London-based photographer Karan Kapoor has recorded some of India's dying Christian communities who are trying to preserve their identities in rapidly changing times.

One of the communities he has photographed extensively are the Anglo-Indians. A product of the British Empire, with a mixture of Western and Indian names, customs and complexions, several thousand Anglo-Indians live in India.
The son of well-known actors Shashi Kapoor and the late Jennifer Kendal-Kapoor, Kapoor himself is of both Indian and British descent.
The other community he has chronicled are the Goan Catholics, probably the largest inheritors and defenders of their Portuguese heritage.
Most of his pictures were taken in the 1980s and 1990s and they focus on people and places that have either been lost to history, or changed beyond recognition.
India's Tasveer gallery is holding an exhibition - and has published a book - of Kapoor's works titled Time and Tide.
Kapoor was drawn to the subject of ageing Anglo-Indians, primarily from the cities of Mumbai and Kolkata. He began by studying the older residents of a home for Anglo-Indians in Kolkata.
"I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj - people who remembered the railway cantonments, the Marilyn Monroe look-a-like contests, the 'Central Provinces', and so on, a world long gone," writes Kapoor.
"No one could be better qualified to record the Anglo-Indians than Karan Kapoor, and with these extraordinary images he has in many ways, taken the photographs he was born to shoot," says author and historian William Dalrymple.
Thousands of Anglo-Indians left after India after independence.
"The rump who had remained in India - the optimistic, the old or the nostalgic, the faded beauties and the aging banjo players, with their 1950s tattoos and bow-ties, so movingly shot by Kapoor - stayed on in the face of some Indian resentment, and an increasing degree of poverty.
"The younger generation, especially the girls, tended to intermarry and were able to blend in; but others, particularly the older ones, found it hard to change their ways.
"It is these people with their frocks and tweed suits and Homburg hats, their Union Jacks and their memorabilia of the Royal Family, the old couples wandering under their umbrellas, that Kapoor has so beautifully recorded and commemorated," writes Dalrymple.
Kapoor also took portraits of Goa's Catholic community.
"On our holidays to Goa, I would end up riding around on my Royal Enfield, exploring the countryside, my camera always with me," he says.
Taken in the 1990s, these photographs capture an older Goa: the last of 'Portugal Goa'.
For just over 14 years after India won independence from the British in 1947, Goa remained under Portuguese rule.


Japanese carmaker Honda is replacing its president, Takanobu Ito, with Takahiro Hachigo, another Honda executive.

Honda recently had to recall millions of vehicles which were equipped with Takata airbags, some of which exploded.
Injuries and at least five deaths have been linked to the problem.
Earlier this year, Honda reported a sharp drop in third-quarter earnings and cut its profit forecast following the vehicle recall.
A wide range of carmakers use Takata airbags, but Honda has been the worst affected.
The announcement was made along with a number of other management changes and the statement did not mention the airbag issue.
Honda has been fined a record $70m by the US authorities for not passing on more than 1,700 complaints and for not reporting warranty claims.
Mr Ito joined Honda in 1978 as an engineer. He has been president and chief executive since 2009.


St Mirren have signed veteran defender Andy Webster on a one-year deal, with the option of a year's extension.

Scotland cap Webster enjoyed spells at Hearts, Rangers and Dundee United but was released by Coventry City.
The 33-year-old will be included in Saints' squad for tomorrow's Championship clash with Livingston, subject to international clearance.
Webster said: "Hopefully I can bring a bit of experience, not just to the defence but to the group as a whole."
Manager Ian Murray has been keen to acquire the defender's services for some time to help young defenders Sean Kelly and Jack Baird.
But there was interest from other clubs in Webster, who spent two seasons with Coventry after leaving Hearts and made 34 appearances last season for the English League One club.
"It has been ongoing for a bit," Webster told St Mirren's website. "Initially I was in to train and then the manager asked me to come into the football club and I was delighted to make that decision.
"The manager's eagerness to get me in, allowing me to come in and train and that feeling of someone wanting you.
"I took my boys to the Dumbarton game here and the staff were like 'come in, have a cup of tea', all these kind of feel-good factors around the football club, these are all important things."
Webster is the Buddies' second signing in as many days, after Murray added 20-year-old Aberdeen striker Lawrence Shankland to his squad on loan on Thursday.
Murray said: "The way Andy goes about his training and the way he plays the game will be huge for us.
"To finally get him is good news for us.
"Andy is an out-and-out centre half, he'll certainly organise players and he's a fantastic player for Sean and Jack to learn off, he'll help them enormously.
"Andy goes straight into the 18 along with Lawrence."
Shankland, who joined Aberdeen from Queen's Park in 2013, scored seven goals in 13 appearances for Dunfermline Athletic while on loan to the League One club last season.


Seven university students linked to jailed Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti have reportedly gone on trial in China's westernmost province of Xinjiang.

Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment in September for separatism and fanning ethnic tensions.
The students are accused of contributing to a website run by Tohti on Uighurs.
Tohti's sentencing was condemned by human rights groups, the White House and US Secretary of State John Kerry.
The BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing says the trial is so secret that even the Xinjiang court will not confirm the proceedings.
Tohti's lawyer, Li Fangping, told the BBC that the students contributed to Uighur Online, a now defunct website run by their teacher that promoted discussion between Uighurs and other ethnic groups in China.
The authorities, however, claim the site advocated Xinjiang's independence.
Mr Li, who was speaking on behalf of the students' lawyer so as to protect his counterpart, said the students face between five to 15 years in prison.
The students disappeared after being taken into police custody last January, then resurfaced later giving testimonials on national television incriminating Tohti.
Release demanded
The trial follows last week's rejection of a court appeal lodged by Tohti against his sentence.
Tohti was known as an outspoken critic of the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighur minority, who largely live in Xinjiang.
His conviction and sentencing sparked concern from international observers including the US. Both Mr Kerry and the White House called for Mr Tohti's immediate release.
China has been grappling with a spate of violent public attacks this year, which authorities have attributed to Uighur extremists inspired or aided by overseas terror groups.
In response it has launched a crackdown, arresting and jailing scores of people for terrorism activities. Several have been sentenced to death.
But Uighur activists say that China's strong-armed tactics in Xinjiang - including cultural and religious repression - are fuelling tensions.
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Four masked raiders ripped a cash machine from a wall then cut part of the roof off their getaway van to get it to fit inside.

Police said four people were seen trying to drag the device off the wall of the former Nat West bank in Caistor, Lincolnshire, using a fork lift truck.
They then tried to load it through the roof of the van in the Market Place at about 03:00 BST.
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
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One eye witness said she was woken by the raid.
"They were in balaclavas and they seemed quite aggressive," she said.
"They were trying to definitely get the ATM machine out, they were ramming it against the wall
"It frightened me so I ran straight back in, but I could see somebody was holding some sort of weapon in their hand."
The van was later discovered on fire at a nearby farm.
It is thought at least one other vehicle was used in the raid.


Colwyn Bay's Victoria pier has failed to win a £9.6m bid for lottery heritage restoration cash and now faces demolition.

The Heritage Lottery Fund said the project lacked backing from Conwy council and was deemed "high risk".
The council has applied to have the Grade II-listed structure demolished.
However, a protracted legal dispute over the ownership of the pier is still rumbling on between businessman Steve Hunt and the council.
The bid for lottery cash from the HLF was made by the Colwyn Victoria Pier Trust, who described the request as a "last chance" for the pier.
Announcing that the funding bid was unsuccessful, HLF's chief executive Carole Souter said: "HLF takes its role of investing National Lottery players' money extremely seriously and we only support projects that we are confident can deliver long-term benefits.
"Unfortunately, we have not had a clear enough indication of strong support from Conwy County Borough Council.
"In light of this as well as the absence of other confirmed financial support and the potential for increased costs, the application was deemed high risk."
The campaigners trying to save the pier said on Wednesday they were "bitterly disappointed" by the decision.
Conwy's council leader Dilwyn Roberts said he realised the pier trust would be disappointed, stressing that the authority would continue to talk to the trust and Colwyn town council and "would welcome talking to them further about proposals for legacy".
However, restoration is not on the council's agenda following the HLF announcement.
"As the application was unsuccessful, the council's application to demolish the pier will continue through the planning process," said the council leader.


Asda is to change its price promotions after being singled out by the competition regulator in a probe into supermarket pricing practices.

Asda has given a commitment to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it will alter the way it presents promotional deals.
However, the supermarket said there were no specific findings against it.
The regulator was investigating whether supermarkets were misleading customers with confusing price promotions.
The investigation came after a super-complaint by the consumer group Which?.
At the time it issued the super-complaint, in April 2015, Which? cited several examples of what it called misleading pricing by supermarkets:
In July last year, the CMA said it had found evidence that supermarkets were misleading consumers with promotions, and found some examples that "could be in breach of consumer law".
Presenting the CMA's latest findings, executive director Michael Grenfell said: "The CMA's examination of the market, following the super-complaint, found that supermarkets generally take compliance seriously, but there were some promotional practices that could mislead shoppers."
The CMA said it had "had particular engagement with Asda in relation to specific areas of concern".
It added that Asda had made a commitment to change the way it operates "was/now" and multi-buy pricing deals.
Asda has said it will ensure that:
A spokesperson for Asda said, "All supermarkets were asked to review their pricing practices and make any necessary changes.  The CMA has asked for a commitment from Asda on our promotional pricing rules and we were happy to provide this.
"It's important that customers know that the CMA did not make any findings against Asda, and it hasn't questioned our commitment to every day low prices."
The CMA said Asda had been asked to make the changes by August this year - and it would check how those changes were working six months later.
Richard Lloyd, Which? executive director, said: "We are pleased to see the CMA investigation has resulted in Asda taking action to stop misleading special offers.
"Asda has been found breaking the rules and now must immediately clean up their act."


Brentford defender Josh Clark has signed a new two-year deal with the Championship club.

The 22-year-old right-back made 12 appearances for the Bees last season, either side of a loan spell with League Two side Barnet.
"Josh finished last season really well and his role now is to carry that on," Brentford head coach Dean Smith said.
"He has to continue developing and to continue the work ethic that has seen him rewarded with a new contract."
Meanwhile, set piece coach Gianni Vio, who joined the backroom staff at Brentford last summer, has left Griffin Park.


Virtually everyone I speak to who has been involved in the Welsh assembly election admits it has been difficult to get a handle on.

The uncertainty facing thousands of Welsh jobs in the steel industry has become a dominant theme.
And the profile given to the EU referendum has made it difficult for the parties to cut through.
As a result, there are fears of a lower turnout than five years ago, when just 42% of people voted.
The opposition parties wanted a campaign dominated by scrutiny of Labour's 17 years in power since the start of devolution.
Instead, it has lacked continuity.
Labour has based its campaign on the personality of its leader, Carwyn Jones, by asking voters who they think would make the best first minister.
One of the big challenges the party faces is appearing fresh after so many years in government in Cardiff.
The Conservatives, who have been the main opposition, are focusing on problems in health, as well as offering significant tax breaks when partial control of income tax is devolved.
They have had to overcome divisions over Europe to try to keep the momentum they generated in Wales as a result of some eye-catching victories in the general election last year.
Plaid Cymru has set out plans for a major restructuring of public services, including the NHS, in an attempt to integrate health and social care.
The party needs to develop some kind of momentum after a number of recent disappointing election results despite the high profile given to its leader, Leanne Wood.
The Liberal Democrats have run a campaign stripped down to a small number of pledges, including more nurses and smaller class sizes.
The party's obvious challenge is convincing people it can bounce back from the devastating result in the general election.
And UKIP, who could have a significant presence at the assembly for the first time, has published a detailed manifesto on devolved services such as health and education in an attempt to show it is serious about the assembly, and not just about  Europe.
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The big question mark is whether its supporters, who are clearly motivated by the EU referendum, can be enthused enough to turn out for the assembly election on 5 May.
Labour has half of the 60 seats at the assembly.
Polls over the past 18 months have suggested it is running about 10 percentage points down, which will make it vulnerable in a number of marginal seats held by the Tories at a parliamentary level.
The indications are Labour will continue to be the largest party, the question is whether it will have enough assembly members to govern alone or have to form a coalition with another party.
The impact of UKIP in marginal seats has introduced a new degree of unpredictability, while the prospect of a low turnout means the outcome could be decided by relatively low margins.
Unlike in Scotland, where the SNP appears to be on track for an overall majority, the picture in Wales is far more uncertain.
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The sister of a cyclist who was killed in east London last week has urged witnesses to contact police.

Venera Minakhmetova died when she was struck by lorry at Bow Roundabout, on Wednesday.
The Russian, who had been on the Cycle Superhighway 2 (CS2) just before the collision, was the fourth of five cyclists to die in London in nine days.
Her sister Dina said: "If you know something, if you witnessed it, please come forward and contact police."
She also thanked people for their support following her sister's death.
Ms Minakhmetova had worked at London-based Edelau and investment bank Merrill Lynch and was living in the Bethnal Green area to develop her financial services business.
So far this year, 13 cyclists have been killed, eight of which have involved HGVs.
The leader of Southwark Council, Peter John, has called for HGVs to be banned during rush hour to protect cyclists.
Currently, the movement of HGVs are restricted in London between 21:00 and 0700 on weekdays, and between 13:00 on Saturdays through to 07:00 on Mondays.
Speaking to BBC Sunday Politics London Ben Plowden, of Transport for London, said the Olympics showed it was possible to achieve a very significant change in when and how deliveries take place.
"Something like a fifth of freight activity moved out of the busiest times in the day and that was because we worked closely with the boroughs and the councils, the freight industry and the supermarkets and other people to make that happen," he said.
"So what that shows is you can make a big change, the question is how do you make that part of everyday life rather than a one-off thing for the Olympics?"
Catherine West, head of transport on London Councils, said a balance was needed so that Londoners could get a good night's sleep.
"A lot of people live on busy roads and they live above shops. We just have to be mindful that a lorry delivery at 4am may not be great for residents," she said.


Plans to reduce CrossCountry train services between Aberdeen and Edinburgh have been scrapped.

Proposed timetable changes could have seen four of six services being cut.
However, CrossCountry said there would now be no changes to timetables from this December, and that further discussion would take place on the future of the services.
It followed discussions with the Department for Transport and Transport Scotland.
A CrossCountry spokesman said: "Last year CrossCountry consulted widely on possible changes to its timetables from December 2017.
"These included the option of changing the number of CrossCountry services north of Edinburgh to and from north east Scotland, allowing the local train operator ScotRail to provide these.
"After discussions between the Department for Transport and Transport Scotland, it became clear that ScotRail would be unable to replicate these services at this time, so it was agreed there would be no changes to CrossCountry's Scottish timetables from this December and further discussion would take place to agree the future of these services."


Liverpool are without Adam Lallana for the 228th Merseyside derby because of a thigh problem sustained playing for England earlier this week.

Jordan Henderson remains a doubt but Daniel Sturridge, Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firminho are all in contention.
Everton's Ramiro Funes Mori and Seamus Coleman will not play again this season following injuries suffered on international duty.
Morgan Schneiderlin has a calf injury and is also unavailable.
Guy Mowbray: "Does form go out of the window for derbies? With both teams in fine fettle before the break, let's hope not.
"Everton's upturn goes back to December's derby. Beaten only once since losing at home to Liverpool in the last seconds, they've narrowed the gap on their rivals from 16 points on 1 January to six on 1 April.
"Might a win across the park for the first time this century even prompt thoughts of pipping the Reds (and two other reds) to a top-four finish?
"It might, although Liverpool's performances under Jurgen Klopp in the biggest games means that remains a far-flung thought for now.
"Anfield expects. The match SHOULD deliver."
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Everton manager Ronald Koeman on the injury to defender Seamus Coleman: "It's a big, big blow for the player and a big, big blow for the club.
"In all my years in football, Seamus is one of the best professionals I've ever worked with at any club.
"That mentality will really be helpful to him now in not only coming to terms with what has happened but in setting out on the road to recovery and, over time, in him building himself once more to the level he has maintained over many years here at Everton."
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Crewe Alexandra boss David Artell says he understands his players' fears over whether they have a future at the club.

Speaking before Alex's final League Two game of the season at home to Barnet, Artell told BBC Radio Stoke: "There's been some difficult conversations.
"But I've been sat where they're sat, which is important. I understand the fear they're going through.
"It's part of the job. It's not something that's nice, not something I take lightly, but it's got to be done."
Artell, who inherited the job when Steve Davis was sacked in January, is expected to announce his retained list for the 2017-18 season next week.
"Some maybe could say they weren't given an opportunity," he added. "That would be a valid argument. But I said to them some weeks ago 'You're self-employed. Don't think I'm the bad one'. They have to ask themselves: 'Have you done enough?' Look in the mirror."
Several players, most notably defender Jon Guthrie, have been made an offer.
"There's a few we've given a written offer to," said Artell. "They've got a month.
"If they want to leave, then man up and tell me. If they want to sign, then sign.
"If they don't come back to us in a month, they won't be here anyway. The decision will be made for them. If they want to call my bluff, I hold all the aces."
As for Artell's own future, having been given the job until the end of the season, he hopes to have convinced chairman John Bowler and the Crewe board that he has done enough to warrant staying on as manager on a more permanent basis.
"I'm sure the chairman will give me a nudge when he's ready," said Artell. "It's not in my hands. He said we'd speak in May. I'm not worried. I trust him implicitly."


Newport County's recovery under caretaker manager Mike Flynn continued as Mickey Demetriou's second-half free-kick saw them beat Yeovil 1-0.

The Exiles remain in the League Two relegation zone, a point behind Hartlepool with four matches to play.
The Welsh club were bottom of the table and 11 points adrift of safety when Flynn took over from Graham Westley in early March.
Yeovil stay 20th, but are now only four points clear of the drop zone.
Demetriou fired in left-footed from 20 yards just before the hour as Newport dominated at Rodney Parade to claim a third consecutive win.
Newport County manager Mike Flynn: "It was a huge effort from the players. I know I keep saying but I won't get bored of it they were absolutely outstanding again today.
"I thought we were by far the better team, we just lacked that final cutting edge in the final third. We should have scored two or three today but luckily I told Mickey Demetriou to take the free-kick and he scored."
Match ends, Newport County 1, Yeovil Town 0.
Second Half ends, Newport County 1, Yeovil Town 0.
Substitution, Newport County. Aaron Williams replaces Alex Samuel.
Attempt missed. Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Corner,  Yeovil Town. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Alex Samuel (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
Attempt saved. Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County).
Substitution, Newport County. Darren Jones replaces Mark Randall.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Attempt blocked. Sean Rigg (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Bird (Newport County).
Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Bird (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town).
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Kevin Dawson.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Alex Lawless replaces Matt Butcher.
Foul by Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town).
Alex Samuel (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Sean Rigg (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Alex Samuel (Newport County) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Yeovil Town. Conceded by Mitch Rose.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Shayon Harrison replaces Omar Sowunmi.
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dangerous play by Sean Rigg (Newport County).
Attempt saved. Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro replaces Otis Khan.
Goal!  Newport County 1, Yeovil Town 0. Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Ryan Bird (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town).
Attempt missed. Scot Bennett (Newport County) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Foul by Ryan Bird (Newport County).
Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Samuel (Newport County).


DC Comics' super villain movie Suicide Squad has proved it could be a hit on both sides of the Atlantic as it topped the UK box office on its debut.

Mirroring its success Stateside, cinemagoers ignored critics who dismissed it as "boring and unfunny" and "the worst of the worst".
It took £11.2m over the weekend, knocking last week's number one, Finding Dory, into second place.
In the film, Will Smith and Margot Robbie team up with a gang of villains.
Jared Leto, Cara Delevingne, Karen Fukuhara and Viola Davis play other anti-heroes.
The latest Jason Bourne film also dropped a place to third in its second week of release.
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's BFG, starring Oscar winner Mark Rylance, took fourth spot, with Star Trek Beyond in fifth.
Suicide Squad was the only new film in the top 10.
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Northern Ireland's record goalscorer David Healy has been appointed as the new Linfield manager.

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Healy, 36, was introduced as the successor to Warren Feeney before Wednesday evening's League Cup defeat by Ballinamallard at Windsor Park.
It is Healy's first managerial appointment since ending his playing career in 2013.
Healy, who scored 36 goals in 95 Northern Ireland appearances, has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract.
The former Northern Ireland striker did not take charge for Wednesday's League Cup game where Jonny Lafferty's 70th-minute goal earned the Fermanagh club a surprise 1-0 win.
Feeney, who guided the Blues to second place in his only full season in charge, quit to take over as assistant manager of Newport County last week.
Former Manchester United, Leeds, Preston, Rangers and Sunderland striker Healy, who was a boyhood Linfield supporter, described accepting the Blues job as a "no-brainer".
"It's an honour and privilege for me to be manager of this football club," Healy told the Linfield website.
"When Linfield approached me, there was only going to be one answer and that was yes.
"To me Windsor Park was my Wembley and to come back here as manager....I just can't wait to get started.
"I'm grateful to the club for showing a lot of faith in me. I'll be working 24 hours a day."
Linfield were top of the Irish Premiership when Feeney stepped down last week although Saturday's 1-1 draw against Glentoran saw the Blues replaced at the summit on goal difference by champions Crusaders.


Eight counties have made a 28-day approach for Northamptonshire's Olly Stone, despite the pace bowler being sidelined by a knee injury.

Stone, 22, is likely to miss the rest of 2016 after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in June.
He has made 25 first-class appearances, with a bowling average of 30.69.
"Whether he'll want to see all eight, maybe not. But I'm sure he'll pick out some and see what they've got to say," said director of cricket David Ripley.
Hampshire are known to be one of the counties interested in speaking to Stone, who has also made 17 List A and 30 T20 appearances in his senior career.
Ripley continued to BBC Radio Northampton: "He's assured us he'll come back to us and see what we've got to say and we're still hopeful he'll stay.
"He was on the verge of Lions cricket before his injury and we think we can do well with his injury. Barry Goudriaan has got a very good record of rehabbing players so I think that's a card for us to play."


Two missiles were fired at a US warship from rebel-held territory in Yemen as it passed through the Red Sea on Sunday, the US Navy has said.

Both missiles hit the water before reaching the USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer.
A spokesman for Yemen's rebel Houthi movement told the Saba news agency that it had not targeted any warships.
The incident came eight days after an attack on an Emirati civilian ship that was also blamed on the Houthis.
The UAE government said the high-speed catamaran was carrying aid, wounded Yemenis and passengers when it was hit in the Bab al-Mandab strait.
US Naval Forces Central Command spokeswoman Paula Dunn said in a statement on Monday that the USS Mason had been "conducting routine operations in international waters" north of the strait when it "detected two inbound missiles" around 19:00 (16:00 GMT) on Sunday.
"Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship," Ms Dunn said, adding that "there were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship".
"We assess these missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory."
However, a Houthi military spokesman told Saba that the charge was "baseless and aimed to cover for the heinous Saudi crime of Saturday's air attacks on the civilian funeral hall in the capital Sanaa", which killed more than 140 people.
A Saudi-led multinational coalition, whose air campaign against the Houthis and their allies is supported by the US, has denied any responsibility.
Also on Monday, the coalition said it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis at the King Fahd Air Base in Taif in central Saudi Arabia, which hosts US military personnel training the kingdom's armed forces.
A missile was also reportedly fired at the Yemeni government-controlled city of Marib in central Yemen.
The UN says at least 4,125 civilians have been killed and 7,207 injured since the coalition intervened in the conflict between forces loyal to Yemen's internationally-recognised government and those allied to the Houthis in March 2015.


If BP group chief executive Bob Dudley was paid £14m for delivering a $6.5bn (£5.3bn)* loss last year, what on earth will he get paid for delivering a profit in 2017?

The answer to this will shed a lot of light on the politically current and intense debate around executive pay.
A year ago, Mr Dudley became the unwilling poster boy for angry shareholders when, at the BP annual general meeting, 59% of shareholders voted against his £14m pay award.
He got the money anyway because the vote was not binding, so the board did not have to do what the owners of the company wanted.
Under rules introduced by the coalition government and championed by then Business Secretary Vince Cable, shareholders can only reject a pay packet or the formula by which it is calculated every three years. That measure gave them more control than they had previously enjoyed but it clearly did not work or go far enough.
Remember, the formula by which Mr Dudley's pay was calculated in 2016 was approved by 95% of shareholders in 2014. Two years later they did not like the answer that formula spat out.
In defence of Mr Dudley, it was not his fault that BP's Deepwater Horizon platform exploded in 2010 killing 11 people and pumping millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (that was on the watch of his predecessor Tony Hayward).
It was not his fault that the price of oil in 2015 came crashing down from more than $100 (£81) a barrel to around $30 (£24) during that year. Given the hand he was dealt, goes the argument, he did a pretty good job.
Some of the arguments will be the same this year. It is not his fault that he had to put another $7bn (£5.7bn) in the Deepwater kitty, but it is also not to his credit that the oil price rebounded to its current price of $56 (£45).
The chairman of BP's pay committee, Dame Ann Dowling, came in for a lot of stick for not using more discretion in adjusting the final pay award down last year and I understand that she has met with dozens of shareholder groups to avoid the same howls of protest this time around.
This April's vote on 2016 pay will also be non-binding but there will be a binding vote on the formula used to calculate pay packets for the next three years. It would take a particularly tin ear for BP to settle on a formula that finds it at such odds with its shareholders in the future.
Many executives are rewarded with a formula that takes a large account of relative performance. Doing badly - but less badly than the competition - means you did well. Even though the company lost money - you can often take home a hefty bonus.
The merits of this approach will be hotly debated this year as around half the companies in the FTSE 100 have binding votes on executive pay formulas. That will add real edge to a debate that has already been politically sharpened by Theresa May's warnings to corporate Britain over the rocketing disparity between bosses and workers' pay.
We are expecting new proposals on changing the manner, and in whose interests, UK companies are run when the government publishes its green paper on corporate governance in March.
I have presented the economic arguments as to why high performance-related pay is actually bad for companies and the economy here before. In short, it can prioritise cost cutting over investment which damages productivity and ultimately living standards. They are arguments that are gaining currency in Whitehall and it is not only shareholders who are disgruntled.
It may be only February, but this year's shareholder spring promises to be a belter.
*the headline loss of $6.5bn includes the compensation paid for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The number reported in our news story excludes one-off items to give a better sense of the underlying economics of the company.


Pop star Taylor Swift is "absolutely certain" she was groped by a Colorado radio DJ, a court has heard.

Ms Swift, 27, accuses broadcaster David Mueller of slipping his hand under her dress while they posed backstage together at one of her 2013 concerts.
Her lawyer said in his opening statement at the court in Denver, Colorado, that Mr Mueller had "grabbed her rear end".
Mr Mueller sued the singer in September 2015, calling her allegation false.
He said she had cost him his $150,000-a-year job as a host at country station KYGO-FM.
Ms Swift - who was in court on Tuesday - countersued a month later, saying what occurred at the city's Pepsi Center was assault and battery.
On Tuesday, jurors were shown a photograph of the alleged assault at a VIP room meet-and-great before the gig on 2 June 2013.
In the picture, Mr Mueller and his then-girlfriend, Shannon Melcher, stand with Ms Swift in the middle.
All are smiling, and Mr Mueller's right hand is hidden behind the Shake it Off singer.
Mr Mueller's lawyer, David McFarland, said in his opening statement the image shows his client's hand "is not underneath Miss Swift's skirt, and her skirt is not rumpled in any fashion".
"David Mueller unequivocally denies he touched her inappropriately in anyway," Mr McFarland said as his client looked on in court.
"Falsely accusing someone of inappropriate touching is equally offensive, equally wrong and should not be tolerated."
In his opening statement, Mr Mueller said he had only sued "to clear his name and for lost earnings", denying reports that he was seeking $3m in damages from the radio promotions director of his former station.
But Ms Swift's attorney, Douglas Baldridge, said Mr Mueller had given seven accounts of what happened.
He had also destroyed taped conversations about the incident with his bosses, said the lawyer.
Mr Baldridge told the eight jurors: "What's wrong with this picture? A woman gets assaulted, a woman reports it, and she gets sued."
He added: "It's not inappropriate touching. It's assault."
On 3 June, Mr Mueller met his bosses. He was fired the next day on the basis he had violated a "morals clause", according to Mr McFarland.
Ms Swift, who was 23 at the time of the incident, is suing Mr Mueller for the symbolic amount of $1.
She was accompanied in court by her mother Andrea.
Ms Swift also attended jury selection on Monday.
Her fans, known as Swifties, waited outside court from the early hours for a chance to get one of the court's 32 public seats.


A Northern Ireland MP has said a leading loyalist should not be CEO of a publicly-funded community group.

The DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said Charter NI's Dee Stitt would not be in post were he in charge of the Belfast organisation.
Mr Stitt has been criticised for remarks made in an article in the Guardian newspaper.
He described loyalist band the North Down Defenders as "our homeland security."
Mr Stitt, also a leading UDA member, further claimed the government does not care about Northern Ireland in a foul-mouthed attack..
Lagan Valley MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told the BBC's Nolan Show any change to Mr Stitt's position is a matter for Charter NI.
However, the MP said were he in charge of the organisation, "I would not have him as my chief executive in light of these comments".
"I can only express a personal opinion. It's a matter for Charter NI if he should remain the chief executive."
The MP said Mr Stitt's comments were "highly regrettable" and he did not support them in any way.
But he said the community organisation, recently given nearly Â£2m of public money, "do some excellent work in east Belfast".
"I am not going to play the game of condemning the work of an entire organisation because of the comments of one individual."
Mr Donaldson also said the organisation enjoyed the support of Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster  because of their work "to transform communities in east Belfast."
The Northern Ireland Executive has awarded a Â£1.7m grant to Charter NI which is a community-based organisation in East Belfast.
The money came from the executive's social investment fund.
Mr Stitt had previously released a statement to the BBC's Nolan Show where he challenged allegations that he was a UDA commander.
He told the BBC "to the best of my knowledge, none of these allegations have been supported by evidence being presented to the PSNI".


Five police officers were killed in Dallas, Texas when a gunman opened fire at officers during a peaceful protest over fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Seven more officers and two civilians were wounded by the shooter, who fired from an elevated position in a parking garage.
The gunman was 25-year-old Micah Johnson. He died after a long stand-off with police in downtown Dallas.
Three other people were taken in to custody - two men and a woman - but police now say they believe Johnson was the "lone shooter".
Johnson told police during the stand-off that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers, and that he was upset over recent police killings of black men.
He died when police sent an explosive device to his position attached to a robot - a first in the US.
Hundreds of people began gathering in Belo Garden in downtown Dallas at around 00:00 GMT (19:00 local time) before beginning a march through the city in protest at this week's deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.
At around 01:45 GMT, as the march was nearing its end, gunshots rang out at the junction of Main St and Lamar St by the El Centro College. Live TV footage showed protesters running for cover.
Initially, police later said that several snipers had been positioned in "elevated positions" on the route of the march. They later said Micah Johnson was believed to be the sole shooter.
Four police officers were killed during the attack and another died later from his injuries. Seven other officers were wounded and two civilians also sustained injuries.
Amateur video footage showed one police officer approaching a gunman outside the El Centro College. After an initial exchange, the gunman is seen shooting the officer at least twice, leaving him motionless, before fleeing.
At around 05:30 GMT police said they were questioning two people after an officer saw a person throw a camouflage bag into the back of a black Mercedes and speed off.
Shortly afterwards, Police Chief David Brown said his officers had cornered a suspect on the second floor of a car park opposite the college and were negotiating with him.
After several hours of talks and an exchange of gunfire, Mr Brown said police "saw no other option but to use our bomb robot" to place an explosive device near the gunman, who was killed when the device was detonated.
"Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger," the police chief added.
It is believed to be the first time police in the US have used a robot to help kill a human.
During the failed negotiations, the gunman made threats about bombs in the city but, at 10:45 GMT, police said no explosives had been found despite extensive sweeps of downtown areas - although a large area of Downtown Dallas remains closed.
Johnson's victims were a mix of veterans, parents, grandparents, spouses and community leaders.
Brent Thompson, 43:  Thompson worked for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) transport authority and was the first victim to be named.
He had served in the military as a Marine and was recently married.
Patrick Zamarripa, 32: Patrick's father Rick told The Washington Post that his son had survived three tours in Iraq with the US Navy.
When he left the Navy he joined the Dallas Police Department and recently started working a bicycle patrol in downtown.
Michael Krol, 40: Michigan native Michael Krol joined Dallas' police department in 2007 after four years with the  Wayne County Sheriff's Office in Michigan.
Krol's mother, Susan Ehlke, described her son as a "caring person" who was "living a dream of being a police officer".
Michael J. Smith, 55: Sergeant Michael Smith was a father of two, according to the Dallas Morning News. He was a former Army ranger and received a "Cops' Cop" award from the Dallas Police Association.
Lorne Ahrens, 48: Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens was a member of the Dallas Police Department for 14 years, according to Dallas Morning News.
"He was always one of the happy ones, with a smile on his face," one of his fellow officers told the newspaper.
Seven other police officers were injured during the attack, including at least three DART officers who were identified as Omar Cannon, 44, Misty McBride, 32, and Jesus Retana, 39. A DART spokesman said they are expected to recover from their injuries.
One civilian, named by her family as Shetamia Taylor, was shot in the leg while protecting her children and is said to be recovering in hospital.
Micah Johnson, 25, was from the Dallas suburb of Mesquite. He had been a member of the US Army Reserve until April 2015, served in Afghanistan, and had no known criminal history or ties to terrorist groups.
Bomb-making material, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal were found at his home, police have said.
Johnson told police during the stand-off that he wanted to kill white people and was upset about the Black Lives Matter movement and by the recent police shootings of black men.
The gunman said he was not affiliated with any groups and was working alone, but three other suspects - two men and a woman - are still thought to be in police custody.
One eyewitness told local TV station WFAA: "We heard gunfire and at first you didn't really realise what you were hearing. You know, you thought it was something like something popping and then you heard rapid fire and then everybody realised it and just took off running.
"Everybody just ran their own separate ways and what we tried to do was try to get the women and the children back there in the protest away from the gunfire.
"It was a horrifying experience to see all those people running and not knowing were the bullets were coming from."
Another witness said: "The rally was great and the next thing you know the man just walks by. He walks by, you know, looking normal but he let the rally go by and next thing you know once he gets to the [traffic] light  it's just mayhem.
"He just started shooting at the cops. Cops were running... I'm down by the trash can; I'm trying not to get hit but still looking at the same time. It was just crazy. When we come together on something like this it's sad that this has to happen, you know."
President Barack Obama said America had been left "horrified" by what appeared to be a planned attack on police officers.
Speaking in Poland, where he is meeting Nato officials and European leaders, he said the investigation continues but "what we do know is there has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement."
He added that the shootings were a "wrenching reminder of the sacrifices" that police officers make every day.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted: "Prayers and condolences to all of the families who are so thoroughly devastated by the horrors we are all watching take place in our country."
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted: "I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families & all who serve with them."
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said: "Men & women of law enforcement selflessly run into harm's way to save the lives of others. May God protect them and bring peace upon Dallas."
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A head teacher wrote a letter to the tooth fairy on behalf of a five-year-old boy who was upset when he lost his tooth at school.

Harrison Townsend's wobbly tooth came out and went missing on the playground at Denbury Primary School, south Devon.
Head teacher Jamie Stone asked the tooth fairy to "forgive him" for not having the tooth to "turn into magic dust".
Mother Jade Townsend was delighted Mr Stone had "kept the magic alive".
More on the tooth fairy story, plus other Devon and Cornwall news
"It's not something you would really get from a head teacher," she said.
"For it to be done by the head master, and in such a quick turn around - it was about 20 minutes from when he did it to when Mr Stone gave him the letter and read it to him to calm him down."
"For a kid it's all magical and it's really important to keep that magic alive for me and my family."
Harrison put the letter under his pillow and woke up to find Â£1 there in the morning - he has said he is saving up for an alarm clock.


American Express said its president, Ed Gilligan, died after becoming ill on a flight to New York.

Mr Gilligan started his career at the company as an intern 35 years ago and became vice chairman in 2007 and president in 2013, it said in a statement.
The company did not describe the nature of his illness.
American Express chief executive Ken Chenault said Mr Gilligan's death was "devastating news" in a statement.
The company said he is survived by his wife Lisa, and their four children.


The internet has gone udderly wild for a Texas calf's uncanny resemblance to Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.

The baby cow, named Genie, was born on Friday at a ranch in Kerrville, Texas, and even likes to stick out its tongue like the rocker.
Hill Country Visitor, a tourism agency that promotes the region of Texas Hill, shared the image on Facebook, joking that Simmons could be the father.
Simmons himself was delighted, tweeting: "This is real, folks!!!"
The bovine doppelgänger's markings quickly drew comparisons to Simmons, who is famous for his long tongue and black-and-white face paint.
Genie was born on a ranch kept by the family of Heather Taccetta, who works at a local steak house.
"Obviously, we can't serve this fine specimen," Hill Country Visitor wrote.
"Where were you on or about November 25, 2016?" the website posted, tagging the singer of such hits as Rock and Roll All Night and Detroit Rock City.
The tourism agency also asserted that Kiss music was playing on the ranch on the day of Genie's conception.
Last month, Simmons dropped his legal bid to trademark the "devil horns" hand gesture, which he claimed to have invented in November 1974.
The gesture, which had also been claimed by other rockers, means "I love you" in American sign language.


A Flintshire man who appeared in court charged with murdering his two-month-old son has been bailed.

Sean Michael Mullender, 22, from Connah's Quay, was charged on Wednesday following baby Daniel's death in October 2014.
At Mold Crown Court on Thursday, Mr Justice Wyn Williams bailed him on the condition he stays at an address in Northumbria.
Mr Mullender's trial date has been set for next April.
North Wales Police were contacted by health officials after Daniel was admitted to the Countess of Chester Hospital on 2 October.
He was later transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool where he died on Saturday 4 October.


As The Selfish Gene notches up 40 years in print, BBC News asked Richard Dawkins whether his most famous book is relevant today (answer: yes), whether he has any regrets about public spats over religion (no), and whether he is quitting Twitter (sort of).

"I'd so much rather talk about this than about politics."
This, from a thinker most famous as a fearless firebrand, sounds rather incongruous. But as Prof Dawkins hunches over his laptop to dig up examples of biomorphs - the computer-generated "creatures" he conceived in the 1980s to illustrate artificial selection - it is transparently, genuinely felt.
Later, we touch on the fact that he sees public debate as a scientist's responsibility. Right now, he wants to talk about molluscs.
Pretend molluscs.
"I don't know whether you know the classic book by D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form? He showed that all mollusc shells are a tube, which is enlarging as it coils around. You only need three numbers to specify a mollusc shell."
Those three numbers can be plotted inside a cube, Prof Dawkins explains. "Evolution is then just a walk through this cube of all possible shells."
In a computerised game he wrote in 1996, people could construct their own such walk by choosing for themselves which offspring would "breed" in successive generations of shells.
This game has now been resurrected online to mark the 20th anniversary of the book it arose from, Climbing Mount Improbable.
Its mollusc shells are presented alongside an ancestral explanatory exercise: the biomorphs. These were first programmed 10 years earlier, when Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker. He clearly remembers getting lost in the work.
"When I discovered that I could actually start getting something that looked like an insect, I got really obsessed with the idea of breeding insects."
As the biomorphs grow from simple, branching stick-shrubs into more elaborate and occasionally familiar shapes, they make an important point - and one that is better grasped by being involved than by hearing it explained.
"You get much more of an idea of what it's like to breed dogs from wolves, or to breed cauliflower from wild cabbage," Prof Dawkins says, clearly enjoying the sight of the spindly shapes evolving again on his screen.
Like Darwin long before him, Dawkins settled on artificial selection - selective breeding for desirable characteristics, such as speed in race horses - to explain an important point about natural selection.
For Darwin, it was the idea that variations within a population, or herd, can persist and shape future generations if they are favoured by the breeder. If we humans can coax domestic dogs into their astounding variety of breeds then nature, with vastly more time at its disposal, can produce all the variety of life on Earth through a similar, slower selection process.
For Dawkins, the focus was the notion that has underpinned so much of his work: this process has no need for an architect. Slow, subtle preferences for one form over another will gradually produce complexity.
The Blind Watchmaker, many scientists and writers agree, was Prof Dawkins at his finest. His arguments are made with infectious enthusiasm and powerful imagery.
Ten years earlier again, Dawkins' pioneering account of the "gene-centric" view of evolution, The Selfish Gene, also won huge acclaim.
It crystallised an argument that had been brewing since Watson and Crick's beautiful DNA structure marked a new peak in our understanding of inheritance: these sequences would tend to accumulate and propagate mutations that were beneficial to the gene itself. Any given gene "wants" to be passed on to as many future offspring as possible.
Forty years on, however, this concept faces some opposition among today's biologists.
There were no genome sequences in 1976. We didn't know just how many genes we share with other organisms, how profligately they interact with each other, or how profoundly they are affected by the stretches of DNA in between them. These and other insights, some argue, require a reassessment of the gene's primary role.
Dawkins sees no such need.
"Scientists actually quite like being proved wrong. Unlike politicians, scientists like to say, 'I made a mistake.' This is how science proceeds.
"But I can't really say that with The Selfish Gene. I think it's been vindicated by modern developments."
His conviction that the gene is "the principal unit of natural selection" is undiminished by any evidence he has seen from the genomic era.
"If you ask what is this adaptation good for, why does the animal do this - have a red crest, or whatever it is - the answer is always, for the good of the genes that made it. That is the central message of the Selfish Gene and that remains true, and reinforced."
Much of the complexity that has been added to our understanding of how DNA works, Prof Dawkins contends, can be viewed as a continuation of the "environment" against which a gene is selected.
"We're used to the idea that a gene for green colour flourishes in a green environment. But what I've added in many of my books is that a gene sitting, not on a green background, but on a background of other genes in the species, gets selected by virtue of its compatibility with other genes in the gene pool."
Perhaps the most popular challenge raised against the centrality of genes is the evidence that elements beyond the DNA's sequence - "epigenetic" affects like packaging or molecular tags that control a gene's expression - can be inherited.
Prof Dawkins dismisses this as a flash in the pan, both in its evolutionary significance and in the "15 minutes of fame" which he declares it is enjoying undeservedly.
"Obviously we've long known that some genes are turned on, and other genes are not turned on, in different tissues. The trendy thing is the allegation that a few of these turnings on or off get passed onto the next generation.
"That's the bit that gets all the hype and doesn't deserve to."
That heritable switching, he remarks, affects "only a few genes" and fades after a few generations. "It's not of evolutionary significance; it doesn't go on in the way that mutation does - which is forever, unless it gets selected out."
Here, we glimpse the combative Dawkins that has become so familiar in discussions of religion. Already a standard-bearer for many atheists, when he wrote The God Delusion in 2006 he became a veritable field marshal.
It won him devotees, but lost some admirers. He has often declared it was "a necessary book to write", but does he ever think it was a step too far?
"I've stepped back," Prof Dawkins says. "I haven't written any more books along those lines. The God Delusion is a one-off. Not one that I'm ashamed of; I'm very proud of it. But it's a one-off."
As for his many public comments on the topic of faith - from religious schooling to the burka - he stands by them all.
"It's important to [be involved in those debates]. I think scientists need to get involved in that kind of thing."
And does that responsibility extend to debates that are clearly outside a scientist's academic field?
"Religion is not really a field that you can have. It's a non-field. And insofar as religion makes claims in the area of science - which it does, because it talks about creation, it talks about the nature of the Universe, it talks about the nature of life - to that extent, all scientists should be involved in it."
Some of the professor's most heated recent spats have unfolded on social media. He has qualified some of his Twitter remarks and lamented that medium's lack of nuance, but embraces it nonetheless.
Or at least, he used to.
"I've given up Twitter," Prof Dawkins says quietly but curtly. The tweets that appear in his name, apparently, are the work of the staff at his Foundation for Reason and Science.
"I occasionally ask them to post something, which they do, but I've given up doing it myself."
Might we be seeing a more wary, more restrained Richard Dawkins in future? This seems unlikely. But he is obviously pleased to turn the conversation back to science.
We conclude by discussing what challenges and benefits recent findings have brought to his theories; he is particularly excited by the way whole-genome sequences can inform our extended family tree.
As the technology gets cheaper and faster, Prof Dawkins says with excitement, "it will become possible to lay out the complete tree of life".
To emphasise the point, he returns to the laptop and opens OneZoom, a dazzling, all-encompassing representation of the tree of life which uses fractal shapes to allow continued expansion. (This map now adorns the website for another Dawkins book, The Ancestor's Tale.)
This is "an actual geography", he explains as we flit from one branch to another, instead of a series of linked pages like most such catalogues.
"It's sort of like Google Earth - but of the whole animal-plant kingdom. And they're now crowdsourcing it; you can sponsor an animal that they haven't yet got.
"I'm going to sponsor Verraux's sifaka - the lemur that dances with its hands in the air."
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A lorry has been left straddling a 10ft (3m) wide sinkhole over a gas main in Essex.

The hole opened up as the vehicle was travelling down Hogg Lane in Grays at about 12:40 BST, a fire service spokesman said.
A 656ft (200m) hazard zone has been set up around the affected area. No one was trapped in the lorry but the smell of gas has been reported.
Essex Police and Thurrock Council officers are also at the scene.
Firefighters reported the hole exposed two gas pipes on either side of the road, and gas company officials had been called.
Lewis Smith, who works at a nearby Ford car dealership, said he and his colleagues "shot out and had a quick look" before the road was cordoned off.
He estimated the sinkhole could be up to 20ft (6m) deep.


The managing director of Oxford City Football Club has been found dead at the team's ground.

The body of Colin Taylor was discovered by a member of the public at about 09:20 BST at the Marsh Lane site in Marston.
Thames Valley Police said his death was not thought to be suspicious and a file was being prepared for the coroner.
In a statement the club said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with Colin's family and friends at this time."
It said the directors of the club made the announcement with the "deepest sadness".
Chairman Brian Cox, who had been friends with Mr Taylor for more than 25 years, said he was "shocked" by the news.
A police spokeswoman said: "At this stage there appear to be no suspicious circumstances.
"The next of kin have been informed. The family have asked for privacy at this very difficult time."
Scott Davies, who plays for the National League South team, said he was in "absolute shock".
"Only knew him for a short period of time but what a lovely bloke he was," he added.
Further tributes have been paid to Mr Taylor, thought to be in his 60s, on Twitter.
Christian Lawrence said: "Sad sad news this morning, RIP to Colin Taylor. A great man who was the heart and soul of Oxford City FC. You will be missed."
Susan Gibbens tweeted: "Such awful news, a true gentleman. Thoughts are with his family at this sad time.  RIP Colin"
Rob Tutton, said: "Unbelievable & shocking news. Saw him yesterday at the first team game... [he] gave so much to the club".


An Australian woman whose cats ate each other after she abandoned them in her home has been convicted of animal cruelty.

RSPCA inspectors found 13 dead cats and an emaciated survivor when they raided the property in Adelaide, South Australia, in September 2015.
The 43-year-old woman was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond and banned from owning animals.
The surviving cat, since named Trooper, has recovered and found a new home.
RSPCA South Australia chief inspector Andrea Lewis said it was a "heartbreaking" case for staff.
"They see some pretty awful things," she told the BBC. "But this is something that will stay with them for a long time."
Video footage recorded by the RSPCA shows the house littered with mess, including animal faeces.
"Is that a dead cat that's been eaten by the other cats?" an inspector asks.
"Yeah, there's a couple," another replies.
The owner was convicted of animal cruelty in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court.
Ms Lewis urged people to contact family, neighbours or an animal shelter if they were no longer able to care for their pets.
"People should just never walk away and leave their animals," Ms Lewis said. "Everyone has a legal obligation to look after animals in their care."
Trooper has been adopted by a family in Adelaide.
"He has made a great recovery," Ms Lewis said. "He's a much loved member of their family."


The BBC is considering a permanent memorial to Sir Bruce Forsyth, who died on Friday at the age of 89.

Amid the tributes to the entertainer, some fans have called for a statue of the entertainer to be erected outside a BBC building.
A spokesperson for the BBC said it would look into the idea of a memorial to mark his 75-year career.
"We are more than happy to look at what would be the most fitting tribute to a BBC showbiz legend."
Councillors in Edmonton, north London - where he was born - are also said to be considering plans to commemorate the Strictly star with a permanent memorial.
Independent Edmonton councillor Nesimi Erbil told The Telegraph he would hope a statue or plaque would be agreed upon in the borough.
The former host of The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price is Right started his career at the age of 14 and already has a number of permanent tributes.
In 2005, a bronze bust of the entertainer was unveiled at London's Palladium theatre, where he hosted TV's Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the 1950s and 60s.
There is also a special plaque celebrating his record-breaking number of appearances at The Hippodrome in London.
Funeral details for the star have not yet been announced.
On Sunday, his manager Ian Wilson said: "The family have barely discussed let alone finalised arrangements. An announcement will be made in the coming days."
The game show host had not been seen in public for a while before he died.
He stopped hosting Strictly in 2014, and in 2015 he had keyhole surgery after suffering two aneurysms. His health had deteriorated recently after he contracted bronchial pneumonia.
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More than half of Scots have run out of money before pay day, according to a new report.

The Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) study found 15% of people said it happened "most of the time" or "always".
Nearly a quarter (23%) had gone without food at least once in the previous year.
CAS said its findings showed that debt was "just a fact of life" for most people.
Almost half (48%) of the 1,501 Scots who took part in the survey had been forced to borrow money or use credit to buy food.
A fifth needed help to pay their rent or mortgage - a figure which jumped to 29% when it came to utility bills.
The report also found that more than half (55%) of the people quizzed would be unable to pay a sudden bill of Â£100 without borrowing, using savings or cutting back on essentials.
For a Â£250 bill, this rose to 69%, and for Â£1,000 it was 83%.
Nearly four in 10 (38%) felt they were "living comfortably" on their income.
CAS policy manager Keith Dryburgh said the study showed that debt was not just an issue for people on low incomes.
He said: "Many working Scots on reasonable salaries occasionally need to borrow money to get them from one pay day to the next.
"While many of these people would not regard this as a crisis situation, our research also finds that many people are vulnerable to financial shocks, like being unable to pay a sudden bill without getting into debt or using savings.
"More than half of Scots are not familiar with their rights as debt consumers.
"Given that debt is so pervasive in Scotland, we are keen to make sure that people know their rights in relation to debt and also know what options they have if they want to manage their finances better."


A development bank for Wales has been given the official go-ahead to help small and micro businesses get off the ground or to grow.

Developed from Finance Wales, it will have a target of providing £80m a year within five years and creating 5,500 jobs annually.
EU and Welsh Government funding will kick-start the bank, aimed at micro, small start-ups and innovative firms.
The Wrexham-based bank's running costs will be self-sustaining from next year.
The Development Bank of Wales will work closely with Business Wales, the Welsh Government's business support service.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said: "The development bank will be the first of its kind in the UK, addressing current market failures within business finance and providing focused support for micro, small start-ups and innovative businesses across Wales enabling them to become fitter, bigger and stronger."
A further £35m of European funding will be added to the £136m Wales Business Fund that was announced last year.
More money is expected to support the bank's work later this year.
CASE STUDY: GIVING BUSINESS A LIFT
Owen Edwards runs The Studio in Cardiff, a personal training centre with fitness classes. He is adamant it is very different from usual gyms. He had been a personal trainer in London and wanted to return home.
He launched the business six months ago with £20,000 of his own money, more from his father and £150,000 from Finance Wales.
Mr Edwards pays 10% interest on that loan. The stylish interior design and equipment is leased and his business plan aims to break even in six months, after a year's trading.
He said he could not have done it without Finance Wales as high street banks would not back him.
He said they took a detailed look and continue to check on his progress monthly.
"As a start-up, no-one traditionally looks at or gives you the time of day," said Mr Edwards.
"There's a risk involved. Finance Wales seemed to get the idea and really bought into it and understood the unique nature of the business."
FINANCE WALES - A SHORT HISTORY
2001: Finance Wales was set up with £45m to help smaller firms, with funding from the EU and Barclays. But it has been heavily criticised in recent years.
2013: Enterprise expert Prof Dylan Jones Evans's study, the Access to Finance Review, for the Welsh Government, looked at ways of making it easier for small companies to get funding.
His conclusion was that Finance Wales was not doing its job properly
2015: Prof Jones Evans called for a development bank to be set up.
That was backed in the May by a motion in the National Assembly saying that Finance Wales did not meet the needs of many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and that access to finance was still a problem.
2016: In April, Giles Thorley took over as chief executive of Finance Wales. He had nine years with Punch Taverns.  The development bank was announced by Economy Secretary Ken Skates in December, who had also unveiled plans for a fund to help SMEs.
2017: According to its latest figures, Finance Wales created more than 1,100 jobs in 2015-16 and invested more than £56m in businesses.


The recent removal of the Downpatrick sangar - or fortified observation post- shows how much Northern Ireland's political landscape has changed over the past 50 years.

BBC News NI looks at other physical changes in the landscape that reflect developments in the political sphere, through pictures of key landmarks from the Troubles.
During the Troubles, shoppers in Belfast had to pass through security gates to enter Royal Avenue, one of Belfast's main shopping streets.
Bags would be searched for explosives by police.
The security gates are long gone.
At the height of the Troubles, sangars were erected across County Armagh.
The fortified observation posts formed part of the British Army's defensive strategy to control the landscape and people of Northern Ireland.
Known to the British army as Borucki Sangar, watchtower Golf Five Zero was a base in Crossmaglenafter named after Private James R Borucki, 3 Para, who was killed by a 5lb remote-controlled bomb left on a bicycle.
When the IRA put its weapons beyond use in 2005, moves began within weeks to transform the security landscape.
Work began to demolish watchtowers and bases, and in August 2007 the British army's emergency operation in Northern Ireland came to an end.
The Maze prison is one of the building complexes most associated with the Troubles.
Built on an old airfield in the early 1970s, the site was where paramilitary prisoners were held.
Demolition started in 2006 and, as part of redevelopment plans, almost all the H-blocks have been razed to the ground.
A controversial project to transform the Maze prison into a peace centre has been put on hold.
The site is now the home to the Ulster Aviation Society and the Balmoral Show, one of the most important events in Northern Ireland's agricultural calendar.
"You are now entering Free Derry" was painted on to the gable wall of a terraced house in the Bogside in 1969.
The wall bearing the landmark slogan is now all that remains of a row of terraced houses.
As part of the so-called normalisation process in Northern Ireland, many Army barracks and police stations have been demolished.
Andersonstown police station/barracks in west Belfast, prominent during the Troubles, was demolished in 2005.
People experienced long traffic queues when the so-called hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland necessitated careful ID checks.
Throughout the Troubles both Republicans and Loyalists painted large murals on buildings. There are hundreds of them across Northern Ireland.
Now new murals have sprung up celebrating life in the country.
The UFF mural was painted over and replaced by a patchwork quilt of words about women and the role they play in families and communities.
Permanent walls the so called "peace lines" were built to separate Catholic and Protestant areas of Belfast in the 1970s.
The Crumlin Road wall is both the first wall to be removed; Northern Ireland's power-sharing government has vowed to remove all peace walls by 2023.


A cyclist who died in hospital after being found injured on a roadside in Wrexham has been described as a "fantastic" man by his family.

Alan Cronin, 60, from Guilden Sutton, near Chester, was found with serious injuries near Rossett flyover on the A483 Wrexham bypass on Thursday.
North Wales Police have arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop and report a collision.
He is in custody and being questioned.
A family tribute described Mr Cronin, a member of Chester Triathlon Club, as the "best possible dad, husband, brother and partner to have, willing to do anything for anyone".
In a statement, issued by police, they said: "He was always someone to turn to and had a solution to any problem.
"He was the most fantastic man and he'll stay with us for the rest of our lives."


Intel has unveiled a virtual reality headset that allows nearby objects from the real world to be integrated into its computer-generated views.

It describes Project Alloy as being a "merged reality" device. One key advantage, Intel says, is that users will be able to see their own hands.
It intends to offer the technology to other manufactures next year, but will not sell the headsets itself.
The company is keen to avoid repeating the mistake it made with smartphones.
The California-based company has previously acknowledged that it botched an opportunity to supply Apple with chips for its original iPhone.
It subsequently lost out to rival ARM-based technology that now powers the vast majority of handsets.
Project Alloy marks an opportunity to pitch its RealSense depth-sensing cameras, Replay graphics-creation software and other proprietary inventions to others before virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices - which superimpose graphics over a real-world view - go mainstream.
Even so, it is far from being the only technology giant involved in the sector:
Furthermore, AMD - a rival chipmaker to Intel - is developing an untethered headset of its own that mixes together AR and VR technologies.
Intel's chief executive, Brian Krzanich, offered a first look at Project Alloy at his company's developer forum in San Francisco, where he suggested the technology could "redefine what is possible with computing".
One of the benefits of its approach, he said, was that the headset's RealSense cameras could detect a user's finger movements and allow them to appear in a virtual world and manipulate simulated objects.
"Merged reality is about more natural ways of interacting with and manipulating virtual environments," he said in a blog later published on Medium.
"[That liberates] you from the controllers and the nunchucks of today's VR systems by immersing your hands - your real-life hands - into your simulated experiences."
In an on-stage demonstration, the hands could be seen only if they were held near to the centre of the user's field of view.
When Mr Krzanich's own face appeared within the VR world, it also became apparent that "merged reality" objects only appeared as low resolution graphics, at least for now.
He added that the technology had benefits over rival systems that required a user to install external sensors in their room to detect their movements.
And he suggested that going wireless would prevent an owner being "jolted" out of their experience because they had reached the limit of the cord used to transmit data from a PC or games console.
However, he acknowledged that one trade-off would be that the computer involved would take slightly longer to respond to a user's actions - something that might concern gamers.
Microsoft has pledged to support the headset in a forthcoming version of Windows 10.
One expert said Project Alloy had promise, but it might only have limited appeal.
"Having a real-time rendition of your hands or other objects in VR could have appeal to enterprise applications, such as a surgeon training with a body diagram or a mechanic having graphics overlaid onto an engine part," said Ed Barton, from the technology consultancy Ovum.
"But when it comes to gaming, there hasn't been much clamour to be able to see your hands in real-time.
"Vive, for example, has addressed the issue with special controllers. It's not something that people have been crying out for."
The unveiling of Project Alloy comes seven months after Intel disclosed some of its other VR and AR efforts.
At the  Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it showed off an augmented reality helmet for construction workers, made by the start-up Daqri, and a smartphone virtual reality accessory made by IonVR.
Both incorporated its RealSense sensors.


A Swansea schoolboy has become the first child in Wales to receive a new state-of-the-art bionic hand.

Alan, 10, of Loughor, had both hands amputated at the age of three after complications arising from an infection.
His mother Hannah Jones, 32, managed to raise Â£30,000 in eight months so he could get an i-limb quantum hand.
She said: "It's made a huge difference to his life - he's more confident."
Alan underwent almost 40 operations during his early years due to a heart defect, but an infection which affected his circulation meant he needed a double hand amputation to save his life.
Last year, Ms Jones discovered the i-limb quantum, made by Touch Bionics, was available in Scotland and raised the money from donors.
The "multi-articulating" hand is the first prosthesis to allow wearers to change grips with a simple gesture, according to its manufacturer.
"He's now able to write one-handed, he's able to ride a bike, he's able to eat with a knife and fork, which is something he's always wanted to do," Ms Jones said.
"I can't thank everybody who's helped us enough - to see how much happier it has made him, I'm happy for him. It's been long and hard but we got there."
Alan's mother said he now hopes to realise his dream of becoming a special needs teacher and, perhaps, one day a head teacher.
She would like to raise enough money for him to get a second bionic hand, which he could have fitted when he is aged 12.


England's Alastair Cook has been named as captain of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test team of the year.

Cook, who led his country to a 3-1 Ashes Test win the summer, is one of three England players in the side.
Bowler Stuart Broad, who took career-best figures of 8-15 during the fourth Test against Australia in August, was also selected, as was Joe Root.
Batsman Root was named as 12th man in the ICC's one-day team of the year, with no England player making the 11.
It was the fifth time in seven years that Broad has been selected for the ICC Test team.
Both teams were chosen by a selection panel chaired by former India captain Anil Kumble.
David Warner - one of three Australia players selected - was picked to open the batting with Cook in the Test side, while his national captain Steve Smith was included in both teams.
South Africa's AB de Villiers was chosen as captain of the one-day team of the year.
David Warner (Australia), Alastair Cook (England, captain), Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Younis Khan (Pakistan), Steven Smith (Australia), Joe Root (England), Sarfraz Ahmed (Pakistan, wicketkeeper), Stuart Broad (England), Trent Boult (New Zealand), Yasir Shah (Pakistan), Josh Hazlewood (Australia). 12th man: Ravichandran Ashwin (India).
Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka), Hashim Amla (South Africa), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka, wicketkeeper), AB de Villiers (South Africa, captain), Steven Smith (Australia), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Trent Boult (New Zealand), Mohammed Shami (India), Mitchell Starc (Australia), Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh), Imran Tahir (South Africa). 12th man: Joe Root (England).


Derry football manager Damian Barton has been given an eight-week ban as a result of his involvement in an on-field melee in the McKenna Cup final.

The ban was handed out by the Ulster Council earlier this month but news of it only emerged on Friday morning.
This followed Barton's decision to withdraw an appeal which had been scheduled for Thursday night.
Barton was among a number of Derry and Tyrone personnel sent off in the McKenna Cup decider on 23 January.
The second-half incident in which Barton became embroiled in followed  a dangerous sliding challenge by Derry forward Daniel McKinless on Tyrone defender Ronan McNamee.
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The Tyrone man reacted by pushing over McKinless, and appearing to make contact with the Derry man's throat in the process.
As other players and Barton joined the fray, Tyrone goalkeeper Niall Morgan attempted to pull up McKinless up off the ground and the Derry boss then pushed the Red Hand keeper before, in turn, being jostled by Cathal McCarron.
After order was restored by Cavan referee Noel Mooney, McKinless and McNamee were both handed yellow cards which resulted in the Tyrone man being sent off as he had been cautioned earlier.
Derry boss Barton was also ordered to the stand while McCarron received a straight red card for his part in the melee.
McCarron is understood to have been handed a one-match ban for his part in the melee which will apply in next year's Dr McKenna Cup.
Barton's ban means he will not be allowed to sit in the Derry dug-out in their five upcoming Football League Division 2 matches, beginning with Sunday's home game against Galway.
However, Barton will be able to continue to train the squad and attend the games.


Bahrain is considering a request from Denmark to transfer political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been on hunger strike for almost two months.

State media in the Gulf kingdom said a request had been made by Danish Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal, citing the prisoner's Danish citizenship.
Human rights organisations have called for Mr Khawaja to be freed.
His daughter Zainab has been protesting over her father's worsening condition.
Having been arrested on Thursday at a rally, she was released on Saturday but vowed to continue her campaign for her father's release.
Mr Khawaja has been moved to a hospital clinic and is being fed intravenously after 58 days on hunger strike.
He is protesting against a life sentence he received for his role in anti-government protests by Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority last year.
A special security court convicted him of trying to overthrow Bahrain's royal family, who are Sunni Muslims.
The Danish request has been referred to the head of Bahrain's supreme judicial council who is due "to study it and make a decision", Bahrain's state news agency reported.
Security forces fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of protesters who rallied in support of Mr Khawaja on Friday.
Many were carrying posters of him as they called for his release.
Other protests have also been held in recent weeks against the motor racing Grand Prix which is due to be held in Bahrain later this month.
Zainab Khawaja was arrested on Thursday at a rally outside the interior ministry, where she was accused of "assaulting a public employee".
After questioning, she was freed on Saturday but is said to have tried to gain access to the hospital where her father is being treated.
On her Twitter account, she said her father had phoned the family and could "hardly speak... hardly breathe".
"My Dad said he will not stop his hunger strike and told guards 'If I die, I die with dignity'," she wrote.
"My mother told my Dad that we all support him, that we're proud. We are with him all the way, no matter what he decide[s]."
Human rights group Amnesty International says Mr Khawaja's conviction in June was based on a confession made under duress, and no evidence was presented showing he had used, or advocated violence, during the mass protests early last year.


The BBC should name its stars who earn more than the prime minister, a committee of MPs has said.

The corporation is planning to identify those who earn more than £450,000.
But the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee said there was no reason not to publish details of those who get more than £143,000 a year.
The BBC said that would allow commercial broadcasters to poach its stars, which "wouldn't be in the interests of licence fee payers".
Currently, the BBC reveals the salary details of executives who earn more than £150,000 per year.
In May, a government white paper on the future of the corporation recommended revealing which performers and presenters get more than £450,000, which would affect names including Chris Evans, Gary Lineker and Graham Norton.
The select committee's acting chairman, Conservative MP Damian Collins, said: "There will be agents, managers, headhunters who will know very well what different people are being paid.
"That's part of the secret knowledge that people within the industry have but it's not shared by licence fee payers - the people that provide the money in the first place," he told BBC's Today programme.
Transparency on pay was "a helpful tool to keep in control of pay costs", he said, and pointed out that it was standard practice in public bodies to declare pay packages above the prime minister's £143,000 annual salary.
The BBC had made an "important step" in declaring the packages of executives on more than £150,000, but that should be extended to every employee.
"I don't think licence fee payers distinguish between a salary paid to an executive, and that paid to a presenter or broadcaster," he said.
In response, a BBC statement said it has "led the way in transparency by publishing details of senior manager salaries over £150,000".
It continued: "We cut our bill for talent pay by £8m last year, but creating a poacher's charter by publishing the salaries of individual presenters and actors wouldn't be in the interests of licence fee payers who say they want the best talent on the BBC."
Elsewhere in its report, the committee has also called for a separate Six O'Clock TV news for Scotland, which would be made in Scotland with a Scottish audience in mind.
The BBC has been looking at the idea following concern that, following devolution, many so-called national stories relate only to England.
Mr Collins said: "We believe that it is perfectly reasonable for editorial decisions on the running order for television news broadcasts in Scotland to be made in Scotland, and broadcast from Scotland, as they are already for radio."
The BBC spokesperson said it was "continuing to test a number of options as part of our ongoing review into our news services".
The statement said: "Ultimately our main aim is to provide the best news offer possible and that is why we're exploring a number of possible formats."
Meanwhile, the committee voiced "serious concerns" over the appointment of the new BBC unitary board, including the way chairwoman Rona Fairhead was "reappointed" without a recruitment process.
Mr Collins said Mrs Fairhead, current chairwoman of the BBC Trust, "may well be the best person" for the job, but there was still time to have a proper process to consider other candidates.
He said the role would be "pivotal" and the chair would play an important part in deciding who else would be on the board.
A BBC Trust spokesperson said that decision was made by the then prime minister and culture secretary, who believed "it was important that the process ran smoothly, with the chairman to provide continuity".


Angus Macpherson has been re-elected to the role of Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon.

The Conservative received 45% of the first preference votes.
He was elected after the second preference votes were counted, when no candidates received more than 50% of first preference votes.
Mr Macpherson received a total of  68,622 first and second preferences compared to his nearest challenger Labour's Kevin Small.
Mr Small received 39,365 of the first and second preference votes.
Turnout was nearly 25%, up from 15% in 2012.
Mr Macpherson described the result as "a vote of confidence in local policing", but added: "That is not to say everything is perfect.
"In my second term I will be focusing on the issues raised by the public during the campaign. We can do more for our communities and my job for the next four years is to make sure that we do."
Candidates are listed alphabetically by surname.


A full investigation has been launched into the cause of a gas leak at the Grangemouth petrochemical site.

Eight fire appliances attended the refinery and police officers were sent to the site shortly after 12:00.
Refinery owners Ineos said there were no casualties as a result of the incident.
Ineos said a leak was detected on a pipe carrying ethylene gas in its Kinneil Gas manufacturing plant which was being isolated.
The company said in a statement: "Staff were evacuated from the immediate area and our well-practiced emergency procedures were implemented with the incident management team being mobilised.
"Measures were put in place to contain the leak in the immediate vicinity of the affected plant and as an ongoing precaution road closures remain in place.
"All of the people working in the area have been accounted for and there were no injuries.
"Other areas within the Grangemouth complex, including the adjacent refinery were unaffected by the incident.
"A full investigation into the cause of the incident is under way.
"The regulators have been kept fully informed throughout."
Pupils at primary and secondary schools in Grangemouth were kept indoors over lunchtime as a precaution at the request of the police, a Falkirk Council spokesman said.
A spokesman for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: "At 12.12 on Tuesday, 2 May the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to reports of a gas leak at the Grangemouth petrochemical site."
Police Scotland said it attended the incident at about 12:15 and that it had closed a number of access roads.


Thailand has jailed a US citizen for two and a half years after he admitted posting web links to a banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Joe Gordon, a used car salesman from Colorado who was born in Thailand, admitted lese-majeste, or insulting the king, at an earlier hearing.
He was sentenced to five years in jail, but the judges halved the term because of his guilty plea.
The US consul general in Thailand said the sentence was "severe".
"He was given the sentence for his  right of expression," Elizabeth Pratt told reporters.
"We continue to respect the Thai monarchy but we also support the right of expression which is internationally recognised as a human right."
Activists say the lese-majeste law has become increasingly politicised, and is used as a tool of repression rather than as a way of protecting the monarchy.
Gordon, 55, reportedly translated parts of the widely available biography, The King Never Smiles by Paul Handley, several years ago and posted them on a blog while he was living in the US.
He was arrested in May when he visited Thailand for medical treatment.
He initially denied the charges, but said he changed his plea to guilty after being repeatedly refused bail.
After being sentenced, he told the Bangkok court: "I'm not Thai, I'm American. I was just born in Thailand. I hold an American passport. In Thailand there are many laws that don't allow you to express opinions, but we don't have that in America."
His lawyer said he would not appeal against the sentence, but would ask for a royal pardon.
Foreigners convicted of lese majeste are routinely pardoned and deported shortly after being sentenced.
Prosecutions under the law have increased dramatically in recent years, amid chronic political instability.
And the authorities have passed a new law, the Computer Crimes Act, that increases their powers to tackle any perceived insults to the monarchy on the internet or through mobile phones.
Last month a 61-year-old man was jailed for 20 years for sending four text messages that were deemed offensive to the Thai queen.
The man said he did not even know how to send a text message, and rights groups expressed serious concern about his conviction.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 84, is the world's longest-reigning monarch and is revered as semi-divine by many Thais.
Anybody convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces long prison sentences.


Bruce Arena has been appointed United States head coach for a second time, succeeding Jurgen Klinsmann, who was sacked on Monday.

The American, 65, who is leaving LA Galaxy to take up the post, led his country to the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals in his first spell in charge.
Arena also boasts the best win rate of any US manager, with 71 victories from his 130 games between 1998 and 2006.
He has also won five MLS Cups with LA Galaxy and DC United.
Klinsmann, 52, steered the United States to the last 16 at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but they have lost their first two games in the qualifying campaign for 2018.
They sit bottom of the six-country qualifying group, below teams including Panama and Honduras, albeit only a fifth of the way through the process.
"Any time you get the opportunity to coach the national team, it's an honour," Arena said.
"I'm confident that we'll take the right steps forward to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia."
Arena's first day in charge will be 1 December, and his first match will be a qualifier at home to Honduras on 24 March 2017.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been asked to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into compensation for Libyan-sponsored IRA violence.

The late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi supplied arms to the IRA during the Troubles and Libyan Semtex was a key weapon in its bombing campaign.
Westminster's Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is examining government efforts to seek redress for UK victims.
It has asked Mr Blair to respond to concerns raised about his role.
The committee's chair, Laurence Robertson, has written to the former prime minister to ask about his involvement in negotiations that led to a compensation deal between the US and Libya eight years ago.
Libya compensated US victims of terrorism but UK victims were left out of the deal.
Mr Robertson's letter states: "There is a real sense amongst the victims that an opportunity to include them in the agreement reached between the US and Libya was missed in 2008."
He told Mr Blair the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee was offering him the "opportunity to submit written evidence to its inquiry to respond to the concerns raised and to clarify your role at the time".
"Based on this, the committee may decide to invite you to give oral evidence," the letter added.


Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney is through to the PDC World Championship quarter-finals after a dramatic 4-3 win over Mark Webster in London.

Gurney, whose previous best in the tournament was the last 32, lost the opening set but won the next three.
The Londonderry man missed five darts to secure victory and Welshman Webster fought back to level at 3-3.
Gurney prevailed 3-1 in the deciding set and he will meet world number one Michael van Gerwen on Friday night.
Webster won the first set 3-0 before struggling on the doubles and Gurney capitalised to take control of the match at Alexandra Palace.
Gurney clinched a tight second set 3-2 before winning 3-2 and 3-0 to leave the 30-year-old just one set away from victory.
However, it was Gurney's turn to miss doubles and Webster won the next two sets by a 3-2 scoreline.
Gurney failed with a sixth attempt to seal it before finally seeing off Webster 3-1 in the final set.
"I'm really relieved to come through," Gurney told Sky Sports.
"I should have won it earlier by 4-1 or 4-2 - my darts to win the match were dreadful."


A hairdresser from Llanelli is trying to raise money to send her mother to die at Switzerland's Dignitas clinic.

Tara O'Reilly says her mother, who has motor neurone disease, wants to die with dignity.
She said she wants to help her mother Jackie Baker choose the time and method of her death.
Assisting a suicide or suicide attempt is a criminal offence and Dyfed-Powys Police said it was aware of the case and is looking into the fundraising.
Ms O'Reilly said they needed Â£8,000 to fund the trip and had no alternative but to ask for help.
A person encouraging or assisting a suicide or suicide attempt could face up to 14 years in prison, if a decision was taken to prosecute.
But Ms O'Reilly told BBC Wales that the family had thought long and hard about their mother's wishes.
Ms O'Reilly said: "My mother spoke to me and my sister about it and she said if it gets worse, which it has, she wanted to go to Switzerland.
"We were distraught, because it's unthinkable.
"But as the months have gone, and we've seen how much she has deteriorated, unable to feed herself, dress herself.
"It's cruel. You wouldn't let your cat or dog suffer, you'd take them to the vets. It's kind.
"This is not kind. Having to wipe your mother's mouth, feed her and give her drinks through a straw."