Libya is a large country with at least 140 different tribes, and a multitude of religious, ethnic and regional divisions.

The country currently has two rival governments, one led by Islamists in Tripoli, and another, in Tibruk, that is recognised by the international community.
A number of armed factions are fighting for control of Libya.
The violence has caused tens of thousands of people to be displaced across Libya.
Militants linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) have claimed to be behind several attacks in recent months, with growing fears that the country's power vacuum is proving fertile ground for jihadists.
Egypt's air strikes add to the complexity of the situation and could draw Egypt further into this messy conflict. What's not clear yet is whether the strikes are a one-off in retaliation for the killing of Coptic Christians or the beginning of a broader military campaign by Egypt.
Precise information about Egypt's role in Libya is hard to come by.
According to Western officials, quoted in the Guardian, Egypt also allowed its bases to be used for air strikes in Libya in 2014. Egyptian government officials denied such military involvement.
Egypt shares a long, porous border with Libya. The Egyptians will be worried about reprisal attacks, as well as the danger of clandestine support for the Islamist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula.
The growth of IS in Libya is a result of the chaos and violence since the toppling of the Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Gaddafi regime left behind few functioning civil or political institutions.
The are worries that IS is gaining a wider foothold in the region, not just Libya. The New York Times looks at how, according to American intelligence officials, IS is broadening out from its base in Iraq and Syria to neighbouring countries.
Others take a different view and claim IS is in retreat.
They point to the group's recent military setbacks, including the loss of control of Kobane as well as the wider toll American air strikes are taking.
How the international community deals with the question of the growing internal collapse of Libya may become clearer in coming days.
There have been condemnations of the killings of the Copts but not much detail in terms of evolving policy towards Libya itself.
Critics say that the Obama administration's approach towards the country has been the victim of political infighting, ever since the attack on America's consulate in Benghazi in 2012.


Chelsea interim boss Rafael Benitez said Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson ignored their handshake before Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final.

The pair have had an and the tension surfaced again at Old Trafford.
Benitez said: "I was waiting for him at the beginning, so you should ask him. I have education. I was ready.
"I know a lot of people were watching and I knew what to do."
"Benitez has been on a starvation diet when it comes to getting credit from Chelsea's supporters since he arrived in succession to sacked Roberto Di Matteo. They must find it in their hearts to afford him some here"
He added: "It's up to him. I was in the way waiting. If you are brave enough, ask him."
A growing animosity between Ferguson and Benitez, formerly on friendly terms, came to a head in January 2009 when the then Liverpool manager famously claimed the Scot received preferential treatment from the football authorities.
"Everyone can see that I'm talking about facts," the Liverpool manager told journalists. "I'm just saying things that everybody can see."
Most recently, Ferguson described the former Valencia and Inter Milan boss as a "lucky manager" after he landed the post at Stamford Bridge.
The pair again failed to shake hands at the final whistle on Sunday after Chelsea staged a stirring comeback from 2-0 down, goals from substitute Eden Hazard and Ramires in the second half setting up a replay at Stamford Bridge for the right to face Manchester City in the semi-final.
Early strikes from Javier Hernandez and the recalled Wayne Rooney had put United in command.
Benitez explained: "I was with my players, celebrating."
The ties will take place at Wembley on the weekend of 13 and 14 April.
It is not the first controversy surrounding Ferguson and a handshake. In February 2012, when Luis Suarez refused to shake Patrice Evra's hand before a match, Ferguson said: "I couldn't believe Suarez refused Evra's handshake. You saw the referee [Phil Dowd]. He didn't know what to do. It was a terrible start to the game and it created a terrible atmosphere.
"Suarez is a disgrace to Liverpool Football Club. He should not be allowed to play for Liverpool again. He could have caused a riot."
At Old Trafford, Chelsea ended the game in the ascendancy and Benitez said: "We have analysed the game and we deserved to win.
"We had some good counter-attacks even when we were two goals down in the first half and in the second half we were on top of them with some good football, great team spirit and working hard with passion and commitment."
Benitez changed the course of the game just after the break when he replaced Frank Lampard and Victor Moses with Hazard and Jon Mikel Obi.
He said: "I am a professional. We had been to Romania in the Europa League on Thursday and I knew we had players who would be tired and we had to manage the squad.
"We started with fresh legs but knew we would have to make substitutions and Hazard is a player with quality who can change [a game]."


England rugby union players have been asked to cut down their use of mobile phones and warned their ability to concentrate has "deteriorated".

Sports scientist Dr Sherylle Calder has been brought in by England head coach Eddie Jones as the team's visual awareness coach.
Asked if rugby players use mobile phones too much, she told BBC Radio 5 live: "Yes they do, we all do don't we?
"And elite players more than others because they have more spare time."
Dr Calder worked with the World Cup-winning England squad in 2003 and her native South Africa, who won the 2007 event.
She has also worked in numerous other sports including with professional footballers, golfers and cricketers.
"You're really looking in onto a small little screen," she added. "If you think about what they do on this huge field, having to make decisions on what they see, it's not ideal to do that.
"You're losing awareness and we really live in an age of distractions. One of the skills that is really deteriorating is the ability to concentrate and that's probably one of the first skills any coach asks of a player; make sure you concentrate in the first five minutes of a game.
"Because we're in distraction mode all the time and the phone has a role to play in that, that ability to concentrate has deteriorated."
England's Six Nations campaign begins against France on 4 February and Dr Calder has asked players not to use the mobile phone as much, adding: "We would advise them closer to competition on what they should be doing, what habits and behaviours to have.
"The science offers quite a lot of knowledge in that respect."


Mexican prosecutors have issued an order to locate and question actress Kate del Castillo over her links with the imprisoned drug baron, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

The Mexican actress set up a meeting in October between Hollywood star Sean Penn and Guzman, who was on the run at the time.
Prosecutors say she may have received money from Guzman to launch her tequila business last year.
She denies any wrongdoing.
Ms Del Castillo, who also has American citizenship, was called in for questioning shortly after Guzman's arrest.
But she failed to turn up at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles, where she lives.
The new order is valid in Mexican territory only. If she returns to her native country, she will be detained and questioned as a witness.
Her lawyer in the US, Harland Braun, has said that Ms Del Castillo is prepared to talk to the authorities "if we receive proper information and credentials".
"She's not hiding anything. There's no problem locating her. Everyone knows she has lawyers, publicists, agents," Mr Braun told AP news agency.
On Wednesday, Ms Del Castillo sought an injunction in Mexico to prevent her arrest.
Mexican prosecutors said they respected her decision and "the principle of presumed innocence," said Attorney General Arely Gomez.
Guzman was captured by Mexican troops in the northern city of Los Mochis on 8 January.
He was taken back to the Altiplano high security jail near Mexico City, six months after escaping through a tunnel.
Guzman was the founder of the brutal Sinaloa Cartel, which smuggled vast amounts of drugs into the United States. Mexico is seeking his extradition to the US.
Ms Del Castillo and Guzman exchanged dozens of messages before she and Sean Penn met him in northern Mexico.
Some of the messages seem to mention business deals, Ms Gomez told El Universal newspaper last month.
"They mention 'the order,' 'we're in business,' 'let's go together'. There's a great deal we still need to find out," said Ms Gomez.
Last year, Kate del Castillo launched her own tequila brand, Honor del Castillo.
She would have been involved in money laundering if she had received money from Guzman for her business, explained Ms Gomez.
Kate del Castillo is best known for her portrayal of drug boss Teresa Mendoza in the soap opera La Reina del Sur (Queen of the South).


England's warm-up matches before Euro 2016 are complete - but manager Roy Hodgson was left with as many questions as answers after a narrow win over Portugal at Wembley.

Hodgson's full strategy will only be revealed when he names his line-up for the opening fixture against Russia in Marseille on 11 June and he will be pleased England's players emerged unscathed from their final warm-up game on Thursday.
There was no clear evidence, however, that Hodgson has yet put a winning game plan in place.
So what are the key questions Hodgson must answer as he puts the finishing touches to his game plans for Euro 2016?
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Wayne Rooney's presence in England's team has been a constant narrative for the past two years - and his role in the side at Wembley seemed to cause their main weapons to be disarmed.
Rooney was being used as the central figure, albeit lying deep, in an attacking triumvirate with Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy.
Kane and Vardy scored 49 Premier League goals between them for Tottenham and champions Leicester City but it is hard to see how they could have a serious impact on Euro 2016 employed as they were against Portugal.
Once again Rooney is central to the debate, still a figure of such influence and one Hodgson is determined to shoehorn into his England team
Rooney appeared to be deputed at the tip of a diamond when the teamsheet dropped but as he drove through the middle, Vardy and Kane were pushed wider and wider to the point where they could have taken a seat in the stands.
If they line up together in France, England's opponents will be delighted to see them occupying positions where much of their threat is nullified and their presence marginalised. They are not wingers, never will be and Hodgson is wasting them in those roles.
Vardy made eight passes and did not have a serious threat on goal, but it was the system rather than the player himself who was to blame. Kane's only reward for his unfamiliar wide role was when he was almost decapitated by the challenge for which Bruno Alves was sent off.
Kane and Vardy have proved they can adapt to international football in their short careers and Hodgson will be squandering a big opportunity if he does not play them closer together and more centrally located. They were strangers at Wembley.
As for the idea of Kane, England's main striker, taking corners and free-kicks out wide, it is to be hoped that is put in the dustbin reserved for flawed experiments.
And what about Dele Alli? The 20-year-old Tottenham player was shifted to the left of midfield to ensure Rooney was accommodated centrally and, like Kane and Vardy, had all his best attributes removed by a role unsuited to his talents.
Alli was outstanding playing a progressive central role when England beat world champions Germany in the recent friendly in Berlin, but he disappeared down the same hole as Kane and Vardy at Wembley, where England struggled to beat 10-man Portugal, who had Alves dismissed after 35 minutes and were without the rested Cristiano Ronaldo.
Hodgson has fine attacking players at his disposal. He must now find the system, unless this was merely late experimentation, to suit them.
There is of course, another option, which would be to drop Vardy, play Rooney as a striker alongside Kane and restore Alli to the number 10 role - but that would be harsh on a striker flying high on confidence.
Once again, Rooney is central to the debate - still a figure of such influence and one Hodgson is determined to shoehorn into his England team.
There was not much to test England's unconvincing defence here, but there were still one or two anxious moments from set-pieces against a Portugal side devoid of ambition without their superstar, Ronaldo, and operating at a numerical disadvantage for 55 minutes.
Kyle Walker's man-of-the-match performance pushed his claims for a starting place ahead of Nathaniel Clyne for England's Euro 2016 opener against Russia, while the selection of goalscorer Chris Smalling and Gary Cahill in the centre of defence and Danny Rose at left-back suggests they will be the preferred options in Marseille.
If Hodgson persists with Kane, Vardy and Rooney, it will be up to Walker and Rose to provide most, if not all, of the natural width. It is a role they can fulfil but the serious test will come when they are pressed defensively.
It will apply to all of England's back four and there remains an air of vulnerability that may well be exposed against elite opposition in France.
It is worth placing this game in context. England were playing their final game before a major tournament, against a side above them in the Fifa rankings. This was never going to be a no-holds-barred physical encounter as there was too much at risk for both sides.
Hodgson has shown ambition with his attacking selections and the inclusion of 18-year-old Manchester United prodigy Marcus Rashford in the squad, but he now has to find a system that does not put square pegs into round holes, as this selection appeared to do.
England have options in the forward positions - Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge is also available - and the defence looks to be picking itself, however unpalatable the selection in that area might be.
Hodgson will hope that defence exceeds low expectations and he can then devise a formula to utilise England's strongest assets.
There remains plenty of work to do behind closed doors at England's training base in Chantilly after they arrive in France.
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An Australian surfer has made an incredible escape after encountering two sharks during a major competition in South Africa.

Mick Fanning was competing in Jeffreys Bay, on the eastern Cape, when one of the sharks approached his surfboard.
The final of the J-Bay Open had only just started when Fanning was knocked off his surfboard and into the sea.
Fanning, the defending champion, escaped injury. The tournament was called off soon afterwards.
"I was just sitting there and I felt something just get stuck in my leg rope, and I was kicking trying to get it away," Fanning told Fox Sports.
"I just saw fins. I was waiting for the teeth."
Fanning, a three-time world champion, said he was able to "get a punch into its back" and startle it.
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The event was being broadcast live on television. Footage later cut to Fanning and co-competitor Julian Wilson, also of Australia, on a rescue boat reliving the incident.
The relieved-looking pair then received loud applause from a crowd on the beach.
"I was swimming in and I had this thought what if it comes for another  go at me? So I turned around, so I could at least see it, and before I knew it the boat was there, the jet-skis were there, the jet-skis were there. I just can't believe it," he told journalists who were at the competition.
Fanning's mother said she was terrified when she saw the live footage.
Speaking from her home on Australia's Gold Coast, Liz Osborne told the Australian Broadcasting Corp it was "the worst thing I've ever seen happen to any of my family because it was just there in front of me".
Her son Sean was killed in the car accident in 1998 but the family were not with him at the time.
"I saw this just in front of me. It was just terrible," Ms Osborne said. "I was so scared. I just thought when that wave came through that he'd gone," she said.
The World Surf League (WSL), which organises the competition, said Fanning was approached by two sharks, and that he and Wilson were both rescued from the water by jet-skis.
A video of the incident can be seen on the WSL's website here and the aftermath of the attack can be viewed here.
Reuters says the waters are some of the most shark-infested in the world, and that a surfer was killed by a Great White shark close to Jeffreys Bay in 2013.


The solicitor for the family of a boy shot dead by a soldier almost 40 years ago has said they are "overwhelmed" by the findings of an inquest jury.

On Friday the jurors unanimously found that 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty posed no risk when he was shot twice in Londonderry during Operation Motorman in July 1972.
His cousin Christopher was also wounded.
Des Doherty said prosecutions were now a "definite possibility".
"The full rigour of the law has to be applied and it is now of course a matter for the coroner," the solicitor said.
"This case was not about vengeance. It was about justice."
The jury rejected claims that warnings had been shouted to the two teenagers before they were shot.
The operation was aimed at reclaiming "no go areas" in the city from the IRA.
Daniel, who was a labourer, was shot twice in the head by a soldier close to his home in Creggan. His cousin Christopher, 16, was shot in the head by the same soldier but survived.
The jury found that none of the soldiers present attempted to "approach the injured youths to either search them or provide medical assistance".
Mr Doherty said the record had now been "set straight".
This is the second inquest into Daniel's death.
The initial inquest was held in 1973 and recorded an open verdict. A second inquest was ordered by the Attorney General in 2009 following an examination by the Historical Enquiries Team.
The report found that the RUC investigation at the time was "hopelessly inadequate and dreadful".
The inquest opened on Monday and heard from Daniel's sister Margaret Brady. She described how her mother continued to set a place for him at the table and call him for dinner for months after his death.
In 2007, the British government apologised to the Hegarty family after describing Daniel as a terrorist.


League One side Swindon have signed Queens Park Rangers defender Darnell Furlong on a season-long loan deal.

Furlong has made five appearances for QPR, but has not featured for them in a league match since a 3-1 Premier League defeat by Crystal Palace in March 2015.
The 20-year-old spent time on loan at Cambridge and Northampton last season, playing a total of 31 League Two games.
He could make his debut for Swindon when the Robins travel to Chesterfield in League One on Saturday.
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Plans to stop GPs having to rearrange hospital appointments for patients have been set out by the government.

The Department of Health says GPs' time is wasted by referring patients back to hospitals for outpatient appointments.
The move is part of a range of measures being announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, including "Ofsted-style ratings" for NHS services in England, such as cancer and mental health care.
"Simplistic" ratings would not improve care, doctors union the BMA said.
When people miss outpatient appointments they often have to go back to their GPs to be referred again for their hospital treatment.
This adds to the mounting workload at practices.
The Department of Health says moves will be made ensure hospitals' local policies prevent these cases having to go back to GPs.
According to the department, 2.5% of GPs' time is taken up by re-referrals - that is equivalent to the amount of time spent seeing about six million patients per year in England.
Citing a report by the NHS Alliance, officials say that up to 27% of GP appointments could potentially be avoided if there was more co-ordination between GPs and hospitals and better use of technology.
Measures to provide ratings for the performance of the NHS in local areas are also being unveiled.
Currently ratings are provided by the Care Quality Commission for hospitals and other trusts.
The plan is to do the same for the organisations which pay for healthcare in local areas, known as clinical commissioning groups.
From mid-2016, their performance in areas like cancer, dementia and diabetes will be published by NHS England.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Hunt said some areas of the NHS, such as mental health services, have been "very opaque for a very long time" but that new ratings would "shine a light on the best practice" and areas for improvement.
"We are being bold enough and brave enough to do what no other country is doing, which is actually be honest about the quality of care in different places," he said.
He said the ratings would be done in a "light-touch way", and would give the public confidence that something was being done to improve underperforming services.
"By being more transparent than ever before about crucial services and freeing up more time for GPs to care, we really can make NHS patients the most powerful in the world."
Dr Maureen Baker, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said:  "Measures to reduce bureaucracy in general practice, which will allow us to spend more time with our patients and streamline our patients' experience of the health service, are encouraging.
"We look forward to hearing more details about these plans.
"However, we question whether the introduction of Ofsted-style ratings systems for area health teams will improve patient care whilst there is no evidence that this does improve outcomes in a health setting."
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, of the British Medical Association, said the plan to simplify the GP referral system was a "step in the right direction".
But he added that he did not believe that "simplistic" ratings of commissioning groups would lead to better care or give an accurate picture of services in local areas.


The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video showing some of the schoolgirls they abducted from the northern town of Chibok.

Some 50 girls are shown with a gunman who demands the release of fighters in return for the girls, and says some girls died in air strikes.
The government says it is in touch with the militants behind the video.
A journalist who had contact with Boko Haram has been declared a wanted man by the Nigerian army.
The group is said to be holding more than 200 of the 276 final-year girls it seized from a school in April 2014.
Non-Muslims were forcibly converted to Islam, and it is feared that many of the schoolgirls have been sexually abused and forced into "marriage" by their captors.
Parents of the missing girls have described their anguish at seeing their daughters in captivity.
The video begins with a shot of a masked man, carrying a gun, speaking to the camera. He says that some of the girls have been wounded and have life-threatening injuries, and that 40 have been "married".
Speaking in the Hausa language, the gunman says the girls on display will "never" be returned if the government does not release Boko Haram fighters who have been "in detention for ages".
I have watched the video several times. I saw her sitting down.
The fact is we are overwhelmed with a feeling of depression. It's like being beaten and being stopped from crying. You helplessly watch your daughter but there is nothing you can do. It's a real heartache.
Those who are still alive - we want them back. We want them back irrespective of their condition.
As ordinary men, there is nothing we [the other fathers and I] can do on our own. We are just here unable to do anything with our lives. You see your child but someone denies you from having it. They are being forcefully married and they now live in terrible conditions.
The video concludes with footage of bodies, said to be the victims of air strikes, lying on the ground at another location.
The militant also carries out a staged interview with one of the captives, who calls herself Maida Yakubu, in which she asks parents to appeal to the government.
Maida's mother, Esther, is one of several parents of Chibok girls who recently published open letters to their daughters detailing the pain they feel at their children's absence and their hopes for the future.
Another girl among those standing in the background can be seen with a baby. Some of the girls can be seen weeping as Maida speaks.
Boko Haram has waged a violent campaign for years in northern Nigeria in its quest for Islamic rule, and a faction of the group recently pledged loyalty to so-called Islamic State.
Thousands of people have been killed or captured by the group, whose name translates as "Western education is forbidden". Many of the girls abducted in Chibok were Christian.
Boko Haram has always maintained that the Chibok girls were safe and would only be released if the Nigerian government gave in to its demands.
Through this video, the group is again trying to make the government look like the villain for carrying out air strikes on the militants, which it claims have backfired and hit the abductees instead.
Reigniting public sympathy for the girls might be an attempt to force the government to listen. Boko Haram is attempting to paint the military campaign against the jihadists as a failure.
It is also significant that this video comes shortly after a split in the group, with one faction maintaining that it is the true regional branch of the so-called Islamic State. The video indicates that the other faction, led by Abubakar Shekau, is the one holding the Chibok girls and so it will use this to show why it cannot be ignored, even if its rivals have foreign backing.
Nigerian Information Minister Alhaji Mohammed insisted the government was doing everything possible to secure the girls' release.
"We are being extremely careful because the situation has been compounded by the split in the leadership of Boko Haram," he said.
"We are also being guided by the need to ensure the safety of the girls."
The video is the first to be seen since CNN obtained footage in April purportedly showing 15 of the girls.
The Nigerian army declared journalist Ahmad Salkida a wanted man after he published details of the new video before it was released.
Salkida, who moved to Dubai a few years ago, has written extensively about the inside operations of the group.
The Chibok girls had been thought to be in a heavily forested area of northern Nigeria.
One of the girls was found wandering in the Sambisa Forest in May by an army-backed vigilante group.


A busy Hull city centre road has been closed while a pub doubles as a well-known London landmark for a TV drama.

Scenes of National Treasure, starring Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters, are being filmed on Lowgate, with the Three John Scotts pub serving as a substitute for the Old Bailey.
The four-part Channel 4 drama looks at the impact of accusations of historical sexual offences against a celebrity.
The road is due to be shut from 10:00 GMT until 17:00.
Diversions have been put in place via Silver Street and High Street.
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, known as the Old Bailey, often deals with the most serious criminal cases in the capital.


The chief executive of the world's second largest investment bank has warned that London "will stall" because of the risks from the Brexit process.

Lloyd Blankfein said that his firm, Goldman Sachs, which employs 6,500 people in the UK, had "contingency plans" to move people depending on the outcome of the negotiations.
Mr Blankfein said he hoped the bank would not have to trigger the plans.
He wants to keep as much of its activities in the UK as possible.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Blankfein revealed the firm had held discussions with different cities across Europe and had looked at increasing office space in a number of locations, thought to include Frankfurt, the financial capital of Germany, and Dublin.
Mr Blankfein said both sides in the Brexit negotiations were playing for very high economic stakes and that there would need to be an implementation period of at least "a couple of years" once the exit deal had been agreed by the spring of 2019.
If there was not, banks like Goldman would have to act "prematurely" and possibly move jobs and activities.
"We are talking about the long-term stability of huge economies with hundreds of millions of people and livelihoods at stake and huge gross domestic product," he told me.
"So, if it takes a little while - I'd rather get it right than do things quickly."
I asked him if the expansion of London as a financial capital over the last three decades would go into reverse because of the Brexit process.
"I don't think it will totally reverse," he told me.
"It will stall, it might backtrack a bit, it just depends on a lot of things about which we are uncertain and I know there isn't certainty at the moment."
More than one million people work in the financial services sector in the UK and it pays over Â£70bn a year in taxes to the government, 11.5% of all receipts.
The fear from many in the City is that if there is a poor deal with the EU, many of those jobs will move on to the continent.
The head of Goldman Sachs Europe, Richard Gnodde, has already suggested that Goldman is looking to increase its presence on the European continent by "hundreds" of people, although the bank has not said yet whether jobs will be lost in the UK.
I asked Mr Blankfein directly if jobs would move out of the capital.
"We don't have big plans now, we are looking - we are trying to avoid," he answered.
Mr Blankfein said there was a risk of banks having a "smaller footprint" in Britain.
"Obviously, a lot of people elect to have their European business concentrated in a single place, and the easiest place, certainly, for the biggest economy in the world [America] to concentrate would be the UK - the culture, the language, the special relationship, and we are an example of that," he said.
"The UK has a big history - certainly in financial services - of managing markets and having a fair system that makes it very attractive, but it extends to other industries as well.
"And if you cannot benefit from access to the EU from the UK - and nobody knows what those rules and determinations will be - then the risk is there will be some adjustment that will cause some people to have a smaller footprint in the UK."
Mr Blankfein said he wanted to see as few barriers as possible to financial services being traded between Britain and the rest of the EU.
The prime minister has said that the UK will leave the single market but has argued she wants a comprehensive trade deal to replace the present access arrangements.
Labour has said it would scrap Mrs May's Brexit plan, outlined in a White Paper in February, and keep access to the single market "on the table".
But with incendiary language from both sides in the negotiations - the UK government and the rest of the EU - many fear that a new free trade deal will be very difficult to negotiate.
The EU has also made it clear that any deal will not be as economically advantageous to Britain as being a full member of the bloc.
The European Commission announced on Thursday that it is looking at EU-specific "location requirements" for large parts of financial services at present centred in London including lucrative euro trading.
Mr Blankfein - who said he understood the negotiations weren't "being done for our comfort or convenience" - warned that the safety and security of the financial system was also important and that any rapid changes and fragmentation would put that at risk.
He said that basing most of a bank's activities in one place was "sounder" and more efficient and that in 10 years' time it was still very likely that London would be its largest EU office by a substantial margin.
"I would say that it is our hope that we will be able to conduct our business as close as we can to the way we conduct it today," Mr Blankfein said.
"That is, we could have German nationals marketing German securities to German investors from the UK.
"And be resident in the UK and accomplish that.
"I would like and it is my hope that we can do as much of that as possible.
"I think it is in the best interests of the UK, the best interests of Germany, to have London - which has a lot of experience about regulating these markets - continue close to that model."
Goldman, which has faced billions of dollars-worth of fines over its behaviour in the run up to the financial crisis, is one of the world's most successful international banks.
It is second only to JP Morgan, also American, in the league table of investment banks.
If it were to decide to relocate significant parts of its business to the continent, it would be taken as a signal about the attractiveness of London as a place to do business.
"Without knowing how things will turn out we have to plan for a number of contingencies," Mr Blankfein said about possible job losses.
"And our hope is we don't have to implement anything until we know what we have to implement.
"But if there is no period of time to implement whatever changes are brought about in a negotiation, we may have to do things prematurely and we may have to do a range of things as a precaution and take steps."
Mr Blankfein added: "But right now we are trying to avoid that and so our advice and our interests would be benefitted not by one outcome versus another - although clearly we would like to stay close to where we are today - but what we are really looking for at this moment, the finest point we can make, is a long enough implementation period so we can begin the process of adjustment after we know what we are adjusting to."
Referring to the language used by both sides this week - Theresa May said some in the EU were trying to interfere in the general election by attacking Britain's position - Mr Blankfein said: "A couple of years is a long time for people to calm down and really take stock of what their long term economic interests are.
"And in the UK it is to try and have a very good relationship with a very big trading bloc, and for the European market to recognise what a big economy the UK is."


The Loopallu music festival took place in Ullapool at the weekend.

Held on Friday and Saturday, the event was marking its 10th anniversary.
Revellers turned up in the Wester Ross town to see acts such as Utah Saints, Twin Atlantic, Shed Seven, The Undertones, Alabama 3, Public Service Broadcasting and Hunter and the Bear.
About 2,500 people attended the event on each of the days it was held.
This year's event was sold out before any of the acts were announced.


Opera star Bryn Terfel has had a daughter with his fiancee, former Prince of Wales harpist Hannah Stone, their agent has confirmed.

The baby girl is a fourth child for Sir Bryn, 51, who has three sons from his first marriage to Lesley Jones.
The singer from Pant Glas, Gwynedd, and Ms Stone, 30, began a relationship in 2014 and got engaged last year.
Ms Stone, from Swansea, served as the official harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2011 to 2015.


Worcestershire pulled off a remarkable 20-run victory over Northants inside two days, in a match completely dominated by the bowlers at New Road.

Chasing 185 to win after 14 wickets fell before tea, the visitors were bowled out for 164, Worcestershire captain Joe Leach taking 5-62.
Earlier, Northants were bowled out in their first innings for 157.
They then skittled the hosts for 153 with Nathan Buck claiming four wickets, but the target was just out of reach.
Leach, who took over from Daryl Mitchell as skipper this season, finished with match figures of 10-122 as all 40 wickets were taken by fast bowlers and 24 fell on day two.
Worcestershire were indebted to a last-wicket stand of 45 between Ed Barnard (26 not out) and teenager Josh Tongue (15) to make sure they set a tough chase for Northants.
The first innings 50 made by England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who went for a duck in the second innings, was the only half-century in the match.
It was also the first time, in eight attempts, since Moeen first became an England regular in 2015, that Worcestershire have won a Championship game with him in the side.
Worcestershire have now won their opening two County Championship matches, while Northants' run of five straight wins stretching back to last season comes to an end.
Worcestershire captain Joe Leach told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It's hard to describe. All the way through the game the pitch has done quite a bit for the bowlers. So wickets falling frequently was inevitable.
"We felt that in setting them 180 we had a better than even chance. Thankfully that's come to fruition,
"It's hard to be disappointed with the batting. Northants bowled well again. The bowling has been high quality all through and it's harsh to put too much blame on the batsmen.
"Daryl Mitchell and Moeen Ali played fantastically on the first morning to give us a foundation in that first innings."
Northants head coach David Ripley told BBC Radio Northampton:
"We are disappointed because we had three opportunities to get ourselves ahead of the game.
"At 50-1 on day one, we should have gone on from that position. Then their last wicket putting 45, That was a lot in the context of the game. Otherwise we would have been chasing 140-odd.
"Then, at 122-5, we believed again that there was an opportunity to go on and win.
"We had chances to put a good bit of daylight between us. But I can't fault our effort. It was a difficult pitch to bat on."


Chelsea and Tottenham have received record fines following three charges of failing to control their players in the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea must pay £375,000, having previously breached the Football Association rule on mass confrontations four times since November 2014.
Spurs have been fined £225,000 for what is their third breach of the rule.
The match produced 12 yellow cards and the fines are over two incidents during the game and one after full-time.
Earlier this month, Spurs' Mousa Dembele was banned for six games for violent conduct during the same match, which ended Tottenham's hopes of winning the Premier League.
Belgium midfielder Dembele, 28, appeared to eye-gouge Chelsea forward Diego Costa.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino stepped on to the pitch at one point to separate Spurs defender Danny Rose and Chelsea forward Willian, and at full-time Rose was also involved in an altercation that ended with Blues boss Guus Hiddink being pushed to the floor.
The FA has warned both clubs as to their future conduct.


Google's European boss has apologised after adverts from major firms and government agencies appeared next to extremist content on its YouTube site.

It came after Marks and Spencer became the latest firm to pull its online ads over the issue, joining others such as Audi, RBS and L'Oreal.
Google's European chief, Matthew Brittin, promised to review the firm's policies and strengthen enforcement.
But some questioned the company's commitment to tackling the issue.
A recent investigation by the Times found adverts from a range of well-known firms and organisations had appeared alongside content from supporters of extremist groups on YouTube's video site.
An advert appearing alongside a video earns the poster about Â£6 for every 1,000 clicks it generates, meaning brands may have unwittingly contributed money to extremists.
The Times said that rape apologists, anti-Semites and hate preachers were among those receiving payouts.
There are two difficult issues for Google here - spotting videos that are illegal and should be removed from YouTube, and determining which are legal but not suitable for advertising.
Pressed by reporters on whether the firm would employ people to actively hunt down extremist videos, Matt Brittin was evasive, indicating that a combination of smart technology and user alerts to harmful content was a better option.
But his main challenge will be in providing more clarity to customers when it comes to deciding which videos are "ad-safe".
Drawing the line won't be easy -  as he pointed out, news organisations put a lot of disturbing content online but need to earn money from advertising if they are to continue to invest in journalism.
Mr Brittin seems confident that by having a thorough look at its policies and showing advertisers how they can control where their messages appear, Google can regain their confidence.
But the company, which insists it's a technology platform not a media business, is finding it ever harder to hold that line.
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Last week, ministers summoned Google for talks at the Cabinet Office after imposing a temporary restriction on the government's own adverts, including for military recruitment and blood donation campaigns.
And on Monday M&S joined a growing list of firms to suspend their advertising from both Google's search engine and YouTube site. Others include McDonald's, HSBC, Lloyds, the BBC, Channel 4 and the Guardian.
Speaking at the Advertising Week Europe conference, Mr Brittin said: "I would like to apologise to our partners and advertisers who might have been affected by their ads appearing on controversial content."
He also promised that Google would exert more control over where ads were placed and improve its record for reviewing questionable content. Further details are expected later this week.
However, Labour MP Yvette Cooper told the Guardian the apology had not gone far enough.
"They need to say whether they will be paying back any of that advertising revenue and to answer our questions on what more they are doing to root out extremism or illegal activity on YouTube because they are still failing to do enough to remove illegal or hate-filled content from YouTube."
Brian Wieser, an analyst at the brokerage Pivotal, meanwhile downgraded Google's stock on Monday, saying the scandal would curtail its profits this year.
"Alphabet's Google is facing a serious issue in the UK with brand safety issues, which has global repercussions," he wrote in an analyst note.
Mark Mulligan, managing director of Midia Research, told the BBC that the complaints against Google "were not new" and showed the internet was "still in its adolescence".
"When the internet was founded, it was all about doing away with the gatekeeper. But now we're facing fake news and inappropriate content and that clashes with business models like Google's which are built on selling advertising."
He said Google was likely to weather the storm, but that such incidents would weaken its dominance of the online advertising market.
"Every incident like this gives Facebook an opportunity to steal a march on Google," he said.


Tom Champion scored the only goal of the game as Barnet took the points against 10-man Morecambe with a 1-0 League Two win.

Champion scored with a neat header on 65 minutes after the home side, who lost skipper Peter Murphy on 26 minutes to a straight red card for a tackle on Ruben Bover, dropped their guard for the first time in the game as Jamal Campbell-Ryce crossed from a quickly-taken corner.
The visitors kept possession well with the man advantage and should have made the victory more comfortable as they created a number of chances.
On 34 minutes the Bees were awarded a penalty when John Akinde went down under the challenge of Ryan Edwards but the prolific Bees striker saw his spot kick easily saved by Barry Roche.
The first chance of any note fell to the visitors when Campbell-Ryce delivered a pinpoint cross for Mauro Vilhete but the striker turned his header wide of the target from a great position.
Barnet went close again with Morecambe defender Alex Whitmore producing two superb blocks to deny Campbell-Ryce and Bover firing straight at Roche from good openings on two occasions when he should have done better.
Morecambe's only effort of any note came early in the game when Kevin Ellison turned and shot straight at Josh Vickers.
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Match ends, Morecambe 0, Barnet 1.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 0, Barnet 1.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).
Dan Sweeney (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barnet. Justin Amaluzor replaces Jamal Campbell-Ryce.
Substitution, Barnet. Dan Sweeney replaces Curtis Weston.
Michael Rose (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mauro Vilhete (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. John Akinde (Barnet) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Liam Wakefield (Morecambe).
Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke Jordan (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Charlie Clough (Barnet).
Substitution, Barnet. Harry Taylor replaces Ruben Bover.
Corner,  Barnet. Conceded by Alex Whitmore.
Attempt blocked. Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Morecambe. Luke Jordan replaces Lee Molyneux.
Attempt missed. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Elliot Johnson (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ruben Bover (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Curtis Weston (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
John Akinde (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Duckworth (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Curtis Weston (Barnet).
Substitution, Morecambe. Liam Wakefield replaces Alex Kenyon because of an injury.
Delay in match Alex Kenyon (Morecambe) because of an injury.
Goal!  Morecambe 0, Barnet 1. Tom Champion (Barnet) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamal Campbell-Ryce with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Barnet. Conceded by Alex Kenyon.
Attempt saved. Ruben Bover (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Ruben Bover (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Morecambe. Rhys Turner replaces Paul Mullin.
Ruben Bover (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Paul Mullin (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner,  Barnet. Conceded by Lee Molyneux.
Attempt missed. Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Barnet) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Paul Mullin (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Champion (Barnet).


Niall Currie has been unveiled as the new manager of Portadown.

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Currie's anticipated appointment was confirmed at Shamrock Park on Monday evening as his five-year stint as Ards manager came to an end.
The Portadown native, 44, emerged as the club's preferred candidate over the past week.
Currie, who has been handed an 18-month contract, takes over a side that are 13 points adrift at the bottom of the Premiership table.
Portadown started the season with a 12-point deduction for making irregular payments to players and were also handed a number of fines, in addition to being prevented from signing players on professional deals this season.
Despite the team's predicament, the new manager described his appointment as the "pinnacle for me".
"I was in a strong position and a secure job at Ards, but my heart led me here. The lure of coming home and managing my hometown club was too strong," said Currie at the news conference confirming his appointment.
"We're going through a tough time at the moment but I want to bring a smile back to this club.
"Our first priority is doing our utmost to stay in the league and we want to give it a real rattle."
Currie has arrived from Ards with long-term assistant Jay Willis while Trevor Williamson will remain part of the backroom team.
One of the new manager's first acts has been to recall former Linfield striker Mark McAllister to the first-team squad.
Back in September, then manager Pat McGibbon told McAllister that he was no longer part of the club's plans.
However, Currie believes the striker can be an asset to the squad.
"He's looking forward to playing and getting himself fit," said the new manager.
"We've got some good defenders and some good midfielders but I think we need to inject a bit of pace into the last third of the pitch."
A statement from Ards on Monday night said that the North Down club had received "an amount of compensation from Portadown for Currie's services" but that there would be "further discussions between the two clubs".
The Ards statement added that first-team coach John Bailie will act as their caretaker manager as the club decides how to go about appointing a successor to Currie.
Vinny Arkins stepped aside as interim Ports boss last Thursday, having been in caretaker charge of the crisis club since previous manager McGibbon resigned in mid October.
Arkins was not in contention to succeed McGibbon as he does not hold a Uefa A coaching licence.
After playing 19 games in the Irish Premiership campaign, Portadown are cut adrift at the bottom of the table on minus one points, which leaves them 13 points behind 11th-placed Carrick Rangers.


Seven young migrants have gone on trial in Germany, over a Christmas day attack on a homeless man which could have killed him.

Six are charged with attempted murder, accused of setting fire to newspaper with which the man had covered himself.
The seventh is charged with failing to assist the Polish man, who was only saved by the actions of passers-by after his attackers fled.
The attack, which was captured on CCTV, shocked the country.
Six of the accused come from Syria, a seventh from Libya. They range between 16 and 21 in age.
They arrived in Germany between 2014 and 2016, some as unaccompanied minors, say German media reports.
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The attack took place in the Schoenleinstrasse underground station in the southern Berlin district of Neukoelln at about 02:00 (01:00 GMT) on Christmas Day.
The alleged ringleader, a 21-year-old Syrian, is accused of lighting a handkerchief and placing it near the man's head, and then running away as the flames spread to the man's backpack and a plastic bag.
A train driver used a fire extinguisher to control the flames as passers-by helped to put them out.
Six of the suspects surrendered to police immediately after CCTV pictures of the incident in Berlin were released.
The alleged ringleader was arrested near his home.
He now says he was drunk and cannot remember what happened.
But he will be charged as an adult and will face at least three years behind bars if found guilty.
They have all been in detention since 27 December.


Jenson Button is to partner Fernando Alonso at McLaren next season.

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The team will announce their driver line-up at a news conference at their factory in Surrey on Thursday.
But BBC Sport has learned they have decided to retain Button, world champion in 2009, after weeks of leaning towards Kevin Magnussen.
The news means Button, 34, will extend his F1 career into a 16th season and team him up with the driver widely regarded as the best in the sport.
McLaren signed Alonso, 33, some weeks ago but had been vacillating over the identity of his team-mate.
They had intended to retain Magnussen, 22, on the basis that the team's data had suggested he was fractionally quicker and had youth and promise on his side.
But Button's strong finish to the season, his experience and perhaps unrest at boardroom level influenced the team to go the other way.
The two drivers were evenly matched for pure pace in 2014, with Button out-qualifying his Danish team-mate 10-9 over the course of the season.
The Englishman also scored more than twice as many points.
Magnussen, who ended with 55 points compared to Button's tally of 126, may be retained as reserve driver for 2015.
The farrago over the identity of the team's second driver has overshadowed McLaren's signing of double world champion Alonso.
The Spaniard's capture is quite a coup considering his standing in the sport and the fact he was at Ferrari.
Ferrari may have endured their least successful season for 21 years, but they still finished ahead of McLaren in 2014, thanks largely to the efforts of Alonso.
McLaren's new engine partnership with Honda helped convince Alonso to rejoin them, as did the signing of key team personnel.
Alonso felt McLaren were more likely to provide him with the opportunity to secure the third title he has been seeking since he won his second in 2006.
Alonso is reputed to have signed a deal worth $40m (£25.5m) a year, which would make him the best-paid driver on the grid.
His contract is believed to be for two years with the option for one more, but Alonso will almost certainly be able to leave at the end of 2015 if McLaren's performance is not up to expectations next season.
Button will be on a one-year deal at a salary reduced by at least half from the reputed £12m he was earning in 2014.
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Williams - Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas
Ferrari - Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen
McLaren - Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button
Force India - Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez
Toro Rosso - Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr
Lotus - Pastor Maldonado and Romain Grosjean
Sauber - Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson


A plaque honouring a World War One soldier awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for bravery and devotion to duty has been unveiled in Sheffield.

Sgt Arnold Loosemore of the 8th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment won the medal on 11 August 1917 when he single-handedly engaged the enemy.
He was one of seven Loosemore brothers from the city to serve in the war.
The plaque at the Cenotaph is part of a national scheme to remember all World War One recipients of the medal.
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He won the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces when his platoon was under heavy machine-gun fire.
Sgt Loosemore, then a private, crawled through partially cut wire, dragging a machine-gun with him when he engaged a large number of the enemy, killing about 20 of them.
Then his gun was blown up and three enemy soldiers rushed him, but he shot them all with his revolver.
On returning to his post, he also brought back a wounded comrade under heavy fire.
In 1918 he was also awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, was injured by machine-gun fire and had to have his leg amputated just days before the end of the war.
After the war he returned to Sheffield, married and had a family. He died in 1924 aged just 27.
Sgt Loosemore is the last of the city's three VC recipients to be honoured.
Maj William Barnsley Allen VC and Sgt Maj John Raynes VC of Sheffield have also been honoured with plaques.


A Conservative member of the Welsh assembly has resigned following her election as an MP in England.

Antoinette Sandbach took the safe Cheshire seat of Eddisbury with a majority of nearly 13,000.
She said it had been "a privilege to serve my constituents in north Wales for the last four years".
Janet Haworth will succeed her, having been the next name on the North Wales regional list for the Conservatives at the 2011 assembly election.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "Antoinette has been an exceptional Assembly Member and I wholeheartedly congratulate her on today's result.
"I know Antoinette will make an exceptional Member of Parliament and I wish her every success in the new role."
A Welsh Conservative spokesman said Mr Davies was due to meet another AM, Byron Davies, who beat Labour to win Gower, to discuss his future.


There's a famous saying attributed to the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, that China and North Korea are as close as "lips are to teeth".

It is a relationship that these days may be closer to a case of gritting one's teeth rather than a smile, at least when it comes to trade.
As it is for most countries in Asia, China is North Korea's biggest trading partner. Except that of course that there's one major difference: North Korea would completely collapse without China's economic help.
That's why the US has been persuading Beijing to help the international community ensure that the new round of sanctions would hit North Korea where it hurts - cutting off access to Pyongyang's biggest customer is one way to send a powerful message.
The latest sanctions - imposed because of North Korea's nuclear programme - aims to cut its coal exports to China by 60%.
But there have been international sanctions and censure in place before, and despite those measures, China has continued to buy products from North Korea.
Chinese companies buy North Korean coal and textiles, for example, while at the same time selling food, arms and energy to Pyongyang. Partly this is out of an allegiance to an old but volatile ally, but also partly out of a desire to ensure the balance of power in the region is tipped in Beijing's favour.
Many analysts say China's refusal to play ball means that the sanctions strategy isn't working.
But as Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China" tells me, it's not that the sanctions on North Korea haven't been working - "it's that China doesn't get punished when it doesn't implement the sanctions".
While it's true that in recent years China hasn't been particularly strict about enforcing sanctions on North Korea, there's some evidence to show that trade between the two neighbours is slowing.
China's trade with North Korea has been falling this year, some 13% from a year earlier according to data in May from the Korea International Trade Association.
Exports were down 15.6%, while Beijing's imports fell by 9.8%.
But Mr Chang points out that this is as much about the slowing of China's economy as it is about sanctions.
"Demand for commodities has slowed, and China is buying less of everything," he said. "And it's not that big a sacrifice for China - it doesn't really need this coal anyway."
In an article for the Conversation website, Kelvin Gray of the University of Sussex said that even if coal exports fall "one area where North Korea has kept its exports [to China] healthy is clothing".
Machines and raw materials are sold to North Korea from a Chinese company, the North Koreans provide the labour, (probably for a fraction of the price it would cost in China) and then the finished goods end up back in China.
The profits that the North Korean regime makes from this sort of trade is difficult to calculate - but it is almost certainly in the hundreds of millions.
It's a relationship that Beijing is unlikely to sever - and not for the usual argument that you hear about North Korean refugees flooding the Chinese border should the state collapse - at least, not according to Mr Chang.
"The first place North Koreans would go if the country were to collapse wouldn't be China, it would be South Korea," he said. "The real reason why China keeps the North Korean state alive economically is because it whenever Pyongyang fires off another test, Washington comes running to Beijing for help."
Mr Chang adds that this is a position China likes and wants to keep. And, he says, that unless Washington starts punishing Beijing for not enforcing these rules, this round of sanctions is unlikely to have much of an effect either.


Low numbers of teachers being recruited in Wales is "bordering on crisis" levels, a union has said.

Welsh Government figures showed the target for trainee teacher intake in secondary schools and for PGCEs had both been missed in 2015-16.
Owen Hathway, Wales policy officer for the NUT, said the pressures and stresses of the job were putting people off entering the profession.
The Welsh Government said it would be looking into the "downwards trend".
The target for secondary school trainee intake was missed by a third while intake for primary schools was slightly below the target. For PGCEs it was missed by 19% (235 people).
The government said, compared to overall graduate entry figures, teacher training recruitment remained strong and it was working closely with partners to identify and address issues.
"We want teaching in Wales to be a first choice profession so we attract the very best," the spokesman said, adding new rules announced in spring are a key part of the drive.
Mr Hathway said pressures in the job were putting people off - with figures obtained by the NUT showing nearly 50,000 teaching days were lost in Wales in 2016 due to stress.
"People have seen the stresses and it's a real problem, causing ill health, and that does put people off going into teaching," he said.
"They see pay freezes, pension cuts, pay cuts and teachers being asked to work for longer and the material benefits - although that's not generally why people go into teaching - are becoming less and less enticing.
"They look at the work-life balance, and it's becoming less of an enticing profession."
Mr Hathway added many teachers find the job was different to what they expected, and end up leaving.
"The vast majority of people going into teaching do so because they want to empower a generation," he said.
"But they get into the role and find they're so restricted in the job it doesn't actually benefit pupils and they become disillusioned and the pressures of the job beat the enthusiasm out of them.
"Quite a few leave within the first five years because they've been worn down.
"I'm not saying the teaching profession is in crisis right now, but it is bordering on a crisis."
A former Rhondda Cynon Taff teacher said she left full-time teaching after just two years, aged 24, despite initially seeing it as a lifelong career.
The woman, who did not wish to be named, said she was working 11-hour days to keep up with planning and marking, and worked through her weekends and holidays.
"I'd try and give myself Friday night off but you spend most of Sunday doing more school work," she said.
"Me and my flatmate were both teachers, we'd be sat on the sofa with our laptops because we felt too guilty and lazy to just watch TV so we'd do work as well."
She became a supply teacher, thinking this may ease the pressure but left at 27 and found a job in a different profession.
"Even with supply there comes planning, I didn't like to just turn up to a class, so I'd prepare sheets for classes ranging from reception to year six on a broad spectrum of subjects.
"I felt too young to be tied down to that, I wasn't getting much of a social life.
"The older teachers were depressed, half term and summer holidays are taken up with work, you can't fit marking and planning in otherwise."
But she added she got a sense of satisfaction from teaching and continues to pay her fees and union membership in the hope of returning in future.
"I felt awful for leaving, I still do. I feel like I let the pupils down.
"But I needed time away from the classroom pressures, and you're living off a rubbish wage.
"I would never tell someone not to teach. I loved and still love teaching, I love helping kids, I love seeing kids come out of their shells.
"You can help shape their future, help them become individuals."


World number one Jason Day and Irish golfer Shane Lowry have withdrawn from the Olympics because of concerns over the Zika virus.

Australian 28-year-old Day said while the risk is small, it is not one he is willing to take because of "potential risks to my wife's future pregnancies".
Lowry said it is "with a heavy heart" that he has decided not to represent Ireland at Rio in August.
Rory McIlroy has also pulled out due to concerns over the mosquito-borne virus.
The virus has been linked to brain defects in newborn babies.
In a statement published on his Twitter page, Day added: "Competing at the Olympics has always been a major goal, but golf cannot take precedence over my family."
World number four McIlroy's decision was already a blow to a sport which will be making a return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence.
Day is the sixth high-profile player to pull out because of concerns over Zika, following fellow Australian Marc Leishman, Fiji's Vijay Singh, South Africa's Branden Grace and Northern Ireland pair McIlory and Graeme McDowell.
A number of other top players, including major winners Adam Scott of Australia and South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, have already pulled out for scheduling and family reasons.
Earlier this month, American cyclist American cyclist Tejay van Garderen also withdrew from Rio, because his wife is pregnant.
The Olympics get under way on 5 August, and speaking on Monday, Rio 2016 chief executive Sidney Levy said fears over the virus had been "overblown".


It started with a bet, burned bright in America's Jazz Age, became a European winter staple and is now back, almost where it started, after a 35-year absence.

Six-day racing has been around fashion's revolving door a few times but - if the organisers of a new event starting in London on Sunday have timed it right - this Ben-Hur-with-bikes marathon, for a darts and dance music crowd, could become this season's sensation.
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But it is also probably fair to say that most British sports fans have never heard of six-day racing, let alone seen it, and even cycling's most dedicated followers could be forgiven for being a little vague on the details.
After all, this is a variety of racing not seen in these parts since 1980, and the intervening years have often seen it dismissed as, at best, a bit of fun while we wait for the weather to improve and, at worst, fixed racing on fixed-wheel bikes, featuring guys on speed, roared on by drunks.
So what is it exactly, who is riding, how do you win and when does the disco start?
For a period of history that is best known for empire, industry and straitlaced propriety, Victorian Britain also enjoyed betting on ridiculous physical challenges: swimming races against dogs, wrestling bears, playing cricket for five days and so on.
It was in that "go on, I dare you" spirit that a Mr Davis bet professional cyclist David Stanton £100 that he could not ride 1,000 miles in a week, excluding Sunday's day of rest, of course.
Stanton set off on a penny-farthing, on a temporary track at Islington's Agricultural Hall, early on Monday, 25 February, 1878. Five uncomfortable days later, he had his £100.
The venue, which is now the Business Design Centre, had already staged a six-day walking race - an event that drew 20,000 punters a day - so it was not too much of a leap to put on a six-day, no-napping bike race in November 1878, a spectacle that was repeated up and down the land at least 30 times over the next three years.
But it was in the US that it really took off, particularly at New York's Madison Square Garden, an arena best known for prize fights, circuses and other popular dramas - the sleep-deprived racers fitted right in.
Amid concerns that riders were popping amphetamines to fight the fatigue, local authorities brought in a 12-hour limit, a move the race organisers countered by making them two-man events, so one rider could race while the other slept, usually in basement dorms.
As bikes and tracks improved in the early decades of the 20th century, the speeds and distances travelled went up, as did the crowds. This was six-day racing's gilded age as Hollywood celebrities mixed with gangsters at track centre and the biggest jazz bands of the day provided the soundtrack.
And then, almost as quickly as they got hitched, America and six-day racing split up.
Whether it was baseball, the Great Depression, the rise of the automobile or too many foreign riders that did it, the game was up by the 1950s.
But the New World's loss was the Old World's gain as the American formula of bikes, booze and bravery had become a fixture in European cycling's heartlands.
Robert Dineen's recently published history of British cycling, "Kings of the Road", describes this chapter in six-day racing's story as "highly lucrative, unspeakably tough, possibly shady and certainly confusing" and its stars were "the most technically accomplished cyclists in the world".
From Antwerp to Zurich, an elite group of track specialists would team up with - or take on - star turns from the world of road cycling in an exhausting schedule of late nights and packed houses. These were hard men capable of riding 35mph for hours at a time, six nights a week.
Rob Hayles, a double gold medallist at the 2005 World Track Championships, rode 21 sixes between 1996 and 2005 and ticked off every major stop on the circuit. He remembers the "shadiness" but says it is more complicated than many would have it.
"It wasn't all fixed but the big teams would look after themselves - it would nearly always come down to a shoot-out between them on the final evening," said the Briton, who also won three Olympic track medals.
"But you needed to be very strong, very aware of what was going on and a bit lucky to win. Even then it was very, very hard to win, although it was quite easy to stop somebody else winning.
"And that's my main memory of them: the best teams would just beat you up."
Dineen's description of the scene comes in a chapter on Tony Doyle, who rode his first six-day race, the Skol 6, at Wembley Arena in 1980.
That would be the last such event in the UK for 35 years but it planted a seed as Doyle would spend the next decade becoming Britain's most successful exponent of the event.
He earned that initial invite by winning the world pursuit title earlier that year, so he was no mug, but it would take him three years to earn his spurs in this company and start winning races.
Doyle was regularly paired with Australian track great Danny Clark, although he was sometimes given the job of shepherding big names from the road through what was, to many of them, a terrifying ordeal.
Recalling those days now, when he rode up to 16 six-day races a year, half of them in Germany, Doyle reels off Tour de France champions Laurent Fignon, Greg LeMond and Stephen Roche as former partners.
But he also talks fondly about performing to nearly 150,000 fans in Bremen, the 100,000 who would regularly come to Munich's Six, the nightclub that would open there when the racing finished at two in the morning, Sunday's kids-for-free sessions and Monday's "women's nights" when the clientele would make most of today's promoters blush.
"The racing was serious, though, and dangerous if you got it wrong," said Doyle, who should know, he was given the last rites whilst in a coma in Munich after a terrible crash in 1989.
He would come back 12 months later and win it again with Clark.
The Londoner's riding career came to an end in 1994 when he broke his back in a crash at a six-day race in Zurich, but he stayed in cycling, helping to get the Tour of Britain restarted in 1994 and becoming president of the British Cycling Federation in 1996. He would later work for Nike and chair the London borough of Southwark's Olympic legacy board.
His passion for six-day racing never diminished, though, which is crucial to this story as the circuit needed cheerleaders as determined as Doyle.
What had once been a crowded calendar was getting sparse as the millennium turned, with venues realising they could make easier money from pop concerts, while the best riders preferred road cycling's steady salaries. Six-day racing looked like it might have had its day.
But several factors combined to get fashion's revolving door moving again.
First, British track cyclists started to win serious amounts of medals and these newly-minted champions would need more regular exposure.
Second, London won the right to stage the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics: this would mean building a velodrome and then filling it regularly.
And third, we all went a bit bonkers for biking, be it as a way to lose weight, get to work, see the countryside or display our wealth.
Having come close to bringing a six to London's ExCel in 2008 - only for the credit crunch to intervene - Doyle kept plugging away at his contacts in London's investment banks, the cycling world and those responsible for ensuring London's Olympic legacy.
Seven years later, six-day racing is back in the capital, less than five miles from where it started, 137 years ago.
Six Day London - which starts on Sunday, 18 October, and runs until Friday, 23 October - is not quite a classic six but it is close.
Because of the overlap with the European Track Championships in Switzerland, the opening day at the Lee Valley VeloPark is a standalone event called the 1878 Cup, which will run as an omnium-style, points-based competition. It is also a matinee performance, aimed at families.
Come Monday, with the riders all present, the real deal begins, with 18 men's pairings spending the next five nights (the sessions run from 1730 to 2230) doing battle; and nine women's pairings taking part in a three-day omnium from Wednesday.
For the men, the goal is simple: complete the most laps. How they do that, though, takes us back to Dineen's confusion, as the teams compete in six formats, sometimes as a pair, sometimes individually.
The madison, named after the venue that made it famous, provides the backbone and the teams do it twice a session.
A popular feature of the Olympic programme until its removal after the 2008 Games, this is the tag-race that sees one rider racing at the bottom of the track, while the other circles slowly at the top waiting for a hand-sling to propel them into the fray. The idea is to steal a lap on the rest, although there are also points on offer for intermediate sprints in the first of evening's madisons.
The other formats are all for the points that break any ties in the main contest.
The elimination race is an individual format, with the last rider to cross the line every second lap removed until two are left to fight out the points. The super sprint is similar except for the final being contested between six riders, not two.
Like keirin races at the Olympics, the derny and stayer formats involve individuals racing behind motorised bikes that provide big slipstreams, enabling the riders to reach high speeds for flying final laps.
And the team time trial is a two-lap effort the teams do one by one, one team-mate giving the other a madison-style sling to power to the line.
Simple, right?
But if you are struggling to keep score you could just order another beer, enjoy the lightshow and bounce along to the tunes from Ministry of Sound DJ Martin 2 Smoove.
So who, apart from Martin 2 Smoove, is performing?
Mark Cavendish, a partner in the business, will be there…but not on his bike. The injury he picked up at last month's Tour of Britain has not healed in time. Sir Chris Hoy, an event "ambassador", will also be there, but bikeless, and some observers have suggested this is a theme.
This perception is perhaps not helped by recently crowned European champions Sir Bradley Wiggins and Laura Trott, who are also not riding in London, agreeing to race the Revolution Series event in Manchester a day after Six Day London finishes.
But Madison Sports Group boss Mark Darbon denies his event lacks star quality.
He points to the 11 world champions, six European champions and two Olympic champions that are coming, not to mention Dame Sarah Storey.
In total, there are 65 riders on the programme, with Belgium's Iljo Keisse, Dutch star Niki Terpstra and British duo Adam Blythe and Dani King being the biggest draws.
"We are a new event finding our way in a crowded market but our field compares very well to any of the other six-day races in Europe," said Darbon.
"The timing is perhaps not perfect but we did not want to die wondering if this could work, so we have got on with it."
As ever, much will depend on ticket sales and Darbon is relatively happy with those. A quick look at the box office website suggests there are still plenty available but Thursday and Friday should be full.
"It's a show, an entertainment and the bike racing is just part of it," explained Hayles.
"Sure, the crowds in Ghent and Zurich were really into the racing, and get massively into it, but in Germany there was all kinds of stuff going on - jet-powered go karts, laser shows, circus acts - and the racing was a show before the nightclub opened."
It is hard to see London's organisers getting all that past health and safety but a clue as to where they want to position this event was provided when they recently bought the Berlin Six.
Because nobody is as serious about fun as the Germans. Or the Victorians, for that matter.


The Business Secretary, Greg Clark, said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the future of Vauxhall following a deal to sell it to a French company.

PSA, the owner of Peugeot and Citroen has agreed to buy GM's European operations for Â£1.9bn.
The head of PSA Carlos Tavares, sought to calm fears of plant closures but said it was up to workers to build profitability.
The UK factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton employ about 4,500 people.
Mr Clark said: "The conversations that I and the Prime Minister have had, both with GM and PSA, tell me [PSA] intend to safeguard the plants, honour their commitments and look to increase the performance and the sales of cars.
"We want to hold them to those commitments, but the messages we've had lead me to be cautiously optimistic." He added.
With GM's Opel and Vauxhall operations, PSA Group will become the second largest carmaker in Europe, behind Volkswagen.
GM Europe has not made a profit since 1999, but Mr Tavares promised to get the business back in the black once again.
The fine print behind the GM deal
Why is Vauxhall being sold to Peugeot's owner?
In a statement, Mr Tavares, said: "We are confident that the Opel/Vauxhall turnaround will significantly accelerate with our support, while respecting the commitments made by GM to the Opel/Vauxhall employees."
PSA said it expected to make savings of Â£1.47bn per year by 2026, with most of the cuts made by 2020.
Mr Tavares told the BBC that he trusted the Vauxhall staff to work in a "constructive manner" with PSA to improve their performance.
"As long as we improve the performance and we become the best, there is no risk they should fear."
One worker at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire told reporters this morning: "I think the deal is good for current GM and Vauxhall employees, but is there a future for younger workers after 2021?"
Next year PSA will decide where it will make the next generation of Astra cars currently made in the UK against the background of Brexit negotiations.
Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, said that the union would continue to "work day and night" to fight for Vauxhall staff at plants at Luton and Ellesmere Port.
Vauxhall workers 'in the dark'
Thousands more workers are involved in Vauxhall's showrooms and supply chain.
"The current (Astra) model in Ellesmere Port goes up to 2020/2021 but really it's this time next year, maybe the middle of next year, (when) we would need to secure acceptance of a new model there.
"That's really the challenge for all of us.
"My call to the government is to make certain that our government is at the table, just as the French and German governments will be, batting for their workforce,"  Mr McCluskey said.
GM chairman and chief executive Mary Barra said it had been a difficult decision to sell Opel and Vauxhall, and insisted the business would have broken even in 2016 had it not been for the UK's decision to leave the European Union, which caused a sharp drop in the value of the pound.
But the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, said the deal had nothing to do with Brexit: "This is a restructuring of the organisation.  In my discussions with PSA, the chief executive said today that Brexit isn't an essential driver of this."
"We want to have the best possible trading relationship with Europe, but in any event Carlos Tavares has said that there are opportunities post-Brexit."
Former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable expressed concerns about jobs because of the government's "lack of commitment to the customs union and the single market".
"Car components have to go backwards and forwards across frontiers and they will acquire tariffs and checks.
"And Vauxhall is particularly exposed to this, [as] about 80% of its exports are to the European Union.
"And if you're a hard-headed car executive looking at the competitiveness of Britain versus German plants, Britain, I'm afraid, is going to slip down the ranking in future."
Professor Christian Stadler, of Warwick Business School, said: "I would expect job cuts. PSA has done it before and there is no other way to realistically achieve the cost savings they have in mind, which might possibly mean plant closures as well.
"Whether this is a Vauxhaul/Opel plant or a Peugeot plant is hard to say at the moment."
PSA Group says it will cut costs to increase profits, which has stoked concerns for more than 4,000 Vauxhall jobs in the UK.
The new owners met government and unions last week and provided assurance that existing production commitments would be honoured at Ellesmere Port till 2020 and Luton for some years beyond that.
However, it is generally accepted that the 24 factories the combined company will have in Europe is too many.
The deal is an exit from Europe for GM which has lost billions here since the turn of the millennium. It will allow them to focus on its home market of the US and its expanding operations in China.
PSA has said many countries are reluctant to buy French cars and the Opel brand will help them expand into new markets.
The chancellor will have extra motivation to be supportive of the car industry when he delivers Wednesday's Budget. He is expected to announce investment in skills, research and development around electric car technology in which PSA has so far lagged behind its rivals.


The Scottish Conservatives will be the second largest party at Holyrood following a night of significant gains.

After results from the regional lists were returned, the Tories ended up with 31 seats - 32 behind the SNP on 63.
Scottish Labour won 24 seats, the Scottish Greens six and the Lib Dems five.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson celebrated after she won the Edinburgh Central seat from the Nationalists.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated Ms Davidson on the "historic result".
The Tory PM said: "She is a leader who will stand up to the SNP and give Scotland strong opposition."
Ms Davidson received 10,399 votes in her constituency, an increase of 15% from 2011 when the Conservatives came fourth.
The Scottish leader said she was under "no illusion" that many people who backed the Tories were "true blue Conservatives".
She said many first-time Conservative supporters backed the party "because there's a job of work they want us to do".
Ms Davidson added: "I hope the message that was resonating was of being a strong opposition, to hold the SNP to account, to saying no to a second independence referendum, to respect the decision that our country made and to really focus on the things we're paying a government to focus on, on schools, on hospitals, on public services. That's what people want."
Scottish Conservative Alex Johnstone said they had proved they were a "traditional Scottish party with Scottish values".
There were also significant gains for the Conservatives in Aberdeenshire West from the SNP, and Eastwood and Dumfriesshire from Labour.
Oliver Mundell, the son of Scottish Secretary David Mundell, won the Dumfriesshire seat, with 13,536 votes.
Twenty-six-year-old Mr Mundell has spoken of helping to deliver leaflets for his father at the age of just eight.
The Conservatives took two of the other three seats covering Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders.
Finlay Carson held Galloway and West Dumfries, while Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire was held by John Lamont.
The Tories also won Aberdeenshire West from the SNP after a major swing in the vote.
Alexander Burnett was elected after the party's share surged 17% to leave Dennis Robertson in second place.


Prince Harry has visited Borough Market a day after it re-opened following the London Bridge terrorist attack in which eight people died.

The prince met traders and security staff who helped people during the attack on 3 June.
The historic market in south London was closed for several days to allow police to carry out forensic investigations.
It re-opened on Wednesday when traders held a minute's silence to remember the victims.
Hundreds of people, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, had gathered at the market to mark the re-opening after days of intensive cleaning and clearing by the community.
Prince Harry bought a box of doughnuts from Matt Jones, of Bread Ahead, whose staff protected members of the public on the night of the attacks.
Mr Jones said the attack "was a horrible thing", and Harry replied: "The strength of this community and London as a whole is magic."
He also praised the bravery of staff who worked in bars and restaurants around Borough Market and helped people during the assault.
Prince Harry spoke to security officer Ganga Garbuja, who was one of the first on the scene and led people to safety.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: "Prince Harry was keen to come down as soon as possible to spread the message that this vibrant market is open for business."
Inquests into the deaths of the eight victims are being held at Southwark Coroner's Court.


A fire has gutted a large thatched house in the New Forest.

The blaze broke out in the rural detached property in The Common, Damerham, shortly before 16:30 BST on Sunday.
It took more than 80 firefighters from Hampshire and Dorset Fire and Rescue Services more than eight hours to bring it under control.
Fire crews remain at the scene dealing with hot spots.  The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue said the no-one was hurt in the blaze.


Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras has taken a $2bn (£1.3bn) charge for costs related to corruption.

The company has published accounts for last year showing an overall loss of $7.2bn.
The company's results also included an impairment charge of $14.8bn reflecting the decreased value of its assets.
Petrobras has been embroiled in a massive corruption scandal in which it is alleged that bribes were paid for lucrative contracts with the firm.
The scandal has hurt Petrobras and damaged President Dilma Rousseff's government.
In March hundreds of thousands of Brazilians protested against President Rousseff, who chaired the board of Petrobras for much of the period when the alleged bribes happened.
However, the president denies involvement and has been exonerated by an investigation by the attorney general.
More than 40 top politicians - including the presidents of both houses of Congress - are still under investigation, and the treasurer of the country's ruling party has been arrested.
Earlier on Thursday a judge convicted a former Petrobras executive of money laundering and racketeering for his role in the case, that involved bribes and illegal donations to political parties.
Paulo Roberto Costa, who was head of refining and supply, will serve part of his sentence under house arrest. He can still appeal.
Petrobras was supposed to be Brazil's "lottery ticket" - as it is sitting on top of one of the world's most valuable oil reserves.
But today it announced losses of $7bn for 2014 - its first loss in decades.
That number is based on witness statements to the police that 3% of each major contract between 2004 and 2012 was paid in kickbacks to politicians and executives.
Wednesday's announcement was highly anticipated in Brazil and in the markets, because previous figures were discredited.
Petrobras executives - all recently appointed to replace people involved in the scandal - hope this will draw a line, and that the company may finally start to move on.
Petrobras's oil bonanza: Blessing or curse?
Back in November Petrobras's auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) declined to certify the company's accounts saying that the corruption scandal made it hard to value the firm's assets.
Since then PwC has been able to calculate the impact of corruption and also identified other costs including those related to missed production targets and the lower price of crude oil.
Publishing the results "is a fundamental step toward fully salvaging the company's credibility," said Aldemir Bendine, the firm's new chief executive.
But analysts say that the company will have to work hard to regain the trust of the financial markets.
"Petrobras's problem isn't about oil or finance, it's about trust. The first thing the company needs to do is recover its credibility, because today the market doesn't believe it," said Daniel Marques, chief analyst at consulting firm Gradual Investimentos.


4 May 2017 Last updated at 07:16 BST
They're the latest thing in school playgrounds.
You or your friends have probably got one, whether you're a girl or a boy.
They were originally designed to help kids with conditions like autism deal with stress, but have now become a popular toy.
But it's not all fun and games for these little gadgets, some schools have banned them and there have been complaints that some are poorly made.
Ricky's been finding out what you think about them..


Strong market prices lifted The Scottish Salmon Company towards the end of last year as the firm continued to struggle with industry-wide "biological challenges and mortalities".

The firm said health issues impacted on expected harvest volumes and drove up production and operating costs by 15%, to £26m, in the last quarter of 2016.
Harvested volumes fell year-on-year from 6,059 tonnes to 5,733 tonnes.
However, revenues rose over the same period by £3.3m to £27.2m.
Over the year, revenue reached £110m, compared with £100.4m in 2015.
The salmon farming industry has been trying to tackle the problem of sea lice, which have led to a cut in output, rising costs and price rises.
Sea lice are small marine parasites that feed on the skin and blood of salmon. They can weaken the health of fish and its growth.
In a statement, the Edinburgh-based company said it had focused on increasing capacity and improving operational efficiency in the last quarter.
Trials on its new harvest station in Ardyne, Argyll, were completed and the facility became fully operational in January.
In addition, a number of smaller farms in the north were consolidated into a single 3,400 tonne operating site, which the company said improved efficiencies and economies of scale.
Export sales accounted for 44% of output, an increase of 7%, as the firm continued to target overseas markets.
Chief executive Craig Anderson said: "Performance has remained stable but we recognise that the effects of recent health issues have impacted on our projected growth in the short term.
"Taking into account the consequences of the current biological challenges, we are now guiding harvest volumes of 25,000 tonnes volumes for 2017."


More than £3.8m has been spent in the last three years by civil servants using Welsh government-issued credit cards, prompting calls to reveal what the money has been spent on.

The Conservatives want a report into the spending on the 218 "procurement cards" used for government spending.
A further £475,540 was spent in the first three months of 2015/16.
A review was conducted in April 2014, but Welsh ministers said they do not publish the results of internal audits.
However, all internal audits are shared with the public spending watchdog, the Wales Audit Office.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "Unfortunately, the minister [Finance Minister Jane Hutt] is refusing to publish that report, which leaves a number of questions unanswered: is the taxpayer getting value for money?"
The Tories say they would encourage public bodies to publish all spending of more than £500.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "During the audit process for the Welsh government annual accounts, the Wales Audit Office has the opportunity to review all of the Welsh government's financial transactions.
"If Mr Davies is suggesting that civil servants are improperly using procurement cards then he should raise his concerns with the permanent secretary."


Traders in Norway have won an hour's reprieve in the battle over the new timing of the country's economic data releases.

The statistics agency currently publishes data at 10:00 local time and had planned to change that to 07:00.
But traders argued it could create instability in the currency, as well as making it tricky to get their children to nursery.
The agency has now agreed to publish the data at 08:00.
Statistics Norway said it had been contacted by several people in the finance industry, pointing out that such an early release time might lead to increased volatility in the buying and selling of the Norwegian krone at a time of day when trading on the markets is thin.
"By adjusting the new release time from 7 to 8am we believe we have found a good balance between the needs of Statistics Norway and the finance industry", a statement said.
The data has been released at 10:00 for nearly 20 years. The agency said this was in part because it used to be printed on paper, but now there were no such technical limitations since they were now released digitally.
The change will be introduced on 23 September.
The Norwegian Securities Dealers Association said it was "an important improvement" since dealers could at least contact clients at that hour. A spokesperson said that while they were not totally satisfied, they would accept the decision and monitor its effect on liquidity when it was introduced.


Women who lead a sedentary lifestyle have faster-ageing cells than those who exercise every day, research suggests.

Research on 1,500 women aged 64 to 95 found those who spent many hours sitting and exercised for less than 40 minutes a day had cells that were biologically eight years older.
As people age, their cells age, causing DNA protectors to shorten and fray.
But health and lifestyle factors may speed up the process, researchers from California said.
Even in old age, it was important to keep active and avoid sitting for more than 10 hours a day, they said.
During ageing, tiny caps on the ends of DNA strands naturally shorten.
These telomeres - which have been likened to the plastic tips of shoelaces - are there to prevent chromosomes from deteriorating.
Telomere length is one indicator of biological age, which does not always match chronological age.
Shortened telomeres have been linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and major cancers.
How much regular exercise people do now also appears to be a factor in their length.
To track the women's movements in the study, they wore wore an accelerometer on their right hip for seven days in a row, during the day and night.
They were also asked to complete questionnaires on their activity.
Dr Aladdin Shadyab, lead study author, from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, said: "We found that women who sat for longer did not have shorter telomere length if they exercised for at least 30 minutes a day.
"Discussions about the benefits of exercise should start when we are young, and physical activity should continue to be part of our daily lives as we get older, even at 80 years old."
The study is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
NHS Choices advises older adults to break up long periods of sitting with light activity because "sedentary behaviour is now considered an independent risk factor for ill health".
It says adults aged 65 or older who are generally fit and mobile should try to do:
Older adults at risk of falls, or with poor balance, should also do exercises to improve balance and co-ordination at least twice a week.


The Gambia's government has denied there has been an attempt to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh while he is abroad.

A statement broadcast on state radio said that "contrary to rumours being circulated, peace and calm continue to prevail" in the West African state.
Heavy gunfire had earlier erupted near the presidential palace in the capital.
Mr Jammeh seized power in a coup in 1994 and his critics accuse him of ruling with an iron-hand.
Diplomatic and military sources said soldiers from the presidential guard appeared to have mounted the attack on the presidential palace in Banjul in the early hours of Tuesday.
A British teacher in Bakau, about seven kilometres (four miles) from Banjul, told the BBC that The Gambia had shut its nearby land borders with Senegal.
"Most of the big shops are closed at this point but there's absolutely no military or police presence," he said.
Banjul residents told AFP news agency that security forces were positioned on street corners and carrying out patrols.
State radio had been off-air during the fighting, but resumed transmission later.
In radio statement, the announcer said "peace and calm continue to prevail" in The Gambia.
"[The] government would like to urge the public and all businesses to continue with their normal activities," it added.
The statement did not clarify Mr Jammeh's whereabouts. Some media reports say he is on a visit to France, while others say he is in Dubai.
In 2011, Mr Jammeh told the BBC he would rule The Gambia for "a billion years".
He has won four disputed elections since taking power as a 29-year-old army officer.
Mr Jammeh is known for expressing bizarre views. In 2007, he claimed that he could cure Aids with a herbal concoction - a view condemned by health experts.
Later, he also claimed that he could cure infertility among women.
Mr Jammeh is also known for his virulent opposition to gay rights, having once threatened to behead gay people.
The tiny West African state, with its sandy beaches, is a popular tourist destination.
Correction 15 January 2015: This story has been amended to remove reference to a statement, purportedly from President Yahya Jammeh, that later turned out to be fake.