Former TV weather presenter Fred Talbot should be cleared of sex allegations due to "many inconsistencies" in his accusers' evidence, a jury has heard.

The former teacher denies 10 counts of indecent assault against schoolboys.
In her closing speech, Mr Talbot's barrister asked jurors if they could consider any of the complainants as "reliable and accurate witnesses".
At Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, Judge Timothy Mort has started to sum up the case to the jury.
Four of the alleged victims studied at Altrincham Grammar School where Mr Talbot taught biology, while the other was said to be a pupil at a school in Gateshead whom the defendant met while at teacher training college.
Suzanne Goddard QC, defending Mr Talbot, 65, said: "Since he left Altrincham Grammar School in 1984, he has led a life as a successful, hard-working television presenter.
"There is no suggestion here of Mr Talbot meeting young fans in hotel rooms or make-up rooms at Television Centre.
"Once these allegations came to light, his career has effectively ended."
Mr Talbot, of Bowdon, Greater Manchester, has admitted a sexual relationship with the Gateshead complainant but said it started after the boy turned 16.
Miss Goddard questioned the complainant's evidence that he was 14 when Mr Talbot abused him when the prosecution case was that he was 15.
She asked jurors how they could be sure he was guilty of any of the six counts of indecent assault he faces involving the complainant when he could have the year wrong.
Another complainant gave a "fantastical" account of a naked mock orgy on a canal barge and his evidence was "littered with mistakes", she said.
She labelled evidence from Stone Roses singer Ian Brown, an ex-pupil of Mr Talbot, who said he and a class of 11-year-olds were given masturbation as homework and was also shown a gay porn film as "completely ludicrous".
When giving evidence Mr Talbot admitted he resigned from Altrincham Grammar in May 1984 because he made an indecent proposal to two 14-year-old boys during an astronomy lesson at his home, which he said he was intended as a joke.
Mr Talbot lied to police about why he had resigned, the court has heard.
Miss Goddard said: "He was embarrassed. He did not want the police to know why he resigned because the whole of his burgeoning TV career was on the line."
On Monday, prosecutor Neil Usher told the jury Mr Talbot violated "again and again" the trust of parents.
He did so, not because he was a "monster" but "a very weak and a very selfish man" who would rather submit to his sexual urges towards teenage boys than control his actions, said the prosecutor.
He said that "inconsistencies" the defence might rely on showed the complainants were not reciting a script but "trying their best to remember what happened to them".
Summing up will continue on Wednesday before the jury is expected to be sent out to start its deliberations.


Simon Armitage has been appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.

Armitage saw off competition from poets including Wole Soyinka and AE Stallings, securing 1,221 of the 3,340 votes cast.
He will replace Geoffrey Hill in the role. A new poet is appointed every four years.
Seamus Perry, Professor of English Literature at the university, said he was "delighted" with the appointment.
He said: "Mr Armitage is a distinguished poet and we expect a full house at his inaugural lecture next term.
"We would like to thank Geoffrey Hill for his fascinating and entertaining lectures during his five years in the post. He will be a hard act to follow."
Previous holders of the post include John Keble, Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Christopher Ricks.


Welsh actor Howell Evans who was best known for his TV role playing Daddy in Stella with Ruth Jones, has died, aged 86.

The actor, comedian and singer, who was born in Maesteg, south Wales, also appeared in shows including Coronation Street, Casualty and Open All Hours.
He died surrounded by his family on Tuesday.
Cardiff agents Emptage Hallett said Evans' "warmth, positivity and sense of humour made him a joy to work with".
In a statement, they said: "His love of life and brilliant sense of humour was inspirational.
"We are deeply upset. Howell was a hugely talented actor, a consummate professional and a lovely human being.
"Our thoughts go out to his wife Pat Kane and son Warwick Evans."
Evans' long entertainment career began with a spell as an impressionist touring the war zones from the age of 16.
On tour he met his wife, Pat Kane, a member of a dance group entertaining the troops.
After three years in the RAF, Evans emerged in 1949 to join the Carroll Lewis Discovery Show where he was introduced as "the star from the services".
His wife Pat joined him, and they soon became a comedy double act, working together for many years in music hall, variety, revue and pantomime.
When their son Warwick was born he was taken on tour with them until he went to school, and later followed them into the acting profession.
Evans' TV credits include Welsh favourites How Green Was My Valley and Satellite City, and he also appeared in TV classics, including Holby City and Softly, Softly and Z Cars.
He also played Grandpa Jack in The Story of Tracy Beaker and Mr Bolder in the BBC drama series The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
The Ipcress File and An Englishman That Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain are among his film credits.
He also did a great deal of charity work and still performed his music hall revivals with his wife.


Dunfermline recorded their first victory of the Championship season in some style as they thrashed Inverness Caledonian Thistle at East End Park.

Callum Smith set the tone, and Lee Ashcroft soon doubled the lead.
Iain Vigurs pulled a goal back for Caley but it was only a temporary reprieve as they fell to the foot of the table.
Joe Cardle put Dunfermline 3-1 up, and would add the fifth at the death after David Hopkirk also scored.
Match ends, Dunfermline Athletic 5, Inverness CT 1.
Second Half ends, Dunfermline Athletic 5, Inverness CT 1.
Attempt missed. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Collin Seedorf (Inverness CT).
Scott Lochhead (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Baird (Inverness CT).
Calum Smith (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Collin Seedorf (Inverness CT).
Goal!  Dunfermline Athletic 5, Inverness CT 1. Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Scott Lochhead.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. John Baird (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner,  Inverness CT. Conceded by Lewis Martin.
Attempt blocked. Alex Cooper (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner,  Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Alex Cooper.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Aaron Splaine replaces Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Substitution, Inverness CT. David Raven replaces Iain Vigurs.
Attempt saved. Calum Smith (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Chalmers (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Mark Ridgers.
Attempt saved. Calum Smith (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Brad McKay (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brad McKay (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Scott Lochhead replaces David Hopkirk.
Attempt blocked. John Baird (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Alex Cooper replaces Jake Mulraney.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Felitciano Zschusschen replaces George Oakley.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Martin replaces Jason Talbot.
Foul by Callum Morris (Dunfermline Athletic).
John Baird (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Dunfermline Athletic 4, Inverness CT 1. David Hopkirk (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Kallum Higginbotham.
Corner,  Inverness CT. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT).
Corner,  Inverness CT. Conceded by Kallum Higginbotham.


Exercise can be as good a medicine as pills for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study has found.

The work in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) looked at hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients to assess the merits of exercise and drugs in preventing death.
Physical activity rivalled some heart drugs and outperformed stroke medicine.
The findings suggest exercise should be added to prescriptions, say the researchers.
Experts stressed that patients should not ditch their drugs for exercise - rather, they should use both in tandem.
Too few adults currently get enough exercise. Only a third of people in England do the recommended 2.5 hours or more of moderate-intensity activity, such as cycling or fast walking, every week.
In contrast, prescription drug rates continue to rise.
There were an average of 17.7 prescriptions for every person in England in 2010, compared with 11.2 in 2000.
For the study, scientists based at the London School of Economics, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute at Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine trawled medical literature to find any research that compared exercise with pills as a therapy.
They identified 305 trials to include in their analysis. These trials looked at managing conditions such as existing heart disease, stroke rehabilitation, heart failure and pre-diabetes.
When they studied the data as a whole, they found exercise and drugs were comparable in terms of death rates.
But there were two exceptions.
Drugs called diuretics were the clear winner for heart failure patients, while exercise was best for stroke patients in terms of life expectancy.
Doing exercise regularly:
Source: NHS Choices
Amy Thompson, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said that although an active lifestyle brings many health benefits, there is not enough evidence to draw any firm conclusions about the merit of exercise above and beyond drugs.
"Medicines are an extremely important part of the treatment of many heart conditions and people on prescribed drugs should keep taking their vital meds. If you have a heart condition or have been told you're at high risk of heart disease, talk to your doctor about the role that exercise can play in your treatment."
Dr Peter Coleman of the Stroke Association said exercise alongside drugs had a vital role that merited more research.
"We would like to see more research into the long-term benefits of exercise for stroke patients.
"By taking important steps, such as regular exercise, eating a balanced diet and stopping smoking, people can significantly reduce their risk of stroke."
"Moderate physical activity, for example, can reduce the risk of stroke by up to 27%."


Great Britain's Lizzie Broughton has won silver at the Canoe Sprint World Cup in Portugal.

The 29-year-old, competing in her first international sprint regatta, came second in the K1 1,000 event in Montemor-o-Velho.
Broughton said: "I was happy to get out there and put a good race together.
"I'm always a bit slow off the start so I knew I had to stick at my own thing but I knew in the middle it would all settle down."


When Judith Donald suddenly developed acne at the age of 23 it really knocked her confidence.

"I don't think anyone who has never had it can understand how much it affects you mentally," she told the Kaye Adams programme on BBC Radio Scotland.
Judith stopped going out because she did not want to be seen in public and she had trouble sleeping because of the pain it caused.
Colleagues at work asked if she had chicken pox because of the red spots all over her body.
It got so bad she started to take a prescription drug with side effects such as the risk of migraines, chronic fatigue and in some cases depression.
Judith, now 25, says: "I woke up one morning and I had bumps all over my chin and my forehead, then it just kept getting worse and worse - no amount of make-up would cover them.
"Eventually they developed into big cystic spots that would be really painful and take ages to go away.
"Going through puberty I had a few spots but it was nothing like this experience."
At first she thought it was an allergic reaction to something such as a make-up or face wash.
She says: "It escalated so that it was all over my cheeks, my forehead, my back, my shoulders and my chest. It was quite brutal."
Judith, from Glasgow, went to the doctors and got antibiotics and topical treatments but "nothing worked".
"It just got worse so I stopped going out, stopped going to the gym because I did not want anyone to see me without my make-up," she says.
Judith says she changed her diet and tried different skin cleansers but her dermatologist told her acne was related to genetics.
She says: "My brothers had acne when they were teenagers but nothing like I got."
Prof John Hawk, a specialist in dermatology, told BBC Radio Scotland it was the "tendency" to develop acne and not the severity that could be tracked through families.
He said it was difficult to say why the acne would come on so quickly for Judith in her 20s.
Prof Hawk says: "Obviously Judith had minor trouble before when she was a teenager so she had a tendency for it and the tendency is genetic. That's the basic problem. It has nothing to do with diet or washing your face enough.
"It's a genetic problem in which the pores get blocked by the production of too much oil.
"If they get blocked badly enough the oil-producing glands beneath surface swell up and fill with bacteria which love the stuff that is in the glands.
"Then the glands burst like a balloon and cause a major problem under the skin."
Prof Hawk says: "Acne is incredibly psychologically damaging for anyone who has it even mildly and it is treatable in 99% of cases, although it does take several months."
Judith says her dermatologist offered her the drug isotretinoin (often known by the brand name Roaccutane) in July last year.
She waited until November to decide to take it because of its stated side effects.
She says of taking the drug: "I had migraines for the first two months, tiredness for the first three, nosebleeds, dry eyes and dry lips that no amount of lip salve will solve.
"I also developed eczema on my hands.
"But apart from that I don't feel like I've had too bad a ride with it."
Judith says the tiredness was extreme.
She says she would have to sleep for two hours after work before she could get up for her dinner. She would sleep for 10 or 11 hours a day.
"All the side effects totally outweighed the way I was feeling with my acne," Judith says.
"I hated myself and hated being around other girls who had perfect skin."
Prof Hawk says he has treated thousands of people with isotretinoin and it is not renowned for causing migraines and chronic fatigue.
He says: "It definitely causes a number of things such as dryness of the skin and it definitely causes deformed babies if you get pregnant while taking it but normally it would not do anything more.
"It can occasionally cause slight liver irritation and it can push the cholesterol up but not enough to matter."
He says: "High doses can cause problems but I usually give low doses which tend to work pretty well."
Prof Hawk says that whereas Judith was on a dose of 60mg he might only have prescribed 20mg or 30mg for someone of her weight.
The drug was licensed in the UK in 1983 for the most severe forms of acne which have failed to respond to other treatments.
It must be prescribed by, or under supervision of, a consultant dermatologist.
Some campaigners have questioned whether it is overused.
Manufacturer Roche said 17 million people worldwide had used Roaccutane - a brand name for isotretinoin - and no causal link has been established between the medication and either depression or suicide.
Prof Hawk says: "Depression is something which has been renowned to have been caused by it since it was first introduced in about 1980 but people that have it are usually depressed because they have got acne and quite a few are teenagers and they get depressed because of social circumstances.
"The evidence is strong that it does not cause depression because equal percentages of people get depressed on it as off it. Lower doses would probably not cause as much annoyance.
"This drug has an aura of dreadfulness around it but that it is completely unjustified."
Prof Hawk says: "For mild acne - black heads and white heads - you can use topical things such as benzoyl peroxide which over two or three months tends to settle things.
"If you have red spots which are annoying but not big cysts then antibiotics - anti tetracycline or minocycline - work very well in most people over about three months.
"Isotretinoin is for more severe acne."
Judith has been on the acne drug for four months and has at least two months to go.
She says: "I'm much more confident. I go to the gym without my make-up.
"It's made a phenomenal amount of difference. It's completely changed my life."


A portrait of the Queen by British photographer David Bailey has been released in honour of her 88th birthday on Monday.

The black and white photo, which shows the Queen smiling, was taken in March.
She is pictured wearing pearls, and a dress by Angela Kelly, who has served as personal assistant and senior dresser to her since 2002.
Bailey has previously snapped celebrities such as Mick Jagger, and criminals Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
The Queen celebrates her actual birthday on 21 April, and her official birthday on a Saturday in June, which this year falls on 14 June in the UK.
The photograph, taken at Buckingham Palace, was commissioned on behalf of the government's "Great" campaign, which aims to promote trade, tourism, investment and education throughout the UK.
Over the course of his career, Bailey - who was appointed a CBE by the Queen in 2001 for services to art - has taken pictures of The Beatles, Diana, Princess of Wales and models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss.
The photographer, who grew up in the east end of London, made his name working for Vogue magazine in the 1960s and has also photographed actors Jack Nicholson, Sir Michael Caine and Johnny Depp.
The 76-year-old said: "I've always been a huge fan of the Queen. She has very kind eyes with a mischievous glint. I've always liked strong women, and she is a very strong woman."
Recently-appointed culture secretary Sajid Javid said the portrait would help to support the aims of the campaign, which he said was to "showcase everything that is great about the UK to an international audience".
Fellow photographer Andy Fallon described the portrait as "classic Bailey... it's right back to the types of stuff he was doing in the 60s."
The country's royal heritage is a big attraction for overseas tourists, according to Visit Britain.
Great" campaign director Conrad Bird said the campaign had delivered economic returns worth more than Â£500m to the economy.


A Melbourne schoolboy who travelled to the Middle East to fight with Islamic State (IS) has reportedly died in a suicide attack in Iraq.

Jake Bilardi, an 18-year-old Muslim convert, left Australia last year and flew via Turkey to Iraq.
An image emerged on Wednesday purportedly showing him behind the wheel of a white van with the caption "may God accept him".
The Australian government said it had not been able to confirm the reports.
But Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it was "an absolutely horrific situation".
"It shows the lure of this death cult to impressionable youngsters," he said.
"It's very, very important that we do everything we can to try to safeguard our young people against the lure of this shocking alien and extreme ideology."
Australia estimates that 90 of its citizens are fighting for IS in Syria and Iraq, with 150 more at home sympathetic to the group.
The foreign affairs department said its "capacity to confirm reports of deaths in either Syria or Iraq is extremely limited".
Speaking to a BBC Newsnight reporter in December, Jake Bilardi had said he had travelled to Iraq to become a martyr, and wanted to die in a suicide attack.
"I came here chasing death, I might as well kill as many kuffar (infidels) as I can."
Asked if he would be allowed to change his mind if he wanted, he said: "Yes of course, it's your life, if you don't want to do it you just say so."
The teenager was identified by Australia's Fairfax Media last week. A member of an Islamic youth centre in Melbourne told Fairfax he was a "very quiet guy" who "stuck to himself".
The image published on Wednesday, that appeared to show Jake Bilardi, uses his Islamic name - Abu Abdullah al-Australi. The white van is similar to those used in previous suicide attacks by IS.
Reports suggested at least 13 suicide bombs were simultaneously detonated on Wednesday in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Iraq's Anbar province.
Tweets by pro-IS accounts appeared to link the Ramadi attacks to the teenager, as well as IS militants from Uzbekistan, Russia, Syria, Egypt, Belgium, and Morocco.
The coalition government made it a criminal offence earlier in March for Australian citizens to set foot in the IS stronghold of Mosul without a legitimate reason such as a visit to family.
Any Australian who travels to the city could face 10 years in prison.
Similar restrictions making it an offence for Australian citizens to travel to the Syrian province of al-Raqqa, another IS stronghold, were put in place in December.
Last week, two brothers were intercepted at Sydney airport last week suspected of attempting to join IS.
The boys, aged 16 and 17, raised suspicions as they attempted to pass through customs. They were later released to their parents without charge.


Outgoing UK Athletics chief Ed Warner's legacy will be the "destruction of coaching", says Toni Minichiello, the former coach of Olympic and world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.

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Warner will leave UKA after 11 years at the end of the 2017 World Championships in London, which run from 4-13 August.
In June, Warner said he was leaving athletics in "great shape".
However, Minichiello told BBC Radio 5 live: "There's nothing that's drawing people into the sport to coach."
Warner, who is co-chairman of London 2017, officially handed over his UKA role to successor Richard Bowker last month.
Minichiello said Bowker had "three years to save the sport" and that coaching should be his top priority.
Earlier in the week, Warner told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that there were "some fantastic prospects" and "great talent coming through" in athletics.
Minichiello noted that Great Britain's four individual medallists at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin - Ennis-Hill, Phillips Idowu, Lisa Dobriskey and Jenny Meadows - all had British coaches.
Britain also had four individual medallists at Beijing 2015 but only Ennis-Hill was coached by a compatriot. Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford and Shara Proctor are coached by Americans Alberto Salazar, Dan Pfaff and Rana Reider respectively.
"I sat with Ed Warner in a hotel in Berlin and he said to me 'Britain only has two world-class coaches, what are we going to do?'" said Minichello.
"If you recognise that, what are you going to do about it? And the bottom line is: nothing.
"He didn't employ more coaches, didn't push the education process, didn't professionalise coaching so that he'd leave a legacy of coaches out there doing work, employed in clubs - he didn't take the opportunity, yet he spotted it in 2009.
"And as he's going out the door some eight or nine years later, he's got an OBE for services to athletics and he's suggesting that the sport is in a better place - I disagree."
After Ennis-Hill won Olympic heptathlon gold at London 2012, Minichiello said he was made redundant because he was "not seen as value for money" in coaching only one athlete "regardless of whether she was a medallist or not".
Minichiello was then paid as a consultant leading into the 2016 Games in Rio, where Ennis-Hill won silver, after which the consultancy ended, with Ennis-Hill retiring in October last year.
"Most of the coaches out there are there are volunteers or they've got jobs doing football sprinting, working with rugby clubs or football clubs or working a nine-to-five job," said Minichiello.
UKA says it has 25 individuals in coaching roles on a mixture of employment and consultancy contracts and does not disclose salaries.
England Athletics does not directly provide coaching to athletes and relies on volunteers, but says it provides support and development to coaches, including tutors who "deliver the courses that lead to UKA qualifications".
It added it has 160,000 athletes registered from 1,300 affiliated clubs and organisations and that its 21,000 leaders and coaches - up 9% from last year - "provide a tremendous service".
"There's a point where you have to flip over and think, if the athlete's full time, the coach needs to be full time," said Minichiello.
"Most people are looking for full-time professional coaches who can give them time, and are actually of a quality.
UKA will receive total funding of £27m for the Rio-Tokyo Olympic cycle, which Minichiello says is "for the performance end of the sport" and is not concerned with younger athletes.
"The gap has grown so massively between what happens at club level - which is everybody's first experience of our sport - and what happens at the top end," he said.
He also cited an example of a crowd of three people at the Premier League of British Athletics in Sheffield being asked to help out running the long jump competition.
He said: "Can you imagine: 'Sir Alex Ferguson, can you come out of the stand mate, and hold this hanky and run up the line?' You wouldn't find that in any other sport and this is the top flight of athletics."
Minichiello added he was wary that the success of the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics would gloss over the problems he sees in coaching.
"This is part of Ed Warner's legacy, but it's ignored because we're looking at the grandiose Olympic Stadium, we're looking at the Paras, we're looking at all these tickets sold," he said.
"But you've also got very few tickets sold for the National Championships, you've got a lack of officials, a lack of quality happening at the Premier League."
Warner told the BBC's Dan Roan: "There's something very different between the trials and championship themselves - let's face it we have had over a million tickets to sell this summer to British athletics fans across all of our events.
"I can understand why some fans might choose to want to come here to the Olympic Stadium rather than the warm up of the trials, so I think this is what the sport needs to be judged on and will come through with flying colours."


Former deputy first minister Seamus Mallon has said Sinn Féin used his party leader John Hume in order to gain respectability in the United States.

He told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback that any sacrifice the SDLP made was worth it if it saved a single life.
Mr Mallon said former SDLP leader John Hume was "no fool" but that Sinn Féin leaders played him "like a 3lb trout".
Mr Hume's presence gave republicans a status almost validating what they did in the previous 30 years, he said.
Mr Mallon reiterated previous comments that the British and Irish governments should have made IRA decommissioning a precondition for Sinn Féin's participation in the Northern Ireland Executive.
He blamed the failure to achieve disarmament for the severe political damage suffered by both the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists during the 1990s.
The former deputy first minister said he often regrets not having served as leader of the SDLP, but he had to put the need to look after his seriously ill wife, Gertrude, over his political ambitions.
Mr Mallon remains strongly critical of both the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin's current behaviour, describing them as "the two biggest bullies on each side".
"What worries me most is that the two major parties don't seem to, in their hearts, believe in the whole thesis of the Good Friday Agreement," he said.
"Is the present executive showing any benevolence, except to their own supporters and those who vote for them?"
He said he would not include all executive parties in his criticism, because it is a "two-party show".
Mr Mallon also said that while the other parties were negotiating for two years prior to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Féin had already done their negotiations with the Irish, British and American governments.
"They had their understandings on the release of prisoners, on the factors that they wanted. In other words they had almost written the script," he said.
"Stitch-up is a word that can be used in a very loose way.
"Let's say it was not the furthest thing from the minds of the governments that, in effect, the two greatest bullies would be best suited to govern the people of the north of Ireland."
Mr Mallon said that Sinn Féin had used then SDLP leader John Hume.
"He gave them the thing that they were looking for and that was a respectable image in the United States," he said.
"I think he was so immersed in the whole business of getting peace that he didn't, or couldn't, come to grips with the fact that his presence with them gave them, especially in the United States and in Ireland, a status that almost bordered on validating their actions of the past 30 years."
In a statement, a Sinn Féin spokesperson said: "It is unfortunate that Seamus Mallon talks of his one-time party leader in this fashion, especially given John Hume's current health.
"And in spite of the naysayers, which included Seamus Mallon and much of the Irish establishment, the courage and the vision of John Hume and Gerry Adams and others brought about the Irish peace process and an end to the conflict.
"The Hume/Adams document of 1993 became the catalyst for the achievement of the Good Friday and other agreements, which have underpinned the peace and political processes.
The statement continued: "Mr Mallon also seems to be particularly embittered at the fact that the electorate has consistently rejected the increasingly negative politics of the SDLP, which he once personified.
"We should also remember that Seamus Mallon in his role of deputy first minister, didn't even speak to his co-equal, First Minister David Trimble, and that the political institutions collapsed repeatedly on their watch."
Seamus Mallon's interview on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback is available to hear again on the BBC Radio iPlayer.


Great Britain's Carly Tait earned a silver medal in the T34 100m at the IPC European Athletics in Grosseto, Italy.

Tait clocked 20.46 seconds as Russia's Veronika Doronina won in 20.10 at the six-day meeting - the last major competition before the Rio Paralympics.
Jonathan Broom-Edwards won bronze in the T42-44 high jump with 2.07 metres.
GB sprinters Richard Chiassaro (25.30) and Richard Whitehead (12.46) set championship records in the T54 200m and T42 100m semi-finals respectively.
Despite taking a medal on her international debut in Tuscany, Tait, who will compete in the 400m on Sunday, said: "I'm disappointed - that's not the best time for me. I felt confident lining up but I'm not entirely sure where things went wrong."
Whitehead, who like Chiassaro will be going for gold on Sunday, said of his time: "It's about putting a marker out there.
"I saw Daniel Jorgensen set a championship record in the heat before so I just wanted to nip it a little bit. 12.46 - can't grumble with that."
There was another championship record for Sophie Hahn, who recorded 27.44 seconds in the women's T38 200m.
Ireland's Deirdre Mongan took bronze in the F53/F54 shot put with a throw of 4.23 metres, while Vanessa Daobry was fourth on her Great Britain debut in the F34 shot put with 6.46m.
Elsewhere, Poland's F40/F41 shot put world champion Bartosz Tyszkowski added 21cm to the world record he set at last year's World Championships as he threw 13.64m in winning gold.
World champion Vanessa Low of Germany beat local favourite Martina Caironi with a championship record of 4.71m in the T42-T44 women's long jump final.
With 171 medals up for grabs, the European Championships are a key opportunity for athletes to earn qualification standards for the Paralympics.
The GB athletics team for the Games will be announced in two phases - the first later this month and the remainder next month.
A-Z guide to Paralympic classification


Mercedes are "absolutely favourites" for the 2017 Formula 1 title, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner believes.

The world champions will still be the team to beat despite new rules and the problems they are having replacing title winner Nico Rosberg, Horner says.
"Mercedes have a few things going on with drivers and technical staff but they have a very strong team," he said.
"It will be interesting to see who they opt for in their spare seat because their options look relatively limited."
Rosberg announced his retirement five days after winning his first world championship last month and Mercedes have approached Williams in the hope of persuading them to part with their Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas.
But so far no agreement has been reached and Mercedes' fall-back option remains their reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein.
Horner, who was speaking to BBC Radio 5 live for the BBC F1 Christmas review show, was also referring to the likely departure of Mercedes executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe to Williams.
But he said that he believed either Bottas or Wehrlein were potential front-runners if the Mercedes car is competitive.
"You give these guys a chance," Horner said. "Let's see what people can do in a front-running car.
"If they did take Wehrlein or Bottas, both are probably both capable of running right at the front, you just don't know until you give them the chance, which is what we did with Sebastian Vettel, and Daniel Ricciardo.
"A lot of people were saying we should take Kimi Raikkonen at the time we took Ricciardo. Until you give them the chance, you don't really get to see if they can cut it at the front."
Carlos Sainz, who races for Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso, has also been linked to the Mercedes seat. The world champions are said by a source to have expressed some interest but have not made a formal approach for him.
But Horner said neither he nor lead Red Bull drivers Ricciardo and Max Verstappen were available.
"Why would we do that?" Horner said. "Carlos has done a great job. He is a Red Bull driver. We have invested in him to get him into F1 and they are all on long-term contracts so it wouldn't make any sense to feed one of your main opponents with one of your assets."
Horner said that the team may have approached differently the last race of 2016 has they known of Rosberg's decision - Mercedes ordered Hamilton to speed up when he was trying to back Rosberg into rivals.
"The problem is this call has come so late in the day and they obviously weren't expecting it. They would probably have supported Lewis a bit more in the last race if they'd known this was going to happen.
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"They will now the contractual situations of the drivers they are involved with but their choices are pretty limited."
Asked for his view on Rosberg's decision, which came only four months after he signed a new contract with Mercedes to the end of 2018, Horner said: "It's a personal thing.
"He was probably concerned that if he told them before the event they would perhaps have not been as enthusiastic for him to win the championship.
"So you can understand it from a personal point if view.
"But of course that doesn't serve the best interests of the team, it's a very late call. He only signed a contract a couple of months ago. Then he was obviously happy to continue and then had a change of heart."
Listen to the BBC 5 live F1 review show on 21 December at 21:00 GMT and 24 December at 12:00 GMT.


Sir Bradley Wiggins says Team Sky are shocked that Geraint Thomas has not won the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality award before.

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Thomas, 28, was voted the 2014 winner by the public.
It follows a successful year for the cyclist who went straight from his highest-placed finish in the Tour de France, to win Commonwealth Games gold in the Road Race and bronze in the Time Trial.
Wiggins presented Thomas with the award at a pre-season training camp in Mallorca.


Malcolm Glazer, the billionaire who led a controversial takeover of Manchester United, has died aged 85.

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The Glazer family purchased United for £790m in May 2005 amid protests from the Premier League club's fans.
"Malcolm Glazer never set foot in Old Trafford but was a figurehead of that controversial takeover of Manchester United.
"In terms of practicalities and the day-to-day running of the club, very little will change and the business will continue to be run on the same basis it has been for a number of years.
"The club's debt payments have been reduced, but I think it is fair to say fan anger over those debts remains and will not go away."
However, they went on to win five Premier League titles and the Champions League under his ownership.
The New York-born American's sons, Joel and Avram, took over the day-to-day running of the club after their father suffered a stroke in April 2006.
"The thoughts of everyone at Manchester United are with his family," said a spokesman for the Premier League club.
The club's Dutch striker Robin van Persie, 30, tweeted: "My condolences go out to the Glazer family and friends."
The Glazer family retain a 90% share in United - split equally among Glazer's six children - with 10% listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Glazer, who never actually set foot inside Old Trafford, gradually bought out United shareholders between 2003 and 2005.
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His takeover was largely funded by loans secured against the club's assets, a move that took them heavily into debt and sat uneasily with many fans at Old Trafford.
Manchester United Supporters' Trust vice-chair Sean Bones said: "It would be inappropriate for me to make any comment about the death of Malcolm Glazer as I didn't know him or his family personally.
"However, as a supporter, I am aware of the detrimental effect the Glazers have had on the football club and the huge debt that has been placed on Manchester United."
Supporters' group Shareholders United were one of the most vociferous anti-Glazer voices during the takeover, and in the aftermath.
In 2010, a group of lifelong United fans made up of City bankers and lawyers set up the Red Knights consortium in an attempt to buy the club with the support of fans, but their plans failed.
The club had no debts before the Glazer family takeover but now owe around £400m. Yet, despite a turbulent 2013-14 season which resulted in the sacking of manager David Moyes, United still generate record revenue, with turnover set to exceed £418m in the 2013-14 financial year.
Football finance expert Professor Tom Cannon from the University of Liverpool told BBC Radio 5 live: "He had a massive impact on the club. He loaded them with a lot of debt while at the same time building up their commercial side until it became a global phenomenon, so two very striking differences.
"Floating 10% of the club on the New York Stock Exchange made the club more exposed to the vagaries of the stock market and some would argue one of the factors that led to the dismissal of David Moyes was the fact that the stock market was declining, the price was declining."
Glazer was also the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he will be remembered much more fondly for turning one of American football's least successful franchises into Super Bowl winners following his takeover in 1995.
Former Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden, who led the team to that Super Bowl triumph, said: "He was a friend and a trailblazer. I'll miss him and I thank him for believing in me. My condolences to the Glazer family and to the Bucs organization."
The Glazers are a very close knit but large family. There's no doubt Malcolm Glazer was the patriarch who led the initiative and in a sense held them together.
One of the concerns now might be whether you get the situation you've seen in the past, even in English football, where you get divided opinions within members of the family - some wanting to sell, to cash in, some wanting to hold on. That's going to be the big question in the short to medium term and of course the next few weeks are crucial for Manchester United and it may be there's a hiatus while they sort out that kind of issue.
Football finance expert Professor Tom Cannon
Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp, who played a major part in the Super Bowl XXXVII success, tweeted: "One time for my owner & great man #RipBoss."
Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy also took to Twitter to pay tribute: "Rest in peace to the driving force that helped transform the organization that changed my life forever. Forever grateful!!"
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell added: "Malcolm Glazer was the guiding force behind the building of a Super Bowl-champion organisation.
"His dedication to the community was evident in all he did, including his leadership in bringing Super Bowls to Tampa Bay. Malcolm's commitment to the Bucs, the NFL and the people of the Tampa Bay region are the hallmarks of his legacy."
Glazer's business career started when he took over the family watch-parts business aged 15, following the death of his father.
He invested in other businesses and acquired a diverse portfolio of international holdings and public companies, including First Allied, Zapata Corporation, Houlihan's Restaurant Chain, Harley Davidson, Formica, Tonka, Specialty Equipment and Omega Protein.
Glazer is survived by his wife Linda, his six children and 14 grandchildren.


Aviation giant Airbus says it will file a criminal complaint over allegations that German intelligence helped the US carry out industrial espionage.

German media reports suggest the country's spy agency BND collected data on European firms at the behest of the US National Security Agency.
An Airbus statement quoted by AFP news agency said it was "alarmed" by the reports but did not want to speculate.
The company said it had asked for more information from the German government.
"We are aware that large companies in the sector, like ours, are targets of espionage," read the statement.
"However, in this case we are alarmed because there is concrete suspicion."
Leaks from a secret BND document suggest that its monitoring station at Bad Aibling checked whether European companies were breaking trade embargos after a request from the NSA.
Embarrassment in Berlin - the BBC's Jenny Hill writes:
There is mounting pressure on the German government to disclose how much it knew about the espionage.
In the firing line is Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who in 2008 was the minister in charge of the chancellery and directly responsible for the BND.
He insists he knew nothing about malpractice within the secret service.
Tabloid newspaper Bild printed a picture of Mr de Maiziere on Wednesday- his nose elongated to Pinocchio proportions.
"Herr de Maiziere!" the accompanying headline screamed, "You lie with impunity!"
Spy scandal turns tables on Merkel government
Airbus was named by the German press as one of the firms that was targeted.  It is believed that BND eavesdropped on online, phone and other communications in order to gather information.
It is also alleged that it spied on France's presidential palace and foreign ministry, and the European Commission.
According to the reports, the agency did not target German or US officials in the surveillance, as they are protected by a BND-NSA agreement signed in 2002.
However, it has emerged that the German government knew about NSA spying on European arms businesses as early as 2008. The government found "shortcomings" in the BND's operations, German TV reports.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has denied claims of a cover-up.
Mr de Maiziere said he had no knowledge of malpractice at German intelligence agencies, but called for the internal BND report to be presented to a parliamentary committee.


It's Budget week, which means that the first couple of days are devoted to parliamentary loose ends, chores and time-marking, until the Chancellor rises from his seat on Wednesday.

So MPs will round off their detailed consideration of the Scotland Bill (watch out for the cross-party amendment on powers over abortion) and debate some, as yet, unannounced Opposition motions. All of which will leave time for plenty of ferment, plotting and manoeuvre. And there's plenty going on in the undergrowth.
First up: what's with the Speaker? In the last Parliament, there were plenty of backbenchers who deplored his appearance in simple gown, worn over a suit "like a prep-school geography master at prize-giving".
Suddenly he's wearing a smart topcoat, although the colourful ties, much deplored by traditionalists, remain dazzlingly in evidence. Commons kremlinologists suggest this is evidence of an ambition to serve beyond his pre-advertised departure time of some point in 2018. The thinking is that, having survived the Conservative coup attempt at the end of the last parliament, Mr Speaker has come to an accommodation with his former party - certainly his trademark savagings of (mostly Conservative) MPs have become less frequent.
Second, there's a whole lot of plotting going on: Conservative "outers" (Eurosceptic is a pretty obsolete term these days) are busy networking to ensure they return from their summer holiday ready to do battle over the terms of the EU membership referendum, when detailed debate on the Referendum Bill resumes.
They are quite determined not to be caught unawares if the amendments promised by ministers on issues like government campaigning and "purdah" don't meet their expectations.
And there's plenty of internal intriguing too. Who should chair the Commons Liaison Committee - the super-committee of select committee chairs, best known for its once-a-term sessions quizzing the prime minister? At the moment, as the senior member (he entered Parliament in 1979), Labour veteran Frank Field is performing this particular chore. But Treasury Committee Chair Andrew Tyrie and Public Administration Chair Bernard Jenkin are candidates for the longer term. Both disclaim ambition, and, in truth, the chair of the Liaison Committee is hardly the most exciting gig in politics.
But apart from its sessions with the PM it does have considerable behind the scenes clout on the committee corridor; it controls the travel budget for committees, for example. And both Mr Tyrie and Mr Jenkin have strong ideas about strengthening the committee system. Mr Jenkin was rebuffed by the prime minister when he called for a powerful parliamentary commission to be set up (along the lines of the one on Banking Standards Mr Tyrie chaired) to look at the future of the Civil Service.
And Mr Tyrie has long argued for more back-up for committees.  The electorate's the committee membership and insiders tell me the winner will be the one most likely to keep meetings to an hour or less.
Inside the machine, I hear that the interviews begin next week for the newly-created head of the Commons admin, the director general. This was the post created out of the kerfuffle, last year, over the attempt to install the Australian Parliament official Carol Mills as the new Clerk of the House. The D-G will be ever so slightly below the Clerk in the official pecking order, but with a right of access to the Speaker and the Commons Commission in the event of a disagreement; their actual working relationship with the Clerk will be crucial to the running of the Commons. There are rumours of an all-women short list.
Here's my rundown of the week ahead:
Monday
The Commons opens at 2.30pm with Home Office questions - with the usual caveat that any ministerial statements or urgent questions arising out of events at the weekend will follow at 3.30pm.
Then it's the fourth and final committee stage day on the Scotland Bill - with amendments and new clauses down on everything from rescuing the monarchy to preventing parking on pavements: the Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg has several amendments designed to ensure that the Scottish Parliament continues to contribute to the cost of the monarchy.
Other highlights are a new clause proposed by the SNP to take full legislative competence over the management of the Crown Estate in Scotland - this is a big deal involving control of the coasts and tidal energy and offshore wind.
There are a series of SNP amendments and new clauses devolving powers over emergency vehicles, industrial relations, equal opportunities, agricultural levies, rail services, party political broadcasts and health and safety and broadcasting to the Scottish Parliament
Labour have an amendment requiring gender balance among the MSPs and members of boards of Scottish public authorities. And the Labour MP Graham Allen has a number of clauses seeking to strengthen the power of local authorities in Scotland.
Perhaps the most intriguing is a cross party amendment from Right-to-Lifers John Pugh, Fiona Bruce and Robert Flello transferring competence over abortion to the Scottish Parliament. The Conservative Edward Leigh has a similar amendment but, in addition to abortion, it also devolves xenotransplantation, embryology, surrogacy, genetics and medical supplies.
In the Lords (2.30pm), oral question include one from the Tory constitutionalist Lord Lexden on extending full voting rights to all UK citizens overseas before the referendum on UK membership of the EU.
A couple of short debates are scheduled - Labour's Baroness Berridge on the contribution of Britain's ethnic minorities to faith communities and public institutions in the UK and the Lib Dem Baroness Tonge on the political situation in the Gaza strip.
The subject of the day's legislating is the European Union (Approvals) Bill, where the key issues are the draft decision in relation to the Tripartite Social Summit for Growth & Employment; and on FYR Macedonia having observer status in the work of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
The remainder of the Childcare Bill committee stage will follow.
Tuesday
The Commons gathers at 11.30am for Health questions and then there is the first ten minute rule bill of the new Parliament, on Football Governance (Supporters' Participation) - Labour MP Clive Efford's bill would require football clubs to offer their supporters a proportion of their shares, when the club changes ownership, and that a minimum number of places on the club board should be reserved for directors elected by a qualifying supporters organisation.
That will be followed by Opposition Day debate - subject to be announced.
In Westminster Hall, Grimsby MP Melanie Onn leads a debate on coastal flood risk (9.30am - 11am)  - 4,000 properties in her constituency are under threat.
The next subject (11am - 11.30am) sees SNP MP Margaret Ferrier raise the transportation of nuclear warheads - there was concern when it emerged that in January nuclear weapons had been transported through the centre of Glasgow in spite of gale force winds and weather warnings.
And in the main afternoon session (2.30pm - 4pm), Bob Stewart, who was the former British UN Commander in Bosnia a few years before the Srebrenica massacre, leads a debate on the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
In the Lords from 2.30pm there are debates on two reports from Lords select committees - first on the Constitution Committee report on office of the Lord Chancellor, and then on the European Union Committee report on a post-crisis EU regulatory framework.
Wednesday
The Commons meets at 11.30am for International Development questions, followed at noon by prime minister's question time.
Then, George Osborne delivers his first un-coalitioned Budget Statement. By ancient tradition dating back to the Stuart kings, the Budget session is chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, in his capacity as Chairman of Ways and Means (apparently the then Speaker was seen as the King's placeman, so the House voted to bypass him and resolve itself into a Ways and Means Committee to debate taxation - and the tradition has persisted.)
The day's adjournment features cabinet exile Dr Liam Fox on the long-term economic plan for the south-west of England.
In Westminster Hall, Sussex Conservative Nick Herbert leads a debate (9.30am - 11am) on the performance of Southern Railways, the company which serves his constituency. He's followed by Keith Simpson (11am - 11.30am) on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads - he's called for greater accountability at the Broads Authority in the past.
The big afternoon debate (2.30pm - 4pm) is on the Report of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict - led by Labour MP Holly Lynch.
And the final debate, led by the Conservative Daniel Kawczynski, (4.30pm - 5.30pm) is on the distressing subject of the cremation of infants in England. Between 1996 - 2012 a new cremation technique at the Emstrey crematorium in Shrewsbury meant that families did not receive the ashes of their deceased babies.
In the Lords (3pm) questions to ministers include one from Viscount Hanworth on stocks of plutonium at Sellafield.
The main debate is on reports into investigatory powers - a parallel debate to the one held in the Commons recently. Essentially this is a voice-taking exercise on the report from David Anderson QC on giving the intelligence services powers to monitor activity on the internet.
The Lords may be the place where any bill to enact these powers runs into real trouble, so will Anderson's proposal to give judges rather than ministers the power to sign warrants mollify the legion of human rights lawyers in the Upper House? Inquiring minds will want to know. If anything this debate may give a better indication of what can be put through Parliament than the one in the Commons.
Peers will then canter through all stages of the European Union (Finance) Bill: as a money bill, they're not expected to do much more than rubber-stamp it.
Thursday
At the very start of Commons business (9.30am) the long-running guerrilla war over the Transport for London Bill will resume.
Don't blink, it'll be over very quickly, but the bill to give TfL additional powers to form partnerships with developers for its property portfolio has long been opposed by a small cross-party group of MPs. Normally this kind of private bill is simply nodded through to detailed consideration by a committee, but they have objected every time it has appeared, and already in the new parliament they have blocked one attempt to nod through a "revival motion" to allow it to be re-introduced. All that has to happen is that someone has to shout "object," and the bill is blocked...this could go on for quite a while.
Then MPs move on to Culture, Media and Sport questions, and a short session of questions about in-house matters to the House of Commons Commission and Leader of the House - the first since the publication of a huge report on the state of the parliamentary buildings and the options for refurbishment, a subject which may well dominate the session. That's followed by the Leader's weekly Commons Business Statement
The main event is the second day of the Budget debate - on a theme to be announced.
In the Lords (11am), questions include an eye-catching offering from the Lib Dem ex-minister Lord Wallace of Saltaire on the security risks of converting former government buildings into private hotels along the State Procession route.
Then peers move on to a series of debates on subjects chosen by backbenchers, starting with the obstetrician and cross bench peer, Lord Patel's debate on the sustainability of the NHS as a free public service.
Lord Alton of Liverpool raises the subject of the displacement of refugees and migrants from Asia and Africa. Finally there's the Lib Dem Lord Storey on mental health services in schools and colleges.
Neither House is scheduled to sit on Friday


Scientists have developed a new way of scanning the heart that could predict who will have a heart attack.

It has the potential to revolutionise treatment for one of the biggest killers in the world, says the team at the University of Oxford.
It works by analysing the fat and inflammation around arteries to see which are a ticking time bomb.
And it could allow high-risk patients to be given more intensive treatment to avoid a heart attack or stroke.
The researchers were looking at the role of inflammation in heart disease.
Inflammation is that red, swollen and sore feeling you get after a cut - but the same process plays out in all the tissues in the body.
On the inside of your blood vessels, inflammation is linked to the build-up of unstable plaques. These can break apart, block a coronary artery and starve the heart of oxygen - namely a heart attack.
"The holy grail in cardiology is the ability to pick up inflammation in coronary arteries, it's been a challenge for the past 50 years," said Prof Charalambos Antoniades, one of the researchers.
The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, shows inflammation changes the behaviour of fat around the outside of blood vessels.
When there is inflammation, the fat starts to break down and the surrounding tissue becomes more watery.
This can be picked up by analysing CT scans, which are already a part of heart health exams.
The redder the tissue appears, the greater the level of inflammation and the greater danger.
This study is just the appetizer - it showed the changes can be detected in people who are already having cardiac surgery.
The main course should arrive by the end of the year. The team is going over 2,000 heart scans to see how good their method is at predicting heart attacks in people who appear healthy.
Prof Antoniades told the BBC News website: "This technology may predict who will have a heart attack in the future.
"It means you could go to your GP, change your prescription and prevent it before it happens."
For example, it could show somebody who appears healthy is in the early stages of heart disease and needs cholesterol-lowering statins.
Or somebody could be at seriously high risk and needs more drastic interventions.
Prof Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said: "Discovering which plaques are likely to rupture, so people can be treated before such a devastating event strikes, is a major objective of current research.
"If the technique lives up to its promise in larger trials in patients, it could lead to more effective treatment to avoid a potentially fatal heart attack or stroke."


More than £2m is being spent restoring original features at two historical parks.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded £1.6m to Margam Country Park near Port Talbot, which overlooks Swansea Bay.
A further £583,400 will be used to reinstate formal gardens at Wepre Park, Connah's Quay, Flintshire, as well as pay for other improvements.
The HLF said it was committed to supporting historic parks in Wales.
Margam park attracts more than 200,000 visitors a year.
Neath Port Talbot council said the money will be used to maintain buildings which include the remains of a 12th Century monastery, Georgian orangery as well as 19th Century Margam Castle.
The park also includes wood pastures, parkland and a walled deer park.
"This new project will be a big step forward in preserving and enhancing our local heritage for the benefit of residents and visitors alike," said Ali Thomas, leader of Neath Port Talbot which secured the funding.
In May, Flintshire council said it hoped to restore features at Wepre Country Park.
It was once the estate gardens and parkland to the Georgian Wepre Hall, which was flattened more than 50 years ago.
The money will go towards the creation of a community garden, improved footpaths and interpretation to help visitors explore the story of the park, its old hall gardens and the ruins of 11th Century Ewloe Castle.
"This funding will ensure that it is improved upon and safeguarded for future generations," said Flintshire council leader Aaron Shotton.


Getting into League One will be "easy" for Forest Green, says owner Dale Vince after they reached the English Football League for the first time.

Sunday's 3-1 promotion final win over Tranmere at Wembley saw Forest Green go up to League Two via the National League play-offs.
"Getting out of this league is so difficult, with just one automatic spot - and we're out," said Vince.
"Getting into League One, I do think will be easy. There are four slots."
Promotion ended the Gloucestershire club's 19-season stay in the fifth tier.
Vince, who has ambition to take the Nailsworth outfit up to the Championship, is the owner of electricity company Ecotricity and has established Forest Green as the world's first 'vegan' football club.
"Some people say we're crazy to dream of the Championship but we've taken the first big step," Vince added to BBC Radio Gloucestershire. "That's fantastic."
Three sides are promoted automatically from League Two to League One each year, with a further promotion slot via the play-offs.
By contrast, only the National League champions join the EFL automatically, with the teams in second to fifth competing in the play-offs.
Forest Green had finished second last term - losing to Grimsby in the 2015-16 promotion final - having also reached the play-offs the previous season, but will go up this summer after a third-placed finish.
Sides to win promotion from non-league and then go on to play above League Two in recent years include Fleetwood - who spent just two seasons in the fourth tier before promotion in 2014 - and they played in the League One play-offs this term.
Meanwhile, Championship side Burton - who only left non-league football in 2009 - also progressed through the tiers relatively quickly, while current League Two side Crawley Town went up to the third tier in 2012 just one season on from leaving the National League.


"My government will also bring forward legislation to secure a strong and lasting constitutional settlement, devolving wide-ranging powers to Scotland and to Wales."

Scotland and Wales may have featured in the same sentence in the Queen's Speech but the two countries are being offered rather different devolution - at different speeds.
The Scotland bill is expected to be published on Thursday, with a statement to MPs on the transfer of taxation and welfare powers. The Wales bill is expected - in draft form - in the autumn with "the real legislation" to be debated next year.
The change to a "reserved powers" model - setting out more clearly which powers are reserved to Westminster - means effectively re-writing the Welsh devolution settlement and ministers say they'll take their time to get it right even if they miss the "100 days" target set by Chancellor George Osborne.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb told The Wales Report on May 20: "â€¦in the autumn you'll be able to open a copy of the draft legislation, that will give you an opportunity to say to others 'does this legislation look right? Has it been drafted correctly? We will be listening and taking views on that and then in the New Year, we will bring forward the final, if you like, the real legislation that will go into Parliament and get voted on."
The other key question is "fair funding" - which at first glance appears noticeably absent from the Queen's Speech briefing material we were given. The UK government says the details of its pledge on this will come alongside the next spending review, the date for which has yet to be set.


Air displays have been cancelled at Chris Evans' CarFest South event following new regulations introduced in the wake of the Shoreham disaster.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said vintage jets would not be allowed to perform "high-energy aerobatics" over land until further notice.
At least 11 people died when a Hawker Hunter crashed into traffic on the A27 in West Sussex on Saturday.
CarFest North was hit by tragedy when a pilot died in Cheshire on 1 August.
Kevin Whyman, 39, was killed when his Folland Gnat aircraft crashed during an aerial display at Oulton Park.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is carrying out an investigation.
In a statement, the CarFest South organisers said the decision had been taken as both a mark of respect and in consideration of the CAA's airshow review.
"We send our heartfelt condolences to all of those affected by the terrible incident on Saturday," they said.
"We hope to hold future air events at future festivals and would like to offer our support and good wishes to the air display community."
The event in Hampshire takes place at Laverstoke Park Farm from 28 to 30 August.
A flypast by the Gnat Display team honouring Mr Whyman will still go ahead on Saturday afternoon and will be accompanied by a minute's silence.
Mr Evans, a car enthusiast who has recently been named as the new presenter of BBC Top Gear, created the motoring and music festival which raises money for BBC Children in Need.
Displays that were set to take place at CarFest South included Abarth Extra 300, Huey, The Old Buckers and Night Flight Pyros.


A British man has been jailed in the US for offering an undercover detective $30,000 (Â£24,000) to kill his ex-wife.

William John Wallace, of California, was going through child support and custody hearings at the time, Orange County District Attorney (DA) said.
A private detective he hired alerted police to his request to kill his wife.
Mr Wallace, 36 and thought be from Walsall, in the West Midlands, got nine years for admitting attempted murder and solicitation to commit murder.
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country
During the custody and child support court hearings in 2013, Mr Wallace, of Santa Ana, hired the private investigator to try to find negative information about his partner that could be used against her when child support payments would be decided.
He subsequently told the private investigator that he wanted his ex-wife killed and asked him if he knew of anyone who would do it and dispose of her body, the district attorney's office said.
The investigator informed police about Mr Wallace's request and on 21 December, Mr Wallace unknowingly met an undercover detective from the Orange County Sheriff's Department and offered him $30,000 to carry out the murder, giving him a photo of his wife for identification purposes.
Mr Wallace asked that the murder take place after 23 December as he would be leaving the US for Christmas, officials said.


Safety measures at all UK civil air shows have been enhanced following the Shoreham air disaster.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it had reviewed every aspect of air display safety.
Tony Rapson, the CAA's head of general aviation, said the cause of the Shoreham crash was still not known but from this year all air shows would have tighter requirements.
A vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 on 22 August, killing 11.
The jet had been performing aerobatics at the annual Shoreham Airshow when it plummeted to the ground. This year's show has been cancelled.
The CAA is enhancing requirements for permissions to hold a display; training and checks for people overseeing displays; requirements relating to the experience, skill and health of display pilots; and the role of examiners who oversee display pilots.
Measures taken in the aftermath of Shoreham will also remain in place - they saw all Hawker Hunter jets grounded, ex-military jets restricted to fly-pasts over land and air shows subject to enhanced risk assessments.
Mr Rapson said millions of people attended air displays - more than 5.7 million in the UK in 2014 - and the CAA had looked at how it could make displays "even safer and even better".
He said this year would see a move towards formal training for flying display directors who would either have to attend a pre-season symposium or an individual briefing.
From 2017, a formal two-day course will be in place.
Mr Rapson said the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) was investigating the Shoreham incident while the CAA had looked at regulations for all air displays.
He said: "We still don't know the cause of the Shoreham accident but when they [the AAIB] make recommendations, the CAA will respond."
The aviation chief explained restrictions and precautionary measures put in place following the Shoreham crash would remain in place because the CAA could not assess them until it had seen the AAIB's conclusions.
Both the CAA and AAIB have yet to make their final reports.
Colin Baker, one of the directors of Shoreham Airshow, said managers of the show had always complied fully with CAA regulations and entirely supported the ongoing CAA review.
He said: "We will closely examine both the updates announced today and the CAA's next report, due for publication after the AAIB investigation is completed, when we consider the future of the airshow from 2017 onwards."


A tradesman lied to police when he said he had been injured while tackling a knife-wielding man dressed as a clown.

Simon Chinery, 28, of Blackburn, Lancashire, told the BBC his right hand had been left unusable after the attack on Sunday night, and said he feared he could no longer work as a joiner.
But Lancashire Police established he had instead hurt his hand while "falling on broken glass".
He has been issued with a penalty notice for wasting police time.
Mr Chinery had claimed he was injured as he tried to disarm the "clown" on Haslingden Road, Blackburn.
A police spokesman said: "After looking into this report we have established that the man was not attacked by a clown and had in fact injured his hand falling on broken glass.
"We are aware that widespread media coverage of this allegation may have been unsettling for local residents and we would like to reassure the public that no crime has taken place on this occasion.
"We work extremely hard investigating serious crime and our time needs to remain focussed on genuine incidents."


Cuba has said it will welcome back doctors who deserted while serving on government-backed programmes abroad.

The health ministry said doctors who fled in those circumstances would be guaranteed a job in Cuba and would incur no punishment or loss of status.
Some 25,000 Cuban doctors are currently working abroad in programmes organised by the island's communist government.
In the past, most Cubans who fled the country were banned from returning to the island, often for long periods.
The offer has also been extended to doctors who were allowed to emigrate on official visas, under a more open policy introduced in 2013 by President Raul Castro.
The Cuban government says it has some 50,000 health workers engaged in health projects in 68 countries. Half of them are doctors.
Critics say the highly-trained professionals are underpaid, while the Cuban government charges other countries for the service and make significant profits.
"We have agreements with other governments, by which we are compensated, with benefits to both sides," reads a health ministry statement published on the Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
"But we will continue to provide free assistance to the nations that request it. That is the case at the moment in Haiti, Niger, Honduras, Eritrea and other countries."
The United States previously accused Cuba of coercing doctors and other professionals to travel abroad and work in government programmes.
But last month the US State Department removed Cuba from its list of countries that fail to combat human trafficking.
"The Government of Cuba does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so," read the annual State Department report.


Petra Kvitova has regained the use of her racquet hand but there is still no "concrete date" for her return after a knife attack at her home in December.

Kvitova, 27, was stabbed by an intruder in Prostejov in the Czech Republic.
Doctors had said the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon champion would be unable to compete for at least six months.
"Petra's recovery is continuing as planned, but everything is up in the air as to her return," her spokesman, Karel Tejkal, told AFP.
Tejkal said Kvitova's psychological recovery had been "very encouraging" and that she had been fitness training in the Canary Islands.
"Petra uses her hand without problem for daily activities. Of course, the hand is weakened but at first glance you can't see that she was injured," he added.
"But at the moment no-one can give a concrete date."


The Cheetahs and the Southern Kings are set to be invited to join the Pro12 after it was announced they would leave Super Rugby which is cutting its number of teams from 18 to 15.

The South African franchises, who played their final Super Rugby game on Friday with the Cheetahs defeating the Kings 21-20, would join 12 teams from Wales, Italy, Ireland and Scotland from September.
Pro12 board members are set to meet in Dublin on Tuesday, 18 July to discuss the tournament's immediate future with the South African sides expected to join - with the Bulls, Sharks, Stormers and Lions maintaining their Super Rugby status.
But what do we know about them?
Who are they?
Known as the Toyota Cheetahs, the franchise area encompasses the western half of the Free State province, the same as that of provincial Currie Cup side the Free State Cheetahs.
The Cheetahs were one of the two new franchises that entered the expanded Super Rugby competition in 2006, alongside Australia's Western Force.
Where do they play?
They are based at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein. The stadium had its capacity increased to 48,000 for the 2010 World Cup.
How successful have they been?
In their first season the Cheetahs finished 10th in the final standings out of 14 sides. Their best regular season finish was in 2013 when they were sixth.
In 2017 the Cheetahs finished second in the Africa I conference, but seventh out of eight in the South African standings and 13th overall. They won four out of their 15 games.
Who has played for them?
Some of the famous Springbok names include Os du Randt, Juan Smith, Willie le Roux, Heinrich Brussow and Cornal Hendricks.
Dragons pair Sarel Pretorius and Rynard Landman also represented the Cheetahs before moving to Wales.
Current Springboks include back-rower Oupa Mohoje and wing Raymond Rhule.
Who is the coach?
On 17 July, 2017, the side announced a coaching staff switch, with Franco Smith becoming the new director of rugby and Rory Duncan the head coach of the Cheetahs and Free State Cheetahs.
Smith is a former Springboks outside-half and centre who made 27 appearances for Newport after making his debut 1999.
Smith also coached Treviso before taking over the role as Cheetahs' head coach in 2015.
Who are they?
The team were created in 2009 to play the British and Irish Lions on their tour of South Africa, a match the Kings lost 20-8.
After initially failing to gain a Super Rugby franchise, the Kings were awarded a place in the 2013 competition.
For their debut season the Kings' catchment area was made up of the Eastern Cape and parts of the Western Cape, drawing players from three provincial unions.
After the South African Rugby Union (SARU) took over the running of the franchise in November 2015, the franchise had no formal ties to any of the provincial unions.
Where do they play?
The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is a 46,000-seater stadium in Port Elizabeth on the Eastern Cape. It was one of three coastal stadiums to host during the 2010 World Cup.
How successful have they been?
After making their debut in 2013 the Kings were relegated after losing the two-legged match with the Lions. They missed the 2014 and 2015 seasons before returning for 2016.
In 2016 they won just two out of 15 matches, finished bottom of the four teams in the Africa 2 Conference, seventh in the South African Group and 17th overall, with just the Japanese Sunwolves team finishing the season with a worse record.
In 2017 the Kings again finished bottom of the Africa 2 Conference but were fifth in the South African standings and 11th overall. The Kings won six out of their 15 games.
Who has played for them?
Scarlets supporters will know one of their former players in lock David Bulbring.
Former Leicester outside-half Jaco van der Westhuyzen played in the opening game against the Lions in 2009 and kicked a penalty.
Ex-Bath and Springboks flanker Luke Watson also turned out for the Kings.
There are no notable Springboks in the current squad with back-rower Andisa Ntsila, second-row Wilhelm van der Sluys and prop Schalk Ferreira some of their prominent performers
Who is the coach?
Former back-row or lock forward Deon Davids has been the Kings head coach for the last two seasons in Super Rugby.
He previously played and coached for Boland.
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Presenter Claira Hermet and her family have been speaking about the devastation of losing her mum and sister to breast cancer.

In a documentary airing on Tuesday night on BBC Radio 1, she talks with her dad about what it was like.
The 1Xtra DJ is recovering from a double mastectomy - a procedure she went through to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer.
Claira inherited a gene which increases the risk of developing the disease.
"I'm not depressed and upset and sad about it daily but it's always there. I think about it the whole time," says her dad Howard Hermet.
He says that when his wife, Jane, was first diagnosed at the age of 39, he believed her breast cancer was "curable".
"But as time went on it obviously progressed into something a bit more serious," he explains.
"As far as Jane was concerned, we sort of knew within the last five or six months that there was nothing more that could be done.
"I remember breaking down then and it was really terrible for a few weeks and so by the time she died I was sort of numbed to it because I'd done the crying and everything beforehand."
Jane died at the age of 43.
Claira's sister Emily was told she had breast cancer when she was 25.
"I think probably the worst thing was she went straight to the surgeon in Harley Street and he said that they had operated and that unfortunately it was an aggressive cancer," says Howard.
"The fact that he said it was aggressive was quite devastating. That word means that the chances are the patient is not going to survive."
Emily was 31 when she passed away.
Speaking about the aftermath of his wife and daughter's deaths he says: "We go forward and we do things and we keep going on but it's still affected everything.
"I can't change it. It's something in the past that I can't change but it has definitely affected the whole of my life
"And with Emily the same."
Claira says she decided to have the operation because it meant she didn't "have to worry" any more.
"I don't want my life to end and when I think about that it's heartbreaking because that must be the worst feeling in the world.
"You don't want to die, you're not ready to die and there's nothing you can do."
Howard says: "I don't think you ever come to terms with that [knowing you're going to die] apart from when your illness is getting so bad in the end all you want to do is relieve the pain.
"Emily was in such pain at the end and so was Jane."
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"That's the new guy, he has a lot to learn."
"A lot, a lot to learn."
That was Fernando Alonso's radio exchange at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when Will Stevens - making his F1 debut - refused to yield his position to the former world champion.
For Stevens to take on a godfather of the sport in his first race in the sport certainly showed character.
That character stood him in good stead for 2015, as he set about developing his craft in very difficult circumstances.
Manor, the team he joined, were revived at the 11th hour from the collapse of Marussia, barely making it into the paddock for the first race of the season, and that lack of preparation meant Stevens had to make do with battling at the back of the grid, learning on the fly.
Despite the situation he found himself in, Stevens did well, starting 17 races and retiring on just three occasions.
With his strong Essex accent and love of wearing his baseball cap back to front, Stevens is a distinctive figure, at odds with some of the privileged, well-spoken drivers on the grid.
Whether he will be alongside them once again next year remains to be seen, with Manor still to confirm their drivers for 2016.
Having commendably navigated a tricky learning curve this season, if he is retained, Stevens will be able to show Alonso just how much he has learned.
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Music mogul Simon Cowell has been honoured with the Music Industry Trusts Award in London.

One Direction presented their mentor with the award during a tribute-filled ceremony on Monday.
Cowell, 56, was honoured with the 24th MITS Award in recognition of his contribution to music, entertainment and charitable causes.
Previous honourees include Sir Elton John, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Tom Jones and Kylie Minogue.
Cowell, well known as a judge on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, owns the TV production and music publishing house Syco, a joint venture with Sony Music.
His acts include Little Mix, Susan Boyle and Ella Henderson, as well as X Factor finalists One Direction.
The MITS Award evening featured performances by Labrinth, Il Divo and Olly Murs, who are also signed to Syco
Leona Lewis, who became Cowell's protege after winning The X Factor in 2006, also sang at the event.
Oprah Winfrey, Richard Curtis, James Corden, Kevin Spacey and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini were among those who praised Cowell in a video tribute shown during the ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
The evening was hosted by radio presenter Jo Whiley in front of 1,200 guest in aid of music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT School.


The cell behind the Barcelona van attack had planned to use explosives against monuments including the city's famous Sagrada Familia church, a suspect has told a Madrid court.

Mohamed Houli Chemlal is one of four surviving suspects who gave evidence.
He and Driss Oukabir have both been charged with membership of a terrorist organisation and murder.
Salah al-Karib has been detained pending further investigations, while Mohammed Aallaa was released on bail.
According to Houli Chemlal, the group's plans - which he had known of "for at least two months - were scaled back when a house packed with bomb-making equipment blew up the day before.
He was injured in the accidental blast that reduced the house to rubble in the town of Alcanar.
The Alcanar explosion came the day before Thursday's Barcelona attack in which a van was driven at speed down the main Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 and injuring more than 100.
Judicial sources quoted Houli Chemlal as telling the court a much bigger series of attacks had been planned.
Assailants killed a total of 15 people in the van attack, the stabbing of a driver whose car was commandeered shortly afterwards, and a car attack in the resort of Cambrils hours later.
Eight members of the cell are dead - two were killed in the Alcanar explosion, and six were later shot by police, including five after the Cambrils attack.
The last suspect to be killed was Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, believed to be the driver of the Las Ramblas van.
Wearing a fake explosives belt and armed with knives, he was shot dead by police in a vineyard west of Barcelona on Monday.
The surviving suspects were moved, under high security, from Barcelona to Madrid for Tuesday's hearing.
The court session, a preliminary hearing to gather evidence for a future trial, took place behind closed doors.
Houli Chemlal was the first to testify, wearing hospital pyjamas. He is still being treated for his injuries from the blast in Alcanar.
Oukabir, whose brother Moussa was among suspects killed after the Cambrils attack, has also given evidence to the Madrid court.
According to judicial sources, he has changed his story to say that he admits renting the van used in the Las Ramblas attack but thought it was to be used for a house-move.
Under earlier police interrogation, he is said to have maintained that his brother Moussa hired the van using documents stolen from him.
Both have been held in jail.
Two other suspects were killed in the Alcanar explosion, including Abdelbaki Es Satty, the Moroccan imam from the town of Ripoll thought to have been a radicalising influence on the suspects.
The two other suspects appearing in court were:
All four suspects giving evidence are reported to have testified that Es Satty was the ringleader of the group.
As Tuesday's Madrid hearing took place, Ana Suárez, a Spanish woman in her 60s killed in Cambrils, was buried in a private ceremony in Zaragoza.
Forty-five companies in a Catalonia association of undertakers and funeral companies have offered to perform funerals for the victims without charge.
Most of the 12 suspects lived in Ripoll, north of Barcelona close to the French border. All were young men of North African descent.
Police have been conducting new raids -  at an internet café in Ripoll and at an apartment in Vilafranca, south-west of Barcelona.


National League side Torquay United have signed winger David Fitzpatrick on a 28-day loan deal from AFC Wimbledon.

The 21-year-old former QPR youngster, who joins a side 18th in the table, has made 11 appearances for the Dons since signing for them in September 2014.
But just two of those have come this term - both in the EFL Trophy.
"He will give us width and pace that we have been looking for, along with great delivery and an eye for goal," said Gulls player-manager Kevin Nicholson.


A woman who tried to launder £55,000 of stolen cash through Rangers Supporters' Association Boys Club has been told to carry out 260 hours unpaid work.

Margaret Stewart admitted stealing from her employer Ivanhoe Cambridge, which used to own Glasgow's St Enoch Centre.
She then used her position as treasurer at the boys club to pay cheques into its account before taking the cash.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Stewart, 48, from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, was also told to repay £27,000.
The court previously heard that Stewart worked in the accounts department of Ivanhoe Cambridge UK, which sold the St Enoch Centre in 2013.
Between May 2008 and January 2011 she had managers at the firm sign cheques that were supposed to be used to make legitimate payments.
Stewart would then write over the payee name and insert the football team's name.
The money would go to the club before Stewart took it for herself.
She was caught after a bank spotted a problem with one of the cheques from Ivanhoe Cambridge and phoned her office.
Stewart then immediately confessed to her superiors and a payment plan was put in place for her to repay the money.
The court heard that although more than £5,000 was repaid, the plan was not completed and her house was put on the market.
The house was rendered worthless due to Japanese Knotweed, and Stewart was later reported to police.
Stewart appeared for sentencing on Thursday having earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling the money.
The court heard that Stewart's husband had been jailed in 2003 for three-and-a-half years for drug dealing and she had resorted to theft to repay the debts that he wracked up.
Imposing a community payback order, Sheriff Linda Ruxton told Stewart that her embezzlement was "deliberate and systematic" but she accepted the "impact on her of her husband's criminal behaviour".
The Rangers Supporters' Association Boys Club was founded in 1960 for boys between five and 17-years-old.
Former players include Barry Ferguson, Lee McCulloch, Graham Dorrans and Charlie Miller.


Athletics chiefs have been criticised for denying a medal favourite entry to London Stadium amid attempts to control an outbreak of norovirus at the World Athletics Championships.

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Botswana's Isaac Makwala, 30, had hoped to run in Tuesday's 400m final.
He was earlier withdrawn from the race on medical grounds by officials from the sport's governing body, the IAAF.
"The manner in which this decision was arrived at is disturbing," said Botswana Olympic boss Falcon Sedimo.
Public Health England says 30 athletes and support staff have been affected by sickness at the Tower Hotel in London - though the hotel is not the source of the outbreak.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has insisted it gave clear communication to the Botswana delegation that Makwala would not be allowed to run following a medical examination.
But Botswana Olympic Committee CEO Sedimo told BBC Sport: "There has been no official communication, no formal communication from the IAAF at all. We found out from the media that he could not take part and he is heartbroken.
"There have been no medical tests at all, it's just generalised assumptions because of the outbreak of sickness and he has just one of those symptoms."
Botswana medical team member Simon O'Brien said Makwala showed no symptoms of the bug and blamed "poor communication" from the IAAF for Makwela missing the race.
"He's fit, he's very well, he's prepared to run, and he's just being kept away by the IAAF," he added.
Makwala had been considered the main threat to Olympic champion and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk in the event. The South African went on to defend his world 400m title with a dominant display on Tuesday evening.
He earlier told BBC Sport he would be "devastated" to miss out as he was fit to race - despite having also been withdrawn from Monday's 200m heats.
But when he attempted to pass through the athletes' entrance to the stadium, an official and security personnel barred his way.
Botswana officials said they had received no explanation as to why Makwala was not allowed entry and had not been told to keep the runner in quarantine.
Some athletes have questioned the decision. Former British 400m runner Dai Greene tweeted: "I was really ill in the build up [to the 2010 Commonwealth Games] in Delhi as were so many others! But nobody stopped us racing or tested us."
After winning gold, Van Niekerk said: "I would love him [Makwala] to have his fair opportunity. I believe he would have done very very well at these Championships. I've got so much sympathy. I really wish I could give him my medal."
The IAAF said Makwala's absence was "a sad case" but it is insistent it has communicated with the Botswana delegation each step of the way. It says its medical staff examined Makwala, who demonstrated symptoms of having contracted a virus.
Notes taken by a doctor showed the athlete had been vomiting over an 18-hour period - though Botswana's O'Brien believes a mistake may have been made as Makwala was with him during some of this period and showed no symptoms.
Pam Venning, head of medical at the IAAF, told BBC Sport: "I have to trust my doctors."
She said Public Health England guidance was to place athletes in quarantine to reduce the risk of infecting many more competitors at the championships and added: "My role is to ensure the healthcare of all the athletes here and it's a very infectious and very virulent disease."
A separate statement from governing body later clarified: "The team doctor, team leader and team physio had been informed following the medical examination that the athlete should be quarantined for 48 hours and would therefore be missing the 400m final on Tuesday."
Venning also said "all the other teams" with affected athletes had adhered to IAAF instructions.
Several German and Canadian athletes staying at the Tower Hotel fell ill last week.
A further 30 Germans due to arrive on Tuesday were moved to other hotels.
German triple jumper Neele Eckhardt collapsed but was well enough to compete on Saturday, and took part in Monday's final.
The Ireland team, who are also staying at the hotel, have confirmed that one athlete - 400m hurdler Thomas Barr - has been affected.
The Tower Hotel said investigations conducted with environmental health officers and the athletics governing body had shown the hotel was "not the source of the illness". That has also been confirmed by Public Health England.
Michael Johnson, four-time Olympic gold medallist
The IAAF may soon realise they have got this horribly wrong as to why they have chosen to disqualify Makwala.
Does this apply to other athletes? If you collapse, you are OK but if you vomit you aren't OK?
There is a lot of inconsistency here.
And then of course, there is the elephant in the room - Wayde van Niekerk's only challenger has been pulled out of both the 200m and 400m. The conspiracy theories will come out of the silence.
Michelle Roberts, BBC Health
Stomach bugs that cause diarrhoea and vomiting are very common and easy to catch. You can get them from eating contaminated food or through contact with people who have got gastroenteritis.
If that infected person doesn't wash their hands before handling your food or touching objects and surfaces that you then touch, there's a good chance you could get sick too.
A person with gastroenteritis is most infectious from when their symptoms start until a couple of days after all their symptoms have gone.


A cyclist who suffered life-changing injuries when an "out-of-control" dog's lead caught in his spokes has received £65,000 in compensation.

Anthony Steele was hurt when the dog's tether got tangled in his wheel in Heysham, Lancashire, in August 2012.
He suffered fractures to his skull, shoulder and ribs and a permanent loss of hearing in one ear.
The 59-year-old said he made the insurance claim "so people are aware of the dangers of retractable dog leads".
Mr Steele was training on Heysham promenade for the Coast to Coast cycling event with around 10 other riders when he saw "a small white dog dart across my path".
"I had no idea of the severity of my injuries suffered until I had come round in hospital."
He said he had not cycled since his fall and now suffers from "permanent hearing loss, dizziness, headaches, balancing issues and pain in my right shoulder".
He added that he could not "quite believe all of this has been caused by someone who could not control their dog".
The compensation, which was awarded to help with his rehabilitation, was agreed in an out-of-court settlement ahead of a hearing in Manchester.


Plans to protect two storm-hit beaches on the Jurassic Coast from future flooding have been awarded £3m.

West Bay's east and west beaches in Dorset were affected by flooding last year and in 2014.
West Dorset District Council has approved £3m over five years towards the £7m protection scheme, which also affects Park Dean caravan park.
The Environment Agency previously said East Beach was at risk of being "significantly lost" due to flooding.
Waves have previously overtopped the sea wall and flooded the road and properties behind West Beach.
District councillor John Russell said the works were "essential" as residents have previously had to "build-up protection" for their homes themselves.
A public consultation on the Environment Agency and West Dorset District Council plans was held last year and earlier this year.
Proposals at West Beach - where the beach is narrowing towards the eastern end - include strengthening the flood wall to "avoid failure and flooding of properties behind the wall, without increasing the height", a 23m (75ft) extension to the existing groyne and the construction of a new 45m (148ft) groyne.
At Park Dean the embankment will be "reprofiled" under the plans and a vertical wall will also be built along the caravan park boundary.
A rock structure could also be constructed and buried under the sand at East Beach, as well as a new sea wall, set back from the seafront.
If approved construction is expected to take place between next autumn and spring 2020.


Senegal's government has told hotels to improve security or face closure, after recent terror attacks in the region.

Authorities would have no choice but to close hotels which failed to introduce the measures in the coming days, the interior minister told local media.
Terror attacks on hotels in nearby Mali and Burkina Faso have left more than 50 dead since November.
Senegal is one of the most popular tourist destinations in French-speaking West Africa.
Thirty people were killed in an attack last week by Islamist militants on the luxury Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou.
Armed police have been stationed at major hotels since the deadly attack on a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako in November, the BBC's Abdourahmane Dia reports from Dakar.
Interior Minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo told MPs on Thursday that Senegalese security forces would be stepping up patrols to guard against possible attacks.
Senegal has so far avoided a major attack by Islamist militants.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) said it was behind both of the recent attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso.
It is based in the Sahara Desert, moving between Mali, Niger and Algeria.


Edinburgh defeated Jed-Forest 29-19 in a frenetic Melrose Sevens final to lift the Ladies Cup trophy.

Tongan duo Will Helu and Otulea Katoa cancelled out Gregor Young's opening try in the first half.
Sam Beard and Nathan Fowles looked to have made the game safe, but Jed responded with a brace of their own
Hulking Samoan Sasa Tofilau blasted through two tackles to seal Edinburgh's victory with the last play.
No amateur team has won the tournament since the host club prevailed in 2011, and that trend continued with Roddy Grant's Edinburgh, on their first invitation to compete, crowned champions following wins in the past two years by inter-city rivals Glasgow Warriors.
Edinburgh knocked out Melrose in the semi-final, having defeated GHA and Heriot's.
Meanwhile, Jed-Forest saw off the challenge of Selkirk, the visiting Belgium side and Edinburgh Academicals.