For the first time, China's capital has declared a smog "red alert" for three days from Tuesday.

Schools will be closed, outdoor construction stopped and severe restrictions placed on drivers.
Last week, photographers from the AFP agency and Getty Images took to the streets of Beijing to illustrate the difference smog makes.
The contrasting images below were taken a day or two apart, after the smog cleared.


A service of remembrance for 116 British soldiers who died in the 1916 Easter Rising has been held in the County Down village of Greyabbey.

The commemoration was organised by the Royal British Legion.
It took place on the same day that the centenary of the Irish rebellion was marked with ceremonies in Dublin, Belfast and other towns and cities.
After a parade in Greyabbey, a wreath was laid on the grave of Sandy McClelland, of the Royal Irish Rifles.
The rifleman was a teenager when he was killed in Dublin on 27 April. 1916.
"Sandy McClelland thought he was on his way to the Western Front to join his brother with the Royal Irish Rifles," said event organiser Ronnie Ferguson.
"As an 18-year-old, he ended up in Dublin fighting against his own people, as it were, and he died on the streets of what was a British city at the time.
"After all, Dublin was always known as the second city of the empire, so I'm sure he was gutted when he was sent to Dublin, to actually have to stand against his fellow people from the same island."
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Mr Ferguson said he believed that the British casualties had not been given the recognition they deserved.
"I'm sorry to say that even this weekend we have heard very, very little about those soldiers who were killed and indeed those policemen who were killed as well."
Among those in attendance at the Greyabbey commemoration was the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt.
"Unionism cannot ignore the Easter Rising, it was such a seismic event for everybody on this island and the reverberations are still felt today," he said.
The UUP leader added that the causes and the consequences of the 1916 rebellion should be critically examined by current generations.
Senior unionist politicians were invited to the Irish government's official commemorations in Dublin on Sunday but they declined to attend.
"From what I've seen of what has happened in Dublin today, I think they have made a huge effort to be inclusive - and very different from the 50th anniversary of the Easter rebellion, and that is to be welcomed," Mr Nesbitt said.


A "vulnerable" teenager remains missing more than a week after climbing out of a window at her grandmother's home in south-east London.

Kaylie Hatton, 16, left the Sidcup address in Bexley on 16 May. She is believed to be in the company of 51-year-old Fred Finch from Eltham.
Scotland Yard said the teenager went missing in the early hours after arguing with her grandmother.
The Met said they had classed them as "high-risk missing persons".
Kaylie and Mr Finch were last seen travelling on a 96 bus in the Welling/Crayford area.
Det Sgt Graham Scott said: "We have had some unconfirmed sightings over the past week and we think they might be using swimming pools and leisure centres to grab a shower.
"The last proof of life we have got is Sunday night between 4pm and 8pm at a friend's address."
Det Sgt Scott said Kaylie had long blonde hair that may have been dyed dark.
She was last seen wearing a white top with a gold chain around the collar, black leggings and tan Timberland boots.
Mr Finch is described as white with short dark hair. He was last seen wearing a baseball cap, a black jacket, black jeans and black Nike trainers.


Championship side Reading have signed centre-back Liam Moore from Leicester City on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee.

England Under-21 international Moore has been a long-term target for the Royals and played against the club last season while on loan at Bristol City.
The 23-year-old failed to feature for Leicester during their Premier League title-winning season.
Moore is Reading's 10th signing of the summer transfer window.
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The gap between rich and poor widened more in the three years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years, the OECD group of industrialised nations has said.

It says the richest 10% of society in the 33 OECD countries received 9.5 times that of the poorest in terms of income, up from nine times in 2007.
Those with the biggest gaps included the US, Turkey, Mexico and Chile.
The OECD says that if governments do not stop cutting back on welfare support this gap will grow wider.
The Paris-based group is generally in favour of free-market policies, but has recently become more vocal in support of more generous social provision to soften the impact of the economic downturn of the past few years.
Many countries, particularly within the eurozone, have been cutting back hard on welfare spending in an attempt to reduce debt and balance government books as tax revenues fall because of weak growth.
In some cases, this is a condition of international support from the likes of the International Monetary Fund.
The OECD's secretary general, Angel Gurria, said: "These worrying findings underline the need to protect the most vulnerable in society, especially as governments pursue the necessary task of bringing public spending under control."
Countries where the gap was least pronounced were mainly in the north of Europe, with Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Slovenia the most egalitarian societies.


A set of 10 stamps is being issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

The White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and Alice all feature in artist Grahame Baker-Smith's illustrations.
The story was made up by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a young don at Christ Church in Oxford, to entertain children on a boat trip in 1862.
It was published under Dodgson's pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, three years later.
One of the children on the Thames boat trip was Alice Liddel, the daughter of the dean of the college.
Alice later asked for the story, originally entitled Alice's Adventures Under Ground, to be written down. Dodgson did so as a Christmas gift in 1864 with his own illustrations.
It went on to become one of the best known works in children's literature, with numerous TV and film adaptations.
The stamps feature famous scenes from the book including the Mad Hatter's tea party and Alice falling down the rabbit hole.
Illustrator Grahame Baker-Smith said he had based the images of Alice on the stamps on his own daughter.
"The most difficult thing was consistency and working on such a very small scale. They all have to work as a set, so you want to have a range of colour and tone across the 10 stamps.
"The Royal Mail has a rich history of illustration on stamps, so the chance to have a go at that is a great opportunity."
Andrew Hammond, Royal Mail director of stamps and collectibles, said: "The story of Alice in Wonderland remains a perennial favourite of children, and indeed adults, around the world.
"It is fitting that in its 150th anniversary year it is celebrated with a wonderful set of stamps featuring striking images that do justice to such an iconic tale."


Burnley have signed forward George Green on a six-month contract after he impressed on trial.

The ex-Everton youngster, 22, joined Oldham last summer on a two-year deal but left in November by mutual consent.
Green, an ex-England U18-international, moved to Goodison Park from Bradford aged 15 for a reported fee of £2m.
"I've got Football League experience under my belt already, but I want to play at a higher level than League One," he told the club website.
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Mae'r Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones wedi addo "cytundeb teg" i gymunedau Cymru wrth i'w blaid lansio ei hymgyrch ar gyfer yr etholiadau lleol fis nesaf.

Cafodd ymgyrch Llafur Cymru ei lansio yng Nghasnewydd ddydd Llun.
Dywedodd Mr Jones fod ei blaid wedi gosod y safon yn "hynod o uchel" yn etholiadau 2012 - pan ychwanegodd 231 o seddau newydd - ac fe ddywedodd fod y blaid yn dechrau'r ymgyrch eleni o "sefyllfa gref".
Mae ei blaid yn amddiffyn 580 o seddi drwy Gymru.
Daw'r lansiad wedi iddo ddweud y byddai'n "anodd" i'r blaid i osgoi colledion.
Roedd Llafur Cymru wedi mwynhau ei etholiadau lleol gorau ers 16 o flynyddoedd yn 2012, ac mae'r blaid yn amddiffyn ei rheolaeth o 10 awdurdod lleol.
Dywedodd Carwyn Jones: "Bydd yr etholiadau ym Mai yn gweld y nifer fwyaf erioed o ymgeiswyr Llafur yn sefyll ar draws Cymru.
"Fe osododd ein canlyniadau yn 2012 y safon yn hynod o uchel ond rydym yn dechrau'r ymgyrch hon o sefyllfa gref."
Ychwanegodd fod cynghorau Llafur wedi "adeiladu cartrefi newydd... cynorthwyo i ddelifro'r canlyniadau TGAU a Lefel A gorau erioed, cefnogi busnesau bychain ac arwain cynlluniau adfywio uchelgeisiol mewn trefi a dinasoedd ar hyd y wlad".


A leopard broke into a hotel room in northern India over the weekend giving its occupants a nasty shock, local media have reported.

The PTI agency said Sumit Rathore and his wife Shivani were asleep when the leopard broke a window and climbed into the room early on Sunday.
The couple eventually managed to lock the animal inside the bathroom and raise the alarm.
Officials believe that the leopard had been chased by dogs.
It later escaped from the room and ran off into the jungle.
The hill town of Nainital in Uttrakhand state, where the hotel is located, is no stranger to late-night visitors from the forest.
The incident comes weeks after a Himalayan black bear broke the window pane of a hotel room in the same region.


Scientists have located an impact crater linked to powerful tsunamis that swept across part of ancient Mars.

The team believe an asteroid triggered 150m-high waves when it plunged into an ocean thought to have existed on northern Mars three billion years ago.
Lomonosov crater in the planet's northern plains fits the bill as the source of tsunami deposits identified on the surface.
Details were outlined at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Although the idea has lost some of its currency in recent years, some scientists think an ocean might once have filled the vast lowland region that occupies the Red Planet's northerly latitudes.
Growing evidence that tsunami waves washed over the boundary between the southern highlands and northern lowlands help strengthen the hypothesis.
François Costard, Steve Clifford and colleagues identified and mapped the distribution of sediment that apparently originated in the northern plains and flowed onto a possible ancient shoreline to the south.
"We found typical tsunami deposits along the dichotomy between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere of Mars," Dr Costard, from Université Paris-Sud and CNRS, told BBC News.
"It supports that there was, at that time, a northern ocean."
One type of feature seen on the dichotomy boundary is a lobate flow deposit. Dr Clifford, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, explained the evidence.
"These lobate deposits propagate uphill from the northern plains and do so in close association with a potential palaeo-shoreline. The predictions of the numerical modelling that François and his colleagues have done provide a very persuasive case for an ocean at this time," he told BBC News.
"There's also a second set of landforms that we see along the coastline called thumbprint terrain.... the reflection of the tsunami waves from the coast and their interaction with a second set of tsunami waves, predicted by the numerical modelling, would have resulted in sediment deposition that's very similar to what we actually observe on Mars."
This terrain has previously been interpreted as having been caused by mud flows, mud volcanoes, or glaciers.
The proposed Martian tsunami travelled 150km (95 miles) inland, climbing to elevations of about 100m (330ft).
"If we do have this evidence of a tsunami having occurred back three billion years ago, there must have been an ocean present in the northern plains," said Steve Clifford.
"That's the key point here, it indicates that there was a substantial amount of water in residence on the Martian surface at this time and that has likely implications for the total inventory of water on Mars."
The researchers have identified what they think is the best candidate for the impact crater, a 120km-wide bowl called Lomonosov, after the 18th Century Russian polymath Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. The feature is extremely degraded today, with a collapsed crater rim.
Two successive waves were formed during the event, says François Costard.
"It was a really large-scale, high speed tsunami. At the very beginning, a crater of 70km in diameter was created by the impact. This expelled a huge volume of water, with wave propagation at 60m/second," he explained.
"The initial wave was about 300m in height. After just a few hours, that tsunami wave reached the palaeo-shoreline located at a few hundred km from the impact crater."
This gigantic wave washed over hills and plateaus and through valleys, leaving behind the lobate flow deposits.
"Finally... due to the Martian ocean filling in that crater, which produced a kind of rebound, there was a second wave propagation," Dr Costard added.
If there was an ocean on Mars three billion years ago, it could have made the Red Planet a more hospitable place for life, raising hopes that signs of biology could be detected today.
"It's very hard to conceive of any other process other than a tsunami that could have emplaced these lobate deposits along the dichotomy boundary," Steve Clifford told BBC News.
"There is ambiguity in all the various lines of evidence that have been cited regarding whether Mars is water-rich or water-poor. But the morphologic evidence that's been presented here is a very persuasive case for a water-rich planet."
While a few other teams have reported evidence of tsunamis on Mars, no one up until now has linked the events to particular impact crater.
The research has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets.
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Seven vehicles weighing 37 tonnes that can tow rescue boats up steep beaches will be made in Powys for the RNLI.

Clayton Engineering in Knighton will supply the charity with the "launch and recovery system" vehicles.
The 22-metre long vehicles can tow a 15-tonne lifeboat up steep shingle beaches.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the contract was testament to Clayton's "manufacturing expertise, capability and highly skilled workforce".
Manufacture of the vehicles is set to be completed by 2020.
To meet demand, a £500,000 extension to the firm's factory will be built. The Welsh government is contributing £99,593.
Clayton Engineering employs 42 people and the Welsh Government said the investment would safeguard eight jobs and see at least three new workshop workers trained.


Two new photos have been released of the Queen as a young princess, ahead of her 90th birthday celebrations.

In one of the images, she's seen just about to dive into a pool with her father, King George VI.
In the other, she's looking at a bird that is perched on her arm.
The photos were released ahead of a gala show to mark her 90th birthday.
The celebration will be held at Windsor Castle on Sunday and will feature celebrities like Gary Barlow and Kylie Minogue.
Nine hundred horses will also take part in the birthday celebrations.


Crude oil is too cheap for the taste of many producers.

Energy ministers from Opec, the oil exporters' group, are meeting at their headquarters in Vienna to do something about it.
They will be joined by delegates from some oil suppliers outside the group.
On the agenda: whether to extend the oil production curbs agreed last year that are due to expire next month.
There is widespread support in the group for taking this step, and members could also discuss reducing the ceiling on oil output even further.
The formal meeting happens on Thursday but key bilateral talks will take place in Vienna hotels ahead of the official gathering.
Two key players have already agreed that they want to extend the existing limit until March next year:  Opec's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, the biggest exporter outside the organisation.
The problem for Opec and other oil exporters started almost three years ago, when the price of oil began to slide.
North Sea Brent crude oil, which is widely used as a price benchmark, hit a high of around $115 (Â£88) a barrel in June 2014 but by the end of the year it was half that amount.
While Opec members may not sell Brent crude, the prices they get for their oil do move in parallel to this benchmark.
And it got worse still from OPEC's perspective; in January 2016 the price of Brent fell below $28 a barrel.
Since then it has rebounded, but has not got much beyond the mid-$50s per barrel.
That partial recovery has taken some of the strain off Opec members' finances. Many have also responded with cuts to government spending.
But they could really do with a stronger price recovery.
To take one example; last year Saudi Arabia had a deficit in the government's finances equivalent to 17% of national income. This year the IMF projects it will be 10%.
It's a substantial improvement but still far too high for the long term.
Surpluses generated in times of higher prices in the past mean the Saudis do not, however, have an imminent problem of unmanageable government debt.
What Opec and a group of other oil exporting countries including Russia have already done is cut back production in an effort to boost prices.  They agreed that last December.
The reduction was almost 1.8 million barrels per day - equivalent to about 2% of global oil production.
Often in the past Opec countries have agreed to cut production but failed to comply with their own commitments. The temptation is for individual countries to cheat and sell more while hoping that others will cut production and push prices higher for all.
This time, however, Opec discipline has been remarkably strong. The International Energy Agency (IEA) a rich countries' watchdog, estimates compliance with the restraints is at more than 95%.
That said, the agreement has not been very effective. Today the price is actually a few dollars less than it was on the day the deal was done.  Without the cuts, though oil might have been even cheaper.
OPEC members do have a relatively new problem: the American shale oil industry.  It has grown from very little 10 years ago, to become a major player.
In fact it made an important contribution to the abundant supplies of crude oil that were behind the price fall that began in 2014. In 2005, US crude oil production covered a third of the country's needs, now the figure is more than 60%.
In the early stages of the price fall Saudi Arabia appeared to be willing to live with the decline in the hope that it would put pressure on US shale producers and force many out of business.
It was uncomfortable for America's oil industry but it proved to be more resilient than the Saudis probably expected, and their producers were very effective at reducing costs.
Total US oil production did decline in 2016, but it is rebounding this year.
Opec's production cuts have made space for other producers in non-member countries and the recovery in prices from their lows of early 2016 has eased the financial pressure.
One manifestation of the abundant supply is the fact that stocks of crude oil held by refineries and governments are well above normal levels; a new historical high in the rich countries in March, according to the IEA.
The objective shared by Opec and Russia is to get stocks down to the average level of the last five years.
The signs are that Opec members are mostly well disposed to continuing the cuts beyond next month's planned expiry. There may well be some debate about how long to extend them, and there have been reports that some would like to make the cuts deeper.
Outside Opec, Russia is in agreement but Kazakhstan wants to increase production, while others have been holding discussions with Opec countries.
Assuming they do take extend the production limits, what will be the impact on oil prices?
They may stay towards the upper end of the recent range - but it will take a while for those stocks of crude oil to come down to levels that could support a stronger rally.
Opec's likely action could certainly ensure that prices don't take a renewed dive but the prospect of a powerful surge in prices is not strong.
There is a new complication for the producers' calculations. President Trump's budget plan includes a proposal to sell half the oil in the US government's emergency reserves,  the strategic petroleum reserve, starting from the next financial year.
It is just a proposal at this stage but it has still been enough to move international oil prices down.
Yet in the longer term, the weakness of oil prices does perhaps contain the seeds of its own reversal.
The low prices have undermined investment in new production capacity in the last two years, which in turn means that there could be a supply crunch. The IEA has warned this could come sometime after 2020.
In the even longer term, the big question for Opec is whether a shift away from oil-based transport fuels - in favour of electrically-powered vehicles, for example - will cast a shadow over the viability of their natural resources.


Proceeds from the 2017 FA Community Shield will be donated to support those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Arsenal will play Chelsea on 6 August at Wembley Stadium, and £1.25m could be raised from the match.
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke said: "We hope that in some small way through the Community Shield we can help.
"Football is for all, and we hope it can in its own way give something back to those who are most in need."
The EFL said it would also be donating £175,000, with member clubs contributing their share of proceeds from the match.
Chief executive Shaun Harvey said football was "coming together to make a significant commitment to the cause".
Premier League clubs have agreed to contribute a total of £250,000.
"The thoughts of everyone at the league and our clubs are with the people affected by this terrible event," a statement read.
Seventy-nine people are missing or presumed dead after the blaze destroyed 150 homes in the Kensington tower block on 14 June.
Survivors, the families of the victims and emergency services personnel will be invited to the game as guests.


A Florida neighbourhood watchman shot dead an unarmed black teenager "because he wanted to", a prosecutor has said at the start of his murder trial.

George Zimmerman, 29, was a vigilante who presumed Trayvon Martin was up to no good, the jury of six women heard.
But a defence lawyer said Mr Zimmerman acted out of self-defence after Trayvon, 17, attacked him in Sanford, an Orlando suburb, in February 2012.
Mr Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
The case drew national attention and has fuelled debate about race and the proliferation of guns in America.
Police waited 44 days to arrest Mr Zimmerman after the incident, in part because the volunteer watchman invoked a law called "stand your ground", which permits the use of deadly force if a person feels in mortal danger.
On Monday, the jury heard profanity-laced quotes from a phone call to police by Mr Zimmerman after he spotted the teenager walking in the gated community, in which the defendant tells an emergency dispatcher: "They always get away."
"George Zimmerman didn't shoot Trayvon Martin because he had to," prosecutor John Guy told the court.
"He shot him for the worst of all reasons: because he wanted to."
But a defence lawyer said Mr Zimmerman had been attacked first. "There are no monsters here," Don West told the jury.
He said that Trayvon used the street pavement like a weapon.
"Trayvon Martin armed himself with the concrete sidewalk and used it to smash George Zimmerman's head... That is a deadly weapon," Mr West said.
But prosecutors said none of Mr Zimmerman's DNA was found on Trayvon's body, nor was Trayvon's DNA found on Mr Zimmerman's gun or holster.
Trayvon's parents attended the first day of the trial but the teenager's mother, Sybrina Fulton, left the room as a recording of an emergency call moments before the fatal shot was played to the court.
The trial at a circuit court in Sanford is expected to focus on events leading up to the death.
Neither prosecutors nor defence lawyers dispute that Mr Zimmerman shot Trayvon in the chest with a 9mm handgun, nor that the teenager died at the scene.
Mr Zimmerman had been sitting in his vehicle observing the dark street when he saw Trayvon, who had his hood up while walking in the rain.
At some point the defendant, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, got out of his car and followed the teenager. Minutes later, the fatal confrontation ensued.
Mr Zimmerman has told police he lost sight of the teenager and was attacked as he walked back to his car.
But prosecutors say it was the defendant who started the argument.
There have been conflicting reports from witnesses about how the fight unfolded.
The trial is expected to last between two and four weeks, and the sequestered jurors will be constantly supervised by the local sheriff's office.


Two South African men found guilty of murdering Mozambican Manuel Josias Sithole have been sentenced to 10 and 17 years.

The killing happened last April at the height of a wave of xenophobic violence but police say the motive was robbery.
The cause got massive attention after being captured on camera by photojournalist James Oatway.
His death led Graca Machel, widow of Nelson Mandela, to call for unity in the country.
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"I am South African. I am Mozambican. I am Zambian. I am Zimbabwean," she said at a memorial service for Mr Sithole.
Mthinta Bhengu and Sifundo Mzimela were found guilty of killing Mr Sithole on the streets of Alexandra, Johannesburg in broad daylight.
"One man got Emmanuel down on the ground and started beating him with a monkey wrench," Mr Oatway said, speaking shortly after the attack.
Bhengu was seen as the instigator of the attack and got a 17-year sentence, while Mzimela, who got a 10-year term, was described as his accomplice.
The BBC's Nomsa Maseko in South Africa says police investigations revealed that the pair robbed Mr Sithole of cigarettes and attacked him when he demanded that they pay for them.


Glasgow Warriors have been drawn against English Premiership champions Exeter Chiefs in their four-strong European Champions Cup pool.

They will also face Montpellier, now coached by former Scotland team boss Vern Cotter, and Leinster, who were second in the Pro12 table last season.
Montpellier finished third in the French Top 14.
The first pool match will be on either 12/13/14/15 October, with the final on Saturday 12 May in Bilbao.
Glasgow reached the quarter-finals for the first time last season after home and away victories over both two-time European champions Leicester and French giants Racing 92 in the pool stages.
The Warriors finished runners-up to group winners Munster, and were beaten by eventual champions Saracens in the last eight.
Glasgow beat Montpellier home (21-10) and away (15-13) when they met in the pool stages of the 2014-15 Champions Cup, and also overcame Exeter twice in their group the previous season, winning 20-14 at home and 15-10 at Sandy Park.
Leinster are familiar foes in the Pro12, with Warriors beating the Irish province 33-25 at home last season, before losing 31-30 at the RDS in Dublin in late April.
The last time they met in Europe in 2011-12, Leinster prevailed home and away to finish top of the group on route to their third European title in four seasons.
Glasgow were distant runners-up, having also beaten Montpellier at home and drawn away in the same campaign.
Glasgow's new forwards coach Jonathan Humphreys, who worked alongside Cotter with Scotland before moving to the Warriors this summer, said he had a sense of inevitability about the draw.
"We talked to Vern about this a fair bit during the Six Nations - we were convinced it was going to happen!" he told the Warriors website.
"We've worked together for a long time, so we know what the strengths and the style of play of Montpellier will be, although we said we would double-bluff each other.
"It's a really exciting group and we're looking forward to it. Leinster, Exeter and Montpellier all want to play a good brand of rugby."


Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire is the target of East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson's ire on the front page of the News Letter as he calls on him to "stop pussyfooting around" on the extra £1bn of spending negotiated in the DUP's deal with the Conservatives.

Mr Wilson claims it would suit Sinn Féin's agenda to prevent increased public spending in Northern Ireland and described the current situation as "all a bit cack-handed".
Mr Brokenshire has suggested the £1bn was "for a new executive to see that we get local politicians making decisions" and that "there will be a whole host of decisions to take should that not happen".
Mr Wilson insists calls for the NI Secretary to clarify his position are meaningless as he believes the original deal still stands.
The Conservatives said on Thursday night that it wants the "additional funding identified in the agreement to go to a new executive", but if it proves impossible to establish devolution the party, in signing the agreement, "has recognised the case for the higher funding Northern Ireland needs".
In a separate story in the newspaper, Sinn Féin dismissed a DUP claim that it is using the Irish language as an excuse to avoid the restoration of power-sharing as "ludicrous".
The DUP's Edwin Poots had said the proposed Irish language act was a "useful tool" for Sinn Féin to avoid the hard decisions of government.
Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said his party is "absolutely committed" to the return of the executive and that if the DUP did not believe them they should "call our bluff" by agreeing to an act and "the other rights-based issues which are outstanding".
The Irish News leads with the story of a gruelling pilgrimage by a former Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) star who has been diagnosed with a terminal neurological condition.
Former Antrim captain Anto Finnegan, who has Motor Neurone Disease (MND), travelled 90 miles of the Camino de Santiago to highlight the condition.
Mr Finnegan was joined by his wife Alison and two friends on the trip and said one of the tougher routes was chosen with a purpose.
"Living with MND on a daily basis is really challenging, not just for the person with the condition but for the people around you," he said.
"We wanted something which mirrored the challenge of living with the condition."
The newspaper also reports that youths have targeted a south Belfast apartment block just over a week after it was damaged by an Eleventh night bonfire.
Criminal damage was caused to the entrance of the building's car park hours after a meeting on Wednesday night to discuss the impact of the blaze near Sandy Row.
The paper also notes that the police have removed bonfire materials blocking a street in a nationalist area of north Belfast.
'Anti-internment' bonfires are lit in some nationalist areas to mark the anniversary of the introduction of internment on 9 August 1971.
Safety concerns had been raised about the bonfire in Victoria Parade in the New Lodge area being built near blocks of flats and a children's nursery.
The death of a former estate agent makes the front page of the Belfast Telegraph.
Philip Johnston was arrested in April 2005 as part of an inquiry into the affairs of murdered loyalist Jim Gray.
Charges of money laundering were dropped in August 2006 but Mr Johnston, who was forced to sell his six offices, said the incident had left him financially ruined.
The 51-year-old's body was found at his home on Bangor's Bryansburn Road on Wednesday. Police say they are not treating his death as suspicious.
The Daily Mirror also covers the story and says friends were shocked by his death adding that he had never recovered "from the devastation he experienced over his arrest and charge".
The newspaper leads with Celtic's condemnation of "a small minority of fans" after it was charged by UEFA over an "illicit banner" displayed during Wednesday's second-leg game in the Champions League tie against Linfield.
The Glasgow club have also been cited for a "kit infringement" and "blocked stairways". A Uefa spokesperson said that the illicit banner charge related to the banner "portraying a person in a paramilitary uniform".
Celtic's Leigh Griffiths was given a one-match ban for provoking spectators during the first leg at Windsor Park while his club have been fined £4,000. Linfield have been handed a partial stadium closure for their next European tie and fined £8,850 over fan behaviour.
They say a cat has nine lives and that certainly appears to be the case with a 31-year-old called Sasha featured in the Belfast Telegraph.
Owner Beth O'Neill from Newtownabbey says she discovered the feline, who is the equivalent of more than 160 human years, in a battered state at stables near her home in 1991.
Beth has contacted the Guinness Book of Records about Sasha following the death of the world's oldest cat in Texas and says she has always been able to put her two dogs in their place.
"If they don't heed her, she puts her claws out and shows them who the boss is."
Beth says Sasha also faces competition from a young pretender, her daughter's cat Nico, who is a sprightly 24.


Castleford Tigers rugby club chief executive Steve Gill was "viciously" assaulted during a town-centre attack, the club has said.

The Betfred Super League leaders said the attack happened in Bridge Street, Castleford, early on Friday.
A statement from the club thanked emergency services, who it said were called to the scene and responded quickly.
A 58-year old man has been arrested and remains in police custody.
The Tigers wished Mr Gill, who is now recovering at home, a speedy recovery.
His association with his home-town club began when he operated the scoreboard.
He held the role of assistant coach before becoming head of youth in 2008 and four years ago took over from Steve Ferres as chief executive.
He has overseen a rise in fortunes of the Tigers, who gained a 66-10 win over Leeds on Thursday to maintain their unbeaten start to the season.
West Yorkshire Police said: "A 58-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident and remains in custody at this time.
"The victim, a 57-year-old man, suffered an injury to his back which is not believed to be serious."


Brothers Richie and Jonny Gray scored tries on their first start together as Scotland head coach Vern Cotter enjoyed an encouraging win on his home debut.

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Javier Ortega Desio touched down for Argentina after just two minutes.
However, Scotland soon found their rhythm, with the Grays and Sean Maitland replying before the interval.
Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour ran in further scores in a scruffy second half, while a Tomas Cubelli brace added to a penalty try for the Pumas.
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A 10-point winning margin did not accurately reflect Scotland's superiority and late lapses in discipline and defence will need to be eradicated with world champions New Zealand coming up next weekend.
But there was much to take heart from as a young side featuring 10 Glasgow Warriors in the starting line-up picked up a first home victory over the South Americans since 1990.
The Scots were moving the ball well from the first whistle but when Greig Laidlaw was pole-axed in the midfield the ball spilled loose for Desio to collect and gallop clear from 40 metres and touch down.
It was not the start Cotter would have envisaged but the Scottish response must have thrilled the New Zealander.
A clean lineout gave the Scots an attacking platform in the Argentine 22 and, after some good carries from Blair Cowan among others, Richie Gray burst through the stretched defence to crash over.
A Nicolas Sanchez penalty nudged the visitors back in front while Laidlaw missed a routine kick following his earlier conversion.
A yellow card for Juan Imhoff was quickly exploited by the hosts after several phases of pressure resulted in Jonny Gray following his brother over the line. Laidlaw added the extras to make it 14-10.
The captain then set up Scotland's third try with the scrum-half catching the Pumas defence sleeping with a quick tap penalty and, after making 30 metres, showed great composure to float a pass to Maitland who coasted over.
Laidlaw converted and followed it up with a successful penalty to stretch the lead to 14 points at the interval.
The Scots were playing with a verve and attacking purpose not seen for some time, with Laidlaw at the heart of it.
The skipper broke through the Argentine defence once again early in the second half and kept his cool to find the pass that sent Hogg over in the corner.
Full of confidence, Laidlaw nailed the touchline conversion and added another three points with the boot just after the hour.
Having lost Rob Harley to the sin-bin for a dangerous tackle, the Scots handed the initiative to the visitors and a penalty try was awarded as Cotter's men wheeled round a scrum near their own posts.
Any thoughts of a comeback were extinguished almost immediately when Seymour intercepted a risky pass from Juan Martin Hernandez to run in an easy try, with Laidlaw's conversion taking the score to 41-17.
Harley had just returned to the fray when replacement Jim Hamilton was sent packing after getting caught on the wrong side.
Cubelli dived over from close range to reduce the deficit and the same man grabbed another touchdown at the death.


Scottish parliamentarians have clashed over the legacy of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

The former president of Cuba died, aged 90, on 26 November.
Labour's Elaine Smith lodged a Holyrood motion hailing Mr Castro as "a champion of global social justice", calling Cuba an "inspiring" example of socialism.
But Conservative Ross Thomson submitted an amendment, calling the Cuban leader a dictator and slamming his human rights record.
Mr Castro led the Communist revolution which toppled the Cuban government in 1959, and became one of the world's longest-serving and most iconic leaders - but his legacy is a divisive one.
Ms Smith, who has lodged a number of Scottish Parliament motions praising Mr Castro over the years, put forward a glowing tribute which won support from Labour and SNP members.
She asked parliament to send its condolences for the loss of Mr Castro to his family and the people of Cuba, claiming that under his leadership the country "built world-class health and education systems and decreased poverty, respite suffering economically for decades under a United States blockade".
She also noted "Cuba's impressive record of international solidarity abroad" and "Fidel Castro's individual contribution as a champion of global social justice and his maxim of 'not an inch to imperialism'".
The motion closes by saying "his legacy and spirit will live on in the great many achievements of the small socialist state of Cuba, teaching and inspiring future generations and showing that another world is possible".
The motion was backed by Scottish Labour's deputy leader Alex Rowley and fellow MSPs Neil Findlay and David Stewart, and SNP members Colin Beattie and Richard Lyle.
An amendment was lodged by Scottish Conservative member Ross Thomson, who proposed replacing almost the entire text.
In it he said Cuba "became a one-party dictatorship" under Mr Castro, and pointed out that "Castro banned Christmas from 1969 to 1998".
He said a million Cubans had gone into exile since the resolution while "many others have been shot in their attempts to flee", before criticising Mr Castro's human rights record.
He wrote that homosexuality was declared a "deviation incompatible with the revolution' by Castro's regime", and said LGBT people were forcefully sent to "prison work camps".
Mr Thomson's amendment ended by saying that "admirers of Fidel Castro around the world have one thing in common, that they never had to live under his dictatorship".
He was backed by fellow Tory MSP Annie Wells, who said it was "appalling" to see left-wing politicians "lionise a man who jailed and murdered his opponents and put gay people in concentration camps".
Neither the motion or amendment have yet been selected for debate.


The world is watching to see if France becomes the next major country to challenge liberal values and the political establishment.

Two of the four candidates leading in the polls occupy the political extremes - the far-right Marine Le Pen and hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The victory of either would place a question mark over France's continued membership of the EU in its present form. Were it to leave, could the EU survive the exit of one of its founding fathers?
And Thursday's fatal assault on a policeman by a Paris gunman - just the latest in a spate of attacks that has plagued the country - has only heightened the febrile atmosphere.
After the Brexit vote in the UK and election of US President Donald Trump, could France be the next nation to deal a blow to politics as usual?
The unpopular President François Hollande, a Socialist, is not seeking a second term - the first French president to opt out in modern history.
There are 11 candidates and the race is wide open. None looks likely to win more than 50% in the first round of voting on 23 April, so a run-off on 7 May seems assured.
French politics has historically been dominated by parties of the left and centre-right, but this model could be shattered this time around.
The Socialist candidate, Benoît Hamon, is seen as out of the running. His conservative rival, Republicans' candidate François Fillon, has had to battle to stay in the race after he was plunged into a judicial inquiry over "fake jobs".
If you believe the opinion polls there are two front-runners, far-right National Front leader Ms Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron.
Ms Le Pen took over the leadership of the FN from her father in 2011 and has worked hard to "detoxify" the party from its extreme past.
Mr Macron, a 39-year-old ex-investment banker, was economy minister under President Hollande but resigned in 2016 to fight for the presidency as head of his En Marche! (On the move) party. Not only has he never been an MP - he has never stood for election.
The early favourite was Mr Fillon, but his hopes were dented by allegations that he paid his wife public money for work she did not do. He is now under formal investigation, blaming a political conspiracy, but he is not out of the race and his team is still confident of making the second round.
A surprise package in the election is far-left stalwart Mr Mélenchon, whose witty charisma has attracted new supporters.
A 65-year-old former Socialist minister who left the party in 2008, he now leads La France Insoumise (Unbowed France) and has used hologram technology to address separate rallies simultaneously.
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One of the overriding issues facing French voters is unemployment, which stands at almost 10% and is the eighth highest among the 28 EU member states. One in four under-25s is unemployed.
The French economy has made a slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and all the leading candidates say deep changes are needed.
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The International Monetary Fund estimates that it will be hard to get unemployment down much below 8.5%, and highlights France's "deep-rooted structural rigidities".
It's also high on the agenda, with the voting taking place three days after the Paris shooting and five days after two men were detained in Marseille on suspicion of plotting an attack.
More than 230 people have died in terror attacks since January 2015 and France remains under a state of emergency. Officials fear more of the hundreds of young French Muslims who have travelled to Syria and Iraq may return to commit new atrocities.
As French voters cast their ballots at 67,000 polling stations across the land, 50,000 police will try to ensure they are safe, and further elite units are on alert.
Many predict attacks linked to Islamists will give a boost to the chances of the right, and particularly Ms Le Pen, who has vowed to suspend all legal immigration and give jobs, welfare, housing and school provision to French nationals before foreigners.
In fact, intelligence services work on the assumption the attackers are deliberately pursuing a Le Pen victory, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris - because that could tip the country into chaos.
Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon kicked off his campaign by appearing at rallies in Lyon and Paris and creating a social media buzz.
He and Ms Le Pen are the masters of social media - she has 1.38 million followers on Twitter, he has 300,000 YouTube subscribers.
The phenomenon of fake news has also made an appearance, with an Algerian news organisation picking up a spoof story that Ms Le Pen planned to build a wall around France and make Algeria pay for it.
That's what an investigating judge is hoping to find out.
Satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé says his wife Penelope was paid €831,400 (£710,000; $900,000) for work as a parliamentary assistant that she did not carry out. One report suggested she did not even have a parliamentary pass or a work email.
She is also said to have pocketed €100,000 for writing just a handful of articles for a literary review owned by a billionaire friend of the family.
Mr Fillon insists everything was above board and says the investigation against him is a "political assassination" designed to deny French voters the choice of a centre-right candidate.
Ms Le Pen is fighting to appeal to the centre and left of French politics after working to move the party away from the image of her father, who has been repeatedly convicted for hate speech and describing the Holocaust as a "detail of history".
But she still has a far-right platform. She wants to allocate public services to French citizens ahead of foreigners and has vowed to suspend all legal immigration.
The FN also has close ties with other European parties such as Austria's far-right Freedom Party that mainstream right-wing parties want nothing to do with.


Former Hearts boss Gary Locke is the new assistant manager of Scottish Premiership side Kilmarnock.

Locke, 39, was not offered a new contract when Ann Budge completed her takeover at Tynecastle.
But he resumes his coaching career at Rugby Park, where he played from 2002 until 2009.
Sandy Clark was assistant to Allan Johnston last season but has since moved to a similar role at Albion Rovers.
The 57-year-old was number two to Johnston at Queen of the South before both moved to the Ayrshire side last summer.
Johnston struggled in his debut campaign as a top flight manager but Killie won their final two matches to finish ninth in the table - four points above the play-off place.
Hearts were relegated, having started the season with a 15-point deduction for entering administration, but there was a late rally in form with Locke winning the manager of the month award for April.
Locke's position at Hearts has been taken by Robbie Nielsen, with Craig Levein installed as director of football.
Johnston and Locke were team-mates at Hearts and Kilmarnock during their playing days.
"I'm sure they will be a good team," chairman Michael Johnston told BBC Scotland.
"They were both very determined as players and they want to win every match. I'm sure they will instil the same attitude in our team.
"Gary had huge challenges thrown at him at Hearts and it was clear he wasn't going to let that get on top of him. He and his squad showed tremendous fighting spirit."


An imam who sexually assaulted two girls in the 1980s has fled the UK for Bangladesh ahead of being sentenced.

Hifiz Rahman, 58, absconded on Saturday after being found guilty the day before of assaulting the girls at a mosque in Dudley, police said.
No warrant or remand was issued after his guilty verdict and police visited his home to ensure compliance with previous bail conditions.
"We are making urgent inquiries to try and arrange his return," police said.
The spokesman added that an all-ports-warning report was placed onto the police national computer advising that officers should be notified if he made any attempt to try and leave the country.
Rahman from Ballard Road, Netherton did not attend the end of his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court after claiming he was too ill and did not hear the jury's verdicts.
It emerged at the trial that he carried out "almost daily" assaults on one girl who feared not being believed if she told anyone.
The offences against one victim took place between April 1984 and August 1987, with the second charge he was convicted of from March 1984 to March 1988.


Thousands of people from across Scotland have taken part in the fourth annual Pedal on Parliament.

Ahead of the event, organisers said their goal was to encourage politicians to make Scotland a cycle-friendly country.
They are also campaigning for better facilities for pedestrians.
Cyclists and those taking part on foot gathered at the Meadows in Edinburgh, before making the journey to the Scottish parliament building.
Travelling via George the IV Bridge and the Royal Mile, the ride was led by families with children and by cyclists using specially adapted disability bikes.
Organisers said the move was designed to emphasise that cycling is, or should be, for everyone.
A simultaneous event, Pedal on Marischal, held in Aberdeen, drew about 150 cyclists.
The Pedal on Parliament "manifesto" calls for:
One of the event organisers, Denise Marshall, responsible for leading the Pedestrians on Parliament contingent, said the aim was a "healthier, wealthier Scotland".
She said: "Pedal on Parliament is not about making roads safer just for keen cyclists.
"It's about helping our children get to school safely, under their own steam."
Safety on Scotland's roads and a lack of quality bike infrastructure, such as segregated bike lanes, are seen as major barriers to increased cycling levels.
Dr David Brennan, from Glasgow, rode the route on the bike Edinburgh cyclist Andrew McNicoll was riding when he was killed while travelling to work in January 2012.
Introducing a minute's silent for those killed on the roads, Dr Brennan said: "The fact that there are so few scratches on this bike, shows just how vulnerable we are on the road.
"We need to see conditions where everyone can ride and families do not suffer the tragedies the McNicoll family have."
Mr McNicoll's death - and that of fellow cyclist Audrey Fyfe, who died after being hit by a car in Edinburgh in 2011 - inspired the first Pedal on Parliament.
Outside the Scottish parliament building Transport Minister Derek Mackay pledged that the Scottish government would invest in the infrastructure around cycling, so it is seen as "a proper mode of transport".
He told the crowd gathered he would do everything he could to support cycling, and said: "My commitment for 2015/16 is that the government will spend more on cycling than the record breaking previous year."
Cameron Buchanan for the Conservatives said there was a need to create "a continuous cycling infrastructure so cyclists don't end up running red lights", while Sarah Boyack of Scottish Labour said changes needed to be made at a local level.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said his party had committed to increase spending on active travel every year, and told those gathered: "Your voice is being heard in parliament and we will continue to make it a priority".
Speaking at the rally Alison Johnstone of the Scottish Greens praised the event as a "fantastic grass-roots movement" and encouraged those taking part to continue to push for "transformative change" with regard to the government's cycling budget.
Meanwhile, cyclists will be able to bring their bikes on board Edinburgh trams during the month of May as part of a trial, it has been announced.
Both folded and unfolded pedal bikes will be allowed on during off peak hours as part of the trial, which has been supported by the city council and cycling groups.
Edinburgh Trams will take feedback from cyclists and other passengers during the trial.


David Cameron says business leaders are increasingly backing his plans for an EU referendum after a renegotiation of the UK's role within the EU.

British Chambers of Commerce chief John Longworth has called for a vote in 2016, a year earlier than Mr Cameron has promised, to end uncertainty.
Labour's Ed Balls has warned a referendum would be "hugely destabilising" to business.
But Mr Cameron said the BCC boss's call showed firms were getting behind him.
"They are saying it is quite right to have a strategy that gives Britain the best chance of staying in a reformed European Union that works in our interest and that is what my approach is," Mr Cameron told the BCC's annual conference.
"Let's get stuck in there, let's hold a negotiation, let's deal with those things that are holding Britain back, and then let's have this put to the British public in an in/out referendum."
He said the danger of not following his plan was that "Britain would just steadily drift towards the exit of the EU because the British public would not be taken along for this very important decision".
A Conservative source said if it was possible to hold a referendum earlier than 2017 "that would be fine".
But Mr Cameron is sticking to the 2017 date for now as he attempts to get the backing of other EU leaders for Britain to take back powers in areas such as welfare and immigration - if he wins May's general election.
Mr Longworth - who wants Britain to stay in the EU - questioned Mr Cameron's negotiating strategy, telling the BCC conference: "The next government must set out what it will do to protect the United Kingdom against the prospect of being in a club where all the decisions are made by, and for, the eurozone.
"More than any repatriation of powers, businesses want to know that the UK has safeguards against being drawn closer to the eurozone - especially as history tells us that currency unions inevitably fall apart unless there is real political, economic and social integration."
And he said any EU referendum should be held in the first year of the new government after May's general election, adding: "It is crucially important that we don't have too long a period of uncertainty."
Analysis, By political correspondent Iain Watson
John Longworth's call for an early referendum on EU membership is significant - the British Chambers of Commerce represent companies which employ five million people. So the organisation's leader's warning that business doesn't want the uncertainty of a long campaign on EU membership won't go unheeded.
But more perhaps significantly, his public comments reflect a private debate taking place at the highest levels of the Conservative Party. Some senior ministers are urging David Cameron - if he remains prime minister - to go for a referendum in 2016, not 2017. Partly this is because of the business climate, but it's also motivated by a desire to signal to potential UKIP supporters that the prime minister is really serious about holding an In/Out vote.
Some senior backbenchers are pushing for the prime minister to name a referendum date before the election, to steal a march on Nigel Farage.
However, one of David Cameron's closest allies on Europe believes he won't want to box himself in. The downside of an early referendum is that it wouldn't give much time to renegotiate Britain's relationship with Brussels. That, in turn, could increase the risk of a No vote.  And both the prime minister and the head of the chambers of commerce say they want to stay in a reformed EU.
Mr Cameron also used his speech to the BCC conference to call on Britain's business leaders to give their workers a pay rise because economic conditions have "not been this good for a long time".
He also announced a plan to boost access to finance for 500 fast-growing firms, called Help to Grow, if the Conservatives win the general election.
A pilot scheme will be launched at the Budget before the election using £100m from the British Investment Bank, Mr Cameron told the BCC conference.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Ed Balls said that "simply telling people 'they have never had it so good' will only make working people feel politicians are out of touch with their lives".
But the main thrust of his speech to the BCC was a warning about the risk to the economy posed by an EU referendum.
"Every comment by senior Cabinet ministers saying they would be happy or relaxed to see us walk out, and every hint that a referendum could happen as early as next year - before any meaningful reform agenda could be achieved - only adds to the uncertainty and risk for British businesses," said Mr Balls.
Labour has said it will only sanction a referendum if further powers are handed from the UK to Brussels requiring a fundamental change to existing treaties.
A Liberal Democrat source said that it was not opposed to an EU referendum in principle but said it should only happen if significant powers were transferred and that its commitment to remaining in the EU "is what most businesses want and what the BCC wants".
UKIP has suggested talk of a 2016 referendum is a "ruse" by the Conservatives and by Mr Cameron, who it says previously "begged for time" for the renegotiation.
SNP deputy first minister John Swinney is among other speakers at the event.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said Mr Cameron's call for higher pay is "no more than pre-election mood music" and nurses and public sector workers "will find it a bit rich".
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey called on the government to "immediately" boost the minimum wage by at least £1.50 an hour.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the BCC conference to set a target of helping a million more women into work work by 2020, saying the Lib Dems will require firms with more than 250 staff to publish the average pay of their male and female workers.
The Lib Dems accused Ed Miliband of "snubbing" British business by not attending the BCC conference, but Ed Balls dismissed such attacks as "trivial", adding: "Isn't this election about bigger things than that?."


"My father's dream was for him to be buried in his birthplace and have the call to prayer resonate over his grave," says Nadia Elbhiri, whose father passed away last year in London.

Ms Elbhiri, who was born and raised in west London, fulfilled her father's dream when she repatriated his body to Morocco last year, where he was laid to rest in Larache, a small fishing village in the north of the country.
"London was always his home but Morocco was always in his heart," she says.
This desire to be buried in the place you were born is strong for many first generation African migrants in the UK.
The demand is so huge among the British Moroccan community that, according to embassy officials, at least 95% of first generation migrants are buried in Morocco.
A system is now in place to cover repatriation costs.
"There are three Moroccan banks which provide free repatriation and a free plane ticket for a relative to assist the transportation of the body back to Morocco," says Souad Talsi from the Council for the Moroccan Community Abroad.
She says that if the deceased person is not registered with a Moroccan bank, his or her next of kin can go to the Moroccan embassy and the government will take care of the repatriation charges which can cost around Â£7,000 ($10,500).
But for many African communities in the UK, there is often no official financial support and many families struggle to meet the costs.
Ebenezer Commodore found it tough repatriating his uncle's body back to Ghana this year.
Despite the uncle having lived in London for at least 30 years, Mr Commodore's family put him under pressure to fly the body home.
"My uncle's mother rang me and said: 'Bring my son's body back home'. There was no way I was going to argue with the head of the family. You just can't."
So he had to find ways to raise the funds.
Mr Commodore eventually came up with $7,500, and his uncle's body was sent home for burial.
In cases like this, many in the diaspora have to keep their loved one's body in a morgue for several months, until there is enough money.
"This waiting is very stressful for those who have cultures where burial needs to take place quickly," says Fortune Huruva, who coordinates the Zimbabwean Burial Community in Manchester city in northern England.
Mr Huruva helped set up the society last year due to a high demand from Zimbabweans living across the UK who are desperately trying to send bodies home.
"We found cases of people isolated when they lost someone and they were in despair over how to get the money."
He says many will only get closure when their loved ones are buried in Zimbabwe.
"This also affects the extended family in Zimbabwe as they are the ones who will look after the graves."
But the emotional stress, financial costs and family pressures are so high when it comes to repatriation, that some in the diaspora wonder whether it is really worth it.
"It's a waste of money," says Junior Chankira.
The 40-year old, who was living with her husband Martin in Manchester for 16 years, repatriated his body back to Zimbabwe in 2014.
"If Martin was buried here I would visit his grave every week but now I can't.  I come home to an empty flat all for what? For tradition?"
Ms Chankira says that if she had children she would have been able to fight against her husband's family's wish, but she gave in due to emotional stress.
"Our families back home need to understand that our lives are in the UK now. I know when I die, I will see Martin again, regardless of where I am buried."


Three men have appeared in court charged with murder following the death of a man who was found unconscious on a Cardiff street.

Russell Peachey, 35, was found on North Street, Grangetown, at about 04:20 BST on Saturday.
Dean Anthony Beasley, 37, from Barry, Shaminder Singh, 40, from Cardiff, and Christopher James Smith, 34, also from Cardiff, appeared at the city's magistrates court on Wednesday.
All three were remanded in custody.
The defendants spoke only to confirm their names, addresses and dates of birth at the short hearing.


Jeremy Corbyn has predicted that Labour will win more seats in Scotland if there is a second general election.

Labour won seven Scottish seats in last week's election - six more than in 2015 - and narrowly lost out in several more.
The party had held 41 Scottish seats before its collapse two years ago, when the SNP won 56 of the 59 seats.
As he welcomed the new Scottish Labour MPs to Westminster, Mr Corbyn said they would "soon be joined by a lot more".
Labour won 56 fewer seats than the Conservatives across the UK but did considerably better than expected as it denied Theresa May a majority in the House of Commons.
With Mrs May attempting to secure a controversial arrangement with Northern Ireland's DUP that would see its MPs back her minority government, Mr Corbyn has said he believes a second election could be held later this year or early next.
As he congratulated his Scottish MPs on their "fantastic result", Mr Corbyn predicted they would "soon be joined by a lot more Labour MPs from Scotland".
He added: "Scotland has elected Labour MPs in good numbers and has voted Labour in good numbers and I am very enthusiastic and very optimistic about the future.
"Our campaigning hasn't stopped, it carries on and as soon as this government finally recognises that it cannot govern then there will be another election and we will be back in bigger numbers still."
Some senior figures within the Scottish party - including leader Kezia Dugdale and Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray - had openly criticised Mr Corbyn's leadership ahead of the election.
Ms Dugdale backed Owen Smith when he challenged Mr Corbyn for the party leadership, with the Scottish Labour leader arguing that her UK counterpart was unable to "unite our party and lead us into government".
And Mr Murray - who resigned as shadow Scottish secretary in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership - tweeted earlier this year that Mr Corbyn was "destroying the party".
Mr Murray, who had been the party's only MP in Scotland - joked that he was "no longer Lonely Murray" as he appeared alongside Mr Corbyn and his six new colleagues.
Insisting that Scottish Labour was "back", Mr Murray said the party's new contingent of MPs would "take the fight" to both the Conservatives and the SNP.
Mr Corbyn has still to announce his new shadow cabinet, so it is not yet known which - if any - of his Scottish MPs will be appointed as shadow Scottish secretary.
The post had been filled by English MP Dave Anderson after Mr Murray's resignation, but Mr Anderson stood down as an MP ahead of the election.


Unemployment in Wales has fallen again and the gap between rates in Wales and the UK continues to widen.

The unemployment rate in Wales between May and July has fallen to 4.1% while for the UK as a whole it remains at 4.9% for a third month.
The number of people unemployed in Wales is 63,000, 10,000 fewer than three months earlier and down 35,000 for the same period a year ago.
The fall in unemployment is steeper in Wales than the UK as a whole.
However, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, the overall employment rate in Wales - at 73.2% - is still below the UK average of 74.5%.
Employment in Wales between May and July was 18,000 higher than the previous quarter, February to April.
The fall in unemployment in Wales is proportionately the biggest fall of all the nations and regions of the UK for both the previous year (May-July 2015) and the previous quarter (February-April 2016 ).
Between May and July, Wales saw a fall of 0.7% compared with February and April and a 2.3% fall compared with the same period a year earlier.
For that comparison Wales was a long way ahead with the next greatest fall, of 1.2%, being in Scotland
While the latest ONS figures cover the period of the EU referendum, it could be too early to come to any assumptions or conclusions in terms of the Brexit vote and its effect on employment.
On the whole, it takes companies more than a couple of months to hire or fire employees and for this to appear in the official statistics.
Responding to the statistics, First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "This is all excellent news for the Welsh economy, but there is no time for complacency.
"We will continue to work hard to support business and create the economic conditions to create and safeguard sustainable jobs right across Wales.
"We continue to have big ambitions for Wales and its economy and are determined to deliver on them for the people of Wales."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns added that the "record-breaking data" on jobs was testament to the ability of the Welsh economy to create jobs and reduce unemployment.
"We are seeing more people in work than ever before and the jobless rate at a historic low as the Welsh employment market rapidly closes the gap on the rest of the UK," he added.
Mr Cairns also said that welfare reform had played its part with some of the sharpest falls in unemployment in places like Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly.
"Going back to work now makes better financial sense than ever, and we are ending the culture of homes with no history of a parent in work which has blighted some parts of our country," he said.
Since 2013 we can see that there has been a significant fall in unemployment in some of the areas of Wales that have struggled most to increase jobs.
Blaenau Gwent stands out as one of those areas. What the figures in the chart above do not tell us, is whether those jobs are low skilled or high skilled, how many hours they account for nor how long term they are.
Despite the fact that Wales has a lower rate of unemployment than the UK, it also has a lower proportion of 16-64-years-olds working - 73.2% in Wales compared with 74.5% for the UK.
If one is trying to assess the strength of the economy, you cannot look at unemployment and employment figures in isolation.
The fact that Wales languishes at the bottom of the tables for productivity (or gross value added) suggests that despite enjoying the greatest fall in unemployment of all the UK's regions and nations, many of those jobs cannot be of high value economically.
Federation of Small Business Wales policy chairwoman Janet Jones welcomed the figures but added: "We need to ensure that the jobs that are being created are sustainable over the longer term, and that no part of Wales is being left behind, especially with the uncertainty facing businesses in the wake of the referendum vote."


Re-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has visited Tyneside to mark the 80th anniversary of the Jarrow Crusade.

Mr Corbyn spoke to a crowd of about 400 at the town's Monkton Stadium, telling them the principles of the marchers were still needed in the 21st Century.
In 1936, 200 jobless men marched on the then government with a 12,000-name petition calling for help.
Mr Corbyn said images of the marchers were some of the most iconic ever seen within the Labour movement.
Descendents of some of the marchers spoke at the event, which also featured a re-enactment by local schoolchildren.
Mr Corbyn said the 300-mile trek to London to demand paid work, was a "cry from the heart" of a town that was suffering at the height of the depression.
He recalled the role played by the town's then MP Ellen Wilkinson, who marched with the men.
He said: "The march brought to the attention of so many, the picture of those men led by diminutive Ellen, marching in the rain through English villages.
"People say 'why 80 years later do you remember this'? Well it's because if we don't know what went before we don't understand the motives and the principles of those that founded and developed our movement.
"We will never know where we are going to unless we retain the principles of those that founded our cause in the first place."
He read extracts from a book written by Ellen Wilkinson in 1939 called "The town that was murdered", in which she highlighted the poverty of Jarrow despite the boom in shipbuilding, coal mining and steelmaking at the time.
The town's current Labour MP Stephen Hepburn said: "It has been a fantastic opportunity to celebrate an iconic event in Jarrow's history and give a brilliant South Tyneside welcome to Jeremy."


A swimmer who drowned off the coast of Norfolk was on holiday visiting his son, an inquest has heard.

Leszek Puchala, 52, got caught in a riptide while swimming at Sea Palling, just north of Great Yarmouth, on Saturday.
An inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court in Norwich heard attempts were made to rescue him but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Coroner Jacqueline Lake said he had been visiting from Poland.
Mr Puchala, who lived in Malyszyn Gorny, had been staying with his son Sebastian. His son identified his body to police at the beach.
A post-mortem examination at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital gave the cause of death as drowning.
The hearing was adjourned for a full inquest at the Norfolk Coroner's Court on 28 October.
The coastguard said the incident unfolded after a group of swimmers got into difficulty in a riptide.
Mr Puchala was pulled unconscious from the waves and could not be revived, while a second man in his 20s was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and was understood to be in a stable condition.
Neil Ramsay, 44, of Norwich, was at the beach and tried to rescue the swimmers.
He said there was a Polish family who were shouting in Polish, but as he did not understand the language it was almost three minutes before he realised their shouts were of panic.
He said he wished he had realised and gone to help sooner.
"It would be great to have a universal cry for help," he added.
Norfolk Police also issued safety advice in light of the beach tragedy.


Numbers of children in temporary housing more than doubled between March and December, Medway Council says.

Figures obtained by the BBC show the number of families in temporary accommodation for six weeks also trebled over the same period in Medway, breaching government guidelines.
The Conservative-led authority said it may take up to four years before the situation improves.
The Labour opposition said the answer was to build more council homes.
Councillor Howard Doe, cabinet member for housing, said: "There are a range of social issues and we cannot afford to deal with them all now.
"I'm hoping that over the next three to four years I would expect the figures to improve.
"As universal credit comes in and any bumps are ironed out, I think landlords will be far happier taking people who are drawing benefits."
Council figures show the number of families in temporary accommodation rose from 85 in March to 148 by the end of 2014.
In the same nine-month period, the number of children in temporary accommodation rose from 145 to 305.
The number of families living in similar circumstances for six weeks or more trebled from 40 to 120, in the same period.
Government guidelines say B&B accommodation should only be used for families for a maximum of six weeks.
Councillor Teresa Murray, deputy leader of the Labour group, said there was a shortage of housing, with 20,000 people on the waiting list.
She said: "In my ward, I've got families living in two-bedroom flats and they have four children."
She said the answer was to build more council houses.
"Any temporary accommodation is dealing with the consequence and not the cause," Ms Murray added.


More than half a million pounds worth of bronze artwork has been stolen from a former chapel.

A wishing well statue worth £500,000 was taken from the South Gloucestershire property between 7 and 9 May.
Two others of a horse and a rider, valued at about £25,000 each, were also taken.
Avon and Somerset Police said the break-in at Bath Road, Cold Ashton, was "targeted" and "well-planned".
PC Simon McFall added: "It would have taken a number of people to carry out this crime as the statues weigh a significant amount and would have required several people to lift them.
"They are also of a considerable size and it is more than likely that a van or other large vehicle was used to transport them."
Anyone with information is urged to contact the force.


Getting a mortgage with a high percentage advance, at the low interest rates being advertised in the media, is impossible.

Lenders are lending less than they were at the height of the market, with total lending in 2011 likely to be less than 40% of 2007's total.
This climate means that lenders on the whole now adopt a "pricing for risk" policy and are still rationing their lending.
This means that you can anticipate that at 90% loan-to-value, a loan may cost close to 5% interest, but a 60% loan will carry an interest rate nearer to 2%.
Lenders are also less flexible in their attitude to new prospective borrowers - and even existing ones who want a fresh loan.
Meanwhile the continued culling of banking jobs leads to few people in authority wishing to take any risks.
As a result, totally sound borrowing proposals are being turned down by lenders.
This leaves borrowers confused and annoyed and needing to find an alternative lender in a hurry.
To illustrate the frustrations you can encounter, and to put you on your guard, here are some problems that we have encountered recently.
Now I understand that some or all of these examples may seem unusual and perhaps involve larger loan sizes than the national average, but they are used here to prove a point.
Your own circumstances may seem simple and obviously deserving of a mortgage.
But your chosen lender may decide otherwise.
They may keep falling back on unreasonable rules in order to allow them to say no to you, and only lend to the most risk-free applicants to ensure their own jobs with your lender remain safe.
For instance, a self-employed applicant running his business for 20 years and making over £100,000 per annum was refused a loan of 30% of the value of his home.
This was despite the loan being less than 2.5 times his income.
The explanation was that if "goodwill" was stripped out of his business, the income would fall and thus make the loan unsustainable.
No appeal against the decision was acceptable to the lender, despite having had a perfectly conducted mortgage for 20 years.
In an other example, an employed couple had their application approved by the lender and moved on with the process.
The application was then terminated because, in the lender's opinion, the funds being raised for home improvements would be repaid too quickly.
This potentially made the loan "short term borrowing" even though the loan was a flexible mortgage that allowed for total redemption for any reason with no penalties.
Three appeals to the lender were rejected.
Another couple who had been through a financially difficult five years decided to downsize.
They wished to reduce their mortgage from £600,000 to £120,000, and to repay all other debts of £150,000 when they moved.
They approached their current lender and proposed a suspension of mortgage payments until the property was sold.
Six months later they had a new home agreed and an offer on their property and a lender who would help with the new mortgage.
They approached the current lender, who had not communicated with the borrowers in any fashion for six months, for a reference.
The current lender then denied any agreement to suspend payments, despite not applying for any payments or communicating with the client for six months.
They would only confirm arrears of six months or more on the account - thus denying the borrowers a new mortgage as the new lender needed a reference.
Public respectability and status does not appear to confer any advantage.
A professional couple already borrowing £550,000 needed a further advance of £250,000.
By reorganising their current borrowings they could arrange the extra funding to be available for an identical monthly cost.
Despite the fact that they were already paying the same amount per month to the lender, they were asked to produce three months of bank statements to prove "affordability".
Getting originals documents for one of them was tricky but internet bank statements were submitted, signed by the applicant as true copies, but these were unacceptable.
The applicant, by the way, was a judge.
The lender then suggested that their "affordability model" now suggested that the mortgage was in fact "unaffordable".
The loan term would need to be lengthened, the lender said, even though the current costs were no higher than the proposed future costs.
This added thousands of pounds to the borrowers' potential costs over the years.
In each of these cases we negotiated solutions with alternate lenders or negotiated with the proposed lenders.
We were finally able get someone to see the sense and commerciality in the proposed loans and our clients finally got what they wanted.
How come?
An experienced and well connected broker (of which there are many) can persuade lenders to change their minds or rapidly change lender to ensure your aims are achieved.
They can do this because brokers arrange thousands of mortgages in a career.
You, on the other hand, may only apply for two or three in your lifetime so it is worth remembering there is no substitute for experience.
The current lesson here is simple.
Do do not expect that once you have your deposit and your stamp duty saved, and you have identified a property, made an offer and approached a lender with apparently attractive terms, that your problems are over.
Often they are only just beginning. Such is life in the 2011 mortgage market.
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Norwich went top of the Championship as they got the better of a stubborn 10-man Burton Albion side at Carrow Road.

Martin Olsson fired Norwich ahead in the first half, but Burton levelled as Lucas Akins netted from close range.
Parity lasted less than a minute as Jacob Murphy put Norwich back in front as his effort went in off the post.
Tom Flanagan was sent off for a second booking as he handled in the area, but Robbie Brady's penalty was saved before Ivo Pinto shot high into the net.
Norwich are now a point clear at the summit after previous leaders Huddersfield went down 1-0 at Reading.
Burton had the better of the early play, although they only had Lloyd Dyer's 15th-minute shot over the bar to show for it before Olsson got on the end of Graham Dorrans' pass having started the move out wide.
Akins steered in Albion's equaliser straight after half-time following a goalmouth scramble, but seconds later Murphy put Norwich back in front with his fifth goal of the season from Cameron Jerome's lay-off.
Flanagan was harshly given his second booking as a shot from outside the box hit his arm, but Jon McLaughlin got down to his right to keep out Brady's penalty before smothering a Jerome effort soon after.
Although Burton's Jackson Irvine sent a header just wide, Norwich dominated with a man's advantage - Brady hit the side-netting and Olsson went close to his second before defender Pinto wrapped up the points.
Norwich manager Alex Neil:
"I am satisfied with the result because that is the main thing in any game, to win it.
"As for the performance, well I thought there were a number of good individual displays but did we play well as a collective unit? I think we could probably have been better.
"The main thing is we are getting results, that is what it is all about."
Burton manager Nigel Clough:
"We were playing against a side who were in the Premier League five months ago, who could afford to change their whole side after winning at Everton in the cup in midweek.
"So to have pushed them so close, and created so many chances, is a good thing, I suppose.
"In the end we were punished for conceding two really poor goals. The second one should never have happened - we had just equalised and you have got to defend better than that from the kick-off."
REACTION: Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough talks to BBC Radio Derby
Match ends, Norwich City 3, Burton Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 3, Burton Albion 1.
Attempt missed. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Timm Klose (Norwich City).
Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Louis Thompson (Norwich City).
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Dorrans (Norwich City).
Goal!  Norwich City 3, Burton Albion 1. Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Josh Murphy.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Shaun Barker replaces Stuart Beavon.
Substitution, Norwich City. Nélson Oliveira replaces Cameron Jerome.
Attempt missed. Robbie Brady (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Foul by Jonny Howson (Norwich City).
Hamza Choudhury (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Josh Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Graham Dorrans.
Substitution, Norwich City. Josh Murphy replaces Jacob Murphy.
Substitution, Norwich City. Louis Thompson replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jon McLaughlin (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City).
Corner,  Burton Albion. Conceded by Timm Klose.
Corner,  Burton Albion. Conceded by Cameron Jerome.
Corner,  Burton Albion. Conceded by Ivo Pinto.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stuart Beavon.
Attempt missed. Martin Olsson (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ivo Pinto with a cross.
Attempt saved. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Robbie Brady with a cross.
Corner,  Norwich City. Conceded by Jon McLaughlin.
Penalty saved! Robbie Brady (Norwich City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  left footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner.
Second yellow card to Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) for hand ball.
Penalty conceded by Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Graham Dorrans (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Will Miller replaces Jamie Ward.
Delay in match Stuart Beavon (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stuart Beavon.
Corner,  Norwich City. Conceded by Tom Flanagan.
Offside, Burton Albion. Tom Flanagan tries a through ball, but Stuart Beavon is caught offside.
Corner,  Norwich City. Conceded by Lucas Akins.
Attempt blocked. Robbie Brady (Norwich City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jacob Murphy.


Tottenham's Mauricio Pochettino is to be approached about the vacant Argentina coach's position, according to reports in the country.

National football association (AFA) chief Armando Perez is to fly to Spain to speak to Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone and Sevilla's Jorge Sampaoli.
And while in Europe he will sound out Pochettino, 44, Argentina FA sources told broadsheet La Nacion.
Ex-Argentina international Pochettino is contracted by Spurs until 2022.
Perez also plans to speak to Lionel Messi. He wants the Barcelona forward and former Argentina captain to reverse his recent decision to quit international football.
Messi made the decision last month after the national side lost to Chile on penalties in the Copa America final. Coach Gerardo Martino resigned a week later, reportedly over problems in naming a side for next month's Rio Olympics.
"It would be gratifying for everyone to persuade Messi to desist from his decision to quit," Perez told reporters.
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Some 30 campaigners have occupied a former town hall and magistrates' court in Stoke-on-Trent.

Save Fenton Town Hall say they are protesting because the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is selling the building.
They say a World War One memorial is at risk of being destroyed if the building is sold.
However, the government has said "a legal covenant" means any buyer would have a duty to preserve the memorial.
The group said they wanted to see the building preserved for community use and were prepared to stay there all night.
The magistrates' court, which was built in 1886 as a town hall, closed in December 2012 as part of government plans to shut 93 courts in England and Wales in a bid to save Â£41m.
The Great War Memorial, which contains 498 names of soldiers from Fenton, is built into the wall of the court.
An MoJ spokesman said: "We are aware of the issue at the court. We understand the police are in attendance and the protest will be a matter for them."


Despite a 33-25 win over Leinster, Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend insists his side must improve in defence.

Four tries from Tommy Seymour helped the Warriors to back-to-back bonus-point Pro12 victories.
But the hosts were trailing by 10 points early in the second half after several soft concessions.
"Defensively we just weren't in our zone today," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"Normally we're a very good defensive team and in the first half we weren't.
"I was very proud with the reaction, second-half they didn't score a try and we went through set after set of putting in much better tackles and keeping our shape."
Seymour's four tries on Saturday added to the brace the winger scored in the opening round hammering of Connacht.
The first came from a beautiful pass from centre Sam Johnson, the second and third interceptions, and the fourth a thunderous set-piece burst.
"Six tries in two games is pretty good," said Townsend. "Tommy's in great physical shape.
"That (first) interception try gave us a lot of confidence that we can defend well, and not only can we defend well but we can score off our defence.
"I think every time he touched the ball after that he did something really positive for our team."
Seymour admitted beating both last season's finalists, with bonus points to boot, was a fantastic start to the Pro12 season.
But he insisted the Warriors will have to tighten up ahead of next week's trip to Cardiff Blues, who also remain unbeaten.
"It was pretty special," said Seymour of his prolific afternoon. "It's a huge win going forward.
"It's very early on in the season - we're obviously incredibly happy, and it's a huge momentum boost beating two quality opposition like that, but we're not getting ahead of ourselves.
"We had the harsh words at half-time and talked about the things we needed to correct, but that's the positive thing about us, we're harsh on ourselves, we're sensible when it comes to taking on the advice that we're giving each other.
"We're not panicking, we're not trying to force things - if you start trying to chase things that aren't coming naturally you often find yourselves on the end of the bigger margin.
"I hope I haven't run the well dry yet. I'm incredibly happy and thankful for the guys inside me having that ability to put those passes in and put me away."


Castleford say they have accepted a settlement "in excess of £200,000" and ended their legal action against their former winger Denny Solomona, Sale Sharks and agent Andrew Clarke.

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Solomona, 23, 'retired' from rugby league to join rugby union club Sale on a three-year deal in December 2016.
The Tigers were seeking £500,000 for Solomona's transfer, as he was contracted to them until 2018.
BBC Sport has contacted Sale for comment and is awaiting a response.
In addition to the compensation payment, Castleford say they will receive a substantial contribution - approximately £100,000 - to their costs.
At the time of the transfer, Castleford chief executive Steve Gill said his club had started legal action "as a last resort", while Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond maintained that the Sharks had "acted legitimately".
New Zealand-born Solomona had signed a new contract with Castleford in the latter part of 2015 and then enjoyed a hugely successful 2016 season, breaking the Super League try-scoring record with 40 league scores for the Tigers.
Since switching to rugby union, Solomona has been capped by England and scored the winning try on his debut against Argentina on 10 June.
Castleford chief executive Steve Gill: "This has been a difficult few months for the club.
"It would have been very easy to walk away and put all of this down to experience but Castleford Tigers is not a selling club anymore.
"We have demonstrated over the last three years that the club is ambitious. We want to maintain our existing squad and continue to improve."
Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood: "Castleford have been resilient and professional throughout this entire process and the Rugby Football League and other member clubs have always fully supported them in defending a position that we believe is right and just."
Dave Woods, BBC rugby league correspondent
Castleford have been lauded throughout rugby league for refusing to be bullied into submission during this case.
Solomona's decision to walk out on his contract with two years to run and claim he had retired, before joining Sale, was described as a "cynical calculation" by Castleford. It is hard to disagree.
But the harsh truth is that Castleford have not missed him. Their recruitment under coach Daryl Powell has been generally impressive.
The man brought in to replace Solomona was Greg Eden, and the new winger is having a phenomenal year with 30 Super League tries already this season. With potentially 14 games still to play, he looks set to eclipse Solomona's record set last year.
The compensation figure is well short of the £500,000 Castleford were chasing, but it is also much more than the £50,000 final offer made by Sale before the court case began.
Nathan Middleton, Sale reporter for BBC Radio Manchester
At the end of a messy few months that has, at times, heightened the rivalry between the two rugby codes, there will be relief that there has been a conclusion six months after Sale announced the signing.
The Sharks were always confident that they were legally on safe ground when signing Solomona but accepted that a transfer fee, or compensation, was inevitable when it went to the High Court.
In many ways everyone has got what they wanted - Cas will feel compensated, Sale have a potential star and Solomona has his cross-code switch finally resolved.
Many Sale fans will argue that he has already paid back a large part of the settlement with 11 tries in his first 15 games in club rugby - form which caught the eye of Eddie Jones and saw him called up at the first opportunity for international honours, where his debut try won England a game in Argentina.
With Sale's takeover last summer, the owners are prepared to pay transfer fees if they must to attract the best players and so the final settlement will not be seen as an issue.


A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 34-year-old man in Glasgow.

The body of Brian Martin was discovered in his flat in Lincoln Avenue, Knightswood, earlier this month.
It is thought he may have been dead for several days before his body was found. His family raised the alarm after becoming concerned for him.
Police said a 35-year-old man had been arrested and was in custody.


Kirsty Williams campaigned for the assembly and has been a member of the institution since day one in 1999.

But looking back over the last 17 years, she sounds like she has mixed feelings about the project - that it hasn't fulfilled its promise.
"I think that's a realistic assessment," she says.
"And it's certainly how many people that I speak to feel about the assembly.
"We had such high hopes that creating this new institution would transform the way in which we delivered public services in Wales and for many people that just hasn't happened."
To be clear, she isn't advocating rolling back the clock and running things from Westminster again.
She just thinks that the assembly needs a change in management.
At the election in May - her fifth and arguably her toughest yet - she'll be trying to convince voters to do that and take out their frustration on the Labour Party.
She'll also be doing her best to try to keep her seat, Brecon and Radnorshire, where the Lib Dems' biggest rivals are the Conservatives.
She and husband Richard, a farmer, live near Brecon with their three daughters.
She tells a story about driving around the area in the days before satellite navigation, using Ordnance Survey maps to find the homes of Lib Dem members and convincing them to nominate her as their candidate.
For nearly twenty years she's helped keep this part of mid Wales a Lib Dem stronghold.
But last year voters here switched to the Conservatives at the general election.
The Tories would dearly love to convince locals to do the same again and kick out Mrs Williams.
They'll waste no opportunity to remind people that in Cardiff Bay she's worked with the Labour government she complains about, including striking deals to help Carwyn Jones pass his budgets.
But she makes no apology for that, saying that despite leading the smallest group in the assembly she's managed to get a Labour government to deliver Lib Dem policies such as increasing funding for the education of school pupils from deprived backgrounds.
"If the budgets hadn't gone through, the entire institution would have collapsed," she says.
"I don't think anybody in Wales would have thanked us for a failing institution - an institution that would have seen its budget slashed and money sent back to London."
Isn't that a bit dramatic? She could have teamed up with Plaid Cymru and the Conservatives to run things themselves.
That three-party rainbow coalition almost happened in 2007 under her predecessor as Welsh Lib Dem leader Mike German.
But Mrs Williams opposed that coalition, and reviving it has seemed an unlikely prospect in recent years.
Nevertheless, she points out that she has occasionally worked with the other two parties to extract concessions from the Labour government.
Support for the Lib Dems has dwindled since they formed a coalition with the Conservatives at Westminster in 2010.
Mrs Williams refuses to criticise that decision.
And if the erosion of her party's vote wasn't enough of a headache, polls suggest the Lib Dems could pay the price for rising levels of support for UKIP.
UKIP look on course to win seats in the assembly for the first time, whereas the Lib Dems will struggle to retain all five of theirs.
Win or lose, will this be her fifth and final election?
She says it's been an "immense privilege" to be a member of the assembly, to represent her constituency and to lead her party since 2008.
"As long as I've got energy and the ideas that I think will make a difference to people I will keep on going."