The brief militant seizure of Kunduz in 2015 was one of the Afghan government's worst setbacks since Taliban forces were ousted in 2001.

One of Afghanistan's largest cities, it has long been a strategically important transport hub for the north of the country.
Kunduz is linked by highways to Kabul in the south, with Mazar-e-Sharif in the west and with Tajikistan in the north.
But it has always held symbolic significance for the Taliban because it was a key northern stronghold before 2001.
Kunduz is considered a gateway to Afghanistan's northern provinces and shares a border with Tajikistan, Afghanistan's Central Asian neighbour.
The border with Tajikistan is porous, and it is used for the smuggling of Afghan opium and heroin to Central Asia, which finally finds its way to Europe.
Any side controlling Kunduz would not only influence the surrounding areas, but could also control one of the most important drug smuggling routes in the region.
Security for the region - which was a flagship project for the German army - was transferred to Afghan forces in 2013.
But Kunduz has many other problems: bad governance as well as incompetence and intimidation by some local officials have alienated many in the province.
It has long been at the frontline of a determined campaign by the Taliban to reclaim it. In May last year the BBC's David Loyn reported from there as fighting between government forces and the Taliban unfolded.
The Taliban already control huge chunks of the province's rural areas, where the majority of the population lives. The insurgents have intensified their fighting in the province over the past two years.
A BBC reporter visited the city after it was back in government hands following its September 2015 capture. He found shock, a jail emptied of prisoners and many residents fearful of a Taliban return.
The battle for the city saw one of the worst incidents in the recent Afghan war when a Medecins sans Frontieres hospital was hit by a US air strike.
The city is  estimated to have about 300,000 residents but those numbers are likely to be fluid because fighting has prompted many to flee the city.
Tens of thousands of people were displaced, living in shelters, spread across large tracts of countryside.
Although the insurgents were pushed back, they always had numbers in the region and many observers believed it was only a matter of time before a determined assault was attempted.
BBC Afghan's Dawood Azami and Inayatulhaq Yasini contributed to this report.


A breeder of American bulldogs who lost an arm after one of his pets attacked him has admitted responsibility for his animals mauling another dog walker.

Stephen Potts had denied seven charges relating to the attack on Lindsay Edwards and his dog Zuma in October.
But on the second day of a Durham Crown Court trial, Potts, 48, of Low Pittington, admitted six reviewed counts.
Mr Edwards, 63, was bitten on his calf and head, and Zuma "heavily mauled".
Potts had denied seven charges of owning dangerously out of control dogs - but has now pleaded guilty to six lesser charges of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control in a public place.
Potts' friend Patricia Ayre, 66, from Sedgefield, has been acquitted on all counts.
The attack happened three weeks after Potts was attacked by two of his own dogs and as a result his right arm had to be amputated.
Those animals were later destroyed.
Potts is due to be sentenced next month.


The morning after the Manchester Arena bomb an image of one girl filled the front pages of almost every newspaper.

Her name is Eve Senior. She's 14 but looks older in the photo - she had dressed up and done her make-up to go to the Ariana Grande concert.
She was a few metres from Salman Abedi when he detonated his suicide bomb, killing 22 people.
In the picture, half her jeans had been cut off by paramedics and she needed help to walk because of 14 shrapnel wounds she had suffered. Once at hospital medics operated to remove the lumps of metal from her legs.
For many people the photograph conveyed the awful reality of the attack. An attack targeting a concert packed with children.
But another image that has stayed with me is of Eve's younger sister.
On the night of the bomb I watched as 11-year-old Emilia was scooped up by her father and carried away from the arena. She is too tall for her dad to carry very far. But he tried.
Once through the police cordon she was hugged and kissed by her grandparents. I heard her quietly say to them that she was one of the lucky ones.
That night, Emilia told me they had been leaving the concert when the bomb went off.
"We walked out and then suddenly something really hot flew over us," she said. "We all dropped to the floor."
Her mother and sister were still inside waiting to go to hospital. Emilia wiped her face and said: "My sister's really bad."
She was remarkably calm and articulate. But looking back at footage of that interview now, you can see the fear.
Four weeks later, I met Emilia again at her home near Bradford, West Yorkshire. She told me that as she left Manchester Arena on the night of the bomb she was convinced her big sister was dying.
This was also the first time I met Eve. She was still struggling to walk because of the shrapnel wounds and nerve damage. As a teenage girl and talented dancer, the way her legs looked and worked was important to her.
She had been told she still had months of physiotherapy ahead of her and doctors had mentioned the possibility of plastic surgery.
"Some of my friends don't understand how long it's going to take," she said. "I don't think I understand."
Her parents Andrew and Natalie told me Eve had good days and bad days. The bad days were really tough.
Emilia's hearing in one ear was damaged by the blast, but she escaped any other physical injuries. Her parents' main concern was about the psychological impact.
As she talked to me about the way her mind played and replayed what she saw that night, it became clear why.
"I see all of it. I see the flashing lights of the explosion," she said.
"I see the people being thrown in the air who were probably dead. And then you play it. And then you pause it. It's like my mind took a photo. That's what it feels like when you think about it."
Her father was sitting quietly next to her, taking in what she was saying.
Her mother, who was also injured in the explosion, said: "For an 11-year-old child to have seen the things she saw, it's going to be a long process."
By early July, when I next met the family, Emilia had turned 12 and Eve was walking without crutches.
I went with them to their local hospital where Eve and her mother had a physiotherapy session.
They had made huge progress, but for Eve it wasn't fast enough.
"It feels like I'm not improving at all," she said. "I know I am. But it feels like that, because I just want to be able to do all the stuff I did before."
For her mother, each physiotherapy session had been a reminder of how far they had come.
"We've turned a real corner," she said. "Eve's getting a lot more mobile which has been a big thing for us."
They had been for days out together and one of their outings was to Manchester.
Like other survivors, the family had been offered the chance to visit the arena before its scheduled reopening. They had doubts in the days before the visit. The girls' parents hoped it would help them move forward, but feared the girls would find it totally overwhelming.
In the end it did help. It helped them fill in the gaps and get a better sense of what happened. They calculated that Eve was 5m from Abedi when he detonated the bomb.
"I was really scared to go," Eve told me. "I was crying before I even went in. But as soon as I got in there, you felt more calm."
Her mother said that for weeks after the attack she'd pictured the Arena foyer as a cold and frightening place. But going back changed that.
"It was as if you were going back somewhere where you found a bit of peace," she said.
Eve's face lit up when she talked about the staff at Manchester Children's Hospital.
"Before Manchester I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grow up," she said.
"But staying in hospital and seeing what the nurses do and how good they are - when I'm older I want to be a nurse."
Emilia has also found ways to cope. As her mother and sister worked out at their physio session, she chatted to me while colouring-in.
It is easy to forget how young she is. Her colouring book reminded me. She told me her trauma counsellor had suggested colouring as way to block out the images that had been filling her mind.
Remarkably, she said she did not hate the man who carried out the attack.
"You have to forgive and forget in life, or else you're not going to get anywhere."
This family is one of hundreds deeply and permanently affected by the Manchester attack. But despite all they have been through, they still regard themselves as the lucky ones.
Alongside hospital appointments and counselling sessions, they have found the time to hold fundraising events for the Manchester Emergency Fund and Victim Support.
Mr Senior told me he constantly thinks about the fathers whose children did not survive.
"It changes your perspective on things," he said. "We're always going to have Manchester as a part of our family now."
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Sean Ervine and Jimmy Adams set a new county fourth-wicket partnership record of 367 as Hampshire were finally bowled out for 515 against Warwickshire.

Resuming on 294-3, the pair added a further 104 before both became victims for Bears spinner Sunny Singh.
Adams, 104 overnight, went for 166, while Ervine followed for 203, his second double century, having added 43.
Singh took 6-144 in only his second Championship game before the Bears then buckled in reply, closing on 49-6.
After the needless run-out of opener Ian Westwood by Michael Carberry, spinner Mason Crane and debutant paceman Matt Salisbury both claimed two wickets, while fellow debutant Ian Holland also claimed his first scalp.
Missing the absent Jonathan Trott, only Rikki Clarke (20) and opener Andy Umeed (14) made double figures.
With Jeetan Patel frustratingly away on drinks waiter duty for New Zealand in the Champions Trophy, Singh's maiden first-class 'five-for', in only his third match, was the Bears' only bright spot.
After a third successive wicket-less session for the Bears, it was just after lunch when he got his first wicket, when Adams attempted to flick him over mid-wicket and offered a simple catch.
Within three overs, Ervine had brought up his double century, his best score for Hampshire in seven summers, before Singh then bowled him attempting to reverse paddle.
Singh then took wickets at regular intervals as Hampshire batted through before the hosts then did untold damage in the 30 overs they had at the wobbling Bears in the day's final session.
Hampshire's record-breaking 367-run stand, the highest partnership in all Championship cricket this season, comfortably broke Adams' own existing Hampshire fourth-wicket record, 278, set in partnership with James Vince against Yorkshire, at Scarborough, in 2010.
Hampshire double centurion Sean Ervine told BBC Solent:
"I am more pleased with the partnership after being 31-3. Myself and Jimmy had to dig in. To then top it off, the boys came out and performed with the ball.
"It took a special piece of fielder from Carbs to get the ball rolling, then the two debutants were magical and Mason towards the end got some purchases.
"We could hear on the tannoy all the milestones we got to. It wasn't easy to bat out there.
"There was a little bit of invariable bounce and a couple kept low. As the ball got older and soft it was harder to pierce the field."
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC WM:
"Jonathan Trott has had a family emergency today. Nothing we can control. Everything seems to be happening to us at one time but he will be back tomorrow.
"It has been a tough day and a tough season for us in red-ball cricket. We shouldn't have let them get 500 but we also shouldn't be six down for 50.
"We have shown glimpses of some fight in previous Championship matches but this was again massively disappointing and not up to standard.
"Momentum in this sort of cricket is huge. Westy has been batting well for us so his run out was disappointing and gave them a little more momentum. But we have to believe that this is savable."


Stevenage have signed striker Armand Gnanduillet from League One side Chesterfield on a one-month loan.

The 23-year-old has played nine league games for the Spireites this season, all as a substitute, but started two cup matches.
The 6ft 4ins former Ivory Coast Under-20 international has made 98 appearances in total for Chesterfield since joining them in January 2013.
Gnanduillet previously had loan spells at Tranmere and Oxford.


Syria's neighbours have asked donors for support in dealing with the huge influx of refugees at a meeting in Geneva.

Foreign ministers from Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq presented reports at the meeting, hosted by the UN.
More than two million Syrians have fled the conflict in their country, and many more have been displaced internally.
Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he would comply with a plan to rid his country of chemical weapons.
"Of course we have to comply. This is our history. We have to comply with every treaty we sign,'' he told Italy's RAI News 24.
On Friday, the UN Security Council passed a binding resolution to eliminate Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons by mid-2014.
Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is tasked with implementing the plan, left for Syria on Monday.
A separate team of inspectors, from the UN, has been investigating allegations of chemical weapons attacks and left Syria after concluding its work there.
These include an attack on 21 August in Damascus that left hundreds dead and triggered a threat of international military action against Mr Assad's forces.
At the United Nations in New York, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem accused "well-known" countries of backing "terrorists" fighting the Syrian government and of threatening "blatant military aggression outside the mandate of the Security Council".
He said Syria had "repeatedly embraced" a political solution, and would co-operate with the OPCW - but added that outside states which he accused of supplying chemical weapons to Syrian rebels had to abide by their commitments as well.
"Any political solution in light of the continued support of terrorism, whether through supplying arms, funding or training, is mere illusion and misleading," he said.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has been warning that the number of Syrian refugees is threatening the political and social cohesion of the whole region.
"Syria has been burning for too long," UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres said as he opened the Geneva meeting. "This burden is far too heavy to be borne by only the neighbouring countries."
He said the international community should put in place more robust measures to share the burden of sheltering "an unrelenting flood of Syrian refugees" with Syria's neighbours.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the arrival of more than 240,000 Syrian refugees since mid-September in Iraqi Kurdistan "had created a substantial burden on available resources and local economies".
The number of refugees might reach 350,000 by the end of 2013, he continued, and as winter approaches, "we require increased support from the international community".
Jordan's Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, said pressure on resources and public services were reaching "unbearable levels" and that the cost the Jordanians were paying as a result of this crisis was "unprecedented".
"The host communities' resilience has been undermined dramatically and public opinion is changing," he said.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the international community had "fallen short" in its response to the humanitarian crisis and "failed to provide an effective humanitarian response to put an end to this senseless violence".
( Source UNHCR)
Lebanon does not have the money, housing, schools or hospitals to cope, while Jordan and Turkey, with some 500,000 refugees each, are believed to have spent at least $2bn (Â£1.25bn) caring for them, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.
In an attempt to prevent Syria's neighbours closing their borders, traditional donors are being asked financial support and offers to host some of the most vulnerable refugees, she says.
But the UN's $4.4bn appeal for Syrian refugees is only 50% funded, and there has been little response to appeals for Western states to resettle Syrians.
Britain and the US have not committed to accepting any so far, Germany will take 5,000, Austria 500.
Earlier, UNHCR spokesman Peter Kessler said the agency would appeal "for more support for the host countries including direct budget support but also of course aid in areas like provision of health care, education, infrastructure and other projects".
"For many of these countries such as for small Lebanon and Jordan, the influx of Syrian refugees represents a huge proportion of those countries' current population," he told the BBC.
Unrest in Syria began in March 2011, developing into a conflict in which more than 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed.


A Banksy artwork that went missing from a wall in north London is being auctioned for a second time.

The mural Slave Labour was taken from Wood Green in February. It later appeared at a Miami auction, but was withdrawn after protests.
The graffiti art has been offered for sale in London by the Sincura Group. The minimum bid is Â£900,000.
MP Lynne Featherstone has urged the owners of the mural to give it back to the residents of north London.
The mural, which depicts a boy hunched over a sewing machine making union jack bunting, appeared on the side of a Poundland store in May 2012, just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
It was being auctioned at the London Film Museum in Covent Garden on Sunday evening, but the final sale price has yet to be announced.
Sincura said the mural had been "sensitively restored" and if the piece did not reach the reserve price it would be sold to a collector in the US.
Tony Baxter, director of the Sincura Group, said he could not divulge the owner of the piece but insisted it was being sold legally.
He said there was a chance the work would leave the UK unless an "angel" bought it and put it in a museum.
But Ms Featherstone, Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, said: "This is admirable, perhaps, but also incredibly optimistic.
"So now I make this direct plea to the owners of the Banksy piece: You have this one last chance to do the right thing.
"You have deprived a community of an asset that was given to us for free and greatly enhanced an area that needed it.
"I call on you, and your consciences, to pull the piece from both potential sales and return it to its rightful place."
When the Bristol artist's mural was up for auction in Miami, it was expected to fetch up to Â£450,000.
It was suspected the work had been stolen when it disappeared, but the Metropolitan Police said there were "no reports of any theft".
Six identical copies of the mural reportedly appeared in Wood Green on Saturday morning, 36 hours ahead of the auction.
According to The Sun, the replicas - painted on polystyrene - were left outside the same Poundland store where the original appeared.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed to the BBC that one of the replicas was later confiscated from a member of the public.
If no-one claims the copy, it too will be auctioned.


The BBC is be giving away a million mini-computers to 11-year-olds across the country.

12 March 2015 Last updated at 13:26 GMT
It's part of its push to make the UK more digital.
One million Micro Bits will be given to all pupils starting secondary school in the autumn term.
The BBC is also launching a season of coding-based programmes and activities.
It will include a new drama about the creation of Grand Theft Auto and a documentary on Bletchley Park.
The initiative is part of a wider push to increase digital skills among young people.
The UK is facing a significant skills shortage, with 1.4 million "digital professionals" estimated to be needed over the next five years.
The BBC is joining others like the British Computing Society, BT, Google, Code Club and Young Rewired State to try to solve the problem.
It is hoped that the Micro Bit will encourage children to get involved in coding and programming.
The device is tiny - fitting easily into the palm of a hand.
Children will be able to create text via a series of LED lights.
They will also be able to use it to create basic games.
Watch two young children making a robot at home.


More than a third of nurses in three Essex hospitals are from overseas due to a shortage of British-trained recruits, the BBC has learned.

Figures from a Freedom of Information request revealed almost half of nurses at Basildon Hospital taken on since April 2012 were not British.
Nurse educator Sarah Lee said cuts to training here had left a skills "lag".
"Importing help in may well be a feature of our health service going forward," she said.
Ms Lee, programme lead for the Adult Nursing degree course at the University of Essex, said cuts made five or six years ago had impacted the number of British-trained nurses available.
"In the wake of what happened at Mid-Staffordshire, trusts nationally realised they needed to work on their nursing levels to ensure quality of care," she said.
"But there's still a three year lead-in time for producing fully-trained nurses here.
"In the medium term, they have no other option than to recruit from abroad."
Essex's foreign recruits:
Source: Freedom of Information request by BBC Essex
Karen Webb, a regional director at the Royal College of Nursing, said nurses from overseas had "always made an important contribution to the NHS".
"The current situation has been caused by poor workforce planning," she said.
"The government's decision to cut back on nurse training places has led to a real shortage of UK nurses.
"This has come at a time when there is a lot of demand for nurses and trusts are having to go overseas to recruit.
"We do expect the numbers of training places to increase but that doesn't help the current situation."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Doctors and nurses recruited from abroad make a valuable contribution to patient care but they should only work in the NHS if they have the right skills."


The suspected surviving bomber in the Brussels attacks has admitted the group was initially planning a new attack on France, Belgian prosecutors say.

Mohamed Abrini said the group had decided to attack Brussels instead after the arrest of fellow suspect Salah Abdeslam.
He also reportedly admitted being the third bomber in the airport attack, fleeing without setting off his device.
Gun and bomb attacks in Paris on 13 November killed 130 people.
A further 32 were killed in the attacks on an airport and metro station in Brussels on 22 March.
Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group, based in Syria and Iraq.
Abrini, who was arrested in Brussels on Friday, reportedly told interrogators that the arrest of Abdeslam on 18 March had prompted the plotters to change track.
Surprised by the speed at which police were closing in on them, the group had "finally taken a hasty decision to hit Brussels", prosecutors quoted Abrini as saying.
Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, was charged with terrorist activities along with three other men on Saturday.
Prosecutors said earlier he confessed to being the "man in the hat" - the missing third airport bomber seen in CCTV video.
"He said that he had thrown away his jacket in a rubbish bin and sold his hat after the attack," the statement added.
There was no immediate comment from the suspect's lawyer.
A Belgian-based expert on Europe's jihadists, Pieter Van Ostayen, has thrown doubt on Abrini's confession to being the bomber at Zaventem airport, suggesting he may be covering for the actual attacker.
However, facial recognition tests confirmed Abrini as the man in the CCTV footage on seven out of nine points, French TV channel LCI reports, quoting police.
According to investigators, Abrini's fingerprints and DNA were found in two "safe houses" in Brussels, as well as in a car used during the Paris attacks.
Abrini is also said to have been filmed at a petrol station with Abdeslam two days before the Paris attacks.
Abdeslam's alleged role in the attack on the French capital has yet to be established but his brother Brahim was one of those who blew themselves up.
Investigators believe Salah may have driven the three bombers who attacked the Stade de France to their destination, and may have been tasked with an aborted attack a short distance away, after which he fled to Belgium.
The three other men charged on Saturday by Belgian prosecutors have been named as Osama K, Herve BN, and Bilal EM.
Osama K, identified in media reports as Swedish national Osama Krayem, was the man seen Brussels group 'planned to hit France'with the suicide bomber at Maelbeek metro station just before the attack on 22 March, investigators say.
They also say that he bought bags used by the two bombers who struck at Zaventem airport on the same day.


£1.4bn funding for the first wave of Wales' biggest ever school building programme has been announced.

Half of the money will be supplied by councils in a programme which has been scaled back since being suspended in July because of a lack of funds.
The funding for council priority projects will now take seven years to complete, instead of the original three.
The Welsh government highlighted substantial cuts by the UK government.
The plan involves prioritising projects for "difficult economic times".
Work is due to start later, will be spread over a longer period and councils will be expected to fund a larger contribution than first envisaged.
The initial phase was originally supposed to run over three years but will now stretch to seven.
Ciaran Jenkins, BBC Wales education correspondent
This is six years worth of building the schools which most urgently need rebuilding in Wales.
Every single council has submitted plans to the Welsh government, and committed themselves to finding 50% of the costs.
This means £1.4bn in total - £700m from the Welsh government and the rest from councils - if they can find it.
It's a change from the original strategy which was over 15 years. The aim had been to build all the schools needed in five three-year bands, but what we've heard today is just the first band - those projects which are most urgent.
The build time is also being extended to 2020. It's not good news if you are sitting in a building with a leaky roof.
The Conservatives are saying it's a missed opportunity and that the Welsh government should have been literally mending the roof when the sun was shinning.
The Welsh government say they have had significant cuts in their capital budget from the UK government so this is the best they can do in the circumstances.
The announcement means a number of controversial school reorganisation projects will now go ahead:
However, Gwynedd council, which receives £18m towards a £36m programme, has been refused funding for plans for reorganisation of schools in the Eifionydd, Moelwyn, Botwnnog and Dyffryn Ogwen catchment areas.
Councillor Liz Saville-Roberts said they hoped to hold further funding discussions and the bidding round had allowed them to "make a declaration of intent as regards our reorganisation strategy".
The Welsh government said the funding for the 21st Century Schools programme was "realistic" and it still hopes eventually to spend about £4bn.
It said the proposals would address not only poor conditions and surplus capacity but "deliver sustainable, cost-effective schools that are fit for the 21st Century".
Education Minister Leighton Andrews said: "Securing capital investment in these difficult economic times is essential not only for better education outcomes but for the continued support of our construction industry and the growth of our economy."
Peter Fox, education spokesman for the Welsh Local Government Association, said: "This is great news for local government and should be welcomed by learners across Wales.
"Despite the very difficult funding situation, the joint approach to developing this programme has paid off."
Martin Lipson, the former director of the 21st Century Schools programme, said the funding was to be welcomed if councils could find the money they had promised.
"I don't think the councils have got the money that's needed to carry out this programme unfortunately, because the original plan that we conceived was that local authorities would have to find about 30% of the costs of the project, leaving 70% to be found by the Welsh government," he said.
"I do fear that when it comes to the presentation of their business cases which are needed to draw down the funding, some of them will in fact not be able to find that much money."
David Evans, secretary of NUT Wales, said it recognised the difficult financial position the Welsh government was in as a result of UK government cuts.
However he added: "With that said, we are disappointed at the scaling back of a project that we publicly welcomed and which was overdue.
"We obviously welcome the money that will be spent, but there is no doubt that with such a difference in expenditure between what was originally proposed, and what is to be delivered, the impact that we can expect will not be as radical as hoped at the outset of the project.
"There can be no doubt now, that what will be delivered is a mend and make do programme that will not go far enough and may, in some circumstances, amount to nothing more than a false economy falling far short of the aim to deliver 21st Century schools for this generation of school children."
Many councils said they had based figures on the local authority's cost being 30%, with the Welsh government funding the remaining 70%.
But a few months ago they were told to increase contributions to 50% and to resubmit proposals accordingly.
More than £415m has already been invested in a precursor initiative, the 21st Century Schools transitional programme, which supported specific capital projects.
Conservative education spokeswoman Angela Burns welcomed the funding to tackle the repair backlog but added: "It is a shame that ministers squandered so much money in good economic times and have now failed to take advantage of other available funding sources to make our school buildings fit for the 21st Century".
She blamed ideology for Welsh Labour ministers failing to support Welsh Conservative public-private partnership plans.


Commonwealth Games gold medallist Charlie Flynn is among those to pay tribute to Boxing Scotland chairman Richard Thomas, who has died aged 45.

Thomas suffered a stroke on Monday and had emergency surgery but passed away on Friday.
Flynn said on Twitter: "Absolutely devastated. A great friend of mine and a true gentleman.
"Without your help I would not be where I am today. Prayers are with you and your family on this tragic day."
Thomas leaves two sons, Christopher, 18, and Rocco, six.
Boxing Scotland chief operating officer Fraser Walker said: "It is with great sadness that I have to report Richard suffered a massive stroke on Monday.
"It was typical of him as a man that he fought courageously against the odds, but unfortunately he lost his battle early on Friday afternoon.
"Everyone who knew him is utterly devastated by his sad and untimely passing.
"As well as working with him, he was a close personal friend and he will leave a huge void in many people's lives. I still can't believe he's gone."


Manchester's famous Hacienda nightclub has been revived for a one-off party to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Ageing ravers attended the event in an underground car park on the site of the venue, which was demolished in 2002.
Fans still have "very intense" feelings for the club, said Joy Division bassist Peter Hook, who organised the party.
The club became legendary for its place at the heart of the acid house scene in the late 1980s and '90s - as well as for its drug dealing and gang violence.
The anniversary attempted to recreate the euphoric atmosphere of its heyday with sets from classic Hacienda DJs including 808 State, Dave Haslam, Graeme Park and Jon DaSilva.
Steve Oldroyd used to travel from Harrogate to the venue every Saturday night. Now 45 and a telecommunications engineer, he said: "There's never been anywhere like the Hacienda.
"Everybody just seemed to be on the same wavelength. So it's quite nice to be part of something like this tonight."
Friend Steve Wallace, a 39-year-old commercial director, recalled the atmosphere that made it famous. "If you came in a bit later, you'd walk into a wall of sound and smoke and heat," he said. "You could feel it throbbing. There really is nothing like it.
"I talk to my girlfriend about it and she looks at me like I'm from a different planet but she was never here. The people that weren't here, who hear us oldies going on about it all the time, they don't get it.
"It was unique and special. It's quite nice to be back. It's not quite the same, but it's a good second."
The Hacienda opened on 21 May 1982 and was run by the Factory Records label and New Order.
As well as hosting acid house club nights, it also saw gigs by seminal bands including New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays.
The club's feelgood heyday was famously fuelled by ecstasy - which led to drug rivalries, violence and eventually closure in 1997.
A block of flats was built in its place and the anniversary party took place in the block's car park. It finished at midnight to avoid overly disturbing residents.
Peter Hook, who played bass with Joy Division and New Order, said: "The idea came about to celebrate the 30th simply because Graeme Park and I thought that we might not be here for the 40th.
"I'm hoping so, but I'm not sure I'll be in any fit state to rave."
The Hacienda was also famous for its financial mismanagement and Hook has claimed it lost his band Â£18m.
"We're even managing to lose a fortune on the 30th anniversary party - because it's for charity," he said. "I suppose this is our way of having a party and giving something back."
With a 500-strong crowd, the night raised money for Nordoff Robbins music therapy.
Hook said the party was "the icing on the cake" in a summer when The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and his estranged New Order bandmates - dubbed "New Odour" by the bassist - are back on tour.
Hook himself is playing Joy Division's albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer on tour with his band The Light. Two more Hacienda anniversary events are being held at the Sankeys nightclub on 2 and 4 June.


League One side Peterborough United have signed midfielder Simon Gillett on a short-term loan from Yeovil.

Gillett, 30, has played six times this season having returned from a year-long spell out with injury in January.
He has made 225 league appearances for clubs including Southampton, Doncaster and Nottingham Forest.
"He has qualities that we have been lacking and our youngsters will benefit immensely from his presence," said Posh boss Graham Westley.
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Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman's mother Carol has died after a collision with a pick-up truck as she was cycling in north Wales, police have said.

Mrs Boardman, who competed in cycling races in her youth, was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the collision in Connah's Quay, Deeside, on Saturday.
She later died in hospital.
Chris Boardman said she was "the most positive, outgoing person you could ever hope to meet".
The 47-year-old, who won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games, tweeted a photograph alongside a tribute to his mother, who he said "never lost her love of the bike or competing".
"A stealth combatant and full of energy; mum was one of those individuals who could quietly turn anything into a contest.
"On the 10-minute walk to my nan's she would often force us to skip - it didn't feel as strange then as it sounds now - which inevitably turned into a dog-eat-dog contest, a woman and two children frantically speed-skipping along a suburban pavement with a blue garden gate as the winning post.
"God knows what it looked like to people driving past."
He also wrote about her "generosity of spirit" and love of the outdoors, recalling fond childhood memories of walking and exploring as a family in north Wales.
"We love you Carol, may the wind be ever at your back," he said.
North Wales Police have appealed for any witnesses to the collision at 13:54 BST at the roundabout on Mold Road, Connah's Quay with the Junction of Ffordd Llanarth.
The vehicle involved was a white Mitsubishi L200 pick up, police said.
A spokeswoman added: "Police are renewing their appeal for anybody who may have witnessed the collision to contact officers on 101, quoting reference number U104385."
Chris Boardman, a father-of-six from Hoylake, Merseyside, broke the world record for the longest distance cycled in an hour three times.
He competed in the Tour de France, and won three stages - wearing the yellow jersey on three occasions. He has been part of ITV's recent coverage of the world-famous cycling event.
His broadcasting colleague Ned Boulting tweeted: "I'm so sorry Chris. You and your family are uppermost in our thoughts here in France."
Bob Howden, president of British Cycling, said: "This is truly awful news and my thoughts, and those of everyone at British Cycling, are with Carol's family."


Britain's Dom Inglot won the Aegon Open Nottingham doubles title alongside Canadian partner Daniel Nestor.

They beat top seeds Marcelo Melo and Ivan Dodig in the rain-interrupted final 7-5 7-6 (7-4) on Saturday.
In just their second tournament, the pair secured their first crown together without losing a set all week.
It is Nestor's 89th career title and Inglot's second on home soil, as they prepare to face Andreas Seppi and Fabio Fognini in round one at Wimbledon.
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Inglot, 30, told BBC Sport: "It doesn't get much tougher than playing these guys, so to get a win against that calibre of team before Wimbledon was a big confidence-booster."
Despite failing to take a match point at 7-5 5-4 moments before play was suspended for rain, the pairing managed to close out the match in dominant fashion at the Nottingham Tennis Centre.
"With our quality, you have to go to these tournaments believing you can win," Inglot continued. "We did well to hang in there, especially after the match point and coming out after the rain delay. We came out very fast and that was big for us."
Nestor, who is the only doubles player to have won more than 1,000 matches on the tour, said: "It's important to get matches in before a big tournament like next week and that was our goal before coming here.
"It's great that we were able to do that, and we feel a lot better about our game heading into Wimbledon now."
The 43-year-old added: "We have a tough draw, but we beat some very good teams here and there's no reason why we can't do the same there. This was a great tune-up before Wimbledon."
American world number 38 Steve Johnson claimed his maiden ATP title on Saturday, beating second seed Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 in the singles final.
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The Ulster Hospital in Dundonald has postponed about 30 routine operations a week as a result of a shortage of beds.

The move is due to the ongoing pressure on the hospital's accident and emergency department.
A senior manager at the South Eastern Health Trust told the BBC they are short of at least 35 beds.
The trust said it was "necessary to reduce the number of elective inpatients being admitted".
The director of hospital services, Seamus McGoran, said all cancer operations would be dealt with but added that it had been a "really, tough time for staff".
"I want to pay tribute to our staff who have been absolutely wonderful in effectively dealing with a 22% increase in our emergency admissions, in the context of a 9% increase in our beds," he said.
"It means that more and more patients are backing up in our emergency department and it takes longer to get those patients into a bed.
"Hence we have had a number of patients waiting longer than 12 hours."
In a statement, the trust added:  "The patients who will experience a delay in their surgical procedure will not suffer any negative clinical outcome as a result.
"However, the delay may unfortunately impact on the length of time a patient may have to wait for a non urgent inpatient procedure."
Since Belfast City Hospital's A&E closed in 2011, there is now one main emergency department in Belfast, operating from the Royal Victoria Hospital.
That has had a massive impact on other emergency departments in Northern Ireland, in particular, the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, and Antrim Area Hospital.
In fact, while the focus has been on Belfast and Antrim, staff at the Ulster Hospital have told the BBC they have been fighting their own emergency battle.
One nurse who works in the South Eastern Trust said at times they were sending patients home who should instead be remaining in hospital.
The nurse, who did not want to be identified, said she dreaded the weekend shift.
"At times you do feel guilty but that's the system we work in," she said.
Since Belfast City Hospital's A&E closed, the number of people attending the Ulster Hospital is up by 10,000 a year.
According to Mr McGoran, 40% of those people will be admitted.
While two extra wards were built to cope with the extra demand, Mr McGoran said it was not nearly enough.
Health Minister Edwin Poots acknowledged the pressure that hospitals are under at the moment.
"It is absolutely critical that we do have short waiting times in our emergency departments and that people are not waiting for extended periods of time before they receive care," he said.
He said patients were getting a good service in terms of the quality of care, but added:  "In terms of the time that it's taking for patients to receive that care, it's not good enough."
The director of nursing at the Public Health Agency, Mary Hinds,  said they must find a long term solution to the problem.
"It is true to say that perhaps the flow of patients to the Ulster and to Belfast, in places, are not what we expected," she said.
"But isn't that the skill of planning? Being able to react to a situation that you are in and trying to manage it to make sure we provide the best service we can for patients and that's exactly what we're doing."
The BBC understands that the health board is considering a so-called zoning programme that will instruct Gp's which A&E department patients should be sent to.
Ms Hinds is to brief the Health and Social Care Board on developments within all emergency departments when it meets on Thursday.


Leading US Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has announced that he is breaking ranks with President Obama by opposing the Iran nuclear deal.

He said there was a very real risk that Iran would use the agreement to pursue what he called its nefarious goals rather than moderate its approach.
Mr Schumer is the first Democratic Party senator to take such a stand.
Correspondents say his move is a serious blow to the president as he urges Congress to back the deal.
The nuclear deal calls for Iran to reduce its enrichment in exchange for the releasing of millions of dollars in frozen assets.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Friday that Mr Obama has made a persuasive case for the deal, garnering the support of twelve members of Congress.
However, Mr Obama is disappointed Mr Schumer is against it, Mr Earnest said.
It is considered a major part of Mr Obama's foreign policy legacy. He and his aides are working through the summer Congressional recess to convince lawmakers to back the deal.
But Mr Schumer said that after "deep study, careful thought and considerable soul-searching" he had decided to oppose the agreement when the Senate votes on it in September after the summer recess.
The New York senator is among the most powerful Jewish lawmakers in the US and is widely tipped to  to become the Democratic party leader in the Senate in early 2017.
"There are some who believe that I can force my colleagues to vote my way," Mr Schumer said about his opposition to the deal.
"While I will certainly share my view and try to persuade them that the vote to disapprove is the right one, in my experience with matters of conscience and great consequence like this, each member ultimately comes to their own conclusion," he said.
Mr Schumer argued that Iran had been able to eliminate sanctions while retaining "nuclear and non-nuclear power".
The senator joins a handful of Jewish Democrat Congress members who are against the deal.
President Obama on Wednesday described opponents of the deal as "selling a fantasy".
He said the agreement is publicly supported by every country in the world except for Israel and that the forthcoming Congressional vote on lifting sanctions was either a vote for war or for peace.
Members of Congress have come under intense pressure from pro-Israeli groups to reject the deal.
The president equated those who opposed the deal with the supporters of the American invasion of Iraq.


Opener Keaton Jennings hit a debut century as England reached 288-5 on a fluctuating first day of the fourth Test against India in Mumbai.

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The Durham left-hander, called up last week, was dropped before scoring but put on 99 with captain Alastair Cook (46) and went on to make 112.
Jennings, Moeen Ali, who made 50, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow all fell to Ravichandran Ashwin.
India lead 2-0 in the five-match series.
South Africa-born Jennings, 24, supported first by Cook and then by an increasingly confident Moeen, put England in a strong position, although they were helped by defensive fields from India.
India were gifted a route back into the game when Moeen was caught trying to slog-sweep Ashwin, and 230-3 became 249-5 when Jennings edged to gully and Jonny Bairstow was caught on the sweep.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said: "It was a tremendous day's play. It's a really good pitch - it's got a little bit of everything but there are runs out there.
"I would say England have just edged that day. Without Ravi Ashwin, India would be right on the back of a terrible day."
Umpire Paul Reiffel was forced to leave the field midway through the afternoon session after being struck on the back of the head by a lobbed Bhuvneshwar Kumar throw from the boundary. The Australian rested for the remainder of the day after a scan.
A former captain of South Africa Under-19s, Jennings made a century for the England Lions in Dubai the week he was added to the senior squad to replace the injured Haseeb Hameed.
He began tentatively but his innings turned round after he edged a short ball from Umesh Yadav on nought and a diving Karun Nair failed to hold on one-handed at gully.
Two balls later he struck his first boundary to get off the mark, setting the tempo of his innings. He mixed easy singles with reverse sweeps and cover drives, looking composed even as he neared three figures.
Watched in the crowd by Hameed, who returned to India with his family after having surgery on his fractured hand, Jennings struck 12 fours on his way to a composed century.
He celebrated calmly after reaching his hundred with a reverse sweep but could not hide his frustration when edging Ashwin to gully shortly after tea.
Jennings told Test Match Special: "If someone had said to me at the end of September you'd score as many runs as you had and have the opportunity with the Lions, I would have snapped their hand off.
"If someone said to me there would be a Test hundred waiting a couple of weeks later I would have jumped all over it.
"It's been a surreal seven, eight months. To top it off the way it has, with a Test cap and Test hundred, it's the best Christmas present I could get."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said: "Jennings looked like he could go through the gears - he's got the game. There is a real calm confidence about his play.
"I see a future England team with Jennings and Haseeb Hameed both in, with Joe Root at four."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott added: "He looks nicely composed. He has an economy of movement - he stays very still. His footwork is good.
"Not every day will be good like this but it is a very fine performance. He got to his hundred with a reverse sweep. We didn't even know what it was when I played."
England's top order struggled during the third-Test defeat in Mohali after they won the toss on a good batting pitch and Cook and Jennings overcame some early worries here to keep England on track.
Cook's dismissal, stumped as he moved down the wicket to Ravindra Jadeja, was uncharacteristic but showed England's change in mindset when it came to playing spin, and India's slow bowlers were stunted during the afternoon session.
After Joe Root had fallen, superbly caught at slip by Virat Kohli for 21, Moeen looked frenetic at the crease. However, once he settled he looked in good touch, lofting Jadeja high into the crowd for six before falling on the sweep.
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Boycott said: "I'd like to ask the coach, 'what do you say to someone like Moeen when we've got them by the scruff of the neck and then you let them back into the game?'"
"Don't give the opposition a sniff. When you've got them down, keep them down."
Bairstow top-edged a sweep to be caught at deep backward square leg, but Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler saw England to the close without further loss.


Footage has emerged showing that US tennis star Venus Williams was driving lawfully during a car crash that led to the death of a 78-year-old, police say.

Surveillance video obtained by Palm Beach Gardens police in Florida shows Ms Williams' vehicle entering an intersection on a green traffic signal.
An earlier police report had said Ms Williams was at fault and "violated the right of way of [the other driver]".
Ms Williams' lawyer said the fatal crash on 9 June was an accident.
The family of Jerome Barson, the man who died in the collision, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ms Williams.
New video evidence has revealed that the Grand Slam champion had the right of way as she entered the intersection of Northlake Boulevard in the city of Palm Beach Gardens, according to the police report.
However as she proceeded, the report says, Ms Williams was forced to brake to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle, which delayed her from clearing the junction.
As she then began to move forwards, a second vehicle - travelling in a different direction - entered the intersection on a green traffic signal, and the two cars collided.
"This updated information, based upon new evidence, is still under investigation," the police statement said.
Mr Barson had been travelling with his wife who was driving their vehicle at the time. He was taken to hospital but died two weeks later from his injuries.
Mrs Barson was also taken to hospital but survived.
The initial police report, obtained by US media, said that no other factors such as drugs, alcohol or mobile phone distractions were being investigated.
Ms Williams, the 37-year-old seven-time Grand Slam champion, reportedly told police she did not see the couple's car and she was driving slowly. She was not arrested in connection with the crash.
On Monday, when questioned by reporters about the crash, Ms Williams broke down in tears, and said: "There are no words to describe how devastating [it is]. I'm completely speechless."
Ms Williams' lawyer Malcolm Cunningham told CNN in a statement: "Ms Williams entered the intersection on a green light. The police report estimates that Ms Williams was travelling at 5mph when Mrs Barson crashed into her.
"Authorities did not issue Ms Williams with any citations or traffic violations. This is an unfortunate accident and Venus expresses her deepest condolences to the family who lost a loved one."
Ms Williams is currently playing her 20th Wimbledon tournament in London, where she is seeded 10th.
Ms Williams and her sister Serena have dominated the women's game for two decades.


David Gilroy, the man convicted of killing Edinburgh office worker, Suzanne Pilley in 2012, is to have his murder conviction reviewed.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is expected to take up to eight months to investigate the case.
Gilroy failed to have his case looked at by The Supreme Court in London after losing an appeal in Edinburgh.
Suzanne Pilley vanished on her way to work in May 2010. Her body has never been found.
Gilroy was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of her murder but continues to protest his innocence.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission was set up to investigate possible miscarriages of justice.
Only a small number are referred back to the High Court.
Ms Pilley, who had previously had an affair with married Gilroy, had set off on her usual journey to work in Edinburgh city centre but never arrived.
The jury in Gilroy's trial heard he was driven by jealousy, maintained a front of normality and embarked on a series of acts to cover up his crime.
He took 38-year-old Ms Pilley's body to a secret grave, believed to be in remote Argyll.
The case made legal history when Gilroy became the first convicted killer to have his sentencing filmed for British TV.
Judge Lord Bracadale told him when he was convicted that he hoped he would one day say where he abandoned the victim's body.


Russia's military intervention in Syria is helping to support the "butcher" President Bashar al-Assad, David Cameron has said.

The prime minister said Russian forces were not discriminating between Islamic State militants and others fighting the Syrian president.
Earlier, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Russia's "unguided" bombing in Syria led to civilian deaths.
Russia said its aircraft had hit IS command centres and arms depots.
US President Barack Obama has said Russia's strikes, which began on Wednesday, are "only strengthening" the IS position.
Speaking in Oxfordshire, before heading to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Mr Cameron said Russia's military intervention was "really making the situation worse".
"It's absolutely clear that Russia is not discriminating between Isil [IS] and the legitimate Syrian opposition groups and, as a result, they are actually backing the butcher Assad and helping him," he said.
"Rightly, they [Russia] have been condemned across the Arab world for what they have done and I think the Arab world is right about that.
"But we should be using this moment now to try to force forward a comprehensive plan to bring political transition in Syria because that is the answer for bringing peace to the region."
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Mr Fallon told the Sun intelligence suggested Moscow had mostly been targeting forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad rather than Islamic State militants.
Russia's involvement would not prevent the UK from making a case for RAF strikes against IS in Syria, he added.
Mr Fallon said initial Ministry of Defence intelligence suggested only one in 20 Russian air attacks so far had been on targets to damage IS.
He said: "We're analysing where the strikes are going every morning. The vast majority are not against IS at all.
"Our evidence indicates they are dropping unguided munitions in civilian areas, killing civilians, and they are dropping them against the Free Syrian forces fighting Assad. He's shoring up Assad and perpetuating the suffering."
Mr Fallon said Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to become involved "has complicated the situation" but it would be "morally wrong" for the UK not to target IS in Syria, as well as Iraq.
"We can't leave it to French, Australian and American aircraft to keep our own British streets safe," he said.
Russia's targets included the IS stronghold of Raqqa, but also Aleppo, Hama and Idlib - provinces with little IS presence.
President Obama has said the Russian bombing campaign is driving moderate opposition underground.
He also rejected the Russian assertion that all armed opponents of the "brutal" Mr Assad were terrorists.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued in recent weeks that his country's operation in Syria is designed to prevent the type of state implosion that took place in Libya after Nato's intervention there in 2011.
Meanwhile, a former senior military adviser told BBC2's Newsnight the UK's policy in Syria had been hampered by "wishful thinking" about what would happen to President Assad's regime.
Lt Gen Sir Simon Mayall said that UK policy makers had got caught up in the excitement of the Arab spring and hoped the Syrian leader would be swiftly overthrown, whereas the Russians had been "in many ways more realistic about the staying power of Assad".


Louis van Gaal says he does not regret turning down Tottenham in the summer of 2014, saying Manchester United "are a bigger club".

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United lie 12 points adrift of second-placed Spurs after suffering a 3-0 defeat at White Hart Lane on Sunday.
"The challenge was bigger for me at Manchester United and shall always be bigger," said Van Gaal, whose side are fifth.
"I'm sorry for Tottenham but Manchester United is a bigger club."
Despite United's troubles this season, Van Gaal, who held talks with Spurs about becoming manager, believes United are "still ahead" of the London club.
He also turned on the reporter who had asked him whether he had regretted choosing United over Spurs.
"It is a little bit pathetic you asked that," the 64-year-old Dutchman said. "It's easy to ask that but, ok, you enjoy yourself."
After Van Gaal signed a three-year deal at Old Trafford, Tottenham appointed former Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino as boss.
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Under the Argentine, they have emerged as the closest challengers to leaders Leicester City, who look like winning the title after beating Sunderland 2-0.
As for United, they are four points behind fourth-placed Manchester City and struggling to secure Champions League football for next season.
"Can we finish fourth? Yes, because we have 18 points available," Van Gaal said. "It's more difficult than before the match, that's for sure. Everybody can lose to everybody else. We are still in the race."
Van Gaal also confirmed injured captain Wayne Rooney will play for an hour of the Under-21 match against Middlesbrough on Monday.


Travel company Thomas Cook says it has won a legal victory against a fake holiday sickness claim and plans to challenge other such claims in court.

It comes after a family tried to win up to Â£10,000 in damages for food poisoning on a trip to the Canary Islands.
A judge at Liverpool County Court dismissed the case on Monday after concluding they were not sick.
It follows reports of a "huge rise" in fake sickness claims by UK tourists.
In June, the travel trade organisation Abta launched a campaign to tackle the problem, saying it was "one of the biggest issues that has hit the travel industry for many years".
It said tens of thousands of holidaymakers had made claims in the past year - worth between Â£3,000 and Â£5,000 each - despite reported sickness levels in resorts remaining stable.
Speaking after the hearing in Liverpool, Thomas Cook managing director Chris Mottershead said the company would "not accept liability" in such cases.
"It's not comfortable for us to be in court questioning our customers' credibility, but the significant increase in unreported illness claims being received by the travel industry threatens holidays for all UK customers," he said.
"This case follows an increasingly common pattern for these claims, with a previously unreported illness being raised years after the holiday, with no medical or other evidence to support the illness having occurred."
Thomas Cook said that Julie Lavelle, 33, her partner Michael McIntyre, 34, and their two young children had sought compensation after stating they suffered gastroenteritis on the third day of a two-week holiday in 2013.
The family blamed poor food and hygiene at their hotel on Gran Canaria and said their symptoms continued after they had returned the UK.
Thomas Cook said they did not mention their condition to hotel staff or tour representatives in the resort.
The company also said Mr McIntyre filled out a holiday feedback questionnaire on his flight home and left the section on illness unanswered.
The family's law firm, Bridger & Co of Carmarthenshire, was not immediately available for comment.
Abta said that rules designed to stop a spike in fraudulent whiplash claims have fuelled the rise in holiday sickness reports as they do not apply to incidents abroad.
It said holidaymakers pursuing fake or exaggerated claims risked being barred from resorts or ending up in prison.
In July, the government said it planned to tackle the problem by reducing the cash incentives of bringing such cases against holiday firms.
Justice Secretary David Lidington also said the government wanted to limit the legal costs that travel firms had to pay out for the claims.
"Our message to those who make false holiday sickness claims is clear - your actions are damaging and will not be tolerated," Mr Lidington said.


What do you want to know about the Brexit talks?

As EU citizens living in the UK and UK expats in other EU states continue to ponder their futures, Brexit negotiations have started in Brussels.
Over the past year, we have been inviting you to send in your questions about the whole process. We have already answered some questions...
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... but others are still awaiting definitive answers, which may only become clear at the every end of the negotiations. So, for now, here are your questions awaiting answers:
Many of the questions below are examples which were asked multiple times and in many ways, while others are specific to those who asked.
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Voters in Ivory Coast go to the polls on Sunday 25 October to elect a new president, five years after the world's largest cocoa producer descended into post-election violence that left more than 3,000 people dead and thousands more displaced.

Mistrust is still part of the political scene with three candidates - the latest, Charles Konan Banny, on Friday - withdrawing from the contest, citing concerns about the election process as their reason for doing so. Other candidates have predicted massive vote rigging.
Incumbent President Alassane Ouattara: A trained economist and former International Monetary Fund executive, Mr Ouattara is the candidate of the ruling Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace coalition.
He once served as prime minister, and before that as governor of the Central Bank of West African States.
Aged 73, he has promised not to seek a third term if re-elected. He has also promised lower taxes and to "lighten the social burden".
Pascal Affi N'Guessan is the candidate for Mr Gbagbo's opposition Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), and was prime minister from 2000 to 2003.
The 62-year-old telecommunications engineer is under fire from an FPI faction which wants Mr Gbagbo as their candidate despite him awaiting trial for alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Mr N'Guessan's campaign message has been that Mr Gbagbo should be released, and analysts feel that calling for this at every turn strengthens his position with the party faithful.
Kouadio Konan Bertin, 47, is an MP and was once youth leader in the former ruling Democratic Party of Ivory Coast.
He has pledged to bring home thousands of Ivorian political dissidents living in exile "so that we can wash our dirty linen at home".
Mr Ouattara seems likely to win. Ivorian newspaper Fraternite Matin suggests his development programmes will work in his favour and that "the opposition can be considered fractured".
Satirical Ivorian newspaper Gbich believes Mr Ouattara will win because his campaign machine has covered the entire country, unlike his rivals' efforts.
The election will be overseen by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), chaired by Youssouf Bakayoko, a former foreign minister, despite calls from the opposition for him to be dismissed for alleged bias.
The CEI says it has registered more than 6.3 million voters out of a population of slightly more than 22 million.
All Ivorians over 18 may vote, including expatriates. The president is elected by an absolute majority popular vote in two rounds if needed.
Insecurity remains a serious threat partly because some former rebels did not surrender their weapons, and partly because of the widespread availability of illegal firearms.
The government says about 10,000 firearms have been recovered from civilians since November 2011, but the number still in circulation is unknown.
Another worry is the threat of Islamist terror attacks in the wake of raids in June on the Malian villages of Fakola and Misseni, which border Ivory Coast to the north.
Ansar Dine, which along with other al-Qaeda-linked groups took over control of northern Mali for several months in 2012 and 2013, said it was behind the attacks.
Kouadio Konan Bertin has accused the government of planning "massive rigging" and of preparing a tailor-made voters' roll to register its supporters.
However, President Ouattara has pledged a "peaceful, democratic and transparent" poll.
"Ivory Coast would like to set an example after the (2010) post-electoral crisis," he has said, but Ivorians must overcome their voter apathy first.
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Cardiff City defender Lee Peltier says their strong second half to the season shows they can compete with the leading teams in the Championship.

The Bluebirds were second from bottom when former boss Paul Trollope was sacked in October.
Under current manager Neil Warnock, Cardiff have climbed up to 13th place with three games left in the campaign.
"We were right down there at the start of the season so I think we've come a long way," said Peltier.
"If we finish in the top half, it just makes you think what could have been if we'd started off properly. We would have been right up there."
Asked if he was envious of the clubs competing for promotion, Peltier said: "Yeah, definitely. You're always looking to see the results and who's in and who's not in. It's going right down to the wire at both ends."
Peltier returned from an ankle injury to make his first appearance since January as Cardiff beat Nottingham Forest on Easter Monday.
The 30-year-old, who played for 64 minutes against Forest before being substituted, had initially feared his season was over.
"The plan was to get through it and get it sorted at the end of the season, but against Preston [in January] my ankle just locked up, and I thought 'enough is enough'," said Peltier.
"I went to see the surgeon and he operated on it straight away. It was quite a big operation so I was glad to get it sorted. I feel good and I'm just looking to get myself back fit.
"I was due to be out for the season, but I've come back quite quick. The gaffer's been telling me not to push it, but I've been wanting to come back in the squad. If I'd have left it, it would have been a long time from when I'd been injured until pre-season, so I didn't want to be out that long."
With little to play for between now and the end of the season, Warnock has repeatedly said in recent weeks he is already planning for the next campaign.
Despite being described by his manager as one of the best right-backs in the Championship, Peltier is not taking his place in the squad for granted.
"I wouldn't say fine - you never know in football do you? Everyone's fighting for places and I think competition in the team is very good," he added.
"It will just make us stronger, there's a good team spirit in the dressing room and there's no jealousy or anything like that. It will be good to get some fresh faces in and see what happens."


Exeter Chiefs cemented their position in second place in the Premiership with a narrow win over Bath.

Ian Whitten crossed after James Short's excellent deep break and three Gareth Steenson penalties put Exeter 16-0 up.
Bath responded on the stroke of half-time when Amanaki Mafi touched down at the back of a driving maul.
Japan number eight Mafi scored again as the visitors got to within two points but a late try from Kai Horstmann secured Chiefs' victory.
It takes Rob Baxter's side to within three points of leaders Saracens, who could only draw at Sale on Saturday.
In front of a sell-out crowd at Sandy Park, Irish fly-half Steenson, who also struck two penalty attempts against the post, passed 1,000 Premiership points with his personal haul of 16.
Chiefs forward Dave Ewers played an hour after 12 games out with a knee injury, in his first match since he was included in Eddie Jones' first England squad.
Last season's Premiership finalists Bath, who have now won just one of their last nine games, remain ninth and their top-six hopes look slim.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter:
"It's nice to finally redress some of those losses as we've been on the end of some narrow defeats previously.
"We thoroughly deserved to win this one but those tries just either side of half-time did take the wind out of my sails.
"We had played very well to build up that 16-0 lead as Bath have one of the best defences in the league.
"It was frustrating as they kept trying to take tempo out of the game but the referee did work hard to try and keep the game flowing."
Bath assistant coach Toby Booth:
"We coaches just look at seven days ahead and seven days back and therefore London Irish next week is our focus, but we could do with registering something in the wins column.
"It's very disappointing that we've got absolutely nothing from this game as we have done extremely well to claw ourselves back into it after a slow start.
"Our set-piece wasn't good enough at the start so we couldn't get enough possession.
"Defeat was our own fault and I'm not blaming the referee but I didn't think we had the rub of the green in certain areas."
Exeter: Dollman; Woodburn, Whitten, Hill, Short; Steenson (capt), Lewis; Moon, Cowan-Dickie, Williams, Atkins, Parling, Ewers, Armand, Waldrom.
Replacements: Yeandle, Hepburn, Brown, Stevenson, Horstmann, Chudley, Hooley, Bodilly.
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Banahan, Eastmond, Agulla; Hastings, Cook; Lahiff, Batty, Thomas, Hooper (capt), Day, Houston, Louw, Mafi.
Replacements: Dunn, Auterac, Wilson, Ewels, Garvey, Mercer, Evans, Clark.
Referee: Greg Garner.


Money allocated for the M4 relief road should be spent on the metro for south Wales as money is not there for both, a Labour AM has warned.

Ahead of new powers to raise cash in 2018, the UK government is allowing Welsh ministers to borrow £500m for the proposed relief road.
But Jenny Rathbone said the benefits of the metro project to upgrade public transport in south Wales were greater.
The Welsh Government said it will deliver both schemes.
A Labour colleague of Ms Rathbone, John Griffiths, also called for the cash to be spent on the metro, saying it had more political support in the assembly than the M4 relief road.
Recent assessments have put the cost of the M4 upgrade at £1.1bn, excluding VAT and inflation. One estimate of the overall cost of the Metro, which could see the use of trams, has been put at £2bn.
Some £764m has been allocated for the Metro as part of the 20-year Cardiff Capital Region deal and EU funding could also be used.
Ms Rathbone, who has expressed her opposition to the road scheme before, told BBC Wales: "We don't have the money to do both."
She said the metro project "needs more money to do it properly" to ensure main valleys communities are linked.
"I'm not aware of any other pot of money that we could use to generate this amount of money. It does not exist," the backbench AM added.
"We can't get EU money for the M4. We have some EU money for the metro and but not all the money that is needed."
The Cardiff Central AM said she believed pressing ahead with the metro "would resolve the congestion problems we have got on the M4", which she said arise from the "100,000 commuters that come into Cardiff and Newport every day".
The Welsh Government will be able to borrow up to £500m from 2018, but ahead of those powers coming into force the UK government has allowed for that money to be borrowed early for the M4 project.
Ms Rathbone said it should be "up to the National Assembly to decide how to use that early borrowing facility".
A spokeswoman for the Welsh Government said: "Both the M4 relief road and the metro are hugely important to our vision for a fully integrated transport system for Wales.
"This Welsh Government was elected on a mandate to deliver both of these ambitious projects and that is what we will do.
"Our spending plans for future years will reflect our priorities for this administration."


A rail union is set to take extra industrial action in the row over the new all-night Tube service.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) has banned overtime, but members will take extra action from 27 July.
The RMT said it plans to refuse to bring trains into service members believed were not safe. Aslef plans similar action but said it had been threatened with legal action over it.
London Underground (LU) said it would "never compromise" on safety.
Talks between union officials and LU have resumed at the conciliation service Acas to try to avert a second Tube strike planned for 5 August.
As part of further industrial action, the RMT said members would not bring trains into service if they did not believe they had been properly prepared and they would also not take part in any training or working practices not regarded as "normal".
In a message to RMT members, general secretary Mick Cash said: "We continue to try to resolve this dispute but LU has failed to properly address our claim.
"Their current offer is totally divisive and they have completely failed to address the wider issues of your work/life balance caused by their reckless efforts to bulldoze through the introduction of night Tube."
Members of the RMT, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), Unite and Aslef are unhappy about pay and shift arrangements for the new all-night Tube service, which is due to start on 12 September.
Finn Brennan, from Aslef, which represents some train drivers, said: "Rather than sitting down with us to resolve this industrial dispute, London Underground are threatening to take legal action to stop our members doing their jobs safely by making sure their trains are fully safety checked before entering service.
"It is now clear that their agenda is not to resolve this dispute but to force through changes, no matter what the impact on staff and the safety of their passengers."
The four unions previously walked out on 9 July causing the entire Tube network to shut down.
Steve Griffiths, LU's chief operating officer, said: "We will never compromise on safety and are operating the Underground safely for our customers and staff.
"Our measures to mitigate industrial action by union members include experienced managers undertaking some of their staff's duties.
"Any suggestion that we would use inexperienced staff is completely false."


A musician dying from skin cancer has won nearly £180,000 in damages after his GP misdiagnosed his condition as a fungal nail infection.

The misdiagnosis could have cut 60-year-old Peter Cosgrove's life short by 20 years, London's High Court heard.
He saw his GP, Dr Asaad Al-Doori, in Devon about a nail problem in September 2011 but signs of malignancy were missed, the court heard.
It worsened and he was diagnosed with cancer by another doctor in June 2012.
Mr Cosgrove, of Market Street, Hatherleigh, sued Dr Al-Doori who practised at Blake House Surgery in Black Torrington, claiming his negligence cost him years of life.
Mr Justice Goss said: "The disease will cause his death, the latest prognosis is that he may have 10-30 months of life left."
Experts agreed that "it was an abnormal nail and suggestive of malignancy" at the initial GP visit and that "its appearance was not consistent with fungal infection".
Despite his "previous good clinical record", the judge ruled that Dr Al-Doori should have referred Mr Cosgrove for further investigation on that day.
"In failing to do so, he fell below the required degree of skill and competence of a reasonable practitioner", he ruled.
The delay in referring Mr Cosgrove for specialist treatment meant the patient underwent surgery almost 10 months after he would otherwise have done.
Mr Cosgrove, a carpenter by trade, was awarded a total of £178,845 in damages, including £70,000 for his pain and suffering, and £5,000 towards his funeral costs.


Roger Federer overcame long-term rival Rafael Nadal to win the Miami Open for the third time and continue his remarkable start to the season.

The 35-year-old built on January's Australian Open win and his March Indian Wells success with a convincing 6-3 6-4 win over the Spaniard.
The pair shared 10 break points in the opening set, with Federer the only man to take one to crucially move 5-3 up.
He exuded control throughout, breaking at 4-4 in the second and serving out.
A sweeping backhand down the line in the final game summed up the confidence which poured from the champion from start to finish as he moved to an 11-match winning streak and improved his record to 19 wins and just one defeat in 2017.
A fourth straight win over Nadal - his longest winning streak in their 13-year professional rivalry - also makes Federer the oldest winner of the Miami Open.
He looked cool and calm throughout and his dominance this year is perhaps all the more remarkable given he took six months off through the second half of the 2016 season to recover from a knee injury.
"The dream continues," he said after the win. "It's been a fabulous couple of weeks. What a start to the year, thank you to my team and all who have supported me, especially in my more difficult challenging times last year."
Federer triumphed in his first tournament after the lay-off, beating Nadal in five sets at the Australian Open, but this time around, the Spaniard rarely looked like he would land a first Miami title in what was his fifth final.
When the pair shared their first ever meeting here in 2004, only Federer held a Grand Slam title. They have now amassed 32 in total and like so often in the past, they contested each point with ferocity, making the two breaks of serve Federer secured critical.
"It's disappointing that every time in my career I have stood here I get the smaller trophy," said Nadal. "It's been a very good two weeks for me. Even if I lost for the third time this year to Roger it's a good start, playing three finals."
Nadal - who also lost to American Sam Querrey in the Mexican Open final this year - failed to take two break points in the opening game of the match at Crandon Park Tennis Center and defended two successfully to level at 2-2.
Though the first six games of the second set went with serve, Federer always held more comfortably. He forced a first break point at 3-3, only for Nadal to expertly read a cross-court effort with the pair exposed at the net.
Nadal's consequent fist pump evoked memories of see-saw exchanges they have shared over the years and he punched the air after defending a second break point to take the game - showcasing belief he could yet disturb Federer's seemingly unflappable rhythm.
But at 4-4, a Federer backhand barely crossed the net after hitting the tape, forcing Nadal to race forward and desperately flick the ball back, leaving his end of the court exposed for the 18-time Grand Slam winner to deliver a telling lob.
It gave him the chance to serve out the win and Nadal went long moments later, ensuring Federer's stellar start to the year continued.
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
It is 11 years since Roger Federer last completed the Indian Wells and Miami double, so add 'staggering stamina' to his rapidly increasing list of attributes for 2017.
At 35, though, Federer is also proving he is a realist and a pragmatist. Who is to say he would not have been able to piece together a very handy clay court season to increase his chances of becoming world number one once more?
But Federer knows even he can't keep up this relentless success - on all surfaces - over an 11-month season. Thus this eight-week break from tour to be followed by an appearance at the French Open where, even as a long shot for the title, he will remain the tournament's star turn.
And in his mind - with Wimbledon and the US Open still to come - it is at Roland Garros that the season really begins.


Actor Nicholas Lyndhurst is to take a step back in time in a revival of the BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart.

Lyndhurst starred as a time-travelling TV repairman who had a second life in 1940s London in the popular 1990s show.
Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran said his character Gary Sparrow had been "trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present".
The one-off special will be part of a season marking the 60th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour's first broadcast.
The season will also include new episodes of Are You Being Served?, Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Porridge, Keeping Up Appearances and Up Pompeii!.
Goodnight Sweetheart was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 November 1993.
The initial cast included Michelle Holmes as Gary's wife Yvonne Sparrow, Victor McGuire as his best friend Ron Wheatcroft, while his war-time companions were Christopher Ettridge as bumbling PC Reg Deadman and Dervla Kirwan as Phoebe.
The writing duo said the new episode would feature "much-loved old Goodnight Sweetheart friends and one or two new ones".
BBC Comedy Commissioning controller Shane Allen said the whole season was "geared towards giving comedy royalty their due recognition".
"In Goodnight Sweetheart, we have heavyweight writing and performing talents reunited in this hugely popular and fondly remembered show," he said.
"The conceptual update is sublime and it was heart-skipping stuff to read - it's an absolute belter."
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A transgender woman accused of raping a girl when still living as a man, has a conviction of possessing indecent images of children, a court has heard.

Davina Ayrton, 34, admitted being sentenced for having the images in 2014, but denies committing rape in a garage in Portsmouth in 2004.
The girl, aged 15 at the time, met Ms Ayrton, then called David, on the day of the attack, the jury was told.
Portsmouth Crown Court also heard the girl had run away from home.
Ms Ayrton, who has a son, admitted being previously sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court in January last year.
When Ann-Marie Talbot, representing Ms Ayrton, asked her why she entered guilty pleas, she replied: "Because I was guilty of them."
Ms Ayrton admitted being in the garage in the autumn of 2004 and drinking four cans of Foster's beer but denied drinking vodka because, she said: "I was on benefits at the time and didn't have enough money".
The attack is alleged to have taken place while two other people were asleep nearby.
The teenager, who cannot be identified, said she had "only drunk a can and a half of Foster's" and clearly recollected the events.
The court heard that Ms Ayrton has learning difficulties and told a worker at the care home where she lives in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, about the incident in 2014.
But she denied confessing to the care worker that she was a paedophile, or saying: "I have always known there was something wrong with me and I need help."
Ms Talbot asked the defendant about her sexuality, and whether she had "made any physical changes or enhancements" to her body or was taking any medication.
The defendant replied "No, I have not" and said she changed her name in 2012.
Ms Ayrton denies one charge of rape between October and November 2004.
The trial continues.


Signs that the attacks in Paris have impacted France's service sector have emerged in the latest survey by Markit.

The firm said a rapid fall-off in trade was behind its index falling from 52.7 in October to 51.3 in November.
"We think the key reason for the slowing in services growth is due to the attacks," Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist said.
Markit said 60% of survey responses from services sector firms were received after the 13 November attacks.
The services index remains above 50, meaning that it is continuing to grow, but at a slower pace.
"Clearly there's been a cut in footfall and any sort of feel-good factor amongst consumers in the wake of the horrific events.
"But history does tell us that these events tend to have a very short-lived impact," added Mr Williamson.
The "flash" manufacturing PMI rose to a 19-month high, and Mr Williamson said the rest of the survey data suggested "a more encouraging picture of France continuing to lift itself out of its gloom".
The survey comes after the boss of the industrial conglomerate Siemens warned that the Paris terrorist attacks and political instability in Europe were making companies more reluctant to invest.
"The biggest economic damage from these attacks is on confidence and confidence is a crucial element in this phase. It is indispensable to help countries exit the crisis,"  Joe Kaeser told the Financial Times.
Yet overall, European businesses reported the fastest rates of growth in business activity and employment for four and a half years in November, according to Markit.
Its "flash" purchasing managers index for the eurozone rose to 54.4 from 53.9 in November - the survey's fastest rate of expansion since May 2011.
Germany, which saw growth in manufacturing and services accelerate to a three-month high, helped drive the overall index higher.
Mr Williamson said the data put the 19-nation euro area on track for growth of 0.4 to 0.5% in the final quarter of the year.
But European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi recently indicated he was disappointed with the current rate of growth and suggested policymakers could take fresh action to boost the economy.
Draghi's ECB has an inflation target of 2%, but prices in the eurozone have stayed low, with CPI at 0.1% in October.
"If we decide that the current trajectory of our policy is not sufficient to achieve that objective, we will do what we must to raise inflation as quickly as possible. That is what our price stability mandate requires of us," the European Central Bank chief said last week.


Manchester City have won the Women's Super League title for the first time, after beating Chelsea 2-0 on Sunday.

Chelsea captain Katie Chapman diverted a corner into her own net to give City the lead, before England Striker Toni Duggan sealed the victory from the penalty spot.
City are unbeaten in the league this year and just needed to avoid losing to guarantee the top spot.
Manchester City are now 10 points clear of Chelsea - and cannot be caught.
The Football Association's Women's Super League is the highest women's football division in England.
The league first began in April 2011, replacing the Women's Premier League as the top tier of women's football.
There are currently nine teams in the league but by next season it will expand to include 10.
One big difference between the WSL and the men's Premier League is that the competition is played over summer.
However, this is set to change. The 2017-18 season will be played between the months of September and May as well.


School Report gives students a real audience, by linking to their work from the BBC website.

Schools are asked to create a dedicated page on their school website and send the web address (or URL) to schoolreport@bbc.co.uk and we will link to it from the map of participating schools.
You can use the official School Report graphics, which can be found at the foot of this page.
Then, on School Report News Day on 16 March 2017, schools can upload their reports to their websites.
Here are some frequently asked questions and answers about setting up web pages.
If you're not technically minded, don't worry! The best thing to do is to speak early on to your school's IT department or the people who look after the school website.
You need to create a dedicated School Report web page on the school website so that people can find the students' work. It has to be accessible to the public, so don't use internal websites (or intranets) or pages that need a password.
Until your pupils' reports are ready, the page should contain a "holding" or "come back later" message. You can copy and paste this:
Students from this school will be making the news for real on 16 March 2017 as they take part in BBC News School Report. We aim to publish the news by 1600 GMT on News Day, so please save this page as a favourite and return to it later.
Have a click through to examples from our School Report map if you want an idea of how other schools have gone about it.
Once the page is live, email the web address (URL) to the School Report team via schoolreport@bbc.co.uk so we can link to your webpage.
As soon as possible! It saves a lot of hassle in the busy run-up to News Day when you and the School Reporters would probably rather be focusing on getting great interviews than sorting out technical issues.
As soon as your page is ready, the School Report team can link to your website from the map of participating schools. - as long as both pieces of School Report paperwork have been returned!
Once live, some schools use the page to reflect what's happening in the build-up to the News Day, for example adding team photos and encouraging pupils to post news reporting ideas.
No. It is important to create a dedicated web page, so the BBC can link directly to the students' journalistic work. The fewer the clicks, the more likely you are to retain the audience.
Also, after the News Day, the homepage of a school website will inevitably change, but creating a dedicated page means there is a permanent record of their work.
Yes. If your school has participated in School Report in previous years, you can use the existing web page, but remember to label it clearly.
Remember, you risk losing people's attention if they think your web page is out of date. A simple message at the top of the page can be helpful, such as the example mentioned above.
If you can't publish School Report content on your school website, all is not lost!
You could look at hosting stories on another website that you consider appropriate and that is in line with your school's policy. See if your local council or academy sponsor could help host your content.
Some schools have used websites such as Makewaves, a website designed to host video and audio material for educational purposes.
You could create a web page using a number of different programmes, with many people using software such as Microsoft Expression or Adobe Dreamweaver.
If you do use a site other than your school site, check the terms and conditions to make sure it is suitable for 11 to 16-year-olds and that there are no advertisements on the site.
The golden rule is to use first names only. For child protection reasons, the BBC cannot link to a page which contains the surnames of anyone younger than 18. This also applies to blog entries and comments posted on the page.
Refer to the School Report guidelines on staying safe and legal which highlight some of the issues anyone should consider when publishing content which features children. This page also offers guidance about media law issues such as copyright, libel and contempt of court as well as editorial issues such as taste and decency.
Be aware that the BBC website is very popular. By virtue of a link from the BBC, students will have a large audience but people will also be able to access other pages on the school website.
At the bottom of this page, there are some School Report graphics you can use on your dedicated web page. However, they can only be used by schools who have completed their paperwork, and within the context of the project.
It is also a good idea to incorporate the design of your school website to create a uniform look.
It is best to avoid a design which relies on large pictures as it will make pages slow to download and could put off potential viewers. However, you might like to add photographs of students taking part in School Report or the school logo.
Our agreement with the head teacher of every school taking part explicitly states that the school, not the BBC, is responsible for the school website. Teachers need to decide on the most suitable way of hosting content according to their school's social media, internet safety and child protection policies.
For this reason, we are happy to link to school websites which use YouTube (or similar video-sharing websites) to embed content, provided the school website complies with our guidelines in all other ways. We will not, however, link directly to YouTube.
Some schools have used websites such as Makewaves, a website designed to host video and audio material for educational purposes.
Providing the school website complies with our guidelines in all other ways, we are happy to link to school websites containing links to social media.
Generally though, we do not recommend including links to social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter from your school website, as they are designed to be used by children aged 13 or over. There is a risk of students experiencing cyberbullying via such sites.
If your school website contains an automated Twitter feed, you may want to look into deactivating it or at least monitoring it during the busy time around News Day.
A dedicated page means the audience can find students' work easily and quickly. It also provides a  permanent archive of students' reports and makes it clear that the reports are new and not from previous years. The page can also help avoid any potential child protection issues.
Right click the images, and select Save Picture As.


A 10-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in Glasgow on Saturday.

The boy was struck on Dalmarnock Road at about 15:10.
He has been taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. There is no update on his condition.
The road was closed between Dunn Street and Muslin Street for an accident investigation to be carried out.


Watford's Roberto Pereyra has had his suspension reduced from three matches to one following his sending off in Saturday's 3-1 defeat by West Brom.

The Argentina midfielder was sent off in the 84th minute after he reacted angrily to a James McClean challenge.
Watford said his punishment was excessive and that he had been wrongly dismissed, but the latter was rejected by the Football Association.
Pereyra will now only miss Saturday's game against Everton.


Republic of Ireland and former Notts County Ladies defender Louise Quinn has joined Arsenal on a short-term deal.

Quinn signed for Notts County in February, but was left without a club when the Magpies folded in April.
The 26-year-old, who spent four years with Swedish side Eskilstuna United before joining Notts County, has won 47 caps for the Republic of Ireland.
"She is an experienced player who adds strength to our defence," manager Pedro Martinez Losa told the club website.


More than 5,000 residents of the US state of Tennessee have been evacuated after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and caught fire.

The train was carrying a flammable, toxic substance called acrylonitrile when it came off the rails near Maryville, just outside Knoxville.
Firefighters evacuated people within a two-mile radius of the fire to prevent them breathing in the poisonous fumes.
Local police said seven officers were hospitalised because of the fumes.
The train was pulling 57 carriages of mixed freight from Ohio to Georgia when it derailed just before midnight on Wednesday, the train's operators CSX said in a statement.
One of the carriages transporting acrylonitrile burst into flames.
Acrylonitrile is a chemical compound used to manufacture plastics. Officials say it is "highly flammable and toxic" and can cause headaches, nausea and kidney irritation if inhaled.
Firefighters wearing breathing equipment went door-to-door telling Maryville residents to move to temporary shelters, one of which has been set up in a high school out of the at-risk area.
Locals have been told the evacuation could last up to 48 hours.