A hospital specialising in brain and spinal injuries has been praised by health inspectors for the "outstanding" care it offers to patients.

The Walton Centre in Liverpool was given the highest rating by the Care Quality Commission following an inspection in April.
Inspectors described the unit as a "centre of excellence, delivering state-of-the-art, world-class care".
Liverpool now has the only two top-rated specialist hospitals in the UK.
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only specialist hospital trust in the UK providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services.
Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, said his team found the hospital "outstanding for being effective and caring".
"We were particularly impressed with the centre's attention to detail throughout the patients' journey through the hospital.
All of this demonstrates that this is one of the best specialist trusts in England and I congratulate all the staff on their outstanding rating."
The Walton Centre receives patients from Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, the Isle of Man and North Wales, a catchment area with a population of 3.5 million people.
Chief Executive Chris Harrop said it was a "fantastic result".
"I am overwhelmed by the commitment our staff give so willingly to help patients and pioneer new ways of working so that patients can access the best care, the best treatments and have the best possible outcome."
Liverpool's Heart and Chest Hospital is the only other specialist hospital trust in the country to receive the CQC's "outstanding" rating.


There will be no further action after a woman, 88, was injured at a Rhondda Cynon Taf hospital and later died.

Tegwen Roderick from Abercanaid, near Merthyr Tydfil, received "serious but unexplained" injuries at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon in June 2014.
Several arrests were made after her death six months later, but the Crown Prosecution Service said they had "no further interest" in the case.
Mrs Roderick's family expressed concern about the care she had received.
The decision not to prosecute was made on 20 January, and Coroner Andrew Barkley told a pre-inquest hearing at Aberdare Coroner's Court it was "regrettable" he had not been informed sooner in order to move quicker to a full inquest.
He said there would be a fuller pre-inquest review in about a month, and a full inquest would follow as soon as possible.
During the police investigation three women and a man were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two of the women also faced assault allegations.


Forget last week's carefully constructed instructions from Number 10, the private disagreements in the cabinet over Europe have now gone public.

The leader of the House of Commons, Chris Grayling, has made it abundantly clear that the chances of him voting to stay in the EU are about the same as the chances of David Cameron inviting Jeremy Corbyn along the next time he and Samantha pop down to Cornwall.
Grayling is careful to say that he supports the prime minister's efforts to change our relationship with the rest of the EU. But his clear implication is that he will not just vote to leave, but will take a prominent role in the campaign for exit. No question, this will test the truce Number 10 had hoped would last until the negotiations with the rest of the EU were complete.
It's clear several other cabinet ministers, perhaps as many as seven, share Mr Grayling's view.
Whether they are ready to follow him and go (almost) public is another matter.
But less than a week after they were published, at least one cabinet minister is already bending the rules.


A bus driver who killed a colleague after passing out at the wheel should have followed medical advice after previous faints, an inquiry has found.

Jim Lochrie, 62, died after being hit by a vehicle driven by David Logue at a bus stop in Glasgow on 31 March 2012.
A fatal accident inquiry heard Mr Logue was told to avoid becoming dehydrated after other faints in 1998 and 2008.
Sheriff Kenneth Mitchell said the death may have been avoided if Mr Logue had followed advice or not driven at all.
The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into Mr Lochrie's death was held at Glasgow Sheriff Court earlier this year.
The inquiry heard that Mr Logue worked with Mr Lochrie at First Glasgow's depot in Victoria Road, in the city's south side.
On the day of the crash, Mr Lochrie was waiting at a bus stop on nearby Cathcart Road, when the bus driven by Mr Logue's bus ploughed into it.
Witness Stuart Purves told the inquiry how he went to help and found Mr Logue behind the wheel with his eyes wide open, staring into space and looking like "a mannequin".
He said the driver said he felt sick and had a sore head.
On hearing that there was someone pinned under the bus, Mr Purves said Mr Logue repeated: "Oh, what have I done?"
Mr Logue cried when he spoke about his colleague while giving evidence.
Recalling the event he said: "I was doing about 20mph. The next thing I remember is someone banging.
"I came to and I was slumped over the wheel and there was a brick wall in front of me."
The inquiry heard that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) was not informed by Mr Logue that he had suffered "dizzy turns" in 1998 and he did not report "dizzy turns" to the DVLA prior to the accident which resulted in Mr Lochrie's death.
He informed them he had blacked out in 1998 and fainted at work in 2008 due to lack of hydration but did not mention that it was while driving a bus.
In June 2008, after the incident, Dr Byrne, a consultant cardiologist at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow gave Mr Logue advice to avoid him becoming dehydrated and fainting while driving.
In August 2008 in response to a request from the DVLA, Dr Byrne completed a DVLA medical report advising that the episode in June 2008 had been attributed to a simple faint.
There was no obvious space on the DVLA form to include further information regarding the circumstances of the accident.
Dr Byrne did not send an accompanying letter advising the DVLA that Mr Logue was driving a bus at the time of the episode when he returned the report.
In his judgement, Sheriff Mitchell said: "A reasonable precaution, whereby the accident resulting in Mr Lochrie's death might have been avoided, was for Mr Logue to have followed the advice given to him on June 17, 2008 by Dr John Byrne, to maintain a sufficient dietary and fluid intake to avoid becoming dehydrated and having a further vasovagal (fainting) episode provoked by dehydration whilst he was driving a motor vehicle.
"Alternatively, if Mr Logue was not prepared to follow Dr Byrne's advice (as I have found established), it was a reasonable precaution, whereby the accident resulting in Mr Lochrie's death might have been avoided, for Mr Logue simply not to have driven any type of motor vehicle, whether a car or a bus."
The Crown Office decided Mr Logue would not face prosecution over Mr Lochrie's death.
A Crown office spokesman said: "The decision not to prosecute Mr Logue was taken by Crown Counsel following full and careful consideration of all the evidence relevant to criminal responsibility.
"The Crown cannot raise proceedings where there is insufficient evidence in law to show that he had committed a criminal offence."
A similar decision was made not to prosecute Harry Clarke, the driver of the bin lorry that killed six people in Glasgow's Queen Street on 22 December 2014.


The largest ever fine handed to a Welsh company for flouting fire safety regulations has been given to a Torfaen recycling firm.

Cwmbran-based MDS Recycling was ordered to pay £45,000 plus £3,207 costs at Cwmbran Magistrates' Court.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service brought the case after a visit by safety officers in July 2014.
The company faced nine charges, with prosecutors saying staff were at risk of death if a fire started.
An MDS Recycling spokesman said the firm regretted what happened and it currently complies with all regulations.
The company was visited at its Avondale Industrial Estate base as part of a risk-based inspection programme.
The court was told one fire exit was completely blocked by stacked recycled material, and the only other one available had LPG cylinders and combustibles stored by it.
Other offences included storing waste materials and LPG Cylinders inappropriately at the site.
It was also found the site was not fitted with an appropriate working fire alarm system or any emergency lighting.
The maximum fine of £5,000 was imposed for each offence.


He is the man who took a rag-tag bunch of political misfits to the brink of achieving their dream of an independent Scotland.

He defied the odds at every stage of his career, conjuring impossible victories at the ballot box and outmanoeuvring his political opponents with a trademark blend of mischief and guile.
As he departs as Scottish National Party leader and first minister, after losing Scotland's independence referendum, it is difficult to believe we have seen last of Alex Salmond.
He has bounced back many times before during his extraordinary 20 year career at the head of Scotland's independence movement.
And even as he announced his decision to quit, to make way, he said, for a new generation of leaders, there were hints that we had not seen the last of him.
So what was it about the ebullient, quick-witted former economist, who never seemed lost for words - except, perhaps, when he was contemplating the destruction of everything he had worked for since his student days - that made him such an effective political leader?
Despite his public image, Salmond is often described as a very private person. No one has ever doubted his commitment to the nationalist cause and the incredible drive and energy he has devoted to it during the course of his long career. But where did it come from?
Most look for clues in his modest upbringing.
There is still "something of the chippy, working-class boy who made it to St Andrews [university] and has been determined to show how much cleverer he was than everyone else," a former Salmond aide told David Torrance in his 2010 biography of the SNP leader Against the Odds.
After all, Alexander Elliott Anderson Salmond grew up on a council estate in Linlithgow, a small town in the central belt of Scotland, a traditional Labour Party stronghold. The second of four children, his father, a civil servant, voted Labour and his mother was, in Salmond's words, a "Churchill Conservative".
All four of the Salmond children went to university and it was a politically aware household. In an interview with The Independent in 2008, Salmond fondly remembers how Hogmanay celebrations, which fell on his birthday, invariably ended in a political debate in the small hours.
His enthusiasm for sport - and Heart of Midlothian football club - predated his interest in politics although his asthma restricted his prowess on the football field. He got his lifelong passion for golf from his father and, according to David Torrance's book, played most Saturday mornings from the age of five.  The result, he told The Independent, is "a beautiful swing, a wonderful swing, but I can't chip or putt any more".
Horse racing was another early passion. Salmond likes to recall his first bet, at the age of nine, when his uncle put half a crown on Arkle, the winner of the 1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and they crowded round the family's black and white television set to watch the race. Salmond wrote a tipping column for The Scotsman and continues to enjoy a flutter.
He always cites his grandfather, who filled him with tales of Scottish history, as a source of inspiration. The family lived a short walk from Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, and it was here that the young Salmond began to learn about his country's bloody past.
"The most important person in my life was my grandfather," Salmond recently told broadcaster Derek Bateman.
"He was the town plumber in Linlithgow. And my grandfather was a local historian. He was a national historian. He took me around Linlithgow. He showed me where all the great things had happened. I got Braveheart from my grandfather's knee."
Salmond often recalls the time a Labour Party canvasser came to the door. "That's OK," said the Labour man, when told about Mrs Salmond's Tory allegiances. "Just as long as she's not voting for the Scottish Nose Pickers." His father, who was friends with an SNP supporter, was so incensed by the slur that he switched to the nationalist side, and his young son followed suit. Or so the story goes.
His political roots set, Salmond took to campaigning for the SNP from an early age, even winning a mock election for the party at his primary school by promising to replace free school milk with ice cream.
But he did not cut his ties with Labour and join the SNP officially until he got to St Andrews University, where he studied medieval history and economics. He got involved in student politics but was growing increasingly disillusioned with Labour's commitment to the Union.
"I had a blazing row with a [Labour-supporting] girlfriend from Hackney and she said 'if you feel like that - go and join the bloody SNP', so I did," he told The Guardian in 1991.
According to David Torrance's biography, Salmond and a friend went to the AGM of the university branch of the Federation of Student Nationalists the following day and, being the only two fully paid-up SNP members on campus, they were duly elected president and treasurer.
Salmond was "very serious about politics" at university, says BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor, a St Andrews contemporary, but he was also "motivated by mischief", something that is still evident in the SNP leader today, he adds.
After leaving St Andrews, Salmond was unemployed for six months. He is reported to have considered becoming a Church of Scotland minister, and attempted to get a job in journalism with the BBC, before passing the civil service exam and starting work as an economist in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, in Edinburgh.
It was here that he met and fell in love with his future wife Moira.
Much has been written about the 17 year age gap between the couple - he was 27 and she was 44 when they married - and the fact that she has stayed out of the spotlight.
Some Salmond-watchers see significance in the fact that the couple do not have children. Did that make him even more determined to leave something lasting behind?
Salmond is quick to dismiss such talk, and equally quick to praise Moira's loyalty and grace.
In her only media interview, nearly 25 years ago, she said: "I married Alex not politics. That's his life and I am happy to be in the background."
She also revealed that they liked to play Scrabble together in the home they share in the Aberdeenshire village of Strichen, although they sometimes fell out because Salmond kept changing the rules.
She is, by all accounts, a well-liked figure in the party and is thought by those closest to Salmond to be a key factor in his political rise.
She is often credited with knocking some of the rough edges off Salmond and giving him a more mature outlook. She even taught him to drive shortly after they were married.
Salmond was a committed socialist at this stage and starting to make waves as a firebrand speaker at SNP gatherings.
Frustrated by life in the civil service, he managed to land a prestigious role as an economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland, specialising in oil and energy markets.
His new job strengthened his commitment to independence still further, he told The Guardian in 1991, "exposing for me a mythology I grew up with: that Scotland was a small, poor, dependent country reliant on munificence from outside".
This is a common theme whenever Salmond is asked about the roots of his nationalism - his belief that Scotland has what it takes to go it alone as "a country which can hold its head up".
But the SNP in the early 1980s was in a sorry state.
The party had been dealt a body blow by the result of March 1979's Scottish devolution referendum. The majority of Scots that took part in the vote backed home rule - but the Labour government had set a threshold of 40% of the total electorate for the result to stand.
In the general election that followed, the SNP lost nine of its 11 MPs and looked like it might he heading for extinction as a political force.
Salmond had hitched his star to the "79 Group", a small band of left-wing rebels dedicated to transforming Scotland into an independent socialist republic.
They managed to get up the noses of the party's traditionalist wing, which held sway under the moderate, centrist leadership of Gordon Wilson. In 1982, after one publicity stunt too many, and controversial efforts to forge links with Labour supporters, seven of the group, including Salmond, were expelled from the party.
The ultra-nationalist - some would say neo-fascist - Siol nan Gaidheal faction was expelled around the same time as Wilson battled to stop the party from splitting.
Salmond was only re-admitted when he signed a loyalty oath - but he continued to be frustrated by the party's lack of political direction. Its conferences brought out an odd mix of angry socialists in leather jackets, broadsword-wielding men in kilts dreaming of William Wallace and tweedy former Conservatives.
"Because we weren't anchored to a political base, we were vulnerable to being called all sorts of ridiculous names; tartan Tories and tartan Trots at the same time.  If you don't own up to a particular identity, you can't complain if someone pins one on you," said Salmond in 1991.
His mission was to carve out a distinct, left-wing political identity for the SNP. Something that would appeal to traditional Labour-voters in West and Central Scotland - voters that would be key to any future independence referendum.
In 1987, he defeated Tory MP Albert McQuarrie in Banff and Buchan to win a seat in the House of Commons. Now, at last, he had the national stage he needed for a bit of trademark Salmond mischief.
The following year he grabbed headlines around the world by interrupting Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Budget speech.
"What I said, although they turned my microphone off, was 'Poll tax for the poor, tax cuts for the rich, nothing for the National Health Service - an obscenity!' That was my wee speech," Salmond recalled earlier this year in an interview with Derek Bateman.
The sitting was suspended for more than 20 minutes as MPs voted - by 400 to 23 - to expel the SNP troublemaker. He emerged to a sight that would soon become very familiar to him - a media scrum begging for a soundbite for the evening news.
"I walked out from total nonentity to notoriety," he recalled decades later, still relishing the moment.
"It was a very astute thing to do, but that was Alex Salmond," says Murray Ritchie, former Scottish Political Editor of The Herald. "He was an opportunist of considerable talent."
His next goal was the party leadership and in 1990 he got it, after a divisive battle with the only other contender, SNP grandee Margaret Ewing.
In one early coup he persuaded his golfing pal Sean Connery to star in a party political broadcast - his financial support for the party had reportedly almost cost the James Bond actor his knighthood.
Salmond began to move the SNP in a more moderate direction, easing back on some of his earlier left-wing rhetoric and talking about how an independent Scotland would seek to join the European Union. He began to make the economic case for independence more loudly, and shift perceptions of the party as a bunch of narrow "little Scotland" nationalists.
He recently revealed that he is haunted by Michael Foot's withering put down of David Steel, that he "went from boy wonder to elder statesman with no intervening period whatsoever." He took the decision to grow into a more statesmanlike figure, someone who could lead a country not just a pressure group.
Many of the heavyweights that might have proved a threat to his supremacy in Scotland, such as Gordon Brown, Charles Kennedy or Alistair Darling, chose to make their careers in London, leaving the field clear for Salmond to dominate.
He kept the party's commitment to a fully independent Scotland but joined forces with Scottish Labour Leader Donald Dewar and Scottish Lib Dem leader Jim Wallace to campaign for devolution in the 1997 Scottish referendum.
The fundamentalist wing of the party - the "fundies" - scented betrayal. Their anger was further stoked when news came through that Salmond had accepted an invitation to tea with Prince Charles. The SNP man explained his ideas for a "slimmed down monarchy" to the heir to the throne. While Salmond may have thought he was playing the long game, to his growing army of internal critics it looked like he was consorting with Scotland's enemies and his "gradualist" philosophy was just a polite way of saying he had sold out.
And there was another problem.
The SNP leader had always been something of a lone operator. Despite his clubbable image, he never had a large circle of friends or even much of a fan club within the party itself. He was described by critics as "aloof" and "intellectually arrogant". Now they were calling him "dictatorial".
It did not help Salmond that the party was struggling to make headway against Labour at the ballot box. The best it could manage in the first elections to the new Scottish Parliament, in 1999, was becoming the main opposition to the Labour-Lib Dem coalition government.
Independence Day had been put back again. "Free by '93" had once been the SNP's battle cry. Now Salmond was talking about 2007. Some nationalists believed their newly-pragmatic leader would have been happy to settle for much less.
In 2000, Salmond got into a spat with one of his most vocal critics over the party's finances and then - to the surprise of most observers, for whom the SNP was Alex Salmond - he stood down as leader.
Telling the media he was "knackered", he quit his Scottish Parliament seat to concentrate on life as an MP at Westminster.
His exile lasted just four years - during which time John Swinney led the party - before grassroots members begged him to return.
"I did not expect to be ever doing the job again, however time and circumstances change," he told a news conference with his choice of deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, at his side.
"I am not just launching a campaign to be SNP leader," he told reporters. "I am launching my candidacy to be the first minister of Scotland."
The old swagger was still there - but there were serious doubts about whether he could ever win the majority he would need to secure a referendum in a Scottish political system specifically designed to prevent one party rule.
Not for the first time, Salmond's opponents, particularly those in the Scottish Labour Party, underestimated him.
The SNP broke the system. If Labour was shocked to lose to the nationalists by a single seat in 2007, ushering in a minority SNP government at Holyrood with Salmond as first minister, it was nothing compared to what was to come.
With a 15-point lead in some polls, the 2011 Scottish election was Labour's to lose - and that's precisely what they did.
Alex Salmond made history by becoming first minister in a majority Scottish government and, after all the decades of frustration, false starts and in-fighting, a referendum was now on the table.
The only problem, claimed the pundits, was that Salmond, ever the canny strategist, did not really want one. At least not now, with the global financial system in meltdown and any hopes of signing up to the euro, becoming the next "Celtic tiger", having disappeared down the drain.
So confident was Prime Minister David Cameron - he had seen the polls putting the pro-Union camp 20 points or more ahead - that Salmond did not want a referendum that he took to taunting him from the Conservative Party conference stage to name a date.
When the two men finally sat down to hammer out an agreement on the referendum, many Westminster pundits thought Cameron had outfoxed Salmond by refusing to allow a third question on the ballot paper.
Cameron was confident that the SNP could not win in a straight yes/no contest, so rejected Salmond's demands for a third "devo max" option - more powers for the Scottish Parliament in lieu of full independence - to be added to the ballot paper.
"He [Salmond] may well be forced to hold a referendum knowing that he will lose. The greatest political conjuror of recent times will have run out of tricks," wrote commentator Steve Richards in The Independent.
In the event, Salmond came far closer to winning the referendum than anyone thought possible when it was announced. The Yes campaign's late surge in the polls shocked the Westminster establishment into offering what may amount to a form of "devo max" after all, before a single vote had been cast.
Perhaps the old conjuror has a few tricks left up his sleeve after all.
Salmond called the referendum a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Scottish people. He will soon turn 60 and may not get another shot at it.
That, he suggested, was one reason why he had decided to step down as SNP leader. Twenty years as SNP leader, with a four year break, and seven years as first minister, something that has been "the privilege of my life" was, he said, a "fair spell".
But with characteristic defiance, he said Scotland "could still emerge as the real winner" and suggested his legacy was the tens of thousands of "energised activists" that had been drawn into politics through the Yes campaign, "who I predict will refuse to go meekly back into the political shadows".
He may have departed the stage but, he told the reporters, he would "continue to contribute" and said the dream of Scottish independence "will never die".


Visitors to Sark may be able to travel directly to the Channel Island if the roles of police and immigration officers are combined.

Currently, people have to go via another Channel Islands customs post - either Guernsey, Jersey or Alderney - to meet immigration and customs laws.
The suggestion of a joint role has been made in a review of policing in Sark.
The island currently has two voluntary part-time officers for the 600-strong population.
Supt Nigel Taylor, from Guernsey Police, is assisting the Sark authorities with the review.
He said: "There are opportunities for a dual-warranted individual... to carry out the functions of customs and policing providing the necessary training is in place.
"[We're] exploring all the options to make sure it's cost effective policing in Sark, but it's also fit for a modern day society."
The Guernsey Border Agency and the island's police force have been united under a head of law enforcement, but no plans to merge the two organisations have been released.


The Iraq inquiry has been "too easygoing" in grilling witnesses about the lead-up to the war, a former UK diplomat has said.

Carne Ross told the BBC that chairman Sir John Chilcot was running a "narrow" investigation, with the standard of questioning "pretty low".
Mr Ross alleges that the Foreign Office withheld key documents before he gave evidence to the inquiry recently.
But Sir John has promised an "open, thorough and fair process".
The inquiry will hear on Tuesday from Hans Blix, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq.
Sir John and his colleagues are coming towards the end of their public evidence sessions, with a report expected to be published around the end of the year.
Mr Ross, the UK's Iraq expert at the United Nations from 1997 to 2002, says the Foreign Office withheld documents relating to the build-up to the 2003 invasion which he requested ahead of appearing before the inquiry earlier this month.
These allegedly include one about a visit to Syria by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and another on the failure to deal with a pipeline he said enabled Iraq to illegally export oil through Syria.
Mr Ross also says he was urged by a Foreign Office worker not to refer to a memo to the special adviser to the then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, expressing concern that a briefing paper for Labour MPs and peers had altered the assessment of Iraq's nuclear threat.
He told the BBC the Chilcot inquiry was not doing enough to ensure it got a full picture of events.
Mr Ross said: "The other government witnesses are giving a partial view... I think that the standard of interrogation by the panel is pretty low. The level of questioning is very easygoing.
"In particular my greatest concern is that witnesses are not being challenged on the contradictions between what they are saying to the panel and what's in the documents."
Mr Ross said he found the situation "very troubling", adding: "Chilcot says he's got full access to documents. My concern is how can they find their way around this vast number of documents without people [helping them]? I tried to get access to the documents. I was not given full access."
He went on: "It's clear he's not concerned about openness. He doesn't see this as an exercise in government transparency.
"He's taking a very narrow view that it [the inquiry] is only there to learn lessons, while there's a much stronger public pressure for transparency."
An Iraq inquiry spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr Ross's criticisms.
At the resumption of witness hearings in June, following a break for the general election, Sir John said: "We remain committed to a transparent, open, thorough and fair process and conducting the inquiry in a cost-effective way.
"We intend to deliver a reliable and authoritative report about the UK's decision to take military action in Iraq and the events that followed; and to identify lessons for the future. "
A Foreign Office spokesman has said: "We are not going to comment on what witnesses have said, why the inquiry has called them, or what their lines of investigation should be.
"These are matters for the independent inquiry to determine."
Mr Ross resigned from the Foreign Office in 2004, and is now executive director of the Independent Diplomat advice group.
The Iraq inquiry is looking at the UK's role in the build-up to the war and the handling of its aftermath.


Hollywood's remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is unlikely to screen in India after local censors called for the removal of "explicit" scenes.

Indian censor official JP Singh said they had objected to some scenes in the film and "wanted them to be blurred".
Sony Pictures in India said in a statement quoted by the AFP news agency that it would not compromise on the content of the film.
The David Fincher film stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
It is based on Stieg Larsson's best-selling thriller which tells a story of murder, corruption and family secrets, and contains some sex scenes.
"Bare bottom and bare-breast scenes are not allowed in India," Mr Singh, an official at India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) said.
"We objected to several scenes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and wanted them to be blurred."
Sony Pictures in India said that the censors had "adjudged the film unsuitable for public viewing in its unaltered form".
"And while we are committed to maintaining and protecting the vision of the director, we will, as always, respect the guidelines set by the board," the statement added.
More than 1,500 foreign films, mostly Hollywood, are released in India every year after clearing the country's censors.


Children from poor families in Oxford and Cambridge have less chance of good exam grades than those in London's most deprived areas, says a report.

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission ranked every English council for disadvantaged children's prospects.
Not one pupil eligible for free school meals in Cambridgeshire got into an Oxbridge university in 2014, and no Oxfordshire pupil managed it in 2013.
The commission said some of the richest areas failed poor children the most.
The government said fairness was vital.
"We are determined to spread...  educational excellence everywhere," said a spokesman.
The results go beyond a crude North-South divide, say the researchers.
They analysed a range of measures to compile the new Social Mobility Index, assessing the life chances of England's poorest children across 324 local authority areas.
Of particular surprise was the lack of opportunity for poor children in some of the richest places in England, say the researchers.
Many rich areas are successful in boosting the life chances of poor children - but others "rank quite poorly against the index", they found.
London and its commuter belt do appreciably better than the rest of the country, occupying 36 out of the top 40 spots on the index.
Outside this area, only Trafford and Fylde in the North West and East Devon and South Hams in the South West made it to the highest part of the index.
Manchester, Birmingham and Southampton were about average, while Nottingham, Derby and Norwich scored badly.
"There are many affluent areas that fail their less affluent residents," says the report.
For example, despite being home to two of the world's best universities, Oxford and Cambridge "do quite badly" by children from disadvantaged homes, says the commission.
It found that of children eligible for free school meals in the two cities:
By contrast, in London's Tower Hamlets, which has the highest rate of child poverty in England:
Commission chairman, Alan Milburn, called the research a "wake-up call".
"It is shocking that many of the richest areas of the country are the ones failing their poorest children the most," he said.
"I hope the government will put itself at the head of a new national drive to ensure that in future, progress in life depends on aptitude and ability, not background and birth: on where people aspire to get to, not where they have come from.
"This report suggests that is long overdue."
A Department for Education spokesman said the government was committed to social justice.
"That is why raising standards for every child, regardless of circumstances, is part of our plan to ensure everyone can achieve their full potential.
"Thanks to our reforms there are now 1.4 million more pupils being taught in 'good' or 'outstanding' schools compared to 2010. And over this parliament we are determined to spread this educational excellence everywhere, extending true social mobility for all."


The parents of Reeva Steenkamp have for the first time criticised the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial.

"What actually came out in court is not the truth," her father Barry Steenkamp told Australia's Channel Seven TV.
There is uncertainty over Pistorius' early release from prison, due last week, after South Africa's justice minister blocked the move.
The Paralympic star was jailed for five years in 2014 for culpable homicide, a charge equivalent to manslaughter.
The Olympic athlete admits shooting dead Ms Steenkamp, but insists he mistook her for an intruder.
But this was dismissed by Mr Steenkamp: "He got angry, she went off to the toilet, locked herself inside, and then him pulling out the gun and shooting."
"Why didn't he just let her walk away?" her mother June Steenkamp said, reiterating the family's belief that Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp deliberately.
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Justice Minister Michael Masutha last week said that the decision to free the athlete after serving 10 months of his five-year sentence had been taken prematurely.
He has now suspended the decision and sent it back to the parole board for review, a process which could take months, legal sources have told the BBC.
Under South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under "correctional supervision", having served a sixth of his sentence.
Prosecutors have lodged an appeal, calling for the athlete's conviction to be converted to murder, which carries a minimum sentence of 15 years.
During sentencing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the state had failed to prove Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired.
Pistorius was born without the fibulas in both of his legs, and had surgery to amputate both below the knee while still a baby.
He went on to become one of South Africa's best-known sports stars, and was the first amputee sprinter to compete against able-bodied athletes, at the 2012 London Olympics.


Croatia's Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic won the men's 470 gold despite finishing eighth in the final race.

The Croatians went into the race with a 10-point lead and were never threatened, with their nearest rivals finishing behind them.
Australia's Matt Belcher and Will Ryan claimed silver, while Greece's Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis took the bronze medal.
Britain's Chris Grube and Luke Patience finished in fifth overall.
Later, four-time world champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won Olympic gold for New Zealand in the men's 49er two-person skiff class.
Grube, who was competing in his first Olympics, said: "The past eight months have been hard but we've had a good time along the way and we've had some good laughs.
"I was a bit teary-eyed when we came in the other day and realised we weren't going to get any medals.
"But thinking back to what we have achieved in the last eight months, we have moved mountains to get here and to race as well as we have - we need to be proud of ourselves.
"That fire burns inside to stand on the podium at an Olympics."
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Coventry City have agreed a deal to sign Aston Villa's former Chelsea, Liverpool and England midfielder Joe Cole on a month's emergency loan.

The 33-year-old, capped 56 times by his country, is set to join on Monday on a 35-day deal until 22 November.
"I'm sure he'll have a fantastic impact," said City boss Tony Mowbray.
"I've met with Joe. He has watched us play several times this season. He likes the way we play and has shown a real enthusiasm to come."
Cole, who will watch fifth-placed City's League One game at home to Blackpool at the Ricoh Arena on Saturday, is expected to make his debut at Rochdale on Tuesday night.
"I need to have a chat with Joe," added Mowbray. "He feels quite positive, is ready to play and wants to play.
"He has one or two things he wants to sort out on a personal level, but I'll talk to him on Monday about what his thoughts are for Tuesday and beyond."


The inquest into the death of a man who was shot dead by Greater Manchester Police is to be converted to a public inquiry, the Home Office has said.

Unarmed Anthony Grainger, 36, was killed when he was shot in the chest during a Greater Manchester Police operation in Cheshire in 2012.
The announcement came in a written ministerial statement from Home Secretary Theresa May.
Greater Manchester Police said it welcomed the inquiry.
The Home Office said Ms May had agreed to a request for a judge-led statutory inquiry from Judge Teague, who had been appointed as coroner for Mr Grainger's inquest.
"My hope is that this inquiry will be able to determine how and in what circumstances Mr Grainger came by his death and that this can bring some solace to his family," the Home Secretary said.
Judge Teague wrote to the Home Secretary and Justice Secretary explaining that the inquest should become a public inquiry under the 2005 Inquiries Act to permit all relevant evidence to be heard.
His inquiry will look at the GMP operation and make any "appropriate" recommendations. Among the factors it will study are the operation's intelligence; whether armed officers should have been deployed and if the officers involved had their judgement impaired by "extended hours of duty".
Mr Grainger's partner, Gail Hadfield-Grainger, said she was looking for "some kind of justice, some kind of answers as to why it happened and hopefully a form of preventing it from happening to anybody else."
Jonathan Bridge, solicitor for the Grainger family, said: "The family have already waited for over four years to learn the true facts surrounding Anthony's death."
Greater Manchester's Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said the lack of progress in the case was unacceptable.
He added: "I have been increasingly concerned about these delays, and the corresponding lack of answers.
"It is distressing and unhelpful to the family, is unfair to the police officers involved in the operation and does not serve the public interest."
GMP's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said: "Since Anthony Grainger died in March 2012 we have always insisted that the family, public and the officers involved deserve a full understanding of the circumstances that led up to his death."
Mr Grainger was shot through the windscreen of a parked car in Culcheth, Warrington, by a firearms officer after police thought he was about to take part in an armed robbery.


Kent spinner Adam Riley hopes he can move on from a "frustrating" 2015 after extending his contract with the club.

The 23-year-old only made eight first-class appearances this year, taking eight wickets at an average of 53.
"I've got this tag of having potential and I want to start fulfilling that now," he told BBC Radio Kent.
"In 2016 my thought process should be to start anew. I'm determined to work hard over the winter and hit the ground running in pre-season."
Sidcup-born Riley had an impressive 2014 campaign for Kent, taking 48 Championship wickets at an average of 32.58 and ending the year with a call-up to the England Lions.
"Last winter was a great experience for me and one which will stand me in good stead, being in a new environment with new coaches," Riley added.
"2015 was very frustrating but there are more lessons to be learnt than the year before."
Riley says the pitches in Division Two this year were not conducive to spin bowlers.
"There have been some pitches that have not warranted bowling spin at all, which has not been the way in county cricket down the years," he said.
"People talk about how the spin cupboard is bare in England - and these pitches do no favours to developing the young up-and-coming spinners.
"I think the people higher up have got feedback from various captains and coaches that the pitches went a bit too far in favour of the seam bowlers.
"Maybe it was just a freak year and it will go back to some more spin-friendly wickets after the first couple of months. We can only bowl on the wickets we are provided with."


A man has been arrested by police after footage emerged of a jogger appearing to push a woman into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge.

The 50-year-old was held at a residential address in Chelsea on Thursday morning on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
He was later released while inquiries continue, police said.
The CCTV footage showed the woman, 33, narrowly avoiding serious injury due to the bus driver's quick reactions.
On Wednesday, the Met said it had received a "huge response" to its appeal for information.
CCTV of the incident, which happened on 5 May, was issued earlier in the week in an effort to trace the jogger after police attempts to establish his identity had failed.
The footage shows a man barging the woman to the ground and off the pavement, into the road.
The bus can then be seen swerving to avoid the woman's head.
Afterwards the driver stopped the bus, at which point several passengers got off and went to help the victim.
About 15 minutes later the jogger came back the other way across the bridge.
The woman, who received minor injuries, tried to speak to him but he did not acknowledge her and carried on jogging.
The Met said the man officers arrested was still the subject of investigation but had not been released on official police bail.
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The Czech Republic wants to be known as "Czechia" to make it easier for companies and sports teams to use it on products and clothing.

The country will retain its full name but Czechia will become the official short geographic name, as "France" is to "The French Republic".
If approved by parliament, the name will be lodged with the United Nations.
Along with Slovakia, the Czech Republic was established when Czechoslovakia broke in two in 1993.
Some of the country's best-known exports, including its Pilsner Urquell beer and ice hockey team, currently use the word "Czech".
But "Czech" is an adjective and cannot properly be used as a name for the country.
Some have criticised "Czechia" as ugly, or too similar to "Chechnya", the semi-autonomous Russian republic.


The two largest English GCSE exam boards have said they will no longer offer GCSE courses in Northern Ireland.

The change will come into effect for pupils beginning GCSE courses in September 2016.
About a quarter of courses taken by pupils in Northern Ireland are taken through the AQA and OCR exam boards.
In England, pupils beginning GCSEs in September will move to a numerical results system, where nine is the highest grade and one the lowest.
However, in November 2015, Education Minister John O'Dowd decided to maintain A*-G grades in Northern Ireland.
AQA and OCR have said they will not operate two separate grading systems.
As a result, both have decided not to offer any more GCSEs in Northern Ireland.
Mr O'Dowd said: "It is very disappointing that some organisations are choosing to put commercial interests ahead of the needs of our young people.
"However, this response by some awarding organisations is not unforeseen."
Dermot Mullan, the principal of Our Lady and St Patrick's College in Belfast, said the move would create many problems for schools.
"We have almost a quarter of our GCSEs through those exam boards at present," he said.
"We are going to have to find an alternative examination board, and that means for staff that new specifications will have to be resourced and prepared for.
"We have built up a long relationship with AQA and OCR over 20 years.
"Being insular and looking in on ourselves with examination boards isn't a good thing for staff, schools, children and Northern Ireland."
In 2015, 25.1% of GCSEs studied by Northern Irish pupils were through the AQA, OCR, Edexcel or WJEC exam boards - which equates to about 43,000 GCSE entries.
The vast majority of those exams were taken through AQA and OCR.
About 128,000 GCSEs - 74.9% - were taken through the NI Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA).
As a result, schools will now have to offer almost all their GCSE courses through CCEA, although some may use WJEC, which is also retaining the A*-G grading.
In a statement to the BBC, Pearson, which owns the Edexcel exams, said that they had "not made a decision yet" on whether to offer a separate alphabetical grade system for Northern Ireland.
Pupils who are currently studying GCSEs under AQA and OCR will not be affected as transitional arrangements will be put in place for them.
The two boards will continue to offer A-Level courses in Northern Ireland.


The Green Deal - the government's flagship energy-saving programme - cost taxpayers £17,000 for each home that was improved, a watchdog has found.

The National Audit Office (NAO) concluded that "the Green Deal has not therefore been value for money".
Under the scheme, householders were encouraged to take out loans to pay for measures such as insulation or double-glazing.
But only 14,000 households took up the offer, well below expectations.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) spent £240m on the programme, which ran between 2013 and July 2015.
But it did not test it with consumers beforehand, said the NAO, and the scheme saved "negligible" amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2).
The NAO report said the parallel Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme also increased costs for energy suppliers, and so put up household bills.
"The Department of Energy and Climate Change's ambitious aim to encourage households to pay for measures looked good on paper, as it would have reduced the financial burden of improvements on all energy consumers," said Amyas Morse, head of the NAO.
"But in practice, its Green Deal design not only failed to deliver any meaningful benefit, it increased suppliers' costs - and therefore energy bills - in meeting their obligations through the ECO scheme."
However, the NAO said that the ECO scheme had generated £6.2bn in notional savings on bills paid by some of the most vulnerable in society - measured over their lifetimes.
The collapse of the Green Deal has left a big hole in government policies on fuel poverty and climate change.
Many of the people suffering from cold are owner-occupiers in old properties who would benefit from a well-funded and well-organised insulation scheme.
And the UK can't meet its targets with UK homes in such a draughty state.
Campaigners are urging the government to replace the Green Deal swiftly with a better scheme.
They say the government will help insulate 1.2 million homes this Parliament - a quarter as many as last Parliament. That will leave the UK well short of its climate change targets.
They want the government to provide much stronger incentives for people to improve their homes.
DECC said it had stopped funding to the Green Deal Finance Company last July, to protect taxpayers.
It said it would now be designing a new scheme to replace the ECO programme, to run from 2017 to 2022.
That will reduce the amount that households have to contribute by £30 a year.
A spokesperson also said it was now harder to make improvements in energy efficiency, as earlier schemes had tackled the easiest changes.
"As the NAO itself has said, government schemes will deliver over £6 billion of energy bill savings to the most vulnerable and have already helped make more than one million British homes warmer," said a DECC spokesperson.
DECC has also set up an enquiry to examine standards, consumer protection and enforcement of its energy efficiency schemes.


German carmaker Volkswagen has been ordered by US regulators to recall half a million cars because of a device that disguises pollution levels.

The "defeat device" allows cars to pass lab testing even though they actually emit 40 times the emissions standard.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been taking a more aggressive stance on car pollution and violations of the country's Clean Air Act.
The recall and fines could cost the carmaker more than $18bn (£11.5bn).
It affects 2009-14 Jettas, Beetles, Audi A3s and Golfs and 2014-15 Passats.
"Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health," said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
The illegal system allowed cars to detect when they were undergoing smog emission test and lowered the rate of pollution. Those emission controls were then turned off during ordinary use.
The state of California which assisted in the investigation has also issued a notice of violation to Volkswagen.
In 2014 the EPA fined Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors $300m for misrepresenting the fuel economy in 1.2 million of their cars. That settlement is the highest to date.


Matt Godden hit a dramatic stoppage-time winner as Stevenage came from behind to clinch victory at Crawley.

Leading scorer James Collins put Crawley on course for a fifth successive home win with a first-half penalty, his 14th league goal of the season.
But Godden levelled in the 76th minute and then pounced to settle the issue with his second goal in the fifth minute of added time.
Crawley, who have scored in every home game bar one this season, had an early let-off when goalkeeper Glenn Morris saved at the feet of the on-rushing Ben Kennedy.
The hosts broke the deadlock after 28 minutes when Collins scored for the sixth home game, converting from the penalty spot after being brought down by Luke Wilkinson.
Godden put the ball over from a good position for Stevenage before Dean Cox fired wide for the hosts, and Kennedy was again denied by Morris after Godden seized on a defensive lapse by Joe McNerney.
Crawley forward Enzio Boldewijn should have tested keeper Jamie Jones after 63 minutes but fired over following a cross from Cox.
Stevenage midfielder Tom Pett threatened to bring his side level following a strong run, but his low shot was parried by Morris.
Boro levelled through a close-range shot from Godden after a deflected effort by substitute Josh McQuoid, and his 13th league goal of the season snatched all three points.
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Match ends, Crawley Town 1, Stevenage 2.
Second Half ends, Crawley Town 1, Stevenage 2.
Foul by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Billy Clifford replaces Josh Payne.
Substitution, Stevenage. Ryan Loft replaces Matt Godden.
Fraser Franks (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Crawley Town 1, Stevenage 2. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh McQuoid.
Jack King (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
Foul by Jack King (Stevenage).
Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Fraser Franks (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Bobson Bawling replaces Jordan Roberts.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Lelan (Crawley Town).
Attempt saved. Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Stevenage. Conceded by Josh Yorwerth.
Kaylen Hinds (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Josh Yorwerth (Crawley Town).
James Collins (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh McQuoid (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
Foul by Kaylen Hinds (Stevenage).
Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh McQuoid (Stevenage).
Josh Yorwerth (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kaylen Hinds (Stevenage).
Joe McNerney (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jack King (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town).
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Charlie Lee (Stevenage).
(Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Stevenage. Conceded by Joe McNerney.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Rhys Murphy replaces Enzio Boldewijn.
Substitution, Stevenage. Kaylen Hinds replaces Jobi McAnuff.
Goal!  Crawley Town 1, Stevenage 1. Matt Godden (Stevenage) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Charlie Lee (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Tom Pett (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.


Internet access across Ethiopia has been blocked to prevent national exam papers leaking online, a government spokesman has claimed.

"The shutdown is aimed at preventing a repeat of leaks that occurred last year," Mohammed Seid at the Office for Government Communications Affairs, told the Reuters news agency.
In 2016, the country banned access to social media sites after university entrance exams were posted online.
But some have queried this explanation.
"We are being proactive," Mr Seid added, referring to exams that are due to finish on 8 June.
"We want our students to concentrate and be free of the psychological pressure and distractions that this brings."
Mr Seid is reported to have said that only social media sites had been blocked, but sources in Ethiopia told the BBC that there was widespread internet disruption, affecting both mobile networks and fixed line internet services.
A state of emergency has been in effect in Ethiopia since October, following anti-government protests.
Mobile internet access has been disabled on other occasions recently, including a period of a few weeks last year.
On Thursday, the BBC was unable to access websites belonging to the Ethiopian government and the sole communications provider, Ethio Telecom.
Preliminary data from Google suggested that there had indeed been a big drop in Ethiopian internet traffic to Google services since Wednesday afternoon.


US sports broadcaster Erin Andrews has been awarded $55 million (£39m) after she was secretly recorded nude in her hotel room by a stalker.

After a day of deliberations, a jury found the stalker 51% to blame, leaving two hotel companies to pay about $27m.
Ms Andrews, 37, a Fox Sports reporter, was filmed in 2008 through her hotel door peephole by Michael David Barrett, who released the video online.
She wept as the verdict was announced and hugged her attorneys and family.
Later, in a statement posted on Twitter, she thanked the court, the jury, and her legal team and family.
"I've been honoured by all the support from victims around the world," she said.
"Their outreach has helped me be able to stand up and hold accountable those whose job it is to protect everyone's safely, security and privacy."
Ms Andrews sued Barratt and the two companies behind the Nashville hotel at which she was filmed for $75m (£53m).
Barrett, a Chicago insurance company executive, admitted targeting Ms Andrews and said he did so to make money. He posted the footage online after celebrity gossip site TMZ refused to pay for it.
Barrett pleaded guilty to stalking Andrews, altering hotel room peepholes and taking nude videos of her. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
It was then up to a jury to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
During closing arguments, Ms Andrews' lawyers alleged that Barrett tried to take all of the blame in an attempt to deprive her of any money from the suit.
Ms Andrews said the stalking left her fearful, anxious and depressed.
She told the jury that she had become so cautious that she checks for hidden cameras in hotel air conditioners and changes rooms fearful of being recorded.
"I felt embarrassed, humiliated, mortified because of the video," she said during a testimony in which she repeatedly broke down.
Ms Andrews said one of the most difficult moments came when there was speculation that she had released the video herself to get attention.
"Everybody put up that I was doing it for publicity and attention and that ripped me apart," she said in tears.
In a video played in court, Barrett said the reason he picked Ms Andrews was because she was popular.


Forest Green Rovers have re-signed Bermuda international goalkeeper Dale Eve on a deal to the end of the season.

His arrival follows his release by Stoke and the departure of Paul White, whose contract with Forest Green has been cancelled by mutual consent.
Eve played in an FA Cup qualifying-round tie against Margate during a loan spell earlier this season.
"This is a real test for me and I want to get as many games in as I can," the 20-year-old said.


The police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Northamptonshire is being accused of leaking confidential details of a criminal case.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating PCC Adam Simmonds over an alleged offence of misconduct in public office.
He is accused of disclosing "sensitive" information to third parties in 2013.
The complaint was made by the police panel that monitors Mr Simmonds and he is yet to be interviewed by the IPCC.
Mr Simmonds, who represents the Conservative Party, said the IPCC never told him it was investigating the two allegations and he found out through his media team.
"It's extraordinary I should learn of the investigations through third parties," he said.
The IPCC said allegations were made by the county's police and crime panel, which monitors the PCC's conduct.
In a statement, the IPCC said Mr Simmonds was suspected of breaching the Data Protection Act by "inappropriately" disclosing "sensitive and confidential" information.
The organisation declined to give any further information.
"I have yet to be interviewed or questioned by the IPCC so I cannot yet fully respond," Mr Simmonds said.
Chief Constable Adrian Lee said he was aware of the IPCC investigation.
"We both value the transparency and openness that such investigations can provide," he said.


Two Conservative MPs have told the BBC that they will accept the pay rise recommended by their independent pay body.

The pair also criticised other MPs for seeking to undermine its decision.
Andrew Bridgen said there is now a danger of "a race to the bottom where's it's just a hair shirt competition," unless pay is improved.
David Cameron has said the proposed 10% increase was not acceptable and has urged the pay body to ditch it.
Downing Street has said it backs the view of the International Development Secretary Justine Greening that the independent body which sets MPs' pay "does not seem to be working".
But Mr Bridgen, the Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, said that backbenchers like him were disappointed that "it tends to be people in the cabinet or shadow cabinet who are saying that they wouldn't take it, and give it to charity" when "they're on twice as much as a backbencher".
Mr Bridgen told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that he has to subsidise his hotel bill by up to ??50 a night when he stays in London, because there are not enough rooms available at the price of his daily Parliamentary allowance.
The MP said it was the "politics of expediency" for MPs to say they would give the extra ??7,000 to charity, but he added: "It doesn't solve the problem, it only makes it worse for all politicians now and for future politicians."
A petition on the Change.org website calling for Mr Cameron to reject the Ipsa proposal as "unfair and unjust while Britain is going through austerity" has gained more than 365,000 signatures.
Fellow Conservative Mark Field, MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, agreed that MPs should accept the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's recommendation, arguing that it would be "playing with fire" to reject the judgment of an independent body on the matter.
But Mr Field told The World at One: "It's a pretty sad day as a matter of public policy, and not very sensible, if parliamentarians take the view that they will accept an independent review when it has a downward element of expenses or salary but not if it raises it."
He added: "To be honest, I am lucky I am an MP in central London where many of my constituents wonder how it is that any member of parliament can live on ??70,000 a year, so I can make that case slightly more easily.
"But I do think it is important that we as MPs do make a stand."
The former lawyer and businessman said: "I make considerably less money than I made before I was an MP - I was earning three or four times the salary.
"I always took the view that going into public life was vocational - it's a bit like being a vicar or taking a relatively lowly paid job."
He also accused some of the Labour leadership candidates of "playing to the gallery on this issue".
On BBC1's Question Time, Justine Greening hit out at Ipsa and indicated that she thought action may need to be taken to block the rise.
She said: "I think that we do need to sort out what's happening with Ipsa because how anyone can think that this kind of a proposal is acceptable is utterly beyond me."
Ipsa has stressed that due to cuts in pensions and expenses - such as a ban on claiming for evening meals - the overall package of changes to MPs' remuneration will not cost taxpayers any more.
But MPs elected before 2015 - including Mr Cameron - will see a major boost to their pensions as they are based on final salary.


Leinster wing Dave Kearney has suffered a fresh injury blow as his side prepare to face Clermont Auvergne in Sunday's Champions Cup semi-final in Lyon.

Kearney, who had only recently returned from injury, will miss the encounter with an ankle injury sustained in Saturday's Pro12 victory over Connacht.
The 27-year-old is due to have further scans later this week to assess the full extent of the damage.
Kearney has missed much of the season because of toe and ankle problems.
The Ireland international received oxygen as he left the pitch after 47 minutes of the match at the Sportsground.
Kearney is Leinster's only fresh injury concern, although Jamie Heaslip, Rob Kearney and Jordi Murphy are all set to remain sidelined for the clash with the French giants.
The Irish province rested all but three of their starting line-up from the quarter-final win over Wasps as they secured a home Pro12 semi-final by defeating Connacht.
Clermont rested 10 of the starting team which saw off Toulon in the last eight in Europe for their 59-18 Top 14 triumph over Grenoble at the weekend.
Meanwhile Leinster have confirmed that lock Mike McCarthy, who has been capped 19 times by Ireland, will miss the rest of the season with back and elbow problems.
The 36-year-old had surgery in recent days on a disc injury in his back and although recovering well, will not be back in time for the end of season run-in.
The news means that the 19-times capped Ireland international has played his last game for the province, who confirmed last month that the second row would be joining RC Narbonne of France at the end of the 2016-17 campaign.


A £14m maternity unit conversion plan in Dumfries has been approved by the Scottish government.

The Cresswell building will be transformed to allow it to provide a range of out-patient and day-case services.
Maternity services are due to transfer to a new hospital being built in the town by the end of the year.
It means that the old unit - which opened in 2002 - can now be converted to a new use.
The Cresswell building was funded via a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) which still has about 16 years left to run on its contract.
With payments of about £3m-a-year NHS Dumfries and Galloway decided it was better to redevelop the building rather than leave it sitting empty.
It will be renamed the Mountainhall Treatment Centre and will reopen in 2020.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway chief executive Jeff Ace said: "Scottish government support for this project enables us to deliver the final phase of our modernisation of acute services in the region.
"This new day treatment facility will provide a great environment for patients and staff and will be designed to meet latest service requirements.
"This is another major project for the board and continues our commitment to provide the best possible healthcare facilities for the people of Dumfries and Galloway."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said she was delighted to support the new facility.
"With the new district general hospital opening later this year, this is an exciting time for the health service in Dumfries and Galloway," she said.
"I know the revitalised Cresswell building is a key part of the board's plans for out-patient and day-case services."
Katy Lewis, director of finance for NHS Dumfries and Galloway said it meant they could now progress with plans to refurbish Cresswell.
"This is excellent news for the local community to complement the hospital provision in the new DGRI building," she said.


Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback film The Last Stand has scraped into the Top 10 at the UK and Ireland box office in its opening week of release.

The movie, which sees the actor play a sheriff chasing an escaped drug baron, took just £539,000 from 356 cinemas.
The Last Stand, which had an estimated budget of $30m (£19m), averaged £1,514 at each screen.
Les Miserables remains the top UK film for a third successive week, raking in £4m for an overall total of £24.61m.
Tom Hooper's critically acclaimed production, based on the West End musical, opened with £8.13m but saw a 46% drop from last week - blamed largely on snow deterring potential cinemagoers.
Last year saw just four films - Avengers Assemble, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - top £4m for three consecutive weeks. All of them went on to make more than £50m.
Les Miserables is now the second highest-grossing musical in UK box office history behind Mamma Mia! (£69.2m), after overtaking Moulin Rouge (£18.5m) and High School Musical 3 (£22.8m).
Films nominated for best picture at next month's Oscars filled the top five places at the UK box office, with Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained at number two after taking £2.4m for a total of £7.18m.
Lincoln debuted at three with £1.65m, while Zero Dark Thirty opened with £1.05m. They were separated by  Life of Pi, whose £1.19m took its overall UK takings to £25.9m.
Tsunami drama The Impossible, raunchy comedy Movie 43, the 3D re-release of Monsters, Inc. and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey complete a Top 10 rounded off by The Last Stand in 10th place.


Thieves have tried to steal a cash machine at Portadown train station.

It happened after they smashed their way into the station around 0300 GMT on Tuesday.
The police said that the thieves tied the ATM to a vehicle and tried to drag it away.
Translink said in a statement that CCTV was in operation at the time. The attempted theft did not disrupt any train services.


Pep Guardiola says he is looking forward to a "special" first FA Cup game in charge of Manchester City in their third-round tie at West Ham.

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City face the Hammers at London Stadium on Friday night, live on BBC One.
"The cup is special because the lower team can beat the big teams, which is why it is fascinating," said Guardiola.
"I'm looking forward to it, but of course it's a Premier League game so it will be tough. We were unlucky in the draw."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic said the tie is a "big game" for both sides and the fans.
"They will put out a very strong team because it is a big chance for them to get a trophy," he added.
The game at London Stadium is the first of 32 third-round ties across four days this weekend.
BBC One also has live coverage of Tottenham v Aston Villa on Sunday (16:00 GMT) while 5 live Sport's Mark Chapman presents Saturday's show from Sutton United ahead of their tie with AFC Wimbledon.
City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was uncertain in the air in the 2-1 win over Burnley on Monday, failing to deal with a corner that led to Ben Mee's goal for the visitors.
It was the latest in a series of mistakes by Bravo, but Guardiola said the Chilean - who could come up against West Ham's powerful striker Andy Carroll on Friday - is adapting to the physical nature of English football.
"I see many goalkeepers who had the same problems as Claudio with these balls and when they fight for them, it's not only Claudio Bravo," said the Spaniard.
"He's intelligent enough, he has experience enough, he was nominated one of the five best keepers in the world, he has experience in Europe, all around the world, in South America, where the intensity of the games is so tough.
"He realised immediately with these sort of balls into the box he had to be careful because it's special.
"It's not necessary to read the newspapers or the comments of the coach saying, 'Go there, be careful here, it's quite different'. He realised already."
Guardiola also insisted he is not ready to quit management, after he had said he was "arriving at the end" of his career following the Burnley match - when he also gave a testy post-match interview to BBC Sport.
When asked about Guardiola's conduct, Bilic said: "I saw his interview but maybe he was just tired after a couple of games in three days.
"Maybe after the great start they made some fans or pundits expected them to cruise in the league, especially with Guardiola.
"But it is never easy in any league, especially here. They are not struggling but for their standards, to be however many points from the top is probably not what they expected.
"He's never worked in a smaller club, he's never fought against relegation or mid-table or anything different than 'we have to win the league'.
"Is it Barcelona, is it Bayern, is it Man City? It's the same. He knew the intensity of the English league, he was well prepared for a difficult season. He didn't expect anything less than he is getting or has faced so far."
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Guardiola has said he will play a full-strength side on Friday, while midfielder Soufiane Feghouli is available for West Ham after his red card against Manchester United on Saturday was rescinded.
Bilic also confirmed on-loan striker Simone Zaza will not play for West Ham again to avoid having to pay a £17.1m permanent-deal fee to parent club Juventus, which would have been triggered after 15 first-team appearances.
Zaza was signed on a season-long loan in August for a initial fee of £4.2m but has not scored in the 11 games he has featured in and has not played in the league since November.
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"He is still our player until he goes somewhere but mainly because of the situation with his contract he is finished here," said Bilic.
"Unfortunately we had to judge him on six, seven, eight games which is not a big pattern to judge a player in general.
"He is definitely a good player but like many times in football, it just didn't happen."
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Manchester United paid a world record £89m to sign Paul Pogba from Juventus - a player they let go for only £1.5m four years ago.

The deal has been cited as the final example of a sport gone money-mad, and described as former manager Sir Alex Ferguson's biggest mistake.
But with the Old Trafford club expected to announce annual revenues of £500m next month, paying such a huge sum for a world-class midfielder they used to own could make perfect business sense.
Because as a percentage of turnover, Pogba was a snip compared to the £155,000 purchase of Denis Law in 1962.
United's commercial success has underpinned a vast growth in income since the Glazer family took over the club in 2005. And with global stars Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahmovic added to a squad managed by Jose Mourinho, that will only increase.
"This is a new era on the field but commercially as well," said football business expert Kevin Roberts.
Wayne Rooney's arrival from Everton for £27m in 2004 represented 17.2% of the club's overall turnover of £157.2m a year before the Glazer family takeover. Twelve years on, the cost of buying Pogba from Juventus is a similar 17.6%.
Relative to the purchase of Law from Torino 54 years ago, and the £1.5m spent on buying Bryan Robson from West Brom in 1981, these percentages are small.
Scotsman Law cost 61.4% of United's annual turnover of £187,178. In Robson's case the figures are 56.6% and £2.65m.
From £49m in 2005, the club's commercial revenue rose to £196.9 in 2015, a rise of 401%. In the same period, United's matchday revenue has increased by 31% and their broadcast income by 123%.
United now operate a three tier system of sponsorship. The biggest deals are for shirt sponsorship and kit manufacturing. The second level are the global agreements with organisations such as EA Sports, who on Wednesday became United's official football video games partner, the third are regional deals which cover all manner of product areas, from financial services, to tyres and noodles.
"If you are flogging sponsorship to Japanese noodle companies you really need to mean something to fans in a country that is 14 hours away on a plane," said Roberts, co-founder of Sport Business.
"Manchester United's digital strategy allows them to collect massive amounts of data which can be used to sell to fans things directly to do with the club. Simplistically, it might be to ask whether people had thought about buying a new shirt for their birthday.
"If you have data about people watching you worldwide, you can put together a more compelling pitch to sponsors and ratchet up the value of deals."
United's carefully choreographed and branded announcement of the Pogba deal was as glossy as a multi-million pound advertising campaign, marking a new level in the evolution of the modern-day football transfer.
"The thing we focus on is engagement," added United's managing director Richard Arnold. "The content and communication we have with the fans has to resonate, so it causes them to respond. That they like. They share. They comment.
"That is as true of the fans in Stretford as it is in China."


The Exploris Aquarium in Portaferry has welcomed a baby otter, the first one bred in captivity in Northern Ireland.

The little mammal has been kept under wraps by protective parents Sungari and Bourbon since its birth in December.
The pair only this week allowed their baby out of the holt to explore the wider world.
Sungari and Bourbon came to Exploris last year as part of an international captive breeding programme to protect the endangered Asian Small-Claw otter.
Sungari began to display signs of being pregnant late last year.
Staff at the aquarium said "whimpers and squeaking" alerted them to the new arrival on the morning of 15 December.
Otters mate for life and Sungari is a first-time mother.
To help the new parents adjust to their circumstances, the keepers are staying off-side as much as possible, so the pup's gender is not yet known.
Staff are hopeful that a vet will be able to do a health check in the next couple of weeks, so the sex can be determined and it can be given a name.
Sungari and Bourbon split parenting duties, so when it is feeding time, one of them will stay with the pup while the other fills up.
The pup is being weaned at the moment - Sungari shares tiny pieces of fish with her baby before moving it to a full solid diet in the next couple of weeks.
Otters eat lots of fish and they love eggs, which the keepers hide around the enclosure for them to find.
The baby otter will grow to about 5kgs (11lbs) in weight.
Along with Sungari and Bourbon, it will play a part in protecting the Asian Small-Claw Otter species, which is at risk because of threats to its natural habitat and hunters in the fur trade.


Hollywood stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Emma Stone are set to head to this year's Toronto Film Festival.

They'll be hoping to create an early buzz around their upcoming films going into awards season.
Toronto is seen as a key launch pad for Oscar contenders.
Previous films to win the festival's top award and then be nominated for the best picture Oscar include La La Land and Slumdog Millionaire.
Stone will be returning to the festival to present Battle of the Sexes - in which she plays tennis star Billie Jean King opposite Steve Carell.
Oscar winner Lawrence will offer up her latest film Mother!. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the horror film also stars Javier Bardem, Domhnall Gleeson and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Meanwhile Jolie and Clooney will both present films they've directed rather than starred in. Jolie brings her Cambodian genocide drama First They Killed My Father, with Clooney directing Matt Damon in Coen brothers' crime comedy Suburbicon.
A strong British contingent will also be heading to the festival, including Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis, whose directorial debut Breathe will receive its world premiere.
The film features Andrew Garfield in the true story of disability rights activist Robin Cavendish.
Other British stars expected to attend to support their films include Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Bell and Gary Oldman.
Many appear in historical dramas - Oldman appears as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, while Cumberbatch stars as Thomas Edison in The Current War.
There are also a number of literary adaptations including Ian McEwan's The Children Act, starring Emma Thompson, and Disobedience, by Baileys Women's Prize winner Naomi Alderman, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
Other highly anticipated films to premiere at the festival include I, Tonya - which sees Margot Robbie star as disgraced US figure skater Tonya Harding - and Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhall in the true story about a man who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing.
The full list of the first 14 galas and 33 special presentations announced can be found on the Toronto International Film Festival website.
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South African pace bowler Dale Steyn says he is loving his time at Glamorgan after taking nine wickets in the last three T20 matches.

Steyn's 4-18 against Kent helped Glamorgan regain top spot in the T20 Blast South Group.
"I'm loving it, just to feel that vibe again, feel that energy flow about taking wickets," he said.
Steyn played only one game in the Indian Premier League and two in the T20 World Cup after a shoulder injury.
He did not take a wicket in his first game, the defeat against Essex, after having a catch dropped first ball, but has since taken three against Hampshire, two against Gloucestershire and four against Kent to help Glamorgan to victories.
"Just to get back into that (wicket-taking) mode, when you don't do it for a while, you miss it, you almost forget how to do it," he added.
"When I played against Essex I was a bit rusty, one or two things didn't go my way and you doubt yourself again.
"But the second game, when I got a wicket, it kicks in again."
Final game in Cardiff
The 32-year-old Steyn departs for the Caribbean Premier League after Glamorgan's game against Surrey.
"I'd love to win that, Glamorgan top of the log (table), and I hope I've come and added some kind of influence on the guys' game as well as the matches," he said.
"But I think the guys have played excellently so far, and I've learnt a lot also."
"Wild Thing" to come
Steyn's place as the second overseas player will be taken for the second half of the T20 campaign by Shaun Tait, the Australian fast bowler who played for Glamorgan in 2010.
"If he just comes and does his stuff, the "Wild Thing" [Tait], he bowls really quick and everyone else is bowling really well, that's the beautiful thing about this team.
"I don't think he needs to worry about coming in and filling a hole."
Glamorgan, who last qualified for T20 Finals Day back in 2004, have four wins, one defeat and a washout from the first six games of their 14-match campaign.


Celtic's dreams of a domestic treble remain intact after a comfortable Scottish Cup quarter-final replay win at home to Dundee United.

Jason Denayer headed Anthony Stokes' free-kick past Radoslaw Cierzniak in a one-sided first half.
Leigh Griffiths and Kris Commons added two more goals before Stokes was sent off for elbowing United's Paul Paton. Ryan McGowan was also dismissed for the visitors for a foul on Liam Henderson.
Virgil van Dijk added a fourth late on.
The score line reflected the flow of the game with United a pale shadow of the team that had held Celtic to a 1-1 draw in the first game at Tannadice.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle now await Celtic in a Hampden semi-final as they bid to add this trophy to last weekend's League Cup triumph, while Jackie McNamara has to pick his United players up for a return trip to Glasgow on Saturday, for the final game of four consecutive matches against Ronny Deila's side.
United could have been down to 10 men after a minute when goalkeeper Cierzniak brought down Griffiths just a few yards from the penalty box, and the Pole was perhaps fortunate to receive only a yellow card.
Celtic continued on the front foot. Griffiths directed Stokes' cross on target, though only into the arms of Cierzniak, but it was a warning shot and minutes later the home side were in the lead.
Stokes' curled delivery from a free-kick found Belgian centre-back Denayer, who powered home the header.
It was one attack after another for the home side and James Forrest and Griffiths both had numerous opportunities, with Van Dijk also threatening with a header.
Then Celtic hit the woodwork when Forrest beat John Rankin on the wing and sent over a cross which Cierzniak palmed against the crossbar.
While there was only a goal in it though, United were still in the cup tie. McGowan's cut back from the byline was parried by Gordon and United forward Nadir Ciftci should have done better but did not realise the ball had landed just behind him.
Celtic defender Nir Bitton could have made it 2-0 when he was one-on-one with the goalkeeper, but he passed up his big chance.
United were more threatening in the opening minutes of the second half than they were for the whole of the first half, with McGowan and Ciftci both creating problems.
Just as they looked to be gaining some momentum, Griffiths volleyed Scott Brown's long pass into the net to give Celtic a second goal.
Cierzniak tipped a Stokes shot round the post, but United's resistance could not hold out and Commons played a one-two with John Guidetti before finding the back of the net.
Stokes and McGowan saw red within minutes of each other. Stokes for lashing out at Paton with an elbow, and the Australian followed him down the tunnel when he caught Liam Henderson with a hefty challenge.
Van Dijk combined with Denayer to add a fourth late on and wrap up the win.


Parents at a failing primary school say they are "ecstatic" after its governors rejected a sponsor chosen by the government to turn it into an academy.

Twydall Primary in Gillingham, Kent was put into special measures last year after an Ofsted inspection.
The government wanted it to become an academy under the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) but 89% of parents voted against the plan.
The government said becoming an academy was the best way to improve the school.
"I am absolutely ecstatic," said parent Amy Dodd.
"I couldn't be happier. We are a very unique school and we need a very unique sponsor."
Parents Against Twydall Takeover (PATT), said it believed the school would become an academy but did not feel TSAT was the right sponsor.
The governors of the school said they had decided not to progress with TSAT as a sponsor but thanked it for taking part in the consultation.
Denise Shepherd, chief executive of TSAT, said it was disappointed but the next step was for the school to come to an agreement with the local authority and the Department for Education (DfE).
"TSAT will remain outside this process but will continue to offer immediate support for Twydall in terms of supporting children's education and the opportunity for sponsorship of Twydall," she said.
"We continue to believe that through our sponsorship the school will have the greatest opportunity to drive sustainable, long-term educational improvements."
The DfE said: "Our plan is to ensure every child leaves school fully prepared for life in modern Britain.
"Becoming an academy with the support of a strong sponsor is the best solution to bring about rapid and sustained improvement."


A man found "clinging to a kayak" in freezing water has been rescued.

The rescue took place about half a mile south of Newcastle harbour, County Down, at about 13:40 on Saturday.
Two other kayakers were also brought to shore.
Alan Jones from Newcastle RNLI said: 'Another five minutes and we could have been dealing with a completely different outcome. The water is absolutely freezing at this time of year.'
A spokesperson for the RNLI said: "Three kayakers were in trouble, with one man found clinging to his kayak in the freezing water and unable to get to safety.
"Newcastle RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crew were quickly on scene once the call for help was received.
"They observed one kayak being towed by another, but only one person was visible. It was established there was one person in the water further along the shoreline.
"The inshore lifeboat crew proceeded further south and located a male clinging to the front of his kayak unable to get to safety."
The casualties were transferred into the care of Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.


Greg Peterson has signed a new two-year contract with Glasgow Warriors that will keep the second row at Scotstoun until at least May 2019.

The United States forward moved to the Pro12 side from Leicester Tigers in the summer of 2015.
The 25-year-old is currently recovering from shoulder surgery and is expected to return early in the New Year.
"Greg has worked really hard and has fitted in well in our environment," said head coach Gregor Townsend.
"It's great news that he's staying for another couple of years to compete with the other second rows at the club."
Peterson, who has 13 international caps, has made 19 appearances for the Warriors, including 10 starts and two tries.
"I've enjoyed my 18 months in Glasgow," he told the club website. "The club, the supporters and the community have been great to me and I'm really happy to be staying."


Russia has denounced the possible extradition by Finland of two Russian citizens to the US on cyber-crime charges.

It says that the move is a violation of international law because the pair will receive "absurd punishments" of up to 100 years in jail.
Finland confirmed the decision to extradite one of the men on Friday.
Maxim Senakh is suspected by the US state of Minnesota of attacking servers to steal millions of dollars.
It is unclear whether another computer fraud suspect named by Russia, Alexander Sergeyev, will be deported.
Finland shares a 1,340km (833-mile) border with Russia, which has repeatedly warned it not to join or co-operate with Nato.
In April the Finnish navy dropped depth charges in waters near Helsinki as a warning to a suspected submarine, which some media reports said was Russian.
A Russian foreign ministry statement said Finland decided "a few days ago" to extradite both men.
"We maintain our principled view that the practice of detaining Russian citizens following US requests to third countries all over the world is a legal abuse and violation of internationally recognised proceedings," it said.
"We confirm our categorical objections to the extradition of the Russians to the USA. We hope that the Finnish authorities will take into account our position, which has been repeatedly explained to them."
Finland, however, argues that its Justice Ministry's decision to deport Mr Senakh cannot be appealed against because the High Court decided in December to endorse his extradition.
He was detained at the Finnish-Russian border in August while returning to Russia from a holiday.
The Wall Street Journal reported that he is suspected of installing malicious software on servers to obtain millions of dollars in commission payments.
Two of the servers were located in the state of Minnesota, the paper reported.


Seven extraordinary young people will be honoured for their achievements at the 10th anniversary of the Rotary Young Citizen Awards in Manchester later.

Each of the winners is deemed to have made an outstanding contributions to his or her community.
Sisters Sophia, 25, and Amber, 24, founded the mental health charity the Invictus Trust in 2011.
Their 18-year-old brother, Ben, - who was Sophia's twin - had killed himself in a psychiatric unit in Cornwall a year earlier.
The sisters felt the facilities and care available to Ben had not supported him properly. Then, after hearing other young people had taken their own lives in the same unit, they decided something had to be done.
To date, they have raised more than Â£100,000.
They have also been campaigning for an NHS mental health unit in Cornwall for 18-25 year olds.
Mohamad grew up in Syria. His family was forced to flee the country's war when he was just 10 years-old.
He was shot in the thigh during an attack on his school. He watched his friends die and pretended he was dead in order to survive.
His family eventually moved to England and Mohamad started school life at Leeds City Academy in November 2014.
But life still had challenges for the 16 year-old. Mohamed's dad got injured at work and his mother discovered she had cancer.
The teenager goes out to do the shopping and looks after his parents at home.
In 2015, Molly Comish from Bray, County Wicklow, saw a lot of homeless people sleeping on the streets. She felt compelled to help them.
The 18-year-old came up with the idea of "Dignity Packs" - packs of essential personal items, such as toothbrushes, deodorants and warm hats, to distribute before Christmas in 2016.
Saving all her tips from her part-time job, Molly was able to create 120 packs, which she put in backpacks.
She is now in the process of setting Dignity Packs up as a charity.
Aidan, who lives in Widnes, was diagnosed with Aspergers in 2011.
In 2014, his close friend, Olivia Alice Walker, who had severe disabilities, died.
Olivia's family set up a charity in her memory and Aidan, 14, was inspired to fundraise.
In just over two years, he has raised more than Â£16,000, despite facing his own challenges.
Kare Adenegan is no stranger to awards. At the Rio Paralympics in 2016, the 16-year-old won silver and two bronzes, in the 100m, 400m and 800m respectively in the T34 class.
Born in Coventry, Kare has cerebral palsy Diplegia, which affects her legs and mobility and means she is confined to a wheelchair.
She was inspired to try wheelchair racing after watching the London 2012 paralympic games.
At just 18, Harry McCann from Naas in County Kildare is already a tech entrepreneur.
He founded his first business, Kid Tech, in 2013. It designs and delivers courses in technology and coding for children aged between seven and 14.
Harry has introduced hundreds of children to coding and has developed courses being used in schools today.
In 2016, he co-founded a news website for young people - trendsterpress.com, which exceeds 30,000 hits per month.
Abbey Booker from Doncaster, South Yorkshire is in care. But at 14 years-old she also dedicates her time to working to ensure other children have the best experience in care they can.
She spends her free time volunteering with several schemes, including a befriending service for young people in care.
Abbey sits on the Care Counts Youth Council and has helped change the way adult professionals in the care service deal with young people in care like her.