Until not that long ago, Theresa May was perhaps best known for her characterisation of the Tory party as a group that some voters thought was "the nasty party".

Years and years later, it feels her first manifesto pitch as prime minister is the logical conclusion of that.
In her manifesto she tried to make a bold claim, that the Tories had never been the party of untrammelled free markets, that they had always believed that government could be a force for good - indeed that it is time for an end to political tribes, that she is for and represents the mainstream.
The manifesto explicitly rejects the idea of a centre ground that is defined by what she described as Westminster "elites". Instead, she is putting forward the notion that somehow, she can genuinely represent everyone - well, everyone who is in the middle.
Her close team will tell you this is genuinely what she believes, that her long years of campaigning with the Tory voluntary party make her a different political animal to her predecessors and the Cameron clique, placing her firmly in the solid mindset of middle England.
Her values of hard work, more fortitude less flash, match more closely the views of most voters than the Notting Hill gang of before. She went much further too than rejecting the recent past, seeming to spurn what would be considered more Thatcherite values. The roots of her hoped-for "great meritocracy" that includes social obligations go back much further than that.
But don't imagine for one second that this message has not also been tested and discussed with political number crunchers, with Lynton Crosby, the campaign chief and political supremo of the Tory backroom.
The message of new "mainstream" could, they hope, work on many levels. Core to their campaign is to scoop up millions of votes in parts of the country where traditionally the Tories have been considered toxic, where huge numbers of the public would agree with her characterisation all those years ago of the "nasty party".
So whenever she is questioned about being a "red Tory", or a "proper Tory", that fits precisely the narrative that Tory central office are trying to create. That for voters who've never chosen the Tories before, it's "safe" to do so because she is somehow not like the rest of them.
Of course "proper" Tories may be irritated that balancing the books has been pushed back, again. Free-marketeers will be annoyed by the arbitrary immigration target that may have a cost to the economy.
More intervention in industry, no new significant tax cuts, and more or less matching Labour's promised spending on the NHS might rankle.
Like the Labour Party, but on a very different scale, there will be more spending, and borrowing for longer. But rather than trying to please the diehard of her own party, Theresa May wants to win, and win big, by trying to reach out.
The much bigger test of whether her claim to be "mainstream" will come later, if she wins.
How policies are actually delivered is rarely a mirror of their grand-sounding claims in their manifestos. But is her rhetorical redefinition really likely to bring an end to the divisions of left and right?
In this election, the gulf between the two sides is greater than it has been for many years. The Tories were heckled and jeered by protestors as they gathered in Halifax today, where they hope to take Labour seats. Her desired goal of putting an end to political tribes seems a very long way off.


Two men have appeared in court over the death of a teenager whose body was found in the back of a car after a crash with a motorbike.

Megan Bannister, 16, from Leicester, was dead before the collision in Enderby on Sunday, police said.
Jason Burder, 28, of Braunstone Avenue, Leicester, and Adam King, 27, of Waltham Avenue, Leicester, were charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
They are due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 15 June.
The men were refused bail after appearing before magistrates' earlier.
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A third man, aged 34, has been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
He remains in police custody.
The force revealed Megan's injuries were not consistent with a crash, but a post-mortem examination was inconclusive.
Megan was due to take the first of her GCSE exams on Tuesday, her school said. She wanted to become a midwife.
Her family said in a statement: "Megan was our beautiful, talented, loving daughter and sister, and our hearts have been utterly broken by her death.
"The thought of life without Megan is impossible to imagine, and we cannot adequately express in words the sense of numbness and overwhelming grief we feel at her loss.
"She was bright, clever, and a responsible person who loved her family and her many friends.
"She had a strong self-will and had set her heart on training to becoming a midwife.
"Knowing how confident and determined she was, we have no doubt she would have realised that dream."
Wigston College, where Megan was a student, said in a statement: "Megan was funny, friendly and good.
"She was popular and had a wide range of friends. She liked people and they liked her and this is how we will remember her.
"Our thoughts are very much with her family at this impossibly difficult time."


Highland Council has urged people to take "simple precautions" against being bitten by ticks.

The blood-sucking creatures have been linked to a rise in Lyme disease in humans in the past 10 years.
Untreated tick bites can result in neurological problems and joint pain months or years later.
The local authority has set up a page on its website giving advice on how to avoid tick bites and what to do if bitten.
Ticks are small arthropods related to spiders, mites and scorpions and Britain has a number of different species.
People are most likely to come across sheep ticks, which feed on mammals and birds, in open spaces with long grass or bracken.
Highland Council's tick project co-ordinator Bob Murdoch said he knew of people who had fallen ill because of Lyme disease.
He said: "I feel it vital that we raise awareness of the issues surrounding ticks.
"Increasingly, more people are aware of someone among friends or family who has been bitten or affected by ticks.
"This is a widespread issue across the country and we should all take simple precautions like avoiding walking though long grass with bare legs or arms in the tick season of May to September.
Mr Murdoch added: "Tuck trousers into socks and inspect yourself when you get home. If you haven't already got a tick tool, this is a great idea and something we should all have handy in the car, wallet or handbag."
The council's campaign is the latest effort in the Highlands to tackle the threat posed by ticks.
In May, the European Space Agency gave £180,000 to a project to test a new app mapping tick hotspots.
NHS Highland, the University of the Highlands and Islands and Scotland's Rural College are involved in the initiative which will test the LymeMap app.
People out walking or cycling have been asked to use the app to upload information about where they find ticks.
Using GPS technology, the application also gathers details such as the height, temperature and vegetation cover of the location where a person uploads their information.
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected ticks.
Flu-like symptoms and fatigue are often the first noticeable signs of infection.
Diagnosed cases of Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics, but, if left untreated, neurological problems and joint pain can develop months or years later.


The European Central Bank (ECB) has insisted there is still a long way to go before it can call a halt to its economic stimulus programme.

ECB president Mario Draghi threw cold water on speculation that the bank might wind the programme down soon.
The bank is still buying 60bn euros (Â£53bn) of bonds a month as part of its quantitative easing (QE) programme.
The ECB also kept the key interest rate for the countries that use the euro currency unchanged at 0%.
Mr Draghi said: "After a long time we are finally experiencing a robust recovery, where we only have to wait for wages and prices to follow a course towards our objective.
"The last thing the governing council wants is an unwanted tightening and for conditions that may either slow down this process or even jeopardise it."
Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: "The comment on inflation which is sticking in our head is Mr Draghi's notice to markets that: 'We are not there yet.'"
However, the euro did move sharply to a 14-month high against the dollar when at one point Mr Draghi hinted that the governing council of the ECB might start discussing reducing QE in the autumn.
Neil Wilson from ETX Capital commented: "It wasn't much but the market is super-sensitive to anything from Draghi at the moment."
Last month, Mr Draghi's speech in Sintra in Portugal was interpreted by many economists as meaning the eurozone's economic recovery would allow QE to end and for interest rates to rise.
Patrick O'Donnell, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management, said: "This is a well-choreographed attempt by Mr Draghi to make sure that financial markets don't get ahead of themselves after his more hawkish comments of late."
The QE bond-buying programme, together with ultra-low interest rates, was designed to encourage lending and fend off the threat of deflation in the eurozone.
Mr Draghi said the policy had been a success: "We have created in the last three years six million jobs, much more than any time before the crisis in the same amount of time.
"All the economic sentiment indicators and survey indicators are either at all time highs or close to them so the policies have been successful."
However, the inflation rate in the eurozone was 1.3% in June, down slightly from 1.4% in May, some way below the ECB's target of close to, but below, 2%.
Mr Draghi said: "Measures of underlying inflation remain low and have yet to show convincing signs of a pick-up, as domestic cost pressures, including wage growth, are still subdued. Underlying inflation in the euro area is expected to rise only gradually over the medium term."
Aberdeen Asset Management's Mr O'Donnell said: "We probably won't hear anything significant out of the ECB until September, which is plenty of time for investors to digest Mr Draghi's caveat laden hawkishness.
"Mr Draghi will be hoping that today's performance is enough to give him a quiet summer."


Yum Brands, which runs the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant chains, has seen third quarter profits soar 23%, boosted by strong sales in China.

The firm has reported a net profit of $471m (Â£294m) in the three months to 8 September.
China contributed more than half of Yum's $3.6bn revenue during the period.
US-based Yum is the biggest Western restaurant operator in China and fears about growth in the country had pushed Yum shares lower in recent weeks.
Profits in Yum's Chinese business had dropped in the second quarter because of higher costs but rebounded in the third quarter, rising by 22%.
Since June, the group has opened 394 new restaurants, of which 192 new units were in China, which contributed to its sales growth.
Globally, profits for the group grew 18% during the period.
The company beat its earnings targets and has raised its full-year outlook.


The head of finance at a homeless charity in Swansea has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, understood to be worth £800,000.

Mark Davies, 47, was arrested by officers last week and has been released on police bail.
Mr Davies works at Cyrenians Cymru, which offers a range of services to homeless and disadvantaged adults.
A South Wales Police spokesman said the force's economic crime unit was carrying out the investigation.
Cyrenians Cymru said in a statement that Mr Davies no longer worked for charity and added it was "actively pursuing recovery of all losses".
A spokesperson for the Charity Commission said it received a serious incident report from Cyrenians Cymru.
"We have contacted the charity to explain that we will be asking for more information, and an update on the developing situation," they added.


A father-of-four who died after an assault outside a McDonald's restaurant was "loved by all those who knew him" his family has said.

Bradley Moore, 43, died in hospital after an attack in Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, on Wednesday night.
His daughter, Alex, said: "He will be watching over me, my brothers, Reece and Jack, and my little sister Emma."
Four boys, including a 12-year-old, appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Monday charged with murder.
The 12-year-old was remanded into local authority accommodation.
His co-accused, two aged 16 and and a 17-year-old, were placed in youth detention custody.
Det Insp John Mulvihill said it was a "tragic case" and appealed for witnesses to contact police.
He said officers were keen to speak to the driver of a Vauxhall Corsa who parked on Warrington Street, near to the restaurant, before going inside on Wednesday night.
Staff at the restaurant have said they are raising money to pay for Mr Moore's funeral.


A taxi driver had his car shot at in Rochdale as three men demanded his cash and mobile phone.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the 29-year-old man was threatened as he sat in his car on Grasmere Street at 01:20 BST.
As he drove off, one of the men shot at his car with a handgun, hitting the vehicle.
GMP said the driver refused to hand over his cash and phone. The men fled on foot towards Grouse Street.
Police described the men as black and said they wearing black clothes. The gunman was said to be tall and aged between 25 and 30.
Det Insp Andrew Duncan of Rochdale division said: "I understand that members of the community will be alarmed by what happened, as this is the second incident in a matter of weeks where a gun has been used in Rochdale.
"We are not linking this to any other recent firearms incidents and I want to offer my assurances that we are doing all we can to find the people that did this.
"This was a violent attempt to rob a taxi driver and we simply will not tolerate gun crime in our community."


Iraq's government has allowed people displaced by the violence in the western province of Anbar to enter Baghdad, after waiving restrictions.

More than 40,000 people fled their homes after Islamic State militants seized the city of Ramadi on Friday.
Many were stranded on open land until being allowed to cross a bridge over the River Euphrates on Wednesday.
The Shia-led government is concerned IS militants might hide among those fleeing the Sunni-dominated region.
But several people are reported to have died of dehydration or exhaustion while being kept away.
"The Iraqi government, they've established checkpoints at some of the main entry points into the city because they're very worried about the potential for hostile elements to enter Baghdad," Lise Grande, the UN Deputy Special Representative for Iraq, told the BBC.
"At one of the checkpoints on one of the entry bridges there are up to 6,000 people who have been forced to sleep outside," she added.
Athal al-Fahdawi, an Anbar provincial council member, later told the Associated Press that thousands of the displaced people were being allowed to cross a bridge in the Bzeibez area.


A group of women has entered the inner sanctum of Mumbai's Haji Ali mosque four years after they were barred by the trust that runs the Sufi shrine.

The high court in Mumbai said in August the ban "violated the constitution" and was discriminatory towards women.
The trust initially challenged the ruling in the Supreme Court but last month agreed to rescind the ban.
In recent months, India has seen a number of campaigns to allow women into religious shrines that bar their entry.
Although women are allowed into the compound and other parts of the Haji Ali mosque, the 2012 ban barred them from entering the inner sanctum, which houses the tomb of a Sufi saint.
The trust said it was a "sin" to allow women to touch the tombs of male saints.
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About 100 women had entered the shrine on Tuesday, Zakia Soman of the rights group Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), told the BBC.
The BBMA had challenged the ban on women entering the 15th Century shrine in Mumbai's high court.
Women from all over India had petitioned the court to lift the ban and many of them were among the group that entered the mosque to offer prayers, Ms Soman said.
Campaigners say male clerics' decisions to keep women out of religious places represents the imposition of patriarchy in the name of religion.


The BBC has launched a search to find the UK's most inspirational amateur orchestras, as part of a new season that aims to inspire creativity.

Orchestras from across the UK are being urged to sign up and compete for the chance to perform at a major public event later this year.
Five finalists will compete in a grand final, to be broadcast on BBC Two.
The search is part of BBC Music's Get Playing initiative, which encourages people to try their hand at music.
Thousands of amateur musicians meet across the UK every week - with one government estimate suggesting there were 11,220 groups playing regularly.
In London alone, there is an orchestra composed of lawyers, one of medics, one which plays exclusively in basements and the London Gay Symphony Orchestra (which is open to everyone).
But they rarely get mainstream recognition, with a few notable exceptions such as the CBSO Chorus, which regularly performs with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The BBC competition is open to orchestras with between 40 and 75 members. They must have been playing for at least a year and all entrants must be aged 16 or over, meaning most school orchestras will be ineligible.
A complementary series, The UK's Best Part-time Band, was announced last October, and will be broadcast on both BBC Two and Four.
Cassian Harrison, editor of BBC Four said: "We want to go beyond the stars to celebrate the passion of amateur music makers who captivate, entertain and transport audiences up and down the country every week, and hoping to inspire a new generation to pick up a musical instrument."


Twitter shares have been priced at $26 each, ahead of its debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) later.

That is above the $23 to $25 range announced on Monday and values the short messaging service at more than $18bn (Â£11bn).
That makes it the biggest market debut for a technology firm since Facebook went public in May 2012.
Twitter has attracted 230 million users since starting seven years ago, but is yet to make a profit.
Its losses for the third quarter of 2013 increased to $64.6m, from $21.6m a year earlier and a recent poll by Reuters/Ipsos showed that more than a third of registered users do not use the service at all.
Nevertheless there was strong demand for the shares and the company was able to raise the offering price twice.
Some analysts said that investors were excited by Twitter's potential for growth.
"Investors see social media and mobile as sweet spots and it is therefore no surprise that Twitter's IPO is creating so much excitement and is oversubscribed," said Eden Zoller of consulting firm Ovum.
However, she added that "Twitter needs to step up and deliver on the expectations that are fuelling its valuation, and show that it has what it takes to provide a sustainable business model".
The firm has posted an increase in its sales, which more than doubled in third quarter to $168.6m, and it is looking to raise even more revenue from advertisers outside the United States.
Mark Mahaney at RBC Capital Markets said that he expected the firm's shares to rise after listing.
"Just as Google, Amazon and Facebook have become Internet utilities, so too may Twitter," he said.
"As a public, real-time, conversational and distributed platform, Twitter is becoming an essential service for consumers, businesses, media companies, and advertiser."
But the share sale has stoked controversy among those concerned that high-profile internet companies are attracting big investment despite being unprofitable.
Speaking on the eve of the Twitter flotation, Mary Jo White, the chairwoman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), questioned whether investors were reading too much significance into the vast numbers of users quoted by companies.
She did not mention Twitter by name, but said: "In the absence of a clear description, it can be hard not to think that these big numbers will inevitably translate into big profits for the company. But the connection may not necessarily be there," she said in a speech.
How do you value a company like Twitter?
"What if only a fraction of those users are paying customers? What does that mean for future financial results? What if the bulk of the growth in the number of users is in an area where the company has not yet figured out how to turn those users into paying customers? What does that then say about the meaning of user growth rates?"
In the short-term however, Twitter's IPO is likely to make its founders very rich.
Twitter's $18bn valuation includes the value of shares in compensation schemes for employees and other share awards.
Co-founder Evan Williams is the biggest shareholder in the firm with a stake of more than 10% worth more than a billion dollars.
Another of the founders, Jack Dorsey, will also become a very rich man. His 4% stake is worth more than half a billion dollars.
Biz Stone, another co-founder, is thought to have made millions by selling holdings over the last few years.
But Noah Glass, also one of the originals, is believed to have made very little from the company's success.
Twitter is selling 70 million shares, which will raise $1.82bn, for the company.
Unlike Facebook, Twitter has chosen to trade its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Facebook's debut on the Nasdaq - traditionally the market of choice for technology firms - was marred by delays and problems with orders.
The NYSE has already tested trading of Twitter's shares to try to avoid any technical hitches.
The shares will trade under the symbol "TWTR".


Women and children at a migrant camp outside the French port city of Calais are to be given heated tents by the end of the week, officials say.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the measures were to protect some of the 6,000 people at the camp from cold temperatures as winter approaches.
Another 460 police officers are to be deployed there from Thursday, he added.
Numbers at the "New Jungle" camp have swelled in recent months, as the Europe migrant crisis has intensified.
Most of them have fled conflict and poverty in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan and are trying to seek refuge across the Channel in the UK.
Some people have opted for dangerous routes in their bid to make the crossing, with a number of deaths inside the Channel Tunnel in recent months.
Mr Cazeneuve announced the new measures on Wednesday after his seventh visit to the camp.
He said a centre sheltering women and children that currently has space for 200 people would allow in up to 400 by the end of the year.
"In the meantime, heated tents will be set up... by the end of the week," he told reporters, vowing that "no woman, no child will remain without a shelter in this city".
The French minister also confirmed that police numbers would go up from 665 to 1,125 to help manage security in the area.
Tighter security measures introduced at the Channel Tunnel's entrance in August have helped to slow down the number of illegal crossings to the UK in recent weeks, which at its peak reached 2,000 attempts per night.
Eurotunnel services were disrupted for a fourth consecutive day on Thursday after "intrusions" at its terminal in France.
Eurotunnel Chief Executive Jacques Gounon blamed lax security on the French rail network for allowing people to target its terminals.
"If I have only one concern, it is that the very efficient security we have on the Eurotunnel terminal does not exist on the SNCF part," he said.
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Meanwhile, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has summoned European leaders to a special summit on Sunday to find a better strategy to manage the flow of migrants.
The European Commission said President Jean-Claude Juncker had called Sunday's meeting because "there is a need for much greater cooperation, more extensive consultation and immediate operational action" to deal with what it called "the unfolding emergency".
It comes amid growing tensions over border controls in the western Balkans where thousands of migrants have been pouring through in a bid to reach northern Europe.
On Wednesday, tents at a transit camp on Slovenia's border with Austria were allegedly set on fire by people angry over poor conditions, who complained of lack of food, water and blankets.
Thousands have been diverted through Slovenia on their way to western Europe after Hungary closed its border with Croatia and Serbia last week.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says more than 650,000 migrants have reached Europe this year.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


Nicola Sturgeon has brought down the curtain on the SNP conference in Aberdeen, the largest gathering of the party in its history.

She used her speech to spread the party's net wider than ever, across the whole of Scotland and the UK and indeed various international issues, and asked for members to put their trust in her to lead them forward.
The speech sums up the conference as a whole; the weekend has been all about how the SNP has grown, in membership, in power and influence, and in ambition.
As well as being in power at Holyrood and boasting more than 114,000 members, the party now has unprecedented sway - something Ms Sturgeon seems keen to capitalise on.
As if being the third largest party in Westminster wasn't enough, Ms Sturgeon is pitching the SNP as the "only effective opposition" to David Cameron's government.
It was a common theme at the conference. Labour is in disarray, speakers on stage repeated time and again; this is the SNP's moment.
With such ambition comes an expanded policy platform, extending even as far as the UK's foreign policy, with Ms Sturgeon and indeed her predecessor Alex Salmond putting pressure on Labour over intervention in Syria.
There were also pledges on health and social care, childcare and the NHS - a broad range of policies befitting what is now a very large and diverse political party.
Her core message was summed up in one phrase: "Independence matters, but what we say about jobs, schools and hospitals matters just as much."
Ms Sturgeon took to the stage like a rock star, and won endless applause as the faithful hung on her every word. She also needed to come back twice for additional bows, before taking a series of selfies with the adoring crowd.
However, despite the overwhelming air of unity, throughout the conference there was an occasional feeling of activists straining at the leash, wanting to do more and go further than the party was ready to.
Delegates rebelled against a couple of motions - there was a tight vote on whether the party should commend the moratorium on fracking or call for an outright ban, and a resolution on radical land reform was actually sent back to be made more radical.
At a particularly rambunctious fringe event discussing the future of the BBC, culture secretary Fiona Hyslop explicitly stated that she wouldn't be drawn into criticising the broadcaster - only for another elected SNP representative to draw parallels with Nazi propaganda to widespread applause.
This too though could be seen as a measure of how professional the party has become; for the most part it steered clear of controversy throughout the slickly-presented conference.
And of course there's the small matter of Scottish independence, (the elephant in the room).
The party's footsoldiers by and large are hungry for a second referendum, while its leaders are far more cautious.
Ms Sturgeon and her deputy John Swinney both pitched appeals to "No" voters, stressing a broader policy platform beyond independence.
Angus Robertson, group leader at Westminster, underlined that there should only be another referendum when those in favour of a "Yes" vote are certain that they will win.
Many of the activists agree - but they want to do it tomorrow, not years down the line.
T-shirts bearing "Yes2" slogans were much in evidence in the halls of the AECC. Even during the debate on fracking on Friday, one speaker underlined that "independence is the prize we all want".
Independence is the cause that drew many activists to the party, particularly new members, and still a big priority for them. And this will remain the case no matter how wide the party's scope grows or how many other issues it embraces.
That's not to say there was disquiet in the auditorium, of course - more an overload of excitement.
By and large the delegates, conference veterans and first-timers alike, have had a ball throughout the three-day event.
Countless selfies have been snapped, with people posing for pictures with party banners, and the SNP merchandise stall has done a roaring trade in everything from T-shirts to branded Christmas cards.
Fringe events frequently ran long because so many people wanted to ask questions or voice their opinions.
A picture of political engagement in a nutshell could be the hardy group who stood through an hour-long, high-brow discussion of the spending review because there were no seats left - at 08:30 in the morning. Or indeed those who got into an impassioned debate over a report titled "The Intensification of Grouse Moor Management in Scotland".
All of this peaked with Ms Sturgeon's speech; delegates leapt to their feet to applaud after hearing Ms Sturgeon's closing appeal to "trust us - trust me" - a significant moment in itself.
Her army of 114,000 are willing to follow where ever she leads - but still, their patience will not be boundless. Scottish independence remains priority number one in the hearts of many activists.
Ms Sturgeon has been cautious in mapping out the road ahead for the SNP - but for all the party's dominance, that road will need to lead to a second referendum sooner or later.


A new cross-border ferry service opens to the public on Friday.

The £8m development will run between Greenore in County Louth and Greencastle, County Down.
It has been 10 years in the planning and has faced opposition from some residents and environmentalists.
The company that owns it, Frazer Ferries, said it is an important commercial and tourism link.  The service will run all year round and has space for 44 cars.
It can also take coaches and commercial vehicles up to 20 metres.
It is not licensed for articulated lorries.
Cars cost 20 euros (£17.70) for a return journey, although there are online and multi-trip discounts.
Some people living on the northern side opposed the development.
They said the road infrastructure would not be able to cope and that it would change the tranquillity of their small coastal community.
Concerns were also raised about the impact on seals and nesting terns that live in the protected area.
The development was approved, however, after a road was widened to accommodate traffic and commitments given on environmental monitoring.
The 15-minute crossing will save a journey of about 30 miles and bypass Newry, in County Down.


Lancashire captain Tom Smith will miss the rest of the season as he needs to have surgery on a back injury.

The 29-year-old all-rounder took over the captaincy from Glen Chapple this season but has only been able to play one County Championship match.
Last summer, Smith took more than 50 wickets in the Championship for the first time and hit 773 runs.
"This is a huge blow for Tom and for the club," said cricket director and head coach Ashley Giles.
"As club captain, Tom remains a very important part of the team and our season, and we look forward to him being able to start the journey to play after the operation."


The half-billion-pound parking cash cow reportedly enjoyed by some English councils has generated headlines, yet alongside hundreds of authorities that boosted their income another 52 apparently ran their parking services at a loss.

Map: Who's making the most out of parking?
Are these councils being more sympathetic to motorists, or missing the opportunity to offer improved services to businesses and residents?
According to the RAC Foundation report, English councils had a total surplus of £565m from parking operations in 2011-12, up £54m on the previous year.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, describes the revenue from parking charges as "a nice little earner" for councils.
Topping the list of authorities is Westminster, where officials, as well as disputing some of the figures behind its reported £41.6m surplus, say the revenue helps pay for a range of vital transport and highways services that help the High Street prosper.
Bottom of the table are Essex County Council, which lost £1.8m, and Surrey County Council which lost £1.3m.
Councillor Rodney Bass, Essex cabinet member for highways and transportation, said: "The boroughs and districts have their own off-street car parking, but we don't have a tradition of on-street parking charges and it works very well.
"It is called 'localism'. We decide what happens here and [Westminster] decides there.
"We run a park-and-ride system, Essex has one of the best here in Chelmsford.
"Our car parks are still off-street. I don't think there is a single parking meter in Essex - we are a parking meter-free county and we are proud of it."
Similar park-and-ride schemes run by other authorities are often paid for by money brought in through parking charges.
Guildford Borough Council, which generates more money from its parking than all the other Surrey boroughs and districts combined, is set to launch its fourth park-and-ride service in the town.
"In Guildford we make around a million a year in surplus and use that to subsidise the park-and-ride scheme into town, a scheme that has proven popular with traders and residents alike," says Councillor David Goodwin, who sits as an opposition member on both Surrey County and Guildford Borough Councils.
He was also a member of Surrey's parking task group.
"The park-and-ride is there to alleviate parking and traffic problems in the town. If you just look at the park-and-ride they wouldn't be able to operate at the level they do without the parking income," he says.
"For the traders in town and the workers in town, park-and-ride helps them. It keeps traffic out of the town centre which is a massive benefit to the residents who live there.
"As an opposition member I would love to say it's 'money-grabbing' but I just can't, and I don't get that at all from residents."
As well as accusations of "money-grabbing', authorities are accused of using parking charges and fines as "stealth taxes", but officials at the biggest earner highlight the use of funds for area improvements.
Westminster service development manager Kieran Fitsall says: "The actual surplus was £36.3m last year and the money generated goes on transport and infrastructure, this includes bridge repairs and all sorts of schemes from the Freedom Pass and concessionary fares for the elderly and disabled.
"It all goes back into transport."
He adds: "One misconception is that Westminster generates money from issuing parking tickets. We don't actually generate money from issuing parking tickets, it practically costs us the same to operate that as we take in."
A Controlled Parking Zone permit in Westminster costs £130, while daily and hourly charges vary depending on where you park from £1.20 per hour to £4.40.
"Charges for the permits were set some years back and are reviewed every two years, normally it is just an inflationary increase," says Mr Fitsall.
"Money that is generated is from people paying to park legally. Last year we took in £38.3m from people paying legally to park.
"That has been increasing as more people have been parking legally. The number of tickets being given out has gone down and there have been no cutbacks of enforcement officers.
"These charges are important as it benefits everyone in terms of those who live and work in Westminster."
The growth in pay-by-phone parking has seen revenues rise and tickets issued fall, while the council also has a smartphone app in the works that will let people know the location of available spaces.
The app, called "park right", tells users in real time which parking spots are free and which are taken.
The council is currently at the procurement stage so will not confirm the cost of the project, which will involve installing small sensors in the road to relay information to the app displaying free spaces as green dots and occupied ones in red.
"We are looking at anything we can do to cut down on congestion and make it easier to get around," says Mr Mr Fitsall. "It is better for the High Street as people spend less time looking for parking and more time in the shops."
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Brighton striker Leonardo Ulloa says he is building his way back to full fitness after more than two months out with a broken bone in his foot.

The 27-year-old, who scored four goals in seven league games before his injury, returned as a substitute in the 1-0 win at Middlesbrough last Saturday.
The Argentine told BBC Sussex: "My foot is 100% but my body needs more intensity with the games.
"I am feeling confident to be back in the side. I feel about 70%."
He added: "I am feeling really good. I played 10 minutes in the previous match and have been able to train for the past week.
"In the moments since the injury the people [Brighton supporters] have been spectacular with me. It's the same now with the recovery."
Barring injury and a three-match suspension earlier this season, Ulloa has been a near ever-present for the Seagulls since joining from Spanish side Almeria for a fee of £2m in January.
Despite having Ulloa sidelined, along with several other first-team players, Albion have lost just one of their last nine games to rise to eighth in the Championship table and the Sussex club currently lie two points off the play-off places.
"It's been extremely difficult watching everybody from the side and not always playing," he said.
"The team has been playing very well and working really hard and hopefully we can follow this line. Once everybody is back [from injury] it is a lot more competitive and the level of the team can rise."
Ashley Barnes has led the line in Ulloa's absence, scoring five times in their last six games, and Albion head coach Oscar Garcia says the two could be paired together.
"It's good to have Leo back because now we have got competition for places up front," Garcia told BBC Sussex.
"It is always good to have a player like him. He and Ashley are different players but can play together.
"They are different options. We played with some games with them both and it paid off."


Greek centre-half Georgios Sarris has signed a two-year contract with Hamilton Academical after leaving Kayseri Erciyesspor.

The 26-year-old joined the Turkish club from AEK Athens last summer, signing a one-year deal.
But the Blue Dragons were relegated from the top-flight after a season in which Sarris made 26 appearances.
Sarris could make his debut in Saturday's final Scottish League Cup group game against Livingston.
Accies are short of cover in central defence, with Jesus Garcia Tena having picked up a knee ligament injury that will rule him out for most of the season.
Player-manager Martin Canning is also ruled out of the Scottish Premiership side with a broken cheek bone.
Canning had attempted to sign Sarris last summer, but the Greek accepted the more lucrative offer from the Turkish club.
Sarris began his career with Ergotelis in his homeland but moved to AEK in 2014 and made nine appearances - eight of them starts - for the Greek top-flight club.


Ireland let a 13-point lead slip as Wales fought back for a draw in a compelling Six Nations match in Dublin.

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The home team led 13-0 after 28 minutes thanks to Conor Murray's try and eight points from the boot of Johnny Sexton.
But Wales hit back with Taulupe Faletau's try converted by replacement fly-half Rhys Priestland, whose 72nd-minute penalty edged Wales 16-13 ahead.
Sexton's third penalty squared things and Priestland's late drop-goal attempt was off target in a breathless finale.
With the clock in the red and fans' nerves shredded, both teams strove for the decisive score rather than settle for the draw.
But the defences held out and when referee Jerome Garces finally called a halt, there was a collective exhaling of breath around the ground.
It means Wales have not won back-to-back games in Ireland since 2000, while the Irish dream of a third consecutive title has not been fatally damaged.
But Grand Slams and Triple Crowns will have to wait for another season after a first draw between the two sides in Dublin since 1974.
With Ireland having lost Sean O'Brien and Rob Kearney in the week, Wales had to draft Liam Williams in at full-back after Gareth Anscombe's late withdrawal.
And within 20 minutes replacement fly-half Priestland was on after Dan Biggar limped off with a foot injury.
The Irish dominated the first half hour, with Wales unable to maintain possession and struggling to keep debutant CJ Stander and Tommy O'Donnell in check.
Scrum-half Murray was the beneficiary as he dummied over from close range to help establish a 13-0 lead.
But Priestland's boot, and Faletau's opportunism after the ball squirted out of an advancing scrum, somehow saw Wales back within three points at the break, and the boots of the fly-halves ensured the game ended level after a nerve-shredding second half.
Wales' dominance at the scrum was the cornerstone of their fightback, but Ireland looked more creative behind and with Stander and Jamie Heaslip outstanding in the back row, met Wales' predominantly physical challenge head-on.
Jamie Roberts ran straight for Wales and tackled hard and often, while Simon Zebo and Sexton cut lines for Ireland, with one second half break by the fly-half the outstanding moment of the match.
Wales face Scotland at home on Saturday, 13 February - a side smarting from their latest Calcutta Cup defeat and who have not won in Cardiff since 2002.
On the same day Ireland will take on the misfiring French at Stade de France, having beaten them as recently as last October when they won a World Cup pool match 24-9 in Cardiff.
Ireland: Zebo; Trimble, Payne, Henshaw, Earls; Sexton, Murray; McGrath, Best, White, McCarthy, Toner, Stander, O'Donnell, Heaslip.
Replacements: D Kearney for Earls (71), Madigan for Sexton (75), S. Cronin for Best (75), Furlong for White (63), Ryan for McCarthy (63), Ruddock for O'Donnell (48).
Not Used: J Cronin, Marmion.
Wales: L Williams; North, J Davies, Roberts, T James; Biggar, G Davies; Evans, Baldwin, Lee, Charteris, Jones, Warburton, Tipuric, Faletau.
Replacements: Priestland for Biggar (21), L Williams for G. Davies (71), Jenkins for Evans (52), Owens for Baldwin (63), Francis for Lee (57), B Davies for Charteris (61), Lydiate for Warburton (72).
Not Used: Cuthbert.
Att: 51,700
Ref: Jerome Garces (France).


Celebrities and "influencers" in the US have been warned to clearly identify when they are promoting products on Instagram in return for payment.

The consumer regulator sent letters to more than 90 individuals and marketing firms, though it has not revealed who was put on notice.
It is the first time the regulator has intervened on the issue.
An advocacy group which petitioned for the move said Instagram had become "a Wild West of disguised advertising".
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The Federal Trade Commission targeted a sample of posts that either referenced a brand or directly endorsed products.
Its rules say that anyone endorsing a brand must "clearly and conspicuously" declare connections to it, for example if products have been given free, if a payment has been made for the endorsement or if there is a business or family relationship.
The rules apply to marketing agencies involved in such deals as well as the endorsers themselves.
The intervention was part-prompted by the advocacy group Public Citizen which carried out its own investigation last year, naming celebrities including Rihanna and Kim Kardashian among 113 influencers who it said endorsed a product without disclosure.
"Instagram has become a Wild West of disguised advertising, targeting young people and especially young women," the group said.
"It is often unclear whether an Instagram user is paid to post a product endorsement or if they genuinely use it. That's exactly why brands are using influencer marketing as a primary way to reach young consumers. But without clear disclosure, brands are deceiving consumers and reaping the monetary benefits."
Points made by the regulator in the letters include:
The regulator did not give specific wording which should be used to make a disclosure but said that phrases such as "paid for" "Sponsored" and "Promotion" may help get that message across, as well as "#ad".
In guidelines it also says "A simple disclosure like 'Company X gave me this product to try...' will usually be effective."
Social media has become an increasingly important part of marketing campaigns for many brands around the world, especially those aimed at younger consumers.
Celebrities and others who have garnered huge followings on Instagram and other services are often part of advertising campaigns.
The FTC has previously taken action when its rules have been violated. Last year it reached a settlement with Warner Bros over claims the firm had not disclosed it had paid high profile YouTubers to give one of its video games positive reviews.
Aside from celebrities, there are countless "digital influencers" on social media, people who have risen to a celebrity-like status with millions of followers. On Instagram they include:
The exact net worth or rate per post is hard to pin down, but be prepared to fork out several thousand dollars, or even tens of thousands, if you want your product featured in one of their Instagram posts.


A man who was seen lurking in bushes near a playpark with a crossbow and arrows has been jailed for more than two years.

Jamie Wisbey was also carrying a locking saw knife, a mask, latex gloves and a wig when he was spotted near the South Inch park in Perth.
The Plymouth fisherman claimed he had been using Bear Grylls-style survival skills during the night.
A jury at Perth Sheriff Court found him guilty of having the weapons.
Wisbey's arrest sparked a high-level investigation after he was discovered with a bag containing "worrying" material including links to Libya and a Turkish phrasebook.
Jailing him for two years and three months, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "As far as the jury was concerned you had them as weapons. What also had a sinister aspect was the wig, balaclava and gloves you had.
"I also consider it is appropriate to protect the public from serious harm upon your release and I will make a supervised release order for 12 months."
Wisbey had been seen in the bushes near the park on 1 June by a couple who had gone to feed the ducks because they were unable to sleep.
The fisherman claimed he had missed his train on the way to join a scallop boat in Buckie and had been using the Bear Grylls survival skills.
He told the trial: "I knew I was coming to Scotland so I was watching Bear Grylls and was interested in camping and things like that. I had cat gut for fishing and cotton wool for tinder and things like that.
"I didn't really know the wig was in the stuff in my bag. It was given to me by one of the family as a joke."
He had told police during an interview that the wig was to keep his head warm.
Wisbey told the jury he had acted in a "sly and sneaky" manner by trying to hide the bag containing the crossbow and arrows and other items.
He admitted he planned to use the balaclava as a mask and said: "I thought it would be handy. It's Scotland. It's warm where I come from, but it's freezing here."
Fiscal depute Gavin Letford said: "Did Bear Grylls give you the advice to take on a fishing boat a wig, a crossbow and a mask? Were all of these items taken together not for the purpose of going on a fishing boat, but for some other purpose you were not wanting the police or court to find out about?"
Wisbey also had 11 bottles of methadone in the name of Monique Phoenix in his bag.
Wisbey was found guilty of having a crossbow and arrows, a locking saw blade and methadone in the South Inch park and the railway station in Perth on 1 June.
When Wisbey first appeared on petition, the court had to be hastily convened in the back of a G4S prisoner escort van over fears he had a contagious skin condition akin to scabies.


London's Ambulance Service (LAS) NHS Trust has become the first to be put into special measures after a recommendation by inspectors.

The NHS trust serves an estimated 8.6m people in the capital and has been performing "poorly" since March 2014.
Slow response times were highlighted as a major concern, along with a high number of unfilled vacancies.
The Trust said it had taken action to address its failings.
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Prof Sir Mike Richards, chief inspector of hospitals, said: "I am recommending that London Ambulance Service be placed into special measures, because I believe that this is the step necessary to ensure this vital service gets the support it needs to improve.
"The trust has been performing poorly on response times since March 2014. This is a very serious problem, which the trust clearly isn't able to address alone, and which needs action to put right."
A Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection, which took place in June, found poorly trained staff, a lack of equipment and a reported culture of harassment and bullying.
Trust chief executive Dr Fionna Moore said: "We would like to apologise to Londoners and say how sorry we are that we haven't come up to the standards they should expect of us and we are working really hard to address those issues."
She said problems in recruiting staff were partly due to the high cost of living in London and a shortage of housing.
Despite this, she added, the trust had managed to recruit 167 new members of staff and more than 200 others were in training.
Until 2014 the trust was ranked as the best performing service in the country for dealing with emergency category A calls - requiring attendance within eight minutes - but was now only hitting that target 25% of the time.
GMB union national officer Rehana Azam said: "The underlying problem is a shortage of staff. There is a seriously high vacancy rate in the LAS and other ambulance services.
"We are pleased the CQC identified this and perhaps now it can be addressed in full.
"As a result of staff shortages, existing staff have had to shoulder more responsibility."
It was not the news they had hoped for, but it is perhaps no surprise that London's ambulance service has become the first to be put into special measures.
For more than a year it has struggled to meet response times and to find enough paramedics to work on the frontline.
Its well publicised search for staff has seen it recruit in Australia and New Zealand as it competes against an ever rising tide of calls.
This year will be its busiest ever with 1.9 million calls. That is more than 5,000 a day. But it knows it has to do better.
It is filling more of those vacancies and there is a new chief executive in place, but being put in special measures means they will get more help.
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Being labelled as "inadequate" is hardly a great sales pitch to would-be paramedics. The LAS is not alone in London though.
It now sits with BartsHealth and Barking Havering and Redbridge hospitals as trusts wearing the unwanted tag of being in special measures.
The report identified the following problems at the trust:
Trusts like the London Ambulance Service are overseen by the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), whose associate director for London, Andrew Hines, acknowledged "significant improvements are required".
He said the TDA was making sure the Trust "has access to the best expertise available to help them to deliver their ambitious improvement plan".
"Londoners should feel confident that it is safe to call the ambulance service and that care is of good quality," he added.
Labour candidate for mayor Sadiq Khan described the report as "shocking" and joined calls from both the Lib Dems and Greens for the service to be devolved to City Hall.


Police in Saudi Arabia have opened fire to disperse protesters in the eastern city of Qatif, a day before planned countrywide anti-government protests.

Witnesses said police also beat demonstrators with batons injuring at least three people.
The protesters, from the Shia minority, were demanding the release of prisoners they say have been held without charge.
Protests are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which has had an absolute monarchy since its unification in the 1930s.
But last month the arrest of Shia cleric Sheikh Tawfiq al-Amer, detained reportedly for calling for a constitutional monarchy, sparked outrage and drew crowds on to the streets.
He was released last weekend, but relatively small-scale protests have continued in the Eastern Region, where much of the country's crude oil is sourced.
The protesters have been demanding the release of nine Shia prisoners who they say have been held without trial for more than 14 years.
A witness in Qatif told AFP news agency the crowds had once again been demanding the prisoners' release.
"As the procession in the heart of the city was about to finish, soldiers started shooting at the protesters, and three of them were wounded," the witness said.
Other accounts said the police had also used stun grenades and had beaten the protesters with batons, injuring many more than three.
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Rights groups have accused the police of beating protesters during previous rallies in Qatif.
An interior ministry spokesman told reporters that police had fired over the heads of protesters on Thursday.
The spokesman added that three people, including a policeman, had been injured.
The unrest comes amid calls over the internet for a so-called "day of rage" protest in cities throughout the country after Friday prayers.
Analysts say it is unclear whether anyone will heed the calls, as Saudi Arabia has so far not seen protests on the same scale as other nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Shias, who are mainly concentrated in the east of the country, make up about 10% of the population in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia.
The region borders Bahrain, a Shia-majority kingdom ruled by a Sunni government that has been rocked by anti-government protests since mid-February.
Amid signs of growing unrest in the region, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah recently unveiled $37bn (Â£22.7bn) in benefits for citizens, including a 15% pay rise for state employees.


A jury in Hawaii has convicted a former US engineer of selling military secrets to China.

Noshir Gowadia, who helped design the propulsion system for the B-2 bomber, was found guilty on multiple counts - including conspiracy and money laundering.
Indian-born Gowadia, 67, could be sentenced to life in prison.
The case is one of a series of major prosecutions targeting alleged Chinese spying in the US.
According to prosecutors, Gowadia helped China to design a stealth cruise missile.
It involved an exhaust nozzle that would evade infrared radar detection and US heat-seeking missiles.
Gowadia was accused of travelling to China between 2003 and 2005 while designing the missile.
He was said to have been paid $110,000 (Â£69,000) - money that was used to pay off a mortgage on a luxury home on the island of Maui.
In his defence, lawyers said it was true that Mr Gowadia had designed an exhaust nozzle for China - but that it was "basic stuff" based on unclassified information that was publicly available.
Gowadia, who was born in India, moved to the US in the 1960s and became a citizen about a decade later.
He has been in custody for nearly four years and faces life in prison when he is sentenced in November.
He was found not guilty on three counts of communicating national defence information to help a foreign nation.


Astronomers have discovered a very rare system of five connected stars.

The quintuplet consists of a pair of closely linked stars - binaries - one of which has a lone companion; it is the first known system of its kind.
The pair of stars orbit around a mutual centre of gravity, but are separated by more than the distance of Pluto's orbit around the Sun.
The findings have been presented at the UK National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno.
The unusual system lies 250 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in data gathered by the SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project.
This uses relatively small and low-cost cameras in the Canary Islands and South Africa to image much of the sky every few minutes.
Measurements of the brightness of individual stars are, over years, assembled into light curves - plots of brightness against time.
When the stars pass in front of one another, they produce a regular pattern of pairs of dips in the light curve.
Data from the new system revealed the existence of two binary stars, one of which was a so-called contact binary.
Co-author Dr Marcus Lohr, from the Open University, told BBC News that these contact binaries were stars that orbit so closely they share an outer atmosphere.
The other star pair - a detached binary - has a separation distance of some three million km. The two binaries orbit in the same plane at a distance of 21 billion km.
Follow-up observations of different wavelengths of light coming from the star system uncovered a fifth star, which is linked to the detached binary star.
"This is a truly exotic star system. In principle there's no reason why it couldn't have planets in orbit around each of the pairs of stars. Any inhabitants would have a sky that would put the makers of Star Wars to shame," Dr Lohr said.
"There could sometimes be no fewer than five Suns of different brightnesses lighting up the landscape."
Dr Lohr said the fact the stars all orbited in the same plane suggested they had all formed out of the same "proto-stellar disk" of dust and gas.
He added that systems containing this many linked stars were extremely rare, but at least one other five-star system had been discovered by Nasa's Kepler planet-hunting telescope.
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Nicola Benedetti is returning as an ambassador for this year's BBC Young Musician of the Year finals, 10 years after winning the award which catapulted her to stardom .

The contest, which began in 1978, has become one of the most popular classical music awards in the country.
Held every two years, it returns to Edinburgh's Usher Hall this weekend, with three of the country's most talented young musicians competing for the accolade.
Nicola Benedetti is one of its most famous winners. She took the award in 2004, at the aged of 16, performing a rendition of Karol Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto.
Born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, in 1987, Benedetti was destined for a success as a classical musician from an early age.
At the age of eight, she became the leader of the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. By the time she was 12 she was regularly performing with the Scottish National Orchestra.
Ten years after her BBC triumph she believes the competition's ability to give young musicians a chance to express themselves on a major stage remains a special one.
"So much of it is who you are, and what you are trying to express in that moment.," she said.
"It's the ability to cope with a multitude of emotions, to bring that all together in a moment that lives once."
After winning the competition she became one of the most recognisable faces in classical music.
By the end of that year she had signed a Â£1m recording deal with the classical arm of Decca Records for six albums.
She has remained a firm favourite for classical concert audiences. Her career includes an acclaimed performance at the 2012 Last Night of the Proms.
Last year she was awarded an MBE for services to charity and music.
A common theme across Benedetti's career is her attempts to help convey her passion for classical music to music fans who might not consider the genre as being "cool".
She has played live performances for events as diverse as Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival, traditionally a platform for Scottish folk artists.
In 2012 she was given the opportunity to get 40,000 festival campers out of their tents when she opened the main stage at the T in the Park Festival at Balado.
The chance to pass on her love of music is something she remains passionate about. Speaking to a packed classroom of children in India as part of a BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tour she attempted to explain why performing means so much to her:
"I love it very much... you know your emotions? Well music can make you feel all kinds of emotions. It makes you feel very good."
She admits that despite having played in the Usher Hall several times since her winning performance for the BBC competition, the venue still rekindles a "special feeling" for her.
"I just cannot disassociate the hall from that feeling, which is a pleasure really."
"I was talking to some of the young musicians, saying that I hope some of my remembered apprehension doesn't rub off on them negatively."
She laughs, then adds:  "I'm going to have to act like I'm a little cool."


Chad's former leader Hissene Habre has been dubbed "Africa's Pinochet" because of the atrocities committed during his eight-year rule.

He was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity, in the first African Union-backed trial of a former ruler.
It was the culmination of a 17-year battle by victims of his rule to bring him to justice.
A Commission of Inquiry formed in Chad after he was deposed in 1990 said his government carried out some 40,000 politically motivated murders and 200,000 cases of torture in the eight years he was in power.
His dreaded political police force, the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS), committed some of the worst abuses.
Habre, 73 denied any knowledge of the murders, torture, and rape that he was convicted of.
He seized power in 1982 from Goukouni Oueddei, a former rebel comrade who had won elections.
It was widely believed that he was backed by the CIA, as a bulwark against Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
His coup came in the middle of a war with Libya over the disputed Aozou strip.
Backed by the United States and France, Habre's forces drove out the Libyans in 1983.
He first came to the world's attention in 1974 when a group of his rebels captured three European hostages and demanded a ransom of 10 million francs.
One of the hostages, French ethnologist Francoise Claustre, was held for 33 months in the caves of the Tibesti volcanic complex of northern Chad.
However, this episode did not prevent the French from later backing Mr Habre.
He was born to ethnic Toubou herders in northern Chad but excelled at school and was eventually spotted by a French military commander, who organised a grant for him to study in France.
As a senior local official, he was sent to persuade two rebel chiefs, including Mr Oueddei, to lay down their arms; instead he joined their struggle.
During Habre's time in power, he faced a succession of rebellions but lobby group Amnesty International has said this does not excuse his government's human rights abuses.
"The Chadian government applied a deliberate policy of terror in order to discourage opposition of any kind," Amnesty says.
Human rights groups say the DDS was under the tight personal control of Habre.
An underground prison, known as the "Piscine" because it was a converted swimming pool was one of the DDS's most notorious detention centres in the capital, N'Djamena, while Amnesty reports that some political prisoners were held at the presidential palace.
Survivors said the most common forms of torture were electric shocks, near-asphyxia, cigarette burns and having gas squirted into their eyes.
Sometimes, the torturers would place the exhaust pipe of a vehicle in their victim's mouth, then start the engine, Amnesty says.
Some detainees were placed in a room with decomposing bodies, other suspended by their hands or feet, others bound hand and foot.
One man said he thought his brain was going to explode when he was subjected to "supplice des baguettes" (torture by sticks), when the victim's head is put between sticks joined by rope which are then twisted.
Others were left to die from hunger from the "diete noire" (starvation diet).
US-based rights group Human Rights Watch says that members of any ethnic group seen as being opposed to  Habre were targeted: The Sara in 1984, the Hadjerai in 1987 and Chadian Arabs and the Zaghawa in 1989-90.
Habre was eventually deposed by current President Idriss Deby, an ethnic Zaghawa, who has been accused of favouring members of his own community.
After being ousted, he fled to exile in Senegal, where he has kept a low profile.
However, he became involved with the local Tijaniyya Islamic sect, married and four of his children were born there.
"I can say that my children don't know Chad. Their country is Senegal," Habre's wife, Fatime Raymonde, once told a local newspaper.
His victims, backed by Human Rights Watch, have been trying to bring him to justice ever since.
First, a Senegalese court refused to put him on trial, saying it did not have jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed in Chad.
His victims then turned to Belgium and, after a four-year investigation, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest in 2005 as the country's universal law allows its courts to prosecute human rights offences committed anywhere in the world.
The Senegalese authorities responded by putting Habre under house arrest, but there have since been years of wrangling about what do with him.
The government of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade changed its position on whether to try him several times, its key concern being about the funding of such a trial.
Four extradition requests from Belgium were denied and the African Union (AU) urged Senegal to prosecute Habre "on behalf of Africa".
Mr Wade agreed to do so and by 2008 the country's constitution was amended to allow the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Senegal even if they were committed outside the country.
But in 2011, Senegal unexpectedly announced that it would repatriate Habre to Chad, where he had been sentenced to death in absentia for planning to overthrow the government.
The plan was stopped following a plea from the UN, which feared he could be tortured on his return.
In July 2012, the International Court of Justice at The Hague ordered Senegal to either put him on trial "without delay" or extradite him to Belgium.
A month later, Senegal and the AU signed a deal to set up a special tribunal to try the former leader.
Until his arrest, Habre lived in the quiet Ouakam neighbourhood of the Senegalese capital, Dakar - guarded by two security agents - and was seen occasionally at the local mosque for Friday prayers.
Now, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, unless he wins an appeal against his conviction and sentence.


Relatives of more than 100 prisoners who died during a riot in 1992 in a jail in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are appealing after a court threw out convictions against 74 police officers.

A judge ruled that the case was not strong enough against the officers who put down the riot in the notorious Carandiru jail.
He said although the evidence was not conclusive excesses had been committed.
No police were injured as they took back the jail but 111 prisoners died.
The trials of most of the officers took place in 2013 and 2014 almost 20 years after the event but none had begun to serve sentences.
The judge, Ivan Sartori, said the prosecution had failed to identify what the police had done when they entered the jail.
"In this case we don't know who killed who and who did what."
The police officers were convicted of having executed prisoners in cold blood although their defence had argued they had only fought back during a violent uprising.
Prosecutors have argued that many of the prisoners were found naked in their cells and had been killed after they had been disarmed and overpowered.
The local prosecutor's office said it was "perplexed" by the ruling and that it would appeal.
The police officers received sentences of between 48 and 624 years in prison but none have served any part of their sentences.
The leader of the operation, Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes, was sentenced to 632 years in prison in 2001, but was acquitted on appeal in 2006.
He was murdered that same year in suspicious circumstances.


About 900,000 rail journeys are made each year in Scotland by people who deliberately avoid paying the fare, according to ScotRail.

The train operator has carried out ticket monitoring at stations.
It has started a new campaign aimed at urging customers to pay their fare before boarding.
The firm said it had also invested in ticket vending machines at 26 new sites in a bid to help customers purchase tickets in advance.
ScotRail said its recent monitoring exercise revealed that 132 people had travelled without a ticket on 10 services they examined.
Some 450 flexible journey tickets were found to be used incorrectly during four days of monitoring at Glasgow Queen Street station.
At Glasgow Central station, 19 customers declared a shorter journey than the one they had actually travelled during one morning peak-time focus on the East Kilbride and Barrhead lines.
That type of dodge is the most common form of fraudulent travel, according to the train operator.
The new Buy Before You Board campaign aims to tackle premeditated fare fraud.
Phil Campbell, ScotRail's head of revenue protection, said: "We provide a service and it's only fair that everyone pays the correct fare for the service they use."
The rail operator said its surveys showed that honest passengers were frustrated by fare dodging.
Other analysis suggested customers were fed-up with long queues in peak times at major stations.
ScotRail said it was upgrading ticket vending machines at a further 100 sites.
There are now 260 machines across the network, with 20 more to be installed by the end of the year.
Mr Campbell added: "We've invested heavily in facilities to make it much easier for our customers to buy tickets in advance.
"This means that staff on trains have more time to help customers with travel or other queries.
"Buying before boarding will result in much shorter queues to get through the gates at busy destination stations such as Glasgow Central."


More than 8,000 motorists have been caught driving over the limit twice in the past five years, according to the DVLA.

A Freedom of Information request by the Press Association showed 219,008 people were caught drink-driving once in the same period.
Two drivers were caught six times.
The AA said the numbers were "astonishing" and called for the process of returning licences to banned drivers to be reviewed.
The association's president, Edmund King, said:  "The fact that more than 8,000 drivers have been caught twice in five years is all the more astonishing when they should have been off the road for a year or more.
"Perhaps it is time to review some of the medical checks and rehabilitation courses before allowing these drivers back on the road."
The offences took place between 2011 and 2015 when motorists were given DR10 endorsements - handed to drivers for driving or attempting to drive while above the legal alcohol limit.
Anyone caught for the offence faces a ban of at least one year, an unlimited fine and, in the most serious cases, up to six months in prison.
Some drivers are offered rehabilitation courses to reduce the length of their ban.
Numbers of drivers who received DR10 endorsements in Britain between 2011 and 2015
SOURCE: DVLA/Press Association
The DVLA data shows the number of drink-drive convictions has fallen in recent years, from 53,885 in 2011 to 42,587 in 2015.
A drink-driver not deemed to be a "high risk offender" can apply to get their licence back once their ban has ended, but they have to fill out a form with questions about their health.
The DVLA said it had to issue a licence when a driver had served their disqualification period, but it would investigate and take "appropriate action" if there was any indication of "an ongoing issue with alcohol".
But Road safety charity Brake said the numbers showed "a worrying lack of progress in drink-drive enforcement" and called on the government to put "serious investment" into road policing and stopping "hard-core drunk drivers" getting back behind the wheel.
The AA said it had figures showing that nearly two-thirds of drink-drivers arrested in the run-up to and during the past three Christmases were at least almost twice the alcohol limit.
FoI responses from 10 police forces in England revealed that from November to December in 2013, 2014 and 2015, 64% of 5,621 drivers arrested after failing a breath test for alcohol registered at least 60 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.
Mr King said: "These people knowingly got behind the wheel when drunk."
Provisional estimates from the Department for Transport showed that between 200 and 290 people were killed in drink-drive accidents on Britain's roads last year.


Linfield moved into second place in the Irish Premiership thanks to a comfortable win over Dungannon Swifts.

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David Healy's Blues had the points in the bag by half-time with Andrew Waterworth, Paul Smyth and Mark Stafford scoring at Windsor Park.
Waterworth drove in a 15th-minute opener, Smyth broke through to make it 2-0 and defender Stafford forced in from close-range on 38 minutes.
Stafford scored again and Aaron Burns and Michael McLellan also netted.
Linfield have won six in a row and are six points behind leaders Crusaders.
Dungannon remain 10th in the Premiership table, three points ahead of bottom club Warrenpoint Town.
Linfield manager David Healy: "Six goals maybe flattered us a bit, but it was another clean sheet for us too.
"We got the goals at the right time. It was a big win for us and keeps us in it.
"We are on a decent run and will just focus on doing our jobs."
Dungannon Swifts manager Rodney McAree: "If you come to Windsor Park and defend the way we did, it is always going to be a difficult evening.
"We did not deal with set pieces and did not show courage and hunger. We just lacked tonight.
"At half-time, I looked around the dressing room and did not see much belief that we could get anything from the game."


The lack of older people taking part in education and training could leave the UK with a digital skills gap as the population ages, a charity says.

Adult education charity, Niace, says, in its annual survey, that fewer than a third of 55- to 64-year-olds are involved in any learning.
Many people in this age group do not have any digital skills, it says.
It argues that as people have to work longer, many will lack the skills required to stay in employment.
The National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education surveys about 6,000 UK adults every year.
It revealed that large sections of society, including those from lower socio-economic groups, are less likely to take part in any form of learning.
Niace chief executive David Hughes said the way participation in learning declines as people get older is "pretty worrying" against the backdrop of an ageing society and an expectation that people are going to have to work longer.
The charity said skills gaps and shortages were threatening the long-term future already, and cited figures suggesting a quarter of the UK population would be over 65 by 2050.
Mr Hughes said: "We are pretty worried about the digital area of learning, if you look at the number of people who never got any digital skills, it's dominated by older people.
"Any low numbers of participation are worrying, then you start thinking about the technological changes in the workplace and about the people in that age group not being able to even access government services online."
He added: "Our current economic challenges combined with an ageing population mean people will have extended working lives, learning throughout, which has never been more important."
The charity also called for funding to be protected for English and maths courses, and English courses for speakers of other languages.
And it called for Britain's low-paid workers to be supported through a new career advancement service.


Up to £500m could be recovered from overseas visitors and migrants using the NHS every year, ministers believe.

An independent report commissioned by the Department of Health estimated these groups cost the NHS £2bn a year.
Ministers said some of that spending was unavoidable, but said it would be realistic to save a quarter.
Savings would come from deterring so-called health tourism, recovering money owed by other countries and a levy on non-European temporary residents.
One senior doctor questioned the government's figures and said doctors should not have to spend time "vetting eligibility" of patients.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he did not want to "turn GPs into border guards" and no-one would be denied emergency treatment, but foreign visitors must make a "fair contribution".
Mr Hunt said he recognised the NHS's duty of care must "transcend" financial concerns, but collecting an extra £500m a year could pay for 4,000 extra doctors.
"We have one of the most generous systems in the world when it comes to healthcare for foreign visitors, but it's time for action to ensure the NHS is a national health service - not an international one," he added.
By Nick TriggleHealth correspondent
The issue of which foreigners are entitled to treatment and which are not is complex.
The first thing to say is if someone needs emergency care - for example if they have an accident - the NHS will treat them no matter where they come from.
Another exemption is if someone has an infectious disease as treatment helps protect the wider public.
Beyond that the UK has reciprocal agreements with most European countries and 28 other nations, including countries such as Canada and Australia.
It means if their residents need care while here temporarily - either on holiday or working - they will be seen and the NHS will then reclaim the cost of that care from the other country.
The research released by the Department of Health shows the NHS is not very good at clawing that money back. This is because of a perverse incentive in the system which ministers now want to rectify.
Meanwhile, travelling to the UK deliberately for health treatment - so-called health tourism - is not allowed.
The rules are less clear in other cases, such as expats and asylum seekers.
The latest research is published in two separate reports by firms Prederi and Creative Research.
The government has been criticised for using financial estimates from the Prederi report, but Mr Hunt said it was the "most thorough research there has ever been" in this area.
The report itself notes that it is based on "incomplete data, sometimes of varying quality, and a large number of assumptions", but it says the estimates are the "best that can be made at present", and Mr Hunt said researchers had been "completely honest about what they do know and what they don't know".
The government is currently consulting on the measures it will take to tackle this issue.
It has already announced a £200-a-year levy on migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) staying for between six months and five years, and Mr Hunt said this could raise £200m a year.
A cost-recovery unit will also be set up to help hospitals claw back money they are owed by other governments for treating foreign nationals visiting the UK.
Meanwhile, "deliberate health tourism" - whereby people travel to the UK to get NHS care - is estimated by Prederi to cost between £60m and £80m a year. The report's authors concede this figure is "uncertain" and the "plausible range" of the cost is £20m-£100m.
Frequent visitors "taking advantage" by registering with GPs and getting access to prescriptions and some hospital referrals cost the NHS a further £50m-£200m a year, the report adds.
The government accepts it cannot recoup all of this money and entirely stop health tourism and so it has put forward the "conservative" £500m figure.
To achieve this, it said a better system of identifying when visitors and migrants got treatment was needed. More details on what this will involve will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Free NHS care is offered to anyone with living in the UK who has temporary or permanent permission to do so.
Asylum seekers, non-EEA nationals who do not have permission to live in the UK, British ex-pats and visitors usually have to pay for treatment.
The UK has reciprocal agreements with most European nations and 28 other countries, and under these visitors are given free NHS care.
The NHS should claim these costs back from the relevant governments - but the research suggests just £73m a year is recouped out of more than £460m at present.
This is because there is a perverse incentive in the system whereby if they declare the fact they have treated a foreign national it is up to the individual hospital to chase up the home nation for the money whereas if they do not declare it they get money from the NHS system for seeing a patient entitled to care.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: "We are not against improving the recovery of costs from people with no entitlement to NHS treatment."
But he added the figures were based on a "large number of assumptions" and was more about "spin than substance".
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association's GPs committee, said the government's £500m savings figure was "exaggerated", partly because it did not take account of the costs of implementing its plans.
He said migrants paying the proposed £200-a-year levy could be more likely to use the NHS to "get their money's worth", and he said the cost of a single hospital outpatient appointment would be more than £200.
Dr Nagpaul said doctors should not be distracted from their work in order to check the eligibility of patients for treatments.
Dr Clare Gerada, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said it was imperative GPs were not tasked with being a "new border agency" in policing the NHS.
"The risks to public health that will arise from these proposals are also very real. They will deter people from seeking medical help in the early stages of illness when they can be dealt with cost-effectively and efficiently in primary care, rather than requiring expensive specialist care and increasing admissions to emergency departments," she said.
Jonathan Portes, of the Institute of Economic and Social Research think tank, said the research revealed the extent of deliberate health tourism had been "hugely overstated" and was in fact a "very small part of NHS expenditure".


An academy chain has said it plans to close a school which has "halved in size and income".

Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) said income at Sandown Bay Academy had dropped by £5m in five years because of a "rapid fall" in pupil numbers.
It said a previously-announced merger with Ryde Academy would now involve the closure of the Sandown site.
Isle of Wight councillors recently voted to ask the government to oust AET "off the island altogether".
More on this and other stories from across the South of England.
In a consultation document, AET said student numbers had fallen from 2,084 in 2011/12 to 1,122 five years later.
It said many schools were seeing the same pattern, and the island had "many more secondary school places than students to fill them".
AET said income for the current year was £7m, compared with £12m in 2012/13.
The trust, which previously described the school's academic performance as "very weak", said it lacked teachers and resources.
AET plans to transfer most pupils and teachers to its Ryde Academy, 6 miles (10km) away.
A final decision on the proposed merger will be made by the government following a six-week consultation  which runs until 6 July.


The A9 Perth to Inverness road has been closed in both directions following an accident near Kincraig.

Police, fire and ambulance personnel were called to scene at about 15:00. They were assisted by a coastguard rescue helicopter.
Unconfirmed reports have said a Ford Transit van and a campervan collided head-on.
One person is thought to have been taken to hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.
Traffic Scotland has warned drivers in the area to expect delays.


"Sorry, I'm chewing gum," says Ray Davies five minutes into our interview, before extracting the offending substance from his mouth.

It's a fitting interruption. We're here to talk about his latest album, Americana, which charts his love-hate relationship with the US - and there's nothing more American than chomping on a stick of Wrigley's.
Of course, our most recently-ennobled rock star is best known for his writing about England on songs like Waterloo Sunset, Muswell Hillbilly, Sunny Afternoon, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, but his obsession with the States started early.
As a schoolboy, he was captivated by black and white cowboy movies and the be-bop records his older sisters would bring home.
After receiving a guitar for his 13th birthday, he devoured records by Muddy Waters and Slim Harpo. His love affair with the blues was so strong that when he wrote The Kinks' first hit single, You Really Got Me he intended it to be "a blues song".
"Then it turned out to be a pop hit."
Somewhat disingenuously, he tells the BBC You Really Got Me was supposed to be The Kinks' only song (even though it was their third single).
"I wanted that to be a hit and then I was going to get out of town," he says.
"Unfortunately they asked me to write another one, and another one."
The Kinks' success meant Ray and his younger brother Dave could finally visit the Land of the Free - but things didn't go entirely to plan, as he describes on the new album.
"They called us The Invaders, as though we came from another world," he sings. "And the man from immigration shouted out, 'Hey punk, are you a boy or a girl?'"
The band could have overcome the prejudice if they weren't already in disarray - prone to fighting on stage, and let down by a promoter who refused to pay them in cash.
Things came to a head while taping Dick Clark's TV show Where The Action Is in 1965.
"Some guy who said he worked for the TV company walked up and accused us of being late," Davies wrote in his autobiography X-Ray.
"Then he started making anti-British comments. Things like 'Just because the Beatles did it, every mop-topped, spotty-faced limey juvenile thinks he can come over here and make a career for himself.'"
A punch was thrown, and the American Federation of Musicians refused to issue the Kinks permits to perform in the US for the next four years.
"It was a terrible blow to our career," says Davies. "We couldn't tour. We couldn't play Woodstock.
"Being a bolshie 21-year-old, I said, 'Let's make records and tour the rest of the world'.
"But deep down I was really hurt, because America was the inspiration for much of our music."
When the band were finally allowed back, in 1970, they had to start from scratch, plying their trade in tiny clubs and high school gymnasiums.
"It was quite a humbling experience after being really successful before," Davies recalls.
Yet the US became the band's lifeline in the 1970s, providing adulation, success and financial reward as interest dwindled at home.
"We ended up playing Madison Square Garden in 1980, which is a sign you've made it back. So it was a 10-year programme. It was hard work but, in a strange way, we built a loyal fanbase in that time."
So perhaps it's no surprise that Davies sings  "I want to make my home/Where the buffalo roam" on the title track of his new album.
Indeed, he moved to the US for several years, finding his spiritual home - and sanctuary - in New Orleans.
"Nobody taught me how to write songs, I sort of picked it up as I went along - but it always helps me to have a narrative and a subplot. It helps me through the song, rather than just writing a catchy verse or chorus. So you could say I'm guilty of excessive back story."
"I'm just another person there, which is really nice," he says. "And I fitted in with the music scene."
Living across the road from a church, he would frequently witness the city's brass band funerals, which stretch through the streets in celebration of local musicians and dignitaries at the end of their life.
But his sojourn in the city ended badly one Sunday evening in January 2004.
Davies was strolling along an unusually deserted Burgundy Street with his girlfriend Suzanne Despies.
A car pulled up alongside them, a young man got out, and demanded Despies' purse. She handed it over without any resistance, but Davies suddenly decided to give chase.
His assailant was armed, and shot Davies in the leg, breaking his femur.
"Why did I do it? That's the unanswerable question," he says.
"I've never really been the sort of person who would chase a man with a loaded gun. But I did. Foolishly, perhaps, and irresponsibly. But I did it.
"It was one of those heat of the moment situations, and I have no explanation other than that."
He ended up in hospital, heavily drugged and, for the first 24 hours, an anonymous "John Doe".
The experience informed a song - Mystery Room - in which the star faces his mortality for the first time: "My brain's hit a brick wall  / My body's in free-fall."
It's partnered with another track, Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys, which equates ageing rock stars with gunslingers about to hang up their holsters.
"Rock and roll cowboys, where do you go now?" asks Davies. "Do you give up the chase like an old retiree? Or do you stare in the face of new adversaries?"
It's a question that's flummoxed many of his 60s contemporaries. Has he ever contemplated giving up?
"Every writer who's written and toured for more than five years reaches a point where they think, 'Do I keep going?' or, 'Where do I go next?'" he says.
"Every day I wake up and say, 'I love writing songs but do I want to do this?'  and the answer is I do.
"I love making records. I love playing in front of people."
For the new record, he sought the help of alt-country stalwarts The Jayhawks, whose deft arrangements provide a rich backdrop to Davies' wry and incisive lyrics.
Was it challenging, I wonder, for him to walk in and take charge of an already-established band?
"It was a diplomatic situation," he says... well, diplomatically.
"At first, they were trying to sound English in their backing vocals, but I deterred them from that.
"The reason I picked them is because they just play the songs. They don't embellish too much unless I ask them to, which is great."
The Americana sessions went so well that there are "another 20" songs waiting to be finished and released, all derived from Davies's 2013 book of the same name.
"It's a big work, but I hope it'll be put together for a deluxe record later on."
Is he tempted to write something more topical for that record, given the ongoing political turmoil in the US?
"Everyone who knows my work comes up to me and says: 'It's time to revive Preservation,'" he says, referring to The Kinks' 1973 concept album and tour, in which a comedian becomes a dictator, funded by big business and using the media as a tool of control.
"It was a fun show but it had quite serious undertones," says Davies, "and I think that sums up America at the moment: it's a fun show with very serious undertones.
"I do hope America balances itself out. It's slightly off-kilter at the moment.
"He [Trump] has still got to face Congress, and it's still a democratic country. I think the will of the people will be heard, and America's constitution is strong.
"It's a difficult time of re-adjustment for them - but I think in time it'll balance itself out.
"It's a beautiful place but a dangerous place, as I found out."
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The Greek government made "completely unrealistic promises" to voters that it cannot now fulfil, the former European Commission president has said.

Jose Manuel Barroso, who left the key post last October, said that Alexis Tsipras's Syriza-led administration lacked experience.
Greece's demands were "completely unacceptable to other countries", he told the BBC's Business Live programme.
In its election campaign, Syriza promised to ease economic austerity.
Mr Tsipras pledged new jobs and a rise in the minimum wage. But Greece's creditors have made it clear they will not support a bailout for the country unless there is a comprehensive plan to reduce spending and increase revenues.
On Wednesday, the Greek government submitted fresh reform proposals.
The new plan foresees increasing government revenues through a crackdown on tax evasion and fraud, and a new lottery designed to encourage payment of sales tax.
But it also includes extra spending, including increased pension payments and and rise in the minimum wage.
Greece's creditors will now decide whether these latest reform proposals go far enough to unlock the bailout money.
In the interview, Mr Barroso pointed out that there were poorer countries lending money to Greece who would not support the idea of Greece's debts being written off.
He called on Greece to take responsibility for its financial plight and implement structural reforms, which was now the most important issue for the country.
"It was not Germany or any other member of the EU that created the problems in Greece - the problems in Greece are structural: low productivity and previous governments."
Nations such as Ireland, Portugal and Spain had come back from the financial brink and Mr Barroso said Greece could do the same: "There is nothing regarding Greece that prevents it being successful, but... bad politics have created a lot of problems for Greece."
Greece's previous proposals failed to satisfy its main creditors, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
But France's finance minister, Michel Sapin, said Greece's new proposals did represent some improvement in Athen's position.
"There is progress with the last list... Is there a need for more progress? Yes - in the quantification of the measures," he said.
A decision may not come before Greece is due to make a â‚¬450m (Â£330m) payment to the IMF on 9 April.
Eurozone finance ministers are likely to reserve any formal judgement for the next scheduled meeting in Riga on 24 April.
Despite the ongoing bail-out negotiations, Mr Barroso said a Greek departure from the eurozone was still a possibility. He said that would still be "negative", but that he believed it would be less damaging now because financial markets were much more confident than they had been in recent years.
However, he added that a "Grexit" would still leave the idea of monetary union in doubt. "It breaks a taboo and sets a precedent," he said.
The former EC chief and Portuguese prime minister also reiterated his view that Britons would be worse off if the UK left the European Union.
"I believe they would lose a lot if [the country] leaves the EU, because today, in the 21st century, versus the US, China, countries of 60 million people cannot speak at the same level - they do not have the same leverage - and we have to use the EU and our common leverage to count in the world."
Mr Barroso, 59, is now a visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of Geneva.
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