Shares in Samsung have fallen after it delayed shipments of its latest smartphone - but without giving a detailed reason for the decision.

Samsung said: "Shipments of the Galaxy Note 7 are being temporarily delayed for additional quality assurance inspections."
There are reports in South Korea and the US of the Galaxy Note 7 "exploding" either during or just after charging.
However, it is unclear whether the delay is because of these reports.
Pictures and videos shared online depict charred and burnt handsets.
Shares fell as much as 3.5% during trade in Seoul before making a partial recovery to close 2% down on the day.
Sister company Samsung SDI told Reuters that while it was a supplier of Galaxy Note 7 batteries, it had received no information to suggest the batteries were faulty.
A YouTube user who says they live in the US uploaded a video of a Galaxy Note 7 with burnt rubber casing and damaged screen under the name Ariel Gonzalez on 29 August.
He said the handset "caught fire" shortly after he unplugged the official Samsung charger, less than a fortnight after purchasing it.
"I came home after work, put it to charge for a little bit before I had class, went to put it on my waist and it caught fire," he said.
He added that while he was unharmed, his carpet was burnt in the incident.
At least five other claims of phones "exploding" had been made by 24 August, according to the Korean news agency Yonhap News.
Further images of a burnt Galaxy Note 7 were uploaded to Kakao Story, a popular social media site in Korea, on 30 August.
A user wrote: "There was another explosion of the Galaxy Note 7. It was my friend's phone. A Samsung employee checked the site and he is currently in talks over the compensation with Samsung. You should use its original charger just in case and leave the phone far away from where you are while charging."
The post has since been deleted, according to Business Korea.
Rival Apple is due to hold an event on 7 September, where it is expected to announce its latest iPhone.
"The timing could not be worse for Samsung," said Roberta Cozza, research director at Gartner.
"Samsung was back on track with its premium phones after the Galaxy S7 earlier this year. If it plans on issuing a recall, it will have to be done quickly, as such issues can be very damaging.
"The Galaxy Note 7 was very well received when it was launched earlier this month, so this is a delicate moment."


A terminally ill mother has made a final plea to her son's killers to tell her where his remains are buried.

Kyle Vaughan, from Newbridge, Caerphilly county, vanished on 30 December 2012.
Gwent Police has searched extensively for him, made several arrests, but all without success.
But the 24-year-old's mother, Mary Lucas, who has been battling cancer, has made a last appeal after being given just weeks to live.
She said she wants to bury her son before she, too, dies.
Mr Vaughan disappeared three years ago. His damaged silver Peugeot 306 was found abandoned on the A467 between Risca and Cross Keys.
It had been in a collision, but it is not known whether he was driving it at the time.
Police believe Mr Vaughan, known to his friends as Jabbers, walked away from his car but it remains a mystery what happened to him after that.
A missing person's inquiry was launched, which rapidly become a murder investigation.
"I know he's dead," Ms Lucas said.
"Somebody has done something to him. I would just like them to come forward and say.
"Put yourself in my shoes - what would they feel like if they were going to die and their son or daughter was dead and they didn't know where they were?"
Ms Lucas said she had been living from day to day since her son disappeared.
"You don't come to terms with it, not until you find them and lay them to rest," she said.
"When he went out that evening he said 'ta-ra Mam, I'll see you in the morning, if you want me just give me a phone' - and that was it."
Eight people aged between 15 and 62 have been arrested, as part of the inquiry, on suspicion of offences including perverting the course of justice, assisting an offender and murder.
All of them have been released without charge.
Ms Lucas' sister, Katherine Beddis, said: "All of Mary's life disappeared that night, along with Kyle. It's been a constant battle with the cancer and the battle of trying to find Kyle, and that has been her life for three years.
"I just want someone to give her a little bit of peace for what little time she's got left."
So far, officers have:
Det Ch Insp  Bill Davies stressed witnesses should not fear coming forward.
"I would ask - and implore - anyone with information to stop, think about the current situation, and then pick up the phone," he said.
"Confidentiality can be agreed, totally agreed.
"I think there may be a group of individuals with direct knowledge of what happened."
Anyone with information should ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.


Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has told goalkeeper Joe Hart to stop criticising the team, insisting he is the only "judge".

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City twice led Champions League rivals Real Madrid before slipping to a dramatic 3-2 defeat in the Bernabeu.
"You can't go 2-1 up with five minutes to go and lose the game," Hart said. "We can only blame ourselves."
We can't continue to talk about experience. We have good players who play for their international teams. They play a lot of games
But Mancini responded: "I agree but I think Joe Hart should do his job. I can criticise the team not Joe Hart."
The Italian added: "Joe Hart should stay as goalie. I am the judge, not Joe Hart."
City had to withstand some intense pressure before substitute Edin Dzeko gave them the lead on 69 minutes.
Marcelo equalised for Real Madrid seven minutes later only for the Spanish side to fall behind again when Aleksandar Kolarov's free-kick curled in after 85 minutes.
But Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo both found the net in the final three minutes to give the La Liga champions a thrilling victory.
"We dug deep, got a lead twice and we lost it, so we can only blame ourselves," Hart told ITV. "It's hard to come off the field after losing 3-2 and be positive. I'm really sorry.
"We're not a team that should come here and pat ourselves on the back for doing well. We're a team that gets results."
Mancini added: "It is difficult not because we lost - we can lose against a side like Real Madrid - but because with four minutes to go it was 2-1.
"This is strange. I think we need to improve this situation.
If Manchester City had held on to win at the Bernabeu, it would have been the first time in Real Madrid's history that the nine-times European Cup champions had fallen to defeat in their first home match of the competition, a record now consisting of 41 wins and two draws, the most recent of which came against Anderlecht, exactly 50 years ago
"Sometimes we go too deep. We made some mistakes and I don't want us to continue defending like this.
"In the first half, they played better than us but in the second half we played well and scored two goals.
"When you score two goals here and are 2-1, you should pay more attention."
Mancini also believes his Premier League champions cannot use a lack of European experience as an excuse for the defeat.
"We can't continue to talk about experience," he said. "We have good players who play for their international teams. They play a lot of games.
"I think I am happy for our performance in the second half but I think we can improve and we should be disappointed that we lost."
Despite this being only City's second Champions League campaign, first-team coach David Platt says they can take no comfort from having come so close to earning a positive result at the Bernabeu.
"We won the league last year and the cup the year before that, so we go into every football match wanting to get something out of it," Platt said.
"Scoring two goals at the Bernabeu means very little because we've taken no points. We have to analyse and see where we can do better because we have to do better. We're conceding too many."
City were eliminated after the group stages last season and Mancini is determined to avoid a similar fate this time around.
"We have five games left in the group and it is important we beat Borussia Dortmund at home next," said the Italian. "It will be difficult as they are a top team but this year we want to go through."


The makers of a 7in (17.8cm) Android tablet have been named "UK's Most Innovative Mobile Company".

Datawind was among four finalists in a competition organised by UK Trade and Investment.
The firm hopes the Ubislate, which sells for Â£22 ($35), will make digital connectivity more affordable.
The three other finalists in the Smart UK Project were Blippar, P2i and QRpedia.
Seventy-nine UK-based companies entered the competition in December.
A key factor in selecting the finalists was that they demonstrated the potential to become global businesses.
The winner of the competition was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
As well as the prestige of winning, Datawind will get free design consultancy and free software.
Russell Buckley, one of the Smart UK Project judges, said: "We were very impressed by the quality of all the finalists.
"It was a tough decision but we are very pleased that Datawind has won.
"There is a global potential and the will to transform lives and society, all using the resources of a British company."
Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive of Datawind, said the result was a "great validation of our vision".


Police in Brazil have been questioning three people over an alleged mob killing in one of Rio de Janeiro's most exclusive neighbourhoods.

The three men were part of of group of some 10 people who chased, kicked and punched the victim - a 33-year-old who sold ice in the area.
Their lawyer said they acted in self-defence.
CCTV footage shows the ice vendor hurling a metal bar at two women after an overnight party at Ipanema beach.
The dead man, named as Fabiano Machado da Silva, harassed one of the women at the party and became aggressive when they rejected his advances, lawyer Pierre Virgilio told O Dia newspaper.
"They didn't intend to kill. In fact they were the victims," said Mr Virgilio.
Passers-by, who were unaware of the circumstances, apparently joined in with the beating of Mr Silva in the early hours of Sunday.
He died on the spot next to General Osorio Square, where an arts and crafts market popular with tourists is held every Sunday.
Mr Silva's family says his five-year-old son has not been told of his father's death and has been kept away from any news of the incident.
Relatives say they received a last voice message from him at 03:27 (05:27 GMT).
"We believe he was drunk," said his sister, Hosana dos Santos Machado. "We could tell by his voice."
"You could hear loud music and the sea breeze in the background," she told O Globo newspaper. "He said there were many beautiful women at the party."
The mobile phone was stolen by one of the aggressors, his family said.
Hours after the incident, relatives received several messages saying Mr Silva had "got what he deserved".
His brother-in-law said the family expected justice to be done.
"This was an act of savagery," said Eraldo Nunes da Silva.
"Nothing that he could have done justifies that."


An Illinois congressman who resigned amid a spending scandal including the remodelling of his office on the TV series Downton Abbey has been charged over questionable use of funds.

Aaron Schock will face 24 counts for alleged offences including wire fraud and filing false tax returns.
Mr Schock had been investigated for his real estate deals, and for spending taxpayer cash on private jets.
His lawyer said the 52-page indictment was nothing but "made-up allegations".
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The indictment includes nine counts of wire fraud, five of falsification of election commission filings, six of filing false federal income tax returns, two of making false statements, and one each of mail fraud and theft of government funds.
Wire fraud alone carries a potential prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Mr Schock said in a statement: "As I have said before, we might have made errors among a few of the thousands and thousands of financial transactions we conducted, but they were honest mistakes - no one intended to break any law.
"I am eager to finally defend my name and reputation in a court of law and move on with my life."
The 35-year-old has been under investigation for 19 months, including by two grand juries that he said "poked, prodded and probed every aspect of my professional, political, and personal life".
George Terwilliger, Mr Schock's lawyer and a former Justice Department official, said: "This indictment will look bad, but underneath it is just made-up allegations of criminal activity arising from unintentional administrative errors.
"These charges are the culmination of an effort to find something, anything, to take down Aaron Schock."
'Downton office' US lawmaker resigns
The former congressman said he had lost faith in "the integrity of our Justice Department".
"After this experience, I am forced to join millions of other Americans who have sadly concluded that our federal justice system is broken and too often driven by politics instead of facts," he said.
Mr Schock was a rising star of the GOP when he became embroiled in a series of press probes into his lavish spending.
While he repaid the government $40,000 (Â£28,500) for his aristocratic office renovation, it was the first in a series of reports by Politico and others about his use of public and campaign funds.
The Associated Press used geolocated data from the lawmaker's Instagram account and his flight records to raise discrepancies in more than $40,000 of expenses he claimed to cover the cost of private flights.
While the rules of the Congress allow legislators to use office funds this way, that was not the case in 2013, the year investigated by the AP.
Separately, Mr Schock came under scrutiny for multiple property deals closely related to political donors.
The former congressman resigned in March 2015.
He said he would leave Capitol Hill with "sadness and humility", adding that "God has a plan" for everyone.


Cambridge beat Oxford for the first time since 2009 in a thrilling 135th men's Varsity match at Twickenham.

Rory Triniman's late try sealed the win for the Light Blues to go with three second-half Fraser Gillies penalties.
Mike Phillips raced through to give Cambridge a half-time lead, while Oxford's Henry Hughes and Ed David scored either side of Triniman's try.
In the women's Varsity match, captain Catherine Wilcock's first-half penalty earned Oxford a 3-0 win.
Cambridge men had not scored a try in the fixture since 2013, following last year's 12-6 defeat and a 43-6 loss in 2014.
But they were gifted the opener shortly before the break, when Henry de Berker's misplaced pass was stolen by Phillips who ran almost half the length of the field to dot down beneath the posts.
The game ebbed and flowed in the second half with Gillies and Oxford's Basil Strang exchanging penalties, before Hughes finished a fine team move for the Dark Blues to bring the scores level at 13-13.
After the superb Gillies had restored Cambridge's advantage from the tee, Triniman showed immense strength while being tackled to bundle over for the match-winning try.
David's 77th-minute score proved to be no more than a consolation as Cambridge made it 62 victories to Oxford's 59 in the 144-year-old fixture.
The women's game beforehand lacked the tries seen in the men's fixture, but it was no-less tense with Oxford looking to avenge their 52-0 defeat 12 months earlier.
Cambridge ran in eight tries that day, but were unable to find any momentum this time against a solid Oxford defence.
The Dark Blues managed to hold out for more than an hour following Wilcock's 16th-minute penalty, full-back Sophie Trott starring with three try-saving tackles.
Cambridge back row and man of the match Brian Du Toit told BBC Sport:
"It's absolutely huge, we put such an emphasis on not worrying about the previous six games, we knew we had such a tight-knit group of boys we just wanted to do it for each other and people who had worn the jersey previously.
"We were all willing to get up off the ground when we had nothing left in the tank - you wanted to do it for your brothers, your team-mates, your family."
Oxford captain Fergus Taylor added to BBC Sport:
"We really did give it everything, we prepared really well this year. We had the opportunities to win that game, we didn't take them in the first half.
"We took our foot off the pedal in the second half of the first half and didn't really turn it on until the last 20 when it was a bit too late."
Cambridge men: Amesbury; Davies, Triniman, Phillips, King; Gillies, Tullie; Briggs, Burnett, Dixon, Hunter, Bond, Stanley, Du Toit, Dass (c).
Replacements: Hugkulstone, Somers, Moros, Erogbogbo, Bartholomew, Bell, Erogbogbo, Griffiths.
Oxford men: Geiger; David, Hughes, Hogg, Stileman; Strang, De Berker; Ball, Hart, Morris, Taylor (c), Grant, Roberts-Huntley, Blomfield, Wilson.
Replacements: Thornton, Scaife, Lu, Marsden, MacGilchrist, Beaufils, Kershaw, Kearns.


Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson will return to the BBC to host an episode of satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You next month.

He will join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton when the new series returns on 2 October.
Clarkson pulled out of hosting the BBC One panel show in April, after being sacked from Top Gear after a "fracas".
He is set to front a new motoring show for Amazon next year, alongside co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
Clarkson's appearance on Have I Got News For You will be his first on the BBC since his departure from Top Gear.
He was suspended in March after assaulting producer Oisin Tymon, and the BBC later confirmed his contract would not be renewed.
At the time, BBC director-general Tony Hall said "a line has been crossed" and that "there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another".
Clarkson signed up to present Have I Got News For You on Friday, and his appearance will mark the start of the show's 50th series.
When he pulled out of hosting in April, production company Hat Trick had suggested the presenter would appear on the show soon.
A statement said: "On reflection, Jeremy Clarkson has decided not to host Have I Got News For You. We fully expect him to resume his hosting duties later in the year."
Pointless assistant host Richard Osman will be one of the two guests joining Clarkson for the opening episode.


A Catholic priest caught on video obtained by the Sun on Sunday snorting what appeared to be cocaine has taken extended leave from the priesthood.

29 February 2016 Last updated at 18:34 GMT
Fr Stephen Crossan is reported to have sniffed coke through a Â£10 note on a night of drinking in July 2015 in Banbridge, County Down.
He was in a room with Nazi memorabilia and seemed to say "I shouldn't" as he snorted, the Sun on Sunday reported.


Syrian activists say at least 80 people have died in government air strikes on a marketplace in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus.

Around 200 people were reportedly injured in the attack.
Government forces have been regularly attacking Douma and its surrounding areas in recent months with air strikes and helicopter barrel bombs.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed alongside opposition fighters.
Images of the aftermath of Sunday's strikes show dead bodies lined up on the floor, including some of children.
Unverified footage uploaded by activists showed a marketplace destroyed, with surrounding buildings in ruins and vehicles on fire.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, a network of anti-government activists, said that rescue workers were digging through the rubble in search of survivors.
A Douma-based activist told the Associated Press news agency that the situation was "catastrophic", adding that clinics in the area were full and many of the wounded were being rushed in civilian cars to other medical facilities since ambulances were overwhelmed.
The government strikes are aimed at stopping rebel groups, including the Islamist rebel group Jaysh al-Islam, from firing rockets from Douma into Damascus, which is only about 7 miles (11 km) away.
An air strike on Wednesday reported killed at least 37 civilians in Douma, including four children.
The latest reported strikes coincide with the first visit to the country by the UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien since he took up the post in May.
United Nations figures show that over 220,000 people have been killed and more than nine million displaced in Syrian civil war since it began four years ago.
The conflict began with a wave of peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, but by the end of that year had descended into armed confrontation between the government and armed opposition groups.
The war has seen the emergence of numerous heavily armed jihadist groups within Syria, including Jaysh al-Islam, Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda offshoot al-Nusra Front.
Recently some of the anti-Assad forces have begun to fight each other, with IS in particular being opposed by other Islamist factions and by fighters from the Kurdish minority along the country's borders with Turkey and Iraq.


The base level of the Premiership's salary cap for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns will remain at £7m.

The salary cap limit currently stands at £6.5m, but this will rise to £7m at the start of the 2017-18 season.
"We have a very strong and highly competitive league," Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty said.
"The salary cap framework is essential to maintaining its strength and protecting the competitive uncertainty which is its hallmark."
The board of Premiership Rugby decided unanimously to retain the level of the cap at £7m, following the increases for next season announced in October 2015.
The decision will be welcomed by some club bosses, who are concerned that a continuous rise in the salary cap will lead to wage inflation.
In July, McCafferty warned the league must monitor player wage inflation after the Rugby Football Union and the Premiership signed a new agreement regarding access to England players worth in excess of £225m.
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Kyle Edmund failed to reach his maiden ATP Tour final as he lost to American Ryan Harrison at the Atlanta Open.

The Briton was beaten 6-7 (7-5) 6-3 6-4 in what was the second semi-final of his career.
The world number 45 won the first-set tie-break but Harrison took the next two sets, winning eight of the final nine points to wrap up victory.
He will meet three-time Atlanta champion and fellow American John Isner in Sunday's final.


1. A photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West kissing on their wedding day.
2. A picture of on-again, off-again, couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez looking all thoughtful and serious.
3. A photo of Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande happily embracing.
Firstly, they are the three most liked pictures on Instagram in 2014.
Secondly, the concept they are all based around reflects this year's top hashtag, love.
From terrorist activity to trolling, the web can often feel like a dark, terrifying place, but it seems this year on Instagram love has conquered all.
From cute cats...
To cute dogs...
To couples with cute dogs...
To food. Lots and lots of food.
Unsurprisingly, exotic places and memorable moments also featured heavily on Instagram.
This year's top 10 geotagged locations in the UK were all in London, perhaps reflecting recent research which suggested the UK's capital was the world's most popular city to visit.
Tower Bridge and the Tower of London topped the list, after thousands of people visited the area to see the Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red poppy installations to commemorate the centenary of World War One.
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After four years away, much was made of Cheryl coming back to The X Factor to offer her Geordie inspired pearls of wisdom.

So - yes - even before this series finishes, we've been looking at how likely it is she'll return for 2015.
"We never plan. I only ever do a year [at a time]," Cheryl told Newsbeat. "We never plan three or four contractually.
"We certainly never have a conversation two days before the final." No commitment to the 12th series then.
The cynics may argue that an appearance on The X Factor has done no harm for promotion of Cheryl's album.
There would be no need to come back next year if there's no album out.
Others may say that she's actually been overshadowed in the personality stakes by Mel B, who was recently named ultimate TV personality at an awards show.
But according to host Dermot O'Leary, Cheryl is still a major draw and says he thinks she's an asset to the show.
"Cheryl has a stardust about her," he said. "It's almost like she's always in soft filter, she's got a star lens around her.
"When those kids step into the audition room she's always the first pair of eyes they clock on. You can't bottle that. She's brilliant."
There's only ever been one celebrity who's been a judge for one year and that was when Kelly Rowland made an appearance in 2011.
After being on the first four series of the show, Sharon Osborne came back for one series in 2013 before disappearing off again.
Gary Barlow made it three years on the panel before he vacated the chair as head judge to go back to Take That and allow Simon Cowell to sit back on the throne.
While you could argue that Simon and Cheryl returning may have been to bring back some judging stability to the show, that's unlikely to have been the motive.
"It's always harder for artists as they've got other careers," said Dermot.
"Gary found it a tough gig when you're a judge and an artist as it's a tricky diary to manage."
The speculation over the judges' line-up is music to the ears of The X Factor's publicity machine.
Earlier this year Simon Cowell hinted that The X Factor USA may not be over, despite being axed by Fox.
If that was the case, surely he'd relish the chance to be back on primetime American television?
"I don't want Simon to go away again," said Dermot. "Last time it was really stressful. We had to find loads of other people. It worked really but finding them was really stressful."
So if Cheryl DOESN'T come back, would the door be opened for Tulisa to make a return? Dermot thinks there is potential.
"I definitely think there's unfinished business for Tulisa and I know she would want to come back with bells and whistles."
Simon Cowell previously said he'd be up for working with her again and Louis Walsh has always been a fan.
"It's up to Simon and ITV but she was a good judge and she's had a tough year. I'd like to see her have a good year."
Whatever happens, you can be sure on one thing... Louis Walsh sitting at the end of the panel. He's practically chained to that desk.
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Worcester Warriors have extended Australian-born England-qualified scrum-half Michael Dowsett's contract.

The 25-year-old initially moved to Sixways in November last year on a short-term deal to provide cover for the injured Francois Hougaard.
Dowsett has played eight times since joining from Australian Super Rugby side ACT Brumbies.
"Michael has shown tremendous professionalism," director of rugby Gary Gold told the club website.
"He provides important competition in the half-back position and he's a hungry, enthusiastic individual who drives standards across the board."


Belfast-born actor and director Sir Kenneth Branagh has spoken out against cuts to the arts in Northern Ireland.

He said the Belfast Festival at Queen's, which has lost much of its funding, made an "enormous difference to the cultural landscape".
He described the move as "disappointing and worrying" and said he hoped the festival's future could be secured.
He is visiting Belfast to host a special charity premiere of his latest movie Cinderella.
More than 360 fans got to watch the film on Sunday afternoon before it opens in UK cinemas later this week.
The proceeds of the premiere will go to two organisations nominated by the actor - the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (Nicva) and Into Film, a charity for young people.
In an interview with BBC Northern Ireland, Sir Kenneth spoke about the cutbacks to the arts, and the funding crisis facing the Belfast Festival at Queen's.
"Queen's I think has always been varied and interesting, often dazzling in what it presents," he said.
"I think it's a disappointment and it's worrying and I hope that something can be done to secure the future of the festival."
The actor has been both a participant and a spectator at previous Belfast festivals.
"I know what that festival does and what these kind of festivals can do I think is remarkable not just for presenting interesting work but also in the sense of showing another part of the lifeblood of the city and the heartbeat of the city creatively."
The actor also said he "would love" to do more work in Northern Ireland.
"I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground," he said.
"But I'd love to come back and do something myself, it's about time, so I'm in conversation and I hope it's going to happen."


A man who died after being found injured in Aberdeen has been named by police.

Douglas Brandie, 59, was found at Shapinsay Court in the Mastrick area of the city in the early hours of Tuesday.
He was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where he later died on Wednesday. His death is being treated as unexplained.
Relatives said in a statement: "He will be sadly missed by his family and friends."


Hotel guests in Jersey had to wait five hours for an ambulance to remove the body of a dead family member.

The man died on the driveway of an unnamed hotel in St Saviour early on a Sunday morning at the end of May.
St Saviour constable, Sadie Le Sueur-Rennard said the guests were told there were only three ambulances operating at the weekend.
The man who died has not been named but his family were told his body could not be moved because it was a sudden death.
Constable Le Sueur-Rennard said she was bringing it to the attention of the chief minister at the first States sitting after the incident.
She said: "It was a distressing weekend as it was a young person who was there with a young family. I felt very bad because there was very little I could do."
Chief Minister Senator Ian Gorst said health authorities were aware and an investigation was under way.
He said: "I am extremely disappointed to hear what sounds like such a tragic and sad incident and I'm sure the sympathy of every member in this family goes out to them.
"On top of the extremely distressing time in their lives, they should not have had to wait for a response from our emergency services.
"The assistant health minister is undertaking a full review and I'm sure will put in place any necessary changes to ensure this does not occur again."


Britain's Andy Murray reached the Paris Masters final for the first time with a 6-4 6-3 win over Spain's David Ferrer.

The second seed won the last five games of the match to seal victory in one hour 35 minutes.
The 28-year-old Scotsman said: "I played aggressive tennis and was particularly successful at the net."
In Sunday's final will play world number one Novak Djokovic, who beat French Open champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3 3-6 6-0.
Murray will finish the year second in the world rankings if he defeats Djokovic.
He faces a challenging end to the season, with the ATP World Tour Finals in London only eight days away, followed by Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, which gets under way in Belgium in three weeks' time.
He added: "It would be nice to achieve my highest-ever year-end ranking, but it is more about seeding for the Australian Open in January. It will help my chances more than if I was seeded three or four.
"I've still got the Davis Cup final to look forward to and these are two things I have never achieved before. It will help keep me motivated."
The world number three has made a habit of starting quickly in Paris this week and broke his opponent's first service game for the fourth successive match.
It spurred eighth seed Ferrer into action and the Spaniard levelled for 3-3 when two unforced errors gave him the break back.
In a see-saw opening set, Ferrer set up four more break points in the eighth game but Murray saved them and went on to steal the Spaniard's serve after he made a string of unforced errors.
The Briton, who now holds a 11-6 career lead over Ferrer, finished a superb exchange at the net with a fine sliced lob to set up two set points. On the first one, Ferrer netted a routine backhand.
However, Ferrer stayed focused and raced to a 3-1 lead in the second set.
Murray dug deep and discovered his range again, finding gravity-defying angles to earn three more breaks of the Spaniard's serve, wrapping up the victory on his first match point when Ferrer netted a drop shot.
The Scot was rewarded for taking the initiative from the outset and hit 26 winners to just 10 from his 33-year-old opponent.
Murray added: "There were a couple of periods where I made more mistakes than usual. In one game I missed four backhands, but when you play high-risk tennis that is what happens.
"I played a good match, apart from the errors."
Murray was able to report a clean bill of health after complaining of a stiffness in his lower back after his punishing three-set victory over Richard Gasquet on Friday.
He added: "My back felt better today. It was a bit stiff when I got up, but I spent a couple of hours with the physio this morning and that helped.
"As a result, I was able to serve bigger and more consistently than yesterday and earn more free points."
Defending champion Djokovic extended his winning run in this competition to 21 matches after ousting Wawrinka in one hour 51 minutes.
The 28-year-old, seeking his 10th title of the year, has now won 19 of his 23 contests against the world number four.
Wawrinka ended Djokovic's 29-set winning streak to level the match, but fell away in the decider, failing to win a game.
Djokovic has triumphed in five of his six encounters with Murray this year, including the Australian Open final, and has won 20 of their 29 overall meetings.


Alex Danson believes Great Britain's women have a great chance to win gold at the Olympics in Rio next year.

The Reading forward, 30, says the team enjoyed the best preparation for success in Brazil after being crowned EuroHockey champions in August.
"Winning gold is something I have had my heart set on my whole career," Danson told BBC South Today.
"For as long as I can remember I have looked up to athletes who have won that sort of accolade."
Danson, from Odiham, was a member of the GB team that won bronze at London 2012, but believes they will have an even stronger squad in Rio next year.
They are currently ranked seventh in the world and will face Argentina, Australia, Japan, India and the United States in Pool B.
"It is going to be an absolute spectacle and it will be an incredible hockey tournament.
"The 16 athletes that go will be the fittest, the fastest, the best technically we have ever been," she said.
Danson made her international debut at the age of 16 and has played more than 250 games for England and Team GB.
Her form at the EuroHockey Championships led to her being nominated for the World Player of the Year award, alongside Delfina Merino, Jodie Kenny, Lidewij Welten and Mi-Hyun Park.
"To win it would be a complete and utter shock," she said. "It is a huge honour but the nomination is reflective of the team, I am very proud and it is an early Christmas present."
However, Danson may have to wait to unwrap her other presents on 25 December.
"We are actually training Christmas Day this year," she added. "The last time we trained before London 2012 at Christmas, we all wore Santa hats."


Eugenie Bouchard says male players should be asked to "flex their muscles" after an interviewer at the Australian Open asked her to "give us a twirl".

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Bouchard, 20, and Serena Williams were both asked to show off their outfits on court following second-round wins.
Twelve-time Grand Slam champion Billie Jean King has called the request from the male interviewer "truly sexist".
But Canadian Bouchard said: "I'm not offended. I'm fine with being asked to twirl if they ask the guys to flex."
She added: "I think it was an in-the-moment thing and it was funny."
The request drew criticism on social media, where King wrote: "The Australian Open interviewer asking the women to twirl on court is out of line.
"This is truly sexist. If you ask the women, you have to ask the guys."
The 71-year-old, who won the Australian Open in 1968, added: "Let's focus on accomplishments of both genders and not our looks."
American world number one Williams was reluctant to describe the exchange with Tennis Australia commentator Ian Cohen as sexist despite the strong reaction.
"I wouldn't ask Rafa Nadal or Roger Federer to twirl. Whether it's sexist or not, I don't know. I can't answer that," said Williams, a second-round winner over Vera Zvonareva.
"I didn't really want to twirl because I don't need all the extra attention.
"Whether I twirl or not, it's not the end of the world. It's about being positive and just moving forward."
Bouchard, whose chat with Cohen followed her straight sets win over Kiki Bertens, was asked again about the issue following her third-round win over France's Caroline Garcia on Friday.
"They try to ask funny questions," she added.
"It's entertaining, I guess. I don't mind it. People can think what they want about it, but I just answer how I want and do what I want. I'm fine with it."
At last year's tournament in Melbourne, Bouchard was asked about dating US pop star Justin Bieber.


More than 40 motorists have been issued fixed penalty fines for speeding offences during a weekend road policing operation in Forth Valley.

Officers issued 57 warnings for speeding in addition to 43 fines after patrols on "collision hotspots" in the region.
Two motorists were fined for driving at 54mph and 52mph respectively in a 30mph limit area.
The patrol focused on rural roads, including the A84/A85/A82 corridor.
More than 120 motorists were stopped during the operation.
Two cars were seized for lack of insurance and another motorist was fined for not having a valid MOT.
Five drivers were also found to have no vehicle tax on their cars.
Sgt Adam Weir said: "Our aim is to encourage and promote road safety on our roads in an effort to reduce collisions and resultant casualties.
"We will however continue to use all means at our disposal to deal with inappropriate or dangerous behaviour by all road users."


The body's own "training manual" for attacking HIV has been recorded by US scientists and it is hoped it can be used to design vaccines.

HIV mutates in order to survive the onslaught of a patient's immune system.
However, some patients develop highly effective antibodies that can neutralise huge swathes of HIV mutants.
A North Carolina team analysed the arms race between body and virus, published in the journal Nature, and has shown how these antibodies are made.
When someone is infected with HIV, their body produces antibodies to attack it. But the virus mutates and evades the offensive, so the body produces new antibodies that the virus then evades and the war goes on.
However, after about four years of this struggle some patients hit on to a winner by targeting something the virus finds harder to change - an Achilles heel.
"Even though the virus mutates and there are literally millions of quasi-species of virus because of all these mutations, but there are parts the virus can't change otherwise the virus cannot infect - these are the vulnerable sites," Prof Barton Haynes, of Duke University, in North Carolina, told the BBC.
At this stage of the infection it is far too late to make a difference for the patient as the virus is hiding in untouchable reservoirs.
However, some researchers believe that vaccines that encourage the body to produce these "broadly neutralising antibodies" may give people immunity to the virus.
The research team's study is based on a patient in Africa who had a rapid diagnosis, about four weeks after being infected with the virus.
They were eventually able to produce an antibody named CH103 that could neutralise 55% of HIV samples.
It was not produced in one easy step. Rather it was the product of the war of the immune system and HIV trying to out-evolve each other.
However, through regular genetic analyses of both the immune system and virus, researchers could piece together each of the steps that culminated in the production of CH103.
It is like a training manual for the immune system.
Prof Haynes said: "What we were able to do was map out the arms race of both virus and antibody, and in doing so we have now a map.
"This is the first time we've been able to see the actual road map."
He said the challenge now was to see if re-creating those steps could lead to a viable vaccine.
However, he said it would almost certainly need to be a vaccine combining multiple "Achilles heels" - in the same way that HIV therapies are a combination of drug treatments.
Prof Jane Anderson, consultant at Homerton hospital in London and chair of the British HIV Association, said: "The study gives important insights into the ways in which the human immune system responds to HIV infection and increases our understanding about the relationships between the virus and the human host.
"This is another welcome step on the path to develop vaccines against HIV."
Dr Sarah Joseph, who tests HIV vaccines at the Medical Research Council clinical trials unit, said:  "This paper is really interesting. Some people do make antibodies that neutralise a lot of HIV virus, bit it is not of use to them as they produce it way too late."
She said harnessing these antibodies "could be a big deal" and there was "even talk about mass-producing antibodies and infusing people with them".


Wales' young guns may have missed out on a place at the 2017 Uefa Under-19 Championship - but the future is bright for Geraint Williams' side.

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Next year they will compete in the Toulon Tournament for the first time against the elite of youth football.
But who are the new generation hoping to bring more success to Wales and echo the success of Chris Coleman's senior side? BBC Wales Sport looks at Wales' hopes for the future.
The U19s missed out on qualification for the elite round of next summer's Uefa U19 Championship in a peculiar way on Tuesday night, even though they thrashed Luxembourg 6-2.
Despite finishing level on six points with Group 6 rivals England and Greece, Wales will not travel to Georgia for next year's tournament.
The top two qualifying places were decided on a head-to-head record between England, Greece and Wales, meaning Williams' side missed out as they had an inferior goal difference, despite beating England 3-2 in Bangor on 12 November.
"Unfortunately we came one goal short. I said to the lads, if we left something out there or we hadn't prepared properly, then we would have been annoyed," Williams told BBC Wales Sport.
"I'm very proud and I'm devastated for these young men because they couldn't have done any more."
Manchester United's 18-year-old midfielder Regan Poole has been tipped to be one of Wales' future stars and believes the current crop of youngsters can go far.
Poole, who was signed from Newport County on deadline day in the summer of 2015, has made one senior appearance for United, in last season's Europa League.
Speaking to BBC Wales Sport, Poole said: "We have a very good side here. We scored six goals against Luxembourg and we beat England who are a very good side. It shows that the players coming through the young Welsh system are all good.
"There's huge competition in any age group. That's a huge compliment to Wales football and how far it's come and I'm very proud of it."
Norwich City goalkeeper Fergal Hale-Brown was part of the 18-man U19s squad for qualifying but has been called up by England U15s in the past and has trained with the Republic of Ireland.
Goalkeeper Adam Przybek received a call-up to the Wales U19 side but has previously played for England U16s and is also eligible to play for Poland.
Chelsea's Cole DaSilva, who played against his brother Jay when Wales U19s beat England U19s, was also part of the squad but has featured for England U16s along with Exeter City prospect Ethan Ampadu.
Eastbourne-born Watford player Rhyle Ovenden qualifies to play for Wales through his grandfather and Wolves' Ryan Leak, who is from Burton-upon-Trent, is eligible for Wales through his grandmother.
Manchester City's Matt Smith hails from the West Midlands, but has played for Wales at various youth levels and West Bromwich Albion's Tyler Roberts, currently on loan with Oxford United, was selected for England at schoolboy level but qualifies for Wales through his grandparents.
Meanwhile, Liverpool's Chester-born Ben Woodburn wants to emulate fellow Welsh players Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale, who both came through the Wales youth ranks and are now key players in the senior side.
In addition to Poole, Wales have plenty of young talent to draw upon when they travel to France next year and Coleman has much to be excited about for talent coming through to the senior side.
Everton's Ryan Harrington and Nathan Broadhead have both made an impression, while U18s keeper Aaron Jones is also a prospect.
Cardiff City pair Cameron Coxe and Mark Harris are highly thought of, while Jack Evans, Liam Cullen and Kieran Evans, all of Swansea City, have been earmarked to shine.


Arlene Foster "did not ignore" warnings by a whistleblower over an energy scheme that will cost NI taxpayers Â£400m, the economy minister has said.

Mrs Foster dealt with the Renewable Heat Incentive issue "entirely appropriately", said Simon Hamilton.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has said Mrs Foster should consider her position over the controversy, but Mr Hamilton accused him of "stuntery".
The scheme was meant to encourage users to switch to biomass heating systems.
It was run by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) and BBC Spotlight reported that concerns were expressed over the scheme to Mrs Foster in 2013, when she was enterprise minister.
She referred the issue to civil servants but the warnings were not acted on.
The whistleblower outlined serious flaws with the scheme in an email to the department in 2014.
The scheme paid out more in subsidies than the fuel cost, meaning users could earn more money by burning more fuel.
The email was not acted on and the scheme continued until it closed earlier this year amid accusations that it was being abused.
Mr Hamilton said it was "very, very unfair" to claim Mrs Foster had done nothing in regard the whistleblowers' claims.
"They were certainly not ignored," he said.
"If you look at the evidence of the now permanent secretary for the Department of the Economy (formerly DETI) to the Public Accounts Committee on 9 November, he said that Arlene Foster handled the issue of the whistleblower entirely appropriately by taking that on board and by passing that on officials.
"Which is exactly what any minister, anybody in public life should do when somebody comes forward with serious allegations."
Referring to Mr Nesbitt's resignation call, Mr Hamilton said: "I think that Mike, and some others, are more transfixed with the politics of this and are not concerned, don't give two hoots quite frankly, in terms of the implication on the public purse.
"That's what my focus is on, that's what Arlene's focus is on, not some of the stuntery that others will try to perform over the coming days."
Sinn FÃ©in MLA Conor Murphy said that it would be "helpful" for Mrs Foster, who is currently in China, to step forward and explain what happened to restore "public confidence".
Mr Murphy said his view came from his experience as a minister. In 2011, he was found to have discriminated against a man who applied to become head of NI Water.
"I speak from my own experience of the time when there was a crisis of confidence in how my own department was doing its business.
"I felt the best thing to do was step forward and answer the questions, difficult questions that they were at the time, but step forward and try to restore some public confidence."
He also said that he wanted to know what was "sent back up the chain to the minister (Mrs Foster)" after the whistleblower's claims had been investigated by the department.
Mrs Foster, now the first minister, has not commented on whether she made any effort to follow up on the whistleblower's claims.
She also pointed out that the permanent secretary of the economy department had said she acted "entirely appropriately".
But, she acknowledged that investigations into the claims "should have highlighted the failings of the scheme and actions should have been taken".


Australia's markets watchdog has begun legal action against ANZ bank over accusations it fixed the benchmark inter-bank interest rate.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission accused ANZ of "unconscionable conduct and market manipulation".
The charges relate to ANZ's involvement in setting the Bank Bill Swap Reference Rate between March 2010 and May 2012.
In a statement, the bank rejected the allegations.
The commission alleges that the bank "traded in a manner intended to create an artificial price for bank bills on 44 separate days" during the period in question.
"ASIC alleges that ANZ was seeking to maximise its profit or minimise its loss to the detriment of those holding opposite positions to ANZ's."
The Bank Bill Swap Reference Rate (BBSW) is the primary interest rate benchmark used in Australian financial markets.
It is Australia's equivalent to the Libor in the UK and is used as a reference rate for banks lending money amongst each other.
In a major scandal which emerged in 2015, several banks in the UK were found to have conspired to influence the Libor by agreeing among themselves to fix the rates.
Barclays Bank, JP Morgan, Swiss bank UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank have all been fined by financial regulators for this practice, which is seen as market manipulation and corrosive to trust in the financial markets.


A former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo and his ex-lawyers have denied charges of bribing witnesses to give false testimony at his war crimes trial.

John-Pierre Bemba was charged at the International Criminal Court (ICC), with two of his ex-lawyers and an MP.
Prosecutors said the case was vital to protect the ICC's integrity.
The alleged bribes were paid while he was in the court's prison at The Hague, following his arrest in 2008.
"Mr Bemba directed a plan to see his acquittal through corrupted means," chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told judges.
She added that witness testimony, phone and money transfer records, and logs from the court's jail would prove her case.
In documents presented to the court, the prosecution alleged that his ex-trial lawyer Aime Kilolo discussed making payments with witnesses, Reuters news agency reports.
"This isn't corruption," Mr Kilolo is alleged to have told a witness. "Just a present from Mr Bemba because you agreed to testify in his favour."
Prosecutors said that on another occasion Mr Kilolo told a colleague that "our white [colleague] mustn't hear about this", in apparent reference to Mr Bemba's UK lawyer Peter Haynes, Reuters reports.
Mr Kilolo, lawyer Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, lawmaker Fidele Babala Wandu, and witness Narcisse Arido all deny the charges.
The accused, who are all DR Congo citizens, say that any payments made were intended to cover witnesses' expenses and not to influence their testimony, Reuters reports.
Mr Bemba was living in Belgium when he was arrested in 2008 to stand trial at the ICC for fuelling conflict in DR Congo's neighbour, the Central African Republic (CAR). He denies the charge.
Mr Bemba led a militia known as the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) during DR Congo's brutal civil war.
The troops intervened in a power struggle in CAR in 2002 and 2003, and are accused of murdering and raping civilians.
After a peace deal in DR Congo in 2003, Mr Bemba laid down his arms and joined an interim government.
He lost a run-off election against President Joseph Kabila in 2006.


Guns N' Roses have followed U2, Katy Perry and Metallica by announcing a 3D concert film of a show from their 12-night residency in Las Vegas last year.

A release has been promised in theatres, on TV and DVD later this year, via an official Facebook page.
Appetite for Democracy is being captured by 3D company Rock Fuel Media.
"It doesn't quite feel like being at the concert but it does feel like the next best thing," said Screen Daily editor Wendy Mitchell of the 3D format.
"It brings so much more to a concert film to have that third dimension," she said. "It goes from being something we've all seen and experienced a lot, to an event, an experience, especially when you're going to the cinema to see it.
"It's very immersive, you get more of the staging of a big concert."
Concert films featuring established artists can be big business.
Miley Cyrus and fellow teen act Jonas Brothers have released 3D concert films, while Justin Bieber's Never Say Never holds the title for the highest grossing music concert movie in the US, with worldwide sales of $98.6 million (Â£74.3m).
However, the film split critics with one unimpressed reviewer calling it a "promotional documentary" and "an unimaginative concert movie."
Katy Perry: Part of Me, a documentary which chronicled the US pop star's life on stage and off, was released in July 2012.
It made a total of $32.4m (Â£24.4) worldwide and is the fourth highest-grossing music concert film of all time.
However, it is not just the commercial pop acts that are choosing to release their concert footage in 3D.
In 2008, U2 3D charted the Vertigo Tour of 2006 and rock band Metallica have announced the release of Through the Never on 9 August this year.
It is a combination of concert footage and a mini-film featuring actor Dane DeHaan, directed by Nimrod Antal, whose credits include Predators.
Mitchell said it seems like a natural progression for Axl Rose and his bandmates to put out a 3D film, after 27 years.
"For a band like Guns N' Roses, it's not trying to be pop perfection like Katy Perry. People want to see them rocking out and sweaty even if they are a bit older.  A lot of their fans grew up with them, they don't have to be perfect."
She added: "These Vegas shows were well received, so it just seems that more people around the world will be able to experience that."


A driver has been rescued after his car crashed through railings and fell 40ft over a cliff on to a Ceredigion beach.

Firefighters had to work quickly to free the elderly man because of the incoming tide at Aberporth.
The incident happened at the beach's car park at about 16:15 GMT on Friday.
A Mid and West Wales Fire Service spokesman said the driver appeared to have driven through railings before ending up on the beach.
"The tide was coming in but crews were able to scramble down and work on the car," the spokesman said.
"One person was trapped and removed by the fire service."


In 2008, I had been taking very strong prescription medication for acne.

Unfortunately, a side effect of the tablets was hair loss.
I had a large bald patch at the back and lots of smaller patches on the top and around my hairline at the front.
I went to see various specialists and tried out a number of different shampoos, creams and sprays - but nothing worked.
Because I was so embarrassed and self-conscious about my hair - I started to pull it out, which only made the situation worse but strangely made me feel better.
In September last year, I went to a company in Belfast to have special hair extensions fitted, which stopped me from being able to pull my own hair out and allowed it to grow.
On a regular maintenance appointment to my get my hair extensions tightened, I was told I didn't need to keep them in anymore.
It was exactly six months since I'd had them fitted and to be honest, they had become like a security blanket.
I wasn't sure how I felt at the thought of having them taken out.  I was happy, scared and pretty emotional all at the same time.
Once my hair had been washed and dried, I couldn't believe the difference.  I realised at that point I had absolutely no reason to be scared.
My hair had grown back, and was stronger and thicker than it had ever been before.
The next day, I went to my own hairdresser, who put some highlights in and cut my hair back into the style I had had before the problems began.
I had struggled with hair loss for nearly four years and after using numerous shampoos, sprays, creams and taking different courses of herbal tablets, I only found the solution I was looking for in September 2012.
After searching online, I came across a private company who deal with all types of hair loss - from women who are completely bald, to women like me who have a less severe problem.
I made an appointment, went to the clinic at 09:30 BST - spent 10 hours there getting hand sewn extensions fitted and came out with the shoulder length hair I had wanted since 2008.
I didn't realise how depressed I was about my hair loss until I had the extensions fitted.
We first noticed the problem in 2008, after I had finished a course of very strong prescribed medication for acne.
One evening, while I was watching TV, my parents noticed I had developed a large bald patch on the back of my head.
When they told me and showed me, I was absolutely devastated.
We initially thought it was alopecia, and I was afraid that I might lose more, or all of my hair.  However, upon further investigation, we discovered it was a side effect of the tablets I had been taking.
At the time, my hair was shoulder length - and it had to be cut short to try and disguise the bald patch as much as possible.  I was gutted and felt like I'd lost all my femininity.
I became depressed - and even got to the stage where some days I struggled to get out of bed and go to work but I didn't tell anyone how I was feeling.
Over time - because I was so embarrassed - I started to physically pull my hair out on a regular basis because, strangely, it was the only thing that made me feel better.
I eventually discovered this was a psychological condition - which falls into the same category as things like nail biting.
The extensions that I had range in price from £750 to around £1,500, depending on how many you need.
After that, you pay around £60 every six to eight weeks for maintenance.
It is something that is difficult to talk about and it is a big step to take.
I admit I was concerned that the extensions would look false, or that people would think I was wearing a wig.
When they were coming out, I was scared that my hair wouldn't have grown enough, and that I'd start pulling it out again, but the results are absolutely amazing and all the feelings that made me pull my hair out have gone.
From personal experience, it really is well worth checking out the options.


Torquay United winger Toby Ajala has left the National League club after rejecting an offer of a new contract.

The 24-year-old joined the Gulls from Dover in January for a second spell at Plainmoor, and played 18 league games.
Meanwhile, striker Nathan Blissett has agreed terms on a new contract to remain with the Devon side.
He scored eight goals after arriving at the start of the year on a deal which was initially until the end of the season, but had an extension clause.
"We offered Toby a new contract but it wasn't right for him," Torquay player-boss Kevin Nicholson told the club website.
He added on Blissett: "There is more to come from 'Bliss' because he has plenty of untapped potential. He was great for us last season."


Mark Williams believes he is "a tough man to beat" at the World Championships as the double world champion faces "good friend" Michael Holt on Friday.

Williams beat Graeme Dott 10-4 to reach the last 16 and is the last Welshman left at the Crucible.
Holt beat former world champion Neil Robertson 10-6 to meet Williams and the Welshman said: "There probably won't be too many handshakes with me and him.
"It'll probably be more hugs and kisses before we start!"
Williams is in the last 16 for the first time since 2012 while Holt is there for the second time.
"If I can keep playing the way I'm playing I'm going to be a tough man to beat," said Williams, who played down his chances ahead of the tournament.
"I'm not saying I'm going to win the tournament."
Williams was not surprised qualifier Holt beat 2010 champion Robertson in the first round.
Robertson was the third of the world's top four to lose in the opening round following defeats for defending champion Stuart Bingham and Shaun Murphy,
Former double world champion Williams says those results are a clear indication of the strength of competition at the highest level of the sport.
"Top players have gone out for a reason," Williams told BBC Sport.
"It's because the other players have played better than them. There are no shocks really.
"People might think that Michael beating Neil was a shock, but if you're a snooker player it's not a shock.
"Everyone is capable of beating everyone else."
Williams will be aiming to reach the quarter-final at the Crucible for the first time since 2011.
He is relishing the prospect of taking on a player he knows well after Holt's impressive 10-6 victory over Robertson.
"I didn't see much of the match, but I saw how many centuries and big breaks Michael got," Williams added.
"He obviously played well and deserved to win. I'm looking forward to it because he's a good friend of mine."


Nearly 200 people who won a ballot to go down an inflatable water slide have been left disappointed following a financial dispute with the supplier.

Organisers of Sunday's event at the Ramsgate Festival said they had been forced to cancel after the supplier pulled out late on Saturday night.
Adam Faulkner, director of Bloon, said full payment had not been received.
Festival spokeswoman Lorraine Williams said half had been paid and pre-payment of the balance had not been mentioned.
"We are devastated," she said.
"This money could have been immediately transferred but we have not been able to contact them [Bloon] since they sent that email last night and it is clear now they are not coming.
"This is a disaster for us. The point of the Ramsgate Slide was to bring joy and fun into the town.
"It was something different to draw attention to our fantastic harbour and seafront."
More than 5,000 people had entered a draw to slide down the giant inflatable chute, with 180 people, including 40 children, chosen.
Ms Williams said everyone awarded a place would be given the opportunity to go down the slide at a future date.
"This is our commitment to the town," she added.
In a statement, Mr Faulkner said: "Despite several reminders and requests for payment, Ramsgate Arts Festival failed to clear their outstanding balance.
"This is against our terms and conditions as there were no credit terms agreed.
"As a business we cannot provide goods and services without payment. The balance still remains outstanding."


The Welsh Liberal Democrats can "defy expectations" in the forthcoming assembly elections, the party's leader has insisted.

Kirsty Williams said party membership in Wales has grown since last year's general election.
Speaking on BBC's The Wales Report programme, she said her party had returned a better result than expected in assembly elections five years ago.
She also refused to rule out a deal with other parties this year.
"Since the general election, which was a very, very difficult set of results for us, our party membership in Wales has grown," she explained.
"We have record numbers of people out on the streets delivering campaigns."
Speaking about the last assembly elections, she said: "We defied expectations, we returned with a strong Liberal Democrat group that has punched above its weight for the last five years.
"I'm sure we can defy expectations again."
She also insisted the Welsh Lib Dems' record proved they can deliver on their promises.
Later in the interview, Ms Williams said she would not rule out a deal with any other party after the election to achieve her objectives but she was quick to point out that collaboration with UKIP was unlikely, as their values were "so far apart".
Last week, informal talks between the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru for an assembly electoral pact failed to reach an agreement.
When asked if it was her party that pulled the plug on the talks, Ms Williams said: "We were approached informally by another political party about a proposition of doing a pre-election pact.
"We didn't think it was the right way to go."
Ms Williams added: "What keeps me going is that I know there are no political parties in this coming election that are committed to ensuring that there are the right number of nurses in our hospitals.
"We had to drag the Labour party kicking and screaming to introduce a system that put money into the education of our poorest children, and its working, its making a difference."


A Chinese nursing home destroyed by a deadly fire was poorly constructed and top-level prosecutors have been sent to investigate, authorities say.

The Kangleyuan home in Henan province was built with flammable material and had poorly designed fire escape routes, said the national work safety agency.
The fire on Monday night killed 38 and injured another six people.
The case has revived public concern in China about building safety and construction standards.
The State Administration for Work Safety said that initial investigations showed that the home "did not meet standards" in multiple areas.
It said it was constructed with steel boards stuffed with flammable material, fire escape routes were narrow, and fire and electrical safety management had "irregularities".
It added that the incident showed that local authorities' checks had failed and regulatory measures were inadequate.
The Southern Weekly newspaper quoted locals as saying such construction was common in the area, and called them "steel foam homes" as the buildings were often padded out with cheap foam for insulation.
Local media have run pictures showing insurance companies that set up booths at the site, with female marketing agents handing out brochures and canvassing for customers. Reports said the companies were also offering to help facilitate claims for families of the victims.
Meanwhile the top prosecution body in China, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, announced it would be joining local officials in the investigation.
It will be paying special attention to crimes including dereliction of duty, power abuse and self-seeking malpractice, according to Xinhua news agency.
At least 12 people have been detained in connection with the fire, including the home's legal representative.
President Xi Jinping had earlier this week ordered "all-out efforts" to care for the injured and bereaved relatives and to find out what had gone wrong.


Staff shortages are making it harder to tackle Islamic radicalisation in England's prisons, the former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office has warned.

Chris Phillips said shortages meant extremists were not properly monitored, enabling them to recruit others.
A parliamentary report has said jail safety was compromised by staff cuts.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling rejected the claim and said a "very careful watch" was kept on the issue.
"Prison overcrowding is at virtually its lowest level for a decade, and we have increased spending on measures to prevent radicalisation," he said.
"We will never be complacent about the issue."
Mr Grayling said he had found "no evidence" that Mr Phillips' claim was correct, adding that the former detective chief inspector had left the civil service four years ago.
There are more than 12,000 Muslims in jails across England and Wales and the latest official data shows that more than 100 Muslims are in jail for terrorism offences in Great Britain.
The worry particularly concerns converts to Islam, as research from the former chief inspector of prisons, Dame Anne Owers, suggests they are more vulnerable to extremism.
But her report also said suspicion of Muslim prisoners could be both unfair and counter-productive, fuelling resentment and causing even more trouble.
Mr Phillips, who used to lead the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, a police unit that works closely with the government on its counter-terrorism strategy, said: "What we have actually is a prison population that's growing.
"We have less officers generally in prisons than ever before and we also have less police officers to deal with them, so what we have is a growing haystack of extremists where we still have to find the single needle that's going to go off and do something really nasty.
"But of course we've got less people to go and look for them as well so it's a really difficult thing for the police service and prison service to deal with."
Home Secretary Theresa May rejected the claim that staff shortages were hindering efforts to stop Islamic radicalisation in prisons, adding that the government was looking at "and continue to look at" preventative measures.
Mrs May has already said she wants new "extremism officer" roles in prisons to deal with radicalisation.
And the government has said all high-security jails have units who work with the security services to root out extremism.  It also said there were faith-based interventions, led by a team of expert imams.
Ex-prisoner John Shelly said: "Over the last few years there's been a real sort of noticeable change of people becoming radicalised and getting themselves involved in violent situations - and being coerced into doing that by some of what you might call the more prominent Muslims that are inside for various offences."
He spent time in more than 40 jails including HMP Whitemoor, a prison with a large Muslim population.  Last year, chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said some of its inmates who had been convicted of terrorism offences were trying to influence and pressurise others.
Mr Shelly, who was released from prison a few months ago after serving a 15-year sentence for armed robbery, said prisoners would often "join the extremists" because they were promised protection.
He claims to have seen prisoners plotting acts of terror as well as endorsing groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
He said: "Extremism - it's grown and grown by the day and they've found themselves in a situation where they can't separate anyone because wherever they separate them to, they're just mixing them with other people who have the same view and same sort of message."
Mr Phillips said: "The answer is to get into the prisons and to make sure the most susceptible people are kept away from those that might turn those into extremists and, at this moment, we cannot even keep drugs out of prison, we can't keep mobile phones out of prison, so clearly there is not enough staff to do that."
Muslim former prisoner Hassan said he had been unfairly discriminated against, however.
"I was inside for 14 years, and a lot of people became Muslim through me," he said. "You're looked at as, 'Oh, a lot of people are becoming Muslim because of this man, he must be recruiting,' and it's far, far from the truth. They think you're a radical or a fundamentalist."
Stephen O'Connell, president of the Prison Governors' Association, told the BBC that the threat from radicalisation in prisons was "real" but he said he was not aware that it had got any worse over the last year because of staffing changes.
"I understand the correlation between staff numbers and prisoner numbers but when it comes to dealing with extremists, we are talking about a small number of prisoners with some very dedicated resources to actually managing those," he said.
The Justice Select Committee recently criticised the government for cutting the number of prison officers by almost 30%, a reduction of 12,530 staff, between 31 March 2010 and 30 June 2014.
The committee's report also said the prisoner-to-staff ratio rose from 3.8 in September 2010 to 4.9 in September 2014.
It claims that this has led to a significant deterioration in safety - with fewer staff to monitor inmates.
And former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf recently said that Britain was heading for a crisis within prisons because of overcrowding and staff shortages.
The government denies that.
But the explosive mix of radicalisation, fear over discrimination and staffing pressures could spell even greater trouble inside the country's jails.
The latest prison population statistics from the Ministry of Justice show there were 85,681 people in jail in the week ending 27 March, up from 85,252 in the same period last year.


Thousands of mourners heard ex-US President Bill Clinton say the people of Northern Ireland must finish the work Martin McGuinness started.

23 March 2017 Last updated at 20:17 GMT
President Clinton, who was central to the Good Friday Agreement peace negotiations, told mourners he "came to treasure every encounter" with Mr McGuinness.
Speaking after the funeral President Clinton told BBC News NI why it was so important for him to be at the funeral.


A burglar in Australia shot in the backside with a bow and arrow by an angry homeowner has been arrested.

The 29-year-old man allegedly stole cash, car keys and other property from a house in Sydney on Sunday afternoon.
The 68-year-old homeowner, at home with his wife, confronted the intruder as he attempted to steal the couple's car.
The intruder got out of the vehicle and jumped a fence but was shot in the "buttocks or lower back" as he ran to a parked getaway car.
Police said he suffered bruising on the lower back from the incident. He was charged with aggravated breaking and entering.
Police have said they are also investigating the actions of the homeowner, who belongs to an archery club, and indicated he could also face charges.
Australian laws do not always favour the homeowner when an intruder is injured or killed, taking into account whether a person acted in self-defence or used "excessive force".


Two men are to appear in court charged with attempted murder following a stabbing attack that left a 33-year-old man seriously injured in south Belfast.

It happened on Thursday at a property in Dunluce Avenue, off the Lisburn Road.
The men, both aged 22, are also charged with aggravated burglary and stealing.
They are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday.


Former Newcastle hooker Rob Hawkins has come out of retirement to join Bristol on a short-term deal.

The 33-year-old, who was most recently at Newcastle, quit rugby in May but has joined Andy Robinson's side to cover Marc Jones who has a knee injury.
Jones could be out for up to three months after sustaining the knock in a pre-season match.
Hawkins, a Premiership winner with Leicester in 2013, became a special constable with the police in November.


England's footy players and fans are still recovering from the side's shock exit from the European Championships.

28 June 2016 Last updated at 17:50 BST
The Three Lions were beaten 2-1 by Iceland - the lowest ranked team left in the competition.
Former England captain Alan Shearer called it the worst performance he'd ever seen by an England team.
Manager Roy Hodgson stepped down from his job immediately after the match.
Kids in Manchester tell us their reactions and who'll they be supporting now that England are out.


A jurat appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours has said the award was for all jurats who gave up their time.

Lieutenant Bailiff, Jurat Stephen Edward Francis Le Poidevin, has become an OBE for public service to the law and community in Guernsey.
William George de Lacey Luff was appointed an MBE for services to the cattle industry.
Roy Sarre was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to the church and music.
Jurat Le Poidevin has served as a jurat since 1995 and was in the Guernsey police force before that. He said he was "completely surprised" by the honour.
He said: "It is a great honour, but I also see it as looking at the jurat benches as a whole, I don't see it only as my award but also as an award for my colleagues I serve with."
Mr Sarre founded the award-winning Guernsey Festival Chorus in 1985 and acts as its musical director.
The choir was established to spread the gospel but has also helped raise about Â£40,000 for charity since it was founded.
Mr Luff is the secretary of the World Guernsey Cattle Federation, acting as the guardian of the breed.


A plus-size US model has been widely praised for confronting a passenger accused of sending "mean and ugly" messages about her during a flight.

Natalie Hage, who was travelling to Los Angeles for a photo shoot, said that in one of the texts, he wrote to a friend that the flight would not take off because of her weight.
In another, he said: "I think she ate a Mexican."
The man later apologised, saying he had had a few drinks before boarding.
Ms Hage shared the incident, which happened on Thursday, on social media. A video of the exchange has been watched more than a million times.
Ms Hage, who described herself as being "extremely flight anxious", said she had paid $70 (Â£54) for additional space "because I know I need a little extra leg room" but that there were only middle seats available.
"As soon as I sat down, the gentleman on my left began LOUDLY huffing, sighing, and readjusting himself in his seat," she wrote on a post on Instagram.
Then, Ms Hage said, she noticed that he was sending text messages to a friend about her.
"[The recipient] says 'Hopefully she didn't have any Mexican food' and his response is 'I think she ate a Mexican'. Then he proceeds to say he's leaving a 'neck mark on the window' because he's so smashed against the wall."
She said she asked the man on her right to change seats, telling him what had happened, but that he laughed and refused.
"This is a fat person's daily reality and not just on a plane. This is on a bus, standing in line at the grocery store, at a concert, on the internet. You can be completely in your own space, not bothering anyone, and people will still f*** with you and try to hurt you.
"All you can do is know you haven't done anything wrong just by existing and to move on."
Later, she confronted the passenger, and posted a video of it on Facebook, and the post has been liked by more than 7,000 people. In the video, he apologised. But he later said she should not sit on the emergency row as she would be unfit to help people out.
When she cited one of the messages he allegedly sent, he laughed. "Don't ever treat somebody like that again," she told him.
On Facebook, Ms Hage has been widely praised for her "courage" and for being a "brave woman".


Jockey Barry Geraghty has announced he will be fit to ride at next week's Grand National meeting at Aintree.

The Irishman has been absent since breaking six ribs and suffering a collapsed lung in a fall at Kempton at the end of February.
Those injuries ruled him out of this month's Cheltenham Festival.
But 37-year-old Geraghty has told the At The Races website he is now "good to go" and is hoping to be back in action at Fairyhouse on Sunday.
He said: "I got the results of my scan and, thankfully, everything came back clear."
Geraghty, the retained jockey for racehorse owner JP McManus, has yet to announce his intended mount in the Grand National on 8 April.
He rode Cause Of Causes, trained by Gordon Elliott, in an exercise on Wednesday and plans to school More Of That for Jonjo O'Neill on Friday.
Geraghty won the National in 2003 on Monty's Pass.


Police are re-investigating child sex abuse allegations against a farmer who shot himself shortly after he was told he would be questioned.

Gordon Dawson, from Dalby, Lincolnshire, was found dead with a gun at his side in 2007.
His accuser, known only as David, criticised police over the original investigation and for telling the farmer he was about to be arrested.
Lincolnshire Police said it was now acting on new information.
The renewed inquiry was first reported by Buzzfeed News.
Supt Rick Hatton said: "The force has reviewed the original file and spoken further with the victim.
"As a result of this, investigations are ongoing into the original allegation and further details that have come to light."
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David claimed Mr Dawson had repeatedly abused him from the age of 15 after the farmer befriended his family and started taking him for shooting lessons.
He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that Mr Dawson had also taken him to London where he was abused by other men at an apartment in Dolphin Square.
David reported the farmer in 2007, but said his alleged abuser then killed himself the next day as police failed to remove his guns, despite warnings.
"It was tough when I heard he had taken his own life - I just couldn't believe they [the police] would warn people," he added.
According to Lincolnshire Police, the first allegation against Mr Dawson was made in 1999 but no action was taken due to "insufficient evidence".
In 2006 police arrested Mr Dawson after four other men came forward claiming they were also abused as children between 1964 and 1986.
An investigating officer phoned Mr Dawson on 23 March 2007 to tell him he would be questioned further and a few hours later he was found dead at his home.
After Mr Dawson's death the investigation was dropped but David later complained to the police about the way it was handled.


Air strikes on so-called Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa have cut the city's water supply, with 20 civilians reported dead.

The anti-IS group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said a water pumping station had been hit, along with the Taj Hall and Furousiya area.
IS-linked news agency Amaq  also said Raqqa's water supply had been cut.
Russia said its bombers had targeted an arms depot, a chemical weapons factory and a training camp.
A defence ministry statement said the strikes had inflicted "significant damage" and that a large number of militants had been killed.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), whose activists have reported on developments on the ground in Raqqa since IS militants seized control of the city in early 2014, said the water pumping station hit in Thursday's strikes was located in the nearby village of Kasrat.
Residents found their water had been cut off "totally" afterwards, it added.
Amaq also reported the "interruption of the water supply in all neighbourhoods".
RBSS said 20 civilians had been killed and 50 others wounded in the air strikes, but the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll higher.
It said 24 civilians had died, along with six others whose identities could not yet be confirmed.
Raqqa, estimated to have a population of between 250,000 and 500,000, has become the de facto capital of the "caliphate" whose creation was proclaimed by IS two years ago after it took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
IS militants are currently under pressure from two separate offensives west and north-west of Raqqa by Russian-backed Syrian government forces and an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by the US.


Northamptonshire won an extraordinary match by two runs to ensure Leicestershire fell agonisingly short of chasing down a club record of 394.

With only two needed, Rory Kleinveldt forced a leading edge from Mathew Pillans, who had scored a fine 56 to take Leicestershire close to victory.
Mark Cosgrove's rapid 76 and Colin Ackermann (105) laid the foundations for the visitors' unlikely run chase.
But the hosts held their nerve despite putting down six catches.
Resuming on 44-0 overnight, the visitors still needed 350 more runs to secure their first four-day victory of the season.
With Cosgrove in belligerent form, hitting 10 fours, and Ackermann anchoring the innings, Leicestershire gave themselves a chance of matching their highest-ever County Championship chase of 394.
Ackermann seemed set to guide his side to victory before falling to the impressive bowling of Richard Gleeson (4-109) with two wickets left and 37 runs still needed.
Pillian then assumed responsibility but the visitors could not get over the winning line despite posting their highest fourth-innings total in the County Championship since 1937.


The voice of a vulnerable 16-year-old who died from a constipation-induced heart attack "was not heard" despite seven agencies being involved in her care, a serious case review has found.

Some professionals at the time questioned whether Emily Titterington's illness was induced by the emotional challenges being faced by her mother.
Her parents felt experts did not understand her issues, the review said.
Agencies across the country are being urged to learn from the case.
Emily collapsed and died at home at St Austell in February 2013.
At an inquest into her death earlier this month, the Coroner for Cornwall concluded the cause of death was "natural causes contributed by psycho-social factors".
The serious case review said seven agencies were involved with her and her family during the last three years of her life.
It said "the voice of the child was not heard or accessible" and no professional knew what Emily herself "thought would help her most in life".
Emily, who was home educated and had mild autism, lived in a rural area with her parents in a "fixed, unchallenged family dynamic" that was "difficult" to work with, according to the review.
Chairman of Cornwall's Safeguarding Children Board (SCB), John Clements, said: "The hypothesis is the mother had her own emotional difficulties, and as a consequence... whatever relationship that existed with her daughter caused a number of conditions within her daughter".
He added there was no suggestion this was deliberate and admitted "we don't really understand the full circumstances".
Emily was seen by a number of medical professionals in the lead up to her death, but had refused to go to hospital.
The serious case review found there was a lack of continuity across the healthcare system and "no clear clinical leader to grip her chronic health problem".
Mr Clements said a number of recommendations had been made, including working to make sure a vulnerable child's voice is heard.
"The last thing we ever want is for anything like this to happen again," he said.


Alloa Athletic secured a promotion play-off place after hammering Scottish League One rivals Brechin City 6-1.

Queen's Park moved up to third in the division after beating Albion Rovers 2-0, with Airdrieonians now fourth after losing 2-1 to Stranraer.
Champions Livingston's 1-0 win at Ochilview left Stenhousemuir five points adrift at the bottom.
Peterhead remain ninth, three points off Stranraer, after winning 2-1 away to East Fife.
In Alloa, the Wasps briefly trailed as Andy Jackson fired Brechin ahead but Stefan McCluskey headed the hosts level and Greig Spence struck to put them in front before the break.
Jason Marr shot home before City goalkeeper Graeme Smith conceded a penalty and was sent off for a foul on Calum Waters. Spence converted.
Iain Flannigan's double, including a free-kick, rounded off the win for Jim Goodwin's side.
The sides finishing second, third and fourth and the team who are second bottom of the Championship will enter the play-offs and Alloa are now assured of second place in their division.
Ewan MacPherson's first-half strike put Queen's Park ahead against Albion Rovers at Hampden and he set up David Galt for the Spiders' second after the break.
Mark McGuigan and Kyle Turner were on target as Stranraer took control against Airdrie, who replied through Andy Ryan.
Livi had sealed the title and automatic promotion to the second tier last weekend and Liam Buchanan's second-half header gave David Hopkin's side a narrow win.
Peterhead moved into the lead against East Fife through Jamie Redman's strike but Jason Kerr nodded the Fifers level.
Craig Reid headed Peterhead back in front, though, and they held on to win.
Brechin are one point outside the play-off places with East Fife two points further behind.
Albion Rovers are a point off the Fifers and two above Stranraer.


Researchers from Portugal are using a neutron beam to study the molecular changes that occur when bones burn.

The experiments, under way at the Isis facility in Oxfordshire, are aimed at solving a problem for archaeologists and forensic scientists.
When bones get hot they shrivel, making the age, sex and size of their original owner much more difficult to establish.
By bouncing neutrons off human bone samples, burned and unburned, the team hopes to get a fix on those changes.
"The problem... is that when a skeleton is subjected to high temperatures, like in a plane crash or a bushfire, the bones are altered by the fire. One of those alterations is a change in dimensions," said David Gonçalves, a bone specialist from the University of Coimbra.
"We're trying to see if those changes are quantifiable and if eventually, we can predict the amount of shrinkage - or sometimes there's even an increase in size. It's pretty random and we're failing to understand that process."
By probing how fire alters the crystal structure of bone, Dr Gonçalves and his collaborators hope to build a framework for scientists to adjust their methods - and get useful information from burned skeletons.
"Basically, it's to return burned bone to its original dimensions, and then it will be possible to apply metric references, as we conventionally do in unburned remains."
The research started after Dr Gonçalves discussed the burned-bone problem with a colleague in Coimbra, Maria Marques, who uses high-energy light and particle beams to study tiny biological structures.
"I thought it was a thrilling subject and I immediately said 'great!'. And I immediately thought of neutrons," Dr Marques said.
She and Dr Gonçalves assembled a team and booked five days of experiments at Isis, which concluded on Sunday. They spoke to the BBC from the research site in Oxfordshire, which is run by the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Dr Marques has been visiting Isis for 15 years, mostly studying anti-cancer drugs.
"The reason neutrons are so helpful is that they allow us to see things that - [lasers and other light beams] do not allow us to," she said.
With precise measurements of how neutrons scatter after hitting a bone sample, Dr Marques and her colleagues can build up a picture of how atoms are arranged within that sample.
"We are measuring the changes in vibrations within the atoms in the bone. So we are measuring structure."
At Isis, the team hit their samples with multiple beams: a very bright stream of neutrons, as well as lasers and infrared light.
Those samples were powdered human bones: the femur and humerus from three different skeletons, which were given to the University of Coimbra for research purposes.
"They are human skeletons that are unclaimed from public cemeteries," Dr Gonçalves said.
Each pair of bones was studied in unburned form, and also burned at 500, 700 or 900C.
The team is now beginning the process of analysing the data, but they are excited by what they have seen so far.
"We are at present quite confident," Dr Marques said. "[The spectra] look very promising."
"Although we are still in a very early stage," Dr Gonçalves added. "The sample is still small. To develop any kind of method that is reliable and has statistically significant support, we need a larger sample.
"We still have a lot of work to do in the next few years."
Prof Phil Manning from the University of Manchester was visiting Isis for an unrelated project. He is not working with the Portuguese team but is an expert, in his words, at "hitting bone with extremely bright light".
He said that forensic scientists, along with researchers studying all sorts of bones, would watch the neutron beam research with interest.
"It's an astoundingly valuable contribution. I think the application of this might stretch beyond the archaeological record, even into to the palaeontological record.
"Using neutrons, you can actually probe the atom in ways you can't do with light.
"This technique, if it can show the variation in the crystal lattice of the bone, and how it changes as a function of being burned... will have huge implications for our understanding of burial environments in the past. And maybe from other, less savoury events in our more recent past where human remains have been altered through various processes."
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A dramatic batting collapse cost England against South Africa as they lost the final one-day international by seven wickets at Lord's.

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The hosts were reduced to 20-6 after five overs as Kagiso Rabada and Wayne Parnell struck in overcast conditions.
Jonny Bairstow (51) offered some resistance but England were bowled out for 153 with 18.5 overs remaining.
South Africa briefly wobbled after losing Hashim Amla (55) but chased down the total with relative ease.
England, who sealed the three-match series in Southampton on Saturday, put in a valiant performance with the ball - but their batsmen lacked concentration in their final match before the Champions Trophy.
The hosts, who play Bangladesh at The Oval in the first match of the tournament on Thursday, remain the bookmakers' favourites to secure their first 50-over title.
Although England lost the toss and were asked to bat in conditions suited to bowling, for a side that has scored more than 300 runs in 11 of their past 12 one-day internationals, batting should not have been as difficult as they made it look.
Opener Jason Roy, who has reached double figures just once in his past five international innings, was the first to fall as he edged Rabada to slip - and England's top order followed suit.
A collapse of four wickets in seven balls, spearheaded by Rabada's pace and clever seam bowling from left-armer Parnell, meant England made their worst start to a one-day innings at Lord's.
Successive poor shots, with Jos Buttler and Adil Rashid falling to consecutive deliveries by playing almost identical shots, left the hosts facing an uphill battle by the fifth over.
There is no reason for Eoin Morgan's side to make sweeping changes before the Champions Trophy, and the collapse at Lord's seemed to be indicative of a lack of concentration rather than a side in decline.
However, it is a performance England could have done without just three days before the start of an international tournament on home soil.
Former England captain Alec Stewart on Test Match Special:
"Taking the attack to the opposition is what has been successful, and is one of the reasons why England are one of the favourites for the Champions Trophy.
"What disappointed me was we looked as though we were the visitors, batting at Lord's for the first time, not taking into account the slope. You still have to apply yourselves to the conditions."
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England had opted to change their team before the first Champions Trophy match, with Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Liam Plunkett and Ben Stokes all rested.
This gave Bairstow, who performed solidly in the two-match series against Ireland but was dropped when players returned from the IPL, a further chance to press for tournament inclusion.
Arriving at the crease with England 15-3, Bairstow stayed firm and played sensibly, anchoring England's innings as they tried to rebuild.
He had a contained aggression, cutting and pulling in a 51-run partnership with Yorkshire team-mate David Willey as England crept to three figures.
When Willey fell he was ably supported by debutant Toby Roland-Jones (37 not out), who overcame an early blow to the head to strike pace bowler Chris Morris for six.
South Africa's chase, unsurprisingly, began easily, but there were some uncomfortable moments for the number one-ranked ODI side.
Openers Amla and Quinton de Kock (34) looked serene, guiding South Africa to 95-0 with some patient batting.
Amla became the fastest batsman to reach 7,000 ODI runs in international cricket in his 150th innings, surpassing the previous record by India captain Virat Kohli, who took 161 innings.
His dismissal - a swing at a Roland-Jones delivery that he edged onto his stumps - was the only real error in his 54-ball innings.
It was after the innings break, when it began to cloud over at Lord's, that South Africa struggled as Jake Ball produced a fine display of swing bowling.
England had a brief flicker of hope as Ball forced Du Plessis to edge behind, but unlike the hosts, South Africa weathered the storm.
AB de Villiers (27 not out) and JP Duminy regrouped and crawled towards the total, before De Villiers struck Willey for back-to-back boundaries to win with 21.5 overs remaining.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "I think the batting was summed up in the first hour. A tinge of green and we seemed to nick everything this morning.
"They made us play a hell of a lot and managed to get the ball moving around. Certainly, it's not down to a lack of trying. We've put in a lot this series but today was just a bit of a hiccup.
"We've gained a lot of confidence from this series and it's important we take that into the Champions Trophy. It's flattering to be favourites but today is a reminder not to get too carried away with us as a side. We'll give it a good crack."
South Africa captain AB de Villiers: "It's looking a lot better now after winning a good game of cricket. We had a lot to play for today. We said it's not all about the result but there were some encouraging signs in this last game.
"The boys hung on to almost everything that came their way. There's still a few areas to work on in the field but the boys struck from the word go.
"All three grounds have been different, the conditions have changed from ground to ground. It's all about the senior players adapting and communicating to the rest of the team what will work well."


A man called police to report the theft of lamps he used for growing cannabis.

Insp Abdul Aziz, of South Yorkshire Police, revealed details of the call on Twitter.
He wrote: "Bloke just reported the theft of his lamps he uses to grow cannabis."
In a reply to this tweet, he added: "This was an adult male who sadly didn't have any cannabis but we now know who he is and what he does in his spare time."
South Yorkshire Police has not released any further details.
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