About £550m of edible food was thrown away from homes in Wales in one year alone, latest figures have revealed.

Research by Wrap Cymru showed there were 319,000 tonnes of household food waste in 2015.
Of this, 188,000 tonnes could have been eaten but was thrown in the bin.
However, figures showed the amount of household food waste in Wales was reducing compared with the rest of the UK. The Welsh Government said cutting down on food waste was a key priority.
Researchers went through the bins of consenting households and classed items such as egg shells and meat bones as unavoidable waste and things like uncooked chicken and bread as avoidable waste.
The not-for-profit company found the amount being thrown out by each person fell by 12% between 2009 and 2015.
Councils collected 66.2kg of food waste per person in Wales in 2015, compared to 75.4kg six years previously.
Over the same period, household food waste dropped by just 5% per person on average across the UK.
Wrap Cymru said the "significant reduction" in Wales could be due to lower income levels and better separate waste collections.
The study also showed a fall in the amount of edible food being thrown out.
The 188,000 tonnes discarded in 2015 was down from 212,000 in 2009 - a drop of 24,000 tonnes which Wrap Cymru said equates to about £70m of food a year.
For the UK as a whole, 7.3 million tonnes of edible food worth £13bn was thrown away from homes in 2015.
Chief executive Marcus Gover said: "Every person in the UK can help reduce food waste.
"Wrap's research found that almost 60% of people believe they personally waste either no food or hardly any, even though people know food waste is an issue."
He added that lessons would be taken from its work in Wales.
Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths, said: "Significant progress has been made since the figures were first reported in 2007 but as these new results show we still have a long way to go.
"In Wales, cutting down on the amount of food we unnecessarily dispose of is identified as a key priority in our waste strategy, Towards Zero Waste, and contributes to the goals of the Well-being of Future Generations Act."
"It is pleasing to see that in Wales, there is evidence that HHFW [household food waste] levels reduced between 2009 and 2015 by 12% per person."


The Maldives' top court has overturned a sentence of death by stoning issued to a woman found guilty of adultery, local media report.

The woman, who reportedly gave birth out of wedlock, was convicted by a magistrate's court on Sunday.
However, the Supreme Court quashed the sentence late on Sunday, saying the ruling had violated legal procedures.
The island nation has previously issued flogging sentences to those convicted of extramarital sex.
Sunday's initial sentence had sparked outrage on social media and was criticised by rights groups.
The sentence to death by stoning was unprecedented in the country, which is known as a luxury tourist destination, the BBC's South Asia editor Charles Haviland reports.
In 2013, the case of a 15-year-old girl sentenced to 100 lashes after being found guilty of premarital sex prompted global concern. The High Court later overturned the verdict, saying she had been wrongly convicted.
Extramarital sex is illegal in the Maldives, although the ban does not apply to tourists.
What's not on the tourist brochure?
The Maldives attracted more than a million tourists in 2013 - but most foreign visitors are insulated from everyday life on the islands.
Lesser-known facts about the nation include:


Solihull Moors have signed Luke Benbow and his strike partner Chris Lait from non-league neighbours Stourbridge.

Former Glenn Hoddle Academy product Benbow, 26, scored 32 goals for the Glassboys in last season's Northern Premier League promotion near miss.
He also scored eight times in Stourbridge's run to the third round of the FA Cup, when they lost at Wycombe.
Lait and Benbow, who had spells at both Cheltenham and Burton, are Moors' first signings this summer.
Moors manager Liam McDonald has already signed striker Oladapo Afolayan, skipper Liam Daly, fellow defenders Joel Kettle, Kristian Green and Calum Flanagan and midfielders George Carline, Ashley Sammons and Simeon Maye on new contracts for the 2017-18 season.
The club have so far lost strikers Harry White, to Chester, Andy Brown, defender Connor Franklin, who joined Brackley Town, and keeper Danny Lewis.
Benbow and Lait are the latest members of Stourbridge's successful FA Cup side to move on following Dan Scarr's move to Birmingham City in January.


Peterborough Cathedral's plans to build a heritage centre are a step closer after receiving a £320,900 Heritage Lottery grant.

It is one of four projects undertaken by the cathedral in the run-up to its 900th anniversary in 2018.
The Very Reverend Charles Taylor, Dean of Peterborough, said he was delighted with this "public vote of confidence in our plans".
The Heritage and Education Centre will be based at 25 Minster Precinct.
Robyn Llewellyn, head of Heritage Lottery Fund East of England, said: "The heritage centre has the potential to provide fantastic insight into the rich and varied heritage of the cathedral and its precincts, making this fascinating story more accessible to the wider community."
The centre will also offer better facilities for the cathedral's education programme.
The cathedral plans to apply for a further Heritage Lottery grant at a later date.


The London Underground's Northern Line extension to Battersea has been given the go-ahead.

Construction will begin in spring 2015 and it is hoped the line, which will be extended from Kennington to Battersea, will open by 2020.
Two new stations will open - Nine Elms to the east and one at the heart of the Battersea Power Station development.
The full cost is expected to be up to Â£1bn, which will be funded by developments in the area.
Ravi Govindia, leader of Wandsworth Council, said: "This is fantastic news for the people of Battersea and the benefits will be felt right across Wandsworth.
"This part of the borough is already coming to life with thousands of new homes and jobs and its two new Tube stations will turbo charge the process.
"The Northern line extension will take the pressure off the rest of our local transport network and gives Nine Elms official Zone One status."
The project was approved by the Secretary of State for Transport.
The decision follows a public inquiry conducted by an independent inspector last year to consider the impact of the extension.
Some residents had opposed the plans, saying it would lead to a loss of parkland and increase noise and pollution in the residential area.


Celebrations erupted across the UK upon the defeat of Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.

A public holiday called Victory in Europe Day - or simply VE Day - was declared on 8 May 1945.
However, the day brought mixed emotions for many.
Seventy years on, six people recall what the end of the war meant to them.
Hans Kuhn was a 20-year-old German prisoner of war in Tennessee, USA, when the war ended.
"On VE Day there wasn't any celebration going on there because we were the losing ones," he told BBC Radio Leicester.
"But I went across to the canteen on the site, had a few drinks with some friends. Shortly after that they started to get ready to send us back to Germany."
Across the Atlantic, 14-year-old Betty Dickinson was living in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
"On VE Day I was still at school," she said. "Everybody was so happy."
But her family had suffered losses, as had many others.
"My mother had lost two of her brothers in the war so she was anti-German," she said. "She hated the Germans."
Mr Kuhn had been one of Hitler's bodyguards before being sent to Normandy, where he was badly wounded and saved by the US.
After the war he went to work on a farm in Leicestershire, where he met Betty at a fete.
"I couldn't stand him," laughs Betty. "He just grew on me, and of course I got pregnant, didn't I? I was 18 when we got married."
Mrs Kuhn had to endure being spat on, called a "Nazi lover" and even being punched and kicked by a gang of youths.
"We got over it, we are still together, so we are having the last laugh, aren't we?" she said.
Mr Kuhn said he would never have imagined, back then on VE Day, that he would be married to an English girl 70 years later.
Terry Harrison and his sister Susan were born 11 months before VE Day, on 9 June 1944, after his mother had an affair with a black American GI.
Most "brown babies" fathered by black GIs were given up for adoption or sent to children's homes, but Mr Harrison's mother refused to give her children away.
Her husband Charlie Harrison was away fighting, and when VE Day came she still had not told him about the twins.
"Most wives were looking forward to seeing their husbands come home from the war, but in my case mum was a bit apprehensive," he told BBC Radio Leicester.
"There's no doubt the first time he knew was when he returned from the war, and when he walked in the house."
Mr Harrison's mother was treated cruelly by neighbours in the Leicestershire village of Gaddesby, and by members of her own family.
"In my early years I can remember going down the street and people walking across the street away from my mum, and sometimes dustbin lids being clattered across the street in disgust," he said.
"And mum had to endure this and the pain that she suffered, even from her sisters, my aunties and relations at that time."
His real father, John Lawrence Hendricks, was killed by his own side in a "friendly fire" incident in Wales two months before the twins were born.
Mr Lawrence's family told him his father was killed fighting the Germans, and he only recently discovered the truth.
He has since visited his father's grave at a US cemetery in Cambridge, and said it was "the most wonderful thing in my life".
"I may not have known my real father but I did know my mother and she to me is my inspiration for what I do in my life, because she had the determination and the courage," he said.
Val Royston worked for the Women's Royal Naval Service in London and she and her fellow Wrens went to join the crowds outside Buckingham Palace on VE Day.
She remembers a "brilliant atmosphere" as people waited to see prime minister Winston Churchill and the Royal Family on the balcony.
"They kept announcing that the family will come out again at such and such a time, so of course you stay on a bit longer, don't you," she told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"It quietened down, obviously, when they went back in again, and then when they came back out again, it was just as you expected," she said.
The crowds were "roaring their heads off" and The Mall was full with "a heck of a lot of people".
Some of her friends went on partying into the night in Piccadilly, but she went home to write a long letter to her parents back in Sheffield, telling them about the day's events.
While millions of people were celebrating, Betty Allen was grieving the death of her beloved father.
Just the day before VE Day - and a few days before her 13th birthday - she and her mother received a telegram saying he had been killed.
"I've always felt nothing to celebrate," she told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"I mean I should feel different but even now I still feel that I can't celebrate when my mother and I were in such misery.
"It didn't seem fair that he had gone through the war and right at the very end he had to lose his life."
Betty was an only child and "worshipped" her father, George Henry Terry.
Despite being only 12, she opened the telegram herself as she wanted to protect her mother, who was at work when it arrived at their home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
"We were thinking he would be coming home soon," she said. "It felt dreadful. I really didn't know what to do."
Her father been shot by a sniper's rifle in Germany.
After his death, Betty used to follow soldiers around pretending that they were her father.
"If I saw a soldier I would just walk behind him a little thinking, 'Oh that might be my dad', and of course I know it wasn't."
She has talked to her father, in her mind, throughout her life.
"Even this last year I remember saying, 'I'm old now dad', as if I've kept him up to date with life," she said.
Even now, she still cries when reading a letter sent to her mother by one of her father's friends.
It reads: "He always thought of his wife and family and was hoping for the day to get back to them."
Donald "Dixie" Dean remembers days of relaxing, drinking alcohol and even climbing into a fountain after fighting ended in Italy on 2 May - six days before VE Day.
He had just completed parachute training 10 miles from Rome.
"We were going into Rome every evening because the war was over as far as we were concerned," he told BBC Surrey.
He said the end of the war "was just a feeling of relief, mainly".
"I remember one evening, it might have been 5 May, we decided we were going to live for a while, so we went into a bar and we had all the drinks, different coloured liquids.
"We went from one to the other, to the other, to the other, to the other, yellow and green, God knows what they were. It's a wonder we didn't fall down dead," he laughs.
"I remember getting up to my knees in this fountain and there was a couple of sailors in there as well, and one kept shouting out he was drowning."


The queue snaked out of the side door of the book shop, 50 yards down the street, 100 yards down one side of an alleyway, 100 yards back up the other side and down the street again.

It was 1993 and Muhammad Ali was in Glasgow signing books with his friend, the photographer, Howard Bingham.
We stood in that queue for three hours or more, people of all ages chatting about Ali and what he meant to them. There was an old man there - maybe 80. Twenty-three years later and his face is as clear in the mind's eye as it was then, when we inched our way forwards and listened to his stories.
This was no braggadocio. As Ali once said, 'It ain't bragging if you can back it up'. And that Glasgow man could definitely back it up. He spoke about being at Wembley when Clay beat Henry Cooper in 1963, about being at Earls Court when Ali took apart Brian London in 1966, about being in Dublin when Ali did Al 'Blue' Lewis in 1972.
He knew it all. He spoke - quietly and not at all boastfully - about attending Ali's fight with Karl Mildenberger in Germany. None of us so-called Ali aficionados in that slowly moving line had ever heard of Karl Mildenberger.
So when Ali's people lowered the boom about his death at the weekend, one of the first thoughts was for that wee man in 1993 and what happened when we eventually got to the top of the queue and entered the bookshop, like children heading into Santa's Grotto.
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He did not ask for Ali's autograph or take his picture, he just stood away at the side and watched Ali do his thing. Then he became emotional. And Ali noticed.
Ali was exhausted - he should have been out of there hours before but he promised to stay until the last person left - and he did not have the strength to speak, but when he got up to leave he looked over at the old man, smiled as much as his illness would allow and then slowly put his up his fists, as if challenging him to a fight.
The old man did the same - and smiled back. It is funny the things you remember, but that one tender and fleeting image is impossible to forget.
No words were exchanged, but none were needed. Ali was the most eloquent man in the history of sport, but even when Parkinson's robbed him of his full voice he still moved people with the simplest gestures.
Since his death, the eulogies have come thick and fast from all corners of the world and all spheres of society. There was not a nook or cranny on this planet that his legend did not reach.
For the best part of half a century he has inspired not just great sports writing but great literature. Hugh McIlvanney, Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Pete Hamill, Hunter S Thompson, Mark Kram, David Remnick, Thomas Hauser - all heavyweights in their own game, all with a body of work that will keep Ali's complexity and the epic sweep of his personality alive for eternity.
In looking back on his life, you have to look at the whole life, not just the best of it. Hagiography has no place in the Ali story. To accentuate the greatness at the expense of the ugliness would actually diminish what he was.
Ali was the most remarkable sportsman in history but he was also, at times, one of the most bigoted, one of the cruellest, one who preached love but delivered hate on to men like Joe Frazier, a man who tried to help Ali at his lowest ebb and got little back apart from racial hatred.
Ali became world champion in 1964 when shaking up the world in victory over Sonny Liston. He defended his title against Liston in 1965, the same year he came to Scotland to fight exhibition bouts at the Paisley Ice Rink.
Even by then he was in the grip of the Nation of Islam, a frightening mob made up, in part, of ex-cons who preached a doctrine of separation of black and white. The integration of the races was a sin and they used Ali for all he was worth to get their message out there. No better man, no bigger audience.
This was one of the many contradictions of Ali. He was, as he said, free to be who he wanted to be, but he was not free at all in that period of his life, he was being manipulated remorselessly; ideologically and financially. The Nation got into Ali's head - and his bank account - to such a degree that he was, by the mid-1960s, espousing the view that any black person who had sexual relations with a white person should be killed.
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He carried on that hateful mantra for years. You look at some of the television interviews he did with Michael Parkinson back then and you get chilled to the bone by Ali's thoughts. He came across as a Ku Klux Klan member in reverse.
The complexity of the man was profound. In 1967 - when still world champion - he appeared in front of the US Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston. The army wanted to enlist Ali for the war in Vietnam that day. If he had taken a step forward when his name was called out he would have been on the first bus out of Houston bound for Fort Polk, Louisiana and then onwards to Vietnam.
Ali never took the step. Everybody knew he was not going to take it. The FBI had his every move under surveillance. They regarded him as a subversive.
As soon as Ali conscientiously objected to the draft - 'Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong' - he was aware of what was coming.
The backlash was seismic. His title was stripped, his reputation trashed by white America and his life put at risk. He was not allowed to leave the country. Red Smith, one of the most influential sports columnists of the age, took out a literary blow-torch and let Ali have it. "Squealing over the possibility that the military may call him up, Cassius makes himself as sorry a spectacle as those unwashed punks who picket and demonstrate against the war," he wrote.
Ali was branded a coward and a phony. David Susskind, the famous American television presenter and political commentator, went on TV with Ali and branded him "a disgrace to his country, his race and what he laughably describes as his profession". Susskind called Ali a "simplistic fool" who ought to be jailed.
Time proved Ali right, of course. It cost him almost four years of his career and an estimated $10m, but his principled stance became a hallmark of his greatness - or one of them.
Ali said that he was prepared to die for what he believed in. Nobody doubted that there were people out there in 1960s America who would have wanted Ali dead.
Ali was suspended from boxing on April 28, 1967 and returned with a fight against Jerry Quarry on October 26, 1970. Those around him said then, and they've been saying it ever since, that the three-and-a-half years he lost would have been his peak years. Ali knew it, too. Not that it stopped him marching onwards into boxing history.
He now entered the Joe Frazier years - The Fight of the Century at Madison Square Garden in 1971, the Thrilla in Manila in 1975 and, in-between, the Rumble In The Jungle -  the reclaiming of his world title against George Foreman.
Ali versus Frazier - the blood feud trilogy - has spawned books and films and every new one that comes out adds another layer to what is surely the greatest rivalry in sporting history.
What Ali did to Joe was shameful - and he was remorseful about it until the end. Joe lent Ali money and helped him get his boxing licence back. He went to the White House and asked president Richard Nixon to help Ali out.  Joe did not agree with Ali's stance on Vietnam but he felt it wrong that he was banned because of it. "Not right to take away a man's pick and shovel", was his immortal line.
Ali forgot all of that. When he fought Frazier first, in 1971, he belittled him in public. He called him dumb and ignorant and ugly. He called him ape man and the gorilla. Through the force of his oratory, Ali turned black America against Frazier. He said that anybody who supported Frazier was a traitor.
"The only people rooting for Joe Frazier," said Ali, "are white people in suits, Alabama sheriffs and members of the Ku Klux Klan. I'm fighting for the little man in the ghetto."
Frazier was presented as an Uncle Tom - a grotesque distortion of his life, which was entrenched in the kind of poverty that Ali never knew. Their three fights were savage. "The closest thing to dying," as Ali put it. Frazier was prepared to die, no doubt about it.
Right to the end of his own life, in November 2011, Frazier held a grudge against Ali. He used to speak about Ali's Parkinson's and the fact that he could not talk much anymore and he would mock him. He would say that God sent him to fix Ali. "He sent me to get him. I don't think that, I know that."
Ali said sorry to Joe many times over the years. He felt guilt and tried to make amends. It never quite worked out with Frazier, not in this world at least.
As he got older Ali became all about tolerance and love. All the hard edges softened and then disappeared. He lived out his life as a fighter of another kind, not the Louisville Lip, but a crusader against racism, injustice, crime, illiteracy, poverty. Those things, you sense, were of far greater importance to him than anything he achieved in the ring, from his first professional fight against Tunney Hunsaker at the Freedom Hall in his hometown of Louisville to his last, against Trevor Berbick, 21 years later.
"This life is nothing but a fraction of a second compared to eternity," Ali once said. "You give God one good second and God will give you heaven for eternity."


This is how Cardiff city centre will look in the future once a multi-million pound renovation is complete.

At the heart of the development is the new 150,000 sq ft (13,936 sq m) BBC Wales headquarters which will move to the site of the bus station in 2018.
The Capital Square development includes a new walkway from Cardiff Central station to the Millennium Stadium and new offices on Wood Street.
The scheme is being delivered by Rightacres Property.
The new route to the stadium, know as the Millennium Walkway, has been designed to cope with large numbers of people for busy events such as Wales rugby internationals.
Rightacres chief executive Paul McCarthy said: "Once we knew we could handle 35,000 people exiting the southern gates of the Millennium Stadium in under 20 minutes we knew the area could handle 7,000 people per hour on a normal day at peak times."
Plans for Wood Street include space to accommodate a metro, should it be built.


The Peruvian authorities have announced a state of emergency in a town which was hit by an avalanche of mud and rocks on Monday.

A torrent of mud and water sent car-sized boulders crashing through the town of Chosica, 47 km (29 miles) from the capital Lima.
At least seven people were killed and 65 houses destroyed.
The country's main east-west highway was blocked and residents are asking for equipment to clear up debris.
The boulders were loosened by two hours of heavy rain on Monday.
Floodwaters smashed through brick walls and carried cars, animals and furniture through Chosica's streets.
The state of emergency was called for 60 days to give powers to the local authorities to re-establish power and water supplies, and initiate a clean-up operation.
Residents in the town have asked the authorities for diggers and heavy equipment.
A 1967 mudslide in Chosica killed 64 people.


Swansea City boss Paul Clement says talks over the future of striker Borja Baston will be a priority this summer.

Borja, 24, became the Swans' record signing when he arrived from Atletico Madrid in August 2016.
However, the Spaniard has scored just one goal in 17 appearances and started only four Premier League games.
"He hasn't had the kind of year he or we would have liked for various reasons - but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a future here," said Clement.
"We have to all talk about that and decide what we're going to do for the best of him and the best of the club moving forward."
Borja arrived at the Liberty Stadium having scored 19 goals on loan at Eibar in La Liga last season.
Swansea's American owners said in April that the forward's future at the club would be decided at the end of the season.
"Certainly we had higher expectations for Borja Baston," said Jason Levien, who bought a controlling stake with Steve Kaplan last summer.
Swansea play their final Premier League game at home to West Bromwich Albion on Sunday (15:00 BST kick-off).
The Welsh club secured their top-flight status last weekend when they won at Sunderland, while fellow strugglers Hull were thrashed at Crystal Palace.


Telling Russell Knox he had missed out on a captain's pick for Europe's Ryder Cup team was the hardest call captain Darren Clarke "has ever had to make".

The Florida-based Scot, ranked 20th in the world and 10th on the World Points list for next month's event, had hoped to be one of three wildcard picks.
But Clarke chose Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and the in-form Thomas Pieters.
"It's probably as difficult a phone call as I've ever had to make in golfing terms," Clarke said.
"It was very difficult and I missed out myself on a captain's pick in 2008 when I won two weeks before the team was picked.
"So, making the call I knew how bad he was going to be feeling. Consequently, I felt bad having to do it.
"But that's part of the captain's remit and I must say he was very gracious and he understood where I was coming from."
While the experienced Westwood, who will make his 10th appearance in the biennial clash at Hazeltine, Minnesota, and Kaymer were expected to be two of Clarke's choices, Knox, 31, lost out to 24-year-old Pieters.
The Belgian won the Made in Denmark title at the weekend, after a fourth-place finish at the Rio Olympics and a  runner-up finish at the Czech Masters.
It means the 2016 event will be only the third since the Second World War that no Scot has featured in the European team, following Nick Faldo's defeated 2008 team and Colin Montgomerie's victorious group in 2010.
Knox, just one place away from being an automatic pick, would have qualified if he had been a European Tour member when he won the WGC-HSBC Champions last November and boosted his case by adding the Travelers Championship earlier this month.
"Last week I played with Thomas Pieters and Thomas knew why I was playing with him and played unbelievable and shot 62 and, on top of that, won the tournament," Northern Irishman Clarke added.
"In Lee Westwood I have one of most experienced Ryder Cuppers of all time - it's his 10th appearance.
"Martin Kaymer is somewhat of a Ryder Cup stalwart and another man I have enormous trust in."


Teachers in Scotland are working an additional 11 hours a week on top of their contracted hours, according to a survey by a union.

The EIS asked 3,500 primary and secondary teachers across the country to record their working hours over a two-week period.
It found that the average teacher works 46.5 hours per week. They are contracted to work 35 hours every week.
The union said teachers were being burdened with a "crippling" workload.
It described the situation as "unsustainable" and called on the Scottish government and local authorities to act.
The Scottish government said it was working with teachers' representatives, local authorities and other partners to address concerns around workload.
A spokesman said: "The report by the Working Group on Tackling Bureaucracy (set up by the government) identified specific areas where changes need to be made and how we can make sure teachers have the freedom they need to carry on delivering our world-class curriculum.
"We are committed to making sure councils have the right number and highest quality of teachers in our schools which is why we have offered councils Â£51m including an additional Â£10m over and above last year's settlements to support teacher numbers".
The EIS Fortnight Focus on Workload survey found the average primary school teacher spent 9.3 hours on preparation and correction, where the contractual position for a full-time teacher sets aside 7.5 hours.
In addition, planning took, on average, 3.4 hours per week for primary teachers, assessment took 1.3 hours and reporting consumed 2.3 hours of a teachers' time.
In secondary schools, teachers spent 8.5 hours on preparation and correction, 2.5 hours planning, 2.7 hours on assessment and 1.5 hours on curricular development.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The workload picture is similar for teachers in all sectors and at all grades, and for teachers on full-time contracts or part-time contracts.
"No matter what the individual contractual commitment, the evidence gathered during the fortnight focus demonstrates that high levels of additional working are the norm for Scotland's teachers."
Scottish Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray said: "Every teacher accepts the occasional late night as part of the job but this is above and beyond that, this should concern us all because Scotland will not be able to close the attainment gap with exhausted and overworked teachers."


Cornwall reached their fourth County Championship final in a row after a 32-14 win over Surrey at Camborne.

Cornwall ran into a 20-5 lead after 30 minutes thanks to two tries from Billy Searle either side of a Neilson Webber score, as Matt Noble replied.
Surrey kicked three penalties either side of the break to narrow the gap before Searle got his third try with 17 minutes to go.
Herbie Stupple rounded off the win with a fifth score to send Cornwall through.
They are the reigning county champions after winning the Bill Beaumont Cup last year when they beat Lancashire in the final.
But, after three matches with the Red Rose county, they will face Cheshire in the final after they beat Lancashire 27-11 in their decisive clash at Fylde.


The head of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has told MPs that the UK government should negotiate a five-year transitional Brexit deal.

Xavier Rolet told the Treasury Select Committee this was needed to protect the UK's financial industry.
He agreed that Brexit might see a massive migration of City employment to other EU countries, not just a few tens of thousands of jobs.
He said the projected two years of Brexit negotiation was "too short".
"What is required to maintain stability is nothing less than a grandfathering of the existing conditions of trade, for a limited period of time," Mr Rolet said.
He said this could be achieved by a five-year transitional deal, maintaining existing business arrangements and regulations, starting from the point at which Brexit negotiations were triggered.
The committee was hearing evidence about the UK's future economic relationship with the EU.
Mr Rolet was speaking alongside Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC, and Elizabeth Corley, vice chair of Allianz Global Investors.
The MPs were told of the fears and concerns of the financial services industry if Brexit left it outside the EU's single market and without the ease of trade that comes with it.
Mr Rolet was asked what would happen if the outcome of Brexit negotiations was that LSE members could no longer handle financial transactions denominated in euros, such as the huge international trade in derivatives between the worlds banks and other financial institutions, which is centred in London.
He warned that many tens of thousands of jobs might move from the UK to elsewhere in the EU, because firms, especially foreign ones, currently based in the UK would wish to continue doing business with the rest of Europe under existing EU rules.
"Without a clear path to continued operation of our global businesses our customers simply would not wait," said Mr Rolet.
He added:  "I'm not just talking about the clearing jobs themselves which number into the few thousands."
"But the very large array of ancillary functions, whether it's syndication, trading, treasury management, middle office, back office, risk management, software, which range into far more than just a few thousand or tens of thousands of jobs. They would then start migrating."
Mr Rolet added that such a movement of financial business to other countries would also lead to greater risks to the stability of the international financial system, which might undermine the Brexit negotiations themselves.
The solution, he suggested, was the policy of "grandfathering", whereby the old arrangements were kept in place.
"[This] is likely to strongly support a positive outcome for these [Brexit] negotiations," he said.
Mr Douglas Flint, chairman of the huge international HSBC banking group, told the MPs he was worried about a negative outcome of the Brexit negotiations for the international banking industry based in London.
"The economic system (in London) is like a Jenga tower," he said. "You don't know what will happen if you pull pieces out."
And he explained some of the thinking at big banks behind the decisions they might make in the future.
"There are two risks to jobs. One is we move the jobs, the other is the jobs are simply eliminated because the market opportunity [in Europe] is unattractive," he said.
He added that if the UK's banking industry ended up outside the EU single market, customers would find that it was slower to make payments, and those customers such as smaller businesses would probably have to pay more for the banking services which take place in an almost seamless way today.
Mr Flint told the MPs his bank had already started contingency planning for a Brexit deal that left the UK outside the EU single market, with France, Dublin, Amsterdam and Luxembourg as likely destinations for banking operations currently based in London.
Last month a report from the House of Lords report warned that any disruption to the UK's financial industry during Brexit negotiations might lead to businesses and services moving to New York.


Liberia's government has ordered that all bodies of people killed by the Ebola virus must be cremated.

The decision follows the refusal of some communities to allow the burial of Ebola victims on their land.
Meanwhile, Nigeria says it has a second Ebola case - that of one of the doctors who treated a man who died from Ebola after his arrival from Liberia.
This year's outbreak, the worst ever, has centred on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing 887 people.
It spreads by contact with infected blood and bodily fluids - and touching the body of someone who has died of Ebola is particularly dangerous.
Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said that 70 people have been traced who came into contact with the man who died there, Patrick Sawyer, eight of whom are now in isolation.
Sawyer, an employee of the Liberian finance ministry, had arrived in Lagos from Monrovia after changing planes in Togo's capital, Lome, on 20 July and died five days later in quarantine.
As part of efforts to help contain the outbreak, the US says it is planning to send at least 50 public health experts within the next 30 days.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola - but patients have a better chance of survival if they receive early treatment.
The current outbreak is killing between 50% and 60% of people infected.
Initial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas like eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in the capital, Monrovia, says cremation is not part of the culture in Liberia and health experts say burial ceremonies have played a role in the transmission of the virus.
Liberia's Information Minister Lewis Brown made the announcement on state radio about cremations after an incident over the weekend when a community refused to allow the burial of some bodies, most of them Ebola victims.
Thirty-four bodies were buried but the protests meant 12 were left out in the open for a day until it was decided to cremate them on Sunday, Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah told the BBC.
Mr Brown also warned that businesses that did not install hand-washing facilities would be shut down.
Our reporter says the call for hand washing as part of the preventive measures has led to a boom in the sale of tap buckets in Monrovia.
On Friday, Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, met the leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to launch a new $100m (Â£59m) Ebola response plan and said the virus could be stopped if well managed.
In Sierra Leone, the army is in the process of deploying to the east of the country to help health officials quarantine areas affected by Ebola.
Code-named Operation Octopus, the deployment, which includes military doctors and nurses, began on Sunday and is expected to take three days.
According to new UN figures, 826 people have died of the virus in West Africa since February - up from the figure of 729 people recorded on 27 July.


The River Wharfe in West Yorkshire has started to generate electricity for about 300 homes following the opening of a hydropower station.

The Greenholme Mill station in Burley, Wharfdale, was opened by MP Philip Davies on Saturday.
The station cost ??700,000 and over a year will produce 14,000 megawatt hours of electricity, investor CO2Sense said.
CO2Sense, a subsidiary of Yorkshire Forward, invested ??200,000 and provided technical support.
Energy generated by the turbine will be sold to the National Grid.


Animal cruelty crimes have more than doubled in Devon and Cornwall in the last five years say police.

In 2009 there were 30 cases of animal cruelty reported to police but so far in 2014, there have already been 66 cases.
A freedom of information request by the BBC revealed cases of animals being beaten, stabbed or blow torched to death.
Other offences included beheadings and paws being cut off.
In other cases, dogs were dragged along by vehicles, a goldfish was fried in a pan, a guinea pig was found skinned with innards removed and a pet snake was cut in half.
Almost 30% of the cases in the last five years relate to cats being shot.
Cases such as a puppy being stabbed resulted in a caution.
Of the 342 offences investigated by Devon and Cornwall Police since 2009, 10% have resulted in a charge, with most cases pending investigation or no suspect identified.
Wildlife crime officer Sgt Robert Bolt said: "It is very worrying that a number of individuals who are committing horrific offences against animals do appear to be getting away with it.
"But we are doing as much as we can. We have officers investigating every offence."
The RSPCA, which also handles cases of animal cruelty, saw a rise in convictions from 33 in 2011 to 47 in 2012.


The job of Welsh language commissioner is to be scrapped as ministers try to hit an ambitious target of one million Welsh speakers by 2050.

Ministers are to takeover decisions on what language rules, or "standards", apply to which organisations.
Welsh language minister Alun Davies said he wanted to make the system as efficient as possible.
Commissioner Meri Huws called for evidence that changing the current system would lead to improvement.
Campaigners at Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, who held a protest at the launch of the proposals at the National Eisteddfod on Wednesday, are concerned it will lead to a weakening of Welsh-speakers' rights.
Instead of a single figurehead, the Welsh Government wants to create a Welsh Language Commission to promote the language.
Like the current commissioner, the body would also be responsible for policing the system.
The changes are the Welsh Government's preferred options in proposals for new legislation outlined in a White Paper launched at the National Eisteddfod on Wednesday.
Any shake-up would need to be approved by AMs before becoming law.
Banks, supermarkets and other organisations in the private sector would not immediately face new rules, despite such suggestions earlier this year.
"We are not proposing that the Welsh Government will imminently be imposing Standards on bodies which do not currently come within the Standards system," the white paper said.
"Given the current economic uncertainty following the decision to leave the EU, further pressures on private sector companies and inward investment would certainly carry a risk."
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg responded by claiming the proposals were aimed at "just making civil servants' jobs easier".
Chairwoman Heledd Gwyndaf told the BBC's Good Morning Wales programme she feared a new body would not have the same clout as a commissioner, and that being both promoter and regulator would result in a "clash of interests".
"It seems that our Welsh Labour Government are looking after big corporations and big companies... at the expense of the Welsh people," she said.
Plaid Cymru chairman Alun Ffred Jones, a former minister with responsibility for the Welsh language, said it was simply "rearranging the deckchairs".
"The government has failed miserably to promote the language," he added.
Mr Jones called for better co-ordination in Welsh Government departments covering areas such as schools, education and planning to increase the use of Welsh.
The changes to the commissioner's role are likely to be amongst the most controversial.
The current commissioner, Meri Huws, has been in post since the job was created in 2012.
Earlier this week she launched an investigation into claims retailer Sports Direct had instructed staff to converse in English only.
Asked about the proposals, she said: "I think it's a case of my job expanding. I think it's a case of my job moving forward.
"I think there is a need to look at the role of regulator and promoter - regulator and advocate side by side.
"Can they coexist in one structure? I believe they can, and if that means then that the Welsh Language Commissioner becomes a commission with that all encompassing role I would welcome it."
Ms Huws added: "I think change is acceptable if it is change that which lead to improvement.
"We need the evidence that any structural change will lead to that improvement, will lead to that strengthening of the Welsh language.
"Change for change's sake is not acceptable. And I don't think we should do that, because I think we will lose momentum.
"We cannot afford to lose momentum in terms of the Welsh language and of the government targets."
Mr Davies said a consultation earlier this year indicated there was too much "bureaucracy" involved in the "standards" system, which sees individual organisations given bespoke official requirements to provide certain services in Welsh.
"We want to refocus our efforts on promotion and make changes to the way the Welsh Language Standards system works to make sure it is as efficient and effective as possible in giving people rights to use Welsh," he said.
"I believe the Welsh Language Commission will be a powerhouse for achieving both these aims."
He later told BBC Wales he was "not here to please" Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.
Mr Davies launched the Welsh Government's strategy to meet the target of one million Welsh speakers alongside First Minister Carwyn Jones and Wales football manager Chris Coleman in July.
The 2011 census had reported a drop in the number of Welsh speakers from 582,000 in 2001 to 562,000, about one in five of the population.
It's clear from reading today's proposals that ministers in Cardiff Bay do not think the system works at the moment.
The document talks about a system which is "too complex, time consuming and costly to implement" and "an urgent need to make changes so we avoid undermining the confidence of Welsh speakers and the goodwill of people who don't speak Welsh".
But it's also clear there isn't a silver bullet which means Welsh speakers can access services without hindrance while avoiding "a bureaucratic and costly system which threatens to choke off goodwill towards the Welsh language".
The answer, according to today's proposal from the Welsh Government, is to get rid of the arms-length Welsh Language commissioner and bring its responsibilities in-house.
The relationship between ministers and Meri Huws has, at times, been strained.  Her attempts to create Wales-wide standards for public bodies in 2013 were rejected as being too complex.
While the proposals outlined today accepts there aren't any easy answers, it's also clear that ministers think they have a better chance of finding the best solution.


Rarely-seen images of the Antarctic expedition led by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton have gone on display in Manchester.

The pictures show his ship Endurance trapped in ice in 1915, as well as crew members and dogs on the voyage.
For the first time, digitised images of slides owned by crew member Reginald James have been put on show.
He received the images from the expedition's official photographer Frank Hurley.
They form part of a free display at Manchester Central Library until 11 June.
Known as Jimmy by his fellow crew members, James was the expedition's physicist and used the slides in talks about the expedition following their safe return.
After the expedition between 1914 and 1917, he served in Ypres, Belgium, during World War One.
He then lived in Manchester for nearly 18 years where he lectured in physics at the university.
He married teacher Annie Watson in 1936 before they sailed for South Africa, where he worked at the University of Cape Town.
Source: Royal Geographical Society
Organised by the Royal Geographical Society, the exhibition, which launched in London last year, will also go on display in the Midlands, Wales and Scotland.


Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac has said the region made history by beating French giants Toulon in the European Champions Cup.

Scott Williams scored the only try of the game as Scarlets held on to win 22-21 in a tense finale.
Leigh Halfpenny could have won the game for Toulon but missed an 80th minute long-range penalty.
"The most relieved man was Wyn Jones as he came in the side of the ruck. It was a tough kick, 50/50," Pivac said.
"We talk about history and this club has got a fine history. Today we created some of our own so I am very satisfied."
The victory means Scarlets have now won their last seven consecutive games at Parc y Scarlets and Pivac said everything went to plan against Toulon.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Pivac said: "We did everything we wanted to do and that was to improve on the week before. At the start of the game the numbers were up for territory and possession.
"We created some good scoring opportunities including one really good one. We knew at half time we would be in for a real contest. That's how it proved to be and it was a very tough second half."
Scarlets lost 31-20 away against the French Top14 side a week before beating them on home soil and centre Scott Williams said they could still progress further in the competition thanks to the victory.
"We were steamrolled for 20 minutes in France last week. But we played with a higher tempo today," Williams told BBC Radio Wales.
"We are still in with a sniff, we knew we had to win today to give us any chance and we are looking forward to the fight and looking forward to the games in January."


The US is investigating whether the attack in Libya that killed the US ambassador and several other people was planned in advance, officials say.

The assault had earlier been thought to have been a spontaneous reaction to protests over an anti-Islamic film.
US President Barack Obama has called the presidents of Egypt and Libya to urge cooperation over security for diplomatic staff.
There have been further clashes outside the US embassy in Cairo overnight.
Thousands of people gathered outside the building in the Egyptian capital, chanting and starting fires.
Police and troops fired tear gas to break up the crowds, some of whom were seen carrying petrol bombs.
On Wednesday, demonstrators in Cairo angry at the film - Innocence of Muslims - had breached the walls of the US embassy and torn down the flag.
President Barack Obama has vowed to bring those behind the attack to justice, but said the US would not "break bonds" with the new Libyan government.
The White House says Mr Obama spoke to Libyan President Mohamed Magarief on Wednesday evening and agreed the two countries should work together to identify the attackers.
In a further call to Egypt, President Mohammed Morsi promised to ensure the safety of American staff in the country, the White House said.
Security has been tightened at US embassies across the world.
A marine anti-terrorism team is being deployed to Libya to bolster security there, a US defence source told reporters in Washington.
The US says it is also sending two destroyers to the coast of Libya as a precautionary measure.
Armed men stormed the consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday night.
It is believed Ambassador J Christopher Stevens died of smoke inhalation. Three other Americans and up to 10 Libyans also died in the attack.
Officials have now said the attack was complex and professional, and reports suggest the perpetrators may have had links to jihadist groups.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
A senior US official quoted by AFP news agency said the Benghazi attackers appeared to have used the demonstrations as a pretext to staging an assault.
"This was a complex attack," he told the news agency. "They seemed to have used this [protest] as an opportunity."
US officials told Reuters news agency there were suspicions that a militia known as the Ansar al-Sharia brigade was responsible, although the group has denied the claim.
They said there were also reports that al-Qaeda's north Africa-based affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, may have been involved, the news agency reports.
The consulate compound began taking heavy fire at about 22:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Tuesday night, and the main building was in flames soon afterwards.
Libyan and US security forces tried to retake the compound several times, US officials said, but only succeeded early on Wednesday.
One of the Americans killed was Sean Smith, a state department employee. The other victims have not yet been identified.
Seventeen-year-old Hamam, who took part in the attack, told Reuters that Ansar al-Sharia cars had arrived at the start of the protest but later left.
By PJ CrowleyFormer US Assistant Secretary of State
Viewpoint: Libya deaths no surprise
"The protesters were running around the compound just looking for Americans, they just wanted to find an American so they could catch one," he said.
"We started shooting at them, and then some other people also threw hand-made bombs over the fences and started the fires in the buildings."
Little is known about the origins of the film, including about a man named as Sam Bacile, reported as being behind its production.
BBC reporters probing his background on Wednesday were unable to confirm personal details.
Egypt's Coptic Church has issued a statement condemning the production, after reports that some Copts in the US had financed the film.
Obituary: J Christopher Stevens
In pictures: US film protests
Film outrages media
Libyan officials have condemned the attack and pledged to investigate.
Interim leader, Mohammed Magarief, apologised to the US, adding: "We expect the rest of the world to help us face these cowardly criminal acts."
Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House on Wednesday, President Obama praised the ambassador for his work in Libya after the overthrow of the late Col Muammar Gaddafi.
He said it was "especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save".


Australia Post's chief executive has resigned, weeks after controversy over the size of his salary.

Ahmed Fahour had been widely credited for turning around the government-owned organisation, returning it to profit.
But earlier this month it emerged he earned A$5.6m ($4.3m; £3.4m) last year, 10 times the salary of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The PM described the remuneration as "too high" with politicians saying it was excessive for a civil servant.
At the time, Australia Post defended the payout, saying it included a bonus due to Mr Fahour for steering the business into profit in 2016.
Announcing his departure, the firm made no reference to the controversy.
It said Mr Fahour had developed an entirely new strategy for the business, "focused on investing in the parcels and eCommerce business".
"It was the right strategy which has placed the postal service on the path to a sustainable future and avoiding a taxpayer bailout," chairman John Stanhope said.
A successor has not been named, but the board said it would begin the search for a new chief immediately.
At a press conference after his departure was announced, the outgoing boss said the organisation had been overhauled during his seven years in charge.
"Everybody was writing media releases and articles about the death of mail and email was going to kill us and that it was through," Mr Fahour said.
"But we, the management team and the board, would have no part of that."
Australia Post said that under Mr Fahour's leadership, it had invested in a network which improved services and delivered more than A$4bn in dividends and taxes to the government in the past seven years.
Without the transformation, the postal service was potentially looking at a A$6.7bn bailout over a 10-year period, it added.
Australia Post earned A$197m ($151m; £121m) in first half pre-tax profit for the six months to December 2016. At the same time the previous year, its profit was at $1m.


Barcelona have signed Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen for £11.1m to replace Manchester City-bound Claudio Bravo.

Netherlands international Cillessen, 27, has signed a five-year deal with the Spanish champions, who could pay another £1.7m in variables.
He started his career with NEC Nijmegen before joining Ajax in 2011.
Cillessen's move was confirmed hours before Chile international Bravo, 33, joined Pep Guardiola at City for an initial £15.4m.
Bravo made 70 La Liga appearances in two seasons for Barcelona but never featured for them in the Champions League, with Marc-Andre ter Stegen their first choice in cup competitions.


Shimon Peres worked hard all his political life to keep Israel strong and to make it stronger.

In his early and middle years, he was a noted hawk.
In the 1970s, he promoted the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
In the 1950s and 60s, he did more than anyone else to secure a nuclear reactor and then to give Israel the tools to create its own nuclear weapons.
Peres never lost his belief that Israel had to be the strongest regional power in the Middle East.
But in the last third of his career he began believing that it was possible to make peace with the Palestinians and with Israel's other Arab neighbours.
It was only in his last few years, as Israel's president, that he became really popular in Israel.
It is a ceremonial office and the Israeli public respected his years of service.
Before that, he was liked more abroad than he was at home. Peres lost five elections.
He served as prime minister twice, but never with his own electoral mandate.
Shimon Peres was the last survivor of the political generation that established Israel in 1948.
He was the right-hand man of David Ben Gurion, Israel's first prime minister.
When Israel was fighting for its independence in 1948, Ben Gurion sent him abroad to buy weapons. It was a vital military role.
But it was obscured by Peres's later reputation as an effective political operator - an "intriguer" as he was known in Israel.
The fact that he did not wear a uniform and pick up a gun to fight in 1948 meant that Israeli voters never respected or trusted him as much as contemporaries like Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Allon, who had been famous commanders in the independence war.
By the early 1990s, Peres became convinced that it was possible to make peace with the Arabs.
He had a vision of a new Middle East, bound together in peace through economic co-operation.
He helped broker the Oslo accords in 1993 between Israel and the Palestinians, and won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Rabin and Yasser Arafat.
Rabin paid with his life for Oslo when a Jewish extremist assassinated him in 1995.
Peres succeeded him as prime minister. He would have won a snap election but decided instead to establish his prime ministerial credentials.
But in 1996 he launched an ill-advised war in Lebanon and then lost, by a narrow margin, to Benjamin Netanyahu.
When Oslo was signed, Shimon Peres and many other Israelis - and Palestinians, and others as well - believed the Middle East was on the cusp of radical change. A new peaceful future loomed.
But Oslo failed. Shimon Peres never abandoned his faith in a two-state solution, an independent Palestine alongside Israel. But many others did.
In the end, he died without achieving peace.
But Peres was a remarkable man, a tireless politician, a statesman who made his last speech days before his stroke.
His death closes a chapter of Israel's history.
In 1934, Shimon Peres arrived as an 11-year-old immigrant in what was then mandatory Palestine, ruled by the British.
He died in Israel, a country full of remarkable achievements - that is in itself a remarkable achievement.
His long career had plenty of dark moments, but Shimon Peres goes to his grave as one of the greatest of Israel's founders and statesmen.


It has been a fractious summit, largely overshadowed by the row between Britain and the host country, Sri Lanka, over accountability for alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.

But the closing communique agreed by the heads of government does not mention any of that, or the refusal of three Commonwealth prime ministers to come to Sri Lanka.
Instead, there was a restatement of the leaders' commitment to respect, protect and promote what they call the "core values" of the organisation, including democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
At a closing news conference, Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa defended his record, and insisted the country needed more time to heal the wounds of civil war.
"We have to change the minds and thinking of the people, not only in the north, but in the south, too.
"This is not a thing that you can start today and finish tomorrow. The war was going on for 30 years."
The president has said his troops committed no abuses during or since the brutal civil war against ethnic Tamils fighting for a homeland in the island's north.
But he has also said his country's institutions are actively processing mounting complaints of human rights abuse, including reports of missing people - the so-called "disappeared" - and of attacks including murders of journalists in particular and critics of government in general.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron used this summit to set Sri Lanka a deadline of March 2014 to complete a credible independent inquiry report, or else face British pressure at the United Nations to establish an international investigation.
But Mr Cameron will need support from other members of the United Nations Human Rights Council to try to force full government accountability. That support cannot be guaranteed.
Mr Cameron's visit to the predominantly Tamil north of Sri Lanka on the opening day of the summit - where he was surrounded by women clutching photographs of men they say have simply "disappeared" - certainly put the issues of human rights and alleged war crimes in the international spotlight, as he had hoped.
But Mr Cameron did also acknowledge there are strongly differing views about the past and that real progress, but not enough in his view, had been made in the tasks of reconciliation and investment for recovery after all the years of bloodshed.
So if the summit sessions themselves did not deal with these tough and divisive issues, what did the Commonwealth leaders talk about?
After all the sound and fury surrounding this summit, the agreed outcomes are mainly quiet ambitions to do better in advancing development.
The 50 Commonwealth countries represented at the meeting focused their talks under the title "Growth with Equity".
They agreed that eradicating poverty is the greatest challenge facing the world.  A central feature is the "Colombo Declaration on Sustainable, Inclusive and Equitable Development".
The Commonwealth heads note "that rising inequality at both international and national levels has implications for poverty reduction".
They point out that countries grappling with natural and man-made disasters are the worst affected.
They welcomed what they call "substantial progress" in meeting some of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, but they also worry that some targets remain off-track both globally and within the Commonwealth - a club which includes both rich and poor nations, large like India and Canada, to the very tiny island states, like St Kitts and Nevis and Vanuatu.
The Commonwealth heads also agreed that climate change continues to be what they call "a major challenge for all countries, posing a grave threat to some".
Looking away?
The Commonwealth decided to hold its next summit in two years' time in Malta. It is regarded as a safe choice, tried and tested when it staged the event only eight years ago in 2005.
The leaders must be hoping to avoid any repeat of the bruising disagreements within the club over the fitness of Sri Lanka as host.
Defenders of the Commonwealth, led by Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma, dismiss suggestions the club of nations either looks away when bad things happen, or sweeps allegations of abuse under the carpet.
Mr Sharma said at the end of this summit, or Chogm (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting): "The heart of the Commonwealth beats strongest at Chogm. This is why delegations and leaders convene in a spirit of mutual support and common purpose here.
"Even if you did bullet points of the outcomes of the meetings you will still have to take some time. This is the genius of the Commonwealth which is always on display."
His critics complain that ignores the fact that several leaders stayed away from this particular Chogm, including the prime ministers of Canada, India and Mauritius.
So the large questions raised about the Commonwealth's wisdom and relevance in the modern world are still unresolved after the Sri Lanka summit.


Orkney has the highest level of fuel poverty in Scotland, according to new figures.

The Scottish House Condition Survey - covering the period from 2012 to 2014 - showed that that 63% of households in the the islands were spending 10% or more of their household income on fuel supplies.
This was up from a previous figure of 58%.
The Western Isles had previously topped the figures for fuel poverty.
Across Scotland, an average of 35% of households were deemed to be fuel poor.
The figure is based on households spending more than 10% of their income on fuel costs.


Plymouth Raiders have signed Peter Hooley, David Humphries and Deji Adekunle ahead of the new season.

Humphries and Hooley qualify as British through family history, with Humphries having graduated this year from Marymount University in America.
Hooley captained American university side Albany for the last three years and was named in Australia's 12-man World University Games squad last year.
Adekunle, who plays at centre, will be the club's tallest player at 6ft 11in.
"Throughout his career Peter [Hooley] has scored in bunches in games, so we're adding a valuable piece to our offence," Raiders coach Jonathan White said.
"David [Humphries] has played at a good college in America and he comes to us as a ready-made player for what we need."
On London-born Adekunle, White added: "Deji is something we didn't have last season and something we decided we needed, a 6'11" athlete that blocks shots, rebounds and brings energy on every play."


Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been jailed for six months for taking part in the 2014 pro-democracy protests.

He was tried and found guilty of unlawful assembly last year, and sentenced to community service.
But in an unusual move the Hong Kong government appealed the sentence, arguing it was too lenient.
The sentence means he cannot stand for local elections in the next five years. Two other student leaders, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, were also jailed.
Law was sentenced to eight months in prison, while Chow received a seven-month sentence.
The BBC's Juliana Liu in Hong Kong says rights groups have criticised the Hong Kong government, saying the appeals were political decisions intended to deter future protests and to keep young people out of elected politics.
But the Hong Kong government has denied this, saying there was "absolutely no basis" to claims of political motives.
Immediately after the sentence was announced, Wong - who is 20 - took to his Twitter account with a series of defiant messages.
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He ended his series of tweets with a brief "see you soon".
The three activists were convicted for unlawful assembly in an incident which helped to trigger the mass protests in Hong Kong.
They were among a group of student protesters who scaled a fence surrounding Hong Kong's legislative headquarters and occupied the building's courtyard on 26 September 2014.
Their removal by police officers angered the public, and brought tens of thousands of people onto the city's streets in the following days.
The activists initially received community service sentences. Their jail sentences effectively prevent them from standing in upcoming elections, which they had previously expressed interest in contesting.
Anyone jailed for more than three months is disqualified from contesting local elections in Hong Kong for the following five years.
Mr Law was elected to Hong Kong's legislature last year, but was disqualified last month when the city's high court ruled that he had improperly taken his oath.
Amnesty International called the Hong Kong authorities' appeal for jail terms for the three activists a "vindictive attack" on freedom of expression.
"The relentless and vindictive pursuit of student leaders using vague charges smacks of political payback by the authorities," said Mabel Au, director of the rights group's Hong Kong branch.
The justice department said in a statement released prior to Thursday's sentencing that "there is absolutely no basis to imply any political motive" on their part, and that freedom of speech is protected in Hong Kong.
It added that the activists had shown "disorderly and intimidating behaviour", and were convicted "not because they exercised their civil liberties but because their relevant conduct in the protest broke the law".


Prisoner numbers must be cut to prevent further violence, the Parole Board chairman for England and Wales says.

Speaking after a riot at Birmingham prison, Nick Hardwick said there was only "a small window" in which to act.
The Ministry of Justice is recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers to tackle prison violence.
But Mr Hardwick told the BBC the situation was "very grave" and it would be too long before the extra staff were trained and effective.
Mr Hardwick, formerly Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme that there were widespread fears of violence in the prison system.
HMP Birmingham, where inmates took over four wings and started fires on Friday, had not even been among the institutions causing the most concern, he said.
"The levels of violence and suicide and self-harm are not only increasing, but the rate at which they are increasing is accelerating.
"Successive ministers cannot say that they were not warned about this."
A gold command centre set up by the National Offender Management Service when trouble broke out in Birmingham is still in operation and continuing to monitor any signs of potential disturbance there and elsewhere.
The BBC understands there was a brief disturbance at Hull prison involving a number of inmates transferred from Birmingham, and one wing was in lock-down for up to two hours.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "HMP Hull, like all prisons across the estate, is being closely monitored for signs of potential unrest.
"We have specially trained prison staff available to respond to any disturbances."
Last month, Justice Secretary Liz Truss announced a Â£1.3bn investment in new prisons, as well as more prison officers, extra drug tests and greater autonomy for governors.
She has also promised a zero-tolerance approach to attacks on prison staff and said body-worn cameras would be provided at jails across the country.
But Mr Hardwick said the government must take urgent action to reduce the prison population of 85,000 to a more manageable figure.
"We are not prepared to pay for the size of the prison population that we now have, so the balance between the prison population and the number of staff that we've got is now unworkable," he said.
"It would be a mistake to take emergency, reckless measures around the prison population. But if you don't do things in a planned and sensible way then further down the track you may be forced into a much more difficult position."
Alex Cavendish, a former prisoner turned academic who runs the Prison UK blog, also told the BBC he was concerned more prison officers was not the answer.
"I'm not convinced that they will be able to retain them, or that they will be able to get them deployed, trained effectively, onto wings in time to stop the next round of riots.
"And I am very, very much afraid that we are going to see more of this disturbance. Mercifully, at Birmingham nobody was seriously injured or killed, but that cannot be ruled out in the future."


It could take several days to determine the exact cause of a large explosion which killed a man and destroyed a house in North Yorkshire, police said.

Officers believe the victim, named locally as Paul Wilmott, 63, was the resident of the detached property in Haxby, near York.
The cause is thought to be a gas blast and is being treated as an accident after initial inquiries.
About 12 nearby homes were also damaged in the explosion on Friday morning.
Northern Gas Networks said supplies were turned off to a number of the properties as a precaution.
Engineers are restoring gas to homes with no structural damage, a spokesman said.
Insp Andy Haigh, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "We're currently working with the fire service, the Health and Safety Executive and forensic experts to establish the cause of the incident, which will take several days.
"We have specially trained officers working with the family, and a number of residents are now returning to their homes."
He added: "We also have put a number of patrols on in the area to reassure the public, as a number of homes are still empty."
Leeds Beckett University said Mr Wilmott worked for more than 30 years at the institution, most recently in its video production unit.
Vice-chancellor Peter Slee said: "We are very saddened to hear of his death and our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time."
Structural engineers continued to assess damage to neighbouring properties on the street.
Brian Smith, who lives three doors down, said: "We've got a bit of damage, but we've been very lucky considering the damage to other properties.
"It's a bit surreal really, I opened up the curtains this morning thinking it was just a dream. It's hard to take in."


Standing next to Big Ben as it strikes 10 o'clock is a staggering experience.

Despite the earplugs provided, your can feel the vibrations running through your body long after the bongs have died away.
But those bongs may be silenced at certain points in the next three years, as essential works to conserve the Elizabeth Tower, the Great Clock and the Great Bell - also known as Big Ben - begin in early 2017.
It's been 157 years since the famous clock - a symbol of London, standing 96m above the Houses of Parliament - began service and it needs work to preserve it.
"It's been running 24/7," says Paul Roberson, one of the clockmakers at the Palace of Westminster. "You wouldn't run a motor 24/7 for 150 years without maintaining it.
"It's still doing what it was put there to do."
The times that Big Ben will fall silent will be kept to a minimum and provision will be made so that the bells can be rung if need be. Those events include Remembrance Sunday and New Year's Eve.
What's happening?
It's when you climb up those 334 stone steps to the clock face - and then onwards up a giddy, cast iron staircase to the very top of the Tower - you realise the extent of the work needed.
Principal Architect Adam Watrobski points out the rust forming on the cast iron work, and the effect of water on the stone.
He points to a pool of water that's condensed on the ground behind the north face of the clock; and Mr Roberson shows how the worst of the weather can creep in through the gap between the panes of pot opal glass which make up the clock face, and the hands of the famous clock itself.
Parts of the Great Clock have become worn and need investigation and repair. It can't be done while the clock is in operation. But the experts hope that there will always be one dial working at all times.
While the Elizabeth Tower itself is structurally sound, Mr Watrobski points out cracks to the masonry, corrosion to the bell frame and internal damage caused by leaks, all of which need to be addressed. The Ayrton Light, which shines to show Parliament is sitting, must be fully dismantled and restored.
The project isn't just due to carry out repairs, but modernisation too. A lift for the clockmakers to shift the heavy equipment required will be installed in an old ventilation shaft. There's currently no plumbing or running water, so a toilet will be installed.
The lights which illuminate the the clock dials and the belfry, once gas powered lights, will be low energy LEDs, part of the energy efficiency measures. Health and safety features will be introduced.
While news of the "Restoration and Renewal" of the Palace of Westminster will be announced in the next month, Mr Watrobski says: "The clock tower won't wait."
And he says that, no matter where Parliament is sitting as the repairs to the palace itself are carried out in the future, "We'll still have the light shining here, to show Parliament is sitting, an international symbol of democracy."


Six men and one woman were killed when a tram derailed on a sharp bend in Croydon, south London.

Tributes have been paid to the victims of the crash, all of whom were from the local area.
Dane Chinnery, a 19-year-old Crystal Palace fan, was the first victim to be identified on Tuesday.
The former Meridian High School pupil, from New Addington, was described as a "beautiful lad".
Barbara Dumbleton, a family friend, said he "always had a smile on his face... he was absolutely lovely."
Tributes also poured in for the teenager on social media.
One described him as "an amazing happy outgoing person who will always be remembered".
Another read: "Hearts been broken today. Dane is the funniest boy I've ever met in my life. If anyone ever needed anything he'd be there doing all he can to help."
Grandfather Philip Seary, from New Addington, was a Crystal Palace fan who was well-known in his home town.
The 57-year-old, also known as "Tank", leaves behind his wife, children and grandchildren.
In a statement, his family said they were "in shock, completely heartbroken and utterly devastated" by his death.
"Everyone that knew him said he was a gentle giant with a heart to match... He will be immensely missed by all that had the great fortune to know him," they said.
Friends and family also left messages of condolence online.
Graham and Holly Eves wrote on their joint Facebook page: "We lost one of the BEST!! The most kind, giving person we'll ever have in our lives!! Rest in Paradise our friend & brother.. luv u to the Stars!!"
Heather Palmer added: "He was a truly lovely gentle giant of a man x one of the nicest people I ever knew x genuinely lovely x will be missed x RIP Tank and god bless you xx."
Mark Smith, a young engaged father from Croydon, was described by his future brother-in-law as a "a wonderful husband, an amazing brother, amazing son to his parents".
"He will always stay in our hearts and our minds and we will never forget him," Osvaldas Novikovas said.
In another tribute posted on Facebook by his cousin Tom Smith, he was described as someone who "could make everyone laugh".
Mr Smith wrote: "Still cannot believe this is true, the last couple of days have just felt like a nightmare that I'm gonna wake up from."
Another friend, Rich Padley, wrote on Facebook: "Marky was one of the nicest guys I've ever met in the car scene, and always made time for anyone.
"RIP dude, the world's a sadder place without you that's for sure, my heart goes out to your loved ones that you've left behind."
Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, from New Addington, was the only woman to die in the crash.
Simon Smith, chief executive of her employer SSP UK, said the company was "deeply saddened" by her death.
"We have offered our heartfelt condolences to her family and we are doing all we can to support them at this difficult time," he said.
Donald Collett,  62, a grandfather from Croydon, was identified by the British Transport Police as one of the seven victims of the Croydon Tram derailment on Saturday.
In a statement his family said they were "struggling to deal with this tragic news".
"Don was a well loved, funny and generous man, who could light up a room with his smile. He is tragically leaving behind a loving family, partner, adored friends and work colleagues," they said.
On Facebook Samuel Collett wrote a tribute to his uncle: "My wonderfully funny and generous uncle Don died this week in the tragic tram crash in Croydon that has left our family in utter shock and devastation.
"I cannot express the pain and distress our family has gone through during this time waiting for the confirmation of his death but wish to remember our Don with the laughter and love in which he bestowed on our lives. I personally will never forget his infectious laugh and positive attitude to life . He will be eternally missed."
Philip Logan, 52, from New Addington, south London, was also named on Saturday.
In a statement his family said he would be "immensely missed by all that knew him".
"Philip Logan known to all who knew him as Loag, a loving husband to Marilyn, brother to Susan, father to Lee, Tracy, Lisa and Adele, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was a true family man and generous friend to all with a magnificently dry sense of humour," they said.
"Phil was a man with more love, compassion and zest for life than words can express."
Robert Huxley, 63 from New Addington was described by his family as "a larger than life character" and loving husband, father and grandfather.
In a statement they said: "As you can appreciate for his loved ones it's been a difficult and uncertain time.
"Bob was a larger than life character and very hardworking. A loving husband, devoted father and grandfather, brother, uncle and dear friend to many. He was also a lifelong Chelsea supporter and a season ticket holder.
"This tragedy will have far reaching consequences and impact many people for a significant time. We are all heartbroken."


The mission to target so-called Islamic State militants in Syria could take some time and will require persistence, PM David Cameron has said.

RAF Tornados conducted air strikes on six targets in Syria, "successfully" attacking an IS-controlled oilfield, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
There will be "strong support from our allies" for the action, the PM added.
Two more Tornados and six Typhoons have arrived at RAF Akrotiri, in Cyprus, from where they will join the attacks.
Speaking after the strikes, Mr Cameron said the operation in Syria would require "patience".
"It is complex and it is difficult what we are asking our pilots to do, and our thoughts should be with them and their families as they commence this important work," he said.
The decision to approve the mission was "good for the country", the prime minister said, adding: "There was a compelling case for extending our air strikes from Iraq to Syria, and I was glad to see such strong support right across parliament."
MPs overwhelmingly backed UK military action against IS - also known as Daesh - in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after a 10-hour Commons debate on Wednesday.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has welcomed the result of the vote, saying European forces had to lead the response to the threat.
Delivering the Kissinger Lecture at the Library of Congress in Washington, Mr Blair said: "We should learn the lessons of the whole period from 9/11 to today and try to forge a new synthesis of foreign policy which recognises the need for an active policy of engagement, but in a way sophisticated by our experience, not incapacitated by it.
"For Europe, there is a huge calculation to be made. This security threat is at our door. It is actually within our home."
He added that there was "no doubt" in his mind that "this is a battle we will win".
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the MoD would be assessing the damage done by the first strikes, saying he had personally approved the targets ahead of the Commons vote.
He said the aim was to strike "a very real blow on the oil and revenue on which Daesh depends".
A White House spokesman welcomed Parliament's approval of action in Syria, saying "we congratulate the UK on the strikes overnight".
However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the UK was obliged under the terms of the UN Security Council resolution on dealing with IS to coordinate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on air strikes in the country.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the IS-controlled Omar oilfield in eastern Syria - hit by UK air strikes - was one of eight oilfields targeted by coalition forces.
He said the decision to target oilfields may have been a political one - to avoid civilian casualties.
But our correspondent said there was now "an urgency" among US-led forces to "close down" IS sources of revenue.
The oilfield at Omar potentially represents more than 10% of its income, the MoD said.
Mr Fallon also confirmed two Tornados and six Typhoons were being sent to join the eight jets already at the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus, from where UK operations in Iraq have been launched.
The Typhoons left RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland, to join the air strikes.
By BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet
This morning's newspapers in Damascus reiterate criticism Syrian officials have made for years about the West's engagement here.
"Britain didn't ask permission from Syria's government," declares the state news agency SANA. "Cameron told lies," it says.
Syrian officials insist Britain and its allies must follow Russia's example and co-ordinate their campaign with Syrian government forces. If they don't, they warn, they simply won't succeed.
The deadlock over President Assad's future role will continue to block the formation of a unified command against a common enemy. It will also stand in the way of Britain's pledge that it will now also focus on finding a negotiated way out of this war.
Syrian activists and opposition groups feel bitterly let down that the West did not give them this kind of military support to help remove President Assad.
And the many Syrians exhausted by war want, most of all, to believe Britain's promise that it's stepping up the fight to "win the peace" - as hard as that is.
Syrian state media reacts with scorn
Mr Fallon said there was a "very rigorous" process by which targets were chosen, and all British military action would adhere to "very strict rules of engagement".
Asked how long the UK might be involved in the coalition campaign against IS in Syria, he said it would "not be quick", but argued it had not been right to leave bombing to other air forces.
On the issue of ground forces, he said the prime minister of Iraq had made it very clear he did not want Western troops on the ground to fight IS.
In a statement, the MoD said the British jets - supported by a Voyager air refuelling tanker, an unmanned Reaper drone and other coalition aircraft - had attacked six targets.
"Carefully selected elements of the oilfield infrastructure were targeted, ensuring the strikes will have a significant impact on Daesh's ability to extract the oil to fund their terrorism," it said.
Before the attacks, pilots used the aircrafts' sensors to confirm "no civilians were in the proximity of the targets", it stated.
Air strikes were launched shortly after Parliament approved UK military action in Syria, after MPs debated the issue on Wednesday.
A total of 66 Labour MPs - 29% of the parliamentary party - sided with the government as it secured a larger than expected Commons majority.
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said the situation in Syria is "catastrophic", with more than 12 million Syrians in need of "immediate humanitarian assistance".
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The RAF has been carrying out operations against IS in Iraq since last year.
To date, the US has conducted nearly all of the air strikes in Syria and Iraq, with France, Australia and Denmark also taking part.


Two astronauts on board the International Space Station have taken their first spacewalk outside - to do some repairs and maintenance.

28 October 2015 Last updated at 14:19 GMT
Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren had to grease the station's big robot arm, re-route some cables and remove some insulation.
The spacewalk had to be delayed after Lindgren switched on the water flow in his suit too soon.
Mission Control had to make sure the suit would be safe, before they gave the all-clear.
Water is needed to cool the suit.
Kelly who's been living at the orbiting lab since March will stay until March 2016.
But early on Thursday morning this week, he will break the American record for NASA's longest single space shot.
That 215-day record - more than seven months - was set in 2007.
President Barack Obama already has sent his congratulations in a phone call last week- telling him his time in space is  ``nothing to sneeze at.''
Kelly replied ''It shouldn't be a problem getting to the end with enough energy and enthusiasm to complete the job. Records are made to be broken.''
Earlier this month, Kelly broke the U.S. record for the most time in space: 383 days and counting over four missions. It will be 522 days in total by the time he returns to Earth.
The pair will do a second spacewalk on Nov 6th.


Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.

LP Ariyawathie, 49, told staff at Kamburupitiya Hospital her employer inflicted the injuries as a punishment.
X-rays showed that there were 24 nails and needles in her body. Doctors said those remaining inside her body posed no immediate threat to her life.
The nails were up to 2in (5cm) long, a hospital official said.
"The surgery is successful and she is recovering now," Dr Satharasinghe said, according to news agency Associated Press.
Ms Ariyawathie, a mother of three, underwent a three-hour procedure.
Doctors said they would carry out further surgery later to remove the remaining nails.
Ms Ariyawathie travelled to Saudi Arabia in March to become a housemaid.
Last week, she flew back to Sri Lanka and was admitted to hospital in the south of the island, where she told doctors she had undergone abuse for more than a month.
The doctors found 24 metal pieces in her legs and hands.
She could not sit down or walk properly, doctors said.
They said Ms Ariyawathie was deeply traumatised and unable to give full details of her experience.
Meanwhile, Sri Lankan authorities have launched an investigation.
"We have launched a strong protest with the Saudi government through the external affairs minister, but there has been no response yet," Kingsley Ranawaka, chairman of Bureau for Foreign Employment, told the BBC.
Around 1.8 million Sri Lankans are employed abroad, 70% of whom are women.
Most work as housemaids in the Middle East, while smaller numbers work in Singapore and Hong Kong.


Former Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez will be Newcastle's preferred choice as manager if they replace Steve McClaren.

McClaren is still in charge after talks with managing director Lee Charnley.
The 54-year-old, whose side are 19th in the Premier League, has taken training all week and spoke to Charnley by phone on Wednesday after a planned face-to-face meeting failed to take place.
His future remains unclear but he is expected to take training on Thursday before Monday's game at Leicester.
The Magpies are in danger of a second relegation in seven years after five defeats in six league games, including Saturday's 3-1 loss to Bournemouth.
Spaniard Benitez was sacked as manager of Real Madrid in January after only seven months in charge of the La Liga side.
The 55-year-old spent six years in charge of Liverpool, winning the 2004-05 Champions League, and had an interim spell with Chelsea, with whom he won the Europa League in 2012-13.
Newcastle board members Charnley, chief scout Graham Carr and club ambassador Bob Moncur met away from Tyneside on Monday to discuss possible ways forward with 10 games of the season remaining.
However, there has been no public comment from the club in the days since, despite the speculation over McClaren's position.
On Wednesday, the former England manager was pictured smiling as he left the club's training ground.
McClaren took over in the summer after leaving Championship side Derby, but has only won six of his 28 top-flight matches in charge.
Former club owner Sir John Hall claimed he should be sacked, while Alan Shearer - Newcastle's record goalscorer - has described the club as a "mess from top to bottom".
The NUFC Fans' Forum - a representative body of supporters' groups - has called for action to be taken in an open letter to the club's hierarchy.


Red Bull have said that their hopes of securing a Mercedes engine supply in 2016 are now over.

Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko told Germany's Bild newspaper: "The idea of Mercedes is finished. We are now focusing elsewhere."
Team principal Christian Horner said he was doing "necessary due diligence" in talking to other manufacturers.
With their partnership with Renault disintegrating, the team may be forced to switch to Ferrari engines.
Mercedes are understood to be against supplying Red Bull - who are contracted to Renault until 2016 - because they do not want to help a strong rival become more competitive.
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The German giant is also concerned about what it and many other F1 insiders perceive to be Red Bull's history of antagonistic relationships with engine partners.
Red Bull's relationship with Renault has been difficult for some time, and appears to have become untenable in recent months as the team's frustrations with the lack of competitiveness of the French engine boil over.
Honda is the only other manufacturer in F1, but partner McLaren would almost certainly exercise their veto over any potential deal with Red Bull, who in any case are not believed to be interested in a deal with the Japanese company at this stage.
Renault, which supplies only Red Bull and sister team Toro Rosso in F1, is in the final stages of negotiations to take over the financially troubled Lotus team, although no deal has yet been completed.
Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said the Italian company was prepared to supply Red Bull if necessary.
He said he was not concerned about their reputation for being able to build highly-competitive chassis in F1, led by their design chief Adrian Newey.
Arrivabene said: "In theory they have big names, with Newey as chief designer and it is easy to think that if you give them the engine they will build a scary chassis, which means they will be really competitive.
"Concerning my team, my engineers and aerodynamicists know their own jobs. For that reason I don't have a problem, and competition is nice when you have a stronger competitor.
"This doesn't mean tomorrow morning we will give our engines to Red Bull or Toro Rosso.
"But I don't see any kind of problem to give our engine to any other team or be scared of the competition before they start.
"This is not the right spirit of competition or what Ferrari represents. We fight with everybody."


A ferry company has described a series of problems with a new £50m vessel as "unimaginable bad fortune".

Condor Ferries' Liberation was damaged when it landed heavily against the quayside at St Peter Port last month.
Sailings were cancelled as repairs were held up by bad weather and an engine later developed an electrical fault.
In an open letter to customers, chairman Russell Kew said it had been a "very disappointing start" to Liberation's service
Mr Kew's letter insisted there had been "extensive preparations and sea trials", before it began operating between Poole, Jersey and Guernsey on 27 March.
It returned to service on Easter Sunday after repairs to damage suffered in the heavy landing in Guernsey on 28 March.
"It was unimaginable bad fortune that Condor Liberation then developed an electrical fault the next day.
"No-one is more disappointed than us that the first two weeks of Condor Liberation's time with us has been affected by the combination of the berthing incident, bad weather and the electrical fault," he said.
He added customer service procedures were being reviewed after "long waits, poor and conflicting information, and a great deal of inconvenience" for travellers.
2014 - Sailed to Poole from the Philippines with Condor crew on board for training.
27 March - First sailing from Poole after three months of sea trials
28 March - Suffered minor damage to protective belting while mooring in bad weather in St Peter Port.
30 March - Sailing to Poole for repairs cancelled due to bad weather.
3 April - Poor weather conditions mean essential welding work could not be carried out.
5 April - Returned to service after repairs
6 April - Sailings from Guernsey to Jersey cancelled because of a recurring electrical fault in an engine.
11 April - Problems with a ramp for loading vehicles delayed a crossing from Poole by 40 minutes.


A man has been charged with raping a woman in Greater Manchester.

Police received a report on Tuesday that a woman had been dragged into a car park and raped between 03:10 and 03:15 GMT that morning in Warwick Road in Trafford.
Samaun Shah, 43, of Hornby Road, Stretford has been charged with rape, Greater Manchester Police said.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Monday.


Hundreds of people are to light up a fell in the Lake District to raise money for more than 20,000 people affected by an earthquake in Nepal.

A year ago, nearly 9,000 people died and more than 20,000 were injured when an earthquake struck the country.
The event, organised by Lakeland Mountain Guides, will see the spine of Catbells lit by people's head torches.
Matt Le Voi, one of the organisers, said the "euphoria" once they reach the top will be "absolutely incredible".
The Catbells Festival of Light aims to get the Nepal Earthquake back in people's minds, organisers said.
John Brooks and Mr Le Voi organised the event as they have both visited the country, and last year the group raised Â£5,000 for Community Action Nepal by climbing Blencathra.
Mr Le Voi said: "[Nepal] has firmly cemented itself within our hearts as an amazing place to be. On top of this, we both have Nepalese friends, many of them Sherpas, who would have been directly affected by the earthquake.
"Immediately after the earthquake myself and John knew we had to try and do something to provide funds for the Nepalese people.
"We're expecting about 500 people to be with us, so imagine Catbells with 500 people with their head torches on all raising money for this great cause - it's going to be electric."
The event on Catbells near Keswick, will see a photograph taken in darkness which will then be sold to raise funds.