Around 1,000 NatWest branches are to open at 08:00BST to help customers who are still unable to access their accounts because of technical problems.

NatWest said it had failed overnight to solve issues that meant some customers could not access online accounts.
"Unfortunately we are once again experiencing technical issues with our systems," NatWest said on Friday.
As well as some NatWest customers, others with RBS and Ulster Bank accounts have also been affected.
NatWest and Ulster Bank are part of the RBS group.
RBS apologised and said customers would not be left out of pocket.
In a statement on the NatWest website
 on Friday morning the bank said: "Unfortunately we are once again experiencing technical issues with our systems and account balances have not updated properly overnight.
"This means where money has gone into a customer's account, there may be a delay in it appearing on their balance.
"We can assure our customers that this problem is strictly of a technical nature and we continue to work hard to resolve this."
Some branches had stayed open late on Thursday to help customers on their way home and staff continued to work through the night.
One small business owner told the BBC that the electronic system to pay staff was not working.
He said that, while the bank's business service centre had put a note on his account to allow him access to emergency cash, there were no communications within the bank as staff in his branch had no record of it and the note was having to be faxed over.
A first-time buyer, his pregnant wife and their one-year-old child have been left in an empty home owing to the technical problems at NatWest.
Raul Poddy, 30, and his family were due to complete the purchase of their first home but, because solicitors cannot check that funds have been transferred, the keys have not been released.
Instead they face "throwing down a mattress" to spend the night in their empty, rented home in Durham until the problem is resolved.
"It is not good enough for this to happen in this day and age," said Mr Poddy, whose wife Kerry is 20 weeks pregnant.
He said their belongings were in a removal van and were likely to have to be put into storage, at a cost, instead of being unloaded in their new home 10 miles away.
Meanwhile, their one-year-old was at nursery and set to return to a house where the gas and electricity had been cancelled.
"We were saving for a deposit for almost a year and spent so long getting every last detail perfect, then this happens," he said.
Many customers took to Twitter reporting that they had not been paid and expressing fears that the problem would not be fixed before the weekend.
NatWest has 7.5 million personal banking customers.
The bank did not say how many people had been affected across the group, but Ulster Bank, which along with NatWest is also part of the RBS group, said 100,000 of its customers had been affected by "a major technical issue".
"We are working hard to minimise the impact and will ensure that those who are affected do not suffer any financial loss," Ulster Bank said in a statement.
Bob Spearman from Petworth told the BBC his weekly tax credit payment had not been paid into his NatWest account.
"We, like many other low-income families live from week to week and the Child Tax Credit weekly payment is a lifeline on which we rely," he said.
A spokeswoman for UK Payments Council, which oversees payments strategy, said that the problem did not appear to have affected any other banks.
However, people expecting payments from individuals or businesses which banked with NatWest could encounter problems.
Last week, Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest launched a mobile banking app to enable people to withdraw money from cash machines using their smartphone.
This marked the latest development in a long-predicted move towards the smartphone becoming a digital wallet.


Gmail users around the world saw errors and safety warnings over the weekend after Google forgot to update a key part of the messaging software.

Google said a "majority" of users were affected by the short-term software problem.
While people could still access and use Gmail many people saw "unexpected behaviour" because of the problem.
Many reported the errors via Twitter seeking clarification from Google about what had gone wrong.
The error messages started appearing early on 4 April and hit people trying to send email messages from Gmail and some of the firm's messaging apps.
The problems arose because Google had neglected to renew a security certificate for Gmail and its app services. The certificate helps the software establish a secure connection to a destination, so messages can be sent with little fear they will be spied upon.
Google's own in-house security service, called Authority G2, administers the security certificates and other secure software systems for the search giant.
Information about the problem was posted to status pages Google maintains for its apps and email services.
In the status message, Google said the problem was "affecting a majority of users" who were seeing error messages. It added that the glitch could cause programs to act in "unexpected" ways.
The problem was resolved about two hours after it was first noticed.
The glitch comes soon after Google started refusing security certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Google said a security lapse by the CNNIC meant the certificates could no longer be trusted. CNNIC called the decision "unacceptable and unintelligible".


A painting of Flint Castle by Joseph Mallord William Turner has sold at auction for £541,250.

The painting, which had a top guide price of £500,000, was sold at Sotheby's in London.
The watercolour sketch over pencil is considered one of Turner's greatest Welsh landscapes, and captures the castle on the Dee Estuary in the 1830s.
It was sold by a private collector who did not want to be identified.
Emmeline Hallmark, director and head of British paintings and watercolours at Sotheby's, said: "We are delighted with the price achieved for this rare and important work by Turner, and it clearly demonstrates the strength of the Turner market."
Turner completed a second watercolour of the castle in 1835, which is owned by the National Museums and Galleries of Wales.
It is displayed at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff for about three months every year.
Flint Castle was completed in 1284 and its four towers still stand.
However, it was largely destroyed some time after 1646, following its fall to parliament during the Civil War.
Other Turner works featuring Welsh landscapes include Dolbadarn Castle, Ewenny Priory and Harlech Castle.
According to Sotheby's, Turner drew two watercolours of the ruin following his first visit to the castle in 1792.
He returned several times, and painted the auctioned landscape in the 1830s.
Sotheby's pre-sale catalogue said the "rays of the sun draw the viewer's eye outwards towards the edge of the image, mirroring the effect of peripheral vision, a device repeated in many of his later watercolours".
The catalogue also said the painting shows the "technical mastery" Turner had displayed by the 1830s, using a "sponge or a cloth to draw out the colour from the paper and create the sun, its rays across the sky and its reflection off the water".


One word and a freckle indirectly led to Richard Huckle's arrest.

Police in Australia and Europe were aware of a paedophile site called the Love Zone hidden in the so-called dark web.
It was protected by passwords, encryption and specialist software. Users were totally anonymous.
The images and videos there were particularly disturbing - showing the abuse of babies and very young children.
Members had to post increasingly graphic material to remain on the site. There were tens of thousands of accounts.
Officers with Task Force Argos in Australia knew the creator of the site used an unusual greeting - the word "hiyas".
After exhaustively trawling chatrooms and forums in the open internet, they found a Facebook page of a man who used the same greeting.
Although the Facebook page was fake, they identified a picture of a vehicle and that led them to a man called Shannon McCoole - a childcare worker in Adelaide.
When officers went through his door, he was actually online running the site.
They took detailed photographs of McCoole's hands. This is where the freckle comes in - one on his finger matched exactly one seen in many of the images of abuse.
In an unprecedented move, Task Force Argos assumed McCoole's identity and took over the running of the site.
Last year he was given a 35-year prison sentence.
One user who stood out was Huckle - given the number of children he had access to and his aggressive attitude.
Using data gleaned from the site and information Huckle had posted on social media and other open internet sites, they identified who he was and where he lived.
Realising he was coming back to the UK for the Christmas holidays in 2014, they tipped off Britain's National Crime Agency.
As he landed at Gatwick airport he was met by officers from the NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection command.
On his computer and encrypted drives they found tens of thousands of obscene images and videos.


England record goalscorer Wayne Rooney will retire from international football after the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

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The Manchester United forward was speaking to the media for the first time since new England manager Sam Allardyce confirmed he would keep the 30-year-old as his captain.
"Come Russia I feel that will be the time to say goodbye to international football," said Rooney, who has scored 53 goals in 115 England appearances.
"My mind is made up."
He continued: "It's still two years away. I started playing professional football when I was 16, and started playing internationals when I was 17. Fifteen years is a lot. I'd be 34 by the next tournament.
"I've had a fantastic international career so far. I've enjoyed every minute."
If he plays in Sunday's World Cup qualifier in Slovakia (17:00 BST kick-off), he will break David Beckham's record for the most capped outfield England player.
"Russia will be my last opportunity to do anything with England so I'm going to try to enjoy these two years and hopefully I can end my time with England on a high."
Rooney has not yet discussed with Allardyce what position he will play.
He was a midfielder during Euro 2016 under Roy Hodgson, who left his post after the shock last-16 exit to Iceland.
Under new United boss Jose Mourinho this season, he has played behind the striker - which is where Allardyce has told the media Rooney will play for England.
"Obviously it's the manager's decision," said Rooney. "We haven't really spoken about it - we will in the next couple of days. I'm ready to play whether it's midfield, number 10 or striker."
Rooney has backed former Bolton, West Ham and Sunderland boss Allardyce to help England achieve more at international tournaments.
England have not lost a qualifier since 2009, going unbeaten to reach Euro 2012, the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016. However, they have not won a tournament knockout game since the 2006 World Cup.
"If he gets the best out of our players, then he'll do well," said Rooney.
"The ability and talent is there. It's just a matter of us doing well in a tournament. We are a small margin away.
"He'll want to find out why we keep tripping up. The managers and players haven't found out why, but Sam will try to find out why it's happening.
"We've seen a lot of teams overachieve with him as manager. That's down to the way he's got them playing. Hopefully he can do the same with us."
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West Ham's uncapped West Ham winger Michail Antonio said he thought news of his England call-up was just "banter" with club staff.
The former non-league player said he was "very modest" and "very grateful", but revealed that he turned down an approach to play for Jamaica.
The 26-year-old said: "At the time I believed/hoped I would get an opportunity for England. I pushed myself and worked hard and now I am here."
"Going from non-league to Premier League is a nice story.
"I was a lifeguard, I had to do an hour a night at a community college, it was one of the most boring jobs. I sat by a pool and watched people swim up and down."
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Tromso, a Norwegian city known as the "Gateway to the Arctic", receives no sunlight for two months of the year.

Yet this remote, beautiful, snowy city is the unlikely focus of the global electric car industry, attracting the attention of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla.
His company has recently opened a showroom there - its most northerly outpost.
Why? Because Norway, it seems, is simply nuts about electric cars.
The country is the world leader in electric cars per capita and has just become the fourth country in the world to have 100,000 of them on the roads.
When you consider the other nations on the list are the US (population: 320 million), Japan (pop. 130 million) and China (pop. 1.35 billion), then that is quite an achievement for this rugged, sparsely populated country of just five million.
Some of its politicians want to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2025, which prompted Musk to tweet: "What an amazingly awesome country. You guys rock!!"
On an earlier visit in April, he attributed a lot of Tesla's success to the country's pioneering stance on electric cars.
So how has Norway managed it?
Elisabeth Bryn helps explain the answer. The 56-year-old teacher enjoys driving in the icy streets of Tromso and she can barely contain her excitement as she misses our turn.
"It is such a good feeling to drive a clean car. It means I have a clean conscience and it works out cheaper in the long run," she tells the BBC.
But it is economic incentive as much as environmental concern that is fuelling the rise in green cars - Norway introduced a raft of generous subsidies to encourage people to go electric.
It launched an aggressive tax policy towards high-polluting cars, while offering zero tax on zero-emission cars. This "polluter pays" policy brought the cost of an electric car into line with a conventionally powered one.
Bryn is clearly shrewd about the numbers and says the entire cost of her car will be recouped within eight years thanks to the tax and fuel savings.
But aren't people worried about running out of power? Lack of range is the electric car's Achilles heel after all.
This is where Norway comes into its own, as Bryn demonstrates at a public charging point on an industrial estate out of town.
The electricity being pumped into her car is free.
Norway is fortunate enough to have close to 100% renewable and cheap hydro power production.
According to the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association, even if all three million cars on the country's roads were electric, they would suck up just 5-6% of the annual hydro power electricity production.
Rapid charging points can pump her Nissan Leaf with up to 80% charge in just 30 minutes. Alternatively, Bryn can charge her car at home at a much slower pace overnight.
It helps that Norway is also the biggest oil producer in Western Europe and the world's third largest exporter of natural gas. In other words, Norway is rich enough to subsidise its electric car lifestyle.
But despite these considerable perks, not everyone is convinced.
In Oslo there are more than 14,000 electric cars - about 30% of the market. But in the more northern reaches - cities like Tromso - enthusiasm has been more muted.
This may be explained by the tough terrain and "range anxiety" - concerns that a flat battery will leave them stranded in arctic conditions.
Studies have shown that electric car performance can deteriorate markedly in extreme cold or hot conditions. And Nissan, whose Leaf model is the biggest selling electric vehicle in Norway, admits that the car's 124-mile maximum range can fall significantly in icier conditions when the heating, lights and demister are all draining the charge more thirstily.
Bryn says such concerns have put off some of her friends: "They have a cabin deep in the countryside and said they just couldn't trust an electric car to get them there. They said there just weren't enough charging points."
Yet Tesla's new showroom in Tromso, and the steady growth in the number of public charging points, demonstrates the industry's commitment to spreading the green message no matter how inhospitable the environment.
And the rest of the world is learning lessons from Norway.
Germany has just announced a €1bn (£784m; $1.1bn) incentive scheme to get more consumers buying electric cars, for example.
Christian Ruoff, publisher of US electric car magazine, Charged, sums it up: "Electric car makers in the US see Norway as a window into the future.
"Norway shows that if governments can make electric cars as affordable as petrol equivalents then motorists, even in the Arctic Circle, will buy them.
"It also busts the myths that electric cars and their batteries are only suitable for cities with more moderate climates like Oslo or San Francisco."
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Minecraft, the online world that most parents simply don't understand, is now officially the most watched game of all time on YouTube.

According to the video-sharing site, the game that allows children to build worlds made out of blocks - a bit like Lego - has also become the most searched-for term, behind "music".
It bears out earlier research from YouTube video research firms Newzoo and Octoloy, which found that Minecraft material notched up more than 3.9 billion views on YouTube in March 2015 alone.
None of this will come as a surprise to the many parents who have become 'Minecraft-widows', desperately trying to entice their children to go on a bike ride, throw a ball, visit the park - anything other than while away the hours watching other people build things with little green bricks on the internet.
The fact that parents are worried about the varying levels of enthusiasm/obsession/addiction that their children display when playing Minecraft has been well-documented.
In numerous posts and articles online, they complain that the game is taking over their children's lives, that they become irritated when they aren't playing it, they neglect homework, chores, even going to the toilet, to keep on playing.
It has led some parents to ban or severely curtail Minecraft time. One father, explaining his decision to limit his twin boys' access to the game, said simply: "Minecraft, as with all successfully addictive games, is endless. My kids' childhood isn't, and I want them to spend it learning about the real world, not a virtual one."
But for other parents, children playing the game is OK - at least they are doing something vaguely creative - but spending hours mindlessly watching others playing it represents a whole new level of obsession.
I've got two boys who, it is fair to say, are closer to being Minecraft fanatics rather than just fans.
That means they spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos of other people playing the game in its various guises. Right now, they probably watch more YouTube than regular TV.
Do I mind? A little, but I'm aware of the place that Minecraft occupies among my boys and their peers. Cutting them off would mean severing a strong link to their friends.
And that interest has a positive aspect too. It's made them intimately familiar with Minecraft down to its most esoteric commands, is nurturing a desire to make their own mods for the game, has led them to run their own game server, make and edit videos and curate their own YouTube channel. It's by no means passive consumption.
There is certainly a rich vein of Minecraft-related content on YouTube - around 42 million videos that range from tutorials offering ideas on new things to create, "Let's Play" videos, essentially footage of other people playing the game, and new ways to modify their Minecraft worlds.
There are also hundreds of channels devoted to Minecraft, including popular ones such as Yogscast and SkyDoesMinecraft.
Some, dedicated specifically to children, have become internet sensations.  Stampy, a YouTube channel narrated by a cat has more than 5.6 million subscribers and nearly 3.4 billion views. In 2014, it was the fourth most popular YouTube channel.
Others are less appropriate, narrated by what one parent described as "helpful but sweary" adults.
Bec Oakley is founder of MineMum, a blog intended to help guide parents through the minefield that is Minecraft.
She is not surprised that it has become so popular on YouTube.
"YouTube is this generation's television. It's how [children] entertain themselves, learn, share. Watching others play Minecraft allows them to extend their experience of the game, to share it with others and to learn from each other," she told the BBC.
"There's a huge amount of content available, and much of it is incredibly engaging, educational or useful for kids," she added.
She acknowledged that Minecraft is "definitely a game that kids can become obsessed with, and watching YouTube can be part of that obsession".
But she added that she doesn't think it signals a problem in itself. "A better indication of that is how much time is being spent, and the flow on effect on health and mood.
"It's important for parents to help kids enjoy their love of Minecraft in healthy ways - to talk with them about things like how to be healthy gamers, how to identify when they need a break, and to set rules for healthy game play with rewards for sticking to them."
Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, never designed the game specifically for children.
The brainchild of Swedish videogame programmer and designer Markus "Notch" Persson, Minecraft was inspired by a series of other games such as Dwarf Fortress, amusement park simulator RollerCoaster Tycoon and strategy game Dungeon Keeper.
Eventually Mr Persson founded Mojang, which last year was bought by Microsoft.
His firm has always encouraged fans to put videos up on YouTube.
While Nintendo uses YouTube's Content ID copyright system to make its claim videos featuring its games - accruing any advertising revenue they generate along the way, Mojang has always taken a more relaxed approach.
"We've essentially outsourced YouTube videos to a community of millions of people, and what they come up with is more creative than anything we could make ourselves... There's no damage to us from YouTube," Mojang's chief operating officer Vu Bui told the Guardian newspaper last year.
At the same time as Minecraft has become a sensation, so too has YouTube begun to appeal to a younger audience - in February 2015, nine of the top 20 YouTube channels were aimed at youngsters.
And it isn't just Minecraft videos that they are watching. My son, who never really took to Minecraft, will happily watch videos of other people playing Fifa. Often for hours.
And children do get obsessed with things. There is a long list of toys and games that have been greedily coveted by kids, only to be discarded a few years later.
And maybe Minecraft will also end up in the back of the toy cupboard - and children will return to watching cats on YouTube like every other self-respecting citizen.
There have been many studies, some controversial, into whether gaming affects the brain.
Researchers in China, for example, performed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies on the brains of 18 college students who spent an average of 10 hours a day online, primarily playing games like World of Warcraft. Compared with a control group who spent less than two hours a day online, gamers had less grey matter (the thinking part of the brain).
And, as far back as the early 1990s, scientists warned that because video games only stimulate brain regions that control vision and movement, other parts of the mind responsible for behaviour, emotion, and learning could become underdeveloped.
In terms of specific studies on Minecraft, an article penned by psychologists Jun Lee and Robert Pasin in Quartz magazine, suggests it may not be as creative as parents might hope: "In Minecraft, kids can build and explore new worlds and manipulate them with unprecedented control and precision.
"The underlying creativity is baked into the program - the combinations, tools and materials - so the players have only one task to complete: design ever more complex structures. Though this seems like the pinnacle of an imaginative play experience, the kids we studied said they felt edgy and irritable after Minecraft sessions."
The game, said the researchers, becomes "less about open-ended play and more about working to complete the never-ending stacks of buildings."


A retired Church of England bishop has been jailed for a string of offences against teenagers and young men.

Peter Ball, 83, was sentenced to 32 months for misconduct in public office and 15 months for indecent assaults, to run concurrently.
The former Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Gloucester used "religion as a cloak" to carry out the abuse between the 1970s and 1990s, the court heard.
The Church of England said there were "no excuses".
Before Ball was sentenced, the Old Bailey heard a member of the Royal Family and other establishment figures backed Ball while he tried to avoid charges of sexually abusing young aspiring priests in the early 1990s.
Bobbie Cheema QC, prosecuting, said during the investigation police received 2,000 letters of support for the bishop, including backing from a royal figure and cabinet ministers.
Ball was cautioned for one act of gross indecency in 1993 against 16-year-old trainee monk Neil Todd and resigned, but was allowed to work in churches until 2010.
"I should make it clear that it is impossible to say whether those letters were encouraged and it is unlikely that those who wrote were in possession of the full facts," Ms Cheema added.
A statement released by Clarence House after the hearing said: "The Prince of Wales made no intervention in the judicial process on behalf of Peter Ball."
Sentencing Ball, Mr Justice Wilkie, said the retired bishop was man who did "so much good and so much harm".
He told the disgraced clergyman he used his position of authority to "persuade selected individuals to commit or submit to acts of physical or sexual debasement under the guise of being part of their austere regime of devotion when they were not".
"What you did was the antithesis of what was expected of someone holding your office."
Ms Cheema said Ball was "highly regarded as a Godly man who had a special affinity with young people".
She added: "The truth was that he used those 15 years in the position of bishop to identify, groom and exploit sensitive and vulnerable young men who came within his orbit.
"For him, religion was a cloak behind which he hid in order to satisfy his sexual interest in those who trusted him."
Victims of the retired bishop described him as a sadistic predator who groomed, controlled and abused them.
Ball, of Langport in Somerset, was Bishop of Lewes between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 until his resignation the following year.
Last month he admitted offences against 18 teenagers and young men in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. He was also ordered to be placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
Det Ch Insp Carwyn Hughes, of Sussex Police, said the force's investigation uncovered "systematic offending" by Ball whose principal aim was "to satisfy his sexual interest in and desire for young men".
Following the sentencing, the Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, said "the systematic abuse of trust perpetrated" by Ball was a "matter of deep shame and regret".
"We apologise unreservedly to those survivors of Peter Ball's abuse and pay tribute to their bravery in coming forward and also the long wait for justice that they have endured."
"We also remember Neil Todd, whose bravery in 1992 enabled others to come forward but who took his own life before Peter Ball's conviction or sentencing."
The Church of England has commissioned an independent review into the way it responded to sex offence allegations against the bishop.
The Archbishop of Canterbury in 1993, George Carey - now Lord Carey - said he greatly regretted that during his tenure the church "dealt inadequately with Peter Ball's victims and gave too much credence to his protestations".
He added: "Allegations that my actions amounted to a cover-up or collusion with the abuser are wrong. I have always insisted upon the highest standards of holiness of life from all who are ordained.
"But it is undoubtedly the case that in the years since the allegations came to light, the Church of England has needed to put into place much better procedures, as have all public institutions in society, to ensure that victims receive justice speedily and properly."
He said in the past the church had "failed many victims" but he hoped it was now a safer place for the young and vulnerable.
The Right Reverend Mark Sowerby, Bishop of Horsham, expressed "abhorrence and deep regret at Peter Ball's behaviour" and said it had been a "key priority to support many of those" who had given evidence against him.


The BuzzFeed news website has pulled out of an advertising deal with the Republican Party in the US, saying its presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump is "hazardous to health".

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti informed staff members by email on Monday.
The ads were due to run in the coming months and had been booked before Mr Trump became the presumptive nominee.
Mr Peretti told employees the move would have "no influence" on coverage of the campaign.
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Mr Peretti wrote: "We certainly don't like to turn away revenue (...)  However, in some cases we must make business exceptions: we don't run cigarette ads because they are hazardous to our health, and we won't accept Trump ads for the exact same reason."
The website Politico reported that the deal had been worth $1.3m (Â£900,000).
Mr Peretti's email to staff continued as follows: "The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs."
Mr Trump defeated 16 other candidates for the Republican nomination for president. As he built up an unassailable lead in the primaries they dropped out one by one and last month, he secured the backing of enough delegates to win him the nomination.
Republicans will finalise their nomination at a convention in July.


Welsh football fans have hailed the 3-1 Euro 2016 win against Belgium as Wales' greatest ever victory.

Chris Coleman's team made history by winning their quarter-final match at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille on Friday.
It secured Wales' place in their first ever semi-final in a major tournament.
Wales fans said they were "in dreamland" with many now hoping to travel to Lyon to watch the team take on Portugal on Wednesday, 6 July.
By winning the match against Belgium, Wales went one better than their 1958 predecessors who reached the last eight of the World Cup.
Aled Lewis, 28, of Cardiff, who watched in the Lille fan zone, said it was above any other Welsh football achievement.
He said: "We're in the semi-final of a Euros tournament. It's absolutely unbelievable.
"We're just in dreamland."
Martin Naughton, 28, of Cardiff, said: "It has to be the greatest win in Welsh football history."
He added: "It's a once in a lifetime experience. We will never, ever, ever experience this again."
Mr Naughton said he was among Wales fans delayed by problems on the Eurotunnel but the victory had made it all worth it.
Ashley Williams, Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes scored after Wales went 1-0 down in the first half.
The win came after Wales qualified top of Group B in France after victories against Slovakia and Russia and a loss to England.
They then beat Northern Ireland in the second round.
The achievement follows 58 years of being in the wilderness for Welsh football in terms of qualifying for major finals.
Geraint Thomas, a 51-year-old Wales fan from Menai Bridge on Anglesey, who travelled to Lille, said Friday's result was "getting close" to topping any other in the annals of Welsh football.
About 20,000 Welsh fans were believed to have travelled to Lille to support the team.
There were also fan zones in Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd and on Anglesey.
The Football Supporters' Federation Cymru believe up to 100,000 Welsh fans have visited France to follow the team's matches in Bordeaux, Lens, Toulouse, Paris and Lille.
If Wales can beat Portugal, they would face either Germany, Italy, France or Iceland in the final.


Spending a weekend out camping resets the clock inside our bodies that influences sleeping habits, scientists at a US university have discovered.

The team argue that time in the great outdoors could help those struggling to get up in the morning and boost health.
The researchers said swapping bricks and mortar for canvas was not a long-term solution.
But exposing ourselves to more bright light in the day (and less at night) could help.
Our body has a daily "circadian" rhythm that anticipates day and night to co-ordinate how our body works.
It alters alertness, mood, physical strength, when we need to sleep and even the risk of a heart attack as part of a 24-hour cycle.
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Light helps the clock keep time, but modern life with artificial light, alarm clocks and smartphones has altered our sleeping habits.
The report is published in Current Biology and Dr Kenneth Wright, from the University of Colorado Boulder, told the BBC: "We're waking up at a time when our circadian clock says we should still be asleep."
He says this is damaging to health with studies suggesting links with mood disorders, type 2 diabetes and obesity.
And it also simply makes us really groggy and sleepy when we try to get up in the morning.
So Dr Wright organised a series of camping expeditions for a small group of volunteers.
They had to wear special watches that recorded light levels and had blood tests to analyse the sleep hormone melatonin.
And the only artificial light they were allowed was the glow of a campfire, even a torch was banned.
The first thing they learned on a week-long camping trip in winter was people were exposed to 13 times more light than at home, even though it was the darkest part of the year.
Their melatonin levels also started to rise two-and-a-half hours earlier than before the expedition and they went to bed earlier too.
The campers were now sleeping and waking in tune with their body clocks.
Another camping trip showed most of that benefit could be gained by just going away for a weekend.
Dr Wright said: "We're not saying camping is the answer here, but we can introduce more natural light to modern life.
"It is something we as a society can regulate without people having to change behaviours."
He thinks homes, offices and schools could be designed to allow in more natural light.
And the new generation of "tuneable" light bulbs - that can be made far brighter in the day and dimmer at night - could also be used.
However, at the moment, people's body clocks would start to shift back to their old rhythm once the tent was packed up.
In order to continue to benefit from the camping reset, people would need to get a large hit of light in the day - for example by going out for a walk before work - and cut down in the evening by using less artificial light.
And if you want to watch your favourite TV show "record it", says Dr Wright.
The researchers also picked up clues that our body clocks alter during the year and that may affect how our body functions.
In a week of summer camping, melatonin production was altered by two hours, in winter it was altered by 2.6 hours.
It is a suggestion there is something different about the way our bodies react to the longer or shorter day.
And we already know that some people suffer from low mood with seasonal affective disorders.
Dr Wright added: "We have a hint there's something there and maybe at one point it time it was critical and now, in a modern environment, maybe we don't need to worry about putting on more weight in winter, but the impacts may still be hardwired in our physiology."
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Preparations are being made to change the operation of maternity services at Caithness General in Wick earlier than previously planned.

NHS Highland said a midwife-led community maternity unit (CMU) is to be in place at the hospital at the end of this month.
In November last year, the health board had anticipated introducing the change by April.
Maternity services are currently led by consultant obstetricians.
NHS Highland has said the majority of births at Caithness General do not require obstetrics.
The hopsital has no facilities for on-site specialist neonatal paediatric support or adult intensive care.
Complicated pregnancies are to be handled by "strengthened" services at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness and also close working with the ambulance service, the health board said.
It said it was introducing the CMU sooner than planned for staffing reasons.
Highland councillor Gillian Coghill has told BBC Alba that she was "surprised" by the health board's latest announcement on the change to the services.
She said a run-in period of about three months had been expected.


Seam bowler Andy Carter has announced his retirement from first-class cricket after a seven-year career.

The 28-year-old joined Hampshire in July following his release by Derbyshire, having previously also played for Nottinghamshire.
Carter took 170 wickets across all formats and his final game was against Yorkshire earlier this month.
"It's the right time for me to move to the next chapter and I'm excited about it," Carter said.


Hundreds of homes are under threat of flooding in two Cumbrian towns.

An estimated 1,000 properties are at risk in Kendal and about 600 in Egremont after river levels rose.
Overnight rain was not as heavy as expected said the Environment Agency, but its 12 severe flood warnings for Cumbria and Lancashire remain in place on Sunday.
People in parts of Kendal and Egremont have been advised to leave and stay with their family or friends.
Police in Cumbria have warned drivers to avoid unnecessary journeys.
BBC reporter Andy Gill, in Grasmere, said many roads in the area had minor flooding.
A severe flood warning indicates a danger to life. Lower level flood warnings and alerts have been issued for large parts of northern England and Wales.
Further heavy rain is expected across Cumbria, other parts of north-west England and south-west Scotland on Sunday.
That rain will fall on already saturated ground, which increases the flood risk.
Reception centres opened at Kendal Town Hall and West Lakes Academy in Egremont throughout Saturday night, but Dave Hughes, chairman of Kendal Mountain Rescue, said not everyone had been willing to leave their homes.
"Some people decided to stay at home. You can understand that people may be reluctant to leave their beds," he said.


A human-carrying drone is one of the transport innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.

7 January 2016 Last updated at 08:28 GMT
The EHang personal minicopter is not operated by manual controls. The passenger chooses a point on a map to travel to.
The device is likely to cost more than $200,000 (Â£137,000) and could be illegal to ride in public in many countries.
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A psychologist working at Kids Company has admitted taking illegal drugs in the company of young people she met through the charity.

Helen Winter told an employment tribunal she had used MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, on "several occasions" and let two young clients stay at her flat.
She is also accused of offering MDMA to one of the young people and taking it in front of them, which she denies.
She could face being struck off.
Ms Winter admitted she was guilty of misconduct and that her fitness to practice is impaired at a hearing at the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPS).
She also admitted testing positive for cocaine in a routine drugs test for Kids Company in 2014.
Kids Company collapsed in August amid claims of financial mismanagement and has faced a series of damaging allegations since then.
The charity, which is now under the control of administrators, is being investigated by officers from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse team of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Daniel Mansell, the presenting officer, told the HCPS hearing concerns were raised in Kids Company about the registrant's drug use and "inappropriate interaction with service users".
He said Ms Winter went to the Hidden club in Vauxhall, south London, with her colleague Nicci Shall in January 2014 having purchased some MDMA on the way.
Ms Shall told the hearing they were in the toilet when they saw the two young people known as Client C and Client D, both in their early 20s.
It is alleged she offered the drug to Client C, who accepted - which Ms Winter denies.
Ms Shall told the hearing: "Helen Winter offered client C and me a dab of MDMA, which I declined. Helen Winter and client C consumed the MDMA."
She said that after she left the club she felt "awful" about what she had witnessed and wanted to tell her boss, but was persuaded not to with Dr Winter telling her the clients had "had a good time and nothing had come of it".
She told the hearing: "I went to colleagues and they advised me not to take it any further. I stupidly followed their advice and I regret that."
An internal investigation was carried out after she reported the matter to the charity's chief executive, Camilla Batmanghelidjh, but she raised concerns about the accuracy of the subsequent report.
She said: "I do not feel that the investigation report, compiled by witness B, accurately reflects my account of events.
"I challenged the accuracy of the report but was informed by Kids Company that it was an internal document and should remain confidential."


National League leaders Cheltenham made it five successive wins with victory at Tranmere Rovers.

The victory also enabled them to set a new club record of 21 games unbeaten.
Danny Wright hit the winner, his eighth goal in six games, after just three minutes, when he smashed home Asa Hall's cross.
Tranmere were the last team to beat Cheltenham in the league in September, but they could not repeat that as their own five-match unbeaten run ended.
Cheltenham remain four points clear of Forest Green, with Tranmere in fourth place.
Cheltenham Town boss Gary Johnson told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
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"It was a great win but a historic win as well, so I'm pleased for this group of lads that we've all got our names in the record books.
"You can't just pick up these points, you've got to go and earn them and we had to earn it today.
"I thought we were magnificent in the first half and maybe should've had one or two more.
"Our defending's been very strong and one-nil is a one-nil - I'd have liked it to be two-nil, but it's great for our supporters to see another win from their team and no goals against."


Harlequins have agreed to sign fly-half Ruaridh Jackson from Premiership rivals Wasps ahead of next season.

The 28-year-old Scotland international has spent the last two seasons with Wasps, having previously had a six-year spell with Glasgow Warriors.
"His style fits the way we play perfectly and he will provide excellent competition," said incoming Quins director of rugby John Kingston.
"We are looking forward to adding his expertise next season."
Harlequins have not disclosed the length of Jackson's deal at The Stoop.
Jackson has won 28 caps for Scotland since making his Test debut against New Zealand in 2010, and made one appearance at this year's Six Nations.
"I'm extremely excited to be starting a new challenge with Harlequins," he said.
"After speaking to John Kingston and Conor O'Shea I could see how great a club it is."
Kingston will replace O'Shea in charge of the south-west London club this summer, with O'Shea leaving the club to take charge of Italy.


Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has called for an investigation into a multi-million pound black hole in the north west's disability services.

The Western Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed that services were underfunded by up to £8m in "the last couple of years".
A meeting organised by the Western Learning Disability Action Group was held in Londonderry on Tuesday night.
Families and carers have said they now want answers.
Mary Gilbraith, who was at Tuesday's meeting, said they had been raising the issue of underfunding for years.
"We have a residential home in Strabane which houses 12 people and is absolutely full, we've no respite at all.
"We've been calling for these things for years and there's never been the money to do it.
"There are a lot of those parents who have difficulties and by letting them go into respite it means they're able to stay at home for longer.
"It really prepares them for whenever you're no longer there."
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney said Mr McGuinness will press the new health minister on the issue.
"There is quite rightly a great deal of shock and anger at the underfunding revelations and that was clearly demonstrated at the public meeting which took place in the city on Tuesday," said Mr McCartney.
"It is entirely unacceptable that funds which are earmarked for vulnerable people are not being properly utilised.
"It is particularly galling if that is the case at a time when budgets are under increasing pressure."
In a statement the Western Trust said: "Over the past couple of years the extent of a deficit in investment in learning disability services in the Western Trust has been confirmed by both the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority and the Health and Social Care Board.
"The deficit has been quantified as £8m. Since this was confirmed the Western Trust has worked with the commissioner of services at the board to address this issue."
The statement adds that £2.3m of additional investment has been received by disability services for this financial year.


The new Premier League season began with a shock defeat for champions Leicester before new Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola made a winning start in the English top flight.

There were wins for West Brom and Swansea, while the three other opening-day games all ended in 1-1 draws.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool start their campaigns on Sunday, with Chelsea playing on Monday.
In Scotland, Rangers earned their first Premiership win of the new season.
Ninety days after the curtain came down on a season full of surprises and drama, the English top flight returned.
Led by the arrival of former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach Guardiola, there are new faces in the dugout, on the pitch and some new rules to grasp.
The Spaniard, 45, watched his City side nick a late win 2-1 against Sunderland as just 14 goals were scored in seven matches on the opening day.
Other than City's £47.5m defender John Stones, none of the biggest-money signings were in action.
Arsenal's £35m enforcer Granit Xhaka and Liverpool's £34m forward Sadio Mane could make their debuts on Sunday. Meanwhile Manchester United's record £89m midfielder Paul Pogba will not feature because he is suspended.
The most significant rule change sees red cards being issued to players who confront match officials. It was noticeable that none of the Hull City's players surrounded referee Mike Dean when Leicester were awarded a contentious penalty in the opening game.
Hull 2-1 Leicester
Burnley 0-1 Swansea
Crystal Palace 0-1 West Brom
Everton 1-1 Tottenham
Middlesbrough 1-1 Stoke
Southampton 1-1 Watford
Man City 2-1 Sunderland
United, crowned English champions on a record 20 occasions, go to Bournemouth as new manager Jose Mourinho looks to guide them to a first title since 2013.
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, who finished as runners-up behind Leicester last season, host Liverpool at Emirates Stadium.
Chelsea also have a new manager in the shape of former Italy coach Antonio Conte as they aim to improve on a disappointing 10th-place finish last term.
The four-time Premier League champions host London rivals West Ham on Monday.
Rangers, who have won a record 54 Scottish titles, are back in the top flight after a four-year absence following financial trouble.
After drawing 1-1 in their opener, first-half goals from Harry Forrester and Kenny Miller earned their first league win of the season at Dundee.
In the English Championship, relegated Newcastle United, managed by former Real Madrid, Liverpool and Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez, continued their losing start with a second successive league defeat, while Aston Villa clinched their first win in more than six months in their first season outside the top flight since 1987.
Benitez watched his Newcastle side lose 2-1 against Huddersfield Town in front of 52,079 supporters at St James' Park.
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The Greek prime minister says he does not want a rupture with Europe but he may not be able to avoid a rupture with the euro.

It was striking that Alexis Tsipras echoed the words of a top banker to whom I spoke today when warning that the European Central Bank's [ECB] decision to freeze emergency lending to Greek banks a week ago is causing a humanitarian disaster.
Because even encumbered by savage restrictions on cash transfers and withdrawals, Greek banks are just days away from running out of cash and collapsing.
In those circumstances, not only would millions of Greeks lose their savings, but companies would collapse. And Greece would run out of vital imported food, raw materials and medicine.
Greek banks are desperately in need of a lender of last resort to save them, and the Greek economy.
And sad to say no banker or central banker to whom I have spoken believes the ECB can fulfil that function - because it is struggling to prove to itself that Greek banks have adequate assets to pledge to it as security for new loans.
There are only two options. The Bank of Greece could make unsecured loans to Greek banks without the ECB's permission - which would provoke a furious reaction from Eurozone leaders and would be seen by most of them as tantamount to leaving the euro.
Or it can explicitly create a new currency, a new Drachma, which it could then use to provide vital finance to Greek banks and the Greek economy.
This huge risk, of a Greek exit from the euro, is tonight preoccupying governments, central banks and investors all over the world.
Monday will be a very hairy day on markets.
And although the ECB is expected to continue to refuse to rescue Greek banks, it will chuck billions of euros at bond markets, to prevent the borrowing costs of other vulnerable euro economies rising too far and too fast.


Port Vale have signed teenage Leicester City striker Harry Panayiotou on a 28-day youth loan.

The 19-year-old Saint Kitts and Nevis international is now tied to Vale Park until 16 November, which will take in the next four League One matches.
"We only bring players in who we think are going to add that little bit of quality and something different," said Vale interim manager Rob Page.
"We just think it's an opportunity to bring him in and get him in the squad."
Panayiotou scored on his debut for the Foxes when he came off the bench to hit a late winner in a 2-1 victory against Leeds United in April 2012 - but he has not featured for the first team since.
He will be eligible to make his Vale debut in Tuesday night's League One home fixture against Scunthorpe United.


Now one of Asia's most successful carriers, AirAsia was once a struggling Malaysian government-owned company.

In 2001, former music executive Tony Fernandes bought the heavily-indebted firm for a token sum of 25 cents.
Keeping the brand name, he created Asia's first low-cost airline, taking on local established rivals such as Malaysia Airlines and Australia's Qantas.
With the slogan "Now Everyone Can Fly", AirAsia now covers approximately 100 destinations across more than 15 countries, although many of these flights are serviced by associates and subsidiaries that use the company's brand name.
It is one of these associates, Indonesia AirAsia, which was operating flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore when it lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday morning.
It flies Airbus A320 aircraft along more than 30 routes, to destinations in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia.
Indonesia AirAsia is 49% owned by the main company, but has a separate chief executive, Sunu Widyatmoko. The rest of the firm is owned by Indonesian shareholders.
Indonesia's government prohibits foreign companies from owning the majority of any civil aviation firms.
AirAsia's business model is similar to other so-called budget airlines. It offers no business or first class seats, and the average fare is roughly 170 Malaysian ringgit (Â£30; $48).
In the three months to the end of September, the AirAsia group made a pre-tax profit of 26.5m Malaysian ringgit (Â£4.8m; $7.6m), and carried almost 5.3 million passengers.
However, the number of passengers carried by Indonesia AirAsia was down by 10% in the same period, dropping to 1.85 million after the airline cut some of its routes.
In 2013, it carried almost 8 million passengers in total.
Indonesia AirAsia was set to float on the stock market in the last couple of years, but rising costs and the depreciation of the country's rupiah currency against the US dollar have delayed such a move.
Indonesia AirAsia flies just one type of plane - the Airbus single-aisle A320.
The A320 seats between 150 and 180 passengers, and is known for its distinctive wingtips, which were designed to make the aircraft more fuel efficient.
Airbus says the A320 used on flight QZ8501 had accumulated some 23,000 flight hours over 13,600 flights.
AirAsia's brand image is closely tied with its chief executive, Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, who took over operations in 2001. Almost always in jeans and an AirAsia cap when interviewed, Mr Fernandes was seen as Malaysia's answer to Richard Branson.
In the same way that Mr Branson took on the dominance of British Airways in the 1980s, Mr Fernandes wanted to compete with established long-haul carriers in the region - like Malaysia's own flag carrier, Malaysian Airlines.
He's listed as one of the richest men in Malaysia and has always been adept at spinning his marketing message out to the media. With this plane's disappearance, he's wasted no time in tweeting out messages of support to the family and has already arrived in Surabaya along with members of the Indonesian affiliate of AirAsia.


Tunisian side Club Africain will host French giants Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in a friendly match next month.

The game will take place at the Olympic Stadium in Rades on 4 January, according to the French side.
The 1991 African champions and the six-time French Ligue 1 winners will contest the Trophée Ooredoo des Champions at the ground which hosted the 2004 African Cup of Nations final.
PSG are expected to field a strong squad, including star names such as Edinson Cavani, Thiago Silva, Serge Aurier and Angel Di Maria.
The match is to be bankrolled by Ooredoo, the premier private telephone operator in Tunisia.
"I'm very happy that the players and the staff will have the chance to come and experience the Tunisians' fervour for football," PSG managing director Frédéric Longuépée said.
"Paris Saint-German is very popular in Tunisia, with more social media fans numbering over 575,000 and growing everyday.
"This tour will be a great chance for us to come and meet them. Thanks to their support, we'll be playing in a fantastic atmosphere," Longuépée added.
Paris Saint-Germain have played five matches in Tunisia. The last two of those matches were held at the Olympic Stadium in Rades.
Over the last two years, Paris Saint-Germain have also had a presence in Tunisia thanks to the Paris Saint-Germain Academy programme, in partnership with Ooredoo.
Sessions were held in Tunis in 2015 and Sousse in March 2016.


A former paramedic has admitted failing in his duty after the death of a man who collapsed outside a hospital.

Carl Cope, 47, died from a heart attack after suffering chest pains near the A&E department at Walsall's Manor Hospital in June 2012.
Matthew Geary, 36, from Manor Avenue, Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, admitted at Wolverhampton Crown Court to failing to discharge a duty.
He was given bail and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed.
A 45-year-old woman, who has denied the same charge, is due for trial on 12 January, but the prosecution has discontinued a case against a 55-year-old man, who had been facing the same charge.
Mr Cope went for a drink after being left in an A&E waiting room and collapsed outside.


A court in India has turned down a bail application for a Derby woman accused of plotting to kill her husband.

Ramandeep Kaur Mann, 31, denies involvement in the killing of Sukhjit Singh, 34, who was found with his throat slit on 2 September in Banda, Uttar Pradesh.
Ms Kaur Mann is accused alongside her alleged lover, Mr Singh's childhood friend Gurpreet Singh.
Lawyers applied for her to be released while the investigation takes place.
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The judge did not specify a reason for turning down the application, her lawyer Benant Noor Singh said.
He said: "You can very well imagine the state of Indian prisons, they are already overcrowded.
"Obviously going into confinement does traumatise a person. She has been placed amongst 56 other females."
Sukhjit Singh, from Littleover, in Derby, was visiting his mother in Banda, about 450km (280 miles) south east of New Delhi with his wife, when he was killed.
Ms Kaur Mann's family have claimed she is being used as a scapegoat and the couple were happily married for 11 years.
Officials from the British High Commission have visited Ms Kaur Mann in prison to check on her welfare.
Neither of the suspects have been formally charged, but both are in custody while police decide whether to bring charges.


The FTSE 100 closed slightly lower on the last day of campaigning before the general election.

At the end of Wednesday's trading, the FTSE 100 was down 0.62% or 46.33 points at 7,478.62.
Banking stocks were among the top risers, with Lloyds Banking Group up 1.65% and RBS adding 1.35%.
Analysts said that struggling Spanish bank Banco Popular's rescue by Santander had given the overall banking sector a boost.
On the downside, pharmaceutical companies tumbled. Shire was the biggest faller on the 100-share index, dropping 3.2%.
Meanwhile, AstraZeneca lost 1% after its announcement that it had sold the rights for its migraine drug Zomig for $302m.
Colin McLean, manager of the UK growth fund at SVM Asset Management, said uncertainty over the outcome of the election so far appeared to be having little impact on investors.
"The bigger picture is that international stocks have been doing less well," he said.
"Quite a lot of what drove markets last year has gone into reverse over the last six months and investors are looking again at some of the beneficiaries of lower growth and deflation.
"That probably drives investors a little bit more than the election," he said.
On the currency markets, the pound rose slightly against the dollar, adding 0.33% to $1.2953. It rose 0.61% against the euro to 1.1517 euros.


The HS2 high-speed rail project has an "unrealistic timetable" and faces major cost pressures, a report by the National Audit Office has said.

The £56bn programme has too ambitious a schedule and rising costs could mean that not all its intended benefits are delivered, the NAO said.
The NAO said the 2026 target opening date for the first phase was "at risk, despite good progress".
But HS2 Ltd said it was confident that it could achieve its objectives.
The first phase of HS2, linking London and the West Midlands, is due to be completed in 10 years' time.
The next section, running as far as Crewe, is due to open a year later in 2027, with a further extension to Manchester and Leeds due to be finished by 2033.
The project cleared its final Commons stage in March and is now being considered by the House of Lords.
The NAO report was written before the Brexit vote, so it doesn't speculate on what effect, if any, it could have on HS2.
Still, this behemoth of a project involving £56bn of public money would appear to be safe, for now.
The Department for Transport's very keen to send out a "business as usual" message, promising that planned investment in our roads and railways won't suffer.
MPs are due to vote on phase one of HS2 later this year. If they approve the bill, that's effectively the green light to start building the line from London to Birmingham. And MPs approved the project overwhelmingly the last time they had a vote.
The company building the line, HS2 Ltd, is also about to hand out £11bn worth of contracts in the next couple of months. The winning companies can't begin building work until the HS2 bill has royal assent, due by the end of the year, but they will be looking to recruit, hire vehicles, get plans in place.
Having said all of that, who'd be brave enough to predict anything right now.
"HS2 is a large, complex and ambitious programme which is facing cost and time pressures," said Amyas Morse, head of the NAO.
"The unrealistic timetable set for HS2 Ltd by the Department [for Transport] means they are not as ready to deliver as they hoped to be at this point.
"The Department now needs to get the project working to a timescale that is achievable."
The NAO said phase one of HS2 was currently forecast to cost £27.4bn, exceeding available funding by £204m.
The estimated cost of phase two was also over budget, the NAO said, although potential savings had been identified.
The NAO  added that integrating HS2 into the wider UK rail network "is challenging and poses risks to value for money".
In its response, HS2 Ltd it welcomed the report "and its confirmation that, whilst many challenges remain, the project is on track to deliver its strategic scope and to do so on budget".
"The role of the NAO is to challenge projects such as HS2 and through that challenge, improve the way they deliver for the taxpayer," said the chief executive of HS2, Simon Kirby.
"This report does this and we accept that challenge.  It also, however, recognises the real progress we have made in taking the concept of HS2 and moving it nearer reality."
David Higgins, the non-executive chair of HS2 Ltd, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the timetable was "tight", but added: "We know the project can be delivered in that time."
He said the projected overspend on phase one represented less than 1% of the cost, which was not excessive "on a project of this scale at this stage".
Transport Minister Robert Goodwill said: "HS2 is on track and the National Audit Office agrees. We have strong cross party support and are on schedule to gain the powers needed to start building HS2, which the NAO acknowledges is a significant achievement."


In a ground mission in eastern Syria last weekend, US special forces killed Abu Sayyaf, a man they described as playing a key role in Islamic State's oil and gas operations.

The American commandos were quickly engaged in a firefight, during which Abu Sayyaf was killed. But their original goal was to capture and interrogate him, apparently in an effort to improve their understanding of how IS works.
It raised the question of how much is known about the structure of an organisation that rapidly overran large parts of Syria and Iraq last year, and has been able to hold onto much of that territory despite months of air strikes by a US-led coalition.
On a broad level the shape of Islamic State may seem fairly clear.
Its stated goal has been to establish a "caliphate" to rule over the entire Muslim world, under a single leader and in line with Islamic law, or Sharia.
Unlike some other insurgent or militant groups, it holds territory that it seeks to govern. It has therefore set up a bureaucratic system that in many aspects mimics that of a modern state.
The leader or "caliph" is Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, better known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He sits at the top of a structure of advisory councils and administrative departments that are replicated at regional and local levels. These oversee a range of functions and services that include security and intelligence, finance, media, health provision, and family or legal disputes.
The plans for Islamic State's rapid rise were detailed in the papers of Haji Bakr, the man described in a recent report by Germany's Der Spiegel as the group's architect.
He laid out a detailed strategy for the takeover and administration of towns that focused heavily on surveillance and espionage, drawing on the experience of a group of Iraqi former intelligence officials.
Haji Bakr was killed in northern Syria in January 2014, several months before his group's sudden expansion.
Yet material on the current structure of IS, and some of the names of the people with positions of responsibility, have also surfaced through administrative documents that have been leaked or seized.
Aymenn al-Tamimi, a fellow at the US based think-tank Middle East Forum, has been building up an archive that so far includes more than 120 IS operational documents.
These give directions on everything from strict punishments to child vaccinations, fishing rights, and an order for lorry drivers to give lifts to IS fighters. They are issued for "provinces" as far away as eastern Libya.
"Because there's so much available from these documents we do know a lot more about [IS] than other groups," Mr Tamimi says.
The organisational structure became clearer in June 2014 when the establishment of a caliphate was announced shortly after the capture of the Iraqi city of Mosul, along with much of the north and west of the country.
"The presentation becomes much more formalised and centralised once the caliphate is declared," Mr Tamimi explains.
One example is Islamic State's media operation, which is replicated through the various areas under the group's control and appears to be carefully co-ordinated.
After the Nigerian group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to IS there was a series of videos from different places of people on the street stating their support for the move. More recently, there was a flurry of videos promoting IS-run hospitals and health services.
Another example was an order issued in December 2014 by the group's general supervisory committee giving operatives across IS-held territory an order to disable GPS devices within one month.
Yet that order was given because of the need for IS fighters to avoid detection as targets for air strikes, and as the campaign against IS has escalated, the group has tried not to give away clues about its operations and the men who run them.
IS talks very little about its leadership, and beyond Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the group's spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, little is clear about the identity and roles of senior figures.
There were said to be two deputy leaders - Abu Ali al-Anbari in Syria and Abu Muslim al-Turkmani in Iraq.
But last week the Iraqi defence ministry claimed that the group's second-in-command, who they identified as Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed or Abu Alaa al-Afari, had been killed in an air strike.
Iraqi sources identified him as the same man that the US had offered a $7m (Â£4.5m) reward for, a "senior IS official" named as Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli.
There was some suggestion on jihadist social media accounts that Afari and Anbari were the same person, but also scepticism about Iraq's claim.
One problem for those trying to decipher the workings of IS is that there has been relatively little dissent in its ranks, limiting the amount of loose chatter on the internet and the flow of intelligence.
Another is the extensive use of pseudonyms and aliases - the US listed 12 for Qaduli alone. And Der Spiegel's report spoke of a complex parallel command structure staffed by additional commanders and powerbrokers.
Among the figures that have surfaced in the past are theologian Turki al-Binali, and military commanders Omar Shishani and Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi.
But there is no consensus on the true extent of their influence, or their formal roles. Some apparently important figures may be given prominence as decoys, fall rapidly out of favour, or be killed.
"The general problem is not knowing who is at the middle or even senior level," says Mr al-Tamimi. "These people are designed to be replaceable."
That may be the case with Abu Sayyaf, who few people appeared to have heard about before the US announced his death on Saturday.
US officials later said his real name was Fathi bin Awn bin Jildi Murad al-Tunisi, though he also had a number of aliases.
Abu Sayyaf's wife, identified as Umm Sayyaf, is now being debriefed in Iraq, where she was brought along with a reportedly large amount of electronic data seized in the raid.
Intelligence officials will be hoping that it sheds valuable light on IS's current decision-making structure and senior operatives.


British Olympic diver Tom Daley has married his partner, US film director, Dustin Lance Black.

The couple got married in a service at a luxury hotel on Dartmoor National Park in Devon, a source confirmed to the BBC.
The Bovey Castle Hotel venue is about 30 miles from Daley's home city of Plymouth.
A guest at the wedding said media reports the diver re-enacted a scene from Romeo and Juliet were untrue.
"I'm not sure which wedding they were at, but it wasn't the one I attended," he said.
Daley, 22, won bronze medals at the Olympic Games in London and Rio de Janeiro.
He revealed in a YouTube video in 2013 he had a boyfriend, saying his "whole world changed" when he fell in love with a man.
"Come spring this year my life changed massively when I met someone and they make me feel so happy, so safe, and everything just feels great and, well, that someone is a guy," he said.
The high-profile couple announced they were engaged in 2015.
Black, 42, is a US film director, writer and producer.
He won the best original screenplay Oscar for the 2008 film Milk, which was based on the life of gay rights activist and politician, Harvey Milk.
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The number of visitors to York Art Gallery has almost halved since admission fees were brought in last year.

Charges of £7.50 were introduced in August following a £8m revamp.
Figures from York Museums Trust (YMT) show that visits dropped from 81,000 to 46,000 compared with the same six-month period in 2012 before it closed for refurbishment.
YMT said the charges were needed due to cuts in its council grant.
The introduction of charges brought complaints from local residents, with some  holding a protest outside the gallery.
'Fast reduction'
YMT's new chief executive, Reyahn King, said the fall in visitor numbers was "disappointing".
"We would prefer not to have to charge," she said. "But the reality of the funding situation is that was the only way we could absorb a very steep and fast reduction in our funding from the city council."
YMT said that its funding from City of York Council fell from £1.5m in 2013-14 to £600,000 in 2015/16.
It added that York residents could purchase an annual pass for £10, which allows unlimited visits to its museums.
The trust is a charity and runs 18 venues in the city, including York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum.


Discount supermarket Aldi has reported record sales in the UK and Ireland for 2015 and says it will invest £300m in store revamps, but profits have been hit by the supermarket price war.

Sales rose 12% year-on-year to £7.7bn for the year to 31 December 2015.
But operating profits fell 1.8% to £255.6m which it attributed to "continued investment in prices".
Aldi said it would invest more in fresh produce, alcoholic drinks, ready meals and refurbish 100 stores.
Chief executive Matthew Barnes said the move was the result of a "listening exercise" involving more than 50,000 shoppers.
The German-owned firm added that it would open 70 new stores in the UK next year as part of plans to increase the number of its outlets from 659 to 1,000 by 2022.
Aldi said it had doubled revenue in just three years and attracted 761,000 new customers in the UK. Its share of the UK grocery market now stands at 6.2%.
Aldi added that its future investment plans were unaffected by the UK's decision to leave the EU.
The retailer is planning to increase the size of its two existing distribution sites, open a new one in Cardiff and re-develop its UK head office in Warwickshire.
Aldi's growth story is remarkable but the price war is eating into its profits. It says its cut prices on 30% of its products, to maintain the price gap with its bigger rivals who have sharpened their offer.
Tesco's new farm brands range, for instance, has given Aldi a run for its money. So how far is Aldi prepared to go to win on price?
Its UK boss, Matthew Barnes, repeatedly said this morning that Aldi would invest "whatever" it takes to retain its position. He even hinted that Aldi would tolerate losses in order to win long term.
In other words, price is a battle that that the big four grocers simply won't be able to win.
And, for now at least, Aldi continues to set the tempo.
"There's no reason why there can't be an Aldi in every town and city," says Matthew Barnes.
The march of the discounters shows no sign of abating any time soon.
Aldi said it had increased the number of products it sourced from British suppliers to 77% from 69% in 2014.
Mr Barnes said Aldi would continue to concentrate on maintaining "a significant price advantage over our competitors".
The majority of consumers in the UK still shop at the big four supermarket chains - Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.
But the influence of Aldi and Lidl's low-cost model has been huge and they have cut into the big four's share of the market.
They remain Britain's fastest growing supermarkets with a combined market share of 10.8%, according to recent industry data.
Their presence has sparked a prolonged supermarket price war and changed consumers' attitudes towards no-frills shopping, eroding snobbery towards discount retailers.
Neil Wilson, market analyst at ETX Capital, said: "What's good news for Aldi is bad for the Big Four supermarkets.
"What will worry the boards of those firms the most is the loss of market share - Aldi is enticing more and more customers away from the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury.
"And with bold plans to have 1,000 stores in the UK by 2022 it's hard to see the retailer not taking more market share. The question is how much."


Bob Burns, a founding member of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died in a car crash at the age of 64.

The drummer, who played on the band's first two albums, was killed when his car left the road on Friday, striking a mailbox and a tree.
Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Tracey Watson said Burns, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was killed in the wreck.
He was alone in the car, and no other cars were involved. Police are trying to establish if weather was a factor.
Burns performed alongside singer Ronnie Van Zant, bassist Larry Junstrom and guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins in Lynyrd Skynyd from 1966 to 1974.
During that time the rock band, who were named after their childhood PE teacher, Leonard Skinner, recorded such songs as Sweet Home Alabama, Simple Man and Free Bird.
Burns left the band after becoming exhausted by touring. Artimus Pyle subsequently replaced him as drummer for 1975's Nuthin' Fancy album.
He was not aboard the plane that crashed in 1977, killing three of the band's members, including Van Zant.
The group disbanded after the tragedy - but reformed in 1987 with Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, on lead vocals.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, at which point Burns rejoined the group for a one-off performance.
Lynyrd Skynyrd still tour with Rossington, the only original member still in the band.
"Well, today I'm at a loss for words, but I just remember Bob being a funny guy," Rossington said in a message posted on the Lynyrd Skynyrd Facebook page. "He used to do skits for us and make us laugh all the time, he was hilarious!"
"Ironically, since we played Jacksonville yesterday, Dale, my daughter and I, went by the cemetery to see some of the guys in the band and my parents' grave sites.
"On the way back, we went by Bob Burns' old house. It was there in the carport where we used to first start to practice with Skynyrd.
"My heart goes out to his family and God bless him and them in this sad time. He was a great, great drummer."


Amidst the celebrations at Windsor Park in Belfast following Northern Ireland's victory over Greece on Thursday night, one man in the stadium could have been forgiven if he wanted a quiet moment of contemplation.

Nigel Worthington was Michael O'Neill's predecessor as Northern Ireland manager and knows the pain of missing out on qualification for a European Championship finals.
But as a player, he was present when the national side last qualified for a major tournament in Mexico in 1986.
He is well placed to offer an assessment on the scale of the current team's achievement and the pressures involved.
"I think it is a fantastic achievement by the players and manager and for the supporters who have been there through thick and thin," he said.
"The finals in France are something for them to look forward to and enjoy. They should take huge pride in what they have achieved.
"There was a period when Michael was manager when he went a number of games without a win, but he stuck with it and never gave up. The Irish Football Association also stuck with him and they should take credit for that.
"It is never easy to qualify, Northern Ireland got off to a great start with wins over Hungary, the Faroe Islands and Greece, they started the ball rolling and then it just gained momentum.
"I was at the game last night and it was fantastic, the team played really well and the atmosphere was incredible."
Worthington was part of the Northern Ireland team that drew with England 0-0 at Wembley in November 1985 to secure qualification for the World Cup finals in Mexico.
He said there was little time for celebration after the game, but recalled with fondness the post-match television interview of central defender, the late Alan McDonald.
"The celebration was short-lived, it was a Wednesday night, you went over to the fans, but then you were back in training with your club on the Thursday," he added.
"I remember Big Mac saying in the interview 'if anyone thinks that was a fix they can come and see me'.
"That was typical of Big Mac, he played with passion and pride and never let his head drop.
"He spoke from the heart."
The former Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United full-back said it took time to digest that success and he thinks it will be the same for O'Neill's players.
"At Wembley in 1985 it took a while to sink in and the current Northern Ireland players will experience this, it drip feeds into your system over the weeks until the end of the season and the start of the finals," he said.
"Then you look back on what you have achieved.
"I remember the pre-tournament training in Guadalajara in Mexico when we reached the finals, it was tough trying to acclimatise.
"The whole spectacle around the World Cup, the different teams being there and the supporters, was really fantastic."
Worthington also had a simple message for the players who now have the opportunity to sample Northern Ireland's first ever appearance at a European Championship finals.
"You are already the pride of Northern Ireland after this huge achievement, go and play with a smile on your face," he added.


Prosecutors in Los Angeles have declined to charge comedian Bill Cosby for two alleged sex assault cases, one from 1965 and one from 2008.

In the more recent case, involving a 25-year-old model, a district attorney said there was insufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
For the older case, prosecutors said the statute of limitations had expired.
Mr Cosby, 78, was charged in a sex assault case last week in Pennsylvania. He has denied the claims.
Dozens of women have come out with allegations against him including drugging, sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape, dating back decades.
In one of the LA cases, model Chloe Goins claimed Mr Cosby drugged and molested her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008 when she was 17.
Mr Cosby's lawyers have claimed he was not at the same party as Ms Goins.
In the 1965 case, the alleged victim claims Mr Cosby gave her an alcoholic drink at a jazz club in Hollywood, took her to a house and forced her to have sex with him.
At the height of his fame from The Cosby Show, the comedian was the highest paid entertainer on US television.
On Wednesday, his wife learnt that she would not have to give evidence in a defamation case filed by seven women accusing the comedian of sexual assault.


A weaker economic outlook means demand for oil in 2017 is likely to grow at a slower rate than this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

Global demand for oil will grow by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2017, down from 1.4 million bpd this year, the IEA said.
This represents a cut of 100,000 bpd from the IEA's forecast last month.
Meanwhile, increasing supply is keeping pressure on crude prices, which have fallen sharply in the past month.
After reaching a price of above $52 a barrel in June, Brent crude fell 14.5% in July due to combination of rising stockpiles and worries about the outlook for demand.
However, prices jumped as much as 5% on Thursday following comments from the Saudi energy minister that suggested action could be taken to cut excessive production.
Brent was up 4.2% at $45.90 a barrel, while US added 4% to $43.37.
Global supply of oil rose by 800,000 bpd in July, with output from nations in the Opec oil producers' cartel rising sharply.
"Opec crude oil output rose by 150,000 bpd in July to 33.4 million bpd - holding at an eight-year high - as Saudi Arabia produced at the highest ever and Iraq pumped harder," the IEA said.
The IEA said huge amounts of stored oil was also putting pressure on prices.
"The massive overhang of stocks is also keeping a lid on prices, with both newly produced and stored crude competing for market share in an increasingly volatile refinery margin environment."
However, the IEA said that stockpiles may ease in the coming months, which could act to stabilise prices.
"Oil's drop ... has put the 'glut' back into the headlines even though our balances show essentially no oversupply during the second half of the year," the IEA said, referring to crude oil.
The agency said slowing demand growth had encouraged struggling refiners to substantially cut output for the first time since 2008-09, which would help eat into the massive overhang of petrol, diesel and other refined fuels.
It said that this could ultimately be supportive of oil prices.
"The resulting product stock draw (fall in stockpiles) will increase refiners' appetite for crude oil and help pave the way to a sustained tightening of the crude oil balance."


Play was abandoned in mid-afternoon on the first day of Derbyshire's County Championship Division Two meeting with Worcestershire

Morning rain left surface water on an already saturated outfield and umpires Nigel Cowley and Paul Baldwin called it off after a 14:30 BST inspection.
The teams have yet to be announced, but Worcestershire may include Tom Fell.
He is in the squad for the first time this season, after being given the all-clear following treatment for cancer.
Derbyshire, under new coach John Sadler in a Championship game for the first time, are eighth, 30 points behind fourth-placed Worcestershire.
Weather-ravaged Worcestershire have managed barely three hours of cricket in the last eight days, Saturday's four-wicket T20 Blast defeat by Nottinghamshire, following two abandonments against Warwickshire both in the One-Day Cup and the T20 Blast.
Having also lost their entire opening Championship game at home to Kent, as well as the third day against Glamorgan in Cardiff, this is their sixth full day lost this season.


The Mount Etna volcano in Italy has erupted.

17 March 2017 Last updated at 09:20 GMT
A BBC team and some tourists were on the mountain when the explosion happened.
BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle described the experience of "Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders  and boiling steam."
Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, it's been erupting for the last three weeks.
Mount Etna erupts a few times a year.


Qatar says it has begun shipping cargo through Oman to bypass restrictions imposed by other Gulf states.

Qatar Ports Management Company said direct services to Sohar and Salalah would operate three times a week.
Cargo for Qatar is usually shipped to ports in the United Arab Emirates and then loaded onto smaller vessels.
But last week the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt severed economic and diplomatic ties with Qatar, alleging it supported terrorist groups and Iran.
Qatar has denied the charges and said the restrictions violate international law.
After meeting his Qatari counterpart in London on Monday, UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson urged Qatar's neighbours to "ease the blockade".
But he also said Qataris must "take seriously" their concerns and "urgently need to do more to address support for extremist groups".
The tiny, oil- and gas-rich Gulf emirate is dependent on imports by land and sea for the basic needs of its population of 2.7 million.
On 5 June, the maritime authorities in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain said they had closed their ports to Qatari-flagged vessels.
Dubai's massive Jebel Ali Port and Abu Dhabi Terminals also said they would not grant access to other vessels travelling to and from Qatar.
The world's largest container shipping line, Maersk Line, subsequently said it could not supply Qatar because the so-called "feeder" vessels it uses would no longer be able to transport cargo between the UAE and Doha.
On Sunday evening, the Qatar Ports Management Company (Mwani) announced that shipments would now be able to go through Oman, bypassing the UAE.
"In light of the recent developments in the region, Mwani Qatar and its partners have ensured the business continuity of its ports and shipping operations in and out of Qatar to mitigate the impact of any action that would affect the imports and exports to and from the country," Al Jazeera quoted it as saying.
Oman is not among the Arab states that cut ties to Qatar, and has brokered secret negotiations between Western governments and Iran in the past.
Maersk Line immediately said it would accept new bookings for feeder shipments from Oman, with the first vessel scheduled to depart Salalah on 19 June and arrive in Doha on 25 June.
Despite the creation of the route, China's COSCO - the world's fourth-largest shipping line - announced it was suspending services to Qatar on Monday.
COSCO said it was acting "in view of the uncertainties as the situation develops" and "in order to protect the interests of customers", Reuters news agency reported.
When Qatar's isolation began last week there were reports of panic-buying in supermarkets amid fears of severe shortages.
But over the weekend, dairy products shipped by Turkish producers began arriving on shelves and five planeloads of fresh fruit and vegetables were despatched by Iran. Three ships carrying 350 tonnes (385 tons) of food are also set to leave Iran.
Qatar's foreign minister says 16% of Qatar's food supplies were transported across its land border with Saudi Arabia, which was closed last week. The crossing was also used for imports of building supplies and electronic equipment.
In a separate development on Monday, Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National reported that the UAE would not deport Qataris married to Emirati nationals.
It came a day after the authorities in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain said they were setting up hotlines to help families with Qatari members.


The current system of social care in Scotland is "unsustainable" and an additional £667m will be needed by 2020 to maintain levels of service.

A report by the Accounts Commission, which scrutinises council spending, said a "frank, wide-ranging" debate was needed on the issue.
They said an ageing population, budget cuts and legislative changes were all putting pressure on the system.
Scotland's 32 councils currently spend about £3.1bn on social care.
That money was used to provide support to more than 300,000 people in 2014/15 - about 70% of whom were aged over 65.
The commission also said the public and service users needed to be more involved in shaping future care.
Councils plan to save £54m from their social work budgets over the next financial year, with most now only providing services for people aged over 65 assessed as being at "critical or substantial risk".
The report said: "Councils' social work departments are facing significant challenges because of a combination of financial pressures caused by a real-terms reduction in overall council spending, demographic change, and the cost of implementing new legislation and policies."
£3.1bn
Annual spending in 2014/15
300,000 people supported
759,000 unpaid carers in Scotland
£54m planned saving in 2017
27% more pensioners by 2037
The report added: "If councils and integration joint boards continue to provide services in the same way, we have estimated that these changes require councils' social work spending to increase by between £510m and £667m by 2020."
Social work departments also cover services for vulnerable children, with 17,357 youngsters being looked after by local authorities or appearing on child protection registers as of July 2015.
That represents an increase of 36% since 2000, said the report.
The overall aim of the audit by the Accounts Commission was to examine how prepared social work departments were for future financial and demographic changes.
The commission's report said that between 2012 and 2037, Scotland's population was projected to increase by 9% - that included a 27% rise in the number of people of pensionable age.
Although life expectancy had continued to rise, the number of years that a person can expect to live in good health has not changed significantly since 2008, said the report.
Recent legislative changes have seen the increased integration of health and care services and a real-terms reduction in overall council spending.
Spending on social care now accounts for a third of overall council spending in Scotland.
However, the Scottish government estimates that there are 759,000 unpaid carers aged 16 and over in Scotland, while Carers UK estimated the value of unpaid care in Scotland at £10.8bn.
The commission said that there was a recruitment issue in the care sector and low pay, anti-social hours and difficult working conditions were all adding to the crisis.
They also said that some care providers had expressed concerns that Brexit and the possibility of a future points-based immigration system could add to this.
They cited a 2008 survey which indicated that 6.1% the workforce in Scottish care homes were EU - non-UK workers, and a further 7.3% were employed under work permits from places such as the Philippines, India and China.
Just over 200,000 people work in social work and social care services, representing about one in 13 people in employment in Scotland - 85% are women.
Responding to the report, Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "The integration of health and social care services is one of the most ambitious programmes of work that this government has undertaken and we have committed over half a billion pounds towards making the integration of services a success.
"Integration will support better provision of care within communities and in people's homes - helping people to lead longer, more independent lives."


A "genteel" festival labelled the most middle class in Britain is hoping to boost its capacity by 5,000.

The organiser of the Latitude Festival near Southwold wants to increase numbers to a total of 39,999.
Festival Republic has applied to the local council for permission to increase capacity at the Henham Park venue.
The popular Suffolk event is in its 13th year and when it began about 10,000 attended.
Speaking in 2006, Melvin Benn said he was launching Latitude as a festival with a "genteel, less manic feel".
The three-day festival, which includes comedy, theatre and poetry as well as major music acts, has become known as a "middle class" festival.
The public have until the beginning of February to comment on the application, which will be looked at by Suffolk Coastal and Waveney Council's licensing department.
Acts that have appeared over the years include Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros and Interpol as headliners. Tom Jones also appeared in 2010.


Nigel Farage has predicted UKIP could hold the balance of power following the next general election after his party gained its first elected MP.

The UKIP leader said his party had momentum after Douglas Carswell won the Clacton by-election by 12,404 votes.
In Friday's other by-election result, Labour held on to Heywood and Middleton but UKIP slashed its majority to 617.
David Cameron said voting UKIP helped Labour, while Ed Miliband pledged no "complacency" from his party.
After Mr Carswell overturned a 12,068 Conservative majority in the Essex seat to push his old party into second place, Mr Farage said "something big" was happening in British politics.
He added: "We've got a chance here in a general election next year that is likely to be very tight, in an election in which no one party is likely to have a majority. If UKIP can keep this momentum going, we could find ourselves next May in a position where we hold the balance of power."
He said UKIP's second place in Heywood and Middleton was "even more significant" than its win in Clacton, saying the party was now the main opposition to Labour in northern cities.
Mr Farage also said he expected more Conservative MPs to join UKIP following the defection of Mr Carswell and Mark Reckless, who has triggered a by-election in Rochester and Strood, Kent.
"I think it would be very surprising if more people did not come across", he said.
Mr Farage, who will campaign in Rochester and Strood on Saturday, said he had also spoken to Labour MPs "frustrated that they are not able to change things in British politics".
Mr Cameron said the general election would be "the most important in a generation".
He added: "What last night demonstrates is that if you see a big UKIP vote you end up with Ed Miliband as prime minister, Ed Balls as chancellor, Labour in power."
Speaking in Heywood, where he congratulated winning candidate Liz McInnes, Mr Miliband said UKIP voters did not think political parties listened to them or that the country represented them.
He said Labour had changed and realised it was "not prejudiced" to worry about immigration, but said he did not think UKIP could "represent the interests of working people".
The next election would be a fight against "disillusionment and despair", he predicted.
On a walkabout with Mr Farage in Clacton on Friday morning, Mr Carswell said he did not want to be UKIP leader, and said his old party had "smeared" Mr Reckless since his defection.
In his acceptance speech earlier he told UKIP supporters there was "nothing that we cannot achieve" but urged his party to reach out to as many voters as possible - including first and second generation immigrants - and to "temper" its "passion with compassion".
In the wake of their narrow victory in Heywood, senior figures defended Ed Miliband's leadership but several MPs have expressed concerns about its electoral strategy.
"If last night's vote heralds the start of UKIP's serious assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats at the next election." former pensions minister Frank Field MP said.
Mr Field said "very large numbers" of Labour voters were unhappy with the way the party was performing, saying this stemmed from their concerns about levels of immigration.
He added that "until we get that central to our message we're in trouble".
But shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said Labour was "more united" than at any time he could remember since his election in 2001 and Ed Miliband had held the party together after it lost power in 2010.
British politics is now a national contest between at least four parties - Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP - and arguably five or more if you add the Greens (who are polling as well as the Lib Dems), the SNP (who are threatening Labour's many former Labour strongholds) not to mention Plaid Cymru and Respect.
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Mr Carswell is the first MP to be elected under UKIP's banner although it did have one MP for two years after 2008 after another Tory MP, Bob Spink, defected to them.
It had also looked at one point that UKIP could have been celebrating a double success with the result in the Greater Manchester constituency of Heywood and Middleton - held comfortably by Labour since its creation in 1983 - deemed close enough to warrant a "bundle check" of votes.
But in the end, Labour's Liz McInnes got 11,633 votes -  41% - with UKIP's John Bickley gaining 11,016 - 39%.
The Heywood and Middleton contest was prompted by the death of long-serving Labour MP Jim Dobbin last month. His majority at the last general election was 5,971.
The Lib Dems lost their deposit in Clacton, where they were pushed into fifth place behind the Greens with just 453 votes and saw their vote collapse in Heywood and Middleton.
But Energy Secretary Ed Davey said his party was "never going to be in the race" in Clacton and it was "confident" about the future based on its record in government.
Douglas Carswell (UKIP) 21,113 (59.75%)
Giles Watling (Con) 8,709 (24.64%)
Tim Young (Lab) 3,957 (11.20%)
Chris Southall (Green) 688 (1.95%)
Andy Graham (LD) 483 (1.37%)
Bruce Sizer (Ind) 205 (0.58%)
Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 127 (0.36%)
Charlotte Rose (Ind) 56 (0.16%)
Turnout was 51%
Liz McInnes (Lab) 11,633 (40.86%)
John Bickley (UKIP) 11,016 (38.69%)
Iain Gartside (Con) 3,496 (12.28%)
Anthony Smith (LD) 1,457 (5.12%)
Abi Jackson (Green) 870 (3.06%)
Turnout was 36%