An ex-employee of Conservative MP Lucy Allan has claimed she was threatened with the sack while on sick leave.

Arianne Plumbly gave the BBC voicemails she said the Telford MP had left after she was signed off work for four weeks.
One message said: "I'm advising you to work as normal or resign. We all know you're not ill."
The BBC has been unable to contact Ms Allan, but a Tory Party spokesman said the complaints had been dealt with "appropriately and sympathetically".
In a written response to the Evening Standard, Ms Allan said: "Arianne Plumbly was dismissed from her employment with Lucy Allan, MP in Telford, after four months' employment, for gross misconduct following misuse of the Parliamentary email system, persistent unauthorised absenteeism, refusal to follow a reasonable instruction and rudeness to residents."
But Miss Plumbly, 26, told the BBC she disputed those claims.
"That never happened, " she said.
"It [her contract] was terminated due to four weeks ill, as per my termination letter, signed by Lucy."
She said the alleged verbal abuse had begun in May and continued until she says she was dismissed "without reason" in September.
"It got really bad the week before the election," said Ms Allan's former employee, who became her senior constituency caseworker.
"She was screaming and shouting at me down the phone saying I was useless and I hadn't done any work.
"But I was working nine until eight, Monday to Saturday every week for eight weeks.
"When she won, she was telling me how wonderful and amazing I was and I did get an apology.
"I naively put it down to the stress of the election and I did decide to stay on."
September 2014 - Arianne Plumbly begins volunteering at Lucy Allan's office
December 2014 - She is employed as the campaign manager's assistant
March 2015  - The 26-year-old is promoted
May 2015 - Miss Plumbly claims the alleged verbal abuse started the week before the election, but says she received an apology when Ms Allan won the Telford seat.
June 2015 -  She claims it started again when she asked for a week's holiday to be extended to two weeks.
September 2015 - Miss Plumbly was dismissed before her contract was due to finish in December.
Miss Plumbly said she had requested an extension to a week's holiday and the MP had later threatened to sack her.
She said after the office manager had left, Ms Allan had "turned her anger and frustrations to me".
"I was off ill for two days in September with a terrible cough and then I got a gum infection.
"My doctor told me to have four weeks off. That's when she threatened to sack me."
In one voicemail, Ms Allan said: "You've been nauseous day after day. I don't know you're, if this is some sort of alcohol problem or whatever it is, but it's not a very good excuse."
Miss Plumbly said: "I have no idea why she would say that to me. I work part time in a pub and everyone knows I hardly ever drink."
She said it had had a "devastating impact" on her and she currently did not have a job.
"Before this I was extremely ambitious and enthusiastic. I was successful at every interview I got."
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "As soon as these complaints were made they were dealt with appropriately and sympathetically."


Celtic players and fans have paid tribute to a 13-year-old boy who died after collapsing during a football training session.

Striker Leigh Griffiths held up a shirt with RIP Kieran and the number 13 on it after scoring against Aberdeen.
The goal came in the 13th minute of the game as supporters prepared to stage a minute's applause for Kieran McDade.
Celtic fan Kieran collapsed while on the pitch at Dunbeth Football Club in Coatbridge on 18 August.
The club had earlier confirmed on Facebook that the teenager died in hospital on Friday morning.
It is now raising funds to help Kieran's family through a JustGiving page.
His sister, Amy, said that Kieran had donated some of his organs, which had already saved the lives of two other people.
She wrote: "My family would like to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for the overwhelming prayers and support you have given us.
"Our beautiful boy is now with the angels and will forever live on in our hearts.
"Would also like to let everyone know that Kieran has remained the most sensitive and generous boy that he is and donated some of his organs which has saved two peoples lives today. What a brave soldier, he will be truly missed."


The last deep coal mine in the UK has been capped off, three months after its closure.

Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire closed in December, bringing to an end centuries of deep coal mining in Britain.
Ten former workers were part of a team which filled the mine shaft with concrete.
It took three hours to fill the pit, BBC Look North Business correspondent Danni Hewson said.
A pipe from the centre of the pit was left to release methane gas, used by the on-site power station.
The remaining mine buildings will be demolished, and hundreds of houses could be built on the site within a couple of years, it is understood.
Much of the mine machinery was saved for a new, smaller drift mine nearby - the New Crofton Co-operative Colliery near Wakefield in West Yorkshire which is due to open in June.
A memorial to 17 miners who lost their lives at the colliery is being transferred from the colliery to the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
Known locally as the Big K, the largest deep pit in Europe was hailed as the new generation of coal mining and could bring up to 900 tonnes an hour to the surface.
Official figures from the Department for Energy and Climate Change show the UK imported more coal than it produced for the first time in 2001 - a trend repeated every year since 2003.
In 2003 the UK produced 28.28m tonnes and imported 31.89m.
The graph below shows how output and imports have changed, with the big dip in 1984 due to the miners' strike.


Jean-Bertrand Aristide was Haiti's first freely elected president in 200 years of independence.

But his years in office - and out of it - have been marked by drama.
A bloody rebellion and pressure from the US and France, on top of years of complaints about his second election, led to Mr Aristide being forced into exile for the second time in 2004.
For the past few years, he has lived in South Africa.  But the former president has said he wishes and is ready to come home.
Speaking shortly after a massive earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, he said he wanted to help his country recover from the disaster.
Speculation that Mr Aristide may return was fuelled after the former leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier unexpectedly returned to Haiti in January after 25 years in exile.
Expectations grew further after the current government issued Mr Aristide with a passport in February.
There have been rallies calling for him to be allowed back, a sign that the former Roman Catholic priest still enjoys great support among some sections of Haitian society.
In 1990, Mr Aristide won the decisive victory which swept him to power as Haiti's first democratically elected president.
Months later he was overthrown in a bloody military coup. He sought exile in the US where he campaigned against Haiti's new military rulers.
His efforts paid off and he was reinstated in 1994 when the military rulers were forced to step down under international pressure and with the help of 20,000 troops, most of them American.
Mr Aristide was forbidden to stand for a second consecutive term in 1995. But he won in 2000.
With opposition groups boycotting the election, his Lavalas Party took more than 80% of the local and parliamentary seats.
But international observers criticised the poll and the opposition refused to recognise the outcome.
Mr Aristide's second term soon became mired in political, social and economic crises.
A coup attempt in July 2001 was blamed on former members of the military.
Anti-government protests, which had been frequent and ongoing since the 2000 poll, escalated in late 2003 and turned increasingly violent.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was born in 1953 and educated at a Roman Catholic school and seminary.
He was ordained in 1982 and became a strong supporter of liberation theology, which pressed the church to engage with social problems, including poverty and oppression. In 1986 he helped to establish a home for street children.
A stirring orator, he championed the poor, advocated democracy and campaigned against the dictatorship of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
But his political stance and growing support angered Haiti's incumbent leaders, and he was the target of several assassination attempts in the 1980s.
His political activities were also unpopular with church officials. He was expelled from his religious order in 1988 and left the priesthood in 1994. He later married.
Mr Aristide promised to hold parliamentary elections in 2004 and to instigate a programme to help the poor.
But he singularly failed to address political divisions, and under his rule Haiti retained its status as the poorest nation in the Americas.


A Blaenau Gwent man who mistakenly received Wales Rugby World Cup tickets has returned them to their rightful owner following an internet appeal.

Dan Evans, 29, from Abertillery, found four Â£50 tickets for Australia v Wales on 10 October among his mail at work.
After his Facebook campaign was shared thousands of times, he reunited them with Neil Pugh, 59, of Penarth.
Mr Evans said he was "totally chuffed" social media had come to the rescue and Mr Pugh admitted he was "relieved".
"I did offer him a reward but he wouldn't take anything but thanks," added Mr Pugh, a chartered accountant, who said his experience was "fraught".
"I paid Â£210 for each ticket on [ticket reselling website] Viagogo. I am relieved as much as anything because I bought four tickets and had taken the money from three friends for them.
"I hadn't told them about it but they have found out since."
Mr Evans, a technician, who works at Coleg Gwent's Ebbw Vale campus, discovered the tickets had inadvertently slipped into one of his parcels on Wednesday.
When he tried to telephone Mr Pugh on a number printed on a receipt he could only reach his voicemail, so he posted a notice online.
Mr Evans, who says he is "not the biggest rugby fan", was never tempted to cash-in when approached by people wanting to buy the tickets nor fooled by pretenders claiming to be Mr Pugh.
"I was getting a little bit worried. I gave myself a deadline - I was thinking, by the end of Friday, if I had not heard from them online I would have to ring round all the different ticket providers (to trace Mr Pugh)."
But after the Facebook campaign received 550 likes and more than 3,600 shares, Mr Pugh's daughter spotted it and got in touch.
"I'm totally chuffed. I can't describe it, to be honest," Mr Evans added.


Devonport naval base has been warned of legal action after a worker received a dose of radiation amid a series of safety breaches.

Radioactive cooling water was also mistakenly discharged into a submarine reactor compartment, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) reported.
Reporting of safety incidents at the base, which refits Britain's nuclear submarines, was "below standard".
Contractor Babcock International said safety was its "highest priority".
The ONR issued a legal notice to improve after an incident last year in which a worker was contaminated with radiation.
The ONR said the dose was "very small" but it "highlighted shortfalls" in health and safety at the yard.
Babcock has been ordered "to bring the arrangements up to an acceptable standard" before the end of January 2016.
The ONR said five other incidents broke safety rules between October and December last year.
They were:
The ONR also reported "shortfalls in the operation of the emergency monitoring vehicles" during a nuclear submarine accident exercise.
Peter Burt, researcher at the anti-nuclear weapons pressure group Nuclear Information Service, said: "This is a worrying string of events in a short time at Devonport.
"If the site operators are not able to improve performance rapidly the MoD should take steps to take the operating contract away from Babcock."
Nuclear engineering consultant John Large, who has advised the government and environmental groups on nuclear issues, said: "These are not uncommon incidents in a complex operation like Devonport.
"But the level of detail is not good enough. For instance what is the connection with the torpedo tubes and a radiological incident on the submarine?"
The ONR declined to go into any more detail on the incidents, saying the reports were intended as summaries.
Babcock said in a statement: "Improvements relating to the ONR enforcement notice and other recently reported incidents at Devonport Royal Dockyard are being addressed through a broader nuclear safety improvement programme to further enhance our current high levels of safety, in agreement with ONR."
Plymouth City Council said it "takes the safety of nuclear operations at Devonport extremely seriously, as does the site operator.
"It is protocol that we are informed immediately of any safety issues or incidents that are likely to be of concern to the wider public.
"The operator also reports on its safety performance every six months at the local liaison committee."
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) declined to comment.


Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards is still hoping to be fit for Wales duty at this summer's European Championship.

The 30-year-old has been out for two months following surgery on a broken bone in his foot.
He was due to be out for 12 weeks, giving him little time to prove his fitness for Euro 2016 in France, but he is confident of making it, if selected.
"I'm still doing well and hoping to be be back to play a part before the end of the season," he told BBC Sport.
"Hopefully I can play a few games in and then be selected for the Euros. It's a tough ask but I'm hoping to be involved. It would be great for me and my family..
"It has been an amazing campaign. It's great to have been part of that journey and it would be great to top it off by getting in that squad."
Shrewsbury-born Edwards already has 31 caps to his name, five of which have come during Wales' qualification campaign for their first-ever European Championship finals.
But, given the way Chris Coleman's Welsh warm-up programme has worked out, if he is to make it across the Channel this summer to represent the Principality and play against England, the country of his birth, he will have to prove his fitness purely in a Wolves shirt.
The two forthcoming friendlies with Northern Ireland on Thursday, 24 March and Ukraine on Easter Monday are Coleman's two main warm-up matches prior to picking his squad.
Wales' only other planned warm-up game is against Sweden in June - six days before their Group B opener against Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11 June.
Wales' trip to the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 remains the nation's only ever appearance at a major finals.
Only two Midlanders, West Bromwich Albion full-back Stuart Williams and Aston Villa wing-half Vic Crowe - later to become Villa manager - were in that Wales squad.
But Wolves did have four players in the England squad in 1958, Peter Broadbent, Eddie Clamp, Bill Slater and the captain Billy Wright.
This time round, along with Birmingham City winger David Cotterill, Albion defender James Chester and Walsall striker Tom Bradshaw, there are four contenders from West Midlands clubs to get in Chris Coleman's 23-man party.
If Edwards does make it, he would become the first Wolves player from one of the four home countries to play at a major finals since Steve Bull, then technically still a Third Division player, represented England at the Italia 90 World Cup.
The late Emlyn Hughes, England's captain in 1980, remains Wolves' only British player to have represented his country at the European Championship finals. But he did not play a game in that tournament, in Italy - and was on the bench for England's three group games.
The club did have three players - Stephen Ward, Stephen Hunt and Kevin Doyle - in the Republic of Ireland squad at Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.


The Philippine House of Representatives has approved a bill making enthusiastic singing of the national anthem compulsory.

"The singing shall be mandatory and must be done with fervour," the bill states. The word "mandatory" is not in the existing legislation.
It also provides official music for the tune, which must be adhered to.
Punishment for breaking the rules could include a fine of 50,000-100,000 pesos (£780-£1,560; $2,800-$5,590).
That fine is substantially more than the current minimum and maximum of 5,000-20,000 pesos (£78-£312).
Offenders will also be issued a warning before being publicly "named and shamed" in a national newspaper.
"Any act which casts contempt, dishonour or ridicule upon the national anthem shall be penalised," the bill says.
The bill makes a wide range of other stipulations, including that everyone must stand and salute when the first note of the song, Lupang Hinirang, is played - and requiring the school system to ensure every student memorises the words.
It has now been sent to the country's other house of parliament, the senate, for approval.
Commenting on an earlier version of the bill in April, one of its authors, Maximo Rodriguez Jr, said disrespecting the national anthem often happens in cinemas, where customers do not stand for the anthem.
"The national anthem embodies and expresses the aspirations, dreams, ideals, longings, commitment and determination, nationalism and patriotism, sentiment and spirit of the people," he said.
The same bill, known as the revised flag and heraldic code, contains many other rules about the display of the national flag and other emblems.
It includes several proposals from a 2010 draft to criminalise improper singing of the national anthem, including a strict requirement to keep the timing between 100 and 120 beats per minute.


India's NDTV has halted programming in protest at the banning of the BBC documentary India's Daughter.

The network ran a slate referring to the film's title, during the hour-long slot when it should have aired.
The film, which features an interview with one of the men convicted of the Delhi bus rape, was due to be broadcast by the channel on Sunday night.
But it was outlawed by the Indian authorities on the grounds of "objectionable content".
Explaining its decision not to broadcast an alternative show from 21:00 to 22:00 local time (15:30-16:30 GMT), editorial director Sonia Singh said in a tweet: "We won't shout, but we will be heard."
Other Twitter users praised the decision. One comment read: "Kudos @ndtv for the #IndiasDaughter protest. A surprisingly mature decision in a mediascape that seems to deteriorate by by the day."
Another said: "@ndtv they may not always be right, but this time they are."NDTV
Filmmaker Leslee Udwin, who directed India's Daughter, has rejected claims by the authorities that the documentary contained offensive remarks towards women, and could cause a public outcry.
She also denied allegations that she broke a contract with the prison by airing the interview with rapist, Mukesh Singh.
He is facing the death penalty for his part in the rape and murder of a medical student on a bus in Delhi in 2012, which sparked protests across India.
The BBC's director of television, Danny Cohen defended the corporation's decision to show the film in the UK, despite a request from the Indian government that it shelve the broadcast.
"We do not feel the film as currently edited could ever be construed as derogatory to women or an affront to their dignity," he said.


Adverts on Yahoo's homepage were infected with malware designed to mine the Bitcoin virtual currency, according to security experts.

Yahoo confirmed that for a four-day period in January, malware was served in ads on its homepage.
Experts estimate that as many as two million European users could have been hit.
Security firm Light Cyber said the malware was intended to create a huge network of Bitcoin mining machines.
"The malware writers put a lot of effort into making it as efficient as possible to utilise the computing power in the best way," Light Cyber's founder Giora Engel told the BBC.
Bitcoin mining malware is designed to steal computing power to make it easier for criminals to accumulate the virtual currency with little effort on their part.
"Generating bitcoins is basically guessing numbers," said Amichai Shulman, chief technology office of security firm Imperva.
"The first one to guess the right number gets 25 bitcoins and if you have a large volume of computers guessing in a co-ordinated way then you have a more efficient way of making money," he added.
Other than a computer running slower, victims will be unaware that their machine is being used in what could become known as a "bitnet".
It is a variation on the traditional botnet, networks of malware-infected computers used to churn out spam or bombard websites with requests in order to knock them offline.
Some experts estimate that such networks could be generating as much as $100,000 (Â£60,000) each day.
Since bitcoins have risen in value - at its peak one bitcoin was worth $1,000 - making it a lucrative market for online criminals.
"Bitcoin mining malware is the new frontier as criminal gangs look for new ways to make money," said Mr Engel.
Yahoo acknowledged the attack in a statement earlier this week.
"From December 31 to January 3 on our European sites, we served some advertisements that did not meet our editorial guidelines - specifically, they spread malware," the statement read.
It went on to say that users in America, Asia and Latin America weren't affected but did not specify how many European users were victims.
Fox IT, the Dutch cybersecurity firm which revealed the malware attack, estimates that there were around 27,000 infections every hour the malware was live on the site.
Over the period of the attack that could mean as many as two million machines were infected.
Such attacks may be hard to avoid, said Mr Shulman.
"For an ad platform it is virtually impossible to guarantee 100% malware free ads."
"There are many independent stakeholders involved in the process of web advertising, so from time to time any ad platform is bound to deliver malware."


UK government plans to scrap the Human Rights Act would apply to Scotland, the new Scottish secretary has said.

But the Scottish government said it would "robustly oppose" withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The Scotland Act (1998) states all legislation passed by Holyrood must be compatible with the ECHR.
But David Mundell told BBC Scotland new legislation would apply north of the border.
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Mundell said Conservative legislation to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights would be UK-wide.
He said: "New legislation replaces existing legislation and therefore the new act will apply in Scotland."
He said people in Scotland shared fears about the influence of the European Court in Strasbourg on the UK.
"I think people in Scotland share the concerns that have been voiced across the United Kingdom - that we've got the balance wrong between rights and responsibilities," he said.
"So what the purpose of the act that we'll be bringing forward is, is to not only enshrine rights but also enshrine responsibilities."
But in a further statement, a spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said the Scottish Parliament would have a say on the role ECHR where it affects devolved issues.
He said: "As is made clear in our manifesto, the Scottish Parliament will retain the final say on the role of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to issues which fall within its authority. This is part and parcel of our desire to ensure the powers of the devolved Scottish Parliament are respected."
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said the Scottish government would fight any moves to scrap the Human Rights Act.
In a tweet, he said: "The Scottish Government will robustly oppose any attempt by the UK Government to repeal the Human Rights Act or to withdraw from the ECHR."
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The Conservatives want to give UK courts and parliament the "final say" on human rights issues rather than Strasbourg.
Under the plan, the European Courts would not be able to require the UK to change British laws, with its judgements being treated as "advisory" rather than binding.
Instead, the UK's Supreme Court would be "the ultimate arbiter" on human rights matters.
The Human Rights Act came into force in 2000, bringing the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into UK law.
This international treaty - which the UK signed up to after World War Two - created basic human rights and freedoms which every citizen in Europe is entitled to.
Human rights cases can now be heard in UK courts, instead of having to be heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
The Human Rights Act includes the rights to life, liberty and security, a fair trial, respect for private life, and freedom of expression.
Torture, slavery and discrimination are all banned as well.
Critics say the Human Rights Act has led to "perverse" judgements, including a ruling that found the UK's blanket ban on prisoners voting was unlawful.


Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson says keeper Frank Fielding will miss the start of next season after having surgery on an ankle ligament injury.

The 28-year-old picked up the problem in an under-21 game last month and is unlikely to return until September.
Team-mates Korey Smith and Aden Flint have also had "clean-up operations" on ankle and knee injuries respectively and should be back for pre-season.
"Frankie is going to be a while in rehabilitation," Johnson said.
"We've got a great physio team who will work with him and try and improve that timescale as best as possible.
"Ideally you want three goalkeepers for training purposes, so even then you'd need to add another."
Fielding's injury leaves Bristol City with only youngsters Max O'Leary and Jojo Wollacott as cover for first-choice goalie Richard O'Donnell.


British politicians have shown "complacency" about revelations of mass surveillance by the security services, the editor of the Guardian has said.

Alan Rusbridger said both Labour and the Conservatives "feel compromised" by the information revealed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
The foreign secretary said he had seen no evidence of privacy law breaches.
US President Barack Obama is set to announce new restrictions on the collection of phone records later.
Foreign Secretary William Hague's comments followed new allegations revealed by the Guardian and Channel Four News about a National Security Agency (NSA) programme that has collected and stored almost 200 million text messages per day across the globe.
The programme extracted and stored data from the SMS messages to gather location information, contacts and financial data, according to the Guardian and Channel Four.
Mr Hague told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he could not address those specific allegations, but said the UK had "very strong legal checks and balances" requiring warrants from himself or the home secretary to intercept the content of the communications of anyone within the United Kingdom.
"That system is not breached," he said. "I've never seen anything to suggest that system is breached.
"We have perhaps the strongest system in the world, in which not only do I and the home secretary oversee these things, there are then commissioners - the interception of communications commissioner, for instance - who oversee our work and report to the prime minister on how we do that."
However, Mr Rusbridger claimed the American NSA liked working in the UK because of the "light legal regime".
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He told the Today programme: "Here, there's been barely a whisper from Westminster.
"I think they are closing their eyes and hoping it will go away. But it's not going to go away, because it's impossible to reform the NSA without that having a deep knock-on effect on what our own intelligence services do."
He said the leaks by former intelligence contractor Mr Snowden - who has been granted asylum by Russia - compromised both main political parties.
"Labour are not keen to get involved because a lot of this stuff was done on their watch," he said.
"That of course has raised the whole question of oversight. We have a parliamentary committee with a tiny budget of Â£1m overseeing the three agencies [the intelligence service MI6, security service MI5 and communications monitor GCHQ] with over Â£2bn.
"I just don't believe they've got the technological expertise or the resource to look into this."


Manchester United generated the most revenue of any football club in the world last season, according to a report published by Deloitte.

United dethrone Real Madrid - who held top spot for 11 years - after accumulating a record revenue of 689m euros (£515m) during the 2015-16 term.
The Premier League club saw commercial revenue grow by 100m euros (£71m).
Combined revenue for the top 20 clubs during the 2015-16 season grew 12% to 7.4bn euros (£6.41bn) - a new record.
It is the first time Manchester United have topped the annual Deloitte Football Money League since the 2003-04 season.
Real drop down to third, behind Spanish rivals Barcelona, who remain in second spot.
German giants Bayern Munich move up a position to fourth and Manchester City also climb a spot to fifth - having generated 524.9 euros (£392.6m) - up from 463.5 euros (£352.6m) during the previous season.
It is the first time they have reached the top five of the annual list.
Eight Premier League clubs make the top 20, with revenues totalling nearly 3.2bn euros (£2.4bn).
Champions Leicester City (20th) enter the top 20 for the first time. They produced a revenue of 172m euros (£128m) - which is almost five times the revenue generated two seasons previously in 2013-14.
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham remain in seventh, eighth, ninth and 12th place, with West Ham in 18th position.
Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said Manchester United's record revenues were achieved by "phenomenal commercial revenue growth".
He added: "In recent years, their ability to secure commercial partnerships with value in excess of that achievable by their peers has been the crucial factor in enabling the club to regain their place at the top of the money league.
"That said, they'll face strong competition from Barcelona and Real Madrid to retain the top spot in next year's edition, due to the lack of Champions League football, the weakening of the pound against the euro and, over the longer term, as other clubs enter the commercial market demanding similar deals, using United as the precedent."
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A free school that cost taxpayers £4.5m to open is "not a viable proposition" and is to be taken over by a larger school, its sponsors said.

St Michael's Catholic secondary school in Camborne is the only free school in Cornwall and opened with about 60 pupils in 2012.
But, it has failed to attract enough students and suffered "significant financial problems" as a result.
A parent of two daughters at the school said he was "appalled".
The school attracted more than £4.5m in public funds, to enable it to be restored and extended, and received a "requires improvement" rating from Ofsted in June 2014.
St Michael's has been sponsored by Camborne Science and International Academy (CSIA) since February and the two will fully merge in September.
Parent Neil Shepherd said St Michael's was being "swallowed up" by CSIA.
He said: "The children are affected - particularly the older ones who are just about to sit their exams."
St Michael's did not comment but referred to a CSIA statement on the takeover plans.
The statement said it was agreed "St Michael's as a separate school is not a viable proposition, both financially and in the quality of educational opportunities and experiences it can offer the students".
Current Year 10 students will continue lessons at St Michael's next year but all other students will be offered classes at CSIA.
The Department for Education did not respond to questions regarding the value for money offered by the investment in the school.
The future of the St Michael's site is not clear but CSIA said it hoped to create a centre of excellence there.
The school's original head teacher, Neil Anderson, resigned for personal reasons in July 2014 but it later emerged he had been under investigation by school governors.


Eighty-seven jobs are to be created at a County Antrim engineering firm as part of a £5m investment.

McAuley Precision and McAuley Fabrication are expanding resulting in the creation of the skilled manufacturing jobs.
Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton said the jobs would be created over the next four years.
He said it was "positive news" for Ballymoney and the "local manufacturing industry".
McAuley Precision and McAuley Fabrication supply machine and sheet metal components for the transportation, oil and gas and aerospace industries.
Invest NI has offered McAuley Precision £500,000 and McAuley Fabrication £120,000 to support their growth plans.
A total of 57 jobs will be created at McAuley Precision, with the remaining 30 positions being recruited at McAuley Fabrication.  It is understood 23 of the 87 new jobs are already in place.
Jonathan McAuley, managing director of McAuley Precision and McAuley Fabrication, said the investment signalled a "major milestone" in its growth strategy and would help to cement their "reputation as credible suppliers in our target markets".
"The international aerospace and transportation sectors are particularly important growth areas for us and working with Invest NI we aim to scale up our workforce and manufacturing capabilities to secure work within these valuable supply chains," he added.
"Our investment activities in the coming months will involve upgrading our manufacturing area, investing in our IT systems and new machinery as well as implementing a robust business development and marketing strategy to target new customers."


A plot to murder a woman's love rival was recorded in the diary of one of the accused, a court has heard.

Sarah Williams, 35, told Preston Crown Court, she did not know why her friend Katrina Walsh, 56, wrote about a plot to murder Sadie Hartley, 60.
Ms Hartley was paralysed with a stun gun and stabbed 40 times in Helmshore, Lancashire on 14 January.
Both Ms Williams and Ms Walsh deny murdering the mother-of-two.
The crown alleges Ms Williams' obsessive desire for Ms Hartley's partner Ian Johnston, 57, led her to incapacitate Ms Hartley with a 500,000-volt stun gun before murdering her.
It is alleged she put a tracking device on Mr Johnston's car in the weeks prior to the murder and discovered that the couple were living together in Helmshore.
But Ms Williams told the court it was Ms Walsh's idea to buy the stun gun and the tracker.
Gordon Cole QC, took his client Ms Williams through entries recorded in diaries that were recovered at Ms Walsh's workplace.
In September 2014, Ms Walsh wrote: "Sarah came round so got caught up in endless murder plots for Ian's other half."
Mr Cole asked Ms Williams: "Were there any murder plots discussed between you and Katrina Walsh?"
She replied: "No, not at any time in any way."
Another diary entry read: "We're also seriously talking of getting rid of her opponent. I agree is probably a good play... she does seem to be a totally evil bitch."
Ms Williams told the court: "I couldn't account for what she wrote and why."
The jury heard the stun gun and tracker were bought when the women visited Germany in December.
Ms Williams, who said the pair had planned to visit a Celtic museum and Christmas markets, said when she asked Ms Walsh why she bought the stun gun she was told it was for "self-defence".
She said she thought Ms Walsh bought the tracker because of her "excessive and obsessive" interest in the Channel 4 programme Hunted, where people try to avoid former police officers and intelligence officers for 28 days.
Ms Williams added she thought the tracker was for one of Ms Walsh's "hare-brained" business schemes.
The case continues.


Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones.

The 46-year-old, who rose to become director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron, was found guilty at the Old Bailey last week.
He was one of four ex-journalists at the tabloid to be sentenced, along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
Five defendants - including former News International chief Rebekah Brooks - were cleared of all charges last week.
The sentences, all for conspiracy to unlawfully intercept communications, were:
Mulcaire - who faced four counts - and Weatherup also received 200 hours of community service.
Reacting to the sentences, one hacking victim, whose son died in the 7/7 bombings, said his life had been invaded at his "deepest and darkest point".
Coulson was being taken to Belmarsh Prison in south-east London when he left the Old Bailey, the BBC understands.
Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed it was considering whether to charge eight people in connection with a second investigation into phone hacking.
The Metropolitan Police has passed a file to the CPS under Operation Pinetree, which focuses on the News of the World's features department.
This is separate to the recent hacking trial, which centred on the now-defunct tabloid's news desk.
Asked about the jailing of his former communications chief, the prime minister, who has apologised for hiring him, said: "What it says is that it's right that justice should be done and that no one is above the law - as I've always said."
Downing Street said Mr Cameron had not spoken to Coulson since the guilty verdict.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the verdict called the prime minister's judgment into question.
The News of the World was closed by its parent company, News International, in July 2011 after the 2002 hacking of Milly Dowler's voicemails emerged.
Coulson had denied the charges against him but was found guilty of plotting to intercept voicemails between 2000 and 2006.
His lawyer had argued his client did not know the hacking on his watch was illegal, but the judge, Mr Justice Saunders, said "ignorance of the law" provided no mitigation.
"The evidence is clear that there was a very great deal of phone hacking while Andy Coulson was editor," the judge said.
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The presence of the security guards, three of them, was the first sign that Andy Coulson's freedom was about to be curtailed.
The guards sat in the glass-panelled dock with the defendants, while in front of them were rows of bewigged barristers.
Coulson was next to Mulcaire. The man who hacked for him. The man who the former editor, on oath, insisted he'd not known about until the private investigator's first arrest in 2006. Both stared straight ahead.
And then the judge, Mr Justice Saunders, arrived to deliver the latest chapter in the downfall of Andrew Edward Coulson.
The spin doctor, who once advised a British prime minister on image and presentation, displayed no reaction when sentence was passed, other than to swallow hard and glance at the public gallery.
The tabloid editor who hacked, and who escaped justice once to work in Downing Street, has got his comeuppance.
Sentencing the five men, Mr Justice Saunders said hacking had picked up "intensely personal" messages, causing "serious distress to the subjects".
He referred to the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's  phone, saying the News of the World's delay in telling police about voicemails had been "unforgiveable".
Those working on the paper, the judge said, "were using their resources to try to find Milly Dowler".
He added: "The fact that they delayed telling the police of the contents of the voicemail demonstrates that their true motivation was not to act in the best interests of the child but to get credit for finding her and thereby sell the maximum number of newspapers."
The judge said he was in no doubt Coulson had been under "considerable pressure" in the job of editor, and that he "clearly thought it was necessary" to use hacking to maintain the paper's competitive edge.
Coulson had to take the "major share of the blame for the phone hacking at the News of the World", he told the court.
Between 2003 and 2006, the right to privacy "counted for little" at the paper, according to the judge.
Coulson, Miskiw, Thurlbeck and Weatherup were "distinguished journalists" who had no need to resort to hacking to be successful, but their careers are now "irreparably damaged", he said.
Coulson had faced a maximum two-year sentence, but the judge reduced it by six months for good character and because of the time taken in bringing the case to court.
Under sentencing rules, he can expect to be released on licence after nine months. Should he reoffend, he would be recalled to prison.
Handing Mulcaire a suspended sentence, the judge said he had been "truly the lucky one", because his previous jail term had been "too short" due to a flawed police investigation.
A spokesman for pressure group Hacked Off, which campaigns for press reform, said the sentences were the "inevitable outcome of a colossal failure of corporate governance within News International that allowed a culture of criminal behaviour to fester for many years."
Mr Miliband said: "I think, once again, it throws up very serious questions about David Cameron's judgement in bringing a criminal into the heart of Downing Street despite repeated warnings."
Journalist Jane Moore, a friend of Coulson who spoke to him ahead of sentencing, said he had told her he would "try to find some positives" out of what was happening, and to "come out of it the other side a stronger person".
But Graham Foulkes, who was hacked after his son was killed in the 7/7 bombings, said he wanted a longer sentence.
"We still can't understand why anyone would think that cheap headlines or a good way to get a story would be to invade somebody's life at the deepest and darkest point of their life," he said.
Meanwhile, Mrs Brooks's solicitor confirmed to the BBC that she would be applying to recover her legal costs following her acquittal on all charges.
Along with Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor, Coulson faces a retrial on charges of conspiracy to misconduct in public office after the jury failed to reach a verdict.
The pair are accused of buying royal telephone directories from police officers.


Spotify says it has fixed a problem in its software that let rogue adverts automatically open virus-infected websites on a victim's device.

The so-called malvertising affected Spotify's subscription-free service on Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
People reported that virus-infected pop-up websites were appearing while they listened to music.
Spotify said in a statement: "We have now identified the source of the problem and have shut it down."
It said "questionable website pop-ups" had affected a "small number of users".
Cybersecurity experts have warned that malvertising is on the rise, because the scale of popular advertising networks can be misused to push malicious content to a wide audience.
"Malvertising can slip onto any platform or website that displays ads delivered by advertising networks," said Jan Zika of antivirus firm Avast.
"While malvertising is usually hosted on sites that provide illegal content such as movie downloads, it does occasionally make its way on to more mainstream platforms, such as Spotify.
"Users should install antivirus software that will catch malvertising before it can do any harm."
It is not the first time Spotify has inadvertently distributed malware-infected content through its advertising network. A similar issue affected the software in 2011.
Other prominent companies have also been targeted.
"We've seen an increase in malvertising of this kind," said Rahul Kashyap of the computer security company Bromium.
"Malware via ads provides great return of interest for the attackers and are difficult to be reliably blocked at the ad launch."
The company said it had found that more than a quarter of the world's 1,000 most visited websites had delivered malware through malicious advertisements in 2015.
Spotify said it would "continue to monitor" advertisements in its software.


Police in Moscow have arrested an unlicensed taxi driver for robbing passengers after drugging them with spiked oranges and alcoholic drinks.

The driver, 51, is accused of knocking his passengers out with a sleeping drug, then driving to a cemetery where he would rob and abandon them.
Two victims subsequently died, Russia's interior ministry said.
Gold jewellery, mink fur coats, laptops, mobile phones and bank cards were recovered from the suspect's flat.
Police video shows the suspect being arrested and interrogated on a snowy road by armed police.
The driver, who is originally from Rostov region in southern Russia, is suspected of involvement in eight robberies in the Moscow region, to a total value of 700,000 roubles (Â£8,600; $10,800), the ministry said on its website (in Russian).
Passengers who got into his vehicle would allegedly be offered a mandarin or a drink that had been spiked beforehand.
Unconscious, they would then allegedly be abandoned in a cemetery at Obukhovo, near the town of Noginsk, to the east of the capital.
The suspect remains in custody as police continue their investigations, the ministry says.
Unlicensed taxis - cars simply flagged down in the street by customers who then negotiate a price - have been a feature of life in urban Russia since Soviet times despite efforts to regulate the market.


The Bishop of Kensington has called for locals to be closely involved in the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry.

The Right Reverend Graham Tomlin said residents should be at the heart of the investigation, which is believed to have killed at least 80 people.
"If you keep... the people directly affected by it out of the inquiry process, it just takes an awful lot longer to get to the truth," he said.
Dr Tomlin, whose diocese includes the tower, said local trust was important.
His remarks were mirrored in his formal submission to the public consultation, which closed on Friday.
It is believed more than 300 submissions were made before the deadline.
Inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick, a retired Court of Appeal judge, has already faced calls to resign from some residents of the west London tower block.
"It seems to me that the inquiry needs to get to the truth... but it also needs to win the confidence of the local people," Dr Tomlin told the BBC.
If it does not, he said, "whatever recommendations it makes is unlikely to get support."
He said the inquiry needs to not only look at the technical causes of the fire on the night in question, but also the issues faced by the community in the run-up to the tragedy.
"I want to see local people at the heart of the inquiry, not just on the outside," he said.
Residents' group Justice 4 Grenfell also made several submissions to the consultation process, including calling for investigation of the local council and a number of  government departments.
The fire in the 24-storey block started in a fridge freezer and destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and surrounding areas.
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A student has been found guilty of murdering a 24-year-old man stabbed in Essex.

Hassan Mohammed, from Camberwell in south London, was stabbed twice in an attack in Southend on 7 July last year.
Tajwar Alam, 19, of Seaford Road in Tottenham, north London, denied murder but was convicted by a majority verdict at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Mr Mohammed died at Southend Hospital the day after he was stabbed. Alam will be sentenced on 19 June.
Det Ch Insp Simon Werrett said: "This was an incident that resulted in the needless death of a young man.
"The defendant, who has never shown any remorse, will have plenty of time to reflect on his actions in prison.
"This is now an opportunity for Hassan's family to try and move on with their lives."
Mr Mohammed's family said: "Not only was Hassan a loving partner, son, brother, grandson, nephew and uncle, he was a friend to so many people in the community.
"Nothing has been the same since he died. So many hearts have been broken and we as a family still grieve for his loss.
"The neighbourhood also remains in shock at his passing.
"It has been very difficult for us to attend court every day to listen to the distressing details of what happened to him.
"All we have wanted is for justice to be served on behalf of Hassan."
Five other men who were charged in connection with Mr Mohammed's murder were acquitted and formally dismissed during the trial. They will face no further action.


Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn fears some of his supporters may have been "unfairly" barred from voting in the party's leadership election.

He has handed a list of names to party officials, saying he wants a "fair and open" contest, with all those eligible to take part able to do so.
Allies of Mr Corbyn have claimed there is a "rigged purge" of his supporters after a union leader was excluded.
Labour said it had a "robust" validation process in place.
The Labour Party has, meanwhile, announced it has signed up a security firm to cover its annual conference in Liverpool next month, ending fears the event would have to be cancelled.
The row over voting rights comes after Bakers' union leader Ronnie Draper was barred from voting in the leadership election or attending future meetings, including next month's party conference.
Mr Draper - who represents 20,000 members of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union and who is backing Mr Corbyn in his fight for re-election against Owen Smith  - claims his suspension was politically motivated.
He said all he had been told about the disciplinary action against him was it was related to an "unidentified tweet" he posted.
"I have not been given the opportunity to refute any allegations, or a date for any hearing," he said.
"I believe this flies in the face of natural justice. I intend to challenge my suspension robustly and am currently taking legal advice."
The most senior official in the Labour Party, general secretary Ian McNicol, has insisted the decision to suspend Mr Draper had been taken by elected members of the party's ruling body, the NEC, not by unelected party officials as claimed by Corbyn supporters.
But Mr Corbyn has urged the NEC, of which he is a member, to reconsider the move.
"I am very concerned that some people seem to have been unfairly removed from the ability to vote in this election," he said during a trip to Edinburgh.
"A number of people have contacted me as a result of that and we have sent in the names that we are concerned about to the general secretary and asked him to ensure the party checks into this carefully to make sure everyone who is eligible to vote is able to vote in this election.
"We want a fair and open election."
Labour says a "robust validation process" of the almost 650,000 people eligible to vote in the contest will continue until polls close on 21 September.
This includes "verifying all voters share the aims and values of the Labour Party".
In a statement the party said: "The Labour Party has a robust validation process for all votes to ensure every vote cast is eligible in keeping with the Labour Party rules.
"Decisions about individual members are taken by the NEC."
But shadow chancellor John McDonnell, a staunch ally of Mr Corbyn's, said Mr Draper's suspension appeared to be "part of a clear pattern of double standards" and must be properly justified.
He asked why action had not been taken against Labour peer Lord Sainsbury, who gave the Lib Dems more than £2m during the EU referendum campaign, or donor Michael Foster over an article referring to "Jeremy Corbyn and his Nazi storm troopers".
"Both will, as things stand, be able to vote in this election," Mr McDonnell said.
"Meanwhile, thousands of other members and registered supporters are reported to have been denied a vote without being given an explanation or opportunity to challenge the decision or process.
"Labour party members will not accept what appears to be a rigged purge of Jeremy Corbyn supporters. The conduct of this election must be fair and even-handed."


After months of sotto voce claims that some businesses were simply too scared to put their head above the independence parapet, tonight comes the most significant move by anti-independence members of the UK business community ahead of the September vote.

A letter signed by 133 businesses with interests around the globe claims that the uncertainty of a Yes vote is "bad for business".
The signatories come from across the spectrum - banking, mining, engineering, food, whisky, technology and a smattering of SMEs. Some have aired anti-independence opinions before. Many are new.
The letter is signed by - among others - Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC; Andrew Mackenzie, the chief executive of the mining giant, BHP Billiton; and Sir John Grant, executive vice president of policy at the energy company, BG Group (and formerly the UK government's representative in Brussels).
Audrey Baxter, executive chairman of Baxters Food Group; Simon Thomson, the chief executive of Cairn Energy; and Ian Curle, the chief executive of Edrington, which owns the whisky brands The Macallan and The Famous Grouse, also lend their support.
It will be published in Wednesday's Scotsman newspaper.
The letter was organised by Keith Cochrane, the chief executive of the engineering firm, Weir Group, who has already warned of "substantial risks" if Scotland votes for independence. Its backers say that no political organisations have been involved in putting together the list.
One source said that it grew out of a "frustration" about what is perceived as a lack of cohesiveness about the business and independence debate.
The signatories account for around 50,000 jobs in Scotland, I have been told, from the large such as Babcock ship building to small engineering firms in Glasgow's east end.
Supporters of an independent Scotland can point to their own phalanx of supporters from business and economics, of course.
The former chairman of The Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir George Mathewson, has said that Scotland's vital financial services sector - for example - would flourish if Scotland votes yes.
"There is nothing to suggest that being part of a smaller country hinders a financial services industry. Switzerland, for example, has - in Geneva and Zurich - not one, but two of the world's Top 10 financial centres. Singapore, with 5 million people, is ranked 4th," he has said.
"Investment is an increasingly global business, where success depends much more on people than on borders."
The economist and former head of Scottish Enterprise, Sir Donald MacKay, has argued that an independent Scotland would be in better fiscal shape than the UK is at present.
"An independent Scotland should use that financial advantage to invest in re-engineering our economy towards industrial, manufacturing and trade-able services development," he has argued.
Jim McColl, one of the Scotland's richest men and head of the engineering investment business, Clyde Blowers Capital, has revealed that he's so enthusiastic about independence he would consider moving back to Scotland in the event of a Yes vote. For the moment, at least, Mr McColl lives in Monaco.
Willie Walsh, the chief executive of IAG, owner of British Airways, also says that independence could well be good for Scotland.
I wouldn't be surprised if some more names are revealed this week.
Both sides of the debate have made the obvious point that it is up to the voters to decide.
With this letter voters will certainly have a clearer understanding of the issues that are worrying those businesses concerned about a possible yes vote.
Those coalesce around five key subjects - the currency, an independent Scotland's relationship with the European Union, the tax and regulation changes that may be brought in post-independence, pensions and how exports may be affected (an issue linked to the EU debate).
The letter says that "much is at stake": "Our economic ties inside the United Kingdom are very close and support more than a million Scottish jobs.
"As job creators we have looked carefully at the arguments made by both sides of the debate.
"Our conclusion is that the business case for independence has not been made."
I am told that this is not the start of a new campaign by businesses against independence - but is a one off.
It does, though, come ahead of a CBI dinner in Glasgow on Thursday evening at which Sir Mike Rake, the president of the CBI and chairman of BT Group, is likely to make similar arguments against independence.
Business for Scotland countered tonight, putting out this statement: "Business for Scotland has 2,500 members who run businesses in Scotland, employ people across the country in a range of industries, and all believe that Scottish independence is in the best interests of Scotland and Scottish business.
"It's a position reached after looking at the facts and figures and realising that, from a simple balance sheet point of view as well as other considerations, our best interests lie in becoming an independent country."
It will be for the Scottish voters to decide how much weight they give either side in this debate.


Moors Murderer Ian Brady has been taken to hospital after having a seizure.

Brady was due to attend a mental health tribunal on Monday regarding his application to be transferred to a Scottish prison and be allowed to die.
He is currently in Fazakerley Hospital, Merseyside, where he will remain for at least 24 hours and will undergo tests after his seizure on Monday.
Brady, 74, jailed in 1966 for murdering three children, has been detained at Ashworth Hospital, Maghull, since 1985.
Jackie Powell, Ian Brady's mental health advocate, told the BBC it was "too early" to say whether Brady's mental health tribunal would go ahead as planned on Monday.
The BBC has also learned of a letter written by Brady in the last few days in which he complained that the public and press would only be able to view the mental health review tribunal via videolink rather than in person, a situation he described as a "parody" of a public tribunal.
He gave no indication of any health problems in the letter which might have explained his admission to hospital for medical treatment.
Brady has been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 in an attempt to kill himself.
The murderer is sectioned under the Mental Health Act, so he is not allowed to take his own life.
He has been held at Ashworth Hospital, a secure psychiatric institution, since 1985 and has been tube fed since refusing food 12 years ago.
In a statement, Ashworth hospital said Brady had been admitted to a general hospital after becoming "acutely physically unwell" on the ward.
In a statement, it said Brady had undergone a series of tests "and as a precaution he will be kept in".
It said he is in a single room and will be accompanied in that room at all times by two nurses from Ashworth Hospital, with two other members of its staff on duty outside his room throughout his stay.
Seizures, which can start at any age and may be a one-off event, result from abnormalities in the brain, but there are many different types and causes.
They may be a sign of underlying health problems like epilepsy or a brain tumour, although some remain unexplained.
Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley lured children and teenagers to their deaths, torturing them before burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester.
Pauline Reade, 16, disappeared on her way to a dance on 12 July 1963 and John Kilbride, 12, was snatched four months later.
Keith Bennett was abducted on 16 June 1964 after he left home to visit his grandmother.
Lesley Ann Downey, 10, was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964 while Edward Evans, 17, was killed in October 1965.
After details of Brady's seizure emerged, Alan West - Lesley Ann's stepfather - told ITV Granada Reports: "I only wished in one way that he would end up the same way as Hindley did.
"Don't come out of the hospital. The only way out is in a box. I'll be happy."
Brady was jailed for life at Chester Assizes in 1966 for the murders of John, Lesley Ann and Edward, while Hindley was jailed for life for killing Lesley Ann and Edward and shielding Brady after John's murder.
In 1987 the pair finally admitted killing Keith and Pauline.
Both were taken back to Saddleworth Moor in 1987 to help police find the remains of the missing victims but only Pauline's body was found.
Hindley died in jail in November 2002, aged 60.


More than 20 people were killed when a packed lorry being used for a school trip in the east African state of Burundi overturned, officials say.

Some 130 secondary school students were in the lorry when it crashed on Sunday night as it travelled from Gitega city southwards to Rutana province.
A local mayor told AFP news agency 13 students had died on the spot, along with adults accompanying them.
The final death toll could be as high as 27, she added.
Injured survivors were evacuated to hospitals nearby.
The mayor of Musongati district told the BBC Great Lakes service that 15 members of a school choir had died on the way back from a visit to another school.
She said the students would be buried together because they died while they were on a "gospel mission".
The cause of the accident is not yet known.


A wall that collapsed on an Edinburgh school pupil and killed her was not with hindsight fit for purpose, a court has heard.

Fiscal depute Gary Aitken made the comments during his closing submission in the fatal accident inquiry into the death of 12-year-old Keane Wallis-Bennett.
The first year pupil died at Liberton High School on 1 April 2014.
A free-standing modesty wall in the PE changing room crushed her.
Mr Aitken told Edinburgh Sheriff Court the inquiry had heard evidence the wall, said to have been built in the 1950s, was cracked before the incident, and it had fallen as a result of having "lateral force" applied to it which pushed it beyond its "tipping point".


Darren McGregor has not given up hope of a Scotland call-up but believes Hibernian team-mate Paul Hanlon has a stronger case.

The two central defenders have helped Hibs win the Scottish Championship and reach the Scottish Cup semi-final.
"For me, Paul Hanlon deserves a call-up before me," McGregor told BBC Scotland.
"But, if you ask me personally, I feel that I could contribute, I could definitely play. I think I could equip myself quite well."
Scotland head coach Gordon Strachan has acknowledged that central defence is a problem area, with the likes of Newcastle United's Grant Hanley earning caps while out of favour with their clubs.
But 31-year-old McGregor, who joined Hibs from Rangers in 2015, admits that age and time spent in the Championship has not aided his own and Hanlon's cause.
"Obviously, as a manager, you build towards important European Championships and World Cups and you are not going to get that from me," he said.
"I'm probably going to be on the way out when they come.
"The guys who are not playing for their clubs are maybe playing at a better standard.
"No disrespect to the Scottish Championship, but they are maybe playing in the English Premier League, or they have done and are playing in the Championship in England, which, lets not beat about the bush, they are worlds apart.
"If I can keep the consistency levels that I've attained in the Championship and take them into the Premiership then there might be a little carrot at the end of it for me."
Hibs head coach Neil Lennon has claimed that his side are the second best in Scotland, despite losing Saturday's cup semi-final to Aberdeen.
"I know where the gaffer's coming from," said McGregor. "If you look at our squad, there are players there that could play for most teams outside of Celtic - Celtic are a level above.
"It is for us to go up and prove our worth."
McGregor points out that Hearts and Rangers have gone on to establish themselves in the top six immediately after promotion but thinks Hibs will need to add to their squad.
"Maybe third or fourth would be our ambitions, because we are a big club, and to attain that level you would need to go out and get players," he said.
McGregor welcomed the agreement made to sign to sign Danny Swanson this summer as he believes that St Johnstone's attacking midfielder will add a goal threat.
The former St Mirren defender admits he suffered a difficult semi-final - playing his part in a catalogue of mistakes that led to Aberdeen's early opener and deflecting in the Dons' winner.
Lennon lambasted his side for their performance - and particularly their poor start.
"If you know the gaffer, he wears his heart on his sleeve and he's very opinionated," McGregor added in response. "He's the manager, so we stick by him.
"We know that, when we're playing well, we'll get the plaudits. We know that, when we're not playing well, he'll come after you with both barrels. That's just the way he is.
"It was very disappointing because these are the spectacle games you want to play well in.
"I've been quite consistent all season and it was just a shame that, in the most important game, it's tarnished by a mistake and a deflection.
"I've beat myself up about that probably more than anybody. This is the first time I've been out since Saturday."


Pupils aged seven to 14 have begun sitting new reading and numeracy tests in schools across Wales as part of efforts to drive up standards.

Education Minister Leighton Andrews says the exams will provide a national picture of how pupils are performing.
He says it will mean teachers can help those falling behind earlier.
Last year, Wales lagged behind England, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
Mr Andrews says the exams, taking place over the next fortnight, will make it easier for teachers to identify pupils' individual strengths and weaknesses.
The reading test will include a statutory "core" test and optional test material, and the numeracy test is split into two parts.
The first numeracy exam, being sat this year, is a series of questions to assess basic numeracy skills such as addition, multiplication and division.
The second test of numeracy, which will be introduced next May, will assess pupils ability to solve problems involving numbers they are likely to face in everyday life.
Mr Andrews said: "We know from the international PISA assessment in 2010 and from reports by [school inspection body] Estyn that literacy and numeracy standards in Welsh schools need to improve.
"Up until now, schools have used their own tests to assess how learners are progressing but, because schools have used different tests, there is no clear, national picture of how learners are really performing.
"We are now moving to a system of testing that is clear, consistent and rigorous and will help teachers to identify learners' individual strengths and weaknesses and intervene earlier if they feel a learner is falling behind."
Mr Andrews said the Welsh government was providing  Â£700,000 for schools for the extra costs of conducting the exams.
The Welsh government stopped standard assessment tests in schools 2004.


Shares in outsourcing group Mitie have sunk by a quarter after it cut its profit outlook amid uncertainty over the UK's decision to leave the EU and other "economic pressures".

Mitie said its profits would be "materially below" its expectations as a result of challenges it faced.
These included lower UK growth rates, changes to labour laws and public sector spending cuts.
It also said "uncertainty both pre and post the EU referendum" was to blame.
Mitie is one the UK's largest outsourcing groups, offering facilities management services to clients such as the NHS, London City Airport and Linkedin.
Its profit before tax increased by 0.7% to £114.1m in 2015, but in May this year it warned uncertainty around the EU referendum was causing clients to delay or cancel projects .
It also said that the introduction of the National Living Wage in April would add to its costs in 2016.
The company, which is led by chief executive Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, said it was taking "strong action" to counter the impact of these pressures including making cost savings across the group.
It also said a stronger forecast second half would lead to a slight growth in sales at the end of the year.
However, operating profits are expected to be significantly below expectations. According to Reuters, analysts Liberum have cut their full-year earnings per share guidance by 8%, warning that Mitie's management is preparing for a 10-20% fall in core earnings.
The news could also negatively impact rival outsourcing groups Carillion and Interserve, Liberum said.
In early afternoon trading, Mitie shares were down more than 2% to 298.9p.
The city exacts a heavy price from companies whose profits don't live up to expectations. Even by the city's harsh standards, today's plunge was spectacular.
The value of Mitie fell by a quarter because the reasons it gave were not flash-in-the-pan problems, but significant economic pressures which highlight trends of interest to a wider group than the outsourcing company's shareholders.
Mitie said profits will be hit by a triple whammy of a higher minimum wage, declining local authority budgets and Brexit concerns.
The national living wage saw minimum rates of pay rise from £6.50 to £7.20 an hour in April. Previously, the company said this would have minimal impact on its profits, so today marked a change of tune.
Back in May the company warned that many big customers were holding budgets back ahead of the 23 June referendum. Today, Mitie said that the continuing uncertainty surrounding the kind of Brexit the UK negotiates meant that still held true.
Mitie also provides social care and housing maintenance services to local councils, and the company said it was feeling the effects of cuts to their budgets.
Mitie is in many ways a microcosm of some of the big issues facing UK businesses - and as the city reminded it today, not in a good way.


Global food markets could be disrupted by the El Nino event predicted for later this year.

A strong El Nino is likely to increase prices of staple foods such as rice, coffee, sugar and cocoa, say scientists.
Forecasters agree that the El Nino effect, which can drive droughts and flooding, is under way in the tropical Pacific.
But they say it is too early to say how severe it will be.
Reduced rainfall could be felt in India and West Africa as early as June, say scientists.
The consequences of El Nino are much less clear for Europe and the UK,  although they can lead to British winters that are dry with heavy snowfall.
"It's likely there will be at least a moderate El Nino this year," said Prof Adam Scaife of the Met Office.
"I think there is very good agreement across the different [forecasting] centres that this is coming."
He said there was a 70% chance of a "moderate" El Nino event towards the end of this year that is likely to lead to droughts and crop failures.
Although it is too early to say how strong the event will be and whether it will persist throughout the year, a strong El Nino has the potential to "disrupt global food markets", said Dr Nick Klingaman of the University of Reading.
He said coffee plantations in Brazil "already on the brink of failure" could be jeopardised, while reduced rainfall in Australia could affect banana and sugarcane crops as well as cattle herds.
A moderately strong El Nino in 2002 was linked with a drier monsoon than normal in India, ruining crops such as groundnut and rice.
"Most El Ninos historically have had a global impact on food prices," he said.
"We tend to see an increase in price of 5 to 10% on average for things like coffee, soybeans and cocoa."
The El Nino five years ago was linked with poor monsoons in Southeast Asia, droughts in southern Australia, the Philippines and Ecuador, blizzards in the US, heatwaves in Brazil and extreme flooding in Mexico.
Prof Eric Guilyardi of the University of Reading said current models point to an event on a similar scale to that of 2009/10, but perhaps as strong as in 1997/98, which was particularly extreme.
However, he cautioned that "every El Nino is different, so its impacts are different".
The warming of parts of the ocean is also likely to have a knock-on effect for global temperatures.
"Global temperatures are very high and this is partly attributable to the El Nino evolving now," said Prof Scaife.
The El Nino is a warming of the Pacific Ocean as part of a complex cycle linking atmosphere and ocean.
An El Nino comes along about every two to seven years as part of a natural cycle.
Research suggests that extreme El Nino events will become more likely as global temperatures rise.
Models suggest that climate change could double the number of extreme El Ninos after 2050.
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A Sussex Police officer has appeared in court accused of threatening a prostitute and performing sexual acts while in uniform.

PC Luke Smith, 33, who is based at Hastings, was arrested in March after claims made against him by a member of the public.
He is charged with misconduct in public office and obtaining personal data.
He was remanded on unconditional bail by Brighton magistrates to appear at Lewes Crown Court on 10 December.
Mr Smith is accused of obtaining and disclosing personal information without the permission of the data controller.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between January 2011 and March 2015.
Sussex Police said he had been suspended from duty pending the outcome of the case.


Long known for its pyramids and ancient civilisation, Egypt is the largest Arab country and has played a central role in Middle Eastern politics in modern times.

In the 1950s President Gamal Abdul Nasser pioneered Arab nationalism and the non-aligned movement, while his successor Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel and turned back to the West.
The protests that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 raised the hopes of those seeking democratic reform and an end to decades of repressive rule.
But it was the Islamists who initially benefited, before they were themselves swept away by the military and secularist protesters, prompting speculation about a return to authoritarianism.
Egypt's ancient past and the fact that it was one of the first Middle Eastern countries to open up to the West following Napoleon's invasion have given it a claim to be the intellectual and cultural leader in the region. The head of Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque is one of the highest authorities in Sunni Islam.
But the historic step by President Anwar Sadat to make peace with Israel in the 1979 Camp David agreement led to Egypt being expelled from the Arab League until 1989, and in 1981 Mr Sadat was assassinated by Islamic extremists angry at his moves to clamp down on their activities.
President Hosni Mubarak took a more conciliatory approach, but Islamic groups continued their campaigns sporadically. They have been responsible for deadly attacks that often targeted tourists and resort areas, and began to harass Egypt's Coptic Christian community.
While providing stability and a measure of economic progress, Mr Mubarak's rule was repressive. An emergency law in force nearly continuously since 1967 muzzled political dissent, and the security forces became renowned for brutality. Corruption was widespread.
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Encouraged by the protests that overthrew the long-term leader of Tunisia, mounting popular anger burst to the surface in huge anti-government demonstrations in January 2011 that eventually ended President Mubarak's long rule.
The protesters' hoped-for transition democracy proved elusive, however, as post-revolutionary politics became polarised between the newly ascendant Islamists on the one hand and the military as well as liberal and secular forces on the other. A growing Islamist militant insurgency has also shaken Egypt's stability.
Following a year of interim military rule, the first presidential elections in half a century were won by Islamist Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi in 2012.
But a year on, growing dismay at the government's actions among many Egyptians - primarily secularists, liberals and Coptic Christians -  boiled over in another wave of protests. Siding with the demonstrators, the military ousted Mr Morsi and violently suppressed the protest sit-ins held by the Brotherhood in response.
The new authorities outlawed the Brotherhood, started drafting a new constitution and curbed media freedom. The army chief, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, won the presidency in May 2014 elections. His rise has left some fearing an effective  return to military rule, while others are more apprehensive of a campaign of violence by the jihadist Ansar Beit al-Maqdis in Sinai.
Egypt's teeming cities - and almost all agricultural activity - are concentrated along the banks of the Nile, and on the river's delta. Deserts occupy most of the country.
The economy depends heavily on agriculture, tourism and cash remittances from Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.
However, rapid population growth and the limited amount of arable land are straining the country's resources and economy, and continuing political turmoil has paralysed government efforts to address the problems.


Newport RFC and Newport Gwent Dragons have moved to reassure Newport County they have a future at Rodney Parade.

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The Dragons are subject to a takeover bid from the WRU who have said they see Rodney Parade 'as a rugby venue.'
The League Two club has a lease to use the ground - and have first call on the venue if they remain in their current division - until 2023.
"The situation you have got with County is they have an agreement," Newport RFC chairman Will Godfrey explained.
In 2013 the Exiles agreed a 10-year lease to use the stadium after gaining promotion to the Football League from the Conference (now the National League).
"I haven't spoken to Newport County. We are the union of [rugby] clubs and we have put several million [pounds] in," WRU chief Martyn Phillips said at the launch of the proposed takeover.
"It is as rugby venue. We will have to talk to Newport County about where that leaves them.
"They have a licence to play there and we are aware about that. We would like to put a 4G pitch in.
"The fact we are putting a few million in means we get to call the shots."
The Football League does not allow teams to play on 4G pitches.
Godfrey says both Newport County and Newport Squash Club, who are also based at Rodney Parade, are protected under their current agreements and says the WRU have been made aware of that fact.
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"The situation you have got with both the County and Newport squash club is they have got agreements," he confirmed.
"The WRU have been fully privy to what has been involved in those agreements.
"Those agreements will continue to stand."
Dragons chief executive Stuart Davies says if the takeover is ratified at a Newport RFC shareholders' meeting on 9 May, he will ensure discussions between the Union and Newport County.
The Exiles are already selling season tickets for next season on the basis of playing at Rodney Parade.
"We will put the two parties together and they will pick up (discussions)," Davies said.
"There has been full transparency in terms of the lease agreements that have been put in place.
"I think the Union now will contact the individual parties and pick up the discussions."


A couple accused of taking their son out of primary school to attend two family weddings have appeared in court.

The parents, from Cleethorpes, each received fines for their son's eight-day absence from a North East Lincolnshire school during term time.
They took him out of school last June to attend the weddings.
At Grimsby Magistrates Court, both denied two charges of their son failing to attend regularly at school.
In court, the pair said they believed their son had an attendance record of more than 90%. But the prosecution said it was at 87%.
The pair are due to stand trial at the same court on 24 March.
In a statement, North East Lincolnshire Council said: "In consultation with the local Magistrates Court and our legal team, we have introduced a 90 per cent threshold.
"It is up to head teachers to decide if an absence from school is authorised or unauthorised."


Welsh Labour is hoping to get more independence from the UK party after a deal was struck to give Scottish Labour more freedom to run its own affairs.

First Minister Carwyn Jones welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's promise to Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, aimed at boosting their chances against the SNP.
Mr Jones said Welsh Labour had developed "our own identity and our own policy platform" in recent years.
"We are now discussing the next steps to cement that progress," he added.
A "statement of intent" signed by Ms Dugdale and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn offered Scottish Labour more say over policy, the selection of candidates, and party membership.
A previous Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, had quit the post in 2014 complaining that the party in Scotland was being treated by UK leaders as a "branch office".
Labour, which held power in Scotland in coalition with the Lib Dems from 1999 until 2007, is aiming to unseat the SNP which won an overall majority in 2011.
Mr Jones said: "I have had good conversations with both Kezia and Jeremy about the need to re-balance our constitutional arrangements to reflect the devolution settlement, and I'm confident we are in a position to make positive changes to the party structure.
"In Welsh Labour we have developed our own identity and our own policy platform over a number of years, and we are now discussing the next steps to cement that progress.
"Under Kezia's leadership Scottish Labour is on the road to recovery, and establishing their own identifiable brand is an important part of that journey."
Ms Dugdale said the deal - which is due to be approved at the 2016 party conference - could mean similar autonomy for Welsh Labour.


Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso has met China's Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli in Beijing, fuelling speculation of a possible meeting between the two countries' leaders.

Relations have been strained since Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe took office.
But it is thought they may meet on the sidelines of a regional economic summit in Beijing in November.
The countries are at odds over an island chain in the East China Sea.
They also differ over Japan's actions in China during the Second World War.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing reports that the brief meeting between the countries' deputies will be taken as a sign that the leaders want to improve relations.
However it is unclear whether the two countries will agree to what would be a politically sensitive meeting, our correspondent says.
Mr Aso met Mr Zhang at a forum of finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) group of countries. Beijing will be hosting a summit of Apec leaders next month.
The disputed, uninhabited islands are known as the Diaoyu islands in China and the Senkaku islands in Japan.
Currently controlled by Japan, the islands are close to important shipping lanes, offer rich fishing grounds and lie near potential oil and gas reserves.
The dispute has become increasingly tense over the past two years.
In November 2013, China announced the creation of a new air defence identification zone, which would require any aircraft in the zone - which covers the islands - to comply with rules laid down by Beijing.
Japan labelled the move a "unilateral escalation" and said it would ignore it.


An appeal against the decision to release full details of West Ham's Olympic Stadium deal is due to be heard in London on Monday.

Stadium bosses, the London Legacy Development Corporation, have spent about £17,000 fighting a ruling that the contract should be made public.
It argues the deal contains commercially sensitive information.
Last month the London Assembly called for the rental agreement to be published in full.
Monday's independent tribunal hearing is open to the public, although it is likely to be several weeks before a decision is announced.
West Ham are in their final season at the Boleyn Ground before moving about three miles to the former Olympic Stadium in east London.
At a meeting earlier this month, the London Assembly heard thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent in an effort to keep full details of the West Ham deal out of the public domain.
Giving evidence to the assembly's budget and performance committee, LLDC board chairman David Edmonds said that:
• The LLDC has spent £4,000 to date on legal fees on its appeal after the Information Commissioner - an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest - ordered the whole deal should be made public.
• These legal costs are expected to rise this month to £17,000. This could be more should the LLDC appeal against the tribunal decision.
• The final bill for transforming the Olympic Stadium might top the previous estimate of £272 million, as the LLDC negotiates the cost of further work.
The commissioner's ruling followed a freedom of information request from a coalition of football supporters.
"We will continue to make the same demands for transparency as we made when we set out on this campaign, because we believe that a fair deal for the taxpayer, is a fair deal for football," it said in a statement.
Stadium bosses are worried that if all the figures are made available, it would place them at a commercial disadvantage, undermine negotiations and reduce returns to the taxpayer.
Other venues in London, such as Wembley and Emirates Stadiums, do not publicise all the details of their arrangements.
"The long-term deals with both West Ham United and UK Athletics alongside the appointment of an operator, incentivised to bring in other events, such as AC/DC this summer, mean the stadium has a viable future requiring no ongoing subsidy and is truly a world-class multi-use arena," said an LLDC spokesperson.
One big unknown from the deal is who benefits, and by how much, from the stadium naming rights. This arrangement is likely to run into tens of millions of pounds.
Other questions the coalition say it wants answered include:
In August, the BBC revealed West Ham will not have to pay for a range of staff including cleaners and turnstile operators when they move in. Heating, lighting and a variety of other costs will also be covered.
The LLDC denies the sums are being funded by the taxpayer, saying use of the stadium - including rental fees - will generate additional revenue.
Background: West Ham 'will fill' Olympic Stadium
West Ham's vice-chairman Karren Brady says she fought for the best deal, but denies this was at the expense of taxpayers.
The Hammers are paying £15m towards the transformation costs of the stadium, and reportedly £2m to £2.5m rent annually as part of a 99-year lease.
West Ham will also have to fork out a different amount each year based on which division the club is playing in, with the cost rising for every position above 11th they finish in the Premier League.
Additional fees will be charged if they win the FA Cup, qualify for the Europa League or Champions League, and should they triumph in those tournaments.


A £25,000 reward has been offered after cash machines at post office branches in Sussex were targeted with gas explosions .

Cash machines were raided in Saltdean and Shoreham and a third was targeted in Hurstpierpoint.
Crimestoppers and Post Office Ltd have offered the reward for information leading to a conviction.
Roger Critchell, director of operations for Crimestoppers, said a large sum of money was stolen.
The exact amount has not been revealed, but "cassettes" containing cash were taken from each machine, he said.
Crimestoppers said all the raids involved explosions and were "gas attacks".
On 3 March at Shoreham gas canisters were carried to the cash machine and following an explosion, a suspect smashed through with a sledgehammer, Crimestoppers said.
The Saltdean branch was targeted on 28 February, and the Hurstpierpoint raid took place on 23 March.


Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says football "has responded the way you want it to" after the attacks in Paris.

The arch at Wembley was illuminated in the colours of France's flag and the whole stadium sang French national anthem La Marseillaise before England's friendly with France on Tuesday.
Wenger attended the game at Wembley, having been in Paris on Friday when 129 people were killed there.
"The football world has a big union and togetherness," said the Frenchman.
"You always think after this kind of event - do you continue to play or do you stop your life?"
The Stade de France, which was hosting France's friendly against Germany, was targeted as part of Friday's attacks
Belgium's friendly with Spain on Tuesday and Germany's match against Netherlands were subsequently called off.
Wenger said the decision to play Tuesday's game at Wembley was right and thanked "the English community" for their show of solidarity.
He said: "It was fantastic for France and it showed the class of England to see the arch of Wembley in French colours.
"Now we must get on with life and respond to the situation in a positive way. You can't stop everything. You have to focus on something else."
Arsenal visit West Brom on Saturday (15:00 GMT), and Wenger said he will check that France international Laurent Koscielny is in the right frame of mind to play.
"You could see he was not himself on Tuesday," said Wenger. "It has affected him deeply. He wasn't the same player.
"I will talk with him to see if he is completely recovered and focused. It is a big game for us. If he is not completely committed or feels ready I will not play him."
Newspaper reports on Thursday suggested Arsenal were set to offer forward Alexis Sanchez, 26, and record signing Mesut Ozil, 27, new contracts.
Sanchez and Ozil are both under contract until 2018, and Wenger believes the club are in no rush to tie them down for longer.
"We have some time. We are not in a hurry," he said.
"We want them to stay."


The clean-up operation is continuing in Wrexham after heavy rain caused flooding.

Communities across Wales were hit by Sunday's deluge and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they received 30 calls.
In Wrexham, homes and streets were hit in Llay, Rossett and Gresford.
Residents in at least four properties on Llay New Road are being rehoused while repairs are carried out.
Brother and sister Peter and Mandy Jones spent Monday surveying the damage at their father's home.
He is being rehoused for the next several months until repair work is completed.
They described the situation as "distressing" saying cars passing through Sunday's floodwater sent waves of water into their father's home on Llay New Road.
Wrexham council said it was assisting tenants at five council houses in Llay and two in Rossett and knew of other private homes affected by the floods.
In Pembrokeshire residents described an "ocean of water" after a river burst its banks near homes in Narberth.
And in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, five people were rescued by boat after their car was submerged in flood water.


Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer says he was lied to about Prince William and Prince Harry wanting to walk behind their mother's coffin.

He said it was a "bizarre and cruel thing" for the princes to do and the funeral procession was "the most horrifying half an hour of my life".
He told Radio 4's Today: "I was lied to and told that they wanted to do it, which of course they didn't."
He spoke as the 20th anniversary of her death approaches on 31 August.
"It was the worst part of the day by a considerable margin, walking behind my sister's body with two boys who were obviously massively grieving their mother.
"It was a sort of bizarre circumstance where we were told you just have to look straight ahead.
"But the feeling, the sort of absolute crashing tidal wave of grief coming at you as you went down this sort of tunnel of deep emotion, it was really harrowing actually and I still have nightmares about it now."
The earl also said there have been four attempted break-ins at the family home where Princess Diana is buried.
He said he had been a "passionate advocate" for William and Harry not to have to walk behind their mother's body and Princess Diana would not have wanted it.
"Then eventually I was lied to and told that they wanted to do it, which of course they didn't, but I didn't realise that."
Prince Harry, who was 12 when his mother died, has previously spoken about walking in the funeral procession, saying no child "should be asked to do that".
Describing the procession, the earl said he could hear people sobbing, wailing and shouting messages of love to Diana and the princes which was a "very tricky time".
"But it was impossible not to connect with the emotion coming from the crowd. It was so powerful. Pulsing through us, I think.
"And it was so bizarre, there was a sort of crunching of our procession, the horses and the carriage and our footsteps, and then the incredible crashing emotion coming in from every side. It was really horrifying."
The earl revealed he wrote the eulogy to his sister in his study, a place loved by Princess Diana, and the speech was about speaking for "my sister who was no longer there".
His promise at the funeral in 1997 that William and Harry would be protected by "blood family" was seen as an attack on the Royal Family.
The earl said he believes Princess Diana would have been proud of his speech, which he re-read to her body a couple days before she was buried.
"I know people will think that I am some sort of fruitcake, but I do remember hearing almost some sort of approval then and then I realised then I probably had got some of the thoughts in order. "
Reflecting on the eulogy, he said: "I don't feel I said many pointed things. I believe that every word I said was true and it was important for me to be honest.
"I wasn't looking to make any jabs at anyone actually, I was trying to celebrate Diana and if by doing that it showed up particularly the press I think in a bad way, well, they had that coming."
The earl's eulogy also touched on Princess Diana's eating disorders and also attacked the paparazzi's impact on her life.
"In her final years Diana was really brought low by elements of the paparazzi and the tabloids," he said.
"I remember she told me about one man that promised to hound her until the day she died, then would urinate on her grave.
"So, she was dealing with a very dark side of the media and, even at her funeral, I think it was appropriate to touch on that."
The earl said he has re-read his speech for the first time in 20 years and believes it was "very balanced".
When asked whether the Queen, who is his godmother, said anything to him about the eulogy, he said a friend had told him she said he had a right to say whatever he felt.
"I am not some rabid republican, but the speech was about Diana, it wasn't really about anyone else," he said.
Princess Diana was buried in the grounds of Althorp estate, her childhood home in Northamptonshire, after the earl changed plans for her to be laid to rest in the family tombs at a local church.
He said it seemed "natural" to bury her at their family home as he "wanted to keep her safe".
The earl added: "There was such a whipped up feeling of emotion everywhere that I was very worried about where we could safely bury her.


MPs are facing an increase in threats and abuse on social media, with Jewish and Muslim women the top target, the deputy Commons Speaker has said.

Lindsay Hoyle said it was damaging democracy and could deter women from certain backgrounds from becoming MPs.
He called on social media companies to take swifter action to remove offensive posts or face legislation.
And he said Parliament had set up a team to monitor online abuse and support those being targeted.
He was giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee, which is investigating hate crime in the wake of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by a constituent in June last year.
Mr Hoyle said more MPs were reporting threats of physical violence against them and their staff in their constituencies - and he would shortly be publishing the results of a survey investigating the problem.
Eric Hepburn, Parliament's director of security, said MPs had been given Home Office advice on how to protect themselves - but Conservative committee member Nusrat Ghani told him it did not reflect the work of a constituency MP.
On social media abuse, Mr Hepburn said: "We certainly work very closely with the social media companies, and we have flagged up to them, and we have advised members as well to flag up to them, content which they consider to be unacceptable and which should be taken down."
Asked by Ms Ghani if social media companies' failure to remove posts quickly enough was undermining the safety of parliamentarians, Mr Hepburn replied: "I think that's a conclusion that I could probably draw, yes."
Mr Hoyle, who chairs Parliament's consultative panel on security, said the situation "undermines democracy" because politicians had to be available to the public and did not want to become "virtual" MPs.
He said that when MPs spoke in emotive debates in the Commons, such as on badger culls or abortion, it often sparked death threats and other threats of violence.
And research suggested women MPs - especially Jewish and Muslim ones - received more threats than men and were particular targets of abuse from both the "far right" and the "extreme left".
Mr Hoyle said Parliament was working with them to help them deal with threats and get them removed.
Parliament also had members of staff dedicated to monitoring the response to controversial and emotionally charged debates on social media.
"General banter is fine. But it's about the level. Robust debate is good, but when that says, 'I'm going to come round and kill you,' that is more serious," said the deputy Speaker.
He said he would like to see an industry-wide code of conduct to prevent abuse, which "ideally" would prevent serious threats being published in the first place.
But at the very least, he added, he wanted social media companies to take down posts more quickly, warning them that they could face legislation if they did not take the problem more seriously.