The government's flagship benefit reform has "serious design flaws" and has "veered off track" because of cost-cutting, a think tank has warned.

The Resolution Foundation said Universal Credit could leave 2.5 million families worse off, some by more than Â£3,000 a year.
It comes as the government announces a further expansion of the scheme.
Welfare Secretary Stephen Crabb said the payment was "transforming welfare" and getting people into work faster.
Universal Credit, championed by Mr Crabb's predecessor Iain Duncan Smith, aims to provide incentives for people to move off benefits and into work.
Universal Credit replaces six current benefits, including Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance with a single payment.
After delays hit the original timetable, it is being gradually rolled out across the country and is now available to new single jobseekers in every job centre across the UK.
The latest target for a full roll-out is 2021.
The Resolution Foundation, chaired by former Conservative minister David Willetts, said it had long supported Universal Credit, which it said would simplify welfare and boost work incentives.
However, it said recent changes, "which have been driven by the government's desire to secure further savings in the welfare budget... have taken it too far from its original purpose".
Unless design flaws are eradicated, it said, Universal Credit "risks being reduced to little more than a very complicated vehicle for cutting the benefits bill".
It urged Mr Crabb to "reclaim" the reform from the Treasury.
The report said while some of the current system's "disincentives" to return to work had been removed by the reform, the opposite was true for many families, particularly "second earners" in couples.
While it predicted 2.5 million would be worse off, it said almost two million would fare better under the new regime.
David Finch, the think tank's senior economic analyst, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, while the benefit provided financial incentives to work, the incentives for people to increase their earnings were "particularly weak".
He said people kept about 35p from each pound they earn and benefits were withdrawn when people started to work as little as five or 10 hours a week.
Mr Finch added: "There's a risk that people, particularly single parents, get trapped at quite low levels of pay and fail to progress.
"So while there may be an incentive for them to get into work, that incentive for them then to boost their earnings and progress in work is weak."
Mr Duncan Smith resigned as work and pensions secretary in March this year, citing pressure to "salami-slice" welfare.
In his resignation letter, he said: "There had been too much emphasis on money saving exercises and not enough awareness from the Treasury, in particular, that the government's vision of a new welfare-to-work system could not be repeatedly salami-sliced."
The government said more than 450,000 people had made a claim for Universal Credit so far, with more than 9,500 new claims made every week.
Mr Crabb told the Today programme there had been changes to the scheme since it was launched in 2010, but said measures such as an increased tax allowance and the National Living Wage had "transformed the landscape" and would "override" the losses outlined by the Resolution Foundation.
Mr Crabb said the latest expansion marked an "important milestone".
He added: "Universal Credit is transforming welfare and is central to our vision for our society where people of all backgrounds can earn a decent wage and provide for their families, with claimants moving into work faster and earning more than under the old system.
"Our focus now is on continuing its expansion to all claimants."
Labour's shadow welfare secretary Owen Smith said cuts to Universal Credit had "fatally undermined" incentives to work.
"The Tories should stop slapping themselves on the back for delivering cuts to working families right across the country and instead listen to Labour's calls for an urgent U-turn."


Two bus companies in Cornwall and Hampshire have had their licences revoked by the traffic commissioner and their director disqualified.

The decision comes after "unsatisfactory" vehicle maintenance at Western Greyhound Limited (WGL) and Black Velvet Travel Limited (BVTL).
In one case, a bus lost two wheels when in service on the M3, causing a crash.
Director Michael Bishop has been disqualified from holding or obtaining an operator's licence.
WGL, based near Newquay, is currently in administration and Eastleigh-based BVTL is in liquidation.
The written decision by traffic commissioner Sarah Bell follows a public inquiry on 10 September.
Mr Bishop has also been disqualified from being involved in the management, administration or control of a transport operation.
He became the director of BVTL in August 2014, having previously been the director of a company which went into liquidation owing in excess of Â£1m, Miss Bell said.
BVTL was placed in compulsory liquidation in June 2015.
In December 2014, two wheels came off a BVTL vehicle on the M3 and one struck an HGV.
The vehicle did not have an MOT, Miss Bell said.
That month, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) was also notified of a number of complaints about the reliability of the BVTL services, and Miss Bell said her office was also told of unsatisfactory maintenance issues at WGL.
WGL was sold to Mr Bishop in December 2014 and went into administration in March 2015.


It might just be the greatest sports documentary to ever come out of Britain.

It is certainly the most quotable, and without question the most revelatory: inside a previously hidden world, showing sport as raw and brutal and beautiful and comic, aped many times but never quite matched.
Living With Lions, the fly-on-the-kitbag story of the 1997 British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa, is 20 years old. It came to both define that epic trip, and give it an eternal youth.
Two decades on, a special BBC Radio 5 Live programme has brought together the men who made it and those who became its unwitting stars.
This is the inside story of the ultimate inside story.
Cameraman and director Duncan Humphries (DH): "My mate Fred and I had been making commercials about mops and buckets. We were looking for something more fun to do, so we went to the pub at midday. By 3.30pm we had this blinding idea: why not do a film about the Lions?"
Director Fred Rees (FR): "We went to tour manager Fran Cotton. He said: 'Sounds like a good idea, it'll cost you thirty grand.'
"My father and I, who ran a production company, decided we'd take the risk, because we were told by Fran and everyone else that once we had the rights then BBC or ITV would come on board and give us the money to actually make it. So we paid the £30,000, and went to the BBC and ITV, and instead they all said: 'You're mad, the Lions are never going to win, no-one's going to want to watch this film, we won't give you any money.'
"We were terrified. What do we do now? We're on the edge of a cliff. Either we've lost all this money, or we have to find a whole load more to make the film. So, in great stupidity or wisdom, we remortgaged my house."
Winger John Bentley (JB): "These two may have had a conversation with Fran, but [coaches] Ian McGeechan and Jim Telfer actually objected to their presence. They didn't want a circus. They decided to ignore these guys.
"On the first Friday, all the players went for a drink. These boys were there. They explained they wanted to do it fly-on-the-wall. I told them they wouldn't get it, and they needed a player to help them."
DH: "We all got full Lions training kit. So every day we filmed with them we were wearing the same kit as them. Straight away we started blending into the background.
"It had never been agreed that we could put microphones on Telfer and McGeechan. But we just did it, every day. And they assumed it must have been in the contract. Which it wasn't."
FR: "We lived in a limbo. We weren't the journalists, and we weren't the team. We lived in a place in between. We were ignored most of the time, which was great for the film. You don't want people conscious you are filming them."
JB: "If it's any consolation, Martin Johnson ignored all the players too."
Minutes before the opening tour match, against Eastern Province, captain Jason Leonard gathered his team-mates around him in a tight circle.
His speech - set against the sound of clattering studs, nervous retching and wild exhortations ("Squeeze the arms! Squeeze!") - was Churchill meets Barking via several broken noses ("What more do you want to achieve? It's there for us…"). We nearly never knew it happened.
DH: "Before he called the lads together, Jason threw us out. So Fred and I had a conflab, and we thought, if we don't get in the first dressing room, by the time the Tests come round we won't have a chance. We had to get in there.
"So we went to see Fran. 'Fran, we shook hands on this.' 'Leave it to me.' Fran walked in, tapped Jason on the shoulder with his big hand, and that was it - we were in."
JB: "The camera had never been in a Lions dressing room. Neither had I. But we didn't even notice they were there."
FR: "There was a lot of swearing. We had one 20-second section with Keith Wood where he dropped 13 f-bombs.
"We phoned him up afterwards and told him. He said: 'Yeah, that sounds a bit much. I might have to open a supermarket or something.' So we halved the swearing, and when we played it back to him, he said: 'That really doesn't sound like me - you better put it all back in.'
JB: The phantom puker was Neil Jenkins. And sometimes Keith Wood too."
The hand-held camera Bentley asked for was passed on to team-mate Rob Wainwright and then his fellow Scot Doddie Weir. While Weir's first attempt at self-filming did not go well ("Take two, because in part one I had a wee swear…") the next few weeks revealed just how strong a bond a Lions tour can forge - and what it's like when that bond is forcibly broken.
In the tour match against Mpumalanga, Weir's knee was wrecked by a brutal stamp at a ruck. When he was told in the dressing room by doctor James Robson that his tour was over, Humphries' camera was there to capture his reaction.
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Doddie Weir (DW): "You say it breaks your heart to watch it. It broke mine too.
"I tried to look cheerful for the boys. It's the way I've always been, to show a positive side. But I was going home, and it had been a wonderful trip and a wonderful tour.
"The rugby was pretty special, yet the biggest wrench for me was leaving the 35 players. Bentos [John Bentley] was pretty special. He was my new mate. Leaving that was the biggest thing. The video picked that up, and our camaraderie."
DH: "It was close to feeling like I was intruding on private grief. Bentos and Rob and Doddie had been so brilliant and open to us, and so you'd developed more of a relationship with them.
"Witnessing Doddie - who had been playing so well on that tour - there was a moment when you wondered about turning the camera off. But you stay, and if someone says 'sod off', you sod off slightly slower.
"When I stopped filming, I said: 'Doddie, I'm really sorry.' It wasn't a nice thing to film, but it shows Doddie as the person he is."
DW: "I was a shy boy. Meeting John Bentley, who was the main social convenor, really opened my eyes."
JB: "There were some lonely days. My wife had the tour itinerary, and she would send letters and photos of the kids. My daughter was six months old when I left, and she was changing in front of my eyes. It was a big ask for me.
"After I went to see Doddie to say goodbye, I went back to my room and cried my eyes out. I didn't want to be there then. And Doddie was the nicest man in the world. I love you Doddie, I really do."
DW: "You're pretty special, Bentos. You're my favourite."
JB: "I really love you. This is a wonderful opportunity to tell everyone you love me. Tell me you love me. Please."
DW: "I'll text you."
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After beating Western Province, the squad retired to Cantina Tequila in Cape Town for a few beers. And then several more. With champagne. And tequila. And a lot of singing - even from Martin Johnson.
FR: "The Lions weren't holding back, so we didn't think they minded filming it. We just rocked up."
DH: "I went in the car with Jonno and Geech [Ian McGeechan]. By then we were part of the trip."
JB: "We had a great night. It finished some time on Monday. That's the real side of touring.
"People ask why Wonderwall became such a big song for us. We were in the bar that night, and it just came on. We didn't choose it. We hadn't played it in the dressing room.  Rugby tours are all about singing, but that just came on and we all sang it.
"The words just worked. 'I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do, about you now…'"
DH: "We wish you'd chosen another song, because it cost us a fortune in rights to use it."
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Forwards coach Telfer was a man possessed on that tour. Convinced - correctly - the Test series would be won or lost up front, he hammered his forwards on the training pitch, then stirred their souls afterwards.
The lines have lost little of their power over the past two decades. "There are two types of rugby players boys - honest ones, and the rest…" "This is your (bleep) Everest, boys. Very few ever get a chance in rugby terms to get for the top of Everest. You have the chance today.
"They don't think (bleep) all of us. Nothing. We're here just to make up the (bleep) numbers…
"You have to find your own solace - your own drive, your ambition, your own inner strength. Because the moment's arrived for the greatest game of your (bleep) life."
DH: "We used to call Jim 'Grandad', although not to his face. He was this gentle, grey-haired man. And then he would turn up for training, and this monster would appear."
FR: "It's one of the magic things, that we managed to capture Jim and Ian making these amazing speeches. They have no ego, those two.
"It wasn't about them, and them feeling they were achieving. It was all about the players. Jim's words, and his delivery, are gold."
DH: "You would hear Jim rehearsing, all grumbling and mumbling. And then he would deliver it perfectly, and you would think, 'Where did that come from?'"
JB: "We talk about groundbreaking footage for the viewers. I'd never seen those speeches. None of the backs had. They were made to the forwards. None of the forwards had mentioned it. I watched it, and thought, 'Wow!'"
Ian McGeechan (IM): "It's the happiest I've ever seen Jim. That was him coming out. It was brilliant."
JB: "It was magical footage. You couldn't script it. That wasn't pantomime; that wasn't done for the camera. They were just lucky to have caught it."
DH: "I was a table away when I filmed it, but I don't think they even knew we were there. They were so, so focused.
"I remember the build-up to the Everest one. The sound man said: 'Jim's off on one…' He was grumbling, he was mumbling, doing the rehearsals in his own mind. I thought, 'Don't muck this zoom up.'"
Three hours before the second Test, with the Lions 80 minutes away from a historic series win, McGeechan sat his players down in the team hotel.
His speech would be different in tone to those of Telfer, but its impact was just as significant: "On that field sometimes today, all it will be between you is a look. No words, just a look. That will say everything. And the biggest thing it will say is 'you are special'."
JB: "That Geech speech smashes me."
FR: "There's so much heart in there. There is something very beautiful about that speech."
JB: "I was sat there crying. Crying, and scared to lift my hand to my face because of the crying.
"Because he spoke about the things that were outside the room, like your family. I missed mine so badly. I hadn't seen them for seven weeks. All of us did. Geech understood."
DH: "We had two Churchillian speakers. A few years later, the speeches on behind-the-scenes films felt too rehearsed. But there were times when I was filming when you could feel the hairs on the back of your neck rising."
Tour over, series won, Fred sat down to edit the hundreds of hours of footage down to just under three hours.
DH: "The blokes who ran the four Home Unions were shocked, when they came to watch it, by all the swearing."
FR: "We played them the final sequence. When Jerry Guscott drops the winning drop-goal in the second Test, [chairman of the Lions committee] Ray Williams leapt to his feet and shouted: 'Yes!' They were OK with the swearing after that."
JB: "When we had the tour reunion, Fred and Duncan came to it. They became like friends."
FR: "The film is two hours 50 minutes long. The Lions win the Test series in the last five minutes. If they'd lost the series, it would still have been the same film.
"We knew we'd made something pretty magical. We released it as a VHS, and it quite quickly became the most successful rugby video there had been. You can never know how the world will react, but we knew we had something special."
DH: "In 2005 I was filming an advert with Jonno and Brian O'Driscoll. Brian was asked what got him into rugby. He replied that the Living With Lions film had been one of the big reasons.
"Jonno started laughing. 'This bloke made it.' Brian took my hand, shook it and said: 'Thank you very much.'"
JB: "Everyone around me said it should have been called 'Living With John Bentley'.
"I heard from the tour press officer when the film had been put together, and was told that I should have a look before it came out. So I went into the garden, and shared the news with my wife of what I'd been doing.
"She went ballistic. 'You were supposed to be playing rugby! What the hell were you doing? Why are you having to look at it?'
"A week or so later, I was away playing with Newcastle. I phoned home to see how the kids were. My wife told me a package had arrived for me.
"'Oh really?' 'Yes, it's a video from your trip to South Africa.'
"'Oh God…'
"'Well I've watched it, John, and it's just you being an idiot. As usual.'"
IM: "My wife tells me that when she's feeling depressed, Living With Lions is one of the videos she puts on. For that moment in time, it was the watershed moment. The Lions were here to stay."


The Irish Top Gear producer punched by Jeremy Clarkson is suing the presenter and the BBC for racial discrimination.

Lawyers for Clarkson and the BBC attended a closed-door hearing with Oisin Tymon's legal team at a London employment tribunal on Friday.
The case centres on "verbal abuse" that accompanied a physical attack during which Clarkson struck Tymon in March.
Clarkson, who was dropped by the BBC following an internal inquiry, will front a new show on Amazon Prime.
The inquiry, headed up by Ken MacQuarrie, found Mr Tymon was subject to an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack".
Lawyers Slater & Gordon confirmed on Friday that they had been engaged by the producer.
A statement by the BBC said: "We will be responding to this claim, but will not be commenting further at this time."
Witnesses
The assault took place at a North Yorkshire hotel, after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day's shooting on location.
As part of the inquiry, statements were given by two unnamed witnesses to the incident on 4 March.
The producer, who suffered swelling and bleeding to his lip in the altercation, drove himself to hospital after the incident believing he had lost his job.
BBC director general, Tony Hall, said Clarkson had subjected an "innocent party [to] a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature".
At the time of the attack, Mr Tymon told police he did not wish to press charges.
In the days following the assault, he was the subject of sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute - prompting Clarkson himself to urge his fans to show restraint.
"I wish people would leave Ois alone because none of this was his fault," the presenter told reporters in March.
Clarkson will be joined by his erstwhile Top Gear co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May on a new show for Amazon Prime, to be broadcast next year.


A student has admitted building a bomb and leaving it on a Tube train but said it was for a prank, a court heard.

Damon Smith denies making or possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life but at the Old Bailey he admitted perpetrating a bomb hoax.
The prosecution said Mr Smith intended the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to explode and endanger the lives of people on the Jubilee Line train.
Prosecutors said the IED contained ball bearings to act as shrapnel.
Jonathan Rees QC, for the prosecution, said this was to "increase the destructive effect of the device".
At the start of the trial, Mr Rees said the defendant told police he had built a device which when activated was intended only to produce smoke.
However, the defendant added the ball bearings because he wanted to make it look like a real bomb so the train would be stopped and it would be reported on the news, Mr Rees added.
The court heard the device was found by two passengers when Mr Smith got off the train at London Bridge station last October.
They handed it to a driver, Adrian Clarke, who initially thought it was for lost property but then, as he drove to North Greenwich, realised it contained two wires coming out of the back of a clock, the court heard.
The court heard the student had moved to Rotherhithe in south-east London with his mother from Newton Abbot, Devon, when he started a computer forensics degree at London Metropolitan University.
The defendant has Asperger's syndrome, or Autism Spectrum Disorder as it was known, and has a keen interest in guns and other weapons that may have been a function of the condition, the court heard.
The prosecution said officers had found:
The court heard Mr Smith told police he had been brought up a Christian but was interested in Islam which he thought was "more true".
He did not really practise Islam, although he read the Quran and sometimes prayed in the morning when it was convenient but did not hold extreme views, the court heard.
Mr Rees said that on the day of the incident the defendant had started a timing mechanism on the device while he was at Southwark station, changing trains.
Meanwhile, Mr Smith went to his university campus at Holloway and searched for news articles on the incident when he got home later, the court heard.
The trial continues.


Joey Barton is "petrified" thinking about Everton's future and fears the club's best players will leave in the summer.

The Toffees are 11th in the Premier League but have won just three of their last 13 league games.
Barton, 33, a life-long Everton fan, believes there is discontent among supporters, who he feels have no confidence in manager Roberto Martinez.
"It is really worrying times," Barton told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I know there is discontent because I have dinner with my family once a week, they are all Evertonians and they all moan about what is happening there, some even refuse to go to the games under Martinez, that is how disillusioned they are."
Everton defender John Stones was the subject of interest from Chelsea in August last year, and Barton believes he will be one of several high-profile departures at the end of this season.
The Burnley midfielder added: "This summer Ross Barkley, John Stones, Romelu Lukaku and Seamus Coleman could all potentially leave Everton - what are you left with?
"Everton have very good talented young players but how long are they going to say 'we are not playing Europa League or Champions League and we need to go'?"


Two separate incidents of trains going through red signals near Reading could have been caused by driver fatigue, accident investigators have said.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is investigating DB Schenker (DBS) cargo trains passing signals at danger in March and November.
In both cases the driver applied the brakes and the trains stopped shortly after the signals.
DB Schenker is yet to comment. The RAIB said it would investigate.
It said it would look into the reporting and managing of fatigue.
The incidents happened seven miles (11km) apart and involved the same Acton Yard to Merehead Quarry freight service.
The first occurred shortly after 08:20 GMT on at Reading West Junction on 28 March. The second was on 3 November at Ruscombe, shortly after 06:20 GMT, when the train stopped 60m (200ft) past the red signal.
The RAIB said initial evidence suggested that "driver fatigue may have been a factor".
In both cases the drivers had started work around midnight and were on their return journey from Acton.
It said its investigation would take in other other recent incidents involving freight trains in which fatigue may have been a factor, including a derailing at Santon New Junction near Scunthorpe on 7 August.


Sir Bradley Wiggins says Chris Froome releasing his independent physiological testing results will not change anything, including what people think.

Froome's data is due to be published by Esquire magazine on Friday and submitted to a scientific journal.
The two-time Tour de France winner chose to share it to prove that people can "trust" his achievements.
"It's what people have called for and Chris and has done it, so hats off to him," Wiggins told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I'm sure it is not something for them to live and die by, or if it will change anything. It is a small step maybe."
Froome was spat at by some spectators during this year's Tour following media claims of doping.
But Wiggins, who was a team-mate of Froome at Team Sky before leaving earlier this year, has sympathy for what the 30-year-old had to put up with on his way to winning his second yellow jersey.
"I think to be under that amount of scrutiny for three weeks and do what he did was admirable. It shows his physical and mental strength to be able to deal with that," said Wiggins.
"Being spat at - sport is hard enough as it is without facing what he had to face."


A man who paid £440 for a shirt belonging to a footballer known as "the Beast" is to have it framed and hung on a wall, as it is too big to wear.

Mark Faulkner was the winning bidder in an auction of the Northampton shirt Adebayo Akinfenwa was wearing when he scored his first hat-trick, in 2012.
Akinfenwa, who now plays for AFC Wimbledon, donated the shirt to help raise funds for the Cobblers.
Mr Faulkner, 29, said: "I'm an extra large - he must be four triple Xs."
The shirt was auctioned twice, because the first winning bidder failed to pay the £7,500 agreed price.
Mr Faulkner, a self-professed "diehard Cobblers fan" who lives in the town, was outbid in the initial auction so was delighted when it was relisted.
"It went for £440, so a bit of a bargain," he said.
He has fond memories of Akinfenwa's time at Northampton Town and said the club "should never got rid of him".
"He was a great player for us, scored a lot of goals and was a fans' favourite. He's even more of a hero now, donating the shirt."
Mr Faulkner said he met Akinfenwa during a pitch invasion following the play-off semi-final victory against Cheltenham in 2013.
"I ended up shaking his hand - he was absolutely ginormous, massive," he said.
"We had a bit of a joke with my mates that all four of us would fit in his shirt.
"Wearing it would be a bit too big, so it's best kept on the wall."
The Cobblers' troubles have eased since the initial auction, which started with the aim of raising money to save the club from a winding-up petition over unpaid tax, which has since been paid.
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Alistair Carmichael faces a "long road to recovery" after the leaking of a memo about Nicola Sturgeon, according to a Liberal Democrat colleague.

Shetland MSP Tavish Scott said he felt "let down" by Mr Carmichael's actions.
However, he said his colleague should "walk that road" and continue as MP for Orkney and Shetland.
Mr Carmichael has faced calls to resign over the leak of the memo, which wrongly suggested that Ms Sturgeon wanted David Cameron as prime minister.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have said that Mr Carmichael will not face any disciplinary action, and he has also won the support of his local party.
The SNP have been calling on Mr Carmichael - the only remaining Lib Dem MP in Scotland - to consider his position.
An official Cabinet Office inquiry found he approved the leak of an official memo by his special adviser to a newspaper during the campaign.
The document, written by a civil servant in the Scotland Office, claimed Scotland's First Minister told the French Ambassador to the UK that she would prefer Mr Cameron as prime minister rather than Ed Miliband - comments Ms Sturgeon has always insisted she never made.
Mr Carmichael said the first he had heard of the memo was when he was contacted by a journalist.
He has since acknowledged that while he had not seen the document before it was published, he was aware of its content and agreed that it should be made public.
Mr Scott said on Wednesday that he was "very disappointed" by his colleague's actions.
He said: "We have worked together for 14 years for Shetland. People come to see both of us to solve problems. I too feel let down. No wonder many people across the islands do too.
"But Alistair's handling of this matter is not the Alistair I know."
He claimed there was a "political motivation" behind the calls for Mr Carmichael to resign.
And he added: "If he can demonstrate that he can get back to being a determined, effective local MP then people will accept that.
"Alistair has a long road to recovery with many people. But he should walk that road."
The executive committee of Shetland Liberal Democrats held a meeting on Tuesday night to discuss Mr Carmichael's involvement.
In a statement, it said members had expressed "surprise and disappointment at Alistair's actions and his lack of judgment.
"However, the members agreed that Alistair has rightly taken full responsibility and has apologised to all concerned, not least to the people of Orkney and Shetland.
"The members agreed that Alistair is an excellent constituency MP.
"He has achieved much for Shetland in the last 14 years, particularly during his five years in government, where his experience and expertise were used to great benefit for the Northern Isles.
"He has reinforced his commitment to carry on representing this constituency, as he was elected to do, and he retains the full confidence of the executive."
The parliamentary standards commissioner has received a number of complaints about Mr Carmichael's conduct and is considering whether they fall within her remit.
A member of the public has made a complaint to Police Scotland, who said inquiries were being carried out to establish whether there had been any criminality.
Meanwhile, an online fundraising campaign has been launched to raise money for legal representation to seek to overturn the election result in the seat.
It has reached more than half of its Â£60,000 target.


The original classroom where William Shakespeare is believed to have studied and seen his first plays opens to the public for the first time this weekend.

The classroom is owned by the King Edward VI school, the direct successor to the grammar school in Stratford-upon-Avon attended by Shakespeare from about 1571.
It will be open to visitors after a Â£1.8m lottery-funded renovation.
Among the discoveries was a hidden pre-Reformation wall painting.
Bennet Carr, headmaster of the modern day grammar school, says of the atmospheric building: "If I'm on my own in there sometimes, the hairs stand on the back of my neck."
His school is now going to share the classroom with visitors, with the renovated building opening on Saturday, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
The schoolroom where Shakespeare studied from the age of seven was the upper floor of the town's half-timbered medieval guildhall.
There are no surviving records of the pupils who attended in the 16th Century.
But Prof Ronnie Mulryne of Warwick University says it is almost certain that this was Shakespeare's school, until about the age of 14 or 15.
William's father John Shakespeare, a businessman and member of the local council, would have worked in the offices below the schoolroom.
There would have been 40 boys, from the age of seven to 15, all taught together in the same room by a single teacher. They sat on long wooden benches, called "forms" for school days that stretched from 6am to 6pm.
This was a classical education, with a strong emphasis on Latin and rote learning, and it was where he first encountered writers such as Ovid, who would later be influential in his work.
Shakespeare didn't go to university and all his formal education would have been in this single room.
This classroom, under big wooden ceiling beams, has another claim to fame. It was where Shakespeare probably saw his very first play.
Travelling players visiting the town had to perform before the local authorities, before they would be licensed to appear before the public.
The schoolroom was the venue for these private performances and Prof Mulryne says William would have attended with his father, who was part of the invited audience.
"It's hardly conceivable that he wouldn't have taken an opportunity to see the plays," says Prof Mulryne.
Among the plays presented were King Leir - an early version of the story that Shakespeare would write as King Lear - and Henry V.
Prof Mulryne says these performers, arriving with drums, trumpets and costumes, must have made a huge impression - and this would have been Shakespeare's first contact with professional actors.
The guildhall, built in 1420, was named after a religious foundation - the Guild of the Holy Cross.
The guild was closed in the Reformation in the 1540s, but Prof Mulryne says it seemed to have "morphed" seamlessly into the new town council, based in the same building, with much the same people and keeping its upstairs school.
Under the new religious order, the medieval wall paintings in churches had to be removed as symbols of the old Catholic faith. Shakespeare's father was paid to "deface" the richly-coloured decorations in the guild chapel next door.
But it's open to debate whether he was trying to erase or preserve these works of religious art, because rather than destroy them they were concealed with a covering of limewash.
This also happened to an altar painting in the guildhall - and one of the biggest discoveries during the restoration was finding a well-preserved picture of John the Baptist, painted almost 600 years ago.
Such religious disputes were much more than cultural differences, it was a turbulent time of violence and political danger. And the schoolroom's story shows how closely a young Shakespeare was surrounded by the Tudor politics of religion.
While Shakespeare's own beliefs remain a matter of academic debate, it's clear that his teachers had strong links to the outlawed Catholic tradition.
Simon Hunt, who would have been Shakespeare's first teacher, left the school to become a Jesuit priest. His successors Thomas Jenkins and John Cottom also both had strong Catholic associations.
Cottom had a brother who was a priest who was executed in London, a year or so after Shakespeare had left school. In a small community, such stories must have caused shockwaves.
If there is any substance to the theory that Shakespeare spent time as a teacher in Lancashire, that also stemmed from the Cottoms, who were connected to the Hoghton family where a William Shakeshaft was recorded in the early 1580s.
Prof Mulryne says the school and guildhall help to put Shakespeare's background into its actual historical setting.
And it shows his early influences, including his "rather vivid, technicolour" father.
As well as being a successful entrepreneur and local worthy, John Shakespeare was also in the dock in this same building, facing charges for assault and for leaving a muck heap outside his door.
The young Shakespeare would have studied Latin plays upstairs and seen the drama of real-life courts and local politics downstairs.
"It gives us a much greater sense of what life was like for the young William Shakespeare," says Prof Mulryne.
"It builds a picture of how his mind was formed."


Korean television dramas have always been popular across Asia, but the region may have hit peak K-drama fever with military romance Descendants of the Sun.

"This show satisfies all my fantasies," 35-year-old Beijing fan Ms Dai tells the BBC. "It reminds me of the feeling you have in a romantic relationship."
Seoul's latest offering chronicles the star-crossed relationship between a soldier and surgeon. It has won millions of fans across the region, but also caused alarm from some authorities.
The 16-episode show began airing on South Korean television in February. It is also being simulcast online in China and streamed on other websites - not always legally - watched by South East Asian fans.
It has all the familiar ingredients of a K-drama: a convoluted plot, A-list actors and an exotic location - in this case Greece, standing in as the fictional war-torn Mediterranean country Uruk.
But one unique feature of Descendants of the Sun is its military setting - it is often not fate that gets in the way of the main characters' happiness, but the urgencies of war.
The show is mostly set in Uruk where a special forces captain played by Song Joong-ki juggles peacekeeping duties with wooing an army surgeon played by Song Hye-kyo  - rather inconveniently, he often has to leave her at crucial moments to save lives or go on mysterious missions.
"The surgeon is a woman with a First World problem in a five-star package. She has a mystery man who is totally into her but who keeps leaving. Yet the drama also keeps reuniting them in airbrushed, beautified real-world circumstances," was how one Singaporean newspaper review summed up its premise.
The military theme has resonated because the armed forces play a big part in South Korean society, with the constant looming threat of war with the North, and where conscription is mandatory for male citizens.
An editorial carried by the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily praised it as "an excellent advertisement for conscription" showcasing South Korea's "national spirit" and "communitarian culture", and suggested China create a similar soap opera.
At home, the drama has broken viewership records and won plaudits from even the likes of President Park Geun-hye, who said it could help spread South Korean culture and boost tourism.
The city of Taekbaek, where some of the filming took place, is now planning to rebuild the film set because of intense interest from tourists, reports the Korea Times.
But its main fan base lies overseas, particularly China, where so far it has been viewed more than 440 million times on popular video-streaming site iQiyi.com. China has strict rules on broadcasting foreign dramas, but relaxed them for Descendants of the Sun, whose production was reportedly partly funded by Chinese investors.
It was a move seen by some as a sign of warming relations with South Korea, though others have pointed out that one scene depicting a fight with North Korea - China's ally - was censored in the Chinese broadcast.
Even Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha - an army general who took power in a military coup - is a fan, urging his countrymen last week to watch it as it promotes "patriotism, sacrifice, obeying orders and being a dutiful citizen".
The show has been sold to 27 countries including the UK and translated into 32 different languages, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
But fandom has its costs. There were panicky reports in Chinese media earlier this month of a woman who nearly went blind binge-watching the show and another drama, when her 18-hour marathon session triggered acute glaucoma.
Chinese authorities have warned of the dangers of watching Korean dramas, which it said could lead to marital trouble and criminal behaviour.
Earlier this month, Chinese tabloids carried a bizarre story of a young man who was so jealous of his wife's obsession with Song Joong-ki that one night he drunkenly stormed into a photography studio and demanded that the shop owner take pictures to "make him look like Song". The owner eventually called the police.
China's public security ministry highlighted this incident in an advisory on its Weibo social media account two weeks ago.
"When chasing male or female stars, do not become too infatuated with them. Because sometimes your casual words could end up hurting those who really care for you," it said.
It also cautioned citizens against imitating the more melodramatic aspects of K-dramas, such as "forcibly kissing women" and slapping one another during lovers' tiffs.
"This sort of behaviour may seem romantic, but this kind of romance is not acceptable to everyone... it becomes wrong when you justify criminal behaviour as romance," it said.
In the latest episode, the show's protagonists temporarily put aside their romantic angst to fend off the twin threats of a villainous arms dealer and a viral disease spreading through the barracks.
Will love overcome all? Come 14 April, the day the finale will air, millions across Asia will be tuning in to find out.
Additional reporting by Wei Zhou, Zoe Chen and Lily Lee


Two years after India launched Nirbheek, a handgun pitched as the country's "first gun for women", a state-run arms factory has launched a similar gun which it says is India's lightest gun.

The new .22-calibre revolver is named Nidar, it weighs a mere 250g (8.8 ounces) - that's half of .32-calibre Nirbheek's 500g (1.1lb); and it costs 35,000 rupees ($513; Â£357) - Nirbheek came with a steep price tag of 122,360 rupees ($1,990; Â£1,213).
Manufacturers say Nidar is made with an aluminium alloy which makes it very light, but has "strength similar to steel", it has a 40-mm barrel and is just 140mm in length which makes it "small enough to fit into a palm".
Both Nirbheek and Nidar are synonyms of Nirbhaya - the nickname given by the Indian press to Jyoti Singh, the 23-year-old victim of December 2012 fatal gang rape on a bus in in Delhi. All three words mean fearless in Hindi.
They are produced by government-owned factories, and their manufacturers say carrying them will make people more confident and "fearless".
An official at the state-run Rifle Factory Ishapore, near the eastern city of Kolkata (Calcutta), said Nidar was aimed at "professional Indian men and women".
"I believe our customers would be people who travel a lot, who have security risks. They will buy this gun for their personal safety," factory in-charge PK Agarwal told the BBC.
He said he expected the gun to be more popular with women.
"I think it will be ideal for women. If a woman takes a taxi at night, the driver will think 10 times before trying anything with her because he knows she has a gun in her purse," he added.
But can carrying a gun make people safer?
Not really.
Most places in India do not allow guns - even the licensed ones - and there are metal detectors at many offices, malls, cinemas, markets and other public places to enforce this.
So even if "professional Indian men and women" were to get a gun, it will be of little use to them because they will not be able to carry it around with them.
Anti-gun campaigners also say that arming citizens is never a good idea - and that the way to tackle women's safety and reduce crimes is by better policing and changing attitudes.
The manufacturers of Nidar, however, are confident that their product will succeed - Mr Agarwal told the BBC that he expected to sell 10,000 units of the gun this year.


Wales prop Tomas Francis says Rob Howley dealt well with criticism of the way he has coached the national side.

Howley is in charge as Warren Gatland has temporarily stepped aside to coach the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand next summer.
Wales lost 32-8 to Australia before close wins over Argentina and Japan and a comfortable win over South Africa.
"I thought he handled it well in camp, he didn't put it back on us," said Exeter Chiefs forward Francis.
"He got us ready to win three on the bounce after that (loss to Australia), the most successful autumn ever for Wales and people forget that."
Francis started in the wins over Argentina and South Africa, having been a replacement in the loss to the Wallabies.
"In Wales it's quite a closed environment and after the first game they found it easy to jump on him," Francis told BBC Sport.
"He was the man to target, he was the change and they took that to him."
Francis also says he is relieved that 'Gatland's Law' does not apply to him.
The rule, which governs how many non-Wales based players can be picked for the national side, does not cover Francis as he was born in England and came up through the English system, playing for Doncaster and London Scottish in the Championship before moving to Exeter in 2014.
"At the minute I don't have to worry about that, I can just concentrate on trying to play well here and hopefully that reflects in getting picked there," said Francis.
"It's fantastic and means I can concentrate on my game here. I just need game time now, I've got to train as hard as I can and hope that (Exeter coach) Rob Baxter gives me my chance."


Riyad Mahrez has been one of the inspirations behind Leicester's unexpected but widely welcomed Premier League title challenge.

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The 25-year-old Algeria international, signed from French side Le Havre for just £400,000 in January 2014, has been a sensation this season, scoring 15 league goals, including the winner against Watford on Saturday.
Mahrez's journey to this point has been far from straightforward.
The slight but talented forward was born in the tough Parisian suburb of Sarcelles and lost his father, Ahmed, to a heart attack at the age of 15.
But his determination and skill took him across France and to the top of the Premier League.
Mahrez's first club was AAS Sarcelles, based in a poor suburb in the north of Paris that has a large number of African immigrants. He joined the club - who play in the local Ligue de Paris - in 2004.
Hayel Mbemba, a former team-mate at AAS Sarcelles: "Riyad was a man who played on Monday, Tuesday... all the day, every day he played football.
"When he finished playing with the team he would go around the gymnasiums of Sarcelles looking for somewhere to play and train. That was the mentality of Riyad.
"Football, and sport in general, in Sarcelles is the way to get out from the street, to not go down another path that will not be good.
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"The training ground is named after Nelson Mandela and the stadium after Philippe Christanval. Mandela is a figure of example and Christanval is the first player from Sarcelles to go to good clubs like Fulham, Barcelona and Monaco, so we gave the stadium his name.
"Maybe soon, the next few months, we will build a new stadium and name it after Riyad. I hope we can do that.
"He is an example, an inspiration for the young people."
Mahrez used to visit hairdressers Nassim Coiffure as a child. Nassim and his staff are also Algerian, and the hairdressers - in Sarcelles - remains an anchor for Mahrez, a connection with his past.
Nassim: "All the time, little boys of five or six tell me to give them the Mahrez cut.
"I have a lot of clients now that come because of Riyad. They come from Lille, from Belgium, from everywhere! I know all of his hair, all of the strands. He always changes his hairdo. If he changes his hair, people copy him. If he puts a line in his hair, people put a line in too.
"He's like the Cristiano Ronaldo of Sarcelles. If Riyad does something, everyone imitates him.
"His barber never changes, he has changed his team and the country he plays in but he has never changed his routine. He still hangs out with his friends, he's always in Sarcelles, and Riyad is Riyad. Riyad of Sarcelles is Riyad of Leicester, the same person. He's a wonderful boy.
"I'm so happy for Riyad. When you see him like this in England, in the Premier League - it's phenomenal. I get goose bumps when I see Riyad score a goal. I feel like crying when I see him play."
Quimper, just over 350 miles from Paris, is the ancient capital of Brittany's most traditional region and in the rainiest part of France. Mahrez moved there in 2009. The club were in the fourth tier of French football when he joined.
Mahrez spent his first six months in their second team before gradually making his way through the ranks. He lived with Mathias Pogba in a small apartment in the town centre and was ferried to and from training by a local journalist because he could not drive.
Watch Pogba discussing life with Mahrez.
Mathias Pogba, brother of France and Juventus midfielder Paul: "As a room mate, first of all I couldn't get on with him because he was not tidy at all. I am very tidy, he used to eat and leave his plate.
"I had to domesticate him, I had to put him on his feet. Then after two or three months everything was all right. Before that? No, it was not correct.
"We had a bad diet. Bad, bad, bad, always eating steak and french fries.
"We lived a proper student life. Two boys, can't cook, having takeaway, always out.
"I took him as my little brother, I have two brothers so naturally I take the big brother role. I give him advice still. If he listens he listens, if he doesn't he doesn't.
"With the ball at his feet he's unstoppable, but I  always told him 'you need to get bigger because you are too skinny'. He has not put on one kilo since then so he obviously hasn't listened.
"No player is skinny like him nowadays, but he's getting more clever so he doesn't need to use his body.
"Can he be as good as Paul? I think he can, if he keeps going in this way he can be a top, top, top, top player - and puts some weight on."
Ronan Salaun, Mahrez's head coach at Quimper: "We had a trial day, a friendly with 20 players, and Riyad was the only one we kept.
"It took 20 minutes to realise we wanted him. Although he had a slight physique he had technical qualities.
"He was a gem in the rough. He must continue to grow even if Leicester become champions. The logical step is to play for a big European club so he can shine on the international stage."
Jo Dorval, a board member at Quimper: "He came with a bag which had in it only three items. A toothbrush, toothpaste and football boots. His left foot - he brought that too but it wasn't in the bag."
At one point Mahrez was told by the president of Quimper that they could not afford to give him a contract.
Christoph Marchand, a local journalist who covers Quimper: "Riyad was so disappointed, he called his mum almost burning in tears.
"The president saw his desperation and 24 hours later he had signed a contact. Maybe if Riyad didn't have this reaction, he wouldn't have got the contract.
"Six years ago he was nothing. He was in a low division in France, playing in front of 20 people. But now he has a kind of genius."
Le Havre is in Normandy, 300 miles from Quimper. Riyad was 19 when he joined the Ligue 2 club in 2010 and remained there until he moved to Leicester in January 2014.
Le Havre nurtured talent such as Paul Pogba and Dmitri Payet, and Mahrez was linked with PSG and Marseille while at the club.
But it wasn't all plain sailing. Coach Erick Mombaerts worked hard to refine and develop Mahrez's raw talent, but also used to substitute him a lot when he did not track back as he had been instructed.
It has been reported that Leicester were actually scouting Ryan Mendes, who is now at Nottingham Forest. It was only while checking on Mendes that a scout spotted Mahrez.
Florian Floqe, a member of the Barbarians, Le Havre's official supporters' club: "Ryan Mendes for sure was the better player. We expected him to reach a higher level than Riyad. Ryan was a fantastic player but he got a bad injury.
"Riyad had always the same move, dribbling past a few players on the right wing, cutting inside and shooting.
"It might be working in England now, but that sort of Arjen Robben style doesn't work in Ligue 2.
"I wrote in my blog at the time that Riyad will become a great player and people laughed at me. A very skilled player but he didn't use his talent efficiently. He had potential but only potential.
"We are very happy for Riyad, even proud of him."
Yann Simon, also a member of the Barbarians, Le Havre's official supporters' club: "There was no song for him at the club.
"My typical favourite players are hard working, strong midfielders. He plays for himself first of all, he played for himself not the team, he was a selfish player.
"Of course, we hope he will be transferred at the end of the season [for the sell-on fee].
"We don't know the total amount of the bonus, but it could be the same amount as our budget for a whole year in Le Havre. I say good luck to him and please be transferred at the end of this season… don't wait longer!"
Edited by Paul Fletcher.


Police searching for a missing couple have found a body in woodland in a Suffolk village near where they live.

Officers were contacted at 07:15 BST on Friday by a woman who reported concern for Peter and Sylvia Stuart, of Weybread, near Diss, who had not been seen since 28 May.
Their Mill Lane home and the surrounding area were searched and the body, believed to be 75-year-old Peter Stuart, was found at 19:15.
Police have launched a murder inquiry.
Suffolk Fire Service crews are also at the scene assisting police in searching nearby streams for Mrs Stuart.
Det Ch Supt Simon Parkes, from Suffolk Police, told a news conference in Weybread that the body was found about 30ft (9m) from the Stuart's home.
"Clearly, we consider Peter the victim of a crime. We urgently need to find Sylvia. We are hugely concerned for her safety," he said.
"The motive as to why Peter was killed is a matter of speculation."
The officer added the body was fully clothed but he could not comment on how long it had been in position before it was discovered.
"We are treating this as a murder inquiry and as a missing person investigation as we continue to search for Sylvia," he said.
"We are currently carrying out a number of inquiries to find out exactly what has happened and would continue to ask anyone with information to come forward.
"We are particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have seen anything suspicious in this area of Weybread between Saturday 28 May and today and would ask anyone who can help to call us."
The village of Weybread is made up of about 200 homes covering about 2,500 acres (1,011 hectares).
Graham Gibbs, chair of Weybread Parish Council, said: "It has been a big talking point in the village. Nothing like this happens in Weybread, although I suppose everyone says that."


Hundreds of people are taking part in a fundraising walk in Bristol to remember Becky Watts who was killed last month.

The 16-year-old was reported missing on 19 February. Body parts were found at a house in the Barton Hill area of Bristol on 2 March.
Organisers said although the walk "won't bring Becky back" it will help "give this beautiful young girl the send-off she deserves".
Becky's stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28, has been charged with her murder.
Friends have sold wristbands, T-shirts and balloons to help support her family.
The walk started at 11:00 GMT on The Centre and is making its way to Castle Park where balloons are due to be released in her memory.
Earlier this week, Mr Matthews, from Warmley, Bristol, appeared by video link at Bristol Crown Court.
He has yet to enter a plea to the charge and was told a provisional trial date had been set for October.
His girlfriend, Shauna Hoare, 21, who is charged with perverting the course of justice, also appeared by video link.
Four other defendants have been charged with assisting an offender.


The National Hockey League (NHL) has cancelled another two weeks of games, as the result of a lockout that threatens to wipe out the whole season.

The stoppage continues to 14 December, in a move that brings the total number of games lost to 422, or about a third of the 2012-13 season.
The US and Canadian league locked out the players in mid-September, a month before the season was due to begin.
The two sides are in a dispute over how to split $3.3bn (Â£2bn) in revenue.
The owners want to reduce the players' share of annual revenue to 50% from the current 57%.
The All-Star Game, which was to have been in Columbus, Ohio, on 27 January, has also been called because of the latest round of cancellations.
It follows the owners' rejection of a new offer by the Players' Association on Wednesday morning.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is losing up to $20m per day, while the players are missing out on as much as $10m per day.
The work stoppage is the fourth in 20 years for the NHL. A previous union dispute saw the entire 2004-2005 season cancelled.


Opponents of plans to appoint a "named person" for every child in Scotland have lost their latest court battle against the policy.

No To Named Persons (NO2NP) argued the policy breached data protection and human rights laws.
But a panel of three judges at the Court of Session dismissed the campaigners' arguments as "hyperbole".
NO2NP has said it will now appeal to the Supreme Court in London.
The named person measure, contained in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act, will assign a single point of contact, such as a teacher or health visitor, to look out for the welfare of children under 18.
The Scottish government says the service will act as a safety net to help families and children if they need it, to speed things up and avoid families having to speak to numerous different services.
Lord Pentland refused an initial petition for the judicial review of the legislation at the Court of Session in January but campaigners appealed against the decision.
A panel of three judges who reconsidered the case in June has now refused that appeal, stating that the legislation does not breach human rights or European Union law.
The newly issued judgment said: "The mere creation of a named person, available to assist a child or parent, no more confuses or diminishes the legal role, duties and responsibilities of parents in relation to their children than the provision of social services or education generally.
"It has no effect whatsoever on the legal, moral or social relationships within the family. The assertion to the contrary, without any supporting basis, has the appearance of hyperbole."
Children's Minister Aileen Campbell welcomed the decision, and said she hoped the petitioners would take comfort from the findings.
She said: "As the ruling states, this policy was informed by experts in child welfare, health and education with the intention of putting the best interests of the child at the heart of decision-making."
NO2NP spokesman Simon Calvert said: "There is no question that we will be appealing this ruling.
"We do not believe that the judges engaged properly with the arguments we put forward, so we will take them to the Supreme Court.
"Ultimately we may even have to go to Europe. If the nature of the named person scheme was as the court described, then we would not have brought this action in the first place."
Among those involved in the legal challenge were the Christian Institute, the Christian charity Care and the Family Education Trust as well as individual academics and parents.
The named person policy has already been rolled out out in parts of Scotland including Highland, Edinburgh, Fife, Angus and South Ayrshire.


A ceiling panel has fallen on top of passengers on board a London-bound train, Southern Rail has confirmed.

Eyewitnesses said two women were hit when the panel fell on the 07:45 BST Southern service from Tattenham Corner to Victoria.
Katie Burkes, 28, said she suffered bruising and whiplash when the panel fell on to her shoulder. Southern said no injuries were reported.
Southern has apologised and said a full investigation has been launched.
Ms Burkes, from Purley, south London, said: "The woman across from me looked really panicked and then the whole ceiling came down and fell on my shoulder and her shoulder.
"Everyone in the carriage got up and was holding this panel up in the air, and then turned it on its side.
"The driver of the train came on and asked if everyone was ok, but the staff at East Croydon didn't know how to deal with it. There wasn't a manager there and no first aider.
"Southern needs to ensure it's safe. If someone was having a heart attack what would happen? They wouldn't have much chance with no first aider there. [Southern need to] be respectful of how much people are paying for trains."
A Southern spokesman said reports were received of a ceiling panel dislodging in one of the carriages on the 07.45 Southern service from Tattenham Corner to Victoria.
"Southern staff at East Croydon station boarded the train to attend to passengers and it was reported at the time that there were no injuries," he said.
London Ambulance Service confirmed it did not attend the scene.


The death of a man at a Pembrokeshire pond where two others have died this year was accidental, a coroner has found.

John Lyall fell backwards into the water at Pembroke's Mill Pond on 16 April.
Two passers-by tried to help but the 56-year-old, of Pembroke Dock, could not be resuscitated.
On Thursday, Coroner Mark Layton said Mr Lyall died by drowning, at a hearing in Milford Haven.
Wayne Anthony Young, 52, of Pembroke, died at the pond on New Year's Day and the body of 18-year-old Robert Mansfield, also of Pembroke, was found there on 27 July.
Inquests into their deaths are yet to take place.
Pembroke Council has rejected calls for safety netting to be erected at the pond, with Pembrokeshire Council backing that decision after saying such structures would be impractical.


A 95-year-old Texas man received some unexpected help from police officers after calling emergency services during a heat wave.

Julius Hatley called Forth Worth police on Thursday after both his window and central air conditioning units broke and his home became unbearably hot.
"This wasn't a regular 911 call," Fort Worth Officer William Margolis told CBS 11, noting "we're not AC techs".
Together with his partner, Christopher Weir, they chose to buy him a new unit.
"When we got there around 8:30am his house was 85 to 90 (29-35C) degrees already," Fort Worth Officer William Margolis said.
"In Texas, it gets hot," the five-year police veteran added.
Mr Hatley explained to the officers that he had been trying to keep cool on his outdoor porch.
That's when Officers Margolis and Weir decided to use their own money to buy a replacement window unit.
Employees at the hardware store were so impressed when they heard the reason for their shopping trip that they contributed another $150 (Â£120).
Since the story first gained attention in local media, other Good Samaritans have come forward with offers to fix Mr Hatley's air conditioner, paint his house and buy him groceries every week.
Mr Hatley says he appreciates the good deeds, and the officers say they will return to check in on him from time to time.
"He's 95 years old and he's a World War II veteran," Mr Margolis said.
"He's a hero. In our eyes he's our hero."


Derry City have moved up to second in the Premier Division thanks to a thumping 5-0 derby win over Finn Harps.

Aaron McEneff put the Candystripes in control with two first-half penalties, both given for fouls on Lukas Schubert.
Nathan Boyle fired home early in the second half and Schubert hammered in the fourth before Keith Ward's late lob completed the Finn Park rout.
Derry go a point ahead of Cork City and the teams meet at the Brandywell on Monday night in a crunch encounter.
It was Derry's first win over their north-west rivals in three meetings this season and they were rarely troubled by a disappointing Harps side.
McEneff tucked away the opener on 17 minutes after Ciaran Coll's challenge on Schubert, although the foul appeared to be outside the box.
There was no doubt the second spot-kick, with former Candystripes midfielder Barry Molloy bringing downing Schubert and McEneff making it 2-0 three minutes from the break.
Boyle produced a clinical finish from a Dean Jarvis cut-back eight minutes after the restart.
City keeper Gerard Doherty had a quiet night but he made a fine save to deny David Scully in the host's best opening of the game.
Schubert flicked the ball past Coll before blasting in after 83 minutes and it was soon followed by Ward's clever chip over Harps stopper Richard Brush.
It was Derry's biggest win of the campaign and perfect preparation for the showdown with Cork.


Newcastle moved five points clear at the top of the Championship by beating Leeds at an emotional Elland Road.

Fans held a minute's applause on 11 minutes to mark next Sunday's fifth anniversary of the death of Gary Speed, who played for both clubs.
Dwight Gayle pounced on a Rob Green goalkeeping error to volley home.
Leeds rallied and saw Eunan O'Kane's shot well saved but Gayle's second, from a sharp team move, sealed Newcastle's eighth win in a row.
Defeat ends Leeds' three-game winning run and leaves them just outside the play-off places.
In front of a sell-out 36,000 Elland Road crowd, these two old heavyweights evoked memories of happier top tier times with a first league meeting since 2004.
The tribute to Speed brought the two teams together briefly before a match that Newcastle controlled for the most part.
Gayle's breakthrough goal came from a swinging Jack Colback cross-shot that Green failed to cope with, the first real opportunity of the game.
The goal ignited a response from Leeds as referee Graham Scott waved away Pontus Jansson's protests for a penalty at the end of the half, and they continued that momentum early in the second period with possession and some pressure.
Yet Newcastle snuffed out the home side's hopes of snatching a point or more when sharp passing sliced open Leeds' left and Gayle turned in Vurnon Anita's cross for a second.
Leeds United boss Garry Monk told BBC Radio Leeds:
"We fell the wrong side of the critical moments, they started well in the first 20 minutes but even then we defended well and we gave them goal but after that we reacted really well.
"It was a clear cut penalty, if that goes in and we get that decision it changes the dynamic of the game and through some of the chances we just needed a goal.
"We have to respect we're playing a good side, it's alright going gung ho but we have to be smart, I thought we got to grips with it and all in all we were competitive again."
Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez told BBC Newcastle:
"I have to say thanks to every player, we could see a performance today against a good team we saw the effort, the mentality was good and the understanding of the game was very good.
"The atmosphere we were talking about as intimidating but we controlled ourselves. We knew what they could do but the players applied themselves and it's a credit to them.
"Everything we tried to do we did well, set-pieces, control of the game and counter-attack. There is room for improvement but I can't complain because we did very well."
Match ends, Leeds United 0, Newcastle United 2.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 0, Newcastle United 2.
Charlie Taylor (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Paul Dummett (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey.
Offside, Newcastle United. Matt Ritchie tries a through ball, but Mohamed Diamé is caught offside.
Hand ball by Kemar Roofe (Leeds United).
Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United).
Offside, Newcastle United. Jonjo Shelvey tries a through ball, but Aleksandar Mitrovic is caught offside.
Hand ball by Luke Ayling (Leeds United).
Hand ball by Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Isaac Hayden replaces Jack Colback.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Foul by Pontus Jansson (Leeds United).
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Aleksandar Mitrovic replaces Dwight Gayle.
Substitution, Leeds United. Marcus Antonsson replaces Souleymane Doukara.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Mohamed Diamé replaces Yoan Gouffran.
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kemar Roofe with a cross.
Corner,  Leeds United. Conceded by Vurnon Anita.
Corner,  Leeds United. Conceded by Vurnon Anita.
Hand ball by Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United).
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Eunan O'Kane.
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Foul by Kemar Roofe (Leeds United).
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leeds United. Hadi Sacko replaces Ronaldo Vieira.
Foul by Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United).
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Leeds United. Conceded by Jack Colback.
Attempt blocked. Luke Ayling (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Leeds United. Kalvin Phillips tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.


Wales could be facing a midfield injury crisis ahead of their Six Nations Championship match with France.

Centre Cory Allen was taken off on a stretcher during Blues' 14-13 defeat by Leinster on Saturday.
"He'll be in a protective boot for the next 24 hours and he'll be assessed," said Blues coach Danny Wilson.
Fellow centre Jonathan Davies missed Clermont Auvergne's 28-17 over Castres and fly-half Rhys Priestland injured a leg playing for Bath against Wasps.
Davies has a groin injury and Wales coach Warren Gatland has delayed his team announcement for Friday night's game until Wednesday.
Wales are already without Scarlets centre Scott Williams, who has not played since Wales' 28-25 win over England in October.
Allen was one of seven Wales squad players released to the Blues by Gatland.
He turned on an ankle early in the second half, and was wearing a surgical support boot after the match.
Allen had already missed much of the season with a hamstring injury suffered playing for Wales against Uruguay in the World Cup, and only returned to action at the end of December.
Another player carrying an injury is second row Luke Charteris, who hurt his knee in the 27-23 win over Scotland.
He missed Racing 92's match with Grenoble, and - along with Davies - will be assessed by medical staff when he returns to the Wales camp.
Preistland took a blow to the leg in Bath's defeat by Wasps, but the club's director of rugby Mike Ford said he does not think it is serious.


The president of the Philippines has come under fire for joking about rape in a speech to soldiers.

While speaking at a military camp after imposing martial law across the south of the country, he said they were allowed to rape up to three women.
This was the second rape joke Rodrigo Duterte has been condemned for making since announcing his candidacy.
A human rights group said his comment was "sickening" and Chelsea Clinton tweeted that rape was never funny.
Mr Duterte's words were: "I will be imprisoned for you. If you rape three (women), I will say that I did it. But if you marry four, son of a whore you will be beaten up."
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, wrote on Twitter that Mr Duterte was "a murderous thug with no regard for human rights" and that "rape is never a joke".
Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch said the president's comment was "a sickening attempt at humour" that sent soldiers a signal they could commit rights abuses while enforcing martial law.
He said: "Duterte's pro-rape comments only confirm some of the worst fears of human rights activists that the Duterte government will not just turn a blind eye to possible military abuses in Mindanao, but may actively encourage them."
And a women's political party in the country, Gabriela, said in a statement: "Rape is not a joke. Martial law and the heightened vulnerability to military abuse that it brings to women and children are not a joke either."
Martial law was imposed last week on Mindanao in the south of the Philippines, where Muslim separatists and other rebels are fighting the army.
Last year, Mr Duterte joked about a 1989 rape and murder of an Australian missionary. He said that as mayor of the town where it happened, he should have been "first in line".
His spokesman Ernesto Abella said on Saturday that Mr Duterte was using "heightened bravado", giving "his full support to the men and women in uniform", and "taking complete responsibility for their actions".


The EU commissioner for health, John Dalli, has resigned after an anti-fraud inquiry linked him to an attempt to influence tobacco legislation.

The EU's anti-fraud office (Olaf) found that a Maltese businessman had tried to use his contacts with Mr Dalli, who is also Maltese, for financial gain.
This businessman had tried to influence future EU legislation on tobacco products, the European Commission said.
Mr Dalli categorically rejected the investigation's findings, it added.
Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic will take over Mr Dalli's duties on an interim basis until a new commissioner of Maltese nationality is appointed, the commission said.
According to the commission, the tobacco producer Swedish Match complained in May that a Maltese entrepreneur had used his contacts with Mr Dalli to try to gain financial advantages from the company.
This entrepreneur had allegedly offered in return to influence a possible future legislative proposal on tobacco products, in particular on the EU export ban on snus, a smokeless tobacco taken orally.
No transaction was concluded between the company and the entrepreneur and no payment was made, the commission said.
Olaf "did not find any conclusive evidence of the direct participation of Mr Dalli but did consider that he was aware of these events", it said.
According to the commission, the case has not affected its decision-making process.
It said that the Olaf's final report and its recommendations were being sent to the attorney-general of Malta, and it was up to the Maltese judiciary to decide how to proceed.
Mr Dalli, 64, became the EU's commissioner for health and consumer policy in 2010.
His official biography shows that his career in Maltese politics stretches back more than a quarter of a century.
First elected an MP in 1987 for the centre-right Nationalist Party, he was a cabinet minister in several governments, serving as finance minister three times.


A 13-year-old schoolboy who disappeared after a fellow pupil and a teacher were attacked with a knife has been arrested, West Mercia Police said.

The boy was found "safe" this afternoon and arrested on suspicion of wounding and carrying a bladed weapon.
Police said he was found on a train from Hereford to Malvern at 16:55 BST.
Detectives launched a search for the boy after the attack at Chase Technology College in Malvern, Worcestershire, at about 08:45 BST.
A male teacher and 13-year-old girl suffered minor injuries.
The boy was apprehended at Ledbury station in Herefordshire.
Leah Johnson, 16, a former pupil of Chase College, was travelling on the train when it stopped at Ledbury.
She said an officer was waiting on the platform for the boy, who had been standing near the train doors for around 15 minutes.
"The policeman was pacing up and down. The doors opened and he just said 'can you come with me?' and he walked off with him," she said.
The boy remains in custody at Worcester Police Station.
Earlier, there were police officers stationed at each entrance to the school and crime scene tape blocking off the main entrance.
Children were brought out individually from the school and handed to parents waiting at the gates. About 100 had gathered by lunchtime.


A company which became the first private firm to manage an NHS hospital says it wants to "withdraw from its contract".

Circle Holdings which operates Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, said its franchise is "no longer viable under current terms".
The move comes amid pressure on the casualty department, Circle said.
The hospital has also been placed in special measures following a recent Care Quality Commission inspection.
The health watchdog announced on Friday it rated Hinchingbrooke "inadequate", highlighting particular concerns over accident and emergency and medical care.
Prof Sir Mike Richards, the commission's chief inspector of hospitals, said: "We have given the trust an overall rating of 'inadequate' and I have made a recommendation the trust is placed into special measures.
"Our inspection highlighted a number of serious concerns surrounding staffing and risks to patient safety particularly in the A&E department and medical care.
"There were substantial and frequent staff shortages in the A&E department. There were a number of other areas of concern, some of which related to the way in which the trust is led and run."
He added the findings "highlight the significant failings at Hinchingbrooke hospital".
He said: "They are not a judgment on the role of the private sector in the NHS or on franchise arrangements. Where hospitals are failing to promote good care, we will say so regardless of who owns and runs them."
Circle took on Hinchingbrooke in early 2012, as it faced closure.
It said there had been unprecedented increases in accident and emergency attendances, a lack of care places for patients awaiting discharge, and that funding had been cut by 10.1% this financial year.
Circle has made payments to the trust totalling about Â£4.84m and could be required to make a final support payment of approximately Â£160,000, the firm said.
Under the terms of its 10-year contract, it has the right to end the franchise if the amount of money it has to put in to the trust exceeds Â£5m.
Chief Executive Steve Melton said: "This combination of factors means we have now reluctantly concluded that, in its existing form, Circle's involvement in Hinchingbrooke is unsustainable."
Circle chairman Michael Kirkwood said the decision had been made "with regret and after considerable thought".
The GMB Union said the Circle takeover had been a "disaster waiting to happen when you get the private sector involved in running a hospital".
Spokesman Steve Sweeney said: "It's not overly surprising to see them try to pack their bags, cut loose and walk away.
"Obviously having the major backers walk away leaves [the hospital] in a very vulnerable position .... we're hoping that there's some planning in place to aid and assist that."
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "There will now be a "managed transfer of the running of the trust and patient care will not be affected."
Jonathan Djanogly, Conservative MP for Huntingdon, said the way these contracts are issued "needs to be looked at".
"I think probably Circle was too aggressive in terms of its pricing, but at the same time the NHS made Circle take all of the debts of the previous incarnation of the hospital," he said.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: "Patients who rely on Hinchingbrooke will be worried about their hospital following this announcement.
"It was the decision of the coalition in November 2011 to appoint Circle and they must take responsibility for this mess.
"The government were explicitly warned two years ago about the risky business model Circle were operating, but failed to take any action."
The company claimed it "remains a committed partner of the NHS at our elective treatment centres and independent hospitals", adding it is in discussion with the NHS Trust Development Authority to ensure an "orderly withdrawal".
Circle runs private hospitals in Bath and Reading, which both accept NHS patients, and it also has NHS treatment centres in Bedfordshire and Nottingham.


The founder of a flagship academy and two members of staff have been found guilty of defrauding the government out of £150,000.

Sajid Raza, 43, Shabana Hussain, 40, and Daud Khan, 44, made payments from Department for Education (DfE) grants into their own bank accounts.
The grants were given to set up Kings Science Academy in Bradford in 2011. It opened in 2012.
The three were found guilty at Leeds Crown Court following a six-week trial.
Granting bail, Judge Christopher Batty told them "I am very much considering custody" for September's sentencing.
Peter Mann from the Crown Prosecution Service told the court the trio had "treated public money as their own".
He said: "Raza treated the Academy like a family business employing his relatives there and, for at least the first 12 months, operating with no proper governance.
"Hussain, Raza's sister, received unlawful payments, and Khan helped to falsify documentation," he said.
The court heard how fraudulent activity took place from 2010, despite senior civil servants expressing concern about Raza's leadership and financial management.
The jury heard a number of meetings took place between Raza and the DfE, at which he was said to be "incredibly rude and dismissive" and appeared to "pluck financial figures out of the air".
By the time Sajid Raza applied in 2010 to open a free school under a new flagship government policy he was a man with growing financial problems. There was already one court judgement against him for a small debt, the first of ten for missed payments of various kinds.
Raza had already made false claims on mortgage applications for rental properties. But within two months in 2010 his initial proposal to open a free school had been approved by the Department for Education and the first grants were paid into the company account.
Some civil servants raised concerns but the process continued. The court was told that when he was challenged, Raza threatened to call the then Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
By later that year Raza was transferring public money into a personal account and using some of that money to pay the mortgage on his rental properties. The school opened in September 2011 in Bradford and the jury heard it was run as a family business.
Among those employed by the school was his sister in law Shabana Hussein also convicted today of receiving a fraudulent payment. The finance director, Daud Khaun, helped cover up the misuse of public money. In total £150,000 were misappropriated.
The Department for Education says the allegations were investigated as soon as they were raised and the free schools system is designed to deal with such problems faster than local authorities.
But while the process of approving free schools has tightened up, this case raises a serious question about the early implementation of the policy. In the rush to approve applications, were short cuts taken and warning signs ignored?
The court heard he opened a bank account in 2010, which had a balance of £28,000 by July 2011 after it received three large credits from Kings Science Academy.
In the same month, almost half the balance was used to make large mortgage repayments.
Mr Mann said Raza had been motivated by "considerable financial difficulties" and he obtained the money by creating false invoices and submitting fraudulent expenses.
He also inflated his salary and on two applications "claimed to be a consultant surgeon", he said.
Raza, the founder and principal, was found guilty of four counts of fraud, three counts of false accounting and two counts of obtaining money by deception.
Hussain, a teacher at the school and Raza's sister, was convicted of one count of fraud and one count of obtaining property by deception.
Khan, the financial director at the school, was found guilty of two counts of fraud and three counts of false accounting.


Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho should be sent to jail for "bullying" Bastian Schweinsteiger, claims a member of world players' union FifPro.

The midfielder, 32, signed a three-year deal in 2015 and played 31 games last term but has trained alone and with the Under-23s since Mourinho took over.
"It's clear bullying," Slovenia FifPro member Dejan Stefanovic told the BBC.
"In Slovenia, we would have indicted Mourinho and asked for the highest penalty - three years in prison."
Mourinho has yet to talk about Schweinsteiger's future but is due to hold a press conference on Friday to preview Sunday's Community Shield against Premier League champions Leicester City.
BBC Sport has contacted United for comment but is yet to receive a reply.
Speaking to BBC World Football, lawyer Stefanovic, who is also president of the Slovenian Footballers and Sportsmen Union, added: "This is clearly meant to discourage Bastian.
"Mourinho is setting a bad example. I would take it to the ordinary court. In our case, the penal code is quite clear. If there is bullying and harassment, there's a prison sanction, a maximum of three years in prison.
"Schweinsteiger should turn to the Professional Footballers' Association and he should file a complaint and I would also seek penalty for Mourinho.
"All the players of the first team have to train with the coaches of the first team at the same place, at the same time as all other team-mates.
"That's something that should be applied to each and every club and should be written within Fifa regulations."
Schweinsteiger, who has made 120 appearances for Germany, joined United from Bayern Munich.
He was left out of Mourinho's 25-man squad for last weekend's 5-2 friendly win over Galatasaray in Gothenburg and was not part of the 22 for Wayne Rooney's testimonial with Everton on Wednesday.
Schweinsteiger's brother, Toby, who is assistant manager of Bayern Munich's Under-17s team, sent a tweet on the evening of the Galatasaray match which merely said: "No respect."
Bayern Munich president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, another former Germany captain, told German publication Bild: "One or two players are going to think long and hard in future about whether they want to go to such a club."


Convicted spot-fixer Mervyn Westfield has agreed to play for minor counties side Suffolk as he tries to rebuild his career after being jailed for cheating.

The fast bowler served eight weeks in prison and was banned from professional cricket for five years in 2012.
But the England and Wales Cricket Board has now given Westfield special dispensation to play for county second XI or minor counties for 12 months.
The 27-year-old is expected to start training with Suffolk on Monday.
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Westfield's first game for the county is likely to be a friendly against his former club Essex, but he is still not allowed to play first-class cricket until his ban expires in 2017.
The right-arm paceman, who has been playing for Essex club side Frinton since 2014, was punished for accepting £6,000 to deliberately bowl badly in a one-day game for Essex against Durham in 2009.
The ECB reduced his club cricket suspension to two years after he agreed to take part in an anti-corruption programme run by the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA).
"I'm probably a little bit rusty," said Westfield, who has been working as a scaffolder. "My body didn't used to ache as much as it does now, but I'm training hard and trying to get back my fitness.
"This summer I'll probably get the odd bit of banter, but I'll just have to distance it and get on, just focus on what I'm trying to do, score runs and take wickets.
"I've done wrong. I'm just trying to fix it now and obviously I'm happy I'm back playing cricket."
Suffolk team manager Andrew Northcote said a major reason for signing Westfield was to help inspire the young players the county has.
"Having played against him on the field, he's as hard as nails, everything you want from your professional," said Northcote. "Every time you come across him, you know you're up for a fight, as a coach that's a win-win.
"Off the field, like a true professional, after the game he'll stay around and have a drink, speak to anyone and everyone at the club, both home and away. That's what minor counties cricket is about.
"You say there might be negative publicity, but I would turn that around and say who hasn't made a mistake in their life? To not be given the second opportunity, that's just not fair.
"Tell me that you've lived the perfect life - I believe from what I know of Merv and the people I've spoken to he's going to be a great addition. When speaking to him about the possibility of him playing, he was like a young boy at Christmas.
"I will trust him wholeheartedly to give us everything that I would expect from a professional cricketer. It's great for the youth section and the first team."
The dispensation from the ECB to let Westfield play before his ban expires is in recognition of the education work he has done with the PCA.
This week he again addressed the 'rookie camp' of new English professionals in Birmingham, after travelling to South Africa last year to talk to players there.
"Mervyn definitely paid the penalty," said PCA assistant chief executive Jason Ratcliffe. "Of all the players who've fallen foul of the anti-corruption rules in recent years, Mervyn's done more to try to redeem himself than anybody.
"Mervyn's story is very powerful when he comes to talk to young cricketers. Without doubt he's played a massive part in education in England.
"It's fantastic news that Suffolk have taken Mervyn on and testament to how he has conducted himself for Frinton CC, who speak very highly of him as a person around the club and a cricketer."
The PCA concedes it is a "long shot" that Westfield would earn a full first-class contract in the future, but it hopes he can put himself "in the shop window".
The ECB's cricket disciplinary committee chairman, Gerard Elias, said Westfield had "made a real and substantial effort" that shows his "continuing remorse and a genuine desire on his part to repay cricket for the harm caused by his actions".


Letters are to be sent to businesses and residents on Hawick High Street reminding them of the 30-minute parking limit in the area.

It comes after shopkeepers claimed their trade was being affected by the abuse of regulations.
They have blamed the removal of the police traffic warden service more than two years ago.
A council report on the possibility of introducing its own wardens will be considered next month.
Councillors were told this week that the impact of the removal of the old service had not been as big as was generally perceived.
It was claimed parking habits had "not actually changed significantly".
However, a petition from regeneration group Future Hawick said there had been a "marked increase in the abuse of parking regulations".
Now letters will be sent out reminding people in the area of the parking regulations and notices put up in Hawick Town Hall encouraging staff and visitors to use off-street parking.
Councillor Alec Nicol said a full report on the issue of on-street parking would be considered next month.
"There are some things that could be done immediately which may alleviate some of the issues in the short term," he added.


A number of World War One and Two munitions have been found at a house in Oxfordshire.

The discovery in Buckingham Crescent, Bicester, was made by police and a 35-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of theft from heritage and protected sites.
Thames Valley Police warned controlled explosions were planned and part of the street had been evacuated.
The arrest was a result of raids in Hertfordshire, police said.
Wednesday's raids in St Albans also uncovered World War One and Two munitions.
Ch Supt Amanda Pearson, leading the operation, said the controlled explosions posed "no threat to the general public".
She added: "The seizure will take some time to process all the items recovered."
Bomb disposal experts from The Royal Logistic Corp are at the scene.
Mark Harrison, national policing and crime advisor for English Heritage, said: "The practice of illegal metal detecting or stealing artefacts from the ground, particularly from conflict sites relating to the First and Second World Wars, is an issue that English Heritage takes very seriously.
"We recognise that the majority of the metal detecting community comply with the laws and regulations relating to the discovery and recovery of objects from the land.
"We are prepared to take action and do what is necessary including, working alongside the police, to bring those responsible to justice."


Rebels from Colombia's ELN left-wing group and government negotiators have begun talks seeking to end more than five decades of conflict.

The negotiations will be held in the capital of Ecuador, Quito.
The talks follow the success of four years of negotiations with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, which signed a peace accord in December.
President Juan Manuel Santos says he now wants to achieve "complete peace" in Colombia.
The talks are going ahead after the rebels agreed to free a former congressman it had been holding as hostage.
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The ELN, or National Liberation Army, is Colombia's second largest rebel group.
On Monday, it released a soldier it had been holding hostage for two weeks.
The soldier, Freddy Moreno, was handed over to delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Arauca province.
The talks were due to begin at the end of October. But they were delayed as the government refused to go sit down for formal negotiations while the rebels still held Odin Sanchez, a former congressman.
Mr Sanchez was released last Thursday, after 10 months in captivity.
The rebels had demanded that in exchange the government pardoned two of its members serving time in Colombian jails.
The two sides struck a deal and the two ELN members were released on Saturday.
The two who have been released are expected to serve as rebel negotiators at the peace talks in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito.
The ELN was founded in 1964 with the stated aim of fighting Colombia's unequal distribution of land and riches, inspired by the Cuban revolution of 1959
The government reached a peace agreement with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, in December, after four years of negotiations in the Cuban capital, Havana.
Members of the Farc have been gathering in "transition zones", where they are to demobilise and lay down their weapons under the supervision of United Nations monitors.
The last of the Farc rebels are expected to reach the designated demobilisation areas by Wednesday, government officials said.


Bad luck caused by disturbed fairy forts is causing dips in a major road between County Kerry and County Cork, an Irish member of parliament has said.

Danny Healy-Rae told the Irish Times that issues with the N22 were caused by "numerous fairy forts in the area".
The road had previously been repaired but problems had reappeared.
Mr Healy-Rae said he shared local belief that "there was something in these places you shouldn't touch".
He added that the road passed through an area that was rich in fairy folklore and magic.
The N22 is the main road between Killarney in County Kerry and Cork.
In Irish folklore, it is believed that disturbing areas, said to have strong connections to fairies, could bring bad luck or a curse.
These areas include fairy forts, also known as raths or lios, which are the remains of hillforts or ancient circular dwellings, and fairy trees or thorn bushes.
Some people believe that destroying or tampering with these forts, trees or bushes, could lead to them dying young or becoming seriously ill.
Mr Healy-Rae, an independent TD (Irish member of parliament) for County Kerry, said: "I have a machine standing in the yard right now. And if someone told me to go out and knock a fairy fort or touch it, I would starve first."
The issue was raised at Kerry County Council, where Mr Healy-Rae's daughter, Maura, is a councillor, last week.
She told a council meeting that her father was convinced fairies were in the area of the road problems.
Mr Healy-Rae also raised the issue at Kerry County Council in 2007 when he was a councillor, asking if a dip in the N22 near Curraglass was caused by "fairies at work".
The Irish Times reports that the council's road department replied that it was due to a "deeper underlying subsoil/geotechnical problem".
Mr Healy-Rae, whose brother Michael is also a TD, has previously hit the headlines for comments in which he denied any human impact on climate change and said that "God above" controlled the weather.


The former head of Brazilian football has agreed to be extradited from Switzerland to the US to face corruption charges, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice says.

Jose Maria Marin, 83, was among seven officials from football's world governing body Fifa who were arrested in May at a Zurich hotel.
The move came after they were indicted on corruption charges in the US.
Mr Marin is accused of taking bribes in connection with marketing rights.
He is alleged to have accepted millions of dollars from sports marketing companies in connection with the Copa America and Copa do Brasil tournaments.
Mr Marin "must be placed in the custody of a US police escort and taken to the USA within 10 days", the Swiss justice office said in a statement.
Until now, he had fought his extradition.
Former Fifa vice president Jeffrey Webb has also agreed to be extradited to the US.
The five others who were arrested in Zurich continue to oppose their extradition.
The US has indicted a total of 14 current and former Fifa officials and associates on charges of "rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted" corruption following a major inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Fifa's president Sepp Blatter has always denied any wrongdoing - but in September, he too was made the subject of a Swiss criminal investigation, launched alongside the US inquiry.


Ross Allum scored twice as Edinburgh City opened up a three-goal first-leg advantage in the pyramid play-off tie with Cove Rangers.

Allum put the Lowland League champions ahead and Gordon Donaldson netted their second.
And Allum scored again before half-time.
Highland League winners Cove were unable to claw back their deficit in the second half and the winner of the tie will face East Stirlingshire.
That second tie will decide which team starts next season in Scottish League Two.