A delay due to funding issues with plans to build a Dalbeattie learning campus has been branded "frustrating" by an education committee chairman.

Jeff Leaver was speaking after a special meeting to ensure work can start as soon as finance is in place.
It had been hoped contracts for the school could be signed this month.
However, the reclassification of the Aberdeen bypass as a public sector project has had repercussions for a number of other schemes.
Most of the funding for the new learning campus incorporating Dalbeattie High School and Dalbeattie Primary School and nursery is being met by Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Some of it was expected to come from the Scottish government through the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT).
Its "hub" funding model was reviewed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) after EU rules around publicly-funded building programmes were tightened.
That led to the reclassification of the Aberdeen project and has left the Scottish government to work through "a number of complex issues" with the ONS and HM Treasury.
It has said that it fully expects to resolve the issues but added that there had been some impact on a small number of projects in the interim.
The Scottish government said it was doing its upmost to ensure that delay was "kept to a minimum".
Mr Leaver said the council had taken the project forward as far as it could for now.
"We are very, very disappointed - not just for the council itself but also for the youngsters and the parents and the teachers who are looking forward to moving into this brand new, state-of-the-art school in the next couple of years or so," he said.
"The fact that we don't actually know when it is going to be resolved - that's even more frustrating.
"The schools which we are replacing are not in the best physical condition so what we don't want to be doing is spending even more money patching them up while we are waiting for this to be resolved."


The spacecraft that carried Tim Peake to and from the International Space Station last year has gone on display at London's Science Museum.

The museum says the Russian capsule is an important part of UK space history and hopes it will inspire the public.
The Soyuz TMA-19M has been refurbished, but is still slightly singed from re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Business Secretary Greg Clark has confirmed that Major Peake will make a second mission to the space station.
The timing will be decided by the European Space Agency (Esa).
Mr Clark said: "Tim Peake's Principia mission inspired a generation, and showed just how far science can take you."
The UK committed in December to continue to participate in Esa's space station programme.
And last week, Esa's director-general Jan Woerner set out his plans for human space flight at a news conference in Paris.
He announced that another mission was "foreseen" for Major Peake in the next wave of European manned missions. A second flight for the British astronaut would likely happen in the period 2019-2024.
Tim Peake said he was delighted to see the capsule in the UK: "I hope that for everybody who gets to visit it will have a really great source of inspiration and maybe sow the seeds of future dreams for other people. "
Just over a year ago, Tim Peake set off for his mission to the International Space Station. Within a few weeks he became the first British astronaut to walk in space.
Executives at the Science Museum hope the spacecraft's connection to the British astronaut will prove a major draw.
Museum director, Ian Blatchford, told BBC News that the purchase of the spacecraft was almost like an "impulse buy". He explained that he made a casual enquiry while in Moscow over the summer whether the spacecraft was for sale and to his surprise the spacecraft owners agreed.
It was from within this 2m-high, bell-shaped vehicle that Major Peake witnessed the wonders of space.
The right-hand seat was Tim's and from it he looked out of the window and saw the curvature of the Earth for the first time. It was also from this window that he witnessed what it was like to re-enter the atmosphere at the end of his mission.
The spacecraft provides the UK with a link to its own astronauts and a reminder of its role in space exploration.
The Science Museum says that it wants the display to inspire those that see it, especially children - many of whom might wish to follow in Major Peake's footsteps.
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A man who was fed up waiting for a taxi on a night out was among the people who phoned 999 inappropriately in the past year.

The Scottish Ambulance Service has released details of some of the calls they have received as they approach one of the busiest periods of the year.
One caller requested an ambulance for a choking dog, while another phoned with a sore finger after cutting their nail.
Someone also phoned 999 to ask for the number of NHS24.
The ambulance service has reminded people that inappropriate calls can potentially delay an ambulance response to a real emergency.
The service said it dealt with an increase of up to 30% of calls in the festive season.
Pauline Howie, chief executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service, said: "Our staff work tirelessly to respond to calls for help and deliver the most appropriate care, but the 999 service is for emergencies and we are asking the public to use it wisely so that we can continue to send ambulances quickly to those who need us most.
"At peak periods, like the festive season, every inappropriate call has the potential to put a life at risk and delay a response to a genuine emergency."


A child cancer specialist has admitted sexually abusing boys in his care.

Myles Bradbury, a paediatric haematologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, committed sexual offences against boys aged 8 to 17 between 2009 and 2013, Cambridge Crown Court heard.
The 41-year-old from Herringswell, Suffolk, pleaded guilty to 25 offences including sexual assault and the making of more than 16,000 indecent images.
He was bailed and is due to be sentenced at a later date.
As he left court, Bradbury told reporters "I'm so sorry" and refused to answer further questions.
The offences involved 18 complainants, prosecutor John Farmer said.
The court heard the blood cancer specialist had worked at the hospital for five years.
He was suspended after a complaint about his behaviour in November last year.
A spokesman for Addenbrooke's Hospital said Bradbury no longer worked for Cambridgeshire University Hospitals Trust.
In total he pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual assault and 13 counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child.
Bradbury also admitted three counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, one count of voyeurism and two counts of making indecent images of a child.
Sources: General Medical Council, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
He pleaded not guilty to a count of sexual activity with a child and a count of sexual assault, which Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said would likely remain on file.
The judge said the doctor could expect a "substantial" custodial sentence and would have to sign the sex offenders register.
Addenbrooke's Hospital said it had contacted the families of the children it was aware of that Dr Bradbury saw. It has set up a helpline for anyone else affected by the case.
Dr Keith McNeil, its chief executive, said: "Our most abject and sincere apologies go out to any and all of our patients and their families who are affected by this in any way.
"There is a very ancient and sacred trust that exists between a doctor and his patients, and quite frankly, it sickens me to think that trust has been breached."
Chief nurse Ann-Marie Ingle, said: "His cold and calculating abuse of trust has deeply shocked us all, including staff who worked alongside him to care for these vulnerable and sick children.
"As soon as we were alerted, we took immediate action to suspend him from clinical practice."
Cambridgeshire Police said "there are likely to be more victims" and asked affected people to call the hospital's helpline.
Det Sgt Shane Fasey, said: "Bradbury's offences were an appalling breach of trust committed against vulnerable victims who had been placed in his care.
"The families believed the boys were in his safe hands but they were actually being abused by Bradbury, who carried out examinations purely for his own sexual gratification and with no medical justification whatsoever."


Greece's parliament has approved a new package of austerity measures needed to release the next instalment of its multi-billion-dollar bailout.

The tax rises and further cuts to pensions were sought by Greece's foreign creditors.
As MPs voted, anti-austerity protesters clashed with police in central Athens.
Eurozone finance ministers meet on Monday to decide if Greece has done enough to receive a â‚¬7.5bn (Â£6.4bn; $8.3bn) loan plus debt relief.
Speaking after the vote, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Greece had met its commitments on reforms and now expected lenders to agree to debt relief.
"It's their [the lenders'] turn to fulfil their commitments, just like we did," he told reporters.
"We deserve and we expect from Monday's Eurogroup a decision regulating debt relief which will correspond to the sacrifices of the Greek people."
About 10,000 people took part in the protests outside parliament, with a small group breaking away to confront police.
Hooded youths threw petrol bombs at officers who responded with tear gas.
Figures released earlier this week showed that Greece had fallen back into recession for the first time since 2012.
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.1% in the first three months of the year after shrinking by 1.2% in the final quarter of 2016, the Eurostat figures showed.


A multi-million pound competition to provide world football with game-changing new technology is about to go to a penalty shoot-out.

The change in question is the introduction of goal-line technology (GLT), which was approved by world governing body Fifa and the International Football Association Board - the body that determines the laws of the game - back in the summer.
The aim of GLT is to tell whether the ball has crossed the goal-line in incidents where the referee and his assistants are unable to see for sure.
From a shortlist of 11 different companies and technologies, Fifa has given licences to two separate firms, the UK-based but Sony-owned Hawk-Eye, and Germany's GoalRef.
With Fifa yet to decide which system it will use for the 2014 World Cup, and national football leagues across the world also yet to choose between the two, the stakes are very high.
Especially when you consider the level of money involved. While the two companies are reluctant to provide exact figures, the cost of installing their systems in a football stadium have been estimated at about Â£250,000 for Hawk-Eye and Â£150,000 for GoalRef.
When you multiply those figures by the number of professional football teams around the world, you are reaching rather large amounts of money. And that is before you add the follow-on annual servicing costs.
This week GLT has been discussed at Soccerex, the global convention of football business and finance, which is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
With the panel including senior figures from both Hawk-Eye and GoalRef, and senior Fifa official Christoph Schmidt, it was confirmed that Fifa would be testing both systems at the 2012 World Club Cup tournament, which starts next week in Japan.
Mr Schmidt said that after evaluating their performance in Japan, Fifa would then make its choice. Many national football authorities are then expected to follow its lead.
With the two firms said to be neck-and-neck, Japan will be their equivalent of a nerve-wracking penalty shoot-out.
But before exploring what was said at Soccerex, it is worth pausing to take a closer look at the two rival systems.
Hawk-Eye uses seven cameras focused on each goal. With the cameras fixed to the stadium roof, they give a 3D picture of the ball's exact location.
It is a system that has been used by both the sports of tennis and cricket for a number of years.
GoalRef by contrast, uses a system of electro-magnetism, with sensors both inside the goal posts and the match-day balls.
Each system connects to wrist bands worn by the match officials, and can alert them in under a second whether the ball crossed the goal-line.
It is important to stress that Fifa will not require any league around the world to install GLT - it will remain voluntary.
However, the top professional leagues in each country are all expected to bring in the technology, such has been the desire to eradicate incorrect goal decisions, both from fans, and clubs concerned by the potential financial implication of losing vital games - such as relegation deciders - because of refereeing mistakes.
Speaking at Soccerex, Hawk-Eye inventor Paul Hawkins said he relished the battle with GoalRef.
"Football is a great game because of the competition, and all businesses face competition," he said.
"We have different technological approaches, and both of us have been working slowly and steadily.
"If both of us keep our heels clean, it should be a fair fight."
Thomas Pellkofer, operational manager at GoalRef, also said that his company welcomed the healthy competition, and he highlighted the effective simplicity of its system.
"There is a sensor in the balls, but no electricity, it is completely passive," he said.
"The ball is exactly the same for the players, it is seamless integration."
Yet while GoalRef and Hawk-Eye have been chosen by Fifa from an initial short-list of 11, the remaining nine companies, and other competitors, could still have their systems approved by Fifa in the future, Mr Schmidt confirmed.
He said: "The market is open to any technical companies if others come to the market."
Mr Schmidt added that this would only be a good thing, because further competition would bring down prices.
So even with Fifa set to shortly choose either GoalRef or Hawk-Eye, it could end up then switching to a different provider of GLT in the future.
With each company only getting an initial licence for two years, this level of uncertainty is said to be putting off some football leagues from making their choice.
One official at the English Premier League told the BBC on condition of anonymity that it didn't want to be in a position where its clubs install one system at significant expense, only to then have to change it a number of years down the line.
The question of which company triumphs in the GLT marketplace could ultimately prove as controversial as the simple issue of whether the ball crossed the line has been until now.


A heavily armed man who was overpowered on a train in France is a 25-year-old Moroccan known to the intelligence services, officials say.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the man, named by French media as Ayoub El-Khazzani, had links to the "radical Islamist movement".
He was restrained by passengers, including three Americans, two of whom are members of the US armed forces.
They have been praised by the French and American presidents.
Mr Cazeneuve said on Saturday that the identity of the suspect had not been "established with certainty", but official sources later said he had been identified through fingerprints.
The suspect, who is being questioned near Paris, was flagged up to French authorities by their Spanish counterparts in February 2014.
He is reported to have lived in France, Spain, and Belgium and to have travelled to Syria.
What we know
The incident happened on a high-speed Thalys service near the northern city of Arras on Friday.
When a French passenger tried to enter a toilet, he encountered the gunman and tried to overpower him.
A gun was fired and a French-American passenger was injured by the bullet.
The gunman was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle, an automatic pistol with ammunition clips, and a box cutter knife, Mr Cazeneuve said.
One of the Americans, Spencer Stone, seized the gunman, while a second, Alek Skarlatos, grabbed his guns, according to accounts from the passengers.
A friend of theirs, Anthony Sadler, and Chris Norman, a British man who lives in France, also helped restrain the attacker.
Mr Norman told reporters on Saturday that he initially hid when he saw the gunman running down the aisle, before deciding that "perhaps the only chance was to act as a team".
"He had a Kalashnikov - I don't know how many magazines he had. My thought was: 'I'm probably going to die anyway so, let's go'," he said.
"I jumped up and I was actually the fourth person to begin working on the terrorist."
With Mr Stone holding the gunman in a headlock, the passengers hit him until he fell unconscious.
The gunman injured Mr Stone with a knife. Mr Stone and another man, who received cuts to his neck, were treated in hospital.
"I don't know why [the gunman] could not fire, but I think it was because his gun was jammed," said Mr Norman. "We were all enormously lucky."
Mr Stone and Mr Skarlatos are members of the US Air Force and the National Guard respectively.
Mr Stone has now been discharged from hospital and has joined his countrymen. They were all due to spend the evening at the US embassy in Paris.
US President Barack Obama has telephoned the three men to commend their "extraordinary bravery".
US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter praised the three, saying that the two servicemen had shown why "on duty and off, ours is the finest fighting force the world has ever known".
The 554 passengers included French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, the star of Betty Blue and Nikita, who was lightly wounded breaking glass to sound the alarm.
In an interview with Paris Match magazine, Mr Anglade said train staff had entered a private cabin and locked it when they heard gunshots, leaving the passengers alone.
"I thought it was the end, that we were going to die, that he was going to kill us all," he said.
However Agnes Ogier, the boss of Thalys, denied Mr Anglade's allegations, saying train staff had "fulfilled their duties".
One member of staff found himself under fire and took five or six passengers with him into the baggage car, where he sounded the alarm, she said.
French President Francois Hollande telephoned Mr Obama on Saturday to thank him for the "exemplary conduct" shown by the three US citizens.
British Prime Minister David Cameron also praised their "extraordinary courage".
The American men and Mr Norman were awarded medals for bravery by authorities in Arras.
Anti-terror investigators in Paris now have 96 hours to question the suspect.
The suspect boarded the Thalys train in Brussels, and Belgian prosecutors also opened an anti-terror investigation on Saturday morning.
France has been on edge since the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January, which left 17 people dead.


Watford have completed the signing of midfielder Keith Andrews on a season-long loan from Bolton Wanderers.

Andrews, 33, who has 35 caps for the Republic of Ireland, appeared 37 times on loan at Brighton last season.
He began his career at Wolves, and also played for Hull City and MK Dons before joining Blackburn for £1.3m in 2008.
Moves to West Bromwich Albion and then Bolton followed, but after 29 appearances for Wanderers he was loaned to Brighton.
Andrews played in all three of Ireland's games at Uefa Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, and was named FAI Player of the Year in 2012. Including loans, he has played for 11 clubs during his career.


New evidence has emerged which supports the theory that water was present on Earth when it formed from rock and dust more than 4.5 billion years ago.

Scientists have long debated whether water was here at the start or arrived later with comets and meteorites.
Now researchers from Glasgow and Hawaii Universities have found water trapped in some of the earliest-known rocks.
The believe Earth's water was likely carried here on dust that orbited the Sun before the planets formed.
The Glasgow and Hawaii team used "advanced ion microprobe technology" to examine rocks from Baffin Island, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Dr Lydia Hallis led the research, first at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
She said the Baffin Island rocks had been analysed extensively since their collection in 1985 and scientists "know they contain a component from Earth's deep mantle".
"Essentially, they are some of the most primitive rocks we've ever found on the surface of the Earth, and so the water they contain gives us an invaluable insight into the Earth's early history and where its water came from," she said.
"We found that the water had very little deuterium, which strongly suggests that it was not carried to the Earth after it had formed and cooled.
"Instead, water molecules were likely carried on the dust that existed in a disk around our Sun before the planets formed. Over time this water-rich dust was slowly drawn together to form our planet.
"Even though a good deal of water would have been lost at the surface through evaporation in the heat of the formation process, enough survived to form the world's water."
Dr Hallis added: "It's an exciting discovery, and one which we simply didn't have the technology to make just a few years ago. We're looking forward to further research in this area in the future."
The team's findings are covered in the paper, "Evidence for primordial water in Earth's deep mantle", which has been published in the journal, Science.


Hampshire bowler Chris Wood has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.

Wood sustained the injury whilst bowling against Middlesex in the County Championship on 4 May.
"It is a blow to us, he has been influential in our one-day cricket and we will miss him," Hampshire's director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent.
The 25-year-old left-arm seamer underwent surgery last week.
Wood is the latest Hampshire bowler to succumb to long-term injury this season, with Fidel Edwards, Reece Topley and Gareth Berg all currently sidelined.
Topley was injured on his Hampshire debut against Warwickshire in April.
Hampshire recently signed Tino Best, Craig Young and ex-Worcestershire seamer Gareth Andrew on a match-by-match basis to alleviate their injury concerns.


Cyclist Mark Beaumont has announced plans to bike around the world in 80 days.

Back in 2008 he covered the 18,000 mile route in 194 days, setting a new world record.
Since then it has been broken by other riders, and now the current record is set at 123 days.
Mark will need to travel 240 miles a day to set a new fastest time.
He will begin his epic ride on 2 July, but as a warm-up to the trip, he will cycle around the coastline of Britain, starting on Tuesday.
"The whole point of the next couple of weeks going around the coastline of Britain is to test the theory, to know that I can hold that 80-day pace."
He said: "I know what I'm getting into. I cycled around the world 10 years ago. It scares me. It intimidates me. But I believe this is possible."
The adventurer is raising funds for charity through his incredible record attempt.


Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has been named both the cricketer of the year and Test cricketer of the year by the International Cricket Council.

Johnson, 33, also won cricketer of the year in 2009 and is only the second player after Ricky Ponting to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy twice.
England batsman Gary Ballance won the emerging cricketer of the year award.
England wicketkeeper-batter Sarah Taylor was named the women's one-day international cricketer of the year.
During the voting period between 26 August 2013 and 17 September 2014, Johnson claimed 59 Test wickets at an average of 15.23, with best bowling figures of seven for 40 runs against England in Adelaide last December.
He is the third Australian after Ponting and Michael Clarke to win the Test cricketer prize.
In one-day internationals, Johnson took 21 wickets in 16 games.
"I'm very happy with where I am at the moment and I want to keep getting better as a cricketer," he said.
"This is something that I'll be able to look back on in time when my career is over and be exceptionally proud of."
Sri Lankans Kumar Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews were nominated for both awards.
Yorkshire left-hander Ballance, 24, made his Test debut in January in the final match of England's 5-0 defeat in Australia.
He scored a century in his first home Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's and made two other hundreds and three half centuries last summer.
England Women's captain Charlotte Edwards missed out on the people's choice award, which went to India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Stuart Broad and Joe Root were named in the Test team of the year, but no England players featured in the ODI XI.
Englishman Richard Kettleborough claimed the umpire of the year for the second consecutive year, while England pace bowler Katherine Brunt won the spirit of cricket award.
Brunt ran out South Africa's Matshipi Letsoalo in a Twenty20 international in September but called her back and told the on-field umpire she was not sure if the ball was definitely in her hand when she dislodged the bails.
Having checked the television replay, the third umpire subsequently reversed the decision and Letsoalo continued her innings.
International Cricket Council awards
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC cricketer of the year: Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
Test cricketer of the year: Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
ODI cricketer of the year: AB de Villiers (SA)
Women's ODI cricketer of the year: Sarah Taylor (Eng)
Emerging cricketer of the year: Gary Ballance (Eng)
Associate and affiliate cricketer of the year: Preston Mommsen (Scot)
Twenty20 international performance of the year: Aaron Finch (Aus) - 156 v England
Women's T20I cricketer of the year: Meg Lanning (Aus)
ICC spirit of cricket award: Katherine Brunt (Eng)
ICC umpire of the year (winning the David Shepherd Trophy): Richard Kettleborough
People's choice: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India)
ICC Test team of the year: David Warner (Aus), Kane Williamson (NZ), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri), AB de Villiers (SA), Joe Root (Eng), Angelo Mathews (Sri) (capt), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Stuart Broad (Eng), Dale Steyn (SA), Rangana Herath (Sri), Tim Southee (NZ). 12th man: Ross Taylor (NZ)
ICC ODI team of the year: Mohammad Hafeez (Pkn), Quinton De Kock (SA), Virat Kohli (Ind), George Bailey (Aus), AB de Villiers (SA), MS Dhoni (Ind, capt & wk), Dwayne Bravo (WI), James Faulkner (Aus), Dale Steyn (SA), Mohammad Shami (Ind), Ajantha Mendis (SL). 12th man: Rohit Sharma (Ind)


A 19-year-old man was left with serious facial injuries after an "unprovoked attack" in the Meadows area of Edinburgh, police have said.

A group of five men and women were walking on Middle Meadow Walk from Forest Road at about 05:15 on Tuesday.
One of the group was approached from behind by an unknown man who assaulted him.
The suspect was described as white, 25 to 30, with a medium to stocky build and shaved head.
He was wearing a light tweed-style jacket with dark chino trousers.
The man was last seen making off towards Melville Drive.
Det Con Kevin Tait said: "This was a seemingly unprovoked attack which caused extensive facial injuries to the victim and we are pursuing all possible lines of inquiry in order to trace the perpetrator.
"Anyone with information which can assist with our investigation, or who may have seen the someone matching the suspect's description around the time of the incident, is asked to get in touch."


A mother says her baby son "saved her life" by helping her detect breast cancer when he refused to feed.

Sarah Boyle, 26, said at about six months old, Teddy suddenly "became very distressed" when she tried to feed from her right breast.
The Staffordshire mum said his continued behaviour convinced her to insist that a cyst which was found to be benign be re-scanned.
Mrs Boyle is being treated for grade two triple negative breast cancer.
There have been anecdotal reports that babies can pick up breast changes, but this has not been accepted as breast cancer sign by the medical profession.
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Mrs Boyle said her son, who is nearly one, had taken "fantastically well" to breastfeeding but his behaviour changed last summer.
She tried feeding Teddy in various positions over several weeks and wondered if there was something wrong with his neck, but now believes milk from her right breast tasted different.
"He became very unhappy and even hit out. For an eight-month baby to push his mother away was really heartbreaking," she said.
Mrs Boyle was diagnosed with a benign cyst in her right breast in 2013 and said when she asked to be re-scanned was told not to worry.
However, as Teddy's behaviour persisted, she also noticed the cyst had become "more rigid" and painful and her breast had changed shape.
She went back to see a doctor and a scan and biopsy later confirmed cancer.
"I remember it was 11:55am on 16th November," she said.
Mrs Boyle is halfway through chemotherapy at Royal Stoke University Hospital, whose staff were "fantastic", she said.
The mother, who is to have a double mastectomy and reconstruction said Teddy, her husband and rest of her family were getting her through the rough times.
"Nobody can say for certain whether it was Teddy, but I know that if it wasn't for him then this time next year it could've been completely different if I'd listened to doctors, but instead I listened to Teddy.
"[It's] Because of him that I'm now being treated."
Catherine Priestley, clinical nurse specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said they had heard from a "small number of women" who had found their baby stopped feeding from their breast before their diagnosis.
"While there are many reasons why a baby may stop feeding, getting any new breast changes checked out must be top of the list," she said.
"We found a tenth of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer are pregnant or breastfeeding when they first notice their breast symptom."
Dr Jasmine Just, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said there was "no good evidence that difficulties breastfeeding are likely to be caused by breast cancer or that the disease changes breast milk so that a baby might not want to feed".


Tyson Fury says he will deal with unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua "like a cat playing with a ball of wool" when he returns to boxing.

Fury, 28, has dealt with depression and lost his boxing licence since beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015.
In a wide-ranging interview, Fury said he will shed eight stone in weight and remove the "fraud from the division".
"Joshua is a big man with a puncher's chance and has no footwork, no speed or stamina," Fury told BBC 5 live boxing.
"He is what you call a boxer's dream. I've had 18 months out and ballooned up to 26 stone. I could come back with no comeback fights and still box rings around that body builder."
Fury says he will be back fighting in July, on the undercard of a show at London's Copper Box Arena, if his licence is reinstated by the British Boxing Board of Control.
The BBBofC removed the fighter's licence in October 2016 eight days after he admitted taking cocaine to help him deal with depression.
The sport's British governing body says it would need a "full consultant's report" in considering their position, but the 28-year-old's camp is confident the matter will be worked out.
Fury, who refers to himself as the 'Gypsy King', also faces a UK Anti-Doping hearing on Monday relating to a failed test in June of last year.
He insists he is not "desperate" to return to the sport but wants to meet Joshua, who beat Klitschko on Saturday to unify the IBF and WBA titles before immediately referencing a future bout with Fury.
Fury has sparred with Joshua in the past and added: "I always said Wladimir would be my easiest fight. Now I change the goal posts, AJ will be my easiest fight.
"I've never been more confident or serious when I say something, I will play with Joshua like a cat with a ball of wool - hands behind my back, making a right mug of him.
"We are in the business of sweet science. Sweet science does not consist of a body beautiful, iron pumping big fella. It's feinting, jabbing, moving, gliding around the ring, that's the sweet science."
Fury believes he will take at least eight months to return to 18-and-a-half stone - roughly a stone heavier than he weighed in at prior to his shock win over Klitschko - and is currently in Marbella training.
He said he "enjoyed every minute" of the Joshua-Klitschko Wembley Stadium fight, but admitted concern, stating "silly things" Joshua did could have led to a defeat which would have "cost us millions" in scuppering the chances of a future match-up.
Undefeated Fury also believes the result underlines the lack of credit he received for toppling Klitschko to land three of the four heavyweight titles at the same age as Joshua - 27.
He added: "Joshua was supposed to walk right through him as he was old and useless supposedly, but it didn't work like that did it? Klitschko's been out of the ring 18 months and had a 50-50 fight with a so-called killer. I will rip the fraud from the division.
"You get two types of people in boxing, the outlaw and the Mr Nice. I am the outlaw so people love to hate me. That's my personality, love me or hate me you still have to watch me, it works. I've been through depression, life and death positions, and turned it all around."


US President Barack Obama has scrapped proposals to tighten rules on air pollution.

He ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to shelve plans to reduce concentrations of ozone - one of the main contributors to smog.
Mr Obama said he was pulling the measure as part of a government effort to reduce regulatory burdens and uncertainty as the economy struggles.
Business groups and Republican politicians welcomed the decision.
But environmentalists condemned the move.
The BBC's Marcus George in Washington says that, coming after new figures showing zero employment growth over the last month, the measure underscored just how sensitive the president has become about America's decimated economy.
Mr Obama asked EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the draft rules, saying in a statement on Friday: "I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover."
The EPA estimated a new smog standard would cost up to $90bn (£55bn) a year - opponents said it would cost more.
The rules could also have saved as much as $100bn in health costs, and helped prevent as many as 12,000 premature deaths from heart and lung complications, according to the EPA.
Ozone is a lung irritant, connected with asthma and other respiratory conditions.
The administration defended its decision to reporters on Friday as a decision on the merits, not the result of industry pressure.
House Speaker John Boehner's office praised Mr Obama's decision as a boost to business growth, but added that the single proposed regulation had been "the tip of the iceberg".
The move angered environmentalists.
"This is a new low for President Obama," said Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Gene Karpinski, the president of the League of Conservation Voters, said: "The Obama administration is caving to big polluters at the expense of protecting the air we breathe.
"This is a huge win for corporate polluters and a huge loss for public health."
The White House said a new standard would be issued in 2013, after the science behind the levels has been updated.
But our correspondent says campaigners are already talking of a legal challenge that could force the administration to reconsider.


A giant five-storey slide recently unveiled in a Shanghai shopping centre has sparked fear and awe on Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site.

The slide will open in the Printemps mall in the coming weeks, say reports.
Pictures posted by Weibo user Jinrouxiongguimiaoxingren last week have spread online in recent days.
But while many are keen to enjoy the 16-second ride, others are concerned about safety, sabotage, or potentially smelly encounters.
The management of the mall told local news outlets that the 20m (66ft) slide had been tested and was safe, and that only one person would be allowed on at a time.
But this has not stopped thousands of comments on Weibo, though it was unclear in some cases whether these were real worries or satirical takes on China's spotty safety record.
One of the top concerns was whether riders' bottoms would be safe.
"You'll feel like your bottom is on fire," said Shengkongwanqikajizhongduzhong, while Xiarichuzhan had more practical concerns: "Once you're done sliding down such a long slide wouldn't your trousers be worn out and torn?"
Others had darker thoughts.
"What if someone stuck knives inside... What would happen then?" asked an alarmed Wenzhoukangningjingshenbingyuan.
"What I'm most afraid of is that there would be [open] seams at the entrance and exit, once your bottom slides across... [it'd be like] a large piece of meat dripping with blood," said user Bunenglianjiedaonisuoqingqiudewangye.
"If a screw accidentally came loose, resulting in a small section falling out..." warned -Elvis-Presley.
Some worried about their exit strategy.
"How will you be able to slow down near the end? Will you shoot out and fall to your death?" asked Fanyanlei.
Some also raised the possibility of getting trapped in the slide.
"What if there's a jam in there, what would you do... you can't breathe," said Yingtaoguozi.
"If someone gets stuck in the middle... would the person behind him sweep him along and fly out with him?" said Guaizhazhazha.
Others could not decide what was worse - dying in the slide, or stumbling upon someone who met such a fate.
"What if someone dies in there... and the next person on the slide discovers him? Oh my god," fretted Ranbbb.
Wuwewuwe gave this suggestion: "This sort of tube should be completely transparent, then it would be easy to know if anything happens."
Another major preoccupation was the prospect of enduring five storeys of flatulence.
Fengfengaichidou raised the spectre of "the person in front farting, causing those behind him to faint."
But there could be worse scenarios, pointed out Jianxiaoxiaoxiaosuaner: "What if someone pooped on the slide, what would happen to the people behind him?"
The fevered speculation was inevitably a turn-off for some.
"At first I thought it would really be fun, but after reading the comments..." said Honficius, who ended his or her comment with a scared-looking emoji.


Promoted Leigh made it six successive wins in The Qualifers with a routine 42-24 victory over Batley Bulldogs.

Batley led early on through David Scott but Leigh hit back through Fuifui Moimoi and Adam Higson.
Alistair Leak levelled the scores but Leigh eased into a 24-12 half-time lead through Cory Paterson and Lewis Foster.
Leigh added further tries through Travis Burns, Willie Tonga and Dayne Weston, with Keegan Hirst and Wayne Reittie adding consolations for Batley.
A crowd of 10,556 were in attendance at Leigh Sports Village after Leigh owner Derek Beaumont offered free tickets for the game to celebrate the club's return to Super League for next season.
Leigh: Smith, Higson, Brown, Tonga, Dawson, Reynolds, Burns, Moimoi, Hood, Weston, Dixon, Paterson, Fash.
Replacements: Foster, Hansen, Hopkins, Spencer.
Batley: D. Scott, Reittie, Smeaton, Ulugia, Ainscough, Walker, Brambani, Hirst, Leak, Rowe, Day, Bretherton, Blake.
Replacements: Davey, Gledhill, Chandler, Lillycrop.
Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL)
Att: 10,556


The number of recorded sexual offences against children in England and Wales has risen by a third, the NSPCC says.

There were 31,000 offences recorded in the year up to April 2014, up 8,500 on the previous year.
Figures compiled by the charity show 85 offences were recorded by police every day, with significant rises in Scotland and Northern Ireland also.
A spokesman said high-profile cases had "played a contributory factor" in encouraging people to come forward.
Jon Brown, from the NSPCC's sexual abuse programme, told BBC Radio 4's Today that cases in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and elsewhere had helped prompt "children, young people and adults to speak about abuse that is either happening to them or has happened to them".
BBC home editor Mark Easton said police forces had put significant effort into encouraging victims to come forward and this appeared to be paying off.
It is probable sexual offences are actually falling despite cases coming to light in recent years, he added.
Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) lead for child protection, said police now looked "upon child abuse very differently".
"Many, many, more" people had found the confidence to report incidents, he said, but the latest figures could be still only be "the tip of the iceberg".
And Peter Wanless, the NSPCC's chief executive, said the figures were "a fraction of the true number of victims, because some endure an agonising wait of many years before telling anyone - and others never reveal what has happened to them".
According to the figures, compiled by a Freedom of Information request:
In 2012/13, the same research showed 22,654 cases were recorded by 41 police forces. All 43 forces in England and Wales responded in the latest study.
The NSPCC said the total had largely remained steady until this year's figures, and that the 38% rise was the biggest increase in six years of requesting the data.
The number has now increased by almost 50% since 2008/09.
In Scotland, government figures showed that in 2013-14 there were 3,742 sexual offences against children under 18 recorded, including rape, sexual assault and grooming - a 10-year high.
The NSPCC said 1,485 sexual offences against people under 18 were reported to police in Northern Ireland in 2013/14, up 26% on the previous year.
By Mark Easton, BBC home editor
The fact that police are recording more suspected incidents of child sexual abuse should probably be regarded as a positive development.
Police forces have put significant effort into encouraging victims of such crimes to come forward and this seems to be paying off. Prosecutors and chief constables are under instruction to take seriously allegations that are made and, where appropriate, revisit reports made in the past.
Britain is only beginning to recognise the appalling scale of child abuse and the criminal justice system still only deals with a fraction of offences. It is possible - indeed the recent focus on child welfare and big falls in overall violent crime makes it probable in my view - that sexual offences against children are falling, despite all the horrific cases that have come to light in the last few years.
However, while more victims coming forward is good news, it is vital that the resources and support are available to deal with the increased demands on police and other services.
The NSPCC's Mr Brown said there was not enough support available for children who had been sexually abused.
"Their concerns need to be taken seriously and acted promptly upon.
"Through the court process they need to be supported and there are some real gaps there, and then there's a huge gap in the amount of help and therapy that's available for children who have been abused."
Mr Brown said the charity estimated that there was a shortfall of 50,000 places across the UK for children who needed treatment, having been sexually abused.
The figures are published as the NSPCC launches its third annual "How Safe Are Our Children?" report at the charity's annual conference in London.
A government spokeswoman said children must be protected from "systemic and appalling cases" of abuse such as those seen in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and elsewhere.
She said: "We have given child sexual abuse the status of a national threat so that it is prioritised by every police force, will shortly launch a new child sexual abuse taskforce and centre of expertise to improve local responses and we have provided Â£7m funding to organisations that support victims.
"It is encouraging that police figures show more victims are having the confidence to come forward and report these often ignored and under-reported crimes."
Home Secretary Theresa May has established an independent inquiry to probe allegations of historical child sex abuse and a Westminster paedophile ring.
By Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
Over the past 18 months there's been a raft of data indicating that more people are reporting sexual offences.
What's different about these statistics is that there's a breakdown by age of victim, enabling us to see the extent of the problem as it affects children. It's a deeply worrying picture.
It raises questions about the level of support available for victims, at a time when criminal justice, welfare and health budgets are under strain, as well as the need to find ways to deal effectively with the perpetrators.
To do that we must attempt to understand what drives people to commit offences against children and babies, however unpalatable that may be, to prevent further crimes in the future.
Last month it emerged that police were investigating more than 1,400 prominent men for historic child sex abuse, including politicians, celebrities and those linked to institutions.
And also last month, the NPCC said it had seen an "unprecedented increase" in the number of reports of abuse following the Savile cases coming to light.
Mr Bailey said of the latest figures:  "The service now looks upon child abuse very differently and victims can expect a professional response.
"As a result many, many, more victims have found the confidence to report abuse, knowing they will be treated with sensitivity and respect, that we will listen to them and that we will take their allegations seriously."


The boss of the troubled steel company Caparo, Angad Paul, has died after falling from his penthouse flat on Sunday morning.

The 45-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene in central London.
It comes after the troubled company, which is currently in administration, announced 450 job cuts, with the future of another 1,200 uncertain.
The Metropolitan Police said the death was being treated as "non-suspicious", although inquiries were continuing.
The man's next of kin has been informed, said the police, although he has not yet been formally identified.
On Twitter, the Indian entrepreneur Suhel Seth said: "Deeply saddened to learn of the suicide of Angad Paul in London. He was young and bright. Deepest condolences to Lord Swraj Paul and family."
Mr Paul is the son of Lord Paul, who founded the company in 1968 with a Â£5,000 loan.
As well as obtaining an economics degree from MIT, he was an executive producer on Guy Ritchie's films Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
He also financed the Caparo T1, which was the fastest supercar in the world when it launched in 2006.
Mr Paul married his wife, the media lawyer Michelle Bonn, in 2004.
Caparo went into administration last month after it was hit by collapsing steel prices and the strong pound.
The industry as a whole has suffered. SSI in Redcar, Cleveland recently collapsed, while Tata Steel has also announced cutbacks. In all, about 4,000 jobs were lost in the sector in October alone.


Leeds Rhinos have signed Manly Sea Eagles hooker Matt Parcell on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

The 24-year-old Australian started his career with Brisbane Broncos before joining Manly last season.
Parcell is likely to replace James Segeyaro who returned to his native Australia recently after the 26-year-old said he was homesick.
"I'm really excited about the style of football they want to play," Parcell told BBC Radio Leeds.
"I think what they're looking to do at Leeds will really suit me.
"Coming over to England has always been something that I've wanted to do but this has come about sooner than I expected."
He added: "I can understand after what's happened that fans might be worried I won't stick around, but I really think that this is going to suit me and I am excited about the prospect of living on the other side of the world.
"I don't think homesickness is going to be an issue."


Cybersecurity tools could become easier to export as the US seeks to amend an international arms-control deal that controls their spread.

A congressman said the US wanted to renegotiate the Wassenaar Arrangement.
The deal restricts the flow of arms - including "intrusion software" - to oppressive regimes. But some have said it also covers tools that can improve cybersecurity.
The move was praised by online freedom campaigners.
The proposal to amend the deal "represents a major victory for cybersecurity here and around the world," said US congressman Jim Langevin in a statement announcing the news.
"While well-intentioned, the Wassenaar Arrangement's 'intrusion software' control was imprecisely drafted, and it has become evident that there is simply no way to interpret the plain language of the text in a way that does not sweep up a multitude of important security products."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has also campaigned on the issue, agreed the deal had been reached with the best of intentions but its wording was too vague.
While the EFF was happy changes were to be considered, it remained concerned the amended arrangement would continue to have "serious chilling effects on security research".
Last year, the US authorities faced calls from Google to step back from restricting the flow of software as part of the 41-nation arms-control deal.
At the time, Google said the definition of "intrusion software" was "dangerously broad and vague" and included information about bugs and vulnerabilities that could be vital to protect systems.
Google's lawyer Neil Martin said the Wassenaar Arrangement would "hamper our ability to defend ourselves, our users, and make the web safer".
But the US authorities insisted it balanced computer security with foreign policy concerns.
Now, though, the US administration has said it supports making cyber-intrusion tools available overseas for legitimate cybersecurity activities.
The EFF said: "Human rights advocates have recognised that surveillance software designed and sold by companies in Western countries has been responsible for serious abuses around the world.
"We at EFF have long fought such abuses in court.
"We believe strongly that this is a fight worth having, but export controls are simply the wrong tool for the job."
Efforts to come up with a workable US rule have highlighted the difficulty of applying the export controls restricting physical items to a virtual world that relies on the free flow of information for network security.
Many companies operate in multiple countries and routinely employ foreign nationals who test their own corporate networks across borders.
In May, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security proposed denying the transfer of offensive tools, defined as software that uses "zero-day" exploits, or unpatched new vulnerabilities, and "rootkit" abilities that allow a person administrator-level access to a system.
But in the cyber-world, testing a network often requires determining first how to exploit it and then attempting to do so.
US government departments did not respond to requests for comment.


It started as a mission to collect whiskey for a party towards the end of World War Two and ended in a blazing inferno in which 11 US personnel died.

On 14 April 1945, just a month before the end of World War Two, 10 US servicemen and one woman died after their Flying Fortress bomber crashed in the Isle of Man.
Lt Robert Vielle, an experienced and decorated pilot, had been flying a B-17G from England to Northern Ireland when he hit bad weather over the Irish Sea.
The aircraft veered off-course by several miles before coming down and bursting into flames in a field above Port St May.
The exact cause of the crash has never been ascertained.
Those on board had been sent on a peaceful mission to Northern Ireland to collect supplies of whiskey for a party at the US Army Air Force station at Thurleigh in Essex.
Ivor Ramsden, a keen historian and aviation expert, said the flight was an example of the "sheer madness of war".


Turkey is preparing to send back to Moscow the body of the Russian pilot who was killed after his plane was shot down on the Syrian border.

Lt Col Oleg Peshkov's body was received by Turkish authorities at the Syrian border earlier in the day.
Turkish forces shot down the plane saying it had violated Turkish airspace, which Russia denies.
The incident has sparked a furious row between the two countries, with Russia announcing sanctions against Turkey.
Rebels from Syria's ethnic Turkmen community opened fire on Lt Col Peshkov and his co-pilot as they tried to parachute into government-held territory on Tuesday.
The rebels said he had died by the time he reached the ground.
His body was flown from the border to the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday afternoon, from where it will be taken to Russia.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu added that Lt Col Peshkov's body had been treated in accordance with Orthodox Christian tradition.
Another pilot in the plane, Capt Konstantin Murakhtin, survived and was rescued from rebel-held territory in Syria in a special forces operation.
Capt Murakhtin said he wanted to go back to duty and stay in Syria, saying "someone has to pay" for his colleague's death.
A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday covers imports from Turkey, the work of Turkish companies in Russia and any Turkish nationals working for Russian companies.
The decree also calls for an end to charter flights between the countries.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to apologise to Russia over the incident.
On Friday, he accused Moscow of "playing with fire" in its Syria operations. But on Saturday, he said he was "saddened" by the downing of the jet.
Turkey and Russia have important economic links. Russia is Turkey's second-largest trading partner, while more than three million Russian tourists visited Turkey last year.


Two brothers have been jailed for carrying out a brutal street attack in North Lanarkshire which left their victim fighting for his life.

Grant Murray, 20, was convicted of attempted murder following the attack on 38-year-old James Martin in Newarthill on 1 February.
His brother, Graham Murray, 30, was convicted of assault for punching Mr Martin and causing him to fall.
Grant Murray was jailed for eight years and his brother for 11 months.
Jailing them at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Johanna Johnston QC told Grant Murray: "Mr Martin was on the ground defenceless and motionless. You did not care if the blows caused fatal injuries or not.
"Even when your brother tried to pull you away you continued the attack.
"This brutal attack left Mr Martin with shocking injuries. He could have died. Your behaviour was brutal and vicious."
Judge Johnston told his brother Graham Murray: "You were convicted of assaulting Mr Martin by punching him repeatedly and rending him unconscious. He had done you no harm."
During the trial, the victim's 18-year-old son, Jordan Martin, told the court that he had gone to collect his father from a pub and buy items from a local shop.
As they walked down a lane, Grant Murray approached them and asked Mr Martin snr for a cigarette.
When he handed one over Graham Murray came over said "don't touch him" and punched Mr Martin to the ground.
His brother Grant then stamped on and kicked Mr Martin as he lay unresponsive on the ground.
The court was told that Mr Martin's jaw was split in two by the force of the blows and he suffered life-threatening injuries.
Jordan Martin said that after the attack he called 999 and flagged down a passing car which was driven by his aunt, Pamela Hughes, who gave first aid until an ambulance arrived.
As Ms Hughes tended her brother, Grant Murray shouted at her: "It was me, it was me. What are you going to do."
The brothers claimed that the assaults were sparked by Jordan Martin hitting them with a shopping bag, but he denied this.
Both were convicted following a trial last month.


Official figures released today by the Forestry Commission show that the government is falling far short of its own tree-planting targets.

The Woodland Trust says that the "drastic decline" in new woodland planting is "appalling" and could have serious environmental consequences.
It accused government of missing its target in England by 86%.
The environment department, Defra, said it was committed to growing woodland cover.
Data published today by the Forestry Commission, the government body responsible for expanding Britain's woodlands, shows that 700 hectares (seven km2) of woodland was planted in England last year. The goal was to plant 5000 (50 km2).
Austin Brady from the Woodland Trust, said: "These figures are all the more shocking against the backdrop of the growing evidence of the importance of trees and woods in tackling air pollution, improving water quality and offering scope to deliver natural flood management.
"Something is drastically wrong with the way woodland planting is being supported across the various government departments that share responsibility for trees and woods."
The government has committed to planting 11 million trees between 2015 and 2020.
Environment Minister Elizabeth Truss has spoken of their importance in helping to prevent flooding.
Speaking in the House of Commons in December 2015 she said she wanted to look at the environment "on a catchment level, making sure that we put in place tree-planting programmes that can both reduce flood risk and improve the environment".
However, Mr Brady said: "There have been lots of really interesting and well-informed conversations - all the signals are positive, but the system of delivering the grants and getting things moving on the ground is not matching up with the fine words. It is not fit for purpose."
The UK is one of the least wooded nations in Europe. Only 10% of England is covered in trees. Average woodland cover in the EU is 37%.
Government funding has been made available but grant schemes for planting trees changed last year.
There have been delays in processing contracts and payments. Under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme there are rigid rules determining the amount of land that needs to be planted and at what density to qualify for a grant.
There is also confusion around whether planting trees disqualifies farmers from part of their EU farm subsidy payments. This leads many farmers and landowners to avoid new planting altogether.
A Defra spokesperson said: "Woodland cover in England is at its highest level since the 14th Century and we are committed to growing it even further.
"The Countryside Stewardship scheme is an important opportunity to help expand our nation's woodlands, which is why the Forestry Commission is supporting landowners to make applications through a series of workshops and online support."
The Woodland Trust says that more flexible schemes are needed to allow landowners with more limited space to be able to qualify for funding. There also needs to be more clarity. Currently the government departments involved in tree management include: Defra, the Forestry Commission, Natural England and the Environment Agency.
Along with the environmental benefits of trees, according to the government's Natural Capital Committee report, which aims to put a financial price on the "ecosystem services" provided by natural resources, "woodland planting of up to 250,000 additional hectares ... near towns and cities can generate net societal benefits in excess of Â£500 million per annum".
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Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho has been suspended for 30 days by Uefa after it opened disciplinary proceedings against him following a failed drugs test.

The suspension is provisional until a final decision is taken by Uefa's control, ethics and disciplinary body.
Sakho, 26, tested positive for what is thought to be a type of fat burner after the Europa League win against Manchester United on 17 March.
He chose not to challenge the results.
European football's governing body added Sakho "did not request the analysis of the B sample".
The date of a disciplinary hearing will be announced at a later stage.
The France international and his club had already agreed he would remain unavailable while a Uefa investigation was completed.
Sakho's Liverpool team-mate Kolo Toure was banned for six months in 2011 while at Manchester City after testing positive for a weight-loss drug contained within "water tablets" recommended to him by his wife.
Should Uefa decide on a similar ban for Sakho, it would rule him out of Euro 2016 in France, which starts on 10 June.
The suspension will be backdated to Thursday, the day it was issued, no matter when the disciplinary hearing is set for.
An £18m signing from Paris St-Germain in 2013, Sakho has played 34 games for Liverpool this season, including 10 in the Europa League.


As Barcelona splashed £75m on Luis Suarez this summer, their opponents on Saturday - Eibar - also broke their transfer record, shelling out 75,000 euros on winger Dani Nieto.

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For the pile of money Barca sent to Liverpool to acquire Suarez, Eibar president Alex Aranzabal can run the tiny Basque club's entire operation for nearly five years.
Yet, despite the enormous financial disparity, the La Liga debutants will face the Catalan giants as one of their peers this weekend.
"A couple of years ago the idea of playing in the top flight was a dream," said Aranzabal. "This is a special moment for us."
When it comes to David versus Goliath stories, modern-day football surely doesn't have anything better to offer than Eibar's trip to the Nou Camp on Saturday.
The hosts, of course, are one of sport's most famous, wealthy and powerful organisations, boasting a glorious history and millions of fans all over the world.
Eibar, by contrast, must be one of the smallest clubs ever to have competed in any major football nation's top division.
If that sounds like an exaggeration, consider that Eibar's annual budget is 18m euros (£14.3m) for the whole club - the first-team budget is 11.8m euros (£9.4m).
And while Barca spent in the region of 160m euros (£127m) to sign seven players this summer, 11 of Eibar's 12 reinforcements were either free transfers or loans, with the only player to attract a fee - winger Nieto from, tellingly, Barca's B team - costing those mere 75,000 euros (£59,600).
Eibar's atmospheric Ipurua ground is a throwback to another era, holding only 5,200 people. Even at that capacity it is rarely full, with the small Basque town's population of less than 30,000 so taken aback by their team's sudden success they have forgotten to start watching them.
Indeed, Eibar's elevation is even more impressive because it was so unexpected. Just two seasons ago they were in the third tier with no serious aspirations to go further, but the turning point came when former player Gaizka Garitano took over as manager and led them to promotion at the first attempt.
Then, although they were operating with the lowest budget in the Segunda Division, Eibar repeated the feat last season, holding off the challenge of Deportivo La Coruna to achieve their second consecutive promotion as champions.
However, Eibar were almost faced with relegation instead of promotion - thanks to a well-intentioned but inflexible administrative measure aimed at preventing clubs sinking into financial difficulties, which requires all Segunda Division teams to possess a certain amount of capital.
Although Eibar had no debts, neither did they have sufficient spare cash. Unlike the English Premier League, where promoted sides receive an instant cash windfall, Spanish clubs have to wait until later in the season to receive television revenue.
And the very unequal nature of its distribution in Spain - Barca and Real receive nearly half the total, while the scraps are shared out among everyone else - means clubs like Eibar receive little more than 10m euros (£7.9m) in any case.
So their summer was spent desperately attempting to raise the 1.7m euros (£1.35m) required before the early August deadline - if they had failed, they would have been relegated back to the third tier rather than promoted to the first.
"It was nonsense because our economic situation was solid," said Aranzabal.
"We are the only club in Spanish professional football that has no debt. We tried to fight in court but in the end had to fight to get more money."
Fortunately, social media worked its magic and a well-received publicity campaign, supported by Spain internationals - and former Eibar loanees - David Silva and Xabi Alonso, resulted in thousands of fans from all over the world contributing to the cause.
The target was reached with weeks to spare, allowing the club to celebrate bureaucratic confirmation of their promotion nearly two months after it had been achieved on the pitch.
One familiar figure who is particularly delighted by Eibar's rise is Silva, who spent the 2004-05 campaign on loan at the Ipurua as he climbed through the youth ranks at Valencia.
"I remember my season there with great affection," the Manchester City midfielder told BBC Sport.  "It was a very important year in my career because I learned a lot and grew through all the stages of my development."
Silva backs up the impression of Eibar as a small, unassuming club run by, and appealing to, local people. "The club had a very family feel and people were very humble and welcoming," he confirmed.
"I am still in touch with some of the players and staff from my time there and I always follow them. The club, the town and the fans deserve to enjoy this opportunity and to make the most of it."
Eibar head into Saturday's trip to the Nou Camp as the highest-placed Basque club, looking down from ninth in the table upon Real Sociedad (15th) and Athletic Bilbao (18th) having already played both, beating La Real 1-0 and drawing 0-0 at Athletic.
For a club used to gratefully accepting rejects or young prospects from their two far bigger neighbours in loan deals or free transfers, that is quite some achievement.
As you would expect from a team put together with such limited resources, Eibar's greatest strengths on the field are teamwork, organisation and commitment to the cause.
The most striking feature of last season's campaign was their defence, which conceded just 28 goals in 42 league outings, and they have already made a small piece of La Liga history this season by registering their first eight goals through eight different scorers, showing they are truly a team rather than relying on one or two outstanding individuals.
Garitano and his players are also dogged, evidenced in their most recent outing when Italian striker Federico Piovaccari scored a 93rd-minute equaliser to earn a 3-3 home draw with Levante. Eibar's players might well be outclassed at the Nou Camp this weekend, but they will compete, chase and challenge for every ball from the opening whistle until the last.
Happily, unlike many clubs who rise rapidly before crashing and burning, Eibar's long-term future is secure even if they are unable to maintain their early-season form.
They have resisted the temptation to chase success by spending more than they earn - partly because they couldn't get their hands on more money even if they had wanted to - and offer a rare example of a top-flight club operating without debt.
"We would never consider putting the club in debt. We do our business with our own resources," insisted Aranzabal.
Eibar have, however, been forced to significantly increase their infrastructure this season, with Gergori Prieto from the club's administration team telling BBC Sport: "We restructured the club's personnel during the summer. Last season, I was the only person working in administration - now there are 10 of us, with new departments like marketing."
Prieto added that a 'fantasy land' atmosphere has prevailed since promotion, saying: "The feeling in the streets and within the club is the same; it's almost like a dream.
"This season is a gift which we just have to enjoy, and with some luck perhaps there will be more."
And Saturday's trip to the Nou Camp is particularly significant.
"Barca is the only top team we have never played against before," Prieto said.
"We have met the others like Real Madrid and Atletico in the cup, but never Barca. So it will be a very special day."


International metals firm Liberty House has confirmed that a deal to buy two mothballed Lanarkshire steelworks is close.

The company has been locked in talks with Tata Steel over the purchase of Tata's Clydebridge and Dalzell works.
Tata Steel announced in October it would close them with the loss of 270 jobs.
However, Liberty said that while a deal was close, talks may not be concluded on Wednesday.
It is understood that the question of responsibility for any future clean-up costs has still to be resolved.
The Scottish government has been involved in negotiations, as has the UK government.
Liberty House plans to use the Scottish mills to turn re-cycled steel into steel plates for use in construction and motor manufacture.
The company hopes to process about two million tonnes of scrapped steel a year, rather than melting new steel.
It estimates about 12 million tonnes of steel are scrapped in the UK every year.
But the company says that is dependent on negotiating an energy regime which makes the process sustainable.
It is holding talks with the Westminster government on offsetting the carbon tax for large scale energy users and/or improving the feed-in-tariff for surplus power from its renewable generation.
Earlier Ms Sturgeon said "final due diligence" on an agreement was taking place.
She told MSPs: "The agreement would be facilitated by the Scottish government and would involve us buying the plant and immediately selling them on to Liberty for the same consideration."
The announcement came ahead of a meeting of the Scottish steel task force, set up by the Scottish government in October to try to secure a future for the mills.
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the steelworkers' union Community, welcomed news that a deal was close.
He added: "The signing of this agreement is the first step towards restoring jobs and resuming production but there are still many steps to be taken.
"Community will continue to work tirelessly to see that happen.
"We made it clear that the skilled workforce at Dalzell and Clydebridge deserved a future in steel and from my discussions with Liberty I know they have the ambition to make that happen."


A 48-hour strike on First Great Western (FGW) trains has officially ended but delays are expected to continue.

High-speed services between London, the West of England and Wales were limited on Friday, after RMT union members walked out on Wednesday.
They fear guards and buffet cars will be disposed of on FGW's new fleet of Hitachi Inter City Express trains.
The union said the support had been "rock solid". FGW believe services will be back to normal by Saturday morning.
It said two thirds of services had been running during the strike.
Elsewhere in the country, Southern Railway engineers have suspended a five-day strike planned to begin on Sunday.
According to the RMT union, about 2,000 members of staff went on strike across the FGW network.
A spokesman said: "The message from FGW staff has rung out loud and clear and it is now down to the company to get back round the table and give us the very basic assurances on jobs, services and safety that RMT has been calling for."
FGW said, despite a revised timetable and warnings of much busier trains, more than 60% of services operated as normal on Thursday.
The company advised people travelling on its services on Friday to check times for last trains as they will be "significantly earlier than usual".
In an open letter to passengers, FGW managing director Mark Hopwood said he was "determined to continue talking to the RMT to try and find a way to resolve this matter."
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin described the strike as "unnecessary" and said it "threatens massive disruption and benefits no-one".
Many stations and trains were less busy than usual on Friday morning, with some passengers choosing to stay at home rather than attempt to travel.
Meanwhile another union has said it will ballot its 300 members at FGW on "action short of a strike". The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association accused the company of taking a "high handed" approach to managers during this week's walkout.
The company said the "ballot of a small minority of our managers" was "not expected to have an impact on passengers".


A mother and her seven-year-old child have escaped unhurt after the tourist helicopter they were flying in snapped off its tail in an emergency landing.

Charlotte Cwajna and her son Harrison, from Fleet in Hampshire, were sightseeing in Florida, when the aircraft lost power at 600ft (180m).
Ms Cwajna said: "There was a clunk and we dropped in the sky."
She said the pilot, who was also uninjured, was "dripping with sweat and visibly shaken" after landing.
"He saw a bit of grass in between two highways and brought it down within 30 seconds," Ms Cwajna said.
The flight above Orlando on 20 April was a treat for Harrison on the final day of a family holiday.
Harrison said: "I knew something was wrong. Lights started to flash. The helicopter was slowly going down. It was scary."
Ms Cwajna said they were in a "state of elation" after getting out of the helicopter and inspecting the damage.
Air Florida Helicopters Charters said the pilot's "professional skills and fact action" had saved those on board.
An investigation is under way into the cause of the emergency.


Morton striker Jai Quitongo has signed a contract extension, keeping him at Cappielow until June 2018.

The 19-year-old, working his way back from knee surgery in January, has scored six goals this season.
His form was rewarded with a Scotland Under-21 cap against Slovakia in November, while an offer from Doncaster was rejected in late August.
"He's a potentially outstanding talent," manager Jim Duffy told the Greenock club's website.
"There was obviously a lot of speculation surrounding the boy just before he got injured.
"He's only really had about 20 first-team starts, so he maybe thinks it's in his interests as well to get a bit more experience, and if he keeps developing and working hard he may get that move further down the line."


A female judge has warned women who get drunk they are putting themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists.

Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to "drink themselves into the ground" but their "disinhibited behaviour" could put them in danger.
Judge Kushner made the courtroom plea as she jailed a man for six years who raped a girl he met in a Burger King in Manchester city centre last year.
But, Rape Crisis slammed her comments as "outrageous" and "misguided".
Yvonne Traynor, chief executive of Rape Crisis South East, said: "As a judge and a woman she should know better.
"The only person who is responsible for rape, is the rapist.
"Women are yet again being blamed for rape."
The judge spoke out as she retired from the criminal bench.
Judge Kushner, 64, said "as a woman judge" it would "be remiss" if she did not beg women to protect themselves from predatory men who ''gravitate'' towards drunken females.
The mother of two, who has sat as a senior circuit judge since 2002, said judges have been criticised for "putting more emphasis on what girls should and shouldn't do than on the act and the blame to be apportioned to rapists".
"There is absolutely no excuse and a woman can do with her body what she wants and a man will have to adjust his behaviour accordingly," she said.
But she said she does not "think it's wrong for a judge to beg woman to take actions to protect themselves".
Judge Kushner's plea to women to protect themselves was strongly - but carefully - worded: she was emphatically not blaming them for an attack but warning them that when drunk they're more vulnerable.
Other judges who've stepped into this tricky territory haven't always framed their remarks so delicately.
Judge Mary Jane Mowat's comment in 2014 that "the rape conviction statistics will not improve until women stop getting so drunk" was designed to highlight a point Judge Kushner also made - that victims are less likely to believed if they've had a lot of alcohol - but she made it sound as though women were responsible for rapists getting off.
But even more insensitive was the comment made by Mr Justice Leonard in 1987 when he declared that the trauma suffered by Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward "had not been so great".  He later apologised.
Judge Kushner said "potential defendants to rape" target girls who have been drinking because they are "more likely to agree as they are more disinhibited, even if they don't agree they are less likely to fight a man with evil intentions off".
She said a woman would be less likely to report a rape "because she was drunk or cannot remember what happened or feels ashamed to deal with it".
"Or, if push comes to shove, a girl who has been drunk is less likely to be believed than one who is sober at the time," she said.
"It should not be like that but it does happen and we see it time and time again."
She said women "are entitled to do what they like" but asked them to "please be aware there are men out there who gravitate towards a woman who might be more vulnerable than others".
"That's my final line, in my final criminal trial, and my final sentence," she concluded.
Judge Kushner jailed factory worker Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, after Manchester Crown Court heard he ignored his 18-year-old victim's screams as he attacked her on a canal bank.
A witness heard the teenager, who had been drinking lager and vodka as well as inhaling the party drug amyl nitrite, begging Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes to stop.


A town pastor, who helps those in need on the streets of Bury St Edmunds at night, is among those recognised in the New Year's Honours list.

Jo Copsey, 56, works as a volunteer patrolling the town centre on Friday and Saturday nights.
She has been awarded the British Empire Medal for services to community safety.
"It's a very practical way of showing the love of Jesus to people when they're having their night out," she said.
Ms Copsey has been a town pastor since 2009 and co-ordinates a team of 35 Christians in Bury St Edmunds.
Bob Pegnall also receives a British Empire Medal for his work as church organist and choir director at St Mary's in Woodbridge.
Mr Pegnall, a maths teacher who worked at Copleston High in Ipswich from 1974 to 2011, said: "I enjoy doing what I do, and have done it for 38 years, and don't regard it as particularly meritorious, but I'm glad that it has obviously been well received, at least by some."
Roger Wright has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to music in his current job as chief executive of Aldeburgh Music and previous posts including director of the BBC Proms and controller of BBC Radio Three.
He said: "Not only is it recognition of the unique value and importance of music and the arts in all our lives, it is also a huge tribute to my colleagues both past and present, who brilliantly bring so many performances to fruition and make them accessible for everyone."
The former Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Lord Tollemache, has been made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).


The government is planning to ban "excessive" fees for using a debit or credit card to buy items such as tickets online.

It has gone further than recommendations from the regulator to ban surcharges on debit cards only, by proposing to issue the same ban on credit cards.
However, traders will be allowed to levy a "small charge" to cover the cost of processing a card payment.
So what will this mean for you?
What are these surcharges?
Consumers booking tickets for travel or entertainment online are often charged extra when they tick the box that says they intend to pay by credit or debit card.
Sometimes this payment is only added to the total cost after buyers have ploughed their way through up to eight web pages.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said that this is unfair, because it makes it difficult for consumers to compare prices between different companies.
So what is the government proposing to do?
The government wants to ban "excessive" surcharges for anyone using a debit or credit card. It says that the charge should only relate to the "small" cost to a retailer of processing a card payment.
The ban will cover travel companies, booking agencies and even councils.
In effect it is bringing forward European proposals that will force companies to make these surcharges cost-reflective.
These were not due to become law until mid-2014, but the government will bring the new law into force in the UK from April 2013.
Does this kind of thing happen in many industries?
It certainly does.
There is evidence of local authorities and the DVLA levying these surcharges.
However, the OFT said in its report earlier this year that it considered the travel industry to be the most pressing to deal with.
There is a difference in using a debit or credit card when buying items.
Using a credit card does offer extra protection for consumers if things go wrong, such as a travel company collapsing, and, of course, allows people to book tickets on credit.
What do travel companies say?
Some made changes to their websites after recommendations were made by the OFT.
Those airlines which failed to do so were investigated by the watchdog, and later agreed to include debit card charges in their headline prices.
They were Ryanair, Easyjet, Aer Lingus, BMI Baby, Eastern Airways, Flybe, German Wings, Jet2, Lufthansa, Thomas Cook, Thomson and Wizz Air.
Why is there a card processing cost anyway?
High Street retailers point out that they absorb the cost, by charging the same in shops to someone paying by card as they do to cash-paying customers.
However, card payments do involve costs, in what is quite a complex process.
The customer uses a card to pay for a product or service. The retailer or business takes the card details and gives them to an "acquirer". The acquirer is the bank which processes the payment on the retailer's behalf.
The acquirer passes on the details to the customer's bank or building society, and passes the payment back to the retailer. This operation is overseen by the card scheme, such as Visa, Mastercard or Maestro.
So, for example, the acquirer will charge a fee for its part of the process.
How did this issue come to light?
After an investigation prompted by a super-complaint from the consumers' association Which?.
Various consumer groups have the statutory power to make a super-complaint to the OFT if an issue is "significantly harming the interests of consumers".
The OFT has 90 days to respond by stating what action, if any, it plans to take on the issue and the reasons behind its decision.
The OFT made proposals which led to the latest government response.
Yes, to a degree.
It has already read the riot act to businesses over "drip-pricing". This is when extra costs are added when a customer goes through the transaction process online.
Now, businesses must include any compulsory extras in their headline price on their website.
For example, if an airline charges customers a fuel duty surcharge, this must be included in the advertised price of the flight.
Many businesses have made prices on their websites clearer as a result of these rules.


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The US Department of Justice has reportedly decided not to charge two white officers who shot and killed a black man in Louisiana last summer.

Video footage appearing to show the officers holding down Alton Sterling as they fired their weapons sparked days of protests in Baton Rouge.
News of the decision leaked to US media on Tuesday before the city mayor or the Sterling family had been told.
People soon began gathering outside the shop where the tragedy happened.
A vigil was organised for Tuesday night.
The civil rights investigation was opened soon after the 37-year-old was killed outside the grocery shop he was selling CDs.
At the time, a series of fatal police shootings involving African-Americans had sparked a debate about police use of force.
The federal decision not to prosecute the two officers comes with a new US government and a new head of the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
It does not mean the state of Louisiana could not bring its own charges.
Police were called after reports of a man threatening people with a gun outside a shop.
Mobile video footage appeared to show two officers wrestling a man in a red shirt to the floor.
One of the officers pinned the man's arm to the floor with his knee and then appeared to pull out his gun and point it at the man.
A voice is heard shouting: "He's got a gun!" Then shots ring out and the camera moves away.
Mr Sterling, a father of five, died at the scene.
Police said he refused to comply with the officers' commands so they used a stun gun to bring him to the ground.
The officers say they saw a gun in one of his pockets and saw his arm move there as if he was reaching for it, just before he was shot.
There were nearly 200 arrests in the protests over Mr Sterling's death, which preceded a turbulent couple of weeks in US race relations.
A day after the fatal confrontation, a black driver in Minnesota was shot dead in a traffic stop, and in the same week five police officers in Dallas were killed.
Less than two weeks later, three police officers in Baton Rouge were killed in an ambush, further inflaming tensions in that community.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, who called the video footage "disturbing" called for a federal investigation into Sterling's death.
Two other fatal police shootings were in the news on Tuesday.
In Texas, police changed their story in what happened when an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed on Saturday night as his car drove away from police.
And a former officer in South Carolina pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of an African American he shot in the back as he ran away.
The BBC went to one of the city's toughest neighbourhoods, postal code 70805, which adjoins the district where Mr Sterling was killed.


A long-term vision has been set out for Prestwick Airport - a year after it was taken into public ownership amid fears it could close.

A 53-page report has highlighted efforts to boost freight and passenger numbers as key drivers of success.
The business review document also places importance on Prestwick's bid to become the UK's first spaceport.
The Scottish government bought the struggling airport for £1 last year and later announced £10m in loan funding.
The cash was committed towards operating costs, a repairs backlog and to make improvements to the terminal building.
The long-term strategy has been based upon reports and recommendations from a senior advisor appointed by TS Prestwick Holdco Ltd, the holding company that was created by the Scottish government to buy shares in the airport and oversee its corporate governance.
The strategic vision said the Ayrshire terminal's association with Glasgow, some 35 miles away, was its "best asset".
A local campaign to change its name to Robert Burns International Airport, in recognition of the Alloway-born bard, would "damage the airport's business prospects, notably with inbound passengers", it said.
The vision also confirms Prestwick's bid to be the site of the UK's first spaceport, which it said will be "the catalyst for transformational change".
In the meantime, Prestwick faces some challenges including aged infrastructure, a maintenance backlog, a railway station in need of a £4.75m refurbishment, the need for a new primary radar within the next five years and Ryanair's expansion into Glasgow Airport.
The vision also said Scottish airports were "disproportionally affected" by air passenger duty (APD) due to their geographic location and Prestwick is calling for changes to UK aviation policy leading to a reduction in or removal of APD.
Prestwick chief executive Iain Cochrane said: "Our long-term vision for Glasgow Prestwick, which is shared by the Scottish government, is of a high-quality, exceptional value and vibrant aviation, aerospace and visitor hub.
"We aim to ensure that it becomes the busy and prosperous strategic anchor for economic growth and delivery in Ayrshire and Scotland that we strongly believe it can be.
"The document outlines the plans for investment, development and the optimum operating structure required to take the airport forward to achieve this long-term vision."
Mr Cochrane said there was widespread acceptance that there was no "no quick fix solution" to problems faced by the airport.
He said the possibility of Prestwick bidding to become the UK's first spaceport presented the airport with "another significant opportunity".
Mr Cochrane said: "We satisfy - and in some cases exceed - all the essential criteria such as infrastructure, weather and airspace, and securing spaceport status would be the catalyst for transformational change at the airport - from boosting revenue from space-related flight testing, establishing an attractive modernised hi-tech image and bringing in visitors and tourists.
"It will also bring significant economic benefits to both Ayrshire and Scotland. Our team is therefore firmly focused on winning the bid."
Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the aim was to transform Prestwick into "a successful and vibrant airport".
She said: "The management team has built on the work of the senior advisor and this document outlines their investment and business development plans, as well as the operating structure that is being put in place to take the airport forward.
"We have been clear from the start of this process that there is no quick fix for the airport but there are opportunities to improve in all areas of the business, from increasing passenger and freight traffic to putting forward a bid for the UK Spaceport programme.
"We are confident there is a place for Glasgow Prestwick Airport in the evolving Scottish aviation market and look forward to seeing it grow and develop in the future."
Scottish Labour's infrastructure spokesman, James Kelly MSP, said that a year on from its sale, "workers have no sense of what direction the Scottish government will take Prestwick Airport".
He said: "Prestwick Airport is absolutely vital to the economy of the west of Scotland, supporting thousands of jobs. Yet despite the heavy investment of taxpayers money we are no further forward on how these jobs will be secured long term.
"The SNP need to get their head out of the clouds. Workers in Ayrshire deserve a clear plan that will safeguard existing jobs and create more, not the Nicola Sturgeon International Airport."
Conservative transport spokesman Alex Johnstone said the report should be "the launch pad for a focused plan of action from the Scottish and UK governments" and urged First Minister Alex Salmond and Ms Sturgeon to make it "their top priority".
"The UK Government's ambition to open a spaceport by 2018 is a tremendously exciting opportunity for Scotland and Prestwick stands in great shape to win the bidding process," he said.
"We urge Scottish ministers to do everything in their power to support it."


A violinist has been jailed for conning £350,000 out of people after pretending to have cancer.

Musician Bethan Doci, 38, told people she needed the money to pay for treatment but spent it on holidays, handbags and cars.
Swansea Crown Court heard she was fit and well and made £24,000 a year playing with orchestras.
Doci, of Swansea, admitted 11 counts of fraud from 2010 to 2013 and was jailed for 32 months.
She conned three men out of £357,000 after putting an advert on the Craigslist website saying she needed the cash for treatment.
But she used it to fund holidays to Florida, Spain and the five-star luxury Me Melia hotel in Mexico.
Retired chartered accountant Liam Donnelly, 64, handed over £170,000 and retired businessman Bruce Pilley, 58, was defrauded by £168,000.
She also conned retired Royal Navy officer Neil McKelvie, 56, out of £30,000 - although she repaid some of the cash.
Doci, who has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and concerts "around the world", would show people fake doctors' notes.
Mr Donnelly told police Doci caught him at a "terrible time in his life" after his wife died from skin cancer, so he handed over his life savings.
Doci - who performs under the name of Bethan Morgan - would exchange emails and texts with her victims, but they rarely spoke to her.
Prosecutor Catherine Richards said: "Her lies and deception became more and more elaborate."
Paul Spreadborough, defending, said: "She has feelings of true remorse and guilt over the years. She was gaining a professional reputation as a violinist and was a dedicated performer.
"But she was caught in a classic spiral of lies, debt and deceit. She fell into a pattern and fell deeper and deeper."
Judge Keith Thomas said: "You committed these offences in a callous and heartless manner, saying you were suffering from cancer and needed treatment which you couldn't afford.
"Your victims were devastated, especially Mr Donnelly who you treated particularly cruelly by taking all his life savings."
The court heard Doci spent all the money and had no assets, so she was ordered to repay a nominal £1.


Yuliya Zaripova has been formally stripped of her gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics after failing a retroactive drugs test from the Games.

The 3,000m steeplechase winner from Russia had already been banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations over irregularities in her biological passport.
And on Monday the International Olympic Committee revealed she had failed a test on a sample taken in 2012.
She is one of 12 athletes disqualified.
They were banned after samples taken at the London Olympics were retested by the IOC.
In June Tunisia's Habiba Ghribi was officially presented with the Olympic and World 3,000m steeplechase gold medals stripped from Zaripova.
The other 11 athletes disqualified are:


Gary Caldwell's first game in charge of Chesterfield ended in a goalless draw at home to AFC Wimbledon.

The Spireites remain in the League One relegation zone after collecting a point from a match which did not produce a shot on target until the 51st minute.
Chesterfield enjoyed the bulk of play in the first half but Wimbledon's stubborn defence restricted the hosts to a series of long-range shots from Dion Donohue, Dan Gardner, Ched Evans and Jay O'Shea which all flew wide.
They first tested James Shea from Jon Nolan's snap shot while the visitors' first on-target effort came in the 73rd minute when Dominic Poleon's shot was saved by Ryan Fulton.
The Dons, losers at home to non-league Sutton United in the FA Cup in midweek, were on the back foot for most of the game and have not scored away from home in the league since 22 October.
Chesterfield almost nicked it at the end when Gboly Ariyibi flashed the ball across the face of the goal but no-one was able to get on the end of it.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Chesterfield 0, AFC Wimbledon 0.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 0, AFC Wimbledon 0.
George Francomb (AFC Wimbledon) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ian Evatt (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt saved. Ched Evans (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Dion Donohue (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Oakley (AFC Wimbledon).
Foul by Sam Hird (Chesterfield).
Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dannie Bulman replaces Tom Beere.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Kristian Dennis replaces Rai Simons.
Attempt saved. Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Barry Fuller.
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Hird (Chesterfield).
George Oakley (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Tom Beere (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Liam O'Neil.
Attempt saved. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. George Francomb replaces Alfie Egan.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. George Oakley replaces Tyrone Barnett.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Reece Mitchell replaces Jay O'Shea.
Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Liam O'Neil.
Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alfie Egan (AFC Wimbledon).
Hand ball by Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Chris Whelpdale (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt saved. Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Chesterfield 0, AFC Wimbledon 0.
First Half ends, Chesterfield 0, AFC Wimbledon 0.
Attempt missed. Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Ian Evatt (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt missed. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.