One of golf's best-known phrases will have a different ring to it when the Open begins at Royal Troon on Thursday.

"On the tee..." were the words spoken by Ivor Robson, one of the sport's most recognisable voices, for more than 40 years.
But when the 145th Open Championship gets under way on the Ayrshire coast not long after dawn's first light, Robson's comfortingly-familiar Scottish accent will not be making the opening announcement for the first time since 1974.
After working not only at the Open, but most other golf tournaments staged in the British Isles, Robson finally retired, a day later than expected, at last year's rain-delayed 144th Open Championship at St Andrews.
In his place have stepped forward two big-hearted characters, both Englishmen, West Country-based David Lancaster and his sidekick, Matt Corker.
The pair have been picked not only for their public-speaking skills, but their jaunty manner and unmistakably pleasant demeanour.
They have also been chosen for their ability to pronounce some of the trickier foreign players' names at the most cosmopolitan of the four major championships.
One of their main research helpers was, of course, Robson himself.
"I phoned him a couple of weeks ago," Lancaster, 58, told BBC Sport. "A wonderful gentleman.
"He gave me at least an hour on the phone and some brilliant bits of advice, which I shall not share publicly," he added with a grin.
One of the most debated aspects of Robson's 41-year reign as the public voice of golf was how he managed to stay posted on the first tee all day without the need of a comfort break.
"I'm going to reveal a 41-year-old secret," said Lancaster. "There's a tube and a bucket."
"And I'm the one in charge of holding the tube and the bucket," quipped Corker.
"If it should go to a play-off, Matt will have to deal with it, as it's my 25th wedding anniversary and I've already got my holiday booked," Lancaster concluded.
Both of the R&A's two new starters have military backgrounds.
Lancaster, who was born in Lancashire in 1957, served in the Royal Navy.
He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander before resigning his commission in 1989 to establish his own company, specialising in the art of high-impact presentations.
A golfer for more than 30 years, Lancaster is a member at Cumberwell Park Golf Club, near Bath.
Corker, born in Hampshire in 1953, joined the Royal Hong Kong police in 1974, going on to reach the rank of superintendent in a 22-year career.
After returning to the UK in 1997, he joined Lancaster's company as an associate. Also West Country based, he is a Bristol Rovers fan.
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A flamboyant Malaysian royal is building a grand house on the last parcel of undeveloped riverfront land in Perth's exclusive western suburbs.

The multimillion dollar block will be turned into a home fit for a king â€” or His Majesty Ibrahim Ismail.
The Sultan of Johor's fortune has been estimated at more than US$1bn (Â£750m).
He belongs to one of Malaysia's nine royal households, who are largely popular with Malaysians and lead lives of considerable privilege.
The three-storey home in the Western Australian capital will be relatively modest for a man who owns a gold Boeing 737 and the world's most expensive Mack truck.
Last year, the sultan acquired the site of a former matron's quarters for A$8.5m (US$6.3m;Â£4.8m).
The acquisition was met with opposition from the local council, which wanted to preserve views from the heritage-listed Sunset Hospital site.
The local mayor is now pleased with how the "elegant house" will fit in with its surroundings.
The sultan and his wife have been visiting Australia for many decades and are reported to have fond memories of beachside family holidays with their six children.
In a message posted last month to mark the end of Ramadan, Sultan Ibrahim said that he was thankful for "good health, food on our table, beautiful homes to live in".
"I am aware of the many other people in Johor who have so much less than us, and who lead very difficult lives," he wrote on Facebook.
"My family and I will continue to do our best to help them."


Fourteen Church of England clergy in same-sex marriages have called on bishops to do more to include gay people in the life of the Church.

In a letter to the Sunday Times, they said they wanted to eventually see gay couples allowed to marry in Church.
Some of the clergy signing the letter were revealing they were gay and married for the first time publicly.
Their letter comes after Bishop Nicholas Chamberlain said on Friday he was gay and in a relationship.
Publication comes in the run-up to a College of Bishops meeting from 12 to 15 September which will discuss issues of episcopal ministry and mission.
The clergy said bishops should be bold, and allow gay people to "celebrate without fear and in openness",  though they said that now is not yet the time to change the church's official understanding of marriage.
The letter reads: "But many in our parishes have already made that move and it is time to respect that a diversity of theology within the Church now exists and that there is more than one understanding of what a faithful Christian may believe on these issues.
"As you meet to discuss, we seek from you a clear lead that offers a way forward to greater inclusion that will enable those parishes that wish to do so to celebrate the love that we have found in our wives and husbands.
"We hope for an outcome that will enable those who wish to do so to publicly celebrate where we see God at work in the lives of our congregations without fear and in openness."
Bishop Chamberlain revealed he was gay in an interview with the Guardian, in which he said he understood and lived by the Church guidelines, which say gay clergy must remain celibate.
Following the news, the conservative Anglican group Gafcon said appointing a gay man as the bishop of Grantham had been a "major error".
Bishop Chamberlain was consecrated last year by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby - who has said he knew about the bishop's sexuality.
The House of Bishops has issued guidance about gay relationships which say "same sex relationships often embody genuine mutuality and fidelity".
But the guidance adds: "Getting married to someone of the same sex would, however, clearly be at variance with the teaching of the Church of England."
In particular, it says "It would not be appropriate conduct for someone in holy orders to enter into a same sex marriage."
The Church also teaches that "Sexual intercourse, as an expression of faithful intimacy, properly belongs within marriage exclusively."
However, these sentiments have not been followed throughout the Anglican communion.
In the US, Gene Robinson's election as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire in 2003 provoked a furore from conservative Anglicans around the world, and contributed to the rise of the conservative Gafcon movement.
In the UK, the Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Jeffrey John entered into a civil partnership in 2006.
He was twice tipped to become a bishop - at Reading in 2003, then at Southwark in 2010 - but was not appointed. On both occasions his sexuality was stated as a "difficulty" for Church of England - despite his assurance that he was committed to sexual abstinence.
The Church of England's teaching remains that marriage is for heterosexual couples - with clergy permitted to live celibate lives in civil partnerships - although these rules have never been tested by a church court.
Speaking in January, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologised for "hurt and pain" caused by the Anglican Church to the LGBT community.
The letter to the Sunday Times called on the bishops to to be "honest about what many of you already believe from your own experience, and to what you know to be increasingly the direction of travel, not just in our Church but in many churches in this country".
It added: "We will always want to see the full inclusion of LGBTI people in the Church, and we will continue to work towards it. We look forward to welcoming a first step in that process and a move away from the harm and hurt that has so often been done in the name of the Church."
The bishops have already received a letter from 72 traditionalist members of the ruling general synod encouraging them to abide by biblical teaching on sexuality.
LGBTI Mission, which campaigns for the acceptance of LGBTI people within the Church of England, welcomed Bishop Chamberlain's announcement.
It said: "We hope this will lead to increased openness among bishops so that burden does not long remain on the Bishop of Grantham alone."
The letter's signatories are:
Clergy: Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain and Stephen Foreshew-Cain, Rev Richard Haggis and Ricardo Goncalves, Rev Garry Lawson and Timothy H Wane, Rev Clive Larson and John Markham, Rev Paul Collier and Mr Collier, Rev Canon Jeremy Davies and Simon McEnery, Rev Geoffrey Thompson and Tony Steeles, Rev Prof Mark Cobb and Keith Arrowsmith
Laity: Jeremy Timm and Mike Brown, Ruth Wilde and Ellie Wilde, Jack Semple and Ross Griffiths, Paul Jellings and Andrew Carter, Erica Baker and Susan Strong, Karen and Samantha Bregazzi-Jones, Keith Barber and Tim Mills, Simon Dawson and David Mooney
The Times said a further seven clergy couples and Readers have indicated their support for the letter but wished to remain anonymous in order to protect themselves, and often their bishops, from attack.


The mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, in southeast Turkey, appears shell-shocked after three months of fighting between the security forces and the militant Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).

The streets of Sur - the city's old town - are slowly filling with people again but there is still a sense of unease in the air. There was little mood to celebrate the Kurdish New Year last week, known as Newroz.
"People are waiting something to happen," says cafe-owner Mustafa, summing up the feelings of many in Diyarbakir.
"We feel like we are in purgatory, either there will be peace again or a full-on war."
It was during Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakir in 2013 that a statement was read out by imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan called for a cease-fire with the Turkish state.
Ocalan's message of ideas and politics rather than guns and bombs was relayed by Kurdish officials to some two million people who had gathered in the city.
There was dancing in the streets adorned in yellow, green and red - the Kurdish national colours. It raised hopes for an end to a decades-long conflict that has claimed some 40,000 lives.
But the peace process that followed was short-lived, and collapsed last July, plunging south-east Turkey back into violence.
Mustafa's cafe is in the Hasanpasa Hani, a 16th-Century inn and market normally bustling with shoppers, students and artists.
Despite the end of a three-month curfew, only a handful of people are sitting in Hasanpasa Hani's shady courtyard, sipping tea.
"This place used to be full of people," he says.
The district of Sur has been at the centre of some of region's fiercest battles between the security forces and the PKK.
The Turkish military says it killed 279 militants in Sur. Activists say some of the dead were civilians.
Thousands fled their homes, and some neighbourhoods are still cordoned off by police barricades. Lorry-loads of rubble are being removed from residential areas.
The violence has also spread to big cities outside the southeast, including two car bombs in the capital Ankara that left dozens of people dead.
Critics have accused the Turkish government of responding with an authoritarian clampdown on all Kurdish dissent.
Recently, three academics were arrested after calling for an end to the security operations.
Young locals in Diyarbakir are also feeling the government's tight grip.
"We censor our lives a lot. We're scared to share anything on social media," says Bahri, 28, one of four young residents sitting around a table in Hasanpasa Hani.
"We have friends who were detained for posting tweets."
Sevket, a university student, says young people have been pushed towards the PKK by the government's "heavy-handed approach".
For Ozge, the end of the peace process has meant dashed hopes.
"Politics has failed us: both the government and the Kurdish political movement," she says.
The fighting is over for now, but the police presence in Sur is very prominent, and visitors trying to enter are searched at checkpoints.
The district is full of shops but there is little trading to be seen.
"Sur is part of me, it makes me sad to see it like this," says Dilek, a painter and teacher buying painting supplies.
"I don't think the city will heal for another decade."
The city's ancient fortress and imposing walls were listed as Unesco heritage sites in 2015, raising hopes of a thriving tourism business, but the recent fighting has put paid to that.
The local economy has been so badly affected that the Diyarbakir Chamber of Commerce says that more than 3,000 local companies have closed.
Its chairman, Ahmet Sayar, is worried the hardship will further fuel the conflict, and wants the government to boost the local economy.
"We have sent reports to the officials but we haven't received any reply," Mr Sayar says. "Local traders are asking if they are being punished for what's happening.
"But our first demand from the government is a lasting peace. Without that, no remedy is going to succeed."
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Plans for a new 60m bridge in a Rhondda Cynon Taff town have been given the go-ahead.

The bridge in Mountain Ash will be built over the Aberdare-Cardiff railway line and the River Cynon, from the Cwm Cynon Industrial Estate to Miskin Road.
It will offer a link for traffic travelling on the A4059 and the B4275.
Council leader Andrew Morgan called it "a major landmark" after planning permission was granted on Thursday.
Part of the Mountain Ash Cross Valley Link project, it has received more than Â£6m of funding with further preparatory work set to take place on 27 March.


Protecting schools from real-terms cuts in England would mean spending the equivalent of an extra penny on the basic rate of income tax, says the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

The financial think tank says maintaining funding at current levels would mean raising spending by £3.7bn.
Head teachers have been warning of job losses from budget shortages.
But Luke Sibieta of the IFS says: "A promise to protect schools from cuts will not come cheap."
School funding has been an election battleground - with opposition parties highlighting budget shortages.
In a blog for Schools Week magazine, Mr Sibieta says preventing this funding gap would mean a commitment to "significant additional public spending" - worth a penny on income tax or 3% of the NHS budget in England.
He says it would cost £2bn to protect per pupil spending in the next four years and another £1.7bn to cover additional costs facing schools - representing a 10% increase in the school budget.
But head teachers, protesting about inadequate budgets, have published their own research into job losses caused by funding cuts.
Heads in more than 700 schools say more than 3,400 posts have already had to be closed, including more than 1,000 teachers.
The heads in 14 counties, across the south and east of England, issued a joint statement: "Head teachers have been warning of an impending crisis in their schools. The crisis is no longer expected, it is under way."
They say that after months of warnings about cash shortages, financial decisions about staffing for September have already been taken.
In these schools, 1,107 teaching posts together with those of 1,488 teaching assistants and 820 administrative and support staff have been lost.
There are more than 24,000 schools across England - and this count of job losses by head teachers covers the current situation in just over 700 schools.
Among heads in these schools, 43% thought their budgets were "inadequate" and 49% defined their financial position as at "crisis point".
Only 8% thought funding levels were adequate or good.
West Sussex head teacher Jules White, who has co-ordinated a campaign on school funding shortages, said: "It is clear that devastating cuts to staffing and educational provision are occurring in thousands of schools across the country.
"In turn, children's' educational opportunities are being blighted by the loss of thousands of teaching and teaching support posts."
In the general election campaign, Sarah Olney for the Liberal Democrats said funding cuts meant "fewer teachers, larger class sizes and schools unable to afford basic repairs".
She accused the Conservatives of "splashing out" on "divisive pet projects like free schools and grammars, while the majority of schools see spending per pupil fall".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told a head teachers' conference that he would tackle the funding gap
"I am determined to lead a government that will give the priority it deserves to education," he said.
But the Conservatives have defended their record on school spending - saying that school budgets have been protected and are at record levels.


Scientists believe rats could grow into the size of sheep in the future.

Over a long time it is thought that when bigger animals become extinct rats will grow to fill the environment that they lived in.
Rats are known to be really good at changing to survive wherever they live. The way animals change over a long time is called 'evolution'.
So scientists think that rats will 'evolve' to grow bigger and bigger - growing to the size of other animals.
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz said, "Given enough time, rats could probably grow to be at least as large as the capybara, the world's largest rodent, that lives today, that can reach 80 kilos ".
He expected rats to change in different ways other than becoming larger.
The expert from the University of Leicester also said "There will be future thin rats, future fat rats, slow and heavy rats, fast and ferocious rats, probably future aquatic rats - the list goes on. Other animals will likely follow the same pattern, such as domestic cats, rabbits, goats and more."
The largest extinct rodent known, Josephoartegasia monesi, lived three million years ago, was larger than a bull and weighed over a ton. It lived in South America like its modern-day relative, the sheep-sized capybara.
It will take a long time for rats to grow bigger though - so don't worry about seeing any giant rats anytime soon.
And they won't be the first species to grow over time. It's thought that fifty million years ago a relative of the species we now know as the blue whale was the size of a wolf!


A seven-year-old girl whose tweets from a besieged Syrian city drew worldwide attention is safe, the BBC has learned.

Bana Alabed disappeared from the social network on Sunday as a government offensive was launched on rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo.
However, a new tweet from her mother on Monday suggested there was still grave danger and that there was "nowhere to go".
The account, which details life in the war, has more than 160,000 followers.
Many have expressed concern about her safety.
A BBC source says both she and her mother, Fatemah, who often tweets on her behalf, are in an undisclosed location.
However, a new tweet from Fatemah on Monday read: "Under attack. Nowhere to go, every minute feels like death. Pray for us. Goodbye - Fatemah #Aleppo".
Author JK Rowling was among those who used Twitter to call for information about Bana's whereabouts on Sunday.
Ms Rowling sent Bana an entire set of Harry Potter eBooks after the young girl posted that she liked to read "to forget the war".
In a conversation with the BBC in October, Fatemah said her daughter wanted "the world to hear our voice".
The family, which includes Bana's two younger brothers, were believed to live in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which has come under heavy bombardment from the army in recent weeks.


Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is to become the vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

It comes despite the party's policy to support renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system remaining unchanged at the recent Labour conference.
Mr Corbyn was also criticised by many of his MPs for saying he would never use nuclear weapons if he became PM.
However, CND said Mr Corbyn was stepping down as its vice-chairman because of his "increased workload".
Mr Corbyn joined the organisation as a teenager in 1966 and has long campaigned against the replacement of Trident.
But many Labour MPs, including the party's new shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle, have openly disagreed with Mr Corbyn's views on nuclear weapons.
BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said his new role at CND was likely to increase tensions within his party over the issue.
"Privately some are deeply concerned at the uncertainty over Labour's position on such a key issue," she added.
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CND's general secretary Kate Hudson said Mr Corbyn's new role was a "fitting tribute to a very principled man with a lifelong commitment to CND and the cause of nuclear disarmament".
"Working together, with enormous support from across society, we will prevail against trident and secure a crucial step towards global disarmament," she added.
Russell Whiting, from CND, said Mr Corbyn "stood on a clear anti-trident platform" when he was elected as Labour leader "with a massive mandate".
"He's challenging the consensus that has developed at Westminster around Trident," he said.
"And that's something we're looking forward to taking forward with him."
Mr Corbyn had been due to address a CND conference in London this weekend, but is now said to have other engagements.
Meanwhile, one Labour MP has raised concerns about a group that campaigned to get Mr Corbyn elected as party leader and and has now rebranded itself as Momentum.
The group promises to "organise in every town, city and village to create a mass movement", but Mike Gapes, the Labour MP for Ilford South, has told the BBC he fears some members of the campaign have an agenda.
He said: "I hope they are just going to be a discussion organisation like Progress or the Fabian Society, but I fear some of the people behind it have another agenda which is about deselecting MPs."
However, a spokeswoman for Momentum said such fears were a misunderstanding, and she said it was "a positive, outward looking" organisation.


Amazon has published an online guide explaining how to access its virtual assistant Alexa via a Raspberry Pi.

The technique presents a lower-cost alternative to buying one of its Echo devices - which are not yet available outside of the US - and an incentive to gain computer skills.
The walkthrough includes access to the necessary app data and certificates in order to link the budget computer up to the tech giant's servers.
Coding experts welcomed the initiative.
The Raspberry Pi pocket-sized computer was designed by a British charity to encourage children and others to learn how to write computer programs. More than eight million units have been sold or given away.
Amazon says that users require at least the second-generation model, released in February 2015, as well as:
Most Raspberry Pi owners would already own most if not all of these add-ons.
The coding involved is limited to typing in sets of commands, but the guide explains the purpose of each one.
Users also need to register for an Amazon Developer Account, which they can get for free.
Rik Cross, from the UK's after-school Code Club initiative, described it as an "interesting project", but added that parents should be aware of the privacy implications involved.
"It's important to remember that this data could be captured and stored by Amazon, in the same way that any website can store the data provided," he told the BBC.
"However, with the Raspberry Pi version, communication is via a button press, and so this serves as a much more 'active' way of interacting with the service, rather than a service that 'passively' listens to all your nearby conversations, as is the case with the Echo."
Amazon's Alexa service can be used to stream music, provide weather and news updates, create lists and answer general knowledge questions.
The online retailer was relatively late to the field - following Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google's Now services.
But the firm has sought to make Alexa popular by allowing third-party developers to offer the facility. An internet connection is required because Amazon's own data centres do the processing required for the voice recognition and other artificial intelligence tasks involved.
France's Invoxia became the first to take up the offer last year with Triby, an Alexa-powered fridge speaker.
In January, a New York-based developer released a tutorial of his own explaining how a Raspberry Pi could be used to create an Echo-like device.
But Amazon's guide, which has been published on the code-sharing site Github, is likely to drive interest in the idea.
"Anything that helps people to make and create with the technology that was otherwise closed, mysterious and inaccessible seems like a good thing to me," commented Bethany Koby, co-founder of Technology Will Save Us - an education-focused start-up currently involved with the launch of another mini-computer, the Micro Bit.
"What it doesn't do is create a way for a broader 'untechy' audiences to partake - but that isn't really its intention."
Those not attracted by the idea can download an Alexa app for devices powered by Google's Android or Apple's iOS operating systems - however, the apps are restricted to US-based users at this time.


The UK government appears not to have learned the lessons from its 2011 Libya intervention, say MPs.

Chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, Crispin Blunt, said ministers' response was "troubling", as he believed similar mistakes could be made in future.
In September, the committee said the UK had lacked a coherent strategy and intelligence had not been "accurate".
But the government disagreed, saying the coalition's actions saved lives.
An international coalition led by Britain and France launched a campaign of air and missile strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in March 2011 after the regime threatened to attack the rebel-held city of Benghazi.
But after Gaddafi was toppled, Libya descended into violence, with rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias.
And so-called Islamic State, also known as Isil and Daesh, gained a foothold.
In its report in September, the foreign affairs committee criticised David Cameron, prime minister at the time, saying he had been ultimately responsible for failing to develop a coherent Libya strategy.
It said UK strategy was based on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence and ministers should have foreseen that militant extremist groups would attempt to benefit from the rebellion.
'Inadequate plans for stabilisation'
But Conservative MP Mr Blunt said the MPs on his committee "do not accept that it understood the implications" of intervening in Libya - including the rise of Islamist extremism.
He said its response had failed to "work through the logic" of the evidence heard by the committee and was "yet to appreciate the lessons from our experience in Libya including our lack of country knowledge amongst those drafting and deciding policy".
"This is troubling, because Libya should inform the development of future UK foreign policy," he said, adding there should have been a "robust process of self-examination in government to improve future performance".
"I believe we are about to repeat the failure to have adequate plans and resources for stabilisation in Mosul. Libya should have taught us these lessons."
He also urged the PM to "reconsider" the committee's calls for members of the National Security Council (NSC) who are not politicians - for example the chief of the defence staff - to be able to ask for written instructions from the PM when asked to do something "contrary to their professional judgement", rather than leaving them "to emerge in conversations with historians".
The government rejected that idea.
In its response, the government said it did not agree with the foreign affairs committee report conclusion that no proper analysis of the rebellion or threat posed by the Gaddafi regime was carried out.
Gaddafi 'unpredictable'
"Real-time and evolving military, intelligence and diplomatic assessments gave ministers an understanding of the detailed context in which to take strategic decisions, as well as identifying areas where further information was needed..." it said.
"Muammar Gaddafi was unpredictable and had the means and motivation to carry out his threats. His actions could not be ignored, and required decisive and collective international action. The actions of the UK and the Coalition undoubtedly saved the lives of innocent Libyan civilians."
Former PM David Cameron told MPs in January that he had to take action in Libya because Gaddafi "was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats".
But the foreign affairs committee's original report found that the government "failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated", adding that it "selectively took elements of Gaddafi's rhetoric at face value".
The government also failed to identify the "militant Islamist extremist element in the rebellion", the MPs said and allowed a planned intervention to protect civilians to drift into an opportunist policy of regime change.
"That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya.
"The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of Isil in North Africa."
February 2011 - Violent protests break out in Benghazi and spread to other cities. This leads to civil war, foreign intervention and eventually the ousting and killing of Gaddafi in August.
March 2011 - UK parliament approves British participation for military intervention alongside a coalition of nations, including France and the US.
2014 - Militants from so-called Islamic State claim responsibility for several attacks in Libya towards to the end of the year, as the US finds evidence that the group is setting up training camps.
2016 - Following years of conflict, a new UN-backed "unity" government is installed in a naval base in Tripoli. It faces opposition from two rival governments and a host of militias.


A Treasury analysis of the "short term" economic impact of leaving the EU will claim that house prices could be 18% lower than under a remain scenario.

The BBC can reveal the report, to be released next week, will argue that Brexit would create a series of economic shocks which would have an impact on housing, employment and wages.
Mortgage rates would also rise, it claims.
George Osborne told me that in the event of Britain leaving the EU there would be an "immediate shock" to the economy, increased uncertainty and financial market turmoil.
That could lead to "people being poorer" and a fall in house prices.
"Next week the Treasury is going to publish an analysis of what the immediate impact will be and one consequence of leaving the European Union is that there would be a hit to the value of people's homes of at least 10% and up to 18%," he said, speaking at the G7 summit of finance ministers in Sendai, north Japan.
"At the same time mortgages will get more expensive, and mortgage rates will go up."
Many economists dispute that, saying the Bank of England may actually reduce interest rates to provide an economic stimulus in the event of a Brexit.
That could lead to lower mortgage rates, although the Treasury argues that if financial conditions deteriorated more generally, borrowing costs could increase for banks and that may lead to higher costs for homeowners.
Supporters of Britain leaving the EU argue that taking the "froth" off house prices would be good for people struggling to get on the housing ladder, and lower levels of immigration over the longer term would reduce demand, making house buying easier.
I asked the Chancellor if lower house prices could actually be seen as a positive thing, particularly for first time buyers.
"You don't get affordable homes by wrecking the economy," he told me.
The average house price in the UK is just under Â£300,000.
That is expected to rise between 8% and 10% over the next two years, meaning that under the Treasury Brexit scenario, house prices could actually fall in absolute terms.
Many who say buying a home in the UK is far too expensive may welcome that.
Mr Osborne also said that any negotiations with the other 27 states of the EU if Britain were to leave would be costly.
There is expected to be a bill attached to that in the Treasury analysis.
"It is absolutely clear if you speak to finance ministers here, from France, from Germany, from other European countries, that if Britain left the EU and wanted access to the single market - the access we need for jobs and investment at home - then we would have to pay into the EU budget and we would have to accept free movement of people," he said.
That position was backed up by Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, who told me that it was wrong to believe that the UK would gain access to the single market without the "free circulation of people".
Although he said negotiations would be "friendly", there would be a bill for the UK to pay.
"It is an illusion to think that by having a free trade negotiation you will have more than what you have right now," he said.
Backers of Britain leaving the EU say that Britain would fare better outside the constraints of the present single market, and would be able to agree free trade agreements similar to those signed by countries such as South Korea.
It is also pointed out that America and China, which do not have separate deals with the EU, also have strong trading relationships with the single market.


Versatile Hull FC back Nick Rawsthorne has signed a new two-year contract.

The 21-year-old joined from Halifax in June 2016, but has spent much of his time out on loan having made just three appearances for Hull FC.
Rawsthorne, who is currently on loan with Leigh Centurions, said: "It's what I've worked for ever since I signed and it's big for me to get the new deal.
"Now it's about setting myself some new goals and making a push to play more games in the first-team."
Head coach Lee Radford said: "I am really pleased. It is great news for us. The coaching staff have been really impressed with his development this season."


Hundreds of people are confirmed to have lost their lives in Saturday's landslide in Colombia.

Forty thousand people live in the south-western town of Mocoa that was hit by a torrent of mud and debris.
The search for survivors continues, but hopes are fading fast for those still waiting on news about loved ones.
The BBC's Laura Bicker has been reporting from the region - sharing images of those affected by the tragedy.
The town was devastated by mudslides as water tore through its centre after a night of extremely heavy rain.
Neighbourhoods were swept away amongst the rising water levels.
Our correspondent says in a Twitter post: "Mud lies thick on the streets of Mocoa. They're still searching for the missing but with little hope."
"Five main rivers flow off these mountains - the rain came with mud and debris tearing through."
She described how during a live report for the BBC News at Ten, a small boy tugged at her trousers pleading for help.
She explained that while much of the neighbourhood of San Miguel had been wiped out, people still tried to salvage what they could.
Some were sitting amongst their mud strewn possessions including a sofa, she added.
In one image, a man is seen sitting alone amongst debris, with roads and pathways now invisible in amongst the mud.
People were still living in the rubble in Mocoa, our correspondent said.
She posted one image of a volunteer, who said he had saved hundreds with just a torch for help.
He is one of many aiding people who were trapped by the mud.
Colombia's president has declared a state of emergency, committing  40,000m pesos ($13.9m; Â£11.1m) towards "addressing humanitarian priorities" in the disaster's aftermath.
Laura posted an image of Red Cross workers at the scene, who are still continuing their efforts despite the dwindling chances of rescue.
She captioned the image: "Over 270 confirmed dead, but they say 374 are still missing."


American pop star Taylor Swift is being challenged over the lyrics in one of her most famous songs.

US R and B singer Jesse Braham, whose stage name is Jesse Graham, says the words from her 2014 hit Shake It Off  come from a song he wrote called "Haters Gone Hate".
He's started a legal case against her and is asking for Â£27 million pounds in compensation.
He also wants his name added as a writer on the track.
There's been no official comment from Taylor Swift or her representatives.
Shake It Off topped music charts around the world and reached number two in the UK.
The video for the song has been watched more than 1.1 billion times on YouTube.
Jesse Braham claims he has copyright ownership of the phrases "haters gone hate" and "playas gone play", which appear in the chorus of Taylor Swift's song.
He says he's spoken to Swift's record label, Big Machine, four or five times about the issue.
He originally asked to be named as a writer and asked for a selfie with Taylor Swift but he says he was told that wasn't possible.
Apart from the words being similar, the songs aren't the same musically.


A group of leading Anglicans says the Church of England has "nothing to fear" from the prospect of gay marriage and it is should be a cause for rejoicing.

In a letter to
          The Times
, prominent figures including five former bishops say statements by church leaders give a false impression of popular feeling.
"We believe the Church has nothing to fear from... civil marriage for same-sex couples," it says.
"It will be for the churches to then decide how they respond pastorally."
A leading signatory of the letter is Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay dean of St Albans, whose appointment as Bishop of Reading in 2003 was withdrawn after protests from conservative Anglicans.
It is also signed by the suffragan bishop of Buckingham and the deans of Portsmouth, Norwich and Guildford.
It says marriage is a "robust institution which has adapted much over the centuries" and has "moved beyond the polygamy of the Old Testament and preoccupation with social status and property in pre-Enlightenment times".
Plans to legalise gay civil marriage by 2015 have been put out for consultation by the government, and under the proposal, same-sex couples will be entitled to convert existing civil partnerships into marriages, or get married in a register office or other civil ceremonies.
However, the plans maintain a ban on same-sex religious services, despite interest in them from some churches.
Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church remain staunchly opposed to gay marriage and blessing civil partnerships, but opinion among Anglicans has been more divided.


Jozo Simunovic says his proposed transfer from Celtic to Torino collapsed because the Serie A club changed their offer at the last minute.

The 22-year-old Croat defender's move fell through late on deadline day.
"It is not true that I have not passed [a] medical," he said on Twitter.
"Everything was perfect, I am completely healthy and fit. Transfer was not realised because Torino at the last minute wanted to change the initial agreement with Celtic."
Simunovic joined Celtic from Dinamo Zagreb exactly a year ago but made the last of his 18 appearances in January, when he suffered a knee injury against St Johnstone.
Some reports claimed that Torino had reservations following medical checks after Simunovic travelled to Italy.
But the player refuted those accounts and said he was speaking out because, "most important of all", he wanted to stress that he remains committed to Celtic.
He must now fight for his place in Brendan Rodgers' side with fellow central defenders Kolo Toure, Eoghan O'Connell, Erik Sviatchenko and Efe Ambrose.
"I prefer to talk only on the field, but this time I want to say something to the Celtic fans who have always supported me and as a player it means a lot to me," said Simunovic.
"My head is in Celtic and I am 100% focused on the field and the challenges ahead.
"I am fit, I train with the team and, of course, the coach decides when I will start to play.
"And, when I start, I can promise one thing. I'm going to give more than maximum for Celtic.
"Behind me is 'turbulent' period, starting from injury until transfer to Turin."
Celtic's only deadline-day business was to loan right-back Saidy Janko to Barnsley for the season.
Simunovic's fellow central defender, Ambrose, rejected a transfer to Belgian top-flight club Standard Liege after a fee was agreed between the clubs.


Toyosi Olusanya's late penalty saw AFC Wimbledon prepare for the play-offs with victory over Newport County.

Olusanya scored his first ever goal from the penalty spot after he was fouled by Ben Davies.
Wimbledon will face Accrington Stanley in the play-off semi-finals, while Newport end the season without a win in 11 games.
Warren Feeney's side, who had already secured League Two safety, finished nine points above the relegation zone.
Adebayo Akinfenwa had Wimbledon's best chance of a first half which was delayed for 10 minutes after team-mate Connor Smith suffered a head injury.
Newport's Lenell John-Lewis was denied by James Shea while Akinfenwa struck the post before substitute Olusanya's winner.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "It looked like and end of season game.
"It's another sloppy goal we've given away but I think it's that little bit of belief in the final third that we're lacking and have been lacking for a while.
"I don't want to be in this position next year."


A cat had to have its left leg amputated after being shot six times at close range, the RSPCA says.

Jasper limped home even though his entire lower leg was shattered, RSPCA inspector Nina Small said.
The shorthaired pet from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire also had airgun pellets lodged in its left eye.
Officials have just released details of the attack on 10 April and anyone with information is urged to contact the animal charity anonymously.
The pellets entered Jasper's left eye, the roof of his mouth, abdomen and neck. Two more pellets were discovered lodged behind his left knee.
"When the owners opened the door the cat walked in and fell in his cat basket. He would've been in a lot of pain," Ms Small said.
The RSPCA believe the pet may have been in the nearby allotments or the school playing field when he was attacked.
It is illegal to shoot at and cause unnecessary suffering to a domestic animal with an air weapon.


The Prison Service director Sue McAllister has asked for an updated assessment of the current security threat to her staff in the wake of last week's bomb attack on a prison officer.

The revelation was made by the Justice Minister David Ford in the assembly.
The 52-year-old officer suffered serious injuries when a bomb exploded under his van on Friday morning.
A dissident republican group calling itself the IRA said it was responsible for the attack in east Belfast.
The group, which is widely referred to as the new IRA, said he was targeted for training officers at Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn in County Antrim.
The prison officer is in a stable condition in hospital.
MLAs from all sides condemned the attack at the start of assembly proceedings on Monday.
The DUP's Paul Givan said the attack was part of a campaign by republican dissidents to get the regime in Maghaberry Prison returned to the old days of the Maze jail.
The Ulster Unionist Andy Allen, who was seriously injured in a bomb attack while on duty with the army in Afghanistan, assured the injured officer that "there is a light at the end of the tunnel".
The SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the prison officer was a public servant who should not have to expect that a bomb might be placed under his car.
Mr Eastwood described the dissident strategy as nonsensical.
Sinn FÃ©in's Raymond McCartney, a former IRA prisoner, said those responsible for the attack have little or no support in the community.


1492 - Christopher Columbus makes his first landing in the New World in the Bahamas.
1647 - English and Bermudan religious refugees, the Eleutheran Adventurers, establish the first European settlement on the Bahamas.
Sir Lynden Pindling
1666 - Colonisation of New Providence Island begins.
1717 - Bahamas become a British crown colony.
1783 - Spain cedes the Bahamas to Britain in accordance with the Treaty of Paris after briefly occupying the islands the previous year.
1834 - Emancipation of slaves.
1940-45 - The Duke of Windsor - formerly King Edward VIII - serves as governor of the Bahamas.
1950 - Britain grants the US a military test range and tracking station for guided missiles in the Bahamas.
1955 - Free trade area established in the town of Freeport, stimulating tourism and attracting offshore banking.
1964 - Bahamas granted internal autonomy.
1967 - Lynden Pindling becomes prime minister after his centrist Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) wins the islands' first legislative elections.
1972 - Negotiations with Britain over independence begin in the wake of an overwhelming victory in the elections by the PLP, which campaigns on a platform of independence.
Independence
1973 - The Bahamas become independent.
1983 - Government ministers face allegations of drug trafficking.
1984 - Pindling is endorsed as PLP leader after denying charges of corruption and ties to drug traffickers.
1992 - Hubert Ingraham becomes prime minister after his centre-left Free National Movement (FNM) wins an absolute majority in the general elections, ending 25 years of rule by Pindling.
1996 - Ingraham reinstates the death penalty for murder.
1997 - Ingraham returns as prime minister after his party is re-elected.
1998 - Two convicted murderers are hanged despite international opposition and concern over the use of the death penalty in the Caribbean.
2000 August - "Father of independence" Sir Lynden Pindling dies. He was head of government from 1967-92.
2001 November - Dame Ivy Dumont becomes the Bahama's first woman governor-general.
2002 May - Veteran politician Perry Christie leads his Progressive Liberal Party to a landslide victory, unseating the Free National Movement, which has been in power for 10 years.
2004 September - Hurricane Frances sweeps through, causing widespread damage. Weeks later Hurricane Jeanne batters the Bahamas.
2006 March - UK-based final appeals court rules that the mandatory death sentence for murder breaches the Bahamian constitution. It was last used in 2000.
2007 May - Former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham's Free National Movement wins parliamentary elections.
2012 May - Perry Christie returns to power as the Progressive Liberal Party wins parliamentary elections. Defeated Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announces his retirement from politics.
2013 August - The Bahamas sends 24 refugees home to Cuba, prompting charges that it was putting their lives in danger.


The Welsh Government should give a firm refusal to any plans to create a site to bury nuclear waste in Wales, an assembly member has said.

Anglesey AM Rhun ap Iorwerth's comments came as a meeting was being held on Friday to discuss a Welsh Government response to a UK government consultation on the issue.
It is seeking a long-term solution on where to store highly radioactive nuclear waste created in recent years.
No site has yet been earmarked.
The preferred option would be to build a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) to store the waste deep underground.
But the Plaid Cymru AM said it would be concerning "if there is an attempt to make it easier to bring the burial of waste to Wales".
According to the Welsh Government, there is no intention to create a GDF in Wales, and no GDF would be built in Wales if a community does not choose to create one.
Currently, low level radioactive waste is kept at nuclear power stations including Wylfa on Anglesey and Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd.
Long-term waste is stored in Sellafield, Cumbria, but with its radioactivity taking many years to reach safe levels, the long-term option many countries favour is to develop GDFs.
The UK government's aim is to build one site for all the waste from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Because nuclear waste is a devolved matter, the Welsh Government had to decide where it stood and in 2015 decided to adopt the UK government's policy.
Cumbria County Council voted against an attempt to establish a site there in 2013, even though Copeland Borough Council had given it a seal of approval.
Since then planning laws have changed in England, which now deem GDFs as nationally important infrastructure projects, and the government has started the process of consulting with other communities of interest.
This could mean the government tries again this year to find a suitable area.
In a letter seen by BBC Wales inviting individuals and organisations to its workshop on Friday, the Welsh Government said they were "not intending to create a GDF in Wales, and no GDF will be built in Wales unless a community chooses to create such an opportunity".
But it added developments of this type "bring investment and jobs which benefit the local economy", and they did not want to disadvantage any community.
Mr ap Iorwerth said a more firm refusal was needed from Cardiff Bay.
"The letter... says the Welsh Government is not going to push to establish a GDF while at the same time trying to open the door to anyone who supports such a development," he said.
"It paints a very positive picture, for example the potential of creating jobs and so on. It also gives the impression sites of this type are 'common'. They are not."
Brian Jones from the anti-nuclear group CND Cymru, which was invited to the meeting, said there was concern a community could be paid to host a site at the expense of surrounding areas which may oppose such a development.
He also raised questions on how a "community" would be defined.
"They also suggest the community would get money for 150 years, but when this money finishes the nuclear waste would still be there for thousands more years. Why that amount of time?
"If any community showed an interest, they would need to have all the information to make a decision.
"I agree with Scotland's policy, and that is that nuclear waste should be stored over ground where it's easy to monitor, on the nuclear station site. If anything goes wrong after nuclear waste is buried, it's much harder to know what's happening and to do anything about it."
A Welsh Government spokesperson said it had adopted a policy of "geological disposal for the long-term, safe and secure management of higher activity radioactive waste".
He added that a GDF would only be "deliverable on the basis of a voluntary partnership with interested local communities willing to enter into discussions".
Speaking before Friday's meeting, he said the workshop would "specifically explore proposals for the approach to engagement with any community willing to discuss hosting a GDF".
He said a discussion paper had been circulated in advance of the workshop, in which the government made clear "we are keen to gain the views of all interested parties on all aspects of the approach including on how a 'community' should be defined".


Zayn Malik has revealed that, in leaving One Direction, he has "let the fans down".

He announced he was the quitting the band on Wednesday. In an interview with The Sun he said: "I can't do this anymore."
And the star admitted his decision was "crazy and wild and a bit mad.
"But I've never felt more in control in my life. I feel like I'm doing what's right, right by myself and right by the boys."
Zayn gave his interview just hours after announcing he was leaving the world's biggest band.
He denied there were any rifts between the band members, saying those claims "couldn't be more wrong".
But he confessed he had wanted out of the band for some time.
He said: "You know, I did try to do something that I wasn't happy doing for a while, for the sake of maybe other people
"Basically, I'm only upset [because] I feel like I may have let them down."
"It's not that I've turned my back on them [the fans] or anything, it's just that I just can't do that anymore because it's not real to me."
He also dismissed rumours it was the beginning of the end for the band, who were put together on The X Factor in 2010.
And he refused to comment on speculation he could return in the future.
Zayn quit the globally-successful pop group a week after walking away from their world tour due to "stress".
It came after the singer was pictured with his arm around a blonde girl in Thailand, prompting speculation he had cheated on his fiancee, Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards.
Immediately after the announcement he flew back to the UK, and wrote on Twitter: "I'm 22 years old...  I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous [people] in this world. I'm sorry for what it looks like."
Announcing he was leaving One Direction for good on Wednesday, Zayn said: "After five years, I feel like it is now the right time for me to leave the band."
Asked about his relationship by The Sun, Zayn said his two-year engagement had not been broken off.
He described Perrie as "a good girl" who was "supportive" of his decision.
Meanwhile, Zayn has reportedly visited a west London recording studio to work on solo material with Naughty Boy; who helped launch the careers of Emeli Sande and Sam Smith.
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A new intensive care unit for newborn babies has opened on the Isle of Man.

Located next to the existing Jane Crookall Maternity Ward, the £4m facility is the first major extension to Noble's Hospital in Braddan since it opened in 2003.
Alfred Cannan MHK said it is a "substantial investment in a vital service to protect the vulnerable".
The government said the unit has been delivered "to budget and on time" and conforms to British and EU standards.
Dr Prakash Thiagarajan, a consultant paediatrician and neonatologist at the hospital, said the "first-class facilities will help us offer the best possible care. It will also help us to deliver the necessary support to parents."
A health spokesman said the current capacity of nine cots remains the same, but the new facility provides additional overnight accommodation for parents, space to improve isolation, resuscitation and privacy, as well as additional room for the storage of vital equipment.


Dermot O'Leary and Emma Willis are to present this year's Brit Awards, organisers have announced.

They will replace Michael Buble as hosts of next month's show after the Canadian singer pulled out to care for his ill three-year-old son.
The Brit Awards take place at the O2 in London on 22 February.
"The Brits is an iconic show that I've watched and attended many times," said X Factor presenter O'Leary.
Emma, who is currently presenting The Voice UK, said: "To present the Brits is an honour but to be doing it alongside one of my absolute favourites, Mr Dermot O'Leary is just bonkers. Bring on the Brits 2017."
Robbie Williams, Little Mix, The 1975 and Emeli SandÃ© have already been confirmed to perform at the event.


It was no coincidence that Egypt's uprising began on Police Day last year; protesters' original demands included the resignation of the hated former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and an end to the abuses committed by his security forces.

One of the most influential Facebook groups calling for people to take to the streets was "We are all Khaled Said", set up in memory of a young man alleged to have been killed by police officers in Alexandria in 2010.
Yet to date, there have been relatively few reforms and the crisis in Egyptian policing has only deepened.
The police are less feared than before the revolution and at the same time less respected than ever. As a result, morale in the force is low. And now, Egyptians are dealing with a security vacuum.
Recently there has been a spate of serious crimes of a kind not seen in the past, including armed bank robberies and kidnappings for ransom. Petty theft has risen dramatically.
People found it easy to believe that the security forces were either negligent or directly implicated in February's football violence in Port Said that left more than 70 people dead.
In an unusually candid interview with a former senior police officer, I heard first-hand why the forces meant to protect Egyptians have become better known for corruption and brutality.
"Egyptian police ruled the country from behind an iron curtain. They controlled all aspects of life," says Mahmoud Qutri who retired as a police brigadier in 2001.
"If you wanted to be promoted in a government job then you needed approval from state security, even if you were a low-level employee."
He explains how police abused their sweeping powers in many ways.
"Much of what I saw was shocking," he says. "Police officers would bully people, torture them, 'sex-up' cases and deliberately send innocent people to jail."
Mr Qutri gives the example of a father who went to report his daughter missing only to be tortured and imprisoned himself before she returned home of her own accord.
In another case, he says, a young army conscript was jailed after being forced to confess to raping and killing a woman who later turned up unharmed.
The ex-police brigadier's descriptions of torture methods commonly used by Egyptian security services are most disturbing.
"Police can use finger prints or other technologies in criminal investigations but they don't have enough resources so they use other techniques that save time and money," Mr Qutri tells me.
"Usually they cuff your hands and put a bar under your knees and beat your feet. Sometimes they handcuff and hang you on a door until your shoulder breaks," he says.
"In Bedouin areas where masculinity means a lot, I have seen men electrocuted on their genitals. They also blow air into a man's anus and jump on the stomach. In state security departments, they might bring someone's wife, sister or daughter and rape her to make him confess."
Mr Qutri says it was impossible to speak out while he was in his old job but since his retirement he has acted as a whistleblower. In 2004, he evaded censors to publish a book, Confessions of a Police Officer, which led to lawsuits and personal threats.
Only since Egypt's popular uprising has he felt freer to call for radical changes to the police system.
He complains of a culture that breeds hostility and disdain.
"The police students are taught how to be very arrogant. In the academy they are ordered to walk in a certain way, not to use public transport nor sit in cafes," he says. "By graduation they feel they are more important than ordinary people."
Mr Qutri recommends new programmes that teach trainees about law and human rights as well as better pay for lower ranking police and an end to a quota system which he says, leads to the fabrication of crimes.
He argues that under the former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, state security was prioritised over public security but that this must now change.
Several draft initiatives to restructure and reform the security sector are already being submitted to parliament.
Omar Ashour of the Doha Brookings Institute and Exeter University has helped draw up one set of proposals.
"There needs to be accountability towards citizens - whether the parliament or the president - the idea of controlling the security sector has to be enshrined in the [new] constitution," says Mr Ashour.
A senior Muslim Brotherhood official, Amr Darrag, identifies security reform as the top priority for his organisation's Freedom and Justice Party - which controls nearly half the seats in the new People's Assembly.
"This is probably the most important issue that we would like to tackle because it's the key for stability and that's key for any economic development or further reform," he says.
In the past year, the ruling military has been criticised for making relatively few changes.
The only notable developments have been the disbanding of the State Security Investigations Service and putting Mr Adly on trial for corruption and giving orders that led to the killing of hundreds of demonstrators.
A new investigation into the protests that followed the Port Said deaths by the human rights group Amnesty International concluded that riot police from the central security forces used the same "excessive force" that was deployed when trying to suppress Egypt's uprising. Sixteen people were killed and hundreds injured in Cairo and Suez.
"Unless the Egyptian security apparatus is reformed with the aim of providing security and upholding the right to peaceful protest, we fear more bloodshed will follow," says Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of Amnesty International.


Theresa May has agreed to build on the "strong relationship" between her country and the Republic of Ireland, the Irish prime minister has said.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was one of the world leaders that Mrs May talked to in the hours after her appointment as the UK's new prime minister.
Mr Kenny said he congratulated his counterpart during a phonecall on Wednesday evening.
They talked about their "joint support" of the Northern Ireland peace process.
"We discussed the importance of continuing to work together to build on the excellent relationship that now exists between Ireland and Britain," he added.
Mrs May stressed her "commitment to delivering the will of the British people to leave the EU", a Downing Street spokesperson said.
She explained that time would be needed to "prepare for these negotiations" and said she hoped they could be "conducted in a constructive and positive spirit", the spokesperson added.
Mr Kenny said he "outlined Ireland's key areas of concern" over a future UK withdrawal from the EU and gave his perspective on "the challenges that lie ahead" in negotiations on the issue.
He added that he would meet Mrs May "in the coming weeks".
As well as speaking to Mr Kenny, Mrs May took calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
She also began shaping her new cabinet, appointing Philip Hammond and Boris Johnson as chancellor and foreign secretary respectively.


A tourist attraction will close because it can no longer afford to stay open.

The trust running Wentworth Castle Gardens, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, said despite attracting tens of thousands of visitors a year it could no longer meet its running costs.
It said "every effort" would be made to "honour all existing weddings and celebratory events for 2017".
The Grade I-listed stately home and gardens, featuring a restored Victorian conservatory, will shut in spring.
The plight of the conservatory, which had fallen into disrepair, came to national prominence in the BBC2 Restoration programme in 2003. Almost Â£4m was spent on the repairs.
The stately home is shutting despite only reopening in 2014 after a Â£3.74m renovation.
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John Edwards, of The Wentworth Castle and Stainborough Park Heritage Trust, said: "In recent years we have not been able to make enough money to cover the running costs required to manage the site and keep the gardens open."
More than Â£20m has been spent on the 18th Century gardens and 500,000 people have visited it over the past 14 years, the trust said.
More than 20 historic buildings and monuments within the gardens had been restored, it said.
It is hoped the landscape is to be maintained and preserved in the "expectation that a sustainable future can be found".
The Northern College of Adult Residential Education, which is based at the site, will not be affected by the decision to close the gardens, it added.
Councillor Roy Miller, of Barnsley Council, said a "historic site such as this requires significant financial investment" and the trust had not been able to operate within its budget.
The council will consider various options for the future of the site, he added.


Steelworkers will observe two minutes silence on Friday to remember two colleagues killed in an explosion at a Cardiff plant a year ago.

Father-of-six Peter O'Brien, 51, and 41-year-old Mark Sim died after a blast in the basement of the Celsa Steel UK plant in Splott on November 18, 2015.
Five men were also injured in the incident.
"What happened a year ago was the most tragic event in our history," said Celsa managing director Luis Sanz
"And our thoughts remain with their loved ones.
"We will be holding two minutes' silence to pay tribute to Mark Sim and Peter O'Brien," .
The then Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted his support to "those affected" by the explosion at Celsa's rod and bar mill, while Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths.
More than 10 fire engines and ambulances attended the incident around 10:30 on November 18, 2015, while the air ambulance was also deployed.
Mr O'Brien, who lived in the Llanishen area of Cardiff with his wife Marie, played rugby and baseball for St Peter's RFC and more than 1,000 people attended his funeral.
Mr Sim, who lived in Caldicot in Monmouthshire with his wife Sam and their two children, was a fan of his home-town football club Newcastle United and played for his local darts team.
"We have been very moved by the levels of support we have received throughout Cardiff, Wales and the UK," added Mr Sanz.
"On behalf of everyone at the company, I want to say thank you for the kindness we have received.
"We continue to work closely with the authorities to establish the causes and learn lessons.
"The safety of employees is our absolute number one priority and we are deeply committed to the community here in Splott."


The Post Office is to offer current accounts in the UK, following a regulator's claim that the market offers little choice for consumers.

The new account, provided by Bank of Ireland, will be available in some areas in the coming weeks before a wider launch next year.
Few details have been released about the characteristics of the current account at this stage.
In January, a regulator said the market was dominated by a few providers.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said that Lloyds, RBS, Barclays and HSBC held 75% of the market.
This led to a "lack of dynamism" from the banks, it said, together with a lack of choice for customers, meaning they were unlikely to switch to a different bank.
The Post Office, which has 11,500 branches, already offers a range of financial products in a link with Bank of Ireland.
Some three million Post Office customers already use products such as savings accounts, mortgages and insurance policies.
Customers of nearly all the major UK banks are able to use post office counters for some services, including depositing or withdrawing money from their non-Post Office accounts.
Bank customers 'lacking choice'
However, Santander customers, with the exception of its business customers and its Alliance and Leicester brand, are unable to do so at all.
The Post Office has not released details of the account yet. For example, it has not said how much interest would be paid, or whether there would be a charge for a packaged account.
"We have carried out extensive research into the current account market and the findings tell us that customers want simplicity, transparency and good value for money," said Nick Kennett, director of financial services at the Post Office.
Rachel Springall, spokeswoman for financial information service Moneyfacts, said that the new Post Office account could help to boost competition, depending on how it was set up and what rewards it would offer customers.
"The Post Office has a good High Street presence, perfect for people who prefer the more personal branch banking. It will be interesting to see whether this account will be as transparent and simple in structure as they suggest," she said.
Kevin Mountford, head of banking at comparison website Moneysupermarket, said: "Until now most of these challenger accounts have been aimed at specific audiences.
"The Post Office current account should have mass market appeal due to its large customer base and ease of access, so I expect this account will be very popular."
Other new entrants to the UK current account market in recent times include Metro Bank in 2010 and M&S Bank in 2012. Tesco Bank has also announced plans to launch an account soon.
However, the OFT review of the Â£9bn market said that the newcomers were yet to be in a position to provide a "significant challenge" to the established providers.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: "More competition is desperately needed to force banks to genuinely compete for customers. But switching banks must also be made much easier and people will need to see real benefits from new providers to encourage them to move."
This is not the first time that a current account has been available at post offices. The Girobank was set up by the General Post Office in 1968 and was the first to offer free accounts to individual customers.
It was taken over by Alliance and Leicester in 1990 and its name was dropped in 2003.


The NFL has opened an investigation into allegations that Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning had human growth hormone sent to his house.

Manning, 39, has described the allegations, made by broadcaster Al Jazeera, as "complete garbage".
Its source - Texas-based pharmacist Charlie Sly - has since recanted.
The allegations surfaced in an Al Jazeera report that said Manning's wife received deliveries of HGH, which is banned by the NFL, at their home.
At the time, Manning was recovering from neck surgery suffered during his spell with the Indianapolis Colts.
The NFL does not expect to reach a verdict before Manning's Denver side play the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl on 7 February.
Manning holds the records for most passing yards and touchdown passes and has been voted the NFL's most valuable player on a record five occasions.
The 39-year-old been plagued by injury and there is speculation that the Super Bowl - his fourth appearance in American football's showpiece event - could be the final game in his illustrious career.


Researchers excavating the site of the Nazi death camp at Sobibor have discovered a pendant nearly identical to one owned by Anne Frank.

Experts from Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial team believe the pendant belonged to Karoline Cohn, who may have known the famous diarist.
Like Frank, Cohn was born in Frankfurt in 1929. Yad Vashem traced her via a date of birth engraved on the pendant.
Historians say they have found evidence of only two pendants of the kind.
The small triangular pendant is engraved on one side with the words "Mazal Tov" (congratulations) in Hebrew, alongside Cohn's date of birth and the name of her home city - Frankfurt.
On the reverse is the Hebrew letter "Hay", often used to represent a name of God, surrounded by three Stars of David.
Researchers are now trying to discover from any remaining relatives whether the two girls could have been related.
Yad Vashem is working alongside the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) to excavate parts of the former death camp at Sobibor.
The pendant was found at what is believed to be the location where victims undressed and had their heads shaved before being sent into the gas chambers.
Yad Vashem said the items recovered, which also included a Star of David necklace and a woman's watch, probably fell through the floorboards and remained buried.
Cohn was born in Frankfurt on 3 July 1929. She was deported from the city on 11 November 1941 to the Minsk ghetto.
The ghetto was liquidated in September 1943 and Cohn may have been among some 2,000 of its residents sent to Sobibor, where the pendant lay concealed for more than 70 years.
Records show that Frank owned a nearly identical pendant, differing only in the date of birth engraved on one side.
Yoram Haimi, an archaeologist with the IAA who led the excavation at Sobibor, said: "This pendant demonstrates once again the importance of archaeological research of former Nazi death camp sites.
"The moving story of Karoline Cohn is symbolic of the shared fate of the Jews murdered in the camp. It is important to tell the story, so that we never forget."
More than 250,000 Jews are believed to have been killed at Sobibor, in Nazi-controlled eastern Poland. Unlike some facilities which also functioned as labour camps, Sobibor was among the Nazi camps built solely to exterminate Jews.
The Nazis destroyed the camp following an uprising in 1943 and planted it over in an attempt to cover up their crimes.
Archaeologists have since discovered the foundations of gas chambers and a train platform.
Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, in northern Germany, in 1945.


Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is uncertain whether Sergio Aguero will remain at the club after this season.

The 28-year-old striker has been on the bench for the past two matches with new signing Gabriel Jesus favoured.
Guardiola has reiterated his desire to keep the Argentina forward.
But asked if he feared Aguero might leave in the summer, Guardiola said: "At the end of the season I don't know. I know how difficult it is to find top goalscorers."
He added: "I would like him to remain but I don't know what is going to happen. Even in my career I didn't know what would happen at the end of the season."
Aguero is City's top scorer this season with 18, 11 more than Raheem Sterling, who is next on the list.
After coming off the bench in City's 2-1 win over Swansea on 5 February, Aguero said: "I want to stay, of course.
"In these [next] three months I have to help the club and then they will decide if I have a place here or not."
Aguero has scored 154 times for City since joining the club in 2011.
When asked why the striker might feel unsure of his future, Guardiola said: "I don't think he feels that way.
"Sergio knows the intention of his manager and the club. I don't want to sell him, I want him to stay here for a long time until he decides.
"The reason he's not played the last two games is because Leroy [Sane], Gabriel and Rash [Raheem Sterling] have played amazing. That's the only reason.
"He remains a top player and an important one for us to achieve our goals. I don't have doubts about that."
City's next three matches are in different competitions, at Bournemouth in the Premier League on Monday, Huddersfield in the FA Cup on 18 February before they host Monaco in the Champions League last 16 first leg on 21 February.


Israel has vowed to catch arsonists, suspected to be Jewish settlers, who killed a Palestinian infant in a firebomb attack on a West Bank village.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was committed to "fight this evil, to find the perpetrators [and] to bring them to justice".
The 18-month-old boy's parents and four-year-old brother were seriously injured in the attack in Duma.
Palestinian officials said they held Israel "fully responsible".
Slogans in Hebrew, including the word "revenge", were found sprayed on a wall of one of two firebombed houses.
Mr Netanyahu said the attack which killed Ali Saad Dawabsha was "an act of terrorism in every respect".
He and the Israeli president paid separate visits to Ali's brother, Ahmed, who is being treated along with his parents at specialist burns hospitals in Israel.
Mr Netanyahu also condemned the attack in a rare telephone conversation with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
However the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), which dominates the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, said it held the Israeli government "fully responsible for the brutal assassination".
"This is a direct consequence of decades of impunity given by the Israeli government to settler terrorism," it said.
The US State Department denounced what it called a "vicious terrorist attack", while urging Israel and the Palestinians to "avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this tragic incident".
UN chief Ban Ki-moon also described the baby's death as a "terrorist act" and called for the perpetrators to face justice.
While it is unclear what the word "revenge" referred to, the incident resembles what have become known as "price tag" attacks.
Such attacks usually involve acts of vandalism or arson by Jewish extremists as retribution for actions taken by the Israeli government against Jewish settlements or unauthorised outposts in the West Bank, or for violence by Palestinians.
In the overnight attack, Palestinian officials said up to four assailants threw firebombs at the houses, one of which was empty.
Resident Ibrahim Dawabsha told Reuters news agency he heard people shouting for help.
"We found the parents outside with burns, they said there was another son in the house, we brought him out and then they said there was another boy inside, but we couldn't reach the bedroom because of the fire. He was left inside until rescue forces came," he said.
Pictures from the scene of the attack showed at least one of the buildings completely gutted, with only charred remains left.
In another incident on Friday, officials in Gaza said Israeli troops shot dead one man and wounded another near the security fence that marks Israel's border.
Israel confirmed soldiers had fired on the men but did not know their condition.
The killing of the Palestinian child comes amid heightened tensions between the Israeli state, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in recent days.
On Wednesday, settlers scuffled with police as Israeli authorities demolished two partially built blocks which the high court had ruled were built illegally on Palestinian-owned land, in the settlement of Beit El.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose fragile coalition includes pro-settler parties, immediately authorised a start to the construction of 300 planned homes in the settlement, drawing ire from the Palestinians.
Palestinians regard settlements as a major obstacle to building a sought-after state in contiguous territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.


A health trust, criticised over its high death rates, is struggling to recruit enough senior medical staff, a watchdog has said.

North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust was one of 11 put into special measures in 2013 after a review found higher-than-expected mortality rates.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said while improvements were being made, serious staffing issues remained.
The trust said it was working hard to tackle "recognised" issues.
Inspectors visited the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven and the midwifery-led birthing service at Penrith Community Hospital between 31 March and 2 April.
They found that, despite efforts to recruit more senior doctors, the trust was still short of 50 consultants, with the majority of vacant posts at the West Cumberland Hospital.
The report concluded: "Despite efforts by the trust to improve the numbers of medical consultants employed, there were numerous vacant consultant posts.
"Vacancies were covered by locum doctors in some areas, however the high vacancy rate was having an adverse effect on the timeliness of treatment for patients and meant support for junior doctors was not robust or effective."
There was also a shortage of nurses, especially on medical wards, inspectors found.
The report described some elements of medical care at the West Cumberland Hospital as "inadequate", adding that improvements were required in several other areas.
While inspectors acknowledged that overall progress had been made since a similar visit in 2014, they said the trust would remain in special measures.
Trust chief executive Ann Farrar said: "The CQC has clearly recognised the deep-rooted problems faced by our hospitals, in particular the ongoing fragility of services at West Cumberland, which require NHS system-wide solutions and a clear clinical strategy to be agreed with urgency."
NHS England added: "We are working with partners to address the challenges highlighted in the CQC report to ensure patients receive safe, high-quality hospital services."


US rapper Wiz Khalifa has topped the UK singles chart with his track, See You Again.

The song, featuring Charlie Puth, rose 21 places to become the fastest-selling single of the year so far with combined chart sales of 193,000 copies.
It also set a new streaming record with 3.68 million streams in seven days.
The track features on the Fast & Furious 7 soundtrack and pays tribute to cast member Paul Walker, who died while filming the blockbuster in 2013.
It is Khalifa's second number one single after a guest appearance on Maroon 5's Payphone in 2012.
Omi's Cheerleader was another high climber, jumping 25 places to number two, according to the Official Charts Company.
Last week's number one - Hold My Hand by Jess Glynne - slipped down to three, while Spanish house DJ Dr Kucho's collaboration with Gregor Salto, Can't Stop Playing, was the highest new entry at four.
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In the album chart, Paul Simon scored his first number one for 25 years with his greatest hits record The Ultimate Collection. His last chart topper was 1990's The Rhythm Of The Saints.
James Bay, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith all held firm, occupying the second to fourth places on the chart.
Wombat's third studio album Glitterbug was a new entry at five.
All Time Low's Future Hearts, which had topped the album chart last week, fell to 18.


Cambridge United maintained their revival and promotion aspirations under manager Shaun Derry with a 1-0 win over Newport County at Rodney Parade.

Cambridge are three points off a play-off spot while Newport's cushion over the bottom two is cut to 11 points.
The Us had the better of a low quality contest, with Newport failing to produce a single effort on target.
James Dunne scored the winner midway through the second half after smart work from Luke Berry.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales: "It was very frustrating. No way did I think we deserved to lose a game - I thought we deserved to win the game.
"But we're not being clinical in both boxes. I don't think we're being ruthless enough.
"We've just got to pick them up now and go next week. We need one win and I've every confidence we can get that. But at the moment we're in that little bit of a lull."


Sam Davies should start at fly-half in Wales' Six Nations opener against Italy, according to former captain Jonathan Davies.

He told Scrum V Wales should give Davies' attacking abilities preference over fellow Osprey Dan Biggar at 10.
Davies said: "I would start with Sam Davies. You know what Biggar does and if it's a problem you put him on."
"It's all about creating opportunities and taking opportunities and that's the problem we've had," he said.
Davies thinks his namesake can help Wales' attackers to thrive.
"We haven't created anything. We don't score a lot of tries," he explained.
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"And I think the problem we have is in our selection of midfield - are we creating enough or not?"
While Biggar, 27, could find himself out of the 10 jersey, Davies would be tempted to pick him at centre.
Wales coach Rob Howley has three regular specialists to choose from in Jamie Roberts, Jonathan Davies and Scott Williams.
"I might be tempted to play Biggar at 12 because he's got the distribution skills, he's got the kicking skills," said Davies.
"Get your three-quarter line going - and I think he's the best one in Wales.
"Biggar's a fine player. But if we are going to change genuinely and score 35 points a game, I think it starts with Sam Davies."
Davies also says wing George North must "step up" after not performing well "in the last couple of seasons".
Since bursting onto the international scene in 2010 as an 18-year-old, North has made 68 Test appearances, including a three-Test starring role for the British and Irish Lions as they beat Australia in 2013.
Northampton's North, now 24, has scored 29 international tries, 27 of them for Wales.
"George North has got to step up," Davies told Scrum V.
"We all recognise what a great player he has been for Wales, but in the last couple of seasons he hasn't performed.
"He needs to be on the stand-off or the centres' shoulder all the time (and they need to be) giving him the ball as much as they possibly can."


Harry Potter fans have given a new play about JK Rowling's famous wizard an ecstatic reception.

Hundreds of fans stood and cheered as the first part of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came to a dramatic close at London's Palace Theatre.
Throughout the show there had been gasps at the various plot revelations and stage illusions.
As the 1,500 audience members left the show they were given badges asking them to "keep the secrets".
Earlier they had queued around the block - many dressed as witches and wizards - as they waited to clear the strict security in place at the theatre.
The Cursed Child plot digs deep into the world presented in the Potter novels and involves an artefact from Harry's past.
One minor glitch during the first preview involved an owl flying around the auditorium after it failed to return to its handler.
Speaking to the BBC after the show, audience members said the first part of the play had surpassed their expectations.
Raam Suresh, a student in London from Singapore, said: "I can't wait for the next one.  I'm hoping it's the first of many more."
Katie Bitter, from Washington DC, said: "I was a little worried it wouldn't meet my high expectations but tonight was absolutely amazing. It didn't feel like a preview at all."
Natalie from Ohio said: "I really liked the character of Scorpius Malfoy and seeing Harry, Ron and Hermione grown up. I think they did the magic on stage really well."
Audience member Julia, from Milan, added: "It was really cool. I wish they would do all seven books in the theatre."
Although not an official reviews night, several papers have published their verdict on the first preview.
The Telegraph's Hannah Furness said: "The audience came wanting magic and they got in spades."
The Mirror's Clare Fitzsimons said: "Spells and hexes combined with laughs and drama mean Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be every bit the hit everyone expects."
The New York Times added: "The three main characters remained true to their younger selves... The audience cannot be more thrilled or more appreciative or more ready to be caught up in the spirit of the undertaking."
Members of the audience also tweeted their appreciation, describing it as "brilliantly staged" and "potentially the best thing I have ever seen".
Tuesday night's preview marked the first time a Harry Potter story has been presented on stage.
Part two will get its first outing on Thursday night. The show does not have its official opening until 30 July.
The play, written by Jack Thorne and directed by John Tiffany, is set 19 years after the seventh and final book in the series by JK Rowling.
Picking up from where the Deathly Hallows epilogue left off, it portrays Harry, played by Jamie Parker, as an "over-worked" employee at the Ministry of Magic.
His youngest son Albus (Sam Clemmett) has to deal with the "heavy burden" of the Potter family legacy.
Other characters include Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni), Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley), their daughter Rose (Cherrelle Skeete), Ginny Potter (Poppy Miller) and Draco Malfoy (Alex Price).
Earlier, Rowling had tweeted a good luck message to Anthony Boyle, who plays Draco's son, Scorpius.
When tickets went on sale last October the first 175,000 sold within 24 hours. The script is already topping bestseller lists, although it will not be published until after the play's official opening on 30 July.
The Harry Potter books have sold more than 450 million copies since 1997 and been adapted into eight films.


Israeli police say a 19-year-old man with American and Israeli citizenship is suspected of making threats against Jewish institutions worldwide.

Police arrested the suspect in the south of Israel on Thursday morning over threats against Jewish communities in the US, New Zealand and Australia.
He was detained by Israeli cyber-fraud police, after an inquiry with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
Last month an ex-US journalist was arrested for several of the threats.
Investigators say that 31-year-old suspect's alleged calls were part of a bizarre campaign against a former girlfriend.
But Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Thursday the latest suspect's motives are unclear.
In one of the threats made against a Jewish Community Center (JCC) on 18 January, a caller is heard saying: "In a short time, a large number of Jews are going to be slaughtered.
"There's going to be a bloodbath that's going to take place in a short time."
Doron Krakow, president of the JCC Association of North America, said he was "troubled" to hear the suspect is Jewish, adding that he is "hopeful" that the threats have come to an end.
Investigators say the Israeli teen used camouflage technologies to disguise the origin of the dozens of calls.
"He didn't use regular phone lines. He used different computer systems so he couldn't be backtracked," Mr Rosenfeld said.
In the US, more than 120 hoax bomb threats have been made against Jewish schools, synagogues and cultural centres since earlier January, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
There have also been at least three vandalism attacks made against US cemeteries in recent months.
The teen is also suspected of making threats against Delta Air Lines, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing in 2015 in order to be searched for explosives.
Israeli's minister of public safety Gilad Erdan congratulated the police for the arrest.
"We hope that this investigation will help shed light on some of the recent threats against Jewish institutions, which have caused great concern both among Jewish communities and the Israeli government," he said in a statement.
There is a court order in place preventing the media from reporting the man's name.
He will be held under arrest until 30 March, the court ruled.
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the army had refused to draft him on personal grounds, after determining that he was unfit for service.
A reported spike in anti-Jewish incidents led to criticism of the Trump administration, with some saying they did not react quickly or forcefully enough to the hate threats.
Last month, the White House denounced the threats and rejected "anti-Semitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms".
Earlier this month the Department of Homeland Security condemned the "unacceptable and disturbing rise in the number of apparent hate-inspired attacks and harassment against individuals and communities".
It pledged to provide "support to groups affected by these incidents to enhance public safety".


Martin McGuinness: "I don't remember the last time I ever heard a member of the DUP use the word reconciliation'

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Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have set a budget of 1.8 trillion yen (£12.4bn) but want to make savings.

The first official budget released on Wednesday is below a cap of 2tn yen (£13.8bn), but remains about six times more than the original estimate.
However, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike said: "I appreciate we have reached a very significant milestone."
At its current budget, Tokyo would be the most expensive Summer Games, surpassing the £8.77bn for London 2012.
But it would still be considerably less than the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, which was estimated to have cost £31bn.
The Tokyo organising panel will hope to make savings by using existing venues for swimming, volleyball and rowing, rather than building new ones.
"The feeling we have is there are savings to be found there," said International Olympic Committee vice president John Coates.


Durham batsman Cameron Steel has extended his contract with the club until the end of the 2019 season.

California-born Steel, 21, has played for the first team in all three competitions this season.
He made his maiden first-class century last month, scoring 128 against Northamptonshire at the Riverside.
"He's demonstrated real talent this year and contributed well in both the red and white ball format," coach Jon Lewis told the club website.
"His continuous improvement with the bat has been extremely pleasing and we're keen to develop his role as a leg-spinning all-rounder."


A federal judge in the US has refused to throw out a lawsuit alleging that Uber's chief executive conspired with drivers to fix the cost of rides.

The app-based taxi booking service uses an algorithm to set the cost of trips, but the plaintiffs allege that Travis Kalanick used this to co-ordinate higher prices for New York drivers.
A complaint filed in December said this constituted a price-fixing conspiracy in violation of antitrust laws.
Uber has denied the claims.
The suit was originally filed by Uber customer Spencer Meyer from Connecticut.
Mr Kalanick had filed a motion to have the lawsuit thrown out, but this has now been rejected by Jed Rakoff, a judge at the US District Court, Southern District of New York.
"We disagree with this ruling," said Uber in a statement. "These claims are unwarranted and have no basis in fact.
"In just five years since its founding, Uber has increased competition, lowered prices, and improved service."
Uber is facing another lawsuit brought in California by three drivers who argued they should be defined as employees of the company - not contractors. This would entitle them to tips and expenses claims.
In that case, the court is awaiting documents to be received by November prior to the trial.


A new one-way system has been introduced on Swansea's Kingsway following a two deaths and a number of pedestrians being hurt on the route.

Previously cars and lorries were restricted to one-way traffic, but buses and taxis used a separate two-way section.
The change now means all traffic will travel in a westerly direction.
Safety barriers were introduced earlier this year after a second person was killed crossing the road in two years.
Sgt Louise Lucas died after being hit by a bus in March, while Daniel Foss, 37, died in 2013.
The changes were brought in after a review of the system and the withdrawal of the city's Ftr Metro bendy bus - which the layout was designed for.
David Hopkins, cabinet member for environment and transportation, said: "The change to a one-way route for buses and cars will hopefully mean the route is safer for pedestrians."


Belgian police have used tear gas and water cannon against violent anti-austerity protesters in central Brussels after a largely peaceful march by about 100,000 workers.

Several vehicles were set alight by protesters who also hurled stones and flares at police. About 50 people were hurt and 30 detained, officials said.
Belgium's new government plans to raise the pension age, freeze wages and make public service cuts to meet EU targets.
Trade unions plan a series of strikes.
Thursday's march was one of Belgium's biggest labour demonstrations since World War Two.
Steelworkers, dockers and teachers were among the thousands who took part, protesting against government austerity policies.
"They are hitting the workers, the unemployed," said Philippe Dubois, who came from the industrial region of Liege.
"They are not looking for money where it is, I mean people with a lot of money.''
The march marked the start of a month-long campaign by trade unions and is to be capped with a national strike on 15 December.
The centre-right government of Prime Minister Charles Michel says the tough austerity measures are necessary to keep the budget deficit down.
But Marie-Helene Ska, secretary general of the union CSC, said the government had to look elsewhere for the cash.
"The government tells us and all of the parties tell us that there's no alternative. We don't contest that they have to find 11bn euros (Â£8.6bn; $13.6bn) but we've been saying for a long time that it's possible to find this money elsewhere, rather than in the pockets of the workers."
Government-led talks between unions and employers opened on Thursday.