The Italian community is one of the most prominent and best-integrated in Scotland.

There are not many towns and few sections of society left untouched by a first wave of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Names like Nardini, Capaldi, Nutini and Paolozzi have been woven into the tartan tale of the nation.
But now, it would appear, a new influx of residents of the Bel Paese is heading north to find a home.
High levels of youth unemployment - particularly in the south of Italy - have been blamed for this latest exodus.
They are following in the footsteps of men like my own grandfather who left behind a house in the Tuscan hills for the cooler climes of Glasgow in the 1930s.
Among their number are Stefano Setzu and Manuela Cipollina and their two-year-old daughter Rebecca who left Cagliari in Sardinia last month to come to Scotland.
They, too, have ended up in Glasgow in the hope of starting a new life, having both been left without work in their early 40s.
"In Italy at 41 years of age you are cut out of the world of work," explained Manuela.
"There are no incentives for employers to take you on. They tell you you are too old and you cost too much.
"If you want to learn a new profession, nobody will teach you.
"And unless you have a big amount of capital of your own to open a business, there is no help available."
Like so many of the earlier Italian immigrants, it was word of mouth which tempted them to Glasgow.
"We had a friend in Scotland who had come over who told us you could live well and there was plenty of work," she added.
"So with a two-year-old child we asked ourselves - both as a couple and for our daughter - what kind of future could we offer in Sardinia?
"The answer was that in Sardinia - the way things are at the moment in the current economic situation - we could offer nothing."
So they began to have a look at what prospects were like further north in Europe.
"I got a bit of information - I had a look on the internet about Scotland and I have to say that - much to my surprise - I only found good things," said Stefano.
"So with the money we had saved we decided to invest in a country which could give us something back - maybe not an El Dorado - but that could at least give us a chance to get back on our feet."
They arrived in January but said the notorious Scottish weather had not put them off.
"We have settled in straight away which we did not expect," he said.
"The weather hasn't been a problem - we even went out when it was raining, a thing we would never have done in Cagliari.
"Here it seemed the most natural thing in the world, we went out with our daughter in the rain and met people.
"And we were able to confirm what they say about Scottish people - they have been very helpful and have given us a hand in many different ways."
Back in Italy, they could not afford to buy a house together and so were living with their respective mothers.
In Scotland, they hope to find the money to get married and build a new future.
Stefano's last job was in graphic design while Manuela has worked in a number of short-term posts but now hopes she can find a position which allows her to use her passion for making pastries.
One of Scotland's many Italian restaurants and cafes could be their first port of call but they say they are determined to make a success of their new life after leaving family and friends behind.
Stefano's words have echoes of many who left his homeland a century or more ago.
"Our plan was to leave and not go back," he said.
"Going back, for us, would feel like failure, to tell you the truth.
"If we went back we would find ourselves in exactly the same position as when we left, if not even worse."
Scotland has long welcomed their countrymen and now Stefano, Manuela and Rebecca hope it will be their home for years to come.


The US economy slowed dramatically in the first three months of the year, according to official data.

GDP expanded at an annual rate of 0.7% in the first quarter - the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2014.
It will be unwelcome news for President Donald Trump who, during his election campaign, made a pledge to raise growth to 4%.
In a bid to fulfil that promise, on Wednesday the White House proposed slashing the rate of corporation tax.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin unveiled President Trump's tax blueprint, which aims to cut the business tax rate from 35% to 15%.
The plan also proposed an incentive for companies to bring back money held overseas and a cut in tax rate for individuals, although the plans were light on detail.
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The Trump administration may be reassured by the trend in recent years for growth figures to be depressed in the first quarter, but then pick up later in the year.
"US GDP figures are typically weaker in the first quarter, so this reading is in line with the seasonal trend," said Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Close Brothers Asset Management.
"We haven't yet had the expected fiscal stimulus from Trump, the effects of which may not be seen until the end of this year or the start of 2018."
The annualised first quarter growth rate of 0.7% was less than the 1% analysts had been expecting, and a slowdown from the 2.1% growth rate seen in the final quarter of last year
The slowdown was down to stagnant consumer spending, economists said.
"Household spending was held down by a drop back in motor vehicle sales from a near-record high at the end of last year and the unseasonably warm winter weather, which depressed utilities spending," said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics.
But he thinks consumer spending will "rebound" as personal income showed healthy growth and data suggests that consumer confidence remains high.
Close Brothers' Ms Curtin also pointed out that other data suggested strength in the US economy .
"While investors might be disappointed with the reading, it has been a steady start to the year with inflation looking benign, a resilient jobs market and positive PMI [purchasing managers'] data."
Just two days ago, as they released President Trump's proposals for large tax cuts, his Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and his National Economic Director, Gary Cohn, were boasting that an annual GDP growth rate of 3% and above was possible. Indeed their tax plan relies on higher growth to make up for the lost revenue of lower tax rates. And the president himself likes to talk about 4% growth! Today's data shows how bold those claims are. The fact is the US economy has been in steady-but-slow growth mode for years. While it's true that the first three months of a year are usually particularly weak, and that growth will likely pick up in the coming months, it's also the case that a 3% annual growth rate hasn't been consistently delivered since the 1990s. So whatever it is that would boost growth - be it tax cuts or large government spending - is likely to require far-reaching legislation from Congress. Based on the first 100 days, there are few signs that the Trump administration can secure that.


A High Street health food chain says it has had to order extra stocks of rosemary after research claimed the scent of the herb could improve the memory of students revising for exams.

Holland & Barrett says there has been a 187% increase in sales of rosemary essential oil compared with last year.
A Northumbria University study showed pupils in a room scented with rosemary performed better in memory tests.
It supported the traditional links between rosemary and memory.
A spokeswoman for Holland & Barrett said that after the research about rosemary was published "we saw a sharp rise in customer demand".
"As the exam season continues, we have increased provision in store to meet demand," she said.
The rush for rosemary saw almost a doubling in sales compared with the same time last year and a trebling compared with the previous week.
Hundreds of thousands of pupils are revising and taking GCSEs and A-levels - with the suggestion that the spike in rosemary sales has been driven by anxious parents trying to find a way to help their children.
The research from Northumbria University, presented at the British Psychological Society's annual conference, backed up historical associations between rosemary and memory.
It suggested that pupils who worked in a classroom with the aroma of rosemary oil achieved 5% to 7% better results in memory tests.
Researcher Mark Moss said the human sense of smell was highly sensitive and sent messages to the brain, setting off reactions and responses.
"It could be that aromas affect electrical activity in the brain or that pharmacologically active compounds can be absorbed," he said.
Rosemary has been connected with memory for centuries.
In ancient Greece, students wore garlands of rosemary in exams and in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia says: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."


Bath winger Jeff Williams has signed a one-year contract extension with the Premiership club.

Williams, who can also play at centre, has made three appearances for Bath since joining the club from the England Sevens side in April 2015.
The 26-year-old scored 39 tries in 22 games for the England Sevens after making his debut in 2012.
"It's a great environment to be in and I feel like I'm constantly improving," he told the club website.
"Bath is a fantastic city to live in, and I've really settled in well so I didn't have any hesitation about staying."


People in their 70s across the UK will be offered a vaccine against shingles from this September.

Experts have been recommending routine immunisation against the disease, which causes a painful rash, for some years.
The government-led programme will target 70 and 79-year-olds in the first instance and should prevent tens of thousands of cases a year.
Elderly people are at greatest risk and vaccination should prevent nearly half of cases in the over-70s.
It is estimated that, in England alone, around 800,000 people will be eligible to receive it in the first year.
Until now, some individuals have paid between Â£150 and Â£200 to get the vaccine privately.
Over the next few years, the programme will expand to more of the 70-79 age group across the UK until it is fully covered.
Thereafter, the jab should only need to be offered to people as they reach their 70th birthday.
Shingles is caused by the same virus as chickenpox, herpes varicella zoster.
The illness affects the nerves and skin. In severe cases it can cause complications such as hearing loss or brain swelling.
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Marian Nicholson, director of the Shingles Society, told the BBC: "In some unfortunate people, shingles leaves permanent nerve twinges, aches, stabbing, burning - any sensation that a nerve can make can be left behind.
"This can be non-stop, day in, day out, but equally it can be coming and going, and it is most likely to happen in people who are older."
Shingles happens when an old chickenpox infection is reactivated.
The virus can remain inactive in the nervous system for decades, with the body's immune system keeping it in check, but later in life it can flare up again and emerge, this time as shingles.
If you have not had chickenpox before, you can catch it from someone with shingles but it is not possible to catch shingles itself from someone with the condition.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Shingles can be a nasty disease for older people and can lead to long-term health problems for around 14,000 people each year.
"This new vaccine can prevent some of the most serious cases, giving people the chance to live without the discomfort and pain that shingles causes."
Prof Adam Finn, a vaccines expert at the University of Bristol, said: "There's a cost involved in both buying and giving the vaccines but there's also enormous savings from all the disease that you prevent.
"Not only suffering and some deaths but also all the costs of hospitalisation, not to mention all the inconvenience, people taking time off work to look after their children and so on and so forth."
The shingles jab is one of several changes to the UK vaccination scheme this year.
From July, all babies aged between two and four months will be offered a two-dose oral vaccine against the rotavirus, a highly infectious diarrhoea and vomiting bug.
And from September, the UK will become the first country to offer the flu vaccine - via a nasal spray - to all healthy children free of charge.
The programme was supposed to begin in 2014, but will now start later this year with two-year-olds.
Prof Finn said the UK was "getting close to the point where we have the best vaccination programme in the world".


A sinkhole which forced the closure of a main road in Neath Port Talbot has been filled with 64 tonnes of stone and concrete.

Police sealed off Cimla Road, Neath, on Thursday morning following its discovery at the bottom of Cimla Hill.
Although it was only 1.5ft (0.5m) wide on the surface, the council said the void below was 20ft (6m) wide and deep.
The repaired road will be resurfaced once the concrete has hardened and is expected to reopen on Monday.
Refuse and recycling collections unable to take place because of the road closure will also be carried out Monday.


A man has been shot dead in a car in west Belfast.

Takeaway driver Dan Murray, 55 had been taking an order to Lady Street, near Grosvenor Road, when he was shot at about 22:15 BST on Monday.
He was well known to police and had a lengthy criminal record, the BBC understands.
His partner, Ciara Austin, the mother of his youngest child, has described his killers as cowards.
She said he was killed after being called to what turned out to be a bogus call for a Chinese takeaway delivery.
"I was working on the desk and took the phone call and he knew it wasn't an address that he usually goes to," she said.
"He says to me 'Ciara I don't usually do this one but I will take it anyway'.
"He was set-up, it is the only way they could have got him, they have tried time and time again.
"Cowards, cowards, they had to set him up, come up behind him and shoot him in the car."
Ms Austin said no-one was standing up to those responsible for the killing.
"Everybody knows who is doing it, the dogs in the street know who is behind it and nobody is standing up to them," she added.
"They are getting away with it.
"It is not fair, somebody has to do something, I never ever thought a year ago I would be sitting in this position."
She also denied any allegations that her partner had been dealing in drugs.
"He has never been convicted of drugs, doesn't have a drugs charge, there is nothing on his record," she said.
"This is the rumour mill trying to justify what they have done, trying to justify killing my partner and the father of my son."
Police said there was "absolutely no justification for incidents of this kind", but said it was too early to comment on a motivation for the murder.
The shooting was the third to take place in the city within 24 hours.
Supt John Roberts said the murder had been "horrific" but said the three shootings did not mean there is a "gang culture" in Belfast.
"It is not the case that criminals can run wild with guns in the city of Belfast," he added.
Mr Murray had survived a previous gun attack last May, when he was shot in the face in his home.
The scene of Monday night's shooting remains cordoned off by police.
A teenager was shot in north Belfast about three hours before Mr Murray's killing and a man in his 20s was shot in an alleyway in north Belfast in the early hours of Monday.
In a joint statement, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the shootings were "barbaric and wrong".
"We unreservedly condemn the actions of the perpetrators who care only for themselves," they said.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with all the victims and their families and in particular the family of Daniel Murray who was shot dead."
Sinn FÃ©in MP Paul Maskey said: "I believe this to be criminal gangs who are carrying out armed actions on our streets.
"They need to be removed from our streets, and anybody who has information, I believe, has a duty to come forward with that and give it to the police."
SDLP MLA Alex Attwood said people in west Belfast were becoming anxious about shootings and violence in their area.
"There are people who are now trying to assert their violent and bad authority on the community," he said.
"People are beginning to use the gun and use it with regularity up to the point of murder."
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said: "I am deeply saddened by the news of another paramilitary attack in west Belfast, this time with tragic results.
"Nothing has been gained or achieved by this unnecessary loss of life, only more mourning and suffering."


Alexandra Palace has been given £18.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore a forgotten part of the building.

Plans include renovating the hidden theatre, dating back to 1875, to use for plays, films, comedy and music.
Material from the BBC archives will be shown in revamped TV studios, now derelict, where the broadcaster first launched a regular television service almost 80 years ago.
The plans will be finished by 2018.
Both the theatre and the studios, which have been derelict for 35 years, are in the eastern end of the Victorian palace.
The section will be refurbished and repaired, Alexandra Palace said, along with a new entrance hall.
The theatre will be able to accommodate 1,300 people.
More than 2,000 local residents were involved in a six-week consultation leading up to the decision, Alexandra Palace said.
Chief executive of the Alexandra Palace and Park Charitable Palace Trust Duncan Wilson said he was "thrilled" with the announcement.
Mr Wilson said there would be further challenges ahead, such as securing more funding and preparing the palace.
Chief Executive of Heritage Lottery Fund Carole Souter said: "Alexandra Palace has played a pivotal role in the development of popular entertainment - culminating in the birth of British television."
The total cost of the project is £26.7m.
The trust will raise an extra £1m before the project starts in 2016, it said.


It has been a nerve-wracking week for staff at Greece's oldest private TV channel, Mega.

On Tuesday, after going for two months without pay, staff were told the channel's owner could go bankrupt, shutting down the operation for good.
But at the eleventh hour, shareholders agreed to prop up the company. So for now, at least, the 500 staff are breathing a sigh of relief.
Burdened by bank loans estimated at €116m ($129m; £88m), the channel's future has been unclear for a long time.
Since the financial crisis hit Greece in 2010, many media operations have had to shut down. One of the most memorable was Alter TV, whose owner was charged with tax evasion and imprisoned, and 700 staff suddenly lost their jobs.
Six years on, the country is still suffering. Its economy has shrunk by a quarter and the unemployment rate is the highest in the EU at 24%.
A slump in advertising has made it harder for media outlets to survive.
The turnover of Greek advertising firms fell from €1bn in 2007 to just €250m in 2014. And the turnover of the surviving private TV channels halved over the same period.
There is now added pressure from the government, led by the left-wing Syriza Party. It is demanding that, for the first time, Greek channels pay for licences.
The government has also decided to offer only four licences for terrestrial TV channels broadcasting general, free-to-air content. Seven such channels exist, so some will inevitably have to close.
The minister of state responsible for the new measures, Nikos Pappas, says that in the long run such a limit on licences is the only financially-viable option.
"How can the market, as it is, sustain so many channels?" he says to the BBC. "We cannot have so many unsustainable media outlets running and building up debt."
He has launched an international tender for the 10-year licences, with opening bids starting at €3m.
Companies bidding must give proof of earnings, be completely transparent in terms of assets and prove they pay their staff.
Mr Pappas argues that transparency is key and that the time has come to break the "triangle" of corruption, which he says exists between politics, banks and the media.
"For years, many of our channels have been sustained by their businessmen owners and the profits they make from state contracts or other ventures," he says. "They used their money to prop up channels that were not economically sustainable.
"At the same time politicians were happy to do business with these channel owners, because it meant they were never criticised by them. On the contrary, they were portrayed favourably. It is scandalous."
The owner of the Greek channel Skai, Yiannis Alafouzos, agrees that the "triangle" must stop. But he argues that in a free market it is not the government's job to decide how many channels there should be and which should survive or fail.
"A lot of media companies were PR departments for businesses, that's true," he says.
"But the government keeps using this set-up as an excuse. If a company goes bankrupt - let it. If an owner has been found to be acting improperly or illegally, he should be held to account and face charges.
"What they're doing is creating a closed profession."
ΑNT1 - Minos Kyriakou, Greek ship owner with great interest in media. Major shareholder of Ant1 Group (TV) and Dafni Communications (print). Owner of the Panhellenic Sports Association. Headed Greek Olympic Committee (2004-2009).
Skai -Yiannis Alafouzos, Greek businessman, owner of Skai Group and president of Panathinaikos football team. Group owns Skai TV station, Skai radio, newspaper Kathimerini and other minor radio stations and publications.
Alpha TV -Dimitris Kontominas, Greek businessman involved in insurance, media, banking. He owns Alpha TV, regional Channel 9 and Alpha 98.9 radio channel. From 1998-2001 he owned the football team Aris of Thessaloniki. His biggest company is Interamerican Insurance.
Mega TV - Three major shareholders: Stavros Psiharis (journalist and businessman), Fotis Bobolas, son of Giorgos Bobolas, who is a construction and media tycoon, and Vardis Vardinogiannis, an oil and shipping tycoon. His Vardinogiannis group also owns Star TV.
E channel - Filippos Vrionis, businessman, major shareholder of TV channels Ε, regional Εxtra 3 and Zoom TV.
The government says the number of licences allowed was calculated by the European University Institute in Florence. The international tender was also a commitment made under the third EU bailout for Greece, signed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in 2015.
In recent years, many independent media sites have been set up in Greece, such as ThePressProject or Unfollow, by those keen to loosen ties between channel owners and politicians. Many of them are self-funded and most are web-based.
The most recent, AthensLive, is a crowdfunded project that aims to tell the true, unbiased story of what is happening in Greece.
Tassos Morfis, a key player in AthensLive, said 60% of Greeks had voted against the last bailout deal, "but the mainstream media largely supported the Yes campaign".
He adds: "The channels try to influence people and we are sick of it. Most of my friends don't even watch TV anymore. What's the point? Nothing is accurate."
TV channel owners argue the opposite, saying media freedom and pluralism are being threatened. Their union says it will do all it can to prevent the government from putting the broadcasting reforms into practice and has complained to the Council of Europe, a leading human rights watchdog.
The government, however, has set a July deadline for channels to apply for the new licences.


US defence secretary Ash Carter has visited an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea's contested waters, in what is seen as a signal to China.

He called his visit to the USS Theodore Roosevelt "a symbol" of America's stabilising presence in the region.
Mr Carter said any concern over his visit was due to "tension in this part of the world", blaming China for "most of the activity over the last year".
His visit clearly irritated Beijing, a BBC correspondent in China says.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman warned against "waving the banner of freedom of navigation to push forward the militarisation of the South China Sea and even provoke and endanger other countries' sovereignty and security interests".
"In this aspect, we hope the relevant actions and intentions of the US can be made open and above board," she said before Mr Carter's visit.
The US defence secretary flew on Thursday with his Malaysian counterpart to the Theodore Roosevelt, which was sailing some 70 miles (112 miles) north-west of Borneo.
His visit comes a week after a US Navy destroyer sailed inside the 12 nautical mile radius that China claims as its territorial waters around one of its recently reclaimed islands.
Countries in and around the South China Sea have wrangled for centuries over control of the ocean areas and its, largely uninhabited, islands.
But tensions have increased in recent years as China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and navy patrols.
The US alleges China has reclaimed almost 3,000 acres of land in the past 18 months, and fears the dispute could turn into one with global consequences.


England regained the Ashes by sealing victory over Australia on the third morning of a stunning fourth Test.

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Alastair Cook's team took the three wickets they needed to win by an innings and 78 runs at Trent Bridge and take an unassailable 3-1 series lead.
Ben Stokes claimed another wicket to end with 6-36 as the Australia tail was dismissed within an hour on Saturday.
BBC Sport presenter and former Newsrounder, John Watson, sent us this report.
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Lord Asa Briggs, a leading historian and pioneer of adult education, has died at the age of 94.

He had an "extraordinary life" and died peacefully at home in Lewes, East Sussex, son-in-law Philip Preston said.
Lord Briggs worked at the Bletchley Park code-breaking station during World War Two, and later helped establish the Open University and Sussex University.
Sussex's vice-chancellor, Prof Michael Farthing, called Lord Briggs a "visionary and a dear friend".
Prof Farthing, who was with Lord Briggs and his family when he died, said he would "miss him terribly".
"He had a huge breadth in his life and he contributed to an enormous number of different universities, different ideas to his discipline of history, and on a much wider scale to higher education in general," he said.
Lord Briggs, who was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, and attended Cambridge University, received a call in 1943 to join British intelligence at Bletchley Park - the base from which Germany's Enigma code was deciphered.
After the war he returned to his academic interests, becoming an expert in the Victorian period and writing several books during a career at universities including Oxford and Princeton.
His five volumes on the history of broadcasting in the UK was often described as the unofficial history of the BBC.
BBC director general Tony Hall said Lord Briggs's "great gift to the BBC was the insightful and illuminating histories he wrote about the corporation, which set the highest bar for all media histories to follow".
The vice-chancellor of the Open University, Peter Horrocks, said Lord Briggs was a "towering figure in education, influencing the development of new universities in Britain and abroad".
Lord Briggs was made a life peer in 1976 and sat as a crossbencher.
He leaves a wife, two sons, two daughters and 14 grandchildren.


British number three Naomi Broady began her clay-court season with a heavy defeat by American Madison Brengle at the Prague Open.

Brengle, ranked nine places higher than Broady at 71 in the world, won 6-2 6-0 in 52 minutes.
Broady had her serve broken five times and did not earn a single break point.
The 26-year-old from Stockport reached a career-high 76 in the rankings last month after her first WTA semi-final appearance, in Kuala Lumpur.
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Plans have been approved to transform the Scottish shipyard where the QE2 and Queen Mary were built into a major housing and retail development.

The former John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank closed 30 years ago and the majority of the site - known as Queens Quay - has been derelict for decades.
Councillors in West Dunbartonshire have now backed a revamp plan by site owners, Clydeside Regeneration Limited.
It is expected to take more than 10 years to develop the 23 hectare site.
West Dunbartonshire Provost Douglas McAllister said: "John Brown's shipyard built some of the world's most famous ships and now we are set to breathe new life into this key site.
"Bankies [people from Clydebank] have a strong affinity with the yard and I'm delighted that we will now be opening it up for the whole community to enjoy."
The development proposals submitted by Clydeside Regeneration Limited include plans for about 1,000 new homes, retail and leisure outlets, a care home and a health centre.
The centrepiece of the development will be the refurbished fitting-out basin of the old yard and the Titan Crane visitor attraction.
It also hoped that a district heating scheme will be created that would be powered by extracting energy from the river basin.
Councillors on West Dunbartonshire's planning committee unanimously agreed to grant planning permission in principle for the Queens Quay master plan.
Councillor Lawrence O'Neill, convener of planning, said: "This will be the most significant development in Clydebank for a generation and I'm delighted to see it moving to the next stage.
"We have an opportunity to make this an extremely unique place, which will bring benefits to the whole of Clydebank and attract more people to visit our great town."
The first phase of the development to get under way will see essential infrastructure works carried out, including repairs to quay walls and the creation of a new road layout.
Once this work is completed, the development of the care home and health centre will begin, with the housing, retail and leisure elements of the plan to follow.
The former John Brown Shipyard was bought by private firm Clydeside Regeneration in 2004.
The yard was founded in 1861 and built many world-famous ships including the Lusitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.


It is nearly that time of year - when anyone who is anyone in the mobile world catches a flight to Barcelona to show their face at the Mobile World Congress.

Austerity will be in the air this year and not just because of Spain's continuing economic crisis.
Cheaper smartphones are likely to be on show as device makers look to new markets in the developing world to expand their presence.
Powering these handsets will be new cheaper operating systems on show from the likes of Firefox and Ubuntu.
People go to the Mobile World Congress - which runs from Sunday to Thursday - for a lot of things, but the number one draw is handsets.
"It is the most prolific consumer device on the planet, everyone has an interest," said Ben Wood, principle analyst at CCS Insight.
This year though he is not sure we will witness the flagship, signature phone launches that used to be a daily curtain-raiser for the show.
"Apple has changed all that," he said.
Always preferring to plough its own furrow and a famous no-show at the Mobile World Congress, Apple has started a trend for bespoke launches.
Those handsets that are on offer are likely to be more modest than the iPhone.
"They are not all going to be high-end Â£500 phones. This year, the Mobile World Congress will be all about smartphones for the masses," said Mr Wood.
Currently there are around 1.25 billion smartphones in people's pockets around the world and that is expected to rise to 1.8 billion this year.
Michael O'Hara, chief marketing officer for the GSMA, which runs the show, thinks there will still be room for some impressive specs.
"We expect to see a number of device launches at the show and this will include those with 5 inch screens, LTE, quad cores and 13 megapixel cameras," he said.
The battle for mobile software is still being waged between Apple and Google and in the past Google has brought its trademark image to MWC with a huge stand filled with Androids, slides and juice bars.
Some think its presence this year may be more subdued.
"I don't think Google needs to have a major presence because Android is almost omnipresent because of its sheer success. It is in phones, tablets, TVs, watches, media streamers. The platform has developed a life of its own," said Mr Wood.
For smaller software developers, such as Mozilla, MWC is an opportunity to compete for the sought after third spot behind Apple and Android.
Mozilla is likely to use the conference to deliver on its promise last year to offer a web-based operating system.
Chinese handset makers will also be a force to reckon with at this year's MWC - with brands such as Lenovo and Huawei slated as ones to watch.
Huawei has already started sending out press invites for an event the day before MWC kicks off, with rumours suggesting it may show off an eight-core smartphone.
While such news may send the geekier delegates running into the Med to cool off, it is unlikely to impress everyone.
"I'm not sure how you make consumers care about how many processors a phone has," said Mr Wood.
For him the more important chip story at MWC will be about what the graphic processor can do, as more and more people use their smartphones and tablets for gaming.
Last year, MWC built a connected house to show off some of the ways that mobile is transforming daily life. This year, it has set its ambitions even higher with a connected city.
"It comes with apartments, a car showroom, an office block, a town hall, a department store, a hotel and a cafe," said Mr O'Hara.
"MWC used to be a mobile show but what we are seeing now is it is bringing together people from every industry. Mobile is going to transform a lot of these industries," he added.
The connected cars that dominated CES in Las Vegas are likely to drive their way to Barcelona as will connected bicycles.
The keynote list is also eclectic. The vice chairman of General Motors will speak at the conference alongside the chief executive of the American Heart Association, who will be talking about the role of mobile in monitoring health.
In times of austerity, MWC remains hugely important to Barcelona - bringing in an estimated 300m euros ($395; Â£260m), of additional revenue.
"We have a lot of support from the city and are very important to the whole country because we put Spain at the centre of the mobile world every February," said Mr O'Hara.
The show will be out of town this year - at a new arena which promises to challenge the stamina of delegates.
With the new location a whopping 1.2km (0.7 miles) from end to end, visitors may find themselves shopping for new shoes, as well as new phones, by the end of the week.


Shadow cabinet members are drawing up plans to encourage Jeremy Corbyn to resign, BBC Newsnight has learned.

The MPs want to broker a compromise that would preserve some of the Labour leader's key policies if he quit.
Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said MPs had been creating a timetable to let Mr Corbyn "retire with dignity".
But James Schneider, of grassroots Labour movement Momentum, said the plan would not work as Mr Corbyn had "an enormous amount of support".
Mr Corbyn's leadership is under threat after numerous frontbench resignations and a no-confidence vote by his MPs.
But he has said he would not "betray" the party members who elected him last year by standing down.
The BBC has learned that a delegation of shadow cabinet members tried to meet Mr Corbyn on Thursday to put forward their plan, but were unsuccessful.
Under the plan, potential leadership contenders would agree to pursue some of Mr Corbyn's key policies on issues including tackling inequality and making the party more democratic.
Momentum spokesman Mr Schneider told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Corbyn had shown "incredible steel" in remaining leader, and he accused the other MPs of trying to "subvert democracy in the party".
"If they are unhappy with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership or the policies which he is standing for, they need to get 51 signatures, they need to find a candidate, they need to find a platform and they need to go for it," he said.
"But they don't have a candidate who can beat Jeremy Corbyn."
He said there was a "reasonable amount of evidence" to suggest that people who had joined the Labour Party in a recent surge had joined to support Mr Corbyn, as 60% of the first 13,000 members had put this on their joining form.
But former Labour leader Neil Kinnock told BBC Radio 5 Live that Mr Corbyn should "do his duty and resign".
Lord Kinnock said: "I totally understand and I completely support the members of Parliament who voted in the no-confidence motion.
"They were doing the clear, honest thing when they are so fundamentally alarmed by the prospects for the party."
Meanwhile, former Welsh Secretary Lord Hain told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme he had never been as concerned as he was now about the party's prospects.
He said it was "much more serious" than the "early 1980s strife".
Criticism of Mr Corbyn's EU referendum campaign input prompted a series of walkouts by shadow cabinet members and mounting calls for the leader to resign.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who criticised Mr Corbyn's efforts during the EU referendum in the House of Commons last week, told him: "For heaven's sake man, go."
Mr Corbyn's predecessor, Ed Miliband, also joined calls for him to quit, telling BBC Radio 4's The World at One his position was "untenable".
But senior allies of Mr Corbyn, who has strong support among the party's members, are determined to keep him in place.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has previously indicated he is confident Mr Corbyn would see off any challenge to his leadership.
Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone has said Mr Corbyn would win any leadership contest and that people would be "appalled" at MPs trying to force out a leader elected by 60% of members and supporters.
But some supporters believe easing him out may be the only way to avoid a split.
On Thursday, potential leadership challenger Angela Eagle said Mr Corbyn "still has time to do the right thing".
Mr Corbyn rejected an attempt by deputy leader Tom Watson to persuade him to stand down.


An appeal is being made to find new board members for Scotland's "largest rural performing arts festival".

Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival was established in 1979 and runs over 10 days in May.
This year's event is described as its "most ambitious yet" with 82 performances in 42 venues regionwide.
Ken Gouge, who chairs the festival, said would-be board members needed enthusiasm, commitment and a willingness to help promote the event.
"We are currently working with Dumfries and Galloway Council, D&G Unlimited and Creative Scotland to explore how we can best develop a sustainable infrastructure for the performing arts across the region throughout the year," he said.
"We are seeking to appoint people to the board of trustees with an interest in the performing arts.
"If you are interested in helping shape the future of the performing arts across the region we would love to hear from you."
Anyone wishing to join the board should contact the arts festival by 11 May.


Protests and vigils have taken place across Pakistan as Christians demand better protection after suicide blasts killed at least 80 people at a church.

Sunday's double suicide bombing is thought to be Pakistan's deadliest attack against Christians.
Many burials have taken place and candlelight vigils have also been held in memory of the victims.
Two Islamist militant groups with Taliban links said they ordered the attack to hit back at US drone strikes.
Political and religious leaders condemned the attack, but angry crowds nevertheless took to the streets, denouncing the state's failure to protect minorities.
By Aleem MaqboolBBC News, Peshawar
Many of those coming to pay their respects were simply overwhelmed by the sight that greeted them when they reached the school playing fields besides St John's Church.
Some broke down on the spot, seeing the long line of coffins, the hundreds of women sitting beside them, clutching them and sobbing, the men hugging and crying, their children looking bewildered.
Of course there is shock - there has never been as devastating an attack as this to target Pakistan's Christians - but there is certainly anger as well.
The attack happened as Pakistan's government prepares the ground for talks with the Pakistani Taliban.
Many young Christian mourners made their feelings known on the subject outside Peshawar's Lady Reading hospital; shouting insults and angry chants against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and against one of the most well known advocates of talks with the militants, opposition politician Imran Khan.
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar saw demonstrations against the attack, with protesters also demanding the authorities do more for minorities.
One AFP report said that more than 600 protesters had blocked a major highway in Islamabad for several hours on Monday and 2,000 later gathered outside parliament.
In Peshawar itself, the city where the attack took place, protesters smashed windows at the hospital where many victims were treated, reports said.
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool, in Peshawar, described the grief that wracked the scene where the coffins bearing the dead were lined up.
Hundreds of women were sitting beside the coffins, clutching them and sobbing, the men hugging and crying, their children looking bewildered, our correspondent reports.
Condemnation of the attack has been pouring in. The government has announced three days of mourning.
Christian groups have said special prayers will be held for the victims. Pope Francis has condemned the atrocity, saying those who carried out the attack made a wrong choice, of hatred and war.
Speaking in London on his way to New York to attend the UN's General Assembly, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the attack did not bode well for any intended talks with militants.
And the Pakistani politician, Imran Khan, whose party governs the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capital, called it an attack on humanity.
He has been criticised for being soft on Taliban militants and favouring talks instead of military action.
The attack happened around midday at the historic All Saints church in Kohati Gate, a bustling area of Peshawar, when two bombers blew themselves up as hundreds of worshippers who had attended Sunday Mass were leaving.
Witnesses said they heard two blasts, the second more powerful than the first.  Suicide vests were later found outside the church, officials said.
Reports say the walls of the church was dimpled from the force of the ball bearings that had been packed into the explosives, in an effort to cause as much damage as possible.
More than 120 people were wounded in the assault.
It is unclear exactly who was behind the attack, with two militant groups claiming responsibility.  Jandullah and the Junood ul-Hifsa - both with past links to the Pakistani Taliban - said they had ordered the double bombing in retaliation for US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal north-west.
The Pakistani Taliban, however, condemned the attack. Correspondents say the group frequently denies responsibility for attacks which take a heavy civilian toll.
It is the latest in a series of attacks on Pakistani Christians, who represent about 1.6% of the country's overwhelmingly Muslim population.
One provincial lawmaker, Fredrich Azeem Ghauri,  said there were about 200,000 Christians in the province, of whom 70,000 lived in Peshawar, Agence France-Presse news agency reported.
Correspondents say the attack has outraged many people, but there is also a sense of helplessness about the government's apparent inability to prevent such atrocities.
Militants in Pakistan have long made religious minorities one of their targets and recent years have seen spiralling sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis, with Sunni militants often targeting the  Shia community.
There have been outbreaks of communal violence in areas where Muslims and Christians co-exist. In March, Muslims in Lahore torched dozens of Christian homes when responding to an allegation of blasphemy.
But this latest attack is being described as the first assault of its kind on Christians in recent memory.


The International Boxing Federation has admitted Ryan Burnett's world title win should have been a unanimous victory as opposed to a split decision.

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Belfast man Burnett dominated Saturday's bout as he outclassed English champion Lee Haskins.
However, American judge Clark Sammartino mixed up the fighters as he ruled Haskins the winner.
"An error of this nature and at this level of the sport should not have occurred," said an IBF statement.
"Judge Clark Sammartino has been a member of the IBF for many years and has been a solid, reliable and consistent judge.
"He has an active officiating career and has worked at the world-class level.
"The IBF remains committed to recommending qualified and reliable officials to work its sanctioned bouts, and is fully intent on deterring a situation such as this one from occurring again in the future."
Meanwhile, Burnett has revealed that he feared the world title bout was going to be halted after both men suffered early cuts.
The boxers sustained deep cuts above their right eyes after an accidental clash of heads in the second round the Belfast bout.
Trainer Adam Booth immediately told Belfast man Burnett he had only two rounds to fulfil his world title dream.
"Me and Adam have gone over this situation before. I knew exactly how to deal with it," said Burnett, 25.
After hearing Booth's words, Burnett maintained the exceptional performance he had produced from the opening bell as he outclassed the defending champion.
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"I told Ryan after the (cuts in the) second round 'This fight's not going 12 rounds, you're both cut too badly, win every moment of the next two rounds because it's going to go to a technical decision'," said Booth.
Brilliant corner work by Booth and his team prevented Burnett's cut above his right eye from worsening so referee Marcus McDonnell allowed the fight to continue to the end.
However, the severity of Burnett's cut means he is unlikely to have the first defence of his title for several months.
Burnett has earned that rest after being away from his Belfast home from 10 weeks to prepare for the world title bout.
"I haven't been home in two-and-a-half months. I just want to go home to my family."
Booth's training career has included guiding David Haye to world cruiserweight and heavyweight titles but he believes Burnett's world title triumph in only his 17th professional bout has surpassed even though achievements.
"He was magnificent, because Lee Haskins is not easy to out-trick and out-box, and that's exactly what he did for 12 rounds," said the trainer, who also led Ireland's Andy Lee to the WBO middleweight title.
"I haven't had a world champion after only 17 pro fights who's performed like that.
"Everything with David Haye, at cruiserweight, heavyweight, and Andy Lee at middleweight, it's all special, but there's something about what Ryan has achieved.
"I'm pretty sure I'll never see that again with a fighter after only 16 pro fights."


A man has been taken to hospital with minor burns following a fire at a static caravan on Anglesey.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to the blaze near High Street, Bryngwran, at 00:05 GMT on Saturday.
A service spokeswoman said the fire, which spread to a nearby house and shed, was caused by smoking materials.
The casualty was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.


The Great British Bake Off's first episode on Channel 4 has gone down well with viewers - although some took time to adjust to the new line-up and advert breaks.

The new series - which is the first since the show left the BBC - sees Paul Hollywood joined by fellow judge Prue Leith, with Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig on presenting duties.
An average of 5.8 million viewers watched the show - rising to 6.5 million when those watching on +1 are included.
The first episode of the series broadly won over the critics, but it's the viewers Channel 4 needed to convince.
"I feel like I'm breaking some kind of law by watching this without Mel, Sue and Mary," tweeted Kelly as the episode started.
But with other viewers declaring the show "the best thing about being British," most stuck with it and had been won over by the time it ended.
Toksvig was popular on Twitter, with Mary writing: "Sandi is a natural to give this show coherence and polish."
Michelle said Sandi's co-host Noel was "pretty adorable" while Rob said he was "totally on board" with the Mighty Boosh star as a presenter.
Greg wrote that Fielding was going to "single-handedly save this series".
But Stephanie said: "It's like Top Gear all over again ðŸ™ˆ"
(We don't think that's a compliment given how Chris Evans's season went down.)
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Chloe said Sandi and Noel were "no Mel and Sue", while Hannah tweeted: "The word bake just doesn't sound the same coming from them."
But former contestant Rav Bansal spoke for many when he said: "Although Mel and Sue will always have my heart, Sandi and Noel are doing brilliantly."
Very diplomatic.
Not everybody was a fan of the commercial breaks, and many viewers were quick to tweet their thoughts when the ads started rolling.
"Adverts in GBBO is just wrong," was one of the more printable reactions to the first break.
By the third, Julie said she was getting "fed up" with the interruptions and Gemma tweeted they were the "only thing I hate about the new GBBO".
Former winner Nadiya Hussain even said she was holding off on watching the show until she could skip the adverts:
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But Pauline pointed out: "Don't mind the adverts - allows me to make tea!"
Similarly, Katie felt the ads "built the tension" while Vicky said they "give you a chance to debrief in between segments".
Line-up changes and ad breaks aside, many viewers said the show felt reassuringly familiar.
Sue tweeted: "Hats off to Channel 4 - well done for keeping GBBO the same great format.
"Yes the ads aren't great but they weren't too badly placed! ðŸ‘


Yahoo has abandoned a plan to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

Most of the internet company's $33bn (Â£21.8bn) value is attributed to its shareholding in Alibaba.
The decision is the opposite of the strategy announced in January to spin off its 15% stake in Alibaba.
Yahoo's internet business will now be put into a new company to be listed on the stock market.
Investors in Yahoo will get shares in the new company on a pro-rata basis.
Yahoo bought 40% of Alibaba in 2005 for $1bn. The current holding is worth about $30bn.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer said the new plan would help ensure that Yahoo's internet business was "accurately valued".
She also said she was "taking further steps to tighten our focus and prioritise our investments to drive growth".
More details about the move will be outlined in late January when Yahoo announces its fourth-quarter results.
The plan to spin off the Alibaba stake hit a hurdle in September when US tax authorities denied a request from Yahoo to decide whether the deal would be tax-free.
Yahoo shareholders could have ended up paying billions of dollars if the deal was ruled to be taxable.
Analysts said Wednesday's announcement could make it easier for Yahoo to sell its internet business. They include websites, mobile apps and advertising services and could be worth between $3bn and $5bn.
Roger Kay, analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates, said Yahoo's internet business still had some value, given its huge global audience and expertise in online advertising.
"I don't know if Marissa Mayer is the right person to lead to company out of the desert, but it can be done," he said. "I think after the spin-off, it will establish its own level of value."
Yahoo chairman Maynard Webb denied there were plans to sell the internet businesses.
"We believe that we are tremendously undervalued and we think the best path to unlocking that value is by separating the Alibaba assets from our operating businesses and also turning around the performance in our operating business," he said.
Obtaining the necessary shareholder and regulatory approval meant the Alibaba transaction could take as long as a year to complete.
After initially rising, shares in Yahoo fell 3.1% to $33.76 in afternoon trading in New York.
Ms Mayer, 40, is expecting to give birth to twin girls this month, but plans to take only a short period of time off work.
She returned to work just two weeks after giving birth to her first child in 2013.


Whoever wins the election, more cuts are on their way.

The big Westminster parties agree they must balance the books one way or another by 2020. Achieving that will mean spending less in real terms.
Tony Travers, from the London School of Economics, has calculated how individual services could be affected.
His analysis, shared exclusively with BBC Radio 4's World at One, suggests adult social care could face an 8% cut in real terms funding in the next five years.
Nick Forbes, Labour leader of Newcastle Council, says: "The only big areas of expenditure that local authorities have left are adult and children's social care  - and if local authority budgets are squeezed even further in the future, those are the areas where there'll have to be reductions."
Government spending on front-line policing in England could drop by a fifth, according to Travers' calculations, while highways and housing spending by councils could fall by 40%.
The figures were reached by analysing how spending cuts were split from April 2010 until April 2014, and then projecting the same share of cuts forward until April 2019.
Some in government feel they have heard all this before, and seen forecasts of dire consequences proved wrong.
Back in 2010, Nick Clegg imagined the Conservatives governing alone, putting up VAT to 20%, cutting the wage bill in the public sector, and suggested civil unrest could follow.
Without public consent for a cuts programme, Britain might see Greek-style unrest, he said, conjuring memories of the disorder in southern Europe.
Many of the spending cuts and tax rises anticipated by Clegg came to pass. The unrest did not.
Lib Dems will, of course, credit their influence in government.
Conservatives argue the government simply made a good job of finding savings, and proved it could be done without destroying services or prompting a national drama.
Famously, spending on the police is down, but so too is crime.
Widespread consent?
The local government minister Kris Hopkins noted: "Council tax has fallen by 11% in real terms and public satisfaction with local government has been maintained."
Research suggests the public have accepted many of the savings councils have made so far.
Who would have thought, those in government argue, that you could take some £25bn out of spending on public services with such widespread consent?
There are even councillors who say the cuts have given them an opportunity to do a better job spending taxpayers' money.
Philippa Roe, the Tory leader of Westminster Council, says sharing fostering services with two other London boroughs has both saved money and made it easier to find homes for children.
Yet cutting without causing outrage, can encourage more cuts.
'All hell would break out'
Travers says public acceptance gives the government grounds for comfort and optimism.
"What it means," he says, "is they think: if local government can manage it we'll make it take further cuts. You couldn't do this to the NHS - if you did all hell would break out."
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says we are only half way through the cuts programme needed to achieve Chancellor George Osborne's plans.
Will the public accept even more savings after the election?
Lib Dems are renewing their 2010 concerns, calling post-election Conservative plans unfair and not credible.
Even some Conservatives sound warnings.
At Westminster, Roe says the council has already made easier savings.
She adds: "I think we are, however, getting to a point where we are perhaps going to have to make some very tough decisions about front-line services that we would, in a normal event want to fund, but actually will not find ourselves being able to fund them."
There is evidence the public at large has little idea more cuts are coming.
A Populus poll for the Financial Times suggested that only two in five voters now believe that more austerity would be needed after the general election.
Perhaps that's because the details of how the parties will meet their targets for the economy are vague.
Chancellor George Osborne wants to reach an overall budget surplus by 2018/19. That is thought to amount to cuts of £47bn in departmental budgets after the election.
No escape
Osborne has explained he would seek £12bn in welfare savings over two years, £3bn of which would come from freezing working age benefits.
It still leaves a lot of money to find, particularly as he wants to hit his goal without raising taxes, and has to find another £7bn to pay for tax-cutting pledges made at the Conservative Party conference.
Labour has a looser target - the shadow chancellor Ed Balls wants to reach a surplus not including capital spending by the end of the next Parliament, and to get debt falling before 2020.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies has suggested Balls could cut just £9.3bn between 2015-16 and 2018-19 if he earmarked all the money his plans could allow to ease cuts in departmental spending. But we don't yet know what decisions he will take.
Balls has signed up to the £8.5bn of departmental cuts planned by this government for 2015/16.
So Labour will not avoid cuts.
Protecting the NHS
It's not only the idea of creating a surplus that appeals to Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats alike. They all think the NHS needs more money.
Travers says: "The NHS, we all understand, has a particular status in Britain.
"It's very popular, and frankly it also has a number of powerful lobbyists who are very capable of making the case for why problems in accident and emergency, problems here, problems there all require additional money, additional staffing and so on."
Lib Dems and Labour have suggested the wealthiest older people should lose the winter fuel allowance, but no one wants to put pensions at risk. The IFS notes we are likely to be spending about £12 billion more on benefits for pensioners in 2018-19 than we did in 2010-11.
If politicians share ideas about creating a surplus, and protecting both the NHS and pensions, they share a quandary too.
They have to do all this while trying to persuade voters, many of whom think austerity a problem for this parliament, to vote for them.
The IFS has suggested there is a "conspiracy of silence" about the details of cuts.
By polling day 2010 George Osborne had made it very clear cuts were coming. If the former prime minister Gordon Brown took a very long time to concede Labour would cut too, the party got there in the end, accepting they would seek tougher and deeper savings than those seen under Margaret Thatcher.
Five months from the next general election politicians aren't, understandably, rushing to spell out every line of their fiscal plans to be demolished by their opponents.
The new government will make its final decisions at a spending review in the new parliament.
But MPs are not yet shouting too loudly about the full scale of the cuts to come.
While the economists and analysts of the Westminster village are aware more austerity lies ahead, it could come as a nasty surprise to the country at large.


Containers of toxic sludge have been dumped metres from a river on a County Londonderry road.

They were dumped on the Baranailt Road in Claudy beside the River Ness, a tributary of the River Faughan,
The sludge is the by-product of illegal fuel laundering.
Chris Thompson, from River Faughan Anglers, said an oil slick was visible on the surface of the river, but there did not appear to have been a fish kill.
He said the dump was spotted by local people at about 19:00 BST on Thursday.
Mr Thompson said some of the containers were either burst or lying on their side, but much of the waste had been stopped from going into the river by the Loughs Agency.
However, he said a lot of the sludge had spilled into gravel in the road and he was concerned it could still end up in the river.
He said those responsible "have no respect for the environment or other people's properties. The people who buy this should be aware of the people they're dealing with."
Northern Ireland Environment Agency staff are at the scene of the dump.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said he was "keeping a very close eye on developments".
"Our contractors are on site to provide additional containment of the oily waste to ensure the river is protected.
"The River Ness is a contributory river to the River Faughan, which is popular with local anglers.
"I want to pay tribute to the River Faughan Anglers for their vigilance which enabled a swift response from statutory agencies.  My officials are assessing what damage, if any, has been done to the river."


A baby has died at Scotland's newest "super-hospital" campus after becoming infected with harmful bacteria.

The baby died in a maternity unit linked to the new Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children at the weekend after contracting Serratia marcescens.
The baby was premature and had "existing complex medical problems".
The bacteria are also present in five other babies in the maternity unit, and seven who have left hospital, but none is giving cause for concern.
Alan Mathers, chief of medicine for women and children's services at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC), said: "Our deepest sympathies are with the family of the baby who has so sadly passed away.
"Serratia marcescens can be naturally occurring in the gut and its presence on or in the body (colonisation) is not harmful in healthy people.
"However, given the vulnerability of premature babies, Serratia marcescens infections, where the colonised bacteria gets into the bloodstream, can occur."
Mr Mathers said that none of the five babies in the neonatal unit, who are colonised, was giving cause for concern.
He added: "Since the increase in incidence of Serratia marcescens colonisation cases was indentified as part of our routine surveillance we have been closely monitoring the situation in line with national guidance.
"Given that there are no other cases of infection and that all the appropriate infection control procedures are in place the unit will continue to admit new patients as normal.
"Our staff are in communication with the families to keep them fully informed."
NHS GGC said that it had identified a small increase in Serratia marcescens colonisation cases in July during "routine surveillance".
The neonatal unit where the baby died opened in 2009 as part of the redevelopment of the former Southern General Maternity Unit.
It is now linked to the maternity unit at the Royal Hospital for Children, which is part of the Â£842m new "super-hospital" campus, which also includes the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.


Ulster Bank is shedding around 50 jobs among its branch staff in what it describes as "efforts to build a strong and sustainable" business.

It is also ending Saturday morning opening at 11 branches.
The bank said it is aiming to make the redundancies "on a strictly voluntary basis".
The banking union, the IBOA, said: "Reducing the number of staff in these crucial roles is not sustainable in the long term."
It added: "It is being driven by a short-term, cost-cutting agenda.
"We are extremely concerned about the impact on customers as well as the increased workload for remaining staff."
Branches ending Saturday morning opening from 14 May are: Armagh, Ballymena, Bangor, Coleraine, Downpatrick, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Magherafelt, Newtownards, Omagh and Portadown.
Seven other Ulster Bank branches will retain Saturday opening hours.
An Ulster Bank spokesman said: "We keep all of our products and services under continual review in response to customer demand.
"This change does not affect branch opening hours during the week.
"Customers will still be able to make use of our online, digital and telephone banking services."


At least 20% of people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, according to data from 19 countries.

It is thought the virus killed 200,000 people around the world.
A World Health Organization-led study looked for evidence of the body's immune system fighting the virus.
It showed large numbers of people had been infected, although not all would have developed full-blown flu.
The H1N1 virus first appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread around the world.
Why are viruses so hard to beat?
An international group of researchers looked at more than 90,000 blood samples before and during the pandemic in countries including India, Australia and the UK.
They looked for antibodies which are produced when the body is infected with H1N1.
By comparing the figures before and during the pandemic, the researchers can determine how many people were infected as the virus spread around the world.
Approximately 24% of people had been infected overall, but half of school-age children showed signs of infection.
One of the researchers, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove from Imperial College London, said fewer than two in every 10,000 people infected died during the pandemic.
"However, those that did die are much younger than in seasonal flu so the years of life lost will be much more," she told the BBC.
"The figures drive home how incredibly infectious the virus is," she said.
Many older people, who typically die during outbreaks of flu, were protected as they had been exposed to the virus decades before.
Prof John Oxford, a virology expert at Queen Mary, University of London, said the figures "make sense".
"It was the busiest virus on the block and it displaced other influenza viruses - it was the only virus in town."
He said a similar pattern would be expected in other countries which were not analysed in the study.


Swansea City interim boss Alan Curtis has not ruled out staying in charge beyond the summer.

Curtis was appointed until the end of the season after picking up five points from five games as caretaker following Garry Monk's sacking.
The 61-year-old former Wales forward says his focus is avoiding the drop, not taking over full-time.
"It's difficult to say, in the past I've never seen myself as a manager, but you can quickly change," he said.
"I suppose once you get tasked with the opportunity to make sure the club stays in the Premier League obviously you can switch into manager mode.
Alan Curtis: Story of a Swansea City legend
"It's difficult because I've never really aspired to be a manager, especially a manager in the Premier League.
"We'll see how this period goes, the most important thing is that the club retains its Premier League status.
"These last 18 games are going to be vital to the club and to the surrounding area."
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Swansea are one place and two points above the relegation places after 20 games, and face a crucial game at home to fellow strugglers Sunderland on Wednesday, 13 January.
Curtis is confident he can deal with the added pressure of being a manager.
He said: "It's a huge responsibility. It's pressure, but it's the responsibility really that you're tasked with making sure the club stays in the Premier League.
"But I'm quite willing to accept that.
"I don't suppose I was ever in a position where I was going to turn it down because that would have been impossible for me to have made that decision.
"I'm certainly not afraid to make a point.
"Even in the last couple of games I've had to make a point forcibly at half-time or the end of the game if I felt that certain individuals weren't playing particularly well or weren't responding.
"I'm quite comfortable doing that."
Curtis has confirmed that recruitment is under way for the January transfer window provided it's the "right player", stressing he would particularly like to sign a striker.
He does not believe the absence of a permanent manager will discourage potential recruits, and is confident of attracting players of the quality needed to steer the club to safety.
"A lot of people want to play in the Premier League these days," added Curtis.
"I still think our reputation as a club, as a team that tries to play football, would be inviting to any player who would want to come here."


Complaints about payday loans have risen sharply for the second consecutive year despite strict new regulations limiting interest charges.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 10,529 new complaints about these short-term credit products in the 2016-17 financial year.
This was a rise from 3,216 complaints during the previous year.
The increase was part of wider consumer concern about credit products - an area also worrying regulators at present.
The City regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - and the Bank of England have warned of an acceleration in consumer borrowing, such as loans, overdrafts, credit card debt and car finance.
The FCA is already conducting is own inquiry into overdrafts, door-to-door lending and other forms of loans. Consumer groups have consistently argued there should be an overdraft cap in place.
A Lords committee also recently called for stronger controls such as a cap on "rent to own" products.
The FOS figures, published in its annual review, show that the total number of payday loan complaints was nine times higher than two years ago.
Since the start of 2015, payday loan rates have been capped at 0.8% per day of the amount borrowed, and no-one has to pay back more than twice the amount they borrowed.
Caroline Wayman, the chief financial ombudsman, said awareness among payday customers of their right to complain might have increased as a result of this well-publicised clampdown.
Complaints have included high costs and interest rates, money being taken from accounts by a lender without permission, and damaged credit ratings despite claims that ratings would be boosted.
Nearly two-thirds (59%) of complaints have been upheld by the independent ombudsman.
"The most striking story this year has been the rise in complaints we have seen from people having trouble with credit," said Ms Wayman.
"It is clear that financial difficulties and financial exclusion remain significant challenges for many people. The important thing is to speak up if you're struggling.  Money is often very complicated - and our job is to unravel what's happened and find a fair way to put things right by looking at individual complaints."
Other areas of complaint included hire purchase agreements and debt collecting.
The most-complained about financial product was still Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) which led to 168,769 inquiries in 2016-17 - just over a half of the ombudsman's workload.
The loan insurance was mis-sold to millions of people who did not want or need it, or who were illegible to claim. The banking industry has paid out billions in compensation and has set aside more to settle up before the compensation claims deadline of August 2019.
Separate figures show a rise in the number of complaints made by UK consumers about traders in the EU.
Consumer advice organisation, the UK European Consumer Centre, said it had dealt with 18% more cases in 2016 than the previous year.
Transport was the most common subject for complaints, followed by recreation and culture, then restaurants, hotels and accommodation.


This year's Strictly was the most-watched series in its 12-year history with an average of 11.3 million viewers tuning in to watch 15 famous names battle it out on the dance floor.

The competition had been filled with highs and lows for the three finalists which included surviving the dreaded dance-off and scoring 10s from notoriously difficult judge Craig Revel-Horwood.
Here we look at what Danny Mac, Ore Oduba and Louise Redknapp brought to the 2016 show:
Famous for: Being an actor - he appeared on long-running soap Hollyoaks.
Known on Strictly for: His shirt "accidentally" coming undone - and occasionally being so good he is confused for one of the professional dancers.
Grand final dances: The couple's favourite dance was their samba to Magalenha by Sergio Mendes. Their showdance was performed to Set Fire to the Rain by Adele. Mabuse said the dance expressed Mac's journey on Strictly Come Dancing and how "Strictly has made him a better person".
Best moment: "The best moment for a high was probably the samba and getting that score - the first time everything went as good as it could possibly have been."
Worst moment: "It was the foxtrot, the disappointment Oti felt that she hadn't done enough. It broke my heart that she felt she hadn't done enough for me."
Key quotes:
Famous for: Being a BBC sports presenter.
Known on Strictly for: Getting emotional and shedding a few tears - on more than one occasion.
Grand final dances: Oduba and Clifton took to the dancefloor with a jive to Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars, their favourite of the series. Their showdance was set to I Got Rhythm by George and Ira Gershwin.
Best moment: "For me, the best thing has been learning to dance with such an amazing friend."
Worst moment: "Being in the dance-off for the first time for the salsa. In that moment, the whole Strictly experience flashes before your eyes and within a dance, you might not be able to do this again. And it's crushing."
Key quotes:
Famous for: Performing with girl band Eternal and as a solo singer.
Grand final dances: The dance picked by the pair to repeat for the final was their Argentine Tango to Tanguera by Sexteto Mayor. Their showdance was to One Moment in Time by Whitney Houston, which Clifton said was "based on Louise... her story on Strictly, how she's developed from the beginning to the end".
Best moment: "The moment I enjoyed most was probably with my feathers, in Big Spender - getting to stand up there with two big feathers, shimmying, it's good fun."
Worst moment: "Apart from wearing a fruit hat on Saturday, which wasn't one of my finest moments - I had a slight meltdown over wearing the fruit hat - I cried in rehearsals trying to learn the rumba and I'm not that person - I don't cry when I can't get something. I just get on with it. I never thought Strictly would affect me like that."
Key quotes:
This year's other contestants, in the order they left the show, were:
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Legal action is being threatened to force the government to widen the remit of the inquiry into historical allegations of child abuse in Scotland.

Survivors group White Flowers Alba said it was seeking a judicial review because the inquiry will not look at their cases.
It claimed this was "unfair" as similar investigations elsewhere in the UK were looking at all instances of abuse.
The Scottish government said the inquiry must focus on a set time frame.
The public inquiry was ordered in December last year and followed allegations which emerged in a BBC Scotland investigation of institutional abuse at a former Catholic boarding school at Fort Augustus in the Highlands.
It is headed by Susan O'Brien QC and will take up to four years to report. It formally began its work last month.
But White Flowers Alba has said its remit was too narrow.
The inquiry does include:
However, it does not include other places where abuse may have happened such as:
Father Gerry Magee, a parish priest in Kilwinning in Ayrshire, is a spokesman for the survivors group.
He said: "It really is like a postcode lottery- if you happen to be in an institution which the inquiry acknowledges and recognises then they will inquire into your abuse but if not, if you were abused in a parish or any other institution - the Scouts or whatever or the church - then you're left out of the inquiry.
"Surely that in itself is a massive injustice."
The Scottish government said the child abuse inquiry was the widest it had ever ordered.
A spokeswoman added: "The initial call was for an inquiry into the abuse of children in institutional care.
"We have listened carefully to survivors of abuse and responded to their request for the scope to be widened.
"This is why the inquiry will now consider instances of the abuse of children in a wide range of care settings. For the inquiry to succeed and reach clear conclusions it needs to focus on an explicit remit within a set time frame."
However, many survivors feel it does not go far enough. They said they had been let down and were now considering legal action.
Andi Lavery, an abuse survivor and spokesman for White Flowers, said: "We should be pushing at an open door on this. Scottish society shouldn't be watching from the sidelines.
"They have to help survivors and prevent further survivors dying instead of leaving us to fight out this endless horrific battle of facing this on our own."


Roger Federer said he had no intention of retiring after losing to Milos Raonic in the semi-finals at Wimbledon.

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It was a first defeat in 11 Wimbledon semi-final appearances for the seven-time champion.
Afterwards, the 34-year-old saluted all corners of Centre Court, prompting speculation that he might be bidding farewell for good.
"To be very clear for you, I hope to be back on Centre Court," said the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
"It was a thank you for the crowd. That's what I was going through, not thinking that this might be my last Wimbledon."
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Raonic, the first Canadian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final, will face Britain's Andy Murray in Sunday's final.
Federer's semi-final defeat followed a marathon five-set win over Marin Cilic in the previous round, in which he came back from two sets down and saved three match points.
The Swiss world number three is enduring the toughest year of his career. He missed the French Open because of injury, bringing an end to a streak of 65 successive appearances at Grand Slam events stretching back to 1999.
He has also failed to add to his 88 tour titles this year, suffering his longest drought since 2000, and arrived at Wimbledon having suffered back-to-back semi-final losses in Stuttgart and Halle.
Federer, who had surgery earlier this year on the same knee he hurt on Friday, will be 35 next month.
He has not beaten world number one Novak Djokovic at a Grand Slam since the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2012, when he went on to win his last major title.
"It's a dream to win my eighth title here but it's not the only reason why I play tennis," said Federer, who will represent Switzerland at the Olympics next month, injury permitting.
"I know Wimbledon is important, but it's not everything. I have played 10 sets [against Cilic and Raonic]. It's very encouraging for the season. I was insecure coming into Wimbledon."


David Cameron has said he will not lead a government that fails to deliver a referendum on the UK's EU membership.

Earlier Nick Clegg did not rule out joining a coalition with the Tories if they insisted on the poll, but said his "red line" policies would come first.
Nigel Farage said, without UKIP holding the PM's "feet to the fire", he feared any referendum would not be "fair".
Labour opposes the Conservatives' plan for an EU referendum, saying it would cause uncertainty for business.
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Conservative leader Mr Cameron has pledged to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK in Europe and hold a referendum by the end of 2017, if the Conservatives win power.
Labour and the Lib Dems have opposed a referendum unless there are plans for a transfer of more powers to the EU.
This election issue includes the UK’s membership of the European Union and its negotiating position.
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In an interview with BBC political editor Nick Robinson, Mr Cameron said he would not bargain away his commitment in any coalition negotiations after election day on Thursday.
He said: "People would worry that, were we to fall short [of an overall majority] - and I don't believe we will - but were we to, this is something that could be bargained away and I want to be absolutely clear with people that that will not happen.
"I will not lead a government that doesn't have that referendum in law and carried out."
He added: "I'm confident that in four days' time we will win those 23 seats, we'll have that majority. But come what may, I will not be prime minister of a government that does not deliver that referendum."
Earlier Mr Farage, whose party campaigns for the UK's exit from the European Union, told the BBC Mr Cameron had broken his promise to hold a referendum before, and only decided to promise one when he saw "UKIP spreading like a purple rash across the country".
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"If he held that referendum on his own, without UKIP holding his feet to the fire, I am not confident that it would be a full, free and fair referendum," he said.
The UKIP leader has said holding an in/out EU referendum was "absolutely" a red line for his party - and he would be ready to vote down a Conservative Queen's Speech, if it was not brought forward to this year.
He said that Mr Cameron's plan to use the two years after the general election to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK in Europe was a waste of time. He also told Sky News he would stand down as UKIP leader "in 10 minutes" if he loses his bid for a Westminster seat on Thursday.
Meanwhile Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg - who leads the most pro-European of the large Westminster parties - said that he had legislated with the Conservatives "to enshrine in law the point at which a referendum will take place" but said the Tory leadership had since "buckled" in the face of pressure from their own right wing.
Pressed on whether he would enter another coalition with the Conservatives - if they insisted on holding their promised referendum in 2017 - Mr Clegg did not rule it out but said he would first insist on his own "red lines" before discussing the other party's.
"You ask me the question the wrong way round. I would be saying, I have said to the British people, the Liberal Democrats will not enter into government unless the NHS gets the £8bn it needs."
He added: "Before I address anyone else's red lines I would address mine. "
Meanwhile Mr Miliband - whose party, polls suggest, is still neck and neck with the Conservatives - has said he will not seek re-election as prime minister in 2020, if he fails to deliver a cut in university tuition fees in England from £9,000 a year, to £6,000 a year.
His party accuse the Conservatives of planning to raise fees to £11,500 a year - the Conservatives dismissed the claim as "scare stories" but have not ruled out raising tuition fees further.
Mr Miliband compared his position to the Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg, who apologised for breaking a promise to oppose an increase in university fees.
"I won't break my word as Nick Clegg did. If I had done what he did five years ago, I don't think I could ask you for your trust again. I will cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000.
"And I tell you this, if I fail in this task, I won't be standing here again in 2020 making more promises. I won't be standing for the office of prime minister at all. Because there should be consequences when people's trust is let down."
The Labour leader also appeared to rule out giving Scotland a second referendum on independence, during a visit to Worcester, telling reporters: "Yes, I'm not going to have another referendum on this."
Labour has claimed the Scottish Nationalist Party has a "chilling plan" for a second referendum - although SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs last week that "nobody was proposing" one.


Spain's Sergio Garcia and Australian Adam Scott share the third round lead at the Honda Classic in Florida.

Garcia carded a 67 and Scott a 66 to finish nine-under par at PGA National.
They are four shots clear of American Blayne Barber (69). Halfway leader Rickie Fowler is a shot back after a four-over 74. Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell is three-under following a 67.
Saturday's play went ahead without Jason Bohn, who suffered a heart attack on Friday after his second round.
Garcia briefly opened up a two-shot lead with a hat-trick of birdies from the third, where he missed from five feet for eagle, and also birdied the eighth to move to 10-under.
But former world number one Scott was not about to let the Spaniard out of his sights and followed his own birdie at the third with four more in succession from the sixth to reach the turn in just 30 shots.
Further birdies on the 12th and 13th took Scott three shots clear after Garcia had lipped out for birdie from three feet on the 12th and three-putted the next, only for the Australian to then run up a quadruple-bogey seven on the 15th.
Scott found the water twice on the first hole of the dreaded 'Bear Trap,' his tee shot coming up well short of the green and his third from the drop zone pitching on the back of the putting surface and rolling down into the lake.
However, the former Masters champion bounced back with a birdie on the 17th to regain the lead, before Garcia birdied the 18th to leave the good friends tied.
Scott told Sky Sports: "I feel really happy with where the game is at. Shame about 15 but that's this golf course - the Bear Trap got me today."
Northern Ireland's McDowell is still in contention six shots off the lead but knows he will need something better than his third-round 67 to take the title.
The former US Open champion said: "Anything can happen, but when you have the quality of guys like Garcia, Scott and Fowler at the top of the leaderboard it's tough to expect all of them to come back to you so I'm probably going to have to shoot a low number to have a chance."


Burton Albion caretaker manager Gary Rowett wants to prove he deserves the job on a permanent basis by building on his side's two-match unbeaten run.

Rowett guided Albion to a first win in 17 games when they beat Gillingham, and they drew 0-0 with Crawley on Saturday.
It was only the AFC Wimbledon game where we let ourselves down but we learnt an awful lot from that
Rowett, who took over from Paul Peschisolido in March, told BBC Radio Derby: "It's about getting results.
"I'd love to get to the position where the results were that fantastic, it was an obvious choice [to appoint Rowett]."
He added: "In the two weeks [since Rowett took over] - and two weeks is not a long time to try to get your ideas across - what you have seen is a defensive change. That's the quickest thing to try and change.
"We would like to be more creative and that is something we are working towards.
"But what you have seen is an improvement in the last two games, and against Northampton.
"It was only the AFC Wimbledon game [lost 4-0] where we let ourselves down but we learnt an awful lot from that."


Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has been fined £7,500 for breaching Scottish Football Association rules on dual ownership because of his influence on the affairs of Rangers.

A second charge brought by the SFA, that he failed to act in the "best interests of association football", was found to be "not proved".
Ashley, who owns 8.92% of Rangers's shares, has loaned the club cash.
Rangers will appear at a hearing on 16 March to answer three charges.
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The SFA alleges that they have violated dual ownership rules and are not acting in the "best interests of association football".
In December, the SFA refused to allow the Sports Direct owner to increase his stake in Rangers International Football Club to 29.9%. He had previously signed an agreement that limited his shareholding to 10%.
However, Ashley has made cash loans to the cash-strapped Scottish Championship club, holds commercial contracts and has two close business associates, Derek Llambias and Barry Leach, operating as chief executive and finance director, respectively, on the Ibrox board.
However, their time in those positions looks to be coming to an end, with Rangers investor  in his bid to oust the current board, even before voting takes place at an extraordinary general meeting at Ibrox on Friday.
James Easdale and chairman David Somers have already resigned, leaving Llambias and Leach hanging on to their posts.
In January, with bills to pay, the Rangers board agreed to borrow £10m from Ashley's Sports Direct, £5m of which was made available as immediate working capital and to repay a previous £3m loan made by Ashley.
For this, Ashley took security over the club's Murray Park training ground at Auchenhowie, registered trademarks and other properties, but not Ibrox Stadium.
Last month, Rangers manager Kenny McDowall said that he was told by Llambias and chairman of the football board Sandy Easdale that the five players loaned to the club from Newcastle must start every game, if fit. Llambias moved swiftly to deny the claim that the boardroom had any influence over team selections.
The SFA's judicial panel met on Monday evening to assess the case against Ashley but failed to come to a conclusion.
But on Tuesday afternoon it announced it found that he had broken disciplinary rule 19, meaning that, while he owns Newcastle, he had also influenced the running of Rangers.
However, the SFA say "the alleged breach was not proved" relating to disciplinary rule 77, which states that "a recognised football body, club, official, team official, other member of team staff, player, match official or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall, at all times, act in the best interests of Association Football".
An hour after the SFA announced Ashley's fine, the club released a statement to say they have begun the process of drawing down the second chunk of the £10m loan from the English businessman.
But in an announcement to the Stock Exchange the board warn that Sports Direct could be unwilling to release the funds, which they say are required by the third week of March.


A man has denied raping a university student who killed herself during a police investigation into the allegations.

Keele University student Hannah Stubbs, 22, took her own life at her home in Stafford in August last year.
Elgan Varney, 32, from Wye Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, denied three charges, including two of rape, at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.
A trial is expected to take place in October.
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A pig which escaped from a lorry and got loose on to a motorway in Monmouthshire is no longer on the carriageway.

The swift swine made his bid for freedom on the M48 between junction 2 for Chepstow and Junction 1 for Aust at about 06:40 BST on Thursday.
The speed limit was temporarily lowered to 50mph (80km/h).
Although the animal is no longer on the road, it is not known if it has been caught.


Newport County and Morecambe saw their League Two match abandoned at half-time after heavy rain in South Wales.

Bottom club Newport were leading 1-0 at the break after a strike from Tom Owen-Evans which would have been the teenager's first goal for the club.
But as water started to gather on the Rodney Parade pitch, referee Brendan Malone called the game off.
County have long-standing drainage problems on the pitch, which is also used by rugby's Newport Gwent Dragons.
A match against Barnet was abandoned on 3 September and that was followed by the postponement of a League Two match with Stevenage on 1 October.
Emergency drainage work was carried out on the pitch in early October with a new drainage system due to be installed in the summer of 2017.
Newport County manager Graham Westley told Radio Wales Sport: "Premier League managers moan at having to play 38 games a season, when you are Newport manager you have to play 138 games because a lot get cancelled at half-time.
"It is what it is. It was probably the right decision to call it off. I thought in the first-half we were as good as we've been in a while."
Match abandoned due to waterlogged pitch, Newport County 1, Morecambe 0.
ends, Newport County 1, Morecambe 0.
First Half ends, Newport County 1, Morecambe 0.
Foul by Marlon Jackson (Newport County).
Liam Wakefield (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joss Labadie (Newport County).
Dean Winnard (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Peter Murphy.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Peter Murphy.
Corner,  Newport County. Conceded by Dean Winnard.
Attempt saved. Luke Conlan (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Ben Tozer (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luke Conlan (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Scot Bennett (Newport County).
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County).
Luke Conlan (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner,  Morecambe. Conceded by Darren Jones.
Attempt blocked. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Josh Sheehan (Newport County).
Luke Conlan (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal!  Newport County 1, Morecambe 0. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Darren Jones (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Winnard (Morecambe).
Attempt saved. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing is saved in the top right corner.
Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Aaron McGowan (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Josh O'Hanlon (Newport County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Michael Rose (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Rhys Turner (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Alex Kenyon (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Ben Tozer (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Conlan (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.


A court in Texas has stayed the execution of a convicted accomplice to murder, ordering a review of testimony of a witness dubbed "Dr Death".

Jeffery Wood, 43, was to be executed on Wednesday by lethal injection.
Dr James Grigson, a witness renowned for testifying against those facing execution, said Wood would be violent in the future but had not examined him.
Wood did not fire the gun in the 1996 shop robbery but Texas allows for accomplices to be convicted of murder.
The Death Penalty Information Center monitoring group says that 10 murder accomplices have been executed in the US since 1976, five of them in Texas.
Wood was in a car outside when his friend, Daniel Reneau, shot dead the 31-year-old store worker.
Wood then entered the store to help with the theft. Reneau was executed in 2002.
The role of Grigson, a forensic scientist who appeared for the prosecution, was a key factor in the latest ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Grigson earned the nickname "Dr Death" for his willingness to testify against those facing execution.
Grigson, who died in 2004, was expelled from the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians and the American Psychiatric Association for making diagnoses of murder defendants without examination.
Wood's lawyer, Jared Tyler, said: "Three former jurors have said they feel the government's presentation to them of a discredited psychiatrist who predicted with certainty, and without evaluating Mr Wood, that Mr Wood would be criminally violent in the future was unfair.
"The jurors no longer support a death sentence."
Mr Tyler added: "I am not aware of a case where a person has been executed with so minimal culpability and with such little participation in the event."
The court ruled 7-2 to stay the execution.


Colin Shields has signed a deal to return for a third spell with the Belfast Giants.

Shields, 36, quit the Sheffield Steelers earlier this month despite having scored 14 goals for the club this season.
The Scottish native helped the Giants clinch the league title in 2006.
In his second spell in Belfast, Shields was part of two Challenge Cup-winning teams and also helped the club win the play-offs competition.
Shields is likely to be available for Thursday evening's league clash against Braehead at the Odyssey Arena (19:00 GMT).
The Giants go into Thursday's round of fixtures six points behind leaders Nottingham although Belfast have two games in hand on the Panthers.
Nottingham defeated Sheffield in a shoot-out on Wednesday evening and the same teams meet again on Thursday evening.


Castleford Tigers have signed Cronulla Sharks forward Jesse Sene-Lefao on a two-year deal.

The 26-year-old Samoan, who started his career with Manly Sea Eagles, made six appearances for the NRL champions last season.
He told the club website: "I'm ready now to take my game up to a new level and Castleford sounds perfect for me.
"I'm looking forward to playing for a club that plays such a big part in the community."