On Monday, laws which offer some of New York City's renters protection from large hikes are due to expire.

Many people associate the rent rules with the TV shows Friends and Sex and the City, which allowed the protagonists to live in Manhattan with relatively modest-paying jobs.
Tenants are campaigning for stronger rules that will keep homes protected by law, while landlords worry about squeezed incomes and legislation they argue favours high-earners rather than the less well-off.
Of the city's 3.2 million homes, 2.2 million are rented, about a million of which are subject to some rent regulation, mostly under rent stabilisation laws, according to the NYU Furman Center, which researches the city's housing.
For renters like Soni Fink, 91, the rules have meant she can keep living in the apartment she moved into in 1961. A move to market rate would easily eat up her retirement income, she tells the BBC outside her two-bedroom home towards the south of Manhattan.
Ms Fink, who worked as a journalist for magazines and in public relations, retired in 1985, "when $40,000 a year was good money," she says. Rent currently accounts for about a third of her income. "If we didn't have rent stabilisation I don't like to think what I would do."
Ms Fink lives in the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village complex, Manhattan's largest apartment development, built after World War Two to help house people returning from the conflict.
One of her complaints, shared by other residents, is how rent increases are structured and how apartments in New York can be deregulated.
Landlords can only increase rent more than the rate set by authorities under strict circumstances, such as when an occupant moves out or if improvements are made to the apartment.
Ms Fink says this allows some landlords a lot of wiggle room. If, for example, a landlord puts in a new fridge, they can add a small percentage of the value of the appliance to the rent, in perpetuity.
For her, that meant a new fridge which cost the landlord $346 in 1988 ended up costing her more than $4,100.
Another means for landlords to raise rents is through a vacancy. When someone leaves an apartment, the landlord can increase the rent by as much as 20%. By filling the apartments with students who may leave after a year or two, these 20% increases can come thick and fast, says Kirstin Aadahl, a tenants association member who works in teaching and moved to the area in 2008 with her husband and daughter.
So fast, in fact, she says, that the rent - called the legal rent - can sometimes exceed the rate a tenant might pay for an equivalent home with no protection.
In that situation, landlords can offer what's called preferred rent - below what they may legally charge, she says. But hanging over the head of the tenant is the fact that after a one- or two-year tenancy is up, they may hike the rent up to the legal maximum should they so choose.
CW Capital, owner of the Stuyvesant Town complex, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rising rents through those quirks in the rules has meant "firemen, postal workers and young families", the groups the development was "built for" are being forced out, says Ms Aadahl.
For landlords, however, these rules protect the wrong people.
"Our problem is rent regulation creates a subsidy regardless of whether they even need it," said Jimmy Silber, co-president of the trade group Small Property Owners of New York, and himself a landlord in Greenwich Village. "There's no assessment from government."
The "subsidy" is also paid for by one group, landlords, rather than society at large, he says.
"You have people living in the finest parts of the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side who are professionals and in finance who have rent-stabilised apartments. They don't deserve it. It's unjust," he says.
President of the Rent Stabilization Association, Joseph Strasburg, says that while the system of preferred rent isn't perfect, most landlords are savvy enough to want good tenants at a reasonable price.
And there are some tenants who "abuse the system", he says, for instance by subletting their apartments for a profit the landlord doesn't see. Another quirk he cites is the ability for a family member to claim a rent-regulated apartment if they live there for two years and the original occupant dies or moves out.
And as for the apartment improvement costs, landlords say they are necessary to pay for the financing costs on larger projects, and motivate landlords to upgrade, rather than just fix the homes they own.
"What's the point in putting in a beautiful kitchen for somebody and then next year they're only going to get 1% or 0% increases [in rent]?" asks Mr Silber. "If it's broken you can repair it. You don't have to put in new."
It also helps landlords balance the books when increases in tax, insurance and maintenance costs have risen faster than the 1% rent increase, says Mr Strasburg.
While the laws will be decided at state level in New York's capital, Albany, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has weighed in on the debate.
He wants to end deregulation for vacant apartments with rent over $2,500. He also wants to stop the 20% hike when a flat is left vacant and for the rent increases for improvements to end when they are paid off.
"Rent is the number one expense for New Yorkers. Unless we change the status quo, tens of thousands of hardworking families will be pushed out of their homes. This has to be a city for everyone. It cannot just be a city of luxury apartments out of everyday New Yorkers' reach," said Mr de Blasio.
As rents have risen while incomes have remained largely stagnant in New York City, the proportion of pay cheques given over to landlords has risen. Between 2005 and 2013, median rent rose 11.8%, while median household income rose 2.3%, according to the Furman Center.
Back at Stuyvesant Town, residents are focused on staying in an area they call their own, close to friends, schools or work.
"This is life, this is our home," says Ms Aadahl. "Just like everyone has a home and community, this is ours."


Iranian news network Press TV has had its licence revoked by the media regulator Ofcom and will no longer be allowed to broadcast in the UK.

Ofcom said the state broadcaster's English language outlet had breached several broadcasting licence rules over editorial control of the channel.
Press TV has also failed to pay a Â£100,000 fine imposed last year.
The channel called the decision "a clear example of censorship". It will be removed from Sky on 20 January.
The Â£100,000 fine was imposed last year after the network broadcast an interview with imprisoned Newsweek and Channel 4 journalist Maziar Bahari, which the Ofcom said had been conducted under duress.
Ofcom said Press TV had "indicated it is unwilling and unable to pay".
It was during the investigation into the Bahari interview that the media regulator formed the impression that editorial decisions on the channel were being controlled by the offices in Tehran, instead of the UK.
Press TV was given the opportunity to respond and make the relevant amendments needed to comply with the broadcasting code, but "failed to make the necessary application", Ofcom said.
In a statement issued to the BBC, Press TV's newsroom director Mr Hamid Emadi said: "We asked Ofcom if Press TV Limited did not have control over the broadcast, why was it getting fined, if it did have control, why would the licence be revoked?
"Ofcom contradictions are nothing new for Press TV. The British government's tool to control the media has, on several occasions, changed its decisions regarding Press TV in its two-year campaign against the alternative news channel."
The statement also claimed that Ofcom, which it called "the media arm of the Royal family", had failed to respond to a letter sent by its Chief Executive earlier this month.
Press TV channel launched in 2007 to break what Iran's state broadcaster called a Western "stranglehold" over the world's media.


Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has published an open letter to the nation in which he makes no mention of the historic reopening of the US embassy.

Mr Castro instead criticises American foreign and economic policies since World War Two and accuses the US of owing Cuba millions of dollars.
The letter was published to mark Mr Castro's 89th birthday.
The US embassy will be reopened in Havana on Friday, with US Secretary of State John Kerry attending.
Mr Castro said the US owed Cuba money because of the trade embargo the US imposed on the communist-run island in 1960.
Cuba says the embargo - which it calls a blockade - is hugely damaging to its economy.
It says relations will only be fully restored once it is lifted.
Three marines who lowered the American flag for the last time on 4 January 1961 will raise it again during Friday's ceremony in Havana.
They are now retired and in their late 70s.
"I'm gonna love seeing that flag go back up," said former marine Jim Tracy, 78, on a US State Department video.
Cuba reopened its embassy in Washington last month.
In his birthday letter published in state newspaper Granma, Mr Castro says Cuba is committed to "good will and peace in our hemisphere" but adds: "We will never stop fighting for the peace and welfare of all human beings, regardless of the colour of their skin and which country they come from".
Fidel Castro led his country from the Cuban Revolution, in 1959, until 2006, when he stood down because of undisclosed health problems.
He passed on power to his younger brother, Raul, who embarked on a number of economic reforms.
After Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama announced in December that their two countries had agreed to restore diplomatic relations, it took Fidel Castro more than a month to express lukewarm approval for the historic reconciliation.
"I don't trust the policy of the US, nor have I exchanged a word with them, but this does not mean I reject a peaceful solution to conflicts," he wrote in a letter in January.


It's office Christmas party season again, and many of us will be attending shindigs in the coming weeks.

But do we appreciate these events or find them tiresome obligations? And what do our employers gain from putting them on beyond not looking like Scrooges?
Kyle Clark MacKenzie works at City Barbers in Inverness and will be going to his work do next week.
"It's good for team morale. It's the one time of the year you all get together and have a few drinks with the boss," he tells the BBC.
But engineer David Pearson, who is also going to a party, is more cynical. "It's a bit of fun but I wouldn't be bothered if they didn't hold one," he says.
"I also think companies feel they have to do something at this time of year, when they ought to do a bit more for staff during the rest of the year."
According to a survey of 700 office workers in 2014, about a quarter said they looked forward to office Christmas parties, while four out of 10 were ambivalent and a fifth said they hated the events.
Reasons for not wanting to go included bad restaurant choices, having to spend even more time with colleagues you already dislike and feeling pressured to get drunk.
But Hakan Enver, operations director at recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, says companies are still better off putting on an event than avoiding one.
"It's a great way of helping celebrate the culture of a company beyond just business success," he says.
"It also helps your staff get to know each other - particularly when the company is large - and shows that you are happy for them to let their hair down at the end of the year."
Michael Korel is the events manager for a number of Waterstones bookshops in west London. He is organising a "booze and pizza party" for the Kensington High Street branch.
"Christmas for us is flat out - while everyone else is having fun we are working, and so it is really nice to have an evening and come together and have some fun.
"I think the staff really appreciate it and it is well worth the investment."
That said, such events are not without their risks - particularly when a vast amount of free alcohol is provided.
Hakan Enver says the "excitement can get to people" and they may behave inappropriately.
"You need to be aware you are on company time and you have all your business leaders in the room," he advises. "It is not a time and place to bring out your challenges and frustrations about work - that should be done in the office."
Moreover, while employers can claim tax back on holding an event, the cost can still be high.
According to research by event promotions website Eventbrite, firms splashed out almost £1bn on parties in the UK last Christmas, spending on average £42.48 per employee.
But that varied wildly across the country - from just £12.36 per head in Northern Ireland to £56.49 a head in Greater London, with some events costing considerably more.
Andy Yates, an entrepreneur who invests in and advises businesses, says this money could be better spent elsewhere.
"Too many employers put money behind the bar and don't think any more about it, but it doesn't really boost staff morale in the long run.
"It may be better to hold smaller, more frequent team-building events, or to focus on things like flexible working hours and bonuses."
Of course, quite a few firms choose not to hold events, with Eventbrite putting the figure at 28% last year.
One example is Craved, a start-up that sells craft food and drink and employs 10 full-time and seasonal staff. Founder David Voxlin says December is its busiest month and it just wouldn't be practical.
"The last thing our staff want to do after working 60 to 80-hour weeks through December is to have a party," he says.
"That said, during the year we have a tasting session for new products every Friday afternoon, so we do have social time as a company."
Love them or hate them, Christmas parties are here to stay - and they appear to be evolving.
"We're seeing a rise in the non-traditional office Christmas party, centred around themed activities - such as cooking a team Christmas meal together or making Christmas jumpers," says Eventbrite marketing director Marino Fresch.
"The days of a few streamers in the office and a bowl of dubious punch seem to be in the past."


French experts are working to establish whether the suspected organiser of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid on a flat on Wednesday.

Police said Abdelhamid Abaaoud was the target when officers stormed the flat in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.
The Paris prosecutor said he was not among eight people arrested at the flat but human remains found there had still to be identified.
Meanwhile, French MPs are due to vote on extending a state of emergency.
The so-called Islamic State (IS), which controls parts of Syria and Iraq, has said it was behind the attacks last Friday, when gunmen and suicide bombers killed 129 people and injured hundreds.
The Washington Post quoted unnamed European officials as saying Abaaoud, 27, had been killed on Wednesday when heavily armed police stormed the building in the suburb of Saint Denis.
However, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins had earlier said he could not give "a precise and definitive number for the people who died, nor their identities, but there are at least two dead people".
One of the dead was a woman believed to have detonated a suicide belt as police moved in. A source close to the investigation said she could have been a cousin of Abaaoud, Reuters reported.
Mr Molins said it appeared that a "new team of terrorists" had been ready for a fresh attack.
A leader of one of the special forces units that took part in the raid said drones and robots equipped with cameras had been used to try to see inside the flat during the operation but there was too much debris.
Jean-Michel Fauverge told Le Figaro newspaper that when they entered the building they found a body that had fallen from the third floor to the second.
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"The corpse was mutilated, probably from grenades and he wasn't recognisable," he said.
"Other people were in the stairwell, two men hiding under blankets and whatever they could find. We arrested them."
None of those arrested has so far been named. However, police said they did not include Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national identified as a suspect in Friday's killings and believed to be on the run. Seven other militants died in the attacks.
Abaaoud is reported to be a key figure in an IS cell that US intelligence agencies have been tracking for months, AP news agency reported, citing US officials.
He was believed to have escaped to Syria following a police operation in Belgium in January and has boasted in IS propaganda of being able to move between Europe and Syria undetected.
Following Friday's attacks on a concert hall, cafes and the Stade de France stadium, President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency for 12 days.
The bill going before France's lower house of parliament on Thursday and the senate on Friday includes:
IS said it had carried out the attacks in response to France's air campaign against its positions in Syria, and pledged further bloodshed.
France has since stepped up its air strikes against IS targets in Syria.
Both France and Russia - which is also targeting militants in Syria - are putting together draft resolutions at the UN Security Council that would lay out an international approach to defeating IS.
President Hollande has urged the council to approve a resolution on fighting IS quickly.
IS is a notoriously violent Islamist group which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. It has declared its territory a caliphate - a state governed in accordance with Islamic law - under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
IS demands allegiance from all Muslims, rejects national borders and seeks to expand its territory. It follows its own extreme version of Sunni Islam and regards non-believers as deserving of death.
IS projects a powerful image, partly through propaganda and sheer brutality, and is the world's richest insurgent group. It has about 30,000 fighters but is facing daily bombing by a US-led multi-national coalition, which has vowed to destroy it.
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'No timetable' for Syria strikes vote


Traders see it as almost "inevitable" the US Federal Reserve will raise its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday after strong jobs growth.

Markets which track investors' expectations for the key rate give a near 100% likelihood of a rise.
It would be only the third time in a decade that the US central bank has increased rates.
Analysts said the odds strengthened on Friday after figures showed better than expected jobs growth in February.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US employers added 235,000 new jobs, exceeding economists' forecasts.
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said last week that the central bank could raise rates in March if employment and inflation figures met their expectations.
The Fed increased rates, which have been at near-historic lows since the financial crisis, to a range of 0.5% to 0.75% in December.
The futures market for the key Federal fund interest rate puts the likelihood of a rate rise at between 98% and 100%, according to Bloomberg data.
This level of probability was "about as inevitable as it gets," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at City Index.
"They basically have to hike rates next week because the market expects them to," she added.
Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics, said the number of jobs added in February would "erase any lingering doubts that the Fed might not hike interest rates next week".
The US labour market is "where the Fed wants it to be", which "seals the deal for a rate hike next week", said Gus Faucher, deputy chief economist at PNC.
Employers in the US have added more than two million jobs in the past 12 months, and the latest figures show that labour market strength continued into February.
For the Federal Reserve, one of the key issues is that the continued jobs growth is likely in time to contribute to higher wages and price rises.
Already financial markets were expecting that the Fed will try to pre-empt a sharp future rise in inflation by raising interest rates at a policy making meeting next week.
Friday's figures reinforce that expectation.
Traders also see better than even odds of two further rate rises this year, based on the price of Fed funds futures contracts traded at CME Group's Chicago Board of Trade.
The Fed's next meeting will conclude on Wednesday 15 March.
The Trump administration also welcomed the jobs figures, which covered President Trump's first full month in office.
Sean Spicer, the president's press secretary, tweeted that the figures were "great news for American workers... in first report for [President] Trump".
The growth in new US jobs has been gathering pace in recent months, and there were other signs that US businesses continued to gain strength in February.
The unemployment rate edged lower to 4.7%, with construction adding the most new jobs in nearly a decade.
Average hourly wages increased by 6 cents from January to $26.09 and were up 2.8% from a year earlier. The labour force participation rate also edged up to 63%, the highest rate since March 2016.
Mr Trump has promised to create 25 million jobs over 10 years to become "the greatest jobs president ... ever".


A driver who knocked down a lollipop lady broke down in tears in court as he said he was "truly sorry" for her and her family.

Sylvia Blackburn, 72, suffered serious head injuries outside Bedford Road Lower School, Kempston, last December.
Brian Wright, 55, of Kempston, told Luton Crown Court he had been blinded by the setting sun.
He accepted he had struck Mrs Blackburn but denies causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Mrs Blackburn is now being treated in residential care.
Judge Michael Kay QC paused the case for five minutes so Mr Wright could compose himself after he told the court how he had turned his victim's "world upside down".
Mr Wright said: "I understand Sylvia was a much-loved lollipop lady, who was loved by the children.
"I am truly sorry for what I have done to her and her family."
Mr Wright's VW Golf failed to stop for a red light, the jury heard.
The married mother-of-three, a lollipop lady for 20 years, had been on duty in Bedford Road as pupils left school.
When the traffic lights turned red, Mrs Blackburn, who was wearing appropriate clothing, stepped out to escort a woman and her six-year-old daughter across the road.
Prosecutor Sally Mealing-McLeod said traffic in the other direction had stopped, but the defendant did not, and hit her.
Mr Wright, of The Dell, said he could not remember if the traffic lights were red or green.
"I was totally blinded by the sun," he said. "I just heard a bump. I was in total shock.
"Since that day I have thought of nothing else other than Sylvia Blackburn and her family and the position I have put them in."
The court heard the sun was 10 minutes from setting and could have been shining into Mr Wright's eyes.
The trial continues.


During his nine years at the helm of Poundland, says chief executive Jim McCarthy, the discount chain has sold a product at a loss just three times.

And even one of those three times  - when it bought 250 million chocolate selection boxes from Woolworths following its  collapse - was a deliberate ploy to attract the retailer's customers to its stores.
It's a story that reflects just how Poundland, despite the cheap and cheerful image,  is a tightly managed business.
Poundland might look a bit basic - the ultimate in pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap - but this is a sophisticated firm with big plans for expansion. And its growth is part of a wider UK success story: the unstoppable rise of the discount retailers.
Overall, the discount sector - including Poundland and its smaller rivals such as Poundworld and Poundstretcher, as well as the  fast-growing supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl - has grown 48% over the past five years, according to retail research firm The Local Data Company.
This compares to the slower 34% expansion of the big four supermarket chains - Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsbury - over the same period.
In fact, last year discount stores grew twice as fast as the big four supermarkets with each chain opening an average of 33 shops compared to the 16 opened by each of the bigger players.
This growth in a much improved economy seems surprising, but analysts believe the recession started a much more fundamental shift.
Maureen Hinton, global research director for retail research firm Conlumino, says the careful habits initially borne of necessity have now become entrenched, with people realising they don't have to pay a lot to get good quality products.
She also credits the straightforward everyday pricing strategy of the discounters, compared to the "opaque" costs of their bigger rivals for their continuing popularity.
"There's a genuine honesty with pound stores. People have discovered there's the opportunity to buy good stuff at low prices so why pay more?" she says.
Poundland's customer data backs this up. Far from a shop just for people struggling to make ends meet, it claims to have successfully converted the middle class with a quarter of its customers now from the "AB" demographic - the wealthier end of the population.
The discounters are also benefitting from a backlash against their bigger rivals: they're are seen as a welcome outsider, says Dimitrios Tsivrikos, a consumer and business psychologist at University College London.
"The cheap environment, low staffing and basic shop fit outs all help. People think there's no danger here and let their guard down," he says.
And conversely, because customers believe that there's no hidden agenda they spend more.
"The no gimmicks, no frills, 'here we are saving money' message means people buy a lot more just because no one is trying to convince them to do it," he adds.
In reality, he says people overestimate their ability to understand pricing, with the low pricing creating "a level of euphoria and excitement" that interferes with rational decision making, with "bargain" signs helping to create a sense of urgency.
"We are hardwired to feel more euphoric, the hunter gatherer instinct pushes us to buy with our shopping driven by missing out rather than acquiring what we need."
To take advantage of this, most of the discount stores stock a smaller constantly changing range on top of standard staples.
Chris Edwards, the boss of Poundworld, says its bestselling products  are "everyday grocery items", including baby wipes, crisps and chocolate.
But he says the chain, which has 280 shops nationwide, each week changes 500 of the 5,000 items it stocks to "keep up with trends", such as a range of Minions products to tie in with the forthcoming film release, and give customers "new and exciting offers".
The chain has also recently launched an online shop, aimed at expanding its reach.
Poundland's Mr McCarthy says it is "reasonably well advanced" with similar plans, but it is also aiming to rapidly expand its physical presence.
It is using the funds from last year's Â£750m flotation on the London Stock Exchange to open more stores with a bullish long term target of opening 1,000 UK stores up from its current network of over 500 stores across the UK and Ireland.
A Â£55m deal to buy smaller rival 99p Stores and convert their shops into Poundlands, which is currently being reviewed by The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), would dramatically hasten its growth.
And in contrast to what you'd expect, Mr McCarthy says the "good times" are actually much better for sales.
"We've been going for 25 years and seen two recessions. In good times people feel more confident and go on more shopping trips which means we get more business".
He is equally upbeat about the firm's growth prospects, pointing to the success of US discount chain Dollar Tree, which has been going for half a century, for proof of Poundland's potential longevity.
But others are less certain, warning that the growth of the discounters has an obvious limit. "If there are five pound shops on the high street, people are not going to spend five times as much. They are in danger of reaching a peak," warns Ms Hinton.
Still, it remains hard to resist the lure of the bargain. Mr McCarthy admits that even he is not immune to the store's charms - describing it as a "Pandora's box treasure trove".
He buys phone charges, Toblerone chocolate bars and biographies. "It's very difficult not to be compelled to buy," he says.


Turkey's crackdown after the failed 15 July coup attempt is affecting media freedom, in a country where many journalists have already been harassed or arrested.

Amid a purge of the army and state institutions the authorities issued a decree closing 131 media outlets, for their alleged ties to the Hizmet movement of anti-government cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The government accuses him of organising the coup attempt - which he strongly denies.
Turkey already has a poor track record on media freedom, ranking 151 out of 180 countries in this year's World Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters without Borders (RWB).
The sheer number of media organisations now targeted means the space for opposition voices has shrunk.
One of the papers listed for closure is Zaman, which adopted a critical stance towards the government after a big rift opened up between Mr Gulen and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2013. The paper was put under government administration earlier this year.
Another is the Taraf daily, described by some as an opposition newspaper. It played a key role in the Ergenekon case - a series of high-profile trials involving more than 200 people, including army generals and journalists, accused of plotting against the government.
The paper's journalistic standards were criticised after documents which it published, implicating defendants, turned out to be fake.
The order to close various media outlets came after warrants were issued earlier this week for the arrest of 89 journalists.
There are suggestions that the government is using the coup attempt as a pretext to target critical journalists.
Reporter and columnist Nazli Ilicak was detained, to the surprise of colleagues.
The T24 internet newspaper commented: "What is the meaning of the detention of Nazli Ilicak, who has spent her entire life fighting against coups?"
Another of the detained journalists is award-winning Bulent Mumay, who used to work for the centre-right Hurriyet daily.
Mumay denies any involvement with the coup attempt and protested against his detention by posting a picture of his press card on Twitter and saying: "This is the only organisation I am a member of."
The government has also had an uneasy relationship with social media. On the night of the coup President Erdogan mobilised massive support against the army putschists by using social media - yet he has previously lashed out at Twitter.
In March 2014, the Turkish authorities temporarily blocked Twitter after Mr Erdogan had threatened to "wipe it out", amid corruption allegations against him and his son - allegations he denied.
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Cars formerly owned by royals and celebrities have been sold at auction for more than £450,000.

The lots included a Rolls-Royce Phantom owned by Sir Elton John, which went for £123,750.
A Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible, previously owned by the Qatari royal family, was snapped up for £135,000.
But a number of cars in the collection failed to achieve their reserve prices, including a 2012 Bentley Mulsanne owned by the Queen.
A 1994 Audi Cabriolet, previously owned by Princess Diana, was sold for £54,000.
Diana travelled about 4,000 miles in the car.
Other highlights during the auction included the sale of a 1972 Fiat 500L, which was bought by former Prime Minister David Cameron as a birthday present to his wife Samantha, and fetched £20,813.
A 1976 Bentley owned by Michael Winner and a 1980 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II, formerly owned by Princess Margaret, also failed to meet their reserves.
The Jewels In The Crown Collection went under the hammer at the NEC Classic Motor Show on Saturday and Sunday.


Expect the prime minister to use Downing Street's phrase of the moment "head and heart" when he gets to his feet in the Commons later.

That's Number 10's chosen way of explaining why he has completely changed his position on allowing more refugees in, while still trying to hold on to their main argument - not easy.
The immediate question, and Westminster guessing game, as MPs return from their summer break is how many more Syrian refugees the UK will accept, directly from the borders of that war torn country.
Mr Cameron has shifted his position dramatically in the past seven days, and is expected to say that over 10,000 of the most vulnerable will be brought to the country.
But while it's seemed, politically, he had no choice but to do something of that scale in the face of the public's response in the last few days, the government is all too aware it is trapped in a conundrum.
Ministers are loathe to do anything that makes the UK appear a more attractive destination for migrants - one said to me if the UK sends out a signal it's easy to come "more people will die in the water".
There has been a public outpouring of sympathy in the past few days. But that may well not last, and voters' appetite for large numbers of new arrivals is unlikely to be strong. Particularly when councils are already warning that they'd struggle to cope with the costs.
And remember, this government has already used up significant amounts of political capital promising to get immigration down, missing its own target again and again, but continuing to stick by it.
In the short term, David Cameron has made the politically inevitable choice.
But this may make some of his own long term ambitions harder to achieve.


Manager Walter Mazzarri is to leave Watford after Sunday's final game of the season at home to Manchester City.

The 55-year-old Italian was in charge of the Hornets, who are 16th in the Premier League, for less than a year.
Watford's next manager will be their ninth in five years and the eighth since the Italian Pozzo family took over the club in 2012.
Chairman Scott Duxbury announced the latest exit after the board "discussed goals and aspirations" with Mazzarri.
"It was decided he will be stepping down from his position as the club's head coach," said Duxbury.
Monday's 4-3 defeat at champions Chelsea was their fifth loss in a row, although the Hornets avoided relegation and are six points above the drop zone with a game to play.
The club announced in May 2016 that former Inter Milan boss Mazzarri would become head coach on a three-year deal from 1 July after the departure of Quique Sanchez Flores.
Flores left despite taking the club to the FA Cup semi-finals and comfortably retaining their Premier League status, while Slavisa Jokanovic exited a year earlier after leading Watford into the top flight.
Mazzarri, who guided Napoli to the 2012 Copa Italia title and runners-up spot in the 2013 Serie A, won 11 of his 37 Premier League matches at Watford.
The Italian, who conducted his press conferences through an interpreter, was hampered by injuries to key players but certain sections of the supporters did not warm to him.
Popular club captain Troy Deeney had been relegated to the bench in recent weeks,  and there were reports of player unrest.
Former Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri and Hull City's Marco Silva are the early bookmakers' favourites to replace Mazzarri.
BBC Three Counties Radio sports editor Geoff Doyle
There have been problems rumbling at Watford all season with Mazzarri in charge and it was just a question of when it would come to a head.
These have included training issues (players undercooked pre-season, overcooked towards the end of the season) causing unrest in the squad and possibly the reason for long-term injuries to five or six current key players.
His relationship with skipper Troy Deeney has appeared strained for most of the season with the influential captain dropped three times in the past two months.
There seems to have been unhappiness within the squad with the tactics, formations and philosophy of the 'old school' boss. It certainly appeared Mazzarri had 'lost' the dressing room weeks ago.
His lack of English has irritated the club, fans, media and players with instructions on the training ground and in games via interpreters.
When the bad run came, Mazzarri had little or no support anywhere around the club.  The inevitable has occurred.
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Manchester United defender Matteo Darmian is expected to miss out again with an ankle injury.

Adnan Januzaj is out with a hamstring injury, Marouane Fellaini is banned, while Bastian Schweinsteiger and Luke Shaw remain out through injury.
Bournemouth have no new injury problems but manager Eddie Howe says he might rotate his squad on Sunday.
Defender Sylvain Distin and Adam Smith both remain out with back and hernia problems respectively.
Guy Mowbray: "Like the whole country, Manchester United don't know whether they'll be in or out of Europe after the summer.
"All the options are possible, with their best-case Champions League (play-off round) scenario dependent on the double of a home win AND Swansea beating Manchester City.
"Bournemouth finally come to Old Trafford for a league game looking for a double of their own, having beaten United on the south coast in December.
"That's undoubtedly one of the highlights of their first ever top division season, with the fact that they'll be back again next year an achievement that has perhaps not had the recognition it deserves.
"Maybe one day Eddie Howe will be back at a big ground like this on a more fixed basis?"
Twitter: @Guymowbray
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal:  "We are dependent on Manchester City, that's the difference and that's also frustrating when you had the chance two matches before the end to keep that advantage.
"We were 2-1 ahead with 15 minutes to play and then we gave it away [against West Ham].
"That is frustrating and now we are dependent (on what City do), but still it is possible so we will fight until the end."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "It is nice to be involved in a game that means something.
"The last few games have been difficult for us because we have not been a team that are used to not having that competitive edge.
"In the last few seasons there has always been something on every game and we have become very accustomed to it and embraced the pressure and relished it in some ways."
Manchester United still have an outside chance of a top-four finish. They should have no problems winning but I do not see Manchester City being beaten at Swansea with what is at stake for them.
The Cherries will not just be rolled over at Old Trafford, but I don't see them stopping United from ending the season with a win.
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Saving a small amount of money regularly from when you start work will leave you better off than saving a bigger amount in later life.

Why? Because of compound interest.
When you save money, it earns interest.
The lump sum grows from interest being added every year or every month.
Interest added on top of that interest is known as "compound interest" - and means that the longer you save, the better off you are.
So people who leave it late - like Dave in the example above - have compounded their financial problems when it comes to cashing in their savings.
But it is worth remembering that pensions usually depend on the success of investments which, unlike savings, do not guarantee a set level of interest.


Scotland won a third Six Nations match in the same campaign for the first time since 2006 to send departing coach Vern Cotter out on a high at Murrayfield.

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Stuart Hogg's long-range penalty put the hosts ahead before Finn Russell finished off heavy pressure to score.
Replacement Matt Scott touched down the second for a 15-0 lead, with Italy's Carlo Canna missing three penalties.
The Azzurri botched two scoring chances before further tries from Tim Visser and Tommy Seymour sealed a bonus point.
Four tries brought Scotland's tally for the championship to 14, surpassing their record, set last year, of 11 for a Six Nations campaign.
Despite their three victories, the Scots had to settle for a repeat of last year's fourth-place finish, on points difference, after victories for France against Wales, and Ireland over England.
This was a 12th Six Nations defeat in a row for Italy, who finished with the Wooden Spoon for a 12th time in 18 seasons.
In the Edinburgh rain, mistakes were inevitable but the opening half was an error and penalty-fest, a grind that Scotland slowly but surely took control of.
Italy were a creative desert, a line-out horror-show, a goal-kicking nightmare. They lost four of eight line-outs in the first 40 minutes and missed three out of three kicks at goal. Two of those were straightforward, but Canna made a hash of both.
Scotland were ahead with a booming Hogg penalty, but the hosts had serious problems of their own despite having the lead.
Referee Pascal Gauzere got on their case early and he kept pinging them all day long. The Scots conceded five penalties in the opening 20 minutes, seven in the first 40 and a stratospheric 12 by the early minutes of the second half.
Of course, they also had a healthy lead by then. The first came at the end of mountainous pressure, Ali Price eventually put Russell over in the corner. The downside was that they lost Huw Jones to injury in the creation of the score, Scott replacing him.
Unlike poor Canna, Russell's kick was good and Scotland were ahead 10-0. Canna missed a second sitter and, soon after, Scotland had a second try when Price chipped over the top close to the Italian line for Hogg to win the aerial dual against Giovanbattista Venditti and bat the ball back into Scott's path. The centre had the easiest job in dotting it down.
Scotland had battled their way into the lead with the knowledge that Italy's second-half performances have been a calamity in this Six Nations. Before this game they conceded 70% of their points in the second half and an average of 20 points in the last 20 minutes of the second half.
It was Italy who came back strong, though. They camped themselves in the Scottish 22, forced Hogg into making a try-saver on Angelo Esposito, then went again. They won penalty after penalty. John Barclay disappeared to the bin and they won more penalties after that.
When it looked like they were about to break through, Edoardo Padovani knocked on with the line at his mercy. It was painful stuff for the visitors. They were undone by Scotland's defence, yes, but mostly by their own lack of wit. Italy had a chronic lack of imagination and accuracy.
Just after the hour, Scotland got their third try when Hogg scampered up the left wing, chipped ahead and Visser got the touchdown. Russell's conversion made it 22-0. For them, it was all about the four-try bonus point now.
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Scotland started to hit their stride and the crucial fourth try came after multiple phases drained the life out of the tiring Italians, Russell's lovely hands finding Hogg who put Seymour over. Once again Russell, kicking beautifully, was successful with the conversion.
Job done for Scotland. A third win in a championship that has seen them score more points (122) and more tries than they have ever done in the Six Nations. A decent farewell to Cotter, a man who has done so much to take the Scots from despair to hope.
Scotland: 15-Hogg; 14-Seymour, 13-Jones, 12-Dunbar, 11-Visser; 10-Russell, 9-Price; 1-Reid, 2-Ford, 3-Fagerson; 4-Gilchrist, 5-J Gray; 6-Barclay (captain), 7-Watson, 8-Wilson.
Replacements: 16-Brown (for Ford, 66), 17-Dell (for Reid, 56), 17-Berghan (for Fagerson, 66), 18-Du Preez (for Wilson, 49), 19-Swinson (for Gilchrist, 57), 20-Pyrgos (for Price, 54), 22-Weir (for Scott, 73), 23-Scott (for Jones, 26).
Yellow card: Barclay (49)
Italy: 15-Padovani; 14-Esposito, 13-Benvenuti, 12-McLean, 11-Venditti; 10-Canna, 9-Gori; 1-Lovotti, 2-Gega, 3-Cittadini, 4-Fuser, 5-Biagi, 6-Mbanda, 7-Steyn, 8-Parisse.
Replacements: 16-Ghiraldini (for Gega, 41), 17-Panico (for Lovotti, 63), 18-Chistolini (for Cittadini, 41), 19-Van Schalkwyk (for Fuser, 54), 20-Ruzza (for Biagi, 75), 21-Minto (for Mbanda, 54), 22-Violi (for Gori, 54), 23-Sperandio (for Canna, 63).
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Touch judges: Nigel Owens (Wales) & Luke Pearce (England)
TMO: Marius Jonker (South Africa)


The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster", a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report.

The disaster "could and should have been foreseen and prevented" and its effects "mitigated by a more effective human response", it said.
The report
 catalogued serious deficiencies in both the government and plant operator Tepco's response.
It also blamed cultural conventions and a reluctance to question authority.
By Mariko OiBBC News, Tokyo
While the report is highly critical of all the key parties, it digs even deeper. The panel called the disaster "Made in Japan", because the mindset that allowed the accident to happen can be found across the country.
It flagged up the bureaucracy's role in both promoting and regulating the nuclear industry, and also cultural factors such as a traditional reluctance to question authority.
The report was expected to use strong language, but not many thought it would be this harsh.
The panel also found that there was a possibility that the plant was damaged by the earthquake, contradicting the official position that only the tsunami contributed to the disaster.
It could put further pressure on the government, which recently authorised the restart of two nuclear reactors in western Japan. They were declared safe in April but the plant also sits on top of a fault line.
The six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was badly damaged after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems to reactors, leading to meltdowns and the release of radioactivity.
Tens of thousands of residents were evacuated from an exclusion zone around the plant as workers battled to bring reactors under control. Tepco declared the reactors stable in December 2011.
Members of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission were appointed to examine the handling of the crisis and make recommendations.
The investigation included 900 hours of hearings and interviews with more than 1,000 people.
In the panel's final report, its chairman said a multitude of errors and wilful negligence had left the plant unprepared for the earthquake and tsunami.
"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster," it said.
Fukushima report: Key points
"It was a profoundly man-made disaster - that could and should have been foreseen and prevented."
After six months of investigation, the panel concluded that the disaster "was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and Tepco" founded in the failure of regulatory systems.
It said that the situation at the plant worsened in the aftermath of the earthquake because government agencies "did not function correctly", with key roles left ambiguous.
It also highlighted communication failures between Tepco and the office of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan, whose visit to the site in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake "diverted" staff.
The report said regulators should "go through an essential transformation process" to ensure nuclear safety in Japan.
"Japan's regulators need to shed the insular attitude of ignoring international safety standards and transform themselves into a globally trusted entity," it said.
Fukushima versus Chernobyl?
Loss and recovery in numbers
The report made several recommendations including:
All of Japan's nuclear plants were shut down in the wake of the disaster. But on Sunday the first reactor was restarted in the town of Ohi in Fukui prefecture.
The restart sparked large protests in Tokyo but Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda urged support for the move, saying a return to nuclear power was essential for the economy.
The government is continuing to assess whether other nuclear plants are safe to be restarted.


A Fathers 4 Justice protester has been removed from the stage after interrupting a live-televised festival in the Republic of Ireland.

The man, dressed as a priest, stormed the stage of the Rose of Tralee International Festival in County Kerry on Monday night.
He held up a placard and shouted: "Fathers for justice!"
Television cameras cut away from the stage while the protester was removed by security.
The Rose of Tralee International Festival is a week-long pageant in which women of Irish descent from around the world vie to be named the Rose of Tralee.
The festival's organisers confirmed the man had purchased a ticket and was removed by Irish police after being taken from the stage.
They were satisfied adequate security measures were in place, they said in a statement.
The man took to the stage while the Cavan Rose, Lisa Reilly, was speaking to presenter Dáithí Ó Sé.
Irish Independent journalist Andrea Smith described the stage invasion as "very shocking".
"It was like something out of Father Ted, as suddenly a man dressed as a priest runs onto the stage, nobody knows what to do and he's shouting about Fathers 4 Justice," Ms Smith, who was live-blogging the event, told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"It probably gave the organisers such a fright, but it's also probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened in the history of the Rose of Tralee," she said.
It is understood the man was Matt O'Connor, a founder of Fathers 4 Justice, who is originally from County Kerry but now lives in England.
The group are best known for a series of high-profile stunts.
In 2004, a campaigner dressed as Batman held a protest on a balcony of Buckingham Palace.
Earlier that same year, two men threw packages of flour dyed purple at the then prime minister Tony Blair.


A road closed by a vehicle fire in Rhondda Cynon Taff has now reopened.

Police shut a section of the A4119 at Ynysmaerdy, near Llantrisant, in both directions from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital to the nearby industrial estate.
The alarm was raised at about 05:40 GMT.
South Wales Police said specialist units were sent to the scene.


Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and musician Sting are among the cultural figures to be awarded this year's Kennedy Center honours.

Singer Al Green, actress Lily Tomlin and ballet dancer Patricia McBride will also receive the decorations at a White House reception on 7 December.
The movie star said the honour added to being "a fortunate man, in that I love the work I do".
Figures who have influenced US culture through the arts are awarded annually.
It is relatively rare for a British artist, such as Sting, to be recognised. He likened it to receiving an artistic knighthood in the UK.
He told the BBC: "It was very unexpected. I'm thrilled. I'm only the 18th British person to receive it, along with Cary Grant and Julie Andrews.
"I'm definitely the first Geordie ever to get it," said the singer, who was born in Wallsend.
Green, one of the defining voices of Memphis soul, said that his career had been "a funny voyage", while Tomlin, whose screen credits include 9 to 5 and The West Wing, said she was "astounded" to find out that she will be honoured.
McBride, now 72, became the New York City Ballet's youngest principal dancer at the age of 18, a position she held for 28 years.
Kennedy Center chairman David M Rubenstein said the honours "celebrate five extraordinary individuals who have spent their lives elevating the cultural vibrancy of our nation and the world.
"Al Green's iconic voice stirs our souls in a style that is all his own; Tom Hanks has a versatility that ranks him among the greatest actors of any generation.
"One of the world's greatest ballerinas, Patricia McBride, continues to carry forward her legacy for future generations; Sting's unique voice and memorable songwriting have entertained audiences for decades.
"And from the days of her early television and theatrical appearances, Lily Tomlin has made us laugh and continues to amaze us with her acting talent and quick wit," he added.
The five award-winners will be received by President and Mrs Obama before a star-studded gala, which will be subsequently broadcast on US television.


Pope Francis's visit to the United States has been marked in an unexpected way by some Americans.

From Florida to New York and Pennsylvania dog owners have been dressing their pets in canine papal outfits with the hashtag #popedog on Instagram.
"Everyone loves cute puppies, and everyone loves Pope Francis," said John Scorr from Brooklyn, who dressed three-year-old Puggle Giles in full papal regalia (minus the staff).
"In America, we like combining the things we love.
"Giles wanted to show his support for a more progressive pontiff. Also, I suspect the Holy Father himself would find it funny."
Melissa Joy, who photographed Colin and Erica Cissne's dog Babs, in Philadelphia said: "It's very festive, and embracing of a huge event that's happening in our city."
Asked if the Pope was aware of the trend, a Vatican spokeswoman said: "I don't know if he's conscious of that. I imagine he has more important things to think about."
Dressing dogs as popes may not be a new phenomenon, however.
The Twitter account PopeDog was set up in 2013 as "a bit of fun", apparently inspired by a video of Pope costumes being made for dogs in Germany that was posted online in 2008.
Remarking on the latest craze, 'PopeDog' who owns three dogs and works in IT in the British town of Swindon said: "The US have always been crazy bonkers for dressing up their dogs, and the Pope's outfits are crying out for some canine fashion pimping - it's a collision of awesome."


Politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon have condemned plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system, at a London rally.

Thousands of people joined a march and the rally in Trafalgar Square.
Labour leader Mr Corbyn said peace was not achieved by "planning for war", while Scottish First Minister Ms Sturgeon described Trident as "immoral" and "impractical".
The MoD estimates renewing the Trident system will cost Â£31bn over 20 years.
That involves acquiring four new submarines to carry the missiles, while a further Â£10bn has been earmarked for any unexpected costs.
Mr Corbyn told campaigners: "We live in a world where so many things are possible. Where peace is possible in so many places.
"You don't achieve peace by planning for war, grabbing resources and not respecting each other's human rights."
He added: "Today's demonstration is an expression of many people's opinions and views. I'm here because I believe in a nuclear-free Britain and a nuclear-free future."
Mr Corbyn has asked shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry to carry out a review of Labour defence policy, including its stance on Trident renewal.
The Labour leader supports unilateral disarmament but some members of the shadow cabinet, including shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, are in favour of Trident.
SNP leader Ms Sturgeon said the norm in the world today was to be nuclear-free.
"It is the exception to the rule to possess nuclear weapons, let that message ring out loudly and clearly,"  she said.
"The use of Trident nuclear weapons would bring about human devastation and suffering on an unimaginable scale."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "The world has been and continues to be an unstable and unpredictable place but there are some values that we should hold on to through peace, through war, through instability and unpredictability.
"It is never acceptable, it is never justifiable to unleash weapons of mass destruction on a population. Nuclear weapons belong in the dustbin of history alongside the Cold War."
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas described nuclear weapons as "a Cold War relic".
"To contemplate using nuclear weapons is both illegal and immoral," she said.
Actress and campaigner Vanessa Redgrave also spoke at the Stop Trident event, which was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Supporters say Trident is indispensable for protecting the UK's security, and the nuclear defence industry is also a major employer.
Replacing Trident was a Conservative manifesto pledge at the general election.
A Commons vote on Trident renewal is expected to be held later this year.


A £144m fund to pay for 52,000 apprenticeships in Wales will be announced on Thursday.

The cash will be spent on schemes across Wales over the next four years.
The majority of places will be targeted at 16-24 year olds and will allow people to earn a wage while learning new skills through training providers in areas including IT and construction.
It is being funded by £73m in EU funding on top of Welsh government money.
Money will be spent on schemes in Conwy, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Denbighshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen.
This is a significant sum of money targeted at trying to create a more skilled nation to improve prosperity.
The Welsh government says it will mean keeping the apprenticeship budget at around £90m a year.
The National Training Federation Wales says, in reality, the budget is less than it has been in previous years and the number of apprentices is falling.
Apprenticeships has been a key election issue with the parties promising extra money to create many more in the UK in the next parliament.
This also lets the Welsh government highlight the role of European funds in the economy with EU membership, another significant election issue, though it will do nothing to change the minds of who want the UK to leave.


Tennis star Serena Williams has announced that she is getting married.

She posted a poem on the social media site Reddit to say that her boyfriend, Alexis Ohanian, had asked her to marry him.
She said he proposed to her in Rome, where they first met - and she said yes.
Serena won her seventh Wimbledon title this year, taking her to 22 Grand Slam titles overall.
Alexis is the co-founder of Reddit and started it in 2005, with his friend from college.


Two building site workers killed when a crane collapsed in Crewe have been identified.

David Newall, 36, from Bradford, and Rhys Barker, 18, from Castleford, West Yorkshire died at the site in Dunwoody Way on Wednesday.
A 45-year-old man from Glossop, who was working near the crane, is in a stable condition in hospital.
Post-mortem tests found the two men died from crush injuries. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating.
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Mr Barker's family said it was his first job.
His former school Airedale Academy paid tribute to him, saying he was a "lovely young man with his whole life ahead of him".
Principal Elizabeth Fairhurst said Mr Barker had studied business and left last year.
"He was a friendly young man, extremely well-mannered, who was popular with other students.
"His teachers remember him as hardworking, dedicated and quiet; he regularly took part in sporting events for the school," she said.
She said one of his friends was fundraising for money for a memorial bench in the school grounds and students had organised a balloon release in his memory.
A parent and child were taken to hospital as a precaution because the crane damaged a nearby home.
Police said the three men were "working on the crane" when the accident happened.
The man in hospital, believed to be the crane driver, has serious injuries but they are not thought to be life-threatening.
The building site - formerly part of the Bombardier Works complex - belongs to Seddon Homes. Its chief executive said he could not speculate about what had happened.
A man who lives nearby, who only gave his name as Jason, told BBC Radio Stoke the crane - being used to help build new homes - had been lifting tools before it fell.
"They finished the work, the crane positioned itself facing Bombardier.
"The guys finished their work and they were still up there when all of a sudden, it slowly just started to tilt, tilt tilt.
"Guys started shouting and it completely fell on the floor."
Steven Hogben, a Labour councillor on Cheshire East Council, said he drove past the site a few minutes before the accident.
He said he had thought the crane looked "amazingly high".
"It was a tall crane which only appeared a few days ago," he said.
"I'm not aware of any concerns having been raised about it."


Welsh adventurer Richard Parks said he was forced to abandon his expedition of Mount Everest after a blood test revealed he was a "ticking time bomb".

The 38-year-old had been attempting to become the first person to take blood and muscle samples at the summit to investigate the effects of altitude.
But after reaching Camp Two on the mountain, he discovered he had dangerously thick blood that left him at risk of a heart attack or stroke.
"I could have died," he said.
The former Wales rugby international, originally from Pontypridd, was climbing without using supplemental oxygen as part of the collaborative British research expedition called Project Everest Cynllun.
It was hoped data from the world-first bid would allow researchers to explore the mechanisms underpinning dementia and resilience.
Parks had climbed to 6,400m (21,000ft) above sea level earlier this month - the summit is 8,848m (29,029ft) - when his team decided to check his blood.
"If it wasn't for that unscheduled blood test I could have obliviously been stood on the summit now or I could be dead," he told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme.
"At sea level this would have been a very dangerous situation. But at the altitude I was and with the exertion levels I was under I could have been a ticking time bomb."
He added he was undergoing more tests to find out what caused the anomaly in his blood.
Despite feeling disappointment about the outcome of the trek - which he had been working on for two years - he said he was pleased scientists could still use the data he had collected for their work.
He added: "I think in this chapter of my life, success is not black and white as it was on the rugby field.
"I'm an ambitious man and I was really passionate about this project. It's been a difficult situation to process."
Parks, who had previously climbed Everest and trekked solo to the South Pole, said his next challenge was starting a degree in psychology at the University of South Wales in September.
"I'm going to take some time to reflect and spend time with loved ones," he added.


A first day of voting has been taking place in Egypt on a new constitution that could pave the way for fresh elections.

But clashes involving supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi led to several deaths.
The new charter is to replace the constitution passed under Mr Morsi before he was forced out by the army.
The military wants a strong Yes vote in the two-day referendum to endorse his removal.
Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, now designated a terrorist group, is boycotting the vote.
His supporters clashed with security forces in several parts of Egypt and officials said nine people had died:
Shortly before voting began, there was an explosion near a court building in Cairo's Imbaba district, although no casualties were reported.
James Reynolds, Cairo
Many of the hundreds queuing up at this polling station in Nasr City see the referendum as a personal vote in favour of Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Several military Chinook helicopters flew overhead. A military convoy drove outside the polling station - on the bonnet of one vehicle was a picture of Gen Sisi.
Sally Nabil, Alexandria
It was a calm morning. The security presence is quite heavy, but the forces remained at a distance, keeping an eye all around, whether from the roofs or both inside and outside the polling stations.
Abdel Bassir Hassan, Mansoura
There was a considerable turnout at polling stations during the first hours of the vote, although numbers are reducing as the day goes on.
Ahmed Kilany, Assiut
In the first hours of voting, numbers have been significant, although in the surrounding villages turnout is more limited.
Correspondents' round-up
A huge security operation is being mounted for the two days of voting. Some 160,000 soldiers and more than 200,000 policemen are being deployed nationwide.
Army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, wearing dark sunglasses and khaki fatigues, visited one polling station in north Cairo, telling guards there: "Work hard. We need the referendum to be completely secured."
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo says this has been a distorted campaign, with endorsements for the new constitution flooding state-run and private TV and radio.
However, spotting any posters from the No campaign is a lot harder and people have been arrested for putting them up, our correspondent says.
Democratic or not, she says, the referendum is seen by many as more than a ballot on a new constitution - it is widely viewed as a verdict on the removal of Mr Morsi.
State-run media were on Tuesday describing the vote as a "democratic ceremony" - a term widely used during the Hosni Mubarak era but not heard since he was ousted in the revolution of January 2011.
One voter in Cairo, Salah Mustafa, told the BBC: "Compared with the document that we had last year, which was a really horrible constitution, there's a lot of rights."
But Mohammed Soudan, a spokesman for the Brotherhood's political wing, said most people were boycotting the vote, adding: "This is a message that we are not recognising this kind of new power."
Interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi has called the referendum the "most critical moment" for Egypt.
"I will boycott because my vote doesn't matter"
Rawan Ahmed, 23
Egyptians' hopes and fears
Egyptian media lauds referendum
Interim President Adly Mansour said after voting: "The people must prove to dark terrorism that they fear nothing."
The new constitution was drafted by a 50-member committee that included only two representatives of Islamist parties.
The authorities maintain that it is a crucial step towards stability.
Under the new constitution:
Critics say the new constitution favours the army at the expense of the people, and fails to deliver on the 2011 revolution.
A Yes vote could lead to fresh elections and it now seems certain that Gen Sisi, who backed Mr Morsi's removal following mass protests, will run for president.
Timeline: Pro-Morsi protests
The constitution is expected to attract a resounding Yes vote, but the turnout is key, analysts say.
The last charter, passed just over a year ago, was approved by 63.8%, but only 32.9% of the population voted.
Mohammed Morsi was Egypt's first democratically elected president but was deposed by the military last July.
He is being held in jail in Alexandria, facing several criminal charges relating to his time in office - which he says are politically motivated.
More than 1,000 people have died in violence since Mr Morsi's overthrow.


Southend boss Phil Brown says he would buy all 231 fans that made the 384-mile round trip to see them beat Shrewsbury on Tuesday a pint if he could.

Stephen Hendrie's 79th-minute winner gave Brown's 10-man side a 2-1 victory to lift them to seventh in League One.
"Tuesday night at Shrewsbury in the middle of winter, my word you have to be an absolute stalwart of a supporter," Brown told BBC Essex.
"I would like to buy every one of them a pint on their way home if I could."
Brown, who saw Michael Timlin sent off before Hendrie's winner, continued: "It was great to get the winning goal in front of them as well - they wouldn't have seen the amount of defending we had to do in the second half.
"Decisions seemed to be going against us. I thought it was going to be 'we'll play until they (Shrewsbury) score' - that's the way the referee seemed to be refereeing it at the end - but hey-ho, we got the victory in the end and everybody has played a massive part in it."
Southend suffered three straight defeats around New Year to drop off the play-off pace, including a 4-0 home loss to Millwall.
But after a 0-0 draw at fellow top-six hopefuls Peterborough, they have now won both of their subsequent matches going into Saturday's derby with Colchester.
"I think we turned a corner with the 0-0 draw at Peterborough - certainly (Southend goalkeeper Dan Bentley's) penalty save in the 95th minute was a key factor with regards to then getting two wins on the bounce," said Brown.
"We seem to be catching teams at the right time which is always nice, if you're going to get success timing is going to be important."


BBC Radio Manchester is taking a journey across Greater Manchester's 10 boroughs to meet some of the most inspiring people who live in the region.

Three years ago, rugby league legend Andy Johnson and his wife Alex received the news that all parents dread - their "cheeky, excitable and a big softy at heart" young son was diagnosed with an incurable condition which will probably claim his life before he turns 30.
They were told Jack has Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy - a terminal muscle-wasting disease.
Doctors predict their energetic little boy, who is now aged seven, will be in a wheelchair by the age of 12.
Former Wigan Warriors star Johnson, who lives in Wigan with Alex, Jack and his little brother, three-year-old Josh, knows it is a race against time to find a cure.
The couple decided they had to do something to try to push research for a cure.
"A breakthrough is imminent," said Andy, 40, who retired from rugby league in 2005.
With Alex, 30, he set up a charity, Joining Jack, "to help move things forward for Jack and other children like him".
While focussing much of their energies on the charity, Andy admits it is impossible not to cry on a daily basis when thinking about what faces Jack.
"It's like little deaths," he said. "You lose the use of your arms, then your legs."
Nothing short of a cure can make it better, Andy said, but he says the support his family has had from people has been overwhelming.
The charity is now backed by some of the country's biggest sports stars, including Olympic champion and Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and dual-code rugby player Sam Burgess.
As for Jack himself, does he know about his condition?
"Jack's aware that something is going on," said Andy. "But not quite what".
You can hear the Tales of the 10 on BBC Radio Manchester each weekday until Friday, 23 January.


The controversy over the British and Irish Lions call-ups influenced the decision not to bring them off the bench against the Hurricanes, says coach Warren Gatland.

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Five of the eight replacements did not feature as the Lions let slip a 14-point lead to draw 31-31 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.
George Kruis and Leigh Halfpenny came off the bench, but Finn Russell - as a brief replacement - was the only 'geographical' call-up to play a part.
Gatland said: "So much was made about devaluing the jersey, so we made a decision we would try and get through the game with as many of the starting XV as we could."
Russell, Allan Dell, Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill and Gareth Davies were drafted into the squad as injury cover because they were already in Australasia with their national teams.
A host of former Lions criticised the decision to select players for logistical reasons rather than on merit.
Of the six, only Dell - against the Chiefs - and Russell - on Tuesday - have played for the Lions in New Zealand, and both only briefly.
"I understand people's views, so you've got to take cognisance of that," said Gatland.
"So we make a collective decision that we make them injury or HIA (head injury assessment) replacements, which is what happened on two occasions."
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The Lions trail 1-0 in the three-Test series against the All Blacks.
Second rows Courtney Lawes and Iain Henderson stood out in Wellington, with Lawes' withdrawal early in the second half pointing to his inclusion in the 23-man squad for the second Test at the same ground on Saturday.
Henderson was the Lions' outstanding performer, but a yellow card for foul play after 65 minutes proved costly as the Hurricanes came from behind to salvage a draw.
"He carried fantastically well," said Gatland, who described Henderson's yellow card as a "crucial moment".
"It was a penalty to us which ends up being a penalty reversed and a yellow card and that's the game."
Gatland added: "Courtney Lawes carried well too in the first half. It's a position right from the start where we knew we had a lot of strength.
"It's a toss-up in terms of selection. Those two guys had really strong games tonight to give us some real food for thought."
Gatland said the coaching staff will meet on Wednesday evening to discuss the squad and tell the players on Thursday.
New Zealander Gatland said he does not care that the New Zealand Herald newspaper mocked up a picture of him as a clown on their front page.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen described Gatland's accusations that New Zealand illegally targeted scrum-half Conor Murray in the first Test as "desperate".
"I'm not worried about what Steve Hansen says or what any newspaper draws me up as," said Gatland. "I just hope it was a happy clown!
"There's been a significant campaign against me personally, but that's water off a duck's back to me.
"I've just got to concentrate on doing my job and not worry about any specific individuals who try and make it personal. It's part of professional sport."


A possible sighting of missing Hampshire man Jason Gates is being investigated by police.

The 36-year old was reported missing on 17 March after his dog Max was linked to an incident in which three sheep were killed.
A member of the public reported seeing a man matching Jason's description near the Abriachan woodlands car park, on the Great Glen Way, on Sunday.
A jacket found near to where the dog was found has been identified as his.
Police have appealed to anyone who was in the area on Sunday and may have seen the man to contact them.
Mr Gates has been described as 6ft 3in, of slim build. He has short grey hair and stubble. It is not known what clothes he was wearing but he was often known to wear black jeans, a T-shirt, and a black padded jacket or a tweed jacket.
He was last seen in the Drumnadrochit area.
The area was busy with families and walkers at the time, and police are asking anyone who was there and may have seen him to get in touch.
They have also asked residents to check outbuildings, sheds and holiday homes.


Sheffield Wednesday's latest signing Joe Bennett has said he wants to help the club challenge for promotion.

The Aston Villa left-back, 25, signed a season-long loan deal with the Owls after a loan spell at Bournemouth.
Bennett believes that he has a lot to offer Wednesday, who have won their last three consecutive league games.
"I like to get forward and be creative, and I think I can add something to that part of their game," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"I think Wednesday will be up there at the end of the season and that's exactly why I came here."
He played 42 games for Brighton last season but his time at Bournemouth was cut short by an Achilles injury.
Bennett has made 30 league appearances for Aston Villa and says he was encouraged to join Wednesday following a conversation with former Villa team-mate Barry Bannan.
"I spoke to (Wednesday midfielder) Barry and he said he is really enjoying it here," Bennett added.
"He said he loved it up there and he's been playing really well. There's no reason why I can't do the same."


A teenager has been stabbed to death during a fight in north London.

Police had been called to the junction between Tottenham Green and Tynemouth Road at 17:15 BST over reports of several youths fighting with weapons.
They found the boy, who is believed to be aged 17, with critical knife injuries. He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.
Scotland Yard said officers were in the process of informing next of kin and have appealed for witnesses.
A spokesperson added the murder is not being linked to terrorism.


Chapecoense have won their first title since most of their team were killed in a plane crash.

Only three of the Brazilian club's players survived November's crash, when 71 of 77 people on board died.
Top clubs from Brazil and Argentina offered to loan players to Chapocense, who signed 25 new players this season and promoted nine from the youth team.
They lifted the Santa Catarina state championship on Sunday for the second straight year, despite losing to Avai.
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Chapecoense were beaten 1-0 in Sunday's final play-off, but their 1-0 victory in the first leg meant their better record over the course of the season was decisive.
The club dedicated the win to those who were killed, with new coach Vagner Mancini saying: "We knew that Chape would have a lot of difficulties because of the rebuilding of the team, but because of the work we reached the title, beating opponents who are rivals and difficult to beat."
The crash happened on 29 November as the squad travelled to face Colombian side Atletico Nacional in the final of the Copa Sudamericana. Nineteen players and staff died.


Former Rangers, Hearts and Scotland defender Sandy Jardine has died at the age of 65.

Rangers confirmed that Jardine had lost an 18-month battle against cancer on Thursday evening.
He was part of their European Cup Winners' Cup-winning team of 1972 and played 38 times for his country.
He was respected not only by Rangers fans but also the wider football community
Ibrox manager Ally McCoist said everyone at Rangers was devastated at the loss of "a legend" and "a great man".
And the club said their thoughts were with his wife Shona, children Steven and Nicola, his grandchildren and friends.
Hearts also extended their condolences to his family, with the Tynecastle club adding they were deeply saddened at the death of a club legend.
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Edinburgh-born Jardine began his career with Rangers in 1965 and went on to make over 600 appearances for the Ibrox side.
As well as playing in the club's European triumph in 1972, the full-back won three top-flight titles, five Scottish Cups and five Scottish League Cups with Rangers.
A move to Hearts followed in 1982 and, along with former Rangers team-mate Alex MacDonald, he was joint-manager at Tynecastle between 1986 and 1988.
Under their command, the Edinburgh club lost out on the Scottish title on the final day of the 1985-86 season, Celtic taking advantage of Hearts' defeat at Dundee to pip them to the crown.
Jardine's on-field contribution that term was such, though, that he was named Scotland's player of the year for the second time at the age of 37. The honour came 11 years after he first won the award.
After his playing career ended, he returned to work for Rangers in various roles. In November 2012, it was confirmed Jardine was being treated for cancer.
"He was respected not only by Rangers fans but also the wider football community and he is a huge loss to the game," McCoist said on Rangers' website.
"I had the privilege of watching Sandy playing for Rangers when I was a young boy, I had enjoyed the pleasure of working with him closely since I returned to the club in 2007 and he was a truly remarkable human being.
"His achievements both on and off the pitch are second to none and I was honoured to regard him as a friend.
"He gave everything for this great club and worked tirelessly in a number of roles because he wanted to ensure the traditions, history and standards at Rangers were maintained.
"He recently told me he was proud to be a Ranger and wanted to be remembered forever as a Ranger. Well Sandy, you will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time and we will miss you terribly."
During his time at Ibrox, Jardine was a team-mate of Sir Alex Ferguson. The former Manchester United manager and his wife, Cathy, added their own tribute.
"From Cathy and I, this is some of the worst news we have heard," he said. "Sandy was a noble and courageous man.
"The respect he is held in at Rangers is immense. He was one of the greatest players ever to wear the jersey. To Shona and family, we express our sympathy and sadness."
Jardine's international career spanned nine years and included appearances at the 1974 and 1978 World Cup tournaments. He captained his country on nine occasions.
Campbell Ogilvie, the Scottish FA President, added his condolences. "I am extremely saddened by the news of Sandy's passing," he said.
"I have known him for more than 40 years and found him to be as warm and courteous off the field as he was reliable and elegant on it.
"As well as being a talisman for both Rangers and Heart of Midlothian during an illustrious and enduring playing career, he was also a terrific servant to the Scotland national team."
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell also paid tribute to Jardine. "This is absolutely devastating news," he said.
"He was a very fine man and it was a privilege to know him. Sandy was widely respected across the game and he will be sadly missed by us all."


The beginning of our five-match one-day series against West Indies on Saturday comes at the end of Women's Sport Week and after a landmark summer for women's cricket in England.

To mark Women's Sport Week 2016, England captain and regular BBC Sport columnist Heather Knight looks at the perception of women's cricket around the world, as she prepares for her first overseas international series as skipper.
Two years ago, I found myself halfway up Mount Kilimanjaro facing, and being dwarfed by, the "Barranco Wall" - the steepest section of the ascent that literally looks like an inaccessible giant wall in front of you.
One of the group asked how on earth we were we going to make it up there without any climbing equipment?  "There is a path but it's a tricky one" was the response, causing some of the group to turn a slightly paler colour!
A glance behind to see the clouds below, however, showed how far we had come and on we plodded.  It feels like women's cricket globally is in a similar position to this, having come a long way, still with a long way to go - but it feels like we are just starting to crack that "Barranco Wall".
The first Kia Super League, in the same year as the inaugural Women's Big Bash League in Australia this year, is a continuation of incredible progress being made in the women's game.
The Super League and Big Bash were both very successful, on and off the pitch. There are more professional contracts on offer for women cricketers, an increase in TV and radio coverage and, most importantly, more people coming to watch matches.
The Super League in particular generated more interest than I thought it would.  It was brilliant to see such fantastic crowds throughout the group stages of the competition and on finals day in Chelmsford.
I am incredibly lucky to play in a country where the governing body, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has invested so much in all levels of the women's game.
The likes of Australia and New Zealand are the same, too. In Australia, New South Wales have just gone fully professional and players from both countries are affiliated to the men's players' unions, just like we are part of the Professional Cricketers' Association.
However, players in some other countries aren't as lucky and this is where even more progress can be made.
In Sri Lanka, they play hardly any cricket outside of internationals, while the Pakistan team used to have to train behind closed doors.
But it's not about only looking after the very best players. Money at the top obviously helps, but it is also about opportunities, facilities and infrastructure.
The next big opportunity in this country is the Women's World Cup, which England is hosting next summer. The marketing campaign for this has been released this week to coincide with Women's Sport Week, and I know that everyone at the ECB and International Cricket Council are already working really hard to deliver the biggest and best global women's cricket event there has ever been.
I think one aim is to sell out Lord's for the final - it is amazing to think that there could be 28,500 people at the home of cricket watching women's cricket.
England have the best supporters of women's cricket in the world, so I have every confidence that this could happen, and the upward trend in the game will continue.
Following our World Cup next summer, England is also due to host the women's hockey and netball World Cups in 2018 and 2019 respectively. To mark this unique opportunity for women's sport, the ECB, England Hockey and England Netball have come together to launch "TeamUp", with the dual aims of promoting each event, alongside encouraging women and girls across the country to get involved and play the three sports.
I was involved in the official launch of "TeamUp" earlier this week, and enjoyed a morning at St Edward's Primary School in north London, meeting England women's hockey captain, Kate Richardson-Walsh, and England netballer, Jo Harten. It's always great to meet players from other sports, and I look forward to catching up with them again and supporting them over the next three years.
The World Cup, though, is for next summer, and our immediate focus is on the five matches here in Jamaica.
Our preparations have been disrupted by Hurricane Matthew, which thankfully didn't turn out to be as strong in Jamaica as other parts of the Caribbean, which have been devastated.
For a little while, everything stopped. The hotel was boarded up and we could not train at the Trelawny Stadium because the staff there had gone to make sure their homes were prepared.
At times like that, you really find out who your friends are, going off the messages you receive checking that you're OK. I heard from mates and my boyfriend back home, but I didn't even get a message from my parents!
The girls were pretty chilled about it, though there was a little concern when we realised how strong the storm could be, and our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected, in particular in Haiti over the last couple of days.
In the end, it passed us here in Montego Bay with rain, but not a great deal of wind and we were allowed out pretty quickly. Still, because we couldn't go to the stadium, we ended up practising on the beach.
We did some bowling, throwing, and fielding. Trying to pick up a ball on the uneven ground, or spotting the white leather against white sand is harder than you think.
This tour is my first as captain and comes after we beat Pakistan convincingly at home in the summer. On that occasion, I don't think Pakistan played poorly; it's just that we were brilliant.
Now we face the World T20 champions on their home patch, so it is certainly going to be another test for us and we will no doubt learn even more about where we are as a team.
The Windies are just above us in the ICC Women's Championship and have home advantage, but we have prepared for slow, turning pitches and long, straggly outfields.
They have world-class players, but we are ready. It will be an exciting challenge.
BBC Test Match Special will have ball-by-ball commentary on England's one-day international series in West Indies, which runs from 8-19 October, with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website. You can read more BBC columns from Heather during the winter.


A man has been jailed for two years after being found guilty of attempting to steal cash from an ATM.

Ross Terry, 26, of Arnall Drive, Henbury, Bristol, used a crowbar to try and force open a cash machine at a service station on Badminton Road in Downend, last August.
He was caught after he left a dustpan and brush at the scene and police discovered his fingerprint.
Police said he failed to steal any money from the ATM.
Terry fled the scene after an alarm went off, leaving behind a number of items.
Following a forensic analysis of the dustpan and brush police discovered a fingerprint which matched Terry's. His car was also seen driving round the area at the time.
PC Gemma Crew said: "Terry attempted to steal the cash inside the ATM and failed.
"He then tried to deny being involved in the attack, despite being forensically linked to the scene, but the jury saw through his lies and convicted him."


The family of a murdered teenager from Ballykelly, County Londonderry have turned to social media in a bid to find answers to his death 16 years ago.

Jonathan Cairns was 18 when he was attacked on his way home from a night out on 25 April 1999.
A man was jailed for five years for helping to dispose of his body, but no-one has ever been convicted of his murder.
His body was found in Loughermore Forest the day after his murder.
Jonathan's father Raymond remembers the day his son's body was discovered.
His clothes were found at the site of a nearby school the day after he went missing.
"There was a pair of shoes with trousers and a shirt and all on top of it soaked in blood. So I went across and I knew it was Jonathan's clothes," said Raymond.
Jonathan's body was found after in a shallow grave in Loughermore Forest, not far from his home.
"In among the trees there was a bit of fresh digging and someone gave it a lift and out came Jonathan's arm out of the ground," added Raymond.
Hazel Cairns said time does help but that the hurt does not go away.
"I can see him smiling, he was always smiling anyway. He was just happy."
Jonathan's room has been left untouched since the day he was killed.
"I go into the room and his clothes are there, his bed is the same and nobody sleeps in his room,"  said his mother.
"I'll never be anything else but angry. They took Jonathan away from me. Why did they not come forward and say why?
"They didn't really know him, so why touch him? The evil was in their mind that's all, they wouldn't do it to an animal."
The family have now setup a Facebook page called 'Justice for Jonathan Cairns'. Hazel hopes that it will encourage people to come forward with vital evidence.
"Please keep on trying, if you find anything, hear anything, hear whispers or anything. Don't be sitting back," said Hazel.
"Jonathan knew I loved him, he did. He was a good boy and all his family loved him."
In a statement Det Ch Insp John McVea, who is leading the murder enquiry, said that the investigation remains open and police would encourage anyone who has information that could help bring Jonathan's killer, or killers, to justice to contact them.
A Â£30,000 reward is still in place.


A police force has secured £450,000 from the Home Office to investigate the disappearance of toddler Ben Needham for another six months.

Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he went missing after travelling to the Greek island of Kos in 1991
His mother Kerry has always maintained her son is alive and was probably abducted.
Dr Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, said the search would be reviewed in October.
He said that by October if "all that could be done has been done" then it would be the end of the investigation.
Amongst other things the new money will help send officers from the South Yorkshire force to Kos.
Ben vanished on 24 July 1991, after travelling to Kos with his mother and grandparents who were renovating a farmhouse in the village of Iraklise.
A DNA test was carried out on a man in Cyprus in an attempt to establish if he could be the toddler, but proved negative in 2013.
In 2012, a police operation focused on a mound of earth and rubble close to where Ben was last seen, but no trace of him was found.


Scientists have detected water-ice on the surface of an asteroid.

The first-time observation was made on 24 Themis, a huge rock that orbits almost 480 million km out from the Sun.
The researchers say that ice is not stable in such circumstances and has to be replenished by some means - perhaps from inside the object.
They tell Nature magazine the finding plays into the theory that much of the water in Earth's oceans was delivered from space.
"It's interesting that we have detected ice on an asteroid because there have been suggestions that water on Earth came from impacts with many asteroids in Earth's early history," said Professor Humberto Campins, from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, US.
"This detection of water-ice on the surface of an asteroid supports that idea," he told BBC News.
24 Themis is about 200km in diameter, making it one of the biggest rocks in the main asteroid belt.  It orbits at more than one-and-a-half-times the Sun-Mars distance.
The observation that its surface is frosted was confirmed by two independent teams - one led by Professor Campins - who examined how light was reflected off the body using the US space agency's (Nasa) Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
The teams also found a signature for complex organic, or carbon-rich, compounds.
Scientists have long since detected hydrated, or water-containing, minerals on the surfaces of asteroids - but this is a first in terms of an observation of exposed water-ice.
The researchers were drawn to make the study because smaller fragments of the rock broken off during an ancient collision look rather like comets when viewed through telescopes, and this suggested they and the larger body might harbour significant quantities of ice.
But to find it covering the surface is unexpected, say the researchers. In sunlight, and with no pressure from an atmosphere, the ice would be expected to vaporise rapidly.
This indicates the ice disappearing at the surface is constantly being replaced.
One scenario thought highly unlikely is that Themis has had a recent collision with an icy comet.
More probable explanations are that frequent impacts with smaller rocks are turning over the surface to release hidden reserves of ice, or that vapour from ice held deeper inside the asteroid is continually out-gassing and condensing briefly on the surface.
Theorists have been concerned for some time that the Earth may have formed at too high a temperature to have started with much water, and it has become a popular theory that much of the water we see today must have come in from elsewhere.
Comets contain a lot of water and impacts could have delivered large volumes.  But perhaps not enough, says Dr Andy Rivkin, from Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, US, who led the other research team.
Also, the type of atoms (isotopes) seen in Earth water do not match well a comet-only source.
"Finding ice in Themis and the Themis family opens up the possibility that you might have brought in water from asteroids as well as comets; and that potentially allows a lot more water to be brought in and it also allows the isotopic compositions to work out the way we need them to, to match the Earth," Dr Rivkin told BBC News.
Asteroids are a very fashionable topic for scientific study at the moment.
A Japanese capsule is due to return to Earth in a few weeks with a sample picked up off the surface of a space rock; the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will flyby an asteroid later this year; and a Nasa spacecraft will go into orbit around one of these bodies in 2011.
President Barack Obama has also directed the US space agency to send astronauts to an asteroid in the mid-2020s.
"For a while we thought we knew everything there was worth knowing about asteroids, and we looked farther and farther out into the Solar System, to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and to the Kuiper Belt," observed Dr Henry Hsieh from Queen's University Belfast, UK.
"Now there seems to be a lot going in the asteroid belt that we don't actually understand, so again these bodies are exciting."


National League Barrow have signed midfielder Andy Parry on a deal until the end of the season following his release by Luton Town.

Parry, 24, has made two appearances for Barrow during a loan spell from the League Two club.
The former Southport and Telford player, who can also play in midfield, had a spell at league rivals Altrincham earlier in the season.
Bluebirds boss Paul Cox is hopeful of adding a further signing to his squad.
Meanwhile, Luton boss Nathan Jones says he "expects a quiet transfer deadline day", having already signed defender Alan Sheehan and forward Joe Pigott, while Luke Guttridge and Luke Wilkinson have left to join Dagenham and Stevenage respectively.


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