Riot police in Brazil have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro who marched against the cost of hosting the football World Cup.

Some demonstrators hurled stones while other burned tyres and blocked roads.
They say they are angry that billions of dollars are being spent on next month's football tournament, rather than social projects and housing.
Protests also took place in many other cities, including the capital Brasilia.
Teachers and civil servants, among others, were also on strike across Brazil.
By Wyre DaviesSao Paulo
Most people here will eventually support the World Cup when it gets under way, but it's cost a lot of money - $15bn (Â£10bn) - and most of that has been public money.
Brazil is still a developing country with many inequalities and high levels of poverty. And when you see brand-new stadiums popping up in a Sao Paulo suburb at the cost of millions, and around there are squatter camps full of people saying they cannot afford to live, then you can see where the conflict comes from.
What the government will be looking out for is a critical mass. If these protests are attracting 5,000-10,000 people every time, then they will become too difficult to police.
In Rio, aerial images showed hundreds of people marching in rush-hour traffic on a main thoroughfare. The city will host the final match of the World Cup on 13 July.
Protesters there and in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, clashed with police before beginning to disperse.
The number of people on the streets was much lower than during similar protests last year.
Some of those taking part, however, promised the demonstrations would get bigger and more frequent as the World Cup gets closer.
Last June, more than a million people took to the street over poor public services, corruption and the high cost of hosting the World Cup.
The tournament is due to kick off on 12 June.
The BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo says that the scale of the protests will be watched closely by the government as an indication of the security challenges they may face during the tournament.
He adds that, with both the World Cup and a presidential election this year, many groups have spotted an opportunity to exert maximum pressure on the government.
The demonstrations began earlier in the day in Sao Paulo, with one of the biggest protests in the city's Itaquera district near the Arena Corinthians stadium, which will host the tournament's opening match.
Protesters there demanded housing, and not stadiums, be built in accordance with Fifa standards, in reference to world football's governing body.
"Our goal is symbolic," said Guilherme Boulos, the head of Homeless Workers Movement.
"We don't want to destroy or damage the stadium. What we want is more rights for workers to have access to housing and to show the effects the Cup has brought to the poor."
The government has tried to downplay the scale of Thursday's unrest, arguing it was not related to the World Cup.
"From what I've seen, these are specific claims by workers. I've seen nothing that is related to the (World) Cup," Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said.
"There's no reason to panic ahead of receiving three million Brazilian tourists and 600,000 foreign tourists (for the tournament)."
The planned protests coincide with a range of strikes, including one by the police force in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco.
The army was deployed there to provide additional support after some robberies and looting, before the strike ended on its third day.
Local media reported that, in the last 24 hours alone, 234 people were arrested. Recife, the state capital, is due to host five matches during the World Cup.


Royal Mail has awarded a new five-year contract to Glasgow-based Loganair to fly its mail throughout Scotland.

The new contract beginning on Wednesday involves the creation of 24 new jobs at the Scottish airline.
These posts include pilots and engineers based in Inverness and Aberdeen and ground handling staff in Orkney and Shetland.
The contract continues Loganair's existing mail service linking Inverness with Stornoway on Lewis and Benbecula.
The deal maintains its flights between Inverness and a Royal Mail hub in the East Midlands.
The contract also involves new responsibilities for linking Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Inverness


Scott Hogan scored a brace as Brentford moved five points clear of the bottom three with victory over Burton.

The Championship's second-top scorer tucked home his first of the day after a defence-splitting pass from Romaine Sawyers.
Burton, without an away win this season, levelled when Jamie Ward finished Lucas Akins' pull-back.
But Hogan reacted first to a loose ball and rounded Jon McLaughlin to tap into an empty net and give the Bees victory.
Dean Smith's side had been on a four-game losing streak, but the three points lifted them up to 16th, while the Brewers dropped a place to 20th.
In addition to his two goals, Hogan also hit the post with a clever lob as the hosts tried to break the deadlock before half-time.
And, but for John Brayford's goalline clearance in injury time, Tom Field would have made it 3-1.
Burton's best chance to level for a second time came when Will Miller found space on the edge of the box, but he could not beat Dan Bentley in the home goal.
Brentford manager Dean Smith told BBC Radio London:
"We deserved to win the game behind the chances we created, we were a little sloppy on the ball in the second-half but the chances we've had we could have put the game to bed earlier than we did.
"They put a lot of balls into the box we had to defend but we defended them well.
"That's what [goalscorer] Scott Hogan does best, he could have had a few more as well."
Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Derby:
"It was an opportunity missed, second-half we were better, first-half ironically we went in 1-1 and were well in the game but we were more unlucky in the second-half.
"We didn't stop Brentford playing enough, we think sometimes we can come away and play our football but sometimes it's about stopping the opposition.
"When they've lost four games on the spin they're going to come out of the blocks."
Match ends, Brentford 2, Burton Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Brentford 2, Burton Albion 1.
Attempt blocked. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Scott Hogan.
Ben Turner (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Romaine Sawyers (Brentford) is shown the yellow card.
Nico Yennaris (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jon McLaughlin (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Nico Yennaris (Brentford).
Ben Turner (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andreas Bjelland (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andreas Bjelland (Brentford).
John Brayford (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Tom Field (Brentford) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Maxime Colin with a cross.
Attempt missed. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Maxime Colin.
John Egan (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Will Miller (Burton Albion).
Corner,  Brentford. Conceded by Lucas Akins.
Foul by Nico Yennaris (Brentford).
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Tom Naylor replaces Damien McCrory.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Marcus Myers-Harness replaces Chris O'Grady.
Attempt saved. Will Miller (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jackson Irvine.
Foul by Nico Yennaris (Brentford).
Will Miller (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Brentford. Tom Field replaces Yoann Barbet.
Foul by Lasse Vibe (Brentford).
Will Miller (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Brentford. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Attempt blocked. Nico Yennaris (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Woods with a headed pass.
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Harlee Dean (Brentford).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Will Miller replaces Jamie Ward.
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Romaine Sawyers (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion).
Corner,  Burton Albion. Conceded by Yoann Barbet.
Substitution, Brentford. Lasse Vibe replaces Josh McEachran.
Foul by Scott Hogan (Brentford).
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


Scotland's political leaders have traded blows over independence and immigration in a heated BBC debate.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon accused Tory counterpart Ruth Davidson of "talking so much about independence that I can't get a word in edgeways about it".
But Ms Davidson hit back by telling Ms Sturgeon: "The country said 'No' and you won't listen to them."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said people "want to move on" from the referendum.
The televised debate, which was hosted by the BBC's Sarah Smith in front of a live audience, also featured Willie Rennie of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie and UKIP's David Coburn.
Ms Sturgeon opened the debate by arguing that only her party could protect Scotland from an "extreme Brexit".
And she said that supporting the SNP would "protect Scotland's right to make our own decisions" with regard to an independence referendum.
The first minister was followed by Ms Davidson, who told Ms Sturgeon that she should: "Fix our schools, don't split up our country. Champion our businesses, don't put a border at Berwick."
She added: "At this election we can send the SNP a message they can't ignore, and with your help we can stop them, and in so doing we can get back to the issues that really matter."
Ms Sturgeon responded by accusing the Scottish Conservative leader of using independence as a smokescreen for her party's "toxic" policies.
She said: "Ruth Davidson says I talk about nothing else, the truth is she talks so much about independence that I can't get a word in edgeways about it.
"Ruth Davidson is using independence as a smokescreen in this campaign because she knows the Tory record and Tory policies are toxic."
Ms Dugdale warned the opinion polls were suggesting that the Conservatives "will be back and they will be more destructive than ever before" after the election.
She added: "So who do you want to stand up to the Tories? Labour MPs who understand your life, because they've lived, or SNP MPs who will use every bit of Tory cruelty to exploit the case for independence."
Mr Rennie said the SNP's focus was "always independence", adding: "It took 44 days for Nicola Sturgeon to publish her Bill on another independence referendum. It took 15 months for them to write their mental health strategy.
"It took two years for us to persuade them to expand nursery education for two-year-olds and it took six years for us to persuade them about a pupil premium."
Meanwhile, Mr Harvie warned social and environmental rights, guaranteed in the EU, would be "in the hands of a hard right Tory government hell-bent on a bonfire of the regulations".
And Mr Coburn used his opening remarks to state that "UKIP is the party of Brexit. We must elect UKIP to the Commons to ensure Brexit means exit".
The debate also saw Ms Sturgeon come under fire from the politically balanced audience over the SNP's record on health and education - both of which are devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
One member said she was a nurse and had been forced to use a foodbank.
She said that colleagues were considering leaving nursing, adding: "You have no idea how demoralising it is to work in the NHS."
Making a direct plea to the first minister, she said: "Don't come on your announced visits, come in in the middle of any day to any ward, to any A&E department and see what we're up against."
Ms Sturgeon told her "My sister works in the National Health Service, believe me she tells me exactly what she thinks about these matters."
She said the "austerity policies" of the UK government meant public sector workers had had pay rises capped at 1%.
And she stressed that the Scottish government had a policy of no compulsory redundancies in the NHS and wider public sector.
Analysis
By Philip Sim, BBC Scotland political reporter
At times it was like a Thursday session of First Minister's Questions, with the leaders of the main parties trading barbs over a faintly baffling mix of devolved and reserved policies.
With the SNP defending 56 seats, it was natural that the other leaders would target Nicola Sturgeon.
So, the early stages saw Ruth Davidson and Kezia Dugdale attack the SNP's record in government, although the Scottish Tory leader came under sustained pressure herself over immigration.
There were the usual bouts of participants shouting over each other, and but it was notable that Ms Sturgeon came under much more detailed scrutiny than she did during the UK-wide debate on ITV on Thursday.
The first minister is a skilled operator when it comes to this political sparring though, so she held her ground reasonably well; it was a member of the audience who landed the most notable blow on her.
The nurse in the audience who took the first minister to task will go down as the most memorable moment of the debate, and will no doubt be the element which leads tomorrow's headlines.
There were also fierce exchanges between Ms Sturgeon and Ms Davidson over immigration, with the SNP leader arguing that Conservative manifesto pledges to slash net migration to the UK would be "devastating" for Scotland's economy.
Calling for politicians to be "honest" about immigration, Ms Sturgeon continued: "When we are talking about migrants here we are talking about people working in our hospitals, people serving us in our restaurants, we are talking about our friends and our neighbours.
"The language around immigration I think is shocking. We have got a need in this country to grow our population.
"If EU migration was to be ended over the next 25 years, or even constrained, we would see our working age population fall while our pensioner-age population is due to go up by 50%. That would be an economic catastrophe."
Ms Davidson said that "no one is talking about ending" migration from the EU, and that it was important that any immigration system was "trusted" by people in order to avoid it causing social unrest.
She added: "What I want to see is Scotland to be the most attractive place so we can attract the brightest and the best. At the moment, despite having a third of the landmass of the UK, and 8.4% of the population, we only attract 4% of immigrants to this country".
Ms Sturgeon said those figures - which Ms Davidson said were from the UK government - were "not true", and instead pointed to National Records of Scotland figures which said the country attracted 7% of migrants to the UK.


Fifa has officially authorised the wearing of head covers for religious reasons during football matches.

The ruling was made following a meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in Zurich and will apply to male and female players.
The wearing of head covers had been banned, but a two-year trial started in 2012 has proved successful.
"It was decided that female players can cover their heads to play," said Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke.
"Male players can play with head covers too. It will be a basic head cover and the colour should be the same as the team jersey."
In 2011, Iran's women's team withdrew from an Olympic qualification match against Jordan in protest at not being allowed to wear headscarves.
There have also been calls from the Sikh community in Canada for the ban on the wearing of turbans to be lifted.
World football's governing body, Fifa, had claimed the wearing of head covers while playing competitive football posed too great a risk of injury to the head or neck.
However, following a request from the Asian Football Confederation, the IFAB allowed for their safety to be tested during the trial.
At the annual general meeting at Fifa's headquarters, IFAB members also voted to introduce a new law that will punish players who display messages on T-shirts underneath their club's kit.
The rule change, which will come into effect from 1 June, amends Law 4 of the game, which relates to players' equipment.


Police in the the Netherlands are investigating whether Berlin market attacker Anis Amri travelled there immediately after he killed 12 people by ramming a lorry through the stalls.

Police initially said there were "signs" he did visit, but later said these could not be confirmed.
An unused Dutch Sim card was found in his backpack, French and Italian media reports say.
The Tunisian was shot dead by police in Milan early on Friday.
Police are inquiring whether he travelled to Amsterdam in the aftermath of the attack before heading to Lyon in France and then to Italy.
CCTV footage has been released of him at Lyon-Part-Dieu station, before he apparently boarded a train on his way towards Milan.
The Sim card found in his backpack was issued between 20 and 22 December in one of three possible Dutch cities - Breda, Zwolle and Nijmegen, Italian media reported.
It was widely reported after the attack that German police searched a refugee centre in Emmerich, just across the border at Nijmegen.
That Amri was able to travel from Berlin while subject to a European arrest warrant has raised security questions.
Police have pieced together his journey first to from Lyon to Turin, then by another train to Milan, where he took a coach to the north-eastern suburb of Sesto San Giovanni.
But how he travelled from Berlin to Lyon remains unclear.
Investigators are also trying to find out if Amri, 24, had accomplices. A video has been released of him pledging allegiance to the head of jihadist group Islamic State (IS).


Jobs and education were the focus of the penultimate day of campaigning for the Holyrood election.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon addressed Aberdeen business leaders on how her party plans to create more jobs.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale warned about cuts to education, as did will Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie during a visit to Renfrew.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson travelled from Oban to Peterhead to canvass for votes.
And Patrick Harvie and Maggie Chapman of the Scottish Greens visited Fife College where they highlighted the potential for new jobs in renewable industries.
What is in the manifestos?
Scotland's political parties have now published their manifestos ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May. So, what are they pledging?
Ahead of campaigning on Monday, Ms Sturgeon said that job creation would be at the heart of a re-elected SNP government's agenda.
She added: "As we have shown in recent months, we will relentlessly champion Scottish business and always stand up for our key industries.
"And the only way people in Scotland can be sure of re-electing an SNP government with a bold, ambitious plan to create new and better-paid jobs is to cast both votes for the SNP on Thursday."
Voters go to the polls on Thursday to elect their new constituency and regional list MSPs.
Ms Dugdale visited a soft play area in Glasgow where she is expected to warn of the threat "the SNP's Â£3bn of cuts" could have on education and frontline services.
She said: "The SNP must now come clean on their secret cuts by telling voters where the axe would fall.
"A vote for Labour is a vote to use the new powers of the Scottish Parliament to tax the richest 1% so we can invest in schools and stop the cuts to public services. A vote for the SNP is a vote for cuts to children's education, cuts to frontline services and cutting jobs."
The Scottish Conservatives hired a helicopter to take Ms Davidson from coast to coast where she will try to convince voters that she is the one opposition leader who can challenge the SNP.
She said: "Many people are supporting me because they just want an opposition at Holyrood which will really hold the SNP to account for once. Labour has had its chance - I am ready to step up and do a job for Scotland."
Mr Rennie insisted that the SNP had had nine years to "get to grips" with the challenges facing public services.
He added: "Everywhere I go, people tell me that they are pleased that we are talking about big issues like education and mental health that were neglected while the SNP campaigned for independence.
"The last thing Scotland needs is a groundhog day debate on the constitution."
With just two full days of campaigning to go, the Scottish Greens were keen to underline their manifesto commitment to "invest in skills and new jobs".
The party's co-convener Mr Harvie said: "Scotland's economy is facing huge challenges, not least from the inevitable decline in the oil and gas sectors, so the need for a plan of action has never been greater.
"Today's visit [to Fife College] underlines the Scottish Green Party's manifesto commitment to investment in skills and new jobs that will last."


Porters at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford are set strike for 48 hours in a row over changes to their shift patterns.

Unison members voted in favour of industrial action which is due to take place from 22:00 BST on Tuesday.
Oxfordshire Unison Health Branch said some porters could lose up to Â£54 a week if their hours are altered.
It is now in talks with private firm Carillion in a bid to reach a deal before strike action.
Carillion, which runs the porter service for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
Before the ballot Unison said: "The porters at John Radcliffe, who are nearly all Unison members, are facing pay cuts and job losses amid huge pressure from management to accept the proposals."


Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock has told Bluebirds supporters to "enjoy it," after they maintained their 100% record in the Championship.

Cardiff's 2-1 win at Wolves gave Warnock a fourth successive victory at the start of a season for the first time in his 35-year managerial career.
"Our fans get carried away, they are in cuckoo land at times because they haven't seen this for a while," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"So let's enjoy it, I am going to."
"It was a cracking game, a typical Championship game that I love," he continued. "We didn't come to defend; we came to attack as much as we could.
"I don't have long left in football and I'm going to enjoy going away from a game like this. You come away and you go 'wow.' I thought it was great."
Warnock was full of praise for summer signing Nathaniel Mendez-Laing who continued his hot scoring streak, admitting he is exceeding his expectations.
The winger claimed his fifth goal in four games to end Wolves' perfect record.
"I knew Mendez was going to score as soon as he took his first touch because it has been that way for him, he's really been on fire," Warnock said.
"He worked his socks off, he's a team player and we won as a team today.
"He's exceeding my expectations, I hadn't dreamed of this.
"We've got some good players who can put him in good areas and he's almost like a kid with a new ball, he just runs. It is great to see."


A civil servant who posted offensive comments about the Hillsborough disaster on Wikipedia while at work has been sacked.

The man, who lives on Merseyside, used the online encyclopaedia to mock the victims of the 1989 Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final.
An inquiry was launched in April when it emerged Whitehall computers were used to make the disparaging entries.
The edits included the phrase "Blame Liverpool fans".
The 24-year-old junior administrator, who was born in London but lives in Liverpool, has been dismissed for gross misconduct.
His sacking follows an investigation by The Daily Telegraph which identified him through his internet activity.
The man altered the Wikipedia page for Hillsborough in 2012, including one entry that parodied the Liverpool fans' anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone" by changing it to "You'll Never Walk Again".
A Commons statement from Cabinet Officer minister Francis Maude said:  "I was deeply distressed that, at a time when the hearings of the Hillsborough inquests were unfolding, the Civil Service was brought into disrepute by these edits.
Profiles of all those who died
"Our position from the very start has been that the amendments made to Wikipedia are sickening. The behaviour is in complete contravention of the Civil Service code and every canon of civilised conduct. It is entirely unacceptable."
The department had feared the length of time since the amendments, which were made in 2009 and 2012, would make it impossible to identify those responsible.
However, Mr Maude said the investigation had not been able to identify the culprit of the 2009 Wikipedia edits, owing to technical obstacles.
The minister praised the contribution of journalist Oliver Duggan who broke the story for the Liverpool Echo on 25 April and passed on his research to the Cabinet Office.
"That information has proved extremely helpful and provided a significant investigative lead," he said.
Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said the families had agreed that the perpetrator's name should not be made public.
"Social media can be very unpleasant. He has been punished and, as far as we are concerned, that is the end of it," she added.
Barry Devonside, who lost his 18-year-old son Christopher in the tragedy, said: "He got what he deserved.
"He clearly had his own reason for doing it but he they were far, far removed from anything thinking individual who has got a perspective or empathy for those that were killed at Hillsborough.
"I suppose given the fact that he worked and lived in Liverpool he should have had an understanding. I would have expected a youngster to have understood what Hillsborough was about but clearly he had a different agenda."


A man who stabbed a friend to death after a failed romance with his sister has been jailed for life for his murder.

Paul Mapps, 26, of Trinant, Caerphilly, stabbed Ian Davies, 27, with a kitchen knife at a house party in January.
The court heard the men had been good friends but their relationship became "somewhat volatile" when Mr Davies starting dating Mapps' sister Dawn, 30.
Mapps was found guilty by a majority verdict at Cardiff Crown Court.
He attacked Mr Davies with a kitchen knife after he turned up at his sister's birthday party.
Mapps denied murder and said he stabbed his friend in self defence after he came at him with a vodka bottle.
But a jury found him guilty after a two-week trial.
Judge Neil Bidder QC jailed him for life and told him he must serve a minimum of 20 years in prison.
He said: "I am sure that I can reject any suggestion you were acting in self defence when you stabbed him.
"You plainly have difficulty in controlling your anger, despite undertaking a previous anger management course.
"There is only one sentence I can impose and that is life imprisonment. You will serve a minimum of 20 years in jail and will only be released  if you are deemed no longer a danger to the public.
"You may never be released."
After the hearing, Mr Davies' sister Carrie said the family felt justice had been served.
"Although the outcome doesn't ease our great sense of loss, we can now start to move forward with our lives, and focus our efforts on looking after and supporting Caine, Ian's six-year-old son."


Construction of the UK's four new nuclear submarines is to begin, after the government announced £1.3bn of new investment with defence firm BAE Systems.

The "Successor" is the proposed new generation of submarines to carry the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the deal would secure thousands of highly-skilled jobs across the UK.
"This shows the government will never gamble with our national security."
The four new Successor submarines, which will carry Trident missiles, are to be built at BAE Systems' shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness.
The project will move into a new phase from next week, with manufacturing beginning on structural steel work for the first vessel.
The defence firm says they will enter service from the 2030s onwards and have a lifespan of at least 30 years.
The Ministry of Defence says several hundred suppliers are expected to be involved in the new programme at its peak, securing jobs from Scotland to the south of England.
Britain has four Vanguard class submarines that have been in operation since 1992, and had an intended service life of 25 years.
One is always deployed at sea, while another undergoes maintenance and two are in port or on training manoeuvres.
In July, MPs voted to renew Britain's ageing nuclear weapons system by 472 votes to 117.
The vote approved the manufacture of four replacement submarines at a current estimated cost of £31bn.
Labour was split over the issue with 140 of its 230 MPs going against leader Jeremy Corbyn and backing the motion.
Labour's policy is in flux amid continuing divisions at the top of the party, after endorsing Trident renewal at the last election but Mr Corbyn having been a lifelong opponent of nuclear weapons.
The government says the UK's independent nuclear deterrent is essential to national security.
Unveiling the new investment, Mr Fallon said Britain's ballistic missile submarines were used every day "to counter the most extreme threats".
"We cannot know what dangers we might face in the 2030s, 2040s and 2050s so we are acting now to replace them."
SNP MSP Bill Kidd said it was "wrong to pursue the renewal of such a morally objectionable weapons programme".
"We don't want weapons of mass destruction based here in Scotland just a few miles from our biggest city, and we should be leading the world in getting rid of the obscenity of nuclear weapons once and for all," he said.


A body has been pulled out of a river in Dumfries.

Emergency services were called to the River Nith in the town at about 14:00 on Tuesday.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "Around 2pm on Tuesday July 25 2017, a body was recovered from the River Nith near to East Riverside Drive in Dumfries.
"Inquiries are at an early stage."


A trial park-and-ride service has been launched in a bid to ease parking problems in a Shropshire town.

Bridgnorth Chamber of Commerce said traffic build-up on Saturdays had affected businesses in the area.
It said it would monitor the effect of the new Saturday service - which operates between 09:30 and 16:00 BST - over the summer trial period.
People parking at the Nock Deighton Auction site can ride for free until 6 June, when a Â£2 charge is introduced.


Scientists are working on techniques that would allow them to routinely monitor the health of corals worldwide from orbit.

The EU's new Sentinel-2a satellite has the capability to look into the water column, to see whether reefs are undergoing change.
Current, anomalously high temperatures are driving a huge coral bleaching event across the globe.
Early work suggests the Sentinel can detect the effects from 780km up.
The satellite's two images on this page show Fatu Huku Island in French Polynesia.
The one below is a full colour view of the 1.5km-long rocky outcrop.
At the top of the page, however, is a picture that displays only the "blue band" from the satellite's camera.
Selecting this 490-nanometre wavelength makes the submerged reef around Fatu Huku jump out.
"The blue band really goes into the water. The shorter the wavelength, the better the penetration you have," explained Dr Benjamin Koetz from the European Space Agency (Esa).
"With Sentinel-2a, we can see 10-15m into the water, which you just couldn't see if you were using the green band, for example," he told BBC News.
Esa is sponsoring a project called Sen2Coral, which had Sentinel-2a make repeat observations of the volcanic island from February to April this year.
In that time, it detected a change in sea-bottom radiance - a brightening - that is very likely related to bleaching.
A dedicated field team sent to the island at the end of February confirmed that sea-water temperatures were consistently above 30C and that parts of the reef were stressed. More work is needed though to confirm the associations.
Excessively warm water will cause coral polyps to expel their symbiotic algae. This drains a reef of its colour. It is not necessarily fatal but it can weaken the ecosystem, making it vulnerable in the face of other threats such as disease.
Bleaching has been occurring globally on a large scale of late because of the El Nino phenomenon, which sees surface temperatures spike in many ocean regions but particularly in the central and eastern Pacific.
Scientists had previously tried to observe corals in the same way as at Fatu Huku using the American Landsat spacecraft and the French Spot platform. The former does not have quite the resolution needed (just 30m versus S2a's 10m), and the latter's camera does not have the optimal band to penetrate the water column.
Ultimately, if the S2a techniques can be fully validated, it should be possible to automate the detection of change at reefs.
Scientists could then use the Sentinel to alert them, not just to possible bleaching but to other deleterious impacts such as pollution incidents and nutrient run-off from land.
The EU satellite is ideally suited to this kind of application. It is designed to map all land surfaces (and the coastal regions where corals tend to live) every 10 days. When its sister satellite (Sentinel-2b) is launched next year, this repeat time will fall to five days. All the data is free and open.
"Sentinel coverage is systematic in the sense that it covers within 20km of the coast. But this doesn't, of course, include all the corals in the world, and one of the objectives of this project is to try to understand what exactly is needed," said Dr Koetz.
"If we wanted to have a systematic coral reef observatory, we would have to increase the image acquisition plan, to take in all of the Great Barrier Reef, for example."
The coral work of Sentinel-2a was highlighted at Esa's Living Planet Symposium which took place in Prague earlier this month.
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Braehead Clan rounded off their debut season in the Champions Hockey League with a 6-4 home win over German side ERC Ingolstadt.

The Clan had lost 5-2 in the away leg and had also lost both games against Group O leaders Vaxjo Lakers of Sweden.
Petr Taticek gave Ingolstadt the lead but Matt Keith glanced in Stefan Meyer's shot to level before Brendan Brooks added Clan's second.
Tomas Kubalik began a German comeback but Clan finished strongly for the win.
Chris Bruton put the Scots ahead before John Laliberte and Benedikt Schopper moved Ingolstadt in front once more.
But three late goals by Keith, Alex Leavitt and Marcus Gotz secured a historic win for Ryan Finnerty's Clan team.
Finnerty told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound: "It was a pretty emotional night, a pretty good night for the organisation and the incredible fan base.
We are going up against some stiff competition teams with 10-20 times the budget we have.
"We got beat bad in Sweden (10-2) and then we went to Germany and we were 2-2 with 10 minutes left and we lost last week 3-1 to the Swedes.
"We got better as the campaign went on, but it's a tough task playing the number-one rated team in Europe and they showed it that first night but I thought we matched them pretty well on home ice.
"It's exciting to watch the growth over the last few years and it's exciting where it's going."


The father of a two-year-old girl who died from meningitis B has accused the government of doing nothing to raise awareness of the disease.

Neil Burdett's daughter Faye fought the disease for 11 days but died last year.
When the family released photographs of Faye, more than 820,000 people signed a petition for a jab for all children.
Mr Burdett, of Maidstone, gave evidence to MPs but said he had heard nothing. The government said the UK was first to introduce a vaccination programme.
Mr Burdett and his wife Jenny had to make the decision to turn off Faye's life support.
The disease had led to sepsis and they had already signed forms consenting to amputations, but knew the sepsis had caused further damage.
He said: "Her kidneys weren't working and the list went on and on.
"She fought so hard. Turning off the machine was the hardest decision we have ever had to make but it was the right thing to do."
Q&A: Meningitis B vaccine
He said they remembered their daughter as a "happy girl who loved to run around."
"She loved painting and was very clever for her age, she was so bright and determined."
He said an investigation into Faye's treatment was still ongoing, because she was sent home from Maidstone Hospital - but returned seven hours later.
The meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, is available on the NHS for babies aged two months, but parents who wish to have older children vaccinated must pay privately.
Last year, the government refused to make the vaccine more widely available - a move described by Mr Burdett as "insulting and devastating."
Former public health minister Jane Ellison pledged to launch an awareness campaign on signs of meningitis and the government agreed to release its cost calculations for vaccines.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "The UK is the first country in the world to have introduced a national meningitis B vaccination programme using Bexsero.
"We have made important progress, vaccinating more than one million babies since September 2015, in which time the number of cases in infants aged one and under has dropped by 50%.
"In addition our public awareness campaigns on sepsis and meningitis B have seen millions of leaflets distributed to GP clinics, hospitals and other public places - and we'll set out further plans shortly."


Supply teachers in England and Wales are being exploited in the workplace, a teachers' union claims.

The NASUWT says supply teachers are being denied entitlements on pay, pensions and working conditions.
The union calling for urgent action to regulate all supply agencies and introduce national standards for the employment of supply teachers.
The  Department for Education said there were "clear laws" to ensure  agencies treated their staffâ€Ž fairly.
"Supply teachers form a valued part of the teaching profession. The flexibility they offer is important in allowing schools to meet their teaching needs and we trust schools to use them appropriately. There are clear laws in place to ensure supply agencies treat their staffâ€Ž fairly."
In a union questionnaire, many supply teachers spoke of a lack of respect and no support with professional training.
Of the 942 supply teachers who took part in an NASUWT  survey about supply work, nearly two thirds (65%) said they were not paid at a level that recognised their experience.
The union also found:
The survey also found some teachers turned to supply teaching in the hope of escaping the demands placed on contracted roles.
Of those teachers leaving contracted roles for supply work more than two thirds (69%) were hoping to achieve a better work life balance, 62% wanted to escape the excessive workload, and four in 10 (40%) want to achieve greater flexibility.
"I find that the biggest problem I encounter in schools on a daily basis is the attitude of pupils to supply teachers.
"Very often I experience a total lack of respect as a teacher from pupils, this consequently leads to continual disruption of the lesson, rude and insolent attitudes from the pupils, answering back, refusal to comply with instructions and on occasions foul language, this list of pupils behaviour is not exhaustive!
"This makes me feel totally demoralised, distressed and at the end of the school day mentally exhausted."
"As an NQT [newly qualified teacher] I have little or no support from the larger supply agencies in terms of mentors or CPD [continuing professional development], I also have no support in a school and the school is never made aware that I am an NQT.
"When I have asked to not be sent to certain schools due to behaviour being out of control or bullying the agencies often withhold work for a few days or make me feel uncomfortable in requesting support or to not be sent to a certain school.
"The agency staff rarely have experience of teaching and do not understand the issues I bring to them. If I do get CPD I must take a day unpaid, as well as pay for any courses I wish to attend."
"I am very concerned that I am unable to contribute to the Teacher's Pension scheme as a supply teacher, which seriously undermines my future retirement."
"I regularly feel like I am thrown in at the deep end, even with years of experience and subject knowledge. I meet so many amazing teachers along the way who chose to do supply for a work-life balance.
"We accept poor pay and poor treatment because it's a last ditch attempt to do what we love, without enduring the impossible workload and inflexible 'non-family friendly' demands put upon us."
A spokesman from the DfE said supply teachers form a "valued part" of the teaching profession.
"The flexibility they offer is important in allowing schools to meet their teaching needs and we trust schools to use them appropriately. There are clear laws in place to ensure supply agencies treat their staffâ€Ž fairly."
But NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said supply teaching was a tough job, made harder by exploitation and poor employment practices.
"Supply teachers are a vital resource for schools especially in the light of the current recruitment and retention crisis," she said.
"Yet the poor treatment of supply teachers is unfortunately entirely representative of the unacceptable employment practices which are found in too many workplaces across the country and which the government fails to address.
"It is therefore a sad indictment of the pressures on teachers in schools that increasing numbers are choosing supply teaching to seek relief from the excessive workload, lack of work/life balance and denial of flexible working opportunities."


Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has called on trade unionists to "unite against SNP cuts to local councils".

At the Unite Scotland union's conference in Clydebank, Ms Dugdale accused the Scottish government of making cuts to schools and social care.
Also speaking, UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged that a future Labour government would repeal the Trade Union Bill.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be making a speech to delegates on Sunday.
Ms Dugdale told the conference Scotland could not be a "fairer, more prosperous country" while councils were being "starved of the resources they need".
She said: "We cannot build a better life for those children when their parents are amongst the thousands of local government workers who have lost their jobs or the 15,000 more who Cosla say could go as a result of John Swinney's Â£500m cut to our councils.
"We should be cutting the gap between the richest and the rest, not the budget for our schools and the workers from our services.
"I am calling on all trade unionists to join Scottish Labour and speak with one voice to say these SNP cuts to local councils responsible for our schools and social care just aren't acceptable."
Mr Corbyn, who was delayed arriving in Scotland because of bad weather, said Labour was setting up a commission on workplace rights to be led by the Shadow Minister for Trade Unions, and former president of the National Union of Mineworkers, Ian Lavery MP.
The Labour leader said: "Not only will we repeal the Trade Union Bill when we get back in 2020 we will extend people's rights in the workplace - and give employees a real voice in the organisations they work for.
"That means new trade union freedoms and collective bargaining rights of course because it is only through collective representation that workers have the voice and the strength to reverse the race to the bottom in pay and conditions."
Mr Corbyn said he was proud to be a member of a trade union and the unions would be "central to everything we do".
An SNP spokeswoman said: "Kezia Dugdale should ask Jeremy Corbyn to support the SNP's calls for trade union laws to be devolved as Labour voted to leave these powers in David Cameron's hands, instead of allowing the Scottish Parliament to take a new and better approach, giving him carte blanche to undermine unions in Scotland."
Among other issues being debated at the conference are debt, the oil industry, fracking and devolution.
Meanwhile, Unite's general Secretary Len McCluskey is set to urge Labour to apologise for "betraying" Scotland to stem the drift towards the SNP which already claims two thirds of Unite's Scottish membership.
Mr McCluskey will remind Scottish members that Unite is a Labour affiliated union and urge them to come back to Labour, in a speech on Sunday.
He said: "The ideology of New Labour effectively alienated large swathes of the Scottish working class, which manifested itself quite dramatically last May.
"Kezia has to effectively say: 'Labour is under new management, we apologise for betraying you, and we will start from scratch to try and build that trust up'."


The death of a 52-year-old man in a pond in Pembrokeshire on his birthday was an accident, a coroner has ruled.

An inquest in Milford Haven was told Wayne Anthony Young was drunk when he "tumbled" into the water and drowned in Mill Pond, Pembroke, on 1 January 2015.
Mr Young was the first person of three to die in the pond in a short space of time, resulting in calls for barriers and other safety measures.
The death of 57-year-old John Lyall was also ruled an accident in August.
An inquest is due to be held in November into the death of Robert Mansfield, whose body was found in the water in July after he had been out celebrating his 18th birthday.
In a statement, Mr Young's son Wayne Carroll, from Milford Haven, said his father would consume alcohol and cannabis daily.
He said when he spoke to him on the phone that morning to wish him a happy birthday, he could tell his father had already been drinking.
A witness saw a man tumble into the pond and tried to help him, but Mr Young was unresponsive, the coroner's court was told.
Police and paramedics arrived and gave Mr Young CPR, before he was taken by ambulance to Withybush Hospital where he was declared dead.
There had been concerns about the amount of time it took for Mr Young to be taken to hospital.
A joint investigation by the Welsh Ambulance Trust and Hywel Dda University Health Board found there was a 20-minute delay due to a lack of clarity over the seriousness of the situation and the volume of calls on New Year's Day.
But it concluded it was not possible to establish whether or not the delay contributed to "the sad outcome".
Deputy coroner for Pembrokeshire, Gareth Lewis, said it was a "very tragic accident".


A leading Orangeman has said the Orange Order's rejection of plans to reform parading in 2010 was "an own goal".

Darryl Hewitt, who is the Portadown district master, said the plans brought forward by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin six years ago should be re-examined.
His comments come just weeks before the marching season reaches its peak on 12 July.
Back in 2010, the DUP and Sinn Féin agreed series of plans on parading.
Those plans included the end of the Parades Commission, which rules on contentious parades, new mediation procedures and a code of conduct for residents and marchers.
However, the Orange Order rejected the deal and now Mr Hewitt said it is time to revisit the plan.
He told BBC Northern Ireland's The View programme: "It was the Orange institution that rejected it.
"I would view it as a bit of an own goal but we are where we are.
"We have to move on - we can't keep looking backwards, so we have to move forward."
If the Orange Order and other loyal orders are key to any solution then so too are residents groups.
Joe Marley, from the Crumlin and Ardoyne Residents Association in Belfast, said talking is paramount.
"The preferred option is always a local accommodation, but in the absence of that you will always need some kind of independent adjudicator," he said.
"I think there was work being done in the past number of years actually that needs to be taken forward."
Journalist Sam McBride, from the News Letter newspaper, who has written extensively on the subject in recent weeks, said parading will test how the DUP and Sinn Féin can work together.
"I think the DUP and Sinn Fein have got a three-year window now without an election," he said.
"If they don't [find a solution] to it now, I think you can really question are they ever going to do it."
However, both parties have said they cannot find a solution on their own.
DUP MLA Emma Little Pengelly said: "I think the critical thing here is that it is not about Sinn Féin and the DUP sitting down and agreeing a new beginning for parading.
"This is very much about getting the people involved, the key stakeholders, the people who parade, the Orange Order and the residents."
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said there is less tension around parading and he hopes progress can be made on the matter.
"There is a better atmosphere for dealing with these things," he said.
"I think there is a better atmosphere up there at the assembly as well.
"Let's hope we can move forward on that basis, but I don't have a magic wand."
An Orange Order spokesman said: "Whilst fully supportive of local solutions where possible, Grand Lodge remains committed to a process that will see the current corrupt parading legislation replaced with laws and regulations which are fair and equitable to all communities."
A spokesman for the Parades Commission said: "Parading remains a sensitive area, but greater co-operation within many communities has contributed to increased stability."
In Londonderry, dialogue around parading is seen as key.
This has resulted in an accommodation between residents, businesses and the Apprentice Boys.
Businessman Garvan O'Doherty is involved in discussions and said talking and giving respect are crucial.
"You have got to listen to what the other side is saying," he said.
"You have to hear what they are saying and try and understand what they are about.
"This is what we did in Derry and this is what is needed to be done in the north of Ireland and across the rest of the parading issues."
He said senior political leaders, including the first and deputy first ministers, must act quickly.
"Politically, I think there is a great opportunity for Arlene [Foster] and Martin [McGuinness].
"I would like them to grasp this issue, which mirrors the Derry model but has its little intricacies for local issues.
First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness have much unfinished business to deal with.
Striking a deal on parading that carries the support of residents and the loyal orders could enhance their claim that a fresh start really has been made.


The Dutch government has announced plans to give police far greater powers to fight cybercrime.

Under a new bill, investigators would be able to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files.
They could also break into servers located abroad, if they were being used to block services.
Critics say the proposed measures are unnecessary and could set a dangerous precedent for people living under oppressive governments.
Use of the powers would be subject to the approval of a judge, the government stresses.
The bill would also make it a crime for a suspect to refuse to decipher encrypted files during a police investigation.
It is expected the draft legislation will be put to parliament by the end of the year.
The bill singles out child pornography and terrorism as two areas of special concern. The publication of stolen data would also become punishable.
Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten is also keen to put an end to so-called DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) web-attacks, that flood intended targets such as banks with large amounts of traffic, making them unreachable. .
Simone Halink of digital rights group Bits of Freedom said the law would set a bad precedent and had been "rushed".
"What you see is that the police have especially a shortage of knowledge and manpower - not of powers," she said.
A Dutch citizen was arrested last month on suspicion of mounting one of the biggest ever web attacks. Websites of anti-junk mail outfit Spamhaus were bombarded with huge amounts of data in an attempt to knock them offline.


A woman was raped in the middle of the day after being forced into a car with her toddler as they walked by the sea.

The woman, in her 30s, and the child were abducted two men in Redcar, Teesside, at lunchtime on Friday.
They were taken about four miles to Longbeck Lane, near Yearby, where the woman was raped. They were made to get out of the car six hours later in another area of Redcar.
Police are investigating whether the attackers knew the victim.
Temporary Det Ch Insp Matt Murphy-King said it had been a "very traumatic ordeal for the victim and her child".
"Although we are investigating that the attackers may have known the victim, as a precaution I would encourage anyone in the local area to be extra vigilant," he said.
"There are a team of detectives working on this investigation and we have increased patrols in the local area."
Cleveland Police want to speak to anyone who saw a woman with a child and "in a distressed state" running across the road towards a wooded area near Kirkleatham Lane, where she got out of the car.
The force is also appealing for information about the two men in a dark-coloured saloon.
The driver, in his late 20s or early 30s, was white, with short, brown hair and a large build, police said. He had the word "love" tattooed across his knuckles.
The other man was white, in his early 20s, of shorter height and medium build, with brown hair.


Harry Redknapp said many of England's young players "think they have made it" but need more club game time and must work harder.

England Under-21s' European U21 Championship campaign came to an end after they lost to Italy on Wednesday.
Before their exit Redknapp, 68, said: "Half of them play in the Championship, half can't get a game.
"The centre half, one of them can't get into Leicester's team. These guys need to play."
Leicester City's Liam Moore, 22 started for the Young Lions against Portugal and Sweden, and had a place on the bench against Italy, after making 14 appearances for the Foxes last season.
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Arsenal defender Carl Jenkinson, meanwhile, spent last season on loan at West Ham.
Redknapp said "Jenkinson was out on loan because he can't get in Arsenal's team" and added that left-back Luke Garbutt "can't get in Everton's team".
The former Queens Park Rangers and Spurs manager also said many young players "don't work hard enough".
"They're first off the training pitch. They should be out there," he claimed.
"Even if they're only doing simple passing or shooting or dribbling. But they don't do it. They walk off, thinking, 'I've got a three or four-year contract, I've made it'."
Redknapp added England forward Raheem Sterling should want to stay with Liverpool and improve "under a bright manager" rather than join rivals Manchester City.
Redknapp has also criticised the off-field actions of some younger players, citing the example of Aston Villa's Jack Grealish.
Photographs of the 19-year-old posted online recently appeared to show midfielder Grealish lying in the street in Tenerife.
Redknapp added: "Footballers, with the amount of money they get, they get that money to be dedicated to their profession, to make sure that they set a good example to young kids who want to be footballers."
The 68-year-old started his managerial career with Bournemouth in 1983 and resigned from QPR in February this year, and said managers "are not really spending any time on transfers".
He added: "The chairmen are involved, the chief executives, scouts, heads of recruitment, whatever they're called.
"The days are gone when you can go and see a player five or six times before you sign them."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been criticised for his signings last summer, but Redknapp said Rodgers "wouldn't have brought all those players in".
"But if those players underperform, it's seen as the manager's fault, because the fans don't look any deeper than the manager," Redknapp said.
Redknapp quit QPR citing knee problems as the reason for the decision, but said he "feels a lot better" and that he could be tempted back into management.
"I wouldn't just take a job anywhere, you know, just for the sake of a few quid," he said.
"If there was an interesting project, then definitely. I don't feel old, I'm as sharp as ever. I would love to work with a young and upcoming coach somewhere and give him some experience.
"It would have to be something I really wanted to do. I'm not going to go working with somebody I don't like. I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much."
In 2010 Redknapp appeared destined to become England manager before the Football Association chose to appoint Roy Hodgson in 2012.
But despite an early 2014 World Cup exit the former Spurs manager does not believe England are far behind the world's best.
"I don't see many great teams in world football," he said.
"I see a lot countries with average players who wouldn't get anywhere near the England team. I watched the World Cup. Dirk Kuyt playing left wing back for the Dutch national team? He couldn't get a game for England.
"Argentina? They've got some great players but they've got some average ones as well. Ones that have come to play in England and you wouldn't give two bob for them.
"Uruguay have got three good players. I've been offered half the rest of them.
"Chile had a great World Cup, but their players, when they come to England, and I had two of them last year, you don't think, 'Well they're better players than the English players at Arsenal or Tottenham or Chelsea'."
In the past, Redknapp said he could not use a computer, did not know what an email was and said Twitter "doesn't interest me".
Earlier this month however, the ex-West Ham manager joined the social media site.
"I still don't understand it," he said.
"I don't have a clue what it is. I don't even know how long it is going to last."


Cockle beds in the Dee estuary in Flintshire can open for eight weeks this autumn, environment officials have announced.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) previously said the beds would not open as usual on 1 July after a sharp drop in the number of cockles.
But cocklers reported a "very late and unusual" appearance of young cockles.
NRW said another survey in August showed that there were about 600 tonnes which could be harvested.
Tim Jones, NRW's executive director for north and mid Wales, said: "This really is good news for all concerned and demonstrates how managing these beds in a way that helps the environment and the economy can work."
The beds will be open for the limited time from 21 September.


Fast bowler David Griffiths has left Kent at the end of his contract at the St Lawrence Ground.

The 31-year-old right-armer joined from Hampshire ahead of the 2014 campaign, but missed most of the 2015 season with triceps and back injuries.
Griffiths was Kent's leading wicket-taker in the T20 Blast this season, with 13 at an average of 33.61.
He also played three times in the One-Day Cup, but did not feature in the County Championship.
Griffiths took career-best innings figures of 6-63 against Gloucestershire in September 2014.
"The time has come for me to now leave Kent to seek a new opportunity," he said.


An inmate has been arrested after a prison officer had his throat slashed with a razor blade.

The Isle of Wight officer was "left shaken" after the prisoner attacked him on the way back to his cell at HMP Isle of Wight, on Saturday.
The incident left the officer with "superficial" cuts to his throat, the prison said.
A 24-year-old inmate was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
He has been bailed until February.
Neil Yule, chairman of the Prison Officer's Association at HMP Isle of Wight's Albany branch, said the inmate had hidden a razor blade in his mouth after receiving medical treatment, which he then used to attack one of the officers.
"Thankfully the wounds are superficial, however the attempt was certainly to cause major damage. It was a very nasty incident," he said.
Mr Yule added that, although the injured officer's wounds would heal, mentally he remained "very shaken".
He said: "I think it could have been an awful lot worse and the prison officer has had an exceptionally lucky escape."
The inmate was sent to Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight.
A prison service spokesman said: "We do not tolerate violence against our hard-working and dedicated staff, and when incidents like this occur, we work closely with the police to push for the strongest possible punishment."
The prison in Newport is a category B prison.
HMP Isle of Wight was created in 2009 with the merger of Parkhurst, Albany and Camp Hill prisons, the latter facility closed in 2013.


Taulupe Faletau would be a "big loss" if he misses the start of the 2017 Six Nations championship, says ex-Wales flanker Martyn Williams.

The Bath number eight is ruled out for four to six weeks with a knee ligament injury suffered on Christmas Eve.
Wales face Italy in Rome on Sunday, 5 February and defending champions England at home six days later.
"It's a worry, it's a big concern. In my opinion he's Wales' best player," Williams told BBC Wales.
"He's been Wales' best player for the last four or five years so it's a big, big loss if he does not come through in time for that first game against Italy.
The 26-year-old missed two months at the start of the season with the same injury after joining Bath from Newport Gwent Dragons in the summer of 2015.
Faletau missed three of the 2016 autumn internationals before making a big impact off the bench in the 27-13 win over South Africa on 26 November.
Gloucester forward Ross Moriarty stepped into the number eight role for much of the autumn series, and Williams expects the Wales management team to do the same thing if Faletau misses the Italy match.
"Taulupe is such a cog in that machine. You saw when he came on, only for the second-half against South Africa, the difference he makes," added Williams, who made 100 appearances for Wales.
"The timing of his passes, his footwork, his ball carrying ability, everything, the full package.
"He is a miss, but there is a lot of class there who can cover him and hopefully it will be for one game at the most too.
"The back row against Argentina where it was Moriarty at eight, Sam Warburton at six and Justin Tipuric at seven worked really, really well,"
"I suppose that is one silver lining. As long as those three get to the Six Nations fit there's a combination that has been tried before."


A cyclist has died following a collision involving two cars in Powys.

The incident happened on Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells, at about 19:40 BST on Thursday and the road was closed for five hours.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the victim was 67-year-old John Edward Owen, who was from the town.
Detectives want to speak to two passengers who left the scene and were in a Peugeot 307 which was in the crash along with a Ford Fiesta.


A fourth charity has been given a bag of clothes by pop star Ed Sheeran.

The singer-songwriter tweeted on Sunday that he had given his "whole wardrobe [to] a bunch of charity shops" in Suffolk.
Two shops in his home town Framlingham, Suffolk, and one in Ipswich were given several bags each on Wednesday.
Suffolk Family Carers, based in Claydon, near Ipswich, also received about 15 pieces of clothing and plans to sell them via eBay in May.
"It will give fans from around the world a chance to get them," said Anna Haley, from the charity.
She said the charity, which is fundraising with BBC Radio Suffolk for a new mobile carers centre, had been working with Sheeran's mother, Imogen, a jewellery designer.
"His mum has designed a bangle for us, so he's heard about the campaign from her," she said.
Sue Ryder is to sell its items in Framlingham on 18 April.
St Elizabeth Hospice, which also has a shop in the town, said it was still deciding on how its clothing would be sold.
East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH), for whom Sheeran is an ambassador, said it planned to hold an online auction, but would be saving some of the items for a sale at its new charity shop, due to open in Framlingham in May.


Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged Labour supporters not to "lose courage" but to continue to fight for the party's values.

Labour trails the Conservatives in the polls but Mr Brown told activists in Coventry the test was "what you do in the difficult times".
And he urged them not to give Theresa May a "free hand" in Brexit talks.
Mr Brown, PM from 2007 to 2010, did not mention Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during his 25-minute speech.
Instead he talked about individual Labour candidates acting as champions for industry, for families and for the NHS in the House of Commons.
Mr Brown  attacked the Conservatives' record on the NHS and child poverty and argued that jobs, manufacturing and the car industry were at risk if Mrs May got "carte blanche to do exactly what she wants" in Brexit negotiations.
"Mrs May says she wants this single issue election to strengthen her hand with Europe. But... we don't know what her hand is - she is not telling us what her hand is in these negotiations."
He told an audience of Labour Party members that politics went in cycles: "You can be up in 1997 and down by the 2010s.
"You can be the darlings of the media, as Labour was for some time, and yet the very same media is now telling you, you're the enemies of the people.  So yes, politics goes in cycles.
"The test, however, is what you do in the difficult times.  It's that you don't lose the courage to fight for what you believe in, you don't stand back and say 'this is now not for me, it's too difficult', but you continue to fight and support and champion what really matters to the future of this country."
"It is our duty to show this country that there is a better way forward."
Mr Brown, who resigned as Labour leader after Labour lost power in 2010, stepped down as an MP at the 2015 general election.
His speech came as Labour dealt with the fallout from its draft manifesto being leaked, before it had been agreed by the shadow cabinet, the party's National Executive Committee and other Labour figures.
Conservative PM Theresa May has sought to play down talk of a landslide Conservative victory in the general election on 8 June, following major gains at the local elections last week.
She says she is fighting for every vote in order to strengthen her hands in Brexit talks and said in interviews on Saturday: "I will not take anything for granted and neither will the team I lead, because there is too much at stake."


Craig McAllister's late goal saw Eastleigh end a run of four straight defeats as they held the 10 men of high-flying Aldershot in a 1-1 draw.

Bernard Mensah struck a post for Aldershot after 11 minutes, but the visitors were a man down midway through the first half when Jim Kellerman saw red for a foul on Ross Stearn.
The Shots regrouped and took a deserved lead in the 42nd minute when Idris Kanu latched on to a through pass and poked the ball under Ryan Clarke.
But in the second half Eastleigh's extra man began to tell as they pushed forward and, with 10 minutes left, McAllister fired home from close range after getting on to the end of a flick-on.
That was enough to earn Eastleigh their first point in five outings, while Aldershot extended their unbeaten run to 10 games.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Eastleigh 1, Aldershot Town 1.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 1, Aldershot Town 1.
Sam Matthews (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam Muggleton (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Nick Arnold replaces Cheye Alexander.
Goal!  Eastleigh 1, Aldershot Town 1. Craig McAllister (Eastleigh).
Ayo Obileye (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Sam Matthews replaces Tyler Garrett.
James Constable (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Ross Stearn.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Shamir Fenelon replaces Bernard Mensah.
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Aldershot Town 1.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Aldershot Town 1.
Goal!  Eastleigh 0, Aldershot Town 1. Idris Kanu (Aldershot Town).
Jim Kellerman (Aldershot Town) is shown the red card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A lack of media coverage of women's sport has been highlighted in a message on a new away kit for Scotland's most successful women's football team.

Glasgow City, who have won 10 Scottish titles in a row, launched a purple and white kit featuring the words "You can't be what you can't see".
Club manager Laura Montgomery said more women on sports pages would create role models for the next generation.
She said female athletes were too often consigned to media lifestyle sections.
In a 2014 TEDx talk, Ms Montgomery said: "Quite simply you can't be what you can't see without visible role models.
"How do girls grow up thinking they can be anything other than sexualised objects, which is how the media currently portrays women."
She said she wanted to inspire future generation of women to be active, healthy and to work hard to achieve their dreams.
Ms Montgomery set up Glasgow City Football Club in 1998 with Carol Anne Stewart.
She said the pair were ridiculed when they pledged to create the best team in Scotland and one of the best teams in Europe.
It is now the most successful Scottish women's team of all time.
She said youth players were supported by the first team and also trained alongside them.
"Every single youth player that we have absolutely idolizes all our first team players and that's because they want to be what they can see," she said.
The strip was launched with a promotional video featuring players Leanne Ross and Jo Love.
The club pointed to Women in Sport statistics which suggested that women's sport makes up 7% of all sports media coverage in the UK.
As a result, it said commercial investment in women's sport was lacking, with women's sport sponsorship accounting for 0.4% of total sports sponsorship between 2011 and 2013.


Former Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins says she knew Mel Giedroyc was also going to leave the show - even though they had never discussed it - because they are "like twins in a cot".

The pair both decided to quit the programme when the BBC lost the rights to Channel 4 in a bidding war last year, saying they weren't "going with the dough".
Perkins said the pair were so close after a 30-year friendship that they frequently did the same thing.
"I didn't need to ring her and say 'what are you going to do?', because I knew what she was going to do - it was merely a question of how we were going to do it," she told Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
Perkins told Kirsty Young she missed hosting Bake Off and would have carried on fronting it if it had remained on the BBC.
In explaining her decision to leave, she joked: "I think we were running out of puns - there's only so many in the tank."
"Every bap pun, every Hungarian ring pun was mined and mined.
"But there was one point when I did think 'can I do this forever?' - four days before I came to the Bake Off tent I had been with the first family of the Mekong in Tibet, who had no electricity and no running water and they would [only eat] yak butter and barley.
"Four days later I was in a tent where somebody was crying because they couldn't find the packet of marron glace, and I did think how can I rationalise these two worlds?"
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of when Mel and Sue first met at Cambridge University and went on to forge a career as a comedy double-act.
"The first thing I noticed was she had some dusky pink DMs (Doctor Martin shoes) and I looked up and saw a shock of bleached blonde hair, this profusion of teeth like a broken piano and a hearty laugh," Perkins said.
"I felt compelled to just move into her orbit and I knew we'd know each other forever.
"We have seen each other through such highs and lows, and above and beyond our working relationship we're friends - we love each other and want the best for each other."
Now their time on Bake Off has come to an end, Perkins hinted they might reunite for another TV project soon.
"I'm very hopeful Mel and I will do some pratting about, but I couldn't tell you exactly what yet. Possibly some prime-time pratting."
Desert Island Discs will be broadcast on Sunday at 11:15 BST on BBC Radio 4.
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Newtonmore suffered their first league defeat in exactly two years when they went down 2-1 to Oban Camanachd at Mossfield Park.

The seven-time Marine Harvest Premiership champions had not lost since the corresponding third week of the 2015 season, when they were defeated by Inveraray, who would eventually be relegated.
After the opening three games of the campaign, More now have only a 50% record and sit in fourth place, two points behind local rivals Kingussie, who won 2-0 at home to Glenurquhart.
In the only other Premiership game to survive the weather, Lovat collected their first points with a 4-2 win at Balgate over newly-promoted Kilmallie.
Skye went top of the National Division with a 3-1 away win over Oban Celtic.
Andrew McCuish got Oban Camanachd's opener after 18 minutes, then Lorn Dickie made it 2-0 before the half-hour. And it remained that way until midway through the second half, when Newtonmore talisman Glen MacKintosh pulled one back.
This was as much as the champions could muster, with a Andy MacKintosh red card hindering their cause. Newtonmore have now dropped three points in their first three games, compared with just four during the previous two complete seasons.
Unbeaten Kingussie and Glenurquhart met at The Dell, and it looked as both sides would preserve their successful starts to the season when the game entered its final quarter still goalless.
However, Ryan Borthwick and Roddy Young got the goals which sent Kingussie, who were in a relegation play-off two seasons ago, to the top of the table.
In Kiltarlity, Kilmallie looked to be on easy street Ryan Stewart, then Mark Graham gave the Lochaber side a 2-0 lead over Lovat. But Graham's strike seemed to galvanise their opponents, and Greg Matheson had them level within six minutes before Lorne MacKay put the home club ahead before half time.
MacKay's second, midway through the second period, then put the game beyond Kilmallie and prevented Lovat from suffering a third straight defeat.
Skye took advantage of being in the only National Division game to survive waterlogging, going top of the table with their 3-1 success over newcomers Oban Celtic.
An Iain MacLellan hat-trick which included a first-half double did the trick for Skye, while Celtic's consolation from Neil Carmichael came too late at 3-0.


Conservationists in Scotland are helping to restore a breeding population of ospreys to the Basque Country of Spain.

The birds of prey were once native to the area it but has not had a breeding pair for more than a century.
Working with Forest Enterprise Scotland, the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation has been collecting chicks under licence in north east Scotland.
The birds are being released at the Urdaibai Estuary near Bilbao.
Ospreys visit the estuary during their migrations to west Africa from breeding sites in Scotland.
Alan Campbell, environment ranger with Forest Enterprise Scotland's Aberdeenshire team, said: "This has been a great project to be involved in.
"It feels really good to know that we have helped reintroduce these magnificent birds to another part of the world where they have been struggling to hold on.
"Roy Dennis has been weighing, measuring and ringing osprey chicks on the national forest estate for many years, but over the past five years, when there has been more than one chick in a nest, the larger chick has been selected for translocation."
The chicks are from nests in Moray and Aberdeenshire.
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: "The story of Scotland's ospreys is a source of inspiration. It demonstrates what can be achieved when individuals and organisations work together to protect and enhance biodiversity.
"We should never forget the osprey had been wiped out in Scotland, before returning in the 1950s.
"A huge amount of work has been done to protect the species and ospreys are now thriving here."
She added: "I would like to congratulate the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation and Forest Enterprise Scotland for this latest success.
"It's heartening to see that other countries are now benefiting from the hard work carried out over many years in Scotland."


The Crofting Commission's convener has been asked by his fellow commissioners to resign amid a row with groups of crofters on the Isle of Lewis.

Commissioners passed a motion calling on Colin Kennedy to stand down after he walked out of a meeting in Brora, Sutherland, earlier on Wednesday.
They have also issued a public apology for how the commission handled its dispute with the crofters.
The meeting of the commission's board resumed after Mr Kennedy left.
He had earlier in the meeting refused to allow a commissioner to withdraw his declaration of interest in the dispute about the running of common grazings, including at Mangersta and Upper Coll on Lewis.
When officials told him he had to accept the request, Mr Kennedy closed the meeting and walked out.
As he left, Mr Kennedy refused to talk to a BBC Alba reporter covering the meeting.
Last week, crofting minister Fergus Ewing asked the commission, a body set up by the Scottish government, to rescind its decisions to dismiss grazings committees and apologise.
There are more than 1,000 common grazings covering tens of thousands of acres of land across Scotland, according to the Crofting Commission.
Grazing committees manage these areas of land and their members are elected by crofters.
The commission's apology was read at the board meeting. It will form part of a response to Mr Ewing's request that a public apology be made.
In the statement read at the meeting, the commission said: "The Crofting Commission wishes to apologise for the way it has handled recent grazings committee cases.
"Three unprecedented cases have been considered by the commission under Section 47(8) of the Crofting Act and resulted in committees being put out of office.
"The decisions taken by the commission have created a poor result for everyone involved.
"The actions taken in these cases did not enable communities to work together for the benefit of crofting and in fact have had an adverse impact on the crofting community.
"The commission acknowledges that the recent decisions have caused prolonged uncertainty and anxiety not only for the three communities involved but for all crofters, and for this we are sorry."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We note that the Crofting Commission Board has today issued a public apology about recent events.
"The Scottish government will continue to work with the Crofting Commission and will monitor the situation closely."


Isle of Wight's troubled new "floating bridge" was suspended from service earlier over "weather conditions".

Isle of Wight Council said the vessel was halted "as a precaution due to anticipated high winds and low tides".
A launch was used to ferry foot passengers from 05:00 BST with the ferry resuming service from 07:00.
The vessel has had a bumpy launch: it broke down a day after starting service on 14 May leading to its suspension and has also grounded since its re-launch.
The council said a build up of silt that caused the first grounding when the new £3.2m service was resumed on 7 June had been cleared.
The re-launch followed its suspension due to "training issues" on its second day in service on 15 May by the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA).
What caused the grounding on 10 June is yet to be revealed by the authority.
The chain ferry, which operates between Cowes and East Cowes, was brought after its predecessor was retired in January and cuts a 10-mile road diversion for drivers.
On Friday more than 130 campaigners who have nicknamed the chain ferry "Floaty McFloatfarce" protested against a range of design faults on the ferry.


Johanna Konta has parted company with her coach Esteban Carril at the end of a year in which she made her debut in the world's top 10.

The British number one had been based in Gijon in Spain with Carril and Jose-Manuel Garcia.
"After two and a half successful years working together we have mutually agreed to explore new options," said 25-year-old Konta.
"Once things are confirmed we will share the new set-up."
Konta, who is preparing for the new season at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open in January and won her first WTA Tour title at Stanford in June.
Ranked world number 147 in June 2015, she climbed to a career-high position of ninth and is currently in 10th place.
She won the WTA's most improved player of the year award for 2016.
Konta became the first British woman to reach the top 10 of the world rankings since Jo Durie achieved the feat in 1984.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
The split comes as quite a surprise given Konta's stellar year. With the help of Carril and Garcia, the British number one has transformed her career and only time will tell how the decision might affect her in 2017.
Konta is also trying to come to terms with the terrible loss of her mental coach Juan Coto, who died suddenly three weeks ago.
Juan Coto played a significant role in Konta's climb from 150 in the world rankings and, as a friend of Carril, formed an integral part of the coaching team.
Konta says she has been much better at keeping the sport in perspective since they started working together. In that time, she has become very adept at closing out tight matches, and a player very worthy of her position in the world's top 10.


NI21's only councillor has said he has quit the party.

Johnny McCarthy, who sits on Lisburn and Castlereagh Council, said he made the decision "after a long period of consideration".
He added: "I feel I can work better outside of the party."
His departure leaves party leader Basil McCrea as NI21's last remaining elected representative, although he won his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly on an Ulster Unionist Party ticket.
Mr McCarthy was the only member of NI21 to be elected since the party was formed in 2013, winning his seat at the 2014 council election.
He said he regretted having to make the decision, but it was "the right thing for me to do".
"Some people may wonder why I have stayed as long as I did," he added.
"It is because I fully believed in the idea of NI21 and the need for a party that is non-sectarian and promotes the use of evidence to create policy and not ideology."
Mr McCarthy's announcement is the latest blow to the party, set up by Mr McCrea and another former Ulster Unionist, John McCallister, in its short history.
The party's executive split bitterly on the eve of the council and European elections in May 2014.
Tina McKenzie, NI21's initial chairperson, quit after standing in that European election, with Mr McCallister leaving less than two months later.


It's the last rites of the 2015 Parliament - and in a frenzy of last minute deal-making, the legislation which can be completed will be rushed to the finishing line, while all manner of bills and other parliamentary business is dropped for lack of time.

Watch out for plenty of brinkmanship, particularly on a key amendment to the Criminal Finances Bill (see below). This will also make the whole timetable pretty fluid and prone to last minute alteration as new events are crowbarred in.
A few of the MPs who are departing at this election may deliver their Commons swansongs - and the final PMQs could be a particularly bare-knuckle occasion.
Meanwhile, up on the committee corridor, it's raining reports, as the various select committees rush out the results of their inquiries - up to 50 more reports should be out before dissolution.
The subjects include: the Women and Equalities Committee on Building for Equality: Disability and the Built Environment; the Education Committee on Exiting the EU: challenges and opportunities for higher education; Scottish Affairs on Jobcentre Plus closures, and Public Accounts (which has quite a few offerings in the pipeline) on the HMRC Estate.
The Commons meets at 2.30 pm for Communities and Local Government questions - with any urgent questions or ministerial statements likely to be slotted in at 3.30pm.
The main event will be the rushing through of the Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill, which is designed to keep the devolved system in place while the political parties on the Assembly negotiate to set up a new executive.
The adjournment led by the Conservative Richard Drax in on primates as pets - it will raise the issues highlighted in a petition of more than 110,000 signatures calling for new welfare standards for primates. This had been gathered by visitors to Monkey World, a primate rescue centre in Mr Drax's constituency, which calls for a change the law so that those who want to keep primates have to meet exacting standards of welfare that equal those found in zoos and wildlife parks.
In Westminster Hall (4.30pm) MPs debate e-petition 172405  on closed book examinations for GCSE English Literature. The exams require students to learn and memorise as many as 250 quotations from 15 poems, two plays and a novella. The petition argues that the exams should not test the student's memory, but how they interpret texts. The petition has attracted 109,285 signatures.
The scheduled hearing of the Commons Liaison Committee, the super committee of select committee chairs with the prime minister, has been cancelled because of the election. They now aim to hold a hearing as soon as possible in the new parliament, but since the new set of chairs are unlikely to be in place before mid-July, that may not be before the summer recess.
In the Lords, business opens (2.30pm) with tributes to Sir David Beamish who has stood down as the top official of the House, the Clerk of the Parliaments (the Clerk of the Commons is "under-clerk") to be led by the Leader of the House, Baroness Evans.
And then peers move on to a series of orders and regulations, including the Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2017, the Immigration Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) (Biometrics and Legal Aid) Regulations 2017, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2017 among others.
Then there is a short debate on the report 'Race in the workplace: The McGregor-Smith Review' - which calls for all employers with more than 50 people to set aspirational targets to increase diversity and inclusion throughout their organisations - not just at the bottom. Companies should look at the make-up of the area in which they are recruiting to establish the right target. For instance, the proportion of working age people from a BME background in London and Birmingham is already over 40%, with Manchester not far behind. Baroness McGregor-Smith chairs the Women's Business Council, a working group that seeks to maximise women's contribution to economic growth, and was appointed by the then Business Secretary Sajid Javid, to lead a review of the issues faced by businesses in developing black and minority ethnic talent from when they start work through to the executive level.
The Commons meets at 11.30am for Justice questions (watch out for fallout from the demise of the Prisons and Courts Bill, which has had to be scrapped because there is not enough time to get it through before the election) to be followed by a Ten Minute Rule Bill from Labour's Rachel Reeves.
This is on fees and charges to unauthorised overdrafts, which are often higher than those for the now capped payday loans - an issue she has pursued on the Treasury Select Committee. She wants the Financial Conduct Authority to introduce a cap on the charges to bring them into line with the cap on payday loans.
The day's main event is the committee of the whole House debate on the Finance (No. 2) Bill - which puts the measures announced in the Budget into effect - although the time pressure imposed by the election will probably mean controversial sections are stripped out. MPs will also debate Lords amendments to the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill.
In Westminster Hall, there's a Backbench Business Committee debate on Post Office closures (9.30am- 11am), followed by a series of debates led by individual MPs: the Conservative former education secretary Nicky Morgan raises Police and local authority guidance on dogs attacking other dogs (11am- 1.30 am);  the Conservative Derek Thomas has a debate on employment opportunities in food and farming (2.30pm- 4pm); the Conservative James Heappey discusses Wells' bid for UK City of Culture (4pm-4.30pm) and the Conservative David Mackintosh leads a debate on grandparents' rights to access to grandchildren (4.30pm -5.30pm).
In the Lords (2.30pm) peers bash their way through Commons amendments to the Technical and Further Education Bill, the Neighbourhood Planning Bill (there is now all-party consensus around an amendment to provide protection for pubs in the planning system), and the Bus Services Bill.
Then comes the main event: the report stage and third reading of the Criminal Finances Bill - watch out for the cross party amendment in the names of the Crossbencher Baroness Stern, Labour's Lord Rosser, the Lib Dem Baroness Kramer and the Conservative Lord Kirkhope, to require a register of the beneficial ownership of companies based in UK overseas territories like Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands - which they argue will improve transparency and help clamp down on money laundering.
Finally, there is  a short debate on support for the steel industry and its role in the government's industrial strategy led by Lord Mendelsohn.
The Commons opens (11.30am) with Welsh questions, followed at noon by  Prime Minister's questions - which, unless face to face TV debates are held, will be the only direct confrontation between Theresa May and her rivals before polling day.
Then comes a Ten Minute Rule Bill from the SNP's Alan Brown, who wants to end the use of cash retentions in the construction industry. This is where a proportion of a sub contract is held over by the main contractor to sort any defects on the job - but sub-contractors routinely fail to get their money back in a timely manner or sometimes not at all, sometimes because of the insolvency of main contractor. Mr Brown is proposing a scheme similar to the tenancy deposit scheme which will provide independent protection.
After that it's back to the washup, and consideration of Lords amendments to the Digital Economy Bill (issues in play include more superfast broadband, a proposed independent commission to set the BBC Licence Fee, a requirement that public service broadcasters are prominent on the channel displays of digital TV systems, and much much more), followed by Lords amendments to the Criminal Finances Bill (see above).
The adjournment led by Labour's Chris Evans is on the effect of diesel fumes in Islwyn - his constituency.
In Westminster Hall  there are debates on school funding in the North East of England, led by Labour's Sharon Hodgson (9.30am -11am);  the Colne to Skipton railway led by the Conservative Andrew Stephenson (11am - 11.30am) and learning outside the classroom, led by Labour's Barry Sheerman (4pm- 4.30pm).
In the Lords (3pm) questions include the Green peer Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb on refining the definition of domestic extremism to enable the police to focus on those involved in terrorism and serious crime - she used the Data Protection Act to access her police file, and found she was considered a potential extremist, and had been under surveillance by the police's "domestic extremism" unit from 2001 until 2012, including during her candidacy to become London's mayor.
She is still pressing for answers about the surveillance and the alleged destruction of documents on her case.
Then peers zoom through the remaining private members' bills sent over by the Commons - starting with the committee stage of the Local Audit (Public Access to Documents) Bill, followed by the Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill and the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Bill - and the Farriers (Registration) Bill. All will have their third reading debates the next day.
In the Commons, MPs open (9.30am) with Exiting the European Union questions, followed by any remaining loose legislative ends sent over by their lordships. There may or may not be any.
And the final debate of the 2015 Parliament will be the SNP MP Chris Stephens' adjournment on the cost of telephone calls to the Department for Work and Pensions.
In the Lords (from 11am) questions to ministers include the Conservative, Baroness Couttie, the Leader of Westminster City Council, calling for legislation to regulate pedicab drivers. Then peers will move on to those third reading debates - on the Local Audit (Public Access to Documents) Bill, the Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill, the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Bill and the Farriers (Registration) Bill.
And their final task will be to approve some statutory instruments on Driving Disqualifications and Student Fees, Awards and Support- although that last one comes with a regret motion attached, from Labour's Lord Clark of Windermere. So it is possible that the final act of the House of Lords in this Parliament might be to defeat the government.
And when all is done, the mildly pythonesque ceremony of prorogation will follow, with much doffing of cocked hats and flowery cod-medieval language.
Some MPs, mostly those who're not seeking re-election, usually come to the bar of the House to watch the spectacle.
And that will be it until Parliament reconvenes after the election, On 3 May (following dissolution at 00:01 BST that morning) a meeting of the Privy Council will issue a proclamation to declare the meeting of the new Parliament with 14 June the likely date.
The only business at the meeting will be to elect a Speaker. The next day the anointed Speaker will receive the Royal Approbation, and this will allow MPs and peers start to swear the Oath of Allegiance. This continues until Friday. New MPs then have the chance to go on various induction courses and are allocated offices.
My bet is that 21 June  will see the state opening, with the government's plans for the coming session announced.


A swimming pool originally built by pupils at a County Tyrone school 40 years ago has been given the official seal of approval by an Olympian.

The pool at Fivemiletown College was the vision of the headmaster at the time, Dr John Burrell, who wanted to ensure there was somewhere people could learn to swim after a young boy drowned in a local lake.
"I said nobody else should drown and it was also part of my plan to make it into a community school as well," he added.
"The vision was to have a facility, the start of a community school if you like, where the school buildings are used, not just left at half three or four o'clock."
On Wednesday, Dame Mary Peters, who opened the facility four years after claiming an Olympic gold medal in Munich, returned to unveil it again following recent refurbishments to upgrade the facilities.
She described the pool as a "very valuable asset for Fivemiletown" and hoped that more people would come and learn to swim there.
The refurbishment inside and outside includes new anti slip tiles and additional sports facilities for the school and local community.
It was originally built as an outdoor pool by sixth form pupils in a pre-apprenticeship class, with the help of staff and even the school bus drivers.
Dr Burrell said: "We had a professional digger to dig out the ground and they (the pupils) built it over two or three years."
The pool was constructed using hollow core concrete blocks and reinforced steel rods, and was officially opened by Dame Mary in 1976.
She returned when a roof was built over the pool to enclose it in 1995 so that it could be used all year round.
The pool has stood the test of time and Dr Burrell's vision for a community facility has been realised.
The youth annexe and sports facilities are used after school until 22:00 GMT, at weekends and during school holidays.
There are big plans for the future to develop a sensory pool, disabled facilities and an indoor arena.


Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale says he is impressed with the progress striker Ollie Watkins is making.

The 20-year-old scored a last-minute equaliser as City drew 1-1 with Portsmouth on Tuesday evening.
"Ollie's done very well so far, we're not going to get a last-minute goal in every game and I'm sure he won't play every single game," Tisdale said.
"But he's making more and more inroads into the first team and at some point he will start to establish himself."
Watkins' strike against Pompey was his first league goal, and just his third for the first team.
"The talent and the potential you can see. But it's one thing having the physical and technical ability to play the part, but the bigger determining factor would be socially - how you make that step, emotionally how you deal with the new challenge," Tisdale told BBC Sport.
"Ollie's now been in the professional ranks for a couple of years and his ability will develop and his performances will develop, but the biggest thing has been his competitiveness and his influence on the games.
"We've played him in the thick of the action, I haven't put him out on the wing and kept him out of the intensity of the game, I've put him into the middle of things and it seems to suit him.
"He's been asked to be competitive and over the last six months that has been more apparent with his game which means he's now becoming more selectable."