Sir Antony Jay, the co-writer of TV political comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, has died aged 86 after a long illness.

A representative said the former broadcaster died on Sunday evening surrounded by his wife and family.
He penned the 1980s BBC television series, starring Paul Eddington and Sir Nigel Hawthorne, with Jonathan Lynn.
Sir Antony's career began in the BBC's current affairs department where he was a founding member of the Tonight team.
He later scripted the documentaries Royal Family and Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen, after which he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for personal services to the Royal Family.
Yes Minister, which ran for three series between 1980 and 1984, followed the travails of MP James Hacker, minister for administrative affairs, and his battles against unflappable Whitehall civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby.
The subsequent Yes, Prime Minister, broadcast for two seasons between 1986 and 1988, portrayed Hacker's life after he entered 10 Downing Street. Then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was known to be a great fan of the series.
Lynn told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he and Sir Antony were "very, very good friends", adding: "Tony was someone I was immensely fond of."
"We didn't really agree about a great many things - he was a right-wing Conservative and I would describe myself as sort-of left leaning."
He admitted he first thought Sir Antony's idea to write a comedy about the Civil Service was "dull" and he didn't follow it up for three years, until he was looking for a new project.
Lynn said: "There were no bad memories - except about his illness. We didn't have a cross word in 30-something years. We always got along well - we only had a good time."
Michael Dobbs, who wrote House of Cards, said Sir Antony had helped him when he started out as a writer, adding he was "so generous with his time".
He said Yes Minister was "a programme that could actually engage the attention of Margaret Thatcher", adding: "She never watched television, she didn't have time - yet Yes Minister was one of her extraordinary favourites, and I think it was unique."
Lord Dobbs added Sir Antony and Lynn "really got to the heart of so much of what goes on in Whitehall and Westminster".
The BBC was given permission to shoot exteriors in Downing Street, and Eddington was allowed to walk through the famous door.
Sir Antony and Lynn returned to the comedy in recent years collaborating on a stage version of Yes, Prime Minister in 2010, while writing three general election-inspired sketches aired on BBC's Newsnight in the same year.
Derek Fowlds, who starred as Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley in both comedies, said: "We had seven wonderful years together.
"Sir Antony Jay was a genius, quite frankly - I was totally in awe of him. He was very charming, a real true gent. I adored the man."
Earlier this month, the duo reunited again to write a new Yes Minister sketch published in the Guardian newspaper, inspired by the UK's vote to leave the EU.
In his later years, Sir Antony had become an outspoken critic of the BBC, recommending in a 2008 report for the centre-right think tank the Centre for Policy Studies that the corporation be slimmed down to BBC One, Radio 4 and a news department.
He also criticised the BBC for being "biased" on climate change, and suggested staff were "anti-industry" and "anti-monarchy".
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Almost 2,000 veterans and world leaders are attending the main commemoration event marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France.

They are gathered at Sword Beach in Normandy, one of five landing points for the Allies, where scenes from the 1944 invasion will be recreated.
The Queen earlier laid a wreath at a cemetery in Bayeux during a ceremony attended by about 400 veterans.
The landings were the first stage of the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.
By the end of D-Day on 6 June 1944, the Allies had established a foothold in France - an event that would eventually help bring the war to an end.
As the sun rose over Normandy shores this morning, a veteran watched, lost in memories, from the deck of HMS Bulwark. The Royal Navy flagship had sailed the English Channel overnight at the head of an international task group of ships.
For former Royal Marine Corporal Bill Bryant, 89, the sight of the beaches brought back emotional recollections of the same time exactly 70 years ago, as he prepared to drive his landing craft to the shores - carrying his colleagues to their fate on land, amid a barrage of noise and chaos.
The contrast with today could not have been greater as he joined many other veterans on "Gold" Beach, amid a festival atmosphere. The sunshine sparkled on the waves, and French families and tourists from across Europe gathered to watch military bands on the main square at Arromanches.
This doughty but dwindling band of brothers know this may be the last time they meet on these shores. For the veterans, and those who've come to honour them, the ceremonies at Bayeux cemetery are a poignant but powerful reminder of courage and endurance, as D-Day slowly passes from living memory into history.
A 21-gun salute and a flypast also formed part of proceedings at the Sword Beach ceremony, which is being attended by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A Lancaster bomber, regarded as the workhorse of the RAF, flew over the crowds below, flanked by two Spitfires.
During a speech delivered earlier at a US war cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer near Bayeux, French President Francois Hollande said every man who took part in D-Day was a "hero".
He said France would never forget what it owed them, nor would it forget its solidarity with the US.
And in a speech at Ouistreham, which was drenched in warm sunshine, Mr Hollande paid tribute to "the courage of all these young men who came from all over the world to conquer - metre after metre, inch after inch - the beaches and the dunes".
Earlier at Colleville-sur-Mer, US President Barack Obama said: "America's claim - our commitment to liberty, to equality, to freedom, to the inherent dignity of every human being - that claim is written in blood on these beaches, and it will endure for eternity".
Elsewhere, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall attended a Royal British Legion service at Bayeux Cathedral.
And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are attending events in Arromanches, near Gold landing beach where thousands of British troops came ashore on D-Day.
Following a service at Bayeux Cathedral, many veterans left to walk to the nearby military cemetery where nearly 2,000 are now gathered.
The BBC's Becky Kelly reported that crowds have been bursting into applause as the veterans walk past, some people shouting "thanks".
In other events:
How was the D-Day invasion launched
D-Day timeline: The beginning of the end
How close did D-Day come to failure
On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of northern France in Normandy.
The landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe - and were intended to end World War Two.
Portsmouth's D-Day Museum says as many as 4,413 Allied troops died on the day of the invasion - more than previously thought.
By the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold in France. Within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated, as Soviet armies swept in from the east and captured Hitler's stronghold in Berlin.


An aurora has been spotted outside our Solar System for the first time, scientists report.

An international team detected the light display around a brown dwarf about 18 light years away in the Lyra constellation.
They say the luminous glow looks like the northern lights, but is up to a million times brighter and more red than green in colour.
The findings are reported in the journal Nature.
Dr Stuart Littlefair, an astronomer from the University of Sheffield, said: "This is the first time that we have confirmed we are seeing auroras on brown dwarfs."
Charged interaction
Shimmering auroras are some of the Earth's most dazzling displays. This luminous glow can also appear around all the planets in our Solar System.
They are caused when charged particles from the Sun interact with the atmosphere.
But the illuminated brown dwarf, an object which is too small to have become a star but too massive to be a planet, lies further out in the galaxy.
Called LSR J1835, it was observed using the Very Large Array radio telescope and the Hale and Keck optical telescopes.
The scientists watched the object as it rapidly rotated, and observed how the light varied.
"The brightness changes are consistent with what you would expect from auroras," said Dr Littlefair.
The dwarf's aurora is mainly red in colour because the charged particles are mainly interacting with hydrogen in its atmosphere. On Earth, the greenish glow is caused as the electrons from the Sun hit oxygen atoms.
However, scientists are puzzled about how the light show is being generated.
The brown dwarf is a sort of failed star itself, and has no other star like the Sun nearby to blast it with charged particles.
"It is possible material is being stripped off the surface of the brown dwarf to produce its own electrons," said Dr Littlefair.
Another option is an as-yet-undetected planet or moon around the dwarf is throwing off material to light it up.
Some of Jupiter's auroras are produced in this way, as charged particles are emitted from volcanoes on its moon Io.
The discovery is also helping scientists to better understand brown dwarfs.
There is some debate over whether they are more star-like in their nature, or whether they have planetary attributes.
"If you are working in brown dwarfs, it matters whether you think of them as small stars or big planets," said Dr Littlefair.
"We already known from observations of brown dwarfs that they have clouds in the atmosphere. Now we know they also show auroras, it is yet more reason to consider brown dwarfs as scaled-up versions of planets rather than scaled-down version of stars."
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Chancellors love springing surprises, especially if they manage to shoot some of the opposition's foxes at the same time.

George Osborne will consider that he has scored not one but two direct hits - no cuts to working tax credits and no cuts to police budgets.
The former, of course, is largely due to the defiance of the House of Lords (Mr Osborne was ridiculed by Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, describing it as a climb-down).
The latter may or may not be connected with that leaked letter from an unnamed police chief to the Home Office warning about the dire consequences of cuts in police budgets of 20% just at a time when community policing and intelligence-gathering were at a premium because of the counter terrorism agenda.
The chancellor was equally determined to present himself as George (if not Bob) the Builder with his Â£4bn push for private developers to deliver 400,000 new affordable homes to buy.
There will be some scepticism about this, and not just on the Opposition benches.
Could this be yet another missed target bearing in mind that, as Mr McDonnell pointed out, the construction industry is in recession?
In the Midlands, building developments are severely hampered by a shortage of bricklayers.
One major local initiative which will receive a general welcome from all sides in politics will be Mr Osborne's confirmation that the long-awaited 670-bed super hospital in Sandwell is on the list of three new hospitals.
It will take over services currently provided by Birmingham City and Sandwell hospitals.
A "flat cash" settlement for local authorities guarantees that the agony for local councils will extend throughout the lifetime of this parliament.  This will be the stark backdrop for councils preparing to set their budgets for next year.
Labour MPs including Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston) complain that local government is being redefined, forced by budget cuts to withdraw from important areas of their work, with only the voluntary "third sector" left to fill the gap, or so it's hoped.
Will this be offset by his further encouragement for the local leaders who signed up in Coventry last week for the West Midlands Combined Authority's "devo deal"?
The chair of the shadow authority which paves the way for it, the Conservative leader of Solihull Council, Bob Sleigh, told the BBC he is delighted the Â£8bn of devolved spending power already announced will enable the new authority, complete with elected "metro" mayor, to deliver the "big ticket" items - transport, housing, skills and business growth.
It will certainly concentrate the minds of councils outside the "core" authority area who have so far stood aloof from the West Midlands Combined Authority. Places like Warwickshire, where nearby Coventry and the Coventry and Warwickshire enterprise partnership have signed up for it while the county council has not.
The government clearly believes its "Devolution Revolution" is finally gaining momentum towards its vision of the new authority at the centre of a bigger Midlands "economic engine", connecting the East and West Midlands in the way that the Northern Powerhouse is connected from Merseyside to Humberside.
The Treasury's official map of its regional spending settlements shows East and West Midlands united, together, joined-up, in a single region.


A 14-year-old girl has been seriously injured by a "highly agitated" dog.

The animal, believed to be an American Bulldog, was shot dead after officers were unable to bring it under control, Northumbria Police said.
It happened at about 17:00 BST on Saturday in a garden on Millbrook in Felling, Gateshead.
Ch Insp Dave Gould said it was an "horrific attack by a dog that was highly agitated and a danger to other people".
"Officers at the scene spent more than an hour attempting to bring the dog safely under control but, unfortunately, despite best efforts, it continued to remain highly agitated and posed a real danger," he said.
"We did not want to have to destroy the animal but our main concern has to be public safety - we already had one young girl who had been seriously injured and we had to do what we could to prevent anyone else from coming to harm."
Shooting the dog was a "last resort" after other options had been considered, he said.
The teenager has been treated in hospital for serious, but not life-threatening, arm injuries.
American Bulldogs are not banned in the UK, although they are in some other countries.


Reports suggest a site in Wales features on a list of options for a UK 'spaceport' base, alongside six in Scotland and one in England.

Ministers want to establish the UK spaceport by 2018 - the first of its kind outside of the US.
An official announcement is expected on preferred locations later in the week.
However, the Mail on Sunday newspaper plumps for Llanbedr airfield near Harlech as a potential site.
For ministers and the space industry, the major interest in a UK spaceport is as a facility to enable satellite launches, but hopefully it would also become a centre for the new tourism initiatives from specialist operators such as Virgin Galactic and XCor.
The announcement on the likely options is expected to be made at the Farnborough Airshow.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said: "Our world-leading and ambitious space sector is thriving.
"This week we will announce the next steps for this country's space race, outlining how we will take one giant leap towards establishing the first British spaceport by 2018 - making the UK the place for space."
A spokesperson for the UK's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills said it could not comment on press speculation ahead of Tuesday's official announcement.


The former home of explorer Gertrude Bell, a Grade II* listed church and two derelict hospitals are among 10 of the most endangered historic buildings.

The Victorian Society released its annual list, which it says names those in urgent need of help and protection.
It includes Red Barns in Redcar where Bell lived, St Paul's Church in Chester, Wakefield's Clayton Hospital and Mount Street Hospital in Preston.
A Grade II flour mill in Grimsby and a Cardiff railway station also feature.
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For the first time no properties in London and the South-East have been mentioned.
The charity's director, Christopher Costello, said it had "simply got far more nominations from other regions".
"Retaining historic buildings like those in the top 10 is vital to maintaining local identity and creating places in which people want to invest, live and work," he said.
This Grade II* listed building by arts and crafts architect Philip Webb has been left in a "terrible state" with internal water damage, the society said.
It was the childhood home of explorer, writer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell, who travelled around the Middle East in the early 1890s.
A Grade II former flour mill, warehouse and office complex which was partially converted to flats in the 1990s.
The tower, which was not converted, suffered structural problems earlier this year forcing some people to move out temporarily as their homes were declared unsafe.
Thought to have been designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Grade II* station was home to the first steam-powered train service in Wales.
A Grade II building that was partially funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and once housed Clement Lindley Wragge's collection of ethnographic, zoological and geological material.
Built as an orphanage, this Grade II Victorian Gothic building later became a convalescent home but has been empty for more than a decade.
The stone Tudor-style hospital is threatened under a planning application by a foundation to demolish it for expansion purposes, the charity said.
The society said the Grade II* church was "going through a closure process after the congregation merged with another church".
A Grade II complex of Gothic sandstone buildings which was first a seminary and then a boarding school whose alumni are said to include comedians Tom O'Connor and Johnny Vegas.
A Grade II listed former cotton mill, with boiler, engine house, chimney and weaving sheds which has been left derelict since the early 2000s and is currently for sale at Â£2.5m.
This Grade II Shapland and Petter brick factory, showroom and office complex on the riverside was designed by William Clement Oliver.


Wasps fans may not want to hear it, but with Harlequins having won the Premiership title in 2012, succeeding Saracens as champions in the process, Saturday's match is now THE London derby.

The hosts are renowned for their fast-paced off-loading game, while Sarries are more known for their powerful pack and rock-like defence.
But Quins have been below their best this season and Sarries are scoring tries for fun, so predicting who will come out on top is a tricky business.
The big London derby used to be Quins v Wasps but because of Sarries' success and Wasps' demise, this contest is now the biggy in the capital.
Saturday's match is what makes rugby so delicious because we have certain expectations of both teams - Quins the off-loaders, Sarries the power-based outfit.
Leaders Sarries do look very impressive at the moment. They have squad strength that allows them to chop and change their team without weakening it too much.
Hosts Quins have got all big guns on display and will want to make a statement at the Stoop - losing isn't on the menu.
Sarries victory last weekend against Bath wasn't a surprise but the manner in which they dispatched an in-form team was very impressive.
They dominated Bath and had the game sewn up by half-time, with wing David Strettle's second try on 40 minutes clinching the bonus point.
They've started to score tries, which will be a worry for other teams but a breath of fresh air for neutrals, and if that trend continues they will be unstoppable because their defence is as stingy as always.
All teams know that it's Sarries' imposing pack that lays down the foundation for all their victories.
The Vunipola brothers catch your eye not just by their individual size but their sheer lust and appetite to carry a rugby ball and obliterate anyone who has the temerity to try and stop them.
Billy, the younger, is playing at number eight so we will definitely see him picking up from the base of the scrum and more than likely carrying Danny Care a few yards, as well as the ball.
The Sarries pack is well drilled in the set piece and generally have a good say at the breakdown, I'll be very interested to see if Quins bosses Conor O'Shea and John Kingston have come up with a plan to get some parity in that department.
Quins need this win to demonstrate they aren't a one trick wonder after winning the title a couple of seasons ago by playing some really dynamic, ambitious rugby.
Last season, when they were defending their title, they faded away at the end with little impact and that's not good, they need to re-establish themselves and a win against Sarries would be a big statement of intent - both teams know it.
You have to admire Sarries' doggedness and hard-nosed approach but I now get the feeling they understand the importance of scoring tries.
Friday
Northampton to beat Sale
Saturday
Bath to beat London Irish
London Wasps to beat Worcester
Harlequins to beat Saracens
Sunday
Exeter to beat Leicester
Newcastle to lose to Gloucester
This weekend's full fixture list
As silly as that might sound, I assure you it's not. I think the tacticians at Sarries really believed that not conceding tries would win them title after title, but that's not true.
You have to have the X-factor and defence doesn't supply that - scoring tries does.
Fly-half Owen Farrell is still young at 22 but now established, with 17 Tests for England under his belt, and his kicking will have a big say in this game, particularly if the weather is inclement (although the forecast looks good for Saturday).
Full-back Alex Goode has come back from injury and, against Bath, showed more in attack than he has done playing international rugby. I for one would like to see more of the same please.
Another industrious performance by Chris Ashton will tell his doubters he's prepared to work harder than before and not just wait to score tries.
His defence still needs improving though and make no mistake, scoring tries is what he's all about. One try from three games isn't great.
Last season Quins failed to hit the heights they managed in 2012. They are definite title contenders this time around but this match has to be one that will have a significant bearing on their self-confidence.
Defeat at home would make them ask whether they are good enough.
Quins suffered as a team last season, just like individuals sometimes suffer after a great first season. Backing up is hard and Quins went through second-season syndrome. Dealing with that is second nature to an experienced side like champions Leicester.
Yes, Quins are genuine title contenders, but you can't just talk about it, you have to prove it on the pitch as well.
This could be Chris Robshaw's time to make a statement and show he is still the reigning champion in England when it comes to open-side flankers.
Playing against this Sarries pack is certainly going to test his skills and to dominate won't be easy for the man who captained England last season.
It would be great to see a demonstration like David Pocock produced against South Africa when Australia played the Boks in the quarter-final of the 2011 World Cup.
That's probably asking too much, although I feel he needs a great game like that to stop the questions being asked about his place in the England team.
As always, kicking will have a big say and currently Farrell is at 83% with Nick Evans on 67% from the tee - that tells the story in that department.
Quins fly-half Evans is a fine player but has yet to find his mojo this season. I feel he has too much class not to have an impact but nothing short of his best will be good enough against Farrell and Sarries.
Scrum-half will see a big contest between Richard Wigglesworth and Care. I thought Care was very unlucky not to start as England's number one last season - he was the form nine - but Ben Youngs stepped up well.
Wigglesworth and Care have had similar game time this season and their carries and metres run stats may reflect their team's gameplan - Care has had 24 carries and made 186m running with the ball while Wigglesworth has 15 carries and 36m!
The battle of the full-backs - Mike Brown v Goode - is another intriguing match-up . Goode has to show us his attacking ability more, otherwise I don't see the point of him playing instead of Brown or Ben Foden for England.
A full-back should be picked because of his attacking qualities more than just his ability to kick the ball out of his own half.
And then there's Joe Marler v Mako Vunipola at loose-head, where Mako has to be ahead after his brilliant Lions tour.
The only way I see Marler getting his nose in front is if he improves his scrummaging, which isn't Mako's forte.
When it comes to carrying the ball in the loose you'd be hard pressed to find a better prop in the world than Mako, he rules that department.
Sarries have a chance to really shine and show the rest (who rightly don't matter to them) that they have the ability to win games not just by kicking, defending and scoring three points at a time, but by scoring good, well-worked smart tries.
If Quins are to win they have to unearth a thunderous performance, which I think people doubt they have in them.
However, I believe Quins will find the performance to beat Sarries, they're a good team and when their off-loading game clicks they're still a massive force in the English domestic league.
Having said that, if it rains I believe Sarries will win, so Quins will be hoping London is enjoying a glorious Indian summer come Saturday.


St Helens and England centre Mark Percival has signed a new four-year deal until 2021.

The 22-year-old is a product of the Saints' youth system and has featured 79 times since his debut in 2013.
Percival made his England debut in the 2016 Four Nations and has made three appearances for the national side.
"I love this club. I have been here since I was 12 years old and I want to help it win more trophies. That is my aim," he said.
"I'm happy here. I love playing and love the friends I have at this club and the team around me."


More than 2,000 artists will perform in Glasgow over the next 18 days as part of Celtic Connections.

Musicians including Robert Plant, Bernard Butler and Karine Polwart will take part in the winter music festival as it begins its 18-day run.
Artistic director Donald Shaw described this year's line-up as "brave and bold".
He has picked out some of his highlights.
This gig at the Royal Concert Hall is one of several in the festival's programme that focuses on migration - a theme of this year's Celtic Connections.
Joni Mitchell's 1976 album Hejira was written while driving home alone from Maine to Los Angeles. It meditates on what one track calls "The Refugee of the Road", with its contrasts of freedom and loneliness.
James Robertson, a novelist, poet and champion of the Scots language, has adapted the album into Scots and a Scottish setting.
According to Donald Shaw, it is one of a number of shows that demonstrate how migration has influenced the music scene.
He added: "It's a good example of a fairly ambitious project coming to life between different artistic styles and different art forms - between writing and music."
The Mike + Ruthy Band have an established pedigree on the Americana music scene.
Ruthy Ugnar is the daughter of Grammy-winning fiddler and composer Jay Ungar, and both she and bandmate Mike Merenda were members of contemporary string-band, The Mammals, alongside Pete Seeger's son Tao.
Their debut release as The Mike + Ruthy Band came last year with Bright as You Can.
Donald Shaw said their gig at the Old Fruitmarket would showcase "new Americana". "It's taking all the elements of old time, back porch music and making it more current," he said.
"You can go to a concert like that and you're watching Americana musicians but you realise there's a lot of connection to Scottish music. There's a very strong Celtic connection to a concert like that."
Toumani Diabaté has been described as "Africa's greatest instrumentalist" for his performance on the west African kora - a predecessor to the harp.
In a concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, he will lead an orchestrated version of his 2008 solo album The Mandé Variations.
Mr Shaw said the musician from Mali was "extraordinary".
"The very idea that a instrumental musician from Africa would be on stage with a world class orchestra would seem far-fetched 20 or 30 years ago," he said.
"It's a good indication of how far world music has come in those years."
Music from the Machair showcases talent from the Gaelic cultural stronghold of the Uists and Benbecula in a concert at the Old Fruitmarket.
Among the artists performing are South Uist singer Mairi MacInnes, one-woman ceilidh Rona Lightfoot and Cape Breton's Rodney MacDonald.
Gigs like this are the back-bone of the festival, said Mr Shaw.
"If you imagine that Celtic Connections is a big old flowing river, then a concert like this is a pure stream coming down the mountain."
NeXo is brand new project for Celtic Connections that enables the exchange of traditions and ideas between musicians in South America, Galicia, Scotland and Wales.
Its first fruits will be unveiled in a gig at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The nine-strong line up is drawn from five countries, including Scotland's Finlay MacDonald and Megan Henderson.
Mr Shaw said: "It's almost like Celtic music meets tango so I'm looking forward to it."
Béla Fleck is, according to Donald Shaw, "one of the world's greatest banjo players".
At Glasgow City Halls, he will perform the European premiere of his acclaimed banjo concerto, The Imposter.
It was commissioned by the Nashville Symphony and first performed in 2011 by the New York musician, who has won 15 Grammy awards.
Mr Shaw said: "He is someone we love at the festival and this will be an amazing performance to see."
The 30th anniversary of Paul Simon's landmark Graceland LP will be celebrated by Edinburgh indie/roots band Bwani Junction.
The album, which was recorded in South Africa with then-unknown singers Ladysmith Black Mambazo, led to popularisation of so-called world music.
Mr Shaw said Bwani Junction are heavily influenced by African artists and their guitar style mirrors that of musicians from the continent.
"It shows how much Graceland is still an influence on young musicians today," he added.
The gig is at the Old Fruitmarket.
Just over a decade since the death of piper Gordon Duncan, this gig at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall will celebrate his life and influence on the Scottish piping community.
Among those who are taking part in the concert are The Tannahill Weavers, of which Mr Duncan was a past member.
Mr Shaw said: "He was an extraordinary musician chiefly but really he's been very influential in the renaissance of piping in the country, particularly for young people."
Every year Celtic Connections has an international partner - this year it is France.
To mark that partnership and the 100th anniversary of French music's ultimate grande dame, Piaf! The Show will be performed at Glasgow's Theatre Royal.
It promises to bring to life Edith Piaf's career and character as well as the voice and songs including La Vie en Rose, L'Hymne à L'Amour, Milord and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien.
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler and Blur's Graham Coxon will line up for the last gig of Mr Shaw's highlights list.
He said the festival had been "overwhelmed" by demand for tickets, and from performers keen to take part in a tribute to the late Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter Bert Jansch.
The first night at the Old Fruitmarket has already sold out and a second performance has been arranged to take place at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Mr Shaw said: "Bert Jansch's influence has been massive on musicians for 30 to 40 years. I think it's great that an artist like Robert Plant feels that this kind of concert is where he wants to be performing."


Three Labour MPs have backed a campaign for the party to champion continued freedom of movement after Brexit.

Clive Lewis, David Lammy and Geraint Davies have supported the new Labour Campaign for Free Movement - as have two MEPs and some union leaders.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has said freedom of movement "ends when we leave the European Union" and should be replaced by "fair" managed migration.
However the campaign says ending free movement would be "counterproductive".
Its founding statement says it is committed to "defending and extending" free movement of people "in the context of the debate around Brexit".
"The UK is at a crossroads in its relationship to the rest of the world and so is our party," the statement says.
"Immigrants and free movement are being scapegoated by a political and economic elite that is subjecting ordinary people to cuts and austerity... Labour should respond with clarity, humanity and solidarity," the campaign added.
At the moment, citizens from the other 27 EU member states have the right to come and work and live in the UK.
But immigration was one of the central topics of last year's EU referendum campaign, and ministers have promised to "take back control" of the UK's borders as they negotiate Brexit.
Labour's official position is that freedom of movement will end after Brexit.
Its 2017 manifesto said the party would "develop and implement fair immigration rules".
Among others signing up to the pro-free movement Labour campaign are the general secretaries of the TSSA, UCU, and BFAWU trade unions; the MEPs Julie Ward and Lucy Anderson; the chairman of the left-wing think tank Compass; and various people from the national coordinating group of Momentum - formed after Mr Corbyn's successful 2015 leadership campaign.
Ms Ward, MEP for North West England, said: "Labour must stand up for freedom of movement, for a pluralistic society, and for the rights of EU nationals who live, work, study and pay into our tax economy.
"We must never cede greater benefits for capital and goods than we do for people," she added.
Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA (Transport Salaried Staffs' Association), said Labour should campaign to end the exploitation of workers, not end free movement.
But a Conservative MP and Brexit supporter, Andrea Jenkyns, said the campaigners were "out of touch with the country and their own party".
"The referendum result was a clear vote to take back control of our borders, and the Labour manifesto itself pledged to end free movement," she said.
The government has said freedom of movement will end when the UK leaves the European Union at the end of March 2019 - although Chancellor Philip Hammond has suggested full controls could take "some time".


A court in South Korea has rejected an attempt by US activist investor fund Elliot to stop a shareholder vote on a proposed $8bn merger of two key Samsung Group firms.

The merger would see Cheil Industries, a Samsung de-facto holding company, take over its sister firm, construction group Samsung C&T.
The US activist fund has argued the merger is not in the best interests of Samsung C&T's shareholders.
Elliot holds 7.1% of Samsung C&T.
Samsung is the largest of South Korea's chaebols - huge family-run conglomerates. Other chaebols in South Korea include Hyundai and LG.
Elliot has also said the multi billion-dollar merger between Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T would give an unfair advantage to Samsung Group's Lee family - the nation's most powerful corporate name.
Samsung Electronics' vice-chairman and Samsung Group's heir apparent, Lee Jae-yong, is the major shareholder in Cheil Industries.
Analysts have said the motivation behind the proposed merger is likely to be the Lee family's efforts to ensure it stays in control of Samsung amid a generational changeover of power.
The shareholder vote on the merger is set for 17 July.


London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the capital to be given more powers on how it spends the money it makes.

Speaking to business leaders, he called for London to have more autonomy in the aftermath of the EU referendum.
His speech came as a petition for London to become an independent state reached 175,000 signatures.
Responding, Mr Khan said: "As much as I might like the idea of a London city state, I'm not seriously talking about independence today."
He added: "I am not planning to install border points on the M25.
"But on behalf of all Londoners, I am demanding more autonomy for the capital - right now.
"More autonomy in order to protect London's economy from the uncertainty ahead, to protect the businesses from around the world who trade here and to protect our jobs, wealth and prosperity."
Mr Khan said he was not "asking for London to get a bigger slice of the British pie", but for Londoners to "get more control over the slice of the pie we already get."
City Hall said the mayor was looking for the devolution of fiscal responsibility, including tax raising powers, as well as more control over business and skills, housing and planning, transport, health and policing and criminal justice.
BBC London political editor Tim Donovan said Mr Khan wanted London to retain income from stamp duty and business rates, and he backed calls for a revaluation of council tax.
He was also calling for more control of suburban rail routes and the scope to borrow more for infrastructure, Donovan said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that London would have a seat in the negotiating table following Brexit.
London Councils supports the mayor and its chair, Jules Pipe, said: "London government is speaking with one voice on this issue. We need more power over our own destiny to help cope with the fallout of leaving the EU."
The mayor of London has insisted he is not getting involved in the Labour leadership issues facing Jeremy Corbyn.
He told BBC Radio London he has "not had time" to look at internal Labour Party politics because he has been focused trying to secure London's economic future and to reassure businesses following the Brexit result.
Mr Khan - who campaigned for a Remain vote - addressed business leaders at the Times CEO Summit this morning, where he asked for their help to push for London to have more autonomy over its finances.
He also said we can't blame the referendum campaign for decisions made by the public.


British Rowing's coaching culture is "hard" and "unrelenting" but is short of bullying, says an internal inquiry.

Former Great Britain rower Emily Taylor called coach Paul Thompson a "massive bully" in June, prompting the review.
His handling of double sculls crew of Vicky Thornley and Katherine Grainger was also questioned.
After Taylor complained, Thompson said he did not consider himself a bully and that his "recollection of the situation" differed from hers.
The internal review stated that more care needed to be taken of athletes' well-being.
It also recommended creating a "more inclusive environment" with "greater focus on the effects of stress on performance and well-being".
"There is a need to address the perception of balance between the different squads on the High Performance Programme," the review stated.
"The leadership must understand and define the limits on what is an acceptable sub-culture."
Taylor was selected in the original squad for the London 2012 Olympics but was left out of the women's eight and retired after the Games.
Thompson was criticised by Thornley's boyfriend Rick Egington, who won Olympic medals in the men's eight in both 2008 and 2012.
Egington said that Thompson had "mismanaged" Thornley and Grainger's partnership in the run-up to the Rio Games, as they attempted to win places in the women's eight following disappointing early-season form in 2016.
That plan to win those places was scrapped after they failed to meet the required standard. After reforming as a double sculls pair, Thornley and Grainger won a surprise silver medal in Rio.
Athletes and coaches from both the current and previous set-up were able to give evidence confidentially on their dealings with Thompson, who joined British Rowing in 2001.
His women and lightweight crews won a gold and two silver medals at Rio, having won three golds and a silver at London four years earlier.


The UN has finally acknowledged it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in 2010 that has since killed about 10,000 people in the country.

Scientific studies have shown that Nepalese UN troops were the source of the disease - but the UN repeatedly denied responsibility until now.
An internal report seen by the New York Times is said to have led to the shift.
But the UN still says it is protected by diplomatic immunity from claims for compensation from victims' families.
On Thursday, Farhan Haq, a spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said that "over the past year the UN has become convinced it needs to do much more regarding its own involvement in the initial outbreak and the suffering of those affected by cholera".
However, Mr Haq reiterated that the UN's legal position in on diplomatic immunity and possible compensation "has not changed".
His comments came after the confidential internal report stated that the epidemic "would not have broken out but for the actions of the United Nations," according to the New York Times newspaper.
It says the report was sent to Mr Ban last week by long-time UN adviser Philip Alston, a New York University law professor who consults the world body on human rights issues.
The cholera outbreak has been blamed on leaking sewage pipes at a UN base.
The US courts have rejected claims for compensation filed by victims' families.
No cases of the bacterial infection, which causes diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and muscle cramps, had been recorded in Haiti for a century until the outbreak in late 2010.
Cholera is spread through infected faeces. Once it enters the water supply it is difficult to stop - especially in a country like Haiti which has almost no effective sewage disposal systems.


The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling for UN officials and others to monitor the mass evacuations from rebel-held east Aleppo and the safety of civilians still there.

Some 13,000 people have left the area since Thursday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
The evacuation deal also includes government-held parts of Idlib province besieged by rebels.
The UN envoy for Syria says there are plans for peace talks on 8 February.
Some 7,000 people are still trapped in Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory. Conditions there are grim, with no access to food and shelter and minimal medical facilities.
Among those evacuated on Monday were 47 children trapped in an orphanage, children's charity Unicef said in a statement. Some were in a critical condition because of injuries or dehydration, the organisation added.
The evacuees also included seven-year-old Bana Alabed, whose home in eastern Aleppo was bombed and whose appeals for peace on Twitter were heard worldwide.
In a video she expressed relief at escaping the "endless bombardment in Aleppo".
After leaving Aleppo city, the evacuees will be moved to parts of Aleppo and Idlib provinces.
The operation restarted late on Sunday. It had stalled after armed men set fire to buses that were about to transport the sick and injured from the mainly Shia, government-held villages of Foah and Kefraya in Idlib province.
The Syrian Observatory said that 500 of the 4,000 villagers left the areas on Monday.
A rebel representative said hundreds of people would also be evacuated from Zabadani and Madaya, two army-besieged rebel towns near the border with Lebanon, as part of the deal.
At the UN Security Council, the 15 members managed to overcome disagreements between Western nations and Russia and unanimously approved the resolution.
It requested the "UN and other relevant institutions to carry out adequate, neutral monitoring" of the mass evacuations from Aleppo.
Syria's envoy Bashar Jaafari spoke out against council members who he said had hidden agendas and intended "to legitimise foreign interference, the changing of legitimate governments by force, or even using military force".
For monitors to be deployed in Aleppo, they need permission from the Syrian government.
Meanwhile, a gunman killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey in Ankara. The attacker, identified as a police officer, shouted "Don't forget Aleppo".
Leaders of both countries, who brokered the deal for the evacuations, said the attack was a "provocation" aimed at hurting bilateral ties, and vowed to investigate the killing. It was not clear if the gunman acted alone or had links to any group.


Tesla Motors has revealed that supplies of its Model X electric car have been impacted by a shortage of parts meaning delays for some who have ordered them.

It blamed its own "hubris" for overloading the Model X with technology.
It revealed that it delivered 14,820 cars in the first quarter, falling short of the expected 16,000.
It comes after the firm revealed that its new Model 3 car already has 276,000 pre-orders.
The carmaker said that it had delivered 12,420 Model S sedans and 2,400 Model X SUVs in the first quarter of 2016.
In a statement, Tesla added that its Q1 delivery count was "impacted by severe Model X supplier parts shortages in January and February that lasted much longer than initially expected".
It said that once "issues were resolved", production and delivery rates "improved dramatically".
"By the last full week of March, the build rate rose to 750 Model X vehicles per week, however many of these vehicles were built too late to be delivered to their owners before end of the quarter."
It was frank about the reasons for the delay: "The root causes of the parts shortages were: Tesla's hubris in adding far too much technology to the Model X in version one, insufficient supplier capability validation and Tesla not having broad enough capability to manufacture the parts in-house."
Back in February, Elon Musk admitted that the car had been "over-engineered".
The shortage involved about six out of the 8,000 parts that go into the Model X but Tesla did not specify which ones.
It has raised doubts about how prepared Tesla will be to deliver its new Model 3 car which was announced to much fanfare last week.
The basic model will sell for $35,000 (£24,423) - less than half the cost of Tesla's previous models - and has a range of at least 215 miles per charge.
The car is due to go on sale in late 2017 and customers must put down a $1,000 (£704) deposit. It can be ordered in advance to dozens of countries, including the UK, Brazil, India, China and New Zealand.
Mr Musk has revealed that the company is focusing on ramping up productions and will eventually need to build a factory in Europe to satisfy demand.
Stephanie Brinley, a senior analyst with research firm IHS, said that it was crucial that it gets production of the new vehicle right.
"Given its history of missed deadlines, this one needs to be met, to earn the faith of consumers and investors alike," she said.
Last year Tesla posted a net loss of $889m (£620m) for 2015, partly because of the large sum it spent on research and development.


Jonathan Davies says his focus for now will be Scarlets' Pro12 play-off bid rather than this summer's British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.

The Wales centre, 29, said he was "delighted" to have been selected for his second Lions tour.
But Davies said the priority before then would be helping Scarlets to secure a top four finish in the Pro12.
"You've got to enjoy the moment but make sure your focus goes back to the Scarlets," Davies said.
"Hopefully we can finish off with a good run-in."
Davies, a member of the successful Lions squad which won the Test series against Australia in 2013, is one of 12 Welsh internationals selected for New Zealand.
Scarlets team-mates Liam Williams and Ken Owens are also in the squad but Davies' centre partner Scott Williams missed out.
Davies is disappointed for 26-year-old Williams but backed him to bounce back and said he could be a useful back-up player should injuries affect the Lions squad.
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"I've spoken to Scott since the squad announcement and he seems alright," Davies added.
"He'll cope with it. He's an excellent player and has shown in the past how good a player he is.
"Injuries do happen and you've got to make sure you concentrate on putting yourself in a position that if you're called upon you're ready to go.
"For us as a partnership moving forward with the Scarlets we've got to make sure we're focused on securing a play-off berth in the Pro12.
"We're in such a good position in the league and it would be criminal to let that slip. We're focused on finishing the league strong."
Scarlets colleagues, captain and hooker Owens and back Liam Williams, have been included in their first Lions squad.
Davies said both players deserved their spots in Warren Gatland's 41-man squad,.
"They've shown the form to get into the squad," Davies told BBC Wales Sport.
"They've both had very good seasons. Ken's been outstanding and he's been a great leader for us and Liam's shown great form over the last 18 months, probably longer.
"I'm delighted for them after all the hard work they've put in."


After almost three months of strikes, public school teachers in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo have voted to return to work.

Thousands of protesters from one of the largest teachers' unions in the Americas met in the centre of Sao Paulo to cast their vote.
It began after the state government failed to offer a salary increase.
A union leader said the strike had lost force when strike payments had had to be reduced.
The strikers of the Union of Official Teachers for the State of Sao Paulo (Apeoesp), had been calling for a 75% pay rise.
The union represents about 180,000 teachers.
Last year, in the lead up to the World Cup in Brazil, thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Brazil to demonstrate against the spiralling costs linked to the building of the football stadiums, and corruption.
Many protesters complained money was being cut from basic public services.


A former senior detective is to give evidence to the inquest of the murdered County Tyrone schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson via the internet.

Eric Anderson, an ex-detective chief superintendent with the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), was in charge of the case after her 1994 disappearance.
The 15-year-old from Castlederg went missing after a school disco in County Donegal. Her body has never been found.
The Court Service confirmed Mr Anderson has agreed to give evidence via Skype.
The former RUC detective was asked to attend the inquest into her murder in what the coroner described as a "belt and braces" approach.
The inquest is currently under way after years of delays.
No date has been set yet for Mr Anderson's evidence to be heard.


Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams will take the spotlight when Wimbledon gets under way on Monday.

Defending champion Djokovic opens play on Centre Court against Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber at 13:00 BST.
Williams, who is half way to a possible calendar Grand Slam, plays Russia's Margarita Gasparyan on Court One.
Fourth seed Maria Sharapova takes on Johanna Konta, one of four Britons in action on day one, in the second match on Centre Court.
Konta will be making her debut on the main show court, to be followed by French Open champion Stan Wawrinka against Portugal's Joao Sousa.
British number one Heather Watson plays French 32nd seed Caroline Garcia last on Court Two.
Play on the outside courts gets under way at 11:30 BST, with wildcard Liam Broady taking on Australian Marinko Matosevic first on court 18 and the Briton's sister, Naomi Broady, up against Colombian Mariana Duque-Marino later in the day.
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Andy Murray, Laura Robson, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Petra Kvitova will be among those in action on Tuesday, when temperatures are expected to push 30C as hot weather is forecast for the opening days.
A record prize fund of £26.75m is on offer at the 129th Championships, with the men's and women's singles champions each receiving £1.88m and first-round losers collecting £29,000.
Almost half a million spectators will pass through the gates of the All England Club over the 13 days of action, with upwards of 140,000 portions of strawberries eaten.
With all the leading names fit, interest will centre on whether home favourite Murray can recapture the title he won in 2013, if Williams can complete the third leg of the Grand Slam and if Djokovic can recover from his French Open final defeat.
Djokovic, the champion in 2011 and 2014, faces a testing opener against Kohlschreiber, the world number 33.
"It's one of the toughest first rounds I could get but this is a Grand Slam," said the 28-year-old Serb.
"This is what it takes. You need to step out there and perform your best, win against the best players in the world if you want to keep on going."
Williams, 33, begins her campaign for a sixth Wimbledon title that would take her within sight of matching Steffi Graf's calendar Grand Slam of 1988.
"I really don't feel that pressure," said the American, who has already won the Australian and French Opens in 2015.
"Maybe if I would happen to win here, then I might start feeling it."
Sharapova, the 2004 champion, will face British number two Konta, who reached her first WTA quarter-final in Eastbourne last week.
"We've never played against each other before," said the Russian. "That's always tricky in the first round of a Grand Slam."
Among other notable matches on the opening day, Australia's 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt will begin his final Wimbledon against Jarkko Nieminen of Finland on Court Two.
The 34-year-old former world number one plans to retire after the Australian Open next January.


The number of homes being bought and sold has fallen for the third month in a row, according to government figures.

Across the UK there were 96,910 residential transactions in June, on a seasonally-adjusted basis.
That is a fall of 3.3% on May's number, and the lowest total since October 2016.
The figures, from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), represent a small annual rise, up 1% in comparison with June 2016.
However, last summer's sales were depressed by the introduction of additional stamp duty rates in April.
It is also the first time this year that the number of transactions has fallen below 100,000 a month.
Property experts think the figures give a more accurate indication of the health of the market than house prices.
"These figures are disappointing as we would have expected them to be much higher bearing in mind the turmoil in the market this time last year following the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge," said Jeremy Leaf, a north London estate agent.
Where can I afford to live?


There was blood, there was sweat and, if not tears, plenty of cheers.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has been one of sport's most high-profile successes of recent years - thrilling television audiences and drawing crowds to fight nights with its combination of wrestling, boxing, jiu-jitsu and kick boxing.
The mixed martial arts (MMA) brand has made household names of Irish fighter Conor McGregor and female champions Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm.
But when the UFC jamboree came to Singapore, it was just the latest effort by the brand to try and replicate the success it has in the US in Asia, after years of setbacks and struggles.
The league wants to make this wealthy South-East Asian city state an annual stopover on its international tour - along with the likes of Macau, Manila, Tokyo and Seoul.
With a 12-bout fight card, its event drew a crowd of more 8,000 spectators, doubling its debut showing in 2014.
And for local fans of the controversial combat sport, it was a rare opportunity to experience fight night in the flesh.
"Since most of the shows are in the US, it's great to be able to watch such a big event live here in Singapore with such big names coming here," one fan told me.
Of course, growing popularity goes hand-in-hand with growing profits.
UFC expects income of about $50m (Â£38.8m) from the region this year. That would be about 6% to 8% of its global revenues.
"Soccer is always going to be on top, but UFC is the fastest-growing sports organisation in the world," says Joe Carr, UFC's senior vice president of international and content.
"There's no reason why UFC can't be up there with other sporting heavyweights like the National Basketball Association or the National Football League in this market."
For most other sports though, cracking Asia involves cracking China.
Critics note UFC's big push to enter the Chinese market back in 2014. Within a year, it was forced to shut its Beijing operations without a fight being held, and relocate to Singapore.
Not deterred, the league is trying again with its first bout in mainland China, scheduled for November in Shanghai.
China does have a growing MMA market, one dominated by rival leagues, including the local Kulun Fight tournament.
"It will be an absolute uphill battle because they don't bring their A-game to Asian cities. Their events in Asia are typically smaller shows," said Marc Raimondi, assistant editor at MMAFighting.com.
"The UFC makes the bulk of its money in the US and Canada. So from a business perspective, it makes sense for them to put their biggest stars on those cards.
"But they really need bigger stars and bigger shows in Asia. They just don't have the kind of Asian talent to compensate and draw a ton of interest in the local markets."
Most in the sport agree that developing local heroes is a sure fire way of creating local fans.
But will UFC be able to produce an Asian star to compare with the likes of McGregor, Rousey and Holm?
"An Asian world champion, a man or woman who becomes a world UFC champion, will be the catalyst to Asia going mainstream, just like Europe did with Conor McGregor," says UFC's chief executive, Dana White.
"Women all over the world got into this sport through Ronda Rousey. If we can find a talented man or woman from Asia, and they become a world champion, the market will explode."
But the league currently only has 40 Asian fighters on its roster.
The hopes of finding the next superstar rest on the likes of aspiring champion, Rolando Dy from the Philippines - the son of a former world champion boxer.
He made his UFC debut in Singapore, and despite a defeat, cannot be accused of lacking confidence.
"I am a Filipino fighter, and you don't underestimate fighters from the Philippines," he said, referring to the achievements of his father, Rolando Naverette, as well as boxing legend, Manny Pacquiao.
"It's my time. I believe I am one of the best in the world, and just have to prove it so that people will also believe in me."
Rolando Dy will get his next shot at proving himself when he fights in Japan in September.
UFC estimates that a third of its fanbase is based in Asia. This is, after all, the region where most martial arts - on which this sport is based - began.
But with its other regional rivals having already spent years nurturing home-grown talent, the battle for commercial success will have to be fiercely fought.


Northern Ireland's health service lost about £16m last year because patients failed to attend hospital appointments.

According to the Department of Health, every time someone fails to turn up for a hospital appointment it costs the health service about £108.
Newly published hospital statistics show that about 147,500 patients did not keep their appointments last year.
Those patients also failed to alert staff in advance that they would not attend, meaning resources were wasted.
Considering £1m could employ 35 full-time nurses, or allow 150 people to have their hip operation, health service commissioners would argue that the public should be more responsible.
The statistics also show there was a slight rise in the number of outpatient appointments being cancelled by hospitals.
A Department of Health spokesperson called on the health board and health trusts to do all they can to minimise the level of appointments cancelled by consultants.
There has also been a notable increase in the number of people being admitted to hospitals in Northern Ireland.
Since 2011, admissions are up by 4.3% or more than 25,000 people.
In spite of the increase, there are almost 700 fewer hospital beds across the system.


Concerns have been raised about "gross overcrowding" at a property housing asylum seekers in Cardiff.

The city's council is due to inspect Lynx House after being alerted by the fire service and a resident.
It comes after a rule making residents wear coloured bands to get food there was scrapped.
Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens urged the Home Office to "get a grip and sort it out" but it said it inspects asylum accommodation on a regular basis.
"The reports coming to me are of gross overcrowding," she told BBC Radio Wales.
"I've seen a video and photographs taken by residents of areas within Lynx House which certainly look very overcrowded and I don't doubt if the fire service have made a complaint to the local authority about it, they must be very concerned as well.
"The Home Office, who controls how many people go to Lynx House, need to step in and take some urgent action."
The home is run by Clearsprings Group.
Cardiff council confirmed it was made aware of concerns by the fire service and a resident.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We take every effort to inspect all asylum accommodation on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the required standard.
"Where a contractor is found to be falling short of these standards, we work with them to ensure issues are quickly addressed and when they are not we can and do impose sanctions."


Primary schools located in London's most polluted areas are to receive "toxic air audits", the mayor of London has announced.

The audits aim to identify ways to protect students at 50 schools in areas exceeding legal pollution limits.
Latest data from City Hall reveals pupils in 360 primaries in London breathe dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
Sadiq Khan has allocated Â£250,000 to fund the new audits.
The Mayor's office is due to consult on plans to extend the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone to the north and south circular to increase the number of schools covered from 35 to 776.
However, a report by the Greater London Authority Conservatives published on Tuesday, said the extension would see pollution fall by just 10%.
"At a total cost of Â£780m to taxpayers, the mayor would be far better off investing the money in alternative measures," said Gareth Bacon AM, author of A Breath of Fresh Air.
The audit announcement comes after London saw the largest spike in pollution levels since April 2011, according to the Environmental Research Group at King's College London.
On Monday, a "very high" air pollution warning was issued for London for the first time under a new alert system, introduced last year by the mayor.
Mr Khan said: "London's filthy air is a health crisis and our children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of air pollution."
The audits, carried out by a transport and environment consultancy, will highlight ways schools could lower emissions and reduce exposure to pollutants around schools.
Suggested measures could include moving school entrances or play areas, putting in "no engine idling" zones during the school run and using "green infrastructure" such as hedges and bushes to provide barriers to fumes.
The announcement comes on the same day a letter signed by 100 head teachers in London was delivered to City Hall, calling for action on air pollution to protect pupils.
Rebecca Abrahams, head teacher at St Luke's CE school in Tower Hamlets and a signatory of the letter, said children "are being harmed by invisible air pollution from traffic" as they play outside.


Number eight Kieran Read will return from injury to captain New Zealand in the first Test against the British and Irish Lions in Auckland on Saturday.

Read, 31, has not played since April because of a broken thumb.
Wing Rieko Ioane will win his third cap, while Ryan Crotty partners Sonny Bill Williams in the centre.
"This was a really tough team to pick. There were a number of players in great form vying for positions," said All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen.
Read, who has won 97 caps, and Crotty, who had a rib injury, missed world champions New Zealand's 78-0 victory over Samoa on Friday.
"They've both been on target to return for this game all the way through, are both in great shape and, together with the rest of the squad, they're really excited at what's ahead of us," added Hansen.
Ioane, who is selected ahead of the prolific Julian Savea, has featured twice against the Lions on this tour, scoring a try in the Blues' victory in Auckland.
Hansen added: "I'd also like to congratulate Rieko on getting his first start for the All Blacks. His outstanding form throughout the season this year, including against the Lions, has earned him his start on the wing."
The Lions play three Tests against New Zealand, who have not lost at Eden Park since 1994.
"We know this is a very good British and Irish Lions team, probably one of the best to have toured here," said Hansen.
"The players are well aware of the history of the All Blacks and the Lions and are determined to respect that history with their performances.
"We know the importance of this match and we will bring real energy and intensity. It'll be a physical Test but, just as importantly, it will be a mental test."
Aaron Cruden and Lima Sopoaga have been named as fly-half cover, with a decision to be made on Thursday.
The Lions have won four and lost two of their warm-up matches on the tour of New Zealand.
New Zealand team: B Smith; I Dagg, R Crotty, SB Williams, R Ioane; B Barrett, A Smith; J Moody, C Taylor, O Franks, B Retallick, S Whitelock, J Kaino, S Cane, K Read (capt).
Replacements: N Harris, W Crockett, C Faumuina, S Barrett, A Savea, TJ Perenara, A Cruden/L Sopoaga, A Lienert-Brown.


On Friday 19 October at 15:30, Matthew Tvrdon began a rampage which would last only 30 minutes but would devastate the lives of several families across Cardiff and bring parts of the city to a standstill.

The 32-year-old, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, was behind the wheel of his van intent on mowing down random pedestrians, targeting women and children.
In the Ely area of the city, Tvrdon used his white Iveco van to mow down people walking children home from school as well as attacking three people with a car crook lock and running over a mother and daughter at a petrol station in Leckwith.
Eye witnesses reported Tvrdon driving aggressively and erratically around the west of the city, driving towards oncoming traffic and swerving across lanes to mount kerbs in an effort to run over innocent people.
He killed one woman and injured 17 people, including police officers and seven children, in five locations:
•At Crossways Road, at the top of the busy Cowbridge Road West road in Ely, a woman, 29, was wounded, along with a boy, nine, who suffered arm and leg injuries and a girl, eight, who had a head injury.
•Minutes later, at the Ely Reptile Centre in Cowbridge Road West, Adam Lewis, 24, his partner Annie Jones, 22, and their daughter, two, were hit. The mother had leg injuries, her daughter had facial injuries and the father had minor injuries.
•Next, Karina Menzies, 31, and two children, Eillie, eight and Tiana, 23 months, were knocked over outside Ely Fire Station. Ms Menzies died, while Ellie had a head injury. Her toddler was taken to hospital for observations.
•Then outside shops in Grand Avenue in Ely, a woman, 32, received multiple injuries, while a 10-year-old girl had an arm injury and a 12-year-old girl injured her back.
•Finally, at Asda petrol station, three people were attacked with a steering lock at the Asda petrol station at Leckwith retail park,  with the victims suffering minor injuries.
•Also at the petrol station, a mother, 49, and daughter, 27, were hit by the van, suffering multiple injuries.
Tvrdon began the mayhem in a black Renault Clio, which he was seen to be driving recklessly along Western Avenue, a major commuter route in Cardiff.
He drove to the car park of the West End Social Club in Cowbridge Road West, where he switched to his van.
His ex-girlfriend Lisa Davies, who lived nearby, appeared quickly on the scene, standing in front of the van to prevent him driving off. She could not stop him.
Now at the wheel of his three-tonne van, Tvrdon started on his eight mile rampage. Thirty minutes later, a spree of horror had unfolded stretching emergency services to the limit.
Panic spread through the city as worried residents phoned loved ones or took to Facebook and Twitter to warn people to stay inside.
Seconds away, Karina Menzies was walking with two of her young daughters past Ely fire station on the way home from school when, without warning and watched by horrified onlookers, Tvrdon drove at them.
He veered across two lanes of traffic and aimed directly at them.
Ms Menzies saw the van coming, screamed and tried to push one of her children out of the way as it hurtled towards the pavement.
She was struck by the vehicle before it turned around and ran her over again.
A witness described how Ms Menzies was semi-conscious and her children were calling out for their mother. She later died.
Onlookers on a bus started shouting and jumped off to try to help, with some ringing 999 to report the number plate of the vehicle.
A BMW driver drove off chasing the departing van but was unable to stop it.
The A&E department at the University Hospital of Wales closed its doors to anyone not involved in the incident and those with non-emergency conditions were asked to stay away.
Meanwhile, police were desperately trying to catch Tvrdon.
He drove along Grand Avenue, a dual carriageway in a large residential area in Ely, where sub-postmaster Shady Taha, 29, had just served two girls and a young woman who had left his shop.
"All of a sudden I heard a bang. I looked out and across the road - one girl was on the floor and the other girl was screaming," he said.
After driving to Culverhouse Cross, Tvrdon drove along the Cardiff Bay link road to Leckwith retail park, where shoppers reported hearing a commotion at the Asda petrol station.
Tvrdon was attacking three people with a steering wheel lock.
He then got back into his van and when 49-year-old Jill White tried to remonstrate with him, he ran her over.
When her 27-year-old daughter, Rebecca, ran to help her mother, he hit her too and dragged both women under the van along the forecourt and towards a lay-by before driving off.
Motorist Sarah Pryor Leckwith, witnessed the incident.
"It was an awful sight," she said. "I had a small girl in the car, I had to distract her and point at something away."
Angharad Davies, who was heading for a coffee with her baby and two-year-old daughter, added: "I saw a van and there was a man chasing it and asking people to stop the van."
Tvrdon was eventually arrested by officers at 15:57 near the Merrie Harrier pub at Llandough on the outskirts of Cardiff.
The windscreen of his van was smashed and covered in blood.
He attempted to resist the arresting officer, assaulting him with a crook lock. In turn, Tvrdon was sprayed with CS gas.
The trail of destruction left a community in grief and shocked the rest of the country.
In all, South Wales Police said there had been 44 emergency calls asking for police and ambulance and 100 eyewitness statements.
In the days that followed, Welsh Secretary David Jones passed on the thanks of the prime minister to emergency and health services as well as his sympathies to those affected.
Locals paid their respects to Ms Menzies by leaving flowers outside the fire station, while a packed service at the Church of the Resurrection in Grand Avenue heard how the incident had "broken the heart of the community".
It was also announced that trust funds would be set up to help the family.
Ms Menzies' brother Craig later revealed that she had "saved the lives" of her two children in the incident.
But for many in the community, the mental and physical scars of that Friday school run in October will take a long time to heal.
Tvrdon, who has paranoid schizophrenia, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Cardiff Crown Court.
He also admitted seven counts of attempted murder and other charges including three counts of grievous bodily harm with intent, and was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.


Rochdale moved up to fourth in League One with a convincing Boxing Day victory over Chesterfield.

Ian Henderson returned to top form with a brace either side of a Calvin Andrew finish for Keith Hill's men.
Steven Davies saw his ninth-minute penalty saved by Lloyd Allinson as the home side made the early running.
Gboly Ariyibi should have done better when clean through on goal but was denied by Conrad Logan before Dale made the breakthrough in the 45th minute.
Keith Keane and Oliver Rathbone combined to tee up Henderson, who curled a screamer wide of Allinson in the Spireites goal.
And Dale doubled their lead in the 59th minute when Davies and Henderson linked up in the area for Andrew to crash home a decisive finish.
Ched Evans threatened with a couple of half chances for the visitors but Henderson completed the scoring in the 84th minute, slamming Davies' pass into the roof of the net from close range.
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Match ends, Rochdale 3, Chesterfield 0.
Second Half ends, Rochdale 3, Chesterfield 0.
Substitution, Rochdale. Andrew Cannon replaces Ian Henderson.
Substitution, Rochdale. Jamie Allen replaces Oliver Rathbone.
Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Oliver Rathbone (Rochdale).
Oliver Rathbone (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Rochdale 3, Chesterfield 0. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Steve Davies.
Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Dion Donohue.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Keith Keane.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale).
Ched Evans (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale).
Foul by Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield).
Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ched Evans (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Bunney (Rochdale).
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Callum Camps.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Calvin Andrew.
Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale).
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale).
Attempt missed. Dion Donohue (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Joseph Rafferty.
Foul by Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield).
Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Conor Wilkinson replaces Connor Dimaio.
Attempt saved. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Ian Evatt.
Foul by Oliver Rathbone (Rochdale).
Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Rochdale. Conceded by Dion Donohue.
Attempt blocked. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Goal!  Rochdale 2, Chesterfield 0. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ian Henderson.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Conrad Logan.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Joseph Rafferty.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Joe Bunney.


Essex head coach Paul Grayson has left the county by mutual consent after eight years in charge.

The 44-year-old's departure follows quarter-final defeat in both the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast.
He was promoted from second-team coach in July 2007 and guided them to Friends Provident Trophy victory in 2008.
Essex have since failed to win any silverware, and are sixth in County Championship Division Two with four games left to play this season.
Assistant head coach Chris Silverwood, a former England pace bowler, will take temporary charge until the end of the season.
"I have had 19 wonderful years at Essex, both as a player and as a coach, but I now feel the time is right for a new challenge," Grayson told the club website.
"I have always been a strong supporter of the club's policy of developing our own players into first-class cricketers and it is a pleasure to see so many doing well in the game.
"I would like to thank the players for their hard work and dedication, particularly the three captains I have worked with; Mark Pettini, James Foster and Ryan ten Doeschate."


Three Police Federation officers are to be investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over the "plebgate" affair.

The three will be scrutinised over their account of a meeting with Andrew Mitchell in October 2012, over claims - denied by the then minister - he had called Downing Street officers "plebs".
A West Mercia Police-led investigation ruled the men had "no case to answer".
However, the IPCC has now decided to conduct a fully independent probe.
It follows a High Court ruling in October which found there was no proper final report prepared for the investigation - conducted by West Mercia Police but supervised by the IPCC.
The court also ruled that the decision of the three police forces - from Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands - that their officers had no case to answer was invalid.
Following the "plebgate" incident at Downing Street in September 2012, then-Chief Whip Mr Mitchell apologised for using bad language but said he had not used the word pleb when having a row with police officers guarding the street's main gate.
He later resigned as chief whip as the row continued.
A month later, Mr Mitchell held a meeting in his Sutton Coldfield constituency with Det Sgt Stuart Hinton, Insp Ken MacKaill and Sgt Chris Jones from the federation.
After the meeting, the three officers - who represented police in Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands respectively - briefed the media.
But a transcript of a recording Mr Mitchell made of the meeting apparently contradicted the officers' account of what was said.
The matter was then referred to the IPCC, which decided not to conduct its own investigation but directed the forces which the officers represented to launch their own inquiry.
When all three police authorities concluded the officers had "no case to answer", Deborah Glass, then the IPCC's deputy chair, decided in October 2013 that the investigation into the officers' conduct should become "an independent investigation" conducted by the IPCC itself.
All three officers applied for a judicial review at the High Court in London and at hearing in July, asked two judges to quash the decision on the grounds that the IPCC had no power to re-determine the case - changing it from a supervised investigation to an independent one.
Lord Justice Davis and Mr Justice Wilkie found decisions made by the police forces were so legally flawed that they were "invalid and of no effect".
But while the judges ruled that the IPCC did have the power or re-determine the case, they also ruled that Ms Glass's decision must be quashed following allegations of apparent - though not actual - bias and a fresh decision taken.
That fresh decision has now been taken by the IPCC, which has reached the same conclusion as Ms Glass.


A new lifeboat station in North Somerset has become operational after it was formally adopted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

The charity adopted the Portishead and Bristol lifeboat from Portishead Lifeboat Trust in a ceremony earlier.
A £1.9m purpose-built centre has been constructed on the site of a former Masonic lodge next to the marina.
Bob Crane, RNLI lifeboat operations manager for Portishead, said it was a "momentous day".
"While it has taken 12 months to build the new lifeboat station, it has been 20 years since the Portishead Lifeboat Trust was set up by a group of independent volunteers who recognised the need for a sea rescue service to cover this stretch of the Severn Estuary.
"We have come a very long way since then and along the way launched on 381 operational shouts, saved 14 lives and assisted a further 483 people."
An anonymous donor gave more than £500,000 to help fund the project last year.


A woman who was sexually assaulted by three Libyan cadets stationed near Cambridge has spoken of her anger after they claimed asylum in the UK.

Khaled El Azibi, Ibrahim Naji El Maarfi and Mohammed Abdalsalam fled Bassingbourn Barracks and carried out the attacks in the city last October.
They were jailed but have now been released and are seeking asylum.
Their victim said she was angered by their "arrogance to apply for asylum after committing despicable crimes".
The woman, who comes from Cambridge, said seeing her attackers' faces again had "brought what happened flooding back".
"They subjected me to a horrible, intimidating sexual assault which I will never be able to forget."
The cadets were among 300 being trained to support the newly-formed Libyan government.
They arrived at the Cambridgeshire barracks in June 2014. Following attacks on three women and one man in Cambridge in October, the remaining cadets were returned to Libya early in November.
The three trainees convicted of sexually assaulting the women on 26 October, received sentences of between 10 and 12 months and have since been released from prison.
Cambridgeshire Police confirmed they were now in detention centres and had applied for asylum.
"It is not only an insult to me and the other women they attacked but an insult to all those people who genuinely need asylum here," the victim added.
"They have brought this on themselves and should never be granted asylum."
The grounds on which El Azibi, El Maarfi and Abdalsalam are claiming asylum have not been revealed.
However, the woman's solicitor, Richard Scorer of Slater and Gordon, described it as "a cynical asylum bid by attackers who don't appear to have shown any contrition for their awful crimes".
"We have now written to the prime minister, David Cameron, on behalf of the victims to register their serious concerns about the situation," he said.
"If an application like this were to succeed it would bring the asylum system into disrepute at a time when many are in genuine need of sanctuary from war and persecution."
The Home Office, which does not comment on individual cases, said: "Those who break our laws should be removed from the country at the earliest opportunity and we will seek to remove any foreign national offender who receives a custodial sentence for a criminal offence."


Chances are by now you know all the gory details - allegations in the Panama Papers that the super-rich and politically connected, and even some of their relatives, have moved hundreds of thousands of dollars from their own countries into offshore accounts in Panama, Hong Kong and Singapore, amongst other places.
A lot of the international spotlight has been centred on the practice of offshore banking.
Some of the biggest global offshore banking centres can be found in Asia - Singapore, Macao, Dubai and Hong Kong, for example, are amongst the top spots for the global super-rich looking to open an offshore account.
The practice in itself isn't illegal, but Asian capitals have been under pressure to share more information about who account holders are, and where the money comes from. So will the Panama Papers force more governments to become more transparent about tax?
Unlikely, says Andy Xie, an independent economist based in China and Hong Kong.
"In Asia it's about how to hide your wealth that often hasn't been legitimately acquired," says Mr Xie. "Political power and ill-gotten wealth go hand in hand here.
"How are you going to convince people to close these doors?"
Now let's be clear - setting up an offshore account or an offshore company is perfectly legal.
But here's where it gets complicated. There is a difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance. And the devil is in the details.
Tax evasion, according to Paul Lau, tax partner with professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is when "someone has income to report and then doesn't report it."
So if you have income in that offshore account, that you haven't declared to tax authorities back in your home country, and you are required to report that income to them - then that could be illegal.
But tax avoidance is something a bit more "nebulous", as Mr Lau puts it.
"Tax avoidance is taking advantage of certain tax provisions in a way that is not within the intent of the provision, to avoid paying tax."
So that means - if you've found a perfectly legal way to avoid paying taxes because of a provision in the tax system - well, then depending on the country, you may not be doing anything illegal at all.
Lots of hedges and provisos here, but that's sort of the point.
"The world is dotted with states and territories that make a speciality of providing services whose purpose is to facilitate ways to hide assets," says anti-corruption advocacy group Transparency International.
Activists say it is time for these countries to reform the secret world of finance they operate and become more transparent.
"The enablers - the accountants, the lawyers, the business formation people - they're all involved," says Transparency International's Casey Kelso.
"They are all getting a great deal of money as a percentage of these profits from these transactions."
But reforming these offshore banking centres won't be easy. This sort of business attracts billions of dollars for offshore banking centres every year, and it's not just from individuals. Massive profit-making corporations often set up shop in these centres to pay less tax as well.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto - they're all household names - and all have admitted to being under audit by Australian tax authorities for using Singapore as a marketing and service hub.
They report hundreds of millions of dollars of income in Singapore, but pay lower tax on their money there than they would back in Australia, because of Singapore's lower tax rates.
The companies say they're not doing anything wrong, because Singapore is an important hub for them. But Australia says if money was earned from business done in Australia, tax should be paid there.
Both Singapore and Hong Kong have said they take a serious view of tax evasion and support international efforts to tackle cross-border transgressions.
The government here has been quick to point out its efforts to clamp down on any illegal activities.
"Singapore takes a serious view on tax evasion and will not tolerate its business and financial centre being used to facilitate tax related crimes," the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in a statement.
Singapore's Ministry of Finance added: "We are reviewing the information being reported in connection with the so-called Panama Papers and are doing the necessary checks.
"If there is evidence of wrongdoing by any individual or entity in Singapore, we will not hesitate to take firm action."
In fact, many Asian countries have committed to exchange more tax information by 2018 as part of the Automatic Exchange of Information initiative set up by the OECD. Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia have all signed up.
So if you're an Australian and you open a bank account in Singapore, by 2018 in theory, your government could know about it.
But critics say there's no incentive for countries who depend on offshore banking to do this. In fact, their business depends on keeping things secret.
"The livelihoods of these offshore financial centres depend on giving their clients confidentiality," says Mr Xie. "Otherwise why would people hide their money there?"
In the end, it's all about who goes first. Countries want a level playing field, because if one offshore banking centre starts opening itself to greater scrutiny, there's a very good chance their wealthy customers will flee, running to the next most secret place to park their cash.
And as we all know, where there's demand, there will always be a ready supply.


Virtual reality can be used to give the illusion of going "back in time", according to an exploratory study.

In this virtual world, subjects were able to reduce how many people a gunman killed, an event they had unknowingly been part of.
Going into "the past"  increased the level of guilt the participants felt.
Writing in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, the team says that virtual time travel could help people overcome traumatic experiences.
Most interesting, the researchers add, was the emotional impact virtual time travel had on the participants.
"The more the participants felt the illusion, the greater the sense of their own morality," explained co-author Mel Slater of the ICREA (Catalan Research Institute) and University College London.
In the virtual world, participants could walk, talk and move similar to how they would in real life, and previous studies have shown that people strongly associate with their virtual selves.
"In virtual reality, the brain's low level perceptual system does not distinguish between the virtual and the real world; the brain takes what it sees and hears in a surrounding environment as given," added Prof Slater.
"Therefore, if they had an experience with the illusion of time travel, there is implicit learning that the past is mutable, that is: 'my own past decisions don't matter because they're changeable'."
In the study, 32 participants witnessed a man open fire and kill five people in an art gallery. They had learnt to control a lift and had allowed the killer to go to the upper-level.
Half of these went back in time to experience this event once more, but this time were faced with a classic moral dilemma: do nothing and five people will die, or intervene and five lives can be saved at the expense of one.
The other half simply experienced the same event but were not able to change their earlier actions.
This dilemma is commonly used in philosophical studies looking at morality. As expected, most participants chose to intervene.
This team says that virtual time travel could help people overcome post traumatic stress disorders or to revaluate previous bad decisions.
The laws of physics, of course, currently dictate that time travel is not possible. But lead author of the work, Friedman Doron, from the Sammy Ofer School of Communications in Israel, said his team had now come closest to it.
"Highly immersive virtual reality is very visceral. People hide behind the desk when they get shot. Some of the subjects duck down. It's the best thing we can do for time travel until the physicists do their job and come up with a time machine. For now this is the closest thing."
Physicist Robert Nemiroff of Michigan Technology University, US, commented that the work was interesting, though strange as "the ability to change the past is not a reasonably likely occurrence".
"If some version of illusory 'time travel therapy' can help people make better decisions in the future, and come to a better understanding of bad decisions, they have made in the past - then I am all for it."
But he added that having patients going around really believing that that they could change the past "might have negative repercussions that have not been explored".
People have long entertained the fantasy of going backwards in time, commented James Broadway from the University of California Santa Barbara, who was not involved in the research but edited the journal collection in which it appeared.
"'If I knew then what I know now...' is a common lament indeed.
"While it remains impossible to un-do something that has already occurred, results of this study suggest that... virtual reality techniques can be usefully harnessed to promote greater acceptance of one's own mistakes in the past, as well as better decision-making in the future."
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British military officials have held talks with their counterparts in Moscow over "incursions" of Russian aircraft around the UK, the defence secretary has said.

Michael Fallon said the talks aimed to find ways of heading off any "miscalculation or accident".
Russia has not crossed into UK airspace but has flown close to the boundary.
Last month Typhoon jets were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept two Russian planes over the Atlantic.
The Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers were escorted by the RAF until they were clear of the "British area of interest".
A similar incident took place over the North Sea in October, while Russian "Bear" strategic bombers were intercepted on several occasions by the RAF earlier in the year and in 2014.
Speaking at the Atlantic Council think tank in the US, Mr Fallon confirmed: "There have been discussions with Russia about setting up some means of avoiding any miscalculation with its long-range aviation.
"We have seen a number of incursions into the British flight information region over recent months...
"These aircraft have not been responding to communications from air traffic control, or indeed signals from the planes we send up to intercept them."


A man has been charged with the murder of two people following an altercation at a property in Canterbury.

Foster Christian, 53, of Dickens Avenue in the city, is charged with the murder of Simon Gorecki and Natasha Sadler.
Mr Gorecki, 47, and Ms Sadler, 40, were found when police were called to the property on Tuesday.
Mr Christian is also charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm. He is due to appear before Medway Magistrates Court on Friday.
A 16-year-old boy who was described as being in a critical condition following the argument is now stable, Kent Police said.
Two women, aged 18 and 35, who were arrested early on Thursday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice are still in custody, the force added.


An advert for bookmaker Ladbrokes featuring Marvel superhero Iron Man has been banned over fears it would appeal to children.

The email, which featured an image from the film Iron Man 3, breached rules which say gambling ads must not be likely to appeal to children, the Advertising Standards Agency said.
Ladbrokes said all its promotional emails were sent to registered customers or those known to be over 18.
Most Iron Man fans are adults, it said.
The bookmaker argued this was supported by data on attendance at Comic Con fan events and Facebook demographics for the Marvel brand.
It also argued its advert was "adult-themed" and reflected popular culture.
However, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) upheld the complaint against the 4 May email, saying that gambling ads must not be likely to be of particular appeal to children, especially by reflecting or being associated with youth culture.
The ASA said it understood that the email was only sent to people aged 18 and over, but nevertheless, the restrictions still applied.
It said that as all Facebook users must declare themselves to be at least 13 years old, younger children were therefore excluded from the sample used by Ladbrokes to support its stance.
The ASA said: "We considered those younger children were likely to be the primary audience for Iron Man action figures and related merchandise, which we understood were widely available at toy retailers.
"We understood that Iron Man was a popular character that would appeal to many adults but considered its comic book nature, and the availability of various related toys, meant it was likely to have particular appeal to children and young people.
"We therefore concluded that the ad breached the code."
A Ladbrokes spokesman said: "We are aware of the ASA ruling and are now considering our options, including the possibility of requesting an independent review which is part of the ASA appeals process."


A man has been charged with violent disorder following the death of a 22-year-old in Leicester.

Sheriff Adekunle Oluwa, aged 20, of Upperton Road, Leicester, was also charged with possession of a bladed article in connection with the death of Lauric Lebato, of north London.
Mr Lebato died in hospital after being found with a stab wound in Albion Street early on Saturday 11 February.
Sulaiman Sillah, of Leicester, has been charged with the murder of Mr Lebato.
Mr Sillah, aged 20, of Bateman Road, was charged on 17 February.


A man who attempted to help a British jihadist in Syria who laughed about Islamic State beheadings in a BBC Newsnight interview has been jailed.

Mohammed Saboor, 25, from High Wycombe, was found guilty of planning to send a pair of protective ballistic glasses to Omar Hussain in December 2013.
He was jailed for 21 months.
The Old Bailey jury was not told about Hussain's interview, where he said the only reason he would return to the UK is "if I wanna go plant a bomb".
During the trial, jurors heard Saboor, a BMW worker and a father of two, escorted Mr Hussain to Gatwick Airport, where his friend told police that he was travelling to Turkey to do aid work.
Once Mr Hussain was in the country, the pair, who maintained contact through WhatsApp messages and phone, began discussing the purchase of ballistic glasses.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan said: "These glasses are clearly of use to someone engaged in warfare, protecting the wearer from shrapnel injuries to the eyes."
Saboor accepted he was aware Hussain was associated with armed groups opposed to Syrian president Bashar Assad's regime.
He had denied the charge of entering into an arrangement to make property available to another, knowing it might be used for purposes of terrorism.
Hussain's interview was broadcast last August, in which he was identified as Awlaki, in reference to dead al-Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki.
He told a journalist he was fighting for the return of the "Caliphate" and laughed when he confirmed that Islamic State had beheaded three or four people, displaying their heads in the town centre.
He also professed a hatred for the UK
Sentencing, Judge Peter Rook QC said: "I take into account that this was January 2014 so it was significantly before some of the worst excesses of Isis became generally known.
"Nevertheless, it is quite clear that you entered into this arrangement knowing that the item was to be used for terrorist activities on the battlefield."