In a corner of Philadelphia known locally as the Badlands, where some of the purest heroin in the country can be bought for just $5 a bag, a half-mile stretch of rail track has become a refuge for hundreds of heroin addicts. Next week the city will begin to clear out the tracks, but where will the users go?
At the top end of Gurney Street in Fairhill, Philadelphia, there's a dirt path that forks through some trees and winds behind an old car repair shop, down to the rail tracks below.
Follow the path and you'll find a makeshift shooting gallery under a bridge, where heroin addicts gather out of sight and the ground is a sea of used syringes, cookers and needle caps. Users stand around a wooden table to fix, tying on tourniquets and tapping in the crooks of their arms to bring up their veins. One man leans into a mirror to find a spot on his neck, carefully pushing a needle through the skin and rolling back into a chair, his eyes glazing over. Others line up along a long steel beam that forms part of the bridge, unwrapping fresh syringes and preparing to inject. For anyone too nervous, or too far gone, to find a vein, there's a man in a wooden shack a few metres away known as "the doctor", who will stick you for a dollar.
This is "El Campamento", the busiest and most built-up of a handful of hidden-away injection sites along a half-mile stretch of freight track between 2nd Street and Kensington Avenue. For more than 20 years homeless people and drug users have sought refuge in this gulch, and today there are about 70 people living along the tracks and up to 200 passing through every day to shoot up. As nightmarish as it feels, users here say it's a safe place, away from the police and the rest of the public, where people look out for each other and outreach workers visit regularly. Narcan - a nasal spray that reverses overdoses - is never far away.
But next week the city will begin to clear this stretch of track and force the users out. After months of negotiations between officials and rail company Conrail, contractors, guarded by police, will enter at the Kensington Avenue end and work their way up, disposing of an estimated 500,000 used needles, tearing down structures, and eventually paving over El Campamento and installing concrete rubble under the bridges to ward off new camps.
"If they push us up from here you're gonna have a bunch of junkies on the streets looking for somewhere else to shoot up," said Luis, a 41-year-old father-of-two with dark, matted hair and dull eyes, who asked us not to use his real name.
Luis wakes up every morning in a rickety wooden shack and spends his days, like the doctor, injecting other users. The fee is one dollar or one sixth of a heroin shot, and most people pay in heroin. Every six injections Luis can do a hit of his own. For 22 months he was clean, until his wife had a heart attack in the bath and drowned.
Perched on a concrete barrier on Gurney Street, he squinted against the sun, opening and closing a flick knife in one hand and letting a cigarette slowly burn away in the other. "I had everything," he said. "I had a beautiful life, I had a beautiful wife. In the blink of an eye it got took from me. That was a year and a week ago."
Days later he was down on the tracks. "At least down here you know you can get safe dope, you can get clean works, you can get high and nobody's gonna mess with you," he said. "If they board this up I have to start again. I have to find a new place I can lay my head at night where I don't have to sleep with one eye open."
Walking the half-mile length of track last week, person after person along the way said they would just find another hole in Kensington, the neighbourhood around the tracks, a place already gripped by poverty and overrun by heroin.
Kensington was once a vibrant industrial area that people came to from around Philadelphia in search of work. As the manufacturing trades died away, employment rates and house prices plummeted, homes were abandoned and boarded up and the drug trade moved in. Now people come to Kensington from around the city, state and country in search of heroin. The area is said to be the largest open-air drugs market on the East Coast.
On nearly every block on the short walk from Gurney Street to Hope Park, dealers call out their brands - "So Fly", "Caution", "Cowboy" - and empty packets stamped with logos litter the way. The heroin sold here is among the purest, cheapest, and most lethal in the US. It courses through the veins of the place, turning public parks, churches, abandoned houses and street corners into venues to shoot up.
Before the deal was struck to clear the tracks, the city cleared out McPherson Square, a small park on Kensington Avenue that had become a haunt for addicts. At the centre of the square is the local library, and when national media reported in May that librarians were being trained to revive overdosed users in the square - rechristened Needle Park by locals - it was enough. The drug users were driven out.
"Back in '70 this was a beautiful park," said Joe Grone, a 53-year-old who moved to the edge  of McPherson Square more than 40 years ago. He was pricked in the ankle by a used needle as he walked through the park last year, as was his five-year-old granddaughter as she sat on their front steps. "This place should be for kids, not for needles," he said.
Now a large mobile police unit sits near the middle of McPherson Square and officers roll around the perimeter on bikes. Last week, children were running around again, jumping through a sprinkler and screaming with delight. Save for the odd syringe cap nestled in the grass, it was a happy afternoon in Needle Park.
But drug outreach workers here question where the users went. Shortly after the square was cleared, there were reports that an abandoned church on Westmoreland Street had become a haven for addicts. Police moved in to clear the church too, and in the sanctuary, Kate Perch, a housing co-ordinator for local outreach charity Prevention Point, found a young couple in the grip of addiction. They had fashioned a makeshift home around a mattress and hidden their belongings under the organ pipes. As the police waited, the couple discussed different abandoned row houses in the area, debating which were safe.
"That's a conversation which will keep happening in this neighbourhood," Ms Perch said. "McPherson has been cleared, Westmoreland has been cleared, now the tracks are about to get cleared. What happens to these people when that site is no longer available? Where will they go that is safe?"
The worry for people like Ms Perch is that vulnerable users will be pushed into the city's hundreds of abandoned houses - "abandos" - where it is too dangerous for outreach workers to go, where people will overdose and no one will see.
The city is already predicting a 30% increase in overdoses this year, for the second year running, taking the grim toll from 900 to 1,200 - four times the estimated number of murders. Fentanyl - a tranquiliser 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin which has been linked to deaths across the country - has taken hold, infecting the supply of heroin that floods into Philadelphia from the ports.
"The dope that's out there now... it's fentanyl, it's elephant tranquiliser, it's rat poison, stuff like that," said James Russell, a 30-year-old local with a 15-year heroin habit, who shakily made a cup of instant coffee as he waited for a check-up at Prevention Point.
"The way a lot of the fiends are here now, you hear someone shot a bag of dope and overdosed and seven out of 10 people rush to go find that dope. It's insane."
Jose Ojeda flew to Philadelphia full of hope. He came as an addict, seeking first-class treatment in the heart of the city. That's what they told him in Puerto Rico. But like thousands of others who had made the flight before him, he was heading for one of the city's unlicensed recovery houses, where users are exploited for their benefits and many wash out into the street, ending up places like the tracks.
"I'm searching for help but it's impossible for me because I don't have papers," said Jose, looking away as he spoke across an empty lot by the tracks, his eyes bloodshot, skin rough and needle-marked, one hand tightly cramped against his will. His ID was stolen with his wallet while he was passed out, he said. He thinks a lot about his mother who died in Puerto Rico while he was in Philadelphia, and about his daughter and his granddaughter who are still there.
"I'm trapped here now with my worn-out hands. I don't know how to speak English, I go places to ask for help and they don't understand me. It pushes me to drugs," he said.
Without ID he can't get treatment and he can't get home. At 42, he's stuck in Kensington, a long way from home, with a heroin habit he can't shake.
Even with ID, the barriers to treatment in Philadelphia are high. The city has an estimated 70,000 active heroin users and fewer than 15,000 treatment options at any given time, adding every different type together. The Housing-First programme will put a roof over the head of users without demanding they are clean, but there are currently fewer than 40 slots available in the Kensington area for about 400 homeless people.
The city has pledged an additional $250,000 to supportive housing and is planning a three-day "resources fair" on an empty lot on Gurney Street, to coincide with the track closure, but police will be in attendance and mistrust among users is endemic. Even if there were treatment options here for everyone, many in the grip of addiction are simply unwilling or unable to seek them.
"Addiction is a stigma driven disease in this country," said Roland Lamb, deputy commissioner at the city's Department of Behavioural Health and Intellectual Disability Services (DBHIS). "A person who is addicted only has about a one in 10 chance of getting the treatment they need."
DBHIS is working with city-funded outreach groups like Prevention Point, in an attempt to engage with users before the track clearout. The charity began life 25 years ago as an underground needle exchange and two years ago moved into an old brownstone Methodist church in the heart of Kensington, a few blocks from the tracks. Hundreds of users travel to the building from all corners of the neighbourhood and beyond, for a check-up, a pack of clean needles or just a chat, and for a few hours every day the old church has a congregation of sorts.
"This place is a blessing," said Laura, a 41-year-old regular who endured 15 years of homelessness, drug addiction and prostitution before getting clean and finding a place in shelter. "When I first came here I was deep in my addiction," she said. "They save lives here every day."
But not everyone is grateful. Prevention Point has faced resistance from local officials and residents, who say it draws addicts to the area. The clean needles they give out undoubtedly save lives - HIV infections from drug use in the city have dropped from 50% to just 5% since the charity began its work - but some people were putting them to use immediately on the streets outside the building.
Jose Benitez is executive director at Prevention Point. "The community's approach is 'we don't want this in our neighbourhood', the city's approach 'oh my god something must be done'," he said. "The trick is, what's the something?"
As word spread that the tracks would be cleared, fear and anger began to surface in local Facebook groups. Philadelphia should "start executing drug dealers on the spot", wrote one resident. "Better solution, if someone comes into an emergency room full of heroin, let them DIE," wrote another. "DEAD IS BEST," someone replied.
The aggression worried Dan Martino, co-founder of a local grassroots group, Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Initiative (Popi). On the second Wednesday in June, Mr Martino went to Mick's Inn, a narrow, wood-panelled corner bar in Port Richmond, next to Kensington, where 30 or so local residents had gathered to discuss what would happen when the tracks were purged. After an hour or so of listening, he stood up to speak.
He asked the residents if they would be interested in a solution which would lower the death rate by 30%. They murmured yes. He asked if they would like to see lower crime rates and needles off the streets and they agreed. Then he said he was talking about safe injection sites, and the atmosphere in the room turned. Two women stormed out. When the meeting spilled into the street Mr Martino approached one of them. Her daughter had died of an overdose, and she told Mr Martino she would shoot him if she found he was giving addicts a place to inject.
For some people around these neighbourhoods, safe injection sites - where users can test their drugs and inject in the presence of medical staff - are the last remaining hope. To others, they are unthinkable - a final nail in the coffin for a neighbourhood killed by heroin.
"When I first started advocating for this there was a wall of resistance. People who would yell at me like I've never been yelled at by adult," Mr Martino said. "But these people are going to use one way or the other. That's just the reality we live in. We live in a world of heroin. Until we can find a way to stop it coming in from the ports, this is what we have to do."
The woman who threatened to shoot him was Kathleen Costello Berry, a lifelong Port Richmond local whose daughter overdosed at just 17 and was left in a hospital parking lot to die. "I just had to leave, I couldn't even listen to him speak," she recalled.
"I lost my daughter. If anyone had dared to tell me she could come somewhere safe to shoot up and we'll keep an eye on herâ€¦" She trailed off, her voice cracking. "No. No way. There is no safe way to shoot poison into your veins."
There are no safe injection sites in America, yet. As the nation's opioid epidemic spirals, several major cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, and New York, are beginning to consider taking the leap, but there is fierce political resistance to the idea.
There is one such site in Canada though, in Vancouver, and statistics suggest it has stemmed the tide of dead bodies there. More than 700 injections take place every day in 13 mirrored booths and no one has died at the facility since it opened in 2003. The clinic estimates that it has prevented 5,000 fatal overdoses. But the then-Conservative government fought it all the way to the Supreme Court.
In Philadelphia, a new opioid task force will "further explore" the possibility, said a spokesman for Mayor James Kenney, citing "serious legal, practical, and law enforcement issues that have to be considered" first.
Some local officials remain opposed. "It's taken a long time for us to hit rock bottom here," said Maria Quinones Sanchez, councilwoman for the city's 7th district, which encompasses Kensington. "Do we want to now send a message that you can come here and buy the cheapest drugs available and then actually have a place to use them?"
But the current strategy - clearing out one park, church, or railway gulch and pushing people to the next - doesn't appear to be working. It has created a grim merry-go-round in Kensington that threatens to cause yet more lonely deaths. Consumed by addiction, and unready for treatment, most people along the tracks will continue to slip through the net.
"Heroin is what's killing people, but not giving people the opportunity to say help me, not giving people the opportunity to seek treatment - that keeps them in the basement, it keeps them in places like the tracks," said Mr Martino.
"These people don't want to die, despite their best efforts. They don't want to live like this."
Down at the tracks last week, life was going on as usual. After so many delays, few people seemed to believe that the bulldozers would really roll through. But the rail company's deadline to start work is the end of the month, and the city has had enough.
Luis was still injecting people and getting high off the profits, enough to dull the pain of the anniversary, a few days earlier, of his wife's death. He couldn't see a way out.
"I'll just try and break through the fence and come back in," he said. "I ain't got no place else to go. It's here or nowhere."
A few feet away under the bridge, by the fixing table, another user, Manuel, shifted his weight from foot to foot and stared off into the distance, pushing a baseball cap absent-mindedly up and down his forehead. He recalled doing his first hit ever of heroin, years ago, by the tracks. "This is where I started, it's the only place I've ever come to," he said. "If this place wasn't here maybe it would be easier for me to stop.
"It's like my legs carry me here by themselves. If they close down these tracks, I dunno. I hope my legs take me somewhere better."


On a wintry day across the country, the top of the Championship and the bottom of League Two ended as they began.

BBC Sport takes a look at some of the things you may have missed on Saturday, as a former FA Cup-winning club climbed to the top of League One and another team ended a run of eight successive defeats in dramatic style.
It's never easy to play on a Thursday and a Sunday, according to any manager of a team that has been involved in the Europa League.
Well, what about a Thursday and a Saturday?
You could have forgiven Port Vale for making a slow start to their game against Chesterfield on Saturday, given they were playing an FA Cup first-round replay at non-league Maidenhead just 42 hours earlier.
But Rob Page's men made light of their lack of downtime by taking the lead inside six minutes and making it 2-1 after just 10.
The rapid-fire scoring slowed down after that but a second-half goal from Louis Dodds saw them hold out for a 3-2 win in League One.
On Thursday it looked like Reading might be playing Saturday's game against struggling Bolton with a caretaker manager.
Royals boss Steve Clarke was given permission to talk to Championship rivals Fulham about their managerial vacancy and many assumed the rest would simply be a formality.
Not so.
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The former West Brom boss decided that his future was better served at the Madejski Stadium, telling BBC Radio Berkshire: "The club were great to me, they gave me the go-ahead to speak to Fulham. I had a good conversation with them and decided that what I had here was better for me at this stage."
On first showing it seems he made the right call. His men recorded a 2-1 win over Wanderers to keep pace with the play-off chasers while Fulham remained 12th after a draw with MK Dons.
Leyton Orient owner Francesco Becchetti came up with a novel response to his side's 3-1 defeat at Hartlepool last Sunday; he made the O's players and coaches spend the week in a hotel in Waltham Abbey.
In between training sessions and thinking about dismantling the trouser press (potentially), the players were allowed to visit their families.
It had the desired effect as Orient beat York City 3-2 to record just their third win in 13 to boost their flagging League Two promotion hopes.
The question now is - will the players have been allowed home on Saturday night?
It has been a rough old time for Coventry City fans.
Since the turn of the century they have been relegated from the Premier League, left their beloved Highfield Road ground for the Ricoh Arena, been relegated from the Championship, left the Ricoh and been forced to play home games in Northampton for more than a year, and on their return to the Ricoh last season they nearly got relegated to League Two.
But it looks like the good times might just be returning for the Sky Blues.
Saturday's thumping 4-1 win over previous League One leaders Gillingham sent Tony Mowbray's men to the top of the third tier.
A first-half hat-trick from Jacob Murphy and a header from the returning Ben Turner saw the leaders race into a 4-0 lead at the break, before Gills top scorer Bradley Dack got his team on the scoresheet in the second half.
Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "When they left the dressing room I thought they were ready for a proper game of football, and it proved to be the case.
"I'm delighted with the performance. It was a top performance and we have to use that as our benchmark and try to attain that performance level as often as we can."
With five minutes to go in Barnsley's game at Oldham, Tykes boss Lee Johnson could have been forgiven for thinking he might be spending Christmas on the sofa and without a job.
After eight successive defeats it looked like his team were at least going to stop the rot at the Latics with a point, but they would have remained 23rd in the League One table.
But Johnson, on his second return to the club he left for Oakwell in February, probably had not counted on debutant Kevin Long popping up with an 89th-minute winner.
The Burnley defender joined the club on loan earlier in the week and it was his first goal since netting for Accrington against Macclesfield in January 2012.
It was not enough to help the Reds move out of the relegation zone, but it at least saw them move up to 21st.
Johnson told BBC Radio Sheffield: "I'm feeling a bit of everything. I'm pleased for the players and I'm thankful to the owner for sticking with me.
"The fans were superb and they deserved that win today, so that is for them."


Three wards at a Sussex hospital have been closed to new admissions following an outbreak of norovirus.

People have been urged to help contain the spread of the virus at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings by not visiting friends or relatives in hospital if they have symptoms of the vomiting bug.
Tina Lloyd, assistant director of infection prevention and control, said stringent measures had been brought in.
The affected wards are Newington, Baird and MacDonald.
Ms Lloyd said East Sussex Healthcare NHS trust would prefer that people did not visit the affected wards, but she said if their visit was essential they should restrict the time of the visit and wash hands before and afterwards.
She urged people to follow good hygiene measures.


Travel disruption has hit thousands of passengers around the world, following a "system wide" computer bug at us airline Delta.

On Twitter, the Delta told passengers: "Our systems are down everywhere."
Delays were reported at a string of airports, including in the US, the UK, Iceland and Japan.
The airline has said en route flights are unaffected, but passengers waiting to board should check their flight status while the issue is addressed.
"Delta experienced a computer outage that has impacted flights scheduled for this morning," it said in a statement.
"Flights awaiting departure are currently delayed. Flights en route are operating normally."
One passenger told the BBC he was waiting with "several hundred" fellow stranded passengers at San Francisco airport, after being asked to leave a plane he had already boarded.
"We were ordered off the lane after approximately an hour or more," said Dick Ginkowski.
"Tempers are starting to get just a little bit strained at this point," he added. "They aren't able to rebook anyone on other carriers."


A chip shop takeaway driver has been attacked with a golf club and robbed of the food he was delivering in West Lothian.

Three men targeted the driver as he made a delivery in Willow Grove, Livingston at 22:30 on Thursday.
They hit him with a golf club in a stairwell, then stole the food he was delivering and tried to steal his cash.
The 32-year-old victim suffered a minor facial injury and called police, who are appealing for witnesses.
Det Con Craig Waddell, of Police Scotland, said: "Thankfully, the victim did not sustain serious injuries during this opportunistic attack and we are conducting local inquiries in the area to identify those responsible.
"Anyone who recognises the description of these men and can help trace them is asked to contact police immediately.
"In addition, anyone who remembers seeing anything suspicious in Willow Grove on Thursday evening should also get in touch."
All three thieves are white, in their 30s, of medium build with Scottish accents.
One of the men is between 6ft and 6ft 2ins and was wearing a white T-shirt.
Another is about 5ft 10ins with medium-length, spiked, light hair and he was wearing a dark shirt. He also had a golf club.
The third attacker is about 5ft 10ins with a front tooth missing. He was wearing a grey hooded top with the hood up.


A prayer service has taken place at a church in Bosley to remember those who died in an explosion at a wood flour mill a week ago.

Three bodies have been recovered in the search at the Wood Treatment plant in Cheshire, with a search on-going for a fourth missing person.
The explosion and blaze last Friday caused the collapse of a four-storey building.
The service took place at St Mary the Virgin church in the village.
Temperatures reached 1,000C in the blast and it was described by rescuers as the "worst incident of its kind" in a decade.
Derek Moore, 62, has been identified as one of the victims.
Formal identification of the other two bodies is yet to take place. They are thought to be employees William Barks, 51, and Dorothy Bailey, 62.
Their colleague Jason Shingler, 38, is unaccounted for.
A prayer notice said the service was "a chance for us to pray for our community and the families of those affected, an opportunity to share and support one another, and a time to reflect on the tragic events of the past week."
There wasn't a spare seat to be had inside St Mary's church in Bosley as the Vicar, the Rev John Harries, told them: "An explosion took place here in Bosley which quite simply shattered our world."
The congregation included workers from the devastated wood mill, villagers who knew those killed or injured, and others who simply wanted to show solidarity.
Outside, truck driver Phil Jones, who'd worked at the mill since the 1970s said he still couldn't believe what had happened - and wouldn't until he was able to return to the yard and see for himself that the mill was no longer there.
He was a friend of Dot Bailey, one of the three workers whose bodies have so far been recovered.
"She was always cheerful, a very hard worker. I've never seen Dot down," he said.
A joint investigation is under way, involving police, the fire service and the Health and Safety Executive, to establish the cause of the blast.
Witnesses are also being interviewed as part of the investigation.
Wood is processed at the plant into a fine powder and the resulting "wood flour", with a consistency like sand, is used to make laminate flooring.


A "twisted" killer who murdered a retired couple has been jailed for a minimum of 35 years.

The body of Peter Stuart, 75, was found near his home Weybread in Suffolk in June, but his 69-year-old wife Sylvia has never been found.
Ali Qazimaj, 43, from Tilbury, Essex, claimed he was on trial in a case of mistaken identity but was found guilty of their murders on Monday.
He had claimed he was an Albanian national called Vital Dapi.
In a translated statement read at Ipswich Crown Court by his barrister Max Hill QC, Qazimaj continued to protest his innocence.
"I'm a just man who could never kill a fly, let alone two people," he said.
Judge Jeremy Stuart-Smith said: "These were terrible and exceptional crimes against an elderly couple who had earned the right to spend the rest of their lives in peace and tranquillity."
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Mr and Mrs Stuart were last seen alive at a farm shop in Pulham Market, Norfolk, on 29 May.
They were reported missing on 3 June, the same day that Mr Stuart's body was found in a stream next to their home.
Qazimaj told his trial that he was 44-year-old Dapi, and he had never been to the UK until he was arrested in Luxembourg in July and extradited here.
Suffolk Police believe Qazimaj originates from Albania and had been in the UK since 1999, when he claimed to be from Kosovo and was granted asylum.
The court heard he had worked as a carer for a relative of the Stuarts' son-in-law.
In a statement, the Stuarts' family said: "To the twisted individual who committed this wicked crime, we hope you spend the rest of your miserable existence reflecting on the utter senselessness and brutality of what you did to two innocent people.
"Maybe one day you will find the moral courage to tell us where mum is so that we may give her and our family some final peace."
Qazimaj's statement in court also said: "I feel sorry for the Stuarts' daughter, but I can't help. I don't know where her mother's body is."
He showed no reaction as he was led to the cells.


A 19-year-old man who was injured in an explosion in a field at his Pembrokeshire home has been arrested.

The teenager, named locally as Jordan Smith, suffered severe hand injuries in the minor blast in the village of Wiston.
Police said on Friday a 19-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of an explosive-related offence.
Officers have also seized "bird scaring equipment".
Mr Smith was airlifted to Morriston Hospital where he was being treated for his injuries and it is feared he will lose the use of both hands.
He was said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Dyfed-Powys Police said they were continuing to investigate but were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
Neighbours had said that Mr Smith was hoping to join the Army. He had joined last year but had not got through his training.
But he had just completed an Army preparation course at Pembrokeshire College.
Neighbour Bernie Jones, 67, said: "The Army is definitely his orientation - he was very keen and and hoped to be accepted."
Mr Jones, who has lived in the village for 30 years, said Mr Smith had wanted to join up since he was a young boy.
The explosion happened at 11:00 BST on Thursday, leading to the road through the village being closed.
Mr Jones added: "There was some sort of an explosion and it looks like Jordan has suffered bad hand injuries.
"Police threw a cordon up around the entire village and the bomb squad moved in."
Mr Smith's family moved to Wiston six years ago from Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. His parents Anthony and Rita Smith were directors of a cleaning company until recently.
Another neighbour told how he heard the explosion.
He said: "The helicopter was soon overhead and landed in a field next to the house. You don't get these sort of things happening here."
Villager Fiona Morgan, 27, said: "Neighbours said there was an almighty bang and a bad smell.
"There's been a lot of police and sniffer dogs.
"It's a really, really sleepy and quiet village. It's very peaceful normally - just a lovely place to be."
A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman described his injury as "non-life threatening" and the investigation is continuing.
She said: "The safety of all in the area is our priority, and the small number of residents who were evacuated have not been allowed back to their homes at this time.
"Searches and enquiries are expected to continue for the majority of today.
"Explosive Ordnance Disposal attended the scene to provide their specialist skills and knowledge and to ensure the safety of those at scene, but have left."


A 37-year-old man has been shot dead in Cork.

The shooting happened just before 17:00 local time on Great William O'Brien Street in the Blackpool area of the city.
Two men got out of a car, approached the victim and shot him once. They then fired at least two more shots as the man lay on the ground.
Two partially-burned out cars were found by police following the shooting.
One was found in Blackpool and one at Killeens in County Cork.
The injured man was treated at the scene before he was taken to Cork University Hospital, where he died just before 19:00.
The victim worked close to the area where he was shot and lived on the northside of the city.
RTE has reported that in 2005 he was convicted of being a member of the Real IRA, but this conviction was later overturned in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
They said that dissident republican activity will be one of the areas examined in the police investigation.


Offline retailers have long held that online shopping will never replace a visit to the shops because sitting at a computer clicking on links is just not as much fun as hanging out at the mall.

But a quick glimpse at any high street with its rows of closed-down signs, pound shops and charity outlets suggest that consumers don't entirely agree.
Now a new phenomenon - dubbed social shopping - threatens to incorporate the missing social element in online shopping and possibly destroy even more bricks and mortar stores.
Social shopping encompasses a range of ideas, from shopping within social networks, to shopping-specific search engines that use friends recommendations to group buying sites such as Groupon.
Groupon harnesses the power of the crowd to bring people daily deals that they may not even have known they wanted - from manicures to mountain biking.
It has a very simple business model - people sign up for offers and once the required number of people are registered, the deal is confirmed and a voucher is sent to your inbox.
The firm has five million users in the UK alone, and is said to be the fastest growing company ever.
It puts much of its growth down to web-based recommendations - people see a deal and spread it among their online friends but not everyone is convinced by its social credentials.
"There are a lot of myths about how social Groupon is. In the beginning many deals may have been spread via social networks but now it is primarily through a daily e-+mail," said Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru, who has recently authored a report on social shopping.
Word-of-mouth may have helped catapult Groupon into the limelight but its quarter of a billion dollar marketing spend probably played an even bigger role, thinks Ms Mulpuru.
As the world's largest social network Facebook is keen that people talk to retailers as well as their friends and it is trying to figure out how to make the most out of social shopping.
It boasts that half of the top 25 retailers use the site but the level of integration varies, from those who simply see it as a way to gain fans to "like" their brands to firms, such as clothing firm Asos, which are happy to allow users to make purchases from within the social network.
Asos is one of Facebook's biggest successes. It puts its full catalogue on the site and its fan page has 800,000 members.
Amazon uses the social network to offer product suggestions based on likes and favourites pulled from users' profile information.
It has also introduced gift recommendations which let you know which of your friends have upcoming birthdays and suggests presents for them based on what they have shared with Amazon.
Ticketing firm TicketMaster offers anyone who has bought a ticket on its site the chance to share the purchase information with their Facebook friends. It claims to have increased its revenue as a result of this feature.
Meanwhile Levi's has what Facebook describes as a "social store front", offering users jeans that their friends may have liked and even using information to influence its supply chain. So if people in London are "liking" the skinny jeans most and people in Manchester are "liking" the bootcut style they can simply adjust their stock to match this.
And herein, for Ms Mulpuru, lies the real power of social shopping - as a tool for retailers.
"There is a ton of data that people share about themselves that the retailer can use to make more relevant offers. It is far more a personalisation tactic than about getting or retaining customers," she said.
Facebook's director of business development Christian Hernandez believes that Facebook can help users "connect to brands that they care about" and he reckons that among his Facebook friends there is plenty of chatter about shopping.
But Ms Mulpuru is not convinced it will become a shopping hub any time soon.
"TV didn't transform retail and neither will Facebook. At the end of the day no-one buys something as the result of a link. The truth is that large brands just have not experienced any sizable gains in direct sales from Facebook," she said.
"In spite of hundreds of thousands of developers having been given the opportunity to create useful shopping applications or to integrate commerce into Facebook, there has yet to be a blockbuster success," she added.
It hasn't stopped a raft of companies betting that social and shopping is a powerful combination.
Three former Yahoo executives have set up a dedicated social network aimed entirely at shoppers.
Dubbed ChoozOn , the start-up is built entirely around shopping and personalised deals. It allows users to manage their various deals and discount services and upcoming apps for the iPhone and Android handsets will highlight nearby deals.
Users can sign up for loyalty programmes and if they share their shopping preferences and the brands and retailers they like best, the shops will fashion specific discounts for them.
Meanwhile UK start-up Shopow (Shopper Power) offers a shopping search engine that aggregates thousands of retailers and products across all areas of consumer goods. Like other price comparison sites it allow users to compare goods by criteria such as price, retailer, service and delivery, but it also integrates various social functions.
It will display reviews and deals that have already been collected around a product, as well as drawing in more personal views.
"Shopow is somewhere where you can interact with friends but also rate your recent purchases," explained co-founder Kevin Flood.
He thinks people are far more likely offer to useful feedback via such a site than on Facebook.
"While some deals are appropriate to share on Facebook, you wouldn't share your experiences with a dishwasher on there," he said.
The ability of retailers to engage directly with consumers is a very powerful one and some have taken bold steps in this direction.
In February, US fashion designer Derek Lam harnessed the power of the web when he asked eBayers to vote on which of 16 dresses should form his summer collection. More than 120,000 people voted and the five winners went on sale in May.
Not wanting to be left out, the high street too is embracing social media.
In March, London's largest shopping centre Westfield unveiled a tweet mirror that allowed shoppers to try on an outfit and share the image in real time with friends and followers on Twitter.
The mirror, brainchild of Dutch firm Nedap Retail, is already installed in dozens of shops in Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland.
How many shoppers want to invite their online friends into the changing room is unclear but it offers a small glimpse of what offline retailers will have to do if it wants to persuade consumers away from their screens and back to the mall.


Nine Turkish men accused of smuggling cocaine with a street value of £500m in a boat seized in the North Sea are to stand trial in April.

It is alleged the boat, the Hamal, sailed from Turkey to several north African countries, before travelling from Tenerife.
It was intercepted about 100 miles east of Aberdeen in April.
A trial date of 4 April next year was set at the High Court in Glasgow, with a judge to be appointed to the case.
Kayacan Dalgakiran, 63, Mustafa Guven, 47, Mustafa Ceviz. 54, Umit Colakel, 38, Ibrahim Dag, 47, Mumin Sahin, 46, Emin Ozmen, 50, Abdulkadir Cirik, 31, and Muhammet Seckin, 26, face a charge of being "knowingly concerned in the carrying and concealing of a controlled drug".
All nine deny the charges against them.


A 19th century "joke" possibly aimed at a Victorian boss has been uncovered during work at a railway museum.

Volunteers found a pencil caricature hidden on the back of a wooden panel during a project to restore an 1890 carriage to its original splendour.
It showed a man with a high collar, pointed moustache and satisfied smirk.
Bosses at the Midland Railway Trust in Butterley, Derbyshire, speculated a builder decided to tease the management.
The coach was found in 1999, being used as a changing room for a tennis court.
Despite it being a third class coach, restoration involved relatively luxurious fittings.
Velvet seats, gas lights and mahogany panelling had to be repaired or replaced.
It was during this work the doodle was found.
Alan Calladine, the trust's development officer, said: "You often see these doodles and calculations on the back of boards, but this one was obviously something of a caricature.
"It is fascinating to see something which has such connections to the people that built these carriages.
"It is a gentleman in a posh frock coat, with the collar and the rest of it, and a rather striking moustache - so we are assuming it may have been one of the people in charge of the carriage works at that time.
"Perhaps it was the boss that had been walking around and the man working on the carriage did a quick caricature as he went past."
The drawing has now been hidden once more. The carriage will be unveiled to the public during the May Day Bank Holiday.


A Catholic bishop in Northern Ireland has called on political leaders and Christians to provide a "generous reception" for refugees.

Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor addressed the current refugee crisis in Europe in a statement at Sunday Mass.
He said "our countries must put in place an adequate humanitarian response for those who have reached our European shores and borders".
Meanwhile, the Pope urged all Catholic parishes to take in a refugee family.
In his weekly address, Pope Francis said the two parishes in the Vatican would lead by example.
Speaking in Italian to crowds of pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Sunday morning, the Pope said:  "I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to show the true meaning of the gospel and take in one family of refugees."
In Northern Ireland, Bishop Treanor's statement was delivered at the Mater Dei Church in Crumlin, County Antrim.
He said that in responding to the needs of the refugees, political leaders needed the public to show "unequivocal civic generosity".
"This is where the gospel challenges each one of us as Christians," he said.
"This moment in our national and European history, germinating with so much loss of life, human trafficking, destruction of families, suffering, hunger, tragedy and loss of all kinds, demands that as individual persons and as a state and society, we do not surrender to what Pope Francis referred to as 'the globalisation of indifference'."
Bishop Treanor said that the "initial wave of good will" shown towards refugees must be followed by "sustained programmes and civic initiatives designed to integrate these new neighbours".
The crisis has seen hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea over the past few months in a bid to reach Europe.
The EU's response to the crisis has been under ever greater scrutiny after pictures of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy, washed up on a Turkish beach, were published around the world.
Alan Kurdi from Kobane in Syria died alongside his mother and five-year-old brother in a failed bid to reach the Greek island of Kos.
On Saturday, about 300 protesters attended a demonstration outside the European Commission office in Belfast, demanding more help for refugees.


Relegation-threatened Newport County closed the gap to safety by a point in a battling draw against promotion challengers Luton Town.

The visitors went into an early lead as Danny Hylton converted a penalty after Sid Nelson brought him down.
Sean Rigg hit back but the hosts finished with 10 men after Mark O'Brien's second yellow card.
Luton remain fifth, a point behind Stevenage while, Newport are six points behind Cheltenham, who are 22nd.
Newport boss Mike Flynn told BBC Radio Wales: "When we went down to 10 men I'd have bitten your hand off for a point.
"They're a good team. They've got pace and are strong with good forwards and I was glad Danny Hylton went off at half time.
"But apart from the first 15 minutes of the second half we were right in the game."
Match ends, Newport County 1, Luton Town 1.
Second Half ends, Newport County 1, Luton Town 1.
Attempt missed. Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner,  Luton Town. Conceded by David Pipe.
Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt saved. Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) header from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Darren Jones (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Marlon Jackson (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Glen Rea (Luton Town).
David Pipe (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Justin (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Pipe (Newport County).
Attempt saved. Alex Samuel (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Marlon Jackson (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Alex Samuel (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Newport County. Marlon Jackson replaces Ryan Bird.
Attempt missed. Scott Cuthbert (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner,  Luton Town. Conceded by Tom Owen-Evans.
Second yellow card to Mark O'Brien (Newport County) for a bad foul.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Jack Marriott.
Attempt blocked. Scot Bennett (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Luton Town. Jack Marriott replaces Jordan Cook.
Attempt missed. Jordan Cook (Luton Town) right footed shot from long range on the right is just a bit too high.
Foul by Jordan Cook (Luton Town).
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by James Justin.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Matt Macey.
Attempt saved. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Substitution, Luton Town. Olly Lee replaces John Mullins because of an injury.
Mark O'Brien (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Isaac Vassell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark O'Brien (Newport County).
Corner,  Luton Town. Conceded by Joss Labadie.
Attempt missed. Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Newport County. Tom Owen-Evans replaces Sid Nelson.
Attempt missed. Scot Bennett (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by James Justin (Luton Town).
Sid Nelson (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


Huddersfield Town have signed striker Steve Mounie from Montpellier for a club record fee.

The 22-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £11.44m (13m euros) plus add-ons.
The Benin international, who scored 14 goals in 32 starts for Montpellier last season, has signed a four-year deal.
The Terriers have also signed full-back Scott Malone from Championship side Fulham on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
Huddersfield have broken their transfer record three times in a fortnight. Porto striker Laurent Depoitre joined for £3.5m on 23 June before Manchester City midfielder Aaron Mooy was signed for an initial £8m last week.
Huddersfield head coach David Wagner said: "Steve has real physical attributes that should be perfect for the Premier League.
"We have met and I know he is a great character," Wagner added. "At just 22 years old, he is only going to improve too. Given what he is already capable of, that is very exciting."
Mounie has been capped seven times by Benin, but does not require a work permit as he has dual French nationality.
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National League side Eastleigh have signed Swansea midfielder Tom Holland on loan until the end of the season.

Republic of Ireland under-19 international Holland has yet to feature for Swansea since signing from Manchester City in July 2015.
The 18-year-old started his career at Bradford City, and also had a spell at Leeds United.
Eastleigh currently sit eighth in the National League table, four points outside the play-off places.


A pun by comedian Darren Walsh has scooped the prize for funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.

The 39-year-old, whose show Punderbolt is on at the Pleasance, took first place in the vote by TV channel Dave.
The winning joke was: "I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free."
Walsh, from Peterborough, who won the first UK Pun Championship last year, said he was delighted. "What a punderful feeling," he said.
It was the eighth year that the joke award has been made. Previous winners include Tim Vine, Stewart Francis, Zoe Lyons and Nick Helm.
This year saw the youngest comedian make the award shortlist, as 12-year-old 'Grace The Child' claimed 10th place.
The funniest joke was chosen from a shortlist compiled by a panel of judges, who saw an average of 60 shows each at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The shortlisted gags were then put to 2,000 people, with no reference to the comedians who told them, who then voted for the jokes they found the funniest.
The judges also released a list of jokes which just missed out on the shortlist.


A lifesize bronze sculpture of Donald Campbell is to be unveiled close to the place in Cumbria where he died trying to break the world speed record.

It will welcome visitors to a new wing of the Ruskin Museum at Coniston, which is dedicated to Campbell and the Bluebird craft he died in.
Artist Graham Bell is donating the sculpture, which will be unveiled by Mr Campbell's daughter Gina in November.
Mr Campbell died when Bluebird crashed on Coniston Water in 1967.
A spokesman for the Ruskin Museum said: "Graham Ball approached the museum in 2008, as a life-long admirer of Donald Campbell, to ask whether the museum would like to accept the gift of a life-size statue of his hero.
"The offer was made with no obligation, though he asked for our help in sourcing suitable photos and other images to inform his work.
"One of the problems lay in finding images illustrating Campbell's left and right profiles, as most shots tended to be full or three-quarter face.
"Decisions had to be made about stance, expression, clothing and what, if anything, the figure should hold.
"The resultant sculpture, in bronze-patinated resin, will welcome visitors into The Bluebird Wing, the new extension where Bluebird K7 is to be displayed once the conservation rebuild has been completed."
Bluebird was recovered from the lake in 2001 and is currently being restored.


Papers call for better urban management in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve stampede in Shanghai and a fire accident in north-eastern China.

Shanghai's New Year's Eve crush killed 36 people and injured 47.  It happened in Chenyi Square in the Bund district, where huge crowds had gathered for the countdown.
The turnout was much higher than predicted, and Shanghai police said they regretted their failure to intervene in time, state media said.
China's President Xi Jinping has ordered an investigation into the tragedy.
Blaming the Shanghai authorities for being unprepared for the massive turnout, the Legal Daily calls for rules and regulations to govern how major events are managed.
"The authorities should now focus on risk prevention as one of the most important tasks for this year," the paper says.
Echoing similar views, the Workers' Daily urges "every city and everyone to learn a lesson from the Shanghai stampede".
An article in the Global Times notes that some netizens have accused the large number of migrant people in Shanghai whom they say have "squeezed the living space of the locals".
Dismissing such opinions, the commentary says "the debate over locals and outsiders should not divert our attention from the real issues" which are the problems in our emergency response system.
In another tragic incident, five firefighters lost their lives while trying to control a blaze at a warehouse in Harbin city, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Friday.
The firemen who died were aged between 18 and 22.
According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the warehouse was part of a 11-storey residential building.
It adds that the building's structure was "complicated" and at risk of collapsing, which made it difficult to determine the source of the fire.
Commenting on both the stampede and the fire, the China Daily points out that the tragedies have exposed the mismanagement of the Chinese authorities and "city leaders, in particular".
"In both incidents there were loopholes in management that if plugged would have prevented themâ€¦But it seems as if such calls and requirements are all too soon forgotten or thrown into the air," the paper adds.
"Is there an institutional defect that prevents the authorities from doing a better job in anticipating problems and addressing them in advance?" it asks.
The response of the local authorities to the warehouse fire has also drawn flak from internet users.
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, the authorities' response on social media was unsatisfactory.
It notes that "almost half of the [official] post" describes how government officials paid much attention to the incident.
Describing the official response as "stereotypical" and "clumsy", the Global Times notes that many netizens were unhappy about the press briefing post.
"It (the response) suggests that some officials care less about the public and more about explaining matters to their superiors and not getting into hot waterâ€¦ The key lies in erasing bureaucracy and urging officials to be practical. Local governments and official agencies also need to take action to improve their abilities in dealing with public opinion," it concludes.
And finally, papers pay tribute to He Zhenliang, a former member and vice president of International Olympic Committee (IOC), who died on Sunday at the age of 85.
Also known as "China's Mr Olympics", Mr He was elected to the IOC in 1981 and became the Committee's vice-president in 1989. He played a major role in helping China win the bid to host the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Expressing condolences, the China Youth Daily says Mr He "served the nation and the Olympics for his whole life".
"He was also the first generation of sports diplomats who had connected the New China (after 1949) with the big family of the Olympics," it says
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Farmers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have temporarily ended a protest after the state government promised to write off their loans.

The farmers had been protesting since 1 June to demand better prices for their produce and relief from debts.
Experts say the announcement will put pressure on the state's fiscal health.
Similar protests are also taking place in the central state of Madhya Pradesh where five farmers died in police shooting last week.
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had earlier refused to announce a complete reversal of loans for every farmer, citing the state's critical debt situation.
But he agreed on Sunday "in principle" to a loan waiver for all sections of farmers, adding that a committee would be formed to decide on specific terms.
Farmers responded by saying their decision to call off the protest was a temporary move.
"We have decided to temporarily call off our agitation... However, if no satisfactory decision is taken (on the criterion for loan waiver) by 25 July, we will restart our stir [protest]," farmer leader Raju Shetti told the PTI news agency.
However a tense stand-off between the Madhya Pradesh government and farmers is continuing.
Chief Minister Sihivraj Singh Chouhan has promised to consider a complete reversal of loans. But farmers said he had failed to give any concrete promises on improving their lives.
"We also want farmers to be free of loans, not just a one-time waiver, but a serious change in agricultural policy that promises just returns to farmers, one which prevents them from being indebted," Shiv Kumar Sharma, the head of a group of protesting farmers, told the NDTV website.
Farmers in others states have also been demanding similar measures.
The northern state of Uttar Pradesh and the southern state of Telangana have already announced loan waivers for farmers.


League One side Charlton Athletic have signed midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey from Brighton for an undisclosed fee.

The 22-year-old, who had a loan spell at Rotherham earlier this season, has agreed a deal with the Addicks until the summer of 2019.
Forster-Caskey scored nine goals in 82 appearances for the Seagulls after making his debut aged 16 in 2010.
"Jake is a real talent who has shown his quality in the Championship," boss Karl Robinson told the club website.
Former England Under-21 international Forster-Caskey worked under 36-year-old Robinson last season during two loan stints at former club MK Dons.
He is Charlton's second signing of the January transfer window, and his arrival at The Valley came after winger Ademola Lookman left the Addicks to join Premier League side Everton in an £11m deal.
Meanwhile, Brighton under-23 midfielder Jack Harper has moved to Spanish side Malaga for an undisclosed fee.
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This year's UK Eurovision hopefuls have been revealed - and every one of them is a former X Factor contestant.

Among the more recognisable names are Lucie Jones and Danyl Johnson, who both featured in the 2009 series, which was eventually won by Joe McElderry.
Jones's song has the best pedigree: Never Give Up On You is written by 2013 Eurovision winner, Emmelie de Forest.
TV talent has good form at Eurovision, with two previous winners graduating from singing contests like X Factor.
Swedish singer Loreen, who won the competition in 2012, was previously a runner-up on Swedish Idol, where she performed under the name Loren Talhaoui.
More recently, Mans Zelmerlow triumphed at the 2015 contest  - having earned his stripes on Swedish Idol and Let's Dance, which is his home country's version of Strictly.
This year's UK's entry will be selected on Friday, 27 January, in a live BBC Two show hosted by Mel Giedroyc.
A combination of viewer and jury votes will decide the winning song - with Bruno Tonioli and Sophie Ellis-Bextor forming part of the eight-person jury.
Danyl Johnson - Light Up the World
Former schoolteacher Danyl Johnson was, at one point, the bookies' favourite to win X Factor 2009. He eventually came fourth - losing out to Joe McElderry and runner-up Olly Murs - and earned brief notoriety after being (sort-of) outed by Danni Minogue.
The singer, who currently works as an ambassador for  the People's Postcode Lottery, enters Eurovision with a empowering dance track about "shining a light in the darkness" - harking back to Katrina and the Waves' Eurovision-winning song in 1997.
It aims for anthemic but ends up sounding anaemic.
Key lyric: "We couldn't see, yeah, standing in the dark."
Holly Brewer - I Wish I Loved You More
Holly has previously sung at the wedding of Mark Wright (The Only Way is Essex) and Michelle Keegan (Coronation Street) - and received four "yeses" from the X Factor judges in 2015.
However, producers axed her from the programme by phone in a pre-bootcamp contestant cull - Cowell and co presumably underestimated the cost of accommodation in Wembley.
Never fear, for now Holly is returning with a power ballad co-written by Courtney Harrell, a former contestant on The Voice US. A decent effort which sounds like it could have been found on Kelly Clarkson's studio floor.
Key lyric: "You're the sunlight the the preacher talks about. Ooh-ooh, Amen."
Lucie Jones - Never Give Up on You
Lucie Jones will be remembered by the die-hard X Factor enthusiasts for coming eighth in the 2009 series - finishing behind fellow Eurovision hopeful Danyl Johnson and, er, Jedward.
While she might have crashed out of the live finals fairly early, she should be more confident of winning the UK Eurovision race - as her song is co-written by Emmelie de Forest - the Danish singer-songwriter who won the song contest in 2013.
Her vocals have improved remarkably since 2009, but the song is untroubled by percussion and ends up a slightly dreary piano ballad (not necessarily an obstacle to Eurovision victory).
Key lyric: "Together we'll dance through this storm."
Nate Simpson - What Are We Made Of?
"You opened your mouth and Jesus came out," said Nicole Scherzinger when Slough-born Nate Simpson auditioned for the X Factor last year.
That didn't stop her kicking him out at the judges's houses round, though. Maybe if he'd kept Jesus in there for a little longer...
The 23-year-old is hoping to go to Eurovision with the piano ballad What Are We Made Of?. It has a key change before the first chorus, which gives you an indication of what you're in for.
Key lyric: "We're breathing underwater and the struggle makes us stronger."
Olivia Garcia - Freedom Hearts
Canadian singer Laurell Barker has been busy on the songwriting front this year because, as well as penning Holly's song, she has writing credits on Olivia Garcia's.
Olivia is fresh from the most recent series of X Factor. She made it as far as judges houses, but Simon Cowell sadly didn't take her through to the live shows.
She's now joined the Eurovision race with a propulsive ballad that could lend itself to a dramatic staging (we're thinking acrobats and a tug of war). Garcia's vocal acrobatics, meanwhile, do a good job of showing Cowell what he missed.
Key lyric: "Shiny hair and shoes, how about me and you?"
Salena Mastroianni - I Don't Wanna Fight
A distant relative of the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita; Divorce, Italian Style) Salena has a degree in fashion, but ditched the runway to pursue a career in music.
After working as a wedding singer for four years, she auditioned for X Factor in 2012 but failed to progress beyond the initial stages.
Instantly catchy, her song I Don't Wanna Fight is the most contemporary of this year's Eurovision entries, with a trance-house beat that's proved successful for other countries in recent years.
Although the lyrics appear to carry an anti-war sentiment, Mastroianni says the song is about a relationship.
Key lyric: "Why can't we put our weapons down?"
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Cardiff City have told South African international Kagisho Dikgacoi he is free to leave the Championship club.

The 31-year-old central midfielder did not travel to Germany on Cardiff's pre-season tour and manager Paul Trollope has confirmed Dikgacoi can leave.
Adam le Fondre and Federico Macheda have already been told they can go and Trollope: said: "He's in a similar situation to Le Fondre and Macheda."
Dikgacoi has played 17 league games since signing for Cardiff in 2014.
"If the right thing comes along in terms of a move away then it's something we'll consider," Trollope told the South Wales Echo.
The 54-times times capped international, who has one year left on his Cardiff contract, played 30 minutes of the pre-season friendly win at Shrewsbury Town but did not travel to Germany as he worked on his fitness.
"He stayed back with the younger group to stay and train there, I thought that would be a move which would benefit all parties," added Trollope.
Dikgacoi, who was part of the South Africa squad for the 2010 World Cup finals, has suffered long-standing knee problems since joining the Bluebirds from Crystal Palace in June 2014.


Outside a house in an affluent seaside neighbourhood of Karachi, several satellite trucks are parked in a row.

The place is swarming with media. Television hosts from Pakistan's numerous political talk shows are jostling for their "exclusive" interviews.
The media frenzy is met by heightened security around the house: recently installed barbed wire, CCTV cameras and iron gates. A full body search is conducted before visitors are allowed in.
The place serves as the headquarters of a breakaway group from Karachi's biggest political party, the MQM.
It is a risky gamble and seemingly the first organised attempt in more than two decades to take on Altaf Hussain, the MQM's founding leader who has lived in self-imposed exile in London for the last 24 years.
Mr Hussain is a maverick politician who has encouraged a personality cult to build up around him.
He maintains a firm grip over the party, and through it, on Pakistan's financial capital.
Over the years, potential dissenters have been eliminated - sometimes physically, opponents allege, although the MQM has always denied allegations of murder.
The man leading the latest rebellion is Mustafa Kamal, the party's former elected mayor of Karachi. Posters displayed at the main gate of his camp office declare him "a ray of hope".
"We have been inundated with phone calls and messages of support. The response has been overwhelming," he says as he sits down with me after a hectic day of back-to-back meetings and television interviews.
It is around midnight, but far from being exhausted he appears driven and energised.
"This city and this country have suffered enough bloodshed because of the greed and disloyalty of one man playing with its fate from London.
"We are here to say: enough is enough. Karachi and Pakistan deserve better," he says.
What is MQM?
1984: Founded as the party of Urdu-speakers who migrated from India at the time of the 1947 partition, known as Muhajir
1988: Wins all seats in Karachi, becoming Pakistan's third largest party
1992: Party chief Altaf Hussain leaves country after an arrest warrant is issued in a murder case; army claims to have busted "torture cells" used by MQM activists to punish opponents
2004: Emerges as major ally of military ruler General Pervez Musharraf
2009: Under a 2009 amnesty in Pakistan 72 cases are dropped against Altaf Hussain, including 31 allegations of murder
2014: London police raid the home of Altaf Hussain, who still controls the party, and investigate claims of money laundering and murder
Karachi is Pakistan's most diverse, multi-ethnic, economic engine.
The MQM has dominated the city's politics for three decades because of its support in the densely populated working class neighbourhoods of Urdu-speaking Muhajirs, descendants of Muslims who migrated from India when Pakistan was created in 1947.
Mustafa Kamal was once a blue-eyed supporter of Mr Hussain. He was handpicked by the party leader to become elected mayor of Karachi from 2005-2010.
Young, dynamic and some say hot-headed, he was an MQM senator and a central leader of the party when he resigned in 2013 and quietly left the country.
He later ended up in Dubai, working for one of Pakistan's largest property developers, Bahria Town.
His return on 3 March appeared sudden, but well-choreographed. He says it was "a call of conscience" but critics suspect the initiative is backed by the Pakistani army.
The country's main intelligence agency, the ISI, has a track record of interfering in Pakistan's domestic politics, rigging elections, orchestrating party splits and sponsoring political alliances.
Since they burst onto the national scene, Mr Kamal and his group of dissidents have attacked their former boss in London for his alleged links with the Indian intelligence agency, RAW.
They have denounced what they say is his flip-flop approach to policy, his threats and abuse towards the army and his alleged incitement to violence against opponents.
None of the allegations are particularly shocking or revealing.
The more serious ones, that the party bosses received funding from Indian intelligence, have been in the public domain for quite some time but are yet to be proven in a court of law.
"The allegation has been used repeatedly as a stick to beat us with and to paint us as unpatriotic," says Dr Farooq Sattar, a senior MQM leader.
"And yet, despite the continuous media trial, people have continued to vote for us."
MQM insiders accept that there has been persist frustration within the senior ranks about the way party affairs have been managed from London.
There, Mr Hussain has been under pressure from the British authorities, facing a variety of allegations - all of which he denies - including an investigation into money laundering.
Separately, British officials are investigating the murder of a senior MQM leader, Dr Imran Farooq, who was stabbed to death in London in 2010.
Some claimed that his death was a politically motivated killing because at the time, Dr Farooq was reportedly planning to break away from Mr Hussain and start his own party.
Party insiders say the legal challenges, increased scrutiny of the party's finances and a lifestyle of indulgence has taken a big toll on Mr Hussain's health.
But despite battling on multiple fronts, his appeal and the vote bank has stayed intact. In fact, in December 2015, the MQM won the local government election with a huge margin in Karachi and other urban areas of Sindh province.
"We are not a perfect party," concedes an MQM member of parliament. "There's much we would like to change about ourselves. But it has to come from within. External attempts to force reform will fail."
For now, the party has decided to play it cool in the face of the latest challenge, calling it "a storm in a tea-cup". Instead, it is focusing its energies on a waste collection drive on the streets of Karachi.
As for Mr Kamal, it is unclear how he intends to take his campaign beyond the television talk shows. He says he is not in a rush.
Pakistan's next elections are not due for another two years. Mr Kamal says he intends to use that time and space to organise his as-yet unnamed new party and to reach out to all Pakistanis.
His first real test of popular support will come when he leaves the secure confines of his camp office and ventures out on the streets of the city where Altaf Hussain, despite all his problems, still enjoys a significant loyal following.


A cat thought to have been trapped for a week after its lead became tangled with a parked motorbike in Edinburgh has been rescued.

The pet was found on Tuesday when a member of the public heard cries at Cables Wynd House in Leith.
The cat, which has been named Molly, is now in the care of the Scottish SPCA's animal rescue and rehoming centre in Balerno.
Molly is between seven and nine months old.
Inspector June Chalcroft said: "Molly was wearing a collar with a harness and a lead so it seems she managed to get herself tangled with the locked up motorbike.
"The concierge of the building heard meowing and managed to locate Molly.
"We think she was there for around a week as she is quite thin.
"If no one comes forward for Molly, we'll find her a suitable new home."


An unexploded bomb alert in west London caused major disruption - but cordons were lifted when it was found to be just a shell casing, posing no danger.

Parts of Westfield shopping centre and nearby buildings were evacuated amid fears an item found was a WW2 bomb.
But people were allowed back into buildings and roads and Tube services reopened near the shopping centre after the item was removed.
And the Metropolitan police told the BBC it was not a bomb as first thought.
The casing, 34cm (13.5 in) in length and 15cm (6in) wide, was found by builders in Ariel Way, off Wood Lane.
Local traffic was diverted causing severe disruption and Tube services in the area were affected.


Hamilton's Martin Canning is biding his time to sign a striker - because his targets are waiting for approaches from clubs in England's top two divisions.

The Accies manager has added centre-half Xavier Tomas and goalkeeper Ryan Fulton to his squad this summer.
But he is looking for two forwards.
"The guys you know can make a difference, every other team wants them and the boys think they can play at a higher level for much bigger clubs," said Canning.
"At this stage, for clubs of our size, it's not easy to get in the guys you want to get in.
"So you've got to be patient, keep working at it.
"A lot of the players you know can make a difference think they can play in the English Championship or English Premier League and, rightly so, want to play at the highest level they can.
"Probably towards the end of the transfer window, it starts to get to the point where they realise that's not going to happen for them and have to broaden their search."
Accies were the last club in the Scottish Premiership to make a signing this summer and it was not until the day before the season kicked off against East Kilbride in the League Cup that Tomas was signed for an undisclosed fee from Swiss top-flight outfit Lausanne-Sport.
However Canning, who has since added goalkeeper Fulton from Liverpool, insists that fans should not be concerned about the lack of changes to a squad that only avoided relegation thanks to a play-off win over Dundee United.
"The club have been great this year in backing us as much as they can," he said. "We weren't targeting eight, nine or 10 players.
"We are looking to bring four or five guys that will make a difference because this year we are in a good place again.
"Our young kids are coming through to give us squad players. We've got young Ryan Tierney, Ross Cunningham, Ronan Hughes, Shaun Want, Steven Boyd.
"If these guys were not coming through, I would probably be running about trying to bring in another five or six players from all over the place just to bulk up the squad."
Canning thinks some of the players breaking through have the potential to match the success of former Accies midfielders James McCarthy and James McArthur, who went on to command sizeable transfer fees and win caps for Republic of Ireland and Scotland respectively.
In the short term, he hopes they will follow the example of defender Scott McMann, who became a first-team regular after progressing from the youth ranks last season.
Canning needed another central defender after the summer exits of Jesus Garcia Tena and Danny Seaborne, plus long-term injury to captain Michael Devlin.
Meanwhile, Fulton is a replacement for Remi Matthews, who returned to Norwich City after his loan spell.
"We have been looking for a big dominant centre-back all summer," added Canning.
"It has been a long process and I can assure you you spend lots of hours on the computer looking at CVs - you get hundreds of them sent through every week and you're constantly looking through them, scared not to look at one just in case you miss something.
"So it's very time-consuming and Xavier stood out about a month ago and it was something we have been working on.
"Ryan, we kept an eye on him right from the end of last season when we knew Remi was going back.
"Initially, we were looking at getting him in on loan, but eventually we got a deal to make him our player, which is even better."


SeaWorld, in the US state of California is to stop using killer whales in their shows.

The theme park's chief executive said that 2017 will be the last year of the orca show in San Diego.
The company has faced years of pressure from people demanding a ban on whales being used in performances.
A film called Black Fish also criticised SeaWorld for keeping whales in captivity and said the animals can be a danger to their trainers.
SeaWorld say the documentary is inaccurate and misleading and say they carry out vital research with the mammals.
But campaigning has hit the park hard and there has been a fall in the number of people visiting the company's 11 parks across the US.
One Direction's Harry Styles also asked fans not to visit the parks at his concert in July.
Dramatic displays by killer whales are the main feature at three parks operated by SeaWorld, in California, Florida and Texas.
But in October, Californian authorities said SeaWorld were no longer allowed to breed animals in captivity.
SeaWorld say they will now replace the orca shows at its park in California, with an experience that's more focussed on the creature's natural behaviours and environment.


Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is to make his Broadway debut playing US President Lyndon B Johnson in historical drama All the Way.

The play, by Robert Schenkkan, chronicles the first year of Johnson's presidency following the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963.
Three-time Emmy winner Cranston said he "wanted to wait for something that had meaning, that really had resonance".
The play opens at the Neil Simon Theatre on 6 March.
"There are two things you want in an actor playing LBJ. You want someone who is so charismatic and so charming, and you want somebody who is absolutely terrifying. And in Bryan Cranston we have both," Schenkkan said.
"The role is the size of Lear," added Schenkkan, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for The Kentucky Cycle. "He is on stage virtually the entire time."
'Ruthlessness'
All the Way premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012 - with Cranston stepping into the lead role for the first time last September at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The actor played to packed houses and earned solid reviews during a sell-out run.
"Mr Cranston's Johnson glitters with an almost salacious ruthlessness when he senses a chance to do a little arm-twisting to lock down another vote for a bill he wants passed," wrote Christopher Isherwood in the New York Times last year.
The play focuses on two parallel storylines: Johnson's battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his campaign for re-election.
"I want to be all of him, his highs, his lows, his good, his bad, and to present it honestly," said Cranston, speaking in an interview about the presidential role.
Cranston heads an ensemble cast of 20 actors who take on multiple roles in the play, which is directed by Bill Rauch.
Earlier this week, the 57-year-old star won a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of Walter White, the chemistry teacher-turned-drug lord, in the final series of Breaking Bad.


There are dire warnings that Stormont's finances will become unsustainable due to the failure to implement welfare reform.

In February this year the Northern Ireland Assembly finally passed a 2015/16 budget in the wake of the Stormont House Agreement.
But that was not the end of the legislative process.
Putting the budget into practice requires what is called a Budget (No. 2) Bill. It sets out the fine detail and provides legal authority for departmental spending.
While that bill is working its way through the legislative process, government departments still need money to operate.
The funds are released by a mechanism know as the Vote on Account.
It is normally 45% of the preceding year's total spending, which should be sufficient to ensure that the money available for public services is not exhausted before the Budget (No.2) Bill is approved.
The issue now is that Finance Minister Arlene Foster said in the absence of welfare reform, she could not bring forward a credible Budget (No. 2) Bill.
That sets the clock ticking on the Vote on Account money - when it runs out, a senior civil servant will have to step in and impose a severely constrained budget.
The Department of Finance will not be drawn precisely when the Vote on Account money runs out.
SDLP MLA Alex Attwood told Tuesday's welfare debate in the assembly that it would likely be around the end of July and described Tuesday as "an artificial deadline".
The former DUP finance minister, Sammy Wilson, agreed with that timing but added that the deadline was genuine as it is "impractical" to expect departments to start altering their budgets at very short notice.
Sinn FÃ©in minister John O'Dowd also pointed out that back in 2012, Mr Wilson put a Budget (No. 2 Bill) through using "accelerated passage" and its first reading did not happen until 18 June.
But ultimately if a Budget (No. 2 Bill) is not brought forward in fairly short order Stormont's finances will be in uncharted and unpleasant territory.


Scotland's engineering and manufacturing sector has recorded a third strong quarter in a row, an industry survey has found.

Scottish Engineering's latest quarterly review suggested an improvement in orders and output on the previous two three-month periods.
It also found "particularly strong" growth in staffing levels.
The industry body said it showed engineering firms were "gritting their teeth" in tough economic conditions.
According to the survey of 320 companies, positive output figures were reported by electronics firms, fabricators, machine shops and mechanical equipment businesses.
UK orders in general were similar to the first quarter of this year, while export orders also remained positive.
Employee numbers generally showed a "marked improvement " across small, medium and large companies over the previous quarter.
In general terms, levels of optimism among small and medium sized firms remained positive, but there was a more negative outlook from large companies.
Scottish Engineering said some sections of the engineering industry were looking to improve on the last quarter's predictions.
Fabricators indicated high hopes for UK orders in the next quarter, although some saw exports declining compared with the last quarter.


Tension has gripped parts of the Indian state of Gujarat after reports that seven men from the low-caste Dalit community had attempted suicide.

The men tried to take their own lives to protest against last week's assault on four Dalit men allegedly by the members of a Hindu hardline group.
The Dalit men were assaulted while trying to skin a dead cow.
Many Hindus consider cows sacred and the slaughter of the animal is banned in many Indian states.
Last year, a Muslim man was lynched by a violent mob that attacked his house over allegations that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
There have several other attacks across India where Muslim men have been accused of eating or smuggling beef.
Protesters set government buses on fire on Gondal, Dhoraji and Junagadh highway on Monday and blocked a national highway and seven men allegedly took poison at separate protest rallies by Dalit groups, police said.
A senior police official told BBC Hindi that a large number of policemen have been deployed in the region and the situation is under control.
Last week, four Dalit men, believed to be tannery workers, were stripped and beaten with sticks by men claiming to be "cow protectors".
After a video of the assault was released on the internet, eight attackers were identified and arrested.
The victims are reported to be severely wounded and are recovering in hospital.
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has said that her government was committed to protecting the Dalits and ordered an inquiry into the incident. Four policemen have been suspended.


So the legislatives have been won, and the final part of what future history books will record as the Macronian conquest is complete.

In truth it has all happened so quickly - little more than a year from the germ of an idea to Elysian omnipotence - that the country feels slightly dazed.
People are looking at their new leader, and many more than voted for him are honestly impressed by his calibre. But many are also wondering: so where do we go from here?
For there is an unknown aspect to the coming mandate that sets it apart from all that went before.
It is not just the newness of it all:  the fact that President Macron's party didn't exist until he dreamed it up, and that half of the new parliamentarians will need lessons (literally) in how to do their jobs.
And that never before - at least not since Charles de Gaulle in 1958 - has a head of state had such a powerful majority, made up of men and women who depend on him so personally for their new careers.
And that the opposition has been reduced to a rump, thanks to the dÃ©gagiste (kick 'em out) imperative that wipes out sitting MPs in droves.
It is also that at heart Emmanuel Macron himself remains something of an enigma.
When he was 22, and already a precocious high-flier, the president spent several months as the amanuensis of one of France's then most respected philosophers, Paul Ricoeur.
The name will mean little to most people, but according to the experts, one of the key elements of Ricoeurian philosophy is the "ability to think at the same time two ideas that are apparently opposed".
For example - in a political context - that could mean supporting the freeing up of the labour market and protecting the most vulnerable. Or slimming down the state and ensuring that France's social contract remains intact.
The heart of the philosophy is a generous one: the recognition that neither side in an argument holds a monopoly of the truth, and that the best policies are ones that combine some elements of both.
Macron's adherence to this scheme of thought was most obvious in the pre-presidential debates, when his use of the phrase "au mÃªme temps" (at the same time) was much noted upon - implying as it did a constant bid to reconcile apparently contradictory ideas.
All this is very well - and his sincere desire to bring together left and right no doubt contributed greatly to his success.
But the enigma is this: when it comes to acting, rather than talking, which way will the president jump?
After all, the problems he will face in the coming months will be the classic ones that face all democratic leaders. Should I give way to demonstrators? Or should I use force to enact my manifesto? How do I balance the budget? Which is worse, a massive deficit or cuts in social spending?
Or on another current issue: should I give way to the human rights lobby and provide accommodation to the new Calais refugees?  Or should I be hard-headed and turn them away, because housing them only encourages more?
On these and a host of other questions, no-one really knows the president's thinking.
He has promised to leave the old left and right behind, but maybe the old left and right don't want to go away. And maybe not everything is reconcilable by his magnificent Elysian fiat.
What we have seen so far is an object lesson in how to win power, carried out by a truly remarkable individual, who is half Machiavelli, and half Cary Grant. But that story is over now.  Let the new story begin.


Everton Ladies have signed Wales international midfielder Angharad James.

The 23-year-old was a free agent after Notts County's liquidation and played for Yeovil in the 2017 Women's Super League Spring Series.
"It's been a tough few months with everything at Notts County but I'm excited to get started," she said.
"Hopefully I can bring some experience. I'm still a young player but I've played in this division before."


British halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire crashed in all three of her final runs, but still secured Britain's best-ever World Championship result in the event.

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Cheshire, 21, who has missed much of the past three years because of repeated concussions, finished sixth.
"I'm really happy with my progression, but I just couldn't put it down tonight," she told BBC Sport.
"It happens and I'm going to take positives from being out there against the best in the world."
Japan's Ayana Onozuka (89.80) took gold in Sierra Nevada ahead of France's Marie Martinod (87.00) and American Devin Logan (84.20).
Cheshire was regarded as a potential medallist at the Sochi Winter Olympics, but a heavy crash in training resulted in a serious concussion that meant she missed the event.
She suffered two further concussions and experienced panic attacks over the next 18 months, only returning to full-time competition this season with under a year to go to the Pyeongchang Games.
"I'm over all of my head injuries," she said. "I'm in a really good place, feeling super-confident and enjoying it more than ever."
Earlier on Saturday, James Woods and Izzy Atkin qualified for their respective slopestyle finals, which will take place on Sunday.
Woods, who finished fifth in Sochi, scored 86.00 to finish fourth in his heat while Atkin, who won GB's first ski slopestyle World Cup gold medal earlier this month qualified in third place.
Although GB's Tyler Harding, Cal Sanderson and Michael Rowlands all missed out, organisers subsequently revised their rules and have added a semi-final on Sunday with the top four to qualify for an extended 16-strong final.


A "worrying" number of young people are taking steroids, the social services and public health minister has said.

Rebecca Evans said the use of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPED) for "image reasons" was a growing problem, particularly in parts of south Wales.
She was speaking at a meeting of charities and sports authorities at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.
Ms Evans said:"[It's] not just a problem in sport - it is a wider societal issue.
"There are a worrying number of young people, especially men, purchasing and taking illicit substances for image reasons and some then participating in community sport.
"We must reverse this culture of IPED use if we are to protect a generation of young people from the serious side effects they can cause."
The Welsh Government said IPED use had been linked to heart disease, liver damage and mental health issues and it invested almost Â£50m a year to tackle substance misuse.


Munster ended a run of five straight defeats as Ian Keatley's nine points proved enough to see off in-form Ulster in the Pro12 game at Kingspan Stadium.

A Keatley penalty edged Munster ahead and the visitors defended bravely to stay in touch after a Louis Ludik try had helped Ulster move 7-3 up.
Munster had more possession after the break and a Keatley penalty and drop goal put them ahead by the 61st minute.
Paddy Jackson's two late penalty misses left Munster celebrating a vital win.
Defeat would have represented Munster's worst ever losing run. And the game was also a personal triumph for man-of-the-match Keatley after his recent struggles in the red jersey.
The fly-half was booed by a small group of Munster fans after missing a number of kicks in last month's European defeat by Leicester and the verbal abuse generated a wave of sympathy for the Ireland fly-half.
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Keatley kicked Munster into a ninth-minute lead as they turned early possession into points.
Ulster regrouped to take control and Ludik's 24th-minute try helped them move ahead, although the score was controversial with referee Gary Conway appearing to miss offside and knock-on infringements in the build-up.
As Ulster continued to press, Andrew Trimble, making his 200th appearance for the Irish province, was denied a try as the ball bounced off his leg into touch following a clever Stuart McCloskey grubber kick.
But with back row forwards Tommy O'Donnell and Jack O'Donoghue particularly prominent, Munster held out until the break and then summoned up a big effort after half-time.
Despite playing the game in Ulster's half, Munster's attack continued to lack a cutting edge but crucially their pressure was finally rewarded by Keatley's smart 58th-minute drop goal.
A line-out infringement allowed Keatley to kick Munster ahead on 61 minutes as mistakes began to hinder the Ulster effort.
Spurred on by the vocal New Year crowd, Ulster produced late pressure with the first of Jackson's two late penalty chances from near the left touchline falling inches short before he was off target with another difficult kick in the final minute.
Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss: "We gave them enough opportunity to hang in there and our error-rate was too high. It's a disappointed dressing-room.
"Another three or five points would have been ideal before half-time. We probably just weren't clinical enough and probably didn't work hard enough to create pressure."
Munster fly-half Ian Keatley: "That win was huge for us. We were on a bad losing streak.
"A lot of things that we have been talking about, we haven't been doing but we executed tonight.
"It's a fortress to come here and we're delighted to get the ball rolling again."
Ulster: L Ludik; A Trimble, L Marshall, S McCloskey, R Scholes; P Jackson, R Pienaar; K McCall, R Best (capt), W Herbst; L Stevenson, F van der Merwe; R Diack, C Henry, N Williams.
Replacements: R Herring for Williams 71, C Black for McCall 64, R Lutton for Herbst 35, A O'Connor for Stevenson 52, R Wilson for Diack 52, P Marshall for Pienaar 71, S Arnold for L Marshall 54.
Not used: I Humphreys
Munster: L Amorosino; R O'Mahony, Fr Saili, R Scannell, G van der Heever; I Keatley, T O'Leary; D Kilcoyne, M Sherry, BJ Botha; B Holland, M Chisholm; J O'Donoghue, T O'Donnell, CJ Stander (capt).
Replacements: N Scannell for Sherry 54, J Ryan for Botha 71, R Copeland for O'Donnell 56, D Williams for O'Leary 57, Denis Hurley for R Scannell 56.
Not used: M Sagario, S Buckley,  T Bleyendaal
Referee: Gary Conway (Ireland).