Amazon has taken its first foray into South East Asia, launching its Prime Now service in Singapore.

The move is seen as the start of an aggressive expansion in the region, which has a population of about 600 million people.
It is also the first time Amazon has gone head-to-head with Chinese rival Alibaba in Asia.
The Singapore service promises two-hour delivery on thousands of items including groceries and electronics.
Its biggest rival will be Redmart, owned by Lazada, which is in turn controlled by Alibaba.
Amazon Prime is a service available to Amazon customers who pay an annual membership fee.
It was first launched in New York in December 2014 and has since expanded to more than 50 major cities in nine countries.
Initially Singapore customers will not have pay for a subscription  - but while they can order electronics, toys and sports gear as well as food and drink, the Prime Now service will not initially include other Amazon Prime services including video streaming or Amazon Echo.
Books also seem unavailable to order on the app.
Amazon already has a significant presence in India and Japan but analysts say that South East Asia represents one of the biggest battlegrounds for e-commerce firms.
However, it is a highly fragmented market, comprising many different cultures, languages and regulations.
Singapore is seen as a good testing ground for regional expansion because of the developed infrastructure and relatively wealthy population.
As well as owning Redmart, Lazada also has a presence in several other Southeast Asian countries.
Singapore is seen as a launching pad for many e-commerce giants trying to take on the wider Southeast Asian region - a potential market of 600 million people that could, by some estimates, be worth $70bn.
But Singapore isn't South East Asia, and logistics and infrastructure issues in countries like Indonesia and Thailand have yet to be conquered.
While Amazon may be able to deliver on its two-hour delivery promise in small and efficient Singapore, it's hard to see how it's going to do that elsewhere.
Plus Alibaba has the first-mover advantage, and local knowledge which in Asia goes a long way.
So let the fresh food fight begin. Chances are the customers will benefit most, as price wars will be the name of the game.


A judge found that a father killed his baby son in a ruling made a year before he was cleared of manslaughter by a jury, it has emerged.

Mr Justice Peter Jackson said Craig Beattie was to blame for six-week-old Kye Kerr's death in Carlisle in 2011.
The judge's family court findings were not shown to Mr Beattie's trial jury in 2015 to avoid prejudicing the verdict.
In a separate case the same judge said a girl was abused by her father before she died, although he was not charged.
Paul Worthington, 48, from Barrow-in-Furness, was arrested in connection with 13-month-old Poppi's death but the Crown Prosecution Service said there was "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction".
The 2014 judgement in relation to Kye Kerr has been published despite the father's argument that much of it should be redacted.
His 35-year-old father, then living in Harraby, was alleged to have lost his temper and shaken or hit his son.
Mr Justice Jackson said the baby had a skull fracture "caused by a significant impact", bleeding on the brain and an unexplained mark on his head.
"Having considered all the available information I have reached the conclusion that the father was responsible for both occasions of injury, and that the injuries on the second occasion caused death," he said.
Judgements in family court proceedings are made based on a balance of probabilities, a lesser burden of proof than beyond reasonable doubt, which is required in criminal courts.
There was "no reason to believe that the father intended harm" but his "last minute efforts to throw the blame on the mother were quite deliberate", Mr Justice Jackson added.
A serious case review into the death criticised authorities' "insufficient professional curiosity" and inadequate assessments "of variable quality".
Cumbria County Council said it acknowledged "mistakes were made and that appropriate opportunities to issue care proceedings were not acted upon".
Corporate director for children's services, John Macilwraith said "procedures have been clarified" and social workers would now not wait for information from police or health professionals before bringing concerns about abuse before a court.
Cumbria Constabulary's Assistant Chief Constable Darren Martland said he acknowledged Mr Justice Jackson's criticisms, following which the force had referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
"The IPCC is conducting an independent investigation and, as such, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further," he said.


Two men, one of whom was released from prison by mistake while on remand, have been convicted of murder.

Martynas Kupstys and Andrus Giedraitis had denied the murder of Ivans Zdanovics, 24, who died in a house fire in Etherington Street, Gainsborough.
Kupstys, 26, admitted starting several fires at the house but denied intending to kill Mr Zdanovics or cause him serious harm.
Giedraitis claimed he was not at the house when the fires were started.
James House QC, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court the body of Mr Zdanovics was found by a friend in an upstairs bedroom at his rented terraced home in January last year.
Five separate seats of fire were discovered in the downstairs of the property. Mr Zdanovics, who had been drinking earlier with the two men, died as a result of smoke inhalation.
During the five-week trial, Kupstys, 26, of Aegir Close, Gainsborough, told the jury he only meant to damage the property and thought the house was empty.
He said he had been made to look a fool by Mr Zdanovics over the delivery of a stash of cannabis.
Kupstys was convicted on Monday.
In August, the Ministry of Justice launched an investigation after he was let out of HMP Lincoln while waiting to be taken to court.
Media reports said he tried to tell prison officers of their mistake but was still escorted out.
He waited for three hours at a nearby bus stop while police searched for him.
Giedraitis, 30, of Riseholme Road, Gainsborough, was convicted of murder by a jury on Tuesday.
Both men are due to be sentenced on Thursday.


Three RAF Chinook helicopters are being sent to help the relief effort in Nepal, International Development Secretary Justine Greening says.

The helicopters are in addition to the £2.5m donated by the UK to the UN's Humanitarian Air Service.
The military and UN helicopters will ferry people and aid supplies across remote and hard-to-reach terrain.
The Foreign Office has confirmed that British dual national Hemchandra Rai, 42, was killed in the disaster.
The married father of three lived in Hong Kong. Reports of another British victim killed at Mount Everest base camp are still being investigated.
Ms Greening said: "These highly versatile Royal Air Force helicopters and UN aircraft will mean life-saving aid supplies can be moved around Nepal and reach people in remote communities cut off by the earthquake who are in desperate need.
"Conditions in Nepal are dire, but the UK is determined to do everything it can to help support Nepal and its people."
The three CH47 Chinook aircraft will be transported from RAF Brize Norton to the region.
The Department for International Development (DfID) says the first Chinook is being prepared for transit on Thursday and will be sent out on Friday, with the other two being sent in the coming days.
The Foreign Office also confirmed that two of its teams, deployed to locate and assist British nationals in remote areas, helped rescue eight British nationals who were then transported from Dhunche to Kathmandu.
Some 300 British citizens have been assisted by the British embassy in Kathmandu since Saturday's 7.8-magnitude quake struck, killing more than 5,500 people.
An aid flight carrying 120 Britons from Nepal to the UK landed on Thursday.
There were emotional scenes as family members greeted relatives after the plane landed at Stansted Airport shortly after 03:00 BST.
Meanwhile, a boy and a woman have been rescued from collapsed buildings in Kathmandu after surviving for five days in the rubble.
Among those arriving back at Stansted on board the DfID-chartered Boeing 767 - which flew aid out to Nepal on Sunday - were children and people chosen as a priority because of health conditions.
The youngest passenger was a three-month-old baby.
Husband and wife Grahame and Holly Jobes, from Sunderland, were reunited as he stepped through immigration.
Mr Jobes, who was in Nepal for a friend's wedding, told the BBC he was in Kathmandu when the earthquake struck.
"Things were dropping down, people were running," he said.
"I am very fortunate, I managed to get out. I was next to people who are no longer here."
Harry Quinn, 26, from Brighton, said a hotel - which had turned him away because it was full - completely collapsed with 80 people inside.
"We were among the lucky ones but we saw plenty of others who weren't so lucky."
Chris Berriman, from Morpeth, Northumberland, arrived back in the UK on Monday. He said he was in a bookshop in Kathmandu when the quake struck.
"I dropped to my knees in the doorway and watched large cracks appear in the walls around me," he said.
"I staggered out into the streets when the quake passed. The streets are narrow with tall buildings so there was debris falling everywhere."
About 30 British and Irish families are reportedly still waiting for news of their loved ones who may have been in Nepal at the time of the earthquake.
Judy Ross, from Bath, said she feared for the safety of her daughter, Susannah Ross, 20, who is among a group of trekkers stranded in northern Nepal following the earthquake.
She has heard her daughter is alive, but said she did not know what state she was in and that she feared boulders "the size of a car" were still falling in the area.
An appeal launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has raised more than £19m in the UK - including £14m in public donations and £5m from the government, which matched the first £5m of public donations.
The UK government has also pledged £15m to Nepal in aid.
Members of a 60-strong UK International Search and Rescue (UKISAR) team have also started searching for victims on the ground - including in remote parts of Nepal - with specialist rescue dogs.
Hundreds of shelter kits and solar lanterns are among 18 tonnes of supplies from the UK which have arrived in the devastated region, Ms Greening said.
A team of Gurkha engineers - 12 from 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles and six from the Queen's Gurkha Engineers - has also travelled to the country to help operate water purification equipment.
The DEC, an umbrella organisation that brings together 13 British aid charities to deal with international crises, has launched a website and donation line.


UK car production jumped more than 10% year-on-year in June, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

But the industry body warns future growth may be hit if the government does not maintain unrestricted access to markets in the European Union (EU).
The UK made 158,641 cars last month, 10.4% more than in June 2015.
The SMMT says the growth was driven by decisions to invest on the basis of demand from its biggest market, the EU.
"These decisions were based on many factors but, primarily, on tariff-free access to the single market, economic stability and record levels of productivity from a highly skilled workforce," said Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive.
There are signs from elsewhere that the auto sector in the UK is already being affected by the UK's vote to leave the EU.
Car dealer Inchcape has warned that the Brexit vote is expected to slow growth in UK new car registrations in the coming months.
"Ahead of the EU referendum, the second quarter new vehicle market growth rate moderated to 1% from 5.1% in the first quarter," it said. "We expect this moderation of the new vehicle market to persist into the second half of 2016."
Second quarter GDP data, released on Wednesday, was broadly positive but also highlighted the potential for a slowdown in manufacturing for the car industry and other manufacturing.
In April industrial production jumped 2.1% month-on-month, but then dropped 0.5% in May and rose only 0.2% in June.


Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp defended selecting the youngest starting XI in the club's history for the 0-0 FA Cup draw against League Two side Plymouth.

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The Reds now face a trip to Devon for the third-round replay and have six remaining games in January.
Klopp's side also play Southampton in a two-legged EFL Cup semi-final and Premier League games against Manchester United, Swansea and Chelsea.
However, the German boss said: "I don't think the line-up was a mistake."
Asked about the long, midweek trip for the FA Cup replay, which is set to be played on 17 January, Klopp added: "Yippee. I don't know if at home they can play the same defensive style. We are looking forward to it."
Liverpool's starting line-up on Sunday had an average age of of 21 years and 296 days.
Forward Ben Woodburn, 17, is the club's youngest goalscorer after his strike against Leeds in the EFL Cup earlier this season and he was given his first start.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, 18, and 19-year-olds Joe Gomez - making his first appearance since suffering a knee ligament injury in October 2015 - Ovie Ejaria and Sheyi Ojo were also in the side.
At 29, Lucas was the oldest Liverpool player.
"I am responsible if you want to see it in a bad way," added Klopp.
"I always choose line-ups to win the game. We didn't think about the age. They are important players in our squad."
First-team regulars Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Roberto Firmino were brought on during the second half, but the hosts - who had enjoyed 80.3% possession in the first period - continued to be frustrated.
"We could have done better, 100%," said the Reds boss. "In the first half we lost patience too early - crossing at the wrong moment, making the wrong pass.
"We had the ball all the time. It was boring, not the most exciting game."
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Plymouth, who are second and challenging for promotion from League Two, limited Liverpool to four shots on target.
"It is probably one of the best defensive performances Anfield has seen," said Plymouth boss Derek Adams. "We allowed them time but didn't allow them space.
"This was about a team performance. We had 13 players and they all deserve a huge amount of credit."
Asked what Liverpool could expect in the replay at Home Park, he added: "Welcome to the real world."


A man who stabbed a 24-year-old man to death in North Tyneside has been given a life sentence.

Reece Allen was discovered with multiple stab wounds outside an address in West Avenue, North Shields, early on 25 January, and later died in hospital.
Joe Welsh, also 24, of no fixed address, had denied murder but was found guilty at a trial at Newcastle Crown Court.
The judge handed him a life sentence with a minimum term of 25 years.


Swashboggling and frobscottle are among thousands of Roald Dahl's words to be compiled in a dictionary celebrating the centenary of the writer's birth.

Almost 8,000 real words - and invented ones - are included in the dictionary, which has taken five years to compile.
Dahl famously invented words to stop his readers getting so bored they closed their books and watched TV.
Gumplewink, grobbled and sleep squiggler were unused but found in his archive during research for the book.
With his love of wordplay, Dahl would scribble his words on yellow pages from the American legal pads he used to write in, swapping letters around and adopting spoonerisms and malapropisms.
The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary, which features Dahl's long-time illustrator Sir Quentin Blake, was compiled by lexicographer Dr Susan Rennie.
Listen to Michael Rosen's interview with Dr Rennie on Radio 4's Word of Mouth.
Some of Dahl's other words include:
Dr Rennie said Dahl built his new words on familiar sounds, adding: "He didn't always explain what his words meant, but children can work them out because they often sound like a word they know, and he loved using onomatopoeia.
"For example, you know that something lickswishy and delumptious is good to eat, whereas something uckyslush or rotsome is definitely not.
"He also used sounds that children love to say, like squishous and squizzle, or fizzlecrump and fizzwiggler, which makes his stories so much fun to read, whatever age you are," she added.
And Dr Rennie told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the vast majority are either words Dahl invented, or "existing words that he used in interesting ways in his works".
She said: "Some of them have already escaped Dahl's world, like scrumdiddlyumptious. Children use Dahl's words a lot in their own writing and also create words inspired by the way he built words.
"He sometimes pulled the syllables of words apart and rebuilt them, combined them, and we can see children doing that in their own writing."
Some of the words in the dictionary reflect exclamations or phrases that may appear somewhat arcane today, such as ruddy, blithering, breeches and lavatory, which would have been familiar to the educated middle and upper classes of the 1940s.
Dahl also slipped biographical details into his stories, such as Matilda's parrot called Chopper, which was the name of his own Jack Russell dog.
Matilda actually means "mighty in battle" and was often used as a name for the tanks used in North Africa during World War Two, in which Dahl served as an RAF pilot.
Luke Kelly, managing director of the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, and Roald Dahl's grandson, said: "Roald Dahl's inventive, playful use of language is a key element to his writing, so it is wonderful to have this dictionary compiled with such expertise, passion, and wit.
"I hope it serves as a swashboggling source of inspiration for a whole new generation of storytellers."
Dahl's first children's story, James and the Giant Peach, was published in 1961 and was a hit. Every subsequent book became a bestseller, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox and the BFG.
His books are available in 58 languages and more than 200 million have sold worldwide, with many adapted for stage and screen.
His next story to hit cinemas will be Steven Spielberg's adaptation of The BFG, starring Mark Rylance, which is set for release in July.
The dictionary is published on 2 June.


Mental health patients smoke more than three times as much as the general population, a Public Health England and NHS survey of 105 care units suggests.

Smoking can increase depression and anxiety and reduce the effectiveness of medication by up to 50%, experts warn.
PHE wants all mental-health hospitals to be smoke-free zones.
But smokers' rights group Forest says patients in mental health units should have the same freedom to smoke as the general public.
The PHE survey suggests 64% of mental-health patients are addicted to tobacco - compared with 18% of the general population, although 9% of the units are already completely smoke-free.
It is publishing new guidance to help medium- and low-security mental-health units implement National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommendations that all NHS-funded hospitals should provide stop-smoking services.
Experts say smoking is the main reason mental-health patients have a life expectancy that is 10 to 20 years lower,
Kevin Fenton, PHE national director of health and wellbeing  said the organisation wanted to "reduce the unacceptable inequalities in health experienced by people living with mental-health problems".
Mary Yates, matron of London's Maudsley Hospital - who has worked in mental-health care for more than 25 years - said: "It's been commonplace for smoking to be facilitated - for nurses to purchase cigarettes for patients, to accommodate patients cigarette breaks and to escort people to smoke rather than to be investing energy in educating people on the harmful effects of smoking."
She said those effects were not just damage to physical health, which people were usually aware of - but that there was also the growing evidence that smoking cessation enhances people's mental wellbeing.
Ms Yates added: "People who are able to successfully give up smoking feel less anxious, have improvements in their moods, have increased self-confidence, and begin to feel that they are able to tackle a lot more in life."
Garry Ellison, who quit smoking in 2003 after being admitted to a mental-health care unit for depression, said: "I do now feel a lot more serenity and at ease - there used to be a thing when I was a smoker and I was always waiting for my fag break - so I'd be here talking to you thinking, 'Oh right, when I'm finished I'll be straight out of here having a fag.'
"And after eating, I'd have a cigarette.  In the morning, I'd have a cigarette with a coffee.  It seemed to punctuate the day, and there's a feeling of not having to do that.
"I think I've got a much better, robust sense of being able to maintain my wellbeing.
"Smoking made that much more precarious.
"It made me much more prone to be anxious, which then brought on depression."
But former mental-health patient Gary Nevan said it was "out of order" for service users to be told what to do.
He said: "We're in hospital to get better, and sometimes having a fag makes you feel good, so I don't appreciate being told I can't light up when I can at home.  We're not kids."
A Royal College of Physicians report says that, in contrast to a marked decline among the general population, smoking rates among those with mental disorders have changed little, if at all, during the past 20 years.
It says there are up to three million smokers in the UK, and about 30% of them are thought to have a mental disorder.
It also estimates smoking increases psychotropic drug costs in the UK by up to Â£40m per annum.
It says: "Addressing the high prevalence of smoking in people with mental disorders offers the potential to realise substantial cost savings to the NHS, as well as benefits in quantity and quality of life."
But Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said: "Smoking is not just about health, although many smokers believe it helps reduce anxiety and stress. If some mental health patients enjoy smoking why should they be denied that pleasure?
"Public Health England has no right to deny people choice. Who are they to dictate whether or not a mental health patient can smoke a product that is legally available to every other adult in Britain?
"What PHE is proposing is discrimination. It will target unfairly a group of people who, being dependent on others, has little alternative other than to comply."


For the first time since the establishment of the Assembly in 1998 Northern Ireland has a DUP education minister.

Only Sinn FÃ©in had held the education post until now.
But Peter Weir will be aware of many of the pressing issues he faces, as he recently chaired Stormont's education committee.
With Simon Hamilton responsible for universities as part of his economy brief, the DUP now oversee every aspect of education - from pre-school through to higher education.
In the run up to the assembly election, the party produced a policy document specifically on education which set out their priorities.
While they firmly back academic selection, it is unlikely that they will attempt to reintroduce a Northern Ireland-wide test.
Instead, it is likely that it will become easier for primary schools to teach to - and facilitate - the current Association of Quality Education and Post Primary Transfer Consortium-run tests.
However, the new minister may press both bodies to find a common test rather than continue to run separate ones.
The big problem facing Mr Weir will be money.
The education budget has fallen, while costs are rising.
Many school leaders warn that they are facing deficits which could lead, in the worst cases, to staff and subject cuts and higher class sizes.
The DUP have said that they support more money going directly to schools, so principals may have more say on what their budget is spent on - if not more funding overall.
In addition, the new minister may take a fresh look at the area planning process.
That aims to ensure that the size of schools and where they are located meets the needs of pupils.
A number of reports have said that we have too many schools in Northern Ireland.
Closing or merging a number of those deemed unsustainable would undoubtedly help save money, but, in practice, any move to do that inevitably meets strong local opposition.
The DUP also broadly backed the "shared education" approach favoured by previous minister John O'Dowd, where individual schools from different backgrounds collaborated while maintaining their own independence and ethos.
So it is unlikely that the integrated sector, which educates about 7% of pupils, will grow significantly in the coming years.
One change that the DUP has committed to is to change the GCSE-grading system to bring it in line with changes taking place in England.
That means that pupils in Northern Ireland will soon get grades from 1-9 rather than A*-G when they get their GCSE results, and should mean schools can re-introduce exams set by English examining boards.
Mr Weir's appointment has been broadly welcomed by representatives from a range of sectors, who believe that he is well aware of the challenges they face.
However, those in the Irish medium sector may be a little nervous about a DUP minister committed to tackling what the party criticised as "preferential treatment" when it came to money for new school buildings.


A "national demonstration" against the policies of US President Donald Trump is to be held in Edinburgh.

Thousands took to the streets in Scottish cities after Mr Trump announced a crackdown on immigration and suspended the US refugee programme.
The Scotland Against Trump group behind those rallies has organised a national event in Edinburgh on Saturday.
Protestors plan to gather at the Meadows before marching to the US consulate and the Scottish Parliament.
They have organised buses to bring in groups from other parts of Scotland.
The event will include speeches by human rights groups, abortion rights campaigners, trade union representatives and lawyer and anti-racism campaigner Aamer Anwar.
A statement from Scotland Against Trump said it was "time to fight back".
It added: "We will stand up and be counted. Trump is the apex of an insurgency of an international far-right. We will resist. We are the majority. We are ready to make our voice heard."
Since January's protests, most of the provisions of Mr Trump's travel ban, which targets seven mainly Muslim countries, have been suspended amid legal challenges.
The president insists America's national security is at risk and has indicated he intends to pursue further legal avenues.
More than 1.8m people across the UK have signed a petition urging the UK government to withdraw the offer of a state visit to Mr Trump.
That, and a counter-petition insisting Mr Trump should be allowed to visit, which gathered more than 300,000 signatures, will be debated at Westminster on 20 February.
The UK government has already rejected calls to cancel the visit.


Skill shortages are opening up across the Scottish economy, according to recruitment consultants.

The monthly survey of around 100 expert found a continued drop in the number of people available for jobs.
That is despite redundancies in the oil and gas sector, and a slowdown in economic growth.
Figures for last month suggest an employment gap is opening up between Scotland's performance and the rest of the UK.
The latest research, carried out by the Markit consultancy, found a a very weak rise in the number of people starting permanent roles, having eased sharply since April.
It was the lowest growth in six months.
A sign of the skill shortages was that those who did find permanent roles found their starting pay increased at the strongest rate since May last year.
The biggest shortages of applicants for permanent jobs were in hotels and catering. For temporary roles, the biggest shortages were in care work and the health service.
These are both sectors in which employers look particularly strongly to recruit migrants workers, from outside the UK.
It seems odd that we can have a slowing economy at the same time as growing skill shortages.
It seems even stranger to find recruiters complain they can't find the right engineering skills for the jobs on offer, when the oil and gas sector has been shedding such a lot of workers.
But if the Markit survey is any guide, that's where we seem to be.
Part of the explanation is that the Scottish jobs market has been tightened by the very strong job-creating pull of the English labour market, particularly in and around London.
The Labour Market Survey also points to a lot of Scots leaving the labour market. And it's not clear why.
But the challenge now for individuals, as for government, is to match up skills with areas of shortage. The range of transferable skills in the offshore sector, for instance, will be a priority for adaptation to other areas of demand.
However, few drillers have what it takes to slot in to vacancies in the hospitality business, which is showing signs of more rapid growth than elsewhere.
To ensure the tourism industry is matching the demand from staycationers and inbound visitors, employers need to be able to draw in skills from other parts of the European Union and beyond.
Scotland's rural hotels rely on foreign workers. If the current debate about migration is to stem the flow of them into Scotland and into jobs, wages and prices can be expected to inflate, and the country's tourism offer will become less competitive.
The jobs market has tightened in recent months, with recruitment rising at a very strong rate across the UK as a whole. The Scottish jobs market has not performed as strongly. Unemployment is now higher than the UK as a whole.
The most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a drop in the number of people available for work, and also the number of people in work.
Commenting on the Markit survey of recruitment consultants, Kevin Green, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said: "UK businesses are now facing candidate shortages in nearly every sector of the economy.
"From engineering firms, to catering companies, schools and hospitals, we need more people with the right skills for the jobs that are available. Despite this, employers are showing uncertainty about hiring in the run-up to the EU referendum.
"Whatever happens after the referendum, we need to ensure a sensible approach to immigration is taken, so that employers have access to the people they need."
Mr Green added: "The hospitality sector is a case in point. The latest data shows a surge in demand for staff from hotels and restaurants as they expect many holidaymakers to stay in the UK this summer rather than travel abroad."


Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner says she is considering entering US politics in a bid to promote transgender issues.

She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been "really upset" by some of President Donald Trump's policies on the LGBT community.
The ex-Olympic athlete, who changed her name and transitioned to living as a woman aged 65, said Mr Trump was being "influenced by people around him".
Jenner said her life was "much simpler" now she was living openly as a woman.
Over the past two years, Jenner has become the most famous transgender person in the world.
A Republican supporter who supported Mr Trump in last year's US election, Jenner said she was disappointed the new president had overturned guidance allowing transgender students to use school toilets matching their gender identity.
"It doesn't make me regret my vote yet, but it is very disappointing and I have been very verbal about that," she said.
"I thought Trump would be better on these issues."
Asked why she believed that, she said it was because she had "talked to him", adding: "I will have more conversation with him about it in the future."
She told the programme she was now considering going into politics to promote LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues.
"I do a lot of political stuff, but it is mostly all behind the scenes," she said.
Asked if she would stand for election, she added: "I have been asked that question quite a bit, to be honest with you - over the next year I'm looking into it.
"I want to know where can I do a better job for my community, in bringing the Republican Party around when it comes to all LGBT issues.
"Is it from the outside? Kind of working on the outside and the perimeter and working with everybody to get the Republicans to change their thinking?
"Or is it better off being on the inside and actually running for a Congress or Senate seat? Can I do more good there? And those are the things that I am evaluating."
In a wide-ranging interview, she also spoke about how some of her 10 children and step-children have grown closer to her since transitioning, while others have become more distant.
Jenner said some of her children were mourning the "loss of Bruce", the name she lived by before transitioning.
But she said step-daughter Kim Kardashian had been "wonderful" about the subject.
She spoke about how she had maintained Jenner's secret for two years before she transitioned.
"She came up to me one day, after she had moved out and had her own house, and said: 'What the hell is going on with you?'
"And at that time I thought 'it is time to start talking', so I said 'I'll come to your house tonight'."
Her step-daughter, now married to rapper Kanye West, then kept the secret quiet for another two years, without ever bringing it up again, Jenner said.
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.


Barrow registered a fourth successive win as they dented Braintree's National League play-off hopes.

The visitors went behind early when goalkeeper Tom King fumbled Andy Haworth's corner and presented Jason Walker with a close-range gift.
Andy Cook doubled the advantage with his 20th goal of the season as he latched on to Jordan Williams' assist.
Barrow have now gone nine games unbeaten while defeat leaves Braintree are one point off the top five.


Alex Hales has done enough to keep his place in the England side, according to his county coach and national team selector Mick Newell.

The 27-year-old Nottinghamshire opener scored 60 in the drawn second Test against South Africa.
Newell told BBC Radio Nottingham: "He wants to establish himself as the long-term successor as an opening partner to Alastair Cook.
"I think there were signs in that first innings in Cape Town that he can do."
England's second opening place has become a headache for the selectors, with captain Cook having eight different partners since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012.
Hales averages 25.25 after scoring a total of 101 in his four Test innings so far, but Newell is confident he can improve on that.
"Opening the batting is a pretty tough job and when Dale Steyn is playing, you are playing against the world's best bowler," he said.
"Alex is having to get stuck in and curb some of his natural instincts to score.
"He is certainly doing enough to stay in the team, but I think he wants to do more than that.
"He will want to come out of the series with some more good scores. He will be continually tested on two faster pitches as they move inland.
"If he does grab this opportunity I think it will be great for him, and good for England."


Sebastien Ogier secured his third successive World Rally Championship with victory in Rally Australia.

Ogier's win in the three-day road gravel event in New South Wales was his seventh of the season as the French driver beat Volkswagen Polo R team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala by 12.3 seconds.
The 31-year-old said: "It's an amazing season, the best I've ever done."
Ogier joins Sebastien Loeb (nine), Juha Kankkunen and Tommi Makinen (both four) in winning three or more world titles.
Volkswagen's 1-2 in Australia secured a third manufacturers' crown for the German team.
Ogier won the final seven speed tests to take victory in Australia, overhauling Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke, who had led on the second day before going on to finish third, more than half a minute behind the winner.
The 11th round of the championship takes place in France from 1-4 October with the 13th and final round, the Wales GB Rally, being staged from 12-15 November.


An art dealer and TV presenter has spoken of his "utter and raw delight" on discovering a painting once deemed a fake was, in fact, worth £2m.

Philip Mould was always convinced the painting was an original by British artist John Constable, but unable to produce proof, he sold it for £35,000.
Now, 17 years later, he has been vindicated.
Research by the BBC's Fake or Fortune? programme found it is an early version of Constable's famous Hay Wain.
The presenter - more used to telling other people they had missed out on fortunes - had his own dealings put under the spotlight in Sunday's episode of the art detective show.
Mr Mould told Radio 5 live he believed he had got hold of an original, when he paid £10,000 for the picture as a young dealer.
"I tried to prove it - but couldn't," he said of the depiction of Willy Lott's Cottage on the River Stour.
So he sold it on, only to buy it back a few years later and try again to prove its authenticity.
But still unable to, he sold it to Gloucestershire businessman Henry Reid in 2000.
He paid £35,000, having "believed [Mould's] conviction" he would one day be able to prove its true worth.
"I promised the person I sold it to that one day I would return and try and prove it and wonderfully, we were able to do it," Mr Mould said.
"We have proved that a painting that I bought for a few thousand pounds originally, hoping it was a work by one of the greatest landscape painters who ever lived, is now finally proved to be so. I am so thrilled."
Earlier this year, 1821 painting The Hay Wain was voted one of the nation's favourite art works.
The trail led Fake or Fortune? co-presenter Fiona Bruce to experts in Los Angeles.
Mr Mould said the programme team examined the layers of paint and the work's provenance.
"Art history has moved on so magnificently - and technology - in the last 17 years. We can do things and find things out that were not possible when I was a youngster," he said.
"We were able to trace it back through various owners... right back pretty well to the brush of Constable himself. We found it in a sale sold by his son after his death which was a real slam dunker."
Presented with all the evidence, two specialists finally gave it "the thumbs up".
Despite missing out on a multimillion-pound windfall, the dealer is not bitter.
"I'm enormously happy for him," he conceded.
"It's also wonderful for Constable himself. I had visions of him saying why is my picture being deemed a fake?"
Watch Series 6 of Fake or Fortune? on the BBC iPlayer.


Super-heavyweight Frazer Clarke believes sparring with Anthony Joshua can propel him to a gold medal in the European Boxing Championships.

The 25-year-old is among 13 British men in Ukraine for the championships, which will be held from 16-24 June.
"I've been sparring with Anthony for a long time; it gives you real confidence," said Clarke.
"If I can compete with Joshua, the best heavyweight in the world, I can compete with anyone else on the planet."
World heavyweight champion Joshua, a 2012 Olympic gold medallist, trains at GB Boxing's base in Sheffield - where his coach Rob McCracken also oversees the GB Olympic programme.
We want the new boxers to show they have potential for the Tokyo Olympics
"I've been on the programme eight years now, but only now am I ready to go to the major championships and win a gold medal," said Clarke.
"By no stretch of the imagination is it going to be an easy task to win these Europeans.
"But the years of sparring with Joshua and Joe Joyce have put me in a great position to compete and go and be the number one."
The tournament in Kharkiv is also an opportunity to qualify for August's World Championships in Hamburg.
And although the 10 English boxers and three Scottish boxers will fight in their home nation's vest in Ukraine, top-eight finishes will claim quota places for Great Britain in Germany.
Only two Rio Olympians - Pat McCormack and Galal Yafai - are in the team, with most of their fellow Olympians having switched to the professional ranks.
For 10 of the British boxers in Ukraine, this event is their first taste of senior major international competition.
"We're looking for the experienced boxers to go and show that experience and we want the new boxers to show they have potential for the Tokyo Olympics," performance director McCracken told BBC Sport.
"There's some good talent coming through and this is how we develop them - by exposing them to the best in Europe and then the world.
"It's very early in the Olympic cycle, but we're trying to strengthen across all 10 weights."
GB boxers at the European Championships from 16-24 June:
Galal Yafai - Light-flyweight - 49kg - England; Niall Farrell - Flyweight - 52kg - England; Peter McGrail - Bantamweight - 56kg - England; Lee McGregor - Bantamweight - 56kg - Scotland; Calum French - Lightweight - 60kg - England; Luke McCormack - Light-welterweight - 64kg -England; Pat McCormack - Welterweight - 69kg - England; Ben Whittaker - Middleweight - 75kg - England; John Docherty - Middleweight - 75kg - Scotland; Tom Whittaker-Hart - Light-heavyweight - 81kg - England; Cheavon Clarke - Heavyweight - 91kg - England; Scott Forrest - Heavyweight - 91kg - Scotland; Frazer Clarke - Super-heavyweight - 91kg+ - England.


Northampton Town could be relieved of its £10.25m debt owed to the borough council, after the authority agreed to back a deal to sell the club.

A memorandum of understanding has been agreed between the council and the consortium, led by Kelvin Thomas, which is taking over the Cobblers.
The deal would see the debt wiped out, with the council taking over land near Sixfields for development in return.
The club currently faces both an administration and winding-up petition.
The Cobblers owe the council the money over a loan given for unfinished redevelopment work at Sixfields Stadium, and also owes HM Revenue & Customs £166,000 in unpaid tax.
The loan was originally paid to the League Two club for building the new East Stand, along with a hotel and conference centre - none of which have been completed.
The council said the outline agreement signed off by its cabinet would see Thomas's consortium pay off the debt to HMRC and finish work on the stand.
Mary Markham, leader of the council, said: "It is clear that if the club is to survive and have some stability, we have to find a way of repaying the debt.
"This deal puts us in the strongest position to ensure that the public purse is protected."
Northamptonshire Police is investigating "alleged financial irregularities" surrounding the loan to the club.


Police admitted they could be "in hot water" after editing a photograph of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston to promote a counter-terrorism strategy.

A tweet by Northamptonshire Police claimed Hiddleston was wearing an "I love Prevent" t-shirt, endorsing the government scheme.
As reported in Middle East Eye (MEE), the photo had been altered and the tweet removed following complaints.
In a statement, police said tweets were deleted to "avoid being misconstrued".
The @NorPolPrevent Twitter account promotes Prevent, which is designed to protect individuals, including schoolchildren, against radicalism and extremism.
The tweet on 8 July looked like a retweet, but police had altered the text in the original and the accompanying photograph of the celebrity couple hugging in the sea.
It therefore appeared that @TSwiftNZ, a fan account, had tweeted on 4 July: "Tom is wearing an I â™¥ Prevent top! #tomsaidnotobondbecausepreventdontspy".
It had actually tweeted "Tom and Taylor at the beach today! Tom is wearing a I â™¥ TS top!"
Police gave a heavily-redacted response following a Freedom of Information request by MEE for email exchanges between staff.
"Did we photoshop this? And can it please be deleted ASAP," said a news producer, referring to a complaint about a tweet.
It added: "Photoshopping .... to suggest .... is irresponsible in the extreme."
Another added: "Probably just helpful to be mindful of editing pics of 'celebrities'.
"They spend a lot of money and carefully craft their public images, and associations with contentious topics can be concerning for them!
"Also from a copyright perspective, we can be treading in hot water!"
It had also tweeted images of Chewbacca from Star Wars, Mr T from The A-Team, the the original Ghostbusters line-up and Daniel Craig as James Bond to promote Prevent, all of which have been deleted.
Police said: "We can confirm that @NorPolPrevent use Twitter as a means to engage with local communities and this has, on occasion, included using images to portray messages in a non-confrontational or humorous manner.
"As part of our ongoing training of force social media users, we provide guidance on effective and appropriate use of social media and, on this occasion, some tweets were deleted by the users of the account to avoid anything being misconstrued."
The Prevent strategy has proved controversial, most recently in the wake of reports one of three east London teenage girls who fled to Syria had been killed.


Firmus Energy, which supplies gas to about 50,000 customers in greater Belfast, is to cut its prices.

It has announced a price drop of up to 9.75% that follows last week's announcement by SSE Airtricity to cut gas bills.
The price drop is for those living in the greater Belfast area.
The company is to make an announcement for other customers in the "ten towns" area in the coming days.
Michael Scott, Firmus Energy's managing director, said: ""We monitor all costs and global wholesale fuel prices on a daily basis to ensure our prices offer the best value possible and any savings are passed on as soon as we can to our customers."
Richard Williams, of the Consumer Council, said: "This is great news for Firmus Energy customers who will save around Â£50 on their annual gas bill."
Mr Williams said all gas consumers in greater Belfast would benefit from recent cuts.
"We would encourage all gas customers in the greater Belfast area to shop around to get the best possible price and service," he said.
"Even switching payment or billing method can save money."
"We have lots of resources to help, from our online gas price comparison tool to our step-by-step guide to the switching process."
Earlier in February, Power NI announced electric bills for its 500,000 domestic customers would fall by 10.3% from April.


Stereophonics and Faithless are to co-headline the Isle of Wight Festival next year.

The two bands were announced by festival organisers on Twitter. Stereophonics tweeted: "Huge festival news! We'll be co-headlining Friday."
Queen, with singer Adam Lambert, have already been announced as the headline act on Sunday night.
The Welsh band Stereophonics played the festival in 2004 and 2009 and Faithless made an appearance in 2005.


Online property portals in Beijing have been forced to remove "illegal information" in an attempt to curb rising prices in the capital.

The sites had until Wednesday to remove ads promising high returns and even good feng shui, state media said.
Beijing's surging home prices have made it unaffordable for many, and led to high debt levels.
Authorities have issued new restrictions this year, calling the property market an economic risk.
This includes raising the minimum down payment on a second home and suspending individual mortgage loans of more than 25 years. Third property purchases and any form of financing advice are also banned.
The crackdown now extends to sales tactics used by online real estate portals, some of which tout "limitless potential for price gains," according to Xinhua.
The Chinese state news agency said 15 property portals, including popular sites Lianjia and I Love My Home, were told to take out posting and claims that broke regulations on property advertisements.
It listed several of these rules, including a ban on "fengshui and other superstitious content", and a ban on "promises of appreciation on investment returns".
Feng shui, which means 'wind' and 'water' in Mandarin, is often consulted when deciding property value.
Xinhua said authorities will begin checking the sites on Thursday.
The world's second-largest economy is widely expected to show slowing growth as the impact of earlier stimulus measures wear off.
The property market contributes to around 20% of China's gross domestic product and there are fears a crash would severely damage the economy.
China releases its first-quarter growth figures next week.


Police in Fife have released CCTV images of two men they want to trace in connection with an armed robbery.

Money was stolen from the TSB bank on Dunearn Drive in Kirkcaldy on 29 January at about 10:40.
The first man is white, in his late 20s or early 30s with dark stubble, and wearing a dark coloured baseball cap and dark clothing.
The second man is also white, 5ft 9ins tall, around 30 years old, of medium build and with stubble.
The second man wore a dark coloured baseball cap, dark blue or grey hooded top and dark trainers.
He also wore dark blue jogging bottoms with a distinctive white coloured motif on one leg. Officers want to hear from anyone who is able to identify the brand of this clothing.
Police say the two men shown in the CCTV may be able to help with their investigation and would ask any member of the public who recognises them to come forward.
Both men were seen riding bicycles on Alford Avenue in Kirkcaldy around the time of the incident.
Det Insp Colin Robson, of Kirkcaldy CID, said: "The public response to our recent appeals has been tremendous and I'm grateful to everyone who has contacted police.
"We continue to pursue various lines of inquiry in relation to this extremely serious offence. The public can rest assured that all information received will be acted upon."


UKIP's Nigel Farage will be among leaders to face audience questions in BBC regional election specials.

A programme featuring Mr Farage will be broadcast in England on 30 April, on the same evening as versions with the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood in Scotland and Wales.
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg will also separately appear for 30 minutes in a Question Time special.
UKIP has been added to the arrangements in place before the 2010 election.
A party spokesman said:  "Nigel Farage is delighted to accept the BBC's invitation to once again engage with the public."
During a BBC opposition leaders' election debate on Thursday, Mr Farage had accused the corporation of failing to select a balanced audience. Those present had been selected by an independent polling organisation.
And sources within the BBC said the arrangement for regional programmes was agreed well ahead of Thursday's debate programme.
The Question Time Election Leaders Special, hosted by David Dimbleby and featuring one-by-one appearances by Conservative leader Mr Cameron, Labour's Mr Miliband and Lib Dem Mr Clegg will go out live on BBC One and the BBC News Channel from 20:00 to 21:30 BST, one week before polling.
Each of the leaders will separately face 30 minutes of questions posed by a studio audience in Leeds.
Later the same evening there will be three special programmes broadcast on BBC One in different parts of the UK, in which Ms Sturgeon, Ms Wood and Mr Farage will each answer voters' questions for half an hour.
On BBC One in Scotland, at 21:30 BST, Glenn Campbell will chair Election 2015: Ask Nicola Sturgeon, in which the SNP leader will take questions from an audience in Glasgow.
On BBC One in Wales, after the News at Ten, an audience in Cardiff will put questions to the Plaid Cymru leader, at the same time as Mr Farage appears on an English version filmed in Birmingham.
That programme will also be shown later in the evening on BBC One in Wales.


If you want to get rich fast, then donning a pinstriped suit and heading for the City has traditionally been seen as the most straightforward path to wealth.

Unsurprisingly these year's ranking of the UK's richest 1,000 people by the Sunday Times continues to be dominated by financiers, hedge funders and property tycoons.
Yet delve a bit deeper and the list reveals some less obvious ways to become one of the super-rich.
We look at six of the career choices which you wouldn't typically bet on to bring in the big bucks.
"The egg market is big" - that's how egg producer Noble Foods put it.
In the UK, we eat a staggering 30 million eggs every day and as chairman of Noble Foods, Peter Dean has amassed a £212m fortune from the family egg business, putting him at 534 on the list.
The company was started in the 1920s by his grandfather William Dean, who sold eggs door-to-door in rural Hertfordshire.
The firm rapidly moved from packing and selling a small amount of eggs for local grocery stores into a national business.
Always ambitious, the firm bought several other companies to speed up its growth. Just over a decade ago, Dean Food Group merged with Stonegate, controlled by lifelong egg producer Michael Kent, to create Noble Foods.
"Bringing eggs to life," is the tagline of the company, whose brands include Happy Egg and Big & Fresh as well as luxury pudding brand Gu.
Never underestimate how much people love their pets. Most owners think of their animals as members of the family and are willing to spend big to prove it, making it a lucrative industry.
British husband and wife duo Tony and Christina Quinn - listed at number 446 with a £255m joint fortune - set up their business catering to pampered pets after emigrating to Australia.
Their chilled pet food business VIP Pet Foods focused on the gourmet end of the market for cats and dogs, offering a "Fussy Cat" range and vacuum-packed fresh minces.
The pair sold the business in 2015 for AU$410m - the equivalent of £250m today.
Thomas Warburton and his wife Ellen opened a grocery shop in 1870. When sales fell in 1870, Ellen switched to baking bread, with her loaves becoming an instant success.
Almost 150 years on, Warburtons is still a private family owned business managed by the fifth generation of Warburtons Jonathan, Ross and Brett.
The firm now sells £500m a year's worth of bread, crumpets, fruit loaf, muffins, tea cakes and wraps. It claims over a quarter of all bakery products eaten in the UK are produced by them.
Their enduring popularity has made them plenty of dough - putting the Warburton family at 225 on the list with a £545m fortune.
Everyone needs to wash. Soap brand Imperial Leather has helped power Anthony Green, former chairman of household products firm PZ Cussons, and the Zochonis family, descendants of company founder George Zochonis, to 170th on the list with a £541m fortune.
The Manchester-based company is now behind a range of household products from Charles Worthington hair care to self-tanning brand St Tropez.
The firm actually started out as a commodities trader in the 1880s, but by 1948 had switched to manufacturing, opening its first soap factory in Nigeria.
Boxes of juice may seem a pretty everyday item now. But back in the 1950s, sterile and watertight containers were seen as a novel alternative to glass bottles.
Tetra Pak founder Ruben Rausing came up with the idea after watching his wife make sausages by tying up the ends, and wondering if a similar system would work for milk, according to the New York Times.
Last year the firm sold 188 billion Tetra Pak packages.
The invention has made the Rausing family rich, propelling Ruben's son Hans Rausing and family - who have now sold their 50% stake in the business - to number 11 on the rich list with a £650m fortune.
Starting out as a market trader isn't an obvious route to wealth, yet at least one person on the list started out this way.
Former market trader Chris Dawson founded the Range discount stores which he describes as "the working man's John Lewis". Together with his wife Sarah Dawson, he's now worth £1.9bn and ranked 67th on the list.
The "pile it high, sell it cheap" approach has helped three other discounters make the grade.
Home Bargains chain founder Tom Morris and family rank 39th with a wealth of over £3bn, followed by Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora - the brothers behind the B&M discount store chain. Together the brothers are listed at 65, and are collectively worth £1.92bn.
Poundstretcher owners and brothers Rashid and Aziz Tayub and family - which now have over 400 stores in the UK - come 453rd on the list with £250m.
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More than 500 buses, costing about £100m, are being bought by National Express for the West Midlands.

The vehicles will be equipped with low-emission engines and the latest CCTV systems, the company said.
The fleet will include a mix of double-decker buses and smaller vehicles.
National Express is buying 600 new buses in total across its UK division, but the "lion's share" would serve Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry, spokesman Jack Kelly said.
The new British-made buses would provide better comfort for customers, he said.
"Inside they're going to have better climate control so they're cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
"Every bell and whistle you can have on a bus, these will have."
They would also have LED lighting inside, to ensure the back of the bus would be as light as the front, Mr Kelly said.
The first batch of more than 100 of the new buses is scheduled to be introduced in the region by the end of the year.


The SDLP leader has revealed for the first time that he considered quitting after the party lost all its MPs in the general election earlier this month.

Colum Eastwood told the BBC's Inside Politics Programme he decided to stay on after receiving messages of support from inside and outside the party.
He also spoke for the first time about three SDLP councillors who quit after ignoring party instructions to condemn harassment by anti-abortion activists.
He said they "embarrassed" the SDLP.
Mr Eastwood also rejected accusations that he showed a "lack of leadership" in not meeting the councillors before they resigned.
Reflecting on the party's performance in the Westminster election earlier this month, the SDLP leader said it was a bitter blow to lose "three political giants" in Mark Durkan, Margaret Ritchie and Alasdair McDonnell.
The former MPs lost their seats in the 8 June poll, wiping out SDLP representation in the House of Commons.
Asked if he thought about stepping down as leader, Mr Eastwood said: "I don't think you can have an election like that and not think about those things.
"But then, you have to come to a decision on what's best for the future and my view is that I have a role to play and the SDLP has a role to play."
He added: "I obviously considered if that was the right thing for the party and the country.
"I came to the conclusion after many, many people contacted me both inside and outside the party to say 'keep going'."
The SDLP leader was under pressure again this week when he was heavily criticised by three councillors in Belfast who quit the party.
Former Lord Mayor Pat Convery and councillors Declan Boyle and Kate Mullan did not support the party line in condemning the harassment of women by anti-abortion activists outside a Belfast clinic.
The trio abstained in a council vote in April and were then suspended by the SDLP.
They have claimed they were "treated with disrespect" by the party.
They also accused Mr Eastwood of showing a "lack of leadership" by refusing to meet them.
But the SDLP leader hit back, claiming the three councillors had "embarrassed themselves and the party" by falling into "a trap laid for them by political opponents".
"I regret that people who asked for political direction were offered it and then refused to take it," said Mr Eastwood.
"I regret the fact that they fell into the trap laid for them by our political opponents and ended up in a situation where they were embarrassed and the party was embarrassed.
"People need to understand - if you are part of a political party, we have to act as one and we have to show unity and discipline and that's the kind of party I want to lead."


The joint chair of a new Stormont body set up to examine flags, culture and identity has said it will be a "challenge" to reach consensus on some issues.

Dr Dominic Bryan will co-chair the 15 member panel with community relations worker Neville Armstrong.
The panel's make up has been criticised by the SDLP MLA Claire Hanna.
Seven members were appointed by political parties and 8 were drawn from a recruitment process.
Five of those on the new body have links to unionism and the body includes a former Alliance Party special adviser, a current SDLP adviser  and a former Sinn FÃ©in councillor.
Dr Katy Radford is the only woman on the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition.
Dr Bryan said he had no involvement in selecting the panel which he expected would meet "at least monthly".
"What I hope we will start to do is come to some consensus on issues," he said.
"The end game here is not to produce something that ends up further creating division. We've got to try to find a way forward. Now as everybody knows, that is going to be challenging.
"We know that we have a divided society and it causes lots of problems, however, there's quite a lot that brings us together, there's quite a lot of positive stuff that goes on.
"What I hope that we're able to do through this commission is to find ways in which we can foster positives, but also deal with some of the fundamental problems that we have."
Claire Hanna from the SDLP said there were questions about the make up of the panel.
She said: "You would naturally expect to see a more balanced representation of the views of the people in Northern Ireland. That there is not will make some question whether there is genuine intent in achieving a positive outcome. "
The South Belfast MLA added: "We need confidence that sensible, rational ideas won't be shut down by one political outlook. To avoid any perception of unionist dominance the commission must demonstrate a fair, inclusive and balanced approach to the flying of flags"
Announcing the new body, First Minister, Arlene Foster said: "The commission will undertake a very important programme of work and I commend those who are taking an active role in shaping a Northern Ireland free from segregation and division."
The Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness said: "I welcome the establishment of this commission which will identify and acknowledge the opportunities of a diverse community in which cultural expression can be celebrated. We must develop a society which is open, tolerant and mutually respectful. This commission will contribute to this and pave the way for greater awareness and understanding of differing cultural identities."
Dr Bryan is a Queen's University academic who has previously researched the issue of flags across Northern Ireland.
The  other members of the commission are: Doug Beattie, a UUP MLA, ex-DUP representative Ian Crozier, Richard Good a former Alliance Party adviser, Tom Hartley, a former Sinn FÃ©in councillor in Belfast, Prof Thomas William Hennessey and Dr David Thomas Hume, who formerly worked for the Orange Order.
They will be joined by a former residents spokesman Donncha Mac Niallais, Nelson McCausland DUP MLA, ex-DUP MLA Ian McCrea, Dr Katy Radford , Mr David Anthony Robinson, Mukesh Sharma and Carl Whyte who is a SDLP adviser.


More than 1,300 homes are still without power in the West of England after high winds and heavy rain from Storm Imogen.

Winds of 75mph were recorded earlier in Avonmouth after forecasters issued an amber warning.
About 1,000 homes in Chipping Sodbury and 560 south of Wotton-under-Edge have now had their power restored.
Engineers are hoping to restore supplies to a further 1,300 homes across the West by 00:00 GMT, according to Western Power Distribution.
Meanwhile, the M48 Severn Bridge is now open in both directions after it was closed earlier due to high winds. The M4 Second Severn Crossing remains open.
Arriva Trains Wales has confirmed all its services will terminate in Gloucester for the rest of the day due to speed restrictions on tracks in South Wales.
Great Western Railway (GWR) said all of its lines were closed from Bristol Parkway to Swansea. It also warned of delays and timetable revisions across the whole network because of severe weather forecast for parts of Somerset and along the Bristol Channel.
And the CrossCountry service between Bristol Parkway and Plymouth has been suspended due to signal failure at Bristol Parkway.
There are nearly 60 flood warnings in place in England and Wales - meaning flooding is expected - and more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.
In Somerset, Curry Rivel Primary School was shut after floodwater entered the building over the weekend.
Somerset County Council said it had responded to about 30 reports of fallen trees around the county.
Fifteen racehorses had to be rescued from a champion trainer's yard in Ditcheat, Somerset, on Saturday night after flash floods hit the stables.
And on Sunday night, an elderly man was rescued from his car by firefighters after becoming trapped in floodwater on lchester Road in Charlton Mackrell.
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Valencia boss Gary Neville insists it was his decision to name Pako Ayestaran as his assistant.

Neville confirmed the appointment of the 53-year-old, who was Rafael Benitez's assistant at Valencia and Liverpool, after his first La Liga win - against Espanyol on Saturday.
Neville said: "I can be absolutely 100% clear that it was my suggestion and my appointment and no-one else's.
"I spoke to [ex-Liverpool player] Jamie Carragher two weeks ago about Pako."
Valencia named Jesus Garcia Pitarch as sporting director in January, but Neville says that decision was not his.
"I spoke to the president as far back as Christmas before the sporting director was appointed," he said.
"I'm the head coach of Valencia, I will be the head coach of Valencia for the rest of this season. If I leave, Pako will leave. He's come to be part of my coaching staff.
"I understand it might look like there's something going on. There absolutely isn't. After about 10 or 14 days, I recognised I needed to strengthen the coaching set-up. I feel more comfortable already."
Neville's brother Phil, who joined the Spanish club as assistant manager in July, is also part of the coaching staff.
Neville was speaking before Valencia's Europa League last-32 first-leg tie with Rapid Vienna on Thursday.


A five-year project to boost bird of prey populations in the Peak District has returned "disappointing results", official have said.

The Bird of Prey Initiative aimed to increase breeding populations of raptors in the Dark Peak area of the national park.
Results showed peregrine numbers had declined while others were below expectations.
Illegal persecution and availability of prey were cited as possible causes.
Rhodri Thomas, ecologist with the Peak District Park Authority, described the results of the report as "concerning and disappointing".
The Dark Peak is a mostly wild area in the north of the national park - mostly within Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. It was designated with Special Protection Area status in 1996 due to being an important site for raptors.
The initiative - which focused on populations of merlin, peregrine falcon and short-eared owl - had aimed to restore numbers to the levels seen around the time of the designation.
Source: Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative
Numerous theories have been put forward to explain the decline, including climate change, predation, disturbance and availability of food.
However, Mr Thomas said none had been proven.
He said in the case of short-eared owls the fluctuation in numbers was likely to be caused by the availability of food.
Climate change has been suggested to explain the possible departure of merlin - which have been reported nesting and breeding at higher altitudes.
A decline in the numbers of young starlings as a food source has also been put forward as a reason, Mr Thomas said.
"Disturbance - either accidental or otherwise - is another possible cause," he said.
Mr Thomas said the decline in peregrine numbers was the hardest to explain as numbers in other parts of the park were increasing, and there was no obvious reason why they were staying away from the Dark Peak.
He added he was determined to "bottom-out" what was causing the decline.


An Orange hall close to Belfast city centre has been attacked with paint bombs.

The attack on Clifton Street Orange hall was reported to police shortly before 09:00 BST.
In a statement, Belfast County Grand Orange Lodge said it was the "latest act of vandalism" on the building.
It added that the hall was "targeted on numerous occasions last year following parades in the area", and has blamed republicans for the paint attack.
Belfast County Grand Master, George Chittick, claimed it was a deliberate attempt to raise tensions.
"Brethren in north Belfast have made great strides to make the hall a community facility for all and this attack was clearly carried out by people who have no respect or tolerance for a differing viewpoint.
"It is time for such wanton vandalism to stop, once and for all," Mr Chittick said.
A police spokesman said they were appealing for anyone with information about the attack to come forward.


Mainland Chinese shares plunged on Friday as investors began to show concern about another wave of new listings absorbing liquidity in the market.

The Shanghai Composite closed down 7.4% at 4,192.87 points.
However, shares of Guotai Junan Securities - China's third-largest brokerage - jumped 44% on its debut after raising $4.8bn (Â£3bn).
It was the country's biggest initial public offering since 2010.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index closed down 1.8% at 26,663.87, with investor sentiment hit by the share fall on the mainland.
Sentiment was also hit by a crackdown on margin trading and concerns over whether the government would continue to ease policy in order to boost growth in a slowing economy.
Regulators have been cracking down on illegal margin financing and urging brokerages to tighten rules.
However, Bernard Aw, market strategist at trading firm IG, said the "correction" in the market was healthy in the longer term and was also what the central bank wanted to see.
"It is probably not a bad idea to repeat my view that China's leaders still view a strong capital market as beneficial for the Chinese economy. More importantly, a stable bull market is desired," he said in a note.
Shares in Japan ended lower after government data showed a mixed picture of the world's third-largest economy, which seems to be struggling to gain momentum.
Household spending rose 4.8% in May from a year ago to mark the first annual increase in more than a year, a sign that consumers are finally spending again after last year's sales tax rise.
But core consumer prices rose 0.1%, still well below the central bank's target of 2%.
The Nikkei 225 index ended down 0.3% at 20,706.15.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.3% in May from April, in line with expectations.
Marcel Thieliant, Japan economist at Capital Economics, said Friday's data cast doubt on the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) upbeat view on the economy and consumer spending.
"With increasing signs that the economic recovery is faltering, we think the BOJ will have to step up the pace of easing before too long, perhaps as soon as October," he said.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 1.6% at 5,544.60.
Shares of supermarket giant Woolworths rose 3.9% after reports that US private equity firm KKR would bid to take over the struggling retailer.
South Korean shares were bucking the trend, with the Kospi closing up 0.2% to 2,090.26.
The benchmark index ended four straight weeks of losses this week.


Boris Johnson has been quizzed by reporters as he left his home in London this morning.

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The Leave campaigner, who shocked Westminster on Thursday by pulling out of the Tory leadership race, said: "It's going to be up to someone else now."
Asked what he thought of his fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove's decision to run instead, Mr Johnson added: "I wish him every possible success."


A row has broken out over a social care provider's plans to sack its 300 staff and make them reapply for their jobs.

Anheddau Cyf, which supports adults for Gwynedd, Anglesey, Denbighshire and Conwy councils, has a budget shortfall.
It is because the costs of implementing the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage have not been met by the commissioning councils.
Anheddau said it was disappointed union Unison had lodged a formal dispute.
Unison claims staff will only be reappointed if they accept cuts to their terms and conditions.
It said offers to help Anheddau and lobby councils, MPs and AMs to try to get more funding to cover the cost of the service were rejected.
Geoff Edkins, Unison Cymru Wales regional organiser, said: "It is bitterly ironic that on the day the Welsh government announced increased funding for social care, Anheddau chose to dismiss its staff providing that care and offer to re-engage them on greatly inferior terms and conditions."
He added members were being consulted over action they may want to take.
But Brian Jones, chairman of Anheddau Cyf, said: "Anheddau is very disappointed by the way in which Unison has chosen to present what we see as a shared problem.
"We both agree that the problem is the continued chronic underfunding of the social care sector.
"We need money now. If Anheddau does not take immediate steps to reduce its wage bill it will run out of cash in six months."
He added: "We would ask the Welsh government to consider the critical lack of funding for this sector as a matter of extreme urgency."
The Welsh government said the introduction of the living wage was a matter for the UK government.
A spokesman added: "We have asked the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) to ensure the wellbeing of people who depend on these services are not compromised in any way."


Northern Ireland's Amy Foster safely progressed to the women's 100m semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games but Jason Smyth and Leon Reid bowed out of the men's sprint event.

Foster's time of 11.62 seconds earned automatic qualification as she finished second in her first-round heat.
However, Smyth exited from the men's 100m as he finished fifth in his heat in 10.66 - .44 secs outside his best.
Reid, meanwhile, false started in his heat and was disqualified.
Paralympic star Smyth, 27, appeared to start well in heat four but faded after 50m as he finished fifth in 10.66 seconds.
"I got out of the blocks really well and was in a good position in the early stages, however, I then tightened up and people started to pass me," explained Smyth.
"I was hoping to do better but I still haven't fully recovered from my hamstring injury.
"[But] It has been an incredible experience for me to represent Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games as I missed out on Delhi because of injury."
London-born Reid's first Northern Ireland outing proved a brief affair as he false started in heat three.
Reid, 20, switched allegiance to Northern Ireland in February as his mother hails from the province.
Birchfield Harrier Reid won European Junior Championship 200m silver last year and his main focus in Glasgow will be the longer sprint.
Smyth is also scheduled to run the 200m at these championships but the Londonderry man's 2014 season has been badly affected by hamstring trouble and the 100m is regarded as his stronger event.
A time of 10.45secs would have secured a fastest loser's progression to Monday's semi-finals.
Foster looked to be in a tricky heat but her time of 11.62 - despite being .22secs outside her best - earned her second spot behind Australia's Melissa Breen [11.54].
On the opening date of athletics action at the Games, Northern Ireland hopeful Gladys Ganiel produced a gutsy run to take 12th in the women's marathon with her finishing time of 2 hours 40.29 minutes, only 57 seconds outside her personal best set in Berlin last September.
The American-born runner was making her first appearance at a major championship at the age of 37.
Ganiel is not a full-time athlete and her day job is working as an assistant professor in conflict resolution and reconciliation at Trinity College, Dublin.
Kenyan Flomena Cheyech Daniel took the gold medal in 2:26.45 ahead of her compatriot Caroline Kilel [2:27.10] with Australia's Jess Trengove [2:30.12] winning the bronze.


US President Donald Trump has launched another fierce attack on the media at a "campaign rally for America" event in the state of Florida.

He told the crowd in Melbourne the media did not want "to report the truth" and had their own agenda.
He also defended the achievements of his presidency so far, insisting that a spirit of optimism was sweeping the US.
Mr Trump had attacked the media at a press conference on Thursday, as pressure mounted on his presidency.
His national security adviser Michael Flynn quit earlier in the week. Mr Trump is to interview candidates for the role on Sunday.
Before Air Force One landed, President Trump came to the back of the aeroplane. He shook our hands and told us we'd see "a fantastic crowd of people" at the rally. He was warm and friendly to us on the aeroplane but things changed at the rally.
Standing on stage, he said reporters "are part of the corrupt system". When he attacked the media, people in the audience screamed their support.
I sat with other journalists in an area that was surrounded by metal gates. At times the animosity towards the media felt personal: my colleague was taking photos, and one man held his hand in front of her lens.
As we left the hangar, another man said to us: "Goodbye, lying media."
On Saturday, President Trump and his wife Melania were greeted by thousands of supporters at the rally in a state he won in November's election, while hundreds protested outside.
In his speech, Mr Trump said he wanted to speak to Americans "without the filter of fake news".
Describing the media as "dishonest", he repeated his assertion that some outlets "don't want to report the truth" and were making up their stories about him.
"We will continue to expose them," he said, pledging to "win, win, win".
In his speech, the president also:
It is unusual for a sitting president to hold a rally in the style of those held during election campaigns.
One supporter, Gene Huber from West Palm Beach, said the decision to hold a rally was not a concern.  "No jitters at all," he told the AFP news agency. "This is a world leader now who's taking control."
Throughout the week, Mr Trump launched attacks on the media while indicating his excitement at facing crowds in Florida again.
On Thursday, he held a 76-minute press conference where he told reporters their level of dishonesty was out of control, citing coverage of his campaign's alleged contacts with Moscow.
Michael Flynn, Mr Trump's national security adviser, resigned on Monday after he misled Vice-President Mike Pence about whether he had discussed US sanctions with Russia's ambassador before his own appointment.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported earlier this week that members of Mr Trump's campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.
While in Florida, Mr Trump is staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort for the third weekend in succession. In a tweet, he referred to the property as the "Southern White House", although the private club is part of Mr Trump's portfolio and is not government property.
While there, he will interview four candidates for the role of national security adviser. They are:
One man tipped for the job, General David Petraeus, is no longer a candidate, a presidential spokesman said.


West Ham boss Slaven Bilic and striker Andy Carroll will not be charged by the Football Association over their comments about referee Jon Moss.

Bilic has been "reminded of his responsibilities" and Carroll "warned as to his future conduct" after the duo criticised Moss following the 2-2 draw with Leicester City on 17 April.
Carroll said Moss tried to "even things up" with the award of a late penalty.
Bilic suggested the referee had been "influenced" by the home crowd.
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Moss sent off Leicester striker Jamie Vardy for diving when his side led 1-0, before awarding West Ham a controversial penalty, which Carroll converted to equalise.
The visitors then took the lead, before Moss gave Leicester an injury-time penalty for Carroll's nudge on Jeffrey Schlupp, which substitute Leonardo Ulloa converted to rescue a point.
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"People say he shouldn't be influenced [by the crowd], but this is real life," Bilic told Match of the Day after the game.


A small Canadian town hopes to become a tourist attraction thanks to the internet fame of a homeowner's giant rhododendron.

The 25ft (7.6m) by 30ft bush in Ladysmith, British Columbia, is now in peak bloom and putting on quite a show.
The 115-year-old botanical wonder - known as Lady Cynthia - will carry about 4,000 spring blossoms over the next couple of weeks.
The rhododendron is often confused for a tree but is actually a shrub.
Former Ladysmith councillor and local historian Rob Johnson, 73, has convinced the town's Chamber of Commerce to promote "the marvel of nature" as an attraction.
"It's the size of a small house and is a vibrant pink colour," said Mr Johnson.
When it is not in bloom, Mr Johnson says it is "just a nice, big, green shrub".
He said he realised "we should capitalise on this" when he saw the rhododendron attracting comment online.
Local residents in the town of 8,100 have grown accustomed to the huge shrub, which has been in Ladysmith since around 1904.
The first owners of the property are said to have brought Lady Cynthia to the forestry community on a sailing ship from Scotland.
Clearly visible from Ladysmith's harbour, the rhododendron is on a hill in front of a home owned by a lawyer from Texas at 226 Kitchener Street.
Ladysmith's rhododendron is so named because it is a Cynthia hybrid of the plant.
It was first developed in Devon, England, in the mid-19th Century, but thrives in the mild climate of the Pacific Northwest.


Hundreds of people staged demonstrations to protest against the BBC's coverage of the conflict in the Middle East - and the conflict itself.

Campaigners waving placards amassed outside the BBC's Salford offices on Saturday.
They were angry at what they claim is a pro-Israeli "bias" in the organisation's reporting.
The protest, called Drive for Justice, came as Israel and militants in Gaza traded more rocket and missile-fire.
Organisers said the BBC had chosen to focus more on the plight of the Israelis, rather than the Palestinians.
A second rally was organised by the Stop the War Coalition in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens, in protest at what the group says is "the brutal intensification of violence" at hands of the Israelis.
A BBC News spokesman said the organisation was reporting "widely and extensively across TV, radio and online, on many different aspects of this ongoing and complex conflict".
"Our role is to explain what is happening and why, and we endeavour to reflect a range of voices, amid deeply held views," the spokesman said.
More than 20 anti-war protests were planned around the country over the weekend, according to Stop the War Coalition's website.


US prosecutors say a British computer expert has admitted to creating software that harvests bank details.

But Marcus Hutchins' own lawyer says he denies six charges of creating and distributing the Kronos malware.
The 23-year-old from Ilfracombe, Devon, who helped stall the WannaCry cyber-attack which hit the NHS, was arrested on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
He was granted $30,000 (£23,000) bail, but will spend the weekend in prison after not being able to pay on Friday.
As he left the courtroom Mr Hutchins was ordered to walk with his hands behind his back but he was not shackled.
No members of his family were present, but defence lawyer Adrian Lobo presented the judge with a bundle of letters.
She said they were from friends and relatives showing support for a client who had never been in trouble with the law in the US or the UK.
Mr Hutchins' mother, Janet Hutchins, has said her son's involvement is "hugely unlikely" because he has spent "enormous amounts of time and even his free time" combating malware.
Defence lawyer Ms Lobo told the BBC: "He's pled not guilty. He is standing by that and he fights the charges and we intend to fight the case in Wisconsin."
She described the federal indictment against him as "pretty flimsy, it's pretty slim compared to what we normally see in a United States indictment."
Prosecutors told a Las Vegas court on Friday that Mr Hutchins had been caught in a sting operation when undercover officers bought the code.
They claimed the software was sold for $2,000 in digital currency in June 2015.
Dan Cowhig, prosecuting, also told the court that Mr Hutchins had made a confession during a police interview.
"He admitted he was the author of the code of Kronos malware and indicated he sold it," said Mr Cowhig.
The lawyer claimed there was evidence of chat logs between Mr Hutchins and an unnamed co-defendant - who has yet to be arrested - where the security researcher complained of not receiving a fair share of the money.
There was no missing Marcus Hutchins as he was brought into courtroom 3C of the US District Court in Las Vegas.
The "surfer who saved the world" was wearing a bright yellow custody-issue T-shirt and trousers along with luminous orange socks and sandals.
Judge Nancy Kobbe was sympathetic to the defendant's plea to be released on bail, waving away a claim from a government lawyer that the cyber-security expert posed a risk to the public because he had gone shooting on a gun range popular with tourists.
Mr Hutchins was so softly spoken that several times Ms Kobbe had to ask him to raise his voice.
Ms Lobo said Mr Hutchins denied he was the author of the malware and said he would plead not guilty to all of the charges, which date between July 2014 and July 2015.
"He has dedicated his life to researching malware, not trying to harm people," she said. "Use the internet for good is what he has done.
"He was completely shocked, this isn't' something he anticipated. He came here for a work-related conference and he was fully anticipating to go back home and had no reason to be fearful of coming or going from the United States."
Mr Hutchins came to prominence in May this year after finding a "kill switch" to stop the WannaCry ransomeware attack that hit the NHS, as well as other organisations in 150 countries.
Also known as "MalwareTech" online, Mr Hutchins was hailed as an "accidental hero" after registering a domain name to track the spread of the virus, which actually ended up halting it.
Mr Hutchins, who works for Los Angeles-based computer security firm Kryptos Logi, had been in Las Vegas to attend the Black Hat and Def Con cyber-security conferences.
He was arrested at Las Vegas airport minutes before he was due to fly home.
District judge Nancy Koppe, who was presented letters of support from Mr Hutchins' cyber-security colleagues, ordered his release on bail as he had no criminal history and because the allegations dated back two years.
However, friends and family were unable to raise the bond money before the court closed on Friday, so he will not be released until Monday.
The conditions of his bail include him not being allowed to access the internet and to stay in Clark County, Nevada, and within the Eastern District of Wisconsin, where he will appear in court on Tuesday.
He must also be monitored by GPS and surrender his passport.
Kronos is a type of malware known as a Trojan, meaning it disguises itself as legitimate software. It is thought to be named after a mythological creature.
Kronos first came to light in July 2014, when it was advertised on a Russian underground forum for $7,000 (£5,330) - a relatively high figure at the time.
It was marketed as way to steal logins for banking websites and other financial data.
Its vendor boasted it could evade existing anti-virus software and said it worked with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome web browsers. In an unusual step, the developer promised free upgrades and bug fixes and the option of a $1,000 one week trial.
After much publicity it faded from view until October 2015, when IBM researchers reported that Kronos had been spotted in attacks on UK and Indian bank websites.
Kronos then struck again in Canada in May 2016, and in November reports surfaced that it had been spotted being distributed via emails.
IT security consultant Robin Edgar said Mr Hutchins' own code had been incorporated into the malware, but he had not done anything wrong.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Mr Hutchins posted a tweet saying, 'look, this Kronos thing has taken my code, stolen my code and used it in it'.
"He was very unhappy his code had been stolen and used within Kronos. He didn't write Kronos, it looks like, but he wrote a little piece of code which was used in the malware."
Mr Hutchins' local MP in North Devon, Peter Heaton-Jones, said he shared the "shock" of the local community over the charges.
The Conservative politician has written to Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan to seek assurance that Mr Hutchins is receiving adequate consular assistance.
Whilst Mr Heaton-Jones acknowledged the UK cannot interfere with court proceedings in the US and said he has made no judgement about his constituent, adding: "People who know him in Ilfracombe, and in the wider cyber-community, are astounded at the allegations against him.
"This is particularly so given his role in helping to protect the NHS and many other institutions from what could have been a devastating cyber-attack just a few months ago.
"I will continue to monitor his case carefully and to seek the necessary assurances from the government that the UK is doing everything in its power to assist Marcus and his family at this very difficult time."
Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation said it was "deeply concerned" with his arrest, whilst Naomi Colvin, from civil liberties campaign group Courage, said Mr Hutchins "did the world an enormous service" when he stopped the WannaCry attack.
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The decomposing body of a murder victim has been found wrapped in plastic in a woodland beauty spot in London.

The remains of a man were found at Hollow Ponds in Epping Forest in north-east London and police said the body may have been there for several weeks.
The body was found on Wednesday evening and removed on Thursday but police have now, after post-mortem tests, confirmed they are treating the death as murder.
Officers have identified the victim but his name has not been released.
The Met said his next of kin had been informed.
The partially-buried body was found by a passer-by in undergrowth off Whipps Cross Road in Leytonstone, in a wooded area close to Whipps Cross University Hospital.
Det Ch Insp Jamie Piscopo, who is leading the investigation, said: "Hollow Ponds is a busy and popular local beauty spot, with a cafe and a boating lake.
"It is also surrounded by a number of busy roads, including Whipps Cross Road.
"We would like to speak to anyone who may have been in the area the last several weeks, and may have witnessed any unusual or suspicious activity, to come and speak to us."


Linfield skipper Jamie Mulgrew has won the Ulster Footballer of the Year award from the Castlereagh Glentoran Supporters Club.

The midfielder has helped the Blues to Co Antrim Shield success while a league title could be won on Saturday before an Irish Cup final against Coleraine.
Mulgrew got the nod ahead of Blues team-mate Roy Carroll and Crusaders defender Howard Beverland.
Paul Smyth made it a Linfield double by winning the Young Player award.
The teenage forward has caught the eye since a first senior game for the Blues in 2015.
Mulgrew made his Linfield debut in 2005 and has made nearly 500 appearances for the Windsor Park club.
It is the first time the 30-year-old has won the annual award and he could pick up more silverware in the next couple of weeks.
Linfield are two points clear of Crusaders going into Saturday's final game against Cliftonville before the Irish Cup decider the following weekend.


UK rental costs are the highest in Europe but homeowners are benefiting from cheap mortgages, data suggests.

Tenants typically spend 39.1% of their income on rent compared with a European average of 28%, figures from the National Housing Federation suggest.
The federation, which represents housing associations, also said that renters were less secure in their homes, owing to short tenancies.
However, homeowners are benefitting from competition between lenders.
The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said that there was "fierce competition" among lenders which  meant that "great mortgage deals" were available.
Low interest rates, a trend of owners sticking with long-term tracker deals, and a lack of properties on the market are all contributing to lenders lowering the cost of home loans to try to tempt owners to their mortgage products.
The contrasting fortunes of renters and owners will be a concern for those who see little prospect of getting on the housing ladder in the short term.
The NHF said that private tenants made up about 17% of all UK residents but were facing high costs. Their counterparts in Holland and Germany, for example, had private rents that were about 50% cheaper than in the UK.
David Orr, chief executive of the NHF, said: "How can we expect people to raise families, start businesses or save for their first home if they don't even know where they will be able to afford to live?
"High rents are just one symptom of the housing crisis, we are simply not building enough due to under investment and problems with the land market."
There was also a culture of longer-term residency in properties on the continent, unlike in the UK where people moved more often owing to short tenancy agreements, the federation added.
Activity among owner-occupiers has been picking up in recent weeks, according to the BBA, which represents the major banks.
Lenders have been trying to encourage owners to switch to fixed-rate mortgage deals.
"More of the banks and building societies are actively targeting their existing customers and offering them new deals," said Aaron Strutt, of mortgage brokers Trinity Financial.
"Rates are so cheap at the moment that there are often savings to be made even if you are on one of the super-low tracker mortgages."
Even if a mortgage is secured, the chance of people selling in one part of the country and buying in another could be difficult.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the huge difference in average house prices in neighbourhoods of England and Wales.
The area with the largest median house price last year was Kensington and Chelsea, in London, at Â£1.19m. The lowest median average property price was in Blaenau Gwent in Wales at Â£75,000.
Â£272,000
cost of an average home
3.39 times income - typical home loan of a first-time buyer
28% of households are occupied by someone living on their own
1.37m households on the social housing waiting list in England
118,760 new homes completed in England in 2014


Apple should use its enormous cash reserves to make some big-name acquisitions, the company's former boss John Sculley has said.

He said it could shift the "whole landscape of e-commerce" if it bought, for example, eBay.
He said it should ignore the wishes of activist investor Carl Icahn, who wants the company to buy back stock.
"Apple's about building great products, building and shaping markets," Mr Sculley said.
"Carl Icahn has suggested to [Apple chief executive] Tim Cook, 'Why don't you buy more stock back or make a bigger dividend?'
"I'd rather see Apple continue to invest in building... even make big acquisitions that were strategic, as opposed to buying more stock back, or giving more dividends."
Mr Sculley was the chief executive of Apple between 1983 and 1993.
During his tenure, he famously engineered the "forcing out" of Steve Jobs from the company - a decision he later said was due to his own inexperience in appreciating Mr Jobs' vision for future products.
Traditionally, Apple has not acquired large scale companies - instead buying smaller companies with specific technologies, and folding them into the business.
One recent example of this is Siri, a company Apple acquired in 2010 when it wanted to provide an integrated personal assistant on its iPhone and iPad products.
Mr Sculley said that while he had "no insider knowledge" of the firm he left in 1993, he said he now wonders if it is time for Apple to change its growth strategy.
"Apple's never been an acquirer of big companies before, and when you look at the [Apple digital ticket system] Passbook, and fingerprint recognition - what would it mean if Apple went out and bought eBay? And they had PayPal, and integrated that?
"My guess is you'd suddenly see the whole landscape of e-commerce shift.
"You have Amazon, which is on the fast-track to dominate every aspect of e-commerce - suddenly the game, the landscape, would change."
Mr Sculley was in London ahead of the UK launch of the latest product he is working on - the Misfit Shine, a wearable device that monitors various aspects of a person's health.
"The future of wearable products has the potential to have a huge impact on healthcare," he said.
He also, at the age of 74, offers his services as a mentor to up and coming Silicon Valley chief executives - something he said he wished he had while at Apple.
"When you're dealing in industries where there's such a thin line between success and failure, having another set of trusted eyes can be a real nice advantage."
Mr Sculley also offered warm words for the soon-to-be-departing Microsoft boss, Steve Ballmer.
"Here's a man who has spent 33 years at Microsoft, loves the company," he said. "He really did not get enough credit for what he did accomplish.
"I can't name a CEO who didn't make some mistakes in the hi-tech industry.
"I think Ballmer has a lot he ought to be proud of. So he didn't get everything right - not many people do."
He added: "I think it's important the CEOs do move on."
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