This guide is here to help you, with lots of tips on what to do in the run-up to our 11th annual News Day on Thursday 16 March 2017.

It includes guidance on how to manage the big day itself and how to ensure your school gets as much BBC coverage as possible.
As you turn your classrooms into newsrooms, these printable posters, press passes, cut-out-and-make microphone cubes and certificates will help transform your building into a professional news-making environment.
Create your own dedicated web page
Prepare a simple holding page, with a "come back at 1600 GMT on 16 March 2017" message, and send the address of the dedicated web page (URL) to the School Report team. This guide - Prepare your school web page - provides some handy hints and tips for setting up the page.
Tell us what you're working on
The School Report team wants to know what news topics you are looking at. We may be able to offer some help and advice.
Find out more on teacher Jo Debens' blog.
We may even be able to visit your school to help your students turn their idea into a report.
In addition, schools contacting the team before the day may be featured on the School Report channels - streamed on the BBC website on 16 March - or be featured elsewhere on the BBC (e.g. local radio or websites).
Prepare some news features
During previous years, School Reporters have found it useful to prepare a few reports in advance, basing them on news themes which will still be relevant on the News Day in March.
Your reports can be uploaded to your dedicated web page now, or held back until the big News Day.
Inform your local news outlets
Local newspapers, radio and television outlets are always looking to cover interesting events such as School Report News Day.
However, journalists at local papers are often busy and don't have the time to visit your school. Why don't you take the initiative and write the story for them? That way your school stands a good chance of appearing in the paper.
Before News Day in March, you could send in a story about your plans for the day, or you could write up a report afterwards.
Newspapers often refer to stories sent in by the public as press releases - they are details about an event released to the press. You might find some good tips in this guide: How to write a press release.
Plan your News Day schedule
Teachers who have participated in previous years' News Days have found that the day naturally follows the news-making process: find, gather, write and broadcast, and have scheduled activities accordingly.
This timetable, devised by Oldham City Learning Centre, may be a useful template. It describes activities for students creating a TV and a radio bulletin, but may be adapted for students creating text-based reports.
Alternatively, you could use this guide, based on a practice day by Waldegrave Girls School in Twickenham, Middlesex.
Announce School Report in an assembly
Why not tell the rest of the school about School Report during an assembly?
Not only will this encourage students to look at School Reporters' work on the school website on News Day, but it is also a great way to run through your plans ahead of the day. Share your plans for News Day. Who are you interviewing? Which stories are already lined up?
For more ideas take a look at how the 2015 News Day unfolded.
Remind students of the School Report essentials
On the News Day, remind students of the School Report rules:
There's more information about these golden rules in the School Report guide to keeping your news safe and legal.
Dress your newsroom
Print copies of the School Report poster in the "cut out and keep" box at the top of the page and use them to dress your newsroom. You can also make your own School Report microphone cubes using the template provided.
Reward students with certificates
Download a School Report certificate from the "cut out and keep" box at the top of the page and distribute copies to your students at the end of the News Day.
And not forgetting, most importantly - have fun!


Two British men who went to Syria to join rebel fighters have been jailed for 12 years and eight months each.

Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, both aged 22 and from Birmingham, were sentenced for engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
The judge imposed an extended licence period of five years.
Ahmed's family, who say they helped the police with the investigation, issued a statement saying: "We feel completely betrayed."
They objected to the sentence as "too long" and said they would appeal against it.
"This sends out the wrong message to other families who might have concerns about their sons and daughters, and now might not come forward," they said.
Ahmed's family drew attention to the separate case of Mashudur Choudhury, who was jailed for similar offences for four years after pleading not guilty.
Sentencing Ahmed and Sarwar earlier, Judge Michael Topolski described the two men as "deeply committed to violent extremism".
He said they had "willingly, enthusiastically and with a great deal of purpose, persistence and determination embarked on a course intended to commit acts of terrorism".
The two men were arrested by West Midlands Police's counter-terrorism unit at Heathrow Airport on their return to the UK in January.
Both men pleaded guilty to to terrorism charges at Woolwich Crown Court in London in July.
West Midlands Police said they were first alerted to the case when Sarwar's parents reported him missing last year.
The two friends travelled to Syria in May 2013, where they are believed to have spent eight months with the al-Nusra Front, which is a jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Before leaving the UK, Sarwar faked documents to convince his family he was travelling to Turkey as part of a two-week trip organised by Birmingham City University, where he was a student.
Ahmed told his family he was going on holiday with Sarwar.
But Sarwar's parents found a six-page letter in which their son admitted he had gone "to do jihad" in Syria.
He also left instructions to cancel his mobile phone contract and money to settle outstanding debts.
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the court at their plea hearing: "Sarwar was not expecting to return to his family and that is because he hoped to die as a martyr."
Police said Ahmed, an unemployed former postal worker, had had "sought advice from a fighter in Syria and from extremists in Denmark and Sweden".
A man living in Denmark, calling himself Abu Usama al-Mujahid, had told him: "You can be a mujahid [fighter] wherever in the world you are. Look at 7/7 from your country."
The men bought one-way tickets to Turkey then crossed the border to Syria.
Traces of military-grade explosives were found on their clothing and pictures on their camera showed them brandishing weapons.
Detectives used satellite imaging to establish from the photographs that the men had been in and around Aleppo - one of the main conflict zones.
Det Ch Supt Sue Southern, who leads the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, was involved in the case against Sarwar and Ahmed.
She said preventing people being recruited to terrorist groups online was a "significant challenge" and that her workload in this area "has increased five fold".
Paying tribute to the men's families for their role in the prosecution, she said she hoped the case would "give people the confidence to come forward, but to come forward sooner" if they suspect relatives of being radicalised.


Labour has selected Dawn Bowden as its assembly election candidate for Merthyr and Rhymney.

Ms Bowden, who is the union Unison Cymru's head of health, was selected from an all-woman short list.
Last month, Education Minister Huw Lewis announced he would stand down after representing the constituency for 17 years.
Earlier this month, the all-woman shortlist drew criticism from local councillors.


A roofer who caused a major fire at a Manx hotel when he used a blowtorch to dry out timbers has "come within a whisker" of being jailed.

The blaze caused damage worth £17m to the Mount Murray Hotel and Country Club in 2013, Douglas Courthouse was told.
Roy Cross, 64, of Santon, was given 240 hours of community service after being found guilty of three "foreseeable" health and safety breaches.
No-one was harmed in the blaze and the hotel has since closed.
Sentencing Cross, Deemster Dermot Main-Thompson told him he had narrowly escaped a jail term.
"You introduced flammable material to a roof and then introduced a naked flame. The consequences, in my judgement, were wholly foreseeable."
The hotel, which included a golf club, was developed by the late island-based tycoon Albert Gubay in the 1990s.
The fire engulfed the whole of the main accommodation block's roof destroying more than 90 rooms and resulting in 90 members of staff losing their jobs.
Speaking after the hearing, the Isle of Man government's senior health and safety inspector Robert Greaves said Cross's failings "meant the safety of up to 100 hotel guests and staff were put at risk".
"Today's sentencing will help remind companies of the importance of suitable risk assessments," he added.


Coventry City must leave the Ricoh Arena if they are to survive, says chairman Tim Fisher.

The Sky Blues are 20th in League One and fans protested against the club's owners, Sisu, during the 2-1 defeat by Sheffield United on Thursday.
Premiership rugby union side Wasps are landlords of the Ricoh Arena, and Fisher said Coventry must move.
"There is a requirement to have our own stadium - if we stay at the Ricoh this club will die," said Fisher.
"We do not access the revenues that are necessary for this football club," he told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
"We have bid on a lot of sites but we have not been able to close a deal."
It is more than two years since Coventry returned to the Ricoh Arena after a season at Northampton Town's Sixfields ground.
They do not own the ground and their academy has also been taken over by Wasps.
Despite the fan protests, Fisher said he does not think Sisu, who took over Coventry in 2007, are looking to sell the club.
"The owners are an investment management company so they wouldn't be minded to just sell up and walk away," he said.
"I'm not defending the position the club is in. I will do everything to make sure the club stays alive."
Interim boss Mark Venus, who has been in charge since Tony Mowbray resigned as manager in September, said last week the club was "in a sad state".
Fisher defended Venus' comments: "I think Mark is very, very upset. He has stepped into the breach and been very brave whilst we find a new manager," he said.
"Mark was very emotional and he cares deeply about what he does. I understand it."


One of three men accused of murdering a young boxer in a street brawl in Nottingham has been found not guilty.

Joshua Bradley, 19, was attacked in Thurland Street in the early hours of 8 February.
The jury was instructed to find Muhamed Adnan, 22, of Middleton Boulevard, not guilty of murder by Judge Gregory Dickinson at Nottingham Crown Court.
Mr Adnan had already admitted violent disorder and will be sentenced at a later date.
Two others - Richard Johnson, 24, of Hyson Green, and Zaiem Zulqurnain, 19, of Aspley - remain on trial accused of murder.


Four men have been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Danish court which found them guilty of planning a terrorist attack on newspaper offices.

The court heard the men wanted to kill people in revenge for Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before the foiled attack.
All the men had denied charges of terrorism against them.
The Copenhagen-based newspaper's publication of the cartoons of Muhammad sparked protests in Muslim countries.
Target
Munir Awad, Omar Abdallah Aboelazm and Munir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, were picked up by police on 29 December 2010 at a flat near Copenhagen.
Sabhi Ben Mohamed Zalouti was arrested a day later after crossing into Sweden, then extradited back to Denmark.
Swedish and Danish intelligence officials tracked the men - who all lived in Sweden but were either born or had parents born in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon - for a number of months ahead of the arrests.
A machine-gun with a silencer, a pistol and 108 bullets, and rolls of duct tape were among items found in the men's possession when they were arrested.
The indictment said the men had deliberately planned to frighten the population of Denmark.
Prosecutors said that they had intended to kill "an unknown number" of people during the attack, which had been due to take place on the same day as a sporting award ceremony attended by Crown Prince Frederik.
Denmark remains a target for Islamist militants almost seven years since Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons showing the Prophet Muhammad in a variety of humorous or satirical situations.
One showed Muhammad carrying a lit bomb on his head decorated with the Muslim declaration of faith instead of a turban.
Many Muslims said the cartoons were extremely and deliberately offensive. Some also saw them as an attack on their faith and culture designed to sow hatred. Islamic tradition prohibits images of God, Muhammad and all major figures of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
At the time, Danish flags were burned and embassies were attacked.
Jyllands-Posten eventually apologised but that did not stop a number of attacks in connection with the cartoons.
One man broke into the house of one of the cartoonists and tried to kill him with an axe, while another bungled an attempt to bomb the newspaper's offices.


Adobe has released an emergency software patch for Flash after it found a serious vulnerability being exploited by hackers.

The company said it had evidence of "limited, targeted attacks" and urged people to update their software immediately.
Flash is widely used across the web as a way of providing multimedia content.
This vulnerability - which enables hackers to take control of a computer - affects Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
Users can check if their installation of Flash is up to date by visiting the Adobe website - the current latest version is 18.0.0.194.
People who browse the internet with the latest versions of Google's Chrome browser and Microsoft's Internet Explorer should find that Flash is upgraded automatically.
Adobe's Flash software has a long history of needing security fixes and is regarded by some security researchers as a weak point in many websites.
Along with Java, Flash is routinely targeted by hackers making use of zero-day exploits - the term given to previously unknown security holes.
This was partly because of its ubiquity, said Mark James, a security specialist from ESET.
"Since Flash is such a widely used plug-in, it stands to reason that it will be one of the most targeted apps for vulnerability," he said.
"If you want to affect as many people as possible, then you need an application that a lot of users use, and Flash is one of them."
Security blogger Brian Krebs recently disabled Flash on his machine entirely, as an experiment.
On his blog, he wrote: "It might be worth considering whether you really need to keep Flash Player installed at all."


A study of global fish populations has suggested fast-growth fish species are more vulnerable to population collapses than previously thought.

It had been assumed that life under the waves reflected life on land and that slow-growing species were most at risk.
The researchers found that overfishing was key, but making fisheries more responsive to environmental changes could help avoid future collapses.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal.
"On the land, slow growing animals are at most risk of decline and we used to think the same was true in the oceans," explained co-author Malin Pinsky from Rutgers University, US.
"But we studied more than 150 populations around the world and found that nearly the opposite was true."
Life on the edge
Dr Pinsky and colleagues found that over the past six decades, fast-growing species that were commercially fished were three times more likely to experience a population collapse than their slow-growing cousins.
He told BBC News that the team identified two main risk factors that made species particularly sensitive to overfishing.
"One is species that grow quickly and the other is species that are found in highly seasonal environments," he said.
"You can think of it like a finely tuned race car travelling at 200 miles per hour - one wrong move and you'd be off the track. Managing a fishery for a fast-growing species is a bit like that: you don't really have time to act when environmental conditions change."
In their paper, the researchers highlighted an example that illustrated their findings: "The collapse of the fast-growing California Current sardine (Sardinops sagax) provides a well-studied example of these interacting factors.
"The stock famously declined in the 1950s during a period of cooling temperatures that were tied to poor recruitment and a much delayed response from management to reduce harvest quotas."
Dr Pinsky said that the findings suggested that management measures needed to pay closer attention to seasonal changes in the environment.
"If you are fishing at a certain level and then the environmental conditions become poor and the fish population starts growing more slowly, it is very easy to drive that population to collapse," he observed.
"Changes in the environment are not very often included in the way that we manage fisheries. This is changing, for example in sardine and anchovy fisheries, but it could be used more widely."
He added: "I don't think we have recognised how sensitive [fast-growing species] are to overfishing. Because they grow quickly, we can harvest a larger proportion of the population every year, and that is usually what fisheries management recommends.
"We fish them harder but it turns out that they are more sensitive than we think."


A cat's paw print has been found in a 1,900-year-old Roman tile which was uncovered by an archaeological dig.

The historical artefact was found during construction of the £99m Lincoln Eastern Bypass.
Experts believe the cat left the mark when the tile was laid out to dry by a potter.
Ruben Lopez, site manager at Network Archaeology Ltd, said: "Many of us have pets and animals nowadays so you can see nothing has changed.
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Tiles from the site near Washingborough Road, Lincoln, have also been found with the imprints of a dog's paw and a deer's hoof.
"It is exciting, this site here is one in a thousand," Mr Lopez added.
"The Romans had pets as we do.
"You identify with finds like this. We are used to it of course, it's our job, but it is always exciting to find something like this."
Large quantities of tiles have been discovered, evidence that points to a complex of buildings - possibly a villa - built around AD100.
Walls made of stone have been exposed and the tiles show it could have had a tiled roof and a hypocaust [hot air heating system] according to archaeology reports.
The Roman era of British history lasted from AD43 to AD410. However, a host of finds from the past 12,000 years have also been identified.
They range from flint tools used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Bronze Age arrowheads to evidence of the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th Century.
Saxon burials and a possible Bronze Age boat have also been uncovered.
Archaeologists have been at the site since 2016. The five-mile (7.5km) Lincoln Eastern Bypass is due to open in October 2019.


The Royal Mint has announced a big rise in profits to £13.1m for 2015-16.

The mint, which employs about 900 people at Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, saw its profits increase from £11.4m the year before.
Its revenue rose 39% to £360.6m and bullion sales "contributed largely" to the success, according to chief executive Adam Lawrence.
The mint is producing 1.4 billion new 12-sided pound coins for next year.
The company's circulating coin sales also grew 17% to £124m over the period, with demand from the UK market remaining "strong".
But the number of coins manufactured dropped from 4.6 billion for 30 countries in 2014/15, to 4.4 billion for 40 countries throughout 2015-16.
In May, the company launched a new visitor attraction, The Royal Mint Experience, which includes a factory tour explaining how the coins are made.


The families of three people killed in the 1970s IRA pub bombings in Birmingham have called for their inquests to be resumed.

Relatives of Maxine Hambleton, Trevor Thrupp and James Craig have made an application to the senior coroner for Birmingham and Solihull.
Coroner Louise Hunt will hear submissions on 12 February before making a decision on 24 February.
Twenty-one people died and 182 were hurt in the blast on 21 November 1974.
An inquest was opened days after the attack but closed without hearing evidence in 1975 after guilty verdicts saw six men jailed.
Their convictions were quashed in 1991 and the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Barbara Mills, placed a 75-year embargo on files relating to a Devon and Cornwall Police inquiry into the West Midlands Police investigation.
It means those files are not due to be released until 2069.
In March 2015, Justice 4 the 21 campaign group met Home Secretary Theresa May and Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers to lobby for an inquest. An application for a fresh inquest was also lodged with the Attorney General.
Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was the youngest of those who died, said they want justice for their loved ones.
"All we want is one thing - justice. No more, no less," she said.
"We don't want money, we don't want an apology. All we want is justice.
"We are not political, but they've made it political because they have the key to the door."


China's factory activity contracted at its fastest pace in three years in August, confirming fears that the country's growth is continuing to slow.

The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) dropped to 49.7 from 50 in July.
A figure below 50 indicates contraction.
The weak data is likely to add to global concerns over China's economy losing steam and could send Asian and global shares down further.
A separate private Caixin/Markit index also released on Tuesday puts the PMI number even weaker, at 47.3, the weakest reading since 2009.
The fresh economic data is also likely to undermine efforts by Beijing to reassure investors and calm markets.
Chinese mainland stocks have been on a steep downward slope over the past months, shedding almost 40% since June.
Authorities have injected money into the markets, allowed the state pension fund to start buying up shares and lowered lending rates.
So far though, none of those measures have managed to push the markets back into positive territory and analysts have warned that the more Beijing's intervention fails to have an impact, the more likely it is that future ones will be shrugged off by investors.
China has also cracked down on  people accused of spreading online "rumours", and who the authorities say have been "destabilising the market".


A seagull turned bright orange after falling into a vat of curry.

The bird fell into a container of chicken tikka masala while trying to scavenge a piece of meat from a food factory bin.
He was rescued by workers at the undisclosed site in south east Wales and picked up by a volunteer for Vale Wildlife Hospital near Tewkesbury.
Staff at the centre used washing up liquid to clean the gull's feathers.
They managed to return him back to his original white colour but have not been able to wash away the smell.
Lucy Kells, a veterinary nurse at the hospital in Worcestershire, said: "He really surprised everyone here - we had never seen anything like it before.
"The thing that shocked us the most was the smell. He smelled amazing, he really smelled good."


Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho does not believe it is a gamble to prioritise the Europa League over a top-four finish in the Premier League, saying it is "common sense".

United hold a 1-0 lead over Celta Vigo heading into Thursday's semi-final second leg at Old Trafford.
Mourinho says a busy fixture schedule made it necessary to prioritise.
"Seventeen matches in seven weeks is impossible. It's not a gamble, just a consequence of our situation," he said.
"It was a simple decision, based on common sense."
The Europa League champions are guaranteed Champions League football for next season, as are the top four finishers in the Premier League.
The Red Devils are currently fifth in the league, four points behind fourth-placed Manchester City with three games remaining.
Mourinho made eight changes as United's 25-match unbeaten run in the league was ended by Arsenal on Sunday.
The Portuguese coach is confident the Europa League remains United's best chance of securing Champions League football and insists he will have "no regrets" if his side ultimately fail to win the competition.
"Let's see if we can do it," he added.
"It doesn't matter what happens. No regrets, we are giving everything we can, the players and myself."
United striker Wayne Rooney backed his manager's decision.
"This club belongs in the Champions League," he said.
"Realistically, it's going to be difficult to do it through the league. We have to concentrate on winning the trophy."
Rooney continues to be linked with a big-money move to China, while Everton and the United States have been suggested as other potential destinations.
However, the England forward indicated he is keen to stay at Old Trafford.
He added: "Would I like to stay? I've been at this club 13 years," he said. "Of course, I want to play football."


A grandmother has been sentenced to 10 days in prison for lying in court about the disappearance of her daughter and three-year-old grandson.

Police are searching for Rebecca Minnock, who fled with her son Ethan to avoid a ruling that the boy should live with his father.
Her mother Louise, 52, was convicted of contempt of court for hiding the fact they were driven to Cheltenham.
The driver, Andrew Butt, was jailed for 28 days for contempt.
Earlier Butt, Louise Minnock's partner, told Judge Stephen Wildblood QC at Bristol Crown Court he had lied about his role in events.
He admitted driving Rebecca and Ethan from Highbridge, in Somerset, to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire on 27 May. That morning, a family court had ruled Ethan should live with his father, Roger Williams.
Butt claimed he did not know where Rebecca and Ethan had gone after he left them in Cheltenham.
But the judge told him he did not believe him and was satisfied both had committed "a serious contempt of court". He told Louise Minnock she knew her daughter and Ethan had been taken to Cheltenham but had "obstructed the inquiry" by withholding that information.
During sentencing, Butt was told by the judge he could be released earlier if he chose to share more information.
The 56-year-old was also warned if he continued not to tell the truth about their whereabouts he could be given a further sentence.
After sentencing, Butt's solicitor, Iona Phillips read an appeal from her client to his former partner's daughter.
The statement read: "Becky, you need to seriously look at the situation. It's only going to get worse, not just for you, but for all of us.
"But there are some very good people who are helping support you. I have been with them today and I know.
"We have made our point. We have got our support. Come home."
The case against Butt centred around his car - a black Ford Focus - which was used to drive Ms Minnock and Ethan to Cheltenham on 27 May, the day they went missing.
Butt had denied driving them but changed his story in court on Friday.
He said Ms Minnock had asked him, the night before a family court hearing, to help her get away with Ethan.
She had withdrawn Â£300 at a cash point in Highbridge, Somerset, and Butt had dropped the two in Cheltenham, where Ms Minnock's aunt lives.
"Basically, the plan was to keep her away for as long as possible and to generate as much publicity as possible," Butt said.
"We felt we weren't getting anywhere. She said no-one was listening. I said: 'People will listen when you go missing'."
He said he did not know where the two were now and had not told the police what had happened because "I didn't want them to catch her."
"We didn't expect it to explode in the manner it has exploded."
Judge Wildblood said on Friday that Ms Minnock "should not see herself as being backed into a corner" and urged her to come forward with Ethan, adding:  "Everything possible will be done to ensure that Ethan has an effective relationship with both of his parents."
He said the "immense strain" on Ms Minnock would "only increase with the passage of time".
The police chief leading the search has also issued a direct appeal to the mother to contact her to discuss "the best way to get you and Ethan back to some sort of normal life".
Ms Minnock has been engaged in a two-year legal battle with Ethan's father over contact with their son. In February, a district judge found she had fabricated allegations against Mr Williams in order to "frustrate contact" between him and Ethan
A social worker reported that Ethan was not "emotionally safe" with his mother. Ethan had been staying with his father four nights a week since February.
The day Ms Minnock disappeared with Ethan, a district judge ruled the boy should live with his father.


Three men have been arrested after a 15-year-old girl suspected of being a victim of people trafficking was found in a van that crashed on the motorway.

Police were called at 05:15 BST to reports of an overturned van towing a caravan between junctions 8 and 9 on the northbound M11 in Essex.
The girl was taken to hospital although her injuries are not believed to be serious, police said.
Three men from Poland are currently being questioned by officers.
Police said two of the men, aged 42 and 19, were arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and people trafficking.
The third man, aged 29, was arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.


The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been announced.

It is hoped the cells, which are able to transform into a range of tissues, will lessen symptoms of incurable brittle bone disease.
The trial, starting in January, will be led by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and in the UK by Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The stem cells will come from terminated pregnancies.
Brittle bone disease, officially called osteogenesis imperfecta, affects around one in every 25,000 births.
It can be fatal with babies born with multiple fractures. Even those who survive face up to 15 bone fractures a year, brittle teeth, impaired hearing and growth problems.
What are stem cells?
It is caused by errors in the developing baby's DNA - their blueprint of life - that mean the collagen supposed to give bone its structure is either missing or of poor quality.
The donated stem cells should provide the correct instructions for growing bone.
Prof Lyn Chitty, from Great Ormond Street Hospital, will carry out genetic testing to search for the defects that lead to the condition.
She told the BBC News website: "This is a very serious disease. Our objective is to see if in utero (in the womb) stem cell therapy can ameliorate the condition and the number of fractures."
A type of stem cell which develops into healthy bone, cartilage and muscle will be infused directly into the affected foetuses.
Fifteen babies will have the infusion in the womb and again after they are born.
A further 15 will only have the treatment after birth and the number of fractures will be compared with untreated patients.
Case Study: Adam Reynolds
Adam, from Farnborough in Hampshire, was born with broken arms and a fracture in his spine.
He says his main problem growing up was "learning to be sensible" when "as a kid you just want to run around and have fun with mates".
Whenever he played football he would have to go in goal to minimise the risk.
He cannot keep track of how many times he's broken his bones, but puts the figure somewhere between 30 and 40.
Adam says he has fewer fractures than other people with osteogenesis imperfecta, but takes longer to heal.
In May 2009 he broke his leg. Six years and 12 operations later it has still not fully recovered. His left leg is four inches shorter than his right.
"Day-to-day life is awkward. If someone stubs their toe on a table they go 'Ow!' - for me it's 'Did I break my toe'?" he says.
But Adam, now 21, does not feel that the condition has held him back in life.
Last week he graduated with a first class honours degree in accounting and finance and is already working.
He says: "The idea of a cure coming out or something to help at such an early age is just fantastic news."
Dr Cecilia Gotherstrom, from the Karolinska Institute, told the BBC: "If we could reduce the fracture frequency, strengthen bone and improve growth it would have a huge impact."
Stem cell transplants appear to ease symptoms in children. Starting even earlier when the bone is developing and growing rapidly has the potential to be more effective.
"In-the-womb" foetal stem cell transplants have been tried in two cases of osteogenesis imperfecta. But without a proper clinical trial it is impossible to know how effective the therapy is.
Dr Gotherstrom added: "It is the first in-man trial and, if successful, it will pave the way for other prenatal treatments when parents have no other option."
She said muscle disorders such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other bone disorders could one day benefit from such therapies.
The first infusion will take place 20 to 34 weeks into the pregnancy. This is after the gonads have formed and there should be no risk of the donated cells becoming part of the recipient's sperm or eggs.
Any risk of the donated tissue being rejected in the same way as an organ transplant is thought to be low.
Commenting on the trial, Dr Dusko Ilic, a reader in stem cell science at King's College London, told the BBC: "Any attempt to help the patients suffering this terrible, debilitating disease is more than welcome."
However, he warned the disease varied so widely from patient to patient that it could be difficult to prove how effective the stem cells were.
He added: "People with the same type of osteogenesis imperfecta may present a different clinical picture, even within the same family.
"At the same time, cellular therapy is unlikely to work to the same extent in different individuals.
"How will we know whether a milder phenotype (symptoms) in a child that received the treatment is natural or is a result of the treatment?"
The trial will start in January and will recruit patients for two years.
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Nottingham Forest caretaker boss Gary Brazil says Chris Cohen and Armand Traore must be carefully managed as they return to fitness after injury.

Both played in Saturday's win over Brighton after recovering from groin and knee problems respectively but were rested for Tuesday's loss to Brentford.
Brazil said the duo would be available to face Burton Albion on Saturday.
"Both have had a long time out and it's very hard to play twice in four days," Brazil told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"We cannot afford to let them play again and then break down for four weeks.
"We cannot lose players of that quality for four to five weeks with a soft tissue injury because they have both been out for so long."
Meanwhile, Brazil said his side lacked "energy" in the 3-2 home defeat against the Bees which leaves Forest just five points above the Championship relegation zone.
"We gave them room and they played," he added. "No excuses. Some of their football was excellent but we helped them.
"We came out second best in too many battles. We have learnt a lot - some of quite painful. We will dust ourselves down."


Mark Stoneman's unbeaten century helped Durham fight back against Middlesex on day two at Chester-le-Street.

England all-rounder Ben Stokes (4-80) had Paul Stirling caught behind and bowled Steven Finn as Middlesex went from 358-7 overnight to 389 all out.
Durham's reply began quickly, racing to 71-0 from 12.4 overs before Finn (3-59) had Keaton Jennings (34) caught behind.
Stoneman reached his ton off 139 balls and ended on 139 not out as the hosts finished on 295-4, trailing by 94 runs.
The 28-year-old, who hit 12 fours on the way to his 15th first-class hundred, shared a 131-run third-wicket partnership with Jack Burnham (61) before the latter was trapped lbw by Finn.
Finn then had England team-mate Stokes caught at mid-wicket by Stirling for just nine but opener Stoneman remained untroubled.
Wicketkeeper Michael Richardson (31no) shared an unbroken 64-run fifth-wicket stand with Stoneman before snow brought play to a premature close.


Three men have appeared in court in Dublin charged with membership of an illegal organisation known as the IRA.

They were arrested as part of an investigation into the funeral of leading Real IRA man Alan Ryan on Saturday 8 September.
Ryan was shot dead in north Dublin on 3 September. Shots were fired over his coffin during the funeral and masked men and women were present.
Fourteen other people who were arrested were released without charge.
In court were 33-year-old Nathan Kinsella of Matt Talbot Court in Dublin, Darragh Evans, 23, of Grange Park Rise in Raheny and 22-year-old Vincent Ryan of Grange Avenue Drive in Donaghmede.
They were remanded in custody to appear again before the court on Friday, 21 September.
The Garda (police) staged a major operation around the funeral, but made no arrests over it on the day.
However, earlier this week they carried searches in counties Dublin, Louth, Meath and Kildare. Sixteen men and a woman were arrested.


More than 180,000 civilians have fled the west of the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past month, as government forces battle Islamic State (IS) militants.

Iraqi officials say most have taken refuge in camps and reception centres. Others have moved in with relatives.
The UN has warned an additional 320,000 civilians may flee in the coming weeks.
It is also worried about civilians trapped in Mosul's densely-populated Old City, where troops are advancing despite fierce IS resistance.
Over the weekend, police units approached the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed the creation of a "caliphate" in July 2014 after the group seized swathes of Iraq.
Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to recapture Mosul, the last major IS urban stronghold in the country, in October.
Supported by US-led coalition air strikes and military advisers, they have managed to retake large parts of the city and its surrounding area.
They took full control of all of Mosul's eastern side in January and have driven IS militants from several districts since starting an assault on the west on 19 February.
UN humanitarian co-ordinator Lise Grande said the humanitarian operation in western Mosul had so far been far larger and more complex than in the east.
"The main difference is that tens of thousands of families stayed in their homes in the east - in the west, tens of thousands are fleeing," she explained.
The government is rushing to build new camps or expand existing facilities to accommodate the displaced but Ms Grande said it was "a race against time".
"If the number of people leaving the city increases faster than we can construct new plots, the situation could deteriorate very quickly," she added.
Ms Grande also warned that civilians still inside the Old City were at grave risk, with the use of explosives there likely to cause extensive damage where streets were narrow and houses packed closely together.
"Families are at risk of being shot if they leave and they are at risk if they stay," she said. "It's horrible. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped and they are in terrible danger."
Families have also told the UN that shop shelves are empty. Water and electricity supplies have also been cut and medicines are running out.
"The situation is very dramatic," said Ms Grande. "We fear it will get far worse in the days and weeks ahead."
Residents who have managed to flee say the militants are using civilians as human shields, hiding in houses and forcing young men to fight.
Ali, a former government worker, told Reuters news agency: "All [the militants] are doing now is defending. I hid my sons in the basement and told them: 'If you want my sons you will have to kill me'."
US officials estimate that there are about 2,000 IS fighters left in Mosul.


That's the dramatic headline in today's Belfast Telegraph.
Days after the UK's terror-threat level was raised to critical, the paper has sent a reporter to test the defences at various visitor attractions in Belfast.
The paper says it found "worrying security lapses" as a result of its experiment, which involved the journalist carrying a large rucksack similar to that used by Salman Abedi to carry explosives to the exit of the Ariana Grande concert.
Allan Preston writes: "Yesterday afternoon, this paper visited Titanic Belfast, the grounds of City Hall, the Odyssey pavilion and Victoria Square shopping centre.
"A black backpack was carried through the main entrances unchallenged and then left alone for around five minutes.
"On just one occasion, the bag was searched, by staff at City Hall."
He goes on to say that security guards were patrolling the Odyssey as the bag lay unattended.
Assistant Chief Constable Barbara Gary said: "The community in Northern Ireland should feel reassured that the police are deploying all available resources to deal with this threat, the threat of dissident republicans, and to continue to deliver a policing service to keep all communities safe."
A spokesperson for the Odyssey said: "We take the security of our customers extremely seriously," and a spokesperson from Titanic Belfast said they prioritised the security of its building, staff and guests.
Victoria Square were contacted but the Belfast Telegraph says they made no comment.
Also in the Belfast Telegraph is the claim that social workers were "warned repeatedly" about a teenager who died in a suspected drugs incident last weekend.
Caitlin White, 15, was found unconscious in a wooded area near Portadown.
A spokesperson for the Southern Health Trust said they had "no comment at all" to make.
On the front of the Irish News is a photograph of wooden pallets stacked in the back gardens of a row of houses.
The paper reports that the materials were being collected for bonfires, but it says that last night the supplies were due to be moved over concerns about safety.
That's after a row of terraced houses caught fire close to a large bonfire in the lower Shankill area last year.
On page three there's the news that Northern Ireland's Attorney General might feature in a landmark ruling on humanist wedding ceremonies.
Belfast model Laura Lacole is challenging a refusal to officially authorise the ceremony at her wedding to Republic of Ireland footballer Eunan O'Kane next month.
John Larkin is now confirmed to have entered an appearance under a notice of devolution.
This means he could now make submissions when the hearing gets under way today.
The News Letter carries the same story on the humanist wedding debate - but leads with a different marriage story.
'Scotland church edges towards gay marriage' is the headline on the front page.
The story looks at a debate in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland about whether there may be a way that same-sex marriage could be allowed in church.
The proposal was outlined in a report by the Theological Forum of the Church of Scotland, the News Letter reports.
The report also called for the church to apologise for its "history of discrimination against gay people".
In response to the debate, a spokesperson for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland told the paper: "Many people in the Presbyterian Church will be deeply saddened at today's development in Scotland, which, we believe, is at variance with the traditional biblical understanding of marriage."


A US National Football League (NFL) quarterback has refused to stand for the national anthem in protest at what he sees as racial injustice.

Colin Kaepernick, who plays with the San Francisco 49ers, remained seated as the anthem was played.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour," he explained.
Some fans booed the player when he took to the field.
But his team said they supported his right to protest, which took place as the 49ers hosted the Green Bay Packers in a pre-season game on Friday.
US anthem and flag: Etiquette and law
"We recognise the right of an individual to choose and participate, or not, in our celebration of the national anthem," the team said.
An NFL spokesman said players were "encouraged but not required" to stand during the anthem.
Kaepernick has been outspoken on social media about race relations and is a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way," Kaepernick told NFL Media.
"There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.''
He appeared to be referring to police use of deadly force which sparked the Black Lives Matter protests.


A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after two men were killed when his car hit a tree and flipped on to its roof.

Marc Martin, 22, and Matt Preece, 21, died when a BMW crashed in High Beeches Lane, Handcross, on 17 December.
Driver Kyle Witney, 20, of Lindfield has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and being unfit through taking drugs.
He is due to appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court on 22 July.
Mr Martin, from Haywards Heath, and Mr Preece, of Lindfield, were both sitting in the back of the BMW when it crashed just after 22:00 GMT.
A girl aged 16 was also hurt in the incident.


Earlier this month, a compelling TV programme revisited the case of Colin Pitchfork - the first person to be convicted because of DNA evidence.

In 1988, Pitchfork admitted raping and murdering two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, after his DNA matched samples found at the scene of both crimes.
The former baker was caught after the world's first mass screening for DNA, in which 5,000 men in three villages in Leicestershire were asked to volunteer blood or saliva samples; he'd initially evaded capture by getting a friend to take the test for him.
As Pitchfork approaches the end of his 28-year minimum jail term, the ITV drama-documentary, Code of a Killer, was a timely reminder of the debt we owe to the inventor of DNA, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, and Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker, the investigating officer who had the determination and courage to ensure the technique was applied in the case.
Now, of course, DNA evidence is almost taken for granted.
But over the past two years the operation of the database, and the techniques underpinning it, have altered dramatically in a way that is only just beginning to be understood.
In 2013, as part of the Protection of Freedoms Act, the database was pruned in order to remove the details of innocent people - 1.7 million profiles of children and of adults who hadn't been convicted of any crime were deleted.
That Act was the result of a battle by civil liberty campaigners and others after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2008 that the then UK Government's "blanket and indiscriminate" policy of storing DNA profiles indefinitely failed to strike "a fair balance" between an individual's right to privacy and the state's interest in tackling crime.
Under the Act, a complicated system of retention rules was introduced to differentiate between adults and those under 18; between people who have been cautioned or convicted and those who haven't; and between low-level offences and crimes such as burglary, rape, murder and terrorism.
The new arrangements are so convoluted that even the man responsible for overseeing them, Alastair MacGregor, the Biometrics Commissioner, has cast doubt as to whether they can work effectively and fairly.
In a little-publicised report in December 2014, Mr MacGregor says compliance with the regime, by programming the Police National Computer so that DNA profiles are retained and deleted as they should be, is "an impossible task".
He says "thousands of profiles" that should have been deleted are retained on the database and about 30 have been inadvertently removed.
Kerri Allen, a DNA specialist who used to work for the Forensic Science Service, is also concerned about the new system.
"It's immensely complicated," she says. "The administration involved in removing a profile is far greater than you might imagine.
"I don't know if it's workable."
Of course, it may take time for the new procedures to bed in: there were always likely to be bumps on the road.
But Mr MacGregor has further concerns - about the use of DNA profiles from foreign offenders.
It seems that various legislative hurdles are blocking police forces from holding profiles from foreign nationals known to have committed offences overseas, a problem that may also affect some offenders convicted in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It's an "unsatisfactory state of affairs," he writes, "which might well be putting the UK public at unnecessary risk."
The new Home Secretary, whoever it is after 7 May, will surely take note.
The other key development is the scientific method now used to obtain DNA profiles.
It is known as DNA 17, because it looks at 17 areas of a person's DNA.
In July 2014, it replaced the previous technique, SGM+, which examined 11 areas, bringing England and Wales in line with other European countries, though Scotland is already now moving to an advanced version - DNA 24.
DNA 17 is a more sensitive test than its predecessor, which means it is possible to produce a profile from smaller, poorer quality and older cell samples.
It provides the tantalising prospect of helping police to solve crimes, particularly "cold cases", previously thought to be impossible to crack.
But among the forensic scientific community there are growing doubts about DNA 17's usefulness in criminal trials.
"DNA 17 is a victim of its own sensitivity," says Duncan Woods, a forensic scientist with Keith Borer Consultants.
He says the new test is so much more sensitive than the earlier techniques that it can pick up fragments of DNA that may be unconnected to a crime.
For instance, testing a door handle at a house burglary using DNA 17 may increase the chance of finding the intruder's DNA, but it also increases the chance of finding the DNA of a neighbour who had popped in for a cup of tea, the policeman who responded to the 999 call, and a passer-by who had innocently transferred their DNA to the homeowner when they stood next to each other at a bus stop.
In its advice for its caseworkers and lawyers, the Crown Prosecution Service says: "Whilst the sensitivity of DNA-17 is such as to increase the risk of DNA contamination from the handling of the samples by the Scenes of Crime Officer and the Forensic Science Provider, it also means that contamination is more easily detected.
"There is also an increased risk of detecting background DNA, which may have been deposited before and after the deposition of the target DNA."
Duncan Woods says every week he is dealing with cases in which DNA 17 has been used to detect a profile from such a small number of cells that he can't reach a conclusion as to its significance.
"That's a pretty regular occurrence," he says.
DNA 17 undoubtedly has huge benefits, in providing police with intelligence that might lead them to a suspect and identifying missing people and human remains.  It's also compatible with European DNA databases.
But, together with the new retention rules, there's a sense that the landscape of DNA has changed fundamentally.
With change comes the risk of mistakes, missed opportunities and injustice, as cases work their way through the courts in the years to come.


Southern has promised to run 60% of its normal timetable if a five-day strike by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT) goes ahead.

The two are embroiled in a long-running dispute over the role of guards, with talks due to begin on Wednesday.
Parent firm Govia Thameslink (GTR) asked Acas to mediate in an attempt to avert what the firm said was "damaging" and "unnecessary" strike action.
It has set a deadline of Thursday to avoid the strike schedule.
Southern services have been beset by delays and cancellations for weeks due to the dispute and staff shortages, which the company has blamed on high levels of sickness.
The RMT has offered to suspend the week-long strike - due to begin on Monday - if Southern puts its plans for guards on hold.
The plans involve new trains where the driver operates the doors using CCTV but the RMT fears job losses and has safety concerns.
It said the safety of the travelling public on "dangerously overcrowded trains and platforms" was "the fundamental issue at the heart of this dispute".
If the strike goes ahead, Southern said it would run a restricted service. Many routes would have fewer trains and some routes would have none at all.
However, it said with the use of "contingency" conductors it would run almost 60% of its normal timetable.
GTR passenger service director Angie Doll said: "We are sorry that our passengers once again look set to suffer further disruption because of the RMT."
She said the action was unnecessary as the plans would cost no-one their jobs and would free up staff on board trains to better serve passengers.
She also claimed the changes would lead to fewer cancellations in future.
"The new on-board supervisor will be able to go anywhere on our network, significantly reducing the perennial problem of train cancellations due to conductors not being available when they're delayed by disruption, for example," she said.
At an evening rally in Brighton, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for an end to Southern's franchise and repeated his party's commitment to return railways to public ownership.
He said: "They should have said, 'if you cut the services, we'll cut you out'. But that would take a government that stood up for people.
"What is the point of a franchise agreement â€¦ if a company can walk away from their commitments at no cost?"
When the strike dates were announced, rail minister Paul Maynard said RMT bosses were overlooking their impact on the travelling public and claimed GTR's changes would modernise services and be better for passengers .


Managerless Chesterfield came out on top in the League One relegation battle with Coventry City at the Proact Stadium, thanks to Dan Gardner's late second-half winner

Gardner settled a poor contest in the 77th minute but Chesterfield had to survive 11 minutes of added time following an injury to their centre-back Tom Anderson.
And George Thomas missed a great chance to equalise when he fired over at the back post in stoppage time.
Chesterfield caretaker boss Ritchie Humphreys was in charge for the first time following the last weekend's sacking of Danny Wilson and Chris Morgan.
Spireites midfielder Jay O'Shea sent in a 30th-minute free-kick which Ian Evatt headed just over the bar before Ched Evans was too high three minutes later from a corner before Coventry went close when a low shot from Kevin Foley was flicked just wide by Stuart Beavon.
Sam Hird headed another O'Shea free-kick straight at Lee Burge in the 42nd minute and Marcus Tudgay had the ball in the Chesterfield net in the 56th minute but had strayed offside.
There was then a lengthy delay while Chesterfield defender Anderson was treated for a head injury before being stretchered off and Coventry had a great chance in the 72nd minute when George Thomas fired wide after a swift counter-attack.
But it proved as a costly miss five minutes later when Gardner's 25-yard shot flew into Burge's top left corner to plunge City back to the foot of the table.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Chesterfield 1, Coventry City 0.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 1, Coventry City 0.
Attempt saved. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Lee Burge.
Ched Evans (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nathan Clarke (Coventry City).
Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card.
Liam O'Neil (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stuart Beavon (Coventry City).
Foul by Ched Evans (Chesterfield).
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Liam O'Neil (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City).
Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Haynes (Coventry City).
Corner,  Coventry City. Conceded by Liam O'Neil.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield).
Ben Stevenson (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).
Ched Evans (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).
Substitution, Coventry City. Dion Kelly-Evans replaces Kevin Foley because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Dion Donohue (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Dion Donohue (Chesterfield).
Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal!  Chesterfield 1, Coventry City 0. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jay O'Shea.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ben Stevenson replaces Callum Reilly.
Foul by Ian Evatt (Chesterfield).
Jordan Willis (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Chesterfield. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Liam O'Neil (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kyel Reid (Coventry City).


Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has been selected in the Jamaica team for this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Bolt is expected to be named in the 4x100m relay squad when the official announcement is made on Wednesday.
He had previously ruled himself out of the 100m and 200m individual races as he was recovering from a foot injury.
The 27-year-old won gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
I have received lots of requests, invitations and messages of support from my fans in Scotland who are looking forward to a great event
Bolt announced last week that he intended to make himself available for the Games despite an injury-disrupted season.
"I am available for selection for the Commonwealth Games and have submitted the relevant documentation," he said in a statement on his website.
"I do not wish to take the place of anyone who qualifies in an individual event, but am available for relay duty if the selectors feel I can be an asset to the Jamaican team in Glasgow," Bolt added.
"I have received lots of requests, invitations and messages of support from my fans in Scotland who are looking forward to a great event."
Bolt did not attempt to qualify in the 100m and 200m at the Jamaican Championships, which took place last weekend, as he has not yet returned to full fitness.
He has never raced in the Commonwealth Games, having missed the events in Melbourne in 2006 and Delhi four years ago.
However, speaking at the IAAF Centenary Gala in Barcelona last November, he declared his interest in competing in Glasgow.
"That's the only title I don't have, so I think it's something I'd like to go for, even if I do just one event," Bolt said.
Jamaica took silver behind England in the men's 4x100m relay in 2010 but, led by Bolt, won the World Championships last year.
The heats of the event will be held at Hampden Park on Friday, 1 August, with the final the following evening.
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has been lobbying for Bolt to compete.
Peter Murphy, a spokesman for the CGF, said in January: "We're in constant touch with his management.
"The case we'll make is that the Games offers an opportunity to break records that have been standing for decades.
"Usain has won medals at every major event, except the Commonwealth Games. He will get an unbelievable welcome. Glasgow will grind to a halt."
Glasgow 2014 ambassador Sir Chris Hoy echoed that view.
The six-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist said: "I think it's crucial to the success of the Games when the big names turn up and support them.
"It's still a big deal for them to be Commonwealth champion. I'm sure Usain wants to be here and take the medals back to Jamaica."


Ride-sharing company Uber has said it will conduct an “urgent investigation” into claims of sexual harassment at the company.

A blog post written by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler detailed a litany of instances during her time at the firm.
"What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in,” Uber boss Travis Kalanick said in a statement.
“Anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.”
The controversy is just the latest to surround the company, particularly on issues around the treatment of women at the firm.
Ms Fowler wrote that shortly after joining the San Francisco-based company, her new manager made sexual advances towards her.
She wrote: "He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with.”
After reporting the incident to Human Resources, Ms Fowler said she was told no further action would be taken as it was a “first offense”. She said she was told she should try and join an alternative team at the company.
From here, she goes on to list several instances where she felt poorly treated. She cites data - which the BBC has been unable to verify - that the number of female engineers at the company has plummeted over the past year.
Unlike Google, Apple, Facebook and others, Uber chooses not to disclose figures about diversity at the company.
On Sunday evening, Mr Kalanick responded to the allegations.
"I have just read Susan Fowler's blog.
"It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey, our new Chief Human Resources Officer, to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations.
"We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behaviour at Uber.”
The BBC has attempted to contact several high-profile Uber investors for comment.
Posting on Twitter, Jason Calacanis - an early investor in the firm - wrote: "What she [Ms Fowler] describes is obviously not acceptable. Trust management will take swift action."
The row is bringing concerns over sexism in Silicon Valley once again to the fore - with Ms Fowler's blog post provoking a sense of deja vu for many in the industry.
While Ms Fowler's post was about Uber, several noted on Sunday that her experiences were instantly recognisable to other women working for firms in Silicon Valley and the wider technology industry.
That said, some of the anecdotes detailed in Ms Fowler's 3,000-word post range from the shocking to the farcical.
After making the initial complaint about her manager, she said she was threatened with getting negative performance review scores - making it harder to gain promotions or transfers within the company.
She said she was chastised for keeping email evidence of her complaints.
One of the more bizarre instances involved leather jackets. Ms Fowler described how the team she was on had been promised leather jackets as a thank you for their work, and the team was measured up for the right sizes.
Ms Fowler wrote: "One day, all of the women (there were, I believe, six of us left in the org) received an email saying that no leather jackets were being ordered for the women because there were not enough women in the organisation to justify placing an order.
"I replied and said that I was sure Uber could find room in their budget to buy leather jackets for the, what, six women if it could afford to buy them for over a hundred and twenty men.
"The director replied back, saying that if we women really wanted equality, then we should realise we were getting equality by not getting the leather jackets."
Since being founded in 2009, Uber has gained a reputation as a company that espouses Silicon Valley's so-called "bro" culture of male-dominated, macho work environments.
That view was exacerbated three years ago when Mr Kalanick quipped, in an interview with GQ Magazine, that an on-demand service for women might be called "Boober".
In 2014, Buzzfeed reported that Uber executive Emil Michael had suggested the firm would spend money on digging up dirt on Sarah Lacy, a technology journalist who accused the firm of being misogynistic.
This latest, most detailed critique of the company's working culture is perhaps the most damaging yet.
"When I joined Uber, the organisation I was part of was over 25% women," Ms Fowler wrote.
"By the time I was trying to transfer to another [engineering] organisation, this number had dropped down to less than 6%.
"Women were transferring out of the organisation, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit."
She now works at payments company Stripe, also based in San Francisco.
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Samsung Electronics has apologised to Chinese consumers after a report carried on China's state TV claimed some of its phones were malfunctioning.

The report alleged the phones were crashing due to faulty memory chips and criticised its repair policies.
Samsung, which generates nearly 14% of its overall revenue from China. said it would provide free repairs for the seven models mentioned in the report.
In a separate development Samsung was also fined by Taiwanese authorities.
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission levied a fine of fined 10m Taiwanese dollars ($340,000; Â£210,000) over allegations that Samsung had paid money to people to criticise rival's products.
By Mark GregoryBBC News
China has become a massively important market for many global brands, not least those in the technology sector.
However, as many have been finding out, the price of doing business in China can include a willingness to accept ritual humiliation.
A pattern has emerged.  It starts with criticism of a big name foreign firm's products in consumer reports on Chinese state TV, sometimes for apparently minor complaints.
That firm makes little effort to defend itself.  Instead it immediately issues a grovelling apology accompanied by a fulsome promise to make good.
Apple went through this a few months ago.  In April, chief executive Tim Cook issued a "sincere" apology for his company's perceived arrogance and disregard of Chinese customers.
Other international names, including Hewlett-Packard, Hyundai, McDonald's, Carrefour, Volkswagen and now Samsung have been through something similar.
Continued access to the Chinese market, it seems, compensates for the occasional need to eat humble pie.
China is the world's second largest economy and the most populous country,
The combination of a growing economy, rising income levels and a large consumer base has made it a key market for leading global firms.
However, as foreign companies continue to grow their business in China, they have come under increased scrutiny.
Samsung, which is the latest foreign firm to be criticised in the Chinese media, said in statement that it "sincerely apologises" to Chinese consumers for inconveniences caused by the company's "management problems" and that it welcomed the media scrutiny.
The models mentioned in the China Central Television (CCTV) report on Samsung, which was aired earlier this week, include the Galaxy S3 and the Note2 phones.
Earlier this week, a separate report on CCTV claimed that Starbucks, the world's largest coffee chain, was charging higher prices in China than in other major markets.
It alleged that Starbucks earned higher margins in China due to its pricing.
In April, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook apologised to Chinese consumers following two weeks of criticism by state-owned media over its repair and warranty policies,
The media accused the firm of arrogance, greed and of "throwing its weight around".
The fine in Taiwan came after an inquiry by the Fair Trade Commission alleged that Samsung had hired the services of an advertising firm, OpenTide Taiwan, to help it with online marketing.
Sun Lih-Chyun, vice chairperson and spokesman, told the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei that its investigations had indicated that OpenTide had hired students and bloggers to post remarks about Samsung and also criticise rivals' products.
He added that OpenTide gave weekly and monthly reports to Samsung, on online remarks, which indicated that Samsung was fully aware of what was going on.
OpenTide was also fined 3m Taiwanese dollars by the commission for its role.
The allegations had first come to light in April this year.
At that time, Samsung had called the incidents "unfortunate" and said they had gone against the company's "fundamental principles".
In early 2013, Samsung was fined by Taiwanese authorities for an advert that misled consumers about the camera on the Galaxy Y Duo.


A 20-minute exercise programme for young rugby players to improve their strength and balance could help to reduce concussion injuries, according to a study from the University of Bath.

In a study of 14- to 18-year-olds in 40 schools, those completing the exercises three times a week saw 59% fewer concussions than other schools.
The exercises focus on increasing neck muscle strength, balance and movement.
The RFU is rolling out the programme in schools in England from next season.
The Rugby Football Union says it will provide seminars for rugby coaches on the exercises, as well online resources and training pitch handouts.
Head and neck injuries are more common in rugby than other sports because of the impact of tackling and scrummaging.
During the teenage years, when boys and girls become stronger and fitter, the risk of injury increases sharply.
Prof Keith Stokes, who led the study, said the research showed that "a simple set of exercises on a regular basis can substantially reduce injuries in youth rugby".
He said: "We believe these findings will have a significant impact in helping to improve player welfare, making the game safer for young players to enjoy."
The exercise programme is split into four parts - and is made up of:
The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, involved about 2,500 adolescent school rugby players.
Some schools got their teams to complete the targeted exercises before matches and during training, while other schools were asked to continue with a standard exercise regime.
Only seven schools managed to complete their regimes three times a week, and those doing the new exercise programme saw 72% fewer match injuries and 81% fewer upper limb injuries than other schools.
The study found there were also fewer concussions, which made up most of the head and neck injuries reported.
In total, there were 441 match injuries, including 168 head or neck injuries and 125 upper limb injuries.
Prof Stokes said the neck exercises helped to strengthen muscles, allowing players to better cope with the forces acting on the brain inside the skull during contact.
"If people are moving better, they can also keep their head out of the way," he added.
Dr Mike England, medical director for community rugby at the RFU, who co-authored the study, said the exercise programme gave teenagers the skills to engage in physical activity safely.
"Injuries occur in any contact sport. We want kids to get involved and enjoy sport while reducing the risk of injuries at the same time."
He said he hoped that another study on exercises for adult rugby players would show similar effects.


Wales has become the first nation in the UK to introduce a "revolutionary" new system to increase the number of organ donors.

From Tuesday, adults will be regarded as having consented to organ donation unless they have opted out.
More than one million people - 34% of the population - have registered to opt in already and 86,000 have opted out.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford called it a "ground-breaking step which will save lives".
He paid tribute to the cross-party support for the change in the law, which aims to increase the number of donors by 25%.
In the past year, 14 people died whilst waiting for a transplant in Wales, while there are currently 224 people on the waiting list, including eight children.
The so-called soft opt-out system will now apply in these circumstances:
In the rest of the UK, the opt-in system still applies, although ministers in Scotland and Northern Ireland are likely to be watching what happens in Wales closely.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said it was "law making in Wales at its best".
Ministers have said more than two-thirds of people in Wales are now aware of the changes and they  hoped a "leap in consent rates" would follow.
Mr Drakeford said: "There are many, many people who would be prepared to be organ donors but the knowledge of their wishes is not available at the point where this very unusual set of circumstances is significant.
"The law is just one thing we're doing; it will be a profound cultural change.
"NHS Blood and Transplant says we need a revolution in consent - we think our law delivers that - and an evolution in practice, and we're part of that UK-wide evolution that will go well beyond 1 December."
He said he was satisfied the balance was right and people had for the very first time the right to register their decision to opt out too.
But the known views of the donor would prevail.
Mr Drakeford said he welcomed the support of faith groups although there was still some opposition to presumed consent.
The Rt Rev John Davies, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, said the churches were fully supportive of the issue of organ donation but the preference was to see it as a "gift."
"In the deeming of consent, there is always the risk that that idea of gift might vanish," he said.
"From a Christian or moral perspective, I think the idea of giving someone a precious gift is something much better than others presuming that that gift can be eradicated and just taken."


People in Jakarta have responded defiantly to the attacks in their city by posting the Indonesian phrase for "We are not afraid" on Twitter.

The hashtag #KamiTidakTakut has emerged in the aftermath of Thursday's attacks.
A common meme, of a peace sign with a Jakarta landmark in its centre, was adapted from an image used on social media after the Paris attacks.
Where the Eiffel Tower stood in the Paris version, this shows Indonesia's National Monument.
It stands in the centre of Jakarta as a symbol of the country's struggle for independence. It is a famous landmark and popular meeting point in the city.
A photograph that appeared to show a satay seller continuing to work at his stall after blasts were heard was circulated widely online.
Some Twitter users wrote alongside it: "Fear is not in our dictionary."
The photograph was first uploaded to a local social media site, with a comment saying the stall was 100m away from the site of the bombs, which had happened two hours earlier.
The satay seller has since been interviewed by Indonesian media.
Another popular hashtag was #JakartaBerani, which can be translated as "Jakarta is Brave".
Soon after reports started to filter through on Thursday morning (local time) that explosions had been heard, Twitter users started to use the hashtag #PrayforJakarta. It is not a new hashtag. It had previously been used in cases of severe flooding, but was used again as people from Indonesia and around the world shared their sympathy for the city.
Aulia Masna, a technology blogger in Jakarta, said the morning's events had shown Indonesians used Twitter as much as ever for updates.
He tweeted that "everyone flocks to Twitter", and the microblogging site was not being "abandoned" by Indonesians as some had said.


The first woman bishop in the Church of England could be in the Gloucester diocese, a senior clergyman has said.

The archdeacon of Cheltenham's comments came during an open meeting where some 70 people shared their views on what qualities the new bishop should have.
The Venerable Robert Springett said he felt the likelihood was "really pretty high" as the diocese could now pick the best person regardless of gender.
The Right Reverend Michael Perham, stepped back as bishop in August.
He had been due to retire in November.
He was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police investigating two allegations of indecent assault but was not arrested.
BBC Gloucestershire's faith producer Richard Atkins, who attended the meeting, said: "The feeling has been growing over the past few months - after last night's meeting it is 99.9 percent certain.
"This diocese has always been very pro-women bishops, very few people have been against it.
"Several people said last night, there should be a woman bishop - there was no concern or anxiety about it."
The appointments process is in the early stages where the diocese is formulating a "Statement of Need" or job description for the new bishop.
The two groups involved in drawing up the candidates list and conducting the interviews are the Vacancy in See Committee and the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC), which is overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The shortlist of candidates is kept confidential and the Queen will approve the final decision.
In the summer, the Church of England gave its final approval for legislation to allow women to become bishops but this needs to be ratified at the November Synod.
Gloucester could be the first to have a woman bishop, because it is the first diocese to hold its first CNC meeting after the synod.
There are five diocesan bishop vacancies in the Church of England going through the appointments process currently.


A driver built up 99 points on his licence by speeding 11 times on the same bridge over 25 days.

Vasile Ciuca, 20, of Highfield Road in Felixstowe, was banned from driving for six months after it emerged he had repeatedly broken the speed limit on Ipswich's Orwell Bridge.
Magistrates in Ipswich found Ciuca guilty in his absence of the offences, which happened in October and November.
He was also convicted of failing to tell police who the car's driver was.
For each of the 11 occasions he was caught speeding, he was given three points on his licence. He then received an additional six points for each occasion for failing to tell police information about the driver.
Ciuca, who was driving a VW Bora car at the time of the offences, was also fined Â£660 and ordered to pay Â£149 in costs.


As every schoolchild knows, Sir Winston Churchill was the prime minister who led Britain to victory in World War Two - but his political journey began in the most unexpected of places and with the most unexpected of outcomes.

In 1899, Harrow and Sandhurst educated Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, whose father was the third son of the Duke of Marlborough, stood for election in the northern industrial mill-town of Oldham - and lost.
As he put it in a letter, the defeat left him "with those feelings of deflation which a bottle of Champagne represents when it has been half-emptied and left uncorked for a night".
The by-election was called after the town had lost its two Tory MPs - one had died and the other resigned due to ill health - and Churchill had stood with the hope of replacing one of them like-for-like.
Allen Packwood, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, says his candidature was "a marriage of convenience", which served both sides well.
The Oldham Conservatives got a man with a weighty name - his father Lord Randolph Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer - and Churchill, as a young man "desperate to follow in his famous father's footsteps", had what he saw as an open door into politics.
He initially wrote about his confidence in the campaign and how he had spoken to meetings of up to 2,500 people.
But before polling day, the Conservatives introduced the Clerical Tithes Bill, which proposed the Church of England be funded by local rates.
In Churchill's opinion, it was this "stupid" bill which led to Oldham - a fortress of non-conformist Christianity - electing two Liberal candidates instead.
Defeated, Churchill was undiminished and he set about continuing a profile-raising mission he had begun long before his Oldham campaign.
He had used his time in the Army to "make both money and a name for himself", Mr Packwood says, publishing reports of his exploits in Cuba, India and Sudan in newspapers and books.
"In the aftermath of his defeat, Churchill returned to his day job as a roving war correspondent, travelling to South Africa to cover the Boer War for The Morning Post.
"On 15 November 1899 he boarded an armoured train [that] was ambushed and, after a heroic defence in which he helped most of the train to escape, Churchill was captured.
"He was taken to a makeshift prison. Not penned up long, he jumped over the wall on 12 December and on to a passing train."
In an odd coincidence, he was helped in his African escape by a coal miner from Oldham.
"Churchill was alone and on the run in Africa, which must have been the last place on earth that he expected to meet someone from the town," says Mr Packwood.
"But for three days, he was hidden in a coal mine [by an] Oldham native Dan Dewsnap.
"Churchill later described how Mr Dewsnap locked his hand 'in a grip of crushing vigour' and said 'They'll all vote for you next time'."
Source: The Churchill Centre
That prediction proved to be correct, as Mr Packwood says Churchill's escape "made him a national hero and the incident was enough to ensure his celebrity status".
When he returned to Oldham to speak in July 1900, he was greeted by brass bands and massed crowds. Churchill wrote the town had "almost without distinction of party accorded me a triumph".
"I entered in a procession... and drove through streets crowded with enthusiastic operatives and mill girls."
He went on to give a well-received talk at the town's theatre, which saw his mention of Mr Dewsnap's role in his escape met with a cry from the audience that "his wife's in the gallery".
Mr Packwood says this "warm reception may have been instrumental in persuading Churchill to stand for Oldham again" in the 1900 General Election.
That said, he had already written to his mother two months before, saying that he had "very nearly made my mind to stand again in Oldham... they have implored me not to desert them". He had also lost by less than 1,500 votes in 1899.
Sure enough, buoyed by a campaign that focused on the "apparent British success in the Boer War", the 26-year-old Conservative candidate garnered enough of the Liberal majority's second votes to be returned as the town's second MP.
Yet Churchill, as an ambitious politician, was rarely seen in the town. "Churchill certainly raised the profile of Oldham - he was not shy of the limelight - but his base was certainly London," says Mr Packwood.
However, that did not stop the town having an effect on the new MP, not least because before he arrived in the town, he had lived a privileged life.
"Oldham gave Churchill his first experiences of dealing with visceral poverty," Mr Packwood says.
"This almost certainly steered him towards social reform and he subsequently worked with [future Liberal prime minister] David Lloyd George on unemployment insurance."
It also led him to take the most serious political move of his early career when in 1904, he crossed the floor of the House of Commons and joined the Liberal opposition. after falling out with the Conservatives over the issue of free trade.
In December 1903, the local party committee passed a motion of no confidence and a month later he ceased to be the town's Conservative candidate.
Source: The Churchill Centre
Instead, he crossed the floor and two years later, moved on from Oldham, standing as the Liberal candidate in Manchester North West.
There, he swept to victory, and the rest, as Mr Packwood says, is history.
"Oldham was very much the first rung on the ladder," he says.
"It got Churchill into politics and into Parliament and gave him his first experiences, not only of campaigning and public speaking but also of political in-fighting and manoeuvring.
"In later life Churchill looked back fondly on his time at Oldham, remembering 'the warm hearts and bright eyes of its people', and writing that 'no-one can come in close contact with the working folk of Lancashire without wishing them well'."
In 1941, with the outcome of World War Two still hanging in the balance, the town became one of the first to recognise Churchill's achievements, electing him as a Freeman of Oldham.
And 23 years later, as the great leader's health failed, Oldham's mayor sent a message of thanks and congratulation from the town.
His message was signed on behalf of all the town's population "whose parents launched you on your parliamentary career".
Whatever the falling-out during his time as the town's MP, by his death, Churchill's "warm" feelings for Oldham had turned out to be mutual.


Fly-half Duncan Weir says he is ready to repay the confidence of the Scotland coaches as he prepares for a first Six Nations start of the year in Ireland.

The Glasgow number 10 has played just 12 minutes of the championship, coming off the bench in the defeat by Wales.
But in the absence of the injured Finn Russell, he has been preferred to Peter Horne, who impressed against France.
"It's tough on him not being selected but it's an opportunity for me," said Weir, who wins his 23rd cap in Dublin.
"The coaches have given me confidence this week. They have watched my Glasgow footage and are happy where I am and my development over the last month or so.
"I feel confident in my game at the minute and just need to back it up come Saturday.
"It is a huge honour getting back into the side. I have been here training, so I know the calls and structures, so it is not being thrown in to the deep end as I have been here throughout the championship."
With Russell still going through concussion return-to-play protocols after receiving a head knock five minutes into the France game, Cotter had the option of continuing with Horne - who he called "probably a 12-10 rather than a 10-12" - after he stepped into the fray with aplomb.
"I was just hugely proud of his performance," Weir said of his Glasgow team-mate. "A guy who has not run a rep pretty much the whole tournament at 10 steps up and shows how natural a ball player he is.
"It was great for me to go on and see him run the attack. Being a playmaker at 12, he is always chatting and orchestrating play anyway."
Having played second fiddle to Russell at club level as well as with the national team, being left out of the match-day 23 for the last two Tests against Italy and France has allowed Weir more game time with Glasgow.
He duly delivered two Pro 12 man-of-the-match displays against Newport Gwent Dragons and Cardiff Blues.
"I have been getting a run of games so I feel confident in my form," he added. "Moving onto the ball you have to make better decisions when you have a run of games going. I feel really excited about the opportunity."
Weir will be tasked with directing an attack - featuring Glasgow team-mates Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour and Alex Dunbar - that has produced eight tries so far, only one less than Scotland's best Six Nations tally of nine in 2000.
But he is under no illusions that the keys to a third straight victory, which would match Scotland's best-ever Six Nations tally and likely equal their joint-best finish of third, may lie elsewhere.
"Our defence and set-piece will be huge again," he added.
"That will be at the front of our minds. Ireland are playing with a lot of width in their attack so we have to be cautious of that and get our spacing right in defence and shut things down and not be too aggressive at times.
"Once we get the ball we have to play at a tempo they can't live with."


Jurors in the trial of an alleged serial killer have been shown home-made videos which appear to show him raping an unconscious man.

Stephen Port, 41, is accused of four murders and seven rapes, which he denies.
The Old Bailey heard police found 83 home-made sex videos on Mr Port's mobile phone.
Prosecutors said six recordings show him engaged in sexual activity with the a man who appears to be unconscious.
Det Sgt Mick McInerney, who presented the evidence to the court, told jurors the same 24-year-old appears in all six videos, which were recorded between January and June last year.
Some of the videos featured other unidentified participants, the court heard.
Port, who watched intently from the dock, denies two sample counts of rape relating to two of the videos.
Mr Port, who worked as a chef, is on trial accused of murdering four young men by giving them fatal doses of date rape drug GHB over a 15-month period.
He is also accused of drugging and raping other young men he met through dating websites and lured to his one-bedroom flat in Barking, east London.
He denies 29 charges including four counts of murder, as well as drugging, rape and sexual assault.
The trial continues.


Police in the Highlands have scaled down their search for a missing man.

Lachlan Simpson, a chef from Embo, near Dornoch, has not been seen since he left a dance in the town at 01:30 last Sunday morning.
Dozens of volunteers joined police teams, search dogs, coastguard and an RAF mountain rescue team in the search for the 22-year-old.
Police said co-ordinated volunteer searches had been concluded but investigations were continuing.
On Saturday, 56 volunteers joined police and rescue services to search outlying parts of Dornoch and an area known locally as The Links.
Ch Insp Iain MacLelland said: "Once again, I would seek this opportunity to voice my appreciation to those volunteers who have provided tremendous support over the past few days and once again this morning.
"It has now been a week since Lachlan was last seen and it goes without saying that we remain concerned for his welfare.
"It is possible that he may have sought shelter so we would again appeal to people with outbuildings or sheds to check these and report anything unusual to us.
"Co-ordinated volunteer searches have now concluded but I would stress that this is still a missing person inquiry and investigations do remain ongoing.
"We have carried out detailed searches of the areas where Lachlan was last seen including coastline and in-land areas surrounding Dornoch.
"We are continuing to keep Lachlan's family updated and provide them with support at this difficult time."
Mr Simpson is described as 6ft tall, slim-medium build, with short fair hair.
He was wearing a green and white top when he went missing.


A Europe-wide police team is being formed to track and block social media accounts linked to Islamic State (IS).

A recent US study found there were at least 46,000 accounts on Twitter linked to the militant group, many of which help to recruit new IS members.
The European police agency Europol will now work with unnamed social media companies to track the accounts.
They aim to get new accounts closed down within two hours of them being set up.
Europol believes up to 5,000 EU citizens, including people from the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, have travelled to territories controlled by IS.
Rob Wainwright, Europol's director, told the BBC that the new team, which starts its work on 1 July, "would be an effective way of combating the problem".
But, he said, tracking all IS-linked social media accounts was too big a task.
"We will have to combine what we see online, with our own intelligence and that that is shared with us by European police services, so we can be a bit more targeted and identify who the key user accounts are... and concentrate on closing them down."
The number of IS-linked Twitter accounts could be as high as 90,000, according to a paper by the Brooking Institution in Washington.
Aaron Zelin, an expert on jihadist groups at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says Twitter is generally used to draw in potential new recruits, not to directly hire them.
The more direct recruitment conversations take place on forums such as Skype, WhatsApp and Kik, he said.
Rita Katz, a director of the jihadi monitoring group Site, said IS militants regularly boasted online of ways in which to circumvent being blocked on social media.
In an article written in April, Ms Katz called for better security by social media firms and said simply blocking accounts was not enough.
She wrote: "It's time to stop shooting in the dark and recognize IS and its followers on Twitter are determined and dangerously adaptive - not because they enjoy tweeting, but because Twitter itself is among the most crucial tools to their growth and existence."


The Scottish government has outlined a possible transition to independence in the event of a "Yes" vote in the autumn 2014 referendum.

Independence day for Scotland would be in March 2016, with the first elections to an independent parliament in May.
First Minister Alex Salmond said the timescale was in line with previous international experience.
UK ministers said the SNP was failing to make the case for independence and focussing too much on "process".
The Scottish government wants to ask voters the yes/no question, "Should Scotland be an independent country", in autumn 2014, although it has yet to name the actual date.
A 16-page document published by SNP ministers has set out a possible transition from a "Yes" vote in the referendum to independence day in March 2016.
It came before the UK government next week publishes an analysis on the impact of independence.
The Scottish government paper envisages ministers joining other parties and civic groups to negotiate the terms of independence with the UK government, which would see the division of assets and liabilities, new global connections - including the EU - and Scotland's retention of the monarchy.
There would then be a written Scottish constitution, "which reflects the values of the people of Scotland", according to the document.
By Glenn CampbellBBC Scotland news
Alex Salmond's timetable for independence, in the event of a "Yes" vote in the referendum, seems to have shortened.
In January 2012, the Scottish government said: "May 2016 will see the election of the next Scottish Parliament which would become the Parliament of an independent Scotland."
In other words, independence day would fall at some point during the 2016-2020 parliament.
By March 2012, Scottish Education Secretary, Mike Russell, told the BBC that independence could be negotiated in a "single year" following a "Yes" vote in the autumn 2014 referendum.
He predicted the "moment" of independence could arrive in time for the May 2016 elections.
Now the Scottish government intends that Scotland would become independent "in March 2016, just before the start of the 2016 election campaign".
On this timetable, the devolved SNP administration would become the first government of an independent Scotland.
Transferring powers before the election would also prevent the possibility that Scotland votes for independence and then elects pro-union parties to negotiate the terms.
Or call a fresh referendum.
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Mr Salmond urged UK ministers to agree to joint talks on the process surrounding the referendum result, as recommended by the Electoral Commission watchdog.
The first minister told BBC Scotland: "30 countries have gone through the process of having a referendum and then becoming independent.
"The average timescale for these 30 countries since the Second World War is 15 months - we've actually allowed a bit longer than that in the process."
Turning to those campaigning to keep the Union, Mr Salmond said: "The question they've got to answer is, if 30 other countries managed to do it, then why couldn't Scotland?"
The first minister said his government was setting out a range of proposals ahead of a substantive White Paper on independence, due towards the end of the year.
He said: "The 'No' side seem to think we're not doing anything until November - I think they've been taken a bit by surprise by the amount of work that we've been doing.
"We're putting forward what we think is the best future for Scotland, the best way to do it. We're putting forward how the processes will unveil.
"The 'No' campaign seem to think their role is to stamp their feet and say, 'you cannae do it'. Well, yes we can."
For the UK government, Scottish Secretary Michael Moore said it was already setting out views on the post-referendum process.
Mr Moore said: "The Scottish government should be concentrating on the substantive issues of the independence debate, rather than endless distractions over process.
"Once again, they are devoting their energy to the picture-frame when they don't have a painting to put in it.
"We haven't even got a date for the referendum, let alone any detail on what independence would mean for people in areas like the economy, welfare, energy and financial services."
The Scottish secretary added: "People in Scotland appreciate the benefits of remaining part of the United Kingdom family and that is why they remain strongly opposed to independence."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, speaking in the Commons, said the UK government's "dispassionate analysis" of the impact of Scottish independence would be a "powerful addition" to the debate, and the first in a series of papers on the issue.