About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home.

The residents were moved from their Pacific atoll as result of atomic bomb tests in the 1940s.
But their new home, on another of the Marshall Islands, is struggling against huge tides and increasing storms.
The islanders have now asked Washington to change the terms of a trust fund to allow them settle in the US.
In 1946 several hundred islanders were moved from Bikini Atoll by the US government, which wanted to test atomic weapons on the remote atoll.
Some 23 nuclear tests were conducted including the huge Bravo hydrogen bomb, the largest weapon detonated at that time by the US.
The islanders moved to a nearby island in the Marshall chain called Kili in 1948.
Under an agreement with the US, a resettlement trust fund was eventually established to help the Bikini residents. This would pay for construction of homes within the Marshall Islands.
But now the islanders say that their homes are being swamped by the increased ingress of sea water during king tides.
There was widespread flooding in 2011 and again this year. Salt is also creeping up from beneath Kili, threatening agriculture and water supplies. In the early part of this year the island's runway was entirely flooded, cutting off the residents.
"The people of Bikini came back to us and asked us to take this proposal to the US, to request the resettlement trust fund be used to settle people in the US not just the Marshall Islands," said Tony de Brum, Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands.
"We have not seen the final text of the legislation but the request that went in was on the basis of Kili being uninhabitable because of climate change."
The US Department of the Interior is supporting the islanders and is now proposing legislation in Congress that would change the terms of the resettlement trust.
Under an agreement between the Marshalls and the US, islanders have the right to live, work and study in the US without restrictions on the duration of their stay.
"This is an appropriate course of action for the United States to take regarding the welfare and livelihood of the Bikinian people, given the deteriorating conditions on Kili and Ejit Islands in the Marshall Islands - with crowding, diminishing resources, and increased frequency of flooding due to King Tides on their islands," said Assistant Secretary of the Interior Esther Kia'aina.
The Marshall Islands government says the experience of the Bikini islanders shows the need for a new global agreement on climate change.
They believe that a new deal can be agreed at a global conference in Paris that begins at the end of November.
One key element for the island state is that the agreement stipulate that global temperature rises be kept under 1.5 degrees C from pre industrial levels.
Minister de Brum said that from the point of view of small islands and atoll states, two degrees "cannot remain as the absolute cap for everything we are trying do in limiting global warming".
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Salford reached the Challenge Cup semi-finals for the first time in 19 years with a convincing win over Wakefield.

Trinity lost wing Bill Tupou to a hamstring injury in the warm-up and proved no match for the dominant hosts.
Ryan Lannon, Ben Murdoch-Masila and Niall Evalds all scored to give Salford a deserved 20-0 half-time lead.
Greg Johnson and Craig Kopczak added further tries to book the Red Devils' place in the last four, before Liam Finn's late consolation for Wakefield.
Wakefield won a thriller 34-24 when the sides met in Super League 11 days ago but there was to be no repeat as Salford beat Trinity in the Challenge Cup for the first time since 1971.
Trinity, who were already under-strength, brought in Ashley Gibson to replace Tupou but last season's beaten semi-finalists were caught cold by the ferocity of Salford's start.
The Red Devils' pack dominated the early stages and they were rewarded when Lannon scooped up a loose ball and dived over from close range before Murdoch-Masila powered over from Michael Dobson's cute switch pass.
Evalds danced over just before half-time to extend the lead and Salford won the game with two more tries early in the second half when Johnson scored in the corner following Murdoch-Masila's pass out of the back of the hand and Kopczak held off several defenders to charge over.
Finn touched down late on to get Wakefield on the scoreboard but it is Salford who are now one game away from Wembley.
Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester: "It was big for us in the way we are as a team. We had two poor performances and losses so it was important to respond on the back of them.
"Our first set in attack and first in defence really set the stall out, let everybody know we are here and we're not messing about in this game. We're on it. Our attention to detail within the game defensively and attack was first class.
"We worry about ourselves and being ready and everyone buying into it. Over the last few weeks, we've been slightly off it, we've shown them and they've gone out there and fixed it up, shown they're a good team."
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester told BBC Radio Leeds: "It wasn't good. We wanted to progress, we're disappointed we're knocked out but more disappointed we put in a performance like we did tonight.
"We looked off the ball, clueless and we got outmuscled by a really good Salford side. We've done very little training with the Leeds game and the mini Easter period that's had a massive toll on players, we're down on troops but there should be no excuse for the performance we put in.
"We lacked any real conviction with the ball and had no aggression when defending. The first 20 minutes hurt us, the errors, the poor contacts weren't acceptable. Salford played very well tonight and deserved to be in the semi-final."
Salford Red Devils: Evalds, Bibby, Welham, Sa'u, Johnson, Lui, Dobson, Tasi, Tomkins, Kopczak, Murdoch-Masila, Lannon, Flanagan.
Replacements: Griffin, Brining, T. Carney, Hauraki.
Wakefield: Grix, Gibson, Lyne, Arundel, Caton-Brown, Williams, Finn, England, Wood, A. Walker, Hadley, Ashurst, Sio.
Replacements: Crowther, Annakin, Hirst, Huby.
Referee: Robert Hicks (RFL)


She made her name as the youngest member of girl band The Saturdays - but Vanessa White has ditched the squeaky clean pop of All Fired Up and What About Us for an altogether more intriguing foray into sultry and infectious R&B.

It's two o'clock on a crisp November day and Vanessa White saunters up to the gates of Ealing Studios in west London.
The film studio has played host to Shaun of the Dead, Bridget Jones and the entire "downstairs" set of Downton Abbey - but she's not here to film a cameo ("Can you imagine?" she giggles).
Instead, the 27-year-old climbs the fire escape of a dilapidated high-rise building, enters a propped-open door and navigates the corridors to a small back room that's been converted into a recording studio.
Like all such facilities, it's painted black and littered with empty liquor bottles. The walls are haphazardly decorated with polaroids of previous occupants - including US hitmakers The Chainsmokers - and, in the corner, there's a tiny figurine of Ariel from The Little Mermaid.
Inside, Vanessa's producer Swift King is ready and waiting, sorting through various tracks he's hoping she might choose for her forthcoming EP.
But first, the singer has a confession: "I've got a sore throat and I'm a bit hung over."
It doesn't seem to matter. If anything, the consensus is that a husky voice is better for the material - a sultry and sumptuous serving of downtempo R&B; all heavy breathing and soaring harmonies.
Staving off the hangover with a "nourishing" lunch box, Vanessa explains her musical state of mind to the team.
"Everything I'm doing now is so dark," she says, cueing up a song on her phone. "Not like I-want-to-kill-myself dark, but it's quite angry."
One of the tracks - tentatively called Trust - is seething with vitriol.
"I won't stroke your ego," she spits. "I'm onto you, I'm onto you. Don't underestimate my intelligence."
The song was inspired by encounters with "snaky people" in the music industry, she explains: Specifically, a toxic situation that developed around her and ended up "with the lawyers" last year.
She can't discuss the details, but says her solo career was significantly delayed as a result. The EP she's working on today was originally due last summer.
"There were certain songs I loved that I couldn't use any more," she explains. "So I've basically had to start again, which is why it's taken this long.
"The silver lining is it's given me something to write about. I'm in a much better position now, mentally.
"I used to get so scared of going in the studio with people I didn't know but now, you could put me anywhere and I'd be fine."
Vanessa certainly takes charge in the studio. Having brought the producers up to speed, she sits cross-legged on a sofa as they scroll through a few skeleton songs, looking for "an uptempo track with a dark heart".
One by one, Vanessa dismisses them. "That's too light," she says of one.  "I'm not instantly drawn to it," is her verdict on the next.
After half a dozen tracks are waved off, engineer Day Decosta brings up a simple loop built around a gooey, pulsing bass groove.
Vanessa instantly sits up, alert. "Oh, I like this."
She starts ad-libbing vocal riffs over the top, trading ideas with co-writer Celetia Martin, a former vocalist for Groove Armada whose credits include Skepta, Conor Maynard and, yes, The Saturdays.
Within minutes, she heads to the vocal booth. "I don't really know what I'm doing right now," she laughs. "I'm just going to sing loads of random nonsense."
Slowly, painstakingly, the song takes shape. Some of the improvisations stick and are pieced together into a coherent melody. Every so often, Vanessa emerges from the booth to kneel on the floor with Celetia, and the pair go back and forth over lyrics and harmonies.
When inspiration dries up, they scroll through Instagram, gossip about TV box sets, and goof off doing the Mannequin Challenge for Vanessa's Instagram page.
Conversation eventually turns to the singer's upcoming holiday, a "juice retreat" in Portugal, where solid food is forbidden for an entire week.
It sounds awful (although photos from the journey suggest otherwise) - but it's apparently the standard sort of torture female pop stars endure before the promotional round of video and photo shoots begin.
"It sounds worse than what it was," laughs the singer when we catch up four months later.
"Honestly, if you were hungry it wasn't like they starved you. They added more to the smoothies or they'd give you a piece of fruit. It was actually fine.
"I feel like I need another one  now, that's the problem!"
In any case, the 27-year-old counts dressing up and being photographed as a perk of her job... although it wasn't always that way.
"When I was in The Sats, it actually got a bit boring having to be made up every single day," she says. "I stopped appreciating it.
"Now I can come to the studio looking like this and it's fine. Dressing up has become more of a treat again."
Back at Ealing Studios, work continues late into the night - long after the BBC has left the building, having contributed precisely zero to the writing process.
The song is ultimately destined for the scrapheap, but Trust (completely overhauled and re-titled Trust Me) makes it onto Vanessa's Chapter Two EP, which was released last Friday.
As she predicted, it set the tone for a collection of brooding neo-soul that's surprisingly candid about anger, lust and sexuality. Fans of The Saturdays' chirrupy chart fodder are in for quite a surprise.
"I guess people are going to question it," she admits of her new direction. "But I feel pop is not very me at the moment.
"It took a bit of time to find a sound that was completely right for me. Now I feel like I've really nailed it, and it's obvious it's coming from me. Once people believe that, you're half-way there."
Certainly, the sophisticated harmonies and complex ad-libs reflect the US singers she grew up idolising - Janet, Alliyah, Brandy and Mariah - without sounding like a cheap, plastic counterfeit.
"We've had a problem with that in the UK in the past," she acknowledges. "I don't know why we haven't really got the sounds right before - but this is what I listened to for years and years, so I guess that's where it's come from."
The EP has been well-reviewed on the sort of music sites that would have given The Saturdays a wide berth. But it's hard to see where the music fits in the current charts, crammed full of Ed Sheeran's acoustic pop and The Chainsmokers' emo EDM.
"To be honest with you, I'm not even thinking about that," says the singer. "With everything that's happened this year, including the label stuff, I've ended up doing this on my own - and at this point I'm preferring it, to be honest.
"I feel like I have to run with this. I'm not going to be hard on myself and expect it to be [huge] at this point.
"Whatever happens will happen."
Vanessa White's Chapter Two EP is out now on Salute the Sun Records.
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A private care home worker who assaulted a vulnerable resident with Down's Syndrome has been sentenced.

Mary Susan Torley, 60, from Workington, was found guilty by West Allerdale magistrates, of assaulting a resident in her care in October.
The 54-year-old resident with onset dementia was dragged by her clothing against her will causing her to fall.
Torley was sentenced to a monitored curfew for 12 weeks, Â£620 costs and a Â£60 victim surcharge.
She cared for three vulnerable adults at a private care facility, which has since closed, on Windmill Close in Cockermouth.
A co-worker in the home witnessed the incident and reported it to Cumbria Police.


The family of a Northern Ireland man who died Ibiza have requested a second post-mortem examination as efforts continue to repatriate his body.

Alan Drennan, from Newtownabbey, County Antrim, was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday, less than 24 hours after police escorted him off a plane.
Friends of the 21-year-old have claimed he sustained head injuries in custody.
However, Spanish police say there were no sign of violence when they carried out an autopsy on Mr Drennan.
The family's solicitor, Michael Madden, told the BBC that a problem with the paperwork in Ibiza means that his body may not be brought back home until Monday.
The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, a charity based in Newry, County Down, is assisting the Drennan family with the repatriation arrangements.
The Republic of Ireland's state pathologist is on standby to carry out a post-mortem when the body arrives in Dublin.


Elections for Northern Ireland's 11 new councils will be held on 22 May 2014.

Here is a full list of candidates running, in seven District Electoral Areas (DEAs), for 40 seats on Derry and Strabane council.


UK Chancellor George Osborne has been praised by Chinese state media for focusing on business ahead of human rights during his visit to Xinjiang.

The Global Times said he was "the first Western official in recent years who focused on business potential rather than raising a magnifying glass to the 'human rights issue'".
Mr Osborne has spent the past five days in China to boost trade links.
He has said he raised human rights privately during his visit.
In an editorial (in Chinese), the Global Times praised Mr Osborne's "pragmatism regarding his China policy", adding that "it should be diplomatic etiquette for foreign leaders not to confront China by raising the human rights issue".
"Keeping a modest manner is the correct attitude for a foreign minister visiting China to seek business opportunities. Some Westerners believe their officials should behave like a master of human rights to show their superiority over China and the East."
Mr Osborne this week became the first UK minister to visit Xinjiang, a restive province in China's far west .
Campaigners had urged him to raise concerns about the treatment of the province's Muslim Uighur minority. Amnesty International said Uighurs had been subjected to "heavy-handed" security measures since an outbreak of unrest in 2009.
Speaking during his visit there, Mr Osborne said "we raise human rights, but we do it in the context of also talking about issues like economic development".
"Of course we're two completely different political systems and we raise human rights issues, but I don't think that is inconsistent with also wanting to do more business with one-fifth of the world's population."
Mr Osborne, who also visited Shanghai and Beijing this week, has set out an aim of making China the UK's second largest trading partner by 2025.
"We are building an ever closer relationship with China - it's a partnership that is set to unleash growth and help regions like Xinjiang, where we know investment can make a real difference, as well as unleash new growth back home," he said on Wednesday.


A former teaching campus of the University of Gloucestershire is to be turned into a student village.

The government will underwrite the cost of the privately-financed £40m scheme at Cheltenham's Pittville campus.
It will include 570 new rooms, the refurbishment of existing rooms and media centre with a bar, refectory, gym, shop, café and games area.
Chancellor George Osborne said the village would give students the "first-class facilities they deserve".
It will be delivered under the Treasury's £40bn UK Guarantee Scheme.
The University of Gloucestershire's Stephen Marston said: "The university is delighted that financial close has been achieved on the scheme. This means we can now move ahead with the building work.
"The new student village at Pittville will give our future students a great place to live, with well-designed and well-managed accommodation and good facilities in a wonderful location."
Work is expected to be completed in time for undergraduates for the 2017/18 academic year.


Aiden McGeady scored deep into injury-time as Preston denied relegation-threatened Blackburn a vital win in an entertaining Lancashire derby.

North End took the lead when Tom Barkhuizen latched onto a Jordan Hugill pass to fire in from close range.
Lucas Joao hit the post for Rovers before Elliott Bennett's 20-yard strike levelled matters at the break.
Craig Conway converted Marvin Emnes' cross before McGeady fired in from 10 yards in the 93rd minute.
Rovers, who have now drawn their past three games 2-2, were just moments from creeping out of the Championship relegation zone but now find themselves still in 22nd place, a point adrift of Bristol City, Nottingham Forest and Burton Albion.
They have, however, improved significantly under new boss Tony Mowbray having gone unbeaten in his first seven games at the helm.
Preston opened the scoring with some superb link-up play between Barkhuizen and Hugill, with the former stabbing home from six yards for his fifth goal of the season.
Rovers were unlucky to not be level soon after, with Joao firing over the bar before nodding Derrick Williams' cross onto the post, but they equalised before the break when Bennett struck from outside the area.
And after some early pressure from the visitors in the second half, Mowbray's side took the lead as Conway slid Emnes' cross past Chris Maxwell from 12 yards.
Ryan Nyambe went close for the hosts late on before McGeady struck at the death to leave the 6,005 North End fans celebrating an unlikely point.


If you're in the business of making TV cabinets - look away now.

For the rest of you, feast your eyes on a remarkable innovation-in-progress.
LG Display has been working on its fully flexible screen for some time now, but it's at this year's CES the BBC was given the exclusive first hands-on.
The screen can be rolled up and scrunched around, and the display is full HD.
The one I played with was 18in (45.7cm) corner to corner, but the team at LG say they're aiming for screens that are 55in and beyond.
At that size they will be able to produce a screen quality of 4K, they say - that's four times HD.
Right now, the resolution is 1,200 by 810 pixels.
How did they do it? Of course they wouldn't share the precise details, but the crucial technological leap has been moving from LED TVs to OLED TVs.
The O stands for organic, and it removes the necessity of a back panel providing light to the screen. Therefore, it bends.
Why would you want a bendable TV? LG says it's ideal for making displays, like in a shop, but also for people who no longer want to sacrifice an entire corner of a room to a television.
With a bendable screen like this, you can roll it up and pop it in a cupboard until you need it again.
Unfortunately - and you knew this bit was coming - LG isn't able to say how much it would eventually cost, or indeed, when it will actually be sold at all. At the moment, the team is buried in the prototype stage.
"The larger prototype is expected in the near future. But as for a commercial product, we're still planning the timing," says KJ Kim, LG Display's vice president of its marketing division.
That can be translated as it'll be a while yet.
Because while the screen is remarkable, it suffers a few flaws.
The night-time demo we saw, with quick flashing lights, was designed to conceal the numerous "dead" pixels in the display.
Dead pixels are those that have been damaged, so instead of emitting the correct colour just get appear as a tiny empty square.
There were several dead pixels on the screen and, after I played around with it a bit more, several more emerged.
Right now, the screen can only be rolled up in one direction, which isn't a limitation, really, but something they will need to suss out before it comes to market.
"The screen can be rolled up the other way as well, but we showed it to you using only one direction because it is more complicated the other way due to circuitry issues," a spokeswoman for the firm told me.
Also, it's crucial to point out that the screen can be rolled, but not folded flat.
Folding it flat would permanently damage it, and therefore the screen doesn't represent a chance for something many have lusted over for a while, an interactive video newspaper that feels just like the paper product.
But we're getting there.
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BT is taking legal action against games platform Valve, claiming it has used its technologies without permission.

The British telecoms company said it had notified Valve "on multiple occasions" about the infringements, but received no reply.
The four patents concern computer and video game platforms, digital distribution services and personalised access to online services and content.
The case was filed in the US state of Delaware.
Many patent cases are filed there because of its reputation for favouring patent-holders.
Valve owns Steam, the world's largest digital PC games distribution platform.
"BT's constant investment in innovation has seen it develop a large portfolio of patents which are valuable corporate assets, so it is only right that BT protects its investment," said a company spokesman.
The technologies and features covered by the patents are widely used by many digital services, including another gaming platform Twitch as well as YouTube. Valve could not be reached for comment.
BT has attempted legal action against other companies in the past.
It unsuccessfully tried to sue American internet service provider Prodigy in 2002, saying it had invented hyperlinks and was owed royalties.
It also tried suing Google in 2011 over patent infringement, resulting in Google counter-suing two years later.


Solihull Moors have rejected bids from League Two side Grimsby Town for two of their players, top scorer Akwasi Asante and midfielder Jamey Osborne.

Grimsby, managed by former Moors boss Marcus Bignot, have made improved offers for both the two 24-year-olds.
But BBC Sport understands that the bids fell well below the Moors' valuation.
Other English Football League clubs have expressed serious interest in Osborne, but the Moors are not actively looking to sell either player.
Both remain vital members of Liam McDonald's squad, who rose up to 15th in the National League table, nine points clear of danger, after their two Yuletide home and away victories over Chester.
Former Hednesford Town man Osborne scored his fifth goal of the season in the 3-0 win at Bumpers Lane on New Year's Day, on his first appearance in a month, while Asante started on the bench in both festive fixtures.
Bignot left Solihull on 7 November to take over at Grimsby, who are back up to 12th in League Two after seven points from a possible nine over Christmas.


Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta will be out for six to eight weeks after injuring knee ligaments in the dramatic win over Valencia.

The midfielder was injured by an Enzo Perez tackle after 14 minutes of the 3-2 win and left on a stretcher.
He could miss the rest of the Champions League group games and is definitely out of the match at Manchester City on 1 November.
Barca won thanks to a late Lionel Messi penalty, his second goal of the game.
Luis Enrique' side, who went top with the win, are also going to be without Iniesta's fellow Spain internationals Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba through injury for the City game.


TP Mazembe of DR Congo face trips to South Africa, Guinea and Gabon as they bid to defend their Confederation Cup title.

The five-time African champions have been draw in a pool with SuperSport United, Horoya and Mounana in the expanded group stage.
Three-time winners CS Sfaxien of Tunisia will face South Africa's Platinum Stars, debutants Mbabane Swallows of Swaziland and Mouloudia Alger from Algeria.
Moroccan side FUS Rabat, who won the tournament in 2010, face two sides making the debuts in the group stages in Rivers United of Nigeria and Uganda's KCCA.
The group is completed by Tunisia's Club Africain, who were crowned continental champions in 1991 and runners-up in this competition 20 years later.
Rivers United were the last team to qualify for the group stage with a 2-0 aggregate win over Rayon Sports after a goalless draw in Rwanda on Saturday.
The first leg of the tie was postponed due to the the commemorations for the genocide in Rwanda.
First group matches due to be played on the weekend of 12-14 May.
The top two from each group will progress to the quarter-finals with the final set to be played over two legs in November.


Nicola Sturgeon is to launch the SNP's campaign for the forthcoming council elections, characterising the contest as a "clear choice" between her party and the Tories.

Scotland goes to the polls for local authority elections on 4 May.
The first minister and SNP leader will set out her party's manifesto for the vote at an event in Edinburgh.
She said every vote for her party in the poll would be "a vote against Tory austerity".
And she said SNP councillors would "always put their local communities first".
In the last set of council elections in 2012, the SNP on 32.3% of the vote, taking 425 seats across the country, just ahead of Labour.
However, the SNP ultimately ended up running fewer of Scotland's town halls than their rivals, a position they aim to change in May.
Ms Sturgeon said: "The council elections are a clear choice between the SNP who stand for strong and vibrant local communities - and a Tory party which has become a single-issue, Brexit-at-all-costs machine.
"SNP councillors will always put their local communities first - they are not there to simply make up the numbers and be used as a proxy war in national political games.
"From the abolition of ring-fenced funding and our transformational Community Empowerment Act, the SNP has a long track record of pushing power down to local communities.
"Every vote for the SNP on May 4th is a vote against Tory austerity, and a vote to protect vital services and jobs. All of our candidates are working hard every day to earn the trust of the people they want to represent and after the election will continue to work every day to preserve it."


A Russian blogger has been given a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence after he posted a video of himself playing Pokemon Go in a church

The court in the city of Yekaterinburg found Ruslan Sokolovsky guilty of insulting religious believers and inciting hatred.
During the trial, Sokolovsky, now aged 22, had pleaded not guilty.
He filmed himself playing the popular game in the local Orthodox church in August 2016.
He was arrested shortly afterwards.
On Thursday, Sokolovsky was also found guilty of "illegal trafficking of special technical equipment" after a pen with a built-in video camera had been discovered during the search of his home.
During the trial, the prosecution had asked for Sokolovsky to be jailed for three-and-a-half years.
After the verdict was announced, the blogger said he was relieved.
"Until the very last moment I didn't know what the sentencing would be, that's why I was very nervous and feared I would get a real prison term," he told BBC Russian.
He said he had already apologised to religious believers, adding that the way he delivered his video was "too cynical for Russian society".
Sokolovsky also said he would consult his lawyers about whether he should appeal against the verdict.
The video from the church built in remembrance of Tsar Nicholas II and his family was posted by Sokolovsky in August 2016, quickly attracting many viewers.
It was published apparently in response to warnings that playing such games in church might have legal consequences.
In the video, Sokolovsky -  just before going inside the church - is seen saying that the risk of being arrested is "complete nonsense".
"Who could get offended if you're just walking around with your smartphone in a church?"
It's an augmented reality game on smartphones, which uses GPS.
Users play by walking around the real world catching cutesy little virtual monsters like Pikachu and Jigglypuff in places near their phone location and training them to fight each other.
The monsters in it were first popular in the 1990s when they started on the Nintendo Game Boy.
Pokemon Go: All you need to know
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An American woman found a body while she was looking for a Pokemon in a river near her home. Police said the man had died within the last 24 hours and no foul play was suspected.
Four people were arrested in Missouri after they used the game to lure players to remote places and then rob them at gunpoint. In response, the makers of Pokemon Go have said people should "play with friends when going to new or unfamiliar places" and "remember to be safe and alert at all times".
The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in the US is the location of a gym in the game, and players planted a pink "Clefairy" Pokemon called Love is Love there. The church has responded with a series of social media posts calling the Pokemon a sodomite.
There have also been plenty of reports of people falling over and grazing or cutting themselves because they're not paying attention to what's in front of them while they play.


The European Union has clarified the way the UK can kickstart formal negotiations to exit the bloc following Thursday's referendum.

It says Britain can trigger Article 50, which sets a two-year deadline for a deal, by making a formal declaration either in a letter or a speech.
UK PM David Cameron has said he will step down by October to allow his successor to conduct the talks.
But EU foreign ministers have urged Britain to start the process soon.
Since Thursday's vote there has been intense speculation about when, and how, the UK might begin formal negotiations.
A spokesman for the European Council, which defines the EU's political direction and priorities, reiterated on Saturday that triggering Article 50 was a formal act which must be "done by the British government to the European Council".
"It has to be done in an unequivocal manner with the explicit intent to trigger Article 50," the spokesman said.
"It could either be a letter to the president of the European Council or an official statement at a meeting of the European Council duly noted in the official records of the meeting."
On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU had "no need to be particularly nasty in any way" in the negotiations with Britain.
She said that deterring other countries from leaving the EU should not be a priority in the talks.
Mrs Merkel added that she was not in favour of pushing for a speedy withdrawal.
"It shouldn't take forever, that's right, but I would not fight for a short timeframe," she said.
In other developments:
Mrs Merkel was speaking after several EU foreign ministers, including Germany's, had urged Britain to quickly implement its exit.
"This process should get under way as soon as possible so that we are not left in limbo but rather can concentrate on the future of Europe," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
His Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders said the continent could not accept a political vacuum, saying "this will not be business as usual".
Speaking later to the BBC, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said he didn't think it was "even legally possible" to force the UK to speed up the exit process.
"I understand it is very difficult for Prime Minister Cameron, who was against leaving the European Union, to now go ahead and do this," he told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.
"I think we should give them time; let them decide how quickly they want to do it."
He described Britain's exit from the bloc as "a disaster" saying Estonia had often aligned itself with the UK and had counted on Britain to present their shared views.
The UK's decision to leave the EU has sent shockwaves across the continent with leaders of Eurosceptic parties in France, the Netherlands and Italy demanding referendums in their own countries.
In response, some EU politicians have called for speedy reforms to quell further unrest.
French economy minister Emmanuel Macron suggested a new mission statement should be drafted and put to a referendum of all EU citizens.
"We've never had the courage to organise a true European referendum in its real sense," he told a conference.
"We would first build this new project with European peoples and then submit this new road map, this new project, to a referendum [across the bloc]."
The first summit of EU leaders with no British representation will be held on Wednesday, a day after Mr Cameron holds talks with members.
Global stock markets and the pound fell heavily on the news of the so-called "Brexit", while credit rating agency Moody's cut the UK's outlook to "negative".
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Businesses in north east Scotland are preparing for an upturn from the oil and gas slump of the past two years, according to a survey for the Royal Bank of Scotland.

It found a third of businesses, from a sample of 400, saw rising volumes of activity over the winter months.
However, nearly as many saw a fall.
There was a net 10 percentage point gap in the number of firms around Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire expecting growth in volumes over the next six months.
Exports across the Scottish private sector stalled between December and February, despite help from the weaker pound.
Capital investment dropped markedly since autumn, according to the survey. Some 21% of firms reported that new capital investment rose during the winter months, while 29% said it fell.
That net score, of a negative eight percentage points, contrasts with a positive 24 point gap between investment risers and fallers in the previous quarter of 2016.
The quarterly Royal Bank business monitor, carried out by the Fraser of Allander Institute at Strathclyde University, found inflation pressures were growing on firms, and expected to intensify during this year.
The sector with the strongest showing over winter were financial and business services.
The most positive outlook was found among tourism firms and those in transport and communications, although those sectors also reported that cost pressures were stronger than in other areas of the economy.
Stephen Boyle, chief economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, said growth looked "pretty tepid", while the main development was rising inflation.
"A combination of the weaker pound, the National Living Wage and a rise in energy prices is pushing up firms' input costs," he said.
"That's starting to show in consumer price inflation and will continue to build over the next few months. How consumers and businesses respond will be central to determining economic performance in 2017."
Prof Graeme Roy, director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, said: "Despite concerns about inflation picking up, firms expect growth in 2017 to be marginally more positive than 2016.
"However, the increase in uncertainty caused by the triggering of Article 50 and the prospects of a second independence referendum will act as a headwind for many businesses."


A diabetes expert has told a murder trial it was impossible to say that patients allegedly killed by a nurse had died of insulin poisoning.

Victorino Chua, 49, denies murdering three patients at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport.
Prof Brian Frier, the first defence witness, told Manchester Crown Court hypoglycaemia or low blood sugar may not have killed the patients.
The jury heard he had written hundreds of publications on the conditions.
Mr Chua, of Heaton Norris, is accused of murdering Tracey Arden, 44, Derek Weaver, 83, and Arnold Lancaster, 71, by poisoning them with insulin.
Prof Frier told the jury that hypoglycaemia may or may not have hastened the deaths of Ms Arden and Mr Weaver.
In the case of Ms Arden, he said going any further would be "entirely speculating."
Asked about Mr Weaver's death, he said: "It's unlikely the hypoglycaemia precipitated his demise".
The defence agree Ms Arden and Mr Weaver were wrongly given insulin but insist the defendant did not administer the hormone.
Prof Frier said Mr Lancaster was "teetering on the edge of hypoglycaemia... at admission."
He added a drop in blood sugar was the result of terminal cancer and septicaemia, adding: "It's a final event in the course of his illness."
The court was told Mr Lancaster's cancer was so advanced his liver was almost completely replaced by tumours.
Prosecution witness Dr Peter Kroker had previously told the jury he believed hypoglycaemia most likely contributed to Ms Arden and Mr Weaver's deaths.
He added it was "more likely than not" the alleged administration of insulin hastened Mr Lancaster's death and it was a "major metabolic attack" on the patient's system.
Mr Chua also denies poisoning another 18 patients using saline solution contaminated with insulin in the summer of 2011 and altering prescription charts on a ward at the hospital in January 2012.
The case continues.


Real Madrid have unveiled a £330m redesign plan they hope will turn their Santiago Bernabeu ground into the best stadium in the world.

German architects GMP's design won the international tender and work will begin at the end of the season.
A new exterior will be built that includes a retractable roof and is due to be completed by 2017.
"We want to make the Santiago Bernabeu the best stadium in the world," said Real Madrid President Florentino Perez.
"Our commitment is to continue increasing the heritage of our club, thus gain in economic strength, so we can continue to lead in an environment of increasing competition.
"We believe in a project that will enhance our image, brand and city that we also feel proud of."
Reports in the Spanish media suggest half the financing for the project would come from selling naming rights and half from a bond issue among Real members.
The Bernabeu currently has a capacity of 85,454 but Real are yet to confirm whether this will change after the refurbishments.


Two passengers with HIV are suing a budget Chinese airline for refusing to let them board a plane.

Local media reports say the two men and a friend - who does not have HIV - were prevented from boarding a Spring Airlines plane at Shenyang airport.
The three of them are accusing the airline of discrimination. A court in Shenyang accepted their case on Friday.
Rights groups say that widespread stigmatisation of people with HIV and Aids still exists in China.
The airline's president Wang Zhenghua said on Tuesday that the company did not discriminate against HIV carriers, and blamed the incident on staff anxiety, according to the AFP news agency.
But he also blamed the passengers, and said the firm would allow HIV-positive travellers to board their planes  as long as they did not make themselves "overly noticeable" to avoid scaring other customers.
Spring Airlines' website states that it has the right to refuse passage to those with "infectious diseases". An airline spokesman told Caixin that since the incident, the airline has not turned away any HIV-positive passengers.
According to a report in the  Fazhi Evening Paper the three men were preparing to board a flight to Shijiazhuang, which is south of Beijing, on 28 July when they were stopped by officials.
One passenger told the paper: "After we got our boarding passes, we informed a Spring Airlines official that some of us had HIV."
"The official immediately rang up the Shanghai head office for instructions, and then told us the company has rules forbidding the transportation of passengers with HIV."
The  passenger said they were unable to negotiate with airline officials, who terminated the three passengers' tickets. They eventually took a train to their destination.
The three plaintiffs are now demanding compensation of 48,999 yuan (Â£4,771, $7,967) and an apology from the airline, said The Global Times.
Last year a government proposal to ban HIV patients from using public bathhouses was met with strong criticism.
China only lifted a longstanding ban on foreigners with HIV entering the country in 2010.
That same year, a Chinese court ruled against a man who said he was denied a teaching job because he had HIV, in what was the country's first HIV job discrimination case.


Several incidents of pollution across south Wales are being investigated by Natural Resources Wales.

One has caused a "significant fish kill", and been traced to a business park near Llantrisant.
Three incidents in south west Wales are believed to be from agricultural slurry spreading.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it was "disappointed" farmers were not following best practice.
Spreading slurry in the days before forecasted heavy rain or in wet ground conditions can lead to water pollution, said Huwel Manley, NRW operations manager.
He added: "We understand that farmers are keen to empty slurry stores at this time of year, but we are disappointed that farmers and contractors are not following best practice.
"Our officers will continue to assess the full impact of these latest pollution incidents and will be out on site again in the morning assessing the environmental impact."
In December, more than 1,000 fish died as a result of what is believed to have been a slurry leak in the Tregaron area.
NRW have urged people to report any pollution, dead fish or fish in distress.


Northampton Town fans are planning a peaceful protest before Saturday's League Two match against Oxford United over chairman David Cardoza's running of the club.

Cobblers chairman Cardoza has been in the process of selling the club to an Indian consortium since June.
The consortium's identity has still yet to be revealed, and the work to Sixfields' East Stand has stalled.
"It's badly timed - let's hope it doesn't have an impact," said Cardoza.
"The reason people are having their protest, the prospective owners are here to sort all these problems out. The fact they are protesting could work against us."
The London-based consortium are looking to buy both the football club and land around the Sixfields ground.
In 2013, Northampton Borough Council agreed to loan the club up to £12m to allow them to redevelop the stadium, including the addition of a housing scheme and local retail development.
However, Cardoza, who had been "unbelievably" supportive during his tenure, revealed that the reason the East Stand's redevelopment has stalled is because of issues surrounding the contractors.
"People want to know why we're in this position - it's because the contractors went bust and there's bits and pieces swirling around that, that's it really," he told BBC Radio Northampton.
"My father and I have spent an enormous amount of money making sure when these problems happen, that the football club would be protected, the loan gets paid back and the stand will get built - it will happen. Unfortunately it's taking longer than we hoped."
And Cardoza tried to allay fears over the takeover, having already released a statement saying that the takeover's due diligence process was close to completion.
"The takeover is still going ahead," he said. "I'm scratching my head a little bit about why people are asking for more information on that. I did say a month ago it may take another month.
"We're very close to the deal happening or not, whatever the case may be."
But Andy Clarke from the Supporters' Trust says Cardoza needs to do more for the fans, some of whom are using #wewantanswers on Twitter.
"There is a problem with the absolutely getting no answers to any questions," said Clarke.
"Clearly, contractual issues with the East Stand are very difficult, but there are other questions that have emerged that aren't so difficult that could really help.
"One of the problems we've got is that David Cardoza says, and I quite believe him, that he's in a difficult position as he doesn't know where it is, but he's the only one that knows anything.
"Deep down it's a fact that Chris Wilder, the club, the staff and the fans need to have a bit of a clearer view of the future. If David Cardoza can't give us those answers, I think it's down to him to give us some comfort and give us a feeling that he's the guy in charge and that he's still taking the project forward."


Labour MP John Mann has said he will vote to leave the EU and says Labour voters "fundamentally disagree" with the party's official position.

He told the BBC the EU was "broken" and "undemocratic" and told the Sun many Labour councillors would "shock" Westminster with their referendum vote.
Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner has also said he will vote to leave the EU.
Labour's leadership is campaigning to stay in the EU and says Labour votes will be crucial in the referendum.
Senior party figures including Ed Miliband, Tom Watson and Yvette Cooper are attempting to mobilise Labour voters to back the Remain campaign later, with warnings of what they say is the potential economic impact of a vote to leave.
Among Labour voices suggesting the party must do more to get its supporters to back Remain are London Mayor Sadiq Khan and GMB leader Tim Roache.
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But Mr Mann told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's not that Labour's not getting its message across to Labour voters, it's that Labour voters are fundamentally disagreeing on this issue."
He said he had tried putting the case for and against in public meetings but had "found it impossible to argue the case for because the EU's fundamentally broken, it's undemocratic and even when you want to get changes - as David Cameron tried - you can't get them".
He said, on immigration, the EU's free movement of people did not allow the UK to plan for pressure on its public services.
The Bassetlaw MP, who has been critical of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, denied his stance was anything to do with "internal Labour Party politics" adding: "Jeremy Corbyn is far more in touch on this issue than [former leader] Ed Miliband - hence he's been more equivocal in some of the things he has said."
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He added: "Dennis Skinner has done an article in the Morning Star today - he's one of Jeremy's big supporters."
Writing in the Sun, Mr Mann said many Labour councillors would "shock" Westminster with their referendum vote and said a "people's revolution is under way" which was about "returning power to the people".
He wrote: "It is not sustainable to have 300,000 new people added to the population every year. It has created two kinds of people in this country: the people who gain from this and the people who lose out."
Bolsover MP Mr Skinner told the Morning Star he did not believe progressive reform of the EU could be achieved.
"My opposition from the very beginning has been on the lines that fighting capitalism state-by-state is hard enough. It's even harder when you're fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28.
"What [the EU] should be doing, if it wanted to convince people like me, is have a directive to get rid of zero-hours contracts across the whole of the EU. That's what I'd be looking for."
Sadiq Khan, the newly-elected mayor of London, said on Thursday that Labour had a "monumental responsibility" to ensure it mobilised supporters to vote in favour of continued EU membership.
"The worry that we have is, for understandable reasons because a lot of the media attention has been on so-called 'blue on blue' attacks - Boris Johnson versus David Cameron, Michael Gove versus George Osborne - Labour voters have been turned off," he said.


The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has pressed for a further 2% cut in excise duty in next month's Budget by outlining the industry's value to the UK economy.

A report by the trade body said Scotch was now the biggest net contributor to the UK's balance of trade in goods.
SWA said last year's 2% cut in duty contributed to a £96m rise in revenue from spirit drinks for the Treasury.
It argued the move helped "to support the conditions for investment".
But SWA also said that despite the improvement, tax on an average-priced bottle of whisky still stood at an "onerous" 76%.
In its latest economic impact report, SWA estimated exports were worth almost £4bn in 2014, while imports such as packaging and casks amounted to £200m.
SWA said that gave the industry a trade balance of +£3.8bn.
That put it ahead of mechanical machinery (+£3.4bn), beverages (+£1.4bn) and works of art (+£1.2bn).
SWA claimed the UK's trade deficit of £34.8bn that year would have been 11% larger without Scotch's contribution.
Its report also estimated the industry directly added value of nearly £3.3bn to the UK economy - up 1.6% on figures it produced a year earlier.
Indirect and "induced" impacts added a further £1.7bn in value, it added.
The report also estimated the industry directly employed 10,800 people in Scotland, paying out £528m in salaries.
SWA chief executive David Frost said the figures re-emphasised how significant the Scotch whisky industry was to the Scottish and wider UK economy.
"Given the scale and impact of the Scotch whisky industry, we believe the government should re-double its efforts to support distillers.
"At home, in the short term, a further 2% duty cut in next month's Budget would be a major boost, supporting small businesses that rely on the home market and further investment in the sector."
A UK Treasury spokesman said: "Scotch whisky is a huge British success story, that's why we ended the spirits duty escalator and cut the duty on whisky and other spirits by 2% at last year's Budget.
"That means a bottle of Scotch whisky is now 70p cheaper than the duty plans we inherited in 2010.
"The government has also introduced the spirits verification scheme. This will help protect the integrity and high reputation of Scotch whisky by helping consumers in the UK and abroad to identify genuine products and avoid fakes."


Mott the Hoople founding member Pete Overend Watts has died aged 69.

The bassist played on songs including Roll Away The Stone and the group's best known hit All The Young Dudes, written and produced by David Bowie.
He died on Sunday of cancer, said Peter Purnell from record label Angel Air Records.
He said Watts was a "highly intelligent and witty man who throughout his adult life was both an immensely likeable character and an enigma".
His death comes almost exactly a year after that of drummer Dale Griffin.
Born in Yardley, Birmingham, Watts attended Ross Grammar School where he met Griffin. They played in local bands such as The Anchors, Wild Dogs Hellhounds and The Silence. The two friends went on to form The Doc Thomas Group with Mick Ralphs and Stan Tippins from The Buddies.
The line-up changed in 1968, when keyboard player Verden Allen joined, and they changed their name to The Shakedown Sound.
Allen posted on Facebook that Watts was a "warm, funny, intelligent, talented and hugely charismatic person" who "always had an entertaining story to tell".
In 1969 the musicians moved to London and came to the attention of record producer Guy Stevens who auditioned Ian Hunter and appointed him as their lead singer instead of Tippins, and Mott the Hoople was formed.
After the group split in 1974, Watts went on to form the bands Mott and British Lions.
He also ran a large retro store in Hereford, selling specialist clothing, unusual antiquities, instruments and rare music and wrote a book, The Man Who Hated Walking, which was published in 2013.
Watts, who lived just outside Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, is survived by his sister Jane.
Morgan Fisher, a former Mot the Hoople bandmate, posted a tribute on Facebook to Watts's "bravery, honesty, generosity, open heart and still-devastatingly witty humour during his last days".
Fisher added that "he left this world as a total hero, a samurai".
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The arrest of more than 20 people, many of them from Turkey's media, has ignited a war of words between pro-government and opposition press and TV outlets.

Many commentators condemn the police action against the Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu TV channel as a clampdown on press freedom. Both are described as being close to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement, whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses of running a "parallel state". Pro-government newspapers, however, defend the authorities' action.
"Hitler also started like this," says opposition leftist daily Taraf. "A strike against democracy," exclaims pro-Gulen newspaper Bugun.
"A raid meant to silence," declares Cumhuriyet. A commentary in the secular daily states that the administration led by President Erdogan "doesn't like anything that is associated with freedom of the press". "It is indisputable that this operation is aimed at strengthening RTE's [Recep Tayyip Erdogan's] authoritarianism and dictatorship," says the article.
"Opposing the raid against Zaman and Samanyolu TV and the detentions does not mean defending their [the Gulen community's] opinions, beliefs and activities. What is at stake here is the freedom of press," argues centre-left daily Radikal.
Zaman, the moderate, pro-Islamic and pro-Gulen daily whose editor in-chief Ekrem Dumanli was detained by the police, has replaced its blue and white masthead with black lettering. "Dark day for democracy," says the paper's headline.
Zaman also runs an article by Mr Dumanli in which he condemns those "who want to turn the country into a spy state and a republic of fear, and want to govern it as if it was their own private fiefdom". "We have a duty to make sure this won't be the case," writes the arrested journalist.
Turkish TV also aired criticism of the arrests. Privately-owned NTV and CNN-Turk showed footage of protesters in front of Zaman's headquarters in Istanbul, holding posters saying, ''We all need free press'' and ''Free media cannot be silenced."
CNN Turk and NTV broadcast critical statements from Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). He condemned the police action as a "coup". Mr Kilicdaroglu was also seen on state TRT Haber TV saying that ''if this country's media are not free, then the people will not be free either''.
Pro-government media have largely expressed strong support for the arrests.
All the participants in a studio discussion on pro-Erdogan Kanal 24 TV backed the actions of the authorities, with one of the guests warning that "this is only the beginning", and that new measures were imminent against a "large gang'' made up of subversive elements in the police, the courts, the media and business circles.
"Those who see this as an issue of media freedom know pretty well where the real problem lies," argues pro-government Yeni Safak. The paper states that no journalist should use his position "as a cover for other thingsâ€¦[to] turn journalism into a weapon and make it an extension of the struggle for power".
Referring to last year's corruption allegations against Mr Erdogan, which he says were part of a plot to topple him, pro-government Sabah also points out that "it is time for those who made hundreds of people suffer with fake evidence to account for what they did".
Pro-government Star recalls President Erdogan's promise to end Mr Gulen's alleged "parallel-state structure" and his words that "we will go into their caves". "Their caves have been entered," the daily says in a headline. The Star cautions Mr Erdogan's critics not to make hasty accusations, but rather to wait for the results of the investigation, which will reveal whether Zaman's editor-in-chief was really arrested for his journalistic activities.
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London's pay-as-you-go Oyster card is being extended to Gatwick Airport and five Surrey railway stations on the route from the airport to the capital.

The Department for Transport (DfT) said Oyster and contactless payments would be accepted at Horley, Salfords, Earlswood, Redhill and Merstham.
New ticketing arrangements come into force in January, the DfT said.
It follows an agreement between the government, Transport for London and rail operators.
The DfT said the pay-as-you-go fares would be cheaper than normal tickets and available on Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink services.
Currently, a single peak-time journey from Gatwick Airport in West Sussex to London terminals costs Â£15.40, compared with Â£14 under pay-as-you-go.
Rail commuters in Reigate and Redhill recently called for calls for London's transport zone to be extended to Surrey amid complaints about a "worsening service".


Police have seized about 17,000 suspected Diazepam tablets during the search of a house in Amcomri Street in west Belfast on Thursday.

A 33-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were arrested at the scene.
The man was later released unconditionally, while the woman remains in police custody.
A small amount of class b drugs and a quantity of cash were also recovered from the house.
A follow-up search was carried out in the Dunmurry area.


A former UKIP MEP's chief of staff has been given a suspended jail term after asking a restaurant to amend a £900 bill to more than £3,000 for a fraudulent expense claim.

Christine Hewitt, who was assistant to Janice Atkinson MEP, pleaded guilty at Canterbury Crown Court to fraud.
It followed an investigation by the Sun, which published a secret recording of Ms Hewitt in a Margate restaurant.
Hewitt, 55, of West Malling, was told to carry out 40 hours unpaid work.
Her four-month jail term was suspended for a year and she was ordered to pay £500 costs.
Following the incident, Kent Police carried out an investigation but did not accuse Ms Atkinson of any wrong-doing.
Both women, however, were expelled from UKIP for "bringing the party into disrepute".
Ms Atkinson went on to become an independent MEP.
After Hewitt was sentenced, Ms Atkinson said: "Kent Police conducted a thorough 10-month investigation into the matter and no charges were brought against any other people, only Mrs Hewitt.
"This has been an extremely difficult 18 months but I am now glad we can draw a line under the matter."


Defending champions Saracens will host Glasgow in the quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup.

The winners of that match will face the victors from the tie between Munster and Toulouse in the semi-finals.
Wasps visit Leinster and Clermont host Toulon in the other quarter-finals with the winners meeting in the last four.
In the Challenge Cup quarter-finals, Bath face Brive, Gloucester play Cardiff, Ospreys take on Stade Francais and Edinburgh host La Rochelle.
The Challenge Cup ties will be played on 30-31 March with the Champions Cup games on 1-2 April.
Clermont Auvergne v RC Toulon
Leinster v Wasps
Saracens v Glasgow Warriors
Munster v Toulouse
Bath v Brive
Gloucester v Cardiff
Edinburgh v La Rochelle
Ospreys v Stade Francais


An archive of more than 120,000 historical records and images detailing south Wales' felons from up to 100 years ago has been launched.

Ancestry's collection details crimes of men, women and children arrested and held at Swansea police station.
Convicts include Thomas Nash, the first murderer hanged privately at HM Prison Swansea, and William Boatwright, a 13-year-old egg thief.
Sentences ranged from corporal punishments to hard labour and fines.
The digital collection covers nearly 50 years of Welsh prison records and comes as part of a wider launch of more than six million records spanning 130 years, from original records held by West Glamorgan Archive Service.
The oldest felon to feature in the collection is Richard Evans, who was convicted for being drunk and disorderly and assaulting police aged 89.
Archibald Wilson Wall, 14, was convicted of stealing two tablets of jelly and two bottles of lime juice.
He was sentenced to one day in Cardiff Prison, and 12 strokes with the birch rod - but the friend he was arrested with, William George Parry, was sentenced to five years at a reformatory school.
Individuals would be held in county gaols and houses of correction until they were taken for trial in the Quarter Sessions, held four times a year, or Assizes, held bi-annually.


A world-weary police officer who posted a tirade about "stoned youths" on a force Facebook page has landed himself in trouble.

The fed-up bobby laid into anti-social teenagers, parents, and community support officers in the message.
It appeared on the GMP Irlam and Cadishead page on 7 May, prompting a complaint from a teacher, according to the Manchester Evening News.
Greater Manchester Police's Salford branch said it is investigating.
Ch Insp Glenn Jones said: "We have launched an internal investigation after we received a report of an inappropriate post on a GMP Facebook account.
"Officers and staff are expected to uphold the standards of behaviour in all of their duties including on social media."
The post has since been deleted.
"Good Morning everyone.
"An update on what's occurred in the area over the past 24hrs or so. It would be very quiet if it wasn't for one thing...or several "things"
"Kids/Yoofs/Yobs/Delinquents (cross out which one).
"There was a call to Heron Drive, Irlam to youths sitting or jumping on vehicles. The youths had gone home to mummy when officers arrived and no damage was found.
"There was a report of drunken youths on the fields at Sandy Lane, Irlam. Again, they had made off back to mummy, probably claiming that they had been doing their science project homework at a mates. How to get alcohol out of Â£3.60 dinner money.
"Please try and find out what your little Keanu or Beyonce are doing at night. If they're drinking or smoking weed, there will be signs. If they are, they will no doubt be causing mither in the street.
"Youths were throwing stones at residents houses and residents themselves, from the railway viaduct over Roseway Avenue, Cadishead.
"And finally, there was a call to Tesco at Woodrow Way, Irlam. Security called to report one man and his dog at the Cashpoint machines.
"Many cashpoint areas have points where you can leave deposits for the bank.  They did so.... Defecating at the cashpoint... Not the dog.... The man.We have a description (Of the man- not the deposit) and CCTV of the incident. The dog is entirely innocent... Wonder if it's a shih-tzu?
"Only me in today as the PCSO's don't work on Sunday's. They have the day off to play with their crayons and Lego.
"Take care and lock your kids up till school time on Monday."


Energy firm SSE is to be investigated by Ofgem over concerns that it restricted competition in the electricity connections market.

The government regulator has voiced concerns over how sites not yet connected to the grid choose where they get their power from.
The regulator said it had also found evidence that SSE may have breached competition law.
Ofgem will now examine whether SSE put its competitors at a disadvantage.
Customers who are not yet connected to the electricity grid, such as new housing developments, can choose who they get their electricity connection from, with the option to select an alternative, independent connection provider rather than the local distribution company.
Publishing the findings of a six month review into the electricity connections market, Ofgem said: "While we have seen more progress over the last five years to increase competition, the network company remains the sole provider for a number of key parts of the connections process."
Ofgem opened the review into the market for new connection in response to concerns about whether competition in the market was effective.
The watchdog invited responses from the public, carried out customer research and met a broad range of connection providers.
The review also identified differences in how connection services were provided across Britain.
Ofgem suggests network companies commit to an enforceable code of practice which would "level the playing field for competitors by reducing their reliance on the local electricity network companies".
The regulator said it was expecting electricity distribution network companies to confirm their commitment to the code by 18 February 2015.
Ofgem's senior partner for distribution, Maxine Frerk said: "We are requiring electricity network companies to work quickly to resolve the issues identified in the connections market, to reduce the hassle of getting connected to the grid and help lower costs for customers.
"We are determined to ensure this part of the energy market works in customers' interest and will use the full range of our powers to do so."
Ofgem, however, stressed that the fact it had launched an investigation did not in itself imply that SSE had breached competition law.
A spokesman for SSE said: "We acknowledge Ofgem's announcement of an investigation into its distribution business' provision of electricity connections services in central southern England.
"SSE will co-operate fully with the investigating authorities and will not make any further comment until the investigation is completed."


Birmingham City have signed defender Ryan Shotton on a permanent basis from Championship rivals Derby County, after having the player at St Andrew's on loan at the end of last season.

Shotton, 27, played nine times for Blues and scored one goal in a three-month stay between January and April.
The former Stoke City, Wigan and Barnsley player has agreed a deal until 2019 and moves for an undisclosed fee.
He becomes Blues second summer signing after midfielder Robert Tesche.
The club, who are set to change ownership in the coming weeks, finished 10th in the Championship last term, 11 points outside the play-off places.
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Twenty-three sheep have been killed after being run over by a gang of quad bike riders.

The area, in the Cotswolds, had been "plagued by gangs, indiscriminately smashing through gates" at high speed, The National Farmers Union (NFU) said.
Up to 30 incidents were reported, with electric fences destroyed, equipment stolen and livestock let loose.
The NFU said it was "disappointed" by Gloucestershire Police's response, although the force is investigating.
The sheep were killed on a farm near Cirencester run by Toby Baxter.
"Joyriders drove round the field at night and deliberately ran them over," he said.
"We suspect it was four high powered racing quad bikes. Everyone's seen them [the quad bike riders] - but you can't get anywhere near them."
The chair of Gloucestershire NFU, Tanya Robbins, said an increasing number of farmers had reported incidents.
"Gangs appear riding quad bikes, riding flat out and driving cars, smashing though gates and electric fences - anything that's in their way.
"They're going through at such speed, they're causing criminal damage. They're also letting out livestock. We're worried sick."
Ms Robbins said incidents had been reported in a 30 mile square area around Cheltenham, Winchcombe, Andoversford and Northleach.
"Where incidents have been reported the police have come out and taken details, but the farmers are telling me they just haven't heard any more.
"We want action. It's got to be stopped.
"The police have got helicopters - I'd like to know where these people are coming from."
Gloucestershire Police's rural crime officer, Simon Clemett, said he would be working closely with the NFU, the farmers involved and other police departments.
"We will be looking at prosecuting for criminal damage to property, including livestock that has been injured or killed," he said.
"It's not that we are not interested, we are very interested. But if people know this is going on and they're not calling it in, I would urge them to do so."


Gun salutes have been fired in London's Hyde Park to mark the Queen's 89th birthday.

The monarch is celebrating the occasion privately at Windsor Castle where she has been staying for the past month.
In her honour, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery staged a 41-gun royal salute in full dress uniform.
The salute was followed by a selection of celebratory music from the Band of the Royal Artillery close to the firing position.
The King's Troop rode their horses and gun carriages past Buckingham Palace at midday en route to Hyde Park, where they staged their gun salute using six 13-pounder field guns dating from around the time of World War One.
An hour later, the Honourable Artillery Company fired a 62-gun royal salute from the river bank at the Tower of London, overlooking HMS Belfast.
Three L118 ceremonial light guns, similar to those used in Afghanistan in recent years, were used to fire the salute across the Thames.
Gun salutes were also scheduled at Edinburgh and Stirling Castles, Cardiff Castle, and Hillsborough Castle in County Down.
The basic royal salute is 21 rounds. A further 20 are fired at royal parks and royal palaces and fortresses and another 21 for being in the City of London.
The birthday comes as people begin to gather outside St Mary's Hospital in London in anticipation of the birth of the Queen's newest great-grandchild.
The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth there to her and Prince William's second child later this month, with some fans already waiting as long as two weeks outside the hospital.
Kensington Palace said Prince William was now on unpaid leave until June after completing the first phase of his in-work air ambulance helicopter pilot training sooner than expected.
A palace spokesman said he would return to work after a period of pre-planned official royal engagements in late May.
Prince Harry will also briefly return to the UK this weekend, following the Gallipoli commemorations in Turkey, to attend the London Marathon as patron of the London Marathon Charitable Trust.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on 21 April, 1926, at the Mayfair home of her mother's parents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore.
Though the Queen's actual birthday is 21 April, her official birthday is held on a Saturday in June.
The tradition of two birthdays dates back to the time when, if monarchs were born in winter, the weather was deemed unsuitable for outdoor events.
In Britain the Queen's official birthday is traditionally marked by the Trooping the Colour ceremony in Horse Guards Parade.
Meanwhile, Clarence House said the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to visit the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in May.
Prince Charles and Camilla's four-day trip will reportedly take them to Mullaghmore, where the prince's great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bombing in August 1979.


Qantas has agreed to further compensate passengers affected by its move to ground its entire fleet over a dispute with unions.

The move comes after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) asked it to act on the matter.
Qantas had grounded its entire fleet on Saturday, affecting almost 70,000 passengers.
The airline resumed operations on Monday after a court ordered a permanent end to the dispute.
"Qantas agrees to, and accepts, the ACCC's request that it compensate passengers for all reasonable losses incurred as a direct result of the grounding," Qantas said in a statement.
"Qantas has always intended to ensure that disrupted customers incur no financial loss."
Qantas said it had already offered refunds, rebooking and compensation for expenses incurred by travellers, and will announce further measures as an apology to affected customers.
Earlier, the ACCC said that it had asked the airline for a report on the claims it had received and the redress provided on them.
"It is squarely in the airline's camp to make good," said Rod Sims chairman of ACCC.
"If you have incurred additional expenses as a result of the grounding, the ACCC is of the view that Qantas should compensate you for all your reasonable losses," he added.


A luxury Lamborghini sports car has been destroyed and a Ferrari badly damaged when they crashed in a tunnel under Beijing, China.

One person was injured in the crash on Saturday night, which happened during heavy rain near the national stadium.
Police said in a statement on Monday that both drivers were in their 20s and unemployed.
The statement prompted many questions online about how they came to be driving the cars.
"What are their names? Who are their fathers?" one user on the Weibo microblog site asked, according to AFP.
"Socialism is so good that it allows unemployed people to drive supercars," joked another.
Photos which emerged on Monday showed the lime green Lamborghini with its front section almost entirely torn off.
The red Ferrari appeared to have lost a door, and was bashed along on its side and rear.
The tunnel itself was also damaged, with a section of the wall torn off and guardrails mangled.
Workers could be seen clearing up debris strewn across the road.
The cause of the crash is not clear, but police are investigating. Witnesses told local media that the tunnel was often used for drag racing.
It was widely observed online that the crash coincided with both the Grand Prix being hosted in Shanghai and the premiere of the latest Fast and Furious film, a franchise full of fast cars and high-value write-offs.


The public services minister Leighton Andrews will strike a conciliatory tone when he addresses council leaders at their annual conference in Swansea today.

In a way, the tough talking has already been done with the outlining of proposals to bring the number of councils down to single figures from the existing 22.
Council leaders desperate to avoid this, and there are plenty of them, will be hoping that Labour is not in a position to deliver on the pledge after next year's assembly election results are known.
Labour does not have a majority at the assembly now and the inability to strike some kind of deal with any of the opposition parties shows no sign of abating.
There is a view among some insiders that these plans will not see the light of day, or as one AM put it to me: "It's like writing the menu for the return journey of the Titanic."
Despite the challenge of having to win a majority next year to ensure the new plan does become a reality, Leighton Andrews clearly feels he has stolen a march on the opposition by making Labour the only party which will campaign on reducing the cost of politics by cutting back on 22 separate entities.
The political calculation is that the majority of people agree with him that 22 is too many.
The other calculation is that while council reorganisation is not up there among the top three issues of health, education and the economy, it at least shows the willingness of the administration to take on the status quo.
Labour has been in power in Cardiff Bay since the start of devolution, and it is sensitive to the accusation of being stale and this could be a way of turning the narrative around.
It could also be a way of turning the narrative away from health which is threatening to dominate next year's assembly elections in a way it has never done before.
None of the council leaders gathering in Swansea will want to be seen to be blocking reform.
When you ask them, the vast majority say they believe change has to happen, but not reform in a way that would see most of them disappear, to be replaced by counties representing areas that were last lumped together in the 70s, 80s and early 90s.
One former leader unkindly suggested that the proposals for eight or nine smacked of a civil servant dusting the plan from the shelf because there had been a failure to come up with any new ideas.
If Labour's proposals come to pass, they will lead to the return of the big beasts of the council world.
The new leaders will command big organisations responsible for delivering services to populations of around half a million people in some cases.
It is this power which is the carrot that Leighton Andrews will dangle for them, claiming that the new bodies will have a far greater national voice and more potential to take on devolved services.
But all of these promises are being made against the backdrop of shrinking budgets, which is causing some in local government to question the very survival of many of the services they carry out.
The issue of cuts is being used in contrasting ways. The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) says the level of cuts is why re-organisation is an unnecessary distraction, while the Welsh government says the cuts are exactly why there should be reform so that an estimated saving of Â£60m a year can be made.
There will be plenty of claims and counter claims made about the savings and the costs of setting up new organisations and making people redundant.
All said and done, the key question is whether any of these changes will lead to better services for the public. And no-one knows the answer to that question.


Aberdeen City Council has admitted to a "serious failing" after repairs worth £200,000 were ordered to a cycle path without proper approval.

Work at the path involving a boundary wall on Wellington Brae in the Ferryhill area has been suspended while an investigation takes place.
Aberdeen City Council said there was doubt over who owns the land.
Council finance convener Willie Young said he and his family had owned the land in the past, but not currently.
Mr Young, a Labour councillor, has denied any wrongdoing.
The council said approval for the project did not follow the required governance procedures and was not presented for committee approval.
It said an urgent review was under way.
The path is cordoned off but no repair work is taking place.
The project was to be fully funded by cycling charity Sustrans, which awarded just over £21,000 for preliminary work, with the full funding to be paid when the work was completed.
Bernadette Marjoram, Aberdeen City Council's interim director of communities, housing and infrastructure, said: "The Wellington Brae cycleway repairs were first considered by officers of the council in 2016 following storm damage.
"Aberdeen City Council acknowledges the project did not subsequently follow the required governance procedures and was not presented for committee approval at any stage in the process.
"This is a serious failing by council officers and therefore an urgent review is under way. In light of this, work has been suspended."
She explained: "The project, which was to be fully funded by Sustrans, was instigated by staff of the planning and sustainable development service in conjunction with Sustrans on the basis the section is part of a national network.
"It should be stated no works were requested by landowners in the area surrounding the path and nor did any landowner seek funding for repairs.
"At this stage the ownership of the land is in question. Aberdeen City Council is urgently seeking to establish clarity in this respect.
"To reiterate, no elected member of Aberdeen City Council was given the opportunity to consider the Wellington Brae project at committee or was party to any decision taken."
Local SNP councillor Graham Dickson said: "This revelation needs to be fully investigated to ensure there has been no misuse of public funds.
"This decision appears to have bypassed all public scrutiny and we need to know who authorised what and why."
Tom Mason of the Scottish Conservatives said: "This appears to have been a failing in process on the part of council officers, and it is right that a proper investigation is carried out internally.
"I think most local residents would be surprised that the council cannot identify who owns the land in question. Officials must get to the bottom of this as soon as possible."
Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Yuill said: "Council staff must explain why this issue was not submitted to a council committee for approval.
"They must also make clear whether they realised there was a potential conflict of interest and what, if anything, they did because of that."
An Aberdeen City Council spokesman said: "As intimated in our initial statement on the Wellington Brae cycleway project on April 25, a full review into the circumstances remains ongoing.
"At this stage it would not be appropriate to comment on individual aspects under consideration as part of that review. The findings will be reported through appropriate channels in due course."


Police investigating a break-in at a supermarket spent hours searching the store's roof after staff reported hearing somebody above their heads.

Officers were alerted at about 09:00 BST that a man was stuck at the Aldi store in Littlefield Road, Dinnington.
South Yorkshire Police said following a search of the area they were "satisfied" no-one was there.
Reports of a break-in were received at 01.25, in which it was said entry had been gained via the air duct system.
One newspaper reported a man broke in overnight and became stuck in ventilation ducts.


Chichester's Pallant House Gallery has a new exhibition looking at how, in the late 1930s, British artists reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the great crisis in European politics in the period before World War Two.

The artists mostly supported the Republican side, which had been ejected from power by General Franco.  Most of the artists are dead - but painter Ursula McCannell can recall the Spain she encountered as a teenager in 1936.
Simon Martin has curated the exhibition Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War.
"It puzzles me that no-one has done the show before," says Martin. "It's fairly easy to discover how writers like George Orwell or WH Auden or Laurie Lee reacted to the Spanish crisis.  But what Britain's painters and sculptors did is less well known."
Given that the civil war ended in 1939, it's remarkable that the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester has pictures on the walls by a living artist, painted just after she returned from a country in the early stages of war.
McCannell was 13 at the time.  Today, at 91, she still paints at her home in Surrey.
Her father was Otway McCannell, a painter and teacher.  As with many intellectual British families in the 1930s there was much discussion at home of the growing crisis in Madrid.
She remembers her father worrying about the pressure the Republican government was under from the Nationalists under General Franco.  Later in the war he would plot the two sides' changing fortunes on a big map of Spain, despairing as the Republicans lost control.
"Every Thursday we had Left Book Club meetings at our house and there would be people talking about Spain and politics.  In truth, when we went to Torremolinos in 1936, it was partly to stay with a school friend.  But I remember the suffering of the local people clearly.  The sense of unease was obvious, even to a young person like me."
One of McCannell's paintings on show is Family of Beggars.  "I didn't paint or sketch in Torremolinos, which in those days was just a sleepy little village and totally unlike how it is now. I started the paintings when we got back to England.  There were quite a lot of them but I sold some.
"In fact the beggars were outside the cathedral at Malaga.  They were a pathetic sight but my parents thought I ought to see everything.
"When we got back I was interviewed by newspapers including the Daily Mail.  They were fascinated that a 13-year-old had painted pictures of the Spanish poor.  I wasn't painting the conflict as such, but they said I'd portrayed the suffering of refugees well.  You couldn't help being moved."
McCannell is among the last artistic witnesses to the crisis of Spanish politics in the 1930s.  Martin has selected around 100 other works to give an overview of how British art responded.
"Artists had seen the rise of Fascism in Germany but there was no political debate in Germany: the Nazis had simply crushed the opposition.
"Spain was different and at first it seemed the elected Republican government might be able to fight back.  So British artists felt it worthwhile to take sides.  Though it's true that only a few of the painters went to Spain once the conflict was underway: the poets did a bit better in that regard.
"But the very first British volunteer to die in Spain was an artist: Felicia Browne. She was killed during fighting in August 1936 and became a heroine for many in British art.
"In fact it became very difficult for artists and others to get to Spain: they would be denied visas.  Well-known names such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein tried to go but couldn't.  It's hard to think of artists today seeking to enter a dangerous war-zone: it's something we associate more with photo-journalism.
"People often assume all artists were anti-Franco and indeed modernist artists usually were.  But there were exceptions: the artist Wyndham Lewis was more sympathetic to the Nationalists, as we make clear.
Martin says one of the most interesting paintings is Clive Branson's Demonstration in Battersea.
"Branson came from a fairly well-off background and in the 1930s became a Communist.  He was one of the few British artists who actually did fight in Spain with the International Brigade.  When he was taken prisoner he did some quite well-known pictures of the camp he was in.
"But the Battersea picture has a real flavour of London politics in the 1930s.  The painting features the Union Jack, a Spanish flag and a red Communist banner.
And someone is reading the Daily Worker, which was the Communist newspaper of the time.  It's a record of a moment in political history."
The Pallant House exhibition is essentially about the work of British artists responding to events in Spain.  But Martin has made an exception for Picasso's well-known painting Weeping Woman, which belongs to the Tate.
"It's a picture of Picasso's lover Dora Marr, painted in 1937.  But I felt we needed to at least hint at how important Picasso was at that time for British artists.
"In 1938 Picasso's great classic Guernica was brought to England by the artist Roland Penrose.  It shows the German bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, done at Franco's request: it became a rallying point for those who detested Franco and the Fascists.
"Of course it would have been lovely to bring the original from Madrid but that might be a little impractical: so Weeping Woman can take its place."
One of the most chilling pictures is Premonition, by German artist Walter Nessler.  It seems to ask, as early as 1937, what would happen if the Germans ever bombed London.
Other artists in the exhibition include Henry Moore, Edward Burra and E McKnight Kauffer, best known for his poster work.
Martin says it's fascinating how many of them draw on the imagery of Spain's Old Masters.  "Look around the walls and you'll see an influence of Velazquez here and there.  And certainly Ursula McCannell was aware of the work of El Greco - which for a teenager was pretty remarkable."
He says he'll be delighted if his show makes visitors more aware of the political engagement of the artists of the 1930s.
"Someone like Henry Moore now seems an establishment figure but this show will remind people that these artists were once young and politically engaged.  It was a time when culture and politics intersected - it's a rich and fascinating moment in art."
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War runs until 15 February 2015 at Pallant House, Chichester.


Police say a teenage girl who disappeared from the south side of Glasgow on Sunday has been traced.

Sophie Lindsay, 15, was reported missing after being last seen at about 13:15 in the city's Sherbrooke Avenue at the weekend.
At the time, police said she had been missing before but not for a prolonged period of time.
However, officers said on Wednesday that the teenager had been found safe and well.


Surrey have signed West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo as their second overseas player for the T20 Blast.

The 32-year-old, who has scored 4,492 runs and taken 285 wickets in 277 career Twenty20 appearances, will be available to play throughout June.
He joins Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara, who will feature in all three forms of the game for the county.
"Dwayne is one of the top all-rounders in world T20 cricket," Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart said.
"He's played with great success wherever he's been, so to secure his services is a great coup for us," the former England wicketkeeper added.
Bravo has played 40 Tests, 164 one-day internationals and 55 Twenty20 internationals for the West Indies.
The Trinidad-born right-hander has recently been playing for Melbourne Renegades in Australia's Big Bash and will represent the Rajkot franchise in the upcoming Indian Premier League.


Louis Maguire has been jailed for 17 years for the murder of a man who was beaten to death with a claw hammer in north Belfast.

30 November 2016 Last updated at 14:58 GMT
Following the sentencing, police released a recording of a 999 call which Maguire made after carrying out the murder, in which he claimed to police that he had returned home and found Mr Ferguson badly injured in his house.


A second crossbow attack on a bird in Cambridgeshire is evidence of "a sustained attack on the wildlife of the area", the RSPCA has warned.

A swan is currently being treated in intensive care at the charity's Norfolk hospital after being found in Upwell with two crossbow bolts embedded in it.
Last month a goose was found near Elm with a crossbow bolt in its back.
The RSPCA described the latest attack on the swan, on Sunday, as "truly horrific, senseless and violent".
The swan was spotted with a crossbow bolt protruding from its shoulder.
An X-ray carried out at the RSPCA's East Winch Wildlife Centre revealed a second bolt embedded near its tail.
RSPCA inspector Justin Stubbs, who rescued the bird, said: "Presumably someone must have shot this beautiful bird with this cruel weapon, and then calmly reloaded and shot him a second time.
"This is the most recent in what feels like a sustained attack on the wildlife in this area and I am very anxious to put a stop to it."
Alison Charles, East Winch manager, said: "Sadly it is not looking good for this poor swan at the moment. He has not been as lucky as the goose.
"The bolt penetrated one of his air sacs and had dead tissue around it.
"The injuries here are truly horrific, it is so sad. It seems such a senseless and violent way to treat such graceful birds."
Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is an offence to take, injure or kill a swan and punishment can include fines up to Â£5,000 or a prison sentence of up to six months.


Post-16 education must improve to help all teenagers without good GCSEs to catch up, says a charity.

Too many of those who retake English and maths fail to achieve the benchmark A* to C grades by 19, says Impetus PEF.
Since 2013, teenagers in England who do not meet the standard at 16 have had to study the subjects until they are 19.
The Association of Colleges said its members had "embraced the challenge" of ensuring all students achieve a good level of core skills.
The charity, which funds groups working with young people who are not in education, employment or training, says the most recent results for post-16 education suggest many students do not improve their standards despite the extra years of study.
And this is particularly true of students from poorer homes, who are statistically more likely to need to resit their GCSEs to achieve the benchmark standard, say the researchers.
The results for the first students to continue to study English and maths after 16 will not be available until next year - so the researchers analysed existing results.
They looked at the most recent Department for Education figures - for students who left school at 16 without good grades in English and maths in 2012 - before the rules changed.
Overall, in 2012, 201,683 students left school without achieving A* to C in English and 186,160 in maths.
In English, just over a quarter of these enrolled on a post-16 catch-up course, while the figure for maths was 20%.
But well over half (58%) of those who retook English still did not achieve the required grade the age of 19.
In maths the figure was 65%.
The researchers point out that students eligible for free school meals fared appreciably worse than better-off students, according to a separate set of government figures for young people turning 19 in 2014.
Of those on free school meals, only 39% had achieved good grades in English and maths GCSE or equivalent at 16, compared with 65% of their better-off peers.
By 19, just 45% of those on free school meals had achieved the benchmark standard, compared with 71% of the better-off students.
The researchers say these figures suggest the post-16 system will struggle to boost outcomes for the larger group of people now staying on in education or training.
"Current performance of post-16 provision suggests the system will struggle to get all young people who failed at 16 caught up by 19 as they aren't doing this well for the small number who enrol currently," they argue.
"Given there are more free school meals students not achieving at 16, the significant proportion of the students who will be required to catch up will be from a disadvantaged background, which suggests a higher proportion of free school meals students will not catch up by 19, if post-16 provision continues to perform as it is now."
Impetus PEF chief executive Andy Ratcliffe said catching up was crucial for young people.
"If they don't get the grades at 16, they need a second chance to catch up by 19. Sadly, most don't catch up and without those qualifications life after school is much tougher, with fewer options for jobs and education."
Catherine Sezen of the Association of Colleges, said the new rules gave colleges the challenge of giving a growing number of 16-year-olds a second chance at English and maths GCSEs "after 11 years at school", alongside training them for technical and professional qualifications.
"Colleges, schools and the government must work together to ensure that all students achieve a good level of core skills in these subjects by the time they leave education and training," said Ms Sezen.
A Department for Education spokesman said the government was providing an extra Â£480 per student, per subject for all those with GCSE English or maths below grade C.
It had also invested Â£30m over the past two years to boost core skills in the further education workforce, said the spokesman.
To help colleges boost grades


A rare blue marlin which washed up on a Pembrokeshire beach has gone on display at London's Natural History Museum.

The 13ft (4m)-long fish was discovered at Freshwater East in September last year, and initially thought to be a swordfish.
But Oliver Crimmen, the museum's senior fish curator, said it was "the first complete blue marlin to be washed up on British shores".
The museum collected the fish and it is now on display in its new Hintze Hall.
Mr Crimmen said: "The blue marlin is still highly prized by fishermen and is under threat from both commercial and trophy fishing, and the species is listed as vulnerable to extinction on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List."
He said it was one of the largest of more than 900,000 fish specimens stored at the museum.
Mr Crimmen said the display would initially appear cloudy during the first few weeks after installation as the fish has been specially preserved in glycerol.
But he added: "It is hoped that this technique will give a more natural appearance, restoring some of the specimen's pigmentation."
Blue marlin spend most of their life in the open sea, far from land, and are more often associated with warmer waters.
Two of the three which have washed up in the UK were found in Pembrokeshire - the first in Saundersfoot in 2008, but it was not good enough to be preserved.


British soul singer Sam Smith has won four Grammy Awards in the US, including the prestigious prizes for record and song of the year and best new artist.

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10 February 2015 Last updated at 07:41 GMT
He was rewarded for being the only solo artist to sell more than one million albums in both the UK and US in 2014.
Now the star's childhood music teacher, Joanna Eden, has said she ''shed a few tears'' at his success.