Ms Steenkamp was still in bed.
But Mr Leech said that the law was clear, and Pistorius' claim of self-defence could not hold.
South Africa has strict laws over when you can legally open fire at someone. It stipulates that you first need to determine that there is a real threat to your life and that there was no other way to counter the threat other than to shoot.
For example, you are not allowed to shoot if you see an intruder climbing over your fence - because a threat to your life has not been firmly established.
In Pistorius' case there was no threat, the court ruled, because the person behind the door never made a move - the supposed intruder never so much as opened the door.
The prosecution at the appeals court was led by Gerrie Nel, a seasoned prosecutor known in court circles as "the bull terrier".
Mr Nel sought to have Pistorious' original manslaughter verdict overturned, arguing that Judge Masipa had misinterpreted the law of dolus eventualis - murder with intent.
Legal experts and reporters covering the trial joked that the "bite of the bull terrier leaves very little chance of a comeback".
So what next for Pistorius?
Jail time is unavoidable, says veteran lawyer Mannie Witz. "South African law does not make provision for someone to be placed under house arrest for more than five years, so Pistorius is definitely going back to prison.
"What needs to be established now is for how long."
Judge's key quotes
10 key moments from the trial
The appeals court has referred the case back to Judge Masipa for sentencing and she will hear evidence from both teams before reaching her decision.
The prescribed minimum sentence for murder is 15 years but Pistorius' lawyers can argue for a lesser sentenced based on time already served and his disability.
Ms Steenkamp's family, who had expressed disappointment with the culpable homicide ruling, said they were pleased their daughter's killer had been convicted of murder.
"It's a big relief. I feel it's a fair decision," her father, Barry Steenkamp, said in a brief interview on local television station ANN7, before breaking down in tears.
Despite criticising aspects of her ruling, the appeals court acknowledged Judge Masipa's role in the case, saying their decision was not an indictment on her expertise or credibility.
Mr Witz agreed: "Mistakes can happen in any court, what's important to note is that judges are not afraid to correct those mistakes.
"It's a good indication of the effectiveness of our justice system."
Many South Africans took to social media to praise the decision, with some saying justice had "finally" been served.
The ruling is expected to go a long way to showing that no-one is above the law - not even South Africa's once beloved "blade runner".


A man who died after two others were pulled from the sea off East Sussex has been identified as a 19-year-old Brazilian national.

Gustavo Silva Da Cruz was among three swimmers seen struggling in the water around noon on Sunday at Camber Sands.
He was discovered on the beach at 18:20 BST and declared dead at the scene. Police said he had been visiting family in Croydon, south London.
The others - a man and his teenage son - are critical but stable in hospital.
The pair, who are aged 35 and 17 and from London, were not connected to Mr Silva Da Cruz.
They were given CPR by paramedics and airlifted to hospital.
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A Go Fund Me website appeal has been set up to raise funds to return Mr Silva Da Cruz's body to Brazil.
It says he was in the UK to visit his father and family, who are originally from Brazil.
He was raised in Brazil by his grandparents and mother.
The website said: "The family was enjoying the hot weather in the company of friends at Camber Sands beach where Gustavo drowned.
"The young man was dragged by the strong wind which started suddenly and could not swim back to the beach."
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for lifeguards to be located at Camber Sands.
Rother District Council said it was saddened by the incident and its thoughts were with the families and friends of those affected.
It said the beach was "particularly busy with around 25,000 visitors" on Sunday.
"As is usual for the summer season, beach patrols were on site to advise people of potential dangers, reunite lost children and deal with incidents on the beach.
"The district council's coastal officer and officers from Sussex Police were also on the beach."
A spokesman said: "Our officers are trained to deal with incidents on the shore and acted quickly and professionally in what was an extremely distressing situation; performing CPR on two of the men and alerting HM Coastguard and the RNLI who carried out the search for the missing man."


Shelley Rudman has become the first British woman to win skeleton gold in the world championships, in St Moritz in Switzerland.

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Wiltshire-based Rudman claimed victory in four minutes 38.60 seconds in the fourth and final run on Friday.
American Noelle Pikus-Pace took silver, finishing 0.57 seconds behind Rudman.
Canada's Sarah Reid secured bronze, finishing 0.13 seconds ahead of Britain's Lizzy Yarnold, who had to settle for fourth.
Rudman, 31, went into the final run with a 0.82 second lead over Pikus-Pace and held off her challenge in the final run to claim gold.
The 2006 Olympic silver medallist and  had earlier admitted she only considered this season to be a development year ahead of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
A fourth-place finish in 2011 was her previous best World Championships result.
Rudman wrote on Twitter: "Wow! I'm World Champion!"
In an interview with young daughter Ella in her arms, she added: "I hope I didn't scare you too much on that run.
"It went really well yesterday so I was more relaxed today but I still didn't expect to win until I finished."
Rudman is Great Britain's second world skeleton champion after Kristan Bromley, Rudman's partner, who won gold in Altenberg in 2008.


Family and friends of murdered Jayden Parkinson have held a memorial event to her, a year after she disappeared.

The 17-year-old, who was last seen at Didcot Railway station on 3 December last year, was remembered at a gathering in the town at 19:00 GMT.
Jayden's former boyfriend Ben Blakeley, 22, from Reading, was sentenced to life for her murder, in July this year.
Blakeley was told to serve a minimum of 20 years for murdering Jayden and burying her in his uncle's grave.
Jayden's body was discovered in the grave of Alan Kennedy in the cemetery of All Saints' Church, Didcot, Oxfordshire, on 18 December.
She was believed to be pregnant with Blakeley's child, but tests have never fully confirmed this.
Blakeley's brother Jake, of Venners Water, Didcot, was accused of preventing the lawful burial of Jayden, which he denied, and his retrial is set for 19 January after jurors failed to reach a verdict.


Russia's lower house of parliament has passed a law requiring internet companies to store Russian citizens' personal data inside the country.

The Kremlin says the move is for data protection but critics fear it is aimed at muzzling social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
The Russian government is thought to be seeking greater access to user data.
Social networks were widely used by protesters opposing President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.
Analysts say there are fears that Russia may be seeking to create a closed and censored version of the internet within its borders.
The new bill must still be approved by the upper chamber and President Putin before it becomes law.
If passed, the new rules will not take effect until September 2016 but will give the government grounds to block sites that do not comply.
"The aim of this law is to create... (another) quasi-legal pretext to close Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and all other services," internet expert and blogger Anton Nossik told Reuters news agency.
"The ultimate goal is to shut mouths, enforce censorship in the country and shape a situation where internet business would not be able to exist and function properly."
But introducing the bill to parliament, MP Vadim Dengin said "most Russians don't want their data to leave Russia for the United States, where it can be hacked and given to criminals".
"Our entire lives are stored over there," he said, adding that companies should build data centres within Russia.


Charlotte Hogg, a newly appointed Bank of England deputy governor, must take steps to avoid conflicts of interest, say MPs.

Ms Hogg, who became deputy governor for markets and banking in February, sits on three powerful Bank committees.
One of them, the Prudential Regulation Committee (PRC), oversees UK banks.
On Tuesday MPs on the Treasury select committee questioned her about her brother, who works for Barclays as a director in group strategy.
Treasury committee chairman Andrew Tyrie said: "The committee recognise the value that Ms Hogg will bring... from her operational experience in the financial services sector... She will need to put in place arrangements to address conflicts of interest or the appearance of such conflicts."
Ms Hogg will also sit on the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which takes interest rate decisions, and the Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
She told MPs: "I haven't sat on the PRC yet. I think it's certainly a possibility that I could recuse myself."
The Bank of England declined to comment.
The BBC understands the Bank already has policies in place for employees to avoid conflicts of interest.
Employees must declare personal relationships, sign up to a code of practice, and recuse themselves from decisions where there is a conflict.


The Ulster University (UU) has warned a cut of almost £1m to funding for training specialist nurses will cause serious consequences for health care.

Part of the role of its School of Nursing is to train already qualified nurses to be health visitors, community or district nurses.
The Department of Health cut represents a reduction of almost 60% in its funds.
A department spokesperson said the current financial climate meant "taking very difficult decisions".
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Charities, nurses, doctors and health unions are furious. Furious not just at the impact the cuts will have, but also the harsh way the news was delivered.
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However, the head of Life and Health Sciences at the university said the cut would mean "severe implications" on health care.
Professor Carol Curran told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster that it will be "very difficult to manage a cut of that magnitude without any prior notice or warning".
She said news of the cut "dropped on our desk this week".
Janice Smyth, the Northern Ireland director at the Royal College of Nursing, said the decision was "hugely disappointing" and that there had been no consultation or engagement from the department.
Mrs Smyth said representatives needed to get "round a table" with the department and ask them if they "understand the implications of the decisions".
According to UU figures seen by the BBC, the funding cut will have a dramatic impact on the number of nurses it can train.
For instance, instead of training 63 health visitors this year, the university will only train 20.
The number of district nurses they educate will be cut in half.
The university is writing to the department to warn them that the cut will cause serious consequences for nursing provision.
Prof Curran said the decision was "counter-intuitive to the direction of travel" recommended for health care in Northern Ireland and that 43 GP practices that were expecting to get a health visitor will now not receive one.
"One million is a lot which is why we're endeavouring to meet with the department as a matter of urgency to see if there's anything we can do to mitigate this.
"We hope we're able to rescue this plan and the department will reconsider some of the allocation of its money."
She added that the current lack of a Stormont executive, and health minister, made things more difficult and that "no doubt the decision might have been different if a minister was in place".
In a statement, the Department of Health said: "The current financial climate has necessitated taking very difficult decisions to balance the very many demands and considerations of the wider health and social care system within the constraints of the financial resource available."
It said the available budget for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional education and training for 17/18 had "been prioritised to fund areas of clinical practice that are strategically important and which minimise impact on direct care".


Sentences imposed on a couple who kept a disabled woman as a sex-slave will not be appealed for being unduly lenient, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said.

Keith and Caroline Baker pleaded guilty to a raft of charges, including rape.
The couple subjected the woman, who had severe learning difficulties, to horrific sexual abuse while holding her as a virtual prisoner.
Police rescued her from the house in Craigavon, County Armagh, in 2012.
In April, Keith Baker was jailed for 15 years, with a further five years to be served on license.
His wife, Caroline Baker, was given the much lighter sentence of three years, 18 months of which was to be spent in jail with the remainder to be served on license.
The judge said this was because he considered her "a pawn" used by the "Svengali figure" of Keith Baker.
At the time, the PPS said it was going to look at the sentences to consider if they were "unduly lenient".
On Thursday, a PPS spokesperson said no legal basis had been found to refer them to the Court of Appeal.
Keith and Caroline Baker kept their victim in a squalid room without carpet, a light bulb, bedclothes or curtains, for eight years.
The woman was emaciated and had only a single tooth left in her mouth when she was rescued from the house in Craigavon, County Armagh, in 2012.
She weighed just six stone (38kg) when she was found.
The only toilet she had access to was overflowing with human waste.
The couple had taken the woman from her home in England in 2004; she was reported missing by her husband.
She was found by police in Northern Ireland after another woman, Mandy Highfield, contacted officers.
Ms Highfield had also lived with Keith Baker and was the mother of four of his children.
When detectives searched the house they found videos of the Bakers abusing their victim.
The images showed how she had deteriorated from being relatively healthy to malnourished over the years she was held inside the house.


The owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, has told a court that claims he betrayed a Russian business rival are "wholly without merit".

Mr Abramovich is being sued for billions of pounds by exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky at the Commercial Court in London.
Mr Berezovsky, 65, claims Mr Abramovich "intimidated" him into selling shares for a fraction of their true worth.
Mr Abramovich, 45, denies alleged breaches of trust and contract.
Before he gave evidence, the court heard a written statement, which was given to the judge Mrs Justice Gloster.
In it, Mr Abramovich said he owed Mr Berezovsky nothing.
He said: "I would respectfully hope that it will be apparent to this court that Mr Berezovsky's claims are wholly without merit.
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Roman Abramovich faced a pack of photographers as he arrived for his day in the spotlight at the High Court.
Inside, the buzz of Russian accents could be heard as journalists scrambled for seats close to where the intensely private billionaire would take the stand.
The owner of Chelsea football club, who rarely speaks in public, looked relaxed when he arrived, watched by several minders.
Dressed in a navy suit and Chelsea-blue tie, Abramovich donned a pair of headphones in order to hear his translator.
Giving evidence in Russian, he was sparing with his softly spoken words as he responded to questioning from Lawrence Rabinowitz QC.
Despite the translator, Abramovich frequently said he did not understand what point the lawyer was trying to make or what he wanted him to say.
"Just give us a straight answer," Mr Rabinowitz asked in one combative exchange, as he asked the Russian to run through his background, and business partners.
"Mr Berezovsky has already obtained a very substantial sum of money from me, and I do not believe that he has any entitlement to be paid anything more, whether in law or honour."
The football club owner also gave evidence in the witness box, speaking in Russian and having his words translated into English. He was watched from across rows of lawyers by his opponent, Mr Berezovsky, who is hoping to win Â£3bn in damages for breach of contract.
He said he had served in the army and studied law after leaving school at 16, beginning his business career by selling plastic toys.
The BBC's Sarah Bell said that there was laughter in court when Mr Abramovich was pressed on whether one of his partners was, in his opinion, rich.
"It's hard for me to say whether someone is a wealthy person or not a wealthy person," he said.
He is expected to continue to be in the witness box for several days.
Mr Berezovsky alleges that billionaire Mr Abramovich "betrayed" him and intimidated him into selling shares in Russian oil company Sibneft for a "mere $1.3bn" (Â£800m).
He says this happened after he left Russia in 2000 following a falling-out with the then President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Abramovich denies the allegations and denies that Mr Berezovsky is entitled to damages.
He says Mr Berezovsky was paid millions of pounds for his services as a "political godfather" but was not a business partner.
The hearing, which is set to last two months, continues.


Moray councillors need to act decisively to cut spending by more than £16m in the next two years, according to a public spending watchdog.

The Accounts Commission said the council faced "significant financial challenges".
It added that "demonstrable leadership" was needed from councillors.
The council leader said he could not see a "realistic" way of balancing the books without a "substantial" reduction in services.
Councillor Stewart Cree said he accepted that difficult decisions would have to be made.
He added: "All councillors, of whatever political hue, will have to take a pragmatic view and recognise this reality in the budget setting process."
Moray Council, which is run by an independent/Conservative administration, has been criticised by the commission for its lack of a clear vision, direction and political and corporate leadership in reports since 2006.
It said that although progress had been made since previous reports, it had to be seen "in the context of a relatively low starting point."
The commission said the council had to act "decisively in making the difficult decisions required", but noted that it was "moving in the right direction".
However, the "pace of improvement needs to increase significantly" in order to reduce its spending by over £16m by March 2018, it said.
Douglas Sinclair, chairman of the Accounts Commission, said: "Councillors have the responsibility to make savings in the best interests of the people they represent whilst also ensuring they balance their budget."


Criminals could be tracked down by the way they walk, a study has claimed.

Tests by Southampton University found people's walking patterns - their gait - are so different they could be used to identify individuals.
Researchers used a multi-biometric tunnel with 12 synchronised cameras to capture and translate 25 subjects' gaits to build unique 3D images.
It is hoped the technique could be used for a variety of purposes, including security monitoring at airports.
'Extreme clothing changes'
Darko Matovski, who led the investigation, said: "We have shown for the first time that gait can be used as a reliable biometric trait over time."
The team believes the technique could be used in airport immigration halls where "a simple corridor with cameras" would be enough to identify large flows of people.
Mr Matovski, from the university's school of electronics and computer science, added: "A bank robber may wear a mask so you can't see his face, wear gloves so you can't get fingerprints, wear a hat so you can't get DNA evidence - but he still has to walk into the bank and you can identify him from the walk."
With almost 2,000 walking sequences recorded in a database, Mr Matovski claims a 95% success rate.
Gait can also be measured at a distance - an advantage over other forms of biometric identification.
However researchers found that "extreme changes" in clothing can affect recognition levels.


Hare Krishna monks have finally moved into their new home after an explosion that destroyed their former temple six years ago.

Thirty people escaped just before the Iskcon Temple in Leicester exploded on 3 September 2010.
A Leicester family donated a former bank in Granby Street to Iskcon, and renovation work to the Grade II building has now been completed.
The monks are taking residency on the upper floors.
The space also includes a meditation area, kitchen, classrooms and offices.
Temple president Pradyumna Dasa said: "We're very happy to have reached this milestone in the special year of Iskcon's 50th anniversary.
"Since the gas blast in 2010, this journey has been a miracle to a dream.
"We are indebted to everyone who has supported the development of this project."
The explosion was caused by a leaking gas cylinder that had been used for cooking.
Firefighter Bill Smith said it was "a miracle" no-one was killed.
"The person who disconnected the cylinder realised the danger of the gas leaking. He ran out and got everybody to run over to the other side of the road," the fire fighter said at the time.
"Within 30 seconds there was a large explosion. He has no doubt saved the lives of many people with his actions."
The Iskcon community has met at various community centres and halls around the city since the explosion.
The new building on Granby Street was acquired in 2014, and the community has been meeting in the main hall there but without heating or kitchen facilities.


Cambridge earned their biggest ever win in the Football League with a 7-0 victory over Morecambe in League Two.

Luke Berry's penalty opened the scoring after Aaron McGowan brought down Harrison Dunk inside the box.
Dunk doubled the lead with a deflected shot and then headed in his second, before goals from Ben Williamson and Mark Roberts made it 5-0 at the break.
Zeli Ismail fired in the sixth from 18 yards, and Berry finished the scoring from the penalty spot in injury-time.
The result lifts the U's to ninth in the table, five points outside the play-off spots, while Morecambe fall to 20th.
Cambridge's previous biggest win in the Football League was 6-0, a scoreline they managed against Darlington in 1971 and also against Hartlepool in 1989.
Forty-six Morecambe fans, some of whom made a 462-mile round trip from Lancashire to see their team in action, saw their side suffer their heaviest league defeat since being promoted to the Football League in 2007.
But there was some comfort for Shrimps fans, with their hosts giving them all a free food and drink voucher "as a thank you for (their) superb effort in travelling so far to support (their) team".
Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire:
"It's a fantastic night. I wasn't imagining that was going to happen. It's really difficult when you've had such frustration on Saturday (0-0 at home to Carlisle), to bounce back in the way we did was a credit to the boys.
"I've been on the end of a 6-0 and it's tough. I'm sure (Morecambe manager) Jim (Bentley) will respond because he's a good man and good manager, but obviously I'm really proud of the boys.
"Everything came right tonight. I felt all of the boys that pulled on the shirt played to their full maximum. That's not going to happen every week, but on our night, we looked like a really good team."


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A speeding motorcyclist pulled a wheelie moments before hitting and killing a pensioner, a court has heard.

Luke Stella, 25, is accused of killing Francis Abbot, 71, who was walking home from a supermarket at the time.
St Albans Crown Court was told the "bike came from nowhere" as Mr Abbot crossed a 30mph (48kph)-limit road in Potters Bar.
Mr Stella denies causing death by dangerous driving and a charge of causing death by careless driving.
Prosecutor Peter Shaw told the court Mr Abbot was crossing Mutton Lane when he was hit by Mr Stella's bike.
"Mr Abbot emerged from behind a white van, but the crown say he (Mr Stella) was, in all probability, speeding and not paying sufficient attention to avoid Mr Abbot," he said.
"One witness said the motorbike overtook and was travelling very fast - faster than 30 miles per hour.
"The motorbike moved at speed and the front wheel lifted off the road, performing a wheelie."
The jury was told Mr Abbot died in hospital after being struck on 14 April 2014.
Mr Stella, of Park Street Lane, Park Street, St Albans, suffered a broken leg.
The defendant told police he had no recollection of events before the collision, but denied he would have performed a wheelie as it was not his riding style.
The trial continues.


London Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands is to replace James Angus as the editor of BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme.

Sands will be the second woman to take the helm of the news and current affairs show since it began in 1957.
Dame Jenny Abramsky was the first when she was appointed in 1986. She went on to become head of BBC radio.
Sands said: "I've felt very close to the Today programme for more than 40 years: every listener does.
"It is an honour to join the team whose journalism makes such a contribution to British life."
BBC head of news, James Harding, said he was "delighted" with Sands's appointment: "She will bring her familiar verve and her broad range of interests."
Gwyneth Williams, controller of Radio 4, said: "I want to welcome Sarah to Radio 4. She brings long experience of leadership in journalism and will add a fresh, creative approach to the biggest hitting news programme of them all."
And Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev said: "Sarah will leave with our very best wishes for her new role."
Sands was editor of the Evening Standard for five years. Prior to that, she was the editor of The Sunday Telegraph.
Angus was appointed deputy director of the BBC's World Service group last year.
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Astronomers in the US have uncovered previously unknown objects in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

They include an icy body with an orbit that takes it so far from the Sun that it is probably influenced by the gravity of other stars.
The discoveries were found during an effort to locate a possible ninth planet, whose presence has been inferred indirectly.
The study is set to be published by The Astronomical Journal.
Co-authors Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo have submitted the details of their discoveries to the Minor Planet Center, which catalogues such objects, along with asteroids and comets.
Their search was carried out using several observatories around the world, including the the four-metre Blanco telescope in Chile and the eight-metre Subaru telescope in Hawaii.
One of the new objects, known for now as 2014 FE72, is the first distant Oort Cloud object found with an orbit entirely beyond Neptune.
Its orbit takes it some 3,000 times further than the Earth is from the Sun.
The Oort Cloud is the large shell of objects that occupies the outermost region of the Solar System.
Dr Sheppard, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington and Dr Trujillo, from Northern Arizona University, have been analysing how the new planet-like bodies fit into larger theories about a ninth planet lurking in the Solar System's furthest reaches.
The evidence for this planet has largely been deduced by peculiarities of distant Solar System objects.
One of the new celestial bodies, 2013 FT28, shares characteristics of its orbit in common with the bodies whose positions and movements lent support to the planet nine idea - but it also shows some differences.
Based on analysis of other small bodies in the outer Solar System, astronomers have proposed that - if it exists - the ninth planet is several times more massive than Earth and is at least 200 times further than the distance between the Sun and Earth.
The new work should help constrain the location of this proposed ninth planet.
"The smaller objects can lead us to the much bigger planet we think exists out there," said Dr Sheppard.
"The more we discover, the better we will be able to understand what is going on in the outer Solar System."
Pluto, discovered in 1930, was previously known as the ninth planet. But its planetary status was removed in 2006, following the discovery of an object of comparable size in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies just beyond Neptune.


Some bus services in mid Wales facing the axe because the firm which runs them went into administration could be maintained, a council has said.

Ceredigion-based Lewis Coaches, which runs buses from Aberystwyth to Cardiff via Carmarthen, is to shut on Friday.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport Cymru said 40 jobs were at risk.
Ceredigion council said it was working to continue some services.
The authority said plans were already in place to see the on-demand Bwcabus service and the 588 and 585 routes from Aberystwyth University to Lampeter taken over by other firms by Saturday.
But the council said it understood the 701 Aberystwyth - Carmarthen - Cardiff service would end on Friday and it did not know if another operator would take it on.
Lewis Coaches is the third bus company in Wales to collapse in the past two months, with 300 jobs lost when Wrexham-based GHA Coaches went into administration in July and Pembrokeshire firm Silcox Coaches, ceasing trading after 134 years in June.


(Close): The London market recovered from early losses, which had been triggered by a slide in oil companies after crude prices plunged.

After falling 1% at the start of trade, the FTSE 100 closed 9.77 points, or 0.15%, higher at 6,353.52.
Oil company shares were initially among the biggest fallers after oil producers failed to agree an output freeze at their weekend meeting in Qatar, but clawed back most of their losses.
BP dropped 0.04% and Shell fell 0.7%.
The price of Brent crude fell by 7% at one point in reaction to the news from Qatar before recovering slightly.
The meeting in Qatar was attended by most members of oil producers' group Opec, including Saudi Arabia, but not Iran.
After hours of talks, Qatar's energy minister Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said the producers needed "more time".
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest exporter, had been prepared to freeze output if all Opec members had agreed.
But Iran is continuing to increase output following the lifting of sanctions against it.
Other firms to suffer from the slide in oil prices included British Gas owner Centrica, which dropped 1.6%.
Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG, said that following the lack of agreement in Qatar, "anxiety, instability and unpredictability within the commodities market will dominate the state of play across the majority of financial markets".
Travel-related shares were boosted after Berenberg upgraded Tui Travel to "buy" from "hold". Shares in Tui rose 2.3%, and elsewhere in the travel sector Easyjet climbed 0.7% and Intercontinental Hotels closed 1.4% higher.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.5% against the dollar to $1.42680, and ticked up 0.1% against the euro to €1.26090.


The number of domestic abusers electronically tagged after being convicted has more than doubled in the past five years, figures show.

A total off 110 people were sentenced to a restriction of liberty order in 2014-15, compared to 44 in 2010-11.
The Scottish government said the increase could reflect a greater emphasis on tackling the problem from police and prosecutors.
The Conservatives said it should not be an alternative to jail for abusers.
The party's justice spokesman Douglas Ross, who requested the data from the Scottish Parliament, said: "Domestic abuse is a horrendous crime and the punishment handed down by the courts must protect both victims and the public."
He added: "Electronic tagging is certainly a useful tool in the box in this regard, but we need to avoid a situation where it is being used as a means to reduce the prison population when even a short custodial sentence might be more appropriate.
"The Scottish government also needs an integrated approach to domestic abuse offenders which focuses on public protection on the one hand, and rehabilitation on the other."
The Scottish government said an extra Â£20m was being invested over three years in addition to Â£11.8m annual funding to tackle violence against women, including domestic abuse.
A spokesman said: "This has already boosted resources to courts and crown to reduce court waiting times for domestic abuse cases while we have also extended measures to support vulnerable witnesses, such as giving evidence via video link, with automatic access to such support for alleged victims of domestic abuse.
"Evidence indicates that community sentences, including electronic monitoring, are more effective at reducing reoffending than short prison sentences, part of the reason why Scotland currently has the lowest reconviction rate in 16 years.
"Clearly, we are listening to the views of family members affected by people who are tagged as we consider how to take forward electronic monitoring in Scotland."


A march has taken place to remember a boy who died after paramedics were allegedly denied permission to take him to his local hospital.

Callum Cartlidge, eight, suffered a cardiac arrest at home after developing suspected sepsis.
Paramedics were allegedly told to take him 18 miles (29km) to Worcestershire Hospital and not nearby Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
An investigation into Callum's death is ongoing.
Neal Stote, from Our NHS Worcestershire, a campaign group which is trying to save services at the Alexandra, said around 500 people had turned out for the march through the centre of Redditch.
"We have spent years fighting these service cuts," he said.
"Having warned of the potential dangers and then seen our worst fears realised so quickly has been a terrible eye-opener for the town."
He said Callum's family had worn Chelsea shirts in honour of their son's football allegiance.
"We are a town in loss," he said. "We are marching to highlight the loss of Callum and the loss of our services."
Callum, from Redditch, had seen a GP on 28 February and was diagnosed with tonsillitis and a tummy upset and given antibiotics.
His mother Stacey said her son got worse and on 2 March a GP sent him to Worcestershire hospital.
He was discharged at 23:00 BST and she was told to give him Calpol. He collapsed the next day and later died.
Sources claim paramedics wanted to take him to Redditch but were told they could not as it had stopped admitting children to A&E in September.
Three members of staff performed life support throughout the 23-minute journey to the hospital.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said it was investigating the case.
The trust, which has been in special measures since 2015, has been downgrading services at the hospital, with maternity and paediatrics having relocated to Worcester.
NHS England has said offering specialised services in a more centralised way nationally is "the best hope of improving patient care".


Guernsey's hockey team caused an upset in their first-ever match in the EH Cup as they defeated Sevenoaks 4-3 in the opening round of the competition.

Steve Waldrom, Sam Dawes and Morgan Harries put Guernsey in front on three occasions before Waldrom scored a spectacular winner in the second half.
Sevenoaks play in the second tier of English league hockey, while Guernsey only play in cup competitions.
"I feel brilliant, it was a terrific day," said Guernsey coach Andy Whalley.
"Sevenoaks are a really class outfit, one of the top national league teams, and we just put in a brilliant performance.
"The guys worked unbelievably hard, four times we led the game and finally to win it at the end was terrific and incredibly well deserved."
Guernsey reached the final of the second-tier EH Trophy in each of the last five seasons, winning the title in two of the past three years, but this was their first foray into the top-level event.
"We gave ourselves a one-in-five chance, Sevenoaks are right at the top of their game, they're three games into their national league season already, they're joint top of their league on nine points," added Whalley.
"Their pedigree is incredible, they're a Premier League indoor team as well, so their strength in depth is incredible
"I didn't expect the game to to and fro like it did. Each time we went up they drew level and the guys showed incredible character to just keep pushing and believing in what we do."


Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero's future has "never been in doubt", chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says.

The Argentine, 28, lost his place in February to Gabriel Jesus, leading to speculation he might leave this summer.
"I've read a lot of the speculation on this and it's ridiculous," Al Mubarak said. "He is one of the best players in the world. He is an absolute must."
Aguero scored 33 goals in 45 games this season and is contracted until 2020. He said in March he did not want to leave.
In a wide-ranging interview, Al Mubarak also told the City website:
BBC Sport's Simon Stone:
Al Mubarak could not be any more firm in his comments about Aguero. Yet, there is an obvious truth that has to be taken into account.
City already have Gabriel Jesus who can play centrally. In addition, they have Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling and new signing Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne who can play wide. In addition, while rumours about trying to sign Alexis Sanchez remain just that, Pep Guardiola clearly likes the Chilean.
So, if Sanchez did come, and Aguero. did stay, Guardiola would have his work cut out trying to keep everyone happy.
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Manager Pep Guardiola's debut season ended with Manchester City finishing third in the Premier League and sealing a place in next season's Champions League.
But the 46-year-old, who succeeded Manuel Pellegrini last summer after success-packed spells at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, could not help his side challenge for the title and they faced a tense battle to even finish in the top four.
Despite ending the season without a trophy, chairman Al Mubarak said their season was "not a disappointment".
"We are team now that expects to win every year at least one trophy and go further every year in the Champions League," he said.
"But, if you look at it from a different lens, we are truly going in a direction that is positive.
"Pep has introduced a new way of playing for us, an exciting way but a way that requires work and which requires a set of players that I think function within that system.
"Probably, if I look back at this season that puzzle wasn't complete and I hope this summer we support Pep in completing that puzzle."
Man City have already announced the signing of Portugal attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva from French champions Monaco, and are close to adding Benfica goalkeeper Ederson Moraes to their ranks.
Goalkeeper Joe Hart has confirmed he will be returning to Manchester City from his season-long loan at Torino, but is expected to leave City for good this summer.
Goalkeeper Willy Caballero, winger Jesus Navas and full-backs Gael Clichy and Bacary Sagna are also all departing the Manchester club.
And chairman Al Mubarak said there are clearly positions that they need to fill in the summer transfer window.
"You can see the players that are exiting right now, and that will give a clear indication of the positions that are a high priority for us to fill - full-backs both on the right and the left," he said.
"Pep relies heavily on that position and we know exactly what Pep wants.
"You should expect us to bring in a goalkeeper. We've done a lot of work on this area and our target has been set. Hopefully you'll be hearing soon what we're going to be doing in that area."
Pablo Zabaleta: "For me, he represents the essence of Manchester city - a fighter. He is someone special and if we can have 25 Pablos in our squad we would win it all. I think he still plans on playing for a couple of years - but once he hangs his boots up he will come back in some capacity."
David Silva: "He is one of the most talented players in the world and it truly baffles me. How he could be so underrated in the UK is an enigma to me. He is well respected everywhere in the world but somehow always misses out on the big awards in the UK. It's ridiculous frankly."
Yaya Toure: "He has shown us this year again and again how he can contribute to this team. Pep, as you have seen obviously this year, has a lot of trust and confidence in him. So I hope Yaya will be with us and continue his journey with us."
Leroy Sane: "He's the right age, the right talent, one of the most exciting prospects in Europe, and he's shown that on the pitch this year."
John Stones: "He is going to be one of the best central defenders in the world, I have no doubt about that. A top, top player."
Gabriel Jesus: "He is 19, one of the top future talents in the world."
Vincent Kompany: "I am absolutely delighted the way he ended the season. It's been an extremely difficult journey for him. It's not been easy watching the rest of the team play and having to deal with some of the injuries he's had. But he's dealt with it."


The co-founder of one of Lincolnshire's leading museums has died.

Fred Panton, along with his brother Harold, set up the East Kirkby Aviation Heritage Centre as a tribute to their brother who was killed World War II.
His family said Fred, 82, passed away suddenly on Sunday and had been working up until the end of his life.
The centre has been trying to restore its Lancaster bomber to airworthy condition to make it one of only three still capable of flying.
Fred and Harold spent more than 25 years establishing the centre near Spilsby as a living memorial to their brother Chris who was killed on a bombing raid.
Just Jane, the Lancaster which forms its centrepiece, was bought after it was spotted for sale in a newspaper.
A renewed appeal to get it flying was launched last year and during last month's commemorations for the Dambusters raid, Fred had said he hoped to see Just Jane in the air by the end of the year.
In a statement his family said: "Very few people have shown the drive and determination in life that Fred has to achieve his aims in creating a memorial to his brother, Chris, and remembering Bomber Command.
"As a family we are incredibly proud of what he has done and we will make it our lives work to continue his."


British astronaut Tim Peake is scheduled to step out in space from his base on board the International Space Station.

15 January 2016 Last updated at 12:46 GMT
Major Peake and his colleague, Tim Kopra, will try to repair a power unit on the outside of the station.
Spacewalks are a routine part of life on board the ISS. They are usually carried out to complete repairs or gather material for experiments.
Tim launched in to space in December to board the station which is 400km (248 miles) above the earth.


A child rapist who was convicted after his victim heard a safeguarding talk at her school has been jailed.

Matthew Salmon, 29, of St Ann's, Nottingham, was found guilty of multiple child sex offences at Nottingham Crown Court in December.
The girl, then aged 10, came forward after the NSPCC visited her Derbyshire school as part of its Speak out Stay safe service.
Salmon was sentenced to 15 years with a further year on licence.
The court heard how Salmon carried out multiple sexual assaults on the girl, ranging from kissing to rape over a two-year period.
He was found guilty of nine charges, including three counts of rape and two of sexual assault.
Judge Gregory Dickinson QC said the girl had suffered the "full spectrum of sexual abuse" and, given her age, "she clearly had no idea how serious it was".
Det Con Sue Hough, of Derbyshire Police, said: "Hopefully this will go some way to providing closure for the family and allow them to move on.
"It has been the most horrific catalogue of sexual abuse I've ever had to investigate on a child."
The NSPCC's Speak out Stay safe campaign involves volunteers visiting schools to speak to children aged four to 11 about how to protect themselves from abuse and how to report it.
Since the service started in 2011, it has reached more than one million children at 15,000 schools across the UK.