Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and taken into custody over a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal.

The 65-year-old was driven to a detention centre south of Seoul after a court approved her arrest.
She is accused of allowing her close friend Choi Soon-sil to extort money from companies, including Samsung, in return for political favours.
Ms Park, who was removed from office earlier this month, denies the claims.
She is the third former president of South Korea to be arrested over criminal allegations, Yonhap reports.
The Seoul Central District Court earlier issued a warrant to detain Ms Park while she is investigated on charges of bribery, abuse of authority, coercion and leaking government secrets.
It followed a nearly nine-hour court hearing on Thursday that Ms Park attended.
"It is justifiable and necessary to arrest [Ms Park] as key charges were justified and there is risk of evidence being destroyed," the court said in a statement.
Live television footage showed a black sedan carrying her to the detention facility from the prosecutor's office where she had been waiting.
Despite the early hour, some 50 supporters, waving national flags and demanding her release, were at the gate to greet her, the AFP news agency reports.
Ms Park can be held for up to 20 days before being formally charged.
If convicted she could face more than 10 years in prison.
Ms Park lost her presidential immunity and was dismissed from her post when the constitutional court upheld a decision by parliament in December to impeach her.
Ms Choi is accused of using her presidential connections to pressure companies to give millions of dollars in donations to non-profit foundations she controlled.
Ms Park is alleged to have been personally involved in this, and to have given Ms Choi unacceptable levels of access to official documents.
Judges had said the former president had broken the law by allowing Ms Choi to meddle in state affairs, and had breached guidelines on official secrets by leaking numerous documents.
Ms Choi and Samsung's acting head Lee Jae-yong, also involved in the scandal, are being held in the same detention centre to where Ms Park has been sent. They are also being tried separately.
Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is loyal to Ms Park, is now the acting president and an election is to be held by 9 May.


Tyrone's smooth running game and greater accuracy helped them earn a deserved 1-17 to 0-15 win over Cavan in the Division Two Football League final.

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The sides exchanged some fine scores in a free-flowing first half before Tyrone moved 0-11 to 0-8 ahead by the break.
Fine work by the impressive Connor McAliskey and Mattie Donnelly set up Ronan O'Neill's 49th-minute goal which left Tyrone 1-13 to 0-10 ahead.
Donnelly was dismissed late on after a black card but Tyrone had done enough.
Cavan had looked capable of extending the Red Hands after clinching promotion to Division One following a run of five straight wins.
But while the Breffnimen started well, Tyrone's greater composure and accuracy soon started to wear down Terry Hyland's side.
Cathal McCarron produced a fine display as he marked Seanie Johnston out of the contest with the former Kildare player substituted shortly after half-time.
Man of the match Tiernan McCann and McAliskey were among several other Tyrone players to impress in a strong-running display.
Gearoid McKiernan battled manfully for Cavan and kicked a number of fine points but apart from Martin Reilly's first-half efforts, didn't receive enough support in the Breffni attack.
Both sides looked sharp early on as the lead was swapped on several occasions before points from McAliskey and McCann left Tyrone 0-5 to 0-3 ahead in the 15th minute.
Cavan were on terms within four minutes after points from Liam Buchanan and Michael Argue but Tyrone began to gain an edge during the remainder of the opening period as they outscored the Breffnimen 0-6 to 0-2.
Terry Hyland's side twice cut the margin to two points after the resumption but they then endured a damaging three minutes as Liam Buchanan's harsh black card was quickly followed by O'Neill's crucial goal.
Buchanan did upend Justin McMahon with a late challenge but his exclusion from the remainder of the contest looked highly debatable.
With Cavan looking somewhat disorganised after Buchanan's departure, a superb McAlister pass released Donnelly who in turn set up O'Neill to hammer past Raymond Galligan.
Cavan responded with three unanswered scores to leave a kick of the ball between the sides again by the 53rd minute but Tyrone quickly regained control and McAliskey was close to notching a second Red Hands goal as he volleyed over the crossbar, when a catch and kick probably represented a better option.
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Donnelly's dismissal after a black card followed his earlier yellow card came too late to change the outcome.
Sean Cavanagh's closing Tyrone point was probably the score of the day as Mickey Harte was able to take the opportunity to give several of his substitutes a late run.
However, a concern for Tyrone was an apparent leg injury picked up by McCarron in the closing stages which forced him to hobble off.
Dublin emphasised their continuing status as the best team in gaelic football as they clinched a fourth straight league title with a 2-18 to 0-13 win over Kerry.
The Dubs led only 0-10 to 0-8 after a tight first half and there was still only two points in it with nine minutes left before late goals from Paul Flynn and Eric Lowndes sealed victory for Jim Gavin's side.
After Aidan O'Mahony's 51st-minute dismissal following an incident which left Dublin's Jonny Coooper on the ground, Flynn hit the opening goal on 67 as he pounced on an attempted short kick-out by Kerry keeper Brendan Kealy.
Lowndes hammered in Dublin's second goal in injury-time after being set up by Bernard Brogan.
Dublin's win completed third 100% winning record in this year's league as they clinched a ninth successive victory.
Tyrone: M O'Neill, A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron, R Brennan (0-1), J McMahon T McCann (0-1), C Cavanagh, M Donnelly (0-2), N Sludden, M Bradley (0-1), P Harte (0-1), C McAliskey (0-5), S Cavanagh (0-3), R O'Neill (1-3). Subs: C Meyler for Sludden, B Tierney for McMahon, R Donnelly for Bradley, L Brennan for O'Neill, K McGeary for McAliskey, F Burns for McCarron.
Cavan: R Galligan; P Faulkner, K Clarke, J McLoughlin; C Brady, C Moynagh, K Brady; T Corr, L Buchanan; D McVeety, G McKiernan, M Reilly; D Givney, M Argue, S Johnston. Subs: N Murray for K Brady, E Keating (0-1) for Johnston, C Mackey for Buchanan (black card), R Dunne for Argue, F Flanagan for Brady, J Brady for Moynagh.


Floyd Mayweather further strengthened his claim to greatness with a one-sided defeat of Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas.

In doing so the 36-year-old American secured the WBC and WBA light-middleweight titles and stretched his unbeaten professional run to 45 fights.
He pockets upwards of $45m (£26.1m) for his efforts, a world record purse, and the fight is set to go down as the most lucrative pay-per-view show in history.
The judges scored the fight 114-114, 116-112, 117-111.
Mayweather was never threatened, making his Mexican foe look ordinary at times, and the announcement of CJ Ross's drawn card was met with stunned silence.
"It is about skills," said five-weight world champion Mayweather. "I came out and showed my skills.
"I just listened to my corner, listened to my dad [Floyd Sr, who is also his trainer]. My dad had a brilliant game-plan and I went out there and got the job done.''
"I didn't know how to get him - it's extremely simple,'' said Alvarez, who was previously unbeaten in 43 fights.
"We tried to catch him but he's a great fighter, very intelligent. There was no solution for him."
With tickets at the MGM Grand changing hands for a reported $30,000 (£18,900), many expected the 23-year-old champion would at least push Mayweather close.
However, such was Mayweather's defensive mastery that it never caught fire as a contest, with Alvarez spending much of the fight either hitting arms or swinging at fresh air.
The first round, which Mayweather won courtesy of little more than a couple of snappy jabs, was a sign of things to come, with the second panning out in much the same fashion.
When Alvarez tried to apply some educated pressure in the fourth, Mayweather made the most of the openings, getting through with some typically incisive combinations.
Alvarez turned to rough-house tactics in the sixth but, as Britain's Ricky Hatton learned when he was beaten by Mayweather in 2007, the American is equally adept on the inside.
Mayweather got through with a vicious uppercut in the seventh, by which time Alvarez looked for all the world like a beaten man.
The Mexican might have nicked rounds eight, nine and 10 as Mayweather took a breather but the American was back on his toes down the stretch, easily getting the better of the final two rounds.
Despite witnessing another Mayweather masterclass, Ross - who courted controversy by awarding Timothy Bradley a victory over Manny Pacquiao last year - somehow thought Alvarez had done enough to earn a draw.
But sanity prevailed, meaning the Mayweather gravy train rumbles on - he has four fights remaining on the reported $200m contract he signed with American network Showtime in February.
Mayweather has now made $73m (£46m) for two fights in 2013 - he easily beat fellow American Robert Guerrero in May - making him the highest-paid athlete in the world for the second successive year.
On the MGM Grand undercard, Danny Garcia, who knocked out Britain's Amir Khan in 2012, was awarded a split-decision victory over Argentina's Lucas Matthysse.
Big-hitting Matthysse was the favourite to take Garcia's WBC and WBA light-welterweight belts but was outboxed by his American opponent.
Former British light-welterweight champion Ashley Theophane was also beaten on a split decision in his first fight under Mayweather's promotional umbrella.
The 33-year-old Londoner put up a good show against experienced Mexican Pablo Cesar Cano but was ultimately outclassed.


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Norway has rejected a plan to give its neighbour Finland a mountain to mark the centenary of its independence.

A social media campaign had proposed giving Halti mountain summit to Finland for its 100th birthday next year.
The border between the two countries runs up the mountain near its peak.
But Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said that sadly she had had to turn down the idea because the country's constitution prohibited any sacrifice of Norwegian territory.
Part of Halti mountain is already in Finland - and forms its current highest point - but the peak is 20m (66ft) across the border inside Norwegian territory.
Campaigners had proposed moving the border to give the summit, at 1,330m (4,363 ft), to Finland, saying the change would be barely visible on the map.
They had argued that the peak "would be a wonderful gift to our sister nation" to mark its independence from Russia, and not a big loss to mountainous Norway, which has much higher peaks.
The campaign's Facebook page got 17,000 likes, with support from both sides of the border.
But it hit upon an insurmountable legal issue.
"Border adjustments between countries raise challenging legal problems, among them linked to the Norwegian constitution," Ms Solberg wrote to Svein Leiros, the mayor of the town of Kaafjord in northern Norway, who supported the campaign.
Norway's  1814 constitution stipulates that the country is "indivisible" - and apparently not even an area the size of a football pitch can be split off.
"We will instead consider another suitable gift to Finland on its anniversary," the prime minister added.


Michael Rutter produced a commanding performance to secure a start-to-finish win in Wednesday's Lightweight Supertwins race at the Isle of Man TT.

The 45-year-old led throughout the four laps to win by 8.8 seconds on his Paton, with Martin Jessopp second.
Rutter was clinching his fifth TT win, the Midlands rider having previously won three TT Zero races for electric bikes and one Supersport event.
Peter Hickman secured his fourth podium of the week by finishing third.
"The bike looks great and sounds great. It never missed a beat," said Rutter, whose winning time was 7.4 seconds faster than the previous record set by Ivan Lintin 12 months ago.
"I just kept everything tucked in. I didn't want to over-rev it so I just nursed it home."
Rutter pulled out a four-second advantage over nearest rival, Italian Stefano Bonetti, by the end of the opening lap, thanks to the fastest lap of the race at 120.36mph.
The British Championship rider's lead over Jessopp at the end of lap two was 10.5 seconds, Bonetti's chances of becoming the first Italian to win a TT race since Giacomo Agostini in 1972 having ended when he retired at Creg Ny Baa.
Hickman overhauled Lintin, winner for the last two years, to occupy third spot after the third circuit and was 40.5 seconds behind Jessopp by the time they took the chequered flag.
Having never previously secured a rostrum place, Hickman has now finished second in the Superbike and Superstock classes, as well as taking third positions in the Supersport and Supertwins.
Fourteen-times North West winner Rutter took his first TT win in the Supersports back in 1998 and added TT Zero successes in consecutive years from 2011 to 2013.
Rutter also won a Supertwins race at last month's North West 200 on board Ryan Farquhar's KMR Kawasaki.
Dan Cooper and former British Superbike champion Josh Brookes completed the top six, with Michael Dunlop in seventh.


More migrants are choosing to set sail for Spain from Morocco immediately to the east and west of the city of Tangier.

It has become known as the "Tangier Triangle". In the west, migrants mainly leave in the type of boat commonly seen on other European smuggling routes - small fishing boats and motorised rubber dinghies.
To the east of Tangier, migrants are crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in cheaper options: tiny, rubber paddle boats, with no motor and no need for smugglers and their fees.
Ben Khadair, from the Ivory Coast, said he put in €20 (£18; $23) to contribute to the €100 cost of a "toy boat" bought from a local shop. He and ten others spent 14 hours paddling in a boat designed for four, in a voyage he described as "suicidal".
He made it to a beach in Spain's southernmost city, Tarifa, but the majority don't make it to shore. Nor do they need to. Some aim only for Spanish waters, where they float and call for help.
This routine is now familiar. Some migrants are even using social media to alert the coastguard, dropping a Whatsapp location pin.
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Fewer migrants - those who can afford to - pay smugglers up to €4,000 to take them across by jet ski in just 35 minutes. The Spanish coastguard says it is almost impossible to prevent, and about four to five people are landing on the beaches this way every day.
So what are the reasons for the increase?
Authorities and aid workers say they do not know, but sense a number of things. One, that Morocco is a cheaper option than Libya for those using "toy boats", and one that bypasses the need for smugglers.
There is also a slight surge in the number of sub-Saharans travelling to Spain. Many migrants told me they had spent months researching the best routes, and via social media saw the Moroccan sea route had become more established, increasing the number willing to try.
EU coastguard staff at the border agency Frontex say that, from interviews they have held, another factor is the influence of some local Moroccan fishermen, who allegedly have become more willing to act as traffickers. It is apparently a quick way to make money - they allow migrants to disembark halfway across the Strait of Gibraltar, to make the rest of the journey in their smaller dinghies.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


A museum is opening an inflatable version of itself, so more children can experience a taste of history and the wonders of the world.

23 May 2016 Last updated at 08:04 BST
The blow-up version of Manchester Museum looks a bit like a bouncy castle and only takes a few minutes to inflate.
It is filled with artefacts from Ancient Egypt that children can see and touch.
Ricky's been to a school visited by the pop-up museum to see what kids there thought of it.


A Pembrokeshire island has had a new fire engine delivered by helicopter.

The 4x4 vehicle was airlifted three miles (4.8km) by a RAF Chinook helicopter on to Caldey island, home to 40 inhabitants including 18 monks who live at a monastery.
The red rural response pump was attached by metal hoists to the underside of the chopper, and dangled 70ft (21m) below.
The fire appliance will be manned by volunteers.
The monks themselves were once responsible for running the fire service, but it has since been taken over by Mid and West Wales Fire Service.
Wing Commander Phil Greville, RAF regional liaison officer in Wales, said: "Air-lifting this type of vehicle underneath a Chinook has not been done before.
"The fire service needed to get a new fire appliance out to the island and we wanted to get this type of fire-vehicle approved for air-lift by Chinook.
"The rural response pump vehicle is in widespread use throughout the UK and in the future, we will be able to fly it to where it is needed when responding to major floods and other emergency situations."


A sickly baby goat being nursed back to health in Northamptonshire has started behaving like the dogs she shares a home with.

Lily the kid became unwell when she was three weeks old and was taken inside to be looked after.
Her owner Rebecca Mineards hopes Lily, who has to wear nappies in the house, will soon be able to return to her mother.
Meanwhile, she is learning to play with the household pups and even wrestling their toys away from them.


Mae adroddiad swyddogol i farwolaethau tri milwr yn dilyn ymarferiad hyfforddi'r SAS ym Mannau Brycheiniog yn 2013 wedi rhybuddio y gallai ddigwydd eto.

Bu farw'r Is-Gorpral Craig Roberts, 24, o Fae Penrhyn, Conwy, a'r Is-Gorpral Edward Maher, 31, ar 13 Gorffennaf, a hynny ar un o ddiwrnodiau poetha'r flwyddyn.
Fe fu farw'r Corpral James Dunsby, o Gaerfaddon, yn yr ysbyty yn ddiweddarach. Roedd y tri yn rhan o gwrs hyfforddi 16 milltir yr SAS.
Daeth yr adroddiad i'r casgliad nad oedd swyddogion wedi paratoi ar gyfer tywydd poeth a bod canllawiau iechyd a diogelwch yn annigonol ar y pryd.
Dywed y Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn fod argymhellion yr adroddiad yn cael eu gweithredu.
Dywedodd adroddiad yr Asiantaeth Diogelwch Amddiffyn fod methiannau ar sawl lefel wedi arwain at y marwolaethau a bod ansicrwydd cyffredinol yn bodoli am waith y milwyr rhan amser, oedd yn golygu nad oedd neb wedi gofyn a oedd yr ymarferion caled yn addas ar eu cyfer.
Daeth yr adroddiad i'r casgliad y gall y math yma o ddigwyddiad godi eto yn y dyfodol.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn eu bod yn cynnig eu cydymdeimlad dwysaf i deuluoedd y tri fu farw, a'u bod wedi ymrwymo i weithredu canfyddiadau'r adroddiad er mwyn sicrhau na fydd digwyddiad o'r fath eto.
Mae'r adroddiad hefyd yn dod i'r casgliad fod newidiadau arfaethedig i'r unedau milwrol rhan amser wedi eu gwrthwynebu yn y gorffennol.
O ganlyniad roedd ansicrwydd am waith yr unedau hyn, oedd wedi arwain at ansicrwydd wrth greu cynllun hyfforddi i'r milwyr.
Roedd y milwyr wrth gefn felly yn cael eu gosod ar ymarferiadau hyfforddi ar gyfer milwyr llawn amser, a hynny heb gael eu paratoi'n raddol ar gyfer yr ymarferiadau.
Dywedodd yr adroddiad: "Fe fyddai'n hawdd dweud mai damwain yr oedd modd ei hosgoi oedd hon, ac mewn rhai ffyrdd dyna ddigwyddodd.
"Ond, gyda chymaint o ddamweiniau o'r math yma roedd 'na lusgo ar draws y gyfundrefn, oedd wedi dod yn gyffredin ac yn dderbyniol dros gyfnod o nifer o flynyddoedd.
"Roedd y teithiau cerdded yn cael eu gweld fel ffordd effeithiol iawn o agor y drws i'r broses o ddewis milwyr ond ni wnaeth unrhyw un ofyn y cwestiwn os oedd yn addas ar gyfer y milwyr wrth gefn, o ran eu dyletswyddau nag o ran rhoi digon o amser iddyn nhw baratoi.
"Gyda throthwy uchel am risg, diwylliant o beidio gofyn cwestiynau a dim herio annibynnol, does dim dwywaith fod y gyfundrefn wedi llithro tuag at fethiant yn yr ymarferiadau teithiau cerdded."
Ychwanegodd yr adroddiad ei bod yn debyg "na fydd y risg yma'n pylu nes bydd y canlynol yn cael sylw: fod y disgwyliadau sydd o'r unedau hyn yn cael eu diffinio'n eglur; bod llwybr hyfforddi eglur yn cael ei baratoi ar gyfer eu rôl amddiffynnol, ac fe ddylid ystyried datgysylltu hyfforddiant i unedau SMU o'r pencadlys."


A man and a woman have been arrested following the death of a baby girl in Gwynedd, police said.

Officers were called to an address at Penygroes in the early hours of Monday after being alerted by the Welsh Ambulance Service.
The baby was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital at Bangor where she died. North Wales Police said the death was being treated as unexplained.
The force said two people had been arrested on suspicion of assault.
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said paramedics were called to reports of a medical emergency at about 04:40 BST, sending one rapid response vehicle and two emergency ambulances.
A post mortem examination was carried out at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool on Tuesday.
North West Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said he had asked a forensic pathologist and a paediatric pathologist to take part in the post mortem examination.
"A lot of tests have been carried out and it will be some considerable time before I receive all the results," he said.


Chester Cathedral has embarked on a four-year project to build a scale model of the landmark in Lego.

It is looking for volunteer "bricklayers" to help construct the model, that will be 6ft 6in (2m) in height and 13ft (4m) in length.
The project is expected to use 350,000 pieces - each of which can be purchased for £1 to be included in the model.
Cathedral officer Helen Barber said it would "help us to reach new audiences".
Simon Warburton, cathedral director of operations, said: "The unique thing about Chester cathedral is that our architecture spans nearly 1000 years of history.
"The model will recreate each style and so is a really effective way of telling the story of our building."
It will be split in two so the cathedral's interior, including its organ, will also be replicated.
Durham Cathedral started its Lego replica, that is also expected to use 350,000 bricks, in 2013.


Bristol mayor Marvin Rees has announced plans to cut 1,000 city council jobs in a bid to save Â£29m by next April.

Mr Rees who was elected in May is attempting to plug a Â£60m hole in the authority's budget by April 2020.
A city council spokesman said it would be allowing applications for voluntary severance from "any council staff".
Unison said the council's "dire financial situation" was "not the fault of public service workers who've gotten a tough deal for years now".
Mr Rees said he had inherited a "huge financial challenge" and could not "close the [savings] gap without reducing the number of jobs at the council".
The authority - which currently has around 6,970 employees - will launch a scheme which lets staff in full time positions apply for voluntary severance later this week.
"This scheme is about giving people the option to leave voluntarily. We will support staff as best we can throughout this difficult time," Mr Rees added.
Steve Crawshaw from Unison said "real political leadership" was needed from the mayor.
"Firstly to decide what kind of public services he wants given the lack of money and second, to unite with the leaders of other core cities and say to [the prime minister] give us the funding we need, or we risk failing our residents," he said.
The council has informed staff and trade unions and launched a period of formal consultation.


Namibia won the Cosafa Cup for for the first time in their history, beating Mozambique 2-0 in the final in the South African mining village of Moruleng.

Winger Deon Hotto scored both of Namibia's goals to steer his nation to victory in the southern African championship.
Both countries went into the match as past runners-up, with Namibia reaching the final in 1997 and 1999 and Mozambique in 2008.
Earlier in the day, Madagascar won the third place play-off match.
They beat fellow beaten semi-finalists Botswana 2-1 to take the bronze medal.
Sarivahy Vombola scored both of Madagascar's goals and finished as the 2015 tournament's top scorer with five goals to his name.


Bitcoin speculators have made millions of pounds in the last few months as the value of the internet-based virtual currency has exploded.

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But it's unclear if the virtual currency is just a passing fad, or whether it may evolve into a valuable tool for doing business.
Today Bitcoin is accepted by a small number of retailers, and David Woo, head of global rates and currencies research at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, believes that most do so simply for the publicity it earns them.
"Companies like Victoria's Secret are probably using it to brand themselves as hip," he says.
The other main reason for businesses to use Bitcoin is that it is a low-cost way to accept payments, he adds.
"Vendors get charged 2% to 3% by credit card companies, but the cost of using Bitcoin is zero," says Mr Woo. Bitcoin can also be used as a cost-free way to send money around the world.
But there's a big problem with using Bitcoin for business purposes at the moment.
"The overriding reason not to accept it is because of volatility," says Mr Woo. "This is the biggest challenge for Bitcoin."
That's because while speculators welcome volatility - big price movements provide opportunities to make money - businesses generally don't like such risks.
Huge swings in the value of Bitcoin mean profits on goods or services supplied can be wiped out when it depreciates; prices listed in Bitcoins have to be monitored and adjusted frequently.
The conventional way for businesses to manage currency risks is by using derivative instruments such as futures and options, but even if these were readily available for virtual currencies they would not be practical at the moment, Mr Woo explains.
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"As a US exporter to the UK, I could buy sterling 'put' options against the dollar," he says. These would give the option to exchange sterling into dollars in the future at a set rate, regardless of the actual exchange rate on the day, mitigating the currency risk of accepting payments in sterling.
"The problem is that the price of these 'puts' is a function of the currency's volatility, so with Bitcoin they would be very expensive."
But in order for Bitcoin's volatility to diminish, Mr Woo believes the virtual currency needs to become far more liquid, and for that to happen, more people need to buy and use the currency.
And although Bitcoins can be divided into tiny subunits, the supply is ultimately finite. "That means if more people start adopting them then prices have to go up, and that creates more volatility," he says.
Another problem with using Bitcoin for business is that trading it is far from easy. Its value varies significantly in different countries - Marc Warne, director of London-based Bitcoin exchange Bittylicious, says this can often be as much as 10%.
In an efficient global market these price differentials could be exploited by some investors.
But Mr Warne says the cost of sending money to overseas markets and the time it takes, coupled with trading fees, makes the overall market inefficient and means these international price differences persist.
"In a way this proves the value of Bitcoin, because unlike bank transfers, transferring them is free and almost instant," he adds.
One thing that may have to happen before Bitcoin is more widely used by businesses in Europe is clarification of its legal status and some sort of regulation.
A key question that needs to be answered is whether it has the legal status of a currency, according to Angus McFadyen, a technology and payments law expert at Pinsent Masons.
"Some people say it is an investment, and others say it is a currency. If it is a currency then it should be treated as such by the Payment Services Directive. This provides the basis of refund rights for unauthorised transactions."
Mr McFadyen adds that this European Commission directive currently deals with the currencies of EU member states, which clearly does not include Bitcoin.
But the directive is currently under review, and new proposals talk about "any currency", he says. "So it could be designed to include virtual currencies, but as yet there is no official news about whether it will."
Bitcoin's uncertain status as a currency will also need to be clarified before more British exchanges, like Bittylicious and competitor BitBargain, appear and improve market liquidity.
That's because of the tax implications of trading in Bitcoin: if it's classified as a currency then no VAT is due on the value of Bitcoins sold, only on the trading commission, according to Eitan Jankelewitz, a digital media lawyer at Sheridans.
He would like to see the UK's tax authority following the lead of Singapore by offering specific tax guidance for Bitcoin businesses.
But he doesn't expect HMRC to accept it should be treated as a currency in the foreseeable future. "That would be a big deal, but you need to be realistic and expect some sort of halfway measure."
If Bitcoin does mature into a regulated, liquid, relatively stable currency, could it be used as more than a cheap way of making payments and moving money around the world?
Michael Jackson, formerly chief operating officer of Skype and now a partner at venture capital firm Mangrove Capital Partners, believes so.
"It can certainly be used to make payments on the internet without having to set up an account. But it could also be used to fight piracy," he says.
"For example, when you buy a digital book it could be encrypted using the Bitcoin used to buy it as the key to unlock it."
Ultimately Mr Jackson believes that Bitcoin could provide the foundation for many money-making ventures.
"The internet is just a set of protocols, but it has resulted in the creation of many new businesses.
"In the same way I think that Bitcoin will prompt the creation of many new companies that create value on top of it."


A huge Star Wars fan says he has spent about £150,000 on turning his home into a shrine to the sci-fi franchise.

Dave Oldbury's semi-detached house in Southampton features memorabilia including toys, posters, books, action figures and life-size Storm Troopers.
He is now offering other Star Wars nuts the chance to stay for £35 per night.
The postman, 46, bans indoor lightsaber use while a path at the side of the house, which "leads to the dark side", has been declared strictly off-limits.
Mr Oldbury said: "I have lots of stories to share from hanging out with my heroes and I look forward to giving my guests the inside scoop."
His home, in the Sholing area, is filled with about 3,000 Star Wars items, which he has collected since he was eight years old.
He said: "My first figure was Chewbacca, the rest quickly followed because I had to have them.
"Later in life I progressed into autographs, merchandising and meeting the actors.
"It's my passion and I really enjoy it."
Dave Oldbury's house rules:
He cannot even fit his whole collection into his house - the garage serves as a spillover area for 500 pieces.
Mr Oldbury has also collected nearly 9,000 cast and crew autographs after travelling the world to meet the film's stars, including Sir Alec Guinness.
Despite citing Han Solo as his favourite character, he has adorned his body with tattoos of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.
He has put his Star Wars-filled guest room, dubbed the Solo Suite, up for rent before next month's UK cinema release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
He said: "We have a room set up full of Star Wars memorabilia, so you go to bed dreaming of Star Wars and you wake up looking at Star Wars.
"I look forward to showcasing my collection to fellow Star Wars fans.
His added his ideal guest would be actress Carrie Fisher dressed in her slave Princess Leia outfit, but acknowledged that was "not going to happen".


The new TV series starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will record its first studio segments in South Africa.

The first episode of The Grand Tour,  which is being made by Amazon Prime, will be filmed in Johannesburg in July.
It will mark the trio's first TV show since they exited Top Gear after Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer.
May joked on Twitter that the location was "chosen by Richard Hammond, who's run out of biltong".
When one South African fan asked if the news was true, Hammond confirmed and suggested the team hold a braai - Afrikaans for barbecue.
"Yes, for real. We'll have to have a Bra, a Bray, a, oh you know, a South African barbecue," he wrote.
The show will launch on Amazon Prime in the autumn, with each episode's pre-recorded studio items filmed in a different country.
Photos uploaded to The Grand Tour's Facebook page show the trio have already begun shooting in Portugal, Germany, Barbados and North Africa.
Jay Marine, vice president of Amazon Video Europe, said: "Given the popularity of Jeremy, Richard and James in South Africa, Johannesburg is a fantastic place to start."
Last year, Clarkson was suspended from Top Gear and later fired by the BBC after he punched Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
Hammond and May quit the show shortly after.
The trio were replaced on the show by former Friends actor Matt LeBlanc, BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans, and an extensive cast of co-presenters.
The new series of Top Gear made its debut on Sunday to more than four million viewers and mixed reviews.


As hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler said, it was a night to "celebrate all the movies North Korea was OK with".

Hollywood's finest - and Jennifer Lopez - descended on Los Angeles for the 2015 Golden Globes, as the film and television awards season kicked off.
The Globes, although highly desirable in their own right, are also historically good indicators of who'll walk away with a golden statuette at next month's Oscars.
So what did we learn this time around?
Eddie Redmayne is one of those really annoying people that everything seems easy for.
Disarmingly good-looking, Cambridge-educated and now a Golden Globe winner, you begin to wonder where it all went wrong.
The 32-year-old won best actor in a drama for his role as physicist Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
And it has all the necessary ingredients for Academy Award success too.
Almost one in five of the best actor Oscars have gone to performers playing a character based on a real person, including the likes of Colin Firth as George VI in the King's Speech and Sean Penn as gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation of the night came on the red carpet.
After a cinematic dry patch that's lasted a fair few years, many in the film industry had begun to wonder where exactly Catherine Zeta-Jones had disappeared to.
Well, it turns out she's been hiding in your phone, disguised as the dancing lady emoji.
With Hollywood fast running out of comic books to turn in to Hollywood blockbusters, perhaps Zeta-Jones is subtly manoeuvring herself to the front of the queue for the forthcoming release of The Emoji film.
Watch Shia LaBeouf follow suit next month by arriving at the Oscars with a monkey mask over his face.
For those not quite as forward thinking as Zeta-Jones, Sunday night marked a rare chance to give the old wedding dress a second outing.
At times the red carpet resembled a wedding exhibition, with a throng of A-listers waltzing their way down in all white.
Emily Blunt, Salma Hayek and Rosamund Pike all channelled their inner bride, while newly-married Amal Clooney donned a pair of white gloves.
Now obviously to repeat the trick and wear the same dress for next month's Oscars is not far from being an arrestable offence in downtown LA.
But you can be sure white will make a reappearance of some sorts, as no other colour shows off that Californian sun-kissed look quite like it.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did a fine job as co-hosts of the event for a third year.
From George Clooney to Bill Cosby, no-one was safe from the pair's quick wit and acid tongues.
But the pair saved their best gags of the night for North Korea, its leader Kim Jong-Un and Seth Rogen film The Interview.
"We celebrate all the great television shows we know and love and all the movies North Korea was OK with."
Making reference to the controversial comedy, they said North Korea called it: "Intolerable wanton act of terror, and that wasn't the worst review the movie got."
Hollywood doesn't like to be told what it can and can't do by anyone, so expect plenty more North Korean references by Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris in February.
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Crewe Alexandra manager David Artell is happy to commit his future to the League Two club by signing a proper longer-term contract at Gresty Road.

Artell has worked without a contract since starting in January and admits his chief missions were to keep Crewe up, then plan for the 2017-18 season.
The offer of a 12-month rolling contract has now been made by the club.
"I'm pleased and I'm grateful, but I didn't see it as a big deal," Artell told BBC Radio Stoke.
"It was more important to concentrate on getting the right players in."
Artell has so far made three new signings - strikers Jordan Bowery and Chris Porter, along with defender Michael Raynes, but he is in pursuit of a League Two midfielder and is hopeful of persuading his likely skipper next season, George Ray, to sign a new deal.
"We should know in the next week to 10 days," he said. "But I'm not losing any sleep over it. I fully expect him to still be a Crewe player next season."
Artell is also grateful to have been given 100% backing by chairman John Bowler and his board.
"Whenever I've gone to them with any request, they've told me to go ahead and get on with it," he said. "Hopefully that will continue."
He is also confident that, if next season goes as he expects, then his phone will be ringing with offers from managers higher up the EFL after a relative dearth in big-money exits since the departures of Nick Powell, Ashley Westwood and Luke Murphy.
"We've got some good players," said Artell. "We have quite a few ready to be ripened.
"To leave a club in League Two, you need to be in the top seven. If we're successful, don't be surprised if my phone doesn't ring a bit more with enquiries about our players. I envisage that to happen as I envisage us being successful."


Nigerians have been congratulating countryman Wellington Jighere, who has become the first African to win the English-language World Scrabble Championship.

The 32-year-old beat Englishman Lewis MacKay 4-0 in the final in Australia.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was among those to congratulate him, saying he has "done the country proud".
Mr Jighere said on his Facebook page that he felt he was playing with the "whole continent" behind him.
He added that it "still baffles" him that he managed to win, given how tired he felt as he had "not slept well in about a week".
Wellington Jighere put down:
Lewis MacKay put down:
(Source: oed.com)
He told the Guardian newspaper that he had training to deal with the fatigue from the jet lag, but also had to cope with 32 rounds of matches in four days before getting to the final in Perth.
Mr Jighere and the five other members of the Nigerian team only arrived in Australia the day before the tournament started, so had little chance to get over the 20-hour flight or the seven-hour time difference.
President Buhari phoned him in Perth to "rejoice" with him over the performance and pass on his congratulations to all the players, who finished the competition as the best team.
According to the president's spokesman, Mr Jighere "pledged to bring more glory to his fatherland".
The champion will be coming home with a $10,000 (Â£6,600) prize but now has to find a job.
He recently finished his national service following his graduation from university, but took a few months off from looking for work in order to prepare for the championship.
President of Nigeria's Scrabble federation Sulaiman Gora told the BBC on the telephone from Nigeria that Mr Jighere is a quiet person whose "greatest strength is humility".
Mr Gora, who also heads the Pan-African Scrabble federation, said that the "whole country and the whole of Africa is celebrating this success".
In 2008, Ivorian Elisee Poka won the French-language Scrabble World Championship and this year Schelick Ilagou Rekawe from Gabon reached the final of that competition. He lost to New Zealander Nigel Richards, who does not speak French.


A 26-year-old lawyer has pleaded guilty to murdering a young teacher whose body was found at a hotel on Christmas Eve.

Katie Locke, 23, was found dead at Theobolds Park Hotel in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. She had been strangled.
Carl Langdell admitted the charge of murder when he appeared at St Albans Crown Court via a video link from Bedford Prison.
A psychiatric report is to be prepared on Langdell who was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 18 April.
Ann Evans, for the prosecution, said: "What needs to be established are the circumstances of Katie's death. There was a no comment interview with the police."
Benjamin Aina QC, defending, said Langdell admitted deliberately and intentionally killing Katie in a hotel room.
He said his client had been seeking psychiatric help after being convicted of making threats to kill in Bristol.
Miss Locke's family were in court for the hearing. In a statement released by police at the time of her death, they said: "As a family we are distraught, in shock and totally devastated. There was not a bad bone in Katie's body.
"Katie worked hard and loved her job as a teacher. In what little spare time she had she enjoyed sports.
"We now feel like our future has been stolen from us."


The BNP has said it will enter the race to be mayor of London, after acknowledging a "scaling down" at the general election.

The candidate will be David Furness, the party's organiser in west London, who stood in the 2011 Feltham and Heston Parliamentary by-election.
A spokesman for the BNP told BBC London the party had been "rebuilding and modernising" since May.
The BNP fielded eight candidates at the general election.
A BNP spokesman said the party was not worried about lack of resources: "We didn't bankrupt ourselves by standing in too many seats in May, unlike UKIP."
Reports to the Electoral Commission show it had a total income of more than Â£600,000 in 2013, the latest year for which complete figures are available, down from more than Â£1.2m in 2010.
He said the party had been "rebuilding and modernising through the support of our members after a recent scaling-down in activity".
In 2012, BNP candidate Carlos Cortiglia finished last in the mayoral contest, with 28,751 votes or 1.3% of those cast.
This represented a sharp decline on its 2008 result, when its candidate Richard Barnbrook finished fifth and polled 69,710 votes, ahead of UKIP and Respect.
Mr Barnbrook was at one time a member of the London Assembly for the BNP, later sitting as an independent before retiring.
Other party candidates announced so far include:


Thousands of seismic sensors monitoring geological activity are vulnerable to cyber attack, suggests research.

The poor security controls around the way the sensors transmit data were detailed in a presentation at the Def Con hacker convention.
Researchers found ways to fool and overload sensors so monitoring systems would get wildly inaccurate readings.
The findings have been reported to the US computer emergency organisation that oversees national infrastructure.
"We have not seen any research previously in this field," said Bertin Bonilla, a security expert based in Costa Rica who, with colleague James Jara, carried out the work.
Mr Bonilla said the network of sensors came to light during a different project that tried to find and map smart devices connected to the net to create a search engine for the Internet of Things.
The devices stood out because of the distinctive fingerprint of data they surrendered to scanning software and because of their location, said Mr Bonilla.
"These devices are located in extreme environments like the middle of the ocean and around active volcanoes," he said.
Closer scrutiny revealed that it was easy to connect to the sensors, each of which costs $30,000 (Â£23,000), and see the data they were gathering and transmitting.
Tracing links to central servers that collate data revealed a series of flaws, including common default passwords, that could be exploited by attackers to take control of the network, said Mr Bonilla.
"We got a root shell," said Mr Bonilla.
"That's the highest level of privilege on the system so we could do anything we wanted. It was completely compromised."
Mr Bonilla said the risks associated with the network and sensors were low but the easy access might be of interest to particular types of attackers.
"These devices measure natural disasters," he said.
"Abusing them could lead to financial sabotage for a specific company or country."
Information about the series of flaws has been reported to the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US Cert) which co-ordinates work to harden national infrastructure systems.
US Cert has passed information about the security flaws to Canadian firm Nanometrics which makes the sensors and data-gathering equipment that makes up a lot of the seismic monitoring network.
Nanometrics has not responded to a request for comment from the BBC.


Tackling bullies was the top priority for the majority of children aged seven to 18 who took part in a survey aimed at giving youngsters in Wales a voice.

The top priority for three to seven-year-olds was more places to play.
The What Next? consultation was initiated by the Children's Commissioner for Wales, Sally Holland.
It is one of the largest consultations of its kind, involving more than 7,000 children.
Other priorities raised in the consultation were: better protection from violence and abuse in the home; more timely support on mental health and emotional well-being issues; less poverty; and safer local areas.
The results will inform the commissioner's priorities for the next three years.
Ms Holland said: "The consultation included many groups who often don't get a chance to take part in large surveys like this: very young children, and those not in school because they are in hospital, in custody or homeless.
"Wales will be stronger if all of its citizens get the chance to play their part."


Former TV presenter Michael Barrymore is suing Essex Police over his arrest after a man was found dead floating in his swimming pool.

Stuart Lubbock, 31, was found in the pool at Mr Barrymore's former home near Roydon in March 2001.
The pair had earlier met at a nightclub in Harlow.
Essex Police, which questioned Mr Barrymore before releasing him without charge, said it would be inappropriate to comment as proceedings were active.
The arrest has prompted the ex-Strike It Lucky host to take action against the force for damages to his reputation and career.
Post-mortem tests found Mr Lubbock had suffered severe internal injuries indicating sexual assault and his bloodstream contained ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol.
Essex Police said at the time they were committed to establishing how Mr Lubbock died and how he received his injuries.
No-one has been charged over his death.


A police officer at Hillsborough has described how a spectator kicked him in the stomach as he tried to resuscitate a fan who had been crushed.

Kenneth Horsfield told the inquests he was winded by the blow and it interrupted his efforts to save the unconscious fan lying behind a stand.
He said he was "99% certain" it was Derrick Godwin, 24, from Gloucester.
The jury also heard a senior officer asked for bodies to be moved because they were "antagonising" other fans.
The court was also told about the final movements of David Benson, 22, from Warrington.
Ninety-six football fans were fatally injured at the Liverpool versus Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield on 15 April 1989.
The jury saw video footage of PC Horsfield inside pen three, a fenced enclosure on the Leppings Lane terraces, at 15:15 BST - about nine minutes after the match was stopped.
In his statement, written two days after the disaster, he recalled carrying a fan out of the pen and into a concourse area at the back of the stand.
The retired officer said: "He didn't seem dead. I got on my knees, attempted to revive him [with] mouth-to-mouth. I don't know how long for, not long.
"Someone running past kicked me on the right side of my stomach. I was winded for a bit.
"I looked up - people all around, people laid everywhere, some dead, many injured."
Mr Horsfield told the jury he checked for a pulse on the unconscious man but could not find one before starting chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth.
He said: "I was interrupted, to put it politely, by a passing fan. That caused me to stop briefly.
"I have a vague recollection of being approached by two other police officers who took over from me with Derrick."
Kerry Grace, who was a South Yorkshire Police inspector on stand-by, said he was told to go to the ground at 15:10.
He said Supt Roger Marshall, who had been in charge of policing Liverpool fans outside the stadium, told him: "Can you get your men to remove all these bodies because they're antagonising the rest of the spectators?"
Mr Grace said his men then moved approximately 10 bodies from the concourse into a "makeshift mortuary" in a service road.
He did not carry out any checks on the casualties, who were moved because he "presumed" that they had "already been assessed as being dead", the jury heard.
He said: "It was a very - what can I say? - tricky situation because there were lots and lots of very disorderly people in that area at the time and we were trying to keep the situation calm and putting up with a lot of abuse and various things like that."
The jury heard Dr John Ashton, a Liverpool fan who had been at the match, assessed Mr Godwin in the service road at about 16:25 and confirmed his death.
Mr Godwin's mother, Margaret, was informed the following day.
The jury later heard about father-of-one David Benson, who was seen in graphic images towards the front of pen three at about 15:03.
Matthew Hill, a barrister representing the coroner, said in one picture Mr Benson was "looking up" and appeared to be "groaning".
Terrence Pitt, a Liverpool fan with first aid training, said after the crush he saw three fans carrying Mr Benson through a tunnel and into the concourse.
In his statement he said, he knelt down, checked Mr Benson's airway and started giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Two police officers also joined.
He said: "I must admit, at times it was slightly chaotic.
"After about five minutes we stopped. There was nothing more we could do."
Mr Benson showed "no change" during the resuscitation attempt and there were no "signs of life".
Brian Benson identified his son's body at 02:05 the following day.
The inquests, in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Thursday.
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Usain Bolt has run his last solo 100m race at the World Athletics Championship in London.

But the Jamaican failed to secure a gold or silver medal, coming third.
The Olympic champion was the slowest out of the starting blocks and was left chasing for the entire race.
Christian Coleman and team mate Justin Gatlin made it an American one-two, with Coleman securing silver and Gatlin taking the gold.
Usain had been struggling for fitness in his final racing season but many still had him as favourite to win what would have been his 20th gold medal.
Bolt gave some explanation for his unusually poor performance, saying that he "tightened up at the end and that is something you should never do. I didn't execute when it mattered."
Gold medal winner Justin Gatlin, who has had difficulties in the past when he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs cried when he won.
Some people in the stadium booed him because of his past.
Gatlin said after his win that "It is Bolt's last race. It is an amazing occasion. We are rivals on the track but in the warm-down area, we joke and have a good time. The first thing he did was congratulate me and say that I didn't deserve the boos. He is an inspiration."


Police in Copenhagen say they are charging submarine enthusiast and rocket builder Peter Madsen in connection with the death of a missing Swedish journalist.

The Dane is the skipper and designer of the UC3 Nautilus, a privately-owned submarine which sank off the Danish coast on Friday.
Some reports describe Mr Madsen as a "hobby engineer", and it is not clear what his background and training is.
While building his own crowd-funded submarine might seem challenging enough, after completing the Nautilus - which he claims is the world's biggest privately-built submarine -  in 2008, he moved on to a more lofty ambition - space exploration.
He now runs an organisation called Rocket-Madsens Space Laboratory, which is funded by donations, and aims to launch a rocket from a floating platform in the Baltic, near the island Bornholm.
A crowd-funding page was set up for the Nautilus prior to 2014 to attempt to raise $50,000 (Â£39,000) to cover refurbishment costs - just $6,170 was raised. At that time the Nautilus had logged more than 1,000 dives and had a team of 10 volunteers working on her refurbishment.
In 2015, after a dispute with the group of volunteers maintaining it, ownership of the Nautilus was transferred to Mr Madsen, says a statement on the website (in Danish).
"You may think that a curse is lying on Nautilus. That curse is me," he had messaged members of the board, according to the statement. "There will not be peace on Nautilus for as long as I exist."
The craft finally re-launched earlier this year. It has a diesel and an electric motor and is 17.8m in length.
According to the crowd-funding page, Danish law prohibited the Nautilus's operators from taking on passengers, but the team offered tours of the craft while docked "to give you the full experience of being aboard a real submarine".
Both Rocket-Madsens Space Laboratory and Copenhagen Suborbitals - which Mr Madsen co-founded but has since left - are trying to become the first non-government, all-volunteer organisation to launch a human being into space.
The two organisations are in conflict over their launch area, and seem to communicate via blog warfare.


Jurassic Park star Sam Neill says bar laws and a greyhound racing ban are "sucking the life" from Sydney.

Controversial laws require bars within parts of Australia's largest city to shut their doors to new patrons from 1:30am and stop serving drinks at 3am.
New South Wales state also banned greyhound racing after an inquiry found evidence of systematic animal cruelty.
The Hollywood actor said that many dogs were likely to be destroyed and racing jobs lost as a result of the ban.
"Shutting down the dogs is a crime, it's a valuable part of working class culture," he said.
"Instead of cleaning up the dogs they're killing the dogs. How many thousands of dogs will be destroyed and livelihoods lost? It's regrettable and I'm grumpy about that."
Neill also lamented the effect of liquor laws, saying "the vibrancy has been sucked out of the place".
"I particularly lament this lockout which has taken the guts out of the nightlife of Sydney. And Sydney without nightlife is kind of a pointless place."
The New South Wales state government has defended the laws, saying they have curbed alcohol-related violence.
However, Neill described the city's most famous entertainment precinct as one of the saddest places he had ever been.
"Every city needs a Kings Cross. London needs a Soho and Sydney needs Kings Cross.
"Instead of making the streets safe they've stopped the streets."


A mosque attended by the Manchester bomber says it needs to be "more proactive" in encouraging young people away from extremist ideologies.

Didsbury Mosque was identified as one of the mosques attended by bomber Salman Abedi and his family.
Fawzi Haffar, a trustee of the mosque, told BBC Panorama: "I have to be truthful. We have a lot to learn, [we] have to be more conscious".
He said the mosque needed "proper policies" in place to deter extremism.
Abedi blew himself up, killing 22 people as they were leaving a concert at Manchester Arena last week.
Mr Haffar told BBC Panorama: "When we did find out that he attended this mosque we had to really ask some of our employees whether they remembered him. And some of them say they did."
Several sources told Panorama that Didsbury Mosque in south Manchester was his regular place of worship. His elder brother Ismail taught at the mosque, and before he left for Libya in 2011, his father would offer the call to prayer, or adhan.
Bomber Salman Abedi was remembered by some as a loner who would sometimes read books in the corner.
Despite wide reports that Abedi was reported by Didsbury Mosque, the mosque confirmed to Panorama that he was not.
But Mr Haffar said that one of the mosque's imams did report three other suspected extremists two years ago.
"The mosque is open to everybody, and we have hundreds of attendees every day. We are inundated with youth who come to the mosque."
But he admitted the mosque had to work much harder to recognise signs of extremism.
"I think we have to ask our imams to be more proactive to encourage the youth to move away from such evil stories, evil people."
Others in the community did report Abedi.  A local youth worker told Panorama that while Abedi was at college in his teens, teachers and pupils were so worried they called an anti-terror hotline a number of times.
According to the source, Abedi had been saying it was worth dying for a cause and suicide bombing was OK.
Mr Haffar said that the mosque encourages people to leave their politics outside.
He said: "It is our duty to report people who we think are going to be a menace - who will do perhaps terrorist acts - whatever creed, whatever colour, whatever religion they are.
"Whether it's my son, whether it's my daughter it is my responsibility to do that and we have to accept that".
But last week, a BBC Question Time audience member claimed that he was handed an anti-Western leaflet at Didsbury Mosque.
The mosque said it had not printed the leaflet, but admitted that unauthorised leaflets were sometimes left by people who are not affiliated with them.
Mr Haffar told Panorama the mosque needed to assess its practices.
"We have to have proper policies. We have to avoid mistakes."
Watch Tina Daheley's report for Panorama - Manchester Attack: Terror at the Arena on Monday 29th May, 8:30pm on BBC1 or afterwards on iPlayer.


Russia's foreign minister says a unilateral truce declared by the Syrian military could be extended to the city of Aleppo "in the next few hours".

Sergei Lavrov said Russia was working with the UN and US to include Aleppo in the "regime of calm" that has covered Damascus and Latakia since Saturday.
But Mr Lavrov warned that rebels would have to leave areas where allied jihadist militants were being targeted.
More than 250 people have been killed in Aleppo in the past 10 days.
About two-thirds of those deaths have been in the rebel-held eastern side of the city, including 55 in an air strike on a hospital the US says was deliberate.
On Tuesday, 19 people were killed by rebel rocket fire in government-controlled areas of Aleppo, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
State media said a hospital was hit, killing three people and wounding 17.
The Observatory said 279 civilians had been killed in Aleppo by bombardments since 22 April - 155 in rebel-held areas and 124 in government-held districts.
As the fighting continued, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding the protection of hospitals, clinics and health workers in war zones.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said there was no justification for attacks on medical facilities.
The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, travelled to Moscow on Tuesday to discuss efforts to urgently rescue the nationwide cessation of hostilities in Syria, which the US and Russia negotiated at the end of February.
After holding talks with the Italian-Swedish diplomat, Mr Lavrov told reporters that he expected a decision on including Aleppo in the separate regime of calm "in the very near future - maybe in the next few hours".
The unilateral truce had been effect in Latakia and the eastern Ghouta region around Damascus since the weekend thanks to the efforts of the Russian and US militaries, he said.
The aim of Russian, US and UN negotiators was to extend the regime of calm and "ideally make it indefinite", Mr Lavrov added.
He said a joint US-Russian ceasefire monitoring system being set up in Geneva would help to track events on the ground.
But he also warned that so-called moderate rebel groups in Aleppo had to leave areas where militants from al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate that is excluded from the cessation of hostilities, were being targeted.
Mr de Mistura said he hoped that by extending local truces, the cessation of hostilities could be reinvigorated and stalled peace talks in Geneva might resume.
"We all hope that... in a few hours we can relaunch the cessation of hostilities. If we can do this, we will be back on the right track."
He added: "If, as we all hope, there will be definite confirmation that even Aleppo will return to a ceasefire regime, we can imagine that we can restart [peace] talks at the same time."
Later, US Secretary of State John Kerry said he was hopeful the cessation of violence could be restored, and he warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of consequences if violations continued.
"If Assad does not adhere to this, there will clearly be repercussions, and one of them may be the total destruction of the ceasefire and then go back to war. I don't think Russia wants that," he told a news conference in Washington.
"If Assad's strategy is to somehow think he's going to just carve out Aleppo and carve out a section of the country, I've got news for him - this war doesn't end.
"It is simply physically impossible for Assad to just carve out an area and pretend that he's somehow going to make it safe, while the underlying issues are unresolved in this war. And as long as Assad is there, the opposition is not going to stop fighting it... one way or the other."
The US and the Syrian opposition have dismissed Russia's assertion that Syrian government forces are only targeting al-Nusra and accused them of indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned last week that Aleppo was being "pushed further to the brink of humanitarian disaster".
Large parts of the city have been destroyed and its infrastructure has been severely damaged, leaving civilians without water and electricity for months.
The partial halt in fighting raised hopes that tentative peace talks in Geneva might bring forward a solution to Syria's bloody five-year civil war.
But the truce all but collapsed after renewed violence, particularly in Aleppo.


A couple from Hawick in the Scottish Borders have been unveiled as the winners of half of last Saturday's record £66m National Lottery jackpot.

David and Carol Martin, both aged 54, appeared at a news conference at the Dalmahoy Hotel, south of Edinburgh.
Mrs Martin said she was stunned when her husband said they had won. "I thought he was just joking," she said. "I couldn't believe it."
Mr Martin said it felt "great" to have landed the huge win.
They were one of two ticket holders who matched the six winning numbers 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58.
The couple received a cheque for £33,035,323. The record jackpot followed 14 consecutive rollovers.
The Borders husband and wife said they were relaxing at home on Sunday morning with the lottery ticket on their mantelpiece and only checked it when a friend urged them to do so.
They used a mobile phone to check the numbers and the first line contained all six winning ones.
"Obviously the initial shock was surreal," said Mr Martin.
"If we had won £50,000 we would have probably been dancing round the living room," said Mr Martin.
"But when we were sitting looking at each other and we had won £33m we didn't speak to each other for about five minutes.
"We were in total shock."
The first person to be told the news was their 26-year-old daughter, Lisa, who lives in Australia.
Mr Martin said she had thought they were "pulling her leg" when they told her the scale of their win.
They now plan a family reunion this weekend to begin planning their futures.
"My daughter's in Australia so that will be the first purchase, probably a first class flight home from Australia," said Mr Martin.
Mr and Mrs Martin said they intended to take early retirement as soon as possible.
Mr Martin has been working for the last eight years for Borders Care and Repair (part of Eildon Housing Association) which helps elderly and disabled people fit specialist equipment in their home.
Mrs Martin has worked in the local chemist for most of her working life.
The couple, who have been married for 28 years, said they would love a new home in the country, near where they live now, and perhaps a holiday home in the sun.
They also intend to help their family and closest friends.
Mr Martin said they might look at some ways to help their home town which has been badly affected by flooding recently.
"It has been everywhere with the flooding, not just Hawick," he said.
"It is something we will look into. Hawick is a tight-knit community."
The couple insisted they would not be changed by the win.
"It will certainly change our lives but as people it won't change us," said Mr Martin.
"We were happy without the money so hopefully we will be happy with it."
Even though the prize total is shared, it is still the biggest National Lottery win.
However, Saturday's prize is still dwarfed by the the biggest UK win in the Euromillions lottery, a draw where prize money comes from ticket sales in several European countries.
Another Scottish couple, Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, collected £161.6m in 2011.


The family of a teacher murdered by a student in 2014 is seeking a judicial review citing "serious concerns" about the forthcoming inquest.

Ann Maguire, 61, was stabbed to death by Will Cornick at Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds, in April 2014.
A full inquest is scheduled to begin at Wakefield Coroners' Court in November.
The Maguires have said they have "many unanswered questions" and challenge the West Yorkshire Coroner's decision to exclude "vital" evidence and witnesses.
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Cornick, who was 15 at the time, was given a life sentence in 2014 after admitting murdering Ann Maguire, who had taught Spanish at Corpus Christi for more than 40 years.
Because he quickly admitted responsibility, police never fully reviewed the evidence.
A full inquest is not usually held following a successful prosecution but in January 2016 it was announced that one would be held into the death.
The family's lawyers, Irwin Mitchell, said the Maguires have "serious concerns" about the scope of the inquest.
Senior coroner David Hinchliff said it was "inappropriate" to comment at this stage.
Yogi Amin, of Irwin Mitchell, said: "The family hoped a full public inquest would examine the full chain of events and all the evidence available so lessons could be learned to reduce the risk of similar incidents happening again.
"They have become very concerned about the scope of the full inquest hearing scheduled for later this year.
"The police investigation was itself limited in scope, as the defendant quickly admitted responsibility meaning there was no examination of all the evidence publicly."
In 2015, the family was told no Serious Case Review would be held.
In November 2016, a report by Leeds Safeguarding Children Board said no-one could have predicted or prevented Mrs Maguire's murder.
Also in 2016, a council Learning Lessons Review was held, but a recent pre-inquest review revealed many conversations had not been recorded.


Does the World Trade Organization matter anymore?

That is the big question hanging over the WTO as trade ministers from its member countries gather in Nairobi.
They are heading to the Kenyan capital for the WTO's tenth ministerial conference.
The organisation is increasingly at risk of being side-lined as groups of countries do trade and investment deals outside it.
The WTO was established in 1995 to be the main forum for trade rules and for negotiating the removal of barriers to international commerce.
It is conducting a wide-ranging set of negotiations intended to take this process further. It is called the Doha Round, and it was launched in the Qatari capital 14 years ago.
It is still limping along despite the original target for completing the talks being the beginning of 2005.
So far all it really has to show is an agreement on improving customs procedures, known as the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
The wider negotiations - to reduce tariffs (taxes on imports), farm subsidies and remove many other trade barriers - have failed to produce results.
Many countries have turned their attention to negotiating in smaller groups. The prime examples are the United States' negotiations with Pacific nations and with the European Union.
It's very unlikely that the Nairobi conference will pronounce it dead. Some countries, including India, Indonesia and Venezuela want a formal reaffirmation of the declaration issued back in Doha.
Others, notably the US and European Union do not. They think it has become clear that this huge exercise - known in WTO-speak as a "single undertaking" - will fail to deliver results.
So it is certainly possible that the Nairobi Conference will mark an important moment in the failure of the Doha Round.
However, there are areas where there could be some agreement.
One is the final agreement among a group of countries on tariff-free trade in a range of technology goods. This would extend an existing deal to a number of additional goods including new-generation semi-conductors, GPS navigation systems, some medical devices and touch screens.
There is also the possibility of a deal to improve export opportunities for the poorest nations, the least developed countries. This is about extending the scope for them to sell their goods without quota restrictions or tariffs.
There are signs that the WTO's members do seem to be willing to agree in these areas, but even so there is no guarantee they will.
It is possible that there will be no formal ministerial declaration at the end.  That would be the first such failure since the Seattle Conference in 1999, which ended with acrimonious disagreement between governments and was accompanied by often violent protests in the city's streets.
The WTO and its conference have in the past been a major focus for protests from groups which argue that globalisation has been a business-driven process undermining national sovereignty, environmental protection and labour standards.
More recently some of the trade negotiations outside the WTO have become more of a focus for some of these concerns.
Those other talks have, after all, made more progress.  And there is a real possibility that the gap between the WTO's stumbling global agenda and the push towards smaller deals will be wider by the end of the Nairobi conference.


An unearthed part of Hadrian's Wall is going on display for the first time in North Tyneside.

The 50m (150ft) part of the wall was first discovered in 1998 but was kept undercover to protect it.
Now Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend is putting the section of wall on display, along with artefacts and a bath house recently excavated at the site.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums manager, Geoff Woodward, said it was "really exciting" visitors could now see it.
Hadrian's Wall on Tyneside is a culmination of three-year project WallQuest - a community archaeology scheme which saw hundreds of volunteers taking part in urban digs over 30-miles of Hadrian's Wall between South Shields and Hexham.
Mr Woodward said: "We've uncovered another important part of our history at Segedunum and I can't wait for people to come and see it.
"Following conservation, visitors will now be able to see the new section of the wall, which is really exciting.
"Before the WallQuest project we knew very little about the civilian settlement outside the fort. Thanks to a team of dedicated volunteers, who have spent months working with the museum and conservation experts, we now know more about this unique landmark."
The original bath house, which was first discovered in 1814, was long forgotten until it was unearthed in 2014.
The 73-mile (117km) Hadrian's Wall stretches between Wallsend in North Tyneside and Bowness on Solway in Cumbria.
Hadrian's Wall on Tyneside is on display at Segedunum Roman Fort until 30 October.


China's industrial output has slowed to its weakest growth since the financial crisis, prompting concerns over the global recovery.

Production rose by 5.4% in January and February - the worst since 2008.
China is trying to refocus its economy from investment and export-led growth to consumer spending.
UK finance minister George Osborne said China's slowdown is one of a "dangerous cocktail of risks" hampering recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
Recent data revealed that Chinese exports fell 25.4% in February compared with the same month last year.
It was the biggest monthly decline since 2009, and ahead of the 11.2% fall recorded in January.
Retail sales in the first two months of the year grew by 10.2% - below analysts' expectations of a 10.9% rise.
Zhou Hao, an economist at Commerzbank, told Bloomberg that the mix of slower industrial output and retail spending "gives us a worrying picture". He said: "The overall growth profile remains still gloomy."
However,  Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, said that the government would be able to achieve a target of an average 6.5% in GDP growth for the next five years without implementing measures to stimulate the economy.
"Excessive monetary policy stimulus isn't necessary to achieve the target," he said. "If there isn't any big economic or financial turmoil, we'll keep prudent monetary policy."
Writing in the UK's Sun on Sunday ahead of presenting a budget on Wednesday, Mr Osborne said falling oil prices, interest rate changes elsewhere and political instability in the Middle East meant "hopes of a strong global recovery have evaporated".


Leicester City midfielder N'Golo Kante has been named in the France squad for their home European Championship.

The 25-year-old, who has impressed in the Foxes' title-winning campaign, made his international debut against the Netherlands in March.
He is one of 10 Premier League players selected by manager Didier Deschamps.
But in-form forward Hatem ben Arfa and Mathieu Valbuena, who was involved in a sex-tape scandal with international team-mate Karim Benzema, are left out.
Ben Arfa is one of eight players named in reserve along with the likes of Manchester United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin and Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette.
Real Madrid striker Benzema is being investigated for his part in an alleged plot to blackmail Valbuena and had already been told he would be left out.
Valbuena has struggled for Lyon this season, but Ben Arfa has scored 17 goals in 33 Ligue 1 matches for Nice.
Ousmane Dembele, who joined Borussia Dortmund from Rennes on Thursday, is another forward to miss out as Deschamps chose Arsenal's Olivier Giroud, Manchester United's Anthony Martial and Dimitri Payet of West Ham in a total of six attacking players.
Hosts France play Romania in the tournament opener on 10 June.
France squad for Euro 2016: Hugo Lloris, Steve Mandanda, Benoit Costil, Raphael Varane, Laurent Koscielny, Eliaquim Mangala, Jeremy Mathieu, Patrice Evra, Bacary Sagna, Christophe Jallet, Lucas Digne, Paul Pogba, Blaise Matuidi, Lassana Diarra, N'Golo Kante, Yohan Cabaye, Moussa Sissoko, Antoine Griezmann, Dimitri Payet, Anthony Martial, Kingsley Coman, Olivier Giroud, Andre-Pierre Gignac.
Reserve list: Alphonse Areola, Hatem Ben Arfa, Kevin Gameiro, Alexandre Lacazette, Adrien Rabiot, Morgan Schneiderlin, Djibril Sidibe, Samuel Umtiti.


Being too busy, safety fears over running alone and concerns about busy roads are major barriers to people taking up running, a survey has found.

Cardiff University looked at motivators for people to exercise in response to concerns over the nation's health.
Its researchers worked with 121 first-time runners taking part in the World Half Marathon Championships, hosted by the city in March 2016.
Big events inspired people to get fit and stay active.
Other big motivators were related to health and a sense of wellbeing, while women had different concerns to men over starting, including running alone.
Research study lead Dr Liba Sheeran said: "The results showed that big events do indeed motivate people to get active and stay active, however injuries can be a problem for novice runners with seven out of 10 runners reporting injuries."
The main barrier for taking up regular exercise was work-life commitments, cited by about eight out of 10 people, followed by safety, which was expressed by almost a third of women and 15% of men, and running on busy roads (12%).
Men and women gave different concerns for not wanting to start running, with women worried about not being fully prepared and running in front of a crowd, while men cited not achieving their target.
Researchers suggested separate strategies targeting women and men could therefore be required to get people active.
Despite these barriers many positive reasons were given for running, including a sense of wellbeing, reported by 28% of respondents, getting outdoors (22%) and better health (20%).


Child mortality has fallen by more than 50% since 1990, a report by the World Health Organization and UN children's agency Unicef says.

It says that 25 years ago 12.7 million children under five died, but this year the figure is projected to drop below six million for the first time.
But aid agencies warn that huge challenges remain.
They point out that the UN target of reducing child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 will not be met.
The rate fell by 53% over this period, the report says.
"We have to acknowledge tremendous global progress," said Unicef's deputy executive director Geeta Rao Gupta.
"But the far too large number of children still dying from preventable causes before their fifth birthday... should impel us to redouble our efforts to do what we know needs to be done".
* Figures from World Health Organization Child Mortality Report based on the upper bound figure for deaths of children under five per 1,000 live births in 2015
The report says that 16,000 children under the age of five still die every day. Many become victims of preventable illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhoea or malaria.
And almost half the deaths are linked to malnutrition, the document says.
The greatest risk is during the first few days after birth - 45% of all deaths occur before the child is a month old.
The report also highlights the stark inequality of life chances for the world's children.
It says that those born in sub-Saharan Africa have a 1-in-12 chance of dying before their fifth birthday. In wealthy nations the risk is 1-in-147.


India's top court has ruled that a controversial biometric-based personal identification number will not be mandatory to file tax returns yet.

The court said taxpayers who had opted out of getting an Aadhaar (foundation) number should not be forced to get one.
It added that people's tax identification cards, which do not need biometrics, would continue to be legal even if they are not linked to Aadhaar.
The court said the government must do more to allay data theft fears.
It was hearing petitions against the government's plan to effectively replace tax identification cards, know as PAN (Permanent Account Number) cards, with Aadhaar.
In its ruling, the court said that those who had an Aadhaar card had to link it to their PAN card, but those who did not could still file tax returns. It declared a stay on full implementation of the government's policy until a constitutional court rules on privacy issues related to the card.
Aadhaar: Are a billion identities at risk?
The government says PAN cards are easy to fake.
"Today, anybody can get a PAN card with any name on it. A person can get several PAN cards - say, as Mukesh Gupta, then another as Mukesh Kumar Gupta, and a third as M K Gupta, so on and so forth," the Indian Express quotes Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi as saying.
But the petitioners say the government cannot forcibly take people's biometric details. Activists have also raised concerns over the security of what can be described as the world's biggest biometric database.
Over the past eight years, the government has collected fingerprints and iris scans from more than a billion residents - or nearly 90% of the population - and stored them in a high security data centre.
In return, each person has been provided with a randomly generated, unique 12-digit identity number.
The government has been using Aadhaar to transfer government pensions, scholarships, wages for a landmark rural jobs-for-work scheme and benefits for cooking fuel to target recipients, as well as to distribute cheap food to the poor.
It says Aadhaar can be used as a tool to fight corruption because it makes it hard for people to create fake IDs in order to claim benefits.
But there have already been a number of leaks of details of students, pensioners and recipients of welfare benefits involving a dozen government websites.


A man has escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on a house in Banbridge, County Down.

Minor scorch damage was caused to the rear bathroom window of the property in Golf Terrace at about 19:30 GMT on Saturday.
The male occupant had only recently moved into the house.
The police have said they are still working to establish a motive and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Sinn FÃ©in's John O'Dowd said it was a worrying development following a series of attacks in Banbridge.
"There is growing concern in the community that there is a level of coordination behind these attacks," he said.
"Those behind them don't care that they seriously injure or kill the intended target or someone in the vicinity."


Retail sales in Scotland have grown much more slowly over the past year than in Great Britain as a whole, according to new figures.

Between the first quarter of 2016 and the same period this year, the amount of goods sold in Scotland rose by 0.2%, compared with British growth of 2.1%.
Meanwhile, the value of shop sales north of the border grew by 1.8%, while Britain saw a rise of 4.8%.
The figures were included in the latest Retail Sales Index for Scotland.
Scotland outperformed Britain in the first three months of this year, however, in both value and volume terms.
The first quarter saw the volume of sales in Scotland fall by 0.4%, while the figure for Britain showed a drop of 1.4%.
And while the value of sales across Britain flat-lined, Scotland saw growth of 0.5% between January and March.
Commenting on the figures, Scottish Retail Consortium director David Lonsdale said: "The improvement in the headline figure for the total value of retail sales in the first quarter of this year is encouraging at first glance, but it looks less rosy once falling shop prices are taken into account.
"Indeed, shop prices have fallen each month for the past four years which demonstrates that retailers are having to work ever harder to maintain let alone grow sales values."
Euan Murray, from Barclays Corporate Banking, said: "Increased supply chain costs and issues could go some way to explaining the falling figures in this quarter - from the bad weather in Spain affecting food imports to the weak value of sterling, you don't have to look far for a reason.
"The sector has also had the added pressure of a later Easter, which could have resulted in less consumer spend in quarter one."
He added: "With 36% of UK e-retail sales via mobile, retailers must invest in their online and mobile shopping platforms to improve the user experience and drive growth.
"However, with inflation in the UK set to accelerate faster than earnings growth for the first time since 2014 and consumers planning to spend less on every category with the exception of grocery, it is looking like it's going to be an uphill battle for the high street."


With temperatures reaching 15.9C at Magilligan in County Londonderry on Wednesday, it was the warmest December day since 1994.

That temperature was just shy of the record 16C recorded at Murlough in County Down on 11 December 1994.
The mild weather is being driven by warmer air coming from south of the Azores in the mid-Atlantic.
It is not unusual to have temperatures in the double digits at this time of year.
"In December last year, amidst the wind, rain, and storms we actually had the mildest December since the 1980s," said John Wylie from the Met Office.
"Temperatures of 14C and 15C were fairly common place."
Rewind six years and we were just entering the coldest winter on record with widespread disruption due to heavy snow.
It's set to remain mild for the rest of the week according to the Met Office, although temperatures are unlikely to be as high as Wednesday's.
Will we get a white Christmas though?  It's still much too early to say.


Ten of the UK's top poets have been commissioned to write works inspired by unique museum exhibits.

The poets have been matched to collections at Cambridge University, which include objects such as Captain Scott's farewell letter to his wife and Charles Darwin's zoological specimens.
The project, known as Thresholds, includes the poets Daljit Nagra, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy described it as "an unprecedented initiative".
Each poet will spend two weeks in residence between January and March meeting researchers and exploring the collections. They will then write a poem inspired by the experience.
"This is a stunning level of commitment to poetry and poets," Duffy said. "These 10 residencies will create a unique collaboration of poets, creating a meeting of minds and disciplines and providing a catalyst for ideas."
She added: "These 10 poets represent the best of poetry being written at the moment. I wanted to include up-and-coming poets and older poets, as well as representing different cultures and countries, too.
"All of them were the first 10 names on my list and I'm delighted to say all said yes immediately with no persuasion.
"A poetry project of this size and scale, across so many different, remarkable and beautiful institutions is unheard of. This really is an unprecedented initiative."
As well as the Captain Scott letter, held at the Polar Museum, and Darwin's animal specimens at the Museum of Zoology, other items include Isaac Newton's own copy of Principia Mathematica, at Cambridge University Library.
Thresholds - supported by Arts Council England - will be launched by Duffy on Friday night at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as part of the University's Festival of Ideas.
The poets and their places of residency are: Sean Borodale - Museum of Classical Archaeology; Gillian Clarke - Museum of Zoology; Imtiaz Dharker - Cambridge University Library; Ann Gray - Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Matthew Hollis - The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences; Jackie Kay - Kettle's Yard; Daljit Nagra - Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Don Paterson - Whipple Museum of the History of Science; Jo Shapcott - The Polar Museum; Owen Sheers - The Fitzwilliam Museum.
An anthology of the new poems will be published in March 2013.


James DeGale has vowed to "destroy" Lucian Bute when defending his IBF super-middleweight title on Saturday.

DeGale fights Romanian-born Canadian Bute in what he says will be an "explosive" encounter in Quebec City.
"They think it's going to be a boxing match, but it will be a destruction," added the 29-year-old Briton.
"I feel like a beast. I'm going to start fast and throw loads of punches. Once he feels my power that will be it. Place your bets, trust me."
DeGale became the first British boxer to add a world professional title to an Olympic gold medal when he beat Andre Dirrell in Boston in May.
He has won 21 of his 22 fights since turning professional - his only defeat coming against bitter domestic rival George Groves in May 2011.
Bute held the IBF title for five years before losing to Carl Froch in May 2012 and has been victorious in 32 of his 34 bouts.
"It's a great opportunity to fight for my old belt in front of my hometown fans. I think they'll push me toward the victory," he said.
"I think he's the best super middleweight in the world right now, but I'm very confident in myself. I'm healthy, I feel great physically.
"I'm looking forward to becoming world champion again."


Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been given a one-match stadium ban with immediate effect and also fined £40,000 by the Football Association.

The punishment comes after Mourinho admitted a misconduct charge over his language and behaviour in the defeat by West Ham on 24 October.
Mourinho, 52, was sent to the stands after going to speak to referee Jon Moss in his room at half-time.
He will miss Chelsea's league game at Stoke on Saturday, unless he appeals.
Mourinho will receive the FA's written reasons this week and, if he contests the punishment, he could still be on the bench at the Britannia Stadium.
The stadium ban is separate to the suspended one he received along with a £50,000 fine for comments he made after the loss to Southampton on 3 October.
The Portuguese described that fine as a "disgrace" and appealed.
Mourinho's assistant, Silvino Louro, was also charged by the FA after being dismissed during the match at West Ham in relation to his behaviour in the technical area.
In a statement, the FA withdrew an improper conduct charge against Louro but reminded him of his responsibilities.
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The stadium ban for Chelsea's next game adds to Mourinho's problems as the pressure intensifies on him.
In addition to his disciplinary problems with the FA, the Portuguese has been criticised for his treatment of former Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro.
Carneiro was dropped from first-team duties after Mourinho said she was "naive" for treating Eden Hazard during the opening-day draw at home to Swansea.
She has since left Chelsea and Mourinho is to be the subject of individual legal action from Carneiro, who is also suing the Stamford Bridge club for constructive dismissal.
On the pitch, his side are 15th in the Premier League having lost six times in 11 games in defence of their Premier League crown.
The latest defeat was a 3-1 home loss to Liverpool that left the Blues 14 points behind leaders Manchester City.
Chelsea's all-time top scorer Frank Lampard, who played under Mourinho, said the club should be looking for stability.
Speaking on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football, he said: "That's the intriguing thing at the moment to see if they stick with him.
"He is a world-class manager. I think they should stick with him but results need to change now."
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The tremors on Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal lasted barely a minute by some accounts, yet this was enough to bring down centuries of Nepalese history.

Among the buildings to collapse was the Dharahara tower, which once dominated the skyline of the capital Kathmandu but has now been reduced to a stump.
Built by Nepal's first prime minister in 1832, the site, also known as the Bhimsen Tower, was popular among tourists who would climb the more than 200 steps to the viewing deck at the top.
The tower has already been rebuilt once before, after it was damaged in the huge earthquake of 1934.
The Unesco-recognised Durbar Square in the capital's Old City, has been flattened according to some reports.
A mesh of palaces, courtyards and temples, Unesco calls it "the social, religious and urban focal point" of Kathmandu.
The Buddhist temple complex at Swayambhunat, founded in the 5th Century, has also been damaged.
Video footage showed the toppled facade of one of the buildings, with the prayer flags surrounding it still fluttering in the wind.
But the iconic central stupa, with its gazing eyes of the Buddha, still stands.


A man found dead at his Kent home was beaten to death during a burglary that police say left "a trail of devastation".

The body of Roy Blackman, 73, was found inside the property on Headcorn Road, Biddenden, just before 09:00 GMT on Monday.
Post-mortem tests showed he had suffered severe blunt force injuries.
Police believe he was murdered sometime between 01:00 and 03:00 that morning. A safe was also missing from the home.
Det Insp Lee Whitehead said: "Mr Blackman was a well-known and well-liked member of the community.
"He ran businesses in the area for many years and had a family who are distraught at his murder."
He said he believed several suspects had targeted "a vulnerable man in his own home leaving a trail of devastation in their wake".
Detectives from Kent's serious crime unit are carrying out inquiries in the neighbourhood and seeking witnesses.
They are particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have been in the area of Headcorn Road between Weeks Lane and Frittenden Road from 19:30 GMT on Sunday into the early hours of Monday.


Airbus has said it will increase production of its A330 aircraft as it revealed a 15% increase in net profits for 2015 and a record order book.

The firm, which employs around 15,000 in the UK, said it would boost production of its long-range widebody A330 to seven a month in 2017.
It had cut output of the older model in order to move to the new A350.
But it received a boost when Iran agreed to buy 45 A330 jets as part of a $25bn (Â£17.4bn) deal.
The January deal also included 12 A380 superjumbos, which the company said it had broken even on for the first time.
Chief Executive Tom Enders told the BBC that the company was focused on breaking even, or positive margins:
"I'm confident we can do this because we can further reduce the cost of the A380 and hopefully also get additional orders."
He conceded that new orders for the A380 had been slow in coming, but said the company needed to be patient, and low jet fuel prices were making the A380 "even more attractive for customers".
Airbus, based in France, saw net profits of â‚¬2.7bn (Â£2.1bn).
Last year the European plane maker received orders for 1,080 commercial aircraft.
Airbus has major sites in Filton, near Bristol and Broughton, North Wales where wings for the planes are made and assembled.
When asked about the UK referendum he said that a vote to leave the European Union would not result in Airbus pulling out of the UK, where it has "very important" operations.
However, he could not see "how an exit would improve the competitiveness of British industry".
Mr Enders added that he "could not exclude" the possibility that jobs would be lost in the long-run.
Mr Enders called its results "solid" and said:" The record order book supports our commercial aircraft ramp-up plans and we are driving operational efficiency."
The firm said it expects the world economy and air traffic to grow this year "in line with prevailing independent forecasts and assumes no major disruptions."
It plans to deliver more than 650 planes and expects its commercial order book to continue to grow.
The business also makes corporate and freighter aircraft as well as helicopters and telecommunication satellites.


Bury manager David Flitcroft says he is feeling the same hurt as fans after their 11-game winless run.

The Shakers lost 5-0 at AFC Wimbledon in their FA Cup first round replay, three days after a 4-1 defeat at home to Southend in League One.
Flitcroft's side have also lost seven straight league games and dropped from from second at the end of September to their current 16th place.
"I'm hurting, the fans are hurting and I understand that," he said.
The 42-year-old told BBC Radio Manchester: "That hurt makes me even more determined to put it right for them.
"I want to put it right and out of that hurt I'm hoping will come some real fight. Sometimes when you're down to your lowest point the only way is up and to fight and I have to instil that in my team."
Bury are in their worst run of form since 2004 which is in contrast to September when they won six games straight.
"I need to apologise to the travelling fans who have taken time off and spent a lot of money coming down here," he added.
"That was an experienced group of players and the preparation led me to believe I would not see a performance like that, so I just have to apologise for the manner of the defeat."


RBS says it has resolved debit card payment issues that hit NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank customers on Friday.

Customers had difficulties making debit card payments in shops and online after problems with the RBS card payments system.
An RBS spokeswoman said: "Our debit cards are now working as normal.
"We apologise to those who experienced difficulties this afternoon. No customer will be left permanently out of pocket."
Cash machine and credit card transactions had been unaffected, a spokesman said, adding that the majority of transactions had gone through.
RBS banking customers have had to deal with payments problems in the past.
In June 2015, hundreds of thousands of payments failed to reach the accounts of RBS customers.
And in 2012, RBS Group suffered a widespread IT system failure that led to a Â£56m fine by two financial regulators.
RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank are part of the same company.