A "boy racer" has been jailed for four years and six months for killing two people in a crash in East Ayrshire.

Gary Nicholson, 20, admitted causing the death of his 18-year-old passenger Alec Stewart and another car passenger, Patricia Brown, 52, by dangerous driving on the B769, near Stewarton.
Ewan Alvarez McLeod and Yung Lau, both 20, and Lee Copeland, 23, admitted dangerous driving prior to the fatal crash on 20 April 2014.
They received community payback orders.
Yung Lau, from Stewarton, was ordered to carry out 142 hours of unpaid work.
Alvarez McLeod, also from Stewarton, and Copeland, from Irvine, were ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
Nicholson was also banned from the road for five years. The three others were disqualified from driving for 12 months.
After all four were sentenced, Insp Dean Pennington said: "Their utterly selfish decision to drive on public roads in such a manner has shattered the lives of many families.
"This incident could have been easily avoided had this group of young men not driven dangerously and with reckless disregard for the lives of other road users."
A previous hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh was told that on the day of the crash, the accused and others had met in Stewarton and were planning to travel to a "car cruise" event in Irvine.
During the journey, the cars driven by Lau, Nicholson and Alverez McLeod pulled away from the group and overtook a car driven by Peter Shaw with his wife and young child as passengers.
The court heard that Mr Shaw commented to his wife Caroline: "Boy racers, I'll let them get by."
About 20 seconds later Copeland also overtook the couple.
The convoy later came to a dip, where a passenger in Lau's car, Sean Beveridge, said: "We've hit the 100."
He saw a Peugeot approaching from the opposite direction being driven safely and on its side of the road.
As the convoy drove at speeds of up to 100mph, Nicholson lost control of his vehicle, which crossed over the centre lines and into the path of the Peugeot being driven by John Brown, with his wife Patricia as a passenger.
Mr Brown told the court he had become aware of a Corsa "skidding across the road" with "smoke belching from the wheels".
He performed an emergency braking procedure, but after their cars collided, Nicholson's vehicle then hit a tree and went into a field.
Alvarez McLeod swerved to avoid the crashed vehicles and his car went onto its side. He managed to climb out and made a 999 call.
Mrs Brown was trapped in her car and died at the scene from a head injury.
When Mr Shaw arrived, he went to help Nicholson whose Corsa was in a field.
With the front of the car smoking and about to catch fire, Mr Shaw and another man pulled Alec Stewart from the wreckage.
The 18-year-old had sustained multiple injuries and later died in hospital.
Nicholson told police that the crash was his fault as he was "going too fast".


Great Britain exited the World League Final in Raipur thanks to a 2-1 defeat by hosts India in the quarter-finals.

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Raghunath Vokkaliga opened the scoring early in the second quarter for India before Talwinder Singh scored from a tight angle with 20 minutes to play.
Simon Mantell deflected Ian Sloan's penalty corner into the goal for GB late in the fourth quarter.
But India saw out the match for a deserved win to secure a semi-final spot in front of ecstatic home fans.
Great Britain had gone into the match as the favourites having topped their pool - while India had come bottom of theirs.
"We created chances but our execution at key moments was our downfall, really," head coach Bobby Crutchley told BBC Sport.
"In the first half we were passive but in the second half we had a lot of the pressure - and under those circumstances we need to execute better.
"There's lots to be pleased about though, and, although they'll be incredibly disappointed, the players will have learnt a lot from tonight."


Argentina has begun legal proceedings against three British and two US companies for drilling oil near the Falkland Islands.

Daniel Filmus, Argentina's minister for the islands - called the Malvinas locally - announced the case in London.
The companies involved are Falkland Oil and Gas, Premier Oil, Rockhopper, Edison International and Noble Energy.
Mr Filmus told the BBC the companies were "performing illegal acts by entering Argentine territory".
He added: "I want to make it clear for the directors of these companies and for British public opinion that Argentina will use the full force of the law - both national and international law - to prevent these countries from taking the riches which belong to 40 million Argentine citizens.
"Argentina has extradition treaties around the world and we intend to use them."
He added that the area being drilled was "as much ours as the centre of Buenos Aires. Neither the UK nor any other country would allow anyone to enter their territory and take away their riches."
In response, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond accused the Argentines of "outrageous bullying".
He said the islanders had a "perfect right to develop their own economic resources and Argentina needs to stop this kind of behaviour and start acting like a responsible member of the international community".
The Falklands Islands government also said the Argentines had no case.
"We have the right to develop our economy, including the hydrocarbons industry, and we are exercising that right," it said.
"It is worth remembering that it was the government of Argentina who walked away from working with the Falkland Islands on the development of a hydrocarbons industry some years ago.
"Argentine domestic law does not apply to the Falkland Islands and this latest action is clearly another attempt by Argentina to try to block economic growth in the Falkland Islands."
Analysts suggested Argentina would have little joy in the courts.
"The Argentines will lose," Malcolm Bracken at Redmayne Bentley told the BBC. "They have no jurisdiction - the UN settled the matter in 1982."
In fact, he said the country's current position would prove counterproductive.
"All they're doing is handing any possible benefit that Argentina may have had from the oil boom in the south Atlantic to Chile.
"There'd be an awful lot of logistic support needed for drilling that simply isn't available in the Falklands. They'd need a port somewhere and that's likely to be near Chile rather than Argentina, so they're cutting their own nose off to spite their face."
Earlier this month, Argentine foreign ministry officials said they would prosecute oil companies operating near the Falkland Islands. The officials said companies active there were operating illegally in Argentine territory.
This came after the three British oil companies announced new oil and gas finds north of the islands, and as Argentina marked the 33rd anniversary of the war with the UK over the islands.
Tensions between the UK and Argentina were already running high after the UK announced it would spend Â£280m over the next 10 years on improving defences on the islands.


A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash with a car in East Sussex.

The collision happened just after 15:45 BST on Friday on the A267 at Argos Hill, near Rotherfield, police said.
A blue and white Suzuki and a silver Peugeot 307 estate crashed opposite the junction with Yew Tree Lane.
The 39-year-old motorcyclist from Heathfield was fatally injured.  The car driver, an 81-year-old local man, and his passenger, an 80-year-old woman, were uninjured.
Sussex Police is appealing for witnesses.


Thirty-four foreign jihadists have been singled out by rival Syrian rebels and killed, say UK-based activists.

It happened over the past three days in Jabal al-Zawiya, north-western Idlib province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Meanwhile, activists in Aleppo city told the BBC militants from one of the same jihadi groups, ISIS, had summarily executed at least 50 captives.
A regional battle is pitting ISIS against an alliance of rival rebels.
A coalition of moderates and other Islamists fighting to depose President Bashar al-Assad is ranged against ISIS in several parts of northern Syria.
The al-Qaeda-linked ISIS - Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - is accused by other rebel groups of undermining the struggle against the regime of President Assad, focusing on accumulating territory and imposing a rule of terror in the areas it controls.
The fighting is continuing in Raqqa, a city under full rebel control and previously an ISIS stronghold.
Separately, the Observatory says the death toll from a government air campaign launched in Aleppo province in mid-December now exceeds 600, including 225 children and women.
On its Facebook page, it pledged to "work tirelessly" for the prosecution of those responsible for the massacres in the International Criminal Court.
Most of the 34 reported dead in Jabal al-Zawiya were ISIS fighters, with the remainder from a smaller allied group called Jund al-Aqsa, the Observatory said.
The execution of the "non-Syrian" fighters had been confirmed by medical and local sources, it said.
Those executed by ISIS in Aleppo were said to include medics, local journalists and members of rival rebel groups.
None of the reported killings can be independently confirmed.
The reported killing of prisoners held by ISIS could undermine initiatives by radical clerics to reconcile the warring Islamist factions in northern Syria, says BBC Arabic correspondent Ahmed Maher.
Since last Thursday, large-scale attacks by an alliance of moderate Islamist factions and rebel groups have been taking place across northern and north-eastern Syria on ISIS strongholds and strategic positions, inflicting heavy losses on ISIS. Scores are said to have died, including civilians.
The alliance says that the offensive is driven by public anger in ISIS-controlled territories over practices including strict interpretation of Islamic laws as well as the kidnapping of journalists and horrific torture of prisoners, our correspondent explains.
Experts in Islamist movements, however, place the conflict in the context of a power struggle between all Islamist factions.


The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi rebel movement in Yemen has targeted civilians with air strikes in a "widespread and systematic" manner, a leaked UN report says.

The UN panel of experts said civilians were also being deliberately starved as a war tactic over the past nine months.
The panel called for an inquiry into human rights abuses.
The coalition is attempting to oust the rebels from Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and restore the country's government.
Saudi Arabia says the Houthis, who allied with forces linked to Yemen's former president, are supported militarily by its regional rival Iran - something it denies.
More than 5,800 people have been killed in fighting since March, and more than 80% of the population is in dire need of food, water and other aid, the UN says.
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"Not a single humanitarian pause to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people has been fully observed by any Yemeni party or by the coalition," the report says.
The UN's experts documented 119 coalition sorties that violated international law, the report says, many of which involved multiple strikes on civilian objects.
They also found that civilians fleeing coalition air strikes had been chased and shot at by helicopters.
The new report follows intensifying concern over the deteriorating situation in Yemen.
Earlier this month, Yemen's government briefly expelled the UN's human rights representative following reports that the Saudi-led coalition had been using cluster bombs.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned at the time that the use of cluster bombs could amount to a war crime.
Meanwhile, Dutch diplomats were forced to abandon a proposal in the UN Human Rights Council calling for an international fact finding mission to Yemen, reportedly under pressure from Saudi Arabia.
The new UN report also expresses concern about the build-up of weapons in Yemen.
The panel examined anti-tank guided missiles originating from Iran that were seized off the coast of Oman in September and are now in the US.
It also accused the Saudi coalition of supplying weapons to armed groups "without taking due measures to ensure accountability and due storage".
The panel relied on satellite imagery and other sources of information because its members were not allowed to travel to Yemen.


A D-Day veteran, who was called up to serve at the age of 17 due to an administrative error, has been awarded France's highest military honour.

Former Army private Alfred White, 93, has received the Legion d'Honneur.
He was called up because his date of birth was recorded as 1920 instead of 1922. He is believed to be the last surviving member of his Merseyside-based unit.
Mr White, from Wirral, said the medal was a "nice Christmas present".
Mr White, who is known as Alf, was a driver who helped lay a pipeline during Operation Pluto in 1944 - a vital communications lifeline.
His granddaughter Janey Lumley, from Gloucestershire, said Mr White remained with the Army despite his captain discovering his true age.
She said the error was discovered because his late brother Tommy was registered as being a month older than him rather than two years.
Once it was discovered there was "nothing they could do" so they continued, she said.
Mr White, from Heswall, served in the Birkenhead-based 1st Army Tank Brigade.
He joined the Territorial Army in 1939 aged 16 and first served at Dunkirk and later in north Africa, the Middle East and Germany. He left the Army in 1946.
Mrs Lumley said: "He is an unsung hero. He has never spoken of his time in the war and I felt that he deserved this credit."
She said the honour was "also on behalf of his unit who won't get the award as it is not given posthumously".
Mr White said: "I was thrilled to bits. I have got other medals, but they are campaign medals."
An official ceremony will follow at a later date.


(Close): UK stocks closed lower on Monday as the pound gained against the dollar following Donald Trump's inauguration speech.

Concern over Mr Trump's protectionist policies hit the US currency, helping sterling rise 0.89% to $1.24860, a one-month high.
Meanwhile the benchmark FTSE 100 index shed 47.26 points to 7,151.18.
A stronger pound can hurt multinational firms, as overseas profits are worth less when converted back into sterling.
The biggest faller in the FTSE 100 was bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair. Its shares dropped 4.38% after it said revenues had been affected by a run of "customer friendly" results.
The company said football results in December and Donald Trump's surprise US election win had cost it about Â£40m in the final quarter of 2016.
Electronics giant Dixons Carphone fell by 2.58% ahead of a trading update on Tuesday, however airline Easyjet - which will also update the markets - gained 3.07%.
Miner Antofagasta was the best performing stock, climbing 3.6% and leading other basic resources shares higher. Rival Fresnillo also did well, gaining 3.42%.
Despite its recent gains, the pound is still down by about 17% against the dollar since the Brexit vote in June 2016.


Wigan Athletic have signed goalkeeper Jamie Jones on a one-year contract.

Jones, 28, joins the League One club having turned down the offer of a new deal at Stevenage, where he made 40 appearances last season.
The former Leyton Orient and Preston player will provide competition for Christian Walton, who is on a season-long loan from Brighton.
"Jamie is an excellent goalkeeper who is a natural shot-stopper and commands his area well," manager Paul Cook said.
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The first seal pups of the year have been seen on the Farne Islands, triggering the start of the annual census of the animals.

Each year more than 1,500 seals are born on the islands, which are situated off the Northumberland coast and are managed by the National Trust.
Rangers spend two months each autumn monitoring what is one of the largest Atlantic grey seal colonies.
In 2015, 1,876 pups were recorded - the highest number since 1971.
The arrival of the pups begins as early as mid-September in some years and the majority are born in November, the National Trust said.
Ranger Ed Tooth said: "A lack of predators and a plentiful supply of sand eels and gadoids (cod) - which make up a majority of the seals' diet - has contributed to the success of the colony.
"The seals have also selected a different location for their rookeries, the breeding sites for the seals.
"This has resulted in mortality rates dropping, possibly because the islands offer better protection from storms and high seas."
The rangers, who live on the islands for nine months of the year, count the seals every four days.
The youngsters are sprayed with a harmless dye to show the week they are born to allow conservation staff to keep track of their numbers.
Mr Tooth added: "Waiting for the first seal pup to be born is always an exciting time of year.
"It's impossible not to be fascinated by the bright white, fluffy, wide-eyed pups even though we will hopefully see more than 2,000 pups over the coming weeks."


All over the world there are some leaders who are reluctant to give up power.

The most striking current example is Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza who, amidst violent opposition, is campaigning for a third term in office despite the constitution saying he can only have two.
He argues that he was appointed, not elected, to his first term so it doesn't count.
Many believe President Paul Kagame in neighbouring Rwanda is also looking to breach his two-term limit.
But that would be a mere dot in time for President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia. "If I have to rule this country for one billion years I will," he told the BBC in 2011.
Hanging on does not always work.
The President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, was overthrown by popular protest last year for trying to change the constitution so that he could seek re-election.
While some presidents attempt legalistic tactics to get around term limits, others reject them outright.
Seven-term leader President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe says they are undemocratic: "We put a rope around our necks and say leaders can only have two terms," he told a summit of African Union leaders earlier this year.
"It is a democracy. If people want a leader to continue, let him continue."
Some post-independence leaders in East Asia have been equally unapologetic about staying in office for decades.
Indonesia's President Sukarno had 22 years at the top, while Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew was Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990.
"Lee Kuan Yew was an exceptional guy and at the end of his reign Singapore's GDP was over a dozen times higher than when he took over," Prof Kishore Mahbubani from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore told Newshour Extra.
"You have to look at it country by country and not assume there is one Western rule for the whole world."
Term limits are seen as a Western idea, in large part because of the United States' two-term presidential rule.
It was introduced as the 22nd Constitutional amendment in 1951, six years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his fourth term in office.
Before FDR the two-term idea was merely a convention dating back to the example of George Washington.
Although the history of term limits can be traced back to ancient Greece, it is far from clear the idea is in fact a uniquely Western one.
Some European countries have no term limits, including the UK, Italy and Switzerland.
And elsewhere there is considerable support for a set period in office.
"If you look at the public opinion data we have on most African countries, a majority of people in Africa support presidential term limits," says Prof Nic Cheeseman of Oxford University.
"This isn't simply something being pushed by the West."
Some argue for term limits on the grounds that a prolonged period at the top can change a leader's personality and damage his or her judgement.
Former British foreign secretary and trained psychiatrist, Lord Owen, argues that by the time they have been in power for many years, some leaders tend to become arrogant, unwilling to listen and overly optimistic that their decisions will produce good results.
"Eight years is enough," Lord Owen told Newshour Extra.
"Blair is the classic example of hubris and it had profound effects because he reinforced the hubris of Bush and Bush reinforced Blair's and these two made terrible mistakes."
Lord Owen believes acquired hubris is not limited to politicians. "It exists in bankers," he says.
"If you look at the roots of the 2008-9 crisis you see in many major banks that their chief executives were making decisions based on a lot of the characteristics of somebody suffering from hubris syndrome."
Some research gives backing to these conclusions.
"Excessive winning increases testosterone. That increases [brain chemical] dopamine activity and the reward network," says Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.
"When you increase dopamine activity too much or for too long a time, you actually disrupt the judgement of the brain."
Journalist Wilf Mbanga believes some the symptoms of hubris syndrome apply to Robert Mugabe.
Mbanga once knew Mugabe so well they would listen to Jim Reeves tracks together.
"I was a fanatical supporter of Mugabe and his party," he says.
But today, he says, Mugabe has changed. "Now he believes he owns Zimbabwe. It is personal property now."
A few politicians walk away from power.
Nelson Mandela, for example, stood down after just one term and the current British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said he won't seek to carry on after the next election.
But hubris, or sheer ambition, drives many to stay on for as long as they can. And the advantages of incumbency mean many will manage to do so - even into their dotage.
Constitutional term limits don't always work but for those who want to restrain power hungry leaders, they are perhaps the most effective tool available.
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Castleford Tigers chairman Steve Gill has denied the club have sold winger Denny Solomona.

The 22-year-old Samoan scored 40 tries in 2016, a Super League record, and has been linked with a move to rugby union side Sale Sharks.
Josh Charnley recently made a cross-code move from Wigan to Sale.
"We have rebuffed three approaches for Denny, two from rugby union and one from rugby league. He is not for sale," Gill told BBC Radio Leeds.
"We haven't sold him and we're not loaning him back like I've heard from some rumours.
"We expect Denny back in training on 7 November with the rest of the squad."
Solomona was nominated for the 2016 Man of Steel award, which was won by Hull FC hooker Danny Houghton.


A mountain lion killed in the US state of Idaho had a set of fully formed teeth growing out of its forehead, wildlife officials say.

The lion was legally shot dead by a hunter on 30 December.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says the teeth could be the remnants of a conjoined twin which died in the womb, or possibly a kind of tumour.
Biologists in the region have never seen anything like this particular deformity before, it says.
The lion was hunted after it attacked a dog near the town of Weston, Idaho. The dog survived, but a hunter set off in pursuit and killed the big cat a few hours later.
A conservation officer checked the lion's body, as required by law, and found the set of teeth, as well as what appeared to be a set of whiskers on the left side of the animal's forehead.
Mountain lions, a native species of big cat, are relatively common in Idaho. They are elusive animals which seldom come into contact with humans.
They are territorial and require large swathes of wilderness to thrive, according to the US National Wildlife Federation.
In winter, their prey species, such as deer and turkeys, move down from the mountains to escape colder temperatures, often gathering at the edges of villages or towns.
This can put predatory mountain lions into conflict with people, livestock and pets, says the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.


Elephants are famously intelligent creatures, they have brilliant memories and have even worked out how to keep themselves cool out in the bush.

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Watch one baby elephant use sand as sun cream.
It digs underground for cooler sand and using its trunk, flings the earth over itself. This helps keep its body temperature down and protects its skin from the sun.
Pretty cool, literally...


A team from Ofsted have spoken to inmates at a Kent young offenders centre following allegations staff assaulted young people there.

Officials visited the Medway Secure Training Centre (STC) in Rochester, managed by security firm G4S on Monday.
Seven staff were suspended after secret filming by the BBC Panorama programme.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove told the House of Commons he would be meeting with the firm this week to discuss the allegations.
He said the alleged assaults would be treated with the "utmost seriousness" but it would be "quite wrong" to make a "blanket allegation" against G4S, pointing out that other institutions which it operated did a "good job".
Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham has said if the claims are true, G4S should be stripped of its contract to run Medway and other STCs.
The allegations - uncovered by Panorama - involve unnecessary force, foul language and a cover-up.
The claims relate to 10 boys aged 14 to 17.
The programme is due to be broadcast later.
Last week, G4S wrote to the BBC to try to stop broadcast of the footage, arguing filming was unauthorised and illegal.
However, Paul Cook of G4S said he was "shocked and appalled" and was supporting a police investigation.
An Ofsted inspection report in September 2014 into Medway rated it as "good with some outstanding features".
Inspectors said the centre was "orderly" and "calm" and young people were said to feel safe.
The centre holds 56 children, mainly boys, aged 12 to 17. It is not allowed to take any more while the investigation takes place.
Among the allegations uncovered by Panorama and now subject to investigation are that Medway staff:
BBC News understands that Ofsted has decided not to publish an inspection report about another STC run by G4S - Oakhill in Buckinghamshire.
The inspection report was due to be released at 10:00 GMT, but a late decision was made not to do so.
Sources said the Ofsted inspection into Oakhill graded it as "good".
The Panorama programme Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed will be broadcast on Monday, 11 January on BBC One at 20:30 GMT.


The Duke of Cambridge has laid a wreath to commemorate the Commonwealth war dead at Japan's Yokohama War Cemetery.

The floral tribute of chrysanthemums included a note written by the duke.
Prince William is on a week-long trip to China and Japan where he will undertake engagements to promote UK relations with both countries.
He concluded his cemetery visit by signing a visitors' book, which had been placed next to a photograph of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
She was pictured laying a wreath at the same cemetery in 1995.
The note on the wreath laid by the duke said: "May we never forget all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom."
Later the prince met fellow royals Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace.
He told the emperor, whom he last met in 2012 during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Sovereign Monarchs' lunch: "Your majesty, it's very nice to see you again. Thank you for having me here - fantastic."
When Prince William met Emperor Akihito it was an encounter between the representatives of one ancient institution and of another, which is even more ancient.
Japan's imperial family is the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy.
The latest incumbent of the Chrysanthemum throne is just an emperor. Previous Japanese monarchs had the status of living gods - something William's family would probably have found attractive during their difficult times in the 1980s and 1990s.
In these more settled times for the House of Windsor, the prince is in Tokyo promoting British government interests.
Born to be king, one day - as things stand - William confided in an audience about an alternative career plan if destiny wasn't in play.
He said, as a child, he'd dreamt of becoming an astronaut and flirted with the idea of being either a policeman or a fire breather.
Read more from Peter on his correspondent's page.
The duke began his four-day visit to Japan on Thursday by taking part in a traditional tea ceremony in the capital Tokyo.
In what is his first visit to the country, he also took a speedboat ride to Tokyo Bay, which will host much of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The last time a major member of Britain's royal family visited Japan was in 2008 when the duke's father, Prince Charles, came with his wife Camilla.
The Duchess of Cambridge is not with her husband as she is due to give birth to their second child in April.
On the first day of his tour Prince William visited the Nakajima tea house, built 350 years ago in Japan's Edo period, in the middle of a small lake within the Hama Rikyu gardens.
Dr Genshitsu Sen, who is 92 and the 15th generation of his family to hold a senior role in the spiritual art of tea making, performed the traditional ceremony.
He also made tea for Prince William's parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, when they visited Kyoto in 1986.
During his trip, the duke is also due to be taken to the areas devastated by the 2011 tsunami and meet survivors.
In China on Monday, he will launch the three-day Great Festival of Creativity at Shanghai's Long Museum.
It will promote British commercial creativity and innovation to a business audience from the UK, China and beyond, with the aim of creating opportunities for UK companies wanting to expand their markets.
Further highlights of the Far East trip will include a visit to Beijing's Forbidden City.
The duke is also hoping to see Asian elephants in the wild during his visit to China. He has campaigned to end the illegal trade in ivory and other endangered animal products, and will travel to the Yunnan Province next Wednesday where 250 wild Asian elephants still roam free.
On Friday China announced a one-year ban on ivory imports from Africa, with immediate effect.
BBC Shanghai correspondent John Sudworth said: "The timing is probably not a coincidence, coming just a few days before the arrival of Prince William, now one of the leading figureheads in the campaign to save the African elephant."
He said campaigners had criticised the move as "window dressing" however, claiming a complete ban on the ivory trade was necessary.


A string of blunders by NHS workers led to the death of a three-year-old Devon boy, a review has found.

Sam Morrish died in December 2010 from a treatable condition because four health service organisations made mistakes, the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) said.
He died of severe sepsis after a "catalogue of errors".
Sam's parents also said they had "serious concerns about the competence and accountability" of the ombudsman.
Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor said that had Sam received the appropriate care, he would still be alive today.
Cricketfield GP Surgery, NHS Direct, Devon Doctors Ltd and South Devon NHS Trust were all criticised.
Failures included inadequate assessment of the toddler, not recognising that he was vomiting blood and a three-hour delay before he received antibiotics at hospital.
His family said as well as losing their son, they feel they have been "failed" by the NHS complaints system.
In a statement released through the Patients Association, they also criticised the ombudsman.
"The astonishing length of time it has taken for PHSO to finalise this report has inescapably prolonged our distress.
"Although we are grateful that the PHSO has upheld our complaints... we are left with serious concerns about the competence, capability and accountability of the PHSO itself."
Sam's mother Susannah Morrish said: "The report looks the way it does because of our constant intervention.
"The fact there had to be two draft reports, both of which looked radically different to this final report, says something.
"Our involvement included providing information, pointing out omissions, correcting factual errors.
"Our thoughts were if we didn't do this, who would?"
Sam's father Scott Morrish said: "The thing that we're still trying to push for is, we're not clear who the ombudsman is accountable to, we're not clear who really understands what happens behind the scenes there, and we're not entirely sure that Parliament is actually able to look at anything more than what comes out in the report."
Dame Julie said: "I accept that the family are right that the investigation method used in this case was not adequate to the complexity of the case.
"I really recognise that this contributed to the family's distress and we have apologised for that and thanked the family for their feedback on the particular method we used in this case, because we are developing new investigation methods."
Dame Julie said that Sam's devastated family suffered "further injustice" because health officials failed to properly investigate the youngster's death.
"But this case has to be looked at in the context of taking on over 4,000 cases to investigate every year, and receiving very few complaints about the quality of our decision making.
"When we do, we treat it like gold dust to help us improve our service.
"We've published this case so that the wider NHS learns from Sam's death," she added.
NHS England was ordered to pay £20,000 to the family.
Mr Morrish said: "The irony is we never wanted to lodge a formal complaint.
"We only did because we were advised to by the Patients Association in response to the NHS completely getting it wrong, not once, but twice.
"We didn't want it to be about blame, we wanted it to result in good learning."
Dr Graham Lockerbie, speaking on behalf of the local NHS, said: "Sam died when he should have survived."
"We all accept the blame for that.  Quite simply, we should have done better.
"When we investigated, we were still unable to provide adequate answers to Mr and Mrs Morrish about what had gone wrong, or to reassure them that things would change for the future. It is clear that this only compounded their grief.
"Again, on behalf of the local NHS, I apologise."


At least one person has been reported killed and dozens hurt in a riot at Jordan's Zaatari camp, home to some 106,000 refugees from Syria's war.

Jordanian forces used tear gas against stone-throwing refugees who had set fire to tents and vehicles.
Both sides blame each other for provoking the violence. The dead person was a Syrian refugee, officials say.
The sprawling camp has seen several protests since opening two years ago, mainly over poor living conditions.
Zaatari is located in the Jordanian desert, about 12km (7.5 miles) from the Syrian border.
It is the world's second-largest refugee camp - behind Dadaab in eastern Kenya - and has become the fourth largest city in Jordan.
Jordanian authorities said the violence broke out after police arrested a group of refugees who were trying to leave the camp illegally.
"The rioters burned six tents and two caravans and tried to attack police stations," the Public Security Directorate said in a statement.
Residents of Zaatari, however, claimed the clashes occurred because a Jordanian policeman had run over a Syrian child.
Eyewitnesses also said the number of refugees injured in the unrest was much higher than the three cases confirmed by officials.
"We are always treated unfairly, we've escaped from an injustice [in Syria] to another injustice," said a refugee interviewed by the Associated Press news agency.
Brig Gen Waddah Hmoud, the director of the Syrian Refugees Camp Affairs Department, said 29 police and gendarmerie officers had been taken to hospital with injuries.
"Unfortunately two of the Syrian refugees were injured by gunshot, one of them passed away this morning," he told the AP news agency.
Opened in July 2012 with some 100 refugee families, Zaatari is now made up of roughly 30,000 shelters and administration buildings.
It costs about $500,000 (Â£320,000) a day to run, with half a million pieces of bread and 4.2m litres of water distributed daily.
Correspondents say life inside the camp can be harsh, as residents - mostly hailing from the Daraa governorate of Syria, face a number of challenges - the biggest being security.
An overflow camp - Azraq - is under construction in the desert to meet demand. It will have the capacity to host up to 130,000 people.
More than 2.5 million people have fled Syria since the civil war broke out there in March 2011.
Earlier this week, the UN confirmed that the number of Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon had surpassed one million, making it the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide.
This is followed by Jordan, which houses almost 600,000 refugees. Other main host countries include Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.


The Arab League has declared the Lebanese Shia Muslim movement Hezbollah a terrorist organisation - a week after a similar move by Arab Gulf states.

The Arab League, dominated by Sunni Muslim countries, said the decision had been near unanimous.
Hezbollah is a key political and military force in Lebanon, and is involved in the conflict in Syria.
Its support for President Bashar al-Assad has long pitted it against Gulf states backing rebels.
Correspondents say the move by the Arab League, in the wake of the decision by the Saudi-led Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), will intensify pressure on Hezbollah.
The move aligns the 22-member organisation firmly behind Saudi Arabia and the bloc of six GCC states.
Tensions between Saudi Arabia in particular and Hezbollah have intensified recently as the Saudis have clashed more openly with Hezbollah's main backer, Iran.
The decision on Hezbollah came at a meeting of foreign ministers of the 22 Arab League members in Cairo.
Lebanon and Iraq had not supported the decision, having expressed "reservations", a statement said.
BBC regional analyst Sebastian Usher says this is the latest broadside in Saudi Arabia's campaign against Hezbollah, which is backed by its main regional rival, Iran.
Where once such battles were rhetorical or covert, the Saudis have recently adopted a far more openly aggressive stance against its enemies, he says.
For years, Hezbollah and the Saudis have supported opposing sides in Syria - the Shia movement on the battlefield, Riyadh by proxy.
But they now confront each other to some extent in Yemen, too, and in Gulf states that claim to have broken up Hezbollah plots.
Lebanon may be collateral damage in this confrontation, our analyst adds, with the Saudis withdrawing billions of dollars in promised military aid and telling their citizens to leave.
The Arab League and GCC decision to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation bring them into line with the United States and the European Union - although the latter has only blacklisted the group's military wing.


Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe believes loan signing Juan Iturbe will add quality to his squad.

Iturbe, 22, signed from Roma until the end of the season, could make his Cherries debut against Birmingham in the FA Cup third round on Saturday.
Roma paid more than £17m for the Argentine winger in July 2014.
"He will bring energy, creativity, pace and can pick a pass. We're hopeful that he can have a big impact for us," Howe told BBC Radio Solent.
Bournemouth are awaiting a work permit for Iturbe before he can be cleared to play at St Andrew's.
"It was a really long process to get the deal agreed," added Howe. "A player of his calibre is not one you would normally associate with a club like us.
"But we're trying to compete and stay in the Premier League. To do that, we need to get the best players.
"We had competition and we were able to secure his signature in a move that favoured us so we get to look at him before any decision is made to sign him permanently."
Iturbe has made 19 appearances in all competitions for Roma this season, including Champions League games against Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen.


People returning from walks in the hills have been urged to check themselves for ticks over several days and not just the day of their trip.

Untreated tick bites can result in neurological problems and joint pain months or years later.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland said the creatures could be found on a person's body days after a walk.
It said the cold winter and spring appeared to have not reduced numbers of the blood-sucking arthropods.
Heather Morning, the council's mountain safety advisor, has already had some experience of ticks this year.
She said: "Last weekend we were climbing at Duntelchaig, near Loch Ness.
"At home later, we noticed several ticks on our feet and since then have found several latched onto our bodies even though we had checked ourselves when we got home.
"The dog didn't escape either. We have been removing ticks from her for several days now."
The safety advisor said walkers could protect themselves better by tucking trousers into socks or wearing gaiters, and also by making thorough checks of their bodies once back home.
She added:  "From experience, they seem to appear even a few days later. If you find one attached to you, remove with a tick hook. If in doubt, seek advice from your doctor."
Ticks are small arthropods related to spiders, mites and scorpions and Britain has a number of different species.
People are most likely to come across sheep ticks, which feed on mammals and birds, in open spaces with long grass or bracken.


Manchester's Victoria Station became Victoria Wood Station for an hour earlier as hundreds of fans celebrated the comedian's life.

Many dressed up as her characters, with copies of Woman's Weekly, remembered for its "beat me on the bottom" mention in The Ballad of Barry and Freda.
The event also raised money for a children's music therapy charity, of which Victoria Wood was a patron.
The Prestwich-born comedian died in April from cancer at the age of 62.
Manchester Lesbian & Gay Chorus performed their own version of the famous ballad and the city's new Lord Mayor also paid tribute.
Actor Sue Devaney, who starred in the TV series Dinnerladies alongside the comedian, said "she brought so much joy to people's lives".


The European Competition Commissioner says she is willing to investigate Google's tax arrangements should someone complain about them.

Her comments come as the SNP's economy spokesman, Stewart Hosie, says it has sent a letter calling for such a probe.
The development comes as the row over Google's tax affairs in the UK and elsewhere intensifies.
Meanwhile, Google has written to the Financial Times defending its £130m deal, saying it complies with the law.
"After a six-year audit we are paying the full amount of tax that HM Revenue and Customs agrees we should pay... Governments make tax law and tax authorities independently enforce the law, and Google complies with the law," Peter Barron, the company's European public affairs chief wrote.
The EU's Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said that, at this stage, she would not be drawn on whether Google's tax settlement with Britain amounted to a so-called sweetheart deal.
But she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "If we find that there is something to be concerned about if someone writes to us and says, well, this is maybe not as it should be then we will take a look.
Yesterday, 31 countries signed an international agreement designed to stop multinational companies using complex tax arrangements to avoid paying corporate tax. The agreement, signed at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, will mean that those countries all share tax information.
Under its terms, multi-national companies will have to tell the country they operate in what they make in that nation and how much tax they pay. Critics say the deal doesn't go far enough, and that such information should be made public, rather than held confidentially by the tax authorities.
The European Commission will later reveal proposals to stop tax avoidance by multi-national companies.
"Hopefully, we will end up in a situation where companies pay taxes in the countries where they also make their profits and these new proposals will take us another step down that road," said Ms Vestager.
In his letter to the FT Mr Barron said this is what Google is doing already. He said in all the coverage of the settlement little has been said about how international tax rules work.
"Corporation tax is paid on profits, not revenue, and is collected where the economic activity that generates those profits takes place.
"As a US company, we pay the bulk of our corporate tax in the US: $3.3bn in the last reported year.
"What should Google pay in the UK? We pay tax based on the value added by the economic activity of our staff here, at the current standard rate: 20%".
David Cameron on Wednesday defended the deal UK authorities struck with Google over tax, saying the Conservatives have done more than any other government.
The PM told the Commons the tax "should have been collected under [the last] Labour government".
Google agreed to pay £130m of tax dating back to 2005 to HMRC, which said it was the "full tax due in law".
European MPs have described it as a "very bad deal", and Labour said it amounted to a 3% tax rate.


So Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg is funding what should turn out to be one of the world's most well-endowed charitable organisations, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with the aim of "advancing human potential and promoting equality for all children in the next generation".

He's very rich indeed and he's promised to give away almost all of his shareholding in the Facebook business he created.
Facebook told US company regulators the total sum promised is $45bn (Â£30bn). Initially he's pledged $1bn a year for the next three years. After that the time frame is vague. There's no doubt it's generous though as the total promised is 99% of his Facebook stake. By way of context, the UK as a whole donates Â£10bn a year to charity.
Big, big things:
They say: "It's a world where our generation can advance human potential and promote equality - by curing disease, personalising learning, harnessing clean energy, connecting people, building strong communities, reducing poverty, providing equal rights and spreading understanding across nations.
"We are committed to doing our small part to help create this world for all children. We will give 99% of our Facebook shares - currently about $45bn - during our lives to join many others in improving this world."
There are no details as yet, and the pace at which the money will be given out indicates they plan to take their time.
This is an unusual way of doing it. It appears to be about control. Through an LLC, Mark Zuckerberg can keep hold of the voting and allocation of the shares he's put into it. And an LLC can spend its money on whatever it wants - including private, profit-generating investment, unlike a charity or a charitable trust.
Dear me, no.
The company states quite clearly that the move is "not expected to impact Mark's status as the controlling stockholder of Facebook for the foreseeable future".
And the company's own Q&A states: "Will Mark's role at Facebook change?
"No, Mark is committed to Facebook and its mission. He will continue his role as Chairman and CEO for many, many years. Mark and Priscilla are early in their careers and will continue to lead active lives."
"Mark and Priscilla have already committed $1.6bn to their philanthropy," states Facebook.
But Mr Zuckerberg's internet.org project, which is designed to bring internet connectivity to a billion unconnected internet users attracted accusations he was only helping people to get connected in order to bring in more users for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Part of the $1.6bn was given to state schools.  But that also attracted a backlash when some parents, community activists and unions said most of it was going to consultants, rather than to help children learn to read.
Mr Zuckerberg and Dr Chan have also given to health care causes, including a $75m gift to San Francisco General Hospital, which was renamed in their honour.
Commentators, as the BBC's Silicon Valley correspondent, Dave Lee, points out, see this move as revealing his ambition to be a significant figure on the global political stage.
On the face of it, charitable works play very well with voters. But high profile donations from high profile people can also attract critics - as in the previous answer in this Q&A.


The UK government has been accused of casting doubt on the future of post-Brexit farm payments by Plaid Cymru.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove said subsidies would have to be earned rather than handed out under his vision for a "green Brexit".
Plaid's farming spokesman Ben Lake said it was an "economically toxic" threat to the livelihoods of food producers.
The Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) wants a "realistic" transition period to avoid "devastation" for rural families.
Under the EU's current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), farmers are paid based on the amount of land they farm.
In a speech on Friday, Mr Gove stressed the UK government would continue to pay the £3bn a year currently granted to British farmers until 2022.
But he pledged to change the rules after that, claiming the CAP rewarded rich landowners, encouraged waste and failed to recognise "good environmental practice".
Mr Lake, Plaid's newly-elected MP for Ceredigion, welcomed the plan to cut payments to rich landowners, but was worried about the other conditions.
"We know that for any business, whether on the high street or the family farm, uncertainty is economically toxic," he said.
"When food security is at stake, the British government should know better than to make broad-brush statements when there is no plan.
"Farmers in Wales rely on payments for 80% of their income. It's these people who need clear assurances."
£3.2bn
total payments to UK farmers
£2.56bn
direct aid excluding rural development and other schemes
39 recipients of £1m or more
50  recipients of £800,000 or more
108  recipients of £500,000 or more
Simon Thomas, Plaid's agriculture spokesman in the assembly, called for post-Brexit rules to be agreed by all four UK nations.
He called Mr Gove's speech "a shot across the bows of the Welsh national interest and the powers of the Welsh Government".
FUW president Glyn Roberts voiced concern about Mr Gove's "strong focus on environmental schemes, which neglect the need for food production".
"His vision also does not recognise the role our farmers are already playing in maintaining the countryside," he said.
"It is not only farming families which are at stake here; there are countless other businesses and jobs which rely on agriculture, so we need to be as sure as we can that well-meaning policies will not result in devastation."
Wales' Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths said it had been "inappropriate" for Mr Gove to mention Welsh farming in his speech, given the responsibility had been devolved.
She said she had been working to develop "a way forward which supports our farmers to continue to produce high quality food and manage the land in a way that delivers wider economic and social benefits".
"It is not about trading off the environment and the economy, it's about both," she added.


A flood bank built by the Romans has been discovered under a recently demolished bus station in Gloucester.

Experts say the area would have suffered from flooding around the 3rd to 4th century AD so banks would have been created to protect the city.
Cotswold Archaeology carried out the dig prior to building work starting on the city's new transport hub.
Archaeologist Andrew Armstrong said it "was clear" that flooding has always been an issue in Gloucester.
The findings revealed that residents of the Roman city of Glevum used discarded bricks and stones from demolished buildings to reinforce the southern bank along the River Twyver, which was likely to be used as a flood defence.
No buildings or settlement were found during the investigation, so it is believed the ground would have been too boggy and not suitable for construction.
This suggests the White Friars Carmelite monastery did not extend as far as the bus station, and was entirely around the junction of Station Road and Market Parade, Mr Armstrong said.
The team dug three 10ft (3.2m) trenches to find out if any important archaeological remains survived beneath the city.
Gloucester City Council's Paul James said: "The history of our city always amazes me.
"It's fascinating that all those years ago Gloucester flooded and people who lived here used bricks and stones from once standing buildings to protect their town."


Lancashire all-rounder Liam Livingstone scored 350 off only 138 balls in a club game for Cheshire side Nantwich.

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The 21-year-old hit 34 fours and 27 sixes in a National Club Championship match against Caldy.
It is one of the highest one-day scores in history.
"From 100 onwards, I was just trying to whack every ball for six," he told BBC Sport. "When I got into the high 200s and into the 300s, I realised something quite special could happen."
Nantwich made 579-7 before bowling out Caldy for 79 to win by 500 runs.
Livingstone, who is on Lancashire's staff but is yet to play a first-team match, was almost bowled third ball but hit the next delivery for six.
"The wicket was a bit slow and after the fourth ball disappeared I thought I might as well just give it a crack," he said.
"I was just trying to hit almost every ball for six and luckily a few came out of the middle.
"It is all a bit surreal. It hasn't sunk in yet but it is a very proud day and luckily my mum and dad were there to see it."
Livingstone, who made 204 off 242 balls in Lancashire's final second XI game last season against Yorkshire, added: "I have got training with Lancashire at 10 o'clock in the morning, so I will be having an early night.
"But sometime in the near future, I will definitely be having a few drinks to celebrate."


Britain's Mark Cavendish has won the second stage of the Tour of Croatia.

The 30-year-old Team Dimension Data rider got the better of Italian Giacomo Nizzolo in a reverse of the result from Tuesday's opening stage.
Cavendish's Australian team-mate Mark Renshaw was third in Wednesday's hilly 240km stage from Plitvicka Jezera to Split.
Manxman Cavendish now holds the overall lead from Nizzolo in the event, which continues until Sunday.


Evgeny Tishchenko's unanimous points win in the men's Olympic heavyweight final was booed by the crowd in Rio.

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The Russian world champion suffered a cut on his head and spent most of the bout on the back foot against Kazakhstan's Vassiliy Levit.
The judges scored all three rounds in his favour and the crowd continued to boo when he received his gold medal, while cheering Levit on the podium.
Uzbekistan's Rustam Tulaganov and Cuba's Erislandy Savon each won bronze.
Russia's boxing coach Eduard Kravtsov appeared to suggest Tishchenko should not have been given the decision in an interview with Kazakh website vesti.kz.
He said: "What can I say, we all saw who won the fight. I am always for fair judging and I want the work of coaches and boxers to be assessed fairly... such situations in the boxing ring do not present our sport in a good light.
"Unfortunately, this is not the only such fight in the Olympics, it has rather become a tendency. Our boxer came out to fight and wanted to win, and it is not his fault that his arm was raised. But, unfortunately for boxing fans, we got what we got."
Tishchenko said: "I feel sad that I've been booed. If I was given the victory, it means I deserved it.
"There can't be any complaints as to how I was judged, I'm excited about my win. But if Vassily Levit was treated unfairly, I feel sorry that this happened."
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The 100th anniversary of the death of Wales' only MP to be killed in World War One has been marked in Cardiff.

Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart was shot in the head as he rallied his troops serving with the 6th Battalion Welsh Regiment on 2 October 1915.
The 32-year-old lieutenant colonel had been elected as Unionist MP for Cardiff in 1910 but was re-called to serve after the outbreak of the war.
A wreath was laid at his statue at Gorsedd Gardens in the city centre.
Crichton-Stuart, the second son of the Marquess of Bute, was one of 22 MPs to die during the war. Another 24 members of the House of Lords were killed.
As an MP, Crichton-Stuart was known for his hard work in the constituency - which then stretched to Cowbridge and Llanstrisant - and stood as a guarantor for Â£90 to Cardiff City Football Club.
Wearing a bowler hat, he ceremoniously helped kick off the first match at the club's new stadium in 1910 which was named Ninian Park in his honour.
Crichton-Stuart had served as a lieutenant with the Scots Guards until 1907 but then moved to Cardiff to pursue a career in politics.
After being elected as an MP, his interests in the House of Commons were mainly around the Army and Navy, while back in Wales he became commanding officer of the 6th Welsh Regiment in 1911.
When war was declared, the regiment - made up of volunteers from Swansea and Neath - became the first Welsh territorial regiment to head for France.
His granddaughter Marietta Crichton-Stuart has researched his life and visited where he fought and died in the second phase of the Battle of Loos.
One story about his death is that the he was leading his troops to save a soldier left behind during a retreat; another version is more mundane.
"The battalion were marooned in this section of trench and had run out of ammunition and were under attack from the Germans on three sides," says Marietta.
"My grandfather died on the fire step of the trench directing the machine gun to pick out a line of fire.
"This was in the days before steel helmets and he was shot in the head and died instantly."
Crichton-Stuart is buried in the town of Bethune.
The 6th Battalion suffered heavy losses during the war, with only 30 survivors from the 842 men who set out.  But there were still veterans' reunions in Swansea until the late 1960s.
Marietta's father Michael was only six months old when Crichton-Stuart was killed. He later joined the Scots Guards himself and named one of his sons Ninian.
Although Ninian Park has now gone, the name is still remembered in a school and streets in the Grangetown and Riverside areas.
His name is also on the Grangetown war memorial.
"He is someone I admire enormously - his brother told my dad that Ninian had the common touch and could get on with anybody," said Marietta.
"We've copies of letters, telegrams received after his death which came from people from all walks of life and show someone who had made an impact on a lot of people. He  was a very thorough constituency MP and was a people-person.
"He had a very good sense of humour, and the letters of condolence the family received range from Mrs Lloyd George to a Cardiff organ grinder."
Marietta will also be at Cardiff Castle on Friday - where her grandfather's portrait hangs - and will be giving a lecture there next week, before ceremonies in France.


Six celebrities have set off on a road trip with a difference for Comic Relief.

They're travelling hundreds of miles in convoy from Kenya to Uganda to deliver aid.
The journey across East Africa will involve some of the world's worst roads, with the teams given six days to complete the task.
Russell Kane, Katy Brand, Reggie Yates, Michaela Coel, Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel are those taking part.
They're going to be looking at how money raised for Comic Relief is actually used to help those in need - with projects including one to help fight HIV and AIDS and another providing life-saving support to pregnant women.
Baddiel told BBC Breakfast the first day had been "complete chaos" and that the traffic had been "terrifying" so far.
The comedian is teamed with Outnumbered's Dennis, and joked the pair were in the "old person's car".
Their first stop was a health centre in Kibera slum, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where they dropped off medical supplies.
Baddiel said the poverty was clear to see but that the slum was "full of life".
"It's good to see that your money goes to places like this," he added.
A documentary showing their progress is going to be shown on the BBC before Red Nose Day, which is on 24 March this year.
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Cuts to school music services are causing a "crisis" that will impact professional orchestras, a leading conductor has warned.

Owain Arwel Hughes said a lack of tuition opportunities meant musicians from Wales could "disappear" from some orchestras.
He is a former conductor at National Youth Orchestra of Wales, which had a record low in applications this year.
The Welsh Government said it would help fund instruments for schools from 2017.
Mr Hughes, who founded the Welsh Proms and was a former conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, said: "One of the joys I still have is conducting different orchestras everywhere and finding Welsh people, Welsh-speaking very often, in orchestras.
"But if we're not going to have this development of the youngsters playing instruments and being taught, that will disappear.
"Some of the world's greatest musicians achieved their success because they were able to play an instrument in school.
"And that's what's awful today is that the instruments aren't there and on top of that the teachers aren't there either. So I think it's a crisis, a real crisis at the moment."
Music services for schools vary across Wales. Some councils, such as Cardiff, have cut the budget and replaced it with specific funding for music within the broader schools budget. In 2016/17 £172,000 is being made available.
Local authorities also share music services that provide some access to teaching and instruments.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates recently published a long-term vision for culture in Wales which included the creation of a new fund for musical instruments.
Music is also part of the Welsh Government's £20m cultural programme being piloted in some schools, called Creative Learning through the Arts.
Mr Skates said: "There's no doubt that local government, just as Welsh Government, have had major issues trying to manage reducing budgets during this period of austerity.
"But the falling amount in revenue that we are getting from UK government should not impact on the life chances of young people.
"For that reason we are putting together a music endowment fund, so that all people, no matter what their background, can realise their musical talent and potential."
Since Cardiff council cut the budget for its music service, schools in the area must fund their own instrument lessons and activities.
Emma Coulthard is head of the Cardiff council and Vale of Glamorgan council music service, working with head teachers to fund and provide music lessons and instruments.
She said: "There's been quite a cultural change, in that music tuition in Wales used to be free and it was doled out to schools.
"But the financial challenge has forced us to think about what can we create that people would be willing to invest in.
"Because ultimately there would never be enough money for every child in every school to have any instrument they wanted, so I suppose it was a matter of focusing on the best of what we did do and creating that hunger for schools to buy into it so that more children have the opportunity."
Ms Coulthard said the opportunities for talented children to make further progress with an instrument had reduced since budgets were cut.
"We have had to focus more on whole-class provision, because schools will have a budget for that and are more likely to buy into it. The bit that is missing is those children who show real talent - we would like to be able to provide better progression routes.
"Sometimes we can talk to a head teacher and identify those children who are more able and talented, but finding instruments is a bit of a challenge because we don't have a stock of spare instruments.
"We are hoping that, with the new endowment fund, that will be tackled so that children get the same opportunities."
Her clients include Baden Powell Primary School in Tremorfa, where head teacher Jason Clark said the benefits to the school were worth the investment.
"The self-confidence is fantastic and it obviously helps develop their music skills," he said.
"But incidentally, by learning an instrument they develop their cooperation, their communication, their team-work skills, their problem-solving skills, their evaluation skills, which they then can take back into the classroom to help them with their literacy and numeracy development."


The Six Nations - one of the biggest rugby union tournaments - has started this weekend.

4 February 2017 Last updated at 13:55 GMT
Six countries take part in the championship: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy.
England won the Six Nations last year, but can they do it again?
We spoke to some rugby supporters from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to find out why they think their team will take home the trophy...
Have your say here!


The first jihadist to be tried in France after returning from Syria has been given a seven-year jail sentence.

Flavien Moreau, 28, travelled to Syria and joined an Islamist militant group, but says he only stayed for a dozen days because he missed smoking - banned by the jihadist group he joined.
A man who received money from Moreau was sentenced to four years in jail.
France estimates that about 1,000 of its citizens are or have been involved with jihadist groups.
Dozens have been arrested and are awaiting trial.
In court on Thursday, Moreau was given the maximum sentence sought by prosecutors.
Moreau's lawyer, Pierre Darkanian, described it as "a purely punitive response", Reuters news agency reported.
Mr Darkanian did not say which militant group Moreau had joined, but said it was neither Islamic State or Nusra Front, Reuters added.
Born in South Korea, Moreau was adopted by a French family in Nantes at a young age.
He had 13 previous criminal convictions, and converted to Islam after leaving prison.
He travelled to Syria at the end of 2012.
Moreau told the court he found a smuggler to take him to a town controlled by Islamist fighters, where he bought a gun and ammunition. However, he denied taking part in any fighting.
"I found it really hard not to smoke... so I gave my weapon to my emir and left," he said.
Anti-terrorist authorities arrested him in January 2013 when they learned he was attempting a return to Syria.
Farid Djebbar, 26, was also put on trial, and sentenced to four years in jail, with an 18-month suspended sentence.
Djebbar was investigated after authorities found he was in regular correspondence with Moreau and accepted cash transfers from him.
Convictions for involvement with radical jihadist groups are becoming commonplace in Europe.
Separately on Thursday, a court in Germany jailed four men for being members or supporters of al-Qaeda, and planning a terrorist attack.
In the UK, a woman was jailed for 28 months after being found guilty of funding terrorism in Syria.
The EU's anti-terrorism chief has said that more than 3,000 Europeans have joined Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq.
France has the largest Muslim community in Europe outside Russia, and is thought to provide the biggest contingent of Western jihadists in Syria and Iraq.


Interviewing Alistair Darling in 2011, three years after the financial crisis during which he was chancellor, his most striking answer to me was not about the fear that Britain's economic system was on the point of collapse.

It wasn't even his worry that ATMs up and down the country might simply stop functioning.
Those answers were of course chilling. But they were symptoms of a wider disease.
Mr Darling's most striking answer was the "absolute astonishment" he felt when he asked Britain's largest banks to account for the risks contained in their businesses - and they were unable to come up with a coherent answer.
This total lack of knowledge - coupled with the hubris of profit-taking built on lax credit - went to the heart of the financial crisis.
Regulators appeared similarly non-plussed.
Such was the global complexity and lack of governance in the international financial system, when it came to rescuing the banks from having to eat their own sick, the UK government - and many other governments around the world - initially had no idea how large the bill would be.
And neither did the banks.
The only funding avenues large enough to contain such unquantifiable risks were those provided by central banks and the taxpayer.
The alternative was financial meltdown.
The numbers turned out to be astronomical. A National Audit Office report in August this year suggested the value of the UK government's total support for the financial system alone exceeded £1.1tn at its height.
Many tens of billions of pounds worth of capital was directly injected into failing banks and building societies.
The rest of that dizzying £1.1tn was the total value of liability insurance - the government guaranteeing banks' security as lender of last resort.
Put simply, the taxpayer had become the guarantor of the global financial system and the banks that are the essential plumbing of that system.
In direct capital the UK government (the taxpayer) ultimately had to find over £100bn. More than £66bn was used to rescue the Royal Bank of Scotland (still 80% owned by the government) and Lloyds Bank (still 25% owned by the government).
Of that, the sale of two chunks of Lloyds since the last election in 2010 has raised the princely sum of £7.4bn.
UK Asset Resolution, the state agency charged with handling the collapse of those other lead players in the the financial crisis, Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, has so far paid back £12bn of a near-£50bn government loan.
What is clear is that the taxpayer is still a good deal out of pocket.
Never again, went out the cry. At the G20 summit in London in 2009, world leaders from President Barack Obama to Gordon Brown demanded that the ugly canard of "too big to fail" - banks so large that their collapse would spark economic chaos - was brought to an end.
They demanded that the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a grouping of central bankers and financial policy makers, come up with a plan. Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, is chairman of the FSB.
Today, after years of weighty policy documents and discussion, Mr Carney says that in the battle to end taxpayer exposure to failing financial institutions the world has reached a "watershed moment".
The FSB has published new standards on "loss absorbing capital" for all globally significant banks - major chunks of money banks will have to raise to ensure they have access to enough money to weather any future crisis without recourse to government coffers.
The FSB says banks will have to be able to access capital worth between 15% and 20% of their assets.
That is a very big number. Analysts suggest that the bill for this major amount of new capital could be as high as €200bn (£157bn) for Europe's banks alone.
The bill for American, Japanese and Chinese institutions which also make up the list of "globally significant banks" would be far higher.
As Roberto Nicastro, group general manager at UniCredit, told the Financial Times: "Banks would need to comply by further reducing lending activity."
And that could mean less money to support the economy.
So, is the taxpayer now protected?
Well, these new rules are unlikely to come into force until January 2019 at the earliest - so not yet.
And some economists are not convinced that in a systemic crisis any new regulations will be able to cope. In the teeth of an economic meltdown, could governments and regulators really organise the successful winding-down of failing institutions without the taxpayer once again footing the bill?
As we know, the best laid strategies of governments and regulators can come unstuck at the first contact with the enemy - events in the real world. The markets can gain a life of their own.
Mr Carney is sure banks are now safer than they were. And these new rules, which will be one of the main topics of debate at the G20 summit in Brisbane next week, will mean they are better prepared for the future.
Banks already have a lot more capital on their balance sheets to withstand global shocks.
"Living wills" - banks' emergency plans to be used in the event of a crisis - will eventually allow one part of a bank to be wound down in an orderly fashion without bringing down the whole operation.
That's the theory at least.
The UK's policy of "ring-fencing" - protecting the central retail bank from a collapse in investment banking activity - is also coming to help that process.
As is "bail-in" debt which means that investors carry the brunt of the cost of collapse. Rather than being paid back, they will be obliged to take an equity stake in the failing institution.
Central banks hope that will concentrate investors' minds on the stability of the bank rather than the short-term returns an institution can generate.
The end of "too big to fail"? Not yet. A major step on the journey? Mr Carney would like us to believe so.


A man from France has been arrested after what appears to have been a firearm was found at Gatwick Airport.

The 41-year-old, from Vendome, was detained after he discarded an item in a bin at the North Terminal.
The terminal was then evacuated on the landside, before passport control, as a precautionary measure at 09:30 GMT.
Explosive ordnance disposal units investigated the item and carried out a small controlled explosion. The North Terminal was closed for six hours.
Sussex Police said "personal items and what appears to be a firearm" were recovered and removed for forensic examination.
A spokesman said the authenticity of the suspected weapon had yet to be established.
The arrested man is being questioned on suspicion of firearms offences.
He was landside at the airport and had not checked in or passed through any passport or security checks, police said.
Det Supt Nick May said: "The man is being interviewed as we try to determine the circumstances of the incident, but at this time it is too early to say what his intentions, if any, were.
"However, given the events in Paris on Friday evening, there is heightened awareness around any such incident and it is best that we treat the matter in all seriousness."
Passengers and staff were taken to local hotels and were allowed to return to the airport from about 15:30 GMT.
Roads immediately around the terminal were also closed but reopened at the same time as the terminal.
Despite the reopening of the terminal, Gatwick Airport advised passengers to contact airlines for information regarding their flights.
It said extra staff were on hand to assist those who had experienced significant disruption to their journey.
A spokesman said: "Our airlines are now looking at what capacity they have to accommodate people who missed flights earlier in the day."
"Passenger welfare is out absolute priority," he added.
During the security alert, passengers due to arrive into the North Terminal arrived into the South Terminal.
Tim Unwin, one of those passengers evacuated from the terminal, tweeted that they were taken to the Sofitel London Gatwick Airport hotel.
He said the hotel area was "very cramped" and "passengers were beginning to get frustrated" and were "tired and hungry".
Mr Unwin, a geography professor at the University of London, later said there were long queues at the Easyjet desks, and armed police were patrolling the terminal.


Former England, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa and Hull City forward Jackie Sewell has passed away at the age of 89.

Sewell scored 104 goals in 193 appearances for the Magpies and helped them to promotion from Football League Third Division South in 1949-50.
He transferred to the Owls in 1951 for a record fee at the time of £34,500.
Sewell made six appearances for England, scoring three times and retired from the sport in 1961.
One of his goals for the national team came in 1953 in a game described as the 'Match of the Century', when England lost 6-3 to the Olympic champions Hungary at Wembley.
Notts County club ambassador Les Bradd said: "Before he moved to Nottingham, he used to leave work at 5pm on a Friday, get on a bus to Carlisle railway station, board a train to Derby, get another train to Midland Station and then walk to his digs on Meadow Lane, arriving at about 1am.
"When we played away, he would often have to be up at 6am to travel with the team. It's just incredible that, despite all that, he scored almost a goal every two appearances for Notts.
"He was always a pleasure to be with and talk to."
The Magpies have announced there will be minute's applause in memory of Jackie ahead of Saturday's match against Morecambe.


Karl Robinson's first match in charge of Charlton Athletic proved to be an anti-climax as they were held to a goalless draw by his former club MK Dons in the FA Cup second round.

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The Dons, who Robinson left in October, had won only two of their previous 11 matches in all competitions but raised their game against their former manager and could have won at The Valley.
Richie Barker, Robinson's former assistant, was in caretaker charge of the MK team for the last time after the appointment of former Hearts boss Robbie Neilson as manager on Friday, but he left on a high as his team out-thought and outran their hosts.
Dean Bowditch, with a header over the crossbar, and right-back George Baldock, with a shot saved by Dillon Phillips after Bowditch's dummy, were unable to capitalise in the first half.
Charlton improved after the break, but Josh Magennis' effort was saved by David Martin and Ademola Lookman twice shot wide.
Bowditch, who had earlier had an angled shot well saved by Phillips, could have won it in injury time but his close-range shot was blocked on the line.
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Match ends, Charlton Athletic 0, MK Dons 0.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 0, MK Dons 0.
Attempt blocked. Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Powell.
Attempt missed. Brandon Hanlan (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Lee Novak replaces Jordan Botaka.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Brandon Hanlan replaces Nicky Ajose.
Offside, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka tries a through ball, but Josh Magennis is caught offside.
Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Dean Bowditch (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joe Walsh (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic).
Corner,  Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Paul Downing.
Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Josh Magennis.
Joe Walsh (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Baldock (MK Dons).
Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Reeves.
Offside, MK Dons. Paul Downing tries a through ball, but Ryan Colclough is caught offside.
Corner,  MK Dons. Conceded by Andrew Crofts.
Substitution, MK Dons. Ryan Colclough replaces Kieran Agard.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Samir Carruthers.
Offside, MK Dons. Samir Carruthers tries a through ball, but Kieran Agard is caught offside.
Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ed Upson (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Crofts.
Darren Potter (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Paul Downing (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul Downing (MK Dons).
Nicky Ajose (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, MK Dons. Darren Potter tries a through ball, but Kieran Agard is caught offside.


A cat has survived becoming caught in an illegal snare in Fife.

The pet, named Chubbs, returned to his home in Cupar with a wire wrapped around his neck.
The incident, which took place on 7 June at Buchanan Park, came just weeks after another cat was snared on the same street.
The Scottish SPCA said it was a frightening ordeal for the animal and described the setting of snares as "unacceptable".
Steven Gray, of the charity, said: "No one expects their cat to be deliberately harmed like this."
He added: "Obviously this was incredibly distressing for Chubbs' owner.
"Chubbs had gone outside between 21:00 and 22:00 that night and returned with the snare wrapped round his neck.
"Luckily, he hasn't suffered any severe injuries but he's clearly had a bit of a fright and has since been more clingy and reluctant to go outside.
"This homemade snare was set illegally and only a month ago the same thing happened to a cat owner on the same street."


So this is what a Republican debate would have looked like in an alternate universe, where Donald Trump was still a reality show celebrity and a failed steak salesman.

With a few notable exceptions, all the candidates kept their balance and stayed on their talking points. It's as if the unconventional Trump's absence from the hall made everyone a bit more restrained and, well, political.
But this was still a debate, and every debate has winners and loser, so here they are.
Hello there, stranger, where have you been for the last 12 months? The former Florida governor is still not the most skilful debater, but without Trump around to constantly kick proverbial dirt in his eyes, he gave his best performance of the campaign. He practically admitted as much when he sarcastically noted that Trump was "a little teddy bear to me" and they "had such a loving relationship".
Best moment: When asked about a "culture of hatred" directed toward Muslims, he said: "We're never going to win elections unless we have a broader, unifying message". This was big-tent Bush, the kind of campaign he said he wanted to run but hasn't been able to.
Biggest stumble: It's perhaps telling that his worst moment was still pretty good. During the debate's biggest conflict, over immigration reform, he stood by his position on giving undocumented migrants a pathway to permanent residency. That probably won't help him with rank-and-file Republicans, but disavowing his previous stance wouldn't have either.
Since being temporarily relegated to the undercard debate, the New Jersey governor has managed to string together several strong debate performances. He's a winner because, like Bush, he was best able to shine in Trump's absence. His forcefulness, whether talking about Hillary Clinton or national security, comes across in much sharper contrast when the New York billionaire isn't there to steal his thunder.
Best moment: The immigration portion of the debate was pivotal for many of the candidates, and it was tailor-made for Christie to contrast his executive experience as governor. After Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz struggled to explain their sometimes contradictory records on the issue in the Senate, Christie pounced: "I feel like I need a Washington to English converter" to understand Rubio and Cruz. He added that governors can't hide behind "parliamentary tricks".
Biggest stumble: Christie was asked about the Bridgegate scandal and, despite it hanging over his head all campaign, he simply doesn't have a convincing answer. His offering, "I knew nothing", is not what you want to hear from a man who brags about being a take-charge leader.
If Trump loses the Iowa caucuses, his decision to skip this debate will likely be labelled a mistake. At least for now, however, it looks like he made it through the evening unscathed. Save for a few gentle jabs, he largely avoided attacks from the debaters and dodged the sharp questions from moderators that bedevilled other candidates.
Cruz and Rubio faced video clips of their past conflicting statements on immigration reform - and surely Fox had one ready to roll for Trump, as well. Instead, the New Yorker got to hold court at his own rally, carried live by other news networks, and was even joined on stage by fellow candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum.
The Florida senator is never going to have a bad debate - he's just too polished for that. This was Rubio's weakest performance, however. He got bogged down with the immigration question, and his back-and-forth with Cruz on national defence was awkwardly sidetracked when he mentioned he had once accidentally mispronounced Dabiq (the propaganda magazine of the so-called Islamic State group) in Syria as Dubuque, a town in Iowa.
Best moment: Rubio scored his best line when, after a Cruz joke about leaving the debate if he kept being attacked fell flat, he quipped: "I'm not leaving this stage, no matter what you ask me."
Biggest stumble: Rubio was damaged the most by, of all people, Bush - the man who so feebly attacked him in an earlier debate. After Rubio tried to explain his past support for immigration reform, Bush went for the kill: "He cut and run because it wasn't popular amongst conservatives, I guess." Bush then contrasted Rubio's dissembling with his own willingness to stick with his principles. If Bush is going down based on his immigration position, he seems eager to pull Rubio into the abyss with him.
Kasich didn't have a bad debate, but he was once again largely absent from the evening's biggest moments. As a current governor and former leader in Congress, he has a firm grasp of policy details, and it shows. If he's going to make a move in the next few weeks, however, there are a lot of bodies he'll have to climb over. He seems to have made the decision over the course of the past few debates that, win or lose, he's just not going to do that.
Best moment: Kasich was once again asked about his support for expanding federal Medicaid coverage for the poor in his state, an issue that is anathema to much of the conservative base. He turned it into a defence of his state's treatment of drug addicts and the mentally ill. "When I study scripture," he said, "I know that people who live in the shadows need to have a chance."
Biggest stumble: The one time Kasich was really forceful was when he got into a spat with moderators Chris Wallace and Megyn Kelly. After several unsuccessful attempts to keep talking through their efforts to change the topic, he finally relented. "I've always listened to you, Megyn. Go ahead."
The Kentucky senator nearly merits being put in the winning column just because, after missing out on the prime-time debate earlier this month, his poll numbers got him back on the main stage. But, like Kasich, he simply lacked a breakthrough moment for a campaign that desperately needs one. He mixed it up with both Cruz and Rubio at times, but he failed to make any of his attacks stick - and it's unclear who he most needs to take down in order to succeed at this point.
Best moment: Paul finally had the opportunity to talk about criminal justice reform, an issue near to his heart. "The war on drugs has disproportionately affected our African-American community, and what we need to do is make sure that the war on drugs is equal protection under the law and that we don't unfairly incarcerate another generation of young African-American males," he said. It was a glimpse of the Rand Paul that many thought would flourish this campaign but has largely been absent.
Biggest stumble: Paul was asked about President Bill Clinton's past infidelities. He said that if a head of corporation had behaved similarly, he would have been fired, never again hired and "shunned in their community". A fact check would likely render that view false.
The Texas senator is touted as a championship-calibre debater, but he seemed off-balance almost the entire evening. He spent too much time complaining to the moderators about the tenor of their questioning and many of his planned one-liners were clunkers. Expectations were high for Cruz to dominate the proceedings without Trump on the stage, but it almost seemed as though he were lost without the man he's sparred with for the past few weeks.
Best moment: Cruz is against corn ethanol subsidies, which is a very unpopular position to have when you're vying for a win in the Iowa caucuses. Not surprisingly, he was asked about his stance, and he turned it into a defence of his tax plan. "I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers," he said. "And, I think there should be no mandates, and no subsidies whatsoever." It may lose him votes in Iowa, but after being criticised by Paul earlier in the debate for his preference for political expediency, it was a principled stand.
Biggest stumble: Cruz complained when he wasn't given a chance to respond after being mentioned in one of Wallace's questions. "You don't get 30 seconds to respond to me," Wallace snapped. "Sir, I know you like to argue about the rules, but we're going to conduct a debate." And so it was that the sharpest burn of the night didn't come from a candidate.
It's hard to label Ben Carson a loser. At this point, he's a category unto himself. He referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "one-horse country" and seemed surprised when he was asked about immigration. "Oh, great," he said to audience laughter. He ended the debate by reciting the preamble to the US Constitution, but messed up a word. He disappeared for vast stretches, and while in the past he's seemed to rise in the polls despite performances like this, he's now settled toward the bottom of the pack.
Best moment: "You're not going to hear a lot of polished political speech from me," he said in his opening remarks. Truer words have never been spoken.
Biggest stumble: Everything after that.


The head janitor at a school where a pupil died when a wall collapsed has told a court he would have "had it down" if he knew there was a problem.

Andrew Gray said no-one had ever reported a fault with the modesty wall in the gym at Edinburgh's Liberton High School to him.
Keane Wallis-Bennett died after the wall fell on her in 2014.
Mr Gray, 55, was giving evidence at the fatal accident inquiry for Keane, who was 12 when she died.
A former janitor and a cleaner also gave evidence on the fourth day of the inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
Angela Young had cleaned the girls changing rooms on the morning the wall collapsed on the 1 April 2014.
She said she was not aware of anything untoward with it. Ms Young agreed she had a reputation for reporting problems, but had never had any reason to report a concern about the gym wall.
Retired janitor Walter Thompson also told the inquiry he had not been aware of any issues with the wall that killed Keane.
The inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court continues.


A Fife fishing boat skipper accused of health and safety failures which led to a diver drowning while scallop fishing off Fife is to stand trial in June.

Ronald MacNeil, 55, captain of the vessel "Rob Roy", denied being culpable for the errors which allegedly led to the death of the diver, Graeme Mackie.
Mr Mackie, 31, from Tranent, East Lothian, died during a scallop-fishing expedition on 13 June 2011.
Mr MacNeil, from Leven, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
He appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to face an indictment alleging he failed to provide proper training, supervision and adequate safety equipment in the run-up to the incident which happened near Methil docks.
It alleges that as "the master of the Rob Roy" and the person in charge of the fishing trip, he failed to ensure Mr Mackie, a father-of-one, was "suitably trained and competent" to dive on the trip.
It is claimed he did not ensure a standby diver was in place to give any necessary help to Mr Mackie while he was working.
The charges add that there was no equipment for monitoring Mr Mackie while he was diving.
Prosecutors said the skipper failed "to provide equipment which could have assisted in the recovery of Mr Mackie from the water onto the vessel, while he was working, in the event of an emergency and in consequence, Graeme Mackie, whilst working as a diver on the project entered the water, resurfaced in distress and thereafter failed to resurface whereby he drowned".
Mr MacNeil is also accused of failing "to ensure the project was planned, managed and conducted in a manner which protected the health and safety of all persons taking part in it, and particularly Graeme Mackie, now deceased, who was employed by you as a diver in relation to the project".
The charges claim the boat boss failed to assess the risk the diver was exposed to and did not ensure there were "sufficient people with suitable competence".
The skipper is also alleged to have put another diver, Alexander Grafton, at risk by failing to provide him with suitable means of communicating while underwater with people on the boat.
The charge said Mr Grafton, while underwater, should also have been provided with a lifeline to a surface marker buoy.
Sheriff Alistair Thornton set a trial date for June at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.


Nick Kyrgios has been given a suspended 28-day ban and $25,000 (£16,200) fine by the Association of Tennis Professionals for making lewd remarks about Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend.

The incident took place during their Rogers Cup match earlier this month.
An ATP review found the 20-year-old guilty of "aggravated behaviour".
The Australian had already received a $10,000 (£6,400) tournament fine for the "unacceptable comments", which were picked up by on-court microphones.
The fine and ban will be imposed if Kyrgios incurs any fines for verbal or physical abuse over the next six months, or accumulate fines totalling more than $5,000 (£3,200) for any other offences at ATP-sanctioned tournaments.
Although world number 41 Kyrgios apologised for the comments, Switzerland's French Open champion Wawrinka, 30, called for major action to be taken.
The ATP's head of rules and competition Gayle David Bradshaw said: "This incident reflected poorly on our sport.
"Nick has expressed regret. The best result would be that he learns a lesson and that he understands he is responsible to the tour and to fellow players for both his actions and his words."
Kyrgios also received a $2,500 (£1,600) fine for unsportsmanlike conduct relating to a comment made to a ball person during the Rogers Cup match in Montreal.
He previously came under heavy criticism for his behaviour after appearing to stop trying when he was given a code violation during his defeat by France's Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon in July.


The family of a teenager who died in a hit-and-run crash involving a stolen car has urged the public to help find the driver.

Samuel Garner, 17, was hit on Welford Road outside Leicester Prison, just after 23:00 BST on Sunday.
Leicestershire Police said he died at the scene after being seriously injured when a black BMW 5 Series hit a group of pedestrians.
A teenage girl also suffered injuries but these were described as minor.
Officers said the car failed to stop at the scene and was last seen driving towards Almond Road.
It was found on Monday burned out on College Road, Whetstone, after being stolen from Blaby, Leicestershire, on 29 April.
Mr Garner's parents, Scott and Tracie Garner, described their son as "perfect, loving and thoughtful".
"He was due to turn 18 tomorrow [Wednesday] and we were going to fly out to Prague this morning [Tuesday] to celebrate," they said.
"He was our world and will always be in our hearts.
"If you've heard any rumours about who the driver was, please come forward."
They added that their son had spent Sunday afternoon with his family watching Leicester City's 1-1 draw against Manchester United before heading into the city centre - wearing his white Foxes football shirt - with his friends.
It is believed the car had two occupants. No arrests have been made yet in connection with the teenager's death.
Anyone with any information on the crash is asked to contact Leicestershire Police.