BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.

Lawro's opponents for this weekend's FA Cup semi-finals and Premier League fixtures are former Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas and Radio 1Xtra DJ Trevor Nelson, who is a Chelsea fan.
Jenas and Nelson made their predictions live on Radio 1Xtra's Charlie Sloth show on Thursday.
Jenas, who played for Spurs between 2005 and 2013, will be at Wembley on Saturday as a BBC pundit for his old club's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea.
"From a neutral point of view, this is the game everyone wants to see right now with the two top teams in the Premier League going at it," Jenas said.
"I don't think there has been a bigger game in the FA Cup for a few years now.
"Everyone was expecting Chelsea to run away and win the league - now we get the opportunity to see them go head to head to get to the final."
Nelson, who has been a Chelsea season ticket holder for more than 20 years, will be at the game as a fan and thinks his side are underdogs.
"Tottenham are the favourites," Nelson explained. "They are playing some fluid football.
"I have to be honest with you, when they come on the TV now I don't like watching.
"But what I do is go out of the room for half an hour and when I come back in they are always 2-0 up, and the game is over. They are destroying everybody."
* Chelsea to win AET and pens
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
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All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
Bournemouth v Middlesbrough (Premier League)
Bournemouth were thumped at Tottenham last weekend - they lost 4-0 but the scoreline could have been anything.
Middlesbrough went down to a much narrower defeat, losing 2-1 at home to Arsenal on Monday, and have now gone 15 league games without a win.
Boro still aren't much of a threat when they attack, and that is the biggest difference between the two sides - the Cherries struggle defensively sometimes but they are good going forward.
While Boro have the staunch smell of relegation about them, Bournemouth probably only need one more win to be safe, and I think they will get it on Saturday.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Jermaine's prediction: 2-1
Trevor's prediction: 2-1
Hull City v Watford (Premier League)
Watford already look safe, after last week's win over Swansea took them to the 40-point mark.
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Hull still have work to do but they will be confident of winning this game because of their home record under Marco Silva, who has picked up 16 points out of a possible 18.
The Tigers are not only good at the KCOM Stadium, they are very good in the second half there - that is when they have scored 10 of their 14 goals during that unbeaten run.
They always seem capable of stepping things up later in the game if they have to, which is an extremely useful in their situation.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-0
Trevor's prediction: 2-2
Swansea City v Stoke City (Premier League)
Swansea have taken one point from their last six matches and boss Paul Clement says this is the club's biggest game since the Championship play-off final in 2011.
I agree, but I am not confident they will win it.
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For whatever reason, Swans striker Fernando Llorente was just not at it during their defeat by Watford last time out. Swansea badly need a performance from him this time.
It is hard to know what to expect from Stoke, who ended a four-game losing streak by beating Hull, but I am going to go with a draw.
That is not really enough for Swansea but, unlike Hull who are full of self-belief at home, I think the Welsh side are short of the confidence they need to get themselves out of trouble.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-1
Trevor's prediction: 1-2
West Ham v Everton (Premier League)
West Ham are another team who are clear of the relegation scrap, although the Hammers still have issues.
For some reason Slaven Bilic's future as manager remains in doubt, when the real problem behind their disappointing season is their poor recruitment last summer.
Everton's home form is very impressive but away from Goodison Park they have won only one out of six league matches in 2017.
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When they are on the road, the Toffees just don't seem to create the same number of chances that they do at home, so I am going to go for a draw here as well.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-2
Trevor's prediction: 1-3
Chelsea v Tottenham (FA Cup, 17:15 BST)
I have heard people say that, if Tottenham beat Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final, it will help them win the Premier League too.
Personally, I don't think the outcome of this game will make any difference whatsoever to the title race.
Chelsea struggled last weekend in their defeat against Manchester United, and since then it has emerged that some of their players were suffering from a virus.
I quite like the fact that Blues boss Antonio Conte did not use it as an excuse after the game, and I also don't think they will play as badly again here.
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FA Cup semi-finals are horrible games to play in because all everyone is thinking about is how the final is so close.
They are nearly always tight and this one will be the same. I am going to go with Chelsea to win it - but it will be very extremely close.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1* Chelsea to win after extra-time and penalties
Jermaine's prediction: 1-2
Trevor's prediction: I don't want to do this. I am going to for the same scoreline, the other way, because I have got to back my team. But if you told me to put money or my house on it, you might get a different prediction. 2-1
Burnley v Man Utd (Premier League, 14:15 BST)
We all know about Burnley's home record, and this is a tough one for Manchester United straight after their Europa League tie against Anderlecht.
Burnley did pretty well for an hour against Everton last week but then things went wrong in the last 20 minutes.
United boss Jose Mourinho got everything right against Chelsea and I always feel he finds it easier to get a positive result when he has to work out how to stop another top team.
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He can come up with a plan to stop that sort of opposition from winning a game but he cannot necessarily come up with a plan to win a game when the opposition are trying to stop him.
I am going to go for another draw here - hopefully I will get one of them right.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jermaine's prediction: 1-1
Trevor's prediction: 1-3
Arsenal v Man City (FA Cup, 15:00 BST)
I think this semi-final will be close as well, even though neither side is great defensively.
If Vincent Kompany is back for Manchester City, he makes a massive difference to everyone around him - a bit like when John Terry was at his peak for Chelsea.
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Arsenal's switch to play with three at the back in their win at Middlesbrough on Monday felt like a last throw of the dice by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger.
Wenger's side have been so ordinary for so long, and I just think City will have too much for them.
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Even if Arsenal get through this tie and win the final, then as much of an achievement that would be it should not change the decision over Wenger's future, because I think it is time for a change.
In fact, winning the FA Cup would be the perfect way for him to bow out. I don't see it happening, though.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Jermaine's prediction: I think it will be wide open, even if the fact it is a semi-final will calm it down a little bit.
In my head I am thinking 3-3 but Arsenal are just not free-flowing or playing well at the moment and City will have Kompany back too. 1-3
Trevor's prediction: I don't care for either team at all so it will be a great watch, because both teams only have one way of playing - going on the attack.
City are overwhelming favourites because of their frontline, but neither team can defend. If Kompany is fit for this game, City win - it is simple as that as far as I am concerned, because Arsenal don't have a Vincent Kompany. 2-4
Liverpool v Crystal Palace (Premier League, 16:30 BST)
I have to say that Liverpool's last two results - wins at Stoke and West Brom - were as good as any result they have had all season.
The Reds were all over the place for the first 45 minutes against Stoke but still found a way to win that game and, in all honesty, they could have scored two or three against the Baggies.
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Philippe Coutinho is playing extremely well and when that happens, so does Roberto Firmino.
It means that, even without Sadio Mane, Adam Lallana and Jordan Henderson, Liverpool look dangerous.
I know Crystal Palace have been going well, and it will be interesting to see how Christian Benteke gets on back at Anfield,
But if Liverpool can cut off Benteke's supply, I would expect them to win this one.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Jermaine's prediction: 1-2
Trevor's prediction: 2-1
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
*Does not include scores from postponed games.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week 28, but only five games played so far) or 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
From last week's Premier League games, Lawro got seven correct results, with no perfect scores, from 10 matches for a total of 70 points.
He beat Sting and his son Joe Sumner, who got six correct results with no perfect scores, for a tally of 60 points.


#milifandom, the online campaign run by a Twitter user who says she is a 17-year-old girl frustrated that she doesn't feel David Cameron is listening to young people ahead of the election, has sparked huge reaction online including messages from the Labour leader himself:

Please note: The BBC is unable to independently verify the identity of the owner of the account as they say they are no longer giving interviews.
"Millifans" have been declaring their undying love using the terms #milibae and #hellyesed and #cooledmiliband as well as posting some unusual images of the unlikely heart-throb.
Twitter account @cooledmiliband has also offered a mystifying selection of Photoshopped images of him "looking cool".
Other party leaders haven't escaped, with Twitter users generally having fun at their expense, even though that's not the way it started out:
#milifandom has also spawned a selection of other spectacularly less successful fandom hashtags including #cameronettes where Twitter users are less than convinced of the sincerity of the account which claims to be run by a 13-year-old girl:
There has also been a hashtag for #sturgesurge, which has had little or no take up, other than being compared to the 2010 election buzzword #cleggmania. No word yet on a Nick Clegg fan club this time round though.
Written by Kerry Alexandra


Glamorgan have accepted an England and Wales Cricket Board request to play with a pink ball in their final County Championship match at Kent.

Kent had also accepted the experiment for the four-day match, starting in Canterbury on 12 September.
The Division Two match will begin at 1400 BST, instead of 1030 BST, and finish at 2100 BST.
A pink ball has already been tried in first-class cricket in Pakistan.
The move is part of an International Cricket Council proposal to introduce day-night Test matches.
And the ICC is keen for all Test-playing nations to use the new ball in their four-day competitions to ensure it is up to the required standard.
The viability of playing day-night Tests, to boost crowds, is being explored by the game's governing body.
In June, England and Wales Cricket Board managing director Huw Morris said he was "open-minded" about the prospect of playing floodlit Test matches.
The former Glamorgan batsman said: "The colour of the ball we would potentially use under lights would be important and trialling it in other forms of the game before we do it at international level would be important."
Both Glamorgan and Kent are out of contention for promotion from Division Two of the County Championship.


The FBI made security researchers hand over data that helped identify people suspected of using the Tor anonymising network, a court case has revealed.

It used a court order to access data gathered by two researchers during a 2014 Carnegie Mellon University project funded by the US Department of Defense.
The home IP address of American Brian Farrell was among those obtained by the FBI via its analysis of the CMU data.
He denies helping to run the Silk Road 2.0 website, which sold drugs via Tor.
Tor, also known as The Onion Router, lets people browse the web anonymously by bouncing data through a series of routers that encrypt it at each step.
This has also given rise to a number of hidden sites, including many markets selling drugs and other illegal items and services, that sit on the Tor network.
Once identified, the researchers said they would give a talk at the Black Hat security conference about the methods they had used to "de-anonymise hundreds of thousands Tor clients and thousands of hidden services".
The talk never went ahead - but later in 2014, the FBI mounted a series of raids on people suspected of running sites sitting on Tor.
The revelation comes as the FBI is embroiled in a row with Apple over a request to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook who, with his wife, killed 14 people in California last year.
The trial against Mr Farrell is due to start in April.


An organisation that represents immigrant groups has issued new advice to Irish people in the US.

The Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers (CIIC) says it has done so due to changes in immigration enforcement policy under President Donald Trump.
It says the focus has been on people from seven countries named by the president and those with deportation orders or criminal histories.
"This applies to a small portion of the Irish community," it adds.
"Given the change in immigration enforcement policy and implementation, the immigrant community is strongly advised to be vigilant in obeying all local and state laws, especially when driving."
It also advises "those who feel they are at risk of deportation" to speak to a lawyer and be screened for possible benefits or relief.
"Have an emergency and family plan in place in case of arrest, especially involving children."
The organisation advises people to "be wary of rumours about ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] activity, ICE raids or immigration policy changes".
It said Immigration and Customs Enforcement had recently carried out focused enforcement actions and community arrests of about 680 non-citizens, most with criminal histories or prior orders of deportation.
"This operation was not unlike previous enforcement actions in the past," it said.
"However, there have been some reports of secondary arrests of individuals who were not the original focus of the enforcement efforts, resulting from the fact that ICE now has broader authority to arrest anyone who is undocumented."
The Trump administration has issued tough guidelines to widen the net for deporting illegal immigrants from the US, and speed up their removal.
Undocumented immigrants arrested for traffic violations or shop-lifting will be targeted along with those convicted of more serious crimes.
The memos do not alter US immigration laws, but take a much tougher approach towards enforcing existing measures.
There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US, about 50,000 of whom are believed to be Irish.


Mercedes have withdrawn a protest lodged against Max Verstappen for his defence of second place from Lewis Hamilton in the Japanese Grand Prix.

Mercedes claimed Red Bull's Verstappen drove "erratically and in a dangerous manner" in contravention of rules in the move on the penultimate lap.
The protest was lodged at 18:27 local time. At 19:12 it was scheduled to be heard at the next race in America.
At 19:50, governing body the FIA announced Mercedes had withdrawn it.
A spokesman for Mercedes said the decision had been made "once it became clear it would be dragged out to Austin, in the interests of establishing a final result this evening".
Earlier, Hamilton had posted on Twitter: "There is no protest from either myself or Mercedes. One idiot said we have but it's not true."
The tweet was later deleted.
He later added on Twitter: "There is no protest from myself. Just heard the team had but I told them it is not what we do. We are champions, we move on. End of!"
His remarks are a reference to the fact Mercedes tied up a third consecutive constructors' championship title in Japan, following Nico Rosberg's win and Hamilton's third place.
Hamilton said over the radio after the move: "Verstappen moved under braking."
The drivers have a gentleman's agreement that they will not change direction in the braking zone, although it is not outlawed.
The protest is under article 27.5 of the sporting regulations, which states: "At no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers or any other person."
The protest says Verstappen's driving "forced [Hamilton] to take evasive action".
Verstappen, who was spoken to about the incident by F1 director Charlie Whiting after the race, waited in the middle of the track before moving to defend only when he saw which side Hamilton was going to attack.
It is the same behaviour with which he upset Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen during the Hungarian Grand Prix in July.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said: "We know now Max moves under braking but it is not for me to judge."
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said he felt the move was "hard but fair".


Roy Hodgson has resigned as England manager after his team lost 2-1 to Iceland and were knocked out of Euro 2016.

England's loss to Iceland will go down as one of the biggest shocks in international football in recent times.
Iceland has a population of just 330,000 and are among the lowest-ranked teams in the tournament at 34 in the world.
"I'm sorry it will have to end this way but these things happen," Hodgson said.
"I hope you will still be able to see an England team in a final of a major tournament soon.
"Now is the time for someone else to oversee the progress of a hungry and extremely talented group of players. They have done fantastically, and done everything asked of them."
Hodgson had been in charge of the side for four years and replaced Italian manager Fabio Capello, but has won just three of 11 games in major tournament finals.
In a statement released after Hodgson stepped down, the FA said: "Like the nation, we are disappointed to lose this evening and that our run in Euro 2016 has come to a premature end.
"We had high hopes of progressing through to the latter stages of the competition and accept that we have not met our own expectations or those of the country.
"We back Roy Hodgson's decision to step down as England manager and will discuss next steps imminently."


A woman has been charged in connection with a multimillion-pound fraud and money laundering operation.

Grit Birch, 45, of Rifford Road, Exeter, faces two charges of money laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act and four fraud charges.
She is jointly charged on these counts with 62-year-old Joseph Birch, of Horns Cross, North Devon.
He has been remanded in custody while Grit Birch was granted conditional bail.
Ms Birch is accused of removing criminal property worth £1,872,308.50 by a bank transfer to Liechtenstein between June and August 2003.
She faces a second charge of converting criminal property worth £734,000 to buy a car, furniture and fittings and pay for building work at Higher Lowton farm at North Tawton, Devon, in 2005.
Ms Birch also faces four charges of fraud by false representation relating to amounts totalling £3.3m and centred on Las Vegas and New York.
She also faces a charge that between 2008 and 2013 she concealed, disguised, converted, transferred or removed criminal property totalling £3,268,622 by means of cash withdrawals and payments for personal items.
Mr Birch also faces a charge of possessing ammunition for a firearm.


High tide has caused a wall to collapse into the sea and a road to be closed in Devon.

The sea wall in Torcross came down following high tide, which was at about 08:25 GMT.
Devon County Council had shut the A379 at about 08:00 as a precaution. It has to wait for the tide to go down before the damage can be assessed.
David Hornblower, from Devon County Council, said the closure will remain in place for the day "at a minimum".
Read more on this story as it develops throughout the day on our Local Live pages.
The council was alerted to the weakened wall at 08:30, and by 09:00 it had collapsed.
Mr Hornblower said: "The sea wall has partially collapsed so there's a risk to the highway above it. No-one is at risk."
He said "excavators" were on the way to "shore up that section of the road".
South Hams District Council spent Â£250,000 of emergency flood funding in January 2014 in a bid to protect sea defences in the area, but holes appeared behind the wall earlier this month, the Kingsbridge and Salcombe Gazette reported.
A spokesperson from South Hams District Council, which is responsible for the sea defence, said: "We are aware that the sea wall protecting the highway has failed this morning at the northern end of Torcross."
Diversions are being put in place.


Police in Bangladesh are looking for cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife in relation to the alleged abuse of their 11-year-old domestic help.

The girl is now in hospital after she was found in the streets, while the police have registered a case against the 29-year-old fast bowler.
Shahadat became the first Bangladeshi to be added to the Lord's honours board after taking five wickets against England at the ground in 2010.
He has played 38 Tests and 51 ODIs.
Shahadat last featured for the Tigers in the second Test against Pakistan in May, during which he twisted his right knee and was ruled him out action for six months.


In the dying days of November, exactly 25 years ago, the extraordinary era of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister came to an abrupt end, in a coup triggered by her party's two most prominent Welsh politicians.

A political colossus who had won three elections and never been defeated was dumped by her own Conservative Party, forced out of office at the height of her powers in the biggest, most dramatic British political story since the war.
Geoffrey Howe from Port Talbot and Michael Heseltine from Swansea were the principal assassins.
Both were Tory "big beasts" who forged their reputation on the British stage, but often harked back to their roots in industrial south Wales.
Some of the wounds of that extraordinary public power struggle - so divisive for the Tory Party - may have healed in 25 years but, for many, the scars remain.
Many loyal Thatcherites still regard her fate as an act of betrayal.
So what went wrong? And how was it that Port Talbot and Swansea should prove the breeding ground for the Tory twosome who would bring her down in what truly was A Very Welsh Coup ?
I've spoken to a number of key actors in those dramatic events for a BBC Radio Wales programme this weekend, and also to journalists who worked with me on covering what was easily the biggest British political story of my 30-year career reporting Westminster.
Click here to listen to A Very Welsh Coup on BBC Radio Wales
Michael Heseltine tells me he does not regret his part in those tumultuous events a quarter of a century ago and will not apologise for ousting, with Geoffrey Howe, the longest-serving prime minister of the 20th Century.
There is no hesitation in his answer when I put to him the charge levelled by many still loyal to Lady Thatcher and who cannot forgive: that he was guilty of betrayal and treachery against her and the Conservative Party.
"I don't find any great difficulty with that argument. History is full of people who believed that their own integrity was the real standard by which they should be judged and they have often been proved right", he said.
Mrs Thatcher had dominated politics in the 1980s, with the help of a divided opposition after the Labour-SDP split.
She had driven Argentina out of the Falklands; humbled the miners; toughened trade union laws; and sold off state industries and council houses.
Yet by 1990, she was suddenly vulnerable as never before…. unpopular, disliked, and considered isolated and out of touch.
After her "unassailable" Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, resigned a year earlier, she had easily seen off a leadership challenge by a "stalking horse" candidate, the mild-mannered but steely Clwyd Tory MP, Sir Anthony Meyer.
But 60 of her MPs failed to back her... And the party's deputy chief whip or party manager at the time, Tristan now Lord Garel-Jones said he warned Mrs Thatcher many more Tory backbenchers were "wobbly".
Garel-Jones, who is from Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, told her she must soften her anti-European rhetoric and act to reduce the huge damage being caused to her MPs' chances of re-election by her disastrous flagship policy.
This was the widely-despised community charge or poll tax, with the same sum paid by everyone - no matter how rich or poor - to fund local council services.
Otherwise, he recalls warning Mrs Thatcher, in graphic terms: "There are a hundred assassins lurking in the bushes and in a year's time they are going to come out and kill you!"
The Prime Minister would not listen, and Garel-Jones was proved right.
Provoked by his Cabinet demotion, Mrs Thatcher's increasingly strident anti-European rhetoric ("No! No! No!" just about summed it up), and her embarrassing bullying of him in cabinet, Sir Geoffrey Howe resigned in November 1990.
His resignation statement in the Commons stunned all who watched it by its venom and its demolition of Mrs Thatcher's European policy, which Howe called "a nightmare image… of a continent teeming with ill-intentioned people scheming to extinguish democracy".
But it is the very British imagery of those cricket bats that people remember most:
"It's rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain."
I was in the Commons press gallery watching that speech and it was 20 minutes I'll never forget.
Others who witnessed it describe it variously in the programme as a Shakespearian tragedy, an act of madness that stunned MPs, a rush of blood, sheer revenge, a sensation, and - most memorably - by the victim herself, as full of "bile and treachery".
Among the journalists packed into the press gallery with me that afternoon was Welsh journalist David Hughes, then chief political correspondent for the Sunday Times.
He recalled: "He didn't shriek. It wasn't in any way histrionic but the content was tailor-made to finish Thatcher off."
Thatcher ally Brian Griffiths, from Fforestfach in Swansea, ran the No 10 policy unit, and had known Geoffrey Howe for years, even writing speeches for him... but not this one.
"Such an act of treachery… he just put the knife into her completely. What Geoffrey did was inexcusable."
Another Welshman watching the speech, Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party, said he admired Geoffrey Howe hugely for his honesty and courage, claiming Mrs T had come to patronise her old friend:
"He wasn't the mouse that Mrs T had thought he'd become, but was still a lion capable of roaring."
Geoffrey Howe's howitzer left Michael Heseltine no real option but to challenge Mrs Thatcher for the leadership... something he told me he had never intended to do, since he walked out of the Cabinet nearly five years earlier.
He admitted he feared that challenging his old adversary would have made him too divisive a figure in the party. He got that right!
And looking back on his relationship with Mrs Thatcher before he quit the cabinet, Lord Heseltine made what many will find an extraordinary claim:
"I know from authoritative comments from friends that she had a high regard for me.
"Indeed, I'm told she thought I would be her successor. Now where that went wrong was over her extraordinary obsessions with Europe."
Another BBC colleague covering the leadership campaign Howe's speech triggered was Huw Edwards, now of the News at Ten:
"There were epic levels of hypocrisy involved. Lots of the people I interviewed were incredibly strong in favour of Mrs Thatcher publicly, but once you switched the microphone off they were viciously critical and begging her to leave."
Mrs Thatcher's leadership campaign was utterly shambolic.
She even went abroad to a conference in Paris on the day of the first ballot, despite being begged by Tory Party chairman, Newport-born Kenneth Baker, to stay and lobby wavering MPs for support.
She won the vote, but not by enough: there would have to be a second ballot and Mrs T immediately announced she would stand.
Her cabinet had other ideas. Accusations of a plot against her still swirl around today... based not least on a meeting of some senior ministers at the Westminster home of Tristan Garel Jones after that indecisive vote.
He insisted to me that they spent little time on Mrs Thatcher's fate, since even her most loyal supporters were already saying she would lose if she stood against Michael Heseltine a second time.
More and more Tory MPs were now putting saving their own seats first, willing to ditch an unpopular, unbending leader who had stayed too long, and back her charismatic Welsh rival who promised to ditch the hated poll tax.
But the message from most cabinet ministers, delivered one by one, that if she stood she would let Michael Heseltine in, shook Mrs Thatcher's confidence. It was reinforced by the advice from her husband, Denis.
As he told family friend and head of the Downing Street policy unit, Brian, now Lord Griffiths: "I told her she should go... it's time."
And, for once, Margaret Thatcher took the advice.
Two men realised immediately what that meant for their own ambitions: for Michael Heseltine: "I knew at that time I would not win the next round... I had become very divisive in the Conservative Party, quite understandably."
And it was a heavy blow too for the Labour leader, Neil Kinnock... then riding high in the polls: "The day that Margaret Thatcher resigned, Labour's best asset went through the door."
Douglas Hurd and the little-known John Major - Thatcher's latest chosen heir-apparent - entered the race.
In just five days, the chancellor went from outsider to favourite, as MPs voted for unity.
I was in Downing Street as he heard he had been elected the new party leader and prime minister on 27 November, with Mrs Thatcher making a tearful final exit the next day.
And what, if any, was the long-term effect on the Conservative Party of dumping - so ruthlessly - a sitting prime minister with a 100-plus majority, and who had never lost an election?
The Tory Party chairman at the time, Welshman Kenneth Baker, is in no doubt:
"There was chaos in the Conservative Party for nearly 20 years"
So did the Welsh roots of Geoffrey Howe and Michael Heseltine play any part in those momentous events of 25 years ago?
Lord Heseltine, now 82 and back in government as a part-time adviser to the prime minister, thinks they certainly influenced his whole political creed:
"The contrast that is all around you in Swansea, from really very poor circumstances to quite prosperous areas indelibly impressed me on the need for one nation policies."
And Brian, now Lord Griffiths, thinks those Welsh roots may explain Geoffrey Howe's extraordinary revenge:
"There is something in a Welsh temperament… you try to get on with people, but there will be a point when the worm turned and I think, with Geoffrey, the worm turned."


Gena Turgel was just 14 when her family were rounded up by German troops and sent to a prison called a concentration camp.

27 January 2016 Last updated at 09:08 GMT
She was held for two years in terrible conditions and almost died.
She now works hard to make sure people remember what happened. Jenny went to meet her.
On 27 January every year, Holocaust Memorial Day is a chance for us to remember those who died and to make sure nothing like the Holocaust ever happens again.
What was the Holocaust?


Accident and Emergency waiting times at Scotland's newest hospital improved last week but were still below all other casualty units, new figures show.

Just 82.9% of patients at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow were dealt within four hours.
This was an improvement on the previous week's figure of 77.2%, a record low for the £842m 'super' hospital, which opened in April.
Across Scotland the average figure was 93.5% dealt within four hours.
The government target is for 95% to be seen and either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
In the week ending 11 October, the hospital, formerly known as the South Glasgow University Hospital, saw 1,704 accident and emergency patients and 291 fell outside the four-hour target.
Twenty patients were not dealt with within eight hours.
In June, the Scottish government announced that a team of experts would be sent in to help staff improve A&E waiting times at the site.
Performance rose markedly as a result, with the hospital hitting a rate of more than 90% from the end of July until the end of September.
Hospital director Anne Harkness said the figures were "particularly disappointing" and she was "fully committed" to putting in place a number of immediate steps to improve the situation.
A statement from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: "As we confirmed last week, a number of immediate steps to improve unscheduled care performance have been put in place.
"The figures published today for the week ending October 11 show a 6% improvement in performance compared to the previous week, however our own management data shows that there has been a further improvement in our performance which will be reported in next week's national statistics.
"We are working hard with our clinical and management teams on the ground to see us return to a consistent improvement in performance."
Other A&E units which were well below the government's four-hour target included Forth Valley Royal Hospital (87.8%) and Wishaw General (85%), which also had 57 people waiting more than eight hours and 13 in excess of 12 hours.
Health Secretary Shona Robison highlighted funding of £10.7m for health boards during winter, as well as £100m to tackle delayed discharge.
She said: "We are continuing to work closely with health boards as they prepare for winter. This includes issuing winter guidance to health boards almost two months earlier than last year, to ensure they build in optimum levels of resilience capacity in preparation for winter.
"We want to see long-term, sustainable change put in place in order to maintain the improvement in performance on last year, both during peaks and troughs of demand and working towards achieving what are rightly demanding targets."
The government's record on emergency waiting times was criticised by Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume.
He said: "It is worrying that this key A&E target continues to be missed, despite repeated assurances and announcements from the Scottish government and the best efforts of hard-working NHS staff."


A video telling the story of two schoolchildren forming a friendship - with a twist - has gone viral online.

It appears to tell a simple story from an American high school, but also has a hidden meaning revealed at the end.
The unexpected message has propelled the short film to more than two and a half million views on YouTube in just three days.
Spoilers follow below - you may want to watch the video to the end first.
It was created by the Sandy Hook Promise group, set up by family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
On December 14, 2012, 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who had killed his own mother earlier that morning. He was a former student of the school.
"When you don't know what to look for or can't recognize what you are seeing, it can be easy to miss warning signs or dismiss them as unimportant," said Nicole Hockley from Sandy Hook Promise, whose son Dylan died in the shooting.
"Everyone has the power to intervene and get help. These actions can save lives."
In the aftermath of the 2012 shooting, Barack Obama called for action on gun control, despite the political difficulties.
But three years later, he called gun control the greatest frustration of his presidency, as the US Congress repeatedly blocked moves to tighten restrictions.
The gun control movement reached a peak in the summer when more than 200 Democratic politicians staged a sit-in at the House of Representatives to demand a vote on restricting firearm purchases, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida.
The Gun Violence Archive non-profit organisation maintains a "mass shooting tracker" of attacks where four or more people were shot in a single incident.
It estimates that so far in 2016, 425 people have been killed in 362 mass shootings in the United States. It says there were 333 mass shootings last year, and 275 two years ago.
The new President-elect Donald Trump, however, frequently expressed support for the second amendment - the right to bear arms - during his campaign, saying his rival Hilary Clinton wanted to abolish it.
On one occasion, he caused a significant controversy when he suggested gun rights supporters could somehow stop Ms Clinton's campaign.
In May, the National Rifle Association, a pro-gun lobby, endorsed Mr Trump for president.


London Irish have signed second-row forwards Ian Nagle and Jerry Sexton on deals until the end of the season.

Former Munster and Newcastle player Nagle, 27, will combine playing with his studies at Cambridge University.
He represented the Light Blues in December's Varsity Match at Twickenham, in a team which included Harlequins and Wales centre Jamie Roberts.
Sexton, 23, is the younger brother of Ireland fly-half Johnny and arrives on loan from Exeter Chiefs.
London Irish, currently bottom of the Premiership, are already without second rows George Skivington, Eoin Sheriff and Nic Rouse because of long-term injuries.
"Ian and Jerry come into our squad to help ease the pressure," head coach Tom Coventry told BBC Sport.
"They're both good men with good experience of playing for clubs in the Premiership."
Nagle, who was named man of the match when Munster beat Australia in November 2010, is set to return to Ireland and join Leinster at the end of the season.


Teenagers will soon be vaccinated against deadly meningitis W after a steep rise in the number of cases, Public Health England has announced.

There were 22 confirmed cases in 2009, 117 last year and experts predict even more cases in the future.
Meningitis W also has a higher-than-usual death rate.
The government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation called for 14 to 18-year-olds to be vaccinated "as soon as possible".
There are six different kinds of meningococcal infection which lead to meningitis known as A, B, C, W, X and Y.
MenW was rare but a new strain of the bacterium is causing severe disease in teenagers and young adults.
Prof Andrew Pollard, chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said: "We have seen an increase in MenW cases this winter caused by a highly aggressive strain of the bug.
"We reviewed the outbreak in detail at JCVI and concluded that this increase was likely to continue in future years unless action is taken.
"We have therefore advised the Department of Health to implement a vaccination programme for teenagers as soon as possible which we believe will have a substantial impact on the disease and protect the public's health."
The recommendations have been accepted by the government.
Dr Shamez Ladhani, from Public Health England, said: "We will now work with the government and NHS England to roll out a vaccination programme.
"It's crucial that we all remain alert to the signs and symptoms of the disease and seek urgent medical attention if there is any concern."
He said doctors were also being urged to keep an eye out for symptoms in all age groups.
Chris Head, the chief executive of the Meningitis Research Foundation, said: "We applaud the quick action by the government to protect 14 to 18 year-olds.
"However, it will take more than a year for this protection to filter through to toddlers and infants, and in the meantime under-fives will still be dying and disabled as a result of MenW.
"But the Bexsero vaccine, mainly regarded as a meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine, also provides protection against MenW and would provide more immediate protection for babies and toddlers.
"This weighs even further in favour of Bexsero being introduced into the routine schedule as quickly as possible."
The JCVI has also recommended introducing a MenB vaccine, but this has not yet come into force.


A puppy room to "aid relaxation and calmness" is being offered to stressed students at the University of Bristol.

Several hundred have signed up and organisers say they are hoping "the cute pups" can provide respite from the stresses and strains of revision.
About 20 dogs and puppies will be rotated throughout the day on 18 May, with students offered 15-minute slots.
Three other universities - Nottingham, Aberdeen and Central Lancashire - have also offered puppy rooms in the past.
Each student is asked to make a donation of around Â£2 to the charity Guide Dogs, which is helping run the events.
Gordon Trevett, from the University's Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health, said: "Every year I see students fretting about their exams and I thought this would be a great way to ease the stress and take their minds off it.
"People with dogs have lower blood pressure in stressful situations than those without a dog and we know that playing with a dog can elevate levels of serotonin and dopamine, which calm and relax.
"It's proved really popular and over 600 students have signed-up."
The Guide Dogs charity said it was "most pleased" to be working with the University of Bristol and allowing a chance for its students to de-stress at a busy exam time.
The university said research published in Japan suggested pictures of "cute things" such as puppies or kittens can help improve concentration levels and performance.
Jo Woods, from Bristol Students' Union, said: "While I'm more of a cat person myself, I'm really excited that the university is providing this for students.
"It's really important to do fun and different things to de-stress during exams and cuddling a puppy is a perfect way to release some endorphins."


A Russian artist and political activist has been arrested after setting fire to the Moscow headquarters of the country's security service, the FSB.

Pyotr Pavlensky set the door of the Lubyanka building alight and was pictured standing in front of the blaze holding a petrol can.
Mr Pavlensky was arrested in 2013 after he nailed his scrotum to the floor of Moscow's Red Square in protest.
The Lubyanka building is the historical home of Russia's security services.
The imposing building was used by the country's secret police and later KGB - the forerunner to the FSB - and contains a prison.
Mr Pavlensky has been questioned on suspicion of vandalism, a charge that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.
Two journalists who filmed the performance were taken in for questioning, Russian media reported.
The performance artist released a video of the stunt, and said in a statement: "The FSB acts using a method of uninterrupted terror and maintains power over 146 million people.
"Fear turns free people into a sticky mass of uncoordinated bodies," he added.
"The threat of inevitable reprisal hangs over everyone who can be tracked with devices, have their conversations listened to, or at borders with passport checks."
Inspired or crazy, creative artist or cheap stunt man, Pyotr Pavlensky divides opinion but rarely leaves Russians indifferent. Thanks to the shock factor of his art he is well known here and his latest work is perhaps his most audacious. On social media, some have praised his challenge to the powerful FSB as "courageous" and "heroic" - a fellow performance artist of Pussy Riot fame proclaimed Pavlensky the "mind, conscience and balls" of the age.
But there's criticism too. State TV anchorman Vladimir Solovyov dismissed all talk of the fire as art. If someone set fire to an opposition leader's office, not the FSB, that would instantly be seen as a "terrorist act against freedom", he said.
Surprisingly perhaps, Mr Pavlensky has only been prosecuted once before. That trial for vandalism is still ongoing but it clearly hasn't deterred him. When prosecutors tried to force him to undergo psychiatric testing, the artist stripped naked, mounted the wall of a famous psychiatric institute and lopped-off part of his ear lobe.
Mr Pavlensky hit the headlines in 2013 after nailing his scrotum to the cobblestone of Red Square to protest against tight police control.
He has previously sewed his lips shut to protest against the arrest of the band Pussy Riot, cut off part of his earlobe in a protest over the forced psychiatric treatment of dissidents, and wrapped his naked body in a "cocoon" of barbed wire outside Russia's parliament building.
The artist is facing three years in prison over a 2014 performance in St Petersburg, in which activists set fire to tyres and waved a Ukrainian flag to simulate the Maidan protests that led to the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Moscow leader, Viktor Yanukovych.


X Factor contestants face instant dismissal on Saturday night's show if they fail to impress viewers in a Halloween elimination twist.

Voting lines will then reopen and the two lowest placed contestants will take part in the following night's sing-off as usual.
Simon Cowell has warned the acts they need to improve if they want to stand a chance of continuing.
The show is also being beaten in the TV ratings by Strictly Come Dancing.
Last Saturday's edition of X Factor trailed its BBC rival by two million viewers, while the Sunday results show was 1.6 million behind.
It has lost millions of viewers in recent years and even with the return of Cowell this year, Sunday night's programme was down 1.2 million viewers on the equivalent show last year.
Cowell broke the news about the instant dismissal to the remaining hopefuls at a meeting.
"There are no second chances," he said. "This is how important the conversation is now and how important the performance is on Saturday and Sunday.
"We decided to do this because I think you all need a bit of a wake-up call.
"And I think you've got to understand what I'm saying isn't just words, it's reality.
"You've all got to build up your game now and you've got to be the best you've ever been because this is really what the music business is like.
"You put out a rubbish record, it doesn't chart. If you do a rubbish performance on the night, you're out."
The dismissals mean the remaining 11 contestants will be cut to nine after this weekend.
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An England fan left seriously injured after being attacked by Russian supporters during Euro 2016 has been flown home to a UK hospital.

Andrew Bache, 51, from Portsmouth, was assaulted ahead of England's match against Russia in Marseille on 11 June.
Mr Bache was reported to have suffered severe brain injuries and a cardiac arrest and had to be put in an induced coma.
He is being treated at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
His friend, Crispin Harwood, said Mr Bache arrived in the UK by air ambulance on Friday afternoon.
Mr Harwood said his friend did not need "specialist neurological equipment or treatment" but would have an operation in due course to repair broken bones in his face.
The hospital said it could not comment on Mr Bache's condition.
Friends of Mr Bache, known as "Pepe", set up a web page which raised more than Â£27,000 for the cost of the air ambulance and any future medical needs.
The page said that Mr Bache's life had been saved by a French policeman, Patrice Martin, who performed CPR.


'Clan' tourism generated nearly £400,000 for Scotland's economy in 2015.

More than 7,000 visitors attended events such as battle re-enactments.
Tourists from 18 different countries exploring their heritage brought in a net total of £390,000 last year.
Clan chief Alexander Leslie, vice-convener of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, said there had been a renewed level of interest over the last 18 months.
About 50 million people globally claim to have Scottish ancestry.
Mr Leslie, vice-convener of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, said many "overseas Scots" were visiting each year.
He said: "The clan network and clan societies bring a lot of overseas Scots to Scotland every year and within the last year or 18 months there's also been a renewed level of interest in Scotland itself in which clan people belong to, which is very encouraging to see.
"We work hard with the Scottish Government on this issue and see it a win-win situation that Scotland as a whole, Scotland as a brand and Scotland as a destination will benefit."
The Scottish Clan Event Fund, administered by EventScotland, gives clans and clan societies up to £5,000 for gatherings, battle re-enactments and other associated heritage events.
The Scottish Government allocated £23,000 to the fund in 2015/16 and has announced up to £70,000 will be available in 2016/17.
There will be six supported events taking place across Scotland in 2016.
Tourism minister Fergus Ewing said: "The market for ancestral tourism in Scotland is considerable and creates opportunities for communities to benefit.
"I am pleased to see the fund has already had such a strong positive impact, capturing visitors' imagination and helping to inspire and promote fun, colourful and inspiring events across the country."


A 39-year-old man has appeared in court charged with having cocaine, a handgun and bundles of cash which the police believe were the proceeds of crime.

Irishman David Agnew, of Carby Heights in Keady, County Armagh, was arrested at his home on Friday.
Police officers entered his house with a warrant and asked him if there was anything they needed to know about.
The court heard he indicated there was but when questioned further, he replied "you'll have to find it".
A police officer told Newry Magistrates' Court that, during the subsequent search, officers found between €190,000 (£160,000) and €200,000 (£170,000) in a footstool in the living room, and between £40,000 and £50,000 sterling wrapped in bundles of £1,000 in a bedroom.
In the roof space, they discovered 2.5kg of white powder, which tested positive as cocaine.
Police also found a handgun in the roof space, a magazine loaded with five or six bullets and a silencer.
A second silencer was found elsewhere in the house along with a plastic container containing a substance that also tested positive for cocaine.
A police officer told the court that during three interviews over the weekend, Mr Agnew had made no comment.
Mr Agnew spoke only to confirm his name and address and date of birth.
He did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody to appear again via video link next month.


Two men were arrested after a violent pitch invasion caused a football match to be abandoned.

About 100 people were involved in the incident towards the end of Didcot Town's Southern Football League game against Hereford FC.
Didcot said it was "very disappointed", while Hereford - leading 2-1 at the time of the abandonment - said it was "deeply concerned".
BBC commentator Bill Rennells said "fists were flying everywhere".
A Thames Valley Police spokesman said: "A 19-year-old man from Hereford was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence, and a 19-year-old man from Hereford was arrested on suspicion of common assault."
Both men have been bailed until April.
About 800 people attended Saturday's match, with the majority supporting the visiting Hereford team.
Didcot manager Andy Ballard called it a "very bizarre day".
He added: "I do have to commend the referee, he made a fantastic decision to call the game off.
"He couldn't guarantee the safety of the players, the supporters and everybody in the ground, so he made a very tough call, but I think it's the right one."
Hereford FC were formed in 2015 after former Football League club Hereford United were wound up in London's Royal Court of Justice the previous year.
They are the best supported team in the Southern League, with an average home attendance this season in excess of 2,700.
In a statement, the club said: "It goes without saying that Hereford FC does not condone unlawful behaviour of any sort and club officials will be working very closely with the local police, Didcot Town, the stewards who were in attendance, the FA and the Southern League to establish the relevant facts, secure all available evidence and conduct a thorough investigation."
Mr Rennells, a journalist since the age of 14,  said: "It's something I've never ever seen before in my 71-year career. There were people being held back, and some people trying to stop it."


Plans to build more than 45,000 new homes in the Black Country have been unveiled.

It is claimed The Black Country Garden City will be the biggest regeneration of brownfield sites in the country, spanning over 31 different areas.
The design would see pockets of housing built across the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
Development will begin this year and is due to be completed by 2025.
The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership hopes this will help boost the region, which is to the west of Birmingham, by as much as Â£18bn over the next decade.
Garden cities are characterised by their layout, which include a lot of green space.
Two years ago, the coalition government announced plans to build three garden cities to help deal with the housing shortage. These were in Ebbsfleet in Kent, Bicester in Oxfordshire, but the third was not named.
Four locations have been earmarked for this project: Lye in Stourbridge, an area close to Dudley Port station near Tipton, Willenhall and the Canal Quarter (around the former Crane Foundry on Bailey Street) in Wolverhampton.
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If you are imagining a new town with green spaces, parks and waterways, then think again.
This isn't a new town, nor is it like the garden cities of the last century, but it is about the regeneration of the 30 or so existing towns in the four Black Country authorities.
There will be thousands of new homes which will be built along garden city principles. That means planners will have to avoid the vast homogenous housing estates of the past.
Future projects must include better transport links, more green spaces, and allow for small and medium sized businesses to be part of the new developments.
They will also incorporate the Black Country's heritage, especially the canals.
The Black Country LEP identified spaces for 45,000 new homes.
However, David Tittle, who was the chief executive of Made, a design based charity that developed the plans, admitted it would not be a single city but described it as a "concept to help get investment in the Black Country".
"It's already an attractive place with green infrastructure, canals and industrial heritage. We want to show its a great place to live and invest."
Communities Secretary Greg Clarke said: "The Black Country Garden City symbolises the region's ambition. It will deliver modern, new housing that will be a magnet for business investment, notably in advanced manufacturing and construction, which will boost the local economy and supply the houses local families want."
The garden city is part of the region's wider housing plan to build 85,000 new homes in the next 15 years.


Up to six people were hurt when a train hit a buffer at Preston railway station.

Northern rail confirmed "an incident took place at Preston station shortly before 15:00 GMT and "a very small number of people have been injured".
Mark Ormerod, who was standing on a platform opposite, said the train "didn't seem to slow enough" and made "a very loud bang" as it hit.
"A full investigation will be carried out," a Northern spokeswoman said.
Mr Ormerod, 19, from Preston, said the 14.47 GMT train from York was pulling into platform 3C.
"I was looking as I could tell it was going to hit... I couldn't see the passengers but saw the driver did jump when the train collided", he said.
"One passenger limped off and one was holding her broken glasses", he added.
British Transport Police said some passengers "had received minor injuries and were seen to by paramedics [from] the local ambulance service."
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch "will be carrying out preliminary examinations," a spokeswoman added.


Drones have been banned from flying over a property at the centre of a high profile missing persons inquiry.

The restrictions have been put in place around a house and garden in Inverkip as part of an investigation into the disappearance of Margaret Fleming.
The 36-year-old was reported missing from the house by her two carers on 28 October. The last independent sighting of her was on 17 December 1999.
Media organisations have used to drones to capture footage of the search.
Officers have said it is possible Ms Fleming, who is believed to have learning difficulties, "may have come to some harm" and say their priority is establishing her movements and lifestyle from 1999 onwards.
Specialist search teams have been combing the cottage where she lived and excavating its grounds with a view to finding any documents, clothes or other personal items that could help in the effort to track her down.
The aircraft restriction around the area was put into force under Article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016, and will be in place until late February.
Under the new rules, all aircraft - including drones - are banned from flying below 1,500 ft in the area, except those operated by police, ambulance or the coastguard.
The restrictions extend to a radius of one nautical mile (1.852m) from Main Road in Inverkip.
Ms Fleming lived at the house in Inverkip with her carers Edward Cairney, 75, and Avril Jones, 56.
She is thought to have attended James Watt College in Greenock between 1996 and 1998.
Police officers had gone to Ms Fleming's house on 28 October about a social work issue. Her carers said she had left that day. They later reported her missing.
During the investigation, members of the public who visited the house have told police that they never saw Ms Fleming.


General Motors has agreed to pay $900m (£580m) to end a criminal inquiry into its failure to recall vehicles with faulty ignitions.

The car maker was being investigated for not checking millions of cars, despite staff knowing for more than a decade about the defect.
The fault has been linked to more than 100 confirmed deaths.
It could shut down engines, disable power-assisted steering and brakes and prevent airbags working.
GM has admitted it did not alert regulators and the public, failing to issue a timely recall of vehicles.
The US government has agreed not to seek a conviction in exchange for the settlement and the appointment of an independent monitor at the company.
But the US Attorney's Office did say that GM "admits that it failed to disclose a safety defect to NHTSA [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] and misled US consumers about that same defect."
The settlement was disclosed in papers filed on Thursday at a Manhattan federal court.
The largest carmaker in the US did not begin recalling some 2.6 million cars worldwide until February 2014, after years of avoiding any acknowledgement of the problem.
This quickly ballooned to nearly 30 million cars by the end of 2014, as the company began actively recalling any cars that could possibly have defects.
It also set up a claims fund to compensate victims who could prove they suffered harm as a result of the defect.
GM filed for bankruptcy in 2009 during the height of the financial crisis.
GM's boss Mary Barra, who took over in January 2014, is keen to show she has changed the culture within the company.
Previously she has said that GM engineers, managers and workers know they must come forward once a problem has been identified or they will be held responsible.


Jonas Blixt and Cameron Smith beat Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown in a sudden-death play-off at the Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana.

Kisner chipped in from 95 feet for an eagle on Sunday's final hole to take the event to a play-off, which was held on Monday following bad weather.
The two teams could not be separated before Sweden's Blixt and Australian Smith birdied the fourth play-off hole.
This year's event saw a revamped team format playing foursomes and fourballs.
Blixt and Smith, the world number 252 and 112 respectively, had led by four shots going into the final round before American duo Kisner and Brown forced the play-off with a round of 12 under par.
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MPs have been hearing about the personal cost of December's floods in Cumbria.

Lynne Jones, from Keswick Flood Action Group, told the Commons Environment Committee she feared her business was now impossible to insure or sell.
Her guest house has been flooded three times in ten years, despite Â£30,000 spent on "flood-proofing", she said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the amount spent on flood defences in the region.
Ms Jones said she did not know if her insurance company would pay and, if it did, she still faced paying 25% of the final cost because of her policy excess.
"We are all trapped in our homes," she said.
"My property had been up for sale for a year, we've just taken it off the market - it's no point, no-one is ever going to buy it.
"I have got to live with flood risk into my dotage."
Ms Jones said the "devastation" of bridges and roads was a "disaster for a community that's dependent on tourism and people getting from one side of the Lake District to the other".
MPs also heard from business leaders and councillors outlining the estimated Â£600m damage done to the county and the effect on residents.
Cumbria County Council cabinet member Keith Little said: "In the 2009 floods, the health authority was telling us that up until 2012 people were still coming forward with mental health issues."


A shirt worn by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during last month's Super Bowl has been found after an investigation involving the FBI.

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It went missing as the Patriots celebrated a 34-28 overtime victory over the Atlanta Falcons.
A shirt worn by the 39-year-old during his team's Super Bowl win in 2015 has also been found.
Both were found in the possession of an unnamed member of the media, said the National Football League.
"I am happy my jerseys have been recovered and I want to thank all of the law enforcement agencies involved," Brady said.
"I know they worked hard on this case and it is very much appreciated."
Houston police chief Art Acevedo said his officers worked alongside FBI staff to track the shirts to Mexico.
"Our investigators actually developed information from an informant here in Houston that led them to Mexico," he added.
Reports later on Monday named a Mexican newspaper executive who was allegedly in possession of the shirts.
The newspaper's owner, Organizacion Editorial Mexicana, then released a statement saying if the accusations were true, it "strongly condemns" the "regrettable and reprehensible actions he presumably committed".
Brady was named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player for a fourth time as his team came from 25 points down to claim victory at Houston's NRG Stadium.
He said he put the shirt in his bag after the game, but later discovered it had gone missing.
"It's unfortunate because that's a nice piece of memorabilia," he said at the time. "If it shows up on Ebay some day, can you let me know so I can track that down?
"That was a pretty special one to keep. But, what can you do?"


Drinks giant Diageo's sales have been hit by a slowdown in China and other emerging markets.

The UK-based makers of Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka said net sales fell 9% to £10.3bn for the year to 30 June.
Sales volume fell 5% in its Asia Pacific and Africa, Eastern Europe and Turkey divisions,
Sales were also slightly down in North America and Latin America, while Western Europe was flat.
Gross profit for the year fell from £6.9bn to £6.2bn.
Weak spots included China and South East Asia, where volume fell 20% and 25% respectively, and Venezuela, where a currency devaluation and inflation cut Scotch whisky sales by 47%.
Diageo said anti-extravagance measures in China had "severely impacted" the on-trade, and had continued to affect the performance of both its Chinese white spirits and Scotch businesses.
South East Asia was impacted by tax increases and social unrest in Thailand.
North America, Diageo's most profitable region, delivered top-line growth, driven by 5% growth in US spirits and wines.
John Kennedy, president Diageo Europe, described the results as "mixed" but said the company still had great hopes for business in emerging markets.
He said: "We know that the fundamentals around consumer demographics and wealth creation mean that we're going to have about half a billion new, what we call, high net worth individuals over the next few years and over a billion people coming in to the category where they can afford our premium brands.
"So there may be volatility from year to year but we feel very confident about the long-term growth prospects."
He added that the prospects were particularly good for the high end of the Scotch whisky category, with sales of single malts up 18% compared with the previous year.


Former London Irish player-coach Brendan Venter has returned to the club as part of a new backroom set-up

He has been named technical director by the Exiles, who were relegated from the Premiership last season.
The 46-year-old previously held a similar role at Saracens, where he is also a former director of rugby.
Former Exiles player Nick Kennedy has been named Irish's director of rugby, while Clark Laidlaw has been appointed as assistant coach.
Meanwhile, former captain George Skivington and academy coaches Declan Danaher and Paul Hodgson will assist with coaching the senior squad next season.
Capped 17 times for South Africa at centre, Venter was part of the London Irish side which won the Powergen Cup in 2002, beating Northampton in the final at Twickenham.
His appointment follows the departure of head coach Tom Coventry and assistant coaches Grant Doorey and Richard Whiffin.
Coventry was unable to prevent the club from being relegated from English rugby's top flight for the first time since 1994 in his first season in charge.
Venter, a qualified doctor, spent 16 months as Saracens director of rugby between July 2009 and January 2011, guiding the London side to the 2010 Premiership final.
"I have so many good memories and friends still at London Irish, which made for an easy decision to be part of the club going forward," he told the club website.
"The club has genuine ambition to compete in the Premiership and in Europe and has the foundations in place to enable it to do so."
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It may have been the result we were all expecting but nevertheless we are left with the striking fact that Jeremy Corbyn has now won two overwhelming mandates in the space of a year.

Expect plenty of talk of compromise and olive branches from all within the party this weekend in Liverpool - but behind the rhetoric this is a devastating result for the rebel MPs, and all those in the party looking to change its direction.
Presumably now the view from the leadership will be that while everyone will have to make some concessions for the sake of unity, the bulk of compromise and change in attitude will have to be made by those Labour MPs who resigned from his top team.
In other words, the message to them will be that the Corbyn camp is sitting pretty at the top of the party and going nowhere.
The first big test will be how the shadow cabinet is elected. The internal workings of the Labour party may seem a million miles from the everyday lives of the public but decisions on this set the tone on whether Labour can become a remotely unified opposition or appear to many as a dysfunctional set-up indulging in yet another internal contest.
It is probably too much to ask that the differences and bad-feeling will disappear, what may be more realistic is that Jeremy Corbyn manages to get the party focused on the issues that it agrees on, such as opposition to grammar schools in England, and harness those feelings to take on the Conservatives.
The truth is that the wings of the party agree on more than they disagree on and somehow Corbyn and his allies have to make that count.
And what about the Pontypridd MP Owen Smith? Was his challenge brave or foolhardy?
Because of the make-up of the current membership, there is an argument to say that Jeremy Corbyn would have won whoever stood against him.
Owen Smith had the challenge of creating a national profile for himself as well as landing blows on his rival.
One problem he had was allowing himself to be characterised as a Blairite candidate by Corbyn supporters, particularly in relation to his links with the pharmaceutical industry, and at times there appeared to be a lack of consistency in his approach.
His campaign began with a softly-softly strategy in the way he described Corbyn during debates, which later turned into a far more aggressive approach towards the latter stages of the contest.
Whatever way you look at it, Jeremy Corbyn has easily seen off yet another challenge.


A man has died after being hit by a lorry on the M8 at Livingston in West Lothian.

Police said the 61-year-old man had left his own vehicle when he was struck by the lorry shortly after 13:00. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The eastbound carriageway was closed at Junction 3 while emergency services attended, but has since reopened.
Police said they were attempting to establish the full circumstances of the incident.


A series of open-ended strikes have begun at museums across Wales.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) are taking indefinite action in a row over the removal of weekend payments.
The dispute began more than two years ago with action initially taking place at weekends.
National Museum Wales (NMW) said there was no more money to improve the offer and urged the union to accept it.
"We are extremely disappointed that the Public and Commercial Services Union have broken the agreement they signed up to at ACAS by not balloting their members on our offer and by undertaking strike action," the statement said.
NMW has started individual discussions with staff affected by proposals to scrap "premium payments".
As part of a deal, staff are being offered a lump sum equivalent to two years' worth of premium payments to end extra payments for working weekends and bank holidays.
About 300 of the museum's staff receive the payments and 220 are PCS members.
The museum has sites in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Blaenavon, Torfaen, Llanberis in Gwynedd, and Llandysul, Ceredigion.


A new children's book tackles one of the most controversial periods of Scottish history.

Writer Barbara Henderson's debut novel, Fir for Luck, is set during the Highland Clearances.
It tells of a 12-year-old girl who takes a stand against the threatened clearance of her village in 1841.
Henderson was inspired by real events in Strathnaver in Sutherland which saw women and children resist an attempt to clear their community.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the Highland Clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
Landowners were seeking to "improve" their estates at the time of the industrial revolution. Their hope was to make more capital from the land by running shooting estates, or starting industrial-scale livestock farming.
In some cases people who had lived on the land for generations left voluntarily, while others were forcibly evicted and their homes burned and demolished.
The clearances have been tackled in fiction and factual books before, as well as in music and in film, including Slow West starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee and directed by Scottish musician John Maclean.
Henderson said one of the reasons for writing her novel was to offer a modern telling of the clearances for young readers.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: "While on holiday up at Strathnaver and the Sutherland coast with my family I looked for a suitable book for my children to read about the subject.
"I found The Desperate Journey, which is by Kathleen Fidler and is a book schools are still studying, but it was published in 1964.
"While I rate the book and I think it is a good book and it is well-written it maybe has a slightly dated feel to it.
"I was hoping, maybe, I would write something that is more appropriate for a modern reader."
Henderson drew on the real-life events that happened in Strathnaver for her story.
She was fascinated by the actions of women and children to resist a sheriff officer sent to evict the families while the men in the community were away.
Launches for the new book are being held in Inverness where Henderson lived for 12 years.


Google has won a legal battle with Oracle over the use of Java software in Google's Android operating system.

Oracle, which owns Java, argued that Google had infringed its copyright and had sought almost $9bn (Â£6.1bn) in damages.
The long-running legal battle has been closely watched as Java is widely used, and Android runs 80% of the world's mobile devices.
Oracle says it will appeal to the US Supreme Court.
"We strongly believe that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market," said Oracle lawyer Dorian Daley.
"Oracle brought this lawsuit to put a stop to Google's illegal behaviour. We believe there are numerous grounds for appeal and we plan to bring this case back to the federal circuit on appeal."
Google, and its parent company Alphabet, argued that they should be able to use Java for free under the "fair use" clause.
Fair use under US copyright law allows some access to material without the permission of the rights holder.
The jury at the US District Court in San Francisco unanimously upheld that argument.
In a statement Google described today's verdict as "a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming community, and for software developers who rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative consumer products."
Oracle had argued the success of Android was in danger of "destroying" interest in Java.
The "widespread dominance" that Android had achieved in the mobile phone market had done "irreversible" damage to Java's potential market, said Oracle.
That success was based on Google using 37 Java packages without permission, it argued.
The case had previously been to trial in 2012, but that ended in a deadlocked jury.


A new boss for health services in south Wales has been appointed all the way from Australia.

Len Richards has been named as the new chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB).
Mr Richards, who moved from the UK to Australia in November 2013, is expected to start his new post in June.
CVUHB chair Maria Battle said he brought "broad international" experience to the role.
Mr Richards is currently the deputy chief executive for South Australia Health, a government department responsible for public health in Adelaide.
He said there was a lot of hard work to do on the board's financial situation, which is forecasting a Â£31m deficit for the 2016-17 financial year.


Drivers on London's Night Tube have voted to strike in a row over jobs.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union voted 96% in favour of beginning industrial action.
The union said drivers on the new weekend service, which launched in August, were being blocked from applying for full-time jobs.
A London Underground spokesman said the service had been running in line with agreements reached with the unions and urged the RMT to continue talks.
Unions say Night Tube drivers have been prevented from moving into vacant full-time positions for at least 18 months and do not qualify for overtime pay because they only work 16 hours a week.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "It is outrageous that London Underground have decided to discriminate against their Night Tube drivers.
"This is a senseless and damaging policy that picks out one group of staff for negative treatment and of course the drivers are angry and that is why our members have voted overwhelmingly for action."
The drivers' union Aslef is also balloting its members for strikes, with the result due on Thursday.
"Night Tube services have been running since August last year in line with agreements reached with the unions. We've met with the RMT to discuss and resolve the new issues that they have.
"We have invited the RMT to more talks later this week and I encourage them to continue discussions with us rather than threaten industrial action."
Separately, Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) on the Tube are also threatening strike action because of shift pattern changes that could leave them stranded.
British Transport Police (BTP) wants a third of all shifts to end at 01:00 in response to "changing policing needs".
The TSSA union said a late finish meant many PCSOs would have no safe route home on public transport after work.
BTP said it was in talks with the TSSA.


Morrisons supermarket has reported a second quarter of rising sales as it continues to cut costs and prices.

The UK's fourth-largest supermarket said like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, rose 0.7% in the three months to 1 May compared with a year earlier.
Morrisons said prices were down 2.6% from a year earlier as the supermarket price war continued.
Chief executive David Potts, who has now been in charge for a year, said there was "still much to do".
But he added he was encouraged by the progress being made by the company following a long period of declining sales and profits, which led to the resignation of former chief executive Dalton Philips at the start of last year.
"Customers are responding and satisfaction levels remain ahead of last year. We are of course pleased with a second consecutive quarter of positive like-for-like sales, which demonstrates our aim to stabilise trade is taking effect," he said.
Morrisons said it was helped by a 17% rise in sales from its Food to Go range, which includes freshly-made sandwiches.
Total sales fell 1.8% after Morrisons closed unprofitable supermarkets and sold its convenience stores.
Shore Capital analyst Clive Black said Morrisons had taken another step forward under Mr Potts, adding the supermarket was on a journey that was "taking the business to a better place for investors in our view".
"If Morrisons sustains robust ongoing trading and if industry conditions remain rational, albeit demonstrably competitive, then there may yet be scope for us to consider nudging up our pre-tax profit forecasts; when was the last time that such a comment was made about this company?" he added.
Morrisons shares rose 1.9% to 191.1p in early trading.
The figures from Morrisons come a day after Sainsbury's reported a fall in annual profits as a result of lower food prices.
Food price deflation has been prompted, at least in part, by intense competition between the "big four" supermarkets and so-called discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, which have been gaining market share in recent years.
Sainsbury's said underlying profits, which strip out one-off charges, fell to £587m for the year to 12 March. That was down from £681m in the previous year.
In March, Morrisons reported underlying pre-tax profits of £242m in the year to 31 January, down from £345m a year earlier.


Lancashire have agreed new contracts with wicketkeeper Alex Davies and leg-spinner Matthew Parkinson.

Davies, 21, made 14 appearances in first-class cricket for the Red Rose last season, scoring 730 runs.
England Under-19 international Parkinson, 18, is yet to make his senior debut for the county.
Lancashire finished second in Division Two of the Championship in 2015, and also won their first T20 Blast trophy with victory over Northants.
"Alex is an exciting talent and is very much a key member of our squad - you almost seem to forget that he's only 21," director of cricket Ashley Giles said.
"With Jos [Buttler] being away with England, Alex has stepped up and made excellent contributions not only with the gloves but also with the bat.
"Matty is another talented youngster we have at Lancashire and he will play an important part for Lancashire in the future."


A drug can restore the ability of the eye to sense light after blindness, animal studies show.

Reacting to light is the job of the rods and cones in the retina, but these can be destroyed by disease.
A study, in the journal Neuron, showed a chemical could give "support-duty cells" in the eye the power to respond readily to light.
Experts said it was a fascinating concept which might lead to treatments, but stressed more research was needed.
The eye is built of layers including the rods and cones.
Other layers keep the rods and cones alive, as well as passing on electrical signals produced by the light-sensing cells and passing these on to the brain.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, were focused on a type of nerve cell in the eye - retinal ganglion cells.
They designed a chemical - called Denaq - which changes shape in response to light. The shape-shift alters the chemistry of the cell and results in electrical signals being sent to the brain.
Tests showed that injecting Denaq into the eyes of blind mice restored a degree of vision. There were changes in behaviour, although it is not clear how well the mice could see.
The effects wore off quickly, but mice could still detect light a week later.
One of the researchers, Dr Richard Kramer, said: "Further testing on larger mammals is needed to assess the short and long-term safety of Denaq.
"It will take several more years, but if safety can be established, these compounds might ultimately be useful for restoring light sensitivity to blind humans.
"How close they can come to re-establishing normal vision remains to be seen."
It is hoped the drug could eventually help with diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.
The researchers envisage using electronic goggles to beam appropriate intensity light on to the retina to improve the efficiency.
Prof Astrid Limb, from the Institute for Ophthalmology at University College London, told the BBC: "It's a very interesting concept that you can stimulate the remaining cells.
"However, there is still a lot of work to do before this research can be applied to humans."
She added the drug's duration would need to be addressed, asking: "Can you imagine giving an injection every few days?"
The findings add to a range of developments in restoring sight to the blind which also include transplanting stem cells into the back of the eye to restore vision and manipulating DNA to correct genetic defects.


A County Londonderry man who won £6.4m in the Euromillions draw in 2008 has been charged with assaulting his partner.

Ryan Magee, 34, from Eglinton, appeared at Londonderry Magistrates Court accused of assaulting the woman four times between 1 and 2 August.
The defendant spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth and to say that he understood the charges.
He was released on bail until 29 September.
The case will then be reviewed at the domestic violence court.
As part of his bail conditions Mr Magee was ordered not to contact his partner.


Russian media have categorically dismissed suggestions that there may be some substance to the report by Sir Robert Owen into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

State media's verdict that the report was fabricated, politicised and not transparent is characteristically in tandem with the official line.
Much has been made of the fact that the report is full of words like "probably" and "possibly", and Russian state media said this compromised the veracity of the report.
"Why was the process closed and the key word in the report 'possibly'?" state TV channel Rossiya 24 said, summing up the gist of media reporting.
"Why has the UK exhumed this case now and why are the key witnesses no longer alive?"
Russian official state television channel Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 24 both downplayed the link between Putin and the polonium poisoning of Litvinenko in London nine years ago.
Correspondents' reports from London translated the word "probably" as "vozmozhno" ("possibly"), which they kept repeating and stressing, further softening the implications by adding words "even" and "allegedly".
Reporting from London for Rossiya 24, correspondent Aleksey Khabarov used "possible" three times in a single sentence, saying: "It is possible that they [Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitriy Kovtun] acted on the instructions of the Federal Security Service [FSB] of Russia and it is even possible, as he said, that the former head of the FSB Patrushev was involved and, allegedly, the operation was possibly conducted with the approval of President Putin."
According to the Moscow-based NTV channel, Judge Sir Robert Owen is "Mister Maybe". A presenter said that Owen "blamed Lugovoy and Kovtun, entirely predictably and ignored all the evidence to the contrary".
In using words like "possibly", "the judge, Sir Robert Owen, seems to be denying responsibility for the report and could change his mind at any time", another NTV presenter said.  She added that there was "nothing new" in the report.
One pundit on NTV argued that secret services do not use radioactive means for killings "because it's hard to hush it up so this whole thing is a put-up job to discredit Russia".
The correspondent said the whole affair was opaque: MI6 did not give evidence and the inquiry went nowhere for six years after Litvinenko's death.
The correspondent concluded: "London's illegitimate conclusions in the Litvinenko case will not remain without serious consequences, according to Moscow. Our country's reaction will come after careful study of the report and it will probably be exceedingly harsh."
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova's statement that Western colleagues were engaged in "theatre of absurd" and "theatre of shadows" was aired prominently on main channels.  She said the inquiry was "about as closed and secret as it could have been".
Several social media posts jeered at what they portrayed as a tendency to blame Russia for every crisis.
"Drivel statement already picked up by Ukrainian media" said Twitter user Zampolit under a hashtag that translates as "Putin may have approved it", with users posting their thoughts on infamous events that the British could pin on the Russian president.
Warming to the theme, Twitter user Dmitriy Khomutov wrote: "Massacre of the native population of America by European democrats and humanists"; while Rishikesh News tweeted "Putin possibly approved the nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki".
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Norwich City have signed centre-back Marcel Franke for an undisclosed fee from Bundesliga II club Greuther Furth.

The 24-year-old former Dynamo Dresden and Hallescher FC player featured 34 times for Greuther Furth last season.
Frank has penned a three-year deal to become Norwich's seventh signing of the summer - and second German, after fellow defender Christoph Zimmermann.
"We were searching for some improvements in defence so I'm happy," said Canaries head coach Daniel Farke.
"He's a really solid defender but also solid at building up our game. Marcel is a young guy at just 24 so has lots of potential but is also pretty experienced."
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A South African church is trending on social media after a local celebrity said he walked out of a service because of a homophobic sermon.

Somizi Mhlongo said in a video posted on Instagram that a guest pastor at Grace Bible Church in Soweto had said being gay was "unnatural".
The TV and radio personality said he was deeply offended by the words.
Gay marriage is legal in South Africa and the pastor's reported comments have sparked debate about religious views.
Some have called on the church to denounce homophobia.
During the sermon, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, who was visiting from Ghana, is reported to have said: "There is nothing like that [homosexuality] in nature."
Reacting to the comments, Mhlongo said: "The church was cheering. I am not going to sit there and listen to someone offend me. This is who I am. I am a gay man, get it straight into your skull. My soul is alright with my God."
The hashtag #GraceBibleChurch has been trending in South Africa, with some criticising the sermon and others defending it.
The church has since said that while it does not condone homophobia, these views are held by certain people not only in the church but in wider society.
"That was not the only thing that he was talking about. There are other people who are smokers who were offended because he also referred to a lot of lifestyle issues. And a lot of people who are having multiple partners were very offended," broadcaster ENCA quoted Reverend Ezekiel Mathole as saying.
The controversy about a sermon delivered in one of Soweto's biggest churches by a visiting pastor from Ghana demonstrates how sensitive the subject of homosexuality still is on our continent. South Africans are steadily coming to terms with being a tolerant society when it comes to matters of sexual orientation. But in doing so, they may be out of kilter with the rest of the continent.
Take the South African position at the UN in July 2016 for instance, when its ambassador in New York abstained on a vote on setting up a gay rights watchdog. This was something that the constitution back home would support. So it was expected that the ambassador would have voted for the motion.
Explaining the country's unusual stance when it had in the past advocated for gay rights, Ambassador Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko said: "We learned from our struggle against apartheid that if we are clear about the end goal, which for us is the end of violence and discrimination against the LGBTI persons, a better approach is building maximum consensus."
She later explained further on a local radio show that the majority of African states had voted against the motion and therefore she would have been out of step with them.
So as this debate rages and as the television personality, Somizi Mhlongo, leads the charge on social media against what he called an offensive sermon, it is important to recognise that part of the solution in this debate lies with the concept of time. Many people tell me they're still trying to come to terms with the more liberal constitution but they need time.


The Olympic Park Orbit tower lost £520,000 in 2014-15, according to the annual report of the local development agency which oversees the attraction.

The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) previously forecast a profit of £1.2m.
Labour leader at the London Assembly, Len Duvall, called it a "pointless monument at vast taxpayer expense".
The LLDC defended the project, saying it was "one of the standout successes of the 2012 Games".
The tower, which was mostly funded by the ArcelorMittal steel company and received £3m in public money, opened in 2012 as an observation tower.
It closed after the Olympics while it was adapted for long-term use, and reopened in April last year.
Mr Duvall associated the attraction's fortunes with the mayor: "It's clear that this is yet another Boris Johnson vanity project of towering proportions.
"Instead of paying back some of the £3m of taxpayer investment the Orbit is actually losing £10,000 a week, an awful record even by Boris' standards."
The BBC has contacted the mayor's office for comment.
A spokeswoman for LLDC said: "The ArcelorMittal Orbit was one of the standout successes of the 2012 Games and has seen almost 200,000 visitors since reopening in 2014, which is a tremendous achievement."
The LLDC has revised its estimate of visitor numbers down from its original forecast of 350,000 a year to 150,000, but said it was "constantly looking at ways to enhance the experience to attract more people".
Plans to add a giant slide down the length of the tower were approved this summer and its construction is expected to finish in 2016.


British phone retailer Tuffphones has unveiled a new range of hard-wearing handsets aimed at construction workers and outdoors enthusiasts.

It's the latest addition to a range of extra-durable Android devices in the growing market for rugged phones.
The BBC took them to a building site to try them out.
Construction giants De Walt and Cat licence similar rugged handsets, which are subject to more rigorous testing than ordinary smartphones.
Jaguar Land Rover has also announced a partnership with phone manufacturer Bullitt Group and says it intends to launch a smartphone with a "combination of durability and elegance" in 2017.
However, now Chichester-based Tuffphones has made its first foray into selling its own brand, which is being manufactured in Shenzhen.
Like many of its rivals, the Tuffphone phones, which are priced between £228 and £389, come with thicker Gorilla glass screens and are certified to be dust resistant and waterproof for several minutes at a time - but none of the models operate on the latest version of Android (Marshmallow).
Security experts always recommend using the newest version of an operating system as they are usually the most secure.
The BBC tested out the 4G-enabled Tuffphone 400, priced £288, on a building site and found it could receive calls under water after several minutes of being submerged, survive a tumble in a cement mixer full of sand and could still make calls and get online after being dropped from scaffolding over 2m high.
We were advised by the retailer that it would not withstand "a direct blow from a hammer".
At the end of our experiment the device screen was scratched and the handset vibrated for a few minutes - but it was also still functioning.
While many of the latest smartphones, including the Samsung S7, are also waterproof, the S7 could not receive calls while under water in our test.
Priced at £529, the Cat S60 has considerably more features, including thermal imaging functionality. It also survived both the water and sand tests but its owner was not keen on experimenting with the height drop.
The rugged phone market is forecast to account for around 18 million handset sales from a global predicted overall figure of 1.5 billion in 2016, phone analyst Ben Wood told the BBC.
"It's the long tail of the smartphone market, there are so many little niche opportunities that exist and that's where these guys are playing," he said.
But why not just buy a durable case for an existing handset?
A rugged phone provides the convenience of an "all-in-one" solution, Mr Wood said, but they have another key advantage - because they are chunkier, heavier devices, they tend to be fitted with bigger, longer-lasting batteries.
"People want a good sustainable battery and most people when they're using a smartphone today find they struggle to get through the day," he said.
Another alternative is to buy a cheap but basic handset - although smartphone functionality is becoming more essential for people in the industry, Mr Wood added.
"People in construction want to have access to email, a good camera, they need to look at plans," he said. "They need a smarter phone, a bigger screen."
However no phone is invincible, he added.
"Different types of glass, different types of materials, different designs will offer you  a certain amount of rugged capability but make no mistake, any device will break if you really want to break it," he said.


A nuclear bunker in Brechin and a fishing boat cabin in the Highlands are in the running for this year's coveted Shed of the Year award.

Jim Sherrit's restored three-man bunker is 20ft (6m) below ground and only accessible by hatch and ladder.
The Maggie Ewing - a renovated ex-boat wheelhouse - is owned by David Carter and made from one of the last boats ever commercially built in Caithness.
The entries are among a shortlist of 32 from around the UK.
Competition includes a recreation of the Millennium Falcon, a shed built on the back of an Austin J4 pick-up truck and a Wild West "saloon".
The shortlisted sheds will feature on Amazing Spaces Shed Of The Year, on Channel 4, and the public can vote until 8 June for the category winners.