Parents are too often out of touch with the mental health pressures faced by girls and young women, suggests research.

Self-harm was the biggest health concern for girls aged 11-21, according to the Girlguiding Girls' Attitudes Survey 2015.
Researchers questioned a representative sample of more than 1,500 UK girls and young women aged seven to 21.
The findings "provide a stark warning", said chief executive Julie Bentley.
The figures show the mental wellbeing and resilience of UK girls are under threat - and yet adults are failing to recognise this, according to the organisation, the UK's largest charity for girls and young women.
Among more than 1,000 11-to-21-year-old girls and young women questioned, the top health concerns were self-harm, mental illness, depression and eating disorders, along with smoking.
Some 62% of this age group said they knew a girl or young woman who had experienced a mental health problem, while 82% said adults often failed to recognise the pressures they faced.
Overall, more than a third (37%) said they had needed help with their own mental health.
Girlguiding says comparable figures from its 2010 survey showed girls' top concerns then were binge-drinking, smoking and drug abuse.
The 2015 survey suggests girls believe their parents' worries are stuck in the past, focusing on drug and alcohol abuse.
Worries about sexual harassment and low body confidence are widespread, suggests the survey.
Three-quarters of the 11-to-21 age group said anxiety about sexual harassment had had a negative impact on them in some way, for example, affecting what they wore and how they felt about their bodies.
Some 39% said they had experienced a demeaning comment on their appearance within the past week.
Among the seven-to-11 age group, 83% reported feeling sad or down and 16% said this was because of concerns about their looks.
Ms Bentley called for an open conversation about the issues.
"By listening to girls we can work together to tackle the root causes of their distress and champion their potential."
Guide Katherine Bradfield, aged 18, said the survey shone a light "on what life is really like for girls in the UK today - and it's a troubling picture.
"Girls are battling adversity at every corner - as everyday sexism and harassment remain a constant, unwanted presence in our lives.
"Now we see the damaging consequences of these pressures, as they take their toll on girls' mental wellbeing.
"We've given a voice to girls' concerns. Now it's time for real change to tackle this damning status quo."


The EU and Turkey have reached a deal on the migrant crisis, which will see migrants returned to Turkey in exchange for aid and political concessions.

Under the plan, from midnight Sunday migrants arriving in Greece will be sent back to Turkey if their asylum claim is rejected.
In return, EU countries will resettle Syrian migrants living in Turkey.
EU leaders have welcomed the agreement but German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of legal challenges to come.
Some of the initial concessions offered to Turkey have been watered down and some EU members expressed disquiet over Turkey's human rights record.
Despite this Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was a "historic" day.
"We today realised that Turkey and the EU have the same destiny, the same challenges and the same future."
European Council President Donald Tusk said there had been unanimous agreement between Turkey and the 28 EU members.
It is hoped the plan will deter people from taking the often dangerous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece.
Scepticism hangs heavy in the air about a host of legal issues, and about whether the agreement can actually work in practice.
The idea at the heart of the deal - sending virtually all irregular migrants back to Turkey from the Greek islands - is the most controversial.
European leaders insist that everything will be in compliance with the law.
"It excludes any kind of collective expulsions," emphasised European Council President Donald Tusk.
But Amnesty International has accused the EU of "turning its back on a global refugee crisis, and wilfully ignoring its international obligations".
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) will take part in the scheme, but it is clearly uncomfortable with what has been agreed.
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Mr Tusk stressed the deal was no "silver bullet" and was just one part of the EU's response to a crisis that has sharply divided the bloc's members.
Mrs Merkel said she was satisfied but added "I have no illusions that what we agreed today will be accompanied by further setbacks".
British Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the deal, saying it could "significantly" reduce numbers of migrants crossing the eastern Mediterranean to enter Greece by boat.
The Turkey-EU statement in full
The UN warned that Greece's capacity to assess asylum claims needed to be strengthened for the deal. Implementation was "crucial", the organisation said.
But rights group Amnesty International was scathing, calling the agreement a "dark day for humanity".
An EU source told the BBC up to 72,000 Syrian migrants living in Turkey would be settled in the EU under the agreement.
They added that the mechanism would be abandoned if the numbers returned to Turkey exceeded that figure.
Also on Friday, Turkish officials said they detained almost 1,800 migrants and 16 people smugglers.
The operation was part of efforts to stop migrants reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, Reuters reported.
Since January 2015, a million migrants and refugees have entered the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece. More than 132,000 have arrived this year alone.
Tens of thousands are now stuck in Greece as their route north has been blocked.
Greek Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroublis has compared conditions at the Idomeni camp, on the border with Macedonia, to a Nazi concentration camp.
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.


Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris says he is happy England will return to Cardiff for the Champions Trophy semi-final next week.

England defeated New Zealand by 87 runs in their second group game to book their last four spot on Wednesday, 14 June.
"England will be pleased to have sealed the win and a semi-final spot," said Morris.
"We look forward to hosting them and I know they are pleased to be returning."
England play their final pool match against Australia on Saturday at Edgbaston and will return to Cardiff next week regardless of the result in that match.
Eoin Morgan's team will face the runners-up in Pool B, which contains India, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
"It is a real boost and this is a ground England have done well on," said Morris.
"In the last 10 years, England have only lost two games of cricket in Cardiff.
"We have sold out the match and we are expecting a good atmosphere whoever they play.
"Cricket in India is a religion and everybody is fascinated by it.
"Whether it's India or South Africa or anyone else we will look forward to hosting them.
England posted 310 against New Zealand and looked under pressure when the Black Caps had captain Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor at the crease.
New Zealand were unsettled about the surface at Sophia Gardens, with a ball from Liam Plunkett leaping up and striking Taylor on the helmet before Williamson was dismissed for 87 with a rising delivery from Mark Wood.
Williamson claimed afterwards it was a difficult surface to bat on, but BBC cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew stated it was excellent England bowling and Morris agreed.
"I thought it played really well," said Morris.
"England got 310 and were probably hoping to get 330, which on any ground is a competitive total.
"When New Zealand were 158 for two ahead of the required rate and ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis [method], they probably thought they were on course for a victory.
"England will be pleased with the way they finished the game.
"They have played a lot of cricket here in recent years so they know the ground pretty well.
"We were pleased to get the game on and it was a good game of cricket.
"The rain the day before was torrential and the ground staff did magnificently well to make sure the pitch and outfield was in good condition to start on time and get a whole day's play in."
Morris said the semi-final is a sell-out and explained almost 14,000 tickets had been bought for England's victory over New Zealand.
"It was an interesting situation because we sold all the tickets bar 300 for the game," said Morris.
"A number of people might have looked at the weather forecast and decided not to have turned up.
"The bottom line is we sold 98 per cent of tickets for the game.
"It was a great atmosphere and environment and a good win for England."
Before next week's semi-final, Cardiff will host two more group games when New Zealand face Bangladesh on Friday, 9 June, and Pakistan and Sri Lanka play on Monday 12 June.
"They are two important games of cricket," said Morris.
"New Zealand can still qualify for the semi-finals and that will be a good game against Bangladesh on Friday.
"We are hosting Sri Lanka and Pakistan on Monday and it is always a good environment with their fans.
"It is great to be hosting a world tournament because you see the best cricketers on show."


British sprinter James Ellington says he does not know how he or team-mate Nigel Levine survived a motorbike accident in Spain.

The GB athletes will miss the rest of 2017 and Ellington posted a picture to his Instagram account saying he is "truly blessed" to be alive.
The 31-year-old has a suspected broken leg in two places and both men have a suspected broken pelvis.
Ellington said he is "overwhelmed" by the public's support.
He added: "I truly am blessed as I do not know how me or my training partner Nigel are still alive.
"Me and him are both strong characters and will be looking to bounce back from this horrific accident."
British Athletics says its staff are with the athletes and are liaising with doctors over treatment.
However, they are still waiting to find out the severity of their injuries from specialists. There will be no definitive update from doctors until the weekend or next week.
Ellington and Levine say they were riding a motorbike when they were struck head on by a car travelling on the wrong side of the road.
The incident happened on Tuesday evening, with Ellington and Levene part of a British Athletics group taking part in a warm-weather training camp.
Any pelvic injuries to sprinters are potentially career-threatening and both athletes will need significant rehabilitation.
"We will not be releasing further information on the severity of their injuries at the present time," a British Athletes statement read.
"Both athletes are receiving medical treatment and are conscious and stable."
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Ellington, 31, is a 100m and 200m specialist and a two-time Olympian who was part of the gold medal-winning 4x100m relay teams at the 2014 and 2016 European Championships.
Levine, 27, is a 400m runner who was born in Trinidad and raised in Northamptonshire.
He won a European outdoor relay gold in 2014 and an indoor relay gold in 2013.


Andy Murray should be favourite for the final tennis major of the year, the US Open, according to Greg Rusedski.

The Scot is seeded second behind Novak Djokovic for next week's event at Flushing Meadows.
But former British number one Rusedski believes the Serb's form does not live up to his ranking.
"I would say he is slightly the second favourite," he said. "If you look at his form, he lost in the third round of Wimbledon and Olympics first round."
Murray won his second Wimbledon title and went on to win a second successive Olympic gold in the singles in Rio.
Rusedski also believes the return of Ivan Lendl as the British number one's coach is having an effect on Djokovic.
"It's just a bit of doubt creeping possibly into his mind," he told BBC Scotland.
"If you look at Murray when Lendl is in his corner, he seems to win majors. Before Lendl, there was no majors. After Lendl, there was no majors.
"All of a sudden, when Ivan comes back, Murray wins Wimbledon again."


Chloe Grace Moretz is not a fan of body shaming.

Earlier this summer, the actress said she was "appalled and angry" about a billboard advert for her movie Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs, which suggested being overweight made you less beautiful.
And now, she's spoken for the first time about a time she was fat-shamed on set by one of her male co-stars.
She told Variety: "This guy that was my love interest was like, 'I'd never date you in real life,' and I was like, 'what?'. And he was like, 'yeah, you're too big for me' - as in my size.
"It was one of the only actors that ever made me cry on set."
Chloe didn't reveal who it was, but said the actor was in his mid 20s - while she was 15 at the time.
"I went bawling to my brother and he was like, 'what happened?'. And I was like, 'he told me I was too big'. My brother was so angry.
"I had to pick it up and go back on set and pretend he was a love interest, and it was really hard. It just makes you realise that there are some really bad people out there and for some reason, he felt the need to say that to me.
"You have to kind of forgive and not forget really, but it was just like wow. It was jarring. I look back on it and I was 15, which is really, really dark."
Chloe Grace Moretz isn't the first star to highlight the issue of body shaming.
From Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) to Meghan Trainor and Amy Schumer - more and more stars are refusing to feel guilty about their appearance.
"I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too," Lady Gaga said earlier this year.
Lena Dunham, meanwhile, has said: "I've accepted that my body is an ever changing organism, not a fixed entity - what goes up must come down and vice versa."
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California Governor Jerry Brown is endorsing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for president.

He said voting for Mrs Clinton is the "only path forward... to stop the dangerous candidacy of Donald Trump".
Mrs Clinton's lead in the Democratic race is insurmountable, he said, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has no chance to win.
His endorsement is a setback to Mr Sanders' campaign ahead of the California primary.
"Hillary Clinton, with her long experience, especially as Secretary of State, has a firm grasp of the issues and will be prepared to lead our country on day one," Mr Brown wrote on his website.
"Next January, I want to be sure that it is Hillary Clinton who takes the oath of office, not Donald Trump."
Mr Brown said he has been "deeply impressed" by Mr Sanders' campaign and message of fighting wealth disparity, but Mrs Clinton knows how to push the Democratic agenda forward.
In 1992, Mr Brown sought the Democratic nomination for president against Bill Clinton, not giving up until the Democratic convention.
He never formally endorsed Mr Clinton, drawing some comparisons to Mr Sanders' campaign strategy.
California goes to the polls on 7 June, with 546 Democratic delegates and 172 Republican delegates up for grabs.
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination.
Mrs Clinton is currently leading in polls in California.
Mr Sanders has said he will not accept defeat until the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia in July, no matter what happens in California or at the New Jersey primary, also on 7 June.
"I think you know there's been some discussion that some of the media is going to say the campaign is over, she is the nominee on Tuesday night after the votes come in from New Jersey - that's not accurate," said Mr Sanders while campaigning in California.


People who sleep six hours a night or less are more likely to catch a cold when exposed to the virus, a novel human experiment has found.

For one week, 164 healthy volunteers were asked to wear a wrist sensor that tracked their normal sleep habits.
They were then given nasal drops containing rhinovirus and quarantined in a hotel for five days under close observation to see how many got a cold.
The findings support the theory that poor sleep blunts immunity.
The US study, published in the journal Sleep, looked only at sleep duration, not sleep quality.
Getting broken sleep did not appear to make any difference - just quantity of sleep per night.
The results suggest that people who get little sleep each night are more likely to catch a cold than those who clock up more than seven hours a night.
Lead researcher Dr Aric Prather, from the University of California San Francisco, said: "Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects' likelihood of catching cold.
"It didn't matter how old people were, their stress levels, their race, education or income. It didn't matter if they were a smoker. With all those things taken into account, statistically sleep still carried the day."
Poor sleep has been linked to other illnesses and obesity.
Dr Prather has previously said that sleep may limit the effectiveness of vaccines.
Experts say most people need about eight hours of good-quality sleep a night to function properly - but some need more and some less.


A hunt which saw "out of control" foxhounds fill a suburban street and allegedly kill a fox left people "traumatised", a resident has said.

Residents reported "horrific" scenes when the dogs came into Penningtons Lane, Macclesfield, on Saturday.
Police are investigating a claim that the animals were chasing a fox which was later found dead in a back garden.
A spokesman for Cheshire Forest Hunt said they "apologised" for what had happened.
Resident Julie Clarke, 47, who witnessed the hunt said it was "horrific" and had left locals "scared and outraged".
"I saw two quad bikes [and] about 20 hounds that came screaming down the road and a man dressed in his regalia," she said.
"Those dogs were out of control.
"I am upset, furious and appalled that people are getting away with this.
"There are a lot of older residents around here and a lot of them have been traumatised."
Other residents said the dogs had been running through nearby fields at about 12:45 GMT before they ran into the lane.
They said hunt members on the quad bikes had retrieved the dead fox from the garden before police arrived.
Images of the dead animal were later posted on social media by animal rights campaign group Stop The Cull.
A spokesman for the RSPCA said the charity had been "made aware of an incident where hunt hounds allegedly pursued a fox in a residential street in Macclesfield".
"We are assisting the police with this matter," he added.


An elderly woman was beheaded by a man who went on a rampage in north London, the Old Bailey has heard.

Palmira Silva, 82, was in her garden when she was attacked by Nicholas Salvador who stabbed and beheaded her, prosecutors said.
The court heard he was armed with a wooden pole and machete and was arrested following a violent struggle in which he was tasered six times.
The 25-year-old from Enfield denies murder by reason of insanity.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told the jury the killing happened three days after Mr Salvador had lost his job, and there was no dispute he killed her.
He said at the time of the killing, on the afternoon of 4 September last year, the defendant was living three doors away from Mrs Silva in Nightingale Road.
On the day of the attack the defendant armed himself and beheaded two of his hosts' cats, because he thought they were "demons", the court heard.
He then made his way through a few back gardens, smashed his way into a house and then attacked a car containing two members of the family he was living with.
Mr Salvador then leapt over a wall into Mrs Silva's garden where she was repeatedly stabbed before being beheaded, the court heard.
It was said Mr Salvador believed he was killing a supernatural entity in the guise of Hitler back from the dead, or a demon who had taken the form of a little old lady, Mr Rees said.
The prosecutor told the jury the defendant ran off and was arrested in the front room of another house following a "violent and chaotic struggle" with police in which he was tasered multiple times and kicked and punched, but to little effect. He had shown signs of mental illness, repeating phrases such as "red is the colour" and "I am the king."
One eyewitness had described how, before the attack, he looked like a headless chicken and appeared to be searching for more cats to kill, the court heard.
In the weeks before the attack, Mr Salvador had shown signs of "odd behaviour" and developed an interest in "shapeshifters" - supernatural entities that can transform into another being or form.
After being charged the 25-year-old was remanded in custody at Belmarsh prison before being moved to high-security Broadmoor Hospital due to his mental illness.
Mr Rees said that psychiatrists would give evidence that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Mrs Silva came to Britain from Italy in 1953 and ran a cafe with her husband. She had two children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Mr Salvador also denies a charge of assault by actual bodily harm by reason of insanity and assaulting a police officer after Pc Bernard Hamilton, received a leg injury which needed hospital treatment.
The case continues.


Jimmy Savile abused 63 people connected to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, but the one formal complaint made was ignored, an independent report has found.

It found Savile's reputation as a "sex pest" was an "open secret" among some staff - but allegations probably did not reach managers.
The formal complaint - made in 1977 by an 11-year-old girl's father - should have been reported to police, it added.
A separate report said "elements of the Savile story" could happen again.
The Stoke Mandeville report said the victims, abused from 1968-92, were aged eight to 40.
Sexual abuse by Savile ranged from inappropriate touching to rape - including the rape of children under the age of 12.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said people were "too dazzled or too intimidated to confront the evil predator we now know he was".
The report found:
Dr Androulla Johnstone, the report's lead investigator, said the victims were "patients, staff, visitors, volunteers and charity fundraisers" - with almost half aged under 16 and 10 under the age of 12.
"Around one third of his attacks were against patients, just over 90% of the victims were female," she said.
"Savile was an opportunistic predator who could also on occasions show a high degree of pre-meditation when planning attacks on his victims."
However, in a statement, the victim of the 1977 formal complaint said she felt "let down and betrayed by the report".
She told the inquiry how Savile sexually assaulted her following an operation at Stoke Mandeville to treat skin cancer, when she was aged 11.
But she said parts of her evidence had been omitted from the report and criticised authors for concluding that senior management would not have known about her father's complaint.
"How they can say that those in authority did not know is inconceivable. I feel that I am being blamed for not taking it further, but I was just a child, suffering from cancer.
"The report is nothing but a whitewash," she added.
63 victims
37 spoke to inquiry
19 victims were patients
10 victims were under 12 years old
1 made an official complaint
Savile met Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, to discuss the funding of Stoke Mandeville's spinal injuries unit in 1980 - and in the same year was appointed to oversee fundraising and rebuilding of the unit.
Lead investigator Dr Johnstone said supervision of Savile at this time was "absent" and - with "statutory functionsâ€¦ in the hands of a celebrity fundraiser" - government and NHS "lost control" of the project.
The Stoke Mandeville report said the hospital trust had tackled Savile's power and influence there "head on" from 1991, and managed to "diminish his authority" - but it took until 1999 to "resolve the situation".
"This says a great deal about the power of the man and the legacy of the historical permissions that had been given to him," it said.
In another report, also newly published, former barrister and NHS executive Kate Lampard reviewed how Savile could have abused victims at 41 NHS hospitals.
"While it might be tempting to dismiss the Savile case as wholly exceptional, a unique result of the perfect storm of circumstances, the evidence we have gathered indicates that there are many elements of the Savile story that could be repeated in future," the Lampard report said.
"There is always a risk of the abuse, including sexual abuse, of people in hospitals."
The report said society had a "weakness for celebrities" and hospitals must be aware of the risks.
A further report highlighted allegations of abuse and rape against Savile's older brother Johnny, who worked at Springfield Hospital as a recreation officer, in south London, in the 1970s.
It revealed allegations by five women against Johnny Savile, who died in 1998, dating back to between 1978 and 1980. The allegations were uncovered by Operation Yewtree officers.
By Nick Triggle, BBC health correspondent
It is easy to say Jimmy Savile's abuse of patients, staff and visitors on NHS premises would not happen in today's health service.
But the report published by Kate Lampard on the lessons learned from the 44 NHS investigations shows this would be dangerously complacent.
While the majority of the crimes took place decades ago, Ms Lampard still warns there are "many elements" that could be repeated.
She goes on to cite a host of weaknesses - from how the NHS deals with celebrities to policies on internet use and social media.
There is, she says, always a risk of abuse - including sexual abuse - in the NHS.
But the difficulty is this: how do you make what is essentially a public space safe when it's so large?
The floor space of the NHS stretches across 26 million sq m (280 million sq ft) - that is enough to cover the City of London nearly 10 times over.
Click here to read Nick's full analysis.
Responding to the reports, Mr Hunt said no system "can ever be totally secure from a manipulative and deceitful predator like Savile".
"We learned last year that there were clear failings in the security, culture and processes of many NHS organisations, allowing terrible abuse to continue unchecked over many years.
"What happened was horrific, caused immeasurable and often permanent damage, and betrayed vulnerable people who trusted us to keep them safe. We let them down."
He told the Commons he would be accepting 13 recommendations made in Ms Lampard's report.
But he would not be accepting one more recommendation that all NHS volunteers should be subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, he said.
Mr Hunt said Â£4 million will be made available from Savile's estate and charities for compensation claims.
Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: "The question that will be growing in the minds of people hearing this news today is this: Where is the accountability?
"That is what victims are crying out for and that is what must follow."
Hattie Llewelyn-Davies, chairwoman of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, apologies to "all of Jimmy Savile's victims".
"I know how difficult it must have been for you to come forward and tell your stories after such a long time."
She said Stoke Mandeville was now a "very different place" but no "sense of complacency" would be allowed.
Liz Dux, of law firm Slater and Gordon, which represents 44 of Savile's victims, said: "It beggars belief that a report which has revealed Savile was widely known as a sex pest at Stoke Mandeville can find no evidence of management responsibility."
She said victims deserved "more accountability".
The latest reports add to a series published last June.
Simultaneously, the Department for Education has published a string of reports by local authorities into allegations of abuse at a number of children's homes and schools.
In a written statement, Children's Minister Edward Timpson said that although the investigations were complete they had been unable to substantiate any of the allegations.
He said: "None of the investigations have been able to reach firm conclusions about whether the alleged abuse took place or not.
"Although many of them say the informant was credible, the lack of corroborating evidence has prevented them from reaching a definitive conclusion."


Comedian Jimmy Carr has apologised for "a terrible error of judgement" over using a tax avoidance scheme based in Jersey.

The 39-year-old has now pulled out of the scheme, which, although it was legal, was branded "morally wrong" by Prime Minister David Cameron.
It is not the first time Carr - one of the UK's most successful comedians - has caused headline-making controversy, and it will probably not be the last.
The 8 out of 10 Cats host's previous forays onto the front pages have been as result of his edgy material, rather than his financial arrangements.
A joke about soldiers who had lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan ("we're going to have a good Paralympic team in 2012") also prompted condemnation from No 10 - and led to the Sunday Express headline: "TV comic's slur on amputee soldiers."
After that media storm, Carr made an apology, which also served as a mission statement for the taboo-breaking comedian.
"I'm sorry if anyone was offended, but that's the kind of comedy I do," he said in October 2009.
"If a silly joke draws attention to the plight of these servicemen, then so much the better. My intention was only to make people laugh."
Carr later said that, after telling the joke to 9,000 people on tour, only two had complained.
"There are a hundred jokes in the show that are worse than that," he noted.
The quick-fire comedian told the Guardian he had found the media reaction on that occasion "generally stressing".
But he is used to the attention. Jokes about gypsies, car crashes and Variety Club coaches have also made the press.
"I'm quite an edgy comic - I like dark things so it's lovely that I've found that many people who share my sense of humour," he told the Independent in 2008.
He researches that audience reaction extensively, reading one-liners from a clipboard at his preview shows, and rating the response from his fans.
The greatest of those gags are then taken on tour - and the comedian drives himself to all his gigs.
Carr grew up in Slough, Berkshire, before graduating with a political sciences degree from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
He worked in marketing until he left his job at Shell in January 2000, the same month he performed his first paid comedy gig, aged 27, earning "Â£80 for 20 minutes in Plymouth".
Carr, who also trained as a psychotherapist, said he had become unhappy with his life and decided comedy would be "a joyful thing to do".
His first solo show, Bare-faced Ambition, performed at his debut Edinburgh Festival in 2002, earned him a Perrier award nomination and was followed by TV appearances - including a spot with Des O'Connor in 2003.
He became a regular on shows like Have I Got News For You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI and wrote and presented Channel 4's series of "100 greatest" countdown shows.
Like many working comedians, he is fascinated by the psychology of joke-telling, and wrote a book on the many theories of comedy in 2007.
The Naked Jape, co-authored by his university friend Lucy Greeves, looked into why stand-up comedy is dominated by men, how jokes are constructed, and what constitutes offensive humour (context is more important than content, they noted).
Carr has put his research to use in annual tours, including 2006's Gag Reflex, 2008's Joke Technician and 2009's Rapier Wit.
As well as fronting 13 series of comedy quiz show 8 out of 10 Cats, Carr has most recently appeared on shows including Deal or No Deal, and at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.
"The temptation to say something inappropriate is almost too much," he told the audience. "I could end up in the Tower by the end of the evening."
Carr - who supports charities including Comic Relief and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - counts fellow performers including Simon Pegg, Jonathan Ross and David Walliams as friends.
The Little Britain star once commented that Carr "dares you to dislike him".
In 2006, Carr told the Guardian: "When I meet people on the high street, they are surprised I'm friendly because they think I'm going to be very barbed. I'm not. I just happen to like that sort of joke."
Earlier this year, Carr lampooned people who avoid tax during the second series of Channel 4's satirical news programme 10 O'Clock Live.
A sketch from the show, in which he donned a dress and blonde wig to poke fun at Barclays' 1% tax rate, has now come back to haunt him.
A number of papers have referenced the sketch, which referred to "aggressive" and "amoral, blood-hungry tax lawyers" while some websites have carried a clip from the programme.
Fans at the next date of his current Gagging Order tour - in Stockport, Greater Manchester, on Friday night - will be interested to see whether Carr makes reference to his current situation.
According to
          some reports
, he was heckled about his tax affairs at a show in Tunbridge Wells on Tuesday, replying: "The Murdochs are after me..."
But it may be harder to make light of the story following his mea culpa on Thursday morning.


Last year's victor Many Clouds is among 126 entries for the 2016 Grand National at Aintree on 9 April.

The 2014 winner Pineau De Re - which, like Many Clouds, was ridden to victory by Leighton Aspell - features in the largest list of entries since 2008.
Five of the top six horses from last year's race have been entered - but Monbeg Dude, who finished third, will not have recovered from injury in time.
A maximum field of 40 will be selected to start the Liverpool race.


A man has been jailed for more than three years for a robbery in which he took a single £10 note.

Stephen Bollard, 25, had been freed early from prison for a similar offence when he raided a newsagent and grocery shop in Cockenzie, East Lothian.
The court was told the shopkeeper, Mohammad Ramzan was shaken but physically unharmed by the incident, in which Bollard brandished a screwdriver.
Bollard's lawyer said he felt "remorse" for the attack on 16 August last year.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Uist told Bollard: "When you committed this offence you were under the influence of drugs and alcohol."
Lord Uist said it was clear from a background report and his previous convictions that he had "a long-standing drug misuse problem".
He jailed Bollard for three years and two months, but ordered that he first serve 183 days imprisonment, which was outstanding from his previous sentence for armed robbery with a knife.
The judge also ordered that he should be kept under supervision for a further two years.


Motorists will be tested for cannabis and cocaine for the first time during an anti-drink and drugs campaign by the four Welsh police forces.

Officers will be able to take swabs from drivers' mouths to test for any of eight prescription or eight illegal drugs after a change in regulations.
The new rules run alongside the existing law where it is an offence to drive when impaired by any drug.
Drivers face prosecution if they exceed limits set for the tests.
The existing penalties mean drug drivers already face a fine up to Â£5,000, up to six months in prison and a minimum one-year driving ban.
Those using prescription drugs within recommended amounts will not be penalised.
The All Wales Summer Anti-Drink and Drug Drive Campaign begins on Monday and runs for a month.
North Wales Police is leading the new campaign.
Sgt Alun Davies said: "This summer will be the first campaign with the new drug testing kits to help detect cannabis and cocaine as well as standard kits for alcohol testing, so we are better equipped than ever to detect and penalise those who take this very dangerous risk."
New legislation came into force in March 2015 which measures how much of a substance - both illegal drugs and prescription medications - motorists have in their system while driving.
In north Wales, police have conducted their own drugs tests with 18 out of 61 proving positive between March and May.
During last summer's drink-drive campaign across Wales, 15,485 breath tests were carried out with 358 being positive.


George Clooney has been given permission to install 18 CCTV cameras at his Â£10m country home.

The film star and his lawyer wife Amal want to erect the cameras on poles up to 5m (16ft) high in the grounds of their manor house in Sonning Eye, on the Oxfordshire-Berkshire border.
Eye and Dunsden Parish Council initially raised concerns over privacy and the CCTV system's visual impact.
But the planned height of the poles was reduced and the complaint was dropped.
South Oxfordshire District Council says planning permission has now been granted as the CCTV system will not be detrimental to the special architectural and historical interest of the listed building.
It is located on an island in the River Thames on the county border between Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
The Hollywood star bought the property in late 2014.


Goals from Calum Dyson and Chris Clements gave returning Grimsby manager Russell Slade a 2-1 win in his first game in charge against Cambridge.

On-loan Everton striker Dyson gave the hosts the lead from the penalty spot before Clements wrapped up the points, with Brad Halliday grabbing a late consolation for Shaun Derry's side.
After an even first half with few chances, Grimsby began the second half brightly as Jamey Osborne saw a curling effort from the edge of the box deflected over for a corner.
And it was the midfielder who won a penalty moments later as he was brought down by Conor Newton, giving Dyson the chance to slam the ball past goalkeeper Will Norris.
Medy Elito was presented with a chance to bring Cambridge level seconds after coming on as a substitute, but his first-time shot was well-saved by James McKeown.
Clements made it 2-0 late on as he slotted home from Osborne's cutback, but Halliday set up a grandstand finish as he headed in late on.
Grimsby managed to hang onto their lead, though, as Slade made the perfect start to his second stint at Blundell Park.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 1.
Second Half ends, Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 1.
(Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
Goal!  Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 1. Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Adam McGurk with a cross.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Boyce (Grimsby Town).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Paul Lewis replaces Liam O'Neil.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Craig Disley replaces Sam Jones.
Attempt saved. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Grimsby Town 2, Cambridge United 0. Chris Clements (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamey Osborne with a cross.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Danny Collins (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam McGurk (Cambridge United).
Jamey Osborne (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Gavin Gunning.
Chris Clements (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jake Carroll (Cambridge United).
Foul by Gavin Gunning (Grimsby Town).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Adam McGurk replaces Conor Newton.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Tom Bolarinwa replaces James Berrett.
Sam Jones (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Jones (Grimsby Town).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Liam O'Neil (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sam Jones (Grimsby Town) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Medy Elito replaces George Maris.
Goal!  Grimsby Town 1, Cambridge United 0. Callum Dyson (Grimsby Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Grimsby Town. Jamey Osborne draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner,  Grimsby Town. Conceded by Leon Legge.


Health bosses have approved plans to delay routine surgery for smokers and obese people.

The restrictions, brought in by NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), mean overweight patients will have to lose 10% of their weight before surgery.
Smokers face a six-month delay.
Clare Marx, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), said that "patients should be treated equally according to their symptoms".
The CCG said only elective surgery for non-life threatening procedures, such as hip and knee operations, would be affected.
The new rule will be introduced in January.
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Clinical lead Dr Shaun O'Connell denied reports the measures amounted to a ban on surgery.
He claimed the change would bring patients the "best possible health outcomes in the long term" while helping to protect finances.
"There is no ban and no blanket policy," said Dr O'Connell.
"People who do not wish to access the support services or fail to meet the criteria will not be denied their operation, decisions about what is in the best interests of their health, will be made on a case-by-case basis."
The CCG, which serves a population of more than 351,000 in areas including York, Selby and Tadcaster and parts of East Yorkshire proposed the surgery delay in September, but it was put on hold when NHS England and the RCS raised concerns.
NHS England has now approved the plan.
RCS president Clare Marx said she thought the CCG's decision was "financially motivated".
"We think all patients should be treated according to their clinical need," she said.
"We really do believe that everybody needs to eat healthy and if possible give up smoking, but that should not be the deciding factor on whether or not you eventually you get your operation in a timely manner."


A man has been killed and his twin brother injured after an attack by a bull on a farm in the Republic of Ireland.

Police were called to investigate the sudden death of Patrick Dowds, a man in his 60s, on the farm in Toulett, near Burt, in County Donegal on Wednesday.
It is understood he was attacked by the bull as he was inspecting fields.
His twin brother, George, who lived with him on the farm, was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital.
Charlie Doherty, a friend of the Dowds and a neighbouring farmer, said Patrick had gone out to feed the cattle as normal but had not returned home.
It was then that his brother George alerted some neighbours and they went to look for him.
"They seen the nuts used to feed the cattle and the bucket was still there, and not realising that the bull had killed Patrick they went into the field and the bull attacked George," said Charlie.
"The bull threw George into the air and had him on the ground.
"He rolled away from him and then the neighbours' shouting distracted the bull so George was able to get away to safety."
Mr Doherty said the whole community was in shock
"Patrick would be a very happy-go-lucky fella, he was always up for the craic and the banter," he said.
"It's really sad to hear it. It's just a real tragedy and I know the community will rally round and help the family but it's a real shock.
"Both of them lived together, they were single men living at the home farm.
"This is a real farming area and this just shows what a dangerous job it can be. Patrick went out like he went out every other day, thinking he'd come home."
The Donegal Chairman of the Irish Farmers Association, Michael Chance, who knows the family, said it was a tragic accident.
"The man went out yesterday to look at his cattle and, sadly, it appears the bull turned on him with tragic consequences," he said.
"Certain breeds of bulls are considered dangerous. This was a Charolais bull which would normally be considered one of the more docile breeds, but any bull can turn nasty.
"It's just very sad. He was a man who was very well liked by his neighbours and his life revolved around his farm."


Fr Alec Reid, who was a key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, acting as a go-between between the IRA and politicians, has died.

He died in a Dublin Hospital at 06:40 GMT on Friday.
Fr Reid, 82, a  member of the Redemptorist order, secretly acted as a conduit between the republican movement and the SDLP.
He was one of the witnesses who confirmed the decommissioning of IRA weapons.
In recent years, he was involved in talks with Basque nationalists seeking independence from Spain.
In 1988, Fr Reid was pictured praying over the bodies of Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes who had been dragged from their car, beaten and shot by the IRA.
The corporals had inadvertently driven into the midst of a republican funeral in Belfast.
The photograph of the bloodstained priest crouched praying over one of the soldiers was one of the starkest images of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "Fr Alec Reid's intervention to administer last rites epitomised his enormous faith and strength of conviction.
"His comfort was given amidst the enormous fears and tension on that terrible day in March 1988."
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said Clonard monastery, Fr Reid's base in west Belfast during the Troubles, was "the cradle of the peace process".
He told RTÉ Radio he was with Fr Reid on Thursday night in St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, and had been due to visit him again on Friday.
"What Alec Reid did was, he lived the gospel message. He developed a view which was contrary to the official view, that there had to be dialogue, and he was tenacious."
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, said: "I heard with sadness of the death of Fr Reid.
"We all owe a debt of gratitude to him for the role he played in the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland."
Former SDLP leader John Hume said Fr Reid was "not simply a go between" in the early days of negotiating for peace.
"He was an active player in fighting for an end to violence," Mr Hume said.
"Without his courage, determination and utter selflessness, the road to peace in our region would have been much longer and much more difficult to traverse.
"While we mourn the loss of a great man, we must also celebrate the legacy of peace and an opportunity to reconcile our people that he gave to us. It is an opportunity we cannot afford to waste."
Michael D Higgins, the president of Ireland, said: "His ministering of the last rites to the two British corporals brutally killed in 1988 offered us an image of decency struggling to assert itself amidst brutality."
There were tears and tributes in west Belfast as news broke of the death of Fr Alec Reid.
"He should have got a Nobel Peace Prize," said one man. "But maybe he turned it down. The only prize he wanted was peace."
One elderly woman, tears streaming down her face, said: "He should be remembered with respect.
"He was someone who children should aspire to be like."
Fr Reid's funeral will take place at 12:00 GMT on Wednesday after requiem Mass in Clonard church in west Belfast.


A cross-party group of MPs has said maximum stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals should be cut from £100 to £2 to reduce "societal harm".

The MPs also called on the government to bring in rules to slow down the speed at which the machines operate.
Bookmakers should employ more staff to help reduce crime linked to the terminals, they added.
But industry body the Association of British Bookmakers said the group of MPs was "a kangaroo court".
Shares in William Hill fell more than 7% and Ladbrokes Coral shares fell more than 6% after the MPs' announcement.
Fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) are gambling machines, normally located on bookmakers' premises, where players can stake large amounts of money on games such as roulette.
Given the potential for big losses due to the maximum £100 stakes and the speed of spin on the terminals, the government should take immediate action, said Labour MP Carolyn Harris.
"The government has a duty to protect the most vulnerable in our society and to act in the public interest.
"We therefore strongly urge them to properly regulate FOBTs and to do so with immediate effect," she said.
The all-party parliamentary group on fixed-odds betting terminals, which Ms Harris chairs, said it had received reports of increased crime due to the presence of the machines in bookmakers.
The government should consider not just "problem gambling" but also "wider gambling-related harm caused by FOBTs and the cumulative impact on families and communities that these machines can have".
However, the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) described the group of MPs as "a kangaroo court".
"It is a small group of anti-bookmaking MPs, funded by casinos and arcades that will benefit from undermining bookmakers," an ABB spokesman said.
"When a properly balanced and independent Select Committee of MPs investigated FOBTs, they came out strongly in favour of them.
"As opposed to that Select Committee report, this is a biased and highly misleading piece of work, with no material evidence to support their claims."
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is in the process of reviewing fixed-odds gambling machines.


President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders targeting the US trade deficit, ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit.

One order includes a study looking at causes of the deficit by examining unpaid duties and foreign trade abuses.
The second will initiate a review of the American trade deficit and rules Mr Trump says harm US workers.
Administration officials said Beijing was not the focus, but China is the largest source of the US trade deficit.
President Trump signed the orders on Friday at the White House.
"We are going to get these bad trade deals straightened out," he told reporters during the signing.
"These actions are designed to let the world know that this is a president taking another step to fulfil his campaign promise," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday night, previewing the executive orders.
Mr Trump spent a large part of his presidential campaign railing against the US trade deficit and foreign trade deals.
Mr Ross will lead a comprehensive review accounting for the sources of the $502.3bn trade deficit and report back to the White House after 90 days.
The study will look at whether cheating, trade deals, lax enforcement and World Trade Organization rules play a role in the deficit, according to Mr Ross.
The orders also will focus on stricter enforcement of the US anti-dumping laws and countervailing duties, or the penalties imposed on foreign governments who violate trade rules, as well as pirated and counterfeited intellectual property owned by US companies.
The pair of orders come one week before Mr Trump meets the Chinese president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Director of the White House National Trade Council Peter Navarro told reporters that the orders had nothing to do with Mr Xi's visit.
But China is the source of America's highest trade deficit, at $347bn a year.
"Nothing we're saying tonight is about China. Let's not make this a China story. This is a story about trade abuses, this is a story about an under-collection of duties," Mr Navarro said.
Mr Trump tweeted on Thursday night that his first meeting with Mr Xi would "be a very difficult one in that we can no longer have massive trade deficits...and job losses".
"American companies must be prepared to look at other alternatives," he added.
The half trillion-dollar deficit slightly increased from 2015, according to the Commerce Department.
The trade gap reached a record level since 2012 last year, though the imbalance remains below its previous high in 2006.


The stepfather of missing 12-year-old schoolgirl Tia Sharp has said the family is "in bits" and urged people to find "my little girl".

David Niles, 29, said Tia's mother Natalie was distraught and he had not slept for four days.
Tia disappeared after leaving her grandmother's home in Croydon, south-east London, at about midday on Friday.
CCTV stills of Tia taken outside the nearby Co-op the day before have been issued by police.
On Tuesday evening, around 100 local people gathered at Croydon Rugby Club to search for Tia.
Club secretary Sue Randall said: "We were here last night with the police and they told us all to come back today.
"At the moment there's about 100 people but more came and went off to start the search."
She said people would search for "however long it takes".
Earlier, police began searching a local wood, Birchwood, which is less than a mile from Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp's home in New Addington.
A team of nine officers dressed in blue police baseball hats used long sticks to scour the undergrowth.
Police said there had been 55 reported sightings of the girl, but these were yet to be confirmed.
Wearing a T-shirt bearing Tia's image, Mr Niles said: "I just want to find my little girl.
"We're in bits, the whole country has helped us and is supporting us.
"I haven't slept in four days. Natalie (Tia's mother) is in bits."
He said he last saw Tia on Thursday morning at the family home in Mitcham before he headed to work.
"She was good as gold," Mr Niles said.
"I know I am not her real dad, but I have been there since day dot.
"When she left the house she shouted 'Bye' and 'See you by six'."
Tia's grandmother said she was pinning her hopes on new CCTV stills of Tia taken outside the Co-op in Featherbed Lane near her house at about 16:15 BST on the day before she went missing.
The girl was wearing similar clothes when she was last seen leaving her grandmother's house on Friday.
Speaking from her terrace house where a solitary candle burns outside in a glass holder, Mrs Sharp said: "We're hoping the pictures will jog someone's memory."
She thanked the community for supporting the family.
A campaign has also been launched on the social networking site Facebook, while The Sun newspaper has offered a Â£25,000 reward for information that will help police find Tia.
Police have scoured hours of CCTV footage but have not found any trace of Tia, who has never gone missing before.
She had been on her way to the Whitgift shopping centre, in Croydon, when she went missing.
On Monday, Tia's uncle David Sharp, 28, urged anyone who knew where his niece was to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Nick Scola, from the Met's Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said the youngster spent a lot of time at her grandmother's house and the last person to see Tia was her grandmother's partner, but on Tuesday Tia's stepfather said he was not sure about that.
Mr Scola said: "She [Tia] told her grandmother's partner she was going out.
"He was the last person to see her, that we are aware of at this time.
"We have recovered a number of items but we now know that they do not belong to Tia."
Police said Tia went there the previous day after travelling by tram, with her grandmother's partner meeting her half-way at East Croydon station.
Officers are particularly keen to hear from anyone in the Lindens area of New Addington who has information and appealed for any bus or tram drivers in the Croydon area who recognise Tia's description to contact them.
She is known to frequent the Croydon, Mitcham and Wimbledon areas.
Tia is described as white, 4ft 5in tall and slim, and was wearing FCUK glasses.


And so that is it for Mo Farah in championship track finals: seven years of wonder, 10 global golds in a row and a silver to finish, dancing under the lights from Korea to Rio, Moscow to Beijing, to London and then back again.

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It began with innocence and it ended with a sold-out stadium of his compatriots roaring his name. Along the way he has been both a constant and an agent of change - a guaranteed gold until the very end, a lonely long distance runner every kid and granny in the country knows; a draw big enough to have pubs show his finals on big screens, the face of an open, forward-facing nation in an fractured, introspective time.
British crowds in this stadium and on sofas across the country have made that journey with him. Wonder at the start, an intimacy as it developed with his tactics and celebrations afterwards, a collective desire to see him finish in the perfect way.
Farah's devastation that his last championship race ended with a first defeat since August 2011 was clear as he fell to the Stratford track. The deafening wave of noise that had chased him round the stadium throughout the preceding 12 and a half laps broke into a stunned silence.
The roars soon returned. First the British women's quartet stormed to a 4x100m relay silver that represented a perfect synergy of their burgeoning individual talents. Then GB's men went one better, putting together an impeccable combination of changeovers and legs to win the nation's first sprint relay gold at a World Championships.
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In those moments you sensed a generational shift, a feeling intensified by the sight of Usain Bolt stricken halfway down the home straight, his own valediction ending in pain and defeat and very nearly a wheelchair before he limped away, lost in the bedlam.
Farah and Bolt, old friends, partners in track hegemony over the past decade, had shared a hug on the access road deep under the main stand as the Briton left the arena after his 5,000m and the Jamaican arrived for his sprint relay final.
Just as Bolt had been after his defeat by Justin Gatlin in the 100m final a week ago, Farah is left without the scripted happy ending. The two champions have discovered in the same few days that time catches up with even the fastest of men, although the Briton did win 10,000m gold on the opening day of these championships.
In a strange way Farah's defeat may eventually both bring a greater appreciation for all that has come before and tighten further the bond between him and his audience.
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The problem with perfection is that you can begin to believe there might be nothing else. You can start to think that repetition means it might be easy. You lose the connection between your humble world and theirs.
When flaws eventually show, when muscles that were pushed to their limits finally refuse to give back as they have before, you see the effort and the character that might previously have slipped by unnoticed.
So it was with Farah, who knew coming into the last 70 metres that Ethiopia's Muktar Edris could not be caught but threw everything he had into fighting past Paul Chelimo and Yomif Kejelcha for a silver that at the start of the night he would have considered failure.
As former Olympic and world decathlon champion Daley Thompson said, watching for BBC Sport, it was like watching a gunslinger die with his boots on. So too with Bolt, who has probably known all year that he should have waved farewell after Rio a year ago, but tried forcing his creaking, popping body to respond one final time.
Innocence and wonder always seemed to come naturally to Farah, the naïve immigrant kid who on his first day at Oriel Junior School in Hanworth had gone home with a black eye after trying the least appropriate of his three English phrases ("Excuse me", "Where is the toilet?" and "Come on then") on the playground bully.
In his school races at Feltham Community College he sometimes misunderstood the instructions, took wrong turns and had to double back. As a talented teenager carrying heavy hopes he would be surprised when told how greater success would come - drinking, partying, jumping off Kingston Bridge into the Thames for a dare.
But there was never a naivety in the way he raced as a matured champion, up against 14 other men in global 5,000m finals, posses from other nations ganging up to disrupt his tactics, all trying to mess with his rhythm, sitting in his eyeline or breathing down his neck, slipping an unseen elbow into his ribs or leaning a little shoulder in as pumping arms came together.
Great distance runners must have intuition and intelligence and the physical weapons to utilise them.
They must be aware of what is happening in front of them and behind them and on either side, to calculate what those 14 rivals might want to be doing, and to respond to every challenge thrown at them - a burst from the gun, a punishing jab-hook of laps alternated fast and slow, a wind up from way out, an explosive kick from the bell or final all-out kick down the home straight.
Not all the innocence went with the appreciation of that. After the holy nights of London 2012 and Farah's crescendo to Super Saturday came the hangover: a series of allegations against Farah's coach Alberto Salazar and leaks from the Russian hackers Fancy Bears that made many wonder in a different way.
UK Athletics's review found "no evidence of any impropriety" in Farah nor any reason to "lack confidence" in his training programme. Salazar is still being investigated by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
Some of those around Farah changed too. An uncomplicated man who lived to run employed PR firm Freuds to help manage his image. His smile, always unaffected and never far away, was repurposed by his shoe sponsor Nike as the subject of an advertising campaign.
And so some wondered and speculated, even as the majority wondered and marvelled.
Saturday night in Stratford, summer evening sky up above all pale blue and purple clouds, stands down below packed with partisans and Union flags, spoke only of belief.
"Would you have been prouder to have done it for Somalia?" a reporter had asked Farah in the aftermath of his 10,000m win in London five long summers ago. The obsessive Arsenal fan had been indignant. "Not at all, mate. This is my country."
As he stepped off the track on Saturday, beaten at last, it still felt that way, both looking at the crowd and the man they had come to roar home. Innocence to some, a wonder to far more.


"Some of those gimmicks - that tombstone, whatever idiot thought that up I do not know!"

I was talking to the former Mayor of Crawley in Sussex, John Mortimer, in the town's Labour Supporters Club about the vexed question of what went wrong, and where Labour should go next.
This seat is one of those southern seats Labour hoped to take, but failed.
I hear a whole range of views in the club.
"They didn't give nothing to depend on, they should be clear, and a little bit more down to Earth."
"Good party, wrong leader, they don't look after business enough."
Councillor John Stanley tells me: "I think in a way we did go too left, but now we can go a bit centre-left, or centre, depending who the new leader is."
The former mayor sums up the mood on the doorstep: "Whatever we told them, they didn't believe us."
Expect to hear all those views, and more, in the coming leadership contest.
Step back from the angst of supporters, and it may not be that hard to see why Labour failed.
An economic recovery, hailed by independent organisations as the result of government policy, undid a party that had loudly proclaimed for five years that the coalition's policies would lead to economic disaster.
Combine that with an uncharismatic and uninspirational leader, then you might argue no further debate is necessary.
Fat chance of that.
Defeat breeds resentment, and this one has opened up old divisions.
A chorus of Blairties, led by the man himself, has declared that Ed's problem was ignoring those with aspiration and ambition, failing to appeal to those running business.
Incidentally, I've been ticked off by the perspicacious editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley, for using the "unhelpful" term "Blairites".
I can't think of another description that fits Tony, Lord Mandelson, Lord Adonis and David Miliband quite so well.
But call them what you will, the message was clear - Ed was too left wing, Labour should move back to the centre, or, if you like, to the right.
Reading Mr Blair's pithy analysis, listening to Lord Mandelson's gripping and savage eloquence, describing a party sent out to shout: "We love the poor and hate the rich," and so ignoring the middle, and you realise strong emotions are in play.
But back to the future may not be sufficient.
Of course elections are won on the centre ground.
But grandees grinding axes, affronted by the failure of boys who used to make their tea, may be creating so much noise that they can't hear more insistent sounds.
For there are several elephants trumpeting loudly as they cram into the small space of the shadow cabinet room.
Imagine these beasts are as gaily decorated as Berlin buddy bears. One is decked out in red, another in imperial purple bunting, and another, a mammoth, strong tusked and ice rimmed, painted yellow with tartan trimmings.
Take the last first.
The Scottish wipeout is Labour's biggest problem.
Fail to solve it, and Labour can forget ever having a comfortable majority again.
It is hard to argue Labour were wiped out in Scotland because the SNP outflanked them to the right with their appeal to the business community and the ambitious and aspirational.
But it is true the SNP drew in to people from left, right and centre, just as the modernisers say Labour should.
It was the politics of economic self-interest, but cast in a very different light.
Tribally sneering at "the reactionary ideology of nationalism" as Mr Blair does, will not reach the central belt of Scotland, the middle ground of  Midlothian.
What about that purple pachyderm?  In Crawley - in fact in seat after seat - there is a similar pattern.
Labour did, in fact, often increase the size of their vote. So did the Conservatives, usually by a bit more.
But the real dynamic was the total collapse of the Lib Dems and the dramatic rise of UKIP.
The increase in votes for Nigel Farage's party wasn't translated into parliamentary seats, but, although it is early days in terms of research, it probably hurt Labour a lot.
If we believe - and I do - Matthew Goodwin and Rob Ford, authors of Revolt on the Right, these voters are often former Labour supporters - older, less educated, those left behind on the tides of  globalisation, stranded on the shores of post-industrialisation.
They may have had too many disappointments to feel much ambition or aspiration.
They are a challenge for Labour, and any new leader will spend a good deal of time thinking how to deal with the concerns of Europe and immigration.
Whether to share their fears, or confront them will be a big decision.
Which brings us to Red Nellie. Those members who still proudly call themselves socialist.
This is not about Old Labour - they are more likely to be baristas or barristers than boilermakers.
It is easy as an outsider, as a journalist, to treat politics as an intellectual game about how best to win power - but many people, particularly the foot soldiers, particularly after the death of  purely tribal loyalties, are in it because they passionately believe in winning  power to do something specific.
Many of them are suspicious of the later incarnations of New Labour, not because it reached an accommodation with wealth and business, but because it seemed to worship at the same altar, to regard the party's core beliefs in redistribution and equality as childish fantasies from a past age.
Perhaps to Mr Blair, they are the problem, people who may equate "ambition" with greed.
They might point out that a man who claims to be worth "only" £20m may find it harder than most to squeeze through the eye of a needle to understand their point of view.
Most successful Labour leaders will confront the left at some point, but the concerns of this group go to the existential question "What is the party for?"
This is not a polemic - not an argument about what should be done, but a reflection on the complex conundrums that will face any new Labour leader, the tearing apart of the old alliance that made up a Labour majority, and so the political need to satisfy groups with very different, indeed, contradictory demands.
But looking for a Social Democratic universal theory of everything may be missing the point.
What the party desperately wants is a leader who can pull the disparate threads together and articulate them as common purpose.
Whether she or he exists is another matter.
Much more on that in the coming months.


The first design images of the refurbished Burrell collection building in Glasgow have been made public.

The collection - housed in the south of Glasgow - has been closed to allow work on a multi-million pound project.
When it opens to visitors in 2020, the basement of the building will become part of the exhibition space.
The Burrell collection consists of more than 8,000 artefacts but fewer than a fifth of them have been on show at any one time.
The treasures were donated to the city by collector Sir William Burrell in 1944.
It is estimated that the total cost of the refurbishment project will be between Â£60m and Â£66m.
Under the modernisation plans, a new roof and high performance glazing will make the museum more energy-efficient.
Two new floors of exhibition space will be created so that 90% of the 8,000 objects can be viewed by the public.
Sir Angus Grossart, the chairman of Burrell Renaissance said: "The designs will see the museum undergo the most comprehensive modernisation since opening to international acclaim in 1983.
"The proposals will deliver the high quality and innovative solutions for this exciting project.
"We expect to be able to show previously unseen works from this rich collection, and strengthen the reach of this extraordinary world-class museum."
Architects John McAslan and Partners will work on the project.
Director Hannah Lawson said: "The Burrell provides an inspiring setting for shipping magnate Sir William Burrell's vast collection of art and antiquities within a category A listed building of international significance.
"John McAslan and Partners are delighted to be leading a team dedicated to the comprehensive repair and refurbishment of this architectural masterpiece.
"By providing a new circulation core we can open up new parts of the gallery to visitors and greatly increase the display area for the collections."


Tammy Abraham scored a last-minute winner as Bristol City came from behind to beat Fulham in the EFL Cup third round tie at Craven Cottage.

Lucas Piazon headed Fulham into an early lead from Cauley Woodrow's cross from the right before Aaron Wilbraham levelled before the break for City.
Fulham missed the chance to retake the lead after the interval when Woodrow had a penalty saved by Ivan Lucic.
Callum O'Dowda's low cross then found Abraham to poke home City's second.
Abraham had come off the bench to score the decisive goal, the 18-year-old's ninth in only 11 appearances since joining on loan from Chelsea.
O'Dowda, himself a summer addition from Oxford United, was the provider for both of the Robins' goals.
His surging run to the edge of the area and neat ball in allowed Wilbraham to dink the ball over Fulham goalkeeper Jesse Joronen.
O'Dowda then calmly picked out Abraham's run to the near post as Joronen was unable to get enough on the ball to stop it crossing the line.
Earlier Piazon, another Chelsea loanee, had given Fulham the perfect start but they ultimately paid the price for Woodrow's missed penalty after the break.
The striker failed to convert his chance from 12 yards after Taylor Moore was booked for fouling him.
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic said:
"You have to play from the first minute to the last in all the games. It's disappointing for us but we made many chances in the first half, we missed the penalty in the second half.
"To be honest, at the end of the game Bristol City had some very good chances, and then scored the goal in the last minute.
"On the other side, I managed to make the team believe it can do it, and we were very close.
"We played many minutes of good football and we created the chances. We played very well in the first half."
Bristol City manager Lee Johnson said:
"Tammy Abraham comes on again, he's the trump card for the last 20 minutes and I'm delighted for him to carry the weight of us yet again.
"The world is his oyster, the test will be does he keep his feet on the ground? I think he will, he's got his family behind him.
"I think had they scored the penalty, I still believe this group would have had chances to get back in it because they don't know when to throw the towel in.
"I'm really chuffed, I'm quite proud actually. We've got a lot of young players on the pitch, in the first half Fulham were the better side but the second half we were outstanding."
Match ends, Fulham 1, Bristol City 2.
Second Half ends, Fulham 1, Bristol City 2.
Goal!  Fulham 1, Bristol City 2. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Callum O'Dowda.
Corner,  Bristol City. Conceded by Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Attempt missed. Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Substitution, Fulham. Neeskens Kebano replaces Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Corner,  Bristol City. Conceded by Jesse Joronen.
Attempt saved. Luke Freeman (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bristol City. Bobby Reid replaces Aaron Wilbraham.
Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Malone (Fulham).
Attempt missed. Lucas Piazon (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Fulham. Luca De La Torre replaces Tayo Edun.
Attempt missed. Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Bristol City. Tammy Abraham replaces Gustav Engvall.
Taylor Moore (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cauley Woodrow (Fulham).
Attempt saved. Luke Freeman (Bristol City) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top left corner.
Jesse Joronen (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jesse Joronen (Fulham).
Foul by Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City).
Stefan Johansen (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Ivan Lucic.
Penalty saved! Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom right corner.
Taylor Moore (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Taylor Moore (Bristol City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Fulham. Cauley Woodrow draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Luke Freeman (Bristol City).
Ryan Tunnicliffe (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Fulham 1, Bristol City 1.
Substitution, Bristol City. Mark Little replaces Adam Matthews.
First Half ends, Fulham 1, Bristol City 1.
Attempt missed. Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Aden Flint.
Goal!  Fulham 1, Bristol City 1. Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum O'Dowda.
Attempt missed. Scott Malone (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Aden Flint.


Across the city centre glossy office blocks are sprouting up in a tangible sign of Ireland's economic recovery.
There are more than 30 tower cranes across the skyline and construction firms are hiring.
When the outgoing government took power in 2011 unemployment was over 14% and the economy was barely growing.
Today, unemployment is below 9% and Ireland probably has the fastest growing economy in Europe.
In an election campaign, that fact should give a huge advantage to the centre-right Fine Gael and the centre-left Labour who have been in power for the last five years.
But the polls indicate they will struggle to form a majority. Labour could lose as many as half its seats.
Economic growth has not translated into a feelgood factor.
Architect Hugh Wallace believes the coalition deserve more credit for their economic management.
At the peak of the boom his studio employed 160 people, but in 2009 the economic crash pushed the business into liquidation.
Now he's back, employing a team of young designers and working on projects from Belfast to Oman.
"I think Noonan [the Irish finance minister] has done an amazing job. People forget what 2011 was like here. Nobody knew what was going to happen.
"But Labour, I think, have been kicked for the wrong reasons."
Sources of dissatisfaction are easy to find.
Citizens have been hit with a raft of spending cuts and tax rises over the last five years as the coalition continued to implement the austerity demanded by the international institutions which bailed Ireland out.
There is a housing crisis in Dublin. A dysfunctional market which delivered too may houses in the wrong places now can't provide enough in the right places.
The Capuchin Day Centre in the north inner city is at the sharp end of that crisis.
It provides food and medical help for hundreds of homeless people every day.
It is run by Brother Kevin Crowley who says his main concern is "the number of family and children coming in here every day.
"It's absolutely appalling to see the number of children who are leaving here to live in hotel rooms," he said.
"The government has done nothing in the last number of years for housing."
Only a small minority of people will have experienced the trauma of homelessness but there is a widespread feeling that the fruits of recovery have not been widely shared.
There is a perception that the winners have been been people in Dublin who work for multinationals.
When it comes to job creation that is not necessarily borne out by the numbers.
Prof Alan Barrett, from the Economic and Social Research Institute, says most regions have benefited.
"Dublin is experiencing the greatest growth and things are not good in the west, but places like the border regions and the south east are experiencing employment growth," he said.
"Over the last two years we've created about 100,000 jobs and something like 20% are in construction. So it is broadly based."
The coalition has just two weeks to convince the electorate that it is best placed to build on that progress.


Tesco has recalled a contact lens solution amid concerns it could burn people's eyes and cause other "serious health consequences".

The supermarket withdrew all batch codes of the 360ml Bausch + Lomb "EasySept Hydro + Peroxide Solution".
Trading Standards said the "potential fault" means peroxide could remain in the lens case, which could cause a number of health issues.
The BBC has approached Bausch + Lomb for a comment.
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute said customers who have bought the product should not use it.
It said: "Residual peroxide could potentially remain in the lens case after neutralization.
"If the residual hydrogen peroxide is above product specification, the user could experience burning/stinging, irritation, red eye and, in rare circumstances, other more serious health consequences."
A Tesco spokesman said the solution was recalled "as a precautionary measure" as requested by the manufacturer.
He added the product is also on sale "across a number of retailers".
No other Bausch + Lomb products are known to be affected.


Raspberry Pi computers are being used to power "micro" radio transmitters in Syria.

The Pocket FMs, as they are called, were designed by a German organisation as a way of providing Syrians with independent radio.
The devices have a range of between 4 to 6km (2.5 to 3.75 miles), which is enough to cover an entire town.
At the heart of each is a Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized single-board computers.
About two dozen have been built, and the designer says they are intended to be as easy to set up as a piece of flat-pack furniture.
"We lost one device in Kobane", Philipp Hochleichter told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
"But due to the bombing - not due to a malfunction."
The Pocket FMs are deployed in situations in which larger transmitters would be difficult to set up and operate.
"We tried to develop a small box that is easy to carry around, easy to transport, easy to hide [and] that is based on 12 volts so you can connect it to a solar system or a car battery", Mr Hochleichter explained.
The Pocket FMs broadcast a channel created by a network of nine stations based in the region called Syrnet.
The devices pick up a satellite feed of the channel, and rebroadcast it on a FM frequency, so people in Syria can listen on ordinary radios.
Eventually, the devices will be capable of picking up the Syrnet channel via wi-fi and mobile data. The channel is also available to listen to online, and via a mobile app.
The group behind the project is Media in Cooperation and Transition, a Berlin based non-governmental body.
As well as designing the Pocket FMs and maintaining Syrnet, MiCT employs a team of journalists, many of whom are expatriate Syrians. They help the small independent stations make programmes.
The Pocket FMs operate in the areas not controlled by either President Bashar al-Assad's regime or the so-called Islamic State militants.
"There is a space, it might be tiny, where people are against Assad and not part of the Islamic movements" said Najat Abdulhaq, who manages the Berlin-based journalists.
Welat FM is a member of Syrnet.
The station is based in Qamishli in the far north-east of Syria. An airport visible from the studio window is still under the control of the Assad regime.
"What is really annoying is you look from the  window, and you see the airport and you hear the noise of the warplanes, every day, at night, the whole time," the editor-in-chief of Welat FM tells the BBC.
"A few years ago the repression of the Syrian government was everywhere," but now, he adds, radio has become an important means of communication.
Hara FM is produced in Turkey but broadcasts to Aleppo and hears from contributors in the town.
"At the moment our journalists are safe with the opposition, but it's still a war zone with gunfire and shelling," said Marwa, a Hara FM journalist based in Turkey
"I worry about our staff in Aleppo, but no journalist can be 100% safe anywhere in the world.
"For any journalist, telling the truth puts them in danger."
One of the benefits of using Raspberry Pis is that it is relatively easy to add new components.
Mr Hochleichter's latest design includes a GSM module, which allows the small transmitters to be controlled remotely by text message. The feature potentially could help the operator reduce the risk of capture.
Mr Hochleichter hopes ultimately to make the designs open source, meaning they can be shared without cost and enhanced by a wider community.
The project is funded by the German government and for Najat Abdulhaq their Berlin base is entirely apt.
"The media system in Syria under Assad is nearly a copy of the [former East Germany] GDR media system," she remarks.
"We are in the heart of East Berlin and the wall was less than 400m [1,312ft] away."
The project aims to support freedom of expression, but it is also about solidarity with people in crisis.
"When I started working on this project I had no idea of Syria," Philipp Hochleichter said.
"I now have 25 friends in this country and the way they try to make this a better country is a very good example [to others]."


Nine in 10 secondary school teachers say homophobic bullying happens in their school, according to a poll.

The YouGov survey, commissioned by Stonewall Scotland, also revealed that a third of teachers hear homophobic language from other staff.
The poll suggests the problem is rife, but only 16% of teachers have had specific training to deal with it.
Some staff also said they were not allowed, or were not sure if they were allowed, to teach about LGBT issues.
The Teachers' Report 2014 showed that 89% of primary school staff and 83% of secondary school staff have not received any specific training on tackling homophobic bullying.
It also revealed that the majority of teachers in both secondary and primary education believe school staff have a duty to prevent and respond to homophobic bullying.
The vast majority of primary school teachers - 92% - said different types of families, including those with same-sex parents, should be addressed in the classroom.
Introduced by the Conservative government in 1988, Section 28 prohibited schools and councils from using lessons or publications to "promote" homosexuality.
The law was scrapped in Scotland in 2000, but the YouGov poll revealed that 75% of primary and 44% of secondary school staff say they either were not allowed to, or were not sure if they were allowed to teach about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in their school.
Drama teacher John Naples Campbell, who has been teaching for more than 10 years, told the BBC: "There are still a lot of teachers within Scotland who believe that Section 28 is still there, or who were actually trained under Section 28 and haven't been given the training by the Scottish government to actually deal with (the issues) now."
"I think staff need to be more openâ€¦ we need to be much more confident about being open within our classrooms about issues that affect young people in the world today."
Stonewall Scotland director Colin Macfarlane said it was "troubling" that so many teachers said they had never received specific training on how to tackle homophobic bullying.
He added: "That's why this year Stonewall Scotland launched a Train the Trainer programme which means we can work directly with teachers across Scotland.
"However, the responsibility cannot be ours alone. The Scottish government, local authorities, schools and other agencies must now make it a priority that every single teacher is trained to tackle all types of bullying and abuse in our schools."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Every secondary school in Scotland has been sent guidance on dealing with homophobia and homophobic bullying, as well as the filmed adaptation of Stonewall's highly successful play for schools.
"Our national approach to anti-bullying sets out a common vision and aims to make sure that work across all agencies and communities is jointly focused on tackling bullying. We expect that all schools develop and implement an anti-bullying policy, which should be reviewed and updated on a regular basis.
"To support this we have established and wholly fund respectme, a national anti-bullying service, to build confidence and capacity to tackle all bullying, including prejudice-based bullying, effectively."
The Teachers' Report 2014 presents the findings from 260 respondents in Scotland. A total of 122 primary staff and 138 secondary staff were surveyed.


A long-running shipping wrangle which has left 12 seamen stranded on a ship in a Norfolk port for six months could be set to come to an end.

The India-owned Malaviya Twenty has been detained in Great Yarmouth docks since it arrived in June.
The crew has not been paid and port fees and running costs have seen debts soar to more than £300,000.
Now a transport union has stepped in to take charge of the vessel and will sell it in order to settle the arrears.
Under Border Force restrictions, the men are not allowed to leave Great Yarmouth until the issue is resolved.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) impounded the Malaviya Twenty when it discovered the crew was not receiving wages and port fees had not been paid.
The vessel's owners, GOL Offshore, had pushed to delay payments until February.
The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) applied to the Admiralty Court in London to effectively arrest the ship and sell it, using the money raised to pay and repatriate the crew and settle its debts.
The owner of Great Yarmouth docks, Peel Ports, has also been unable to grant the ship permission to leave because of a debt of around £30,000 in unpaid fees.
Paul Keenan, an inspector with the ITF, visited the stricken vessel on Thursday and said the crew were coping well but were "mentally fatigued".
"One of the main concerns for us is that 80% of these men's wages go back to their families in India to pay rent and food," he said.
"Living for months without wages can make life very difficult indeed."
Great Yarmouth's port chaplain, the Reverend Peter Paine, paid tribute to local efforts to provide food and help to the crew, describing the response to an appeal as "absolutely fantastic".
The situation mirrors that of the Malaviya Twenty's sister ship - the Malaviya Seven - which currently languishes in Aberdeen harbour for the same reason.
Mr Keenan confirmed the ITF will now seek potential buyers for the Malaviya Twenty, a process that could take up to three months.
He said he was hopeful the crew will be paid and heading home by the middle of January.


The current subsidy system for on-shore wind energy in Northern Ireland is set to end next April, a year earlier than planned.

Enterprise Minister Jonathan Bell has started a two-week consultation on the proposal.
He had previously said he would maintain the subsidy system until 2017.
However, he said that changes in UK policy now mean that keeping it until 2017 would impose extra costs on consumers.
The subsidy system for renewable energy is being radically scaled back by the Conservative government.
Energy policy is devolved to Stormont, but decisions taken at Westminster are having a knock-on effect.
Under the current UK system all onshore wind energy projects are guaranteed a subsidy.
That system is ending in 2016, to be replaced by one in which there is UK-wide competition for subsidy payments.
Renewable development will take place within the UK wherever it is most economic.
In June, Mr Bell said he wanted to "make it clear" that in Northern Ireland the current system would continue until 2017.
However, he said that position has changed following discussion with the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
He said it has become clear that if Northern Ireland went its own way the cost impact would be "borne solely by the relatively small number of NI consumers rather than by all consumers across the UK".
Small scale wind schemes can still qualify for the subsidy but only if they have planning permission, property agreements and grid connection agreements in place.
Larger "cluster connection" schemes have until 30 October to get all necessary agreements in place.
This means that any schemes which are at a preliminary stage have no guarantee of getting a subsidy and may not proceed.
The Ulster Farmers Union has criticised the decision to hold a two-week consultation on the proposal.
It said the time period was "inadequate in light of the implications for the small scale renewables sector in Northern Ireland".


A young humpback whale that became entangled in rope off Australia's New South Wales coast has been freed by National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) rescuers, the organisation said.

It was first spotted on Monday near Bermagui, protected by its mother, but bad weather prevented its rescue.
Teams used knives on hooks to cut through more than 150m of rope.
Ian Kerr, who led the operation, said the chances of the calf surviving had now "improved greatly".
"If the material had not been removed the chances of this whale surviving would not have been good," he said.
The crew attached buoys to the rope to slow the whale down and tire it, making it safer to rescue. They then pulled up alongside in small boats to cut or dislodge the ropes late on Tuesday.
It was the first operation of its kind this season for the NPWS.
"Increasing whale numbers and human use of the oceans mean there is a greater chance whales can be entangled in fishing gear, nets or ropes during their migration up and down the coast," Mr Kerr said.
He said it was "very satisfying" to see the calf continue its migration south with its mother.


Serious flooding in parts of the UK has prompted the government to activate the global charter on space and natural disasters.

It means agencies will get immediate access to satellite imagery to help them respond to the problems caused by the stormy weather of recent weeks.
It is rare for Britain to activate the charter on its own behalf.
But this is the second time in five weeks that it has made a request for satellite imagery.
A dozen spacecraft have now been tasked with acquiring pictures of various locations in the UK at a range of resolutions and in a spread of wavelengths, from optical all the way through to microwave radar.
UK coastlines have been battered in the storms, and thousands of properties have been flooded as a result of inundations and heavy rains. The Thames barrier in London has also been raised nine times in the past six days to protect the capital's property.
Many of the world's space agencies are signatories to the International Charter [on] Space and Major Disasters.
Initiated back in 2000 by Esa, and the French (Cnes) and Canadian (CSA) space agencies, it provides access now to tens of satellites in space, ensuring that some assets are always in just the right orbit at just the right time to capture vital pictures.
The UK Space Agency is a key player in the charter, too. It works with the Disaster Monitoring Constellation International Imaging (DMCii) company based in Guildford, Surrey.
DMCii currently manages four imaging satellites in its own network, including the UK-DMC2 platform which carries a multi-spectral camera with a resolution of 22m. It provided the before-and-after flooding images of Sussex featured on this page.  DMCii also acts as the operations control centre for the charter on a rotational basis, although not this week.
The company's Adina Gillespie is the executive secretary for the UK in the charter.  She told BBC News: "The Environment Agency will use the satellite imagery in a variety of ways.
"It will likely be sent out to their local area teams so they can see the extent of the flooding.  The information can also be combined with other geo data, such as infrastructure and community information, to identify those areas at risk.
"In the last activation, some of the post-event analysis was then used in longer term modelling.  And, of course, the information is also given to Cobra (the government's emergency committee)."
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TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo clinched a third African Super Cup when they defeated Tunisia's Etoile du Sahel 2-1 in Lubumbashi on Saturday.

African champions Mazembe also won the prestigious annual fixture between the winners of the Champions League and the Confederation Cup in 2010 and 2011.
Etoile, who won the 2015 Confederation Cup, have also won the competition twice.
Ghanaian striker Daniel Nii Adjei scored twice to set up Mazembe's win.
He opened the scoring for Mazembe after 20 minutes when he powered his header off a Jean Kasusula cross from the left beyond goalkeeper Aymen Mathlouthi.
27-year-old Adjei doubled his tally in the 45th minute, when he acrobatically finished off a lovely attack after he was set up by strike partner Jonathan Bolingi.
The Tunisian 'Red Devils' pulled a goal back in first half stoppage time through Mohamed Msekni, who stabbed home from inside the box after a goalmouth scramble.
In a game played under hot and humid conditions, Msekni led Etoile to chase the game after Mazembe took the lead when he fired wide from the top of the box.
Tunisia international striker Ahmed Akaichi also came close minutes earlier, but Ivory Coast international goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo combined with his defenders to concede the first corner of the encounter.
In the 42nd minute, Bolingi saw his shot from outside the box narrowly miss the target.
Mazembe's towering central defender Salif Coulibaly crashed his header into the side netting in the 58th minute as his team piled on the pressure to increase their lead.
The African champions continued to fight to extend their advantage, bringing on Most Valuable Player from the recent African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda, Meschack Elia, to add some firepower to the attack.
In the 76th minute, goalkeeper Gbohouo produced the save of the day when he dived to block a goal-bound header by Alaya Brigui.
Mazembe held on to record another international triumph in front of their jubilant home fans.


Women's Super League One club Chelsea Ladies have signed teenage Scotland midfielder Erin Cuthbert from Scottish champions Glasgow City until 2019.

The 18-year-old, who was Glasgow City's top goal scorer in 2016, will join the English side in January, when the WSL transfer window re-opens.
The former Rangers youngster made her senior international debut in June.
"This is a very exciting move for me which will benefit my career greatly," Cuthbert told Chelsea's club website.
"When Chelsea came knocking it felt like something I couldn't turn down. I know it is going to be a big step up but I believe in my ability."
Chelsea boss Emma Hayes added: "I'm am so excited about this signing. She's one for the future but with the ability to make an impact in the here and now."
Norway captain Maren Mjelde and Switzerland forward Ramona Bachmann have also already signed for Chelsea ahead of next season.