Tiny drones, pink drones, selfie-taking drones, military drones, drones that fly themselves - the drone zone at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is positively buzzing - in every sense of the word.

"Drones are arguably the most hyped product at CES," said Ben Wood, from analyst firm CCS Insight.
"A veritable minefield in terms of regulation and safety but as prices tumble expect to see them in a lot more Christmas stockings this year."
The Consumer Electronics Association, which organises CES, said the drone market should be worth about $130m (Â£86m) in 2015 - 50% higher than 2014.
In a few years the trade group expects it to be a billion-dollar market.
But not all is stable in the world of drones. Two key issues are dogging the field - regulation and power.
In the US the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has very strict rules around their commercial use.
Jim Williams, manager of the FAA's integration office, said its regulations for commercial use were strict for good reasons.
"People who are being paid to do a job are more likely to take risks to accomplish that," he said.
Away from commercial use, there is much anxiety around the world about amateur drones and privacy, as most of the craft come equipped with cameras.
The second big worry is battery life.
I spoke to several drone companies at CES representing both budget and high-end Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and the average battery life for the craft is about 20 minutes - with some managing just 10 minutes of flight time. One firm claims its devices have a flight time of about 50 minutes.
"One of the biggest frustrations with drones is battery life," said Mr Wood.
"It's rare to get more than 15 minutes of use and there seems little prospect of that improving any time soon.
"For prolonged usage, owners are typically obliged to get additional batteries, which means added cost."
Despite the challenges, drones seem here to stay, and those on show at CES are a good sampling of the current state of the market.
Hexo+ raised $1.3m on Kickstarter to fund its UAV - a drone that will fly up to 60m (200ft) above your head and circle around you, giving you an all-round aerial selfie.
It has a flight time of 15 minutes and will eventually retail for $1,500. It can self-fly, but will auto-land if it goes out of range of your phone.
"You need zero skill," said shareholder Lug Giroud.
"In our selfie culture, everyone wants amazing shots of themselves. We want to give users great images."
EHang has decided to court the female market by making a version of its popular Ghost drone available in pink. It works for some, apparently.
"Most people think drones are only for males," said Kai Jianes, of Ehang. "But we are finding many female climbers and surfers want to use them to take video while they exercise."
Whether they want to take that video with something luminous pink remains to be seen. But Ehang's black Ghost, in traditional quadcopter formation, had already become its bestseller, said Mr Jianes.
"The quadcopter format has become mainstream, it's so stable," he said. "It doesn't require space to take off and, it's more energy efficient."
The batteries in the Ghost last 30 minutes, while Ehang's premium drone, the Skyway, manages 50 minutes.
The difference in time is reflected in the cost.
The Skyway costs $5,000 compared with a starting price of $375 for the Ghost without the attachment needed to hold a camera.
The X3, by Hubsan, is small enough to sit in your palm.
What's it for?
"This is how we scare our friends," said a company representative.
"It's an office toy - just a cool gadget," they said. "It was our most popular Christmas item from last year."
At $200 it's quite an expensive office toy especially as it can only manage 10 minutes of flying time before needing a recharge.
And despite its tiny proportions, it is not the smallest on the market.
Hubsan itself makes a finger-sized model that has no camera. And Intel boss Brian Krzanich showed off the Nixie, a drone that wraps around your wrist, during his CES keynote speech.
DJI unveiled a novel solution to the current regulatory issues facing drones - it has made a stick to which you can attach your drone camera when you're unable to use the drone itself.
It is fitted with stabilisers so the camera can either stay fixed while the stick moves, or follow the movement, with your smartphone acting as a viewfinder.
It's still a prototype at this stage and will accommodate both DJI's own camera and the drone flyer's favourite, the Go Pro.
"We are producing our own camera, but the audience just loves Go Pro," said Michael Shabun, of DJI.
Improvements to basic drone technology were also on show at CES.
Qualcomm has produced a circuit board based around its Snapdragon chip, specifically for drones, that will enable them to perceive depth.
Two smartphone cameras at the front of the board enabled the device to build up a 3D image of its surroundings, giving it "machine vision", said Gary McGrath, of Qualcomm.
"It's for UAVs to figure out where they're at and control their motors - it'll help quadcopters fly without a control," he said.
Here at CES, there's a drone for every occasion.
The headache for the regulators is going to be working out how to manage the hitherto uncrowded airspace directly above our heads.
In the US, the FAA has slowly started to relax its rules, and as CES opened it gave permission to two firms keen to use the unpiloted craft to help their business.
It's a small step, as the FAA said it had received more than 200 other requests to use drones commercially.
It's a fair bet that many more firms have not requested permission and are flouting the rules.
There's no doubt that the buzz around drones is threatening to leave the regulators far behind.
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The financial industry could lose £38bn if the UK quits the single market, a report commissioned by a group lobbying on behalf of the City has said.

The report, commissioned by TheCityUK, also said up to 75,000 jobs could go.
The sector is concerned at the prospect of a so-called "hard Brexit", with the UK leaving the EU single market in order to regain control of immigration.
On Sunday, the Prime Minister said "we are not leaving the EU only to give up control of immigration again".
Her comments helped to trigger a fall in the pound, which dropped to a 31-year low against the dollar on Tuesday.
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The report, which was written by management consultancy Oliver Wyman, modelled several possible outcomes for the UK financial services industry after Brexit.
In one scenario, it said the UK might retain access to the European Economic Area on similar terms, meaning it would be able to continue trading across the bloc without the need for individual country licences.
This would cause less disruption, it said, costing the industry up to 4,000 jobs and £2bn of revenues a  year.
However, another scenario would see the UK quit the bloc "without any regulatory equivalence".
This would cost the industry up to £20bn and 35,000 jobs, it said - although the "knock-on impact" on related business activities could cost a further £18bn and 40,000 jobs.
Hector Sants, head of Oliver Wyman and former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, told the BBC's Today programme: "We are not taking a view on the outcome of the negotiations.
"What we have done here is to create a robust and independent database."
He said he hoped the research would create a dialogue between the City and government.
"We are confident that these are numbers that people can coalesce around and discuss."
But Kevin Dowd, an economics professor at Durham University and member of campaign group Economists for Brexit, called the report a "scare story".
"The idea we would be held back by leaving the single market makes no sense," he told the BBC.
"Most of our financial services business is actually outside the EU, and our share of business with the EU is declining anyway."
He added: "Today we're competing with Singapore, New York and Tokyo and so forth, and as far as the City is concerned, those places are the focus."
He said the EU was not irrelevant, "just not that important".
The Treasury said it was working to ensure companies continued to have access to the single market.
"The government has been speaking to the financial services industry to make sure that we understand fully the issues that matter to it as we prepare for negotiations to leave the EU," it said in a statement.


Teenagers who are regular cannabis users by the age of 15 risk "impairing" their educational ability, suggests a study of young people in the UK.

But the study shows occasional use does not seem linked to reduced achievement.
The research is based on a long-term study tracking the health of people born in the Bristol area in the 1990s.
But the study warns it is difficult to distinguish the specific impact of cannabis from other overlapping "risky behaviours" such as drinking alcohol.
"It's hard to know what causes what. Do kids do badly at school because they are smoking weed, or do they smoke weed because they're doing badly? This study suggests it is not as simple as saying cannabis is the problem," says lead researcher Claire Mokrysz, from University College London.
The research, from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, tracked more than 2,000 teenagers to examine links between cannabis use and poorer educational performance.
The research looked at intelligence tests taken by the young people when they were aged eight and then compared the results with tests at the age of 15 and GCSE exams a year later.
It concluded that for occasional users, there is no relationship between cannabis use and a loss in achievement. But for heavier users, youngsters who had used cannabis at least 50 times by the age of 15, there was a link to poorer exam results.
That suggests that adolescents using cannabis once a week were associated with a decline in educational performance.
But the tracking study, also known as Children of the Nineties and using self-reported drug use, shows it is difficult to separate the use of cannabis from other factors in these teenagers' lives.
Young people using cannabis were "associated with decreased intellectual performance".
But these teenagers were also likely to be involved in other types of behaviour, such as drinking alcohol or taking other types of drugs.
Once these other risk factors were taken into account, there was no discernible impact on intelligence from occasional cannabis use.
But for heavy cannabis users, there were slightly poorer exam results at age 16, even when other factors such as alcohol use were taken into account.
The study, launched at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology annual congress in Berlin, raises questions about public health messages, suggests Ms Mokrysz, from UCL's Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit.
"The belief that cannabis is particularly harmful may detract focus from an awareness of other potentially harmful behaviours," she said.
"People often believe that using cannabis can be very damaging to intellectual ability in the long-term, but it is extremely difficult to separate the direct effects of cannabis from other potential explanations."
She said that a loss of "cognitive performance" could often reflect the lifestyle accompanying cannabis use, rather than the cannabis itself.
The chair of the annual congress, Guy Goodwin, from the University of Oxford, said: "This is a potentially important study because it suggests that the current focus on the alleged harms of cannabis may be obscuring the fact that its use is often correlated with that of other even more freely available drugs and possibly lifestyle factors.
"These may be as or more important than cannabis itself."


A widow says she felt like an "oddity" after she was told she could not stay in a motor home at a Norfolk holiday park because she was single.

Annette Gration, 58, was told she could not stay at Searles of Hunstanton, as the company had a policy against people staying by themselves.
Mrs Gration, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, was eventually allowed to stay after saying she would be joined by her son.
The company said the issue would be addressed at its next policy review.
Mrs Gration, whose husband Phil died from cancer last July, said she decided to speak out after failing to receive a response to her complaint to Searles.
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She said she went to the camping site last November in her camper van with two friends who were travelling in their own van.
When she arrived she said she was told she was "was not allowed on because I was a single person".
"I felt I was an oddity and not welcome because of my marital status," said Mrs Gration.
"Why was I discriminated against as a single person? I'm quite angry."
Jean McQueen, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, said she had also been told she could not stay as a single person at the camp site.
Searles issued two statements after the BBC contacted them in connection with the concerns.
The spokesman for the firm said they were "prepared to exercise discretion" on issues like single person bookings "if we feel it appropriate."
The "question of single occupancy on touring pitches" would be addressed during its next review of customer feedback, the company added.


A lack of mental health provision for young people in Scotland is leaving them in distress and at serious risk, according to key children's charities.

The Scottish Children's Services Coalition said urgent action was needed to improve support.
Scotland is the only UK country with no national strategy for school-based counselling services.
The Scottish government said some health boards had a "long way to go" on mental health provision.
Research suggests that half of mental health problems start before the age of 15.
The Scottish Youth Parliament, Penumbra, Place2Be and Children in Scotland are also supporting the call for support to be improved in all schools and in the community.
Local government body Cosla said budget cuts had led to a shortage of mental health workers and educational psychologists.
A spokesman said: "Scotland's councils take the health and well-being of the children in our schools very seriously indeed.
"Councils employ educational psychologists and these officers are shared across the local authority area - focusing primarily on the children who need them, wherever they are based.
"We have a shortage of educational psychologists in Scotland at the present time and we are working jointly with the Scottish government to consider solutions to the issue.
"The mental health of our young people is a priority for Cosla and we know that it takes a range of professional officers to support our young people."
A fifth of children referred to NHS Scotland's mental health counselling service, Camhs, are not seen within an 18-week target.
NHS figures show that between January 2015 and September 2016, a total of 30,639 children were seen by Camhs, with 6,745 patients seen after waiting more than 18 weeks.
During the same period, 708 had to wait more than 53 weeks to be seen.
Mental Health Minister Maureen Watt said it was up to every local authority to decide how to provide mental health services in each school, but admitted it was a "postcode lottery".
She told BBC Scotland: "I have said that where there are long waiting times in health boards for Cahms and psychological therapies, it's not acceptable.
"I have used part of the Â£150m to make sure that those health boards that are far away from meeting targets are given help to, where necessary, redesign their whole service and where they need more people, more psychologists more nurses that those are provided."
She added: "We are beginning to see some improvement in some of the boards that we're already working with, but in some boards there is a long way to go."


English trials rider Dougie Lampkin has unveiled the bike on which he will attempt to continuously wheelie around the 37-mile Isle of Man TT course.

Multiple world champion Lampkin will need to navigate more than 200 corners on his back wheel and climb 1,385 ft (422 m) above sea level.
Lampkin and his team of engineers have spent six months developing a specially modified machine for the challenge.
The Skipton rider said it would not be possible on a standard trial bike.
Lampkin's engineering team led by Francesco Romani and Blackie Holden have based the machine on a Vertigo Combat Ice Hell - 300cc Fuel injected single cylinder two-stroke machine.
The team have made modifications to the brakes, suspension, fuel consumption and gear box.
The changes include the addition of a small electric motor fitted to the hub to keep the front wheel spinning throughout the challenge.
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The team said it is needed to allow the bike to be steered despite the front wheel being aloft for more that two hours.
They have also removed the front brake as it is not needed and the workings of the front forks to save weight.
Work has also been carried out to optimise fuel consumption and changes made to the gearbox which will mean that the majority of the TT course can be ridden in one gear.
Lampkin, who has won five consecutive World Indoor and seven consecutive World Outdoor Championships, said it will be one of his "toughest ever challenges."
The 40-year-old from North Yorkshire added that it will "push him and his machine to the absolute limit".
The Red Bull athlete hopes to complete the challenge in under two hours with an average speed of around 20 mph on 24 September.


The bodies of many of those killed by Islamist militants at a Kenyan university are being moved to the capital Nairobi for identification.

At least 147 people died when al-Shabab militants stormed Garissa University in north-eastern Kenya, near Somalia.
The mortuaries in Garissa have been unable to cope, and many of the students killed came from other parts of the country.
Four of the gunmen involved were killed by security forces.
The BBC's Anne Soy saw ambulances leaving the Garissa campus on Friday. Hundreds of survivors are also being sent home, and our correspondent saw students with suitcases boarding buses.
Burials for the Muslims killed in the attack are expected to start taking place.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed across north-eastern Kenya.
The masked attackers rampaged through the campus at dawn on Thursday, shooting and shouting "we are al-Shabab".
The heavily armed gunmen killed two security guards first, then fired indiscriminately at students, many of whom were still asleep in their dormitories. They singled out Christians and shot them, witnesses said.
Eric Wekesa, a student at Garissa, told Reuters he locked himself in his room before eventually fleeing.
"What I managed to hear from them is 'We came to kill or finally be killed.' That's what they said."
How attack unfolded
1.  Militants enter the university grounds, two guards are shot dead
2.  Shooting begins within the campus
3.  Students attacked in their classrooms while preparing for exams
4.  Gunmen believed isolated in the female dormitories
5.  Some students make an escape through the fence
Attack as it happened
Who are al-Shabab?
Who is suspected mastermind?
"It was horrible, there was shooting everywhere," another student, Augustine Alanga told the BBC's Newsday programme.
More than 20 security officers were killed by a sniper at the university, the BBC's Caroline Karobia reports.
The gunmen were eventually cornered in a dormitory by Kenyan security forces. Four of them died when their suicide vests detonated. A fifth gunman was reportedly arrested.
More than 500 students managed to escape.
Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, said it carried out the attack. The group says it is at war with Kenya, which sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight the militants.
Al-Shabab was also blamed for the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi in 2013 in which 67 people died.
Kenyan authorities are to hold an emergency meeting to assess security in the region. There has been criticism that Garissa should have been better protected.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered "urgent steps" to ensure police recruits could begin training immediately. "We have suffered unnecessarily due to shortage of security personnel," he said.
The government has offered a reward of $53,000 (Â£36,000) for the man it says planned the killing - Mohamed Kuno, a former Kenyan schoolteacher, now thought to be in Somalia.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud condemned the attack, in a statement quoted by Somali state radio.
He said it showed the need for a co-ordinated effort against al-Shabab militants.
"I am sure we will defeat these terrorists. Kenya is a brotherly nation that has extended its support to us, which the terrorists don't want. The aim of the terrorists is to dispirit us, but they will not succeed in that," he said.
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A Pembroke Dock company has won a contract to build a new device for a £5.8m wave energy scheme.

Mainstay Marine Solutions will complete the first stage of an energy converter project for wave technology company Wave-Tricity.
Wave-Tricity secured £4m in EU funding in September to develop and test a new device called the Ocean Wave Rower.
It will be trialled in a wave energy site off the south Pembrokeshire coast for two years from February 2017.
Mainstay, which build boats and marine energy devices, employs 80 people.
Managing director Stewart Graves said: "We are looking forward to working closely with Wave-Tricity on this pioneering scheme."


Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has admitted making a "bad oversight" over a party advert that was accused of being racist.

Mr Shorten's centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP) vowed to "employ Australians first" in the advert released on Sunday.
However, the video was widely criticised for the people it chose to feature, a majority of whom were white.
Mr Shorten denied racism, but conceded the video lacked diversity.
Another Labor frontbencher, Anthony Albanese, described the advert as a "shocker" and said it should "never have been produced".
The video featured Mr Shorten criticising his political opponent, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, over domestic job opportunities.
But discussion quickly turned to who was pictured alongside Mr Shorten.
The government accused Mr Shorten's party of trying to appeal to conservative voters, while left-wing Greens politician Sarah Hanson-Young said the video was "just awful".
Mr Shorten dismissed accusations of racism as "rubbish", but said his party would show more diversity in future.
"I've had a look at the final production and I think we should have had more diversity in it and I will be speaking to the Labor Party about that," he said.
Mr Albanese said he had not seen the advert before it aired on the local Nine network.
"I think anyone who sees it knows exactly what's wrong with it," he said.


There's no way of knowing for sure how different types of people voted on 8 June - it's a private ballot, after all - but that doesn't stop polling companies giving it a go.

Here are some of the things their surveys have been saying:
According to a newly released study by Ipsos Mori, age was the the biggest dividing factor in this election since it began its estimates in 1979.
YouGov agrees, calling age the "new dividing line in British politics".
Both companies, and Lord Ashcroft's exit poll, found Labour did better among under 50s, and the Tories with older voters.
According to Ipsos Mori, the 25 to 34 age group was where Labour got the biggest swing from the Conservatives.
To illustrate its "dividing line" point, YouGov said Labour was 47 percentage points ahead among 18 and 19-year-olds - with the Conservatives 50 ahead among over 70s.
Plenty has been said about this - see the BBC's Reality Check verdict here - and YouGov and Ipsos Mori agree that turnout among under 24s went up. According to Ipsos Mori, it increased by 16 percentage points from 2015 to 54%, although it warned that its turnout estimate should be treated with caution.
Despite the apparent increases in turnout among young people, Ipsos Mori and YouGov both agreed that older people were still considerably more likely to vote.
YouGov estimated the turnout among over 70s at 84%.
A university education looks like an indicator as to how someone might have voted on 8 June.
"While the Conservatives' support decreases the more educated a voter is, the opposite was true for Labour and the Lib Dems," YouGov said.
"Alongside age, education has become one of the key electoral demographic dividing lines."
Ipsos Mori gave the Tories a whopping 17-point lead among people with no qualifications - and a seven point lead with voters educated to below degree level.
But it said Labour had a 15-point lead among graduates (YouGov gave Labour a 17-point lead here).
According to YouGov, class is "no longer a very good indicator of voting intention", finding little difference among the different socio-economic groupings between the two largest parties.
In a reversal of the traditional class divide in British politics, Ipsos Mori found: "The middle classes swung to Labour, while working classes swung to the Conservatives."
It's only two years since the last general election - and the Tories and Labour both kept 90% of their 2015 voters, Ipsos Mori says. Lord Ashcroft had this as 83% for Labour and 82% for the Tories.
But only half of the Lib Dems' voters from last time around stayed with the party, Ipsos Mori said (more on this below).
That was a finding from Ipsos Mori, which said Labour's lead here increased by six points to 54 points.
Turnout among black and minority ethnic voters also increased by six points since 2015, it said.
This was despite a concerted effort by the Conservatives to close the gap with Labour.
Remainers in last year's referendum tended to back Labour, Leavers the Tories.
Labour led the Conservatives by 47% to 33% among Remainers - while the Conservatives beat Labour by 46% to 39% among Leavers, Ipsos Mori said.
Lord Ashcroft found that just over two-thirds of people who voted Tory on 8 June had backed Leave a year earlier - two thirds of Labour voters voted for Remain.
No great surprise here. YouGov found the most pro-Conservative readership was the Daily Telegraph, followed by the Express and the Mail, all titles that backed Theresa May's party.
Guardian readers were most likely to back Labour followed by the Mirror's.
The Lib Dems' vote share was only slightly down from 2015 - but as mentioned above, Ipsos Mori said  only half of the party's 2015 voters stayed with them this time.
Where did the rest come from? Roughly the same number of Labour and Tories, says Ipsos Mori. But despite this "significant churn", the demographic profile of Lib Dems voters is "little changed", it said.


A Presbyterian Minister from County Tyrone has described plans to burn a wooden structure called Temple in Londonderry as a pagan practice.

Thousands of people have been visiting the site in the Waterside area of Derry where the 70-foot carved tower has been built.
People have been leaving personal messages inside the structure.
Around 15,000 people are expected to watch the burning of the tower on Saturday.
The aim behind Temple was to bring together the artist at the centre of the USA's Burning Man Festival in Nevada, David Best, and the people of Derry, to offer an alternative perspective on bonfires.
Rev Graeme Orr from Magheramason said he fears the burning could leave people open to the "influence of the occult and Satan".
"I have a deep love for the people in Derry," said Mr Orr.
"I didn't know an awful lot about the Temple but it is about worship, and the idea that flames would bring healing or restoration is not an idea found in the Bible.
"True healing is looking to the son of God. We should be thinking more about his death on the cross coming up to Easter.
"I do believe that there is a dangerous element involved in this. There is great community spirit in this yes, but as I researched it I got more worried.
"I looked into the Burning Man which is similar to this and a culture has developed that anything goes.
"The Burning Man is linked to orgies and things.
"My fear that is that we go down a similar route to this in the future.
"Dealing with loss is extremely difficult but the burning of the temple is contrary to what the Bible says.
"It's not the way to God."
The company organising the event, Artichoke, has declined to comment on Mr Orr's comments.
The artist David Best said the idea for the structure originally came to him after he lost a close friend.
Presbyterian Minister David Latimer said he disagreed with Mr Orr.
"My initial scepticism was to do with its location. I didn't think it would be inclusive for all communities.
"I visited the site recently and it is totally clear that people from everywhere and all traditions are visiting.
"Their messages represent the pain and loss that people have went through. It's a great form of expression.
"I don't think this is pagan.
"I know of girls who have been up to leave a message at the Temple on behalf of their mother who lost to babies recently. That's what this about."


Real Madrid have signed Colombia forward James Rodriguez, the top scorer in the 2014 World Cup, from Monaco for a fee which could reach £71m.

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The 23-year-old has signed a six-year deal with the Spanish giants.
Rodriguez won the Golden Boot with six goals in five matches in Brazil as Colombia reached the quarter-finals.
Madrid president Florentino Perez said: "He played brilliantly and his goals confirmed his status as one of the best players at the World Cup."
Rodriguez's move is the fourth most expensive transfer of all time after those of new team-mates Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Luis Suarez.
"I am very happy, this is a dream come true. I hope to make people very happy and win a lot of titles here," he said.
The Colombian scored against Greece, Ivory Coast and Japan as they topped Group C before netting twice, one a sublime volley, during the 2-0 last-16 win against Uruguay, which was voted goal of the tournament.
Rodriguez's final goal was a late consolation from the penalty spot as Colombia lost 2-1 to Brazil.
The former Porto forward won the Portuguese league three years in a row before joining Monaco last season, where he scored nine goals in 34 Ligue 1 games.
Monaco vice-chairman Vadim Vasilyev said his club had no plans to sell Rodriguez, but were proud to be part of "one of the most significant transfers in football history".
Vasilyev added: "The time came when the solution of a transfer was considered to be the most beneficial solution for all parties."
Madrid made Ronaldo the world's most expensive player when they signed him for £80m from Manchester United in 2009, and eclipsed that with the £85.3m they paid Tottenham for Gareth Bale last summer.
Rodriguez's signing comes less than a week after they signed German World Cup winner Toni Kroos, who moved from Bayern Munich for an undisclosed fee.
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Unbeaten British champion Liam Williams is close to sealing a world title fight with former WBO light-middleweight champion Liam Smith.

BBC Wales Sport understands the pair will fight for the WBO title, which is set to be vacated.
Welshman Williams was named Boxing Writers' Young Boxer of the Year for 2016 and it would be the biggest fight of the 24-year-old's career.
Frank Warren promotes both fighters and an announcement is expected on Monday.
Liverpudlian Smith, 28, was resilient while losing his title to Mexican Saul Alvarez in September.
Alvarez is likely to vacate the title ahead of a catch-weight fight with Julio Cesar Chavez, meaning Smith and Williams can fight for the vacant belt.
British and Commonwealth super-welterweight champion Williams is undefeated in 17 professional fights with 16 wins and a draw.
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A firearms dealer manufactured and supplied home-made ammunition found at over 90 crime scenes including fatal shootings, a court has heard.

Prosecutors said Paul Edmunds used his "almost encyclopaedic" knowledge of firearms laws to smuggle hundreds of guns which he sold on illegally.
"Tell-tale" marks on ammunition linked the rounds to Mr Edmunds, they said.
Mr Edmunds, 65, of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, denies conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition.
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At the start of Mr Edmunds' trial at Birmingham Crown Court, prosecutor Andrew Fisher QC told jurors the defendant had been supplying large quantities of weapons to a gang via another gun dealer.
He also supplied "what most ordinary people would call a bullet" Mr Fisher QC alleged, referring to a complete round of ammunition.
He told the court there was a "well-known" black market for "antique" weapons and specially-made rounds because of a legal loophole exempting them from a handgun ban passed in 2007.
The "going rate" for these weapons and a supply of rounds was about Â£3,000, Mr Fisher said.
From about 2009, Mr Fisher QC said, police had noticed an increase in the use of pre-war handguns - for which bullets were no longer commercially produced - from crime scenes.
Ballistics experts analysed ammunition found at the scene of several fatal shootings and the targeting of a police helicopter during riots in 2011, the court heard.
They found markings "like fingerprints", the court heard, which suggested they had all come from the same supplier.
Mr Edmunds was arrested in July 2015, and when police searched his home they found "three separate armouries", Mr Fisher QC said.
"The principal one was in his garage, the police discovered a second one in a bedroom and a third one which was more of a store in the attic," he said.
"There were many tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and component parts."
After police seized numerous guns from Mr Edmunds' property, the court was told, examination of his firearms registers revealed he had made multiple false entries.
Mr Fisher said: "He has used his knowledge and status as a registered firearm dealer, to get round the legislation controlling firearms and, it has now become clear, has been supplying guns and ammunition wholly unlawfully for many years."
Mr Edmunds, of Bristol Road, Hardwicke, denies conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition, transferring prohibited weapons, possessing a prohibited air pistol and perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.


The Scottish government has been asked to look at the business case for building a permanent home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland in the Borders.

Scottish Borders Council has agreed to put Â£3.5m towards the scheme at the Borders Railway's Tweedbank terminus.
MSP Christine Grahame has asked Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop to look at the project's viability.
It has been estimated that about 50,000 visitors a year would come to the facility which would create 17 jobs.
There has been significant local opposition to the proposals but a petition to reverse the decision to fund the project failed last year.
A council investigation into the decision-making process is already under way.
Ms Grahame has now taken her concerns to the Scottish government.
"In my opinion the business case for this project is certainly flawed, which is the main issue for me," she said.
"To plough Â£220,000 a year of council tax payers money into paying for the building for the next 30 years at a time when belts need to be tightened seems ridiculous and potentially risky.
"I contacted the Cabinet secretary some time ago and due to my concerns her officials are now inspecting the business case."
She said that given the financial constraints now facing councils it was vital that projects like the tapestry building were subject to "really detailed analysis" before money was committed.
"If my concerns regarding the business case are justified then the multi-million pound scheme must be shelved or at least delayed until there is an improvement in the public finances," she said.
Last year Scottish Borders Council leader David Parker said local opposition to the project had been considered "very carefully".
He said the authority had decided the scheme should proceed because the majority of councillors believed the evidence supporting the development was "sound".


A bid by Sinn FÃ©in leader Gerry Adams' brother to overturn convictions for raping his own daughter has failed at Belfast High Court.

59-year-old Liam Adams had challenged a guilty verdict over a string of sexual assaults on his daughter Aine.
Adams, formerly of Bernagh Drive in Belfast, is serving a 16-year prison sentence for the offences.
A judge said the court had not been persuaded that the verdict of the jury was unsafe and dismissed the appeal.
That included all grounds of challenge, including claims about pre-trial publicity, lies and inconsistent evidence.
Liam Adams' abuse of his daughter was said to have been committed over a six-year period between 1977 and 1982.
Aine, who waived her right to anonymity, was between four and nine at the time.
Adams consistently denied the allegations throughout a second trial at Belfast Crown Court in 2013.
A jury of nine men and three women found him guilty of 10 offences against his daughter: three charges of rape, four counts of indecent assault and a further three counts of gross indecency.
Dismissed argument
Liam Adams' legal team went before the Court of Appeal to argue that those jurors were not properly directed on how to deal with widespread publicity in the case.
They claimed the level of press, television, radio and online coverage on both sides of the Irish border even before he went on trial turned his case into a national issue.
According to counsel for the appellant, a television documentary sparked widespread media attention.
The court also heard how Gerry Adams had revealed in an interview that his father subjected family members to sexual abuse.
Giving evidence as a prosecution witness at the first trial, the Sinn FÃ©in president claimed his brother confessed to him that he had "molested" his daughter.
Counsel for Liam Adams contended that any jury member would have heard about the case and her client's earlier battle against being extradited from the Republic of Ireland by the time of the second trial in September 2013.
But judges rejected submissions that it put the safety of the conviction into doubt.
Liam Adams appeared by a prison video-link and his wife Bronagh and other relatives gathered in the public gallery.
None of them showed any emotion as all other grounds of challenge were thrown out.
It had been contended that guidance to the jury may have wrongly shifted the burden onto Adams to prove he was innocent.
A further criticism was levelled at the advice given on how to deal with the reliability of the alleged victim's account.
But the judges dismissed every argument, including claims that the defendant's case was not properly put to the jury.


Scotland's Paul Lawrie faded in the final round of the Qatar Masters as South Africa's Branden Grace retained his title.

Lawrie, 47, who led Grace by two shots on 11 under overnight, carded a 78 to finish seven strokes behind in Doha.
Grace, 27, shot a three-under 69 to finish on 14 under, two strokes clear of Spain's Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Thorbjorn Oleson of Denmark.
"I hit it poorly, putted awfully and got unlucky a few times," said Lawrie.
England's Andrew Johnstone and Lee Slattery tied for third with Bradley Dredge of Wales.
Lawrie, the 1999 Open champion, found the water to card a double bogey on the seventh, and lost the overall lead two holes later.
Grace mastered the windy conditions in Doha with four birdies as he claimed his seventh European Tour title.
"This is a tournament that kicked my season off last year and hopefully it can take me to even better things this time round," he said.


Australian scientists have mapped the molecular structure of a protein that shields superbugs from antibiotics.

It could help develop new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains, the University of Western Australia researchers said.
The protein, EptA, allows some strains to shrug off colistin, an antibiotic used when all other treatments fail.
It follows warnings that a so-called antibiotic apocalypse could be among the 21st Century's greatest threats.
The new research could help create treatments to inhibit the masking protein, according to lead researcher Professor Alice Vrielink.
"We can think about the protein as being like a lock of a door and it has a specific shape," said Prof Vrielink, a molecular biologist.
"If we know the three-dimensional shape, we can get an idea of what the key should look like."
The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and involved several other universities and organisations.
According to the World Health Organization, drug-resistant infections kill 700,000 people each year.
One study has suggested antibiotic resistance will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide - more than currently die from cancer - by 2050 unless action is taken.
Scientists have identified bacteria that resist the most common antibiotic of last resort - colistin - in locations around the world. It raises the prospect of untreatable infections.
"The ability of bacteria to overcome drugs I think puts us back into a very alarming situation in terms of public health," Prof Vrielink said.
Using a technique called X-ray crystallography, it maps the three-dimensional structure of EptA.
"The protein provides the ability for the bacteria to cloak itself from the immune system and from antibiotics," Prof Vrielink said.
"If can stop it from doing that, we de-mask the bacteria."
Prof Vrielink hopes the discovery will lead to a new treatment. She said it would probably involve one drug to unmask the bacteria, and an antibiotic to treat the infection.
"A therapeutic treatment is probably years down the road," she said.
"It's a long process but this is our first step towards that work."


Child health in the UK is lagging behind that of most other European countries, a major report has said.

It raises particular concerns over rates of obesity, mental health issues and mortality among the young.
The in-depth report, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, urges the four governments of the UK to reduce the growing health gap between rich and poor children.
Health ministers said they welcomed the report and its message on child health.
The report looked at 25 health indicators, including asthma, diabetes and epilepsy, as well as obesity, breastfeeding and mortality, to provide a snapshot of children's health and wellbeing.
It says there had been huge improvements in child health in the UK in the past 100 years, but since the mid-1990s "there has been a slowing of progress".
This has left the UK falling behind other European nations in a number of league tables.
For example, in 2014 the UK had a higher infant mortality rate (of 3.9 per 1,000 live births) than nearly all comparable Western European countries.
Infant mortality ranges from 3.6 in Scotland to 3.9 in England and Wales, and 4.8 in Northern Ireland.
Rates of smoking during pregnancy - an important factor in the health of babies - are higher in the UK than in many European countries, at 11.4% in England and nearly 15% in Scotland.
Smoking during pregnancy was highest in deprived populations and in mothers under 20 years of age, the report found.
According to the report, there was also evidence that young people in the UK had low wellbeing compared with other comparable countries.
And data shows that type-1 diabetes is an increasingly common condition among children and young people in the UK, making it the sixth top country in the world for new cases diagnosed each year.
The report lays out a number of key recommendations for improving the health and wellbeing of the nation's children.
These include:
The State of Child Health report emphasised that poverty was at the root of many child health problems, leaving children from deprived backgrounds with far worse health and wellbeing than children growing up in affluent families.
In 2015-16, 40% of children in England's most deprived areas were overweight or obese, compared with 27% in the most affluent areas.
One in five children in the UK is living in poverty, the report says.
Prof Russell Viner, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "The UK is more unequal than many other European countries, and children aren't a priority.
"We have some fantastic healthcare in certain institutions in this country, but it is very patchy.
"We want to see the NHS focus more on children's health, because they are our future workers and parents.
"We need to be investing in our children's health."
A spokesman from the Department of Health said it would be investing more than Â£16bn in local government public health services to help tackle inequalities.
"There is more to do, but we have shown that we are willing to take tough action to protect public health and especially that of children - by banning smoking in cars if children are present, introducing a soft drinks industry levy and publishing a comprehensive childhood obesity strategy," he said.
Aileen Campbell, Public Health Minister in Scotland, said: "We agree that our children's health should be a priority for all."
She said the Scottish government had:
And it would now be focusing on delivering a child health and wellbeing strategy for Scotland.
A Welsh government spokesman said it would be addressing health inequalities in Wales as part of a new healthy child programme.


A former resident of a boys training school has said "the highest honour" should be awarded to the De La Salle Brothers who taught there.

The 67-year-old was giving evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) about St Patrick's Training School in Belfast .
He said when he first heard "the vile accusations against these men, I was completely stunned".
He said he did not not know how to repay them for their guidance.
"As opposed to facing charges or courts, I consider that we should be awarding them the highest honour for their contribution to society," he said.
The pensioner was a resident in the west Belfast school in the 1960s.
Earlier, the De La Salle Order challenged claims of sexual and physical abuse by another former resident at St Patrick's.
The man, who is now 68, said he suffered serious sexual assaults and claimed the school had "a very violent regime".
He also claimed he was sexually abused during trips away from the school.
However, the order has told the inquiry that, in a number of instances, the names of alleged abusers provided by the witness were of people who were not at the training school at the time.
The inquiry also heard of inconsistencies between some evidence provided by the witness to the inquiry and to police.
The man has lodged a civil claim against the De La Salle Order.
The HIA inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995.
In total, the inquiry is expected to hear from more than 300 witnesses during the course of the public evidence sessions.
It is required to complete its hearings and all investigative work by mid-summer 2016, and has to submit its report to the Northern Ireland executive by 17 January 2017.


How many people does it take to make a triathlete?

It might sound like the start of a joke, but Welsh triathlete Non Stanford, who hopes to win a medal at the Rio Olympics, believes her support team are vital.
"Any medal is not an individual victory, it is definitely a team medal," said Stanford, 27, from Leeds.
Among them is a dietician, physiologist, doctor, running partner, coaches, and logistical support.
The former world triathlon champion said: "I cannot stress how important my support team are. You are the person who has to go out and deliver the performance, but there is a whole team behind you that make it happen, from coaching and cooking to being there and being great friends.
"The hard work of a lot of people is transferred into my performance on the day."
Stanford, who was born in Bridgend, lived in Swansea and went to university in Birmingham. She was World Triathlon champion in 2013, is now based in Leeds as part of British Triathlon squad, including the Brownlee brothers.
She said: "I am very fortunate that all the people I work with are not just staff, they are very good friends and the atmosphere is great."
But who are the 20 people working behind the scenes to get Stanford to the start line?
The logistics - getting her there on the day
Behind the scenes Stanford needs to be entered into races, have accommodation and transport booked, and have everything put in place to ensure she is safe at competitions.
Performance director of British Triathlon Brendan Purcell looks after everything related to competitions.
"A lot of things go on behind the scenes that we don't know about which he takes care of," said Stanford. "He was involved in organising, planning and putting in place important aspects of our build up and time in Rio; he has to do a lot of the things we don't even know about."
The logistics of getting Stanford and her kit there on the day falls to Laura Macey.
"We call Laura the 'Loracle' because she absolutely does everything for us," said Stanford. "From booking all our flights and accommodation, to organising our camps, getting our kit to where it needs to be, to knowing about our races.
"She is the busiest lady I know."
Running, swimming and cycling - working on technique
Stanford's team of coaches work on different areas of the triathlon.
Giving Stanford tips on the running track is Malcolm Brown, who has been involved with the Brownlee brothers from an early age.
"Malcolm is the calming voice in the setup," said Stanford. "He knows what to say, and if he says something that is what goes. He is great to have around. His expertise in running is evident.
Jack Maitland focuses on the swimming programme, while head coach Ben Bright takes more of an overview.
"Ben oversees all my training," said Stanford. "He makes sure it is all fitting together. His opinion is very important to me. He is someone I feel very fortunate to have on my coaching team. He has helped me to come that extra step in the last couple of years."
Team coach Glenn Cook will also be in Rio.
Kit and management - keeping her on the road
Making sure Stanford has all the kit she needs is agent Richard Downey, who liaises with her sponsors.
"Richard makes sure I have everything I need from running suits to bikes," said Stanford. "When it comes to race day and training he works with my sponsors to make sure I have all the kit.
"He also deals with the media and that side of things.
"He makes my life very easy in many regards and is more than just my agent too."
Keeping Stanford on the road in the cycling section of the triathlon is bike mechanic Glenn Coltman.
"Glenn travels to all the major races with us," said Stanford. "He looks after all our bikes. He is very good about helping out around races and camps too.
"He is great to have around at races. Sometimes I like to just go and sit in the bike room with him as he is a good person to talk to and is very funny."
Wellbeing - keeping her fuelled and ready for anything
With the temperature in Rio ranging from 14C to 35C, triathletes have had to prepare for the heat as well as training to race at altitude.
"Andy set up altitude tents for us at home which we used before going to the altitude camp in San Mortiz," said Stanford. "He has also coordinated our heat acclimatisation ahead of Rio.
"We have been running in a lot of layers and he changed one of the bathrooms at our training camp in San Moritz into a heat chamber by putting the shower on to create steam and put the heaters on.
"We then did sessions on bikes in there."
Stanford's food intake is carefully monitored by her dietician, who cooks for her with a team of nutritionists when on training camps.
She said: "With Lucy cooking for us we know we are getting the appropriate fuel and having this is so important when you are training for 35 hours a week."
The body - preventing injury
Stanford's personal physiotherapist Alison Rose was recommended by Kelly Holmes, who was her mentor, and worked with her in the build up to the Olympics in Athens 2004.
"Alison has also worked with Jessica Ennis," said Stanford. "She is one of the most experienced and dedicated physiotherapists I know. I am very fortunate to have her as part of the team."
She also works alongside Emma Deakin, head physiotherapist at British Triathlon, who she sees every week.
Stanford has a massage from sports masseur Ian Mitchell once a week, while strength and conditioning coach Ian "Pypes" Pyper focuses on her core strength.
She said: "'Pypes' does a lot of data collection, and monitors all our training, reporting back to us."
Dr James Brown works alongside the physiotherapists and coaches to ensure Stanford is fighting fit.
"I was badly injured in 2014 and he was a key player in getting me back running," said the triathlete.
Training partners and morale boosts
Helping Stanford better her times on the track has been accountancy student Calum Johnson.
"He is very good with me and picks me up on the running track, and acts as my Mr Motivator when it is tough," said Stanford.
She also trains with fellow Olympic triathlete Vicky Holland and her boyfriend Rhys Davey, who are her housemates.
"We have great fun training and living together," said Stanford. "I also train with Jess Learmonth who is an absolute demon on the bike, she puts me through my paces every week in the bike sessions. Her attitude and approach to training inspires me on a daily basis.
"Heather Sellars is my best friend, and is fantastic at keeping morale up in the group and making everybody laugh. Everyone is happy and enjoys themselves, which is very important."


If Phillip Hughes was fatally unlucky to be killed by a single blow of a cricket ball, then Mark Vermeulen is fortunate to still be alive.

The Zimbabwe batsman was struck on the head on three different occasions during his career, twice sustaining a fractured skull.
The consequences included depression, temporary insanity, an arson attack on the national cricket academy, a spell in jail, attempted suicide and a brush with Robert Mugabe's henchmen.
"It could have been a lot worse for me, not only the injuries, but the outcome of all the other events," Vermeulen told BBC Sport. "Phillip Hughes could have been me 10 years ago."
Remarkably, the 35-year-old made a redemptive return to Test cricket earlier this year, but opted to retire after only one match, ending a career that almost cost him his life.
Vermeulen, the son of a dentist, made a promising start to his international career, scoring 61 in his second Test against England at Lord's in May 2003.
By this time, though, he had already been hit on the head playing for Zimbabwe Under-19s and suffered a first fractured skull while batting in the nets at the 2003 World Cup in South Africa.
But it was a sickening third head injury that would change the then 24-year-old's life. On 20 January 2004, Vermeulen was facing India's Irfan Pathan in a one-day international in Brisbane.
A bouncer, an attempted hook. Leather cracking skull once more.
"I thought I was fine. I thought I would take off my helmet and carry on batting," he reflected.
"It was only when I started walking off the field, then half-an-hour later, that I felt the pain. When I was in the ambulance I thought that surely this has got to be it - I can't keep going through this.
"The doctor who did the operation on me said I shouldn't really play cricket again because if I got hit, it could be fatal.
"After a time, because I loved cricket so much, I thought I'd keep giving it a go and see what happened."
Vermeulen was back playing international cricket only two months later, but, by his own admission, his performances suffered because of the fear of being hit again.
By the summer of 2006, the consequences of those blows were proving far more serious than a shrinking batting average.
Vermeulen had previously shown a tendency to find trouble - he once took the stumps and locked himself in the changing room after a decision in a school game with which he disagreed, and was sent home from Zimbabwe's 2003 tour of England for disciplinary reasons.
But an incident while playing for Lancashire club Werneth would have bigger ramifications.
"Towards the end of that season, I found myself getting more and more frustrated, particularly trying to deal with my parents' divorce. We were brought up in a strict Christian environment, so I was left thinking 'what the hell am I supposed to believe now?'
"I saw my father in England, he was enjoying life and getting remarried. I thought 'if he can do whatever he wants, I'll start throwing my toys around and do whatever I want'.
"I was getting heckled by some guys in the crowd. It continued until I thought 'I've had enough of this nonsense'.
"I threw the ball into the crowd and it hit the step and came back. I picked it up and went to throw it again, but one of my team-mates stopped me. I got into a scuffle. The chairman of the club tried to stop me and he hit me."
Vermeulen was banned from playing any cricket in England for 10 years, reduced to three on appeal. He returned home, but his behaviour at Werneth saw the Zimbabwe selectors leave him out of the squad for the 2007 World Cup.
Vermeulen's problems came at a time when Zimbabwe was in turmoil as a result of President Mugabe's land reforms and many elite players had turned their back on the national team, which lost Test status in early 2006.
Unhappy with administrators who he saw as destroying cricket in Zimbabwe, Vermeulen went to Mugabe, also the patron of the country's cricket board, for answers.
"I went to the front gates of [the Zimbabwe president's official residence] State House at 7.30 in the morning and they said 'sit here and wait, he's not in at the moment'.
"An hour and a half later, a guy came and put me in a truck saying they wanted to see where I lived.
"They went to my place, said it was fine, so we got back in the car and I thought 'great, now I might actually get to see him'.
"But they took me to a police station. They asked me a lot of questions about why I wanted to see him and I had to write it down in a letter. They asked for my background, where I went to school.
"At 11 in the morning, they said I could go home. I don't know if it was a good thing that I didn't get to see him. It depends what would have gone down when the conversation happened."
Depressed, out of the Zimbabwe side and frustrated by the way cricket in his country was being run, Vermeulen - in his own words, "not much of a communicator" - was alone in the capital, Harare.
He drove 11 hours to Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world, with suicide in mind.
"I'd had enough. I went to sleep in the gorge which the water falls into, wanting to never come back.
"The problem was the extreme noise. I was basically sleeping where the water fell in. It was like trying to sleep in a Laundromat with 20 washing machines going off. I slept for about three seconds.
"I was ready to end my life, but Victoria Falls is quite an awesome place. It uplifted me a bit.
"I wanted to sort things out, but I ended up getting frustrated again as soon as I got back into Harare. I got back at the weekend and by the Monday I'd had enough."
Having failed to take his own life, Vermeulen turned his anger on Zimbabwean cricket.
On the night of 30 October 2006, he attempted to destroy the headquarters of the country's cricket board, the Harare Sports Club.
"I was thinking 'if they are not willing to let me play, why should anyone else?'
"I was frustrated. I thought 'as these guys want to destroy Zimbabwe cricket and steal all the money, I'm going to help them destroy it'.
"That was when I decided to burn down the pavilion where they work from. I went to the head office at Harare Sports Club on that Monday night.
"I thought if I destroy this, they can't do any work. They can't get any more money, they will have to start from the pavement."
His attempt at burning down the building was unsuccessful, the alarm raised before the fire could take hold. The next night, Vermeulen picked a new target, the national academy.
"I went off in my brother's car and set fire to the building's thatched roof with a lighter. I watched it catch hold and then I drove away."
Before the night was over, Vermeulen was arrested.
"I remember refusing to go in the cell. Then, the head officer came and forced me into a three or four metre-square room with about 28 people inside. I spent three nights in there before I was granted bail.
"On the second night, people had moved out so there were only 16 people in the room. I actually got a better night's sleep in that cell than in the gorge at Victoria Falls. I was on the concrete floor with the blanket under me. That was quite nice.
"All these things were playing through my mind. 'Why did I go that far and do what I did?' It was a lonely, low time where I could reflect on the past and wonder what the future might hold.
"In terms of realising that destruction is not the way to fix things, it was a turning point."
Facing 25 years in jail, Vermeulen spent the next 18 months on bail, reporting to a police station every day, and to a court every two weeks.
It was during this time that psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors investigated the possibility that the head injuries he sustained playing cricket may have been responsible for his behaviour.
"They found a misfiring in the left hemisphere of my brain, which caused a temporary insanity. It was a relief, knowing that it wasn't total madness.
"That was the route the lawyer took and how I ended up getting off.
"At the end of it, hearing the judge say I was not guilty, to know I wasn't going to jail, was a huge relief."
Vermeulen was cleared in January 2008 and allowed to play cricket in Zimbabwe later that year, voluntarily donating his match fees to pay for the damage he caused.
By 2009, he was back in the Zimbabwe one-day side, but his desire to play Test cricket again saw him play for every one of the country's five first-class teams, including a spell sleeping on the dining-room floor of a shared house while with the Mid West Rhinos.
Finally, the form he showed with his home team Mashonaland Eagles, who play at the same Harare Sports Club Vermeulen tried to destroy, led to him being called up to play in Zimbabwe's only Test this year, against South Africa in August.
"My team-mates were chuffed that I was back, as were a lot of people in Zimbabwe. There was quite a lot of support.
"Some of the fans heckled, but I was able to laugh it off. I got a lot of stick from mates, but it became more of a joke. They would say 'hide your lighters from Vermeulen'.
"It was a great feeling to get back into Test cricket after 10 years."
Vermeulen made scores of 14 and 21 as South Africa won by nine wickets. He subsequently travelled to Bangladesh with the Zimbabwe A side, but found his body "wasn't coping with the conditions, the heat, because of the head injury I had" and decided to retire.
With "things not looking too rosy in Zimbabwe," Vermeulen has moved to South Africa.
He may move into coaching, or even try to make it as a professional golfer - "I shot two under on the nine holes I played this morning".
But barely two months into retirement, the death of Hughes has highlighted Vermeulen's fortune in emerging relatively intact from his own brush with cricketing fate, and the extraordinary events that followed.
"When I first heard that he'd been hit, I thought he would be OK, maybe because of my own experiences. Hearing that he had passed away was quite a shock.
"It's a reminder for me to count my lucky stars, to be grateful for each day of life that I have to enjoy."


The number of new midwives in Wales is set to reach a record high after a 40% boost in student training places.

There had been fears the sector faced a shortage as a large number of midwives approached retirement.
But Helen Rogers, the Royal College of Midwives' director for Wales, said TV shows like One Born Every Minute had increased demand on student places.
The Welsh Government said this September's intake would be a "record high".
In September, 134 student midwives will start training after the Welsh Government commissioned a 40% increase in places as part of a Â£95m package to boost NHS recruitment.
The number of registered midwives working in the Welsh NHS has steadily increased since 2013, reaching 1,333 in September 2016.
But training places for students had remained static since the start of the 2014 academic year - with 93 places for the whole of Wales.
Ms Rogers said the increase in student places was great news for the profession, which the RCM had warned was on the brink of a shortage with about 35% of midwives nearing retirement.
She said while demand for midwifery had always been high, shows like Channel 4's One Born Every Minute and BBC One's Call the Midwife had led to an increase in student applications in recent years, with about 500 applications for every 20 places.
Cardiff University received 712 applications for 38 midwifery places starting in September 2017, while Swansea University had 504 applications for its 33 places.
While a bursary for student nurses and midwives has been scrapped in England, in Wales it has been maintained - provided the student remains in Wales for two years after they qualify.
Ms Rogers said the issue was now ensuring placements were ready for the influx in students and maintaining the numbers in future years.
"We have seen numbers yo-yo - even if we get loads of students, it puts a strain on the service as they need mentoring and placements," she said.
"If we are increasing the numbers in a sustainable way then that is great, we are showing we do need these midwives, we need them to be put into training now and we need these numbers maintained."
Ms Rogers said the demand on hospital departments meant women were often seen by more than one midwife, leading to continuity of care issues.
"They are often pulled out of the community to go into a busy hospital department; that is not desirable or appropriate," she said.
The Welsh Government said the number of student places for training in midwifery this September were the highest on record.
A spokeswoman said: "The numbers are decided upon following a long-established process based on robust workforce planning each year."


Taxi booking app Uber has been granted an operator's licence for Cardiff.

A company spokeswoman said the service did not have a launch date as it was still recruiting a Cardiff-based team.
The GMB union said Uber would make it difficult for other drivers to earn a living and the city's Hackney Carriage Association said it would take legal action.
Cardiff council said the application had been considered "in accordance with legislation".
In a statement, Uber said it was looking forward to offering a "safe, reliable and affordable choice for people in Cardiff".
Cardiff Hackney Carriage Association chairman Mathab Khan said: "If Cardiff goes ahead with Uber we will have no option but to take legal action because the council aren't capable of controlling all these drivers.
"We have already lodged hundreds of complains to Cardiff council's licensing sectionâ€¦ there are drivers who are just flouting the law and we have considered taking them to court ourselves but the council just refuses to pass their details on to us."
Steve Garelick, GMB professional drivers's branch secretary said: "Things have worked perfectly well in Cardiff until now.
"This will over saturate the market place. It will force rates down.
"We are concerned Uber will continue to work on the very edge of what is acceptable by law."
In October, the High Court found the company does not break the law.
The court had been asked to decide whether the company's smartphones were considered meters, which are outlawed for private hire vehicles.
Uber currently operates in 15 cities and towns across the UK including London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Glasgow.


Charlton Athletic have signed forward Billy Clarke from League One rivals Bradford City for an undisclosed fee.

The 29-year-old has signed a two-year deal with Karl Robinson's side after helping the Bantams to May's play-off final, where they lost to Millwall.
Clarke scored 25 goals in 122 games over three years for the Bantams.
"Billy is someone that I've tried to sign a number of times and I'm really excited that he will be joining us," boss Robinson told the club website.
"Billy ticks all of those boxes and on top of that he is also very talented. If you look on paper, he is up there with some of the best players in League One.
"He is very effective - can play in a number of positions - and he is certainly going to bring goals, creativity, energy and an aggressive streak to the team."
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Scotland have beaten the Czech Republic 1-0 in their friendly match in Prague.

Ikechi Anya's first-half winner means manager Gordon Strachan has overseen successive away victories for the first time since March 2014.
Former Scotland striker Darren Jackson, who won 28 caps from 1995 to 1998, was in the Generali Arena on Thursday. Here he gives his marks out of 10 for each of the Scotland players.
This was possibly his best game in a Scotland jersey. He was absolutely outstanding. I'll give him a 9 but it was a "10" performance.
Defended exceptionally well, especially in the second half, and should have been awarded a penalty.
Again, he defended very well. The big striker Tomas Necid caused him problems but he coped admirably.
Like the other players at the back, Russell was given problems by the Czechs' attacks in the first half, but in the second half he defended comfortably.
Andrew was very subdued tonight, he didn't get forward as much as he normally likes to. It was one of his quieter games for Scotland.
Charlie wasn't on the ball too much going forward but defended very well, especially at set plays in the first half. When he moved back to play at left-back, his defending was composed.
Very much a captain's performance from Darren. Most of his work was defensive, although he tried to get up the pitch to push the players on. His experience, the way he talks to the younger players throughout the game, is very valuable.
He caused them all sorts of problems with his pace, he was always direct and it was a very composed finish for his goal.
Prague is a hard place to come for your debut, but Kenny looked confident. He always tried to get on the ball to support the strikers.
Very good performance. He worked incredibly hard and helped Alan Hutton in the first half up and down the pitch. His composure on the ball and his set plays were excellent.
Excellent. It was hard for him sometimes because the service wasn't great but he linked well with Kenny McLean and it was a fantastic ball through for Anya for the goal.
It's hard to give Paul a score. He only touched the ball a few times, having come on as a late substitute.
Barry came on and made a lot of good passes, and defensively he did well. Not in the game too much but what he did, he did well.
Very dangerous when he came on. He could have had two goals with headers. His pace was a real plus.
On his debut he held the ball up when it was getting scrappy and the service wasn't good. In the last few minutes it was great to see him run the clock down in the left-hand corner. He should be happy with how he played.


The heads of two major Wall Street companies have warned that the UK financial services industry could be damaged by Brexit.

President of investment bank Morgan Stanley, Colm Kelleher, said the City would "sufferâ€¦ the issue is how much".
Meanwhile, Rob Kapito, head of one of the world's largest investment houses Blackrock, said there was "a lot of concern" in the financial community.
He also said voters had not been given enough facts before the EU referendum.
"The unintended consequences of Brexit will be significant for everyone across the UK," he said.
Mr Kelleher said his bank's immediate concern was over whether to invest further in the UK.
This was because the terms of a potential Brexit deal were still unclear.
"It is that uncertainty that is causing problems," he told the BBC's Today programme.
However, he said a bigger worry was whether banks would retain their "passporting rights" after Britain leaves the bloc.
These rights currently allow them to trade across the bloc without the need for individual country licences.
He said: "I am convinced that London will retain its reputation as a prestigious global financial services centre.
"But clearly some size of our businesses will have to be moved out of London into European headquarters with the absence of any passporting agreement - but it's very hard to ascertain what that will mean at the moment."
He also said Brexit was damaging efforts to implement the Capital Markets Union, a European Commission initiative to bolster the low use of capital markets to finance European companies and infrastructure projects.  Mr Kelleher noted banks still finance 80% of lending on the continent.
For this reason he urged UK ministers and Brussels to include a "long transitional period" for banks as part of any Brexit deal.
His comments were echoed by Mr Kapito, whose firm Blackrock manages assets worth almost $5tn (Â£3.8tn).
"I don't think there is any good [financial services] firm that has not already started to look at real estate in different areas outside the UK in case they have to move larger operations," Mr Kapito said.
"There is no one that doesn't have people looking at tax implications, investment implications, manufacturing implications."
He said the decision to leave the EU could have a big impact on financial companies' staff, too.
This is because many work "cross border" and many "have spouses that work cross border".
"There are very few answers to the questions will they be able to maintain their jobs, will they have to move home, where [Europe's] the financial centre might move to," he said.


Egypt goalkeeper Essam El Hadary became the oldest player at an Africa Cup of Nations tournament as he kept a clean sheet in their draw against Mali.

El-Hadary turned 44 on Sunday and came on in the first half after an injury to Ahmed El-Shenawy, who collided with the post following Moussa Marega's cross.
Arsenal's Mohamed Elneny wasted two first-half chances for Egypt, striking over and hitting an effort wide.
Osmane Coulibaly headed over from close range for Mali late on.
The results leaves Egypt second in Group D behind Ghana, who beat Uganda 1-0.
Legendary Egyptian goalkeeper El Hadary was on the bench for the game, but got the call for his 148th cap after El-Shenawy's unfortunate injury.
He is widely regarded as one of Africa's best-ever goalkeepers, winning the domestic league title eight times, as well as the domestic cup and African Champions League on four occasions each.
Playing in his seventh tournament, having picked up a winners' medal in 1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010, El Hadary was not fully tested, but was confidently off his line to punch the ball clear and showed good speed by sprinting out to thwart Mali forward Marega.
In a game of few chances, Egypt's best effort came to striker Marwan Mohsen, whose header was pushed away by a flying Oumar Sissoko save.
Match ends, Mali 0, Egypt 0.
Second Half ends, Mali 0, Egypt 0.
Hand ball by Trezeguet (Egypt).
Ahmed Fathy (Egypt) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ahmed Fathy (Egypt).
Bakary Sako (Mali) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ramadan Sobhi (Egypt).
Yves Bissouma (Mali) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samba Sow (Mali) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Samba Sow (Mali).
Attempt blocked. Salif Coulibaly (Mali) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Mali. Conceded by Trezeguet.
Foul by Trezeguet (Egypt).
Yacouba Sylla (Mali) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tarek Hamed (Egypt) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Samba Sow (Mali).
Corner,  Mali. Conceded by Ali Gabr.
Foul by Ramadan Sobhi (Egypt).
Yves Bissouma (Mali) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ousmane Coulibaly (Mali) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Salif Coulibaly with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Foul by Trezeguet (Egypt).
Samba Sow (Mali) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Egypt. Ahmed Hassan replaces Marwan Mohsen.
Attempt missed. Molla Wagué (Mali) header from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Yacouba Sylla following a set piece situation.
Foul by Trezeguet (Egypt).
Hamari Traore (Mali) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Hamari Traore (Mali) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.
Substitution, Mali. Samba Sow replaces Lassana Coulibaly.
Substitution, Egypt. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Mohamed Salah.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Mohamed Salah (Egypt) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Yacouba Sylla (Mali) because of an injury.
Foul by Mohamed Salah (Egypt).
Yacouba Sylla (Mali) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Mali. Yves Bissouma replaces Sambou Yatabaré.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sambou Yatabaré (Mali) because of an injury.
Corner,  Egypt. Conceded by Mamoutou N'Diaye.
Attempt blocked. Trezeguet (Egypt) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marwan Mohsen.
Attempt missed. Yacouba Sylla (Mali) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.


Titleholders South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns have been handed a tricky draw for the group stage of this year's African Champions League.

As well as debutants Saint George of Ethiopia in Group C they will face Esperance of Tunisia and DR Congo's AS Vita Club, who have both been continental champions in the past.
Sudan's two biggest clubs have been draw in Group A as Al Hilal and Al Merreikh are joined by Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia and Mozambique's Ferroviario Beira.
The reward for Zimbabwean debutants CAPS United, who beat five-time champions TP Mazembe of DR Congo, is three trips to North Africa.
They are in Group B alongside last year's runners-up Zamalek from Egypt, Algeria's USM Alger and Al Ahly Tripoli of Libya.
The first group games will be played on the weekend of 12-14 May with the top two teams in each group progressing to the quarter-finals.
The first leg of the final is set for the last weekend in October and the second leg being played a week later.


Scott Brown believes it could be to Scotland's advantage if Gordon Strachan fields several Celtic players in his starting line-up against England.

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Strachan started six Celtic players in Scotland's last World cup qualifier against Slovenia, and Brown believes that makes sense.
"When Spain [won] the World Cup and the Euro's, they had seven or eight Barcelona players," Brown said.
"It shows that the club mentality can go onto international level as well."
Celtic could have a seventh player in the mix for Strachan's Scotland squad against England in Callum McGregor. The 23-year-old midfielder is being heavily tipped for a call up for the qualifier at Hampden on 10 June after impressing for Celtic since the start of the year.
Brown, McGregor's club captain, believes he's "due a call-up".
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Brown said: "The wee man has been brilliant since he's come in. He's scored goals, and against Aberdeen [last Friday] he sat in front of the back four and did fantastic.
"It's great for the wee man to get the run out to get the experience as well, and he's probably due a Scotland cap and what a time to get it [if he does] against England."
On his own long-term international future, Brown says he's talked to Strachan "a couple of times" and "will see what happens there".
Brown has previously said he'll make himself available for the game against England, but wouldn't comment on the remaining World Cup qualifiers, which will be played in September and October.
"My body is feeling good and and I hopefully can maintain the level that I've been playing at next season as well.
"We're still talking about this [England] game, so me and Gordon will sit down and we'll see what happens."
Brown is also about to reach a milestone at Celtic. It'll be 10 years to the day tomorrow [Tuesday 16 May] that he signed for the club from Hibernian.
"It's been great, there's been a lot of ups and downs, but I came to Celtic wanting to win trophies and that's why I'm still at Celtic. Here's hoping I've got a few more years left to win more trophies, and entertain the fans - as that's what we're here to do."
Brown admits he had the opportunity to leave Celtic, but decided against it.
"I had the chance to go down to England, but I decided to stay [for] the love of the club, plus we're in Champions League football where you're playing against the best players in the world. That's what you want to do when you're at a huge club like this and that's what I've managed to do."
Reflecting on his decade at Celtic, Brown admits that he "felt young" when he arrived.
"I was a cocky 21 year old, so not a lot has changed," he joked. "I've matured a wee bit and I've understood how the gaffers, especially this one, have wanted us to play. I've enjoyed every single moment of it."


League One club Swindon Town have signed Watford midfielder Sean Murray on a free transfer on a one-year deal, with the option of a further year.

The 22-year-old was part of the Hornets' youth set-up before signing a five-year contract in 2012.
He spent time on loan at Wigan Athletic last season, scoring once in eight appearances in all competitions.
The former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international made a total of 50 league starts for Watford.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A Roman road has been uncovered during work to develop a car park at a fort along Hadrian's Wall.

Stonework and pottery fragments were also found at Housesteads, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, where work was under way to extend the visitor centre facilities.
The importance and scale of the find is being assessed, a spokesman for Northumberland National Park said.
Discussions will then take place on how best to preserve it.
Chris Jones, historic environment officer for the park, said: "The discovery of new remains is always a great thrill for any archaeologist. With every day that passes, we will know more."
The road runs north-west to south-east and appears to be overlain by the B6318 Military Road.
The Military Road was constructed in the 1750s as General Wade's men fought Jacobite rebels.


Officers involved in the murder investigation of a Cardiff prostitute "changed statements to iron-out inconvenient discrepancies", the High Court has heard.

South Wales Police said there were "reasonable grounds" to prosecute eight former officers involved in Lynette White's murder investigation in 1988.
The former officers have brought civil action against the force after they were cleared of corruption allegations.
The corruption trial collapsed in 2011.
Former officers Graham Mouncher, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen are suing the force for misfeasance in public office, false imprisonment and trespass.
The senior barrister representing the force, Jeremy Johnson QC, told the Cardiff court on Thursday that the former officers had re-written evidence and carried out "oppressive interviews".
He said there were questions over the objectivity and the integrity of the original investigation.
The court heard it was "well established by any legal threshold" that Jeffrey Gafoor committed the murder alone.
Mr Johnson said the fact the claimants have tried to say otherwise "was a distraction in this case".
On Monday, the court heard that Gafoor may not have acted alone when he killed Ms White in a flat in Cardiff's docklands on Valentine's Day.
Tony Parris, Stephen Miller and Yusef Abdullahi - who became known as the Cardiff Three - were wrongly jailed for life in 1990 for the murder and freed in 1992 after their convictions were quashed.
Mr Johnson QC told the court that the following the conviction of Gafoor for Ms White's murder, a new eight and a half year investigation into the original inquiry was held.
He said that only a relatively small number of officers concerned with that original inquiry were arrested and that had happened after a long review of the evidence.
The investigation didn't start with a completely clean sheet of paper, they reviewed what had gone before.
Mr Johnson said that for South Wales Police "it would have been convenient to just investigate civilians, but the investigation had to be conducted without fear or favour and that is what happened".
He said that inquiries had been made "without an inappropriate mindset or prejudice", "with an open mind, not a closed mind"
The court was told that civilians who admitted lying in the original investigation and trial had "no motive to falsely admit perjury - it must have been due to a conspiracy"
The hearing continues.


YouTube star Zoella will join A-listers like Michael Sheen, Dame Edna Everage and Joanna Lumley in a Comic Relief edition of The Great British Bake Off.

The 24-year-old, whose real name is Zoe Sugg, will drag down the average age of the competitors, who also include Jonathan Ross, Lulu, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife Sarah.
"I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part," she said.
The series begins on 11 February.
Taking place over four weeks, it will see 16 celebrities compete to be named star baker by show stalwarts Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
The line-up features former Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles, fashionista Alexa Chung, comedian David Mitchell and TV presenter Gok Wan.
They are joined by DJ Jameela Jamil, comediennes Victoria Wood and Jennifer Saunders, Strictly champion Abbey Clancy and Kayvan Novak, from Channel 4's Fonejacker series.
Mary Berry said it had been "great fun" filming the series.
"Although there were some baking catastrophes, some surprising hidden skills were revealed," she added.
"One thing for certain is that anyone can have a go at baking and it's a great way to raise money for Comic Relief - and you are guaranteed to have a lot of fun!"
Regular presenters Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc will be joined by Jo Brand and Ed Byrne for the series, while an episode of spin-off show An Extra Slice will be broadcast on Red Nose Day itself, Friday, 13 March.
The bakery show has proved a great success, spawning a US spin-off and recently winning a National Television Award for "best skills-based reality series".
But Perkins recently revealed she had twice turned down the opportunity to work on the show.
"I have no ability to work out what is a good thing to do or not," she told Jonathan Ross on his ITV chat show. "I said no because [it] sounded ludicrous".
She added that the series had often turned contestants into divas.
"Sometimes television changes people," she said.
"It's amazing how quickly they turn," added her co-host, Giedroyc.
"Week one, they're all lovely. Week three, 'oh darling, this bowl isn't big enough.'"


Nottingham Forest have been bought by Greek shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis after his takeover was passed by the English Football League (EFL).

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The businessman and Olympiakos owner is facing accusations of match-fixing in Greece but has passed the EFL's owners' and directors' test.
Marinakis' buyout brings to an end Fawaz Al Hasawi's five-year reign in charge of the Championship club.
A previous takeover by a United States consortium fell through in January.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Marinakis said that allegations he is involved in a "criminal organisation" were invented by "jealous" opponents to "destroy" his success with the Greek champions.
He was previously accused of being involved in the bombing of a referee's bakery but faced no action.
Marinakis, who is heading a consortium with Greek businessman Socrates Kominakis, denies all the claims and has not faced any charges. He is waiting to find out whether a remaining case against him will proceed, but says: "I have nothing to be afraid of and to worry about as I have done nothing wrong."
The EFL has approved the deal after reviewing the business plan and applying the owners' and directors' test. It saw no reason to disqualify the prospective owners under the test. The EFL also asked Uefa for its views on Marinakis' ownership of Olympiakos and received a positive response.
Two-time European Cup winners Forest only escaped relegation to England's third tier on goal difference with a win on the final day of the season.
Marinakis has also "guaranteed" manager Mark Warburton, who was appointed in March, will be with the club "for a number of years".
In an interview with BBC correspondent Richard Conway, Marinakis spelt out his vision for Nottingham Forest. He says he will:
Under Marinakis' ownership since 2010, Olympiakos have won seven domestic championships in a row. They are among the top-25 ranked teams in Europe.
He told BBC Sport that claims of criminality against him are as a result of this record.
"All these years, a lot has been said but nothing came out in reality. All of it has been dismissed and we have been clear from all of this," he said.
"Now there is a last case remaining - there are about 80 persons involved. I can tell you again that I have nothing to do with it because I know very well what I have done and how I have achieved victories.
"Of course I cannot stop our opponents talking or bad-mouthing."
He added the EFL and other football authorities, such as European governing body Uefa, have cleared him after "two months" of "numerous questions".
Marinakis attended high school in Watford from the age of 15 and went on to university in the UK.
He told the BBC he chose to invest in Forest based on "what I remember from the past and the potential the club has".
He added: "I think that it doesn't take long to decide, even if you have a choice, which team to go for. When you see all this tradition and all these achievements, of course this club has the potential to grow and achieve victories that the whole region deserves."
"I'm not going to promise you things or I'm not a rich guy who came from abroad to spend my money and gain glory by acquiring a team in the UK.
"I had glories from my times with Olympiakos who have won everything, who have broken every record both within our country and in Europe, in the Champions League for our level.
"We know a lot of players, managers, clubs, officials in various parts of the world in international football, agents - all this can help us to put all our connections together and try to do our very best for Nottingham."
Forest, league champions in 1977-78 and European Cup winners in the following two seasons, last played in the Premier League in 1998-99. They have since spent 14 seasons in the second tier and three seasons in League One, from 2005-06 to 2007-08.
Despite narrowly escaping a return to the third tier this season, Marinakis believes Forest should be in the Premier League.
"We have a long-term plan and within this long-term plan we want to bring Nottingham to where it belongs. And of course Nottingham belongs in the Premier League. And Nottingham belongs to the elite of the Premier League," he says.
"Furthermore the supporters of Nottingham have been tired all these years, they didn't have such good times. But they remained loyal and for us that's very important.
"The potential is huge. The potential of this team is that when it will be very well organised, when it will achieve victories again, when it will have a better position in the Championship, when it will have a better position and we can look seriously at the Premier League, then we will be there to stay."
Warburton has previously described the new ownership as "proven football people", referencing Marinakis' achievements at Olympiakos.
"They have done a magnificent job at getting into the Champions League year in, year out and have really developed an outstanding club," he added.
Also referred to as the 'fit and proper persons test', it is designed to prevent someone being involved in running a football club if they have any of the disqualifying conditions listed here.
That includes criminal matters such as dishonest acts and unspent convictions and company disqualification matters such as bankruptcy.
Natalie Jackson, BBC East Midlands Today sports editor, on the feeling among some Forest supporters.
Supporters seem to be optimistic about the new ownership because five years under Fawaz promised so much but delivered so little. His well-meaning love of the club and his vast wealth was never in doubt but there were eight different managers and a fragile infrastructure behind the scenes, with people in key positions coming and going at regular intervals.
Increasing anger led to fans' protests, while Forest finished lower in the league year on year - culminating in this season's final-day escape from relegation.
Bridges need to be built and reputations restored. Mark Warburton's arrival shows signs of a more sensible, long-term approach on the football side.
There is a sense of relief among fans, but also caution because tremendous wealth does not automatically mean a well-run, stable and successful club. Marinakis is aggressively ambitious but has taken on a club in need of major rebuilding.
Sat in his modern London office, adorned with a mix of modern art and oil paintings of the port of Piraeus in Greece, Evangelos Marinakis spoke confidently of his long-term plan for Nottingham Forest.
His key phrase is "hard work". He repeatedly said those words during our interview, and prides himself on building teams both within his shipping empire and at the football clubs he owns. His immediate focus appears to be order, appointing professionals and creating a stable base from which the club can rebuild.
But Marinakis does come with baggage. He has faced - and has been cleared - of very serious charges in Greece. He insists his remaining legal difficulties in Greece don't worry him and that he's done nothing wrong.
Significantly, the deal is also being fronted by fellow businessman Socrates Kominakis. His presence will ensure that should anything happen in the future concerning Marinakis' ability to own the club (a prospect he says is not based in reality), there will be continuity in the boardroom.


A man accused of attacking a pregnant Muslim woman who went on to lose her unborn twins was ordered to be arrested after failing to turn up to court.

David Gallacher, 37, was due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court to face charges over the alleged assault of Samsam Haji-Ali, 34.
A warrant for his arrest was issued when he did not turn up to the hearing.
Ms Haji-Ali was said to have been attacked outside a Co-op in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire in August 2016.
Mr Gallacher, of no fixed address, was arrested on September 14, and was later charged with assault causing actual bodily harm, assault by beating and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated assault.
He allegedly assaulted both the woman and her husband, Abdullah Sulaiman, 40, in the attack.
A warrant not backed for bail was issued for Mr Gallacher by chair of the bench David Tyler.


Twenty-one-year-old Ross Greer has become the youngest ever MSP after being elected for the Scottish Green Party for West of Scotland region.

He was just 15 when he joined the party and has also served as a member of the Scottish Youth Parliament.
He also contested the East Dunbartonshire constituency in last May's general election.
He gained his new role as an MSP after being top of the Green list for the West of Scotland region.
In a post on the Scottish Young Greens website, he said: "I had always been an environmentalist since a young age.
"As my interest in politics grew, I began to realise that only the Scottish Green Party offered the practical solutions that I wanted, combining social justice and equality with sustainability and practical solutions to tackling climate change."
Mr Greer studied politics and psychology for a time at Strathclyde University but left in December 2012 to become Yes Scotland's communities co-ordinator for the independence referendum.
After the referendum the former Bearsden Academy student worked for the Scottish Greens on strategy development, and is the party's spokesman on Europe and external affairs.