Northern Ireland's chief medical officer has said the words "no" and "slow" are not options in response to the transformation required in the health service.

In his eighth annual report, Dr Michael McBride urged all those involved in providing and overseeing the delivery of health and social care services to act swiftly.
There was also advice and stark warnings for those who are not living healthy lifestyles.
With alcohol and food consumption increasing, Dr McBride urged people to address their choices, as drinkers are at higher risk of liver disease, cancer, mental health problems and injury.
But it was the Donaldson Report into how Northern Ireland delivers health care that got top billing in the chief medical officer's report.
Dr McBride said the review "The Right Time, The Right Place" had given fresh impetus to old problems.
"Donaldson has given a new voice to a number of problems which already existed in Northern Ireland," he said.
"I share his view that in implementing the recommendations of the report the leaders of the Northern Ireland health and social care system should be clear in their ambition of making Northern Ireland a world leader in quality and safety at the core of health and social care."
Dr McBride said failing to act would be "unconscionable".
"Northern Ireland is the right place for such a transformation and now is the right time," he said.
"Achieving this will require the commitment and support of everyone involved in the provision of health and social care and its oversight.
"To fail to act now is unconscionable; no and slow are not options in response to the transformation required."
While Dr McBride's views on pushing the transformation process forward are well documented, it is significant that he gave it such prominence in his annual report.
Published at the start of the year, Sir Liam Donaldson's review of how Northern Ireland delivers health care said it could be done a whole lot better.
He recommended four acute hospitals instead of the current 10 as he said expertise was being too thinly spread.
He said that meant the public were not receiving the best of health care and that change must happen and happen soon.
Alcohol consumption remains a serious issue in Northern Ireland with one in five adults consuming above the recommended level.
With obesity on the rise, the chief medical officer said what is lining our larders and fridges is also of great concern.
Dr McBride said adopting simple lifestyle changes could reduce the likelihood of developing obesity-related conditions that place significant costs on the health care system.
In June 2014 the department of health published "Making Life Better", the 10-year strategic framework for public health.
The report cites the importance of departments working together and in conjunction with community and voluntary sectors.
While it said that there is still much work to be done, Dr McBride's report notes some achievements, including the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol which he said had the potential to make a real difference.
He also said the introduction of standardised cigarette packaging was another "significant development which aims to prevent the uptake of smoking by children and young people".
Among the facts and figures peppered throughout the report are:


A rapist has been moved to a women-only prison after having gender reassignment surgery to become female.

Jessica Winfield, formerly known as Martin Ponting, was relocated to HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey.
The convicted rapist was previously held at top security Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire, where she was serving a life sentence.
Before her gender reassignment, Winfield complained of being victimised for being a male transsexual.
Ten years ago, she wrote to prisoners' newspaper Inside Time to say she was given a "hard time because of my sexuality, possibly through lack of understanding and empathy".
At the time she wrote: "I have changed my name to that of a female to prove to the authorities and everyone concerned that I am very serious about my gender and that I do not feel right being a man."
But one of Ponting's victims has described the fact he was allowed a sex change as "diabolical".
She told the Sun newspaper: "There are not enough words to describe him and the evil he has done.
"It is diabolical they have allowed him to have a sex change and diabolical that he could be freed this year.
"He may have changed physically but his brain is still the same."
The Prison Service has said it does not comment on individuals.
Campaign group Voice4Victims said the case "highlights the great imbalance of equality within our justice system".
Writing on Twitter, the group said: "Rapist has sex change op funded by NHS whilst victims struggle to access treatment support and recovery."
This is not the first time a transgender inmate has moved from a male to a female prison. Prisoners are placed according to their gender as recognised by UK law - usually stated on a birth certificate.
If the prisoner has a "gender recognition certificate", the Prison Service is legally required to move them to the prison of their gender.
In November of last year, the government announced it would re-examine its policy on transgender prisoners following the death of Vikki Thompson, who was an inmate in a male prison in Leeds.
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In January, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman recommended that where a transgender prisoner is sent should be based on an individual assessment of their needs and the possibility of them being with their acquired gender.
John Pilley, also known as Jane Anne, made legal history in 1999 when he became the first inmate in England and Wales to be granted permission for a sex change operation.
Pilley was serving life for the attempted murder and kidnapping of a woman taxi driver. It was later reported he decided to become a man again and was waiting to have his second operation on the NHS.
About 80 transgender people are believed to be in prison in England and Wales.


The RMT is not using Southern rail strikes to try to "bring the government down", its general secretary has said.

Mick Cash told the BBC union members would "rather be at work", but had real concerns about safety on the network.
He spoke after the RMT's president reportedly said his union and others were co-ordinating strikes to hurt the "working class-hating Tory government".
Industrial action over changes to driver-only operated trains has led to severe disruption to Southern services.
It comes amidst other strikes by British Airways staff, airport workers and the Post Office due to take place over the next week.
What is the Southern row about?
Both Aslef and the RMT union are in dispute with Govia Thameslink over plans to remove the role of guards in operating train doors.
Mr Cash said he was "not interested" in RMT president Sean Hoyle's comments, which were reportedly made at a "fringe political meeting".
According to the Sunday Times, Mr Hoyle said the union's "number one rule" should be to "strike to replace the capitalist system with a socialist order".
The article quotes from a number of Mr Hoyle's recent speeches, including one given at a National Shop Stewards Network meeting in Brighton when he is alleged to have said: "Any trade unionist with any sense wants to bring down this working class-hating Tory government.
"That's what we want to do. That's what we're about."
Mr Hoyle also reportedly referred to a previous story which suggested the RMT and other unions were "co-ordinating to bring the government down", responding: "Shock horror. Guess what? We are."
Mr Cash told Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live: "We are a serious industrial trade union, and we are not part of some conspiracy to bring the government down - we are focusing on the concerns our members have over safety on the railways."
He continued: "The person who speaks for the RMT is the general secretary, and that's me.
"This dispute is all about safety and not about bringing the government down."
Mr Cash said in February, Peter Wilkinson, the Department for Transport's director of franchise, told a meeting he was "going to take on the trade unions and get the unions out of his industry".
"Within days, we had proposals from Southern rail to get rid of the second, safety-critical, guard on their trains. So that's what this dispute is all about - it's all about safety."
The Department for Transport previously told the BBC the dispute was between Southern and the unions and "not something the government is involved in".
The Sunday Telegraph, though, is reporting that Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a "growing backlash" from Conservative MPs because she is reluctant to table any emergency legislation about rules governing when unions can take industrial action.
Labour MP Meg Hillier told Sky News' Murnaghan programme that although people were entitled to strike, the action was "very unfortunate".
"I think that all trade unions, even though they're fighting for their rights, need to really think about the impact on the people they're actually there to serve, their customers, or their passengers."
She added: "I think if they're not careful they could be shooting themselves in the foot."
Further strikes are planned by both unions:


A country of extremes, landlocked Bolivia is the highest and most isolated country in South America.

It has the largest proportion of indigenous people, who make up around two-thirds of the population.
The country has the second-largest reserves of natural gas in South America, but there have been long-running tensions over the exploitation and export of the resource. Indigenous groups say the country should not relinquish control of the reserves, which they see as Bolivia's sole remaining natural resource.
Bolivia is also one of the world's largest producers of coca, the raw material for cocaine. A crop-eradication programme, though easing the flow of conditional US aid, has incensed many of Bolivia's poorest farmers for whom coca is often the only source of income.
Population 10.2 million
Area 1.1 million sq km (424,164 sq miles)
Major languages Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 65 years (men), 69 years (women)
Currency boliviano
President: Evo Morales
First elected in December 2005, Evo Morales, from the Aymara indigenous group, is first president to come from the country's indigenous majority.
As a leader of a coca-growers union, he was also the first president to emerge from the social movements whose protests forced Bolivia's two previous presidents from office.
Having come to power with a radical programme aimed at addressing the extreme social divisions and inequalities of Bolivia, he achieved in a few short years real social gains for the majority of Bolivians.
Mr Morales' political ideology combines standard left-wing ideas with an emphasis on traditional indigenous Andean values and concepts of social organisation.
By the middle of 2006, he had renationalised Bolivia's oil and gas industries.
With the gas money, Mr Morales's administration invested heavily in public works projects and social programmes to fight poverty which reduced by 25% during his government. Extreme poverty dropped by 43%.
In February 2016, Mr Morales lost a referendum that would have allowed him to run for president for a fourth term.
The Bolivian media continue to be polarized, resulting in a great deal of tension for journalists that the authorities do nothing to defuse, Reporters Without Borders reported in 2015.
Newspaper readership is limited by low literacy.
With hundreds of stations, radio is important, especially in rural areas. Bolivia's media landscape is dominated by private newspapers and broadcasters although there has been a rapid growth in state-owned media, including community radio stations, Freedom House said.
Some key dates in Bolivia's history:
1538 - Spanish conquer Bolivia, which becomes part of the vice-royalty of Peru.
1824 - Venezuelan freedom fighter Simon Bolivar, after whom Bolivia is named, liberates the country from Spanish rule. One year later, Bolivia becomes independent with Simon Bolivar as its president.
1952 - Peasants and miners overthrow military regime; Victor Paz Estenssoro returns from exile to become president and introduces social and economic reforms, including universal suffrage, nationalisation of tin mines and land redistribution, and improves education and the status of indigenous peoples.
1964 - Vice-President Rene Barrientos stages military coup, ushering in a period of political unrest punctuated by uprisings and military coups.
1989 - Leftist Jaime Paz Zamora becomes president and enters power-sharing pact with former dictator Hugo Banzer.
2003 September-October - 80 killed, hundreds injured in protests fuelled by government plans to export natural gas via Chile. President Sanchez de Lozada resigns under pressure of protests and is succeeded by Carlos Mesa. Mesa is forced to resign two years later after protests continue. Socialist leader Evo Morales wins presidential elections, becoming the first indigenous Bolivian to fill the post.
2006 - Bolivia completes its gas nationalisation programme, giving the state control over the operations of foreign energy firms.
2009 - New constitution giving greater rights to indigenous majority is approved in a national referendum.
2014-2016 - Evo Morales wins a third term as Bolivia's president; two years later he loses a referendum for the right to run a fourth time.


Two ice hockey players are to stand trial accused of trying to start a brawl at a match.

Dundee Tigers players Marc Crighton and Marc Leggatt face charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and challenging others to fight at the tie with the Kirkcaldy Kestrels at the Fife Ice Arena in 2013.
Crighton is also alleged to have assaulted two opponents.
Both men pleaded not guilty and will face trial at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
The pair are accused of acting in an aggressive manner and making threats of violence at the Scottish National League match in November 2013.
Crighton, 27, is accused of assaulting opposing player Jay Duncan by pushing him to the ground and struggling with him, causing severe injury, permanent disfigurement and permanent impairment.
He is also charged with assaulting Connor Baxter by seizing him by the body and pushing him against a door.
Crighton, of Dundee, and Leggatt, 24, also of Dundee, appeared on indictment at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
Sheriff James Williamson continued the case for trial later this month.


England are up against it in the final Test at Centurion, with South Africa 175 runs ahead, nine wickets intact and two full days remaining.

South Africa's 475 was simply too many, no team should have been scoring that on this pitch - 350-380 is about a par first-innings score.
So England's 342 probably felt a bit light and South Africa, with that dashing hundred from Quinton de Kock on day two, racked up a lot more than they should have done. That's where the disparity lies.
They had three batsmen that got in and scored hundreds, where England had three batsmen who got in but could not convert starts into hundreds.
Even if they have an exceptional day with the ball on Monday, England are going to be faced with a sizeable final-innings chase and you have to say the pitch is becoming quite awkward.
There is much more uneven bounce, the ball is spinning and bouncing, some are keeping low and some are rearing up into the splice area.
If there was someone with genuine pace playing it could be pretty brutal so this is deteriorating quickly, which makes South Africa's lead all the more significant.
That said there were clearly some wickets in which England didn't help themselves and James Taylor's dismissal, caught behind for 14, obviously springs to mind.
It was poor judgement to play a hook shot to such a high bouncer just before lunch when he could have gained nothing from it.
There was a man out in the deep, there was a man at short-leg and all he did was expose Jonny Bairstow who got a good ball early his innings - as can happen - and edged to the wicketkeeper for a duck.
Taylor should have thought and played for lunch and looked after his team-mates, so that was disappointing.
I thought Moeen Ali played very well for his first half century in 15 innings. He came through a very difficult 45 minutes when he was finding it pretty awkward around off stump, but, having fought through it, he really flourished.
Yet you just felt England were not going to get close to South Africa's total.
You would think that South Africa's lead is going to be too much for England and they should win the game from here.
The man largely responsible for the Proteas' strong position is 20-year-old Kabiso Rabada, who took 7-112 in only his sixth Test match to add to his five-wicket haul in the previous game at Johannesburg.
He's got a lovely action, but there are areas that can be improved. He can use his left arm more and he might put a bit more into his run-up which is surprisingly gentle really, a very slow approach.
But he is a totally natural swing bowler. People talk about him bowling at 95mph but that's nonsense, he doesn't bowl at anything like that speed but given he is only 20 they could get more pace into him if the right people help him.
For someone that young to come in and take seven wickets, without the experience of their main strike bowler Dale Steyn or Vernon Philander to help him, proves he is a tremendous prospect. In addition to young batsman Temba Bavuma who made that fabulous hundred in Cape Town.
I hate accusing teams of complacency and it is easy to say that has happened to England having already wrapped up the series.
Whether the tourists have somehow taken their eye off the ball slightly I don't know, but unfortunately it has been a case of missed opportunities here.
They are going to have to hope they really dig deep in the second innings, but I don't think the weather will save them as we can make up the lost time, so you fancy South Africa will get a consolation win.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Jamie Lillywhite


Chris Froome produced a stunning ride to win stage 10 of the Tour de France and increase his overall lead to nearly three minutes.

Team Sky rider Froome - who led by 12 seconds overnight - broke away with 6.4km left of the first summit finish of this year's race to win emphatically in La Pierre-Saint-Martin.
Richie Porte was second, 59 seconds back, with Nairo Quintana third.
Tejay van Garderen lies second overall, two minutes 52 seconds behind Froome.
Colombian Quintana, a highly regarded climber, had been widely expected to launch a major attack in an attempt to claw back time but he was overtaken by Porte in the final metres of a stage that was nigh on perfect for Team Sky.
It was the fifth stage win of 2013 champion Froome's Tour de France career and puts the 30-year-old in a commanding position with 11 stages remaining.
All of his main rivals lost significant time on a devastating afternoon, with Quintana now three minutes nine seconds behind in the overall standings, Alberto Contador four minutes four seconds back and defending champion Vincenzo Nibali a massive six minutes 57 seconds adrift of the Team Sky rider.
"I'm lost for words," said Froome, who was in the news overnight after it was revealed Team Sky believe their computers have been hacked by critics convinced he is using performance-enhancing drugs.
"I could not believe it when I asked the guys to push on a bit and we were hearing on the radio about the big names being dropped. It was textbook from the team and I'm just over the moon to finish it off for them."
Froome could not have made a more decisive statement of his intent to claim his second Tour victory.
He sat in with his Team Sky team-mates while Quintana's Movistar team made the early pace up the 15km climb towards the finish.
A blistering rate soon saw riders disappearing out of the back of the leading groups, while at one point Froome appeared uncomfortable as he hung on at the back of a team-mate's wheel.
But that proved to be nothing more than a ruse, and when Froome made his explosive move there was nothing anybody could do to stay with him - although Quintana's efforts were enough to see him take the white jersey worn by the race's best young rider.
The only danger to the Briton appeared to come from fans as they closed in around him on some of the steeper sections of the climb up the Cote de Cauterets, but they soon cleared and he powered to a potentially decisive finish in this year's race.
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Froome's Team Sky team-mate Geraint Thomas is now in fifth place overall after finishing sixth on the stage while fellow Briton Adam Yates crossed the line in seventh after a strong ride up the mountain.
"The plan was to sit behind Movistar and see how many riders we had left," explained Thomas afterwards. "We had four and we all felt good. Froomey said on the radio that he felt good so let's smash it. Personally I felt great and for the team it was even better."
It was Bastille Day in France and the first true day of racing in the mountains as the Tour resumed after Monday's rest day.
There was a lengthy breakaway involving Cofidis's Kenneth Vanbilsen and Bretagne Seche Environment's Pierrick Fedrigo that lasted most of the 167km stage, but which was never going to make it up the final climb.
Vanbilsen picked up all available points at the three category four climbs but with 50 points for the stage winner, Froome now tops the King of the Mountains classification, although second-placed Porte will wear the polka dot jersey on Wednesday.
There was also a change in the points classification for the Tour's leading sprinter, with Andre Greipel overhauling Peter Sagan to reclaim the green jersey after the in-form German took third at the day's intermediate sprint.
More drama could follow on Wednesday when the race continues in the Pyrenees with a 188km stage that includes the infamous Col du Tourmalet climb.
BBC Sport's Matt Slater: "July 14 is when France celebrates the revolutionary storming of a notorious prison, the Bastille; today it was the moment Chris Froome's revolutions probably locked up the yellow jersey for a second time in three years.
"This was a devastating win for Froome and Team Sky, with Grand Tour champions and challengers scattered all over the road up to La Pierre-Saint-Martin. We knew he and his comrades were going well but this was something else.
"What that something is will of course now be the subject of fierce debate. Froome's critics are convinced he is cheating and they claim they have the data to prove it.
"His supporters, however, say those numbers only prove he is a special athlete who has got even better with hard work, careful eating and great coaching.  As ever with cycling, absolute agreement is probably impossible."
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See the full standings
1. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky 4hrs 22 mins 7secs
2. Richie Porte (Aus) Team Sky +59 secs
3. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar +1min 04secs
4. Robert Gesink (Net) LottoNL +1min 33secs
5. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar +2min 01secs
6. Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky Same time
7. Adam Yates (GB) Orica +2min 04secs
8. Pierre Rolland (Fra) Europcar Same time
9. Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto +2min 22secs
10. Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing +2min 30secs
11. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff - Saxo +2min 51secs
1. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky 35hrs 56mins 09secs
2. Tejay van Garderen (US) BMC Racing +2mins 52secs
3. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar +3mins 09secs
4. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar +4mins 01secs
5. Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky +4mins 03secs
6. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff - Saxo +4mins 04secs
7. Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto +4mins 33secs
8. Robert Gesink (Net) LottoNL +4mins 35secs
9. Warren Barguil (Fra) Giant +6mins 12secs
10. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana +6mins 57secs


More than half a million families in England find out on Tuesday about their children's secondary school places for this autumn.

National Offer Day comes against a backdrop of rising pressure on places.
The head of the Mumsnet website warned the admissions systems was becoming "seriously creaky" in some areas.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the government was "investing billions of pounds creating new schools and new school places".
The admissions process will see about 554,000 11-year-olds across England finding out whether they will be offered one of their preferred school places.
The population bulge that has seen primary schools having to expand has now reached secondary schools - and there will be concerns the rising pupil numbers will mean even tougher competition for the most sought-after schools.
An initial survey from the PA news agency of 20 councils found that three quarters had received more applications than last year.
In Birmingham, more than a third of pupils did not get their first choice of school - with 64% succeeding with their top preference.
But in Leicester and Norfolk 95% of children received their first choice of school.
The Labour Party, which wants councils to have more planning controls over creating new places, says last year 70% of local authorities saw an increase in the number of parents whose child did not get their first choice of school.
Justine Roberts, chief executive of the Mumsnet parenting website, says there were particular pressures in some parts of countries, such as London, Birmingham, Bristol and Brighton and Hove.
"Stories abound of some families cheating the system, which only adds to people's anxiety and sense of injustice," she says.
The New Schools Network, which promotes free schools, has published research showing how the configuration of local schools can also affect parental choice.
In 62 constituencies, the study says, a "majority of the best schools on offer are faith-based schools", which means a wider choice for parents wanting a faith school, but less for those who do not.
New Schools Network director Nick Timothy said faith schools were "delivering exceptional education for many pupils" but there needed to be choice for parents wanting a "non-religious alternative".
The National Union of Teachers has called for councils to be able to open schools in response to local needs and has accused the government of creating a "school-places crisis".
But Jonathan Simons, head of education at right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange, said the "principle of school choice" should not be "fashionably dismissed".
And he said parents wanted to express these personal choices more than taking a place at the school closest to home.
But there are big regional variations in admissions, showing London is not typical of the rest of the country.
A study of last year's applications suggested two in three London schools were oversubscribed - rising to 80% in some boroughs.
But across England, most schools have more places than applications.
Labour's shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, has attacked the government's "free market approach" to creating new school places and said "families deserve a better approach to planning".
The government says it put Â£5bn into creating new places in the last parliament and would spend another Â£7bn over the next six years in response to the steep rise in pupil numbers now affecting both primary and secondary school.
Mr Gibb said: "We want every parent to be able to send their children to a good local school. Despite rising pupil numbers, the vast majority of parents are able to do so."


Thousands of people have turned out in Sydney for the city's annual Mardi Gras, including, for the first time, Australia's prime minister.

The event, one of the largest gay and lesbian parades in the world, attracted more than 12,000 participants.
It takes place as campaigners are fighting to get Australian leaders to legalise same-sex marriage.
PM Malcolm Turnbull, who attended the event but did not march, backs a public plebiscite on the issue.
Bill Shorten, the head of the opposition Labor Party, who did march in Sydney, has promised to introduce a same-sex marriage bill within 100 days if his party is elected.
One poll released this week showed that while a majority of Australians think same-sex marriage should be introduced, one in five consider it "immoral".


A black woman has climbed the flagpole in the grounds of the South Carolina State House and removed its controversial Confederate flag.

Bree Newsome climbed the 30ft (9m) steel pole just after dawn on Saturday despite police telling her to come down, Associated Press reported.
Ms Newsome and a man were later arrested and the flag returned.
There have been calls for it to be removed since nine people were killed in a racist attack in Charleston.
Shooting suspect Dylann Roof had been pictured with the Civil War era saltire - seen by some as a symbol of slavery and racism - on a number of occasions.
Since the pictures emerged there has been pressure to remove the flag from the memorial in front of the South Carolina State House in Columbia.
It was first flown in 1962 in protest at the growing civil rights movement and has been a source of rancour and controversy in the state ever since.
The hashtag #TakeItDown has been trending on Twitter in the US.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz has said President Obama believes the Confederate flag "belongs in a museum".
Ms Newsome describes herself on Twitter as a filmmaker, singer, songwriter and freedom fighter.
A rally by flag supporters was scheduled for later on Saturday.
An impromptu Ride for Pride event took place in Brandon in Florida on Friday.


BBC News presenter George Alagiah has been diagnosed with bowel cancer.

The presenter of the BBC News at Six and Ten and GMT on BBC World News will take a break from his on air duties while he undergoes treatment.
A statement from the BBC said: "He is grateful for all the good wishes he has received thus far and is optimistic for a positive outcome."
It added: "George asks that he and his family are given the space and privacy they require whilst he recovers."
The BBC said the news programmes would be presented by "familiar faces... until such time as George is well enough to return to work".
The statement continued: "Our thoughts are with him and his family and we send them our very best wishes during this time."
Alagiah, 58, first joined the BBC in 1989 and spent many years as one of the BBC's leading foreign correspondents before moving to presenting, reporting on events such as the genocide in Rwanda and the conflict in Kosovo.
He was made an OBE in 2008's New Year Honours.


Wales' IBF featherweight world champion Lee Selby will fight Andoni Gago in a non-title bout on 4 March.

The 30-year-old was due to defend his title against Jonathan Barros in Las Vegas in January but the fight was called off at 24 hours notice.
Argentinean Barros was not able to meet the medical requirements of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Selby will now face Spaniard Gago at London's O2 Arena, on the undercard of David Haye's fight with Tony Bellew.
"I know the main event isn't going to last too long so I wanted to make sure there was a nice juicy few fights on the undercard," said Haye.
"After his [Selby's] fight fell through, I really felt for him boiling his massive frame down to nine stone and not getting any work that night."
An IBF statement said Selby will remain champion for the non-title fight.
"While the situation with Barros gets clarified the IBF has agreed to allow Selby to fight a non-title bout above the weight limit," the federation said.
Selby is looking to keep his schedule in line with Northern Ireland's Carl Frampton. The duo could meet this summer, especially with doubts surfacing over Frampton's trilogy contest with Leo Santa Cruz.
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Happy birthday to the Welsh Premier League.

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It is 25 years since the league kicked off in the same summer as the Premier League over the border.
There had been a national league in existence in England for over a century - that was a rebranding. In Wales there was a new beginning.
It was not without challenges.
With the big clubs such as Swansea City, Cardiff City, Newport County and Wrexham traditionally playing in England, the new league was always going to struggle.
Sides such as Bangor City and Barry Town were also keen to stay in the English system.
After a bitter dispute, most clubs decided to join the Welsh system but others such as Merthyr and Colwyn Bay have constantly refused to accept the change.
There have been a lot of changes over the years but the silver anniversary is certainly worth celebrating.
The last few years have been dominated by The New Saints. The only full-time professional side have won the league title six times in a row and 11 times since the year 2000. Can they be stopped this time?
For once, there are signs there just might be a chink in their mighty armour.
Manager Craig Harrison left in the summer after being offered the Hartlepool job. The transition has been smooth with the club appointing Scott Ruscoe from within.
The former player was part of the coaching set-up even before he stopped playing, but can he keep up the success in his first ever managerial role?
The challenge will come from the other clubs that played in Europe this summer who form the best of the rest.
Bala Town know they can perform on the one-off occasion after beating TNS in the final of The Welsh Cup last season.
Connah's Quay Nomads can also challenge on their day, and the decision to give four key players full-time contracts shows their intent.
Former champions Bangor City have continued to strengthen dramatically and will be a serious threat this time around.
The two newly promoted clubs are old favourites, and Barry Town United will receive a warm welcome.
They were the first team to turn pro and the first to dominate the league but paid a heavy price.
Relegation in 2004 was just the start and they very nearly disappeared altogether. But they're back from the brink and will be a huge boost to the league on and off the pitch with their support.
The other promoted side are Prestatyn Town, who won the Welsh Cup and played in Europe before being relegated in 2014. They're back after balancing the books and finding the right balance on the pitch again.
Cardiff Met were one game away form Europe after an impressive first season and are sure to be strong again. As will Carmarthen, thanks to the old head leading the Old Gold, Mark Aizlewood.
In mid Wales Aberystwyth and Newtown might struggle, although Aber will be hoping new boss Nev Powell can recreate the team spirit that bought him such success at Bangor.
Cefn Druids and Llandudno flirted with relegation last season, but the Druids ended up in their highest ever position and Llandudno will be desperate for better after storming their first season.
The league splits in two in the New Year so there's no time to waste. It could be frantic and fierce from first round of games. And it certainly could be some silver anniversary.


Six men have been charged after cocaine worth £70m destined for sale in London and the home counties was seized in Essex.

About 200kg (440lb) of "high-purity" cocaine was found in holdalls in the boot of a white taxi on the A1089 near Tilbury Docks at 02:00 BST on Tuesday.
The men were charged with conspiracy to import and supply controlled drugs.
They have been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
The charged men are:
Officers from the Met's Special Intelligence Section (SIS) and Essex Police stopped a white van close to the docks and arrested the driver and a passenger.
More men were then found hiding in undergrowth nearby.


Belfast Giants' Elite League title hopes are almost certainly over after Saturday night's 5-2 defeat by Cardiff.

The Giants are now seven points behind leaders Sheffield, with Belfast only having four remaining games.
Mathematically, Belfast still have eight points to play for but their title chances appear to have gone.
Two Joey Martin strikes put Cardiff in control and despite Belfast goals from James Desmarais and Mike Forney, the Devils eased to victory.
After a goalless first period, Martin's goals gave Cardiff a 2-0 lead before Desmarais replied before the end of the second period.
Guillaume Doucet restored Cardiff's two-goal advantage and while Forney cut the margin to 3-2, further goals from Andrew Hotham and Tomas Kurka secured the win which keeps the Devils' league title ambitions very much alive.
Sheffield lead the table on 66 points, two ahead of Cardiff, but the Devils have a game in hand.
Braehead are five points off the pace with the Giants a further two points adrift after their second successive defeat.
Sheffield maintained their place at the top of the table as they earned a 4-2 away win over Nottingham Panthers on Saturday night.
A Sheffield home victory over Coventry on Saturday night will end any remote Belfast title hopes, no matter what happens in the Giants' second game of the weekend in the Welsh capital.


Manager Richie Foran says a linesman's decision "killed" bottom club Inverness in their costly 4-2 Scottish Premiership defeat by Motherwell.

Foran was incensed by the award of Well's third goal, with Scott McDonald's header adjudged to have crossed the line before Owain Fon Williams could clear it.
The loss leaves Inverness five points adrift at the foot of the table.
"Today, an official has killed us," Foran told BBC Scotland.
"He's made a huge decision on the outcome of that game, and he's got it wrong by the sound of it.
"I'd be lying if I said I saw it - I didn't. My players are adamant it wasn't over the line. One of their players has told me it definitely wasn't over the line.
"I'm devastated hearing it from their players as well. It's a huge decision for the linesman to make. He's got to be 100% correct and he's obviously wrong, and it's killed us."
That McDonald effort was an especially bitter blow for an Inverness side who had fought back from two goals down to draw level with their Fir Park hosts.
The victory lifted Motherwell two points clear of the relegation play-off spot, with Dundee now second-bottom.
Caley Thistle boss Foran admits he would now welcome an 11th-place finish and a relegation play-off, saying his side's defensive frailties have once again proved fatal.
"We've got to deal with crosses better," he said. "Every time a cross comes in the box it's causing us a problem and we work on this so much as well. I can't take blame or responsibility for that. The players have got to pick up on crosses - it's schoolboy stuff.
"The first goal, you show a wide man down the line - we show him inside, he finishes it. The second one, ball hung up, goalkeeper should come and catch - he doesn't, and they score. What could I do about that? Nothing.
"But credit to them, they got themselves back in the game and it's another really good performance for large spells with the wrong result at the end. I'd love a terrible performance and the right result.
"At this stage now, you would (take a second-bottom finish). Let's be fair, you would. There's still 15 points up for grabs, but we've got to be better at the back."
Inverness director Richard Smith resigned from his position following a board meeting on Wednesday.
The club denied reports that meeting was held to discuss Foran's future, as the prospect of relegation to Scottish football's second tier looms larger.
The manager insists he is still convinced he can haul Caley Thistle clear of the mire.
"I said to the players, there's no magic man can come in and change things - it's us in there, the players, the staff that can get us out of this mess," he said.
"I've still got belief, I really do, and when I watch the lads play so well at times, how couldn't I? But if you cant defend crosses, you're asking for problems.
"I'm definitely committed. I love the club, I love the city. I can't speak for the board - they can speak themselves if they want to put a statement out. But it lies with me, most of it.
"It's a long season, it hasn't been good enough, but I'm very honest, I can't take a lot of blame today for the goals we conceded. The players have to stand up and take the blame for that."


A civilian diver searching for bodies in the South Korean ferry that sank last month has died, authorities say.

Officials said the 53-year-old, known only by his surname Lee, became unconscious and later died in hospital.
He is the first fatality among divers searching the Sewol ferry, which sank on 16 April with 476 people on board.
Only 174 people survived, with many trapped inside the vessel. So far the disaster has claimed 262 lives, with 40 others missing.
State news agency Yonhap reported that Mr Lee was a veteran crew member of Undine Marine Industries, which specialises in maritime engineering and rescue work.
He had lost consciousness shortly after diving into waters 25m deep in the early hours of Tuesday.
Fellow divers lost communication with him five minutes into his dive and later pulled him to the surface. It was his first search attempt in the Sewol, according to the authorities.
Prime Minister Chung Hong-won has since ordered government officials overseeing the rescue operation to thoroughly check divers' health conditions.
Divers have been battling bad weather and fast currents to retrieve bodies over the past three weeks. Inside the ferry, they must also navigate floating debris and the maze of corridors, reports say.
Yonhap said another civilian diver, aged 31, fell unconscious last week after diving four times before daybreak.
Several others have also been treated at hyperbaric oxygen therapy centres.
Authorities said divers were now working their way to the last three unopened rooms next to a snack bar on the ferry's third floor.
But they did not expect to find many bodies there as they were not occupied by the high school students who were the majority of the passengers, a spokesman said. Divers would also recheck areas previously searched.
Earlier this week, workers put out more nets around the site to prevent bodies floating away.


A Turkish Kurd teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in France said he was acting in the name of the Islamic State (IS) group, a prosecutor says.

The 15-year-old wounded the teacher slightly with a machete during the attack in the southern city of Marseille before being stopped.
The teacher was left with an injured shoulder and hand.
Militants said to be from IS killed 130 people in attacks in the capital Paris less than two months ago.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called the new attack a "revolting anti-Semitic aggression" while French President Francois Hollande later said such acts were "unspeakable and unjustifiable".
"[The teenager] claimed to have acted in the name of Allah and the Islamic State, repeating several times to have done [it] on behalf of Daesh [Islamic State]," the prosecutor, Brice Robin, told a news conference.
The teen is said to be a good student who previously showed no signs of radicalisation.
An attack by an IS supporter in Paris last January targeted a Jewish supermarket, where four people were killed, shortly after the deadly assault on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Since then, more than 700 synagogues, Jewish schools and community centres have been protected by police or soldiers.


There must be some truth in between, mustn't there?

Outside North Korea, Kim Jong-un is depicted as a monster. Or a buffoon who sends his goons around to a London hairdresser who dared to poke fun at his haircut. Or a portly playboy with a liking for Swiss cheese, fast cars and faster women.
But inside North Korea, he is a monarch, the supreme leader, with an almost god-like aura.  His people applaud until their hands must be raw.
The state media reports how he travels the country and imparts his guidance, recently, for example, on farming terrapins.
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Korean Workers' Party, reported that the breeding establishment in Pyongyang had been set up on the initiative of his father, Kim Jong-il, "to  provide the people with tasty and nutritious terrapin widely known as precious tonic from olden times".
His guidance was sorely needed because it transpired that the farm had not been performing well either in breeding terrapins or ideologically. The newspaper quoted Kim Jong-un thus: "It is hard to understand that the farm did not arrange even the room for the education in the revolutionary history."
On top of that, a venture to breed lobsters had failed.  This was not a good day at the Taedonggang Terrapin Farm.
This all illustrates how difficult it is to make sense of the man.  The image of the global bete noir is burnished or tarnished by propagandists on all sides. But the recent allegations from the South Korean intelligence agency that a purge of officials had been taking place took people by surprise, proving that he is unpredictable even for experts in North Korea.
Outside experts are not hopeful.  Some think his recent actions have been erratic in a way which was not there with his father. Under Kim Jong-il, the people around him tended to survive - generals kept their jobs and their heads - and this meant that the leadership circle supported the leader.
Now, so the argument runs, the sudden execution of Kim Jong-un's mentor and uncle, Chang Song-thaek, and perhaps of the Defence Minister, Hyon Yong-chol, must make those around him fear that they might be next - and fear of sudden and unpredictable death might lead people with power to act first.
Aidan Foster-Carter, honorary senior research fellow at Leeds University, says: "If loyal cadres feel they could be next, at any time and for no reason, that undermines loyalty and could even be an incentive to defect."
Or worse: "If the elite doesn't feel safe, you wonder in what circumstances they might move against him."
It then becomes a calculation of whether loyalty or extreme disloyalty minimises danger.
Plotters don't tend to have long life expectancies:
Mr Foster-Carter detects a man who is out of his depth. "There's no evidence of ability," he told the BBC. "Kim Jong-il was unknown for a while, but we now know that he was very competent. He had had 20 years being groomed for leadership by his father."
Kim Jong-un, in contrast, was catapulted into the job in his late 20s after spending much time abroad, in Switzerland at school, so he's something of an outsider in Pyongyang and may not be completely easy with the way politics works there.
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Over the years, many outside experts have seen a logic to North Korean policy - blood-curdling rhetoric is cranked up when the regime needs foreign help.
But there's been a lack of purpose about Kim Jong-un's actions. "I couldn't tell you what his foreign policy is," says Mr Foster-Carter. "One moment, he's leaving for Russia, and then he cancels."  He closed down the industrial zone on the border with South Korea to no obvious purpose: "He pulled workers out of Kaesong. Why?"
Another of the most astute and nuanced experts on North Korea is similarly unconvinced by Kim Jong-un's performance in his first three years in the job.
Brian Myers teaches at Dongseo Unviersity, in Busan, in South Korea. He is the author of The Cleanest Race, a book about propaganda in North Korea, and told the BBC:  "With Kim Jong-un, I do get the impression that he's not his father's intellectual equal.  I think he's done a terrible job at managing his own image."
This matters in North Korea. "North Koreans are not looking as critically at him as we are, but they're not fools. They are a much more sophisticated people than we think.  He's simply too young and unsophisticated and too un-parental in his demeanour to exert the same kind of charisma on his people as his father did."
Mr Myers cites the visit of the American basketball player Dennis Rodman as a miscalculation:  "Pictures of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il receiving foreigners always showed the foreigners bowing and scraping and the leaders standing very straight as though the foreigners were not very important.
"In the film of Kim Jong-un meeting Dennis Rodman, you had this retired basketball player with his legs crossed, a can of Coca-Cola in front of him, sunglasses on and the baseball cap. You could see by the faces of the people sitting behind him that they were having difficulty trying to understand just what was going on.
"When I saw those film clips, it occurred [to me] that, perhaps because Kim Jong-un had grown up overseas, he was not in tune with the official culture.
"And that's going to cause problems for him down the road."


St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright was full of praise for his "magnificent" players after they secured European football at the expense of Hearts.

The Saints' win over Partick Thistle ensured Hearts cannot catch them in the race for fourth and a European berth.
"At the start of the season, just getting into the top six would have been great," Wright said.
"But to finish above a club the size of Hearts, having been behind them and now ahead, is all credit to the players."
The 1-0 home triumph over Partick, coupled with Hearts' 2-1 defeat at Rangers earlier on Saturday, means Saints are nine points clear of the fifth-placed Tynecastle outfit with two games to play.
The Perth men have now finished fourth in the Premiership for three successive seasons, a fact Wright takes great pride in.
"That's four seasons I've been in charge and I keep thinking at the end of each season, 'Can they get better, can we maintain it?' And they do," Wright told BBC Scotland.
"They respond and they go again. They have been magnificent again this season and deserve to get into Europe. They are the fourth best team in the country.
"My team has been brilliant all season."
Having also guided St Johnstone to Scottish Cup glory in season 2013-14, Wright has overseen a hugely impressive spell for the McDiarmid Park men.
And he says recruitment is the key to the club's ongoing success, with the biggest task this summer likely to be finding a replacement for Saturday's goal hero Danny Swanson, who will join Hibernian this summer.
"There's quite a few teams below us with bigger budgets as well but we recruit well and don't have to bring many in each season," Wright added. "We will have to replace Danny (Swanson), so we're looking at bringing in three players maximum. We have a good steady squad and we have good players."
With home games left against Hearts and Rangers this season, Wright is targeting the victories that would take them beyond 60 Premiership points for the campaign.
"Let's see if we can win two games and break the 60-point mark," said the Northern Irishman, whose side are on 55 points. "The main target has been achieved and we've done it comfortably in the end."
The Saints boss felt his side fully merited the win over Partick and his Thistle counterpart Alan Archibald agreed.
"St Johnstone deserved it over the piece," he told BBC Scotland. "Our performance level dropped massively, individually and collectively, compared to last week when we were up on every second ball and the passing was crisp and good.
"We never ticked one of the boxes today - we were out-battled and out-played."


The Who have postponed all the dates on the US leg of their 50th anniversary tour, after Roger Daltrey was diagnosed with viral Meningitis.

The veteran British rock band had already postponed four dates due to singer Daltrey's "mystery virus".
A statement on their website said, "After extensive tests the seriousness of his condition became apparent," adding doctors had "prescribed rest".
The band apologised to fans and said Daltrey was "on the mend".
They said they had hoped The Who Hits 50! tour would go ahead, as Daltrey was "getting better" and they did not want to inconvenience ticket holders, but the dates are now being rescheduled for Spring 2016.
"It wasn't a decision taken lightly," said the band. "The Who always give their fans 100% and were never going to compromise the show, but ultimately the band had no alternative but to postpone the tour."
They said Daltrey had been especially disappointed to miss the Teen Cancer America benefit in Los Angeles, a charity he and the band "have worked tirelessly for".
"We are very sorry to disappoint our fans in this way," said Daltrey, who headlined Glastonbury and British Summertime in Hyde Park earlier this year.
"For the last four weeks, I have been in and out of the hospital and have been diagnosed with viral Meningitis," he revealed.
"I am now on the mend and feeling a lot better but I am going to need a considerable time to recover. The doctors tell me I will make a complete recovery, but that I should not do any touring this year."
Pete Townshend also apologised to fans "that have supported us in the last 50 years".
Townshend added: "Once Roger is completely well we will come back stronger than ever and Roger and I will give you all a show to remember."


Australia plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by between 26% and 28% below 2005 levels by 2030,  PM Tony Abbott has said.

It is less than cuts pledged by countries such as Canada and the US.
Australia's previous target was to cut emissions by 5% by 2020, based on emissions in 2000.
The announcement comes ahead of a key international meeting in Paris in December to agree on a new global climate strategy.
Australia is still largely powered by carbon-polluting coal and is one of the world's biggest coal exporters.
Mr Abbott said Australia had to protect economic growth at the same time as it reduced emissions.
"It is very much that everything we do has this in mind: how do we promote jobs and growth... and climate change policy is no different," he said at a press conference in Canberra.
"We have to reduce our emissions... but in ways that are consistent with continued strong growth."
Mr Abbott said Australia's target was within the middle of the spread of targets adopted by economies of comparable size.
He said the cost to the economy of achieving a 26% cut by 2030 would equate to between about 0.2% and 0.3% of Australia's gross domestic product (GDP).
Scientist Tim Flannery from independent not-for-profit research group the Climate Council, said even if Australia met this target, it would still be emitting more per person than the US and "significantly more" than the UK, on a per capital basis.
"These targets are vastly inadequate to protect Australians from the impacts of climate change and do not represent a fair contribution to the world effort to bring climate change under control," said Prof Flannery.
The Climate Council says that to stay below a 2Â°C rise in global temperature, Australia would need to cut emissions by 60% by 2030 on 2000 levels.
It says Australia is the 13th largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world and has one of the highest per capita emissions rates.


Established brands such as John Lewis and Argos now account for half the places in the UK's top 50 web brands, according to new statistics.

It includes media brands such as the BBC, Sky and the Telegraph.
But the top five remains dominated by web names, including Google, Facebook and Yahoo.
An annual survey of the top 50 UK web names found that the dotcoms that dominated the charts seven years ago have disappeared.
"Brands set up purely for the web have disappeared and it is 'back-to-the-future' offline brands that are doing well in 2011," said a spokesman for UK Online Measurement (UKOM) which conducted the research.
It found social media sites now hold 10 places in the top 50.
This compares to just one - Friends Reunited - in 2004.
Information sites such as wikianswers, about.com and ehow are also new entrants to the chart.
There is a growing acceptance by consumers of 'anonymous authority' - unedited content uploaded by users, thinks UKOM general manager James Smythe.
"The web has always made it easier for people to feed their fundamental desire to socialise, but the critical element of trust in social online environments has now become mainstream," he said.
The top five web brands has remained relatively static since 2004, with Google, Yahoo, the BBC and MSN all in the top five for the last seven years.
Facebook moved into the top five only last year and holds on to its number 3 place. Twitter is quite a way behind at number 38.
Traditional media companies, such as Sky, ITV and the Telegraph, account for 16 places, up from nine in 2004.
Dotcom firms which flourished in 2004, such as Kelkoo, Friends Reunited, Lycos and LastMinute no longer feature in the top 50.


A manhunt is under way after a man was stabbed to death at an internet cafe in broad daylight.

Police were called to the Smethwick area of Sandwell at about 12:50 BST on Saturday.
A 38-year-old man, who has not been formally identified, was pronounced dead at the scene at the internet cafe on Cape Hill.
West Midlands Police said a suspect, described as black and of a large build, is still at large.
Det Insp Justin Spanner, from the force's CID, said: "This happened in broad daylight on a Saturday afternoon in a busy area and we are aware that several witnesses were at the scene and as yet have not come forward.
"The suspect was wearing a dark quilted patterned jacket, blue jeans and trainers."


Ethan Waller has joined brother and fellow prop Alex in the Northampton Saints senior ranks by signing a two-year professional contract.

The 20-year-old has yet to make his first-team debut, having played for second side the Wanderers and on loan at Moseley this season.
"Playing in the first team is something I've wanted to do since I was a young one," he told BBC Radio Northampton.
"I've lived here all my life. It's the team I've looked up to."
He added: "I'm really looking forward to being part of this club for the next two years.
"There's still a lot of good props ahead of me. If I play my brand of rugby hopefully the coaches will see something they like and I'll get my chance."
Older brother Alex, 22, has made nine starts for Saints and appeared 57 times off the bench.


India batsman Virat Kohli says he is ready for the challenge posed by Australia in the winner-takes-all World Twenty20 match on Sunday.

The victors in Mohali will advance to the semi-finals, while the losers will go out.
"We all know Australia are a very strong side," said 27-year-old right-hander Kohli.
"They play with a lot of passion and I believe in playing the same way so I like that challenge."
During a one-day international against Australia in Melbourne earlier this year, Kohli made a century and was involved in an argument with all-rounder James Faulkner that was picked up by the on-field microphones.
"You're wasting your energy," said Kohli. "There's no point. I've smashed you all my life. Just go and bowl."
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Now, Kohli is ready for another verbal battle and insists it will motivate him more.
"If I get into a little bit of debate with anyone, and if I have to take a certain stand, that doesn't necessarily put me off my game," he said.
"If anything, that motivates me more."
Australia are currently ranked number one in Test cricket and are the reigning 50-over World Cup champions, but have never won the World T20.
All-rounder Glenn Maxwell said they will have to deal with India's spinners if they are to reach the semi-finals for the third time.
"If we negate their spinners and are still quite aggressive against them and find a way, I'm sure that will go a long way to winning us the game," said Maxwell.
"The key to playing spin is being positive so hopefully we can do that."


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14 February 2016 Last updated at 10:34 GMT
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Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is "not a football man", according to former Spurs player and coach Clive Allen.

Nine managers have left Spurs since Levy took over in 2001, the most recent being Tim Sherwood, who was sacked on Tuesday after five months in charge.
Allen, 52, described Levy as an "incredible" businessman but criticised his football-related decisions.
"I don't think he is a football man," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "Those decisions have come back to haunt him."
Allen, who was interim manager of Spurs for one match in 2007 after Martin Jol was sacked, also criticised the recent transfer dealings of the club.
"It's a very expensive squad and someone has to be answerable for that," he said.
"It's so bitterly disappointing the squad has finished sixth this season and the squad of players, in all honesty, are not competitive with the top four teams.
"A decision was made that a new direction had to be found and I just wonder what that direction is."
Sherwood, 45, was sacked less than a week after comparing himself to a "supply teacher", with players being told by their agents he would not be at the club next season.
Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino and Ajax boss Frank de Boer have been touted as possible replacements.


Welsh golfer Jamie Donaldson has been sidelined with a hand injury following an accident with a chainsaw.

The 40-year-old, who won the point that sealed the 2014 Ryder Cup for Europe, shared a picture of the nasty injury on Twitter.
Donaldson required stitches and is likely to be out of action until February's Dubai Desert Classic.
"So folks, in my time off decided to have a fight with a chainsaw and lost," Donaldson tweeted.
Pontypridd-born Donaldson, who was raised in Macclesfield, has three wins on the European Tour and won the Thailand Golf Championship on the Asian Tour in December.
The Welshman's manager, John Fay, said Donaldson had not suffered any tendon damage.
Donaldson will miss this week's Abu Dhabi Golf Championship - a tournament he won in 2013 - but could play in Singapore next week if given the all clear when the stitches are removed on Wednesday.
"Jamie has full movement in the finger and is expected to make a full recovery," Fay said.
"He is very relieved and will be a lot more careful in the future."
He is not the first golfer to have suffered a chainsaw accident, with twice Open champion Greg Norman, 60, almost losing his left hand in 2014. while cutting some tree branches.


A veteran diver who retrieved a holidaymaker's lost ring - worth £10,000 - from the Mediterranean seabed said it was "fairly easy" to find.

George Edmunds, 75, from Weymouth, Dorset was flown to Majorca by Katie Patterson, 24, after she had lost the heirloom while swimming in the sea.
The expert in underwater metal detecting found it within an hour.
Describing Ms Patterson's reaction when reunited with the ring, he said: "You should have seen her face".
Ms Patterson, who is from Belfast but is currently a student living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, had contacted the diver when she returned to the UK earlier this month.
The ring had belonged to Ms Patterson's grandmother and been passed down through the family.
She flew Mr Edmunds out to the Balearic island in the hope of finding it.
He said: "It was fairly easy - Katie showed me the exact spot where she thought she'd lost it. It took me just under an hour.
"In the meantime I found a handful of coins and another ring, believe it or not."
He admitted he showed a "bit of a wicked streak" when reuniting Ms Patterson with the ring.
"When we got back to the beach I tipped out the coins and the other ring and Katie's face was a bit crestfallen," he said.
"And then I said, 'you know those Mickey Mouse rings kids buy at the fair? I found one of those as well'. I showed it to her, and that was it."
Ms Patterson said: "I cannot tell you how grateful I was - he's an absolute hero and I'm so, so appreciative of him taking the time to come out with me. I was sobbing."


Weston General Hospital's A&E department closes overnight later because it cannot be staffed safely.

The hospital, which serves more than 200,000 people in Weston-super-Mare, will close between 22:00 and 08:00 BST.
Those with serious and life-threatening emergencies are being told to dial 999 and ambulances will take them to Bristol or Taunton.
The Trust said the the temporary move was necessary until it can guarantee safe levels of staffing overnight.
It comes after a health watchdog rated its emergency care as "inadequate".
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A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report warned "significant improvements" must be made.
Medical director Dr Peter Collins described the move as "a very difficult decision" but added "it is our ability to recruit that is our challenge, not our ability to care".
But the public sector workers' union Unison warned every night the department is closed "is a risk to the people of Weston".
Christine Cook, of Unison, said the nearest alternatives were in Bristol or Taunton - some 27 miles away - would leave "sick people a long way from help and putting more strain on health staff at other hospitals".
"I'm concerned that behind the lack of answers from the trust is a government plan to further downgrade Weston Hospital.
"A similar closure in Lincolnshire has been extended to over a year. If that happens here, related departments like the intensive care unit will be affected too."


An autistic man suspected of hacking into US government computer systems is to be extradited from Britain to face trial, a court has ruled.

Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and the country's missile defence agency.
Mr Love, from Stradishall, Suffolk, has previously said he feared he would die in a US prison if he was extradited.
A judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court made the extradition ruling.
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Earlier, his lawyer said his alleged hacking had "embarrassed" US authorities.
Tor Ekeland said the US government "had very, very bad security and these hacks utilised exploits that were publicly-known for months".
Mr Love's lawyers said he could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted of the hacking offences.
Earlier he stood in the dock as district judge Nina Tempia ruled he could be extradited to the US, where he could face trials in three different states.
He was first arrested at home in Suffolk in 2013 and had computer equipment seized by British police, who then released him on bail.
He was not charged in the UK, where the investigation into him was dropped.
Mr Love's defence team argues his depression and Asperger's syndrome mean he should not be sent abroad, but US prosecutors say he is using his mental health issues as an excuse to escape justice.
In England and Wales, the maximum sentence for crimes such as those of which Mr Love is accused is two years and eight months.


A 46-year-old man has been jailed for eight years stabbing a man at a house party in Londonderry.

John Paul O'Rourke from Glengrainne Gardens in Park stabbed his victim three times in the back with a kitchen knife.
The man suffered life threatening injuries after what was described in court as "an alcohol fuelled house brawl".
The judge told the defendant that his actions were cowardly.
O'Rourke also kicked his 45-year-old victim three times to the head and head butted him.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent following incidents which occurred inside and outside a house at Summer Meadows in the Waterside in the early hours of 20 July 2014.
Londonderry Crown Court was told that the victim sustained two punctured lungs and that he would have died if he had not received immediate treatment at Altnagelvin Hospital.
Both men had what the judge described as "a great deal of alcohol" before going to a house at Summer Meadows in the city where a fight broke out.
The police found the victim lying outside the house in a pool of blood, the court heard.
The court was also told that O'Rourke had shouted "I will cut his throat from ear to ear" before he stabbed the victim.
When arrested, O'Rourke told the police he had no memory of stabbing and head butting his victim and denied kicking the victim on the head.
He told the police that the victim had threatened members of his family.
The Judge told O'Rourke that the threats did not justify his subsequent violent behaviour.


Australian authorities have called off rescue efforts for a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank north of Christmas Island.

The search for survivors was abandoned late on Sunday, two days after the submerged vessel was first spotted in the sea.
At least 55 people were thought to have been on the boat, Australian authorities said.
Ships and aircraft had spotted a total of 13 bodies, as well as debris.
The boat was seen northwest of Christmas Island - the closest piece of Australian territory to Indonesia - on Wednesday, when it did not appear to be in distress.
A navy vessel subsequently went to intercept it, but could not find it. An aircraft spotted its submerged hull on Friday.
Officials said about 55 people had appeared to be on the boat. Their nationality was not known, but most of the asylum-seekers who make their way by boat to Australia via Indonesia come from Sri Lanka, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Figures from Australia's Department of Immigration; passenger numbers exclude crew
Both ships and aircraft searched for survivors over the weekend, but the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) called off the search late on Sunday, citing medical advice that no-one could have survived any longer in the water.
Officials on Monday said they will not conduct a new search to retrieve bodies. "Our priority in those operations remains the protection of life, responding to other vessels which may require assistance, and preventing any further loss of life," a Border Protection Command statement said.
In recent months the number of people attempting to make their way to Australia by boat has risen significantly.
Last year, the government re-established offshore processing camps for asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in a bid to deter people from making the dangerous journey across the sea in overcrowded and poorly-maintained vessels.
But the offshore processing policy - and the conditions in the camps - have been heavily criticised by rights groups and UN agencies, and boat numbers have also continued to rise.
"This is another terrible tragedy, another terrible reminder how dangerous these journeys are," Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said on Sunday.


East Kilbride manager Martin Lauchlan says taking Buckie Thistle back to K-Park means they will not be able to try kicking his team off the park again.

The sides drew 2-2 in the first leg of their pyramid play-off semi-final at Buckie's Victoria Park.
But the return is on an artificial pitch less suited to robust challenges.
"I don't think their manager will be rugby tackling any of our players down here," Lauchlan said of his Buckie counterpart.
"Graeme Stewart even tackled one of our players off the field of play and got sent off and he is just back from a five-game ban, so that tells you something.
"The pitch wasn't conducive to the type of game that we like to play and they are a typical Highland League team that like to fly into tackles all over the place."
Highland League champions Buckie looked to be in control when Chris Angus gave them an early lead and Sam Urquhart added the second from the penalty spot.
But Paul Woods pulled one back for the Lowland League winners before the break and Russell McLean tied the game late on.
"It could have gone the wrong way, but the boys showed a lot of character and we totally dominated the second half and should have won the match," former Partick Thistle midfielder Lauchlan told BBC Scotland.
"We have a great record on our own ground and have only lost once there this season.
"It is an evenly matched contest, but they are trying to get physical because of the quality of our players and to try to stop them playing."
Buckie boss Stewart promised another bruising encounter on Saturday and thinks his side have better quality than their southern rivals.
"Don't get me wrong, they are a good team - they didn't like getting tackled very much and, unfortunately, when you come to the Highlands, that's what happens," he said.
"We're quite physical and they didn't seem to like it and we'll do the same, we'll mix it and be hard but fair.
"We're disappointed not to win the game. But, if I'm being honest, I think a draw was a fair result.
"We should have held on, but we were maybe tired a bit and maybe celebrating for a couple of days after winning the league last week took its toll a bit."
Buckie, like a number of Highland League clubs, have concerns about the costs of travelling should they win promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League.
"The club have already made it clear that promotion is not their priority, but my staff and our players, we all want to do it because it is a little bit of history," stressed former Inverness Caledonian Thistle midfielder Stewart.
"No Highland League club has earned the right to be in the Scottish League.
"So I've said that to them. Let's be the first club that actually goes up on merit.
"You should have seen them at the final whistle. They were devastated but very hungry for next week.
"We've got the best strikers in the Highland League and I think we'll get a couple of goals."


In the early 1960s, before the birth of smartphones, before the retreat from privacy, the US historian Daniel Boorstin wrote a groundbreaking book called The Image.

Boorstin was troubled by the emergence of what he called "pseudo" events, increasingly presented as news.
"It is not spontaneous," he said, "but comes about because someone has planned, planted or incited it... it is planted primarily for the immediate purpose of being reported or reproduced."
I have been reminded of this during the current election campaign.
There are daily events but, certainly with the two main parties,  the general unscreened public is rarely invited.
Photo calls are arranged to provide the backdrop for a campaign.
I am travelling with David Cameron's team.
It is a campaign geared to exclude the unexpected, the random encounter.
At events, microphones that could pick up a stray remark are kept at a distance.
For the political class has bought into the narrative that Gordon Brown's campaign unravelled when an unguarded microphone caught him referring to a woman - Gillian Duffy - as that "bigoted woman".
Similarly it was regarded as a defining moment when Tony Blair was ambushed by Sharon Storer who said to his face: "All you do is walk around and make yourself known but you don't do anything to help anybody."
But elections are rarely decided by gaffes or unguarded moments.
That was proved by Ronald Reagan who, at one point, boldly declared "all the waste in a year from a nuclear plant can be stored under a desk".
It didn't hurt him.
When I was covering the Obama campaign in 2008 it did not fatally wound Barack Obama when he spoke of "bitter working-class Americans who cling to guns or religion".
In Britain, the political rally, open to the general public, is all but extinct.
The reality of the election trail is mediated through highly choreographed TV scenes.
Party leaders are wary of crowds, of hecklers; above all they fear unscripted moments leading the evening news.
Elsewhere in Europe, campaigning is more unbuttoned.
They ride out the hostile crowd.
I have attended large public rallies in Paris, Rome and Berlin.
I have stood and watched an unflappable Angela Merkel in Darmstadt continue speaking against a background soundtrack of noisy horn-blowing protestors.
In Milan, I saw hecklers interrupt Silvio Berlusconi; he paused and began bouncing up and down as if on a football terrace while his supporters drowned out the protestors.
After almost every campaign-stop, Francois Hollande worked the crowd regardless of their loyalties.
His predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy once even turned on a voter urging him, in rather colourful language, to get lost, you idiot.
In the UK, the instinct of the major parties is to shun the crowd, the unchecked rope-line, the hidden dangers of the town square.
David Cameron's strategy is defensive, to stake his claim on his economic record.
His effortless charm - much admired by Angela Merkel and others -  is replaced by a politician more tightly-wound.
In private he remains easy and relaxed but in Manchester, at the debate, his camera stare was more fixed as if he had been told not to stray from his core much-honed message.
It is a campaign built around the economy, built around the reduction in  unemployment, built around growth.
David Cameron's team knows the election will be won or lost on the success or failure of embedding that economic message.
Sometimes it is said of David Cameron that he wears his beliefs lightly; ideas can be discarded like unwanted clothes.
What became of the born again environmentalist with the huskies in Svalbard?
Or what became of the Big Society which he described as his "big passion"?
Now it is all about money in the pocket.
"Low taxes go to the heart of what I believe in as a Conservative," he tells an audience in Bristol.
There is no such thing as public money, he insists, only taxpayers' money.
So, in truth, the election battleground is narrow.
Labour argues that average families are worse off, having lost out through VAT rises and benefit cuts.
Millions pay more, they say, while millionaires pay less.
They paint the Tories as the party of the few.
The Conservatives portray a future Labour government as a "nightmare" world of higher taxes and debt.
In countless different ways those two narratives will be argued over until polling day.
It may make tactical sense to focus narrowly on the economy and to try to exclude the unexpected but in Britain the campaign trail can, at times, feel like Boorstin's pseudo events.
It needs more of the unscripted, more of the unexpected, more from Britain's beating heart.


Colin Turkington took victory in race three at the third round of the British Touring Car Championship at Thruxton.

Turkington stormed away from pole position, holding off Tom Ingram and Jack Goff to take BMW's 100th BTCC win.
The Portadown driver was seventh and sixth in the day's other races and he now lies third in the standings, 19 points behind leaders Ingram.
Chris Smiley collected his first points for BTC Norlin Racing, securing a 15th place in race two.
Turkington had a strong race one, moving up from ninth to seventh after overtaking Rob Austin and Mat Jackson in one move on lap eight.
The race was won by Honda's Matt Neal, who collected his 60th BTCC win, ahead of team mate Gordon Shedden and Eurotech's Goff.
The Northern Irishman continued his battle with Austin in race two, which was red flagged after Dan Lloyd, Aron Taylor-Smith and Senna Proctor had contact heading into Church Corner.
On the re-start, Turkington held sixth place before a crash for Martin Depper caused out another red flag and the result to be declared.
Turkington's Team BMW team mate Rob Collard took victory, ahead of Shedden and Speedworks driver Ingram.
Drawn on pole for the reverse grid race, Turkington led from the front to take his second triumph of the season and his 43rd success in the BTCC.
Smiley clinched a point after a frustrating start to the season which saw the Carrickfergus driver ensure bad luck despite having a top-15 pace.
After struggling in qualifying, Smiley moved up from 27th place to 19th in race one, showing that his Chevrolet Cruze has strong race pace.
He moved up to 17th in race two before the red flag, narrowly missing the Lloyd, Taylor-Smith and Proctor accident directly behind him.
At the re-start, Smiley continued to work his way up the order, claiming 15th before Depper's accident ended the race early.
In race three, Smiley started well and held 16th place, but lost momentum when overtaken by the charging Matt Neal, losing several spots and leaving the former MINI Challenge champion in 18th.
Daniel Harper continued his good form in the Ginetta Junior championship, finishing first on the road in race one but a track limits penalty dropped the Hillsborough teenager to fourth.
Starting 16th in race two, Harper soared up the order, taking third place after a mature drive.


The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £420m contract with Boeing for the in-service support of the RAF's Chinook helicopter fleet.

The five-year contract, announced by the prime minister on his visit to Portsmouth, is for the maintenance of the fleet in Fleetlands, Gosport.
Other technical support will be provided from RAF Odiham in Hampshire and other sites across the UK.
The deal will support the RAF's fleet, which will be 60 strong by early 2017.
It includes the new Mark 6 helicopters.
During his trip to the south coast, David Cameron also announced BAE Systems and Magma Structures had been chosen as the preferred bidders to occupy the Portsmouth ship hall facilities.
Leader of the Liberal Democrats at Portsmouth City Council Gerald Vernon-Jackson welcomed the news but urged the prime minister to commit to bringing all the Navy's new frigates to Portsmouth so the entire surface fleet was based there.


Two people have been charged in Papua New Guinea with burning alive a woman they accused of sorcery, officials say.

The pair charged with the murder of Kepari Leniata, 20, are related to a six-year-old boy they accused her of using sorcery to kill, police said in a statement.
Ms Leniata was doused in petrol and set on fire in Mount Hagen on 6 February.
The case has drawn public condemnation, including from Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who called it "barbaric".
Cecile Pouilly, spokesperson for the UN's human rights office, on 8 February expressed "great concern" over the incident.
"We urge the government to put an end to these crimes and to bring perpetrators of attacks and killings to justice through thorough, prompt and impartial investigations in accordance with international law," she said.
In parts of the Pacific nation deaths and mysterious illnesses are sometimes blamed on suspected sorcerers. Several reports have emerged in recent years of accused people, usually women, being killed.
In 2009, after a string of such killings, the chairman of Papua New Guinea's Constitutional Review and Law Reform Commission said defendants were using accusations of witchcraft as an excuse to kill people, and called for tougher legislation to tackle the issue.
The police have interviewed at least 40 people in connection with the incident.
The two who have been charged, from a village in the Laiagam district, are the boy's mother and uncle, according to a report in The National newspaper on Monday.
"We are not finished," provincial police commander Martin Lakari was quoted by paper as saying.
"If any evidence or reports come in later saying other people involved are still at large, we will also arrest them."
Police and fire-fighters were unable to intervene at the time because they were outnumbered by the crowd and chased away.


A French mother has been brought back to life by police officers, who performed CPR an hour after paramedics declared her dead.

The unnamed woman, a long-time anorexia sufferer, was found collapsed by her 18-year-old daughter after an apparent heart-attack.
Paramedics rushed to her home in Paris's 13th arrondissement but were unable to revive the 49-year-old.
But police who came to write a report noticed movement in her stomach.
Le Parisien reports that the ambulance team had declared her dead at 18:10 (16:10 GMT) and signed her death certificate.
But the two police officers - who arrived an hour later to write a report into the cause of death - noticed the movement when they lifted the blanket covering the body.
When an officer checked her jugular vein, they found her heart was still beating.
While one shocked officer held her hand and talked to her, the other phoned the fire service and took live instructions on how to perform CPR.
After 30 minutes of attempted resuscitation, the woman previously deemed lifeless was breathing again.
She was transferred to Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, where she has been recovering for almost a week.
Yvan Assioma, regional secretary of the police union Alliance, called the woman's survival a "crazy story" and an "unimaginable scenario".
"Our colleagues thought they were in an episode of The Walking Dead!" he joked.
The police commissioner in charge of their district has called for the two officers to be honoured with a bravery award.


A group of indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon region have detained and expelled loggers working illegally in their ancestral lands.

Leaders of the Ka'apor tribe accused the Brazilian authorities of failing to protect them.
They tied up the loggers and set fire to their trucks and chainsaws, before forcing them out, reported the Reuters news agency.
The logs found at the indigenous territory in the north-eastern state of Maranhao were also destroyed.
The incident happened on 7 August but has only just been reported by Reuters.
The Brazilian indigenous agency, Funai, says it has requested tighter security in the Alto Turiacu Indian Territory to prevent violent clashes.


A laptop used to show photographs of a six-year-old boy during his funeral was stolen from the church as he was buried nearby, Metropolitan Police have said.

The theft of the computer took place after the funeral service for Norris Tashan-Javan Martin, known as TJ.
His mother, Pat Martin, said the laptop held "all their memories" of TJ.
Reverend Desmond Hall, pastor of Pentecostal City Mission Church in Willesden, north-west London, said the thief was "masquerading as a mourner".
The incident happened on 2 November.
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Mrs Martin said: "It's as important as life itself that we get the laptop back.
"Unfortunately, TJ's life is no longer, he's been taken from us, and that laptop has all of our memories of him, short of what we hold in our hearts.
"It doesn't mean anything to the person that's got the laptop. We just want the memories - please. If you don't want to be identified, just give it to someone to hand in."
Rev Hall said TJ, who "always had a smile on his face", had been very ill for his whole life with Candle Syndrome, a rare disease that affects the immune system.
He said the congregation of more than 300 people included members of staff from the Great Ormond Street and Northwick Park hospitals, where he had been treated.
"It's traumatic for us," he said of the theft. "We are all stunned and asking how can anyone steal from the funeral of a little boy?"
The theft happened when the congregation left to attend the burial ceremony at nearby Kensal Green Cemetery.
Police said the suspect, aged about 40 with a distinctive limp, entered and stayed in the church for about 15 minutes before he was seen putting the laptop into a carrier bag and leaving.
CCTV footage showed him chatting with a receptionist before he entered the church hall on Scrubs Lane.


The coalition government has placed an annual limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the UK from outside the European Union.

How does the British immigration system currently work?
There are different ways to come to live or settle permanently in the UK.
Migrants fall into five broad categories: those coming for long-term work, students, temporary workers and visitors, refugees and asylum seekers and people arriving for family reasons.
There are different laws and policies governing each element of the system. For instance, on asylum, the UK has international obligations to provide refuge to people who have fled persecution. The most complicated part of the system is the broad criteria around economic migration.
How are economic migrants dealt with?
The rules for economic migration, which includes students, broadly divide migrants into two groups.
If a migrant is a citizen from one of the European Union's member states (or one of the other counties in the European Economic Area - EEA), then they are free to compete for jobs in the UK. They are not subject to immigration controls.
This is because the UK is part of the European free market under which goods, services and labour can freely move across borders. The rules mean that British workers can equally seek work and settle across the rest of the EU.
And what about if you come from elsewhere?
If you come from anywhere else, including Commonwealth nations, a migrant has to apply under one of the "tiers" that make up the Points Based System (PBS). Students are also covered by the PBS.
In short, the system awards points to migrants based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Putting it very simplistically, a young applicant with a doctorate and proof of high earnings will earn more points than someone who is less skilled - and therefore find it's easier for them to come to the UK.
The PBS has five "tiers". Tiers one and two cover highly skilled and skilled migrants respectively. Tier three was designed for unskilled workers but has never been implemented. Tier four covers students and the final tier covers a host of temporary workers and special categories. This graphic shows the categories of migrants from outside Europe:
So is the coalition scrapping this system?
No. But they are reforming it to meet their long-term goal. They want to reduce net immigration to "tens of thousands each year, not hundreds of thousands" over the lifetime of the Parliament.
Net immigration is the difference between those arriving and those leaving.
The government want to introduce an immigration cap to help achieve that goal and the first one is due to come into force in April 2011. This was a Conservative election pledge that was opposed by their coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
And how high is net immigration at the moment?
The latest official figures show that 196,000 more people came to the UK than left in 2009. That figure includes British citizens returning from living abroad and people from inside the EEA. In all, more than half a million people migrated to the UK in 2008 - and the figure has been rising over the long-term, in line with the experiences of many industrialised nations.
What were immigration levels like in the 1980s?
It is difficult to compare official figures for immigration from the 1980s to more recent numbers because the method for calculating them has changed. Since 1991, there has been an attempt to take account of people applying for asylum or those extending their short-term visa to stay more permanently.
According to the figures available, at the beginning of the 1980s the UK continued to see a net loss of migrants, as it had in the 1970s, with British citizens choosing to leave the UK. This wave of emigration peaked in 1981 when 108,000 British and EU citizens decided to leave and only 28,000 people arrived to settle in the UK.
But by 1983 more people were coming to live in the UK than were leaving. This reached a peak of 58,000 migrants in 1985, and the flow of people into the UK continued for every year for the rest of the decade, except 1988, setting a pattern that would continue into the 1990s.
So how will the government achieve its target?
Experts say that if the government is to hit its target of reducing net migration, it has to pull levers that will slow long-term immigration while, at the same time, take steps to increase the rate of emigration.
The only problem is that there are not that many levers that can be pulled. Some 15% of people moving into the UK are returning British citizens, so their movements cannot be affected - but they are counted in the statistics.
The government cannot block EEA nationals who make up about a third of all arrivals.
The remaining half - about 280,000 people - are long-term arrivals from the rest of the world. These are the people whose movements can be influenced by policy changes.
So what does the cap involve - and how does it work?
The immigration cap for non-EEA workers for the year from April 2011 is 21,700 - about 6,300 lower than in 2009.
Of those, 20,700 are tier two skilled migrants entering graduate occupations with a job offer and sponsorship.
The other 1,000 are people allowed in under a new "exceptional talent" route - people like scientists, academics and artists. The former tier one general route - open to highly skilled migrants without a job offer - will be closed.
However, these limits do not apply to a category of workers who come to the UK in an "intra-company transfer" with their multinational employer. In other words, there will be other people coming in over and above the 21,700 limit.
There will be a new minimum salary of £40,000 for firms using intra-company transfers (ICTs) for more than a year - but staff earning at least £24,000 would still be able to come for up to 12 months.
Immigration restrictions are being lifted for people earning more than £150,000 a year, while scientists will be given a "significant advantage" in their attempts to come to the UK to work.
So what else can the government do?
According to Professor David Metcalf, chairman of the government's Migration Advisory Committee, students from outside the EEA make up 60% of the migrants whose movements can be restricted. He said in his recent report that the government cannot meet its target by restricting workers alone.
The following graph shows how highly skilled and skilled workers from outside the EEA make up a small part of the number of people applying for visas - although bear in mind that not all of those counted below are permanent or long-term immigrants:
Home Secretary Theresa May says she is looking at how to cut their numbers - but it's not clear who will be targeted and whether the Liberal Democrats will accept restrictions.
She says her forthcoming consultation on students will focus on allowing in students who are studying for degrees or those joining "highly trusted" colleges. This is a controversial area. Languages colleges are big legitimate businesses - but it's widely accepted that there is also abuse where people use student visas as a means of coming to work in the UK. Another route that the home secretary will target is a mechanism that allows some students to take jobs at the end of their course.
What about family reunion?
Families make up the final 20% of migrants from outside the EEA - but curtailing their right to arrive will be difficult to achieve because of human rights law.
However, the government is also looking at measures to boost the numbers leaving the UK by restricting rights to settle or to extend a work visa. Mrs May says she wants to end the link between temporary migration for work - and permanent settlement.
What effect would a cap have?
It's very difficult to know before it has happened. A large number of businesses have complained that it could damage the economy - and Professor Metcalf has warned that there could be "serious long-term consequences for investment and job generation" if the restrictions on work visas were too tight.


A plane flying from Slovenia to the UK made an unplanned landing after the pilot was alerted to a "suspicious conversation" with "terrorist content".

Three men were arrested after the Easyjet flight from Ljubljana to Stansted, in Essex, had been diverted to Germany's Cologne-Bonn airport on Saturday afternoon.
All 151 passengers were evacuated and flights were suspended for three hours.
A backpack belonging to the men was blown up by police.
A spokesman for Cologne-Bonn airport confirmed the landing, adding: "Prior to this, the pilot had been informed about a suspicious conversation on board, after which he decided to make an unscheduled landing in Cologne-Bonn.
"After the safe landing... the 151 passengers left the [aircraft] via emergency slides and were taken to a transit gate."
The passengers had to "undergo a check immediately" and additional security checks were carried out on the plane.
A statement from Cologne police said other passengers had made the crew aware of a conversation by three men.
It said the subject had been "terrorist content", without elaborating further.
It added that federal police had "blown up in a controlled manner" a backpack belonging to the men.
Easyjet said the captain had taken the decision to land as a precaution to allow additional security checks to take place.
All the passengers had been given a hotel for the night and would be flown back on Sunday morning, she said.
"We thank passengers for their understanding. The safety of Easyjet's passengers and crew is our highest priority."


Defending champion Colin Montgomerie finished second behind American Jeff Maggert at the US Senior Open at Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento.

The 52-year-old Scot went into the final day one stroke off the lead and carded a flawless round of 66.
However, Maggert, 51, rolled in six birdies in a 65 to finish 10 under par for the tournament for a two-shot win.
Bernhard Langer, the 54-hole co-leader, shot a 68 to finish in a tie for third with New Zealand's Grant Waite.
Of the last eight senior majors, Maggert has now won two, while former European Ryder Cup captains Montgomerie and Langer have won three each.
"I had a lot of good runs in the US Open over the years and probably lacked a little maturity to pull it off," said Maggert, who had 13 top-10 finishes in majors in more than 20 years on the PGA Tour.
"But certainly, now that I'm an old guy, I've learned a lot and was able to just steady myself and play well."


Burton Albion have re-signed former Derby County and Wigan defender Jake Buxton on a one-year contract.

The 32-year-old left the Latics by mutual consent last week because he wanted to be closer to his family.
Buxton links up with Nigel Clough for a third time, the Brewers manager having previously signed the centre-back for both Burton and Derby.
"He very nearly made the Premier League with Derby. He's a very good, experienced defender," Clough said.
"He knows the challenges we face at the club the size of Burton. He'll be under no illusions and he will fit straight in."
Buxton first joined Burton prior to the 2008-09 season before a seven-year spell with Derby. He played 42 games for Wigan last season, but the Latics were relegated to League One.
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