A woman who assaulted and robbed a "Good Samaritan" who took her into her home has been jailed for three years.

Jacqueline Petrie invited Lisa Diduca into her home in October 2014 after she saw her standing in the street crying.
Diduca then attacked her, threatened her with a pair of scissors and stole items from the house in Dundee.
The 26-year-old denied a charge of assault and robbery, but was found guilty after a trial and was jailed.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Ms Petrie spotted Diduca crying in the street in the early hours of the morning, and went to ask her what was wrong.
The 43-year-old said she invited the younger woman into her home after "she kept saying she was scared".
She said: "I was alone in the flat at the time. All of a sudden she started attacking me.
"It came out of nowhere. She started opening drawers and taking things, then she found a pair of scissors and held them to my neck. I was scared for my life."
Diduca later told police that Ms Petrie was lying, accusing her of being drunk and having a mental disorder.
Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Diduca for three years after a jury found her guilty.
He said: "Ms Petrie saw you upset and crying and she went to help you. She did you nothing but good, she gave you shelter in her own home.
"She was in every sense a Good Samaritan to you, and you repaid her by assaulting her in her own home. In particular you took a large pair of scissors and held them to her neck and placed her in a state of terror.
"Robbing someone at the point of a weapon will always attract a serious sentence. Nothing excuses grabbing a woman in her own home, putting scissors to her neck and robbing her."


A man accused of murdering his 22-month-old son in Birmingham had previously punched his other son in the stomach, a court heard.

Mark Piper is jointly charged with murdering Levi Blu.
Levi died in 2013 of internal bleeding. His mother Danielle Cassin is also accused of murder.
A woman told a jury at Birmingham Crown Court she saw Mr Piper being violent with his other child, who was five at the time, in 2012.
The incident happened in the living room of Mr Piper's Chelmsley Wood home after he banned the youngster from playing on a games console, she said.
The witness said Mr Piper swore at his son and dragged him out the room before poking and prodding him in the face by the stairs.
"He (the child) was crying," said the woman, who met 31-year-old Mr Piper through a mutual friend.
"He punched him in his stomach at the same time on the stairs. It was hard, enough to hurt him.
"I have never seen anyone hitting a kid like that. It was rough. It was how you would hit your friends messing about. The little boy was crying. He was really upset."
But Paul Lewis QC, defending Mr Piper, wanted to know why the punch was not mentioned in her original police statement.
"I was lying (to the police)," she said.
"I didn't want to seem like a grass."
Mr Lewis questioned how she could be sure about the words Mr Piper had used when she made her police statement months after the incident.
He highlighted a message sent by the witness about Piper which said: "He loves all his kids and looks after them well. I just don't understand all this."
Levi was found at the flat his parents shared in Nightingale Avenue, Chelmsley Wood, on 20 February 2013.
Both Ms Cassin, 27, of Frensham Close, Chelmsley Wood, and Mr Piper, of no fixed abode, deny murder.
They also deny causing or allowing the death of Levi and causing him suffering.
The trial continues.


Prada's two chief executives are being investigated by Italian authorities for possible tax evasion, the company said.

Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli are being examined over "the accuracy of certain past tax filings by them as individuals in respect of foreign-owned companies", it said in a statement.
The inquiry comes after Prada disclosed it was bringing its holding company back to Italy from Luxembourg in 2013.
The alleged tax evasion stems from the 10 years they were based in Luxembourg.
"Neither the company nor any of its subsidiaries was or is involved in this matter," Prada chairman Carlo Mazzi said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where the company is listed.
The luxury fashion house has seen weak sales in Asia and Europe this year, which led to a 21% drop in first-half profit.
Prada shares fell by nearly 2% on Monday. They have lost about 30% of their value this year.
This is not the first time Italian tax authorities have targeted high-profile brands. Last year fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, also known as Dolce & Gabbana, were investigated.


The Lego Movie director Phil Lord has reacted to his movie being snubbed at this year's Oscars by making his own Academy award out of...Lego.

He posted the photo on Twitter with the words: "It's okay. Made my own!"
The Lego Movie was thought to be a contender in this year's nominations as it was the highest-grossing film of 2014 at the UK box office.
It did pick up one nomination though, for original song; Everything is Awesome.
But it was thought the Warner Bros 3D movie would make the animated feature film category.
Instead it was Big Hero 6, The Boxtrolls, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Song of the Sea and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya that were nominated.
Leading the way in other categories were Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, with nine nominations each, while The Imitation Game followed with eight and Boyhood and American Sniper picked up six.
The Oscars will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris on Sunday 22 February in Hollywood.
The full list of Oscars 2015 nominations.
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Women who binge drink and later find out they were pregnant at the time are seeking abortions under the misapprehension their babies will suffer foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), a charity has warned.

The British Pregnancy Advice Service (BPAS) says there is "no need" for an abortion in such cases, as there is "minimal" damage to babies from isolated episodes of binge drinking by their mothers.
FAS is a rare but serious condition that can cause:
Statistics for the incidence of the disorder in the UK are not available, but in America, experts say 0.2 to 1.5 cases occur for every 1,000 live births in certain areas of the country.
BPAS says this risk is incredibly small and women should not needlessly fear their behaviour has damaged their baby.
A Danish study in 2012 of more than 1,600 women suggested low-to-moderate drinking was not linked to adverse neurological effects in five-year-olds, but heavy, weekly drinking was associated with a lower attention span in the children.
So when is it OK to drink during pregnancy?
Up until the 1980s, pregnant women were advised to drink stout to boost their iron levels. Official advice today is somewhat different.
Pregnant women should avoid alcohol altogether, says the British government. And if alcohol really must be consumed, it should be limited to the equivalent of one small glass of wine, once or twice a week, it adds.
This advice is mirrored by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, (RCOG), which says the safest option for women is not to drink at all for the first 12 weeks and then minimal amounts per week after that.
Meanwhile, national guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence say women should not drink for the first three months of their pregnancy, to minimise the risk of miscarrying.
And after that, it says pregnant mothers should drink only one to two units a week.
Alcohol can disrupt the baby's normal development in the womb, its health at birth, susceptibility to illness in infancy, childhood, teenage years and later life, warns the RCOG.
It says the effects of drinking are "most harmful" just before pregnancy, due to the way alcohol hampers fertility, in both men and women - the mechanism of which is largely unknown.
Later in pregnancy, the shared blood supply between the mother and her baby via the placenta means that any alcohol that is consumed could easily reach the baby.
Before this - soon after conception and often prior to the woman finding out she is pregnant - could be a different matter.
There is limited evidence about how alcohol affects the baby before there is a direct line between the mother and baby's blood supply, which happens about week four of pregnancy, the point at which a woman might be aware of missing her period and suspecting she is pregnant.
Understandably, it is ethically difficult to study. This uncertainty means experts often err on the side of caution when providing advice.
Dr Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for the RCOG, says: "The general consensus is something harmful like alcohol tends to have an all or nothing effect [in the very early stages of pregnancy].
"It tends to cause a miscarriage or it has no harmful effect."
He said such a situation is "very common" and he gets women coming to him every week worried they have drunk heavily before knowing they were pregnant.
If the baby is still alive after such drinking, he says, the likelihood is it will be healthy.
Dr O'Brien added that the mother's liver had a "lot of reserve" so could handle supporting the blood supply of an embryonic child while processing alcohol at the same time.
But he warned it could not deal with "consistent, heavy" alcohol intake.
The jury is largely out about exactly how much alcohol can be drunk during pregnancy, and when.
New draft guidelines from the government are expected to be released in the middle of next year - until then, the Department of Health suggests anybody concerned they have drunk too much alcohol during pregnancy should contact their doctor.
"The chief medical officer is currently reviewing all the guidelines for drinking," said a spokesman.


Two horses were rescued after falling into a pool in west Dorset.

Fifteen crew members from Dorset Fire and Rescue Service pulled the pair out of the water in Factory Lane, Duntish at about 08:45 BST.
A vet was at the scene to sedate the horses, one of whom was called Elvis, while crews had to cut away undergrowth to reach them.
The horses are now said to be "recovering well" in a nearby field.


A County Londonderry woman has told of the moment a van ploughed into crowds in Barcelona, yards from where she was sitting outside a bar with her husband.

Shari and Danny Butcher are on holiday in the Spanish city and were among those who fled the scene of Wednesday's attack on Las Ramblas.
Thirteen people were killed and dozens more were injured in the attack.
Members of an Irish family are among those who were injured.
"This is mind-altering for me - I can't wait to get home," Mrs Butcher told BBC Radio Foyle.
Mrs Butcher, from Limavady, said she and her husband were having a drink when they heard a bang.
"Then people started to scream and run towards us, the police were running and blowing whistles," she said.
"When we heard another loud bang Danny stood up and looked across and saw a couple of people lying on the pavement.
"I got up and ran - everybody was panicking and screaming.
"Danny shouted after me: 'Don't panic.'"
She said she slipped and "had a bit of a panic attack".
"At this point we still didn't know what had happened - I just visualised the London attack.
"It was awful - we could have been killed.
"People from all over the world were there enjoying a holiday."
Sharon and Martin Kane, from west Belfast, were on their honeymoon in Barcelona when the attack happened.
Mr Kane said they were asked to get off the bus they were travelling on.
"Before we knew it everybody started rushing," he said.
"We saw a girl fall and smash her head off the ground and everybody tried to get on the bus panicking.
"Everybody was falling all over themselves, people crying and shouting."
The couple then took cover in a nearby hotel.
"It was just like back to the 1970s and 1980s in Belfast when I was a child, the same things happening - a bomb going off in the city centre," Mr Kane said.
Husband and wife Norman and Pederlita Putot, who are from the Philippines but are Irish citizens, were in the city with their Irish-born children, Nathaniel and Pearl.
Mr Putot and his son are among the injured and are still in hospital in Barcelona, while Mrs Putot and her daughter escaped unhurt.
The five-year-old boy has a broken femur and his father has knee injuries.
The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the atrocity, and Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said it was a "jihadist attack".
In a linked incident, five suspected terrorists were killed by police in the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils.
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said it was a "miracle" that more Irish people were not hurt in the Barcelona attack.
He said Spain is the main holiday destination for Irish people and the connections between the countries "are really, really strong".
"Nearly two million Irish people this year will travel to Spain on their holidays," said Mr Coveney.
"You can safely say that probably over 300,000 Irish people are in Spain today.
"It's a miracle that more Irish people weren't involved, given that there are so many Irish people in Spain, Barcelona and Cambrils at this time of year."
The UK's Foreign Office has said a "small number" of Britons were hurt and it is investigating reports that a child with British nationality went missing during the attack.
It has also issued travel advice for those going to Spain.
Irish citizens are being advised to follow the advice of local authorities.
Anyone with concerns for the safety of people in Barcelona can contact the consular assistance team in the department on 01-4082000 or the Irish embassy in Madrid on +34 914364093.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has issued safety advice for people at home and abroad in the event of a weapons attack.
Assistant Chief Constable Barbara Gray said the intention was to increase "public awareness and vigilance, and ensuring our residents know what action to take in the unlikely event of an attack".
Flights to the city are unaffected.
A book of condolence for the victims of the attacks has opened at Belfast City Hall.


Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka won his first Grand Slam title with victory over an injury-hit Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final.

Wawrinka withstood a fightback from the world number one, who was struggling with a back problem, to come through 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3.
The 28-year-old becomes only the second Swiss man to win a Grand Slam singles title after 17-time champion Roger Federer.
"Nadal could have easily walked off court but he didn't and it added to the match. I was impressed at how Wawrinka had the mental capacity to finish off the match. For a while it looked like he was getting nervous, tired, missing easy shots and screaming at his team. It is hard to beat an injured player, especially an injured Rafa. To beat a Rafa at 60% is not easy. It was a fantastic gutsy effort from both of them."
And he is the first man outside the 'big four' of Nadal, Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray to win a Grand Slam since Juan Martin Del Potro at the 2009 US Open.
Fortunes fluctuated wildly over the course of two hours and 21 minutes as Wawrinka opened in scintillating form before a tearful Nadal appeared close to quitting at two sets down, only to stage a remarkable recovery in the third.
The Spaniard, 27, showed great spirit to hit back once again from a break down in the fourth, but a forehand winner gave Wawrinka the decisive break at 5-3 and he served out the biggest win of his life with a love game.
"I still think that I'm dreaming," said Wawrinka. "It's a strange feeling. I saw so many finals. I always try to watch the finals of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing.
"Before today, for me it wasn't a dream. I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it."
Nadal, who revealed he felt the back problem in the warm-up, said: "It is a tournament that I really had some troubles physically in my career and is something that is painful for me.
"But that's part of life. That's part of sport. It's not the end of the world. Is just another tough moment."
"The last thing that I wanted to do was retire. No, I hate to do that, especially in a final.
"It's not the moment to talk about that. It's the moment to congratulate Stan. He's playing unbelievable. He really deserved to win that title."
Wawrinka had never won a set, let alone a match, in 12 previous attempts against Nadal, and was making his Grand Slam final debut against a man in his 19th.
But Nadal's travails in the second half of the match should not overshadow what was a magnificent performance from Wawrinka for much of the contest.
He coped brilliantly with the Spaniard's fizzing forehand in the early stages, using his backhand to return the fire, and 12 winners almost helped him to a 5-1 lead.
Some nerves were finally revealed when he tried to close out a set against Nadal for the first time, failing to make a first serve as he fell 0-40 down, but the 2009 champion could not get a return in play as Wawrinka hit back to seal it with an ace.
Three sweeping forehands helped the Swiss break at the start of the second on a run of 12 straight points, and it was when serving at 2-0 down that Nadal first appeared to feel the problem with his back.
After leaving the court for treatment, to the annoyance of Wawrinka and boos from some sections of the crowd, Nadal returned unable to serve at anything like full speed, and at one stage was close to tears.
"Wawrinka's first-set performance was of such a high quality that we may have been deprived of a classic duel - and who is to say that the man who took out Djokovic wouldn't also have been able to take out a fully fit Nadal. The world number one at half speed was a more perplexing conundrum, but when given the chance to serve for the title, Wawrinka illustrated the self-belief that has underpinned his surge up the rankings."
Another visit from the physio followed after game five, and when Wawrinka took the second set almost unopposed, the 13-time Grand Slam champion appeared close to calling it quits on a long walk back to his chair.
What followed was remarkable, with Nadal staging the unlikeliest of fightbacks - possibly as the pain killers kicked in - while Wawrinka completely lost his rhythm with victory apparently his for the taking.
The Swiss made 19 unforced errors and, despite still not moving freely, Nadal managed to increase his service speed just enough to keep the misfiring Wawrinka at bay and clinch the third set.
It now appeared to be a test of Wawrinka's nerve as much as Nadal's fitness, because the Spaniard was clearly not about about to give up, and he clung on magnificently.
Two break points were saved at the start of the fourth, and a break recovered at 4-2 down, but Wawrinka made the decisive move with a brilliant forehand into the corner to break for 5-3 and raced through the final game.
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The closure of magistrates' courts spells the end of local justice, campaigners have said.

Kettering Magistrates' Court and Kettering County Court closed on Thursday, while Corby Magistrates' Court will close on Friday as part of government "modernisation" plans.
They are three of 86 courts that are to close across the country.
Many magistrates have said the move will lead to delays and more defendants failing to turn up to court.
Corby sat two days of the week and Kettering sat four days of the week.
Cases heard at both courts are now set to be absorbed by magistrates in Wellingborough.
Terry Knights, chair of the magistrates' bench in Corby, said the closures were "all wrong".
He said: "The courts are busy.  It affects the whole of Corby and East Northamptonshire - whether you are a court user or not.
"If you haven't got a court you do not get local justice."
Mr Knights, who said magistrates have already resigned from their posts because of the time it takes to get to Wellingborough by 9am, added that there will be an increase in the number of defendants not turning up for court cases because of the distance.
Jonathan Smithers, president of the Law Society, said the courts set for closure are well used and "every citizen... should have access to justice".
He added: "It shouldn't depend on how much money you have, whether you have your own car, whether you have to reply on public transport.  Everyone should be able to use it."
A statement from the Ministry of Justice said the closures could save Â£500m a year and would be more efficient.
It read: "Access to justice is not just about proximity to a court and we are investing over Â£700 million to reform and digitise our courts and tribunal services to deliver swifter and more certain justice."
The statement added Corby and Kettering were both costly to maintain and some of the facilities inadequate.


Police in Honduras have arrested five Syrians who were travelling on stolen Greek passports and reportedly intended to enter the US by land.

The five were detained after arriving on a flight from neighbouring El Salvador on Tuesday night, police said.
Honduran special police force spokeman Anibal Baca, said they had been tipped off by Greece about the men's imminent arrival.
Greek diplomats in Honduras say none of the five speak Greek.
They were held at the international airport in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.
According to Honduran police, they were planning to travel to the northern city of San Pedro Sula.
From there, they intended to cross into Guatemala and then Mexico before reaching the US border, some 2,000km (1,2000 miles) away.
"The passports were stolen in Athens," said Mr Baca from the Police Investigations Division (DPI).
"Those are not their real names. We are still trying to establish their identities," he told La Prensa newspaper.
The names on the passports are: Charalampos Kyrimopoulos, Alexandros Tzempelikos, Vasileios Bouzas, Konstantinos Marinakis and Anastasios Bellios.
Interpol will assist Honduran police with the investigation.
American politicians have expressed concern over the arrival of Middle Eastern refugees following Friday's attacks in Paris.
Republicans in the House of Representatives said they were drafting legislation to introduce tougher controls on Syrian and Iraqi refugees.


Controversial hooker Dylan Hartley has been named England captain for the forthcoming Six Nations.

The 29-year-old Northampton player, who has been banned for a total of 54 weeks for offences such as gouging, biting and striking, succeeds Chris Robshaw.
"Dylan is an honest, hard-working bloke and I admire his aggressive and uncompromising approach to playing rugby," said England coach Eddie Jones.
Hartley said it was "a huge honour" to be named England captain.
Capped 66 times, Hartley became the youngest ever Premiership captain in 2009 when he took over the role at Saints.
He has been sidelined with concussion and a rib injury but started for Saints in Saturday's European Champions Cup win over Scarlets.
Harlequins flanker Robshaw, 29, was captain for the past four years but came in for heavy criticism during England's poor World Cup campaign.
Hartley has revealed he thought his England career might be over after he missed the World Cup because of suspension.
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He added: "I'm really excited about the challenge ahead but, in reality, leading this squad of players will not fall just to me.
"There are a number of guys in this squad who will all have important leadership roles to play so we can take this team forward."
Jones, who replaced Stuart Lancaster, added: "I have every faith he will lead the team tactically and passionately. English rugby is indebted to Northampton to have produced such a fine player."
Former England hooker Brian Moore says Hartley's appointment is a "big risk", but England international James Haskell backed the "abrasive" Hartley as someone who will "command respect".
BBC Radio 5 live rugby union reporter Chris Jones:
"Since being appointed England coach, Eddie Jones has made it clear he will do things differently to Stuart Lancaster, and the appointment of Hartley as captain is a clear indication of this.
"Jones wants to build an aggressive, dominant and confrontational pack of England forwards, and he will hope Hartley can spearhead this, especially given there is a feeling England were 'too nice' during the World Cup.
"Clearly Hartley's disciplinary past will be an issue, and this move will be seen as the first substantial gamble of Jones' tenure. However Hartley's supporters will argue his track record in an England shirt is a good one, and he showed his leadership credentials when captaining his club Northampton to the Premiership title in 2014."


Members of the Prison Officers Association in England and Wales have "overwhelmingly" rejected an offer on pay and pensions, the union has said.

Union leaders had endorsed the proposed agreement, which would have allowed prison officers to retire at 65, but members voted against it by two to one.
The union said it wanted to address "issues of concern" with the government.
The Ministry of Justice said it was disappointed but would continue talks.
It comes after a 12-hour riot at HMP Birmingham last week, described by the Prison Officers Association as the worst since the Strangeways jail riot 26 years ago.
Up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales protested last month over claims of a "surge" in jail violence but returned to work after a High Court injunction ordered them to end their 24-hour protest.
Under the rejected deal, which was approved by the POA's National Executive Committee earlier this month, staff would be able to retire with an occupational pension at 65 - even when the state pension age rises to 68.
Pay was proposed to increase by between 0.5% and 1% in each of the next three years, with further loyalty payments of up to Â£1,000.
But almost two-thirds of union members who voted rejected the deal. There was a 52% turnout among the 19,000 eligible prison staff in England and Wales.
BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said some prison staff believe they should be allowed to retire with a full pension at 60, as police officers are allowed to do.
There are also concerns that pay is still not enough to attract sufficient staff, the correspondent added.
The Ministry of Justice said Justice Secretary Liz Truss intends to meet with union leaders in the New Year.


Malaysian Airlines chief executive Christoph Mueller has resigned after less than one year of leading the carrier's reorganising efforts.

The airline had suffered years of financial losses even before it was hit by two major disasters in 2014.
Flight MH370 disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is still missing, while MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
Mr Mueller said he was leaving due to "changing personal circumstance."
He took up his role in May 2015 to oversee a $1.56bn (Â£1.1bn) turnaround plan which included massive job cuts and dropping unprofitable destinations.
"We are very disappointed to lose Christoph as CEO but we fully understand his reasons and respect his need to do this," Malaysian Airlines Chairman Md Nor Yusof said.
Mr Mueller will continue to serve until September 2016 and will stay on the board as a non-executive director.
The carrier has already begun to look for a new chief executive and says it is considering both internal and external candidates.
It said that Mueller had set up a strong management team which would be the foundation for a successful turnaround.


Whitehall officials believe the UK may need to make big payments to the EU to secure preferential trading terms after Brexit, BBC Newsnight has learned.

During the EU referendum, Vote Leave claimed leaving the EU could save the UK £350m a week in contributions.
But an unnamed cabinet minister has told Newsnight that the UK may end up "paying quite a lot" of that money to secure access to the single market.
The government said it would not give a "running commentary" on negotiations.
The UK's contributions to the EU became one of the most contentious issues in the EU referendum campaign after Vote Leave pledged to repatriate £350m a week - its estimate of the UK's gross weekly contributions to the EU.
This is reduced by subsidies paid to the UK and by the UK budget rebate.
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But a leading light in the Brexit campaign said they now expected the UK could still end up paying as much as £5bn a year into EU funds, in return for access to the single market.
This is roughly half of what the UK would have expected to contribute to the EU - estimated by the Office for Budget Responsibility to average around £9.6bn a year from 2015.
A senior official has described the prospect of continuing UK contributions to the EU as the "dog that hasn't barked" after Prime Minister Theresa May made no reference to the issue when she set out her red lines for her forthcoming EU negotiations last week.
Some supporters of Brexit Secretary David Davis have said the UK should no longer make payments to the EU after it leaves.
One senior Whitehall official said the UK would be unlikely to pay into the main EU budget after Brexit.
But the official said the UK may instead pay into special EU funds - possibly including one to help the economic development of new member states in central and Eastern Europe - as a way of securing preferential trading terms.
Officials say this would leave Poland with a dilemma: whether to prioritise its demands for its citizens to be able to continue to work in the UK or whether to accept greater financial contributions.
Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, told Newsnight that Britain may have to continue to make financial contributions to the EU to secure access to the single market even after Brexit.
Mr Tyrie, who supported the Remain side in the referendum, said: "We want a high degree of access to the single market, in my view.
"To fall back immediately on WTO (World Trade Organisation) rules would risk an economic shock and certainly an economic downturn given the high degree of trade integration at the moment between Britain and the EU."
The prime minister sparked speculation at the Conservative party conference last week that she might be prepared to continue making some contributions when she failed to mention Britain's EU budget payments.
Mrs May instead said that the UK would take back control of its borders and take sole responsibility for making its own laws.
One Leave campaigner said that Britain could contribute to the EU for a transitional period after the completion of the Article 50 negotiations - the formal two-year process of leaving the EU - which are due to conclude in 2019.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Conservative MP for Spelthorne, said: "It may well be the case that we have to contribute, I think, for a transition period to stabilise their budget for three to five years. But the point is that at the end of that five years we can say 'no, we don't want to put a penny more into your kitty'."
Another prominent Brexit campaigner warned that the prime minister could lose her job if she agreed to continue making payments to the EU.
Suzanne Evans, of UKIP, told Newsnight: "Laws, borders, money - when it comes to taking back control those were the Holy Trinity of the Brexit campaign. You can't have one without the other...
"We have all the bargaining chips. There is no need for Theresa May to capitulate on this and if she does try and capitulate on this I think she might very well soon find herself out of a job because that is not the Brexit the British people voted for."
But John Redwood, the Conservative MP for Wokingham and Brexit campaigner, dismissed suggestions the UK would end up paying for access to the single market.
He said the UK should offer "very generously to carry on trading exactly as we are at the moment".
"There's absolutely no need to pay them money to buy their imports - this is absurd," he added.
It comes ahead of a Commons vote, called by Labour, asking for MPs to be able to "properly scrutinise" the government's Brexit strategy.
Ahead of the debate, the party has asked Brexit Minister David Davis 170 questions, including on trade and migration.
The government has faced calls to set out more detail on what it wants Brexit to look like, with little known so far about its plans for migration and trade with the EU.
A government spokesman told Newsnight: "We will not provide a running commentary on our negotiating position, but we have been very clear that all decisions about taxpayers' money should be made in Britain."


A walker has relived the moment he saw his friend die after being struck by lightning in "exceptional weather conditions" on the Brecon Beacons which also claimed the life of another man.

Robin Meakings, 59, from Surrey, died while adjusting his walking pole when a "bright white flash and intensely loud, deafening whip crack sound" hit him.
Jeremy Prescott, 51, from Telford, Shropshire, died on another peak.
The Brecon inquest heard nothing could have prevented the 5 July deaths.
Coroner Andrew Barkley said such deaths were "very rare", but two so close were "remarkable".
Their inquests at Aberdare Coroner's Court heard weather conditions that day had started out fine but took a sudden turn for the worse.
Teacher Mr Meakings was also struck by lightning as he prepared to descend the 2,580ft high peak Cribyn.
William Belcher, 46, had been on an adventure holiday with Mr Meakings and friend Nicholas Earl.
Mr Belcher said: "Robin was adjusting his walking poles, which were down by his side - and Nic was helping.
"All of a sudden there was this bright white flash and an intensely loud, deafening whip crack sound and at the same time there was a fizzle.
"At that moment I felt like a huge weight had squashed me and my legs went all wobbly.
"I could then smell something like burnt leather or bacon.
"Nic went flying forwards while Robin was motionless on his back.
"I was panicking, shouting at both of them 'wake up, wake up'.
"The force of the strike had blown his jacket open and there was discolouration of his chest. At that moment I knew he had gone."
In a statement read to the inquest, Mr Earl, who was holding the same pole at the time, described feeling as if his body was "on fire inside and out" as he was thrown into the air.
Moments earlier, Mr Prescott was hit by a bolt while manning a checkpoint on Corn Ddu 1.2 miles (2km) away as part of a Duke of Edinburgh Awards activity.
Eyewitnesses said the force of the strike was such that it threw him into the air and melted his shirt.
Fellow youth worker Gaynor Hogarth was just steps away from her colleague and friend when the lightning hit.
She described it as like someone switching on "a fluorescent tube of light", which she said came without warning.
She attempted CPR but said there was no response.
Coroner Mr Barkley said there was nothing to indicate the walking trips were ill-advised and the deaths were the result of "exceptional weather conditions which could not have been predicted or controlled".
He concluded both men died as a result of being struck by lightning.


A Russian children's cot in the form of a Buk missile launcher - the weapon that downed a plane over east Ukraine in 2014 - has raised eyebrows.

"Is this some kind of joke?" outspoken Russian journalist Oleg Kashin asked while others suggested it was a PR stunt to sell more furniture.
The cot's makers said they had sold "around 10" of the items, but argued the design was "nothing unusual".
All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 died in the attack.
International prosecutors say the missile was brought into Ukraine from Russia and launched from a field in territory controlled by Russian-backed rebels, who were fighting Ukrainian government forces at the time.
Russia says it cannot accept the findings as the final truth.
The Buk cot is produced by a family firm, CARoBUS, in the Russian city of St Petersburg and is part of a special series that also features a tank and a plane.
Normally, the firm makes cots shaped like cars, ships and planes.
"I see nothing unusual in a cot like this," CARoBUS director Anton Koppel told local news website Fontanka (in Russian).
"Some grow up to be doctors, others bakers and some soldiers."
Apart from Kashin, comments by users of leading Russian news site Lenta (in Russian) include the following:
"Free PR, market demand - the guy's a genius," wrote another user to which someone replied, "Calling him a genius may be going too far."


New Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson says it will soon be "impossible" for lower-league clubs to reach the Premier League because of parachute payments.

Clubs relegated from the Premier League will receive at least £64m over three years from next season.
Teams who spend only one season in the top tier will be given about £51m.
"Looking at a League One team now, if they don't get into the Premier League within the next five years there'll be absolutely zero chance," said Johnson.
"I think because there's such huge payments as far as the parachute stuff it'll just be impossible.
"It will end up going into [a system of] feeder clubs and there's no way around that because it just can't be sustainable."
Johnson left Barnsley to take charge at Ashton Gate this month, having started his managerial career at Oldham.
Asked by BBC Radio Bristol whether he thought football would change "fundamentally" in the near future, the 34-year-old agreed it would.
"You've only got to look at the likes of Manchester City now that have got City Group, and they've got six or seven clubs all around the world that are very closely linked," he said.
"It's becoming almost like a franchise global market scenario and the big clubs with the big money will just expand.
"It will become very difficult for the likes of an Oldham or Barnsley to get into the Premier League."
Bristol City are currently 21st in the Championship, five points above the relegation zone.


A Caernarfon-based actress is backing an appeal for blood donors after her life was saved during surgery after child birth.

During three operations Manon Elis needed 18 units of blood to save her life after complications when her daughter, Cadi, was born.
She says without the blood she would not be alive today.
NHS Blood and Transplant is urging donors to make a special effort to keep appointments during the bad weather.
Ms Elis, who plays Michelle in the S4C drama series Rownd a Rownd, had an emergency Caesarean section after her labour failed to progress properly.
She said at first everything appeared to be fine and she remembers cuddling her new daughter and trying to breast-feed her.
"Then all this blood came and they said I'd have to go back for more treatment," she said.
That treatment last five hours and resulted in a hysterectomy.
"That saved my life and I came round in intensive care," she tells BBC Radio Cymru's Manylu programme.
However the bleeding began again and she had to endure a third operation.
"In the meantime I'd had 18 units of blood - given by 18 people I can never thank personally - without which I would not be here," she added.
With her baby, now six months old, playing nearby she said she is gutted that she is now unable to give blood herself.
"The only thing I can do now is to tell my story, so that encourages other people to donate," she said.
Ms Elis said the weather might be putting people off going to give blood during the winter months.
"Maybe they don't look at the big picture, and I've been surprised how many people have told me they have thought of giving blood but never done anything about it," she added.
The recent bad weather resulted in 2000 fewer donations being made in just one day at clinics across England and north Wales.
Jon Lathan, assistant director of Blood Donation, at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said the volunteer donors were vital to maintain blood supplies to hospitals.
"We need to make sure that we make the most of the sessions that are going ahead to try and make up for the losses in other areas," he said.
"If you have an appointment please try to keep it and if, for some reason you cannot, please re-book your appointment as soon as possible. New donors are always welcome too," he added.
The full story can be heard on BBC Radio Cymru's Manylu programme at 1800 GMT on Monday 10 January.


Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho is close to making a £25m move to Leicester City.

The 20-year-old Nigerian is in advanced talks with the Foxes and is thought to be keen to make the switch.
Iheanacho has scored 21 goals in 64 games in all competitions since making his debut for Manchester City in 2015.
Last August, he signed a new contract until 2021, but saw his playing time limited by the January arrival of Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus.


A man died after being seen to "stumble and fall" into a quay at a Norfolk resort, coastguards said.

The man was pulled from the water at Wells-next-the-Sea at about 09:30 GMT but could not be saved.
Coastguards said the "tragic incident" was a reminder that quaysides have various trip hazards.
A spokesman said: "A member of the public called the coastguard to say that they had seen a man stumble and fall in to the sea from the quayside."
Mike Puplett, from Humber Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, said: "This man was unresponsive when he was pulled from the water.
"This tragic incident serves as a timely reminder that quaysides, harbours and pontoons are working areas where ropes, fishing baskets and other equipment can get under your feet as you walk along."
Norfolk police said officers were investigating the circumstances around the death.


Clues about missing RAF airman Corrie Mckeague are more likely to be in a landfill site than at an incinerator plant, police have said.

The 23-year-old was last seen in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.
Suffolk Constabulary ended a 20-week search of the Milton landfill site on 21 July.
Bones found at an incinerator plant are being examined but investigators said it was more likely his remains were in the landfill.
On Tuesday, officers searching the site at Great Blakenham said they had discovered some material that required "further examination" to establish whether there were any links to the missing airman.
The tortuous search for Corrie Mckeague
A force spokesman said: "The investigation has established that some of the waste collected from Bury St Edmunds is taken to Red Lodge transfer station and from there to Great Blakenham for incineration.
"The  strongest likelihood is that Corrie, or anything to connected to him, would be in the waste that was taken to the landfill at Milton, rather than in the incinerated waste, and this was the priority for the investigation.
"However, having not located Corrie thus far in the landfill site then a search of this incinerated material was required."
Mr Mckeague, from Fife, was last seen entering a bin loading bay in the Suffolk town.
Police said he was known to "sleep in rubbish on a night out" - a claim disputed by Mr Mckeague's family.


Eleven youths have been charged after three people were assaulted in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh last month.

Police said three males, all aged 17, suffered serious facial injuries in an incident near Robertson Avenue at about 21:00 on Wednesday 12 April.
Eleven teenagers, aged between 14 and 17 have been charged with various assault offences.
A 15-year-old boy has also been charged with robbery and a 17-year-old with possession of a bladed item.
They will all be reported to the children's reporter and procurator fiscal.


A man has been arrested after a police officer was hit by an off-road motorcycle in Staffordshire.

The 45-year-old officer had head, arm and leg injuries following the incident at about 18:00 BST on Wednesday in Hockley Road, Tamworth.
He was taken to Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield after being treated by ambulance service paramedics.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and a motorcycle has been seized.


Josh Simpson says he hopes to put his injury problems behind him after joining Plymouth Argyle.

The 28-year-old signed for the Pilgrims last week after four and a half years at Crawley Town.
The midfielder played just nine games last season after suffering tendonitis in his hamstring, but says he is fit and ready to play for Argyle.
"I'm feeling good and have had a good pre-season, so I'm trying to build the foundations for this season," he said.
"I had an unfortunate season last year. I've never had anything like it, I've played a minimum of 40 games every year.
"It was really frustrating and it's made me really hungry to get back into it."
Simpson links up again with former Crawley coach Craig Brewster, who was appointed as Plymouth's assistant manager last month.
"Plymouth's a massive club and they were unfortunate last year not to get promoted," the former Cambridge United and Peterborough midfielder told BBC Radio Devon.
"I'm looking forward to trying to contribute as much as I can this year and hopefully get them promoted.
"I've played against the club a few times and it's got big ambitions to get promoted out of this league and go on from there, so it was an easy decision for me to come down.


The Isle of Man king scallop fishery has reopened fully after being suspended due to shellfish toxins.

The season, which began on 1 November, was halted on the west coast of the island after scientific tests showed abnormally high levels of domoic acid.
Excessive levels of the naturally-occurring substance, stored in the scallop's digestive system, can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP).
The fisheries department said levels had fallen to satisfactory levels.
Unusually high levels of domoic acid were caused by a bloom of the phytoplankton this summer.
Shellfish toxin levels are regulated by EU legislation.
The industry is worth millions of pounds to the Isle of Man every year.
The king scallop fishing season in Manx waters runs until 31st May.


Social enterprises use business methods to tackle problems in society and despite the austerity, many are thriving with twice as many reporting growth last year as conventional businesses.

Andy Bradley is selling compassion to the NHS. Dominic Boddington is selling hope for difficult pupils to schools. They both used to work in the public sector but have decided that to improve public services you need to be in business.
They have set up social enterprises - businesses that have social change for good as their primary motive rather than profit.
Frameworks 4 Change was set up by Andy Bradley to sell compassion training to healthcare providers, including the North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust, the first NHS body to commission him.
He grew up in a care home run by his parents and was shocked when he started working in the NHS himself and found not all nurses were as compassionate as his mother had been.
Free thinking
So he set about devising a training course teaching a series of habits nurses can adopt to make sure they are always compassionate, regardless of how busy they are. Nurses that are not compassionate enough should be sacked, he believes.
During the course he teaches which body language to avoid, how to listen properly and why it is important to care for your colleagues.
It is proving very popular with a team of dementia nurses in Colchester who have had several months training.
"It's so powerful," says senior dementia practitioner Leigh Rippon. "The response from one of my male patients was that it felt like he was being cared for by a friend rather than just a technician."
Andy Bradley's ambition is to change the culture of nursing entirely and there is certainly a gap in the market for that.
Last month Prime Minister David Cameron said "the whole approach to caring in this country needs to be reset" if we want "dignity and respect" for patients.
But Andy Bradley says that change will not come from within the NHS:
"There are certain cultural norms around who does what and how things get done that tend to get broken down when you're in another space, people are less limited in their thinking.
"It's not that there isn't some really great thinking in the NHS and local authorities, it's just that sometimes it's really difficult to release it."
In their controversial Health and Social Care Bill, the government envisages a greater role for social entrepreneurship in the NHS. Successive governments have promoted it- Tony Blair mentioned social enterprise in his very first speech as prime minister- and it continues to grow.
In the last month alone a new social enterprise academy has opened, the government has announced Â£1m funding for young social entrepreneurs and a major bank has agreed to fund 500 grants worth up to Â£25,000.
'Rocky patches'
Social enterprises are also bucking the gloomy economic trend. Last year 58% of social enterprises grew compared with 28% of mainstream small and medium-sized businesses.
Source: Fightback Britain Report
Celia Richardson, director of campaigns at Social Enterprise UK, says social enterprise is thriving because economic times are hard.
"They see opportunities in market failure, so these are the perfect conditions for the social enterprise sector.
"It's a win-win situation because we're looking for sustainable growth. Social enterprises spot the social problem and the social opportunity first but they use business methods and create wealth to solve them."
Celia Richardson admits that social enterprise is not immune to the economic downturn - especially those which are reliant on public sector customers, such as Respect 4 Us.
It was set up in 2010 by two teachers, Dominic Boddington and Liz Easton to provide alternative education for teenagers in Norwich who had dropped out of school or were at risk of being excluded.
A number of schools send their most difficult pupils there. They have 38 students on their books at the moment, but public money is tight and some months Liz and Dominic do not know if they will get paid.
"We've really jumped in and followed our beliefs and hoped it would work," says Liz Easton, "and it has worked but there are rocky patches. It's a bit scary sometimes but you have to have that commitment.
"It would be lovely to crack the web around all these grant structures and to have some help but not at the cost of our independence, because if we had to bend our thinking to meet somebody else's expectations we wouldn't be us."
Their approach is "education on the sly" combining map-reading skills with bike-riding, numeracy with woodwork, and literacy with cookery.
The teenagers and adults prepare and eat meals together and the staff are constantly giving encouragement - even though often all they get in return is sarcasm or bad language.
It seems to be working. At the end of last year all of the teenagers they had worked with went into further education or training.
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Sixteen-year-old Levi has been going to Respect 4 Us for over a year after dropping out of school, which he says was a "waste of time."
"This is the only place I haven't been kicked out of. I was class clown at school. If a teacher told me to do something I'd just lash out and wreck the classroom but Respect have straightened me out.
"I have more respect for them than I ever had for my teachers and I've learned more here than I ever learned at school."
Dominic Boddington agrees with Andy Bradley's view that truly innovative approaches to public service are only possible when you are outside the system:
"The great thing is that we are completely free to decide for ourselves how to deal with particular situations. We're free of the national curriculum, we're free of targets, we're free of people looking over our shoulders all the time. It's an utterly fantastic place to work."
Follow The World Tonight's series of reports on social enterprises, weekdays at 22:00 GMT on Radio 4 from Tuesday 21 February or online afterwards at the above link.


The family of a British man killed in the Alps aeroplane crash has thanked fans of the football club he followed for their support.

Martyn Matthews, from Wolverhampton, was thought to have been travelling to Germany for a meeting, when the plane came down in France on Tuesday.
The 50-year-old was a season ticket holder at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
In a statement issued through the club, Mr Matthews' brother-in-law said he would have been "honoured".
Mike Lloyd said: "On behalf of the family, I would like to thank all of the Wolves fans and the club for their kind words and thoughts over the last few days.
"We have been overwhelmed with your kindness, warmth and generosity that we have received during this distressing time. It is a great comfort to see that there are so many people who genuinely care about our family."
Investigators have said they believe the plane was deliberately brought down by the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, killing everyone on board.
Mr Matthews worked as a senior quality manager for German automotive manufacturer Huf in Tipton, in the West Midlands.
Mr Lloyd criticised some members of the media for their intrusion following the news that the father-of-two had died in the crash and reiterated the family's request for privacy.
But he said the support from the fans had helped with their grief.
"Finally, once again we are very touched and thank you for being loyal supporters of the club and our family.
"Martyn was proud of being a lifelong Wolves supporter and I am sure he would be honoured to think that his team care about him and his family so much."


Revlon, known for its make-up and hair care products, has agreed to buy Elizabeth Arden in a $870m (Â£609m) deal.

Revlon hopes the acquisition will expand its global footprint.
Elizabeth Arden, famous for its Eight Hour Cream and Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber fragrances, has a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Revlon's boss described the firm as "one of the last independent, iconic brands in the cosmetics industry."
Canadian-born entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden founded the company in New York City in 1910. She is credited with inventing the makeover and was the first to introduce eye make-up to American women, according to the company's website.
Revlon hopes to benefit from Elizabeth Arden's strength in prestige skincare and fragrances, which would complement Revlon's strength in lipstick and nail varnish, hair care and men's grooming.
It typically distributes its products through mass retailers and beauty salons.
Elizabeth Arden, on the other hand, has a strong presence in high-end and travel retail channels but has been struggling in recent years.
Both companies sell their products in more than 120 countries, and when combined are expected to have sales of around $3bn.
Revlon said it would pay $14 per share for Elizabeth Arden, which represents a 50% premium on the company's share price just before the deal was announced.
"This acquisition is strategically and financially compelling," Revlon's chief executive Fabian Garcia said in a statement.
"Combining our brands, talent, and global distribution will give our company a significant presence in all major channels and categories, while accelerating sales growth in existing and new geographic regions."
Elizabeth Arden has struggled in recent years as sales of celebrity fragrances have declined and in 2014 it announced a restructuring programme to improve profitability.
It reported a net loss of $28.4m in the quarter ending March 31, but said restructuring plans were on track.
Revlon expects the tie-up, which should be completed by the end of this year, to result in savings of up to $140m.
Revlon was founded during the Great Depression in 1932, when it introduced nail enamel available in multiple colours. It later added lipstick and other products. The company reported a profit of $11m in the first quarter of 2016, following a $900,000 loss in the same quarter last year.


The US president's son, Donald Trump Jr, joined his brother to take the reins of the family business as his father left New York to step into the presidential spotlight.

But Donald Trump's eldest son has failed to evade the Russian scandal that has engulfed Washington and his father's White House.
Mr Trump Jr, 39, raised eyebrows after he released an email chain showing he was offered damaging information "that would incriminate" Hillary Clinton by a Russian national during the 2016 election.
The fresh revelation came after he admitted to meeting Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower with his sister's husband, Jared Kushner, and campaign manager Paul Manafort.
The Republican president has been dogged by allegations that Moscow tried to tip the election in his favour since he took office. He has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Russian interference.
But the emails, which Mr Trump Jr pre-emptively released on Twitter ahead of a New York Times report, appeared to be the first confirmation that a senior Trump associate met a Russian official with the expectation of being handed sensitive material.
Donald Trump Jr is the eldest of three children from Mr Trump's first marriage to Ivana.
Born in 1977, he grew up in his family's gilded penthouse at Trump Tower in Manhattan and was just 12 years old during his parents' highly publicised divorce
He attended the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and later followed in his father's footsteps at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
But he briefly departed from the familial path to serve as a bartender in Aspen, Colorado, after he graduated from college in 2001.
Later that year Mr Trump Jr went to work for the Trump Organization and - like his sister Ivanka - would rise to become executive vice-president, overseeing acquisitions and new developments for the firm's real estate, hotels and golf courses.
He also appeared alongside his siblings as advisers on his father's reality television programme The Celebrity Apprentice.
Mr Trump Jr married his wife, Vanessa Haydon, in November 2005 after his father introduced the pair at a fashion show two years earlier.
The couple have five young children together: Kai, Chloe, Donald, Tristan and Spencer.
Since his father took office, Mr Trump Jr and his brother, Eric, have taken control of management of the family firm.
But the first-born Trump has also shown interest in continuing his family's political legacy.
During a CNN interview in July 2016, he said he would not rule out a run for New York mayor, adding: "As my father always said...we always like to keep our options open".
Mr Trump later cast doubt on the idea, telling Fox News: "I don't see that happening."
Though he was raised among the posh high-rises and busy streets of New York City, Mr Trump Jr has long had an affinity for outdoor life.
At an early age, he developed a close relationship with his maternal grandfather, Milos Zelnicek, with whom he spent several weeks during the summer camping, fishing and hunting in a town outside Prague.
During his time visiting his grandparents, he also learned to speak Czech.
Mr Trump Jr and his Eric Trump's penchant for hunting big game also came under scrutiny in 2012 after photos surfaced showing the pair in Zimbabwe posing with dead animals including a leopard and a crocodile.
The brothers defended themselves, noting that they were not hunting illegally.
"Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment," he later said in a Forbes interview in 2012. "Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world."
Known as a fierce defender of the family name, Donald Trump Jr has made headlines for a string of controversial remarks he made since his father entered the political realm.
During an interview last September, he said the media would be "warming up the gas chamber right now" if Republicans acted the way Democrats did.
The remarks drew outrage from the Anti-Defamation League, which said he was trivialising the Holocaust. But Mr Trump Jr later said he was referring to capital punishment.
Much like his father, he has used social media to both rail against his family's critics and praise the Trump administration.
In March Mr Trump Jr incensed some British people on Twitter when he lambasted London's mayor after the terror attack on Westminster, which killed three people.
Last September he posted a controversial graphic that likened Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles, with the caption: "Would you take a handful? That's our Syrian refugee problem." He later deleted the graphic.
He also came under fire for posting an image on Instagram that altered a version of the movie poster for The Expendables, which included the online cartoon character Pepe the Frog depicted as his father.
The internet meme has been characterised as a symbol of hate and used by the alt-right group, a disparate group of right-wingers.


The parents of Madeleine McCann have told the BBC they are frustrated there is no joint British and Portuguese police inquiry into her disappearance.

Her mother, Kate McCann, said she also finds the slowness of the Portuguese investigation "distressing".
Madeleine was three when she disappeared in Praia da Luz, Algarve, seven years ago on Saturday.
Mrs McCann said she walks in that area every year to feel closer to Madeleine.
Madeleine's bedroom at the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire, has been kept exactly as it was when she went missing, her mother said.
"She might want to change it a bit now she's a bit older," Mrs McCann said. "It's absolutely the same."
Mrs McCann's visits to Praia da Luz take place once or twice a year, with the most recent being in April 2013.
"That's obviously the last place we were with Madeleine," she said.
"I'll still walk those streets and I guess try to look for answers. It helps me, most of the time."
She admitted she went "quietly" so as not to generate publicity which some local people "resent".
Scotland Yard launched a new investigation - codenamed Operation Grange - into Madeleine's disappearance last July, two years into a review of the case, and made renewed appeals for information.
A high-profile campaign run by the McCanns and the Portuguese police investigation had so far failed to locate the missing child.
Mrs McCann said she was particularly frustrated that police in Portugal had so far ruled out a joint inquiry with their British counterparts.
"As a parent, I find the slowness of action in Portugal really hard to take. I find it quite distressing," she said.
"Even though we're seven years down the line, waiting weeks or months, particularly for letters of request to be processed basically... it is frustrating.
"I suppose I do struggle with the fact. Please work together."
Mrs McCann said she had not been given a reason why a joint team had not been set up.
"To us, it makes sense that the two police forces should work together, to have a more streamlined approach to avoid duplication and basically to progress the investigation at a faster pace," she added.
Her husband Gerry said: "What is very, very clear is that there are lots of lines of inquiry and a lot of further work needs to be done in Portugal.
"The Met can only do so much with the information that they have."
Mr McCann said it was a "big step forward" that the Portuguese investigation had been reopened but admitted the bureaucratic process was causing delays.
"The concern that we have, and I think also that the Metropolitan Police have, is that at the minute, there's almost parallel investigations going on, which doesn't make sense," said Mr McCann.
"We're not quite sure why there's resistance to the joint investigation team, because clearly resources in Portugal is an issue and this would be one mechanism by which they could have additional funding."
The seventh anniversary of the day Madeleine went missing from the McCann's holiday apartment will be marked with a small gathering in their home village.
They said they planned to celebrate Madeleine's 11th birthday later this month with their other two children, nine-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
Mr McCann said: "It's really hard. She's not there. It's by far the toughest day of our year, every year."
The family still has a birthday cake for Madeleine every year, said Mrs McCann.
She added: "You think - 11, she's due to start secondary school in September. Which is just.... It's a long time."
Madeleine's younger brother and sister were described by their mother as "great kids".
"They really are wonderful," said Mrs McCann. "They've grown up with a big sister not being there.
"She's talked about frequently... we're a family of five, they've got an elder sister and they've handled it incredibly well."
Her husband added that the pair are "normal, happy nine-year-olds."
The best-case scenario, said Mr McCann, would be if Madeleine had been "taken by someone who wanted a child" and has been "loved and cared for".
High-profile cases of missing women found years after they were taken, including Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight who were rescued from a house in Ohio last year, have given them hope, the McCanns said.
"If you're one of those people, then statistics mean nothing." said Mrs McCann. "It is real hope. We're not blinkered.
"We know what the statistics say. But we also know about all of these cases.
"For each one of those children, now women, that have been found, statistics would have said they were dead."
Asked for a message for Madeleine, her mother said: "We love you Madeleine. We miss you every day, as we did that very first day, and we're waiting for you.
"We're never going to give up. We'll do whatever we can to find you."


Pope Benedict XVI has sent his first much-anticipated Twitter message using his personal account.

The Pope was shown pressing a button on an iPad tablet at the Vatican.
The message read:  "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
A spokesman said earlier the pontiff would "reach out to everyone" with accounts in eight languages.
After his introductory tweet on Wednesday, Benedict posted two follow-up messages.
By Alan Johnston BBC News, Rome
This venture into the Twittersphere is meant to reflect the Vatican's commitment to being part of the debate in cyberspace.
People are being asked to put questions to the Pope. And among those already posted, some are funny, and many others crude or silly. But some are sincere.
As one Vatican insider put: "The Pope's job description is to spread the word, and Twitter is a good way of doing that."
And being limited to the use of just 140 characters should not be too much of a hindrance.
The Christian message has often been at its most powerful when it's been at its most succinct.
Think of the Ten Commandments; "Thou shalt not kill" - just 16 characters.
They focused on promoting the Church's recently launched Year of Faith - an initiative intended to re-energise Catholicism.
"How can we celebrate the Year of Faith better in our daily lives?" the pontiff asked.
And he answered: "By speaking with Jesus in prayer, listening to what he tells you in the Gospel and looking for him in those in need."
Benedict's English account already has more than 700,000 followers and is growing fast.
So far, the Pope's accounts @pontifex - which mean "pontiff" or "builder of bridges" -  are only following each other.
Last year, the Pope sent his first tweet from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion or so Roman Catholics is expected to sign off, rather than write, each individual tweet himself.
The Pope's tweets are also expected to highlight messages from his weekly general audience, Sunday blessings and homilies on key Church holidays as well as papal reaction to world events.
The Vatican has long shown interest in using the latest communications technologies to spread the faith with the inventor of radio, Guglielmo Marconi, setting up Vatican Radio in 1931.
The Catholic Church also already uses several social media platforms, including text messages and YouTube, to communicate with young people.
Papal aides say the pontiff himself still prefers to communicate in longhand rather than using a computer keyboard.
Pope Benedict's six-year papacy has been bedevilled by poor communications.
Embarrassing clarifications had to be issued over such thorny issues as his 2005 speech about Islam and violence, and his stance on condoms and HIV.


A collection of manuscripts and notebooks which belonged to poet and novelist Edward Thomas are to be conserved thanks to a grant.

Cardiff University is currently exhibiting some of its collection as part of a three-day event to mark the centenary of Thomas' untimely death.
But Alan Hughes, head of special collections and archive, said some other items were in poor condition.
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust has awarded them almost Â£3,000.
The university holds the largest archive of Thomas' letters, diaries, notebooks, poems, photographs and personal belongings.
Mr Hughes said the grant had allowed us it to "collaborate with Glamorgan Archives to undertake essential conservation work on many of Edward Thomas' notebooks".
He said nine were in particularly poor condition due to acidification, fragile bindings and general deterioration over time.
"Many are unable to be handled without a high risk of further damage and are therefore inaccessible to scrutiny, celebration, digitisation and study," he said.
Thomas, known for his poems written as World War One raged across Europe, was killed in the Battle of Arras at Easter 1917, at the age of 39.
While he was born in England, Prof Katie Gramich who organised this week's event, said his parents were Welsh and he loved Wales.
She said his work was influenced by the time he spent walking in Wales and he felt "cheated of a Welsh identity".
The exhibition, which runs until the autumn, features previously unheard archive recordings of family and friends, interviewed by the university's Prof R George Thomas in 1967.


A 23-year-old has been charged with murdering a man and woman who were found dead in a house in Essex.

The pair, named in court as Gillian Phillips and David Oakes, were discovered in Bentfield Gardens, Stansted Mountfitchet, at 23:00 BST on Wednesday.
Investigations suggested they had been stabbed, Essex Police said.
Brett Rogers, of Bentfield Gardens, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court earlier.
He was remanded in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on 27 July.
Post-mortem examinations are due to take place on the bodies of the man and woman, who were not related.
Detectives are still searching for a murder weapon and said the cordon around the property would remain in place "for the next few days".


A soldier killed by an explosion in Afghanistan on Saturday has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Staff Sergeant Brett George Linley.

The 29-year-old, from Birmingham, served with the Royal Logistic Corps.
He died in a blast in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province and is survived by his partner and parents.
Lt Col David Southall of the Royal Engineers told the MoD website: "Staff Sergeant Brett Linley was a man of courage and composure."
On 17 July, Staff Sgt Linley and his team were working in Nahr-e Saraj to clear improvised explosive devices from a major route when a bomb exploded, killing him.
Staff Sgt Linley enlisted into the Royal Logistic Corps in March 2001 and qualified as an ammunition technician in September 2002.
He completed three tours of duty in Northern Ireland, and was also deployed to the Falkland Islands and Canada.
Lt Col Southall, who is commanding officer of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force, said: "His loss has shaken us all.
"He qualified earlier this year as a High Threat IED Operator, motivated by a simple desire to save life and play his part in Afghanistan.
"I will remember his calm, considered manner and, as one of life's grafters, his professionalism was meticulous; 'If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right' he'd tell his boys, both in training and on task."
Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox said: "Despite the very real danger that he faced every day, Staff Sergeant Brett Linley carried out his role with courage, professionalism and composure.
"It's clear from the tributes to him that he was a selfless soldier who, without question, would do whatever was needed to protect those around him.
"It was while trying to keep his colleagues and the local Afghan people safe from IEDs that he was tragically killed. His sacrifice will not be forgotten and I offer my sincere condolences to his friends and family."


Nearly 200 Democrats in the US Congress are joining forces to file a legal case against President Donald Trump over receipt of payments from foreign governments via his businesses.

The plaintiffs accuse Mr Trump of violating the constitution's emoluments clause, prohibiting receipt of gifts without congressional approval.
They say this is the largest number of legislators ever to sue a US president.
State officials and private businesses are suing Mr Trump in similar cases.
The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia announced their lawsuit on Monday.
The White House has denied their allegations.
Spokesman Sean Spicer blamed "partisan politics" for the attorneys general lawsuit.
The justice department declined to comment on the latest suit by legislators, but has said previously it is unconstitutional to sue the president in his private capacity.
At least 30 senators and 166 representatives are involved.
They say Mr Trump has not sought congressional approval for any payments received by his businesses from foreign governments since he took office.
"President Trump has conflicts of interest in at least 25 countries, and it appears he's using his presidency to maximise his profits," said Representative John Conyers, quoted by Reuters news agency.
"We do this not out of any sense of pleasure or partisanship, but because President Trump has left us with no other option."
Sen Richard Blumenthal said: "The president's failure to tell us about these emoluments... mean that we cannot do our job. We cannot consent to what we don't know. He's interfering with our constitutional duty."
Mr Trump's worldwide organisation includes more than 500 business entities, including hotels, golf courses and apartment buildings, many of which have done business with foreign governments.
Since taking office in January, Mr Trump has turned day-to-day control of his real estate empire and other assets over to a trust managed by his adult sons.
But he has not sold them off as critics said he should do in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
A non-governmental organisation, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), lodged a similar legal action in January.
The president's lawyers have argued the emoluments clause is intended only to stop federal officials from accepting a special consideration or gift from a foreign power and does not apply to payments such as a bill for a hotel room.
A list of Trump's potential conflicts


Darren Hughes scored a goal and Conor McManus six points as Monaghan began their Football League Division One campaign by beating Mayo 1-11 to 0-12.

Mayo led 0-6 to 0-5 at half-time at Castlebar, with McManus contributing four frees for the Farney County.
Hughes latched onto a McManus pass and coolly slotted under goalkeeper David Clarke early in the second half.
Monaghan had Karl O'Connell sent-off for two yellow cards while Cillian O'Connor ended with 0-7 for the hosts.
Debutant Fergal Boland got Mayo off to a bright start with the game's first point but four unanswered frees from McManus put the visitors in control.
Evan Regan and Hughes traded points but the All-Ireland finalists surged ahead with O'Connor, Kevin McLoughlin and Alan Freeman getting their names on the scoresheet.
Hughes's goal nudged Monaghan ahead again and a Colin Walshe point soon after put three points between the sides.
O'Connor found his range consistently with a series of second-half frees to put pressure on Malachy O'Rourke's outfit.
Thomas Kerr, Rory Beggan and Gavin Doogan joined McManus in pointing for Monaghan, who survived the dismissal of O'Connell 10 minutes from time to get off to a winning start.
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What can be read into Theresa May's letter to European Council President Donald Tusk giving formal notice of Brexit?

BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth examines it for clues on how events may unfold over the next two years.
Read the full text of the letter (PDF)
What's the significance? This is all about the timing of the talks and is likely to be a key point of contention. The EU Commission's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has made his view clear - the UK and the EU should agree the terms of the UK's withdrawal before negotiating any future trade deal. He's said "putting things in the right order" maximises the chances of reaching an agreement.
However the UK Government takes a different view - one Theresa May chooses to reiterate several times in this letter.
She says the divorce and the new relationship should be discussed at the same time, in fact saying the government thinks it's "necessary" to agree the withdrawal alongside the future relationship. This is shaping up to be the basis of an early row if both sides stick to their positions. How it's resolved could be interesting in setting the tone for the rest of the negotiations.
What's the significance? When Theresa May gave her first in-depth insights into her vision for Brexit in a speech at Lancaster House earlier this year, she said "no deal for Britain was better than a bad deal". That led to much talk about what "no deal" would mean - for both the EU and the UK.
In today's letter, the prime minister didn't explicitly repeat what she said previously. Instead, Mrs May  reiterated that the UK wants to agree a "deep and special partnership with the EU", and failure to do so would weaken cooperation in the fight against crime and terrorism.
Rather than threatening to walk away, the prime minister is attempting to highlight the mutual benefits to both the UK  and the EU of reaching an agreement about their future relationship - and warning of the dangers if that doesn't happen. It's a carrot rather than a stick, albeit one that comes with a health warning.
What's the significance? At the start of a negotiation, tone is key.
Theresa May is about to enter one of the most significant negotiations of any prime minister . In this letter, she deliberately avoids an aggressive stance.
She sets out how the UK is the EU's closest friend and neighbour and why a continuing relationship between the two is essential to both. Rather than make threats or set out red lines, Mrs May strikes a positive and cooperative tone - more so than in the speech she gave about Brexit at the start of the year.
Given the time pressure and sheer complexity of this negotiation, and just what's at stake for all involved, the prime minister seems to be saying to her EU counterparts: let's work on this together. It might be welcomed by the EU, but some hard-line Brexiteers may want to ensure there's still a tough approach to the talks behind the more friendly tone.
What's the significance? Many EU citizens living in the UK, as well as Britons living abroad, have expressed concern about the impact Brexit may have on their rights. Theresa May came under pressure to unilaterally agree to protect those EU citizens living in the UK, but has repeatedly refused to do so, saying only it is important to get resolved early. The European Union has refused to discuss it before A50 was triggered - now that's happened Mrs May makes clear an early agreement on this issue is still a priority.
On this point the EU will agree - they too want this settled soon. But in today's letter, Mrs May acknowledges it is a complex area.
Both sides may want it resolved, but the specifics are likely to be an early - and possibly tricky - discussion.
What's the significance? Two years isn't a long time to rework a relationship that's lasted for more than four decades .
There are swathes of regulation and legislation to unpick, discussions on a whole host of issues from immigration, trade, workers' rights and environmental regulation. The outcome will have an impact on businesses, investors and individuals.
The prime minister again says she wants to avoid a "cliff edge" - a dramatic period of rapid change when the old rules cease to apply and the new ones start.
Instead she suggests a "phased implementation" where the new way of working, once agreed, can be brought in gradually to 'minimise disruption'.
Theresa May has talked of this before, but in the letter asks the EU to agree to this principle early on in talks. If it does, this effectively means the UK won't necessarily sever all ties with the EU when the negotiating period is up in two years' time. Instead there'll be a transition.
What's the significance? The UK has been clear for some time that it wants to replace single market membership with a good trade deal.
The letter doesn't offer a great deal more in the way of specifics; it doesn't even mention the customs union.
But it does say technical talks about an "ambitious deal" should start as soon as possible. There's no direct mention of the much-mooted "divorce bill" - billions of pounds some EU leaders have suggested the UK will have to pay on leaving in order to meet existing financial commitments.
The PM says there must be talk about a "fair settlement" of the UK's obligations as a departing member, although she makes clear that must be discussed at the same time as the UK's future partnership with the EU. The timetable is clearly key to the government - which wants to ensure it can start negotiating a trade deal soon.
Immigration was a key issue during the referendum campaign, and the PM made controlling migration from Europe to Britain one of her 12 Brexit priorities earlier this year.
However, there's no specific mention of immigration in today's letter. It refers to the "four freedoms of the single market" - one of those is freedom of movement.
It acknowledges the UK can't "cherry pick" between these; a reference to the warning from EU leaders in the past that if the UK wanted to remain a member of the single market it would have to accept the free movement of people.
Mrs May has already ruled this out in speeches in the past.
Leaving it out of the letter could be her way of saying it's not up for negotiation, or it could be a recognition that on free movement the EU's line is just as firm - so there's not much to talk about.
Either way, such a significant issue is conspicuous by its absence.


Tributes have been paid to a "well-respected" RNLI crew member who died in a motorbike crash on Anglesey.

Motorcyclist Craig Steadman, 28, was involved in an accident with a car on the A55 near Llanfairpwll on Monday.
Emergency services were called at about 17:30 BST, but Mr Steadman was pronounced dead at the scene.
George Rawlinson, RNLI operations director, said: "Craig was a well-respected member of the lifeboat crew at Holyhead and will be deeply missed."
He added: "This is tragic news and on behalf of all of us at the RNLI, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to Craig's family, friends and RNLI colleagues."
Mr Steadman was a member of the lifeboat crew at Holyhead on both the station's all-weather and inshore lifeboats.
His mother Sharon described him as "such a kind and helpful boy. He would do anything for anyone and put others first".
Mr Steadman was on the RNLI crew for two years until 2006 and rejoined in 2011 after a period teaching at a sailing college in Salcombe, Devon.
He also worked as an engineer at RAF Valley and more recently in the bakery at Tesco, Holyhead.
His father Ray said: "He had dedicated his whole young life to saving others. I am so proud of him."
Craig's partner Tracy described him as "the love of my life", adding: "I only wish we could have spent the rest of our lives together."


Next month it will become illegal to pay for sex in Northern Ireland - following Sweden and Norway in criminalising men who use prostitutes.

The authorities in Sweden say the number of women on the streets in the prostitution area in Stockholm has fallen from 700-800 to 200 women since the legislation was introduced in 1999.
Prostitution is technically legal in the UK although related activities, such as soliciting for sex in a public place, are outlawed.
Campaigners are calling for the new law to be implemented across the rest of the UK, to help stifle the trade and "end demand'.
But others say this just drives it into more dangerous locations and further stigmatises the industry and the best protection for prostitutes is actually legalisation.
Here are two viewpoints from different sides of the debate.
Ben - not his real name - believes the trade serves a "useful social function".
The 30-year-old single man, who works in PR in London, has paid for sex since he was 22. He has slept with 30 to 40 prostitutes.
"The law would probably only scare away the kind of customers who have something to lose," he says.
Ben sleeps with prostitutes - or escorts he finds online - at their homes or hotels, once every two-to-four weeks. He says he pays around £100 an hour so it is not possible to do more often.
"A lot of the time I struggle with women and paying for sex for me is a way of experiencing the kind of sex that I probably wouldn't without paying for it, frankly," he explains.
He says if buying sex was illegal it would stop him from doing it in the UK. "To me it's not worth the risk to be arrested for a crime that would have such a stigma attached to it."
There were 60,879 prostitutes in the UK in 2009, who had an average of 25 clients per week - each paying on average £67.16 per visit
One in 10 British men say they have paid for sex, a study of 6,000 found, while 3.6% admitted going to prostitutes in the past five years
The trade in the human trafficking of foreign women to be sexually exploited in the UK is worth at least £130m
50% of women in prostitution in the UK started being paid for sex acts before they were 18, while 95% street prostitutes are problematic drug users
About 17,500 men pay for sex each year in Northern Ireland. Only about 20 people still work as street-based prostitutes, the majority advertise online and work from houses
Sources: Office for National Statistics, University College London, Home Office and Queen's University Belfast
An anti-prostitution advocate would probably see that as a good thing, and evidence legislation was working, he says.
"What they don't take into account is that the fewer clients there are, the less choice there is for people who work in the sex industry.
"It would not stop people from entering the trade, it would give them less choice in the type of customer they had, which would probably mean they would take greater risks."
Ben says he does not believe that penalising customers would stop the sex trade, as Sweden still has prostitution, it has just moved indoors and onto the internet.
"If criminal penalties come in and there is a police crackdown, then of course this would change, but it would not change my opinion that the sex trade serves a useful social function.
"This isn't what a lot of people talk about on the other side of the debate.
"For a lot of customers it isn't the orgasm that they are chasing, it's the intimacy of being able to lie with someone in a bed for one or two hours that is absent from their regular life a lot.
"I can't say what it would be like for an average man.  But if I had never paid for sex I would have had a really lonely life."
Mia de Faoite worked as a prostitute in the Irish Republic for six years, mainly on the streets of Dublin. She left the trade in 2010 with the help of a social worker and says it took her about a year to recover. She then joined the campaign to implement the Nordic model of law throughout Ireland.
She does not agree with the suggestion legislation would hurt the work of women who choose to be prostitutes.
"In Ireland there's a handful of women like that who say they are happy to be there. This law is not about them.
"This law is about the vast majority of women who feel [like me] trapped and can't see the choices out. This law is about the protection of human dignity.
"This law is to stop the traffic because it will not stop until we cut off what makes it exist in the first place, and that is the demand, that is those who believe they have a right to buy other human beings for sex.
"The collateral damage for those who say they are happy to be there is that they will have to look for a new job. That's collateral damage I can sleep with."
She says prostitutes see the world in a different way. "Within a short period of time your only human contact becomes men who buy you, and then the other damaged or addicted women that you stand alongside. So we don't quite see the world the same way as everybody else."
She says she does not believe that freedom to do whatever you want with your own body is an absolute right.
"Not if in doing what you do with your body feeds into an industry which at its worst leads to the rape and sodomisation of young women and girls. Then no, it's a much more limited right. But what is an absolute right is freedom from slavery, torture and servitude."
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A large dust storm has hit western parts of the Middle East, putting dozens of people in hospital and leading to public health warnings.

After hitting parts of Syria on Monday, the dust spread to larger areas of the country on Tuesday morning.
Parts of Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and Cyprus were also affected. Lebanon's state news agency said two people died - one an elderly man found on a roof.
Syrian media said the weather stopped fighting in Hama and Idlib provinces.
The pro-government al-Watan newspaper said (in Arabic) that government helicopters were prevented from flying because of the dust.
The poor weather was down partly to a low-pressure system over the entire region and sand blowing in from the east, Syria's state news agency, Sana, said (in Arabic).
Poor visibility may last until the end of the week, it added.
Elsewhere in the region:
BBC correspondents across the Middle East have also been posting images of the sandstorm on social media.


League One side Peterborough United have signed teenage goalkeeper Josh Tibbetts on a two-year contract.

The 18-year-old will join Posh upon the expiry of his deal at Championship side Birmingham, which ends in June.
Tibbetts, who failed to make a first-team appearance at Blues, had been training with Peterborough last season.
"He is one for the future and he is here to push the new number one who we are working on at the moment," said Posh manager Grant McCann.
He becomes Posh's third summer signing, after the arrivals of Ricky Miller and Danny Lloyd.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A Northamptonshire police officer has been charged with the rape of a 17-year-old girl.

PC Declan Gabriel, a 26-year-old local response officer, faces one charge of rape and two counts of sexual assault.
He is also accused of misconduct in public office. The offences relate to 21 September last year.
Northamptonshire Police said the officer would remain suspended from duty. He is due to appear before Kettering magistrates on 30 March.
The inquiry was led by the force's professional standards department, with the Independent Police Complaints Commission aware (IPCC), a spokesman said.


New Glamorgan head coach Robert Croft wants to get more players from the county into the England set-up.

Only three Glamorgan players have represented England since Croft, 42, made his international debut in 1996.
After being unveiled as Glamorgan's new cricket chief on a rolling contract, Croft confirmed increased international selection is one of his key aims.
"For the spread of the game we want to create sporting icons in Wales, it's very important," he explained.
Only Steve James and Simon Jones have represented England at Test level from Glamorgan since Croft, with Jones' debut coming in 2002.
Alex Wharf is the last Glamorgan player to play international limited over cricket in 2005 and Croft is keen to address no-one from the SSE Swalec Stadium getting an England call for more than a decade.
"Team success first and individual success comes after that. That is what I believe," he said.
"If you have ambition you can push the boundaries. The game is going forward and you have to keep evolving."
Croft is keen to promote youth at Glamorgan, but will not rush players into the starting XI.
"The next generation is my long term goal," Croft said.
"I played in a team where lots of young Welsh players played, who were not ready and potentially, we suffered a bit of a lost generation in that respect.
"So if you are a Welsh player, great, but you've got to be very good. And when you do break into that Glamorgan dressing room, there will be quality players to bring the best out of them.
"We want them here for a long time, we don't want quick fixes at Glamorgan; our mission statement is to make Wales proud.
"It comes down to ambition, where is the end of your rainbow?
"That's something the players will be challenged with in a positive way. For however long we are here, we want to leave a positive mark and look back with smiles on our faces, believing we did all we could to get Glamorgan back."
Croft feels he is far enough removed as a Glamorgan player to make the transition to head coach a smooth one, even though he is an icon at a county he has represented for 29-years.
"In some ways I felt like I left the dressing room when I was still a player, because there was such an age gap," he joked.
"When you are 42-years old, in a dressing room full of 24 and 25-years olds, what you do away from the dressing room is very, very different!
"So there had been a natural space made and I've been out of the dressing room now for three-years.
"I'm more than comfortable, where I am now and all my efforts are poured into this club."
Croft confirmed he enjoyed his spell working with England recently as a spin bowling specialist in South Africa, but currently has now plans to seek a future on the international scene.
"For however long we are here, we want to leave a positive mark and look back with smiles on our faces, believing we did all we could to get Glamorgan back," he said.


Clydesdale Bank has reportedly made an offer for Williams & Glyn, the banking business that RBS failed to sell to Santander.

A person familiar with the talks, which were first reported by the Financial Times, confirmed the approach, although neither bank would comment officially.
RBS said: "There is interest in the business and this remains the case."
Santander last month ended discussions with RBS about the sale, which the European Commission had ordered.
That order related to the bank's £45bn government bailout at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
European regulators had demanded a sale of Williams & Glyn be completed by 2013 to prevent RBS, Britain's biggest lender to small businesses, from having an unfair advantage and posing a systemic threat to the UK economy.
However, the bank blamed the problem of creating a separate IT system at a cost of about £1.5bn for the delays in selling the business.
The sale is regarded by many analysts as necessary for RBS to finally shake off the legacy of the financial crisis and return to full private ownership.
Santander pulled out of talks to buy the unit last month because of a disagreement over the price, sources said.
The resurrected Williams & Glyn will have 300 branches, 1.8 million customers, loans worth £20bn and deposits of £24bn. That makes it one of the UK's largest prospective "challenger" bank brands, with the potential to win market share in the small business banking sector from Lloyds and RBS itself.
Clydesdale bank was floated on the London Stock Exchange in February by National Australia Bank, which still owns a controlling stake.
Clydesdale shares have risen more than 40% in that time, valuing the bank at almost £2.4bn.
Shares in RBS, which reports third quarter results on Friday, have fallen by 36% since the start of the year.
The Williams & Glyn brand was created in 1969 after RBS merged with the National Commercial Bank and was used in 326 branches in England and Wales.
It disappeared in 1985 after being replaced by the RBS brand.


Two men charged in connection with a tipper truck crash that killed four people in Bath have appeared in court.

Phillip Potter, 19, and Matthew Gordon, 29, face a total of nine charges relating to the crash last February.
Mitzi Steady, four, from Bath, Robert Parker, 59, from Cwmbran, Phil Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, both from Swansea, were all killed in the crash.
A trial is likely to take place later in the year and is expected to last four weeks, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Mitzi was walking with her grandmother on Lansdown Lane in Bath when she was hit by the Scania truck carrying aggregate.
It went on to hit a number of vehicles on the road before overturning on to a Volvo at the bottom of the hill, killing the three other victims.
Mr Potter, of Little Middle Green Farm, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, faces two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
It is alleged he was driving the HGV tipper truck "dangerously" from an access road to Shorncote Quarry, along the Spine Road, on the M4, on the A46, the A420, Freezing Lane and Lansdown Lane.
Mr Gordon, of Chestnut Farm, Dauntsey, faces charges of aiding or abetting and one count of dangerous driving.
The two defendants did not enter pleas to the charges against them at the preliminary hearing and were released on unconditional bail.
The next hearing is likely to take place in June.