Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said there is "no embarrassment" in losing 1-0 to Gibraltar part-timers Lincoln Red Imps in his first competitive game in charge of the Scottish giants.

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A goal from police officer Lee Casciaro in Tuesday's Champions League qualifier condemned Celtic to arguably their worst ever defeat.
The Imps also included a fireman, a customs officer and a taxi driver.
"I'm not really [shocked]. I know these results can happen," said Rodgers.
"We stay calm. We need a performance next week."
Celtic will welcome the champions of Gibraltar to Glasgow next Wednesday for the second leg of their second qualifying round tie.
Rodgers feels he saw enough from the Scottish champions to believe they will still get through.
"We dominated and had enough chances, but sometimes it can happen like that... one ball up the pitch and they're in," said the former Liverpool manager.
"You let the local team have their night, we press on, another week's training and be better for it.
"We've given ourselves a bit of work to do, but there's no panic. It's a two-legged affair and our objective is to get through."
Rodgers said fans should stay calm, adding: "I always felt this qualification phase would be based on the second legs at home and we'll need their support."
Before the match, Lincoln Red Imps captain Roy Chipolina claimed beating Celtic - who won the European Cup in 1967 - would be European football's biggest shock.
The customs officer saw no reason to revise that option in the aftermath.
"When you look at the history of both clubs, nothing has changed," he said.
"Celtic are still a massive club and they are still favourites in the tie, but I don't think anyone expected us to be going over to Glasgow with a 1-0 lead.
"We will be going over there more confident than we thought and, if miracles can happen again, we will knock Celtic out of the Champions League."
Goalscorer Lee Casciaro, said his side benefited from the artificial pitch, weather conditions and that they have been training for almost two months.
"The manager set us up to get them on the counter attack. It was really, really a dream for us, to score and win 1-0 against the mighty Celtic.
"Just walking out and have Celtic supporters singing You'll Never Walk Alone, and it's a historic pitch, we have to enjoy ourselves this doesn't happen very often for us. We've only been in Uefa last three years."
Liam McLeod, BBC Scotland commentator
"Celtic's reputation has taken a battering. One of their worst results ever? I would say it's the worst result ever. This has probably superseded anything that has gone before. It is that bad for the club, it's that bad for this team and I think Brendan Rodgers realises the size of the task he now has here.
"It's inexplicable to think that Celtic are having to come back from a deficit in the second leg of a Champions League qualifier against a side from the overseas British territory of Gibraltar. It's quite incredible."
Speaking to the Gibraltar Chronicle before the game, Lincoln captain Chipolina, a customs officer, said it was hard to have a full-time job and play football.
"We have found it very difficult - all of us have our day jobs," Lincoln director Ian Payas told the paper. "If we would have had an away game it would have been easier for us."
Naturally, social media users had plenty of fun, with a spoof profile of Lincoln Red Imps doing the rounds claiming the club had "an average home crowd of 28".
It was also pointed out the population of Gibraltar is 30,000 - Celtic Park holds 60,832 people.


The relatively low number of intensive care beds in UK hospitals means it is poorly prepared for major disasters, a report in the Lancet says.

Critical care experts say there may be as few as 3.5 intensive care beds per 100,000 people in the UK, compared with more than 24 per 100,000 in Germany.
The experts from Canada also said demand for intensive care was likely to rise with an ageing population.
A Department of Health spokesman said the number of beds was rising.
Dr Gordon Rubenfeld, from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, said that huge investment would be needed to keep pace with the growing demand for intensive care services.
One figure suggests that by 2030, the incidence of acute lung injury will have risen 50%, driven by pneumonia cases in older people.
Dr Rubenfeld analysed the availability of critical care beds in various countries, and while conceding that the figure of 3.5 per 100,000 might under-represent the true position, he concluded that, at present levels, the UK would not be in a good position to deal with the extra demands of a disaster.
He said: "It is clear that the UK is at the low end of ICU bed capacity, and thus would have decreased ability to cope with a large-scale disaster with many critically injured casualties."
Currently, an intensive care bed costs the NHS about Â£1,500 a day, and Professor Mervyn Singer, from University College London, said it was unrealistic to expect a significant expansion of intensive care at a time when health budgets were shrinking in real terms.
He said: "We are clearly in a worse position than some other countries because there is no spare capacity in the system, with many units running at 100% capacity, or close to it.
"While it would be nice to have extra wards and staff ready in the event of a disaster, it is not a particularly pragmatic expectation.
"There are things you can do in the event of a disaster, such as cancelling surgery, which frees up beds, but it is very much a 'make do and mend' approach in these circumstances."
Dr Kevin Gunning, a consultant in intensive care at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and a spokesman for the Intensive Care Society, said that in the event of a major pandemic or other disaster, the true determinant of intensive care capacity would be staff such as trained nurses rather than beds or equipment.
While there had been significant improvements since the year 2000, when a severe outbreak of winter flu caused problems across the NHS, he said the UK was still relatively poorly resourced compared with much of western Europe.
He said: "It's fair to say that we would have struggled with a flu pandemic of the scale some were predicting last year.
"If we have a pandemic of normal winter flu we would be stretched to the limit."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "The number of beds has increased and continues to increase but more does need to be done in some areas.
"However, international comparisons are difficult because there is no internationally agreed or clearly accepted definition of a 'critical care bed' or in the way that services are configured and delivered.
"It is for local healthcare commissioners and providers to assess the number of critical care beds needed locally to meet the demands of their population."


The Irish army has carried a controlled explosion on a hand grenade that was found in a residential area of Dundalk, County Louth.

It was found on waste ground at O'Hanlon Park on Friday. The scene was cordoned off and roads were closed.
The army bomb disposal team arrived at about 19:00 local time and made the grenade safe at the scene.
A spokesman said the grenade was then "removed to a secure military location and destroyed by controlled explosion".
The operation was over by 19:30 and the evidence was handed over to police.


A "game-changing" drug which dramatically cuts the chances of being infected with HIV should not be provided by the NHS in Wales, a body has recommended.

The All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) has advised the Welsh Government not to fund the daily pill Prep.
It said the case for cost-effectiveness "had not been proven".
It comes weeks after Scotland's medicines body backed its use.
Scientists have found a daily dose of the drug can protect people at high risk of contracting the virus.
Around 150 new people are diagnosed with HIV in Wales each year, nearly half from sexually transmitted infection between men.
The drug is suggested for people at high risk who might not have safe sex. One estimate is it might cost Â£2.5m a year in Wales.
An independent HIV expert group has already  called it "highly effective" when used with the right groups and in the right doses.
AWMSG said there were "several uncertainties and limitations" in the economic model provided by the drug company.
The firm insisted there was a "robust clinical and cost-effectiveness case".
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Sarah Fuhrmann, national director for Terrence Higgins Trust in Wales, said: "We are disappointed by this short-sighted recommendation.
"For every person who receives an HIV diagnosis, the Welsh NHS will pay on average Â£360,000 in lifetime treatment costs. Prep can save the NHS this money in the long term, whilst taking us one step closer to ending the HIV epidemic.
"We realise this is not the final decision, but if acted upon, this advice would lead to a postcode lottery within the UK, with major inequalities between borders in terms of who is protected against HIV."
Scotland is due to become the first place in the UK to routinely offer Prep.
A Welsh Government spokesman said the health secretary would consider the recommendation and "make an announcement in due course".


Police are investigating the "unexplained" death of a 41-year-old man in Falkirk.

The man's body was found at a house in Windsor Road at about 16:30 on Tuesday.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "The death is being treated as unexplained at this time.
"Inquiries are ongoing and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal in due course."


I am something of an insomniac and I know that when I don't get at least seven hours' sleep I become tired and irritable.

I've also noticed that a bad night's sleep affects my memory. The link between sleep and memory has been around for a long time and one plausible theory is that during deep sleep your brain moves short-term memories, collected that day, into long-term storage, freeing up space in your brain for more memories.
So if you don't get enough deep sleep those memories will be lost.
Whether this theory is right or not, getting a good night's sleep (rather than staying up late and cramming) is particularly important for students who are currently revising for exams.
But what really surprised me, while making the Truth about Sleep for BBC One, was discovering how much a bad night's sleep can affect blood sugar control and hunger, even in healthy volunteers.
To find out more we asked Dr Eleanor Scott, who works at the University of Leeds, to help us.
We recruited a group of healthy volunteers and, under her supervision, fitted them with activity monitors and continuous glucose monitors, so we could see what was happening to their blood sugar levels, every five minutes or so.
Then we asked our volunteers to sleep normally for two nights (so we had a baseline), have two nights where they went to bed three hours later than normal, followed by two nights where they could sleep as long as they liked.
Naturally enough, being an avid self-experimenter, I joined in. Staying awake when you really don't want to, and everyone else in your house has gone to bed, was not enjoyable.
I was also unpleasantly surprised by just how much my blood sugar levels rose on the days when I was sleep deprived, and how hungry that made me.
The same was true of my fellow volunteers. When we met to get our results from Dr Scott everyone complained about having the munchies.
As one volunteer put it, "I wanted lots of biscuits and I didn't just have one.  I'd go for 10. I wrote it down on my diary - 10 custard creams"
"Is that unusual?" I asked him.
"Well that certainly unusual for breakfast!" he replied.
All of us, whether we had feasted on biscuits or managed to stick to our normal diet, saw marked increases in our blood sugar levels, to the point where some previously healthy individuals had levels you might expect to see in borderline type 2 diabetics. These problems resolved after a couple of good nights' sleep.
As Dr Scott pointed out, there is now a lot of evidence from big studies which suggests that people who sleep for less than seven hours a night are more likely to become obese and also develop type 2 diabetes.
So why does this happen?
Dr Scott said: "We know that when you are sleep-deprived this alters your appetite hormones, making you more likely to feel hungry and less likely to feel full. We also know that when people are sleep-deprived they often crave sweet foods, which could explain the custard cream cravings.
"Also, if you're awake when you're not meant to be, you produce more of the stress hormone, cortisol, and that can influence your glucose level, as well, the next day"
A recent meta-analysis, carried out by researchers at King's College London, found that sleep-deprived people consume, on average, an extra 385 kcal per day, which over time could certainly add up.
It's not just that your blood sugar levels soar and your hunger hormones go into overdrive when you are sleep-restricted.
Researchers have also found that areas of your brain associated with reward also become more active when you're tired. In other words you become more motivated to seek out food.
Getting enough sleep is particularly important, not just for adults but also for children.
In another recent study researchers took a small group of pre-school children, aged three-to-four, all regular afternoon nappers, and not only deprived them of their afternoon nap but also kept them up for about two hours past their normal bedtime.
The following day the children ate 20% more calories than usual, particularly more sugar and carbohydrates. They were then allowed to sleep as much as they wanted. The following day they still consumed 14 per cent more calories than normal.
All of which points to the importance of getting a good night's sleep.
A few weeks ago, we kicked off the BBC Sleep Challenge and 367 of you chose to test out options to help you sleep and report back.
This was not a proper scientific survey, because it was self-selecting, but it was revealing nonetheless.
Of those taking the Sleep Challenge, the most common complaint was waking up in the night (half), followed by difficulty falling asleep in first place (a quarter).
The most popular option was the controlled breathing technique which 146 people tried.
The results were fairly evenly spread, with around 50 people choosing to cut out alcohol; do morning exercise; take a warm bath or avoid social media at least an hour before bedtime.
The least popular option was eating two kiwi fruit before bed, which only attracted 27 people.
It was also the option that people who did it found the least effective - only a third said it helped, some said it made their sleep worse!
The other options produced surprisingly similar results, with around half of each group saying they had got benefit from doing the technique they'd chosen, while half did not.
It appears the techniques with the most science behind them were the most effective, but clearly nothing works for everyone.
So shop around and see what works for you. I now do most of them (I enjoy kiwi, just not every evening, and I prefer an evening shower to a bath).
I've also committed myself to eating more fibre, which was not on our original list because we thought the effect would be too slow to show up.
I'm not entirely sure which is the 'best' but the combination has certainly helped me get a better night's sleep.
Truth about Sleep, BBC One, 9pm Thursday 11 May


Manager Roy Hodgson is concerned the England captaincy could eventually prove to be a burden for Wayne Rooney.

The Manchester United striker, 29, who will win his 100th England cap against Slovenia at Wembley on 15 November, was named skipper by Hodgson in August.
England have won all three matches during Rooney's captaincy and are top of their Euro 2016 qualifying group.
Hodgson said Rooney has impressed, but added: "I worry that the responsibility is going to weigh him down."
The 67-year-old manager continued: "We do all we can, myself and the coaching staff, to ensure that won't happen with us."
Rooney inherited the armband from Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, 34, who retired from international football following England's disappointing performance at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The former Everton striker, who made a positive impression on Hodgson when they first met, is now the figurehead as England rebuild for the European Championships in France.
Hodgson said: "I met a man who was burning to play, and that is the way he has been all along.
"Since he has been made captain, I think he has taken an even further step, both at Manchester United and with us."
Rooney was made captain of United at the beginning of the Premier League season by manager Louis van Gaal, who also warned of the burden of added responsibility.
Hodgson added: "At the moment I think he's coping with it well but we'll have to keep an eye on the situation, as will Louis, to make sure it doesn't weigh him down.
"I remember making the point fairly recently that he's really taken on this job as captain with enormous seriousness.
"He's studied and talked a lot with Steven Gerrard. He spends a lot of time with the younger players. And obviously with me he's very good. If there's anything he thinks I should be made aware of, he makes me aware of it."
Rooney became England's youngest player when he made his debut as a 17-year-old in a 3-1 defeat against Australia in February 2003 and is now ninth in the list of most capped players.
And Hodgson believes Rooney could play on until his mid-30s and overtake Peter Shilton's 125 appearances at the top of the list.
He said: "If we are generous and give him another five years, which is not beyond the bounds of possibility, he should beat Peter's record."
Rooney is also just six goals behind Bobby Charlton's England record of 49, but Hodgson does not believe that is his captain's focus.
"I'm not certain Wayne Rooney is a person who goes to bed at night dreaming of a record," Hodgson continued.
"I believe he just wants to keep playing and do the best job he can for England for as long as possible."
If England beat Slovenia in next Saturday's Euro 2016 qualifier, Hodgson's side will go six points clear at the top of Group E.


Marina Diamandis has said that she feels her career so far has been "more like a failure than a success".

Speaking to Australian radio station Undercover FM she said: "I haven't done anything I wanted to."
She admitted she'd yet to achieve her goal of being "one of the best artists of her generation," adding that she was angry that she's "not bigger".
The Welsh singer, who was second on BBC's Sound of 2010 list, also said her US label hadn't backed her in America.
"The label haven't really promoted me I'm afraid," she said in the interview. "It's very difficult."
"It's not really their fault," she added.
"The pop landscape in the US is so difficult to penetrate as you go into this dance-world now," she explained.
"Dance music was quite underground for a long time in America but now because of (Lady) Gaga and people like that it has been brought back," she continued.
"You need to be in that pumping beats area and I'm certainly not."
The singer released her debut album The Family Jewels last year.
Having cancelled a scheduled tour of the US this month she said she has now begun work on her forthcoming second album.


Only 10% of offices in a £107m development in Aberdeen are earmarked for use, according to SNP councillors in the city.

The SNP group said there could be "catastrophic consequences" for council taxpayers if large areas of Marischal Square remained vacant.
The project is due to be completed in the summer
Aberdeen City Council said the risk was "minimal" and insisted the council would not face a large bill.
The development also includes a hotel, shops and restaurants.
Aberdeen City Council's SNP group leader, Stephen Flynn, told BBC Scotland: "If there's not a higher level of uptake in this building the council could be on the line for millions of pounds.
"In a situation whereby public finances are obviously hard pressed, we can't be seen to be facilitating our own downfall in terms of the monetary situation."
The council, which is run by a coalition of Labour, Conservative and Independent councillors. has previously ruled out saying how much of Marischal Square must be occupied for the project to break even.
They said this was commercially sensitive information.
The authority's finance convener, Labour councillor Willie Young said council taxpayers were protected but there were "always risks" with large projects.
He added: "Absolutely the council will not face a bill in six months time, a year's time and in two year's time. Absolutely not. We've built in significant amounts of money to protect the council tax payer."
Muse developments, which is delivering the project, has yet to respond to request for comment.


Thousands of mothers over the past seven years have had successive children removed by family courts in England, the BBC has learned.

Court records for that period show 7,143 mothers were involved in repeat care cases - affecting 22,790 children.
Researchers found children were taken away from their parents by local authorities in more than 90% of cases.
The research was carried out by the Universities of Brunel and Manchester and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
This is the first time such data has been produced.
It backs up what judges have observed in their own courts for many years - that many mothers are stuck in a destructive cycle of pregnancies and care proceedings.
The courts remove a young child or baby from a mother, owing to abuse or neglect, only to see the same mother return to court a year or two later, with a new baby, and unable to care for that one either. Most misuse drink or drugs - or both.
Nicholas Crichton recently retired after many years as a judge in the family court.
He said: "The work of the family courts for years has been removing the second, the third, the fourth child from the same mother. Not infrequently the sixth, the seventh, the eight.
"In one case I've removed the 14th and I know two judges that have removed the 15th child from the same mother."
According to the research, half the women involved are 24 or below at the time of the first care application, with the youngest being 14. Their babies are often removed quickly, at birth or soon afterwards.
Dr Karen Broadhurst of the University of Manchester, lead author of the research, told the BBC that "in approximately 42% of cases, infants were subject to care proceedings within a month of their birth, which is an important finding".
"We know that in 70% of cases infants were subject to proceedings within the first year of their life, which obviously leaves the mother with very little time to turn her life around."
She also said the gaps between care proceedings were short for these mothers.
"We think there is an average of 17 months between the first time a mum appears in court with an infant and the second time she appears in court with another infant.
"It suggests to us there's a very short interval between pregnancies, which gives mums very little time to engage in their own rehab."
Dr Broadhurst argued that the research demonstrates the need for family courts to change their approach, to help these women change their behaviour.
"We also need to get better at ensuring those young parents can access the treatment that's recommended within the family court."
One pioneering new approach is that of the Strengthening Families Project, funded by Salford Council.
A community midwife, Wendy Warrington, and a specialist social worker, Elly Siddall, run workshops for pregnant women who risk losing their new baby, because they or their partner have already had at least one child taken into care.
Their approach is direct and hard-hitting. One Thursday afternoon, in a health centre in Eccles, Ms Warrington told a group of mothers-to-be about the side effects of drinking during pregnancy.
"They're born early, there's an increased risk of stillbirth," she said, pulling up graphic images on her whiteboard. "There's definitely abnormal brain development. Risk of loss of limbs, fingers, toes."
The women were visibly shocked. More disturbing images followed, of babies damaged by drug-taking mothers. One woman broke down in tears, worried she had already hurt her child through drinking.
The project has been running for two-and-a-half years and early results are promising. More mothers are succeeding in keeping their babies at home. For Salford Council, that is money saved - foster care is expensive. For the mothers who keep their babies, it is a new chance.
One young woman, in her early 20s, whose two eldest children had been adopted as babies, said: "It was just a mess. I had two children taken into care, though not of my own fault, through my past partner, my oldest little girl's dad. He battered her when she was three-and-a-half months old."
She became pregnant again - and the new baby was taken away from the hospital very soon after birth by Salford Children's Services. She was devastated, suffered from postnatal depression, and missed her two babies.
Like many women in this situation, she wanted to have another child as soon as possible. For her third pregnancy, however, she came to the Strengthening Families project.
She found it supportive and honest, saying: "They will tell you straight and that is what people need."
Ms Warrington and Ms Siddall also provide informal support to the mothers in the project, regularly calling them, sometimes visiting at home, to make sure they're looking after themselves and their unborn child. The team help write reports for the Family Court.
This project has been going for two-and-a-half years, whereas the pioneering Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) set up by Mr Crichton in central London has been running since 2008.
Last month the Nuffield Foundation found FDAC had helped 35% of mothers become reunited with their children, compared with 19% in the ordinary family courts.
The FDAC has its own team of experts, doctors, therapists and expert social workers from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the children's charity Coram.
Most parents in care cases have problems with drugs or alcohol. The FDAC's team helps them kick their addictions and, like the Strengthening Families Project, teaches them how to be better parents.
It is funded by London local authorities who, like Salford, recognised the benefits to their budgets of keeping children out of care, even though the cost of this court is higher than that of the ordinary family court.
One other FDAC has been opened in Gloucester, another is planned, but so far expansion has been slow.
This spring the president of the family court, Sir James Munby, praised the court and said: "FDAC is - it must be - a vital component in the new family court." He has said there should be an FDAC in every family court in England.
Nicholas Crichton believes the new research underlines the need for the expansion of projects which help parents break the destructive cycle.
"The emotional cost to those families, and to their children, is immense but the financial cost to the taxpayer is immense as well and we really have to find a different way of dealing with these cases."
Sanchia Berg's report will be on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 23 June.


Wind farms could be built off the Isle of Man after a Danish company reached an agreement with the Manx government.

DONG Energy said a commercial feasibility study looking into wind speeds was at an early stage.
While opportunities were "significant", a government spokesman said fisheries and shipping links must be protected.
Politicians last month granted Manx Tidal Energy Ltd a licence to explore the potential of harvesting tidal energy in the north of the island.
The government said any wind farm development would require a full environmental impact assessment.
The 12 nautical miles surrounding the Isle of Man are controlled by the island, which has responsibility for marine planning.
The Manx government has previous stated that any electricity generated by wind farms would go directly into the UK's National Grid.
A wind farm development would be expected to create jobs and generate an annual income expected to run into millions of pounds, said the Manx government.


Photographs and reporting by Tommy Trenchard.

Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees have fled violence and hunger in their home country for the safety of camps in northern Uganda. More than 50,000 of them now live in Rhino camp, a sprawling expanse of huts and tents scattered across dusty scrubland near the town of Arua.
Life in the camp is tough, but everyone seems to agree that one of the main challenges is water. There are no boreholes, and the few streams that flow through the area are often completely dry. When they're not, the water runs a deep chocolate brown.
In response to the shortage, the International Federation of the Red Cross has resorted to trucking in water from the River Nile, which must be tested, treated, and re-tested before being offloaded into a fleet of tankers. It is then driven through the bush to the camp, where it is deposited in hundreds of smaller tanks, which must be refilled twice or three times a day.
Using a system of pipes and pumps, water is drawn from the river into floatation tanks, where aluminium sulphate is added to remove the sediment. The plant, which started producing water earlier this month, now employs more than 40 local and international staff.
Noor Pwani, a member of IFRC's staff, said: "This is the only way we're going to stave off infectious diseases - a major concern given unsanitary conditions at crowded settlements and the coming rainy season when vector and water-borne diseases flourish."
Volunteer Agaba Derrick's job is to constantly monitor the river water, which varies in quality hour by hour. His findings dictate how much aluminium sulphate must be added. Chlorine is also added to kill off remaining bacteria.
When the water flows out the other side, it is crystal clear. The plant is scaling up to pump out a million litres of clean water each day. The recommended amount of water per person, per day, in the camps is between 15 and 20 litres, which is used for washing and cooking as well as drinking.
A fleet of around 30 tankers ferries the clean water to distribution points in the camp, which need to be refilled up to three times a day. In some areas roads had to be specially built to handle the volume of traffic.
Monica Achan, who spent two weeks walking through the bush to Uganda after her brother-in-law was killed by soldiers, takes a sip of Nile water in her new home in the camp.
"Life is hard here," she said. "But with water, we will survive. Water is life."


Media voice despair over corruption and threats to public health in the wake of fake and toxic food scandals, mass protests against polluting plants, and faulty dictionaries.

Global Times says authorities are still investigating the arrests of over 900 people, including market traders and restaurant staff, in a fake mutton scam.
The media earlier revealed a criminal ring that had been selling rat, fox and mink meat bought from farms in Shandong as mutton for hot-pot restaurants in Shanghai and neighbouring Wuxi since 2009.
However, a suspect in Wuxi assured China Central Television that while foxes and mink had been used in the production of fake meat, no rats had been used.
Elsewhere, farmers in Fujian province who were contracted to destroy diseased pigs have been detained for allegedly selling the carcasses collected from farms and roadsides to restaurants in neighbouring provinces since last August, Global Times reports.
Three butchers hired from Henan province remain at large and the case is still under investigation.
Besides the pork and mutton scandals, the Public Security Ministry says there have been at least another 10 meat scandals recently involving pigs and chickens, Southern Metropolis Daily notes with alarm.
"The case of a large number of dead pigs on the Huangpu River a while ago has to some extent confirmed the chaotic state of dead livestock and poultry processing. If this state of affairs does not change, the consequences of similar cases will be unimaginable," the newspaper says.
Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News says the judicial authorities' harsher penalties for selling toxic food, including the death sentence for anyone selling tainted food that causes fatalities, are "better late than never". It stresses that corrupt officials behind profiteers must also be targeted.
On Saturday, China Central Television exposed how farmers in Shandong's Weifang are using Aldicarb, a highly toxic pesticide, to grow ginger.
The Beijing News blasts the Weifang authorities for "incompetence" in failing to supervise food safety, and demands more powers for the media to act as a consumer watchdog.
While over 1,000 people protested in Kunming against a controversial China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) chemical plant on Sunday, angry protesters in Chengdu took to the internet to vent anger after police stopped them from rallying against another CNPC petrochemical plant on Sunday, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports.
A bilingual Global Times editorial says authorities and state-run firms have often failed to address public fears over pollution.
"Local governments should stand with the masses right from the outset of feasibility studies for heavy chemical projects," it says.
Beijing Times says authorities must also act quickly to introduce acceptable quality standards for bottled drinking water to allay public fears about contamination from deteriorating air and water quality as well as polluting industries.
Last week, The Beijing News revealed that only 20 tests were required for bottled water, while tap water underwent 106 water quality tests.
Beijing Times welcomes new moves to prosecute celebrities who advertise unsafe food products but says research institutes, doctors and consumers should also be held accountable for endorsing unsafe food and drugs.
The Beijing News accuses local officials in Hubei province of embezzling funds after China Central Television exposed authorities distributing "fake" dictionaries riddled with mistakes to over 3 million pupils in rural primary and secondary schools as part of a government subsidised scheme.
"These fake dictionaries that have passed through the dirty hands of corruption have not only polluted the eyes of children but also polluted their hearts. The nation is waiting to see whether these flies can be swatted," says a Southern Metropolis Daily commentary.
In People's Daily Overseas Edition, Hua Liming, a former Chinese ambassador to Iran, says almost simultaneous visits by Palestinian and Israeli leaders shows the two countries' "expectations and trust" in China.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will arrive in Shanghai on Monday for two days and then visit Beijing until Friday.
However, Mr Hua and many other Chinese experts stress that the focus of the visits is on bilateral trade and investment rather than Beijing brokering a peace deal.
Finally in The Beijing News a film critic, known as Mianbao Ah [Bread], notes how the public are blasting extra footage featured in the Chinese version of Hollywood film Iron Man 3 for being "half-cooked rice", or half-baked, since it premiered last week in China.
Sharp-eyed internet users have been mocking clips in the film of a Chinese doctor wearing a face mask but no surgical gloves when operating on Iron Man, as well as not-too-subtle product placements for a domestic milk drink.


Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was found dead in a car boot in Greater Manchester.

Officers have arrested two men, aged 70 and 48, who remain in custody on suspicion of murder.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were tipped off that the woman's body was in a blue Nissan NX100 in Heywood, shortly after 19:35 BST on Thursday.
On Friday, officers followed a car matching its description, which was seen in Claybank Street at 15:50 BST.
It was later found abandoned on nearby River Street.
A post-mortem examination and formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, police said.
Det Supt Tony Creely, from GMP, said: "Understandably an incident like this has caused a lot of concern in the community and interest in the media, but I would like to assure everybody that a thorough investigation has been launched.
"I would like to urge anybody with any information to please come forward."


The murder of three people may have been prevented if police had checked the killer's background when complaints were made about him, a review says.

Gwent Police and social services have been criticised in three reports into Carl Mills, 28.
Kim Buckley, 46, Kayleigh, 17, and baby Kimberley died in Cwmbran in a house fire he started in September 2012.
Despite the criticism, police insisted Mills - jailed for 35 years - was "solely" responsible for the deaths.
However, in press conference on Thursday, Simon Burch, chief officer for social care and health at Monmouthshire council, said: "We once again offer our condolences to their family and friends.
"The report indentified several areas where service providers could and should have acted differently. Where we fell short, we sincerely apologise."
Homeless Mills, a heavy drinker originally from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was "incredibly controlling and jealous" and condemned his girlfriend, their daughter and Mrs Buckley to "an agonising death", the trial judge said.
Three reports were published on Thursday - a Serious Case Review (SCR), a Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) and an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The DHR said it was rare to say if matters had been handled differently the murders would not have happened, but added: "However, in this case, if the information in Bolton concerning Mills' history had been properly researched and considered... the risks would have been better understood and it is likely that action would have been taken that was more likely to protect [Kimberley, Kayleigh and Mrs Buckley] from the extreme act which caused their deaths."
Mills met Kayleigh on Facebook when she was 15 and he was 26. He groomed her and travelled to Wales to see her.
The report said that her mother became so worried she contacted Gwent Police and social services - as did teachers and, later, hospital staff.
The DHR said:
Over the course of 21 months there were various child protection referrals and inquiries prompted by Mills's drunkenness, extreme jealousy and threatening behaviour.
The SCR also pinpointed a string of failings leading up to the murders, including at least 45 incidents of violence committed by Mills during his time in Bolton, including setting fire to his mother's bed and threatening her with knives.
But initial checks by Gwent Police found "no trace" of previous convictions or involvement with police.
In December 2010, the force carried out more checks and told Mrs Buckley that Mills posed a "significant risk" because he had been to prison, but officers did not know why and, because he had not committed offences in Cwmbran, no action could be taken.
Gwent Police made a child protection referral to social services but Kayleigh refused to co-operate with staff.
When she turned 16, the report found, she was treated as being responsible for the choices she made.
In October 2011 she became pregnant with twins. Kayleigh miscarried one daughter in March 2012 and went on to have Kimberley, who was born 15 weeks early.
The little girl was deaf, blind and had chronic lung problems.
Meanwhile, Mills continued to sleep rough in Cwmbran, which prompted officers to make further inquiries.
They found:
Three weeks before the murders, Mrs Buckley reported Mills for criminal damage and stealing her house keys, but the IPCC found this was not acted on by Gwent Police.
On 17 September 2012, Mrs Buckley and Kayleigh brought baby Kimberley home for the first time.
In the early hours of 18 September, Mills set fire to their home, stood outside and looked on as neighbours tried desperately to save them.
The report made 13 recommendations, including:
Gwyneth Swain, Mrs Buckley's mother, Kayleigh's grandmother and baby Kimberley's great-grandmother said:
"We want these reports to be used to stop anything like this ever happening again. Lessons must be learned from the many things that went wrong.
"Three members of my family should not have been killed by Mills. There were so many missed chances as the facts in these reports show."


Promotion-chasing Worcestershire expect opener Brett D'Oliviera to return after a finger injury as they host bottom side Glamorgan at New Road.

D'Oliviera, who hit 202 not out in the teams' last meeting in Cardiff in May, missed the recent defeat against Kent.
Glamorgan are without paceman Timm van der Gugten because of Holland duties.
But they have recalled Graham Wagg, Craig Meschede and Michael Hogan, who sat out the Northants defeat.
Ruaidhri Smith is out for at least four weeks with a side strain suffered at Swansea, but teenager Lukas Carey could retain his place after taking seven wickets on debut.
Worcestershire are in fourth place in Division Two, 14 points behind leaders Essex in the only promotion spot with five games to play.
Glamorgan need to recover from being bowled out for under 100 in their last two innings, in the Championship and the T20 quarter-final exit against Yorkshire.
Worcestershire (from): Mitchell, D'Oliviera, Fell, Clarke, Kohler-Cadmore, Whiteley, Cox, Leach, Barnard, Shantry, Morris, Russell.
Glamorgan (from): Rudolph (captain), Selman, Bragg, Lloyd, Donald, Meschede, Wagg, Wallace, Morgan, Hogan, Carey, Salter


Wakefield Trinity winger Tom Johnstone will miss the rest of the season after scans confirmed he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in Sunday's 30-10 win against Catalans Dragons.

Johnstone, 21, has been ruled out for up to eight months, a lay-off that has also ended any hopes of him making the England squad for the World Cup.
He will undergo surgery once the knee has settled from the initial damage.
"I'm trying to be positive about it," Johnstone told the club website.
"The amount of pain I was in I didn't think it was good, but I didn't think it was anywhere near as serious as it is."
Johnstone's injury is a big blow to Wakefield, as his eight tries in 12 games have been key in their rise to sixth place in the table.
Last season he scored 20 tries in 25 games to help Trinity reach the Challenge Cup semi-final and finish in the top eight.
"We've got to wait a couple of weeks for the inflammation to settle down," physio Ryan Carmody said.
"Unfortunately he will require surgery but the surgeon is really good, he's worked with a lot of rugby players.
"We're looking at six-to-eight months, it's standard protocol. We're really confident Tom's going to be absolutely fine."


Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford has been cleared of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl by a jury at Southwark Crown Court.

Clifford, 73, was accused of indecently assaulting the girl between October 1981 and May 1982 at his Mayfair offices in London.
He always denied the allegation.
Clifford, of Hersham, Surrey, is serving an eight-year jail sentence after being convicted in May 2014 of a string of indecent assaults.
Some of the biggest names in show business, including pop mogul Simon Cowell, late reality TV star Jade Goody and boxer Muhammad Ali, were represented by Clifford during his career.
The jury took five hours and 50 minutes to find him not guilty.
Wearing a blue suit and open-neck white shirt, Clifford smiled briefly and winked in the direction of his daughter in the public gallery, upon hearing the decision.
He also raised his hand in a gesture of thanks to his counsel, before being led back into custody to continue his prison sentence.
During the trial prosecutors accused Clifford of trying to use his "position of power" to "humiliate" the alleged victim and force her to perform a sex act.
But Clifford denied the incident ever happened.
Giving evidence in his defence, Clifford said his previous convictions, which he continued to deny, had made him "an easy target".
"One of the things I have learned is you're guilty until you're proven innocent when sexual offences are involved," he told the court.
He also revealed he had employed private investigators for this trial to prove his innocence, who were "all ex-Met Police".
In May 2014, Clifford was given an eight-year prison sentence after being convicted of a number of charges under Operation Yewtree - the Met Police investigation set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Clifford is now expected to return to HMP Littlehey in East Anglia, where he told the jury during his trial he had been playing tennis and softball and writing a book.
He was held in Wandsworth Prison in south London while the trial was ongoing.


An ambitious plan to make Northern Ireland's health and social care system fit for the 21st Century has been unveiled.

Health Minister Michelle O'Neill said the 10-year plan would improve a system at "breaking point".
Its 18 time-specific action points are based on recommendations from a government-appointed panel.
Hospital closures are not mentioned, but services will have to meet criteria to prove they are viable, she said.
Opposition politicians have questioned the lack of details in the plan, which is not costed.
Northern Ireland's health system had not changed quickly enough to meet the needs of an ageing population, and was unsustainable, Ms O'Neill told MLAs.
"If we continue as we are now, the system in 10 years would need 90% of the entire executive budget."
Not one but indeed two reports have made a compelling case for changing how health and social care services are delivered in Northern Ireland.
In stark language, the health minister said the system is at breaking point and that it is not sustainable.
It may be a 10-year vision but short-term fixes in the past have failed.
Read more here.
Her plan sets out a range of priorities, including a focus on keeping people healthy in the first place, and a new model of care involving a team of professionals based around GP surgeries.
The proposals set out in the report, Delivering Together, include:
On Tuesday evening, the health minister said she was prepared to use the independent sector as a short term measure to tackle hospital waiting lists.
The minister said her plan did not offer "a quick fix".
"This change will be planned, managed, incremental - this is not a "Big Bang," she said.
Meaningful change would require time, money and the support of government, staff and those who use our health and social care services, she added.
This is a report with recommendations. But they are broad in their ideas and their ambitions.
And certainly, at this stage, many are lacking in detail and questions remain on how they will be funded.
Read more here.
First Minister Arlene Foster said the plan represented a challenge the Executive was going to meet head on.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness added that change was required, and "the only question is whether it will happen in a controlled, planned fashion or unfold out of control".
But opposition MLAs criticised the proposals, with Ulster Unionist health spokesperson Jo-Anne Dobson questioning their lack of detail.
The SDLP's Mark H Durkan said a "spectre of doubt" hung over the plans, while TUV leader Jim Allister said they were merely "recycling of a great plethora of fine words".
A review into Northern Ireland's health service was commissioned in January by Stormont ministers seeking advice on how to improve services, cut waiting lists and care for an aging population.
Professor Rafael Bengoa, chair of the expert panel behind the review, said Northern Ireland faced "a stark choice".
"It can either resist change and see services deteriorate to the point of collapse over time, or embrace transformation and work to create a modern sustainable service," he said.
"Transformation will not be simple, but the panel has no doubt that Northern Ireland has both the people and the energy to deliver a world class health and care system."


St Mirren manager Jack Ross says a January transfer window gamble helped turn his team's fortunes around.

The Buddies, who face Dundee United in the Challenge Cup final on Saturday, had won just two league games before the turn of the year.
But after shipping out 10 players and bringing in 10 in January, the club's form picked up and they have won four of their last six Championship outings.
"We took an educated gamble in terms of making so many changes," Ross said.
The Buddies remain bottom of the Championship table but their fine recent run has brought them within one point of Ayr United, having played a game more, and a further three behind Dumbarton.
Players such as Rory Loy, Stelios Demetriou, Stephen McGinn and Cammy Smith signed on at St Mirren during the January window.
And while Ross credits January's sizeable squad overhaul for getting the Buddies back in the survival fight, it is not something he would want to repeat.
"Before the January transfer window opened, James (Fowler, his assistant) and myself spent a long time assessing what we needed to do and, for want of a better expression, we rolled the dice," Ross said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"We ended up with 10 players going out and 10 coming in, which is pretty remarkable and something, as a manager, I would prefer not to do ever again.
"However, with the ones we managed to recruit, some of those players I had worked with before and I trusted. Some we've been fortunate with, they've just been the right characters and the right fit for what we've wanted to try and do.
"The chemistry within the group off the pitch and on it is very good and that's been reflected in the performances and the results."
Ross took charge of the Paisley outfit in October 2016 following the sacking of Alex Rae, with the Buddies still without a league win at that stage.
As well as kick-starting their league campaign, Ross has helped guide them to the Challenge Cup final and is desperate to ensure they do not leave Fir Park empty-handed.
"For us it's a terrific opportunity to go and lift silverware and for the players to win a medal," he added.
"In an ideal world a cup win for us and a draw down at Somerset Park (where Ayr United host Dumbarton in the league) would be perfect, but let's get the cup win first and whatever happens there we'll deal with afterwards."


They say a dog is a man's best friend but Italian researchers suggest dogs bond with each other quite well too.

Scientists writing in the Royal Society Open Science journal suggest dogs copy each other's expressions, just like people do, showing basic signs of empathy.
But Dr John Bradshaw from the University of Bristol School of Veterinary Science says more research is needed to establish if dogs are really able to sense what emotions are uppermost in the minds of other dogs.
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Kent have released all-rounder Ben Harmison following four seasons at the St Lawrence Ground.

The 30-year-old joined from Durham at the end of 2011 and scored four centuries during his time for Kent.
Harmison made six Championship appearances in 2015, scoring 123 against Essex and ending the campaign with a batting average of 27.44.
He has been playing football for non-league side Ashington AFC since the end of the county cricket season.
The Northern League Division One club are managed by Ben's older brother Steve, who took 226 wickets in 63 Test appearances for England.


Janet Waldo, who voiced cartoon characters including Penelope Pitstop and Judy Jetson has died aged 96.

Her daughter confirmed to ABC News that she died on Sunday morning, having been diagnosed with a benign but inoperable brain tumour five years ago.
As well as starring in The Perils of Penlope Pitstop and The Jetsons, Waldo also appeared in hit US TV series I Love Lucy in 1952.
She had a variety of roles in The Flintstones including Pearl Slaghoople.
Waldo was born in Washington and she is best-known for her cartoon voice work during the '60s, '70s and '80s.
As well as voicing Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats, she also voiced Morticia Addams in a short-lived cartoon version of the TV series in 1973 and a character called Hogatha in The Smurfs during the 1980s.
One of her final roles was in 1998 in the hugely popular adult animated TV series King of the Hill, in which she guest starred as Mrs Tobbis in one episode.
She began acting in 1938 with small roles in several films but by the '70s she worked almost exclusively in animation.


Bristol City midfielder Scott Wagstaff will leave the Championship club when his contract runs out in June.

The 26-year-old had been due to hold talks about his future with head coach Lee Johnson but has chosen to move on in search of regular playing time.
"He's a lovely lad and I didn't really want to lose him because he's great in the dressing room," Johnson said.
"I felt I would find it difficult to promise him the number of games he wants at this stage of his career."
Wagstaff made only one league start in 2015-16, scoring his only goal as a sub in a 6-0 thrashing of Bolton.


The US has said its policy of "strategic patience" with North Korea is over and suggested it might decide to take pre-emptive military action.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the option was "on the table" if the threat from the North's weapons programme reached a level requiring it.
During a visit to South Korea, he also said the US was exploring a range of new diplomatic and economic measures.
And he defended the deployment of a US missile system in South Korea.
The move has angered China, but South Korea and the US say the system is needed as a defence against North Korean aggression.
US President Donald Trump tweeted that North Korea was "behaving very badly" and had been "playing" the US "for years". "China has done little to help!" he added.
Mr Tillerson spoke shortly after visiting the demilitarised zone which divides the two Koreas.
He arrived in South Korea from Japan, where he had said that 20 years of efforts designed to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions had failed.
Asked if the possibility for military action existed, he said: "Certainly we do not want to, for things to get to military conflict."
But he added: "If they elevate the threat of their weapons programme to a level that we believe requires action, then that option's on the table."
North Korea has conducted nuclear and missile tests in recent years, and says it is close to testing long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and reaching the US.
Mr Tillerson was blunt: the previous policy had ended. Despite that assertion, though, the difference between the Obama strategy and the Trump one is not obvious. Mr Obama had not ruled out military force and Mr Tillerson thinks sanctions might yet work.
Both administrations ruled out negotiation - though Mr Tillerson said they would be "premature" at the moment, prompting the thought that there might come a time when they were the right thing to do.
At the end of it, the situation remains the same: North Korea shows no hint of being willing to renounce nuclear weapons, whatever economic blows it receives and whatever China might think.
Mr Tillerson heads for Beijing next, hoping China will help - but in the past Mr Trump has called China an "enemy".
The US has accused China, North Korea's main ally, of not doing enough to rein it in but Beijing remains wary of any action that could destabilise the North Korean government and potentially create chaos on its border.
During his address in Seoul, Mr Tillerson called on China to fully implement sanctions imposed by the UN in response to North Korea's nuclear and missile tests.
"I don't believe we have ever fully achieved the maximum level of action that can be taken under the UN Security Council resolution with full participation of all countries," he said.
China is also strongly opposed to the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system in South Korea. America says the system is aimed at North Korea but China says it will allow the US to spy on its territory.
In recent days there have been multiple reports of apparent economic retaliation aimed at South Korea by Beijing. Mr Tillerson called these actions "unnecessary and troubling".
"We also believe it is not the way for a regional power to help resolve what is a serious threat for everyone," he said.
Mr Tillerson had talks with both South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is also the acting president.
However, the two sides opted not to have a meal together because Mr Tillerson, 64, was experiencing "fatigue", unnamed Seoul officials were quoted as saying by local newspaper the Korea Herald.
"We Americans have to get this news from the Korea Herald, because Tillerson won't let a press pool travel with him," New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer commented in a tweet.


Yeovil and Cambridge shared the spoils with a 1-1 draw at Huish Park in League Two.

A second-half goal from Francois Zoko put the Glovers ahead before Barry Corr grabbed a very late equaliser for the U's after coming off the bench.
Yeovil had the better of the first half and Bevis Mugabi twice went close early on, with one effort wide and then a swerving shot from distance that Will Norris did well to get his body behind.
Tom Eaves flashed a shot across the face of the goal and Zoko had one strike blocked before Norris got himself behind the second to keep it 0-0 at half-time.
The Glovers did eventually made the breakthrough deep into the second half, with a shot-cross from Alex Lawless on 78 minutes finding Zoko, who knocked it in from eight yards.
However, with time running out, substitute Corr popped up at the far post on 89 minutes to score his first goal in 14 months after injury.
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Match ends, Yeovil Town 1, Cambridge United 1.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 1, Cambridge United 1.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United).
Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
Goal!  Yeovil Town 1, Cambridge United 1. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mark Roberts.
Foul by Omar Sowunmi (Yeovil Town).
Liam O'Neil (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces George Maris.
Goal!  Yeovil Town 1, Cambridge United 0. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alex Lawless.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United).
Attempt missed. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Barry Corr replaces Uche Ikpeazu because of an injury.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United).
Hand ball by Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town).
Foul by Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town).
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Max Clark replaces Paul Lewis.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
George Maris (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. George Maris (Cambridge United) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Yeovil Town. Conceded by Leon Davies.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Maris (Cambridge United).
Attempt missed. Omar Sowunmi (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Owain Jones replaces Ben Whitfield.
Attempt saved. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town).
Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Liam O'Neil (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Omar Sowunmi (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam O'Neil (Cambridge United).
Attempt missed. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.


More scrutiny is needed of plans to spend billions of pounds renovating the Houses of Parliament, MPs say.

The Commons Treasury Committee said no final decision should be taken on how to proceed until it had investigated the options.
"Large construction projects often go wrong," the committee said, and MPs would "bear the brunt" of criticism.
Proposals have been put forward to move MPs and peers out of the building while urgent repairs take place.
The recommendation, which has been costed at Â£4bn, was made in September by the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster.
It would involve MPs moving into the Richmond House building on Whitehall currently occupied by the Department of Health.
The Treasury committee said it would also examine an alternative option, opposed by the joint committee, of a "partial decant" where the Commons and Lords took turns to move out while repairs were taking place.
It also said it would scrutinise the assessment by consultant Deloitte that this option would cost more and take longer.
The Palace of Westminster, a World Heritage Site, has asbestos, leaks, old electrics and is said to be at high risk of "catastrophic failure".
In a preliminary report, the committee said: "Restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster is a major undertaking which will last many years and cost billions of pounds."
The project will have a major impact on public perception of the work of the Commons and Lords, it said.
The committee added: "Given the enormous sums involved, it would be vital even in normal times that the case for the spending and its cost-effectiveness were thoroughly scrutinised and that the plans were rigorously challenged.
"It is even more important at a time of austerity, when restoration of the Palace will be competing for funds with many hard-pressed parts of the public sector."
The committee concluded that until its report had been published, it would be "imprudent" for MPs to make a final decision.
Last week Parliament's spending watchdog, the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said vacating the Palace of Westminster was the most economic and efficient option, and that further delays would add millions to the cost.


Nigeria's military has killed at least 17 supporters of Biafran independence, according to Amnesty International.

The rights group called on Nigeria's government to investigate the deaths in the south-eastern city of Onitsha last month.
The Nigerian military described the claims as unfounded and misleading.
At least one million people died in the 1967-70 civil war started by Biafran secessionists. Protests have resumed over the past year.
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According to Amnesty, some of those who died were members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a group campaigning for Biafran independence.
Some had been shot in the back, an indication that they were fleeing the scene, Amnesty said.
Ipob says Nigeria's government is dominated by northerners and has not done enough to develop the mostly Igbo-speaking south-eastern parts of Nigeria.


The Republic of Ireland's planning body has given approval for the southern section of the £200m cross-border electricity inter-connector project.

The two power grids will be connected by 138km of overhead lines between Moy in County Tyrone and County Meath.
The northern section has still not been granted approval, with a decision not likely until mid-or-late 2017.
It will be taken by Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard following a public inquiry.
However, the green-light in the south is seen as a milestone for the project.
EirGrid's proposal to construct almost 300 pylons in Meath, Cavan and Monaghan had been objected to by about 200 landowners on health and environmental grounds.
The Northern Ireland section is being overseen by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
Robin McCormick of SONI said the inter-connector is needed to address security of supply problems facing Northern Ireland.
"We very much welcome the positive outcome from An Bord Pleanála. It represents significant progress for the project," he said.


An independent panel has been set up to consider applications to a community projects fund linked to a massive offshore wind farm project.

Work has begun on constructing the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (Bowl) in the Outer Moray Firth at a cost of £2.6bn.
More than 80 turbines have been proposed for the scheme.
The new £3m fund is open to community groups, charities and non-profit-making organisations.
It will operate over five years with £2m available for projects in Caithness and Sutherland and £1m for applications from Moray.
Energy giant SSE, one of the companies involved in Bowl, has announced the establishment of the fund's panel.
Its members are Caithness and North Sutherland Fund co-ordinator David Shearer, Highlands and Islands regional director at Scottish Council for Development and Industry Fraser Grieve and chief executive of Moray Chamber of Commerce Sarah Medcraf.
Also Prof James Hunter, who is Emeritus professor of history at the University of the Highlands and Islands, and SSE's head of community investment Morven Smith.


Kevin Pietersen has been dropped for England's third Test against South Africa over reports he sent derogatory text messages about his team-mates.

On Saturday, Pietersen removed his threat to retire but the England and Wales Cricket Board wanted confirmation he had not texted Proteas players.
"This has not been forthcoming despite timelines being set," said England cricket managing director Hugh Morris.
In a statement, Pietersen said: "To say I am gutted is an understatement."
Pietersen's omission comes at the end of a turbulent week which began with him hinting that he could retire after the third Test, before renewing his commitment to the England team in a video released via YouTube on Saturday.
However, the ECB wanted assurances that reports claiming he had sent texts criticising captain Andrew Strauss and team director Andy Flower to South Africa pair Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers were untrue.
The announcement of the squad for the third Test, which England must win to avoid being replaced by South Africa at the top of the Test rankings, was delayed by five hours and, when it came, Pietersen's was left out at the expense of Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow.
Morris added: "In the best interest of the team, he will miss the Lord's Test.
"During the past week we have held several discussions with Kevin Pietersen and his advisors.
"This shows how disenfranchised Pietersen is within the set-up and how aggrieved the ECB is over his comments about team spirit and even more so about reports he sent text messages to South Africa players during the Headingley Test."
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"Following a constructive meeting it was agreed that a number of actions needed to be completed to re-engage Kevin within the England dressing room.
"A fundamental item was to confirm publicly that no derogatory texts had been sent by Kevin to the South African team.
"We provided an additional six hours this morning to provide every opportunity for agreement to be reached but regrettably this has not been possible."
Pietersen's statment, released after the squad announcement, said: "Naturally, I am hugely disappointed that the ECB have decided not to select me. To say I am gutted is an understatement.
"I had an emotional time at Headingley and the video I released was my way to bring closure to the issues I had at that time. I stand by every word I said in the video.
"The fact is: I love England and I love cricket. This entire episode has been demoralising for me and my family. However, none of this constitutes the end of my career as an international cricketer.
"I wish the team - and Andrew Strauss [in his 100th Test] in particular - every success next week."
South Africa, who lead the three-Test series 1-0, drew with Derbyshire in what proved to be their final tour match before the final Test.
England squad for third Test: Andrew Strauss (Middlesex, capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Alastair Cook (Essex), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Graham Onions (Durham), Matt Prior (Sussex, wk), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire).


Highland councillors will next week consider a proposal for a £23m regional sports hub in Inverness.

A feasibility study has suggested that the city's Bught Park offered the best location for the centre.
It has also proposed that the flagship centre have a cycling velodrome and high quality facilities for gymnastics, athletics, judo and tennis.
Funding for the hub would depend on a successful bid for money from the UK government's City Deal scheme.
At a meeting next week councillors will be asked to agree that £150,000 be spent on commissioning detailed plans for the centre.
The idea for a hub is linked to Highland Council's West Link roads project, which already involves relocating rugby pitches and a golf course.


Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he failed to do enough to ensure Welsh and Scottish devolution did not undermine the UK's national identity.

He said resisting demands for Cardiff and Edinburgh assemblies would have increased demand for independence.
But Mr Blair said he did not understand in the late 1990s the need to maintain cultural unity between the different parts of the United Kingdom.
The admissions are contained in a new book, 'British Labour Leaders'.
Interviewed by the book's editors, ex-cabinet minister Charles Clarke and University of East Anglia politics lecturer Toby James, Mr Blair said: "I did feel that we made a mistake on devolution.
"We should have understood that, when you change the system of government so that more power is devolved, you need to have ways of culturally keeping England, Scotland and Wales very much in sync with each other. We needed to work even stronger for a sense of UK national identity.
"But I don't accept the idea that we should never have done devolution. If we had not devolved power, then there would have been a massive demand for separation - as there was back in the 60s and 70s."
The book is published on 8 September.


The US Supreme Court appeared to be evenly divided over a case about faith-based groups indirectly providing contraception in employee health plans.

Under the Affordable Care Act, employers are required to cover the cost of contraception with insurance.
Religious groups argue that they should be exempt from the requirement because it violates religious liberty.
A tie would uphold lower court rulings in support of the administration but not set a national precedent.
The court now has eight justices after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in February.
Senate Republicans are blocking efforts by President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy, making split decisions more likely.
The Obama administration has already agreed to a compromise for non-profit groups with religious ties that allows them to avoid directly providing birth control in health plans for employees.
Opposing groups argue this is not enough and do not want any link to providing contraception.
The groups view some forms of contraception as equivalent to abortion.
The Little Sisters of the Poor, a charity that cares for the elderly, and other Roman Catholic groups were among plaintiffs.
In oral arguments on Wednesday, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who usually is the deciding vote in divisive cases, expressed doubts about the government's case.
Justice Kennedy's questions signalled that he would join with the three conservative justices in favouring the Christian groups.
"They think that complicity is sinful," Chief Justice John Roberts said of plaintiffs.
The four justices who make up the court's left wing appeared to side with the Obama administration.
Justice Elena Kagan said the religious groups "were objecting to objecting."
For 90 minutes, the court heard arguments on whether non-profit groups opposed to the contraception requirement can use a 1993 law, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, to object to the administration's compromise.
The hashtag #HandsOffMyBC was trending in Washington on Wednesday, mostly being tweeted by those who side with the Affordable Care Act requirement.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders used the hashtag, tweeting: "No matter where you work or what you do, your birth control decisions should be up to you."
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted his support for the religious groups, saying that "We should do everything we can to let people live out their faith".
A final ruling, if reached, will be announced in June.


Surrey bowler Stuart Meaker faces a spell on the sidelines after suffering a groin injury.

The 27-year-old, who has played two One-Day Internationals for England, was hurt while batting in the nets and has subsequently undergone a "minor procedure to repair the damage".
The news is another blow for his team ahead of the new county season.
Jade Dernbach, Freddie van den Bergh and all-rounder Zafar Ansari have also recently been sidelined.
Van den Bergh and Ansari have been recovering from thumb injuries.
Dernbach, meanwhile, sustained a stress fracture in his back during the winter and hopes to return to action later in the season.


Rangers made their seventh and eighth summer signings as Mexicans Carlos Pena and Eduardo Herrera arrived at Ibrox.

Midfielder Pena and striker Herrera finalised their transfers from Guadalajara and Pumas respectively after receiving their work permits.
The Mexican market is familiar to manager Pedro Caixinha, who took charge of Santos Laguna for two years in the top flight Liga MX.
But for most Rangers fans, Pena and Herrera are unknown quantities.
BBC Scotland has enlisted the help of sports writer Omar Flores Aldana of Mexico City's Excelsior newspaper to find out more about the new faces at Ibrox.
Rangers fans will hope Pena, known as El Gullit due to a perceived similarity in appearance to the Dutch legend Ruud Gullit, brings a goalscoring threat to their midfield and the ability to go box-to-box.
The move, as far as Flores Aldana is concerned, could be a timely one for a player looking to reach the heights his early career promised. There would, however, appear to be an element of risk involved.
"When he was developing, Pena was capable of working as a link between the midfield and the forwards, but he wasn't willing to take the ball from the defence in the first place," Flores Aldana said.
"He was, however, still considered the best player in the academy by many of his team-mates.
"He made a big improvement under coach Gustavo Matosas at Leon, who convinced him to start taking the ball from the defenders. That made him a more rounded player, as he could help his defence as well as score goals.
"After this he was called into the Mexico squad for the World Cup in Brazil and although it was expected he would sign for a European team afterwards, he did not receive any offers from abroad.
"Pena then moved to Chivas Guadalajara but it was not a good fit for him and he failed to adapt. He made some mistakes in key moments and had some off-field issues. He returned to Leon but failed to rediscover his best form.
"It surprised people in Mexico that he moved to Rangers as he hadn't gone to Europe when he was playing at his best earlier in his career, but if Caixinha can get him working like Matosas did, he could be a good signing."
With 57 goals in 207 appearances in Mexico, Herrera's record suggests he is not the most prolific striker. Yet as Flores Aldana describes, it may be other qualities that attracted Caixinha, who had the player in his Santos Laguna squad during the 2013-14 season.
"Herrera is not the most accurate finisher and is not the type of player that will dribble past people," Flores Aldana said. "But he is an aggressive player who pressurises the ball when it's in the opponents' defensive area.
"He is good at holding the ball up and he refuses to give up on anything - that's the mind-set that earned him a place in the Pumas' first team.
"His best years were from 2014-16 with Pumas, under coach Guillermo Vázquez, when he played with two wingers and was the main goal poacher. He was top scorer in one season and was called into the national squad.
"He didn't reach the same level last season while on loan at Veracruz, so, again, it was a surprise that he won a move to Rangers."


A government pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defence is only being met through accounting changes, MPs have claimed.

Chancellor George Osborne last year said the UK would continue to meet the target, set by Nato for member nations.
But the cross-party Defence Committee said that including what is spent on intelligence gathering and war pensions could be seen as "creative accounting".
Labour said that amounted to "fiddling the books" but the Ministry of Defence said it was all within Nato guidelines.
The UK has met the 2% target consistently over the past decade, one of the few Nato members to do so, although spending on defence as a share of GDP has steadily fallen over the past 30 years.
The government is facing claims that it had to include measures such as intelligence gathering and war pensions - which were not previously counted as defence spending - in order to make the figures add up.
The cross-party committee warned that this "redefinition" to some degree undermined the government's claims that the 2% figure represented a significant increase in defence spending.
"We note that the Nato minimum would not have been fulfilled if UK accounting practices had not been modified, albeit in ways permitted by Nato guidelines," it said.
"The only way that the Ministry of Defence can refute claims of 'creative accounting' is to outline, clearly and unambiguously, what the new inclusions are, how much they constitute, and from which department each was previously funded."
by Jonathan Beale, defence correspondent, BBC News
Last year with much fanfare - and after strong pressure from the US - the government announced it would continue to meet Nato's target of spending 2% of the nation's wealth on defence.
While this report stops short of accusing the government of fiddling the books to meet that goal, it does say ministers are open to the charge of creative accounting.
The MPs say deciphering the MoD's accounts has not been easy. But they confirm that items previously not defined as defence spending - such as war pensions and some intelligence gathering  - are now being included to achieve the 2% pledge.
The Defence Committee says the government needs to be clear about what counts as defence spending and also how it will continue meeting the goal in the coming years.
The committee also called on ministers to explain how they would continue to meet the 2% target up to 2020 given the pressures from public sector pay and fact that this year's total included a number of one-off items which would not be repeated in future years.
"We remain to be convinced that the current financial settlement is sufficient to rectify the decline of defence as a national priority," it said.
"The government must be clear that 2% is a minimum - not a target - and be prepared to increase defence expenditure further in order to reflect the increasing threats faced by both the UK and our allies."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, committee chairman Julian Lewis said the government should have "flagged" that it was including categories of expenditure not previously counted - saying it was "trying to amass every last little bit...in order to scrape over the 2% threshold".
Labour has seized on the committee's report, accusing the government of sharp practice.
"After the crippling cuts to the armed forces imposed by the Tories throughout the last parliament, we were promised that 2015 would mark a turning point," said shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry.
"Instead, it's increasingly clear that the 2% commitment is being delivered not through increases in frontline defence spending but by fiddling the books.
"Time and again on defence, the Tories are shown to be all rhetoric and no reality, and it is our armed forces who are paying the price."
But the Ministry of Defence said this was "nonsense" and the UK's military would enjoy a big increase in resources over the next four years.
"When defence spending will increase by Â£5bn over this parliament, it is nonsense to suggest there is no new funding," a spokesman said.
"Our plans will deliver more ships, more planes, more troops at readiness, better equipment for special forces, and more on cyber to help keep Britain safe."


MPs have backed government plans to cut spending on tax credits in the face of opposition from Labour and the SNP.

The Commons approved plans to lower the earnings level above which tax credits are withdrawn from £6,420 to £3,850 and speed up the rate at which the benefit is lost as pay rises by 35 votes.
Ministers say the move, estimated to save £4.4bn, is part of wider plans to raise pay and incentivise work.
But Labour say it is an "ideological attack" on working families.
The curbs on tax credits were announced in Chancellor George Osborne's post-election Budget in June.
During a 90-minute debate in the Commons, the opposition claimed three million families face losing an average of £1,000 a year from next April.
But ministers said the tax credit system had, for too long, been used to subsidise low pay and the changes would bring total expenditure on tax credits back down to more sustainable levels seen in 2007-8.
MPs backed a motion enacting the changes by 325 votes to 290 although two Conservatives - David Davis and Stephen McPartland - voted against the government while another, Andrew Percy, abstained.
Treasury minister Damian Hinds said eight out of 10 households would be better off by 2018-9 as a result of measures announced in the Budget to introduce a national living wage from next April, to further increase the personal tax allowance to £12,500 and to extend childcare subsidies.
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"For too long in this country, low pay has been addressed not by genuine reform and driving productivity but by subsidising the tax credit system," he said.
"The changes introduced in this order will build on the last parliament's reforms and return real-terms tax credit spending to the level it was in 2007-08 - a decade into the tenure of the government of the Labour Party."
But Labour's Seema Malhotra said the changes were being "sneaked through the back door" and the measures designed to offset them would not provide adequate compensation.
"This is a political decision made by the chancellor that is set to see over three million families lose an average of £1,000 a year," the shadow Treasury minister said. "It is ideologically driven, it is cynical and it will directly increase levels of poverty in Britain."
"It is part of an ongoing attack on the incomes of some of the most hard working families in our constituencies - those very strivers the chancellor purported to support."
The SNP insisted families will have to make difficult choices about food and heating their home if they lose £100 a month, while the Lib Dems said their eight MPs had opposed the curbs on tax credits, saying they "hit low income working people who are doing the right thing".


European Central Bank (ECB) head Mario Draghi has said the eurozone's economic recovery is "increasingly solid" and faces fewer risks.

But he added that inflation in the 19-nation bloc was still not high enough to raise interest rates.
The ECB has kept its main interest rate on hold at zero for another month.
It also decided not to change the ECB's bond-buying stimulus scheme, which is already being trimmed to 60bn euros (Â£51bn) a month from 80bn euros.
Economic confidence is at its highest since the eurozone debt crisis, but inflation continues to miss the ECB's target for a fifth straight year.
Mr Draghi said the recovery was helped by higher consumer spending, wage growth and a global economic rebound.
But inflationary pressures also "remain subdued", with prices largely only going up earlier this year because of higher energy costs, he said.
He also sounded a note of caution about growth. "The risks surrounding the euro area growth outlook, while moving toward a more balanced configuration, are still tilted to the downside," he said.
The ECB cut its main interest rate to zero last year to try to stimulate economic growth and avoid deflation or falling prices.
As well as the rates decision, the bank said it would continue buying 60bn euros of bonds a month "until the end of December 2017, or beyond, if necessary".
Analysts were watching for any hints that the bond-buying programme, known as quantitative easing (QE), would be reduced.
Paul Sirani, an analyst at Xtrade, said: "Put simply, it seems that Draghi is reluctant to reveal his hand amidst unsatisfactory, yet improving, economic and political conditions."
Ranko Berich, of Monex Europe, said: "Barring a wholesale change in opinion among the governing council against Draghi's position, ECB QE is here to stay for now."
The euro fell about 0.5% against the dollar to below $1.09, having briefly swung higher on Mr Draghi's comments about a firming recovery.
Economic growth has picked up in recent months, with employment rising and economic sentiment hitting a 10-year high this month.
Inflation, though, slipped back to 1.5% in March after briefly going above the ECB's target in February for the first time in four years.


Damaged moorland has been turned into moss-covered landscape as part of a project to reverse the fortunes of the North Pennines' eroding peat bogs.

Sites in County Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland have benefitted from the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership scheme.
It has seen 117 hectares of bare peat being restored.
The team has submitted a multi-million pound funding bid to transform a further 600 hectares over five years.
Alistair Lockett, peatland conservation assistant with the partnership, said: "The aim was to get bare peat revegetated with Sphagnum moss, cotton grass, heather and other blanket bog species.
"This, used alongside other steps, such as fencing off the land to protect it from grazing, and altering the hydrology, has worked better than we expected in such a short time span."
The partnership said bare peat has a "damaging impact on the environment through the release of greenhouse gasses".


Dolls, Lego and variations of new technology all feature in a list of predicted bestselling toys this Christmas.

The annual Dream Toys chart, from the Toy Retailers Association, features toys ranging in price from £7.99 mini-figures to a £99.99 dinosaur.
Toys that have featured on the industry group's list in previous decades have included drawing set Spirograph in 1967 and the Nintendo Game Boy games console in 1991.


The statement by the Thai government that they believe there are no links between Monday night's bomb attack and international terrorism is an important development in a hitherto muddled investigation.

Col Winthai Suvaree, an official spokesman for the ruling military junta, said Thai security agencies had been co-operating with the agencies of allied countries, and from those consultations had come to the preliminary conclusion that the bombing was unlikely to be linked to international terrorism.
He also stated that Chinese tourists, who make up a high proportion of foreigners visiting the shrine, were not the target, which appears to rule out any connection with Uighur militants. Thailand controversially deported a large group of Uighur asylum-seekers to China last month.
The Thais may have asked for information from China, and agencies in neighbouring south-east Asian countries, as well from the United States, which is a treaty ally.
Thailand and the United States have a long history of intelligence collaboration, and strong collaborations between their police forces. Relations have been strained following last year's military coup, and the only official US statement so far has been that they have not been asked for assistance by Thailand.
But it is very likely the Thais will have asked for information from US intelligence agencies about well-known international groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
If none of these countries has intelligence suggesting the involvement of an established militant group, that leaves two uncomfortable possibilities: one, that the bombing was the work of a new or little-known overseas group or, two, that it was the work of a Thai group.
Either would be a shocking development. Outside the four southern Malay provinces, where a violent insurgency has killed more than 6,000 people over the past decade, an attack on this scale has never occurred in Thailand.
Much depends on how efficiently the Thai authorities conduct their investigation, and so far their performance has not been encouraging.
There have been conflicting and confusing statements from different officials working for different agencies.
The crime scene was not sealed off for several hours after the explosion. The area around the shrine has now been cleaned up with surprising speed, the bomb crater cemented over, rather than leaving it for further forensic work.
Despite the availability of multiple CCTV cameras around the shrine, the police are making slow progress in identifying the names and nationalities of the suspects seen on video at the shrine just before the blast.
It is not clear how systematically they have interviewed all those who may have come into contact with these suspects, or how thoroughly they are using data like immigration records. They still do no know whether the suspects are in the country or not.
The police chief has said he believes they are looking for a group of 10 people or more, but has not said what the evidence is for this number.
In previous criminal investigations that have attracted international attention, notably the murder of two British tourists on the island of Koh Tao last September, the Thai police have seemed incompetent and disorganised. This time, given the seriousness of the attack, they may do better.
It is still too early to say.


Gales have left 300 properties in north Wales without power, Scottish Power has said.

Engineers are working to restore supplies, with the worst affected areas Conwy county and Corwen, Denbighshire.
Storm Desmond, the fourth named storm of the winter, may lead to cancelled ferry services, poor driving conditions and falling trees, the Met Office said.
A yellow "be aware" warning runs from 17:00 on Friday to 06:00 GMT on Sunday and more rain is forecast for Saturday.
Faults in the electricity supply have also been reported at Bala, Gwynedd, and Trefriw and Llanrwst in Conwy county.
The wind warning is in place for Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Powys, Wrexham and Anglesey with most places expected to see gales of up to 55mph (89kph) but coastal and hilly areas will be worst affected.
In Capel Curig, Conwy, a wind gust of 78mph was recorded on Friday evening.
The bad weather follows on from Thursday night when fire crews attended a number of flooding incidents across Wales.
In one incident, a man was rescued from the roof of his car after getting stuck in flood water in Swansea, while flooding had closed the A490 in Welshpool, Powys, in both directions.
Natural Resources Wales has issued one flood warning covering the Lower Dee Valley between Llangollen and Trevalyn Meadows in Rossett, near Wrexham.
The Dee has already burst its banks on the Wales-Cheshire border, with emergency services checking people are safe in affected areas in Holt and Farndon, near Wrexham.
Supt Rob Kirman, from North Wales Police, said that although the river level had peaked, emergency crews would continue to monitor the situation over the weekend as more rain was forecast.
Arriva Trains Wales has warned of disruption over the weekend because of severe weather, with routes most at risk including Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog and Shrewsbury to Machynlleth on the Cambrian Line.
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The lawyer for the family of Sheku Bayoh has said he intends to launch a civil action against Police Scotland.

The 31-year-old trainee gas engineer died after being restrained by officers in Kirkcaldy in May 2015.
Lawyer Aamer Anwar said he wanted to know why officers used batons, CS spray, leg restraints and handcuffs to subdue him.
Police Scotland said it could not comment while the case was being investigated.
A BBC documentary tracing the 20 months since the death of Sheku Bayoh will be broadcast on Tuesday night.
In it, Mr Anwar tells the family that a civil action will mean "we are able to ask the questions we want to ask".
He says: "What went on? Was it excessive violence that was used? That is the fundamental question.
"Why did police officers feel the need to have this treatment of Sheku that day and did it result in his death?"
In August last year, 16 months after Mr Bayoh's death, the Police Investigations Review Commissioner (Pirc) provided its report to the Lord Advocate, Scotland's top law officer.
That report remains confidential and the Crown Office is now considering if there should be a criminal prosecution.
The BBC documentary follows the family as they campaign for full disclosure of the facts and try to piece together what happened.
They are shown meeting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and viewing CCTV footage showing Mr Bayoh's last moments.
At the time Mr Anwar said: "The Bayohs have always said that if Sheku broke the law, then the police had a right to act, but any force used had to be legitimate and proportionate.
"He was not a terrorist, he was not brandishing a knife at police officers, he was not carrying a knife when officers attended, nor was he 6ft-plus with superhuman strength. His family state that he did not deserve to die."
A toxicology report said that the drug MDMA (ecstasy) had been found in Mr Bayoh's system, as well traces of psycho-stimulant A-PVP, sometimes called Flakka. This drug has been linked to erratic behaviour.
Mr Bayoh's partner Collette Bell says: "I'm not prepared to accept anything on the death certificate except positional asphyxiation because if he had not come into contact with the police he would still be here."
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "We have been committed to operating with the Pirc and the Crown Office throughout the investigative process.
"We cannot comment on the events of 3 May 2015 while the Crown evaluates the independent findings submitted by the Pirc."
The Crown Office said: "The Pirc report has been carefully considered. The Crown requires to undertake further work before a decision can be made as to whether or not there should be any criminal proceedings.
"This is a complex investigation and a decision will be made as soon as possible."
The post-mortem examination of Mr Bayoh revealed a series of injuries over his body, face and head, including a deep gash across his forehead.
Police had received a call on 3 May 2015 about a man behaving erratically and brandishing a knife in Kirkcaldy.
Mr Bayoh had taken the drug ecstasy and another drug A-PVP.
CCTV evidence seen by the family shows Mr Bayoh approaching the police at about 07:20. The BBC understands the pictures show that he did not have a knife.
At least two officers said they believed they could be facing a terrorist incident.
At least four, and up to six, officers, including PC Paton, were immediately involved in the encounter.
CS spray and police batons were used and within about 30 seconds, Mr Bayoh was brought to the ground, face down. Handcuffs and leg restraints were applied.
Eyewitness reports suggested that officers were kneeling and lying on Mr Bayoh in order to restrain him.
Less than five minutes after the encounter began, Mr Bayoh was noticed to be unconscious and one officer radioed for an ambulance.
A further five minutes later, the ambulance still had not arrived, and an officer reported to base that Mr Bayoh was no longer breathing.
CPR was attempted by the officers, but Mr Bayoh arrived by ambulance at the town's Victoria Hospital, where his sister works, unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at 09:04.
A post-mortem examination revealed a series of injuries over his body, face and head, including a deep gash across his forehead.
Tiny blood spots, or petechial haemorrhages were discovered in his eyes - a sign of potential asphyxia.
The post-mortem examination declared he had died after taking the drug MDMA, while being restrained.
But a report by a renowned pathologist engaged by the Bayoh family is expected to say the cause of death was positional asphyxia - effectively being suffocated as a result of the position his body was in.
Positional asphyxia is a common cause of death in police custody where restraint is involved.
After Sheku is on BBC Two Scotland at 21:00 on Tuesday 31 January.