The police have stepped up patrols in Londonderry after disturbances in Galliagh area of the city this week.

Bricks were thrown at police and a resident was attacked in Leafair during trouble on Wednesday night. There were also reports of shots being fired.
Extra local neighbourhood officers were deployed on Thursday night, and two arrests were made.
A 15-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man was arrested for assault on police and disorderly behaviour.
The boy was released pending a report from a youth diversion officer while the man has been charged to appear at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on 6 May.
Community worker Peter McDonald praised police for increasing patrols but said parents must take more responsibility for their children.
Mr McDonald warned that the Northern Ireland Housing Executive had the power to evict social housing tenants if families failed to keep their children under control.
Stephen Deery, a resident of the Leafair estate, told BBC Radio Foyle that the situation was calmer on Thursday night compared to the night before, but said large groups of youths had still gathered outside his home to drink alcohol.
Mr Deery said his family has not been able to sleep properly for the last week, because of anti-social behaviour in the street.
"We're up every night, me and my son, out trying to move them on and the abuse they give you is just terrible  Then they start throwing bottles at the house and they tried to burn my hedges twice," he said.
Mr Deery also said youths had threatened to set fire to his car.
He called for part of the estate to be fenced off, to prevent young people from gathering in the area.
Ch Insp Tony Callaghan said additional local neighbourhood officers were on patrol in the city on Thursday night to "reassure residents, deal with anti-social behaviour and criminality and keep people safe".
The officer added: "The behaviour that has occurred over the last few nights is totally unacceptable and residents should not be subjected to this sort of behaviour.
"I would continue to appeal to parents to ensure that they know where their children are, who they are with and most importantly what they are doing."
Mr McDonald told BBC Radio Foyle that the community safety team met on Thursday to discuss problems in the estate.
The team is made of up representatives from the police, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, politicians and community workers.
Mr McDonald said that he personally, in the past, had "serious difficulty with policing".
However, he said the PSNI was an "accountable" policing service.
"This is not about heavy-handed policing. This is about a police service delivering a service, no different from Derry City Council, so people need to get that into their mindsets."
The community worker added: "I am prepared, along with many, many others to encourage and build upon policing."
Mr McDonald described the PSNI operation on Thursday night as "a first-class and excellent job".


Workers on Virgin Trains East Coast are to stage a 24-hour strike on Monday 3 October, the RMT union has announced.

The union said the action was being taken over threatened job cuts, as well as disputes over working conditions and safety.
It said talks aimed at resolving the issues had failed and staff had been instructed not to work any shifts between 00:01 and 23:59 BST on the day.
Virgin Trains said it would be running a full timetable during the strike.
Virgin Trains East Coast, which operates services between London, the North East and Scotland, said it was making changes to customer-facing roles which would "see a single person take responsibility for the customer experience on our trains".
The RMT union claims the measures would lead to job cuts and impact on working conditions and safety measures which currently ensure a guard on every train.
It said nearly 200 jobs were threatened by the cuts and remaining staff would be expected to cover the extra work.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "RMT will not sit back while nearly 200 members' jobs are under threat and while conditions and safety are put at risk by a franchise which is clearly in financial trouble.
"We will also not tolerate the cavalier attitude to safety that is now on show as the company mobilises its scab army of managers."
Workers on Virgin Trains East Coast had planned three 24-hour strikes for August after 84% of workers voted in favour of a walk-out.
The industrial action was suspended after the RMT and Virgin Trains agreed to continue negotiations.
Mr Cash added: "The union suspended an earlier programme of action when it looked like serious progress was being made in talks but that process has now failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion and we are back into industrial action as a result.
"We have been shocked at the way the company have led us up the garden path when we entered talks in good faith."
Virgin Trains said the changes would have "no impact" on safety and had assured the union there would be no compulsory redundancies.
It announced it had a "detailed contingency plan" that meant it could operate a full timetable during the strike.
David Horne, Virgin Trains East Coast managing director, said: "With our guarantees that there will be no compulsory redundancies, no impact on safety and a full timetable in place during the walk-outs, these strikes will cost RMT members pay for no reason, and we urge the union to rejoin us around the negotiating table."


A 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, his family says.

Jordan Romero, from California, telephoned his mother from the peak of the world's highest mountain, she said.
"Mom, I'm calling you from the top of the world," Leigh Anne Drake quoted her son as saying.
He was climbing with his father and three Sherpa guides. The previous record was held by a Nepalese boy of 16.
The 13-year-old has now conquered the highest mountains on six of the world's seven continents.
He climbed Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro aged 10. He just needs to scale the Vinson Massif in Antarctica.
He has also scaled Mount Kosciuszko in Australia.
The team set off from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, last month, heading for the base camp on the Chinese side of the mountain.
While Nepal insists that anyone planning to climb Mount Everest must be 16, China does not impose any age restrictions.
Some mountaineers have criticised the Romero family for letting him attempt the feat but his father said the ascent from the Chinese side is less dangerous, the AFP news agency reports.
Last month, his mother told the BBC he would do some school work during the trip.
Also on Saturday, Apa Sherpa, 50, climbed Everest for the 20th time, surpassing his own record.


Barrow's unbeaten run was extended despite them being held to a goalless draw at home by Gateshead.

The Bluebirds are now unbeaten in 24 games and move up into the top four after a frustrating match for both sides.
Lindon Meikle went closest in the first half, when his corner for the hosts was swept onto the bar by a heavy wind.
Richard Bennett also threatened, but his curling effort was well saved by Dan Hanford as the game petered out into a stalemate.
Alex-Ray Harvey also hit the woodwork in a dominant first period for Barrow, but Gateshead held on to claim a point but see their winless streak in the National League stretch to six matches.
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Match ends, Barrow 0, Gateshead 0.
Second Half ends, Barrow 0, Gateshead 0.
Danny Livesey (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Gateshead. George Smith replaces Sam Jones.
Liam Hughes (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Gateshead. Danny Johnson replaces Luke Hannant.
Substitution, Gateshead. Toby Ajala replaces Russell Penn.
Jamal Fyfield (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Barrow 0, Gateshead 0.
First Half ends, Barrow 0, Gateshead 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


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Work restrictions expiring later this year for migrants from Romania and Bulgaria have had little impact on the numbers planning to move to the UK or wider EU, BBC Newsnight polls suggest.

The countries joined the EU in 2007 but many member states put limits on their citizens working which end this year.
This has raised concerns in the UK that many will now come to seek jobs.
But BBC surveys in each country, both of more than 1,000 people, suggest most would move only with a firm work offer.
Of those questioned more people intended to seek work in the EU including the UK in 2013 than in 2014.
By Sanchia BergBBC Newsnight
There is a significant gap between aspiration and making real concrete plans.
We found that in Romania very small numbers of people, 1% of the total survey sample, said they were looking for work in the UK in 2013 or 2014, whether with a recruitment agency or on their own.
In Bulgaria the figures were higher: 4.2% of those surveyed. However most people interested in coming to the UK, from both countries, said they would only move with a firm offer of work, either from an agency or directly from a company.
For now, more people are planning to move this year, rather than next, but as 2014 approaches, intentions may change.
That is one reason why it is hard to predict precise numbers from the research - the other is that the sample sizes, especially for concrete preparations, are very small.
The survey was complex. It had a long series of questions, ending up with concrete preparations, to try to filter out aspiration, and only capture those who are making real plans.
Read Sanchia's full analysis
A significant number said they would like to work in the UK, but the number making concrete plans was much smaller.
Romania and Bulgaria are among the poorest countries in Europe and when they joined the European Union in 2007 work restrictions were imposed amid fears about mass migration.
These measures will be dropped on 1 January 2014 giving Bulgarians and Romanians the same rights to work across the union as other EU citizens.
Some in the UK have voiced fears that ending restrictions will trigger a huge influx of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants seeking work as happened when in 2004 the UK allowed people from European Union accession states including Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to work freely.
BBC Newsnight wanted to find out what impact these changes were likely to have, particularly on the numbers intending to come to Britain.
In February 2013 the programme commissioned a test poll, asking independent survey company Vitosha to question 1,000 people across Bulgaria.
People were asked if they intended to come to the UK to work. Over a quarter answered yes.
Analysts say the relatively high figure is unsurprising - times are tough in Bulgaria and many Bulgarians dream of a better life. In some surveys as many as 50% of Bulgarians have said they would like to work abroad, but over the past decade only about 6% have actually left.
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BBC Newsnight then asked Vitosha in Bulgaria and Gallup Romania to design a questionnaire which would distinguish between aspiration and real concrete plans.
In March 2013 each of the agencies interviewed face to face more than 1,000 people representative of the country as a whole, in villages, in cities, in all regions of Romania and Bulgaria.
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People were asked a range of questions about their current situation and whether they had any intentions to move elsewhere in the EU.
When asked whether in the past five years they had considered moving to live and work in another EU member state, 33% of the 1,101 Romanians polled said yes, 67% said no. Of the 1,014 people questioned in Bulgaria - 37% said yes, 63% said no.
When all of those polled were asked to pick their first choice of EU country to move to in either 2013 or 2014, 4.6% of Romanians and 9.3% of Bulgarians chose the UK. These numbers rose to 8.2% for Romanians and 13.6% for Bulgarians when they were asked directly about whether they would consider the UK as a destination.
In the past people from Romania and Bulgaria who have worked in other EU countries have usually opted for places they can reach by car or where the culture and language are closer to their own.
That was still the case among the 197 Romanians who said they were intending to work in another EU country in 2013 - 30% of them said they wanted to go to Italy, 24% to Germany, and 16% to the UK.
However, the Newsnight survey suggested that the UK is becoming a more attractive destination.
When it came to Romanians intending to work in another EU country in 2014, a much smaller group of 73 people, the percentages changed - 25% wanted to go to Italy, 18% to Germany, and 26% to the UK.
Of the 242 Bulgarians who said they intended to work elsewhere in the EU in 2013 - 30% said they wanted to go to Germany, 27% to the UK and 10% to Spain.
As for Bulgarians intending to work elsewhere in the EU in 2014, again a smaller group, 123 people, 31% wanted to go to Germany, 24% to the UK and 12% to Spain.
Some people said one country for 2013 and a different one for 2014 - so they appear twice.
To get a clearer idea of how many people might actually come to the UK, those who had said they were planning to head to the UK were then asked whether they had made any concrete plans to move.
These plans included searching for somewhere to live and to work.
The number of positive responses fell significantly, though more Bulgarians than Romanians were making concrete plans.
Just 1.2% of the Bulgarians and 0.4% of the Romanians said they had begun to look for accommodation.
The numbers were similarly small for those who had started looking for a job - 2.8% of the Bulgarians had started to look for a job with a recruitment agency and 0.3% of the Romanians.
And 1.4% of the Bulgarians and 0.7% of the Romanians had begun to look for work without the aid of a recruitment agency.
With such small numbers analysts say you cannot safely estimate real numbers of how many will come.
"I think if you're looking at who's making concrete plans, say who's spoken for instance to a recruitment consultancy or who has a firm job offer, I think yes the sample sizes there are a bit small to say specifically who are the numbers who are coming," Peter Flade, director of Gallup UK, told BBC Newsnight.
Many of the people who came to the UK from Poland and other eastern European countries did so without a job awaiting them. However, the results of the Newsnight surveys suggest that, for now at least, most Romanians and Bulgarians would only come to the UK with a firm offer of work.
Looking at Romania, of the 90 people who said they were planning to work in the UK, 65% would do so only with an offer from a recruitment agency, or directly from a company.
For the 138 Bulgarians answering this question, 60% said they would do so only with an offer from a recruitment agency, or directly from a company.
When looking at what kind of people are interested in moving to the UK, the Bulgarian survey suggested they tend to be younger and they are more likely to be unemployed than the average in the survey.
The Romanian survey suggested people interested in moving to the UK are more likely to have a university degree, more likely to be employed, and are likely to be more affluent than those looking to move elsewhere in the EU.
The surveys were conducted before UK Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech in March suggesting restricting entitlements for new immigrants.
However, Newsnight asked whether the UK government considering restricting state benefits to Romanians and Bulgarians would affect their desire to come to the UK.
Although the 90 Romanian respondents who were interested in working in the UK were more professional and better off than the average respondent in the survey, just under half said it would affect their decision to a great or very great extent.
In Bulgaria, most people interested in working in the UK said a benefits change would not affect their decision.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight Bulgaria's Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Assen Vassilev said he did not think there would be a mass exodus of Bulgarians when the changes came into effect.
"I think people who wanted to leave have already left. Gone somewhere, come back, gone somewhere else come back. And going back to the survey that shows that 60-70% of people want a firm job offer. They know that going to a place that looks nice in pictures is not going to make your life better."
NB: When looking at the detailed tables that accompany these polls, it is important to look not just at the percentages, but at the total number of respondents who answer each question. At times this number will comprise the entire sample, a large figure that has been designed to reflect the views of the entire population. However, at other times, the number of people responding to individual questions may be as low as 20 and certainly fewer than 100. The margin of error increases significantly as the number of people answering any question diminishes.


A man has suffered serious head injuries in an attack in Chippenham.

Wiltshire Police said the assault happened at 04:00 BST on Saturday in the car park on Bath Road in the town.
Two men, aged 20 and 19, were arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. The younger man was also held on suspicion of affray.
Police said they have no information about the victim's age or where he is from. He is being treated in hospital.
Det Con Justine Parsons, from Melksham CID, said: "There were a lot of people around at the time of this assault, and I would appeal for anyone who witnessed the incident, or the events leading up to it, to come forward and speak to us."


Scotland "could be an independent country" but would risk a hit to its public finances, the ex-governor of the Bank of England has said.

Lord King told BBC Newsnight that while questions had been raised over which currency an independent Scotland would use, he did not see "major problems".
But he said it could be a challenge to borrow on the international markets.
On Brexit, he said his "biggest worry" was "obsessed" politicians ignoring the trade deficit and NHS funding.
Theresa May has said it is not the time for a Scottish independence referendum.
But Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she remained "determined" to have an independence referendum on her timescale.
Lord King, who headed the Bank of England between 2003 and 2013, said there are plenty of small countries the same size as Scotland, and it "certainly" could be independent.
"It has... the people, it has a capital city, a history and culture, it could be an independent country. The question is, does it want to be given the consequences of it?" he said.
"And if the oil price remains low and if they lose the money which is transferred from the rest of the UK to Scotland, then they would have to make that up in their own budget, but that's a consequence of deciding to be financially independent, you end up paying for yourself.
"And it would be a challenge to borrow on the international market if Scotland decided to run a large budget deficit. I think that would be expensive, the interest rate would go up."
Ahead of the 2014 referendum, ratings agency Fitch warned that plans for an independent Scotland to continue use of the pound without shared fiscal and banking union with the UK could risk "high volatility and market turbulence".
Lord King said: "I myself don't think there are any major problems in terms of currency, that was the thing project fear focussed on last time, but there is an issue about public finances."
He also said he had concerns about a range of issues facing the UK in future.
"My biggest worry about economic policy in the next few years is that all the politicians seem obsessed with Brexit.
"And actually, the biggest problems we face now are not Brexit, it's about how we can reduce the trade deficit, how we're going to save enough as a nation to pay for our pensions... how we're going to save enough to pay for care for the elderly... how we are going to finance the NHS."
He added that if politicians only focused on Brexit over the next two or three years, "then those big questions will not receive the attention which they deserve".
On the implications for Northern Ireland's border with the Republic of Ireland post-Brexit, Lord King said it was in "everyone's interests to have an imaginative discussion about where we should go".
He said there may be a "way of shifting the tax and tariff border, from the land frontier to the sea frontier while not disturbing the political arrangements".
And he added: "There's no reason why the rate of corporation tax in Northern Ireland has to be the same as in the rest of the UK, once we have the freedom to do that."
You can watch Evan Davis's full interview with Lord Mervyn King here


Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock says his players do not realise "how good they can be" following impressive back-to-back wins at Leeds and Derby.

The Bluebirds were second from bottom when Warnock took charge in October.
But Tuesday's remarkable 4-3 win away at Derby lifted Cardiff up to 12th place in the Championship table, 13 points clear of the relegation zone and 13 points adrift of the top six.
"This is the same group of players," Warnock told BBC Wales Sport.
"I don't think they realise yet how good they can be.  It is amazing what you can do really - this is why I am in football so long, to get the best out of what you have is fantastic.
"We played against the teams who have spent millions and yet we compete with them. That is what its all about."
Warnock has said he will meet Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman to discuss his future after Saturday's home game against Rotherham.
The 68-year-old has previously stated he would like to challenge for promotion with the Bluebirds.
But asked about his upcoming talks with Dalman, the ex-Sheffield United and Crystal Palace boss preferred to focus on the fixture against his former side Rotherham.
"It'll probably be a horrible game on Saturday - it's all about trying to get the three points," said Warnock.
"It does not matter how we play on Saturday because they will not give anything. I have been there, they are a good group of lads. We have to get our minds on that.
"It's nice to get the points. Eight points and we are safe and we move on. We have gone to two difficult places in the last three days and we have stood up and been counted."


Arrangements for a publishing and literature review in Wales have not been transparent, critics have claimed.

University of Wales Trinity Saint David vice chancellor Medwin Hughes was appointed by the Welsh Government to chair the review.
But it has been argued the work will not be done in a "balanced way" because two publishers come under the university's wing.
The Welsh Government described the criticism as "nonsense".
A university spokesman said there was a process in place to react to a conflict of interest.
The study will look at whether or not the Welsh Government's aims in supporting the industry were being achieved.
Jasmine Donahaye, associate professor at Swansea University, welcomed the review but said the process had been "problematic" because of Mr Hughes's connection with the University of Wales Press and Canolfan Peniarth.
She told BBC Cymru Fyw: "It reinforces the point there are matters going on behind closed doors and in the wake of the proposed government cuts to the books council."
The Welsh Government said two meetings of the group had taken place before the announcement about establishing the review two weeks ago.
A University of Wales spokesman said: "[Medwin Hughes] noted that all the members were aware of the importance of transparency and a process was in place to react to a conflict of interest."
A Welsh Government spokesman said it was "nonsense to suggest that the arrangements for this review have not been transparent", adding members signed terms binding them to openness and honesty.


Adam Mekki's late goal saw Tranmere beat 10-man Lincoln and move in to the final National League play-off spot.

Imps defender Bradley Wood was shown a straight red card for blocking Jeff Hughes' goal-bound shot in the area, and striker James Norwood slotted the subsequent penalty to put Rovers ahead.
George Maris' header then drew Lincoln level soon after, only for Jake Kirby's hooked shot to restore Tranmere's lead.
Robbie McDaid headed a second equaliser before Mekki's deflected strike won it.
Tranmere are now fifth in the table, two points behind Braintree in fourth, while Lincoln remain in 10th.


Top-flight rugby union could begin at Coventry's Ricoh Arena as early as December, following Wasps' deal to buy the city council's stake in the stadium.

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BBC Midlands Today's Kevin Reide reports that fans of both Wasps and Coventry City Football Club have been angered by the move.


The death toll from Tropical Storm Nicole in Jamaica has risen to five following flash floods and mudslides triggered by the storm, officials say.

At least seven others are missing, swept away by floodwaters, Jamaica's disaster management office said.
The latest victims include two men who died when a house in Kingston collapsed in a slide triggered by heavy rain on saturated ground.
Nicole broke apart over the Atlantic late on Wednesday afternoon.
Washed away
But intermittent rains increased the risk of additional landslides across the island.
Emergency workers were trying to locate at least seven missing people, most of whom were believed to have been washed away in slides that roared through Kingston shanty towns.
Schools and universities stayed closed for a second day, while about 30% of those served by Jamaica's utility company were without power, officials said.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who surveyed the damage by helicopter on Wednesday, said the recovery would "cost a significant amount of money".
Nicole is the latest storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. The storm's remnants have now begun moving up the east coast of America.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said there was a fair chance the weather system could develop into a tropical depression in the next couple of days, raising the possibility of coastal flooding.


Brazil has become the first side to seal their place at the World Cup finals in Russia next year.

A 3-0 win over Paraguay, along with defeats for Argentina and Uruguay, means the team cannot finish lower than fourth in South American qualifying.
Liverpool forward Philippe Coutinho, Barcelona striker Neymar and Real Madrid's Marcelo scored Brazil's goals.
It is Brazil's eighth straight win under coach Tite.
Thirty more teams will join Brazil, and hosts Russia, at next summer's World Cup.


Jockey coach Michael Tebbutt has apologised after giving a BBC interview in which he said women "can't ride".

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The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) said Tebbutt's remarks, made to jockey Katie Walsh, were unacceptable.
Walsh believed the comments were tongue in cheek but fellow rider Lizzie Kelly said Tebbutt should be "ashamed".
Tebbutt said: "I apologise if I have caused any offence, to anyone in Britain or across the world. That was never my intention."
He added: "My comments were misjudged.
"I spend a lot of my time coaching young jockeys - both male and female - and, while many of them have different strengths and weaknesses, I always treat them all as equals, exactly as they should be."
Walsh was commissioned by BBC Sport to look at equality in racing for Women's Sport Week.
She asked Tebbutt, a coach at the British Racing School in Newmarket, what the main difference was between a male and female jockey.
Tebbutt replied: "They go through the exact same training programme, with females knowing they have to put more in, so they will go the extra yard, knowing they have to catch the male up."
Walsh responded: "That's women for you."
Tebbutt fires back: "Still can't ride though."
It intends to speak to Tebbutt about his conduct, insisting his views "are not views that anyone involved in racing would endorse or share".
It added: "Racing is a unique sport, in that women and men compete on entirely equal terms as jockeys and trainers, and female riders have the full respect of their male counterparts in the weighing room."
The winner of the Irish Grand National in April on Thunder And Roses, she genuinely believes Tebbutt's comments were been made in jest and felt he was "trying to get me going".
She added: "I don't dispute the fact that male jockeys are stronger, but I was trying to say to him that it is not just strength which comes into play in a race. He didn't execute what he was trying to say very well."
Jockey Martin Lane defended Tebbutt on Twitter, pointing out that he had successfully coached several female jockeys.
But Kelly, who won the Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton on Tea For Two in January, said: "Michael Tebbutt; be ashamed of yourself - a jockey coach whose opinion is 'girls still can't ride'. He actually said that."
Camilla Henderson, the daughter of leading jumps trainer Nicky and a prominent point-to-point rider, tweeted: "Amazed those high up have these views! Says a lot."
Sally Rowley-Williams, chair of the Women in Racing group, said her organisation would contact the BHA to ask for "clarification on their diversity and equality policies".
Almost a third of apprentice jockeys were women in 2014, according to BHA statistics.
Current leading riders include Walsh, Hayley Turner, who has won two Group One races on the flat, and Nina Carberry, who has been successful at the Cheltenham Festival
In 2012, Turner became only the second female jockey to ride in the Derby when she partnered Cavaliero.


The penalty for using a mobile phone while driving could be doubled from the current three points, the transport secretary has suggested.

Patrick McLoughlin's suggestion comes after Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe called for offenders to get six points on their licence.
The increased sanctions would mean a driver could get banned if they got caught twice in three years.
A government spokesman said it was "considering a number of options".
It has been illegal to use a mobile phone while driving since December 2003.
As it stands offenders get three points on their licence and an initial £100 fine, which could increase to a £1,000 fine should the case go to court.
Mr McLoughlin's suggestion was made during a lunchtime briefing with journalists on Tuesday.
The Daily Mail reported that he said: "We've got to change this. I want to alert people to what they are doing.
"The person who is using their phone doesn't realise the damage or the danger that they could be in, so it ends up ruining different people's lives."
Figures released by the Department for Transport show that in 2012 there were 17 fatal accidents involving mobile phones and a further 67 "serious accidents".
Home Office figures show that in 2012 in England and Wales more than 92,500 fixed penalty notices were issued for using a handheld mobile phone while driving, which is a fall of 32% on 2011 when more than 123,000 notices were issued.
Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive of road safety charity Brake, said she would welcome the proposal should it ever become legislation.
She said: "We hope the government will implement it. Brake has long campaigned for tougher penalties for mobile phone use at the wheel because of the suffering we see the bereaved and injured victims of road crashes put through as the result of such a senseless and unnecessary risk."
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "Using a mobile phone while driving is extremely dangerous which is why we are considering a number of options to deter drivers."
In August 2013 the department increased the initial fine drivers received for getting caught using their phone from £60 to £100.
Shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh said: "Sadly under this government we have seen the first increase in motorway deaths in nearly a decade.
"Using your phone while driving is illegal and Labour will be pressing the government to take firm action to prevent these avoidable deaths."
Last week research by the motoring group the RAC suggested that a fifth of motorists did not know it was illegal to check social media websites on a phone while driving.


Greece has agreed a bailout deal "in principle" with its creditors, the European Commission has said.

The Commission said a technical agreement had been reached with Greece, which now requires political approval.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has asked parliament to convene so that MPs can debate the details on Wednesday before a vote on Thursday.
A deal on a new €85bn (£60bn) three-year agreement is needed to keep Greece in the eurozone and avert bankruptcy.
Earlier, Greece's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos had said "two or three small issues," were yet to be resolved with lenders, following overnight talks in Athens.
The country needs a deal by 20 August, when it has a debt repayment of about €3bn to make to the European Central Bank.
A European Commission spokeswoman said a technical deal had been reached last night between parties including Greece, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Stability Mechanism.
She said a series of phone calls between political leaders would now take place.
A Greek official said earlier that Greece agreed the function of a new independent privatisation fund, and how non-performing bank loans will be administered.
"Finally, we have white smoke," the official said.
Deregulation of the natural gas market, another sticking point, was also agreed.
But Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb sounded a cautious note, saying more work needed to be done with the details to finalise the agreement.
The Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers is to meet on Friday to discuss approval of the deal, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said.
His centre-right People's Party, which has a majority in the Spanish parliament, will be asking other parties to vote in favour of the agreement, he added.
A Greek official said:
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July - Bailout deal at a glance
According to Greek reports, which EU officials did not confirm, the deal phases out early retirement and brings in a gradual increase of the pension age to 67 by 2022.
There will be a review of the Greek social welfare system with the aim of cutting expenditure, and the gas market will be deregulated by 2018.
Privatisation plans for ports at Piraeus and Thessaloniki will go ahead, there will be an opening up of professions, and a tightening of the definition of who is a farmer.
In addition, the reports said there would be an increase in the tax on shipping.
Meanwhile, Mr Tsipras said he wanted a draft law on the bailout submitted to parliament later on Tuesday, so that MPs can debate the issues on Wednesday and vote on Thursday.
He said in a letter to MPs: "The crucial nature of the situation requires the immediate convening of parliament to proceed with the deal's approval and allow the disbursement of the first instalment [of money]."
The really hard negotiations start soon - on how to reduce Greece's massive debts, set to peak at close to 200% of GDP or national income in the next two years (according to the IMF) to an affordable level.
Without debt write-offs, prosperity will never return to Greece, and its future in the euro will never be assured.
With debt write-offs, populist parties throughout the eurozone will be able to claim to voters that they have nothing to fear and everything to gain from throwing out the mainstream establishment parties and re-asserting national sovereign rights to economic self-determination.
Or to put it another way, euro politics and euro economics of Greek debt forgiveness point in diametrically opposed directions.
Which is why no-one should see today's important bailout agreement for Greece as a permanent happy ending.
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India's national carrier Air India is set to ground 125 "overweight" cabin crew members.

An Air India official told the BBC that the order had been made on the basis of a document issued by the civil aviation authority last year.
The airline had warned 600 of its crew to "shape up" last year, but 125 had not managed to maintain the required weight, the official said.
The airline says however that the issue is not one of weight, but "fitness".
Airline officials confirmed to the BBC that the directive had been issued, but said it was part of an internal document which they could not comment on publicly.
They said the basis for the recommendation was concern that "unfit" cabin crew would not be able to operate efficiently in emergency situations.
Aviation regulations state that a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 18-25 is normal for a male cabin crew member, while for a female it is 18-22.
Aviation expert Kapil Kaul told the BBC: "An overweight crew is a signal the airline is not fit. You need a smart friendly agile crew that can complement the image of the airline."
However, national union leader Tapan Sen denied that service rules mention any firm weight restriction for cabin crew.
This is not the first time Air India has grounded staff over weight issues. In 2009, it dismissed nine hostesses for being "overweight" on safety grounds saying their shape could "impair agility".
In 2004, the airline landed itself in further controversy when it said that potential air hostesses and stewards should not have any scars, acne, or any major marks on the face.


The former partner of an X Factor contestant who attacked her and two other people has been jailed.

Sean Zeisz, 20, admitted repeatedly assaulting Chloe Baker - who reached the "six chair challenge" stage in last year's series - on 3 October.
He also pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to assaulting her friend Toni Schumacher and a taxi driver.
Zeisz, from Liverpool, was jailed for a total of 16 months, of which he has already spent four months on remand.
Prosecutor Frank Dillon said that Ms Baker and Zeisz had been in a volatile relationship for about two years but it had become on-off.
In the early hours of 3 October, she and her friend Toni Schumacher bumped into Zeisz, who had taken both alcohol and cocaine that night, in a Liverpool bar.
Miss Baker spoke to him "to keep things civil" and later left the bar with her friend, who rang for a taxi.
When the former X Factor contestant tried to get into the cab, Zeisz grabbed her around the waist and then by the head and hair, the court heard.
He threatened to "knife" the friends and punched Miss Schumacher when she tried to help her friend. He also grabbed hold of the taxi driver's lip and gums.
A car, apparently summoned by Zeisz, turned up and although Miss Baker shouted that she did want to go, she "reluctantly" got into it.
Zeisz then repeatedly punched her in the face and bit her hand, Mr Dillon said.
Judge Brian Cummings, QC, said: "There are very sinister and serious aspects in this case."
Zeisz denied kidnapping her and that charge was dropped.


Officials say 102 pilgrims have been killed in a stampede at a religious festival in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

At least 44 more have been injured in the crush, which was reportedly triggered by a road accident.
The pilgrims were returning from the Hindu shrine of Sabarimala, which is in a remote, mountainous, densely-forested area.
Kerala Governor R S Gavai has said he is "deeply shocked and saddened".
"We have recovered 102 bodies. The rescue work is almost over," local police official Sanjay Kumar told the Associated Press news agency.
The stampede happened at Pulmedu, near the town of Vandiperiyar in Idukki district, Indian media reported.
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had gathered at the hill shrine on Friday, the last day of an annual festival.
The festival runs for two months and attracts millions of visitors every year.
Reports differed as to exactly how the deadly crush was triggered.
The Indian PTI news agency said a jeep carrying pilgrims had driven into a crowd returning from the shrine, starting a panic.
However, the Times of India reported that the incident happened when the jeep broke down and overturned as pilgrims tried to move it.
It crushed a number of people and caused others to stumble, which then triggered the stampede, the report said.
Correspondents say deadly stampedes are not unusual at Indian temples, where huge crowds gather in small areas with few safety measures or crowd controls.
A similar tragedy happened at Sabaramila in 1999, when more than 50 people died in a stampede after a landslide on a crowded hillside.


The Cardiff Half Marathon is to be televised by BBC Wales for the first time with live coverage and highlights.

An estimated 21,000 runners are expected to take part in the race on Sunday 4 October.
Geoff Williams, BBC Wales Head of Sport, said: "BBC Wales is delighted to be televising the Cardiff Half Marathon for the first time. It promises to be an unmissable day."
BBC Radio Wales will also provide live commentary of the elite race.
Presenter Jason Mohammad's radio programme has already started following a handful of entrants as they prepare for the race.
He will present the TV coverage with Lowri Morgan and Dot Davies reporting from around the course on BBC Two Wales between 08:30-11:15 BST, with highlights from 18:00 BST.
BBC Radio Cymru will also be broadcasting live from the race.


Preston North End have signed Sheffield Wednesday full-back Marnick Vermijl on a season-long loan deal.

The 23-year-old Belgian joined the Owls from Manchester United in January and made 11 league appearances last season.
He could make his debut in Sunday's Championship opener with Middlesbrough.
Boss Simon Grayson told the club website: "He had a fantastic upbringing at Manchester United, learning and developing from the best in players and staff in the world."
"He can play as an orthodox right-back and as a wing-back," Grayson added.
"When you've been a Manchester United player you have got to be able to handle the ball; we want him to join in with play when needed to as well as defend."
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Veteran Scarlets prop Phil John makes his final home appearance for them off the bench against Glasgow in the Pro12.

Between the region and their club predecessors Llanelli, John, 34, has made 329 appearances.
He joined Llanelli in 1999 and graduated to the regional team when it was formed in 2003.
John was part of the Scarlets squad that won the Celtic League in 2004 and has been thanked by Scarlets in a statement.


The Six Nations is bigger than ever before, broadcast in 190 countries and streamed live in another 20.

Only four of the 75 matches over the last five years have been played in stadiums less than 90% full, with the average capacity now around 98%.
It is also more competitive and unpredictable. At least four countries have realistic ambitions of winning.
And as England and Wales gear up for the match, here are some of the most important stats you should know.
Five England players are making their Six Nations debuts: Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, George Ford, Dave Attwood and George Kruis.
Wales have a first choice 15 to call on.
No wonder the bookies are tipping the Welsh.
Last time out in Cardiff, Wales achieved a record 30-3 win.
By the end, 70,000 Welsh fans were chanting "easy, easy".
England have been using loudspeakers playing Welsh hymns during practice so they don't get intimidated again and have insisted the roof stays open.
This is being called the "biggest opening match" in Six Nations history by England's former World Cup-winning coach, Clive Woodward.
One team's Grand Slam hopes will be in tatters by 22:00 GMT and the next time the sides will meet will be in the World Cup group stage in September.
England's pack is 3st 2lb (20kg) heavier than the Welsh.
The combined pack weight comes in at 283st 7lb (1,800kg) - still only equivalent to an average female rhinoceros.
About 60,000 pints of lager are expected to be drunk by the crowd going to the match.
If Wales win, expect the city to run dry thereafter.
The average height of both teams is 6ft 3in (1.85m), the average weight is 18st 1lb (kg).
That's 6 inches (15.2cm) taller than the national average and five stone (32kg) heavier.
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Watford have confirmed the permanent signings of seven players from sister club Udinese, including Italy international Diego Fabbrini.

Forward Fabbrini, 22, has signed a deal until 2017, while defender Gabriele Angella has agreed a five-year deal.
Last year's loanee midfielders Almen Abdi and Cristian Battocchio have returned on three-year contracts.
The club also expects deals for Marco Cassetti, Davide Faraoni and Javier Acuna to be confirmed.
On top of those seven Daniel Pudil will join from Granada following his loan spell last season.
The Hornets,  are waiting for ratification from the Football League for the latter four, but do not anticipate any problems.
Under the terms of the embargo, Watford can still sign players with prior permission from League officials.
Udinese have become a source of players for Watford as both clubs are owned by the Pozzo family, with 10 players making a loan switch between Stadio Friuli and Vicarage Road last season.
Swedish defender Joel Ekstrand and Scotland-born midfielder Ikechi Anya, who were two of those loanees last season, are training with the squad and are also expected to join.
Fabbrini has scored twice in 21 Serie A games for Udinese and netted once in eight during a loan spell at Palermo last season.
His one and only senior Italy appearance came as a substitute in
Angella is a 24-year-old Italian defender who scored four times in 14 Serie A appearances last season.
Abdi, 26, and Battocchio, 21, will be familiar to Hornets fans after playing 60 games between them last season to help Watford reach the Championship play-off final.
Paraguayan striker Acuna, 25, has agreed a deal until 2016, having joined Udinese from Real Madrid B earlier this summer.
The 21-year-old Faraoni is a former Inter defender who played 11 times for Udinese in Serie A last season and has signed terms until 2018.
Meanwhile, Czech full-back Pudil, 27, and defender Cassetti, 36, who were influential for Gianfranco Zola's side last season, have signed until 2017 and 2014 respectively.


Files from the National Archives reveal that the British government supported the release of the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess as early as 1956.

Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's deputy and, for a while, one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany. He is mainly remembered for flying to Britain in 1941 in a bizarre and unsuccessful solo peace mission, which resulted in his arrest and imprisonment for the rest of World War Two.
After the war Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment and spent the rest of his days in Berlin's Spandau Prison. For much of his time he was its only inmate.
But Foreign Office files released on Thursday show that the British supported Hess's release more than three decades before his suicide in 1987.
Hess was sentenced at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 by the so-called Four Powers - the UK, the US, France and Russia - and support for his release was needed by all of them before any change could be made. By 1966, the six other prisoners held in Spandau - including Hitler's architect, Albert Speer - had been freed or had died.
Hess, by this time 72, was to remain Spandau's solitary prisoner for the rest of his life. While healthy for his age, Hess was inevitably frail. His son organised a campaign for his release, receiving considerable press coverage in West Germany. There was also growing support for this in the UK.
The files show the British government stepped up its efforts to have him freed. In 1979, just after becoming Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington wrote a particularly strong note to his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko. "It would be both inhumane and pointless," he said, "to insist that this old man should die in prison."
In all, the British made 11 unilateral appeals for Hess to be freed. The Americans and French supported them in a further nine. The Soviets always refused to consider the case.
Nearly 40 years after the end of the war, Soviet politicians and diplomats argued that the release of such a leading figure in the Nazi regime would not be understood by the Soviet people, or by others who had suffered. One diplomat said he was not convinced by the so-called humanitarian argument - "The suffering which he and other Nazis had inflicted was not human," he said.
Tony Le Tissier was the last British governor of Spandau, holding the post in the decade leading up to Hess's death. There were also French, American and Russian governors - they took turns to run the prison, for a month at a time.
The rules of Spandau, drawn up after the Nuremberg trials, were harsh. Prisoners were only to be addressed by their number, never their name. Punishments were strict. When in 1955 Hess failed to greet a Soviet warder, he  lost all his reading materials for 10 days.
Prisoners could be put on bread and water, or placed in punishment cells. But Le Tissier says that by the time he arrived, the regime was far more relaxed. Although Hess was supposed to be called Number Seven, not everyone stuck to that - some officers did address him by name. He was not supposed to watch the television news - but that wasn't rigidly enforced either.
He could go into the garden when he chose, and he had two cooks to prepare any meal he wanted. "He ate an awful lot!" says Le Tissier. "Quite a surprising amount."
Le Tissier did chat to Hess but he says the prisoner never talked about his past: "It was a closed circle - never came into it." Neither did they ever talk about the news or politics.
While Le Tissier tried to make Hess's stay as comfortable as possible, organising new chairs for his room for instance and a new bed, he did not personally agree with the argument that he should have been freed. Le Tissier thinks Hess deserved to die in prison, for all that he had done.
"He got his just deserts," he says. "He was a fanatical Nazi - an enemy. I did feel very strongly that he was there till he finished."
In August 1987 Hess killed himself, wrapping a lamp cord round his neck. Some suggested he was helped but Le Tissier is convinced that Hess acted unaided. Security was extremely tight in Spandau, he says. There was only one key to the gate, and only the chief warder had it.
Le Tissier recalls his reaction: "It was a fait accompli - it was over." He thinks it was a good thing. "It was such a waste of time and money, involving so many people."


Glasgow City Council has promised to "revolutionise" the way the city is maintained with a new environmental task force.

Thirty "rapid response teams" will act on reports fed to a "state-of-the-art command centre" about issues like fly tipping, littering and dog fouling.
The council is setting up new Twitter and Facebook channels so the public can report problems directly.
A major recruitment drive for task force officers is also planned.
Council leader and chairman of the new task force Frank McAveety  said it was a service "fit for delivery in the digital age".
"Through Twitter and Facebook the public can directly communicate with us and identify what needs to be done across Glasgow," he said.
"I am determined to make this work. The environmental task force will deliver - the people of Glasgow deserve that."
The task force has divided the city into 21 wards, grouped into four cycles. A team will arrive in a ward each week and work on that area before starting the whole process again in a new ward the following week.
There will be specialist units that focus on graffiti removal, public health issues, noise and community payback among others, the authority said.
The task force will not be replacing the council's cleansing department, which empties 23 million bins a year.


A Swedish court has sentenced an Uzbek man to 18 years in prison for the 2012 attempted murder of a Muslim cleric who criticised the Uzbek government.

The imam, 54, was shot in the head in the stairwell of his home in Stromsund.
He was initially in a coma and is now suffering from brain damage.
The imam's family have accused the Uzbek government of orchestrating the crime, but the court ruled that it was clear that Yury Zhukovsky "acted on behalf of someone in Russia".
The court said that the evidence presented was not sufficient for it to say with certainty whether the Uzbek state was involved.
The February 2012 attack on the imam, Obid-kori Nazarov, sent shockwaves through Stromsund, a small town of just a few thousand inhabitants in sparsely populated northern Sweden.
The town is home to hundreds of Uzbek asylum seekers who have fled the repressive government in their home country, thousands of miles away.
Many are devout Muslims who fell foul of the authorities for practising their religion outside of government control.
Mr Nazarov fled Uzbekistan in 1998 after an arrest warrant for extremism was issued against him. He went into hiding in neighbouring Kazakhstan until the UN approved his refugee status eight years later, allowing him to go to Sweden in 2006. He has always denied being an extremist.
Judge Goran Ingebrand said on Tuesday that "everything indicated" that there was a connection between Zhukovsky and "someone in Russia".
He said the defendant had made and received at least 34 telephone calls and text messages to a number in Russia on the day Mr Nazarov was shot.
Zhukovsky was extradited to Sweden in August from Moscow where he had been detained under an international arrest warrant. He admitted tracking down Nazarov's location in Sweden but has denied carrying out the shooting.
The imam's son on Tuesday accused the Uzbek government of being behind the assassination attempt.
Human rights organisations have accused Uzbekistan of imprisoning thousands of Muslims whom it depicts as extremists seeking to overthrow the government and set up an Islamic state.
Mr Nazarov had a reputation for criticising his country's record in dealing with social and economic problems and human rights. Correspondents say that as such he was a prime target of the Uzbek security services.
In July 2012 a court in Sweden cleared a man and woman from Uzbekistan of aiding the assassination plot against Mr Nazarov, which correspondents have described as reminiscent of a Cold War undercover operation.
The court ordered Zhukovsky to be deported after serving his time. His lawyers say he may appeal against his conviction.


Hundreds of jobs are set to be lost after Texas Instruments (TI) announced a phased closure of its electronics plant in Greenock, Inverclyde.

The global semiconductor company said it planned to move production to "more cost-effective" sites in Germany, Japan and the US over the next three years.
It does not expect any job losses before late 2017.
The Scottish government said it would "work closely" with TI to help secure a long-term future for the Greenock site.
About 365 people currently work at the Greenock facility.
The jobs affected will be in manufacturing, engineering, support and management.
In a statement, TI said the decision had been taken with its global operations in mind.
The company stated: "Our employees have done everything they can to keep the site cost-competitive, and we strongly considered ways to improve the site's efficiency, such as upgrading or expanding the facility.
"However, even with a considerable investment, TI's factory in Greenock would be far less efficient than our other larger, more efficient fabs (fabrication plants), which have open capacity available to absorb what's produced in Greenock.
"As part of this process, we are attempting to sell and transfer the facility as an on-going manufacturing operation (manufacturing related jobs, equipment, land and building).
"We have contracted with Atreg, a company that specializes in selling manufacturing properties, to help us with this.
"We are just at the proposal stage, and ending manufacturing operations is a lengthy process.
"If the plant closes, we expect it to take our Greenock employees as long as three years to transfer production to our other sites in Freising, Germany, Aizu, Japan and S. Portland Maine.
"We do not anticipate any job losses associated with the factory to happen any sooner than late 2017.
TI Scotland site manager Gerry McCarthy added: "Decisions like this are never easy, and we don't make them lightly.
"While the rationale for moving production out of our Greenock fab makes good business sense, we understand the impact it could have on our employees and the community.
"This is certainly not a reflection of the performance or commitment of our people but due to the efficiency of the site itself.
"We recognize this is difficult news, and our focus right now is on our employees and to ensure they have all of the information they need as we move forward."
Scotland's Business Minister Fergus Ewing said he was "disappointed" at the news.
He said: "This is a blow to the local community and will be a very anxious time for employees and their families.
"The Scottish government has been in touch with Texas Instruments and we will continue to work closely with the company to do all we can to secure a long-term future for the 365 jobs and manufacturing at the site.
"In addition, Scottish Enterprise is seeking an urgent meeting with local management.
"Should any redundancies proceed, the Scottish government's PACE initiative stands ready to support any affected employees.
"Through providing skills development and employability support, PACE aims to minimise the time that individuals affected by redundancy are out of work."
Inverclyde Council leader Stephen McCabe described the move as "a stunning blow" to the Scottish economy.
He said: "This announcement requires a significant response from local and national agencies.
"I am announcing the setting up of a dedicated task force and will be extending an invitation today to the Scottish government, their national agencies, local councillors in the area, our regional and constituency MSPs and our MP.
"It is time to once again stand shoulder to shoulder, as we did over the highly-successful Fergusons task force, and secure a future for this skilled workforce.
"We must also work together to ensure that national resource makes its way to Greenock to achieve that endeavour.
"I will also be seeking an urgent meeting with top level management at Texas Instruments."


Investment firm Alliance Trust is to cut costs by £6m while restructuring its board to become fully independent.

The Dundee-based company said shareholders had wanted changes to be made to improve performance.
Chief financial officer Alan Trotter is to leave Alliance Trust, while chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox is to step down from the board.
The financial services company's share price rose when trading opened following the announcement.
Alliance Trust had been facing demands for a change in governance from US-based activist investor Elliott Advisers.
The firm aims to simplify its structures and reduce costs by £6m per year by the end of 2016, although details of staff cuts or other efficiency measures have not been announced.
Ms Garrett-Cox leaving the board means it now consists solely of non-executive directors, making it fully independent.
In a letter to shareholders, chairman Karin Forseke said the changes would take effect "as soon as practicable", and no later than March 2016.
She said: "The actions we have announced represent some of the biggest changes in our history, and are designed to further improve shareholder value.
"Implementation will require considerable further work by the team, but we believe that as a result Alliance Trust will be significantly better positioned for the future."
Managers at Alliance Trust, the venerable Dundee finance house, have been under siege for years. Having had to sue for peace earlier this year, the terms are now clearer, and they mean a radical change of direction.
A cut in costs of 20% will feel painful at the Tayside headquarters. Non-core assets are being sold,  and new benchmarks are being set, with regular overviews to check how management of the fund performs against the market.
They've been ahead of their benchmark since last year, but if they don't perform adequately in future, the board members brought on by activist investors will re-consider the decision not to contract out fund management to another company.
The scale of the change to the Trust's strategy, and the clipping of senior executives' influence, by removing them from the board, is such that you might expect the resignations of chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox and/or chairwoman Karin Forseke.
However, this follows consultation with the full range of shareholders, and the long-term smaller ones may see the current bosses as their best protection against short-term profit-taking. With lead activist investor Elliot Advisers upping its stake recently, this is an uneasy-looking settlement.


Security services have prevented 13 potential terror attacks since June 2013, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer has revealed.

Assistant commissioner Mark Rowley also said there were 500 live counter-terror investigations at any time.
He disclosed the figures as he launched an appeal, Action Counters Terrorism, for the public to report suspicions.
Information from the public has helped police in a third of the most high-risk investigations, figures show.
It has also contributed to stopping some of the 13 attacks - a figure one higher than the last update, given in October.
Describing the public's contribution as "extraordinary", Mr Rowley said: "Some of that information is a change in someone's behaviour, some of that's about suspicious activity.
"Sometimes that public information has actually started an investigation.
"Other times it's part way through and it corroborates some things or adds to things we already know."
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Investigators have been making arrests at a rate of close to one a day since 2014.
The official threat level for international terrorism has stood at severe - meaning an attack is "highly likely" - for more than two years.
Much of the threat is posed by so-called Islamic State, but senior detectives said al-Qaeda remained a danger, as did far-right terrorism.
Mr Rowley said police faced a range of threats and challenges, including encrypted communication methods, propaganda and various possible attack methods.
"Now we worry about everything from fairly simple attacks with knives or using vehicles all the way through to the more complex firearms attacks," he said.
"All of that means that our job remains difficult."
In the year to March, the anti-terrorist hotline received more than twice the number of calls compared with the previous 12 months, with 22,000 people making contact.
A poll of more than 2,000 adults found that most respondents believed it was important for communities to work with police to defeat terrorism.
However, a quarter of those surveyed said they might not report their suspicions because of fears over wasting police time and almost two in five were unsure about what suspicious behaviour might look like.
As part of the Action Counters Terrorism campaign, a podcast has been produced revealing previously untold stories of how terrorist attacks on UK soil were prevented, featuring accounts from detectives, bomb disposal and surveillance officers.
Mr Rowley said the aim of releasing new material was to give an insight into how terrorists might prepare and provide more confidence for the public to report any suspicions.
Calling on people to report their suspicions, he added: "If it turns out to be a call where you made it with good intent but actually there was no problem at the end of it, that's fine.
"We'd rather have many calls like that, rather than miss out on the critical one that helps us stop an attack."


A prison instructor who kissed and exchanged love letters with a convicted murderer has been jailed for misconduct in a public office.

Sian Doherty, 24, met Michael Dobson through her job at HMP Gartree, near Market Harborough, in September 2015.
Leicester Crown Court heard Dobson had sent her messages with "crude references", while she called him "darling" in phone calls and bought a new phone to avoid detection.
Doherty was given a six-month sentence.
The National Offender Management Service instructor was caught following "growing concerns" that Dobson was having a relationship with a member of staff.
Dobson, who is serving at least 16 years for murder, exchanged messages with Doherty - who was using the alias Holly Smith - including one which said: "You make me feel alive baby."
Prosecutor Caroline Lody said the inmate had told Doherty: "I'm serious about us", to which she replied: "You better bloody be."
In another message, Dobson told her: "I can't wait to get a visit from you so we can kiss for the two hours", followed by a "crude reference" which Miss Lody did not wish to read in open court.
In mitigation, Michael Garvey told the court the "mischief happened because discipline had broken down in the prison system".
Doherty, who had worked at the category B prison for six months before the relationship with Dobson began, had "allowed herself to fail in her duty", he added.
During sentencing, Judge Nicholas Dean told her: "It does seem to me, on the face of it, there was reluctance (to get involved with Dobson) partly because of the risks if detected, partly because you knew that you were being manipulated yourself.
"This is public service of the most serious nature. The trust you held was very significant."


Sutton have signed striker Matt Tubbs from National League rivals Forest Green Rovers on a permanent deal.

Tubbs joined Rovers from Portsmouth on a one-year deal in July, making nine league appearances before joining Woking on loan in September.
The 32-year-old scored three goals in six games for the Cards, before playing two more games for Forest Green.
"This is a superb signing for the club. Matt has a proven record at this level," Sutton boss Paul Doswell said.


A smartphone app to keep people in Cardiff safe in the event of a "major incident" has been launched ahead of the Champions League Finals.

The Evac app will provide visitors and residents with information in the event of a fire, flood or terrorist attack.
It has been launched ahead of the UEFA Champions League Finals which will see up to 170,000 football fans travel to the capital.
Cardiff council said the app was potentially a "life-saver".
The app provides push notifications to inform people of major incidents in the city, and if necessary, directs them to the nearest evacuation point.
There are also links to first aid videos and advice on what to do in the event of an attack.
Emergency Management Officer, Gwilym Owen, said: "It's highly unlikely that any of us will ever be caught up in a major incident, but if the worst happens, being informed and prepared can significantly reduce the risk of harm to people and property."
The app was developed over the last six months by Cardiff council in partnership with emergency services, health and transport bodies and counter terrorism teams.


Skyfall, the new Bond theme sung by Adele, has topped the iTunes chart after being released online in the early hours of Friday morning.

It was number one within 10 hours of being released, overtaking last week's official UK number one Gangnam Style.
The full single was released at 00:07 BST, after a 90 second clip was apparently leaked online this week.
The 23rd Bond film, Skyfall - Daniel Craig's third outing as 007 - is released in UK cinemas on 26 October.
Adele ended months of speculation over her involvement on Monday, when she posted a picture on Twitter, featuring the cover page of the sheet music for the Skyfall theme, bearing her name alongside that of longtime producer and co-writer Paul Epworth.
Epworth told BBC 6 Music that the "dark and moody" theme was intended to echo the narrative of the film.
"The [Bond theme] songs seem to fall into groups, in terms of subject matter," said Epworth. "Some of them have a romanticism to them, and some of them are very much about the narrative of the film.
"We went very much with the narrative of the film. We talk a lot about Bond's relationship to the country... and to MI6.
"There's a little bit of that in the lyrics, and I guess we were trying to find a way to almost make that romantic, you know?
"I think you will need to see the film and see where the song happens in the context of the film.... and it will all make sense."
Skyfall was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, and features a 77-piece orchestra.
Adele broke her silence on the track in an official message on the James Bond website on Monday: "When we recorded the strings, it was one of the proudest moments of my life.
"I'll be back-combing my hair when I'm 60, telling people I was a Bond girl back in the day, I'm sure!"
The singer admitted she was a "little hesitant" about accepting the challenge because of the "instant spotlight and pressure" that came with a Bond song.
But, she said it ended up being a "no-brainer" after she fell in love with the script.
Although it is an entirely original composition, Epworth said they worked hard to give it, "the James Bond feeling", and it was "definitely a conscious thing" to reference Monty Norman's famous four-note motif from the James Bond Theme after the first chorus.
And Monty Norman has given Skyfall his seal of approval, telling the BBC: "I think it's very good, it works for the film very well and I'm honoured that it gives a large nod towards my original."
Norman continued: "In a sense it's a pretty sensible thing to do, if you want to feel the 'James Bond quality' of the music.
"Whatever one thinks of the James Bond Theme, and most people seem to like it, that is the signature tune of the James Bond films so if you use that kind of quality as they've done, that's good."
Norman, who wrote the theme for the first Bond movie, Dr No, 50 years ago, said he thought the Bond franchise had made the right choice in Adele.
"I think Adele's terrific, a truly good singer - one of the best singer's that we've had for many years. She can only go from strength to strength," said Norman.
While Skyfall had topped the UK's iTunes chart within hours of its release, it has some strong competition in the official singles chart this weekend.
It has been a big week for new singles according to Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official Charts Company.
He said several tracks are looking to unseat last week's number one, global YouTube phenomenom Gangnam Style.
"Although it will only have two days' sales to contribute towards its official singles chart position this Sunday, Skyfall is likely to be chasing the tails of Rihanna's Diamonds and One Direction's Live While We're Young, both of them brand new singles," explained Talbot.
"Given her massive popularity, we wouldn't put it past Adele to add to her many chart records by registering the very first James Bond Official Number One Single, whether this Sunday or in future weeks," he added.
Duran Duran's A View To A Kill is still the highest-charting Bond theme. It went to number two in the UK Charts in 1985, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
The band's John Taylor gave the BBC his verdict on Adele's Skyfall.
He wrote: "Pure Bond DNA, an instant classic. Delivers everything I want to hear from a Bond theme."


Photos of the latest stages of the £242m Broadmoor Hospital redevelopment have gone on show for the first time.

The work to build 16 new wards at the high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire will end in 2017.
Visitors to two open days will be able to view images showing the progress of the build and find out about works scheduled for this summer.
The first event is at Meadows Shopping Centre in Sandhurst, with the second on Thursday at Crowthorne Library.
The open days are being used as a way to keep residents up to date on new developments and how the project is progressing.
Currently three new ward buildings are under construction.
Vivienne Mowatt, Broadmoor Hospital's deputy programme director, said: "We're well into our first year of construction, so passers-by can actually see the buildings beginning to take shape.
"The hospital also plays an important role in the local community, so it's essential that we continue to let people know what's going on and remind them just how much this redevelopment is needed."
The new hospital will provide accommodation for 210 patients. Current patients will remain on site throughout the redevelopment.
The trust previously said many "core aspects" of the site, such as its Grade I listed gatehouse, would remain.


Dave King says being forced to change managers will not alter Rangers' plan to catch and overtake Celtic "within the reasonably foreseeable future".

The club chairman has been in Scotland to meet new manager Pedro Caixinha.
"There is a level of understanding that this was a phased period that was going to happen over a couple of years," King told TalkSport.
"And I think, while this year we are behind where I thought we would be, our plan pretty much remains the same."
Rangers sit third in the Scottish Premiership in their first season since promotion, eight points behind Aberdeen and 33 adrift of Celtic as their Glasgow rivals close in on a sixth successive title.
Caixinha was appointed this month after the acrimonious departure of Mark Warburton, who has since taken over at Nottingham Forest.
"It was quite good to personally meet up with him and see that he lived up to the glowing report he received from the sub-committee that interviewed him," said King of the Portuguese.
In a wide-ranging interview, King also said there would be further investment in players, the club's dispute with retailer Sports Direct could be resolved this summer and they were considering court action in response to Warburton's departure.
"The resources available to Rangers are significantly above all other clubs by a factor of a couple of hundred per cent, other than Celtic," King pointed out.
While he was "realistic" enough to accept that Celtic would probably win a sixth title, "I expected Rangers to come midway between Celtic and Aberdeen if they came third, so it's very disappointing."
King believes recruiting Caixinha and further investing in the squad, which in part could be boosted by Europa League qualification and a better commercial agreement with retailer Sports Direct, will help Rangers catch their city rivals.
"While to some extent it is disappointing what has happened this season, we are certainly not letting the pressure of that change the long-term ambition, which is to get close and overtake Celtic within the reasonably foreseeable future and get back to being number one in Scotland," he said.
"And we are not going to do that by betting the bank on the way. We are still going to go ahead with a fairly methodical financial plan.
"Quite obviously, with the level of support the club have, with 50,000 supporters, with 44,000 season ticket sales, we already have that strong commercial base.
"What we are missing relative to Celtic is two key revenue streams - one where we had always been in Europe, we are now not in Europe, so at least that gap will start to be closed from next season when we'll at least be in the qualifiers.
"And the other important thing is Rangers had for a number of years the strongest retail operations in the UK and that has been completely lost with the present situation around the retail agreement."
Rangers have been in a dispute with Sports Direct that has led to a High Court action over a merchandise deal said to result in the Glasgow club receiving about seven pence of every pound spent.
The company owned by Mike Ashley, the Rangers shareholder and Newcastle United owner, says Rangers' board wrongly terminated a deal through which branded products, including kits, were sold, and want damages.
However, King is hoping for a compromise and said: "These discussions have continued, they are confidential, as they always have been, but I'm more optimistic than I was six months ago.
"We might get a resolution within a time frame that would allow us to have a proper kit launch ahead of next season."
Rangers are also in dispute with Warburton over events leading to his departure on 10 February, with the club saying he resigned and the Englishman disputing that claim.
Warburton and his management team took over at Forest on 14 March and King is considering pursuing compensation, having had to buy Caixinha out of his contract at Qatari club Al-Gharafa.
"If Mark and the guys wanted away, which I understand they did, it could have been done differently," said the Rangers chairman.
"My disappointment is that, if this was done the way you'd expect it to be done, I think we would, under normal circumstances, have expected some compensation if the management team left.
"When I was approached and asked if we would waive compensation, I said no we wouldn't - that's what contracts are for - but would be flexible on the payment terms.
"They have engineered, in my view, a relocation to Nottingham Forest."
Following Warburton's departure, Rangers decided they wanted to appoint a director of football as well as a team boss.
However, Southampton director of scouting and recruitment Ross Wilson rejected Rangers' offer, leaving the Ibrox still seeking a new director of football.
"I would imagine it will happen sooner rather than later, but it is not imminent," said King.
The appointment of a Scottish assistant, likely to be a former Rangers player, is closer to being chosen.
"My understanding is that he (Caixinha) has had a few interviews and he has another couple over the next few days.
"It is a decision that he's going to make and he is going to make alone. It is just based on who he feels comfortable with."
King took charge in March 2015 and says that he and other shareholders who backed him to become chairman will continue to put funds into the club.
Rangers International Football Club this week announced an operating profit of £300,000 for the first six months of the current financial year and said it was on its way to achieving "a sustainable business model" despite a pre-tax loss of £278,000.
"We are definitely going to invest more money in the club, including myself," added King. "That's a given and I think that will happen for another couple of years.
"We overinvested in Mark last year relative to what I thought and Pedro's got to come in and see what he feels he's got in that squad, and we'll have to give him the support accordingly.
"The interesting bit for us is over the next couple of months to see whether Pedro can get more out of the squad.
"Whether they can perform at a level that's probably more appropriate for the quality of players we do have at the club."


The European Union police agency Europol has issued an appeal to trace a man in connection with a fatal crash in Hertfordshire five years ago.

Ricky Burlton, 20, from Enfield, London, died after he was hit by a car on the A10 exit slip road at Hoddesdon on 4 June 2010.
Officers want to question Alexi Shyti, who is thought to have been living under an assumed name at the time.
Europol said Mr Shyti may now be living in southern Europe.
Mr Shyti, believed to have been driving a Rover involved in the crash, fled the UK the next day.
A Europol spokesman said: "The suspect is believed to have been in Albania, and may have travelled to Greece and Italy under different names."
He said anyone with any information should call Hertfordshire Police.


Former Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard has said he was "not convinced" by the government's plans to send fewer criminals to prison.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke revealed plans for a radical reformation of the prison service with a new emphasis on community sentences and rehabilitation.
He said locking people up for the sake of it was a waste of public funds.
But Mr Howard told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that serious and persistent criminals needed to be jailed.
Mr Clarke unveiled the new measures during his first major speech since taking office.
How prison policy has been shaped
Mr Clarke said prison had too often proved "a costly and ineffectual approach that fails to turn criminals into law-abiding citizens".
Speaking in London he said: "More than half of the crime in this country is committed by people who have been through the system. We must now take action and shut off this revolving door of crime and reoffending.
The plans will involve paying private firms and voluntary groups according to how many prisoners they rehabilitate.
Mr Clarke added: "We need a more constructive approach that tackles this head-on. An intelligent and transparent approach to sentencing that targets the causes of reoffending, so making our communities safer and better places to live.
"We describe it as a rehabilitation revolution."
Mr Howard, who was home secretary from 1993 to 1997, said he stood by his famous "prisons work" speech given to the 1993 Conservative Party conference.
PM programme interview
Stressing that he was expressing his personal opinion, he said: "I've read [Mr Clarke's] speech.
"I'm not convinced by it.
"I think in order to protect the public, serious and persistent criminals need to be put in prison.
"I think that is what conscientious judges and magistrates are doing at present and I think that is the best way of protecting the public."
David Cameron defended the plans during prime minister's questions and said: "If ever there was part of our public services that needed radical reform to make sure prison does work, then now that's it."
In May the prison population in England and Wales reached a record high of 85,201.
That is almost twice the figure in 1992, when Mr Clarke was last in charge of prisons as home secretary.
It was an increase he said he would have dismissed as "impossible and ridiculous" if someone had predicted it at the time.
Earlier Mr Clarke told the BBC a sentencing review based on punishment and protecting the public was needed.
By Daniel SandfordHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
"Prisons work!" Michael Howard declared in his Conservative Party conference speech in 1993.
From that moment, the prison population in England and Wales started to rise.
Labour, trying to out-tough the Tories on crime, did not stop the trend when they took office.
The increase was driven by a combination of tougher sentences handed out by judges under pressure from politicians, and more crimes involving violence and drugs.
Penal reformers pleaded that prison was not always the answer, but although ministers often agreed in private, nothing ever seemed to change.
It has taken a man who has run the prisons before to publicly question the wisdom of the policy.
Even so, Ken Clarke is not promising to cut the prison population, only to look at cost-effective ways of preventing reoffending.
He's not saying prison doesn't work. But he is saying it doesn't always work.
These reforms will hopefully pay for themselves by reducing the costs elsewhere within the criminal justice system, Mr Clarke added.
Tory backbencher Philip Davies said many Conservatives would feel "very disappointed" by the announcement as many supporters voted for the party on the basis that more people would be jailed rather than fewer.
Shadow home office minister David Hanson said Mr Clarke needed to back his ideas with a better prisons budget.
"Where Ken Clarke has a point is that there are people who go through the system who revolve through that door who have long-term drug, alcohol, employment problems - who need to be reformed to get back into society in a positive way," he said.
"But where I disagree with Mr Clarke is that it takes resources. And he is now planning to cut the resources to the justice department and to probation by 25% over the next four years."
Shadow justice secretary Jack Straw said the government was pursuing an ideology "that puts the offender above the victim" and was taking a "terrible risk with public safety".
The general secretary of the Prison Governors Association, Paddy Scriven, said jails had some "stunning successes" with inmates who spent more than six months behind bars.
"If we're left to concentrate on that and the shorter sentenced prisoners become the responsibility of a properly-funded probation service, then... we're cutting costs and looking after the public in the way that we should be," he said.
The Probation Chiefs Association said it supported Mr Clarke's plans and said the next step for the service should be a "flexible strategic framework free of overly bureaucratic control and interference".
Juliet Lyon, of the Prison Reform Trust, said the system needed change as it was not working.
"You only have to look at the reconviction rates for those short sentence people - over 60% reconvicted within a year of release - to realise that we've got very poor value for money," she said.
But author and former senior probation officer David Fraser said that the alternatives proposed were not new and the reconviction rates of people who were placed back in the community were worse than those who sent to prison.
He told the BBC the best deterrent would be a sentencing policy which ensured repeated offenders received a longer sentence every time they were convicted.
Reoffending rose by 8% for adults between 2006 and 2008, and nearly half of offenders sent to prison are reconvicted within a year.
Meanwhile, MSPs have passed proposals to vastly reduce the number of prison sentences of three months or less at the Scottish Parliament, despite opposition from Conservatives.
The measure, which will introduce a presumption against the shorter sentences by sheriffs, was voted through in the Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill by MSPs at Holyrood.


Planes at Beirut's airport could be in danger after birds began flocking to a nearby rubbish dump, Lebanon's transport minister said.

Yusef Fenianos said the country faced an "emergency" as the birds continued to arrive in the area.
On Tuesday, a Middle East Airlines flight encountered a large flock of birds as it landed on the airport's west runway, local media report.
Activists are calling for the dump to be closed before a plane crashes.
The Costa Brava dump was created in March 2016, part of a temporary solution to the city's rubbish problem, which had seen tonnes of garbage pile up on its streets during the hottest months of the year.
But a planned waste processing facility on the Costa Brava site is yet to be built, allowing rubbish to build up as high as nine metres, according to reports.
Environmentalists have for months warned the dump is attracting rodents and increasing numbers of birds, while in August, the Lebanese pilots' union warned of the possibility of the birds being sucked into airplane engines.
However, it appears to have taken until now for Mr Fenianos to go to Prime Minister Saad Hariri to urge action.
"Today we face an emergency... we recognise that there is a danger posed to civil aviation movement by the birds," Mr Fenianos said in a statement, adding: "Thank God, up until now, the flights have not encountered any real danger."
Mr Fenianos said he hoped an increase in devices emitting bird of prey calls around the airport would help solve the problem - a plan which was mocked by the activist movement "You Stink", launched to protest against government inaction at the height of the garbage crisis.
"The solution is not to scare the birds away," they said, calling for the dump to be closed.


A woman's body was found inside a lift in China a month after it was improperly switched off, a regional government statement said.

Her body was found in a residential building in the central city of Xi'an.
The lift had been turned off by two maintenance workers on 30 January. The body was found when other workers arrived on 1 March.
Police are treating the death as involuntary manslaughter. Several people have been arrested.
One local report said scratches were found inside the lift, one of two inside the building.
It is believed the woman was 43 years old and lived by herself in the building, the statement by Gaoling's government said. Her family did not visit her often, it said.
The workers had been called to fix a fault with the elevator and had shouted to see if anyone was inside.
Their failure to check properly amounted to "gross negligence", government officials said.
The work on the broken lift was delayed partly because of the new year holidays.


The public inquiry panel examining how the police handled the sectarian killing of Robert Hamill have completed their report.

Mr Hamill, a 25-year-old Catholic, was beaten to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown, County Armagh, in 1997.
The public inquiry's finding's will not be released until three prosecutions in connection with the case have concluded.
The government said the report had been placed in a secure location.
Last month, NI Secretary of State, Owen Paterson, announced the report delay.
The inquiry began its public hearings in January 2009 and held closing submissions in December 2009.
It heard evidence in person from 174 witnesses and witness statements from a further 37 witnesses.
Mr Hamill, a father-of-three, suffered serious head injuries and died 11 days after the attack.


The prison system in England and Wales is "in crisis", according to the Howard League for Penal Reform.

The charity claims the number of prison officers has been cut by 41% during the Government's time in office.
Howard League chief executive Frances Crook said: "These are desperate times and ministers are resorting to desperate measures."
But the Ministry of Justice disputed the figures, saying the reduction in officer numbers was actually 27%.
Analysis of official figures showed there were 14,170 officer-grade staff in state-run prisons at the end of June 2014 while there had been more than 24,000 at the end of August 2010, the charity said.
The cuts include 1,375 officer posts lost with the closure of 15 public-sector prisons.
A Ministry of Justice source said the Howard League was not comparing like with like and that the period had seen a fall in prison officers from 24,580 to 17,971.
Ms Crook said: "The prison system is in crisis, and these figures reveal why.
"While the prison population has grown, officer numbers have been cut without any thought for the consequences.
"A shortage of governors makes matters even worse, because officers are being taken off the wings and asked to 'act up' to fill vacancies.
"Having made prison officers redundant, the Ministry of Justice is now apparently struggling to recruit. These are desperate times, and ministers are resorting to desperate measures."
She said the only solution to the crisis was to have a "hard look at who we send to prison and why" and reduce the prison population.
Prison Governors Association president Eoin McLennan-Murray also warned last week that prisons were facing a "tipping point"  with staff who are "worn down, tired, over-worked".
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: "Ministers have caused this crisis by closing down too many prisons too fast and cutting staff while the number of prisoners has gone up.
"Less and less is being done to rehabilitate offenders - so unreformed prisoners will be released from jail risking public safety and creating more victims."
But Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said: "It's beyond me why the Howard League go out of their way to deliberately mislead the public on the state of our prisons.
"They are less overcrowded than they have been for a decade and they are well-run, due to the dedication of the hard-working staff in them. Consistently trying to claim otherwise helps no one."