Captain Wayne Rooney says he will never be an England legend like Sir Bobby Charlton unless he wins the World Cup.

Manchester United forward Rooney, 29, needs seven goals to replace Charlton as England's all-time leading scorer.
"Obviously I'm not going to be as big a legend as Sir Bobby Charlton - he's won the World Cup," Rooney writes in the programme for England's Euro 2016 qualifier with Slovenia on Saturday.
"To eclipse that I'd have to win the World Cup."
Rooney, who will be 32 when the World Cup takes place in Russia in 2018, is expected to win his 100th international cap at Wembley on Saturday.
The former Everton striker, who made his England debut aged 17 in 2003, is the country's fourth-top goalscorer with 43.
And he is confident he will surpass the record of 1966 World Cup winner Charlton, who scored 49 goals for his country.
He said: "The record has stood for so many years, there have been plenty of players who haven't been able to break it.
"I'm still relatively young and believe I can do it.
"I could sit here saying I've got 200 caps and 100 goals for my country.
"But the ultimate is to win a trophy and that's what we all want to do."
Earlier, England manager Roy Hodgson praised Rooney's resolve and mental strength.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, Hodgson said he had been impressed by his captain's commitment.
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"He burst on to the scene as the wonder kid. He was the saviour of English football," added Hodgson, who appointed Rooney to succeed Steven Gerrard as skipper in August.
"And he has had to suffer the slings and arrows because of the times when, of course, he has not been able to be the saviour of English football and people have criticised him for it.
"Having built him up to a very high level, they have worked very hard to knock him right back down again.
"I think that has given him an incredible maturity and mental strength that we will need going forward.
"He is a very caring captain. He is very good in making certain that everyone is comfortable and satisfied and that there are no problems within the group. He has taken the captaincy unbelievably seriously."


An 80-tonne excavator used in the construction of an offshore wind farm is stranded at sea.

The digger was being used off Lancing Beach in West Sussex, to backfill cable duct trenches along the sea bed for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm.
It was being driven back to the beach when it became stranded 1,968ft (600m) offshore on 4 April.
Rampion said diesel on board was removed and a plan was being developed to retrieve the digger.
It added that, for safety reasons, a guard vessel was on site and buoys had been placed around the excavator.
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A total of 116 wind turbines are being installed, but the company said there would be no impact on the construction schedule.
Meanwhile, a survey of readers by the Worthing Herald has come up with a name for the digger - Moby Dig, with Digger McDigface a close second.


A copy of the police investigation file into the murder of schoolgirl Alice Gross was left by a coroner on a train.

The senior west London coroner Chinyere Inyama "inadvertently disposed" of a 30-page document of evidence against the chief suspect Arnis Zalkalns in November, police said.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) tried to recover the file but concluded it had probably been destroyed.
Alice went missing in August and her body was found in a river in September.
Her family said they were "extremely concerned, bewildered and angry" that highly sensitive information about Alice had been lost.
The force said the search for the missing 14-year-old was the largest investigation it had undertaken since the 7 July 2005 bomb attacks in London. Her body was found in the River Brent on 30 September 2014.
The body of Arnis Zalkalns, 41, from Latvia, was found on 4 October, decomposed in woodland in west London.
A post-mortem examination found he died from hanging.
The following month, a copy of the police file against him was lost.
Alice's family said: "We have looked to the police and coroner to help us through our awful loss. Yet now we learn they - either independently or together - have withheld from us the loss of this terribly sensitive information about Alice.
"We are extremely concerned, bewildered and angry, and we have asked for a full written explanation as to what exactly happened and why we were not told."
A spokesman for the Met said: "In November 2014 the MPS was informed by HM Coroner, London West, that he had inadvertently disposed of a single document relating to the police evidence against Arnis Zalkalns.
"An investigation to recover it was undertaken. This concluded that it was highly likely it had been destroyed as waste."
Police said details of the evidence against Zalkalns was provided to the media in January with the agreement of the CPS and the coroner.
The coroner was given the file to assist in his preparations for the inquests into Alice Gross and Zalkalns' deaths.
The Ministry of Justice said: "This clearly appears to be a troubling incident. A full investigation is now under way."


An umbrella-wielding thief was thwarted when staff told him there was no cash at the bookmakers' he was attempting to rob in Cambridge.

The "distinctive" thief was wearing top-to-toe fluorescent clothing when he entered the Coral shop in Emmanuel Street.
He put his hand in his pocket as though he had a weapon, but when staff said they had no money, the thief fled.
Police admitted he "was not trying to blend in" and appealed for witnesses.
An officer said staff at the shop were left shaken by the ordeal on Sunday evening, but were not hurt.
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A famously mysterious military space plane operated by the US Air Force has launched from Florida, the third flight in a secretive test programme.

The reusable, unmanned craft is designed to operate in Earth orbit for extended periods. Its prior missions in 2010 and 2011 lasted 224 and 469 days.
The US government kept the timing of Tuesday's launch secret and has not said how long the mission will last.
That has prompted fevered speculation as to the craft's ultimate purpose.
Tuesday's launch had been pushed back from October, delayed by two satellite launches. Patrick Air Force Base in Florida gave notice of a hazard from a launch in a window between 15:45 and 22:15 GMT (10:45 to 17:15 local time).
It is the second flight for X-37B craft launched on Tuesday, one of two in the programme, the other of which flew for the first time in 2011. Designed by aerospace giant Boeing, the craft share more than just a passing similarity to the now-retired space shuttle.
It is just a quarter the size of the shuttle, but is launched on a rocket - the Atlas V. It is coated in thermal tiles to withstand the heat of re-entry, after which it lands on its own gear autonomously.
The stated mission of the craft, according to the US Air Force, is an "experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform".
But the latest mission in particular sparked speculation that the craft was spying on the Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 - an idea that has since been largely discredited.
When it returned from its second mission in June, programme manager Lt Col Tom McIntyre said: "We knew from post-flight assessments from the first mission that OTV-1 could have stayed in orbit longer. So one of the goals of this mission was to see how much farther we could push the on-orbit duration."
But any official mission objectives seem set once again to remain secret.


Too many Crown Prosecution Service barristers lack "presence, self-confidence and flair" in Crown Court trials, a report has said.

The CPS Inspectorate found that CPS barristers in England and Wales were in danger of "losing" the jury because of how they presented cases.
Standards of CPS advocacy had taken a "step backwards" over the past three years, the report said.
The CPS said it disputed this and said conviction rates had been maintained.
Chief inspector Michael Fuller said the review took place against "a significant background of change" for the CPS with budget cuts and a reduction in the number of CPS advocates.
But he said a reliance on outside barristers to present cases posed a "real threat to in-house prosecutors' courtroom skills".
"This is compounded by the lack of exposure to Crown Court advocacy and scant opportunity to progress to crown advocacy," he said.
"This means with things as they are, there will be an inevitable drop in prosecution standards in the courts.
"The CPS needs to evaluate its advocacy provision."
A CPS spokesperson said: "We dispute criticism of the quality of CPS advocates and are disappointed that this finding has been made when the Inspectorate undertook no observations of advocates in action.
"The report's findings are based on our own assessment of advocates, which is specifically targeted at those that we believe need it most.
"It is, therefore, an inaccurate picture of the overall quality of our advocates."


The Hilton Hotel group has said it is looking at development sites in Belfast with a view to expansion.

The group already operates a five star hotel near the Waterfront Hall. It is thought that it is looking for a site for its budget Hampton by Hilton brand.
The Hampton brand has been expanding rapidly across the UK and Europe over the last two years.
An industry source suggested the group could be involved with a recently filed planning application for Hope Street.
A Hilton spokesman said: "I can confirm that Belfast is a destination which has attracted our interest and we continue to review potential sites to increase our presence in the city.
"We are unable to comment further at this stage."


G7 nations are meeting in Italy to try to hammer out a unified approach to the Syria conflict, in the wake of last week's suspected chemical attack.

Foreign ministers will seek to pressure Russia to distance itself from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said possible sanctions against Russian military officials would be discussed.
Allies will also be seeking clarity from the US on its Syria policy, after some apparently mixed messages.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has strongly criticised Russia for failing to prevent Syria from carrying out the chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun last Wednesday that left 89 people dead.
But he also said there had been "no change to our military posture" in Syria following a retaliatory US strike against a Syrian airbase, and that Washington's "first priority" in Syria was to defeat so-called Islamic State (IS).
Ahead of the meeting in the city of Lucca, in Tuscany, on Monday, Mr Tillerson took part in an international wreath-laying ceremony to remember those killed in a Nazi massacre of villagers at Sant'Anna di Stazzema in 1944.
He drew a parallel to last week's chemical attack, saying: "We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world."
Separately on Monday, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said the retaliatory US air strike had damaged or destroyed 20% of Syria's operational aircraft.
"The Syrian government would be ill-advised ever again to use chemical weapons," he said.
Boris Johnson said the message from the meeting should be clear - that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be made to abandon his support for Mr Assad.
"He's toxifying the reputation of Russia by his continual association with a guy who has flagrantly poisoned his own people," Mr Johnson said.
He said the meeting would be "discussing the possibility of further sanctions certainly on some of the Syrian military figures and indeed on some of the Russian military figures who have been involved in co-ordinating the Syrian military efforts".
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Russia is already under a raft of sanctions imposed by the US and EU in response to the annexation of Crimea and the crisis in eastern Ukraine. These target Russian individuals and businesses, and key sectors of the Russian economy closely connected to the ruling elite.
These would be the first sanctions against Russian figures over Syria if they were to be adopted, but it is far from clear they will be.
Mr Tillerson will want to go from the G7 talks to Moscow on Tuesday to confront the Russians with a unified set of demands.
However, Reuters news agency quoted one senior European diplomat as saying that the US was "navigating aimlessly in the dark" in the search for a transfer of power in Syria.
The G7 groups Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, with the European Union also represented.
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That is what the other G7 ministers will be seeking to clarify.
In addition to Mr Tillerson's comments, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, appears to have given mixed signals.
"In no way do we see peace in that area with Assad as the head of the Syrian government," she told NBC's Meet the Press, a week after she had said that Mr Assad's removal was no longer a US priority.
White House sources said any difference in nuance between her comments and administration policy was "inadvertent and unintentional".
Firing 59 cruise missiles at Syria's Shayrat airbase following the suspected chemical attack was the kind of direct intervention in Syria's six-year-old civil war that Donald Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, had avoided.
Until Friday's strike, so did Mr Trump. He opposed military action in 2013 and campaigned on a platform of fixing problems in the US, not Syria.
During the election campaign he expressed wariness that US military action in Syria might lead to conflict with Russia.
And while viewing the airbase strike as decisive, most commentators are not seeing a radical change in the US approach to Syria.
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Syria has denied using any chemical agents, and Russia says the US has failed to provide evidence Syria has chemical weapons.
Russia and Iran, President Assad's key military backers, are also threatening retaliation if there are any further American air strikes, saying the US attack had crossed "red lines".
"From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well," said a statement on Sunday from a joint command centre comprising the forces of President Assad's allies.
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Nintendo is collaborating with Japanese developer DeNA to create new games for smartphones, it has been announced.

The gaming giant said that existing games built for other Nintendo platforms like the Wii U and 3DS will not be transferred.
While the emphasis will be on making new games for mobile handsets, all of Nintendo's intellectual property will be "eligible for development".
This includes popular game characters such as Super Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.
The two firms also announced plans to launch an online membership service in the autumn of 2015 which will give members access to their accounts across multiple platforms, including smartphones and PCs.
"Nintendo's decision to partner with DeNA is a recognition of the importance of the games app audience to the future of its business," said Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at analysts IHS.
"The Nintendo-DeNA alliance is a good fit and offers up a number of important synergies for two companies that are no longer leaders in their respective segments."
Last year, gaming apps were worth $26bn (Â£18bn) in consumer spend but handheld console games accounted for just $3.3bn, according to IHS figures.
"The main challenge will be knitting together the cultures of both companies and aligning the speed of development and iteration that is needed in the mobile space with Nintendo's more patient and systematic approach to games content production," added Mr Harding-Rolls.
"How the new games are monetised may also provide a challenge considering the general differences in models used in retail for Nintendo and through in-app purchases for DeNA."


Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents.

Although the official result has not yet been declared, main rival Mar Roxas admitted defeat after polls gave Mr Duterte an unassailable lead.
Mr Duterte said he accepted the mandate with "extreme humility".
The 71-year-old stirred controversy during campaigning with his incendiary comments.
He has credited his success to his tough stance on law and order.
His record as the crime-crushing mayor of the southern town of Davao, once notorious for its lawlessness, earned him the moniker The Punisher and resonated with voters.
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Other driving issues of the election campaign were pervasive corruption, as well as the poverty and inequality experienced by many Filipinos despite economic growth under outgoing President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino.
Rodrigo Duterte, a man dubbed by his rivals as an executioner who would bring terror to the Philippines, has won the presidency by a clear margin, polling nearly twice as many votes as his nearest rivals.
But what is less clear is what he will do with the job. His blunt promise to sweep away criminals and corrupt officials won him the backing of millions of Filipinos weary of ineffective governments.
But he has so far offered few policy details. A spokesman has already pledged a radical overhaul of the political system. Human rights groups have warned he may repeat what happened in the southern city of Davao, where as mayor he is accused of allowing death squads to murder hundreds of alleged criminals.
Mr Duterte has a formidable task in a country still hampered by poverty and poor infrastructure - just meeting the lofty expectations he raised during his campaign will be hard enough.
Election officials have said there was a record turnout at polling stations, with more than 81% of the 54 million registered voters casting a ballot. Senators and about 18,000 local officials including mayors are also being elected.
The PPCRV (Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting) poll monitor said that with 90% of the presidential ballots counted, Mr Duterte had more than 14.8m votes - about 39%.  The PPCRV is accredited by the election commission to monitor counting but its reporting does not represent an official tally.
Mr Roxas, a former interior minister and Mr Duterte's closest rival, had 8.6 million votes.
As the extent of his lead became clear, Mr Duterte told AFP news agency: "It's with humility, extreme humility, that I accept this, the mandate of the people."
Mr Roxas accepted his rival's win. "There are many tears in the room. Let me tell you this is not a time for tears.  For our country, we have had a peaceful, successful transfer of power."
Another key rival, Senator Grace Poe, was the first to concede defeat, promising to "co-operate with the healing process" after a turbulent campaign.
In the election to be vice-president, Leni Robredo, a social activist, is currently slightly ahead of  Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, the son of a former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
The statistics are stark, and bleak. Experts say anywhere between 40% and 80% of Philippine legislators are connected to political dynasties with vested interests. A handful of the families control almost all of the country's wealth.
And perhaps the bleakest statistic of all: 25% of the population lives under the poverty line - a figure that has not changed much in two decades.
So it shouldn't come as a surprise then that Filipinos have chosen Mr Duterte's crime-busting, tough-talking, action-oriented ways over the current administration's candidate Manuel Roxas.
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Mr Aquino is standing down as the constitution limits presidents to one six-year term.  As Mr Duterte rose in opinion polls ahead of voting, Mr Aquino had tried to unite other candidates against him, warning his election could mean a return to dictatorship for the Philippines.
Mr Duterte has made many controversial statements during his campaign, saying that he would massacre criminals and drug-users, joking about the rape of an Australian missionary and saying he would dissolve congress if it didn't agree with him.
He has also given forthright opinions on the Philippines' territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea, saying he would sail to disputed islands and plant the Philippine flag there.
The Philippines has taken one of its claims to a court of arbitration at the Hague.  On Monday, he said he would seek multilateral talks over the issue, to include the US and Japan.


A 47-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with an alleged attack on a woman in Cardiff.

Arnel Martinez Raymundo had been sought following the incident involving a 43-year-old woman in Grangetown on 12 June.
South Wales Police confirmed he had been arrested in Croydon, south London, on Thursday.
He was later questioned in Cardiff and charged on Friday.
Mr Raymundo appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Saturday and was remanded in custody, with his next appearance at Cardiff Crown Court later this month.


A UKIP councillor who accused the party of "cronyism" has been removed from a list of potential assembly election candidates.

Kevin Mahoney had said he would resign from the party if former Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless are chosen to stand.
Mr Mahoney was told about the disciplinary action at a meeting of the party's Wales committee on Saturday.
He will now become an independent member of Vale of Glamorgan council.
The meeting also formally decided how regional candidates would be picked, after months of internal arguments.
A ballot paper will be sent to all UKIP Wales members with a shortlist of potential candidates and members will vote for who they want to represent the party in their electoral region.
The results will be verified by an independent body.
The regional seats are seen as the party's best chance of getting members elected in May due to the proportional representation system.
Dave Rowlands, from UKIP Wales, said: "The matter has been resolved now as to how the ballot will go forward.
"We hope it will take no longer than three to four weeks."
On Thursday, four UKIP Wales 2015 general election candidates called for leader Nathan Gill to resign over the way the selection process has been handled.
Kevin Mahoney said: "I am delighted that my public stand against the political cronyism within UKIP and its national and Welsh leadership has resulted in a forcing of the decision to give the entire membership of Wales a vote on the list order which had been previously been denied to them."
He added: "Possibly my greatest regret is that for the first time since I  became eligible 39 years ago, I will find myself unable to vote in the May elections, as I regard all the current political parties in Wales to be as bad as each other."


Thousands of people have come together to mark one week since the Westminster attack, in which four victims and the attacker died.

Police officers, doctors and hundreds of members of a Muslim youth association were among those walking across Westminster Bridge in memory.
Leeds, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester and Birmingham also had events.
Earlier, inquests into the victims' deaths were opened and adjourned at Westminster Coroner's Court.
Khalid Masood killed three people when he drove his hire car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge last Wednesday.
Aysha Frade, 44, who worked at a London sixth-form college; US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, from Utah; and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London died.
After crashing, Masood then fatally stabbed PC Keith Palmer outside Parliament, before being shot dead by police.
In a statement, Ms Frade's family said: "Our beloved Aysha; caring daughter, loving sister, amazing wife, irreplaceable aunt, thoughtful, supportive friend and the best and coolest of mummies.
"You were ripped away from our lives in the cruellest and most cowardly of ways. We now pray that you guide and protect not only us, but all of London, from further evil.
"You will always be remembered as our guardian angel who never shied away from facing up to bullies. There are no words to even begin to describe the crushing pain and eternal void left in our hearts."
In Westminster on Wednesday, acting commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Craig Mackey said: "This afternoon is about remembering the victims of last week's events.
"Our thoughts, our prayers, go out to everyone who was affected by the events last week."
Zafir Malik, an imam from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, said his members were "here to show that we are united with our fellow countrymen and remembering those who have fallen, especially PC Keith Palmer".
As the vigil reached Parliament, dozens of people laid flowers on the side of the bridge, among them a man who was hurt in the attack.
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There was an atmosphere of solidarity as the silence was held on Westminster Bridge.
Just before the clock struck 14:40 BST, a group including police, children and faith leaders walked across the bridge, led by the banner "love for all, hatred for none".
When the silence finished, children and other members of the procession laid flowers near to where three pedestrians were killed by Masood.
Earlier, people held hands across the bridge in a symbol of unity.
Among those paying tribute was Danyal Ahmad, a trainee imam at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in south-west London.
The 21-year-old said his group, Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, wanted to show that Islam was about "love, peace and compassion".
His brother, Zishan Ahmad, a 25-year-old imam, who also attended the memorial, added: "You can't divide London - we stand together.
"It doesn't matter if you are Muslim, Christian or Jew, or black, brown or any other race. London will never be divided."
Brendan O'Connor, from Holborn, central London, said the memorial service sent a message that those seeking to divide London are "not going to stop us".
The 59-year-old added: "There's love here. You can't kill love with hate. Love always conquers."
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Speaking as the inquests into the deaths of the four victims opened earlier on Wednesday, senior coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox said it was a "tragic incident".
Senior investigating officer Det Supt John Crossley told the court Masood was armed with two knives and caused grave wounds when he attacked PC Palmer.
The father-of-two was wearing a stab vest, issued as routine to Metropolitan Police officers, but it was not enough to save him and he died at the scene.
Officers are examining a "large amount" of CCTV and footage taken by bystanders, which gives a "clear visual chronology" of how the 82-second incident unfolded.
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He said: "Currently there are in excess of 1,500 potential witnesses, with accounts being taken from those who are deemed significant. This is currently in excess of 140."
The inquest heard details of how each of the victims had died.
Det Supt Crossley described how Masood, driving across Westminster Bridge, mounted the pavement twice in an apparently deliberate attempt to target pedestrians.
He crashed the car into the east perimeter railings of the Palace of Westminster, before going into the grounds to attack PC Palmer.
More than 35 people were injured in the attack. Twelve are still being treated in hospital, one of whom is in a coma.
The inquest into Masood's death will be opened and adjourned on Thursday.
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Earlier, the family of a Romanian woman who fell into the Thames during the attack said they had been overwhelmed by "love, support and respect" for her.
Andreea Cristea, 29, was on holiday with her boyfriend Andrei Burnaz.
In a statement, the couple's families said Ms Cristea was still in a critical but stable condition in hospital. Mr Burnaz sustained a broken foot but has been discharged.
They added: "Our family is so grateful for the first responders, the medical personnel and the assistance of the UK government agencies."
The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind Masood's attack, but police say they have so far found no evidence of an association with the group or al-Qaeda.
Two men arrested in Birmingham under the Terrorism Act by police investigating the attack remain in custody after officers were granted warrants for further detention.


A new phone number and website set up to protect the public against aggressive fundraisers has gone live.

It will allow members of the public to make complaints about the conduct of Scotland's charities
The new measure was recommended by the Fundraising Working Group in Scotland.
The Scottish government said it was important confidence was maintained in the country's charities, but stressed that the majority operated to high standards.
Communities Secretary Angela Constance said: "Scotland's charities benefit from a great deal of public trust and it's important that that confidence is maintained.
"This new phone number and website will be run by Scottish Fundraising Complaints - set up by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations and the Scottish Charity Regulator - and will give people information about how to raise any concerns they may have."
Members of the public who are concerned about the fundraising tactics of a charity in Scotland can call 0808 164 2520 or visit the website.
Cross-border charities, where charities operate in Scotland but are registered in England and Wales, will continue to be regulated by the Fundraising Regulator.


Five bodies have been found in a badly damaged boat with Korean language markings off Japan's west coast.

The 10m vessel washed ashore on Sado Island, Niigata City in waters between Japan and the Korean peninsula.
All those on board were adult males, Japanese broadcaster NHK said. Police have not confirmed their nationalities but suspect the men were North Korean.
In the past a very small number of North Korean refugees have made the journey to Japan by boat.
Local fishermen found the vessel, weighing more than 4,500kg, around 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT), police say.
The fishermen told local media that they found no engines attached to the boat. The men on board were estimated to have died at least a month ago, police added.
In September last year, a boat carrying nine North Koreans arrived in Kanazawa, further to the south. The group were later resettled in South Korea.
In January 2012 another group of four North Korean fishermen found by the Japanese coastguard after developing engine trouble were repatriated at their request.
A police spokesman told AFP news agency that the Korean characters on the boat - which appeared to have been drifting for some time - were impossible to read.
"The bodies are decomposed badly," the spokesman added.


No trains will run in or out of Liverpool Lime Street station "for several days" after a wall collapsed on to the railway.

A section of trackside wall "loaded with concrete and cabins by a third party" fell, blocking all four lines into the station, Network Rail said.
The collapse has strewn rubble across the tracks and also damaged overhead wires.
Passengers are urged to seek alternative routes.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Early indications suggest train services will not resume for several days while extensive clear up and repairs take place to make the location safe."
More precise forecasts on how long the repairs will take will be made later, he added.


Kaizer Chiefs restored South African pride in the African Champions League with a 4-0 win at Volcan Club of Comoros Island, a day after Mamelodi Sundowns suffered a shock first round first leg defeat to Chicken Inn in Zimbabwe.

Bernard Parker opened the scoring for Kaizer Chiefs after 10 minutes.
Sula Matov's strike and a brace from Erick Mathoho gave the Amakhosi a resounding win and a big advantage going into the return leg in Johannesburg in two weeks time.
It was a far cry from Mamelodi Sundowns' result on Saturday, when they lost 1-0 away to Zimbabwe's Chicken Inn.
Sundowns, along with Kaizer Chiefs, were hoping to lead another charge by South African clubs to rule the continent, after both clubs exited the competition in the first round last season.
But a solitary goal from Mischeck Katsvairo in the first half gave Chicken Inn a surprise win in Bulawayo.
The two will meet in the second leg in Pretoria when Sundowns will be under pressure, considering they are currently top of the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) which is one of the richest leagues on the continent.
The PLS has already reached the halfway mark, but the league in Zimbabwe has not yet started.
Also on Saturday, Kenyan champions Gor Mahia suffered a shock 2-1 home defeat to Madagascan side CNaPS at the Nyayo National Stadium.
Raharenjivo Rinjala put the visitors ahead early on, with Enock Agwanda levelling for the hosts from the penalty spot.
Manompisa's winner late in the game was a big blow for Gor Mahia who now have it all to do in the away leg.
Tanzania's Young Africans were the first of Saturday's winners, beating Cercle de Joachim 1-0 in Mauritius thanks to a goal from Zimbabwe midfielder Donald Ngoma on 16 minutes.
On Friday, the upsets began in the very first game of this year's African Champions League as Uganda's Vipers won their first ever continental club match beating visiting Enyimba of Nigeria 1-0.
Erisa Sekisambu, who was part of the team at the recent African Nations Championship in Rwanda, scored the only goal of the game for the Ugandan champions in the 72nd minute.
The goal was set up by a deep pass from Keziron Kizito but it was Sekisambu's skill that ultimately beat the Enyimba defence.
He was left with plenty to do as he picked up the ball cut into the area before dribbling past Akabueze John Uche feigning to pass and finally hitting the ball into the roof of the net.
There was some groans around the Nakivubo Stadium in central Kampala as fans thought he has only hit the side netting but they soon turned to cheers as they realised what he had done.
Vipers overcame the two-time African and current Nigerian champions without several key players including striker Farouk Miya, who has joined Belgian club Standard Liege.
The second leg is on the last weekend of February in the Nigerian city of Aba.
Also on Friday, Olympique Khourigba of Morocco beat Gambian League champions Gamtel 2-1 in Marrakech in their first leg.
Gamtel went ahead through a thunderous strike from Modou Sarr.
But the hosts came back with goals from Ibrahim Bazghoudi and Tiberkanine Rachid to take a slender lead to The Gambia for their second leg.


Like me, you may have been puzzled why the Tories think that promising to increase the effective threshold for inheritance tax (IHT) from £650,000 to £1m, for a married couple, is a big vote winner - in that in 2010, only 2.6% of estates paid the tax.

Well, it's because the surge in house prices, even after the great crash and recession, increased the proportion paying IHT to 6% in the past year. And the OBR currently forecasts the share of taxpayers among estates to continue rising to 11.6% in 2019.
The Tories also believe that those figures understate the number of households legitimately worried about the tax - in that they point out that a quarter of all houses in the UK are worth more than £325,000 (which is the IHT threshold for a single person who has not been widowed).
They say that plenty of their target voters, in their 60s, give away assets and rearrange their affairs to get their net worth below the tax threshold. And most of those would no longer need to go to that bother.
That said, given the UK's skewed residential property market, most of the benefit would go to residents of London and the South East, which are the only two parts of the UK, according to official figures, where average house prices exceed £325,000. The average house price in the South East is £338,000 and it's £510,000 in London.
So this appears to be a policy aimed at Tory heartlands. But even then, its impact should not be overstated.
Expected house price inflation means that if the Tories were to implement the policy in 2017 as planned, the forecast 11.6% of estates paying the tax based on the current threshold would fall only to today's level, of 6%.
Strikingly, David Cameron and George Osborne think that the best way of selling the policy to the middle-middle class is to be seen to be paying for it by taking a swipe at the upper-middle and upper classes.
So anyone - either a married couple or a single person - bequeathing assets of £2m or more will see the IHT threshold reduced by 50p for every pound that those assets are worth more than £2m, until, for estates worth £2.35m, the threshold is the same as today's.
Also, the tax cut's cost of just over £1bn a year will be met by significantly reducing the tax breaks on pension contributions for those earning £150,000 or more.
What would happen is that the current annual allowance of £40,000 for obtaining tax relief on pension contributions would be reduced by 50p for every pound of income earned over £150,000, until at an annual income of £210,000 the allowance would be cut to a floor of £10,000.
So with 300,000 people earning above £150,000, the Tories would be taking probably more than £2bn from the top 1% of taxpayers - many of whom would vote Tory through thick and thin - to give perhaps around £1bn to the children of perhaps one in 10 asset-rich older people, who would also largely vote Tory, presumably.
Maybe these tax reforms are largely about boosting the morale of their people, rather than winning many additional votes.
By the way, if you do earn £150,000 or more, you should note that it is now more or less certain that your tax breaks for pension savings are likely to shrivel to almost nothing after the election, since Labour has announced a very similar raid on the tax relief you receive.
And if, like me, you were also puzzled by why George Osborne and David Cameron felt they needed to say how they are paying for the IHT giveaway, but not how they would finance the promised £8bn of additional spending for the NHS and other costs, also around £8bn, of promising to raise the thresholds for paying tax at all and for paying tax at the 40% rate, there is an answer.
An official says it's the 2017 implementation date for IHT change that makes all the difference - in that the other tax cuts and health spending increase would only be done when affordable and by the end of the Parliament.
In other words, George Osborne and David Cameron are asking voters to trust them on their record to deliver those other big commitments.
Which some people will interpret as meaning that those other promises are more fiscally reckless or less serious than the IHT reform - though George Osborne denied that today.


Lord Sugar has said he would like the BBC to commission a new programme focusing on the progress of past winners of The Apprentice.

He said such a series "would show what a great service the programme is performing for young entrepreneurs, young people, to inspire them".
The BBC said there are no current plans to broadcast a spin-off series.
Speaking about some of the show's past winners, Lord Sugar said: "They've turned into great business people."
He added: "I think the BBC need to do something about that. They need to do a programme, for example, on where they are now."
Earlier this year, BBC Two broadcast a spin-off programme from Dragons' Den, Pitches to Riches, which charted the trajectory of several business ideas the so-called Dragons had invested in.
Lord Sugar added that the success of previous Apprentice winners was "what motivates me to carry on doing [the show]".
"They're doing very well, and they don't get enough publicity. The BBC doesn't get enough publicity over the purpose of this programme.
"I enjoy watching these young people grow a business from scratch really, and that's why I get a great buzz out of it."
"Ricky Martin [2012 series winner] has got about 25 people working for him, Tom [Pellereau, 2011 winner] has eight or nine working for him, Leah [Totton, 2013 winner] has got two clinics now."
He added: "They are one of the reasons why the candidates flock to the auditions because they want to be them."
Not every previous contestant on the show has gone on to success in the business world, however.
One of the most high-profile former candidates is Katie Hopkins - who is now a newspaper columnist and radio presenter, well-known for her controversial opinions
"You get a few people that are picked up by the media because of their outlandish comments, and they go and pursue a separate career," Lord Sugar said.
"Lots of them have tried. Katie Hopkins has found herself a special niche in the market. She's a bit like Piers Morgan on steroids, and of course the media lap it up. And the more controversial she wants to be, the more they lap it up."
Claude Littner and Karren Brady have returned to assist Lord Sugar on the new series of The Apprentice, which begins on 6 October on BBC One.
The businessman said the show's tasks had been updated for 2016.
"One of the things I love about this process is, as I'm getting older, I've got a great production team that keep me on my toes as far as technology is concerned.
"With a lot of the tasks some of the stuff we're going to be doing didn't exist 12 years ago. For example, there's a virtual reality episode in there."
Lord Sugar said he believes "the freshness of the contestants" keeps the show relevant, adding: "One of them was 11 years old when The Apprentice first started and has watched it since then and here they are, turning up to be one of the contestants in the show."
"We have a new audience growing every year, and that's the excitement of the programme."
Lord Sugar was speaking hours after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took part in a televised debate with the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
From 2004 until last year, Trump appeared as the figurehead of the US version of The Apprentice - the position Lord Sugar holds on the UK show.
Asked for his thoughts on his former US counterpart, Lord Sugar said: "Well he's not as good as me, as far as The Apprentice is concerned. He's not in my class, quite frankly.
"I saw the debate with him and Hillary Clinton and what comes to mind is that it's like a US version of Would I Lie To You?
"As many people have said it is quite a frightening thought that he may be the most powerful man in the world shortly."
Karren Brady added: "For me personally, I think Hillary Clinton, another woman leader across the world, means the world is a safer and better place."
Lord Sugar also did not shy away from talking about UK politics, commenting that the outcome of the EU Referendum in June made him "fear for our country".
Referring to the vote to leave the EU, Lord Sugar said: "I was very clear in my views, I think they've made a fatal mistake."
"Lots of people are saying nothing has changed. Well, exactly. Nothing has changed because we haven't even started [the process of leaving] yet."
Lord Sugar, previously known as Sir Alan Sugar, became a peer in 2009, while Karren Brady became Baroness Brady in 2014.
So would Claude Littner like to be in line for a knighthood of his own in the future?
"To be honest it crosses my mind all the time," he joked, "but no-one has actually made me the offer".
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How far can broadcast journalists go in live coverage of terrorist incidents when their reports might influence the course of events or even endanger lives?

In France, the question has particular relevance after two legal investigations were launched into media organisations over their handling of the January attacks in Paris.
In one case, six people who hid in the cold room at the HyperCacher supermarket have taken legal action claiming that live broadcasts could have tipped off the gunman Amedy Coulibaly to their presence.
In the second, Lilian Lepere - who hid beneath a sink at the print works where the Kouachi brothers were eventually cornered - says his life was jeopardised by reports of an employee on the premises. Had the terrorists been listening, they could have sought him out and killed him.
In both cases, the Paris prosecutor's office has opened preliminary investigations.
If it feels there is enough evidence, then several radio and television stations could be brought to trial.
Beyond the purely legal aspect, there are huge ethical questions at stake.
In recent years, technology has made possible the instant reporting of dramatic and often tragic events.
As the shootings in Virginia on Wednesday showed, criminals or terrorists now regularly factor in the media when they plan their actions.
By providing regular coverage, are broadcasters falling in with their game plan?
In the event of a fast unfolding situation like the January attacks in Paris, should broadcasters be made to sit on information? Should they defer to a police censor in case they say something dangerous?
And should they hold back on certain images, even when the same images may be freely circulating on the social media, after being taken by a private citizen on his mobile phone?
In fact, French broadcasters already feel themselves to be unfairly under attack over the January events, after they were nearly all delivered formal warnings from the state watchdog, the CSA.
Some were chastised for revealing the presence of the hidden hostages, some for showing distressing images, some for reporting the start of the shootout at the print works when this might have tipped Coulibaly into carrying out a massacre.
According to the lawyer Patruck Klugman, who represents the HyperCacher six: "We need to look much more closely at the chain of decision-making in the broadcast media.
"The way they function when there is breaking news is an actual  encouragement to crime."
The live broadcasters are united in rejecting the decision of the CSA and have filed an appeal at the State Council (the highest administrative court).
In an open letter,  the news editors of 14 organisations - private and public - asked: "How in the light of these sanctions can we continue to inform?  In what other major democracy are the media brought to book for recounting events in real time?"
Herve Beroud, who is head of news at BFMTV, told me the rebukes were unfair and counterproductive.
"If the responsible, organised media - the ones with chains of command and professional reporters - if they are the ones who are punished and made to self-censor, then what will happen is that viewers will go elsewhere: to the social media and the internet, where there is no control on content whatsoever," he said.
"We put out 70 hours of live broadcasting non-stop in January. There was one mistake of 23 seconds, when we revealed that there were people in the cold room.
"That was an error, and we admit it. But beyond that there were no factual mistakes.  And we held back from broadcasting a load of information that we had - because we felt it was unethical. Like the interviews we had with the gunmen."
Legal experts feel there is little chance the cases being brought in the courts will succeed.
Media lawyer Christophe Bigot told me that there was simply too little evidence that the reports had put lives in danger.
"But it's an alarm signal," he added.
"Of course journalists will continue to cover live terrorist events,  but maybe they will be more careful when lives could be at risk."
At BFMTV Mr Beroud said the procedures that had been in place in January had worked fine, and still worked today.
"When the film of the Virginia shootings came in yesterday, we viewed it and made a decision: 'No.'
"Before any sensitive piece of information is broadcast, our journalists know to refer it up the editorial chain.
"But it is true. Since the events in January, we all have a little bulb in our heads that says, 'Be extra careful.'
"The new technology has created awesome new possibilities for journalists.
"But it also means we have extra responsibilities every time we press the red button."
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New documents posted online by WikiLeaks show the dynamics of Hillary Clinton's inner circle - and how they really feel.

They were brutal and condescending - and that was with each other.
Emails from the account of John Podesta, Mrs Clinton's campaign chairman, reveal what it's like to work on her staff. He said Russians hacked his email account - and sounded furious about it.
Critics have welcomed the disclosures - and said not enough people are paying attention to them.
"Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks," Donald Trump tweeted. "So dishonest! Rigged system!"
He's right about one thing: the disclosures are fascinating.
There's no smoking gun, but the exchanges do lift the lid on the secret lives of aides and advisers, and reveal what campaigns are really like.
The Clinton campaign - and staff - have been notoriously opaque.
They've allowed only a small number of people into their inner circle, and they've guarded zealously against leaks and disclosures of information.
As a result, very few people know the mechanics of the inner circle - how decisions are made and what kind of manager Mrs Clinton is.
The revelations in the emails were obtained illegally, but they've offered an insight into the campaign's methods - and how its staff may be managed if she wins next month's election.
Campaigns, as the emails show, are a nasty business.
In one (of many) examples of office politics, some of which were just released and others that have surfaced during recent searches, one adviser, Cheryl Mills, jokes around with another, Jake Sullivan, about a former colleague, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote a lot of emails.
Neither Ms Mills nor Mr Sullivan seemed to appreciate Ms Slaughter's notes, or the way she lavished Mrs Clinton with praise.
In May 2015, Ms Slaughter described Clinton's work as a diplomat.
"You changed the frame," wrote Ms Slaughter, ccing Ms Mills, Mr Sullivan and other aides.
Ms Mills, who has worked for Mrs Clinton for years, reminds Mr Sullivan in a separate email that she has received a steady stream of these notes.
Mr Sullivan tells Ms Mills - emphatically - that he did not invite Ms Slaughter to his wedding. (Ms Mills had asked, sceptically, if he had.)
A catty exchange, one they probably wish had remained private. But there's more.
In May 2015, Mr Podesta gossips about one of Mrs Clinton's old friends, Sidney Blumenthal.
Mr Podesta says Blumenthal lacks either "self awareness or self respect, adding to a colleague: "Will you promise to shoot me if I ever end up like that?"
In another exchange from November 2014, Philippe Reines, Mrs Clinton's veteran aide, writes about an issue familiar to anyone who has worked in an office: subject headings of emails that don't reflect its contents.
He says he's not willing to put up with such imprecise wording.
"I'm not living like this for the next two years," he writes.
In a November 2011 email exchange, Huma Abedin, one of Clinton's closest aides, has a fraught exchange with a Clinton Foundation executive about space allocation in a New York office.
In another email, Ms Abedin, reinforcing the insular nature of their circle, talked about the dangers of providing information to journalists.
"Can we survive not answering questions from press at message events," she wondered.
Mr Podesta said that avoiding journalists was a bad idea, describing it as suicidal.
Nerves get frayed in every workplace - and especially during a campaign.
As a former campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, who worked on the 2008 campaign, explained, things can get dicey, especially for managers.
"Sometimes I am not very popular," she told me. (She was fired a couple of months later.)
Yet the emails also show how members of Clinton's inner circle resolve conflict.
In April 2015, her aides discussed at length a phrase she would use in a speech at a New Hampshire furniture store.
Mr Podesta thought she should say "everyday Americans".
He admitted, however, that she wasn't fond of the formulation.
He and a colleague ultimately decided the phrase should be part of the speech - despite their boss's hesitation.
He and other aides also obsessed over what people said about them - and tried to head off negative media coverage.
In an email from January 2009, they discussed someone who'd apparently worked on Mrs Clinton's campaign - and had been arrested "for running a prostitution ring".
Whether navigating the politics of the inner circle or fending off potential attacks from the outside world, the aides and advisers spend much of their time managing relationships.
If nothing else, the emails show the extent to which staffers work to maintain a delicate power balance within the inner sanctum of Mrs Clinton's world - and try to build relationships with people outside this bubble.
In one email, Mr Podesta plans to attend a private dinner with David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary who had met Clinton years ago.
In another, Claudio Bisogniero, the ambassador of Italy to the US, pressed Mr Podesta to meet an Italian official at the White House.
"This is really important for me," Mr Bisogniero wrote to Mr Podesta, adding: "I count on your personal friendship on this."
As the emails show, the ties that Mr Miliband and Mr Bisogniero, as well as other foreign officials, have with Clinton advisors run deep.
These relationships are likely to become even stronger if she's elected president.
The disclosure of the emails are an unwelcome distraction for Mr Podesta and the campaign staff.
They were also obtained by breaking into his account.
That's a crime.
But still, the emails shed light on important issues.
They are a window into a world that has been shrouded in secrecy.
They show how Mrs Clinton's aides and advisers get along - who matters to them, and who doesn't.
These relationships may help to define the next administration - and guide its policymaking and statecraft into the future.
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Next year will be an important milestone for the Gwili Steam Railway near Carmarthen.

After a 15-year project, a new 1.75 mile (2.8km) extension to the line will be opened, doubling the current length of track.
Some of the views seen along the length of the line have not been seen by the travelling public for almost 50 years.
Guests were given a preview recently, travelling in steam train carriages to a new station at Abergwili.
The Gwili Railway was established by enthusiasts in 1974, with a view to re-opening a short section of the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway that closed to passenger traffic in 1965.
The original track was lifted in 1977.
Over £300,000 has been spent on the recent project including funds from CWM Environmental Carmarthenshire County Council Rural Development Fund and County Collaboration Fund, together with money raised by supporters.
Over 300 lengths of rail, 4,000 concrete sleepers and 5,000 tonnes of ballast have been used to complete the new section.
The new line follows the River Gwili, passing alongside the Gwili Falls.
From there it heads to a new station in Abergwili, where there are long-term plans to build a visitor centre.
Volunteers are hopeful there will be an official opening in time for the 50th anniversary of the last passenger train, which ran on 20 February 1965.


Ian Hutchinson clinched the 16th win of his Isle of Man TT career with a dominant performance in Wednesday's rescheduled four-lap Superstock race.

The Bingley rider won by 22 seconds from Lincolnshire's Peter Hickman to become the most successful rider in the history of this class with five wins.
The victory was Hutchinson's third Superstock win in consecutive years.
Hickman sealed his third podium of the week, with Manxman Dan Kneen claiming a first rostrum finish in third place.
It was Hutchinson's second success of the week, having also won Sunday's Superbike opener.
Tyco BMW rider Hutchinson, 37, overhauled early leader Michael Rutter to lead Hickman by 4.5 seconds by the end of lap one and continued to extend his advantage throughout.
The Yorkshireman posted two laps at over 131mph, including the fastest of the race at 131.639mph on his final circuit.
"There has been so much effort put in by the guys as I only managed to get one lap on this bike in practice," said the race winner.
"The track is really green so we're not going to get near the speeds that we did last year but I tried to control it once I got a bit of a gap.
"It's hard to concentrate when you can't quite make the bike do what you want it to do."
Runner-up Hickman ended 21 seconds ahead of Kneen, with Rutter ensuring that BMW machines made up the top four positions.
Dean Harrison was fifth on a Kawasaki, with brothers Michael and William Dunlop sixth and seventh respectively.
James Hillier retired at Ballacraine on lap one, with Bruce Anstey and Conor Cummins parking up their Padgett's Hondas at the end of their opening laps.
Kneen, who in addition to sealing his best finish, also set his fastest ever lap of the Mountain Course, said: "Everything has gone right this year and it feels great."
"It felt amazing when my board showed I was lying third on the final lap and there was no way I wasn't going to get on the podium."


Almost 60 people have been killed in a suspected US-led coalition air strike on a prison run by so-called Islamic State in eastern Syria, activists say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 42 prisoners and 15 militants died when the facility near Mayadin, in Deir al-Zour province, was hit on Monday.
The Deirezzor24 news website said dozens of civilians and Syrian rebel fighters were detained there.
A coalition spokesman said it was looking into the casualty reports.
Mayadin, which lies in the Euphrates river valley about 45km (28 miles) south-east of the city of Deir al-Zour, has been targeted frequently by coalition aircraft.
US intelligence officials believe IS moved most of its leaders to the town in recent months as Iraqi government forces advanced into the Iraqi city of Mosul and a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters encircled the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The Syrian Observatory, a UK-based group that monitors the country's six-year civil war through a network of sources on the ground, said the prison was hit at dawn on Monday by what were believed to have been coalition aircraft.
Deirezzor24, which is run by an activist collective, reported that the facility was located near the village of Tayibiya wa al-Maaharufa, and that it had once been the home of a commander of al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-linked group now known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Many fighters opposed to IS, including those from Tahrir al-Sham and the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, were held there along with civilians, it said.
It put the death toll at 60, but said it only included two militants serving as guards.
Coalition spokesman Col Ryan Dillon acknowledged that it had conducted strikes on "IS command-and-control elements" in the Mayadin area on Sunday.
"This disrupts [IS's] ability to conduct terrorist attacks in both in Iraq, Syria, against coalition partner forces, and also against our homelands," he told the BBC.
Col Dillon added that the strike was "meticulously planned" and that coalition officials "always account for and take into account human suffering and any type of casualties in our planning."
At the start of June, the coalition said its 21,035 air strikes in Syria and Iraq since 2014 had unintentionally killed at least 484 civilians. However, human rights groups believe the true figure is far higher.
Airwars, an organisation that tracks allegations of civilian deaths, estimates that at least 4,118 civilians are likely to have died.


Newcastle Falcons have signed hooker Ben Sowrey from Worcester Warriors for next season.

The 24-year-old has made eight appearances for Worcester this season, three of them in the Premiership.
"Newcastle is a club which is set to go places and I want to be part of that. It is a huge opportunity," he said.
Sowrey is the sixth Falcons signing for next season following Sam Egerton, Vereniki Goneva,Sam Lockwood, Joel Hodgson and Harrison Orr.
"Ben is a quality player and we look forward to his arrival for pre-season," said director of rugby Dean Richards.
"He is a strong scrummager, a good line-out technician, very skilful and our sort of all-round player."
Newcastle are currently next to bottom of the Premiership, but seven points clear of London Irish with two games remaining.


Alex Hales' record-breaking 187 not out guided Nottinghamshire to a four-wicket triumph against Surrey in the One-Day Cup final at Lord's.

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England opener Hales made the highest individual one-day score at Lord's off just 167 balls as Notts chased 298 to win with 13 balls to spare.
Mark Stoneman had scored an unbeaten 144 off 149 balls in Surrey's 297-9.
They lost in the final for a third season in a row as Notts won their first trophy since 2013.
Hales, who hit four sixes and 20 fours, and Notts captain Chris Read (58) shared a 137-run partnership for the sixth wicket to guide the Outlaws to victory.
But it had looked like being a day to forget as early as the first ball of the match when Surrey's Jason Roy, Hales' opening partner for England, was dropped after edging a simple chance to Riki Wessels at first slip off Luke Fletcher.
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The Outlaws also dropped century-maker Stoneman twice and fielded sloppily before recovering to restrict Surrey to just under 300 from their 50 overs.
While Hales dominated from one end, at 150-5, their run chase looked in jeopardy as the rest of the top order failed to provide support at the other end.
But former England wicketkeeper Read joined Hales and struck a run-a-ball half-century to play his part in a domestic final victory in his last season before retiring from county cricket.
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In years to come, observers will look back on this final and call it 'The Alex Hales Show'.
Handed an early life on nine when Ollie Pope dropped what appeared a regulation chance at cover, Hales went on to punish Surrey, setting all manner of personal, ground and limited-overs records in the process.
He raced to his half-century off just 35 balls and then recorded the fastest Lord's domestic final century from 83 deliveries.
Smashing Sam Curran over midwicket for the first six of the game signalled his intent to dominate the bowlers, and he did so with a mixture of often effortless drives straight down the ground, or through the covers, and powerful pulls and slog-sweeps on the leg side.
Such was his dominance in the early stages of Notts' chase, his side were on just 133-4 from 21 overs as he reached three figures.
Registering his 150 from just 120 balls with a glanced four off Jade Dernbach, he broke a 52-year-old record for the highest individual score in a Lord's domestic final. Geoffrey Boycott's 146 for Yorkshire against Surrey in the 1965 Gillette Cup Final was the previous best.
Not content with that, Hales surpassed the highest one-day score at Lord's, beating David Boon's 166 for Australia v MCC in 1989 and then his own one-day best of 171, for England against Pakistan at Trent Bridge last August.
He still had time to set a club-best List A individual score, beating team-mate Michael Lumb's 184 of the previous season.
Before Hales stole the show, Surrey's Stoneman appeared likely to be the match-winner for Surrey.
Having been overlooked for England's first Test squad to play South Africa, Stoneman was handed lives on 32 and 73 during his 149-ball innings.
But the left-hander, who moved to The Oval from Durham in the winter to enhance his international chances, showed impressive application to guide his team through the 50 overs.
He became the first Surrey batsman to score a century in a Lord's final when he struck his 10th boundary.
After a first-class career-best of 197 for Surrey against Essex and scores of 58 and 86 for England Lions against South Africa A in the past month, Stoneman may not have to wait too much longer to make his Test debut.
In the first season of a revamped county calendar, the 50-over final was staged on the first Saturday in July, rather than its traditional end-of-season slot in September.
After a short turnaround between the group stage and semi-finals in mid-June, Lord's looked at best two-thirds full.
Tickets ranged from £30-£50, and the prices did not entice a surge in last-minute or casual sales.
Under the ECB's preference to play competitions in blocks of fixtures, the 50-over One-Day Cup is set to remain in its own designated block from May through to early July.
Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores told BBC Radio 5 live:
"It's a brilliant win. What an innings from Alex Hales - and fantastic for Chris Read to be there in the partnership to win the game.
"It's brilliant for the club, it's been a team job all the way through the competition."
Surrey captain Gareth Batty:
"It's a pretty bitter pill to swallow, but Nottinghamshire were magnificent today.
"I'm really chuffed for Chris Read, 20 years in the game and to finish like that is magnificent for him. Alex Hales was the man who took it away from us - no complaints."


Prof Gabor Forgacs and his son Andras founded two rather unusual businesses.

While other fathers and sons team up as butchers, builders or solicitors, this pair have decided to use their shared expertise to get to grips with more weighty problems.
Organovo grows human tissue and has its sights set on carving a path towards immortality, while Modern Meadow is trying to solve the world food crisis by growing meat and leather in the lab.
Father and son took to the stage at the recent Wired conference in London to speak about their cutting-edge companies, their own relationship and why they may have to rein in their ambitions.
Organovo was set up by Hungarian-born Dr Forgacs, after he made the decision to quit his career as a theoretical physicist and retrain as a biologist -  taking classes with undergraduates.
Those classes left him with a pretty lofty ambition - to grow organs that could mimic or even improve on existing ones.
He set about developing a process to print multi-cellular tissues - dubbed bio-printing - in 2005, and two years later founded Organovo with colleagues Keith Murphy and Dr Eric Michael David.
Its ultimate aim is to mass produce organs that could create a future in which humans, like cars, have regular services that keep them living indefinitely.
"If we could replace organs, we could live forever, and then it is up to us whether we want that," he told the audience at the recent Wired conference in London.
He admits there is currently a lot of hype around bio-printing, particularly the idea of "growing" full organs.
"Bio-printing does not result in a viable biological structure. We cannot yet make big structures like livers or hearts," he said.
"If it is possible, it will take a long time, so don't smoke or drink too much."
Organovo uses a process in which bio-ink - made up of human tissue - is dispensed from a bio-printer layer by layer to build up tissues.
The process can be tailored to produce tissues in a variety of formats.
It can currently make a range of products, including a vascular graft, liver tissue fragments and cardiac patches.
"If a person had terminal liver disease, what we could do is temporarily keep that person alive until a donor can be found," said Dr Forgacs.
And that is pretty useful in a world where people on transplant waiting lists outnumbers the amount of donor organs by a huge margin.
Dr Alan Faulkner-Jones, from the biomedical microengineering group at Heriot-Watt University, thinks it will take some time before scientists can make organs on demand.
"There is no technology that exists now that is capable of printing an organ," he told the BBC..
"The task of getting enough cells to print would be very expensive and nearly impossible, and keeping those cells happy and not starved of nutrients would be very difficult."
It would require a rethink in the printing process to allow the design of larger structures, he said.
"Another way to do it would be to mimic nature and start off with a small structure and allow it to grow," he said.
This technique has had some success - in 2013 researchers at the Yokohama City University in Japan were able to generate human liver cell buds in mice, and Organovo has also created tiny livers.
Dr Forgacs remains hopeful that, once the obstacles have been overcome, it may be possible to create organs that function better than the ones we were born with.
"Our organs have developed over millions of years, but are they the best? We could create a structure that is even better than your heart, made from your own cells, and then there is a chance we could live forever," he told the Wired 2015 audience.
Like all fathers, he would probably love to offer his son the gift of immortality - but, for now, he is just happy to be working with him.
"I couldn't see the wood for the trees in what I was doing. It is a good thing to have a son who is a businessman," he said.
Son Andras explained to the Wired audience how the pair worked.
"I am the business brain and he is the mad scientist," he said.
Like his father, he started off in science but soon switched his focus.
"I was geeking out on biology, and I studied pre-med but fell in with the wrong crowd and ended up on Wall Street," he said.
He set up Modern Meadow after a stint abroad.
"I was living in China, and saw that some of the products that we were developing at Organovo could help with supply problems," Mr Forgcas said.
"If you can grow muscle, can you grow meat? And that made me think - what if you could make meat and leather without harming animals or the environment?"
An EU study predicts lab-grown meat will use 99.7% less land, 94% less water and contribute 98.8% less greenhouse gases.
And it is a lucrative market, with the meat industry worth an estimated $1 trillion annually and the leather industry $63bn.
At the Wired conference, Mr Forgacs had samples of a product dubbed steak chips - to share with the audience. Described as "a crunchy form of beef jerky", it seemed to go down OK with those that ate it or at least everyone was too polite to say if they did not like it.
While the Wired guinea-pigs might be a more discerning bunch, the idea of synthetic meat has not gone down so well with the public. A Pew Research survey conducted in 2014 suggested only 20% of Americans would be happy to eat meat grown in a lab.
A test-tube burger developed by scientist Mark Post at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and served up to two volunteers a few years ago also received lukewarm reviews.
Ironically, the product might have been just too meaty, according to Dr Faulkner-Jones.
"I understand that they made them from 100% lab-grown meat," he said.
"People are so used to having all the extra stuff that we put in burgers that they don't know what real meat tastes like."
Modern Meadow told the BBC its focus would be on "products that delight".
"A hamburger is ground-up scrap meat - we don't aspire to that," a spokeswoman said.
The Brooklyn-based start-up uses a technique known as tissue engineering - also called bio-fabrication - to create meat products and leather directly from the cells of animals.
Once the cells are taken, they are grown into sheets, which are layered and fused together to form a hide.
The process is not without controversy.
The handful of companies experimenting with lab-grown meat, including Modern Meadow, have used fetal bovine serum (FBS) to harvest the cells.
Given this is taken from the foetuses of slaughtered cows, there have been huge ethical questions about its use.
"In the early stages, FBS was one of the ingredients, but it has been completely phased out. There are moral issues, and you can't use it at scale," said Suzanne Lee, Modern Meadow's chief creative officer.
She said the company was currently concentrating on growing leather rather than meat and was working with several fashion brands.
She declined to give details of the process being used but said it would be several years before they had a finished product.
The Forgacs family may be finding the path to meat-free immortality more difficult than they had hoped - but if they can make a success of Organovo and Modern Meadow, they should be in business for many generations to come.


England extended their unbeaten run to nine games with a friendly victory over Spain as they continued their preparations for Euro 2017.

The Lionesses led when Karen Carney's shot was deflected home by Spain's Marta Torrejon Moya in Guadalajara.
England captain Steph Houghton curled in a free-kick before Torrejon whipped home a stunning set-piece, while Jordan Nobbs hit the Spain post late on.
The draw for Euro 2017 in the Netherlands will be held on 8 November.
Mark Sampson's England side, whose next match is against the Netherlands on 29 November, are in pot one for top seeds. They could be drawn against Spain, who feature in pot two.
England controlled the match in Guadalajara, with 12 shots on goal to Spain's eight and eight corners to the hosts' one.
Spain's defeat was their first in 13 matches, England's achievement all the more impressive given that the home side scored 21 unanswered goals in their previous three matches.
Sampson, who is among the favourites to become MK Dons manager, made only one change to the team that drew 0-0 with France on Friday as Nikita Parris replaced Rachel Daly in the forward line.
His reluctance to make widespread changes suggests he is close to settling on his best team for the Euros.
England, who finished third in the 2015 World Cup, are fifth in the world rankings.
Germany - unbeaten at the European Championships since 1993 - beat the Netherlands 4-2 at home in a friendly on Tuesday.
England manager Mark Sampson:
"It was a good win for us and up there with my favourite England performances in my time.
"We showed a variety of qualities, we looked like four different teams.
"We saw the resilience, character, organisation and adaptability of the team. At every point we looked in control of that game."
England captain Steph Houghton:
"We are in a really good place. This is probably the most together squad we have had over the last three years.
"We are always wanting to learn, we have got fresh blood in the camp, with a lot of experience as well, so it is about blending them together and making sure that every game we play we learn and we improve.
"We have got eight months now until the Euros, and hopefully we can be the best-prepared team there.
"Against Spain we dominated possession in the first half and controlled the game, then in the second half it was a different side to us and we were a little bit fatigued."
Match ends, Spain Women 1, England 2.
Second Half ends, Spain Women 1, England 2.
Attempt saved. Maria Paz Vilas (Spain Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Torrejón.
Attempt blocked. Vicky Losada (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jade Moore (England).
Maria Paz Vilas (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Demi Stokes (England).
Toni Duggan (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Irene Paredes (Spain Women).
Demi Stokes (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexandra Lopez (Spain Women).
Corner,  England. Conceded by Irene Paredes.
Attempt blocked. Toni Duggan (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jade Moore.
Corner,  England. Conceded by Irene Paredes.
Attempt blocked. Toni Duggan (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jade Moore.
Jordan Nobbs (England) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Isobel Christiansen.
Attempt saved. Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alexandra Lopez.
Attempt saved. Leila Ouahabi (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Jo Potter (England).
Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, England. Rachel Daly tries a through ball, but Jordan Nobbs is caught offside.
Corner,  England. Conceded by Irene Paredes.
Substitution, Spain Women. Alexandra Lopez replaces Andrea Pereira.
Substitution, England. Fara Williams replaces Karen Carney.
Attempt missed. Maria Paz Vilas (Spain Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Silvia Meseguer with a cross.
Foul by Stephanie Houghton (England).
Maria Paz Vilas (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  England. Conceded by Marta Corredera.
Offside, England. Rachel Daly tries a through ball, but Karen Carney is caught offside.
Offside, England. Jo Potter tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.
Isobel Christiansen (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vicky Losada (Spain Women).
Attempt saved. Toni Duggan (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Karen Carney.
Substitution, England. Isobel Christiansen replaces Jill Scott because of an injury.
Substitution, England. Toni Duggan replaces Nikita Parris.
Substitution, Spain Women. Marta Corredera replaces Alexia.
Substitution, Spain Women. Maria Paz Vilas replaces Jenni Hermoso.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jill Scott (England) because of an injury.


Ciara Mageean regrouped from her Olympic Games disappointment as she cut over five seconds off her 1500m personal best in Paris.

The Portaferry woman clocked 4:01.46 as she ran superbly to finish ninth in a thrilling race won by Britain's Laura Muir at the Diamond League meeting.
Mageean, 24, passed several athletes on the final lap as Muir ran sensationally to improve her own British record.
The Scottish athlete ran the fastest time of 2016 as she won in 3:55.22.
Mageean's time, which improved her own Northern Ireland record, moved her to second on the all-time Irish list behind Sonia O'Sullivan's national mark of 3:58.85 set in Monaco in 1995.
The county Down woman failed to qualify from the Olympic semi-finals in Brazil some five weeks after winning a bronze medal at the European Championships.
Muir only managed to finish seventh in Rio but produced a magnificent front-running display in Paris to beat a field which was probably stronger than the Olympic final.
After being among the leaders early on, Mageean dropped back to near the tail of the field over the second and third laps before producing a strong late run to move up the field.
The Northern Irishwoman achieved her previous personal best of 4:06.49 in Italy last September but her lack of races in major Grand Prix meetings led to the belief that she was capable of running much faster and so it proved.
The pacemaker in Saturday's race took the field through in a brisk 63.97 seconds over the first lap which set up the real possibility of a fast race.
Muir finished 1.50 seconds ahead of Kenya's Olympic champion Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon with Rio fifth placer, Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan (3:57.13) in third.
American Shannon Rowbury matched her Rio fourth place as she clocked 3:58.00 while Ethiopia's Dawit Seyaum (3:58.09), Olympic bronze medallist Jenny Simpson (3:58.19), Ethiopian Besu Sado (3:59.96) and Poland's Sofia Ennaoui (4:01.00) were also ahead of Mageean.


Greg Clark has a tough act to follow as the new science and universities minister, commentators say.

Mr Clark has tweeted that he's "thrilled" to be appointed and that he will build on the work of the "brilliant" David Willetts.
He will combine the role with his existing portfolio as cities minister.
One of his first tasks will be to convince the research community that the importance of science has not been downgraded as a result of the merger.
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News
As the youngest member of the Cabinet, Liz Truss will be welcomed by many as marking a distinct change from the divisive Owen Paterson.
Mr Paterson's views on climate change, genetically modified foods and especially the badger cull earned the deep distrust of environmental campaigners while generating support among farmers.
Greens were quick to put the boot into the departing Mr Paterson dubbing him the "worst environment secretary in decades".
"Mr Paterson has wilfully ignored scientific evidence on climate change, championed pesticide firms instead of bees and massively underinvested in flood defences, leaving thousands of households at risk of future flooding," said Andy Atkins from Friends of the Earth.
But Mr Paterson's adoption of new measures to tackle bovine TB including the controversial badger cull won him hearts and minds in the countryside.
His sacking has been described as "disappointing" by National Farmers Union President, Meurig Raymond.
With her background as a strong advocate of the free market and as a former employee of Shell, many greens will be cautious about the new Secretary.
Ms Truss is reported to have concerns about the use of agricultural land for solar plants and the subsidies these operations accumulate.
According to the vote tracking website, the Public Whip, Ms Truss has voted in favour of measures to stop global warming around 48% of the time. Her predecessor, Mr Paterson, has a slightly stronger record of support at 53%.
She has twice voted in favour of the badger cull in 2013.
As an MP from South West Norfolk, she has been active in supporting farmers on issues including reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and in ensuring that farmland stays in production for food.
She is a strong advocate of improvements to rural infrastructure - according to her website she is "determined to find new ways and funding to bring good roads, faster broadband and reliable energy supplies" to country areas.
One issue that she has been associated with is the way that the Environment Agency values agricultural land when assessing flood schemes. She has lobbied Defra on this issue. Now as Environment Secretary she will have the chance to do something about it.
Owen Paterson was removed from his post as Environment Secretary in the reshuffle. The 38-year-old Liz Truss will take over the brief from him.
Mr Clark is an economist and a former treasury minister. He has a reputation for being a deep thinker and in the same analytical mould as his predecessor David "two brains" Willetts.
Many in the scientific community hope that Mr Clark's links with the Chancellor, George Osborne, will stand them in good stead.
He will however have to answer questions about his decision to support a Parliamentary motion supporting the availability of homeopathic medicines on the NHS in 2007.
It is thought he did so because he has a homeopathic hospital in his Tunbridge Wells constituency. Mr Clark will no doubt be asked whether he believes homeopathic remedies are effective and if he would advocate their use to treat serious illnesses.
The science minister's primary role is to oversee research spending and the running of universities. In science, his chief aim will be to hold together the research base which has been creaking under the weight of having to shoulder year on year real terms cuts.
It has been reported that the science brief will be split with the appointment of George Freeman as life sciences minister. But the role has existed before and is likely to have been recreated because of the strategic importance placed on the sector.
Mr Willetts will be a tough act to follow - he has received warm tributes from the scientific community following his departure.
His critics say he oversaw a real terms cut in science spending. His fans, who are in the vast majority, argue that he saved science from the axe and used his considerable guile to win over the support of Mr Osborne.
Mr Willetts' achievements include nurturing the vibrant UK space sector and he was due to take a salute from the community for announcing plans to have a UK launch site for space planes at the Farnborough Air show today. He is also said to have played a big part in the selection of British astronaut Tim Peake for a mission to the International Space Station next year.
Prof Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, said Mr Willetts had been an "outstanding" science minister and Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said Mr Willetts would be "sadly missed".
The former Astronomer Royal, Prof Lord Rees, described him as a really "really admirable politician".
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Licence fee money should not be used to fund future regulation of the BBC, Scotland's culture secretary has said.

The communications watchdog Ofcom will take over regulation of the corporation from the BBC Trust next spring.
Fiona Hyslop said the UK government should commit to "adequate funding" of Ofcom, which had a "pivotal" role in ensuring Scotland was treated "fairly".
A UK government spokesman said it was "appropriate" the BBC funded its own regulation.
The Scottish government has said it wants to bring decision-making on Scottish output "closer" to viewers and listeners, which it argued would require closer scrutiny by Ofcom.
Ms Hyslop said: "The decision to appoint Ofcom as the BBC's external, independent regulator means it now has a pivotal role to play in ensuring that the BBC delivers for Scotland and that this nation is treated much more fairly than it has in the past.
"The UK government must commit to adequate funding for Ofcom, but this must not be funded by the licence fee.
"People across Scotland pay their licence fee to allow the BBC to deliver high-quality productions, not the regulation of the BBC. Instead, this funding should be provided by the UK government.
Ms Hyslop said she was committed to helping the corporation "realise its true potential and deliver more for the people of Scotland".
She said she had offered to meet with senior figures from the BBC and Ofcom to continue to "progress the position supported by the Scottish Parliament and the wider sector in Scotland."
A spokesman for the UK department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "The BBC currently funds its regulation by the BBC Trust and has done since its inception.
"As regulation moves to Ofcom, it is appropriate that the BBC continues to fund its regulation."
The Scottish government has also led calls for a more "Scottish-focused" six o'clock news broadcast.
BBC Scotland has produced pilots for a programme, which could eventually replace the Six O'Clock News and Reporting Scotland programmes on BBC1 Scotland.
Last week the UK's culture secretary, Karen Bradley, announced the corporation's new charter in the House of Commons, which sets out the BBC's plans over the next 11 years.


Australian Kimberley Brennan comfortably won Olympic gold in the women's single sculls final in Rio.

World champion Brennan, 31, beat the USA's Genevra Stone by half a length in a time of seven minutes 21.54 seconds with China's Duan Jingli claiming bronze.
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Brennan, bronze medallist at London 2012, has dominated the event leading up to the Olympic Games.
It was Australia's sixth gold of the Games and third rowing medal.
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Almost £25m has been raised to pay for "vital" restoration work at Canterbury Cathedral.

The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a £13.8m grant to the cathedral, which has raised a further £10.9m.
It sold pieces of stone removed during restoration of the 15th Century Great South Window, some of which sold for more than £7,000 each.
The roof of the nave is set to be replaced and a new visitor centre is to be built.
The Grade I listed cathedral, founded in AD 597, has been a world-famous centre of pilgrimage.
One million people visit the cathedral every year, the Very Reverend Dr Robert Willis, said.
"This is without doubt a very exciting time for the cathedral," he said.
"We want to further enhance the experience for [visitors] as well as reach out to those communities with whom we would like to to share the richness of the heritage we have in this magnificent place."
The Gothic-style window, which is 52ft (16m) high and 23ft (7m) wide, was removed in December 2013 after stone fell onto a pathway.
Much of it had to be rebuilt after crumbling stonework revealed serious structural problems.
Parts of the window were put on display at the Getty Museum in in Los Angeles.


The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, has expressed his determination to deal with the sexual abuse scandal involving Jimmy Savile.

Writing in the Mail On Sunday, he says the corporation's reputation is on the line and it must face up to the truth.
Lord Patten apologised to those victims who alleged abuse by the TV presenter were not aired by Newsnight.
The Sunday Times says ex-BBC director general Mark Thompson's office was alerted about the Savile abuse claims.
A BBC spokesperson said: "Mark Thompson has repeatedly made clear he had no personal knowledge of the allegations."
Savile's nephew Roger Foster has told BBC Radio 5 Live about how "devastating" the allegations have been for his family.
It is thought Savile, who died last year aged 84, may have abused scores of young girls and some boys, some on BBC premises, over a 40-year period.
About 300 people may have been victims of sexual abuse, according to Scotland Yard.
Savile is alleged to have carried out abuse at a number of institutions, such as the high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary.
The TV presenter and DJ, who was knighted in 1996, was a UK household name in the 1970s and 80s.
In his article for the Mail on Sunday, Lord Patten says the BBC "risks squandering public trust" and its "reputation is on the line" because one of its stars was apparently a sexual criminal.
"Like many who work for the BBC, I feel a sense of particular remorse that abused women spoke to Newsnight, presumably at great personal pain, yet did not have their stories told as they expected," he says.
He also asks whether anybody knew of the abuse allegations.
Lord Patten goes on: "Can it really be the case that no one knew what he was doing? Did some turn a blind eye to criminality?
"Did some prefer not to follow up their suspicions because of this criminal's popularity and place in the schedules?"
The BBC Trust chairman also stresses he has instructed current BBC director general George Entwistle staff must "co-operate fully" with the inquiry, led by former Sky News chief Nick Pollard, into the handling of the Newsnight report.
"The sooner the report emerges the better, but no one should lean on Mr Pollard to cut corners," he warns.
"We want and need a full account of what happened, wherever its conclusions lead. The Trust will publish it and take whatever steps are necessary.
"The BBC must tell the truth and face up to the truth about itself, however terrible."
Elsewhere, the Sunday Times says the former BBC director general's office was formally alerted about the allegations twice - in May and September.
Mr Thompson left the corporation in September to take up a post in the New York Times.
In May, a newspaper journalist contacted the head of Mr Thompson's office about the Savile allegations, but was told to speak to the BBC press office - according to the Sunday Times.
His rise to fame and the allegations against him
The head of Mr Thompson's office told the paper she did not inform him about the allegations, which are also said to have been laid out in a rejected freedom of information request a few months earlier.
Responding to the article, Mr Thompson's spokesman said he "was not aware of the conversation," adding "he was on holiday at the time and this brief conversation was not relayed to him, either then or subsequently".
The Sunday Times also reports a separate occasion in September, in which an email was sent from ITV - which was investigating Savile - to the BBC editorial policy department and Mr Thompson's office.
A BBC spokesman confirmed the email had been received and sent on to both departments. He added: "We cannot say definitively it did not go anywhere else."
Mr Thompson's spokesman told BBC News: "Mark does not recall being briefed and took no part in the response to the email in early September from ITV relating to its Jimmy Savile documentary. This response was handled by colleagues in BBC Journalism.
"As Mark has made it clear, he had no involvement in the decision not to proceed with the Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile."
Allegations of sexual abuse against Savile have continued to mount since claims were first made public in ITV's documentary at the beginning of October.
On Saturday, Savile's nephew Roger Foster told the BBC he had not believed the allegations at first, but so many had surfaced he was now "convinced that the vast majority of them are true".
He said he could not understand how his uncle, who did so much charity work, "could have such a dark side to him".
The BBC has announced two inquiries as a result of the Savile abuse claims, and a further review into the current sexual harassment policies at the BBC.
On Monday, former Court of Appeal judge Dame Janet Smith will begin a review into the culture and practices of the corporation during Savile's time there, and will also examine whether the BBC's child protection and whistleblowing policies are fit for purpose.
The independent Pollard inquiry is already examining the BBC's management of the Newsnight Savile investigation.


Fernando Alonso says his criticisms of McLaren's Honda engine over team radio helped focus the company on the need to make drastic changes.

He said he felt like an "amateur" when repeatedly overtaken in Canada and in Japan called the engine "embarrassing".
"The actions we need to take next year to be competitive [are] quite extreme," the two-time champion said.
"For big problems you need big solutions, and I think maybe that helped a bit for the big solutions."
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McLaren's season featured a constant stream of reliability problems, grid penalties for using too many engine parts and uncompetitive performances, largely as a result of the fact Honda's engine was by far the worst in the sport.
McLaren's best results were a fifth place each for Alonso and team-mate Jenson Button.
Alonso, in an exclusive interview for the BBC F1 Review show, admitted that he "knew they could broadcast" his message in Japan, when he likened the Honda power-unit to one from the GP2 feeder formula, where engines have a third less power than in F1.
But he added: "A lot of radio messages they didn't broadcast, a lot of in-laps where we were very thankful of the team because it was very difficult.
"Sometimes they change three engines, we were taking one point, two point, close to the points. A lot of positive messages they never broadcast. In Japan, when they broadcast that, probably I knew they could broadcast it."
Button, who also made some withering remarks about the car's performance over the radio and joined Alonso in waving from the podium in Brazil after both were knocked out in the first part of qualifying, said: "Most of the stuff I've said has been useful to the team.
"Some is jokey, because I think you have to have a laugh in some situations when it is as tough as it is for us now or else you go crazy.
"Otherwise you get angry and you don't want to get angry with the team because we are all there doing the best we can and we are one team, and I don't want to let them down.
"But sometimes you have to let a bit of emotion out and that's what I've done over the last few races."
Alonso said that McLaren's performance had made it difficult for him to maintain in 2015 the high standards for which he has become famous in F1.
"I don't think it was the best of me," he said. "I had some good races but here and there not consistent enough."
He singled out his qualifying lap in Japan, which he said at the time was one of the best of his career, and his race at the US Grand Prix as his personal highlights of his season.
"In Suzuka, one of the best," Alonso said. "In Austin, it was one of the best - for the first 20 laps in the damp conditions, eight or nine of them I was quicker than Lewis (Hamilton), who was leading the race.
"But I could not keep that top level of performance consistently enough.
"Sometimes because of the lack of laps, sometimes because of mechanical problems, sometimes in the fights we are quick in the corner and very slow on the straight so you cannot maximise the pace in any of the parts of the race.
"Some frustration around, some disappointment sometimes. So for next year the level will be higher and I will perform as I did in the lap in Japan or the race in Austin hopefully in every race in every lap."
"So some frustration, some disappointment, so for next year the level will be higher and I will perform as I did in the lap in Japan or the race in Austin every race."
Alonso said he was still enjoying F1 but that he needed to be winning again soon.
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"You need to feel a little bit competitive to enjoy, at least. When you are not quick enough it is difficult to enjoy - you get more frustration than fun.
"There are always new challenges - new circuits, some wet races, good opportunities, the starts, the first laps. They are always moments to enjoy, but at one point you need to fight for the championship. That is the ultimate goal."
BBC F1 Review, Saturday 12 December, 13:00 GMT, BBC One