In El Orejon, a rural area in north-west Colombia, locals are experiencing something unprecedented.

Soldiers and members of Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) sitting together, having a beer and playing cards.
"It's a privilege for our village," says resident Fabio de Jesus Munoz Garces.
The soldiers and the rebels are taking a break from demining.
They are part of a pilot project agreed as part of the ongoing peace talks between Farc and government negotiators.
The project started five months ago but only now have journalists been allowed to see the work for themselves.
Before this project started, the rebels and the soldiers would have shot each other at first sight.
Now they are working together, unarmed.
But the absence of weapons does not make their work any less dangerous.
After more than five decades of internal conflict, Colombia is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world.
It has the third-highest incidence of accidents caused by landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Only Afghanistan and Cambodia have more.
In Briceno, the municipality in which El Orejon is located, 51 people fell victim to explosive devices between 1990 and 2015, according to official figures.
The summit of the mountain of Alto Capitan used to be a romantic spot popular with lovers.
It was also used as a venue for weddings and other celebrations.
But its position, overlooking a deep valley, means it is of key strategic importance.
In order to prevent the army from taking up position on the mountain top, the Farc planted explosives on and around the summit.
Other spots in this lush coffee-producing area have also been mined, meaning that a stroll to visit a neighbour in one of the houses which dot the hills can prove fatal.
And while peace talks have been going on for three years, new mines keep getting planted, according to the non-governmental organisation Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor.
Some estimates put the number of mines and explosives in Colombia at two million, but it is impossible to know exactly how many there are.
And they are not just used by the Farc but also by Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group, ELN, and gangs involved in drug trafficking.
Hector Perez is one of the people trying to remove this danger from Colombia's countryside.
But unlike the demining experts from non-governmental organisations who are also engaged in that task, he used to plant them himself.
He is one of the guerrilla fighters the Farc have sent to El Orejon to help with the joint demining programme.
Hector Perez, 38, joined the Farc when he was just 12 years old. He began handling explosives when he was 16.
His knowledge of the location of the mines has been key to this project.
Wounded in a firefight with the army just months before he came to El Orejon, he was at first full of mistrust of his military counterparts, he told me.
But he says he quickly warmed to them: "We became friends."
Hector Perez works with Sgt Luis Fernando Sosa Guerrero of the army's demining platoon.
Sgt Sosa also had his reservations about working with the rebels.
He says he wondered whether they would shake his hand.
They did, greeting him with a polite "How are you, sergeant?" he recalls.
Corporal Gustavo Loaiza Buitrago says the atmosphere in El Orejon is relaxed, as if they were civilians.
But the corporal insists that he still views the Farc as an enemy.
And the risks in El Orejon remain very real.
On 15 July a soldier working for the demining team, Wilson de Jesus Martinez, died after stepping on an explosive device.
A white cross marks the place where the accident happened.
While the locals welcome the joint Farc and army effort to demine the area, they worry that groups other than the Farc continue to plant mines.
And they insist that there are still areas which the joint demining team has not yet tackled.
In fact, while the BBC was visiting the area, a meeting was due to be held between the government and the Farc to decide if they would extend the area they plan to demine.
While they waited for the decision, the locals could at least safely return to the top of Alto Capitan to fall in love, marry or just enjoy the stunning views, a small pleasure which could have proved deadly just months ago.


A farmer who gave up a missing calf for dead said he was astonished when it was found nine days later with its head sticking out of a sink hole.

Cheese maker Jonathan Crump, from Gloucestershire, noticed the calf was missing on 2 September when it failed to return with its mother.
But he was "totally amazed" when the 10-day-old calf - now named Sinky - was found by ramblers in a metre-deep hole.
He said: "I never imagined a cow could live for those days without any food."
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The rare Gloucester calf was discovered neck deep in "quite a big hole" by walkers Dan Rawlings, 37, and Tom Lewis, 35.
Mr Rawlings said: "We were just cutting across the fields and spotted something in a hole.
"At first we thought it was a badger, but when we looked closer we realised it was a calf."
After rushing to the farmhouse to raise the alarm, they returned to find the young animal "trying to get out".
"All it needed was a little help and it got out. All the cows came running over moo-ing, so we backed off," Mr Rawlings said.
"It was lovely to see the mum and calf reunited."
Mr Crump, who has a milking herd of 35 cows near Standish, said he had searched his farm for the missing animal but had given it up for dead.
"I'm very grateful they found it. They were actually lost, so it's great they found it," he said.
Sinky, now being fed a course of electrolytes in a bid to combat dehydration, looks set to make a full recovery.
It is thought the hole was created by an underground spring.


It started with a handshake, followed by gifts for their mothers - a shawl from Narendra Modi and a sari in return from Nawaz Sharif.

Then came warm words between the two prime ministers on social media and in old-fashioned letters.
Is "mother's love" fostering a new relationship between the two rival neighbours, asked one Indian newspaper.?
Even before India's new prime minister took office, some said his staunchly nationalist Hindu support base would make it easier for him to deliver a deal with Pakistan.
But a month since Mr Sharif accepted Mr Modi's invitation to Delhi for his inauguration, the mothers still have a lot of work to do.
Both sides say their diplomats are talking, but they have yet to take the simple next step agreed by the two prime ministers of getting their foreign secretaries together.
The impending start of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, almost certainly means a further delay.
And an upbeat Pakistani newspaper report that "back-channel talks" between Islamabad and Delhi were being "revived" was knocked down by both sides.
Of course, it doesn't rule out the possibility that secret talks are under way somewhere.
Whatever the official positions, there's no doubting an appetite for better ties on both sides.
Pakistanis are fascinated by the neighbour most will never be able to visit, asking foreign visitors dangerous questions like: "Whose mangoes taste better - Pakistan's or India's?"
When Delhi's Press Club organised an evening of Pakistani food and music, flying in chefs from Islamabad, the racks of richly-spiced meat on the grill quickly ran out as hundreds of Indian journalists brought their families, equipped with "tiffin" boxes to take away extra supplies.
Good eating probably helped informal discussions last week between Pakistani and Indian officials who met in Thailand.
But their closing statement hardly suggested a breakthrough.
And the view in Delhi is that there's no need for new talks, secret or not, because, said a spokesman, "there is already a road map we agreed two years ago" focused on the seemingly easier task of boosting economic ties.
It's up to Pakistan to make the next move, the official said, by allowing more goods traffic through the border crossing at Wagah which, he said, would then trigger a reciprocal Indian response.
In Islamabad, views are divided but the Pakistani foreign ministry is trying to put an optimistic gloss on things.
"We're working on Wagah," was how one senior official put it, but described the road map only as "a key part of the discussion" once the foreign secretaries meet.
Pakistan's powerful military establishment - widely reported to have been against Mr Sharif's Delhi visit - is still cautious about the new Modi government next door.
"So far it has not been negative," smiled one security source.
But "we need reciprocal acts from India", he added, tellingly mirroring Indian language, and then emphasised "there can be no compromise on Kashmir" - the chief source of friction between them since independence from Britain.
And new US measures against a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for a recent attack on an Indian mission in Afghanistan are a reminder of another persistent running sore over terrorism.
The close overlaps in culture and even between the Urdu and Hindi languages are a constant reminder that India and Pakistan are siblings. But friendship still looks a long way off.


A fresh inquest into the death of an army recruit will examine whether he was bullied and harassed at the army base before he died.

Pte Sean Benton, 20, was found with five gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks, in June 1995.
His death was originally recorded as suicide, but a second inquest was ordered after a campaign by the family.
Its scope has been widened to look at all the circumstances of the death of the soldier, from Hastings, Sussex.
A pre-inquest hearing at the Old Bailey heard the full inquest, expected to be next January, would look at how Pte Benton died and whether there was "any third party action".
Pte Benton's "state of mind" will be probed, as well as how he was assessed and disciplined.
In addressing a 10-point list, the inquest will also look at whether he was "subjected to bullying and harassment".
The court heard the soldier's family wanted a jury because of concerns questioning of retired sergeant Andrew Gavaghan may be curbed.
For the family, Paul Greaney QC said: "There will be an attempt made on behalf of Sgt Gavaghan and MoD [Ministry of Defence] to restrict questions of his conduct only in respect of Sean himself.
"On behalf of the family, our submission is we must examine allegations of abuse or bullying of any recruit, not just Sean."
Nicholas Moss, for the MoD, stressed the officer would not be on trial.
Coroner Peter Rook QC said he would rule on whether a jury was needed in July.
Pte Benton's family have campaigned for years for a full investigation into his death amid claims he suffered prolonged bullying.
Represented by human rights group Liberty, Pte Benton's sister Tracy Lewis and his twin Tony Benton applied for a new hearing after using the Human Rights Act to access evidence held by police.
Their mother Linda, who also fought to see evidence about the circumstances of her son's death, died in 2015.
20-year-old Pte Sean Benton, from Hastings, was the first to be found dead in June 1995
18-year-old Pte Cheryl James, from  Llangollen was found with a bullet wound to her forehead in November 1995
17-year-old Pte Geoff Gray, from Seaham, was found with two gunshot wounds to his head in 2001
17-year-old Pte James Collinson, from Perth, was found with a single gunshot wound through his chin while on guard duty in 2002
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A hospital's maternity services may become midwife-led because it is struggling to recruit doctors, an NHS trust has admitted.

Banbury's Horton General has been trying "very hard" since April to recruit new obstetricians.
But Victoria Prentis, Banbury MP, said the "contingency" midwife plan, which she is to discuss with health secretary Jeremy Hunt, was "terrifying".
Campaigners staged a rally earlier against the changes.
"Our bottom line in Banbury is we want our maternity unit to be the best it can be," Mrs Prentis said.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told Horton staff the plan could take effect from the end of September if it did not successfully recruit the obstetricians, who are specially-trained maternity doctors.
Paul Brennan, director of clinical services, said the Oxford trust was trying "very hard" to fill the posts, which have been advertised since April.
He described the changes as "contingency arrangements in case recruitment continues to prove unsuccessful".
But Sophie Hammond, who was among campaigners at the rally, said "lives would be put at risk".
"The thought that these key consultants and this access to emergency care and surgery could be taken away from here doesn't bear thinking about," she said.
Mr Brennan said they had worked to make the obstetrician posts "more attractive to applicants".
"This includes enhanced pay and additional training at the John Radcliffe Hospital," he explained.
"We believe we have got a good offer for doctors wanting a role that offers some responsibility and also some variety, and are again re-advertising the posts."
According to the trust, women who do not want to give birth at the unit will be offered alternatives at other hospitals.
A decision is expected in late August.


Tuesday night's Co Antrim Shield semi-final between Carrick Rangers and Linfield has been postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.

The decision to call off the fixture was made following a morning pitch inspection and the game has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 15 December.
Carrick's planned league game with Dungannon on that date will be moved.
The other semi-final between Larne and Ballymena United goes ahead after the pitch passed a lunchtime inspection.
Carrick have had three home Premiership games postponed in recent weeks - their league fixture against Dungannon Swifts has been called off twice.
Gary Haveron's side were also forced to postpone their match against Cliftonville on Saturday because of a waterlogged pitch.
Larne will be out to cause an upset against the Sky Blues at Inver Park.
"We know we are nowhere near winning the league so it's important to compete for other silverware," said Ballymena manager Glenn Ferguson ahead of the trip to their County Antrim rivals.
"We want to reach as many cup semi-finals and finals as we can."
"We played Larne in pre-season so that gives us some idea what to expect. It will be a tough match as all the teams near the top of the Championship are capable of giving the senior teams a game," he added.
The Sky Blues progressed to the last four by beating league champions and leaders Crusaders 2-0 at Seaview, courtesy of goals from David Cushley and Tony Kane.
Their opponents lie third in Championship One after a 4-4 draw with Armagh City on Saturday.
David McAlinden's side saw off Ards 2-1 to reach the semi-finals and will take heart from their League Cup performance against Portadown earlier in the season, taking the Premiership outfit to extra-time before losing 4-1.
There will be coverage of Larne v Ballymena United on a Sportsound Special on BBC Radio Ulster medium wave and the BBC Sport website on Tuesday night from 19:30 GMT.


"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."

So says Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka, in the 1971 film of Roald Dahl's classic children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
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Unfortunately, few of us are lucky enough to have a chocolate factory full of non-union Oompa Loompas (Wonka seems to play fast and loose with anti-human trafficking laws) to help you get your idea to market.
But, what you do have that dubious employers like Mr Wonka don't, is the power of the internet. And fewer trips to the dentist.
Jake Zien is a 24-year-old designer from Milwaukee who now lives in New York, where he works for a tech start-up.
He is also a successful inventor. His product, the Pivot Power, is a strip plug that bends. He had help from over 700 other people - many of whom were strangers - who all get some share in the profits.
Mr Zien has made over $350,000 so far.
He is just one of a community of people who are part of Quirky - a platform where people collaborate to produce new products that the company manufactures and sells.
"I joined Quirky back in 2010 after a family friend told me he'd read about the company in an in-flight magazine," says Mr Zien.
"The friend, an intellectual property lawyer, had been consulting with me for some time about developing my idea for a flexible power strip.
"He mentioned that Quirky purported to do exactly what I needed - to be the missing piece that's needed to turn a nascent idea into a commercially available product. I joined the site and submitted my idea a week later."
He believes being able to work on his idea with others made it a commercial success.
"It was Quirky that did the overwhelming majority of the work, and I see the product's success as a "perfect storm" combination of factors, such as my timing in submitting the idea, rather than a complete testament to the quality of the submission."
The company has been operating for four years, and now has a community of around 400,000 people.
"We can get anything from bar napkin sketches to patented and prototyped ideas," says Quirky's Bret Kovacs.
The community gives feedback on the idea, then every Thursday the Quirky team have a meeting which is streamed live, where they decide on which ideas to take forward.
The community and the company then work together to make the products a reality.
The inventor and those who have influenced development get a share of 30% of sales from the Quirky website, or 10% from items sold elsewhere.
But the company has bigger ambitions.
They are in the process of launching a new partnership with US mega-corporation GE, which they hope will change the way patents are used.
GE is giving the Quirky community access to patents and technologies with the express purpose of letting people tinker with them and find innovative new uses.
"Just for too long, patents have been misused and really misunderstood, the only places you really hear about patents today are in the court of law," says Mr Kovacs.
"Our goal with partnering with GE on this front is really to bring patents back to their original intended use.  Certainly they are meant to protect the inventor, but what's really important about patents is they are meant to inspire."
Quirky is not alone in wanting to bring patents full circle. They were originally intended not only to stop ideas being stolen, but also to foster innovation and help others improve on existing technology.
The patent process was a sort of a quid pro quo because to get protection for your idea you had to be transparent about the details.
Those following the latest Apple/Samsung court battle, or the infamous patent trolls that have sprung up in recent years, could be forgiven for thinking it was about stifling innovation instead.
Marblar is a new UK start-up founded by three PhD students busy dusting off unused patents held by universities and other institutions and finding new uses for them. In other words, it finds problems that fit solutions that already exist.
Rather than Quirky's consumer focus, this is about hard science.
"As scientists we saw that a huge amount of science never gets commercialised," says chief executive Daniel Perez.
"Often this is because the application might not be obvious. Imagine if you're in the Oxford physics department, and you develop a cool new laser. Your intention was to use it in satellites, but when you're done the gold standard happens to be much better.
"The technology's already patented, it's been published, but you know other people aren't incentivised to take a look at this laser and to think of new ways it could be used," he says.
Building a crowdsourcing platform seemed an obvious way to find new ideas, according to Mr Perez.
The team take an existing patent and break it down.
"We don't just post the patents because certainly a life science researcher couldn't understand laser physics [for example] anyway. We ask people from a variety of different backgrounds very simple questions - what would you do with this technology?"
Each project is run as a competition. About two-thirds of the way through, a short-list of finalists is drawn up. At the end there is a winner, chosen by the patent-holder, as well as a winner chosen by the crowd.
Prizes ranging from $1,000 up to $25,000 are awarded as well as community points, called marbles.
A recent project took a small laser - or spectrophotometer - designed to be used on a Mars rover - and found a new use for it as a breath analyser that could diagnose and track people with liver disease based on levels of ammonia found in their breath.
So is cash enough of an incentive?
"What we've found is that the prize money isn't the biggest motivator for people," says Mr Perez.
"They're in it because they want to chew on interesting technology and they want to see something get realised."
Nevertheless, although the company is less than a year old, they have plans to make participation worth potentially much more.
"We're actually going to be putting seed [funding] rounds around some of the concepts that are moving through Marblar," he says.
This would be good news for the competition winner as well as Marblar. They will both have an equity stake in the new company, says Mr Perez.
"Without having put any money in, from having an idea about how to use someone else's technology, it's a quick way to own a piece of the next big thing."


Members of staff at Altnagelvin Area Hospital's emergency department were at "breaking point" over New Year, the BBC has been told.

A worker at the hospital said that colleagues were under tremendous pressure, after a "major incident" was declared on Monday 2nd January.
The Western Health Trust confirmed it was due to a high volume of patient numbers.
However a Trust spokesperson said the incident was "stood down" within hours.
It is also understood that there were trolley waits at Altnagelvin.
The Irish News reported on Tuesday that the hospital had to implement a "full 999 divert".
In a statement to the BBC the Western Health and Social Care Trust said:
"The Trust activated its business continuity measures before Christmas and this supported the Trust's operation through the outbreak of Norovirus.
" (Monday) 2nd January 2017 proved a particularly difficult and challenging day and the emergency plan was enacted for a period of time to deal with a pressurised period in our ED (emergency department).
"This measure was stood down shortly afterwards".
In a report in November 2016, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) found that staff at Altanagelvin's emergency department were "burnt out".
Newly released figures also show that more than 400 patients had to wait at least 12 hours at emergency departments over the Christmas period.
The figures were obtained by the BBC from the Health and Social Care Board.
From Christmas Eve to 2 January, 462 patients had a wait of at least 12 hours to be admitted, discharged or transferred.
The Health and Social Care Board has apologised for any "distress and inconvenience".
The pressure was most acute in Antrim Area Hospital, where 165 patients faced at least a 12-hour wait.
At the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, 94 patients had to wait the same period of time while there were 60 patients affected at Craigavon Area Hospital.
In the Western Health Trust, 33 patients waited at least 12 hours in Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital while the same number waited 12 hours at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
In Belfast, 28 patients faced a 12-hour wait at the Royal Victoria Hospital and 24 others waited in excess of 12 hours in the Mater Hospital.
The hospital which had the fewest 12-hour waits was the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, with nine cases.
From December 24 to 29, there was a 9% rise on the number of attendances at emergency departments compared to the same period last year.
There was an increase of 14% on those visiting the emergency department in Antrim Area Hospital, while the increase was just 4% at the Royal Victoria.
In a statement, the board said there was a very high level of demand on urgent care services because of winter illnesses, including the norovirus.
It said it is working with health trusts, primary care colleagues and other key partners to alleviate the pressure.
"Plans have been put in place across the Health and Social Care system to manage increased demand at this time of year.
"However, given the extent of the increase in demand, some patients have had to wait more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital.
"We fully understand the distress and inconvenience this causes to patients and their families and apologise to them for it."
Figures showing the amount of patients who had to wait more than four hours are due to be published on Thursday.


Chile's government has introduced tougher sanctions against violence and racism at football matches.

It increases fines and jail sentences for those who break the law and will be applied to fans and clubs alike.
"We want to make sure that fans and families can enjoy the game safely and in pleasant conditions," said Interior Minister Jorge Burgos.
Chile will host the Copa America 2015 tournament, which kicks off on Thursday.
The new law will also punish violence during training sessions, during the movement or transportation of fans, and at celebrations in public places.
Clubs could be fined for discrimination, racism and xenophobia.
"We will do all that we can to put an end to violence and give the sport the feeling of a community celebration," said Mr Burgos.
Twelve national teams from the Americas will be taking part in the tournament from 11 June to 4 July.
Football violence is a huge problem in some South American countries.
In Argentina,  the so-called Barras Bravas, gangs of radical supporters who control the terraces and the streets around the stadiums, have been blamed for many deaths in recent years.
But fans in Chile, Peru, Colombia and Brazil, among others, have also encountered violence at football matches.


A security alert which led to the evacuation of several homes in east Belfast has ended.

It was sparked by the discovery of a suspicious object on Cregagh Road.
A PSNI spokesperson said the object has been examined and was "declared to be nothing untoward".
He added that the Ulster Rugby match at the nearby Kingspan Stadium was not affected by the alert.


There has been an increase of almost 20% in the number of Northern Ireland students beginning university in England since 2013-14.

That is according to statistics released by the UCAS.
In 2016-17, 4,060 students from Northern Ireland were accepted into English universities - a rise from 3,430 in 2014-14.
Overall, 5,380 Northern Ireland students were accepted by universities elsewhere in the UK this year.
That is a rise of 17% since 2013-14.
According to additional figures released by the Department for the Economy (DfE), fewer than a third of those who graduate elsewhere in the UK return to Northern Ireland to work.
In 2014/15, according to DfE figures, only 31.5% of Northern Ireland students returned home to work after graduation.
According to UCAS, there has been a 1% increase across the UK in the number of young people accepted to university this year, compared to 2015-16.
While Queen's University and Ulster University have a cap in the number of students they can admit, the student numbers cap for English universities was lifted in 2015.
As a result, there has been increased competition to attract students in England.
However, tuition fees are higher at English universities at Â£9,000 per year, compared to Â£3,925 in Northern Ireland.


It is not a typical backstory for a Conservative cabinet member.

Stephen Crabb, who has served as Welsh secretary and is currently secretary of state for work and pensions, grew up on a council estate in Haverfordwest, raised by his single mother.
He went to university and earned a first class degree, but reportedly once worked as a labourer in Newport docks.
His accommodation for that job: a tent.
His background is one reason why Mr Crabb has long been tipped for the top job.
Backers include Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, who told a newspaper earlier this year she would "find it very hard to vote for anyone else".
43 years old
MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire since 2005
Promoted to Welsh secretary in July 2014 having been a minister in the Wales Office, then to Work and Pensions Secretary in March 2016
Was previously a government whip
Has worked for the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Keen rugby player and has run the London Marathon three times
He reportedly lived in a tent when he worked as a labourer in Newport docks.
After attending Tasker Milward school in Haverfordwest, he studied at Bristol University, gaining a first-class degree in politics and joining the Conservative Party after graduating.
Mr Crabb entered the Commons in 2005, working his way up from backbencher to whip, minister in the Wales Office and secretary of state for Wales in July 2014.
His signature task in that role was getting agreement around a shake-up of how the assembly is governed - what started as the St David's Day Agreement and became the draft Wales Bill.
That was not without its troubles. The resulting draft was roundly criticised as making assembly law potentially legally contestable and even reducing the powers of the devolved legislature.
Mr Crabb announced changes to overhaul the bill, but after the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith over disability benefit cuts the MP was promoted to work and pensions secretary.
At the time of the appointment many saw his personal story as well suited to the role.
In a previous interview with BBC Wales Westminster correspondent David Cornock, the MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire described how the welfare system provided a "genuine safety net at a time of crisis" for his family.
"I had a mother who, as we got older, moved progressively from a position of complete welfare dependency to being fully economically independent, working full-time," he said.
"And that has to be the model of the way the welfare system should work."
Married with two children, Mr Crabb lives near Haverfordwest. A keen rugby player, he still turns out for the Commons and Lords RFC.
Mr Crabb himself has been modest about his own leadership chances, batting away questions when asked by WalesOnline in 2015.
"I can't see that happening. I can't see there being any vacancy at all," he said.
"I really don't have time to engage in fantasy politics about my own career."


Iceland offers a potential new market for sales of Harris Tweed, according to the creative director of a company that makes the fabric.

Mark Hogarth, of Lewis-based Harris Tweed Hebrides, is in ReykjavÃk to take part in an event celebrating the Queen's 90th birthday.
The British embassy in Iceland, along with others around the world, are holding the celebratory trade events.
Jaguar Land Rover and British Airways have also been invited to ReykjavÃk.
More than 1,200 guests are expected at Wednesday's event which will be held in the grounds of the ambassador's residence.
Harris Tweed Hebrides will present a show using garments from retailer Walker Slater of Edinburgh and Elizabeth Martin, a designer based in Carluke in South Lanarkshire.
There will also be meetings with Icelandic retailers.
Mr Hogarth said: "Iceland is a small potential market but it punches far above its weight in global fashion and design which have become central to its economic strategy following the banking crash.
"It has also become a huge tourism destination, marketing itself as a crossroads between Europe and North America, as well as a port of call for hundreds of cruise ships each year.
"Harris Tweed sits very well alongside the high-quality knitwear in which Iceland itself specialises."
Significant importers of the fabric, which is woven on the Western Isles, are Germany, USA and Japan.


A meeting between Caledonian MacBrayne and RMT on ferry workers' jobs and pensions have been described as "productive" by the union.

RMT members working for CalMac and Argyll Ferries are preparing to hold a second 24-hour strike on 10 July.
Three days of industrial action by CalMac staff last month culminated in a 24-hour strike.
The dispute has been triggered by the tendering of Clyde and Hebrides ferry services.
Unions have concerns that the new contract will not protect jobs and pensions.
Further talks are expected to be held on Tuesday afternoon.
Gordon Martin, of the RMT, described the meeting as "productive".
He told BBC Scotland: "We are pursuing every strategy and we await a response tomorrow from the company, hence the reason we are meeting them again.
"We are looking for guarantees going forward into the next contract. At the moment those guarantees have not been forthcoming."
In a statement, CalMac said it had agreed to another meeting but was also preparing for the planned strike.
It said: "Ferry customers can be assured that we will do what we can minimise any disruption caused by industrial action."
A second union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), sent out strike ballot papers on Friday to about 100 of its members who work for CalMac.
Like CalMac, Argyll Ferries is owned by the state-owned David MacBrayne Group.
CalMac said earlier that it was "bemused" about why RMT members within Argyll Ferries had decided to join the planned strike.
It said the Argyll Ferries contract was not up for tender and no employee terms and conditions were under threat.
The RMT said Argyll Ferries relied on CalMac engineers and expertise, so would be affected by any changes to the Clyde and Hebrides contract.


The leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin, has said that if another election is to be avoided, his party will support a minority Fine Gael government.

Mr Martin added that although Fianna Fáil would facilitate, they would not sign up to a programme of government.
He said that understandings would be given but did not make it clear if these would be written or not.
FF campaigned against the outgoing Fine Gael government in the recent election.
Talks between the Republic of Ireland's two main political parties on forming a minority government will continue today.
Talks on Friday were described by both parties as "constructive".
Following February's election, Fine Gael had 50 seats, Fianna Fáil 44, Sinn Féin 23 and the Labour Party got seven.
But no party was able to form a majority government and TDs have failed to elect a leader on three previous occasions.


The king of Thailand has signed a new constitution that paves the way for a return to democracy but still gives the army an influential role in politics.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed the document at a ceremony in Bangkok.
It constrains future elected governments with an appointed senate, and commits governments to follow the military's 20-year development plan.
The last constitution was abolished after the military seized power nearly three years ago.
Critics claim the new document only allows for a partial, guided democracy.
It was approved by a referendum last August. Elections could now be held next year.
Thailand has had so many constitutions in its modern history - this is the 20th since 1932 - that many of them were introduced with little fanfare, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
But King Vajiralongkorn, who succeeded his father last year, signalled royal approval for the new charter by requesting an elaborate ceremony for its signing.
The king had requested changes to the charter earlier this year that restore some significant areas of royal influence.
The edits remove a power that would have been granted to the constitutional court to call a meeting in the event of a political crisis.
A requirement that the king appoint a regent when he leaves the country was also removed. The king often spends time in Germany, where a son attends school.
The generals say they need to impose some limits on democratic practice in order to prevent the need for military coups in the future.
Thailand's military has a history of intervening in politics and has seized power 12 times since the end of the absolute monarchy - and the introduction of the first constitution - in 1932.
It has promised not to intervene after the next elections, which have been delayed many times.


Paving stones honouring the "heroic" actions of a decorated World War One pilot are to be unveiled.

Reginald "Rex" Warneford received the Victoria Cross (VC) after becoming the first British pilot to shoot down a German Zeppelin in 1915.
Memorials will be revealed in Exmouth, Devon, and Highworth, Wiltshire, towns connected to him and his family.
A school where he boarded in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, is also remembering his deeds with a plaque.
The man who destroyed a 'baby-killer'
The government had previously decided to lay commemorative paving stones in the home towns of 480 British-born VC recipients, but Indian-born Warneford was excluded.
However, he lived in England at King Edward VI School, in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Highworth, for a time, as his family owned Warneford Place in Sevenhampton.
The Department for Communities and Local Government agreed to allow the stones to be laid after a campaign.
As well as the Victoria Cross, which is on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovil, Somerset, the French awarded him the Knight's Cross Legion d'Honneur.
The town of Exmouth adopted the war hero as its own and a flagstone will be laid there in the Strand Gardens.
Another stone will also be unveiled after a civic service in Highworth, Wiltshire.
One of Swindon's best-performing schools, Warneford Comprehensive in Highworth, is also named after him.
Warneford's niece, Faye Erskine, will unveil the commemorative stone at King Edward VI School's guildhall on Monday.
Headmaster Bennet Carr said: "This memorial will ensure that Rex's conspicuous bravery will be remembered for generations to come."


Russian athletes face missing the 2016 World Indoor Championships because a review of its anti-doping programme will not be finished by March.

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Russia was provisionally suspended from world athletics after an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report alleged "state-sponsored doping".
IAAF inspectors will start work next year to decide whether Russia can be re-admitted to competition.
But the World Indoors start on 17 March in Portland, Oregon.
An International Association of Athletics Federations statement announced the timetable for the inspection team, saying: "It is planned that the inspection team mission will commence the verification process no later than 1 January 2016. A first report back at the earliest to the IAAF council at their meeting in Cardiff will be on 27 March 2016."


The remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury have been found beneath a medieval parish church next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence.

Builders renovating the Garden Museum, housed at the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, found a hidden crypt containing 30 lead coffins.
Site manager Karl Patten said: "We discovered numerous coffins - and one of them had a gold crown on top of it".
The remains date back to the 1660s.
Mr Patten, from the building contractors Rooff, said his team were exposing the ground, lifting the flagstones in the church, when they uncovered an entry to what looked like a tomb.
They used a mobile phone camera on the end of a stick to search the void.
Garden Museum Director Christopher Woodward said he received a call from the builders and immediately assumed something had gone wrong with the project.
"But wow, it was the crown - it's the mitre of an archbishop, glowing in the dark," he said.
The red and gold mitre was resting on top of one of the coffins - which were stacked on top of each other in a brick-lined vault.
The Sunday Telegraph's Harry Mount, the first outsider to be granted access, said: "It is a spine-tingling view".
The coffins have been left undisturbed, though builders have installed a glass panel in the chancel floor above them for visitors to catch a glimpse.
Two of the coffins had nameplates - one for Richard Bancroft (in office from 1604 to 1610) and one for John Moore (1783 to 1805) whose wife, Catherine Moore, also had a coffin plate.
Bancroft was the chief overseer of the publication of a new English translation of the Bible - the King James Bible - which began in 1604 and was published in 1611.
According to Mr Mount, St Mary-at-Lambeth's records have since revealed that a further three archbishops were probably buried in the vault: Frederick Cornwallis (in office 1768 to 1783), Matthew Hutton (1757 to 1758) and Thomas Tenison (1695 to 1715).
A sixth, Thomas Secker (1758 to 1768) had his internal organs buried in a canister in the churchyard.
Also identified from coffin plates was the Dean of Arches John Bettesworth (who lived from 1677 to 1751) - the judge who sits at the ecclesiastical court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Beyond that, Mr Woodward said: "We still don't know who else is down there".
However, further clues may lie in the history of the church.
One of the most sacred and precious sites in London, St Mary's was built in the 11th Century along London's Embankment, opposite Westminster Abbey, by St Edward the Confessor's sister.
Mr Woodward said: "This church had two lives: it was the parish church of Lambeth, this little village by the riverâ€¦but it was also a kind of annex to Lambeth Palace itself.
"And over the centuries a significant number of the archbishops' families and archbishops themselves chose to worship here, and chose to be buried here."
Though the church is steeped in history, Mr Woodward and his team did not expect to make such an exciting discovery.
He said: "We thought there was no crypt because it's so close to the Thames that it would have been flooded.
"The Victorians cleared hundreds, if not thousands, of coffins out [of the grounds] to make this new building - nobody told us to expect to find anything."
Wesley Kerr, chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund from 2007 to 2014, said: "This is really astonishing - this is one of the most incredible things I've seenâ€¦ To know that possibly the person that commissioned the King James Bible is buried here is the most incredible discovery and greatly adds to the texture of this project."
Deconsecrated in 1972, St Mary's was due to be demolished before becoming the Garden Museum.
In October 2015, the museum closed for 18 months to undergo a Â£7.5m redevelopment project and is due to reopen next month.


Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said he is backing Liz Kendall in the Labour leadership race.

Mr Miliband is also the latest party figure to warn against electing left-wing frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn.
Former party leader Neil Kinnock said Labour supporters must choose between "seriously" contesting elections and being in "perpetual demonstration".
Leadership candidate Andy Burnham said he would offer Mr Corbyn a role in the party if he won the contest.
But Yvette Cooper said Mr Burnham should withdraw from the race if he was not prepared to oppose the left-winger.
Writing in the Guardian, Mr Miliband - brother of former party leader Ed -  said Mr Corbyn would take the party "backwards" and warned that the "angry defiance" of his campaign would lead only to electoral defeat.
He said he was backing Ms Kendall - who is on the right of the party - as leader, but she herself has acknowledged that she is trailing in the polls.
Lord Kinnock told BBC Newsnight that being a party of demonstration was "fulfilling and noble, but rarely effective".
"I can see why people are angry and want to protest," he said.
"But then they've got to make a decision on whether they want to be part of a labour movement that produced a political party to seriously contest for democratic power - or they want to be in perpetual demonstration."
Meanwhile, Mr Burnham said only he could beat Mr Corbyn and unite the party - but he praised his opponent and said he shared many of his views.
Ms Cooper and Ms Kendall have both said they would not serve in a Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet, arguing that policies such as renationalising utilities and scrapping Trident were not credible.
But Mr Burnham has tried to strike a more consensual tone, amid speculation he is going after the veteran Mr Corbyn's second preference votes.
Mr Corbyn said he welcomed Mr Burnham's "inclusive tone".
In a speech in Manchester, Mr Burnham said he shared a "good deal of common ground" with Mr Corbyn on issues such as transport and education, and would offer him a role in rebuilding the party.
But he criticised the Islington North MP's sceptical stance on the European Union and attacked his economic policies, which he said would "leave us open to losing the argument on the economy on day one".
He added: "I won't let our party repeat the history of the early 1980s when we were more interested in fighting each other and we left the pitch clear for Margaret Thatcher to bulldoze her way through Labour communities up and down the country."
He also told supporters he would oppose the government's controversial Welfare Bill if he wins the contest, saying he only abstained in a Commons vote on the issue - a move which attracted criticism from Mr Corbyn's supporters - to preserve party unity.
Mr Corbyn said he welcomed Mr Burnham's olive branch, saying: "The view is mutual - if we win we would involve Andy in our team if he was willing. From day one, whoever wins must pull the party together."
A spokesman for Ms Cooper's campaign said Mr Burnham was sending a confused message.
"Andy needs to show some leadership and be clear whether he opposes Jeremy or not," he said.
"If he isn't prepared to offer an alternative to Jeremy, he needs to step back and leave it to Yvette."
Ms Cooper and Ms Kendall have rejected claims they considered quitting the contest and throwing their weight behind Mr Burnham in an effort to stop Mr Corbyn winning.


The leader of North Yorkshire County Council is to stand down as both council and Conservative group leader after 14 years.

John Weighell, who will remain a councillor, said resigning now would enable a new leader time in the job ahead of elections in 2018.
The Conservative group said it would elect a new group leader on 13 May.
The council will meet formally to elect a new council leader on 20 May.
Mr Weighell, who was first elected as a councillor for Bedale in 1992, said he had "thoroughly enjoyed" his time as leader and was proud of how the authority had managed budget cuts.
"Wherever possible, we have made savings from the council's bureaucracy rather than front-line services," he said.
The Conservative group has a comfortable majority on the council, winning 45 of 72 seats at the last election in 2013.


A teenager who murdered a football coach on a Leicester street has been jailed for life.

Hussain Hussain, 19, stabbed Antoin Akpom, 20, with a kitchen knife after a confrontation in Kent Street last year.
Mr Justice Griffith-Williams said the killing was the result of gang-related violence and told the Somali refugee he must serve at least 15 years.
The jury at Stafford Crown Court failed to reach a verdict on a second 19-year-old, Abdul Hakim, who denied murder.
A decision on whether Mr Hakim will face a retrial will be made in the next two weeks.
The trial had earlier been told that Hussain, of no fixed address, stabbed father-of-one Mr Akpom with the 10-inch blade because he "feared for his life".
The jury saw CCTV footage from the Kent Street area of the city showing Mr Akpom getting out of a car to confront Hussain.
Mr Akpom could be seen running towards a gym before returning, followed by a group of up to nine people.
In sentencing Hussain, the judge said the stabbing was "offending arising out of postcode gang rivalry in which you were steeped".
And he added, whatever the failures of Mr Akpom, there was a "good positive side to him" and nothing could justify taking his life.
Mr Akpom's mother, Cheryl Armatrading, read a victim impact statement to the court and described how her son's murder had devastated the family.
She said: "The devastation of Antoin's death is beyond comparison to anything that we, as a family, has ever experienced.
"This has resulted in stress, sleepness nights, fear, anxiousness and feeling insecure.
"I feel pain like never before. It feels like I've been torn to shreds and my insides all knotted.
"Antoin's fiancee, Amber, has lost the financial support and sense of security of Antoin.
"There has been an even greater impact on his one-year-old son who will never be able to share those loving moments, guidance and counselling his father would have given him."


The widow of a cyclist who died after he hit a pothole on his bike has received a six-figure payout from a council.

Martyn Uzzell, from North Somerset, was thrown into the path of a car after hitting the pothole.
An inquest heard North Yorkshire County Council had missed opportunities to repair the A65 in Giggleswick.
His wife Kate has now reached a settlement with the authority after she launched a civil action against it.
In a statement, the council said while it "accepts no liability for the tragic death of Mr Uzzell", it appreciated the case was "a sensitive matter".
It confirmed it had settled with Mrs Uzzell to avoid "prolonged involvement in further litigation".
Mr Uzzell, 51, from Clevedon, was on a charity ride from Land's End to John O'Groats with two friends in 2011 when the accident happened.


National League side Aldershot Town have signed former West Ham academy player Idris Kanu.

The 16-year-old forward joined the Hammers aged 11 and featured for the Premier League club's under-21 side before leaving London Stadium.
"We're fortunate to have signed a very talented player," said Shots boss Gary Waddock.
"We need to make sure that we help him to realise his potential but we are planning for the future."


The Royal Regiment of Scotland looks set to be given the Freedom of the Highlands during a ceremony next month.

Highland councillors will be asked to agree that the event be held on 15 October in Inverness.
The event would involve up to 250 soldiers - including pipers and drummers - and the regimental mascot, a pony called Cruachan IV.
The soldiers would march through Inverness city centre to the ceremony in the Northern Meeting Park.
Highland Council agreed last year that the regiment should be given the status.
The City of Inverness area committee will be asked at a meeting on 10 September to approve the holding of the event, and allocating Â£24,401 from the Inverness Common Good Fund towards its cost.
Having the Freedom allows a military unit to parade through the streets with bayonets fixed and colours flying when the situation warrants it.


The Barbican is to host the first major exhibition in the UK of the personal collections of post-war and contemporary artists.

Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector will feature personal effects from artists including Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Sir Peter Blake.
The items range from Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models to Andy Warhol's cookie jars.
It will run at the Barbican Art Gallery from 12 February to 25 May 2015.
The exhibition looks at how artists throughout history have acquired collections for personal and artistic reasons.
Andy Warhol, for example, stopped by antique and junk shops daily to look for items.
Many of the objects he collected served as source material for his famous silkscreen prints.
The exhibition will use the artists' own display techniques, placing their effects alongside key examples of their work.
The gallery said the show aimed to give an insight into how these items inspired, influenced and sometimes obsessed them.
Sir Peter Blake's collection of masks and elephant figurines will also be on display.
German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven collected a diverse range of objects that filled her family home. The resulting rooms of curiosities were inextricably linked to her work.
The collections vary from a handful of objects to more than 3,000 pieces and range from mass-produced popular culture items to rare artefacts.
The French-born artist Arman developed an interest in African art as a student. His habit of assembling collections of like objects became a hallmark of his accumulation sculptures in the 1960s.
His collections include important examples of African art and Japanese samurai armour.
Other collections include more than 1,000 scarves by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; Martin Parr's British postcards; and Soviet space dog memorabilia and album covers owned by Mexican artist and tattooist Dr Lakra.


Google has detailed its plan to run a mobile phone network in the US.

The firm will rent voice and data capacity from two existing operators - Sprint and T-Mobile - and use existing wi-fi hotspots, rather than build new infrastructure from scratch.
Initially, Project Fi will only be offered to Nexus 6 handset owners.
Google Fiber, the firm's "ultra-fast" broadband service, is already seen as a disruptive force in the US telecoms market.
It has been credited with encouraging Comcast and Time Warner Cable to offer their own customers speed boosts without higher prices.
However, Fiber's roll-out involved Google buying infrastructure built by companies that had collapsed as well as laying its own fibre optic cables - giving it full control of the service.
By contrast, one expert said running a mobile virtual network - which is dependent on rivals' equipment - might limit Project Fi's impact.
"The example of MVNOs in the US and elsewhere suggests that it's hard for their operators to dramatically change the industry because of their nature," said Ian Fogg from the IHS Technology consultancy.
"But the past isn't always a guide to the future.
"No-one would have thought that a handset manufacturer could transform the mobile industry by teaming up with one network - but that's what happened with Apple and AT&T when the iPhone launched.
"And Google itself has repeatedly shown that it is capable of changing the direction of an industry by entering it."
Examples of existing MVNOs include Tesco Mobile, GiffGaff, Red Pocket Mobile and Virgin Mobile.
Sundar Pichai, chief of Google's Android platform, first mentioned the company's plan to create a phone network in February, but provided little detail at the time.
The company has now revealed that its subscribers will be automatically switched between 4G signals provided by Sprint and T-Mobile, depending on whichever is stronger at the time.
They will also be able to make calls over wi-fi without having to use a special app, similar in nature to the Wi-fi Calling facility recently introduced by EE in the UK.
"As you go about your day, Project Fi automatically connects you to more than a million free, open wi-fi hotspots we've verified as fast and reliable," Google said on its blog.
"Once you're connected, we help secure your data through encryption. When you're not on wi-fi, we move you between whichever of our partner networks is delivering the fastest speed, so you get 4G LTE in more places."
When alternatives are not available, users will also be able to use 3G and 2G signals.
Customers will only be billed for the amount of data they actually use, rather than having an allowance that resets every month, as is typical on existing services.
The way this will work is that customers will pay a $20 (£13.30) monthly fee for unlimited calls and texts, an extra $10 for mobile data access while in the US and abroad, and then a further $10 for each gigabyte of data they decide to consume.
"Let's say you go with 3GB for $30 and only use 1.4GB one month. You'll get $16 back, so you only pay for what you use," the firm explained.
"This is Google dipping its toe in the water to see what it can do," said Chris Green from the Davies Murphy Group consultancy.
"It's a low-risk way to enter the market with its own branded service.
"Were it to later want to go deeper, it's probable that it would be via an acquisition, given the huge costs involved in building a network from scratch."
The service will work with existing copies of the Nexus 6 handset, manufactured by Motorola, but will require a new Sim card.
Google said the device's cellular radio had been deliberately designed to work across a wide range of 4G networks in the US and beyond, making it possible to switch between providers.
Since changing networks will impact the phone's battery life, the firm said it would only move customers "when absolutely necessary".
At this point Google said it had no plan to extend the scheme to other models and was limiting access to invitees.
According to the Wall Street Journal, this may be because Sprint has reserved the right to renegotiate its deal if the service grows above a certain size.
"Google is taking an unusual technology approach by relying on its Sim card and a single handset to bind two 4G networks into one network offering," commented Mr Fogg.
"In other countries, consumers gain the same dual network benefits using any handset when two operators work together on network sharing or site sharing deals.
"Project Fi's focus on a usage-based data charging model will most benefit those consumers who use smaller amounts of data, not the enthusiasts who tend to own Nexus devices.
"For Project Fi to have significant impact, Google must widen the offering to support more smartphone models."


Relegated Cheltenham Town have signed former Oldham striker Amari Morgan-Smith on a one-year deal.

Morgan-Smith was available on a free transfer after he was released by the Latics, having made only four starts for the League One club this season.
The 26-year-old has previously had spells with Stockport County, Luton, Macclesfield and Kidderminster.
"I want to try and get this club back into the Football League where they should be," he told the club's website.


James Haskell lasted just 35 seconds of his comeback game because of a head injury as Wasps held off a revival by Leicester, who were playing their first game since Richard Cockerill's sacking.

The home side led 19-3 at the interval thanks to a blistering first-half performance and tries from Christian Wade, Tommy Taylor and Dan Robson.
Tigers fought back to within three points after Peter Betham's try.
After Dan Cole was sin-binned, Jimmy Gopperth's penalty secured the win.
The win took Dai Young's side back to the top of the Premiership table after Saracens' draw against Exeter on Saturday, with Leicester in fifth place after a third successive defeat.
However, Wasps, and England head coach Eddie Jones, will be concerned that flanker James Haskell, who was out for seven months because of injury, walked back off the pitch after appearing to be momentarily knocked out when tackling Freddie Burns.
Tigers will come away from the match with many positives under head coach Aaron Mauger, which did not look likely during the first-half blitz from Wasps.
Wade scored his ninth Premiership try of the season early on, before Taylor was put over in a drive and Robson crossed following a fast break out by man of the match Thomas Young.
After the break Tigers came out strongly, and after Betham finished off a move started by Tom Brady, Burns' penalty made it 19-16.
But Cole's yellow card for being offside helped the hosts regain some impetus, and Gopperth's kick from the resulting penalty made it a six-point game.
Tigers made late changes in search of a potentially decisive try, but poor handling from Betham and George Worth in particular cost them dearly.
The match attracted Wasps' best Premiership attendance of the season of 27,930, with the club having been watched by well over 50,000 supporters in two successive games at the Ricoh Arena for the first time.
Wasps: Beale; Wade, Daly, Eastmond, Bassett; Gopperth, Robson; Mullan (capt.), Taylor, Moore, Symons, Myall, Young, Thompson, Hughes.
Replacements: Johnson, McIntyre, Swainston, Gaskell, Haskell, Simpson, Cipriani, Miller.
Leicester: Burns; Thompstone, Betham, Roberts, Brady; O Williams, B Youngs; Genge, T Youngs (capt.), Cole, Slater, Fitzgerald, M Williams, Evans, O'Connor.
Replacements: McGuigan, Bateman, Cilliers, Kitchener, McCaffrey, Harrison, Worth, Smith.
Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys (RFU)
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Plans to build a power station at a Milford Haven gas storage plant are being mothballed by owners.

The UK government gave the green light to build the 500MW station at South Hook in October.
But the joint owners announced on Monday that the proposal will now be deferred, due to falling prices in the energy market.
Building the plant would have involved several hundred workers, creating 30 permanent posts when completed.
The South Hook combined heat and power plant would have been sited at the LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal and was due to be operational by 2018.
The project was a partnership involving Qatar Petroleum, Exxon Mobil and Elf Petroleum UK, who said their decision to put the plans on hold had been "difficult".
It is the latest blow to the area's energy ambitions, following the collapse of a deal to sell the neighbouring Murco oil refinery in November, with more than 300 job losses.


Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick says it would be very difficult for him to play anywhere else when he eventually leaves Old Trafford.

The 35-year-old former England international joined United in 2006 and can sign for European clubs from January as his contract ends in June.
Carrick says he is "relaxed" about any uncertainty over his future.
"There are a lot of things to be decided but it would be very difficult to play somewhere else," he said.
United manager Jose Mourinho indicated last month that he wants Carrick - who did not sign his current deal until June this year - to stay for an additional year, although he has not communicated that directly to the player.
Carrick knows the final decision will be determined by whether both he and his manager feel he is making a worthwhile contribution to United's bid for honours.
Wednesday's EFL Cup quarter-final win over his first club West Ham was his ninth appearance of the season. Carrick has started four of the past five games, missing the weekend league draw against the Hammers with a minor calf injury.
With the exception of Wayne Rooney, he is United's longest-serving player. He is 21st on the club's all-time appearance list with 430, meaning he has played more times for the club than David Beckham, Denis Law and Peter Schmeichel.
In recent seasons several of Carrick's long-time team-mates have retired.
Rio Ferdinand joined QPR for a year after he left United in 2014, while Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs ended their playing careers without signing for anyone else.
"Everyone is different," said Carrick.
"You can't beat that buzz of winning a big game. That is what I am here for."


Police Scotland has reneged on a commitment to abolish stop searches on young children, according to data obtained by BBC Scotland.

Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson told a Holyrood committee in June that the "indefensible" practice of consensual searches on children under the age of 12 would be scrapped.
Since then, 356 children have been searched by police.
Two thirds of these searches were consensual, and 91% recovered no items.
Following the publication of these figures, the Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Alison McInnes announced she would be seeking to recall Mr Mawson to the justice committee.
She said: "People deserve to know why Police Scotland haven't kept their word on scrapping this unregulated and illiberal position.
"If it is the case that this practice is continuing, it would be reasonable to question if the police misled parliament."
Use the INTERACTIVE CALCULATOR developed by BBC data journalist Marc Ellison to see how many people like you have been stopped and searched by Police Scotland.
There were 436,288 stop-searches between January and November last year, with 654 involving children aged under 12.
By comparison, London's Metropolitan force - which polices a population greater than that of Scotland - searched 19 children under nine in the last year, compared to 159 by Police Scotland.
However, the number of searches by officers in Scotland, on children aged eight to 12, has decreased from the 2,912 carried out between April and December 2013.
Police Scotland has said the tactic has contributed to crime being at a 40-year low, with violent crime down by 10%.
Mr Mawson met a Scottish parliamentary committee in June to discuss the controversial policing tactic.
He also announced a pilot scheme in Fife in which the parents of all children subject to stop and search would be given a letter explaining why.
Mr Mawson told the justice committee: "From here on in, we should not search young children who are under the age of consent.
"That must stop - that is the message that I will be putting out.
"However, we cannot delay - I am not going to wait six months for the Fife pilot to end because the current position is fairly indefensible."
Since the committee hearing, stop and searches on children have actually increased from 45 in July, to 74 in November.
Children were most often searched for weapons (288), alcohol (152) and stolen property (125) between January and November 2014.
A dozen searches for firearms resulted in the recovery of three weapons - one of the children was as young as eight.
The majority of searches on children took place in Wishaw and Motherwell (48), Govan and Craigton (43), and the southeast of Glasgow (42).
Chloe Campbell was 11-years-old the first time she was stopped and searched.
Now 18, she is not sure why she was targeted by police in Glasgow.
"It might be just a group of young people out playing with their friends or playing football - doing things young people should be doing.
"I think they judge people by what they're wearing - like if they're wearing tracksuits, got their hoods up, or got a cap on.
"It makes me feel like, why did you just do that? I was just going somewhere and you just stopped and searched me for no reason.
"They just stopped me and started asking questions - they interrogate you, they patronise you."
Chloe, who is now getting support from Who Cares Scotland, says she has been searched another four times since then, with officers coming up empty-handed each time.
The officers have never told her what they were looking for in the consensual searches.
"I think the police like stopping young people, and I think they get something out of it," claims Chloe.
She says a young person may get wound up, and then mouth off at, or assault, an officer.
"But it was the police's fault for stopping and searching them."
Chloe says she has have never bothered to complain.
"[Young people] are just used to it - it happens all the time."
Professor Alan Miller, chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, told BBC Scotland that consensual stop searches should be abolished as they are "almost certainly unlawful."
He said: "Children are very vulnerable and they can't be expected to know what their rights are, or to be able to stand up for themselves.
"And it doesn't create a good relationship going forward between these young people and the police as they get older."
The data also revealed:
Assistant Chief Constable Nelson Telfer told BBC Scotland stop-search was a valuable tool in helping officers keep people safe.
He said: "Our data shows that a small number of under 12s were stop searched.
"Police officers will positively engage with young people and children and there are times when that engagement may move to a search which can result in the use of stop and search and often the removal of alcohol, cigarettes and other items.
"These interventions are vital in protecting the health and wellbeing of young people and children, and parents would expect us to remove alcohol and other harmful items from their children to keep them safe and prevent them becoming an offender or a victim."
He added: "Last year Police Scotland announced an undertaking to cease consensual searching of children less than 12 years of age. To support this decision, we have been reviewing searches of those aged between ages one and 11. This review is ongoing."


US designers are adopting the "show-now, shop-now" trend during New York fashion week that allows consumers to buy designs straight from the catwalk.

Tom Ford and Tommy Hilfiger are among those that have followed British fashion house Burberry in making new styles available to buy immediately.
Most shows are now live-streamed and featured on social media.
That has prompted some labels to show designs for the coming autumn/winter rather than next year's summer ranges.
Not having to wait for glossy fashion magazines to feature the latest designs has helped to make consumers less content to accept delays of several months before they can buy them.
Tom Ford is showing an autumn/winter 2016 collection for both men and women at New York fashion week rather than items for spring/summer next year.
"In a world that has become increasingly immediate, the current way of showing a collection four months before it is available to customers, is an antiquated idea and one that no longer makes sense," Ford said.
"Showing the collection as it arrives in stores will remedy this, and allow the excitement ... to drive sales and satisfy our customers' increasing desire  to have their clothes as they are ready to wear them."
Graeme Moran, head of content for fashion and features at Drapers magazine, said: "The whole industry is in flux. The rule book is being ripped up. Normally fashion weeks are geared towards those in the industry, but now the public are being invited to see what is on offer.
"I think it is very positive. The big designer brands will be watching to see how much of an impact this new approach has on sales."
Other fashion houses are adopting similar tactics with February and September shows for both men and women.
Earlier this year Burberry said it would merge its four annual shows - two for women and two for men - into just two.
Burberry was the first company to livestream its shows and it also makes extensive use of platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram.
Luxury brands have been suffering as Chinese consumers cut back on spending, the strength of the US dollar and terrorist attacks deterring tourists from visiting fashion capitals such as Paris.
They are also responding to changing shopping habits from younger consumers who have grown up buying and sharing content online - particularly on smartphones.
Half the tickets for Tommy Hilfiger's show in New York on Friday night have been given to fans, opening up previously exclusive events to members of the public.
Fashion commentators say designers are also having to respond to the successful "fast fashion" business models pioneered by the likes of Zara and H&M.
Maria Malone, principal lecturer of fashion business at Manchester Metropolitan University, said big designer catwalk shows were now only one part of the fashion landscape.
"The British high street is in itself a huge influence. Consumers are also taking their fashion inspiration from celebrities, street fashion, pop culture, TV and current events," she said.
"Some of the big influences this summer have been the Rio games, encouraging big, colourful prints. A lot more people go to festivals, so hippy-style, casual clothes have been popular."
Fashion fans no longer wanted to wait months to buy an item they have seen a celebrity wear, Ms Malone said: "If consumers see a dress on Rita Ora or Kim Kardashian, stores such as Top Shop are able to give them a version of it within weeks.
"The recent growth of online fashion companies such as Boohoo.com and Missguided has also meant that product can get to the customer faster. Likewise big brand designers need to be able to react to instant demand for their ranges," she added.
Some designer are abandoning the traditional runway show in favour of "presentations". Diane von Furstenberg, for example, has scheduled a series of appointments at New York fashion week rather than a big runway bash.
New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman says: "Sartorial spaghetti is being thrown at the wall to see what sticks. But something will, and then the whole sparkly, chiffon-clad edifice could tip."


Rescue work is set to resume to find victims and survivors of the latest deadly earthquake to hit Nepal.

At least 48 people died in Nepal and 1,100 were hurt in Tuesday's 7.3 magnitude quake, with fears the figures could rise. At least 17 died in India.
A US aid helicopter is also missing, with eight people on board.
Thousands of Nepalis spent the night in the open. Many have not returned to their homes since a 7.8 magnitude quake on 25 April that killed over 8,000.
Tuesday's earthquake was centred about 76km (47 miles) east of the capital, Kathmandu, near the town of Namche Bazaar.
A second tremor of 6.3-magnitude hit Nepal 30 minutes later and numerous other aftershocks continued into Wednesday morning.
The main quake was felt in northern India, Tibet and Bangladesh. India's home ministry said 16 people had been killed in the state of Bihar, and one more in Uttar Pradesh. Officials in China said one person was confirmed dead in Tibet.
Read eyewitness accounts of the quake
Nepal's districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk, east of the capital, were initially listed as the worst hit, with officials confirming 26 fatalities, 20 of them in the town of Charikot.
But the true extent of the casualties and damage remains unclear.
Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam said: "Many houses have collapsed in Dolakha... there is a chance that the number of dead from the district will go up."
Regine Kopplow, a German aid worker in Charikot said: "I saw a woman in the building opposite jump from the third floor who suffered injuries to her leg, elbow and hand.
"People stayed outside, the shaking continued. Some people were crying, hugging each other."
The US military said a Marine Corps Huey helicopter involved in disaster relief efforts had gone missing while working in the vicinity of Charikot.
The Pentagon said there were six US Marines and two Nepali soldiers on board. It said there was as yet no sign of a crash and the craft may have landed safely, amid reports of fuel issues.
The Red Cross said it had received reports of many casualties in the town of Chautara in Sindhupalchowk, where it has a hospital and which has become a hub for humanitarian aid.
Spokeswoman Nichola Jones said: "Hundreds of people are pouring in. They are treating dozens for injuries and they have performed more than a dozen surgeries."
At least two major buildings collapsed in Kathmandu, with at least three people rescued.
But there have been other reports of landslides and fallen buildings in towns and villages outside the capital.
Save the Children said Gorkha, close to the epicentre of the 25 April quake, had been hit by new landslides. A spokeswoman told the BBC its staff had been "dodging huge rocks rolling off the hillside".
Residents of Namche Bazaar said there was some damage there but no reports of deaths.
The BBC's Navin Singh Khadka says local officials in the Everest region report very few tourists are still in the area following the 25 April quake.
Many residents of the capital and other towns spent Tuesday night outdoors, too scared to return to homes.
Dipak Koirala, who lives in Ramechhap district, told AFP news agency: "I was thinking of moving to a rented room, but today was so scary I can't risk my family's life."
Sulav Singh, who lives in Kathmandu, told the Associated Press: "I thought I was going to die this time. Things were just getting back to normal, and we get this one."
Politicians on Tuesday fled Nepal's parliament chamber in Kathmandu as the quake hit.
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said later: "At an hour of a natural disaster like this, we have to face it with courage and patience."
The BBC's Yogita Limaye, who was in Nepal's mountains when the latest earthquake struck, said: "The earth shook and it shook for a pretty long time.
"I can completely understand the sense of panic. We have been seeing tremors - it's been two-and-a-half weeks since the first quake. But this one really felt like it went on for a really long time. People have been terrified."
The epicentre this time is about 80km (50 miles) east-north-east of Kathmandu, halfway to Everest. On 25 April, the big quake began 80km to the north-west of the capital.
In April, we saw the fault boundary rupture eastwards for 150km (93 miles). And the immediate assessment suggests Tuesday's tremor has occurred right at the eastern edge of this failure.
In that context, this second earthquake was almost certainly triggered by the stress changes caused by the first one.
The US Geological Survey's modelling suggested there was 1-in-200 chance of a M7-7.8 event occurring this week.
Quake experts often talk about "seismic gaps", which refer to segments of faults that are, to some extent, overdue a quake. Tuesday's big tremor may well have filled a hole between what we saw on 25 April and some historic events - such as those in 1934, that occurred further still to the east.
Unsettled Earth


(Noon): The FTSE 100 has given up early gains, as losses for shares in insurers and oil firms weighed on the index.

Prudential was the biggest loser on the FTSE 100 with a 2.8% loss and Aviva was 1.5% lower.
BP was down 2.5%, hurt by falling crude oil prices.
Winners included BT Group, which rose 3% after it reported a 24% rise in profits. Ryanair was up almost 4.4% after it said quarterly profits doubled.
Rolls-Royce shares fell 0.5%, despite announcing a Â£1.9bn order for engines from Norwegian Airlines.
By around 12:15 the FTSE 100 index was 0.6% lower, having opened higher.
Brenda Kelly, head analyst at London Capital Group expects further volatility for shares this week. "Wild swings are characteristic of a down-trending market," she said.
Ms Kelly also pointed out that investors will be closely watching the oil price at the moment, which she says has a big influence on the FTSE 100.
Brent Crude recovered some of its early losses, but was still trading 15 cents lower at $35.84 a barrel.
Shares in Premier Oil more than doubled in value to 39.5p after they started trading again, following a near-three week suspension.
On 13 January Premier Oil agreed to buy the North Sea assets of E.On. Since then its shares have been suspended.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.2% against the dollar to $1.4273.
It was 0.1% lower against the euro at â‚¬1.3133.


Five tiny meerkat pups have been exploring their new enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

The babies were born in May and are now playing with the rest of the group in the main enclosure.
They don't stray very far from their mum though.
In the wild meerkats live in large families called  a "mob" or "gang" and as many as 50 meerkats can live in them.
All the adults in a mob share the responsibility of looking after the pups.
Meerkats live in large burrows underground, to escape the scorching heat of the South African sun.
These five meerkat pups are yet to be named, but are enjoying exploring their new enclosure with each other for now.


The proportion of UK residents' disposable income that goes into savings has fallen to a record low.

The savings ratio - which measures the outgoings and incomings that affect households - has been falling sharply for more than a year.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the ratio stood at 1.7% from January to March, down from 3.3% in the previous quarter.
The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2017, the ONS said.
This was unchanged from an earlier estimate but confirmed the slowdown from the 0.7% rate seen in the final quarter of last year.
Growth in the business services and finance sectors helped to offset slower consumer spending, the ONS said.
Consumer spending and saving were hit by another fall in disposable income.
For the first time since the 1970s, disposable income has fallen for three quarters in a row.
Concerns have also been expressed about the level of consumer borrowing on loans, credit cards, overdrafts and car finance.
But the ONS also said that the timing of tax payments was a major factor in the cut in savings levels since September last year. Gross saving of Â£5.6bn in the first quarter of the year was a sharp drop from Â£11bn the previous quarter, and Â£17.7bn in the three months before that.
Darren Morgan, head of GDP at the ONS, said: "The saving ratio has fallen again this quarter to a new record low, partly as a result of higher tax payments reducing disposable income.
"Some of the fall could be as a result of the timing of those payments, but the underlying trend is for a continued fall in the saving ratio."
Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, said: "These figures make for grim reading. People raiding their piggy banks is bad news for working people and the economy.
"But with wages falling as living costs rise, many families are having to run down their savings or rely on credit cards and loans to get through the month. With household debt now at crisis levels, we urgently need to create better paid jobs."
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "This suggests that the crisis in earnings not keeping up with prices means that many working households are struggling to make ends meet."
Vince Cable, from the Liberal Democrats, said: "Rising prices and falling wages since the Brexit vote mean families are increasingly unable to live within their means or save for the future.
"Our economy's reliance on consumer spending, propped up by debt, is not sustainable and combined with an extreme Brexit the consequences could be severe."
Earlier this week, financial information service Moneyfacts said that savers have faced a "never-ending battle" to get a decent return on their cash over the past few years.
Nine out of 10 easy access savings accounts pay interest of less than 1%, and a third of such accounts failed to even pay a rate matching the current base rate of 0.25%.
Savings rates are failing to keep pace with the rising cost of living, with inflation at a rate of 2.9%.


Leigh Halfpenny's future at Toulon appears to have been resolved following a meeting between the Wales full-back's representative and club officials.

The 25-year-old has not played since surgery on a dislocated shoulder he suffered in the Six Nations in March and he is now out with a groin injury.
Last week Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal said the player's contract could be terminated on medical grounds.
But it is understood that the rift has now been healed after urgent talks.
Halfpenny joined French Top 14 side Toulon from Cardiff Blues on a two-year deal in the summer and he has yet to play for the Heineken Cup winners because of the groin injury.
But Halfpenny is back running in training and sources close to the player believe he could return to action within three weeks.
Boudjellal told French newspaper Varmartin at the time that he felt Halfpenny might have been carrying the groin injury when he arrived at Toulon.
The Toulon president had said: "We haven't excluded denouncing his contract."
That put Halfpenny's former side Cardiff Blues and their regional rivals Ospreys on alert that the 2013 British and Irish Lions player of the series might become available.
Any move back to Wales would likely have been on a dual contract partly funded by the Welsh Rugby Union.
But it seems that Halfpenny's immediate future in France is now secure and he will soon take his place in a side still in need of a top-level goal-kicker following the retirement of Jonny Wilkinson.
Toulon returned to form on Friday with a 53-13 win over Brive that took them top of the table - at least until other sides play on Saturday - with Halfpenny tweeting his support for his team-mates ahead of the game.
"Good luck to the @RCTofficiel lads playing against Brive tonight," he wrote, before retweeting the same message in French.


Mark Rylance says he is unlikely to perform at the Royal Shakespeare Company unless it drops a sponsorship deal with BP.

Asked if he would work at the theatre, Rylance said "no, probably not".
The oil giant is not "behaving ethically given the dangerous increase of climate change", Rylance told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.
BP says it is "proud to have supported UK arts and culture for over 50 years".
But Rylance accused the oil giant of trying to present itself as a "society-loving organisation, which I don't think they are".
Rylance, who is an associate artist at the RSC, says artists are "being used to whitewash" the energy company.
In July 2016, BP pledged £7.5m over five years to the Royal Opera House, British Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Royal Shakespeare Company from 2018.
The RSC says sponsorship is an important part of its "diverse funding mix" and helps it "reach the widest possible audience".
"BP is a publicly listed company," says Peter Mather, BP head of UK. "We balance our responsibilities to our employees, shareholders and the communities in which we operate."
The chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Alex Beard, said cultural institutions such as his relied on a "mixed economy".
A "three-legged stool" of box office receipts, philanthropic donations and corporate support "allows us to have a sufficient mix of funding that we can take our own decisions about what is right for our art and for our audiences",  he said.
Without the support of corporate sponsors, "we would frankly be diminished", he added.
Arts publicist Mark Borkowski said as funding from government decreases, "we're going to have to move to a more aggressive American model" of relying on private and corporate support.
"Ethically the pure argument of Mark Rylance's point of view is valid," he said.
"I am sure that certain people will possibly boycott a show because they have seen a specific logo. But make no mistake if it is a top ticket or a hot show, people's ethics are left at home."
Rylance says it is for audiences and artists to decide. "If there was someone round here selling revolvers in my neighbourhood or knives to the young people and said I'd like to sponsor your theatrical show I'd say no."
For more on this story listen to Broadcasting House at 09:00 BST on Sunday 23 October, or catch up on iPlayer.


Middlesex have signed New Zealand international James Franklin on an initial two-year contract.

The 34-year-old is set to qualify as a non-overseas player through his Irish ancestry, subject to approval from the England and Wales Cricket Board.
All-rounder Franklin has played 31 Tests for New Zealand, as well as appearing in 110 one-day internationals and 38 Twenty20 internationals.
His deal at Lord's has the option of being extended into a third year.
Left-armer Franklin, who has previously had spells with Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Essex and Nottinghamshire, will continue to play for Wellington until the end of the 2014-15 New Zealand domestic season in April.
Franklin, who last played Test cricket in January 2013, is on the reserve list for New Zealand's World Cup squad.
"I've had a hugely enjoyable and memorable career in New Zealand," he said.
"It's been an absolute privilege to play for Wellington for over 15 years.
"Although this decision closes the chapter on playing for New Zealand again I know I've been incredibly fortunate to have spent over a decade playing international cricket.
"I'm really looking forward to being in a dressing room full of talented cricketers who will be wanting to help Middlesex win silverware and be a dominant force in county cricket."
Middlesex managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said Franklin would provide "quality, consistency and nous" to their squad.
"James has a lot to offer and continues to perform to a high level wherever he plays," he said.
"Despite James not having bowled with great frequency over the winter, due to a side strain, we are confident that come April his fitness levels will enable him to offer both experience and variety as a left arm-seamer."


Millwall ended a run of three straight League One defeats by thrashing fellow play-off hopefuls Southend United.

Neil Harris' Lions took the lead when Joe Martin's shot went in off the post before Shaun Cummings added a second when his cross evaded everyone and went in via keeper Daniel Bentley.
Fred Onyedinma made it 3-0 at half-time by following up Steve Morison's strike.
Morison then played in strike partner Aiden O'Brien to score his 10th goal of the season and seal the three points.
Southend only had one effort on target in the whole game, with David Worrall's acrobatic effort saved by David Forde, as the eight-match unbeaten run by Phil Brown's side was brought to an end.
Millwall manager Neil Harris told BBC Radio London:
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"I thought we were outstanding. They've set their standards and that's got to be every week.
"It's not just about the 11 players that started this fixture, it's about the boys that performed brilliantly in the second half the other day, it's about the guys that weren't in the squad today coming back into the fold.
"I'm delighted, I thought from the goalkeeper through to the front line we were excellent and the disappointment was that we didn't score more goals.
"We've got to stick to the same standards, the same discipline when we haven't got the ball."


If official inflation falls below 1% tomorrow, which seems more-or-less certain, would that matter?

It matters in a symbolic sense in that it would be the first time, since the Bank of England was given control over interest rates, that it has missed the target on the downside.
Although it missed the target on the upside (that is inflation was over 3%) for month after pricey month from May 2008 to February 2009 and then from the beginning of 2010 to April 2012 (when it was at 3% or less only once).
To labour the point (as is my wont, yawn) it would be the first time that the rules put in place by Gordon Brown as Chancellor would oblige the Governor to write a letter explaining why inflation is too low - and what he and his colleagues intend to do about it.
But the more important question is whether inflation at less than 1% is actually bad for us - given that the implication of the Bank of England's mandate, that inflation should not be more than 1 percentage point above or below 2%, suggests it would be bad.
Well, the big reason that inflation has been falling - falls in food and oil-linked prices - should be good for most consumers and businesses, in that we have to buy these things and the drops make our money go further.
The lower prices are the equivalent of a chunky tax cut.
So in theory they will encourage us to spend more, and thus provide positive momentum for the economy, to offset - inter alia - the drag from the stagnating eurozone.
That said, there is also very little inflation in categories of discretionary spending, such as recreation, culture, clothing and furniture.
And, as I mentioned last week, we are likely to start shipping in deflationary pressures from the eurozone, as the European Central Bank responds to falling prices there by weakening the euro - which means we will pay less for imports from our important eurozone trading partners.
The point is that inflation is likely to remain well below target for many months, and if we all started to defer discretionary spending in the hope of buying cheaper later, falling inflation could turn into deflation and slump.
So although there is no chance in the immediate future of the Bank of England responding to "too low" inflation by further monetary stimulus or action to cheapen the cost of money - through further quantitative easing, for example - it will need to be vigilant that we don't turn Japanese, that we don't turn into an endemically stagnating economy.


An Amtrak passenger train has derailed in Northfield, Vermont, authorities have confirmed.

Multiple agencies are responding to the incident, said Vermont state police spokesman Scott Waterman.
Amtrak has said there are no "immediate reports of any life-threatening injuries".
In a news release it said the train, travelling south to Washington, derailed after striking a rock slide on the tracks.
Four people were taken away from the scene by ambulance.
Other passengers were taken by school bus to nearby Norwich University.
A deadly Amtrak passenger train derailment in Philadelphia this year killed seven people.


Armed police officers in Washington DC are being trained in how to use public toilets without leaving guns behind.

The US Capitol police have accidentally left their guns in the building's toilets three times in 2015.
The officers involved have been disciplined. One gun was found by a child.
"We are now providing additional training on what to do when you have to go to the bathroom," Capitol Police Chief Kim C Dine told Congress.
The Capitol Police are responsible for protecting senators, congressmen and women, other staff and visitors to the Capitol in Washington DC.
They also police the Capitol grounds and the surrounding area.
Mr Dine was testifying to the House Administration Committee after a series of embarrassing episodes affecting the police force.
He said there was no excuse for leaving guns behind in toilets and more lockers are being installed to store firearms.
A first-time offender is typically suspended for five days but this could be increased to 30 days, he said. There could be sackings for individuals who re-offend.
"I would be remiss if I did not say that the officers involved in these recent weapons cases reported in the media in no way intended to leave their weapons unattended.
"But as noted, this is not acceptable and they will be held accountable,'' he said.


American Airlines chief executive Doug Parker has joined a select group of company bosses opting to be paid entirely in shares.

He has decided to give up the cash portion of his salary and annual bonus.
Mr Parker was paid more than $12m last year, 40% of which was in cash, according to regulatory filings.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Larry Page and Kinder Morgan's Rich Kinder are also paid solely in shares.
"I believe this is the right way for my compensation to be set -- at risk, based entirely on the results achieved, and in the same currency that our shareholders receive," Mr Parker said in a letter to employees.
Under the new deal, 54% of his payout will tied to performance targets.
The 53 year-old industry veteran has helped transform American Airlines into one of the country's most successful companies.
Shares of American Airlines have more than doubled in value since the company merged with rival US Airways in 2013.
Both carriers had undergone bankruptcy but their combination has since created the world's largest airline company based on passenger traffic.
American Airlines also posted a record profit of $2.9bn last year, helped by cheaper fuel prices and reduced competition.


Eight masked gunmen in Peru have robbed tourists enjoying a luxury riverboat cruise on the Amazon.

The riverboat had left the city of Iquitos on Wednesday with around 30 tourists on board to see towns along the river, local media reported.
When the boat anchored in the middle of the river for one stop, the gunmen boarded it and stole goods worth around $20,000 (Â£15,000).
None of the tourists, most of them American, were hurt.
The robbery happened early in the morning.
The gunmen arrived on a small boat and boarded the riverboat, threatening the crew and tourists with small calibre weapons.
The boat's captain was hit with a pistol handle but was not seriously injured. None of the rest of the crew were hurt.
The police arrived soon after the incident and all the tourists were evacuated to a safe location.


British astronaut Tim Peake has told an audience of his fans in Glasgow about his time on the International Space Station.

17 October 2016 Last updated at 12:14 BST
Tickets to the event at Glasgow's Science Centre sold out in just 23 minutes. His talk was broadcast on  screens across the building.
Tim Peake spent six months on the Principia mission and became the first UK astronaut to go on a spacewalk.
Glasgow Science Centre hosts Tim Peake event


Marcus Trescothick and Peter Trego both made centuries to drag Somerset back into contention with Middlesex on day three of the County Championship match.

Division One leaders Middlesex, who were bowled out for 381 at Taunton to lead by 145, looked in charge when they reduced Somerset to 59-3 and 126-4.
But Trescothick, who made 124, and Trego, still there on 115, shared 181 to leave the contest in the balance.
Somerset closed on 348-6, an advantage of 203 runs.
On a surface that has become easier for batting as the game has progressed, the outcome seems likely to rest on the length of time Trego spends at the crease on the final day.
Somerset would perhaps want to post a target in excess of 250, while anything less would probably leave Middlesex as favourites.
That the home side, who at one stage looked set to be defeated inside three days, are still in with a shout is down entirely to Trescothick and Trego.
Opener Trescothick had seen Johann Myburgh bowled offering no shot to Harry Podmore and captain Chris Rogers shovel the same bowler to point for a duck.
After James Hildreth was caught at slip from the off-spin of Ollie Rayner, Trescothick found some support from James Allenby, but when he mistimed a pull to mid-on, Somerset were still 19 behind.
But Trescothick, playing characteristically powerful cover drives, and Trego, who capitalised as the Middlesex bowlers often dropped short, compiled their huge fifth-wicket stand to drag the hosts back into it.
Trescothick's 48th Somerset hundred took him past Sir Viv Richards to second on the all-time list, while Trego completed his 14th first-class ton.
Only when James Harris found some late energy did he have both Trescothick and Craig Overton caught behind, leaving Alex Barrow to accompany Trego to the close.
Harris was earlier the last Middlesex wicket to fall, caught at slip off Tim Groenewald for 78, missing a maiden first-class hundred, just like James Fuller, who fell to the same combination for 93.