Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young has died aged 95.

The long-serving DJ, who spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2, died "peacefully at home" on Monday afternoon with his wife Alicia by his side, a family spokesman said.
Sir Jimmy was one of the original Radio 1 DJs when the station launched in 1967.
He moved to Radio 2 in 1973 and filled the early afternoon slot until he retired in December 2002.
Before becoming a presenter on the airwaves, Sir Jimmy had a number of hit singles during the 1950s, including a cover of the Nat King Cole song, Too Young.
Obituary: Sir Jimmy Young
Tributes have been pouring in for the presenter, who was born Leslie Ronald Young in 1921.
BBC director-general Tony Hall said: "Sir Jimmy Young defined Radio 2 and was a true broadcasting pioneer. He will be dearly missed by his many fans."
Sir Jimmy's former Radio 2 colleague Ken Bruce tweeted: "So very sad to hear about the death of my old friend Sir Jimmy Young. One of the most able broadcasters I ever worked with."
Time Team presenter and Blackadder actor Tony Robinson said: "So sad. Such memories from my childhood and teens. I loved his versions of The Man From Laramie and Unchained Melody."
And television presenter Piers Morgan said: "Another giant of British broadcasting dies just months after his great friend & colleague Terry Wogan."
The Queen was said to be amongst the millions who tuned in to his show on the BBC.
Sir Jimmy interviewed every prime minister since Harold Macmillan, with Baroness Thatcher a guest 14 times.
Bob Shennan, director of BBC Radio, said: "He was a truly unique broadcaster who pioneered a form of presenting that generations have followed.
"He made current affairs relevant to millions of listeners and helped shape Radio 2 into the station it is today."
Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph radio critic, told the BBC: "He had an easy affability in interviews. He had a shrewd sense of when to interrupt and when to shut up.
"He wasn't a soft touch, but he brought out the softer side in many a politician, and when he went off, he was often covered by politicians. You wouldn't call Ken Livingstone a soft touch, but he was one of his understudies.
"Whoever's plan it was having him made an excellent choice because he is definitely a landmark in British broadcasting history."
Sir Jimmy's working life began as a clerk for a minister of education and a manager of a hair salon before he achieved his dream of getting a career in entertainment.
The broadcaster left the BBC after more than 30 years behind the desk after a revamp at the station to attract younger viewers by new controller Jim Moir saw him replaced.
Sir Jimmy made no secret that it was not his choice to leave, and a motion was even put down in Parliament to keep him on.
But he made up with the BBC in later years, hosting a one-off special for his 90th birthday.
Jeremy Vine, who took over the veteran's Radio 2 slot, tweeted: "Sad to see this news. RIP Jimmy."
Fellow broadcaster Tony Blackburn said in a statement: "Jimmy was a legendary broadcaster, there at the very start of Radio 1 and then, for so long, the voice of Radio 2...
"2016 has been a terrible year for losing iconic figures from our youth. Today we lost another."
And LBC radio presenter Iain Dale tweeted: "Much respect to Sir Jimmy Young who died today, aged 95. The word 'legend' is overused, but not in his case. A true icon of radio."


A 26-year-old man has been charged with murdering a south Wales teenager at a holiday caravan park.

Conner Marshall, 18, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, died four days after being found critically injured at Trecco Bay Caravan Park, Porthcawl.
A man from Caerphilly will now appear at Bridgend Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Police say they still want to speak to anyone in Trecco Bay between midnight and 07:00 GMT on Sunday, 8 March.
Det Supt Paul Hurley from South Wales Police added: "I would like to reassure residents and visitors to Porthcawl and Trecco Bay caravan park that this appears to be an isolated incident on a well-managed site.
"Parkdean Trecco Bay Management are continuing to work closely with South Wales Police and I would like to thank both Parkdean and the local community for their support and assistance.
"Our thoughts are with Conner's family and all those affected by this tragic incident - and we are continuing to support his family with specially trained officers."
A family tribute described the teenager as "a unique, caring and compassionate young man with a warm, infectious smile complete with a cheeky wink".


On the surface, England's one-day series in Sri Lanka looks like ideal preparation for the World Cup.

For the first time, they have a chance to focus on 50-over cricket for a concerted period of time, without the disruption of games in other formats.
The aim will be to settle on a strategy and a group of personnel capable of surprising a few people in Australia and New Zealand next year.
However, given the conditions in Sri Lanka and their contrast to those down under, the quality of the opposition and the absence of key players such as James Anderson and Stuart Broad, the tour could end up raising more questions than answers to England's problems in the one-day format.
A heavy defeat, and England would be heading to Australia for the tri-series in January in damage-limitation mode.
Here is my assessment of the challenges facing Alastair Cook and his men ahead of their seven-match series, which begins on Wednesday.
I'm a bit disappointed that England appear to have dropped Alex Hales from the top of the order.
They desperately need to be more punchy up front and I want to see a guy up there who plays big shots and puts some pressure on the opposition bowlers in the powerplay.
As regular readers will know, I would prefer not to have Cook in the side, but England have put faith in him as their captain and opener, so the issue is who plays alongside him.
Moeen Ali, who scored a quickfire 50 against Sri Lanka A last week, has a good range of strokes. He is a graceful left-hander, who at times last summer reminded me of David Gower.
But Hales is a more powerful hitter, who has proved in Twenty20 international cricket that he can play match-winning innings against the world's best bowlers, and I would have liked to have seen him given the opportunity.
As things stand, with Ian Bell batting at three, Moeen will be under pressure to produce in every game. If he fails, England could find themselves 2-1 with Cook and Bell at the crease, which is hardly the most intimidating proposition during those crucial powerplay overs.
England batting coach Mark Ramprakash has talked about playing with "flair and confidence" but that is much easier said than done.
A positive approach is born out of winning games and series, something England have found incredibly difficult in one-day cricket of late.
England desperately need firepower - players capable of clearing the boundary ropes at will - but they also need batsmen who adapt to the situation, can knuckle down and bat for 35 overs if required.
There has been talk of Ben Stokes moving up the order and that is certainly an option worth considering. Stokes lost his way a bit with England last summer with the bat, but anyone who saw his Test hundred in Perth will be fully aware that he can play the long innings.
He is a powerful hitter, but he does have a good technique to fall back on if he finds himself batting early with the ball still hard and the bowlers' tails up.
With Anderson and Broad both missing through injury, Steven Finn finds himself as the senior bowler in the England party and this is a great opportunity for him to re-establish himself as an international cricketer.
Deemed "not selectable" last winter as his game and confidence fell to pieces, Finn needs not only to feel his way back into the side but to prove that he is the man to turn to when times are tough.
Nobody is doubting Finn's talent. He is tall, fast and has always been a wicket-taker, but he has to prove to his captain that he can offer control and hold his nerve even when the batsmen are on top.
He needs to bowl one side of the wicket, at the required length, and allow the ball and the pitch to do the rest.
If one-day cricket was a box-ticking exercise, England would score very well because their squad covers most of the key bases.
In James Taylor and Hales, they have fluent batsmen who have played well in county one-day cricket, as well as Eoin Morgan, who thinks and breathes one-day cricket.
The have a couple of batsmen who can bowl in Joe Root and Ravi Bopara, and an effective front-line spinner in James Tredwell.
If Finn can step up to the plate, he has some handy bowling all-rounders alongside him in Chris Jordan and Chris Woakes, as well as Harry Gurney as a left-arm alternative.
Woakes looks more of a handful now has he added some pace to his bowling, while Jordan has proved himself to be an explosive bowler, batsman and fielder. I just hope he has worked on his run-up, because it was clearly hampering his pace and rhythm last summer.
What they must not do is keep to short-term plans: to try someone for two games and then change it if it hasn't worked.
There is no harm in tinkering occasionally, but to imbue the side with confidence, you need to go out there with a plan in place and put faith in a core group of players.
A one-day series in Sri Lanka is a tough gig for any side but England have got to show they are capable of winning.
They must at least hint at progress, provide evidence that they are developing a team and tactics that can compete at the World Cup.
After all, it will be much easier for Broad and Anderson to come into a team that has built up some confidence than one that is battening down the hatches after another morale-sapping loss.
As things stand, England are very much underdogs for the World Cup, but that is not necessarily a bad place to be.
If they can get beyond the quarter-finals, they will have had a good tournament. Anything more than that really would be a turn-up.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham
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West Ham have sold all of their season tickets for next season, when they move to the Olympic Stadium in east London.

The club says it will have more than 50,000 season ticket holders at the 60,000-capacity stadium, which was used at the London 2012 Olympics.
The Hammers are leaving the 35,000-capacity Boleyn Ground, more commonly known as Upton Park.
The final match at the stadium, against Manchester United, takes place on Tuesday evening.
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West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady said: "[We] have always believed in the West Ham fanbase and knew we could fill the new stadium.
"Having made the bold decision to move to the former Olympic Stadium, we are delighted to see how it has captured the imagination of the Hammers fanbase."
Last month, it was confirmed that West Ham would pay £2.5m a season in rent, with the London Legacy Development Corporation also covering the running costs for the stadium.


The BBC's director general has told assembly members any additional funding for programming in Wales will be announced by March 2017.

Tony Hall was appearing before the assembly's culture, Welsh language and communications committee.
He said he understood "frustration" at the time it was taking to increase spending on English language TV that reflects Welsh life.
Lord Hall first highlighted a decade-long decline in programming in 2014.
During occasionally fractious exchanges, Labour committee member Lee Waters accused Lord Hall of stalling over the issue.
"With the greatest of respect, you've been making empathetic comments for some time now," said Mr Waters.
"You've been leading us to believe that you've got it, and you'll deliver, but it will be five years before you deliver and in the meantime you're delivering cuts of £9m. So you can understand our anxiety," he said.
Lord Hall responded: "I completely understand your anxiety, I also understand your frustration. But what I am saying to you is we are going to deliver, I do get it."
But Mr Waters said Lord Hall had "failed to deliver" after first identifying the problem two years ago.
A new charter which sets out the role and remit of the BBC for the next 11 years is due to be signed later this month, and will come into effect next year. BBC Wales recently announced a restructure aimed at making savings of £9m by 2022.
Lord Hall confirmed he would keep a pledge to increase the budget for some programming about Wales, but it would be spring next year before the plans can be made public.
"The only commitment I've made to anybody that there'll be extra money is to Wales, and this is for English language programming.
"The (licence fee) settlement is not a settlement of huge riches. We've got to manage our money very carefully, but the good thing we have got is some certainty about our funding."


The disputed ownership of a painting worth up to £17m ($25m) may have been clarified in the leaked documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca.

A Paris art dealer's estate wants the art-collecting Nahmad family to return Amadeo Modigliani's Seated Man With A Cane, which it claims the Nazis seized in World War Two.
The family claimed in court it was held by International Art Center (IAC).
The leaked papers have now shown the company is owned by the Nahmads.
The documents, obtained along with millions of others by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, show the Panama-based IAC has been controlled by the family for more than 20 years.
Richard Golub, the lawyer for the family's leader David Nahmad, said it was "irrelevant" who owned IAC, as "the main thing is what are the issues in the case, and can the plaintiff prove them?"
The family of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish art dealer, claim he originally owned the painting before fleeing Paris in 1939.
According to legal papers, they claim the 1918 work changed hands multiple times before being bought by a US military officer for 25,000 francs in 1944.
In 1946, Stettiner filed a claim in France to reclaim the painting, but died two years later with a decision still pending.
Golub disputes these claims and has questioned if Stettiner ever owned the painting.
In 1996, the work was purchased by IAC at auction in London for £2.2m ($3.2m).
The leaked documents show that while defending a legal challenge to reclaim the painting by Stettiner's grandson, Philippe Maestracci, in February 2015, the Nahmads' lawyer Nehemiah Glanc emailed IAC's legal team to ask for clarity as to who was "authorised to sign on behalf of IAC".
He was put in touch with Mossack Fonseca's Geneva office, who said their nominee directors in Panama could sign as long as the service was paid for.
Had the Nahmads signed the documents as owners as IAC, they would have lost the legal protection the company provided.
Maestracci's case was dismissed in November 2015 on the grounds that papers should have been served in Panama, not New York as they were, and that Maestracci was not the proper plaintiff.
The case has now been refiled in New York's Supreme Court with a court-appointed administrator as the plaintiff and a claim that IAC was an alter ego for the Nahmad family "in a manner so as to confuse and conceal their identities, and hide revenues generated".


Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, state media say, leaving five servicemen injured and eight more missing at sea.

The vessel reportedly caught fire in the assault, some 70km (45 miles) off the northern port of Damietta.
In two further attacks in northern Sinai, militants killed five policemen and soldiers, officials said.
A three-month state of emergency was declared in northern Sinai last month after 31 soldiers were killed.
Jihadists have stepped up attacks against police and soldiers since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year.
However, direct attacks on Egyptian naval vessels are unusual.
The group behind the latest attack, which happened on Wednesday, has not yet been identified.
Four fishing boats were used in the assault by "terrorists", four of whom were killed, the military said.
Another 32 were arrested and were being interrogated, it added.
Analysis: Orla Guerin, BBC News, Cairo
If this was a militant attack in the Mediterranean, as the Egyptian army has said, then it's the opening of a new front.
The military says "terrorist elements" struck at dawn on Wednesday. More than a day later it has not released any information about the alleged assailants.
The incident happened north of the port of Damietta, where armed people traffickers are known to operate. Did they clash with the navy to protect their lucrative trade?
Or was the vessel targeted because it was carrying troops to the Sinai peninsula, as some are suggesting on social media ?  A former general says that's unlikely as the ship was too far out to sea. But there is speculation that militants targeted the vessel in revenge for the military's growing crackdown in Sinai.
Many questions remain about the waterborne assault. One retired brigadier has described it as "bewildering."
Local media reported that the Egyptian air force had been deployed to deal with the attackers.
The Egyptian navy frequently intercepts migrant smugglers and drug traffickers off its Mediterranean coast.
In one of the Sinai attacks, two policemen who were not in uniform were shot dead near Rafah by gunmen.
In a separate attack on Thursday, three Egyptian soldiers were also shot dead after their car was stopped near Sheikh Zuweid, several miles to the west of Rafah.
A small bomb also exploded in a train carriage on Cairo's underground system, which led to 16 people being injured in the panic that followed. The blast occurred at the Hilmiyat al-Zaytun station in eastern Cairo on Thursday.
The latest attacks come several days after Egyptian jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS) militants, who have taken control of swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis - or Champions of Jerusalem - has been behind a string of attacks on military and police targets in its stronghold in Sinai.
A three-month state of emergency was declared there last month after 31 soldiers were killed in two separate militant attacks near El-Arish on 24 October.
In a separate development on Wednesday, Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi signed a new law allowing for the extradition of foreign nationals sentenced or charged in Egypt.
It is believed the law may pave the way for the release of three non-Egyptian Al-Jazeera journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, who have been held for almost a year.


England women can win the Euro 2017 tournament in the Netherlands, says coach Mark Sampson.

The Lionesses have never won a European Championship, but were the highest-placed European team at this year's World Cup in Canada - finishing third.
Sampson has made seven changes from the World Cup squad for England's opening Euro qualifier in Estonia.
Manchester City midfielder Isobel Christiansen, 23, gets her first call-up for the match on 21 September.
Sampson told the Women's Football Show: "The World Cup isn't the end; it was the start of the journey. Over the next couple of years we've got a great opportunity of making this team better.
"Our ambition come June 2017 will be to go to Holland and look to win the tournament."
Christiansen, who sent City second in Women's Super League One with the winning goal against Sunderland Ladies on Sunday, said she "started crying a little bit" at the news.
"It was such a successful trip in Canada," said Christiansen. "I'm ecstatic to be part of the next camp after the World Cup."
Sampson has also recalled Chelsea pair Gilly Flaherty (defender) and Gemma Davison (winger), along with Notts County defender Amy Turner and winger Jess Clarke.
Manchester City defender Demi Stokes and Arsenal striker Danielle Carter are included, but there is no place for Sunderland striker Beth Mead, the current top scorer in the WSL with 11 goals.
In Midfield, Fara Williams and Jade Moore are injured, while veterans Karen Carney and Katie Chapman are left out despite featuring prominently in Canada. Arsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs and Portland Thorns forwards Jodie Taylor and Lianne Sanderson are also out.
"It's important that we keep building on the momentum from the World Cup and keep improving," Sampson said.
"Some of the tournament squad have yet to recover fully from injuries sustained over the course of the season and we have left some players who would have been selected out to continue their rehab work.
"This has opened the door for a new group of players who have shown strong qualities over the course of the season and deserve an opportunity."
England squad
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Siobhan Chamberlain (Notts County), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Alex Greenwood (Notts County), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Claire Rafferty (Chelsea), Alex Scott (Arsenal), Casey Stoney (Arsenal), Amy Turner (Notts County), Demi Stokes (Manchester City)
Midfielders: Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jo Potter (Birmingham City), Jill Scott (Manchester City)
Forwards: Eniola Aluko (Chelsea), Danielle Carter (Arsenal), Jess Clarke (Notts County), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Ellen White (Notts County)


Birmingham City captain Michael Morrison has signed an extended contract with the club until 2019.

The former Leicester City defender, 28, arrived in October 2014, initially on loan from Charlton, as Gary Rowett's first signing as the club's manager.
Morrison - whose previous contract was due to expire in June 2018 - has made 76 appearances for the Blues in all competitions, scoring five goals.
He has previously played for Sheffield Wednesday and Cambridge United.


A machete attacker who left a man permanently disabled has been jailed for 14 years.

Nelo Smith, of Fishponds, Bristol was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm over the "horrific" assault.
Smith, 24, attacked the 36-year-old man in Marshfield Road, Fishponds on 5 December in a dispute over a drug deal.
The victim lost part of one hand and suffered severe trauma to his other hand and a leg, spending 16 hours in emergency surgery.
Det Sgt Mark Newbury said: "Smith inflicted severe injuries on the victim, who lost more than three pints of blood before being operated on.
"It was an horrific attack which has left the victim permanently disabled."
Smith, of Marshfield Road, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday.


A British schoolgirl's plan to travel to Syria to join Islamic State has been disrupted after an undercover newspaper investigation, police have said.

Scotland Yard said it was alerted to the "vulnerable" 16-year-old from east London by the Daily Mail.
Officers said they were working with her family and the local authority to ensure she was "kept safe from harm".
The home secretary said the case, which involved grooming via social media, showed the "threat" from IS.
According to the Mail, counter-terrorism officers attended the girl's family home on Wednesday.
The paper said she had intended to travel to the Syrian border, via Turkey and Switzerland, next week after her GCSE exams finished, in order to marry a jihadi fighting for IS.
It said a journalist posing as a 16-year-old girl had been involved in conversations online with the girl's older sister - described as a "groomer" for IS - who is already in Syria. She had been trying to persuade the reporter to accompany her sibling.
IS had used encrypted apps on smartphones to send detailed instructions, the paper reported.
Commander Richard Walton, from the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command, said: "We were made aware of a vulnerable young girl on Monday.
A BBC investigation has documented the Britons known to have died in Syria and Iraq, those convicted of offences relating to the conflict there and others believed to be living in territory controlled by Islamic State.
It includes the stories of:
"Upon receiving the information officers acted promptly and were able to identify the girl concerned, and preventative steps have now been taken to do all we can to safeguard her."
He added: "This case is a frightening example of how quickly social media can be used to groom vulnerable young people... This is a stark reminder to parents and the community of the speed with which these cases can develop."
Home Secretary Theresa May said the incident showed the "seriousness of the threat" from IS.
She said: "The police and security service are working hard every day to keep our country safe, but it is up to all of us to stand united against extremism, support the pluralistic values that underpin our society, and stop young and vulnerable people from being drawn into this kind of trouble."
In February, three schoolgirls from east London travelled to Turkey before crossing the Syrian border to  join the terrorist group. A friend had earlier made the same journey.
And last week, Scotland Yard said more than 700 Britons were thought to have travelled to Syria, with about half having returned to the UK. It said a "significant proportion" of those who made the journey intended to join IS.


The UK's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said a whistleblower's concerns about Trident nuclear submarine safety have not been proved.

He said William McNeilly's allegations were either factually incorrect or the result of misunderstanding or partial understanding.
The Royal Navy submariner has claimed missile programme system on the Clyde was a "disaster waiting to happen".
He wrote a report, detailing "serious security and safety breaches".
In a statement addressing the 25-year-old's concerns, Mr Fallon insisted that neither the "operational effectiveness" of the fleet "nor the safety of our submariners or public have been compromised".


A damning report of a privately run hospital that is due to be returned to the NHS contained 300 factual errors, its chief executive has said.

Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, run by Circle, was branded "inadequate" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) last month.
However, its chief executive, Hisham Abdel-Rahman, said the report was "problematic" and full of errors.
The CQC accepted some mistakes but said it stood by the report.
Mr Abdel-Rahman was giving evidence to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on Monday.
Circle announced on 9 January that it was in talks to ensure an "orderly withdrawal" from its contract to run the hospital, near Huntingdon, citing "unprecedented" increases in A&E attendances and funding cuts.
The CQC released its report hours later, raising "a number of serious concerns" about staffing, risks to patient safety and medical care.
Mr Abdel-Rahman told the committee he was disappointed the inadequate rating had not been changed, even though the CQC had acknowledged 65% of the 300 errors.
In one example, he told the committee a member of staff was criticised for shouting at a patient, who later turned out to be profoundly deaf.
Stewart Jackson, committee member and Conservative MP for Peterborough, told David Behan, the head of the CQC, that the report was based on "anecdote - some might say tittle-tattle".
"You have traduced the reputation of a popular hospital," Mr Jackson said. "You should be ashamed of yourself."
But Mr Behan said he stood by the report and many of the changes pointed out by the hospital had been based on its presentation and spelling.
"I am not ashamed of myself," he said.
"We did find good care at Hinchingbrooke but we also found care that needs to improve and needs to improve quickly."
A spokeswoman for the CQC said the "exact number of changes" made to the report, which she said was at a draft stage, was not known.
"None of the changes that were highlighted during the factual accuracy process would have been about the overall rating of the provider," she said.
"Our judgments are based on what our inspection team saw and heard on their visits."
The hospital, which was taken over in 2012 when it faced closure with debts of Â£40m, is to be returned to the NHS in March.
A follow up report by the CQC, due to be published in the next few weeks, is expected to say improvements have been made.


Minecraft-maker Mojang has stepped in to prevent the making of a film set in the game's block-built world.

The creators of Birth of a Man had launched an appeal on Kickstarter for $600,000 (Â£366,000) to fund production of the film.
But barely a day after the project had been launched, it was cancelled with no explanation by its creator.
Mojang founder Markuss Persson later posted a message on Twitter to explain why it was shut down.
"We don't allow [half-a-million-dollar Kickstarter projects] based on our [intellectual property] without any deals in place," wrote Mr Persson, also known as Notch, in a tweet.
The message is believed to refer to the fact that there was no licensing deal arranged between Mojang and the film-makers to use blocks, items and other elements identical to those seen in the game. The film was scheduled to be released on YouTube later in 2014.
A teaser film on the Kickstarter project page showed concept footage mixing live action with landscapes, creatures and weapons seen in the game.
In the short film, director Brandon Laatsch said he had been working on the idea for a Minecraft film for more than 12 months.
As he and others involved with the project were dedicated gamers, he hoped that the finished film would be better than other films based on well-known games, he said.
"Minecraft is the perfect video game to adapt to a film," he said in the teaser video.
"The reason is that it doesn't have a character, it doesn't have a story, which to me is a big benefit because we can come up with our own original story."
Mr Laatsch has yet to comment on why the project was cancelled or whether it is likely to be revived after negotiating with Mojang about licensing its intellectual property.


In many ways, Singapore is an excellent place to set up a business, but it can also present challenges, especially for niche players.

6 November 2015 Last updated at 03:16 GMT
Johari Kazura owns a perfumery, blending custom-made scents.
He grew up in a family business, but soon set up in competition to his father.
He says the business is growing, but that it's been a tough road.
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A new study has confirmed the UK's oil and gas supply chain saw its turnover decline in 2015.

The report by business advisers EY indicates the fall in the price of oil led to a fall in business activity for firms serving North Sea producers.
They anticipate the international price of oil will mean 2016 saw a continuation of the downward trend.
But its authors said the industry still makes a significant contribution to the UK economy.
EY's Review of the UK oilfield industry will be launched formally in Aberdeen later.
It is expected to show the overall turnover of the UK oil and gas industry was Â£36bn - the third-highest annual level on record.
Part of that has been attributed to firms winning work internationally as the North Sea declined.
EY's analysts will indicate room for optimism, with oil prices becoming more stable and takeover deals stimulating new investment.


"All politics is local," was the famed dictum of the legendary House Speaker Tip O'Neill.

O'Neill hailed from an age when lawmakers had a more intimate relationship with the voters who sent them to Washington and were also more willing to cut deals with their partisan adversaries.
Nowadays, however, it would seem that all politics is oppositional.
The Republican healthcare debacle is but another reminder of how a solutions-based politics has given way to a protest-based politics, how for many lawmakers in Washington it has primarily become a negative pursuit.
For the best part of a decade, the GOP revelled in its success as the Party of No, obstructing and paralysing Barack Obama's legislative agenda.
Rather than paying a penalty at the polls for its blocking strategy, it was rewarded. It retained control of the House of Representatives from 2011 to the present day, and became the majority party in the Senate at the 2014 mid-term elections.
Its wrecking tactics also helped create a rubble-strewn path for Donald Trump's insurgent presidential campaign. So badly was Washington broken, became his refrain, only an outsider could fix it.
As the new president discovered last week, however, sections of the Party of No remain the Party of No.
House Speaker Paul Ryan candidly conceded as much last Friday. "We were a 10-year opposition party," he said, dejectedly. "Being against things was easy to do."
Representative Tom Rooney of Florida, who before entering Congress in 2009 served as a military lawyer, delivered an even more withering assessment of his own party.
"I've been in this job of eight years," he told The Atlantic, "and I'm wracking my brain to think of one thing our party has done that's been something positive, that's been something other than stopping something else from happening."
Rather than lash out at the Democrats, as the president did, Paul Ryan put this humiliating defeat down to the GOP making a painful transition from opposition to government.
But the problem is not so easily explained away. This is not transitory. The DNA of the GOP has changed. No longer does it operate as a conventional, cohesive party.
Rather it is acting more like a protest movement. The inability of the Republican Congress to advance the Trump administration's legislative agenda will be a recurring problem.
Part of the Republican dilemma, obviously, is arithmetic. The Freedom Caucus, this dissident rump of ideological hardliners that neither Trump nor Ryan could corral, has enough members to cancel out the party's 20-plus seat majority in the House.
But the problem posed by the Freedom Caucus is also attitudinal and ideological. Being part of government will not automatically alter its obstructionist modus operandi, because the 30 or so lawmakers who comprise its membership are so mistrustful of government.
Many were elected during the 2010 Tea Party rebellion, and arrived in Washington seeking to upend the city.
As they showed last week, they are much more than pebble-throwers. They can hurl a wrecking ball at Trump's presidency.
It explains Thursday's extraordinary tweet, which doubled as a declaration of war: "The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!"
Because of the checks and balances hard-wired into the US system, a well-organised minority has always been able to thwart the majority, especially in the Senate.
Just recall the immense power of the Southern Caucus in the Democratic Party for much of the last century. This well-disciplined rump of diehard segregationists kept the Jim Crow system of racial apartheid in place until the mid-1960s.
Its members turned the Senate into what William S White of the New York Times memorably described in the mid-1950s as "the South's unending revenge upon the North for Gettysburg".
Civil rights legislation could only overcome southern filibusters with bipartisan support.
But that level of bipartisanship, the triumph of patriotism over party, is no longer a feature of Washington life. It ceased to be a long while ago.
Nor does the Trump White House and the Republican congressional leadership merely have to contend with the Freedom Caucus. Appeasing hardliners on healthcare meant losing support from Republican moderates.
On tax reform, if Paul Ryan pushes a border adjustment tax - a tax on imports combined with a tax break on exports - he will run into problems with free traders in his party.
A costly infrastructure bill, not to mention the expense of Trump's border wall with Mexico, will incur the wrath of Republican deficit hawks. However artful the dealmaker, these are hard circles to square.
It would be misleading to suggest that oppositional politics is solely a problem of the right. The Democrats have signalled they intend to pursue much the same "Politics of No" approach under Trump as the GOP did under Barack Obama.
The Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer has already vowed to deploy the filibuster against Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Sixty votes in the Senate are required to overcome this blocking device. The Republicans have only 52. The talk is already of what's being called a "nuclear" showdown.
Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign also underscored the limitations of unrelenting negativity. Her stump speech, rather than offering a vision of what America would look like under her presidency, was primarily an assault on Donald Trump.
What was her signature policy proposal? What was her economic message? I covered her campaign closely for 18 months, and honestly could not answer that question. Her uninspiring campaign was centred on taking down the man rather than offering a manifesto.
Both healthcare and Hillary point to another failing of oppositional politics: its intellectual and programmatic emptiness. Make America Great Again. Build the Wall. Stronger Together. Take back control, the battle cry of Britain's Brexiteers. Oppositional politics is expressed these days in short slogans rather than big ideas.
With political dialogue increasingly expressed in catchphrases, the tendency is for campaign slogans to be superseded by governing slogans: "Repeal and Replace" in Washington, "Brexit Means Brexit" in Westminster. But what do those mantras actually mean?
The Republicans had seven years to come up with an answer, and failed. In Britain, even as Article 50 is triggered, there's still great uncertainty among policy-makers, and still more among voters, as to what precisely Brexit will entail.
Post-referendum Britain also illustrates how a politics defined by opposition can quickly turn winners into losers. UKIP has been in internal disarray since last year's referendum, partly because it does not have the European Union to rail against.
In Washington it required the presence in the White House of Barack Obama to unify the Republican Party. Rallying around Donald Trump does not come so easily. And while gridlock is ordinarily the consequence of divided government, the healthcare debacle suggests it has become endemic.
Even a party with a monopoly on Washington power could not get a major bill through the House of Representatives, where it commands a comfortable majority.
This impasse was decades in the making. It has shown once again that as the Republican Party on Capitol Hill has become more unmanageable, the United States has become more ungovernable.
So while the main headline from last week's debacle was Trump's humbling setback, the larger historical take is the chronic dysfunction in Washington. As Governor John Kasich, a former Republican congressman himself, said during a visit to the capital this week. "There is a fundamental flaw in this place. It does not work anymore."


A mental health trust failed to act on 258 recommendations from 98 reviews into serious incidents, such as patient deaths, a report has revealed.

The report to Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation's Trust's board said there was a "risk" in having outstanding recommendations.
Former Norfolk coroner William Armstrong said the trust's failure to act was a "serious concern".
The trust said staff were receiving additional training.
Serious incident reviews take place after there are unexpected or avoidable deaths or severe harm to a patients, or allegations of abuse.
Last week the trust became the first of its kind in England to be put in special measures.
The report to its board said recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) reports on the trust said "learning at all levels of the organisation is not taking place".
Mr Armstrong, who is also chairman of watchdog Healthwatch Norfolk, said as Norfolk coroner he had seen a number of cases of deaths of mental health patients where serious incident inquiries had been conducted by the trust.
"It would be a serious concern if recommendations in a report make a commitment to learn lessons to reduce risks... and they are not implemented," he said.
Some of the recommendations from the reviews date back to 2012.
Vicki Nash, head of policy and campaigns at Mind, said: "Serious incident reviews are an essential part of the process of understanding how incidents including deaths, severe harm and abuse have occurred and what, if anything, could have been done to prevent them.
"Any recommendations that come out of them have to be taken seriously and implemented swiftly to ensure that healthcare providers learn from past mistakes."
Emma Corlett, who represents Unison members at the trust, said: "It is a surprise to see that level of recommendations still to be implemented. Our staff will be really concerned about that."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "It is deeply shocking and insulting to patients and their families that the trust has failed to implement 258 recommendations, despite repeatedly promising 'lessons will be learnt'."
Jane Sayer, director of nursing at the trust, said that while some recommendations could be put in place immediately, "others will take a while to roll out".
She said: "Four hundred and fifty improvement actions, resulting from serious incident reviews recommendations, have been carried out in the past year alone.
"We are not complacent about this issue... and we now offer additional training and support to frontline staff to encourage them to not only implement the actions but to fully report back."


A police investigation is under way after what is thought to be a human bone was found close to a motorway in Leeds.

The bone was discovered on Monday, close to junction 45 of the M1, West Yorkshire Police said.
A spokesperson said: "Initial indications are that it is a human bone, and a scene guard remains in place."
The force said it was not in a position to release any further details.
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For the past few weeks Donald Trump has been railing against what he calls a "rigged" and "crooked" Republican nomination process and silent efforts to deny him the party's presidential bid.

As Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus has pointed out, the rules are the rules, and they aren't a secret.
But Mr Trump is right that there are forces coalescing to stop him. And as of Sunday night - with the announcement that presidential candidates John Kasich and Ted Cruz are co-ordinating their efforts in upcoming state primaries - those forces aren't so silent anymore.
Neither Mr Cruz nor Mr Kasich can win the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the Republican nomination for themselves. Their only hope is to deny Donald Trump that opportunity as well. And now, at last, their campaigns are publicly acknowledging that they need each other's help to do so.
As the two campaigns explained in dual press releases, Mr Cruz will focus on Indiana on 3 May, while Mr Kasich will be given free rein to challenge Mr Trump head-on in the Oregon and New Mexico contests over the following weeks.
This announcement comes just days before Mr Cruz and Mr Kasich are likely to receive a thorough drubbing in a handful of states in the mid-Atlantic, including delegate-rich Pennsylvania.
By Wednesday morning Mr Trump could have put considerably more distance between himself and his two opponents. So this accord may be an early effort to push the focus past the next round of voting and on to more friendly contests.
Indiana, one of the last big prizes of the primary season, is shaping up to be a pivotal battleground. A recent poll shows Mr Trump with a comfortable lead in a three-way race that narrows considerably if Mr Kasich is taken out of the equation.
Given the rules in Indiana - 30 delegates to the candidate who wins a statewide plurality and three delegates to the top finisher in each of the state's nine congressional districts - every bit of help Mr Cruz can get to edge past Mr Trump will be invaluable.
Independent groups backing the #NeverTrump efforts are pouring resources into the state in the hopes that a massive advertising blitz will dent the New York mogul's image. It worked for them in Wisconsin two weeks ago, although those efforts also benefited from a state Republican Party unified in opposing Mr Trump and a conservative media that had been relentlessly bashing him for months.
The atmosphere in Indiana is much more muddled. Republican Governor Mike Pence is not endorsing any candidate, and the local talk radio hosts aren't as virulently anti-Trump.
This unite-to-defeat-Trump strategy has been kicked around for months, of course. When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker ended his presidential bid last September, he urged his opponents to follow his lead and "clear the field" for a candidate with a "positive, conservative message" - ie not Mr Trump.
The Wisconsin Cassandra was universally ignored.
In early March, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for exactly such an accord between non-Trump candidates, with each focusing on states where they could win and voters acting accordingly.
Shortly before his Florida primary flameout, Senator Marco Rubio's campaign announced it was ceding Ohio to Mr Kasich, perhaps hoping that the Ohio governor would return the favour in Mr Rubio's home state. Mr Kasich's team met the offer with mockery.
Times have changed. Now the Kasich campaign is more than willing to play the divide-and-conquer game. The problem, however, is that it would've been much more effective back in March, when Mr Trump was building his lead thanks to plurality wins over a fractured field. And one thing the two campaigns aren't doing is urging their supporters to actually vote for their counterpart.
The result is more a cessation of hostilities than a full-fledged joint effort. In addition, the agreement doesn't extend to the eight other primaries on the calendar in May and June.
Perhaps this is just a first step toward such full co-ordination. Or perhaps it's a bridge the two campaigns will never cross, dire straits or no.
If they don't co-ordinate in California on 6 June, however, it could be all for naught. Mr Trump has an imposing lead in the polls there, and big win will get him tantalisingly close to the numbers he needs for outright victory.
A majority of Republicans are telling pollsters that they think whoever wins the most votes and delegates, regardless of whether they get an outright majority, should be the nominee. If Mr Cruz and the anti-Trump movement want to avoid the perception that they're stealing the prize from the deserving winner, Indiana has to be just the beginning.
Mr Trump isn't going to be caught flat-footed, however. On Sunday night he took to Twitter to condemn the collusion - and has been on a tear ever since.
"DESPERATION!" he concluded.
And indeed it is. Only desperation would unite Mr Kasich and Mr Cruz, whose political views and temperament sit on opposite ends of the Republican Party. The remaining weeks of the campaign appear destined to become simply about the desperate measures necessary to stop Mr Trump before the convention.
Beyond that, now, there is nothing.


A building on Weston-super-Mare's seafront is to undergo a Â£750,000 refurbishment after lying derelict for 14 years.

Various schemes to redevelop the Tropicana outdoor pool and leisure facility have failed since it closed in 2000 due to falling visitor numbers.
North Somerset Council unanimously voted through proposals to get the building "back up and into use".
Councillor Tony Lake said work would start within "weeks if not days".
The proposals for the Tropicana will allow the building to be used for a variety of leisure activities and events throughout the year.
Money for the redevelopment will come from an existing budget of Â£748,000 set aside for the site which was approved by members in 2011.
The work will include roof repairs, rewiring, heating, mending of the external fabric and overall light refurbishment works.
Mr Lake said the council also hope to see the pool redeveloped in the longer term, subject to a viable business plan coming forward.
There has been a pool on the seafront in Weston since the 1930s.
As late as the 1980s, families thronged to the Tropicana to experience its state-of-the-art wave machine.


The chief executive of Thomas Cook has said he is "deeply sorry" about the deaths of two British children on holiday in Corfu in 2006.

Christi and Bobby Shepherd, from West Yorkshire, died from carbon monoxide poisoning at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel.
Peter Fankhauser said: "From the deepest of my heart I am sorry."
An inquest jury ruled the children had been unlawfully killed and said Thomas Cook "breached its duty of care".
The children's parents have previously criticised Thomas Cook for not apologising to them directly after a letter of apology had been sent from the chief executive to Neil Shepherd and Sharon Wood.
Mr Fankhauser has now told the BBC he was "deeply sorry"
"It is clear that there are things that we as a company could have done better in the past nine years," he said.
"In particular the way we conducted our relationship with the family and this is something that we are going to change."
He said he took responsibility for the way the company had communicated.
He also said he regretted saying Thomas Cook had done "nothing wrong" when giving evidence at the coroner's court in Wakefield last week.
The holiday firm was awarded damages against the hotel's owner in 2010.
Thomas Cook said its insurers had taken half the payout for legal costs and it donated the remainder to the children's charity Unicef.


England and Wales moved closer to Euro 2016 qualification, Northern Ireland and Scotland earned valuable points, but the Republic of Ireland's hopes were hampered by a draw.

Three nations from the British Isles have not competed in the same tournament since England, Scotland and Republic of Ireland reached the 1990 World Cup finals.
But, after the latest round of qualifiers, there is a strong possibility that could happen in France next summer.
With four matches remaining, BBC Sport's football writers - Phil McNulty, Dafydd Pritchard, Alasdair Lamont and Lyle Jackson - assess the five nations' hopes of sealing a cross-Channel trip.
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty: "Efficient, routine, not always spectacular but getting the job done - as you would fully expect England to do considering the relatively easy group they were handed."
BBC Wales Sport's Dafydd Pritchard: "Absent from major tournaments since 1958, Wales entered this campaign with a renewed sense of hope which has evolved into delirious optimism after an unbeaten start which has exceeded expectations."
BBC Sport NI's Lyle Jackson: "There is huge optimism in Northern Ireland that the team can reach their first major finals since the 1986 World Cup. They were in with a chance of making Euro 2008 but, following boss Lawrie Sanchez's departure to Fulham, fell short. Hope turned to expectation when Michael O'Neill's men won their first three matches in Group F, now they have to finish the job following Saturday's 0-0 draw against Romania."
BBC Scotland Sport's Alasdair Lamont: "Largely positive for Scotland, with some much-improved performances and results compared to recent campaigns. However,  Saturday's display in the 1-1 draw against the Republic of Ireland was the poorest in a while and Gordon Strachan's side can be thankful to have emerged with a point."
Lyle Jackson: "The increase to 24 teams for the Euro 2016 finals was seen as a positive development for the Republic of Ireland - but it looks like they might not be involved next year. Having taken just one point from their two games against qualification rivals Scotland, their hopes of even third place in Group D look slim."
Phil McNulty: "England's Roy Hodgson has done everything that has been asked of him. What more could he do than win six out of six qualifying games? Greater tests lie ahead and failings still have to be corrected but so far so good for England and Hodgson."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Booed during the opening game against Andorra, Wales boss Chris Coleman has transformed his reputation with a number of tactically astute decisions. Coleman has fostered an excellent team spirit, which has yielded memorable results on the pitch and reinvigorated the nation's support for its football team."
Lyle Jackson: "The Irish FA backed Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill with a new contract, despite just one victory in their World Cup group. That is now seen as a sensible move with the former midfielder's stock rising. The playing pool is limited, but O'Neill has instilled a great spirit within the squad."
Alasdair Lamont: "Scotland's Tartan Army have adopted the catchphrase 'In Gord We Trust' but that was put to the test in Dublin, with the selection of Craig Forsyth and Matt Ritchie raising eyebrows and not really working. However, Gordon Strachan has earned a bit of slack and he'll be given it."
Lyle Jackson: "With a contract that lasts as long as the Republic of Ireland are involved in Euro 2016, there is a growing feeling that Martin O'Neill's days as team boss are numbered. His appointment as Giovanni Trapattoni's successor was widely welcomed - and the draw against Scotland was one of the best performances of his tenure. But it seems poorer performances earlier in the campaign may prove his downfall."
Phil McNulty: "England must somehow find a way of making themselves more secure defensively. Slovenia exposed weaknesses in central defence and both full-back spots are up for grabs. Ball retention must improve in midfield because possession is king against quality opposition."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Strength in depth is always an issue, with injuries often stretching Wales' limited resources. There is also a dearth of attacking options, which means there is a heavy reliance on Gareth Bale to provide the goals. Burnley striker Sam Vokes' return to fitness could ease that burden."
Lyle Jackson: "Some key Northern Irish players, notably veteran defender Aaron Hughes and forwards Jamie Ward and Kyle Lafferty, are facing uncertain club futures. Boss O'Neill would prefer to see 'unattached' missing from future squad announcements."
Alasdair Lamont: "The game against the Republic aside, Gordon Strachan looks to have resolved many of Scotland's issues. Charlie Mulgrew and Russell Martin looked a decent central defensive pairing in Dublin and that has been an area of concern. Steven Fletcher needs to get back among the goals for club and country."
Lyle Jackson: "The Republic of Ireland lack bite, purpose and real quality in midfield and, apart from attacking midfielder Wes Hoolahan, it is difficult to see where it is going to come from."
Phil McNulty: "Wayne Rooney. Still shoulders the burden of responsibility of being England's match-winner, as he proved again with the crucial goal in Slovenia. If anything happens to Rooney between now and the start of the Euros, England's chances will immediately be diminished."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Gareth Bale. Who else? Although Ashley Williams is the cornerstone of the defence and Aaron Ramsey is yet to fulfil his potential in this campaign, Bale is utterly pivotal to Wales' hopes. The Real Madrid forward has scored five of Wales' eight goals in this campaign and has proven his ability to win games almost single-handedly."
Lyle Jackson: "Skipper Steven Davis is regarded by many as Mr Indispensable but, if Northern Ireland do make it, they will need key defenders, notably West Brom's Gareth McAuley, to bring their 'A' game to France. Despite a stuttering club career, striker Kyle Lafferty has netted five in the Group F campaign."
Alasdair Lamont: "Shaun Maloney has been absolutely inspirational for Scotland during this campaign, with key goals at crucial times in a number of games. Scott Brown and Ikechi Anya have also played a big part, but Maloney's goals give him the edge."
Lyle Jackson: "In the past Robbie Keane would have been seen as indispensable for the Republic of Ireland but, with the veteran striker past his best, many regard Hoolahan as the chief inspiration for the Irish. Norwich City's probing midfielder certainly made a positive impression before being strangely substituted in the Scotland game."
Phil McNulty: "Yes, England will qualify easily. But then the hard work starts. This qualifying group is not ideal preparation for the quality they will eventually have to face at Euro 2016."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Yes. There is an understandable tendency in Wales to treat any promising situations with trepidation, such is the nation's tradition of traumatic near-misses. But this is their best ever start to a qualifying campaign and, with favourable fixtures to come, this is a golden opportunity not even Wales can waste."
Lyle Jackson: "Northern Ireland have never qualified for the finals of the European Championship but are now daring to dream. If they win their next game in the Faroe Islands - not an easy task and O'Neill is concerned about the artificial surface - the 7 September game at home to Hungary could be a night of celebration."
Alasdair Lamont: "It's still too close to call but Scotland are certainly right in contention - at least for a play-off spot. The next match in Tbilisi is another massive one. Win that, beat Poland at home and they could be going into the last game against Gibraltar knowing victory would take them to France 2016."
Lyle Jackson: "Manager Martin O'Neill is staying upbeat about the Republic of Ireland's chances but it looks like they will go into their last two games at home to Germany and away to Poland needing points. They are currently fourth - and the chances are they will finish there."


A listed building may have to be demolished after it was badly damaged in a blaze.

Homes were evacuated when the fire broke out at the former Lord's Tavern in Barrow, Cumbria, on Wednesday night.
More than 70 firefighters tackled the blaze at its height. The cause is being jointly investigated by police and fire officers.
The three-storey building in Abbey Road was built in 1871 and was one of the area's first workingmen's clubs.
The former pub - known locally as the House of Lords - has also been used as a library. It was given Grade II listed status in 1976 and now faces being demolished.
A spokesman for Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service said: "Initially two engines were dispatched, but on arrival crews were faced with a severe fire that had already engulfed most of the building.
"The building has suffered partial collapse. This was a large and complex fire that required a significant and sustained response from us and colleagues from Lancashire.
"Thankfully it appears no-one has been hurt and we will now begin investigation work to determine the cause."


Swimming is "not a clean sport" and needs an athletics-style investigation to ensure fair racing at Rio 2016, according to a leading coach.

Briton Jon Rudd guided Plymouth-based Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte to Olympic gold at London 2012.
Meilutyte's main rival, Yuliya Efimova, faces a possible lifetime ban after testing positive for a banned substance for the second time in her career.
"There's no doubt in my mind, we're not a clean sport," Rudd told BBC Sport.
"It was a shock the first time Yuliya tested positive and it's disappointing a talented athlete has chosen this route to try and achieve her ambitions."
Russian world champion Efimova is just one high-profile example of a much bigger problem for Russian sport.
From the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2015 a total of 27 swimmers tested positive for banned substances and served bans.
In November last year the IAAF - athletics' world governing body - voted to suspend Russia's athletics federation (Araf) after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".
Although that volume of evidence has not been presented against the Russian Swimming Federation, Rudd believes swimming's own governing body, Fina, needs to begin a global investigation immediately.
"At the moment there are lots of question marks about several nations so let's open it up and let's see the nuts and bolts of swimming," he said.
"If we were to have the level of scrutiny and investigation in swimming that we've seen in athletics, then the only people who would be against it would be those who have something to hide.
"Fina have to be behind that and they have to be strong or they lose credibility and respect."
Fina insists it is doing everything in its power to identify and punish drugs cheats and does not feel a large-scale independent investigation is required.
"I think there is a problem, but in swimming it is not a big problem," Fina executive director Cornel Marculescu told BBC Sport.
"People say 'now it's your turn', but we are doing everything we can and have nothing to hide.
"This is a battle we will not win but we will fight and fight - no matter what the level of athlete or the nation they come from."
Rudd, who was England Swimming's head coach for the highly successful Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, hopes Efimova is given the correct punishment.
"When Efimova was first proved positive the rules were not adhered to and they were manoeuvred and manipulated for whatever reason," said the Plymouth-based coach.
"For us all to believe in our governing body they need to stand up to the views they said that they hold - it's a cut-and-dried rule [a lifetime ban for a second offence]."
Rudd concluded: "We all have a responsibility - coaches, officials, athletes, sports scientists, parents - to put this right and change this culture of trying to get an advantage through illegitimate means."
Fina says it will aim to test all leading Olympic medal contenders between five and seven times before the Rio Games.


In 1982, about 10,000 Argentine soldiers were sent to the Falkland Islands to gain control of the territory from Britain, which had governed the islands - known as Malvinas in Argentina - for 150 years.

The brief war cost the lives of more than 900 soldiers, mostly Argentines.
But for many young Argentine conscripts, the enemy was not the British troops, but their own superiors.
About 700 secret files released by Argentina's armed forces reveal that Argentine soldiers were subjected to abuse and torture at the hands of their officers during the 10-week conflict in the South Atlantic.
They are the first official documents from the war to be made public and contain testimonies from soldiers who say they were badly equipped and ill prepared for the cold.
For years a group of soldiers tried to bring those responsible for the abuses to justice, but in February Argentina's Supreme Court ruled that the statute of limitations had expired and closed the investigation.
This group is now appealing to the Inter-American Court for Human Rights.
BBC Mundo's Ignacio de los Reyes spoke to one of the soldiers who was tortured.
Silvio Katz, who is now 53, works as a cook at a school in the province of Buenos Aires.
He recalled the harsh punishments the conscripts would be subjected to and the abuse he suffered for being Jewish.
"I was just a 19-year-old boy fulfilling the mandatory military service.
"I had only seen weapons in films. Suddenly I was taken to a war I did not choose to fight in.
"Just like the other 10,000 conscripts, I had no idea of what was to come.
"I arrived on the Malvinas on 11 April 1982. I honestly thought we would only go and occupy a place where nothing was going to happen.
"The Argentine strategy was so bad and we had so little information that we thought Britain wouldn't send ships or planes. But the feeling of uncertainty soon turned into horror.
"The worst part was the psychological torture because of my beliefs. I was called a 'Jewish coward', 'Jewish traitor' or just 'shitty Jew'.
"They [my superiors] used to drive four stakes into the ground and tie our hands and legs to them [as a form of punishment].
"So I would be tied to the stakes in the rain, while my colleagues were forced to urinate on me. And I didn't know when the punishment would end.
"They would also put my head, hands and feet in icy water. {Other times,] I was forced to eat my food among faeces.
"That was the superiors' way of systematic punishment... their way to show their power.
"I used to lay down in a well and cry and my colleagues would come to comfort me. It is thanks to them that I am not insane now.
"My time on the islands was the worst of my life. My own war was against the Argentine military.
"As soon as I was captured by the British I felt relieved, liberated. They gave me food and I could feel alive again.
"There are many former soldiers who do not want to be seen as victims of the Argentine dictatorship [which ruled the country from 1976 to 1983 and under which as many as 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared].
"They are afraid they won't be regarded as heroes. But I think we were both victims and heroes.
"Because I feel the pride of fighting for my country, and at the same time I feel that those who tortured me were part of a system that left 30,000 people disappeared.
"Now that these documents have been released I feel relieved and happy. My sons can now see that everything that I told them is true.
"The judiciary did not believe me, but now we are getting closer to justice being served, even if it is late and slowly.
"Those responsible for my abuses are going to pay."


A blaze at a wood recycling centre in Bridgend has finally been extinguished after burning for nearly a week.

Crews have been tackling the smouldering fires involving 3,000 tonnes of woodchip at South Wales Wood Recycling in Coity since last Monday.
Public health officials had advised nearby residents to keep doors and windows closed while the fire was burning.
The fire service said it was continuing to liaise with on-site management.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said Natural Resources Wales officials were also monitoring the situation.


First Minister Carwyn Jones has ruled out raising the Welsh element of income tax when it is devolved, despite UK Labour saying higher earners will pay more if it wins the general election.

The shadow chancellor has said those on over £80,000 a year would pay "a modest bit more" to fund public services.
Income tax in Wales could be varied by 10p within each tax band from 2019.
Labour pledged in the 2016 assembly election campaign not to raise income tax in the current assembly term.
During First Minister's Questions on Tuesday, the leader of the UKIP group at the assembly, Neil Hamilton said: "The Labour Party nationally is apparently going to stand on a policy of increasing the top rate of income tax from 45p to 50p."
Mr Jones said he would stand on a platform of ensuring that those who can afford to pay a little bit more do so in order to ensure that we have the public services that people expect.
Mr Hamilton then said: "I take it from that response that it is now the policy of the Welsh Government when tax powers are devolved to this assembly to follow the Labour Party's manifesto nationally of increasing the top rate of tax in Wales.
"Because the evidence from the last time this happened in 2013 was that reducing the tax rate from 50p to 45p led to an enormous increase in revenue of about £8bn."
The first minister replied: "As far as the Welsh rate of income tax is concerned we've already pledged that we will not increase the rate of income tax during the course of this assembly."
Plaid Cymru has said it would look at the possibility of a ring-fenced tax rise to pay for health and social care when a Welsh rate is devolved.
The Welsh Conservatives have called for cuts to the higher and basic rate, the Liberal Democrats have also proposed cutting the basic rate once the power passes to Wales
Tax devolution will give Welsh ministers powers over about 20% of the money they receive to spend on public services.
But most of their budget - currently around £15bn a year - will continue to come from an annual block grant from the UK Treasury.


Cheltenham Town have re-signed goalkeeper Scott Brown on loan from Wycombe until the end of the season.

The 31-year-old spent 10 years with the Robins, making 247 league appearances, before joining Aberdeen in 2014.
He joined the Chairboys in the summer but was loaned out to Eastleigh in November.
The League Two side have also signed Huddersfield defender Will Boyle, 21, on a free transfer on an 18-month contract.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.


A large crack has appeared in a cliff face in East Sussex.

Walkers have been warned to keep away from the site at Seaford Head, with the coastguard warning it could fall away at any time.
Amanda Death, who lives in Seaford, spotted the crack and alerted Newhaven Coastguard after going out for a walk with her daughter.
Coastguard spokesman Graham Easton said there had been cliff falls at Seaford, Birling Gap and Hastings this year.
"It could go at any time but it could hang on for quite a long time," he said.
"The advice is simple to stay away from cliff edges - but equally we want people to stay away from the base of cliffs.
"They can be crumbly and fall away and obviously a big crack like this would cause a massive cliff fall but even small rocks will cause a lot of damage if you're underneath at that sort of height."
BBC reporter Lucinda Adam estimated the crack was about 6ft (1.8m) to 7ft (2.1m) long.
She said the land above the crack was on the other side of the safety fence, closest to the sea.
Mrs Death said she went to have breakfast on the beach with her daughter on Saturday and spotted the crack when the pair walked further along the coast.
She said she stayed back from the edge but was able to zoom in on the crack with her phone and added: "It looks like it could go pretty soon."
Seaford is the start of a six-mile (10km) stretch of protected limestone sea cliffs that lead up to Beachy Head, according to Natural England.
Walkers follow a cliff top footpath from Seaford to reach Hope Gap and Cuckmere Haven.


US President Barack Obama has linked the ongoing struggle for economic equality in America with the goals of the 1963 March on Washington, in a speech marking its 50th anniversary.

Mr Obama, the first black US president, said ensuring economic opportunity was "our great unfinished business".
He also linked his own rise to the White House with the efforts of the civil rights protesters decades ago.
Members of Martin Luther King's family and veterans of the march also spoke.
Mr Obama gave his address at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC almost 50 years to the minute after Martin Luther King Jr culminated the march with his celebrated I Have a Dream speech
The time - 15:00 local time (19:00 GMT) - was marked by ringing bells.
Mr Obama began by honouring King, as well as the many African-American and white marchers who descended on Washington to protest for equal rights for black citizens 50 years ago.
"They assembled here, in our nation's capital, under the shadow of the great emancipator, to offer testimony of injustice, to petition their government for redress and to awaken America's long-slumbering conscience," Mr Obama said.
"Because they marched, city councils changed and state legislators changed and Congress changed, and yes, eventually the White House changed," Mr Obama said to great cheers. "Because they marched, America became more free and fair."
He praised "those maids, those labourers, those porters, those secretaries" who had transformed the US into the nation "our children now take for granted", in which individuals of different races mix freely in public and private life.
"To dismiss the magnitude of this progress," he said, "to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed - that dishonours the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years."
But Mr Obama argued "the very significance of these victories may have obscured a second goal of the march" - jobs and the promise of equal economic opportunity.
"They were there seeking jobs as well as justice," he said.
"We must remind ourselves that the measure of progress for those who marched 50 years ago was not merely how many blacks had joined the ranks of millionaires," Mr Obama said.
"It was whether this country would admit all people who were willing to work hard, regardless of race, into the ranks of a middle-class life.
"To win that battle, to answer that call - this remains our great unfinished business."
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The US president, who has clashed with Republicans in Congress over his economic policies, criticised "entrenched interests" and "elected officials who found it useful to practice the old politics of division".
But he said the 1963 march "teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history, that we are masters of our fate".
Mr Obama was joined on the stage by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, who also spoke.
Former President George W Bush, who is recovering from a heart procedure, sent a message of support.
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In his statement Mr Bush said Mr Obama's presidency reflected "the promise of America" and "will help us honour the man who inspired millions to redeem that promise".
Chat show host Oprah Winfrey and actors Forest Whitaker and Jamie Foxx also attended the event.
Wednesday's rainy commemoration began with marchers walking the streets of Washington DC behind a replica of the bus once ridden by seamstress Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger in 1955.
Half a century ago, Martin Luther King led some 250,000 protesters down the same strip and delivered his famous speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character," he said, in one of the most celebrated pieces of American oratory.
His address marked the peak of a series of protests against racial discrimination that began when Rosa Parks launched the bus protests.
Her action sparked a bus boycott campaign across Montgomery, Alabama.
King became a dominant force in the movement and so was called on to make the final speech at the march.
He advocated the use of non-violent protest such as sit-ins and protest marches, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Four years later, his assassination led to rioting in more than 100 US cities.


Death from overwork in Japan is such a longstanding problem it even has its own word, "karoshi".

Now the government and business groups are trying to get workers to take a small step to reclaim their lives by leaving work early one day a month.
The scheme, dubbed "Premium Friday", suggests companies make staff go home at 15:00 on the last Friday of the month, starting in February.
It has been given renewed impetus by the suicide of a woman who was working more than 100 hours overtime a month at Japan's biggest ad agency, Dentsu.
Her death was ruled to be a case of "karoshi" and has led to an investigation, an announcement the firm's chief executive will resign and deep concern in Japan at the country's work culture.
But with around 2,000 deaths a year linked to overwork, few believe the voluntary scheme represents anything more than a small step towards changing attitudes and it is unclear how many companies will take it up.
It is not the first time overwork has been seen as a problem nor the first time anyone has tried to do something about it.
Among other initiatives, the government has in the past tried to make employees take more of the leave they are entitled to - Japan's labour ministry says they only take about half - without much success.
The number of public holidays in Japan this year increased to 16 in part aimed at forcing people to take breaks.
The government has also tried to encourage more flexible hours, allowing government workers to start and leave work early in the summer and even switching off the lights in some offices late in the evening, something Dentsu is also now trying.
Workers are increasingly taking the initiative to go home on time some days too, even announcing it on social media to encourage others to do the same.
But while this has helped change the idea that working excessive overtime is necessarily a good thing, none has had a made much of a dent in the hours themselves.
Around 22% of the population work more than 49 hours a week according to 2014 figures from the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training, behind South Korea at 35% but ahead of the US, where 16% of workers put in those kind of hours.
For the government and business groups, there is an element of self-interest too.
Japan's economy has stagnated for more than two decades. The situation has been made worse by low consumption spending and a very low birth rate, both of which are aggravated by workers spending most of their waking hours at a desk.
Productivity and efficiency also suffer from firms having staff perpetually on hand, as companies don't invest in labour-saving technologies.
Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, told the BBC that private consumption could rise by as much as 124 billion yen ($1bn; £860m) every Premium Friday if "100%" of those eligible headed home at 3pm on those days.
But he stresses no one knows how many people will take up the idea and that total participation is unlikely, which could mean a much smaller boost to the economy.
Why would companies and workers not take part? Well, being first to make such a change could be painful.
Companies face higher costs and Japanese workers often feel guilty at leaving their colleagues behind.
"Japanese workers worry about letting down their colleagues" says Mr Nagahama. "They have a strong sense of working as a team."
Having employees work less is especially difficult for Japan's many small businesses, which are battling to keep costs down. The fact that many of them are family-run makes an early walk-out even trickier.
Even with Premium Friday, Mr Nagahama points out some employees may make up the time on other days or even do other jobs in their newly-gained leisure time, which would nullify the point of the scheme.
It is not even clear if the government ministry behind the idea will be participating, though Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko has reportedly promised that he will not have appointments after 15:00 on those Fridays.
Despite doubts about the scheme, supporters hope the modest goal of an early finish once a month combined with the backing of government and industry will encourage uptake, and eventually more fundamental change in workplace culture.
The campaign is also promoting commercial opportunities for restaurants, shops, travel companies and other businesses who could benefit, in the hope that firms will see the benefit of increased leisure time for employees.
Of course, changing deeply-rooted attitudes to work will be difficult. Many previous attempts have failed. But ironically the effort might be helped by Japanese workers' declining corporate loyalty.
Cut adrift by years of restructuring from the lifetime employment bargain that bound their fathers to a single firm, younger Japanese people may find that the chance to head to the izakaya (pub) a bit earlier some Fridays is just the nudge they need to adopt a better work-life balance.
Reporting by Simeon Paterson.


A team of researchers has unexpectedly discovered four extinct underwater volcanoes off the coast of Sydney in Australia.

The team from Australia's national science agency (CSIRO) made the discovery during a search for larval lobster breeding grounds.
The cluster of volcanoes is believed to be around 50 million years old.
The researchers say the discovery may hold clues to how Australia separated from New Zealand.
The volcanoes were discovered about 250km (155 miles) off the coast of Sydney.
"This is the first time these volcanoes have been seen," volcano expert Richard Arculus told AFP.
"We know the surface topography of Mars better than we know our backyard because there's no water in the way.
"I think every time we turn the spotlight on the sea floor we see things that we've never seen before."
It is hoped the discovery will help scientists to better understand the Earth's crust, and the composition of the underlying mantle layer.
"It's a bit like going through somebody's garbage bin and determining what they've been eating," Richard Arculus said.
"They tell us part of the story of how New Zealand and Australia separated around 40 to 80 million years ago."
Scientists say the biggest of the four volcanoes rises 700m off the sea floor, with a crater spanning 1.5km across.
The BBC's Jon Donnison in Sydney says while New Zealand has a few active volcanoes, the last eruption in Australia is thought to have been more than 5,000 years ago.


Australia's tennis association will increase prize money and has employed additional full-time investigators in an attempt to stamp out corruption.

A raft of new security measures have been introduced for the Australian Open and warm-up events in January.
Tennis Australia said there is "no evidence of widespread corruption".
A BBC and BuzzFeed News investigation in January uncovered suspected illegal betting, with 16 players reportedly flagged over suspicious matches.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) rejected the allegations but subsequently announced a major review into its operations as the news dominated last year's Australian Open.
Leading players were asked about levels of corruption in tennis, with Roger Federer saying it was "super important to maintain the integrity of our sport", while Andy Murray said, "I think we deserve to know everything that's out there".
Tennis Australia has now announced a number of measures "designed to safeguard the integrity of the upcoming summer of tennis", with its own National Integrity Unit boosted by an information and intelligence officer and a safety and risk manager.
Prize money will also be increased at the "lower levels" of the sport, including qualifying and early rounds of the Australian Open, in an attempt to help those more vulnerable to corruption.
Other steps include enhanced education for players and staff, increased security during tournaments, and extending the block on access to gambling websites from Tennis Australia tournaments.
"We made the decision to not just sit back and wait for the IRP (Independent Review Panel) to hand down their findings but to take immediate action," said Tennis Australia president Steve Healy.
"Our sport needs strong measures implemented now and that's exactly what we are doing."


A garden gatepost flew through the living room window of a house when it was hit by a car involved in a police chase.

The post smashed into the home in St Helens Road, Bolton, after the car lost control and crashed at 01.28 BST.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. There were no major injuries as it is thought the residents were asleep upstairs.
Police were chasing the car when it hit parked vehicles and then the post.
The car flipped and was found by police on its side outside the house.
The post caused a hole in the property which workers later began repairing.
"The car hit several parked cars before crashing," a Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said.
"Fortunately there were no serious injuries."


A £15,000 appeal has begun by Bath churches to help the survivors of the Pakistan school massacre.

Last week, Taliban gunmen shot and killed 141 people, most of whom were children, at the army-run school in the north western city of Peshawar.
Over the past year, the church has given aid and counselling to victims of the 2013 suicide bombing of All Saints Church, which is near the school.
A team of six medics now hope to extend their work to help the school victims.
As part of the Help and Hope project, churchgoer Qamar Rafiq, from Twerton, has visited the city seven times over the past year to oversee and deliver aid for those affected in the church bombing where at least 80 people were killed.
Mr Rafiq, a Pakistani national, has also been in touch with the wounded patients and friends whose families were affected in last week's shootings.
"These children are in critical need of post-traumatic stress relief for the future so they are in a position to return to school, they are under a state of fear."
The same method of taking the survivors to Islamabad for counselling will be used by the church group as it is too dangerous to do in Peshawar.
The project was set up by Reverend Alan Bain of St Philip and St James churches in Bath.
He said: "Many aid agencies cannot reach Peshawar, it's too dangerous for their workers to be there, you can't be a foreigner and be in there.
"It just struck me that we now have an experienced team who've done the work there for the past 14 months, who've gone through the trauma themselves and helped people there."


Portsmouth City Council has promised to review plans to paint a city landmark red and white.

It announced on Friday that airline Emirates would sponsor the Spinnaker Tower in a Â£3.5m deal.
Over the weekend, nearly 10,000 people signed an online petition against plans to repaint the tower, which is currently white.
Red and white are the colours of nearby Southampton's football club, Portsmouth's major rivals.
Council leader Donna Jones said she had been "extremely worried and concerned" about the strong public response against the plans.
She said: "I am passionate about this city. I was born here and have lived here all my life... Likewise I love Portsmouth Football Club, the Royal Navy and our heritage. I fully understand people's feelings about blue being the city's colour and the city emblem.
"I am pleased to advise that, after working with Emirates over the weekend, and having spoken to Mark Catlin, chief executive of Portsmouth FC, and other key stakeholders, we are working up a new design for the tower. The design will reflect the city's heritage."
The tower is due to be renamed the Emirates Spinnaker Tower. The revised design will be made public in the next few days.
The branding is due to be in place in time for the America's Cup World Series sailing event in July and will remain in place for five years.
The petition against the changes said: "To allow the colours of Southampton to stand tall on one of our city's most prominent landmarks shows an incredible lack of empathy for the residents. It must be stopped."
Paul Andrews, who describes himself as a Southampton FC supporter on his profile, wrote on Twitter: "All it needs now is the #SaintsFC badge at the top."
The colours of Portsmouth Football Club are blue and white.
The 560ft (170m) tower opened in 2005. It is owned by the council but run by a private company.


Gregor Townsend is delighted that Glasgow Warriors revived their European Champions Cup chances but faces injury problems ahead of facing Edinburgh.

After the 9-6 win over Scarlets, the coach turns his attentions to a derby double header in the Pro12.
But captain Jonny Gray and Mike Blair picked up concussion in Wales, while Rob Harley was taken to hospital.
"We know that if we win all our games then we'll be in a very good position and could qualify," said Townsend.
"We know we have three massive games ahead of us - Racing and Northampton away then Racing at home."
With Northampton and Racing 92 drawing 9-9 on Friday, Glasgow are now only three points behind the French side and one adrift of Saints with a game in hand over the English side.
"If Racing had won that, they would have been clear favourites for the group, but it means everybody is quite close now," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"We've played three games and we've got a game to catch up and it will be a tough one away to Racing, but we're back in the mix."
Townsend was "proud" that his side had overcome the Pro12 leaders in terrible conditions and despite playing part of the match with two players off the field following yellow cards.
"We made it difficult for ourselves, but we've done that before this season," he said. "We've done it before going down to 13 men.
"The important thing was what they did to win the game. They showed a lot of determination, a lot of courage.
"They were putting bodies on the line, there were a few injuries, and they showed great character and showed how much that game meant to them."
Townsend reported that forward Harley has a dislocated thumb, but it has still to be decided if it will require surgery.
Centre Alex Dunbar will also be assessed after picking up a "hamstring twinge".
Glasgow next face Edinburgh in the first leg of the 1872 Cup on 27 December in front of what is expected to a crowd of more than 20,000.
"It is fantastic to play Edinburgh over Christmas and New Year," added Townsend.
"We are playing for a trophy against our closest rivals back-to-back in front of big crowds, so it will be great to have this change of focus.
"We will be determined to win that trophy back, but we know Edinburgh are better than they were last year.
"We have been working on how we can beat this Edinburgh defence because it has been the number one defence in the league this season."