Unskilled migrants should be stopped from moving to Britain for five years to help reduce net migration, a report by a pro-Brexit group has said.

Leave Means Leave, which is backed by senior Tory backbenchers, says the measure would help get net migration below 50,000.
It is currently running at 273,000 a year.
Anti-Brexit campaigners said such a move would cause skills shortages that would damage business and the NHS.
Leave Means Leave wants to combine the Australian points-based system with plans for work permits which would come into force after the UK has left the European Union.
The report is authored by independent MEP Steven Woolfe, who quit UKIP following an altercation with a colleague that left him in hospital.
In a speech on Monday, Mr Woolfe will say: "We need an immigration system that is fair, flexible and forward-thinking.
"It must be fair in its outlook, flexible in practice and forward-thinking for our economy.
"Brexit is not about splendid isolation - it's about re-engaging with the world, without our wings clipped by the European Union."
But he said introducing "strict controls, an annual cap and a five-year freeze on unskilled migrants" would "reduce net migration year-on-year, lessen the strain on our public services and help build a more cohesive society".
Asked on Sky News about claims his plan would deliver a huge blow to the UK economy, he said that view was based on the idea of a mass exodus of migrants which he did not believe would happen, adding that his plan would lead to a more gentle reduction.
Conservative former Cabinet minister Owen Paterson, a member of Leave Means Leave, said the "overwhelming majority of Britons feel absolutely no resentment towards workers or students from overseas".
But he added: "Mass migration at its current level has fostered resentment, depressed wages and placed an excessive burden on our public services."
The report was condemned by members of the cross-party Open Britain group.
Conservative MP Anna Soubry said: "We have seen encouraging signs from the prime minister that she accepts and understands the reality facing British business - they will continue to need overseas workers for years to come.
"Migrant workers contribute to our economy and to British culture - we should be welcoming them in the traditional spirit of British tolerance.
"Leave Means Leave clearly don't understand why British business relies on migrant workers."
Labour's Pat McFadden said the prime minister faced a choice between going "down the road advocated by this kind of plan" or taking a "more realistic and honest approach to the Brexit negotiations on immigration and other matters".
Under the Leave Means Leave plan, there would be no cap on highly skilled workers, entrepreneurs or investors but unskilled visas would be halted for five years.
Work permits would only be granted if the applicant had a job offer with a minimum Â£35,000 salary and had passed an English language test, signed a five-year private health insurance contract and had savings in the bank.
Up to 50,000 temporary work permits would be issued initially for agricultural workers, tapering off to zero by the third year.
There would be no restrictions on the numbers of students who wanted to head to the UK.
Exemptions would be made for health workers if they were needed from overseas but the report says the focus should be on increasing the number of Britons working in the medical profession.
EU nationals already settled in the UK would have the right to remain indefinitely as long as Brussels adopted the same approach to UK citizens living in Europe, the report says.
But the government should immediately announce a cut-off date for when new arrivals stop qualifying, tit added.


The Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott has hit out at people waving Irish tricolours at the Omagh election count, describing them as the "scum of Sinn Fein".

He referred to the tricolour as "the flag of a foreign nations".
He was speaking at the end of the count for the Fermanagh-South Tyrone constituency where he won a seat for his party yesterday.
The Omagh leisure centre was also the venue for the West Tyrone count.
"I see many people here with flags here, many of them flags of a foreign nation," he said.
When he was heckled by some in the crowd, he said that he would expect nothing better from "the scum of Sinn Fein".
He later added that he "would not forget" what some members of the republican movement had done.
Mr Elliott's comments have been criticised by Sinn Fein.
Successful Upper Bann candidate John O'Dowd said that Mr Elliott's comments were those of a "cornerboy" and that he lacked the skills to be a political leader.
When asked about Tom Elliott's comments, the DUP leader Peter Robinson said: "I'm pretty sure Tom is under pressure and we should give him a bit of latitude."


The last five years have seen sweeping changes in laws governing social and sexual rights in Malta.

In 2011, it was one of the last two countries in the world where divorce was illegal.
On Tuesday, it became the first European country to ban "gay conversion therapy", eliciting cheers from LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) campaigners as well as psychologists.
In recent years, the staunchly Catholic country has:
And yet Malta is now the only EU country where abortion is banned outright.
In 2011, social pressure for change had been building and the "lid was lifted" by a referendum that backed legalising divorce, says Herman Grech of the Times of Malta newspaper.
"The referendum changed everything - and the results were pretty surprising for a country where the Church has been dominant," he told the BBC, and where the centre-right Nationalist party was in power.
"Suddenly people and the younger generation voted in favour as they realised it was one of only two countries [including the Philippines] that outlawed divorce."
"That tilted everything - people started saying we can start tackling other social issues."
That process accelerated once the Labour Party came to power in 2013, says Herman Grech.
He believes Malta joining the EU in 2004 changed the outlook of its young people. Travelling and studying in Europe "opened their minds", he says.
Malta has one of the highest per capita usages of social media in Europe.
In Maltese law abortion is banned even in cases where the mother's life is threatened (though, in practice, there is an exception if the foetus is harmed in the course of essential treatment for the mother, the so-called "double effect" law).
For women's rights campaigner Francesca Fenech Conti, women's reproductive issues represent one of the last bastions of conservatism in a patriarchal society dominated by the Church.
"There are a lot of women Church followers who are still devout, and think they should be mothers first," she told the BBC. "Condom machines were only provided in universities last year."
For Mr Grech, abortion remains a "delicate subject - even for those in favour of gay marriage. At the back of our minds we've always been told it is murder".
The Catholic Church in Malta is led by Archbishop Charles Scicluna, described by one commentator as "pragmatic rather than fire and brimstone - a bit like Pope Francis".
Asked by the BBC for his view of social changes in Malta, he said in a statement that although the Church "remains committed to promoting the values of the family and of marriage between a man and a woman", it also "recognises that Maltese society is changing at a sustained momentum... [and] that there are positive aspects to the increased respect for the dignity of every person, irrespective of their gender or their sexual orientation."
Not if the Church has its way.
It has campaigned on issues that it feels could erode the ban - intervening in a recent debate over access to the morning-after contraceptive pill, arguing that in certain cases it could be used as an abortifacient (abortion-inducing) and thus opposing its legalisation.
"We remain committed to defend the most vulnerable and the voiceless in society, such as the unborn child," said Archbishop Scicluna. "The Church believes that unborn children too deserve to be treated with dignity, a belief that is also shared by the vast majority of Maltese society."
But for Ms Conti, Malta will be unable to hold back the tide of change - even in this hitherto taboo area.
"There will be changes soon - that we are even having this conversation is evidence. A year and a half ago I couldn't discuss these issues with my own sister and cousin - now we talk about it all the time.
"I'm in touch with campaigners in Ireland and Poland [where campaigners are challenging abortion laws]. It will happen."
Mr Grech says it depends on whether campaigners can gain popular backing.
As before, he says, "if people start speaking up, the parties will follow".


Eighteen people were injured when two trains were in collision at a railway station.

Devon and Cornwall Police said the crash at Plymouth Railway Station was a "low impact collision" and they were not aware of any serious injuries.
Emergency services were called to the scene, following the crash at about 15:35 BST on Sunday.
Eight casualties were going to Derriford Hospital but all were stable, South Western Ambulance said.
"At this stage we believe that a moving train drove into the back of a stationary train on platform 6 at the station, and we are currently looking into the circumstances to determine how this happened", British Transport Police said.
The trains involved were the 15:42 Plymouth to Paddington high speed train and the 13:39 Penzance to Exeter train, a spokesperson for Great Western Railway said.
"Investigations are still ongoing, but eyewitnesses have suggested the speed of the collision was less than 10mph."
Police have advised people to avoid the station if possible, and said delays were likely for passengers travelling through the Plymouth area.


Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill looks set to retain Liam Boyce and Josh Magennis as his strikers in Saturday's World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan.

The duo impressed against New Zealand last weekend as Boyce scored his first international goal and O'Neill has hinted that they will start again.
"When we've asked Josh to come and play through the middle he's never let us down," said O'Neill.
"Liam has had a great season. He's looking very, very sharp in training."
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In contrast, Kyle Lafferty's limited outings at club level this season leave him "not in the best condition we'd like him to be", O'Neill admitted on Thursday.
"But for whatever part of the game he (Lafferty) plays, I'm sure he'll make sure he does a good job for us."
The Northern Irish are without Conor Washington, who is getting married this weekend, while Jamie Ward, who also scored in the qualifier win over Norway in March, is ruled out by injury.
Centre-back Gareth McAuley, 37, looks set to play after missing the New Zealand game because of a thigh injury but Watford defender Craig Cathcart will be missing because of a knee problem.
Veteran Aaron Hughes could replace Cathcart if O'Neill's selects a back three but the manager could instead opt to switch to a back four.
Northern Ireland hammered Azerbaijan 4-0 in Belfast seven months ago when the home side's set-piece prowess caused the lightweight opposition countless problems.
O'Neill's squad have doubtless been practising their free-kicks and corner-kicks at length this week, which included five days in southern Turkey to acclimatise for the expected high temperatures in Baku.
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Northern Ireland lost 2-0 in the previous visit to Baku in 2013 but O'Neill's team are a much improved outfit four years on having achieved qualification for Euro 2016.
Robert Prosinecki's home side will be able to call on experienced skipper Rashad Sadygov, who missed the Windsor Park contest because of injury.
Brazilian-born striker Richard Almeida is also now part of the Azerbaijan squad while another newcomer Renat Dadashov previously played for Germany's Under-17 team.
O'Neill's side are second in Group C, five points behind leaders Germany, but two ahead of the third-placed Czech Republic.


China's Chen Xinyi has become the first swimmer to fail a doping test at the Rio Olympics.

The 18-year-old has been provisionally suspended from taking part in the Games while the test result is investigated.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed an earlier report from China's Xinhua news agency, which said she tested positive for diuretic hydrochlorothiazide on Sunday.
That was the day Chen finished fourth in the women's 100m butterfly final.
She was scheduled to compete in the 50m freestyle at 17:02 BST on Friday but did not take part.


A 13-year-old boy with severe autism has spent 18 months away from his family because he cannot be cared for in his home county.

Josh Wills from Redruth, Cornwall, is in a specialist unit in Birmingham.
His parents, who have travelled a total of 40,000 miles to visit him, have started a petition to bring him home.
NHS Kernow said it recognised the importance of family connections but "Josh's exceptionally high care needs mean this is not possible yet".
Josh's condition is so severe he has spent the past 18 months in a specialist unit in Birmingham, five hours' travel from home.
His parents, Sarah Pedley and Phil Wills, started a petition to bring him home after they learned he could be moved long-term to Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
Ms Pedley said: "You can't suddenly take a child's life away with no preparation, to be dumped in a completely alien environment without his family.
"It's left him quite traumatised."
Beverley Dawkins, of learning disability charity Mencap, said: "This is a very loved young boy who loves the time with his family.
"He has some complex needs... and he did need the specialised services, but that time has finished and he needs to have a service designed for him near his family."
NHS Kernow, which has met the family, said: "We are working towards bringing Josh home as quickly as we can."


The entrepreneur who co-founded a UK-based money transfer business has told the BBC if he was doing it again, he wouldn't do it in London.

Fintech entrepreneur Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Transferwise, said Brexit was making it hard to source talent.
He said: "There is a lot uncertainty and uncertainty doesn't help business.
"So for starting up a new fintech company, [London] is not the best place any more."
Mr Hinrikus started Transferwise with fellow Estonian Kristo Kaarmann in 2011 and built it into a business with more than a million customers.
Speaking to BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, he said: "We came to London because of a great environment for entrepreneurship and because of a regulatory system that gives access to 500 million people in Europe.
"Today these things can't be taken for granted any more when it comes to getting other people to come to London. We don't know what it will be like in two years' time.
"We know that passporting of financial services is not going to happen any more, so it's the right thing today to consider whether you should do it in Amsterdam or Berlin or another city in Europe."
He was speaking at the government's International Fintech Conference in London, where Chancellor Philip Hammond told investors and entrepreneurs: "We need to continue to attract the brightest and the best from around the world to these shores - and we will."
Mr Hinrikus said: "Entrepreneurs are optimistic by nature. I am optimistic as I hope things will get figured out.
"Fix talent and everything else will fall into place. Make sure it remains easy to get foreigners to get to the UK and feel welcome here. If we get that sorted, it will go a long way."


London's population is set to increase by 37% to more than 11 million by 2050, according to the mayor's report on how the city will accommodate the increase.

Boris Johnson said London faced a series of serious challenges in its infrastructure.
Between 2016-50, this could cost up to Â£1.3 trillion, the report said.
It said 600 new schools and colleges needed to be built as well as 50,000 homes a year but the mayor ruled out building on the green belt.
This is because there are large amounts of brownfield land which could be used, up until at least 2025, he said.
According to the report, the population increase will lead to demand for:
The mayor will establish a London Infrastructure Delivery Board to look at how the demands can be met.
Options include:
Mr Johnson said: "This plan is a real wake up call to the stark needs that face London over the next half century.
"Infrastructure underpins everything we do and we all use it every day.
"Without a long term plan for investment and the political will to implement it, this city will falter."
London Assembly Labour Group Leader, Len Duvall, said: "While I welcome the scale of Boris' ambition, his record on delivery of major projects doesn't match his lofty rhetoric.
"For all his vision, Boris is in danger of stepping down in 2016 leaving behind a legacy of expensive vanity projects, rather than the world class infrastructure we're crying out for."
A consultation on the London Infrastructure Plan 2050 will run for three months with the final report published early in 2015.


Four Premier League players have been named in a strong Spain squad for Saturday's friendly against England.

Chelsea pair Fernando Torres and Juan Mata, Manchester City's David Silva and Jose Reina of Liverpool could all line up against club-mates at Wembley.
Former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas makes a return to London as part of an experienced 23-man squad named by coach Vicente del Bosque.
Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta has been recalled after a hamstring injury.
Del Bosque has selected the majority of players who helped the world and European champions to their two major titles.
Iniesta, who scored the winner when Spain last visited England in 2007, missed last month's Euro 2012 qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Scotland.
Sevilla winger Jesus Navas has been recalled to the squad, with Malaga full-back Nacho Monreal also included.
Del Bosque said: "Before submitting the squad list for the Euros we have only three (more) games.
"There will be some games to come after the squad get together, but we have to make the most of these matches.
"England are a great team, and we will be playing in an extraordinary stadium.
"We tailor these games to be the best they can be for the team and for the federation."
After facing England, Spain travel to Costa Rica on November 15 for another friendly.
Spain squad to face England: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Jose Reina (Liverpool), Victor Valdes (Barcelona); Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Alvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Jordi Alba (Valencia), Raul Albiol (Real Madrid), Nacho Monreal (Malaga); Xavi (Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Santi Cazorla (Malaga), Javi Martinez (Athletic Bilbao), Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona); David Villa (Barcelona), David Silva (Manchester City), Fernando Torres (Chelsea), Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao), Juan Mata (Chelsea), Jesus Navas (Sevilla).


Chester manager Jon McCarthy has signed a new two-and-a-half year deal with the National League side.

The 46-year-old spent two years as assistant manager at the Blues, and took charge in May 2016 after Steve Burr was sacked.
The former Northern Ireland international guided the club to safety from relegation and agreed a contract until the end of this season.
"It was a really easy decision for me," McCarthy told the club website.
"It's a privilege - I recognise the opportunity that I have here at Chester."


MLAs have voted against DUP calls for a significant reduction in the £90 mandatory parking fine during a debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

They also rejected a plan to introduce free parking for the first 30 minutes.
The changes were proposed by four DUP MLAs, but Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard said their motion was based on "seriously misguided logic".
He added that enforcing the 30-minute free parking system would be "extremely resource intensive".
However, the assembly did pass a Sinn Féin amendment calling for a review of on-street parking arrangements which Mr Hazzard said he was "minded" to implement.
"I'm certainly not opposed to a review of sorts - a strategic review of on-street car parking policy and the direction of travel," the minister told BBC News NI.
"What I was opposed to, with the DUP motion, was their pre-determined outcome of any such review, that we would set in stone before we began a massive reduction in penalty fines, I don't think that would be appropriate."
The rejected DUP motion was signed by ex-minister Edwin  Poots, and his party colleagues William Humphrey, George Robinson and Alex Easton.
They said "greater flexibility" was needed in parking policy to encourage more trade in town and villages.
Parking enforcement in Northern Ireland was privatised in 2006.
Initially, fines were levied at £60, with the option of a 50% reduction if the bill was paid within a fortnight.
However, in 2012, Stormont MLAs voted for the penalty to be increased to its current level of £90 - or £45 if it is settled within 14 days.
The then Roads Minister Danny Kennedy said at the time that bigger fines would "act as a greater deterrent to those who choose not to park properly".
The current minister said "at least two thirds" of people who receive parking tickets pay within two weeks, and therefore pay at the lower rate of £45.
"I think, when we look across many states, this is an appropriate amount, "Mr Hazzard added.
Last month, a Belfast City Council committee voted to end the council's annual policy of offering free car parking in the city centre in the run-up to Christmas.


More research is needed into a controversial fertility treatment, known as three-parent IVF, before it can be considered safe for clinical use, a review has concluded.

Mitochondrial transfer aims to replace a faulty part of a mother's egg with healthy material from a donor.
This means a baby would have a small amount of the donor's genetic material, and therefore three biological parents.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) carried out the study.
The HFEA is the UK's independent fertility treatment regulator and its conclusions are published in a scientific review of the technique commissioned by the Department for Health.
The proposed treatment is designed to help families with rare inherited disorders.
These disorders are due to faulty energy-generating components of cells called mitochondria. Mothers carrying these faulty mitochondria in their eggs are at risk of having children with the inherited disorder.
Under the transfer treatment, the idea is to replace the faulty mitochondria in the eggs or fertilised embryos with those from eggs or early embryos from a healthy, unaffected donor.
The hope is these methods will enable couples to have healthy children and eliminate the disease for subsequent generations, but the technique is controversial because mitochondria carry their own genetic material (DNA).
Although this is very small and only carries a few genes, the resulting child will have this genetic material from the donor, in addition to the majority of maternally- and paternally-inherited genes present, in the nucleus of the cell.
The scientific review has concluded the two main ways of carrying out mitochondrial transplants appear safe, but a little more research is needed before it can be tried out on people.
Medical charities and research organisations are pressing the government to prepare the legislation that would make this procedure legal so the technique can be used in the clinic as soon as it gets the go-ahead from the research community.
Professor Doug Turnbull, of Newcastle University, who leads the research team, said: "Whilst we continue our work, we believe it is very important that the government makes a timetable for changes to the legislation so that these treatment options are available for patients as soon as possible."
Dr Evan Harris, who campaigns for medical research, said: "Without regulations making clinical work legal, it will be difficult to ensure the laboratory research is funded and done in this country and that trials on affected families can be planned.
"Until the government makes clinical research and eventual treatment legal, subject to strict regulation on safety, this country risks losing its world-leading status."
Dr Harris argued for the legalisation of mitochondrial transplantation during the passage of the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act when he was science spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.
He has now called on the government to provide a timetable for consultation and the publication of the regulations.
The report, called scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, examines three approaches to treating mitochondrial disorders.
The first, which is permitted under current regulations, is known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD.
This involves testing very early stage embryos from the affected couple and implanting only those that seem unaffected by the genetic disorder.
The report authors concluded the technique was unreliable for some disorders and could not guarantee the resulting child would be healthy.
The two other techniques are not permitted and would require a change in legislation for its use in the clinic.
Research on human embryonic material however is permitted, provided it is not implanted into a woman's womb.
One technique, known as maternal spindle transfer, involves transplanting the nuclear genetic material (in the form of chromosomes) from an unfertilised egg carrying the abnormal mitochondria obtained from the "patient" (the mother) into an empty donor egg, which is then fertilised.
The other, known as pro-nuclear transfer, involves transplanting the genetic material from a fertilised egg from the patient into a healthy "empty" fertilised egg from a donor, which has had its nuclear genetic material removed.
Some pro-life groups object more to this technique as it involves the creation and destruction of embryos.
Experiments with monkeys and work with embryonic material show promise.
But the HFEA's scientific review says more work needs to be carried out to show that embryos produced by either technique will develop normally.
The report authors also want research that compares the effectiveness of each technique before clinical trials are given the go-ahead.


A supply teacher who used Grindr on school premises and boasted of being attracted to young boys has been banned from the classroom.

Aaron Goodwin, 29, was working at Cardinal Hume School, in Gateshead, when he accessed the dating app.
A disciplinary panel found he also used Skype outside work to say he had carried out a sex act on school premises. He had denied the allegation.
He was found guilty of unacceptable conduct and banned from teaching.
The National College of Teaching and Leadership hearing was told Mr Goodwin admitted accessing Grindr in 2014 to check messages, which was in breach of the school's social media policies.
In May 2013, Goodwin conducted a conversation with a male on Skype in which he revealed he was a teacher, said he was attracted to boys in their early teens and masturbated at work, the panel found.
Fifteen months later, he used the software application to contact a different person and requested they resend a number of explicit videos involving underage boys.
Goodwin claimed he had not been responsible for those conversations - blaming an individual he said had access to his flat and laptop between 2012 and 2014.
However, the disciplinary panel ruled against him and described his actions as "calculated".
While finding there was no evidence he had caused direct harm to any pupils, it said he had "encouraged the distribution of illegal sexual content involving minors".
An allegation he used Grindr to invite a member of the public to meet him in a toilet was unproven.
The indefinite teaching ban comes into force immediately. He had worked as a teacher since 2008.
Goodwin has 28 days to appeal against the decision.


Irish police are investigating the death of a baby girl who was found in a car in County Tipperary on Thursday afternoon.

The seven-month-old girl was found in a car near Dundrum village at about 13:45 local time, Irish broadcaster RTE reports.
She was airlifted to University Hospital Limerick after being found unresponsive.
GardaÃ (Irish police) were alerted to the incident and attended the scene.
They have described the incident as a tragedy.
Local reports suggest the baby had been left in the car for several hours.
Local councillor Martin Brown said: "It was a tragic accident."
He said the family are "well respected" in the area and the baby girl was their only child.


Jon Daly has not ruled out a return to Dundee United, but the striker thinks his future probably lies abroad following his release by Rangers.

Daly spent two seasons at Ibrox after leaving Tannadice, where he has been training since pre-season.
"I would never say never," the 32-year-old said of the possibility of signing for the Scottish Premiership club.
"If they came to me and were interested, I would definitely consider it."
Daly spent six years at Tannadice and ended as club captain.
"I am currently training at Dundee United," he told BBC Scotland.
"When pre-season came about and I still hadn't got a club, I rang manager Jackie McNamara and asked if I could go in.
"They are a good club with some fantastic young players.
"I would never say never, but United would need to want me first."
The United States appears to be a possible destination for Daly.
"I am probably looking further afield than Scotland," he said. "I'm looking abroad.
"At the moment, there are a few clubs interested, but they have their full forum of allocated players so they need to maybe lose one or two of them before they can move.
"It is looking like January before the foreign market can come about, so I might need to get something short term until then."
Daly had no regrets about his move to Rangers, who helped the Ibrox side win Scotland's third tier before dropping to the bench for much of last season in the Championship.
"I was out of contract with Dundee United and at the time they were only prepared to offer a one-year contract," he said.
"When I spoke to Ally McCoist, they were prepared to offer two years.
"A lot of people say you are dropping down the divisions, which is a fair point, but it is going to a club of Rangers' stature, history, fan base, playing at Ibrox every second week and training at Murray Park every day.
"I was just delighted to go to a club like that and play for a man that I really respected in Ally McCoist."


Boreham Wood managed just a second win in nine games as they overcome Torquay United at Meadow Park.

Luke Garrard's men were 2-0 ahead after just 12 minutes as Tony Jeffrey opened the scoring when he took a long ball forward in his stride and beat Brendan Moore skilfully.
Morgan Ferrier showed strength and determination to hold off defender Giancarlo Gallifuoco as he turned well and shot in to double the lead.
Torquay had a great chance to get back into the game when Femi Ilesanmi handballed in the area, but Nathan Blissett had his penalty saved by Grant Smith before the hosts held on comfortably in a drab second half.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Boreham Wood 2, Torquay United 0.
Second Half ends, Boreham Wood 2, Torquay United 0.
Substitution, Torquay United. Ben Gerring replaces Sean McGinty.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Rhys Murrell-Williamson replaces Morgan Ferrier.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Danny Uchechi replaces Morgan Ferrier.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Courtney Richards.
Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Joe Ward.
Second Half begins Boreham Wood 2, Torquay United 0.
First Half ends, Boreham Wood 2, Torquay United 0.
Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card.
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Boreham Wood 2, Torquay United 0. Morgan Ferrier (Boreham Wood).
Goal!  Boreham Wood 1, Torquay United 0. Anthony Jeffrey (Boreham Wood).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A 17-year-old has been jailed for seven years for attempted murder after luring brothers from Aberdeen to Edinburgh for a drug deal.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, knifed Peter Stewart, 44, through the heart and also stabbed his brother James Stewart, 46.
The pair had tried to buy cannabis and a car but were ambushed by the youth on 8 April 2015 in Wardieburn Street West.
Ryan Ellis, 31, was earlier cleared of the attempted murder of Peter Stewart.
Mr Ellis had also denied stabbing James Stewart during the incident.
Lord Glennie said to the 17-year-old: "On the evidence which the jury must have accepted this was a vicious attack with a knife which you were carrying.
"I accept it was a single blow from you, but Mr Stewart could well have died.
"I take account, particularly, of the fact you are still only 17 and have no relevant criminal record."
Last month the 17-year-old was unanimously found guilty of robbing Peter Stewart of his mobile phone and attempting to murder him by stabbing him to the danger of his life.
He was also found guilty of assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement of James Stewart by striking him on the body with a knife.
The High Court in Livingston heard how the brothers had travelled from Aberdeen and received a series of calls directing them to a rendezvous point.
There, they met the teenager who got into their car and said he would direct them to their final destination.
However, in a tenement close, the two brothers were attacked by the 17-year-old, along with others who have yet to be identified.
Although severely injured the brothers managed to escape and get help from passers-by who called an ambulance.
The 17-year-old was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Kenny Donnelly, high court procurator fiscal for the east of Scotland, said: "This man had no intention of going through with any sort of deal.
"Motivated by greed, his sole aim was to rob his victims using whatever violent means he deemed necessary.
"There is simply no excuse for such behaviour in any circumstances, but particularly when it involves the use of a knife as a weapon.
"It is only through good fortune that this violent attack did not result in a fatality.
"As prosecutors we will continue to do all in our power to ensure that those who use knives will be brought before the courts to face justice."


Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley have been elected co-leaders of the Green Party of England and Wales in a job-sharing arrangement.

They saw off competition from five others to succeed Natalie Bennett, who is stepping down after four years.
Ms Lucas, the Greens' only MP, was leader of the party between 2008 and 2012 while Mr Bartley is the party's work and pensions spokesman.
The two said the joint election showed the party was "not bound by tradition".
Their joint ticket took 13,570 - 88% - of the 15,467 votes cast.
The announcement was made at the party's autumn conference in Birmingham, at which Amelia Womack was also elected deputy leader.
Ms Lucas, 55, thanked outgoing leader Ms Bennett and said that, under her leadership, the party had "reached more people than ever before".
How the job-share arrangement will work in practice has yet to be made clear - the party says co-leadership is "a first in Westminster politics".
But, to some laughter from party members, Mr Bartley, 44, said: "We stand here, more united as a party with two leaders than others are with one" and invited those who wanted "more than divisions and uncertainty" to join.
The co-leaders said their joint election showed the "the power of working together and the importance of striking a healthy balance between work and family and other commitments".
Ms Lucas told the BBC later that the job-share sent a political message about "doing politics differently" but it had also been "a very practical decision" as Mr Bartley has a disabled son which made it harder to work on politics "24/7", while she could spend more time in her Brighton Pavilion constituency.
In an acceptance speech delivered together, Ms Lucas and Mr Bartley called for the Greens to form "progressive alliances" with like-minded parties.
Mr Bartley said the current first-past-the-post voting system for general elections was "redundant" and it was wrong that while more than a million people in England and Wales voted Green in 2015, it only had one MP.
"We are resolute in wanting to explore the potential for progressive alliances with other parties that will deliver fair votes and will deliver more elected Greens that ever before," he said.
By Tom Bateman, BBC political correspondent
This has been an unusual kind of leadership race, five candidates competing against one pair: Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley running as a job-share.
As the hundreds of delegates, keen with anticipation, flooded into Birmingham University's Great Hall to hear the announcement of the new leader and the victory speech, the game was up: There were two podiums ready on the stage.
Ms Lucas and Mr Bartley are presenting the job-share as an example of how they want politics to work: co-operation and unity, as against what they see as the rancour, bitterness and division left in the aftermath of the EU referendum result.
But it is a certain irony for a party that, nearly a decade ago, abandoned its system of having two leaders - one male, one female - or "principal speakers" as they were then known.
One of those who was most vigorous in campaigning for the single leader system at the time - the party's now co-leader, Caroline Lucas.
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Ms Lucas has previously floated the idea of a loose electoral pact with other parties on the left of British politics, including Labour, which would see them give Green candidates a clear run in constituencies where they were best placed to challenge the Conservatives and vice versa.
Any such arrangements would have to be approved at a local level, Mr Bartley said and would not be imposed.
The BBC's political correspondent Tom Bateman said many Green activists were sympathetic to the idea but did not believe it was realistic given Labour's opposition.
Much of the speech touched on the UK's vote to leave the EU and its aftermath.
Ms Lucas accused Leave campaigners of lying to the British people during the referendum and "then running away" with no plan for the aftermath.
She said environmental protections, workers rights, guarantees for EU citizens already living in the UK and a "culture of free movement" should be at the heart of the UK's Brexit settlement - the terms of which she said should be put to a second referendum.
And she won applause from the party faithful for her comments on "the greatest threat to our security today - the accelerating climate crisis" saying fossil fuels should be left "where they belong... in the ground". "No fracking, no nuclear, no compromise," she added, to big cheers from the audience.
Until 2008, when Ms Lucas was elected for the first time, the party did not have a single leader but relied on two principal speakers.
The other candidates in the election were former election candidate Simon Cross, long-serving member Clive Lord, film-maker David Malone, parish councillor Martie Warin and David Williams, who leads the Green group on Oxfordshire County Council.


US television network Fox News has suspended one of its presenters after he was accused of sending lewd photographs to three female co-workers.

Eric Bolling, a long-time host at the network, allegedly sent the messages on separate occasions several years ago.
His lawyer described the claims as "untrue and terribly unfair". Fox News said an investigation was under way.
It is the third high-profile harassment case to hit the conservative cable news outlet recently.
Citing 14 unnamed sources, the Huffington Post, a politically liberal news site, reports that Mr Bolling sent unsolicited photos of male genitalia by text message to at least two colleagues at Fox Business and one at Fox News.
"Eric Bolling has been suspended pending the results of an investigation, which is currently underway," a Fox News spokesperson said.
Mr Bolling's lawyer, Michael Bowe, told Reuters news agency: "The anonymous, uncorroborated claims are untrue and terribly unfair.
"We intend to fully cooperate with the investigation so that it can be concluded and Eric can return to work as quickly as possible."
Other allegations of sexual harassment involving top Fox News stars recently included:


Mice may permanently lose their innate fear of cats after they have been infected with a microscopic parasite, researchers say.

The single-celled Toxoplasma gondii parasite is already known to inhibit their hard-wired fear of cats.
But even after they were cleared of the infection, mice no longer reacted with fear to a bobcat's urine.
The team, writing in the journal Plos One, says the infection could cause a permanent change to their brains.
Wendy Ingram and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, measured how mice reacted to a bobcat's urine.
Cats typically mark their territory with urine, which helps mice detect and avoid an area in which predators might lurk.
Those that remained uninfected with Toxoplasma gondii showed an aversion to the urine, whereas those that were infected walked freely around the test area.
"It is remarkable that even after the infection has been largely or completely cleared, a profound behavioural change persists," said Ms Ingram.
"Simply having a transient infection resulting in what is potentially a permanent change in host biology may have huge implications for infectious disease medicine."
In rodents, the infection is usually contracted from eating cat faeces. The parasite then works itself into every organ in the body, especially the brain, where it forms cysts.
The infection can also be spread to humans, with recent estimates suggesting that in the UK 350,000 people a year contract toxoplasmosis.
It can create serious complications in pregnancy and adversely affect people with already weakened immune systems. The parasite has also been linked to mood changes in the mental illness schizophrenia.
Ms Ingram told BBC News that the results highlight how current thinking on infectious disease may need to change.
"Typically if you have a bacterial infection, you go to a doctor and take antibiotics and the infection is cleared and you expect all the symptoms to also go away.
"Now we have an example where there is no obvious damage done by the parasite, yet major changes in the neurobiology of the mouse remains after the parasite is gone," she said.
The way forward, she added, would be to look at all the antibodies present in a patient's blood.
"This would show all the parasites and bacteria a person has ever been exposed to and may end up playing a bigger role in explaining illnesses."
Joanne Webster at Imperial College London, who was not involved with the research, said the work was a valuable addition to the scientific literature on this subject.
She said it could have important implications for humans, especially patients with schizophrenia.
"It is very useful to know that these fatal feline attraction behavioural changes do appear to be hard-wired," Prof Webster said.
Poppy Lamberton, also at in Imperial College London, explained that the findings conflicted with hypotheses that certain drugs successfully used to treat schizophrenia, were thought to act in part by reducing T. gondii infection levels.
"If some of the behavioural alterations have already occurred during the early, acute stage of the infection, then the fact that anti-T. gondii drugs may help change these behaviours in chronic infections, leads to many more interesting research questions," she told BBC News.


Shares in Asia were mostly lower as investors remained cautious ahead of the outcome from the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting.

The central bank is not expected to raise rates, but investors will be watching for any clues on the timing of an interest rate increase.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.2% at 5,335.20 points.
Shares of the country's biggest lender by assets, National Australia Bank, closed down 2.2%.
Investors were disappointed after the bank's cash earnings for the period missed expectations.
NAB posted a 15.5% rise in full-year cash profit to 5.84bn Australian dollars ($4.15bn; Â£2.71bn), below forecasts of about A$6bn.
Australia's headline consumer price index also came in less than expected for the three months to September, rising 0.5% quarter on quarter. Analysts said the number may see the country's central bank cut lending rates again.
"The fact that inflation is lower than expected and below target, despite a 20% plus fall in the value of the [Australian dollar] over the last year adds to the case for the RBA [Reserve Bank of Australia] to cut the cash rate again in order to offset the potential negative impact on the economy of big bank mortgage rate hikes," said AMP Capital's chief economist Shane Oliver.
In China, the Shanghai Composite closed down 1.7% at 3,375.20, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropped 0.8% to 22,956.57.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.1% at 2,042.51.
The one bright spot in the region was Japan's Nikkei 225 index, which closed up 0.7% to 18,903.02 ahead of company earnings due out later.
Speculation that Japan's central bank may expand its stimulus package when it meets on Friday may have also fuelled investor sentiment, analysts said.


Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and on average nearly 100 people take their own lives every day.

But where those deaths take place has a big impact on families left behind.
In a stuffy apartment in Sendai, the air blue with smoke from cigarettes, a father kneels in prayer.
Lighting incense sticks and ringing a bell before the family altar, an ornate wooden cupboard.
His daughter's photograph is not inside alongside the other ancestors, it is still on the bookshelf.
Putting it there would be a final acceptance that she has gone, that two years ago he found her body in her rented Tokyo flat.
She was only 22 and her father cannot face that yet.
"When I realised she was dead I just could not move and I could not think at all," he says.
"I could not take in what happened. I thought there is really no God in this world at all. That is what I remember from that day."
Only the father, and his former wife, the young woman's mother, know their daughter took an overdose.
Other relatives and friends have never been told it was suicide, so he does not want his name to be used.
It was not long after the death that he got another shock - this time a letter from his daughter's landlord.
"We held her funeral at the end of March," he remembers.
"The bill for renovating the flat came in April, then a demand for compensation for lost rent in May. So it was one after another.
"The only thing I could think about was my lost daughter. So when I was getting those bills, I had no will or strength to negotiate or resist."
In all he paid more than Â£18,650 ($30,000).
Japan has a historic tradition of ritual suicide as an honourable way out. But as the number of people killing themselves has risen, public unease has grown.
Few would choose to rent an apartment where a previous occupant had taken their own life. So a death is frequently followed by a demand for money.
"There are a lot of them," says Sachiko Tanaka who set up a support group for the families of suicides after her own son died.
"Mostly it's compensation for loss of rent for flats. The biggest was 120m yen (Â£900,000). The claim was that the entire apartment building was worthless because one person committed suicide there. So they have to pay to rebuild it."
Many families are also required to pay for expensive purification rituals.
The support group is dealing with around 200 complaints of excessive demands from landlords and she is calling for a change in the law.
Already some estate agents are keen to help the bereaved.
Yoshihiro Kanuma has what he calls a difficult house on his books. He was motivated to take it on by his devout Buddhism.
It is an ordinary-looking place, a few years old - what the trade in Japan calls a 3LDK; three bedrooms, a living room, dining room and kitchen, in a commuter town outside Tokyo.
The tour takes in the master bedroom, with a view over a paddy field, but then he has to tell potential buyers that the last owner hanged himself on the stairs.
"Nine out of 10 people say I don't want anything to do with the house," he says.
"The Japanese may think the house is stained. I guess some may say it's heroic to take your own life but in terms of a house it's not viewed that way. We feel the house is not pure and it will bring unhappiness. I personally think the house itself has no responsibility but lots of Japanese feel that way."
Mr Kanuma has managed to persuade one family to put in an offer which has been accepted - half the price of other houses in the area.
Back in Sendai the bereaved father sits silently in his chair, and lights up another cigarette.
He admits he has turned into a recluse, and says he would like to die himself.
Compared to the loss of his daughter the money is nothing, but like many Japanese he is suffering not just bereavement, but financial hardship too.


Services on the Borders Railway are "running as normal" after severe disruption due to signalling problems.

The route between Edinburgh and Tweedbank had been hit by delays and cancellations.
ScotRail apologised for the problems and said buses had been organised to supplement the trains that could run.
More minor disruption on the route between the Borders and Edinburgh was cleared by about 16:00.


Sale Sharks winger Denny Solomona is hoping to tap into the knowledge of England's senior players after his call-up for June's tour of Argentina.

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The New Zealand-born back made himself available for England in March after completing three years of residency.
Solomona represented Samoa in rugby league last year before his controversial cross-code switch to Sale that will be settled in the High Court.
"The main thing is I need to come in and learn," the 23-year-old said.
"Obviously I'm still new to the game as it has changed since I played in school.
"There is Eddie Jones and the experienced players there like Mike Brown and everyone, I'm just going to keep learning."
Solomona, who scored 42 tries for Super League side Castleford last season, has continued his try-scoring feats since his switch to Sale in November with 11 in his first 13 games.
"I think my biggest buzz is contributing to a win," Solomona said. "I prefer wins than tries, they're the most important to me. If I'm contributing to that then I'm doing my job."
He has received a call from England captain Dylan Hartley about what to expect going into camp but got his news from an unexpected source.
"I was with my partner at the time and they announced it on Twitter and it just went from there - I was quite excited actually," he added.
"My mum texted me first and said congratulations and I didn't know what she was talking about, so I checked my Twitter and found out."
Four Sale players in total were called up as well as Solomona, including centre Sam James and identical twins and flankers Ben and Tom Curry.
The 18-year-old twins only both made their professional debuts this season and helped the England Under-20 side win a Six Nations Grand Slam earlier in the year.
"I was scrolling through some of the names and I was lost for words really when I first saw it," Ben told BBC Radio Manchester.
Tom added: "It was the first time I felt like I couldn't speak, I didn't know what to say. I still don't think it has really settled in much.
"I still think it's a massive shock to be playing for Sale so to go further than that is absolutely amazing."


Roger Federer says his desire for more titles can only be helped by a four-set defeat to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final.

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The Swiss 17-time Grand Slam winner missed the chance to win a record eighth Wimbledon and has not won a major since beating Andy Murray at the All England Club in 2012.
"For me a finalist's trophy is not the same," the 33-year-old said.
"I am still very hungry and motivated and a match like this is very helpful."
Federer, who was bidding to become the oldest Wimbledon champion in the professional era, has won only one of the last 22 Grand Slam events.
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After losing to Djokovic in five sets at Wimbledon last year, Federer again found the world number one too tough as he lost 7-6 (7-1) 6-7 (10-12) 6-4 6-3.
"I lost against the world No. 1 at the moment," he said. "That's the kind of guy you probably can lose against. I'm not going to accept it and say it's normal. It's not.
"But I've beaten him a few times. I'm one of the few guys that's gotten a chance. I think I was able to show that on the court today.
"I'm right there. My game is good. I played on my terms. Things are all right."
The world number two, who beat Andy Murray in straight sets in Friday's semi-final, turns 34 before the US Open starts in August.
Serb Djokovic, 28, will be looking to add a 10th Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows and said after his win he is hoping to be fighting for many more titles.
"He's clearly making a big name for himself, having won as many times now as he has in these different slams," Federer said.
"Staying injury-free now for him is crucial. Clearly he's going to be one of the top guys.
"Where, we'll still have to wait and see. I'm sure he still has many more great years ahead of him."


Two Northern Ireland housing bodies have secured a combined £280m from the European Investment Bank.

It is the biggest tranche of funding it has ever announced in the region.
The capital - together with additional top-up cash from Stormont - will allow 4,700 low-rent, social homes to be built over the next five years.
The money is being split between the Choice (£150m) and Apex (£130m) housing associations.
The Luxembourg-based bank lends money on low-interest, long-term deals.
Previously it provided £150m towards the cost of the new Ulster University campus in Belfast.
It has also funded road projects, but until recently its activities in Northern Ireland have been considered modest.
Michael McDonnell, Chief Executive of Choice Housing, said the loan was "the most cost-effective long-term finance arrangement ever used in Northern Ireland".
"Ultimately that means we can make public money go further and put more social homes in the areas where they are needed most."
Martin Doherty, chairman of Apex, said the money will underpin Apex's development plans and enable the association to continue its current programme programme of transforming disused brown field sites in Belfast, such as North Queen Street police station.


One of the first police to respond to Wednesday's deadly shooting at a social service centre in California has spoken of scenes of "unspeakable" carnage.

Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to pass injured people as they tried to "engage the shooters".
Officials say a husband and wife shot dead 14 people and wounded 21 in the city of San Bernardino on Wednesday.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout.
Bomb equipment, weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition were later found in the attackers' home.
The authorities have still not found a motive for the attack.
"It was unspeakable, the carnage that we were seeing," Lt Madden told a news conference.
"The number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead and the pure panic on the face of those individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe."
He said he and other police officers led about 50 people out of the centre's conference room.
"Then we went further into the building and that was a difficult choice to have to make as well, passing people that we knew were injured and in need of assistance," Lt Madden said.
"But our goal at that time had to be trying to locate the shooters and deal with them."
Police said between 75-80 people were at the centre when the shooting began.
The names of the victims have now been released by San Bernardino's coroner.
The youngest victim was 26 and the oldest was 60.
Who are the victims?
Police said the attack indicated there had been "some degree of planning".
Local police chief Jarrod Burguan said it appeared that the duo was prepared to carry out another attack.
"There was obviously a mission here. We know that. We do not know why. We don't know if this was the intended target or if there was something that triggered him to do this immediately," said David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office.
In the shootout with police hours after the attack, Farook and Malik fired 76 rounds of ammunition at the officers and the officers fired 380 rounds back.
Two police officers were injured during the pursuit.
It marks the deadliest mass shooting in the US since 26 people were killed at a school in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.
What makes this shooting different? - Multiple attackers, a woman involved, a well-planned attack, explosives and a fleeing attempt
'It's crazy they lived next door' - Neighbours tell the BBC of their shock that the attackers lived nearby
Politicians 'shamed' for offering prayers - Does prayer do anything in the wake of a shooting?


A series of witch markings have been discovered carved into walls at an underground tourist attraction.

The symbols were originally thought to be graffiti, but experts now believe they were carved to ward off evil spirits at Wookey Hole, Somerset.
Four new ritual protection marks were found by staff creating a new caving experience at the site.
Experts from Bristol University who have studied the markings said they dated from about 1550 to 1750.
Chris Binding from the university's speleological society, who helped carry out the survey, said about 50 carvings, which were originally thought to be mason's marks, were identified as being ritual protection marks in 2007.
He said the newly discovered markings, which were found in a more inaccessible part of the cave, had "all the characteristics of age".
"This is the largest known concentration of ritual protection marks in any cave in Britain," he said.
"It was a good luck charm in the medieval era and carried on through to the late 18th Century."
He added that most of the marks were in a vertical shaft - known as an aven - leading upward from a cave passage, which would have felt unnaturally cold to people below due to a convection draught.
The caves' owner, Daniel Medley, said the find "proved that the route our adventure cavers use is the same one used in the 15th Century, mentioned by William of Worcester in 1470".
He added: "It is quite chilling to think that people hundreds of years ago were deep underground carrying flaming torches for light and scratching these symbols on the rocks because they believed it would protect them from the witch and her evil."
Many of the symbols appear to be the letter W or the letter M, but it is thought they are double Vs, in reference to the Virgin Mary.
The marks will now feature in guided adventure tours at the attraction.


Myanmar's President Thein Sein has promised a smooth transfer of power to Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party following last week's election.

He made the comments at a meeting of political leaders in Yangon.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) has won about 80% of contested seats with just a few results still to be announced.
If power is transferred, it will end more than 50 years of military-backed government in Myanmar.
At a gathering of all Myanmar's political parties, the president said all duties would be transferred to the next government systematically and on schedule.
He said: "We will make sure it will be smooth and stable without having to worry about anything."
Thein Sein has made similar comments online before, but he has now repeated them in public.
The president also said that the successful election was a result of the reform process put in place by his Union Solidarity and Development Party, which has won only 41 of the 478 seats that have so far declared. The NLD has 387.
The military has already said it will abide by the election result.
Ms Suu Kyi is expected to hold talks with the president and the army chief in Nay Pyi Taw next week.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Yangon says they will face the thorny issue of the upcoming "lame duck" parliamentary session. The old pre-election Burmese parliament is due to gather next week for a final session that runs until the end of January.
Only once the "lame duck" session ends will the new NLD-dominated parliament gather. It will immediately choose a new speaker, quite possibly Ms Suu Kyi, before selecting two vice-presidents and a president.
Election results came in slowly following the vote on 8 November.
It was only on Friday - five days after the poll - that the NLD finally won the two-thirds majority it needs to form the next government. It needs that amount because the constitution reserves 25% of seats in both houses of parliament for the army.
The process of choosing the next president will begin in January, when the new parliament gathers.
Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that she, as the leader of the winning party, will be Myanmar's next de-facto leader.
Does the NLD now control Myanmar?
Not really - it has enough seats in the upper and lower house to choose the president but the army has 25% of seats and controls key ministries, so they will need to work together.
Will Aung San Suu Kyi be president?
No - the constitution, written by the military, bars people with foreign spouses or offspring, as she does, from the top job. The clause was widely seen as being written specifically to prevent her from taking office. But Ms Suu Kyi she has repeatedly said she would lead the country anyway if the NLD won.
Can the NLD just change the constitution?
No - the military can veto any moves to change it.
Was the election fair?
"Largely," said Ms Suu Kyi. But hundreds of thousands of people, including the minority Muslim Rohingya, were not allowed to vote, and no voting took place in seven areas where ethnic conflict is rife.
About 30 million people were eligible to vote in the election - turnout was estimated at about 80%.
It was widely seen as a fair vote though there were reports of irregularities, and hundreds of thousands of people - including the Muslim Rohingya minority, who are not recognised as citizens - were denied voting rights.


Healthy baby mice have been born using freeze-dried sperm stored in the near-weightless environment of space.

The Japanese team behind the gravity-breaking experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) say it shows that transporting the seeds of life away from Earth is feasible.
Sperm banks could even be made on the Moon as a back-up for Earth disasters, they told a leading science journal.
It is unclear if this will ever help humans populate space, however.
Sustaining life in space is challenging to say the least.
On the ISS, radiation is more than 100 times higher than on Earth. The average daily dose of 0.5mSv from the cosmic rays is enough to damage the DNA code inside living cells, including sperm.
Microgravity also does strange things to sperm.
In 1988, German researchers sent a sample of bull semen into orbit on a rocket and discovered that sperm were able to swim much faster in low gravity, although it was not clear whether this gave a fertility advantage.
Another space test showed fish eggs could be fertilised and develop normally during a 15-day orbital flight, suggesting a brief trip into space might not be too harmful for reproduction - at least for vertebrates.
The freeze-dried mouse sperm samples were stored on the space station for nine months before being sent back down to Earth and thawed at room temperature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
Although sperm DNA was slightly damaged by the trip, it still did the job of fertilising mouse eggs and creating apparently healthy "space pups".
Fertilisation and birth rates were similar to healthy "ground control" mice.
The space pups had only minor differences in their genetic code and grew to adulthood. A select few were allowed to mate and became mums and dads themselves.
The researchers, Sayaka Wakayama and colleagues from the University of Yamanashi, suspect some of the sperm DNA damage is repaired by the egg once it has been fertilised.
"If sperm samples are to be preserved for longer periods in space, then it is likely that DNA damage will increase and exceed the limit of the [egg] oocyte's capacity for repair.
"If the DNA damage occurring during long-term preservation is found to have a significant effect on offspring, we will need to develop methods to protect sperm samples against space radiation, such as an ice shield," they said.
Once they've cracked that, they can set their sights on the Moon sperm banks.
"Underground storage on the Moon, such as in lava tubes, could be among the best places for prolonged or permanent sperm preservation because of their very low temperatures, protection from space radiation by thick bedrock layers, and complete isolation from any disasters on Earth," the scientists say.
But that still leaves the massive question of whether mammals, including us humans, can permanently live and procreate in space.
Mouse and human studies so far suggest perhaps not.
Prof Joseph Tash, a Nasa-supported physiologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said although the latest findings were interesting, the ISS was a somewhat sheltered environment to use as the test zone for space.
"The ISS orbit is within the protection of the Van Allen radiation belt - the magnetic field that diverts most high energy radiation particles from hitting the earth or the ISS.
He said the actual risk of radiation damage at the Moon and beyond would be much higher.
"Ovaries and testes are the most sensitive organs to both acute and chronic radiation exposure."
He said the feasibility of mammalian reproduction in space beyond the Van Allen belt would depend on the creation of "radiation-hardened" facilities that could protect sperm, eggs and embryos from harm.
"Given the nine month gestation for humans, the pregnant mother would also need to be protected by such a facility. So it presents very real habitat, medical, social, and psychological questions that need to be addressed as well."
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With share prices in Shanghai and Hong Kong up and down all day, it would be premature to say that yesterday's decision by the People's Bank of China to cut interest rates and make it easier for banks to lend has brought calm to stock markets.

That is especially so after last night's gyration on Wall Street, when shares lurched downwards towards the close, after being up for most of the session.
Anxiety rules among investors.
And as I said last night on the News at Ten, in some ways I thought yesterday's events on markets were if anything more disturbing than Monday's global rout.
Because if share price gains could not hold after the significant monetary easing by China's central bank, then mistrust about the true state of the world's second largest economy (actually the number-one economy on the purchasing-power-parity measure of GDP) has become very pronounced indeed.
And another thing, the Chinese interest rate cuts will exacerbate the phenomenon that has caused so much stress in so many different global markets, from commodities, to foreign exchange, to stocks and bond - the fall in the Chinese currency, the RMB, since it was allowed by Beijing to float more freely on 11 August.
Since then, share prices alone - in other words excluding other huge markets such as oil - have lost $8tn in value.
The point is that the cut in Chinese interest rates is likely to speed up the withdrawal of capital from China, putting further downward pressure on the RMB.
And in making Chinese exports cheaper, that causes pain for competitor economies - especially Asian ones, like Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia - whose own currencies then fall (as they continued to do today).
This process of competitive devaluation among emerging economies ends up undermining their growth prospects - which matters to us all, since they account for half of global GDP and most of the world's growth.
And also means that lower prices or deflation is exported to the rich West.
Now you may say yippee, that we can buy more petrol and food for our pounds, euros and dollars.
But that is a short term windfall. In the long term, it creates less "balanced" growth - it encourages us to live beyond our means, because the weakness of demand in the rest of the world means we can't sell enough abroad to match all the spending we want to do.
And for those of you with short memories, it was those deficits of the consuming countries like ours, the corollary of giant surpluses of the producing ones like China and Germany, which was such a big contributor to the Crash of 2007-08.
Which is one reason why the influential governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, said - in a BBC interview yesterday - that he feels governments are expecting too much of central banks when it comes to fixing the world's economic problems.
In a slowdown, central banks can give economies a temporary boost by making money cheaper and more plentiful, to encourage spending and investment. But if the fundamental flaws in economies are to do with industrial inefficiency or lack of competition, for example, well those are problems only governments and businesses can fix.
In fact, monetary easing by central banks can make matters considerably worse in the long term, by encouraging excessive lending while governments dither and delay over politically unpopular economic reforms.
So here is the dilemma faced today by the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, both of which are desperate to end the era of near-zero interest rates in developed economies, by slowly and gradually increasing interest rates.
They wanted to start raising rates in a matter of weeks and months. But were they to do that at this moment of chronic anxiety about the health the global economy, well they could turn a slowdown into something much worse.
That is why the first rise in interest rates, in the US and UK, is likely to be deferred yet again.
It also explains why the influential economies and former Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, is mooting that the Fed may need to resort to yet more money creation through quantitative easing.
His view is not that of the consensus.
But the fact that he is able to make a credible case for QE shows that even seven years on from the worst crash and recession since the 1930s, the global economy is still some distance from being mended in a structural sense.


Linfield have elected Roy McGivern as the club's new chairman.

McGivern, who has been serving as the club's business director, succeeds Jim Kerr who stood down from the role earlier this month.
The 50-year-old Newtownabbey-based civil servant joined the Linfield board in May 2014.
"It will be a privilege to follow in the footsteps of some great men who have served this club with distinction through the years," said McGivern.
Kerr quit the chairman's position and his role as a director on 9 January.


The full list of names given to babies in Scotland last year showed Arlo was the fastest-growing name among boys.

The National Records of Scotland had already revealed that Jack and Olivia were the top names for boys and girls.
The complete list shows that Arlo jumped 100 places to 94th on the boys' list and Arthur went up 65 places to 86th.
For girls, Lillie went up 70 places to 90th where it was equal with Florence, which rose 52 places.
The 68 babies called Arlo last year, up from 28 in 2015, share their name with an 11-year-old Apatosaurus in the film The Good Dinosaur, released at the end of 2015.
Other boys' names showing a rise in popularity include Finn (up to 34), Theo (up to 44), Jude (up to 46), Hamish (up to 58), Carter (up to 70) and Conor (up to 98).
For girls the biggest risers in the top 100 were Zara (up to 38), Emilia (up to 41), Phoebe (up to 71), Alexandra (up to 82) and Violet (up to 89).
Thousands of children were given names which they shared with no other babies last year.
Unique names include Bellatrixx, Cleopatra, Gift, Gypsy, Hermione, Journey, Jupiter, Ocean, Paloma and Persephone for girls.
Diamond, Harley-Davidson, Michelangelo, Nero, Odysseus and Rocky were all names given to one boy each.
Drake, one of the bestselling pop stars of 2016, had just one boy who shared his name in Scotland.
That was the same number as legendary rock 'n' roller Elvis. There was also one boy called Presley.
And in the year that pop chameleon David Bowie died, there was one boy named Bowie.
There were 56 girls called Summer, 22 called Autumn and one called Winter, although there were three with various spellings of Winter-Rose. There were no children named Spring.
Despite the electoral popularity of Scotland's first minister, only 10 girls were named Nicola last year.
However, this was much more popular than the prime minister's name and those of other prominent politicians.
There were two Theresas, five Ruths, one Keziah (none without the H), one Boris and not a single Nigel.
There were just seven boys named Donald in Scotland last year.


Chris Eubank Jr says he will not be affected by his last fight with Nick Blackwell and has vowed to display "no mercy" against Tom Doran on Saturday.

Blackwell retired from boxing after he suffered bleeding on his skull and was put in an induced coma in a loss to Eubank in March.
Eubank Jr will be defending his British middleweight title for the first time.
"I'm not going to let a situation like what happened in my last fight affect my future performances," he said.
The fight against unbeaten Doran, 28,  is on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title defence against Dominic Breazeale at London's O2 Arena.
Blackwell woke from his coma a week after the fight, which was stopped in the 10th round, without requiring an operation.
Eubank Sr, who was a two-time world champion in the 1990s, admitted he lost his killer instinct after the 1991 rematch with Michael Watson that left the latter with near-fatal brain injuries.
But Eubank Jr, 26, said that would not happen to him as he and his father are "two different men".
He added: "Something like that might affect someone's fighting style and mindset. For me, I've used it to fuel myself even more.
"I'm in there to win, defend myself and attack, and to further my career, so there is no mercy.
"It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up."


Thousands of properties have been left without power after gale force winds hit the west of Scotland.

SSE said about 5,000 of its customers were offline, mainly around Oban, Thurso and the Western Isles.
Scottish Power said it was working to restore power to 500 properties in the Dumfries area.
Snow has shut the A9 southbound between the Slochd Summit and Carrbridge. Snow has also made driving difficult on other stretches of the road.
The highest wind speed recorded in Scotland overnight was 90mph in South Uist. There were gusts of up to 60mph in Glasgow and 66mph in Aberdeen.
In Peterhead, a fisherman was blown into the harbour waters by strong winds. He suffered minor injuries.
And three passengers on the ferry Hrossey, sailing from Shetland to Orkney, were injured due to rough seas and a heavy swell. A number of vehicles on board were also damaged.
In the Western Isles, mobile and landline phone services were lost in the Bayhead, Berneray and Manish areas of North Uist, but have since been restored.
Elsewhere on the islands, schools at Laxdale, Leverburgh and Tolsta have been closed because of power failures.
Heavy rain brought localised flooding to parts of west central Scotland.
SSE said it hoped to have the majority of its affected customers reconnected later on Thursday.
Scottish Power said high winds had damaged its network in Dumfries, the Stewartry and Wigtownshire. Engineers are working to restore supplies.
On Wednesday, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) had issued multiple flood warnings as the country prepared for high winds and rain.
The warnings, indicating "flooding is expected, immediate action required", covered parts of Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, west central Scotland and Tayside.
A related amber warning of severe gales had been issued by the Met Office.
The alert, which applied from 21:00 on Wednesday to 08:00 on Thursday, said the winds could lead to "very high waves" and would be accompanied by heavy rain.
Bear Scotland, which manages and maintains trunk roads in the North West, North East and South East of Scotland on behalf of Transport Scotland, said it had dealt with more than 65 incidents overnight including fallen trees and minor flooding.


Newsround took some Year 7 school children to meet Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron ahead of the General Election.

14 April 2015 Last updated at 15:58 BST
Mr Cameron answered their questions on topics such as immigration, what it's like to be PM, and how much it now costs to go to university.
Ayshah also quizzed him on the noisy behaviour of MPs in Prime Minister's Questions - which many Newsround viewers have commented on in the past.
But one girl asked a question that left Mr Cameron stumped: if you could pick one politician apart from yourself, to win - who would it be, and why?


An assembly member has spoken out for the first time about being stalked, as Stormont backed a motion to safeguard victims.

Brenda Hale said her life was turned upside down by a stranger who began harassing her after the 2011 election.
The Lagan Valley MLA said the man started to call and text her, and she felt "incredibly threatened".
"He said we couldn't let this relationship go but I had never met this man," she told the BBC.
She said the man approached her while she was shopping in Marks & Spencer.
"I thought he was a constituent so I was very happy to converse with him and then he said he had been watching me a lot and he had got hold of my telephone number, and then the calls and texts started arriving with increasing regularity," she said.
"I did not know this man from Adam and he was stalking me from his home address in Dublin."
Mrs Hale, whose husband was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, said the whole experience was "terribly frightening".
"I had become a very public person after the death of my husband and so my story was out there - that I was alone with two children," she said.
"To feel vulnerable like that made me question whether a job in the public arena was the right one for me."
She said she "nipped it in the bud very quickly" and the police were "very quick to act".
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK which does not have specific laws to protect victims of stalking.
On Monday, Mrs Hale brought forward a motion about the need for new legislation. Assembly members voted on it and an amendment introduced by the SDLP and both were passed.
Mrs Hale said the debate was a "vital step forward".
"A legal definition will enable us to not only protect victims but also monitor reports of stalking, arrests and consequent prosecutions," she added.
Green Party deputy leader Clare Bailey MLA spoke of her own experience of stalking after the debate.
"I had razor blades stuck in my car tyres, which caused the tyres to blow up after dropping my children to school," she said.
"I decided then to report the stalking to the police, but response was "What do you want us to do about it?". I couldn't answer their question but I didn't report any further incidences."
It was time to make stalking a "recognised crime in its own right", she added.
Justice Minister Claire Sugden said a review of the existing laws around stalking both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere was already under way.


An American conman who ran a bogus bitcoin mining scheme has been ordered to pay a $12m (Â£9.2m) fine.

Homero Joshua Garza told investors he would use custom-built computers to mine the virtual currency on their behalf and share the proceeds.
In reality, said the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Garza did not own enough computers to generate the funds he promised investors.
The decision comes as the value of individual bitcoins hits $2,800.
In its summary of the case, the SEC said Garza used the "lure of quick riches" to get people to invest. The way bitcoin operates means those who help to verify transactions, a practice known as mining, are occasionally rewarded with virtual coins.
Garza told investors in two separate schemes, GAW Miners and ZenMiner, that he had enough computer power to carry out sufficient mining to generate a lot of bitcoins.
In fact, said the SEC, he was running a fraudulent "ponzi" scheme which used cash from new investors to reward those who joined earlier.
"Most investors paid for a share of computing power that never existed," said the SEC.
It said about 10,000 investors handed over more than $20m to Garza for the mining schemes. Few got back the money they invested, it added.
Both companies have now been shut down.
In 2014, when Garza was running the con from his home in Connecticut each bitcoin was worth about $450.
Garza is also facing a separate criminal trial for running the bogus schemes.


Worcester Warriors have agreed a deal to sign winger Sam Smith when his contract at Harlequins runs out at the end of the season.

Smith, 23, who has scored 25 tries in 69 games for Quins, helped them win the Premiership title in 2012.
"I've enjoyed my time at Harlequins, making this a tough decision," he said.
The opportunity to develop as a rugby player and take on this exciting challenge is one I am looking forward to getting stuck into
"But when I spoke to Worcester's director of rugby Dean Ryan, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a part of his vision at Worcester."
Smith, who spent five years at The Stoop, has been a regular feature in the Heineken Cup over the last three years and is already casting an eye towards next season at Sixways.
"The opportunity to develop as a rugby player and take on this exciting challenge is one I am looking forward to getting stuck into."
Smith's capture comes just over a week after Ryan Lamb arrived at the club from Leicester, bringing the number of new players signed by Ryan since the season began to nine.
Warriors are still stranded at the bottom of the Premiership table, without a league win all season.
But their encouraging performances over their last two matches has prop Rob O'Donnell believing a first Premiership win is imminent.
After being pipped by reigning champions Leicester Tigers by a single point on 7 February, Warriors slipped to a 30-14 defeat by Northampton on Saturday.
"It's bound to come," O'Donnell told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"You put those two performances together and compare them to earlier in the season, they're worlds apart."
Saturday's game at Saints - runners up to Leicester in the Premiership final in 2013 - turned on the sending off of Warriors captain Jonathan Thomas for aiming a punch at Northampton forward Sam Dickenson, who was himself sin-binned after the incident.
Thomas will now appear at a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel on Wednesday.
O'Donnell, who was an unused replacement against Saints, said the the team are not focusing on the incident.
"Not much has been said about that [in the dressing room], we're just taking the positives out of the game," he said.
"The game last week [against Leicester] gave us a massive confidence boost and we've come to another top-of-the-table team and tried to do the same.
"Obviously the turning point was the sending off and it got away from us a little bit."
Despite the odds, former Sale forward O'Donnell says they are not viewing survival as a lost cause.
"It feels like everything is starting to click and it feels like we've got something to fight for," he said.
"We all want to stay up and we all care deeply."


An "intense" house fire in which a woman died is not being treated as suspicious by police.

The blaze, in Buckfast Close, Basingstoke, on Sunday morning led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man, but he was released with no further action.
Two people escaped the house and attempted to re-enter, but found it "impossible" due to the magnitude of the blaze, the fire service said.
Hampshire Constabulary said the woman has not yet been formally identified.
An investigation into the cause is still under way.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service received the first of seven calls about the fire in the ground floor of the end-terrace property shortly before 05:00 GMT on Sunday.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.


West Ham boss Slaven Bilic wants more support for players facing mental health problems and says pressure in the game has never been so intense.

Everton winger Aaron Lennon is currently receiving treatment for a stress-related illness after being detained under the Mental Health Act.
"Players have always been under pressure from fans and media but now it is massive," said Bilic.
"With such a black and white media, one day you are king, the next a zero."
He added: "Everyone involved in football should do more, especially with young players. We are forgetting they are like kids with ability, but a bit more fame and money. It is not easy to cope with pressure."
The Professional Footballers' Association, the players' union, said on Wednesday that more players than ever require help for mental health problems, with 62 current and 98 former players seeking support last season.
Everton manager Ronald Koeman said the club was endeavouring to "support" Lennon's "private situation".
"We try always with every individual player to help him improve as a football player and if he feels some problems in mental or other issues we have enough people working to help players with these kind of problems."
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The PFA set up a welfare department in 2012 which offers a range of support options for players, including a 24-hour phoneline and access to a psychiatrist.


Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is ''willing and able'' to take a share of Syrian refugees immediately.

The first minister was speaking following a meeting with Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
She said Scotland could take a "proportionate number" of refugees, about 2,000, as part of the UK government's resettlement programme.
The UK government has pledged to take 20,000 refugees from camps Syria's borders over the next five years.
Ms Sturgeon has called for more to be done over the refugee crisis, including help for those refugees who have already arrived in Europe in their thousands and are seeking asylum.
Ms Sturgeon and Mr Hammond were also due to discuss the EU vote, a date for which has yet to be set.
The SNP government said it would campaign in favour of remaining within the European Union.
Ministers in Edinburgh believed it would be wrong for the UK to leave unless a majority of voters from each of the nations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland backed it.


The Moroccan writer and sociologist Fatima Mernissi, known for her pioneering work in the field of Islamic feminism, has died.

Her work also touched on broader issues of human rights and democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Her best known work, Beyond the Veil, examines Islam from a feminist perspective and critiques traditional, male-dominated interpretations.
The writer, 75, reportedly died in a clinic in the capital Rabat.
Fellow Moroccan sociologist Sumaya Naaman Guesus told the Efe news agency that Mernissi was "the first woman to have the great courage to take up various themes considered taboo around the interpretation of the Koran and the texts of the Islamic tradition".
Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami was among many others who paid tribute to Mernissi, writing that "in addition to being a wonderful scholar, Fatema Mernissi was a kind and generous human being. A rare combination."
Mernissi's work drew attention to the active political role played by women in the early history of Islam, for example in her book The Forgotten Queens of Islam.
She contrasted this with claims of some conservative Islamists that the idea of a female political leader was un-Islamic after Pakistan elected its first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, in 1988.


It's a whole new parrot-digm in pet ownership.

When heading off to work in the morning, you'll spot plenty of people taking their dog for a morning stroll.
But how about a man out walking with an exotically-coloured macaw on an avian harness?
That's the wild, winged sight that regularly greets locals in Londonderry, where Gerry McKeever and his pet parrot Rio take their daily walks.
The pair are often spotted dandering along the Northland Road, near the Clarendon Street area, with Gerry leading Rio  - and they're always happy to stop for a chat.
The sight of one man and his parrot has been turning heads for months - when a video of Gerry and Rio was posted on the Mark Patterson Show Facebook page last year, most of the comments were along the lines of: "Look, that's the parrot we saw the other day!"
But, while it may be an odd sight to see a man walking a blue-and-gold macaw, Gerry is simply making sure his feathered friend is getting the stimulation she needs.
"Macaws usually come in pairs because they're such sociable animals," he said.
"But, we didn't have room for two and we don't have a large aviary or outdoor area or anything like that, so we have to get her out of the house and take her for walks.
"Rio just loves it so we take her out two or three times a day."
He added: "She's actually like a dog, she gets excited when she sees the harness.
"She now has her favourite sitting spots. She'll sit there and say hello to people, watch the world go by. They're creatures of habit too and she loves to talk - she says hello, tata, what's the craic."
While Rio likes a natter, she's not quite as talkative as the other parrot owned by Gerry and his wife Mandy - Charlie, an 11-year-old African Grey.
According to Mandy, her and Gerry have always loved birds.
"I've always had birds since I was a child," she said. "We've had cockatoos, budgies but then we got Charlie and she's fantastic.
"She stays in the house though, you couldn't put a harness on her now as you have to start them off when they're young."
Gerry credits Mandy as the one who takes care of Rio and Charlie when he's at work, and is also responsible for doing a lot of the research needed to keep the pair of them well-informed on parrot welfare.
"She's my sweetheart," says Mandy. "I do the feeding, the cleaning out. I just love them."
And the people of Derry have been taking Rio to their hearts too.
Martina Donaghy tweeted the BBC on Tuesday morning with a picture of Gerry and Rio with the hashtags #brightenmymornings #thkUMr.
"I see this man walking his parrot each morning & want to tell him thanks!"
Gerry admits himself that he's now become "the man with the parrot".
"Even when Rio's not with me, people would say that's who I am," he laughs.
He adds: "I got stopped a lot but people are more used to me now. Children still love to stop and say hello.
"I've taken her up to the Model School (primary school) a couple of times, although I still don't let people get too close .They can stroke her tail, but she's still just a baby and can give a nasty bite.
"She has to get used to people first so you still have to be careful.
"But if she brightens people's day when they see her, that's great."


Controversial plans for a tower block on the site of a former seafront swimming pool have been approved.

Just one councillor out of seven voted against revised plans for the former Aquarena site in Worthing at a heated public meeting on Thursday night.
Developer Roffey Homes said the Â£45m tower would become a landmark building and would help to regenerate the area.
However, more than 2,000 residents had signed a petition against it, saying it was too tall and "out of place".
The revised proposal follows the refusal of planning permission in September 2015 for a 21-storey tower on the site.
The new plans are for a shorter building - 15 stories, providing 141 homes, commercial space and a public cafe.
Dozens of residents attended the meeting to express their anxiety over the plans.
Liberal Democrat Hazel Thorpe cited public opposition and told the meeting it was not doing enough to solve the town's housing problems.
However, Conservative Councillor Edward Crouch supported the proposals.
"The economic, housing benefits and additional use of this land outweighs the harm," he said.
After the vote, Mike Anderson of Save Worthing Seafront, said he was disappointed but accepted it had been decided.
"The issue really is only about the height of the tower.  It is inconsistent with the rest of Worthing, it doesn't fit in," he said.
Daniel Humphreys, leader of Worthing Borough Council, called it "a step forward for Worthing".
"There is a great housing need in Worthing. We've got some fantastic businesses that need houses for workers to live in," he said.
Ben Cheal, managing director of Roffey Homes, said: "Change is hard to accept for people but then [buildings] become regarded as cherished contributions to the townscape."


Papers in both India and Pakistan have expressed disappointment with the "unfortunate" cancellation of high-level security talks between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

Pakistan said that it could not accept India's "preconditions" for the talks, after India refused to allow Pakistan's ambassador to meet separatist leaders from Kashmir.
India had also said it was only willing to discuss "terrorism-related issues" at the talks and nothing else.
Pakistan argued that talks purely on this basis would be futile.
As the two countries continued to blame each other for the collapse of talks, a number of prominent newspapers from both countries argued that both sides should have shown more flexibility.
"The cancellation of talks between the National Security Advisers of India and Pakistan after a prolonged game of chicken to see who blinks first is unfortunate," said The Times of India.
The Indian Express said the two countries had "succeeded in making the worst of all possible choices".
In Pakistan, The Nation newspaper says the war of words between Delhi and Islamabad "has caused peace and better bilateral relations to suffer".
Echoing similar sentiments, The Dawn newspaper also criticised the two countries for not being flexible.
"Rarely, even by the tortured standards of the Pakistan-India relationship, has there been as much farce and confusion surrounding the now cancelled talks between the national security advisers of Pakistan and India," it said.
But other newspapers in the two countries echoed the officials stances taken by both India and Pakistan.
In India, some dailies said Pakistan had reneged on the agenda of the talks by insisting that Kashmir should also be discussed along with terrorism.
Kashmir, claimed by both countries in its entirety, has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years. A ceasefire agreed in 2003 remains in place, but the neighbours often accuse each other of violating it.
The Asian Age newspaper said "India was acting in good faith, and intended to move into a composite or comprehensive dialogue process - that would necessarily mean talks on Kashmir - after the immediate menace of terrorism and cross-border firings and shelling had been disposed of by security officials".
But Delhi "quite simply failed to gauge that Pakistan was playing to its own well-crafted script", it added.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper meanwhile, cast doubt over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intention of holding peace talks.
"He [Mr Modi] does not really want dialogue with Pakistan, but does not want to be seen rejecting talks outright in front of the international community," it said.
At the heart of the problem seems to be Pakistani officials' insistence on holding a meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders in Delhi.
Mr Modi's administration said it could not allow such meetings because the scheduled talks were due to focus only on terrorism related issues.
"The problems of terrorism and the cross-border skirmishes can be solved only through dialogue. It is difficult to understand precisely what India intends to do about them if it is not willing to talk to its neighbour," Pakistan's The News said.
Despite the ongoing blame game, some papers in the two countries have also laid some blame at the feet of their own governments.
In India, the Deccan Herald said Delhi mishandled and messed up the talks plan with unreasonable demands.
"It was unwise to insist that there should be no meeting between the Pakistani side and the Hurriyat [Kashmiri separatist] leaders, or that only should terror should be discussed during the talks," it said.
In Pakistan, the Dawn said PM Nawaz Sharif "made an error" by making terrorism the main agenda of the talks "without any mention of the broader Kashmir issue".
"At very least, the government should have expected the domestic backlash and prepared for it. Instead, the government seemed to have been caught unawares and quickly found itself under intolerable pressure," it says.
The Indian Express said Delhi "needs to ask if it has handled the confrontation in a manner that most serves India's best interests".
India's The Hindu argues that India's "tough stand" may have the "unintended effect of making the outfit [Hurriyat] larger-than-life - which is an avoidable prospect".
And finally, some papers have urged the two countries to find ways to resume dialogue despite the disappointment.
The Hindu adds that "there is simply no alternative to talks".
"It is best at this point to open a discreet back channel that ensures better bilateral deliverables than has been the case over the last year and a half," it adds.
Agreeing with the thought, Pakistan's The News says the attempts to revive peace talks must continue given that "there is really no other choice for the two nations and their people".
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