Ugandan soldiers sent to the Central African Republic to hunt for rebels are facing accusations that they have been raping local women and girls.

A mother by the age of 13.
When I meet Eloise what strikes me is how incredibly small she is. Her arms are tiny and she's not very tall either.
The thought of a man - a soldier - raping her seems unimaginable.
But it's not only the trauma of sexual violence Eloise has to deal with - she has a nine-month-old baby to look after too.
We are not using her real name because she is a minor and also for her own protection from possible retaliation.
She says that when she was 12 a Ugandan soldier, deployed to protect her town, attacked her.
"My mother sent me to the market to buy something," she says. "On the way, a Ugandan soldier grabbed me. He dragged me to a nearby lodge [hotel] and raped me."
Uganda has about 2,500 soldiers stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR). The mission, which began in 2009, aims to hunt down Joseph Kony and members of his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The rebel group has been accused of committing massacres, abductions, rape and acts of looting. Kony and his men started in Uganda but went on to wage their war across the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR.
But now the Ugandan army is being accused of committing sexual crimes similar to those carried out by the group it's meant to be fighting.
At a secret location, we meet Marie. She is 14 years old and far more confident than Eloise.
She makes a similar allegation.
"I was going to the field to work and on my way, I was grabbed by a Ugandan. He was violent, he attacked me and he raped me. When I think about this, it hurts me. I didn't expect it at all.
"If I had a knife or machete I would have tried to attack him."
Most of the soldiers from the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), are stationed in Obo, in the far south-west of the CAR.
Dense forest and rivers surround it. But it's also a modern military town. During the day there's the constant sound of helicopters and planes taking off - soldiers coming in and going out, their supplies arriving.
A United States unit of about 100 military advisers is also based in the town, supporting the mission to find Kony.
Uganda operates under an African Union mandate but other countries in the region affected by the LRA, which are meant to be part of the mission, hardly contribute troops because of conflicts back home.
Obo mayor Barthelemy Maickos says: "I'm thankful for the Ugandans being in our locality. If they were not here, Joseph Kony's men would be."
But, with all the allegations of wrongdoing, he wishes his own government would take up the responsibility of protecting its people.
The CAR has faced bouts of instability. The most recent began in 2012 when the mostly Muslim Seleka rebels overthrew the government. To confront them a Christian/Animist group the anti-Balaka was formed. The country is divided and the United Nations stepped in to provide peacekeepers.
But some of these UN soldiers, as well as those from former colonial power France, have been accused of sexually abusing boys, girls and women.
In an effort to be more open about these crimes, the UN has investigated allegations against Ugandan soldiers in and around Obo.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, last July said his office had interviewed 18 women who said they had faced sexual violence and harassment by Ugandan soldiers. Fourteen cases of alleged rape, including cases involving victims who were minors at the time, were also reported, all in and around Obo.
Several women and girls reported they had been taken from their villages by Ugandans and forced to become prostitutes or sex slaves, or to marry Ugandan soldiers, the statement said.
Mr Al Hussein called on Uganda to investigate the alleged crimes itself and ensure that, where evidence was sufficient, alleged perpetrators were brought to justice.
But the man charged with carrying out public prosecutions in Obo, Max Tina, told us he gets little co-operation from Uganda.
"We knew one case where a dog was used to rape a minor," he says. "When we started investigating, the Ugandan authorities decided to clean their tracks and repatriate those who committed this crime back to Uganda."
I put these allegations to Brig-Gen Richard Karemire, the Ugandan military spokesman, who says an investigation was carried out in Obo but no evidence was found.
"A team went on the ground and did a very good investigation and they never found anything really to implicate any UPDF individual for having perpetrated such crimes," he says.
I push him on the fact that such complaints have followed the Ugandan army when it's been deployed in Somalia or the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He answers: "Allegations will always be there. What's important is that when there are allegations, when you investigate and find elements culpable, what do you do? Wherever we find any of our soldiers culpable we take action."
Maria Burnett, associate director at Human Rights Watch, sees the situation very differently.
"We have long-standing concerns about accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse committed by Ugandan soldiers during operations outside Uganda," she says.
"We have discussed our concerns with various officials over many years and each time there are commitments to investigate, mixed with denials that abuses have occurred."
I asked Eloise, still a child herself, what she hoped for her and her baby's future.
"I'm not thinking of anything for us, " she says. "I don't know - I'm not thinking of anything."
Already in a desperate situation, they have barely a fighting chance.


Bernie Sanders will try to claw back Hillary Clinton's lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency on Saturday in caucus votes in Washington state, Hawaii and Alaska.

Mr Sanders remains a dogged pursuer but Mrs Clinton has 1,691 of the 2,383 delegates needed to win, AP reports.
He is still attracting tens of thousands to his rallies, on Friday calling for a "political revolution".
Mrs Clinton pointed out she has "2.6 million more votes" than Mr Sanders.
Saturday's voting is just for the Democratic nomination.
Mr Sanders has spent the week on the west coast, rallying support among liberals and the left-wing.
Late on Friday in Seattle's Safeco baseball stadium, he repeated key elements of his policy platform, urging economic equality and universal health care.
He said: "Real change historically always takes place from the bottom on up when millions of people come together. We need a political revolution!"
Mr Sanders is trying to build on overwhelming victories in Tuesday's caucuses in Idaho and Utah.
However, he also suffered defeat in Arizona, and although his delegate haul from the three states was 20 higher than Mrs Clinton, he has failed to make major inroads into her lead.
Mrs Clinton has also been campaigning in Washington state. She told supporters in Everett: "We are on the path to the nomination, and I want Washington to be part of how we get there."
She also focused on this week's deadly attacks in Brussels, condemning Republican rivals Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for their "reckless" foreign policies.
Opinion polls are scarce and tricky in caucus elections - a series of meetings in which voters give their support for candidates with an open show of hands.
However, Mr Sanders has used his appeal with grassroots activists to benefit from the voting system in the past. He has done particularly well among young voters.
Washington is the biggest prize, with 101 pledged delegates available. Hawaii has 25 delegates at stake and Alaska 16.
Whatever happens on Saturday, the battle will be won and lost in far bigger states still to come. In RealClearPolitics poll averages, Mrs Clinton has the lead over Mr Sanders by nine percentage points in California, 34 points in New York and 28 in Pennsylvania.
Calculations suggest Mr Sanders may need to win two-thirds of the remaining delegates - in primaries, caucuses and among so-far uncommitted super-delegates - the unelected officials who can vote for their candidate of choice at the party's election convention.
Winning delegates, the people who endorse a candidate at the party conventions in July, is key to securing the nomination.
The Democratic totals include the delegates won per state, as well as so-called "unpledged" or "super delegates". Hillary Clinton has a huge lead among the party leaders and elected officials who each get a vote at the convention.
AP conducts surveys of these super delegates, and adds them to a candidate's totals if they indicate their support.  But super delegates can - and do - change their minds during the course of the campaign, so the figures may shift as the race unfolds.
The delegate tracker is updated automatically. There may be a short delay between the delegates being assigned and the totals changing.
The Republican race has been dominated lately by feuding between Mr Cruz and Mr Trump.
Mr Cruz told reporters that Mr Trump was behind a story in the National Enquirer that alleged Mr Cruz had had extramarital affairs.
Mr Cruz called the story "garbage, complete and utter lies".
Mr Trump has threatened on Twitter to "spill the beans" on Mr Cruz's wife, Heidi, and has posted an unflattering photo of her.
Mr Cruz called Mr Trump "classless" and a "coward".
Mr Trump leads Mr Cruz by 739 delegates to 465, with a total of 1,237 needed to win the Republican nomination, AP reports.


A man has been charged with manslaughter after a man died in hospital almost three weeks after an incident in a pub beer garden.

The man had originally been charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Paul Colin Morrison, 51, from Burton Leonard, Harrogate, on 1 November.
Mr Morrison died at Harrogate District Hospital on 20 November.
A 44-year-old man, from Harrogate, is expected to appear before the town's magistrates in December.
Mr Morrison suffered head injuries in the incident which occurred in the beer garden at the Wetherspoons Royal Baths pub on Parliament Street at around 19:30 GMT.
A 43-year-old man from the York area also required treatment for facial injuries during the incident.


Richer teenagers are three times more likely to go to top universities than working class pupils, even if they have the same grades, research suggests.

Researchers compared the proportion of teenagers in England with good grades with figures for those with places at "high status" institutions.
The gap between the groups is not simply due to grades, they conclude.
"We need to talk about other possible causes," said Dr John Jerrim of London University's Institute of Education.
The researchers also looked at the extent of the access gap between the social classes to elite universities in Australia and the United States.
"Although academic achievement is an important factor, a substantial proportion of the elite university access gap in each country remains unexplained.
"This suggests that there are working-class children whom, even though they have the grades to attend, choose to enter a non-selective institution instead," said Dr Jerrim, who led the research.
The study suggests that children of professionals in England are 3.2 times more likely to go to a Russell Group university than working-class children.
But the study found that the gap was not just down to poorer grades among working-class pupils.
Once the researchers had taken pupils' exam achievements into account, they found that teenagers with good grades from professional families were 1.4 times more likely to go to one of these universities than working-class pupils with similar grades.
The research suggests the access gap is in fact less pronounced in England than in the United States and Australia.
In Australia, children of professionals are 2.7 times more likely to attend a highly selective university than their working-class peers but only half of this difference is explicable by high school grades, say the researchers.
In the United States entry to elite private universities is dominated by students from professional backgrounds who are more than six times more likely to attend than those from working-class families.
The researchers say less than half (48%) of the difference is explained by high grades.
The figures for leading US public universities show wealthier students are 3.3 times more likely to attend, with around 40% of the difference explicable by grades, says the study.
The paper will be presented to a summit on university access organised by the education charity Sutton Trust.
Dr Jerrim will also tell the summit about differences in student funding in the three countries.
Bursaries for low and middle-income students at Harvard, for example, can allow them to graduate "debt free", despite fees of more than Â£37,000 a year, he will say.
Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, said the report showed the main reason pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds were less likely to go to leading universities "is because they are not achieving the right grades" in the right subjects.
"It is also the case that some very bright students are not encouraged to apply for leading universities. We cannot offer places to those who do not apply or who have not done the right subjects to study their chosen course.
"Access is an issue for leading universities across the globe - there is no silver bullet to this entrenched problem."
Dr Piatt said the group was working hard to tackle the access gap, "pumping millions more into outreach programmes" and publishing advice to help students choose their A-levels.
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the million+ group said: "The Sutton Trust wrongly assumes that the interests of well-qualified students are best served if they study at a small number of universities which label themselves as elite.
"Students are much more savvy than this. They understand that high-quality, top-class degrees leading to high-flying, professional careers are available at a wide range of universities. It is therefore unsurprising that they choose to study at these universities."


English writer Jacob Polley has won the prestigious £20,000 TS Eliot Prize.

The Carlisle-born poet won for his new collection Jackself, which the judges called "a firework of a book".
Polley, who has penned four poetry collections, was presented with the award at a ceremony in London.
Others in the running included English writers Denise Riley and Ruby Robinson, Trinidadian poet Vahni Capildeo, Scottish poet J O Morgan and Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue.
Also on the shortlist were British poets Rachael Boast, Ian Duhig, Alice Oswald and Katharine Towers. The shortlisted poets all received £1,500.
Head judge Ruth Padel said: "All three judges were agonised by choosing between such brilliant books.
"But the winning collection, Jacob Polley's Jackself, is a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling."
Previous winners of the prize have included Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and former poet laureates Ted Hughes and Carol Ann Duffy.
Last year's winner was Sarah Howe for her debut collection Loop of Jade.


The most senior Google executive outside Silicon Valley has said Britain should not be distracted by Brexit and should focus on supporting the growth of global technology companies.

Matt Brittin, the head of Google's Europe, Middle East and Africa business, said the conditions for success in the UK were now better than in 2010, when David Cameron said the founders of the tech giant believed they could never have built their company in Britain.
"I think it is getting better all the time, the conditions for big tech success here in the UK," Mr Brittin told me.
He said that although the vote to leave the European Union had caused uncertainty, it was a "local" issue and the government should concentrate on creating the right conditions for entrepreneurs to flourish globally.
"I think clearly there is uncertainty, and that is never helpful for investment," he told me.
"But in the big scheme of things the major trend that is happening is that the internet population is doubling from 2.7bn people to over 5bn people in a four to five year period.
"That is the trend entrepreneurs need to be paying attention to - and ultimately I am sure the government will sort out solutions for the local issues around Brexit.
"The thing entrepreneurs need to be doing is investing in that huge change globally because we're already world leaders in Britain - we're a big net exporter [in technology], we're creating jobs growth and opportunity through entrepreneurs today and they need to seize that opportunity now and not be distracted by short-term turmoil or uncertainty the markets are seeing."
Mr Brittin said it was vital that talent in the technology industry could move freely between different countries and a "consistent rule book" existed for as many countries as possible.
The European Union has been criticised for not moving more quickly towards a digital single market.
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"It is important for every company to be able to sell their product and services around the world," Mr Brittin said.
"It is easier if the rule book is consistent in more countries, and the single market project is not complete in Europe so there is still a lot of work to do."
Despite concerns raised over recent takeovers by foreign firms of British businesses - such as Japanese Softbank's takeover of Arm, which designs computer chips - Mr Brittin said it was not a good idea for the government to intervene.
"I think the dynamic global economy is one where investment from all sources should be welcomed - it is for founders and decision makers to decide the best options," he said.
"If you restrict financing options, investment options, in one area it makes it a less healthy market."
The Google president argued the UK had good conditions for fast-growing technology companies.
"You need entrepreneurs, skills and finance," he said, when I asked him what was necessary for success.
"My sense is we have amazing skills. Google employs 4,000 plus people in the UK, they are as good as anywhere in the world.
"Access to finance is getting better and better.
"I think the entrepreneurial piece is the one we can learn from Silicon Valley, and the appetite for risk and the ambition to do something big.
"If you start a company in Silicon Valley five years ago you are thinking about reaching the US population - 300 million.
"If you start in the UK you're reaching the national population - 60 million.
"Everybody should think, when you're starting a tech company, you can reach the entire world because that's the way things are moving."


Chris Froome opened a 52-second lead over rival Alberto Contador after Team Sky won the team time trial on the opening stage of the Vuelta a Espana.

The Briton is trying to be the first rider in 38 years to win the Tour de France and Vuelta in the same year.
Another of Froome's key rivals, Nairo Quintana, finished four-hundredths of a second adrift with his Movistar squad.
Manxman Pete Kennaugh led the Team Sky squad over the finish line to take the race leader's red jersey.
Just five of Sky's nine-man squad crossed the line together, the minimum needed to register a time.
Spaniard Contador was the last man to win two of the three main road races in a calendar year, winning the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta in 2008.
Only Jacques Anquetil, in 1963, and Bernard Hinault, in 1978, have previously won the Tour de France and Vuelta in the same season.
"To start almost a minute from direct rivals is more than I imagined," said Contador, who is looking to win the Vuelta for a joint record fourth time.
"It's a big deficit. There are still 20 stages to go and we will try to reduce the gap day by day."
Sunday's 159km second stage takes the riders from Ourense to Baiona.
Team time trial classification:
1. Team Sky (GB) 30mins 37secs
2. Movistar (Spa) same time
3. Orica BikeExchange (Aus) +6 secs
4. BMC Racing (US) +7secs
5. Etixx - Quick-Step (Bel) +22secs
6. Trek-Segafredo (US) +50secs
7. Cannondale (US) +52secs
8. Tinkoff (Rus)  Same time
9. BORA Argon (Ger)  +57secs
10. Astana (Kaz)  +58secs
General classification:
1. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) 30mins 37secs
2. Salvatore Puccio (Ita/Team Sky) same time
3. Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol/Team Sky)
4. Leopold Koenig (Cze/Team Sky)
5. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky)
6. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar)
7. Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa/Movistar)
8. Ruben Fernandez (Spa/Movistar)
9. Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa/Movistar)
10. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar)
Selected others:
14. Simon Yates (GB/Orica BikeExchange) +6 secs
50. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +52 secs
124. Scott Thwaites (GB/BORA Argon) +02mins 01sec
179. Hugh Carthy (GB/Caja Rural) +04mins 34secs


In the restaurant business, owners generally raise their prices when their costs rise - namely rent, and ingredients.

10 February 2016 Last updated at 01:21 GMT
And Hong Kong ranks among one of the most expensive cities in the world.
But Chan Cheuk Ming has kept the pricing at his eatery unchanged for around 7 years, and works with a charity to feed the poor and hungry.


Actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake joined hundreds of people at an event to mark 196 years since the Peterloo massacre in Manchester.

At least 10 people were killed and hundreds injured in 1819 when troops charged a crowd at St Peter's Field who were demanding political reform.
The artist Jeremy Deller is in talks about creating a permanent memorial, the Peterloo Massacre Campaign said.
Chairman Paul Fitzgerald said the work of art had been "budgeted".
Eccleston said a permanent memorial was important "because [Peterloo] was whitewashed, because it was suppressed, if they had fronted up about it in the first place, there would be no need for this kind of thing".
More than 60,000 people, who were reported to be unarmed, attended a meeting on 16 August 1819 that called for voting rights for working men.
But local magistrates sent in an armed cavalry through the crowd to arrest speakers, including the political reformer Henry Hunt.
The consequent carnage, dubbed Peterloo after the battle at Waterloo a few years earlier, inspired the protest poem The Mask of Anarchy by the English Romantic writer Percy Bysshe Shelley and the birth of the Guardian newspaper in Manchester.
Earlier this year Oscar-nominated director Mike Leigh, who was born in Salford, said he hoped to film a movie in 2017 on the Peterloo massacre.
Peake said: "I did write to him and say thank you for doing this project... it's not just a northern issue, it's a nationwide, a worldwide issue."
Organisers of the annual commemoration said they wanted "to try something new" this year by arranging a picnic of bread and cheese, adding it completed "what the [1819] protesters originally set out to do".


Wales Women made history by securing their place in hockey's World League quarter-finals thanks to a 3-0 win over Thailand in Malaysia.

Wales, competing in round two of the World League for the first time, finished second in their pool behind Italy with two wins from three.
Natalie Blyth, Beth Bingham and Eloise Laity scored against a Thailand.
It was also the second consecutive clean sheet for goalkeeper Rose Thomas after their 7-0 win over Singapore.
Wales' tournament opened with a 3-0 defeat by Italy and the convincing win against Singapore followed in Kuala Lumpur.
It is the first time Wales' women's hockey side have played at this level of competition.
In the Pool A clash with Singapore, Natasha Marke-Jones opened the scoring.
There were two goals each for Lisa Daley and Phoebe Richards, whilst Abi Welsford also found the net and Sarah Jones completed the rout.
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A main road closed by a sinkhole in Neath Port Talbot is being reopened following emergency repairs.

Police sealed off Cimla Road, Neath, on Thursday morning following its discovery at the bottom of Cimla Hill.
Although it was only 1.5ft (0.5m) wide on the surface, the council said the void below was 20ft (6m) wide and deep.
The road was due to reopen to cars at about 18:00 GMT on Sunday, after the hole was filled with 64 tonnes of concrete and stone.
Local councillor John Warman praised the authority's highways teams for "pulling out all the stops" to get the road repaired.
He described it as one of the busiest roads in the area - feeding 24 junctions, with refuse collections also hit by the closure.
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Wales assistant manager Osian Roberts says he expects Chris Coleman to be in charge for the opening World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 5 September.

The Football Association of Wales (FAW) rejected an approach by Hull City to speak to 46-year-old Coleman.
Coleman guided Wales to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 a month after signing a new two-year contract with the FAW.
"We're fully focused on Moldova," Roberts told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"We've started our preparation and planning for the Moldova game and that will continue over the next three or four weeks."
The former Fulham manager is one of the candidates the Premier League new boys have targeted to replace Steve Bruce.
Bruce resigned in July after a breakdown in his relationship with Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam.
Coleman, who succeeded the late Gary Speed as Wales manager in January 2012, has already said the 2018 World Cup campaign will be his last in charge of Wales.
"The plan is to try and get the team to Russia and as he's already stated, after that he will look at his options," Roberts added.
"If that goes to plan in two years' time he'll be looking at club involvement, whether that will be here in the UK or abroad."
Roberts is not surprised Coleman has been targeted by Hull following Wales' success at Euro 2016, their first appearance in a major tournament in 58 years.
"There's always going to be speculation any time a major job becomes vacant," Roberts said.
"It's going to be quite natural in the next few weeks and months that the speculation will exist
"That's due to the great work Chris has achieved with the national team."


(Close): US stocks rose on Friday, lifted by a rise in oil prices that came as an industry body said the market may have "bottomed out".

The Dow Jones was up 218 points, or 1.3%, to 17,213.
The S&P 500 index gained 33 points to 2,022, while the tech-focused Nasdaq index rose 86, or 1.9%,  to 4,748.
Investors were encouraged by comments from the International Energy Agency that oil prices were stabilising and could even begin to rise again.
The price of Brent crude rose to $40.42 and is now set for its third week of gains in a row. US crude climbed to $38.50 a barrel.
Among the energy related stocks, Peabody Energy was up 2.4% and Consol Energy rose 5.5%.
Online travel firm Expedia saw its shares up 5%, while Trip Advisor stock rose 4.4%.
Day light savings time begins in the US on Sunday.


A Bahraini appeals court on Wednesday upheld a death sentence against a protester convicted of murdering a policeman in March 2011.

The officer, Ahmed al-Mreyssi, died after being repeatedly run over during anti-government protests.
The court upheld a life sentence given to a second man in the case.
Bahrain and its Sunni royal family have been shaken by unrest since pro-democracy protests began in 2011. Most protesters are from the Shia majority.
The death sentence was confirmed on Wednesday for Ali al-Taweel, and the sentence to life imprisonment for Ali Shamlo.
Lawyers for the two men have said they will appeal against the decision at the court of cassation in a final effort to have the sentences reduced.
Bahrain's largest opposition political party Al Wefaq denounced Wednesday's decision and said confessions used as evidence in convicting the two men were extracted by torture.
The Gulf island kingdom has been wracked by nearly two years of violence that followed the clearing of an iconic landmark, Pearl Roundabout, in the capital Manama, in February 2011.
As violence escalated 35 people, including five police officers, were killed. Hundreds more were hurt and thousands jailed - the vast majority Shia Muslims.
Since then, opposition and human rights activists say another 45 people have been killed, a figure which the government disputes.
In October last year two policemen died of injuries sustained during clashes with protesters in villages outside Manama.
Last December, a Bahraini court commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of two other protesters convicted of killing two policemen in another incident in 2011.


Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones is out for six weeks with a shoulder injury suffered during Saturday's Six Nations 20-18 defeat by France in Paris.

The 31-year-old lock was hurt hitting a ruck, and was replaced in the 51st minute by Luke Charteris.
Jones will miss club side Ospreys' match with Stade Francais in a European Challenge Cup quarter-final on 2 April.
Jones has been tipped as a candidate to lead the British and Irish Lions on their tour of New Zealand this summer.
The WRU revealed the extend of the injury in a short statement.
"Alun Wyn suffered a shoulder injury in the France v Wales RBS Six Nations match at the weekend and, following scans and orthopaedic consultation, he will undergo an initial six week period of rehabilitation," they said.
Jones captained the Lions in the final Test of their 2-1 series win over Australia in 2013.
Lions coach Warren Gatland names his squad for the New Zealand tour on 19 April and Jones is unlikely to feature before.
The Welsh region travel to Treviso in the Pro12 on Saturday, 25 March without their captain.
However, Lloyd Ashley is set to return from after overcoming concussion and Jones' fellow Wales lock Bradley Davies is expected to return following a knee injury in April.
Backs coach Gruff Rees said: "Bradley's just working through the final part of his procedures. I think mid-April might be a fair shout for us and he could really add to our squad."
Ospreys can also call on uncapped Wales Six Nations squad member Rory Thornton at lock.


Parking charges in parts of Belfast, Newry and Lisburn city centres are set to rise next month, Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard has said.

Motorists will have to pay an extra 20p per hour to park their vehicles on city centre streets from Monday 20 February.
Mr Hazzard said fees had "not kept pace with inflation" in recent years.
However, traders have described the price hike as "disgraceful and unnecessary" and have called on the minister to reverse his decision.
In Belfast, city centre charges will rise from £1.20 per hour to £1.40.
In Lisburn, County Antrim, charges will increase from 60p to 80p per hour.
For motorists in Newry, County Down, fees will rise from 40p to 60p per hour.
Some streets on the edge of Belfast city centre will see a 50% rise in parking charges, as zones where fees are currently charged at 80p per hour will increase to £1.20.
The Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (NIIRTA) reacted with "surprise and dismay".
Its chief executive Glyn Roberts said it was "completely unacceptable" that traders had not been consulted before the announcement.
"Rather than increasing parking charges, the minister should be reducing them to encourage more people to come into the three city centres," Mr Roberts said.
The minister's statement said:  "On-street parking tariffs in Belfast have not increased since 2011 and have therefore not kept pace with inflation.
"Similarly, tariffs in Newry and Lisburn have not increased since 2009 and 2008."
Mr Hazzard said he had "limited these increases to the minimum possible".


One man has been fatally stabbed and another seriously injured after reports of an armed robbery in Derbyshire.

Police were called to the One Stop shop in Charlotte Street, Ilkeston, at about 05:35 BST.
Soon after they received calls to say two men had been stabbed at a house in the same street.
A man in his 30s, named locally as Paul Averill, died at the scene and a 23-year-old suffered life-threatening injuries.
A third man, also 23, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and suspicion of wounding.
Police said they were treating the stabbings and armed robbery as two separate investigations.
Friends of the murdered man told BBC East Midlands Today he had a young daughter and worked at E.On in Nottingham.
"Such a tragic loss, so unfair," said Ben Foulding.
BBC Radio Derby reporter Rob Watts said the main police activity centred around two houses in Charlotte Street, one of which appeared to be empty.
Supt Gary Parkin said officers had been dealing with the armed robbery at the shop when they were called to a nearby house 10 minutes later.
"In that address we discovered that there had been a violent incident and found one man deceased," he said.
"The incidents were in very close proximity to each other but we are keeping a very open mind to whether they are connected."
He said officers from the East Midlands Major Crime Unit were on site investigating and officers would be questioning the man in custody.
Residents Julie and Craig Eaton said they were woken up by loud banging.
"We shot out of bed because it sounded really close," they said.
"There were eight police cars and ambulances with lights flashing everywhere.
"It's not something you expect to wake up to. It's worrying that something like this can happen right opposite you."
Mr Eaton said the shop had been targeted by armed robbers at least three times in the last year.
Neighbour Gill Ferguson said forensics officers had been in and out of the house all morning.
She described the property as "unkempt" looking and said she did not know the family who lived there.
"Recently, someone has cut the grass and the fence has been repaired but for much of the last seven years it's been unkempt," she said.
"The shop has been unlucky, because it's been raided two or three times recently, and every time they go for the cash machine inside."
The injured man was was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
A number of roads in the area have been closed while investigations are carried out.
Charlotte Road is shut, as are stretches of Heanor Road, Cotmanhay Road and Norman Street.


A 14-year-old boy has been injured in an assault in Wick town centre.

Police Scotland said the boy was treated for minor head and body injuries at Caithness General Hospital.
He was assaulted by a male teenager who was wearing black clothing and was part of a group of teenagers on Shore Lane at about 21:15 on 28 September.
Police said the incident may have been seen by the driver of vehicle seen travelling on Shore Lane at the time.


A cartoon featuring the first Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, is to be screened for the first time in 87 years.

A restored print of Sleigh Bells (1928) will have its world premiere at the BFI in London in next month.
The BFI says the re-discovery of the "long-lost" six-minute film in its archive is a "joyful treat".
Other Oswald films survive but Sleigh Bells has been unseen since its original release.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was invented by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal in 1927 before they went on to create Mickey Mouse.
The only surviving print of Sleigh Bells was preserved in the BFI National Archive and was "re-discovered" by a researcher browsing its online catalogue.
The restoration work was carried out by Walt Disney Animation Studios and the new print will be shown at BFI Southbank on 12 December as part of a programme of Disney Christmas shorts.
"What a joyful treat to discover a long-lost Walt Disney film in the BFI National Archive and to be able to show Sleigh Bells to a whole new audience 87 years after it was made," said Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive.
"The restoration of this film will introduce many audiences to Disney's work in the silent period - it clearly demonstrates the vitality and imagination of his animation at a key point in his early career."
Andrew Millstein, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, which oversaw the restoration, said the Oswald shorts were an important part of Disney history.
"We have been working with film archives and private collectors all around the world to research the missing titles."


Thai authorities have banned former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office for five years and launched a legal case that could see her jailed.

An army-appointed legislature impeached her over corruption in a scheme she oversaw to subsidise rice farmers.
The criminal charges, which also relate to the rice scheme, could result in a 10-year jail term.
The military has ruled Thailand since May 2014, when they overthrew Ms Yingluck's government in a coup.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says the impeachment sends a strong signal that there will be no compromise and her family will be removed from politics.
Ms Yingluck and her brother, tycoon and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, remain hugely popular among Thailand's rural poor, but are hated by an urban and middle-class elite who accuse them of corruption and abuse of power.
Their party is the most popular in Thailand and has - under various different names - won every election since 2001.
Shortly after her impeachment, Ms Yingluck was due to hold a news conference at a Bangkok hotel.
But troops arrived and prevented her from speaking.
Thailand is still under martial law and unauthorised political meetings are banned.
Ms Yingluck has since posted a statement (in Thai) on her Facebook page accusing the authorities of trying to destroy her.
"Democracy has died in Thailand today, along with the rule of law," she said.
As they prepared for this vote, those advocating impeachment argued that it had nothing to do with politics or reconciliation, that it should be understood purely as a response to corruption in the Yingluck government's rice support scheme.
That there was corruption is undeniable; there is plenty of evidence. The generous subsidy was also financially unsustainable.
But no-one has yet been tried or convicted. Nor were Ms Yingluck's opponents able to explain how impeachment was possible against a politician who has already been removed from office, and by an assembly entirely appointed by the military.
So this was not about corruption, or the rule of law. It was the culmination of eight months of lobbying by hard-line opponents of the Shinawatra family, who want them purged from politics, and eight months of hesitation by military rulers who had some hopes of being seen as saviours, delivering the nation from political turmoil.
That calculation has now changed decisively. With a five-year ban from politics and a criminal charge hanging over her, Ms Yingluck faces the same fate as her brother - jail or exile.
Her party and supporters, who have relied on her family's funds, must decide whether they will seek new leadership or start resisting the military.
The allegations against Ms Yingluck centre on a scheme in which her Pheu Thai-led government bought rice from Thai farmers at a much higher price than on the global market.
It resulted in the accumulation of huge stockpiles of rice and hit Thailand's rice exports hard.
Anti-corruption investigators have accused Ms Yingluck and her party of using the scheme to buy votes from farmers, particularly from their power base in the north, and allowing government associates to profit from it.
On Friday, 190 out of 219 lawmakers present in the National Legislative Assembly voted to impeach her. Eighteen voted against impeachment while the others abstained. One lawmaker was absent for the vote.
The votes were written on a whiteboard as they were tallied, and broadcast on national television.
Ms Yingluck has maintained that she was not involved in the scheme's day-to-day operations, and has defended it as an attempt to support the rural poor. She has also said that she could not be impeached as she has not held a position in the government for months.
Her supporters say the claims against her are a ruse to remove her from politics.
Ms Yingluck also faces up to 10 years in prison if she is found guilty of negligence of duty, which the attorney general charged her with on Friday morning.
Surasak Threerattrakul, director-general of the Office of the Attorney General, said after considering all the witnesses and evidence from the National Anti-Corruption Committee "we agree that the case substantiates a criminal indictment charge against Yingluck".


Five friends who embarked on a charity challenge to visit 42 football grounds in 42 hours have completed the journey and tripled their fundraising goal.

The group set off on the drive on Thursday and stopped at every senior football club in Scotland.
They met a few celebrity supporters along the route including TV presenter Lorraine Kelly and former snooker world champion John Higgins.
The 42 In 42 challenge was organised to raise funds for the JMA Trust.
The charity was set up in memory of Celtic and Annan Athletic fan John Maurice Aitken, who died from lymphoma last year aged 32.
His brothers, Kevin and Ciaran, took part in the road trip along with friends and former Annan Athletic players Gordon Moffat, Joe Cranston and Gary McMenamin.
They set a fundraising target of £5,000 but after crossing the finish line ahead of time at Annan's Galabank stadium in Dumfries and Galloway on Friday night, they have seen donations total three times that amount.
Kevin, 32, said: "The support we've had has just been amazing and the people who turned up at various grounds really kept us going.
"We changed driver at every stop and it was a bit rocky in the car at times - especially through the night when we were tired and it was cold. We were visiting the grounds around Inverness and Aberdeen at that point and there was nobody around as it was the middle of the night.
"But then we got down to Dundee United on Friday where Lorraine Kelly met us at Tannadice. She knew all about the charity and she was brilliant - meeting her gave us a real boost.
"There were definitely some points along the way where it was quite emotional because I knew how much it would have meant to John. He loved football and the whole thing would have been right up his street."
The group were met by snooker star Higgins when they visited Celtic Park, while Rangers goalkeeper Cammy Bell handed over a donation of £1,000 to the charity when they stopped at Ibrox.
The team have raised almost £9,000 on their sponsorship website, with an extra £5,000 collected offline, with more funds to be added to the total through a half-time appearance at Annan's match against East Fife on Saturday as well as an auction of signed shirts donated by each club.
Mr Aitken's family launched the JMA Trust in his memory at the end of last year with the aim of echoing his attitude and focusing on the aspects of life that were close to his heart.
It will provide support to those in need in areas including health, education, employment, sport and will also help relieve financial hardship.


A man has been charged in connection with an explosion at a house in north Manchester.

The blast reduced much of the end terrace property in Cecil Road, Blackley, to rubble on 16 January.
Kevin Carrol, of Cecil Road, who was injured, has been charged with criminal damage with intent to endanger life.
The 33-year-old is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.
He has recently been discharged from hospital, police said.
A second injured man, whose condition was described as critical, was discharged from hospital in the days following the explosion, a force spokesperson added.


The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said that the worst of the UK's spending cuts are still to come.

Its Green Budget, which looks at options and issues ahead of next month's Budget, says the UK's finances still have "a long way to go".
To meet plans announced in last year's Autumn Statement departmental spending cuts of £51.4bn, or 14.1%, are needed in the next parliament, the IFS said.
Cuts in the current parliament are expected to reach £38.3bn, or 9.5%.
The IFS said that over the next four years the UK is planning the largest fiscal consolidation out of 32 advanced economies.
It would mean public spending falling to its lowest share of national income since at least 1948, and fewer people working in the public sector than at any time since at least 1971.
But the report is optimistic about UK growth, estimating zero inflation and 3% growth this year.
Andrew Goodwin, senior economist at Oxford Economics and co-author of a chapter in the Green Budget, said: "The prognosis for the UK economy is pretty upbeat", and he predicted "a big turnaround in household finances" over the next year.
The Green Budget said that spending cuts so far have been less than planned.
Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said: "Mr Osborne has perhaps not been quite such an austere Chancellor as either his own rhetoric or that of his critics might suggest.
"And he has cut departmental investment spending by only half as much as he originally planned.
"The public finances have a long way to go before they finally recover from the effects of the financial crisis.
"One result is that he or his successor will still have a lot of fiscal work to do over the course of the next parliament."
The report said that the high deficit of more than 5% of national income, and total debt of more than 80% of income, is because of poor economic performance at the start of this parliament.
But the coalition government has implemented fewer real spending cuts than originally planned, no net additional tax rises have been implemented, and tax revenues have risen slower than expected.
There has been no real reduction in spending on social security as the number of pensioners and the generosity of the state pension has risen.
The IFS's Green Budget starkly illustrates the central economic choice facing voters in May: bigger cuts with a Tory or Tory-led government; higher public sector debt with a Labour one.
The contest stems from their differing approaches to balancing the books.
The Tories want an overall surplus by 2018 and surpluses thereafter in all "normal" years; Labour wants balance only on the current budget - that's day-to-day spending, excluding investment - by 2020.
The IFS has provided a useful numerical way of understanding Tories' and Labour's conflicting economic visions - which is essentially that the Conservatives believe the imperative is to cut debt and the size of the state, whereas Labour wants potentially bigger budgets for building roads, rail and schools, and for funding the police and prisons.
Both parties promise to protect spending on health, education and overseas aid.
Read Robert Peston in full here.
The IFS said 98% of the remaining consolidation is currently planned to come from spending cuts rather than higher taxes.
It says that the three main UK parties could all cut spending by less than is implied by Autumn Statement plans and still hit their fiscal targets.
The Conservatives would need to reduce departmental spending after 2015/16 by 6.7% (£24.9bn).
And Labour and the Liberal Democrats would need to impose departmental spending cuts of 1.4% (£5.2bn) and 2.1% (£7.9bn) respectively to be consistent with their fiscal targets and stated intentions on tax and benefit policy.
But if Labour plans were continued into the 2020s the reduction in total debt would be 9% of GDP, compared with 19% under the Conservatives' proposed overall budget balance.


Actor Alistair McGowan has admitted he had misgivings before agreeing to play Jimmy Savile in a new play.

Written by journalist Jonathan Maitland, An Audience with Jimmy Savile focuses on the decades of abuse carried out by the late presenter and how he managed to cover up his crimes.
McGowan told the BBC's Andrew Marr he had had "third, fourth, fifth and sixth thoughts" about doing the play.
But a lot of abuse victims thought the play was 30 years too late, he added.
Since his death in 2011, it has emerged that Savile was one of the UK's most prolific sexual predators.
Once a beloved TV entertainer who raised Â£40m for charity, he is thought to have exploited his status to prey on hundreds of people in television dressing rooms, hospitals, schools and children's homes.
The play's synopsis, describes how Savile "groomed the nation".
When asked by Marr if he had had second thoughts about the role, McGowan answered: "Third, fourth, fifth and sixth thoughts, yes".
He described the play as "very controversial", adding: "Its a very strange experience letting this person speak through me."
However, he continued: "A lot of people have said, 'Is it too early to do this play?,' but if you talk to the victims, a lot of them say it's thirty years too late."
McGowan said he was just one of the millions of British TV viewers who was duped by the disgraced star.
"I was so duped by him that, just after he died, BBC North wanted me to do a tribute show about him because I'd done an impression of him on my show. They asked me to talk about him and his voice and how much affection he was held in and I did it.
"So subsequently, I feel very pleased to be able to redress that [with the play].
An Audience with Jimmy Savile opens on 10 June at the Park Theatre in London, yet no images of McGowan in character have been released to the press.
Writer Maitland said that was a deliberate move as "it's very distressing for victims and survivors and other people to see images of him".
He continued: "When a story about Savile is on the news, you have to [show pictures] but I thought if people are paying to see a play where Savile is a character that's fine, you can have someone portraying him but we don't want to cause people unnecessary offence by having an actor dressed up as him."


Mae'r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol wedi dweud ei bod hi'n "debygol" y bydd heddlu arfog ar faes yr ŵyl ar Ynys Môn.

Dyma fyddai'n tro cyntaf i swyddogion arfog grwydro maes y Brifwyl, fydd yn cael ei chynnal eleni ger Bodedern rhwng 4 a 12 Awst.
Dywedodd prif weithredwr yr ŵyl, Elfed Roberts fod yn rhaid i'r Eisteddfod gymryd camau "oherwydd beth sydd 'di digwydd dros y misoedd diwethaf".
Yn gynharach eleni fe wnaeth yr Urdd amddiffyn y penderfyniad i gael heddlu arfog yn yr eisteddfod ieuenctid ym Mhencoed, gan ddweud eu bod yn rhan o "gamau diogelwch angenrheidiol".
Daeth y presenoldeb arfog yn Eisteddfod yr Urdd ddiwedd mis Mai wythnos yn unig wedi'r ymosodiad terfysgol ym Manceinion ble chafodd 22 o bobl eu lladd gan ffrwydrad.
Mae'r brifwyl hefyd wedi gorfod ystyried eu trefniadau diogelwch o ganlyniad i'r hinsawdd presennol, yn ôl y prif weithredwr.
"Mi fydd 'na fesurau yn y fynedfa o ran chwilio bagiau wrth fynd i mewn," meddai Mr Roberts.
"Oherwydd beth sydd 'di digwydd dros y misoedd diwethaf, dwi'n meddwl bod hi'n anorfod bod rhaid i ni edrych ar y mesurau diogelwch. Rydan ni wedi bod yn trafod hyn efo'r heddlu a'r cyngor sir."
Ychwanegodd: "Mae'n debyg y byddan nhw [heddlu arfog] yna. 'Da ni wedi cael trafodaethau gyda Heddlu Gogledd Cymru, a phenderfyniad yr Eisteddfod ydi beth bynnag mae Heddlu'r Gogledd yn ei gynghori, yna 'da ni'n barod i fynd efo hynny.
"Nhw sy'n gwybod beth sydd orau, nhw ydi'r arbenigwyr, ganddyn nhw mae'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf, ac felly os 'dyn nhw'n teimlo bod rhaid cael heddlu arfog, yna bydd 'na heddlu arfog yna.
"Sut mae'r heddlu arfog yn cerdded o gwmpas y maes, ydyn nhw'n cerdded yn agored ta be', mae hynny eto fyny i'r heddlu."


A statue of the Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be erected opposite the Houses of Parliament.

The memorial will stand in Parliament Square alongside those of Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela.
Speaking on a trip to the Gandhi memorial in Delhi, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the statue would be a "fitting tribute" to a "great man".
Gandhi studied in London for many years before leading non-violent resistance to British rule in India.
He was assassinated in January 1948, months after India secured independence.
The sculptor Philip Jackson, whose works include statues of the Queen Mother and RAF Bomber Command, has been approached to take on the project - which will be paid for by charitable donations and sponsors.
It is intended that the statue will be completed early next year and become a focal point for future commemorations, including the 70-year anniversary of Gandhi's death in 2018.
Mr Hague said Gandhi remained a "towering inspiration and source of strength".
"Gandhi's view of communal peace and resistance to division, his desire to drive India forward and his commitment to non-violence left a legacy that is as relevant today as it was during his life," he said.
An advisory panel is to be set up to spearhead the project. Its members will include prominent members of the Indian community in London, such as Lord Bilimoria, as well as National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne.
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, who will chair the panel and whose parents were born in India, said the statue would celebrate Gandhi's "reverence and greatness".
"No matter what your background, history, or religion, this statue will allow people from around the world to look upon him and appreciate his endeavour and successes for humanity."
The statue will be the 11th to be erected in Parliament Square. Others public figures memorialised include former Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli and Robert Peel.


Large sacks containing bundles of "crispy" banknotes worth a total of $155,000 (Â£130,000) have been seized at a Nigerian airport, officials say.

The cash, in the local naira currency, was found near Kaduna airport's check-in and was still in sealed packs.
An investigation is under way to trace the source of the cash, a spokesman for Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says.
Tackling corruption was a key election pledge for President Muhammadu Buhari.
"Operatives [of the EFCC] intercepted a sum of 49m naira in five large black 150kg... sacks following a tip off," the EFCC said on its website.
It added that investigations are "in top gear" to find the "culprits behind the attempted illegal movement of the cash".
EFCC official Ibrahim Bappah said the cash haul, made up of "crispy naira notes", was discovered on Tuesday when airport security detected a distinctive aroma during a routine screening.
It is not known where the cash were being sent, and the EFCC has said it is looking into whether the money is linked to any crime.
The discovery of the money at the airport fits into a pattern of cash being found by the anti-graft team.
In February the EFCC seized nearly $1.75m in cash at a house belonging to the former boss of the country's giant oil firm.
In another case, a corruption-related probe against the former minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, resulted in a federal high court directing the confiscation of $150m.
Last year, the commission recovered some cash stashed away in a hole dug at the house of ex-air force chief, Marshal Adesola Amosu.
In this case, Nigerians are very keen to know who left the bundles of crispy notes and what they planned to do with the cash.


Detectives investigating the murder of teenager Arlene Arkinson who disappeared after a night out almost 20 years ago have resumed a series of searches in rural locations in County Tyrone.

A team of officers using specialist PSNI search dogs are conducting searches at a number of locations.
The Castlederg teenager went missing after a night out in Bundoran in 1994.
Child killer, Robert Howard, was acquitted of Arlene's murder in 2005.
The PSNI carried out a number of searches last year.
The PSNI said the resumed operation had the "twin objectives of recovering the schoolgirl's remains and progressing the investigation".
"The sites to be covered in this phase of the search strategy have links to the overall investigation into Arlene's disappearance and murder," police said in a statement.
"Searches will continue to be conducted on a planned roll-out, depending on weather conditions, availability of resources and operational commitments."
Detectives from the serious crime branch have been in contact with Arlene's family to keep them updated.
Earlier this month, Northern Ireland's senior coroner told a preliminary hearing in Belfast that the inquest into the teenager's death may not start for two years.
The examination of her death had been due to begin in the autumn.
The hearing was told that a huge amount of outstanding paperwork still has to be re-examined by police officers.
The police files on the murder run to 3,016 documents and 793 witness statements.
Howard is currently serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Hannah Williams, from Deptford, south London, whose body was found in a cement works in Northfleet, Kent, in March 2002.
In February John Leckey said he planned to call Robert Howard as a witness at the inquest.
Last December, Howard lost a High Court challenge to the Arkinson inquest being held - his lawyers claimed it was a move to undermine his acquittal.
He is to appeal against the High Court ruling.


Motherwell owner Les Hutchison is to sell his majority shareholding in the club as the Steelmen move towards a fan-ownership model.

Hutchison is to sell his 76% shareholding to the fans group the 'Well Society for £1.
"With the fans nearly in full control, the onus will very much be on them and the wider community to stand by their club in the weeks, months and years ahead," Hutchison said.
"I'll be supporting from afar."
Hutchison has stepped down from his roles as director and vice-chairman, with Jim McMahon assuming the role of chairman and Douglas Dickie the role of vice-chairman.
John Boyle's controlling interest in the Fir Park club was transferred to retired businessman Hutchison in January 2015.
"I am extremely pleased at the great progress we have made both on and off the park," Hutchison continued.
"The new systems and processes now in place together with an excellent management team has ensured a successful turn around at the club.
"I would like to personally thank Mark McGhee and Alan Burrows for their huge contribution to the improvements at Fir Park.
"I would also like to thank everyone at Fir Park who adopted the many changes I introduced to create a solid foundation to build on and who worked tirelessly to advance the business plan during what was and is a transitional period.
"As well as thanking everyone who has joined and is contributing to the ' Well Society, I would also like to wish the extremely dedicated individuals who will now drive the club forward all the very best in their endeavours. I'll be supporting from afar."


The founding editor of the West Highland Free Press has been sacked by his former paper in a row over free speech.

Brian Wilson, who was a Labour minister in Tony Blair's government, was a columnist for the Skye-based publication.
He was sacked after defending a fellow columnist who wrote a piece about the spread of Islam in the UK.
The West Highland Free Press said they would no longer write for the paper.
Another columnist, broadcaster Maggie Cunningham, has said she will not write any more pieces for the newspaper.
In his last column on 22 May, Donald Macleod, a Free Church professor of theology, wrote: "All minorities prefer to keep a low profile and avoid trouble.
"Generations of British Muslims have done exactly that, many have made an invaluable contribution to British society, and many are perfectly prepared to listen quietly while Christians 'witness' to them.
"But when minorities become majorities, things change... in the event of Islamic dominance in Britain our friendly Muslim shopkeepers will have little option but to march behind the radicals."
'Immense contribution'
In response, Mr Wilson wrote in his column last week that Mr Macleod's piece was "leading on to wider questions about Islamic influence within Europe, including implications for democracy and freedom".
In a statement, the West Highland Free press said: "We note there has been some speculation around Professor Donald Macleod and founding editor Brian Wilson no longer writing columns for the West Highland Free Press and confirm they will both be no longer writing for us.
"We thank both Brian Wilson and Professor Macleod for their immense contribution to the paper over many years.
"They have rightly earned their reputation as erudite, passionate and respected writers and their regular offerings in the West Highland Free Press will be missed by some readers. Further than this, we have no comment to make."


Syrian government forces have retaken areas of the city of Aleppo that were lost to rebels in recent fighting.

The loss of the territory on the city's western edges was confirmed by the rebels themselves, as well as state media and UK-based monitors.
An estimated 275,000 people live under siege in the rebel-held east, where the UN says food rations are running out.
Meanwhile a Russian naval force led by an aircraft carrier is said to have moved into position off Syria.
Capt Sergei Artamonov, commander of the Admiral Kuznetsov, told Russian state media the battle group had arrived at its designated point in the eastern Mediterranean and was carrying out "joint tasks".
The naval deployment has raised fears that Russia, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest allies in his fight against the rebels, will step up air strikes reported to have caused heavy civilian casualties.
On 28 October, rebels and Islamist militants in Aleppo began what they called an "epic battle" to break the siege, pounding government-held areas with hundreds of missiles.
After early advances, their progress slowed but they took over several strategic points in the west of the city.
On Saturday, it was confirmed that government forces had regained control of the al-Minian district and advanced into the al-Assad district.
"The epic battle for Aleppo has failed," Rami Abdurrahman, of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
The fighting left 508 people dead, including civilians and fighters from both sides, according to his organisation.
Ninety foreign fighters were among those killed on the rebel side while 83 Syrian soldiers, 28 Hezbollah militants  and 41 other fighters from Iran and Iraq were killed on the government side, the Observatory estimates.
"We fought them in every street, house, neighbourhood and schools, and they used mosques to launch attacks,'' a Syrian government commander who identified himself as Nabil told al-Manar TV, the channel run by President Assad's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.
Zakaria Malahifji, head of the political office of the Fastaqim rebel group fighting in Aleppo, confirmed the army's advance.
"Of course, when the regime takes control, it has a negative effect, but there is persistence," he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Aleppo: Key battleground in Syria's war
The last remaining food rations are being distributed in rebel-held eastern districts of the city, UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland warned on Friday.
Without a resupply, there would be no food left to hand out next week, he said.
Mr Egeland ruled out airdrops of food, explaining that they were not possible in densely populated urban areas.
In other besieged towns like rebel-held Madaya north-west of Damascus, shortages of food, medical supplies and electricity have led to cases of severe malnutrition.
Aleppo, Syria's economic hub before the civil war began in 2011, has been divided between the two sides since 2012.
Heavy bombardment of rebel-held areas by Syrian and Russian aircraft this autumn provoked an international outcry.
Russia's air campaign in Syria, which began in September 2015 using planes mainly stationed at Hmeimim air base near Latakia, has shored up President Assad's position.
An air campaign by Western powers has focused on the Islamic State group, which controls large parts of north-eastern Syria.
Russia's naval task force: Power play or just theatre?


The government is offering millions of people the chance to get a higher income in retirement, through top-ups to their state pension.

In many ways the scheme - known as Class 3A - looks generous.
But it may not necessarily be the best way to boost your pension, and indeed by doing so you may lose other benefits.
As a result, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is advising people to get financial advice. But here are some general guidelines:
Anyone who received their pension before 6 April 2016. That means that men are eligible if they were born before 6 April 1951. Women are eligible if they were born before 6 April 1953.
The idea is that such people should be compensated, as they will not be eligible for the new - and more generous - flat-rate state pension, which starts in April 2016.
Any current pensioner can benefit. Those who live for a long time will inevitably get better value out of the scheme than those who live for a short time.
The maximum you can get is £1,300 a year, or £25 a week. This will be paid on top of the current state pension of £115 a week. How much you pay for that income depends on your age. For example, if you are 65, that £25 income would cost you £22,250. That is a one-off payment, which you will not get back. However, if you are 80 it would only cost you £13,600. You can chose to buy a smaller amount.
The government has produced a calculator to help you work out costs.
Click HERE to use the calculator.
The top-up payments will rise with inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).
In addition, spouses or civil partners will, in most cases, be able to inherit some of the payments. They will get between 50% and 100% of the cash. The rules for passing on the payments are the same as they are with the additional state pension.
Anyone who has not got a full National Insurance contribution record - frequently women or those who have been self-employed - is likely to be better off topping up through another existing scheme, known as Class 3.
That scheme is far more generous financially, but only applies to people who have not got a full contribution record.
However, anyone who claims means-tested benefits may see them reduced, as a result of their income being boosted by either of these schemes. In particular, anyone who claims the guarantee element of pension credit, housing benefit, or council tax support may be affected.
Those whose incomes may exceed £42,385 as a result will also be liable to the 40% rate of income tax.
Anyone who is in poor health may not get good value for money out of it. Such individuals may do better to buy an enhanced annuity.
Experts say the top-up scheme represents very good value for money. Buying a top-up at the age of 65 provides an annual return of 5.84% on the payment you make.
An equivalent private-sector annuity - which also offers an inflation-linked income for life - would provide a return of 3.69%, according to investment provider Hargreaves Lansdown.
"No private pension company can offer such an attractive deal," said Tom McPhail, pension expert at Hargreaves Lansdown. According to his calculations, the cost of buying a pension top-up is much lower than the cost of buying a standard annuity. See table above.
However, some people may want to consider other forms of investment as an alternative. Peer-to-peer lending can offer returns of 6% before tax, and at the same time individuals would keep their capital. But, unlike top-up payments, such investments do carry a level of risk.
The scheme will only run for 18 months, so is due to finish in April 2017. It is not known what will happen after that. To register an interest, or to get more information, visit this page on the DWP website.


The latest trailer for Beauty and the Beast was viewed a record number of times in its first day online.

According to Disney, the two-minute promo was watched 127.6 million times across all digital platforms in the 24 hours following its release on Monday.
The Hollywood Reporter said that trumped the 114 million views notched up by the trailer for Fifty Shades Darker in September.
Beauty and the Beast will be released in the UK and US in March 2017.
Emma Watson and Dan Stevens play the title roles in the live-action remake of Disney's 1991 animation.
In the trailer, Watson's Belle can be seen meeting Stevens' Beast for the first time.
It also features such characters as Belle's father and the braggart Gaston, played by Kevin Kline and Luke Evans respectively.
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With 1 April coming just two days after campaigning officially got under way, political spoofs were inevitable.

Here is a selection of election-related April Fool's Day jokes:
Sun Nation, the newspaper's election website, revealed that Ed Miliband has secret plans to dye his hair blond. The Labour leader hopes to emulate Boris Johnson, it suggested, having seen his "blond bounce become political dynamite".
Mr Miliband also featured in a cheeky tweet from Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick, who said sources had told him that Labour's leader held a three-hour meeting with UKIP counterpart Nigel Farage late on Tuesday.
Mr Farage corrected the journalist, saying the contenders had needed some notable snacks after the meeting went on for five hours.
The hot topics of debate at the alleged meeting? None really, according to LabourList website editor Mark Ferguson, who said the pair gave campaigning a break to unwind in front of the TV.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is reaching out to voters in an unconventional way, reported PinkNews. It said a profile for Mr Clegg had been spotted on Grindr, the popular dating app for gay men.
The website said a source close to the leader told them: "Nick has gone for a really hands on approach - and will be replying to all of the messages personally, no matter how raunchy."
A Liberal Democrat intern caused a stir at the party's campaign office in Oxford, according to BBC South Today political correspondent Emma Vardy, after telling his colleagues he had been working for their main rival. Unfortunately he revealed the prank a little too late.
Elsewhere, women's issue website Standard Issue Magazine reported that a UKIP candidate had called for a tax on childless women, dubbing it the Spare Womb Tax.
Political commentator Iain Dale joked that he was replacing Tory peer Lord Ashcroft in the House of Lords and would be taking on the title of Lord Dale of Leicester Square.
He denied the peerage was linked to his next book, David Cameron: Hero, Adonis, Possibly the Best Prime Minister in the History of Prime Ministers.
The Spectator got in on the act by exclusively revealing that Mr Clegg had enlisted the help of Lib Dem supporter and actor John Cleese. The magazine said the former Fawlty Towers star had been playing the role of Nigel Farage in sessions to prepare Mr Clegg for Thursday's debate.
But be warned - sometimes even the most bizarre of stories can turn out to be true, as pointed out by the BBC Magazine team.
David Cameron is a distant relative of American TV star Kim Kardashian, according to the Tory leader.
Asked by Heat magazine whether he liked to watch US show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Mr Cameron said: "No, but I'm related to them. Did you know I'm 13th cousins with them?"
Any interest in a family reunion? "I have no plans at the moment!"


Delayed upgrades to the railway line between Wrexham and Chester will start in spring.

Work, which will see the track double between Rossett and Saltney junction, was meant to be finished by 2015.
North Wales AM Mark Isherwood said he was pleased, but found it "disappointing it has taken so long."
Network Rail said it had been working with train operators and local authorities to get the track access required for the project.
In November 2015, the company blamed "setbacks" for further delays which pushed the completion date for work back to 2016.
Mr Isherwood said: "The delays have been incredibly frustrating for passengers who travel between Wrexham and Chester. I will be keeping a close eye on progress, ensuring that my constituents aren't further let down."
The scheme will see 5.5 miles (8.9km) of track doubled, enabling more train services to operate every hour.
Level crossings at Green Lane, Balderton, Pulford and Broad Oak are also being upgraded.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "We will continue to update passengers, the local community and elected representatives of our progress as we work with our industry partners to reduce journey times and enable more trains to run between north and south Wales, as well as delivering significant safety improvements to four level crossings between Wrexham and Chester."


A number of tornadoes have struck parts of Wales and the Midlands, causing damage to buildings and cars.

Winds of up to 94mph have been recorded in parts of Wales, with the seaside town of Aberystwyth bearing the brunt.
Police said no injuries had been reported, though a caravan park in the area has been evacuated after up to 20 caravans were overturned.
The Met Office has issued a yellow severe weather warning of very strong winds moving eastwards across the UK.
Brought in by a squally cold front, BBC Weather said the high winds were expected to clear to the east through the course of Thursday afternoon.
Further strong winds and a brief but intense spell of rain are anticipated, before clearing into the North Sea this evening, BBC Weather added.
Dyfed Powys Police said trees and roof tiles were also blown into roads, with several being forced to close.
Thomas Scarrott, director of the Clarach Bay Holiday Village, near Aberystwyth, said around 15 to 20 caravans had been upended and overturned.
He said: "As I was walking out of the door the wind started to increase and it went from zero to take cover in seconds. My initial thought was it must have been a tornado."
He added: "The danger now is that the wind is blustery and blowing the debris. There are large sheets of metal blowing around. We're OK indoors."
As the high winds spread east, the Grinshill Animal Rescue Centre near Shrewsbury reported "major damage".
Posting photos on Facebook, Kate Aspinall said there was no roof left on the kennels, after a tree fell on it causing damage.
She said: "Dogs and cats are safe thank God. We are OK, a little wet and wind swept."
Richard Sherratt, from Preston Gubbals, north Shropshire, said: "It's chaos.
"I had a telephone call to say two of our trees had broken off, blown down, blocked the road and taken the electric wires with them at the same time.
"The road was completely blocked by branches and electricity cables."
Richard Dowman, estate manager at the Leaton Knolls estate in Shropshire, said the estate had lost a "tremendous amount" of trees.
"We've ended up a bit of a casualty, we're just trying to get the roads open," he said.


Aberdeen's Europa League opponents Maribor are mourning the deaths of two young players in the build-up to Thursday's second leg of their third qualifying round tie.

Damjan Marjanovic, 20, and 21-year-old Zoran Baljak were killed in a road crash, the Slovenian club said.
A Maribor statement said the news has "shattered us deeply".
"A cruel fate has intervened in its severest form and taken away two young members of our Violet family."
Marjanovic and Baljak were both in the B team at Maribor.
Aberdeen, who visit Slovenia following a 1-1 draw at Pittodrie, said they were "deeply saddened" by the news.
Chief executive Duncan Fraser said: "I spoke with my counterpart Bojan Bon this afternoon and have passed on our condolences from all of the Aberdeen family.
"This puts everything into perspective. The clubs have developed an excellent relationship in the build-up to the games and we will co-operate fully with any wishes that NK Maribor may have to mark this tragedy."


An independent report on poverty in Scotland has made 18 recommendations to the Scottish government on how it could tackle the issue better.

Poverty and inequality advisor Naomi Eisenstadt's report focuses on how ministers can improve the life chances of young people.
She made recommendations around employment, housing and mental health.
Nicola Sturgeon said she welcomed the "robust advice" offered to the Scottish government.
The first minister also confirmed the creation of a new independent Poverty and Inequality Commission, which will run initially for two years.
Douglas Hamilton, director of the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, has been appointed as chairman and Ms Eisenstadt and race equality advisor Kaliani Lyle as deputies.
The Scottish government said the commission's first task would be to provide advice to ministers on the first child poverty delivery plan, which is due in April 2018.
Ms Eisenstadt's report, The Life Chances of Young People in Scotland, is her second since she was appointed by Ms Sturgeon in 2015.
The review also reflects on the action taken so far by the government on poverty.
Ms Sturgeon said: "When I appointed Naomi in June 2015, I was clear that I wanted her to challenge the government and scrutinise the work we were doing to alleviate poverty and inequality.
"Her first report made a number of useful recommendations and we are making significant progress in implementing these, as the progress report also published today shows.
"Naomi's latest report, The Life Chances of Young People in Scotland, provides a useful challenge to the Scottish and UK governments to do more to improve the life chances of young people from less advantaged backgrounds and to build a fairer future."
Ms Eisenstadt said: "In working on Life Chances, I have met some extraordinary young people and was impressed by the dedication of the people who work with them.
"I hope this report will help to improve their chances for the future."


World football governing body Fifa lost nearly £300m in 2016 and is scheduled to lose close to £400m in 2017.

Legal costs related to the corruption scandal which engulfed the organisation and "ill-considered previous investments" contributed to the losses.
The latest financial results follow a loss of nearly £100m in 2015.
Fifa forecasts a financial recovery in 2018, when Russia hosts the World Cup, and expects to finish the four years since 2014 with an £80m profit.
The governing body, which is still under criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States, paid out nearly £50m to lawyers last year.
Former president Sepp Blatter's investments in a football museum and hotel in Zurich have proved unsuccessful so far, too, and are referred to as "ill-considered".
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Two people in Poland say they may have found a Nazi train rumoured to be full of gold, gems and guns that disappeared in World War Two, Polish media say.

The train is believed to have gone missing near what is now the Polish city of Wroclaw as Soviet forces approached in 1945.
A law firm in south-west Poland says it has been contacted by two men who have discovered the armoured train.
Polish media say the men want 10% of the value of the train's contents.
Local news websites said the apparent find matched reports in local folklore of a train carrying gold and gems that went missing at the end of World War Two near Ksiaz castle.
The claim was made to a law office in Walbrzych, 3km (2 miles) from Ksiaz castle.
"Lawyers, the army, the police and the fire brigade are dealing with this," Marika Tokarska, an official at the Walbrzych district council, told Reuters.
"The area has never been excavated before and we don't know what we might find."
Two news websites in Walbrzych said the train that was found had guns on turrets along its side. One website, walbrzych24.com, said (in Polish) that one of the men was Polish and the other German.
They were liaising with officials in the city, who have since formed an emergency committee led by the mayor to investigate the claims, the website says.
Another site, Wiadomosci Walbrzyskie, said (in Polish) the train was 150m long and may have up to 300 tonnes of gold on board.
Joanna Lamparska, a historian who focuses on the Walbrzych area, told Radio Wroclaw the train was rumoured to have disappeared into a tunnel, and that it had gold and "hazardous materials" on board.
Previous searches for the train in the same area had proved fruitless, Radio Wroclaw said.


Three cameras placed at a Wrexham park to capture images of animals in their natural habitat have been stolen.

The iWild devices, which were locked in steel security cases, were taken from Ty Mawr Country Park at the weekend.
James McConnell of NatureSpy, which runs the wildlife project, said staff were "very disappointed".
The cameras were installed in 17 parks and nature reserves across north east Wales in March.
Mr McConnell added: "This project is designed to give local communities the chance to see the wildlife that they share their parks with.
"Unfortunately it just takes one or two thieves to spoil that for everybody."


The boss of a cafeteria at a Turkish opposition newspaper has been detained after saying he would refuse to serve tea to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Senol Buran, cafeteria head at Cumhuriyet, was remanded accused of insulting the president. He denies the refusal was an insult, his lawyer said.
Turkey has cracked down on dissent since a failed coup in July.
Cumhuriyet staff have been among tens of thousands of people detained, suspended or sacked.
The newspaper is one of few to have taken an anti-Erdogan line.
Mr Buran was on his way to work on 24 December when he found roads were closed as part of security measures for a speech being given by Mr Erdogan.
Mr Buran told police officers: "I would not serve that man a cup of tea."
A judge at the Istanbul criminal court jailed Mr Buran pending a trial.
Insulting the president can carry a four-year jail term.
Last month, 10 Cumhuriyet staff members were jailed pending trial, suspected of giving support to Kurdish militants and the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey blames for masterminding the failed coup attempt.
Its former editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, fled to Germany this year pending appeal against a jail sentence.
Mr Erdogan's critics have accused him of severely curtailing freedom of speech since the coup attempt, with more than 100,000 people sacked or suspended.
His supporters regard him as a strong leader who has been the driving force behind an economic boom.


Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov has been stripped of his 2012 Olympic silver medal after his doping sample tested positive for steroids.

Aukhadov, second in the men's -85kg event in London, tested positive for turinabol and drostanolone, the International Olympic Committee said.
His medal will be reassigned to Iran's Kianoush Rostami, originally third.
Aukhadov was caught when the IOC retested samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics using new analysis methods.
Ukrainian pole vaulter Maksym Mazuryk, who finished 18th in London, has also been disqualified from the 2012 Games retrospectively after he tested positive for turinabol.
The IOC has reported a total of 98 positive cases from recent retests of samples from the two Games in Beijing and London.
At least six of those cases came in one weightlifting event, the men's -94kg category at London 2012.
As a result, the gold medal was passed to Iran's Saeid Mohammadpour, who was originally fifth.


A man has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences after being arrested at Manchester Airport trying to board a flight to Pakistan.

At Westminster Magistrates' Court, Muhammad Aftab Suleman, 24, faced five charges under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act.
Mr Suleman, of Peakdale Avenue, Manchester, was arrested on Saturday.
He was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 9 January.
Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 relates to the collection of information which is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.


England will continue their aggressive one-day approach despite losing a third successive game against South Africa in a series decider, says Eoin Morgan.

England were bowled out for only 236 in Cape Town, with an AB de Villiers hundred giving the Proteas a 3-2 win.
"Playing that way is a winning formula, it's just a matter of getting better at it and being more consistent," England one-day captain Morgan told BBC Sport.
"We're still in the learning phase of our development."
Since an awful World Cup campaign a year ago, a new positive approach to one-day cricket has seen England win series against New Zealand and Pakistan, as well as narrowly losing to world champions Australia.
However, on a Cape Town ground where no team has ever chased more than a modest 257 to win an ODI, Morgan's men were guilty of gifting wickets to the Proteas.
Alex Hales made a century, but England lost their last seven wickets for 81 runs to set a target that South Africa chased with six overs to spare.
"England have come a fair way since the World Cup, but they still have a lot to learn," said former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special.
"You can't just keep playing one way. If you are going to be a top side, you have to think your way through situations."
It is a view shared by England coach Trevor Bayliss.
"We've batted well for six to eight months, but sometimes it comes back to bite you when you play like we do," the Australian told Sky Sports.
"We do talk about the need to be positive, but at different times we do need to change gear. Hopefully, a few of our guys noticed how AB de Villiers paced his innings today.
"Overall, we're very happy because South Africa are a long way ahead of us in terms of ODIs played and centuries scored. To compete with a team like this and come close to winning the series was a great effort."
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Batting at number four, Morgan struggled in South Africa, making only 64 runs in five innings, and played an awful running swipe to be caught behind off David Wiese in Cape Town.
"For me, Eoin Morgan is not a number four," said Boycott. "He cannot bat there. He should bat at six like Michael Bevan used to do for Australia.
"When the ball is old and the bowlers are defending, he has the shots to whack them, he knows what to do.
"When he comes in at four, the bowlers have a decent ball; he isn't good enough around off stump."
However, Morgan, is eyeing two Twenty20 internationals against South Africa and the World T20 that follows as an opportunity to return to his best.
"I haven't managed to get going, which is frustrating," he said. "I'm looking forward to playing the format I love, T20 cricket, and turning things around."


Coming-of-age dramas American Honey and Moonlight will be the ones to beat at next year's Independent Spirit Awards, having been nominated for six apiece.

Both films are up for the best feature award - as are Chronic, starring Tim Roth, Natalie Portman's biopic Jackie and family drama Manchester by the Sea.
Moonlight, about a black youth growing to adulthood, is also recognised for Barry Jenkins' direction and script.
Roth is up for the best actor prize, as is fellow Briton David Harewood.
The awards, handed out one day before the Oscars each year, are open to films made for less than $20m (Â£16m).
American Honey, directed by Britain's Andrea Arnold, tells of a teenage runaway who travels across the American Midwest with a band of misfits.
Arnold is recognised in the best director category for her work on the film, which has also received nominations for three of its actors.
Moonlight, whose lead role is shared by three actors, has not received any nominations in the acting categories.
Yet on 25 February the film will automatically receive the Robert Altman Award, which honours its entire ensemble cast.
Harewood's best actor nomination comes for his role in Free in Deed, a religious drama about a minister who believes he can work miracles.
Other Britons in contention include Ralph Fiennes, who is up for best supporting male for his role in Italian-set drama A Bigger Splash.
The last three best picture winners at the Independent Spirits - Spotlight, Birdman and 12 Years a Slave - all went on to win the best picture Oscar.
Yet this year's nominations omit many of the films considered Academy Award contenders. One of the front runners, Los Angeles-set musical La La Land, was not eligible for Spirit awards consideration.
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Rickets does not have the ring of a 21st Century problem - it sounds more like the horror of a bygone era.

The disease, caused by a lack of vitamin D or calcium conjures images of peaky looking Dickensian urchins.
But figures obtained by the BBC show that in Northern Ireland prescriptions for Vitamin D have more than doubled in the last 10 years.
And public health advice for the UK recommends that everyone should take it in autumn and winter.
Low vitamin D levels can lead to brittle bones and rickets in children.
The figures from the HSCNI show a dramatic rise in Vitamin D prescriptions over the last 10 years: The data does not include Vitamin D bought over the counter.
But why have prescriptions rocketed so much in the last decade?
We are used to slathering ourselves in sunscreen seeing the burning ball of gas above us as public enemy number one.
This is with good reason - malignant melanoma rates have risen over the past 30 years from an average of 103 cases per year in the mid 1980s to 332 cases a year at present.
While it may be a given that we need to protect ourselves from harmful UVA and UVB rays, if we are not getting vitamin D from the sun, how can we up our intake?
An extensive review of the evidence, carried out by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), suggests everyone over the age of one needs to consume 10 micrograms of vitamin D each day in order to protect bone and muscle health.
The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland published an updated version of its leaflet on vitamin D in August.
It highlights the importance of vitamin D supplements for particular groups, including babies, children aged between 1 and 4 years, as well as people whose exposure to sunlight is limited, and those with darker skins.
It also outlines new recommendations that all adults and children aged five years and over should consider taking vitamin D supplements during the autumn and winter months.
Belfast dietician Gillian Killner says climate and diet are factors.
"It's a very important micronutrient, but also a hormone and we don't get enough of it where we live in the northern hemisphere so we do need to supplement," she said.
"In terms of where we get our Vitamin D - the way we eat means we don't eat a lot of fatty fish any more, nor eggs and butter and nutrient rich foods - so without the sunshine and nutrient rich foods we won't be able to achieve it orally.
"That's another reason a baseline Vitamin D supplement is very useful for not only children, elderly, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. Everyone should really consider a supplement if they're not getting lots of sunshine and nutrient rich foods," she said.
But she was also keen to point out that she thinks intake of the vitamin should be monitored.
"I have been an advocate for it for many years, but it is something you do need to monitor. It is an antagonist to vitamin A."
Ms Killner recommends taking it for six months of the year and having a break in the summer.


Leicester City have confirmed they are legally challenging a Football League charge of breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules in 2014.

It came as the Premier League champions released their financial results for 2015-16 on Thursday and declared a pre-tax profit of £16.4m to 31 May.
City said they were confident the FFP charge would be dropped.
The Foxes exceeded the permitted £8m loss when they won the Championship in the 2013-14 season.
The club posted a loss of £20.8m but said £13m of it was "allowable" as it included costs relating to the club's promotion and academy expenditure.
The Football League said the case was "ongoing".
The Foxes moved out of the bottom three on Monday after a 3-1 win over Liverpool, their first game following the sacking of manager Claudio Ranieri, who led them to the title nine months ago.
A Leicester statement said: "The club has entered into an arbitration process with the Football League in relation to the legality of the 2012 Championship FFP rules.
"Provision has been made for legal costs in relation to this process however the directors are confident that no further liability will be incurred by the company."
In 2012, after two years of detailed discussions, the Football League and its clubs agreed on a FFP framework across all three of its divisions.
Queens Park Rangers challenged "the legality" of the rules in May 2015 as they faced a fine of up to £58m.
And the following year it was confirmed Bournemouth had been fined £7.6m for breaching FFP rules in their 2014-15 promotion-winning season.
In September 2016, Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey said the organisation may be in a position to clarify the situation within a couple of months, but no announcement has been made.
Leicester's turnover in their title-winning season rose to £128.7m, with their wage bill rising from £49.08m to £68.77m.


The blasts in Tianjin on Wednesday night were so large that they registered as seismic activity in China.

An official from China's National Earthquake Network told the BBC that scientists were "alarmed" at the scale of the explosions. The official confirmed that:
The force of the blast was felt many kilometres away from the warehouse where the explosion took place in the port city and residents registered their horror at the scale of the explosions.
"The impact alone woke me and my sister up last night, we were so scared. We hid under our blankets and were wondering if it was an earthquake or atomic bomb. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the deceased," one Weibo user said.
"I was sleeping when our windows and doors suddenly shook as we heard explosions outside. I first thought it was an earthquake," Reuters news agency quoted one resident  Guan Xiang, who lives 7km (four miles) away from the explosion site, told the Reuters news agency.
According to the China Earthquake Administration's official account on Weibo, the first explosion was registered at a magnitude of 2.3 and the second at 2.9.
Even the United States Geological Survey registered  the explosions as seismic events.  The Guardian newspaper quotes USGS geophysicist John Bellini as saying that it is rare to detect seismological activity from events such as the Tianjin explosion.
Reporting by Heather Chen.


Hull KR will name a short-term head coach for the rest of 2016, with a view to confirming a "top line" boss for next year, says chairman Neil Hudgell.

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The Robins hope to make a long-term appointment for 2017, with ex-England boss Steve McNamara and former Leigh coach Paul Rowley among those linked.
Chris Chester left Rovers after February's defeat by Wakefield, with Willie Poching in temporary charge.
"We have a stand-out candidate," Hudgell told BBC Look North.
"We are expecting the appointment to be a top line coach with experience and a finer understanding of the game."
Hudgell is close friends with former England and Bradford coach McNamara, himself a Hull native, but would not discuss speculation surrounding the identity of the candidate.
He did confirm there had been "huge interest" in the post, but that no formal job offer had been extended at this stage.
McNamara is currently employed as assistant coach at NRL side Sydney Roosters under their head coach Trent Robinson.
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"The person we've identified as the coach we want to take us forward in the long-term isn't in a position to take up a position at this stage," Hudgell continued.
"We've been in talks and will make an announcement when we're in a position to."
Poching will take charge of Friday's game at Widnes Vikings, hoping to build on the defeat by St Helens in his first Super League game in charge.
"Willie's in the box seat [for the short-term role], he knows the players, has been at the club a period of time, so he knows the systems," Hudgell added.
"He's put his hand up and wants the gig full-time, he's ambitious, been assistant to some of the best coaches in the game and has 'wool on his back'.
"As a board we need to look at how he fits into our longer term future."


Police have evacuated about 80 people from their homes in a stand-off with a man reported to be in possession of "dangerous items".

A 300m cordon has been set up in Wood End Lane, Northolt, north-west London, as armed police and negotiators speak to the man.
Officers were called to the address at about 01:00 BST on Friday over concerns the man had hazardous materials.
Emergency services have not attempted to enter the property.
A Met Police spokesperson said the force believes there is one man inside the house.
"It is not known what the man has inside the property" but "attempts have been made by him to prevent access to the address."
"There is no suggestion that this incident is terrorist-related nor is it linked to any other ongoing investigation or operation," the spokesperson added.
The BBC reporter Ayshea Buksh, who is at the scene, said neighbours told her the man has "aggressive, dangerous dogs" which is one of the reasons why police are being particularly cautious.
A woman claiming to be the cousin of the man involved in the stand-off has told the BBC he recently had "a breakdown".
The man is believed to be in his 40s and according to several local residents, is regularly seen walking his four Rottweiler dogs.