Plans to limit police stop and search powers in England and Wales have been held up by "regressive" attitudes in Downing Street, senior Conservatives have told BBC Newsnight.

The home secretary wrote to cabinet colleagues in December seeking approval to "reduce significantly" one type of stop and search, Newsnight has learned.
Despite setting a 12 December deadline, the changes are yet to be announced.
Downing Street said the prime minister accepted reforms needed to take place.
However, officials have refused to say when any decisions might be taken.
Critics say stop and search unfairly targets the black community.
In November, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said that, overall, black people were six times more likely than white people to be stopped, with Asian or other ethnic minority groups two times more likely to be stopped.
On 4 December, Home Secretary Theresa May wrote seeking approval from the cabinet's home affairs committee to a "package of measures".
This included a plan to "amend section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 so that the test for the power's use is 'necessary' and 'expedient', (to prevent incidents involving serious violence)".
Under Section 60, police can stop and search someone for weapons in a designated area, for a specific time, without suspicion that the individual is involved in wrongdoing.
However, a senior officer must hold a reasonable belief that violence has happened or may occur in the area.
Mrs May told cabinet colleagues she intended to "raise the level of authorisation to a senior officer who must reasonably believe that violence 'will' take place (as opposed to 'may')".
She continued: "I expect this to reduce significantly the number of stop and searches under section 60. Section 60 is only one kind of stop and search."
One minister told Newsnight's chief correspondent Laura Kuenssberg that "we all want to get on" with the changes.
But sources told her they feared "there's just a lack of will, a fear of looking soft on crime".
The Liberal Democrats agree with the proposals and Labour has offered cross party talks to push the policy forward.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "Instead of internal rows over this, Theresa May should accept our offer to work together to change stop and search."
The prime minister's former adviser on youth and crime, Shaun Bailey, said: "Not getting stop and search right, certainly in urban communities, would be very dangerous because I believe it breeds criminals.
"If I was talking to someone in government I'd say: 'Take the brave pill, you'll be rewarded for taking the brave pill and reforming stop and search'."
He added: "There's many communities up and down the country who are divorced from politics and feel that the forces-that-be don't represent them and don't care about them. This would be a massive message in the right direction."
While filming in Brixton, south London, Newsnight spoke to a teenager who said he had been stopped and searched as an 11 year-old.
"Since then I've despised them [the police] more and more because for me they are like criminals in fancy dress," he said. "They've got such a big mob mentality."
Another young man said he had been stopped and searched by the police "over 100 times" because he was "in a black neighbourhood" where the police "think everyone is a drug dealer".
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe agreed that random stop and search powers had created distrust between some communities and the police in London.
He said over the last two years the Met had reduced the number of stop and searches by over a third, while doubling the number of arrests to one in five.
"We employ human beings, they make mistakes and when we make a mistake - particularly with someone who's innocent of any crime, and frankly never will be guilty of any crime - we leave a really bad imprint on that child, on that family, so it's important we get it right.
"But I think it's an important power, that used wisely, is really effective."


A drug that can boost muscle strength in mice shows promise as a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, research suggests.

The work could one day lead to a daily pill to treat all patients with the muscle-wasting disease, say Oxford University scientists.
About 100 boys are born with the condition in the UK each year.
It causes progressive muscle weakness, with most patients having to use a wheelchair by the age of 12.
The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, was led by Professor Dame Kay Davies, of Oxford University.
She said: "We've shown that the drug can dramatically reduce muscle weakness in mice.
"These results give us everything we need to go forward into initial clinical trials in humans."
There is no effective treatment for the inherited disease - steroid and growth hormones help manage the symptoms but cannot protect muscles from decline.
The drug was identified by screening thousands of therapeutic compounds for the ability to raise levels of a substance that boosts muscle strength.
The substance - utrophin - seems to compensate for the lack of a key protein, dystrophin, which does not work properly in muscular dystrophy.
The most promising candidate, named SMT C1100, was tested in a mouse model of muscular dystrophy at three laboratories in Oxford, Italy and the US.
Mice given the drug developed stronger muscles that did not tire as easily and could run 50% further in exercise tasks, the PLoS ONE study found.
Preliminary tests in healthy human volunteers raised no safety concerns but suggest a need for further work to improve the drug's formulation.
Professor Max Parmar, of the Medical Research Council, said: "This study, without necessarily providing us with the final solution, does gives us an important platform from which to move forward and really make a serious progression through clinical trials."
Dr Marita Pohlschmidt, director of research at the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, told the BBC: "At this stage in the game this is very hopeful as it really works in the mice very, very well.
"It's hopeful although you can never tell a family [affected by the disease] when or whether a treatment will come out of it."
The research was partly funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and the Medical Research Council.


A 19th Century sea fort built to ward off French invaders which went on to survive two world wars has been re-launched as a hotel.

No Man's Fort, situated in the Solent about 1.5 miles (2.2km) off the Isle of Wight, once housed more than 70 soldiers.
Built between 1867 and 1880, it was one of four forts intended to protect Portsmouth.
It can now sleep 44 guests and hold up to 200 people at parties.
The Victorian structure was originally built when Prime Minister Lord Henry Palmerston commissioned five forts along the Solent's eastern approaches to defend the Royal Navy fleet at anchor in Portsmouth harbour.
Four remain today as one was abandoned during construction.
The granite and iron sea forts were built with cutting-edge Victorian engineering technology.
However they, along with other defensive forts along the south coast, were later dubbed "Palmerston's Follies" as the French threat never materialised.
During World War Two, gun emplacements on the forts formed part of Portsmouth's coastal artillery defences.
No Man's Fort also appeared in a 1972 episode of Doctor Who, as Jon Pertwee's Doctor fought aquatic menaces the Sea Devils.
It was eventually sold by the Ministry of Defence in the 1980s.
A previous owner was declared bankrupt after legionella bacterium was discovered at the fort in 2004 and it was bought for Â£4m in 2008.


"An imposter, a [political] conman and a would-be dictator," is the verdict of billionaire investor George Soros on Donald Trump.

Speaking to a packed audience at his annual dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Soros said he was confident Mr Trump's powers would be limited by Congress.
"He won't be able to get away [with being a dictator]," he added.
Ultimately, Mr Soros said he expected Mr Trump to fail.
"The ideas that guide him are fundamentally contradictory. He has three chiefs of staff instead of one and his cabinet are very fragmented and fighting with each other," he said.
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Mr Soros has been unrelentingly critical of Mr Trump since his shock election victory, and the pair have a history of friction.
During the 2016 campaign, Mr Soros donated around $10m to Trump rival Hillary Clinton.
The hedge fund manager, who initially became famous for having made $1bn by betting on the devaluation of the pound in 1992, is reported to have lost close to $1bn after the stock market rallied following Mr Trump's win.
Mr Soros attributed the rise in the markets to Mr Trump's pledge to cut regulation and taxes, but said when Mr Trump takes office - in under 24 hours - "reality will prevail".
He also said that it's impossible to predict exactly how Mr Trump will act because he hadn't expected to win, and had only started thinking seriously about what he would do after he was elected.
He also warned that Mr Trump would also divide the US further.
"Anyone who disagrees with him is not part of the people," he says.
Asked what advice, he would give to businesses preparing for the impact of the new presidency, he said, "I'd keep as far away from it as I can."
Mr Trump's team was approached for comment by the BBC.


An aristocrat who caused a three-car crash on a busy road has been cleared of dangerous driving.

Lady Susan Zetland, 77, of Aske Hall, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, tried to cross the A66 at the Hargill junction on 4 July.
Teesside Crown Court heard there was a contraflow put in place and cones indicating cars should only turn left onto the dual carriageway.
Zetland had admitted careless driving, but denied being dangerous.
After three hours of deliberation, jurors cleared her of the more serious charge.
Zetland had been on the way to the gym when her car was hit by a Nissan Qashqai after she pulled out in front of it, the court heard.
She was then spun into the other lane in her Subaru Outback and was hit by a lorry driving the other way.
She told the court her memory was "fuzzy" about the incident, adding: "I did not realise I had made the decision to go because the next thing I knew I had been hit."
Rod Hunt, defending, told the court that two of the signs on the approach to the A66 had in fact been incorrect as they said there was no access to the road at all.
He also said one of the cones preventing cars going straight across or to the right was missing, leaving a gap.
It was "a puzzle of signs and cones where people had to work it out themselves", he said.
Judge Howard Crowson said he completely agreed with the verdict, fined her Â£500 and placed six points on her licence.
Speaking afterwards, Zetland said: "I'm delighted and relieved. It's not something I want to go through again.
"It's not put me off driving, I'm glad it's over."


It is the classic Irish story - Noel Dunning moved to London 22 years ago to take over the running of his uncle's pub and has been there ever since.

Hailing from the County Roscommon side of Athlone, he took his love of Gaelic games with him and is a former manager and a current selector for London's Gaelic footballers.
Noel is also chairman of the Ruislip Development Committee, the group which drove the development of the Gaelic Athletic Association's (GAA) new stadium in the city.
McGovern Park will be officially opened on Sunday.
However, Noel refuses to take the credit, he said: "I'm chairman of a very good committee, guys who made sure it happened.
"I was fortunate to have guys on the committee with me, appointed by the London county board and Croke Park (GAA headquarters in Dublin), any obstacles that were in the way, they were soon shot down."
McGovern Park, in Ruislip in west London, will have an official capacity of 3,000.
The new ground cost £4.3m to build, £930,000 raised by the London GAA and the rest came from grant aid and a loan from GAA headquarters in Croke Park.
Noel believes the opening of the new ground is a very significant event for Gaelic games:  "It's not just a boost for London GAA, it's a boost for the GAA in Britain.
"Its the largest development undertaken by any GAA unit outside of Ireland.
"It's the same as any county ground at home, albeit on a smaller scale.
"It's a tremendous shot in the arm, it's something for younger players coming through the ranks in London to aspire to," he added.
All of the players on the London senior panel are Irish born or of Irish descent.
"It's a mixed bag," explained Noel, "We have five or six players involved who would be of Irish heritage".
"Our captain tomorrow is Liam Gavaghan, he's a London-born player.
"The rest would all be Irish guys who've moved over to London for work and college."
London is treated by the GAA as an Irish county, with the UK's capital city competing in Connacht, Ireland's least populated province, in the football championship.
The ball will be thrown in for McGovern Park's first game at 15:30 BST on Sunday when home team London take on visitors Leitrim in the quarter final of the Connacht Gaelic Football Championship.
London has a long GAA history.
It played in three hurling and five football All Ireland finals in the early 1900s when the All-Ireland and All-Britain champions were paired in the final.
London won the hurling All-Ireland in 1901, defeating Cork by 1-5 to 0-4.


Neil Hamilton, UKIP leader in the Welsh Assembly, has been selected as a candidate for his party to fight the general election.

Mr Hamilton announced he would be standing in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, currently held by Jonathan Edwards for Plaid Cymru.
The former Conservative MP, who was raised in Ammanford, said he was "delighted" to fight the seat for UKIP.
He currently represents the Mid and West Wales region in the assembly.
Jonathan Edwards is standing for re-election for Plaid Cymru, while Labour has selected David Darkin as its candidate.
Spokesmen for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats said their parties were planning to choose their candidates next week.
A full list of candidates will be available after nominations close on 11 May.
Following his selection, Mr Hamilton said: "I am delighted to receive the unanimous support of my own branch and to be confirmed as their candidate to fight the seat for UKIP, as I did for the assembly elections last May.
"I was raised and educated in Ammanford and am proud to represent the area in the assembly, as part of my region of Mid and West Wales."
Mr Hamilton, the Conservative MP for Tatton from 1983 to 1997, was a minister in John Major's government but lost his seat to independent challenger Martin Bell in the 1997 election.


More properties were owned outright than with a mortgage among households in England for the first time in 2013-14, figures show.

Of the 22.6 million households in England, 7.4 million owned their property outright, and 6.9 million had a mortgage, the English Housing Survey showed. The rest rented their homes.
This marked a shift from an equal level among owners a year earlier.
The data also shows that the younger generation are struggling to own.
In 2013-14, some 48% of households made up of 25 to 34-year-olds rented their home from a private landlord.
This had risen from 45% a year earlier, and from 21% in 2003-04.
Over the same 10 years, owner occupation in this age group dropped from 59% to 36%.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "The shortage of affordable homes is leaving young adults with no choice but to remain stuck in their childhood bedrooms, or face decades paying out dead money to landlords."


Wigan Athletic striker Kaiyne Woolery has joined National League high-flyers Forest Green Rovers on loan until the end of the season.

The 22-year-old made his first-team debut for Wigan in December.
The substitute appearance against Derby is his only senior appearance since joining the club from Bolton on a three-year deal in August 2016.
Woolery signed in time to be included in Rovers' squad for Saturday's game against Braintree.
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BBC Sport outlines the battles for promotion and relegation - and the race for European qualification - in England and Scotland.

The top three teams will qualify for the group stage of next season's Champions League, with the fourth-placed team entering in the play-off round.
If Manchester United win the Europa League but finish outside the top four, they will enter next season's Champions League.
The fifth-placed team will enter the Europa League at the group stage, as will the FA Cup winners.
Manchester United are already assured of at least a Europa League place after winning the EFL Cup. If they finish in the top four, their place in the Europa League will pass to the sixth-placed team.
The four FA Cup semi-finalists - Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham - are all in contention for Champions League places. If the FA Cup winners and runners-up, and Manchester United, all qualify for Europe by virtue of their league position, the sixth and seventh-placed Premier League sides will also enter the Europa League.
There are no longer any Fair Play places allocated to the Europa League.
The bottom three teams will be relegated to the Championship - with Sunderland's prospects looking increasingly bleak.
The top two teams will be promoted to the Premier League, with the next four teams entering the play-offs. Brighton and Hove Albion were promoted to the Premier League after they beat Wigan 2-1 on 17 April, and will clinch the title if they win at Norwich on Friday, or if they match Newcastle's weekend result.
Newcastle have guaranteed at least a play-off place, and could be promoted as early as Monday if other results go their way on Saturday. Reading and Huddersfield are also close to cementing their play-off places.
The bottom three teams will be relegated to League One. Relegation was confirmed for Rotherham United when they lost 1-0 to Fulham on 1 April, while Wigan will join them this weekend if they fail to win and other results go against them.
The top two teams will be promoted to the Championship, with the next four teams entering the play-offs. Sheffield United were promoted on 8 April as they won 2-1 at Northampton and clinched the title a week later when second-placed Bolton lost 1-0 to Oldham.
Bolton - who are guaranteed at least a play-off place - will be promoted on Saturday if they win and Fleetwood fail to win. Fleetwood and Scunthorpe have made sure of their play-off spots, while Bradford are close to securing theirs.
The bottom four teams will be relegated to League Two. Bottom club Coventry City were relegated to the fourth tier of English football for the first time in 58 years after drawing with Charlton on 14 April, while Chesterfield's relegation was confirmed on 17 April after they lost 3-1 to Scunthorpe. Swindon could join them on Saturday if they fail to win and other results go against them.
The top three teams will be promoted to League One. Leaders Doncaster Rovers clinched promotion on 8 April as they beat Mansfield 1-0. Plymouth Argyle and Portsmouth secured promotion on 17 April as Argyle beat Newport County 6-1 while Pompey won 3-1 at Notts County.
The next four teams will contest the play-offs.
The bottom two teams will be relegated to the National League. Bottom club Leyton Orient will be relegated on Saturday if they lose at Crewe or if other results go against them.
The National League champions will be promoted to League Two - and this will be Lincoln or Tranmere. Lincoln will wrap up the title on Saturday if they beat Macclesfield, or if Tranmere fail to beat Southport.
Whoever does not win the title will contest the play-offs with Forest Green and two other teams. Dagenham & Redbridge can make sure of their place on Saturday.
The bottom four teams will be relegated, and replaced by the champions and play-off winners of the National League North and South divisions. Southport were relegated on 14 April after losing 3-0 at Dover, while North Ferriby United were relegated on 17 April after a 3-1 defeat at Barrow. Torquay can join them on Saturday if they lose and other results go against them.
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Celtic clinched their sixth successive Scottish title on 2 April when they beat Hearts 5-0. They will enter next season's Champions League at the second qualifying round.
The second and third-placed sides will qualify for the Europa League along with the Scottish Cup winners, but there are no longer any Fair Play places allocated to the Europa League. Aberdeen clinched their Europa League place by beating St Johnstone 2-1 on 15 April.
The Premiership has split in half after the 33rd round of games, with the top six and the bottom six now playing the other teams in their 'half' for a fourth and final time.
The bottom side will be relegated to the Scottish Championship, while the 11th-placed side will face the winners of the Championship play-offs over two legs, with the losers condemned to a place in the second tier next season.
Hibernian were promoted to the Premiership as champions by beating Queen of the South 3-0 on 15 April.
The third and fourth-placed teams will meet in the first round of the play-offs, with the winners playing the division's second-placed team. Whoever emerges victorious from that two-legged encounter will face the second bottom side in the Premiership - again on a home and away basis - with a spot in the top flight the prize.
Falkirk and Dundee United are sure of their play-off spots, with Morton close to clinching the final berth.
The bottom club will be relegated to League One. The ninth-placed team will enter a play-off with three League One sides.
Livingston were promoted to the Championship as League One champions on 8 April after beating Alloa 2-1.
Teams finishing second, third and fourth will enter a play-off with the ninth-placed Championship team. Alloa have guaranteed a play-off place.
The bottom club will be relegated to League Two. This will be Stenhousemuir if they lose at relegation rivals Peterhead on Saturday. The ninth-placed team will enter a play-off with three League Two sides.
The champions will be promoted to League One, while teams finishing second, third and fourth will enter a play-off with the ninth-placed League One team. The title is likely to be between Forfar and Arbroath, who are both sure of at least a play-off place, with Annan close to booking their play-off spot.
The team finishing bottom will enter a play-off against a candidate club (the winner of a play-off between the Highland and Lowland League champions, or another eligible club nominated by the Scottish Football Association) for the final place in next season's League Two. East Kilbride have been crowned as Lowland League champions.


Two former members of 1960s band The Tremeloes have been accused of historical indecent assault.

Richard Westwood, 72, from Surrey, and Leonard Hawkes, 69, from Berkshire, have been summonsed to Chester Magistrates on 2 December, police said.
They will both face one count each of indecent assault relating to an incident in Chester in 1968.
The Tremeloes formed in 1958 and first charted in the UK in July 1963 with a version of Twist and Shout.
The band went on to have a string of hits throughout the 60's, including a number one with Silence Is Golden.
Guitarist and vocalist Rick Westwood left in 2012 and bass player and vocalist Len 'Chip' Hawkes, left in 1988.


Ospreys have released Wales international number eight Gareth Delve from his contract a year early.

Delve, 33, joined from NEC Green Rockets in Japan on a two-year deal in 2015.
But he made just two appearances for Ospreys, with his last - as a replacement against Treviso - in October 2015.
Cardiff-born Delve won 11 caps for Wales while playing for Bath and Gloucester.
He became the first Welshman to sign for a Super Rugby side in 2010, joining Melbourne Rebels where he became captain.


Lewis Hamilton produced a textbook weekend in Formula 1 domination at the Italian Grand Prix.

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Of course, he needs to be in the right car to execute that - as you can see from the woes of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button at McLaren - but part of the skill of F1, beyond getting into it and staying there, is making the right decisions at the right time.
Hamilton's current position is the result of what appeared at the time to be his unthinkable decision to leave McLaren at the end of 2012 and join Mercedes.
That move represented a step-change in his life. He had been nurtured as a racing driver from the age of 11 by McLaren. His father had managed his career up until that point, and had been ever-present.
But in joining Mercedes at that time Hamilton left both those situations behind.
He made that decision having been persuaded by current non-executive chairman Niki Lauda and then-team principal Ross Brawn that it was the best place for him to be in the future.
How right they have proven to be.
Hamilton still has doubters out there - whenever I use a phrase such as a "Senna-esque performance" about Hamilton, I get criticised, as if it is some kind of sacrilege.
But Senna-esque is exactly how Hamilton is performing at the moment.
We cannot ignore the fact that Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg has had a very solid career in F1, with the occasional exceptional race.
Rosberg gave Hamilton a run for his money in both their first two seasons as team-mates in 2013 and 2014.
Hamilton, like all great drivers, has exceptional speed. Rosberg appeared somehow to be able to neutralise that last year and the year before. But not this year.
The other day, I met a guy who was haranguing me about how ridiculous he thought Hamilton's tattoos were.
Now, tattoos are not my cup of tea, but if Hamilton likes them - or wants to dye his hair blond, or hang out with pop stars - who are we to judge?
As long as it is not affecting his driving - and it is abundantly clear that it is not, unless it is positively - then he should get on and do whatever he wants.
He is young, he is wealthy, he is at the top of his form, he has a great car. He will be feeling brilliant in himself, and that is reflecting in his performances on the race track.
Hamilton's win at Monza has put him in a commanding 53-point lead in the championship over Rosberg, and the German is absolutely right to say that it will now be "very difficult" to beat Hamilton to the title.
It is never over until it is over - Hamilton could have a run of bad luck with accidents and reliability. You never know.
But if we are frank, at hardly any point this year has Rosberg looked a match for Hamilton.
I can completely relate to that situation, and see it with a clarity that Rosberg perhaps cannot.
Having raced for six years as team-mate to Mika Hakkinen, I know what it is to be alongside a driver who fundamentally is just that bit faster.
You are often left short by only a tenth of a second - but you are left short.
You don't give up, and say: "Oh, he's better than me." You keep digging deep, and keep thinking of ways to win. You keep believing. That is an inherent part of being a sportsman.
But Rosberg has not been the equal of Hamilton this year, and he knows that.
There is no shame in that. He has been a great racing driver, and a marvellous asset for Mercedes F1 but so far Hamilton has been the stronger.
There was a nervous wait for Mercedes and Hamilton after the race while the stewards decided what to do about one of his tyres being slightly below the minimum permitted pressure at a certain point before the start of the race.
Inevitably, there has been some cynicism and grumbling about the decision to take no further action, but I always prefer to wait until the governing body, the FIA, makes its decision before wading in with an opinion.
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Tyre pressures are a very difficult thing to get an accurate handle on, simply because they fluctuate so much.
The issue in this case was that the teams had been given a time before the race that the pressures would be measured, at which point Hamilton's tyres were within the allowed parameters.
Measured again after this point, they were slightly too low. But if you don't have a precise set of parameters for measurement - or you measure something that can change as much as tyre pressures can due to external factors at a different time from when you agreed - I don't see how you punish someone in these circumstances.
This will be a work in progress. The FIA has taken a sensible approach to the numbers and there will be more clarity around this situation by the time of the next race in Singapore on 20 September.
It was fitting in some ways that the weekend would end with a tyre controversy.
From the debate about whether Pirelli had chosen to set the minimum pressures too high the start of the weekend, to the meeting between top drivers, Pirelli and the sport's leading bosses, tyres had been the centre of attention all the way through.
We touched in the last column on Pirelli's decision to accept the request to produce deliberately fast-degrading tyres, and the difficult position in which that puts them.
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The drivers have for a long time not been happy about the way these current Pirellis behave and would like to race on tyres that were more durable, so they can push hard for much longer than they can at the moment.
So it is about time that F1's bosses sat down and discussed with the drivers whether the current philosophy they are pursuing is the right one - and I am pleased to see that is what they are going to do.
For too long, the drivers' views have been dismissed by those in charge of the sport, sometimes in quite a patronising way.
But why would you not listen to and value the opinions of the people who are actually racing the cars?
To me, more so than the fans, or the broadcasters, or the journalists, the drivers are the most relevant people to talk about this - and they are not as enthusiastic about the latest F1 cars as they were in the past.
That does not just apply to the likes of Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton and Rosberg - who were the men dragged into the meeting with Pirelli and Ecclestone. It applies to the young drivers as well.
The important thing to say is that F1 needs to appeal to the audience, and much of the audience is well aware that the drivers right now are not happy.
If the parents are not taking their sons and daughters, they go and do something else, and it would not take many years for the audience to die off if the sport is too expensive, too inaccessible or not entertaining enough.
F1's ability to challenge the drivers more than it does now is central to that.
David Coulthard was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson


Southampton striker Charlie Austin will be out for "three or four months", according to manager Claude Puel, as he needs surgery on a dislocated shoulder.

Austin, 27, suffered the injury during the first half of Saints' 1-1 Europa League draw with Israeli side Hapoel Be'er Sheva on Thursday.
He has scored nine goals in all competitions this season, including six in the Premier League.
Austin missed Sunday's 1-0 Premier League victory over Middlesbrough.
In his news conference after the Boro game, Puel said: "Normally he needs surgery and will be perhaps between three months and four months [out].
"That is a good estimation for the time after the surgery. Is it dislocated? Yes. Will it need surgery? Yes, normally yes."
Austin joined Southampton from QPR for £4m in January and has been a key figure, scoring six of their 14 Premier League goals in 2016-17.
Their next highest league goalscorer is Nathan Redmond with three, while England international striker Jay Rodriguez has not scored a league goal since August.
Austin will miss both legs of the club's EFL Cup semi-final against Liverpool in January and any potential final, with the club also scheduled to play 13 league matches and at least one FA Cup tie in the next three months.


The British Olympic Association is set to report record profits for 2015, its chief executive Bill Sweeney has told the BBC.

Its results are out later in the year.
In 2014 it made a loss of almost Â£700,000, but bringing in more corporate partners helped turn the figures around, Mr Sweeney said.
A previously "one-dimensional" business model is being changed to become less reliant on sponsorship and donations, he added.
Money will start coming in through other events, Mr Sweeney said.
An event involving mass participation by the public akin to the London Marathon, to coincide with the return of athletes from the Olympic Games in Rio in August, is one part of the strategy.
Talks are progressing for an American-style Olympic Trials event in the run-up to Tokyo 2020.
Olympic trials to choose which athletes get to go to the Games are normally broken down into individual events.
The idea is that these competitions will be brought together into one big tournament.
The Chairman of UK Athletics, Ed Warner, told BBC Radio 5 live that turning a profit at the BOA isn't straightforward.
"They don't own any of these athletes - they are their own mini-corporations, so to bring together the branding, many of whom might be Nike or Brookes or New Balance athletes in between times, and then stick them in Adidas gear, and get the iconography or it, and make something of it, it's not easy.
"I'd like to see them build their reserves. When the next economic downturn comes, or next hiccough in the performance of the British team, they can survive and thrive."
Out of 206 national Olympic committees around the world, the BOA is one of only 4 that is privately funded.
The London Olympics in 2012 gave the association the opportunity of a lifetime to sell its brand, with 90% of the UK population watching the games for at least 15 minutes. But it wasn't all plain sailing.
"While hosting your own games is absolutely wonderful from the outside, the chaos and what it creates inside an organisation can be quite disruptive" Mr Sweeney said.
"[Since then] we had a massive focus on the top line revenue growth.
"We did some independent work around the brand of Team GB, and what is it we own.
"And that gave us a very clear vision of what Team GB is and more importantly what it isn't.
"We had a very good run for 18 months, we brought a lot of new partners on board.
"We don't have a marketing budget, all of our money goes into the team.
"We can't promote Team GB as a brand on TV, it would be a diversion of resources that we wouldn't want to do. So we rely on partners to do that for us."
In the last 18 months, the BOA has agreed deals with German discounter Aldi to be official sponsor of Team GB, and DFS to be its official sofa provider.
Mr Sweeney says one advantage the organisation has over other sporting competitors is the unity of the squad.
"If you take a Premier League football club or Premiership rugby club, they tend to be a little bit divisive. For everybody who loves one of those teams, there's a large number for whom they aren't their favourite."
Premier League chair Richard Scudamore, before the EU referendum and the public's vote to leave, said that leaving would be "incongruous" in the context of the league's commitment to "openness".
Bill Sweeney said Brexit "is a decision to go it alone."
"I'm sure it will be perceived as a move to break away and be separate.
"[The] question becomes how we deal with that and make sure we go back and say this was done for various different reasons, but we don't see ourselves in sport as being isolationist."
But despite the prospect of another referendum on Scottish independence back on the agenda, Mr Sweeney said the BOA isn't yet considering the consequences.
"It's very hypothetical at the moment. We'll think about that when we're closer to it."


BBC Pop Up, the BBC's travelling bureau, is in India this month and hit the roads of Delhi to find the answer to the ultimate question: Is it faster to take an autorickshaw or call an Uber?

Read on for the verdict.
It all started when a student at a BBC Pop Up town hall meeting at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication earlier this week, told the team about how she got lost while riding in an Uber taxi.
On Wednesday afternoon, BBC Pop-Up's Matt Danzico and Vikas Pandey decided to put this to the test.
Matt called an Uber while Vikas hailed an autorickshaw. They agreed to race each other from Hailey Road in central Delhi to Karol Bagh in west Delhi.
At the beginning, both rivals seemed confident in their mode of transport:
But then, the contestants came head to head with Delhi's infamous traffic snarls:
But the autorickshaw driver had a trick up his sleeve.
Which led to this inevitable result:
The verdict: Autorickshaws are still the undisputable kings of Delhi's roads.
Kudos to Uber about being gracious in defeat though!
So why did the autorickshaw win?
Vikas Pandey says: "It just showed that auto drivers really know Delhi's alleys and bylanes and random destinations much better than GPS.
"It started out as fun, but became intense and actually felt like a Formula one race."
Matt Danzico reckons it was a battle of human versus robot brains in the end.
"This could happen only in a country like India where roads are still developed and GPS technology has not come far enough to understand developing spaces.
"It was really not a race between Uber and an autorickshaw. It was about GPS technology and old-school driver's brain."
Watch out for more on the race on video tomorrow.


Ben Proud is capable of winning a medal at next summer's Rio Olympics, according to his coach Jon Rudd.

The Plymouth Leander swimmer, 21, set three new British records at the ASA's winter meet last week in Sheffield.
"He's the ultimate athlete, he really does live the lifestyle 24/7 of somebody that's looking for Olympic success," Rudd told BBC South West.
"He has the physical capabilities and he certainly has the emotional and psychological resilience to do that."
Proud, who won two gold medals at last summer's Commonwealth Games, twice broke the British short course 100m freestyle record as well as lowering the 50m freestyle and butterfly marks.
He trains alongside Lithuanian Olympic breaststroke champion Ruta Meilutyte, and Rudd says Proud reminds him of his most decorated swimmer four years ago.
"All the signs that I saw in Ruta, I'm seeing those signs in Ben," he added.
"I think we can look forward to something special and we'll do everything we can to make sure we make that right at the right time."
Proud has made changes to his training programme since Glasgow 2014, but the way in which he lowered the marks, including breaking Mark Foster's 14-year-old 50m freestyle record, impressed Rudd.
"I think the thing that surprised us was the extent to which he broke them, he took huge chunks off them and moved himself right to the top of the world rankings," he said.
"He's never been anywhere near this fast before, particularly at this time of the year, so as far as an Olympic cycle goes, it looks like it's all coming together at the right time."


"Big data" - the world of analytics, algorithms and statistical models - are increasingly part of our lives, and professional sports such as football are no different.

"Why did you pick him?" "Don't take it short, get it in the box!" "Put a striker on!"
Complaining about the manager's selections and questioning players' decisions on the pitch are time-honoured traditions of being a football fan.
Whether watching from the stands, on TV or listening to the match on the radio, offering full-throated advice to the coach and exhorting the players to try harder or do something different is one of the "joys" of supporting a team.
We football fans flatter ourselves that our alternative ideas would immediately improve the team's performance. Mostly they're based on intuition and a "feel for game", often nurtured over years of watching nil-nil draws in the freezing rain at uncovered away ends.
Nowadays when player acquisitions or formations strike us as baffling or obtuse, there is likely to be method in the madness. As data on player attributes, movements and positioning become more comprehensive and analytical models more sophisticated, football is relying much less on gut instincts.
It is still "the beautiful game", but it is one that increasingly resembles a game of chess.
Data is being created at historically incomparable rates, in all conceivable areas of life. We are living at the start of the age of so-called "big data". Analytics, algorithms and statistical models are increasingly part of our lives, whether we like it or not.
Professional sports are no different. This is an extraordinarily lucrative sector, where data has been identified as potentially giving athletes and teams a competitive edge.
The data revolution in sports is often traced to Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics or A's, an unheralded team in Major League Baseball in the US. Beane employed a method that came to be known as Moneyball after Michael Lewis published a book about the A's in 2003.
Beane used an analytical, evidence-based approach to identifying players who could meaningfully contribute to the team and offer good value for money. It drew on sabermetrics, a scientific method for analysing baseball performance pioneered by Bill James. The A's sustained success on a limited budget, later chronicled in a movie based on Moneyball starring Brad Pitt, turned the spotlight on data analysis in sports.
From baseball, these analytical methods for appraising players quickly spread to the NFL and NBA, and a number of sports in the UK. In cricket, former England coach Duncan Fletcher favoured statistical analysis of batting and bowling to identify the best way for players to score runs and to get batsmen out.
Clive Woodward's innovations in using player data helped the England rugby team to win the World Cup. Dave Brailsford's innovations in performance training data helped make Team Sky multiple Tour de France winners.
In football there were pioneers too. In fact, recording granular data on players and match events goes back further than you might think.
Charles Reep coded his first football match, counting passes and noting positions, in 1950. Valeriy Lobanovsky was doing the same in the Ukraine in the 1970s. Former England manager Graham Taylor also used a crude form of analytics to inform his long ball tactics with Watford in the 1980s.
With the launch of the Premier League in 1992, and the money and exposure brought by the Sky TV deal, a number of football data companies were launched, including Prozone in 1995 and Opta in 1996.
These early efforts were impressive for the time. For instance, the computer game Championship Manager (later renamed Football Manager), launched in 1992 with a database of 4,000 players and statistics on 30 attributes per player.
Speaking to the British Science Festival in Swansea last week, Dr Tom Markham, head of strategic business development at Sports Interactive - makers of Football Manager - said those numbers have exploded in the subsequent decades.
"The game now has a database with 319,726 current players. With former players, who may take other roles in football, it comes in at over 600,000."
Compiling that database, Dr Markham said, is a big job.
"We have people on the ground in 51 different countries covering 140 leagues. There are 2,250 fully researched clubs, with 250 statistics on each player - aggregated to 47 in the user interface.
"With 1,300 scouts, all the main clubs have one researcher, and top clubs like Chelsea have multiple experts."
Some Football Manager alumni have gone on to work as scouts with professional teams, he added.
As professional football revenues continue to grow, and leagues become increasingly competitive, the data industry has also expanded. Huge amounts of data from companies like Opta and Prozone underpin not only team tactics but also sophisticated media coverage.
Coaches employ wearable tech to monitor player fatigue on the pitch and in training, to prevent injuries resulting from physically overloading players. Recorded movements on the pitch inform models of formations and playing style, with simulations and in-game stats for coaches to make halftime adjustments.
Data analysis is about spotting patterns and making predictions. Recording the direction of a players' penalty shots can show which area he favours. Knowing this a goalkeeper can increase the probability of "guessing" right.
One important metric is "expected goals", a key input in betting and analytical models. It is a predicted probability of a goal coming from a shot in a particular area of the pitch. How many shots a team has from those areas can be used to predict the likelihood of scoring.
When Leicester became Premier League champions, it was a huge shock. But it is no coincidence that their use of analytics was among the most comprehensive and forward-looking in the league.
Leicester's unusual style of play, with little possession and relying on fast attacks, took many opponents by surprise. The team suffered virtually no injuries, and relied on the emergence of unheralded players like N' Golo Kante and Jamie Vardy.
Those who believe in the data-driven approach would say this is exactly the kind of comparative advantage statistics can bring.
Another of the great rituals for football fans is speculating about transfers. Who are we going to buy? Who should we buy?
Buying and selling players is a huge business. In the recently concluded summer transfer window, Premier League teams combined to spend over Â£1bn, with Manchester United spending in excess of Â£80m on a single player.
Datasets like those compiled by Football Manager have become a resource for the scouting and recruitment operations of many teams.
Finding a low-cost, high impact player like Riyahd Mahrez or Dmitri Payet can have remarkable results on the pitch. For clubs with smaller budgets, finding a rough gem or talented youngster that they can later sell for a profit is a crucial form of revenue.
"Â£8 million a year is the average running cost for a tier 1 academy and teams have to find talented youngsters who they can nurture and sell on," Dr Markham said.
But assessing young talent is difficult, and not every talented youngster will become a Gareth Bale, who was discovered as a boy in Wales, nurtured by Southampton's youth academy and later signed for Real Madrid for a world record fee.
Markham told another story of young talent, Martin Odegaard, the Norwegian prodigy who signed for Real Madrid at the age of 16 after making his debut for the national team at just 15.
When Football Manager came out in Norway Odegaard wasn't in the game because he was a minor, causing a metaphorical riot among Norwegian fans. He was added to the game's database when his dad tweeted a picture giving parental consent.
But how to rate the prodigy?
When the Football Manager club scout sent his rankings to the head of Norway operations, it raised a red flag. How could a 15-year old score so highly? The Norwegian chief went to see Odegaard play a dozen times before corroborating the data sent through to the London HQ, where it was again rejected as improbable.
Dr Markham says Odegaard's stats went through a dozen different checks before his astonishing grades were accepted.
Recruitment is so important to professional clubs that the average Premier League team has 7 international scouts. But clubs don't have the resources to cover players in every country - and many teams use Football Manager to inform their own scouting strategies, Dr Markham said.
Other teams are creating their own datasets, and working with other companies to come up with bespoke solutions. Teams using analytics to thrive include Brentford and the Danish club Midtjylland, both with connections to Matthew Benham, a noted convert to the data-driven analytical approach.
Aside from clubs and gamers using simulations, data underpins many other aspects of the football industry, from TV coverage to betting models and fantasy football. Using analytics to spot patterns in match results is used to monitor match fixing. Books with titles like Soccernomics and Soccermatics allow fans to get close to the "action" of data analytics.
The relationship of gaming with professional football goes both ways. Players enjoy simulations like FIFA in their frequent downtime and many players are used to receiving data on their own performance.
A picture of Paul Pogba playing Football Manager and signing himself for Chelsea set off speculation that he might move from Juventus to Chelsea.
And according to Dr Markham, those involved in the beautiful game itself can be - perhaps unsurprisingly - fixated on their representation in virtual versions like Football Manager.
He often receives messages from players and agents, he said. "Sometimes they complain about their ratings in the game, or their agents try to get them put up."


Finland's Defence Ministry says it has scrambled jets twice in the past 24 hours to monitor suspected airspace violations by Russian fighters.

A Russian Su-27 fighter was detected in the Gulf of Finland south of Porvoo late on Thursday, the ministry said.
Another Russian Su-27 was detected on a suspicious flight there earlier. "Russian military aviation over the Baltic Sea has been intense," it said.
The Russian military said there was no violation of Finnish airspace.
The Russian defence ministry said "the flights took place over neutral waters in the Gulf of Finland" and "no plane deviated from its set course".
The Su-27s were flying in the area for training purposes, it added.
Just hours after the incidents, Finland signed a defence co-operation pact with the US. It is a non-binding commitment to boost military information-sharing, joint training, research and defence against nuclear and other non-conventional threats.
The "statement of intent" was signed in Helsinki by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work and Finnish Defence Minister Jussi Niinisto.
Finland is not in Nato but co-operates closely with the 28-nation alliance.
Porvoo lies just east of Helsinki, and is 140km (87 miles) from the Russian border.
Nato has complained repeatedly of provocative Russian military flights in the Baltic region. But it is rare for Finland to report such suspected violations.
Russian bombers also regularly fly long patrol missions from the Arctic down to the North Atlantic or Bay of Biscay, testing Nato reactions on the way.
And Russia plans to step up similar patrols in the North Pacific, sending bombers from bases in eastern Siberia.
Russia was angered by the deployment of Nato forces in the three Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - after those nations broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991 and joined Nato in 2004.
During the Cold War - which ended in 1991 - Finland remained neutral and developed strong trade ties with the Soviet Union.


The last time we saw Rafael Nadal competing on a tennis court, he was the victim of one of the biggest shocks in the sport's history.

"I feel very well mentally but physically I need to rest," was the 26-year-old Spaniard's reaction after suffering a surprise second-round defeat by world number 100 Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon.
In the event, a knee injury led to an enforced absence that will finally end, after 222 days, when Nadal steps onto the clay courts of Vina del Mar in Chile to play doubles on Tuesday.
The 11-time Grand Slam champion, who missed 10 weeks in 2009 with a similar injury, will then resume his singles career 24 hours later.
Three weeks after his Wimbledon defeat, Nadal pulled out of the Olympic Games with tendinitis in his left knee, and in September he announced that he had a partially torn patella tendon.
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"The tendon is like a big thick rope made up of lots and lots of strands," said Lee Herrington, physiotherapist with the English Institute of Sport and senior lecturer in sports rehabilitation at the University of Salford.
"What can happen over time is some degeneration of the tendon, known as a tendinopathy. That rope can fray because, in a sport like tennis, you have quite high stress through the tendon as you stop and start very suddenly.
"Little bits of that rope fray and then tear, and if it's not given time to repair it will get more and more frayed until eventually you end up with the partial tear."
Surgery was quickly ruled out and the plan was to give the tendon time to repair, while gradually building up strength through physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and laser treatment.
28 June, 2012: Nadal loses to Lukas Rosol in second round of Wimbledon
14 July: Pulls out of an exhibition match with Novak Djokovic because of tendinitis
19 July: Withdraws from the Olympics with tendinitis in left knee
15 August: Withdraws from the US Open
3 September: Announces he has a partially torn patella tendon
25 October: Confirms he will not play in the Paris Masters or ATP World Tour Finals
20 November: Practises on court for the first time in Majorca
25 December: Pulls out of the Abu Dhabi exhibition with a stomach virus
28 December: Withdraws from the Australian Open because of the virus
5 February, 2013: Nadal to return alongside Juan Monaco in the Vina del Mar doubles before playing his first singles in seven months
"We believe that within two months the tendon will be in what we consider a normal state," the Spanish tennis federation's doctor, Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, said in September.
Nadal returned to the court on 20 November, when he trained in front of the media in his home town of Manacor, Majorca.
Herrington said: "If you have a basic tendinopathy, when a few fibres are damaged, you're still looking at a three- to six-month recovery, because the cells within the tendon are very, very slow at regenerating.
"The secret is to do a progressive loading programme on the tendon to stimulate those cells to the new load.
"You want a relatively short period of rest, and then you need to reload it within the tendon's tolerance.
"That's what can go wrong with athletes - they don't give enough time and sufficient progressive loading stimulus to these cells to allow them to lay down new tissue, which can get stronger and reform the rope.
"That's why it takes a long time."
In October, Nadal confirmed that he would not play in the final two tournaments of the season in Paris and London, admitting it "doesn't come as a surprise", and the comeback was scheduled for an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi at the end of December, followed by Doha and the Australian Open in January.
That plan began to unravel on Christmas Day when Nadal withdrew from Abu Dhabi because of a stomach virus, and three days later he pulled out of Doha and Melbourne.
"My knee is much better and the rehabilitation process has gone well, as predicted by the doctors, but this virus didn't allow me to practise this past week," said Nadal.
Rather than two weeks on the Australian Open hard courts, Nadal would now target shorter events on the more forgiving clay.
Nadal returns in the low-key surroundings of Vina del Mar, the first clay-court tournament of 2013, and will move on to Sao Paolo in Brazil and Acapulco in Mexico. He will be up against the likes of Juan Monaco, Nicolas Almagro and David Ferrer during his 'Latin American Swing'.
Nadal will reportedly return to action with a new racquet and strings that will add "more top spin", according to Eric Babolat from the Spaniard's racquet manufacturer. "He already has a lot of that but he wants more," the Frenchman told the German Press Agency. And there have been changes off the court as Nadal's manager, Carlos Costa, has left leading agency IMG to create a company with Sebastian Nadal, Rafael's father, that will look after the player in future.
Nadal insists it is all about testing the knee at first, rather than results.
"I'm very excited to get back to feeling what it's like to play in a tournament, [but] I do it with the uncertainty of seeing how my knee responds," he said. "I need time for rehabilitation and to see if it holds up to maximum competition."
If he comes through the clay, Nadal will then travel to the United States for a real test of his knee on the hard courts of Miami and Indian Wells, before the European clay-court season that culminates with the French Open in May. Whether he can lift the trophy at Roland Garros for an eighth time will say a great deal about his future prospects.
Despite his long absence, it was only last week that Nadal finally slipped out of the top four in the rankings, swapping places with his compatriot David Ferrer, and there has been little sign of any new threats emerging since he last played.
However, the top three of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray have all won Grand Slam titles in that time, and Djokovic and Murray in particular - both a year younger than Nadal - will prove immensely difficult obstacles to overcome for the foreseeable future.
Nadal, who turns 27 on 3 June, admitted only last week that the injury still hurts, saying: "The most important thing for me is whether I can support the pain of the knee."
Herrington said: "The nature of that injury means an athlete is likely to get some pain when they load the knee at competition levels, but I'd be concerned if they were still feeling pain and hadn't done a significant amount of sport-oriented loading in advance.
"The tendon is load-intolerant now, so in a Slam-type tournament over two weeks solid there will be a consequence of that."
However, Nadal can draw some comfort from his period sidelined by knee trouble in 2009 - the following year he won the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and regained the world number one ranking.


The refugee crisis on the Greek islands of Kos, Chios and Lesbos is "total chaos", the UN refugee agency UNHCR says, with inadequate accommodation, water and sanitation.

Around 50,000 people arrived in Greece in July alone, the organisation says.
Greece's leader said the country was unable to cope, and called for EU help.
Separately, Italian police arrested five suspected traffickers over the deaths of about 200 people after a migrant boat sank on Wednesday.
They included two Libyans, two Algerians and a Tunisian, held on suspicion of multiple murder and people trafficking.
Survivors have said that traffickers used knives to slash the heads of African migrants and belts to thrash Arabs to keep them in the hull.
In other developments:
The UNHCR says nearly all new arrivals in Greece are refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The organisation's European Director, Vincent Cochetel, said facilities for the refugees on the Greek islands were "totally inadequate", after more migrants arrived in Greece in July 2015 than in the whole of the previous year.
Greece's EU partners must do more to ease the burden, he said, but Greece must "lead and co-ordinate".
"On most of the islands there is no reception capacity, people are not sleeping under any form of roof. So it's total chaos on the islands.
"After a couple of days they are transferred to Athens, there is nothing waiting for them in Athens," he complained.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the problem "surpasses" Greece's abilities, and that his country's economic problems meant it was facing a humanitarian "crisis within a crisis".
Save the Children says refugee children are at risk of exploitation and disease in Greece because of the lack of facilities.
"The risk to a child forced to sleep on the street of being abused, or of a baby dying of heatstroke, is very real," said Kitty Arie from the charity.
"This is Europe in 2015. We can't leave these children in this desperate situation."
Separately, another UNHCR official described conditions at Austria's main reception camp, 20km (12 miles) south of Vienna, as "intolerable, dangerous and inhumane".
About 4,500 people are at the camp, which was built to house 1,800. Many are now sleeping in the open.
Most arrived in Austria via neighbouring Hungary - both EU member states and both in the border-free Schengen zone, where passports are generally not checked.
EU border agency Frontex says it has not received enough pledges of assets from EU states to help Greece and Hungary with the current influx of migrants.
Meanwhile, the EU is struggling to cope with the thousands of migrants heading for Italy aboard unseaworthy vessels from Libya, where people traffickers are charging huge sums to smuggle them into Europe.
On Thursday, Irish navy ship LÃ‰ Niamh docked in Sicily with 367 migrants - mostly Syrians - who were rescued from Wednesday's sinking.


A "significant" number of tumble dryers sold in the last 11 years in the UK may need a repair owing to fears about fires.

Owners of large air-vented dryers and condensing dryers under the Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda brands may need to have them fixed.
Indesit said that excess fluff could catch the heating element in the machine and cause a fire.
It is recalling many dryers bought between April 2004 and October 2015.
The company said that the tumble dryers could still be used but should not if they were left unattended.
It is asking owners to check whether their machine is one of those affected and, if so, to contact the company through its dedicated website.
If action is needed, an engineer will visit to mend the machine - a process that the company said could take an hour.
The safety review began following Whirlpool Corporation's purchase of the Indesit business in October 2014.
There are an estimated 30 million Whirlpool, Indesit and Hotpoint machines in UK households, but the company said it would not speculate about exactly how many had been affected.
In June, consumer group Which? said that nearly 12,000 fires in the past three years in Britain had been the fault of defective white goods and kitchen equipment.


Japanese car manufacturing giant Toyota is committing to all but eliminate carbon emissions from its production processes by 2050.

The target is one of several set by Toyota, which also pledged to sell 1.5 million hybrid cars a year by 2020.
Toyota said it will increase the use of renewable energy and hydrogen-based production methods at its factories.
Separately it said it plans to sell more than 30,000 hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles around or shortly after 2020.
Unveiling new environmental targets Toyota confirmed that its new Prius hybrid would be a fifth more fuel-efficient than its predecessor as the car manufacturer hopes to boost flagging sales of the environmentally friendly model amid a slump in global oil prices.
Toyota said it planned to reduce average emissions from its cars by 90% by 2050 compared with 2010 levels.
However, Toyota's plans did not include any commitment to manufacturing electric cars.
The strategy outlined earlier on Wednesday came as Volkswagen said it would cut investment at its biggest division by â‚¬1bn (Â£743m) a year from 2019 and increase development of electric vehicles.
The German company said on Tuesday it would speed up cost cutting at its VW division and put only the latest and "best environmental technology" in diesel vehicles.
Volkswagen is facing the biggest crisis in its 78-year history after admitting last month it installed software in diesel vehicles that could deceive US  environmental regulators about the true level of their toxic emissions.


In the wake of their Pro12 semi-final victory over the Ospreys last weekend, Paul O'Connell came out with a throwaway line that he'd probably just played his last-ever game for Munster at Thomond Park.

It wasn't so much an announcement as a low-key, no-fuss comment in the middle of an interview. In many ways, it was entirely in keeping with O'Connell's unassuming personality; not for him, the fanfare.
There were rumours, of course, that this was the Limerick endgame, but O'Connell had refused to feed them.
After 14 years in which he has won two Heineken Cups and three Celtic League titles, and has set the standard by which everyone else at the club lives, the long farewell was not for him.
Brian O'Driscoll had a goodbye tour and was entitled to it, but O'Connell, 35, preferred to slip away quietly - or as quietly as can be, given the thunder that still exists in his game, the enormous desire for success that will see him spend the last two years of his playing career in Toulon, the pre-eminent club on the continent.
That move is expected to be confirmed next week.
On Saturday, in the Pro12 final at the Kingspan Stadium in Belfast, O'Connell will end the most magnificent adventure - and how he will be missed in the province.
O'Connell would be the first to say that no man is irreplaceable, but there will be many in Munster who'd question that. They will miss him terribly; his intensity on the field and his humility off it.
A small example: when his local paper, the Limerick Leader, organised a campaign recently to clean up the city, O'Connell was one of the first on to the streets with his sweeping brush. A hero and an everyman in one beloved package.
The goodbyes in Belfast don't begin and end with O'Connell, though.
His fellow number five and mirror image in the inspiration stakes, Al Kellock, will also make his final appearance, off the bench. There is no glamour move to France for Kellock after this - he's retiring, full-stop.
Kellock has been a colossus for Glasgow, a leader off the park as much as on it: a second-row, a captain, an ambassador, a chief bottle washer.
Part of the reason why Glasgow have made such strides is because of Kellock's influence around the place.
Newcomers look at his dedication and passion and they understand what's required - or they don't last very long.
The Scot may not have reached the stratospheric highs of O'Connell in his career - he's even been in and out of the team quite a lot in recent times - but his impact in his own place has been just as profound.
The dual departures lend the Pro12 final an added fascination. Two men leaving but only one of them will have the finale that their vast support would want for them.
These two teams finished joint-top of the league, only points difference dividing them. They're the best in the competition, but they have issues. In recent weeks, Glasgow have lost some of the stability that they had for much of the season.
They have creaked at times: they put in a sub-standard performance in the semi-final against Ulster but got out of jail courtesy of guts and brilliance at the death.
They were poor for large chunks of the match against a weakened Ulster the previous week and the week before that they were comfortably taken down by the Ospreys.
Their scrum and lineout have been rocky, the number of handling errors has been rising and they have taken an age in games to crank up their phase-play and their aggression. They get there in the end; a testament to their character.
They have a backline that can cause huge problems to any team, but their forwards have been too passive for too long in matches in recent weeks. The Glasgow pack needs to rediscover its inner-grunt.
Gregor Townsend, their hugely impressive coach, has altered his team and already it looks better: Gordon Reid is back in at loose-head and that's an upgrade on Ryan Grant; Rob Harley returns at blind-side and brings aggression and a marvellous capacity to mess opponents around.
On the wing, DTH van der Merwe, another man saying farewell, comes in for Niko Matawalu, the creative but utterly unpredictable and defensively suspect Fijian.
Matawalu is Glasgow's break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option: a game-breaker who Townsend deploys presumably with his fingers crossed that the game he breaks is the other team's and not his own.
Munster are nobody's idea of the complete side. For a club that has known such success, they are now four years without a trophy.
Only four of their players who will start in the Pro12 final have won something with Munster: Felix Jones, Keith Earls, Donnacha Ryan and O'Connell.
Time has moved on for them since winning the Magners League in 2011. That team had Doug Howlett and Ronan O'Gara; Marcus Horan and John Hayes; Donncha O'Callaghan and David Wallace. Icons all.
Since then, they have lost two Pro12 semi-finals and two Heineken Cup semi-finals.
They're still a very dangerous team with a maul that could blast Glasgow to kingdom come unless Townsend's team have got a plan for it, but they're less of a force than Leinster were when beating Glasgow in last year's final. Munster have also suffered the grievous loss of Conor Murray and Peter O'Mahony through injury.
Their own passage to the final was fraught. Not as hair-raising as Glasgow's in Scotstoun but nervous enough. Against the Ospreys, they had a big lead and almost coughed it up at the end. They had kick after kick at goal and Ian Keatley kept missing.
They spurned 15 points from the tee, a level of profligacy that will see them beaten in Belfast if it's repeated. This will be a game of fine margins.
Munster are looking for their sixth major title, but Glasgow are justifiable favourites even though they're still without silverware in the professional era. At their best, Townsend's team have the ammunition to win.
They also have a better cavalry on the bench. They need attitude and accuracy and more dog up front than they've shown recently.
That's the combination that will see them home. Anything less and it'll be the great O'Connell who gets the fairytale ending and not Kellock. Two warriors, but only winner.


Plans for a new £31m school in Neath Port Talbot are set to be given the go-ahead on Wednesday.

The council's cabinet will meet to discuss the new school for ages 3-16 which is set to replace Groes Primary School and Dyffryn Comprehensive.
Funding for Ysgol Newydd Margam, which will accommodate 1,455 pupils, was announced in November.
A report recommends approving the plans, with a 28-day public consultation set to begin on 5 January.
The new school is set to open on 1 September 2018 and the council said the move would save £7.5m in maintenance backlogs for the current sites.


A man has accomplished a 100-mile (160km) morris dance from London to Norwich recreating a journey undertaken by William Shakespeare's clown in 1600.

Rick Jones, from Catford, set off from London Bridge on 23 April and danced his way through Essex and Suffolk before arriving in Norwich on Friday.
He completed the trip despite being stopped by police and enduring pain from stinging nettles and blisters.
He will officially finish his dance on 6 May at St John Maddermarket church.
In keeping with the journey undertaken by Shakespeare actor Will Kemp, he will dance again from St Stephen's Street up to City Hall to meet the lord mayor, before jumping over the wall at the church to celebrate his feat.
"I had a real adventure," said Mr Jones, 58.
"I met loads of people and that becomes the story, really.
"I was stopped by the police in Suffolk who wondered what was up when I was dancing down the A134 outside of Bury St Edmunds.
"Someone apparently thought I'd got out of hospital or something, so I had to prove I had danced the whole way."
It is thought Kemp embarked on his trip, to prove how popular he was with the public, after falling out with Shakespeare when he was turned down for a role in Hamlet.
He told the story in his account "Nine Daies Wonder".
Mr Jones' dance began on the anniversary of the day Shakespeare was believed to have been born in 1564.
He chose to complete it in nine days, as the title suggests, despite finding out only after booking hotel rooms that it actually took Kemp 23 days because his dancing was so vigorous.
During the trip Mr Jones visited Southwark, Romford, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Braintree, Long Melford, Bury St Edmunds, Thetford, Hingham and eventually Norwich.


Former teachers living in the local military population could be recruited by Moray Council to alleviate staff shortages in schools.

RAF Lossiemouth and Kinloss barracks have teachers within their communities.
However, many cannot to work because they qualified outside Scotland.
Subject to General Teaching Council for Scotland approval, the pilot scheme would allow qualified teachers to be provisionally registered while they undergo top-up training.
This would then enable full registration.
Moray, like other areas, has struggled to recruit teachers in recent years.
Moray Council's education and young person's committee chairwoman Anne Skene said: "This is a great opportunity for us to employ the teachers we know exist within our community.
"I commend the GTCS for this initiative.
"We already have a very close working relationship with our military communities, and I can only see this as strengthening that bond."
GTCS chief executive Kenneth Muir said: "We register over 350 teachers a year from England and many more from countries around the world but only if those teachers meet our registration standards.
"We accept that we could offer more flexibility in how we register teachers and this is why we undertook the recent consultation. There are a number of proposals we will put to our council meeting in December for members' approval which we think can offer more flexibility and better support local authorities like Moray.
"We are pleased to have such a constructive working relationship with Moray Council and look forward to building upon this in the months ahead."
Group Captain Mark Chappell, station commander at RAF Lossiemouth, said: "There are a significant number of military spouses and partners who are teachers; this scheme would allow them to continue with their careers whilst their partners are stationed at RAF Lossiemouth.
"The proposal is of dual benefit; reducing the impact of a rather nomadic military lifestyle on civilian teachers' careers and helping reduce the shortfall in qualified teachers in the area.
"Our community support staff will work with Moray Council to encourage and support any members of our service families who wish to participate in the scheme."
Councils have already tried individual initiatives to ease the problem.
In 2013, Aberdeenshire Council sent staff to Canada and Ireland to try to recruit new teachers.
Last year, Aberdeen City Council offered to pay the tuition fees of staff who want to become primary school teachers in a bid to tackle the shortage.
And in August, the first teachers took advantage of an offer of free accommodation for six months to teach in Moray.


Rochdale's League One match against Port Vale has been postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.

The fixture was due to start at 19:45 GMT but was called off after a pitch inspection at 17:00 GMT.
A new date for the League One game is yet to be confirmed.
Both 10th-placed Rochdale, who are without a win in seven games and 21st-placed Port Vale, who are on an eight-game winless streak, will have to wait to try to end their poor league runs.


A 51-year-old Forfar motorcyclist killed in a crash in Perthshire on Saturday evening has been named as Neil Cownie.

Mr Cownie sustained fatal injuries in the collision on the B8079, south of Blair Atholl, at about 20:30.
Accident investigators remained at the scene of the collision for several hours.
Police Scotland said inquiries into the full set of circumstances were continuing.


A 48-hour Tube strike by station staff that was due to start on Saturday has been suspended, the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has said.

Workers were due to walk out from 21:00 GMT in a row over jobs, pay and rosters.
The RMT said "significant progress" had been made "which has enabled us to now suspend all industrial action".
A series of separate strikes by Tube maintenance workers in a dispute over safety are still planned.
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Some stations would have been closed from Saturday evening until Tuesday morning had the walk-out gone ahead.
A union spokesman said: "The breakthrough has been secured through the solidarity of the workforce and their willingness to take industrial action to defend jobs and safety."
Transport for London (TfL) confirmed the strike was off but has not commented further.


Two people have been arrested after a man was stabbed at a house in County Down on Monday.

A man, 54, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after the attack at Manor Court in Moira at about 02:10 GMT.
A 36-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man were arrested at the house.
A police spokesman said: "Investigations into the circumstances surrounding this assault are ongoing at this time.


Colin Turkington was moved up from second to first place at Donington Park after Gordon Shedden was disqualified for failing a ride height test.

The Team BMW driver from Portadown finished second in the wet race three, coming home behind Honda's Shedden.
Turkington was later awarded the victory, the first for Team BMW, ahead of Adam Morgan and Ash Sutton.
Aiden Moffat, who collected his maiden win, and Tom Ingram were the other race winners in an eventful day.
Turkington had a strong start to the weekend, working his way up to fourth after starting in 10th place.
Yellow flags at the final chicane meant he couldn't pass Rob Austin despite being the quicker driver in the latter stages of the race.
In race two, Turkington struggled on the soft tyre in the opening stages of the race before going on a charge at the end, overtaking reigning champion Shedden with two laps to go to claim fifth.
Turkington completed a solid weekend in race three, coming home behind Shedden after overtaking pole sitter Dave Newsham on lap nine.
The race was initially red flagged after several cars aquaplaned off the circuit, and the race was reset after a brief wait for the conditions to clear up.
Turkington leaves Donington Park second in the standings, 15 points behind Ingram.
It was another luckless weekend for Carrickfergus driver Chris Smiley, whose strong pace didn't yield the results it deserved.
Starting 20th, Smiley worked his way up to 16th before being punted off by Tom Chilton, taking both drivers out of the race.
After his first race incident, Smiley started race two from 26th, dropping down to 29th by mid-race.
A sensational final five laps moved the 25-year-old up the order, crossing the line in 17th place and his best result of the season.
Smiley made the most of the torrid weather conditions in race three, moving his way up to seventh place before the red flag reset the order.
The BTC Norlin driver was forced to start from the pit lane at the restart, coming in 18th but moved up to 17th following Shedden's disqualification.
In the support races, Northern Ireland racers had a successful weekend at the East Midlands circuit.
Belfast's Charlie Eastwood dominated in the Porsche Carrera Cup, taking pole position for both races as well as collecting both wins as he continued his strong start to the championship.
Eastwood has now taken the lead in the championship, four points ahead of team-mate Daniel Cammish.
Hillsborough teenager Dan Harper had a strong weekend in the Ginetta Junior series, taking victory in the second race.
Another podium and a sixth-placed finish means that Harper leaves Donington second in the championship table, five points behind Tom Gamble.
At the first round of the European Le Mans Series at Silverstone, Templepatrick driver Wayne Boyd claimed a podium for United Autosports.


An amended law has come into effect in Taiwan which strips its military of the power to prosecute and punish its own personnel during peace time.

The transfer of more than 350 urgent cases of alleged wrongdoing by military personnel from military to civilian courts has begun.
The change was made following protests over the death of a conscript soldier who was punished for misconduct.
Military jails are to be closed and military courts shut down by January.
The cases transferred are considered the most urgent - they involve alleged inhumane treatment of subordinates or unjustified punishment by superiors.
More than 250 armed service personnel jailed in the military are also being transferred to civilian prisons to serve out the remainder of their sentences.
This is a significant change for Taiwan, which for decades was ruled under martial law, says the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.
Resentment against the military is still strong not only because of the martial law era, but because it is widely considered as a place for profiteering and bullying, our correspondent adds.
Earlier this month, tens of thousands rallied in the capital, Taipei, to protest against the death of Hung Chung-chiu, 24, who died of organ failure brought on by heatstroke.
Cpl Hung was held in solitary confinement for bringing a mobile phone with built-in camera onto his military base - and was then subjected to arduous punishment exercises in the hot sun.
His case saw some 18 army officers being charged, and the resignation of the defence minister.
President Ma Ying-jeou has also publicly apologised and promised justice for the family.


Whether it's gangsta grannies, awful aunties, or demon dentists, David Walliams is famous for writing stories that make us laugh.

7 March 2017 Last updated at 13:16 GMT
The author has been answering questions from his fans.
What was David's favourite story when he was growing up? And why does he prefer evil teachers to nice teachers?
Watch the video to find out!


Two senior Ukrainian officials have been arrested during a cabinet meeting as part of an anti-corruption crackdown, hours after a powerful regional governor was sacked.

The head of Ukraine's state emergencies service, Serhiy Bochkovsky, and his deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky were handcuffed by police at the televised meeting.
They are suspected of involvement in high-level corruption.
Earlier, Ukraine's president sacked a billionaire governor, Ihor Kolomoisky.
Mr Kolomoisky had been running the key industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk and had financed armed volunteers to fight pro-Russian separatists in the east. He had been vying with President Petro Poroshenko for control of the Ukrnafta energy company.
The two arrests shown on TV on Wednesday were connected to illegal kickbacks involving procurement contracts, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told the cabinet meeting.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, quoted by Reuters news agency, said that "when the country is at war and when we are counting every penny - they steal from people and the state.
"This will happen to everyone who breaks the law and sneers at the Ukrainian state."
Mr Avakov said he was also dismissing all regional heads of the state emergencies service, as they were suspected of involvement in a corrupt scheme that had diverted money offshore.
Speaking on Ukrainian TV, he said officials at the service had used a private company to transfer funds "to a non-resident of Ukraine, a Jersey-based offshore company".
From there, he said, money went to "another private company owned by Stoyetsky and Bochkovsky, after which this money was divided between card accounts opened, in particular, in Cypriot banks". He showed printouts of what appeared to be card statements.
Mr Yatsenyuk's government is under pressure from Western lenders to prove that it is cleaning up government finances, as Ukraine has been plagued by high-level corruption since independence in 1991.
Last month the International Monetary Fund agreed a $17.5bn (??11.5bn) loan to Ukraine as part of a new economic reform programme. Western loans to Ukraine total $40bn, spread over four years.
Another senior official, the head of state-run Southwestern Railways Oleksiy Kryvopishyn, was sacked on Wednesday. It is Ukraine's second-largest railway company, mainly serving central areas including Kiev.
President Poroshenko's dismissal of the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky is seen as a clash between business rivals vying for control of energy assets.
Armed men suspected of links to Mr Kolomoisky had briefly occupied the offices of state-owned Ukrnafta and its subsidiary UkrTransNafta.
Mr Kolomoisky was reportedly unhappy after parliament passed legislation aimed at weakening his influence.
Mr Poroshenko's office named Valentyn Reznichenko as the new acting governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Mr Kolomoisky - who is estimated to be worth more than $2bn (??1.3bn) - has helped President Poroshenko by keeping order in Dnipropetrovsk and preventing pro-Russian rebels from advancing into the region. It lies near rebel-held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
A senior Russian politician, Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko, spoke scathingly about Ukraine's "war of the oligarchs" on Wednesday.
"This situation shows that Ukraine has no statehood and is not a sovereign state", she said, predicting "further schisms within Ukraine".


Southern Rail's latest attempt to stop strikes on its network has been branded "meaningless" by union bosses.

The firm's parent company, GTR, has said an offer, which includes a Â£2,000 bonus, "cannot be available indefinitely" if strikes continue.
But RMT bosses said the union had already rejected the offer, and accused Southern of using "threats and bullying".
A two-day strike is scheduled to begin on Friday.
The latest twist in the dispute comes as Southern reinstated a full timetable after three months of reduced services.
An increasingly bitter dispute has caused months of disruption for passengers, as RMT members staged a series of strikes in protest at GTR's plans to change the role of conductors on Southern services in South East England.
Rail chiefs made a "full and comprehensive offer" to the RMT on 3 October in an attempt to settle the impasse over the proposed operation of driver-only trains on the network.
But in a letter to RMT general secretary Mick Cash, GTR said: "Should your next planned action proceed... the offer is withdrawn in its entirety and will no longer be available for the RMT to accept."
Mr Cash said in a statement: "This is just more threats and bullying from Southern rail and does nothing at all to resolve the current safety dispute.
"It's also completely meaningless as the union has already rejected the Â£2,000 bribe to sell out safety, and the company are well aware of that."
At the height of the dispute, in July, Southern introduced a temporary timetable to help cope with staff absences, which compounded the problems caused by the strikes.
The standard service was reintroduced on Monday, although it got off to a difficult start due to a broken-down train at Crawley, while trains between Eastbourne and Hastings were hit by a signal problem.
A further three blocks of strikes are planned before Christmas.


December was the UK's wettest month in more than a hundred years.

7 January 2016 Last updated at 16:05 GMT
One part of the country badly hit was Lancashire, where water sports fans found that it was even deep enough to jet-ski and canoe close to a bus stop.
The video has gone viral, with more than 1,300 shares and 114,000 views on social media.
Remember floods are dangerous, and you should never go into flood water. Never try anything like this.


Police investigating a sexual assault in the Croftfoot area of Glasgow are keen to speak to a cyclist who rode past as the attack was taking place.

Detectives said a 35-year-old woman was assaulted after she was approached by two men on Menock Road, near Castlemilk Road, at about 20:00 on Monday.
The woman was said to have been "extremely distressed" by the incident.
Police said a man cycled past the group at the time of the incident and the men ran off. They are keen to trace him.
Both men were white and spoke with local accents.
One was about 5ft 8 in and the other about 6ft tall.
Both are believed to be in their mid-20s.
Det Sgt Craig McPhail said: "I am appealing to the local community who may have seen this incident to get in touch and in particular the cyclist.
"People may have thought that there was nothing untoward going on but a woman has been assaulted and it's imperative we trace the men responsible.
"If you were the cyclist out on your bike that night, then please do contact us, any small piece of information could assist our investigation."


Tony Bellew has been "underestimated" in the build-up to Saturday's heavyweight fight with David Haye, says former world champion Richie Woodhall.

WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, weighed in at 15st 3lb 8oz, lighter than 36-year-old Haye (16st 9oz).
The pair again traded insults at London's O2 Arena, where Haye starts as odds-on favourite with the bookmakers.
"I can't believe people aren't giving him a bigger chance," said Woodhall, a BBC Radio 5 live pundit.
"I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. Everyone is saying a Haye early knockout but I think it will be a tough fight for him."
Bermondsey-born Haye was cheered by a big crowd at Friday's weigh-in as he prepares to fight at a venue just six miles from where he grew up.
Only once in his 30-fight career has he weighed in heavier than for this bout.
The former WBA heavyweight champion mocked the physique of Bellew, who said he was "over the moon" to see his rival so heavy.
Bellew, who as recently as 2013 was fighting two weight classes lower, reiterated his belief Haye would be short on stamina in just his third fight since returning from over three years out of the sport.
Woodhall believes Haye will be "extremely dangerous" early in the fight and expects Bellew to build his tactics around dragging a knockout specialist - who has been in just three 12-round contests - into the latter rounds.
"It's a classic case of who will land the big shot," added 1988 Olympic bronze medallist Woodhall.
"Bellew's first goal will be to get through the first four rounds, when we know Haye is at his most explosive. If he gets through he will not be home and dry by any means but his fight will then start and he can think about trying to break Haye down.
"The one thing against Haye is he's only fought a couple of times since 2012. I think he will solely rely on getting Bellew out early."
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Haye has been criticised for graphic descriptions of how he intends to hurt his opponent, while Bellew has actively pursued the fight, calling his foe out publicly from the ring after a routine win in October.
The feud has meant both fighters have been kept apart by security in fight week, and the pre-fight face-off was also conducted with people between them.
British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith has expressed his disappointment in their behaviour.
"When it's all over, they will look back and neither one of them will be proud of beforehand," added Woodhall, 48. "You have to have a balance. We all want the fight to sell but you don't want people pointing the finger at the sport of boxing.
"Psychologically, I think Bellew has played a blinder. Haye has to control his emotions early on. If he ends up swinging early on, missing the target, then the tide turns. I think Bellew wants Haye to come out very aggressively."
Haye is attempting to improve his record of 28 wins from 30 fights, while Bellew has 28 wins, two losses and one draw on his record.
The bitterness between Haye and Bellew has been mirrored by super-lightweight rivals Derry Mathews and Ohara Davies.
The pair have engaged in insulting social media exchanges and expletive-laden rants before a bout which is the biggest of Davies' 14-fight career, and could help 33-year-old Mathews keep hopes of another world-title shot alive.
Woodhall expects the welterweight fight between Sam Eggington and American Paulie Malignaggi to potentially steal the show.
Malignaggi, 36, has been a world champion at two weights and has shared a ring with stellar names such as Amir Khan, Adrian Broner and Danny Garcia.
Wales' IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby will contest a non-title bout against Spain's Andoni Gago, while Ireland's London 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor enters her third fight as a professional when she faces Italy's Monica Gentili, who has six wins and as many losses in her career.


Three hospital trusts struggling to meet savings targets have been placed in financial special measures.

North Lincolnshire and Goole, University Hospitals of North Midlands and St George's University Hospitals trusts have a predicted combined deficit of Â£145m.
NHS Improvement - a department set up to aid "rapid financial improvement" - is responsible for the move.
Chief Executive Jim Mackey said trusts must "keep a strong grip on finances".
He said the trusts involved were not on course to meet their savings targets, and placing them in financial special measures would help get them the support needed to improve.
NHS experts will now work with the trusts to make sure money is not being spent without proper checks and controls.
The trusts will also receive help with planning staff rotas more effectively, so there is less reliance on high-cost agency workers.
NHS Improvement said the programme has already saved about Â£100m in 2016/17 at other trusts.
Reacting to the news, Nicholas Dakin, the Labour MP for Scunthorpe, said: "It is a real blow that Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Trust is being placed in financial special measures."
He stressed the move was no reflection on the "dedicated staff trying to deliver services", but added: "Financially the NHS is creaking, underfunded by this Conservative government."
Sir David Henshaw, interim chair at St George's, said: "We are taking steps to reduce our financial deficit, whilst also tackling the long-standing and systemic problems the trust faces."
He added that "despite significant problems we are making good progress".
Seven other trusts are already in financial special measures, including North Bristol NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Many disabled people in Britain feel media coverage about benefit cheats has negatively affected attitudes towards them, a survey suggests.

Almost half of the 500 disabled people and carers polled for charity Scope said attitudes to them had worsened.
It comes after ministers released data suggesting 55% of sickness benefit claimants were no longer eligible for it.
The government said it was restoring integrity to the benefits system.
It is changing the welfare system to try to get more people into work and is scrapping the three main benefits for disabled people in the process.
Anyone receiving these benefits will be reviewed to see if they are capable of work or eligible for other benefits.
But a report from a parliamentary committee has warned that changes to disabled people's benefits may risk their right to independent living.
The research for the charity Scope is released just weeks before the Paralympics is due to start.
It asked 500 disabled people, their parents and carers a series of questions in England, Wales and Scotland.
It found 46% of those polled said people's attitudes towards them had worsened over the past year.
Some 40% said they had stayed the same and 16% said they had improved.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) said they had experienced aggression, hostility or name calling, while nearly three-quarters or (73%) said they had experienced an assumption they did not work.
When asked what could be contributing to such hostility, 87% singled out people claiming disability benefits to which they are not entitled.
And 84% highlighted negative media coverage about benefit cheats.
Scope chief executive Richard Hawkes said: "Disabled people keep coming back to the same concern: benefit scroungers. They single out fraudsters.
"They are concerned about coverage. They tell us strangers challenge them in the street about the support they claim."
He added: "It is telling that these figures come as the government continues to put the issue of weeding out illegitimate claimants at the heart of its welfare rhetoric."
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "We are careful about the language we use, as it's clear that the benefit system itself has trapped many people in a spiral of welfare dependency.
"That's why this government is making such a radical overhaul of the benefits system to restore integrity and ensure that everyone who needs help and support receives it."
He added: "And whilst we already have laws in place to ensure equality, we need to work together and do more to change negative attitudes.
"We have already been working with disability organisations on developing a new disability strategy - one of the key areas is about promoting positive attitudes and behaviours towards disabled people."
The survey is released after the BBC's Panorama revealed evidence of disabled and sick people being cleared as fit to work by the government's new capability assessment in spite of medical advice given by their own GPs.