The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died a year ago after taking ecstasy, is marking her anniversary by trying to warn others about the dangers of drugs.

Oxford schoolgirl, Martha Fernback, died on 20 July 2013, after swallowing half a gram of 91% pure MDMA powder in the city's Hinksey Park.
Anne-Marie Cockburn has written a book which she hopes will help other parents to talk openly about drugs.
Copies of 5,742 days will be left in public places in Oxford on 19 July.
Ms Cockburn hopes people will take the book - named after the number of days Martha lived - away to read, then bring it back to the same spot for someone else.
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Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, she said: "I don't want to become a bore, but what I am trying to say is the risks when Martha died are still there.
"Talk about drugs and talk about Martha as the example and say half a gram is far, far too much - they almost need to know what not to do if they are going to do it anyway.
"That's radical, but had I been brave enough to have that conversation with Martha, I could still have her here."
She said she had been told the half a gram of 91% pure MDMA powder taken by Martha was "enough for between 5 and 10 people".
To mark her last day spent with Martha at Sandbanks beach in Dorset, the day before she died, Ms Cockburn will also hold a public picnic in the park at Hinksey Lake, where Martha died.
Alex Williams, 17, of Sycamore Road, Botley was handed a community sentence in March for selling drugs following Martha's death.
An inquest into how she died recorded a verdict of accidental death.
You can hear an interview with Ms Cockburn on BBC Radio Oxford, on Sunday morning at 08:00 BST.


What's a complicated, slow-moving geopolitical crisis when you can talk about the weather?

Everyone loves a vignette that tells a story. And so I offer you this.
Last night on ABC's World News Tonight, the broadcaster's evening news show, with the supercool David Muir, there was the most brilliant encapsulation of the US attitude towards the whole issue of climate.
The second story was the latest shocking weather to strike the United States. There is rarely a night when extreme weather isn't on the bulletin. America gets seriously wild, raucous and disruptive weather - last night it was storms in Oklahoma, Minnesota and Kansas.
Then, two or three stories later, there was a report on the climate change conference in Paris. As if the two are totally disconnected, two completely different subjects. What link could there possibly be? What dots could possibly be joined?
Here's an observation that will probably infuriate many - Americans are obsessed by weather, and not much interested in climate.
Throughout last summer there were extensive reports on the forest fires that ravaged parts of California, about farmers' protests in the state's Central Valley, as the growers of America's fruit basket were ordered to cut drastically the amount of water they used to irrigate the land.
There was discussion of the tankers that might be deployed to bring water to the parched landscape of California and the cost of building a water pipeline - but not that much discussion about why the snows had failed to arrive - yet again - in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
This is changing, as Barack Obama seeks to make the environment and climate change a central plank of his final year in office.
In the summer, he went to Alaska to announce his clean energy plan - a proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by a third in the next 15 years.
And to counter the idea that America only hurts itself by taking unilateral action, he managed to wrest similar commitments from the Chinese.
So if you focus exclusively on Paris you would think that the matter is settled. The US will change direction on CO2 emissions, and stop being "the bad boy" in world public opinion when it comes to climate change.
But the argument is anything but settled. As I write this, Republicans in the House are debating proposals to strike down Obama's proposals. The Senate has already voted to reject them.
The president can, with a wave of his veto, brush all that aside (I think I am going to ask Father Christmas for an all-powerful veto this year - what fun it would be to have one of those). But it tells you something about the climate of climate (if you see what I mean).
Among the Republicans leading the field for the party's presidential nomination, climate change scepticism is widespread.
"I consider it to be not a big problem at all," Donald Trump tweeted after a recent cold snap. "Man we could use a big fat dose of global warming".
Similar sentiments have been expressed by the retired neurosurgeon, Dr Ben Carson, who has said he believes there is no overwhelming science to prove the things going on in the natural world are man-made.
And then there is the guerrilla wing of politics - litigation.
There is a slew of legal actions being launched by coal-producing states in alliance with coal firms to entangle Mr Obama's emissions plans in so much legal knotweed that the polar icecap might have become a heated swimming pool by the time all the cases are settled.
So when you next watch the news and hear the words "storm brewing", it might be about Mr Obama's proposals themselves and not the latest weather system.


Belfast Giants' Elite League hopes suffered a blow as they were beaten 5-1 away by Sheffield Steelers on Sunday.

The Giants produced most of the early pressure but were hit by a sucker punch as Mathieu Roy put Sheffield ahead in the 11th minute.
Second-period strikes by Levi Nelson and Jessie Schultz increased Sheffield's advantage to 3-0.
Schultz and Ben O'Connor added further Steelers goals in the final period before Colin Shields' late reply.
The result was Belfast's first defeat in six games.
It meant a mixed weekend for Derrick Walser's side after Saturday's 4-3 shootout win over Dundee.


The 27th day of Oscar Pistorius's trial has heard evidence on when Reeva Steenkamp may have eaten her last meal.

Witness Prof Christina Lundgren, an anaesthetist, described when a stomach is likely to be emptied after eating.
She said the prosecution's argument that Ms Steenkamp's stomach would have been empty if she ate when Mr Pistorius said she did was "pure speculation".
Mr Pistorius denies intentionally killing Ms Steenkamp on 14 February last year.
The South African Olympic athlete says he accidentally shot her through a toilet door in a state of panic, mistaking her for an intruder.
Social worker Yvette van Schalkwyk, who also gave evidence on Thursday, said Mr Pistorius was "heartbroken" after the killing.
Ms Van Schalkwyk said she was asked to accompany Mr Pistorius immediately after the shooting for "emotional support".
"I saw a heartbroken man. He cried 80% of the time," she said.
Ms Van Schalkwyk was a surprise witness who had asked to testify. She said she offered to speak after being upset by media claims that Mr Pistorius was "putting on a show" when he cried in court.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel objected, saying her evidence about Mr Pistorius' emotions were not relevant to the case.
However, Judge Thokozile Masipa said Mr Nel had questioned Mr Pistorius' emotions, and allowed the witness to continue testifying.
In his cross-examination, Mr Nel pushed Ms Van Schalkwyk to acknowledge that Mr Pistorius never said he was sorry that he had killed Ms Steenkamp.
"It's all about him," the prosecutor said. "It's not 'sorry for what I've done'."
Earlier, the court heard evidence on when Ms Steenkamp may have had her last meal.
Mr Pistorius had said the couple had dinner at about 19:00 on the evening Ms Steenkamp was killed. He said they went to sleep between 21:00 and 22:00.
The prosecution has argued that this cannot be true, as Ms Steenkamp had food in her stomach at the time of her death, in the early hours of 14 February last year.
This indicates that Ms Steenkamp ate later than Mr Pistorius said, and that this meant the couple could have been awake, and arguing, before the shooting, the prosecution says.
Prof Lundgren, who was shown copies of the post mortem report, said there were many factors that could have delayed gastric emptying in Ms Steenkamp's stomach, including sleep, exercise, medication and her age.
"One cannot state it as being fact" that Ms Steenkamp's stomach would have been empty six hours after eating, Prof Lundgren said. "I would say it is purely speculative.ï»¿"
In his cross-examination, Mr Nel argued that Prof Lundgren's list of factors might not apply to Ms Steenkamp, and that in normal circumstances one would expect the stomach to be empty eight hours after eating food.
If found guilty, Mr Pistorius - a national sporting hero and double amputee dubbed the "blade runner" because of the prosthetic limbs he wears to race - could face life imprisonment.
If he is acquitted of murder, the court must consider an alternative charge of culpable homicide, for which he could receive about 15 years in prison.
There are no juries at trials in South Africa, and his fate will ultimately be decided by the judge, assisted by two assessors.
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Mr Pistorius said in his statement at the start of the trial that he woke in the early hours and  walked on his stumps to the balcony, pulled in two fans, closed the sliding door and drew curtains. He said that shortly before he had spoken to Reeva, who was in bed beside him.
He said he rejected prosecution claims that a witness heard arguing coming from the house before the shooting.
Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
"Unbeknown to me, Reeva must have gone to the toilet in the bathroom at the time I brought in the fans," he said.
Mr Pistorius said he approached the bathroom armed with his firearm, to defend himself and his girlfriend, believing Ms Steenkamp was still in bed.
Both sides agree four bullets were fired. Ms Steenkamp was hit three times.
Mr Pistorius said he fired his weapon after hearing a noise in the toilet which he thought was the intruder coming out of the toilet to attack him and Ms Steenkamp.
He said he was in a fearful state, knowing he was on his stumps and unable to run away or properly defend himself.
Mr Pistorius said he rejected claims that he was on his prostheses when he shot at the door.
A witness told the trial she woke to hear a woman screaming and a man shouting for help. She said that after the screams she heard four shots.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom after shooting at the toilet door, still shouting for Reeva. Lifting himself up onto the bed, he felt over to the right hand side of it and noticed Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bathroom but the toilet was locked, so he returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs, turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
Forensics expert Johannes Vermeulen told the court that the height of the marks on the door caused by the cricket bat suggest Mr Pistorius was on his stumps at the time.
Mr Pistorius's defence team say he then called security at the gated housing complex and a private paramedic service before carrying Ms Steenkamp downstairs.
A security guard claimed it was the other way round, and he had called Mr Pistorius first after reports of gunfire. However, phone records shown to the court revealed Mr Pistorius called the estate manager at 3:19am, a minute later he called the ambulance service and at 3:21am he called estate security.
A minute later he received an incoming call - estate security calling him back.
According to police phone expert Francois Moller, Mr Pistorius called his friend Justin Divaris a short time later and just after 4:00am he called his brother Carl.


The 68 year old has terminal pancreatic cancer.
But pain does worry him.  His cancer causes excruciating discomfort which can be controlled only through massive doses of morphine-like drugs and other medication.
"I get a really bad thumping pain" he says, "but within half and hour of taking the tablets I feel fine."
Mr Small is on his sixth in-patient stay at Thames Hospice in Windsor, Berkshire.
On several occasions he has been close to death.
Married to Christine for 43 years, the couple say the palliative care at the hospice is superb.
Mrs Small says: "The staff here know Adrian needs very big doses of painkillers - they are used to dealing with it - but when we are in a general hospital the doctors are frightened by the numbers and they won't give him what's needed."
The couple have never considered an assisted death since Adrian's diagnosis.
Mrs Small says: "It's not been about dying it's been about living for two years - everybody deserves the dignity you get here".
But the hospice - which has 17 beds in Windsor cannot help all those who could benefit.
It's Chief Executive, Debbie Raven says:  "Every day we have up to 13 people waiting for one our our in-patient beds, so inevitably we have to turn some patients away; we'd like everyone to have access to high quality palliative care no matter where they are."
The hospice does not take a stance on the issue of assisted dying, nor does it judge those who are for or against a change in the law.
The medical director, Dr Cecily Wright says they do sometimes get asked to end a patient's life:  "We do occasionally - that request is often coming from a place of great stress and fear.
"It's very seldom just about pain and that's why we use our holistic approach to bit by bit make life easier and better."
I spoke to Adrian and Christine on the eve of a debate on assisted dying in the House of Commons.
Labour MP Rob Marris is proposing a bill which would allow doctors in England and Wales to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients judged to have six months or less to live.
A judge would review all decisions and rule whether a person was choosing an assisted death free from coercion.
Currently, assisted suicide is illegal under the Suicide Act 1961 and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The private member's bill is almost identical to one introduced in the House of Lords last year by the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, and which ran out of parliamentary time.
It's the first time since 1997 that a bill of this kind has been brought forward in the Commons.
MPs will be given a free vote, but even if the bill gets through its second reading, it is very unlikely to succeed as it lacks government backing.
Campaigners in favour of changing the law point out that about one Briton a fortnight travels to Switzerland to end their life with the help of the suicide organisation Dignitas.
Those opposed argue it would send a message that, if you are terminally ill, taking your own life is something it is appropriate to consider.
The campaign group "Living and Dying Well" said it would expose vulnerable people to pressure to take their own lives.
The Archbishop of Canterbury described assisted dying as one of the "biggest dilemmas of our time", but dismissed suggestions that current laws are not working.
Justin Welby said the evidence around the world is there is a "slippery slope" and once you accept the role of medicine is deliberately to kill people, there would be pressure to go further.
California has just approved similar legislation, modelled on a law in Oregon which allows terminally ill patients to obtain a lethal dose to end their lives.


Anthem, America's second largest health insurer, has lost millions of customer records to hackers.

The attackers stole names, addresses, birthdays and social security numbers of customers from every one of Anthem's business units.
So far, Anthem has not said how many records were lost or how many people have been affected.
However, security experts believe personal details about tens of millions of people could have gone missing.
Anthem is known to have about 37 million customers using its health plans. A further 32 million people are linked to it through its affiliates.
In a statement, Anthem said it had closed the security vulnerability that had been exploited by attackers as soon as it had learned of it.
The attack had also been reported to the FBI.
Security company FireEye has been hired to help investigate how the attack unfolded.
Anthem said no credit card or bank account details had been taken or any medical information disclosed.
It did not say when the attack had been or how long hackers had had access to its systems.
It has set up a website, called Anthem Facts, to advise customers about the breach and the action it is taking.
Anthem president Joseph Swedish issued an apology and said the company would notify everyone affected.
In addition, the website said, it would offer credit monitoring and ID protection services to customers in case the cyber-thieves tried to profit from the stolen information.
Medical and health companies were warned last year by the FBI about hackers targeting their industry.
That warning followed an attack on the Community Health Systems hospital group, in which millions of records were lost to hackers.
Many other companies outside the medical field in the US, including Sony, Home Depot, Target and Niemann Marcus, have also recently suffered data breaches and losses.


An 11-year-old girl has been taken into care and two adults have been arrested in a crackdown on female genital mutilation (FGM).

A woman, 33, from Milton Keynes, and a man, 26, from London, were arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to commit child cruelty.
The Met Police said the girl had been travelling with them at the time.
The arrests were made by officers raising awareness of FGM, forced marriage and honour based abuse.
Officers said, as part of the operation, they had spoken to passengers who had travelled to the UK on various flights including from Abuja, Sierra Leone and Lagos.
It is illegal to participate in arranging FGM in or outside the UK and those involved can face a prison term of 14 years.
There has only ever been one, unsuccessful, prosecution in the UK, with three more cases set to be reviewed by lawyers.
The Met said it had dealt with an increasing number of cases, rising from 29 reports in 2012 to 196 in the year to March 2016.


Ten-man Maidstone held on to beat North Ferriby at the Eon Visual Media Stadium.

Liam Enver-Marum made it two goals in as many games for The Stones in the 11th minute, despite the hosts making a strong start.
The visitors' hopes of hanging on were dealt a blow just before the break when Jack Evans saw red after bundling Reece Thompson over just outside the box.
But Alex Flisher eased fears of a collapse with a smart finish four minutes after the interval and Jay Saunders' side held firm to see out the win.
North Ferriby have now lost four on the bounce.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, North Ferriby United 0, Maidstone United 2.
Second Half ends, North Ferriby United 0, Maidstone United 2.
Ryan Fallowfield (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nathan Mavila (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ben Middleton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Nathan Mavila replaces Jack Paxman.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Fallowfield replaces Connor Oliver.
Substitution, Maidstone United. James Rogers replaces Liam Enver-Marum.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Kendall replaces Vinny Mukendi.
Goal!  North Ferriby United 0, Maidstone United 2. Alex Flisher (Maidstone United).
Substitution, Maidstone United. Reece Hall-Johnson replaces Tom Murphy.
Second Half begins North Ferriby United 0, Maidstone United 1.
First Half ends, North Ferriby United 0, Maidstone United 1.
Jack Evans (Maidstone United) is shown the red card.
Alex Flisher (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal!  North Ferriby United 0, Maidstone United 1. Liam Enver-Marum (Maidstone United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have backed footballer Gerard Pique's plans for a tennis 'World Cup' which could rival the Davis Cup.

Barcelona's Pique reportedly met ATP officials this week to discuss a 16-team knockout competition played in one venue over 10 days.
World number one Murray said: "If it comes off, I think it would be a very, very good thing for tennis."
The current Davis Cup format is played over four weekends throughout the year.
Murray, Nadal and Djokovic have all led their nations to Davis Cup glory but have also opted out of playing in the tournament in order to focus on Grand Slam preparations.
Nadal, a 14-time Grand Slam winner, has backed fellow Spaniard Pique's plans and has criticised the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for the Davis Cup schedule.
He said: "For many years they have been static. They haven't moved with the times or looked for new solutions.
"Pique is part of a group that wants to create a World Cup that would be a great and very interesting tournament to compete in."
The ITF has told the BBC: "Our focus is not on what other bodies are trying to do, but in successfully delivering Davis Cup as the world cup of tennis to millions of fans in over 120 nations each year.
"A number of significant changes to the competition's structure, prize money and format will be voted on by all tennis nations at the ITF AGM in August."
The BBC has also contacted the ATP for a response.
World number two Djokovic has warned Pique of the "complex" structure of the sport's governing bodies, but added: "To see one of the football greats coming to the tennis world and trying to support it personally, but also in some structural business way, can only bring positives to our sport."
Later this year the first Laver Cup tournament will also be contested, a Ryder Cup-style competition which will pit a European team featuring Roger Federer and Nadal against a rest of the world side.
The Laver Cup will be played in Prague from September 22-24.


It seems almost inconceivable that the world's biggest sporting event could be derailed by a tiny insect, the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

However distant or unlikely that possibility is, Brazil's government is going to great lengths to persuade athletes and visitors that Rio de Janeiro will be perfectly safe come the Olympic Games opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium on 5 August.
"We estimate that fewer than one in 500,000 visitors to Rio will contract the Zika virus," said Ricardo Barros, Brazil's new health minister.
What you need to know about Zika
Zika virus and microcephaly
Mr Barros has only been in the post for a month, after the impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff forced a change of government, but he clearly sees reassuring Brazil and the world over the Zika outbreak as his number one priority.
I asked the minister how the government could be so confident in asserting that there was an "almost zero" risk of contracting Zika when the latest advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO) was that "women in Zika-affected areas should consider delaying becoming pregnant".
"There's no contradiction," replied Mr Barros.
"We are working closely with the WHO but our figures show that rates of Zika infection have fallen by 87% this year already."
In Brazil, there have been more than 1,500 confirmed cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
With other neurological conditions also blamed on Zika, there is obvious concern about the virus.
After the WHO's advice that pregnant women should not travel to Zika-infected areas and subsequent evidence that the virus could be transferred through sex as well as via the bite of an infected mosquito, a handful of athletes declared they would not be participating in Rio 2016.
Other big names, including Irish golfer Rory Mcllroy and UK heptathlete Jessica Ennis Hill, said they would be in Rio after having initially expressed concern about travelling.
Long jumper Greg Rutherford, who won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, is even thought to have frozen his sperm as a precaution before he travels to defend his title in Rio.
The stakes have been raised further by a recent letter calling on the WHO to recommend that the Rio Olympics should be cancelled over fears about Zika.
The open letter has been signed by more than 200 academics and specialists, among them prominent Brazilian anthropologist Deborah Diniz.
"There is a clear risk to global health in sponsoring these Olympic Games inviting half a million people to Brazil," she argues.
"Having an epidemic like this poses concrete risks to women of reproductive age."
Such arguments brought a rapid backlash from other specialists, who said the outbreak was now under control.
Political leaders in Rio, including the city's often outspoken mayor, Eduardo Paes, also reacted.
Mr Paes told the BBC that calls for the Olympics to be called off were a complete overreaction.
"It's completely crazy," said Mr Paes, who has also had to defend a series of other setbacks associated with the Games, including severe delays to critical transport networks and broken promises to clean up the city's chronically polluted waterways.
"At this time of the year, in August, when the Olympics are going on, there are no cases of dengue or Zika because of the weather," he said.
"I don't want to minimise it at all but there's a lot of exaggeration going on."
The mayor is adamant that public information campaigns and greater general awareness about Zika are having an impact.
We joined one such campaign "on patrol" in the sprawling working class suburb of Jacareipagua, about a mile from the main Olympic Park to the south of Rio.
A team of public health officials in brand-new uniforms knocked on doors in streets around the local clinic to inform residents about the importance of taking precautions against disease-carrying mosquitoes.
"We show them how to cover up areas of still or stagnant water, where the Aedes [mosquitoes] might breed," a team leader told me.
But in these areas, in particular, old habits die hard.
"I don't use repellent - I never have," said local resident Paulo Jose, reflecting the widely held view that somehow people here are immune to diseases like Zika and dengue fever.
As Paulo Jose was listening to the advice, I must have caught and squashed at least five mosquitoes in the space of 30 seconds.
The white-washed wall was stained red with little spots of blood, evidence that the insects had recently been feeding.
Notwithstanding the difficulties in getting the message through in some areas, the Brazilian government says it is dedicating unprecedented resources to the fight against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.
In Rio de Janeiro alone, the government says it has allocated more than $17.5m (Â£12.4) to "reinforce" the local health network during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
They say there will be more ambulances, extra health professionals and at least 3,000 people working on anti-Zika campaigns in the city.
Verifiable figures for people who contracted Zika are difficult to pin down and vary wildly from state to state, not helped by the fact that many of those infected show few if any symptoms at all.
There is still a lot to discover about the Zika virus, how it is contracted and what other conditions, in addition to microcephaly, it may be responsible for.
There is no vaccine yet, for example, and definitive tests to show if someone has definitely had the virus are still not widely available.
Cancelling the Olympic Games would be an extreme measure at this late stage and perhaps, indeed, a measure too far.
The best hope, for the Games organisers and Rio city officials, may be a continuation of the extremely cold weather we have been having in Brazil recently.
Temperatures have been so low the mosquito population in parts of Brazil could be decimated, for the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games at least.


Omar was the same size as all the other kittens in his litter when he was taken home by his owner Stephy Hirst in 2013.

But now the 120cm (3ft 11in) Maine Coon from Melbourne, Australia, could be the world's longest domestic cat.
After the supersized feline found internet fame to match, Ms Hirst said Guinness World Records contacted her to send in his measurements.
The current record-holder is a 118cm (3ft 10.5in) Maine Coon from Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Ms Hirst started a social media account for Omar two weeks ago and one of her photos was shared on the Cats of Instagram account more than 270,000 times.
The typically placid pet has since been featured in major Australian newspapers and on national TV.
"He hasn't really been coping with all the attention," Ms Hirst told the BBC. "He had a little bit of a meltdown this morning."
Omar typically rises at 05:00, eats a couple of scoops of dry cat food for breakfast, lounges around the house, plays in the backyard, naps on the trampoline and eats raw kangaroo meat for dinner.
"We buy human-grade kangaroo meat at the supermarket," Ms Hirst said. "It's the only meat we could find that he actually wants to eat."
The overgrown pet has lots of personality and leaves lots of hair around the house.
Weighing in at 14kg (31lb), Omar is too heavy to regularly pick up. Ms Hirst has to use a dog crate to take him to the vet.
"He does take up a bit too much room on the bed so he gets locked out of the bedroom at night," Ms Hirst said.
Omar has also displayed a talent for opening doors, kitchen cupboards, shower screens and wardrobes.
"All of our friends want to come over and see our cat," Ms Hirst said. "They say 'is that Photoshopped?' or 'that can't be real' and then they see him in the flesh."
Once Guinness World Records receives evidence for record attempts, it can take up to 12 weeks for a response.
Guinness representatives in London confirmed they had received an application "from Omar and his family" but Ms Hirst said staking a claim to fame is "not important" to her.
She thinks Omar would prefer to go back to his laid-back lifestyle.
"He's just looking forward to napping on the trampoline, chowing down on some more kangaroo and trying to keep us awake at night," she said.
"I think he'll be glad to go back to being a normal housecat."
Reporting by the BBC's Greg Dunlop
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Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney lost 4-1 to defending champion Gary Anderson in the second round of the PDC World Championship at Alexandra Palace.

Gurney, 29, took the first set of a high quality match 3-2 in legs with an average of 100 but lost the second to the world number two by the same score.
Gurney missed darts for the third set and lost it 3-2 and Anderson wrapped up the match by winning the last two sets.
The Londonderry man has lost four times in the second round of the tournament.
Gurney, ranked 36 in the world, beat Jamie Lewis 3-1 in the first round to set up the Boxing Day encounter with the Scot.
The Northern Irishman had defeated Anderson 10-4 the last time the players met at the Players Championships Finals at Minehead in November.
Brendan Dolan, from Kilcoo in Fermanagh, lost 3-0 to Australian Kyle Anderson 3-0 in his first round match in London.
PDC World Championship schedule in full


Cats may have already taken over the internet, but now they are stealing the hearts of UK men, a survey suggests.

The Pet Food Manufacturers' Association said the number of pet cats in the country has gone up by 500,000 to reach eight million in the past year.
The rise was driven by one million more men getting a feline friend, the PFMA, which spoke to 8,000 households, says.
Celebrity cat owners, such as Russell Brand and Ed Sheeran, may have also influenced the new pet owners, it says.
About 17% of men in the UK (5.5m) now own a cat, up from 13% (4.2m) in 2016, according to the survey.
Hugh Wigmore lives in London with his cat Nigel Harmsworth.
"I like having a cat because we have loads in common," said Hugh. "We both love cuddles, jelly and the outdoors!
"We get on really well. I'd definitely recommend it to other guys. Nigel is fantastic."
Sam Sahota went the extra mile, adopting three newborn kittens which had been dumped in a dustbin, despite a vet saying they had no chance of survival.
"I had always been a dog man, but when my colleague found a box with three kittens inside, my natural instinct was to save them from certain death," he said.
"I fed them milk from syringes, I placed a clock under their blanket to replicate the heartbeat of their mother and spent hours a day raising them."
Now Sam adores owning cats.
"The thing I love most is how playful they are," he added. "Their curiosity, the affection they show which is real, unlike a dog.
"Cats do not need the attention a dog does but when it gives you attention is not false. They select who they want to be with."
James Copeman, from Canterbury, said having cats made his house "feel full" and loves coming home to his two, Miles and Keiko, waiting at the door.
"We never had pets when I was young so it's something I've always wanted," he said. "They always seem to know when you need a bit of attention after a bad day.
"I'd definitely recommend it but you have to be prepared for the wake up calls, smelly litter trays and scratched furniture!"
Mike Brooks, from Nottingham, has three cats and loves them as pets.
"I got a cat because I have always had cats since I was a child and they're wonderful creatures," he said.
"They're cute, usually cuddly (if you respect their wishes), generally low-maintenance, and there is nothing more satisfying than the purr of a happy cat."
Michael Bellingham, chief executive of PFMA, said: "Pet ownership is a rewarding experience for everyone. It's wonderful to see that men are realising the huge benefits of pets with an increase in cat ownership in this sector."
The most popular pet in the UK is fish - 33 million are kept in tanks and ponds around the country - followed by dogs at 8.5 million.
There are also 900,000 rabbits, 700,000 pet birds, 700,000 reptiles, 600,000 domestic fowl, 500,000 guinea pigs and  300,000 hamsters.


Bath ran in six tries as they made light of Sam Burgess's return to rugby league by beating 14-man London Irish.

Wales international Rhys Priestland's early penalty, followed by conversions of tries for both Leroy Houston and Ollie Devoto gave Bath a 17-0 lead.
Despite Irish scrum-half Brendan McKibbin's red card, Scott Steele's try whittled it back to 17-7 by the break.
But Bath ran in four second half-tries from Alafoti Faosiliva, Kyle Eastmond, Priestland and Nikola Matawalu.
Irish were always up against it from the 20th minute onwards after Australian scrum-half McKibbin was sent off for stamping on prop Henry Thomas's head.
And their only second-half response was a try from Fergus Mulchrone 11 minutes after the break, also converted by Shane Geraghty.
Former Exiles full-back Tom Homer, playing against his old club for the first time, then England fly-half George Ford took over Bath's second-half kicking duties.
Homer converted the first two before Ford came off the bench to also get on the scoresheet by improving the last two.
The fourth of Bath's six tries earned the visitors a bonus point as they recorded their eighth win in nine visits to the Madejski Stadium to hand the Exiles a fourth straight Premiership defeat.
Along with Newcastle, who were beaten at Worcester, Irish are one of two teams at the foot of the table still seeking their first point.
Bath confirmed on Friday that they had "settled on agreeable terms" to allow rugby league convert Burgess to return to the 13-man code and rejoin Australian side South Sydney Rabbitohs.
The momentum appeared to swing London Irish's way in the 20th minute when Bath flanker Alafoti Fa'osiliva was yellow carded for a late tackle and the Exiles were awarded a penalty try.
However, replays showed that in the build-up, Irish scrum-half McKibbin had stamped on Henry Thomas - for which referee Tom Foley brandished a red card and the penalty try was chalked off.
The effect of the extra man was not immediately apparent as, within five minutes of Faosiliva's return, Ollie Devoto was then sin-binned too for a late shoulder charge on Shane Geraghty.
But Bath raced out of the traps after the break when Fa'osiliva and centre Kyle Eastmond touched down within two minutes of each other.
Once fellow centre Devoto had returned to bring the visitors back up to their full complement of players, there was no doubt about the end result.
A first try for the club from Priestland after a strong diagonal run followed and, when Asaeli Tikoirotuma failed to deal with Semesa Rokoduguni's chipped kick, Nikola Matawalu finished things off.
London Irish head coach Tom Coventry:
"I didn't have a chance to go back and view (the red card) closely so I'm not going to comment about what happened.
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"We're going to have to look at the discipline from our point of view.
"I would have liked to have got a couple of bonus points from some of our losses but you have to be realistic about where we are.
"I haven't come over here to sit around and lose. We've just got to be careful that we don't get ahead of ourselves. We're a team that has been under achievers and we're desperate to prove ourselves."
Bath head coach Mike Ford:
"Myself and (captain) Stuart Hooper spoke to Sam Burgess on Monday. He said he would address the team and at no point did he mention he wanted to leave.
"Whether I was naive or not I was hoping that he'd get through that week, but we never got that chance.
"We're pleased after everything that's happened. We got some good tries from the backs and we're looking forward to Toulon now.
"We couldn't handle their drive. The discipline of our defence was poor, and then the turning point (McKibbin's red card) was massive. That turnaround is good fortune for us, bad luck for them."
London Irish: Ojo; Lewington, Fowlie, Mulchrone, Tikoirotuma; Geraghty, McKibbin; Smallbone, Paice, Halavatau, Skivington (capt), Symons, Guest, Sisi, McCusker.
Replacements: Ellis, Court, Aulika, Sheriff, Narraway, Steele, Noakes, Waldouck.
Sent Off: McKibbin (20).
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Devoto, Eastmond, Banahan; Priestland, Cook; Auterac, Webber, Thomas, Hooper (capt), Day, Garvey, Faosiliva, Houston.
Replacements: Dunn, Catt, Lahiff, Ellis, Northcote-Green, Matawalu, Ford, Williams.
Sin Bin: Faosiliva (18), Devoto (33).
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Israeli police clashed with Palestinian youths after entering the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem.

Police say they entered the site "to prevent riots". They were reported to have used tear gas and stun grenades, and were attacked with rocks and fireworks.
Similar clashes took place at the end of July.
Al-Aqsa is one of Islam's holiest sites and is in the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif site also revered by Jews.
The holy compound is a source of religious and political tension between Israel and the Palestinians. It is a frequent flashpoint for violence.
The clashes come hours before the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.
Police were quoted in the Israeli media as saying the Palestinian youths who had barricaded themselves into the mosque were planning disruption to prevent Jews visiting the site.
Security forces launched a surprise raid at around 06:45 (03:45 GMT) in the hope of opening the site as planned, Haaretz newspaper reports.
The police said in a statement that masked youths within the mosque "threw stones and fireworks" and that pipe bombs had been found.
They denied reports from some witnesses that they had entered the mosque itself, saying that they had locked the doors to keep the youths inside.
An Israeli police spokesman said there had been no injuries, but according to some Palestinian witnesses several people were wounded.
There were reports of further clashes outside the compound, in Jerusalem's Old City, and Israeli police are now said to be patrolling its narrow alleyways.
One Palestinian woman, Khadijeh Khweis, told the AFP news agency that they had been prevented from entering al-Aqsa mosque.
"They were chasing us with (stun) grenades and it's been like that since the morning," she said.
"We could only pray in front of the doors (leading to the complex)."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned what he called an "attack by the occupier's military and police against the al-Aqsa mosque and the aggression against the faithful who were there".
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the site was now open to Jews wanting to visit for Rosh Hashanah, which begins at sunset on Sunday and continues until Tuesday evening.
And he warned that he was reconsidering what he called "the customary arrangements" of the site, saying it was "unthinkable" that Palestinians could make the area "their stronghold".
Tensions have been running high in the city since Israel Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon last week banned two Muslim groups which confront Jewish visitors to the compound.
Mr Yaalon said the groups were the main sources of tension and violence at the site and said banning them was necessary to public order.


The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the north-east Pacific Ocean has increased a hundred fold over the past 40 years.

Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography documented the big rise when they trawled the waters off California.
They were able to compare their plastic "catch" with previous data for the region.
The group
          reports its findings in the journal Biology Letters
.
"We did not expect to find this," says
          Scripps researcher Miriam Goldstein
.
"When you go out into the North Pacific, what you find can be highly variable. So, to find such a clear pattern and such a large increase was very surprising," she told BBC News.
All the plastic discarded into the ocean that does not sink will eventually break down.
Sunlight and the action of the waves will degrade and shred the material over time into pieces the size of a fingernail, or smaller.
An obvious concern is that this micro-material could be ingested by marine organisms, but the Scripps team has noted another, perhaps unexpected, consequence.
The fragments make it easier for the marine insect
          Halobates sericeus  to lay its eggs out over the ocean.
These "sea skaters" or "water striders" - relatives of pond water skaters - need a platform for the task.
Normally, this might be seabird feathers, tar lumps or even pieces of pumice rock.  But it is clear from the trawl results that
          H. sericeus has been greatly aided by the numerous plastic surfaces now available to it in the Pacific.
The team found a strong association between the presence of
          Halobates and the micro-plastic in a way that was just not evident in the data from 40 years ago.
Ms Goldstein explained: "We thought there might be fewer
          Halobates if there's more plastic - that there might be some sort of toxic effect. But, actually, we found the opposite. In the areas that had the most plastic, we found the most
          Halobates.
"So, they're obviously congregating around this plastic, laying their eggs on it, and hatching out from it.  For
          Halobates, all this plastic has worked out well for them."
Ms Goldstein and colleagues gathered their information on the abundance of micro-plastic during the
          Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (Seaplex)
 off California in 2009.  They then compared their data with those from other scientific cruises, including archived records stretching back to the early 1970s.
Plastic waste in the North Pacific is an ongoing concern.
The natural circulation of water - the North Pacific Gyre - tends to retain the debris in reasonably discrete, long-lived collections, which have popularly become known as "garbage patches". In the north-eastern Pacific, one of these concentrations is seen in waters between Hawaii and California.
This Scripps study follows another report by colleagues at the institution that showed 9% of the fish collected during the same Seaplex voyage had plastic waste in their stomachs.
That investigation, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, estimated the fish at intermediate ocean depths in the North Pacific Ocean could be ingesting plastic at a rate of roughly 12,000 to 24,000 tonnes per year.
Toxicity is the issue most often raised in relation to this type of pollution, but Ms Goldstein and colleagues say broader ecosystem effects also need to be studied.
The abundance of ocean debris will influence the success, or otherwise, of "rafting communities" - those species that are specifically adapted to life on or around objects floating in the water.
Bigger creatures would include barnacles and crabs, and even fish that like to live under some kind of cover, but large-scale change would likely touch even the smallest organisms.
"The study raises an important issue, which is the addition of hard surfaces to the open ocean," says Ms Goldstein.
"In the North Pacific, for example, there's no floating seaweed like there is in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. And we know that the animals, the plants and the microbes that live on hard surfaces are different to the ones that live floating around in the water.
"So, what plastic has done is add hundreds of millions of hard surfaces to the Pacific Ocean. That's quite a profound change."
Ms Goldstein's co-authors were Marci Rosenberg, a student at the University of California Los Angeles, and Scripps research biologist emeritus Lanna Cheng.
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Pakistan's Punjab province government gave about $1m (£674,000) last year to institutions linked to a charity on a UN terror blacklist, it has emerged.

The charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, denies accusations that it is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
Punjab officials say the funds were humanitarian in nature and were not given directly to the charity.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa and four senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders were added to a UN sanctions list in December 2008.
They were accused of having links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The move by the UN Security Council came shortly after attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), for which Lashkar-e-Taiba was blamed.
It is the first time that the authorities in Pakistan have formally admitted allocating money to institutions linked to Jamaat-ud-Dawa, BBC correspondents say.
The government has long been under international pressure to crack down on militants or groups suspected of supporting them. There was no immediate response from the government in Islamabad.
News that schools and hospitals run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa have received Pakistan state help is unlikely to go down well with the Indian or US governments.
Peaceful school or 'terror' base?
Profile: Lashkar-e-Taiba
Pakistan cleric to 'stay free'
Funding details came to light when the Punjab provincial government published spending figures for 2009-10.
"At least 80 million rupees [$940,000] have been allocated for the institutions [linked to Jamaat-ud-Dawa] during the current fiscal year," Rana Sanaullah, a senior Punjab minister, told the BBC.
However, he maintained that the institutions - which include two schools and a hospital - were no longer attached to Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
"The government has taken control of the schools and appointed an administrator to run each of them."
He said the UN had been notified as the issue was a humanitarian one.
"There was a boys' school with 400 students, a girls' high school with 350 students and a hospital which addressed the needs of the entire area in question.
"If we had closed down the institutions it would have proved counter-productive. It would have aggravated the sentiments of the people and made them sympathise with [Jamaat-ud-]Dawa."
When asked why the Punjab government had allotted money in the budget for institutions it managed, a spokesman for Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Abdur Rehman, said: "The truth is that we are ourselves astonished at this."
He said the institutions in question were now being managed by the charity.
"When restrictions were initially imposed upon us, the Punjab government did appoint an administrator but it was neither liked nor accepted by our people.
"By the grace of God, now everything is running exactly the way it was running under the Jamaat's system."
Jamaat-ud-Dawa has frequently denied accusations that some of its schools are used as militant training camps.
Its leader is Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who set up Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of most feared groups fighting against Indian rule in part of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
After it was banned in Pakistan in 2002, the organisation divided itself into Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba, correspondents say.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa now works as an Islamic charity all over Pakistan. It played a major role in relief efforts following the Kashmir earthquake in 2005.
Pakistan arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba's senior leaders after the Mumbai attacks. But most of them, including Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, were later freed on appeal.


England midfielder Jack Wilshere says he needed a fresh challenge this season after "almost falling out of love with the game".

The 24-year-old joined Bournemouth on loan from Arsenal in August and has featured in eight league games since.
He played three league games for Arsenal in 2015-16 after breaking his leg, the latest in a run of injuries.
"I missed the fight of the Premier League, being in big games and making a difference for a team," said Wilshere.
"I wanted to feel that again and almost fall back in love with the game."
Wilshere has won 34 international caps in six years and has been recalled to the England squad by interim-boss Gareth Southgate for the World Cup qualifier with Scotland on Friday and friendly with Spain on Tuesday.
But he admits he has "been injured for too long" and wants to "prove" he still has the ability to play at the very top.
He seems to be doing that with his impressive form for Bournemouth.
He has created 14 chances for the Cherries in the league, a figure only bettered by £15m summer signing Jordon Ibe, who has made 15 following his move from Liverpool.
Having made his Arsenal debut aged 16 years and 256 days in 2008, Wilshere remains the youngest player to feature for the club in the Premier League, but he is aware his future at Emirates Stadium is uncertain.
"At the moment I am just trying to have a season where it puts me in a good position at the end of the year, that I have improved as a player and Arsenal want me back," he added.
"I could have stayed at Arsenal, been the player that comes on now and then off the bench, starts in the odd cup game, but I wanted more than that."


Detectives investigating the murder of a criminal, once branded "Mr Big", have offered a £50,000 reward in the case.

The cash has been offered for information that leads to Paul Massey's killer being convicted.
Massey, 55, a security boss, was found dead with gunshot wounds outside his Salford home on 26 July.
On BBC Crimewatch, Det Ch Insp Howard Millington said the suspect was seen carrying a weapon "similar to a sub machine gun" towards Massey's address.
Massey, a father-of-five, had managed to call emergency services from his driveway before he died.
"[The suspect] is described as a slim, white male wearing a fisherman style hat, a green long-sleeve top, some form of face covering and dark combat trousers tucked into lace-up boots, said Det Ch Insp Millington, of Greater Manchester Police.
"He was carrying a small black gun, similar to a sub machine gun, toward's Paul's address.
"The offender fired a series of shots at Paul and left the same way he came. That was the last sighting of him."
In July, police said several eyewitnesses saw the gunman approach Massey at about 19:30 BST as he got out of his silver BMW at his home in Manchester Road, Clifton.
Det Ch Insp Millington said a man carrying a torch and an Uzi-style sub machine gun had been seen in the area two days before.
Massey, who was barely 5ft (1.52m) tall, was dubbed Mr Big by the late Salford councillor Joe Burrows at a town hall meeting to discuss civil disturbances in 1992.
He was jailed in 1999 for 14 years, after he stabbed a man in the groin outside a club in Manchester, severing an artery.
Following release from Frankland Prison in County Durham, he was involved in the security business and is believed to have invested in property.
But he was arrested with five others in December 2011 as part of a police inquiry into a Salford-based security company.
Massey claimed officers were conducting a "witch-hunt" against him and denied any wrongdoing.
The following year, he unsuccessfully stood to be Salford mayor.
But, he was still under investigation earlier this year by police in connection with money laundering allegations.


An Afghan boy found alone at Heathrow Airport must go into council care in England, the High Court has ruled.

The boy, aged about 12, said the trip had been "planned and paid for" by his mother who thought he would have a "better and safer" life in the UK.
After his discovery at the airport, the boy was temporarily placed in foster care by council social services staff.
Mrs Justice Theis has now ruled it would be impossible to return him as it is not known where his mother is.
Details of the case emerged in a ruling by Mrs Justice Theis following a family court hearing in London.
Social services bosses at Hillingdon Council had brought the case before her.
"There is some uncertainty as to precisely how he arrived at Heathrow Airport, and what methods of transport he had between Afghanistan and the United Kingdom," said the judge.
"The whereabouts of his mother are unknown and it would be impossible to return [him] to her care in Afghanistan at this time."
The judge said she had been asked to decide how the boy's welfare interests could best be met.
She added it was up to Home Office officials to make decisions about his immigration status.


Forfar Athletic maintained their seven-point lead at the top of Scottish League Two by beating Annan Athletic.

Second-placed Arbroath were winners away to Edinburgh City while Elgin City, who are third, triumphed at Montrose.
Clyde dropped out of the top four after losing away to Stirling Albion and Berwick Rangers moved off bottom place and sent opponents Cowdenbeath to the foot of the table.
At Galabank, Annan went ahead with Max Wright winning and converting a penalty but Jim Lister headed Forfar level before the break and Callum Home's own goal gave the Loons a 2-1 victory.
A trialist gave Arbroath an early lead against Edinburgh and Omar Kader's strike ensured a 2-0 win for the visitors.
Shane Sutherland struck either side of half-time to complete a 3-0 win for Elgin at Links Park, Chris Dodd having given City the lead.
Though Annan lost, they moved above Clyde into third on goal difference after the Bully Wee suffered a 3-0 loss at Forthbank Stadium.
Ross Kavanagh headed Stirling ahead in the first half and Dylan Nguene Bikey struck twice after the break.
It was goalless at Central Park until the 84th minute, when Steven Thomson headed Berwick ahead to allow them to leapfrog both Cowdenbeath and Montrose.


A mother and daughter were stabbed to death in their beds by two teenagers in a "cold, calculated and callous" killing, a court has heard.

Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and her 13-year-old daughter Katie were found dead at their Lincolnshire home in April.
A jury has been told the pair, of Dawson Avenue, Spalding, were murdered by a boy and girl aged 14 at the time.
At Nottingham Crown Court the boy, now 15, pleaded guilty to their murders. The girl, aged 15, denies murder.
She has admitted killing them but has claimed diminished responsibility, the prosecution said.
Neither of the teenagers can be named because of their ages.
Opening the case, prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said the mother and daughter had been stabbed in the throat by the teenage boy after he and the girl plotted to kill them.
He said: "There is no doubt that [the girl] was as responsible for the killings as [the boy] since she has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but she is saying as her defence to murder that her responsibility for the killings was lessened or diminished by her mental state."
He said the prosecution case was that she would "not succeed in proving that her responsibility was diminished".
The court heard the killings took place on the night of 13 April.
Mr Joyce said the boy stabbed Mrs Edwards eight times, including three times in the throat, injuring her jugular vein and almost completely cutting through her windpipe.
He said the boy then stabbed Katie twice in the neck before smothering her with a pillow.
The court heard that after the killings the teenagers took a bath together before later watching Twilight films.
Mr Joyce said it had originally been intended the boy would kill Mrs Edwards and the girl would kill Katie Edwards.
Jurors were told the knife used to stab both victims was discovered on a table in Katie's bedroom.
In her police interview, the girl told detectives the plan had been for her and the boy to take their own lives after the killings.
Mr Joyce said: "The prosecution case is that this girl together with the boy planned and carried out the cold, calculated and callous killings.
"Afterwards there has not been a hint of remorse and the prosecution case is that she is as guilty as the boy of the murders."
The case continues.


A wreath-laying service has been held in South Africa in memory of a couple from Northern Ireland who drowned while on honeymoon.

Lynette and John Rodgers, from Holywood, County Down, drowned at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape last Friday.
The service was held there on Thursday morning.
Their families hope their bodies will be returned to Northern Ireland later this week.
Mr Rodgers, who was 28, was originally from Ballygowan, County Down, and worked for a printing company in Holywood.
Mrs Rodgers, 26, was a physiotherapist.


One day in the future the clothes we wear might be able to mend themselves.

12 August 2016 Last updated at 13:24 BST
Scientists have created a special fabric that meshes together when water and a bit of pressure are applied.
It's inspired by chemicals found in a squid's tentacles which allow the creature to heal themselves quickly.
By using those chemicals in the fabric it's possible to make a material that stitches itself back together when needed.
The scientists at Pennsylvania State University and the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington say this tech could be used to make protective suits to help keep people like soldiers or farmers safe from dangerous materials.
Take a look at some other animals that have inspired technology.


The Conservative party in Northern Ireland has launched its manifesto for the upcoming assembly election.

The document is entitled "Time for a Real Fresh Start".
It sets out the same pledges and priorities listed by the party ahead of last year's Assembly election.
It includes a draft "statement of wrongs" on the past, which places blame for the Troubles on all groups and individuals who acted outside the law.
The party wants to lower corporation tax in Northern Ireland to 10%, create enterprise zones for research and development and abolish air passenger duty for short haul flights from Northern Ireland.
It also plans to increase spending on health and education and commit to completing the upgrade at the M2/M3/Westlink/York Road Junction.
The Conservative party is fielding 13 candidates in the assembly election and says it is "determined to remove the sectarian blinkers from Stormont politics".


Martina Purdy could have been forgiven for seeking guidance from above in her role as BBC News NI political correspondent.

The high-wire negotiations and ferocious debates familiar to the territory have tested the faith of many a battle-hardened hack.
But even the most astute Stormont observer was flummoxed when she decided to swap the corridors of power for a life in the convent last October.
Ms Purdy joined the Adoration Sisters in west Belfast, after more than 20 years in journalism and now she has spoken of her new life for this Sunday's Songs of Praise.
"I suppose people were shocked when I announced what I was going to do but I had lived with it for a while," she said.
"I have always been a Catholic, but I think when I look back, I was really asleep in my faith compared to how it is now.
"It is quieter at times. We have silence at breakfast and most of our meals are in silence and we work in silence."
Ms Purdy was educated at a convent school and raised as a Catholic but has previously said she had no "calling" when she was younger.
Her journey deeper into faith began about eight years ago following a holiday to Peru when she thought about becoming an aid worker.
She says she has already experienced the benefits of her new commitment since joining the Adoration Sisters.
"People come to us for prayers and it is really a beautiful experience when someone comes to you," she said.
"Sometimes they are coming in tears, because they are having a crisis in their life and just knowing that someone is praying for them, they leave with a smile, it is very uplifting and that's really a beautiful thing to do with your life.
"I feel very fulfilled."
As Songs of Praise reveals, Martina Purdy is not the only person who has left a high-level career recently for a role in the convent.
Elaine Kelly was a renowned lawyer in Northern Ireland, but she is now hearing different pleas.
"I am no longer at the bar, I don't have the pressure of that, but for me I could see for a long time I was going deeper into prayer and becoming more contemplative," she said.
"Now I can fulfil that and that's something I can live out every day."
Ms Purdy and Ms Kelly have many years of preparation ahead of them, before they take their final vows.
Content in their new home, their new calling is just beginning.
You can see more of Martina's story on Sunday's Songs of Praise on BBC One NI at 16:00 BST.


A man who filmed himself abusing children and uploaded the videos to the internet for others to view has been jailed for 10 years.

Police identified three children Robert McGregor, 36, raped from among child pornography that officers found during a search of his home in Inverness.
The identified victims were boys aged three, six and 12.
Police officers investigating the case described McGregor's actions as "abhorrent and unforgivable".
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that he had groomed and exploited children for 13 years.
Sentencing McGregor, judge Lady Carmichael said he had formed relationships with families in order to gain access to children, who he then subjected to abuse.
She said that his youngest victim was "extremely vulnerable".
The judge said that the material recovered in the case not only demonstrated what he had done but that he had persisted in it despite the obvious distress of victims.
Lady Carmichael told McGregor that she would have jailed him for 15 years but for his early guilty pleas to the catalogue of offences.
The judge also ordered that he be kept under supervision for a further five years on his release.
Lady Carmichael said she was not satisfied that the risk criteria were met for imposing a life sentence on McGregor under an Order for Lifelong Restriction.
One man in court called McGregor an "animal" as he was led off to start his sentence.
The child abuser's home in Inverness, was raided by police in May last year and laptops and other items were seized for analysis.
Advocate depute Jo McDonald, prosecuting, said a search warrant was granted to police after intelligence was received from the National Online Child Abuse Prevention Agency.
More than 2,000 indecent photographs and 899 videos were recovered, many of which were found to contain materiel at the most extreme level of abuse.
The prosecutor told the court: "Some of the images showed children who appeared to be as young as 12 months old."
Some of the videos were found to feature McGregor raping and sexually abusing three victims who were later identified by police.
In one case, officers produced stills of a child from video footage and images were shown to a staff member at an Inverness school who identified the boy.
They traced the ex-pupil and the man broke down when they asked if he had suffered abuse from McGregor, the court heard.
McGregor had uploaded five videos to a peer to peer internet app which allowed others to view the footage of his abuse of one of his victims.
Police computer experts found that the files had been accessed by users in America, Germany and in the Czech Republic.
McGregor, a delivery driver, made an initial court appearance charged with possessing indecent images of children and was freed on bail but was then assaulted.
Following further police investigations it became possible to identify one of his victims and he appeared again in court facing further charges, including child rape. Bail was then refused by a sheriff.
McGregor subsequently pleaded guilty to six offences when he appeared at the High Court admitting three charges of raping three boys, sexually assaulting one youngster, making indecent photos of children and distributing or showing indecent photos.
His sex assaults on children spanned more than a decade between 2001 and 2014 and all the attacks occurred in the Inverness area.
His youngest identified victim was aged three.
Another boy was subjected to nearly a decade of abuse from the age of six and the third child victim was 12 when McGregor assaulted him.
The child pornography offences took place between 2011 and March last year.
The advocate depute said that McGregor's offending had had a profound effect on some victims. She said that the scale and nature of his crimes has "scarred families for life".
Defence solicitor advocate John Keenan said: "On any view this is an extremely serious catalogue of offences in a variety of different ways."
Mr Keenan said that it had to be acknowledged that McGregor's crimes had had "a significant impact" especially on his two older victims. He added that "mercifully" the youngest victim appeared to have no recollection of what happened.
The defence lawyer said McGregor seemed willing to take part in programmes to address his behaviour and it was considered that if that happened it would lessen the risk he posed.
McGregor was told he would be on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Following the sentencing, Det Insp Mark Lambley, of the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit, described McGregor's actions as "abhorrent and unforgivable".
He said: "Firstly I want to acknowledge the courage shown by the victims and their families by coming forward and then throughout this investigation, which resulted in the conviction and today's sentencing of Robert McGregor.
"Officers will continue to support the families, working alongside local partner agencies and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service."
The officer added: "Robert McGregor preyed on young children and abused the trust of the families involved through his abhorrent and unforgivable offending.
"A case this harrowing is rarely seen in Scotland and will understandably send shockwaves through our local communities.
"It is hoped, however, that today's sentencing sends out a clear message that Police Scotland will robustly and sensitively investigate all reports of sexual abuse - regardless of when the abuse took place - helping to ensure we keep everyone safe."
Andy Shanks, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Procurator Fiscal for Sexual Offences, said McGregor's offending had a "devastating impact on his victims and their families".


The Forest of Dean needs to be protected for future generations, according to the constituency's election candidates.

James Greenwood, Green Party candidate, said he was "fed up with the constant sell-off threat" to the woodland.
Conservative's Mark Harper and Liberal Democrat's Chris Coleman agreed the forest should remain publicly-owned.
Labour's Steve Parry-Hearn wanted legal protection while UKIP's Steve Stanbury said it was a "precious resource".
The five parliamentary candidates had been asked about the leasing of forest land when they took part in a BBC Gloucestershire radio debate on Wednesday.
Mr Greenwood referred to a holiday company which he said had been given a 125-year lease for a piece of land.
He said: "We have to see a moratorium on land being disposed in the forest and stop these long leases."
He claimed a lease could be traded and said it was "effectively a sell-off".
Mr Harper said: "It's very important to develop tourism - getting more people to come to the Forest of Dean and spending money and developing local jobs is a very good thing and should be encouraged."
He said the forest should be kept in "public ownership".
Mr Parry-Hearn said he was against long leases adding: "We could find ourselves in a position where there is privatisation because that lease could then be sold on."
Lib Dem Chris Coleman said: "When you're talking about a 125-year lease, that is longer than any of us in this room can imagine - that is a sell-off."
He said he was "wholeheartedly against privatisation".
UKIP's Steve Stanbury said the management of the forest should be "done in a balanced way".
He said: "We need to make sure the business community, on which so many livelihoods depend, is actually engaged and that the forest works for everybody."
The candidates for the constituency are:
Christopher Coleman -  Liberal Democrat
James Greenwood - Green
Mark Harper - Conservative
Steve Parry-Hearn - Labour
Steve Stanbury - UKIP


Hundreds of Canadian woman joined a topless protest march after three sisters were allegedly stopped by police for cycling without shirts.

Saturday's "Bare with us" march took place in Waterloo, Ontario. The women say that police told them to cover up whilst cycling in the neighbouring town of Kitchener last month.
They have filed a formal complaint with the police.
It is legal for women to be topless in Ontario after a court ruling in 1996.
Protestors held signs that included the slogans "They are boobs not bombs, chill out" and "Nudity isn't sexual."
The three sisters, Tameera, Nadia and Alysha Mohamed, say that they took their shirts off because it was a hot summer day.
However, they allege that a police officer approached them and told them to cover up. But when they challenged this, the officer said he was stopping them for bike safety reasons.
One of the sisters is an award nominated Canadian singer under her stage name Alysha Brilla.
"I had no idea how polarizing the issue would be. I thought people wouldn't be so disturbed by the female breast," she told CBC news.
"We just want to advocate and let people know that they do have this right," the singer added.
Ontario passed legislation confirming the right of women to go topless in 1996, after the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned a woman's conviction for removing her shirt.
Gwen Jacobs had been fined in 1991, but on appeal the court found that there was "nothing degrading or dehumanising" about her going topless in public.


MPs have said they want an inquiry into the death of an Angolan man who died at London's Heathrow Airport as he was being deported from the UK.

Jimmy Mubenga, 46, fell ill, according to the security firm that was escorting him on the plane on Tuesday.
Keith Vaz, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called for a full-ranging inquiry and Tom Brake MP wants the incident debated in Parliament.
A post-mortem examination on Mr Mubenga has proved inconclusive.
Scotland Yard said further tests were being carried out.
Mr Mubenga's 16-year-old son Roland said he was "angry and upset" and has claimed "it wasn't a natural death".
Mr Mubenga became unwell as he waited for the plane to leave Heathrow and was taken to the nearby Hillingdon Hospital, where he died.
Mr Vaz told BBC London: "This is a shocking incident.
"We need to know in a full-ranging inquiry why he was treated in the way he was treated. Why was he being deported while his family are still in the country?
"What steps are being taken by the airline and the immigration services to make sure they checked his medical records?
"These are very serious issues which affect every single person that is being deported."
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the death was being treated as "unexplained", adding: "At this early stage, we believe the deceased was being deported from the UK under escort by civilian security guards."
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said Mr Mubenga was being escorted by staff from the private security firm G4S.
The company declined to say whether any action had been taken against staff.
Mr Brake, chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary policy committee that deals with home affairs and justice, said: "We need to be absolutely certain that a proper risk assessment was carried out and we need to be certain the security firm that was used are using the appropriate restraint techniques, ones that don't endanger people's lives.
"Last week I tabled an urgent question asking for matter to be debated in Parliament, and I hope that on Monday the Speaker will allow that to take place."
The death is also being investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.


Hull City head coach Leonid Slutsky has labelled Wolves the "best team in the Championship" in the wake of seeing his Tigers side beaten at home by Nuno's expensively reassembled outfit.

Bookmakers immediately responded to Wolves' 3-2 win on Tuesday by installing the West Midlands side as the new favourites for promotion.
But Slutsky was in no doubt, claiming: "We played the best team in the league.
"I have done a lot of research. Wolves are, at this moment, the best team."
He told BBC Radio Humberside: "I am disappointed that we lost but I am proud that, for a short time, we played on the same level as, for me, the best team in the Championship."
Nuno added: "I thank Leonid for those comments. I know him and I appreciate those words from a very good coach. We had moments of really good football.
"The goals are the moments of beauty that the fans come for," he told BBC WM. "It is what we are here for - to give the fans magic moments."
Wolves, remoulded under Nuno this summer with investment from Chinese owners Fosun, are one of three sides to have begun the new Championship campaign with 100% winning records.
One of them is former Wolves boss Mick McCarthy's Ipswich Town, while Wolves face the other - Neil Warnock's Cardiff City - at Molineux on Saturday.
Victory would take Wolves top of the table and equal the club's best start to a league season since they won their first four matches in 1998-99.
"I'm very happy," said Nuno. "It is great reward for so many hours of hard work in pre-season. But my message is very clear - tomorrow is the most important, the past doesn't count."
Is this Wolves side the real deal, or is there a dip ahead for Wanderers?
In all three seasons in which they last won promotion (2002-03, 2008-09 and 2013-14), Wolves went unbeaten in at least their first five league games.
But you don't have to be too old a Wolves fan to know that they have also enjoyed good starts to the season before - and not delivered in the end.


Wales' Dan Biggar takes over from Sam Davies as Ospreys make five changes for their rescheduled European Challenge Cup game at Grenoble on Friday.

The match was due to take place on Thursday but was rescheduled due to a frozen pitch at Stade des Alpes.
Davies started ahead of Biggar at fly-half in their Pro12 win against Edinburgh on Friday, 2 December.
Veteran Paul James comes in for Nicky Smith at loose-head prop and Dmitri Arhip is at tight-head for Ma'afu Fia.
Wales hooker Scott Baldwin is undergoing a head injury assessment and is omitted from the Ospreys' line-up.
In midfield, centre Ashley Beck makes way for Kieron Fonotia while prop Fia has a shoulder injury that has put him out of contention.
Ospreys are playing in the second-tier European tournament for the first time and have a 100% record after wins over Newcastle Falcons and Lyon. Grenoble lost heavily when they played the same teams.
The two teams meet again on Saturday, 17 December.
Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy told BBC Radio Wales:
"It's pretty poor and disappointing. We came down to the ground at 3pm and the ground was hard. The blowers and a little bit of hot air has gone on it to try and rectify it but I think it was too little too late.
"It's bitterly disappointing, it affects preparations. Now we've got to stay out here. It's not as if it's an anomaly where you come here and there's a big blizzard.
"There's definitely been a lack of preparation and thought gone into it and for such a big game for us, we're bitterly disappointed we haven't played the game tonight."
Grenoble: Armand Batlle; Pierre Mignot,Clement Gelin, Nigel Hunt, Tino Nemani; Gilles Bosch, David Mele;  Alexandre Dardet, tienne Fourcade, Walter Desmaison, Mickael Capelli,  Mathias Marie, Kevin Kornath, Steven Setephano, Dylan Hayes.
Replacements: Loick Jammes, Denis Coulson, Dayna Edwards, Thomas Jolmes, Henry Vanderglas, Lilian Saseras, Fabrice Estebanez, Bastien Guillemin
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Keelan Giles, Kieron Fonotia, Josh Matavesi, Dafydd Howells; Dan Biggar, Tom Habberfield; Paul James, Sam Parry, Dmitri Arhip, Rory Thornton, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), James King, Dan Baker, Justin Tipuric.
Replacements: Scott Otten, Nicky Smith, Rhodri Jones, Lloyd Ashley, Sam Underhill, Rob McCusker, Brendon Leonard, Sam Davies.
Referee: Marius Mitrea (Italy)


A court in Pakistan has jailed a Muslim prayer leader for five years for inciting religious hatred.

Qari Abubaker was convicted in the city of Lahore of calling minority Shia Muslims "infidels".
At least six other clerics have been jailed for similar offences in the past two months in Lahore, officials say.
Inciting religious hatred is against the law in Pakistan but rarely reported or punished. Thousands have been killed in sectarian violence in recent years.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says because reporters are not allowed inside anti-terrorism courts, rulings rarely attract attention.
For security reasons court officials have told reporters not to name judges involved in the cases.
Officials say recent arrests of prayer leaders on hate speech charges have been made under the so-called National Action Plan against terrorism.
Pakistan tightened its anti-terrorism laws after militants killed more than 150 people in a school in Peshawar on 16 December.
The offence for which Abubaker was convicted took place in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Kasur district near Lahore. He can appeal in the high court.
"The imam was found guilty of inciting hatred against Shia people and raised slogans during his sermon that Shias were infidels," one official told AFP news agency.
Any act or speech which incites sectarian hatred - wilfully or inadvertently - carries a potential prison sentence of up to seven years in Pakistan.
Dawn newspaper reported that as many as 21 people had been convicted under this law since the school attack, but details of those cases are not yet available, our correspondent reports.
Most Pakistanis are Sunni Muslims. The country has seen increased attacks against Shias and other minority faiths since the rise of hardline Wahhabism during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Shias make up nearly 20% of Pakistan's 200-million population.
In recent months Pakistani authorities have issued warnings to mosques to restrict the use of their loudspeakers, which are regulated under a separate law.
There have been widespread reports of clerics having been been temporarily arrested and put under personal bail to ensure they do not use mosques loudspeakers to propagate sectarian messages.
Sectarian attacks continue. Last week 45 Ismaili Shias were massacred on a bus in Karachi.


The family of a man who took his own life have called for the establishment of a single mental health trust in Northern Ireland.

However, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill said no such plan was being considered.
Charles and Elma Hamilton's son, Ian, took his own life in 2013.  He was 38 and a father of two children.
He had suffered from mental health problems for many years.
An inquest heard that 24 hours before his death, Ian had been to three hospitals in two different health trusts.
Ian was first diagnosed with depression in 1998. He was deeply troubled and had problems with alcohol and drug addiction.
However, his post-mortem showed no sign of substance abuse.
His parents said the establishment of a single trust to deal with people with psychiatric conditions could help other people in the future.
The couple believe a single system would help ensure that a patient's notes, capturing their full history, would be accessible to all medics, no matter where they showed up for help.
Charles Hamilton said part of the problem for Ian was that he moved between health trusts.
"I think if they had a single mental health trust, where everything was collated together, all the information concerning the people presenting with mental health problems would be there there at the push of a button," he said.
"That way, professionals can access the patient's history and there are no delays in getting that patient treatment."
Elma Hamilton said Ian's final hours were very distressing.
"He went to three hospitals in two trusts inside 24 hours, trying to get help, pleading with people trying to get his point across," she said.
"He was frustrated and hopeless - he just couldn't get the answers he needed. In one hospital, he was waiting 10 hours to see someone from a mental health team.
"In a different hospital, he self-harmed. He was tired having to go through the same story so many times to different people."
His story highlights how, too often, there is a lack of joined up thinking between mental health services and how sometimes an emergency department is not the best place to treat those with a serious psychological disorder.
Their call for a single service across the trust is one of eight recommendations that was made in a recent report into mental health in Northern Ireland by the former Chief Executive of England NHS Lord Nigel Crisp .
"I think it is an argument - there is also an argument in keeping mental and physical health closely aligned," he said.
"I also understand in Northern Ireland there are lots of issues about people wanting local services and local control but even if you kept five trusts you could still run it as a single service, still have a single leader, the same standards.
"You could still have the facilities in five different places but run it across the entire system."
The family do not blame the northern or the south eastern health trusts but they are appealing to them to act on the findings of their son's inquest.
Elma added: "We don't want a stigma - depression is a health condition.
"But they need somewhere to go to feel safe and calm. Somewhere they will be listened to - not in an emergency department where doctors and nurses are busy dealing with broken legs and car accidents.
"You can't see mental health issues in a person. It is not evident but it is there."
However, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill told the BBC she was not considering a single mental health trust for Northern Ireland.
"I believe we can do better. We can make sure we are putting the services and the limited resources that we have to the best of fact," she said.
"I don't believe that setting up a a trust with all the red tape and everything that would go along with that is necessarily the best way to go. So I think we can do better."


Philip Larkin has been commemorated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey on the 31st anniversary of his death.

Actor Sir Tom Courtenay and artist Grayson Perry both read from Larkin's work during the unveiling ceremony.
It marked the end of a long campaign by the Philip Larkin Society to have him added to the existing names in Poets' Corner.
The memorial floor stone contains two lines of poetry, his name and birth and death dates.
The chosen lines are from the end of An Arundel Tomb which was first published in the 1960s.
The stone has been sculpted by Martin Jennings, whose previous work includes the Larkin Statue and roundels on Hull's Paragon Station.
Professor Edwin Dawes, chair of the Philip Larkin Society, said: "We are delighted that Philip Larkin has finally taken his place at the very cultural heart of the nation, amongst Britain's greatest writers."
Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and went on to study at Oxford, with his first poems being published in 1940.
He became a librarian and took a job at the University of Hull in 1955 where he stayed until his death in 1985.
Poets' Corner is a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey and acquired the name due to the number of playwrights, writers and poets who are either buried or commemorated there.


Graffan No 1 Ltd, the company that owns the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast made a pre-tax profit of £483,000 in 2014.

Turnover at the firm was £5.3m and a note in the accounts states that turnover and profitability continued to improve in 2014.
The luxury hotel, which opened in 2009, employs around 70 people.
The business has undergone significant restructuring in the last two years.
The hotel was previously held by a firm called Graffan Hotel/ Pausebreak, which was placed into liquidation in June.
A Bank of Ireland mortgage on the hotel was also satisfied in June and it is now mortgaged with a Dublin firm called Plazaway Investments.
The directors of Plazaway have also been appointed directors of Graffan No 1.


Up to 130 sets of car keys have been stolen from a site used by a meet-and-greet company offering long-stay parking near Manchester Airport.

Four cars were also taken from the Car Park Manchester site in Hale, the Manchester Evening News reported.
Police said the full numbers involved were not yet known because many of the vehicles' owners are still on holiday.
Car Park Manchester said it had reported the 18 August burglary but declined to comment further.
The company is not affiliated with Manchester Airport.
Bev Young heard her car keys were missing while she was still abroad.
She said: "I fly back tomorrow, not knowing what to expect or who is going to get my friend and I home - two hours away.
"At least I have had time to register the shock and pre-plan, whereas many owners will still be unaware."
Cheryl Wilden said she discovered her sister's car keys had been stolen after the pair returned from a holiday in Barcelona.
She said they had to retrieve a spare set of keys from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, before being taken to where the car had been left in a "muddy field".
They then struggled to drive the brand new Hyundai out of the site because it was stuck in mud, Ms Wilden said.
"It was horrendous, there were lots of high value cars there. We were quite horrified," she added.
"They eventually had to get the car out for us. It was not pleasant.
"I'm just absolutely devastated because I booked it."
Matthew Griffiths was also informed his keys had been stolen.  However, he praised the car park's staff for the way they handled the situation.
"Upon visiting the car park I could see they had a rough time. I was greeted by the most kind and apologetic owner of the business," he said.
"I'd like to thank the owners of the car park for assisting me with the issue to their best ability."
A spokesman for Manchester Airport said: "We would like to remind passengers that the airport offers a wide range of secure, official car parking facilities, and is also well connected via public transport.
"Anyone with any doubts about their car parking can verify it with our customer services team."


An early autumn afternoon near the Surrey/Sussex border sees 20 construction workers up to their ankles in mud as final adjustments are made to a set of new lock gates.

The fitting of the five-tonne gates marks the final stage of a two-year programme to rebuild the Southland lock on the Wey and Arun Canal.
The £44,000 gates took four days to install - but only three of the workforce, from the West Yorkshire manufacturers, were being paid for their labour.
The other 17 were volunteers from among hundreds of enthusiasts who have put in more than 5,000 hours of labour on the lock.
Project manager Eric Walker has been working with the Wey and Arun Canal Trust to restore the disused waterway since 1990.
The retired engineer travels the 47 miles from his home in Hayling Island, Hampshire at least twice a week.
But what drives him to devote, by his own estimation, 95% of his time to the canal?
"I don't know," he said. "People say they can't get me not to think about it.
"It just grabs hold of you - it's the sheer enthusiasm of all the people who do this."
Link to sea
The trust, formed in 1973, hopes soon to recruit its 3,000th member, and has the long-term aim to restore the entire 23-mile canal between Shalford, near Guildford and Pallingham, near Pulborough.
The waterway, mainly built between 1813 and 1816, was the link between the River Wey in Surrey and the Arun in Sussex which made it possible to transport goods by water from London to the South Coast.
After falling into disuse with the coming of the railways, it closed in the early 1870s.
No-one in the trust will hazard a guess as to when "London's lost route to the sea" might be fully reopened but three engineering and environmental studies have concluded it is viable.
The canal's navigable sections are currently isolated from each other but boat trips are run on a three-mile section at Loxwood and, from last month, on a mile-long section at Alford, in Surrey.
The canal at Loxwood had to be lowered by 6ft (1.8m) and a new lock and road bridge built. The four-year project, finished in 2009, cost £1.9m.
Now work on Southland lock is nearly completed, the next step will be to clear and restore the section of canal linking it to Loxwood.
The next job is to restore Gennets Bridge lock, for which the trust has planning permission but has yet to find the £350,000 cost.
It receives little public money but has an income of about £400,000 a year from donations, fundraising and legacies.
Tourism organisation Visit Sussex said there was no research to quantify the economic impact of the trust's work.
"But it is fantastic that this dedicated band of people are doing so much to go through the hoops such as planning permissions and raising money to improve the amenity," said spokeswoman Jackie Ellis.
"We applaud and support them.
"It is a positive for Sussex to have people coming here - it fills restaurants and hotels."
As well as their physical labour, volunteers spend many hours negotiating with the owners of land through which the canal passes and local authorities.
Residents sometimes dislike aspects of the work.
When the new road bridge was built at Loxwood, 700 people signed a petition to express their disapproval of the concrete and galvanised steel construction.
Eventually it was rebuilt in concrete and brick, at a total cost of nearly £60,000.
"It was resolved by working together as best we could," said Len Milsom, spokesman for the Loxwood Society.
Mr Milsom said the feeling in the village was largely favourable to the canal restoration.
"Some people get involved and think it is wonderful," he said. "Others think it is good because it provides a linear park for the area.
"I would say the few people who are against it are in the minority."


Early adopters of Google's latest Android operating system are warning others of problems with the software.

Issues include the update causing Nexus 7 tablets to run slowly and repeatedly crash, with several users complaining they had become "unusable".
The code also appears to remove apps built with Adobe Air and then prevent them from being reinstalled.
Adobe said it had not been aware of this "critical" bug before Tuesday and had escalated it with Google.
A spokesman for the search firm was unable to comment at this time.
Android 5.0 - also known as Lollipop - is described as a "quantum leap forward" by Google and has attracted several positive reviews, fuelling desire for the software.
It revamps the system's user interface, offers greater control over notifications, and makes changes to the way the OS executes code, which Google said should mean fewer "temporary glitches" than before.
At the moment, it is only available to a limited number of machines, because many network operators and device manufacturers have yet to complete their own tests.
However, owners of Nexus-branded machines - which are sold by Google itself - can install the software by downloading it from the firm's website or, in the case of the Asus-made Nexus 7, accepting an over-the-air update.
Nvidia, LG and Motorola have also released Android Lollipop updates for some of their handsets and tablets.
Dozens of messages posted to Google's own forums suggest that owners of the 2012 version of the Nexus 7, in particular, are experiencing headaches.
"Some apps won't work and some crash. I wish I didn't install the update," wrote Kristen Sawyer.
Another user, nicknamed StretchToo said: "Chrome is dead, unusable, Firefox just about works, the keyboard takes over a minute to load, nearly works if you hunt and peck but dies if you try to swipe."
Some tablet owners have, however, suggested potential solutions to such problems.
"Updated and the Nexus is [so] shockingly bad it is basically unusable, lags just rotating the screen, every task takes 10 seconds to perform if it does it [at all]," wrote Gary Looker.
"I've turned off Google Now, changed transitions to zero and limited it to two background apps maximum like the good people here suggested.
"I shouldn't have to do that, and many people won't know where to turn or who to listen to."
Several Android Lollipop users have also highlighted compatibility problems with Air-based apps.
Air allows developers to use Adobe's Flash and Dreamweaver tools to create software, and is particularly popular with indie video game makers.
Examples of titles that use the tech include Machinarium, Hero Mages and Empire Four Kingdoms, while non-gaming examples include Instaweather Pro and Conqu.
"We were previously unaware of this bug and contrary to other reports, were not working with Google on a fix," wrote Adobe product manager Chris Campbell in response.
"However, we are working with Google on another self-signed certificate issue that is impacting in-app purchases. It's possible the two are related, but we do not have enough information at this time to determine one way or the other.
"That said, we'll be escalating this issue with Google immediately."
Reports elsewhere suggest some users are experiencing problems with text messages, the way contacts are managed, and wi-fi connectivity.
Bugs in major software updates are not uncommon.
Apple apologised in September after faults with iOS 8 caused some of its new iPhones to be unable to make and receive calls, and also restricted their Touch ID functionality.
One expert said in general, there were benefits to waiting a few days after a release date before installing upgrades.
"With any software update it makes sense to watch and see if there are any teething problems," said Ian Fogg, from the IHS Technology consultancy.
"Consumers like it and benefit when their devices gain a new lease of life with new features - but they expect what they used to use to continue to work, and that can be tricky.
"What's striking about Android Lollipop is that it's reaching devices from more manufacturers, more more quickly than previous versions of Android.
"Motorola, LG and Nvidia have devices receiving Lollipop almost at the same time as Nexus devices.
"That has benefits to consumers who get it quicker... but of course makes it more complex for Google, which has to manage problems across a wider range of phones and tablets early on."


Boris Johnson has said there is an "attractive alternative future" for the UK outside the European Union while insisting he would prefer to remain a member of a reformed organisation.

The Mayor of London and Conservative MP said the UK should consider options for life outside the EU since the cost of exit was lower than it has ever been.
He has not yet said which way he will campaign in a future referendum.
David Cameron has said an EU exit would not be "a land of milk and honey".
The prime minister has said he wants a "better deal" for the UK within the European Union ahead of an in-out referendum by the end of 2017. He is expected to set out the changes he wants to see in more detail in a letter to EU officials next week ahead of a key summit next month.
Speaking on his monthly phone-in on LBC Radio, Mr Johnson signalled that as part of the UK's negotiations he would like to see "derogations" giving the country more control over its borders in a reformed EU.
Obtaining such special provisions was "perfectly possible", he said, and if they were not granted the case for leaving the EU would become stronger.
The wider economic penalties for leaving the EU were lower than ever before, Mr Johnson said: "There is an attractive alternative future - we should be thinking about it."
Pressed on whether he would be prepared to lead the 'Leave' campaign at the in-out referendum, he refused to answer but said he would wait to see the outcome of David Cameron's talks with other EU leaders.
But he added: "In an ideal world I would like to stay in a reformed EU."


Airbus has signed a deal for its second factory in China as it expands further its growing relationship with the world's second-largest economy.

The new cabin-completion factory for A330 jetliners is worth a reported â‚¬150m ($166.3m; Â£106.5m) and is aimed at attracting new orders for Airbus.
The plant will be built alongside an existing site in the city of Tianjin.
The signing on Thursday was witnessed by China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang at Airbus's headquarters in France.
Earlier this week, China signed a deal for 45 new Airbus planes worth more than $11bn.
"The signature of this [latest] framework agreement on the A330 completion and delivery centre will open a new chapter of strategic cooperation on wide-body aircraft with China," said Airbus' president Fabrice BrÃ©gier.
"Together, we will develop new facilities and capabilities, and attract new suppliers and businesses in China," he added.