A petition has been started opposing the sale of artworks by the Scottish Youth Hostel Association (SYHA).

Paintings and Victorian marble statues held at Carbisdale Castle, a former youth hostel near Ardgay, have been valued at a total of ??500,000.
The art is to be sold at an auction in London next month.
Organisers of the petition on the website change.org want the works should remain in the local community.
They said because the castle and its contents were gifted to SYHA, the association should not be selling off the art to make a profit.
More than 700 people have signed the petition so far.
SYHA shut Carbisdale Castle in Sutherland four years ago because of rising repair costs.
A former stately home, it was known as Castle of Spite because of the part it played in a family feud. The property is also said to be haunted by a ghost called Betty.
SYHA said it would invest money raised from the sale of the castle's artworks in its network of youth hostels.
The 17 sculptures and 36 Italian and Scottish 19th Century paintings will be offered for sale at an auction in London on 20 May.
Auctioneers Sotheby's have put a combined value of ??500,000 on the art.
White marble sculptures from the 1800s to be sold include Andromeda by Florentine sculptor Pasquale Romanelli and Nymph at the Stream by Scottish artist David Watson Stevenson.
It will be the first time in more than a century that the Victorian sculptures have been put on the market.


More than 120 waiters have taken part in this year's Waiters' Race in Japan.

25 November 2015 Last updated at 12:29 GMT
The waiters had to balance trays of glasses and bottles filled with water, while running down a 300 metre course.
The waiter who won, Kento Sasamoto, took just 49 seconds to complete the race.
Watch this clip of the waiters racing.


Worcestershire secured top spot in the One-Day Cup North Group and a home semi-final with a win over Derbyshire.

After a rain delay, Shiv Thakor top-scored with 60 as Derbyshire reached 209-8 from their allotted 36 overs.
Set a revised 218 from 36 overs on the Duckworth-Lewis method, Tom Kohler-Cadmore (63) and Daryl Mitchell (67) helped the visitors to a strong start.
Ed Barnard and Ross Whiteley then got them home with 24 balls to spare to secure a sixth win from eight matches.
Derbyshire, who could not qualify for the knockout stages following Sunday's defeat by Leicestershire, were put into bat and reached 34-1 after 10.3 overs before rain struck.
After play resumed at 17:00 BST with the game reduced to 36 overs per side, Barnard (3-37) and captain Joe Leach (2-43) helped Worcestershire take regular wickets to restrict the home side to 5.8 runs per over.
Australia spinner Nathan Lyon took 1-31 on his Worcestershire debut, after arriving as cover for compatriot John Hastings, who is now part of Australia's Champions Trophy squad for the next month.
Openers Kohler-Cadmore and Mitchell then broke the back of the chase with an opening stand of 90, before contributions from Tom Fell (24) and Brett D'Oliveira (18) helped them on their way, despite Hardus Viljoen's taking 3-55 with the ball.
Derbyshire fast bowler Hardus Viljoen told BBC Radio Derby:
"We are a young team. We've shown in patches in this competition that we can play good cricket but we are also still learning.
"You need to strike up front early on but the guy who scored 63 came in and played a knock out of his socks.
"That is going to happen. You can't take any credit away from him. He played well."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"I'm delighted for the players and the staff who put in the work and time to try and get that home semi-final.
"It's going to be a nice pay-day for the club and I'm very proud of what the team have done in finishing top of the group,
"We're a small club and we like to play our young academy players. We don't venture off too much with the non-English players and it's a nice feeling to finish top."


Fast food chain McDonald's has suspended sale of chicken nuggets and some other products in Hong Kong.

It said it had imported chicken and pork from Shanghai Husi Food, the Chinese firm that allegedly supplied out of date meat to fast food firms.
China has suspended operations of Shanghai Husi after local media reports claimed it re-processed expired meat.
McDonald's had removed nuggets from its menus at its Japanese outlets earlier this week over the same issue.
It said on Wednesday that about 20% of its chicken nuggets sold in Japan came from Shanghai Husi.
McDonald's said that nearly 500 stores in Japan had removed chicken nuggets from their menu, adding that sales were expected to resume after it switches to other suppliers in China and Thailand.
McDonald's has also stopped selling its McSpicy chicken filets, chicken and green salads, fresh corn cups and iced lemon tea at its outlets in Hong Kong.
The move came after Hong Kong's food safety regulator suspended all imports from Shanghai Husi Food.
The regulator added that any food products from Husi already imported into Hong Kong would be marked, sealed and banned from sale, pending the results of the ongoing investigation by Chinese authorities.
Meanwhile, the Reuters news agency quoted McDonald's as saying that it had imported certain products from Shanghai Husi between July last year to June this year, but no food items from the Shanghai supplier remained in stock.
"We reiterate that until today, all the food sold at McDonald's restaurants conforms to the food safety standard under Hong Kong legal regulations," the firm said.
Shanghai Husi is the Chinese unit of US-based food supplier OSI Group.
Its other customers in China include Yum Brand owned KFC, coffee chain Starbucks and Burger King.
Japanese convenience store operator, FamilyMart, has also admitted that its "Garlic Nugget" imported from the Shanghai firm was sold at nearly all of its 10,000 outlets across Japan.


Judgement has been reserved in the trial of a south Armagh couple accused of terrorist offences.

Keith McConnan, 21, and Orla O'Hanlon, 20, faced a number of charges, including making a bomb in a bungalow in Forkhill.
Mr McConnan, from Tievecom Road in Forkhill and Ms O'Hanlon, Church Road, Forkhill, denied all the charges.
After listening to final submissions, the judge said she wanted time to consider before giving her judgement.
The trial at Belfast Crown Court heard that police officers acting under the Justice and Security Act searched their home in December 2013.
During the search several items, including an industrial grinder and a complete timer power unit were seized, along with crushed ammonium nitrate fertiliser.
The prosecution alleged the grinder had been used to grind down the ammonium nitrate fertiliser.
The prosecution also made the case that the combination of the items and explosives found in the premises indicated that the occupants of the house - Mr McCannon and Ms O'Hanlon - were "committing acts ... for the preparation of manufacturing explosives and making a bomb".
Closing the prosecution case, the judge was informed that two charges that the couple initially faced - namely making explosives with intent to endanger life, and possessing explosives with intent to endanger life - were no longer being proceeded with.
During the trial, Mr McConnan gave evidence and claimed that he did use a grinder on two occasions but claimed he sabotaged any plans to make explosives as he did not want to be involved in something that could kill.
He also made the case that he was acting under duress from a man he would only name as Mr X.
Ms O'Hanlon, who declined to give evidence, admitted knowing about the presence of the grinder in her home and owning it - but her lawyer argued that there was no evidence to suggest she was present when the ammonium nitrate was ground up.
The barrister said that in the case of his client, the prosecution had "failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt" that Ms O'Hanlon was in possession of any of the "offending articles".
After listening to final submissions from both the prosecution and the defence, the judge said she wanted to reserved her judgement until a later date.


One US support group is criticising Maroon 5's new music video claiming it promotes violence against women.

In the video for Animals, Victoria's Secret supermodel Behati Prinsloo, frontman Adam Levine's wife, is stalked by his character who is a sociopathic butcher.
The singer is seen taking secret photos of her and storing them in a meat fridge.
Smeared in blood, Levine fantasises about having sex with her.
The storyline shows him approaching her in a club edited together with blood-soaked sex scenes.
One US anti-sexual assault group, RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network), has released a statement about what it calls the "dangerous depiction of a stalker's fantasy" in Animals.
"No-one should ever confuse the criminal act of stalking with romance," it reads.
"The trivialisation of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry."
Lyrics to Animals include: "Baby I'm preying on you tonight. Hunt you down eat you alive".
On Friday, a voluntary scheme will see music videos get film-style age ratings in a new pilot to protect children from unsuitable content.
Maroon 5 are yet to respond to the complaints.
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A young boy who can't be touched or hugged by anyone has connected for the first time - with his new doggie pal.

Kainoa has autism, a condition where people see, hear and feel the world differently and can sometimes find it difficult to communicate and form relationships with other people. In Kainoa case he finds being touched uncomfortable and even painful.
His mum brought him to a 4 Paws For Ability centre in Ohio, an organisation who provide service dogs to disabled children and veterans.
Animals are sometimes used by doctors - including here in the UK - to help people come to terms with physical problems and to help them talk about their feelings.
After struggling for years to form any sort of connection with anyone outside of his family, his mum says he's finally managed to find a new friend.


UKIP has said timing and money are the main reasons it is not standing in all 40 Welsh seats at the general election.

The party will field about 32 candidates in June. In Clwyd West, local members chose not to challenge the Brexit Tory minister David Jones.
UKIP AM David Rowlands said: "Any small party would find it difficult to keep funding these elections."
UKIP has no MPs but won 13.6% of the vote in Wales in 2015, third highest behind Labour and the Tories.
"It's simply the timing of it, to be quite honest with you," Mr Rowlands told BBC Wales.
"It's £500 per candidate," he added, referring to the required deposit which is only repaid if a candidate receives at least 5% of the vote.
"You're talking about £20,000 overall, plus obviously the leaflets," which he estimated were around £700 for each candidate.
"You're talking about quite sizeable amounts of money to be raised in a very short period of time," the South Wales East AM said.
While UKIP stood in all 40 Welsh constituencies in 2015 but did not win any seats, at the 2016 Welsh Assembly election it won seven seats due to proportional representation, with 13% of the vote for the regional lists.
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A 19-year-old woman has been threatened by an armed man in her south Belfast home.

The man, who was armed with a knife, entered the bedroom of a flat in Ireton Street on Friday at about 14:45 BST.
He threatened the woman and stole her laptop. Police have said there were two other burglaries in the area on the same day.
A knife was left behind following a burglary at a house on the same street.
On this occasion, a games console and games were taken. A tablet and camera were also stolen from a house in India Street.


A British-Canadian and an Indonesian jailed for sexually abusing children at an exclusive private school in Jakarta have had their convictions overturned.

Teacher Neil Bantleman and his Indonesian colleague Ferdinant Tjiong were jailed for 10 years in April.
Both men had denied the charges, and their supporters said the case was riddled with legal errors.
Their lawyer said on Friday the verdict was thrown out because of a lack of evidence and they would soon be freed.
Hotman Paris Hutapea told reporters in Jakarta the high court had ruled there was "no evidence of sodomy".
The school, now known as the Jakarta Intercultural School, had continued to support the men, and said the ruling was "very good news".
"The lawyers and families are now working through the necessary paperwork to release (them) from prison," headteacher Tim Carr said in a statement quoted by Reuters.
Hopes of a release for Mr Bantleman and Mr Tjiong were raised earlier this week when the South Jakarta District Court threw out an attempt by a parent to sue the school.
The woman had alleged her six-year-old child was abused at the school in a separate case, and was seeking damages of $125m (Â£80m).
But the court said there was no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the school.


Satisfaction with rail services still varies too widely across Britain, the Passenger Focus watchdog has said.

Its poll of 30,000 people found overall happiness on 74% for Northern Rail's Lancashire to Cumbria route, but 98% on Grand Central's London-Bradford trains.
The Bradford service scored 82% in the value for money category, compared with 28% for the Stansted Express.
Industry body the Rail Delivery Group said average satisfaction remained at record highs but it was not complacent.
The National Rail Passenger Survey, published twice a year, was conducted between September and November last year; people were asked for their opinion on the journey they were taking on that day. It found overall satisfaction with rail services was 83%, down from 85% a year before.
"Although generally satisfaction has remained fairly high over the last five years, we want to see a more consistently high level of service for passengers, wherever they may be travelling to and from," said David Sidebottom, acting chief executive of Passenger Focus.
He said a key factor in the survey findings was punctuality, which had barely changed in the last five years.
Overall satisfaction in this category dropped since the previous year from 83% to 79%.
Services rated as having low satisfaction for reliability and punctuality included London Midland's West Coast service with a 60% rating and First Capital Connect's Thameslink loop on 67%.
The highest-rated routes in this category were South West Trains' Island Line on the Isle of Wight and Merseyrail's Wirral route, both on 98%, followed by Virgin's London to Liverpool service on 97%.
Passenger Focus said satisfaction with how train operators handled delays also varied too widely, with its findings revealing that only 23% of people were happy with Northern Rail's South and East Yorkshire route, compared with 69% for East Coast's route from London to Scotland.
Michael Roberts, director general of the Rail Delivery Group industry body, said: "Even though overall passenger satisfaction remains at a near record high, these latest results are a sober reminder that the industry can never be complacent on the issues that matter to passengers.
"All parts of the rail industry are stepping up efforts to reduce delays and improve how we communicate with passengers, particularly during disruption. We will continue to listen to and act on what passengers tell us is important."
Rail Minister Stephen Hammond said he shared passengers' concerns over punctuality.
He added: "We are investing more than Â£38bn to maintain and improve our railways, and the industry must make sure that investment translates into improvements on the ground.
"I also recognise there are areas where satisfaction is low, such as fares. That is why we have reduced the average regulated fare rise."
Anna Walker, from the Office of Rail Regulation, said: "To see satisfaction dip to 83% partly due to declining punctuality and reliability of services is disheartening, and reinforces our decision to bring in tough new punctuality targets for the railways."
The survey was published as the Citizens Advice charity said the number of people seeking advice about trains has trebled, from 14,138 in 2012 to 43,282 last year, with most inquiries being about getting compensation or making a complaint.


Winston Churchill expressed his hopes for a united Ireland in 1946, according to The Irish Times.

The paper's political editor, Stephen Collins, reports that Churchill was speaking to the Irish ambassador to Britain, John W Dulanty.
The comments were made just a year after his criticism of Irish prime minister (Taoiseach) Eamon de Valera.
It concerned Ireland's policy of neutrality during World War Two.
According to the paper, Churchill told Mr Dulanty about his warm feelings for Ireland after the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.
Mr Dulanty laid a wreath in memory to the fallen of the two world wars. It was the last time an Irish ambassador attended the ceremony and laid a wreath until this year, when the current ambassador, Dan Mulhall, resumed the practice.
In a confidential report to the secetary of the department of external affairs, Frederick Boland, after the 1946 event, Mr Dulanty recorded that as he was leaving, he was approached by Churchill, then leader of the opposition, to say he was glad to see him there.
Churchill then went on: "I said a few words in parliament the other day about your country because I still hope for a united Ireland. You must get those fellows in the north in, though; you can't do it by force."
Before saying goodbye and going off to greet the king, Churchill told Mr Dulanty: "There is not, and never was, any bitterness in my heart towards your country."
Five years later, in May 1951, shortly before he began his second term as prime minister, Churchill had a conversation about Ireland with Frederick Boland, who succeeded Mr Dulanty as ambassador in London.
He said he had been thinking of coming over to Ireland to see a horse that he had bought run in the Irish Derby but the horse had died of heart failure.
"I'm sorry. I would have liked to have gone over and I'm sure the people would have given me a good reception - particularly if my horse had won. The Irish are a sporting people," he is reported to have said.
"You know I have had many invitations to visit Ulster but I have refused them all. I don't want to go there at all, I would much rather go to southern Ireland. Maybe I'll buy another horse with an entry in the Irish Derby."
Writing the morning after the reception at the palace, Mr Boland said these were the actual words Churchill had said to him as far as he could remember them.
Some of Churchill's earliest and happiest childhood memories were of the time he spent living in what is now Ã


Firefighters have been working to secure a historic building with links to Robert Burns after a partial wall collapse.

The Category B listed Poosie Nansie's Inn in the East Ayrshire town of Mauchline was a favourite haunt of the ploughman-poet.
Scotland's national poet lived and worked in Mauchline between 1784 and 1788.
The house he shared with Jean Armour is now a museum in nearby Castle Street.
Twenty-five firefighters from Mauchline, Kilmarnock and Cumnock attended Poosie Nansie's shortly after noon on Sunday.
They were supported by a Heavy Rescue Vehicle from Easterhouse and a Major Incident Unit from Clydebank. No-one was injured.
Firefighters were "shoring" up the damaged end of the building to secure it, in order to prevent any further collapse. The area was cordoned off.
Mossgiel Farm in Mauchline was home to Burns when he was ploughman-poet and wrote many of his best loved works.


The actor who played Damien in the film The Omen has been sentenced for a road rage attack.

Harvey Spencer Stephens, 46, lashed out at two cyclists after getting out of his car following a dispute on 21 August last year, a court heard.
He admitted two counts of ABH and causing criminal damage in the attack on Toys Hill, near Westerham, Kent.
Stephens, of High Street, Edenbridge, was handed a suspended prison sentence at Maidstone Crown Court.
Stephens sprang to fame playing the role of devil child Damien Thorn in the Oscar-winning cult horror film alongside stars including Gregory Peck.
The film became one of the highest grossing of 1976, raking in about £50m at the box office.
Stephens later went on to work in the City after finishing school.
In court, prosecutor Kieran Brand described how Stephens started sounding his horn when two riders, Mark Richardson and Alex Manley, were side-by-side on the road as one overtook the other.
Mr Richardson flicked his middle finger at Stephens, who then overtook the pair and pulled over.
Mr Brand said Stephens punched Mr Richardson, knocking him unconscious, prompting Mr Manley to intervene.
Stephens responded by asking Mr Manley: "You want some do you?" before punching him twice, causing him to fall on his back.
Stephens held him down and punched him six or seven times, causing dental injuries and damaging his helmet, Mr Brand said.
Defence counsel Ben Irwin said Stephens, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and accepted he "behaved poorly".
Judge Martin Joy sentenced him to 12 months jail, suspended for two years, for the ABH charges.  He was given two months, suspended for two years, for the criminal damage charge.
He said: "This was undoubtedly a serious case of road-rage and quite clearly it has had an ongoing effect on the victims."


Since his career began, Borussia Dortmund's Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been impressing.

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Though raised in France, the 2016 BBC African Footballer of the Year nominee, 27, was on the books of Italian side AC Milan - for whom he never played - when loaned to French side Dijon.
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And in his first game, a pre-season friendly in 2008, the then 18-year-old wowed his seniors.
"When you play that first friendly of the season you're not yet ready, but without being ready, he was already better and quicker than the others," said Florent Perraud, who was Dijon's goalkeeper at the time.
"On the pitch, we were saying, 'What is this kid? He's an extra-terrestrial who has been given to us'.
"We realised we hadn't just got ourselves a young kid, but a phenomenon."
Ten goals in Aubameyang's maiden professional season followed.
Then began a suitably peripatetic journey for a youngster raised in France, Colombia, Italy and Mexico (as he followed his footballing father Pierre) as loan moves to Lille, Monaco and Saint-Etienne preceded a permanent move to the latter in 2011, whereupon his game started coming together.
From there, a 2013 switch to Borussia Dortmund accelerated his path to becoming one of the planet's best forwards.
In June 2016, he became the first African to be named Bundesliga Player of the Year - an award voted for by fellow professionals.
His form has also earned 'Auba', who is the first Gabonese to become the Confederation of African Football's Player of the Year, a place on the shortlist for the 2016 Ballon d'Or.
He's primarily known for his goals - 11 in nine Bundesliga games this season, including four in a 5-2 win over Hamburg - and 89 from 152 in total for Dortmund.
There's also his pace, which has earned comparison with Usain Bolt over a short distance, and celebrations, with Aubameyang having donned Batman and Spiderman masks after scoring.
"He liked to joke around and make people laugh - a really funny guy and really good company," said Jordan Loties, a former Dijon team-mate.
With his celebratory somersaults, flamboyant clothing and extravagant haircuts, Aubameyang is quite the showman - even if he describes himself as shy.
"I have worked enormously hard to improve," Aubameyang told BBC Sport.
A football-mad youngster, who recreated toy stadiums in his bedroom before representing France at junior level, Aubameyang followed his father by captaining the Gabonese 'Panthers'.
"I chose Gabon to represent Africa and be a successor to Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o," he said. "But to do that, you have to win prizes."
With an array already, will the BBC award be added to his cabinet?


Australia bowled Pakistan out for 163 in Melbourne to win the second Test by an innings and 18 runs on day five.

Mitchell Starc took 4-36 after captain Steve Smith hit 165 as Australia declared their first innings on 624-8.
Australia had 68 overs to force a win. They reduced Pakistan to 91-5 at tea before sealing victory in 53.2 overs to take an unassailable 2-0 series lead.
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq was fined 40% of his match fee and the rest of his team 20% for a slow over rate.
"It finished a lot better than it started," Starc said. "It's fantastic for us to get that result. The belief was there and it was a fantastic way to finish.
"We knew we only had two sessions to get those 10 wickets and together as a bowling unit we've done really well."
The third Test starts in Sydney on 3 January but Misbah has not committed to playing in the match after a poor series so far.
The 42-year-old, who was dismissed for a two-ball duck after managing just 11 in the first innings, only scored nine runs in total in the first test in Brisbane.
"I haven't decided about that [Sydney] but let's see," he said. "[If I'm not contributing] there's no point in hanging around."


An MP has used social media to describe suffering burns to 30% of his body after lighting a bonfire with petrol.

Gordon Henderson, the Conservative MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, posted a picture of his injuries on his Facebook page.
He said he had used a "small amount" of petrol to light a bonfire in an enclosure in his garden.
The MP said he was treated at a specialist burns unit and is now recovering at home in Eastchurch.
Mr Henderson used the post to warn others about the dangers of using petrol to start garden fires.
He said: "My hair caught fire and I was badly burned on my face, back, sides, chest, both arms and right leg.
"In fact, my left leg was the only part of my body to escape relatively unscathed.
"Thankfully there was a hosepipe close by, positioned for just such an eventuality, and my wife Louise had the good sense to immediately douse me with water for 10 minutes.
"If she had not taken such immediate action then I might well be dead, and that is not being over dramatic."
Mr Henderson was taken to a minor injuries unit and later transferred to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead after the accident last month.
He added: "I have posted a photograph showing the outcome of my accident.
"It is not a flattering photograph, but I have posted it because I very much hope it will show, in graphic terms, the affect that one moment of thoughtlessness can have on any one of us."
Mr Henderson concluded his post: "So, to anybody out there who is in the habit of using petrol to start a bonfire, or is tempted to do so in the future, I would urge you to resist such temptation.
"Think of what happened to me and remember that the same thing could happen to you.
"Your skin could end up looking like mine did, or, worse, you could end up DEAD!"


More than a quarter of children referred to mental health services in England in 2015 - including some who had attempted suicide - received no help, a report says.

A review by the Children's Commissioner also found that 13% with life-threatening conditions were not allowed specialist support.
She said the system was "playing Russian roulette" with their health.
NHS England said it was "clearly the case" that services need to expand.
The commissioner obtained data from 48 of England's 60 child and adolescent mental health service trusts, and discovered 28% of child referrals were denied specialist treatment - mostly on the grounds that their illness was not serious enough.
This group included children who had attempted serious self-harm and those with psychosis and anorexia nervosa.
It also found that those who secured treatment faced lengthy delays, with an average waiting time of more than 100 days.
Ellie Fogden, now 19, sought help when she was 16:
I did not become ill immediately at 16.  For a number of years, I felt quite down, so to speak. It was constant worrying, pressure from school, and my own body image.
I got to a point where I had had enough. I am waking up every day and I am not wanting to be here.
I self-referred to a local counselling service and I was on a waiting list for about three months and then started sessions. The counsellor was very worried and she referred me to CAMHs.
It took about three to four weeks to get a session. I was in there for about three hours and I was just bombarded with questions.
I wasn't taken seriously enough. Some of the questions were dismissed as - it is not that bad, people have it worse. There was no compassion.
I didn't go back for another CAMHs appointment. It frightened the living daylights out of me.
As I have grown older, it has just gone into a downward spiral where I am currently worse than I was when I was 16, with depression.
Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had heard from a "constant stream of children, parents and professionals" about their inability to get help when they really need it.
They go to their GP who refers them to specialists, but the specialists then say their conditions are not serious enough, she said.
"I don't yet know quite why they are being turned away, but certainly being turned away or put on a waiting list for up to six months is clearly playing Russian roulette with their health," she added.
The average waiting time for those accepted for support ranged from 14 days in a trust in north-west England to 200 days at one in the West Midlands.
More than a third of trusts, around 35%, said they would restrict access to services for children who missed appointments.
Ms Longfield said trusts have told her there was "too much demand" for their services.
"There is more awareness, more people coming forward for help," she said.
But Sarah Brennan, from mental health charity Young Minds, said: "Services have been cut and young people had no where to go.
"They are then more ill when they get help so services have become overwhelmed... Six months for a young person is huge and in that time most young people are becoming more ill."
Natasha Devon, formerly the government's mental health champion, said in order to identify problems in the early stages, it was necessary to look at the root causes.
"Anxiety, for example, is the fastest growing illness in under-21s, and we need to look at what's happening to young people - the culture and the society they live in, the pressures that are on them."
James Morris, the Conservative MP who is chair of the all-party group on mental health, acknowledged that problems had been building up in the system over many years and a "fundamental transformation" was required.
"We do need to move towards a more compassionate system for children and young people but the transformation is going to take time," he told the Today programme.
"It's going to require additional investment, better commissioning on the ground."
An NHS England spokesman said: "While the data in this report des not substantiate the conclusions drawn, it is clearly the case that CAMHs services need to expand and the additional Â£1.4bn pledged will help us to do that."
In March, the Mental Health Network, which represents mental health trusts, said it had seen "no significant investment" in psychiatric services for children in England.
It said it suspects some of the money allocated has been used to support other NHS services instead.
A Department for Health spokesman said: "This investment is just beginning and is creating new joined up plans to improve care in the community and schools to make sure young people get support before they reach a crisis point."


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People in Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale are celebrating "the Christmas that never was", six months after flooding devastated the area.

Thousands of homes and businesses in the region were damaged when Storm Eva battered the north of England during December's floods.
Organisers said it was an opportunity for the whole community to have a proper party.
The event features six snow machines and Christmas trees.
There will also be a Christmas lunch for volunteers who helped when the floods hit, with an unseasonal visit from Santa and a festive-themed market with live entertainment, including brass bands and choirs.
Organisers said: "It is our way of saying thank you to all the volunteers who helped on Boxing Day, and in the weeks that followed."
About 500 people are expected to attend a Christmas lunch event at Riverside School in Hebden Bridge.
During the December floods, a bus was swept down the street and sandbags were ripped up due to the force of the water running through the town.


Paramilitary forces in Ivory Coast have fired shots into the air in several cities in what seems to be the start of a new mutiny.

Shots were heard in the main city Abidjan, the capital, Yamoussoukro, and the western cities of Man and Daloa.
The latest unrest comes as the government has started paying soldiers who mutinied earlier this month a bonus of $20,000 (Â£16,000) each.
The gendarmes are believed to be demanding a similar payment.
The government agreed to pay off mutinous soldiers - for the most part former rebels who helped President Alassane Ouattara come to power in 2011, and were then integrated into the army.
This seems to have provoked jealousy among those who were not part of the deal agreed on Friday.
The development highlights the divisions in the country's security forces and raises fresh concerns about its stability, says BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall.
A resident of Yamoussoukro told the Reuters news agency that he was was confused by the incident.
"I don't know why they are shooting, but we ran to get home. I live next to the camp; I can see them walking around inside the camp."
Another resident told the Associated Press news agency that the initial gunfire in the capital lasted about 20 minutes.
"There were shots, and now the traders have gone. They've closed up their shops in the city centre."
The AFP news agency is reporting that one soldier has been killed in the trouble in Yamoussoukro.


A 50-year-old man has been fined £280 for leaving a seven-year-old boy at home to go to the pub.

John Kerr, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was asked by the boy's mother to look after the child on 6 November 2015.
On leaving a pub and returning to the house after a one-hour absence, Kerr found police had been alerted after the tearful child had called 999.
Kerr admitted wilfully abandoning a child in his care in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard that the boy dialled 999 after he could not find Kerr.
The seven-year-old was tearful when he told an emergency operator that he only had his pets for company.
Officers went to the property and were able to re-assure the schoolboy before one climbed in through a window and comforted him.
Kerr later returned under the influence of alcohol and claimed he had gone for food for the child.
He later conceded he had visited a bar and had stayed away longer than he had intended.


The Islamic State group says it was behind a car and knife rampage at a US college that left 11 people injured.

Monday's attack at Ohio State University was carried out by one of its students, Somali-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the authorities said.
The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency called the 18-year-old business undergraduate a "soldier".
Artan drove his car at a group of people, then attacked them with a knife before being shot dead.
The IS claim does not prove much in terms of the attack in Ohio. The group often refers to individuals who carry out attacks as its "soldiers", but the crucial question is firstly whether the individual had any form of direct contact with IS.
Face-to-face contact may be unlikely but online communication is possible. If there was no direct contact, it could still be the case that an individual was inspired rather than directed by the group. In this case, an individual may leave his or her own pledge of allegiance in written form or online or in a video.
But until such evidence emerges, it remains hard to know if this is just an opportunistic claim by the group rather than one based on real substance.
Most of the victims were injured by Artan's car, but two were stabbed with a "butcher's knife" and another suffered a fractured skull, officials said.
One of the wounded victims, William Clark, an Ohio State University professor, described how Artan's vehicle had crashed into a large concrete planter before bouncing off and striking him.
"It clipped the back of my right leg and basically flipped me up in the air and I landed on the concrete," he told a news conference.
Mr Clark said Artan then got out of the car and began attacking students before he was shot down.
Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved.
Dozens of FBI agents have searched Artan's apartment for clues as to what may have triggered the attacks.
Neighbours described him as polite and said he attended daily prayers at a local mosque.
Artan, who was born in Somalia and was a US permanent resident, arrived in the country in 2014 as the child of a refugee.
He had been living in Pakistan from 2007 to 2014.
Artan recently posted on Facebook about the US treatment of Muslims, according to the AP, citing a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace" with the Islamic State group, he allegedly wrote.
Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the act was indicative of someone who may have been self-radicalised.
Militants of the so-called Islamic State have found recruits in the US Somali community in recent years.
About a dozen young men and women from Minnesota's Somali community have travelled to Syria to join militant groups.
Nine men in Minnesota were sentenced on terror charges for plotting to join the Islamic State group.
And a Somali-American man attacked 10 people with a knife at a central Minnesota mall before he was killed by an off-duty police officer in September.
Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of Council of American-Islamic Relations' Minnesota chapter, said some Somali-Americans were concerned about being viewed as "guilty by association".
After Monday's attack, he said: "We must not let the act of one individual, no matter what his motive or background, to further divide our community or our nation."


Local councils in Wales could lose responsibility for running schools as part of a wide-ranging review.

It follows concern about pupils' performance and damning reports into some of Wales' 22 local education authorities (LEAs).
Education Minister Leighton Andrews warned the review will not rule anything out.
But local government leaders said they were "vehemently opposed" to cutting councils out of the system.
In a statement to the Welsh assembly, Mr Andrews said: "I have given local authorities time and money to get their house in order, but the evidence is overwhelming that this has not occurred."
He said the "fragmentation" of education services with the creation of 22 councils in the mid-1990s was a factor behind a downturn in performance by pupils a decade later.
The Welsh government launched a programme of reform in education following disappointing results from an international comparison of school standards in 2009.
LEAs have been grouped into four regional consortia that have been charged with a responsibility to improve schools.
They have been up and running since September, but Mr Andrews told the Senedd chamber that "overall progress is, to put it mildly, patchy".
Options for the review, which will report by the end of March next year, include:
Mr Andrews warned it could go as far as a proposal to remove all education functions from local government and create regional school boards accountable to the Welsh government, possibly without local council representation.
Since introducing a new inspection process in 2010, the schools inspectorate Estyn has not given any authority its top "excellent" rating.
Two of them - Anglesey and Blaenau Gwent - have been put in special measures.
An earlier report in March 2011 said a review should be conducted in autumn 2013 to decide whether structural changes were needed, but Mr Andrews said he was not prepared to wait until then.
'Lost patience'
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said it was "vehemently opposed" to removing education from councils and that recently-introduced changes need time to bed in.
WLGA leader Bob Wellington said: "This will fundamentally damage the principle of local democratic control and accountability, and undermine the ability of local communities to shape the educational future of young people."
Mr Wellington, who is also Labour leader of Torfaen council, said councils had met many of Mr Andrews' demands, including passing on more funding to schools and grouping schools into performance bands.
Opposition parties said the review was an admission of failure by the Labour minister.
Conservative education spokeswoman Angela Burns said: "Do we honestly think that centralisation is the best course of action?"
She added: "We have massive problems of underperformance in our education system, but we need a level-headed evidence-based approach to driving up standards not a bull in a china shop."
Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas said education must not be a used as a "wedge to drive through local government reform".
"It is widely agreed that educational standards across Wales need to be improved and I am glad that the minister has opened this debate," he said.
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts said: "Rather than providing stability and direction, today's decision throws a question mark over the whole future of education in Wales."
Philip Dixon, director of teaching union ATL Cymru, said the minister had "clearly lost patience" with local government.
"Some of the possibilities outlined are very radical indeed and could see local authorities lose any say over the delivery of education," he said.
The NAHT Cymru union said apart from rare exceptions, schools had not had a positive experience of the consortium system.
Union director Anna Brychan said: "Clearly the minister is hearing the same messages."
She welcomed the review, but said there needed to be local accountability for education standards and delivery.
NUT Wales secretary David Evans said teachers had to be consulted as part of the review.
He said: "There has been a lack of consistency from local authorities and the rush to instigate regional consortia working has not helped and left many schools in limbo."


EU countries have been co-ordinating their VAT rates since 1992, as part of building up the single market and ensuring there is no unfair competition across national borders.

The claim: Vote Leave says the UK cannot lower VAT rates as long as it is in the European Union. Michael Gove said the 5% rate of VAT on household gas and electricity bills could not be scrapped because of EU rules.
Reality Check verdict: EU rules mean the UK cannot reduce VAT on goods and services below 15%, the standard rate of VAT in the EU. The standard rate of VAT in the UK is 20%, so the government could reduce it by up to 5% today if it wanted. Domestic fuel is on a special list of pre-approved goods and services that are subject to lower VAT rates and it would require the agreement of all other EU members to reduce it further.
Under EU rules, countries must apply a minimum standard VAT rate of 15%. They have an option of applying one or two reduced rates, no lower than 5%, to certain specified goods on a pre-approved list.
Further reduction of the VAT rate, including to 0%, is also allowed but only for the goods which were taxed at that rate before 1991 and since then.
Changes to the VAT rules require unanimous agreement of all 28 EU countries.
The UK's standard VAT rate is 20%, so, within the current rules, the UK government has some flexibility to bring it down to 15%, if it wanted to.
It is right to say the UK cannot remove the VAT on household gas and electricity bills.
Although the UK charged 0% VAT on domestic fuel bills in 1991, the Conservative government introduced a VAT rate of 8% in 1993. This was later lowered to 5% under Labour. Under the EU rules, this is now the lowest VAT rate possible for British domestic fuel bills.
It is worth pointing out that it is not at all clear that a post-Brexit UK government would want to remove VAT on domestic fuel. This would depend, among other things, on the wider economic impact of leaving.
In April 2016, the European Commission proposed changes to EU VAT rules with the aim of giving member states more flexibility on rates.
There are currently two options being considered.
The first would allow all EU countries the same rights to apply zero and reduced VAT rates and the list of goods and services in this category would be reviewed on a regular basis.
The second would allow members to set reduced rates as they wished, as long as that did not create tax distortions in the single market.
Once this is established, and the European Parliament's views are taken into account, the Commission will draw up detailed proposals.
The finance ministers of all 28 EU countries will have to agree to these proposals unanimously before they can be implemented. There is no timetable or deadline for these changes, but the European Commission is working towards having the detailed proposals this year or next.
The EU is currently dealing with allowing the UK to lower the VAT on sanitary products to 0%. The EU finance ministers have endorsed the plan, which the European Commission pledged to finalise in 2016.
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Another thrilling, goal-packed Premier League weekend saw Manchester United return to the top of the table for the first time in more than two years.

Wayne Rooney finally scored a league goal as Sunderland were beaten 3-0 at Old Trafford, while Manchester City were hammered at Tottenham.
Newcastle found some belief - if not three points - in a battling draw with Chelsea, while Leicester and Arsenal entertained us in a seven-goal thriller.
But who were the standout performers? Here's my selection - do you agree?
Tottenham's win against Manchester City was largely down to the exploits of Hugo Lloris. His save from Raheem Sterling when Spurs were trailing 1-0 was world class and a turning point in the game. He went on to make another string of important saves, which served to strengthen the belief Spurs could win the match.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if Tottenham have any chance of claiming a European spot this season, they will have to keep Lloris fit.
I remember this lad when he was trying to make a name for himself when he was on loan at Aston Villa. Injuries have mostly inhibited the progress the England international was making since his return to the Lane, but against Manchester City he looked commanding.
There was a moment in the first half when Walker refused to let Sergio Aguero get past him in order to attack the ball from a set-piece - much to Aguero's annoyance. It was that determination and presence that I detected when he was making his way into the England squad and it's nice to see it in his performances once again.
It was a brave decision by Jose Mourinho to again leave out John Terry for Kurt Zouma, but one that was totally justified. Yes, the youngster will make mistakes, a feature demonstrated when Chelsea conceded their first goal, however that is not the point.
Zouma is getting better with every game and Chelsea look like a team that no longer has to worry about pace in the opposition ranks. His sensational 50-yard pass to Eden Hazard was the trigger for Chelsea's success and resulted in Ramires's stunning goal. The point is, and unpalatable as it might seem for some, Zouma is the future and Terry is the past. Time, I'm afraid, catches up with all of us in the end.
As far as Premier League debuts go, I don't think Kevin Mbabu could have done any better. The 20-year-old was playing against Spain international Pedro, who for much of the game got nothing out of the youngster, which tells you all you need to know about the quality of this performance.
Last week on Final Score I questioned whether Newcastle boss Steve McClaren could manage as effectively as he could coach. The jury is still out for me but if he has the courage to play youngsters such as Mbabu, who are keen to prove themselves against the champions, at the expense of players who have been tried but are comfortable then I may have misjudged him.
When I pick a substitute for my team of the week you can rest assured he has had a massive impact on the game. I don't know who deserves more praise, Mourinho for making the change at such a crucial time in the match or Ramires for believing he could actually make the difference.
Ramires could have scored a hat-trick in a matter of minutes such was his impact after coming on in the second half, but it was his sensational strike that turned the game back in Chelsea's favour. Be warned Manchester United and Manchester City, I saw a second-half performance from the Blues that reeked of hunger and desire. This game might prove to be a defining moment in Chelsea's season.
What a revelation this holding position in midfield is proving to be for Eric Dier. Not only is he the first name on Mauricio Pochettino's teamsheet these days, he looks imperious in front of his two centre-backs. What makes this position so exciting, particularly if you're a Spurs fan, is Dier occasionally goes walkabout looking for goalscoring opportunities.
His finish against Manchester City, who played like a team feeling sorry for themselves in the absence of Joe Hart, David Silva and Vincent Kompany, was so well struck and so timely it left City reeling. An excellent performance by Dier against a team with lots of good players but no backbone.
It was always going to take a performance like this to unseat Leicester City. This was Alexis Sanchez and Arsenal back to their counter-attacking best. Quite frankly, I'm amazed Sanchez is playing like this at all.
This lad only finished playing football for Chile in the Copa America when players were reporting back for pre-season training.
Arsene Wenger may have wanted to give him more rest, but it is just as well he can rely on Sanchez. I can't see anyone else in his side he can put his title hopes on at the moment.
Bearing in mind all the speculation surrounding Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, and with his team facing an Aston Villa side also in desperate need of points, it was just as well Philippe Coutinho was on top of his game. The Brazilian prized open Aston Villa's defence almost at will, leaving Tim Sherwood facing his first managerial crisis.
Strange that, because if Liverpool had lost to Villa it would have been Rodgers facing a crisis. At least Coutinho's brilliant performance has bought Rodgers time to get Christian Benteke and Jordan Henderson fit again. With all of them available for selection, and Daniel Sturridge coming back to full fitness, they just might save him his job.
It is with some irony that I find Chelsea struggling at one end of the table and Manchester United on top. It would be remiss of me not to mention Juan Mata at this point; the man who Mourinho couldn't wait to get out of the revolving door at Stamford Bridge.
It has been Mata's consistent performances for the Red Devils under Louis van Gaal that have helped transform their season. Mata was instrumental in United's victory over Sunderland and should they win the title, his departure could prove to be Mourinho's final embarrassment.
And about time. No-one said his second season was going to be easy for Harry Kane but I can't help feeling he could help himself by just keeping the game simple. He had a wonderful opportunity to slip Christian Eriksen in on goal in the second half against Manchester City and ignored him.
It's so important, particularly when things aren't going well for you, to keep it simple. You could feel the Spurs fans breathe a huge sigh of relief when Kane scored a wonderful, instinctive goal. Title favourites City looked like a team playing together for the very first time and Kane took complete advantage of the situation like all good strikers should.
If you want to see a top-class finisher at work then you should look no further than Daniel Sturridge. He's been out with injury for an age but he's lost none of his predatory instincts. His first goal against Aston Villa was a volley taken out of the Paulo di Canio school of finishing.
However it was his composure and the sheer authority as he stroked his second goal past Brad Guzan that left me breathless. Rodgers knows exactly how to manage Sturridge's fitness levels and originally lost the player to injury while on international duty for England. A repeat of such an unfortunate mishap could cost Rodgers far more than the player's services this time around.


Malaysia has cut fuel subsidies for the first time in more than two years as it tries to reduce its budget deficit.

The subsidy on petrol has been cut by 20 sen (6 cents; 4 pence) a litre and on diesel by 20 to 80 sen a litre.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said the cuts would result in savings of about 3.3bn ringgit ($1bn; Â£650m) a year.
The government spent 24bn ringgit on fuel subsidies last year, which contributed to a widening budget deficit.
Malaysia's budget deficit was 4.5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) last year.
Ratings agency Fitch cited the high budget deficit as one of the factors that led it to cuts its outlook on Malaysia's credit rating to negative from stable in late August.
"It's a process of fiscal consolidation," Mr Najib said. "The market will feel more confident if we can bring down our fiscal deficit."
The change also comes at a time when Asia's emerging economies have been hit by investors pulling their money out.
The pull-out has been triggered by speculation that the US central bank will soon begin to cut back on the amount of money it is pumping into the economy.
That has hurt currencies and stocks in some Asian countries, including Malaysia, which has seen its currency, the ringgit, decline by nearly 10% against the US dollar since May.
Some analysts said that the cut in fuel subsidies was an attempt by the government to increase investor confidence and persuade them to leave their money in the country.
"The fact the announcement was made just weeks before the annual budget shows that one of the objectives is to defend the ringgit," said Song Seng Wun of CIMB Research.
"They want to contain it from sliding further."
The subsidy cuts, which come into effect on Tuesday, mean that fuel prices in the country will rise.
That has raised some worries that consumer prices in the country may also jump in the coming months.
"Once implemented we expect the impact to inflation to be significant, but it will be transient and last for 12 months due to the one-off change," said Irvin Seah an analyst with DBS Bank.
Mr Wun said that while the move would affect inflation, the increase in consumer prices was likely to be "bearable", not least because the rate of inflation in the country is relatively low. Annual consumer price inflation in Malaysia stood at 2% in July.
He added that if prices continued to rise, the central bank had "enough room to tighten its policies" to keep inflation under check.


Three patients have been diagnosed with a "very resistant strain of bacteria" prompting a ward closure at Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital.

The trio were all on the orthopaedic surgery ward and were screened after another patient there had the bacteria, called carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE).
The first patient did not require treatment for it and was discharged.
The ward has been closed to admissions "as a precaution", the hospital said.
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Enterobacteriaceae are sometimes harmless and live in the gut.
CPE is another type of the same group of bacteria that have become resistant to strong antibiotics called carbapenems which are used to treat the most serious infections, the NHS choices website said - a so-called superbug.
The hospital said none of the three patients found to have the organism from their latest screening were unwell with it and "no specific treatment was required or being given".
A hospital spokesman said "this type of very resistant bacteria was becoming more common across the UK and around the world.... because of the overuse of antibiotics."
He said washing hands regularly was the "best defence".


It is a journalistic cliche to label some difficult problem or another as a "nightmare" for a politician - but the very visual impact of the roiling, repetitious, nightly chaos in Calais could well haunt the prime minister's bedtimes.

The sight of "swarms" of aliens shaking the fence night after night, like the opening sequence from some zombie movie, must have a haunting quality for Mr Cameron, who promised to take back control of Britain's border.
The PM 's quotidian helping of humiliation may have been delivered in smaller portions in the last few days.
However, the fact remains that this is not a natural disaster or an unforeseen emergency but the result of multiple political failures, policies that don't work piled on top of each other like a stack of lorries along the M20.
While by no means all the failures should be laid at the door of our government, its reaction, tellingly guiltily, both laggard and over-hasty, paints a picture.
Its responses often seem like a headline in search of a policy.
More sniffer dogs are ordered but security considerations prevent ministers saying how many.
A surge of private security guards is ordered. It takes three days to decide a "surge" means 100.
Which is why it is worth looking in detail at the many components of this crisis and to ask if a little policy pressure at any of the choke points could kill it.
But first, the background. The government's desperation is because of its promises on immigration.
That has everything to do with the huge increase in legal immigration from the European Union.
Polish plumbers, Estonian baristas and Portuguese pluckers of Christmas turkeys have little to do with the sort of desperation we see nightly across the tunnel.
Except that they, and the rise of UKIP, meant that the rise of immigration is an issue of acute sensitivity for the government. It is seen as political suicide to allow more people in.
This is not a domestic problem, but let us start at home.
The migrants congregate in Calais because of the lure of Britain and the strength of its island border outside the Schengen area.
A strong economy and the English language must be part of the magnet and a government would have to be even more worried about Calais than this one to force us all to speak Icelandic and engineer a second banking crisis to put off would-be immigrants.
Ministers are not much more likely to consider French suggestions of tighter labour regulations and ID cards to close down the black economy.
They are trying to convince would-be migrants that when it comes to illegal immigration, they are indeed the nasty party.
But ill-thought-out plans to force landlords to evict those refused asylum are unlikely to do the job.
If the word has gone out in the Sahel that Britain is a soft touch, it will take more than a few headlines to undo that impression.
It is, anyway, a bit of a misconception that the UK is so very much more attractive than any other land.
The migrants congregate in France because Britain doesn't want them, and being outside the Schengen Agreement and an island allows us to make that rejection a reality.
Far more would-be asylum seekers go to Sweden or Germany, partly because they do not have the same watery border and partly because they are more welcoming.
A Swedish minister told me that if you look at the real figures, the European Union's crisis consists of the equivalent of an island of 1,000 people working themselves into a lather about the arrival of one extra person per year.
One obvious answer would be for Britain to take the paltry 5,000 people waiting over the water and solve the crisis at a stroke.
The obvious retort to this is that it would only encourage even more to come.
This brings us to the next obvious failure. It may be sporting to allow would-be migrants to congregate en masse and chance their luck on getting through to England. It is scarcely logical, though.
A coherent policy would dictate they should be granted asylum or deported.
But the French are unwilling to take up this burden, given that the UK is the migrants' destination.
If asylum is off the agenda, so, it appears, is deportation.
Whatever the logic, returning people to the horrors of civil war in Syria or slave labour in Eretria cannot be high on the agenda of things politicians want to do.
There is a clear reason the would-be migrants can make it to Calais. Under the Schengen Agreement, the continental European Union has effectively abolished borders.
The former Home Secretary Jack Straw suggested to me the other day that the borders should go back up.
Given the thousands of miles they cover, and the cost to the EU's nations which that would entail, that seems extremely unlikely and unattractive.
But it is more than possible that here and there, a few bits and pieces of sporadic barbed wire will be erected, creating a few Calais-like scenes, with added futility.
Europe's problem begins on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Letting the would-be migrants drown is a dreadful option, and that hard-headed policy was soon abandoned.
Still, patrols have been cut to avoid giving the impression that a leaky boat is a passport into the European Union.
The most egregious failure is the inability to develop a European policy to respond to a European problem.
In a very uncommunicative way, many nations seem pleased to see this as a Greek or Italian problem.
It hardly needs to be said that ending war and dictatorship and poverty in the countries from which people flee would help end this ongoing crisis. Good luck with that.
Setting out each of the potential points where the crisis could be solved shows how difficult this is.
Every solution leads to another problem, potentially worse than the one it solves.
US President Barack Obama used to say that if it was easy, a problem wouldn't end up on his desk - it is tough at the top.
The Schengen Agreement led to the creation of Europe's borderless Schengen Area.
The treaty was signed on 14 June 1985 by five of the 10 member states of the European Economic Community near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg, but wasn't implemented for a further decade.
It proposed the gradual abolition of border checks at the signatories' common borders.
The Schengen Area operates very much like a single state for international travel purposes.
There are external border controls for travellers entering and exiting the area and common visas, but no internal border controls.
It currently consists of 26 European countries covering a population of more than 400 million people. The UK and Republic of Ireland have opted out.
The same is true for the prime ministers and presidents of the European Union.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel likes to say, where there's a will, there's a way.
But there is little will to take these very hard decisions.
This crisis looks, for all practical purposes, insoluble, without end.
Mr Cameron's nightmare may recur, as nightmares tend to do.


South-east Asian countries have failed to reach an agreement on how to deal with China's claims on disputed territory in the South China Sea.

The 10-member Association of Southest Asian Nations (Asean) ended a meeting in Cambodia without issuing a joint statement for the first time in its 45-year history.
It had earlier adopted key elements of a code of conduct on maritime issues.
China has overlapping claims with four Asean members in the South China Sea.
Asean foreign ministers and their regional counterparts from 16 countries, including China, met in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh for a regional forum. Tension in the South China Sea topped the agenda.
The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei contest parts of the resource-rich South China Sea area with China.
The Philippines and Vietnam want Asean to resist Beijing's insistence that the disputes be handled on a bilateral level only. Asean officials said the two countries wanted the joint statement to include references to their territorial disputes with China.
The Philippines has accused Cambodia, a close ally of China, of blocking any mention of the dispute.
But Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said that all Asean members were responsible for the failure to issue a statement.
"I requested that we issue the joint communique without mention of the South China Sea dispute ... but some member countries repeatedly insisted to put the issue of the Scarborough Shoal," he said.
"I have told my colleagues that the meeting of the Asean foreign ministers is not a court, a place to give a verdict about the dispute."
China and the Philippines had a maritime stand-off in the Scaborough Shoal in April, with China denying reports it was preparing for war at the height of tensions in May. Both sides accused the other of trespassing on territorial waters.
Vietnam was also angered by a recent call from China for oil exploration in a disputed territory.
Earlier this week, Asean forum ministers adopted key elements of a code of conduct on rules governing maritime issues, and presented the proposal for China's agreement.
The Chinese foreign ministry had said that China would consider the proposals if the conditions were right.
Asean was set up in 1967 by Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. Brunei joined in 1984, followed by Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Burma in 1997 and Cambodia in 1999.


Stargazers turn their eyes to the skies this time every August for the annual Perseid meteor shower, but this year it could be more spectacular than usual.

Perseids are shooting stars or space debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet.
Every year, the Earth passes through this field of debris and it is possible to see about 100 meteors or shooting stars per hour during the peak.
This year, that could double as experts predict a rare meteor "outburst", according to Armagh Observatory.
The Swift-Tuttle comet revolves around the Sun once every 130 years on average, leaving a trail of dust in its wake.
A meteor outburst is produced "when the Earth passes close to or through one or more of the dense dust trails produced during a previous revolution of the comet around the Sun," according to the observatory.
It is opening its doors to the public for a free event on Thursday evening, in the hope that star-spotters will be able to enjoy the celestial show.
As always, however, the view is weather-dependent and BBC Northern Ireland's forecasters have warned that cloudy skies could obscure visibility during the peak of the shower at around midnight.
Ideal conditions for a shooting star show include cloudless skies with little or no moonlight or light pollution and this year, a waxing moon could also steal some of the limelight.
"If possible, look away from any nearby light pollution and always allow time for your eyes to become accustomed to the dark," Armagh Observatory advised stargazers.
"This means you may have to wait up to 20 or 30 minutes before seeing your first meteor."
The observatory added that this year's view "includes the planets Venus, Mercury and Jupiter setting low in the west soon after sunset, and then Saturn and Mars low in the south-southwest after dark".
Elsewhere, Astronomy Ireland is organising a "national Perseid count" via its website, where members of the public can record how many shooting stars they spot with the naked eye from the island of Ireland.
"These simple counts will have real scientific value as no one is sure how much stronger the shower will be this year," said David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland magazine.
The organisation is predicting the 2016 shooting star show "is going to be two-to-three times more spectacular than usual".


The UK ambassador to the EU should have resigned when the result of June's referendum was announced, UKIP Wales MEP Nathan Gill has said.

Sir Ivan Rogers urged Brussels colleagues to challenge "muddled thinking and... speak truth to power" as he quit ahead of Brexit talks.
Mr Gill said the resignations allowed a "pro-Brexit ambassador" to be appointed for the crucial negotiations.
The first minister's spokesman called the resignation "deeply concerning".
Writing to staff, in a letter obtained by the BBC, Sir Ivan said UK ministers needed to hear "unvarnished" and "uncomfortable" views from Europe.
The government said Sir Ivan had quit earlier so a successor could be in place before Brexit negotiations started.
Sir Ivan's note confirmed this but also warned "the government will only achieve the best for the country if it harnesses the best experience we have".
Mr Gill told BBC Wales on Tuesday that he was "glad that Sir Ivan Rogers has gone" and "we can now have a pro-Brexit ambassador in place for the renegotiations which will be happening this year".
"The people of Wales and the UK spoke very clearly in the referendum on June the 23rd - they wanted out," he said.
"Personally I think Sir Ivan should have resigned once that Brexit result was declared."
The resignation came after Sir Ivan's deputy in Brussels, Shan Morgan, announced in November that she would be leaving the post to become the Welsh government's top civil servant, a job she is due to start within weeks.
In his letter, Sir Ivan said Ms Morgan would be "hugely missed" and would be a "tremendous asset to the Welsh Government".
A spokesman for First Minister Carwyn Jones said Sir Ivan's departure "at a time of such uncertainty" was "deeply concerning".
"As the negotiations on the UK leaving the European Union near, we need clarity and stability in our approach," the spokesman said.
"It is vital that a successor is appointed immediately to take up this crucial role."
Labour MEP Derek Vaughan described Sir Ivan as a "competent, well connected diplomat who puts the interests of the UK first".
"I believe he was frustrated with the muddled thinking of government ministers who would not accept the message from the EU passed on by Sir Ivan that full access to the single market means accepting freedom of movement [of labour]," he said.
"Hopefully, other politicians and trade union leaders will accept this and prioritise access to the single market."


Two new drugs for the treatment of incurable kidney cancer have been approved for use by NHS Scotland.

The drugs have been shown in clinical trials to extend the lives of kidney cancer sufferers by several months compared with existing treatments.
Nivolumab and cabozantinib were accepted after being reviewed by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
The body also approved two other medicines for use, but rejected another because the costs were too high.
All the drugs being considered went through the SMC's patient and clinician engagement (Pace) process.
Dr Alan MacDonald, chairman of the SMC, said: "The committee is pleased to be able to accept four new medicines for routine use by NHS Scotland.
"We know from the evidence given by patient groups at our Pace meeting for nivolumab and cabozantinib that these two medicines will be valuable additions to the treatment currently available for patients with terminal renal cancer."
Kidney cancer patient Joe McCann, from Toryglen in Glasgow, was offered cabozantinib under an early access scheme.
The 60-year-old told BBC Scotland that previous treatments had been effective only for a short time.
"They told me after that there weren't any further treatments on the national health so I carried on without any treatment at all."
Mr McCann was then moved to a hospice for palliative care before being offered cabozantinib.
"It's made every difference. I was actually told by my oncologist he didn't think I'd last to Christmas, so I wouldn't be speaking to you now if it wasn't for this drug," he said.
The other two drugs accepted were obeticholic acid - used to treat liver disease - and aprepitant, which is used in combination with other medicines to prevent nausea and vomiting in children undergoing chemotherapy.
But the committee did not accept pertuzumab, a breast cancer treatment, because of the high cost.
Dr MacDonald added: "We know this decision will be disappointing to patients and their families as we understand how devastating breast cancer can be.
"However, when we make our decisions we have to take account of the needs of all patients who require treatment by NHS Scotland, not just those who would benefit from the medicine under consideration."


Napoli maintained some pressure on Serie A leaders Juventus with a comfortable 3-0 win at home to Verona.

Napoli are six points behind Juventus with six games remaining.
Manolo Gabbiadini headed Napoli ahead in the 33rd minute and Lorenzo Insigni scored a penalty in first-half stoppage time after Verona's Samuel Souprayen was sent off for a professional foul on Jose Callejon.
Callejon tapped home the third goal on 70 minutes.
Juventus remain clear favourites to claim the Italian title after they beat AC Milan 2-1 on Saturday.


The threat level from dissident republicans to Great Britain has been downgraded from "substantial" to "moderate", the Home Office has said.

The decrease shows the authorities regard an attack on London and other British cities from such groups as possible, but not likely.
Previously it was deemed a strong possibility.
The threat level in Northern Ireland has not changed. It remains "severe" with an attack still highly likely.
Home Secretary Theresa May said that the threat level to the UK from international terrorism remains at substantial, "which means that an attack is a strong possibility". The highest threat level is critical, two steps above the current warning.
"The threat level to Northern Ireland from Northern Ireland-related terrorism remains at severe, meaning that an attack is highly likely. Neither of these two levels has changed," she said.
By Mark SimpsonBBC Ireland Correspondent
Dissident republicans remain armed, active and dangerous, but the chances of them spreading their terror across the Irish Sea have reduced.
Yes, they remain a major threat in Northern Ireland but it seems their support and their capability is no longer rising.
A bombing campaign in Great Britain - a key part of the Provisional IRA's strategy during 30 years of violence - seems beyond the dissidents, at present.
The latest evidence of their limitations is the decision by the security services to downgrade the threat posed to Great Britain.
Read more of Mark's anaylsis here
"Despite the change which has been made today, there remains a real and serious threat against the United Kingdom from terrorism and I would ask the public to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to the police."
In July, three different republican groups came together to try to form a "new IRA" - the Londonderry-based vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD), the Real IRA and a group of unaligned dissidents, most of whom are seasoned ex-members of the Provisional IRA.
Between them, the various dissident groups are believed to have, at most, 700 members. They use violence in their opposition to British involvement in Northern Ireland.
Since March 2009, they have killed two soldiers and two police officers and carried out a number of other attacks on the security forces.
So far this year dissident republicans have been behind 19 attacks.
Earlier this month, a horizontal mortar was discovered in north Belfast.
It is understood the device included the military explosive Semtex, and would have been capable of piercing the armour of a police vehicle.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Northern Ireland's Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said it was vital to "bear down on terrorism".
"In both Great Britain and Northern Ireland the government is focused on defeating terrorism and will use all means at our disposal to do that," she said.
The decision to lower the threat level was made by MI5, the Security Service.
On its website MI5 said: "The threat level for Northern Ireland-related terrorism is separate from that for international terrorism. It is also set separately for Northern Ireland and Great Britain."
It is understood that the decision was made after considering the balance between the aspiration of terror groups in Northern Ireland to mount an attack in Great Britain with their intent to do so.


A woman's remains have been discovered near a recreation ground in Hampshire.

Police cordoned off an area of woodland in Barton-on-Sea after the remains were discovered by a member of the public on Tuesday morning.
They have been monitoring the scene around Long Meadow off Willow Walk, but have only just given any information about the investigation.
A spokeswoman for Hampshire Constabulary said no further details were available.
An eyewitness said there had been a "continual" police presence, with seven police vehicles and a helicopter as well as investigators in white overalls on the scene.


The US trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed in August to the smallest gap in four months, official figures have shown.

The trade gap narrowed to $45.61bn (Â£29.1bn), from a revised $45.63bn in July, the Commerce Department said.
However, the politically-sensitive trade gap with China widened to a record high.
US imports and exports both slowed in the month as the weakening in the global economy took hold.
For August, exports slipped by $95m to $177.6bn, as sales of expensive industrial items like cars, aircraft engines and oil field equipment all declined.
Imports fell by $111m to $223.2bn.
China gap
With China, which the US has accused of keeping its currency artificially low, imports into the US reached a record $37.4bn.
Between January and July, the US trade deficit with China was running 10% higher than the same point last year - when the trade gap between the two ballooned.
On Tuesday, the US Senate passed a bill that would mandate the imposition of tariffs on some Chinese goods if the US Treasury determines that China is manipulating its currency.
Earlier this week, Congress also approved three free trade agreements - with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.


The way a road safety scheme was run by Monmouthshire council put children at risk, a report has found.

The Wales Audit Office has criticised how staff handled criminal records checks for volunteers on the council's Kerbcraft programme.
At one point, poor record-keeping meant auditors were unable to determine if volunteers had been checked or not.
Monmouthshire council said a "comprehensive and robust" action plan was being implemented.
The report said auditors were "extremely concerned" about "inconsistent, partial and misleading information" provided by the council in response to their work.
"The council has failed to provide a thorough and coherent evidence-based response to our enquiries and we have received inconsistent information about the chronology of events from officers," auditors wrote.
There was no suggestion in the report, produced in February this year, of any wrongdoing by a volunteer.
Under Kerbcraft, which was introduced by the Welsh Government in 2002 and is run by all 22 Welsh councils, children are taken out of school by trained volunteers to learn skills for crossing roads safely.
Monmouthshire received Â£50,000 a year from Welsh ministers to run Kerbcraft, which had been delegated to a private/public joint venture until 2012 when it was transferred to the authority.
In June 2015, the scheme was suspended because of concerns over record-keeping.
That meant auditors were unable to confirm if volunteers had previously been subject to disclosure and barring service (DBS) checks - which have replaced criminal records bureau checks - or health and safety checks.
"As a result, we consider that children were placed at risk during that time," the report said.
"The council held no central record of information relating to volunteers and it appeared solely reliant on verbal assurances from the Kerbcraft co-ordinator that safe recruitment arrangements had been followed by staff operating the scheme."
Following a council review, Monmouthshire told auditors it had put stronger measures in place - but despite improvements after the scheme restarted in September 2015, auditors found further problems.
Staff were not requesting or looking at volunteers' DBS certificates and the council was not following up references for some volunteers.
The report found children were "being put at risk because of continuing weakness" in arrangements for their safeguarding on the scheme that the council had not addressed at the time the report was published.
Opposition councillor and Labour group leader Dimitri Batrouni said: "It is deeply disturbing that auditors were provided misleading information by the council.
"We are talking about our children's safety."
From August 2016 and in response to audit office concerns, the council stopped using volunteers on Kerbcraft.
A council spokesman said the authority had now adopted an action plan and new procedures had been approved, along with improved governance arrangements.
The new policy appears to permit volunteers but limit them to six at once to simplify the checking and recording of information.
The council is due to consider a revision to its safeguarding policy on Friday.


British Olympic cyclist Becky James believes the team will miss former technical director Shane Sutton at the Games in Rio this summer.

Sutton resigned in April, ending a 14-year involvement with British Cycling.
He had been suspended by the sporting body amid claims of sexism and discrimination towards elite cyclists, although he denies the allegations.
"It was a hard few days when he first left and it was tough for the whole programme," said James.
"But we had to move on and I had to knuckle down and get on with my training, knowing it would be a journey without him but I still had to get in the best possible form before Rio."
Welsh sprinter James, 24, is particularly grateful to Sutton for the role he played in keeping her in the sport during a torrid two-year spell that saw her overcome serious knee and shoulder injuries and a cancer scare.
Having won world keirin and sprint titles in 2013, James almost quit in 2015.
"Shane was the one who always believed in me getting back," said James, who also missed London 2012 because of illness and injury.
"He said to me: 'You don't have to do this. You have already achieved a lot and you can be happy with what you've done.'
"That gave me that bit extra to want to come back. He was the one who could see it, when I couldn't. He kept me on the programme, kept me working hard."
James also admitted that Sutton's "straight-talking" could upset others but said she did not think he was a bully.
"He's always been brutally honest with me but the truth is better than lies," she added.
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Warwickshire have released fast bowler Recordo Gordon after five years' service to the Birmingham-based club.

Jamaica-born Gordon, 24, part of the Bears teams that won the T20 Blast in 2014 and One-Day Cup this season, has not had his contract renewed after reaching the end of his current deal.
He made only five County Championship appearances following his first-class debut in April 2013.
But he was a regular one-day player, appearing most often in T20 cricket.
He played in five T20 group games, as well as the quarter-final win away to Essex in 2014, then 13 of the 14 group games when the Bears again made the final in 2015 but, on each occasion, he was not chosen to play on Finals Day.
Often used as a death bowler, he played a further six T20 matches this season and took his tally of One-Day Cup group game appearances to 12, but not being required at Lord's.
Gordon, who first represented the Bears at under-15 level, signed for Warwickshire ahead of the 2012 season, having come through their Development of Excellence programme.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed the last five years representing my home county and playing with so many fantastic cricketers," he said.
"I'd like thank Warwickshire for giving me the opportunity to become a professional cricketer."


An idea has hit the news on Friday to produce petrol from air and water - removing CO2 from the atmosphere, combining it with hydrogen split from water vapour and turning it into a fuel that can go straight back into the petrol tank.

It's like combustion in reverse, and in essence it is what powers plants: CO2 and water in, energy-rich sugar molecules out.
But in matters of energy, nothing comes for free.
Just as plants need sunlight to pull off the trick, Air Fuel Synthesis, the firm profiled in the UK's Independent newspaper, need to use good old-fashioned electric energy to pull off theirs.
As with any novel fuel production or energy storage method, it is the numbers that matter: efficiency is king.
The degree to which this technique can fulfil its promise to lower CO2 and provide a sustainable fuel source depends crucially on the balance of energy it requires and the energy it stores.
First things first - squashing CO2 back into a molecule packed with energy is not a new idea.
For example, work done at Princeton University in the US and published in 1994 to make the fuel additive methanol from CO2 has more recently been refined and spun into a company called Liquid Light that is aiming to do the same thing.
In Iceland, Carbon Recycling International opened a plant at the end of 2011 drawing waste CO2 from a power station, with capacity to produce five million litres of methanol per year.
Air Fuel Synthesis build on these methods by turning the methanol into something more like petrol, using processes well entrenched already in the petroleum industry.
The firm, so far, has made five litres of their fuel in a two-year demonstration experiment in which they have invested Â£1m.
Peter Harrison, the firm's chief executive, told BBC News that the demonstration did not focus on efficiency, but rather a proof of principle.
"All we're trying to demonstrate is that here in the UK we can make petrol from air," he said.
"[These processes] are all capable of working at industrial scale, and we've brought it down to container scale. There' a lot of work to do to develop the supply chains and to reduce the costs.
"We've got a design now for a one-tonne-a-day unit, and we expect to be in production by 2015."
Their first market is "greening the motorsport industry" by offering their pure fuels to racing teams.
But in the bigger picture, the petrol-from-air idea joins a legion of others that are trying to crack the far bigger problem of storing energy produced by renewable sources.
Like the recently reported "liquid air" approach, Air Fuel Synthesis wants to use renewable energy which may come when there is no consumer demand for it.
Mark Carpenter, research fellow at Cranfield University's Chemical Safety, Fuels and Environment Group, said that hydrocarbon fuels were "a very good way of storing energy" but that linking the process to renewable energy was the only way to make it tenable.
"If they can get enough renewable, low-cost electricity, that's a big determinant," he told BBC News. "It could be a very clean and green way of producing hydrocarbon fuels."
"But it'll be a minority player in terms of trying to meet global fuels demand - very, very small.
"It's certainly interesting that someone's considered this as a method, it's just whether you can make the chemistry work and get a reasonable degree of efficiency."
As with many other energy production and storage methods, only time and market forces will determine how far the petrol-from-air idea can go.


Colombia's constitutional court has lifted restrictions on same-sex couples adopting children.

Until now, same-sex couples could only adopt a child if it was the offspring of one of the partners.
But in a historic ruling on Wednesday, the court instructed adoption agencies not to discriminate against gay men and lesbians.
It said gay couples could adopt just as heterosexual couples could, as along as all legal requirements were met.
The court reached its ruling in a 6-2 vote after hours of debate.
It said that excluding gay couples as possible adoptive parents "limits children's right to a family".
"A person's sexual orientation or gender are not in and of themselves indicative of a lack of moral, physical or mental suitability to adopt," said the chief justice of the Constitutional Court, Maria Victoria Calle Correa.
Same-sex couples in Colombia are allowed to enter into legal unions but in 2013 Congress rejected a proposal to fully legalise gay marriage.
Activists welcomed Wednesday's decision but opponents promised to appeal, Reuters news agency reported.


A judge has been asked to respect the previous wishes of an injured police officer and allow him to die.

Paul Briggs, 43, of Merseyside, suffered a brain injury in a crash in July 2015.
His wife Lindsey told Manchester Court of Protection her husband would have seen living in a minimally conscious state as "hell".
Doctors treating him at the Walton Centre in Liverpool are opposing the application to withdraw treatment.
PC Briggs from Wirral, suffered a bleed on the brain and five fractures in his spine in the collision and is being kept alive through medical intervention.
In closing submissions, Victoria Butler-Cole, representing Mrs Briggs, asked the judge Mr Justice Charles to respect the previous wishes of the police officer and allow him to die.
She said even in the best case scenario, PC Briggs would not have a quality of life which he would have previously felt was worthwhile.
Ms Butler-Cole said: "He has pockets of consciousness in which he may, if things are going well, be able to press a buzzer in response to a question."
Medical experts have told the hearing PC Briggs could emerge from the state he is in, but would remain severely physically disabled and would not regain the mental capacity to fully understand his condition.
Vikram Sachdeva QC, representing the official solicitor acting on behalf of PC Briggs, asked whether he should be deprived of a "reasonably content future" even if it was a situation he would have been "appalled" by before the crash.
Conrad Hallin, representing Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and the Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, said PC Briggs was not likely to be tormented and trapped psychologically by his condition but withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition would cause him to starve to death and likely to cause him pain and distress.
The hearing has finished and the judge will make his judgment at a later date.
Chelsea Rowe, 26, was given a 12-month prison term in July after admitting causing serious injury to PC Briggs by dangerous driving.


Three men have appeared together in court in connection with a fatal crash in St Helier over the Christmas period.

Jose Joao Santos Silva, 21, is charged with causing death by dangerous driving while Jeronimo Vieira Santos, 29, and Luis Carlos Alves Cardoso, 19, are charged with dangerous driving.
Vitor Fernandes, 22, was killed in a car crash on Victoria Avenue at First Tower on 30 December 2013.
All three cases were referred to the Royal Court on Thursday.
The men will appear again at Jersey Magistrates' Court on 23 May.


Two D-Day veterans have been awarded France's highest military honour for service during World War Two.

The Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur medals were awarded to Ernest Frobisher, 96, from Eastbourne and Arthur Burrett, 90, from Seaford at the town's British Legion.
Mr Frobisher said: "It's something I never dreamt of getting."
Arthur Burrett said he was also receiving the award for his father who fought in the Battle of the Somme.
"I'm here for my father as much as myself," he said.
Mr Frobisher said: "It's something I never dreamt of getting. A lot of the places that I went to I didn't know where I was going.
"You just keep following the lorry in front.
"On the first trip to France after the war, I was walking along with some of my pals when a little lad came along and held my hand and said 'thank you'. That really choked me."
"I know they respect what we accomplished for them."
"I'm really chuffed."
Arthur Burrett said: "I mainly want to receive this because of my father who rescued two officers in the First World War, and there was no recognition, just a piece of paper."
"I was only 17 and 18 during the war," he added.
"I was on the landing craft mainly, in France and Italy and going over the African coast taking the troops over," Mr Burrett said.
"We were picking up a lot of displaced people and had them all on our ship. At the end of the war we took the ship back to America and came home on the Queen Mary. "


Award-winning Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen has fled from India to the US after she was named as an al-Qaeda murder target, a rights group has said.

The US based Center for Inquiry said that she arrived in America last week.
It said she was "specifically named as an imminent target" by the same extremists who killed three secular bloggers this year in Bangladesh.
Ms Nasreen recently tweeted that she was not safe in India.
"Was threatened by Islamists who killed atheist bloggers in B'desh. Worried," she tweeted.
"Wanted to meet GOI (government of India) but no appointment. Left. Will be back when feel safe."
A strong critic of fundamentalist Islam, the 52-year-old feminist writer was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 after receiving death threats from radical Muslim groups who condemned a number of her writings as blasphemous.
She spent a decade in Europe and the US before India granted her a temporary residential permit in 2004.
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) in a statement said that it helped Ms Nasreen to move to the US in order "to alleviate the immediate threat to her life".
"Her safety is only temporary if she cannot remain in the US, which is why CFI has established an emergency fund to help with food, housing and the means for her to be safely settled," the statement said.
"Dr Nasreen arrived in Buffalo, New York on Wednesday and was met by CFI staff."
The CFI says that it has also heard from several other writers and activists in Bangladesh who have also been been named as murder targets because of their "secular advocacy".
Last month Bangladesh outlawed the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) after a blogger - the the third to be murdered this year - was hacked to death. The ABT is the sixth Islamist militant group to be banned.
Police say that in each case, the attackers carried out their assaults on a busy street.
The first blogger to be killed - in February - was Bangladeshi-born US citizen Avijit Roy, who was killed in the capital, Dhaka.
In March blogger Washiqur Rahman was also hacked to death in Dhaka.
In May another blogger, Ananta Bijoy Das, was stabbed to death in the northern city of Sylhet.
A few years ago, hardline Islamists in Bangladesh demanded a blasphemy law to stop bloggers they perceived as being anti-Islamic from writing about Islam.
Bangladesh is officially a secular country but more than 90% of its 160 million population are Muslim.