Hundreds of people have attended a protest against Sheffield City Council's tree felling programme.

A rally held in Endcliffe Park follows the removal of eight trees on Rustlings Road in the early hours of 17 November.
The council claimed the trees were damaging pavements and would cost Â£50,000 to repair, but an independent report found no "arboricultural reason" to remove all but one of the eight.
On Friday, the authority apologised for the dawn felling.
At the protest, held close to Rustlings Road, people listened to speeches and banners with messages including 'Save the trees' and 'What happened to democracy' were waved.
Nicky Bea, one of the protest organisers, said people were "upset and shocked" at recent actions by the council.
"When residents are being woken up in the middle of the night, assisted by riot vans, with trees chopped down in the dark with no warning or legal procedures followed at all with regards to notice, it's really not on," she said.
Three people were arrested after confrontations with workers during the felling of the eight trees, but were later released without charge.
Councillor Bryan Lodge, cabinet member for environment at Sheffield City Council, said he would not be resigning despite criticism of how the tree felling programme was being run.
He said: "We've got to look at the whole network across the city ensuring our duties under the Highways Act - that we have safe passage on the highways, which includes footpaths as well as the road surface.
"The process is to rebalance the age profile of the trees going forward and make sure we have street trees we can protect in the long-term."


League Cup winners Hibernian Ladies beat Renfrew Ladies 19-0 in the third round of the Scottish Cup.

Holders Glasgow City joined Hibs in the fourth round with a 3-1 success over Rangers Ladies.
Celtic also safely made their progression into the last 16 with a 3-1 win at home to Forfar Farmington.
Elsewhere in the third round there were wins for Glasgow Girls, Stirling University, Hearts, Hutchison Vale and Jeanfield Swifts.
Hibs are targeting a cup double after landing the SWPL Cup earlier in the season with victory over champions Glasgow City.
The two sides meet next weekend on league business, with Hibs trailing leaders City by two points.


There can't be many leagues in European football with the characteristics of a chameleon, but the Premiership is one of them.

In the world of Scottish football, where, for most, every pound is a prisoner, clubs shed players at a bewildering rate and take on new forms of themselves.
Managers - apart from a chosen few - are tormented in the hunt for upgrades on a budget that would hardly shift the dial if the whole lot was lumped on a weighing scales.
They recruit sometimes with a contract in one hand and a rabbit's foot in the other. They trust their judgement, sure, but with so many ins from so many unheralded places, there are few guarantees.
For every Moussa Dembele and Joey Barton - players you can probably hang your hat on - there are a dozen, or more, rolls of the dice.
Kilmarnock alone have been involved in 27 different bits of business this summer. It's a footballing Barras out there. Some jewels among the junk, no doubt. But who and where?
We're into it now, another season, but a different kind of season. Celtic and Rangers will dominate the headlines with the understandable fear among the others that they will be pushed to the margins amid the media's obsession with the Glasgow behemoths.
Rangers might have been gone for four years but the memory of what it was like before hasn't dimmed in the minds of those who get their kicks elsewhere.
Every cough and splutter from Celtic Park and Ibrox analysed and interpreted to death, every word from the mouths of the Old Firm managers treated like no other word matters.
The rivalry is back and the league will be better for it, but there are 12 stories in this Premiership, not just two. And in their own way, they are all compelling.
It's still too early to say for sure what we're likely to see from the reigning champions. There might be more players coming in, there might be more players going out. As it stands, they look to have too much defensive power - when everybody is fit - too many options in midfield and too many goals upfront for everybody else.
We crave a title challenge, a white-hot battle that goes into the final games, but if Celtic are on their mettle they will win the league again. Barton says they won't and that's going to be one of the joys of having him in the league. Every week is an adventure when Joey Barton is among us.
They finished second last season, but with an inferior points total to the campaign before. They won four fewer points and conceded 15 more goals. They had a wounding knack of losing the plot at times; shipping five goals at home to St Johnstone - as well as three away - and another four against Ross County on the final day.
Their away form needs a seismic shift. They lost the same number of games on the road (eight) as Hamilton and only one fewer than Kilmarnock. For a team that is capable of terrific football, that's not good enough.
They need to be more physical, but it's hard to see where that bullying aspect is going to come from. They have excellence around the park - and now have good back-up to Adam Rooney up front - but you still feel they are missing a footballing beast in the middle of the field to tie it all together.
They ended last term just six points behind Aberdeen - a fine return to the Premiership. Their squad has been turned around again - nine new players including Tony Watt, a young man who might be a decent operator one day if he parks his attitude at the door.
The Hearts fans - sections of them at any rate - have already booed their team twice this season in European competition. That's not reassuring for Robbie Neilson.
Unlike last season, when Hearts got off to a flier with five straight wins against some of the league's lesser lights, they have it tough this time. Celtic on Sunday, then Aberdeen next weekend and, after that, Inverness - a team they have beaten just once in their last dozen attempts.
Hearts are one of Scottish football's great feel-good stories, but every manager experiences turbulence at some stage. If more Tynecastle fans are becoming more demanding, Neilson is going to have to be strong this season.
Tommy Wright remains a rock in Perth, a manager who turns over fewer players in his squad than any other in the league. He preaches continuity rather than revolution and it works.
His key addition is likely to be midfielder Blair Alston from Falkirk. Largely, the Northern Irishman will be going with the same set of players; well-coached, well-motivated and canny in the ways of the top flight. Wright's side will be no worse than top six again, you fancy.
The comeback story of last season, going from near-relegation in 2014-15 to fifth in 2015-16. Mark McGhee's authority changed their narrative big-time. That, and a consistent strikeforce.
In holding on to Louis Moult and Scott McDonald, McGhee has done outstandingly well. Between them they scored 25 league goals last season, more than half of Motherwell's overall total. If you add the five from Marvin Johnson, that's three men who contributed 64% of their Premiership tally.
That's both a tribute to the players and also a worry in case anything happens to any of them. So much rests on their shoulders.
Jim McIntyre's side had the time of their lives in 2015-16, a cup win and a top-six finish propelling them into another stratosphere. Liam Boyce scored 15 league goals and he's their go-to man again.
McIntyre has kept most of his squad together, apart from the departed Jackson Irvine, and has a decent run of games in the first five weeks of the season. There's a chance to create early momentum. Another top-six place would be a huge achievement.
You wonder about Inverness. Richie Foran was a fine leader on the field but he's in an altogether different world now that he has succeeded John Hughes as manager. He has lost Miles Storey to Aberdeen. Storey was Inverness' top scorer last season with 11.
Somebody is going to have to step into the breach, but it's not easy to see who. Billy King is in on loan from Hearts and he will offer something. Greg Tansey remains and he's a proven operator. Unless one of his new boys turns out to be a little gem, Foran might find that his first season as a manager is a major grind.
Inverness are not the only club trying to paper over the cracks left behind by a departed striker. Dundee, eighth last season, have lost Kane Hemmings who not only scored  21 league goals - 40% of Dundee's total - but plenty of them were the difference between losing and drawing, or drawing and winning.
Paul Hartley will be praying to the footballing gods that Greg Stewart is not poached as well. Stewart has been a class act for Hartley - one of the best players in the league.
The manager has been busy, though. James Vincent and Danny Williams both in from Inverness and Faissal El Bakhtaoui signed from Dunfermline. The 23-year-old Moroccan scored 30 times in all competitions last season and is one of the more interesting arrivals into the Premiership.
Hartley will be targeting the top-six slot that he came so close to last time, while locking Stewart in a darkened room away from any suitors.
Alan Archibald's side were ninth in the last campaign, finishing on exactly the same points total as the season before. That's consistency. Kris Doolan is central to everything, their only player to get double digits in goals in the last three seasons.
How they need him to match, or better, his 14 from last term. Archibald has done well to keep Steven Lawless and Stuart Bannigan at the club, while bringing back Chris Erskine and recruiting Ziggy Gordon, a physical player who can make a difference.
The Jags got off to a brutal start last time, failing to win a game until the first weekend in October. Their run of fixtures this time couldn't be much harder. In four of their first five matches they face Celtic, Aberdeen (both away) and then Hearts and St Johnstone.
If Archibald gets much momentum from that lot, he's in for a big season.
They defied expectations of the drop a year ago but those predictions are as strong as ever. They've gained Massimo Donati, a bit of a surreal signing, but have lost Michael McGovern, one of the best goalkeepers in the league.
If Martin Canning keeps them up he'll have done a stellar job.
The same can be said of Lee Clark, who has brought in a whole new team at Rugby Park. This is high stakes stuff. How can he bed-in so many new players? How can he know if they will settle quickly and be any use?
It's the gamble of the season, but then Killie needed to do something. In the last three years they have finished ninth, 10th and 11th. That pattern will continue if Clark has got it wrong.  If he's got it right, he'll warrant a medal for pulling it off.
The newcomer to the league? Who's that again? Ah yes, Rangers.
They've brought in leaders and quality in the shape of Barton and Niko Kranjcar. They've added huge potential in Jordan Rossiter. They've inserted experience into the defence in Clint Hill and, while we don't know what's to come from their other recruits, you have to say that Mark Warburton's judgement in the market has been excellent so far.
This is a burgeoning team. How threatening are they to Celtic's title or Aberdeen's position as the second force? We can't know that until we see the players together in games that matter.
For most of last season, Rangers knew that they could lose some games and plenty of goals and that it wouldn't damage them in the long run. They had too many gears for the rest. They don't have that latitude now, but what they have is confidence, a reason to believe.
This league might be flawed in many ways, but it will enthral us none the less. There will be all manner of stories, all sorts of drama and chaos. It's back. Enjoy.


Wales's Lydia Hall shot a final three-under-par round of 69 to finish joint-second at the Qatar Ladies Open.

The 28-year-old had shared the halfway lead but a disappointing third round of 72 saw her slip down the leaderboard.
She rallied on the final day to share second, on 12 under, with Sweden's Caroline Hedwall, three behind 18-year-old winner Aditi Ashok of India.
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The teenager earned her second Ladies European Tour success in her debut professional season.
"Yesterday was a little bit tough with the putter and again, to start off today, it was a bit rusty, but I got it going after the break and I'm really pleased," Hall told the Ladies European Tour.


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A Swansea man who left a horse and foal tethered without adequate shelter, food and water has been given a 12-month community order.

Alan Jenkins, 59, of Penlan, was found guilty of one charge of not meeting the duty of care to an animal.
Jenkins, who left the animals near Clwyd Road, Penlan, was ordered to pay Â£750 costs and an Â£85 victim surcharge.
RSPCA inspector Neill Manley said it was "not acceptable" to leave horses tethered like this.
The issue of horses being tethered in the city led to the proposal of banning it on Swansea council land, but the move was blocked due to the cost involved.


A well-resourced body to monitor and disrupt the activities of serious criminals and organised crime gangs already exists in the UK.

It is called the National Crime Agency (NCA), also widely described as the British equivalent of the FBI.
The NCA's website says it "leads UK law enforcement's fight against serious and organised crime."
The NCA became operational in Northern Ireland in May.
Two months later, it announced it was taking over the investigation into allegations about the sale of Nama's property portfolio in Northern Ireland.
The NCA says it works in partnership with other law enforcement organisations "to bring the full weight of the law to bear on serious and organised criminals".
It describes its role as disrupting and bringing to justice "those serious and organised criminals who present the highest risk to the UK".
The agency's organised crime command is tasked with leading and co-ordinating efforts to "identify, pursue and disrupt serious and organised criminals".
Given its wide-ranging remit and resources, it would be reasonable to assume it knows the extent of paramilitary involved in organised crime in Northern Ireland. If it doesn't, it should.
If it does, it should be in a position to provide an assessment of paramilitary involvement to the secretary of state and political parties.
The security assessment to be reviewed by the independent panel announced by Theresa Villiers will contain information from the NCA as well as the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the security services.
The chief constable has already given his assessment of the current role and structures of the Provisional IRA publicly.
George Hamilton has said members of Provisional IRA were involved in the murder of Kevin McGuigan in east Belfast, but that there is no evidence at this stage that it was sanctioned by the organisation's leadership.
He has said some IRA structures still exist, but "not for paramilitary purposes".
Unless the police have uncovered significant new evidence we are not yet aware of, the assessment he provides to the secretary of state's independent panel is likely to be the same.
As the PSNI works closely with the NCA, the agency's assessment of IRA structures and involvement in organised crime will be based largely on the information it is given by the police.
So, given that the chief constable has made his assessment public, it would seem logical for the director of the NCA, Keith Bristow, to do the same.
It seems unlikely that the review to be published by the independent panel in October will tell the secretary of state and political parties anything they could not be told today by the NCA and PSNI.


Lawmakers in Australia have released a damning report detailing sub-standard living conditions and allegations of abuse in an asylum seeker detention centre in Nauru.

The BBC takes a look at the key points in the 207-page senate committee report, the outcome of an inquiry which began in March.
The committee said that the conditions were "not adequate, appropriate or safe" for the 637 asylum seekers housed on Nauru.  It noted that they had to live in cramped, hot and unhygienic dormitories with unclean toilets, limited access to water, and low-quality clothing and footwear.
It called on the government to improve infrastructure and accommodation, and speed up on processing refugee claims.
The committee said there was no legal framework to protect the 86 children living in the centre, and urged the government to speed up its extraction of children and their families from the centre and re-home them in the Nauruan community.
It noted that the living conditions were an "unnatural environment" that was harming children's mental health, and that there were at least 30 allegations of child abuse, including sexual assault.
There were also allegations of sexual assault or rape of asylum seekers, and accusations that staff and guards attempted to bribe detainees with contraband substances such as drugs in return for sexual favours.
The committee said there was also an alleged "culture of fear" in the detention centre where asylum seekers felt their safety was not guaranteed.
The company in charge of enforcing security at the centre, Wilson Security, also said it fired 11 staff for misconduct including inappropriate relationships, excessive use of force and sexual assault. Former employees also told the committee that some reports of abuse had been destroyed by management
The committee recommended a "full audit" of all abuse allegations and said the reporting of abuse or sexual harassment should be made mandatory. It also recommended that staff from Wilson Security and the centre's operator, Transfield Services, be subjected to random daily testing for alcohol and drugs.
It called for an immigration ombudsman to do independent reviews of complaints.
The committee's report also included a dissenting section from the ruling Liberal-National coalition, which rejected the findings of the committee and questioned the veracity of their evidence.
The coalition accused the committee, which was dominated by opposition lawmakers, of attempting to score political points and said that the inquiry was done to "advance the political perspective" of those senators.
But Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he was open to considering the committee's suggestions.
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A Welsh adventurer is to scale Mount Everest in a world-first bid to collect health data from the mountaintop to investigate the effects of altitude.

Former Wales rugby international Richard Parks will attempt to take blood and muscle samples after climbing without using supplemental oxygen.
He has climbed Everest previously and trekked solo to the South Pole.
The data will allow researchers to explore the mechanisms underpinning dementia and resilience.
The collaborative British research expedition called Project Everest Cynllun will focus on the link between low blood oxygen levels in the brain and cognition.
As part of the 18-month preparation for the expedition, which launched officially on St David's Day at the Senedd in Cardiff, Parks has undergone testing at the University of South Wales in a simulated high-altitude chamber.
Professor Damian Bailey, the project's scientific lead, said: "Hypoxia [oxygen deficiency]  can almost give you a day in the life of a dementia patient because you are challenging oxygen glucose delivery to the brain and inducing aspects of cognitive decline in an otherwise healthy person in order to understand the underlying mechanisms.
"With a combination of acclimatisation and exercise, you improve blood flow and oxygen delivery, and as a consequence you improve cognitive function.
"So we are using high altitude as an alternative model to challenge the brain and induce cognitive decline, but we are also using long-term acclimatisation to demonstrate how we can actually reverse some of those changes and in essence, improve the brain's 'health and fitness'."
Parks, originally from Pontypridd, south Wales, said: "This potentially will be the hardest psychological test I'll have ever faced.
"Having the mental strength to stick to the research protocols that we've designed and only use the supplemental oxygen for five minutes, when every fibre of my body will be screaming for it is hard to articulate.
"I'm imagining that it'll be like holding your breath under water and stopping yourself coming up for air."
He added: "I am prepared to be pushed further than I've been before, however the opportunity to collect this pioneering data justifies the effort.
"It's a privilege to be able to use my performance to add value to our world."
The climb is due to happen in May.


Four of the UK's largest energy companies have been barring their own customers from some of the best deals for gas and electricity, the BBC's Moneybox programme has learnt.

The cheapest deals are often reserved for new customers only.
Meanwhile existing customers have been offered deals which can be hundreds of pounds a year more expensive.
The four companies, E.ON, EDF, SSE and British Gas said they were simply responding to changes in the market.
While the British Gas tariff has now been withdrawn, other suppliers are still restricting their offers to new customers only.
Such deals were originally banned by the regulator Ofgem in April 2014. Following a recommendation from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in April this year, Ofgem let it be known it would no longer enforce these rules.
The discovery of such deals has as come a surprise to some leading industry figures.
Ken Geddes is the chief executive of Scottish-based Energylinx, the fourth biggest energy price comparison business.
When the BBC told Mr Geddes about the new tariffs, he declared himself "stunned" by the difference between the prices some companies offered new and existing customers.
Mr Geddes immediately tested a new-customer-only tariff from E.ON, launched in mid-September.
He first applied as an E.ON customer and then as a customer of another company. The difference in the the two prices he got from E.ON was £260.
"Having spent over a decade doing this job, I don't think I've ever seen that differential", Mr Geddes told the BBC. "I'm just gob-smacked as to the difference in price".
Large differences in price between new and existing customers are not confined to E.ON.
In the summer, British Gas launched a new-customer-only one year tariff offered exclusively through Uswitch - the UK's biggest energy price comparison website.
For new customers with average household energy consumption, the British Gas "Home Energy Exclusive Jun 17" tariff cost £735 a year. But for existing customers - barred from that deal - the best British Gas price for the same amount of energy was £989.
That British Gas tariff has now been withdrawn but others are appearing.
The SSE new-customer-only tariff, launched in September, offered new customers on average consumption a year's energy for £759 . For existing customers, SSE's best deal cost £972 - a difference of over £200.
Customers were unlikely to have learned such low-priced tariffs were available from their companies even if they searched Uswitch and Energy Helpline.
That's because such websites start by asking users for the name of their existing energy supplier. New-customer-only deals from that supplier are then filtered out.
As a long-standing customer of EDF, I wanted to find out what tariff I would be offered.
In a web-chat, I was told the tariffs available to me were: "Blue+ Price Protection Sep 2017" - costing  £133 more than EDF's new-customer-only tariff, and "Blue+ Price Freeze Sep 2018" costing almost £300 more.
Were these the "very best tariffs EDF offers?" I asked the agent.
"Yes" was the emphatic reply.
When pressed about the much cheaper new tariff EDF had just launched, the agent replied, "I'm very sorry. This is only for new customers - not existing customers".
On Friday, EDF relaunched their new-customer-only deal, cutting the price by around £50 a year. So it's a better deal than before but it's still not for existing customers.
Not all major energy suppliers plan to offer such tariffs.
Scottish Power's commercial director Colin McNeill told the BBC his company would not offer them.
"These tariffs must stop,"  Mr McNeill said. "We must recognise that we are still not a trusted industry, and perceived sharp practices do the industry no favours."
With Scottish Power, he added: "Any of our customers can switch freely to any of our tariffs at any time."
The four energy companies which have offered the new-customer only tariffs, E.ON, EDF, SSE and British Gas, all say that they are responding to changes in the energy market and that their new tariffs are part of a strategy to serve a wide range of customers.
All four companies declined the BBC's invitation to be interviewed about their new exclusive offers.
Ofgem's chief executive Dermot Nolan told the BBC that Ofgem had acted on the CMA's recommendation "to make energy competition more similar to telecoms because on the whole that will mean lower prices and better deals for consumers".


The work of the vet James Herriot, as featured in the TV series All Creatures Great and Small, is being celebrated in a new exhibition - in Russia.

The State Darwin Museum in Moscow is honouring the North Yorkshire vet and author whose real name was Alf Wight.
His books and the TV series about his veterinary work continue to be popular in Russia where he also has a fan club.
Staff at the World of James Herriot Museum in Thirsk have travelled to meet Russian museum officials and fans.
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The James Herriot books were loosely based on Mr Wight's own experiences as a young vet working in rural North Yorkshire.
His first book, If Only They Could Talk, was published in 1970 and despite a small initial print run of 3,000 went on to be published in 26 languages.
The long-running BBC series All Creatures Great and Small and several feature films followed.
But Mr Wight, who had first arrived in Thirsk in 1939, remained a vet and considered himself a part-time author. He died in 1995.
A real visit by Mr Wight to Russia accompanying a boatload of sheep in 1961 was fictionalised in one of his books.
Rosie Page, the author's daughter, said: "Dad knew how popular he was all over the world before he died but still these new things are happening. It's an amazing legacy he's left."
Ian Ashton of the Herriot museum said: "We are extremely honoured that this exhibition has been staged and delighted to have been invited to visit."


About £20,000 has been spent on a shuttle bus service to transport Tadcaster residents across the River Wharfe following the partial collapse of the town's only bridge.

The free service has been used by an estimated 2,500 people since the bridge was damaged by flooding in December.
Mayor of Tadcaster Don MacKay said the service had been "absolutely essential" in keeping the town functioning.
A replacement footbridge is expected to open next week.
Since the bridge collapsed on 29 December the short journey across the river has been replaced with a 10 mile (16km) bus journey.
Mr MacKay said: "The collapse split everything in half. The doctors surgery is in the east, the banks are in the west. It's a mess.
"The bus is really the only link for people who do not have transport to get from east to west.
"We couldn't do without it. Things will get better when the footbridge opens, but it won't eliminate everything."
The service, which runs approximately every 30 minutes between 07:00 and 19:00, will be reviewed once the footbridge is open.
North Yorkshire County councillor Don Mackenzie, executive member for highways, said: "We responded immediately to the bridge collapse by putting in place a free shuttle bus service between the east and west sides of the town."
The government agreed to provide £3m for the restoration of the main bridge and £300,000 to construct the temporary structure.
Work to rebuild the road bridge is expected to take up to 12 months to complete.


A care assistant has been jailed for the "sickening" mistreatment of an 89-year-old woman whose family recorded the abuse on a hidden camera.

Emma Bryan, 29, hit and shook Ivy Robinson and verbally abused her at Oakfoss House Residential Care Home in Pontefract, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Bryan, of Harewood Avenue, Pontefract, was jailed for four months.
Colleague Katherine Wallis, 45, was given a 12-month community order after also admitting neglect.
The care home's owner said after the hearing it was "devastated" to learn of the ill-treatment and had immediately contacted police.
Bryan admitted five counts of wilful neglect or ill-treatment while Wallis, of Rhyl Street, Featherstone, admitted one count of the same offence.
The court heard the pair dragged Mrs Robinson across her bedroom floor which made her scream in pain before Wallis threatened her with violence.
The elderly woman's family captured the five days of abuse in November last year on a CCTV camera concealed in an alarm clock after they noticed she was bruised and traumatised.
Richard Butters, prosecuting, said Bryan was filmed swearing at Mrs Robinson and calling her a "horrible old lady".
The footage also revealed she had failed to give Mrs Robinson her medicine properly and showed her striking her before swearing at her again.
The judge described Bryan and Wallis's actions as "unforgivable and unacceptable neglect and ill-treatment".
Following the sentencing, Mrs Robinson's daughter and son-in-law, Angela and Simon Wood, said: "To see what Mum was subjected to sickened and horrified us, this will never leave our memories; moreover we feel as though we have let Mum down.
"The decision to install the CCTV came as a last resort and was a culmination of various incidents over a period of months that could not be explained by staff at Oakfoss.
"The final trigger was when Mum became agitated and frightened when it came time for us to leave on an evening.
"She would cry and ask us not to leave. No one knows how long this abuse and neglect had been going on for."
The couple said Mrs Robinson may be moved out of Oakfoss House, dependent on a medical assessment, and they were considering taking legal action against the home's owner, Denestar Limited.
Gaynor Saunders, the company's managing director, said: "Providing our residents with excellent care and quality of life is my number one priority.
"I was devastated to learn that two long-standing, experienced employees who'd been given extensive training in caring for and safeguarding elderly and vulnerable people had behaved in such an abhorrent way.
"I immediately notified the police, social services and the Care Quality Commission and have worked closely with them to ensure the former employees involved face the severest of consequences for their actions.
"Words cannot express how sorry I am, to the resident and family involved, that they have suffered at the hands of people who ignored their duty to provide care and show kindness and respect to someone who was entitled to expect this."


Two early goals gave Chesterfield the initiative as they won the battle of League One strugglers against Crewe.

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake's shot hit both posts before going in, then Lee Novak doubled the home lead on 12 minutes, side-footing in from six yards.
Callum Saunders went close before Zoumana Bakayogo replied for Crewe, scoring from Brad Inman's cut-back.
Connor Dimaio sealed Chesterfield's win just before the hour following a neat one-two with Ebanks-Blake.
Chesterfield's first victory in six games lifts them to 19th in the table, one point clear of the relegation zone and six above second-from-bottom Crewe, who suffered a first defeat in seven games.
Crewe manager Steve Davis told BBC Radio Stoke:
"Now we have to go again. We have been on a great little run. We'd have liked to have won one or two of them along the way but it has shown what we are capable of.
"We played some terrific football at times and had enough chances to have got something. I thought the better team lost.
"What we didn't do well was defend. We gave them gifts for the goals and those individual errors have proved costly. The full-back slipped for the first. then we didn't pick up at the far post properly and, for the third one, we didn't track the runner."


The Japanese population is expected to shrink by one third in the next half century, a government report says.

The Health and Welfare ministry estimates that 40% of the population will be of retirement age by 2060.
It says that life expectancy - already one of the highest in the world - will continue to rise.
Correspondents say the report presents a grim picture for Japan at a time when it urgently needs to overhaul its social security and tax systems.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has pledged to push through a reform programme this year.
But his political opponents say his plan requires higher taxes than are currently proposed.
The government report says that by 2060, Japan will have 87 million people, down from today's 128 million.
The proportion aged 65 or older is expected to double to 40%.
At the same time the national workforce - comprising people aged between 15 to 65 - will shrink to about half of the total population, estimates released by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research say.
The research says that Japan's population will keep declining by one million people every year in coming decades.
The research also suggests that the average life expectancy will have risen by more than four years by 2060 to 84.19 for men and 90.93 for women.
The population estimate is compiled about once every five years and is based on demographic data used by the government when formulating its social security policy.


A cow has had to be put down after it was injured in a suspected animal cruelty incident.

The injuries were caused sometime between 20 July and 07:30 on 22 July in a field in the Dunlichity area near Dores.
Police Scotland has appealed for information.


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Cafodd 22 o bobl a phlant eu lladd a 59 eu hanafu yn y ffrwydrad, ddigwyddodd am tua 22:30 nos Lun yn Arena Manceinion.
Daeth cadarnhad nos Fawrth bod y Prif Weinidog, Theresa May wedi codi lefel bygythiad terfysgol y DU i'r lefel uchaf, sy'n awgrymu bod yr awdurdodau yn rhagweld bod ymosodiad arall ar fin digwydd.
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Bydd aelodau o'r lluoedd arfog i'w gweld ar y strydoedd ym Mhrydain yn ystod y cyfnod hwn fel rhan o 'Ymgyrch Tempora', sy'n gynllun i ddefnyddio milwyr arfog mewn lleoliadau allweddol i gynorthwyo'r heddlu wrth warchod y cyhoedd.
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Ddydd Mawrth, fe wnaeth yr heddlu gyhoeddi mai Salman Abedi, 22 oed, sy'n cael ei amau o gyflawni'r ymosodiad.
Mae dyn 23 oed hefyd wedi ei arestio mewn cysylltiad â'r digwyddiad.
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Clubs liquidated and expelled, others forced to sell their assets to complete the season and a muddled system for promotion.

English rugby's Championship appears a troubled place, one level below the promised land of the Premiership.
Events at London Welsh - a professional club which now ceases to exist - have shown a host of issues off the pitch are blighting the action on it.
BBC Sport speaks to administrators, club officials, former players and correspondents to investigate if English rugby can sustain a fully professional second tier by looking at:
"Nobody has quite worked out what the purpose of the Championship is," Nigel Melville, the Rugby Football Union's director of professional rugby, told BBC Sport when asked to assess its current state.
"Commercially, we're not a very strong product. We've got to look at it in terms of sustainability of our professional game for the long term."
The Championship is made up of three London-based clubs, two from the Home Counties, four from Yorkshire and East Midlands and one each from Cornwall and Jersey.
Melville, a former head coach at Gloucester, and director of rugby at Wasps, has spent his first season as Rob Andrew's successor gauging the mood around the clubs.
Having listened, he is set to put his proposals for reform to them.
Created in 2009 as a 12-team fully professional competition, the Championship replaced its 16-side predecessor National League One. This season began as a 12-team competition but, following London Welsh's expulsion, there will be no relegation.
However, the controversial promotion play-off system remains for the top four at the end of the regular season.
This campaign looks set to be the last of this format despite Melville admitting the play-offs have proved the Championship's "most economically successful games".
There is clearly a case to argue for the Championship when it comes to being a springboard to an international career.
When casting an eye through England squads of recent history, a full starting line-up can be assembled of players who have either been contracted to, dual registered or loaned to Championship clubs...
However, while the Championship has proven to be a career-shaping stepping stone for some of the English game's biggest names, it is also a competition where athletes are on "full-time" contracts worth less than the living wage - allegedly as little as £6,000 in some cases - and where medical insurances are inadequate.
Phil Eggleshaw, a back-row forward who spent seven of his eight years as a professional in the Championship with Doncaster and Nottingham, says it is a league where players "give a lot for little in return".
When he started to plan for a family, he had to choose between his career on the pitch, one blighted by injury, and a stable job away from the sport.
"I chose to move away from professional rugby," he wrote in a BBC Sport column, outlining the life of a player in England's second-tier competition.
"So I got a job in the real world and have managed to continue to play part-time for Hull Ionians. Despite being in the third tier, I made more money directly from rugby last year than I had for most of my years as a professional.
"I've recently become a father and feel that if I'd chosen to play on for a living, I couldn't have afforded it. Financially, playing in the Championship would unlikely cover the cost of my monthly bills with a young family."
Eggleshaw also talks about being unable to afford medical insurance and the lack of independent support for athletes.
Chief executive of the Rugby Players' Association (RPA), Damian Hopley, admits the organisation has struggled to represent players in the Championship because of a lack of funds, but says the organisation has long had concerns about wages and insurances in the competition.
While the RPA receives project funding from the RFU and Premiership Rugby to go into welfare, personal development and insurance projects aimed at top-flight players, Hopley says the organisation lacks the resources to extend to the second tier.
It has, however, given "emergency" support and advice to players at London Welsh, as it previously did to financially troubled Plymouth Albion last year.
"Without the right resources we don't feel it would be appropriate for us to go into the Championship and provide a poor service to the players who deserve better," said Hopley.
"Without the resource, we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot. So that's why we've withheld to this point. We're optimistic, based on the conversations we've had, that there's an appetite around the Championship to make this work."
The undefined status of the Championship as a professional or semi-professional competition is a major issue when dealing with contracts and insurance.
"Player welfare needs to be the number one priority, and to have a semi-professional league where a lot of the players are looked after incredibly well, but it is not standard practice, just doesn't stack up," said Hopley.
"If you're running a professional or semi-professional league you need to have a standard form of contract that players and clubs adhere to, you have to have medical insurance and playing insurances - they are the fundamental welfare provisions for any professional sporting environment.
"Year after year the issue is dodged and ducked by the RFU. This needs to be imposed as a condition on the Championship.
"We all recognise the financial constraints, but there needs to be a line in the sand here around if this is either a professional league, semi-professional league or isn't."
When it comes to remuneration, Hopley said the "national minimum living wage is all part of putting on a professional sporting environment".
"From our perspective, we'd like to have a living wage as a minimum to encourage as many players as possible who want to pursue a career in rugby, which as we all know is fraught with danger, difficulty, injury and loss of form.
"Sometimes in the murky corridor of sports, some people think they're above the law and that's absolutely not the case and that needs to be addressed by the employers immediately.
"We've had situations previously in the Premiership where there's been dubious practices around this, but it's a legal requirement.
"It's very difficult for a young athlete who's aspiring to be an international sports person - they get a contract waved under their nose and it's probably all they've dreamt of since they were the age of eight.
"They have a shot at this and want to make the most of it and, while it's not the norm, you certainly have situations where players believe they're living the dream.
"But £10,000 is not living the dream. There needs to be a healthy dose of reality around all of this."
Each Championship club receives £550,000 in RFU central funding per season, ring-fenced until the summer of 2020.
It is the latest funding revision, with the competition initially set up with the RFU promising funding of £2.3m for two years, plus £1m from Premier Rugby for eight years.
The Championship draws in crowds that pale in comparison to the Premiership, with the cumulative total attendance across six matches during the New Year period attracting just over 12,100 spectators - less than half the crowd that watched Saracens beat Leicester at Welford Road on 1 January.
London Irish drew the biggest crowd of that weekend, 4,345 for their win over Bedford at the 24,000-seater Madejski Stadium, while the smallest attendance in the Championship so far this season was 438 at Ealing Trailfinders' match against Jersey in September.
The troubled and now expelled London Welsh played in front of as little as 503 spectators at Old Deer Park this season, and only three times attracted crowds of more than 1,000.
In a league which has seen one of Britain's oldest and most famous clubs crumple financially, its economic health is bleak.
As well as London Welsh's demise, in November Jersey were forced to sell assets, including their ground, for £1.5m to "third-party owners" in order to see out the campaign.
BBC Sport studied the latest accounts available at Companies House of nine Championship clubs, discovering only one reported a profit in 2015.
One club plying its trade in the second tier made a radical choice before gaining promotion to the Championship, deciding to go against the grain and stay semi-professional.
Richmond are in their first season back in the second tier after the long road back from administration in 1999, which eventually forced them to restart down in level nine.
Last February, as the club began to realise promotion from National 1 was a realistic outcome, it sat the players down and presented the prospect of going it alone as the Championship's only part-timers.
"From an early stage, it was quite clear to us that playing in the Championship is not a business opportunity," chairman Peter Moore told BBC Sport.
"Our basic agreement as a board was that it was not going to be possible to break even as a club with a fully professional playing squad. Our objective was to be self-sustainable.
"We decided what we are is a traditional rugby club providing opportunities to play the game from juniors through to men and women and to try to put as professional an infrastructure as possible around the top end."
This might not be an amateur club in the same sense as those pre-1995 - while every playing member pays their £150 annual subscription before being eligible for selection and getting kitted out, senior squad players are on retainers and receive appearance and win bonuses.
But Richmond's bold model could now be adopted by others in the light of events at neighbours London Welsh.
"I think what we've done, because we were brave and decided independently, it's opened a few eyes that it's not out of the question," added Moore.
"We're reaching a point 20 years into the professional era where this competition has no prospect. The reality is it's dependent on the goodwill of benefactors.
"They're getting to the point where they're just tired."
"It's not an ideal model," London Irish chief executive Bob Casey told BBC Sport. "It doesn't make a lot of sense."
Casey believes the future structure of the top two tiers should comprise a 14-team Premiership of the clubs who have Premiership academies, which includes Irish and Yorkshire Carnegie.
"People will say, 'oh, he would say that, he's in the Championship'.
"You can have the aspiration for clubs to climb the ladder every three to five years. But they would have to meet minimum criteria.
"The danger of the play-offs is you can't plan in advance and you need things to go right. Recruitment now in professional rugby happens six months to a year out, so you need to be planning well, well in advance."
Neale Harvey, correspondent for The Rugby Paper, suggests a new and more streamlined second professional tier.
"I'd like to see what I'd term a 'Pro Eight' below the Premiership of ambitious clubs with the facility to get promoted," he said.
"What's gone wrong with the current structure is there's such a variety of clubs, all with different models.
"Patently some of them don't work, patently there's different ambitions within clubs such as Bedford, who constantly say they're not interested in promotion.
"If you want to have a second tier that's creditable, that's not really a creditable position.
"With eight professional teams, you could consolidate RFU central funding for the existing 12. That would concentrate talents and create a stronger situation below the Premiership."
So are these ideas likely to be mirrored in Melville's impending blueprint for change?
"We're pulling together a plan which I think will help everybody and help fulfil our aspirations in developing young players," he said.
"It's about getting players on to the field playing and preparing to play international rugby.
"Then it's about how we can make the mechanisms between the Premiership, the Championship and the academies work more efficiently for the clubs."
Change appears to be ahead for the structure of the English leagues but sadly for clubs like London Welsh, Melville's plan has come too late.
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Oil producers in the Opec group of countries will make another attempt this week to reverse a slump in crude prices, according to Algeria's energy minister.

Noureddine Bouterfa said there would be an informal gathering of Opec members on the sidelines of an energy conference in Algiers on Wednesday.
"We will not come out of the meeting empty-handed," the minister added.
The fall in prices has been causing problems for poorer members of Opec.
Oil prices collapsed from peaks of more than $100 a barrel in mid-2014 to near 13-year lows below $30 in January. The price on Friday was $44.48 a barrel.
Analysts remain gloomy about the chances of an agreement.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: "Given that Opec has failed to agree much of anything in the last 12 months, it seems unlikely that it will start now."
Opec's 14 members, which produce about a third of the world's oil, have so far failed to agree a deal to cut output that would prop up prices.
But the state of the oil market was "more critical" than when Opec last met three months ago, Mr Bouterfa said.
Crucially, Saudi Arabia, the largest Opec member and which has resisted production curbs, may now be more willing to cut output, he added.
Saudi Arabia pumped a record 10.69 million barrels a day in August compared with 10.2 million in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Although Wednesday's meeting is an informal gathering, Mr Bouterfa did not rule out it becoming a formal event.
He said: "Either we reach an agreement, which would be good, or we reach an understanding on the elements of an agreement, and that would also be good.
"Every state in the organisation agrees on the need to stabilise prices, it just remains for us to find a format that pleases everyone. The best solution would be a (production) freeze."
Opec members are losing between $300m and $500m a day, Mr Bouterfa said. "No (oil) company will be able to withstand it if prices remain under $50 a barrel," he added.


An illegal rave inside a tower of the Tyne Bridge put "hundreds of people in grave danger", a councillor has said.

Police had to use cutting equipment after revellers barricaded themselves into the granite structure, which houses a lift shaft, on New Year's Eve.
"In an emergency it would have been impossible to get out or launch a rescue," Newcastle City Council's Nick Kemp said.
Officers are still attempting to trace the event organisers.
Members of the public raised the alarm at 01:50 GMT on New Year's Day and the structure was evacuated when police finally gained access.
Nitrous oxide - also known as "laughing gas" - was found inside as well as alcohol and thousands of pounds worth of sound equipment.
Up to 300 people were estimated to have been in attendance.
"I can understand the appeal of an illegal rave, but the organisers must have known they were potentially putting hundreds of people in grave danger," said Mr Kemp.
"I shudder to think what could have happened if a fire had broken out. It's extremely worrying that the doors to the tower had been secured shut from the inside.
"Alcohol and nitrous oxide were found inside the premises which would have further impaired people's ability to get out.
"There were no toilets and the electricity supply at the substation had been tampered with and could have gone off at any time plunging the whole place into darkness.
"I wonder how many people actually knew they were locked inside with no means of an escape."
It is believed lights and the sound equipment were smuggled in some time on Saturday.
Northumbria Police said it was working with the council to investigate the incident.


Arrest warrants have been issued for the mother and sister of a woman believed to have been the victim of a so-called "honour killing".

Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in Pakistan in July. Her father and first husband have been held in connection with her death.
Her mother, Imtiaz BiBi, and sister, Madiha Shahid have been declared proclaimed offenders in Pakistan.
A judge issued arrest warrants when they did not appear in court earlier.
Declaring the women proclaimed offenders means the police believe they were involved in Ms Shahid's death and wish to question them.
Both her father and first husband appeared at the court hearing in Jhelum, in the northern Punjab province, where the case was adjourned until 11 November.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder while her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid is being held as a suspected accessory.
Neither have been formally charged but their lawyers have previously argued there is no evidence against them.
The men's legal team asked the court to wait for the High Court in Lahore to decide on a petition lodged by Ms Shahid's second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, for the case to be moved from Jhelum.
The High Court is expected to rule on that petition on 24 November but the judge in Jhelum said the court would continue to pursue the matter as no order to stay proceedings had been received.
Ms Shahid, a beautician, married Mr Kazim in Leeds in 2014 and the couple moved to Dubai.
Mr Kazim has claimed his wife, who died while visiting relatives in Pakistan, was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.
Initially it was claimed she had died of a heart attack but a post-mortem examination confirmed she had been strangled.


Punch Taverns, one of Britain's biggest pub owners, is considering two possible takeover offers.

Shares in Punch, which owns 3,300 about pubs, jumped by 38% to 177.7p following the announcement, valuing the company at Â£380m.
The first possible offer of 174p a share has come from the Dutch brewer Heineken, which already owns about 1,100 UK pubs.
The other approach, of 185p a share, is from Alan McIntosh, a Punch co-founder.
Mr McIntosh helped start Punch Taverns in 1997 and later led its stock market flotation, while working as its chief financial officer in 2002.
His investment vehicle, Emerald, said that along with other supportive shareholders it now controlled 2.2% of the shares in Punch and might make a cash offer for the company.
Punch said it was in discussions with both possible bidders, but added: "There can be no certainty that any firm offer will be made by either [Heineken] or Emerald."
The Scottish Licensed Trade Association expressed "grave concerns" over the possible deals.
Its chief executive, Paul Waterson, said: "It would create a 'monster-tie'... that would destabilise an already fragile industry."
"It represents bad news for brewers, whose route to market will almost certainly be controlled by Heineken.
"It also signals bad news for drinkers who will be offered far less choice at the bar," he added.
Under UK takeover rules, both potential bidders have until 11 January to say if they will make a firm offer for Punch.
Last month Punch announced an annual profit of Â£60m after losing money for the previous two years.


A man murdered in a gun attack in east Belfast overnight has been named as Kevin McGuigan Sr, who was a former member of the Provisional IRA.

Police said he was one of a number of suspects in the murder of Gerard Jock Davison, who was shot dead in May.
Mr McGuigan was shot at Comber Court in the Short Strand on Wednesday night.
Sinn FÃ©in has denied speculation that Provisional IRA may have been involved in his murder. The DUP said there will be "repercussions" if that is the case.
Mr McGuigan, a father-of-nine, was treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, but he died from his wounds.
Heavily armed officers set up a cordon in the Short Strand within minutes of the gun attack, which was reported shortly before 21:00 BST.
Police have begun a murder investigation and appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
The victim's elderly mother, Margaret McGuigan, told the BBC that her son's killers would have to live with what they had done.
She added there had been "too many murders" in the area and that she hoped her son's would be the last.
Mr McGuigan had been questioned by police after the murder of Jock Davison in the Markets area of Belfast three months ago.
Mr Davison, 47, was a former IRA commander and a former friend of Mr McGuigan.
The IRA pair were also founding members of the paramilitary group Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), which killed more than a dozen alleged drug dealers.
They were later involved in a feud, and Mr McGuigan was shot several times in a so-called punishment attack.
It was claimed that Mr Davison gave the order for that attack on his former friend.
Politicians have condemned the murder and said Mr McGuigan's killer must be caught.
Northern Ireland's First Minster and DUP leader, Peter Robinson, was asked if he was concerned that IRA or former IRA members may have carried out the attack.
"I think everyone should be concerned that would be the case," Mr Robinson said.
"We will speak to the PSNI to see what their findings are in terms of the involvement of any organisation. But let's be very clear, there will be repercussions if that was found to be the case."
But leading Sinn FÃ©in member Alex Maskey said he had "no concerns about IRA involvement" in Mr McGuigan's murder.
"I don't accept for one second that the IRA has been involved in this, it just doesn't register at all," Mr Maskey added.
"We're calling for calm, we're calling for respect for this particular family at this time in the midst of their grief and we're cautioning against unhelpful and unwelcome speculation."
Justice Minister David Ford said: "Those responsible for this appalling crime have left a family grieving and a community in shock.
"There is no place for the gun in our society and it is time to stop these attacks."
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Union Voice (TUV), said there must be no cover-up in the murder investigation.
"Police, politicians and all who value truth and justice must face, not fudge, the truth, however uncomfortable it might be," he said.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said on Twitter: "Those behind this savagery on our streets must be brought to justice."


A vast column of smoke rises through the blue sky above west London.

All along the streets of north Kensington, eyes are fixed on the blazing shards of Grenfell Tower.
In the gaps between houses, members of the public mingle with journalists from across the world, all watching flames still visible in the upper storeys of the block.
Every so often debris lifts from the tower and floats off into the air.
Overhead a police helicopter thrums, while an acrid burning smell is carried by the breeze.
Large groups of residents have congregated near the police cordon, many clutching the few belongings they managed to grab when they were evacuated.
In the shadow of the blackened building, some lie on the grass. They look like they're catching some lunchtime sunshine, except their possessions are scattered around them.
One man has an electric guitar casually slung over his shoulder. "I had to grab it," he says. Two girls wearing pyjamas and dressing gowns walk past dragging suitcases.
"It's unbelievable," says one woman who sits against a wall. "I saw people jumping out of windows. I heard their screams."
Another cries out, having learnt the fate of somebody who was in the tower. People rush towards her to give her comfort.
"It's a lot to take in. It's very emotional. I'm still shaking here now," one man says.
Elena Maravilla, who has lived in the area for 40 years, stands with her husband in the shade of a tree, hoping for information about friends in the tower.
She was evacuated from her flat and is in limbo, waiting for details about when they can return home.
"We saw the flames. It was scary, everyone was shouting. It was suddenly gone."
The mood has an almost post-apocalyptic air. Though the estate is humming with emergency services, there are pockets of silence as people take in the night's events.
Some have headed to the evacuation centre at St Clement's Church where a constant line of people pushing trolleys full of water and food continue to arrive at the front door.
One of those generous donors is Felix Mosey, who went to the supermarket and bought water, fruit and sandwiches.
He is just one of many who have offered to help.
"It's my area and I wanted to play my part," he says.
"It's shocking what has happened, but the community has come together."


South Africa's government and the mining industry are at loggerheads over rules about black ownership and investment in the sector.

It is claimed miners are too slow to meet rules that at least 26% of company shares should be under black ownership.
But the Chamber of Mines told the BBC the confusion was due to the government using a different measurement system.
The government revealed this week that only about 20% of firms met its black economic empowerment rules.
The mining industry had been given a decade - until 2014 - to increase the shareholdings of black investors to at least 26%.
On Thursday, Mines Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi said that only a fifth of companies, based on the number of workers, had finalised the transfer of ownership. Several firms failed to meet "the full requirements of meaningful economic participation," he was reported as saying.
But, speaking to the BBC, Roger Baxter, the chief executive of the Chamber of Mines, the body that represents most of the industry, defended the sector's efforts to meet the rules.
"Our view is that the industry is way beyond the ownership required by the charter," he said.
If mining companies fail to meet the targets of having more black ownership the government can revoke their licences, so this is an issue that the industry could do without at a time when it is facing several challenges.
"It is indeed a challenging time for the industry, said Mr Baxter. "Obviously commodity prices have been weaker than they've been for some time, and we've had some domestic cost pressures feeding through."
Shares in mining companies have been battered as the markets have reacted to falling prices of commodities such as platinum or iron ore, so this could be a good time for black investors to acquire stakes in the sector.
"This is a very good time for local investors to buy into the industry, when valuations are very low," said John Meyer, a mining analyst at SP Angel, told the BBC World Service.
However, Mr Meyer also believes cheaper share values might actually deter investors, making it harder for mining companies to sell a stake to black people.
"Because mining companies are making less money than they were, it may be that indigenous investors have been more cautious, which would make it more difficult for mining companies to pull in more investors," he said.
Africa continues to attract billions of dollars of foreign investment, but industries other than mining look more attractive to fund managers around the world.
"They'd rather invest in media and telecoms and this is a very difficult time in the cycle for mining investment," said SP Angel's John Meyer, recognising the tremendous growth of the mobile phone industry across the continent.
Technology, media and telecoms are topping the charts for investment in Africa, but the banking industry also has a healthy future, according to Jalloul Ayed, a former finance minister in Tunisia.
"When I see what is happening today in the financial sector and the development of many African banks, from South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia, expanding their branch networks and their access platforms into Africa, I think that really bodes well," he said.
In theory, it should be easy to calculate if a mining company had met the black economic empowerment rules. However, confusion arises when rival parties ask if it should be calculated by taking the size of the workforce into account, or raise complex exceptions such as shares initially ceded to black investors, but then sold to other stakeholders.
The dispute between the government and the mining industry about which method to use when calculating share ownership is going to be decided by a court.
"The legal teams of the government and the industry, the Chamber, are still meeting and are still engaging on how the court process will unfold," said Mr Baxter.
"I suppose it does show some degree of maturity on behalf of the stakeholders, other than yesterday, when we agreed on a joint process," he added.


A senior Met Police officer has lost a sex discrimination case sparked after a male colleague was seen in a corridor wearing only a towel.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Maxine de Brunner lost the case brought by Ch Insp Adrian Denby.
The incident was her "pet hate" as it made female staff uncomfortable.
But she was found to have discriminated against Ch Insp Denby by placing him under an internal and criminal investigation.
Ch Insp Denby was in charge of the Central London Territorial Support Group (TSG) unit at the time of the incident.
DAC de Bunner wanted to make the unit "more attractive" to women and ethic minorities by challenging its macho culture, the Central London Employment Tribunal heard.
The investigation into the unit involved beer being found in a fridge with a price list on the front, allegations of homophobic bullying and claims for overtime which had not been worked.
Ch Insp Denby said he regretted not addressing the practice of male staff walking across the office wearing only a towel because of the "poor design" of shower facilities.
He said he was left with a "clear impression" that he was removed from his post because of the cultural failings DAC de Bunner felt existed - and she had shown no interest in the improvements he tried to tell her about.
The situation resulted in Ch Insp Denby being placed under internal and criminal investigation.
A damning judgment found that Ch Insp Denby had been sexually discriminated against.
The tribunal said he was an "impressive and straightforward witness" and, by contrast, it concluded that Ms de Brunner's testimony was "not credible".
In a statement Scotland Yard said: "We have sought leave to appeal the findings".
In 2008 Ch Insp Denby was seconded to Afghanistan, where he worked as temporary superintendent and senior adviser to the Kabul City Police.
In the UK he has commanded numerous suspected suicide bomber incidents and has been awarded nine commendations throughout his career.
A damages hearing will be held in October.


Huddersfield forward Michael Lawrence has signed a new three-and-a-half year deal to the end of the 2019 season.

Lawrence came through the Giants academy and has shown versatility in a number of positions, playing wing and centre as well as loose forward.
The 25-year-old's current deal was due to run out at the end of this season.
"I had no hesitation in staying when the offer came and for some it can be a worrying time if you are out of contract," he told the club website.
"I have always been happy here and like to think I've played my part in pushing us up towards the top end of the competition."


A full business case is set to be commissioned by Dumfries and Galloway Council looking at the possible expansion of Stranraer marina.

It is part of wider regeneration plans to promote the town and Loch Ryan as a marine leisure destination.
An outline business case last year estimated the scheme could create about 30 new jobs - but at a cost of Â£6m.
Consultants are set to be appointed this month to put together the full case to take the development forward.
The study is expected to take between six and nine months to complete.
It will examine the technical and financial viability of the scheme and take the proposals to the planning approval stage.
The marina is one of a series of projects which make up the Stranraer waterfront masterplan.
Another key element is the re-development of the East Pier which was left vacant after ferry operator Stena Line relocated to Cairnryan.
Last year the council entered into a partnership with an Irish property management group to examine new retail, leisure, hotel and housing opportunities for the site.
It is claimed that could lead to an investment of up to Â£50m.
In a progress report, the authority said it was currently carrying out ground investigation surveys which would help shape future plans.


James Brokenshire has replaced Theresa Villiers as the government's Northern Ireland secretary.

Ms Villiers said quit the government after turning down a new role offered to her by new Prime Minister Theresa May.
Mr Brokenshire said he was "delighted and honoured" to have been given the Northern Ireland portfolio.
Politicians have reacted to Ms Villiers departure and the appointment of her successor.
"I think she got to know the issues very well, but more than that she got to know to know the personalities.
"I wish her all all the very best for the future, and I'm sure she'll come back in another role in the Conservative Party in due course."
"For the past two years I have worked closely with Theresa Villiers and have appreciated the effort and commitment she invested in this role.
"During this period, we worked together to facilitate the achievement of the Stormont House and Fresh Start Agreements, which have stabilised the devolved institutions.
"I wish to acknowledge the positive contribution Theresa made and wish her success in her future political career."
"I wish Theresa Villiers well personally, but politically she will not be missed.
"She has been the representative of a British government which inflicted austerity, welfare cuts and now Brexit on the people of the north.
"She also played a negative role in dealing with the legacy of the conflict, continually placing obstacles in the path of families seeking access to truth."
"Theresa Villiers will be no loss.
"All British secretary of states (sic) should stay over there."
"I'm sure Theresa Villiers will be back in frontline politics soon, thanks for her work in Northern Ireland.
"Look forward to working with James Brokenshire."
"Theresa Villiers was a hard working secretary of state, albeit one with whom I've had my fair share of disagreements.
"I wish her well in the future."
"Sorry to see Theresa Villiers leave the cabinet.
"Best wishes to her for the future."
"Just can't get that song 'Bye bye baby bye bye' out of my head."
"Congratulations to James Brokenshire on your appointment as secretary of state for Northern Ireland.
"Looking forward to working with you."
"Under the Good Friday Agreement, the Irish and British governments have key responsibilities for upholding its principles and supporting its institutions.
"I look forward to working closely with Mr Brokenshire in discharging these in the interests of all of the people of Northern Ireland.
"That work assumes even greater importance in the context of the challenges arising from the decision that the UK should exit from the EU."
"I look forward to working with him in the weeks and months ahead.
"We hope to see James actively engage with the official opposition as well as the Northern Ireland Executive."
"In a welcome contrast to his predecessor, Mr Brokenshire was a remainer, knew the benefits of staying in the EU and the consequences of leaving.
"In his role, he must act in the best interests of people of Northern Ireland, and I urge him to listen to his original instincts and ensure the democratic will here is upheld."
"I congratulate Mr Brokenshire on his appointment, having worked closely with him during my time as minister of justice.
"Part of that role will be to recognise the majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain within the EU and to start work immediately on the particular circumstances of that.
"That will involve fighting for Northern Ireland in any Brexit negotiations by articulating he will be an active advocate of the interests of Northern Ireland, both within the cabinet and within EU discussions."


Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the fastest film to take $1bn (£674m) at the global box office.

JJ Abrams' film achieved the feat in 12 days, beating the previous record of 13 days set by Jurassic World in June.
But while Jurassic World had the benefit of record takings in China over the period, The Force Awakens has yet to open there.
Star Wars also scored the biggest US Christmas Day box office takings in history with $49.3m (£33.2m).
The film took $153.5m (£103.5m) in the US in its second weekend, bringing its total domestic haul to $544.6m (£367m).
The weekend's other releases included the Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy Daddy's Home, which took $35m (£23.6m).
The Jennifer Lawrence film Joy - which sees the actress reunite with Silver Linings Playbook director David O Russell for the biopic about the creator of the Miracle Mop - took $17.5m (£11.8m).
Point Break, a remake of the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, flopped however with audiences.
The film, which had a reported budget of $105m (£70.8m), took just $10.2m (£6.9m) across 2.910 venues,
In limited release, Leonardo DiCaprio's film The Revenant earned $471,000 (£317,000) from four locations, averaging $117,750 (£79,000) per screen.
The actor's performance as a wilderness guide abandoned after a savage bear attack, is expected to earn him an Oscar nomination next month.


A bill brought by Jim Allister which would have reduced the cap on special advisers' pay has been defeated in the assembly after the DUP and Sinn Féin voted against it.

The legislation proposed by the TUV MLA would also have cut the number of special advisers, known as Spads, in the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers from eight to four.
In his speech which concluded the debate, Mr Allister said: "The cabal which controls this house has determined to kill this bill."
He accused Sinn Féin of a U-turn, saying that the party had indicated its support for the bill last week.
Mr Allister told MLAs: "Sinn Féin has ridden to the rescue and done a deal with the DUP on this."
Thirty-three MLAs voted for the bill, including those from the UUP, SDLP and Alliance.
But with 52 MLAs from the two largest parties voting against the legislation, it was defeated and will not go through to any further stages in the assembly.
Mr Allister brought the bill forward because he felt the current number of Spads at 18 was too high.
He told MLAs earlier in the debate: "Provision for, and remuneration of special advisers has got wholly out of control."
He said that it was "preposterous" that the Office of the First and Deputy first Ministers had the same number of special advisers, eight, as the whole of the Welsh government.
The TUV leader had proposed that the number of Spads in the executive's lead department should be reduced to four.
He also proposed that the upper limit on a special advisers' salary would come down from £92,000 a year to about £78,000.


The key to catching the killers of Constable Ronan Kerr lies with local communities, the detective in charge of the murder investigation has said.

The 25-year-old died in a booby-trap car bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 2 April 2011. No-one has been convicted.
On the fourth anniversary of his murder, Det Ch Insp Una Jennings issued a fresh appeal for information.
She said there were "considerable challenges remaining in this lengthy and complicated investigation".
"Although a significant amount of progress has been made, the key to putting people before a court charged with Ronan's murder lies with local communities in Omagh and east Tyrone," she said.
"From the early days of the investigation, we said this was going to be a long-term inquiry with Ronan's murder at its core but incorporating several linked incidents, including attempts to murder other police officers, a bomb attack, arms finds and armed robberies.
"It has proved to be an extremely large investigation but one which still has the potential to be concluded by charging suspects."
The detective said the investigation into Constable Kerr's murder and a series of linked incidents had "generated a substantial amount of investigative activity":
"Ronan's murder is as devastating for his family today as it was four years ago," she said.
"Their pain remains so devastating that they feel unable to talk publicly about their plight on the fourth anniversary."
Mr Kerr, who was a Catholic and an active member of the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association), was seen by many as a symbol of Northern Ireland's new police service.
He was the second officer to have been murdered by paramilitaries since the Royal Ulster Constabulary became the PSNI in 2001.
Dissident republican paramilitaries have been blamed for the killing.


Malaysia and Australia say they remain "hopeful" that flight MH370 will eventually be found, two years on from its disappearance.

The aircraft disappeared between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board.
Australian-led search teams are combing a 120,000 sq km (46,330 sq mile) area of the southern Indian Ocean.
Only one confirmed piece of debris, a part of wing called a flaperon, has been found, on Reunion Island.
MH370: What we know
Malaysian investigators say key information is still being reviewed.
"At this time, the team is continuing to work towards finalising its analysis, findings, conclusions and safety recommendations on eight relevant areas associated with the disappearance of flight MH370 based on relevant information," lead investigator Kok Soo Choon said in a statement on state television on Tuesday.
The investigating team is led by Malaysia and includes experts from the US, China, Australia, France and Britain.
The search for the wreckage is estimated to have cost more than $130m (Â£92m).
The countries have said it will end once the current search area has been completely covered, likely to be around June.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he remained "hopeful that MH370 will be found", but once the search zone is exhausted the three governments would meet to determine the way forward.
"We remain committed to doing everything within our means to solving what is an agonising mystery for the loved ones of those who were lost," he said in a statement.
The prime minister said the search had taken place in some of the world's most inhospitable terrain at depths of up to 6km (3.7 miles) "across underwater mountain ranges, and in the world's fastest currents - the search team have been working tirelessly".
The Malaysian parliament observed a minute's silence in honour of the victims on Tuesday and about 20 Chinese relatives of those killed gathered at a Buddhist temple in Beijing to pray and shout slogans such as "Malaysia, return our  loved ones!"
Martin Dolan, head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) which is co-ordinating the search, told the BBC the governments' positions were unchanged and the search would end soon "unless new and significant information comes to light".
Many relatives want the operation to continue until the plane is found.
Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester also expressed hope on the anniversary, saying finding the plane would "give answers to the world, in particular the families of missing loved ones, about what happened".
On Monday, relatives of 12 Chinese passengers filed lawsuits in Beijing.
Lawyer Zhang Qihuai said they were seeking a range of damages, but their goal was to determine the cause of the accident and those who were responsible.
Families of 32 other passengers, mostly Chinese, have filed a separate lawsuit in Malaysia, and in the US, 43 passengers' relatives have sued in New York.
There are believed to be a number of other cases under way around the world.
Under international agreements, relatives have two years following an air accident to begin legal action.
Last year, authorities found a piece of wing on the shore of Reunion island in the Indian Ocean. It was later confirmed to be a flaperon from the missing plane.
A second suspected piece of debris was found last week in Mozambique.
It will be analysed by in Australia by the ATSB, along with representatives of the plane's manufacturer Boeing and the Malaysian investigation team advising.
Although a long way from the suggested possible crash area, both finds are consistent with prevailing ocean currents that could carry debris across the Indian Ocean.


Golden couple Laura Trott and Jason Kenny - who will marry in September - won historic cycling golds as Britain made Rio 2016 their most successful overseas Olympics with 50 medals.

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Trott became Britain's most successful female Olympian with her fourth gold, in the omnium.
Kenny equalled Sir Chris Hoy's record of six GB golds by winning the keirin.
Sailor Giles Scott also won gold, and there were silvers for diver Jack Laugher and cyclist Becky James.
There were further bronzes in cycling and boxing, with two more in gymnastics.
The nine medals won by Britain on day 11 is the most achieved on a single day in Rio so far and the team have won two more medals than at the same stage at London 2012, which was GB's most successful Games.
Katy Marchant finished third in the women's track cycling sprint while Joshua Buatsi won boxing bronze in the light-heavyweight division.
In the gymnastics Amy Tinkler - at 16, the youngest member of Team GB - was third on the floor a week before she receives her GCSE results, while Nile Wilson emulated her feat on the high bar.
Laugher, a gold medallist in the synchronised 3m springboard with Chris Mears, claimed his second Rio medal as he finished second in the individual event.
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Victory for Kenny was GB's 19th gold of the 2016 Games.
Scott, 29, earlier sealed gold in sailing's Finn class to give Britain their fifth successive Olympic title in the event, and they are set for another sailing gold from Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark.
The run of success kept GB second in the medal table behind the United States, and above China, with five full days of action to come.
Britain racked up a total of 12 medals in the velodrome, with every member of the 10-strong track cycling team winning at least one.
Germany's Kristina Vogel, who beat James to gold in the women's sprint, wondered how GB's cyclists had managed to be so successful, saying: "It seems they do nothing for three years, then they start at the Olympics and kill us."
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Kenny, the 28-year-old from Bolton, won a dramatic keirin - the race was twice restarted because of infringements - to add to his team sprint and individual sprint victories.
Kenny and Trott, from Cheshunt, now boast 10 gold medals between them after both made British Olympic history in the velodrome.
Trott, 24, cried as Kenny pedalled his victory lap with his arms in the air, before the couple embraced and kissed as the crowd cheered.
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Kenny said: "Today just felt like a dream. I'm just kind of so tired I'm just floating through it."
Hoy stood and applauded Kenny's achievement in matching his British record of six golds, calling it a "special moment" during his BBC analysis.
Trott, who had retained her omnium title in dominant fashion earlier in the evening, said: "I can't believe it - I did not expect that at all. I am just so happy that it all came together."
Team GB's Rio 2016 chef de mission Mark England said: "What this team has delivered so far at Rio 2016 is an incredible achievement and the country should be extremely proud of the athletes and their support staff."
More on the Team GB medal tracker can be found here.
French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie was reduced to tears after being booed on the podium while he received his silver medal.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach described the crowd's behaviour as "shocking" and "unacceptable at the Olympics".
Lavillenie had been booed by the crowd during Monday's competition, as he battled Brazilian Thiago Braz da Silva for gold, giving a thumbs-down gesture to the cameras as he prepared for an attempt.
After the medal ceremony, IAAF president Lord Coe, vice-president Sergey Bubka and Da Silva attempted to console Lavillenie, who simply wrote "no words" on Twitter.
Paula Radcliffe said: "That is just wrong. Ashamed of the track and field crowd tonight. Cheer your own as loud as you like but never disrespect the others."
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In other events at the Olympic Stadium, Great Britain's 2012 bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz finished just outside the medals in the high jump as Canada's Derek Drouin won gold.
Grabarz, 28, went over 2.33m - although the bar fell down as he was celebrating and the clearance was only confirmed on appeal - but an earlier failure on his first attempt at 2.25m meant he finished joint fourth.
On the track, Eilidh Doyle qualified for the 400m hurdles final and Dina Asher-Smith made it through to the 200m final (02:30 BST on Thursday) as a fastest loser.
GB's Laura Muir faded from third to finish seventh in the women's 1500m as Kenya's Faith Kipyegon took gold while Jamaica's Omar McLeod won the men's 110m hurdles.
Irish boxer Michael Conlan was furious with judges after losing a controversial points decision to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals.
"My dream has been shattered. It's been robbed. I came for gold and I've been cheated," said the amateur bantamweight world champion from Belfast.
British swimmer Jack Burnell, meanwhile, called his disqualification from the men's 10km open water swim "absolutely outrageous" after Dutchman Ferry Weertman took gold.
There was plenty of confusion after a dramatic finish, with Greece's Spiros Gianniotis initially given the win before being downgraded to silver.
Burnell's disqualification was for two yellow cards - he was unclear why the first was shown, while the second followed a tussle with a rival swimmer.
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Argentine sailor Santiago Lange, who lost part of a lung to cancer last year, teamed up with Cecilia Carranza Saroli to win gold in the Nacra 17 mixed class.
Jamaica's seven-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran 20.28 seconds to reach the semi-finals of the men's 200m (02:00 BST Thursday).
Bolt, who already has seven golds including the 100m in Rio, is seeking a "treble treble" of sprint titles, with the 4x100m relay to come.
Lightweight Robson Conceicao became Brazil's first Olympic boxing champion by beating France's Sofiane Oumiha.
Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze's won gold in the men's +105kg weightlifting category but riot police were called to the arena after judges ruled that Iranian favourite Behdad Salimikordasiabi had failed to register a total in the clean and jerk.
Fans booed as Salimikordasiabi and his coach angrily remonstrated with officials for several minutes before the contest was finished.
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Recruitment work is continuing after a staff shortage led to the partial closure of a children's ward, the health secretary has said.

NHS Lothian announced last week that the children's ward at St John's Hospital in Livingston is to close to inpatients for six weeks.
Shona Robison told BBC Scotland there was "no easy solution" to the difficulty of filling paediatric posts.
But she said no other hospital wards had been brought to her attention.
The decision to shut the St John's ward to children needing overnight care followed a warning that it would pose a risk to safety if it remained open.
NHS Lothian said at the time it had not managed to fill key medical and nursing posts in the ward despite recruitment campaigns.
It came three years after a similar summer shutdown at St John's.
Ms Robison told the Sunday Politics Scotland programme that the problem of filling paediatric posts was not confined to Livingston.
She said: "The same issue did happen three years ago and the same issues pertain to paediatrics. We have increased the number of paediatric consultant posts by 76%, we have gone out internationally to try and recruit, but it is very difficult to find the people for those posts.
"We have helped Lothian to overcome a number of problems. For example, we've expanded the number of advanced nurse practitioners who are working in paediatrics.
"We have been working with them to some success. The service has stabilised over those three years. But a culmination of sick leave, maternity leave and then annual leave has brought things to an unsustainable position over the summer.
"We will continue to work with Lothian and other boards to help them to recruit to these specialities which are very difficult to recruit to."
When asked to reassure that the children's ward will not close again next summer, Ms Robison said: "We are going internationally again to try and recruit paediatric posts, we will continue to expand the number of nurse practitioner posts.
"I don't envisage that it will close next summer. The issues of sick leave, maternity leave and annual leave all came together this summer, I don't envisage that those issues would come together next summer in the way they have this summer."
NHS Lothian said on Wednesday it had not taken the decision to close the children's ward lightly but the safety of children was its top priority. It also stressed that the staffing shortage was not due to financial reasons.
Last year 3,000 children were admitted to the ward, with 700 requiring a stay of 24 hours or more.
Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman Jenny Marra said: "Families and patients across Scotland will be concerned that the health secretary could not give the most basic of assurances that services would not close again next summer.
"In the case of St John's, we are seeing the same problems from three years ago, it is clear the SNP government in Edinburgh did not learn the lessons of  2012 and now it is families in the Lothians who are losing out."


The kit's washed, the shinpads located, the venue's in the satnav and we're ready to go.

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Yes, the FA People's Cup is back and this weekend more than 6,000 teams - with 40,000-plus players - will join battle across England in round one.
The ultimate prize is a chance to lift the trophy in your category at the FA Cup final in May, but equally important is the opportunity to play with your mates and enjoy the fun and banter of the nation's biggest five-a-side competition.
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Here at BBC Sport, we'll be running three sessions of live text commentary across the weekend:
FRIDAY: 1800-2100 GMT
Under-14 boys / Under-16 boys (from 18:30)
SATURDAY: 1000-1800 GMT
Adult females / Female Vets (AM - from 10:30) - Male Vets / Walking Football (PM - from 14:30)
SUNDAY: 1000-1800 GMT
Under-14 girls / Under-16 girls (AM - from 10:30) - Adult Male (PM - from 14:30)
And it's the players and managers of the teams involved that can help us bring together all the best stories from across the weekend (and from categories such as higher education and disability, some of whose games have already been played this week).
There are 178 venues hosting first-round games, so alongside the filming that we're doing at selected centres, we want to see and share your stories of footballing glory or epic failure from right across the country.
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From the smallest details of preparation - say, a loving close-up of that crucial bacon sandwich or lacing up your lucky boots - to the view from your house, chants in the car (keep 'em clean, please!), rousing team-talk or celeb-spotting, we want to see you in pre-match mode.
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And then, of course, the match action: the cat-like saves, the missed sitters, the worldies and world-beating celebrations that make the People's Cup such a great celebration of football.
So please share your videos and pictures using #PeoplesCup on social media or email them to getinspired@bbc.co.uk - the best ones might even make it onto an FA People's Cup programme on BBC iPlayer. See you out there and good luck!
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A motorist who was almost two times over the drink-drive limit has been jailed following a crash which killed another man in Rhondda Cynon Taff.

Les Rees, 41, crashed into Terry Hill's BMW on the A4233 bypass in Wattstown, Porth, on 16 June.
Rees, from Ferndale, admitted being under the influence of alcohol and dangerous driving.
He was jailed at Merthyr Crown Court for eight years and banned from driving for 14 years.
The court heard he had 155mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 80.
Mr Hill's wife, Joanna Hill, said it had been "a traumatic time" for the family.
She said: "No sentence given by the court would ever replace the loss of Terry or repair the total devastation caused by Mr Rees' actions on that night."
South Wales Police Insp Steve Davies said the family had "shown considerable strength" throughout the investigation.
He added: "It is highly probable that had Mr Rees not consumed alcohol that day, this tragedy would have been avoided.
"We are grateful to the witnesses who came forward to assist us in the investigation that led to the conviction of Mr Rees."


Aldershot Town have signed Bournemouth defender Callum Buckley on loan until the end of the season.

The 21-year-old is yet to make his senior debut for the Cherries, but has been on the bench for two EFL Cup ties this term.
Buckley has previously had loan spells at Dorchester Town, Concord Rangers, Basingstoke and Eastbourne Borough.
He will be available to make his National League debut against Gateshead on Saturday once paperwork is complete.


The government will not be seeking leave to appeal after its decision to abolish the Independent Living Fund (ILF) was overturned in a court ruling.

The Â£320m ILF currently provides support enabling nearly 19,000 severely disabled people in the UK to live independent lives in the community.
The High Court ruled in April that the closure decision was lawful, but this was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
The ILF will continue for now with ministers set to reconsider its future.
The fund provides a ring-fenced budget for the independent living needs of severely disabled people.
Last year the government decided to close it and devolve the funding to local authorities.
That meant the money would no longer be ring-fenced, would be subject to normal budget cuts, and many disabled people feared that they would lose it.
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal quashed that decision, because it found that the government had not given proper consideration to issues raised by the Equality Act, which included the need to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, and to encourage them to take part in a public life.
The government said it would not appeal, but, in light of guidance provided by the Court of Appeal, ministers would be invited to make a new decision on its future based on further advice.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said the announcement meant that, for the time being, the fund remains intact and in business.
Campaigners are now urging the government to secure the fund's long-term future, he added.
A statement from anti-austerity group Disabled People Against Cuts, whose members took the case to court, said: "We all owe a great debt of gratitude to the five ILF users that took this to the courts and the solicitors and barristers who worked tirelessly.
"It has proved that disabled people can and will fight back. It has proved that disabled people can win."
The Department for Work and Pensions said: "This government is absolutely committed to supporting disabled people and we continue to spend around Â£50bn a year on disabled people and their services."