A scaffolder who had to have his leg and hands amputated after a severe electric shock is no longer in an induced coma.

Jamie Mines, from Frome, was injured at Kendrick Industrial Estate, Swindon, in December.
He was placed in the induced coma while being treated at the intensive care unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
His friend Ian Kennedy said he "is continuing to impress his medical team with his progress".
On Tuesday, he wrote on Facebook: "He is starting to work with the rehabilitation team and is proving very determined."
Mr Kennedy set up a fundraising page with an initial target of £20,000, but after Mr Mines' second hand was amputated, it was raised to £100,000.
So far, well-wishers have donated more than £75,000 to the fund.
Mr Kennedy said Mr Mines "knows how much support he has and has seen a lot of the video messages".
Mr Mines is a semi-professional footballer who plays for Frome Town, Radstock, Larkhall and Paulton football clubs.
He missed his first Christmas with his five-month-old twins Isabella and Savannah as a result of the accident.
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating.


The new US special representative for Ukraine says Washington is actively reviewing whether to send weapons to help those fighting against Russian-backed rebels.

Kurt Volker told the BBC that arming Ukrainian government forces could change Moscow's approach.
He said he did not think the move would be provocative.
Last week, the US State Department urged both sides to observe the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
"Defensive weapons, ones that would allow Ukraine to defend itself, and to take out tanks for example, would actually to help" to stop Russia threatening Ukraine, Mr Volker said in a BBC interview.
"I'm not again predicting where we go on this, that's a matter for further discussion and decision, but I think that argument that it would be provocative to Russia or emboldening of Ukraine is just getting it backwards," he added.
He said success in establishing peace in eastern Ukraine would require what he called a new strategic dialogue with Russia.
Mr Volker is a former US permanent representative to Nato and was appointed to his new role earlier this month.
The UN says more than 10,000 people have died since the eastern Ukraine conflict erupted in April 2014, soon after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. The fighting has displaced more than 1.6 million people.
A ceasefire was agreed in Minsk in February 2015, but its terms are far from being fulfilled.
Last week the Ukrainian military said five of its soldiers died in heavy shelling just north of rebel-held Donetsk.
Three Ukrainian troops also died earlier when a mine blew up, the military said.
The US Department of State called it "the deadliest one-day period in 2017" in the eastern Ukraine conflict.
In a video statement, the department blamed the "Russian-led" rebels for the flare-up.


Burton Albion have announced that Tom Flanagan is to leave the club, despite claiming the defender had "verbally agreed" a new contract.

The 25-year-old made 32 appearances for Burton last season and earned his first Northern Ireland cap against New Zealand on 2 June.
"We are disappointed with his decision," said manager Nigel Clough.
"But, more than that, by the way things have been conducted by the player and agent over the last couple of months."
Flanagan joined Burton in 2015 on a free transfer from MK Dons and helped the club to promotion to the Championship in his first campaign.
"He had an offer shortly after the end of the season and it has dragged on since then," continued Clough.
"Although his agent has had some unfortunate problems to deal with, it wouldn't have gone amiss to keep us informed.
"Eventually, we had everything agreed and Tom was due to sign today (Wednesday) and we got a call when all the paperwork was done saying he wasn't signing.
"That, coming the day before pre-season starts, leaves an unpleasant taste. I had a text from Tom last week saying he wasn't interested in any other offer. What's also disappointing is that we had agreed to all his terms."
BBC Sport has contacted the Professional Footballers' Association for a response to Burton's statement.


DOER Marine, which is based in San Francisco, is a marine technology company that was set up in 1992.

The team there has been taking a slow and steady approach to getting to the world's deepest spot.
A large donation by Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, has been invested in an extensive research and development programme.
And, through a process of peer review, DOER Marine is seeking input from the scientific community so that the vessel will be tailored to their needs.
It is trying to factor in elements that can help researchers, such as a robotic arm that can collect samples.
Liz Taylor, president of DOER Marine, said: "In regard to this race to the deep, our methodology is very different.
"This isn't just a flag-planting exercise, or just to say we've been there and done that - because two guys have already been there and done that.
"We want a craft that can reliably go anywhere in the ocean - be it the deepest point, or anywhere in-between."
With its vessel still at the design stage, DOER Marine says it is some years off making its first dive.


At least nine people, including six policemen, have been killed in a bomb explosion during a raid on a militant hideout in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

More than 13 others were injured, including the local police chief.
Security sources say the blast went off as officers raided an apartment in Giza, near the Pyramids.
The government has tightened security ahead of next week's fifth anniversary of the uprising that removed long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The so-called Islamic State said it was behind the blast, while Egyptian authorities blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement of former President Mohammed Morsi.
"Police had information that a group of Muslim Brotherhood members were preparing to carry out aggressive acts in the coming days using explosives and crude bombs," the interior ministry said on its Facebook page.
"This group was using an apartment in a Cairo building, and on Thursday night the police raided this apartment where they found a number of crude bombs.
"When the bomb squad experts were dealing with one of the bombs, it exploded."
The Brotherhood has denied any involvement in violence and says it is committed to peaceful activism.
One Giza resident, Khaled, said: "When the bomb exploded, it also destroyed parts of the building behind it. We saw a man who was blown up in his bed.
"I then looked at the other side. I found body parts all over the ground."
Another resident, identified as Umm Sameh, whose home was damaged in the blast said: "No-one in the neighbourhood knew that they were terrorists. Had we known, we wouldn't have left them alone.
"The building is still new. The residents have only been here for six months at the most. So, we really didn't know them."


Hundreds of commuters are facing fresh travel disruption in the latest strike by Southern rail workers.

The 48-hour strike comes a day after the RMT union announced there would be six days of strikes in the run-up to Christmas and over the new year.
It coincides with the Lewes Bonfire Night celebrations on Saturday, when no trains will stop in the town or at neighbouring stations after midday.
More action over the role of conductors is planned in the coming weeks.
The current stoppage, which began at midnight, had been due to start on Thursday but was postponed following a request from the British Legion as it clashed with London Poppy Day, where uniformed personnel collected money at Tube and railway stations.
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A bitter row over the introduction of driver-only operated (DOO) trains has led to months of delays and cancellations for passengers, with Southern saying the union had "caused misery and hardship to people's work and family lives".
The RMT has said it was left with "no choice" but to fight to retain a "safety critical" conductor, in addition to the driver, on all services.
RMT members have mounted picket lines at stations including Brighton and London Victoria.
Southern said there would be a restricted service over the two days, with some routes having no trains at all.
"We're sorry to our passengers that we won't be able to provide a full service because of the RMT's pointless and wholly unjustified strike action," the firm's passenger services director, Angie Doll, said.
On Monday, members and supporters of the RMT protested outside the Houses of Parliament.
Announcing strike action over the festive period, RMT general secretary Mick Cash accused Southern and the government of "sheer pig-headedness", meaning members "are being forced to take further industrial action in a bid to maintain a safe and secure service".
A spokesman for Southern said the union had "hit a new low" and was "determined to cancel Christmas for the travelling public".
Two bus companies have stepped in to provide extra services to Lewes on Saturday.
Tom Druitt, from The Big Lemon bus company, said six coaches had been provided, which was "three times more than any other year", but added all the coaches were now sold out.
"That was pretty much all the vehicles we had available once we heard the strike was on," he said.
A spokeswoman for Brighton and Hove buses, which has provided nine extra buses to provide additional services between Brighton and Lewes, said: "There are more services going towards Lewes because we want to make sure any residents get home with no issue."
Mick Symes, from Lewes Bonfire Society, said members were "aghast" when they heard about the rail strike.
"We were expecting 35,000 people to come into Lewes by train, being as it's a Saturday," he said.
"It's a treble whammy. There are no trains, we are relying on the bus companies, and they are not even being allowed into the town."
Lewes District Council has said road closures will be in place around the town and the A26 will also be closed through the Cuilfail Tunnel as part of enhanced security measures.


Two election officials in India have been transferred over apparent mistakes made by an electronic voting machine, media report.

By-elections will be held in the central Madhya Pradesh state next week.
But a test of a voting machine in the state appeared to show it printing out votes for the prime minister's party, regardless of what button was pressed.
The election commission said it was sending more officials from Delhi to oversee the vote.
The problem was spotted in a video widely circulated on social media in India last week.
It showed a mandatory test of a Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine, which dispenses a slip of paper with the symbol of the party the voter selected.
In the test, the image representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was printed on every slip.
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A spokesman for India's election commission said it had requested "a detailed report" from the district election officer and that it would send two teams, headed by senior officials, to Madhya Pradesh. They will stay until the final votes of the 9 April by-election are counted.
Indian media reported that one election official and a senior police officer in the state's Bindh district, where the video was filmed, had been transferred. The move has not been confirmed by the election commission.
The Times of India newspaper said demonstrators had gathered on Sunday to protest against the decision to remove staff.
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), told media he had not trusted electronic voting machines "from the start". "When the whole world is using ballot paper for elections, then what objection should we have?" he said on Saturday.
The security of the voting machines has long been a matter of debate. In a 2010 report, a group of Indian computer security experts said the machines were vulnerable to fraud, but a high court ruling two years later stated they were not.


Hundreds of man-made caves dating back as far as the 9th Century lie waiting to be discovered underneath Nottingham, the city's archaeologist has said.

The caves, which were used as dungeons, bomb shelters and homes, number about 800.
Scott Lomax uncovered his 152nd new cave in the city in just 12 months last week.
Nottingham is built on soft sandstone making it easier to dig into, but strong enough for structural stability.
Sonic Barbers, in Derby Road, has a 200-year-old cave below its cellar.  It can be accessed through a hatch and was most likely used as a medicine store, Mr Lomax said.
"[The cave] would have served the people who lived here," he added.
"Either side are what we call rock cut thralls, which are benches on which goods were kept, essentially shelves.
"We had no record of this until a few days ago."
He said that while some people were aware of caves underneath their property, many had not been officially recorded.
The cave, which is about 2m (6.5ft) in height and about the same in diameter, had been partially filled with rubble, preventing safe access into the chamber.
Mr Lomax, who is Nottingham City Council's archaeological adviser, said it was a "real shame" many caves had been used to dispose of rubbish.
However, he said there were many caves beneath Nottingham still waiting to be found.
"There's probably hundreds more of these caves under people's shops, houses... there's barely a day goes by that somebody lets me know about a cave in the city.
"I never know what to expect, there's another piece of the jigsaw everyday."
Derby Road has become a hotbed for caves and, while new ones are being found regularly, one spacious cave is the setting for a pub's restaurant.


Approval for fracking in North Yorkshire has raised the prospect of the controversial technique being allowed at other sites and restarted an intense debate.

Councillors in North Yorkshire on Monday voted to allow fracking near the village of Kirby Misperton.
The decision, greeted by jeers, has been called a "victory for pragmatism" by those in favour.
It is the first application approved since 2011.
Fracking is a way of extracting oil or gas from rocks by pumping liquid into them at high pressure.
New licences for the technique, seen by the government as crucial for future energy needs, had been stalled since 2011 after tests on the Fylde coast, in Lancashire, were found to have been the probable cause of minor earthquakes in the area.
Two applications to frack at Roseacre Wood and Little Plumpton in Lancashire were rejected by councillors and are now the subject of appeals.
The county council rejected both planning applications last year on the grounds of noise and traffic impact.
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Other areas of concern for those opposed include fears that the technique can contaminate the water supply.
The application to drill was granted to the UK firm Third Energy to frack for shale gas at an existing drilling site using an existing two-mile deep well - called KM8 - drilled in 2013.
Chief executive Rasik Valand said the company now had a "huge responsibility" to deliver on its commitment "to undertake this operation safely and without impacting on the local environment."
Hundreds of protesters attended a meeting in Northallerton to voice anger at the project, which had been recommended for approval.
The council's planning committee voted seven to four in favour. Anti-fracking campaigners are now considering a possible legal challenge.
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A number of objections from people opposed to the plans were heard over the course of two days prior to the decision.
Supporters including landowners, farmers and Third Energy employees also had their say.
Campaign group Frack Off has warned the plans could pave the way for thousands of fracking wells to spread across Yorkshire and many other parts of the country.
Industry body UK Onshore Oil and Gas said it was an important first step for frackers, an industry which attracts fierce local opposition whenever a site is chosen for fracking but which has strong government backing.
The government has said it is going "all out for shale" to boost energy security and the economy.
Professor Paul Ekins,  professor of resources and environmental policy at University College London, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the decision was a "political watershed".
He said there were still planning conditions that the company would have to comply with, so fracking at the site would not start immediately.
While campaigners fear this decision will open up fracking elsewhere in England it's not clear that it sets a legal precedent.
Planning applications have to be decided upon their individual merits.
Cuadrilla's plans for Lancashire, which were rejected by councillors, involve months of drilling and fracking at two green field sites.
But this plan involves an existing well, so no drilling is required.  The entire operation will be over in eight weeks. The site has also been producing gas since the 1990's. Overall there was less to object to.
But local councillors facing these decisions in future will be able to say they didn't kick-start fracking, they can point to the Conservative majority led planning committee in North Yorkshire.
Opponents are exploring whether or not the move can be blocked.
Friends of the Earth called the decision a "travesty" and will see if the move can be challenged.
Greenpeace accused the government of having a "pro-fracking bias", which they said made the outcome inevitable.
Craig Bennett chief executive of Friends of the Earth told the Today programme: "In 2016 we should not be building new oil and gas structures, we should be moving away from oil and gas as fast as possible."
Ken Cronin chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas  said it was the right thing to move towards renewable energy but it could not happen overnight. He also said that whatever the type of energy the country attempted to produce there were local planning objectors: "The situation is that in the UK we have a problem whether it's wind or shale. Getting through the planning system involves a number of objectors."


As the Trump administration careened past its first six months in office the swirl of speculation about an imminent "Rexit" prompted the Secretary of State to publicly deny that he was about to quit.

Personally I don't think he is a quitter, but it's been a rough ride for both Rex Tillerson and the State Department.
Every transition between administrations has a bumpy period of adjustment amidst tussles over who's controlling policy. The difference this time is the fear that the State Department's becoming irrelevant.
And it's common when secretaries of state first enter the job for career officers to complain that new bosses are aloof and their staff insular.
The difference this time is that the former Exxon chief executive actually sold himself well on the shop floor: he was welcomed on day one as the acceptable face of the Trump administration by employees who wanted him to succeed.
But many have since grown disillusioned and demoralised.
The environment is "toxic", says Nancy McEldowney, the director of the Foreign Service Institute, who retired early last month because "the situation had become untenable".
This week the secretary publicly defended himself in front of the State Department press corps. It was a decent performance.
However, in the minds of people who care about US foreign policy, it was way overdue. He declared that his busy schedule responding to the world's conflicts and threats demonstrated the building was "hardly hollowed out".
But it is definitely much quieter than usual as Tillerson navigates the steep learning curve from corporate executive to top diplomat in a chaotic political climate.
He is accustomed to a highly structured, disciplined environment where the buck stops with him. "I was the ultimate decision maker (at Exxon)," he said recently, "that always makes life easier."
But that is never the case in government, and particularly not in this one.
President Trump has delegated key foreign policy portfolios to close White House aides. His erratic tweets and statements have at times contradicted and apparently undermined the secretary, reinforcing the impression that Tillerson is not in control of his brief.
One of his senior advisers, RC Hammond, told me the president's tweeting can create new levers of diplomatic pressure. But Tillerson himself has likened it to one of the many unexpected elements of his universe to which he adapts.
"It's just like dealing with dynamic situations in my old CEO role," he's said. "You try to accommodate what's changing and still move."
This has not, it seems, affected his "comfortable" and "open" relationship with the president, who calls him any time of the day, night or weekend.
Tillerson says they speak candidly about their differences, but the secretary's voice is one among many.  He failed to persuade the president to stay in the Paris Climate Accord, and will struggle to convince him to stick with the Iran nuclear agreement.
When it comes to the State Department, Tillerson's been saddled with a proposed budget cut so draconian that even Congress isn't taking it seriously, from an administration that has demonstrated it values the military over diplomacy.
This, combined with an Executive Order demanding a streamlining of government agencies, has created a climate of insecurity and low morale.
"If you have the wheels cut out from under you, and you're competing with a shadow State Department in the White House, it's hard to come into the office in the morning," one official here told me.
The result is a crisis in human resources that's damaging the department's ability to do its job.
Most of the top positions crucial for shaping America's engagement with the world remain unfilled. The slow pace of senior political appointments is a problem across the administration that has deeply frustrated Tillerson, who's admitted that he has "a lot of open slots".
At the lower level hiring is largely on hold due to the pending budget cuts and department reorganisation. Tillerson has maintained an indefinite hiring freeze, he's suspended prestigious fellowship programmes that recruit top talent and stopped job transfers between bureaux.
There's also been an exodus of career officers who've served for decades, some of them abruptly dismissed from their assignments with very short notice.
"That's a mistake," says Daniel Fried, a veteran ambassador who retired in February. "Once you start throwing away people, that's the basic capital, you can't replace them."
McEldowney says many of her colleagues were devastated by Tillerson's take on "America First": he interpreted it as separating the country's interests from its values.
His political aides, she says, don't trust career officers who are asking how budget cuts and staff reductions will affect US policy.
This contributes to a centralised and isolated decision making process that is slowing down work. And the secretary, she says, has failed to establish effective lines of dialogue with much of the building.
"Normally after a transition the concepts of us and them blur and give way to a genuine team," says McEldowney.
"People are beseeching Tillerson and team to trust and empower the career people and it's falling largely on deaf ears. We were told to get with the programme and quit grousing."
All of which leaves people wondering whether the reorganisation will be a merger that eventually does create a genuine team, or a hostile takeover.
Tillerson believes it's the former. He says he's consulting from the ground up and letting the employees lead the effort to redesign the department. And in the end, he vows, whether it takes changes in law or resource allocation, "I'll darn sure go to bat for you and see what we can do."
About half of the department's 75,000 staff members took part in an initial survey. They offered suggestions for a tune-up such as improving poor technology and eliminating overlapping or redundant functions.
But the corporate buzzwords used by the outside consultants conducting the exercise reinforced concerns that Tillerson and company were bringing in bean counters to assess something difficult to quantify. Unlike the economy or the military, it's difficult to apply metrics to foreign policy, to always show a concrete return on investment.
"People question if [the Trump administration and Tillerson's leadership] understand the role the Department of State plays in forwarding the interests of the United States in the world," one report says.
Given the timeline, these doubts could grow: the project is expected to run well into 2018. In the business world any new boss who wants to carry out radical change is advised to do so quickly. Drawing out the process fuels leaks and rumours and stokes uncertainties. People with better prospects drift away.
The danger in that scenario is a slow unravelling rather than a dramatic gutting of the institution.
In such circumstances, clear communication is crucial. Whatever the reality, the perception is of a State Department adrift, which means the secretary's message is not echoing through the department, never mind the world outside.
To some degree that may reflect a lack of coherence in the administration as a whole, but Tillerson and his team could do a better job of selling the man and his mission, says Fried.
"You've got to work to have people internalise your vision, that's how you lead."
The addition of a spokesperson is a step in the right direction. Tillerson has also evolved from an initial aversion to media and begun holding news conferences, showing himself to be comfortable and adept at doing so.
This week he gave a round-up of his hands-on, shoe-leather diplomacy aimed at trying to tighten the isolation of North Korea, salvage a relationship with Russia, ease the Qatar crisis, and inject greater US input into shaping a solution to the Ukraine conflict - Fried has called his personnel appointments on this last issue "A-grade".
Tillerson also made a point of demonstrating that he is relying on expertise in the building, calling out by name a list of career diplomats who've been working closely with him on these issues. But in effect he told employees who are unhappy with the transition to get with the programme and quit complaining, suggesting the problem was that they were unwilling to carry out the policies of the Trump administration.
The secretary of state is hopeful there will be an uptick in morale as the redesign moves forward.
We shall see.
I'm guessing he'll hang on at least until that's done.


Barry Hawkins said the key to beating Ronnie O'Sullivan for just the second time in his career was trying to forget who he was playing.

The world number 11 won a gripping World Championship second-round tie in a deciding frame to reach the last eight for the fourth successive year.
Hawkins was trounced 10-1 by O'Sullivan in the Masters final in January.
"I prepared myself better. In the Masters I let the occasion get to me," said the 36-year-old.
"I played him more than I played the balls. I just crumbled in the end.
"I had a different mindset. I felt a little bit more confident for some reason. I thought I put him under a bit of pressure. If he gets in front of you he can steamroll you. I am absolutely delighted."
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The London-born, Kent-based left hander, who faces Marco Fu in the quarter-finals, had not beaten five-time world champion O'Sullivan in 14 years.
His only previous win in 11 meetings came in their first match in 2002 and Hawkins said he could get "bashed up" by O'Sullivan if he did not play his best snooker.
The 2013 runner-up allayed those fears by taking a two-frame advantage into the final session in a high-quality encounter.
He edged over the line in the final frame and described his 13-12 victory as "one of the best" of his career.
"It's so tough playing Ronnie; he is so intimidating," Hawkins added. "Not many people can beat him over three sessions at this place. It doesn't happen that often.
"To do it when I thought he was playing well is a massive confidence boost and it proves I can compete against anyone."
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Two men are being sought by detectives investigating the murder of a man who was found stabbed at a flat in Southampton.

The body of 49-year-old Michael Freshwater was discovered in Westridge Road on 29 April.
Police said they wanted to trace Tristan Pope, 23, and Kevin Suika, 21, in connection with the murder.
They are believed to be from London but have contacts in Southampton and the South East.
Eleven arrests have been made in connection with Mr Freshwater's death.
Ashton Singh, 26, charged with perverting the course of justice, appeared at the city's magistrates' court on 3 May and was remanded in custody.


Councillors have voted to not go ahead with The Gathering Place, a see-saw-like arts installation that was planned for Inverness.

Highland Council's city of Inverness committee voted 10 votes to seven, with one abstention, to reject the project.
The installation, described as a tilting pier, was to be located outside Eden Court Theatre near the River Ness.
It had been proposed that The Gathering Place, which would cost more than £300,000, gently tilt up and down.
Councillors who voted against the project want to see other, lower cost, arts projects proposed for the city's riverside to be progressed.
Inverness provost Helen Carmichael said she had hoped The Gathering Place would be built.
She said: "I am naturally very disappointed in the decision today to abandon this keystone piece in the Inverness Arts Programme.
"The working group was asked to take forward this project and at every stage committee members agreed the progress.
"It is unfortunate that members felt today that they should be swayed by the views of a small vocal number of critics, rather than represent the silent majority and in particular, the support of many stakeholders in the business community and the views of young people who told us they wanted Inverness to be seen as a modern cultural city."
She added: "This decision will have significant financial consequences, which will mean a loss of some £75,000 already committed to this project. The group will now have to go back to our funding partners, Creative Scotland and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, to explore whether or not their funding contribution, which was dependent on The Gathering Place, can be put towards another project.
"As we made clear from the outset, these funds were never able to be used for council services such as filling potholes."
The Gathering Place is an artistic collaboration between arts and design company Sans façon and the creative studio KHBT.
It would form part of the £758,350 River Ness Art Project, which Creative Scotland would contribute £305,600 towards.
Other contributions of £280,750 would come from the City of Inverness Common Good Fund, £106,000 from Highland Council and £66,000 from Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
The Gathering Place has had its up and downs.
Earlier this year, Highland councillor Ken Gowans quit as chairman of Inverness City Arts Working Group saying he did not believe The Gathering Place to be a viable concept.
There was opposition to the pier during public consultation on the project and more than 2,000 people signed a petition urging Highland Council not to push ahead with it.
Following the vote, Mr Gowans there were concerns a tilting pier would become the scene of anti-social behaviour.
He said: "The effect on the area around Eden Court was very controversial.
"There were concerns from the public that it may attract some unruly elements, but also that it was very close to the hospice."


A hospital accused of "fiddling" its waiting lists to meet targets has admitted it "filtered data".

Whistleblower David Phelan claimed patients were removed from lists at Kettering General Hospital because national targets were being missed.
The hospital said it used data filtering to get a "true picture of the size of its waiting list" but the practice had stopped in December 2015.
It said its data management had been "well intended, if misguided".
It has not provided figures for the impact the filtering practice had on waiting lists.
The hospital denied it was trying to seek any "financial advantage" from its actions, which emerged following a BBC investigation.
It also acknowledged that a new system it implemented in March 2016 and dropped in May 2017 had been "flawed".
The system suggested 25,000 patients had been on the waiting list for more than 52 weeks, but following a validation process a year later it emerged that 283 patients had been waiting more than 52 weeks.
Of those patients, two experienced "moderate harm", which meant their condition had deteriorated, the hospital said, and 136 had experienced "low level harm", where their symptoms continued for longer.
The hospital's medical director Dr Andrew Chilton said: "Our systems and working practices were historically inadequate but have now been extensively reformed and brought up to date.
"Our historic handling of waiting times - while inadequate - was well-intentioned and there is no evidence of fraud whatsoever."
Former governor Mr Phelan, who stepped down in June, claimed the trust manipulated the figures to avoid being fined for patients waiting longer than 52 weeks.
The NHS regulator can fine trusts for breaches of waiting times per patient.
Dr Chilton said "data filtering" was used to remove patients who were not part of the dataset measured by national referral to treatment time pathways.
He said it was done so the hospital could establish the true size of its waiting list to plan resources and activity accordingly.
The hospital said it aimed to meet the 18-week NHS waiting list target by 2018.


At a secret location in Chandigarh, a special meeting is taking place.

Women from all over Punjab have travelled to the capital to seek help from Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia - the head of a charity for women abandoned by their foreign-national husbands.
Ms Ramoowalia estimates there are more than 15,000 women across the state, who are in this situation.
She sees around 15 abandoned wives a month and says the numbers are increasing.
"I see a lot of beautiful, educated women. They are in a mess," she told BBC Inside Out.
"They are ashamed to live in a society as an abandoned wife. I believe this is a big violation of human rights."
Their husbands come from all over the world, but mainly countries with a large South Asian diaspora, like the UK, the US and Canada.
The women agree to the marriages in the hope of embarking on a better life abroad.
But for many of their grooms, the motivation is money rather than love.
A third of the men are believed to be from Britain.
Ms Ramoowalia said: "He (the groom) comes here and he asks for a massive dowry.
"They marry. He takes the money and enjoys the honeymoon. Then he never comes back."
In India, it is customary for the bride's family to give money or gifts to the groom, despite the practice being outlawed in 1961. The dowries often amount to tens of thousands of pounds.
One of the women at the secret meeting has travelled from a rural village on the outskirts of Punjab.
Kamaljit Kaur married a man from Italy three years ago. But just months after their wedding, he left her.
She was pregnant with his child at the time.
"Soon after we got married…he started complaining about the dowry. He said my family isn't happy with you."
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Kamaljit's husband eventually left the family home and returned to Italy. She hasn't seen him since.
Their baby daughter was born with serious health problems - but her in-laws refused to help.
"They said the baby is born disabled. We don't want anything to do with her. Our relations are over."
Sadly, Kamaljit's baby died months later. Her husband did not contact her.
Divorcing a foreign national in India is an extremely complex and expensive process.
Often the women's families are also adversely affected.
Darshan's daughter got married back in 1997, but they're still waiting for closure.
"He didn't say anything until he was leaving. He said I'm married abroad. I have a son and a daughter so I can't take your daughter. Do whatever you want.
"We took legal action. I've been trapped in this mess for 16 years."
Daljit Kaur is a lawyer for the Non-Resident Indian Commission of Punjab, which deals with legal cases against foreign nationals.
She said: "Our legal system is a bit slow and it will take years to get a decision.
"There are a number of difficulties… and moreover these girls don't have the money to pay for the legal system."
Back under the baking sun of Chandigarh, Amonjot Kaur Ramoowalia is giving advice to dozens of women in this exact situation.
But the assistance she can offer is limited. Whilst abandonment is considered a crime in India, once a foreign national leaves the jurisdiction it's extremely difficult to prosecute him.
She says some of the stories she hears are utterly appalling.
"One girl got married. He raped her in a systematic way and left her with a child.  There's no strong law you can follow.
"She had to live the rest of her life, with the shame of being an abandoned wife."
Ms Ramoowalia says other countries should be aware of the actions of their citizens and co-operate with the Indian government in holding them accountable.
In the meantime, the abandoned wives of India face a life in limbo.


Wales' top two universities lost ground in the latest higher education league table - with their Welsh rivals enjoying mixed results.

While Cardiff University remained the best-placed Welsh university in the annual Complete University Guide, it fell from 23rd place last year to 31st.
Swansea University fell three places to 45th.
However, Bangor climbed six spots to 58th and Cardiff Metropolitan moved up 19 spots to 79th.
With Cardiff Metropolitan being Wales' most improved institution on the list, its deputy vice-chancellor, Jacqui Hare, said the university was "really proud".
"The increase in our position in this independent ranking reflects our significant investment in the student experience here at Cardiff Met," she added.
The guide, which has been running since 2008, uses 10 measures to rank the top 125 universities across the UK.
It rates them all on entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality and graduate prospects, among other criteria.
Aberystwyth University maintained its 87th place ranking from last year, while University of South Wales fell from 100th to 102nd and Wrexham-based Glyndwr University dropped 13 places to 123rd.
The merged University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, which had been unranked since 2013, fought its way into the list at 125th.
The top three was unchanged from last year, with Cambridge University first, Oxford second and the London School of Economics third.
This year's Complete University Guide suggested Welsh universities have the highest student-staff ratios of any UK nation at just over 19 students per member of staff, compared to the UK average of 17.
It is one of several guides ranking the best institutions, with the latest Times Higher Education world university rankings due out on Wednesday.
Other barometers include the Research Excellence Framework, which rated almost a third of research by Welsh universities as being of "world-leading" quality when it was last released in December 2014.


A confrontation occurred between Indian and Chinese soldiers along a disputed border in the western Himalayas, Indian officials said on Tuesday.

The PTI news agency said soldiers threw stones, causing minor injuries to both sides, as Chinese troops tried to enter Indian territory near the Pangong lake.
Beijing maintains that their soldiers were inside Chinese territory.
The two countries are also locked in an impasse in the Doklam area, which borders China, India and Bhutan.
PTI quoted army officials as saying that in the latest confrontation, soldiers had to form a human chain to prevent an incursion by Chinese forces into territories claimed by India and located near the country's Ladakh region. China claims the territories as its own.
An Indian official told the BBC that he could neither confirm nor deny media reports, but said "such incidents do happen," adding that "this isn't the first time that something like this has happened."
China's foreign ministry said in an official statement that "the Indian side must immediately and unconditionally withdraw all personnel and equipment from the Chinese soil", while reiterating that its troops had been inside Chinese territory when the confrontation took place.
An official statement from India's foreign ministry said that "there is no commonly delineated Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the border areas between India and China."
It added that differences in perception of the LAC have caused situations on the ground that could have been avoided if there was a consensus on the border lines.
The latest skirmish occurred even as the two armies continued a two-month stand-off further east, near a plateau known as Doklam in India and Donglang in China.
Since the confrontation began in June, each side has reinforced its troops and called on the other to retreat.
The two nations fought a war over the border in 1962 and disputes remain unresolved in several areas, which causes tensions to escalate from time to time.


The goal of universal primary education, a promise broken for decades, can be achieved in the next seven years, says Sheikha Moza bint Nasser.

The senior member of the Qatari royal family and education campaigner wants to galvanise the international community to provide education for 58 million children around the world without access to school.
World leaders made a millennium pledge this would be reached by 2015 - but this deadline is almost certain to be missed.
The target is likely to slip back to 2030. But Sheikha Moza, married to the former ruler, and mother of the current ruler of the wealthy Gulf state, says it could be reached in half that time.
It might be a case of royals not wanting to be kept waiting, but she calls for a much greater sense of urgency.
"It can be achieved. But we really need people to commit themselves. We need politicians to understand the power of education for their own countries, for their economies. It should not be seen as a luxury. It is essential."
But how is this going to happen?
Sheikha Moza has a seat on high-powered UN education committees, but she can also harness the formidable financial resources of oil and gas-rich Qatar.
She has launched her own campaign, Education Above All, which aims to get an extra 10 million children into school at a cost of about $1bn (Â£630m) with about a third of this coming from Qatar.
But why is education such a passion? Not just for Sheikha Moza, but for Qatar? The Gulf state funds a huge range of projects in more than 30 countries, often in places with no apparent strategic interest. Half of the country's overseas aid budget goes on education, which must surely be the highest proportion in the world.
The conventional wisdom is that Qatar's educational largesse is a form of soft power, exerting influence through culture and learning.
But Sheikha Moza, speaking in Doha at the annual Wise education summit, rejects this.
"I never thought about it like that. People always think that you should link your foreign aid with your national interests. Does it need to be always like this? I don't see it this way. I see it as a global responsibility towards others."
The country's initial push for education was entirely practical, she says. Qatar needed to plan for a time when the oil and gas runs out - and that meant building an education system to support a different type of modern, knowledge-based economy.
"My intention was to build a strong, solid infrastructure for research and development. To do that, Qatar needed a stronger education system."
Sheikha Moza is chairwoman of the Qatar Foundation which took on the epic task of creating a higher education system from scratch. There are now nine universities on a huge Education City campus, built in partnership with US, French and UK institutions.
It might have become a meeting point for west and east, with Qatar a country at the global crossroads, but it wasn't intended that way, she says. It was about building up education as an insurance policy for when the money runs out.
"It wasn't planned to be like this, to be frank with you. We didn't design our education to be a bridge between different cultures... We were thinking inward."
But there is now an outward ambition. Often in the unlikeliest of places.
Many children without schools are caught up in conflict and she is campaigning for refugees, who might spend many years in "temporary" camps, to have better access to education.
She has visited camps in Turkey and Kenya, saying that families might have "lost their dignity, their pride, their possessions, their homes", but they should not lose their chance of an education.
"It makes me angry and frustrated because we can do something about it. I think this is a result of our negligence. I think people are preoccupied with other things they feel are more important. But these are human beings, they deserve some quality of living."
She is now working with the UNHCR on integrating education into refugee camps.
"Until now, the priorities have been shelter first and food second and the rest can come later. I think these kids need education. I sat with the parents, they know the importance of education for their kids.
"But they are faced with daily obstacles. Some cannot send their girls to school because there was no electricity. Children have to walk miles to reach the schools. During their journey they might be kidnapped or attacked. It's a horrible situation."
The highlighting of attacks on education is another below-the-radar offshoot of Qatari funding.
The abductions of schoolgirls in Nigeria - and the suicide attack this week on a school - have drawn attention to the deliberate targeting of education.
But the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack has been painstakingly tracking this grim phenomenon, recording 10,000 acts of violence against teachers and pupils.
Sheikha Moza doesn't accept that such attacks are about a "clash of cultures" or an ideological "clash of civilisations", but a side-effect of conflict and war. The challenge, she argues, is to stop it and Qatar has promoted the idea at the United Nations of criminalising acts of violence against education.
"We succeeded in achieving this. But the thing is that there is no enforcement of such resolutions. So people still attack schools."
If Boko Haram is trying to disrupt education for girls, the Wise Prize, awarded by this conservative Islamic country, has supported a charity fighting for equal access for girls in education.
The winner, Ann Cotton, founded Camfed, which works in five African countries to help more girls stay in secondary and higher education.
In terms of discrimination against girls, Sheikha Moza says: "Of course, girls need to be educated in the same way that boys need to be educated."
There is no escaping the contradictions in Qatar. It is a deeply traditional country, with a strong Islamic identity. But it's also a place of restless change, filled with modern technology, importing ideas and cultures, with a skyline in a constant state of re-invention.
It occupies a peninsula jutting out into the Persian Gulf, like a small hand holding something expensive, with Saudi Arabia on one side and Iran just across the water. The Qataris have faced accusations over the funding of extremists in Syria, but they also play host to a major US airbase.
Can education be a way of tackling intolerance?
Education can "open minds" and overcome ignorance, she says. But there's a tougher message too.
"The word 'peace' has been overused to the extent where it can carry no meaning. I think that education can help people reach the notion of co-existence. We don't need to love each other, but we need to understand that we live with each other. We have to co-exist."
She says that Qatar's education drive has to find a balance between embracing globalisation and protecting their own local identity.
"Sometimes globalisation can delete one's identity. But we try to preserve both."
So what do you give to the woman who has everything? In this case, it seems the answer is a better education system.


Morrisons, the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain, has reported rising sales and profits as its turnaround strategy continues to bring results.

After taking out one-off costs, profits jumped 11.6% last year to Â£337m, the first increase for five years.
Like-for-like sales grew 1.7%, while total revenue rose 1.2% to Â£16.3bn despite recent store closures.
Morrisons, which is now the fastest-growing big four supermarket, said it was confident of improving further.
It warned, though, of "uncertainties" ahead, particularly of price rises of imported food if sterling stays at lower levels.
The pound fell sharply after the Brexit vote last summer, leaving retailers with the choice of raising prices or seeing their profits squeezed.
The supermarket said other pressures on costs included its pension scheme, which is currently in surplus, and higher staff pay. It said it would "continue to invest in colleague pay rates".
Morrisons has been in the throes of a reorganisation for the past two years, led by chief executive David Potts, who took over the running of the business from Dalton Phillips in February 2015.
Changes have included pulling out of running smaller convenience stores under the M name, as well as a focus on cutting prices.
The company said its Price Crunch initiative had encouraged more customer visits.
It has recently also formed a tie-up with Amazon and invested in its range of "premium" products.
Mr Potts said: "Our turnaround has just started, and we have more plans and important work ahead."


More than half of kids don't eat a single portion of vegetables a day, according to Newsround's food survey.

The government recommends that everyone should have at least five portions of fruit and veg a day.
But the survey shows 52 in every 100 kids don't have any veg, and 44 in 100 have no fruit on a daily basis.
What we're eating is a big issue at the moment because one in three kids in the UK is obese or overweight.
That figure has trebled in the last 25 years.
The survey was of 1,432 boys and girls, aged 7 to 12, across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also showed that lots of kids are trying to make positive changes to their diet.
It suggested that eight in 10 children have made changes like drinking more water and eating more fruit and vegetables in the last years.
All this week Newsround will be looking at what different types of food do to your body and how to eat a healthy diet.
We've also called in food expert Dr Radha Modgil to explain why certain things are good and bad for you.
Dr Radha says: "It's important for kids to have a balanced diet. No one is saying that you can't have sweets or chocolate every now and again but if you're having those things every day it is going to affect your body."
"The body needs all kinds of things when you're growing up and it's so important for kids not to overload on sugary, fatty snacks."
Get ideas for some simple, healthy and delicious things to cook for yourself, your family and your mates with BBC Dish Up.
Go to the BBC Dish Up website


It is a gift to newspaper cartoonists and headline writers - and a PR gamble for the UK prime minister.

Theresa May visits President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday, as he basks in the glow of election success and she recovers from a gruelling setback at the polls.
He faced down the French establishment to secure a landslide presidential win and topped it off on Sunday with a commanding first-round lead in parliamentary elections.
Mrs May faced calls to resign after her parliamentary majority was wiped out in Thursday's general election.
Heading abroad for some international wheeler-dealing is "a classic move to shore up authority at home," one analyst told AFP news agency.
Their contrasting electoral fortunes are too glaring for observers to ignore, and some drew attention to some uncomfortable moments in history.
"This, Madame May, is victory," the French president tells his visitor as they pass crowds of his cheering supporters, in a cartoon by Patrick Blower in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
French newspaper LibÃ©ration could not resist pointing out that another embattled UK Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was on a visit to Paris in 1990 when a party vote triggered her downfall.
Some commentators compare their fortunes - or misfortunes - when it comes to Brexit.
In the FT, a Ferguson cartoon depicts the two leaders at tennis - Mr Macron serving with an enormous EU-flag-themed tennis racket to the prime minister's undersized racket.
But the accompanying article is deadly serious - headlined "Emmanuel Macron will offer no mercy to Theresa May". Far from "helping Britain get off the hook of a hard Brexit", argues Gideon Rachman, "for President Macron, Brexit is looking increasingly like a historic opportunity rather than a cause for regret".
"It is advantage France," the article concludes.
That perspective is shared by the editorial director of The Economist Intelligence Unit.
France's new leader may not entirely have the upper hand. He may be heading for a landslide in parliament but it is on the back of a record low turnout, attributed to a sense of resignation among his opponents.
Polls suggest he will win upwards of 400 seats in France's 577-seat National Assembly. But his party did win a smaller share of the popular vote than Theresa May's Conservatives.
So when the two leaders sit down to a working dinner there will be plenty on the menu, not least their plans for social media companies to face fines if they fail to remove extremist material.
They share the same preoccupations, in the wake of a series of horrifying Islamist militant attacks on both sides of the Channel. Most recently, 22 people died in a suicide attack in Manchester and eight were murdered at London Bridge, including three French nationals.
Four days after Paris came under attack by jihadists in November 2015, Wembley stadium gave a rousing rendition of the Marseillaise ahead of an international friendly between England and France.
That honour will be returned at the Stade de France when the two footballing nations meet again, watched by President Macron and the UK prime minister.
The Oasis song "Don't Look Back in Anger" will be played as the players emerge, while unusually the UK national anthem will be played last and the words displayed to encourage all fans to sing along.
Not everything can be planned and choreographed, though. Mrs May will be anxious to avoid any own goals from England's defence that might leave France's trademark cockerel crowing.


Scotland's politicians are campaigning about women's issues, tax rates and active travel with 12 days to go until the Holyrood election.

The SNP said they would make Scotland a fairer place for female workers.
Labour said their government would be "Scotland's greenest ever", while the Lib Dems pledged to increase the active travel budget by Â£20m.
The Scottish Conservatives warned about the potential impact of higher income tax rates.
The politicans campaigned as thousands of cyclists took part in mass bike rides in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
The Edinburgh event, Pedal on Parliament, was billed as Scotland's largest demonstration for safer streets.
Nicola Sturgeon launched the SNP's manifesto commitments on women and gender equality at an event in Glasgow.
She said: "We will double free childcare to help parents return to work, and we will increase the numbers of people earning the living wage - helping many women on low pay.
"Women are increasingly visible in public life - but we want to break down barriers even further and ensure that women have equal opportunities and receive equal pay for their work.
"We'll take action to increase women's representation, to support female entrepreneurs and put pressure on any local authorities that are yet to settle outstanding equal pay claims."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said a Labour Scottish government would be Scotland's "greenest government ever".
She said: "With the party's promise to ban fracking and overhaul Scotland's public transport system, we are going much further than the SNP ever will to tackle climate change.
"Under the SNP only 30% of us are commuting to work by public transport, walking and cycling - a figure that hasn't shifted in a decade.
"With our plans to regulate bus services, introduce a single payment on public transport and invest in cycling we will deliver a culture change in the way people travel across Scotland."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson visited Dumfriesshire to discuss the potential impact of higher income tax rates imposed by Holyrood.
She said: "The south of Scotland would be hardest hit - why would firms choose to set up just north of the border when a few miles further south would give their employees a better deal?
"We've already seen this week that higher taxes on home buying has left a multi-million pound black hole in the Scottish economy with revenue plummeting.
"We need to put jobs and a strong economy first - not reckless election tax grabs from politicians determined to out-flank one another."
Lib Dem leader Wille Rennie pledged to implement a plan to help meet the 2020 active travel target.
He said: "We need action to increase investment in both cycling and walking, improve dedicated cycling infrastructure and ensure that people are confident that they can ride their bike safely.
"The Liberal Democrat three-point plan would deliver millions of pounds of investment and put cycling and active travel at the very heart of the planning process."
The Scottish Greens said they intend to deliver on campaigners' demands by committing 10% of the transport budget to active travel.
The party's co-convenor Patrick Harvie said: "Investing in cycle infrastructure and road maintenance is far better for local businesses and our economy than ploughing extra millions into massive new road projects.
"Research shows it creates far more job hours, so we should be focusing on fixing and improving what we've got rather than adding even further to the cost of maintaining our road network.
"Successive SNP and Labour-led governments have failed to act. We need a bolder Holyrood with more Green voices to get us on track."


A mother who went missing with her three-year-old son has been found safe, police have said.

Angharad Bullock, 39, from Morriston, Swansea, was reported missing on 28 April, along with the toddler.
South Wales Police confirmed the pair had been found on Tuesday night.


Media in India say the upcoming assembly election in the western Maharashtra state has become a "four-way contest" after the break-up of two important political alliances.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced the end of its 25-year-old partnership with the regional Shiv Sena party.
The alliance reportedly ended after the two Hindu nationalist parties failed to agree on a seat-sharing deal.
"The end of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance after a 25-year partnership is, without a doubt, one of the biggest political shockers this year," says the First Post website.
The Deccan Chronicle says the break-up is likely to cause a "political storm" in Maharashtra ahead of the assembly elections.
Some analysts feel the BJP wanted to play a major role in the state, but the Shiv Sena "was in no mood to play the junior partner".
"Buoyed by the Lok Sabha (parliament) results in which the BJP-Sena alliance won 42 of the 48 seats, BJP upped the ante and demanded 135 seats which the Sena was not willing to give. Sena responded saying it would leave only 119 seats it had contested earlier but later agreed to concede a few more seats," says a report in the Economic Times.
On the same day, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) also decided to end its alliance with the Congress party.
The two are currently running the state government as allies.
"The 15-year-old Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra broke up today [Thursday] with the regional party deciding to contest next month's assembly polls on its own and pulling out of the government, setting the stage for its fall," says another report in the paper.
Some experts feel the state will see a bitter campaign because of the break-up of the two alliances.
The FirstPost urges readers to "prepare for a very bitter - and dare we say entertaining - three weeks before polling starts in Maharashtra".
Moving on to other news, newspapers and websites are praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" campaign which aims to turn the country into a global manufacturing hub by cutting red tape and making it easier for companies to do business.
"The "Make in India" campaign is as much an invitation to domestic and foreign companies as a promise to rectify everything that has kept the country at almost the bottom of World Bank's 'ease of doing business' index," reports the Hindustan Times.
"There's no denying that Indian industry - the manufacturing sector in particular - desperately needs a big push. The time is also right," the paper says in its editorial.
Echoing similar sentiments, The New Indian Express says that the campaign "holds considerable promise of taking the economy on a sustainable high growth path".
It adds that the "timing of the launch of the initiative is significant" because it comes ahead of Modi's US visit, where he will be meeting CEOs of several Fortune 500 companies".
Media are also upbeat about Mr Modi's five-day visit to the US and hope it will start a new chapter in Delhi-Washington ties.
"India-US ties have many things going for itâ€¦ The visit is expected to yield deliverables like the joint development of weapon systems, but the real measure of success would be if both leaders come away with a clear understanding of what they need to do to impart some momentum to bilateral ties," says the Hindustan Times.
And finally, the combined death toll in the flood-hit states of Meghalaya and Assam has reached 75, reports the CNN-IBN website.
Heavy rains have been battering Assam and Meghalaya since Monday, with floods damaging bridges and sweeping away roads and houses.
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A European Parliament group dominated by UKIP MEPs has denied claims it misspent EU funds on UK campaigns.

An audit leaked to Sky News said the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe broke rules because the funding must be spent on European Parliament business.
An ADDE spokesman accused the European Parliament of "harassment" over the audit and said most of the funds spent had been "fully eligible".
UKIP's Roger Helmer told the BBC: "Call it revenge for Brexit if you like".
BBC correspondent Damian Grammaticas said the leaked audit said that more than 500,615 euros (Â£430,486) had been misspent - much of it in the UK ahead of parliamentary elections in UKIP target seats including Thanet South, where leader Nigel Farage stood.
The leaked audit accuses the ADDE of spending EU money intended to be spent on European Parliament business on polling in constituencies UKIP targeted in the 2015 general election, and on UKIP's Leave campaign during the EU Referendum.
The findings will go to the European Parliament Bureau, which is responsible for budget matters, next week. If they are upheld, the ADDE could be asked to repay more than 170,000 euros (Â£146,185).
UKIP set up the ADDE in 2014 - it has 27 MEPs from seven countries, the largest group of which are UKIP MEPs.
One of them, UKIP MEP for the East Midlands, Mr Helmer likened the actions of the European Parliament authorities to a witch-hunt: "They are absolutely determined to close down Eurosceptic groups. It isn't just our group it's other Eurosceptic groups in the parliament. They have been planning it for a long time."
He told BBC Radio 4's PM programme trying to repay Â£146,185 would "place us in a difficult position" adding: "which is exactly what the Parliamentary administration is seeking to do".
A spokesman for the ADDE said: "The parliament administration has for months taken an aggressive and hostile attitude over the audit, amounting to nothing short of deliberate harassment. This is a blatant deviation to its requested neutrality."
He added: "It has become increasingly apparent since Brexit that anything short of 'group think' is no longer tolerated within the European Union. Any deviation will see the rules changed and goalposts moved.
"Everything the ADDE has conducted is to provide a more coherent overview of the opinions expressed by the population that is represented by the members of the ADDE.
"We are therefore confident that our expenditures - with the exception of a few minor items - are fully eligible and compliant to EU regulations. They are also in line with fully accepted activities from other groups. We will be taking this matter to the European Court of Justice."


Four British men have appeared in court charged with drugs offences after the seizure of more than a tonne of cocaine off the Irish coast on Tuesday.

The drugs haul has an estimated street value of more than £100m, according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).
It was seized when the Irish navy intercepted a yacht off the Cork coast. Three men arrested on board have been charged with drug trafficking in Cork.
A fourth man in the UK has been charged with conspiracy to import cocaine.
Stephen Powell, 47, of Netherfield Road, Guiseley, Leeds, was arrested on Thursday during a NCA follow-up operation in West Yorkshire.
He appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Saturday, where he was remanded in custody.
The seizure is believed to be one of the largest drug finds at sea in Europe this year.
Mr Powell's elderly father was among the three men who were arrested on board the yacht.
The trio were brought before a special sitting of Cork City Court on Friday evening.
The accused are 70-year-old John Powell, with an address at Airedale Mews, Silsden, West Yorkshire, 28-year-old Thomas Britteon, of Convamore Road, Grimsby, and Benjamin Mellor, 35, from Mornington Villas, Bradford.
All three face a single charge of trafficking of cocaine on a ship at sea with intent to import the drug.
The yacht they were travelling on, called Makayabella, was intercepted about 200 - 300 miles west/south-west of Mizen Head during the early hours of Tuesday.
Their vessel had been under "covert surveillance" by the Irish navy, who carried out a joint arrest operation with the Irish Revenue Customs Service and police (An Garda Síochána).
The Irish authorities were acting on intelligence provided by the British NCA and the French customs service DNRED.
In its follow-up operation in West Yorkshire, NCA investigators also arrested a fifth man, aged 43.
The fifth suspect was detained on Wednesday, but has since been released on bail, pending further inquiries.
The NCA also seized a motorboat, believed to be linked to the alleged drug trafficking operation, at a marina in Gwynedd, north Wales.
At Cork City Court on Friday evening,  all three defendants were remanded in custody until Thursday 2 October, when they are due to appear again via video link.
The judge at Leeds Magistrates' Court remanded Stephen Powell in custody, to appear at the city's crown court on 13 October.


The number of people with diabetes in Wales has reached an "all-time high", a charity has warned.

Diabetes UK Cymru says there are now 177,212 people in Wales living with the condition.
It said if the trend continues these figures could rise to 288,000 by 2025.
Launching Diabetes Week, the charity said a lack of education on managing the condition had led to "devastating" health complications, including amputations, blindness and strokes.
According to the charity, many cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented but there is no way of preventing type 1.
Diabetes costs NHS Wales nearly Â£500m a year, it added.
Diabetes UK Cymru's director Dai Williams said: "Over the last decade we have seen the number of people with diabetes rising at an alarming rate and these latest figures are a stark call to action.
"We must act now or face the very real danger of diabetes devastating the lives of even more people, and threatening to wreck the already over-burdened NHS."


A man has died after his car left the road and went into a swollen river in Cambridgeshire.

A passerby pulled the man from the water off the B1050, near Earith, at 17:00 GMT on Saturday.
The rescuer attempted CPR before emergency crews arrived.
Emergency medical charity Magpas said it provided "advanced life support" but the man was pronounced dead en route to hospital. The man was the only person in the Nissan Note.
The Environment Agency has six flood warnings remaining in place for Cambridgeshire.
River levels along the Nene rose after heavy rainfall on Saturday night into Sunday.
Homes near the river in Elton, Nassington, Yarwell and Wansford were said to be most at risk on Sunday.


A gap between two houses in West London is being sold for £400,000.

The 4m (13.1ft) wide former service road is being sold with planning permission for a two-storey home, on Leysfield Road in Shepherd's Bush.
Its owners live in an adjoining terraced house and had hoped to extend into the gap but decided to sell after their extension plan was turned down.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council said the new building would help provide "much needed" additional housing in the area.
Estate agent Kerr & Co Residential said a best and final offer in excess of the £400,000 guide price was accepted for the "unusual plot" on Monday. The plot had generated high interest from a number of developers and was sold subject to contract to a UK-based buyer, it added.
Its current owners, Paul and Debbie Potts, twice had plans for a new two-storey home rejected for the site, but were finally successful on 11 November 2015.
Earlier objections included engineering concerns about the basement construction and issues with the parking provision.
The site was previously owned by Hammersmith and Fulham Council but was sold to Mr and Mrs Potts in 1999.
Architect Robert Barnes said his clients originally wanted to create a double-fronted aspect for their existing home but were told any extension must not look as though it was attached to their property.
Mr Barnes said he was then given a new brief to design a separate home in the gap that conformed to the London Plan's standards introduced by the former mayor Boris Johnson, setting out guidelines for minimum space and room sizes for new homes.
Mr Barnes' design allows for a three-bedroom home with about 102m sq ( 1,100 sq ft) of internal space, plus a front and back garden.
He said: "This was a one-off because the plot is what it is, but there must be lots of small spaces in London that could be used in this way.
"As part of a larger scheme on a brown field site this is a great way to solve the housing crisis because each new development would have a proportion of affordable homes. "
An even narrower house measuring about 2.1m (6ft 11 inches) was put up for sale for £200,000 in Haringey, north London in 2014.


India and the UK have a long - and troubled - relationship, but it is also one that has evolved considerably over the years.

It is no longer a connection between the coloniser and colonised, and there is a lot of chatter on how relevant the UK has become to India, but signs of the deep connection between the two countries are undeniable and ever present.
The BBC presents five things that Indians think fondly of about the UK, and vice versa.
The English Premier League
The chants, the roars, the team jerseys and fanatical fan frenzy.
The Indian fan clubs for Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are all officially recognised by their parent clubs in the UK, and they organise free screenings of matches for members with discounted food and drinks.
Walk into most bars in Mumbai or Delhi on any weekend evening, and you will be hard pressed to believe that you're actually in India. From fist pumping celebrations to anguished moans to taking celebrations out on to the streets, it's all there.
Whisky
To say that Indians love their whisky would be a gross understatement. The country consumed a whopping 1.5 billion litres of the drink in 2014, which allowed it to retain its spot as the world's largest consumer of whisky, according to a research note from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
This love for whisky is estimated to be worth more than $10bn (Â£6.5bn) and has attracted some pretty serious players like Diageo, which in 2012 bought a 53% stake in India's United Breweries. And who do we have to thank for that? Why the UK of course!
PG Wodehouse, Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie
Jeeves and Wooster, Hercule Poirot, the Famous Five, Miss Marple, Silky and Moonface have been, and continue to be, some of the best loved literary characters in Indian popular imagination.
PG Wodehouse in particular has a cult following in India, and the complete collection of the Jeeves books is a fairly common item in the average Indian library.
Similarly, many Indians grow up on a diet of Enid Blyton, who is also squarely responsible for fostering strong cravings for typical British foods in Indian children, many of whom have vivid memories of disappointment when their parents told them that they could not have scones and clotted cream for tea because no one knew how to make them.
Latest addition: JK Rowling. We may be Muggles but many of us are Harry Potter fanatics. And bonus points for the Patil twins!
Benedict Cumberbatch...
...deserves his own post. Sherlock Holmes is also a much loved literary character in India, and no one has quite embodied the role like Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC series.
The television series is so popular here that it is aired concurrently with the US and UK.
Sherlock reruns and Sherlock marathons are also frequently aired on Indian television channels.
Cumberbatch also has as wide a female fan following in India as he does anywhere else in the world, and many Indian hearts were broken when it was announced that he had married Sophie Hunter.
Music matters
We love British music. We love it so much we gave the UK.... Freddie Mercury!
But joking aside, the Beatles, Queen, Oasis, The Who, The Rolling Stones and lately Ed Sheeran and Adele have dedicated and passionate fan followings in India.
We know all the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, Wonderwall remains a popular sing-along song, and Adele's croonings have made us all question the futility of love.
And no hipster bar is complete without an exhaustive Beatles playlist. In fact the Beatles is still very much a part of essential Indian college listening. Blame George Harrison and the Hare Krishna movement!
Curry
Any Briton who's ever had a night out will have ended up in a curry house at some point.
It's more than a meal to the Brits - it's a social tool, a mechanism for old friends, new colleagues and Sunday league footballers to bond over. When the silver bowls of silky sauces arrive, accompanied by duvet-like naan bread, it's an antidote to the UK's national dish of bland (if comforting) fish and chips.
The nation's lust for tikka masala, korma and jalfrezi is said to be worth Â£4bn to the British economy, and curry frequently appears on the list of the UK's favourite foods, even topping that list at various points in recent years.
So what if the dishes served in Britain are but an imitation of the actual ones cooked in Indian homes? And who cares if some of the restaurants are actually run by fellows from neighbouring Bangladesh? A takeaway Indian curry on a Friday night remains the perfect reward for a long, hard British week.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Brit heading for India will visit the Taj Mahal. None of them would dream of skipping the world's most famous monument to love.
And for the British, there is a particular poignancy, as it was here that Princess Diana was photographed alone in 1992, the brightness of the white stone shining a harsh light on her solitude. By the end of that year, she and Prince Charles had separated, and the image of the princess alone on that bench still tugs at the nation's heart strings to this day.
On a happier note, the Taj Mahal has also given its name to many of the nation's beloved curry houses.
When there's a problem to be solved in the UK, the first order of business is to pop the kettle on.
Tea is the glue that holds British society together, fixing relationships, mending friendships, a pool into which problems can be poured. The blood of the nation is dark or milky, depending on your taste.
Tell any Brit you'd like a "builder's tea" and they'll know exactly what you mean (so strong you might not get the end of your spoon back).
Commercial production of tea in India began after the British East India Company took control of large areas of the country, with the drink eventually becoming popular in Britain in the 1920s. To us, Assam and Darjeeling aren't just names, they're old friends.
Our prime minister even fell in love with the Downing Street tea lady, once. Well, all right, that was Hugh Grant in Love Actually, but everyone believed it could happen. Whose eye wouldn't be caught by someone with an endless supply of tea and chocolate biscuits?
The British just can't get enough of harking back to the days when India was part of its empire.
This isn't a time that everyone looks back on fondly of course, but that hasn't stopped dramatic tales from that era becoming and remaining popular with the British to this day, for whom India remains exotic and impossibly romantic.
Earlier this year a show called Indian Summers, about the British occupation of India set in 1932, gripped so many Brits that a second series has been commissioned.
And lately both of the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movies, about a group of elderly Britons living in a retirement home in India, captured many hearts across the UK. And, perhaps, changed a few minds about where to spend one's golden years.
The British East India Company's fight against malaria led to a tipple much beloved by Britons to this day.
Quinine was found to prevent the disease, but was bitter to drink so adding water, sugar, lime and gin to the quinine made the elixir more palatable. Soldiers in India were already given a gin ration, so it all made sense.
These days a gin and tonic is the crispest, cleanest drink a Briton can have, as much a refreshment on a hot summer's night as a fashion statement, to be held while propping up a cocktail bar. Cheers, India!


Theresa May has insisted that Brexit will not stand in the way of the UK strengthening its ties with Poland.

The prime minister signalled closer co-operation in defence, cyber security and enterprise during Downing Street talks with counterpart Beata Szydlo.
She said she wanted an "early" resolution to negotiations over the future legal status of the 900,000 Polish citizens living in the UK.
Ms Szydlo said this was a vital issue but understood reciprocity was needed.
At a press conference in No 10 following the first-ever UK-Polish summit, Mrs May also confirmed the UK is to send 150 troops to Poland to help "deter Russian aggression" in Europe. They will be deployed in April close to the Polish border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
On the crucial issue of residency and employment rights, Ms Szydlo said Polish citizens in the UK needed certainty about their future after Brexit, telling reporters she hoped negotiations would yield "the right balance" for both the UK and the EU.
"From the point of view of Poland, let me reiterate that the most important thing (after Brexit) is the guarantees for the Polish citizens who are living and working in the United Kingdom," she said. "Of course, these guarantees would need to be reciprocal."
Mrs May said she wanted to give Poles and other EU citizens living in the UK certainty but she said any agreement depended on Britons living elsewhere in Europe having equivalent assurances over their rights.
During the visit to London, Mrs May and Ms Szydlo discussed Brexit and defence co-operation over a working lunch, while senior ministers, including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Chancellor Philip Hammond, met their counterparts at Lancaster House.
The leaders and ministers then held formal talks in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street on issues ranging from trade and scientific co-operation to concerns about Moscow's military actions in Ukraine and Syria.
Mrs May said she was determined that Brexit would not stand in the way of stronger economic and cultural ties between the two countries, announcing a series of joint initiatives on enterprise, innovation and cyber security and the ambition of a first-ever bilateral defence treaty between the two nations.
Mrs May provided more details of the deployment next Spring of around 150 troops from the Light Dragoons, along with a number of armoured vehicles, to Orzysz in north-east Poland, close to the border with Kaliningrad, which houses Russia's Baltic fleet.
The move, she said, was a response to Russian aggression on the "eastern flank of Europe".
Mrs May said: "Our ties with Poland are rooted deeply in our shared history. We will never forget the Polish pilots who braved the skies alongside us during World War Two, standing up for freedom and democracy in Europe, nor the valuable contribution made by so many Poles in our country today.
"I am determined that Brexit will not weaken our relationship with Poland - rather it will serve as a catalyst to strengthen it."
Mrs May added that the summit "marks the start of a new chapter in our relations and we will work even more closely together to ensure the security and prosperity of our nations in the years ahead".
"Today's meeting puts beyond doubt the common ground we share, the importance we attach to our bilateral relationship and the benefits it brings. We share a clear commitment to take our co-operation to the next level and to firmly establish the UK and Poland as resolute and strategic allies in Europe."
Mrs May has promised to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which starts the legal process for Brexit, by the end of March.
Formal negotiations cannot begin until then, but the UK prime minister is holding informal discussions with other EU leaders to find out their views.
Ms Szydlo said the Brexit process would be "interesting" and negotiations must take place in a spirit of "mutual trust".
Warsaw has raised concerns about the abuse of Poles in the UK following the Brexit referendum, with a rise in incidents of alleged hate crimes. Ms Szydlo said the incidents that occurred were "very sad" and thanked the UK authorities for their "quick reaction"
"We continue working together in order to make sure that the Polish community is safe," she added.


Equatorial Guinea have been expelled from the 2020 Olympics preliminary qualifying competition by Fifa.

Fifa said it had evidence that Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira used two passports with different birth dates and two birth certificates showing different parental information.
De Oliveira played in the preliminary competition of the 2016 Olympics.
Equatorial Guinea Football Association has been fined £28,000 and the player banned for 10 matches.
De Oliveira has also been fined £1475.
Fifa says it is investigating the eligibility of several other players on Equatorial Guinea's team.
On Sunday, Equatorial Guinea booked their place in the finals of this year's women's Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon after a 2-1 win over Mali in Malabo.
The result took them through 3-2 on aggregate.


The government faced the final hurdle on the Brexit bill this week, as MPs voted on the amendments put forward by the Lords the week before.

The two amendments - on securing EU citizens' rights in the UK and giving Parliament a "meaningful vote" on any deal - were supported by the opposition, but it wasn't enough to block the government's pleas for an unamended bill.
There was a chance that, with their amendments defeated in the Commons, the Lords would reiterate their position when the bill returned to the House, but peers decided to back down, with many Labour peers abstaining from the vote.
The House of Commons had considered their recommendations and peers decided to respect their decision without a fight.
In doing so, the bill received Royal Assent on Thursday, allowing the government to trigger Article 50 before the end of the month as planned.
Here are a few of the more notable moments from this week's debate:
"First, the bill was brought forward to implement the referendum result, respect the Supreme Court judgment, and nothing else. Secondly, these amendments are unnecessary as the government have already made firm commitments with regard to both of the two issues, and we will deliver on those commitments. Thirdly, these amendments will undermine the government's position in negotiations to get the best deal for Britain, and that cannot be in the national interest."
"These are simple amendments that would improve the Article 50 process. They have obtained cross-party support and large majorities in the Lords, they are the right amendments on vitally important issues, and the obsession with the idea of a clean, unamended bill should not triumph over decency and principle."
"If we pass the bill today, we will be passing this government a blank cheque on one of the most crucial issues that this Parliament has ever discussed, an issue that will have an impact on each and every one of us and each and every one of our constituents."
"Everyone in Europe knows how divided our nation is. They know about the deliberations in this place and in the other place. They also know that, of those who voted, only 52% voted for us to leave the European Union. I urge the government, for the sake of bringing unity not only to our party but to the country at large, to allow Parliament's sovereignty to reign and, in the event of no deal, to allow us to have a vote and a say."
"Stubbornness can be a sign of suspicion and weakness, not strength; rejecting the rightful, conventional role of the House of Commons and the other place to apply democratic accountability to the actions and decisions of the Executive can be a sign of weakness, not strength; and this specious argument that condemns the lack of democratic accountability in Brussels while undermining it here, in the mother of all Parliaments, is a sleight of hand that should not be lightly forgotten."
"There is a terrible irony here. We are hearing the voices of those who, in the course of the referendum, used the restoration of parliamentary sovereignty as one of their principal arguments for voting to leave the EU, but whose enthusiasm for that sovereignty disappears in a puff of smoke when the House is asked to put that sovereignty on the statute book."
"We cannot tie the prime minister's hands. It is inconceivable that we would legislate, make that judicially reviewable and, at the same time, pass amendments the effect of which would be to introduce a Committee of Parliament that would decide on questions that have to be decided on by the government. Our constitution operates by parliamentary government, not by Committee of Parliament, otherwise we would go back to the 17th Century."
"My point tonight is that, whatever the realities of what people want, neither amendment satisfies the requirement to protect EU nationals or to give this Parliament a meaningful vote without damaging the prospects for the government's negotiations."
"Given that the other place has done as we asked and thought again, and decided to reject the amendment by a majority of 48, I argue with respect that this evening is not the time nor the place to return to the fray and insert terms and conditions to our negotiating position."
"Many people will be watching us tonight: we cannot please them all, but we can show them that no matter what the pressures from the media or the threats from the government may be, we are prepared to do what we know to be the right thing. I have no doubt that the right thing is to insist on this amendment to protect the rights of EU citizens in the UK and, in doing so, to uphold the honour and integrity of this country."
"[EU citizens] are being used as a bargaining chip, which is very hurtful to me and others."
"I will take no lessons from the Liberal Democrats, who confessed to me outside the Chamber that this appeals to their core vote and they are piling on members because of it. So we are here to move a motion to help them gain members."
"How do they justify extolling the supremacy of Parliament - the House of Commons and your Lordships' House - and wanting Parliament to have the last word on the terms of our leaving the EU, when for the past 43 years they have supported our EU membership and still do so?"
"I have always said that in this House we respect the primacy of the other place. We said that there should be no extended ping-pong but that we would listen to what the Commons had to say. If the noble Lord [referring Lord Oates, Lib Dem] really believes that by voting for this motion tonight he will change the mind of the other place, then he can go ahead but do not give false hope to people who rely on this House to make a point to get the other side to think again."


A memorial to the thousands of crewmen who served in Bomber Command during World War Two has been officially unveiled in Lincoln.

The memorial spire and walls of remembrance are the first significant development in the creation of the International Bomber Command Centre.
Lord Howe, Minister of State for the Ministry of Defence, cut the ribbon.
The ceremony, presented by historian Dan Snow, was attended by 300 of the remaining Bomber Command veterans.
Mr Snow said: "This is Bomber County, Lincolnshire is Aviation County. Aircraft were made here, pioneered here and flown from here during both world wars.
"Aviation is inextricably linked with Lincolnshire and it is exactly right that the memorial is here."
A number of flyovers by different aircraft were organised for the occasion, including the last flying Vulcan, a Blenheim bomber, two Tornados, three Hawks and the current MacRobert's Reply.
The memorial spire was designed by Stephen Palmer of Place Architecture, and is higher than the Angel of the North.
It is 102ft (31.09m) tall - the wingspan of the Avro Lancaster - and the width at the base is 16ft (5m), the overall width of a Lancaster wing.
125,000
Aircrew served in Bomber Command in World War Two
364,514 operational sorties flown
55,573 aircrew killed in action
25,611 killed flying from Lincolnshire
70% of aircrew were killed, taken prisoner or injured
The spire was delivered to the site and erected in seven-and-a-half hours on 10 May this year, marking the 70th anniversary of VE Day.
The walls of remembrance record the names of the 55,573 men who lost their lives serving in Bomber Command.
Tony Worth CVO, chairman of the International Bomber Command Centre Trust, said: " It has been a momentous day both in terms of having reached this milestone in the creation of International Bomber Command Centre, which has taken eight years so far, and in having, in one place, so many of the last remaining veterans."


Two people were taken to hospital with head injuries as clashes followed Saturday's derby match between Birmingham City and Wolves.

Police said there were "a few pockets of disorder" and that CCTV around Birmingham's St Andrew's ground and the city centre would be reviewed.
Four people were arrested for disorder-related offences.
Birmingham City won 2-1 to dent Wolves' hopes of promotion from the Championship.
The match was "comprehensively risk-assessed over many weeks" and there was "a strong police presence in and around" St Andrew's, the West Midlands force said.
Match commander Ch Supt James Andronov said: "Some people have questioned the decision to allow both sets of fans to leave the ground at the same time.
"It is rare these days to hold back supporters - it's not been done at this fixture for several years - as evidence suggests to do so often increases tension and the prospect of trouble."
He said, as with all large operations, the force would review the policing of the match.


Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says his side will not ease up on their march towards a 20th league title until the job is complete.

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United remain 15 points clear at the top of the table with eight games left after a 1-0 win at Sunderland.
"We are not concerned with what we have left behind us, we are only focusing on what is in front of us," said Ferguson.
"The players have created a record with 25 wins out of the first 30 matches and that tells you a lot about the club."
He added: "The next league game is the derby against Manchester City and we are going to go into that with a 15-point headstart on City.
Manchester United have won 50 of a possible 54 points in their last 18 Premier League games.
Man Utd have eight matches remaining to better Chelsea's record 95-point haul in 2005.
"The focus is good and the only thing that matters is to win your next game."
Ferguson will make changes for Monday's FA Cup quarter-final replay at Chelsea after seeing Rafael and Anderson suffer injuries at Sunderland, while goalkeeper David De Gea also suffered a knock after a heavy collision with team-mate Nemanja Vidic.
"Our goalkeeper was knocked out for a spell and we picked up a couple of other injuries [at Sunderland] but we dealt with that well," said Ferguson, who did not start with returning England players Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley on Saturday.
"There will be changes at Chelsea. We will have to wait and see how Wayne is. He was a bit tired after getting back from the England match.
"We will have Ryan Giggs and Javier Hernandez available and there were a couple of others [including Rio Ferdinand] who I did not take to Sunderland.
"It was a battle in the second half but in the first half we played very well and deserved to be in front, and you have to give credit to Sunderland.
"They had a real go at us and made it much more difficult for us but we owe our win to determined defending and a lot of courage."


Barnet manager Martin Allen has appointed James Russell as his assistant manager.

Russell joins the Bees from National League side Dagenham & Redbridge, where he was head of sports science.
He has previously worked with Allen at Notts County and Gillingham.
"Working with Martin again is massive. We've had a good relationship at previous clubs and that connection was a big selling point to come here," Russell told the club website.


Australian police have raided the Sydney home and office of a man named by technology websites as the creator of the virtual currency Bitcoin.

Federal police searched Craig Steven Wright's properties, but said the raid was about tax, not Bitcoin.
Mr Wright was named by Wired and Gizmodo as the creator of Bitcoin.
The founder of the currency is believed to hold about a million Bitcoins, which are reportedly worth about $400m at the current exchange rate.
The raid in Sydney came hours after Wired and Gizmodo claimed Mr Wright was probably the mysterious "Satoshi Nakamoto", a pseudonym used by Bitcoin's creator.
Their investigations were based on leaked emails, documents and web archives, including what was said to be a transcript of a meeting between Wright, a 44-year-old academic, and Australian tax officials.
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Mr Wright is reported to have said: "I did my best to try and hide the fact that I've been running Bitcoin since 2009. By the end of this I think half the world is going to bloody know."
Journalists and Bitcoin enthusiasts have long tried to find out who created Bitcoin.
Last year, Newsweek claimed Satoshi Nakamoto was a 64-year-old Japanese-American living near Los Angeles.
Mr Nakamoto, whose birth name was Satoshi, sued the magazine over the disruption he suffered as a result of the story.


Fresh talks to break the deadlock in the junior doctors' dispute in England have been ruled out by the government.

Sources told the BBC that the British Medical Association had blown its chance to negotiate and said there would be no deviation from imposition.
It means the first-ever all-out strike by junior doctors looks likely to go ahead in three weeks, with the BMA also maintaining it will not climb down.
This week's walkout, which ended at 08:00, did not involve emergency care.
But that will not be the case during the strikes on 26 and 27 April from 08:00 to 17:00, when junior doctors will walkout of A&E and intensive care. This has never happened before in the history of the NHS.
The prospect of an all-out strike has prompted a host of organisations, including the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Patients Association, to call on ministers to halt the imposition and for both sides to get back round the table.
The BMA has indicated it is willing to talk.
The union's junior doctors' leader, Dr Johann Malawana, said on Thursday: "Any future action is wholly avoidable, but the government must get back around the negotiating table and end this dispute through talks."
But government sources said there was virtually no prospect of that happening as the BMA had had its chance but had been unwilling to compromise.
They said negotiators had refused to discuss the last remaining issue - Saturday pay - when the talks at conciliation service Acas were going on at the turn of the year and without a commitment to do that, which has not been forthcoming, there would be no point resuming talks.
In a statement, the Department of Health said the government has been left with "no choice" but to push ahead with imposition.
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