Turkey's main share index closed 10.47% down following investor concerns over the escalation of anti-government protests over the weekend.

The Borsa Istanbul 100 index tumbled as investors feared the demonstrations could hit the economy, and the Turkish lira fell to 16-month lows.
Demonstrators nationwide clashed with police after water canons and tear gas were used to control crowds.
The protests were originally sparked by plans to build on an Istanbul park.
As well as sharp falls in the stock market, there was also a big rise in the cost of insuring Turkey's debt against default.
By Hugh PymChief economics correspondent, BBC News
The eurozone may be struggling economically, with another year of contraction forecast, but one of its neighbours is booming.
Turkey's growth this year is forecast by the OECD to be 3.1%, with a 4.6% expansion predicted for 2014.
The key question now is whether the growth story will be shaken by the current political unrest.
For exporters in leading European economies, such as Germany, France and the UK, Turkey is a promising market place.
With its expanding army of consumers and a relatively youthful population, Turkey has created openings for leading brands.
Marks and Spencer has nearly 50 stores in Turkey operated by a franchise partner. Major corporations, as well as governments, will be watching developments in Istanbul with some anxiety.
"The risk clearly is that this all just drags on. I would expect the Turkish authorities, particularly the central bank to be active in re-assuring investors," said Timothy Ash, head of emerging markets research at Standard Bank.
Turkey's central bank cut its main interest rates by 50 basis points last month in a bid to stimulate the faltering economy. The central bank has been trying to boost its economy with rate cuts since the middle of last year when economic growth slowed sharply.
Turkey's economic growth was just 2.2% in 2012 after rising more than 8% in both 2010 and 2011.
However, in a significant boost for the emerging economy country, Turkey was upgraded by Moody's last month, making its debt investment grade for the first time in two decades.
The rating agency credited its upgrade to "structural improvements and institutional reforms in the economy as well as public finances", which it said would better insulate Turkey from external shocks.
However, Robert O'Daly, Turkey analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told the BBC that the attractiveness of investing in Turkey was now under threat.
"These protests could have a substantial impact. Aside from short-term volatility on stock portfolios, the wider issue for Turkey will be the difficulty of attracting foreign direct investment, such as for real estate projects."
Mr O'Daly said investors were likely to put investment decisions on hold until the situation in Turkey became clearer.
Protests over the demolition of Gezi Park to make way for the rebuilding of an Ottoman-era barracks, reportedly to house a shopping centre, began on a small scale earlier this week, but have escalated into violent demonstrations.
Protesters said the park was one of the few green spaces in Istanbul, and were angry at the loss of public space for commercial purposes.
The interior minister said that 1,700 people had been detained in the nationwide unrest.
Mosques, universities and shops are being turned into makeshift hospitals to deal with the injured.


French cyclist Nacer Bouhanni was badly concussed in a crash on the final stage of the Tour de Yorkshire.

The 26-year-old was knocked unconscious in a heavy fall just 25km from the finish in Sheffield on Sunday.
In a statement on Monday, the Cofidis team said Bouhanni was "still stunned" and had headaches and "vision problems", but no broken bones.
Bouhanni, who won Saturday's second stage, will have a further examination later this week.
Belgian Serge Pauwels won Sunday's final stage to secure the first race victory of his career.


No tie and the top two buttons undone - Sinn Fein's Phil Flanagan had a look of the rebellious schoolboy about him in the Northern Ireland Assembly earlier this week.

And if he was breaking the rules, then speaker and party colleague Mitchel McLaughlin played the tough headmaster.
He could not deliver 100 lines but he delivered a dressing down for not dressing up and breaking the assembly's dress code.
"You are well aware that it (the code) applies to you," he told Mr Flanagan.
He would, he said, be "rigorous" in making sure all MLAs  followed suit. But what suit?
The scolding sparked a lively debate on social media about what was the right way to dress for the chamber.
A Northern Ireland Assembly spokeswoman has confirmed that there "is no exact dress code" adding: "The speaker expects members to wear 'business attire'".
"In a ruling by the speaker on 19 June 2007, the speaker addressed the issue of dress code in the chamber," she said.
"In a leaflet on rules of behaviour and courtesies in the House, distributed to all members in January 2014, the ruling was reiterated as follows: 'While there is no exact dress code, the way in which you dress should demonstrate respect for the House'."
Some social media users described the ruling as "archaic" and compared the rules in Northern Ireland with the laid-back look of independent Irish TD Mick Wallace - sporting a green t-shirt in the Irish Parliament.
The dress code in the Irish Parliament (Dail) is not as strict.
Since the 1980s, Independent TD Tony Gregory wore a jacket, but never a tie, and jackets are not worn by mainly left-wing TDs such as Mr Wallace and Richard Boyd-Barrett.
According to the Code of Parliamentary Standards in the Irish Parliament, "Members should dress in a manner that reflects the dignity of the House".
In previous years, proposals for a more formal code from some parties has been met with stiff resistance by others.
The parliamentary dress code in the House of Commons is similar to that of the Northern Ireland Assembly. It has been broken too.
In October 2014, Labour MP Harriet Harman wore a t-shirt with the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like" to Prime Minister's Questions.
Speaking at the time, a House of Commons spokesman said: "If a member's dress is not in line with the conventions of the House and it is brought to the chair's attention, he acts accordingly."
Limited rules on members' dress are set out in Erskine May, the official parliamentary rule book.
It says MPs should not wear military insignia or uniforms in the Commons and the custom is "for gentlemen members to wear jackets and ties".
Women are expected to dress in "business-like" attire.
In 2010, one Labour MP complained that some women MPs had been "rocking up in a mixture of denim and knee length boots".
Following Phil Flanagan's scolding, opinion on the parliamentary dress code on social media was divided with some saying they would expect smart clothing to be worn, although one Twitter user did ask, "Does a tie really matter?"


Carlos Tuimavave scored two tries for the second week running as Hull FC overwhelmed Salford Red Devils in their Super 8s opener at the KCOM Stadium.

Manu Vatuvei's first try in the English game put Salford ahead before Albert Kelly and Tuimavave hit back for Hull.
Niall Evalds and Robert Lui scored as Salford led again, only for Jake Connor's penalty to bring Hull level.
Second-half Hull tries from Fetuli Talanoa, Connor and Tuimavave ensured victory before Vatuvei got a second.
While the double from New Zealand winger Vatuvei ensured he marked his Super League debut in fine fashion, it was not enough to inspire the Red Devils to victory on what was their first Super 8s fixture, having twice previously fought for Super League survival via The Qualifiers competition.
Defeat extended Salford's losing run to five matches, including their exit from the Challenge Cup at the semi-final stage to Wigan a week earlier.
Hull, the Challenge Cup holders who booked a Wembley final return with victory over Leeds last weekend, boosted their Super League semi-final aspirations with a win that lifts them three points clear of fifth-placed Salford.
In a tense first half, the Red Devils twice had Hull chasing the game, with Evalds coming up with the game's finest individual moment, a stunning slaloming effort from 60 metres out after 29 minutes.
While it was enough to help Salford rebuild their lead, it was short lived as parity was restored by the break and a missed opportunity by the visitors after the interview allowed Hull to race away to an ultimately comfortable win.
Hull head coach Lee Radford:
"I hope the 8s are going to be quicker as that wasn't a great advert for our game and I hope that improves. We did enough to get the result.
"This win sets us up nicely for Saints [in the next game] and I'd love to go and put a sterling performance in against a side in good form.
"It should be a good contest. The next two games are big for us."
Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester:
"We need a win, a feel-good factor about the place again and that confidence.
"You want these challenges, you don't want the challenges we had last year with the Million Pound Game.
"The better players and individuals should be stepping up to the plate now and saying that this is the level they want to be playing at, this is the level for me, and putting their best performances out there. Some are and some aren't."
Hull FC: Shaul; Fonua, Griffin, Tuimavave, Talanoa; Kelly, Connor; Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Manu, Washbrook, Ellis.
Replacements: Green, Thompson, Michaels, Fash.
Salford Red Devils: Evalds; Johnson, Welham, Bibby, Vatuvei; Lui, T Carney; Walne, Tomkins, Hauraki, McCarthy, Jones, Krasniqi.
Replacements: O'Brien, Kopczak, Griffin, Murdoch-Masila.
Referee: Jack Smith.


Wells Fargo's chief executive, John Stumpf, is to resign immediately in the wake of a scandal over its sales practices, the bank has announced.

The bank is investigating how two million accounts were opened without customers' permission.
Last month, it said Mr Stumpf, who was paid $19.3m last year, would not receive a salary during the inquiry.
He will be succeeded by the bank's current president and chief operating officer, Timothy Sloan.
The bank's independent chairman, Stephen Sanger, will take over as board chairman.
Last month, Wells Fargo was fined $185m and accused of "widespread illegal practice" by US regulators.
The fine imposed on the bank by the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the largest to date by the watchdog.
"While I have been deeply committed and focused on managing the company through this period, I have decided it is best for the company that I step aside," Mr Stumpf said.
Wells Fargo has fired more than 5,000 staff in response to the scandal.
The bank has said it will be contacting every deposit customer across the country to see if their accounts were properly authorised.
It will also contact hundreds of thousands of customers with valid credit cards to see if they want or need those cards.
In the future, confirmation emails will be sent to customers within one hour of the opening of a new deposit account.
The bank's former head of retail operations, Carrie Tolstedt, has forfeited $19m of bonuses and left without a payoff.


A man attempted to rape a woman on a late night train while her partner was in the lavatory, police have said.

The 27-year-old victim was on the delayed 22:24 GMT train from Sheffield to Leeds on Saturday.
British Transport Police said she was targeted prior to the train departing when sitting alone by the window.
Her partner had gone to the toilet and after he left, the offender sat down next to the woman and attempted to rape her.
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Her partner returned from the toilet unaware of what had happened and physically moved the offender from his seat.
Police said the incident happened on the delayed train, which left Sheffield at 22:40 GMT from platform 1B.
Det Con Ian Grice said the victim was being supported by specially-trained officers.
He appealed for information and said: "Sexual offences of this nature on the railway network are rare, but are understandably incredibly distressing for the victim."
The man is described as white, late 20s to early 30s, with brown hair and wearing a blue Puffa jacket.
He was with another man, also white, aged late 20s to early 30s, wearing a black Puffa jacket.
The victim and her partner got off the train at Swinton, but police said it is not known where the other men alighted.


A doctor who died in a crash on his way home from work had been singing on the phone to his wife to help keep him awake, an inquest has heard.

Dr Ronak Patel, 33, was using a hands-free phone shortly before his car hit a lorry in Honington, Suffolk.
PC Mark Webb told an inquest in Bury St Edmunds that "the most plausible explanation" for the crash was that he fell asleep at the wheel.
Dr Patel, of Ixworth, died at the scene on 3 August last year.
The inquest heard he had finished the third of three night shifts at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and wanted to get back home, rather than sleeping at the hospital.
The trainee anaesthetist's VW Golf collided head-on with a lorry on the A1088 Ixworth Road, at Honington, shortly before 09:00 BST.
In a statement read at the inquest, Helen Patel said: "We were singing to keep him awake."
When her husband's phone cut off suddenly, she had tried unsuccessfully to call him back 14 times. She then started to drive along his route home but was met by police who said there had been a crash.
A police accident investigation ruled out mechanical defects and road conditions as possible causes of the crash.
PC Webb said: "It is my opinion that the most plausible explanation for the collision was that Dr Patel fell asleep which prevented him from having appropriate control of his car."
Lorry driver Peter Stimpson said in a statement he had seen Dr Patel's car come around a bend and start to drift across to the wrong side of the road.
Mr Stimpson said that despite braking and pulling his lorry to one side, there was nothing he could do to avoid the impact in which severe damage was caused to both vehicles.
Assistant Suffolk coroner Yvonne Blake recorded a conclusion that Dr Patel had died as a result of his car being involved in a collision with a heavy goods vehicle.


A quarry worker has died in an accident at a site in Northumberland.

Emergency services were called to Harden Quarry near Rothbury on Wednesday at 10:30 BST, after an alert was issued by the site operator Tarmac.
Adam Donaldson, 22, who was working for a contractor, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is carrying out an investigation into the incident, which is understood to have involved a tractor.
A spokesperson for Tarmac said: "We can confirm with great sadness that our colleague, Adam Donaldson, working for a contractor, lost his life at Harden Quarry in Northumberland yesterday morning.
"Our thoughts are with Adam's family, friends and colleagues.
"We are cooperating fully with the authorities and supporting the Health and Safety Executive with their investigations, so cannot comment further at this stage."
County councillor Steven Bridgett said: "It is with great sadness that I have learned, following an incident at Harden (Biddlestone) Quarry in Upper Coquetdale, that a member of staff at the site tragically lost their life.
"We are a close knit community in Coquetdale and on behalf of the residents of the valley I would like to offer our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family."


National League side Torquay United have signed Worcester City striker Shaun Harrad on a deal until the end of the season.

Harrad, 31, made 17 appearances in four months with National League North club Worcester.
The ex-Burton and Notts County forward finished last season on loan at Cheltenham, scoring once in 12 games as they were relegated from League Two.
"We've signed a proven player," said Gulls player-manager Kevin Nicholson.
"Things maybe have not gone so well for him at Worcester this season, but that only adds to the appeal as I have a good, experienced player on my hands with a point to prove."
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Stuart McCall has agreed a deal in principle to begin a second spell as Bradford City manager.

The 52-year-old left Rangers last year after they missed out on promotion from the Scottish Championship.
His appointment, which could be confirmed this weekend, would result in him giving up his role as number three to Gordon Strachan with Scotland.
The former Bantams player would take over from Phil Parkinson, who has moved to relegated Bolton Wanderers.
McCall, who was in charge of Bradford from 2007 to 2010, will be in opposition to Parkinson's side in League One next season should he be confirmed as manager.
The former Everton, Rangers and Sheffield United midfielder was manager of Motherwell in Scotland's top flight for four years after leaving Bradford in 2010.
He took over as Rangers manager on a short-term basis in March 2015 after the departure of Kenny McDowall.
McCall had hoped to continue in the role despite the Glasgow club facing another season outside of the Scottish Premiership, but the Ibrox outfit instead appointed Mark Warburton.
With Scotland, McCall and current Motherwell boss Mark McGhee have assisted Strachan.


The US is to tighten sanctions on North Korea and step up diplomatic moves aimed at pressuring the country to end its nuclear and missile programmes.

President Donald Trump's strategy was announced after a special briefing for all 100 US senators.
Earlier, the top US commander in the Pacific defended the deployment of an advanced missile defence system in South Korea.
Tensions have risen amid fears the North is planning new weapons tests.
"The United States seeks stability and the peaceful denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," said a joint statement issued by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
"We remain open to negotiations towards that goal. However, we remain prepared to defend ourselves and our allies.
"The president's approach aims to pressure North Korea into dismantling its nuclear, ballistic missile, and proliferation programs by tightening economic sanctions and pursuing diplomatic measures with our allies and regional partners," the statement added.
The Americans are deeply concerned about advances in North Korea's weapons technology, they believe it could well be capable of hitting the United States with a nuclear warhead before the end of President Trump's first term.
Any US military intervention to pre-empt that would be fraught with risk, but Mr Trump has toughened his rhetoric to drive home a message that it's a credible threat.
A key part of his plan is to pressure China to lean more heavily on North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons programme. The statement says the US is open to negotiations towards that end, but many even in Washington doubt the regime could ever accept such terms.
Democratic Senator Christopher Coons told reporters that military options were discussed at the special presidential briefing for senators.
"It was a sobering briefing in which it was clear just how much thought and planning was going into preparing military options if called for - and a diplomatic strategy that strikes me as clear-eyed and well-proportioned to the threat," he said.
The North is already under strict UN sanctions over its weapons programmes.
A White House official said an option under consideration was to put North Korea back on the state department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, imposed sanctions over a year ago following a nuclear test and satellite launch by the North.
North Korean government property in America was frozen and US exports to, or investment in, North Korea was banned.
The order also greatly expanded powers to blacklist anyone, including non-Americans, dealing with North Korea.
The senators received a highly unusual briefing by the Trump administration on the seriousness of the threat from North Korea and the president's strategy for dealing with it on Wednesday.
Earlier Admiral Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command, said the US would be ready "with the best technology" to defeat any missile threat.
The deployment of Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system in South Korea was aimed, he argued, at bringing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "to his senses, not to his knees".
Adm Harris said he believed that North Korea would try to attack the US as soon as it had the military capabilities.
China says the deployment of Thaad will destabilise security and there have been protests in South Korea itself, where three people were injured in clashes with police as the system was being delivered to a former golf course on Wednesday.


The family of a teenage boy shot dead in Londonderry in July 1972 have refused to accept a decision not to prosecute the soldier who killed him.

Daniel Hegarty, 15, was shot twice in the head during an Army operation to clear "no-go" areas in the city.
A 2011 inquest found the boy posed no risk and was shot without warning.
His sister, Margaret Brady, criticised the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) decision not to prosecute and said they will pursue a civil action.
On Tuesday, the PPS said there was no reasonable prospect of a conviction in the case.
"That was a rude, pitiful excuse that they came up with, that it was self defence," said Mrs Brady.
"It took them four years to come back with the same answer again, no prosecution. Nothing has changed since 1973.
"We will take a civil action and we will go after this soldier."
The initial inquest was held in 1973 and recorded an open verdict. A second inquest was ordered by the Attorney General in 2009 following an examination by the Historical Enquiries Team.
The report found that the RUC investigation at the time was "hopelessly inadequate and dreadful".
As a result of the report, an inquest in 2011 found that the teenager posed no risk and dismissed claims that soldiers had shouted warnings before firing.
Daniel, a labourer, was unarmed when he was shot close to his home in Creggan during Operation Motorman, an army-mounted attempt to re-take areas of the city.
His cousin Christopher, 16, was also shot in the head by the same soldier, but survived.
After the decision on Tuesday, the prosecution service's Assistant Director of Central Casework, Michael Agnew, said: "The standard of proof that the prosecution must reach in a criminal trial is the high one of beyond reasonable doubt."
Margaret Brady told BBC Radio Foyle that the family will continue to fight for justice.
"My reaction was just dumbfounded," Mrs Brady said. "It makes me more determined to go on because somebody has to stand up for the innocent victims.
"My brother was innocent and these people need to be held to account."
In 2007, the British government apologised to the family after describing Daniel Hegarty as a terrorist.


A new training and post-16 education centre could replace high school sixth forms in Torfaen after the council's cabinet backed £32.5m plans.

Brake manufacturer Meritor, which owns the site in Cwmbran where facilities could be built, is backing proposals.
Joint plans from Coleg Gwent and Torfaen council will now be put to the Welsh government for approval.
A consultation with residents will then be held into the plans.
Councillor David Yeowell, executive member for education, said: "The proposal will see a new integrated post-16 centre built on land next to Morrison's supermarket in Cwmbran.
"The new centre will provide an equitable provision for all young people in the borough and is long overdue."


The Ministry of Defence must commit to the future of Suffolk airbase RAF Mildenhall or risk damaging the local economy, council leaders say.

The United States Air Force (USAF) announced a year ago that it would vacate the base by 2020.
A decision on its future is due in the spring, but council leaders fear the site will be "mothballed".
They calculated that RAF Mildenhall and nearby RAF Lakenheath are worth up to Â£700m a year to the local economy.
Proposed changes at the bases would see the loss of 2,900 local jobs, including USAF personnel, they said.
In November it was announced that 350 personnel would be relocated from RAF Lakenheath to an airbase in Italy.
Forest Heath District Council is one of several authorities that have joined together to campaign to secure the future of the bases.
Its leader James Waters said: "We are pushing the Ministry of Defence to make a decision regarding any future military use for all or part of the RAF Mildenhall site.
"We want a commitment that the site will not be mothballed when the USAF leave - the potential damage of doing so is clear for all to see."
The Ministry of Defence said it was reviewing future uses of the site.
"We will continue to work with the relevant councils to ensure any decision takes into account local strategic planning issues," a spokeswoman said.


Bangladesh has said it intends to ban the Islamic television channel, Peace TV, in the wake of the deadly attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka.

The government's decision comes amid fears that hardline views on the channel could radicalise youth.
A preacher on the channel, Zakir Naik, denied allegations his words could have inspired the attackers.
Gunmen killed 22 people when they stormed the Holey Artisan bakery in Dhaka earlier this month.
Bangladesh's Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said that "administrative steps" would be taken towards the banning of the channel.
"Peace TV is not consistent with Muslim society, the Quran, Sunnah, Hadith, Bangladesh's Constitution, our culture, customs and rituals," Mr Inu told online news outlet Bdnews24 hours after the cabinet committee on law and order decided to ban the channel.
The 24-hour TV channel, is broadcast from Dubai in English, Urdu and Bangla.
Mr Naik, 50, is the founder and president of the Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, which owns Peace TV.
He was once banned from entering the UK for  what was described as "unacceptable behaviour".
But he has denied an allegation that one of the gunmen in the cafe attack was inspired by his speeches, accusing Bangladeshi media of sensationalism.
"I spoke to Bangladeshi government people. They told me that they do not believe I inspired this Bangladeshi terrorists to do this act of killing innocent people," Mr Naik is quoted as saying in local media.


A Derry man accused of terrorism in Syria told detectives that he never fired a single shot against the enemy in his whole time there.

Eamon Bradley, 28, from Melmore Gardens in Creggan is accused of receiving weapons training at a rebel camp in Syria in 2014.
He was arrested after returning home later.
On Wednesday, the jury at Londonderry Crown Court was read transcripts of his interviews with the police.
He told police after training with a rebel faction called the Army of Islam he took part in three battles, two against government forces and one against ISIS near the city of Aleppo.
But he said he never used his AK47 or grenade on the battlefield. He became disillusioned with the fighting and returned home.
Earlier, the trial heard that Mr Bradley contacted people on social media to help him get into the country to join the rebellion.
Mr Bradley, a Muslim convert, denies six charges, including attending a rebel training camp in Syria and receiving training in guns and grenades.
The case is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland.
Mr Bradley told police he got a bus from Derry to Dublin in February 2014 after meeting a contact on Facebook.
He then flew to Istanbul and got a second internal flight to Adana, in southern Turkey, where he made contact with sympathizers through the mobile messaging service, WhatsApp.
He told detectives he travelled near the Turkey/Syria border but he was warned to go no further because it was controlled by so-called ISIS.
Mr Bradley said he stayed with a man in a nearby village who he believed had contacts with the Free Syrian Army.
Asked why he was travelling to Syria and if he had any concerns, he told detectives: "I just wanted to be among the people who were being bombed".
He added that he had no concerns because he "trusted in Allah".
Mr Bradley said he spent about two months in the village before a group of men, who claimed to have been held captive by ISIS, helped him cross into Syria on a makeshift raft.
He then joined a mountain training camp belonging to the group Jaysh al-Islam - the Army of Islam.
Detectives were told that it was here that he learned to fire AK-47 rifles and Russian machine guns; he also received some instruction on the use of mortar bombs.
Mr Bradley told police that he was the only western European at the camp and was on the bottom rung of the ladder when it came to the group's command structure.
The trial continues.


Hillary Clinton has dismissed as "ridiculous" a charge by Bernie Sanders that she is "unqualified" to be president, as tensions rise in the Democratic race.

The Vermont senator stood by his comments, pointing to her Wall Street links and her vote for the war in Iraq.
He said she started the latest war of words by attacking him first.
The two candidates will do battle in a New York showdown in two weeks, a state where both have strong links.
There is much at stake, as the former secretary of state tries to stem the momentum of the self-described democratic socialist, who has a string of wins behind him.
Mr Sanders beat Mrs Clinton in the Wisconsin primary contest on Tuesday, and could pick up more delegates in Wyoming on Saturday before the greater prize of New York is up for grabs.
Is it a sign of desperation from a losing campaign or a proportional response to an earlier unfair attack? Whatever the reason, Bernie Sanders's recent criticisms of Hillary Clinton as "unqualified" for the presidency represent a marked escalation in the war of words between the two candidates.
Mrs Clinton's supporters are bristling at the remarks, which they consider both sexist and patently untrue, given the former secretary of state's weighty political biography.
The Vermont senator's point, however, is that Mrs Clinton's lengthy experience within the establishment isn't a mark in her favour, it's a flaw that makes her beholden to the special interests he has spent his campaign denouncing.
With what could be a decisive New York primary less than two weeks away, the battle lines are clearly forming and the rhetoric is only just starting to heat up.
Democrats often boast of the substantiveness of their presidential nomination contest, particularly compared to the ongoing Republican slugfest.
This relatively genteel atmosphere may not persist through a rough-and-tumble contest in the Empire State, however, with its tabloid media culture that trumpets every squawk and squabble. In the political pressure cooker that is New York politics, things may be about to take an ugly turn.
The latest row began on Wednesday when Mrs Clinton was asked if Mr Sanders was qualified to be president, after he gave a newspaper interview in which he appeared to struggle to answer some questions.
"I think he hadn't done his homework and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hasn't really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions," she told MSNBC's Morning Joe.
On Wednesday night, Bernie Sanders told a crowd of supporters at Temple University that Mrs Clinton had accused him of being unqualified.
"Well let me, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton, I don't believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super PAC [fundraising committee], taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds," he said.
"I don't think you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC."
He went on to list her backing of the Iraq War and her support of trade agreements as other disqualifications. On Thursday, he repeated his comments.
The Clinton campaign hit back, with spokesman Brian Fallon tweeting: "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now, absurdly, said it about her. This is a new low."
One of her senior aides, Christina Reynolds, said it was "a ridiculous and irresponsible attack for someone to make" against one of the most qualified candidates ever to run.
On the campaign trail, Mrs Clinton told Politico she explains things in a way more "open and truthful than my opponent," and said she explains what she would do as president rather than "lots of arm-waving and hot rhetoric".
In the Republican race, the two front-runners Ted Cruz and Donald Trump also traded insults on the campaign trail in New York.
Mr Trump, a businessman with no experience of elected office, accused the Texas senator of "hating" the city when he accused Mr Trump of having "New York values".
The hashtag was trending on Twitter and Facebook after Mr Sanders' comments, started by a Clinton supporter. It was meant to be supportive, but not all of the tweets showed Mrs Clinton in a positive light:


Relegated Swindon Town have offered five players new deals ahead of the 2017-18 season, including captain Nathan Thompson and Iraq's Yaser Kasim.

Raphael Rossi-Branco, Jermaine Hylton and Jon Obika have also been offered contracts by the Wiltshire outfit.
But midfielder Anton Rodgers is to leave the managerless side when his contract expires this summer.
Swindon previously let a further four players go and then parted company with head coach Luke Williams on 5 May.
They will spend next season in League Two after finishing 22nd in the third tier.


Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott has said he is backing Andy Burnham to be the next leader of the Labour Party.

Writing in the Sunday Mirror Lord Prescott said Mr Burnham had "one thing all leaders crave - the common touch".
He also criticised former leader Ed Miliband for resigning "prematurely" and "before the successor could be elected".
He likened Mr Burnham to that of former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Referring to Mr Blair, Lord Prescott writes: "He spent 11 years as an MP. In that time he learned his brief, gained the Âexperience, handled the media and won the public's trust with an overwhelming landslide.
"I have seen a lot of those skills and Âqualities in Andy Burnham during his 13 years as an MP.
"Many people talk about aspiration but Andy is a living example - a working-class lad from Liverpool who went to a Âcomprehensive and got a place at Cambridge University.
"Andy also has that one thing all leaders crave - the common touch.
"I've seen him in small groups and big meetings. People instantly warm to the guy. He's a family man who loves his football."
Ed Miliband resigned as Labour leader after the Conservatives were elected as a majority government with 331 seats in the general election.
Harriet Harman has been leading Labour temporarily until a new leader is appointed but has ruled herself out of the contest.
The other contenders for the Labour leadership include Mary Creagh, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper.
In his column Lord Prescott added: "Not New Labour or Old Labour.
"We need someone to lead Now Labour. That's why I'm backing Andy to be our leader. To unify our party, to lead our country and put our traditional values in a modern setting."


Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in "great shape" for its historic flyby of Pluto this week.

In the early hours of Monday (GMT), the American space agency probe moved to within a million miles of the dwarf planet and was closing in rapidly.
The mission has one opportunity to gather detailed pictures and other science data during the encounter.
The spacecraft is moving so quickly it cannot stop and will simply barrel past the little world on Tuesday.
Every observation New Horizons seeks to make at Pluto must be executed in just a few hours.
With nearly five billion km between Earth and the dwarf, any radio message carries hours of delay.
It means the probe cannot be controlled in real time and it will be working to an automated command sequence.
New Horizons now has that sequence written into its computer, and engineers confirmed on Sunday that they plan to send up no further commands to the spacecraft.
This is one of those key moments in the history of space exploration. A successful rendezvous will complete the initial reconnaissance of all the "classical" nine planets.
Glen Fountain, the New Horizons project manager, has told his team to stay focused but to try also to soak up some of the atmosphere.
"I've told the team they really need to be living the time," he said in a briefing to reporters.
"I mean, how often do you get a chance like this, to realise that you are participating in something much larger than yourself?"
New Horizons continues to downlink data on approach to Pluto. Selected pictures are being processed for public release.
Each new release brings surface features into sharper focus.
The latest posting is of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.
Seen clearly in this new view are huge chasms and craters, as well as the moon's so-far-unexplained dark pole.
Scientists say this has been one of the major surprises of the encounter so far, as has the very contrasting appearance of Charon and Pluto.
The former is very grey; the latter is quite red.
Theory holds that their present forms were created in an ancient collision, and therefore they should share many similarities.
"(But) they are completely dichotomous," said Alan Stern, the mission's principal investigator.
"They look as though they are completely different worlds; they just as well could have been raised billions of miles apart, but they weren't."
A last batch of pre-flyby data will come down on Monday.  This will include a 600-pixel-wide, full-frame image of Pluto itself.
The probe will then go radio silent. Its final contact is set for 03:17 GMT on Tuesday (04:17 BST; 23:17 EDT Monday).
During the hours of closest approach, when it gets to within 12,500km of the surface, New Horizons is simply too busy to talk to Earth.
The automated observation sequence will see it make hundreds of movements as it slews every which way to point its cameras, not just at Pluto and Charon, but also at the lesser moons in the system: Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.
The mission team will be waiting anxiously at its operations centre here at Johns Hopkins University for a signal confirming that the flyby was completed without incident.
This message should start to come through at 00:53 GMT Wednesday (01:53 BST; 20:53 EDT Tuesday).
All it will contain at that time will be engineering data on the status of the probe. But New Horizons' mission manager, Alice Bowman, said that just this ordinary telemetry would indicate whether all the observations were conducted as they should have been.
"If everything looks normal, there's no reason to think we didn't get the goods," she told BBC News.
Some choice images acquired at the moment of closest approach will be released on Wednesday.
The BBC will be screening a special Sky At Night programme called Pluto Revealed on Monday 20 July, which will recap all the big moments from the New Horizons flyby.
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Thousands of ceramic poppies used in the Tower of London installation are to go on display across the north of England, it has been announced.

The cascade - or weeping window - section will be shown at St George's Hall in Liverpool and Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park will host the arch segment, also known as the wave.
The installation, which marked 100 years since the start of World War One, drew more than five million visitors.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said: "This is art at its most powerful and it is only right that everyone should have the chance to see them."
The installation included 888,246 ceramic poppies, with each representing each death in the British and Colonial forces between 1914 and 1918.
It was created by Derbyshire artist Paul Cummins and theatre designer Tom Piper, and was named Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red after a line written by a soldier who died in Belgium.
A total of £9m was raised for six military service charities after most of the poppies, which were handmade in Derby, were sold to members of the public for £25 each.
Wave and the Weeping Window, which together have more than 10,000 ceramic poppies, were bought for the nation last year by the charities Backstage Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation.
Other locations can bid next year to host the ceramic poppies in 2017 and 2018, before they are permanently homed at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester.
Wave: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, September 2015 - January 2016
Weeping Window
Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland, September - October 2015
St George's Hall, Liverpool, November 2015 - January 2016
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World War One Centenary


The Prince of Wales spent the day meeting young people in Carmarthenshire during a visit in the region.

Prince Charles visited Stebonheath Primary School, Llanelli, where he was shown a water catchment system and was treated to a concert.
He later met the youth team at Llandovery Rugby Club, Carmarthenshire, of which he is a patron.
The prince also visited Aberdare's Prysmian Cables & Systems in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
And he was given a tour of parachute manufacturer Airborne Systems in Llangeinor, Bridgend county, where he met staff and apprentices.


On 18 October 1914, the focus of British Naval power in World War One became a deep water lough in a remote corner of northern County Donegal.

The emergence of the U-Boat as a German weapon forced the Royal Navy to move its grand fleet from its northern home at Scapa Flow in Scotland.
They went to one of the most peaceful spots in the British Isles - Lough Swilly.
At that time, it was pre-partition Ireland.
Forty fighting ships including battleships, cruisers and destroyers sailed into the lough.
They were guarded on either side of its mouth by specially built forts with long-range guns, including Fort Dunree on the Inishowen peninsula.
The fleet commander, Admiral Jellicoe, saw the base as one that was safe from U-Boat attack.
But, in the years to come, the German attack would take its toll in the cold waters off Donegal, sinking HMS Audacious and the SS Laurentic.
Eventually, Jellicoe knew he would have to return to the North Sea to face the Kaiser's fleet - an appointment met on 31 May 1916 off Denmark, in what became known as the Battle of Jutland.
Although it was far from Ireland's shores, 358 Irishmen serving as volunteer sailors died in that battle as the two fleets traded shells for dominance of the seas.
Later on Tuesday, their sacrifice, the role of Ireland and the 10,000 Irishmen who served in the Royal Navy in WW1 will be marked as part of the Battle of Jutland commemorations.
The commemorations will take place in a special cross-border event in Belfast onboard a ship that took part in the battle.
HMS Caroline, launched in 1914, is the venue for a gathering of sailors from the present day Royal Navy and the Republic of Ireland's Naval Service, relatives of Irishmen who served at sea in the war, as well as representatives of the UK and Irish governments.
The 200 invited guests will hear tribute speeches as well as readings from letters sent from the sailors to their families back in Ireland.
Among them will be Marie McCarthy, whose grandfather, Daniel Fitzgerald from Cork, was a stoker on HMS Tiger.
He recalled hearing horrific sounds and sights during the sinking of the Queen Mary at Jutland.
It sank with the entire crew of more than 1,100 on board, lost to the deep.
Also remembered will be those killed on HMS Hawke, which was primarily crewed by Irishman, and that was sunk by a U-Boat with the loss of 524 men.
Among them was leading stoker Joyce Power, who left young twins and a pregnant wife in Ballymena.
His daughter, Margaret Hawke Power, was named after the ship on which he was killed.
One of the few survivors recalled: "The crew for the most part were Irishmen, the reason being that at the outbreak of war the Hawke, which was one of the oldest ships of the British Navy, was stationed at Queenstown.
"There were only around 24 active servicemen on board, the remainder being fleet reservists."
Another relative who'll be at the commemoration event to mark a family sacrifice is Mark Doherty from Belfast, whose great uncle died at Jutland.
Patrick Joseph Doherty was from a rural area near Coleraine, County Londonderry.
He was the ninth of 11 children and volunteered for the navy in 1915, dying just 18 months later on HMS Lion.
Mark said his great uncle's role below decks was unbelievably tough.
"He was a stoker, it was an extremely dirty environment and removed from what was on deck and going on outside. It was a very gruelling experience.
"This ship carried 3,500 tons of coal and that all had to be shifted.
"On that day, the fleet he was part of approached the Germans at speed. His role was to shovel coal as fast as possible to help the speed and they then engaged in battle," said Mark.
"Patrick's ship was one of the first to encounter the Germans and the engagement was ferocious.
"HMS Queen Mary was directly in front of the Lion and it was hit , blew up and sank within view of Lion.
"Patrick's ship was targeted then and there is a picture of the Queen Mary going down whilst great plumes of water can be seen around HMS Lion caused by the German shells.
"It received a number of direct hits and was only saved from sinking when a young seaman deliberately flooded an area which was on fire killing himself and several others as a way of saving the ship.
"I can only speculate that during that exchange it was one of those shells that killed my great uncle," said Mark, who has spent time researching the battle since hearing of his family involvement.
In all, 99 men died on HMS Lion and 51 others were injured, but the vessel stayed afloat to fight again.
Like the others, Patrick Joseph Doherty was buried at sea, but his name is marked on a number of memorials including the war memorial in Coleraine.
As the Navy marks its role in the Great War on land and at sea, the long empty major British naval installations at Lough Swilly in County Donegal and County Cork in the south-west of Ireland stand as silent reminders to those who left the island under the Royal Naval Ensign never to return, having lost their lives in that often forgotten battleground of the first world war - the sea.
There will be a live stream of the ceremony on the BBC News NI website from 12:20 BST on Tuesday.


Captain Wayne Rooney has been left out of the England squad for June's matches against Scotland and France.

The 31-year-old, who has 119 caps, has only started 15 league matches for Manchester United this season.
Tottenham right-back Kieran Trippier has been called up for the first time for the World Cup qualifier in Glasgow and friendly at the Stade de France.
Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland returns, having recovered from the ankle injury suffered against Germany in March 2016.
Rooney's United team-mate, striker Marcus Rashford, is once more included in coach Gareth Southgate's party.
Burnley centre-back Michael Keane misses out, having missed the Clarets' last three games through injury, and Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has a small injury.
England travel to Hampden Park on 10 June for their qualifier against Scotland. Southgate's side lead Group F with 13 points after five games. Scotland are fourth with seven points.
They then travel to France for a friendly on 13 June.
Southgate said: "The Scotland game is one of football's great fixtures.
"We're in a place in the group where a win can really put us in a very strong position, and that's what we want to achieve.
"France is a great challenge for us. Our ambition with our friendly matches is to play the best possible teams - we've done that by playing Spain and Germany already."
Rooney - England's record goalscorer with 53 goals - was not included in Southgate's previous squad in March for the matches against Lithuania and Germany because he was recovering from a leg injury.
But even when fit, his appearances at club level have been reduced since manager Jose Mourinho took over at Manchester United last summer.
Rooney was a substitute during United's Europa League final win over Ajax on Wednesday, with Rashford starting.
The 19-year-old's inclusion in the senior squad means he will not now link up with the Under-21s for this summer's European Championship.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane's return also marks the first time Southgate has been able to select the Premier League golden boot winner, who has missed all six of the manager's matches through injury.
Defender Ben Gibson, who was relegated with his team Middlesbrough, is called up again. The 24-year-old and Tripper are the only members of the squad yet to win a cap.
BBC Radio 5 live chief football reporter Ian Dennis:
Wayne Rooney's omission again might generate the headlines, but the inclusion of 19-year-old Marcus Rashford should focus the debate on England's future.
The Manchester United striker's involvement with the senior squad means Rashford will not be going to Poland with the Under 21s for this summer's European Championship.
I spoke with the player in March and he said he would leave it to others to decide on what was best for his development. It will be seen as a climb-down by the FA as United boss Jose Mourinho gets his way.
The decision goes against everything that the FA has said on the importance of 'tournament experience', while U21s manager Aidy Boothroyd was keen to take his strongest side to Poland.
As for Wayne Rooney... I wouldn't write off his international career just yet. He won't retire, but he must decide what's best for his club future to stand any chance of fighting his way back into the England squad.
Goalkeepers:
Jack Butland (Stoke), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Torino, on loan from Man City), Tom Heaton (Burnley)
Defenders:
Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Aaron Cresswell (West Ham), Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough), Phil Jones (Man Utd), Chris Smalling (Man Utd), John Stones (Man City), Kieran Trippier (Tottenham), Kyle Walker (Tottenham)
Midfielders:
Dele Alli (Tottenham), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Man Utd), Jake Livermore (West Brom), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Raheem Sterling (Man City)
Forwards:
Jermain Defoe (Sunderland), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Man Utd), Jamie Vardy (Leicester)
Southampton pair Nathan Redmond and James Ward-Prowse have been selected for the England Under-21 squad for their training camp before the European Championship in June.
Both players earned their first caps for the senior side against Germany in March and will be making their last appearances for Aidy Boothroyd's side before becoming too old to play.
Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has also been included in the squad, as has Celtic striker Patrick Roberts.
The deadline for countries to name their final 23-man squad for the tournament in Poland is 6 June.
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A boy had to be rescued from a floating pontoon after becoming too tired to swim to shore.

A lifeboat crew was called to help the 13-year-old boy who was stranded on the pontoon off Portsmouth Harbour at about 20:30 BST on Wednesday.
The crew said it found the "exhausted" boy curled up, unresponsive to the shine of a spot lamp or their calls.
He was taken to paramedics on the shore and treated after he showed signs of the onset of hypothermia.
It is believed the boy had been swimming from a pier near Portchester sailing club with a group of friends at about 17:00 BST. His friends had left with only one remaining to call for assistance, the RNLI said.
The charity urged people to use its Respect the Water campaign which aims to halve the rate of drownings by 2024.


Dizzee Rascal has been announced as the second headline act for the Electric Fields Festival at Drumlanrig Castle.

Last month organisers confirmed Scottish band Frightened Rabbit were set to perform at this year's event on 1 and 2 September.
They are among dozens of acts taking part in the festival held on the castle grounds near to Thornhill.
The festival, now in its fourth edition, extended to the two-day format last year.
Other acts included in the latest announcement include Band of Horses, Glass Animals, Peter Hook & The Light and Kate Tempest.
Already confirmed for the festival are The Jesus And Mary Chain, Arab Strap, Crash Club, And Yet It Moves and Brat and the Bonemen.


Hollywood actor and new dad Ashton Kutcher is complaining that there's a shortage of baby-changing facilities in public toilets for men in America.

Kutcher, 37, whose partner Mila Kunis gave birth to their first child Wyatt in October, took to social media to highlight the issue.
"There are NEVER diaper changing stations in men's restrooms," he wrote.
"The first public men's room I go into that has one gets a shout on my FB page! â€ª#â€ŽBeTheChange."
Kutcher's post has since been liked more than 240,000 times on Facebook.
He also posted on Twitter last week: "You may not realise how sexist public bathrooms are until you're a parent."
Followers from around the world have told Kutcher that there are father-friendly loos in Australia, Sweden and Newcastle.
In the US there's a campaign called Potty Parity which is demanding more facilities for men in public toilets.
In California politicians have passed two laws for equal access to nappy-changing stations in new public bathrooms.
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Jay Rodriguez scored his first goal since March 2014 to earn Southampton a draw in the first leg of their Europa League qualifying play-off tie.

Ex- Saints player Tim Sparv gave Danish visitors FC Midtjylland the lead with a low strike just before the break.
Southampton improved after the restart and Rodriguez netted from the penalty spot after Kian Hansen tripped James Ward-Prowse.
Maya Yoshida had a header tipped on to the post by Johan Dahlin late on.
And the Midtjylland keeper saved a header from Steven Caulker, who also had a goal ruled out for a push, as the Danes ensured they go into the return leg in a strong position.
That takes place in Denmark next Thursday - with the winners progressing to the group stage.
Ronald Koeman's team breezed past Vitesse Arnhem 5-0 on aggregate in the third qualifying round but FC Midtjylland presented more of an attacking threat.
Goalscorer Sparv was a Southampton academy graduate and played in the 2005 FA Youth Cup final alongside Theo Walcott.
The Finnish defensive midfielder never made a senior appearance before his departure to Swedish side Halmstad in 2007.
But that did not prevent him from refusing to celebrate as his left-foot effort crept past Maarten Stekelenburg into the bottom corner.
Former Burnley striker Rodriguez was among four changes from the side which lost 3-0 against Everton in the Premier League.
Rodriguez ruptured his anterior cruciate knee ligament in April 2014 and only returned to training in May but managed to send the keeper the wrong way as he finally found the net again.
"I've been waiting for it," said Rodriguez afterwards. "I want to score as many goals as possible so it's good to get the first one."
Clearly still finding fitness after a return from a long-term injury, he was replaced by Shane Long with 15 minutes remaining and could be rotated when Saints travel to Watford in the Premier League on Sunday.
Saints striker Sadio Mane has been strongly linked with a move to Old Trafford - but he started against Midtjylland.
And after the game boss Koeman was adamant that there will be no more departures from the club before the transfer window shuts on 2 September.
"There will be no more players sold this summer," said the Dutch boss, who has seen Morgan Schneiderlin and Nathaniel Clyne leave the club this summer.
"There's no bid for any player. Not for Sadio Mane, not for Victor Wanyama.
"Write what you want to about the rumours, nobody is going to leave Southampton."
For Danish champions FC Midtjylland the tie represented a second chance to progress in Europe this season having already been knocked out of the Champions League third qualifying round by Apoel Nicosia.
The Danes have earned themselves a reputation as the "Moneyballers" with majority shareholder Matthew Benham instrumental behind the use of analytics and specialist coaching to drive the Wolves from the Jutland peninsula forward.
Benham, chairman of Championship club Brentford, has brought the same philosophy to the Bees and was partly behind his decision to part ways with manager Mark Warburton last season in favour of Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuisen.
A number of Brentford shirts were visible among the small travelling contingent of 190 supporters with tickets for the tie, which were available to buy on Brentford's website.
Despite the midfielder being substituted in the closing minutes as Koeman brought on Juanmi in search of a winner, the England Under-21 midfielder played a pivotal role throughout.
His combination with Graziano Pelle forced the penalty while his delivery from set pieces also created Southampton's best chances on the night.
He must feel he has staked a claim for a more regular starting berth.


The funeral of a woman who was the UK's oldest person until her death at the age of 113 has taken place.

Gladys Hooper, who was born in the same year the Wright brothers first took to the air, died at a nursing home in Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 9 July.
A bell was rung 113 times at All Saints' Church in her memory.
In January, thousands of well-wishers sent her birthday messages, and a video of her First World War memories has reached more than three million people.
Mrs Hooper was a concert pianist in her younger days of some of her favourite songs were played during the service.
Her coffin was also draped in an RAF flag to reflect her love of aviation and the fact her husband and son were both air force pilots.
Son Derek Hermiston said: "Although there is a certain amount of sadness I think it's time that we celebrated this very long and interesting life of Gladys.
"One that is not likely to be repeated."
Rev Canon Graham Morris added: "The people that Gladys knew are the people that I learnt about in the history books at school.
"She is history in the making."
The great-grandmother was the country's most senior supercentenarian, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
She was born in London in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers made the first powered aircraft flight.
At college, she became friends with Amy Johnson, later a pioneering aviator who flew solo from England to Australia.
During the First World War, she watched a Zeppelin coming down in flames over Hertfordshire after it was attacked by a British pilot.
Last year, Mrs Hooper broke a Guinness World Record when she became the oldest person in the world - at 112 - to have a hip operation.
People from the US, Canada, Belgium and Australia passed on their birthday wishes on Facebook when Mrs Hooper turned 113 in January.
According to the Office for National Statistics figures, there were 14,450 centenarians - people aged 100 and over - in the UK in 2014, with 780 estimated to be aged 105 or more.
The oldest person in the world is thought to be Emma Morano, from Italy, who celebrated her 116th birthday last November, according to Gerontology Research Group.
It had listed Mrs Hooper as the 12th oldest in the world.
According to the website Oldest In Britain, Bessie Camm, who is 112 and from Rotherham, is now the oldest person in the country.


Tottenham's Mousa Dembele  is a doubt after picking up an ankle injury in the win at Crystal Palace.

Goalkeeper Michel Vorm could return to the squad but Danny Rose is still absent with a knee injury.
Arsene Wenger has given centre-back Laurent Koscielny a "60% chance" of playing after suffering a knee injury against Leicester.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is fit but Shkodran Mustafi is missing with a thigh problem.
Guy Mowbray: "Tottenham's best approach would be to forget the title race for one day.
"Park all thoughts of Chelsea and concentrate on winning a derby - to end 21 seasons of St. Totteringham's Day.
"They'll have their own name for Arsenal not being able to catch them already. T-shirts might be on sale outside at full-time if it happens - but there's that 'if', which seems stronger now than a couple of weeks ago.
"The Gunners have rediscovered their scrapping gene in their last three games, and will (surely?!) fight tooth and nail to ruin their North London rivals' title bid.
"Arsenal's last visit to White Hart Lane as it stands and the 50th Premier League meeting of the teams could and should be memorable."
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "My feeling is now, when you are so close - only four points the gap - I will be very disappointed if we don't win the title.
"My challenge or my aim is not to be above Arsenal. My aim is to be above 19 teams and to be first, to be on the top.
"You cannot ignore Chelsea's game before us, but we played the day after they lost to Crystal Palace and it didn't affect our preparation."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "This is one of the only times where Spurs look in people's minds as the favourites.
"I expect an open, committed match with high pace and there could be goals as both teams play positive football.
"I don't think that the top three is decided. We have an opportunity to be in there only if we win our games, we don't have to speculate at all.
"There is a lot that can happen until the end of the season."
Spurs have now won eight league games on the spin but I just have a feeling that Arsenal will put a spanner in the works of their bid to catch Chelsea.
Prediction: 1-1
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Ticket offices will start closing on the London Underground later in a move that has prompted past strikes.

South Wimbledon and Queensway stations will be the first to see their staff moved from ticket offices into ticket halls and on to platforms.
Transport for London (TfL) said it would save £50m annually as it tries to save £4.2bn by 2020.
But Manuel Cortes, from the TSSA union, said London Mayor Boris Johnson was "rushing through" the closures.
Mr Cortes, leader of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association said: "Talks on the safety implications of closing over 250 stations have not even been concluded.
"The mayor doesn't seem concerned about how millions of tourists will cope with fewer staff to help them on their way."
TfL said all stations would remain staffed and 150 new ticket machines would be installed by April 2016.
It added that new visitor centres would be created at larger stations such as Victoria and King's Cross to help visitors.
Nick Brown, London Underground's chief operating officer, said more staff were being placed "where they can offer the best possible assistance" as only 3% of Tube tickets were bought at ticket offices.
He said: "This forms part of our wider vision for the Tube, which includes a 24-hour weekend service on core parts of the network."
But the changes have led to previous strikes by the Aslef and RMT unions.
Labour's London Assembly transport spokeswoman Val Shawcross said: "When he was elected, Boris Johnson promised Londoners he would protect the capital's ticket offices, but today he starts the process of dismantling each and every one of them.
"Whilst there is obviously a big role for ticket machines to play, there is no substitute for a member of staff."
London Underground said after 100 meetings with unions the number of roles to be reduced had fallen from 950 to 897 with no member of staff facing compulsory redundancy or losing money.


Regional rights activists investigating the case of 43 missing students in Mexico say they have been unable to interview military personnel.

They said soldiers who may have witnessed the students' disappearance last September could only be questioned via a written questionnaire.
The team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights chose not to do this.
It also said security videos containing evidence may have been destroyed.
Mexico's interior ministry declined to comment on the accusation. It said in a statement that Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio and IACHR members had met the victims' families on Friday.
The students - trainee teachers - were arrested by police in the southern city of Iguala and the government says they were then handed over to a drug lord who had them killed and their bodies incinerated.
The remains of only one of the students have been identified.
Investigators from the IACHR want to question soldiers from the battalion in Iguala that responded to events at the time the students clashed with police.
Relatives believe the soldiers may have failed to act as the police opened fire on the students and later bundled them onto a bus.
The IACHR has been investigating the case at the request of the victims' families, with the agreement of the government.
A final report from the commission is due in September.


BBC Sport meets GB adaptive snowboarders Owen Pick and Ben Moore, who will compete in the X Games this week.

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Pick had his right leg amputated below the knee after being injured in an explosion while serving in the Army while Moore lost the use of his arm after a motorcycle accident.
Para-snowboard made its debut at the Sochi Winter Paralympics in 2014 and more categories have been added for the PyeongChang Games in 2018.
The X Games will take place in Colorado between 28-31 January.
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Tottenham have opened talks with Fulham over the potential signing of 19-year-old French striker Moussa Dembele, according to the London Evening Standard.

And other forward who is apparently on the radar of the White Hart Lane club is Javier Hernandez.Don Balon are reporting that the former Manchester United striker could leave German club Bayer Leverkusen in the summer.
One player who will definitely be at Spurs soon is Nathan Oduwa, whose loan stint at Rangers has been cut short, according to the Daily Record.


England's young team won a famous victory in testing conditions to end a 10-year Six Nations hoodoo in Dublin.

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Four penalties from the boot of Owen Farrell saw them hold off a fierce Irish onslaught and move top of the championship table in what was the lowest-scoring match since the Five Nations became the Six Nations in 2000.
On a miserable, wet day it was seldom pretty, and when James Haskell was sin-binned with a quarter of the game left, Ronan O'Gara's second penalty saw Ireland level at 6-6.
The hosts looked set to take control, but with skipper Chris Robshaw leading from the front, the 14 men instead first stood firm and re-established their lead thanks to Farrell's accuracy.
While both sides barely looked like scoring a try - it was the first try-less game between the two sides since 1984 - Ireland made far more mistakes with ball in hand and seldom showed the fluency that saw them
It means Stuart Lancaster's inexperienced England side are the only team in with a shout of the Grand Slam this year
Farrell's penalty on three minutes gave England the lead, with handling errors costing both sides promising positions.
Ireland lost sparkling winger Simon Zebo to injury but saw his replacement, Keith Earls, make inroads with a scything run before each team reverted to kicking for territory.
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The latent passions boiled over when Cian Healy stamped on Dan Cole's ankle at a ruck, triggering a melee of grabbing and shoving, while Farrell was lucky not to be sin-binned for dragging back his man without the ball.
It took a typically sweet pass from Brian O'Driscoll to set Earls clear again, only for another knock-on - this time from Mike McCarthy - to toss away the momentum.
Farrell made it 6-0 with unerring accuracy just before the half-hour, and Ireland's problems mounted when playmaker Jonny Sexton limped off after appearing to injure his hamstring.
The home side's travails were summed up by skipper Jamie Heaslip twice spilling regulation high balls, but within four minutes of the restart Ireland had a lifeline. Referee Jerome Garces penalised England for collapsing the scrum and O'Gara stroked over his kick.
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For the first time the men in white looked rattled. Tom Youngs's line-out throw twice went wayward; with Lancaster responding by sending on Manu Tuilagi and Courtney Lawes for Billy Twelvetrees and Joe Launchbury, and then Dylan Hartley for Tom Youngs.
As the rain continued to sweep in, the game appeared to turn just before the hour.
Haskell was sin-binned for interfering on the wrong side of a ruck, O'Gara drilled over the penalty, and the sides were level.
Yellow cards had hurt England in their last two Six Nations clashes in the city but this young side had other ideas.
A cute kick through from Farrell sent Rob Kearney scampering back and, from the resulting line-out, Ben Youngs almost put Tuilagi under the posts with a chip, only for the ball to bounce away from the centre's grasp.
To the crowd's dismay, referee Garces had already spotted Irish hands in the ruck and Farrell stroked over his third successful penalty. He then made it 12-6 when Kearney was pinged for holding on.
With the minutes ticking away and nerves tightening, O'Gara had a chance to cut the lead but pushed his penalty wide, while Alex Goode was impeccable under Ireland's high kicks.
Farrell narrowly missed from wide on the right after O'Gara was again pressurised into an error but Ireland had nothing left, and England were able to run the clock down to secure their first Championship win in Dublin since 2003.
Ireland: Kearney; Gilroy, O'Driscoll, D'Arcy, Zebo; Sexton, Murray; Healy, Best, Ross, McCarthy, Ryan, O'Mahony, O'Brien, Heaslip.
Replacements: Earls for Zebo (10), O'Gara for Sexton (31), S Cronin for Best (74), Kilcoyne for Healy (74), Fitzpatrick for Ross (78), Henry for O'Brien (66), O'Callaghan for Ryan (65).
Not Used: Reddan.
England: Goode; Ashton, Barritt, Twelvetrees, Brown; Farrell, B Youngs, Marler, T Youngs, Cole, Launchbury, Parling, Haskell, Robshaw, Wood, Lawes.
Replacements: Tuilagi for Twelvetrees (47), Hartley for T. Youngs (50), Wilson for Cole (76), Lawes for Launchbury (47), Waldrom for Lawes (71).
Not Used: Vunipola, Care, Flood.
Sin Bin: Haskell (56).
Att: 51,000
Ref: Jerome Garces (France).


League of Ireland sides Sligo Rovers and Bray Wanderers will play in next season's Irn-Bru Scottish Challenge Cup.

Teams from Northern Ireland and Wales featured in this season's competition.
And Welsh side The New Saints will play St Mirren in Sunday's semi-final at the Paisley 2021 Stadium.
Sligo and Bray have been chosen after finishing highest of those Premier League sides not playing in European competition in season 2017-18.
Rovers were fifth and Wanderers sixth in 2016.
"Following discussions with the Scottish FA, both Bray Wanderers and Sligo Rovers will be entered into the Irn-Bru Scottish Challenge Cup for next season," the league confirmed on their official website.
The Challenge Cup features sides from the Scottish Championship and Leagues One and Two as well as teams from the Highland and Lowland Leagues.
Another new feature for 2016-17 was the inclusion of colt teams - under-20s sides - from Scottish Premiership clubs.
Queen of the South and Dundee United contest the first semi-final on Saturday before TNS face the Buddies the following day.
St Mirren v The New Saints will be broadcast live on BBC Alba and the BBC Sport website.


The brains behind the BBC's Sherlock series are to make a new version of Dracula, the corporation has confirmed.

Talks are under way with Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss about a series of 90-minute films based on Bram Stoker's novel about the Transylvanian vampire.
No scripts have been written and the Count has yet to be cast. According to the Radio Times, though, the series is likely to air in 2019.
Moffat's wife Sue Vertue will produce the show for Hartswood Films.
According to Variety, it is unclear whether Dracula, like Sherlock, will have a modern-day British setting.
First published in 1897, Stoker's novel tells of a blood-sucking count who travels to England for a quick bite.
Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman and Sir Christopher Lee are among the many actors to portray him on screen.
Gatiss played Dracula himself in a radio version of the story that was released last year on the anniversary of the book's publication.
Moffat will step down as head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who after this year's Christmas special.
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When Ifthekar Jaman, from Portsmouth, arrived in Syria in 2013 and began posting images of himself posing as a jihadist fighter - and, somewhat bizarrely, occasional pictures of cats - he seemed something of an exception.

Here was a 23-year-old who had arrived in the middle of an increasingly internecine conflict, saying it was his duty to take up arms because he saw Muslims being slaughtered.
Two years on, he is dead - and we now know how far from an exception he was.
BBC News has been tracking the story of these men and women - and boys and girls  - for the past few months in an attempt to map the scale of the jihad in Syria and Iraq.
The result is a "snapshot" database of their stories, which reveals their links to each other, where they came from and ended up, what we know about their motivations - and what happened to them.
It includes the stories of:
Thousands of young Muslims from the West have gone to fight alongside the various jihadist groups vying for supremacy in the region.
Security officials estimate some 600 Britons have gone over - and while about half may have returned, many are still out there - and some have died.
And despite the pretty obvious horror of it all, click on the news every morning and there is another tale of someone trying to cross the border.
Our research team has looked at hundreds of Britons who have been reported to have gone to Syria and Iraq.
The work has focused exclusively on those thought to have gone to fight and has excluded anyone who has come and gone from the region for a purely humanitarian or aid-related reason.
We have excluded individuals we believe to be fighting or supporting IS where the available information cannot be verified to a high enough threshold.
We have focused on jihadist fighters, which is why we haven't included those thought to be fighting against IS.
We have taken extensive steps to confirm each story through a variety of means.
The list of conflict-related convictions includes not only people who have travelled to the region, but those who have been convicted of offences relating to the conflict.
So what does the data tell us? For a start, many of those who have gone to Syria or Iraq have done so in clusters.
Take Ifthekar Jaman's hometown of Portsmouth, for example.
He was the first to go - but he was followed by friends. One of them, Madhi Hassan, is one of three now dead. Another, Mashudur Choudhury, was the first to be convicted of a Syria-related offence, after he returned.
This cluster relied on friendship and geography - but there are also ties developed via social media.
We know that Jaman played a key role in the movement of a cluster of young men from Cardiff and Manchester.
Friendship and online links have both played a role in the decisions of 11 girls and women to travel to the region, such as the four teenagers from east London who went missing in recent months.
Late last year, some security chiefs across the West thought that the numbers going to the region were levelling off because many would-be travellers had now come to understand the true nature of the self-styled Islamic State's aims and barbarity.
That meant those still determined to go were hardcore jihadist sympathisers - and they were presumed to be a small group.
Whether that analysis still stands is open to question.
Security services across the West and Turkey have come under pressure to do more to stop people entering Syria - but there is a general consensus in governments that IS's social-media machine - and its facilitators - are remarkably adept at targeting and indoctrinating vulnerable young people.
A spate of high-profile media reports of individual cases may suggest the numbers have gone up again - but it is simply too early to tell for sure.
The true picture will only become clearer as we add more stories to this project in the months to come.


Tanzania has removed more than 10,000 "ghost workers" from its public sector payroll in a crackdown on corruption.

Payments to the non-existent employees had been costing the government more than $2m (£1.4m) a month, according to the prime minister's office.
The authorities say they are continuing to audit the public payroll and expect to find more phantom workers.
President John Magufuli, who was elected in October, has promised to cut wasteful public expenditure in office.
He ordered the audit in March, calling for the money saved to be used towards development.
Nicknamed the bulldozer, Mr Magufuli has announced a range of cost-cutting measures since coming to power, including cancelling official celebrations for independence day.
Tanzania spends more than $260 million a month paying the salaries of its estimated 550,000 public workers, Reuters news agency reports.
"We intend to have workers in government who are honest, accountable and hardworking. This is our priority and it is a non-stop initiative," Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told Tanzanians living in the UK,  according to local newspaper The Guardian.
The prime minster was speaking after attending a major anti-corruption summit in the UK capital, London, last week.
Tanzania is ranked 117 out of 167 nations by Transparency International on its perception of corruption index.
Many countries across the continent have been affected by the scam of so-called ghost workers.
In February, the Nigerian government removed 24,000 workers from its payroll after an audit revealed they did not exist.
In September 2014, Kenya began biometrically registering all civil servants after unearthing 12,000 similar cases.


Sussex seamer Steve Magoffin expects to be out until September with an Achilles injury suffered in June.

Magoffin had initially been expected to be out for six weeks after suffering the injury in a Championship game against Worcestershire.
The 37-year-old had been playing only his second game of the season, having missed three games with a knee injury.
"It's been an incredibly frustrating year for me this season for lots of reasons," he told BBC Sussex.
"I've got the moon-boot on now, I've had it on for about three weeks, probably another few weeks to go.
"Then I can start building up after that and look to be okay for the back end of the season in September when there's still four Championship games left."


The stars of upcoming space-race drama Hidden Figures were overcome with emotion at a preview of the film in Toronto.

The movie tells the story of a trio of African-American women working at Nasa whose skills helped put astronaut John Glenn into orbit in 1962.
Actresses Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae cried as they watched clips ahead of an on-stage Q&A.
Henson apologised afterwards for being so overwhelmed.
"I never got into acting for the accolades. I'm a girl from the hood. I didn't grow up with much, so all I had was dreams and hope," she said.
"This story is so important.  Had I known about these women coming up, maybe I would have aspired to be a rocket scientist."
In Hidden Figures, Henson plays mathematician Katherine Johnson, alongside Nasa colleagues Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Monae).
Cameron Bailey, the artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, said the women had been a "visionary trio who had crossed race and gender lines".
The cast also includes Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.
Spencer said her character Dorothy "could disassemble anything and put it back together", a skill she had used to fix Nasa's IBM computer.
"No women, not black or white, were mentioned in Apollo 13 or all of these other movies," Spencer said, adding that she was sad that the real Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson had not lived to see their story told on film.
"But I'm excited that Katherine Johnson will," she said, her voice breaking with emotion.
"I just want her to be proud," added Henson.
"People come up to me and they're like, 'Oh, Oscars!' Everybody wants to put on that pressure.
"I don't accept that pressure - I'll let you all say it - but what I was most concerned about was if Katherine would be proud, because she's still alive - this is her story."
The film, directed by Theodore Melfi, is due out in early 2017.
The special screening was followed by an outdoor concert by Pharrell Williams whose songs feature on the soundtrack.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs until 18 September.
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Banks should provide evidence of the quality of service - such as the frequency of security incidents - to allow customers to compare accounts.

The time taken to open an account or to replace a lost or stolen card should also be published, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.
Such service guides should make it easier to compare accounts, the FCA said.
The industry welcomed the proposals, which could take effect next year.
The proposals also cover business current accounts, and suggest quarterly publication of a string of service guides, such as how and when customers can make payments, cancel cheques and whether 24-hour help is available, or the amount of time before access to a current account is available through power of attorney.
The frequency of security incidents would be closely watched as, at the moment, there is little evidence available abouit the number of times bank services are unavailable due to security or operational incidents.
A spokeswoman for UK Finance, which represents the major banks, said: "Banks work hard to ensure the products and services they offer meet customers' needs - this initiative is a positive step that will make it easier for consumers and businesses to compare the quality of service offered by different current accounts.
"We look forward to working closely with the FCA  to help ensure this information can be presented clearly, simply and consistently."
Gareth Shaw, money expert at consumer group Which?, said: "It is vital that consumers have access to useful information that helps them make informed choices about which bank to move to.  However, many customers that would benefit the most from switching banks, such as those who regularly rely on overdrafts, don't switch.
"This is why we are calling on the FCA to use its review to end excessive changes for unarranged overdrafts."
Consultation ends on 25 September, with a proposal that figures should be collected from April and first published in mid-August 2018.


Hundreds of people have been holding a candle-lit vigil in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to remember the victims of last week's attack at Garissa University College by al-Shabab gunmen.

A temporary shrine of crosses and candles has been set up and photos of the 148 victims of the group's deadliest attack in Kenya are on show.
Earlier, about 2,500 people marched in Garissa against the Somali militants.
Kenya has frozen the accounts of 86 people thought to be funding al-Shabab.
Thirteen hawalas - informal money transfer services - have also been closed down.
Hawalas are widely used by Somalis who depend on relatives abroad as a cheap and quick means to receive money.
Interior Minister Joseph Nkaiserry said the names of the individuals and hawalas had not yet been released.
Separately Five Kenyans appeared in court in Nairobi on Tuesday for suspected links with the attackers.
The court agreed to the prosecution's request to detain them for another 30 days, while police investigate whether they supplied weapons to the attackers, Kenya's Capital FM reports.
A sixth suspect, a Tanzanian, is being held in the north-eastern town of Garissa, which is about 150km (90 miles) from the border with Somalia.
Al-Shabab has its headquarters in Somalia, but has stepped up attacks in Kenya in recent years.
Many people came to the vigil in Nairobi's famous Freedom Park wearing black and carrying flowers.
The BBC's Maud Jullien reports from the vigil that one person told her that now was the time for Kenyans to unite and to ask serious questions about how the attack could have happened.
The vigil ends three days of official mourning, although many of the dead have not yet been identified because of the horrific wounds they suffered in last week's attack.
Ahead of the vigil, several hundred students marched through Nairobi, demanding tighter security at universities and campuses.
In Garissa, both Muslims and Christians took part in the march and promised to co-operate with the security forces to flush out militants who may be hiding in their community, reports the BBC's Bashkash Jugsooda'ay from the town.
However, protesters were also critical of the security forces, saying they were slow in their response to the assault, he says.
They pointed out that both the army and police had bases in Garissa, yet four gunmen managed to storm the campus, taking students hostage in dormitories and killing them in a day-long attack.
The government says the security forces responded swiftly, and saved the lives of about 500 other students.
Garissa university campus
1. Militants enter the university grounds, two guards are shot dead
2. Shooting begins within the campus
3. Students attacked in their classrooms while preparing for exams
4. Gunmen believed isolated in the female dormitories
5. Some students make an escape through the fence
Kenya's stoic survivors defy al-Shabab
Survivors 'were too scared to scream'
Who are the victims?
Why is al-Shabab targeting Kenya?


A new study has found that a doctor in Belfast was able to continue working with children after he had been convicted for child abuse in the 1970s.

Dr Morris Fraser was the senior psychiatric registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital's child guidance clinic in Belfast.
He also wrote the book Children in Conflict, about how the Troubles in Northern Ireland affected children.
The study into Fraser's activities was produced by academic Dr Niall Meehan.
It highlights a catalogue of failures by the authorities that enabled Fraser to remain on the medical register despite being convicted twice - in 1972 in London and in 1974 in New York - for child abuse.
As a result, Fraser continued to have access to vulnerable children and to sexually abuse them for a period of about 20 years.
Dr Meehan said the General Medical Council, London's Metropolitan Police and the Royal Ulster Constabulary did not tell the Royal Victoria Hospital that Fraser had been convicted of child abuse.
He added that Fraser's victims required justice, and the onus is now on the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales to investigate how the authorities' dealt with Fraser.
"The Goddard inquiry, which is looking into child abuse in Britain, must look at the interaction between abuse in Northern Ireland and abuse in Britain," he said.
"The police should have told the hospital when they detected Fraser's abuse in 1971," he said.
"It must be surely assumed that Fraser was allowed to continue his work in return for providing some form of services to the authorities.
"These are very serious concerns - the point is the authorities must answer for this."
It is understood a Freedom of Information request regarding Fraser was turned down in 2015 for reasons of national security.
Dr Meehan said that fuelled the suspicion that "he was working for the authorities in some way".
"People talk about these matters being in the past but the victims of this abuse are alive - these are matters of the present," he added.
"Children were abused while the authorities knew that they were being abused."
Richard Kerr, who now lives in Texas, was one of Fraser's victims.
He was about 12 years old when he was first taken to the psychiatrist's clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital along with his sister.
On his second visit, he was alone.
"He asked me to stand up and take my shorts down," Mr Kerr said.
"For some reason, within a minute, he had some sort of Polaroid camera. He started taking shots.
"He said not to worry - he's a doctor. But I felt embarrassed."
Two years later, Richard was sent to Kincora boys' home, the centre of an abuse scandal between the late 1950s and early 1980s.
Richard, who was abused at the home, felt increasingly isolated and vulnerable.
He said those in positions of power exploited vulnerable children.
"The only people I knew were my abusers and the only thing I had to do was to try and please them, because I had no one else to turn to," he said.
"They used me to go out to other locations and be with different men.
"Back then, no one believed me. I didn't think anyone would believe me.
"They use your troubled past against you."


The exploits of cycling's golden couple Laura Trott and Jason Kenny helped boost ratings for the BBC's Olympic coverage to a new high on Tuesday.

More than 11 million were watching BBC One at 22:00 BST when Trott received her Olympic gold medal for the omnium.
The same figure - 11.1 million - turned in one hour later to see Kenny, Trott's fiance, win the men's keirin.
Coverage of the Rio Olympics, which run until Sunday, has also helped give BBC Four record ratings.
Before Tuesday night's events, the highest viewing figures for the Rio Olympics came on Sunday.
That was reached when an average of 10.4 million watched gymnast Max Whitlock receive his second gold medal.
Ratings for the Rio Olympics have been generally lower compared with London 2012, due to the time difference between the UK and Brazil.
In 2012, 20 million people tuned in to see Usain Bolt win the men's 100m final when it aired on 5 August at 21:50 BST.
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Paul the octopus, an unlikely star of the 2010 World Cup who predicted the outcome of eight matches, has died at an aquarium in Germany.

Staff at the Sea Life centre in Oberhausen said they were devastated to learn that he had passed away during the night.
Paul made his name by successfully choosing a mussel from one of two boxes bearing the flags of competing nations.
Octopuses rarely live beyond two years so his death was not unexpected.
Paul backs England World Cup bid
What are the chances Paul the octopus is right?
Paul was two-and-a-half years old and had been hatched at another centre at Weymouth in England in 2008.
Uncanny knack
The centre's manager, Stefan Porwoll, said that Paul had correctly guessed the outcomes of seven of Germany's World Cup matches, including their defeats, and had "enthused people across every continent".
As the tournament progressed, the octopus's uncanny knack of selecting the correct box drew increasing interest from the world's media, culminating in his choice of Spain as the eventual winner.
He became an instant hero in Spain, prompting a request to have him put on display at Madrid zoo.
Amid the euphoria, he was even made an honorary citizen of a Spanish town before being made an ambassador for England's 2018 World Cup bid.
The Oberhausen centre said he had seemed fine when last checked on Monday night but was found dead on Tuesday morning.
"We are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life," Mr Porwoll said.
Memorial
The prophetic cephalopod's brief but extraordinary life is unlikely to be forgotten.
A documentary has been filmed, and books and toys are already planned for the Christmas market.
"It's a sad day. Paul was rather special but we managed to film Paul before he left this mortal earth," said his agent, Chris Davies.
A memorial is to be erected at the aquarium in his memory.


For most people, Hawaii conjures images of palm trees and sunshine - but not for Leanda Cave.

For Cave and everyone else competing in the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona on 8 October, Hawaii will mean blistering heat, barren fields of black lava and desiccating crosswinds.
There's also the small matter of swimming (2.4 miles), cycling (112 miles) and running (26.2 miles) a total of 140.6 miles. Most people will need a holiday after just reading about it.
But Leanda Cave is not like most people.
More than 14 years after claiming a triathlon silver medal for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Cave is preparing to put herself through the one of the toughest challenges facing endurance athletes.
And the 38-year-old, who won the event in 2012, has no problem explaining why.
"It's the glory of winning," she said.
Listen again: Leanda Cave on BBC Radio Wales
"There's nothing like it and I've experienced it - I guess it's almost like a drug, it's an addiction, you want it, you crave it.
"When you're on the start line you're all going for the same thing, to win a race and it's only one person who can win the race and it's nice to be in the mix and give it a shot."
Cave has won world titles at Olympic distance, long distance, half-Ironman and Ironman triathlons.
Yet the feeling that she still has something to prove after crashing out of last year's race is part of the incentive for Cave as she goes into the last stages of a month-long preparation in Hawaii.
"It's funny because I ask myself this same question why I come back every year - and here I am doing it again," Cave explained.
"Last year I crashed my bike and I thought that would be the end of me.
"It took a huge emotional toll but then I guess it's that fighting spirit that you want to get to the finishing line and you want to succeed and you don't want things to stop you.
"So after I got over the emotional stress of crashing last year I felt like I couldn't not come back.
"I have to get to the finish line and sure it's a year later but it's me wanting to redeem myself for some misfortune in the past."
In a sport of extremes, the race in Hawaii takes even Ironman triathlon to the limit of physical endurance and mental stress.
In addition to the heat - which can top 90 degrees Fahrenheit - and the distance, there is the wind.
It's a blast so notorious it has a name - "Ho'omumuku". It's a physical force competitors have to battle during the cycle phase in particular, and a dehydrating factor for athletes whose metabolisms are operating at the limits of capability.
Cave has won races in Arizona and Florida in a career that has taken her around the world but has the utmost respect for the harsh challenge Hawaii presents for athletes.
"I always get out here about the month before the race," she said.
"It's definitely some of the toughest conditions I've experienced in this sport.
"It's hot and very windy and the terrain is black. It's volcanic and it's just very tough and I like to make sure I'm ready for it not in the physical sense but in the mental sense.
"This is my 10th year here in Kona and I have had success here in the past.
"But I've also failed miserably many times and it's just good to come back and feel confident that I know the course and I know the weather and nothing comes as a surprise on race day.
"I suppose the unique thing about Hawaii is because it's such a tough race it's sometimes not so much the fittest person on the day who wins.
"It's having everything go right for the one particular athlete on the day - on days when all your cards are right, you get dealt the good hand and somehow magic happens.
"I feel really good. But this year has not gone as well - I haven't had a very solid season and I wouldn't say that's lack of results or performances, it's just I haven't raced a lot and I've normally raced 10 times a year before I get to Kona. And this year I've dialled it back a bit because I've had several other commitments on the table.
"But in saying that it's given me a little bit longer to prepare for this event.
"I'm feeling pretty good but this race I feel at times it's still a bit of a mystery.
"I'm nervous and I think that's a good thing to come here and not expect to do well, I've got to race smart and put in the best performance I can do."


Great Britain will face second seeds Croatia in the Fed Cup promotion play-off on Saturday.

Heather Watson and Johanna Konta won their singles matches against Turkey to take an unassailable lead in their final best-of-three group match.
Jocelyn Rae and Laura Robson completed a 3-0 sweep in the doubles, with Anne Keothavong's team topping Group C.
Their play-off place was already sealed after Latvia earlier beat Portugal in Britain's group.
Watson powered Great Britain to a 1-0 lead by beating 163rd-ranked Ipek Soylu 6-0 6-1.
British number one Konta then overcame an early wobble to beat world number 86 Cagla Buyukakcay 5-7 6-4 6-3 in the second singles match.
"I didn't get the chance to play Fed Cup last year, but from the very beginning of the season I was clear that I wanted it to be part of my schedule," Konta told British Tennis.
"I think whenever I get an opportunity to represent Great Britain in a team environment, I look to take it."
Rae and Robson then breezed to a 6-2 6-2 victory over Ayla Aksu and Pemra Ozgen in 58 minutes to ensure Great Britain ended the group stages unbeaten.
Unlike the men's team competition, the Davis Cup, which has a World Group of 16 nations, the Fed Cup divides its top teams into two groups of eight - World Group I and World Group II.
The 91 nations outside the top tiers are divided into three regional zones and Britain have one chance per year to escape - a format that hugely frustrated former captain Judy Murray.
The Europe/Africa Group I event, which this year takes place in Estonia, has 14 teams divided into groups, with Poland, Croatia, Britain and Serbia the seeded nations.
Four group winners will progress to promotion play-offs on Saturday, and two nations will then qualify for World Group II play-offs in April - which could see Britain given a home Fed Cup tie for the first time since 1993.
They fell at the same stage in 2012 and 2013 - away ties in Sweden and Argentina - under the captaincy of Judy Murray.