Record-breaking Michael Phelps extended his tally to 21 Olympic gold medals as he won individual and team titles on day four at Rio 2016.

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The American, 31, comprehensively beat defending champion Chad le Clos in the 200m butterfly before he helped the US win the men's 4x200m freestyle relay.
"That's a lot of medals," said Phelps. "It's just insane. It's mind-blowing."
British quartet Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace and James Guy won the silver in the relay.
Phelps began the evening by avenging 24-year-old Le Clos' victory over him at London 2012.
"I wanted that one back. I came into the pool tonight with a mission and the mission was accomplished," added Phelps.
He cruised to victory in one minute 53.36 seconds as the South African only managed to finish fourth.
Japan's Masato Sakai and Hungary's Tamas Kenderesi overtook Le Clos in the final 50 metres to take the silver and bronze medals respectively.
Phelps and Le Clos meet again in another latest instalment of their duel when they compete in the 100m butterfly later this week.
The American will also be trying to add to his gold tally when he goes in the 4x100m medley relay and 200m individual medley, also later this week.
"Looking forward to the rest of the week and I'm not even halfway done yet," he said.
But reclaiming the individual 200m butterfly title was Phelps' main target in Rio following his dramatic defeat in London four years ago.
That final was supposed to be his farewell to the sport, having already announced his intention to retire after the 2012 Games. He then came out of retirement in 2014.
"I told Bob [Bowman, his coach] when I came back how bad I wanted that 200m fly," said Phelps.
"That being my very first Olympic event, to be able to win it in my fifth Olympics is pretty special.
"It was really just going through the last 16 years. That event was my bread and butter. That was the last time I'll ever swim it.
"There wasn't a shot in hell I was losing that tonight. And, if I did, every ounce that I had was left in the pool.
"Just being able to see the number one next to my name again, one more time in the 200 fly, you couldn't have scripted it any better."
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Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time and has won more than twice as many gold medals at the Games as the athlete second on the list, former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina (nine).
Phelps returned to the pool just over an hour after his individual triumph to compete in the relay alongside US team-mates Conor Dwyer, Francis Haas and Ryan Lochte.
The defending Olympic champions lost to Britain at the 2015 World Championships, but led from the early stages to win by 2.47 seconds and retain their crown.
Adrian Moorhouse, 1988 Olympic 100m breaststroke champion:
"What a fantastic 200m butterfly race. Michael Phelps was awesome. I thought they were going to catch him but he pulled it off.
"You can call him the greatest of all time now. He's great. He's invincible."
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The steel works could easily have been for me.

Like it was for many who grew up in the town of Port Talbot, the dystopian mesh of pipes, turrets, chimneys and constant smoke was considered a viable career prospect and, for some, a certainty - a safe bet.
One particular memory that stands out is of a former comprehensive school teacher, who, when I was 14 or 15, asked what type of career I was considering.
Growing up in the 1980s and early 90s it was hard to avoid things like television, music, and video games. On top of that I was an avid reader and film junkie, so I was being honest when I said I would like to work in the media, possibly in writing or film.
The teacher, who shall remain nameless, told me while it was nice to have dreams, maybe I should consider something more realistic, like a trade or industry.
He meant the steel works.
Call it single-mindedness, but I knew a life in the steel works was not for me.
Art and English were the subjects I enjoyed most at school. I was good at them. True, they were the only things I was good at, but I thought it important to play to my strengths.
And I did.
I was the first in my family to go to university, an opportunity afforded to me by the hard work of my parents.
I say hard because that is what it was.
We were by no means poor, but we were not well-off either, and the introduction of student tuition fees in 1998 did not make things any easier.
My mother was a civil servant and my father, like almost every other man in my family, worked in the steel works.
Some of my earliest memories of my father are of him coming home in the early, still dark hours of the morning, having worked yet another exhausting 12-hour night shift.
And while he always had time for my mother, my sister and myself before we went to work and school, the tiredness in his eyes convinced me I wanted nothing to do with overnight shift work.
But for my father, and others like him in the late 70s and early 80s, shift work and sweating it out for 12 hours in a hot, smoke-filled and - yes - dangerous steel mill was the norm.
And so it was with the works. For anyone who has grown up or lived in Port Talbot for a significant amount of time, the works are nothing out of the ordinary.
Those driving by on the M4, or just passing through on their way to Bridgend or Neath, are prone to think it a monstrosity - an ugly, nightmarish blot on the south Wales horizon.
But, for those living there, the works are part of the furniture, a towering constant that can be seen from almost every other point in the town.
And for my father it has been just that - a constant.
Like many in the town, for him the steel works meant a job for life. But, as the current workforce recently discovered, nothing is certain and their livelihoods, once again, are in danger.
In January it was announced 750 jobs were to go at the Port Talbot plant and 300 more elsewhere. Workers have discovered over the course of this week exactly who will be leaving.
It is another sobering blow to an already struggling industry, and one which my father has seen before.
Winning an engineering apprenticeship after he left school, he first started work in the Port Talbot plant when he was 17.
Now 56, and retired, he remembers what it was like on his first day.
It was 1976 when, at 17 years old, David Burgess first stepped foot into Port Talbot steel works.
"First day, I started as an apprentice," he tells me, and the "first couple of weeks were inductions, learning the safety aspects, being told what to expect.
"We didn't see much of the plant for the first 18 months to two years."
It was common practice then, he explains, for people his age to take up a trade.
"Apprenticeships were probably the main thing for school-leavers at the time unless you went to college, but during that era most people went into apprenticeships after school."
In those days the steel works were overseen by British Steel, and there were "probably 11,000 to 12,000 people working there at the time," he remembers.
But then, as now, the threat of redundancy and unemployment soon made itself known.
"We were just coming into the first Slimline (British Steel's restructuring of the workforce), so things started changing - there were massive job losses at the time," he says.
My father recalls how his apprenticeship lasted four years, from 1976 to 1980, "but for the first couple of years, because of Slimline, I was under threat of notice.
"We didn't know whether we would have a job after our apprenticeship, so it was pretty grim."
Not that it was all bad. There were good times too.
Chief among them was the role he played in a special project for Cardiff.
"When we were apprentices," he tells me, "we made the rugby posts in the training centre in Port Talbot for the old Cardiff Arms Park."
That would be good enough in itself but my father, along with his fellow apprentices, were taken to the ground to see the posts installed.
There they were given a tour before my father was given the honour of being the first person to kick a rugby ball over the new posts.
A feat later emulated by the likes of Welsh rugby greats Steve Fenwick and Paul Thorburn.
"I do have happy memories of the place," he says, though he is quick to add the threat of job cuts in his early days loomed like a long shadow over a very uncertain future.
But, luckily, the threat abated and job security was on the cards.
"Once we got over Slimline and got established," he explains, "then you looked at it as a job for life."
And it was, for him and many more in the town.
But while livelihoods were safe and secure, the threat to their actual lives was something that never went away and was something they were warned about early on.
The steel works is "a very dangerous place," he says. "Huge machinery, molten metals, different gasses. But safety is paramount and always has been.
"When we did our apprenticeship induction, we were told one in three or one in four of us would lose a part of the body - which was the nature of that time."
Something my father would find out for himself.
"I was working, taking a brake assembly off a crane," he remembers, "bringing it down off the crane, putting it on the floor. I started to work on it and it toppled over. A loose brake shoe flipped up, clipped me and took the top of my finger straight off."
Not that my father is bitter.
"It [health and safety] is a bit better now," he says, "but accidents do happen and people do get injured."
But, like many in Port Talbot, my father's concerns are not with what happened in the past but with what is happening now.
"At this moment in time," he says, "with the recent job losses that have been announced, when these job cuts have been finalised and people have lost their jobs or been made redundant, or taken voluntary [retirement], the next 12 months are going to be very sticky [for people], and to see what Tata decide to do with Port Talbot."
Everyone seems to be in agreement - the next 12 months are a crucial time for those who rely on the steel works for their income and their security.
With the latest round of job cuts announced, my father is keen to stress his confidence in the workforce of the town.
"The workforce of Port Talbot is highly skilled," he says. "They will work their socks off to make a success of that place.
"But cheap, imported steel is being dumped, and the cost of energy to run the steel works is phenomenal.
"Without some help from the government, or funds provided so they can build their own power station and be self-sufficient, then the steel works and the industry in south Wales cannot sustain itself for much longer."
Looking further into the future, he is hopeful the steel works will "find a way of staying open", but adds it will be a "death knell" for south Wales if it closes.
"To me, this is the last part big part of British manufacturing, there's nothing else.
"It's not only the steel works that will have a huge impact on people's lives - it's the small subsidiary engineering firms, suppliers to the works that are going to lose their trade.
"This will have a big, big impact on south Wales."
Harry Thomas
My grandfather, Harry Thomas, turned 80 years old last year. Port Talbot has been the only home he has ever known and he still lives in the same house he was born in.
Growing up he witnessed the town and surrounding areas change time and time again, keeping pace with the industrial age and expanding in size and reach year on year.
During his childhood he watched as sand dunes, fields and farmland made way for roads, motorways, factories and retail.
He remembers it all and he can recall, when he was just a boy, looking out from the town's Aberavon Beach and seeing the German Luftwaffe bombing the nearby city of Swansea, the smoke and flames rising up from the bay.
Not many years later, despite the end of World War Two, young men from all over Britain were still subject to national service.
And so it was for my grandfather who, at 18, found himself in Army fatigues, being shipped off to Egypt for two years to help guard the Suez Canal.
Two years beneath a punishing Egyptian sun can seem like a long time but, after his service was completed, it was time to return home.
But coming home meant you had to make a living.
"In 1956 I'd just come out of the Army, so I'd be 21," he says.
"Everything rolled around the steel works. So if you wanted a job you went there."
He was not alone in his thinking, he recalls.
"A lot of boys come out [of the Army], like myself, and you went to the steel works.
"You were more or less guaranteed a job - there was plenty of work everywhere."
Thinking back to his first day, he remembers how men were picked for where they worked.
"So many boys there you knew - it was just like a pool of men - and the foreman would come along and say 'we want you in that department' or 'so many in that department', and you'd stay there."
Despite an abundance of work there were also a lot of people in need of it, and not everyone could be guaranteed employment every day.
"Sometimes, perhaps, you went there on a Monday and they'd keep you there until Friday," he says. "But the rest they didn't want would go back in the pool."
Not that my grandfather struggled when it came to finding work. Initially working in the blast furnace, it was not that long before he found himself operating cranes down by the docks on Aberavon Beach.
"The jobs we were doing were on the engineering side," he recalls, "but what they wanted were trainee crane drivers - so we thought we'd have a go at that.
From there, he tells me, it was more or less plain sailing.
"Once we'd passed our test, well, that was it. It was a promotion line all the way then."
Not that sitting high up in a crane was considered a safe job - the threat of physical danger never went away. Whether working in the blast furnace or operating the cranes in the harbour, safety was always paramount.
"Trouble wherever you go," he says of his time there. "So many moving parts, belts in the stock yard - the cranes themselves. There's danger and you've got to beware."
And when it came to the cranes, there were some who just could not do it.
"I admire these boys, some of who have gone up and said 'sorry, not for me'. But then there were others, like myself, who said 'I'll have a go'. But I do admire someone who says 'no, not for me'."
Luckily for my grandfather it was for him, and he enjoyed a career in the steel works that lasted 40 years until his retirement.
But he knows, as much as anyone, steel workers today cannot rely on that level of security when it comes to their employment and income.
The announcement in January that more jobs were to go have left many in the town fearing for their mortgages, their children's well-being and future security, for steady income, and even food on the table.
Jobs, like the town itself, he reminds me, were a lot different during his day.
"Port Talbot then, well, everything was open - not like today, where everything is half shut.
"I know the cost of living has gone up, but things seemed a lot better then."
Asked why, my grandfather is quick to acknowledge the steel works as the town's life blood.
"No steel works, no Port Talbot," he says firmly. "It was the jewel in the crown."
Nevertheless, and despite the latest threat, he continues to remain hopeful.
"At the moment it's looking rough," he says, "but there have always been disputes.
"I've always thought there's so much investment going on [in the works] they're not going to get rid of Port Talbot.
"They might prune it," he adds, "but they're not going to get rid of it."
I wonder if my grandfather's confidence is more a hopeful wish than the long-term reality the town is facing, but he is adamant in his stance that the works will survive.
"You're not [just] closing the steel works, you're closing Port Talbot.
"But I think, at the end of the day, they will be OK."
He realises times are difficult but notes the steel works is still going, and that its heart, no matter how black it might look from a distance, is still pumping life into the town he has spent his entire life in.
"They could turn around and say 'that's it'," he says finally, "but they haven't, so there could still be light at the end of the tunnel."
David Morley
David Morley, 64 years old and retired, is my mother's uncle. In 1969 he was 18 years old and taking his first steps into Port Talbot steel works. Looking back now, he remembers his first day was not the best.
"It was very traumatic," he says, "because you went into an environment which was pretty harsh - at the time.
"I remember I had on a green suit and I was walking up the cast house floor when I saw my brother-in-law [my grandfather] in the crane, and that eased me a bit."
Not that the steel works was the only option.
"You could get a job in there, practically anywhere in the works," he recalls, "but they were also building BP (oil refinery) in Llandarcy."
Both sites had the potential for a lifetime of employment and job security but, on this occasion, family made the final decision.
"It was a matter of one or the other but I decided on the steel works because my father had worked there, my family were working in there - that was the basic pull."
And from then on it only got better - with one exception.
"I started off labouring," my uncle remembers, "and then went to the furnace, which didn't take me long to realise I didn't want to do."
Asked why, he explains he didn't like the environment: "Too dirty, too hot."
Instead he opted for a job in the gas cleaning plant, which had its advantages in terms of career progression.
"The workforce in that part of the plant was old," he remembers, "so I knew it wouldn't take me long to work up to a higher job."
It was a bet that paid off as, after just two short years, he had secured the top job in that department.
And other roles would follow, proving a life in the steel works was not just a job but a career, if that was what you wanted.
Whether it was under British Steel, Corus or Tata ownership, being part of the Port Talbot plant's workforce seemed like the safest bet in town.
But as my uncle points out, and as my father and grandfather saw themselves, over the years that workforce changed.
"There were about 19,000 when I started there and then they reduced," he says. "When the unions had the power in the 70s they didn't use what they had the right way - they used it for the wrong things."
Job losses and redundancies were not the only things ushering in change, though.
"Automation came in," he recalls, "which frightened a lot of people. People didn't like screens, didn't want them. A lot of people were really worried about it.
"There were quite a few who just didn't want to know, didn't want change."
Change, especially technological change, is inevitable, some would argue, and it would seem Port Talbot steel works is no more immune to it than any other industry.
"The workforce has changed dramatically," my uncle adds, "but for the better."
Asked about current owners Tata, he is quick to defend them and their management of the works.
"Tata, in fairness, have spent a lot of money in there. They want it to be successful, they don't want it to close."
But the threat of closure, no matter how far away the possibility might seem, is something on the minds of many in the town.
Asked what can be done, it seems there are no easy answers. But those who have worked there, like my uncle, say they know where to start.
"Tata want to build a power plant so [the works] can be self-sufficient. And they want a bit of help, but the government is not coming over with any help.
"It should be sustaining the steel industry. The mines have gone, the steel will go - [after that] I don't know what's there for youngsters.
"It's not just the steel works," he adds. "You thought the police was a job for life, the fire service was a job for life. There's no guarantee anything is safe now the way things have been cut."
Not that he thinks the fate of the steel works is sealed.
"I wouldn't say there's no future there because there can be a future - if the government can help them a little bit. That's all they're [Tata and the workers] asking for is a level playing field."
And if the government do not help?
"If they're on their own," he says, "then Tata are not going to sustain a Â£1m a day loss. So this [job announcement] might just be the start."
And if the steel works ever closes?
"It will be like other places where the mines have gone," he says gravely. "Children will move away - they're bound to look for work elsewhere.
"Personally, if I had children at that age I would encourage them to go abroad, the way things are going, this country's on the decline.
Asked what the people of Port Talbot will do without the works, without the lifeblood it supplies, he says: "People get by, they always do".
"I've been lucky," he adds, "I've always worked. My family's always worked. But I don't know how people manage when they're not working.
"It must be hard," he stresses, "especially if you want to work. If you want to work and you can't get work that's terrible."
Looking forward, he points out it is not just Port Talbot that will suffer should the steel works go the way of the mines.
Agreeing with others in my family, he says if the works were to close it would have a "massive impact" on south Wales.
"Not just on Port Talbot but on outlying communities as well," he says, "because people from everywhere are coming here - Neath, Maesteg, Porthcawl, not just this town."
Asked for a final thought, my uncle poses a question instead.
"If the government can get their act together, they can keep it [the steel works]," he says. "There's a lot of money there, investment still to be had.
"Why," he asks, "why can't they do it?"


At least 10 oil workers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, Russian officials say.

The civilian Mi-8 helicopter was carrying the workers to state oil company Rosneft's Vankor oilfield. There were 25 people were on board.
Russian media said that the reason for the crash is unclear.
The helicopter is reported to have crashed on a frozen river. Snowmobiles evacuated injured people.
It came down 10km (6.2 miles) from the town of Igarka in Krasnoyarsk region. All three crew members were killed, officials said.
The helicopter was dropping off and collecting rotation workers at the remote Vankor site. In winter this can only be done by landing on ice.


The president of the European Council has warned Italy and Malta of large numbers of would-be migrants in Libya.

Donald Tusk told MEPs that it would not be possible to apply the same approach used for the Balkans to unstable Libya.
Italy's coastguard says 4,000 people were rescued from the Mediterranean between Libya and Sicily on Monday and Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Macedonian police again fired teargas at migrants protesting at the border with Greece.
About 11,000 migrants and refugees have been camped out at Idomeni on the Greek side of the border since countries on the route to northern Europe through the Balkans closed their borders.
In Bulgaria, the interior minister urged the public not to mistreat migrants after footage of a vigilante group tying up several Afghans went viral.
The prime minister and senior border officials had initially welcomed the creation of civilian volunteer groups along the country's border with Turkey.
A deal between Turkey and the EU came into force last month with the aim of deterring migrants from making the risky sea crossing between Turkey and Greece.
There are concerns that the efforts to shut down the Eastern Mediterranean route via Greece and the Balkans could encourage more people fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq to attempt the even more dangerous Central Mediterranean route via Libya.
However figures from the Institute of Migration show that those currently arriving in Italy from Libya are predominately citizens of African countries.
Italian authorities, giving details of the rescues carried out in the Straits of Sicily, said 2,154 migrants had been rescued from 16 dinghies and a rowing boat on Tuesday.
Another 1,850 were rescued in the same area on Monday.
Mr Tusk told the European Parliament that there was no ideal solution to the migration crisis:  "The deal with Turkey is not perfect and we are fully aware of its risks and weaknesses."
Regarding the Central Mediterranean route, the EU "must be prepared to help and show solidarity to Malta and Italy", he said.
Austria has said it will tighten border controls at its frontier with Italy in anticipation of an increased number of migrants arriving there.
On Tuesday it began building a control centre at the Brenner crossing in the Alps.
The presidents of Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia visited the Idomeni crossing on the Greece-Macedonia border earlier on Wednesday.
As they visited, police fired teargas and stun grenades at a group of around 1,000 migrants who were staging a protest.
There has been a wave of clashes at the crossing since violence first broke out on Sunday.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


The public is being given a chance to check progress on a £36.4m flood protection scheme for Hawick.

A first tranche of Scottish government funding of more than £1m has already been received towards the project.
Hundreds of people attended a two-day exhibition in August last year to find out more about the proposals.
Two further drop-in events will be held later this month to deliver an update on how public input has affected the project's design.
A survey carried out at the exhibition in 2016 found 85.5% of people attending supported the scheme.
The latest information days will be staged at the Heart of Hawick centre between 17:30 and 20:30 on 18 and 19 January.


It was ten years ago that Ruth and her husband Nigel packed up their life in London and bought the Blue Palm cafe in Marbella.

It was easy to do she says, because of Britain being inside the European Union. She has already sent off her postal vote: she voted to stay in.
It wasn't just the weather that made the Stevensons leave the UK.
Their cleaning business was in trouble because it was being undercut by companies run by Polish migrants.
But so what, Nigel says. He thinks British people need to ''up their game'' and stop complaining about immigration.
''They have had it too easy for too long'', he says. Nigel will also be voting for Remain.
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Sit on the sea wall by their cafÃ© and you'll struggle to hear much Spanish conversation. Almost everyone walking by is either a British tourist or resident.
There are 309,000 Brits registered as having residency in Spain but there are likely to be many thousands more living here for just part of the year.
Sat at one of the cafÃ©'s tables is Scotsman Mark Connor. A singer and radio DJ, he performs at a nearby Irish bar.
He has been paying close attention to the referendum debate and is annoyed by some of the arguments being put forward by the Remain side.
In particular he is irritated at the suggestion that if Britain leaves, the Spanish government could make it harder to live and work here.
The Spanish wouldn't dare make it harder for Brits he says because they contribute so much to the economy.
'"The pensioners have their own UK pensions so they're not a drain on the state," Mark tells me.
"And then there are all the well-off Brits living up in the hills and down at the marina, are you seriously telling me that the Spanish are going to get rid of them? I don't think so."
A few miles away is a community known as Little Britain. It is not hard to understand why.
There is a fish and chip shop, British Butcher's, Chinese and Indian Restaurants, an Iceland close by, and of course, full English Breakfasts a-go-go. At its heart is the Benavista Bowls Club.
Almost all of the club's 150 members are British and they are mostly retired.
There has been speculation that they could be hit financially, that their UK pensions could be frozen because that is what has happened to expats in some non-EU countries.
Largest number of Brits living in EU countries, according to Migration Watch.
There have also been warnings that the Spanish government could start charging them for their healthcare.
Speaking to members after the match it was striking how many wanted to get out of the EU and how few had thought about how they might be affected financially.
Whilst one couple worried about their pensions, the others did not seem particularly bothered about being charged for health care; almost all of them had private health insurance.
John Richardson, summed up the mood best. ''Oh, they'll sort something out''.


Quarry caves above a north Wales seaside resort have been sealed off, preventing homeless people using them for shelter.

Fencing has been replaced across the sites on the Great Orme in Llandudno, Conwy county.
A local charity said it left some rough sleepers without anywhere to go overnight.
Conwy council said it was necessary to clear the areas and repair perimeter fencing.
Brenda Fogg from the town's Hope Restored charity said the decision would just move the problem to other parts of the town.
She described the lives of some of those without a roof over their heads in Llandudno as "a fight for survival".
"I don't know why it's been done. It's hit a lot of my lads quite hard," said Mrs Fogg, whose charity runs a drop-in centre for homeless people in Llandudno.
"At least they were not in the town and they were out of the way. There's not a lot of other places they can go."
The plight of those sleeping rough in the town was highlighted a year ago by the case of a 52-year-old man who had turned to the caves for shelter.
Conwy council, which maintains publicly owned parts of the Great Orme headland, said: "Periodically it has been necessary to clear the old quarry sites of rubbish and repair the perimeter fences."


An MI5 agent pretending to have Gestapo links secretly controlled a vast network of UK-based Nazi sympathisers, newly-released files reveal.

The agent, known by the alias Jack King, infiltrated a group of pro-German activists in south-east England in a previously unknown wartime operation.
His undercover work led to the identification of hundreds of people willing to pass secrets to the enemy.
Files in the National Archives describe King as a "genius" at his work.
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We had known that MI5 controlled German spies dropped into the UK under the Double Cross system but little was known about operations to control domestic sympathisers. This one began in a low-key manner with a correspondence club in which lonely people would write to each other but it would lead to the identification of potentially hundreds of people in Britain willing to help the Nazis.
Since Britain was never invaded, it's impossible to know how the country would have actually reacted, but the files suggest there were at least a few hoping for Hitler to take over and actively offering assistance.
The role of the MI5 agent Jack King is also intriguing. Quite who he was seems something of a mystery but senior officials in MI5 clearly rated him highly for his ability over years to undertake risky work in reeling in more and more Nazi sympathisers by convincing them he was linked to the Gestapo - and doing so without ever getting too close to provoking them to do anything too damaging.
In 1942, King - also referred to as SR in the files - met Marita Perigoe, described as a "crafty and dangerous woman" of Swedish and German origin.
Despite being married to a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, she had no time for the group and regarded them as "insufficiently extreme".
MI5 said of her: "She was found to be so violently anti-British and so anxious to do anything in her power to help the enemy that it was felt that special attention should be paid to her."
It went on to say she was not a "neurotic nor feminine type; she is masterful and a somewhat masculine woman".
"Both in appearance and mentality she can be described as an arrogant hun."
King managed to convince her that he was a representative of the Gestapo looking for people who were "100% loyal to the Fatherland" and could be relied on in the event of an invasion.
He exploited the group's taste for the cloak-and-dagger aspects of espionage work by offering them invisible ink for secret communications and arranging meetings in the basement of an antiques shop.
MI5 regarded some members of the group as unstable but warned they were still dangerous.
Hilda Leech was "unstable and neurotic" and was trying to pass on reports of highly secret research on jet aircraft, while astrologer Edgar Whitehead  - a "bit of a mystery man" - was passing on information about secret trials on an amphibious tank.
MI5 drew up plans to issue members with special badges to be worn in the event of an invasion - supposedly to identify them as friends to the Germans but in fact to enable them to be swiftly rounded up by the police.
By the end of the war, Perigoe was one of six agents working directly to King - all but one of them British.
MI5 estimated the number of their contacts who had been the subject of King's intelligence reports ran "certainly to scores and probably to hundreds".
In other declassified files released by the National Archives, it emerged that English actor Michael Redgrave met Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge spies, while his theatre group toured Moscow.
The meeting in 1958 with his old friend from Cambridge University proved to be of interest to MI5, which was desperate to find out all it could about what was said.
Burgess, who had fled to Russia seven years earlier, turned up drunk at the theatre where Redgrave was starring in Hamlet.
But the two had lunch together the following day at Burgess' flat, provided by the KGB after his defection.
The British ambassador at the time said Redgrave had not been very communicative about the meeting and had not consulted the embassy about it beforehand.
Burgess, however, wrote a letter home to his mother - intercepted by MI5 - delighting in the "fine gossips" shared and gushing over Redgrave's acting.
"It's certainly the best Hamlet I've ever seen - better than Gielgud, better than Olivier, much better than Paul Schofield."


England's Ian Bell says Australia being without seven of their World Cup squad for Friday's tri-series match in Hobart will not be a distraction.

New changes for the hosts see opener David Warner rested, stand-in skipper George Bailey suspended for a slow over-rate and Shane Watson injured.
"We haven't gone into depth about the XI they'll have," Bell told BBC Sport.
"If we can concentrate on ourselves and execute our plans we'll be difficult whatever XI Australia put out."
Australia, who also continue to rest pacemen Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood, plus all-rounder Mitchell Marsh before next month's World Cup, have brought in all-rounder Moises Henriques to cover Watson, who has a tight hamstring.
Regular captain Michael Clarke carries on with his rehabilitation from hamstring trouble.
England lost the opening match of the series against the Australians by three wickets in Sydney but revived hopes of meeting them in the final on 1 February with a nine-wicket bonus point victory against India, who have lost both of their opening matches.
After Friday's game, England play India again in Perth on 30 January, which could determine who goes through to the final at the same venue.
Bell, who was out to the first ball of the series in Sydney, made an unbeaten 88 against India and said of his partnership with Moeen Ali at the top of the innings: "It's a nice blend.
"I'm trying to be as aggressive as I possibly can be, but by playing the way that suits my game."
After Andrew Flintoff trained with the team in Brisbane recently, where he was playing in the Big Bash franchise for Brisbane Heat, another all-rounder Tim Bresnan was invited to bowl in the nets during practice in Hobart.
The 29-year-old, who last played for England in March 2014 during the World Twenty20, has been in the Tasmanian capital playing for Hobart Hurricanes.
Australia (from): Steven Smith (c), Patrick Cummins, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Haddin (wk), Moises Henriques, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Gurinder Sandhu, Mitchell Starc, Cameron White.
England (probable): Ian Bell, Moeen Ali, James Taylor, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler (wk), Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, James Anderson.


Kosovan police say they have foiled a plot by so-called Islamic State (IS) to attack the Israeli football team when it visited Albania last week.

Nineteen arrests were made ahead of Israel's World Cup qualifier and the group is also suspected of planning attacks inside Kosovo itself.
Explosive devices and weapons were found along with "extremist" literature, police say.
The match was moved from one Albanian city to another as a result.
Police say the group was coordinated by two Albanian members of IS in Syria.
One of those arrested was later released.
Israel had been set to play in Shkoder, close to the Montenegro border, on Saturday but security concerns led to the match being moved to Elbasan, nearer to the capital, Tirana.
In a statement, police said they believed the suspects had "clear targets".
Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority, broke away from Serbia in 1999 and eventually declared independence, in a move not recognised by the UN.


The Irish government has expressed concern following a further delay to the trial of an Irish teenager who could face the death penalty in Egypt.

Ibrahim Halawa, who is the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in Ireland, has been held without trial in an Egyptian prison for the last 18 months.
He was arrested during the Al-Fath mosque siege in Cairo in August 2013.
The Irish minister for foreign affairs said he was disappointed the trial was postponed for a fourth time on Sunday.
Mr Halawa is facing a mass trial, alongside almost 500 other people, who were arrested by Egyptian security forces during a crackdown on protests in Cairo.
The Dublin-born teenager was on a family holiday to his parents' homeland when he and three of his sisters were arrested in the mosque.  He was 17 at the time.
They family said they had taken refuge in the building during violent clashes between supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi and the security forces.
The sisters were allowed to return to Dublin after a few months, but their now 19-year-old younger brother remains in Tora prison, where up until recently, he shared a cell with the now freed Australian journalist, Peter Greste.
In a statement on Sunday, Irish minister for foreign affairs Charlie Flanagan said: "I am disappointed to learn of the further delay today and concerned that the Egyptian authorities continue to consider Ibrahim's case as part of a group trial.
"I have personally raised the government's concerns about this case with my Egyptian counterpart on a number of occasions.
"Officials in Dublin and Cairo have been working actively on this case, and have been in ongoing and sustained contact with the Egyptian authorities and international partners, since Ibrahim Halawa was initially imprisoned."
Mr Flanagan added: "My department will continue to take all appropriate action to ensure Ibrahim's welfare, and to seek a review of his case, his release and return to his family and his studies.
"In the meantime, we will continue to provide all possible consular assistance to Ibrahim Halawa and his family.


Volunteers are being recruited by steam railway enthusiasts to help rebuild and reopen an old Worcestershire station.

Builders, electricians and former railway workers are asked to go to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway to help with plans to restore Broadway station and to help out in general.
A recruitment fair is being held over the weekend at stations in Toddington and Winchcombe.
The volunteers say they need more help and money to reopen Broadway.
Planning permission has been granted but the volunteers say they need help with building a signal box, a station building, a waiting room, a footbridge and other facilities.
The group has already raised its Â£500,000 target, but is still appealing for further donations as work continues.
When finished the line, which currently runs between Cheltenham and Laverton, will be 14 miles long.


An Isle of Man landmark will be bathed in purple light as part of a campaign to eradicate polio.

The Tower of Refuge will be lit up in recognition of Rotary International's Thanks For Life campaign.
The Rotary Club in Douglas is holding fundraising activities across the Isle of Man over the next seven days.
Purple was chosen because medical teams stain children's little fingers with a purple dye to show they have been immunised.
The campaign is the final push in the club's campaign to remove polio from the four countries where it is prevalent.
Howard Callow is the chairman of club service at the Rotary Club of Douglas.
He said: "Purple is the chosen colour and thanks to the help from the Department of Infrastructure we will see the Tower of Refuge turning purple, which will be quite a sight.
"It's not the first time that important landmarks have been used, as part of a campaign, the Houses of Parliament in Westminster have been used, Table Mountain in South Africa has been used, so the Tower of Refuge is up there with the world's greatest heritage sights."
Over the last 20 years, polio cases have been cut by 99%, and the condition is close to being eradicated.
It is still endemic in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.
And it is present in more than 12 countries altogether.


Actress Nicole Kidman has been hailed by critics as "luminous" and "compelling" in her return to the London stage in the play Photograph 51.

The Oscar-winning star plays British scientist Rosalind Franklin, the only woman involved in the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953.
Anna Ziegler's play opened on Monday to a string of four-star reviews.
Directed by Michael Grandage, it runs at the Noel Coward Theatre until 21 November.
According to The Guardian, Kidman gives "a commanding, intelligent performance" in her first West End appearance in 17 years.
"My only complaint about Anna Ziegler's intriguing, informative 95-minute play is that it is not longer," wrote Michael Billington.
Praising Kidman's portrayal of the ecstasy of scientific discovery, Billington said her features "acquire a luminous intensity" as she stares at the now-famous photograph that reveals the DNA's helix pattern.
"It is a fine performance in which Kidman reminds us that the scientific life can be informed by private passion," the review continued.
When Kidman appeared, briefly unclothed, in Sir David Hare's The Blue Room at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998, her performance was famously described by the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer as "pure theatrical Viagra".
Spencer's successor, Dominic Cavendish, was equally effusive in his review of Photograph 51, writing that "Kidman displays once again the power to hold us in thrall".
"Although her kit is Fifties demure, the caboodle of her nuanced performance is the stuff of intoxication," his four-star review continued.
"Kidman is even better communicating a life of the mind than she was all those years ago allowing the briefest glimpse possible of her body," wrote The Arts Desk's Matt Wolf.
The actress may not "strip physically", observed Mark Shenton in The Stage, "but the emotional layers are gradually exposed no less revealingly.
"Star power may have brought this play to the West End, but Nicole Kidman proves that she's worthy of the showcase."
"Kidman beautifully captures the prickly defensiveness, the lonely dedication and the suppressed emotional longings of the scientist," wrote The Independent's Paul Taylor, who praised her "compelling and subtle" performance.
Yet while Neil Norman found Kidman "never less than watchable", the Daily Express critic said the evening was "let down by Michael Grandage's spectacularly unimaginative direction".
"If ever a production was crying out for some technical flair in the design, this is it," he continued.
Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Dalton observed that Photograph 51 "is already heavily booked for much of its three-month run".
It is, he suggested, "a testament to celebrity power more than to strong writing or great directing", calling Grandage's production "a worthy effort but a little passionless".


Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has claimed victory in national elections marked by a low turnout.

The former rebel chief's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is ahead by five percentage points, according to latest results.
For the first time since Kosovo's self-declared independence in 2008, Serbia encouraged ethnic Serbs to vote, to help both countries' EU bids.
However, turnout was 42% nationally and even lower in majority Serb areas.
The elections follow last year's agreement to normalise relations between Belgrade and Pristina as a pre-condition for their bids to become members of the EU.
Kosovo: At a glance
With the votes of 94% of polling stations counted, the opposition Democratic League of Kosovo was on 26.12% while Mr Thaci's PDK had 31.22%, the Central Election Commission said.s
All parties support Kosovo's ambition to join the EU.
Kosovo's last national election in 2010 saw a turnout of 47.8%.
There have been no instances of the violence that blighted Kosovo's last two national polls.
Almost 30,000 monitors were in action to prevent a repeat of the fraud which also marred the last election, the BBC's Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey reports.
In 2010, diplomats and election monitors witnessed ballot-stuffing and other irregularities, and voting had to be held again at more than 20 polling stations, our correspondent says.
Kumrje Sahiti, an Albanian voter from Pristina, told the Associated Press she just hoped the best candidate would win.
"I am hoping for progress in economy, agriculture and education,", she said.
Agron Bajrami, a local newspaper editor, said it was impossible to predict the outcome.
"Today's elections in Kosovo are all about the economy," he said.
"It is maybe the first time since we declared independence that we are talking only about the wellbeing of people and the unemployment, which is very high."
About two out of three under-25s are currently jobless, and nearly 50% of Kosovo's 1.8 million people are considered to be poor.
Although Belgrade still rejects Kosovo's independence, it is encouraging the ethnic Serb community to take part in the elections.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said it would be "unwise" for ethnic Serbs to abstain.


Samsung's de facto head Lee Jae-Yong has gone on trial in South Korea on charges of bribery.

The case is linked to a massive scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
Mr Lee is accused of giving donations to non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a friend of Ms Park, in exchange for government favours.
Mr Lee, the Samsung group and four other Samsung executives who are also on trial all deny wrongdoing.
Mr Lee did not appear in person on the opening day of the trial in the capital, Seoul,
The trial is expected to go on for several months.
Mr Lee, also known as Jay Y Lee, is currently vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics. But since his father, Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack in 2014, he is considered de facto boss of the entire Samsung Group conglomerate.
Prosecutors have accused Mr Lee of giving donations worth 41bn won ($36m;Â£29m) to organisations linked to Ms Park's close friend Ms Choi. They alleged this was done to win government support for a big restructuring of Samsung that would help a smooth leadership transition in favour of Mr Lee, who is standing in as chairman for his ill father.
The controversial merger required support from the national pension fund - the allegation is that this support was granted in return for the donations.
In a December parliamentary hearing, Samsung admitted giving a total of 20.4bn won to two foundations, but denied seeking favours in return.
Mr Lee also confirmed the firm gave a horse and money to help the equestrian career of Ms Choi's daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, something he said he now regrets.
- Grandson of Samsung founder  Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Also known as Jay Y Lee, the 48-year-old has spent his entire career in the company.
- Is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and was nominated to join the firm's board in October 2016.
- Despite his arrest, still widely expected to take overall control of Samsung.
- Critics say his rise through Samsung has been due to his birth, not his business experience.
Ms Park's position began to unravel in October last year when details of her friendship with Ms Choi emerged.
They included revelations that the president had allowed her old friend - who holds no government role - to edit political speeches.
Politicians voted in December last year to impeach her over the scandal. South Korea's constitutional court is expected to rule shortly on whether that decision will be upheld.
Until then, Ms Park remains formally president but stripped of her powers.
Ms Choi is on trial for charges including corruption and coercion.
Ms Park denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the way she managed her relationship with Ms Choi, who also denies committing criminal offences.


A domestic abuse charity has criticised the 18-month suspended sentence given to a man who admitted attacking his then wife with a cricket bat.

Mustafa Bashir, 34, also forced bleach and pills into Fakhara Karim's mouth, Manchester Crown Court heard.
But Judge Richard Mansell said Ms Karim was not vulnerable as she was "an intelligent woman with a network of friends" and a degree.
Charity Refuge said the comments showed "shocking ignorance".
Sandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said: "[The judge's] comments - that he was not convinced of the victim's 'vulnerability' - show a shocking ignorance around the impact of domestic violence on women.
"What a woman does for a job, her level of education or the number of friends she has makes no difference; for any woman, domestic violence is a devastating crime that has severe and long-lasting impacts."
The court was told Bashir, of Hebers Court, Middleton, Manchester, and Ms Karim married in 2013 but the stormy relationship lasted less than two years.
Prosecutor Roger Brown highlighted a row in April 2014.
"He took her into the bathroom where he grabbed a bottle of bleach and he made her drink the bleach so she would kill herself. She spat that out as she was unable to swallow it.
"Then he gave her tablets from the house and told her to take them. She did but again she was unable to swallow them," he said.
Another argument in December 2014 led to Bashir, who played cricket for Oldham, strangling her, hitting her with the bat and saying, "If I hit you with this bat with my full power then you would be dead", the court heard.
But sentencing Bashir, Judge Mansell said Ms Karim was neither trapped nor isolated.
"She is plainly an intelligent woman with a network of friends and did go on to graduate university with a 2:1 and a masters - although this has had an ongoing effect on her.
"She has difficult trusting people now, especially men."
An apparent defence claim, noted by the judge, that a prison sentence would have lost Bashir a contract with Leicestershire County Cricket Club has been rejected by the club, which denies any contact.
Bashir admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Passing an 18-month jail term suspended for two years, the judge also ordered Bashir to attend a workshop entitled ''building better relationships'', pay Â£1,000 costs and banned him from contacting Ms Karim indefinitely.
The BBC has approached Bashir's lawyers for comment.


Two new urban village projects to regenerate areas of Belfast and Londonderry have been announced by the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers.

In Belfast, the Markets, Sandy Row and Donegall Pass areas are to be revamped.
Meanwhile in Derry, the Bogside and Fountain areas have been chosen.
The projects are part of a strategy to tackle dereliction and decay in urban communities with the aim of fostering better community relations.
Colin in west Belfast and the Newtownards Road in east Belfast were announced as the first two urban villages last year.


The Republic of Ireland is hoping that a new wind farm in the west of Ireland will help it meet its international climate change targets.

It is understood there will be 69 turbines located on the new Wind Park site in Connemara in County Galway.
Spreading over 40 sq km, the project is expected to generate about 3% of the country's needs.
The Galway Wind Park is a joint venture between energy provider SSE and the Irish state forest company Coillte.
Connemara is home to the biggest wind farm in Ireland and is founded on part-bog land, which is more associated with another and much older fuel - peat.
While peat may give off a pleasant aroma when burning and add a distinctive flavour to whiskey it is a dirty fuel that emits 23% more carbon dioxide than coal.
Clean and green wind farms are modern and very different, according to John O'Sullivan from SSE.
"When you contrast wind with peat the biggest factor is carbon," he said.
"Peat would release a lot of carbon when burned, while wind, of course, is carbon neutral," he said.
The firms behind the project say a lot of effort has gone into minimising the visual impact on the landscape and keeping the local community on board.
Although there will be just under 70 turbines, even in a blustery location wind is unpredictable.
Too little and no energy, too much and the excess power will have to be exported via an inter-connector because wind energy cannot be stored at the moment.
James O'Hara, the project manager, said: "On completion the Galway Wind Park will be Ireland's largest wind farm with a capacity for 169MW of power.
"That will be enough energy to power 89,000 homes, which is about 80% of Galway's homes."
Solar panels are also being installed on 2,500 acres of other bog land in four counties in the Irish Midlands - another example of old energy forms being replaced by and new ones.
Pat O'Doherty, the chief executive of the Electricity Supply Board, recently said that keeping local communities happy with the new projects is very important.
"We're talking about remote locations that are tucked away and low-lying," he added.
"You're looking at something that isn't more than 2m off the ground and, obviously, facing towards the sky."
Denis Naughten, the Irish minister with responsibility for climate change and the environment, agrees.
"I think we have really learnt a lot from what has gone on in relation to the on-shore wind industry," he said.
"There needs to be a proper and full engagement with local communities and there needs to be a clear economic benefit to those communities as well."
Back in Connemara, those involved in the Galway Wind Park say they have fully engaged with local people.
The project is expected to be officially completed at the end of September.


Conservative Katy Bourne has been elected as the first police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Sussex.

Find out more about each of these candidates below.
Tony Armstrong is a former Kent and Metropolitan Police officer, who was born in Tunbridge Wells but now lives in Burgess Hill.
He ran his own business as an executive chauffeur, before becoming a Taxi and Private Hire Licensing Officer for Worthing Borough Council. He resigned at the end of September in order to be allowed to stand in this election.
Mr Armstrong has said his priorities will be to ensure value for money and that any cuts do not affect front-line services. He has also pledged to encourage the expansion of the Special Constabulary and police volunteers, and the deployment of greater numbers of road policing officers.
Tony Armstrong's election statement
Businesswoman Katy Bourne is a Mid Sussex district councillor and national chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation.
A governor at Oriel School, Crawley, and Roedean School in Brighton, she lives in Mid Sussex.
Mrs Bourne has pledged to free up more money for front-line policing by reducing bureaucracy and waste, and to improve neighbourhood policing by putting more special constables in each community.
Katy Bourne's election statement
Ian Chisnall is a community development worker, who works in the private, voluntary and community sectors.
He was born in Liverpool but now lives in Brighton. He says his experience of helping develop partnerships between agencies in different sectors would stand him in good stead for the PCC role.
Mr Chisnall wants sufficient resources for domestic violence, abuse and hate crime, better drugs education and to encourage self-policing for communities to free up resources for more serious crimes.
Ian Chisnall's election statement
Godfrey Daniel, a mental health worker, is an East Sussex county councillor, a member of Sussex Police Authority and a former member of the Sussex Probation Board.
Mr Daniel is a former mayor of Hastings and has been a magistrate for more than 20 years.
He wants to crack down on anti-social behaviour through better neighbourhood policing and to plough more resources into investigating cases of domestic violence and hate crimes. He also wants Sussex Police to offload unnecessary assets.
Godfrey Daniel's election statement
David Rogers has been a councillor in Sussex for more than 35 years and has also served as chair of Sussex Police Authority.
Mr Rogers, who lives in Newhaven, has pledged to listen to Sussex's diverse communities and act on their priorities.
He has also vowed to seek new ways to combat crime at its roots, saying: "It is not enough to just lock people up and throw away the key."
David Rogers's election statement


Actress Keira Knightley has married Klaxons star James Righton in the south of France.

The couple, who have been dating since 2011, wed in front of about 10 people in Mazan, Provence - close to where the bride's family has a holiday home.
Mayor Aime Navello told the Associated Press he married them at the town hall.
The short service was followed by a reception for family and friends, reported to have included Righton's bandmates and actress Sienna Miller.
Knightley, 28, announced her engagement to Righton, 29, last year.
"Keira was a charming bride, very modest and simple in her attitude, as was James," Mr Navello told the Daily Mail.
"I got the impression that it was a very moving experience for both of them."
The actress, who was Oscar-nominated for her performance in 2005's Pride and Prejudice, is the daughter of playwright Sharman Macdonald and actor Will Knightley.
She rose to fame in the British hit Bend it like Beckham, becoming an international star in films including Love Actually and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
'More interesting'
Knightley also won critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Atonement, A Dangerous Method and, most recently, Anna Karenina.
Later this year, she will be seen in Jack Ryan - a prequel to previous Tom Clancy adaptations - playing Cathy Ryan opposite Chris Pine.
Singer and keyboard player Righton has performed with indie rock band the Klaxons since 2005. The group won a Mercury Music Prize in 2007 for their debut album Myths Of The Near Future.
In an interview last month, Knightley said she did not want an extravagant wedding day.
"We're not 'big wedding' types. I don't need to have all that. I'm just trying to enjoy the engagement bit.
"My parents are together after 40 years. The fights are there but they love each other.
"It's not like the first three months, the first two years... whatever it is, but I think it gets more interesting, or I hope so."


Plans for a new rail link to Heathrow Airport as part of the HS2 high-speed network have been ruled out by the transport minister Patrick McLoughlin.

He was responding to a question by MP Dominic Grieve about the Heathrow spur.
Mr McLoughlin said: "I would now like to make clear that we do not intend to build the spur as part of Phase 1 or 2 of the HS2 scheme".
HS2 is a planned high-speed rail network from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
Previously the government had said any decision about the Heathrow spur would be delayed until the Davies Commission's report on future UK airport capacity had been completed.
Responding to Mr Grieve's written Parliamentary question, the minister cited the Airports Commission review findings - published in November - which "indicated that an HS2 spur is highly unlikely to be necessary to support any expansion of Heathrow airport".
Nick Hurd, Conservative MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner tweeted he was "delighted" the government had dropped the idea and gave "credit to ministers for listening to our argument".
He said the best way of connecting passengers to Heathrow was via Old Oak Common. He said it also simplified the case for extending the HS2 tunnel to protect Ickenham and Colne Valley.
Paul Prentice, assistant news editor at Rail magazine said it was a "very sensible decision. Bearing in mind there is already a spur tunnel to Heathrow and another western link being built".
Campaigner Lottie Jones from Hillingdon Against HS2 said the group was "delighted" with the decision but cautious that it was not "just a pre-election sweetener" that might be revoked.


Hampshire fast bowler Fidel Edwards' 10-wicket match haul against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge boosted his side's hopes of survival.

Resuming on 298-8, Gareth Berg finished on 72 and Ryan McLaren made 52 as Hampshire were bowled out for 326,
Despite Brendan Taylor's 90, Notts went from 127-2 to 185 all out, Edwards (4-57) ending on match figures of 10-145.
Needing 200 to win, Hampshire closed on 89-0 with Michael Carberry unbeaten on 37 and Jimmy Adams 46 not out.
There is plenty on the line at Trent Bridge going into the final day. Hampshire could secure safety with a victory but only if Yorkshire beat Sussex, who would be relegated instead.
Meanwhile, with Middlesex losing inside three days to Worcestershire, Notts know victory for them would secure second place in Division One, although Hampshire remain firm favourites after dominating day three.
Hampshire began day three on 298-8 and Harry Gurney (4-70) eventually broke Berg and McLaren's 123-run ninth-wicket partnership, getting the latter to play-on to a fuller ball.
An over later, Stuart Broad (2-73) had Berg caught down the leg-side by Chris Read - his fifth catch of the innings.
Taylor was the mainstay of the Nottinghamshire's second innings and passed 1,000 first-class runs in the process.
But Edwards tore the heart out of the Notts middle-order and apart from Taylor, only Steven Mullaney (19), Samit Patel (25) and Billy Root (15) reached double figures.
McLaren took 2-22, while Berg (2-28) also impressed with a couple of great deliveries to get rid of Samit Patel and first-innings centurion Riki Wessels.
Carberry and Adams then then went after the Notts bowling, with England bowler Broad going at more than eight an over.
The opening pair took Hampshire safely to the close, needing another 111 runs to win to stand a chance of Division One survival.


Bolton Wanderers have completed the permanent signing of striker Adam Le Fondre on a two-year deal after his loan spell last season.

The 30-year-old joined Wanderers for a second loan stint in January from Cardiff City and helped the club to promotion from League One.
He was out of contract at Cardiff this summer and moves on a free transfer.
"It's not going to be a shock that I've signed and it's been a long time coming," he told the club website.
"Bolton is my spiritual home at the moment and I'm really looking forward to putting in a lot of hard work and get going."
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On 3 August 1996, Nigeria made history as the first African nation to become Olympic football champions at the Atlanta Games.

For Taribo West, the former Auxerre, AC Milan and Inter Milan defender, that 3-2 triumph over Argentina in the final is still fresh in his memory.
"The Olympics in 1996 is one of the most fantastic periods in my career," West reminisces to BBC Sport.
"We had a team that could match any in the world."
West says the build-up to the Games, under the guidance of Dutch coach Jo Bonfrere, was ideal despite being beaten by Togo, in Lagos, in their final pre-Olympic friendly before travelling to the USA.
"Before the Olympics, we were well prepared in the USA. We were not distracted by the usual things we encounter back home in Nigeria, where family and friends can come and visit us in camp," he remembers.
"We were in a very remote place and we were very focused on the task at hand. Jo Bonfrere's preparation of the team was excellent."
After their opening 1-0 win over Hungary and a subsequent 2-0 victory over Japan, the West Africans lost 1-0 to Brazil in their final Group D match in Orlando, Florida.
With a 2-0 win over Mexico in the quarter-finals, the "Dream Team", as the Nigerians were nicknamed back home, collided with the Brazilians once again, in what was an epic semi-final.
The 31 July encounter is one that West, renowned for his dreadlocks and robust defending, will never forget.
After going 3-1 down in the first half, with Brazil's Flavio Conceicao scoring in the game's very first minute, the Nigerians were in a particularly tough spot.
"We knew that in the first half of that game, we had played very poorly," West admitted.
"But the key to our comeback in the second half was our extraordinary determination.
"The voice of the leaders came up in the dressing room. We won that match in the dressing room.
"Fortunately, we had Daniel Amokachi, Sunday Oliseh and Uche Okechukwu. It was a big advantage for us."
Victor Ikpeba, the AS Monaco striker who was voted as Africa's top player a year later, reduced the tally in the 78th minute.
But when Jay-Jay Okocha blew the opportunity to draw level, fluffing a penalty with just minutes left on the clock, the match seemed well and truly over for Nigeria.
That feeling, however, was not in the mind of Nwankwo Kanu, the two-time African Footballer of the Year.
The former Ajax, Inter and Arsenal striker scored the equaliser in the 90th minute and displayed uncanny presence, agility and finesse to score the winner four minutes into extra-time, sending the Eagles' bench into delirium.
After such a dramatic victory against the team of Bebeto, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo, which had won the World Cup only two years before, West says the Nigerians were certain they had a golden date with destiny, in the final against Argentina, at the Sanford stadium in Athens, Georgia.
"There was something in our spirit that made us realise that we going to win, although we didn't know how," West recalls.
"As soon as Argentina got the first goal, we were not discouraged. Amunike was able to give us the winning strike.
"When [Italian referee Pierluigi] Collina blew that whistle, I just collapsed on the field and knew my dream had come true.
"My [gold] medal in is the bank overseas. It is something to show to my children."


Middlesbrough moved up to second in the Championship table as they sealed all three points against Brentford at the Riverside Stadium.

Boro broke the deadlock when Diego Fabbrini cleverly played Cristhian Stuani through to poke the ball home.
But Brentford restored parity when keeper Dimi Konstantopoulos miscued his clearance into the path of Lasse Vibe.
Stuani made it 2-1 after powering home Albert Adomah's cross before the latter got Boro's third at the near post.
Middlesbrough took the lead when Stuani latched onto a ball inside the box from Diego Fabbrini to tap home.
The hosts had a goal disallowed when Fabbrini again sent a ball into the box which was met by David Nugent, but his effort was given offside.
Brentford equalised after Konstantopoulos attempted to clear a ball into the box but mistakenly played the ball to Vibe, who easily slotted the ball into the net.
In an end-to-end second half, Boro could have taken the lead when Adomah crossed to Nugent but his header was blocked, before Judge's lobbed chance went just wide of the mark for the Bees.
Boro were back in front when Adomah sent a superb cross into the box, which was met by the onrushing Stuani, who struck the ball past Bees keeper David Button.
Provider turned scorer soon after when Adomah went on a terrific run and finished superbly from a tight angle to notch Boro's third.
Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka: "Cristhian Stuani is a very good player and I expect a lot from him this season.
"It wasn't easy for him to come here. But he's an experienced player and he can score goals.
"I think he can score more goals than Patrick Bamford did. Christian is more experienced, hopefully he can score the same or more."
Brentford boss Marinus Dijkhuizen: "There was a lot of good football from my team and we created a lot of big chances.
"We created the same number of chances but the quality of their finishing was the difference.
"They also bring a lot of quality from the bench. They're a very good side. But the chances are so big for us and the fact we created three is a complement to us because Middlesbrough defend very well."


The Independent Commission on Banking's (ICB) recommendations will hit the bottom line of the UK's biggest banks.

Effectively removing the implicit state guarantee standing behind investment banks will increase their cost of borrowing.
This is because insisting that retail and investment banking divisions are separately capitalised means traders cannot use retail deposits as collateral against big investments.
The ICB also proposed that a higher proportion of assets - between 17% and 20% - be kept aside as a safety net in case of future financial crises, which would limit the amount of money they can lend and invest.
The ICB itself has estimated a pre-tax cost of between £4bn ($6.4bn) and £7bn for Britain's banks. With combined balance sheets totalling £6 trillion, this equates to about 0.1% of their assets.
But the BBC understands that, after successful arguing by HSBC, the Treasury will make the 17% to 20% rule apply only to international banks' UK balance sheets, not their full balance sheets.
The banks themselves may disagree, but which of the UK's big four banks will be hit hardest by these additional costs and the other recommendations put forward by the ICB?
Lloyds is not a big player in the investment banking world, and so will be relatively unaffected by the ICB's call to ring-fence retail banks, which is specifically designed to stop High Street banks subsidising investment banks.
Nor will the commission's backing of the planned disposal of 632 of the bank's branches have any material impact on a sale that was already going to take place at the behest of European authorities following the government's bailout of the bank in 2008.
As Jonathan Newman at Brewin Dolphin says regarding the sell-off: "The commission is not pushing for anything over and above what is already happening."
These two facts are reflected in the Lloyds share price, which was higher in late morning trading before slipping back slightly.
Of course there is not a great deal Lloyds could do about the recommendations even if it wanted to, as the government still owns 41% of the bank.
The story at Barclays is very different. A substantial part of its revenues - 42% - come from Barclays Capital, its investment banking arm. And since Bob Diamond took over as chief executive last year, the focus has moved further towards investment and away from deposit-taking.
Potentially, therefore, Barclays has the most to lose from the ICB's recommendations.
Before the commission published its final proposals, Barclays let it be known that it may consider moving Barclays Capital to New York if it was forced to split its investment arm from its retail division.
Since the compromise solution of ring-fencing has now been put forward, there is little chance of that happening in the short term, says Chris Skinner, chairman of the Financial Services Club.
In the longer term, however, Barclays may yet decide to up sticks, he says.
Another bank with a large investment banking division is HSBC, accounting as it does for 27% of the group's overall revenues.
Together, the banks have argued that their retail arms offer very little in the way of subsidising their investment divisions. The ICB says there is no real way of knowing as the two have a combined balance sheet.
But Mr Kinahan argues: "The banks have been so vocal in their opposition [to the ICB's recommendations] there is every reason to believe the subsidy is very large."
Alongside Barclays, HSBC stands to suffer from the removal of this subsidy.
With regards to the requirement that banks should have enough capital plus loans that could be converted into capital to cope with losses equal to 20% of their total balance sheet, HSBC argued that this reform would affect it disproportionately.
This was because it is bigger outside the UK than inside, and compared with other British banks, it currently has relatively low reliance on unsecured borrowing from wholesale providers.
However, HSBC appears to have been successful in appealing on this proposal, as it is now expected to apply only to banks' UK balance sheets, not their full international balance sheets.
RBS also has a large investment banking division that accounts for about a third of group revenues.
Chief executive Stephen Hester has already said that the benefits of ring-fencing would be outweighed by the increased costs.
The difference is, unlike Barclays and HSBC, RBS can do very little about it considering the government owns 83% of the bank, again following a bailout during the financial crisis.
It's highly unlikely the government would implement any new regulations that would materially damage such a valuable investment.
But even by the most wildly pessimistic predictions, the government will have sold out of RBS long before 2019, the date by which the ICB would like to see its recommendations implemented.


Thousands of people have marched in the German city of Hannover against a proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.

They say the deal would drive down wages, and weaken environmental protection and labour rights.
US President Barack Obama - who is pushing hard for the agreement - says it would create millions of jobs and increase trade by lowering tariffs.
On Sunday, he will visit the northern city to open a huge trade fair.
TTIP: The EU-US trade deal explained
German police estimate that more than 30,000 took part in the peaceful protest rally in Hannover.
Many carried placards with slogans that read: "Stop TTIP!"
The demonstrators have also been voicing their anger over the secrecy surrounding the ongoing TTIP negotiations.
"The TTIP between the American continent and Europe is very dangerous for the democracy, for our nature and for the rights of the workers," protester Florian Rohrich told the BBC.
"The rights in America for workers are much lower. It's like the Trojan horse. They can't change our whole system. But they will - because TTIP is written by the groups, by the companies, not by the politicians," he added.
The negotiations were launched three years ago, and the next round is due to open on Monday in New York.
Defending the TTIP, President Obama has said that the agreement would mean "new growth and jobs on both sides of the Atlantic".
The TTIP aims to cut tariffs and regulatory barriers to trade between the US and EU countries, making it easier for companies on both sides of the Atlantic to access each other's markets.
Industries it would affect include pharmaceuticals, cars, energy, finance, chemicals, clothing and food and drink.
The aim is to boost the economies of the EU and the US by removing or reducing barriers to trade and foreign investment.
By eliminating almost all tariffs (taxes applied only to imported goods) on trade between the US and the EU.
Much of the concern is about the regulatory aspect: that it would lead to lower standards of consumer and environmental protection and safety at work.
TTIP: Why the EU-US trade deal matters


The story of a 10-year project to help ospreys breed in mid Wales when they returned to the country after a centuries-long absence has been documented by one of the people involved.

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Dyfi osprey project manager Emyr Evans, from the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, has written a book describing how they went from "two guys with a torch" showing people the first birds to re-colonise Wales, to an observatory and conservation project attracting over 30,000 visitors per year.
He told BBC Radio Wales' Mai Davies two lots of birds had arrived simultaneously, at the Glaslyn valley and Welshpool.
"It was like buses - nothing for hundreds of years and then two turned up at the same time," he said.
There are now four or five pairs in Wales and this year for the first time the number of chicks went into double figures, with 10 born.
"Hundreds of years ago, ospreys were part of everyday life for Welsh people and hopefully it will be the same again," he added.


Two lifeboat crews have been involved in a late-night operation to save a stricken boat from hitting rocks on the Galloway coast.

The Stranraer team was called out to Luce Bay to help the vessel which had lost power shortly before 20:00 on Sunday.
It towed the boat away from the rocks before the tow was passed to a crew from Port William.
They were able to bring the vessel safely into harbour.


Patient safety is at risk because of increasing GP workloads in the UK, doctors' leaders are warning.

The Royal College of GPs said the pressure of more consultations, complex cases and increased bureaucracy was causing fatigue and burnout.
The RCGP said such difficulties would not be allowed to happen with pilots or train drivers.
It also called for a new system of distress signals so practices under extreme pressure could raise the alarm.
That would be similar to the red and black alerts hospitals use when they have surges of patients.
The alerts act as a warning to the rest of the system to relieve pressure where possible by taking on their patients or not referring new cases to them.
In extreme cases hospitals can even close their doors to new patients - although the RCGP is not suggesting this happens in general practice.
The college also said mandatory breaks should be introduced to minimise the risk of mistakes.
To make the case, the RCGP has produced a consultation paper highlighting the pressures GPs are under.
Consultations have risen by nearly a fifth in the past five years, to more than 360 million a year, far outstripping the rise in GP numbers that has been seen.
It means there are now fewer GPs per person than there were in 2009, with the RCGP saying another 3,300 GPs are needed.
While many of the figures in the report relate to England, the RCGP said it was a UK-wide problem.
Dr Maureen Baker, who chairs the RCGP, said the problem needed addressing urgently, with waiting times getting worse and GPs having to work 11- and 12-hour days, which increased the risk of mistakes, such as medication errors.
"Few of us would voluntarily board a plane flown by a visibly tired pilot or get on a train where we knew the driver had spent too much time at the controls - yet there are no methods or systems for addressing doctor and staff fatigue in general practice," she said.
"Our intention is not to panic patients but to send out a pre-emptive strike to ensure that we take steps now to protect patients from the risks arising from doctor and staff fatigue."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt set out plans last month to invest in general practice.
He promised extra investment, including the recruitment of 5,000 new GP and another 5,000 support staff, including practice nurses, during the Parliament.
The idea of creating financial incentives for those willing to work in the most deprived areas was also put forward.
But, crucially, he linked it to the profession embracing seven-day working, to the anger of the British Medical Association.
A spokesman from the Department of Health said: "GPs do a fantastic job and we know they are under pressure as our population ages and more people live with long-term conditions. That's why we have committed to make 10,000 more staff available for general practice."


League One promotion hopefuls Walsall have brought back their former defender Dean Holden to join the club's coaching team under interim boss Jon Whitney.

Holden, 36, will work alongside fellow coaches Neil Cutler and John Ward.
He was first given a coaching role at Walsall by then boss Dean Smith before leaving in November 2014 to become first-team coach at Oldham.
After a spell as caretaker manager last season, Holden left the club in January when manager David Dunn was sacked.
"It's been an interesting time since I was last here," said Holden. "I went to Oldham as first-team coach and quickly became interim manager and then I was assistant manager up to when I left.
"It was a fantastic experience for a young coach like myself and I'm coming back much more experienced. But to say I'm happy to be back here would be an understatement. It's simply about coming in and trying to add whatever I can to help us get over the line."
Whitney said: "As soon as this position became available, I earmarked Dean as someone who could possibly help me out. The most important thing for me, whether they're a player or a staff member, is that they fit in with the group - and this is a great appointment for us."
After three straight wins since Whitney took over in the wake of Sean O'Driscoll's sacking, Walsall currently lie third in League One, level on points with second-placed Wigan Athletic, going into the Easter weekend, when the Saddlers are inactive because of international calls.
Saturday's scheduled trip to fourth-placed Gillingham was postponed (until Tuesday, 12 April) as a result of Romaine Sawyers (St Kitts & Nevis), Neil Etheridge (Philippines) and Jason Demetriou (Cyprus) all being called up.
Demetriou was due to be back to allow the home game with Shrewsbury Town to go ahead on Easter Monday. But the subsequent call-up for striker Tom Bradshaw by Wales meant that the Shrewsbury game was called off too.
It is the second time this season that Bradshaw's meeting with his old club has been postponed as a result of him receiving an international call. The derby game with Shrewsbury is now set for Tuesday, 26 April.


Struggling Premier League side Aston Villa have confirmed the appointment of Eric Black as first-team coach.

The 52-year-old quit as assistant manager of Rotherham United on Monday before his switch to Villa Park.
Villa boss Remi Garde said Black, a former Scotland international, "brings a wealth of experience and excellent knowledge of English football".
Villa are bottom of the table with 13 points from 23 games and seemingly destined for relegation.
Black began his playing career under Sir Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen, winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983.
He is fluent in French after spending five seasons playing for Metz.
Black managed both Motherwell and Coventry City, before becoming number two to Steve Bruce at Birmingham City.


Hull residents have nominated 100 people to be recognised for their contribution to the city.

The names will be honoured with plaques across the city as part of Hull hosting the City of Culture arts festival.
Plaques already unveiled feature the city's first female doctor and two men who sailed on Captain Scott's first journey to Antarctica.
Others include four women who campaigned for improved safety in the fishing industry in the 1970s.
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The new list of nominees include Trevor Bolder, who will join fellow musician Mick Ronson in getting a plaque. The pair played with David Bowie in the Spiders from Mars in the 1970s.
Film directors Gerald and Ralph Thomas who produced the Carry On and Doctor films are honoured, as well as actor and charity campaigner Brian Rix, who died last year aged 92.
Sporting heroes include rugby league players Clive Sullivan and Roger Millward and former Hull City player and manager Raich Carter.
The world of science is represented by mathematician John Venn, inventor of the Venn diagram, and astrophysicist Edward Milne, former president of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Labour councillor Mary Glew said hosting the City of Culture festival was a significant time to honour "all people who made a difference nationally and internationally".
"We are really proud of these pioneers that made a difference and the Made in Hull theme is further helping to engender pride in people about our history heritage and moving us forward in a really positive way," she said.
The plaques will be unveiled at places connected with the recipients throughout the year.


Chinese tech giant Huawei said its operating profit in 2014 rose by about 17% from the previous year.

The telecoms equipment maker's growth was driven by the global adoption of fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology.
Its revenue also increased by about 20% in the same period, the company said.
The Chinese conglomerate competes with the likes of Sweden's Ericsson for technology infrastructure such as mobile phone masts.
It is also in the race with other tech giants to develop 5G technology, while also being a player in the smartphone market.
Huawei's consumer business saw revenue rise by about 32% from a year ago thanks to the higher sales of its mid- to high-end range of mobile phones, it said in a statement.
The firm's growth comes despite it facing challenges in several major economies. In the US it was scrutinised for posing a security risk because of its alleged close ties with the Chinese government.
It has been banned from being involved in broadband projects in the US and Australia over espionage fears.
The company's final audited earnings results will be released in March.


A man who stabbed an ex-soldier to death in Edinburgh has been jailed for nine years.

Robbie Morrison, 31, who had served with the British Army in the Middle East, was stabbed in the leg by Kristian Nelson.
Nelson, 37, originally accused of murdering Mr Morrison, admitted a reduced charge of killing his victim.
He admitted striking him on the leg with a knife at Dumbryden Gardens, in Edinburgh, on August 22 last year.
Police followed a trail of blood from Mr Morrison to his attacker's Wester Hailes home.
A judge told Nelson at the High Court in Edinburgh he had had the chance to throw the knife away but deliberately used it to stab his victim.
Lord Glennie said: "You have an unenviable record, including two offences of assault to injury or severe injury and one assault with a hammer.
"This time it was a knife and the consequences were fatal."
The judge told Nelson he would have jailed him for 10 years, but for his earlier guilty plea to culpable homicide.
Nelson's co-accused Colin Craig, 46, from Edinburgh, had also originally faced a charge of murdering Mr Morrison but the Crown earlier accepted his guilty plea to assault.
Craig tripped Mr Morrison, who fell to the ground, after he tried to run away following a confrontation with Nelson.
He also dumped the knife used to kill the victim along with a bloodstained jumper in a canal. The judge deferred sentence on Craig for a year.
Advocate depute Steven Borthwick told the court Mr Morrison, an only child who had a young daughter, left the Army in 2011 after six years service.
The prosecutor said: "The extent to which the accused and the now deceased knew one another is not entirely clear. The motive for the attack which led to the death of Robbie Morrison is not known."
He added: "There is some information to suggest that the now deceased owed a debt to a third party and the at the confrontation between Robbie Morrison and the accused arose as a result of that debt."


Questions are being raised by officials about why a police officer who shot an Australian woman and his partner did not record the fatal incident.

Justine Damond, 40, was gunned down on Saturday after calling police to report a possible crime in her quiet Minneapolis neighbourhood.
State investigators say the officers whom she encountered failed to activate their body or dashboard cameras.
Every police officer and squad car in Minneapolis is equipped with cameras.
"I have the same questions everyone else does. Why weren't the police cameras on?" said mayor Betsy Hodges on Tuesday.
Minneapolis police are required to switch on their body cameras only during certain encounters, unlike in Los Angeles or Washington DC, where cameras must be switched on for any response to a call for service.
Instead, there are more than a dozen situations in which cameras should be used, according to the police manual, which adds that failure to use the camera could result in job termination.
"If a BWC [body-worn camera] is not activated prior to a use of force, it shall be activated as soon as it is safe to do so," reads the manual.
Local media reported that Ms Damond was dressed in her pyjamas and had approached the driver's side door to talk to the officer at the wheel after police arrived.
Officer Mohamed Noor, who was sitting in the passenger seat, fired his weapon across his partner and through the driver's door, striking Ms Damond in the abdomen.
Her fiancé, Don Damond, said on Monday that the family is "desperate" for answers from officials.
Speaking in Sydney, her father John Ruszczyk said: "Justine was a beacon to all of us, we only ask that the light of justice shine down on the circumstances of her death."
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says he will personally decide whether to charge Officer Mohamed Noor, rather than put the question to a grand jury. And he also questioned why the cameras were not turned on.
Officer Noor, who has been described by local media as a Somali-American, has been with the police force for two years.
A statement from his lawyer said he had arrived in the US "at a young age" and described him as "a caring person with a family he loves and he empathised with the loss others are experiencing".
But KSTP-TV, citing city records, reports that in two years of policing the officer had attracted three formal complaints, two of which remain unresolved.
Sources say his partner who was at the scene is Matthew Harrity, 25, who joined the force last year.
Ms Damond's death has made headlines across her native Australia.
The Australian: "Justine Damond and Mohamed Noor were two strangers from distant lands who arrived in America to fulfil their dreams, but in a tragic meeting in a Minneapolis alley one was killed and the other could face serious criminal charges."
The Sydney Morning Herald: "The 40-year-old's family and wide network of friends on Sydney's northern beaches have been left reeling. They struggle to comprehend how Ms Damond became a victim in America's ongoing and controversial police shootings."
The Age: "The scale of the deaths [of people at the hands of police in the US] is simply unimaginable in many other countries around the world... The high ownership of guns and prevalence of gun crime in America means American cops operate in completely different and more violent circumstances to their Australian counterparts."
A police radio recording from the incident was released on Tuesday, in which officers at the scene can be heard telling dispatchers they are performing CPR, and that "no suspects are at large".
Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau called Ms Damond's death "tragic" in a statement on Monday.
"I've asked for the investigation to be expedited to provide transparency and to answer as many questions as quickly as we can," she said in her first comments on the killing.
The two officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave.
Ms Damond, nee Justine Ruszczyk, studied to be a veterinarian before relocating from Sydney to the US, where she is believed to have been for at least the last three years.
According to her website, she was a "qualified yoga instructor, a personal health and life coach and meditation teacher".
Over the past few years the US has seen a series of civilian killings at the hands of police that have prompted a national debate.


Boreham Wood manager Luke Garrard admits signing Yakubu is a "long shot", despite the ex-Nigeria and Everton striker training with the club.

Yakubu, 33, lives close to Wood's ground and played in Saturday's friendly versus former club Reading.
"He's like a Rolls Royce, especially at this level. When he lands on the ball he's phenomenal," said Garrard.
"Is he as sharp as he used to be in the Premier League? No, but at 33 he could definitely do a job in the League."
Yakubu has scored more than 140 goals in his career for clubs also including Middlesbrough and Blackburn and has returned to England after a spell in the Turkish top flight with Kayserispor.
Garrard got in touch with the forward through a mutual friend and invited him down for two training sessions, before he appeared in the match against the Royals.
"I can imagine he's got interest especially after he'd been with us and played against Reading, so I can imagine something will happen in the next week or so but until then we'll enjoy his company," Garrard told BBC Sport.
"It's a long shot (signing him for Boreham Wood).
"I spoke to him on Sunday and he was very open in terms of a few bits that are going on but I've heard a little rumour someone in the League has put an offer to him so it will be very interesting to see how that pans out."


James Corden's debut on TV's The Late, Late Show has been praised in the US.

Fans and critics were impressed by the 36-year-old host, calling the talk show "inspired lunacy" and "a winner".
Corden, a relative unknown in the US, was joined by Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis for the first show in LA on Monday.
He introduced himself to the audience, saying: "However shocked you are that I am doing this job, you will never be as shocked as I am."
A raft of A-listers also joined forces to record videos for his first show.
"I'm sure lots of people are wondering how I ended up in this seat, and I include myself in that too, but rather than tell you we thought we would show you this," Corden said, introducing a Charlie And The Chocolate Factory-themed sketch.
It included appearances from Simon Cowell, Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne and comedian Chris Rock all devastated or furious after opening chocolate bars without the golden ticket inside, before Corden finds the winning ticket in the street.
Further cameos from Meryl Streep, Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Tonight Show host Jay Leno put Corden through his paces.
Corden, who was not widely known in the US before landing the high profile job on CBS, was praised for his likeability.
Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Goodman said: "As first nights go, this was a winner for Corden."
He praised the star as "youthful and engaging" and compared him to Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.
"Corden doesn't put a layer of cool between him and the viewer (or his guests) - he's as affable and sincere as Fallon with just a little less goofiness. It's a welcome trait, one that should put guests at ease," he said.
Brian Moylan in The Guardian said: "Corden proved himself to be very deserving of the role and, actually, tremendously charming indeed. Damn you CBS executives! How I wanted to hate him!"
But he added: "(Corden) laughs a little too hard at his own jokes and seems to be trying very hard to be both funny and likeable. It's like he's a new guy at a small party who is working the room to win everyone over."
A five-minute sketch with Hanks and Corden performing a retrospective of Hanks' many films - complete with wigs - was picked out for particular praise, with Moylan calling it "silly, funny, and quite inspired".
Goodman added: "The debut night's standout moment by far, however, was the idea of having Hanks and Corden act out bits from a string of Hanks films... It was very funny, very creative and played to Corden's strengths as a multi-talented performer."
Brian Lowry, TV critic for Variety, wrote: "Corden comes across as natural and likable, including the self-effacing little song with which he closed the show."
But he added: "Over time, though, a late night host needs a pretty formidable bag of tricks to weather those nights when the guests aren't at the marquee level the bookers were able to deliver for this first week."
Veteran talk show host Jay Leno compared Corden with long-running US star Johnny Carson.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "I think that is the key because we have talk show hosts in America where they tell a joke and it's funny, they get a laugh. But the real key is to get a laugh when it's maybe not so funny.
"I mean that was the great strength of Johnny Carson: people liked him and when he told a funny joke they laughed uproariously, and when he told one that wasn't funny, they smiled and they rolled with it because they liked him.
"And I think that's the thing with James, you know, he's not telling a joke a minute - that's okay because it's pleasant and you like him."
Fans echoed the critics' views and took to Twitter to give their verdict.
User UncannyAbe said: "Not even 30 minutes and I can't stop smiling. This is absolutely fantastic", while Jessica Gonzalez, using the Twitter handle â€


A signalling problem which left passengers stranded for several hours between south Wales and London has been fixed.

Trains were suspended while repairs were carried out on a broken signal between Swindon and Didcot Parkway.
National Rail Enquiries said lines had reopened but disruption would continue.
Passengers on the 13:33 BST service from London Paddington to Cardiff Central were among those affected.
Earlier, one passenger said they had been waiting on the train near Swindon for hours before being returned to Didcot station.
"All they have done is bring us back to the station to stretch our legs, what we are doing, how we are getting home, no one seems to know," she said.
"I should have been back home by 15:30. All we have been offered is a cup of tea."
Services were affected between Swansea, Bristol Temple Meads, Penzance and London Paddington.
In an update at 21:15 BST, National Rail Enquiries said a limited service was able to run but "disruption will continue until the end of service".