Scotland manager Gordon Strachan is under fire following a poor opening to the World Cup qualifying campaign.

Following Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to Lithuania, the national side slumped to a damaging 3-0 loss in Slovakia on Tuesday.
It leaves Scotland fourth in Group F after three matches, three points behind leaders England, with a visit to Wembley next up on 11 November.
Having failed to reach an extended European Championship, pressure is mounting on the 59-year-old, who agreed a two-year contract in the summer.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Strachan has received emphatic backing from fellow managers in the Scottish Premiership.
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"Gordon is an excellent manager with big experience.
"I don't know Gordon that well but I think he's perfectly suited to be the manager of Scotland.
"Wonderful experience as a manager. He's shown at many clubs, including this club here that he can get the best out of players.
"There's maybe deeper rooted issues and problems in Scottish football. But I haven't been here long enough to see what they might be.
"But when you're the manager you're always under the spotlight. He's a good guy whenever I've spoken to him and he's certainly got a good knowledge of football both domestic and international."
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"It saddens me and angers me, this clamour from certain people saying Gordon should lose his job.
"We've appointed a manager for this campaign and, while the momentum is important in groups, we are still capable of qualifying.
"I don't even think we need to win at Wembley. A positive result there would help.
"We should get behind the manager. We should get behind the team. I understand criticism but we've only lost one game.
"Gordon was the right man for the job and he's still the right man."
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"We are still in the group. We still have a chance of qualifying.
"There is a huge game coming up at Wembley so let's try and get behind the team and not be too negative about it. It's easy to be negative but harder to be positive.
"Negativity is not helping anyone at all. I hope Gordon is still in charge. He has done a good job. Everybody talks about changing this and changing that. We are only three games into a campaign. But we are already talking about not qualifying.
"It's disappointing. In years gone by we were going into campaigns hoping and expecting to qualify. Now there is a negativity that is creeping in and it's not doing anyone any good. Be positive.
"We have a lot of good young players coming through. It's going to take time to develop. If you look at the Slovakian team, the midfield three are playing at Sampdoria, AC Milan and Napoli. They have ninety-odd caps and we expect to turn these teams over?
"I think our players are tested enough. In previous years young players weren't getting game time. They are now. Let's be patient and the team will come good. Things aren't going to change overnight."


Crawley Town striker Matt Harrold will be out for three months after suffering an Achilles injury.

The 32-year-old has scored one goal in 10 appearances for the League Two side in all competitions this season.
"He has been extremely unlucky with injuries and is going to be a big loss while he recovers," head coach Dermot Drummy told the club website.
"We just hope that when he comes back it he can play a full part for us in the last few months of the season."


More than 300,000 homes in Lancashire are to enter a second week of boiling drinking water following the latest test results, said United Utilities.

A company spokesman said the ban remained, although the latest results showed reduced traces of the microbial parasite cryptosporidium in the water.
Restrictions will stay until there are no traces of the parasite in the water.
The decision was made in a meeting with Public Health England and the Drinking Water Inspectorate.
A United Utilities spokesman said the company was testing the water every day.
On Wednesday it confirmed customers would receive compensation for the incident but did not specify the amount.
Traces of cryptosporidium were found at the Franklaw water treatment works near Preston on 6 August.
The areas affected include Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.


A former Merseyside police chief falsified evidence and lied on oath after arresting a man over a minor road accident, a jury was told.

Supt Michael Cloherty, 51, made such a "proper mess" of his first arrest in nine years that he falsified records, Preston Crown Court heard on Tuesday.
The prosecution claim errors were made following the arrest of a man in 2010.
Mr Cloherty, of Formby, denies perjury, misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice.
The jury were instructed not to consider if the arrested man, Jack Beecham, was guilty or not but what Mr Cloherty did afterwards regarding his police notebook.
The court heard Mr Cloherty was on his way to Wallasey police station on 27 May 2010 when the accident occurred, leading to the arrest.
Mr Beecham disputed his arrest but was convicted of assaulting a police officer and driving with no insurance in 2011.
He appealed and the conviction was overturned in 2012, when Cloherty - who had been promoted to chief superintendent - gave evidence for the prosecution.
But Mr Beecham was "not prepared to simply leave it", the court was told, and instigated further inquiries to be made, leading the defendant's charges.
Guy Mathieson, prosecuting, said investigations revealed discrepancies in the statement and entries in his pocket notebook, with Mr Cloherty's statement failing to mention he cautioned the suspect on arrest or explain the reason for it.
Notes made in pocket notebook sought to correct the "failings" in the statement, the court heard.
The jury was told the notebook contained entries dated 19 May 2010 - but records showed it was only issued to him eight days later - the day Mr Beecham's arrest.
Mr Mathieson told the court the now retired police boss was "a liar about where and when he made those entries".
The trial continues.


Thousands of people took part in the Belfast Pride Parade through the city centre on Saturday.

With a theme of 'We are One', the parade was led by Mary Ellen Campbell, Belfast's first openly gay deputy mayor.
The Pride festival, which runs over 10 days, finishes on Sunday.
More than 100 events have showcased the creativity, arts, history and culture of the LGBT community in the city.
Festival goers and musicians gathered in Queen's Square before parading through the city centre.
The 'Pride Village', aimed at families and children, was a smoke and alcohol-free zone.
Custom House Square hosted a celebration concert on Saturday evening.
Sean O'Neill, chair of Belfast Pride, said the event is now one of the biggest in the city.
"It keeps getting bigger every year," he said.
"The point of pride is about visibility - bringing LGBT people on to the streets to challenge stereotypes and making a point that we want to be full and equal citizens with the rest of the city."


Four children and a woman have been rescued from a house fire in Denbighshire which was caused by an unattended candle.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to Sandringham Avenue, Rhyl, at about 03:30 BST on Wednesday.
The blaze broke out in a bedroom but none of those rescued suffered life-threatening injuries.
They were taken to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan for precautionary checks.


(Close): Worries over prospects for the eurozone weighed on banking shares, helping to drag the FTSE 100 lower.

Investors were rattled by gains for anti-austerity parties in Spanish local elections over the weekend.
Worries are also persisting over whether Greece will be able to meet upcoming loan repayments.
The FTSE 100 closed 82.73 points lower at 6,948.99. Among the banks, RBS dropped 2.8% and Barclays fell 1.9%, while Lloyds shed 1.3%.
However, Royal Mail was having a better day, with its shares jumping nearly 3.6% to 521.50p following a broker upgrade.
Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded its rating on Royal Mail to "hold" from "sell", and also increased its target share price to 500p from 440p.
Easyjet shares rose 1.6% after Irish rival Ryanair reported a big jump in full-year profits, helped by rising passenger numbers and lower fuel costs.
AstraZeneca shares fell 2.2% after Amgen said it was ending a collaboration with AstraZeneca over developing a psoriasis drug.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.52% against the dollar to $1.5409, but it rose 0.56% against the euro to €1.4140.


David Cameron has voiced his "strong support" for the expansion of grammar schools during a visit to the South East.

At an event in Hove, the prime minister said all good schools should be able to expand and his government had supported that right.
The Weald of Kent girls' grammar school wants to open an annexe in Sevenoaks.
The Department for Education (DfE) is considering the plans which have the backing of Kent County Council.
The law forbids the opening of new grammar schools, but changes made by the coalition government in 2012 allow enlargement of existing schools.
"I strongly support the right of all good schools to expand. I think that's very important and that should include grammar schools," the prime minister said:
"Under this government grammar schools have been able to expand and that is all to the good."
Mr Cameron was responding to a question about the the proposed satellite grammar school in Sevenoaks.
But he would not be drawn on when the government was likely to make its decision.
"As for the decision that the Department for Education has to take, they have to take that having [looked] at all the evidence and after having proper consultations and making the decision in proper time," he added.
Sevenoaks is the only major Kent town that does not have grammar provision.
Bids made in 2013 were turned down because the DfE said they did not comply with the law.
But the current plans put forward by Weald of Kent girls' grammar school are believed to have met the criteria.
If approved, the annexe could pave the way for more grammars to open satellite campuses.
General secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, has previously called the plans for grammar school expansion "yet another unnecessary distraction".


Remember BAA plc, the privatised successor to the British Airports Authority?

Seven years ago, it was fiercely battling to dissuade the Competition Commission from splitting it up.
It tried to tell us that Edinburgh and Glasgow airports, then both under its command, were not really in competition. Neither was held back by being part of a larger group, said BAA.
Its lobbying failed. In London, it sold Gatwick pre-emptively. It was later forced to sell Stansted.
It was told to sell either Edinburgh or Glasgow. It chose Edinburgh, making a whacking Â£805m out of it, and then sold off Glasgow anyway, along with Aberdeen and Southampton.
The Competition Commission has also been re-branded, to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). And under that branding, it has returned to find out what happened.
The findings are sometimes a bit frustrating, for what they don't tell us. But there's plenty to get your interest, not least the porkies that were being told by BAA back then.
The CMA report, published this week, tells us that management at Edinburgh felt constrained by BAA's management.
Bosses at Heathrow did not want Edinburgh to get too much outbound leisure travel. That was steered towards Glasgow, while Edinburgh was supposed to specialise in the business travel market.
"Edinburgh told us that, under BAA ownership, negotiations with airlines were conducted at a Scottish level as opposed to airport level, which left no room for price competition between airports," reports the CMA.
BAA had more spare capacity at Glasgow, which is why it usually got the long-haul flights. Emirates flies one such link between Clydeside and Dubai twice a day, and very valuable it is to the Scottish city's economy.
Edinburgh only had one long-haul route in 2012. Freed to compete, it has eight this summer (though with a change in aircraft range and route developments, at least some of that change could have happened anyway).
Before the break-up, Edinburgh had one person and the chief executive working to attract new routes. It now has four full-timers on that role and significant input from two others.
Retail is a more important part of running an airport than the owners would like to admit. Roughly half of profit comes from non-aeronautic income.
Edinburgh has pushed up retail space by nearly 50%. And whereas BAA negotiated exclusive access to one coffee chain across its airports, Edinburgh passengers now have a choice of four.
The capital's airport managers told the CMA that it has been freed to optimise income from car parking (to what can seem breathtaking prices), but giving customers more choice of long and shorter-stay, with off-peak pricing.
Instead of an expansion plan judged by BAA to be too expensive, the experience of Gatwick's reforms brought an understanding of how to bring down queuing times.
Using unstaffed check-in points, people move through the check-in hall to accommodate far more people than before (though customer satisfaction dipped for a while due to long delays at security).
Six out of every ten passengers now use self service and mobile kiosks. With fewer staff behind desks, airlines are charged less.
Where Edinburgh did invest in expansion, the new owners claim to have achieved it in 18 months, compared with five years for the previous growth phase under BAA.
Now, here's a thought: if that lack of autonomy and constraints on investment and growth was true of airports owned and controlled at a distance, how much could it apply to other organisations?
One striking aspect of this CMA report is the contrast between the view from Glasgow Airport and Edinburgh's enthusiastic, if not boastful, claims for the liberation of 2012, when it was bought by Gatwick's private equity owners.
As related by the CMA, ownership by a Spanish infrastructure investor and an Australian-based investment fund has not sounded all that happy for Glasgow Airport's management.
Having been kept within the Heathrow group until 2015, it suffered from prolonged uncertainty about its future. In being split from Edinburgh, it lost specialist skills in infrastructure maintenance and economies of scale. And on the west side of the city, without a train link or a tram like Edinburgh's, it's kind of in the wrong place.
Passenger numbers have been rising, after some sharp declines. But the best this CMA report can offer is that Glasgow has "focused on the customer experience... Other strategic change appears to have been incremental".
With the aid of a consultancy's econometric number-crunching, the report concludes that Edinburgh and Gatwick have thrived through their independence from Heathrow dominance. That's over and above the growth they might have seen.
And customers appear to have benefited from the BAA break-up, with 9% more take-offs and landings than in a group of other UK airports, and at least as high a premium in passenger numbers. A customer value is placed on that of Â£35m.
And what about Aberdeen Airport? It was put into special measures by the Competition Commission. That was partly because it serves a catchment area too small to support a rival airport to keep it sharp, and because it seemed there had been under-investment under BAA, with profits running unusually high.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was given the task of monitoring developments at the Dyce hub for helicopters as well as fixed wing, to see if it was responding to the competition regulator's targets for it.
The management's consultation on expansion plans brought hardly any responses. And just as it got its freedom from Heathrow, the oil price tanked, taking a lot of passenger traffic with it.
What the CAA did find was that revenue per passenger remains unusually high by comparison with other small city airports.
While Glasgow and Edinburgh both had revenue of Â£12 per passenger passing through in 2014, Aberdeen's figure had fallen, but was still 50% higher than for the central belt rivals. Only Heathrow and London City were higher.
The report justifies the BAA break-up, though results have been mixed. And it also points out that the benefits of competition are limited while London's capacity is constrained by indecision over runways.
That may not surprise much. You might expect the Competition and Markets Authority to produce a report that shows how positive more competition can be. The clue is in the name.
But as an occasional user of these airports, and an interested spectator as direct routes keep climbing, it does feel as if the break-up and competition has been good for choice, and bad for complacency.
As the SNP government is pledged to lower Air Passenger Duty by as much as half, the next such report may also be able to reflect on how much difference that makes.


All photographs courtesy of Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year.

From the northern lights to noctilucent clouds, the range of subjects in this year's competition covers all things astronomical. Here is a selection of the shortlisted images.
The Milky Way rises above a small radio telescope at Miyun Station, National Astronomical Observatory of China, Beijing, in Haitong Yu's photograph.
The image depicts light pollution, which together with electromagnetic noise, has turned many optical and radio observatories near cities both blind and deaf.
To make this image, Haitong Yu used a light-pollution filter and stacked multiple frames to show the Milky Way above the city light.
This picture of the aurora borealis swirling above snow covered trees in Murmansk, Russia, was made by Yulia Zhulikova. The trees glow a vivid pink, highlighted by street lamps.
Ainsley Bennett captures the waxing crescent Moon setting in the evening sky over the Needles Lighthouse on the western tip of the Isle of Wight.
Despite the Moon being a thin crescent, the rest of its shape is defined by sunlight reflecting back from the Earth's surface.
A large, searing hedgerow prominence extends from the surface of the Sun in Paul Andrew's picture.
A number of different prominence types have been observed emanating from the Sun, and the hedgerow prominence is so called because of the grouping of small prominences resembling rough and wild shrubbery.
A snow-clad mountain in the Eastern Sierras, California, towers over an aspen grove in Brandon Yoshizawa's image.
Above this autumn scene, the Milky Way shines.
Taken from Victoria Peak, the highest mountain on Hong Kong Island,  Prisca Law's image shows a busy city in contrast to the peaceful starry sky.
The yellow haze above the landscape is light pollution. Along the coastline roads, the pattern of light signifies the fast-paced life of cities.
After a long hike from his small cabin to Kvalvika, Lofoten Islands, in Norway, Nicolas Alexander Otto arrived at the slopes above the beach at about midnight.
During the hike, the aurora borealis display was relatively weak. But when he made it to the beach, the sky ignited in a colourful show of greens and purples framed by the mossy landscape.
The image was composed from six different exposures due to the high ISO camera setting and thermal noise in the foreground. The sky was added from one of these exposures.
A shooting star flashes across the sky over the craggy landscape of Portland, Dorset, as the planet Jupiter glows in Rob Bowes's photograph.
The image was made from two exposures: one for the sky and one for the rocks.
The International Space Station moves across the face of the Earth's natural satellite, the Moon, photographed in broad daylight by Dani Caxete.
The ISS was illuminated by the Sun at a height of nine degrees on the horizon.
Like the Moon, the ISS receives solar rays during its several orbits of the Earth a day, making it possible to see it when the Sun is still up.
This image was made with a single shot, with no composite or clipping in the process.
Noctilucent clouds stretch across the Swedish sky, illuminating Ruslan Merzlyakov's ride home in this dramatic display.
Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere and form above 61km (200,000ft).
Thought to be formed of ice crystals, the clouds occasionally become visible at twilight when the Sun is below the horizon and illuminates them.
On 31 October 2016, Near Earth Asteroid 164121 (2003 YT1) made a close encounter with Earth at three million miles.
This Apollo asteroid with an orbital period of 427 days was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 18 December 2003.
Derek Robson's attempt at imaging the asteroid was done with a camera on a fixed tripod, controlled by Astrophotography Tool software.
Lying in the constellation of Gemini, IC443 is a galactic supernova remnant, a star that could have exploded as many as 30,000 years ago,
Its globular appearance has earned the celestial structure the moniker of the Jellyfish Nebula.
In this picture made by Chris Heapy, at the upper left of the Jellyfish Nebula there is a much fainter background area of nebulosity, which is a large cloud of mostly molecular hydrogen gas and dust.
Professional observatory data shows that what we are actually seeing are two lobes superimposed on each other, but from this angle one appears as the head of the jellyfish (to the left) and the other lobe (to the right) as the dangling tentacles.


Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has confirmed he wants to take Cristiano Ronaldo back to Old Trafford.

Portugal forward Ronaldo left United for Real Madrid in 2009 for a then world record £80m fee and has become the Spanish side's top goalscorer.
However, speculation persists that the 30-year-old is set to leave Madrid.
"We are looking at all players, not just Ronaldo. But these players are mostly ungettable," said Van Gaal. "With Ronaldo, let's wait and hope."
Ronaldo, a three-time Fifa world player of the year, broke Raul's record of 323 goals for Real earlier this season.
He has won one La Liga title, a Champions League crown and two Spanish Cup titles in just over six years in the Spanish capital.
Before moving to Madrid, he won three Premier League titles, one Champions League, one FA Cup and two League Cups in six seasons at United.
He moved to Old Trafford for £12.24m from Sporting Lisbon in 2003 and scored 118 goals in 292 appearances for the Red Devils.
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England all-rounder Ben Stokes took four wickets but rain hampered Durham's fightback against Surrey at the Oval.

Stokes had Matthew Pillans caught by Scott Borthwick and bowled Gareth Batty as Surrey were bowled out for 457.
Keaton Jennings and Mark Stoneman hit fifties as Durham sailed to 114-0 but the pair fell to Zafar Ansari and Batty respectively in consecutive overs.
The visitors reached 156-2 at the close after only 33 balls were bowled after tea due to rain and bad light.
With England selector James Whitaker present at the Oval, Stokes warmed up for England's upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka by polishing off Surrey's tail.
Stoneman, who may be looking to fight his way into being Alastair Cook's next opening partner, followed up his unbeaten century against Middlesex last week with a quickfire 57 and found the boundary seven times.
After Jennings (53) was bowled by Ansari, Stoneman departed after being trapped in front by the hosts' captain Batty 10 balls later.
Rain took the players off the field and bad light prevented any further play, with day two called off at 17:45 BST.
Surrey wicketkeeper Ben Foakes told BBC Radio London: "It has been a good day, especially when you get all of your batting points.
"We would have liked a few more wickets, but it is a good wicket so as long as we hang in there and try to be persistent and see what we can get out of the wicket, then we're doing alright.
"Both the Durham openers were playing very well, Jennings especially he started to take the spinners on and play some reverse sweeps. We did not want the run rate to get away from us, so it was good to get him.
"It's about trying to bore the batters, really. You know you're not going to get a lot of movement but generally here you see later on in the game wickets can be taken quite quickly with the turn."


A police officer suffered serious injuries when she was injured by a man, reportedly armed with an axe, police said.

Four other male officers suffered less serious injuries during the attack in Plowright Close in Sheffield at about 19:50 BST on Wednesday.
A man was later arrested nearby on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in custody.
The female officer sustained "multiple serious injuries" in the attack.
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Witnesses said the female officer was injured inside a maisonette, before a man fled to the Co-op and started throwing stock at staff and customers.
Neighbour Simon Ellis, 46, who went to help the officer, said she told him she feared the attacker would kill her.
Mr Ellis said he had noticed two officers running up the stairwell in his block of flats and then a woman resident emerged.
"She said [her boyfriend had] lost his mind, the aliens were chasing him and he was trying to kill the police officers that I'd just seen running up the stairs," he said.
"As she did so, the lady police officer, who's been injured the most, came half-staggering, half-falling out of the stairwell pursued by this big bloke, this bodybuilder, with an axe.
"It was a frenzied attack, chopping at her with the axe."
A force spokesman said the officers were responding to a "domestic incident" in Plowright Close where they found the man with the axe.
"The PC and a second male officer were injured as they made attempts to arrest the man," he said.
"Then three other officers, all men, were also injured as they arrested the man, in his 30s, inside the Co-op store, in Blackstock Road."
Deputy Chief Constable Dawn Copley said: "The officers who attended in Gleadless last night were faced with an extremely dangerous situation and showed immense bravery dealing with a violent individual."
Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, added: "This is the second incident in this area within a few days.
"Fortunately, in both cases arrests have been speedily made and the public at large is not in danger. The community has also rallied round."
On Tuesday, a woman was stabbed to death at her home in Gleadless Valley.
A man has been charged with her murder.


An elephant named Patience with a history of aggression has killed a veteran keeper, a zoo in the US state of Missouri has said.

John Bradford, 62, elephant manager at Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, was working with the 41-year-old female.
Patience suddenly moved, fatally injuring him, the zoo said.
She will not be put down, the zoo said. Recently, the zoo euthanised the herd's matriarch, Pinky, who had advanced kidney disease.
"This is a very sad day for the zoo family, as well as our community as a whole," Mike Crocker, director of the zoo, said in a statement.
The zoo said members of staff had kept a close watch on Patience and another female in the herd since Pinky's death.
Two other zoo employees were with Mr Bradford when he was killed, out of caution over Patience's history of aggression.
Officials cannot determine why the elephant, who had been at the zoo since 1990, moved suddenly at Mr Bradford.
"This has never happened before," Springfield city spokeswoman Cora Scott told the BBC.
"There are counsellors on hand for the park employees, as it is a pretty tight-knit family here."
Mr Bradford had worked at the zoo for 30 years, 25 as elephant manager.
The park remains open, though the elephant exhibit has been closed.


A mother whose ill son died in prison after being neglected by staff says he should not have been left to die.

Shalane Blackwood complained of stomach pains and told his mother Linda Blackwood he was dying when she last spoke to him on 21 July.
He was found dead in his cell on 5 August, having suffered internal bleeding due to an ulcer.
An inquest jury decided "systematic failings amounting to neglect" significantly contributed to his death.
The 29-year-old, from Derby, had been jailed for possession of a firearm and was on a licence recall when he died in the segregation unit at Nottingham Prison.
His mother Linda Blackwood said: "I knew something was wrong when he was in HMP Nottingham - I just wish my concerns had been listened to at the time when I raised them.
"I feel Shalane's death could have been prevented."
The narrative conclusion given by the jury said: "Shalane Blackwood died from internal bleeding caused by a duodenal ulcer - a condition which should have been diagnosed and treated.
"Systemic failings amounting to neglect by prison and healthcare staff at HMP Nottingham significantly contributed to Shalane's death."
The Prison Service said in a statement: "We make every effort to learn from each death in custody and our thoughts are with the family of Mr Blackwood.
"We will consider and respond to the findings of the coroner's inquest and see what lessons can be learned."
Blood was found in Mr Blackwood's cell the day before he died but he was not taken to hospital.
Rebecca Treece, a solicitor representing his family, said: "It is deeply concerning that Shalane was found with blood in his cell and, even though the source was not identified, further investigations were not sought.
"Shalane's family were particularly shocked by this."
She added that "urgent action" is needed to address the issues uncovered by the inquest.
The death was investigated independently by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) and a report is due to be published.
The most recent inspection report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, published in February 2015, said Nottingham Prison was not safe enough and conditions were poor.
Andrew Neilson, campaign director for the Howard League for Penal Reform, said at the time: "Staff are being overwhelmed by the amount of workâ€¦ and the pressure on them because of cutbacks."


Accrington came from 1-0 down to beat League Two promotion chasers Plymouth thanks to two late goals.

Shay McCartan was the match-winner for the hosts, heading home from Matty Pearson's cross in injury time.
Plymouth had gone ahead in the 23rd minute through Jake Jervis, who nodded in Graham Carey's cross.
Stanley were level in the 85th minute after Kelvin Mellor saw red for pushing Billy Kee, who converted the penalty, before McCartan's strike.
Accrington move up to fifth place, five points above Wycombe in eighth, while the Pilgrims stay third.


Dagenham bolstered their play-off prospects in the National League with an emphatic comeback win at 10-man Macclesfield.

Mitch Hancox gave the hosts an early advantage when he shot past Elliot Justham from long range.
Luke Guttridge, however, deservedly levelled matters for Dagenham five minutes before the break when he curled a free-kick around the wall and past a despairing Scott Flinders.
In the second half, Macclesfield defender Neill Byrne was red-carded when he pulled down Paul Benson in the box and Corey Whitely put John Still's men 2-1 up from the spot.
Substitute Jordan Maguire-Drew turned the away side's advantage into a commanding cushion with two late goals, the second a beautiful dink over Flinders.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 4.
Second Half ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 4.
Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 4. Jordan Maguire-Drew (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Frankie Raymond replaces Andre Boucaud.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Jack Mackreth replaces Rhys Browne.
Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 3. Jordan Maguire-Drew (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Corey Whitely.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Danny Whitehead replaces Luke Summerfield.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. George Pilkington replaces John McCombe.
Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 2. Corey Whitely (Dagenham and Redbridge) converts the penalty with a.
Neill Byrne (Macclesfield Town) is shown the red card.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Jordan Maguire-Drew replaces Elliott Romain.
John McCombe (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
First Half ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Luke Guttridge (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0. Mitch Hancox (Macclesfield Town).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Former Aston Villa chairman Sir Doug Ellis hopes to live long enough to see the club return to the Premier League.

The 92-year-old sold Villa to Randy Lerner in 2006 and was at Old Trafford on Saturday to see them relegated for the first time since 1987.
"We are going to have great difficulty in returning in one year but I've seen some encouraging signs and we've a reasonable chance," Ellis told the BBC.
"I hope I will still be alive - I am only 92 remember - to see that happen."
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Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme, Ellis added: "I don't think I could be any sadder than I am today but it has been obvious since Christmas that we were going down."
Villa began the season with Tim Sherwood, who had taken them to the FA Cup final the previous season, as manager.
He was sacked in October after six straight league defeats and replaced by Frenchman Remi Garde.
However, with Villa still bottom of the table, the former Arsenal midfielder lasted only 147 days in the role before he was dismissed in March, with Eric Black taking temporary charge.
Ellis appointed 13 managers in his 35 years as chairman and believes whoever become Villa's new boss should have experience of the British game.
"That would be an advantage, it's got to be someone with a background of coming through the divisions, certainly the second tier," he said.
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Former Villa captain Dennis Mortimer, who lifted the European Cup with them in 1982, believes former Leicester boss Nigel Pearson is the outstanding candidate for the job.
"I said when Remi Garde was put in that they needed someone who has been in a similar situation and that was Nigel Pearson," Mortimer told Sportsweek.
"With his understanding of the English game he would have given it a better go than Remi Garde.
"It definitely has to be him, people talk about David Moyes but I think Nigel is more current.
"I wouldn't have thought he'd be sitting back over the last 12 months, he would have been putting together a portfolio of players.
"He wouldn't be relying on the chief scout they have got at Villa now because that has been a disaster over the last few seasons and they are paying the price for it."
Lerner, who put the club up for sale in 2014, recently agreed changes to the Villa board, with former player and manager Brian Little returning to the club alongside former FA and Manchester City chairman David Bernstein.
Mortimer agreed it was a "step forward" but added: "It's probably five years too late.
"Randy thought he could do it the American way by putting in people to look after the club for him but he missed a trick on how English clubs operate.
"It's a difficult league, the Championship, many teams have gone down and not come back up, we can see the lower divisions littered with teams that once played in the Premier League and that's something Villa can't afford.
"I think this next month is so important for them, they need to get the manager in there right away sorting out what he needs and then they start the season fresh."


The extent of Theresa's May victory over the other two candidates makes her the clear favourite to move into Number 10 in September.
It's important to remember though, the contest moves from Westminster now out to the country for Tory supporters to make their minds up. And the party membership is not in any way bound to follow the recommendation of its MPs.
They are, like most British voters, a pretty determined bunch who are not necessarily well-disposed to being told what to do.
Enthusiasts for the home secretary full of delight at the extent of her victory may have to tread carefully, to avoid irking their constituency members by giving them instruction, rather than friendly advice.
The dramatic emergence of Andrea Leadsom as one of the final two marks her as a politician destined for a major job even if she doesn't win the contest.
A few weeks ago, before the referendum, she was not even particularly well known around Westminster, so for her to have reached this stage is a remarkable achievement in itself.
Tory MPs' decisions today also guarantee that the next prime minister will be a woman.
Maybe that shouldn't matter very much anymore, and it may not matter very much to that many people now, but it will only be the second time in our country's history that it will have happened - that alone makes it significant.
And for the political nerds, myself included, one of the wider significances about today's ballot?
It perhaps also marks a brutal end to the commanding influence of the group known as the Notting Hill Tories - who together pushed David Cameron to lead the party in 2005, then into Number Ten five years later.
They have controlled the upper echelons of the Tory party for a decade, and they hoped, if not even assumed that they would control the succession.
With Michael Gove's departure from the race, their power and control fade too, and along with them maybe a particular way of doing politics.
Look carefully at some of faces smiling behind May and Leadsom. That shift in power away from David Cameron's "set" explains at least some of the grins.


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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger accused his players of losing their nerve and blamed "suicidal" defending after a 3-1 home defeat by Monaco left them on the brink of Champions League elimination.

Goals from Geoffrey Kondogbia and Dimitar Berbatov put Monaco in control of the last-16 first-leg tie.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain gave Arsenal hope, but Yannick Ferreira Carrasco added a third for the visitors.
"It is just not right to give goals away the way we did," said Wenger.
"We missed chances and were suicidal defensively."
Arsenal must now score at least three goals when the sides meet at Stade Louis II on 17 March if they are to avoid exiting at the last-16 stage for the fifth straight season.
No side has lost a European Cup or Champions League first-leg knockout tie at home by two goals and progressed since Ajax in 1969.
Wenger warned Monaco, who conceded just once and scored only four goals in their group, would play on the counter-attack.
But his team were caught on the break early in the second half as Berbatov added to Kondogbia's deflected opener and substitute Ferreira Carrasco netted another breakaway goal in added time.
"On the second and third goals, it was suicide," said the Gunners boss. "It looks like we have lost our nerve and our rationality. The heart took over the head and at this level that doesn't work.
"Mentally we were not sharp enough. We rushed our game. We knew coming back in at half-time it was important not to concede the second goal, but we were too impatient. It was more heart than brain."
Wenger admitted Monaco's third goal could be decisive: "The task is massive now. The third goal makes it even more difficult."
He substituted compatriot Olivier Giroud on the hour mark after he missed the target with six efforts: "It looked like it was not one of his best days."
Former Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov: "It was a great success. We fought like a team, we scored our chances and it's a great result.
"Probably the only people who believed we could do something good today was the players and the coach. I know how the good players are that we have. They are young players, but they have good quality.
"It is a big step but nothing is over because Arsenal are a very dangerous team. When the next game comes, we will try to prepare and not allow them to score the goals they need to score."
Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim: "No-one really thought that this result would have been possible, but we achieved it. However, Arsenal are a great side and we are only halfway through this knockout tie.
"Football is a team game and we know individual players are important. We were able to nullify their threat. We were very organised and, as I said we would, we were also able to attack with a lot of quality."
Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown on BBC Radio 5 live: "The team is not professional enough. They get too caught up in the moment.
"It's one thing to identify the problems, but it's another thing to make the necessary changes. Big decisions have got to be made, but Wenger loves every player and treats every player like his son. He's got to be ruthless for the benefit of the team."


The right-wing website Breitbart, which has been accused by some of being a hate site, is calling for a boycott of Kellogg's products after the cereal maker pulled its advertising from the news outlet.

Using the hashtag #DumpKelloggs to promote a petition through social media, Breitbart is urging its readers to "ban bigotry from the breakfast table".
The media organisation, previously run by US President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon, said the move by Kellogg's to cease advertising was "an escalation of war".
On Tuesday Kellogg's removed its adverts from Breitbart on the basis that the site did not "align with our values as a company".
Breitbart said the decision was one of a number of provocative moves by "leftist companies" against those whose values propelled Mr Trump into the White House.
The online petition, which was posted on Wednesday, has already received more than 100,000 signatures.
However Breitbart's call to #DumpKelloggs has been met with mixed reaction on social media.
"This just in!!! Breitbart is potentially a cereal killer!" writes one user of the online news-sharing community Reddit.
"That explains the boxes of Alt-Rice Krispies I'm seeing on the shelves," writes another.
Those supporting the boycott on Twitter argue that items such as breakfast cereal "shouldn't be political", with some posting images of themselves disposing of Kellogg's products in bins.
Others are coming out in support of Kellogg's and making light of the so-called "war", which is "escalating" far beyond discussions at dining tables across the US.
Users debating the issue are also split on who is most likely to be hurt by the company's move, Breitbart or Kellogg's.
Breitbart is a popular outlet in the US. Its readership increased from 2.9m unique visitors in 2012 to 17m in 2016, making it the most-read conservative news website in America.


St Mirren remain seven points adrift at the foot of the Championship as Dumbarton twice came from behind to level.

David Clarkson knocked in a Cammy Smith delivery from close range to give the Buddies a half time lead.
But Christian Nade was given time and space to power in a header from a corner on 56 minutes.
Harry Davis nodded in a debut goal for the visitors but Robert Thomson later finished after a smart turn.
The draw keeps Dumbarton, in eighth spot, 11 points clear of the Paisley side, who could not make up any ground given ninth-placed Ayr United's surprise draw away to leaders Hibernian.
Match ends, Dumbarton 2, St. Mirren 2.
Second Half ends, Dumbarton 2, St. Mirren 2.
Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Robert Thomson.
Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Daniel Harvie.
Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Tom Lang (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Dumbarton. Conceded by Craig Storie.
Lewis Vaughan (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Foul by Lewis Vaughan (Dumbarton).
Craig Storie (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Christian Nade (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Christian Nade (Dumbarton).
Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Irvine (St. Mirren).
Goal!  Dumbarton 2, St. Mirren 2. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Josh Todd replaces David Clarkson.
Attempt saved. Lewis Vaughan (Dumbarton) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Clarkson (St. Mirren).
Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren).
Substitution, St. Mirren. Stelios Demetriou replaces Adam Eckersley.
Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Tom Lang.
Goal!  Dumbarton 1, St. Mirren 2. Harry Davis (St. Mirren) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen McGinn.
Foul by Lewis Vaughan (Dumbarton).
Craig Storie (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Alan Martin.
Attempt blocked. David Clarkson (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Daniel Harvie.
Substitution, St. Mirren. John Sutton replaces Lewis Morgan.
Foul by Robert Thomson (Dumbarton).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Irvine (St. Mirren).
Harry Davis (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christian Nade (Dumbarton).


London mayor Sadiq Khan has asked for a review of the Garden Bridge project.

The MP for Barking, Margaret Hodge, will examine whether value for money has been achieved from the taxpayers' £60m contribution to the bridge.
Ms Hodge, a former chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, will also look at whether transparency standards have been met by public bodies.
Mr Khan has said no more taxpayer money should be spent on the bridge.
The mayor said: "I'm clear that since the beginning of the project there hasn't been the necessary standard of transparency and openness around the Garden Bridge.
"Nearly £40m of public money has already been spent and Londoners deserve more information about the decisions that have been made."
Mrs Hodge said she did not have a view on whether the Garden Bridge was "a fantastic idea or a waste of money".
But James Hatts, editor of local news website SE1, believes the mayor's review is overdue.
He said the Garden Bridge Trust had "already burned through £30-40m of public funds" and "there are huge question marks" over the business plan.
"They are relying on corporate events, souvenirs, credit card readers as you walk onto the bridge so that you can give a donation," he said.
"It's really difficult to see that they are going to get £3.5m year on year. Ultimately, the way Boris Johnson and local authorities structured the planning permission and associated agreements for the bridge means there's a chance the public purse will end up meeting ongoing costs."
This could be the beginning of the end for the Garden Bridge. It was meant to be a haven on the Thames and while many in the establishment loved it and thought it would be well received, slowly but surely dissent has grown.
Protesters objected to the location of the bridge as it would affect protected views of St Paul's from South Bank and would require the destruction of numerous established trees on the river banks. They also thought taxpayers money could be better spent elsewhere.
Now it seems like this is a slow death by a thousand reviews.
The review by the Garden Bridge Trust, a third investigation of the scheme, could make it harder for the trust to raise all the private money needed for the scheme. So far not all of it has been raised.
The mayor hasn't killed off the bridge just yet but there are those who think he effectively has done in announcing this review.
Lib Dem London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon called on Mr Khan to state he will not underwrite the maintenance of the Garden Bridge.
"His current stance of providing a permanent taxpayer bailout to pay for the maintenance of the bridge while claiming to never provide any further public funding for the project is utter nonsense and indefensible."
Campaigners also pointed out that by ordering the review at a cost of £25,000 the mayor was already spending taxpayers' money on the Garden Bridge.
The Garden Bridge aims to link Temple with the Southbank.


A surgery in Bristol where three doctors in charge have resigned - will remain open, NHS England has said.

The three partners at the Northville Family Practice in Filton are due to leave the GP surgery in January.
NHS England's Caroline Stead, said it was looking for a new team to run the practice, which serves 5,331 patients.
She said it was "committed to providing local people with high quality GP services" and would "ensure current services continue as normal".
No reason has been given for the partners' departure and the practice has yet to comment.
But NHS England said a new management team would be taking over while it looked for a "longer-term solution".
"In the short term, it will be business as usual for patients while we quickly find a new interim management team and then oversee a seamless handover to them," said Ms Stead.
"We will then be looking at talking to local people about the types of services they need for the longer term."


A woman who was caught up in the Manchester Arena attack says she felt like she was in a "war zone".

Shula Coward was in the foyer after the Ariana Grande concert when Salman Abedi detonated the bomb which killed 22 people on 22 May.
She said she instinctively grabbed her 11-year-old daughter Acacia and her friend and they ran.
"There was a bang, then firecracker noises, lights flashing and smoke... and it went very quiet," she added.
Ms Coward said her daughter's friend was crying so she took her hand and they ran for the exit.
She told BBC Radio Manchester: "We stopped for a spilt second when it was quiet. I remember looking up at the ceiling and you could see like all black pieces coming down.
"I realised straight away. I saw my daughter being lifted up the air and land on the floor.
"I reached forward and dragged her up off the floor. I didn't even look to see if she was injured.
"As we reached the exit door I could see my daughter was slowing up and she said 'I can't run anymore, my leg is really hurting'.
"I realised then she had been injured."
Ms Coward said it was like being in a "war zone" with people being stretchered out and others frantically searching for their loved ones.
The bolt from the bomb imbedded in her daughter Acacia's knee but the force of the blast pushed it two inches down into her leg, damaging an artery.
Acacia is now recovering at home and the netball fan was cheered up by a surprise visit from some of the members of her favourite team Manchester Thunder.


Carlos Brathwaite hit the first four balls of the final over for six as West Indies stunned England to win the World Twenty20.

West Indies, who were 11-3 in pursuit of England's 155-9, needed 19 off the final over to win and did it in style.
Marlon Samuels' 85 not out kept them in contention before Brathwaite's match-winning blitz off Ben Stokes.
Joe Root scored 54 for England but nothing could stop the Windies joining their women as World T20 champions.
In the process, the West Indies also became the first two-time winners of the men's World Twenty20.
Despite the devastating loss, England can take a lot of encouragement from their performance in this tournament, which has showcased an attacking philosophy and resilience that was completely lacking during their group-stage exit of last year's 50-over World Cup.
But for Brathwaite and Samuels, it would have been Eoin Morgan's side capping their rapid improvement with their own World T20 title.
Brathwaite came in at number eight, joining Samuels at the crease in the 16th over with the West Indies on 107-6 and needing 49 from 27 balls.
The tall bowler had only batted twice in the competition prior to the final, scoring 10 not out against South Africa and 13 against Afghanistan in the group stages.
But, with 19 needed off Stokes' last over, he seized his moment with the bat in spectacular fashion.
Brathwaite will take the headlines, but man of the match Samuels was the real architect behind the West Indies' victory courtesy of his 66-ball unbeaten 85 - the highest individual score in a World T20 final, beating his own record of 78, scored in 2012.
He was brought to the crease in just the second over following the dismissal of Johnson Charles, who, along with fellow opener Chris Gayle, was one of two wickets claimed by surprise opening bowler Root.
Lendl Simmons, who scored a match-winning 82 in the semi-final against India in his first appearance in the competition, was trapped lbw by David Willey in the next over to leave the West Indies reeling.
Samuels was given a reprieve in the first over after the powerplay as replays of his edge from Plunkett showed it fell just short of Jos Buttler's gloves, leading to the umpire calling him back to the crease after initially raising his finger.
But Samuels kept a cool head after this, scoring at around a run a ball to reach 50 and help his side to 86-3 before accelerating with two sixes and a four in a key 15th over from Plunkett.
Two wickets in the 16th over by Willey in the following over swung the game back England's way, but Samuels remained to watch on from the non-striker's end as Brathwaite turned the game decisively in the West Indies' favour.
It was a cruel end to the game for Stokes, who had excelled in the field, taking four catches. He left the field in tears.
England also got off to a horror start in their innings, with Jason Roy bowled through the gate from just the second ball of Samuel Badree's opening over.
Alex Hales (1) and captain Eoin Morgan (5) followed soon after as they faltered to 23-3.
This united England's best two batsmen at the crease with plenty of overs to attack and Joe Root and Jos Buttler steadied the ship before taking the game to their opponent to forge the best partnership of the innings - 61 from just under seven overs.
However, Buttler fell just as he was looking to accelerate and Root was dismissed with just over five overs remaining as the pressure on his shoulders produced the first false shot of his innings - a mistimed, premeditated attempted scoop that gave a catch to short fine-leg Benn and Brathwaite the second of his three wickets.
Only Willey would make another notable contribution, hitting two sixes and a four in a quick-fire 21 to help England to their modest and ultimately insufficient total.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "It was filled with ups and downs. We let ourselves down with the bat and probably fell about 40 short.
"The decision to open the bowling with Joe Root came about in the last couple of days and golden arm took two wickets in his first over.
"Throughout this tournament we have shared a lot of good times but we are all in pain tonight. Ben [Stokes] plays all three formats, it will take him a while to come back but I have no doubts he will have a long career and do well in an England shirt."
West Indies captain Darren Sammy: "This win is something we are going to cherish for a long time. We have 15 match-winners but nobody gave us a chance.
"We felt disrespected by our board, [commentator] Mark Nicholas described us as having no brains and all this brought us together. The ability to put adversity aside and to play this type of cricket is just tremendous."
England head coach Trevor Bayliss: "If you add up the white-ball cricket games these guys have played, it's a long way behind other teams. It's a promising side and the signs are good.
"Whatever words I come up with the in the dressing room won't be enough. They're hurting, but it will steel them for the future.
"We have still got work to do, but we have a lot of good players to work with. England cricket is in good hands."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "Four successive sixes to win, I have never seen that before. England looked absolutely crushed. It's really good to see a smile on the face of West Indies cricket. It's a unique brand of the game and it needs to be nurtured and encouraged."
Former England spinner Vic Marks: "It was a staggeringly good final and a very good tournament. I feel desperately sorry for England who played so tenaciously to get back into the match, and especially for Ben Stokes. On the other hand you have to admire Brathwaite and the way he finished the game."
BBC Test Match Special commentator Charles Dagnall: "An incredible tournament with an impossible end... Love T20. But feel for Stokes, like the penalty taker who misses in sudden death."


Baroness Nuala O'Loan cannot be dismissed as a "bleeding heart liberal" when she attacks the political establishment in Stormont and Westminster for putting Northern Ireland's peace process at risk.

She has bled herself, when she was injured in an IRA attack on the Ulster Polytechnic in 1977.
Baroness O'Loan, a former police ombudsman, argues that it's only by confronting the past that people in Northern Ireland will drag themselves clear of it.
"If you don't deal with the past," she told me on The World This Weekend, "then the trauma, the disability, the pain, everything continues; and as that continues in society it leaves a sense of injustice.
"And if you leave a sense of injustice, you leave a gap into which paramilitarism of either kind, loyalist or republican, can move."
Last weekend alone, 140 parades were held. It's the height of the marching season, when Unionists and Nationalists alike celebrate their heritage.
Historical events loom large, but at least one march commemorated a more recent controversy: Internment, or detention without trial, which existed for a few years in the 1970s.
The number of strategically parked police vans illustrated police fears that the situation might kick off.
The cost can be considerable. One dispute alone, in North Belfast, has cost Â£23m so far.
Between the beginning of April 2014 and the end of March this year, three people died due to the deteriorating security situation.
There were 94 shootings by paramilitaries (48 loyalist, 46 republican) and 26 bomb attacks; 58 firearms were found as well as 23kg of explosives and nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition.
"We cannot really claim to have peace," Baroness O'Loan says.
The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, George Hamilton, says failure to tackle the causes of sectarianism leaves his officers to pick up the pieces.
"It feels to me like broader society places all the responsibility, wrongly, at the police service's door," he told a public meeting last week. "I know we have a critical part to play, but the legislative framework and the budget allocation comes from another arena, called politics."
There might be less strain in the police budget if the Â£150m for measures to tackle the past, which was pledged by the British government had been delivered.
The Stormont House Agreement, signed by the political parties in Northern Ireland at the end of last year, said the government would provide the money only if local politicians agreed on welfare reform.
Baroness O'Loan is scathing: "It's immoral that they managed to tie up welfare reform with dealing with the past. They're two separate issues and they should be negotiated and dealt with separately."
For now, then, the mechanisms for tackling Northern Ireland's bloody past exist only on paper.
Susan Mackay, who has written extensively about Northern Ireland's politics, says the summer marching season suggests peace has not yet planted deep roots.
"What we see playing out in the streets is symptomatic of that absence of agreement; it's a way of saying that we don't agree with the Good Friday Agreement, we don't agree with the institutions at Stormont."
Money doesn't solve problems, but in Northern Ireland's case, the absence of it appears to make them that much harder to resolve.


Police investigating the disappearance of a woman after she left a Swindon nightclub believe they are "very close" to identifying her whereabouts.

Sian O'Callaghan, 22, went missing on Saturday after failing to return home.
Det Supt Steve Fulcher said the search had made "good progress" but would be limited to daylight hours and would be assisted by dog teams on Thursday.
"I believe we are getting very close to identifying Sian's whereabouts," he said.
He added he was not asking for any more public assistance at this stage.
Earlier on Wednesday detectives said "significant lines of inquiry" were being developed.
Mr Fulcher said he had now discounted large parts of the forest and the inquiry was moving rapidly.
He said new techniques had given police a "tighter search parameter".
Mr Fulcher said the public were no longer being asked to join the search but appealed for anyone with any information to contact police.
Miss O'Callaghan has been missing since leaving the Suju club to walk half a mile (800m) home to the flat she shares with boyfriend Kevin Reape, 25, at about 0250 GMT on Saturday.
A signal from her mobile phone was picked up from Savernake Forest, near Marlborough.
Mobile records put her phone in the area of the 4,500-acre wood 32 minutes after she left the club.
Police have said Miss O'Callaghan's journey to the woods could only have been made by car.
Mr Fulcher said: "I've been able to use new technological techniques to provide a tighter search parameter and have been able to rule out large areas of the six-and-a-half mile radius we have all been searching.
"Those tactics are being urgently progressed today by specialists."
He added: "The inquiry moves on at a rapid pace with significant lines of inquiry being developed.
"The public have been fantastic in support of the search for Sian O'Callaghan and I'm very grateful.
"I may need further support from the public closer to the weekend but for now I would ask that people monitor the force website, media and social networks for my further requests if they are required."
Ch Supt Steve Headley said further use of mobile phone technology had produced several "hot spots" that specialist search teams were examining.
"That doesn't mean we are going to find anything specific, but we have got more of an idea from the technology where to look first," he said.
Mr Headley added that Miss O'Callaghan's family were coping "as well as you or I would in these situations".
"It must be awful for them," he said.
Her friends and her boyfriend joined the search on Tuesday along with coach loads of local people, many of whom did not know the missing woman, after a police appeal for help.
A Â£20,000 reward to help find her has been offered by an anonymous donor.
Miss O'Callaghan, who works as an office administrator, had an LG E900 Optimus mobile phone and police have asked for anyone who finds one to contact the force.
A vigil and prayer service was held for her at St Barnabas Church in Gorse Hill, Swindon, on Wednesday evening.
About 200 people of all ages came together for the service and worshippers were able to light candles and say private prayers.
More than 60 police officers are working on the investigation which is being treated as a missing person inquiry.


After 17 years playing Wolverine in the X-Men movies, Hugh Jackman is hanging up his claws.

His latest film, Logan, sees the mutant superhero in a way we've never seen him before - older, more grizzled and working as a limo driver to support a frail Professor Charles Xavier.
It's a very different take on the comic book character we've been used to seeing the actor play across eight films, but the star says he's more than happy to bow out with this movie.
"I was very clear this was the last one when we were making it," he says. "I don't think I could've made this movie unless I knew that.
"This was the version of the movie I wanted to make - and I was surprised the studio said yes - because I felt deep down we hadn't fully cracked it.
"And I don't think I was fully OK with it until I saw it, because even though I had a good feeling, you never know until you see the final product if it's something you know you can sleep with for the rest of your life."
The Oscar-nominated actor also insists he will never return to the role, even for cameos or spin-off films.
"I'm going home - it's been a great party, thank you," he says. "I'm putting my pyjamas on and going to bed."
But he does have some words of advice for whoever takes on the Wolverine next.
"I remember running into Dougray Scott who originally had this role, but couldn't do it because he was on another film that ran over, so I got the role.
"I met him and thought this is going to be awkward, but he said: 'Logan is going to be one of the best roles you'll ever have, so go crush it'.
"I thought it was so simple and classy, so I'll say the same thing - but don't crush it too much."
Jackman's next film project, The Greatest Showman, tells the story of PT Barnum - the founder of the famous Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
After that, the star says he hopes to return to the London stage, almost 20 years since he last appeared.
He was nominated for an Olivier theatre award in 1998 for his UK stage debut in Trevor Nunn's revival of Oklahoma! before his film career took off.
But he told the BBC there was another reason why he had not returned sooner.
"It's an issue of children - I love being here but I have kids at school. At some point in the future I'd love to come to the West End," he said.
"Coming here working for Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre, that was a real turning point for me.
"[My children] are 16 and 11 and they're at the age where they'd love me to go away because I'm kind of a strict guy at home, but I'd love to do that again some time."
Logan is on general release in cinemas now.
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A man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into computer discs containing offensive material that were left outside homes.

The 35-year-old man from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, was detained on suspicion of possessing and distributing indecent images.
A number of CDs, covered in symbolic writing, have been found in streets and gardens in Buckinghamshire.
Thames Valley Police has warned people not to open them on their computers.
The force said the arrested man was believed to have delivered discs in the area of Park Place, Plantation Road and Roundwood Road in Amersham and several reports have also been received of discs left in flower boxes and flower beds in Whielden Street in the town and The Spinney and Broad Street in Chesham.
It is understood they may contain religious warnings, offensive and illegal pornographic material and computer viruses.
Officers will be making house-to-house inquiries to retrieve any discs they may have been given.


Essex have signed England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar on a two-year deal following his release by Sussex.

The 31-year-old, currently in Australia with England, took 14 County Championship wickets in six matches while on loan at Essex this summer.
Panesar left Sussex for the Division Two side after an internal club investigation for being fined by police for urinating on nightclub bouncers.
"I loved playing for Essex last season," he said.
"I will always remember how the supporters and members gave me a heart-warming round of applause when I first came on to bowl at Colchester last August.
"It helped me to feel respected and loved as a cricketer after experiencing a challenging time in my life."
Essex head coach Paul Grayson had been  who has not featured in England's opening warm-up match against Western Australia.
But the former Northamptonshire bowler has committed to the Chelmsford club, despite reported interest from other sides.
"I want to help the club build towards the kind of success they enjoyed in its glory days under legendary captains Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch," said Panesar.
"I love the family feel of the club and value the role Essex has played in helping me move towards my best, and gain selection for this winter's Ashes series."


Businesses affected by the £1.5bn government-proposed A14 road upgrade have pledged £50m towards the project.

The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GCGPLEP) said it was a "firm commitment" to the scheme.
The money would come from business rates generated by the new enterprise zone at Alconbury in Cambridgeshire.
It hopes other organisations in the east will pledge funds towards the £125m expected to be raised locally.
The A14 links the country's largest container port in Felixstowe, Suffolk, with the M1 and M6 motorways via Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
Improvements including widening the road and new safety measures were confirmed by the government in the Autumn Statement 2011, and  proposals to toll the road were announced in July.
Last month, businesses and councils from across the region met to discuss ways to help fund the project.
Glenn Athey, executive director of the GCGPLEP, said: "Government has clearly said to us they'd be willing to go forward with this if we could raise a local contribution of up to £150m.
"We want the A14 to go ahead and are willing to engage with them on those terms."
He said business rates collected from the new enterprise zone in Cambridgeshire were expected to raise up to £180m over 25 years, and the partnership's board was "unanimous" that £50m of that be used for the A14.
"It is a firm commitment," he said. "Hopefully it will be a signal to other organisations that we are getting closer to putting a deal forward to government."
County council leader Nick Clarke described it as a "considerable contribution" to the scheme.
"I spoke to the prime minister last week and he's very keen that this pushes ahead. There are no political obstacles I'm aware of in national government," he said.
"It's a case now of working through the engineering solution and making sure we come up with our part of the deal."
Work on the upgrade is expected to begin in 2018.


The murder of an Afghan insurgent by a Royal Marine was a "heinous" crime and the armed forces should not request leniency when he is sentenced, the chief of defence staff has said.

Gen Sir Nick Houghton said it would be "quite wrong" for the armed forces to expect special provision from the law.
The sergeant, identified only as Marine A, was convicted on Friday over the shooting of the unknown man in 2011.
A retired commander has said he should be shown leniency when he is sentenced.
Marine A, who was convicted after a court martial in Wiltshire, faces a mandatory life sentence, but a minimum term will be set at a sentencing hearing on 6 December.
On Saturday, Maj Gen Julian Thompson, who led 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War, said the shooting of the insurgent in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, was "totally wrong, totally unforgiveable" and it was "quite right" that Marine A would be sentenced.
But he said it was not known what pressure the sergeant might have been under in the past and some sort of clemency should be exercised.
A five-year or 10-year term would be more appropriate than life, he said.
But, speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme on Sunday, Gen Houghton said there was a due process that would lead to sentencing, and that process was to determine whether or not clemency could be shown.
"Those in authority over the armed forces should not request any form of leniency... that would be a dangerous thing to do," he said.
"Murder is murder - this is a heinous crime."
He said the armed forces expected "immaculate standards" from its servicemen and women and the Army had to be "immaculate" in upholding judicial process.
This international agreement concerning the treatment of captured and wounded prisoners of war was first signed in Geneva in 1864. It was later revised in 1949 and consists of four treaties.
Article three of the third convention rules that members of the armed forces who have laid down their arms or who cannot fight due to sickness, wounds or detention should be "treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria".
To this end, it is prohibited to pass sentences on prisoners or carry out executions without a constituted court judgement. Prisoners may not be harmed, degraded, humiliated or taken hostage.
Under the convention, the wounded and sick should be collected and cared for by an impartial humanitarian body, such as the Red Cross.
"If we try to put ourselves beyond the law or expect special provision from the law, then we start to erode the position where we have a moral ascendancy over those that are our enemies and that is the wrong thing to do," he said.
On a visit to Helmand, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said he had not heard any calls for clemency from anyone deployed there.
He told the Sky News Murnaghan programme he believed the case of Marine A was an "isolated incident" and soldiers in Afghanistan understood that part of what makes them different from insurgents and terrorists was the Army "maintained a certain standard".
"These are standards that are core to our values as a society and core to the values of the British armed forces," he said.
"I have heard no suggestion since I have been here that there is any request for special treatment for anyone convicted of the crime of murder."
The trial at the Military Court Centre in Bulford was the first time a member of the British forces had faced a murder charge in relation to the conflict in Afghanistan, which began in 2001.
Two other marines were cleared. An anonymity order was granted last year to protect the three men from possible reprisals.
The murder took place after a patrol base in Helmand came under attack from small arms fire from two insurgents.
The Afghan insurgent had been seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support, and the marines found him in a field.
One of the cleared marines - known as Marine B - inadvertently filmed the murder on his helmet-mounted camera and that footage, taken on 15 September 2011, was shown to the court during the two-week trial.
It showed Marine A shooting the Afghan prisoner with a 9mm pistol, and saying: "There, shuffle off this mortal coil... It's nothing you wouldn't do to us."
He adds: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere fellas. I just broke the Geneva Convention," to which Marine B replies: "Yeah, roger mate."
During the court martial, prosecutor David Perry told the court the murder was "not a killing in the heat and exercise of any armed conflict. It amounted to an execution".
Marine A told the court martial he had fired because of "poor judgement and lack of self-control", but said he had thought the insurgent was already dead.


The influence that a privately educated, middle-class elite have on public life is "shocking", former prime minister Sir John Major has said.

Sir John said the "upper echelons of power" were dominated by those from a similar background.
In a speech to Tory activists reported in the Daily Telegraph he blamed "the collapse in social mobility" on the failures of the last Labour government.
More than half the current cabinet were educated at private schools.
David Cameron was educated at Eton, as was the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the Archbishop of Canterbury The Right Reverend Justin Welby.
Nick Clegg attended Westminster while George Osborne and deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman went to St Paul's. In contrast, Sir John - prime minister between 1990 and 1997 - grew up in Brixton and left his grammar school with three O-levels.
In a speech to the South Norfolk Conservative Association's annual dinner, he bemoaned what he said was the lack of people from working and lower middle class backgrounds in positions of influence in British institutions.
"In every single sphere of British influence, the upper echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated or the affluent middle class," he said.
"To me, from my background, I find that truly shocking."
Sir John said the Labour government, in power between 1997 and 2010, had left a legacy of a "Victorian divide between stagnation and aspiration" which current leader Ed Miliband was in no position to address.
Too many children, he added, were "locked into the circumstances in which they were born" as a result of a lack of educational opportunities.
He added: "I remember enough of my past to be outraged on behalf of the people abandoned when social mobility is lost... we need them to fly as high as their luck, their ability and their sheer hard graft can actually take them.
"And it is not going to happen magically."
Sir John also called for more help for savers, who have seen their incomes eroded by "cripplingly unfair" low interest rates since 2008.
He urged the Bank of England to raise interest rates to "normal levels", which he suggested were between 3% and 5%, as soon as was economically feasible.
He also advised his party against "personal attacks" on UKIP, suggesting many of their supporters were natural Conservatives who were "patriotic Britons" who felt "bewildered" by the pace of social change.
The speech is his second intervention in contemporary politics in a matter of weeks, after his call earlier this month for a windfall tax on energy profits in the event of a harsh winter and a warning about hidden "lace curtain poverty".
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said he did not believe the comments were an attack on the current Conservative leadership but a plea for those from modest backgrounds to have more say in public life.
The former prime minister, Nick Robinson added, was speaking up for what he regarded as his party's natural constituency, the hard-working but aspiring majority who were not well-off.
Downing Street rejected any suggestions of a rift with Sir John, saying Mr Cameron spoke to his predecessor "pretty regularly".
And the prime minister said initiatives such as the help-to-buy scheme - which is designed to encourage lenders to offer mortgages to people with deposits as low as 5% on homes worth up to Â£600,000 - was all about promoting social mobility.
Figures show 2,384 people, the majority first-time buyers, have applied for loans under the scheme in its first month.
"Without this help to buy, we were beginning to see a country where only people who had wealthy mums and dads, who could give them the money for the deposit were able to buy a flat or a house," Mr Cameron said.
For Labour, Kevin Brennan, shadow schools minister, said Sir John was "telling people what they already knew", saying the government was "out of touch" with "the next generation being locked out of opportunity".
The UK Independence Party said the Conservatives were as much to blame as Labour for the social and educational imbalance at the top of British institutions.
UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall said: "The abolition of selective education in Britain has been a hammer blow to the prospects of working class kids. Until we see a grammar school back in every town and city across the UK, Britain's shocking lack of social mobility will go on."


In the five years between being diagnosed with cancer and her death on 23 July, Dr Kate Granger helped change the face of doctor-patient relations and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.

Born in 1981, and growing up in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, she left home in 1998 to study at the University of Edinburgh, graduating seven years later with a BSc in Pharmacology and a degree in medicine (MBChB).
After leaving university she moved back to her home county to begin work as a junior doctor and marry her fiancé Chris Pointon.
But, in August 2011, aged just 29, her world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer.
Determined not to let the disease prevent her achieving her goals, she stopped receiving chemotherapy in January 2012 and returned to work, writing online that she wanted to "get on with living my life".
Over the next five years her grit and resolve saw her do exactly that.
Arguably her greatest achievement was the #hellomynameis campaign - which encouraged healthcare staff to introduce themselves to patients.
A by-product of her own experiences of hospital in August 2013, it grew out of the feelings of unimportance she experienced when the doctor who informed her that her cancer had spread did not introduce himself.
Speaking about the creation of the campaign she said: "It's the first thing you are taught in medical school, that when you approach a patient you say your name, your role and what you are going to do.
"This missing link made me feel like I did not really matter, that these people weren't bothered who I was. I ended up at times feeling like I was just a diseased body in a hospital bed."
Using the following she had built up on social media via her blog, which she used to chart her battle with illness, she and her husband began spreading their message.
Within two years the campaign had won the backing of more than more than 400,000 doctors, nurses, therapists, receptionists and porters across more than 90 organisations, including health trusts across the UK.
It also won the support of politicians and celebrities, including Prime Minister Theresa May, Richard Branson, Kylie Minogue, Jeremy Clarkson and Drew Barrymore.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Dr Granger's campaign was inspiring.
He said: "All patients should be treated with compassion and the fact this movement has started from within the NHS itself makes it all the more powerful.
"We know that doctors and nurses within the NHS are doing more than ever to provide safe and compassionate care and this movement is harnessing their energy."
Aside from spearheading the campaign Dr Granger and her husband, who lived in Wakefield, also helped raise more than £250,000 for Yorkshire Cancer Centre, achieving their goal just days before her death.
The fundraising target was part of a bucket list set up following her diagnosis.
Other things she achieved include skydiving from 10,000ft, meeting Gary Barlow, being an extra in Coronation Street and renewing her wedding vows.
She also published two books charting her battle with cancer.
Dr Granger's kind heart and indomitable spirit were recognised in 2014 when NHS England launched the 'Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care' and again in 2015 when she was awarded an MBE for her services to the NHS and improving care.
Tributes for the 34-year-old have flooded in following her death on Saturday.
Natalie Silvey, national medical director's fellow at NHS England described her as a "determined, intelligent, funny, brilliant woman" and said her campaigning had been "a valuable reminder to staff to go back to basics, building trust and reaffirming a vital human connection with patients as people".
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh said: "Kate Granger was an inspiration to us all and her #hellomynameis campaign and the Compassionate Care Awards named after her will be her legacy to the NHS and a lasting tribute to her memory."


A giant plant using energy from the Sun to power a Moroccan city at night will open next month.

The solar thermal plant at Ouarzazate will harness the Sun's warmth to melt salt, which will hold its heat to power a steam turbine in the evening.
The first phase will generate for three hours after dark; the last stage aims to supply power 20 hours a day.
It is part of Morocco's pledge to get 42% of its electricity generation from renewables by 2020.
The UN has praised Morocco for the level of its ambition. The UK, a much richer country, is aiming for 30% by the same date.
The Saudi-built Ouarzazate solar thermal plant will be one of the world's biggest when it is complete. The mirrors will cover the same area as the country's capital, Rabat.
Paddy Padmanathan of Saudi-owned ACWA Power, which is running the thermal project, said: "Whether you are an engineer or not, any passer-by is simply stunned by it.
"You have 35 soccer fields of huge parabolic mirrors pointed to the sky which are moveable so they will track the Sun throughout the day."
The developers say phase one of the futuristic complex will bring energy to a million people.
The complex stands on the edge of a gritty, flat, rust-red desert, with the snow-clad Atlas mountains towering to the North.
It is part of a vision from Morocco's King Mohammed VI to turn his country into a renewable energy powerhouse.
The country has been 98% dependent on imported fossil fuels, but the king was persuaded of the vast capacity of Atlantic wind, mountain hydro power and scorching Saharan sun.
The king's plans are being enacted by environment minister Hakima el Haite.
She told me: "We are convinced that climate change is an opportunity for our country."
As part of its national commitment to the Paris climate conference, Morocco has pledged to decrease CO2 emissions 32% below business-as-usual by 2030, conditional on aid to reach the renewables target.
Currently Morocco imports electricity from Spain, but engineers hope that will not last long.
Paddy Padmanathan predicted: "If Morocco is able to generate electricity at seven, eight cents per kilowatt - very possible - it will have thousands of megawatts excess.
"It's obvious this country should be able to export into Europe and it will. And it will not need to do anything at allâ€¦ it needs to do is just sit there because Europe will start to need it."
Morocco's previously useless slice of the Sahara is proving a blessing for solar power. Solar thermal technology only works in hot sunny countries. The price is falling, and its growing capacity to store energy is arousing interest.
The cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels is falling much faster but the International Energy Agency expects them both to play a part in an energy revolution which is likely to see solar as the dominant source of electricity globally by 2050.
Everywhere solar prices are tumbling. Thierry Lepercq, CEO of the Paris-based Solaire Direct, said (controversially) that large-scale ground-mounted solar could already be built without subsidy even in a country like in the UK.
"Solar is a true revolution - that's the way we define it," he said. "The $50 mark (per megawatt hour) is now being crossed and prices are going down.
"The long-term decision-making that is prevalent in the energy world is being disrupted; so you are certainly going to see some coal projects coming to fruition in the next couple of years based on previous decisions but what is certain today is that in all the boards of directors of energy companies, those things are being fundamentally reassessed."
It is, he said, a moment in history.
Roger Harrabin visited Morocco for his series Changing Climate on Radio 4 on Monday at 8pm - then on BBC iPlayer. Full interviews for the series are on the Open University's website www.creativeclimate.org.
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A taxi driver convicted of a sexual offence has not had his taxi licence taken away, a council has said.

He is one of seven Milton Keynes drivers found to have criminal convictions in a council investigation.
The inquiry came after a convicted rapist had both his private hire and Hackney Carriage licences revoked last week.
Council leader Peter Marland said the authority would take action when it had the "full facts".
A council spokesman said the issue was its "highest priority" and it was preparing to interview all drivers it had concerns about.
The driver convicted of four sexual assaults, including rape, had been issued with a private hire vehicle licence in September 2011, despite councillors knowing of his convictions.
He was granted a Hackney Carriage licence last March.
Both licences were revoked last week after a member of the public raised concerns about him.
The council said it had begun a detailed review of licence holders, which found seven other drivers gave "cause for concern".
Labour leader Mr Marland told BBC Three Counties Radio: "At the moment we are doing all the background checks.
"One of those [seven] drivers has handed in his plates and we will take immediate action against the other six as we find out more detail."
Mr Marland could not give a time scale but said it would be "as soon as we possibly can".
"I think our cabs are safe, the vast majority of taxi drivers in Milton Keynes are good, law abiding people," he said.
Liberal Democrat mayor Subhan Shafiq stepped down after he was found to have personally vouched for the convicted rapist, describing the man as being of "good current character".
The chairman and vice-chairman of the licensing committee, Gladstone McKenzie and Stuart Burke, have also resigned.


The bigger they are, the harder they fall - the saying goes.

At well over 2m tall and serving as head of the FBI as the US president sparred openly with the agency, James Comey was, until Tuesday, a significant figure in all senses of the word.
His downfall has caused a seismic reaction in Washington that is continuing to reverberate, and it appears the dust will not settle for some time.
If you've been tuned out of the news in the last few days, or are simply feeling lost amid the maelstrom of headlines, conflicting explanations, leaks and speculation (and who could blame you), we're here to set you straight.
Put your feet up, and let's go back to the basics of this complex story.
James Comey was fired on Tuesday by President Trump, and the first, official explanation for the decision given by the White House was that it was due to his botched handling of the conclusion of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
That explanation would almost immediately be contradicted by news reports and later the president himself. But let's put that aside for one moment.
To understand why James Comey is a household name in the first place (his predecessor Robert Mueller headed the FBI for 12 years - but you may not know his name) it's important to recall that he made two key interventions during the presidential campaign.
In July 2016, he publicly stated that Mrs Clinton had been careless but not criminal in handling sensitive material on her private email server, and that she should not be prosecuted.
Then, 11 days before November's election, when Mr Comey dropped a bombshell, saying he had reopened the inquiry because new Clinton-related emails had been found. The Clinton camp were furious but Donald Trump said the decision "took guts".
Two days before the election Mr Comey said the emails had been reviewed, and nothing had actually changed - Mrs Clinton should still not face criminal charges.
Mr Trump changed his tune, and the FBI director was later blamed by Democrats for Mrs Clinton's election loss.
This is the piece of the James Comey story that explains why his firing has led to such a furore.
As you're probably aware, the US intelligence community believes that the Russian government hacked Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails in order to help Mr Trump win the election.
President Trump has continuously pushed back against that finding, and has been angered by an FBI investigation into the alleged interference that is also specifically examining possible links (and cooperation) between figures in his campaign and the Russian government.
In March, Mr Comey said publicly the FBI would "follow the facts wherever they lead".
It is for this reason that there has been so much shock and outrage to Mr Comey's sacking.
For many commentators, it was a blatant attempt to hurt the investigation - and Democrats are now calling for a special counsel to be appointed to lead the inquiry to protect its independence.
Comey fired: The shifting explanations
The firing of James Comey was always going to be controversial but President Trump had at least one strong argument to deploy: many Democrats had called for the FBI director to step down after the Clinton email saga - so why should they kick up such a fuss now that it had happened?
But from the outset, President Trump made it clear that there were other things on his mind when he took the decision to fire Mr Comey aside from his handling of the Clinton email investigation.
In his initial letter saying he was acting on recommendations from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he explicitly noted that Mr Comey had informed him "on three separate occasions" that he was not personally under investigation in relation to the Russia inquiry.
From there, things began to unravel. In his first in-person explanation Donald Trump said he fired Comey because he was "not doing a good job".
He spoke while sitting next to Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's former national security adviser, which made for a bizarre optic given that some comparisons were already being made to the Watergate scandal.
Later on Wednesday, Mr Trump also met the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador to Washington in another bit of awkward timing.
Nick Bryant: It's not Watergate
Then on Thursday, in an NBC interview, the US president said he had actually alone decided to fire Mr Comey - who he called a "showboat" and "grandstander".
He also said that he was thinking about the "Russia thing" when he made the decision.
Anthony Zurcher: How the White House Comey story collapsed
Oh, I was gonna fire [James Comey] regardless of recommendation.
These comments of course contradicted his team's earlier explanations that the recommendation from Mr Rosenstein in particular - painted as a man of integrity and independence - had prompted the firing, rather than any politically-motivated reasoning.
On Friday, the president admitted on Twitter there had been inaccurate and conflicting statements, but then angrily suggested that all White House press briefings should be cancelled for "accuracy".
In his NBC interview the US president also described a January dinner with James Comey at which he was told he was not under investigation. He said Mr Comey had requested the dinner because he wanted to keep his FBI job.
The New York Times is also reporting that the president asked Mr Comey for a pledge of loyalty - and he said no. The White House denies the story.
Katty Kay: Is Trump's thin skin to blame?
It's unlikely that Mr Comey will not eventually respond to Mr Trump's assertions, and the stage is set for further dramatic confrontation as the president has suggested he might have recorded their conversations.
He tweeted on Friday: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
In front of the TV cameras hours later, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer wouldn't comment on whether the president is recording conversations.
If we've re-learnt one definite lesson this week, it's that it's not easy to be a spokesperson for the 45th president.