Police have identified 80 potential victims of physical and sexual abuse at five children's care homes in Nottinghamshire.

The homes include Beechwood Children's Home in Mapperley, where some former residents have already been awarded compensation.
Police have arrested ten men so far but seven will not face any further action.
One of the ten has died since being questioned, but two men are still being investigated on suspicion of rape.
One former Beechwood resident claims he was gang raped from the age of ten.
By Jeremy BallSocial affairs correspondent
This is one of Nottinghamshire's largest police inquiries for several years.
At the heart of this inquiry is the old Beechwood Children's Home in Mapperley, where a number of former residents claim they suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse.
The investigation has been complex because some of these allegations go back more than 40 years, making it difficult to corroborate details of where abuse allegedly took place, and who carried out that abuse.
James Cleverley said he tried to get help from police, but was not believed at the time.
Mr Cleverley, now 53, said the abuse had affected him throughout his life, and he still takes sleeping tablets and anti-depressants.
"I break down sometimes when I feel a bit down and if I've had a drink that's even worse; the memories just come flooding back," he said.
"At night time I wake up and even though I'm on very high sleeping tablets I still wake up with nightmares.
"Mentally I can never forget it, never."
He said he was also abused when he went to other homes.
"Every home I went to it seemed like they knew that I was the sort of lad that they could do that to, to abuse me," he said.
"It seemed like a big paedophile ring."
He said he went to a mental hospital for a while and has been "in and out of prison".
"It's hard for me to have a relationship with people now, especially men, my friends, because I think to myself they did it to me when I was younger, they might try it with me now," he said.
"They were supposed to be there to look after me, not to abuse me."


Akwasi Asante bagged a brace as Solihull ended a run of three straight defeats in the National League with victory over lowly North Ferriby.

Asante spurned the first real chance of the match when he prodded meekly at visiting goalkeeper Rory Watson while Kyle Wootton fired wide when well placed at the other end.
Dutch striker Asante also missed the target but then made amends shortly afterwards, following up to net the rebound after Jamey Osborne's low drive had been parried into his path.
Solihull were grateful for Daniel Lewis' fine low save to keep out Wootton's drive shortly after half-time while the ever-dangerous Asante's effort came back off the bar.
The hosts survived a few nervy moments before Asante made the result safe, slamming into the roof of the net from the edge of the area before Curtis Bateson was dismissed late on to compound the woes of North Ferriby, who slipped to the foot of the table following the loss.
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Match ends, Solihull Moors 2, North Ferriby United 0.
Second Half ends, Solihull Moors 2, North Ferriby United 0.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Second yellow card to Curtis Bateson (North Ferriby United) for a bad foul.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Jamey Osborne.
Shepherd Murombedzi (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Liam Daly (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Levi Sutton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Solihull Moors 2, North Ferriby United 0. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Jordan Fagbola replaces Eddie Jones.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Darryn Stamp replaces Ross Armstrong.
Curtis Bateson (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Kendall replaces Kyle Wootton.
Second Half begins Solihull Moors 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
First Half ends, Solihull Moors 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Goal!  Solihull Moors 1, North Ferriby United 0. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Ben Middleton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
George Carline (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A 12-year-old boy fell to his death from the top of a school stairwell just a day after his birthday, an inquest has heard.

Michael Sousa died nine days after the fall at Jane Austen College, in Norwich.
Opening an inquest into his death, coroner Yvonne Blake said the boy had "significant head injuries".
His life support machine was turned off at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on 31 January. He died the next day.
The medical cause of death was given as severe traumatic brain injury.
A full inquest will be heard in August.
In a written statement, college principal Rebecca Handley Kirk said: "We are devastated by these events, and we send our thoughts and our love to Michael's family and friends.
"Michael had only joined us in September, but was already becoming a well-known student throughout the school, thanks to his lively personality."


Bee-killing Asian hornets spreading across Europe now face a natural enemy that lures them to destruction - a carnivorous North American plant, French experts say.

The head of a botanical garden in Nantes, western France, says the pitcher plant Sarracenia devours Asian hornets - but not European hornets. Nor does it eat bees or wasps.
Romaric Perrocheau recently found a Sarracenia stem full of dead hornets.
Asian hornets are a menace to beehives.
Mr Perrocheau, quoted by AFP news agency, said Sarracenia had "invented a very selective trap" for the aggressive Asian hornets.
The hornets are apparently attracted by Sarracenia's nectar and pheromones on the plant's tubular leaves. Once the hornet crawls inside the rim at the top it easily slips and plunges into the pitcher, to be digested by the plant's juices.
The trap appears to be a European adaptation, as Asian hornets do not exist in Sarracenia's native Massachusetts, in the eastern US. The plant can be grown easily in Europe and is not considered a threat to native flora.
Mr Perrocheau and an entomologist aim to study the contents of 200 pitchers, hoping to identify the chemical secret of their attraction for Asian hornets.
The insects - catalogued as Vespa velutina nigrithorax - are a threat to honeybees in France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium.
They were first spotted in France in 2004, but their native habitat is the Shanghai region of China. Hornet stings have proven fatal to humans in some cases because of allergic reactions.
Each Sarracenia plant has up to 15 pitchers, and can attract as many as 50 hornets. But a typical hornet's nest houses 4,000 insects - so the plants by themselves cannot deal with the problem.
In April The Independent daily reported that they had not yet been sighted in the UK, but that plans were in place to destroy their nests if they crossed the English Channel.
The nests are notoriously difficult to find and destroy, however - often hidden high up in trees or in underground hollows.
European hornets do not pose such a threat to bees.


Sleeping too much or too little can increase the likelihood of becoming obese, researchers have discovered.

The study found abnormal sleeping patterns increased the risk of being overweight for those genetically predisposed to obesity.
The effect was seen regardless of diet, health or socio-demographic group.
The University of Glasgow study also found no clear link between sleep duration and body weight in those with a low genetic risk of obesity.
Researchers looked at the effects of a short sleep of less than seven hours a night and a long sleep - more than nine hours - along with daytime napping and shift work.
They found that in people with a high genetic risk of obesity, both short-sleep and long-sleep durations further increased risk of carrying excess weight, compared with people who slept for normal durations of between seven and nine hours a night.
Long sleepers with a risk of obesity were about 4kg heavier and short sleepers were about 2kg heavier than those with a similarly high genetic obesity risk with normal sleep durations.
The negative affect happened irrespective of what subjects ate, their health concerns or socio-demographic factors, the research team said.
The findings, based on data from almost 120,000 UK Biobank participants, showed no obvious link between sleep duration and body weight in those considered to be at a low genetic risk of obesity.
Dr Jason Gill, from the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, said: "These data show that in people with high genetic risk for obesity, sleeping for too short or too long a time, napping during the day and shift work appears to have a fairly substantial adverse influence on body weight.
"However, the influence of adverse sleep characteristics on body weight is much smaller in those with low genetic obesity risk - these people appear to be able to 'get away' with poorer sleep habits to some extent."
Co-author Dr Carlos Celis said: "It appears that people with high genetic risk for obesity need to take more care about lifestyle factors to maintain a healthy body weight.
"Our data suggest that sleep is another factor which needs to be considered, alongside diet and physical activity."
The study, said to be the first to examine the interactions of sleeping habits and genes with obesity, is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


Afghanistan's conflict-weary citizens have cautiously welcomed the return of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to Kabul.

The leader of Afghanistan's second-largest militant group, Mr Hekmatyar is an Islamist warlord accused of numerous atrocities during the civil war of the 1990s.
But he has signed a peace deal with the Western-backed Afghan government and says he is abandoning violence.
Afghan leaders say the deal is a step forward for the nation, but how significant is it really and what are Mr Hekmatyar's plans now?
So far, no. Mr Hekmatyar's move to renounce violence seems not to be having any noticeable impact on the battlefield.
The main insurgent groups fighting the Afghan and Nato-led forces are the Taliban and its semi-autonomous Haqqani network, al-Qaeda and recently the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
Mr Hekmatyar's forces were involved in sporadic small-scale attacks that were insignificant compared to the Taliban insurgency and they have largely tapered off in recent years.
Half of his Hizb-e-Islami party supported the post-2001 Western-backed Afghan government and the rest remained with him. Some believe this is more a peace accord with a person than with a major political or militant party that is actively involved in the current conflict.
Yes. His return is of greater symbolic importance. Mr Hekmatyar is still regarded as a religious figure who led a significant resistance movement against the former Soviet Union occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of jihad.
Hekmatyar's history:
His move to renounce the Taliban insurgency, calling it irreligious, plays to the interests of the Afghan government.
The Taliban, al-Qaeda and IS recruit young fighters on the basis that they are fighting to defend their religion and culture from foreigners.
But in his first public speech last week, Mr Hekmatyar told the Taliban that they were the reason for foreign forces' presence in Afghanistan. If they stopped fighting and there was peace, there would be no reason for the foreign forces to stay.
This message is in line with the Afghan government's long-standing rhetoric. But the message may have more resonance coming from someone like him. It may not remove the defending-your-religion narrative for a large number of Taliban fighters but it will strengthen the religious counter-argument.
Surprising many, Mr Hekmatyar has so far conveyed a more moderate image.
Speaking at three public events in eastern Afghanistan and at the presidential palace in Kabul on Thursday, he said he accepted the constitution and supported free speech. He also said he regretted that there were no women at the public events.
His wife and daughter did attend his welcome ceremony at the presidential palace, the first public appearance of his female family members.
However, this may be aimed at showing he acknowledges the new political order and may not necessarily indicate he has changed.
In the past, Mr Hekmatyar has gone to extreme lengths to achieve his political goals, including his bloody role in the devastating civil war. He also has supporters - on his second day in Kabul, he addressed a rally of thousands of people.
So far he insists that he has not made peace to get to power or to secure ministerial positions for his party. But many see that promise as too good to be true.
His speeches so far have hinted at future political involvement. He has spoken of a more centralised government, citing the new Turkish constitution, and says he opposes a parliamentary system.
He says he rejects the current Afghan government - a power-sharing "unity" government led by President Ashraf Ghani, with presidential rival Abdullah Abdullah as chief executive - as not a true reflection of Afghan voters' will.
He has also volunteered to mediate between the Taliban and the government.
Many believe he is going to be a player at the upcoming presidential elections. If he does not stand as a candidate, he will likely be a kingmaker given the support he still has in rural areas.
Opinions in Kabul are divided, and his return is being hotly debated on social media.
Tens of thousands of people were killed during the civil war, in which Mr Hekmatyar played a destructive and violent part. Many believe the pursuit of justice has been compromised at the expense of peace.
But others argue that since other former warlords are already part of the post-Taliban political system, including Mr Hekmatyar will not change much.
Some also point out that the country needs a strong government and an independent judiciary to address gross human right violations during the years of civil strife, something that Afghanistan does not have now.
But his return is difficult for those who lost loved ones during the civil war.
In an illustration of the divisions, on Friday thousands attended his public address at Kabul sports stadium - but in western parts of Kabul many poured on to the streets to protest against him and to call for justice.


Fernando Alonso says he is "very excited" about his Indy 500 odyssey - and he is not alone.

The two-time F1 champion flew straight from Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix to America to start his attempt to win the Indianapolis 500 on 28 May.
Some measure of the impact his decision has had comes from the fact that more than two million people watched Alonso's first test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway earlier this month.
Yes, two million people. Watching a webcast of a single car going around a circuit with four left-hand turns.
For Alonso, who is missing the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indy, this is the next step to trying to win the 'triple crown' of motor racing's three blue-riband events.
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Only one man, Graham Hill, has so far triumphed in Monaco - where Alonso has already won twice - at Indy and in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
And it is a rare chance to taste success at a time when his F1 career is becalmed by poor machinery.
At Indy, Alonso will have a car with which he can win, branded for his McLaren F1 team, run by the elite Andretti Autosport outfit and powered by a Honda engine - which, unlike the one in Alonso's F1 car, is absolutely competitive.
Few would question Lewis Hamilton's assessment that Alonso will be "the best driver in the paddock" at Indy. Less certain is whether he can adapt quickly enough to racing on a high-speed oval.
"He just won't have the time," Hamilton says. "It will be interesting to see how he fares against the drivers who have all this experience."
This is not just any racing driver. Alonso is an exceptional talent.
But he has never raced on an oval before, and is facing highly skilled rivals who have been doing it for years.
So what is Alonso up against, and what makes winning at Indy so difficult?
The Indy 500 is 200 laps of a 2.5-mile 'superspeedway' with four left-hand turns banked at an angle of nine degrees, all of which look identical but have their own subtleties.
There are no run-off areas - the track edge is a wall. Average lap speeds top 230mph in qualifying.
It is, needless to say, extremely dangerous, even if safety has been improved in recent years by replacing concrete walls with impact-absorbing barriers in the corners.
All teams use a spec Dallara chassis but there are two engine manufacturers - Honda and Chevrolet - and each can develop its own aerodynamics.
Although the cars are more rudimentary than F1 machinery, there is a level of complexity of set-up on an oval that Alonso has not experienced before.
Can Alonso adapt to the challenges of Indianapolis?
The beginnings of an answer were provided by his first run at Indy in early May, which also comprised the mandatory 'rookie test' all drivers new to Indy have to complete.
He was alone on track but it provided compelling viewing. Not only for the fly-on-the-wall nature of the coverage - cameras eavesdropped on Alonso's conversations with his engineers in a way never allowed in F1 - but also for the way he dealt with the day.
The rookie test required a driver to run a series of laps at pre-determined speeds - 10 laps in the range of 205-210mph, 15 at 210-215mph, 15 at 215-220mph. That's a total of 40 laps for the test. Alonso completed it in just 50, including those on which he exited or returned to the pits.
This is not hugely remarkable for a driver of his ability. But there were some eye-opening aspects to the day.
At one point, Alonso was told over the radio that he had completed the 210-215mph phase and could go straight onto the next one. His very next lap was 219.495mph.
The 215-220mph phase completed, he was straight into the high 221mph range, topping out at 222.548mph. "That's a race pace right there," said a watching Mario Andretti, 1978 F1 world champion and 1969 Indy 500 winner.
There was hardly any sense of Alonso playing himself in. He exuded control, as if he did it every day.
If he was feeling intimidated by the speeds involved, there was not a hint of it. Between runs, he sat in the car, his face calm, no wide eyes, no apparent trepidation at all.
Even to an experienced observer, this was extraordinary.
Scot Dario Franchitti, a three-time Indy 500 winner, said he was "amazed".
"I thought he got up to speed incredibly quickly," he added.
Alonso had arranged for timing data from a 210mph lap to be put on the steering wheel display screen, and calculated what would be the lap-time difference for the increased speeds.
But when I asked 2003 Indy 500 winner Gil de Ferran how Alonso judged it so finely, he made it clear it was a long way from normal.
"The guy has enormous feel. Huge," said De Ferran, who is acting as Alonso's mentor at Indy.
"What makes a great racing driver great? It's feel, man.
"Obviously Fernando is extremely gifted, and I have now also learned that he is highly intelligent, has a great attitude and a great work ethic."
Alonso described his first test as "fun", and did admit to one moment when the speed and the walls got to him.
"The team at one point said: 'You are done with the limitations, so run free as you feel,'" Alonso said.
"I knew Marco [Andretti, who set the car up for Alonso] was flat in Turn One and I said [to myself] I will do it flat out.
"I was convinced 100% I was going flat out but the foot was not going flat out; it had its own life. The second or third lap I was able to do it, but the first lap was a good moment to feel the place, the car.
"The speed is something. For any racing driver, it is just pure adrenaline. It was a good day."
Intimidated, Alonso clearly is not. But he is aware that winning at Indy involves more than just being fast and brave - and that running in traffic in excess of 230mph and working out how to optimise the car are things he has to learn fast.
Alonso has already impressed the Andretti team with his application and his understanding of the differences between what Americans call road racing and oval racing. But the task ahead of him is huge nonetheless.
There are so many differences between F1 and the Indy 500 that it is hard to know where to start.
The speed is one thing - there is not a corner on an F1 circuit anywhere in the world that is taken as fast as the average lap speed Alonso will be doing in the race at Indy, let alone qualifying.
Whereas an F1 team is not allowed to change the car between qualifying and race, Indy requires two different set-ups for each.
And then there is the complexity of how the cars work on an oval track.
A driver has to turn right to go in a straight line because the cars are designed only to turn left and set up asymmetrically. The idiosyncrasies of oval racing mean that adjustments for handling balance are made not only to the front and rear but also diagonally across the car.
Drivers can change this while out on track with something called a 'weight-jacker' - a kind of diagonal pitch control, which De Ferran says "changes the balance of the car tremendously".
"In a way, you have twice as many variables," De Ferran adds, "and [you have to work out] how does that interact with your driving.
"There are a lot of peculiarities for someone who has never done ovals."
Alonso has five days of practice this week, with six hours of running on each as long as the weather stays fine - IndyCars do not run in the rain on ovals - before qualifying over two days on the weekend of 20-21 May.
In that time, he will have to learn the car, come up with set-ups for qualifying and race, learn how to adjust the car on track for changing conditions and come to terms with running in traffic at more than 220mph.
"Qualifying and the race are very different," De Ferran says. "Qualifying at Indy quite frankly is one of the most difficult things I have ever done in a racing car."
A lap of Indianapolis is supposed to be "flat" - the driver never lifts his foot off the accelerator. But it is a long way from easy. The driver is absolutely on the edge, the car in a controlled slide or 'drift', all the time.
The car is 'trimmed out' to have as little downforce as the driver feels he get can get away with - because downforce equals drag and drag slows you down on the straights - while going as fast as possible in the corners.
The result, De Ferran says, is "the car feels like you are driving on an ice road at 230mph. It is very, very little grip and very, very little margin".
The grid is set over two days. Saturday's running fundamentally defines the nine drivers who can compete for pole on the Sunday - the so-called 'Fast Nine'. The remaining 24 also compete for grid slots on the Sunday, but the best they can be is 10th, no matter what time they set. Positions are defined by speed over a four-lap run and the drivers take it in turns to go out.
"One of the unfortunate things sometimes about TV is you can't see how on-the-edge the whole thing is," De Ferran says.
"It may look from TV that the guy is just going round and round and it looks easy, but you ask any driver where they have to do a lot of runs in qualifying trim, they are like, 'Oh my God, this is so stressful. I don't want to do that many runs in qualifying trim. I'm done. Once is enough.' And now they have to do it at least twice and that's difficult.
"You are literally looking for a few centimetres here and there to make a difference. If the tyres go off, if they are degrading a little bit too much because you are sliding a little bit too much, come the fourth lap you are in trouble.
"It is an adventure like you have no idea."
For the 500 itself, there is a "completely different set of problems," De Ferran explains.
The driver still wants to be running as little downforce as possible because, as De Ferran puts it, "the less downforce you can run, the quicker you will go".
But he has to run more than in qualifying because of the problems created by racing in the vicinity of 32 other cars. Traffic messes up the behaviour of the car.
"That's one of the big difficulties - how much downforce do you add?" De Ferran says. "Because the more you add, the more you slow down. Alone. In perfect conditions.
"Now you have to do 30 laps [in a stint] instead of four. And you have to take tyre degradation and traffic into account.
"It may be traffic from a line of cars, from one car, and when you are in traffic you lose downforce and the car starts sliding like mad and then you can't go forward.
"The mindset from a set-up perspective for the race is quite different than in qualifying."
A driver may want his car to behave differently in the race so it is less on-a-knife-edge than he can get away with for four laps of qualifying.
"Balance-wise you may not want the car to be quite as neutral," says De Ferran. This usually means giving it just a little understeer so the front is not quite as grippy as before, which is a safer balance in the race than oversteer, where the rear wants to come around on the driver.
But too much understeer - or 'push', as it is known in America - is also bad, De Ferran says.
"When you get in traffic typically you not only you lose grip but you also gain understeer, so it's a very complex equation."
Finally, because the race is 500 miles, on a high-speed oval with no run-off area, accidents are inevitable, and with them come caution periods - or 'yellows' - when the cars are held behind a pace car.
Getting it right or wrong when the race goes green again can determine whether you win - as Nigel Mansell found to his cost when he lost the lead on a restart in 1993.
One of Alonso's great qualities in F1 has always been his adaptability - his biggest strength among many is arguably his ability to drive the car to its maximum no matter how it is behaving.
De Ferran says drivers are "a bit more limited" in being able to drive around problems on an oval, but this skill "always helps because the car is changing all the time really - the tyres are degrading, the fuel level is changing, on an oval you have this traffic to deal with".
He adds: "It is never this beautiful constant thing that you keep perfecting. The track is changing and you have to learn how to adapt to that. It is one of his skills that he scores very highly at."
De Ferran has been a long-time admirer of Alonso - since watching trackside at the 2001 Brazilian Grand Prix, when the Spaniard was in his first season with Minardi.
"I didn't even know who he was, but I was watching on a corner," the 49-year-old recalls. "The car was three seconds off but I was thinking: 'Hmmm. Who is that?'"
He was approached to be Alonso's mentor for his Indy adventure over the weekend of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
"When they first asked me, that was very emotional. It was, like, 'Wow.'
"You think: 'Jesus, it is one of the best drivers I have ever seen, a great champion.'"
Former IndyCar driver Bryan Herta said at Alonso's rookie test: "He's going to be a pretty formidable competitor. He's got everyone's attention already."
De Ferran says: "I think most people are super-happy he has elected to come and do the Indy 500, primarily because Fernando commands a huge amount of respect.
"When I retired, someone asked what was one of your biggest frustrations, and I said I never really went head-to-head with Michael Schumacher and it was something I wanted to do.
"A lot of people see Fernando as I saw Michael and having the opportunity to race against a guy like that in similar equipment and so on is unique."
Veteran Helio Castroneves said adapting to Indy racing would be "no problem" for Alonso. And four-time IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon said Alonso had a "great shot" at winning.
De Ferran says: "He has the skill, the experience, the knowledge, the emotional control to be a true contender in Indianapolis but there are so many things that have to come right on that one day for you to win.
"Let me put it this way, Mario Andretti tried God knows how long to win it for a second time and he only won it in '69. Scott Dixon, who frankly is supremely talented, won it only once.
"It's unbelievable. Yes, in the car you control a lot of levers but definitely not all of them. And there are some levers that not even the team controls.
"You have a bad pit stop and it happens to be the last one and you are in trouble. You may be dominating the whole race, but there's a strategy call, or a yellow that falls just at the wrong time, and you may be in trouble again. Or a mechanical failure.
"You make a bad decision in the car, once, and it happens to be at a crucial time, and you were in a position to win and now you're not."
He uses as an example Alex Rossi, who drove five races for back-of-the-grid F1 team Manor in 2015, but won Indy at his first attempt last year, after gambling on not stopping for fuel after a late-race caution period.
De Ferran says: "If the yellow ended one lap sooner than it did, Rossi would not only not have won the race, he would not even have finished because he would have run out of fuel. That is one clear example between hero and zero that is completely beyond the control of the driver."
"First, I want to enjoy the experience," he says. "Everyone keeps telling me how big the event is. So my first target is to go there and live that moment. For any racing driver it must feel a privilege to race there.
"After that there is always a small percentage that you can win, because there are many factors there, it is not only about the pace.
"Probably my chance to win is a little lower than some of my competitors because I am lacking experience, but I have a lot of joy and commitment to learn as much as I can so it will be fun.
"But after that, when you close the visor you don't like it when you are are second. It's the same in any sport. We are all competitive and we want to do the best we can."


Edinburgh's cultural festivals are officially kicking off, with thousands of events taking place.

For the next three weeks the city will host the International Festival, the Fringe and the Military Tattoo.
The Fringe remains the world's largest arts festival with 3,269 shows at 294 venues.
Meanwhile, the International Festival will host some of the finest performers from the worlds of theatre, music, opera and dance.
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The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo  will pay tribute to the Queen, who celebrated her 90th birthday this year.
It will include a cast of more than 1,200 performers and over 250 pipers and drummers from around the world.
Twenty-five performances will take place across August, with a combined live audience of 220,000 people.
The Royal Air Force will open the show with a flypast on selected evenings, including a planned flypast by the world-famous Red Arrows on Saturday at 19.30.
It will commemorate the centenary of the Great Arab Revolt - the British-backed uprising against the German-allied Ottoman Turks depicted in the film Lawrence Of Arabia.
The anniversary of The Battle of Jutland will also be marked during the event.
Brigadier David Allfrey, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo's chief executive and producer, said: "We are particularly proud to add our celebration to Her Majesty the Queen's special year while marking other important anniversaries: Jutland and the Great Arab Revolt.
"Above all though, the music is the star. This year we have developed a fabulous score bursting with incredible tunes."
The International Festival will stage a huge opening event on Sunday.
It is a free event called Deep Time, which will see artwork projected onto the western faÃ§ade of Edinburgh Castle and Castle Rock.
The digitally-animated projections will be inspired by the city's past, set to a special soundtrack by Scottish rock band Mogwai.
It will chart 350 million years of Edinburgh's history, looking at how volcanic activity formed the landscape and exploring the intellectual legacy of the city. In particular, it will celebrate the work of renowned Edinburgh scientist and thinker James Hutton.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe also gets under way.
Its new chief executive Shona McCarthy promised "unparalleled" breadth and diversity of talent.
The festival will be made up of:
It remains the largest arts festival in the world despite a small fall in the number of shows - down 1.3% from 3,314 last year.


Comedians Ross Noble and Lesley Joseph are set to star in a new stage production of Young Frankenstein.

The musical is based on Mel Brooks' Oscar-nominated film which starred Gene Wilder as Dr Frederick Frankenstein, a descendant of the deranged Victor.
Living in New York, he tries to play down the family name, until he inherits the infamous castle and discovers Victor's book: "How I Did It".
Noble will play Frankenstein's hunchbacked servant, Igor.
Joseph will appear as housekeeper Frau Blucher, whose very name causes horses to rear in fright; while West End star Hadley Fraser will take the main role of Dr Frederick Frankenstein.
Brooks will produce the show, which will open for a pre-West End season in Newcastle on 26 August until 9 September.
It will then open at the Garrick Theatre on 28 September.
The musical previously ran on Broadway between 2007 and 2009.
The cult film on which it's based was co-written by Brooks and Wilder, and earned them an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.


Veteran midfielder Alan Smith will stay at Notts County until the end of the season, reports BBC Radio Nottingham.

The ex-Manchester United and England player, 35, had been linked with a move to Plymouth before Jamie Fullarton took over as Notts boss this month.
But Fullarton said: "I am pleased to say Alan's decided that he would prefer to stay here and work with us."
Meanwhile, defender Alan Sheehan, 29, will not be returning to the Magpies on loan and looks set to join Luton Town.
Sheehan joined the Magpies from Bradford City in September but Fullarton now wants to give Blair Adams a chance to prove himself after he returned from a loan spell with Mansfield Town.
Fullarton said: "It is important we give players who are already here an opportunity. It would have been unfair or foolish to bring someone in at this early stage."


Two people have died in a light aircraft crash near an airfield in Dorset.

The Tiger Moth came down east of Compton Abbas Airfield near Shaftesbury at 09.28 BST, police said.
The pilot, aged 64 from Blandford, and the passenger, aged 67, from Shaftesbury, were killed in the crash.
Dorset Police identified the plane as a Tiger Moth and the Air Accident Investigation Branch has sent a team to the area to start inquires.


A bid by an NHS trust to merge with a neighbouring one that faces a huge debt would be "suicidal" without financial assurances, a health critic says.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has bid to take over neighbouring Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mike Scott, of Keep Our NHS Public, said the move would need "copper-bottomed" financial guarantees.
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is also bidding to take over the running of the Sherwood Forest trust.
Mr Scott said: "It is not like a crisp factory where one closes down and you can go somewhere else. If a hospital closes down... people will have to go long enormous distances."
Sherwood MP Mark Spencer said "some government cash" would definitely be needed to "take the pressure off Sherwood Forest Trust".
BBC East Midlands political correspondent Peter Saull said both trusts believed a takeover meant "some of [their] debt would be paid off by the government".
The Sherwood Forest trust already pays more than £3m a month in payments as part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deal that will cost £2.5bn over the term of the agreement which runs until 2043.
Dr John Lamport, of the National Health Action Party, said he welcomed a merger on the grounds of "economics of scale".
The Sherwood NHS trust, which runs King's Mill, Newark and Mansfield Community hospitals, was put into special measures in 2013 two years ago because of concerns about mortality rates and standards of care.
Last year the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said there were still "serious problems" with death rates and care standards at the trust.
A decision on whether a merger will proceed is expected to be made by the health watchdog Monitor in the next few weeks.


A Somali journalist who helped al-Shabab kill five fellow reporters has been executed by firing squad.

Hassan Hanafi, once a respected broadcaster, was sentenced to death last month by a military court in the capital, Mogadishu.
He assisted the Islamist militant group by identifying possible targets amongst journalists between 2007 and 2011.
He joined its armed wing after working for Radio Andalus, al-Shabab's mouthpiece in Somalia.
More than 25 journalists have been murdered in Somalia since 2007, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
While he was working for al-Shabab, Hanafi would call up journalists and threaten them with death if they refused to join the militant group, the BBC Somali's Mohammud Ali says.
Al-Shabab frequently stages attacks in Mogadishu and other cities, and still controls many rural areas in southern Somalia.


Celtic defender Kolo Toure may feature in next week's return leg against Astana after being registered with Uefa for the Champions League qualifier.

Toure, 35, has not travelled to Kazakhstan for Wednesday's third qualifying round first leg after joining Celtic on Sunday.
However, the registration allows him to feature when Astana visit Celtic Park next week.
Boss Brendan Rodgers is without several central defenders for Wednesday's game.
Injuries mean Kristoffer Ajer, Dedryck Boyata, Jozo Simunovic and Erik Sviatchenko will not feature in Kazakhstan.
Eoghan O'Connell, 20, played and scored in Celtic's friendly with Leicester City on Saturday and Efe Ambrose and Mikael Lustig are other options at the heart of defence for Rodgers.
Toure previously worked with Rodgers at Liverpool and won Premier League titles with both Arsenal and Manchester City.


It has long been accepted that women outlive men.

But new research from Imperial College London suggests the gender gap between men and women's life expectancies is narrowing.
It predicts in 2030 men in England and Wales can expect to live on average to 85.7 years - just two years fewer than women.
In 1981 on the other hand, men were likely to die six years before women on average.
But why does this gender gap exist and will it ever close?
In 1909 women tended to outlive men by just 2.5 years, Prof Les Mayhew at Cass Business School says.
At this point infections were the most common cause of death and they affected men and women equally in many respects.
But most adults were dead by their early fifties - and many lives would have ended much earlier through childhood illness.
As living standards improved and antibiotics were developed to help fight off major killers, life expectancy increased.
But despite these gains, the gap between men and women began to widen in the second half of the century.
Smoking is widely recognised as one of the main reasons behind the gender gap.
And quitting is seen by many as the main reason it is now narrowed.
Records show men took up tobacco earlier than women and more of them picked up the habit - meaning their epidemic had a greater and long-lasting impact on their life spans.
By 1948 estimates suggest 80% of men were using some form of tobacco.
Inevitably many died of smoking related ailments such as heart attacks and lung cancer.
And this stamped out many of the gains in life expectancy men may otherwise have enjoyed.
Women on the other hand took up smoking a generation later on average.
But the female habit never reached the same proportions that male smoking did.
By the 1960S and 1970s doctors and government officials had started to take the link between tobacco and death more seriously.
And gradually smoking rates began to decline.
Many of the benefits are being reaped today - and because more men smoked, they now enjoy a greater share in these longevity gains.
Prof Sir Richard Peto, from Oxford University says: "About half of all smokers are killed by tobacco if they continue to smoke.
"But stopping works amazingly well.
"Those who stop before the age of 40 - preferably well before then - avoid more than 90% of the risks."
Improvements in prevention and treatment of heart disease have contributed too.
And others suggest many men are involved in less dangerous jobs now.
For example, a million men were employed in dangerous mining in the 1920s putting them at risk of lung disease.
Prof Les Mayhew of Cass Business school argues this is unlikely.
In a study published last year he says:  "It would be hard to justify these differences on biological grounds since the gender gap varies so much and is different in each country, and therefore it is more likely to be societal in origin."
But others say biological differences probably play a part.
Projections indicate when comparing non-smoking men and non-smoking women, life expectancy remains higher in women.
No one has pinned down exactly what this biological advantage would be, if it exists at all.
But experts suggest it could be partly due to hormones protecting women from heart disease.
Whatever is protecting women, their advantage over men has been hugely aggravated by smoking patterns, Prof Peto says.
Many theories on the male shortfall in life expectancy are still open to debate and yet to be proven definitively.
Some studies suggest females enjoy a longer life partly because their immune systems age more slowly.
So in older age they are able to fight off illnesses, while men grow more susceptible to disease.
Others argue there is an ancient, evolutionary answer to the gap - seen in other species too.
One theory  suggests males' competitive natures- arising from a desire to attract mates - encourages them to  engage in more risky and ultimately more fatal behaviours.
Others believe women may be needed for longer, to make sure their offspring are well cared for into the future.
Official figures show the gap has been closing gradually.
And Office of National Statistics estimates put the gap at  around three years by 2037.
Prof Mayhew on the other hand, in work published in 2014, estimates men and women could expect to live as long as each other in 2030.
But others call that an implausible claim. Predictions are uncertain - many things could change in the years to come.
In the tricky world of modelling the future, there is some consensus on at least one thing. Both men and women are likely to continue living longer and according to some - healthier - lives for many years to come.


The Bangladeshi government has failed to end extra-judicial killings carried out by a paramilitary force, Human Rights Watch says.

In a new report it catalogues a series of human rights violations blamed on the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the past few years.
The government has strongly denied the accusations.
In December British officials in Dhaka confirmed Wikileaks reports that the UK was training some RAB members.
The course, the British officials said, focused on improving interviewing techniques, investigations and the management of crime scenes.
The latest Human Rights Watch report says at least 200 people have allegedly been killed in RAB operations since the Awami League-led government took office in early 2009.
Despite various commitments by the government, the report says, no RAB officer or official has ever been prosecuted for any of the killings or other human rights abuses.
The government says the police force is only acting against criminals and most deaths occur during shoot-outs between law enforcers and criminals.
But Manzurul Alam, whose relative was killed in a shoot-out with the police unit in 2009, says his brother-in-law was innocent.
"No police station said he was a criminal, only the RAB personnel told us that he was a criminal. Until now they can't produce any evidence whatsoever... We are still waiting for justice. We are now hopeless," he said.
Dressed in black with bandannas tied around their heads, RAB officers are a familiar sight on Bangladesh's streets.
Over the years they have developed a fearsome reputation and are credited with reducing crime and acting against Islamist militancy.
But human rights groups allege that more than 700 people have been killed by the unit since its creation in 2004.
Human Rights Watch says the government should immediately reform the RAB and hold it accountable for the killings - or the force should be disbanded.


A holidaymaker has drowned after trying to rescue one of his dogs from the sea in Cornwall.

The man got into difficulties at Portmellon near Mevagissey while walking with his pets at around 11:00 GMT, said Devon and Cornwall Police.
Officers called the death a "tragic accident".
Another member of his family tried in vain to help and the man was airlifted from the sea by a coastguard helicopter crew.
The family member, believed to be the man's stepdaughter, was rescued from the water by a member of the public.
A coastguard spokesman said: "Two people were recovered from the sea at Port Mellon near Mevagissey this morning.
"One was recovered from the sea by a member of the public and brought to shore.
"A second person was recovered from the sea by the Coastguard helicopter and was taken to hospital.
"The RNLI Lifeboat from Fowey and Mevagissey Coastguard Rescue Team were also in attendance."
It is not clear what has happened to the dog.
The airlift of the man was the first rescue operation by private firm Bristow which took over air and sea rescue services in Cornwall from RNAS Culdrose on Friday.


A Livingston firm has unveiled a new prosthetic hand that can be controlled via a mobile app.

Touch Bionics said its "i-limb ultra revolution" product could be controlled by a new "biosim" app.
The application, which is compatible with the latest Apple products, is designed to give i-limb wearers quick access to up to 24 different grip patterns.
The latest product also offers powered thumb rotation to enhance dexterity.
Touch Bionics described it as a "significant advance" in its i-limb technology.
Chief executive Ian Stevens said: "We believe that the i-limb ultra revolution, with powered thumb rotation and the ability to quickly access multiple grip patterns, offers unparalleled dexterity and control, enabling wearers to more easily perform activities of daily living and thus increase their quality of life."
The powered rotation of the thumb can be either controlled directly by the wearer's muscle signals, or can move automatically into position as part of a pre-set grip pattern or gesture.
The new "quick grips" option from the biosim mobile control app allows the user to automatically activate 24 different grip patterns and gestures on their prosthesis with a single tap of the screen.
In January Touch announced it had achieved Â£10m in annual sales for the first time.
It reported revenues grew by 17% in 2012 after expanding its product lines.
They included the launch of its "i-limb ultra" prosthetic hand and an upgrade to its digits solution for people with missing fingers.


New satellite imagery appears to reveal extensive damage to a strategically significant airbase in central Syria used by Russian forces after a reported attack by so-called Islamic State (IS).

Four helicopters and 20 lorries were destroyed in a series of fires inside the T4 base last week, the images from intelligence company Stratfor suggest.
The cause of the fires is unconfirmed.
The Russian military has denied reports that it had lost helicopters at the base as a result of an IS attack.
A news agency linked to IS, Amaq, was the first to report the incident, without saying what had caused the fires, says BBC Arabic Syria correspondent Rami Ruhayem.
"Burning of four Russian attack helicopters and 20 trucks loaded with missiles inside T4 airport in eastern Homs [province] as a result of a nearby fire," it said in an urgent report, leading to speculation that it could have been accidental.
On the same day, IS released an image it said showed one of its fighters firing Grad rockets at T4, also known as Tiyas.
"What the imagery tells us is that first of all this was not an accidental explosion, as some of the rumours kept saying," Stratfor military analyst Sim Tack said.
"It shows very clearly that there are several different sources of explosions across the airport, and it shows that the Russians took a quite a bad hit.
"An entire combat helicopter unit was wiped out - four helicopters in total - as well as some damage to some of the Syrian planes on the airport, and also very notably a logistic depot, likely one that was being used to supply those specific combat helicopters."
Mr Tack described Amaq's account as "very accurate", and suggested the helicopters and depot were destroyed by IS attacks.
He said it was unclear why IS had not officially said it had caused the destruction.
"In the past IS has claimed similar attacks, they have even videotaped the attacks themselves.
"In this case, we haven't seen any of those materials come out yet. One possibility is that by making the statement they were intending to claim it while not necessarily phrasing it that way."
Russian ministry of defence spokesman Igor Konashenkov insisted that "all Russian combat helicopters in Syrian Arab Republic continue their mission to destroy terrorists. There are no losses among the personnel".
He said the base had been damaged as a result of fighting between IS militants and Syrian army months before Russian military deployment there.
The area where the airbase is located is strategically significant, Rami Ruhayem says.
The province of Homs stretches out into the Syrian desert towards Raqqa, the capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by IS in 2014, and Deir al-Zour, on the way to the border with Iraq, he notes.
As it tries to shake the government's grip on Homs, IS is facing a diverse range of factions on the ground.
A Kurdish-Arab alliance has announced the launch of a military campaign against IS north of Raqaa.
"With the participation of all SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces] units, we start this operation to liberate northern Raqaa" province, the SDF said on Twitter, quoting Kurdish commander Rojda Felat.
The assault will be supported by air strikes from the US-led coalition bombing IS in Iraq and Syria, it added.
The Iranian Al-Alam news website carried reports earlier this month that "Syrian allied forces" had cut off IS supply lines between Raqqa and Homs by taking over four hills overlooking the Shaer gas fields held by IS.
But Mr Tack counters that IS supply lines to Raqqa are holding.
"The regime and the Russians are facing notable challenges in trying to disconnect those two.
"Right now though, the emphasis seems to be more on moving towards Deir al-Zour rather than messing with Raqqa."


A man whose remains were discovered near a Shropshire motorway slip road has been formally identified.

Surjit Takhar's remains were found by maintenance workers at the bottom of an embankment at junction 4 of the M54 in Telford on 20 August.
He was last seen by his family on 29 September 2008, and was reported missing from his home in Oldbury, West Midlands, on 8 October.
His cause of death is unknown. Police said they were keeping an "open mind".
West Mercia Police said it had been able to establish a full DNA profile following detailed forensic searches.
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After further analysis of the DNA and of Mr Takhar's dental records, it was able to formally identify him.
Det Ch Insp Neil Jamieson, who is leading the investigation, said the force was "pursuing other lines of inquiry to establish what has happened".
The force had been working closely with West Midlands Police.


Mae un o Aelodau Cynulliad UKIP wedi gwadu cyhuddiad gan westy iddi ysmygu "cyffuriau meddal" mewn ystafell wely wrth aros yng Nghaerdydd er mwyn mynychu'r Senedd.

Fe gododd gwesty'r Future Inn ym Mae Caerdydd dâl o £250 ar Michelle Brown, AC rhanbarthol dros Ogledd Cymru, ar ôl ei chyhuddo o achosi "arogl cryf" yn ei hystafell a oedd yn golygu na ellid defnyddio'r ystafell am 24 awr.
Mae llefarydd ar ran Ms Brown wedi gwadu'r cyhuddiad, gan ddweud mai defnyddio cynnyrch tybaco gydag arogl cryf a wnaeth yr AC yn yr ystafell, oedd yn un dim-ysmygu.
"Roedd e'n gamgymeriad di-feddwl ac fe dalodd Michelle y gost o lanhau'r stafell," meddai'r llefarydd.
Roedd y digwyddiad wedi cymryd lle ym mis Mai'r llynedd, wythnos wedi i Michelle Brown gael ei hethol am y tro cyntaf i gynrychioli UKIP yn y Senedd.
Arhosodd Michelle Brown, sy'n byw ym mhentref Mostyn yn Sir y Fflint, yng ngwesty'r Future Inn ym Mae Caerdydd o 9 - 11 Mai.
Fe gwynodd y gwesty yn dilyn ymadawiad yr Aelod Cynulliad ar y dydd Mercher.
Mae BBC Cymru ar ddeall bod y gwesty wedi ei chyhuddo o ysmygu "cyffuriau meddal" yn ei hystafell wely, gan ddweud "oherwydd yr arogl cryf yn yr ystafell ni ellir ei ddefnyddio am 24 awr".
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Michelle Brown: "Yn ddiweddar roedd Michelle wedi treulio cwpl o nosweithiau mewn gwesty gydag ystafelloedd ysmygu, ac mae 'na nifer ohonynt ar draws y DU, ond yn anffodus fe anghofiodd hi ei bod hi'n aros mewn gwesty heb y fath ystafelloedd.
"Roedd e'n gamgymeriad di-feddwl ac fe dalodd Michelle y gost o lanhau'r stafell."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Future Inns: "Byddai Future Inns yn hoffi cadarnhau nag yw'r defnydd anghyfreithlon o gyffuriau ar ein safleoedd yn cael ei ganiatáu ar unrhyw adeg.
"Nid ydym, fodd bynnag, yn trafod y materion yma gyda thrydedd parti oni bai ei fod yn ofynnol gan awdurdodau'r gyfraith."


Dundee have signed centre-back Kevin Gomis on a one-year contract from Nice.

The 27-year-old Frenchman has played 57 games for the French Ligue 1 club since 2011 but was restricted to just three appearances last season.
Gomis had a brief spell on loan at Nottingham Forest two years ago.
He becomes the seventh summer arrival at Dens Park after midfielders Danny Williams, James Vincent, Mark O'Hara and Michael Duffy (loan), and strikers Yordi Teijsse and Faissal El Bakhtaoui.


Since the first nuclear test in 2007, there have been broadly two schools of thought amongst Chinese academics and commentators about the problem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear programme.

The first regards it as a useful sideshow distracting the international community, causing serial headaches for the US and its allies, and diverting hostile diplomatic attention that might be directed towards China.
This is something that China broadly supports and manipulates for its own interests.
The second sees the actions of its ostensibly fellow Marxist-Leninist neighbour as those of a blackmailer of China, a huge liability, a place run by narcissistic leadership stuck in a time warp half a century behind the rest of the world.
The first assumes that China has real influence and power over North Korea and has some level of control of the situation there. The second suggests that it has far less.
With the suspected test of a hydrogen bomb by the DPRK on 5 January, can we see any evidence of which of the two views might be the more accurate description of what Chinese leaders themselves actually think?
There are some things we need to bear in mind when trying to answer this question. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has visited an astonishing 37 countries since becoming president in 2013 - but the DPRK has so far not been one of them.
The DPRK has reciprocated, with young leader Kim Jong-un not once taking the short, hour-long plane ride to Beijing since his elevation in 2011.
We also know that in the last 10 years, Chinese condemnation of the three previous nuclear tests has grown increasingly pointed and blunt.
The Beijing Ministry of Foreign Affairs this time curtly announced that it "strongly opposed" the DPRK's suspected testing of a hydrogen bomb. In 2012, it reportedly also stopped energy supply for three days after the last DPRK nuclear test.
Even something as seemingly trivial as the abrupt cancellation of performances by a visiting DPRK song and dance troupe to China late last year - because they were planning to sing songs celebrating Pyongyang's creation of a new powerful bomb - indicate Beijing's dim views.
Despite this, Chinese leaders do operate within clear constraints. The rhetoric they use towards the DPRK remains full of warm words affirming an alliance based on historic links and unshakable friendship.
This is for the simple reason that much as they regard the current regime in Pyongyang as bad, other options (a unified peninsula under South Korean, and therefore American, dominance, or, even worse, a failed, anarchic state with no governance at all) are worse.
It seems that while there might be some in Beijing (mostly in the think tank community and the more shrill, nationalist press) who believe China has some level of back channel control, all that we have learned in the last couple of days tends to support the idea that China's leaders believe their influence is limited, and their levels of frustration are high.
There is a bigger context for this. China's leaders currently have a lot on their plate.
The current downturn in the economy and the turmoil on the stock exchange in Shanghai, along with serious concerns about what sort of role they might need to play in the ongoing Middle East crisis (source of half of their petrol supply) and other geopolitical issues are more than enough to keep them busy.
Having yet one more problem in their neighbourhood demanding their time and attention is unlikely to be welcome. They could happily live without the drama of this test.
The North Koreans are also driven by a similar distrust and wariness. For them, having a nuclear capacity grants them leverage as much over the Chinese as the Americans, their supposed chief enemy.
The great ancient Chinese philosopher Han Fei said two and a half thousand years ago that while people constantly prepare themselves to deal with their enemies, real calamity comes from those who they view as friends.
For the Chinese leaders, the North Koreans' "alliance" is a real and continuing burden, one that they cannot walk away from, but have no clear plan how to deal with.
So far, strangely enough, they have adopted the same tactics as America has under Obama, choosing simply to try to ignore the DPRK and sideline it. This week we have probably seen that tactic abruptly ended for both China and the US.
Like it or not, now Beijing will need to do something.
It might take the softer form of arranging a Xi presidential visit, or the harder one of placing real pressure on the US to restart the Six Party Talks, dormant since 2009.
If these happen, then Pyongyang will have shown once more that they remain masters of blackmail and manipulation of their vast, and seemingly powerful western neighbour, and that, more than any other country, they continue to show the limits of Beijing's diplomatic clout and influence.


North Wales is still one of the safest places to live - despite concerns about violence and drug abuse, the area's chief constable has said.

North Wales' Police and Crime Plan for 2017-2021 was unveiled on Monday.
Its priorities include bringing more sex offenders to justice and creating safer communities.
The force's Chief Constable Mark Polin said the plan was "fit for purpose" and the priorities were right.
The plan also covers domestic violence, modern slavery, human trafficking and organised crime.
As well as focusing on emerging crimes, Mr Polin said they will continue to do "what the public want them to do in the traditional sense" by responding to calls and threats people face in their communities.
He said it was "important to recognise that north Wales is one of the safest places to live and work" and that public confidence in their work has been "increasing for some time".
North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones said his vision for policing was based on "reducing threat, risk and harm by identifying the most-vulnerable people in society".
"The plan also reflects the changing face of policing with the emerging and often hidden crimes, like modern slavery and human trafficking and child sexual exploitation, with the threat posed by online paedophiles," he said.
Mr Jones said police must enforce the law on drugs, but added that drug addicts should be treated as "patients rather than criminals".


James Corden has praised the spirit of the UK after the terror attack in London Bridge at the weekend.

The presenter is hosting The Late Late Show from London for three nights this week.
He said he was glad to be showing off the "stoic British determination to let nothing or anybody stand in our way" in light of Saturday's attack.
"I'm so proud to be broadcasting here from my home town... this is not a country that feels afraid," he said.
London Bridge attack: What we know so far
The show's opening monologue saw Corden standing on the streets of London, launching the string of shows from the capital from outside Central Hall in Westminster.
One of his guests, Nicole Kidman, later added she "wanted to be here to support England and London right now".
Corden is pulling out all the stops for this week's shows - which are being broadcast on Sky 1 in the UK.
Guests include David Beckham, Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise and Ed Sheeran, who was seen taking part in Carpool Karaoke in the first London episode.
The singer was seen fitting more than 50 - fifty! - Maltesers in his mouth after Corden challenged him, and pulling out a guitar to sing One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful.
"I'm so sad when I think about all the times that I've had to open our show talking about such atrocities. Trying to find the right words to say is impossible because there are none.
"Some people might say it's a strange time to do a variety show in this city. I couldn't disagree more. A lot's going to happen here in the next few days.
"We're going to elect a new prime minister, and just behind that building there [gesturing] is the Houses of Parliament, a building that represents democracy, something that the people who carried out this attack hate.
'We're gonna bring the silliest, stupidest, most fun-packed shows we've ever made for you to celebrate London and Britain and everything it has to offer. And you know what the people who carried out that attack, they would hate that too.
"I'm so proud to be broadcasting here from my home town. I'm proud to show off its beauty, its diversity, and its stoic British determination to let nothing or anybody stand in our way. This is not a country that feels afraid."
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Senegal sculptor Ousmane Sow has become the first African to join France's Academy of Fine Arts.

The 78-year-old, considered one of Africa's foremost artists, dedicated the honour to "all of Africa...and the great man Nelson Mandela" at a Paris ceremony on Wednesday.
A minute's silence for the anti-apartheid hero was also held.
Sow captured the world's attention in 1999 when his larger-than-life wrestler sculptures were exhibited in Paris.
His latest ongoing series of work, entitled Great Me, features historical figures including Charles de Gaulle as well as Mandela.
His sculpture of the former South African president - made out of a mixture of clay and rubber - features Mandela as a goalkeeper extending his hand  "to keep corrupt African heads of state at bay".
Born in Dakar, the artist left for France in 1957 where he obtained a diploma in physiotherapy.
Apart from a three year break in his home country, he made France his home for some 20 years before returning to Senegal in 1984 to make sculpting his full-time profession.
His knowledge of anatomy would help define his works.
He began his series of muscular Nouba wrestlers in the late 1980s, before going on to create further series The Masai, The Zulus, The Peulh and The Egyptians.
The Battle of Little Big Horn, Sow's 35-piece series, was first exhibited in Dakar in 1999 as a preview to the Paris exhibition on the Pont des Arts.
Part of the series was also featured at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2003.
In June, Sow opened a retrospective of his work in Besancon, eastern France, which was to be his last exhibition in his adoptive country before moving all his works to a museum he is building in Senegal.
The artist said sculptures of Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Gandhi would also be included in his gallery of men who helped him "not despair of mankind".


Ex-England coach Andy Robinson believes the current side have the potential to emulate the World Cup winners of 2003.

Robinson, now director of rugby at Bristol, was an assistant to Sir Clive Woodward before taking over as head coach from 2004 to 2006.
"This side can go all the way," Robinson told BBC 5 live. "They are well coached and have a great attitude.
"They are tough competitors and their feet are on the floor in terms of the mental edge that they have."
Under Eddie Jones, England backed up a Grand Slam in the Six Nations earlier this year with a 3-0 series win in Australia last month, which was a remarkable achievement, according to Robinson.
"I can't stress enough how great that is," he said. "I've taken sides down to Australia - and sides have gone on many occasions - and been beaten heavily on a summer tour before winning at Twickenham.
"So to go away [from home] after a long season and perform in the way they did was tremendous.
"It's slightly different to the side that we had in 2003 because our side was a little bit older. This is a young side, and it bodes well for English rugby that this team can play together for many, many years, and that's very exciting."
And as he prepares Bristol for their return to the Aviva Premiership, Robinson feels the game in England is in rude health.
"I think English rugby, and the professional game in the British Isles, has been developing over the last four or five seasons," he added.
"The World Cup was a tremendous advert for that in the way the games were supported, and Bristol can add to this.
"We have a travelling support, so I see the support of matches getting better and better, and that bodes well for English rugby."


Three big carmakers have expanded recalls of vehicles with faulty airbags.

The move from Fiat Chrysler, Honda and BMW comes after Takata Corp, the Japanese airbag maker last week said the number of vehicles affected was 53 million globally.
Of that figure, 34 million are in the US, making it the country's largest ever recall of cars.
The faulty airbags, when exposed to too much moisture, can explode.
Regulators have linked the problem to six deaths worldwide, all in Honda vehicles.
Honda has called back about 690,000 cars in the US and Japan.
Since 2008, Honda has recalled about 20 million vehicles around the world with Takata air bag parts.
Fiat Chrysler announced an expansion of its recalls of vehicles with Takata air bags to about 5.22 million worldwide, involving models from 2003 to 2011. About 4.5 million of those vehicles are in the US.
Most of the vehicles have been involved in previous recalls and are from the 2003 to 2011 model years, the car maker said.
BMW in North America is recalling 20 models from 2002 to 2006 that contain Takata driver-side front air bags. Regulators said the air bag module will be replaced.


Plans for a £7.7m revamp of a 120-year-old council building have been given the go ahead.

Middlesbrough Council has secured a £3.7m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to restore the Town Hall in Corporation Road.
The council is putting £4m into the scheme which will turn the premises into a visitor "heritage" attraction.
Ivor Crowther, head of HLF North East, said it was a "stunning reminder" of the town's proud industrial heritage.
Parts of the Grade II listed building will be opened to the public, including the Victorian courtroom, cells and fire station.
The plans also include the development of a new cafe, bar, and a new community space.
Work is expected to get under way in January and the Town Hall is scheduled to be closed for nearly two years, the council said.
Middlesbrough's deputy mayor Dave Budd said: "The Town Hall is the jewel in Middlesbrough's crown and this project will restore it to its full majestic glory."


Anthony Hamilton says he will fight to get back on the main snooker tour if he loses his place at the end of the current season in May.

The 44-year-old Nottingham-born cueman has slipped outside of the top 64 and is in danger of losing his tour status.
Hamilton reached the third round of the Welsh Open this week and has shown glimpes of his best form after several years of struggle with a neck injury.
"Mathematically I'm against it now, but I am playing well," he told BBC Sport.
Hamilton is ranked number 68 in the world and his provisional ranking is in the 70s. He also seems unlikely to earn a place on tour through one of the eight places on offer through the Order of Merit on the European Tour events.
But if does miss out on a tour place, Hamilton, who has been as high as number 10 in the world, has no intention of giving up.
"I would try to get back on because I am playing well again and and I have been feeling fit body-wise since October," he said.
"Before October it was almost pointless, but now I can practise a bit. I am too good to be off the tour, in my opinion.
"It will be tough to get back on and I don't know what I would do next if it does happen."


X Factor host Dermot O'Leary has told Radio 1 that there are plans to pay tribute to the late Anne Kirkbride at Wednesday's National Television Awards.

The star played Deirdre Barlow in Coronation Street for more than 40 years.
ITV says she died in hospital in Manchester on Monday after a short illness. She was 60 years old.
Dermot O'Leary, who is presenting the NTAs, said he texted his executive producer about a tribute.
"It's actually going to be quite a sad night," he told Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw.
"The one thing about the Coronation Street and EastEnders casts is that they are very, very tight. So I know they will be devastated."
Organisers have now said they're working on a last-minute plan to mark Anne Kirkbride's contribution to the soap.
Kirkbride, who joined Coronation Street as a teenager, has not previously had an individual honour at the NTAs.
"Corrie will greatly appreciate it," the presenter said. "The whole point of the show is that we reflect the viewers and I'm sure the viewers will be upset."
Some of the biggest names in TV will attend the show at the O2 Arena in London.
The cast and crew of Coronation Street are said to be "heartbroken and deeply saddened".
The soap is up for the best serial drama prize on Wednesday night.
"I remember watching Corrie as a kid and she's always been in it," said Dermot. "She's a perennial."
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North Korea has fired several short-range missiles into the waters off its east coast, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says.

The launches come three days after South Korea said the north fired a medium-range missile into the sea for the first time since 2014.
Washington and Seoul are conducting joint military drills, which North Korea sees as a rehearsal for invasion.
The US last week imposed new sanctions on the north.
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The new sanctions were in response to North Korea's nuclear test on 6 January and its satellite launch on 7 February, which violated existing UN sanctions.
South Korea's military was trying to find out what types of missile had been involved in the latest launches, Yonhap reported.
The missiles were said to have been fired from the northeastern city of Hamhung.
On Friday North Korea test-fired two ballistic missiles.
US officials said the medium-range missiles, launched off the east coast, flew about 800km (500 miles) before falling into the water.
Afterwards, the US called for Pyongyang to refrain from raising tensions.


Former British number one Laura Robson will begin her latest comeback from injury on Sunday, when she enters qualifying for a tournament in Florida.

The 21-year-old, who is ranked 557th in the world, will play American Ingrid Neel in the ITF event, which has a total prize fund of £17,500.
Robson has had niggling injuries since having wrist surgery in 2014 and had 18 months out of the game.
She reached a career-high singles ranking of 27 in July 2013.
Robson returned at Eastbourne last June after her wrist operation, but played only 10 singles matches in 2015, and was knocked out of both Wimbledon and the US Open in the first rounds.
She played her last match of the year in September, taking the rest of the year off to continue her recovery.
"Little niggles have cropped up as they do when you are not using your body in the way that you want to on the match court," said Britain's Fed Cup captain Judy Murray.
"I can only imagine it must be hugely, hugely frustrating but the key for her is to make sure her body is absolutely ready to go, however long that takes.
"Qualifying for a smaller event is exactly the right way to go."


McDonald's workers in three US states - New York, California and Michigan - have filed cases against the firm alleging it was "stealing" wages.

They allege they were forced to work off the clock and not paid overtime.
Workers in New York said they were not reimbursed the cost of cleaning their uniforms, which they claim pushed their real wages below the minimum limit.
The firm said it was committed to fair treatment of employees and was "reviewing the allegations".
"McDonald's and our independent franchisees are committed to undertaking a comprehensive investigation of the allegations and will take any necessary actions as they apply to our respective organisations," it said in a statement.
The workers have filed a total of seven class action lawsuits in the three states.
In three California suits, workers claim that McDonald's and its franchise owners "failed to pay them for all time worked, failed to pay proper overtime" and "altered pay records".
The cases in Michigan claim the firm "regularly forces workers to show up for work, but then forces them to wait without pay until enough customers show up, and that it also routinely violates minimum wage laws".
Lawyer Michael Rubin, of Altshuler Berzon LLP, who filed the California suits, said: "We've uncovered several unlawful schemes, but they all share a common purpose - to drive labour costs down by stealing wages from McDonald's workers."
The lawsuits come just as President Barack Obama is expected to announce tougher rules on overtime pay.
Fast food companies have already been under increasing pressure to raise wages, and workers at various outlets, including McDonald's, have held strikes in recent months.
Earlier this month, McDonald's said that growing concerns over income inequality may force it to raise its wages.
It said the public focus on the issue "may intensify" over the coming months.


Peter Lines says his shock run at the UK Championship is just a "bonus" and he would much rather see his son Oliver progress deeper into the tournament.

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Amateur Peter, 46, beat reigning champion Neil Robertson to reach the third round, while Oliver, 21, defeated world number three Judd Trump.
They are the first father-and-son pair to make the last 32 of a ranking event since Geoff and Neal Foulds in 1986.
"We are on a high. If he's doing well, that's what I want," Peter said.
He told BBC Sport: "I will try as hard as I can and if I come out on top all well and good. If I don't, I will still be here on Tuesday with Oliver.
"If I do ok, it is just a bonus."
The Leeds-based duo have played together in the last 32 at PTC events but have never previously progressed to the same stage of a ranking event.
Peter plays Liam Highfield on Monday, while Oliver, who is 61st in the world rankings, plays Jimmy Robertson on Tuesday.
The pair are not due to meet until the semi-finals, "mainly because I have been going out early," said Peter, who added that he would not recommend putting any money on a Lines family meeting in the final four.
"I would say keep your money in your pocket," he said. "One of us might do, but I wouldn't like to say which one. There are a lot of big names in the top half of the draw. Ronnie O'Sullivan is in there and so is Mark Williams."
Peter, who fell off the main snooker tour this season, said watching Oliver is not normally stressful, but seeing his son struggle for form this season has been tough.
"It is probably the first time for the last two or three years that he has been low on confidence because he has risen up the rankings every year," Peter said. "Normally I just enjoy watching him play.
"But I have I always said to him that as long as he practises hard and has a first-class attitude, the results will come."
Oliver added: "It's weird. We are not used to winning. I will take playing him in the semi-finals.
"I have lost a few matches that I feel I should have won this season. I was struggling with my confidence before this tournament.
"But I have been practising very, very hard. Dad told me if I keep practising the way I am then my form will turn around. I am hoping it will be this week."
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Police are distributing posters in a bid for fresh information into the death of a London woman whose body was found on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

The remains of Saima Ahmed, 36, were discovered on Saturday 9 January at Gogar Mount House, on the edge of nearby Gogarburn Golf Club.
It is believed the librarian had travelled by rail from her home in Wembley to Edinburgh a year ago.
Leaflets will also be handed out in Waverley Station on Tuesday.
They will also be given to people in the Wembley area of London, train stations in Hemel Hempsted, Birmingham and elsewhere in Edinburgh.
Police will also be distributing posters and leaflets to visitors to the Unofficial Fringe Venue 999 in East Princes Street Gardens until the end of the festival next week.
Det Ch Insp Martin MacLean, of Police Scotland, said: "There are several outstanding lines of inquiry in what has been a painstaking investigation.
"We still need to establish why Saima came to Scotland and Edinburgh and the circumstances that led to her death.
"The information gathered thus far certainly indicates that Saima left her home on Sunday, August 30th, last year and travelled by train to Edinburgh.
"Now, almost one year on, Edinburgh is again in the midst of hosting the International Festival and there will be a number of people returning to the city who may remember Saima.
"It's my hope that these posters might help jog some memories and we can gain vital information to assist with our investigation."
Ms Ahmed's death is still being treated as unexplained.
Police said she may have been spotted months earlier on Portobello beach - after travelling to the city in August.
A man walking his dog spoke with a woman on the beach, who was walking alone and who closely matched Ms Ahmed's description, at about 10:30 on a Monday in August, possibly 31 August, although the exact date is unknown.
The woman said she had wanted to see the beach and said she had travelled up from London and was going back down later the same day.
The police want to know if she stayed in a guest house there the night before, possibly on Sunday 30 August.
Ms Ahmed's exact movements as she travelled to Scotland remain unconfirmed.
However, detectives now believe she bought a Birmingham to Edinburgh rail ticket at Birmingham New Street Station at about 17:00 on Sunday 30 August 2015.
Officers said there was a strong possibility she then boarded one of two Edinburgh-bound services - either the 17:15 Virgin service due to arrive at Edinburgh Waverley at 22:22, or the 13:30 Virgin Cross Country Network (via York), which was due to arrive at 22:21.


Further consultations are to be held into three of the largest of the Scottish government's planned marine protected areas (MPAs).

The three designations involved cover the Small Isles, Wester Ross and Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura.
They form part of a proposed network of 30 protected areas.
The decision to consult again follows feedback from the fishing industry and changes to the MPAs' boundaries, the government said.
The aim of MPAs is to improve marine conservation, including giving greater protection for kelp and rocky reefs, beds of sea grass and maerl seaweed. The areas have been designated but the limits on what types of fishing can be done in them have still to be introduced.
The planned MPA network has support from conservation charities and elements of the fishing industry, including creel fishermen.
However, some fishermen and communities in the west of Scotland and Western Isles have concerns about their effect on fishing.
Communities in the Western Isles have also now told the islands' SNP MP Angus MacNeil that the consultations need to be extended beyond their 17 January deadline to give them more time to respond.
Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead said: "We need to take decisive action to conserve our precious and valuable marine environment and biodiversity.
"Our MPAs are widely supported, and will protect important seabed features, such as maerl beds which provide habitat for scallops, and species such as horse mussels which improve our water quality."
He added: "We have received a range of different views on our proposals from communities, stakeholders, and the fishing industry - including many in the static sector who support our proposals whilst others have expressed concern.
"As a result, I have made changes where I can to reduce any potential economic impact while still protecting the integrity of our initial proposals and desire to protect and conserve the marine environment for future generations."
Mr MacNeil said he had received "almost instantaneous reaction of dismay" to the latest announcement on MPAs.
He said: "This whole marine protected area issue is being done in way I feel will be economically damaging for the islands and west coast.
"However, setting that aside, a month consultation over Christmas is too short and should be extended.
"Too many jobs and livelihoods of people we all know in our communities are dependent on this whole thing being done properly, therefore at outset the consultation cannot rushed."
Scottish Environment Link, whose members include conservation charities such as RSPB Scotland and Marine Conservation Society, said it was pleased the government remained committed to MPAs.
Calum Duncan, convener of the group's marine taskforce, said: "We welcome the proposals as the first step toward protecting many important areas, enabling ecological recovery and helping to secure healthier Scottish seas for future generations, although concerns remain about some places where bottom-towed fishing will still be permitted.
"These nature conservation measures must also be part of a broader and more progressive approach to spatial management of fisheries throughout our seas.
"We now need to continue working with all stakeholders to ensure MPAs fulfil their promise of recovering Scotland's sea life, both for its intrinsic value and for broader public benefit."


A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash in West Dunbartonshire.

The crash happened at about 08:45 on the A813 in Dumbarton, near the Lomondgate Services. The male motorcyclist died at the scene
Officers are investigating the cause of the crash and appealed for people who were in the area at the time to contact them.
Police said they were particularly interested in talking to people who may have dashcam footage.
The road is closed while investigators work at the scene. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.


Manchester City have completed a £16m deal for Benfica's Spain international midfielder Javi Garcia.

City boss Roberto Mancini made 25-year-old Garcia a priority after Daniele de Rossi decided to stay at Roma and Nigel de Jong moved to AC Milan.
The former Real Madrid man won his only Spain cap earlier this year.
Manchester City, predictably, were big spenders as they parted with £38m to sign Benfica's Javi Garcia, Fiorentina defender Matija Nastasic, Maicon from Inter Milan and Swansea City winger Scott Sinclair.
Tottenham, as ever, were busy. The arrival of Lyon goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was no surprise but the signing of Fulham's Clint Dempsey certainly was.
Liverpool's failure to complete a deal after their offer was rejected by Fulham completed a fruitless deadline day which will undoubtedly disappoint manager Brendan Rodgers after he cleared Andy Carroll off the wage bill to West Ham and brought in £4m from the sale of Charlie Adam to Stoke City.
City have also signed Fiorentina defender Matija Nastasic, 19, in a deal worth £13m plus Stefan Savic moving in the opposite direction.
Garcia left Real Madrid for Osasuna in 2007, only for the Bernabeu club to exercise a buy-back clause a year later before he moved on to Benfica in 2009.
Nastasic, 19, has two caps for Serbia and made 22 starts for Fiorentina in Serie A last season after joining from Partizan Belgrade a year ago.
The new arrivals at the Etihad will join 31-year-old Brazilian defender Maicon, who has moved in a £3m deal from Inter Milan, while moves for Scott Sinclair and goalkeeper Richard Wright have also been confirmed as Mancini completes his transfer business.
City have already signed Everton's Jack Rodwell for £12m but decided against pursuing deals for Robin van Persie, who went to Manchester United for £24m, and Eden Hazard, bought by Chelsea for £32m.
Javi Martinez was another player of great interest to Mancini but he has moved to Bayern Munich from Athletic Bilbao in a £30m-plus transfer.
Striker Roque Santa Cruz and defender Dedryck Boyata have both left City on season-long loans.
Santa Cruz has joined Spanish side Malaga while Boyata has moved to Dutch outfit FC Twente.
Boyata, 21, spent last season on loan at Bolton and now joins up with former England manager Steve McClaren at the Dutch side.
City's Northern Ireland defender, Ryan McGivern, has joined Hibernian on loan until January.
The 22-year-old left-sided defender, who has 16 full caps, has made one appearance for City, as a substitute in a 5-0 league win over Sunderland in April 2011.


Head teachers warning that they face financial meltdown are "furious" that the government has been pledging funds to create grammar schools in England.

It was revealed on Wednesday that ministers had invited grammar school leaders to apply for £150m over three years for new selective school places.
School leaders have also demanded the return of £384m, initially promised to turn schools into academies.
The Department for Education says school funding is at record levels.
School leaders have been angered that while they have been warning about a lack of basic funding, the government has been able to promise hundreds of millions for projects such as expanding grammars and changing schools to academy status.
Head teachers in West Sussex have been campaigning against what they claim are serious budget shortfalls.
They have written to local MPs to express their "incredulity" at the funding that appears to be available for grammars.
They are also calling on political leaders to account for their spending decisions.
The Grammar School Heads' Association had a private meeting with the education secretary and schools minister in which they discussed plans to expand selective places and to create new grammar schools for 2020.
The notes of the meeting, published by the grammar heads, include details of how to contact the department for £50m per year for new selective places.
The heads in West Sussex have called for emergency funding of £20m and have warned that without this schools might have to cut hours, increase class sizes or stop teaching some subjects.
They have told MPs that "throughout our campaign school leaders have sought to be 'relentlessly reasonable'; now we are simply furious".
They describe local schools as "scrabbling around for any form of cash like a desperate person checking down the side of their sofa for the odd pound coin or two".
Earlier this week, finance directors and school business managers from Barnet wrote to the Department for Education warning of an impending financial crisis.
They called on the government to return the £384m promised to fund a plan to turn all of England's schools into academies.
When that was overturned by a backbench rebellion, it was revealed that the funding was taken back by the Treasury.
School leaders have argued that a redistribution of how schools are funded, in a new funding formula, could avoid having any losers if this money, once announced for schools, could be returned.
Grammar school head teachers have also been complaining about funding shortages - and have warned that they might have to start asking parents for payments.
The National Union of Teachers has attacked the government for pledging funds for new grammar places when schools are already "crying out for sufficient funding".
The union's general secretary Kevin Courtney accused the education secretary of "fiddling around with secret plans for a return to a two-tier education system" which would be of no benefit to 90% of children.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said schools in West Sussex would gain from changes in the funding formula - with an extra £145 per pupil per year.
"We have protected the core schools budget in real terms since 2010, with school funding at its highest level on record at more than £40bn in 2016-17," said the DFE spokeswoman.


Chris the sheep has set a Guinness World Record for having the most wool shaved in a single sitting.

The Australian sheep was found wandering alone near Australia's capital a month ago.
His coat was dangerously big and he needed a life-saving shave.
Five shearers volunteered to help, including champion sheep shearer Ian Elkins.
Together the team removed 41.1 kilograms (90.6 pounds) of wool.
Ian said it was one of the biggest challenges he'd faced in 35 years of work.
Guinness World Records have now confirmed Chris' record, previously held by Big Ben and his 28.9 kilogram shaving.
Tammy Ven Dange from the RSPCA animal charity said: "We certainly didn't have the world record as priority when we sheared Chris, but we appreciate the recognition,"
"We can only hope that record is never broken again because it would be unlikely that the animal would live to tell the story."
Chris is now well and has found a new home on a farm in New South Wales state.
His fleece has been donated to the National Museum in Canberra.


A Merlin rock carving, which sparked a row over the "Disneyfication" of an historical site, has been damaged.

The artwork at Tintagel Castle, the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, was criticised for "commercialising" the landscape.
English Heritage, which commissioned the piece, said it was unsure whether the damage was "deliberate or natural".
Police are yet to confirm whether they are investigating any complaints of vandalism to the nose of the structure.
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Peter Glaser, a photographer based in north Cornwall, said: "It looks like somebody has put a chisel on it and given it a damn good whack."
English Heritage unveiled the carving by local craftsman Peter Graham in February, but the charity has since been accused by councillor Bert Biscoe of damaging the geology.
Mr Biscoe said he was "not sad" about the damage and would "not be surprised" if it was deliberate.
"People are extremely angry about the way English Heritage has marched in and done all of this", he said.
Alex Page from English Heritage, said "the carving has been immensely popular with the public since we unveiled it" and the organisation would be "disappointed" if it was a case of vandalism.


One of UKIP's leadership candidates has accused the party's main donor of trying to use it as his "puppet".

Lisa Duffy said the dominance of Arron Banks in UKIP's funding was "not healthy" for the party.
Mr Banks, a close ally of former leader Nigel Farage, recently said UKIP needed to be reformed "root and branch" and suggested he could back a new party.
UKIP is in the process of choosing a new leader but the contest has been hit by rows between key party figures.
Ms Duffy is up against MEPs Bill Etheridge and Diane James and activists Phillip Broughton and Elizabeth Jones for the leadership.
Speaking after a hustings in Newport, South Wales, she said: "The danger of only having one donor is that one person then could put the pressure on the party to ask and demand for things to happen, so they basically can use the party as their puppet.
"I think that is really dangerous. I think what is very important for our party is that we get donations from all over, whether small donations or large.
"We shouldn't allow one individual to actually set the tone of our party, our tone is set by our grassroots."
She said she was talking about Mr Banks, adding: "When they don't get their own way, they start calling to scrap the NEC, lets go off and build a new political party, no.
"We've spent 23 years building up UKIP. UKIP is fantastic. UKIP's here for the future. It's not the puppet of one man."
Asked if she thought UKIP had become Mr Banks' puppet, she said: "I think he's trying to use it. It hasn't become it because we haven't allowed it. But that is something that could potentially happen down the road and it's a no no from us."
UKIP's recent infighting has focused on the decision by the ruling National Executive Committee to bar one of the frontrunners - Steven Woolfe - from standing after he submitted his papers late.
Mr Banks, a former Tory donor, has donated more than Â£1m to UKIP and spent Â£5.6m of his personal fortune on funding the UKIP-backed Leave.EU campaign.
The Bristol-based insurance magnate recently said there had been an attempted "coup" involving the NEC and UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell, and suggested the party might have run its course.
Also after the hustings, Mr Etheridge told the BBC: "No one person, no one man or woman, is any more important than any other member.
"If we're going to be a different party, we cannot allow people to buy us. I don't care if its Mr Banks or anybody else, they don't buy UKIP."
At a separate hustings in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, Mr Etheridge hit out at "spiteful" comments from UKIP members after photographs of his Viagra erectile dysfunction tablets were reportedly published on social media by his former partner.
He said he had been subjected to "painful, unfair and personal attacks by a woman I once loved" and that some party colleagues had used the issue to "ridicule" him.
Mr Etheridge outlined statistics on men's sexual health and said only a third of those affected sought help.
"It's because of the stigma, ladies and gentlemen, it's a difficult thing to face," he said.
"And these kind of issues can lead to depression - it's a serious issue of mental health and mental health is one of the great unspoken issues that our country faces today.
"To ridicule men seeking help for this type of condition is below contempt and is below this great party."


Oklahoma is set to become the first state in the US to allow the use of nitrogen gas as a method of execution.

The state legislature has passed a bill, which now awaits the governor's signature to become law.
Several US states are considering alternative execution methods as they struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage.
Inventories dwindled after European manufacturers opposed to capital punishment refused to sell the drugs.
Later this month. the US Supreme Court will review the use of midazolam, a drug used in Oklahoma executions,
Last year a condemned inmate in Oklahoma struggled for almost an hour during a lethal injection execution.
It is the first drug applied to a prisoner during an execution, and is followed by two others which stop the heart and cause death. Alternatives to midazolam are short supply.
Under the new law, nitrogen gas chambers will become Oklahoma's primary backup method of execution if lethal injection drugs are unavailable or ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Electrocution and firing squad are the backup methods currently available to the state.
The bill was passed by the legislature without a single dissenting vote. A spokeswoman for Governor Mary Fallin, a strong supporter of the death penalty, tells BBC News Online that her decision will be announced next week.
Supporters of the bill say nitrogen gas poisoning, or nitrogen-induced hypoxia, is a more humane and painless way to die and requires no medical expertise to perform. There are no reports that it has ever been used before on humans.
The governor of Utah signed a bill on 23 March that allows death by firing squad as a backup option should lethal injection drugs become unavailable. The decision has been criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union as "brutal" and "barbaric."
Oklahoma has temporarily halted its remaining executions as the state awaits review by the Supreme Court.


More than 30,000 sci-fi fans have been attending this year's MCM Scotland Comic Con at the SECC in Glasgow.

Star Wars actor Warwick Davis and former Doctor Who and Hobbit star Sylvester McCoy are also taking part.
Those who attended were given the chance to meet the authors of their favourite books or characters from their favourite shows.
The convention, now in its fifth year, has become renowned for fans' enthusiasm for dressing up.
Brian Cooney, managing director of the MCM expo group which organises the event, said: "The whole genre and the fact that people enjoy going out and dressing up is amazing to watch and a big part of the event.
"They like to 'cos play' - they call it that because they like to costume play and don't just put on a costume and go 'look at my costume'. They want to try and play the characters. It's their escape for a day or two where they come and enjoy the fun."
Mr Cooney said Comic Con had become a broad term that embraced pop culture.
He added: "It's totally mainstream now. The fact that the movies have become so successful has led even more people into it, but it was already on the way up before the movies."