The former Lord Chief Justice who led the inquiry into Britain's biggest prison riot is calling for a new inquiry into the state of UK jails.

The Rt Hon Lord Woolf says conditions in prisons are now as bad as they were in 1990, when a dramatic siege at Strangeways went on for 25 days.
Two people died and hundreds were injured in a protest against a prison regime that included "slopping out".
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said all UK prisons had safe population levels.
Lord Woolf said Britain was again "heading for a crisis within prisons".
Key players in the Strangeways riot explain their part in the siege
The unrest at Strangeways started on 1 April 1990 and the ensuing siege was the longest in British penal history.
Prisoners complained the Victorian site was overcrowded, they were forced to remain in their cells for up to 23 hours a day and had to "slop out" - using only a bucket for a toilet.
Lord Woolf, now chair of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "There are things that are better now than then, but I fear we've allowed ourselves to go backwards and we're back where we were at the time of Strangeways.
"For a time after the riot things were much better and numbers were going down, [but] unfortunately prisoners are again being kept in conditions that we should not tolerate, they're a long way from home and their families can't keep in touch with them.
"That's why I would welcome a thorough re-look at the situation and above all trying to take prisons out of politics".
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said: "This government has considerably increased the adult male prison capacity from the level inherited at the end of the last Parliament.
"Yet all prisons have safe population levels and published statistics show that crowding is at its lowest levels since 2007-08.
"Staffing levels were agreed with both prison governors and the unions at the outset and prison officers have done an excellent job during a period when the prison population has unpredictably risen.
"Furthermore, we are absolutely clear that all offenders are expected to engage in purposeful activity to help them find a job on release and turn their backs on crime for good.
"The total number of hours worked in prisons has increased from 10.6 million to 14.2 million in the past four years."
Following the disturbance, Lord Woolf published a report in 1992 making more than 200 recommendations.
They included an end to "slopping out", increased contact between prisoners and their families, and better rehabilitation of offenders.
Strangeways was later rebuilt at a cost of Â£90m and renamed HMP Manchester.
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Belfast's Black Santa is due to begin his annual Christmas sit-out for charity at St Anne's Cathedral.

It is the third time that the dean of the cathedral, the Very Rev John Mann, will be collecting money for charity outside St Anne's until Christmas Eve.
The vigil started in 1976 under Dean Sammy Crooks and has raised millions of pounds for charity since then.
Dean Jack Shearer, who died in 2001, was initially dubbed Black Santa by the media in the 1980s.
This was because of his distinctive clothing, and the name caught on with the public.
The appeal raises money for various charities in Northern Ireland as well as Christian Aid.
This will be the 37th Black Santa annual sit-out. This year there will be a separate collection for the Philippines Appeal.
Most of the money collected will be distributed to local charities, with a portion going towards overseas work.
A total of 207 charities received a share of the £192,000 raised in last year's appeal.
In the days leading up to Christmas Eve, Dean Mann will be joined on the cathedral steps by cathedral clergy, the bishops of Connor and Down and Dromore, and members of the cathedral chapter.
Dean Mann said: "I have not risked checking the weather forecast, I just hope it doesn't rain. But whatever the weather, I look forward to meeting lots of people on the steps of the cathedral in the coming days."
Despite the difficult financial times, he hopes to raise close to £200,000.
After the Asian tsunami in 2004 the then dean, Houston McKelvey, extended the time for collection. Thousands of people turned up to the cathedral to donate money for the victims, raising £1.6m in just a few weeks.
Nearly 200 charities are seeking help this year.


Should patients be worried that poor morale among doctors is putting them at risk?

The General Medical Council has taken unprecedented steps to warn there was "a state of unease within the medical profession across the UK that risks affecting patients as well as doctors".
Five doctors speak about their experiences.
Dr Eloise Elphinstone, a GP in London, says she feels "very demoralised and pressured in the current climate".
"I work incredibly long hours to ensure patients get the treatment they deserve, but sometimes to the detriment of my own health.
"I worry that I may miss something, being so tired by the end of a 12 hour day. I feel it's such a shame as it is an incredibly rewarding job on a good day.
"However, even over the last year the pressures are getting greater and greater and I feel we can provide a less good service.
"It has even got to the point that I have private health insurance for myself and my family as I worry that the NHS can not provide a timely service anymore with the pressures.
"I've also started looking to work in other environments - with the military or privately - where you get longer appointments with patients and the pressure is less...
"I also feel ashamed to say that a relative is thinking of training as a doctor, and I have been very reluctant to encourage this."
Dr Kapla de Silva, 35, a final year cardiology registrar from London, says the "unstinting" belief in the NHS he had when he left medical school "has been whittled away".
A slew of government interventions have seen the training system "eroded", and most proposals under Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - leading to recent strikes by junior doctors in England - have "degraded morale even further," he said.
"The way the whole saga has been portrayed by the government and, more worryingly by the media, has been extremely disheartening," he said.
"I work days, and nights, seven days a week, on a rota, as do all of my colleagues, and many hospital specialties do the same...
"Whilst I do not ask for a pay rise, I am frustrated that I will be financially less secure despite the number of years I have worked and trained for."
He added: "As cliched as it sounds, I work for my patients... no matter what happens I will do my utmost to deliver the best care that is possible. "
"I do however, think that overtime, a workforce that is disenchanted and disillusioned will inevitably be less inclined to work the extra hours, and go the extra mileâ€¦which would be a sad thing to see."
Dr Andrew Bull, from Bristol who qualified nine years ago, says he has had to take breaks from work due to low morale.
A GP for just two years, he says: "Gradually I am enjoying my career less and less. I originally thought I would be a doctor for 40 years but now I struggle to imagine being a doctor beyond five more years.
"The low morale has complex causes but most doctors chose this job for the satisfaction it gives rather than for the money. Take away the satisfaction and we are not left with much from our career.
"I've had a couple of breaks from work to help get my enthusiasm back. It worked - it's useful to have a break, some people have enough and retire early.
"I've worked in Australia - it's another health system, you realise the NHS isn't as bad as everyone makes out. Outside the UK, many countries are jealous of the NHS. There are so many things it can do that the rest of the world can't.
"I'm thinking of working abroad again, maybe next year as things can get a bit stale. It'll be short term to begin with - maybe a year, like I did in Australia. I'm not planning on leaving forever. My plan would be to come back."
Dr Stefan Cembrowicz, 69, former Senior Partner at Montpelier Health Centre in Bristol, said that the current generation of doctors face fresh challenges.
In the mid-1990s, he interviewed 20 of his registrars at Montpelier about a number of staff conditions, including morale.
He said: "They all had surprisingly high morale - they nearly all said their morale was eight out of 10. Why? Well they were a capable, high calibre bunch, but it was because they were looking forward to a good career."
Twenty years later, there is "a state of unease within the medical profession", the GMC has warned.
Dr Cembrowicz said: "As I understand it, the junior doctors' problem isn't money, it's the rota. What you have is a very hard pressed workforce already filling in the cracks, and being asked to fill in even more gaps on the rota is the last straw.
He added: "We must cherish them because they are the brightest and motivated people in the country."
Dr Cembrowicz pointed out that his generations of doctors were almost entirely male and did not have the shared childcare duties that they face today.
"If you change have to ask people to change their child care for rotas all the time, the sky will fall - it costs money and what's worse is all the organising".
Dr Matt Piccaver, 38, a GP from Suffolk, maintains doctor will take the pressure first, before it hits the patients.
"Doctors just put more hours in - there aren't really corners you can cut. You can tell them to keep their coat and shoes on to save time, that's about it. To do the job properly you have to do all the right checks and you can't cut corners with those.
"You keep on absorbing until you personally suffer. I've been a GP for 11 years and it's an exhausting privilege - I'm knackered but I love the job".
With morale remaining low in the aftermath of the junior doctors' strikes, he said: "I think patients are still on our side, but in the media it's like we are the bad guys. We seem to be vilified in the press - it's reduced the perception of it being an attractive career.
"No one wants to be a GP anymore, no one wants to work - unbelievably - in paediatrics, or A&E.
He said the NHS was being "set up to fail" by the government, which is not giving it enough money in the face of rising patient numbers.
"The government needs to shape society around a world where one in three of us is elderly. They need to invest in social and community care - and give us adequate funding for the job, we need to attract people to it and get away from this toxic, awful feeling".


South Africa's high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants.

Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than 700 suspected illegal migrants following recent deadly xenophobic violence.
Police say they made the arrests during crime prevention operations.
The authorities have been under pressure to both bring an end to the attacks on foreigners and to introduce tighter immigration controls.
The African migrants detained at the Lindela repatriation centre, 25km (15 miles) west of Johannesburg, were due to be deported on Wednesday, reports the BBC's Nomsa Maseko.
They had been arrested over the past few weeks during night time raids in and around Johannesburg.
But their deportation has been halted for at least two weeks after the organisation Lawyers for Human Rights went to the Johannesburg High Court to prevent it from taking place.
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The lawyers have also been given permission to consult with their clients after being barred from doing so by the government.
This will give the lawyers time to get a list of names of those who have been arrested, and check if they are in the country as asylum seekers.
The raids come after a wave of xenophobic attacks in April which affected major cities in South Africa.
At least seven people were killed, 5,000 left homeless and many foreign-owned shops were looted in the attacks.
Campaign group Right to Know called the mass arrests of suspected illegal migrants "state-funded xenophobia".
"The raids were a heavy-handed response that have seen families being separated," the group's spokesman Murray Hunter told the AFP news agency.
Steve Faulkner, from the Coalition of Movements Against Xenophobia, described a recent raid on Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church, where many refugees seek shelter, as a "military operation in the middle of the night... People were herded together and taken to the police station", AFP reports.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the violence against foreigners and the army was deployed in some areas to prevent further attacks.
But in a speech to mark the anniversary of country's first democratic elections he also talked about concern around the "number of illegal and undocumented migrants" and promised to do something about it.


US President Barack Obama has vowed at a memorial service for victims of the Boston marathon bombing the attack's perpetrators will be held accountable.

He told an interfaith ceremony that everyone had been touched by the attack on their beloved city.
He spoke as it emerged investigators had found clear video images of two potential suspects carrying black bags.
Two bombs were detonated near the finish line on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 170.
The FBI is holding a press conference on the attacks.
There were several standing ovations as the president spoke earlier on Thursday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the main Roman Catholic cathedral in Boston.
Before his visit, the president declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts, which would allow the state to access federal funding to deal with the aftermath of the attacks.
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President Obama appeared in sombre mood as he joined city leaders, residents and victims at the prayer service.
He told the congregation: "The spirit of this city is undaunted; the spirit of this country shall remain undimmed.
"Everyone of us has been touched by this attack on your beloved city. Everyone of us stands with you. Because after all it's our beloved city too.
"They sought to intimidate us, to terrorise us," President Obama said, adding, "It should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it."
He was applauded as he warned the perpetrators of the attacks they would be brought to justice.
"We will find you," he said. "We will hold you accountable."
Crowds arrived early - in some cases as early as dawn - to wait for one of about 2,000 seats inside the cathedral.
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The refusal by Boston investigators to release images of two potential suspects has kept journalists guessing. The agency will only say the pictures will be publicised when and if appropriate. Some media organisations have tried to circumvent the official investigation.
The New York Post published a photo of two race attendees under the headline "Bag men", but later backtracked to say the pair were not suspects after all.  It is not the first time journalists have got it wrong.
In 1996, following the Atlanta Olympics bombing, reporters conducted a trial by media of security guard Richard Jewell, after it emerged the FBI were treating him as a suspect. But he was innocent. Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham Law School's Center on National Security, tells me: "The FBI wants to mitigate public hysteria and avoid any reaction that is not evidentiary based. That means - at this point - no photos."
The BBC's Laura Trevelyan in Boston said people gathered patiently in the early morning sunshine for security checks to get inside.
Hundreds of people stood outside the cathedral during the service, while police at the bomb site listened to the president's speech on the radios in their patrol cars.
Former Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney also attended the prayer ceremony.
Later Mr Obama met with wounded victims, families and staff at Massachusetts General Hospital, and with race volunteers at a nearby high school.
First Lady Michelle Obama also visited patients at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
At least 14 bombing victims, including three children, remain in hospital in a critical condition. It is reported that 10 victims have had limbs amputated. Nails and ball bearings were said to be embedded in their flesh.
On Thursday Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the FBI wanted to speak to two men, but did not say they were suspects.
She did not give details of what was seen on the tape.
Ms Napolitano would not say whether the attacks were suspected to be the work of a domestic or foreign group, but said the investigation was continuing "apace".
She added that security had been ramped up at airports and transport hubs.
Investigators are going through thousands of images taken around the time of the attacks from security cameras, the media and people at the scene.
Officials have not said if they would publicly release more details of the case.
At least one of the Boston bombs was made from a pressure cooker packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings, investigators  have told US media. The devices were placed in black bags and left on the ground.
The twin blasts killed Martin Richard, aged eight, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lu Lingzi, a postgraduate student from China.


A flood-hit coil spring factory in Leeds is set to close, putting more than 90 jobs at risk.

ThyssenKrupp Woodhead Ltd, on Kirkstall Road, was under 4ft (1.2m) of water and suffered severe damage following the Boxing Day floods in December.
The company said it had been unable to reopen, with the risk of future floods leaving the site "permanently exposed".
It employs 93 people, with a staff consultation under way. A sales and engineering office will stay in Leeds.
The company, which specialises in springs for the automotive industry, has been manufacturing at the West Yorkshire site since 1999.
Matthias Koll, from ThyssenKrupp Woodhead, said: "We are shocked and saddened by what has happened to the Kirkstall Road site as a result of the Boxing Day floods.
"Since the flood, the Leeds employees have worked tirelessly in cleaning the plant, equipment and stock, and supporting production at overseas locations to ensure that our customers continue to receive products.
"In spite of these efforts, because of the severe damage to the production equipment and the ongoing flood risk, it is not possible to continue operations."
Options are being considered for a new production site, with "Eastern Europe the most likely location", the company said.


The current head of BBC Scotland, Ken MacQuarrie, has been appointed to a UK-wide role at the corporation.

Director General Tony Hall announced that Mr MacQuarrie, 64, would be taking up the newly-restored post of BBC director nations and regions.
The broadcaster said he would be responsible for "bringing together and enhancing the BBC's offer to the nations and regions of the UK".
Mr MacQuarrie will also become a member of the BBC's new executive committee.
A new director of BBC Scotland, based at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, will be appointed in due course.
The post of director of nations and regions was abolished in 2009 but in July this year Lord Hall announced his plan to reinstate it as part of an ongoing shake-up at the corporation.
The BBC's proposed new senior management structure includes a unitary board and executive committee replacing the current Trust board, executive board and executive team.
The corporation said that Mr MacQuarrie would take up the role with "immediate effect".
It added that he would also be;
Reacting to the news, Lord Hall said: "I am delighted to appoint Kenny to this important post.
"Reflecting the nations and serving them well is vital for the BBC and a key part of the new charter.
"There is no one better than Kenny to get this right.
"He is a supremely able leader and manager and is hugely respected, not just within the BBC, but outside as well.
"I know he's the right person to give the nations and regions a strong voice across the BBC."
Mr MacQuarrie said he was "really looking forward" to the challenges of his new job.


A gas explosion damaged a house on Anglesey after an incident involving a camping stove following a power cut.

The stove had been switched off but was on top of an electric hob which had been left on in the blackout and heated up once power was restored.
No one was at home at the time of the blast at Snowdon View Road, Trearddur Bay, on Saturday at 14:22 GMT.
Considerable damage was caused to doors and windows, said North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
Community fire safety team manager Brian Williams said: "Given the potential for power cuts during the current stormy weather, we would remind anyone using camping gas equipment to make sure that it is switched off and safely stored."


There was "no cover-up or corruption" at Middlesbrough Council, an employment tribunal has been told.

Karen Whitmore claims she was "bullied and threatened" because she refused to turn a blind eye to the flawed way some of its buildings were sold off.
But, former chief executive Mike Robinson told the hearing Ms Whitmore was never asked to hide any facts.
Ms Whitmore, 49, was made redundant from her post as assistant director of organisation and governance in June.
Mr Robinson, who was chief executive between 2014 and 2016, said he had asked her to investigate the sale of council-owned Acklam Hall because there were accusations being made on social media and in the press.
A few weeks later she came back to him to say there had been no illegal action or corruption, he said.
The hearing had earlier been told about claims of a "laddish culture" at the council, with senior managers referring to women as "posh birds" and "fatties", but Mr Robinson said he did not recognise that language or behaviour.
He described the council as a "good place to work", and was unaware of any bullying that took place at the council during his time as chief executive.
The hearing, at Teesside Magistrates' Court, continues.


A diver from the Isle of Arran has won one of the world's most prestigious environmental awards.

Howard Wood is to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony in San Francisco later.
It is in recognition of his work over 20 years to protect the island's marine environment and allow it to recover.
The prize, worth $175,000 (Â£117,000), can be spent by the winner "to pursue their vision of a renewed and protected environment".
Mr Wood was one of the founders of the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (Coast) and played a key role in the campaign to set up the country's first no take zone, which prohibits fishing in part of the island's Lamlash Bay.
Mr Wood told BBC Scotland the news had come "completely out of the blue".
Speaking before travelling to San Francisco, he said: "The work of Coast goes back to before 1995, when we could see that the seabed around Arran was being basically dredged away.
"We wanted to have a trial area to find out what happens when you close a small area to all fishing.
"It took us years to get there, but we did get there in 2008."
Since then, the no take zone has allowed the seabed to regenerate.
A recent study showed there had been an increase in the size of scallops and an increase in the number of juvenile scallops in the area.
Coast is actively promoting sustainable fishing methods such as creeling, hand diving for scallops and angling.
It has recently led a successful campaign to establish one of Scotland's first marine protected areas (MPAs).
Coast is also calling on the Scottish government to implement tougher restrictions, to ensure effective protection for the south Arran marine protected area.
A network of MPAs was designated in Scottish waters in July 2014, but campaigners say very few statutory measures to manage the damaging effects of bottom-towed fishing have so far been implemented for these areas.
Mr Wood said: "Scotland has a legacy of vested interests controlling access to public marine resources and there is still a great deal of work to be done to overturn decades of mismanagement.
"If people really understood how Scotland's marine resources have been plundered over the years, they would be appalled."
The Scottish government has congratulated Mr Wood on his award and defended its record.
A spokesman said: "Scotland's Marine Protected Areas network, which includes the largest MPA in the EU, helps protect and enhance our marine environment so that the rich diversity of life in the waters around Scotland, and the benefits they bring, can be enjoyed for generations to come.
"We recently consulted on potential management measures for MPAs and will shortly implement measures that take account of all views received.
"The current preferred management approach would achieve the conservation objectives of the protected features and reduce the footprint of trawling and dredging considerably."
Mr Wood is one of six winners of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize, who are drawn from Kenya, Myanmar, Haiti, Canada, Honduras and Scotland.


Lloyds has said that following discussions with the banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority, it does not need to sell new shares to boost its capital resources and enhance its ability to absorb future losses.

Later today, Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to say something broadly similar.
This will be a great relief to their shareholders, especially their biggest shareholder, the Treasury.
Because if these two had been forced to issue new equity, to sell new shares, that money might well have had to come from the state, from taxpayers.
And further nationalisation of these vast banks was the last thing on the wish-list of the Chancellor, George Osborne.
So today's announcements - which are the culmination of talks with the regulator initiated when the Bank of England ruled earlier this year that UK banks collectively needed to find Â£25bn of additional capital by the end of this year - represent a further milestone on the tortuous path to privatisation.
That said, both are committed to strengthening themselves by continuing to sell non-essential assets.
So we don't yet know the precise shape of what will be eventually sold back to the stock market, as and when Lloyds and RBS are privatised.


A drug dealer who was like "a character in The Wire" has been told to pay back almost £40,000 he made from his crimes.

Zahir Hussain, 41 and from Birmingham, studied business while running a crack cocaine and heroin operation, like Idris Elba's Stringer Bell character in the US TV drama, police said.
He was jailed for six years and three months last December.
At a further Birmingham Crown Court hearing, Hussain was told to pay the cash or face a further year in prison.
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Police described his drugs operation, run on the phone network he named after himself - Zee Line, as a "sophisticated" operation. Arresting officers recovered class A drugs, £10,000 in cash and mobile phones which linked Hussain as the ringleader.
Elba appeared in the long-running US TV crime drama between 2002 and 2004, which saw his character Bell become a major player in a drug dealing network in Baltimore.
PC David Harman, financial investigator at West Midlands Police, said messages on Hussain's phones showed texts to drug users boasting about the quality of the drugs, advice to runners about how to boost sales and demands for sales figures.
"Hussain had been studying small business management, similar to Idris Elba's character Stringer Bell in TV's The Wire, and course books were found inside the flat," he said.
"Further messages showed desperate drug users offering personal belongings in exchange for drugs, highlighting the misery being brought upon the community."
The recovery team began investigating Hussain following his jailing last December after admitting conspiring to sell drugs.
"They discovered that cash deposits were passed through a company controlled by Hussain − which claimed to sell toilet rolls and bin bags - and he still held assets worth £38,000," a police spokesman said.
Following a Proceeds of Crime hearing at the same court last Thursday, he was ordered to pay that money back.


Scrum-half Sam Hidalgo-Clyne says "defeat is not an option" when Scotland open their Six Nations campaign against England a week on Saturday.

The Edinburgh 22-year-old, likely to be on the bench, believes a good start is essential if the Scots are to build on their World Cup campaign.
"If we can get one over England, that gives us a huge confidence booster and we are right there in the mix.
"If we were to lose, that would obviously be a step back," he said.
"For us, that is not really an option at the moment. We have not really thought about losing."
Scotland have only won one of their last 12 Six Nations matches, have not beaten England since 2008 and not scored a try against them at Murrayfield since 2004.
But the half-back, who has won eight caps since his debut in last year's championship, believes the squad are better prepared mentally under head coach Vern Cotter.
"We have definitely developed as a squad and the mind-set had to change," he said.
"Tournaments are physically and mentally draining and you have to get your mind-set right.
"We need to start this tournament on a real high and go out with full confidence for this first game.
"We are at home, we have got a brilliant squad, a very settled squad and England are not by any means, so there is no reason why we can't."
Scotland may not have beaten England in their last eight attempts, but after taking Australia to the wire in last autumn's World Cup quarter-finals, Hidalgo-Clyne insists self-belief within the squad is strong.
"One thing Scotland hasn't had much success with previously is believing in ourselves," he added.
"But this is one of the most dangerous teams Scotland have had. There is huge confidence around the squad and we have to take that and believe in ourselves.
"The tickets were sold out months ago, the fans are going to be right behind us and we are really looking forward to next week."


The way tolls on a Pembrokeshire bridge are managed are to be reviewed after a complaint to a spending watchdog.

It is claimed the accounts for the Cleddau Bridge are confusing, with some showing a loss and others a profit.
Motorists pay 75p - lorry drivers £1.50 - to cross between Pembroke Dock and Neyland. There have been previous calls to scrap the tolls altogether.
The council said it will review both the physical and financial management of the bridge.
The announcement follows a complaint from a member of the public to the Wales Audit Office, which argued that money collected by the council was not being spent in line with rules governing the bridge.
The complaint also suggested that council accounts for the bridge are confusing.
One set of Pembrokeshire council figures for 2013/14 show the bridge operation made a loss of £60.6m.
A second set of figures for the same period suggest the loss was £9.3m.
And a third set of figures state that the council actually made a combined surplus of £17.6m.
Council officials have confirmed to BBC Wales that £60m deficit is in fact a 'notional' loss - and does not actually exist.
The second part of the complaint to auditors is over whether the council should be allowed to make a profit - and where that money should be spent.
Collecting tolls on the Cleddau Bridge is governed by legislation set out by the UK Parliament in the Dyfed Act 1987.
Council leader Jamie Adams said the authority's position was that it can make a profit as long as the funds are used for other transport projects.
However, he accepted that the wording of the 1987 law was unclear.
Mr Adams added: "We've simply followed the example set by our predecessor authority Dyfed.
"Certainly there are different ways to interpret the act which allow for different accounting practices to be undertaken."
The council said it plans to carry out the review of the lifetime cycle of the Cleddau Bridge by the end of March 2016.


Russia's flagship carrier Aeroflot is fighting a legal battle with several of its female flight attendants who say it favours slim and attractive cabin crew.

A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected a sex discrimination claim by stewardess Irina Ierusalimskaya.
She plans to appeal, and is backed by a top Russian human rights and trade union official, Boris Kravchenko.
The company argues that every extra kilogram of weight forces Aeroflot to spend more on fuel.
Its application form for would-be flight attendants requires details of height, weight and clothing size.
Staff have to meet a minimum height requirement because they need to store hand luggage in the overhead lockers, Aeroflot says.
The court will soon consider a similar claim from another Aeroflot flight attendant, Yevgenia Magurina.
"A heavy physical build makes it harder for a flight attendant to move around the cabin and provide a smooth service for the passenger," an Aeroflot official told the court.
A company statement said "stewardesses are the face of any airline, and the national carrier's stewardesses are the country's business card".
"One's first impression of Russia, and attitude towards Russia, depends on the stewardesses' appearance and customer service."
This week Brand Finance, a major international consultancy, rated Aeroflot as Russia's "most powerful brand".
It beat strong competition for the accolade from Russian business giants like Gazprom, Sberbank and Rosneft.
A Brand Finance report on Russia said Aeroflot "has the youngest fleet of any major airline and is investing heavily in marketing promotion, particularly in Asia".
The airline's brand promotion includes sponsorship of Manchester United FC, "which helps Aeroflot reach a vast audience across East Asia in particular", the report says.
Aeroflot has improved its customer service since the Soviet period, when it was often the butt of jokes about grumpy stewardesses and unappetising food.
But Boris Kravchenko called Ms Ierusalimskaya's case "an unprecedented case of sex discrimination". He is a member of President Vladimir Putin's Council for Human Rights, and chairs the Russian Labour Confederation.
"The trade unions in this sector have teeth," he said, warning of possible strike action "if such discriminatory behaviour persists". He was speaking to Russia's RBC news website.
In court, the Aeroflot representative said every extra kilogram of weight meant spending an extra 800 roubles (Â£11; $14) annually on fuel.
He also said a survey carried out for Aeroflot showed that passengers preferred attractive flight attendants and agreed that an airline had a right to stipulate weight limits and clothes sizes for its staff.
Aeroflot says it has "several hundred" stewardesses aged over 40 on its international routes.
Ms Ierusalimskaya, aged 45, wants Aeroflot to pay her 1m roubles (Â£14,000; $17,750) in compensation, Russia's Kommersant news reports. Her clothes size is 52 (XL, under the international system).
She said the airline had transferred her to domestic flights, cutting her income. She complained that Aeroflot's rules required stewardesses to be at least 160cm (5ft 3ins) tall and have a clothes size no larger than 48 (L; 16 in UK; 42 in Germany; 14 in US).
A decorated, veteran Aeroflot pilot, Oleg Smirnov, told BBC Russian that the build of female flight attendants "is an issue for every country's airline".
"Of course a stewardess must be quite elegant, to move between the seats, attend to passengers," he said.
But they also need to be strong enough to handle a heavy inflatable slide in an emergency, he said.
Mikhail Markov, another top pilot, said stewardesses have to be strong enough to lift heavy suitcases quickly. "It's no job for a 43-kilogram girl," he said.


South Korea says it is analysing what it believes to be a North Korean drone that crashed on a border island shortly after an exchange of artillery fire with North Korea.

The drone crashed on Baengnyeong island on Monday afternoon.
It fell as the two Koreas traded fire into each other's waters in an incident Seoul says was provoked by the North.
South Korean authorities say a preliminary investigation has concluded that the drone came from the North.
"The relevant departments of the South Korean government have confirmed that North Korea is responsible for it," said South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman Park Soo-jin.
A similar drone was found in Paju, just south of the demilitarised zone that separates the two Koreas, on 24 March, Yonhap news agency reported.
It was equipped with a a high-resolution camera and had taken pictures of military installations and South Korea's presidential compound, the agency said.
The two Koreas were divided at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty. They remain technically at war and the border is heavily fortified.
Monday's clash came after North Korea announced it would hold live-fire exercises in seven parts of the disputed western maritime border - a major flashpoint between the two nations.
South Korea says it returned fire after North Korean shells landed in its territorial waters. Hundreds of shells were fired, but all fell in the sea and nobody was hurt.
The exchange of fire happened days after North Korea tested medium-range missiles for the first time since 2009.
North Korea is the subject of multiple UN resolutions relating to its pursuit of nuclear weapons' development.


Dagenham & Redbridge made light work of their first game back in the National League in nine years, cruising to a 3-0 win over Southport.

Fejiri Okenabirhie played a starring role for Daggers, opening the scoring on the rebound after 15 minutes, before his determination to win the ball back in the corner allowed him to tee up Luke Guttridge to make it 2-0 after 23 minutes.
Brighton loanee Jordan Maguire-Drew had a chance to make it 3-0 from the spot just before half-time, but his penalty was at a good height for Southport goalkeeper Tyrell Belford, who got both hands to it down to his left.
Dagenham announced the signings of strikers Paul Benson and Corey Whitely at half-time and Maguire-Drew added to the feel-good factor by wrapping up the scoring after 67 minutes.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 3, Southport 0.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 3, Southport 0.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Frankie Raymond replaces Luke Guttridge.
Corner,  Southport.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Corner,  Southport.
Corner,  Southport.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Josh Staunton replaces Matt Robinson.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Substitution, Southport. Ross White replaces Keil O'Brien.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Christian Assombalonga replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Goal!  Dagenham and Redbridge 3, Southport 0. Jordan Maguire-Drew (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Louis Almond.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Southport 0.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Southport 0.
Corner,  Southport.
Corner,  Southport.
Goal!  Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Southport 0. Luke Guttridge (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Corner,  Southport.
Goal!  Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Southport 0. Fejiri Okenabirhie (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Corner,  Dagenham and Redbridge.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


He is Georgia's richest man and his followers have just ousted President Mikheil Saakashvili's ruling party from power in a shock election result, so what else do we know of Bidzina Ivanishvili?

He owns a private zoo stocked with zebras and flamingoes and has one of the world's most valuable art collections. He lives in a futuristic steel mansion, with a helipad and fake waterfall, that looks like a James Bond film-set.
But in the action-packed movie of Georgian politics, it is not yet quite clear whether Mr Ivanishvili is the hero or the baddy.
"I have come into politics to save my country," he told the BBC during an interview in his palatial Tbilisi headquarters, as he gave an impromptu tour of his $1.3bn (Â£800m) art collection.
He owns works by Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst - one of whose pieces he commissioned specially for a particular wall. In 2006 he bought Picasso's Dora Maar with Cat for almost $100m - at the time the highest amount paid by anyone at auction.
For the 153rd richest person on the planet, it was a bargain.
But in person he is not quite as flamboyant as all this suggests.
Softly spoken and polite, he is not what you would expect from a person who has ousted Georgia's powerful ruling party and inspired feelings of fanatical devotion and distrust in equal measure.
Before the first interview he gave the BBC in 2011, just after he had announced his political ambitions in October, he seemed nervous. And he confessed he did not know how to stand in front of the camera.
Since then, he has repeatedly said he is not interested in, nor does he fully understand, politics. And he has said on several occasions he wants to only serve as prime minister for two years before leaving politics for good.
This apparent honesty has charmed many Georgian voters who often distrust politicians. They see him as one of them.
He may be much richer but he started off dirt-poor, running round without shoes in a village in rural Western Georgia.
Very different, some voters feel, to President Saakashvili's all-powerful political elite, which is a close team of pro-Western and culturally liberal urbanites in their thirties or forties.
They go down well in Washington and Brussels but they think very differently to many ordinary Georgians, who have strong traditional family values and a high regard for the culturally conservative Orthodox Church.
And after almost a decade of unopposed power, President Saakashvili's party is often seen as arrogant and out of touch.
But while Mr Ivanishvili's statements seem genuine and honest to some, to others they are extremely worrying.
This will be the first time he has held political office and there are doubts whether he is experienced enough to control a coalition, made up disparate parties with conflicting ideologies.
There are controversial figures within his Georgian Dream coalition.
Some of them are accused of having links to the crime and corruption of Georgia's past while others have made xenophobic, nationalistic or homophobic comments, unchecked by Mr Ivanishvili.
And his plan to serve as prime minster for just two years comes across as dilettantism - a particular concern in a country which over the last 20 years has been torn apart by civil war, revolution and political strife.
Mr Ivanishvili may have successfully built up and run a $6.4bn business empire but this was in the chaotic and corrupt days of 1990s Russia, his critics say. Not exactly a model for political transparency and democratic accountability.
And with a lot of the election campaign devoted to allegations and counter-allegations of dirty tricks from both sides, there are few concrete policies.
Mr Ivanishvili's platform seems to consist of using his own money or foreign investment to boost the economy but the actual details remain vague. He  is often accused of being inconsistent and coming out with conflicting statements.


Mark King suffered a shock 6-2 first-round defeat at the UK Championship in York after he forgot his cue after the interval and was docked a frame.

King, who won his first career ranking event at last week's Northern Ireland Open, trailed fellow Englishman Sam Craigie 3-1 at the break.
But that turned to 4-1 when he returned to the arena having left his cue in the tournament office.
"It's just one for the silly book," said King, 42.
"I have now done two things in three days that I have never done in the rest of my career - winning a ranking tournament and forgetting my cue."
Romford-born King said he was having trouble with a sponsor logo on his cue and went with referee Jan Verhaas to replace it in the tournament office.
"I was in a daze, had my cup of tea, had my banana and left my cue in there," said King. "Then I came out to the arena and thought 'oh my god, where's my cue'!
"If I'd said to Sam 'can I borrow your cue to break off' and then said I was going to the toilet, I wonder if I wouldn't have been punished?"
King could still win the £5,000 prize money for the tournament's highest break, having scored a superb 141 in the frame immediately after he was penalised.
He added: "It has been a bad day but it has been a really good week - the best week of my life when you talk about snooker. It's not all doom and gloom."


Three men sexually assaulted boys for more than 30 years at a school for vulnerable children where abuse was "almost the norm", a court has heard.

Colwyn Baker, David Hennessy and Nigel Putman are accused of 49 counts of abuse against 24 boys at the now-defunct Swaylands School in Kent.
Maidstone Crown Court heard children abused at the school "were positively encouraged to abuse other pupils".
The men have denied carrying out sex assaults.
They are accused of preying on children from 1963 to 1993 while they were residential child care officers at the school in Penshurst.
Prosecutor Philip Bennetts QC said: "Abuse and the age of pupils abused led some pupils to consider that there was nothing wrong with abusing other pupils."
Swaylands School, which catered for boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties, closed in 1993.
Mr Bennetts said one boy was so scared of Mr Baker he often stayed awake or slept in stairwells, and another boy was abused by him almost nightly for three years.
He said one boy told investigators he resisted Mr Baker for a long time but eventually caved in after the defendant made sure no-one spoke to him.
Another alleged victim said he was abused on his first or second night by Mr Hennessy who told him: "It's not worth crying, it won't help you."
Mr Baker, 71, of Craighouse Avenue, Morningside, Edinburgh, faces 24 indecent assault and three serious sexual assault charges.
Mr Hennessy, 74, of Westfields, Narborough, King's Lynn, Norfolk, is accused of 17 indecent assault charges, one of gross indecency with a child, and one serious sexual assault.
Mr Putman, 62, of Kings Road, Slough, Berkshire, is accused of three indecent assaults.
The jury was told Mr Baker was convicted in 1994 of four counts of indecent assault on a boy and one of gross indecency.
Mr Bennetts also disclosed Mr Hennessy was convicted in 1993 of four counts of indecent assault on a boy and two sex offences against a pupil.
The trial was adjourned.


More than 100 women and girls have come forward with reports of sexual assault and robbery by gangs of men in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve.

Victims have described chaos outside the city's main station, as the men carried out dozens of attacks with little apparent response from the authorities.
Correspondents say the identification of the attackers as North African or Arab in appearance has caused alarm in Germany because of the influx of more than a million migrants and refugees in the past year.
Some of the women caught in the violence have begun speaking of their ordeal.
Michelle told the BBC News how she and her friends became surrounded by between 20 and 30 men, who were speaking a foreign language.
"They grabbed our arms... pushed our clothes away, and tried to get between our legs or I don't know where.
"They got everything we had in our pockets."
She said German police needed to provide more protection for women and girls.
"We are all really shocked that something like this could happen, especially at an event like New Year's Eve."
The search for answers
One woman, whose identity has been protected, told German television how gangs of men assaulted her in the crowd.
"All of a sudden these men around us began groping us," she said. "They touched our behinds and grabbed between our legs. They touched us everywhere.
"So my girlfriend wanted to get out of the crowd. When I turned around one guy grabbed my bag and ripped it off my body."
She said she felt in extreme danger, but there were no police officers to help.
"I thought to myself that if we stay here in this crowd they could kill us, they could rape us and nobody would notice. I thought we simply had to accept it.
"There was no one around us who helped or was in a position to help. All I wanted was to get out.
"I was scared that I wouldn't leave this crowd alive. I was scared that if someone showed up with a knife I could be raped in the middle of the street."
Once victim, named as Busra, spoke of a sense of lawlessness outside the station, where the attackers felt they could do as they pleased.
"They felt like they were in power and that they could do anything with the women who were out in the street partying," she said.
"They touched us everywhere. It was truly terrible."
Jenny said she believed attackers put a firecracker into her hood to deliberately distract her while they stole her phone.
"I heard a sizzling sound in my hood I somehow tried to get it out of the hood," she said. "Then it fell into my jacket and burned everything.
"The scars will stay. I was lucky that it didn't explode.
"My mobile phone was gone afterwards. I think they did it on purpose so they could steal my phone."
Muriel described through tears how she was sexually assaulted by a large group of men.
"We were fondled, I was touched between my legs. My friends also were fondled," she said.
"There were quite a big group of people, maybe 30 or 40.
"You didn't know who to trust. You tried the whole time to push everyone else away from you."
A British woman visiting Cologne said fireworks had been thrown at her by a group by men who spoke neither German nor English.
"They were trying to hug us, kiss us, make us walk with them. We refused," she told the BBC.
"One man stole my friend's bag. Another tried to get us into his 'private taxi'.
"I was scared. We all were scared.
"I will never go back to Cologne and... I've told my friends and family never to go there until this situation is under control."
Many of the victims have described a lack of police officers on the streets, despite threatening crowds gathering outside the station.
"There were so many people there that I no longer was in control of myself where to go or how to defend myself," one woman, Evelin, told German television.
"We wanted help. We ran to these police cars but there was no one there.
"We know very well that the police at that moment were so understaffed that they couldn't deal with this, that we women had to go through something like that."


An ex-tennis player from South America has told the BBC that match-fixing is commonplace and even some elite players are "a little bit dirty in some way".

He also claimed fixing is not just limited to lower-ranked professionals and is "a secret that everybody knows".
The player, who requested anonymity, said tennis authorities "know who is doing it" but are unwilling to stop it.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said it rejects "any suggestion that evidence of match-fixing has been suppressed".
"We invite the player behind the allegations to make contact with the TIU and to share the information he claims to have," the TIU added in a statement.
The allegations come after a BBC and BuzzFeed News investigation revealed suspected illegal betting in tennis over the past decade.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's World Have Your Say team, the player, who featured in several tour matches last year and is now a coach, detailed how the fixers operate and the lengths they go to in order to remain undetected.
"This is like a secret on the tour that everybody knows, but we don't talk about it," said the player, whose identity is known by the BBC. "We just see it and keep working."
The player claimed "three big groups" control betting in tennis and that any payments to players are made using cash, with no bank-to-bank transfers allowed.
"Each group has many guys who go to talk to players," he said. "They have many guys inside the circuit.
"Also, they have many accounts. They have 50-60 accounts where they place small money. At the end, it's huge money. It's really big."
The BBC subsequently attempted to contact the player again to ask for clarification on exactly how much a player could earn from match-fixing in a year, but he was unavailable.
"You know who is doing it and who is not," he continued. "As a player, I know who is missing on purpose or returning a shot in the middle on purpose... who is trying, and who is not. So we work on this. We know."
He also claimed players exchange knowing smiles and make comments that indicate they have fixed a match.
"I started to believe [top players were involved] a few years ago, when a guy told me the result of the next two tournaments" he said.
"He told me exactly who was going to win and how it was going to happen.
"In the beginning, I thought he was just bragging about it to make me fall for his game. But then I was laughing that every match was happening the way he had been telling me it was going to happen... and I'm talking about a Masters series, where there are just big names."
Not just that, added the player, but "exactly" how they would win.
"When I was watching it myself," he said, "I couldn't believe it. It's not easy knowing that you have to lose. You start hitting it and, trust me, everything goes in… it can make you panic.
"So when I see the guy winning so easily and then he's missing absolutely on purpose, every ball, and the other guy wins... I just couldn't believe it."
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"We could co-operate with Tennis Integrity if we wanted to, but they don't want it to be stopped," he said.
He claimed fewer players would be tempted to fix if they were getting paid more, insisting a player ranked 400 in the world cannot make a living out of tennis.
"They [the authorities] know exactly who is doing it and, if they wanted to stop it, they could stop it today. It's super-easy. They just don't want to do it."
In response, the TIU said it has a "zero-tolerance approach which is enforced with the full powers of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program that includes lifetime bans and punitive financial penalties".
It added: "The TIU works closely with players to prevent corruption through education programmes and confidential reporting systems.
"The great majority of the 21,000 active professional players are good people of high integrity who abhor the suggestion that the sport they love is tainted with allegations of corruption."
A study conducted on behalf of the International Tennis Federation in 2013 showed that 45% of the 13,736 players at all professional levels of the sport earned nothing from it and only about 10% covered their costs.
Of 8,874 male and 4,862 female respondents to the survey, 3,896 male and 2,212 female earned no prize money.
Other findings in the study, conducted by Kingston University and calculated here at the 2016 exchange rate, showed:
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British number one Andy Murray said he has never been approached to fix a match and called on the tennis authorities to be "proactive".
"As a player, you just want to be made aware of everything that's going on. I think we deserve to know everything that's out there," he said.
World number one Novak Djokovic says he rejected £110,000 to lose a match early in his career but said there is "no real proof" of fixing among the elite.
"From my knowledge and information about match-fixing, there is nothing happening at the top level, as far as I know," he said.
Seventeen-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer said he wanted more information about who might be guilty, saying: "I would love to hear names. Then at least it's concrete stuff and you can actually debate about it."
Women's world number one Serena Williams said that if match-fixing was taking place she "didn't know about it", adding: "When I'm playing, I can only answer for me. I play very hard, and every player I play seems to play hard."
In a statement released to the BBC, the TIU said: "The TIU and the tennis authorities absolutely reject any suggestion that evidence of match-fixing has been suppressed for any reason.
"The sport has a zero-tolerance approach which is enforced with the full powers of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program, which includes lifetime bans and punitive financial penalties.
"Since 2009 all professional players, support staff and officials have been subject to this stringent code, which makes it compulsory to report any corrupt approaches or knowledge of suspected corrupt practices to the TIU. Failure to do so is a breach of the Program which can be subject to disciplinary action.
"The TIU works closely with players to prevent corruption through education programmes and confidential reporting systems. The great majority of the 21,000 active professional players are good people of high integrity who abhor the suggestion that the sport they love is tainted with allegations of corruption.
"We invite the player behind the allegations to make contact with the TIU and to share the information he claims to have."
The Association Of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was also contacted for comment but did not respond.
Listen to the full BBC World Have Your Say interview.


A convicted fraudster on the run from British authorities has posted Facebook messages claiming she wants to be the first female president of Nigeria.

Tina Beloveth Powerful said she would lobby "my Facebook friends," President Obama, Michelle Obama and David Cameron for support.
Powerful, 48, skipped bail ten months ago after being found guilty of running a bogus business school.
Thames Valley Police said an arrest warrant for her was outstanding.
Powerful, thought to be living in Nigeria, was found guilty of fraud and false advertising in July 2015, but went on the run prior to being sentenced.
The case related to her Milton Keynes-based Everest School of Transformational Management.
Her Facebook page suggests she has returned to teaching, with one post saying she is "on my leadership training mission".
And a recent post headlined "women leadership" talks about women becoming presidents of their countries.
In it, Powerful wrote: "I desire most unreservedly to become the first Nigerian female president sooner than later.  I have been nursing this feeling since my mama born me."
She added: "I strongly believe that my Facebook friends, President Obama and Mitchell (sic) Obama, my long-time outstanding friends, Rt. Hon. David Cameron my allied and host of other powerful women and civilized men nationally and internationally will support me massively."
Powerful had offered courses and degrees she did not have the correct accreditation for and advertised facilities that did not exist, including a library.
The BBC discovered she formed another business school in Bedford while on trial, but later flew back to her native country following a death in the family.


A suspected World War Two bomb has been detonated in a controlled explosion more than 24 hours after it was first discovered on a building site.

The device was found by construction workers in Paradise Street, Coventry, at 15:00 BST on Monday.
Lorry loads of sandbags were delivered to the scene before the controlled blast by the Army's bomb disposal team between 22:00 and 23:00 BST on Tuesday.
Businesses and Coventry University's Technocentre were evacuated.
A wall of sandbags, which took the best part of a day to erect, was put in place to absorb the explosion, West Midlands Police said.
The force tweeted there was some "tidying up to do", but things were expected to return to normal on Wednesday.
Thomas Joyce, who runs an MOT centre on Paradise Street, said he had to "drop everything" and evacuate when he was told about the bomb.
"I thought probably midday or 2pm we would be open for business," he said.
"It's unfortunate but it's one of those things - you can't hold back a bomb."
Luke Stanmore, one of many students who had to leave their halls of residence, said they had been given several times about when they might be able to return.
"I asked a police officer if he knew how long after the explosion we would be allowed back in, but it's up to the [Army]."


Snow showers are continuing to affect the road network across Northern Ireland on Thursday and there is also the risk of ice on roads.

More than 100 schools have been closed.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it was "experiencing difficulty in responding to some emergency calls" due to the weather.
"We would ask that people only call 999 in a real emergency and to remain patient if there is a delay in ambulance response," the NIAS said.
It said NIAS staff would "continue to prioritise calls on the basis of clinical need".
A number of Translink Metro bus services were also affected on Thursday due to the snow.
The Upper Hightown Road in Belfast has been closed because of poor road conditions.
Police patrols in the area appealed to the public to avoid the road and obey the cordon and diversion signs.
The Met Office said a yellow warning of snow and ice will remain in place until 11:00 GMT on Friday.
Parents of pupils at Loughash primary school, Dunamanagh, County Tyrone, are advised that the school will be closed on Friday.
Transport NI, formerly known as Roads Service, said that strong winds are also likely to combine with the snow to make conditions more difficult.
It said salting and ploughing operations are continuing.
Police have advised drivers to slow down, put their lights on, leave more room to stop than usual and brake gently to avoid skidding.
"Drive slowly on snow in the highest gear possible," a PSNI statement said.
"Do not assume your vehicle can handle all conditions. Even four-wheel drive vehicles can encounter trouble on winter roads," it added.
Places in the south east of Northern Ireland that do not have much snow will still be bitterly cold and will be at risk of ice, forecasters have said.
The cold weather will continue throughout Thursday and it will remain very cold until the beginning of next week.
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A three-year-old boy has died after being struck accidentally by a car driven by his mother.

It is understood Lindsey Turner was reversing the vehicle when she hit her son Liam in Adland Road, Watton.
He was injured in the accident on Sunday afternoon but died later at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
The boy's father is understood to have got him from underneath the vehicle and driven towards the hospital before flagging down an ambulance.
Liam was then airlifted to hospital. Police are treating what happened as a tragic accident.
The family has issued a tribute to the boy through the police.
The statement said: "We are devastated by the loss of our darling little man.
"Liam was a happy, content little boy who was always smiling and laughing.
"He had a wonderful sense of humour and brought joy to the lives of everyone who knew him. He was deeply loved.
"Life will not be the same without him.
"We ask for space to come to terms with our grief."


Aston Villa chairman Steve Hollis has made his expected departure from the relegated Premier League club following their takeover by Dr Tony Xia.

Hollis described Villa as being in "crisis" when appointed by previous owner Randy Lerner in January, claiming they were in "the worst position this club has been in for many a decade".
By then, Villa were already doomed to relegation to the Championship.
And Hollis has spent his five months at the helm budget-cutting in readiness.
His experience of seeing through big takeover deals from his time as Midlands regional chairman with accountants KPMG paved the way for Villa's £76m takeover by Chinese businessman Dr Xia.
There were also changes at boardroom level under the helm of Shropshire-born Hollis, as he attempted to shape the club's future direction.
Lord Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England and a lifelong Villa fan, was brought in, along with former Villa player and manager Brian Little, former Football Association chairman David Bernstein and former FA executive Adrian Bevington.
But King and Bernstein resigned from the Villa board in April, two days after the club were relegated for the first time since the Premier League was formed, before Bevington followed in May.
Of those arrivals, only Little remains to help smooth in the arrival of Dr Xia, new chief executive Keith Wyness and new manager Roberto di Matteo.
"Steve Hollis was always scheduled to resign as chairman once Dr Tony Xia completed the formalities.
"In that time, Hollis presided over hundreds of redundancies, with the aim of making the club more financially viable to any prospective purchasers."
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Police have said that a bomb found during a security alert in Derry was intended to "lure officers to their death".

They said it was a very complex and sophisticated device, deliberately designed to maim and kill.
No group has claimed the attack but police believe dissident republicans are behind it.
The bomb was planted at a house in Ballyarnett village on Monday night.
Det Ch Insp Una Jennings from the Police Service of Northern Ireland serious crime branch said that shortly before midnight police received a bogus call about a burglary at a house in Ballyarnett.
"We checked with neighbours. They reported that there was no burglary in progress at the address.
"There were, however, a number of calls placed to local organisations and community representatives in Derry which alleged that there was a bomb left at this address," she said.
"This sequence of events caused police to consider that this was a lure to draw officers into the area for a deliberate attack on them.
"The device that was left was very complex and quite a sophisticated device and left in a manner that was deliberately designed to maim and kill."
Det Ch Insp Jennings said she was disgusted by the attack.
"My reaction to it is one of disgust and horror. What I would say though is that the key to this investigation lies within the local community here in the north west and I would ask that the community come forward to the police," she said.
"We are here and ready to listen. We understand how difficult it can be to have the courage to come forward with information. However, I believe we collectively have a legal and moral obligation to try and help identify those responsible.
"They are ruthless, dangerous people who have no regard for the community here in Derry and who, given the chance, would have been responsible for a murder here in the city last night.
"At this stage we are not aware of any claims being made by anyone who left the device, a line of enquiry is however that dissident republicans were behind it."


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A group of climbers have left an impressive series of snow holes on one of Scotland's Munros.

The middle one of the six holes dug on Carn Liath even has steps cut to its entrance.
Expertly dug snow holes can be used by climbers and hillwalkers as emergency shelters from bad weather.
A group from the Joint Service Mountain Training Centre in Ballachulish has claimed credit for the holes on Carn Liath.
It had been thought that a group from Plas y Brenin, the Welsh national mountain sports centre in Conwy, dug them.
The quality of the snow holes has earned praise from the Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS).
One of the service's forecasters described the evenly spaced snow holes as "aspirational".
Carn Liath is a 3,300ft (1,006ft) is on the fringes of the massive Creag Meagaidh plateau in the Highlands.
The area is one of six covered by SAIS.
The snow hole building on Carn Liath was done during a recent spell of cold but calm weather that followed heavy snowfalls.
Warmer and windier weather has been forecast for the next few days.
The avalanche risk remains classed as "considerable" in the areas SAIS covers.


Greece is to present new proposals for resolving the country's debt crisis at an emergency eurozone summit, after voters resoundingly rejected the terms of an international bailout on Sunday.

€320bn
Greece's debt mountain
€240bn
European bailout
177% country's debt-to-GDP ratio
25% fall in GDP since 2010
26% Greek unemployment rate
The plan is said to include a demand for Greece's debt to be cut by up to 30%.
What exactly is happening in Greece and why has the country found itself in the current crisis? Here are the key numbers you need to understand what's going on.
The country's total debt amounts to €323bn (£230bn; $356bn), which they owe to various countries and banks within Europe.
Among EU countries, Germany is by far Greece's biggest creditor, followed by France and Italy.
Although other, smaller European countries like Slovenia and Malta have far more to lose when the debt is expressed as a share of the country's GDP.
Since 2010, the Athens government has been reliant on two European Union-International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailouts totalling €240bn.
Greece's last cash injection from international creditors was in August 2014, and when the eurozone agreement ran out on 30 June, the Greek government failed to make a key debt repayment to the IMF of €1.5bn.
While the IMF says Greece is "in arrears", the European Financial Stability Facility - a body established in 2010 to help resolve the eurozone crisis - says that constitutes a default.
Following the referendum, Eurozone finance ministers now say they expect to hear new proposals from Greece.
Critics point out that Greece's problems can be traced back to before it joined the euro in 2001, when it was living beyond its means.
After it adopted the single currency, public spending soared. Public sector wages, for example, rose 50% between 1999 and 2007 - far faster than in most other eurozone countries. The government also ran up big debts paying for the 2004 Athens Olympics.
After years of overspending, the country's budget deficit - the difference between spending and income - spiralled out of control.
Then, when the global financial downturn hit in 2008, and the cost of borrowing money from banks rose hugely, the country was ill-prepared to cope.
Debt levels reached the point where the country was no longer able to repay its loans, and was forced to ask for help from its European partners and the IMF in the form of massive loans.
The conditions attached to these loans have compounded Greece's woes - especially for ordinary people.
Greece's debt to GDP ratio is now the highest in Europe, running at 174% in the final quarter of 2014, according to Eurostat.
The consequences for ordinary people in Greece have included a high rate of unemployment - especially among young people.
And, after the failure of the bailout talks and the European Central Bank's (ECB) decision not to extend emergency funding, the country has been forced to shut its banks and restrict cash withdrawals to €60 (£42; $66) a day.
But now, with Greek banks running out of funds and on the verge of collapse, the ECB has said it is discussing whether to provide further emergency cash support.
Millions of Greeks were given the chance to have their say on whether to accept the terms of the latest international bailout.
A country-wide referendum held on 5 July asked voters if they supported the austerity demands of its creditors, which included raising taxes and slashing welfare spending.
The governing radical-left Syriza party had urged people to vote "No" - arguing the terms were humiliating - while the "Yes" campaign warned that a "No" result could see Greece ejected from the eurozone.
In the end, voters decisively rejected the bailout terms, with 61.3% voting "No" and 38.7% voting "Yes".
Experts suggest there are at least three scenarios after Sunday's "No" vote:


A man has been killed after being hit by a car as he walked along the side of a road in East Lothian.

The 47-year-old was knocked down by a Ford Focus on the A198 at Dirleton near North Berwick at 00:10 and pronounced dead at the scene.
Meanwhile, a man was knocked down by a white Vauxhall Astra van on the A199 at Old Post Road in Tranent at 16:30 on Sunday.
The man sustained a head injury but left the scene before police arrived.
Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses.
The man was described as white, in his early 20s, clean shaven, 5ft 6ins to 5ft 7ins, possibly Eastern European, with short dark hair.
He was wearing a dark hooded top and blue jeans.
In a separate incident, a 36-year-old man has been taken to hospital after being trapped under a lorry on Ferry Road in Edinburgh. The road has been closed while emergency services work at the scene.


About one-third of workers in Clackmannanshire and Dumfries and Galloway will benefit from the national living wage, according to research.

The Resolution Foundation analysis shows the impact of the national living wage will vary considerably across Scotland.
A national living wage of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 and over will be introduced in April.
The UK government said millions of people will enjoy a pay rise.
The study said 500,000 employees in Scotland will be affected overall.
While one-third of employees in Clackmannanshire and Dumfries and Galloway will be affected, just 16% of employees working in Aberdeen are set to benefit.
Edinburgh (17%), Dundee (18%) and Glasgow (19%) are also significantly lower.
While strongly welcoming the new wage floor, the Foundation notes that implementing it will prove a greater challenge in lower-paying areas.
It calls on the Scottish government, the Fair Work Convention, local leaders and businesses across the country to work together to minimise any job losses and ensure large groups of workers do not get stuck earning only the legal minimum.
The Foundation also calls on employers to focus on boosting productivity in retail, hospitality, cleaning and care to ensure the national living wage is affordable for them.
The group states the UK government's new pay structure is not actually a "living wage", and calls for an expansion to the voluntary living wage of £8.25 across the country.
Conor D'Arcy, policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: "The welcome new national living wage will have a huge impact on low pay, particularly towards 2020 as it approaches £9 an hour.
"While our analysis suggests the pay rise should be affordable for most firms, implementing the new wage floor will be challenging for some employers. That's particularly true in areas where wages tend to be lower.
"Politicians must work closely with employers to ensure that the national living wage is a success, particularly in low-paying sectors."
A UK government spokesperson said: "The government is making sure Britain gets a pay rise and that businesses have the skills they need to succeed. We are already seeing record employment rates and real wages growing to levels not seen since the recession.
"As the report itself highlights, workers in some cities will see even bigger benefits, reinforcing our drive to rebalance the economy through the northern powerhouse and the devolution of powers to local government and cities."


Two teenagers have appeared in court following a two-car crash in Edinburgh.

The collision involving a Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 206 took place on Ferry Road Drive shortly before 17:30 on 3 February.
A 53-year-old man was treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
A man aged 19 and a 17-year-old have been charged with several road traffic offences, including theft of a motor vehicle, and theft by housebreaking.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Edinburgh Divisional Road Policing Unit and officers in the north worked together to conduct extensive inquiries in order to trace the suspects.
"As part of Operation RAC, officers from various departments across the capital continue to tackle housebreaking and vehicle theft."


The case against five senior teachers accused of professional misconduct in the so-called "Trojan Horse" inquiry has been dropped.

An independent panel found the integrity of the process had been "called into disrepute".
It said 25 witness statements from a prior inquiry had been "deliberately withheld" from the panel.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) said it would consider the ruling before commenting.
Several schools in Birmingham were investigated amid claims of a Muslim hardliners' plot to control them, known as the Trojan Horse affair, which began in 2014.
The professional conduct panel of the NCTL found its own organisation withheld 25 statements which had been used in an inquiry led by former counter-terror boss Peter Clarke, into the allegations of a plot.
The statements were disclosed at a late stage of the proceedings, the panel said, which was a breach of process and demonstrated a lack of co-operation.
Earlier this year, legal representatives for some of the people whose statements were to be disclosed argued their identities should be protected as agreed when giving evidence to the Clarke report.
But the teachers' lawyers argued the statements should have been disclosed earlier so they could better defend their clients.
The five teachers who had been facing tribunals over alleged professional misconduct are:
The teachers are all worked for the former Park View Trust, a trust which oversaw the running of several schools in Birmingham, including Park View, Golden Hillock and Nansen Primary.
The Clarke inquiry found no evidence of extremism but said "there are a number of people in a position of influence who either espouse, or sympathise with or fail to challenge extremist views".
The inquiry was sparked by the appearance of a letter giving details of an alleged plot to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more Islamic principles.
It stated parents could be encouraged to turn against the leadership team if they were told the school is "corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [carrying out] mixed swimming and sport".
Eventually, the NCTL set up disciplinary hearings against a number of teachers at the schools, accusing them of professional misconduct.
The hearings have been running since 2015.
Lawyers for Monzoor Hussain and Ms Clark issued separate statements saying both parties were relieved the ordeal was over.
"For three years Mr Hussain has been unable to carry out his profession, with all the financial pressures that has caused to his family," a statement said.
Ms Clark's lawyers described the victory as "hollow" as she had fought for a verdict clearing her of any wrongdoing.
An NCTL spokesman said: "The NCTL will carefully consider this latest panel hearing before deciding the next steps in this process."
Teaching union NASUWT said, on behalf of Mr Faraz, that Tuesday's decision raises serious questions about the conduct of the NCTL.


President Obama is hosting a special screening of the Oscar-nominated film Selma at the White House.

The film depicts the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
It is a contender for best picture at next month's Academy Awards, alongside seven other films including Birdman, Boyhood and Grand Budapest Hotel.
Cast and crew, including director Ava DuVernay, are expected to attend the screening on Friday.
The film picked up just two nominations for the Oscars, the second being a nomination for best original song, Glory, by John Legend and Common.
But British actor David Oyelowo missed out on a best actor citation, for his depiction of Martin Luther King, and Ava DuVernay failed to make the cut for best director.
Had she been nominated, DuVernay would have become the first African-American woman   to be nominated in that category.
The Oscar nominations have come under fire from some commentators for their lack of diversity, after it was revealed that all 20 contenders for the acting categories were white.
However, the Academy's first African-American woman president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, told New York magazine's Vulture blog that the organisation does not have a diversity problem "at all".
Family cinema
Previous Oscar contenders to be shown at the White House include last year's Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln in 2012, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln.
The screening will take place in the 40-seat family cinema, part of Obama's private family quarters, according to Variety.
The first movie screened at the White House was in 1915, when Woodrow Wilson hosted a showing of Birth of a Nation.
The Obamas have also screened Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), starring Meryl Streep and He's Just Not That Into You (2009), starring Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore.


Sussex have signed Bangladesh bowler Mustafizur Rahman as their second overseas player for the T20 Blast.

The 20-year-old left-arm seamer has played two Tests, nine one-day internationals and 10 T20s for the national side.
Mustafizur will be available for the whole tournament, subject to his commitments with Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.
He will become the first Bangladesh international to play for Sussex.
"He is a cricketer with incredible ability and is currently one of the bright young talents of world cricket," Sussex head coach Mark Davis said.
"His unorthodox bowling variations make him a very difficult customer to bat against, and he will be a brilliant addition to our team."
Mustafizur, who has taken 27 wickets in 20 T20 matches at an average of 16.11 and has an economy rate of 5.66 runs an over, will also be eligible to play for Sussex in the One-Day Cup.
He is in the Bangladesh squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in India, which begins on 8 March.
Sussex previously signed New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor as their overseas player for the first half of the 2016 season.


Arnold Bennett is probably the most successful and famous British celebrity you've never heard of, unless you've tried the omelette that bears his name.

The dish was invented at London's Savoy Hotel, where this lover of the high life often stayed.
The JK Rowling of his day, his books sold in huge numbers, he was a figure of huge influence in politics and culture, a friend of the newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook, and declined a knighthood after notable service running the French propaganda department for the British government during World War I.
When Bennett lay dying from typhoid in his flat at Chiltern Court above Baker Street station in 1931, London's city authorities laid straw on the streets to dull the noise. It was testament to his status as a great national figure.
Not bad for a pawnbroker's son with a terrible stammer from the grimy Staffordshire potteries' town of Hanley who dreamed of escape.
And that story of social mobility is what makes it all the more remarkable that Bennett's place in literary history is currently so obscure, especially compared to his great friend HG Wells, with whom he shared a fascination for the technological innovations like the cinema and cars that were transforming early 20th-Century life.
Bennett came to London aged 21, originally to be a solicitor's clerk. But after  winning a literary competition he never looked back and never stopped writing; up to half a million words a year.
First he wrote short stories for women's magazines, then novels and more:  He wrote blockbuster film screenplays (Piccadilly 1929) and discussed working with a young Alfred Hitchcock.
He wrote smash hit plays that made him a theatre celebrity. He wrote self-help guides, such as How To Live On 24 Hours A Day (still in print today).
Bennett's most famous novel The Old Wives' Tale is about two sisters one of whom elopes to a scandalous life in France and the other who stays at home running the family draper's shop.
The shop, now empty, that inspired the book still stands in Burslem. It used to belong to Bennett's maternal family. And by coincidence Peter Coates, the millionaire chairman of Stoke City FC started his family's Bet365 business in that very shop.
Coates is one of a significant core of Bennett devotees who believe Bennett deserves rediscovery.
They include novelists Margaret Drabble and Sathnam Sanghera, who transposed the story of The Old Wives' Tale to an Asian corner shop in the 1960s and 70s for his recent novel Marriage Material.
Ask a Bennett admirer like Coates or Sanghera how they first came to read him, and almost always they say it's because someone gave them a book and they were hooked by his great stories and characters.
So why did Britain stop reading Bennett in significant numbers?
Many of his books are short and very readable. One of his funniest novels The Card was made into a much loved film starring Alec Guinness, shot on location in the Potteries.
But that was in 1952. And it was the 70s and 80s when the last major TV serialisations of The Old Wives' Tale and the Clayhanger trilogy were made.
Some fans say he wrote too much, some of it very mediocre. But that still leaves a dozen great novels and collections of short stories.
Many believe the long-term decline was down to the critical trashing of his reputation by Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set of modernist writers which continued after his death in 1931.
Margaret Drabble, who wrote Bennett's biography, believes upper middle class snobbery at a lower class provincial writer was part of it.
But there is also the author's strained relationship with his roots. Bennett's most acclaimed novels were nearly all set in the Potteries that he'd been so desperate to leave.
He hardly ever went back. He turned the real six towns into a fictional five, which still rankles.
And in Clayhanger, Anna of the Five Towns and other books, the Potteries were portrayed as places of oppressive religious conformity, bullying Victorian patriarchs and philistine attitudes to art and literature.
This cryptic entry in Bennett's journal written on 20 October 1927 - nearly 40 years after he left - says it all: "I took the 1205 back to London, which went through the Potteries. The sight of this district gave me a shudder."
These days Stoke-on-Trent is proud of Bennett, but getting his books back onto school reading lists is a challenge.
You can still get an omelette Arnold Bennett at the Savoy Hotel or make one yourself, which is a lot cheaper. But why not try one of its namesake's classic novels instead?
Arnold of the Five Towns, written and presented by Samira Ahmed is on Radio 4 on Monday 23 June at 16:00 BST


The Galashiels branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) has been fined Â£8,000 after a bar worker was seriously injured falling into a cellar.

Ann Cameron, 52, was in hospital for several days after stepping backwards and plunging through the hatch left open by a fellow member of staff.
The accident happened two years ago at the Park Street social club on the day of the town's Braw Lads celebrations.
The RBL branch admitted failing to ensure the safety of an employee.
The incident was captured on the club's CCTV and the footage was shown at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.
Several people were working behind the bar but moments after the hatch was opened, Ms Cameron stepped backwards without looking and fell down it.
The club's lawyer Zoe McDonnell said a verbal warning was given about the hatch being open but could not be heard because the club was so busy.
She added that a risk assessment was in place but was not sufficient in this case.
Ms McDonnell said the club had taken the matter very seriously.
She said: "It was one of the busiest days of the year.  She did not hear the verbal warning.
"The club has made significant efforts since the accident to protect employees.
"The case has served as a clear warning that they must provide a safe environment for employees."
Ms McDonnell explained the club was mainly run by volunteers and had operated at a loss for the past two years.
The club admitted failing to ensure the safety of an employee by leaving a cellar hatch open and having insufficient measures in place to prevent an accident in June 2013.
Sheriff Peter Paterson said it was an obvious breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
He commented: "It was an accident waiting to happen."
However, he took into account the club's guilty plea and responsible attitude in taking steps to prevent a repeat by reducing the fine from Â£12,000 to Â£8,000.


Volkswagen plans to launch 30 all-electric models to reposition itself as a leader in "green" transport.

Matthias Mueller, chief executive of Europe's biggest carmaker, said huge investments would be needed as the firm moves beyond the "dieselgate" scandal.
He hopes that by 2025, all-electric cars would account for about 20-25% of the German carmaker's annual sales.
Latest figures show that sales growth of Volkswagen-branded cars continues to fall behind European rivals.
Outlining what he described as the "key building blocks in the new group strategy", Mr Mueller said VW aimed to "transform its core automotive business or, to put it another way, make a fundamental realignment in readiness for the new age of mobility".
VW will focus on "the most attractive and fastest-growing market segments", he said. "Special emphasis will be place on e-mobility. The group is planning a broad-based initiative in this area: it intends to launch more than 30 purely battery-powered electric vehicles over the next ten years," he said.
VW was plunged into crisis when it was revealed in the US last September that diesel engines had been fitted with software that could distort emissions tests. The company later revealed that some 11 million cars worldwide were affected.
Mr Mueller said VW's transformation would involve investments in the double-digit billions of euros, funded by savings and cost-cuts, with all brands and businesses having to contribute.
He told reporters at VW headquarters, in Wolfsburg: "This will require us - following the serious setback as a result of the diesel issue - to learn from mistakes made, rectify shortcomings and establish a corporate culture that is open, value-driven and rooted in integrity."
The company's components business, spread across 26 plants, will be streamlined, and there will be a focus on cutting sales and administration costs.
On Thursday, car sales data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association suggested that the VW group continues to suffer from the impact of the diesel scandal.
Sales of Volkswagen-branded cars rose 4.1% in May, compared to the same month last year. But that was sluggish when compared to 28.7% growth for Renault and 18.7% growth at PSA Group, owner of Peugeot and Citroen.
Market share for the group, which includes Audi, Skoda, and Seat, for the five months to May, was 23.9%, the lowest for the period since 2011.


Artemis MacAulay Cup holders Kinlochshiel fell at the first hurdle in their defence of the trophy when they lost on penalties to Lovat after 120 goalless minutes at Balmacara.

This was by no means the only shock of this first round, since National Division Fort William ousted 2012 winners, Premiership side Glenurquhart, also on penalties following a 2-2 draw at An Aird.
Elsewhere a winner in the penultimate minute of extra time put Oban Celtic through away to their more fancied National Division colleagues Inveraray, while Kingussie went out 2-0 to Premiership bottom club Lochaber.
Other outcomes were more predictable. Newtonmore won 3-1 on Skye while Oban Camanachd brushed Ballachulish aside 4-0, and Glasgow Mid Argyll progressed 5-1 at Aberdour.
Meanwhile, Kyles went two points clear in the Marine Harvest Premiership with a 3-1 home win over Kilmallie.
Although Lovat and Kinloshshiel are both Premiership teams, Shiel's better recent form, combined with home advantage, meant they were widely tipped to progress, but the 3-2 shootout denied the holders.
Arran MacPhee got Fort off to a great start with the opener but Fraser Heath and James Hurwood had Glen ahead by half time. Then, with just 10 minutes left, MacPhee got the equaliser which sent the tie to extra time, before Fort's 2-0 penalties victory.
At the Winterton, Allan McDonald's hat-trick and one from Ruaridh Graham Junior for cup specialists Inveraray was cancelled out by Lee Askew's opener, one from Daniel Madej and the late saving grace of a Neil Carmichael double for Celtic. This took the game into extra time, in which Daniel MacMillan grabbed the winner in the 119th minute for Celtic in their first season as a national league club.
A Shaun Nicholson brace did the trick for Lochaber as Kingussie failed to score for the third time in four home games this season.
An Andrew McCuish double followed by one each from Daniel MacVicar and Daniel Cameron propelled Oban Camanachd through at Mossfield. Calum McLay's first-half double, split by a Brian Slattery goal, plus one in each half from Craig Anderson, put Mid Argyll 5-0 up before David MacKenzie replied for Aberdour.
Ian Robinson struck first for Newtonmore and Glen MacKintosh made it 2-0 after just nine minutes. However, Skye steadied and James Pringle made it 2-1 on the stroke of half-time before Mackintosh's second rounded it off.
A Robbie MacLeod penalty sent Kyles on their way to the 3-1 victory which extended their 100% Premiership record to five games and opened up a two-point gap over Kinlochshiel. Sandy MacKenzie soon got Kyles' second but Duncan Rodger pulled one back for Kilmallie before Roddy MacDonald put the game to bed.
A 3-0 win for Caberfeidh at Beauly allowed them to narrow Skye's National Division lead to a single point.


A 19-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed in the back on a street in Antrim.

Police said the attack happened in the Dublin Road area of the town at around 20:25 GMT on Monday night.
It was reported that an altercation took place between a number of people in the High Street area.
A family group were then chased on to Dublin Road where they were assaulted, the PSNI said.
It is understood the injured man was part of the family group that was attacked.
Police are appealing for any witnesses who were in the High Street, Dublin Road or Bridge Street areas to come forward.