It's been a shade over 13 months since Rangers and Celtic last met - in the League Cup semi-final at Hampden on 1 February 2015.

Not that long ago in terms of time but a relative eternity in the lives of these two clubs.
That semi-final was the strangest kind of procession for Ronny Deila's team. On the face of it, a 2-0 victory might suggest that it was relatively close, when it was not.
A two-goal deficit might hint that the gap between them at that point wasn't that large, when, in reality, it was.
Everybody knew the score. Rangers avoided a humiliation, but there was no denying the difference in class and feel-good. The clubs were worlds apart.
Now that the sides have been drawn together in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup, back at Hampden in mid-April, the starting pistol has sounded on the countdown. It will be exhaustive, as ever.
When the draw was made, you didn't know what to reach for first - the telephone or the tin hat. Both will be useful in the six-week build-up to this thing.
While Glasgow football's own version of a Victorian Odditorium begins to unfold, it's safe to say that the managers of the three other clubs left in the draw will be relieved.
Mixu Paatelainen, of Dundee United, will be left in relative peace between now and then to focus on trying to perform a grand feat of escapology from the foot of the Premiership.
His team will face either Alan Stubbs' Hibernian or John Hughes' Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who drew on Sunday and will replay on 16 March.
Paatelainen and one from Stubbs and Hughes will have a low-key journey to their own semi-final compared to Deila and Mark Warburton.
As the semi-finals approach, they may gripe a little about not getting the same profile as Rangers and Celtic, but they surely won't envy Warburton and Deila and the unending circus they are about to be pitched into.
Quite a lot has changed for Rangers and Celtic since Hampden in February last year, when Leigh Griffiths and Kris Commons scored the decisive goals.
Rangers, in those dog days, were being managed, in the short-term, by Kenny McDowall, a guy who spent most of his brief time in the Ibrox hot seat fumbling around for the ejector button.
There was rancour and mayhem off the pitch and confusion and failure on it. In their 10 games preceding the Celtic semi-final, Rangers drew with Alloa Athletic at Ibrox in the Championship and then lost to them in the Petrofac Cup. They also lost to Hearts, Queen of the South and Hibs - on a cumulative score of 8-0.
Ally McCoist had gone on gardening leave. The team that played Celtic had Steve Simonsen in goal with Ian Black, Kyle Hutton and Fraser Aird in the midfield.
After they got beaten by Celtic, their next two games were against Raith Rovers at Ibrox in the Scottish Cup and against Hibs in the Championship, again at Ibrox. They lost both of them.
Then they had a win against Raith Rovers followed by five successive draws - Falkirk, Cowdenbeath, Queen of the South, Livingston and Alloa. Stuart McCall was in charge by then - their third manager of the season.
Celtic, meanwhile, were motoring nicely. Their win over Rangers was of one of eight in a row. That run was only stopped by Inter Milan, in the Europa League knockout stages.
Deila's side drew a thrilling first leg 3-3 at home and were admirable in defeat at the San Siro, their 1-0 loss coming late, despite playing with 10 men for much of the night after Virgil van Dijk's red card.
Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven had just come in from Dundee United. Things looked promising for Deila, but things changed, in both sides of the city.
Now it is Celtic's manager who is unpopular and a little haunted. Now it is Celtic who are faltering in the league and drawing the heat from their supporters. Now it is Celtic fans who are calling for change in ever louder numbers.
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Their own team, against Rangers last year, had Van Dijk and Jason Denayer in the heart of the defence where now uncertainty rules.
The midfield had Stefan Johansen, on his way to the player of the year award. Johansen has been a shadow of his previous self this season.
Celtic had Griffiths, but they also had Anthony Stokes and John Guidetti. Now they have Colin Kazim-Richards and Carlton Cole. Kieran Tierney is the one upgrade on 13 months ago.
They have signed vast amounts of players - particularly midfield players - but their policy is unfocused and team is unconvincing. Deila has admitted he doesn't know what his best starting line-up is.
The gap between Rangers and Celtic has narrowed, but until they meet, we won't know what kind of margin we're talking about.
What you can say about the Ibrox club is that the mad turbulence has gone - save for the odd intervention by shareholder and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley - and that peace reigns.
Warburton has brought authority. He has improved the team in all departments. They haven't had many setbacks this season, but it's instructive to look at what they did after each one.
The wounding 3-1 League Cup loss to St Johnstone at Ibrox in September was followed by five straight wins. November and December were testing months - a loss to Hibs, draws with Livingston and Morton and then another loss to Falkirk had some of us wondering about their mettle - but then they beat Hibs 4-2 and won 11 of their next 13 games and drew the other two.
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Warburton has instilled character where before there was huge mental weakness. He has seen off Hibs in the Championship race and, on Saturday, his players thundered past Dundee and into the Scottish Cup semi-final.
They put four goals on Paul Hartley's team, who sit fifth in the Premiership and who had, just three days before, taken a draw, and almost a win, from Celtic Park.
Celtic, and not Dundee, remain the acid test of Rangers' improvement, but the test doesn't look as exacting as it was 13 months ago.
That's the hunch. We'll know more about the truth of that after the craziness of the build-up ends and the football finally begins.


The Scottish Fishermen's Federation has described the annual quota deal struck in Brussels as "largely positive".

The agreement reached by EU fisheries ministers saw increases approved for key species including cod and whiting.
Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, said the deal would bring "welcome economic stability" to fishing communities.
The Fish Council deal was also welcomed by the UK and Scottish governments.
Part of the agreement, struck in the early hours of Wednesday, will see cod and whiting come under the so-called discard ban for the first time.
That means skippers will be obliged to land catches of these fish even if they have gone over their quota allocation.
The new deal will see a 16.5% increase in the amount of cod that can be caught in the North Sea, while whiting catches could rise by 17%, anglerfish by 20% and 53% for saithe.
The SFF's Bertie Armstrong said: "With Brexit now looming, fishermen can look to the future with real optimism as we are on the cusp of an exciting new era as a coastal state with full control of our 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
"This will give us the opportunity for fairer shares in catching opportunity and better fit-for-purpose sustainable fisheries management, which will benefit our coastal communities."
Scottish Fisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the financial benefits of the new deal would be significant.
He said: "The outcome is extremely positive and our recalculated estimates of the opportunities created from yesterday's agreement are Â£47m, but of course the fishermen have got to catch the fish.
"Translated into individual species, we were successful in obtaining increases for fish quotas for 16 out of 23 key Scottish stocks."
Mr Ewing acknowledged there had been a 40% cut to haddock quotas for both the North Sea and waters west of Scotland.
However, he added: "There was a cut in the quota to the North Sea, but it's slightly more complicated than that because last year there was an error and the quota was artificially inflated and there was a much smaller level of haddock actually caught.
"Therefore, in real terms, there is not such a cut, but overall these are extremely strong results for Scottish fisheries."
The UK fisheries minister George Eustace said the agreement struck the right balance for the marine environment and our coastal communities.
He said: "To deliver a profitable fishing industry, we must fish sustainably now and in the future. This year we were able to agree further increases in quotas on some valuable species as stocks have recovered, especially in the North Sea.
"As we prepare to leave the European Union we have an opportunity to build on progress made and improve the management of fish stocks in our waters, but we will continue to follow the principles of fishing sustainably and ending the wasteful practice of discarding fish."


One of Wales' worst maritime disasters is being remembered by a small community near Swansea.

Eight lifeboat men from the Mumbles lost their lives in 1947 when they went to the aid of the shipwrecked SS Samtampa, whose 39 crew also died.
The 7,000 tonne steamer, en route from Middlesbrough to Newport, ran aground at Sker Point near Porthcawl in the face of a 70mph (112kph) gale.
Flags are flying at half-mast on Monday over the lifeboat house at Mumbles.
It is believed the lifeboat was struck by an exceptionally high wave.
The stricken vessel broke into three on the rocks within 80 minutes.
Maureen Donald, daughter of the lifeboat's second coxswain William Knowle, who was 10 when her father died, said: "The maroons [lifeboat alert flares] went.
"He ran to a young man on the prom and he said: 'Can I borrow your bike, son?'
"That was the last time I saw him. My mother then came home, she closed the legion club, and said: 'You'd better go to bed. 'I'll sit up and wait for Daddy.'
"(I) went to sleep and the next thing I heard was screaming.
"My mother heard me coming down the stairs, I think, because she met me halfway and said: 'Daddy's gone.' And I said: 'What do you mean he's gone?'
"She said: 'The lifeboat has floundered and we are not going to have him again, he's gone.' And with that she just collapsed. It was pretty awful."
Mrs Donald's mother also lost her brother on the lifeboat, called Edward Prince of Wales.
Local church verger Bill Barrington, 93, said the impact of the tragedy still lived with the Mumbles.
"Well, we really still haven't recovered," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"It's always been here. It's always been part of the community.
The Mumbles is one of the busiest lifeboat stations in Wales.
Last year, the town's two boats were launched 70 times between them, bringing ashore 89 people.


The first episode of the new car show fronted by former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond will be made available on 18 November.

New episodes of The Grand Tour will become available on Amazon Prime Video every Friday for 12 weeks.
The trio moved from the BBC to Amazon after Clarkson was sacked for punching a Top Gear producer last year.
The Grand Tour's first episode will be 70 minutes long and will be partly filmed in California next month.
Studio scenes are being recorded in a giant tent that is travelling around the world. The tent has already visited Johannesburg but it will be seen in California in the launch episode. Further locations are still to be announced.
To tie in with the launch date announcement, Amazon has put a 30-second teaser on YouTube.
The Sun has reported that Hollywood stars Charlize Theron and Matt Damon will be among the guests during the first season.
Jay Marine, Vice President of Amazon Prime Video EU, said: "Customers have been desperate to find out when they can watch their favourite team back on screen, so we are very excited to announce the launch date of one of the most globally anticipated shows of 2016.
"The guys have been having a blast filming the show around the world."
Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival last month, The Grand Tour producer Andy Wilman said: "Like them or loathe them, they are still doing their thing."
He showed delegates clips showing May driving with a broken arm, Clarkson driving on the Game of Thrones set and Hammond waking up in a buggy to find it has been hoisted into the air.
The footage also showed the trio racing Maseratis, a Rolls Royce and a Porsche, as well as Clarkson on a jet ski.
The team have signed up to make 12 shows a year for three years.
Wilman said everything was being filmed in 4K [high resolution] but rubbished press reports that each episode had a Â£4.5m budget.
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Kurdish parties have declared the establishment of a federal system in areas they control in northern Syria.

The Kurds already operate "autonomous administrations" in three enclaves bordering Turkey: Afrin and Kobane in Aleppo province and Jazira in Hassakeh.
The new federal region will also include mainly Arab and Turkmen areas captured from so-called Islamic State.
The declaration was dismissed by the Syrian government, which insisted that it would have no legal basis.
The US and Turkey, which is wary of anything that might encourage separatism by its own Kurdish minority, have also warned against such a unilateral move.
The plan to declare a federal system across much of northern Syria was approved by representatives of Kurdish, Arab and other parties at a conference in Rmeilan.
The region will reportedly be called "Rojava - northern Syria". Rojava is the term Kurds use to refer to western or Syrian Kurdistan.
On Wednesday, officials from the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) stressed they were not seeking to establish a Kurdish-only region, but one that included representation for all ethnic and religious groups.
The arrangement would also preserve Syrian national unity by preventing a country divided and devastated by five years of civil war from breaking up, they added.
"The federalism project is a model for all Syria," spokesman Nawaf Khalil told the Associated Press.
However, the Syrian government has ruled out the idea of a federal system.
The official Sana news agency cited a foreign ministry official as saying Thursday's declaration was "without any legal value and void of any legal, political, social or economic effect".
The main Western-backed opposition alliance, the National Coalition, meanwhile warned against "any attempt to form entities, regions, or administrations that usurp the will of the people".
The declaration comes as government and opposition representatives attend UN-brokered talks in Geneva aimed at finding a political solution to end the civil war.
The PYD was not invited to the talks, reportedly at the request of Turkey.
Kurds made up between 7% and 10% of Syria's population of 24.5 million before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began five years ago.
Although they were denied basic rights and suffered decades of political suppression by the Arab-led state, most Kurds avoided taking sides when a wave of protests swept the country.
When government forces withdrew from Kurdish areas to concentrate on fighting rebels elsewhere in mid-2012, Kurdish militias swiftly took control, led by the PYD's Popular Protection Units (YPG).
In January 2014, the PYD and other Kurdish parties created autonomous administrations based in the enclaves, or "cantons", of Afrin, Kobane and Jazira.
Since then, the YPG has emerged as a key ally of the US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State, leading the fight against the jihadist group on the ground in northern Syria.
With the help of US airpower, the YPG has taken control of an estimated 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq miles) of Syria, including a 400 km (250 mile) stretch of territory along the Turkish border.


Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey has been banned for five games after he was found guilty of using racially abusive language by an independent panel.

He has also been fined £100,000 and ordered to attend a Football Association education course.
Shelvey, 24, had a personal hearing to challenge the charge after an incident with Wolves' Moroccan midfielder Romain Saiss in 17 September's 2-0 defeat.
The player has seven days to appeal.
Newcastle said in a statement they will wait to see the FA's written reasons "before making any further comment on the matter".
The FA's sanctions will be set aside pending consideration for an appeal.
Newcastle were losing to Wolves in their Championship match at St James' Park, when in the 87th minute an incident occurred between Shelvey and Saiss.
The breach, according to the FA's charge against the former Liverpool and Swansea player, related to Rule E3(1), and was an "Aggravated Breach as defined in Rule E3(2), as it included reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or nationality".
BBC Sport's Pat Murphy said the matter was brought to referee Tim Robinson's attention by one of Saiss' team-mates immediately after the game.
If Boxing Day's visit of Sheffield Wednesday becomes the first game of the suspension, the England international will miss four league games and the FA Cup third-round tie at Birmingham.
Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez would next be able to name him in the squad for the Championship game against Rotherham on 21 January.
FA guidelines, which were revised in 2013, state any player found guilty of racially abusing an opponent or discriminating on religion, sexuality or disability, should be banned for at least five games.
Prior to that, Chelsea's John Terry was handed a four-match ban and a £220,000 fine for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, while Liverpool's Luis Suarez received an eight-match suspension and a £40,000 fine for his abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra - both in 2011.


For the first time in four years, there has been a fall in the average residential property price in Northern Ireland.

The value decreased by 0.8% - or about Â£1,000 - to Â£124,000 in the first months of 2017.
The official calculation is made quarterly by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) based on stamp duty data.
The last time prices showed a fall between quarters was in early 2013.
The number of sales is also at its lowest point since 2013.
Apartments suffered the biggest recent slump in value ( -4.5%), compared to semi-detached properties which stayed unchanged.
In terms of council areas, Mid and East Antrim recorded a 3.1% fall and Belfast 2.3%.
However, today's prices overall are still up by 4.3% on this time last year.


Rights group Amnesty International has accused Qatar of using forced labour at a flagship World Cup 2022 stadium.

Amnesty says workers at Khalifa International Stadium are forced to live in squalid accommodation, pay huge recruitment fees and have had wages withheld and passports confiscated.
It also accuses Fifa of "failing almost completely" to stop the tournament being "built on human rights abuses".
Qatar said it was "concerned" by the allegations and would investigate.
The government said the welfare of migrant workers was a "top priority" and insisted it was committed to systematic reform of Qatar's labour laws.
Fifa, the governing body of world football, said measures had been taken that had already improved the situation for migrant workers.
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Last year the country pledged to makes changes to its "kafala" sponsorship system, under which migrant workers cannot change jobs or leave the country without their employer's permission.
But Amnesty warned the proposed reforms would make little difference and said some of the workers were enduring a "living nightmare".
"All workers want are their rights: to be paid on time, leave the country if need be and be treated with dignity and respect," said general secretary Salil Shetty.
Amnesty interviewed 231 mostly South Asian migrants - 132 working at the stadium and 99 on green spaces in the surrounding Aspire sports complex.
It said staff of one labour supply company used the threat of penalties to exact work from some migrants such as withholding pay, handing workers over to the police or stopping them from leaving Qatar.
This amounted to forced labour under international law, Amnesty said.
The Qatari government said its Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs would investigate the contractors named in the report.
But Amnesty said every migrant it had interviewed had reported abuses of one kind or another, including being:
One metal worker from India who worked on the Khalifa stadium refurbishment told Amnesty he was threatened by his employer when he complained about not being paid for several months.
"He just shouted abuse at me and said that if I complained again I'd never leave the country," the worker said.
"Ever since I have been careful not to complain about my salary or anything else. Of course, if I could I would change jobs or leave Qatar."
Another metal worker from Nepal said his life was "like a prison".
Some of the Nepali workers told Amnesty they were not allowed to visit their families after the earthquake last April that killed thousands and left millions displaced.
Hassan al-Thawadi, Secretary General for Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is responsible for delivering stadiums and infrastructure for the games, told the BBC that addressing the issue of workers' welfare was a "long journey".
"We cannot resolve everything overnight," he said.
"Progress has been made on the ground in relation to a number of these issues. In addition, I think the report indicates the commitment the Supreme Committee has made in relation to workers' welfare and our standards, as well as the openness and transparency with which we have dealt with these matters."
Mr Shetty also had harsh words for Fifa, accusing it of "indifference" to the abuse of migrant workers, which he said was a "stain on the conscience of world football".
The Khalifa Stadium is part of the Aspire Zone sports complex, where facilities have already been used by some of the world's biggest football clubs, including Bayern Munich, Everton and Paris Saint-Germain, which trained there in the winter.
Amnesty has called on big World Cup sponsors such as Adidas, Coca Cola and McDonald's to put pressure on Fifa to tackle the issue.
"It is time for football's leaders to speak out or be tainted by association," Mr Shetty said.
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It wants Fifa to get Qatar to publish a comprehensive reform plan before construction on World Cup projects peaks in 2017.
It also wants Fifa to carry out its own inspections of labour conditions in the Gulf state.
The numbers working on World Cup sites are set to rise tenfold to around 36,000 in the next two years, Amnesty said.
Fifa released a statement on Thursday saying that since 2011 it had been meeting key groups, including Amnesty International, to discuss "consistent and sustained implementation of fair working conditions" on world cup sites.
Fifa said: "This is an ongoing process. Challenges remain, but Fifa is confident that the structures and processes set-up so far by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is the entity responsible for the delivery of Fifa World Cup infrastructure, provide a good basis to monitor labour rights of migrant workers."
Fifa's head of sustainability, Federico Addiechi, said measures taken by the committee "have already improved the situation for migrant workers".
Correction 31 March 2016: An earlier version of this story showed a picture of an Aecom employee at a Qatar construction site without making it clear the company does not work, nor has any employees, at Khalifa International Stadium.


Antiques dealer Raymond Scott has been cleared of stealing a rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio.

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But a Newcastle Crown Court jury found the 53-year-old from County Durham guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property from the UK.
Scott, of Wingate, denied stealing the 1623 work from Durham University in 1998 and handling stolen goods.
He was remanded in custody and warned by the judge that he faced a "substantial custodial sentence".
The case related to one of the surviving copies of the 17th Century compendium of Shakespeare's plays, which went missing from a glass cabinet at the university.
It was handed in by Scott to the world-renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC a decade later.
The trial was told Scott kept the badly-damaged volume, estimated to be worth about Â£1m, at his house for a decade before taking it to the Folger library where staff called police.
It was alleged he hoped to sell it at auction and share the money with friends in Cuba.
Scott was remanded in custody by Judge Richard Lowden, who told him: "There will, in due time, be an inevitable substantial custodial sentence."
The judge adjourned the case to a date to be fixed to allow a psychiatric report to be prepared.
During the trial, the jury heard experts from the US quickly suspected the book was stolen and called in the British Embassy, Durham Police and the FBI.
They discovered the artefact was an incredibly rare example of the folio, regarded as one of the most important works of literature ever printed.
It had been "damaged, brutalised and mutilated" after it was stolen, in an effort, the prosecution claimed, to hide its true origins.
Scott, of Manor Grange, Wingate, was arrested in June 2008 and claimed to have discovered the book in Cuba.
He declined to give any evidence in his defence during the three-week trial.
Durham University said it was looking forward to the folio being returned.


A body has been found during a search for a windsurfer who disappeared in foggy conditions in an estuary in Lancashire.

Giles Stothert, 61, did not return to Glasson Dock on the River Lune near Lancaster at about 16:30 GMT on Sunday.
RNLI lifeboats and a police helicopter searched the area until 03:30 GMT on Monday. The operation resumed earlier.
Mr Stothert, of Saltcote, Glasson Dock, was found on Middleton Sands in Morecambe.
An RNLI spokeswoman said: "A group of windsurfers called the coastguard to report that one of their group had failed to return to shore and had disappeared in foggy conditions at the mouth of the River Lune.
"Due to the state of the tide and the local weather conditions...the search area was expanded to include the Blackpool coastline."
The RNLI resumed the search and were helped by the Coastguard and Mountain Rescue Team throughout the operation.


Who knows what was on his shopping list, but this reptile was not really a welcome customer at a supermarket in Florida.

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Shop workers had to call the police after a two-metre alligator decided to loiter in the store's doorway.
Rather than cause any bother resisting arrest, the gator calmly wandered back into the nearby woods.


Blackburn manager Tony Mowbray says he is under no pressure to sell players.

Despite being relegated to League One, Mowbray says that he has the backing of Blackburn's owners, Venky's.
"They've been very supportive and I think they are going to give us some financial support, to ensure that we have a very strong season next year," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"They are basically telling me that those decisions will be mine. There is no pressure to sell any players."
Mowbray replaced Owen Coyle as manager at Ewood Park in February, but could not save Rovers from being relegated from the Championship on the final day.
The 53-year-old has experience of managing in the third tier having been in charge at Coventry City before Blackburn.
"What I know now is it's a really difficult league," he added. "There are some big strong powerful men in that league. It's a job for men, not for boys, which I found out at Coventry City."


Abuse of candidates and activists is "driving people away from politics", a Welsh Conservative MP has said.

Simon Hart is urging MPs to review the law to combat sexism, racism, homophobia and criminal damage.
He said some party members have had their cars scratched or property damaged.
Former Welsh Secretary David Jones told MPs June's election had been the most unpleasant of the six in which he had stood as a candidate.
At a Westminster Hall debate led by Mr Hart, Clwyd West Tory MP Mr Jones claimed the intimidation was co-ordinated, that Twitter was "deeply anti-social" and logging onto it was now like "wading through sewage".
The debate followed widespread concern about intimidation during the campaign for the general election in June.
Opening the debate, the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP said: "Since the election, the Conservative Whips Office has been dealing with at least three credible threats to colleagues a week, including death threats, criminal damage, sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism and general thuggishness around and after the election."
Matters had deteriorated in the run-up to the poll, he said, with people and businesses targeted for supporting certain candidates and some afraid to put posters up for fear of what the reaction might be.
Earlier, Mr Hart said almost half his election campaign boards were defaced, stolen or damaged, adding that he and other MPs received abuse on social media "on an almost daily basis".
"These are things that have significant financial consequences and it's driving people away from politics, even on the fringes, at a time when actually it's never been more important that they're part of politics," he said.
Mr Hart said he wanted social media platforms to ask themselves "some searching questions" about whether they were protecting people from online abuse and called for a review of legislation as much of it "predates social media by hundreds of years".
Meanwhile, Wales Office minister Guto Bebb said he had also been a victim of online intimidation, and has accused serving police officers of being among those who have abused him.
North Wales Police said it had recently received correspondence from the Conservative MP for Aberconwy and "the matters will be examined".
Emily Owen, a Labour general election candidate for Aberconwy, told BBC Radio Wales said she was inundated by sexist comments on social media after announcing she was standing for the 2017 election.
She said she had experienced "threats very close to rape threats" and people had to be called out on it.
"It is horrible, it is absolutely horrible," she said.
"One of the big messages needs to be, this is not OK, it's absolutely not normal."
Before Wednesday's debate UK ministers announced an inquiry into intimidation of parliamentary candidates.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life will look at the nature of the problem of intimidation, considering the current protections and measures in place for candidates, reporting back to the prime minister.
Theresa May said: "Robust debate is a vital part of our democracy, but there can be no place for the shocking threats and abuse we have seen in recent months."


A further 34 Syrian refugees were resettled in Wales in the three months to June, bringing the total to 112.

Over the same period Scotland housed 249 Syrian refugees and Northern Ireland 104, Home Office figures show.
Nine of Wales' 22 councils had taken part in the Syrian refugee settlement programme up to the end of June, four more than three months earlier.
Oxfam Cymru welcomed the increase but said the resettlement process remained "painfully slow" in Wales.
UK ministers have pledged to settle 20,000 Syrians in the UK by 2020 under a scheme launched in October 2015.
Between April and June Rhondda Cynon Taf resettled 18 refugees whilst Blaenau Gwent, Carmarthenshire and the Vale of Glamorgan took five each, as the four councils took part in the Home Office-funded scheme for the first time.
The five authorities already involved were Neath Port Talbot, which has now taken 27 refugees, Swansea (24), Ceredigion (11), Torfaen (10) and Caerphilly (seven).
Other local authorities, including Wrexham and Anglesey, also have plans to accommodate refugees fleeing war-torn Syria.
Matthew Hemsley from Oxfam Cymru said: "We welcome the fact that more families have been brought to safety here and we know that more refugees from Syria have arrived over the summer.
"Yet we cannot ignore how painfully slow the resettlement process still is in Wales.
"While there is some improvement in terms of numbers resettled here, there is no doubt that Wales still could and should do more to help families who have seen their lives torn apart by this war."
Mr Hemsley urged the Welsh Government and councils to work closely together to speed up the system.


Millwall have signed Northern Ireland international Shane Ferguson from Newcastle United on a 93-day loan.

The 24-year-old defender has come through the ranks at St James' Park and made 32 first-team appearances so far for the Premier League club.
He has won 18 caps and also had loan spells at Birmingham City and Rangers.
"We're delighted to have Shane on board, he has natural left-footed ability," Millwall manager Neil Harris told the club website.
"He can provide terrific deliveries into the box and is equally comfortable playing at left-back as he is on the left-wing, that kind of versatility will be very important to us."
Ferguson will be with the squad for Millwall's opener away at Shrewsbury Town.
The Lions have also signed 19-year-old defender Christian Mbulu from Brentwood Town on a one-year professional contract.
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The grass is knee high in parts of Bab al-Aziziya, the sprawling compound in Tripoli from which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi terrorised his own people.

It's five years since his palaces, private fairground, and security headquarters were pounded by Nato air strikes. Since then the complex appears to have been overlooked like - some say - Libya itself.
Now the international community is paying attention. The so-called Islamic State is in residence in Gaddafi's former hometown of Sirte, and waves of migrants are leaving Libya for Europe. Once again, the fate of Libya is a key concern for the West.
Enter the new "unity" government, albeit with some difficulty.
It came to the capital by boat at the end of March after rivals closed the airspace.
"The challenge of arriving was daunting," said Deputy Prime Minister Mousa al-Koni. "But thanks to God and the Navy Seals, we managed to carry out this operation and enter Tripoli."
The optimistically named Government of National Accord is operating from a heavily guarded naval base. It has the backing of the United Nations but it also has rivals.  There are two other governments in Libya - one led by Islamists in Tripoli and an internationally recognised administration in Tobruk, in the east.
Then there's the multitude of militias. Having carved up the country, they are not keen to loosen their grip.
"We face many challenges starting with taking over ministries and premises occupied by militias and getting the army and police into operation," said Mr Koni. "They have started assuming their responsibilities and are already taking control of some streets and buildings. We have high hopes."
He is blunt about the threat posed by Islamic state, which he says could take control of much of the country.
"Libya does not have a strong figure who can lead the army or even the militias to fight this enemy," he said.
"They will spread quickly, especially in the south. This area is weak and they could occupy it in minutes. If so, they will control two-thirds of the country. If we don't act today we can't do anything tomorrow."
We joined one militia, the Nawasi Brigade, for a night patrol along the coast road in Tripoli. Heavily armed men in uniform set out in a convoy of police cars and other vehicles with blue lights flashing. It looked like an operation by regular police. The Nawasi Brigade is working with Libya's interior ministry but many militias are a law unto themselves.
"Less than 50% follow orders," said Hussam Mohammed, an interior ministry spokesman for Southern Tripoli. He reluctantly admitted that only about 10 militias have been trained and integrated into the ministry. Like many in Libya, he is calling for unity.
"Just give us one government, and one Libya, under one president. I will protect this government. Now we will wait to see what they can give us. But the people won't wait forever."
Adel Kakli has already been waiting a long time for a new Libya. He spent 17 years in Manchester before coming home in 2011 to fight against Col Gaddafi. In a park by the shore, he gave his guarded assessment of the new government.
"They won't do much for the people but at least they will put us on the first step," he said.
"We saw in the faces of the people that they are smiling. They were happy with the government when they came here. "
For Mr Kakli, the past five years of turmoil came as no surprise.
"Most people are very disappointed but for me it's normal after a revolution," he says.
"Some other countries took a long time to settle. But people are now fed up with fighting each other. They found out fighting each other is no solution, and they want to move on through politics."
Some of Adel's friends who came back to fight with him lost their lives during the revolution. I asked if they would think it had been worth it.
"Not yet," he said. "We didn't get to the point that we wanted, but always there is hope to become a good country."
Tripoli feels like a city holding its breath - watching and waiting to see if the sea breezes will blow in calm or chaos.
"I'm expecting ups and downs for weeks," one local man told me in Martyrs' Square, where Libyans celebrated the fall of Gaddafi.
"The militias will keep flexing their muscles, trying to get a bigger slice of the cake," he said. "The contest could continue for some time."
He too is hoping the new government can gain a foothold.
"This really is our last chance," he said.


Four British plane spotters in Kenya have been ordered to pay £1,400 ($2,000) or face a year in jail for trespassing at an airport in Nairobi.

The four men from Greater Manchester were caught taking pictures at Wilson Airport in the capital and have been in custody for more than a week.
They remain in detention at the police cells at the main international airport until the fine is paid.
The men said officials at the airport had given them permission to film.
But they sparked a security alert after they were spotted from the airport bar.
The BBC'S Alastair Leithead in Nairobi says in the end they admitted to two charges in court - of trespassing, and taking pictures of aircraft - which each carried a fine of £700.
Peter Swift, whose brother Eddie is one of the arrested men, told the BBC all families were particularly concerned about the four being transferred from police custody to jail.
He had spoken to his brother on the phone who is "very, very scared", he said.
A leaked memo from the Kenya Airports Authority last month warned of possible attacks by al-Shabab militants.
The Somalia-based group has been behind several deadly attacks in Kenya in recent years.


The International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted US oil output next year will see the steepest fall since 1992 thanks to low oil prices.

US oil production has increased to a record high in recent years as high prices made investment worthwhile.
Prices halved over the past year as demand fell in line with slower economic growth.
Meanwhile, Opec producers, particularly Saudi Arabia, have maintained high levels of production.
US crude oil was trading at more than $90 a barrel a year ago, but now costs around $45. The UK's Brent crude has also halved in price from a year ago and is currently trading at about $48 a barrel.
Techniques such as fracking have helped US producers offset the falling oil price by lowering investment and production costs.
Slowing economic demand and high production have created a glut of oil that outstrips the world's current needs.
The IEA said the resulting lower oil prices would boost demand to a five-year high this year, a trend that the IEA said would help Opec countries.
Opec controls more than a third of the world's oil output. It typically cuts production when prices fall to attempt to push prices higher.
Its recent strategy has been to keep the taps turned on fully in an attempt to curb US output, which is uneconomical at lower prices.
The IEA said: "Oil's price collapse is closing down high-cost production from Eagle Ford in Texas to Russia and the North Sea, which may result in the loss next year of half a million barrels a day, the biggest decline in 24 years."
Non-Opec supply contracted by one million barrels a day in 1992 from the previous year after the Soviet Union broke apart.
The IEA expects US oil production to drop by 0.4 million barrels a day in 2016. It grew by 1.7 million barrels a day in 2014.


JP Morgan will set aside an additional $500m (£357m) to cover potential losses from its exposure to the oil and gas sector.

The increase is more than 60% of the funds the bank had already set aside.
The announcement contrasts with its assertion in January that oil companies were "surprisingly resilient".
According to Deloitte, 175 US petroleum companies are at risk of bankruptcy this year, which would make it unlikely they could repay loans.
Marianne Lake, JP Morgan's chief financial officer, told an investor day in New York: "Since year-end, expectations for oil prices have worsened and stresses have continued to permeate the value chain."
US crude fell to  $31.87 a barrel on Tuesday and JP Morgan shares fell 4.3% after the announcement.
Ms Lake said half of the $500m was being set aside for a few corporate clients.
If oil prices hit $25 a barrel and remained in that range for 18 months, JP Morgan said it would set aside another $1.5bn.
The bank has $42bn in oil and gas loans in its portfolio, but that amount was less than 2% of the bank's total assets, according to data from September.
JP Morgan is not the only bank to increase its reserves to protect against oil and gas defaults: in January Wells Fargo raised its reserves by 70%.
The banks have warned that energy companies will face increased scrutiny over their loans. Lenders typically reassess oil and gas reserves in April and review the company's lines of credit and the bank's risk exposure.
JP Morgan said it was planning on starting that process sooner and could cut credit lines to some oil and gas companies by 15% to 20%.


Russia will be thrown out of Euro 2016 if their fans cause further trouble, says European governing body Uefa.

The Russians have also been fined 150,000 euros (£119,000) following violent scenes at the game against England in Marseille on Saturday.
The suspended disqualification and fine relate only to incidents that happened inside the stadium.
There were reports of minor disturbances between rival fans in Lille on Tuesday evening.
Russia play Group B rivals Slovakia in the city on Wednesday, while England fans are congregating there before Thursday's match against Wales in the nearby town of Lens.
Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn has written to members of the England Supporters Travel Club, asking them "to act in a positive and respectful way".
French authorities are increasing security before the games - 4,000 extra police and security officials will be on duty - and the sale of alcohol will be restricted in both Lille and Lens.
The BBC's James Reevell said although English and Welsh fans were singing boisterously in bars in Lille on Tuesday night, the streets of the city were calm.
Mobile phone footage posted on Twitter on Tuesday showed two sets of fans confronting each other outside a bar, with chairs strewn across the pavement on the Place de la Gare in central Lille.
However, other footage posted on social media showed fans playing football in a calm city square.
Meanwhile, groups of Russian fans are being deported from France as a result of trouble at the tournament.
A bus carrying fans was stopped in a police operation near Cannes on Tuesday.
Officials said 43 Russian supporters had been arrested and would be charged, released or expelled from the country.
Russian supporters from the bus were later transferred to a Marseille police station where the fans were expected to be held overnight.
Russia coach Leonid Slutsky, whose team still have to play Wales and Slovakia, is confident his squad will not be excluded.
"We are sure our supporters will not do the same and will not give any reasons to disqualify our team," he said.
Russia forward Artem Dzyuba added: "We're not at a street-fighting championship. Please, let's focus on football."
But he added Russian fans were not the only ones to blame for trouble.
"I don't really understand the reaction of the British media, who have this impression England supporters are like angels who just behave themselves," he said.
"You have to be objective, there is 50-50 in every conflict. I don't see that the Russians are the only ones at fault."
England were also threatened with disqualification from Euro 2016 but were not formally charged by Uefa.
New measures, including the alcohol bans, were announced on Tuesday after Greg Dyke, chairman of the FA, expressed "serious concerns" about the security situation.
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The British government has said it will send more British police officers trained in football disorder to France before England face Wales.
England manager Roy Hodgson and captain Wayne Rooney have urged fans to "stay out of trouble".
And the FA says it has contacted the families of players to give them advice after the wife of striker Jamie Vardy was caught up in the violence in Marseille.
England midfielder Adam Lallana, who has friends and family coming to the match against Wales, said: "We've just got to hope the security is there."
Meanwhile, Slovakia football officials have urged their fans to avoid Russian and England supporters in Lille and Lens.
They say fans should not react to any provocation and to immediately leave a scene of a conflict.
Russia was given a six-point deduction, suspended for three and a half years, after supporters behaved badly during Euro 2012.
Russia can appeal against the latest Uefa decision, but although sports minister Vitaly Mutko, who is also president of the Russian Football Union, called the punishment "excessive", he indicated that would not happen.
French police blamed 150 "well-trained" Russian hooligans for clashes before Saturday's 1-1 draw against England.
Six England fans were jailed on Monday for their roles in the disorder.
Over three days of disorder in Marseille, 35 people were injured - most of them England fans - and 20 people were arrested.


Ian Hutchinson wrote another chapter in the remarkable story of his return to the pinnacle of TT racing by sealing a hat-trick of wins at this year's event.

The Yorkshireman won the second Supersport event on Wednesday to add to his earlier victories in the first 600cc race and the Superstock class.
Hutchinson, 35, won by 14 seconds from New Zealander Bruce Anstey, with Guy Martin a further 17 seconds behind.
He joins Michael Dunlop, Steve Hislop and Phillip McCallen on 11 TT wins.
The Bingley man now has more 600c victories than any other rider over the 37.73-mile Mountain Course.
Hutchinson, who underwent 30 operations after being involved in a horror crash at Silverstone five years ago, took control of the race on the opening lap and gradually extended his lead over Anstey.
The former Macau Grand Prix winner set the fastest lap of the race at 127.751mph on his Team Traction Control Yamaha on his second circuit.
"The lads put a brand new engine in the bike and it went like a dream.
"On the third lap I tried to give the bike a bit of care and back off slightly but then the gap came down to eight seconds and I had to up the pace again.
"For Keith Flint and his team to put this bike together for me at short notice just a week before the event is fantastic," said an elated Hutchinson.
Team boss, Prodigy frontman Flint, described the last lap of the race as "the longest 17 minutes of my life".
"We all know where Ian has come from. He has shown true grit and I'm so proud to be a part of his incredible comeback.
"We put this together in a matter of weeks and this means more to me than I could ever imagine. I don't have the words to say what it means to the team."
Hutchinson, who became the only man to win five TT races in a week in 2010, has the chance to continue his astonishing run in Friday's Senior race.
English riders James Hillier and Gary Johnson were fourth and fifth respectively, with Northern Ireland's Lee Johnston sixth.


An East Lothian cider maker is offering the public free cider or apple juice in exchange for spare apples.

Thistly Cross is encouraging donations from large orchards and private gardens across Scotland.
The company said its "bucket for a bottle" scheme was part of an attempt to reduce waste, as many locally-grown apples would otherwise go unused.
Dunbar-based Thistly added that donations would be welcomed, provided the fruit was clean and rot-free.
It will accept most apple varieties, apart from crab apples.
Thistly head cider maker Peter Stuart said: "We have a tradition of using apples grown across Scotland from a wide range of sources including professional apple growers, schools, large estate owners and the general public who grow apples in their gardens at home.
"We even use apples donated from the grounds of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
"Our popularity is increasing but Thistly can't make all the cider it wants to without the help of the public.
"Our unique system of using donated apples also eliminates the waste that is all too often associated with the food industry of modern times."
Donations can be delivered directly to the store at Belhaven Fruit Farm in Dunbar.
For those living further north, fruit can be handed in to a drop-off point at Gordon Castle in Moray.


A prominent republican who attacked his estranged wife with knife over a four-hour period in front of their children has had his jail term increased.

Pearse McAuley, originally from Strabane in County Tyrone, inflicted serious injuries on Pauline Tully in County Cavan on Christmas Eve 2014.
Dublin's Court of Appeal ruled that the eight-year jail term he was originally given last year was "unduly lenient".
It resentenced him to 12 years in prison, with the final two suspended.
The president of the Court of Appeal described the circumstances of the case as "horrifying".
He added that the fact the attack had happened in the presence of their children, aged seven and four, added an "extra dimension of brutality".
He outlined to the court how McAuley had arrived at his estranged wife's home in Kilnaleck, County Cavan "armed with a knife" at about 11:00 on Christmas Eve morning.
The judge said he punched Ms Tully immediately after she opened the door of the house they once shared.
McAuley then beat the mother of his children, and used a steak knife to inflict multiple wounds, leaving her scarred and covered in blood.
Ms Tully managed to escape four hours later and hid in a car outside the house, but McAuley followed her out and was trying to break into the car when help arrived.
The director of public prosecutions (DPP) asked the Court of Appeal to re-examine the original sentence imposed by Cavan Circuit Criminal Court in December 2015.
The Cavan judge sentenced him to 12 years, but suspended the final four, meaning McAuley would spend eight years in jail.
The DPP questioned whether the allowance of four years for mitigating factors was too lenient.
The Court of Appeal president agreed, saying McAuley could be said to have been "caught red handed" and therefore his guilty plea was of limited value.
He ruled that court would suspend the final two years instead of four.


Jim Allenby played the starring role as Glamorgan upset YB40 holders Hampshire at Southampton to earn their place in a first Lord's final for 13 years.

All Glamorgan's batsmen reached double figures in a healthy score of 234-4.
But the key contributor was Allenby, who made an unbeaten 74, sharing an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 84 with Ben Wright (47 not out).
The Australian all-rounder then took 2-18 in eight miserly overs as Hampshire fell short on 203-8 to lose by 31 runs.
The hosts, victorious off the final ball to beat Warwickshire in the final a year ago, had won all their six previous completed List A matches against Glamorgan, an unbeaten run dating back to 2005.
But the underdogs ripped up the formbook, running out comfortable winners over a Hampshire side for whom long-serving former England one-day international Dimitri Mascarenhas was playing his final game.
Hampshire captain Jimmy Adams (59) and Sean Ervine (54) both hit half-centuries, but the hosts fell well short, Glamorgan fast bowler Michael Hogan ending with 4-51.
In what will be his final act as coach, having not had his contract renewed, Matthew Mott's side will now face the winners of Monday evening's second semi-final between Nottinghamshire and Somerset at Lord's on 21 September.
It will be Glamorgan's first trip to St John's Wood for a one-day final since being beaten by Gloucestershire in the 2000 Benson & Hedges Cup - and only the third in their history, having twice ended up losers.
Glamorgan's progress had been unremarkable until the last four overs when they called a belated powerplay, allowing Allenby and Wright to smash 57 off Chris Wood and Sohail Tanvir.
Hampshire immediately missed the big-hitting of England squad opener Michael Carberry and, despite making a healthy enough start with 40-0 from the first eight overs, soon began to fall behind the run rate after the loss of James Vince.
There was still hope with his fellow opener Adams at the crease but a mix-up over a possible single led to the dangerous Neil McKenzie being run out.
And, although Adams and Ervine each passed 50, the required rate rose to above 10 an over.
Hogan, who has been such an inspirational signing this year, then finished Hampshire off when he came back for his final spell.
He held a return catch to dismiss Adams, induced Ervine to offer a catch to Graham Wagg at long-on and then tempted Liam Dawson to hit to Wright at midwicket.


Millions of Venezuelans have joined a general strike called by the opposition as pressure mounts on President NicolÃ¡s Maduro to cancel elections for a new constituent assembly.

Clashes between police and protestors killed at least three people. More than 300 others were reportedly arrested.
Mr Maduro said the strike was minimal and that its leaders would be arrested.
Since April, when opposition protests intensified, almost 100 people have died across the country.
Protesters barricaded roads in the capital, Caracas, and other cities with rubbish and furniture. The opposition said that 85% of the country joined the strike.
But in pro-government areas of the capital, life went on as usual, with shops open and streets busy. Public employees also appeared to have worked normally.
In several cities, police fired tear gas as they clashed with protesters. One death was reported on the outskirts of Caracas while two others died in the northern city of Valencia.
More than 360 people had been arrested across the country, a local rights group said.
Colombia, France, Spain, the US and the EU have urged the Venezuelan government to cancel the vote for a new constituent assembly on 30 July.
But Mr Maduro has rejected the calls.
In a speech on TV, he claimed "triumph", saying that key sectors had not joined the strike.
"Work has triumphed, love, life, and hope; work has triumphed. They [the Venezuelan opposition] who have never worked, let them carry on not working, we are moving forward, comrades."
"I've ordered the capture of all the fascist terrorists."
The assembly would have the power to rewrite the constitution and to bypass the opposition-controlled legislature.
Opposition politicians say Mr Maduro wants to use the assembly to entrench himself in power, while the president argues a new constitution will promote dialogue in the polarised country.
The opposition have ramped up their schedule of protests in the days leading up to the elections, including Thursday's general 24-hour strike and a mass demonstration on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Isaias Medina, a senior diplomat representing the country at the UN, resigned, saying he could no longer represent the government because of human rights abuses.
Venezuela's ambassador to the UN, Rafael Ramirez, said Mr Medina had acted "dishonestly" and been fired.
Earlier, the head of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, warned of a "calamitous deterioration" of the situation, accusing Mr Maduro's government of having "blood on its hands".
"Behind every detainee, every political prisoner, every person tortured and every person killed there is someone that is institutionally responsible," Mr Almagro wrote in a report.
"The fear that is on everyone's mind, but we are too afraid to speak out loud, is our fear that this will escalate into a bloodbath."
Mr Almagro has long been one of the fiercest and most outspoken critics of the Venezuelan government.
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An ex-detective has called on the Metropolitan Police's new commissioner to expose all its "wrongdoings" over an unsolved murder 30 years ago.

Private detective Daniel Morgan was killed with an axe in 1987 and police admit corruption hampered inquiries.
A retired officer who advises the Morgan family has said Cressida Dick has the chance to make a "brave move" over what has happened since.
The Met said it was working with the judge-led panel set up by Theresa May.
The body of Mr Morgan, 37, from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, Torfaen, was found outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, London.
His family believe he was about to go the newspapers to expose serious police corruption.
The case remains unsolved despite five police investigations and is currently the subject of an independent Home Office inquiry.
However, the Morgan family have been calling for the statutory Leveson Two inquiry into links between journalists, police and private investigators to go ahead.
Gordon Brown has also called for Leveson Two, claiming there is fresh evidence linking press abuses to Mr Morgan's murder inquiry.
One supporter of the Morgan family is a former Met witness protection officer and police whistleblower, originally from Wales, who knows Mr Morgan's mother, Isobel Hulsman.
He uses the alias Frank Matthews on Twitter to maintain his anonymity but is known to the BBC and the Met.
He told BBC Radio Wales' current affair programme Eye on Wales the "Met have not been open and honest with this case".
"They hide behind the fact that they need to protect some of their information," he said.
"I disagree with that. This is a murder investigation, a clear case that could have been unravelled at the early stages.
"Until the Met comes clean we are left with no option than to believe that this is corruption.
"The next commissioner will have to think long and hard and if the commissioner comes up with the strategy, I'm sure it will pay dividends in the long run."
Mr Morgan's brother Alastair remembers his first visit to the pub car park where his brother was murdered on 10 March 1987.
He said: "There was no crime scene cordon, nothing. I remember looking about and thinking he was brought here to kill him. This place was chosen to kill him."
Four men were charged with Mr Morgan's murder in 2008 but after 18 months of legal argument the prosecution's case collapsed in March 2011.
As home secretary in 2013, Ms May set up an independent, judge-led panel of experts to examine claims police corruption prevented a conviction.
A spokesman for the panel said: "The panel has started writing its report. However, as further new material requiring examination continued to be submitted throughout 2016, no publication date has yet been set.
"The aim is to get the report published before the Parliamentary summer recess."
Ms Dick was named as the Met's new commissioner last month, becoming the first woman to take charge of London's police force in its 188-year history.
Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said: "The re-investigation into Daniel Morgan's murder identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
"The MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] has stated that it is quite apparent that police corruption was a debilitating factor in that investigation, which is wholly unacceptable.
"The work of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel is ongoing, and the MPS continues to work with them, as they seek to fully examine the circumstances of Daniel's murder, and the handling of the case since 1987."
Eye on Wales is on BBC Radio Wales on Sunday 5 February at 12:30 GMT.


A Pakistani student has said he was abducted and badly beaten by hardline Islamist students after posting tweets in support of five liberal bloggers who have gone missing.

The student said he needed hospital treatment after he was blindfolded for several hours and tortured.
No-one at Punjab University responded to his cries for help, he said.
The five bloggers disappeared after they condemned extremism and the role of the military in Pakistan.
The university authorities say they are investigating the latest incident.
The Pakistan Herald Tribune said that Suhail Ahmad was abducted by more than 14 members of the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami group who forced their way into his Lahore hostel room on Monday evening.
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The student told the newspaper that a blanket was put over his head throughout his ordeal and that no security guards responded to his pleas for help.
He said he was only released when senior Jamaat-e-Islami members intervened on his behalf.
Last week hundreds of people held protests across the country to demand the authorities trace the activists, who disappeared earlier in January.
No group has said it is holding them.
Pakistan's parliament has expressed grave concern over their fates.
The government says it is investigating the case of one of the four, Salman Haider, who has campaigned against enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
Supporters of the men accuse the security services of having secretly arrested them.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that the disappearances have alarmed liberals in Pakistan, where the military has long promoted a hardline Islamist narrative as a bulwark to protect its financial and security interests.
Salman Haider, a well-known poet and university professor, was last seen in Islamabad on Friday, two days after bloggers Waqas Goraya and his cousin Asim Saeed went missing in Lahore.
Two other bloggers, one named as polio sufferer Ahmed Raza Naseer, are also reported to have disappeared in or near Lahore.
Pakistan is one of the the world's most dangerous countries for reporters and human rights activists, and critics of the powerful military have been detained, beaten or killed.


Police in England and Wales are "unable" to enforce a new law banning smoking in cars carrying children because there are no tickets which they can issue, the BBC understands.

No fines or court summonses were issued in the first three months of the law, a BBC Radio 5 live freedom of information (FOI) request suggests.
The Police Federation said there was no "physical ticket" to enforce the law.
The government said it was working with police and councils on arrangements.
It became illegal in England and Wales to smoke in a vehicle with children on board last October, with drivers and passengers facing a penalty fine of Â£50.
But 39 out of 44 police forces who responded to the BBC's FOI request said no fines or court summons, and only six warnings, had been issued.
Four of the warnings were from Dyfed Powys Police, and two were from London's Metropolitan Police.
The Chartered Institute for Environmental Health, which worked with the government on the law, said police officers could stop vehicles but not issue fines - and local authority enforcement officers could issue fines, but not stop vehicles.
"The prosecuting agent for these offences is the local authority - we've become the conduit in between stopping the driver and the local authority," said Police Federation road policing lead Jayne Willetts.
The law, which was introduced in October, prohibits smoking in a vehicle carrying anyone under the age of 18.
Smokers are still liable if the windows are down or sunroof open, but the law will not apply to people who are driving in a convertible which has the roof down. Nor does it apply to e-cigarettes.
Drivers and passengers who break the law could face a penalty fine of Â£50.
The Scottish Parliament has voted to introduce a similar ban, and Northern Ireland is also considering a change in its law.
Greater Manchester Police said that even if it were able to issue fines, it was unclear to whom they should be paid, saying "neither the police or the courts can take the money - it would have to be the issuing authority (the local authorities)".
"As it stands an officer would be unable to summons for the said offence until all is agreed and a devised system is in place."
Cleveland Police added that none of the documentation, such as the tickets that would allow officers to issue fines, had yet been sent to officers.
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said the ban's outcome was "entirely predictable" because police officers had "far better things to do than pull over drivers on suspicion they may be smoking with a child in the car".
Most smokers knew it was inconsiderate to smoke in a car carrying children, he said, adding: "This is probably one of the most futile and irrelevant laws ever introduced.
"The government did it to denormalise smoking but parents who smoke don't need politicians telling them how to behave."
The Department of Health said it was working with police and local authorities on arrangements for the police to use "existing traffic offender report forms to pass information to local authorities to collect fines".
"In changing the law we always said the measure of success would be in changes in attitude and behaviour, not number of enforcement actions," a spokesperson added.
The ban was hailed as "a landmark in protecting children from secondhand smoke" by the government's chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, when it was introduced.


Manchester City have accepted a Football Association anti-doping charge after failing to notify officials of player whereabouts for drugs testing.

Clubs are required to provide accurate details of training sessions and player whereabouts so that they are available for testing at all times.
City have allegedly failed to ensure its information was accurate on three occasions.
The FA has a 'three strikes' policy and the most likely punishment is a fine.
It is understood the information was not updated following a change to training routines.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone
The fact City have accepted the charge is not a surprise.
Doping is a word that attracts big headlines and they are even greater when it is attached to one of the world's leading football clubs.
However, as I understand it, the three breaches of the whereabouts rule were relatively low level.
Clubs are responsible for a number of teams - senior, women, under-23 - and one infringement by each would be enough to trigger a charge.
Still, it is slightly embarrassing for the Blues, who are likely to receive some sort of fine.


Kell Brook broke his left eye socket in Saturday's defeat by Errol Spence Jr, his trainer Dominic Ingle has said.

The Briton struggled with swelling on his left eye midway through the bout as he lost the IBF world welterweight title to the American in Sheffield.
Brook, 31, had surgery after breaking his right eye socket in a loss to Gennady Golovkin in September.
"It's the same injury he sustained in the Golovkin fight but in the opposite eye," Ingle told BBC Radio 5 live.
Brook was knocked down by 27-year-old Spence in the 10th round and then stopped in the 11th, with his eye heavily swollen.
"It's disappointing for Kell to find himself in the same place again - in his comeback fight, but with the same damage," Ingle added.
"It is very unusual for it to happen again. He doesn't want to have to go through the same procedure of any operation again. It took a long time out and held him back from his training."
Brook said on Sunday that he knew from the seventh round that he had damaged the eye, adding that he struggled with blurred vision for the rest of the fight.
"I had a CT scan on my eye and the eye is broken again, same as the Golovkin one," Brook told Sky Sports.
"I remember the surgeon saying to me after the Golovkin fight, 'if you would have gone another round or so you could be blind' - so I've got that going through my mind as well."


Calls have been made for landowners to manage their woodlands better to help prevent the stones of an ancient bridge in Exmoor being washed away.

The Tarr Steps in Exmoor National Park across the River Barle were knocked out of place during storms in November.
Conservation manager Rob Wilson North said the "big problem" was "the water bringing fallen debris from the woodland".
The bridge has now been rebuilt for the second time in four years.
Mr Wilson North, who works for the national park, added landowners must share some of the blame and manage their land better.
Tarr Steps is made up of 17 spans and stretches nearly 164ft (50m) across the river.
Its exact age is unknown, with several theories claiming Tarr Steps date from the Bronze Age, while others date them to about 1400 AD.
The repair work involved putting the pieces together - with some weighing up to two tonnes  - much like a jigsaw as each stone is numbered.
Cabinet member for highways at Somerset County Council, David Fothergill, said: "It is an ancient scheduled monument, it's Grade I listed.
"It attracts huge numbers of people to Exmoor in terms of tourism and the local economy, it's the jewel in the crown for Exmoor and we do need to look after it."
Tarr Steps has been damaged many times throughout its long history, most recently in 2013.
Due to its protected status, the bridge must be put together exactly as before.
The council added that additional work had taken place to repair an upstream "tree protection boom" to prevent trees falling into the river and hitting the bridge.
It also said the Tarr Steps could be better protected if landowners did not stack timber along the river.


In a modest flat in central Kathmandu, a diminutive 86-year-old American journalist operates the Himalayan Database - the nearest thing to an official record of climbs made in the mountains of Nepal.

If a mountaineer wants worldwide recognition that they have reached the summit of some of the most formidable mountains in the world, they will need to get the approval of Elizabeth Hawley.
Part investigator, part librarian, she has been documenting Himalayan climbs since 1963 and has the reputation of being a formidable, sharp-tongued judge.
"I don't mean to frighten people, but maybe I've acquired this aura of being the arbitrator," she says.
"It might scare them into telling me the truth and that might be useful."
Born in 1923 and educated at the University of Michigan, Elizabeth Hawley has been living in Kathmandu since 1960.
She was inspired to move to the Himalayan nation after giving up her job as a researcher for Fortune magazine in New York and visiting Kathmandu on a round-the-world trip.
At that time Nepal had only just opened up to international tourists and was taking its first steps towards democracy, after being a closed country for centuries.
Working briefly as a reporter in Kathmandu for a turbulent few months, Miss Hawley went back to 1950s San Francisco - but not for long - returning to Nepal a few years later as journalist for Time. She has lived in the same flat ever since.
At that time Nepalese women were rarely seen in public and a single, foreign woman in her thirties living alone in Kathmandu was regarded as a curiosity.
She found work with the Reuters news agency covering mountaineering news, including the 1963 American expedition that was the first from the US to traverse Mount Everest.
Her close relationship with the US Embassy meant that she could listen to radio dispatches from the climbers, and she was the first to file when they reached the summit.
Over the following years, Elizabeth Hawley reported on all the major Himalayan expeditions, finally taking on the role as the Reuters mountaineering correspondent.
For many years, until this week, she was also New Zealand's honorary consul in Nepal.
She developed close friendships with many of the climbers, including Sir Edmund Hillary and the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner.
"I watched that man change," she says of Mr Messner, who was the first climber to scale all 14 peaks over 8,000m.
"He started off a country bumpkin, then slowly over the next few years, he styled his hair. His clothes got more hip and cool."
The two remain close friends to this day.
Although she has never climbed a mountain in her life, Miss Hawley says her relationships with climbers have helped her understand what motivates them to keep coming back.
Korean's climbing record doubted
She says the hardest part of her job is recording their deaths.
"You remember them, you mention them in dispatches, you go on," she says.
Although a few climbers have refused to be interviewed by Miss Hawley - one even went as far as to describe her as a senile old woman - most welcome her role as the official recorder of Himalayan climbs.
"The climbers like to be in the database, they like to have their name in print amongst other mountaineers," she says.
She subjects them to a detailed interview, noting facts such as the camps and porters used, the time it took to reach the summit and the exact view from the top.
Only when she is satisfied that climbers have indeed made it to the summit does she record their achievement in the Himalayan Database.
She covers all the mountains that fall entirely within Nepal, or on the border with Tibet. She leaves peaks in Pakistan and those entirely within China, to others.
Nepalese climber and mountain guide Dawa Stephen Sherpa says that Miss Hawley plays a vital role in authenticating climbs.
"Although it's the Ministry of Tourism that should be doing this, they're not doing it as strictly as Miss Hawley," he says.
"One of her biggest contributions is keeping the mountaineers honest."
Miss Hawley's investigation into the disputed 2009 ascent of Kangchenjunga by Korea's Oh Eun-Sun - feted as the first woman to have climbed the 14 highest peaks - could have a profound impact on the climber's reputation.
Miss Hawley says that she will continue to mark the climb as disputed unless Miss Oh can give definite proof that she was on the summit.
"I think it's likely that Miss Oh's climb is going to be disputed for the rest of her life," she says.
"I'm sorry that I seem to be the arbitrator of this."


Plans to demolish a 1920s theatre have been approved by councillors amid an angry protest by more than 100 campaigners.

Scarborough Borough councillors voted 22 to 21 in favour of spending Â£4m to knock down the Futurist.
Campaigners marched through the town ahead of the meeting on Monday, which saw one heckling protester removed from the balcony.
They wanted a "stay of execution" to formulate a business plan.
But the Conservative-run council's cabinet had previously judged the Futurist, which closed in 2014, to be unsustainable as a theatrical venue.
It will now go ahead with plans to clear the site and stabilise a cliff behind the theatre to allow the land to be made available for redevelopment.
During the meeting, councillors Eric Broadbent, Labour, and Norman Murphy, UKIP, called for the decision to be deferred and "not rushed".
Mr Murphy said: "The building is unique, why would anyone want to get rid of that?
"There is no need to rush this decision. If you do I suspect you'll regret it forever."
But independent councillor Bill Chatt said: "I've been in the theatre and there's only been nine people [watching a show].
"I don't know how many seats were sold in the last three years of its operation."
Flamingo Land, which is a large visitor attraction in Malton, North Yorkshire, has already expressed interest in developing a new year-round tourist attraction on the site.
Campaigner Patricia David said she was very "angry" and had not "given up" on the fight to save the Futurist.
She said: "We've got to go back and regroup and have a think about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it."


Suspected child arsonists have targeted a Teesside beauty spot for the second time in as many days.

Firefighters tackled a blaze on Eston Hills in East Cleveland earlier.
A fire broken out at the spot on Sunday, which took four hours to put out. A number of youths were reported to be in the area at the time, police said.
Cleveland Police urged parents to get in touch if their children came home with their clothes smelling of smoke.
"We are aware that Eston Hills are again on fire and this is being dealt with," a spokesman said.
"We are appealing to parents whose children may come home or have come home smelling of smoke, we need to stop this before any more damage is done or someone is injured."
In recent years, Cleveland Fire Brigade has reported a big rise in the number of deliberate grass fire in the Eston Hills area.


Up to 70 child migrants from the Jungle camp in Calais are expected to arrive at a temporary Home Office "respite facility", the BBC has learnt.

The group are due to be brought to a hostel in the countryside near Great Torrington, Devon on Sunday or Monday.
The children will be transported from Croydon, south London, where they were taken from the Jungle camp by a private security company.
The Home Office said they are unaccompanied, vulnerable children.
It is not clear if the children are among a group that arrived under the "Dubs amendment" which grants refuge to particularly vulnerable individuals, such as those who are unaccompanied and without family ties in the UK.
The purpose of the temporary facility is to provide a safe and welcoming place before the children are reunited with family members or moved to other parts of the country, Devon Country Council said.
The council said it is working with the police, NHS and other local authorities as part of the "emergency response".
"These will be vulnerable young people," Councillor James McInnes said. "They will be frightened and they will be exhausted, and we as an authority have a statutory responsibility to support those that present in Devon."
Dozens of private security guards will accompany the group. A source told the BBC most of those expected in Devon are over 16 years old.
Geoffrey Cox, Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon, said the move will not be a "permanent institution".
"The majority of the children will only be here for a few days," he said.
"They will be under 18 and there is no question of anyone over 18 coming."
The Home Office declined to comment on the details of the transfer, but added the children were often traumatised and their privacy should be respected as they received support to rebuild their lives.


A new study has warned that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will eventually die prematurely if they do not give up smoking.

The research, published in The Lancet medical journal, says two-thirds of men in China now start to smoke before 20.
Around half of those men will die from the habit, it concludes.
The scientists conducted two nationwide studies, 15 years apart, covering hundreds of thousands of people.
In 2010, around one million people in China died from tobacco usage. But researchers say that if current trends continue, that will double to two million people - mostly men - dying every year by 2030, making it a "growing epidemic of premature death".
While more than half of Chinese men smoke, only 2.4% of Chinese women do.
The study was conducted by scientists from Oxford University, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Center for Disease Control.
But co-author Richard Peto said there was hope - if people can be persuaded to quit.
"The key to avoid this huge wave of deaths is cessation, and if you are a young man, don't start," he said.
In many parts of China, meals often fit a comfortable pattern. After putting down their chopsticks, men commonly push their chairs back from the table and light cigarettes. No wonder China has struggled to impose a smoking ban in public places. Here, relationships are often built amid clouds of smoke.
Expensive brands of cigarettes, often decorated with gold detailing on the cartons, are given as gifts. And ordinary brands are affordable to all but the very poor, costing just 2.5 yuan ($0.4; Â£0.25) a pack.
In a country where smoking is so ingrained in daily life, few understand the harmful effects of tobacco use. According to the World Health Organization, only 25% of Chinese adults can list the specific health hazards of smoking, from lung cancer to heart disease.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that only 10% of Chinese smokers quit by choice. Instead, most are forced to give up their cigarettes because they're too sick to continue.
The country that will not quit smoking
While smoking rates have fallen in developed countries - to less than one in five in the US - they have risen in China, as cigarettes have become more available and consumers richer.
China is the world's biggest consumer of cigarettes - one in three cigarettes smoked globally is in China - as well as the world's biggest tobacco producer.
More than 300 million people - about a quarter of the population - smoke, with the average smoker consuming 22 cigarettes a day.
Authorities have shown concern over the rise, with Beijing even introducing a public smoking ban. But efforts have been hampered by the habit's popularity, and its usefulness as a source of tax revenue - the government collects about 428bn yuan (Â£44bn, $67bn) in tobacco taxes each year.
Globally, tobacco kills up to half of its users, according to the World Health Organization.


A British woman who went missing while on holiday in Cyprus after falling down an embankment has died in hospital.

Pauline Pridcock lay undiscovered for three nights after falling while on a day trip from Paphos.
The 64 year old and her husband had set off for Omodos with a tour group.
After a major four day search, Mrs Pridcock was found unconscious on Sunday morning. She died in hospital on Monday morning.
Emergency services, volunteers and terrain specialists were involved in the search, which lasted from Wednesday to Saturday and followed a number of reported sightings.
Mrs Pridcock's cousin Steve Dykes said she was badly dehydrated and had suffered cuts and bruises.
He said she died in Limassol General Hospital and that it was possibly because of a "heart attack or organ failure due to dehydration".
"She was making progress up until Sunday evening, but three days and three nights out in the countryside with the possible added dehydration unfortunately took its toll," he said.


The Department for Education budget faces savings of £450m, as part of a Treasury announcement to bring down public debt this year.

The savings in the DFE are to come from the "administration of arm's-length bodies" and "non-schools" spending, says the Treasury.
The Conservatives gave an election pledge to protect the schools budget.
Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie called on ministers to "spell out urgently" where the cuts would fall.
The savings in education spending were announced by the Treasury as part of a £4.5bn package to reduce public debt.
But the Department for Education has indicated that this will include savings based on underspends in existing budgets, rather than cuts.
"These savings will come from a variety of measures including expected departmental underspends in demand-led budgets, efficiencies and some small budgetary reductions," said a Department for Education spokeswoman.
This means that in some parts of the department's spending plans there has been less demand for some services than had been budgeted for - and this underspend will now be absorbed as savings.
It means that reductions would be likely to be spread across budgets within the department, rather than in any particular individual saving or closure.
The Conservatives made a manifesto promise to protect per-pupil spending, including rising pupil numbers, during the next Parliament.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills faces cuts of £450m, with the Treasury saying that this will include "savings in higher education and further education budgets".
A department spokesman said that "priority areas for growth and productivity" would be protected, including science and apprenticeships.
There will also be savings from underspends, in areas such as the regional growth fund and "funding compensation to energy-intensive industries" where there were fewer claims than expected.
Chancellor George Osborne said the announcement was "getting on with what we promised".
"Reducing the deficit - that is how you deliver lasting economic security for working people. For as everyone knows, when it comes to living within your means, the sooner you start, the smoother the ride."
Labour's Chris Leslie, said: "Nobody disagrees with sensible efficiencies, because spending does need to fall in unprotected areas, but why is the chancellor hiding the detail?
"George Osborne needs to spell out urgently who is paying the price in this chaotic process. This is a shambolic approach to planning public services, ripping up his own 'long-term plan' set out just weeks ago in the March Budget. Savings need to be made through proper reform not short-term salami slicing."


Websites that show bargain prices for flights, hotels and other travel bookings, are not giving customers accurate information, say European consumer protection authorities.

The first price shown was often much lower than the final price, they said.
Some offers that look too good to be true, are - because when you click to buy they aren't available.
"These websites are misleading consumers," said Vera Jourova, the EU commissioner responsible.
The Consumer Protection Cooperation body said the 235 websites that they had identified would be required to correct the problems.
If websites failed to comply, national authorities could pursue legal proceedings, it said.
"The companies concerned need to respect the European consumer rules, just like a travel agent would," said Ms Jourova, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality.
Key findings:
The CPC screened the sector in October 2016, covering 28 European countries. It checked a total of 352 sites, including ones offering to book accommodation, transport tickets and car rental.  Some were price comparison websites.
It also found that over a fifth of the sites it looked at presented consumer reviews in an unclear way, sometimes throwing doubt over their truthfulness.


A dozen university students have been treated at Connecticut hospitals after overdosing on "Molly" or MDMA, a popular synthetic party drug.

Police are investigating after the overdoses were reported late Sunday on the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
By Monday, eight remained in hospital and two were in critical condition.
It was unclear whether the students had been together or where the drugs had come from.
Middletown Police Chief William McKenna said that their "first and foremost goal is to obtain information on the batch of Molly that was distributed to the students on the campus," adding, "this information is critical in ensuring the recovery of those students affected."
A pure and more powerful form of MDMA often sold as "Molly" can cause liver, kidney, cardiovascular failure, or death.
In a campus-wide statement, Wesleyan president Michael S Roth urged students to "please, please stay away from illegal substances, the use of which can put you in extreme danger. One mistake can change your life forever".
Dean Michael Whaley, vice president of student affairs at Wesleyan University, sent a letter to the school body on Sunday recommending students to check on their friends.
Ten of the 12 people were Wesleyan students.
In 2013, Molly-related deaths and illnesses forced the Electric Zoo Festival in New York to shut down early after two young people died and four were confined to hospital.
Their deaths came after a string of similar overdoses that year at concerts in Boston, Seattle, Miami and Washington DC, supposedly caused by a bad batch of the drug.


A teenager has been stabbed to death in east London.

Police were called to reports of an assault at about 23:15 BST on Friday in the St John's Estate on Pitfield Street, Hoxton.
The boy, believed to be 17, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
A witness, who did not want to be named, said she saw the teenager being chased through the estate.
The 40-year-old woman said she saw the victim from the window of her flat.
She said: "There was a big chase.
"They ran through the estate, some on bikes, some on foot. By the end of it when he died there were about 15 people around him."
Officers believe they know the identity of the victim and are in the process of informing his next of kin.
Det Ch Insp Andy Partridge said: "A young man has lost his life in a brutal manner and I am appealing to anyone who was in the area last night and witnessed this attack to come forward and speak to police."
A post-mortem examination will be held in due course, the Met said.
Candles and flowers have been lit in tribute to the victim near to the estate.
The boy is the second teenager to be stabbed to death in London in two days.
On Thursday Shaquan Mario Fearon died from a stab wound to his leg after a fight at a block of flats in Brockley, south-east London.


The 'King of the Blues' guitarist and singer, BB King, has died aged 89, his lawyer says.

King, known for his hits Lucille, Sweet Black Angel and Rock Me Baby, died in his sleep in Las Vegas.
Born in Mississippi, King began performing in the 1940s and was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was recently taken to hospital with a diabetes-related illness.
Rolling Stone magazine once ranked BB King in third place in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, just below Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman.
A former farmhand, King was awarded his 15th Grammy award in 2009 for his album One Kind Favor.
Even until recently, King performed in at least 100 concerts a year.


Manor Racing have gone into administration and will collapse without new investment.

Staff were informed of the development on Friday by chief executive officer Thomas Mayer, a source told BBC Sport.
Administrators FRP said there was "a very limited window of opportunity" to save the team before the start of the 2017 season in Australia on 26 March.
FRP said it was "assessing options" and that the process affected Manor's operating company Just Racing Services.
Manor Grand Prix Racing, which owns the rights to the team's participation in F1, is not in administration.
Team owner Stephen Fitzpatrick said in a note to staff: "It was imperative that the team finish in 10th place or better in 2016."
Manor, who finished 11th and last in the championship last season, have been in talks with new investors but so far no deal has been concluded.
Administrator Geoff Rowley said: "The team has made significant progress since the start of 2015, but the position remains that operating a F1 team requires significant ongoing investment.
"The senior management team has worked tirelessly to bring new investment, but regrettably has been unable to do so within the time available.
"Therefore, they have been left with no alternative but to place [Manor Racing] into administration."
A source said several buyers had been lined up over the past few weeks and two had gone as far as conducting a due diligence process.
But none of them provided the funds necessary to buy the team, nor was there any proof they had the money to run it.
Fitzpatrick, the boss of the energy company Ovo, decided to put the team into administration on Thursday night.
FRP were also appointed the last time the team were in administration over the winter of 2014/15, after they collapsed with debts of £35m.
At the time, they were known as Marussia, and were reconstituted under their original name of Manor when Fitzpatrick bought them at the 11th hour just before the 2015 season.
Manor, who are based in Banbury in Oxfordshire, suffered a blow at the end of last season when Sauber moved ahead of them into 10th place in the constructors' championship thanks to the ninth place achieved by Felipe Nasr at the penultimate race of the year in Brazil.
"For much of the season we were on track," said Fitzpatrick.
"But the dramatic race in Brazil ended our hopes of [finishing 10th] and ultimately brought into doubt the team's ability to race in 2017.
"We made a huge amount of progress on and off track but ultimately it was not enough."
That cost Manor in the region of £10m in prize money - income they needed to survive into the new season - and the loss of it has made potential drivers and their backers reluctant to commit funds to the team, sources said.
Fitzpatrick said at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi that the loss of income was "not a deal-breaker" in the talks he was having with new investors.
But there had been no further news from the team until Friday's development.