Former BBC DJ Chris Denning has been jailed for 13 years after admitting abusing 11 boys as young as eight.

Denning, 75, of London, is currently in prison for child sexual offences. He pleaded guilty in August to 21 further counts committed between 1969 and 1986.
Denning was arrested after a police inquiry into the Walton Hop Disco in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
He was part of the original line-up of disc jockeys that launched BBC Radio 1 in 1967, but left two years later.
Denning is already serving a 13-year jail term for sexual assaults against 24 victims, aged nine to 16, which took place from the 1960s to 1980s.
Judge Alistair McCreath said the effect on the victims, now grown men, has been "devastating".
He described the offences as "utterly depraved", and added: "It is not to be forgotten that all of this suffering was inflicted by you for nothing other than your own selfish pleasure."
The jury at Southwark Crown Court heard Denning lured boys into his house using his fame and plied them with records, alcohol and cigarettes.
He showed them pornography before forcing them to perform sex acts on him and photographed them naked, prosecutor Jonathan Polnay told the court.
On several occasions he took some of the boys to London and introduced them to other celebrities, including Gary Glitter, Mr Polnay added.
The prosecutor also said Denning had offered one of his victims to another Radio One DJ, who had refused.
He also took one of the victims to the Walton Hop Disco, which ran from 1958 until 2001, the jury heard.
Judge McCreath said the latest sentence would start from Friday.
He told the defendant: "You groomed all of these boys. They were for the most part in their early teens, although some were younger.
"You used your own fame, your acquaintance with others who were famous, your familiarity with the music industry... to win their trust and misplaced admiration."
David Burgess, defending, said Denning suffers from "various ailments" and may die before the end of his sentence.
He added: "His past has caught up with him - we are talking about events over 40 years ago.
"He is very sorry, he has expressed that before."


South Sudan's government troops killed about 50 civilians last October by stuffing them into a shipping container in baking heat, a report has said.

The document by the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), which oversees the country's ceasefire, said the incident took place in Unity State.
The government has not commented on the claim - the latest reported atrocities in more than two years of war.
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"About 50 people suffocated in a container on about 22 October. The investigation was protracted. Attribution of responsibility: Government Forces," the JMEC report said.
The document by the monitoring group, which is backed by the African Union, was made public late on Sunday.
Metal containers are often used as makeshift prison cells in the country.
South Sudan's government has repeatedly denied carrying out atrocities in the conflict.
The JMEC report also accused both government troops and rebel forces of rape, murder and looting.
The civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
The two sides blame each other for violating the terms of a peace deal agreement reached in August.


The Greek parliament has defied the international creditors providing Athens' bailout funds and voted through a one-off payment to pensioners.

Plans for the €617m (£517m; $656m) pre-Christmas handout were opposed by European bodies negotiating Greece's financial lifeline.
A deal agreed earlier this month to provide the next tranche of debt relief for Athens is now on hold.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Greece would not be blackmailed.
Athens said the pension payment would come out of a €1bn tax surplus but European creditors on Thursday said the Greek move raised "significant concerns on both process and substance" regarding the country's bailout obligations.
In a joint statement, representatives from the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the European rescue fund said they would now decide whether to uphold a Eurogroup decision granting Greece short-term debt relief earlier this month.
Mr Tsipras said the situation had to be resolved "without blackmail" on the part of Greece's creditors.
France has defended Greece against a hardening stance by Germany and the Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, headed Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
A spokesman for Mr Dijsselbloem on Wednesday said the eurozone was suspending the recently announced debt relief scheme for Athens in retaliation for not being fully briefed on Mr Tsipras's handout plans, which also include a lower sales tax for Greek islands dealing with migration.
"The institutions have concluded that the actions of the Greek government appear to not be in line with our agreements," said the spokesman.
But France's Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, and the country's European economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, have publicly distanced themselves from the Eurogroup decision.
"Individual statements are not the collective statements of the Eurogroup," said Mr Sapin.
The latest debt-relief deal with Greece was agreed on 5 December and would reduce the interest burden on the country's debts of more than €300bn.
The Greek government announced its bonus for pensioners receiving below €800 a month just three days later but without consulting the eurozone representatives.
It also scrapped a rise in VAT for residents of Aegean islands to help relieve the economic pressure caused by an influx of migrants.
The arrangement of 5 December included extending the maturity on certain loans to the Greek government, and locking in the interest rate on some of its debts in order to reduce the country's repayment burden, but it did not alter the total amount owed.
A key player in the latest decision to suspend the recent debt deal has been Germany.
"If the rescue programme is going to be deemed a success, it is imperative that measures are not taken unilaterally," said a spokesman for the German finance ministry.


It happened almost 40 years ago, but Liam Holden can still recall the sensation of gasping for breath as water was slowly poured on to a towel covering his face.

"That feeling will never leave me," he says.
"Even talking about it now, I get a gagging sensation in my throat."
He was 19 at the time and was being questioned by members of the Parachute Regiment about the murder of a soldier, Private Frank Bell.
He died three days after being shot in the head as he patrolled in the Springfield Avenue area of west Belfast in September 1972.
The teenage chef was taken from his home and brought to an army post at Blackmountain school, where he was held for almost five hours.
By the end of his time in military custody, he had agreed to sign a statement admitting he had shot the soldier.
"By the time they were finished with me I would have admitted to killing JFK," he says.
So what did the Army do during that time? Liam Holden says he was subjected to sustained torture and then threatened that he would be shot if he did not confess to the killing.
"I was beaten and they told me to admit I had shot the soldier, but I said that wasn't true because I didn't.
"Then six soldiers came into the cubicle where I was being held and grabbed me. They held me down on the floor and one of them placed a towel over my face, and they got water and they started pouring the water through the towel all round my face, very slowly," he says.
"After a while you can't get your breath but you still try to get your breath, so when you were trying to breathe in through your mouth you are sucking the water in, and if you try to breathe in through your nose, you are sniffing the water in.
"It was continual, a slow process, and at the end of it you basically feel like you are suffocating. They did not stop until I passed out, or was close to passing out.
"They repeated that three or four times, but were still getting the same answer. I told them I had not shot the soldier."
Mr Holden, now a father of two, said the soldiers then changed tactics and put a hood over his head and told him he was going to be shot.
"They put me into a car and took me for a drive and said they were bringing me to a loyalist area," he said.
"I couldn't see where I was but I was in a field somewhere. One of the soldiers put a gun to my head and said that if I didn't admit to killing the soldier that they were going to shoot me and just leave me there.
"I had a hood over my head and a gun at my head in the middle of a field and was told I would be killed if I didn't admit it. There were no ifs or buts, I just said I did it.
"I didn't think about going to prison or anything like that, I just confessed to make them stop."
The term "waterboarding" was not in use at the time, but Mr Holden's description of what happened to him, which he outlined in court at the time,  are remarkably similar to the accounts of others who claim to have been subjected to the same form of torture by the CIA in recent years.
Although Mr Holden had an alibi for the time of the shooting, and the only evidence against him was the confession he said he had been forced to sign, he was convicted.
"They knew I did not shoot that soldier, they knew. There was no evidence whatsoever apart from that statement that I signed," he says.
He was released from prison in 1989 after serving 17 years. Since then, he has campaigned to clear his name and the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which was established to investigate possible miscarriages of justice, referred his case to the Court of Appeal.
The commission took the decision based on new evidence and doubts about "the admissibility of reliability" of his confession.
Some of the new material included evidence discovered by a Guardian journalist, Ian Cobain, that water torture was used by the British military at the time, despite repeated denials. The journalist was an expert witness for Mr Holden's legal team.
Last month, Mr Holden was granted permission to appeal after the Public Prosecution Service said it would not oppose the move. A spokesman for the PPS said its decision was based on confidential evidence compiled by the Criminal Cases Review Commission which had not been available to prosecutors at the time of the trial.
"The court of trial was therefore deprived of relevant material that might have led to a different outcome on the question of the admissibility of the incriminating statements, which were the sole basis of the conviction," the spokesman added.
"In those circumstances the director concluded that it would not be appropriate to oppose the appeal."
Liam Holden said he lost his family as well as his liberty during those 17 years in jail.
"I have five brothers and five sisters, but I don't really know them. The older ones moved on, got married and had their own families while I was in jail. The ones who were younger than me when I was sent to prison didn't get the chance to get to know me."
His mother died a year after he was released, and his father a short time later.
"I'm just sorry they aren't around to see the outcome of this appeal, to see the stigma removed from my name. That is what this is about. I have never mentioned money at any stage. This is just about being found not guilty and that's all it is, that is more important than any compensation they could ever think of offering me."
What about the soldiers who tortured him and forced him to sign the confession that led to his conviction?
"I would just like one of them to admit it, to acknowledge that they subjected me to what I have said they did. I think that would be almost as good, in my own mind, as the judge saying 'Sorry Mr Holden but you were not guilty," he said.


Candlelit vigils have been held a year on from the shooting of Anni Dewani during her honeymoon in South Africa.

Mrs Dewani, 28, died after the car she was travelling in with her husband, Shrien, 31, was hijacked in Cape Town.
The vigils were held on 13 November in Bristol, London, Cape Town and also Sweden where she was born.
South African authorities have applied to have Mr Dewani extradited over claims he was involved in her murder. He denies the charges.
Taxi driver Zola Tongo from Bothasig, Cape Town, has been jailed for 18 years for murder, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances and perverting the course of justice after agreeing a plea bargain.
Mr Dewani, from Bristol, faces charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and obstructing the administration of justice.
Mr Dewani's extradition was backed by Home Secretary Theresa May after a judge approved the move in August.
An appeal has been lodged with the High Court.
Mrs Dewani's uncle, Manoj Panchmatia, who helped organise the vigils, said it had been "a very difficult year for the family".
"We are all looking for some form of closure," he added.
Mr Panchmatia said the idea had come from users of Facebook who wanted to do "something special".
He said the family had received hundreds of emails from people saying they planned to light a candle.
The vigils, including one in Harrow, north London, where Mrs Dewani lived with relatives before getting married, were scheduled for 17:30 GMT.
Two other men, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25, and Xolile Mngeni, 23, are also charged with murder, as well as kidnapping and robbery with aggravating circumstances and will go on trial at the Western Cape High Court next year.
Mrs Dewani was shot after a cab the couple were travelling in was hijacked in the Gugulethu township.
Mr Dewani was released unharmed but Mrs Dewani's body was later found in the abandoned car.


A man died after suffering suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a house in Berkshire.

The man was taken to hospital along with a woman after falling ill at the house in Lodge Road, Whistley Green, just after 08:00 GMT on Thursday.
Police said the 60-year-old died in the early hours.  The woman remains in hospital in a stable condition.
British Gas and the Health and Safety Executive are carrying out an investigation at the property.
Another woman and a child were taken to hospital as a precaution, but were later discharged.
Police are not treating the death as suspicious.


Governing body Celtic Rugby is expected to confirm next week that South African teams Southern Kings and Cheetahs will be invited into the Pro12 competition.

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Board members are set to meet in Dublin on Tuesday, 18 July to discuss the tournament's immediate future.
The South African franchises, who play their final Super Rugby game on Friday, would join 12 teams from Wales, Italy, Ireland and Scotland from September.
The revamp could see the league divided into two conferences of seven teams.
If agreed, that would see teams play their conference rivals home and away, but they are expected to also play against teams in the other conference at least once.
It is understood clubs are eager to safeguard as many derby games in the season as possible.
The Kings and Cheetahs are able "to explore other international opportunities" as they are poised to leave Super Rugby, the southern hemisphere's premier club competition between clubs from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Japan.
By coincidence, the teams play each other in their final game in the competition on Friday at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
Super Rugby will be reduced from 18 to 15 teams next season, with an Australian side also poised to be cut.
Despite being set to play in a European league, the two teams are keen to remain based in South Africa rather than the UK.
There has been a suggestion they could play some of their home matches in the United Kingdom, with Saracens' Allianz Arena mooted as a potential venue.
This would be the first major change to the Pro Rugby competition since the introduction of Italian sides in 2010.
Welsh and Scottish sides first combined in a league in 1999, before an agreement with the Irish Rugby Football Union saw the Celtic League formed in 2001 with 15 teams.
This latest development in the Pro12 could also open the door to North American participation for the 2018-19 season, as the competition explores expansion options to generate more revenue and tap into new markets.
There have also been concerns over the future participation of Italy's two clubs, with Pro12 managing director Martin Anayi meeting with Italian rugby bosses this week in Rome.
Celtic Rugby was contacted by BBC Wales Sport, but declined to comment.


A dual Iranian-American national says he has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in Iran for allegedly collaborating with a hostile government.

Robin Shahini told Vice News in a telephone interview that he had "just laughed" after hearing the sentence.
The 46-year-old graduate student from in San Diego was held in July while visiting his sick mother in Iran.
Iranian judiciary officials have so far not confirmed the sentence.
Last week, two other Iranian-Americans were convicted on similar charges.
Siamak Namazi, a Dubai-based businessman, and his 80-year-old father Baquer were given 10-year jail terms.
A British-Iranian charity worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was imprisoned on secret charges last month.
In the interview with Vice News from prison, Mr Shahini said his arrest by Revolutionary Guards personnel in Gorgan, about 300km (185 miles) north-east of Tehran, on 11 July was a "terrifying moment".
"They blindfolded me and they took me to the custody and I did not know where I was," he said. "They were interrogating me every morning, every afternoon, and I was always by myself in my cell."
Mr Shahini, who emigrated to the US in 2000, denied collaborating with a hostile government, but admitted supporting the mass protests that broke out in Iran in 2009 after the disputed re-election of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Whatever information they had is all the pictures I posted in Facebook, in my web blog, and they use all those evidence to accuse me," he said.
His trial took place last week, and he was convicted on Saturday after a three-hour court proceeding, the Los Angeles Times quoted him as saying on Tuesday.
Mr Shahini said he planned to go on hunger strike until he was released.
The US state department said it was "troubled" by the reported sentence.
"We reaffirm our calls on Iran to respect and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, cease arbitrary and politically motivated detentions and ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings," it told the Associated Press news agency.
A number of Iranians with dual US, British and Canadian citizenship have been imprisoned since a nuclear deal agreed with world powers took effect in January.
The accord has yet to yield significant economic benefits for Iran, and hardliners are reportedly determined not to let it lead to greater rapprochement with the US.


As a teenager making her first film, Margaret Barton had no idea her role in Brief Encounter would earn her a place in British cinema history.

The former actress, who turns 90 on Friday, is the last surviving member of the main cast of David Lean's classic 1945 film, which starred Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
The black-and-white tearjerker tells the story of housewife Laura Jesson (Johnson) who has an affair with married doctor Alec Harvey (Howard) after he helps remove a piece of grit from her eye in a railway station refreshment room.
Margaret Barton plays the young waitress Beryl Walters, who appears in most of the film's famous cafe scenes alongside prim and bossy manageress Myrtle Bagot (Joyce Carey) and ticket inspector Albert Godby (Stanley Holloway).
"I must have seen the film quite a few times, as I'm often asked to talk about it!" says the former actress from her home in Dorset, where she is better known locally by her married name of Mrs James.
Although the film was made more than 70 years ago, she is still asked to attend screenings and events associated with Brief Encounter.
"Young people come dressed up in the style of the 40s. They bring a handkerchief for the last few scenes because they know they're going to cry.
"They love it when I talk about the film and how marvellous it was to work with David Lean."
Brief Encounter, which was adapted for the big screen by Noel Coward from his own one-act play Still Life, is considered one of the best British films of the 20th Century.
In 1946, it was nominated for three Oscars - for director, actress and screenplay. Its soundtrack famously features Rachmaninov's heart-stirring Piano Concerto No 2.
"I think the film's appeal is partly to do with the music," says Mrs James. "It was David Lean's idea to have the Rachmaninov."
The actress was cast when she was 18 years old after Lean and Coward spotted her on the West End stage during World War Two.
"I started my theatre life at the age of 12," Mrs James recalls. "During the war I became very well known for playing children and young people because I was so small for my age."
At the age of 17, she appeared in Pink String and Sealing Wax at Duke of York's Theatre when the first flying "buzz bombs" started to fall on London.
"It was nerve-wracking, but fascinating as well. You could hear these things coming over and then the sound stopped. I knew they were going to drop but you didn't know where.
"I remember how the audience would get down on the floor and you could hear the seats going back. And then this great explosion would happen and dust would drop down from the top of the theatre."
Because filming took place during World War Two, Carnforth Station in Lancashire was chosen as a location for the film's fictional Milford Junction as it was remote and presumed safe from attack.
Mrs James, however, filmed all her refreshment room scenes on a set at Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire.
"David Lean would ask me on the set sometimes, even when I wasn't needed, to come and watch from behind the camera. I enjoyed that very much. He wanted me to see the two main characters working their scenes."
She remembers the long waits for the camera and lights to be set up between scenes. "I don't remember how many days filming lasted but I was paid jolly well for it," she laughs.
"I got to know Celia Johnson very well and we worked together quite a lot on the radio during the 40s. In the 1950s we had a three-week visit to Italy with a production of Twelfth Night."
She never worked with Trevor Howard again, but would often see him if they were working on separate films at the same studios.
After the war, she married and made more films and expanded her career into television including the BBC's Sunday-Night Theatre in the early 1950s.
"They were pioneering days," she says. "Everything was live. It was a marvellous time to be working, I loved every minute of it."
Aside from acting, Mrs James has focused most of her time on the Michael James Music Trust - a charity set up with her husband Raymond in memory of their son, who died from cancer in 1981 when he was 30. Raymond died earlier this year, aged 93, after a short illness.
Mrs James says she still gets letters, many from abroad, from fans of Brief Encounter.  "David Lean would have been utterly amazed to know how much it's loved all over the world."
Recently, she opened a local tea rooms and will soon be attending a revival of Noel Coward's Still Life being staged in a train carriage at restored railway station Shillingstone in Dorset.
She has already met the actress playing the role of waitress Beryl. "She looks just like I did at the time of Brief Encounter," she says.
Given her role in such a famous film, does Mrs James feel like a movie star?
"No," she laughs. "Some people say to me you're our film star and I say I'm awfully sorry I was never a film star. But I was a jolly good film actor - and that's the best thing of all to be."
Still Life is at Shillingstone Station in Dorset on 2, 3, 9 and 10 July


Former world number one Maria Sharapova will find out on 16 May if she has been given a wildcard for the French Open.

The 30-year-old Russian's 15-month ban for using meldonium ends on Wednesday when she plays in the first round of the Stuttgart Open as a wildcard entry.
French federation president Bernard Giudicelli said he would call Sharapova before the decision is made public on Facebook at 18:00 BST.
Sharapova is a two-time winner at Roland Garros, which starts on 28 May.
Giudicelli, who said he will discuss Sharapova's wildcard with French Open tournament director Guy Forget on 15 May, added: "The tournament is bigger than the players."
The five-time Grand Slam champion practised on Wednesday morning for the first time since her ban, before her match against Italy's Roberta Vinci.
Vinci has questioned the decision to give the Russian wildcards, but it has been defended by WTA chief Steve Simon, who said it is in keeping with how former dopers are treated in other sports.
In addition to Stuttgart, Sharapova has been granted wildcards by the organisers of the events in Madrid and Rome.
She does not have a world ranking after her points expired during her suspension and would need to reach the final in Stuttgart to be eligible for French Open qualifying.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Sharapova is likely to be given a wildcard into qualifying at Roland Garros rather than the tournament's main draw.
Meanwhile, the prize money for the French Open has been increased by 12% to 36 millions euros (£30.5m).
The winners will win 2.1 million euros each, a 100,000-euro increase from 2016, with first-round losers earning 35,000 euros.


Warwickshire captain Ian Bell says his hunger to return to England's Test team has been refuelled in the 12 months since he last represented his country.

Bell, 34, was jettisoned following the 2-0 series loss to Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, two months after being part of an Ashes-winning side.
"I did question whether I wanted to carry on doing it," he told BBC Sport.
"At the end of the Ashes, there's no doubt I got in a place where, mentally and physically, I was shattered."
Ahead of December's trip to Australia to play for Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash, Bell says he has not given up hope of playing for his country again.
His Warwickshire form in 2016 was comparatively poor to previous seasons - he averaged 33.47 in first-class cricket - but it was also his first season as county captain.
Bell said it was now clear that perhaps all he needed was a break from Test cricket.
"Coming out of that and being a bit fresher now, I know I do want to carry on," he added. "Sometimes you need to take a step back to understand what you love about it.
"I've had a nice break from the bubble of international cricket. Having come out of that bubble, I've realised how much I want to get back in."
Almost no sooner than he had peaked with his man-of-the-series performance against Australia in 2013, when he hit three centuries, Bell was made to face the reality of the pressures of international cricket.
Facing the Australians again so soon on their own soil, against a fired-up Mitchell Johnson, England's batsmen struggled and lost the series 5-0.
Bell's Warwickshire and England team-mate Jonathan Trott left the tour early because of a stress-related condition.
"In that environment, as we've seen, it's brutal," said Bell. "You have to be mentally and physically on top of your game to be a good Test player.
"But I still think I've got some cricket left. I have no doubts about myself physically and, if I can play well at the start of the year, my goal is to get back in that England team.
"There's a tour to Australia coming up next winter. Obviously, I want to be back in that England team. I'd jump at the chance.
"Even though the Big Bash is a different format, playing this winter for Perth is still an opportunity to show people what I can do on the big stage."
The history of English cricket can evoke plenty of memories of old stagers doing heroic deeds for their country.
A helmetless 45-year-old Brian Close bobbing and weaving at the other end from 39-year-old John Edrich against a West Indies pace attack of Andy Roberts, Michael Holding and Wayne Daniel in the Old Trafford gloom in July 1976 remains top of the list.
Colin Cowdrey and Fred Titmus both being recalled at the age of 42 to face Denis Lillee and Jeff Thomson in full flow on the Ashes tour of 1974-75 is not far behind.
England's batting order has, at one time or another, contained some 52 players over the age of 40 - the oldest of them being Wilfred Rhodes at the age of 53 in April 1930.
Bell, by way of contrast, is still only 34.
England have played 15 Test matches since Bell was axed for the four-match series in South Africa in 2015-16.
Since then, other than the improved form of Jonny Bairstow and some good efforts down the order from Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali, England have failed to find a satisfactory long-term replacement for Bell.
Their current struggles in India have at least been tempered by the confident start by teenage opener Haseeb Hameed in Test cricket.
Although wary of there being too much responsibility being placed on Hameed's young shoulders, Bell, who made his Test debut at 22, has been impressed with the form of the 19-year-old Lancashire batsman.
"He looks like a Test cricketer," Bell, who has played 118 Tests for England, told BBC WM. "He's more of an old school player than your modern breed - very well organised. You need this type of cricketer, who can get in his bubble and bat through long periods.
"But I feel for him as I don't want everyone to suddenly pin all their hopes on a 19-year-old.
"Having been through that process as a young England batsman myself, I know he's going to learn a lot along the way. He's going to fail sometimes and he's going to have some good days.
"We've got to stick with him and allow him to build his career in that environment. I hope they give him a run and that he can stay there for a long period of time.
"You have to remember that India are very good at home. It's a tough tour when you go to the sub-continent. It's not the easiest tour, even for experienced teams. We've seen Australia lose there and South Africa recently."
Ian Bell was talking to BBC Sport's Ged Scott and Richard Wilford.


Unlicensed cocklers have been stopped from fishing Lancashire's Ribble estuary, where there have been 26 coastguard rescues in two months.

A team of coastguards, police and officers from Fylde Council and the Gangmasters Licensing Authority carried out checks on cocklers at 04:30 GMT.
The coastguard stopped 15 boats out of 30 from going to sea on safety grounds.
Fifty out of 150 cocklers were stopped from fishing because they did not have permits, Fylde Council said.
The action came after complaints from Lytham residents and the town's MP Mark Menzies saying the numbers of inexperienced and unlicensed cocklers could result in fatalities.
The council said it was meeting UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon on Thursday to demand changes in legislation which would allow the council more involvement in granting permits, which are currently issued by the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA).
A council spokesman said: "Local people's patience is wearing thin and we have had a constant stream of complaints over the number of rescues that have had to be carried out - and the council's patience is wearing thin too.
"Every citizen under Magna Carta has the right to gather eight pounds of cockles from the foreshore, but any more than that and it becomes commercial fishing which requires a permit.
"Fifty of those setting out to cockle this morning did not have permits and 15 of the boats were found to be unsafe, carrying, for example, out-of-date flares.
"This is the first of many enforcement raids that we have planned for the weeks and months to come to stop irresponsible cocklers who have become such a huge strain on rescue agencies."
A spokesman for the Lytham coastguard said: "We sent a team out this morning to check boats and warn people about the dangers of the southeasterly gale force wind that is coming through later and could cause problems.
"We are being proactive because the conditions are so high risk."
Up to 400 cocklers a day have been gathering at Foulnaze bank between Lytham and Southport since the cockle beds were opened by the IFCA on 1 September.
The beds are due to be closed again in April and some inexperienced cocklers are ignoring weather and tidal conditions to gather as many cockles as possible within the period, the RNLI has said.
It is estimated that the bed situated two miles offshore and which becomes exposed at low tide, contains about Â£8m worth of shellfish.
Cockles, which are mainly exported to Europe, fetch about Â£1,200 a tonne.
Twenty-three Chinese cocklers drowned in February 2004, further up the Lancashire Coast at Morecambe Bay.


Britain's Heather Watson claimed her third WTA title by beating Kirsten Flipkens to win the Monterrey Open.

The 23-year-old lost the first set but came back to defeat her 30-year-old Belgian opponent 3-6 6-2 6-3.
Flipkens threatened a revival in the deciding set, forcing two break points as Watson served for the match.
But the British number two and world number 84 held her nerve to add the title to the Japan Open in 2012 and Hobart International in 2015.
"It was really tough," said Guernsey-born Watson.
"I was so nervous coming into the match because I'd never beaten Kirsten before. She's a great player and really makes you work.
"I thought she was pretty flawless in the first set and I was getting frustrated, but I just had to stay calm and try my best."
Watson beat former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the last eight.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
"Watson won her third WTA title without the benefit of a coach, although her mum came onto court to give her a pep talk during the first set of the final.
"She was working with Pat Harrison while training at the IMG Academy in Florida before travelling to Mexico but has been without a full-time coach since splitting with Diego Veronelli at the end of last year.
"Projected to rise to 53 in the rankings, she now heads to Indian Wells. Her ranking had been too low to gain direct entry, but she was granted a wildcard having reached the fourth round last year."


Ronnie O'Sullivan says he is "blagging it" as a snooker player - because he would rather enjoy life than spend hours practising.

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O'Sullivan, 40, beat Scotland's Rhys Clark 6-0 in his second-round match at the UK Championship in York.
But the five-time UK champion said: "I try to still be as competitive as I can, but if not, it is a lot easier being a pundit than playing.
"I really do enjoy the pundit work much more than playing."
O'Sullivan, who beat Thailand's Boonyarit Keattikun 6-0 in just 56 minutes in his first-round match, added: "I love playing when you have the matches but all the practice  - I am not a lover of that.
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"You used to have football player managers. I see myself as a pundit snooker player.
"Rather than drive myself mad and play this game and think 'that's all I have got', I try to embrace different things which take the pressure off."
The world number eight plays Londoner Michael Georgiou in the third round on Monday, as he looks earn a sixth victory in an event he first won in 1993.
A winner of 28 ranking events, including five world championship titles, O'Sullivan said he was not a fan of the four-table set-up at the York Barbican, which stays in place until the fourth round begins on Wednesday.
He added: "With four tables, it is really difficult. There is no crowd around the sides so the atmosphere isn't great, but it is better than playing down the billiard hall. I would rather play here on a Sunday afternoon than the billiard hall.
"I don't want to spend the rest of my life hitting balls in a snooker room. I would rather be embracing a bit of life.
"I just try to blag it now and see where it goes - until I drop out and think I am not good enough to qualify for events or win. I will turn up and once I get beaten, I can go in the pundit box."
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Exeter's Ian Whitten says he is not fazed by moving from centre to wing for the Premiership club this season.

The Irishman has started Exeter's first two league matches out wide, with new signing Ollie Devoto taking his place in the Chiefs' midfield.
"I've always taken the outlook that I'm just happy to be out there.
"It's a competitive squad and it's a good team and a good club and it's just nice to get out on the pitch for them," he told BBC Sport.
Last season Whitten forged a strong centre partnership with Sam Hill, having initially played alongside Henry Slade before the England international broke his ankle in December.
Whitten impressed in the club's final two pre-season game out wide, but was forced off early in the opening-day defeat at Wasps this term after suffering a dead leg.
"It went quite well in the Ulster game on the wing and the after that it's been a bit of a mixed bag," he said.
"I've always mixed between centre and wing since I've been here, some years it's been mainly on the wing, other years it's been mainly in the centre.
"You're always a bit nervy the first couple of games you play on the wing, but the more you do it, the more comfortable you are."
Exeter have begun the season with two defeats, having lost at Wasps - who they beat in last season's play-off semi-finals - and then going down at home to champions Saracens.
Whitten says those results mean there is added pressure on Exeter to get a result when they entertain Harlequins on Saturday.
"There's not that much of a panic about it at the minute, but there is a bit of pressure on us this weekend, everybody knows that," he added.
"You'd be lying if you said you didn't feel the pressure or you weren't aware of it to a certain degree, that's why it's important that you just keep focusing on yourselves and what you do."


Dundee defender James McPake has had further surgery on his injured knee but manager Paul Hartley is hopeful he will be fit for pre-season.

Northern Ireland cap McPake has been out since suffering a fractured kneecap against Dundee United in January 2016.
The 32-year-old made a comeback in the under-20s in December but did not progress as hoped.
"He's still a wee bit away but we are right behind him and we have good medical staff here," said Hartley.
"James has had a little tidy-up on his knee.
"We will probably not see James till next season, hopefully pre-season. He has been working hard, but we just felt for this last little part he needed that little tidy-up.
"It's been difficult, he has been out nearly 18 months. It has been mentally [difficult] more than anything, but he is getting through it. He's a strong character and it will be good to see him back.
"He's got a coaching staff that are going to support him and he's got good team-mates also."


Leaving the EU is a "major setback" for Welsh universities, a university boss has said, but he believes they would "come out the other side".

Universities wanted to remain claiming funding for research and collaboration with other European academics brought huge benefits.
Cardiff's Vice Chancellor Colin Riordan said the referendum signalled "a period of uncertainty and disruption".
The Welsh Government said it would try to protect the higher education sector.
Cardiff University is one of the UK's leading institutions for research - ranked fifth in an assessment two years ago.
It has attracted millions of pounds of funding from the European Union including Â£4.5m towards the new Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre.
Prof Riordan warned there is a threat to the research capacity of universities, but applications for grants and collaboration with other EU researchers had to continue.
"Until there's much much more certainty - which will be not months but years - we need to continue as we planned and continue to work closely with our European partners," he said.
"We will get through this, but it's not what we would have wanted."
Last year there were 5,425 students from the EU studying at Welsh universities.
The Welsh Government has said current EU students and those applying to study in Wales this year would be eligible for the same financial support.
A spokesman said: "Ministers will use every lever at their disposal to ensure Welsh jobs and communities, including the higher education sector, are protected as much as possible through what may be difficult times ahead, and to work together to get the best deal for Wales.
Before the referendum, Leave campaigners pledged to maintain funding levels for research and argued that European and global research collaboration could continue and be enhanced outside the EU.
Conservative education spokesman Darren Millar AM said a far greater worry was the unsustainability of the Welsh Government's tuition fee policy.
He added: "Our universities should take courage from the fact that they are full to the brim with some of the world's brightest minds and innovators who will be integral to safeguarding their economic futures."


A former head teacher has been banned from teaching for at least two years after he stole more than £19,500 from a school he worked at.

Simon Burrell, 43, who was head of Ruskin Junior School in Swindon, was convicted of fraud last year.
Burrell improperly claimed and received additional pay while at the school between January 2011 and May 2013.
A teacher misconduct panel said he had breached teaching standards in a "serious and significant way".
The panel decided that he should be prohibited from teaching for a period of at least two years.
Burrell may apply for the prohibition order to be overturned in January 2019.
He was head teacher at Ruskin School between April 2010 and August 2014.
He left the school to take up a new post as head teacher at nearby Grange Federation.
Soon after, a financial audit at the school identified some irregularities, and it began an investigation before referring the matter to the police.
Burrell was arrested on 23 December 2014, and on 8 June 2015 he was charged with fraud and forging documentation to facilitate the improper payments.
He resigned from his post at Grange Federation on 31 August 2015.
In March 2016, Burrell received a suspended 12-month sentence at Swindon Crown Court.


The Afghanistan version of TV show Sesame Street has introduced their own new character for the first time: Zari, a 6-year old girl with a big mission.

10 April 2016 Last updated at 11:42 BST
Having a girl as the first Afghan muppet is a big deal, because of the difficulties that lots of women and girls face in the country.
Women and girls have often been treated badly, and in the past girls weren't even allowed to go to school.
Zari is described as 'curious and lively' and interested in good health and exercise.
Sesame Street is the biggest children's programme in Afghanistan, so Zari has a really important role to play to show that Afghan girls can do as much as anybody else.


As the 2012 Games draw to a close, ParalympicsGB can reflect on an impressive series of results, smashing their target with 120 medals, including 34 golds.

The team won more medals across more sports than four years ago in Beijing but had to be content with third in the medal table behind China and Russia.
Britain's Paralympic athletes put in some superb performances, including medal success on the track, in the velodrome and in the pool.
BBC Sport looks at some of the gold medallists on the Great Britain team, assesses their performances and considers what happens next.
Age: 24
Lives: Maidenhead, Berkshire
Sport: Equestrian
London 2012 performances: Grade Ia individual gold, Grade Ia freestyle gold, team gold.
In her third Paralympics, Christiansen and her horse Janeiro 6 dominated her class, which is for the most impaired riders.
The 24-year-old has a form of cerebral palsy which means she has difficulty controlling her movements but her triple gold success in London means she now has seven Paralympic medals.
Christiansen began with a comfortable win in the individual competition and her performance helped GB extend their proud record of never failing to win a team gold at a major international event.
She then won the freestyle title with a magnificent score of 84.750%, beating her nearest rival by over five percentage points thanks to a musical routine which included excerpts from Land of Hope and Glory and also featured Big Ben's chimes, plus a quotation from Shakespeare's Richard II.
WHAT SHE SAID
"Knowing my friends and family were in the audience was really special. Some of them had never seen me on a horse - let alone winning a medal."
WHERE NEXT?
Rio in 2016 will certainly be on the agenda for Christiansen, provided she has a horse that fits the bill. The Grade Ia category is competitive with Britain's Anne Dunham and Emma Sheardown both strong challengers.
Age: 34
Lives: Disley, Cheshire
Sport: Cycling (track and road)
London 2012 honours: C5 pursuit gold, C4-5 500m gold, C4-5 road race, C5 time trial gold.
With four gold medals in London, Storey moves level with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Dave Roberts as the most successful Paralympians of the modern era with 11 golds.
The Briton only came to cycling in 2005 after a series of ear infections ended the swimming career which yielded 16 Paralympic medals, and since then she has gone from strength to strength.
She was dominant in the London velodrome, winning GB's first gold when she caught Poland's Anna Harkowska midway through their pursuit final before a hard-fought success in the time trial, a win which gave her particular pleasure having spent much of her Paralympic preparation on the road.
While Storey was dominant on the track, once the road events started, she was peerless, winning the time trial by just over a minute and a half and then the following day recording a majestic victory by seven minutes and 22 seconds in the road race.
WHAT SHE SAID
"It feels amazing. I can't quite believe that I've been so lucky to win in my home country with my home crowd. I just wanted to make sure I added my name to Britain's road cycling successes this year. I'm so proud to be part of such an amazing team."
WHERE NEXT?
Storey will be 38 when Rio comes around, but she is set to continue her dominance.
Age: 17
Lives: Swansea
Sport: Swimming
London 2012 performances: S6 400m freestyle gold, SM6 200m individual medley gold, S6 100m freestyle silver, S6 50m freestyle bronze
Simmonds came to London as the poster girl of the GB team and a strong favourite to add to the two gold medals she won as a 13-year-old in Beijing.
Amid all the pressure she coped superbly, winning a further four medals, including two golds, and breaking two world records.
She beat American rival Victoria Arlen in style to retain her 400m freestyle crown in a new world record time and was then too strong for the rest of the field in the 200m individual medley, breaking the world record she set at the Olympic pool earlier in the year.
Bronze in her least-favoured 50m freestyle event was still a delight and she ended her campaign with a loss to Arlen in the 100m freestyle, but was still thrilled at a new personal best in the event.
WHAT SHE SAID
"The crowd going mental definitely pushes you on and gives you that home advantage you need. I felt I had a lot of pressure on me but I've had a great support group around me."
WHERE NEXT?
Simmonds will be aiming for more success at next year's World Championships in Canada but she will also be studying for A-levels in Citizenship, History and World Development.
Age: 19
Lives: Cambridge
Sport: Athletics
London 2012 performances: T44 100m gold
Peacock created his own place in Paralympic history when he triumphed over the likes of Oscar Pistorius, Jerome Singleton and Alan Oliviera to win the 100m crown.
The Briton lost his right leg below the knee after contracting meningococcal septicaemia at the age of five and came to athletics via a Paralympic talent ID event four years ago.
He came into the race as the favourite for gold, having set a new world record while competing as a guest at the 2012 US Paralympic Trials.
And he produced one of the most memorable performances at the Olympic Stadium, powering away in the last 30m to win in a new Paralympic record of 10.90 seconds.
WHAT HE SAID
"This is absolutely amazing. To hear the crowd chant my name was amazing. That's going to live with me forever. I could not have wished for better."
WHERE NEXT?
Peacock is set to become the face of amputee sprinting but has played down the possibility of competing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Age: 33
Lives: Wallington, Surrey
Sport: Athletics
London 2012 performances: T54 800m gold, T54 1500m gold, T54 5,000m gold, T54 marathon gold
Weir's four gold medals and his performances in winning them ensures he is widely recognised as the best wheelchair racer in the world and a strong contender for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
The man now known as "The Weirwolf" set the ball rolling with a magnificent tactical and powerful display to beat his rivals in the 5,000m and then successfully defended his 1500m crown in front of a fanatical home crowd.
The 800m on Thursday was always set to be a tough race but he held off China's Zhang Lixin and Swiss racer Marcel Hug to triumph once again.
And, as he has done six times already in winning the London Marathon, he ruled on the Mall in the marathon, outpacing Australia's Kurt Fearnley and Hug to finish his Games on a high.
WHAT HE SAID
"The training going into this competition is the best I've ever felt - the speeds I've been hitting and the mileage I've been doing. I've had no injuries and no illnesses so it's been a great preparation."
WHERE NEXT?
It is not yet clear whether Weir will target another Paralympics in Rio, but a break is definitely on the cards as his partner is expecting a baby next month.


The Premier League has removed referee Kevin Friend from Tottenham Hotspur's game at Stoke City on Monday, because he supports top-of-the-table Leicester.

Spurs are City's closest rivals, seven points behind with five games left.
The Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) does not pick Friend, who lives in Leicester and has attended games in a personal capacity, to referee matches involving the Foxes.
The PGMOL said "the timing and context" of the game saw it replace Friend.
"It was felt unnecessary to add extra scrutiny on the refereeing appointment," a PGMOL statement said.
Neil Swarbrick, from Preston, will take charge at Stoke, with Friend instead officiating Newcastle's game against Manchester City on Tuesday.
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An advert for a graphic design job in France has been withdrawn after it said the candidate should "if possible not be a Jew".

Racial discrimination is illegal in France and anti-racism group SOS Racisme says it is taking legal action.
The ad was posted on Monday by Paris-based NSL Studio on jobs site Graphic-Jobs.com.
NSL Studio has apologised for the ad but offered various explanations as to why it contained the offending clause.
The company was quoted on Monday by French news website Les Inrocks as saying that the hours of work, particularly during busy periods, meant the candidate should not be someone with cultural or religious needs.
NSL Studio then tweeted that its advert had been hacked and thanked those who had brought the issue to its attention.
A statement on NSL Studio's website (in French) now says the company "distances itself totally from all racist or anti-Semitic acts or statements".
It says the person in charge of placing the advert will be questioned and appropriate measures taken if it does turn out that the ad originated with NSL Studio.
Job site Graphic-Jobs.com has expressed its "deepest apologies" for the ad, saying it goes completely against the company's values.
In a statement (in French) Graphic-Jobs.com says it will strengthen its checking systems and is consulting its legal team about the implications.
Announcing it was taking legal action, SOS Racisme lawyer Alexandre-M Braun said individuals had been reduced to their religious characteristics.
"Such and such cannot work with me because he is a Jew," he said. "It is Jews who are being described as undesirable".


US founding father Thomas Jefferson once said a "little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world, as storms in the physical".

After suffering two consecutive - and humiliating - defeats in the Delhi and Bihar elections, India's ruling BJP, many believe, also needed a small rebellion to shake it out of its complacency.
On Tuesday evening, four senior party leaders, led by India's former deputy prime minister LK Advani, fired what was clearly a broadside against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.
"The principal reason for the latest defeat is the way the party has been emasculated in the last year," said the leaders in a statement, criticising the party's campaign strategy after Sunday's humiliating defeat in Bihar. "A thorough review must be done of the reasons for the defeat as well as the way the party is being forced to kow-tow... and how its consensual character has been destroyed."
The scathing missive was strategically timed: it came hours after the government eased regulations for foreign direct investment in at least 15 sectors to boost reforms and inject some feel-good before a gloomy Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
The challenge also came ahead of Mr Modi's much-hyped three-day visit to Britain. It was clearly intended to embarrass the prime minister.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, who has written a biography of Mr Modi, says revolt by the party elders - "oldies come out of cocoon", headlined The Economic Times - is mainly aimed at scuttling BJP president and Mr Modi's closest aide, Amit Shah's chances of beginning a fresh term as party president in January.
Mr Shah, a ruthless tactician, is often described as Mr Modi's Karl Rove and the man behind the party's sweeping win in last year's general election. At 50, he is also one of the youngest presidents of the Hindu nationalist party.
He is also a controversial politician, who is accused of sanctioning the killing of a Muslim civilian in 2005, when he was the home minister of Gujarat state. He spent more than three months in jail after which he was released on bail. Mr Shah denies the charges.
Critics say Mr Modi and Mr Shah, both from Gujarat, have completely taken over the BJP, and are running what used to be a loose, collective and largely democratic party as their private fief.
The duo have also successfully managed to sideline the old guard.
Mr Advani, one of BJP's architects, was removed from the party's parliamentary board last year, and kicked upstairs to a newly formed Margdarshak Mandal (guidance committee) an ineffectual body of elders, along with other veterans like former minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, and former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Mr Joshi, still remembered for his incendiary rhetoric in the run up to the 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu hardliners, was forced to vacate his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, to make way for Mr Modi last year.
Clearly, Tuesday's revolt was initiated by some of the party's most experienced leaders, but they are in their autumn of their lives, marginalised and ignored by the party - supporters of Mr Modi uncharitably call them yesterday's people.
They have been seething against what they think is the takeover of the party and government by two upstart outsiders from Gujarat. They are upset with what they - and many in the BJP and government - believe is their centralised, take-no-prisoners style of working. "But they do have moral authority and they have been ignored. They have nothing to lose, and they have spoken," says analyst Shekhar Gupta.
This rebellion doesn't really mean that the old guard has been resurrected. "The moral authority of the four elders is being overestimated," says commentator Ashok Malik. Beyond embarrassing Mr Modi and Mr Shah, it is not clear whether they will be able to force a change in the leadership of the BJP, unless they are joined by the party's younger and more significant leaders. Mr Modi will be loathe to let go of Mr Shah, who remains his most trusted aide.
Also, despite the recent setbacks, Mr Modi remains the BJP's most powerful leader, and would possibly win - albeit by a diminished margin - if a general election was held today.
But most believe that this missive may spur the leadership and the party to undergo a course correction: less bombast and hubris while campaigning for votes, listening to and promoting more local leaders, and returning to good old fashioned realpolitik of political give and take.
After all, a small rebellion can be a blessing in disguise.


A man has appeared at Strabane Magistrates Court, County Tyrone, after the seizure of an estimated £64,000 worth of herbal cannabis in Belgium.

Christopher James Wauchope, 40, was arrested following a search of his home at Strabane Road, Castlederg, on Tuesday.
He faces four charges relating to attempted importation and attempted possession with intent to supply.
The defendant will appear in court by video link on 21 April.
The court heard that on 15 March the Belgian authorities intercepted a postal package containing 3.2kg of a suspected Class B drug.
The National Crime Agency was alerted and they in turn spoke with the PSNI as it was addressed to a 'Christopher Walker'.
When police swooped on the defendant's home he immediately admitted knowledge of the package but said he did not know the identity of the sender.
He said his payment for receiving the package was to be a small amount of cannabis for his own personal use.
In court, police opposed bail on the grounds that Mr Wauchope could tip his contacts off about the investigation.
The District Judge said the defendant there was a "real and substantial risk of interference with the administration of justice and any further investigation".
Mr Wauchope will reappear at Strabane Magistrates Court next month. Bail has been refused.
On Wednesday,  in a separate incident, police arrested a 40-year-old man in the Carnhill area of Londonderry, after herbal cannabis with a potential street value of £66,000 was also uncovered in Belgium.


After six months of intensive and concentrated Russian air strikes on pro-US rebels, the scales have tipped dramatically in favour of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Backed by Iranian senior officers and skilled Hezbollah fighters, Mr Assad's forces have gained the upper hand and achieved significant gains in the north, south, Damascus suburbs and now the Aleppo area.
Aleppo, capital of the revolution as the rebels call it, is a strategic prize for the Damascus government.
Its potential encirclement by the Syrian army would deepen the humanitarian crisis and represent a shattering blow to the opposition.
The Syrian army and its allies are getting closer by the day to the Turkish border.
Their game plan is to seal the Turkish and Jordanian border and prevent men and materiel from reaching the rebels, thus effectively delivering a decisive blow.
Regardless of whether a ceasefire takes hold, any political settlement would reflect the current balance of power which favours Mr Assad.
Russia's agreement in Munich on Thursday to a temporary truce is predicated on a favourable configuration of forces inside Syria.
Freezing the battlefield lines would work in President Assad's favour.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also reckons that there are many armed factions among the opposition that would not abide by the ceasefire terms.
Far from the beginning of the end, the Syrian conflict has entered a new phase in which the Assad regime has momentum on the battlefield and the negotiating table.
In stark contrast, the opposition is politically and militarily disunited with limited options. There is a disconnect between the opposition's political aspirations and its physical capacity.
The challenge facing the opposition is to bridge this conceptual divide that undermines its negotiating strategy.
There are fundamental differences between Moscow and Washington regarding the future of Syria.
In contrast to the Western powers, Russia does not prioritise a radical restructuring of governance in Damascus and solidly backs President Assad.
It is also difficult to see an end to the regional wars by proxy that fuel the fires in Syria. The Saudi-Iranian rivalry is as fierce as ever and Turkey is heavily invested in trying to topple Assad and prevent the Kurds from gaining more influence and autonomy in neighbouring Syria.
More importantly, recent territorial gains by the Assad regime have complicated the quest for political transition in the war-torn country.
Mr Assad has few incentives to compromise, let alone agree to the opposition's expansive demands.
His strategic goal is to either secure a military solution or force the opposition to accept a settlement on his own terms.
Context matters. As the Syrian army advanced towards Aleppo a few days ago, US Secretary of State John Kerry was angry at the Russians for not agreeing to an immediate ceasefire and for enabling Assad to gain a strategic advantage over the rebels.
As they began their meeting in Munich, Mr Kerry and Mr Lavrov sang to different tunes.
While Mr Kerry said he planned to have a "serious conversation" with Mr Lavrov about the urgency to make progress on humanitarian access and a ceasefire, Mr Lavrov was non-committal and threw the ball back into the American court.
At the heart of the American-Russian divide on Syria lie not only clashing interests and worldviews but also different strategic priorities.
In contrast to the US, Russia has made a strategic investment in Syria and its military intervention on the side of Assad last September is a game-changer.
Vladimir Putin now exercises decisive influence in Syria, a powerful bargaining card with America.
Russia has already changed the priorities of UN-backed peace talks in Geneva away from the future of Mr Assad to a ceasefire and constitutional reforms.
Mr Putin's decision to intervene in Syria and shore up Mr Assad with new fighter jets, military advisers and advanced weapons stopped the bleeding of the Syrian army and allowed it to shift from defence to offence.
Russian airpower also restricts the ability of regional powers like Turkey to directly assist the rebels.
Notwithstanding the recent shift on the battlefield, it would be short-sighted and reckless for Mr Assad to declare victory as his Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and his top adviser Bouthaina Shaaban did in the past few days.
Time and again in the past five years, the Assad regime has been guilty of hubris, monstrous miscalculation and underestimation of the complexity of the struggle.
What Mr Assad does not grasp is that the very survival of Syria as a unified state and society is at stake.
Fawaz A Gerges is a professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and is the author of the forthcoming ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press).


A shoreline search for a man missing after being washed off rocks on the Ceredigion coast has taken place.

Milford Haven Coastguard received a 999 call on Sunday reporting that a man had fallen into the sea after he and another man were cut off by the tide in rough seas and near gale force winds.
Coastguard rescue teams from Gwbert, Moylegrove and Cardigan searched the coastline near Mwnt at low tide.
A decision will be made on Tuesday over continuing the search.


BBC Two is to dedicate its Saturday night schedules to the arts during the autumn, the corporation has said.

The channel will cover subjects including music, performance, art, literature and cinema from 1 October.
Poet and musician Kate Tempest will lead an evening dedicated to National Poetry Day as part of the season.
Other highlights will include a documentary fronted by Alan Bennett, which will follow the author to iconic locations from his life.
As part of the season on BBC Two:
BBC Two channel editor Patrick Holland said: "Great arts programming has the power to bring audiences to the cutting-edge, as well as to much loved art and artists.
"By focusing Saturday nights around arts, music, performance and cinema, we want to create space for new ideas, authored film-making, and the very best talent."
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Nine executives at Israeli travel agencies have been arrested on suspicion of fixing the price of high school students' trips to former Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz.

Police say they are investigating allegations of a secret price-fixing arrangement by companies who organise the trips for students.
Investigators have raided the homes of executives and frozen bank accounts.
At least six travel agencies are accused of violating competition rules.
They are suspected of colluding on prices before responding to an education ministry tender to take students to Holocaust memorials.
When the Israeli education ministry approached a number of different companies, it received identical quotes.
Reports say the alleged collusion was aimed at artificially inflating prices.
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Thousands of Israeli high school students travel to memorials at World War Two death camps every year. A trip can cost several thousand shekels per student (1,000 shekels is worth Â£177), according to reports in Israeli media.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Jerusalem, says that for many Israeli high school students a visit to the site of the Nazi death camps in southern Poland is a rite of passage, which gives them a direct sense of connection to the Holocaust - the defining tragedy of modern Jewish history.
If the allegations are proved to be true, our correspondent adds, there will be shock in Israel that a form of tourism that is viewed with great solemnity may have been the subject of illegal business practices.
Some six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, mainly in death camps in occupied Poland. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz alone.


Police searching for a missing woman have found a woman's body in a wheelie bin.

Lidia Pascale, 26, originally from Romania, but living at addresses in Smethwick and Foleshill, was last seen on 19 November.
Two men have already been charged with her murder.
Officers and dog handlers have been searching part of West Bromwich and confirmed the body of a woman had been found in Hope Street.
Ch Supt Mark Payne, from West Midlands Police, said identification was at an early stage and that officers were continuing to liaise with Lidia's family.
An area around Hope Street has been cordoned off to allow forensics officers to search the scene.


Three RAF Hercules aircraft have rescued a further 150 people - including 20 Britons - from the Libyan desert, the defence secretary has said.

The first and second aircraft have landed in Malta and the third is due to arrive shortly, said Liam Fox.
One plane suffered minor damage after coming under small-arms fire, the Ministry of Defence has since revealed.
David Cameron said he was "delighted" at the rescue and called on Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi to "go now".
The prime minister paid tribute to the armed forces' bravery in carrying out an operation "that was not without its difficulties".
Some of those rescued have described the moment the Hercules was shot at above a strip south west of Benghazi, forcing it to abandon a landing.
One British oil worker said: "The aircraft took two hits on the right hand side of the fuselage, you just heard "bang bang" as the rounds actually struck."
Another said after failing to land at two blocked off fields, the Hercules was trying again at a third when the firing started, forcing them to abort.
The Ministry of Defence said: "We can confirm that during the operation... one of our C130 aircraft appears to have suffered minor damage consistent with small arms fire.
"There were no injuries to passengers or crew and the aircraft returned safely to Malta."
Meanwhile, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland has left Benghazi for Malta carrying about 200 civilians, including 50 Britons.
The Foreign Office believes the bulk of British nationals who want to leave are now out of Libya, said BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner.
Two RAF Hercules flew 150 oil workers, many of them British nationals, to the safety of Malta on Saturday.
One flight carrying some of the rescued workers - 79 of whom are British - arrived at Gatwick on Sunday, followed by a second, carrying 25 Britons, early on Monday morning.
Quality control manager Mike O'Donoghue, from Bridlington, North Yorkshire, was among those rescued from a compound in the southern region of Libya.
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"About a week ago... we were overrun by local criminal militia.  They were coming on site with guns and knives, and intimidating and threatening - loosening off rounds."
The Foreign Office made arrangements to evacuate people from that region, he said, adding that their rescuers were "magic people".
"They're the best in the world. You know we owe them perhaps our lives. We don't know. But they were certainly risking theirs."
Those on board HMS Cumberland will be met in Malta, after a 12-hour sea journey - and flown to the UK on Monday or Tuesday.
The government said HMS York remained in the region and was "ready to assist as required".
By Joe LynamBBC News
It is not unprecedented for the assets of a ruling family to be frozen by UK authorities while they are still in power.  The ruling junta in Burma, Saddam Hussein and President Milosevic of Serbia have all endured (or continue to endure) that in the past.
What is interesting is the co-ordinated way in which the Treasury, BIS and FCO have been working on this order behind the scenes for a few days - directly liaising with Britain's largest banks as well as the FSA, BBA and Bank of England.
As soon as all Britons had been extracted out of Libya and the legal permission had been given by the UN, the asset freezing order took effect tonight.
While is it unclear exactly how much Libyan assets in the UK are worth, we can safely say it's in the "hundreds of millions".
Some reports have said that Col Gaddafi's son Saif owns a plush house in Hampstead, north London, but most of the assets are probably of the paper variety.
More details about routes out of Libya are on the Foreign Office website and all options to depart Libya will also be updated on the Foreign Office on Twitter.
The FCO is also urging those who have already left Libya to contact them on 0207 008 0000 to ensure they have been accounted for.
About 100,000 people have fled anti-government unrest in Libya over the past week, the UN estimates.
As the Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, battles for political survival amid an uprising that began in the east of the country, the UK's foreign secretary said it was time for him to step down.
William Hague told the BBC: "Of course, it is time for Col Gaddafi to go, that is the best hope for Libya."
The UK has frozen his British-held assets and those of his family, and withdrawn their diplomatic immunity on British soil.
It followed UN Security Council sanctions agreed on Saturday backing an arms embargo and asset freeze, and referring Col Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has also banned the unlicensed export of any uncirculated Libyan banknotes.
It came after the Libyan regime had asked to ship an estimated Â£900m worth of British-printed banknotes to Tripoli.
The Foreign Office has closed the British embassy in Tripoli, leaving a skeleton staff working in a different building.


An incurable lung disease is claiming lives because of a lack of funding and research, according to a charity.

The British Lung Foundation says IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) kills about 5,000 people a year, and is on the rise, but there is low awareness of the condition.
In 2013 the government invested only Â£600,000 in research, said the charity.
There are estimated to be about 15,000 people living with IPF in the UK.
Ruth Sabella of the British Lung Foundation said: "As rates of IPF continue to rise, we need to see significant improvements in service provision and research into the disease."
The charity said funding for research was lagging behind other conditions, such as leukaemia, which received more than Â£32m from all sources in 2013.
The latest figures from Cancer Research UK show that there are about 8,600 new cases of leukaemia a year and 4,800 deaths.
It wants the government to increase funding for IPF research to a level that will tackle the growing impact of the disease in the UK.
The cause of the condition, which leads to scarring of the lungs, is unknown.
Symptoms include shortness of breath, especially during exercise, which gradually gets worse, and a persistent dry cough.
There is currently no cure for IPF so treatment focuses on trying to relieve symptoms and slow its progression.
Some people may be put on the list for a lung transplant if their health is good enough.


Receptionists quizzing patients about why they need to see their GP could be putting some sick people off visiting their surgery, a survey suggests.

Of almost 2,000 adults questioned for Cancer Research UK, four in 10 said they disliked having to discuss their ills with office staff in order to get an appointment.
Many were worried about making a fuss.
Experts say patients must be forceful and not take no for an answer if they have symptoms that need investigating.
The government says it is funding training to help receptionists learn how to be sensitive to patients' needs.
Receptionists are the first point of contact in primary care and it is their job to decide which patients should see the GP and how urgently.
They do a vital job, but feedback from patients reveals some can be off-putting.
In the survey, the top three barriers to seeing a GP were:
Around a third of the patients interviewed were also concerned that they might be negatively viewed as the type of person who makes a fuss, the Journal of Public Health - which published the survey results - said.
Lead researcher Dr Jodie Moffat urged people with symptoms to "grab the bull by the horns" and seek help rather than suffer in silence.
"Don't let yourself be put off. Make that appointment," she said.
"Be forceful. I know that's easier said than done. But it's clear that a new sign or symptom, or something that has stayed or got worse over time, needs to be checked out by a GP."
Worrying symptoms that need a medical opinion include bleeding, a persistent cough, a change in bowel habit and unexplained lumps or swellings.
Dr Moffat said: "If you find it hard, ask a friend or a relative to make an appointment for you. Or go online. Lots of GP surgeries now take online bookings."
Prof Elizabeth Stokoe, from Loughborough University, recently carried out a study that listened in to the conversations of patients and GP receptionists.
She found patients often had to drive the conversation to get answers.
"The onus should be on the receptionist to provide all the information, but often it is the patient who has to push to get it.
"If they don't push then they get no service at all or they desperately scrabble to get their voice heard."
Dr Maureen Baker, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said doctors understood that their patients would prefer to speak directly to them about their health, especially when it is something sensitive or embarrassing - but it is not always possible.
"With GPs making more patient consultations than ever before - 60 million more a year compared to five years ago - GP receptionists ensure the smooth running of the practice and do their best to help patients see a particular GP at a suitable time for them," she said.
"However, it is important to remember that they are not healthcare professionals, and are not in a position to make decisions about our patients' health."
Earlier this year, NHS England announced new funding towards training receptionists, among other things.
The first Â£5m out of the total Â£45m General Practice Forward View fund will be made available to practices this autumn.


A squeeze on the public purse has led to an increase in borrowing by Northern Ireland community or social businesses.

Lending organisation the Ulster Community Investment Trust (UCIT) has just had the busiest period in its 16-year history.
Eighteen projects, some creating new jobs, have received loans totalling £2m in the first three months of 2017.
UCIT chief executive Harry McDaid said the increased activity "comes at a time when public funding is tightening".
The loans, ranging from £20,000 to £220,000, are for businesses which have a social or community purpose and do not normally attract capital from banks.
Mr McDaid said UCIT was "plugging a gap".
UCIT is Northern Ireland's largest social finance lender and also manages Invest NI's small business loan fund.
One of the projects it backed recently is the Foundry in east Belfast - office space and support for business start-ups.
It is operated by East Belfast Enterprises and is a base for 60 small businesses, including website designers.
Its chief executive Jonathan McAlpin said its aim is to help people "in an area of high unemployment and social deprivation".


US scientists say they have taken the first step towards making "safer" GMOs that cannot spread in the wild, using synthetic biology.

They have re-written the genetic code of bacteria to use only synthetic chemicals to grow.
The GM bacteria would die if they escaped into nature.
The research, published in Nature, is proof of concept for a new generation of GMOs, including plants, say Harvard and Yale university experts.
Genetically engineered micro-organisms are used in Europe, the US and China to produce drugs or fuels under contained industrial conditions.
Scientists want to build in safety measures so that their spread could be controlled if they were ever used in the outside world, perhaps to mop up oil spills or to improve human health.
"What we've done is engineered organisms so that they require synthetic amino acids for survival or for life," Prof Farren Isaacs of Yale University, who led one of two studies, told BBC News.
He said the future challenge was to re-engineer the code of other lifeforms.
"What we're seeing here is an important proof of concept that re-coding genomes and engineering dependence on synthetic amino acids is technically feasible in not just E coli but other micro-organisms and multicellular organisms such as plants."
GMOs have a number of potential practical uses, including the production of drugs and fuels, and removing pollutants from contaminated areas.
However, strict containment measures would be needed to use them in open spaces to stop them spreading in the wild.
The US researchers describe their research, published in  Nature journal, as a "milestone" in synthetic biology.
Prof George Church of Harvard Medical School, who led the other study, said in order to protect natural ecosystems and address public concern the scientific community needed to develop robust biocontainment mechanisms for GMOs.
"This work provides a foundation for safer GMOs that are isolated from natural ecosystems by a reliance on synthetic metabolites."
In both studies, the organisms cannot use alternative nutrients when synthetic amino acids are unavailable. They are also less likely to pass on their genes to other micro-organisms.
Commenting on the study, Prof Huw Jones of Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire, which carries out research on GM plants, said these were research-stage ideas to prevent the unintended spread of GM microbes from contained industrial units.
"I can see no need for this in crop plants that are anyway risk-assessed and approved for field cultivation, and use in food and feed," he said.
Prof Julian Savulescu, an ethicist at the University of Oxford, said the research would make GMOs and synthetic organisms safer as they would need to be fed special food (synthetic amino acids) to survive.
"But you can never remove all risk," he added. "There is still the very small chance of some natural event enabling them to change so as to be able to survive in the wild."
John Love, professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Exeter, said it raised a lot of issues for society.
"It's a great technological leap but peripheral issues would need to be addressed to allay potential public concerns."
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The summer transfer window is open until 23:00 BST on Monday, 1 September.

To read the day's transfer rumours, visit our gossip column.
Biggest British signing so far: Alexis Sanchez - Barcelona to Arsenal for about £35m.
Busiest clubs this summer: Shrewsbury Town and Crawley Town have signed 16 players.
Busiest Premier League clubs: Burnley, Hull, Liverpool, Newcastle, West Brom and West Ham have signed six players each.
Balint Bajner [Borussia Dortmund - Ipswich] Free
Junior Brown [Fleetwood - Oxford] Free
Reece Brown [Watford - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Kevin Bru [Levski Sofia - Ipswich] Free
Jose Miguel Cubero [Herediano - Blackpool] Undisclosed **
Joe Dudgeon [Hull - Barnsley] Loan
Marcus Haber [Stevenage - Crewe] Free
Carl Jenkinson [Arsenal - West Ham] Loan
Gael Kakuta [Chelsea - Rayo Vallecano] Loan
Tom Lees [Leeds - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Miguel Llera [Sheffield Wednesday - Scunthorpe] Free
Michael Onovwigun [Brentford - Chesterfield] Free
Mitch Rose [Rotherham - Crawley] Loan
Danny Rowe [Rotherham - Wycombe] Loan
Jay Simpson [Buriram United - Leyton Orient] Free
Michal Szromnik [Arka Gydnia - Dundee Utd] Undisclosed
Nicky Walker [Rotherham - Wycombe] Loan
Callum Ball [Derby - St Mirren] Free
Ryan Bertrand [Chelsea - Southampton] Loan
Stefan de Vrij [Feyenoord - Lazio] Undisclosed
Cedric Evina [Charlton - Doncaster] Free
James Husband [Doncaster - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed + swap
Denny Johnstone [Celtic - Birmingham] Undisclosed
Romelu Lukaku [Chelsea - Everton] £28m
Curtis Main [Middlesbrough - Doncaster] Swap
Luke Berry [Cambridge - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Chris Burke [Birmingham - Nottingham Forest] Free
Ashkan Dejagah [Fulham - Al-Arabi] Undisclosed
Nathan Delfouneso [Aston Villa - Blackpool] Free
Antoine Griezmann [Real Sociedad - Atletico Madrid] £24m (reported)
Odion Ighalo [Udinese - Watford] Loan
Harry Maguire [Sheffield United - Hull City] £2.5m
Radoslaw Majewski [Nottingham Forest - Huddersfield] Loan
Divock Origi [Lille - Liverpool] £10m; [Liverpool - Lille] Loan
Andrew Robertson [Dundee United - Hull City] £2.85m
Conor Townsend [Hull City - Dundee United] Loan
Marcus Tudgay [Nottingham Forest - Coventry] Free
Frederic Veseli [Ipswich - Port Vale] Loan
Miles Addison [Bournemouth - Scunthorpe United] Loan*
Jordan Ayew [Marseille - Lorient] Undisclosed
Jo Inge Berget [Cardiff - Celtic] Loan
Muhamed Besic [Ferencvaros - Everton] Undisclosed
Calum Chambers [Southampton - Arsenal] About £16m
Peter Clarke [Huddersfield - Blackpool] Free
Tomasz Cywka [Barnsley - Blackpool] Free
Esteban Granero [QPR - Real Sociedad] Undisclosed
Kortney Hause [Wolves - Gillingham] Loan
Ashley Hemmings [Walsall - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Jacob Mellis [Barnsley - Blackpool] Free
Navid Nasseri [Bury - Birmingham] Free
Mark Oxley [Hull - Hibernian] Loan
Joe Riley [Bolton - Oxford] Loan
David Stockdale [Fulham - Brighton] Undisclosed
Quade Taylor [Crystal Palace - Bolton] Free
Nathan Tyson [Blackpool - Doncaster] Free
Tony Watt [Celtic - Standard Liege] Undisclosed
Danny Woodards [Bristol Rovers - Tranmere] Free
Dejan Lovren [Southampton - Liverpool] £20m
David Ospina [Nice - Arsenal] £3m
Jobi McAnuff [Reading - Leyton Orient] Free
Jeroen Tesselaar [Kilmarnock - St Mirren] Free
Ben Alnwick [Unattached - Peterborough]
Koby Arthur [Birmingham - Cheltenham] Loan
Calvin Andrew [York - Rochdale] Free
Bobson Bawling [Watford - Crawley] Free
Bebe [Manchester United - Benfica] £2.4m
Jake Cassidy [Wolves - Notts County] Loan
Didier Drogba [Galatasaray - Chelsea] Free
Ashley Grimes [Bury - Walsall] Free
Magaye Gueye [Everton - Millwall] Free
[Sheffield United - Oxford] Loan
Michael Smith [Bristol Rovers - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Matt Taylor [Bradford City - Cheltenham] Free
Patrick van Aanholt [Chelsea - Sunderland] Undisclosed
Keith Andrews [Bolton Wanderers - Watford] Loan
Serge Aurier [Toulouse - Paris St-Germain] Loan
Fraizer Campbell [Cardiff - Crystal Palace] £900,000
Jamie Cureton [Cheltenham - Dagenham] Free
Frank Lampard [Chelsea - New York City FC] Free
Andy Mangan [Forest Green - Shrewsbury] Free
Kenny McEvoy [Tottenham - Peterborough] Loan
Jefferson Montero [Monarcas Morelia - Swansea] Undisclosed
Emmett O'Connor [Scarborough City Celtic - Crawley] Free
Alejandro Pozuelo [Swansea - Rayo Vallecano] Undisclosed
Ignacio Scocco [Sunderland - Newell's Old Boys] £2.1m
Sascha Studer [Winterthur - Mansfield] Free
Adil Chihi [FC Cologne - Fulham] Free
Ben Davies [Swansea - Tottenham] Undisclosed
Thomas Eisfeld [Arsenal - Fulham] Undisclosed
Josh Lelan [Derby - Swindon] Loan
Harry Lennon [Charlton - Cambridge] Loan
Jeremy Mathieu [Valencia - Barcelona] £15.8m
Tom McCready [Unattached - Morecambe]
Jon McLaughlin [Bradford - Burton] Free
Abdul Osman [Crewe - Partick Thistle] Free
Gylfi Sigurdsson [Tottenham - Swansea] Undisclosed
Garry Thompson [Bradford - Notts County] Free
Ross Turnbull [Doncaster - Barnsley] Free
Michel Vorm [Swansea - Tottenham] Undisclosed
Sam Winnall [Scunthorpe - Barnsley] Undisclosed
David Worrall [Rotherham - Southend] Free
Adam Asghar [Motherwell - Alloa] Free
Chris Atkinson [Huddersfield - Crewe] Free
James Bailey [Derby - Barnsley] Free
Paul Benson [Swindon - Luton] Free
Jose Campana [Crystal Palace - Sampdoria] Undisclosed
Archie Campbell [Morton - Dumbarton] Free
Steven Caulker [Cardiff - QPR] Undisclosed
Simon Heslop [Stevenage - Mansfield] Free
Andy Hughes [Charlton - Bolton] Free
Jack Hunt [Crystal Palace - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Emyr Huws [Manchester City - Wigan] Loan
Bojan Krkic [Barcelona - Stoke] Undisclosed
Sylvain Marveaux [Newcastle - Guingamp] Loan
Oliver Norburn [Bristol Rovers - Plymouth] Free
Mark Onyemah [Thurrock - Luton] Free
James Rodriguez [Monaco - Real Madrid] Fee rising to £71m
Leonardo Ulloa [Brighton - Leicester] £8m
Charlie Walker [Peacehaven & Telscombe - Luton] Free
Andre Wisdom [Liverpool - West Brom] Loan
Iago Aspas [Liverpool - Sevilla] Loan
Jack Deaman [Eastbourne Borough - Cheltenham] Free
Patrice Evra [Manchester United - Juventus] £1.2m
James Fenlon [AFC Wimbledon - Ross County] Free
Willie Gros [Kilmarnock - Oldham] Free
Stephen Henderson [West Ham - Charlton] Free
Scott Hogan [Rochdale - Brentford] Undisclosed
Thomas Konrad [Eintracht Trier - Dundee] Free
Shane Lowry [Millwall - Leyton Orient] Free
Jeffrey Monakana [Brighton - Aberdeen] Loan
Amari Morgan-Smith [Kidderminster - Oldham] Free
Jordan Pickford [Sunderland - Bradford] Loan
Osman Sow [Crystal Palace - Hearts] Free
Omari Sterling-James [Birmingham - Cheltenham] Free
Luka Tankulic [Wolfsburg II - Dundee] Free
Adam Buxton [Wigan - Accrington] Free
Gaetano Berardi [Sampdoria - Leeds] Undisclosed
Mario Bilate [Sparta Rotterdam - Dundee Utd] Free
Alvaro Morata [Real Madrid - Juventus] £15.8m
Chris O'Grady [Barnsley - Brighton] Undisclosed
Ross Perry [Rangers - Raith Rovers] Free
George Thorne [West Brom - Derby] Undisclosed
Demba Ba [Chelsea - Besiktas] £4.7m
Jordi Balk [Utrecht - Ross County] Free
Ivan Calero [Atletico Madrid - Derby] Free
Tim Dreesen [Fortuna Sittard - Ross County] Free
Marco Davide Faraoni [Watford - Udinese] Undisclosed
Ben Frempah [Leicester - Ross County] Free
Scott Gallacher [Rangers - Hearts] Free
Will Grigg [Brentford - MK Dons] Loan
Brown Ideye [Dynamo Kiev - West Brom] £10m
Zeli Ismail [Wolves - Notts County] Loan
Filipe Luis [Atletico Madrid - Chelsea] £15.8m
Harrison McGahey [Blackpool - Sheffield United] Compensation
Louis Rowley [Manchester United - Leicester] Free
Raphael Spiegel [West Ham - Crawley] Loan
Luke Steele [Barnsley - Panathinaikos] Free
Prince Buaben [Carlisle - Hearts] Free
Jordan Clark [Barnsley - Shrewsbury] Free
Mathieu Debuchy [Newcastle - Arsenal] Undisclosed
Rio Ferdinand [Manchester United - QPR] Free
Juan Iturbe [Verona  - Roma] £17.4m
Daryl Janmaat [Feyenoord - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Toni Kroos [Bayern Munich - Real Madrid] Undisclosed
Dean Leacock [Notts County - Crawley] Free
Michu [Swansea - Napoli] Loan
[Granada - Watford] Undisclosed
Alex Pritchard [Tottenham - Brentford] Loan
Andy Robinson [Tranmere - Shrewsbury] Free
Anton Rodgers [Oldham - Swindon] Free
Enner Valencia [Pachuca - West Ham] £12m (reported)
Gary Woods [Watford - Leyton Orient] Free
Ricardo Fuller [Blackpool - Millwall] Free
Josh Magennis [Aberdeen - Kilmarnock] Free
Michael Mancienne [Hamburg - Nottingham Forest] £1m
Kevin McNaughton [Cardiff - Bolton] Loan
Shaun Miller [Sheffield United - Coventry] Free
Tope Obadeyi [Bury - Kilmarnock] Free
Jan Oblak [Benfica - Atletico Madrid] £12.6m
Danny Pugh [Leeds - Coventry] Free
Emmanuel Riviere [Monaco - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Luis Suarez [Liverpool - Barcelona] £75m
Cristian Tello [Barcelona - Porto] Loan
Laurence Wilson [Accrington - Morecambe] Free
Craig Alcock [Peterborough - Sheffield United] Free
[Notts County - Ipswich] Undisclosed
Michael Collins [Scunthorpe - Oxford] Free
Diego Costa [Atletico Madrid - Chelsea] £32m
Enrique 'Kike' Garcia [Real Murcia - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
Alan Goodall [Fleetwood - Morecambe] Free
Lukas Jutkiewicz [Middlesbrough - Burnley] £1.5m
Lazar Markovic [Benfica - Liverpool] £20m
Alex Marrow [Blackburn - Carlisle] Free
Bruno Martins Indi [Feyenoord  - FC Porto] Undisclosed
Roger Riera [Barcelona - Nottingham Forest] Free
George Tucudean [Standard Liege - Charlton] Free
Ross Caldwell [Hibernian - St Mirren] Free
Timothee Dieng [Stade Brestois - Oldham] Free
Farid El Alagui [Brentford - Hibernian] Free
Jaroslaw Fojut [Tromso - Dundee Utd] Free
Dan Hanford [Floriana FC - Carlisle] Free
Aaron Hughes [QPR - Brighton] Free
Yacouba Sylla [Aston Villa - Erciyesspor] Loan
[Bury - Crawley] Free
Tommaso Bianchi [Sassuolo - Leeds] Undisclosed
Remy Cabella [Montpellier - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Souleymane Doukara [Catania - Leeds] Loan
Chris Beardsley [Preston - Stevenage] Free
Charlie Lee [Gillingham - Stevenage] Free
Graziano Pelle [Feyenoord - Southampton] Undisclosed
Sebastien Pocognoli [Hannover 96 - West Brom] Undisclosed
Grant Adam [Airdrieonians - Dundee] Free
Alex Baptiste [Bolton - Blackburn] Loan
Fergus Bell [AC Monza - Mansfield] Free
Tal Ben Haim [Standard Liege - Charlton] Free
Johann Berg Gudmundsson [AZ Alkmaar - Charlton] Free
Gwion Edwards [Swansea - Crawley] Undisclosed
Danny Kearns [Peterborough - Carlisle] Free
[Cardiff - Yeovil] Loan
Kieran Richardson [Fulham - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Marius Zaliukas [Leeds - Rangers] Free
Mark Connolly [Crawley - Kilmarnock] Free
Kwesi Appiah [Crystal Palace - Cambridge] Loan
Cyrus Christie [Coventry - Derby] Undisclosed
Don Cowie [Cardiff - Wigan] Free
Cameron Gayle [West Brom - Shrewsbury] Free
[Southend - Tranmere] Free
Mario Mandzukic [Bayern Munich - Atletico Madrid] Undisclosed
Josh Morris [Blackburn - Fleetwood] Loan
Bradley Pritchard [Charlton - Leyton Orient] Free
Alexis Sanchez [Barcelona - Arsenal] In the region of £35m
[Swindon - Portsmouth] Loan
[Wycombe - Luton] Free
Amari'i Bell [Birmingham - Mansfield] Loan
Andre Bikey [Panetolikos - Charlton] Free
Nicklas Helenius [Aston Villa - Aalborg] Loan
Pajtim Kasami [Fulham - Olympiakos] Undisclosed
Mario Pasalic [Hajduk Split - Chelsea] Undisclosed
Marco Silvestri [Chievo - Leeds] Undisclosed
[Bayer Leverkusen - Fulham] Loan
Luke Ayling [Yeovil - Bristol City] Compensation
Gareth Barry [Manchester City - Everton] Free
James Bittner [Salisbury - Plymouth] Free
Willy Caballero [Malaga - Manchester City] £4.4m, rising to £6m
Dan Holman [Braintree - Colchester] Free
[Chelsea - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Joss Labadie [Torquay - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Adam Marriott [Cambridge City - Stevenage] Undisclosed five-figure fee
Ross McCormack [Leeds - Fulham] about £11m
Brendan Moloney [Bristol City - Yeovil] Free
Matt Partridge [Reading - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Diego Poyet [Charlton - West Ham] Compensation
Jack Smith [Millwall - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Dusan Tadic [FC Twente - Southampton] £10.9m
Bertrand Traore [Chelsea - Vitesse Arnhem] Loan
Chris Baird [Burnley - West Brom] Free
Ashley Cole [Chelsea - Roma] Free
Jordan Cook [Charlton - Walsall] Free
David Goodwillie [Blackburn - Aberdeen] Free
Tom Ince [Blackpool - Hull] Compensation to be agreed
Jonathan Parr [Crystal Palace - Ipswich] Free
Steven Reid [West Brom - Burnley] Free
Daniel Tozser [Parma - Watford] Loan
Keiren Westwood [Sunderland - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Luke Wilkinson [Dagenham & Redbridge - Luton] Undisclosed
Alex Wynter [Crystal Palace - Portsmouth] Loan
Eric Abidal [Monaco - Olympiakos] Undisclosed
Paul Connolly [Crawley - Luton] Free
Paul Gallagher [Leicester - Preston] Loan
Thorgan Hazard [Chelsea - Borussia Monchengladbach] Loan
Ryan Allsop [Bournemouth - Coventry] Loan
Mohamed Coulibaly [Bournemouth - Coventry] Loan
Reda Johnson [Sheffield Wednesday - Coventry] Free
Liam Lawrence [Barnsley - Shrewsbury] Free
Tomas Mejias [Real Madrid - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
[Barnsley - Coventry] Free
James Shea [Harrow - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Marvin Sordell [Bolton - Burnley] Undisclosed
Matt Taylor [West Ham - Burnley] Free
Callum Wilson [Coventry - Bournemouth] Undisclosed
Sergei Zenjov [FC Karpaty Lviv - Blackpool] Free
James Berrett [Carlisle - Yeovil] Free
Emre Can [Bayer Leverkusen - Liverpool] £10m
Aaron Cresswell [Ipswich - West Ham] Undisclosed
John Egan [Sunderland - Gillingham] Free
Craig Gordon [Unattached - Celtic]
[Unattached - Notts County]
Callum McFadzean [Sheffield United - Burton] Loan
Byron Moore [Crewe - Port Vale] Free
Luke Norris [Brentford - Gillingham] Compensation
Scott Shearer [Rotherham - Crewe] Free
[Peterborough - Coventry] Free
Stuart Taylor [Reading - Leeds] Free
Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro [Tranmere - Shrewsbury] Free
Daniel Alfei [Swansea - Northampton] Loan
Marvin Emnes [Middlesbrough - Swansea] Undisclosed
Troy Archibald-Henville [Swindon - Carlisle] Free
Ryan Gauld [Dundee United - Sporting Lisbon] £3m
Matt Gilks [Blackpool - Burnley] Free
Evan Horwood [Tranmere - Northampton] Free
Alex Lynch [Peterborough - Wycombe] Free
Mark Marshall [Coventry - Port Vale] Free
Franck Moussa [Coventry - Charlton] Free
Dean Moxey [Crystal Palace - Bolton] Free
Jordan Seabright [Dagenham & Redbridge - Torquay] Free
Kay Voser [FC Basel - Fulham] Undisclosed
[Crystal Palace - Bristol City] Free
Sean Clohessy [Kilmarnock - Colchester] Free
Siem de Jong [Ajax - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Ben Gordon [Ross County - Colchester] Free
Tom Hitchcock [QPR - MK Dons] Free
Joe Jacobson [Shrewsbury - Wycombe] Free
Kaka [AC Milan - Orlando City] Free
Kaka [Orlando City - Sao Paolo] Loan
Adam Lallana [Southampton - Liverpool] £25m
Chris Lewington [Dagenham & Redbridge - Colchester] Free
Lindon Meikle [Mansfield - York] Free
Ivan Rakitic [Sevilla - Barcelona] Undisclosed
Alefe Santos [Bristol Rovers - Derby] Compensation
[Hull - Ipswich] Free
[Leeds - Blackburn] Free
Lee Miller [Carlisle - Kilmarnock] Free
* To go through on Friday, 8 August
** Subject to work permit


Previously unseen pictures of German submarines stranded on the English coast have been released to mark the centenary of a wartime turning point.

A hundred years ago during World War One, Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare and started targeting hundreds of ships without warning.
The submarines shown were surrendered by Germany at the end of the war and sank off the coast of Cornwall.
The images from 1921 have been donated to Historic England.
More on the stranded submarines, and other news
The German submarines - known as U-boats - wrecked on the Cornish coast in Falmouth and some remains can still be seen.
German forces surrendered the submarines in 1918 and having been stripped of their engines, they became difficult to tow and occasionally sank or wrecked on British beaches.
In the year before unrestricted submarine warfare was declared by Germany, 431 ships were sunk by U-boats worldwide.
The following year, that number reached 1,263.
Roger Bowdler, from Historic England, said the declaration was "a decisive moment" in World War One.
He said: "It was seen as uncivilised, ungentlemanly and ultimately brought the might of the United States into the war."
The pictures were taken by naval officer Jack Casement and donated to the Historic England Archive by his family.
One third of the Submarine Service's total personnel died during World War One, the highest proportion of any branch of the armed services.
To commemorate their lives, the National Submarine War Memorial was unveiled in 1922, at Temple Pier on the Thames in London.
The memorial has now been upgraded to Grade II* listed status, which means it has an "above-average level of special interest".