Mixing university and professional sport might be an unusual combination in the modern era, but not for London Irish lock Ian Nagle.

The 27-year-old is currently splitting his time on the pitch and at training with time furthering his education.
"It's straight back to the books tonight, I've got 2,000 words to get in for the morning," he told BBC Sport, less than an hour after playing against Exeter Chiefs on Sunday.
The former Munster and Newcastle player is completing an MBA at Hughes Hall College, Cambridge University.
Helping Irish's bid to avoid Premiership relegation is the other current commitment on his CV.
"The amount of training I can do is somewhat limited," he added. "It's tough, but I guess I kind of enjoy it.
"I prefer having something else outside of rugby. Especially when you've finished the wrong side of a result, it's nice to go home and focus on something else.
"The big thing for me, because I can't spend as much time training, is to make sure everything I do while I'm away is as respectful as possible towards my team-mates.
"Making sure my diet is right, I'm sleeping right and training as hard as I can to look after myself. Hopefully, I've been able to help out as best I can."
Nagle is not alone at the club in having to balance rugby with his studies, with team-mates Alex Lewington and Jimmy Stevens also busy completing geography dissertations at Royal Holloway University.
Nagle represented the Light Blues of Cambridge in December's Varsity Match at Twickenham alongside Harlequins and Wales centre Jamie Roberts.
Earlier this month, just as he was settling back into his coursework commitments, Glenn Delaney and London Irish came calling with the offer of a contract until the end of the season.
"The opportunity came up and I was delighted to take it with both hands," added Nagle, who will move back to his native Ireland and join Leinster next season.
"Thankfully, there's a couple of free days each week with the course, so I can come down and try to learn as much as I can."
But will the goodwill of his tutors extend to a week Stateside when London Irish travel to New York to play Saracens next month?
"I haven't even broached the subject yet," he joked. "I'll keep my head down and see if I can pull some strings."


Fewer decisions about the care of children will be made on the advice of poorly qualified experts in the family courts under government plans.

Minimum standards will be introduced later this year to weed out incompetent psychologists and other experts, the justice department said.
The courts will also be told to use fewer experts to save time and money.
The system has so far escaped scrutiny due to the secrecy surrounding family courts, critics say.
Lib Dem MP John Hemming, who campaigns for family law reform, said he "welcomed" the move.
He described the current lack of oversight of experts who were often responsible for life-changing decisions as an "absolute scandal".
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on Thursday, the Birmingham Yardley MP claimed some psychologists provided contradictory opinions depending on who was paying for their services or reached a verdict on whether someone was a fit parent without interviewing them.
"The idea that psychologists can come to conclusions about people and their merits as parents without even seeing them is an absurdity," he told MPs.
Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly, responding for the government, said minimum standards would be introduced as part of wider reform of the family court system aimed at improving fairness and efficiency, including greater use of mediation.
"Expert evidence will continue to be important in some cases to ensure a fair and complete process," the justice minister told MPs, but he said the government was "working to ensure it is of high quality and that it is delivered promptly".
"The main elements will be to raise the threshold for a court to permit an expert to be instructed, where expert witness evidence must be necessary rather than reasonably required."
He said family courts had to be more conscious about the cost and time delays and urged them to "exercise better control on the questions put to the expert".
He added: "We recognise also that minimum standards are necessary for expert witnesses in the family courts and so we are working with the department of health, health regulators and the family justice council to establish minimum standards that judges should expect from all expert witnesses."
Experts can play a crucial role in family court cases, often commenting on whether parents have the ability to care for their children or have treatable psychological problems.
But a
          report last November by the Family Justice Review
 said there were "serious issues" with the quality of some psychological reports and the courts' reliance on them was causing "unacceptable" delays and harming the welfare of children.
Some 20% of psychologists used as experts were not deemed qualified, the review found, and 65% of expert reports were judged to be of poor or very poor quality.
The planned new rules on expert witnesses were welcomed by the British Psychological Society, which said it was important that "decisions reached by family courts are based on the best possible quality evidence".
"The BPS would be very pleased to engage with the Department of Justice to review the role of expert witnesses in this context and develop improved codes of practice and guidelines," said a spokesman.
The justice department is also working on plans to improve the transparency of the family court system, Mr Djanogly told MPs in Westminster Hall.
Jack Straw, justice secretary under the previous Labour government, relaxed restrictions on family court hearings to allow reporters to cover proceedings provided they did not name those involved.
But the next stage of the reform process, which would have allowed coverage of adoption hearings among other things, has been shelved by the coalition government after MPs found the legislation was drafted in a way that would increase, rather than reduce, secrecy.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The government believes that there is a need for greater transparency in the operation of the courts.
"But family proceedings involve parties who have a right to privacy, such as vulnerable children.
"We will look at the issue of media and public access to the family courts, and the release of information from them, afresh taking into account the findings of the recently published final report of the Family Courts Information Pilot.
"We will ensure that the interests of the children involved are at the heart of any new policies."
In Thursday's Westminster Hall debate, John Hemming also raised the case of a four month old baby, Jayden Wray, whose parents were accused of shaking to death.
Chana Al-Alas,19, and Rohan Wray, 22, were acquitted after the jury learned that his fractures, supposedly telltale signs of abuse, could have been caused by his severe rickets due to Vitamin D deficiency.
Mr Hemming told MPs he knew of eight similar cases and was campaigning for the government to review the verdicts.


Acts including Adele, Rihanna and Coldplay have failed to capitalise on their performances at the Brits, the latest Official Chart figures show.

Most of the night's performers, including Little Mix and Jess Glynne, are non-movers in the album chart.
Adele remains at number one, but the BBC understands that sales of 25 have not increased noticeably week-on-week.
Singer-songwriter James Bay is the most noticeable exception, rising 10 places to number seven.
The highest new entry in this week's Official Album Chart came from Jack Garratt, winner of the Brits critics' choice award.
Although he did not get the chance to perform at the show, his debut album, Phase, debuts at number three.
It had been number one in Monday's midweek chart update, but sales fell behind Adele's album and the Best of Bowie retrospective towards the end of the week.
With the Brits ceremony taking place just 24 hours before the chart deadline, many of the performers and winners could see a sales boost in next week's countdown.
They have already seen some gains in the more volatile singles chart, where Rihanna's duet with Drake - Work - achieves a new peak, rising one place to number two.
Coldplay, who opened the Brits on Wednesday, see their Beyonce collaboration Hymn for the Weekend climb seven places to number 10.
Adele's When We Were Young - the final song to be performed at the ceremony - also rises 10 places, landing at 13.
The number one single is unchanged, Danish band Lukas Graham scoring a third week at the top with their reflective ballad 7 Years.
The track enjoyed its second-biggest week since its release, achieving a combined sales and streams figure of 131,000. It is also the most-played song on UK radio at the moment.
"It's amazing, very weird," front man Lukas Forchhammer told BBC Newsbeat earlier this week when asked about the song's success in the UK.
The song was the band's fourth chart-topper in their home country last summer, spending five weeks at number one before being replaced by their next single Strip No More.
Back in the album chart, Irish star and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Daniel O'Donnell scored a new entry at 13 with his best of collection, Music and Memories.
Foo Fighters' new EP Saint Cecilia, dedicated to the victims of last November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is also new at 35.
Next week's Top 40 is likely to see new entries from The 1975 and the late David Bowie.
The latter is down to the psothumous release a two-CD set, Back in Anger, featuring unreleased radio performances backed by experimental rock band Nine Inch Nails.


Leeds Rhinos hooker James Segeyaro will remain with the club despite interest from teams in the NRL, chief executive Gary Hetherington has said.

Segeyaro, 26, joined the Rhinos from Penrith during the 2016 season and scored six tries in 10 appearances.
He is contracted to the Headingley club until the end of 2018.
Hetherington said: "There has been interest from NRL clubs, but I have explained that we are not prepared to consider a release or transfer."


A Somali town has banned lavish weddings to encourage young people to marry and stop them migrating.

Receptions in hotels would no longer be allowed and only three goats could be slaughtered to feed guests, Beled Hawa's commissioner told the BBC.
Spending limits of $600 (Â£500) on furnishings for a couple's new home and up to $150 for the bride price had also been set, Mohamud Hayd Osman said.
It is not unusual for a groom's family to spend about $5,000 on a wedding.
The BBC Somali service's Bashir Mohamed says this amount includes the bride price, wedding reception, outfits and jewellery for the bride as well as new furniture.
"Islamic teachings indicated that getting married should be cheap," Mr Osman told the BBC Somali service.
The decision to restrict spending on "wild partying" and other expenses had been taken after officials met to find out why 150 children had recently been born out of wedlock in the town.
"Young women were refusing to get married unless a fortune was spent on wedding gold and household furnishings," he said.
Times were already difficult in Beled Hawa, which neighbours Kenya, because of the drought and unemployment - and the high cost of weddings was another contributing factor in people leaving the area, the commissioner said.
"A young woman must be supported to get married to the young man she chooses... so the community can grow," he said.
He said $600 should be enough to purchase a double bed, table and chairs as well as crockery and cutlery.
Traditionally the events around a Somali wedding go on for seven days.


The University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland is investigating how private student data made its way on to its website.

Details of student grant applications and bank details appeared on the university website over the weekend.
The university said the information of at least seven students was uploaded.
All information has been made secure and technical staff are investigating, the university said.
The breach involved students who had applied for a student assistance fund.
A university spokesperson said it was unclear if the private information was seen by everybody or only by those with a password to access the system.
The university said it is taking the breach "extremely seriously" and that a full investigation is under way.


Rapper Dizzee Rascal has been announced as one of the headline acts at this year's Wickerman Festival.

The event takes place at East Kirkcarswell Farm near Dundrennan on 25 and 26 July.
Dizzee Rascal will headline the opening night in his only Scottish festival appearance of the year.
Organisers have also unveiled a string of other acts including Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Zombies, Big Country and The Feeling.
Wickerman Festival co-ordinator Helen Chalmers said she was "thrilled" to be revealing the first acts.
"We are delighted that Dizzee Rascal will be joining the party this year, his live performances are incredible and I can't wait to see the crowd's reaction to his headline set," she said.
"From hip hop, pop, folk to Motown and alternative rock, this year's line-up will once again be a truly diverse offering.
"We look forward to announcing further exciting additions including our Saturday night headliner over the coming weeks."


A man and woman have been arrested after a man was killed in a suspected hit-and-run crash.

The 22-year-old, who has not been named, was stuck by a black Audi A5 at about 04:10 GMT in Bramhall Moor Lane in Hazel Grove, Stockport.
He was taken to hospital where he died, police said.
A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving alongside his passenger, a 27-year-old woman.
The man has also been arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol.


Northampton secured their first Premiership win of the season as they eased past Bristol at the newly renovated Ashton Gate.

George North, Louis Picamoles and Ken Pisi scored before the break for Saints, who dominated possession.
Rob McMillan's score gave Bristol hope at the start of the second half, but they rarely tested the try line.
Replacement Northampton hooker Mike Haywood crossed late on as they secured a bonus-point victory.
Saints, who were beaten at home by Bath on the opening weekend, started impressively as Wales winger North scored on his first start of the season.
Fly-half Stephen Myler, also making his first start this campaign, scored 10 points in an assured performance, with his out-of-hand kicking pinning the hosts back.
Bristol, playing at their fully renovated 27,000-capacity home for the first time, were marginally beaten by Quins in the London Double Header last Saturday but looked out of sorts for much of the first half.
It was their first home fixture in the Premiership since 2009 after their promotion from the Championship last season.
Bristol rugby director Andy Robinson: "We were schooled on how to play rugby in that first half, particularly Premiership rugby.
"It's a very difficult juggernaut to stop once it gets a rhythm, and we found that in the first 25 minutes.
"As soon we stopped being rabbits in the headlights and we found a little bit of our rhythm, but it is about taking your opportunities, and Northampton took their chances well.
"You saw the improvement in the second half, but we can't afford to give the opposition a head start in the way that we did with Northampton today. We have got to look at how we can put pressure on the opposition."
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder:  "Overall, I am pleased to get five points, particularly after last week. We needed to win today, and in the first-half we were very good.
"We needed to come here, shut the crowd up and in a way put massive doubt into Bristol's mind that they could play at this level. That was our intention.
"Bristol have got something about them. They will find it difficult - everyone knows it is tough - and I think it is the home games they have really got to focus on.
"Credit to Bristol, they came back into it and showed the spirit they've got in the second-half, but we got there in the end."
Bristol: Wallace; Edwards, Hurrell, Mosses, Varndell; Pisi, Cliff; Tonga'uiha, McMillan, Cortes, Evans, Glynn, Fisher, Lam (capt), Crane.
Replacements: Brooker, Traynor, Perenise, Phillips, Robinson, Eadie, Williams, Jarvis.
Northampton Saints: Tuala; K. Pisi, G. Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson; Waller, Hartley, Brookes, Lawes, Paterson, Wood (capt), Harrison, Picamoles.
Replacements: Haywood, Ma'afu, Hill, Dickinson, Gibson, Groom, Mallinder, Foden.
Attendance: 11,322.


Last season's finalists Hibernian Ladies and Glasgow City will meet in the Scottish Women's Premier League Cup semi-finals next month.

Celtic face Spartans in the other last-four tie, with both matches taking place on 30 April at Ainslie Park.
Hibs beat City 2-1 in the 2016 final, netting a stoppage-time winner.
In this year's quarter-finals, Hibs beat Rangers, Spartans defeated Aberdeen, City overcame Stirling University and Celtic beat Hearts.
Celtic v Spartans
Hibernian Ladies v Glasgow City
Ties to be played on 30 April


Mexican federal police have taken control of 12 towns in Guerrero state, where 43 students disappeared after clashing with the municipal police.

Eyewitnesses say the students were bundled into police cars after clashes in the town of Iguala on 26 September.
They have been missing ever since and forensic tests carried out on bodies found in nearby mass graves indicate they are not those of the students.
Thirty-six municipal officers are being questioned over their disappearance.
National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said that during the investigation into the students' disappearance, the authorities had found "irregularities" and "presumed links to organised crimes" in 12 municipal police forces in Guerrero state and one in neighbouring Mexico state.
Among the towns to which the federal police have been deployed are the popular tourist destinations of Taxco, famous for its silversmiths, and the spa town of Ixtapan de la Sal.
Mr Rubido said municipal officers in the 13 locations would be interviewed and their performances reviewed. Their weapons have been confiscated.
The move comes after officers from the town of Iguala reportedly confessed to handing the students over to a criminal gang called Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors).
The 43 missing students all attended a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa with a history of left-wing activism, but it is not clear if they were targeted because of their politics.
Some locals say they may have angered the gang by not paying it protection money.
Police also want to question Iguala's mayor, his wife and the police chief, all of whom are on the run from the authorities following the events of 26 September.
Drug gangs in Mexico often infiltrate local government and security forces to ensure they are not disturbed in their criminal enterprises.
Poorly paid and badly trained municipal police officers are an easy target for criminals offering bribes or threatening reprisal attacks on those who refuse to collaborate.
Meanwhile, the search for the missing students continues with teams of dogs combing the countryside and checking abandoned mine shafts, caves and wells.
Forensic tests are also still underway on bodies found in a number of mass graves in the surrounding area.
Twenty-eight bodies found on 4 October have been tested so far, but more than a dozen other burial pits have been found since.


Ireland secured a place in next year's World Twenty20 thanks to a nine-wicket victory over Scotland in the qualifiers semi-final in Bangkok.

Both sides were chasing a top-two spot in the qualifying tournament and progression to India in 2016.
Scotland made just 77-9 in their 20 overs, with Fiona Urquhart hitting 21 while Lucy O'Reilly took three wickets.
Clare Shillington (34) and Cecelia Joyce (36no) eased Ireland to the target and a final against Bangladesh.
Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 31 runs in the other semi-final.
Liz Priddle (11) was the only other Scottish batter to manage double figures as the wickets tumbled.
Six Irish bowlers took wickets, with Robyn Lewis claiming 2-8.
An opening partnership of 58 between Shillington and Cecelia Joyce laid the foundations for a comfortable run-chase.
Kim Garth hit a winning four to spark celebrations as the Irish finished on 79-1 in the 12th over.


A safety inspector has denied that a decision to treat the Glasgow bin lorry crash as a road traffic accident was "hasty and ill advised".

Barry Baker, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said the incident on 22 December, in which six people died, was "clearly a road traffic accident".
He also told the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) that it was "investigated by the correct regulators".
The inquiry is examining the lorry and the health of the driver, Harry Clarke.
Mr Baker, 50, was giving evidence for a second day at the inquiry, which is taking place at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The inquiry has already heard that Mr Clarke had a history of dizzy spells and fainting which he had not disclosed to the DVLA or on job application forms to Glasgow City Council.
The 58-year-old was unconscious at the wheel of the council bin lorry when it veered out of control on Queen Street, before killing six people and injuring 15 others.
The FAI heard that a meeting was held the day after the crash with representatives from the police, the Crown Office, the HSE and others.
It was agreed at this meeting that the crash was a road traffic incident and would be investigated by police.
Mark Stewart QC, acting for the family of Erin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and Lorraine Sweeney, 69, suggested that Mr Clarke's medical records were not obtained until 7 January.
He said: "So, this incident was written off within 30 hours by a group who convened without the benefit of what could have been significant information in relation to this particular driver, that could have had a bearing on the issue of contravention of the Health and Safety at Work Act?"
Mr Baker said: "I disagree with that. If there's a problem with medical fitness to drive, that's a matter for the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency).
"We would become involved if there were systematic issues."
Mr Stewart said: "The idea that this accident was categorised as a road traffic accident, it must seem that that was hasty and ill-advised?"
The HSE inspector replied: "No. I disagree that it was hasty. It was clearly a road traffic accident, it was investigated by the correct regulators."
The inquiry, now in its fifth week, continues.


The Turkish authorities are investigating foster families for suspected ties to the failed July coup.

An official says it may remove children from homes if their guardians are found to be coup supporters.
More than 125,000 people were dismissed or suspended and about 40,000 others arrested after the coup attempt.
Last week, the European parliament voted for a temporary halt to EU membership talks with Turkey because of its "disproportionate" reaction.
The government says its investigations are necessary to curb the influence of Fetullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim cleric accused by Ankara of orchestrating the coup.
Mr Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has condemned the coup and denies any involvement in it, but the government calls his network "Gulenist Terror Organisation" (Feto) and has vowed to continue the purges.
Local media say around 5,000 foster families and some related institutions are being investigated.
"It would not be right for a child to remain with a (foster) family if links to Feto are confirmed as a result of the examinations," an official from the Ministry of Family and Social Policy told the Reuters news agency.
He said it would be a slow process in which the well-being of the children would be considered. "It is out of the question for children to be suddenly ripped away from their families," he said.
Human rights groups say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to curtail dissent.
Allegations of mistreatment in custody are emerging, and the BBC has received evidence of abuses.
Sources: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch


The leaders of the Republic of Ireland's two main political parties for taoiseach have been rejected for the third time.

Acting taoiseach, Fine Gael's Enda Kenny, was rejected with 52 voting for and 77  against.
His rival, Fianna Fáil's Micheál Martin, was defeated with 43 votes in favour and 91 against.
It is the third time TDs (members of the Irish parliament) have voted for a new leader.
Following February's election, Fine Gael had 50 seats, Fianna Fáil 44, Sinn Féin 23 and the Labour Party got seven.
But no party was able to form a majority government and TDs have failed to elect a leader on two previous occasions.
Following the second vote, Fianna Fáil, rejected an offer of a partnership government with its rivals, Fine Gael.
Caretaker Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, said Fianna Fáil's refusal of the offer was a "serious mistake".
The Fine Gael leader claimed the rejection was "driven by narrow party interests rather than the national interest".
However, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin told a press conference "the best interests of the Irish people are not served by a government made up of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael".
Sinn Féin is the third largest party with 23 seats, the Labour Party has seven TDs while smaller parties and independents make up the other 34 seats.


An online campaign to fund possible legal action against former Prime Minister Tony Blair and other officials has reached its target of £150,000.

The campaign was launched on 19 July by the Iraq War Families Campaign Group, which is made up of relatives of British troops killed in the conflict.
It aimed to reach that amount to "bring to justice those responsible for the war and the deaths of our loved ones".
The campaign was led by Reg Keys and Roger Bacon, who lost sons in Iraq.
The funding bid began after the publication last month of the long-awaited report by Sir John Chilcot into the 2003 invasion.
Chilcot report: Findings at-a-glance
The campaign group initially aimed to reach £50,000 via crowdfunding, but extended its target after raising that figure in nine hours on the CrowdJustice website.
It has now received enough backing to fund the whole campaign.
Mr Keys and Mr Bacon said in a statement: "This is great proof of the underlying support from the British people in our quest for answers and for justice.
"It is startling and humbling at the same time."
The money raised will allow the group's lawyers, McCue and Partners - currently working free of charge - to analyse the 2.6 million-word report by Sir John and prepare "a comprehensive opinion approved by expert senior counsel".
This would provide guidance on whether legal action against key people involved in the invasion of Iraq would succeed or not.
The Chilcot report did not make any findings on whether individuals acted unlawfully.
However, it rejected the legal basis for UK military action, and said then-prime minister Mr Blair overstated the threat posed by then-President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and sent ill-prepared troops into battle.
Chilcot report: Coverage in full
Mr Blair has apologised for any mistakes made, but not the decision to go to war itself.
A total of 179 British service personnel were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, when British troops left Iraqi soil.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians died over the period, though estimates vary considerably.


Unsurprisingly there is tremendous nervousness among politicians and bankers in Athens about the failure of the Eurogroup to make announceable progress on a rescue deal for Greece - and also among influential investors in London.

Here are just a few of their concerns - focused in particular on the idea, put forward by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, that there perhaps could and should be a temporary exit of Greece from the euro.
So the first rather chilling thing I've learned, from well-placed bankers, is there have been no conversations between the Bank of Greece, the government or regulators and Greece's commercial banks about the technicalities of leaving the euro and adopting a new currency.
This is astonishing - and some would say pretty close to criminal - given that on Wednesday night the president of the European Council, former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, was explicit that this weekend's negotiations were all about whether Greece would stay in the eurozone.
"There have been absolutely no talks with the authorities on what we would do if we leave the euro - no technical preparations, nothing that we are aware of," said one senior banker.
He added, just in case I was in any doubt about the impact of leaving the euro on the Greek banks: "If it does happen, well I have no idea how and whether we would ever reopen".
So Greek exit from the euro would be hideous for banks.
It would also be nightmarish for the European Central Bank (ECB).
Here is one reason why.
It currently holds €50bn of Greek loans to companies and residential mortgages - as part of the collateral on the €120bn of Emergency Liquidity Assistance it and the Bank of Greece have provided.
If Greece were to adopt a new drachma, Greek households and businesses would start to receive income in this new currency - which would collapse in value relative to the euro.
But the debts to the ECB of these households and businesses would almost certainly still be in euros.
So with their income collapsing in real terms, they would be unable to keep up the payments on the debts.
And the ECB would face colossal losses - perhaps €35bn of losses on the €50bn.
That is just one of the many headaches it would face.
Finally, an influential investor said that Mr Schaeuble's suggestion of temporary exit from the euro for Greece was a serious existential threat to the single currency  - in the sense that there would demonstrably be a less painful and humiliating way out of the euro than permanent withdrawal.
At that point investors would start betting on which member nation would next run into difficulties paying debts or coping with a strong euro - and therefore which would be next to seek a temporary exit.
Investors would then withdraw capital from the nation perceived to be economically and financial vulnerable - reinforcing that vulnerability, in that the capital flight would increase the cost of money there, and undermine prosperity.
In other words, just as the European Exchange Rate Mechanism turned into an economic disaster because it was not seen as forever, the notion of temporary exit from the euro would almost certainly accelerate its breakup - or so some of those who control the world's trillions warn me.
Which is perhaps why, here at a few seconds before midnight, just perhaps Eurogroup finance ministers and government heads will find some kind of messy compromise to keep Greece in the euro (for a while at least).
But I am not betting large on it quite yet.


Campaigners have criticised the appointment of a new £400,000-a-year director to a cash-strapped health commissioning body.

Last year NHS Kernow, in Cornwall, was put under special measures because of a £14m deficit.
Health Initiative Cornwall said it was a "shame" that NHS England had "forced" the new turnaround director Keith Pringle on NHS Kernow.
NHS England said it was "encouraged to see the early progress being made".
Graham Webster, vice chair of Health Initiative Cornwall, said: "The governing body of NHS Kernow already has quite a number of senior executives and all these people are being paid huge amounts of money."
One of the conditions of the special measures imposed by NHS England was that NHS Kernow had to appoint a turnaround director.
NHS England said Mr Pringle's appointment was a "crucial element in strengthening" NHS Kernow's "capacity to recover its position while safeguarding standards of care".
NHS Kernow said in a statement: "The actual cost to be incurred will depend how long the legal direction requiring a turnaround director remains in force."
Mr Pringle, a former chief restructuring officer with Sherwood Forest NHS, declined to comment.


Air Nigeria will make its final long-haul flights on Monday after announcing the suspension of all services and laying off 800 staff last week.

Investors behind the airline have struggled to deal with $250m (Â£157m) of debt taken on when they bought the carrier from Virgin two years ago.
In June, Air Nigeria was grounded by regulators amid safety concerns.
If the airline can resolve its debt problems, it could yet return to the skies, analysts said.
The grounding of services by the country's aviation regulator followed a crash in June, involving a jet operated by Dana Air, which smashed into an apartment block in Lagos, killing 163 people.
Although an investigation into the crash is still ongoing, Dana has been given permission to start flying again.
Last week, the global air transport body IATA said the most pressing problem for African aviation is safety, with the continent's record of accidents nine times the worse than the global average.
The demise of Air Nigeria leaves the country with just four domestic carriers operating scheduled flights, a blow for efforts to develop the country's economy.
According to IATA, African aviation supports seven million jobs and business activity worth nearly $68bn.
Meanwhile, Nigeria's government is considering a strategy to create another national carrier.


Train enthusiasts in Gloucester are planning to build a museum to celebrate a historic railway company that built the first London Underground carriages.

Horton Road Shed Group wants to build the museum in tribute to the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.
Opening in 1860, the firm's train carriages were exported around the world until 1960s.
The group is aiming to buy a derelict piece of land off Horton Road, where the firm once stood.
Plans are at a very early stage, but it is hoped fundraising will get project off the ground.
Group member Aaron Matthews said: "It's part of history that's dying out in Gloucester. Not many people know about the railways here.
"Our plans are to rebuild some of the buildings and put extra buildings in to display carriages and wagons, pretty much everything to do with the company."
In its heyday, the Gloucester railway firm built train carriages including those for the Hammersmith and City line in London, and the first London Underground trains.
The factory also built 765 Churchill Tanks used in World War Two.
Their vehicles were also exported to Toronto, Canada and Bolivia, South America.


A man has set off in a bid to set the first official world record for swimming across the Atlantic Ocean.

Ben Hooper started his 2,000-mile (3,200 km) swim from Dakar harbour in Senegal, west Africa.
Mr Hooper's four-month attempt is due to end in Natal in north-east Brazil, next March.
The 38-year-old long-distance swimmer from Cheltenham is hoping his sponsored Swim The Big Blue challenge will raise Â£1m for charity.
Other people have attempted the swim, but were not ratified by Guinness World Records.
French swimmer Benoit Lecomte was credited as the first to swim across the Atlantic without a kickboard in 1998, but this was not verified.
Mr Hooper said he faces hazards such as storms and ocean predators.
"The idea is to get across safely and I think my only real fear is if something goes mechanically wrong with me.
"Beyond that I am not too worried about marine life. I am going into their world, so I need to be respectful," he said.
"I've already met sharks and jellyfish and nothing has eaten me yet."
Mr Hooper is swimming freestyle front crawl for up to 12 hours a day, and will have to eat 12,000 calories a day to maintain his strength.
He is accompanied by two support boats.  The crews include a medic, body therapist and an official observer who will be reporting back to Guinness.
Nigel Taylor-Schofield, captain of one of the support vessels, said before the swim: "There are not many 'firsts' left in this world and I am looking forward to helping Ben join that exclusive and elusive club."
Mr Hooper has completed 12 million metres (7,456 miles) of ocean and pool swimming in preparation.


Benedict Cumberbatch has been made a CBE by the Queen at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

The Sherlock star is being honoured for his work as an actor and his charitable efforts.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: "It's fantastic, it's quite nerve-wracking, there is nothing really that prepares you for it.
"It's a unique occasion and I feel very privileged to be here and flattered to be recognised in this way."
He added: "It was wonderful, it was the first time I've ever met her and to meet her and be honoured by her was extraordinary."
The actor was joined at the ceremony by his theatre director wife Sophie Hunter.
Cumberbatch, who is currently filming the eponymous role in Marvel's Doctor Strange, recently completed a three-month run in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican.
He said: "[Her Majesty] asked me what I was doing at the moment, and I told her I had finished a three month run at the Barbican, which she knew of.
"And I told her I had just got back last night from filming in Nepal, Doctor Strange for Marvel, then I'll be going straight into the fourth series of Sherlock. She said: 'Oh, it never stops does it?'"
He added that the Queen "didn't let on" if she was a Sherlock fan or not, but said: " I know a lot of the household is, I have been assured they have watched a few episodes."
On receiving the letter notifying him of his honour, Cumberbatch said: "I thought there had been a mistake. I thought someone had got something wrong."
But he said the honour would not stop him from speaking out on issues about which he he feels strongly.
Last month, following a performance of Hamlet, he urged the audience to donate cash to the refugee crisis appeal.
"I think the power anybody in the public eye has, is to draw attention to things that concern them at certain points in time, whether it be causes or politics, and I think I had a unique opportunity to do that at The Barbican with the money for the Save the Children appeal for Syria.
"I am in a very privileged position to have a voice and to have a certain amount of people listen to what I have to say.
"I don't know if this [the CBE]  will change that, but I am certainly not going to change who I am because of it.
"It is a huge honour, but I will still speak my mind about things I feel are right and wrong about the world when it is appropriate. Now would not be an appropriate time."


Derbyshire have signed wicketkeeper-batsman Gary Wilson from Division One side Surrey on a three-year deal.

The 30-year-old Ireland international will leave Surrey at the end of the season after 11 years at the club.
"I am keen to play a part as a senior player in ensuring that the squad's potential is turned into success on the field," Wilson told the club website.
"There's a lot of talent at the club and they are learning and improving all the time."


Scotland's ice hockey teams are ramping up the training ahead of this weekend's return of Elite League action.

With an extra number in the import quotas (now up to 14), coaches have been furiously signing up top names from Canada, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Slovakia.
Four top-level clubs north of the border - Braehead Clan, Edinburgh Capitals, Dundee Stars and Fife Flyers - plus Manchester Storm make up the Gardiner Conference.
Incidentally, the Gardiner Trophy for which they compete was named after Charlie Gardiner, the Edinburgh-born netminder who captained Chicago Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup in 1934.
Five more teams competing in the Erhardt Conference and the top eight points scorers from the two sections progress to the play-offs and battle it out for a place in the grand final at Nottingham's National Ice Centre in April.
All 10 Elite League sides play each season for the Challenge Cup, so there is plenty of on-ice game time to give you shivers, even if you do remember the thermals.
As the first fixtures loom, BBC Scotland caught up with the Scottish clubs to see how each is shaping up for the 2016/17 season.
Head coach Marc LeFebvre admits that Dundee Stars have had a tough time reeling in the big fish as import numbers increase, given the financial implications, but believes they are putting a strong side on the ice.
"One thing we wanted to do was improve our goal-tending and I think we've done that with Joe Fallon," he said. "He's got a great CV.
"I think our defence is a lot better, a lot more youthful back there, and we've added more size, and up front we've got a lot faster.
"Ice hockey is a pretty fast game, so we want to be a bit faster than we were last year. So we've improved in a lot of areas.
"We want to win our conference - four points away from winning it last year - so that's one of our targets and again make the play-offs, like we did last year, but take it one step further and get into the final-four weekend and try and qualify for the cup play-offs as well.
"We have small targets that we want to reach - and exceed them.
"When we do the recruiting, we try and look for the diamonds in the rough to compete. It makes it harder, but it's a good challenge."
Head coach Todd Dutiaume promises a more offensive Fife Flyers line-up this season as they hope to make it third time a charm in the play-offs.
"We've seen some highlights and been keeping an eye on the signings," he said. "Once again, the league keeps pushing forward in the standard, so we're definitely going to have to be right on pace to keep up.
"My initial impression of the dressing-room is one of unity and the guys are having a great time. So, if we can get that to transfer onto the ice, I'm really excited about the upcoming season.
"Last year was a heartbreaker - tying for Conference and losing out to a great Braehead team on a tie-breaker. We want to challenge for that title again and obtain that goal of obtaining some silverware for Fife.
"Every other competition we want to improve on - our league standing, we want to get further in the Challenge Cup competition and, if we are fortunate enough to get to that final four again, I'd love to see the Fife Flyers in a final, where anything can happen.
"I know that's asking an awful lot. But, if we can push on as a group and get to a point where we can give ourselves even a chance of success, I'd be absolutely thrilled with that."
Scott Neil, Edinburgh Capitals' general manager, admits it was a very frustrating end to 2015/16 but says they have made improvements to make them more competitive and hopefully more consistent this season.
"At the start of last season, we had a great a great run of victories - most consecutive wins ever in a season - and we were fourth in the league at one time looking very strong and unfortunately we went on a slide we couldn't recover from," he said.
"Hopefully we've got more depth in different areas this year, I think we're a little bit more versatile. We've got guys who can play good defensive role - and guys who show up offensively.
"Our top pedigree players are Jared Stall, ex-NHL and Russia's Pavel Vorobyev, who also played in the NHL."
Head coach Ryan Finnerty believes Braehead Clan have a good mix of "size", "skill" and "toughness" and is looking forward to seeing that transfer onto the ice.
"I think, on paper, I feel really good about it," he said.
"We set out what we wanted to do at the start of our recruitment process and we wanted to get a bit bigger and bit stronger but make sure we kept that skill level we've had this last couple of years.
"This season is our season to take that next step. We've been knocking on the door - we're one point away, five points away. This is our year.
"Everybody has upgraded, but that's our motto this year - we're tired of being the bridesmaids.
"We've been coming so close and so close and haven't been able to close it off and this is the year we want to do it. This is the year we feel we have to do it.
"Our fans have been patient, but everybody wants that success, including myself.
"We really put a lot of emphasis this year on winning and that's what we want. We want to win trophies, we want to experience that success and we want to bring it to Braehead."


Peter Dimmock - the first presenter of Grandstand, Sportsview and the Sports Personality of the Year awards - has died aged 94.

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Dimmock joined the BBC as head of outside broadcasts in 1946, and was responsible for bringing the Queen's coronation to the nation's screens.
A former Royal Air Force flight lieutenant, he worked for the Press Association before 31 years at the BBC.
BBC director general Tony Hall described Dimmock as a "true pioneer".
He added: "As the man who oversaw coverage of the Queen's coronation, he was also responsible for a seminal moment in British broadcasting history.
"Peter's broadcasting mirrored the man - charming, warm, and authoritative."
Former BBC One controller Sir Paul Fox said Dimmock had "introduced the British public to television" and "led BBC Sport to some of its greatest successes".
He said: "He persuaded the people who mattered that the coronation of the Queen should be televised, thereby ensuring the arrival of television in this country.
"More than 20 million watched the coronation, the majority outside their homes. Within 12 months, television licences had doubled."
BBC director of sport Barbara Slater said Dimmock had made an "extraordinary contribution" to the broadcasting industry.
"He was hugely admired by both the audience and those that worked with him. He will be sadly missed."
The Queen's coronation at Westminster Abbey on 2 June, 1953 was the largest outside broadcast the BBC had ever undertaken.
It was also the first time a television audience for an event of national importance had exceeded the number of people listening on radio.
Dimmock produced the coverage but later revealed that he had also needed to use his powers of persuasion to be allowed to film the ceremony.
In an interview with the BBC detailing the corporation's history, Dimmock recalled: "[Prime Minister] Winston Churchill was against it, several of his government were against it and I don't think the Queen was even asked at that stage.
"We performed every trick in the book because people wanted to see and deserved to see the coronation.
"Eventually we persuaded Bernard Norfolk, who organised the coronation, the Queen's press secretary Richard Colville and the Archbishop of Canterbury to let us have a trial of the camera.
"But there was a rule that no camera could be closer than 30 feet from the Queen.
"I got a girl to walk down the aisle as though she was the Queen, but used a two-inch lens - the widest there was - and she looked a mile away. They were happy with that, but what they didn't know was that I was going to use a 12-inch lens that would give the best close up of the Queen that there had ever been."
In 1954, Dimmock moved from his role as a director and went in front of the camera to present a new sports programme called Sportsview, which became Sportsnight in 1968.
With his distinctive moustache, Dimmock became a familiar face in millions of households.
And, as Dimmock explained, the new venture could not have had a better start.
He added: "Luck was on our side because on the night of the first edition Roger Bannister was attempting the first sub-four-minute mile in Oxford.
"When he did it, we hired a racing driver to get him back to the studio before the end of the programme. Roger said it was the most horrific car journey he had ever experienced, but we got him there and I interviewed him. That kicked it off to a good start."
Dimmock was the first presenter of the Sports Personality of the Year award in 1954, which until 1999 was known as Sports Review of the Year.
He also fronted the first coverage of the Grand National in 1960 after persuading Aintree racecourse owner Mirabel Topham to allow the race to be televised after many years of trying.
Two years earlier he had teamed up with producer Paul Fox to launch Grandstand, hosting the first two editions before being replaced by David Coleman.
Dimmock said: "Paul had this good idea to link live outside broadcasts from a studio so we could give half-time football results, racing results and various items from throughout the afternoon.
"And then, of course, the most important thing of all, the full-time results on the teleprinter with everyone sitting at home with their coupons seeing the results as they came up.
"I think one of the reasons why Paul asked me to introduce it was because if it went wrong then 'Dimmock will carry the can'.
"But the only real thing that happened was when I said, 'now we leave Ascot to go to the World Amateur Golf Championships at St Andrews and up came Harringay show jumping'.
"But we got over that and it was obvious when we got it off the ground and David joined us that it was going to be around for a long time."


Highland Council has proposed housing four families of Syrian refugees in Kinlochleven in Lochaber.

The local authority is to hold a meeting in the village on Monday evening to give residents more information on the plan.
Earlier this year, the local authority resettled its first five families who had fled from conflict in Syria.
The council hopes to eventually offer homes to 25 to 30 families over a period of time up to the year 2020.
Like other Scottish authorities, it has been working with Scottish councils body Cosla on resettling families of refugees.
The first group of refugees to be resettled by Highland Council were housed in the Alness area of Ross-shire.


The first former child soldier to appear at the International Criminal Court has pleaded not guilty and told judges he was a victim too.

Lords Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen said the LRA was responsible and he had also suffered from the atrocities.
Ongwen, now in his early 40s, was a boy when he was abducted by the notoriously ruthless rebel cult.
He faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda.
Mr Ongwen is accused of leading attacks on four camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Uganda, murdering and torturing civilians, and forcing women into marriage and children to take part in the fighting.
But he told the court the charges should be brought against the LRA and its leader Joseph Kony, not him.
"It is the LRA who abducted people in northern Uganda, killed people in northern Uganda and committed atrocities in northern Uganda. I'm one of the people against whom the LRA committed atrocities. It is not me who is the LRA," he said.
When asked if he wanted to plead guilty, he said the trial against him "amounts to my going back into the bush for a second time" and asked the judges if they disputed that his life had been ruined.
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However ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Mr Ongwen was a "murderer and a rapist" who rose to become one of the most senior commanders in the LRA as a result of his "unwavering loyalty and ferocity".
He was in charge of one of the LRA's four brigades and most of his soldiers were children, she said.
Mr Ongwen played a "prominent role" in the attacks on IDP camps, she said. Residents were murdered, their homes burned and survivors forced to carry off looted provisions. Those too weak to do this were killed and nursing mothers whose babies slowed them down saw them thrown into the bush and left to die.
In one incident, Ms Bensouda said, Mr Ongwen ordered his child soldiers to kill an old man by biting him and then stoning him to death.
Mr Ongwen also played a "central role" in the LRA's ongoing abduction of children as young as six.
Boys were made to carry out torture and murder to convince them they could never be accepted back into civilian society, she said.
Girls meanwhile were "held for years in sexual and domestic slavery and subjected to repeated rape", she said. The defendant himself "benefited most from their misery" and had sex with them "from a very young age".
Ms Bensouda said Mr Ongwen's own experience was not a justification for victimising others.
"It cannot begin to amount to a defence or a reason not to charge him for the choice that he made," she said.
Mr Ongwen was captured in the Central African Republic in January 2015, after being sought by US and African forces since 2011.
He is said to be the deputy to LRA commander Joseph Kony, who is still on the run.
Uganda agreed that Mr Ongwen should be tried by the ICC despite being a fierce critic of the court.
The LRA rebellion began more than two decades ago in northern Uganda and its estimated 200-500 fighters - many of them child soldiers - have since terrorised large swathes of central Africa. More than 100,000 people are thought to have been killed.
Many Ugandans are waiting to see if, at least in this situation, justice will be done.
The ICC outreach office and the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) have set up several live-streaming points - in Kampala and in the north for the next two days - to bring the court proceedings to the people directly affected.
Several of these screens are in Lukodi, Pajule and Odek villages, which formerly hosted camps for the internally displaced and are the scenes of many of the crimes Mr Ongwen is accused of.
There is also a live-viewing point in the defendant's own home village of Coorom in Amuru district.
In northern Uganda, the proceedings are being translated into local language so ordinary people get a sense of what is happening.
Though many are interested in seeing what happens in the Hague, some in northern Uganda think justice is only one part of the process. Many, especially those who suffered years of displacement, are focusing on rebuilding their lives.
Some among those directly affected had wanted Dominic Ongwen to be tried at home.


Pre-season training methods were once a guarded secret, locked away behind training ground doors.

There was a time when images of the stars setting off from a training ground on a jog were as much as we saw but the influence of social media means it has now never been easier to copy what the professionals do.
Their methods are dynamic, scientific and targeted.
So with the help of Jamie Kennedy - a personal trainer to Liverpool's Danny Ings, Tottenham's Kieran Trippier and Southampton's Jay Rodriguez - BBC Sport shows you what top players do so you can sharpen up before the new season. Be careful, but give it a go...
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What is he working? Hamstrings, glutes, quads, joint stability.
Kennedy says: "From a sitting position to an explosive jump, this movement can help develop the power and fast-twitch fibres players need to operate at a high level. This is one of my favourite exercises to use with the players. It is fantastic for isolating power from leg muscles.
"If you wanted to use this method you could start by simply trying to stand from a sitting position on the floor using just your legs. Progress it to use just one leg to take you from the floor to a stood position."
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What is he working? Dynamic balance, lower-limb power, lateral power.
Kennedy says: "Posture control, balance and flexibility are essential in ensuring efficient movement during the game and Ings works on those in the opening two exercises here. Later, in leaping sideways he builds strength in his legs to aid the lateral functions football requires and he finishes with a core strength exercise to shape powerful movements."
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What is he working? Leg strength, overall power, running economy.
Kennedy says: "Using another person to pull him back as resistance calls on Gerrard to develop strength, notably in his legs but also in driving his upper body forward to ensure all of his body is helping him put power into his sprint effectively. Fast-twitch fibres are activated."
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What is she working? Core strength, explosive power.
"Aluko's leap onto a high box is designed to make her leg and core muscles contract quickly, helping to develop fast-twitch fibres used for power that she will need when performing that key sprint or explosive movement in a game situation.
"Jump work is fantastic. Start by just using a small step and build it gradually."
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What is he working? Foot speed, range of leg muscles, core strength, stability.
Kennedy says: "Deeney uses a foam roller here to perfect the short, sharp side-to-side movements he may use to forge a yard of space through rapid lateral movement before performing three ballistic jumps.
"The jump action works across three areas - his, hip, knee and ankle joints simultaneously. This is known as multi-joint facilitation and is a key factor as in football, strength and power are always used across a variety of muscles and joints."
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What is he working? Leg strength, balance.
"This range of repetitions will help the athlete develop strength and power within his lower body. Deeney mixes them up with dynamic split squats which fatigue his legs before each jump, thus building strength endurance."
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What is he working? Leg strength, shoulders, endurance, stability, sideways movements.
Kennedy says: "Johnson uses a weight but does not isolate just one muscle group as his full-body range of movement in lifting from the floor to over his head works muscles from his calf up to his shoulder, allowing him to develop upper body strength and a physical presence on the pitch.
"Reverse lunges work the glutes, quads and hamstrings, reducing the risk of injury. His repeated movement patterns sideways between kettle bells and up against a step create muscular endurance called upon during a match."
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What is he working? Agility, injury rehabilitation, joint strength.
Kennedy says: "After a terrible cruciate knee-ligament injury last season, Bojan has to be sure his body can handle the countless challenges football presents. From fast feet in the ladder to backward and sideways movement through the agility sticks, his knee is asked to take the shock of several ranges of motion here. But, crucially as he recovers from injury, he knows where the obstacles are - thus ensuring safety."
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What is he working? Lateral movement at speed, concentration in receiving instruction.
Kennedy says: "A player may need to move sideways quickly to change direction or to man-mark at a set piece. Here Bojan is told which tennis ball (numbered one to four) to collect and move. In listening for instruction this helps his body react to his mind but in a controlled environment, as this is a progression from the above exercise in some ways."
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What is he working? Injury prevention, glutes, calf muscles, running technique.
Kennedy says: "In recent years, hamstring, knee and ankle issues have hampered Carroll, so building strength, resistance and stability in his legs is key. Here, his hip thrusts from a bench develop his glutes activation to ensure they are strong enough to absorb impact during games. His second exercise works his calf, which will in turn create better stability in the ankle and help when trying to perform powerful sprints.
"The sprint on the spot encourages upright position, a strong knee lift and good posture. Another way to do this is to put your hands against a wall and simply sprint on the spot, keeping your knees high."


Bulgaria has again halted work on the Russia-led pipeline project South Stream.

Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy, Vassil Shtonov, suspended work on the 930km-pipeline until it conforms to European Union law.
South Stream will stretch across the Black Sea to southern and central Europe, providing another gas transit route for Russia's Gazprom.
But the EU is worried about the gas producer also owning a pipe network.
Bulgaria stopped work on South Stream in June after tensions in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, the minister ordered the Bulgarian Energy Holding to suspend any competitive bidding procedures and the signing of any contracts relevant to South Stream.
Bulgaria is almost entirely dependent on Russian gas and has been trying for years to diversify its sources.
South Stream's offshore section would run beneath the Black Sea across territory run by Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey. The onshore section will cross Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia.
Currently, 15% of the EU's gas supply from Russia is piped through Ukraine. South Stream would by-pass the country.
Laurent Ruseckas, global gas analyst at the economic research firm IHS said: "Bulgaria has been strongly supportive of South Stream, which will give it greater security of gas supply - but as the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated, it has come under increasing pressure from Brussels to stop co-operating with Gazprom on the project.
"The government had already announced a suspension of South Stream in June, but in practice activity seemed to continue. The current announcement could be a bit more serious, although time will tell."
The construction of South Stream began in late 2012, with the first gas deliveries expected in 2016. The pipeline is due to become fully operational in 2018.


Brexit Secretary David Davis will call for "a deal like no other in history" as he heads into talks with the EU.

Subjects for the negotiations, which officially start in Brussels later, include the status of expats, the UK's "divorce bill" and the Northern Ireland border.
Mr Davis said there was a "long road ahead" but predicted a "deep and special partnership".
The UK is set to leave the EU by the end of March 2019.
Day one of the negotiations will start at about 11:00 BST at European Commission buildings in Brussels.
Mr Davis and the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier, a former French foreign minister and EU commissioner, will give a joint press conference at the end of the day.
The UK minister, who will be accompanied by a team of British officials, is expected to say: "Today marks the start of negotiations that will shape the future of the European Union and the United Kingdom, and the lives of our citizens.
"We want both sides to emerge strong and prosperous, capable of projecting our shared European values, leading in the world, and demonstrating our resolve to protect the security of our citizens.
"I want to reiterate at the outset of these talks that the UK will remain a committed partner and ally of our friends across the continent.
"And while there is a long road ahead, our destination is clear - a deep and special partnership between the UK and the EU. A deal like no other in history."
The BBC has been told by European Union sources that the talks will follow the EU's preferred pattern of exit negotiations first, with the future relations between the two sides - including the free trade deal the UK is seeking - at a later date.
Five major UK business bodies have come together to call for continued access to the European single market until a final Brexit deal is made with the EU.
In a letter to Business Secretary Greg Clark, they urged the government to "put the economy first".
The letter is from the British Chambers of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry, EEF, Federation of Small Businesses and Institute of Directors.
On the eve of talks, Chancellor Philip Hammond issued a strong warning about the implications of the UK leaving the EU without a deal in place.
Mr Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that having no deal would be "a very, very bad outcome for Britain" but added that one that aimed to "suck the lifeblood out of our economy over a period of time" would be even worse.
He called for a transition deal to be in place to avoid businesses being affected by a "cliff edge" scenario as the UK leaves.
Mr Hammond has said the UK should "prioritise protecting jobs, protecting economic growth and protecting prosperity".


Rain interrupted a tight contest between Essex and Surrey to leave the visitors leading by 41 on day three.

Resuming on 215-3, Dan Lawrence (107) completed his century for Essex before Stuart Meaker (3-73) pinned him lbw.
Surrey debutant Amar Virdi took 3-82, but Ryan ten Doeschate (53) and Neil Wagner (50) added lower-order runs to push the hosts to 383 - a lead of 14.
Mark Stoneman (28) helped Surrey re-take the lead when, at 55-1, play was halted by the weather at 17:00 BST.
Lawrence, 19, whose form this season has earned a call-up to the England Lions squad, moved on from 78 not out to bring up his second century of the season, which included 15 fours.
Off-spinner Virdi, playing in place of injured skipper Gareth Batty, then threatened to cut Essex's innings short, dismissing James Foster (21), Simon Harmer and Ten Doeschate in succession with a mixture of flight and sharp turn.
However, Wagner scored his eighth first-class half-century to help move the hosts past Surrey's first-innings total before he was caught by Kumar Sangakkara at slip off the bowling of Ravi Rampaul.
Stoneman and opening partner Rory Burns (21 not out) were both dropped off Jamie Porter's bowling before the former Durham man fell to a wonderful catch by former England Test captain Alastair Cook at slip.
Essex's Dan Lawrence told BBC Radio Essex:
"It wasn't my most fluent innings. It was quite scratchy, but it was nice to get another hundred. Both centuries I've scored this season have been fairly gritty.
"I'm in some decent form. We've got three one-dayers with the England Lions. I've got to get selected in that team first and then see what happens then. But I'm excited.
"I'll give it a go and hopefully I'll do OK. There are some four-day games after that, but I don't know if I've been selected for that yet. Hopefully I can make my presence felt and score some runs."
Surrey seamer Tom Curran told BBC Radio London:
"For a young lad to come in on his Championship debut and perform the way Amar Virdi did was fantastic. He wasn't bothered by the environment at all.
"He got turn, he got good players out and bowled a lot of overs. He didn't go for runs, and he must be very proud of that. It's the start of a very exciting career.
"There would have been nerves but, after those first couple of overs, he settled in. He showed what he is about, and a glimpse of what he can be.


Police in Washington have fired on a woman in a car after she struck a police vehicle near the US Capitol and tried to run over several officers.

The woman was not shot, Washington Metropolitan Police spokesperson Rachel Reid told the BBC, and no injuries have been reported.
She was taken into custody and the incident prompted a lockdown at one of the Congress buildings.
The incident follows driving attacks last week in London and Brussels.
But Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the incident was "criminal in nature with no nexus to terrorism".
Local media have identified the woman as Taleah Everett, 20.
Her aunt, Bonnie Everett, told NBC News that her niece has bipolar disorder, and may have become frustrated by slow-moving traffic.
The incident occurred after officers observed an "erratic and aggressive driver" and tried to pull her car over.
The driver made a U-turn, nearly striking several officers in the process.
Hearings on Capitol Hill are continuing as normal, and tourists have been allowed to return to the area.


A fundraiser, whose theft of over £24,000 almost ruined a charity, has been ordered to pay back £1.

Fiona Barnes, who also faked terminal cancer, was jailed for 15 months for the theft from Preston's Space Centre and perverting the course of justice.
The 55-year-old was ordered to pay back £1 at a Proceeds of Crime hearing at the city's crown court after she was found to have "no money to her name".
The centre said the ruling was "outrageous" and a "complete insult".
Barnes, of Brigend, Dunblane, stole £24,713 from the Space Centre in 2012.
She tried to cover her tracks by faking documents indicating the centre had won non-existent grants of up to £800,000 and was jailed in September 2016.
Speaking after the hearing, Jane Robinson, deputy manager of the Space Centre, said: "It is a complete insult. I'd rather she didn't pay anything than she pays £1.
"After what she did, it just seems outrageous. She nearly ruined us."
The centre was bought out by charitable company Creative Support, based in Manchester, which has secured its future.
The Space Centre, which opened in 1993 and has three sensory rooms, is the UK's largest multi-sensory environment and supports children with physical, learning or emotional difficulties.


No play was possible on day one of the final County Championship game of the season between Kent and Essex because of damp conditions at Canterbury.

Overnight rain led first to a delayed start, then multiple inspections, with the umpires abandoning play for the day just after 14:30 BST.
Kent need six points to be assured of finishing second in Division Two.
The visitors have already secured the sole promotion place to the top flight as champions.


A national public body has announced plans to attempt to save England's Grade II listed buildings from the threat of neglect.

English Heritage (EH) is calling on members of the public to assess Grade II listed buildings in their area and flag up if they think they are falling into disrepair.
There are 345,000 Grade II listed buildings in England and the body has extended its Heritage at Risk Register to include these types of sites for the first time.
The list already covers Grade II buildings in London and Grade I and Grade II* buildings in the rest of England but the list is expected to increase as Grade II buildings account for 92% of all those listed.
Buildings already identified as "at risk" include the oldest house in Nottingham, a women only lido in Reading and a bomb store in Suffolk.
EH was at the nuclear bomb facility at Barnham to launch the scheme.
John Ette, inspector of monuments for English Heritage, said: "We've always targeted Grade I, Grade II* and scheduled monuments, but this year we're targeting Grade II listed buildings via a series of pilot studies to extend what we're learnt.
"We're working with local authorities, building preservation trusts or owners to look at what we can do with the Grade II ones, so we'll try to do up to 15 pilot studies to see what we can learn."
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said: "Grade II buildings are the bulk of the nation's heritage treasury.
"When one of them is lost, it's as though someone has rubbed out a bit of the past - something that made your street or your village special will have gone."
To begin the project, EH has earmarked £250,000 to run the pilot surveys.
Edward Impey, director of heritage protection for English Heritage, said they would choose a diverse range of areas including urban, rural and those with higher economic challenges for the scheme which will run for a year.
EH staff have been redeployed in new Heritage at Risk teams in each of EH's nine local offices to work exclusively on supporting owners, developers, local authorities and volunteers in rescuing buildings so they can be removed from the list.
Mr Impey said: "The point of the list is to catch things early - some Grade II buildings don't exist any more.
"We don't know how many buildings are at risk but our ambition is to assess them all and look at how many are deemed to be at risk.
"The first thing we need to know is their condition on a case-by-case basis."
EH will publish an assessment guide online so people can review a building from the outside and gauge if it is at risk.
He said: "We'll ask them things like: 'Is it occupied, has it got broken windows and plants growing out of the gutters?'."
Once a building is submitted it will be assessed by English Heritage who will work with funding bodies and local authorities and groups to try to put together a restoration programme.
But EH will not be able to fund all of the work - the body has seen its own budget cuts from £30m in 1999 to £12.5m.
And while in the past developers might repair a building knowing they could sell it and recoup their costs, the "conservation deficit" has  rocketed during the recession.
From 2007 to 2012 the deficit - which is the shortfall between the cost of repairs and the money an owner could expect to recoup from the market value of a repaired property - increased from £330m to £423m. The average deficit per site rose from £267,000 to £366,000.
But Mr Impey said despite budgets being squeezed he still believed people were interested in saving buildings.
"Its difficult for local authorities because they are very hard pressed and there are fewer conservation staff but that doesn't mean the will isn't there," he said.
"English Heritage funds have diminished too but there are other sources of money and people are very good at raising money.
"The whole thing depends on people's enthusiasm but people in England are very passionate about our historic buildings."


Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says other countries want Japan to adopt a more assertive leadership role in Asia to counter the growing power of China.

Mr Abe told the Wall Street Journal there were "concerns that China was trying to change the status quo by force, rather than by the rule of law".
Relations between China and Japan have been strained over recent years.
China said on Saturday that if Japan shot down Chinese drones, this would be considered "an act of war" by Beijing.
The statement was referring to reports that Mr Abe had approved defence plans that envisaged using air force planes to shoot down unmanned Chinese aircraft in Japanese airspace.
Another contentious issue between the two countries is the dispute over a group of islands.
The islands, in the East China Sea, are controlled by Tokyo, but claimed by Beijing.
But analysts say the nations' rivalry reflects the power shift created by China's meteoric economic and diplomatic rise while Japan has been mired in a two-decade economic slump.
China has warned against Japanese nationalism in a region where Japan's colonial expansionism is still bitterly remembered.
In the interview, Mr Abe said he had realised that "Japan is expected to exert leadership not just on the economic front, but also in the field of security in the Asia-Pacific".
He promised policies to counter Japan's waning influence.
Other countries wanted Japan to stand up to China, Mr Abe said without naming any.
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"There are concerns that China is attempting to change the status quo by force, rather than by rule of law. But if China opts to take that path, then it won't be able to emerge peacefully," Mr Abe says.
"So it shouldn't take that path, and many nations expect Japan to strongly express that view. And they hope that as a result, China will take responsible action in the international community."
The interview comes days after Mr Abe was reported to approved defence plans to intercept and shoot down foreign unmanned aircraft that ignore warnings to leave Japanese airspace.
On Saturday, China's defence ministry responded saying:  "If Japan does resort to enforcement measures like shooting down aircraft, that is a serious provocation to us, an act of war.
"We will undertake decisive action to strike back, with every consequence borne by the side that caused the trouble," spokesman Geng Yansheng said on the ministry's website.


Theresa Villiers has said it is time to get on with the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement.

She was speaking after the Conservatives secured victory in the UK general election.
She said it was important they worked with the "other political parties on our shared goal of rebalancing the Northern Ireland economy".
But Ms Villiers said the agreement needed to be enforced.
"As a government, we will obviously continue to work with all the Northern Ireland political parties, we think it is important we work with the other political parties on our shared goal of rebalancing the Northern Ireland economy," she said
"But at the heart of the issue here is the Stormont House Agreement, we want to see that implemented, it has got a generous financial package.
"Both the executive and the government undertook obligations, it is now important for it to be implemented.
"I'm saying that the Stormont House Agreement needs to be enforced, it needs to be delivered, I think it was a balanced package, I think it is a big step forward for Northern Ireland and it comes with significant extra resources."
The Conservatives have 331 seats - five more than needed for a Commons majority - their first such victory since 1992.
Mr Cameron's rivals Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have all resigned after election disappointment.
Ms Villiers has said she would be delighted to continue as Northern Ireland Secretary, but it may be Monday before there is news on the position.
DUP leader Peter Robinson said on Friday that Sinn Féin had been given "breathing space" but added that "they know what they need to do in terms of fulfilling their commitment to the Stormont House and Castle agreements".
"It's essential we get down to that work, I will be ready from Monday to sit down to make sure we implement what was agreed by all five of the parties at Stormont Castle in relation to welfare and other issues," he said.
"We detected that it was not going to happen before the election was over, it's now over, we are wanting parties to sit down with us and do business to make sure we can move forward in the assembly and executive."
The DUP won eight seats at the general election.
Mr Robinson gave his view when asked about what influence the party could have at Westminster, given the Conservatives' victory.
"I think it is very clear that the majority of the Conservative Party is such that there will be occasions in the future where the votes of the Democratic Unionist Party will be needed and we will go back to our Northern Ireland plan," he said.
Sinn Féin MLA Martin McGuinness said Northern Ireland parties needed to develop a common approach to address the challenges presented by the new Conservative government.
"We have demonstrated that when all of the executive parties act together we can deliver real change," he said.
He said action must be taken to "avert five more years of cuts to public services".


The rules on taxing benefits-in-kind for employees are going to be relaxed next year, the government says.

Benefits worth £50 or less, paid for by an employer, will no longer trigger a tax and national insurance bill for staff.
This could affect employers paying for a leaving do, a taxi home for a sick member of staff, or stationery for someone who works from home.
The change will start from 6 April 2016 following the next Finance Act.
At the moment, HMRC can use its discretion to decide what sort of benefits-in-kind should be taxed, or which are deemed trivial - and thus exempt from current tax rules.
For instance, there is already in place a general exemption for Christmas parties paid for by employers.
But there is no hard-and-fast rule.
Chas Roy-Chowdhury of the ACCA accountancy body said the change would be a big step towards simpler taxes.
"At present, employers and employees often get it wrong because HMRC [HM Revenue & Customs] does not have a consistent definition of trivial benefits," he said.
The amount of money at stake is low and the government estimates that it will forgo just £5m of tax in 2016-17 and £10m annually thereafter.
However, the government said the change would cut administrative costs for itself and employers.
"Employers are currently required to agree with HM Revenue and Customs whether certain benefits-in-kind an be treated as trivial," the government said.
"This is a burdensome process for both employers and HMRC, and is disproportionate to the amounts of tax and national insurance contributions due," it added.
Another group of people who will benefit from the new rules are directors and some senior employees of so-called "close companies".
Typically, these are small family-owned firms which are controlled by five people or fewer.
They, and members of their families or households, will be able to receive benefits-in-kind of up to £300 a year before any tax bill is triggered..
The changes to the taxation of low-value benefits-in-kind was first proposed in the 2014 Budget, as part of a wider range of measures to simplify the UK's tax system initially suggested by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS).
But after a couple of public consultations, the plan was left out of the 2015 Finance Bill, because of pressure on Parliamentary time.


French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is facing yet another backlash after depicting Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian refugee who drowned, as an adult committing a sex assault in Germany.

The cartoon depicts Alan's body alongside a caption suggesting he would have become a "groper in Germany".
It follows the revelation that gangs of migrants carried out organised sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
The magazine has been widely condemned on social media and accused of racism.
Twitter users called the image "disgusting" and "tasteless", as well as accusing the magazine of racism and Islamophobia.
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The controversial cartoon comes a week after the anniversary of the shooting at the magazine, which killed 10 of its staff.
Alan Kurdi has become a touchstone for the magazine's satirists, appearing in a number of cartoons over the past few months.
One, which was rejected as a cover image, showed the boy's body washed up on the beach next to a McDonald's advert, with the caption, "So close".
This latest use of his image seems to be an attempt to satirise those who would blame all migrants and refugees in Germany for the actions of a few, some Twitter users suggested.
The attacks in Cologne have heightened existing tensions in Germany over the country's open policy towards migrants and refugees.
But a series of highly provocative cartoons have cooled the extraordinary outpouring of solidarity with the magazine after the January 2015 attacks.
It has been beset by infighting and its senior cartoonist Luz - the man who designed the first edition after the attack - announced his resignation.


A deal to bring a supermarket on to the site of a former cattle market in Abergavenny has been completed for £1m more than originally agreed.

Supermarket giant Morrisons has renegotiated with Monmouthshire council after missing a payment deadline earlier this year.
It has given £13.75m up front to build the 25,000 sq ft (2,322 sqm) store and will pay another £4m over 25 years.
The shop should open in late 2017 but the number of jobs created is unknown.
Abergavenny's historical cattle market was controversially moved to a new £5m facility 10 miles (16km) away in 2013, leaving the town centre site derelict.
After Morrisons missed July's deadline, campaigners called for a rethink over the plan, favouring other retail and housing.
The council's deputy leader Bob Greenland said: "We would've preferred not to have a delay that we've had but I recognise the difficulties the grocery market has had over the years and the new management wanted to rethink their strategy.
"Instead of having all of the money up front, we've converted some of it into a rental agreement."


South Korean prosecutors have applied for an arrest warrant for former president Park Geun-hye, for her role in a corruption scandal.

Earlier this month, she lost her presidential immunity and was dismissed from her post when the constitutional court upheld a decision by parliament to impeach her.
Ms Park is accused of allowing her close friend Choi Soon-sil to allegedly extort money from big firms.
Ms Park has denied the allegations.
The former president apologised to the public last week, before being questioned by authorities for 14 hours.
"The case is very grave as the suspect has demonstrated acts of abuse of power by making companies give money and infringing on the freedom of corporate management by using powerful position and authority as president," prosecutors said in a statement on Monday.
The prosecutors argue that evidence like computer hard drives might be destroyed if Ms Park is not arrested.
Ms Choi has been charged with bribery and corruption and is already on trial.
At the heart of the drama lies the close friendship between Ms Park and Ms Choi.
Ms Choi is accused of using her presidential connections to pressure companies to give millions of dollars in donations to non-profit foundations she controlled.
The acting head of electronics conglomerate Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, was arrested for his role in the scandal.
Ms Park, 65, is alleged to have been personally involved in this, and to have given Ms Choi unacceptable levels of access to official documents.
Parliament voted to impeach Ms Park in December.
On 10 March, the constitutional court ruled that Ms Park's actions "seriously impaired the spirit of... democracy and the rule of law".
Judges said she had broken the law by allowing Ms Choi to meddle in state affairs, and had breached guidelines on official secrets by leaking numerous documents.
Ms Park had "concealed completely Choi's meddling in state affairs and denied it whenever suspicions over the act emerged and even criticised those who raised the suspicions," the ruling said.
The Seoul Central District Court will now determine whether there are grounds to issue the arrest warrant for Ms Park.
If it is issued, prosecutors will have up to 20 days to continue investigations and file charges against her, reports Reuters news agency.
As president she had enjoyed immunity and repeatedly refused to take part in questioning.
But now she could face several charges, including abuse of power, coercion, bribery and leaking government secrets.


James Burke and Gareth Batty starred as Surrey earned a convincing victory over Derbyshire inside three days.

Mark Footitt bowled Ben Foakes and Gary Wilson to leave Surrey on 170-6.
But in only his fourth first-class innings Burke (73) and Batty (37) helped Surrey to 315, to set Derbyshire a challenging target of 348 runs.
Two wickets each for Luke Fletcher, Tom Curran and Burke and Gareth Batty's 4-32 skittled the hosts for 125 to complete a comprehensive 222-run win.
Burke hit 11 fours and one six in to ensure that Derbyshire would be chasing the highest score of the match for victory.
The bowlers then combined to dismiss Derbyshire within 40 overs and reduce Lancashire's lead at the top of Division Two to 28 points.
Surrey captain Gareth Batty: "I thought the boys, to a man, were magnificent and they should all be really proud of themselves.
"A special mention to James Burke. He copped a few in the chops from Mark Footitt and just kept battling through and played a magnificent innings that turned the game."
Derbyshire's elite performance director Graeme Welch: "That was one of the worst days since I've been in this job.
"We've had opportunities in games but we've shown no fight, no bottle - which is the most disturbing thing really.
"There have been a few harsh words said and a few things people didn't like to hear so we'll see where we go from here."


West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan has apologised to Manchester United after their team bus was damaged before Tuesday's game at Upton Park.

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In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live a few minutes after the incident, Sullivan said there had been no attack on the coach.
But he backtracked in a message posted on the West Ham website on Wednesday.
He said he had been "unaware of the damage that had occurred" at the time and vowed to "track down" the culprits.
West Ham have already said they will issue life bans to any fans found responsible for the attack, which smashed a window on the bus and delayed the kick-off by 45 minutes.
Bottles were also thrown at Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea during the Premier League match, while another fan invaded the pitch to confront the Spaniard.
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Tuesday's game, which West Ham won 3-2, was the last at the Boleyn Ground before the Hammers move to the Olympic Stadium.
The Football Association has also condemned the "unsavoury incidents" and plans to work with both clubs and the Metropolitan Police to investigate the matters.
"If we were to have scripted how our final game at the Boleyn would have played out, it wouldn't have been much different to last night's match," Sullivan added.
"The West Ham family then all celebrated our legends and former players together in what was a truly fitting ceremony to say goodbye to our home of 112 years.
"Sadly, the actions of very small minority of people outside the ground prior to kick-off risks overshadowing those celebrations. Their behaviour was completely unacceptable and does not represent our club or our values."
The Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday that four police officers had been injured during the trouble but no arrests have been made over criminal damage to the coach.
Three men were arrested during the game, including a 20-year-old on suspicion of affray and a 47-year-old and 18-year-old for pitch incursion.
Officers from the Met's Central Football Unit are looking at CCTV footage and have appealed for witnesses.


Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall has made history by becoming the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK.

The track achieved combined chart sales and streams of 70,000 copies - 13,000 ahead of its closest competitor, Justin Bieber's What Do You Mean?
The previous highest-charting Bond themes were Adele's Skyfall and Duran Duran's View To A Kill, which both reached number two.
Smith said he was "so proud" of the song and being number one was "crazy".
He told BBC Radio 1: "Out of all the songs I've brought out in my life, I was not expecting this to even chart in the top 10, let alone number one. It's unbelievable."
Smith is the first solo male British act to perform the opening number for a James Bond film since 1965, when Tom Jones was heard over the credits for Thunderball.
Smith's song, a mournful ballad, divided opinion when it was unveiled last week, with critics labelling it both "bland" and "beautiful".
"When the song came out I was so nervous," the singer said. "It's impossible to bring out a Bond song that pleases everyone.
"Everyone's had mixed reviews when they bring one out, but the charts don't lie and people seem to love it and enjoy it and that's just the most magical thing."
Writing's On The Wall follows the success of Adele's Skyfall, which won a Grammy, an Oscar, a Brit Award and a Golden Globe.
Her song failed to reach the top of the charts because it was released on a Wednesday - meaning Swedish House Mafia's Don't You Worry Child prevailed, thanks to a 48-hour head start.
Duran Duran's A View To A Kill reached number two in 1985, while Paul McCartney and Wings' Live and Let Die only reached number seven.
Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger, possibly the most famous Bond song, was the singer's biggest hit in the US, peaking at number eight - but it only reached 21 in the UK.
Writing's On The Wall is Smith's fifth number one single, following La La La (with Naughty Boy), Money On My Mind, Stay With Me and Lay Me Down.
He is due to unveil the video on Monday at 00:07 BST.
Elsewhere in this week's singles chart, R City and Adam Levine stayed at number three with Locked Away.
Sigala's former number one Easy Love slipped from two to four, and The Weeknd's Can't Feel My Face remained at five for the fourth week in a row.
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Meanwhile, dance duo Disclosure, who provided production work on Smith's Bond theme along with songwriter Jimmy Napes, scored their second number one album.
Caracal features another collaboration with Smith, Omen, as well as tracks with The Weeknd, Gregory Porter, Kwabs, Lorde, and Miguel.
Combined sales and streaming figures put it more than 8,000 copies ahead of its nearest rival New Order, who return with their 10th studio album, Music Complete.
The album is the band's highest-charting album in 22 years and features collaboration with Brandon Flowers, La Roux and Iggy Pop.
Scottish synth-pop group Chvrches charted at four with their second studio album Every Open Eye.


A report in the New York Times has claimed Russian officials have admitted to the existence of a doping operation in the country for the first time.

The acting director general of Russia's anti-doping agency was quoted as saying "it was an institutional conspiracy".
However, the agency later said Anna Antseliovich's words were "distorted".
An independent report earlier this month alleged that more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a doping cover-up between 2011 and 2015.
The anti-doping agency, Rusada, claims Antseliovich had been citing the wording of the McLaren report which spoke of an "institutional conspiracy [that] existed across summer and winter sports athletes".
Antseliovich also said her words had been "taken out of context".
During her interview, Antseliovich, who has not been directly implicated in the investigations, emphasised that the government's top officials were not involved in the doping operation.
A Kremlin spokesman said the Russian authorities "need to check the authenticity" of Antseliovich's words but added that Russia has always denied allegations that the state was involved in doping.
Vitaly Smirnov, the 81-year-old who has been a leading sports official since the Soviet era and who has been appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to reform the anti-doping system, also spoke to the American newspaper.
"I don't want to speak for the people responsible," he said. "From my point of view, as a former minister of sport, president of Olympic committee, we made a lot of mistakes."
However, Smirnov also suggested the leaks made by the Fancy Bears - a group of hackers who have released the medical records of several athletes from around the world - showed Russia had not been competing on a level playing field.
"Russia never had the opportunities that were given to other countries," Smirnov said. "The general feeling in Russia is that we didn't have a chance."
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In July, an investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said Russia's sports ministry "directed, controlled and oversaw" manipulation of urine samples provided by its athletes.
A second Wada report from Canadian law professor and sports lawyer Dr Richard McLaren said the London 2012 Olympics was "corrupted on an unprecedented scale".
According to McLaren's report, salt and coffee were used to manipulate Russian samples and the system was refined over the course of the London 2012 Olympics, 2013 Worlds in Moscow and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi to protect likely Russian medal winners.
Russia won 72 medals at the London Games, 21 of which were gold, and 33 medals at Sochi, 13 of which were gold.
Russian sports officials had previously denied the existence of any doping operation, even as the International Olympic Committee opened disciplinary proceedings against several Russian athletes, while the country also lost the hosting rights to a number of international events.
Russia's athletics team is banned from competition by the International Association of Athletics Federation.
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Ian Cockbain's unbeaten century helped Gloucestershire beat Middlesex by five wickets in the One-Day Cup at Lord's.

Liam Norwell took 5-36 as Middlesex slumped to 114-6 after 23 overs, but Adam Voges (81) and Toby Roland-Jones (65) helped the hosts recover.
Steven Finn also hit 21 from 14 balls as Middlesex made 256-9, and the visitors struggled in their reply.
Gloucestershire fell to 65-5, but Cockbain's 108 from 123 balls led them to victory with five balls to spare.
Benny Howell also hit 86 from 71 deliveries for the West Country side in an unbroken 192-run sixth-wicket partnership.
Tom Helm outshone England seamer Finn (0-59) with economical bowling figures of 1-31 from nine overs, but his efforts were in vain as Cockbain struck Ryan Higgins for six to secure victory.
Middlesex have yet to win in the One-Day Cup this season after their opening game with Sussex was abandoned because of rain, while Gloucestershire lost their first 50-over contest against Glamorgan.
Middlesex bowler Tom Helm told BBC Radio London:
"We did very well to get to where we were and we thought we had a very good chance to defend it, but we take our hats off to their guys, they played very well at the end.
"We made a few mistakes towards the end that cost us, but we'll learn from that and hopefully do better next week.
"We're not naive enough to think we should have won that game, they are allowed to play well, but it's disappointing nonetheless."
Gloucestershire centurion Ian Cockbain told BBC Radio Bristol:
"It did seem a long way away. We just tried to take it as deep as we could and hope to be in touching distance when the last 10 overs came.
"If me or Benny got out then the game was almost done and dusted, which was a big factor in the way I batted. Benny struck it beautifully from ball one which took some of the pressure off me.
"We need to get wins under our belt and hope to take this momentum into our next match against Essex."


A sports hall is to be named after a West Midlands victim of the Tunisia terror attack.

Football referee Joel Richards, 19, of Wednesbury, died along with uncle Adrian Evans, 49, grandfather Patrick Evans, 78, and 35 others near Sousse.
The hall is part of Sandwell council's Â£8.1m leisure centre complex, which is due to open this year in Wednesbury.
Mr Richards' mother Suzy said she felt "very honoured" the council chose to name the sports hall after him.
A University of Worcester student and Walsall FC fan, Mr Richards used to attend Wednesbury's Stuart Bathurst and Wood Green schools.
His mother said the family felt "very honoured and proud that they have chosen to name the new sports centre after Joel".
She added: "Joel was a very talented and inspirational young man who had the world at his feet.
"He spent a lot of time volunteering within the community, encouraging and teaching young people all types of sports."
She said she also saw the move as a "fitting tribute" to her father, Pat Evans, and brother Adrian Evans "who supported Joel with all that he had achieved at such a young age".
The naming of the sports centre will take place as part of an official opening ceremony later this year.
The new Â£8.1m Joel Richards Sports Hall complex includes a 25m pool, a learner pool, two dance studios and a fitness suite.
From the 38 killed in the beach attack on 26 June, 30 were from the UK.