A mother has denied murdering her four-year-old daughter and her partner at their west London home.

The bodies of Sophia Christopher and Emanuel Amphahasa, in his 40s, were found by police at Colville Square, Notting Hill in February.
Shelley Christopher, 36, denied two courts of murder and a further count of attempted murder of a third victim at the Old Bailey.
Ms Christopher is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey in October.
The man and girl were pronounced dead at the scene after police forced their way into the property following concerns raised about their welfare.


A lorry driver who allegedly "repeatedly and deliberately" rammed a car on a busy motorway has been charged with careless driving.

The car driver caught the incident on his dashcam as he drove along the M1 near Northampton on 11 November.
He said the other driver repeatedly attempted to cut him up and shunted him twice.
Northamptonshire Police said a 67-year-old lorry driver from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, had been charged.


Two men have been jailed for stealing £30,000 from a cash delivery driver.

Jamie Bellows, 28, and Xavier Whyte, 29, struck after the money was collected from Sainsbury's in Bitterne precinct, Southampton, on 29 December 2015.
Bellows was jailed at Southampton Crown Court on Tuesday for seven and a half years and Whyte for six-and-a-half.
The pair, from Southampton, admitted conspiring to commit robbery in June. The money has never been traced.
The court heard Bellows ambushed the driver near the store at about 10:00 GMT, while Whyte waited in a stolen getaway car.
The victim was left traumatised but uninjured, police said.
The empty cash box was later recovered near to Bellows' home in Chafen Road.
Bellows was arrested in February 2016 and Whyte, of Wilton Road, was detained in March, but both remained silent in police interviews.
Detectives said evidence from CCTV footage and mobile phone analysis eventually led to the men being charged in October.


Malaysian police have arrested two Malaysians and one Pakistani in connection with last month's deadly bombing at a shrine in Bangkok.

Police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said they were detained a few days ago and were assisting with the investigation.
Thailand has launched a manhunt for those responsible for the bombing which killed 20 people and injured 120.
Thai police have arrested two people and are searching for a third man, said to be from China's Xinjiang region.
Mr Khalid told reporters on Monday that the three suspects are a Pakistani man, a Malaysian man, and a Malaysian woman, who were arrested based on a tip-off from Thai authorities.
He said the suspects would not yet be transferred to Thailand, as Malaysian police are still investigating. He did not give further details on the reason for their detention.
No group has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the attack at the Erawan shrine on 17 August, but Thailand has alleged that a network which includes foreigners was behind the bombing.
Over the weekend, Thailand issued an arrest warrant for a 27-year-old Muslim man called Abudusataer Abudureheman, also known as Ishan, from Xinjiang.
He is reported to have left Bangkok for Bangladesh one day before the bomb blast, and is believed by police to have played a prominent role in the attack.
Thai authorities have already arrested two other suspects: Adem Karadag, whose nationality has yet to be verified, and Yusufu Meraili, who officials say is a Chinese national born in Xinjiang.
Xinjiang is home to a significant number of Uighur Muslims, and Chinese authorities have faced criticism for the perceived harsh restrictions placed on religion and culture in the region.
Thailand recently found itself in the spotlight following its forced repatriation of more than 100 Uighurs to China.


Mobile phone company O2 has withdrawn from a process to select the next operator for the UK's emergency services network.

It is unable to provide the "commitments required to continue into the next stage" because of its proposed acquisition by Hutchison, it says.
The government wants the network to be run by a commercial operator, but only EE is currently left in the bidding.
Experts have accused the government of rushing the radical shake-up.
In a statement O2 blamed uncertainty in the mobile market.
"The potential restructuring of the UK telecoms market as a result of current mergers-and-acquisitions activity affecting several players in the industry raises questions about spectrum (both current holdings and timings of access to future spectrum), network-sharing arrangements, and, specifically in our position, the proposed potential acquisition of O2 in the UK by Hutchison Whampoa," the company said..
"We are therefore unable at this time to provide the detail and commitments required to continue into the next stage of the bidding process put forward by government."
Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, said that the decision to withdraw from the bidding was "disappointing".
"However, the process to establish a more effective, flexible and affordable network for the UK's police, fire and ambulance services will continue," he said.
"Procurement remains extremely competitive and will deliver value for money to the taxpayer irrespective of O2 Telefonica's decision to withdraw.
"Seven other bidders remain in the running for the main contracts, and we look forward to receiving their best and final offers in June.
"We hope to sign contracts later this year."
These seven bidders - which include HP, Motorola and Lockheed Martin - are competing for contracts to support the implementation of the mobile network. But the contract to run the network itself now has just one bidder, EE
The new Emergency Services Network is expected to go live in 2017 and will provide mobile, voice and data communication to police, fire and ambulance services, among others.
The government wants to see it move from its current dedicated network to a commercial 4G one, which it believes will offer greater flexibility as well as cost savings.
The company that currently runs the network - Airwave - was not shortlisted for the latest stage of bidding.
Chief operating officer John Lewis told the BBC: "Our view is that 4G is the right technology but that currently it is not ready for mission-critical voice services.
"The standards are not yet ready, and this is a pretty commonly held view in the industry.
"We don't feel that the mobile networks will be ready to take on the very crucial role that emergency services play until at least 2020.
Currently, the networks don't have the coverage or the resilience to deal with the specific demands of our customer base."
He added that one customer - the UK's fire and rescue service - had decided to extend its contract with Airwave until 2020.
The police and ambulance service could also decide to renew contracts until the same date, he added.


Candidates wanting to stand in May's local elections have until 16:00 BST to submit their nomination papers.

More than 1,200 seats will be available across 22 local authorities in Wales on Thursday 4 May.
With 580 councillors, Labour is defending the most seats. Plaid Cymru has 170, the Conservatives 104 and the Liberal Democrats 75.
The results are due from the early hours of Friday morning. There are 13 overnight counts and nine the next day.
In terms of councils, Labour has a majority on 10 local authorities and leads two others as the largest group.
Plaid Cymru has a majority on one local authority and leads two others as a minority administration.
The Conservatives run one council with Liberal Democrat help.


A man who posted a hoax suicide threat on Facebook ending up being arrested and put in a psychiatric institution for nearly three days.

Shane Tusch, 48, a part-time electrician from San Mateo, California, said he wanted to test Facebook's revamped suicide prevention programme.
But after threatening to hang himself from the Golden Gate Bridge, a reader alerted police who then arrested him.
Mr Tusch says he was denied "any humane care" and subjected to medical tests.
Facebook locked his account as well.
Facebook extended its suicide prevention programme in February, enabling concerned readers to flag up posts that indicate someone may be suicidal and get help from trained professionals.
Once alerted, Facebook contacts the potentially suicidal person the next time he or she logs on and offers ways to get help.
Or if Facebook thinks there is an "imminent threat" it may contact local police and ask them to carry out a "welfare check".
But Mr Tusch, who is married with two children, said that his experience illustrates the dangers of the social media platform's approach.
"Facebook needs to leave suicide prevention to family and friends," he wrote on his Facebook page.
"There are no checks and balances! I was only proving a point that Facebook should not be involved in this. . . "
The person who flagged up his "suicidal" post was almost "a complete stranger", he maintained.
US lobby group Consumer Watchdog agreed with Mr Tusch's concerns and wrote a letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg asking him to "suspend the suicide prevention program until it is fully protective of the rights of all individuals and contains safeguards against abuse".
Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court wrote: "Facebook facilitated this man's loss of freedom for 70 hours and other innocent victims will be caught in Facebook's web if you do not improve the suicide prevention program's procedures."
Mr Tusch says that prior to his fake suicide threat, which used protracted disagreements with his lender Bank of America as a pretext, he had not used Facebook for two years.
Facebook was not immediately available for comment.


Electronic musician Jamie xx is the bookmaker's favourite to win the Mercury Music Prize on Friday night.

The 27-year-old is nominated for his debut solo record In Colour, a tribute to the dance music of his youth.
If he takes the Â£20,000 prize, he would be the first musician to win both as a solo artist and with a band, after The xx picked up the prize five years ago.
But he faces competition from Florence + The Machine, spoken word artist Ghostpoet and rock band Wolf Alice.
All of them have been highlighted as potential winners by at least one bookmaker, highlighting the unpredictability of the annual prize, which recognises innovative albums produced in the UK and Ireland.
The judges often reward albums that are perceived as having a niche audience - such as last year's winners Young Fathers, whose album had sold just 2,368 copies when they lifted the trophy.
Jamie xx has a higher profile than the Edinburgh hip-hop trio, thanks to the band he formed with his schoolfriends in 2005.
Their self-titled debut album - a delicate, minimalist collection of bedsit lovesongs - won the Mercury Prize in 2010; and Jamie has since remixed songs for Adele, Radiohead and Gil Scott-Heron.
"I'm nervous," he told BBC Radio 1 ahead of Friday's ceremony, "but I'm looking forward to the event."
The full list of nominees is:
Read more on the shortlisted acts
Jamie xx is not the only multiple nominee on the list, with Gaz Coombes, Florence + The Machine and London MC Ghostpoet all  making a second attempt on the prize.
"I can't think about winning," Ghostpoet told BBC News. "It's really weird. I've never won an award in my life."
The south Londoner is nominated for his moody, alt-rock album Shedding Skin - an unflinching portrait of life in modern Britain.
His comments were echoed by Wolf Alice, whose album My Love Is Cool was called "the debut of the decade" by NME magazine.
"We're flabbergasted," said singer Ellie Roswell. "This has been the best year of our lives."
The winner will be announced live on BBC Four and Radio 6 Music between 21:30 and 22:30 GMT on Friday.
Nominated acts will be playing live on BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music throughout the day.


Australian PM Tony Abbott has used the country's national day to announce a knighthood for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Mr Abbott, who reintroduced the honour last year, said the Prince had lived a "long life of service and dedication".
Opposition politicians described the decision as out-of-step with the times.
The leader of the opposition Labor party, Bill Shorten, said it was "anachronistic" to give the top award to a British royal on Australia Day.
He told Fairfax radio he thought the news was a joke at first, adding: "Why would we give him our top Australian honour? He's already got a lot of them."
Mr Abbott said Queen Elizabeth II had also approved a knighthood for retired Scottish-born defence force chief Angus Houston.
He was involved in the investigations last year into the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, MH370, as well as the MH17 jet that was brought down over Ukraine. Australians were killed in both incidents and Australia is heading the operation to find MH370.
He said it was "a great honour to be recognised in this way but I'd like people to still call me Angus".
Mr Abbott said that "throughout his life, Sir Angus has put Australia first".
"He immigrated to Australia as an adult, he chose Australia and we are much the better for it."
Australia's honours system
Mr Abbott praised the Prince's work as a campaigner, highlighting the achievements in Australia of his youth charity, the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
"Prince Philip's long life of service and dedication should be honoured by Australia," he said.
Australia is a parliamentary democracy that retains Britain's monarch as its head of state.
Recent polls suggest enthusiasm for making Australia a republic has dwindled since a 1999 referendum, when 45% of voters were in favour.
Most Australians at the time elected to maintain the status quo. The republican movement was split between those who wanted an elected president and those who preferred a parliamentary appointee.
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, KG (Knight of the Garter), KT (Knight of the Thistle), OM (Order of Merit), GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire), AC (Companion of the Order of Australia), QSO (Companion of The Queen's Service Order), PC (Privy Counsellor).
He also holds many foreign orders and decorations, as well as honorary appointments and ranks in the Armed Services.
In a speech on Sunday, Mr Shorten had argued that Australians should rally behind the idea of a republic.
"Let us have the courage to ask ourselves if we measure up to more than just a grab-bag of cliches," he said. "Let us declare that our head of state should be one of us."
Opposition politicians have also criticised Mr Abbott's decision and its timing.
"As we try to reflect upon our nation... one of Australia's highest honours goes to someone who's not part of our community really," the former premier of Western Australia, Geoff Gallop, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"In effect this is the eccentricity of Tony Abbott's views on our constitution coming through," he was quoted as saying. "It certainly doesn't reflect the view of the Australian people through a meritocratic process."
Greens leader Christine Milne told Fairfax Media: "There are plenty of wonderful people right here who are worthy of recognition."
"But this is Tony Abbott - stuck on what Australia was and failing to notice all that we are, or have any vision or pathway towards all that we can be."


Manchester United fans are planning to protest about the £71 they are being charged for a ticket for their Europa League game at Midtjylland on Thursday.

Southampton supporters were charged £22 for a Europa League play-off match against the Danish champions in August.
United We Stand fanzine editor Andy Mitten said: "Do they think United fans are three times wealthier than Southampton fans?"
A fans' banner to be unfurled at the game reads: "Welcome to Scamdinavia."
FC Midtjylland failed to respond to requests for a comment on Tuesday.
Mitten said the price United supporters were being charged for the first leg of the last-32 match was "extortionate".
He added: "The combined cost of all three tickets for Manchester United's Champions League away games was only £75.
"Midtjylland are ripping fans off - their own and the 800 travelling fans."
Duncan Drasdo, chief executive of the Independent Manchester United Supporters' Trust, said the ticket price was "a real slap in the face".
Last week, Liverpool's owners abandoned plans for a £77 top-priced match-day ticket for next season after fans staged a walkout protest during their home game against Sunderland.
The Black Cats, meanwhile, have announced reductions to their season-ticket prices for the 2016-17 campaign.


A legally binding agreement has been struck to protect UK taxpayers' money from the impact of the Greek bailout, the Treasury says.

Chancellor George Osborne said the "impregnable ring fence" had followed "tough talks" and would also apply to future eurozone rescue packages.
Other non-eurozone countries would also be protected, the Treasury said.
The announcement follows a row over the possible use of an EU-wide contingency fund to make bridging loans to Greece.
It centred on the use of the European Financial Stability Mechanism, an emergency fund set up to support any of the 28 EU member states in financial difficulty.
Prime Minister David Cameron argued that a deal struck in 2010 should protect the UK from future eurozone bailouts.
But EU officials said the European Commission had legal authority to use it for short-term loans that could be given to Greece as part of the wider 86bn-euro (£61bn) rescue package agreed on Sunday.
Setting out the new deal, a Treasury spokesman said EU law would be changed so a cash fund, held by the European Central Bank, would cover any liabilities that would have fallen to the UK or other non-eurozone countries like Denmark and the Czech Republic.
The deal had the support of the European Commission and the majority of other EU members and would take effect in 24 hours' time, he said.
The spokesman said the deal established the principle of different rules for those outside the eurozone.
Defusing this political grenade has been keeping ministers and officials busy and today they reached a deal. The European Central Bank will hold a new cash guarantee that ensures countries like Britain that do not have the euro cannot lose any money.
And importantly, EU law will be changed to ensure non-eurozone countries will never have to contribute to a Euro zone bailout.
George Osborne said this was a "significant victory" - and certainly protecting the interests of "euro outs" will be a big part of the government's renegotiation with Brussels.
This may indicate a willingness in Brussels to help David Cameron secure changes to EU law - something many of his MPs say is essential.
Mr Osborne said: "We have today secured a significant victory and strengthened the protections for the UK in the latest Greek bailout and any future bailouts of Eurozone countries.
"I made clear to my European counterparts that this was an absolute red line for Britain."
Mr Osborne added: "These have been tough talks, but the agreement announced this evening means an impregnable ring fence around British taxpayers' money, which will not be at risk in any way in this emergency financing for Greece."
The chancellor said he expected the principle of treating non-eurozone countries differently to be "acknowledged" when the UK attempted to renegotiate its relationship with the EU ahead of the referendum on its membership, promised by 2017.


The comments by Prince Charles last weekend about the growing threat of Islamist radicalisation were the day's most read item on the BBC news website.

The Prince of Wales warned that young people are being radicalised at an "alarming rate" and that it is one of the "greatest worries".
Prince Charles went on: "The frightening part is that people can be so radicalised either through contact with somebody else or through the internet, and the extraordinary amount of crazy stuff which is on the internet."
Prince Charles put his finger on an issue that refuses to go away and his intervention is just the latest in a series of attempts to discuss this pressing problem.
But it is easier said than done, as Communities Secretary Eric Pickles found when he wrote an open letter a few weeks ago to 1,000 Islamic leaders asking for their help in dealing with radicalisation.
His co-signatory was Lord Ahmad, who just happens to be Muslim.
Not that it helped much. The letter got short shrift in some quarters.
The Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation that claims to represent 500 mosques, schools and charities, was particularly fierce in its criticism of the letter - even though Mr Pickles didn't write to the MCB.
Ibrahim Mogra, the assistant general secretary of the MCB, dismissed the initiative.
He said that imams had been working for years to "better educate" young people, and that the demand could fuel anti-Muslim sentiments in British society.
The main source of radicalism is the internet, not mosques, he went on.
But critics of the MCB said its response was an attempt to shut down discussion rather than engage in a constructive dialogue.
In some ways, this goes to the nub of the issue.
Those on one side of the argument accuse Muslims of keeping their heads down, averting their gaze, and not condemning loudly enough the role of extremists.
On the other side, Muslims say there should be no pressure on them to speak and they should not have to prove their legitimacy as citizens.
And anyway, they go on to say, they do condemn atrocities - but this is lost in the noise around the atrocity in question.
In writing to imams and others, ministers again highlighted the role of mosques in tackling extremist ideology.
The precise role of mosques though is hard to assess.
Who runs Britain's mosques?
Much is made of the influence of the Saudi-inspired Wahhabi sect (or Salafis, as they prefer to call themselves) in Britain's mosques, but this is a relatively small school of religious influence here.
The bigger school of Islamic thought is believed to be that of the Deobandis, a conservative interpretation of Islamic law that governs teaching in almost half of Britain's mosques.
But generally speaking there is no hierarchical Muslim religious leadership, no single authority figure the equivalent of, say, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and imams have a fair degree of independence.
Official government policy has tended to focus on expelling controversial imams or denying visas to extremist preachers.
In the past certain mosques - for example, Finsbury Park in north London where the radical cleric Abu Hamza was based - are known to have played a role in driving young and impressionable recruits into the hands of extremists.
But others argue that more recently this malign recruiting role has been taken over by the internet and social media.
This is an ongoing argument. For example, the Quilliam Foundation, an anti-extremism think tank, published some research on the issue last year.
It suggested that the "majority of radicalised individuals came into contact with extremist ideology through offline socialisation prior to being further indoctrinated online".
In other words, the radicalisation seed is sown through person-to-person contact first of all.
The Pickles letter, his supporters would argue, is the kind of thing ministers have been saying for some time in relation to extremism.
And in defence of Mr Pickles, it has to be acknowledged that speaking about extremism is fraught with political and cultural traps.
Ministers are rightly worried that some terrorist atrocity might happen on their watch.
And in the wake of the attacks in Paris, who wouldn't be?
But at the same time they don't want to put a step wrong in dealing with a community that, rightly or wrongly, feels put upon.
The Muslim leaders from their viewpoint presumably see themselves as negotiating a difficult path.
Their own legitimacy as leaders is constantly open to question - after all, Britain has many Muslim communities.
But ministers' attempts to reach out - or not - to British Muslims during heightened concern over terrorism have always posed dilemmas.
The coalition government has come under attack from one of its own former members.
Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman to sit in Cabinet, has rounded on the government's strategy towards Muslims, saying its failure to engage had fuelled resentment in the Muslim community.
The same issue - how to engage with the Muslim community - was resolved in the Blair government by hugging close the Muslim Council of Britain, even though it is - and was - a largely self-appointed body.
But the relationship wasn't without its ups and downs.
Ministers distanced themselves from the group over its damaging refusal to attend Holocaust Memorial Day.
Then, in 2009, the then Communities Secretary Hazel Blears severed links with the MCB after its deputy secretary general, Daud Abdullah, declared his personal support for Hamas in Gaza.
The organisation, some claim, has never really recovered in official circles.
When David Cameron became prime minister, he demanded the MCB distanced itself from Dr Abdullah.
The Prevent anti-extremism programme has been another bone of contention between ministers and critics of government policy in dealing with extremism.
The Labour government spent millions of pounds on the scheme - which really came into its own in the wake of the 2005 London bombings - but its impact has been hard to quantify and critics claim it has stigmatised Muslims.
The Home Office has in recent years cut counter-terror funds to many Muslim organisations as part of its reform of the Prevent strategy.
It continues to draw fire from a variety of quarters.
The former head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, reportedly says it is counter-productive in that it runs the risk of alienating the very communities whose help is crucial in tackling extremism.
Others claim that Prevent highlights a wider fault in official thinking, with too much focus placed on dealing with radicalisation and not enough attention paid to tackling issues such as integration and alienation.
In truth, no-one really knows how to connect all the dots in the journey that takes an apparently ordinary young person and turns him or her into a violent extremist.
And for a grouping that is almost constantly in the news, misconceptions about Muslims are still commonplace and can't help when it comes to making policy.
For example, the actual percentage of Muslims in the UK is around 5%, but those surveyed by Ipsos Mori recently said they thought it was 21%.
Hardly surprising perhaps given the number of stories about Muslims in the media.
Religious conversion - an issue in prisons where the number of Muslims is now at an all-time high, according to Ministry of Justice figures - is not necessarily the same as radicalisation, and counter-terrorism policies face the challenge of distinguishing between legitimate expression of faith and extremist ideologies.
Illiberal beliefs and practices, however uncomfortable, do not always end up in violent extremism.
And perhaps just as importantly for politicians and policy makers, the biggest challenge of all is how to get the message through to all of Britain's Muslims, a community - indeed communities - comprised of Shia and Sunni, speaking a number of different languages and made up of many ethnicities.


The R&A has defended golf's anti-doping measures following criticism from world number four Rory McIlroy.

McIlroy said on Tuesday he could "get away with" doping, but the governing body said eight tests were carried out at the 2015 Open Championship.
"Our anti-doping policy follows that of the European Tour," said R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers.
He added that talks about improving doping policies were "not a matter for public discussion".
Slumbers said: "For those players that are in the registered testing pool for the Olympics there is the IGF (International Golf Federation) additional testing that is being carried out during this week.
"Our belief is that we should be as a sport right at the highest level of standards around anti-doping and that's something that the tours and ourselves are privately talking about behind closed doors."
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Englishman Justin Rose, the world number 11, said current anti-doping measures "feel comprehensive enough to me".
He added: "I believe golf has that great image of being a clean sport and that's obviously what the aim is of drug-testing - to keep sports clean.
"I don't see any way to improve it. I don't see any reason to improve it."
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Roger Federer has never served better against me than he did in Friday's match on Centre Court, and I hope he never does it again.

It was the 24th time we've played each other, and in our last match at the O2 in November I only won one game, but even then it wasn't like I was getting aced off the court and couldn't touch the ball.
At one point on Friday I looked up at the scoreboard and it was 3-2 and he'd served nine aces, and I thought, 'What's going on?' It was his best serving performance in one of our matches and not just by a little bit, by far.
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Losing at Wimbledon is especially tough because I feel like it's my best surface and I get incredible support, so it's probably my best chance to win another Grand Slam.
We'll see over the next few days if it makes the disappointment easier to bear this time, but it's not like I came off the court and thought that I did something stupid or played some ridiculous shots at the wrong times. Roger just played great and deserved to win.
Obviously you go into a Wimbledon semi-final against Roger knowing the level is going to be higher, but I didn't feel like my tennis wasn't where it needed to be.
When I was in the rallies, I felt fine. The level was there. It's just that his serving was so good that I couldn't get into enough rallies to make it count.
I tried moving and changing my returning position as much as I could, and I won more than my fair share of points when he missed the first serve, he just didn't miss enough of them. I would be interested to see the ball placements of where they actually landed because it felt like they were all right on the line, or very close.
The crowd did their best to help me and I felt like they were really pumped in that long game at the end of the second set, but it was probably hard for them to get as involved as they might like throughout the match when I couldn't create any break points after the first game.
There are always moments in a defeat when you look back and think you might have done something differently, but not many this time.
Maybe in the first set, when I got broken, I came in twice on his backhand when I had the full court open into his forehand. I felt like I could have hit those forehands to a different spot on the court, but he came up with some great passes.
But it was pretty clear to me what the problem was and the stats that flashed up on the scoreboard at the changeovers confirmed it.
They only have the basic information like first-serve percentage, first-serve points won, second-serve points won, but it was clear that the difference in the match was his first serve. We both won about the same amount of points on each other's second serve up until the last game.
I served very well for most of the match but he just won a few more of my first-serve points and I couldn't win enough of his. It's a shame it had to happen in such a big match.
The next few days will be difficult but I have Britain's Davis Cup tie against France at Queen's Club to focus on next week and, while it's hard to imagine it now, I know that I'll be as pumped as ever once I get back out on court - I love representing my country and playing Davis Cup.
In the meantime, my brother Jamie and John Peers play in the Wimbledon men's doubles final on Saturday and a win for them would help me get over my own disappointment, for sure - although it's not their job to worry about me.
It's hard to explain but Jamie and I have left each other alone during the tournament.
If we were playing in the same team, it's different, but there will be a lot of people getting excited around Jamie and I'll just wish him luck and let him be.
He's got a good team of people around him and they'll give him the right advice I'm sure.
I'd just like to thank everyone for all their support, sorry it didn't happen this time but I will be back.
Andy Murray was speaking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery. You can follow Murray on Twitter,Facebook and Instagram.


YouTube has resolved a long-running dispute that prevented many of its clips being accessible in Germany.

The Google-owned video service had been at odds with Gema - a German rights body representing musicians, composers and publishers - since 2009.
The disagreement had affected clips in which the artists appeared as well as those that used their songs in the background.
Payments will now be made, but neither side has disclosed the terms.
Google's Content ID system means that clips flagged as containing Gema-protected tracks can now have adverts automatically added to them to recompense the songs' creators.
And red banners that had prevented thousands of YouTube's clips from playing in Germany have now been removed as a consequence.
"This is a win for music artists around the world, enabling them to reach new and existing fans in Germany... and for YouTube users in Germany, who will no longer see a blocking message on music content," blogged YouTube's head of international music partnerships, Christophe Muller.
Gema said there remained disagreement about whether YouTube or the person uploading a clip was ultimately responsible for licensing the music it contained but the new agreement still marked a "milestone"
"We remained true to our position that authors should also get a fair remuneration in the digital age, despite the resistance we met," said its chief executive, Harald Heker.
One industry watcher said it was a "significant" that the matter had been resolved.
"Gema had been a long-term holdout on and critic of YouTube, hitting out at the video site even when many record companies were supportive of it," said Chris Cooke, director of Unlimited Media.
"It has meant YouTube is not the music hub in Germany that it is elsewhere, which has hindered newer artists looking to use it as a marketing channel.
"Though it has to be said in the last couple of years most labels have also become critical of YouTube, the way it operates and the royalties it pays compared to, say, Spotify or Apple Music, even though they continue to work with the service.
"It will be interesting to know quite what deal Gema has secured and how its songwriter members feel about it."


Fundamental change is needed now if the NHS in Scotland is to cope with demand, according to the financial watchdog Audit Scotland.

In an overview of the performance of the NHS in 2014/15, Audit Scotland said the health service failed to meet seven out of nine key waiting time targets.
Problems around staffing have intensified, the report found.
Audit Scotland concluded this issue is "one of the biggest pressures facing the NHS today".
Auditor General for Scotland Caroline Gardner said: "We have highlighted concerns around targets and staffing in previous reports.
"These have intensified over the past year as has the urgency for fundamental changes such as introducing new ways to deliver healthcare and developing a national approach to workforce planning.
"It is important that the Scottish government and health boards work closely together to help alleviate these pressures and also increase the pace of change necessary to meet its longer-term ambitions."
The report points out that rural health boards in particular are struggling to attract and retain employees.
As a result they have to pay inflated prices for temporary staff.  Whilst it costs an average of £15.62 an hour for an internal 'bank' nurse, employing a similar nurse from an agency costs £42.97. In Orkney, the cost per hour is £84.05.
The report also says that the health budget as a whole has decreased slightly since 2008/9 by 0.7% once inflation and capital spending is taken into account.
Health boards - which are responsible for most frontline services - received a slight increase of 1%, but not enough to keep pace with cost pressures.
The cost of drugs alone rose by 4% and is expected to rise by 5-16% in future.
Ms Gardner said: "We all depend on the NHS and its staff who provide high-quality care. But it will not be able to provide services as it does at present due to the number of pressures it faces within the current challenging financial environment."
Despite the pressures, NHS Scotland managed to reach the end of the year with an underspend of £10m, or 0.09% of its total budget of £11.4bn. However, many health boards needed to make one-off savings or received loans from the Scottish government in order to break even.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said that since the report was written, the Scottish government has announced a £200m investment to create six new treatment centres to help health boards meet increasing demand for a growing elderly population.
Ms Robison added: "The Scottish government welcomes this annual contribution from Audit Scotland, which confirms the Scottish government has increased the frontline, resource spending on our NHS.
"The Scottish government has a clear vision for the future of our NHS and we will continue to take the right action to ensure that Scotland continues to have an NHS that it can be proud of today and in the future."
Dr Peter Bennie, chairman of the British Medical Association Scotland, said: "The overriding message that must get through from this report is that substantive and realistic action is needed if our health service is to cope with the rapidly increasing pressures it is facing.
"As the report makes clear, increasing numbers of people are living longer lives, however, the amount of time that they will spend in need of support from the NHS is also growing.
"The NHS in Scotland is already coming under real strain as a result of these growing demands, continuing constraints on resources and increasing unfilled medical posts."
Royal College of Nursing Scotland associate director Ellen Hudson said: "If we are to put the NHS on a sustainable footing, then the government needs to take heed of the recommendations in this report and listen to what we and many other organisations have been saying for some time about the pressures on our health services."
Scottish Labour called the report "damning", adding the decrease in real terms of the budget shows the SNP has been cutting spending on health.
The party also highlighted that there has been a 53% increase in the use of private agency nursing staff, while 71% of vacancies for A&E staff were unfilled for more than six months.
Jackson Carlaw of the Scottish Conservatives commented: "We know about the pressures of the NHS in Scotland under the SNP government.  Things are tough now and the service will deteriorate in the future if these problems are not dealt with now."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said eight years of the SNP government has left the health service in "intensive care" while the Scottish Greens said the report revealed the Scottish government has not made sufficient progress towards its 2020 vision of more home and community-based healthcare settings.


James Haskell has a lot to say... which is fortunate because BBC Sport readers had a lot to ask.

This week the England and Wasps star - one of the biggest noises in both dressing rooms - is tackling questions on issues on and off the pitch for his BBC Sport column.
Richard Bicknell via Facebook: Since the frustration of England's 2015 World Cup campaign [Haskell's only start was in the dead rubber against Uruguay], your form has been fantastic. Is it a big mental thing getting over not being very involved in a home World Cup and do you feel some of those heavily involved in the failure are still suffering from it?
It was devastating not to have done as well as we would have wanted, but everyone put in all the effort that they could into trying to perform. Some of that gets lost with time and journalism.
The coaches and players during that World Cup campaign worked as hard as any team I have been involved in, but the beauty of being a professional sportsman is that you get another opportunity and the chance to finish what you started.
I think for a lot of guys this is a new period and that World Cup has been consigned to history.
Tony Morris via Twitter: What different challenges will England's opponents pose this autumn?
The talk with England so far has only been on South Africa in the first Test of the autumn on 12 November.
The coaches will have looked further ahead to the games against Fiji, Argentina and Australia, but the focus is on the Springboks and the huge physical challenge that they pose.
The Australians will be interesting and another huge physical encounter.
The Argentines are a little bit of an unknown quantity. We beat them three times in a year in 2013, but they have had a resurgence since then and they are a very different team. It will be interesting to see how we match up with their free-flowing rugby.
Fiji are always tough and physical. They beat Great Britain to win Olympic gold in the sevens and, after losing to us in the World Cup opener last year, will be out for revenge.
Jason Mears via Twitter: Who is the toughest back rower you've faced?
Henry Tuilagi is the biggest and most physical that I have played against. He was an absolute machine. When I played him at sevens I would just throw myself at his ankles to try and stop him.
South Africa's Schalk Burger is very physical and, for the All Blacks, Jerry Collins and Jerome Kaino were really tough.
Greg GWilliam via Twitter:Who has put the biggest hit in on you, excluding the post in that Wales game, and who have you hit the hardest?
Sam Tuitupou of Worcester absolutely ended me when I was playing for Wasps when I was younger.
I was clean through, thought I was going to score and he just thumped me from the side, sending the ball flying out of my hands.
For my own, I put one in on Census Johnston - who is about 130kgs - when I was playing for Stade Francais against Toulouse. One of my team-mates piled in as well and turned into a bit of an illegal hit, but that was my favourite.
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Amanada Clipham via Twitter: When are you going to be fit again?
December is the plan. I have just been back running on a special treadmill that reduces the load on my injured toe. It is going well.
Tony Abass via Facebook: What are your plans after retirement?
I have my fitness business that I run already and I have written a couple of books for rugby players at different levels looking to improve their play. It's basically aimed at anyone trying to get into fitness.
I really want to go into television and radio. The punditry stuff is fine, but it is not my main interest. I would like to do presenting or try my hand at acting.
I am a big fan of Jack Whitehall's Bad Education. I think I would be limited to what parts I could play - if it was security guard number five or palm tree number three then I think I would probably get the role!
James Roberts via Facebook:After your epic pillow fight on League of Our Own, who would win in an arm wrestle - you or Freddy Flintoff?
I reckon I would nine times out of 10.
Talk About Rugby via Twitter:What did you think bout being locked in a stable with the lights out with your other half on Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live? With the music box playing, were you scared?
I went into it very open-minded, but, sadly in a way, nothing happened to me. There was not a hint of a ghost - maybe they just didn't like my chat. I think my backside was hanging out the back of my pyjama bottoms for most it - that was probably more scary than any ghosts.
We managed to upset the lady who was dong a seance - Chloe couldn't stop laughing and I banged my head on the chandelier which created a false alarm on the ghost front.
Scott via Twitter:What would you do if you had to live without social media for a day?
I would be quite happy. Social media is a tool for me, it is a means to an end. It is about building a business and sharing a little of the behind-the-scenes stuff. I don't get anything else out of it really.
I look at it to see people doing funny and strange stuff - like most people - but I could live quite happily without it.
It could be such a force for positivity, but unfortunately it tends to be a collecting ground for complete lunatics. It has given an opinion to everyone and some people just don't deserve one.
JuanJo Murrati on Twitter: Last November you had a wonderful moustache. Will it be making a comeback this year?
There has been a little confusion over this. You have to be clean shaven on 1 November and go through the pain of all the different stages as it grows out. In other years, I have had a beard going into autumn and shaved it off to leave behind a ridiculous 'tache as that was a better way to raise awareness.
This year though I have gone full bore, cleanly shaven and look about 12 years old. I just want something - anything - to grow. It is a great cause, raising money and awareness for men's health.
Luke Fellows via Facebook: Who is your favourite Friends character?
My girlfriend is obsessed with Friends and so I have seen a fair few episodes. I'm a Ross man. Or maybe Monica.
Matthew Chilvers on Facebook: Who inspired you to take up rugby?
My parents got me involved in rugby really. My mum - keen to get me out of the house - signed me up for Maidenhead RFC at the age of five and my dad used to play at school as well.
It wasn't just rugby though. I did judo, tennis, football, hockey, athletics, I even represented the school chess team. I played one match, won it and retired with a 100% record. I did school plays as well. I did everything.
That is what I tell people. Don't try and be a professional sportsperson from the age of four, just enjoy life and sport.
Jarryd Harris via Twitter: Apart from yourself, who has the best banter in the England squad?
I actually think Billy Vunipola is very funny. I really like Ellis Genge's banter. He looks like Drederick Tatum from The Simpsons, but has a very friendly demeanour and is very funny.
Nic Melton via Facebook: Do you think rugby is the best sport in the world? And if so, why?
I think it is right up there. I wish that more people would enjoy it as much as I do. The excuse that people give is that they don't understand what is going on - it is not that complicated. If you can understand American Football, you can easily get your head around rugby.
It has values that people respect. It has teamwork, camaraderie, it is sociable, rewards hard work and is great for your health.
I love the goals and skill of football, but rugby is all action. There is always a collision, a tackle, a break - you very rarely get a poor game.
Andy Madden via Twitter:  Ever fancied giving rugby league a go?
I would love to have tried NRL.


The United Nations cultural agency has adopted a controversial resolution which makes no reference to Jewish ties to a key holy site in Jerusalem.

Unesco's executive board approved the Arab-sponsored resolution, which repeatedly refers to only the Islamic name for a hilltop complex which is also the holiest site in Judaism.
The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.
The resolution caused Israel to freeze co-operation with Unesco last week.
The stated aim of the text was "the safeguarding of the cultural heritage of Palestine and the distinctive character of East Jerusalem".
It criticises Israel's activities at holy places in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
But it is how it refers to the sites which prompted Israel to act against the cultural body.
While acknowledging the "importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls for the three monotheistic religions", the document refers to the sacred hilltop only by the name "al-Aqsa Mosque/al-Haram al-Sharif" (Noble Sanctuary).
It is the location of two Biblical Jewish temples and is flanked by the Western Wall, venerated by Jews as part of the original supporting wall of the temple compound.
Haram al-Sharif is also the place where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven, and is the third holiest site in Islam.
The draft refers to the precinct in front of the wall as "al-Buraq Plaza 'Western Wall Plaza'" - placing single quote marks only around "Western Wall", giving the name as it is known to Jews less weight than the one by which it is known to Muslims.
Unesco's executive board chairman Michael Worbs said on Friday he would have liked more time to work out a compromise.
He told Israeli television network Channel 10: "It's very exceptional what happened yesterday, and I'm sorry for that."
On Tuesday, Israel's Unesco ambassador, Carmel Shama Hacohen, accused the Palestinians of playing "games".
"This is the wrong place to solve problems between countries or people," he told AFP.
But Palestine's deputy ambassador to Unesco, Mounir Anastas, welcomed the adoption of the resolution, saying he hoped it would put pressure on the Israeli authorities to "stop all their violations", particularly the excavation of sites in and around the Old City.
The resolution repeatedly denounced Israeli actions, including the use of force, imposition of restrictions on Muslim worshippers and archaeological work. Israel regards such criticism as politically motivated.
It led Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett to say Unesco was ignoring "thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem" and aiding "Islamist terror".
Unesco chief Irina Bokova also criticised the draft resolution, saying "different peoples worship the same places, sometimes under different names. The recognition, use of and respect for these names is paramount".
However, Mr Bennett said Ms Bokova's statement was insufficient. "Words are important, but they are not a replacement to the actions of the organisation she heads," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Facebook post that Unesco had become a "theatre of the absurd" in taking "another delusional decision".
"To say that Israel has no connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall is like saying that China has no connection to the Great Wall of China or that Egypt has no connection to the pyramids. By this absurd decision, Unesco has lost what little legitimacy it had left."


Edinburgh and south east Scotland are receive a multi-million pound boost after the latest City Deal was agreed.

A UK government investment of £300m is expected to be matched by the Scottish government.
The money will be used to support innovation, infrastructure, housing, tourism and culture including a new concert hall in St Andrew Square.
Contributions from councils and universities are expected to take the total investment to about £1bn.
The money will support the creation of five new innovation hubs, including in robotics and space technologies.
Investments at Heriot-Watt, Queen Margaret and Edinburgh Universities are envisaged.
The Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal was due to be announced at the end of March but was delayed by elections.
Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said it would have a major economic impact on the region.
He said: "The UK government is investing £300m in the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal, which will boost the economy of Edinburgh and the whole of South East Scotland for decades to come.
"The Edinburgh deal will focus on the capital's strengths of new technology, innovation and culture. It will make a real difference to the lives of people in the region, creating jobs and prosperity and driving investment."
The regional bid involved six councils - City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
It is the fourth UK City Deal in Scotland, following investments in Glasgow, Inverness, and Aberdeen.


Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has condemned "in the strongest possible terms" deadly air strikes on its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz.

MSF said at least 12 of its staff and seven patients, three of them children, were killed in the attack.
It said the strikes had continued for more than 30 minutes after US and Nato officials were told of its location.
US forces were carrying out air strikes at the time.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said the Nato force in his country had apologised for the bombing of the hospital. The Nato alliance has admitted its forces may have hit the hospital.
At least 37 people were seriously injured, 19 of them MSF staff.
MSF says that all parties to the conflict, including Kabul and Washington, had been told the precise GPS co-ordinates of the hospital in Kunduz on many occasions, including on 29 September.
After staff at the hospital became aware of the aerial bombardment in the early hours of Saturday morning, US and Afghan military officials were again informed, MSF said.
Reuters news agency quotes an MSF official as saying that frantic staff phoned military officials at Nato in Kabul and Washington as bombs landed on the hospital for nearly an hour.
The official said the first bomb had landed at 02:10, and MSF staff called Nato in Kabul at 02:19 and military officials in Washington a few minutes later, but the bombing continued until 03:13.
A spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, Col Brian Tribus, said: "US forces conducted an air strike in Kunduz city at 02:15 (local time)... against individuals threatening the force.
"The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility."
In a statement, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said: "While we are still trying to determine exactly what happened, I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone affected.
"A full investigation into the tragic incident is under way in co-ordination with the Afghan government."
The Afghan interior ministry said a group of 10 to 15 militants were found hiding in the hospital.
"They are killed, all of the terrorists were killed, but we also lost doctors," ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said.
The Taliban denied that any of its fighters were there.
A Taliban statement described the air strikes which hit the hospital as "deliberate", and carried out by "the barbaric American forces".
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called for a swift, full and transparent investigation into the incident.
"This event is utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal," he said.
"International and Afghan military planners have an obligation to respect and protect civilians at all times, and medical facilities and personnel are the object of a special protection. These obligations apply no matter whose air force is involved, and irrespective of the location."
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also strongly condemned the bombing.
"Such attacks against health workers and facilities undermine the capacity of humanitarian organisations to assist the Afghan people at a time when they most urgently need it," said Jean-Nicolas Marti, head of the ICRC delegation in Afghanistan.
MSF says that staff and patients critically injured in the attack on the hospital have been transferred to a hospital in Pul-e Khumri, two hours' drive away.
There has been intense fighting in Kunduz since Taliban fighters swept into the northern city on Monday.
Afghan officials said the government had regained control of Kunduz on Friday, but the Taliban denied the city had been retaken. Residents say many people are afraid to leave their homes.
US air power has been supporting Afghan government forces' efforts to regain the city.
In Badakhshan province, to the east of Kunduz, the Taliban have captured two districts in the past two days. The US embassy in Kabul has advised its citizens to leave the province.
Kunduz, with a population of around 300,000, is one of Afghanistan's largest cities and strategically important both as a transport hub and a bread-basket for the region.
The US-led Nato combat mission in Afghanistan ended in December 2014, but Nato forces remain for training and support purposes.
Nato's Resolute Support Mission, which was launched in January 2015, consists of more than 13,000 troops from 42 countries. The US contributes around half of these.


Twenty six jockeys have each been given a one-day ban after a false start delayed this year's Grand National.

The riders, including Derek Fox, who rode winner One For Arthur, accepted they did not properly follow the starter's instructions.
They will serve their suspension on various dates later in May.
Aintree stewards referred 31 of the 40 jockeys in the 8 April contest to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), but five were cleared.
A disciplinary panel ruling said: "As the runners moved to the start, the starter asked them to take a turn in order for delayed runners to join the group. Although the jockeys did eventually take a turn, they did not do so immediately when requested."
The inquiry has been less controversial than three years ago, when jockeys initially refused to co-operate when a hearing was scheduled for later on Grand National day.
On that occasion, assistant starter Simon McNeill was knocked over by one of the runners as it approached the start line.
He was not badly hurt, and cautions were eventually issued to 39 jockeys at a rescheduled hearing.
After Friday's hearing, a BHA spokesman said: "Starting the Grand National presents a unique challenge for both starters and jockeys, as does holding an inquiry with a large number of jockeys immediately after the race.
"This is why the inquiry was held back until today and we are grateful for the co-operation of the jockeys in this process."
The Professional Jockeys' Association says it will continue to talk to the BHA about improving issues around the start of the National.


Three men have been charged with fraud for allegedly conspiring to sell horsemeat as beef.

They are accused of conspiring together, and with others, to sell goods in 2012 that contained wholly, or in part, a mix of beef and horsemeat.
Ulrik Nielsen, Alex Ostler-Beech and Andronicos Sideras will appear at City of London Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, 27 September.
The charges follow an investigation led by the City of London police.


Pupils at a school in County Tyrone have been sent home after it was vandalised during an overnight burglary.

Burglars used sledgehammers to smash their way into Drumragh Integrated College on Sunday night.
The principal, Nigel Frith, said money was taken and those responsible had cut telephone wires and broken alarms.
Mr Frith said the school would reopen on Tuesday.
He said the main damage had been caused to doors and furniture.
"They have taken surprisingly little," he said.
"The main problem for us is going to be getting the repairs to the building and getting everything up and running again.
"Our first concern this morning was children arriving at school.
"We had an operation that went quite well, to send children home immediately who were being dropped off by parents."
Mr Frith said the phone lines were not working when staff and pupils arrived at the school.
"We were relying on children to use their own mobile phones to contact their parents and liaise with us".
He said the school would be in contact with parents if it was not possible to open on Tuesday.
Police have appealed for information about the incident and said "considerable damage" had been caused to the premises.


Mortgage lending in Northern Ireland has hit its highest level since the property market was heading for its peak in 2007, according to new data.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) also said in the last quarter of 2015 more first-time buyers purchased properties in the region than at any time since 2006.
The organisation publishes data on behalf of banks and building societies.
It said 3,700 mortgages worth £380m were taken out in 2015's final quarter.
That is a rise of 3% on the same quarter in 2014 and 6% on the previous quarter, with first time buyers accounting for 2,100 of the loans.
Derek Wilson, the CML's Northern Ireland chair, said: "Home lending in Northern Ireland for the quarter rose to its highest level since mid-2007.
"It is welcome to see more first-time buyers purchasing their first home in this period than any other quarter since 2006."
The CML is forecasting the "upward trend" to continue in 2016, despite issues around a supply of new properties.
Meanwhile, the latest property survey by the University of Ulster has said 2015 saw the strongest year for price growth since the 2008 crash.
Average prices are up by 9% on 2014, "indicating that strong market conditions are prevailing."
Property prices are 40% below what they were at the peak of the market in late 2007.


Six Yemeni prisoners held for years at Guantanamo Bay detention centre have been transferred to Oman, the US says.

The departures from the prison in Cuba were the first for six months.
President Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay during his election campaign in 2008. Although he has been unable to do so, he has cut the number of inmates by half.
The latest transfers bring the number of detainees in Guantanamo to 116.
The men had been cleared to leave for years, but could not be sent back to Yemen because of the country's instability.
Congress has barred transfers to the US mainland, so the only option left for the authorities is to send prisoners to third countries.
In a statement, the Pentagon said the US was "grateful to the government of Oman for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing US efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility".
It is the second transfer of Guantanamo prisoners this year, after the Pentagon announced in January that four men had been moved to Oman and one to Estonia.
The six Yemenis flown to Oman on Friday were identified by the Pentagon as Idris Ahmad Abd Al Qadir Idris, Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud, Jalal Salam Awad Awad, Saad Nasser Moqbil Al Azani, Emad Abdallah Hassan and Muhammad Ali Salem Al Zarnuki.
Emad Abdullah Hassan has held repeated hunger strikes in protest against his confinement without charge since 2002.
Correspondents say that President Obama, thwarted by Congress in his efforts to close the prison, has had to rely on only a handful of countries that have agreed to accept detainees.
Last year, 14 detainees were transferred out of the prison, based at a US naval base in south-eastern Cuba.


Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry was frustrated after seeing his side concede three "bargain basement goals" against League Two leaders Doncaster.

Luke Berry missed an early penalty for U's, before Doncaster went 3-0 ahead.
Goals from George Maris and Berry closed the deficit, but Rovers won 3-2 - their first victory in six matches.
"Against the top teams I bang the drum about taking your chances. In one box we weren't ruthless enough, and in the other we weren't good enough," he said.
"I see chances that have gone begging. And the other side of the game, the defensive side, it's three goals that we have conceded that are bargain basement."
Derry's squad has been hit by injuries all season, and Cambridge were without forwards Uche Ikpeazu and Barry Corr for the visit of Darren Ferguson's side.
Ben Williamson started the game up front for the U's, but failed to add to his one goal from 38 matches this season.
"We've missed some big players at key moments of our season. Against Doncaster we've missed Uche and Barry Corr and we're reliant upon a striker who's absolutely off form," said Derry.
"I'm not going to shy away from that. I see him every day in training, his character and application is exactly the same as last season, but the goals aren't there for him at the moment."


Britain's Marcus Willis has been awarded a wildcard into qualifying for Wimbledon after his fairytale run at last year's tournament.

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Willis won six matches to qualify last year, before beating a top-100 player in the first round and losing to Roger Federer on Centre Court in the second.
He will definitely be at Wimbledon again this year as he has received a wildcard for the doubles.
Seven Britons have been given wildcards for the singles main draws.
They are Naomi Broady, Heather Watson, Laura Robson, Katie Boulter in the women's draw, plus Brydan Klein, Cameron Norrie and James Ward in the men's competition.
All are ranked inside the world's top 250 with the exception of Ward, who has spent much of the last year on the sidelines with a knee injury.
Wimbledon runs from Monday, 3 July to Sunday, 16 July.
German Tommy Haas, a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2009, has also been given a wildcard, along with Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the men's draw.
Shapovalov, 18, was defaulted in a Davis Cup match against Kyle Edmund in February after hitting a ball in frustration that fractured umpire Arnaud Gabas's eye socket.
He beat Edmund at the Aegon Championships in London on Monday at Queen's Club.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
"Willbomb's on fire .. Federer is terrified" was one of the more unusual chants that could be heard on Centre Court last year as Willis played the seven-time champion in the second round.
Willis had been playing mostly in the French and German leagues and was ranked 772 in the world prior to the Championships. He has played sparingly in the past 12 months, and, now ranked 387, has won just under £3,000 on the Futures circuit so far this year.
Many other British players will have a chance to compete in qualifying - including the 18-year-olds Jay Clarke and Katie Swan and 19-year-old Gabriella Taylor.
Taylor spent four days in intensive care after losing her girls' quarter-final match last year, and Scotland Yard later investigated claims that she had been poisoned.
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Two 16-year-boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teenager was stabbed to death in west London.

Folajimi Orebiyi was knifed in the neck outside a Notting Hill estate on Sunday at about 20:45 BST.
The 17-year-old then fled along Portobello Road but collapsed. An air ambulance was called but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Met said the suspects were in custody at separate police stations. A boy of 15 was arrested on Monday.
A post-mortem examination has yest to take place.


Olympic double trap shooting gold medallist Peter Wilson has announced his retirement at the age of 28.

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Wilson gave Britain a first shooting gold for 12 years when he won at London 2012 and has also achieved a world record and world number one status.
His last appearance for British Shooting came at the Al Ain World Cup in 2013 when he sealed his third title.
"I would rather go out at the top and move on to the next challenge," said Wilson, who will move into coaching.
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Speaking to BBC Radio Solent, Wilson said: "I took some time off to collect my thoughts and sadly from that point of view I decided I am enjoying my time off far too much.
"The idea of getting back into competitive shooting wasn't one that fitted in my life so I decided to call it time."
Wilson's 2013 World Cup success - where he claimed another gold - proved to be his final major event, as he realised he could not defend his Olympic title at the Rio Games in 2016.
"I was lucky enough to win a large competition last year and I just didn't get the buzz I had in the past," he said.
"I do this because I love it, I love representing my country, I love winning and you therefore need to love training because you won't win without training. That's the part I'm struggling with.
"I'm sorry for leading people astray, but I'm happy with the decision I've made and I think I am heading in the right direction."
Wilson, who travelled with his gold medal on the London Underground following his victory and was made an MBE in 2012, added he would now pursue other interests such as taking over the family farm as well as run a small business based around shooting.
He will also now take on the role of double trap coach for young British shooter, James Dedman and said: "I believe he has the talent to go all the way to the very top but at the moment he is a junior. He is a really exciting prospect for the future. I see a lot of me in him and that's very exciting.
Chief executive of British Shooting, Hamish McInnes, said: "Peter Wilson's successes while representing British Shooting have been remarkable. His determination, dedication and attention to detail have made him a phenomenal athlete and we are proud that he represented our sport on the world stage.
"He may be stepping down from competitive shooting, but we look forward to continuing our relationship moving forward to ensure our sport continues to grow and become ever-more popular."
British Shooting's team leader from London 2012, Phil Scanlan, added: "Peter has been a great ambassador for the sport of shooting.
"His dedication and hard work have set a great example to the next group of shooters coming through and looking to follow in his footsteps."


Aldershot made it three wins in a row as they closed in on the National League play-off places with a 2-1 win over Southport.

The Shots dominated the opening half but it took until first-half stoppage time for them to go ahead.
A superb counter-attack started by Callum Reynolds saw the ball played in to Shamir Fenelon and he fed Kundai Benyu, whose cross was parried but Fenelon was on hand to drill into the top corner.
The hosts doubled their advantage in the 70th minute when Bernard Mensah's pull-back from the left touchline found Jake Gallagher and his shot deflected off team-mate Scott Rendell and past Magnus Norman.
Southport pulled back a consolation with the last kick of the game as Andrai Jones lifted the ball over Jake Cole after meeting a cross from the left.
Match ends, Aldershot Town 2, Southport 1.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Southport 1.
Scott Rendell (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 2, Southport 1. Andrai Jones (Southport).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jim Kellerman replaces Kundai Benyu.
Substitution, Southport. Ross White replaces Declan Weeks.
Substitution, Southport. Michael Onovwigun replaces Delial Brewster.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jonny Giles replaces Shamir Fenelon.
Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 2, Southport 0. Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Southport. Ben McKenna replaces Ruben Jerome.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 1, Southport 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 1, Southport 0.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 1, Southport 0. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Andrai Jones (Southport) is shown the yellow card.
Idris Kanu (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Ukraine has named 14 Russian singers and actors, including French-born Gerard Depardieu, whose work will be banned from TV, radio and cinemas.

Ukraine said they were a "threat to national security" for supporting Russia's annexation of Crimea and pro-Russian separatists in the east.
Mr Depardieu, who received a Russian passport in 2013, was last month banned from entering Ukraine for five years.
The actor has described Russia as a "great democracy".
The blacklist was published by Ukraine's culture ministry (in Ukrainian) on Saturday.
The ministry said it acted at the request of Ukraine's security service (SBU).
Among those on the list is singer Iosif Kobzon, who was born in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, part of which has been seized by the separatists.
Mr Kobzon has already been targeted by EU sanctions for supporting Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Responding to Ukraine's move, some of the actors and singers said they were "honoured" to be on the list.
Nearly 7,000 people have died in fighting in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions since April 2014.
The clashes began a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.
Ukraine and the West accuse Russian of sending its troops and arming the separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Moscow denies the claim, but admits that Russian "volunteers" are fighting alongside the rebels.


A multi-million pound investment has been announced to improve part of central Belfast.

The area from Castle Place to the new Ulster University campus on York Street will be enhanced as part of wider plans to rejuvenate the entire city centre.
The streetscape will get new paving, street furniture, lighting and public artwork.
The scheme is expected to cost £27m, with £20m coming from the Department for Communities (DfC).
Belfast City Council is also contributing £5m to the project.
The Belfast Streets Ahead Programme aims to regenerate the entire city centre in a number of phases, said Communities Minister Paul Givan.
"This latest phase will deliver a high-quality, sustainable, public realm scheme in the north of the city centre that will make a significant contribution to the wider regeneration works in the area," he added.
"These works will make the area more welcoming, vibrant and attractive to further investment and will build on the successful implementation of Belfast Streets Ahead in the heart of the shopping district which has helped transform the city centre."
The work is expected to start next spring and is due to be completed by mid-2019.


Under extreme pressures and temperatures, one of the main materials of the Earth's interior has exhibited a never-before-seen transition.

Iron oxide was subjected to conditions similar to those at the depth where the Earth's innermost two layers meet.
At 1,650C and 690,000 times sea-level pressure, the metal changed the degree to which it conducted electricity.
But, as the team outlined in Physical Review Letters, the metal's structure was surprisingly unchanged.
The finding could have implications for our as-yet incomplete understanding of how the Earth's interior gives rise to the planet's magnetic field.
While many transitions are known in materials as they undergo nature's extraordinary pressures and temperatures, such changes in fundamental properties are most often accompanied by a change in structure.
These can be the ways that atoms are arranged in a crystal pattern, or even in the arrangement of subatomic particles that surround atomic nuclei.
A team at the Carnegie Institution for Science subjected the material to pressures up to 1.4 million times atmospheric pressure at sea level, and temperatures up to 2,200C.
They found that it pulls off the trick of changing its electrical properties without any shifting of shape - it can be an insulator or conductor depending just on temperature and pressure.
Combined with computer simulations of just what was going on with the material's electrons, the group claim that the results show a new type of metallisation.
"At high temperatures, the atoms in iron oxide crystals are arranged with the same structure as common table salt," said Ronald Cohen, a co-author of the study. "Just like table salt, iron oxide at ambient conditions is a good insulatorâ€”it does not conduct electricity."
"Our new results show, instead, that iron oxide metallises without any change in structure and that combined temperature and pressure are required. Furthermore, our theory shows that the way the electrons behave to make it metallic is different from other materials that become metallic."
A mixture of magnesium and iron oxide makes up much of the Earth's mantle - the solid layer just outside the planet's liquid outer core. The fact that iron oxide behaves as a metal means it will electrically link the core and mantle, affecting the way the magnetic field makes its way to the Earth's surface and beyond.


LG has announced a wrist-worn device designed to let parents keep track of where their child is and listen to what they are up to.

The Kizon uses GPS and wi-fi signals to identify the wearer's location and sends the information to an Android app.
LG is targeting the device at families with pre-school and primary school children.
However, others have raised concerns about the idea.
"A parent should never solely rely on a device alone. This will only give a false sense of security," said Peter Bradley, director of services at the charity Kidscape.
"Children still need to be taught about dangers - particularly 'stranger danger'."
"There are ethical points to consider too - should a child be able to be traced as part of going about their daily lives? How can a child develop their own coping strategies knowing a parent is watching over them?"
Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch has also called for more details to be made available.
"Parents must be aware that any technology with location tracking and mobile phone services come with added security concerns, which are only heightened when the user is a child," said acting director Emma Carr.
"The companies developing the products must be explicitly clear what they are doing to enhance the security around the data collected to ensure that it is only the parents who will ever have access to the child's location and contact details."
A spokeswoman from LG was unable to discuss the issues raised.
The South Korean firm is not the first to market such a device - start-ups including KMS Solutions, Tinitell and Filip have announced similar products - however, LG's launch marks the entry of a major tech company into the sector.
Even so, one industry watcher suggested the design of the Kizon could limit its appeal.
"If the wristband looks like a bulky Star Trek machine, it will be a deterrent against adoption - that's true of all wearable devices - the aesthetics are very important," said Saverio Romeo from the Beecham Research consultancy.
"In this specific case you would want something that's not too obtrusive."
LG says the Kizon can run for up to 36 hours between charges, is water resistant and works with 2G and 3G cellular networks.
The wearer can call a pre-configured phone number by pressing a button on its front.
The button also allows the child to accept calls from approved numbers, and if they fail to press it within 10 seconds the device will automatically let the caller listen in to the machine's built-in microphone.
"New technology has a way of throwing up parenting conundrums that get right to the heart of the line between being responsible for your children and invading their privacy," the Mumsnet blogging network's founder, Justine Roberts, told the BBC.
"Some parents may want to know the precise location of their children, but most will probably remain happy to yell across the playground or send a text.
"The key thing is to establish good lines of communication with your children, and let them feel that they can talk to you about any tricky situations they find themselves in."
LG said it planned to launch the device in South Korea this week, and introduce it to Europe and North America before the end of September.


Ex-England striker Jeff Astle died from a brain condition normally linked to boxers rather than Alzheimer's disease as previously thought, a neurosurgeon has claimed.

Dr Willie Stewart carried out a new examination of the former West Bromwich Albion forward's brain.
He said Astle, who died, aged 59, in 2002, was killed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
He said this had been caused by heading footballs.
Dr Stewart said CTE was formerly known as dementia pugilistica - a progressive degeneration of the the brain caused by repeated head trauma.
He said the condition was frequently mistaken for dementia, as happened to Astle when he was incorrectly diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Dr Stewart said he believed a number of footballers could be affected by CTE.
"Jeff's case is not unique. In football there will be more and what will be happening is that this diagnosis in football may be seen as unusual," he said.
"This is the first case that we know of."
The condition can only be definitively diagnosed after death.
Mr Astle's family, who live in Derbyshire, have campaigned for the FA to carry out research into the risks of headers.
It has previously apologised for not keeping the family informed about its work.
Mr Astle's daughter Dawn said the family had always believed heading balls had caused her father's death but it had still been "shocking" to hear the results of the new tests.
"When the doctor explained he said to mum if he hadn't known he was looking at the brain of a 59-year-old man he would have thought it belonged to an 89-year-old," she added.
"That was the extent of the damage."
An FA spokesman said its rules on concussion are due to be changed ahead of the 2014/15 season.
It was initially believed Mr Astle died from Alzheimer's disease, but the coroner at his inquest ruled his brain had been damaged by heading heavy leather balls.
He played for West Bromwich Albion from 1964-1974.
He scored 137 goals in 292 league appearances for the club and is recognised as one of its greatest players.


London Euston station has been evacuated and train services suspended due to a trackside fire.

Network Rail said the fire, near South Hampstead, north London, damaged signalling equipment.
The power supply to Euston station was temporarily cut as a result of the incident, leading to the evacuation.
Engineers hope to restore services as soon as possible but it is warned full timetables are unlikely to resume until Thursday morning.
The fire affected customers on London Midland, Virgin and Southern trains.
It also took out a stretch of the London Overground line between Euston and Harrow & Wealdstone.
Network Rail said: "An electrical fire at South Hampstead has stopped trains running in or out of London Euston this evening.
"Train customers are impacted in London and the length of the West Coast main line, including Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool."
It added: "Network Rail engineers are trying to get some trains moving this evening on the West Coast main line by using emergency generators to restore temporary power to signals - the traffic lights of the railway.
"Engineers are preparing to work through the night to install 100 metres of 11,000-volt power cables, with the aim of getting services back to normal tomorrow morning."
Customers on Virgin trains were advised not to travel south of Birmingham. It said tickets would be accepted for travelling on Thursday or passengers could get a full refund.
The BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott said: "If you are going anywhere near Euston tonight, frankly, I just wouldn't bother. The Tube trains are affected as well so make sure you don't travel unless you absolutely have to."
Passengers are advised to use services provided by Chiltern Railways, East Midlands Trains and Great Western Railway or check with National Rail Enquiries before travelling.
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Wales head coach Warren Gatland has joined the tributes to prop Adam Jones, who has retired from Test rugby.

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Jones, who won 95 caps for Wales and five for the British and Irish Lions, made the decision after he was left out of Wales' Six Nations squad.
"There is no doubt that Adam has played a huge part in Wales' success," said Gatland.
"He has three Grand Slams and a [Six Nations] Championship to his name.  That is an unbelievable record."
Gatland coached Jones, 33, for the 2008 and 2012 Grand Slams, as well as the 2013 Six Nations title.
But he left the Cardiff Blues prop out of the Six Nations squad, having omitted him for the 2014 autumn series as well.
Jones was also dropped from Wales' final 2014 Six Nations game against Scotland and his last appearance for Wales was the 38-16 defeat by South Africa in the first Test in June 2014 that year.
His Test future was cast in doubt after he was replaced by Samson Lee after just 30 minutes of that game.
When announcing Jones' omission from Wales' Six Nations squad, Gatland named Scarlets' nine-times capped Samson Lee, 22, as his top tight-head pick.
Gatland had placed Jones on standby for the Six Nations in case of injury, saying the door was open for him to force his way back into the squad for the World Cup.
But Jones has said he made up his mind before Christmas that if he was not chosen for the squad he would retire.
In a statement issued on his behalf, Jones said he had done all in his power to regain his Wales spot.
He added: "I feel like I am more than just injury cover, and have therefore decided to call it a day.
"It has been a tough week for me, but the support from the Welsh fans has been overwhelming, just as it has been ever since my first cap."
After Jones' announcement, the Welsh Rugby Union issued a statement in which Gatland said: "He made a big impact and contribution on the international stage and we all wish him well for his future career with the Cardiff Blues."
Former Wales wing Adrian Hadley believes Jones' decision is final.
"I am a bit surprised. He's been a tremendous servant to Welsh rugby, to the Ospreys and now to the Blues," said Hadley.
"If an injury did happen now and they did ask him to play, would he play?
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"I think he's made his mind up and I don't think he will change it."
Former Wales and Lions prop Graham Price, who won two Grand Slams, believes Jones was underappreciated at times during his glittering career.
"He achieved a lot, not just with Wales but with the Lions," said Price.
"Who could forget the last Lions tour when we demolished the Australians in the scrum? That was largely due to Adam's contribution.
"His talent and his ability was not fully appreciated until he was not there. Every time he was injured, we couldn't wait for him to get back in the side.
"He was such a fundamental part of those Grand Slams we won."


Struggling McLaren-Honda expect a significant step forward in performance at the next grand prix.

The team, who have yet to score a point this season, are introducing developments to both car and engine in time for the Spanish Grand Prix on 10 May.
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Racing director Eric Boullier said: "Most of the back end of the car will be new.
"Every race we bring new chassis parts to increase performance."
He added: "Hopefully we will have some new engine technology which will allow us to unlock some performance."
Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix was McLaren's most competitive of the season so far, with Spaniard Fernando Alonso just missing out on a point in 11th place.
Although the team had a terrible weekend with reliability on team-mate Jenson Button's car, which ended with the 2009 world champion failing to start the race, Alonso's performance confirmed an upward trend since the start of the season.
However, the Honda engine, which is new to Formula 1 this year, is still significantly down on power compared to all its rivals.
Alonso said before the race in Bahrain that he expected it to be the last grand prix at which McLaren were not able to fight for points, but he cautioned against setting hopes too high for McLaren's performance at the first European race of the season.
"We cannot put all the expectations in Barcelona. People will think we will win the race and this is not true," the two-time champion said.
"We can talk about Barcelona, but with feet on the ground.
"In Barcelona we should see a good step and from that moment we can start enjoying races and doing a normal development phase. This year we started very low but we hope to finish very high.
"Hopefully in Barcelona we can enjoy the race a bit more, but when we will fight with the top guys is more long term."
Boullier added: "Any step would be satisfying. We cannot expect to have a huge step. These days are past. It is very incremental and this is modern F1.
"In terms of chassis, over the next four races there will be some massive upgrades coming, much bigger than what we have brought to the last two races. But I will be more satisfied when we are fighting for pole."
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Both Alonso and Button are also optimistic that McLaren can put in a stronger performance again at the following race in Monaco, where engine power is a less significant part of the car's overall performance because of the twisty nature of the street track.
Alonso said: "We are all committed to this comeback. It is easy to panic in these tough moments but the reality is the opposite - we have huge motivation in everybody and hopefully we can use [that] in a good manner.
"In Barcelona we will see the first step and at Monaco the power effect is low so we could have a good race there. So the next two or three races are going to be interesting for us."


Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has been buried in his home town of Rio Gallegos.

Thousands of people waving flags joined the funeral procession led by his widow, current President Cristina Fernandez, before a private ceremony.
Earlier, huge crowds lined the streets of Buenos Aires in pouring rain to salute his coffin.
Mr Kirchner's sudden death on Wednesday has provoked an outpouring of emotion in Argentina.
The former president, who was 60, died of a heart attack
His body was flown to Rio Gallegos in Patagonia in the far south of Argentina after lying in state in Buenos Aires.
People queued for hours to pay tribute at the wake in the presidential palace in the capital.
His grieving widow was joined there by other South American leaders, including Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Huge crowds turned out to bid farewell to Mr Kirchner's coffin as it was taken to the airport to be flown to Rio Gallegos.
Waving flags and placards, mourners chanted and wept as the funeral cortege moved slowly through the rain-swept avenues of Buenos Aires.
The former president, who ran the country from 2003 to 2007, was his wife's chief political strategist after she succeeded him, and was also secretary general of the South American regional grouping, Unasur.
He had been expected to run for president again in the 2011 election.
Mr Kirchner had suffered health problems and had a heart operation last month but nevertheless his death shocked many in Argentina, where three days of national mourning are being observed.
The country's football matches this weekend have been called off.
Mr Kirchner served as mayor of Rio Gallegos before becoming governor of the wider region - the oil and gas-rich province of Santa Cruz.
He became president as Argentina was emerging from a profound political and economic crisis and oversaw the country's return to relative stability and prosperity.
Mr Kirchner also supported the prosecution of those responsible for human rights abuses under military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was a polarising figure, very popular among the trade unions and in the industrial belt around Buenos Aires and deeply unpopular among the wealthy.
He and his wife had faced some criticism for appearing to get around the constitutional limit on two consecutive terms.
Just as Mr Kirchner stood aside for his wife in 2007, it was widely thought Mrs Fernandez would step back and allow her husband to run in the October 2011 election.


Project Brave is designed to be a radical solution for Scottish football and it brings elements of the past to bear on the future.

As the Scottish Football Association's performance director Malky Mackay has held a series of presentations to member clubs about the proposal, the reaction has been generally positive, even from outfits that had previously been sceptical or resistant.
There would be few grimaces to the notion of restoring a form of reserve team football, though, when almost everybody involved in Scottish football points to the loss of that level of the game being critical to youth academy graduates not being mentally or physically battle-hardened enough for first-team football.
Consensus is the prize for Mackay, since it will enable him to deliver the project in a viable form that the clubs buy into, and the sense is that the momentum is behind him.
"Ninety-five percent of what has been said, people agree with," he said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
Mackay has held three presentations this week, with a fourth to follow. He has put detail on to the outlines that were aired when points from a draft copy of Project Brave were published in the media.
The difference between the youth development plan that Mackay has been appointed to oversee and the one that predecessor Mark Wotte established six years ago is that the clubs have been directly involved in producing the blueprint.
Mackay is clear that communication is vital - he has visited 10 clubs since officially starting his role three weeks ago and will make his way around all 42 directly. For Project Brave to succeed, clubs need to buy into it and implement it.
"People have in the main agreed that something radical needs to be done," Mackay said. "And this is radical."
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What the clubs are agreeing with is the establishment of a reserve league and an under-18 league, encouraging more development loans, a summer calendar for academy football (with indoor futsal taking place in the winter) and coach development, with a head of coaching to be appointed to lead the development of the best coaches at each club.
"This whole programme is based on coaches," Mackay explained. "Our coach education programme is second to none. What we're not good at is coach mentoring.
"I'm going to ask the clubs to give me their best young coach and I'll put on a course for them, we'll set them tasks, have them for a year thinking deeply about certain problems, make our good young coaches very good young coaches.
"Clubs want that to happen and we need to for our next Scotland managers. Everybody we've spoken to is up for this. We need to make the [coaches] better to make our players better.
"The part that comes up is money, funding."
Some clubs were initially wary of the prospect of the academy system being streamlined. The plan is to reduce the number of funded elite academies from 29 to a maximum of 16.
Clubs will need to submit a three-year business plan to show that their academy is financially viable, has enough support staff and coaches and good enough facilities. Academies will also be judged on measurable performance outcomes, including the number of graduates in the first team, the number actively out on loan at other clubs and the number representing the national team.
All of this will be assessed by an independent company and the selected elite academies will receive funding but also play each other in a competitive league to maintain the best v best strategy.
Other clubs will still be able to run academies or community outreach schemes. All will continue to receive their current level of funding for three years after Project Brave is implemented, a commitment that has won a lot of support for the plan.
"There is a soft landing for clubs, there is a lot of support and help going to be given," Mackay said.
"We are setting the bar high because it has to be the elite players we're focusing on. It's the 19-21 age group where the whole thing breaks down and we need to get them into first teams.
"It's up to us to educate 11-16-year-olds. We need to be better athletes and have them running properly at that age, proper sports science, diet and nutrition advice, to be under 10% body fat and sports psychology to make sure they are mentally stronger. We need to build better footballers."
Talent identification will be a key factor, particularly when clubs will have to reduce the number of players in their academy. Mackay will establish a talent identification programme at the SFA to assist clubs in predicting which players will make the grade at 19 by measuring and assessing physical and mental markers as they develop.
"It's imperative for Scottish football," he said.
Once Mackay has completed his presentations the next stage of the process is for Project Brave to be presented to the SFA board. Following that, and once the clubs have signed off on it, the plans will begin to be implemented in time for season 2017-18.
"It's about what is the best for the young Scottish elite player," Mackay added.
Mackay has begun the process of making the case for Project Brave, and so far he has been encouraged by the reaction. For now, Scottish football seems prepared to embrace change.