Seven cliff-top homes were badly damaged as the biggest tidal surge in 60 years hit the Norfolk coast.

Three properties fell into the sea at Hemsby and four more were "seriously undermined" in the east coast storms.
Ray Mooney, who was inside his home as the storm hit, said: "I heard a crash and the whole back part of the floor caved in. Everything went down."
He said he was assessing the damage but expected the property to be either demolished or washed out to sea.
"This is my only asset," he said. "That's it, I haven't got anything else.
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"I had just done the house up to sell but now I have nothing. I'm homeless."
Great Yarmouth Borough Council said seven homes at The Marrams in Hemsby were affected.
"Three properties were lost down the cliff edge last night, and the other four properties are seriously undermined," a council spokesman said.
"The council's housing officers are currently on site and will talk to affected families about whether they need temporary accommodation."
Steve Connelly, 54, and his wife Jackie, 64, managed to rescue their three-month-old kittens Tom and Jerry before their home nearby was also destroyed.
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The beach at Hemsby is unusually busy today. Alongside the sound of crashing waves you can hear the 'click click' of camera phones. The homes which were damaged by last night's tidal surge have either dropped off the cliff onto the beach or are dangling precariously. Around seven houses have been hit in this way, the structures have been photographed by hundreds of people and no doubt posted to audiences worldwide.
Residents here were in the local pub last night raising funds for better sea defences when they realised just how badly they'd been hit by the storm. Steve Connelly and his wife Jackie said their house vanished "in minutes".
Neighbours quickly formed a human chain and passed the Connellys' belongings and their two kittens out of harm's way. The Connellys lived at their home for seven years and were planning to sell it. They're now homeless and not even sure they're covered by their insurance.
Emergency crews continue to bustle around the village checking people and properties are safe. Concerned residents run errands and shifts boxes trying to help their less fortunate neighbours in any way they can. In the local pub, a tray of mince pies does the rounds and a huge pot of soup is constantly topped up to feed the volunteers. "We've all come together" one local man tells me, "It's what we do!"
Mr Connelly, who bought the two-bedroom bungalow for Â£59,000, said: "We were in the pub when we heard the cliff was going so rushed to get what we could out."
He said residents formed a chain to help them rescue furniture and some belongings.
"People we've never even met were helping out, it was amazing.
"Suddenly we heard a shout 'it's going, it's going' and we watched our kitchen get ripped apart. The whole house collapsed before our eyes.
"We're devastated at what we've lost but at least me, Jackie and the kittens are safe."
The land on which the homes stood, 30ft (9m) above the shore, has been washed into the sea.
The seven families have been given emergency accommodation.
In Cromer, part of the sea wall collapsed and the pier was closed for safety reasons.
Much of this had crashed on to Cromer Pier, breaking slates on walkways into pieces.
The Coastwatch station at East Runton had to be abandoned after the cliff on which it stood collapsed.
Secretary Ian Arnold said: "All of a sudden the cliff gave way and all that was left was the fence hanging over the waves."
Thousands of people spent the night in emergency centres after leaving their homes because of the weather.
Waves pounded the coast, bringing down many sections of cliff from Hunstanton in the north west of Norfolk to Hemsby in the south.
Two more peak tides are expected in the next 36 hours.
The power went off on South Quay in King's Lynn and parts of the town were left underwater.
Firefighters rescued several people from floods in King's Lynn, Bacton and Walcott.
Many homes have lost electricity because of flooding or high winds bringing down supply cables and engineers have been working to reconnect them where possible.
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After two years of fighting, the situation in Syria has become incredibly difficult to sort out.

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18 February 2015 Last updated at 16:17 GMT
Over a million people have had to leave the country because of the fierce war between government forces and rebel troops.
In the past, when civil wars have become this bad, western countries have sometimes sent in troops to help end the fighting
But in Syria, it's more complicated and there's now a big debate over the best way to deal with the situation.
The Syrian Government has powerful allies. Russia has sent weapons and equipment to help President Assad's forces.
Western countries like the US and the UK support the other side - the anti-government rebels, and last week a ban was lifted to allow European countries to send arms to help them.
Some people don't think sending weapons is the right way to end the war and sending in troops could lead to other countries who support the Syrian Government sending in troops to defend them.


German World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger's future at Manchester United is in doubt following Jose Mourinho's appointment as manager.

Mourinho has already made three big summer signings and is closing in on Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba.
Schweinsteiger, 31, looks like being one of nine players who may leave.
The midfielder, who has announced his international retirement, trained on his own as United's full squad trained together for the first time.
Forwards Adnan Januzaj, Will Keane and James Wilson, midfielder Andreas Pereira and defenders Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Tim Fosu-Mensah, Tyler Blackett and Paddy McNair are also reportedly set to be made available, though some may only leave on loan.
With all the other senior players who were absent from the recent tour of China present, Schweinsteiger's absence from Thursday's squad training session is being viewed as significant.
United paid a reported £14.4m to sign him from Bayern Munich 12 months ago but the move did not work out as planned.
Injury restricted Schweinsteiger to 31 appearances and he was involved in just seven of United's final 34 games, including missing the FA Cup final win over Crystal Palace.
He injured a knee on international duty in March and only returned at Euro 2016, when he scored on his first appearance, as a substitute, against Ukraine.
Of the other players who did not train with the United squad on Thursday, Januzaj has had the biggest fall from grace.
The 21-year-old Belgian was one of the star performers in David Moyes' single season in charge, when he earned himself a big increase in a five-year contract.
But his progress was not maintained and he was loaned to Borussia Dortmund last season.
He did not start a league game and the German side were happy to let United cut the deal short midway through the season when Louis van Gaal's squad were badly affected by injury.
He then featured for 17 minutes in three substitute appearances.
Since his arrival, Mourinho has signed Villarreal defender Eric Bailly for about £30m, midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Borussia Dortmund for an undisclosed fee and former Paris St Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic on a free transfer.


Middlesbrough moved to second in the Championship as they held on for an enthralling win at QPR.

Boro's Jordan Rhodes bobbled the opening goal over QPR keeper Alex Smithies, only for Jamie Mackie to level with a superb effort off the bar.
Grant Leadbitter had a penalty saved by Smithies before the Boro captain found Gaston Ramirez with the ensuing corner to nod home a second.
Ben Gibson made it 3-1 before QPR's Tjaronn Chery set up a tense finish.
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After the full-time whistle, Boro coach Aitor Karanka and his QPR counterpart Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink had a heated discussion at the side of the pitch, a product perhaps of the late drama at Loftus Road as Chery reduced the arrears with five minutes of normal time remaining after Sebastian Polter had an earlier effort ruled out for the hosts.
Victory for Boro - edging the Teessiders above Brighton in the table before the Seagulls' match against leaders Burnley on Saturday - ends a miserable run of three successive defeats on the road.
QPR's first loss in four games leaves them 11th in the table.
Boro started brightly and Rhodes did enough to put the visitors ahead, beating Smithies with a scuffed finish to trickle the ball over the line after pouncing on a misjudged header from Grant Hall.
Mackie then punished Boro for failing to clear a free-kick into the box, showing great skill to swivel on the edge of the area and cannon the ball off the underside of the bar and over the line.
Smithies made a fine one-handed save to keep Leadbitter out after Alejandro Faurlin brought Albert Adomah down, only for Ramirez to beat the QPR goalkeeper to the corner to put Boro ahead again.
Gibson added a third, again meeting a Leadbitter corner, as the visitors took control, but after Poulter had an effort ruled out in the 71st minute - Hoilett's cut-back pass was judged to have gone over the byeline - QPR looked increasingly menacing.
Chery beat Dimi Konstantopoulos with a powerful effort with five minutes remaining, but Boro held on.
Queens Park Rangers boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink:
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"I think in the first half we controlled the game, but they are a very good side and that is why they are where they are.
"They scored because of a mistake and then in the second half I was disappointed with how we started.
"Their first 10 minutes of the second half was better than ours and we couldn't keep the ball, which we had been doing really well.
"But the most disappointing thing was that we got two goals against us from set-pieces. We know these moments in games are very important."
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka:
"It's another massive three points and it was another typical Championship game.
"We were playing a team in mid-table but they wanted every single ball and were fighting, but my team were really good.
"In the first 25 minutes of the second half we played really well. They caused us some problems but we are a consistent team and we won another three points that are really important for us.
"We made a few mistakes to be in the position we are now in - in January we were in a really good position. Now we can't make any more mistakes. We have to keep going."
Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 2, Middlesbrough 3.
Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 2, Middlesbrough 3.
Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Karl Henry.
Foul by James Perch (Queens Park Rangers).
David Nugent (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Nsue following a fast break.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Albert Adomah tries a through ball, but David Nugent is caught offside.
Junior Hoilett (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Friend (Middlesbrough).
Goal!  Queens Park Rangers 2, Middlesbrough 3. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Sebastian Polter.
Attempt blocked. Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Nugent.
Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers).
George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Daniel Ayala replaces Stewart Downing.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Tomas Kalas (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Grant Hall.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Conor Washington replaces Alejandro Faurlin.
Alejandro Faurlin (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Nugent (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. David Nugent replaces Jordan Rhodes.
James Perch (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Perch (Queens Park Rangers).
Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Albert Adomah.
Attempt saved. Abdenasser El Khayati (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Perch.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Abdenasser El Khayati replaces Jamie Mackie because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sebastian Polter with a headed pass.
Attempt blocked. Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Adam Forshaw replaces Gastón Ramírez.
Junior Hoilett (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough).
Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Junior Hoilett replaces Matthew Phillips.
Attempt missed. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Sebastian Polter.
Attempt missed. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gastón Ramírez.
Corner,  Middlesbrough. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Goal!  Queens Park Rangers 1, Middlesbrough 3. Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Grant Leadbitter with a cross following a corner.


Venezuela says it has "ended" steps towards restoring diplomatic ties with the US, after comments by the woman nominated as the next envoy to the UN.

Samantha Power said this week she would seek to combat what she called the "crackdown on civil society" in countries including Venezuela.
She was speaking at a US Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
The remarks prompted an angry response from Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
"The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela hereby ends the process... of  finally normalising our diplomatic relations," said Venezuela's foreign ministry in a statement.
It objected to Ms Power's "interventionist agenda", noting that her "disrespectful opinions" were later endorsed by the state department, "contradicting in tone and in content" earlier statements by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Relations between the US and Venezuela have been strained in recent years. They last had ambassadors in each other's capitals in 2010.
Washington angered Caracas by backing the Venezuelan opposition's demand for a full recount of the presidential election in April to replace Hugo Chavez, who died in March.
Mr Chavez's anointed successor, Nicolas Maduro, won the vote by less than two percentage points.
In June, the two countries had tentatively agreed to work towards improving their strained relations, after Venezuela freed and deported a US filmmaker who had been held on conspiracy charges.
During a regional summit in Guatemala, Mr Kerry said he had agreed with Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on an "ongoing, continuing dialogue" in order to "establish a more constructive and positive relationship".
He said the US wanted to "begin to change the dialogue between our countries and hopefully quickly move the appointments of ambassadors between our nations".
Mr Jaua said at the time that for Venezuela it was important to build a relationship based on the principles of mutual respect and no interference in internal affairs.


Manager Roberto Martinez says Everton have struggled to focus on the Premier League following their FA Cup semi-final defeat.

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Wednesday's 3-0 defeat at Sunderland was the second time they have conceded three goals since losing to Manchester United at Wembley on 23 April.
Everton are 12th in the table with one win from their past 10 league games.
"We tried to get the focus after being in the FA Cup semi-final and sometimes it drops the intensity," said Martinez.
Martinez has come under pressure from some Everton fans this season, while Ajax manager Frank de Boer and Southampton boss Ronald Koeman have been linked with his job this month.
Patrick van Aanholt's free-kick and two close-range strikes from Lamine Kone sealed a comfortable win for Sunderland at the Stadium of Light which secured their survival and relegated Newcastle and Norwich.
Spaniard Martinez, who took over from David Moyes in June 2013 and signed a new five-year contract in 2014, added: "The effort we put in deserved a lot more.
"It was not an easy game and Sunderland had a lot of momentum with their focus on the league.
"We have one more game to get the winning feeling and perform in a manner in which we can get the three points and end the season better."
Everton finished fifth in the table with a record Premier League points tally in their first season under Martinez in 2013-14, and 11th the following year.
They end their campaign at home to Norwich on Sunday.


Tory leadership contender Andrea Leadsom faces a "'black ops' operation to denigrate her reputation", former leader Iain Duncan Smith has said.

Mr Duncan Smith told ITV she was qualified to be the next PM amid claims the junior minister lacks experience.
It follows a row over an interview she gave to the Times headlined "Being a mother gives me the edge on May".
Mr Duncan Smith said she was mortified at the way it was presented - critics say it shows she is "not PM material".
It comes as Mrs Leadsom published her tax return for 2014-15, showing she paid Â£22,621 in tax on total income of Â£83,930 but also recorded a tax-free capital gain of Â£9,270. Her rival, Theresa May, has already published her tax details over four years.
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Meanwhile, the Sunday Times said some 20 MPs are ready to form a breakaway party if Mrs Leadsom is elected as leader over Home Secretary Theresa May, and reported that some of Mrs Leadsom's colleagues have called on her to stand down from the leadership race.
Asked about the story on ITV's Peston on Sunday, former Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Duncan Smith urged them to "calm down" and suggested people would "come to regret some of the silliest things they say".
Mr Duncan Smith, who was Conservative leader from 2001 to 2003, said: "I've seen it all before - the reality is that both of them are qualified.
"Look, if Andrea was so unqualified to be prime minister, and you know we've had a lot of sniping, a kind of real 'black-ops' operation to denigrate her reputation. If she was so bad what in heaven's sake would the prime minister be doing making her a serious government minister?"
Meanwhile Mrs Leadsom's campaign manager, Tim Loughton, said: "The establishment seem to be 'getting Andrea', it's all about 'let's gang up on Andrea'."
The Conservative MP, who is also godfather to Mrs Leadsom's eldest son, said Mrs Leadsom had made it "absolutely clear" in her interview with the Times that she had not intended "her passion for her family and her children to be taken in any way derogatory towards Theresa" and she had mentioned it because her family was "what fires her up".
He denied suggestions that Mrs Leadsom was part of a movement by the traditional Conservative right to take back the party from the Cameron modernisers: "There is nothing traditional about Andrea in this respect. This is not about trying to take back control of the Conservative Party. This is a fresh candidate who has much more experience outside politics than all the other candidates put together."
Former shadow home secretary David Davis told the BBC: "I don't think I can see malice in this last incident, the so called mother-gate thing.  But inexperience. Inexperience in her response to that, inexperience in her proposals to trigger article 50 the moment she wins, if she were to win.
"There are lots and lots of things that she's done in the first week or two which show really she's not got the experience. I mean she's a junior minister at the moment and she's leaping to the most difficult job in government at the most difficult time in our history."
But Energy Minister Mrs Leadsom - who campaigned for a Leave vote in the EU referendum - has won the backing of outgoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage and the head of the Leave.EU campaign, businessman Arron Banks.
Mr Farage told the Mail on Sunday said: "Mrs Leadsom may lack cabinet experience, but I can attest to the fact that she has the guts."
And Mr Banks told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that if Mrs May, who supported a Remain vote in the referendum, won the leadership race, it would result in "the death of Brexit by a thousand cuts" and predicted UKIP would be "back with a vengeance".
Mrs Leadsom has said she is "no Ukip sympathiser" and told The Times: "They don't advise me, I don't know them, I've never even met Arron Banks."
Chris Grayling, who like Mrs Leadsom campaigned for a Leave vote in the referendum campaign, but is backing Mrs May, told the BBC's Sunday Politics: "The key thing now is having the right person for the job."
"I have known Theresa May for a very long time. She's a very determined politician. I know that having got a mandate from the public to deliver Brexit, she will do that. I wouldn't be supporting her if that wasn't the case," he said.


"They're nothing more than water circuses," Daniel Turner says of dolphinaria, or animal parks featuring dolphins.

Mr Turner is a spokesman for Born Free, a charity which is actively campaigning for the closure of all dolphinaria worldwide.
"These animals have no life worth living in captivity, devoid of any form of stimulation and social interaction, unable to swim hundreds of kilometres a day or live in family groups," he says.
"If people really want to engage with these animals to truly be inspired by their intelligence and see how they live, they need to see them in the wild; there's plenty of opportunity for them to do so."
Many of the million-plus tourists who visit the tiny Caribbean archipelago of Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) each year hope for just such an encounter with a wild dolphin.
A friendly bottlenose called Jojo has been interacting with people voluntarily since the 1980s and is popular with locals and tourists alike.
Tim Ainley, a tour operator on the TCI island of Providenciales, has been swimming regularly with Jojo since 1985.
He echoes Mr Turner's sentiments.
"You learn nothing about a dolphin watching it jump through hoops," he says.
Despite a recent popular backlash against sea mammal parks triggered by the documentary Blackfish, which accused SeaWorld of mistreating killer whales, such facilities remain popular in parts of the Caribbean, driven by a thriving cruise industry.
Jamaica-based Dolphin Cove - billed as the island's number one attraction - plans to spend several million dollars rolling out parks across the region.
The company has proposed building attractions on two TCI islands.
TCI has long been considered a haven for wild dolphins and whales with laws forbidding their confinement.
When Dolphin Cove's plans first became public in 2012, a maelstrom of controversy ensued.
Thousands signed a petition demanding the application be thrown out, and planning chiefs were bombarded with more than 100 angry letters from across the globe.
There was further contention when it emerged that the TCI governor had amended regulations to allow marine mammals to be kept for display, exhibition and performance.
At the time, the then Governor, Ric Todd, lauded the economic boost he said would "significantly complement" the British Overseas Territory's tourism offerings.
He is not alone.
Many residents in TCI's sleepy capital island Grand Turk welcome the fiscal stimulation they believe will be triggered by the facility, which recently secured outline planning permission.
But for its opponents - still staunch after a three-year fight - the real battle is just beginning.
Barbara Young, of environmental non-government organisation Pride, argues that tourists who visit dolphin parks are often ignorant of the animals' plight.
She alleges that dolphins are routinely fed medication to prevent stress-induced ulcers and given regular invasive endoscopies to monitor their condition.
One of the most outspoken critics of building dolphinaria on TCI has come from within government itself.
Former Director of the Department of Environment and Maritime Affairs Kathleen Wood described the "exploitation of dolphins for economic gain" as "the moral equivalent of slavery".
In a letter she sent to the TCI Planning Department last year she recommended the scheme be turned down.
Ms Wood argued that it would have a disastrous effect on the country's image as a green destination and could alienate the growing number of tourists and travel agencies which boycott places that allow marine mammal parks to operate.
She also spoke of the adverse ecological impact it could have on the proposed North Creek site, a critical habitat for 500 greater flamingos, along with conch and mangroves.
Globally, marine parks have been slammed for fuelling the trade in capturing wild animals and for high mortality rates among their animals.
Dolphin Cove did not provide a comment, despite repeated requests, but its website describes its facilities as "among the best in the world".
It has operated an in-house breeding programme for several years.
Back in Providenciales, Mr Ainley hopes the campaign by environmentalists and activists will be successful in blocking Dolphin Cove's plans.
"We're so busy exploiting dolphins but if we stopped and listened we'd find they had a lot to teach us instead."
And speaking of JoJo the friendly wild bottlenose, he adds: "This is a fight I know he'd want me to make."


Wales' Lauren Williams won the -67kg title at the Polish Open taekwondo championship in Warsaw.

The 17-year-old beat Russian Ekaterina Derbeneva 12-0 in the final.
The European champion from Blackwood had earlier survived a tough first round match with Derbeneva's compatriot Anastasiia Gurskaia.
"I'm proud I managed to put together four strong performances," said Williams.  "Lots learned from this competition, onwards and upwards."


One hundred and forty people are to lose their jobs with the closure of the Bose Corporation facility in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.

Employees were told on Thursday evening that the facility would close in April. The audio systems company has been in Carrickmacross for 37 years.
The chairman of Monaghan County Council, Padraig McNally, described it as a devastating blow to the area.
A special meeting of the council has been called to discuss the issue.
In a statement the company said it had taken the decision to close the Carrickmacross plant as well as a facility in the United States, in order to streamline the company's global supply chain.


Scientists have been watching paint dry in experiments they say could improve the performance of everyday items, from sun screen to mobile phones.

What's different about this paint is that some particles are on a nanotech scale, at just one thousandth the width of a human hair.
However, other particles are larger, meaning the paint separates into two layers as it dries.
The "self layering" coatings will be useful in industry, say UK researchers.
"This is literally like watching paint dry because we are looking at polymer colloids, which is the base of most commercial paints and varnishes," said Dr Ignacio Martin-Fabiani of the department of physics at the University of Surrey.
"So literally what we are doing is mixing two different sizes of these latex particles that are used in paints and then we are watching how this blend dries and seeing how the small and the big particles are distributed after the drying of the paint."
The two physicists found that during evaporation, the small particles pushed away the larger ones, so that they naturally separated out into layers.
"We mix these two different types of particles in two different sizes and we see that just by drying we can create a layer of just small particles on top, while all the other particles are at the bottom," lead researcher Dr Andrea Fortini told BBC News.
The physical mechanism, outlined in the journal Physical Review Letters, has not been described before.
But the experiment could lead to better products used across a range of industries.
In a sun screen, for example, sunlight-blocking particles could be designed to move to the top when applied, leaving the particles that stick to skin underneath.
And a coating for a mobile phone could be developed with dual properties such as scratch-resistance on top and the ability to adhere to glass at the bottom.
The research was carried out in collaboration with the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, and was funded by the EU project Barrierplus, which aims to reduce environmentally damaging compounds in paints.
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Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill says his players will "go for it" when they visit Poland in Sunday's final Euro 2016 qualifier.

O'Neill's side are guaranteed at least a play-off place after beating world champions Germany but a win in Warsaw will secure automatic qualification.
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"To beat the world champions is a sensational effort," O'Neill said after Thursday's 1-0 win in Dublin.
"We have reached the play-offs and we can go for it on Sunday now."
While victory against Poland will ensure the Republic reach a third European Championship finals, defeat will mean they would have to qualify through the play-offs.
A draw would leave both Poland and the Republic on 19 points - and as to who would clinch the second automatic place (assuming Germany do not lose to Georgia), with head-to-head records the top tiebreaker:
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The Republic produced a heroic defensive display to condemn Germany to their first competitive defeat since October 2014.
The winning goal came from a wonderful finish by substitute Shane Long.
"The players put in a fantastic effort," added O'Neill.
"We showed bravery and courage. We had to withstand a lot of pressure, which you'd expect, and we did that."


Titanic Belfast has been named the world's leading tourist attraction.

It came out top at the World Travel Awards, which were set up by the tourism industry to recognise excellence.
Organisers said more than one million people participated in voting online for the best attraction from a shortlist of eight.
Titanic Belfast opened in 2012 at a cost of Â£77m and since then has had more than three million visitors.
It went forward to contest the world attraction category after winning the best European prize earlier this year.
Titanic Belfast beat other finalists, including the Las Vegas Strip and the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.
Its chief executive, Tim Husbands, said: "We are delighted that this award firmly shines a spotlight not only on Titanic Belfast but Belfast and Northern Ireland.
"With the award we hope to attract more tourists to Northern Ireland to discover it."


The use of buildings on Whitehall as hotels poses a security risk to state occasions, peers have claimed.

Admiralty Arch and the Old War Office have both been approved for conversion into hotels since they were sold by government departments.
Former Labour home secretary Lord Reid said it could "put our national security - not to mention our monarch - at risk".
But the government insisted current arrangements were "appropriate".
The issue was raised by Lib Dem Lord Wallace of Saltaire, who was, until the election, a spokesman for the Cabinet Office.
He pointed out that "the IRA, from within the area of Whitehall, managed to mortar No. 10" and asked whether the security services would vet all the staff of the hotels on that road.
Lord Lisvane - until recently the clerk of the House of Commons - said it was "extremely important" that a full formal security assessment was carried out for each building.
Alluding to a recent heist in London, he added: "I also ask him to ignore the siren voices which suggest that security can be assured simply by sealing tunnels. It cannot; ask anybody in Hatton Garden."
Labour's spokesman, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, suggested a select committee should investigate the matter.
But the Cabinet Office minister, Lord Bridges of Headingley, told peers that the freeholds were still owned by the government, overseen by the security and intelligence services and the Metropolitan Police.
The minister went on to divulge that the government had not insisted on security clearances for each member of hotel staff, but added: "It is obviously in the hoteliers' interests to take their security checks on their staff into consideration".
He told peers the government had generated Â£1.4bn in land and building sales since 2010.


The man who created what is believed to be the world's largest website dealing in images of child sexual abuse has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.

Steven Chase set up the Playpen site on the Tor dark web network in early 2014.
By the time it was shut down a year later it had more than 150,000 users and hosted more than 50,000 images and videos.
The FBI said the removal of Playpen had led to almost 300 abused children being identified or rescued.
Chase was tracked down after accidentally disclosing the IP address of the server hosting the Playpen site. The way Tor works meant routine ways of locating a computer did not work.
Chase's mistake was spotted by a foreign police force and the information was passed to the FBI because the server was in the US.
In February 2015, the FBI raided the North Carolina firm hosting the Playpen server and took control of the computer. The raid led the agency to track down Chase and Playpen staff.
Two other men who helped Chase run Playpen have already been given jail terms. Each one received a 20-year sentence.
The FBI kept the Playpen site running for two weeks after taking control of it and used malware to monitor and locate its users.
As a result, it said, more than 800 people around the world have been arrested for their part in either abusing children or distributing sexual abuse material.
"Members of his enterprise who were raping children, who were producing child pornography all around the world - those cases continue to be indicted and prosecuted," said special agent Dan Alfin from the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children unit who helped co-ordinate the investigation.


A Labour MP has told how she wanted to punch a voter who called her a thief during the general election campaign after the scandal over parliamentary expenses .

Ann Clwyd told the Commons it had led to innocent MPs being smeared as crooks.
The Cynon Valley MP also complained of stories being leaked to the press.
MPs have been airing their frustrations about their new expenses scheme set up in the wake of last year's scandal.
Their debate comes as the body set up in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), has published 22,000 MPs' expenses claims paying out Â£3.1m.
The new rules for expenses mean, for example, MPs cannot claim mortgage interest, just rent, and can only travel first class in limited circumstances.
There is still anger among MPs about how they have been portrayed.
Mrs Clwyd told the House of Commons: "During my election campaign somebody came up to me and shouted thief, and if I had been a man I would have run after him and punched him in the face because I feel so strongly.
"I am not a thief, I have never been a thief and I object on behalf of other members of this house that they should be considered to be thieves in some way because the vast majority of people in this place are nothing of the sort."
She went on to suggest that "anti-MP" stories were being leaked by people at Ipsa.
She said that every time there was a debate on the expenses system, a story would appear in the press the day before.
Ipsa has taken exception to her comments and accused MPs, and Mrs Clwyd in particular, of trying to undermine the professional integrity of its staff.


Red-faced officials at the Home Office have been forced to correct a spelling error in a press release about new English language tests for migrants.

Language was spelled "langauge" in the original release, put out on Thursday.
But it was corrected by officials after Twitter users ridiculed the error.
BBC Radio 4 presenter Anita Anand said it was "beyond parody" that the Home Office could not spell language in a note to migrants who have been told to learn English.
A Home Office spokesman said: "This was a regrettable typographical error that has now been corrected."
On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a Â£20m fund to teach Muslim women in the UK to speak English, claiming it would help tackle segregation and help them resist the lure of extremism.
But some Muslims have accused him of wrongly conflating the two issues.
Mr Cameron said all those who entered the UK on the five-year spousal settlement programme - not just Muslim women - would have to sit language tests after two and a half years.
Thursday's press release said the new requirement would not be implemented before October 2016, with the precise timing and further details to be confirmed by the Home Office "in the next few weeks".


Mae cyfarwyddwr clinigol un o ddarparwyr gofal deintyddol mwya' Ewrop wedi dweud fod 'na brinder deintyddion mewn rhannau o ardaloedd gwledig Cymru ble mae swyddi hir dymor yn parhau i fod yn wag dros gyfnod sylweddol.

Roedd Steve Williams o gwmni My Dentistyn siarad â rhaglen Post Cyntaf BBC Radio Cymru am ei bryderon, wrth i unig ddeintyddfa'r Gwasanaeth Iechyd yn Nolgellau gyhoeddi y bydd yn cau am gyfnod ddiwedd y mis.
Dros y ddegawd ddiwethaf mae nifer y deintyddfeydd yng Nghymru wedi gostwng tua 19%.
Ond yn ystod yr un cyfnod mae nifer y deintyddion wedi cynyddu, ac mae nifer y deintyddion y pen hefyd wedi codi.
Yn ôl y Gymdeithas Ddeintyddol Brydeinig mae nifer y deintyddefydd yng Nghymru wedi gostwng o 517 yn 2005/06 i 419 erbyn 2014/15.
Ond mae'r ffigyrau swyddogol yn dangos cynnydd o bron i 330 o ddeintyddion yn ystod yr un cyfnod, gyda chleifion yn fwy tebygol bellach o ddefnyddio deintyddfeydd mwy o faint.
Daw hyn i'r amlwg wrth i dros 4,000 o gleifion yn ardal Dolgellau glywed y byddant yn colli eu gwasanaeth deintyddol presennol wrth i ddeintyddfa Mervinian House gyhoeddi ei bod yn cau ddiwedd y mis.
Mae gan y ddeintyddfa 4,443 o gleifion gyda dau aelod staff llawn amser, ond bydd yn cau ddiwedd y mis oherwydd prinder deintyddion.
Mae deintyddfa arall yn y dref, ond Mervinian yw'r unig un sy'n cynnig triniaeth ar y gwasanaeth iechyd.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran cwmni MyDentist, sy'n cynnal y gwasanaeth, eu bod wedi bod yn chwilio am ddeintydd ers dros ddwy flynedd.
'Ceisio recriwtio'
Mae'n bosib y bydd yn rhaid i rai cleifion deithio i Borthmadog neu ymhellach er mwyn derbyn triniaeth ar y gwasanaeth iechyd.
Dywedodd cyfarwyddwr y ddeintyddfa, Steve Williams: "Mae yna brinder deintyddion mewn rhannau o gefn gwlad Cymru ac mae swyddi yn wag dros gyfnod hir.
"Rydym wedi ceisio yn aflwyddiannus i recriwtio deintydd dros gyfnod o ddwy flynedd, ac yn anffodus ni allwn barhau i gynnal gwasanaeth yn Neintyddfa Merivian House."
Dywedodd dirprwy Faer Dolgellau, Delwyn Evans, ei fod o'n bryderus am gleifion bregus.
"Os 'dyn nhw'n cau'r ddeintyddfa bydd yna dros 4,000 yn methu cael deintydd a 'ma hyn yn bryder i'r ardal," meddai.
"Bydd pobl yn gorfod chwilio am rywle arall - Penrhyndeudraeth, Porthmadog, Trallwng - a rhaid i ni gofio di'r rhan fwyaf methu teithio oherwydd does yna ddim trafnidiaeth [gyhoeddus] a bydd hyn yn effeithio pobl fregus, henoed a'r anabl ac allan nhw ddim trafeilio 50 milltir bob ffordd."
Dywedodd Bwrdd Iechyd Betsi Cadwaladr eu bod yn bwriadu "ail-gomisiynu gwasanaeth deintyddol yn yr ardal mor fuan â phosib".
"Ond mae'n debygol y bydd yna fwlch rhwng y dyddiad cau a'r cyfnod sy'n ei gymryd i dendro a sefydlu gwasanaeth newydd," meddai llefarydd.
Ychwanegodd llefarydd eu bod yn gwneud trefniadau dros dro ar gyfer y gwasanaeth nes bod gwasanaeth parhaol yn ei le.
Bydd hyn yn cynnwys cefnogaeth gan ddeintyddfeydd eraill, a gwasanaeth y tu hwnt i oriau fydd yn cael ei gynnal yn Ysbyty Cymunedol Dolgellau ar gyfer cleifion sydd angen triniaeth frys.
"Dylai cleifion sydd angen triniaeth frys ar ôl i'r ddeintyddfa gau, neu cyn eu bod wedi cofrestru gyda deintyddfa arall, gysylltu â NHS Direct Cymru ar 0845 46 47," meddai'r llefarydd.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru: "Pan fydd deintydd yn penderfynu torri ar y gwaith y mae'n ei wneud i'r Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol (GIG), neu'n rhoi'r gorau iddo'n llwyr, mae'r bwrdd iechyd yn cadw'r cyllid cysylltiedig i'w ddefnyddio i ail-gomisiynu'r gwasanaeth.
"Mae Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr wedi gwahodd ceisiadau gan gontractwyr deintyddol i helpu sicrhau bod gwasanaethau'r GIG ar gael yn yr ardal.
"Rydyn ni'n disgwyl i'r bwrdd iechyd barhau i adolygu mynediad at wasanaethau deintyddol gofal sylfaenol y GIG drwy'r targedau sydd wedi'u pennu yn ei Gynllun Gweithredol ar gyfer 2016-17."


People who film or photograph fly-tippers and irresponsible dog owners will not have to pay council tax, Liverpool's mayor has pledged.

Joe Anderson said he was "getting so angry" about dog mess and litter he needed the public's help to identify culprits in the act.
He said the plans were about boosting "civil pride" in the community.
The city's Liberal Democrats leader Richard Kemp said he was unconvinced by the proposals.
Mr Anderson pledged to give those whose evidence leads to a prosecution free council tax for a year.
He said: "I'm asking people [to] please help us [and] provide us with information on anybody you see allowing their dog to foul the streets... [and] provide us with an address where they live.
"When they go out we'll have people covertly watching them and if it leads to prosecution, I will make sure you get your council tax for free, because we'll fine those people the maximum amount of money - Â£1,000."
Mr Kemp said he did not think many fines would be gained under the plans. He said he was "glad it's being acknowledged but I don't think this is the right way."
"I would employ more dog wardens. Responsible dog owners clean up after their dogs. It's the irresponsible ones who don't and they are more likely to be aggressive," he warned.
Mr Anderson also said he was examining ways to make recycling compulsory in Liverpool and claimed "thousands don't bother or care".
"It is about putting civil pride back into the community," he said.
"I need people to tell me where they know people are throwing bags in an alleyway the day after bin collection.
"I wouldn't call anyone who allows their dog to foul outside my house a neighbour. I class them as people that are totally irresponsible and don't care about their community."


A developer who hopes to build 19 holiday lodges near Selkirk is appealing a decision to reject them.

Alan Williams was refused outline consent for the proposal at Whitmuir Hall by Scottish Borders Council's planning committee in April.
The refusal came despite planning officials at the local authority and those in its economic development department backing the plans.
A final decision on the development is expected in October.
Mr Williams' proposals were knocked back by the committee after members said there was insufficient economic justification for the proposals.
Mr Williams has lodged his appeal against the decision with Scotland's Department of Planning and Environmental Appeals.
A planning reporter is now due to be appointed to the project before carrying out a visit to the proposed site.
In 2012, the council's planning committee rejected an outline application for 28 chalets by Mr Williams.
The decision to reject the scheme was upheld the following year by a Scottish government planning reporter.


European shares fell sharply through the afternoon as investors sought safer assets amid the continuing tensions between the US and North Korea.

In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index closed down 108.12 points, or 1.4%, at 7,389.94.
The falls were echoed in other European markets, with Germany's Dax index down 1.2% and France's Cac 40 falling 0.73%.
The price of gold hit a two-month high of $1284.87 an ounce as investors moved away from shares.
"Risk assets remain out of favour, as the threat of a conflict with North Korea pushes traders towards havens," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG.
The FTSE 100 was also affected by a number of major companies going ex-dividend.
BT Group, Anglo American and Lloyds Banking Group were all among the biggest fallers as their shares began trading without the right to the latest shareholder payout.
But soft drink bottler Coca-Cola HBC jumped 9% after it said first-half sales had been boosted by hot weather.
Revenues in the first six months of the year rose 5.6% to 3.21bn euros (£2.9bn), helped by June's hot weather, and operating profits jumped nearly 21% to 266.4m euros.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Cineworld rose 3% after the cinema chain reported surging sales and profits.
Blockbusters such as Beauty And The Beast, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 and The Fate Of The Furious helped the company to report a 17.8% rise in half-year revenues to £420.2m, with pre-tax profit jumping 57.5% to £48.2m.
Shares in sofa retailer DFS fell 8.4% after it warned its full-year earnings would be at the lower end of  its £82m-£87m forecast.
It said second-half revenues had slid 4% after "significant declines in store footfall and customer orders" from April to June.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.17% against the dollar to $1.2981 and fell 0.1% against the euro to 1.1051 euros.


Demonstrators chanting "refugees are welcome here" have marched through London to persuade the government to resettle more refugees in the UK.

Organisers said they hope the prime minister will "lead an appropriate humanitarian response" to the crisis at a UN refugee summit next week.
The demonstration follows news that the UK is on track to resettle 20,000 refugees by 2020.
The UN says 4.5m Syrians have fled their homes during the country's war.
Groups such as Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amnesty International, the Refugee Council and Stop the War Coalition collaborated for the demonstration, organised by charity coalition Solidarity with Refugees.
During the march, protestors carried flags and placards, and chanted: "Theresa May, you will say, refugees are welcome here", and refugees, celebrities and religious leaders spoke at a rally in Parliament Square.
Actor and campaigner Vanessa Redgrave said at the rally: "The present government and previous governments, both Labour, coalition and Conservative, have been breaking international human rights law. We must hold them to account."
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said earlier this month that the government had received enough pledges of available accommodation from local authority housing departments for the government to meet its target to resettle 20,000 refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme.
Under the scheme, the government will pay Â£8,500 towards housing, healthcare and other costs for each refugee in the first year, but this figure is reduced to Â£1,000 by the fifth year.
But Solidarity with Refugees director Ros Ereira said the current response had been slow.
"The situation is growing, it is not decreasing - it is not going away and there are people dying and we need to stop that happening," she said.
She hopes Prime Minister Theresa May will "set the tone" for her leadership and play "an important role on the global stage" at next week's UN Summit for refugees and migrants in New York, hosted by US President Barack Obama.
Refugee Kais Aldahou, 24, who came to the UK from Damascus in Syria in 2009 to study at university, said: "It is about more support, not necessarily bringing in more refugees, but to help the camps around Europe - the situations in them are pretty horrendous."
This year's UN annual report for World Refugee Day revealed the number of refugees worldwide had passed 60 million for the first time, with more than half coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.


Nearly 100 cases of laser pens being shone into the cockpits of planes using Heathrow and Gatwick airports have been reported to police since January.

The high-powered devices can send a beam several miles high when shone from the ground, dazzling pilots.
Kent Conservative MP Rehman Chishti has campaigned for pens above 1 milliwatt (mW) in strength to be banned.
"Australia and New Zealand have banned them. Why are we not doing the same?" the Gillingham and Rainham MP asked.
Mr Chishti wants to make it illegal to be in possession of such a pen.
If passed in Parliament, his Laser Pens (Regulation of Sales, Ownership and Usage) Bill would have the same sentence as carrying a knife.
"I accept there are certain laser pens which people use on their day-to-day activities, in schools and to highlight certain things.
"But over a certain power, in this case 1mW, you think 'why do you need to have a laser pen over a certain strength?'," he said.
So far this year, there have been 68 reported laser incidents directed at planes flying into and out of Heathrow, and 23 aimed at Gatwick pilots.
Source: Sussex Police
Darren Taylor, from Gatwick Airport Police, said one pen surrendered to officers earlier this year was 2,000mW.
Former commercial pilot Alastair Rosenschein said pilots would naturally turn away from such a light coming through the cockpit window.
"The green light comes through the cockpit and it scatters everywhere, and you naturally close your eyes and duck - not what you want to do when you're flying an aircraft," Mr Rosenschein said
"If the pilots are turning their heads away, not looking at the instruments... then that's clearly not a safe situation," he said.
Mr Taylor said in one instance there was a report of three laser pens being shone at aircraft over a period of days.
Britain's largest pilots union, BALPA, said it was concerned about the high number of laser attacks in recent years.
"We believe high-powered lasers need to be treated as potential weapons," it said.


Rangers youth Billy Gilmour has agreed to join Chelsea in the summer.

The 15-year-old midfielder will sign a professional contract with the Stamford Bridge club when he turns 16 after the two clubs agreed a "significant fee".
Rangers offered Gilmour a contract, but the Scotland youth international has opted to move to London.
"When he made clear his desire to move to the Premier League, it was important we maximised the commercial value for him," Rangers said in a statement.
Chelsea were one of a number of clubs to pursue Gilmour's signature after the midfielder impressed scouts with his performances for Rangers' youth sides and the Scotland under-16 team.
Mark Warburton and his successor as Rangers manager, Pedro Caixinha, also included the player in first-team training sessions, with the latter meeting Gilmour's parents to try to persuade the player to stay at Ibrox.
He will now follow the path taken by Islam Feruz, who left Celtic for Chelsea at 16, although the Scotland Under-21 cap has spent most of his time at the club out on loan.
"The club's preference would have been for Billy to stay at Rangers," the Ibrox club said in a statement.
"But this agreement will provide Rangers with a significant sum for a 15-year-old player who has yet to play first-team football and further significant amounts could be due based on milestones being reached.
"We are pleased with this outcome and believe this deal represents good value for Rangers.
"That he was sought after by many Premier League clubs and, indeed, a number of the largest clubs in Europe, further demonstrates the quality of player now being produced by the academy.
"Everyone at Rangers wishes Billy well for his future."


Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick for the third game in a row as Portugal came from behind to beat Armenia in Euro 2016 qualifying Group I.

It extended Ronaldo's record European Championship goals tally to 26.
The 30-year-old equalised with a penalty in Yerevan after Armenia had taken a surprise lead.
He then scored twice in three minutes after half-time, his last goal a superb 25-yard shot into the top corner to seal all three points.
It was Ronaldo's ninth hat-trick of the season and followed trebles for Real Madrid against Espanyol and Getafe in the last two games of the Spanish league campaign.
He has scored a total of 66 goals in all competitions for club and country this season.
The victory moved Portugal five points clear of their nearest challengers Denmark and Albania at the top of their group.
Ronaldo might have hit the headlines with another treble but it was by no means the only hat-trick of the day in Euro 2016 qualifying - or the quickest.
That honour belonged to Robert Lewandowski who struck the second fastest hat-trick ever in European Championship qualifying inside four minutes as Poland overcame Georgia 4-0.
The 26-year-old Bayern Munich striker made it 2-0 in the 89th minute after Arkadiusz Milik had broken the deadlock.
He then grabbed his second in the 92nd minute and completed a remarkable treble in the third minute of stoppage time to leave Poland one point clear of nearest rivals Germany at the top of Group D.
"Poland were like a machine and this team can achieve a lot," admitted Georgia manager Kakhaber Tskhadadze.
On a day of hat-tricks, former Chelsea player Andre Schurrle also scored three as world champions Germany won 7-0 away to Gibraltar.
The Wolfsburg forward claimed the only goal of the first half after Bastian Schweinsteiger had an early penalty saved by Jordan Perez.
Schurrle grabbed two more, Max Kruse hit a double and Ilkay Gundogan and Karim Bellarabi also got on the scoresheet for the Germans, who registered 30 attempts in total.
Having secured their first competitive away success since 2001 last November, the Faroe Islands completed the double over Greece in Group F.
A goal in each half from Hallur Hansson and Brandur Olsen secured a famous win for the hosts in Torshavn.
Borussia Dortmund's Sokratis Papastathopoulos did get one back for the Euro 2004 winners.
But Greece, who sacked Claudio Ranieri after a 1-0 loss at home to the Faroe Islands seven months ago, are bottom of the group with just two points from six games.
Finland are also below the Faroe Islands in Group F after a 1-0 home defeat by Hungary left the Finns in fifth spot.
Hamburg forward Zoltan Stieber scored the winner to close the gap on second-place Northern Ireland to two points.
Denmark are second in Group I, two points behind leaders Portugal, after a 2-0 win over Serbia in Copenhagen.
Yussuf Poulsen's first international goal and a late effort from Jakob Poulsen secured the points, with former Liverpool defender Daniel Agger missing a penalty for the hosts.


Jonathan Forte's winning goal for Oldham Athletic against already-relegated Crewe Alexandra confirmed their safety in League One.

Crewe had early chances through two Marcus Haber headers and Callum Saunders failed to score against Latics keeper Joel Coleman in a one-on-one.
Oldham's Curtis Main had a volley blocked before Forte's strike from eight yards bounced in off the post.
Crewe's Brad Inman's curling effort went close but was saved by Coleman.
Oldham sit 17th in the table with four home wins in a row, while Crewe are at the foot of the table with no win in 15 games.


Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam posted the flag of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group on his Facebook page three weeks before the attacks, Belgian website RTBF reports.

Authorities were aware of the flag but did not act upon it, it added.
IS militants staged bomb and gun attacks on several targets in Paris on 13 November, murdering 130 people and seriously wounding many others.
Salah Abdeslam was captured in Brussels and extradited to France last month.
He was on the run for four months before he was arrested four days before the Brussels bombings and has been linked to several of the 22 March attackers. He is now held in a high-security jail just outside Paris while being investigated over charges of terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.
Belgian authorities have been accused of failing to establish links between him and his brother, Brahim Abdeslam, to ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up on 13 November while Abaaoud was killed during a police raid in Paris days afterwards.
Salah Abdeslam posted the IS flag on his own page on 23 October 2015, three weeks before the jihadist attacks in Paris, according to RTBF, Belgium's French-language public broadcaster.
While it did not escape the attention of Belgium's Co-ordinating Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAM), there was no response from the police or intelligence services, the report says.
Belgian authorities have already admitted to key blunders in the months leading up to the Paris and Brussels attacks.
But further failings involving Salah Abdeslam have emerged. RTBF said on Monday that an informer had come forward from the Brussels area of Molenbeek, where the Abdeslam brothers lived, as early as January 2015.
According to the informant, Salah Abdeslam had been in touch with Abaaoud after the IS attacks on Paris between 7 and 9 January 2015, and even provided his mobile number.
On 15 January, Belgian police broke up a jihadist cell in Verviers, apparently run by Abaaoud, but he was living in Athens at the time and evaded Greek authorities.
It has already been widely reported that at least one of the Abdeslam brothers had been radicalised as early as 2014. By February 2015, both men had a police file but were not treated as high priority because of the large number of Belgian jihadists returning from Syria.


Ireland have won the hockey World League Round Two in Kuala Lumpur by beating Malaysia 3-0 in Sunday's final.

Anna O'Flanagan, Katie Mullan and Zoe Wilson netted the goals for the Irish who had beaten Wales in the semi-finals.
Ireland now turn their focus to World League 3 and the Eurohockey Championships this summer.
"We have had an incredible experience and have grown and learnt a lot as a group," said coach Graham Shaw.
"This is our first competitive tournament in 18 months and we are very proud of the team and the level of performance.
"We will use this tournament as a benchmark going forward. Our number one goal is to qualify for the World Cup and finish as high as possible at the Europeans in August."


The family of a man killed during a botched attempt to free a prisoner has asked prosecutors to review a decision not to charge the officer who shot him.

Jermaine Baker was killed in London by an armed officer in December 2015.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) previously announced the officer would not be charged as there was "not a realistic prospect of conviction".
But the CPS told the BBC it had received a Victims' Right to Review (VRR) application from the family.
The 28 year old, from Tottenham, was with two other men in a car near Wood Green Crown Court.
They had intended to help spring an inmate from a prison van but firearms officers were deployed to foil the plan and Mr Baker, who was unarmed, was shot.
The VRR scheme allows bereaved relatives or partners in homicide cases to request a review of a decision not to charge.
The CPS said it was considering the application.


A man accused of killing a father-of-two in a party prank that went wrong has been cleared of manslaughter.

Desmond Bartley, 21, was charged with the unlawful killing of Tommy Main at a birthday celebration in June last year.
The court heard Mr Main, 23, had collapsed and died during a "macho" game of "blow for blow" in which the two men exchanged punches.
Mr Bartley denied the charge, saying they had been "playing" and was found not guilty at Inner London Crown Court.
He explained they took turns to hit each other but each had no intention of seriously hurting the other man.
The court heard the men, who had known each other for 10 years, had both taken cocaine.
They were among 30 adults, teenagers and children attending a 16th birthday party at a house in Erith, south-east London.
Mr Bartley said that after being punched twice by Mr Main, he took his turn and struck him in the chest.
He told the jury: "Basically he (Mr Main) said 'ah, I felt that', looked at me, laughed and then collapsed."
Mr Bartley said he thought Mr Main had just lost his breath until he started turning blue and people began trying to resuscitate him.
The formal cause of death was given as cardiac arrest following blunt chest impact and the presence of cocaine and alcohol.
Mr Bartley told police he had "hardly touched him", adding in court: "The punch that I threw, I never thought it would do something like that, him collapsing."


Thursday's gathering of African football bosses and Fifa chief Gianni Infantino is about 'celebrations' not 'football matters', says its organiser.

African football body Caf says the Harare event, which Zimbabwe FA boss Phillip Chiyangwa says is a birthday party, is a bid to 'destabilise Caf.'
Long-standing Caf president Issa Hayatou has not been invited.
"When you do your party, invitations are sent at your own discretion," said event organiser Chamu Chiwanza.
"I'm not saying he's not close to the Caf president but if you're not friends, why would you invite them just because they have a position?"
Chiwanza, the chair of Zimbabwe's Affirmative Action Group, is head of the organising committee for this event.
The function is officially to celebrate Chiyangwa's 58th birthday and his unexpected appointment as president of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) in December.
However, some claim the gathering is a platform to bolster support for Madagascar FA head Ahmad, who takes on Hayatou in next month's Caf presidential elections.
The Malagasy is seen as the most serious challenger to the Cameroonian, who took charge of Caf in 1988, for many years.
Some 24 heads of African football associations are expected for the event hosted by Chiyangwa, Ahmad's campaign manager.
Earlier this month, Cosafa pledged its support for the Malagasy ahead of the 16 March elections in Addis Ababa.
Nigeria Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick, who will also be in Harare, has already told the BBC he will vote for Ahmad as well.
That theoretically accounts for 15 votes, with a total of 28 needed to unseat Hayatou.
Caf warned Chiyangwa not to hold the gathering, insisting that he is not allowed to discuss football matters with leaders outside the Cosafa region.
"Rest assured there is not going to be any meeting to discuss crucial football matters with the Fifa president - it's about celebrations," said event organiser Chamu Chiwanza.
"Phillip is known for doing extraordinary things. He brought Michael Jackson to Zimbabwe in 1998 and who knows, maybe even Donald Trump will be part of the delegation next year!"
Also attending the Harare event is Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura - the second-most powerful person in world football - and several business people, including South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe.
Infantino will arrive in Zimbabwe on Thursday evening prior to departing for Uganda on Friday night.


Britain has many more technology firms than the government estimates, according to a new report.

Under its classification the government recognises 187,600 digital companies.
Research by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR)  says there are almost 270,000 such companies in the UK, 40% more than the government estimate.
NIESR says the government's classification is "outdated" and misses out many tech firms.
The report used data from Growth Intelligence, a company which tracks the activity of firms on the internet and sells that information to clients.
Tom Gatten, chief executive of Growth Intelligence, said: "This research demonstrates the need for a new way of understanding the economy, both for government and for businesses.
"Rather than relying on outdated codes or static lists, our new technology and internet data reveals new opportunities and insights for growth."
In response, an official at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: "We are confident ONS statistics reliably measure the size and shape of the economy according to best international practice."
The report was commissioned by Google and its chief economist, Hal Varian, is one of the people behind Growth Intelligence.
"This is a groundbreaking and important report by NIESR not just because it shows that the spread of the digital economy into other sectors is driving growth and jobs throughout the UK but because - for the first time in 65 years - it presents us with a new way of measuring the economy," he said.
The report says that official statistics use only a basic definition of the digital economy.
The new research goes further by identifying digital companies that are working in traditional sectors including architecture, publishing and engineering, according to the report.
It cites case studies, including Scottish firm Kelton Engineering, which sells hi-tech equipment to the oil industry, but at the moment is classified as "business support".
Another is a publishing company, Stonewash, which provides web design and other internet services, but is classified as "other publishing".
The NIESR report says companies like those are being wrongly classified and could be missing out on investment, because investors use classification to identify potential investment targets.


For the first time in this long election campaign, Republican Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Democrat Hillary Clinton in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls.

Mrs Clinton's double-digit lead, which she has held over the past several months, has vanished - and with it, apparently, Democrats' dreams of a transformational 2016 victory that would leave Republicans wandering the wilderness for a generation.
What happened? A closer look at those poll numbers offers some clarity.
Remember the #NeverTrump movement? No one in the Republican Party seems to. While certain pundits (Bill Kristol) and politicians (Mitt Romney) continue to tilt at the independent-conservative-candidate windmill, the rank and file of the party appear to be falling in line behind their presumptive nominee.
According to a Washington Post survey, 85% of Republicans plan to vote for their man. A New York Times offering finds a similar number.
As for the party establishment, most prominent officeholders seem to either be backing Mr Trump or trying their best to disappear into the scenery. Even Senator John McCain, whose war record was belittled by Mr Trump last summer, has said he'll support the party nominee.
While there still seems to be significant interest in a third-party candidate - 44% of respondents told Washington Post pollsters that they wanted another choice - every passing day makes such a development less likely.
Republicans are deciding that Mr Trump - warts and all - is their guy. The scene last week, where Mr Trump - who once backed an assault weapons ban - received a hero's welcome and an unusually early endorsement from the National Rifle Association, only drove that point home.
A recent Economist/YouGov poll shows that among Sanders supporters, 55% would vote for Mrs Clinton, 15% would back Mr Trump and the rest either don't know or would pick someone else. It's not particularly surprising, given that 61% of Sanders backers view Mrs Clinton unfavourably and 72% say she's "not honest and trustworthy".
Speaking of Mr Sanders, his supporters cite these recent head-to-head polls as evidence that their man should stay in the Democratic race despite delegate maths that make victory seem extremely unlikely. In the YouGov poll, which shows Mrs Clinton with a 42% to 40% lead over Mr Trump, Mr Sanders had a 48% to 39% advantage.
That seems to support the contention that Mrs Clinton's supporters are more likely to back Mr Sanders in a general election match-up than the other way around.
It also could be an indication of what the Washington Post's Philip Bump calls the "special of the house" effect. When presented with two options that they don't like - Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton - some voters are inclined to go for a third, less-known choice.
The response from the Clinton camp is that Mr Sanders has largely avoided being targeted by his opponents on the left or the right, while the former secretary of state has been bloodied on the political battlefield for decades.
The exchanges over head-to-head polling are just part of the increased tension within the Democratic Party that could be having a negative effect on Mrs Clinton's polling numbers.
Earlier this week, the Clinton campaign announced that it would not take part in a proposed California Democratic debate hosted by Fox News, prompting a stern rebuke from the Sanders team.
Although Democratic officials have made some attempts at peace-brokering, including offering Mr Sanders the chance to name members of key national convention committees, the man who only recently joined the Democratic Party has continued to rankle the party establishment.
On Sunday, for instance, he told a television interviewer he planned to back the candidate challenging Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her congressional primary.
On Monday Mr Sanders predicted that the Democratic National Convention would be "messy".
"Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle," he added.
Then on Tuesday, the Sanders campaign announced it wanted a review of Mrs Clinton's narrow win in the Kentucky primary one week ago.
Each day brings new evidence that Mr Sanders is not giving up the fight any time soon - no matter how it might affect Mrs Clinton's positioning against Mr Trump.
Minorities and women are overwhelming supporting Mrs Clinton. Right now that's being balanced out by whites and men who are backing Mr Trump in large numbers.
Exactly how big are these gaps? According to the Washington Post poll, 57% of whites and men support Mr Trump. Mrs Clinton can count on the backing of 69% of non-whites, and leads Mr Trump 52% to 38% among women.
Among whites without a college degree, 65% support Mr Trump versus only 25% for Mrs Clinton.
Meanwhile, many independents are keeping their powder dry. Although their role is often overstated - they usually end up as reliable partisans when all is said and done - there is a small segment of US voters who are truly free agents. And right now many seem to be balking.
According to the Washington Post poll, 48% of self-professed independents are backing Mr Trump, while only 35% support Mrs Clinton. The remaining 18% either want someone else or no one.
The YouGov poll paints a slightly different picture, with Mrs Clinton up 41% to 34% over Mr Trump, but the number not ready to back either - 24% - is equally sizeable.
Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan in early 1980 presidential polls. Michael Dukakis had a commanding lead over George HW Bush in 1988. John McCain edged ahead of Barack Obama at similar point in the general election cycle in 2008. There were several times in 2012 where Mr Romney had a lead.
In other words, polls this far out from election day - particularly when one of the primary races is settled and the other isn't - aren't particularly good indicators of election-day outcomes.
If Mrs Clinton can consolidate her base - and the key is if - then the current Democratic teeth-gnashing may be overblown.
Mr Trump could be at his polling high-water mark only to see demographics, such as his low standing with women and minorities, and the realities of the state-by-state electoral landscape catch up with him.
But here's where we cut-and-paste those words of caution in every Trump polling story published since last autumn. The normal political rules don't seem to apply to the man. Just because things have happened one way in the past doesn't mean they will play out that way this time.
If admonitions that it's too far out to put much faith in polling sound familiar, it's the same thing people were saying last summer, when surveys had Mr Trump on top in key primary states and nationally.
The only thing we know right now is that, at this moment, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are essentially in a dead heat. And Mr Trump has made a lot of pundits and prognosticators look foolish over the past year.


A documentary claims to have uncovered fresh evidence that Iran, not Libya, ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988.

The Al Jazeera programme suggests a Palestinian terrorist group retaliated to an American warship shooting down an Iranian civilian airliner.
The only person convicted of the bombing, Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, died in 2012.
A total of 270 people died when the plane exploded over southern Scotland.
The Al Jazeera programme quotes a "former senior Iranian intelligence official" Abolghasem Mesbahi as saying "Iran decided to retaliate as soon as possible. The decision was made by the whole system in Iran and confirmed by Ayatollah Khomeini."
Five months before the Lockerbie bombing, Iran Air Flight 655 had been shot down by the USS Vincennes, with the deaths of all 290 people on board.
The US government claimed its navy had mistaken the civilian Airbus A300 for an attacking fighter jet.
Tehran vowed that the skies would rain with blood in revenge.
According to Mr Mesbahi, "the target of the Iranian decision-makers was to copy exactly what's happened to the Iranian Airbus. Everything exactly same, minimum 290 people dead."
Al Jazeera claims to have seen US Defence Intelligence Agency cables which reported that the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC), Ahmad Jabril, had been paid to plan the bombing.
It quotes a "classified" cable as saying "money was given to Jabril upfront in Damascus for initial expense. The mission was to blow up a Pan-Am flight."
The investigation, to be broadcast on Tuesday, also quotes a former CIA agent Robert Baer as saying "six days after taking down the Airbus there was a meeting in Beirut, we know where it occurred.
"The Iranians went to the PFLP-GC, the break off faction and said, 'alright, you guys know how to bring down airplanes, bring down five, five civilian airliners'."
Megrahi's family still hope to lodge a fresh appeal against his conviction on 270 counts of murder.
The Libyan lost a previous appeal in 2002, one year after he was found guilty, and dropped a second appeal two days before being released from Greenock jail in August 2009 on compassionate grounds.
Scotland's prosecuting authority, the Crown Office, has previously said the alleged involvement of the PFLP-GC was addressed at the original Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.
In December, the Libyan attorney general announced he had appointed two prosecutors to work on the continuing investigation into the bombing.
For the first time they met Scottish and US investigators who are trying to establish whether there are other individuals in Libya who could be brought to trial for involvement in the attack.


Edinburgh Property owners have accused the council of using bullying tactics to recover debt linked to a scheme they have admitted to mismanaging.

Almost £3m has still to be collected under the controversial system of statutory notices.
The system allowed City of Edinburgh Council to arrange essential repairs on shared tenements before billing the owners once the work was completed.
A number of owners argue repairs they have been charged for were unnecessary.
Some claim officials repeatedly brushed aside their concerns before threatening them with legal action.
Ian Millar, who received a writ for £24,500, told BBC Scotland "I think their [City of Edinburgh Council] tactic very much is to bully people into paying.
"It seems to have worked. A lot of people have just paid to get rid of it."
However, the council insists its approach has been reasonable and difficult cases, including Mr Millar's, have been reviewed independently, objectively and consistently.
The scandal surrounding the property conservation department, which oversaw the common repairs service, first emerged in 2011 when hundreds of Edinburgh residents complained of overcharging and poor workmanship.
Police were called in to investigate allegations of fraud and while no-one faced criminal charges a number of employees were dismissed as the council admitted the service had been mismanaged.
The local authority, which has been forced to write off almost £14m to date because of the scandal, asked Deloitte to review hundreds of outstanding cases, including the block of flats on Dalkeith Road where Mr Millar lives.
City of Edinburgh Council said it was an independent, thorough and consistent process.
Then last January, a letter arrived with a writ for £24,500
Mr Millar said: "It's terrifying. I didn't even have a lawyer before and to suddenly receive a writ for £24,500, which is a very large sum of money for me.
"It was frightening and I had no choice but to fight it."
The council eventually settled with Ian Millar out of court for around a fifth of what they had demanded.
According to the legislation underpinning statutory notices the council is obliged to bill each owner for an equal share but payment is a different story.
Rainer Thonnes was one of three neighbours to pay the full amount, almost £20,000 more than the cheapest settlement.
"I'm at a loss to understand what makes them think that they can do this. What makes them think that this is fair.
"I was basically very worried, having sleepless nights. I felt that the only way to stop that was just to pay up and hope to get some of it back later by whatever means."
Edinburgh Council said private settlements were based entirely on individual circumstances and are no reflection on the original invoice.
A spokesman said: "In line with the relevant legislation, all owners are billed for the same amount and any outstanding debt is pursued according to the council's debt policy.
"We have made considerable progress in resolving the problems associated with the former property conservation service, billing owners where reasonable to do so and recovering significant debt (£17m) on behalf of the Edinburgh tax payer."


One of the 20th Century's most influential sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman, has died aged 91 in Leeds.

The left-wing thinker was a Polish Jew who fled to the USSR after Nazi Germany invaded Poland. He was loyal to the Polish communists until they carried out an anti-Semitic purge in 1968.
He lectured in Israel and then, from 1971, at the University of Leeds.
A critic of globalisation, he used the phrase "liquid modernity" to describe marginalised and rootless individuals.
The author of more than 50 books, he won several international awards for his explorations of ethics, consumerism, globalisation and modernity. He was regarded as a strong moral voice for the dispossessed.
In his most famous book, Modernity and the Holocaust, he argued that the Nazi mass murder of Jews was not simply a regression to barbarism but was connected to industrialisation. The machinery of the modern state had made it feasible, he argued.
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In 2010 the University of Leeds founded the Bauman Institute, which promotes studies in social, economic and political life, in recognition of the professor's work.
Growing up in Poland, Bauman experienced poverty and anti-Semitism and that fuelled his commitment to social justice.
He was a controversial figure in modern Poland, having admitted that he had once served in the Stalin-era Internal Security Corps, a military unit.
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which prosecutes Nazi and communist-era crimes, has a file on him. He said that he had a clerical job and denied any involvement in killings.
He campaigned for the dignity of the individual who, he argued, suffered manipulation by capitalist market forces.
Globalisation benefited the rich at the expense of the poor, he argued.
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About a fifth of homes have been destroyed in Fort McMurray, a Canadian city ravaged by a huge wildfire, the local MP has told the BBC.

After touring the damage David Yurdiga said it might be years before the city was running normally again.
More than 100,000 residents of the city and surrounding area fled after an evacuation order was issued.
Officials say the fire, now burning for a week, grew more slowly at the weekend than first feared.
Firefighters held key areas and the blaze now covers about 1,610 sq km (620 sq miles) - less than the 1,800 sq km (700 sq miles) estimated on Saturday.
Mr Yurdiga said while most of the city was intact the area was still too dangerous for residents to return home.
"An estimate: 20% of the homes have been burnt, but the majority of homes are standing, no damage at all," Mr Yurdiga said.
"So you know what? It's a lot better than I thought it was."
On Sunday, fire chiefs spoke of getting a "death grip" on the fire, which has been fed by hot weather and tinder dry terrain.
"With a little help from mother nature and a bit of a break in the weather, and all the hard work of all the firefighters we were able to hold most of the line in Fort McMurray," said Alberta wildfire manager Chad Morrison.
But it could be months before the fire is fully brought under control. Officials warned only significant rainfall could fully halt its spread.
The fire is being blown east away from communities, but still threatens to cross from Alberta province into neighbouring Saskatchewan.
Air quality warnings have been issued for Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories, with locals advised to close windows and doors due to smoke.
The final evacuations of 25,000 people who headed north from Fort McMurray after the blaze began was completed on Sunday.
Schools in the provincial capital Edmonton are arranging for displaced families to send their children to local schools from Monday.
No deaths or injuries have been reported from the fire, but two people died in traffic accidents during the mass evacuation.
The fire is expected to be the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history, with insurance costs alone already running into billions of dollars.
Fort McMurray is in the heart of Canada's oil sands country, and the region has the world's third-largest reserves of oil. Workers at major oil companies have also been evacuated.
As much as a quarter of the country's oil production has been halted by the fire, raising concerns about the effect on the Canadian economy.


A female diver has been airlifted to hospital after becoming ill in the sea near Ballycastle, County Antrim, on Saturday afternoon.

The woman, who is believed to be in her 50s, was taken to Craigavon Area Hospital by the police helicopter.
The Coastguard was contacted shortly after 17:00 BST.
The woman is being treated in the hospital's decompression chamber and is in a stable condition.


The US economy added 175,000 new jobs in February, but the unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.7%.

The jobs figures, from the US Labor Department, were better than many had been expecting and marked a rebound from two weak months.
It had been thought the figures would be affected by recent harsh weather, which had hit much of the country.
But the unemployment rate, based on different statistics, went up slightly from January's 6.6% to 6.7%.
February's jobs figure, known as non-farm payrolls and based on a survey of employers, compares with the 129,000 new jobs created in January.
Analysts had been expecting a rise of about 150,000 last month.
"It is stronger than expected on several fronts," said Camilla Sutton, from Scotia Capital.
"That these numbers came even while weather was bad shows the underlying strength of the US economy."
A large chunk of the gains came from financial and other services, which were responsible for an extra 79,000 jobs.
Construction companies, many of which had been affected by the bad weather, added 15,000 jobs.
But the information sector lost 16,000 jobs, most of them in film and sound recording.
Average hourly earnings in the private sector rose by 3.7%, or about nine cents, to $24.31, the figures show. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.2%.
The unemployment rate is calculated from a different survey, of households, and rose slightly from its lowest level since October 2008. It leaves the total number of unemployed relatively unchanged at 10.5 million.
However, the same survey shows the number of long-term unemployed (defined as those jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased by 203,000 in February to 3.8 million.
Cold and snowy weather, which has disrupted much of the country, was one of the reasons 601,000 people with jobs stayed at home last month, according to the survey.
The US Federal Reserve has said the severe winter was to blame for recent weaknesses in jobs numbers, retail sales and housebuilding.
Analysts see the latest figures as further evidence the apparent slowdown was only a blip.
"This bodes well for the economy since there were massive headwinds against it and there had been some data before this indicating that it wouldn't be so strong," said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of Sarhan Capital.
The stronger-than-expected figures are likely to mean the Federal Reserve will continue to withdraw extra support from the economy - a process known as tapering.
The central bank had been spending $85bn a month buying bonds, but has now reduced that to $65bn and plans to cut the programme by $10bn each month.
"Fed tapering will likely continue full steam ahead," said Craig Dismuke, from Vining Sparks.
Separate figures released on Friday showed the US trade deficit widened slightly in January, partly because of rising oil imports.
The deficit grew to $39.1bn (Â£23.4bn), an increase of 0.3% on December's figure.


A national review of Police Scotland governance is to be undertaken in the wake of the early resignation of Chief Constable Sir Stephen House.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon admitted the creation of the single force just over two years ago had "presented challenges and raised concerns".
She said the review would seek to learn lessons from the early operation of Police Scotland.
Opponents said the review was "simply not enough".
The Scottish government has come under increased pressure to act after Sir Stephen revealed last week he would stand down before the end of the year.
His resignation followed sustained criticism of the force for its use of consensual stop-and-search and armed police on routine patrols.
Independent investigations are also under way into the death in custody of Fife man Sheku Bayoh and officers' failure to respond to reports of a fatal crash on the M9 in Stirlingshire.
Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has called for an independent inquiry into Police Scotland's operations while Labour has already announced it would carry out its own review into policing.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson is due make a statement on policing to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.
Ms Sturgeon said steps would be taken to improve police accountability, including a requirement that the chief constable attend local public scrutiny sessions.
Mr Rennie said the review was "simply not enough".
He said: "This government is denying reality. The reality is that Police Scotland is not at the forefront of UK policing, it is on its knees. It needs to change before it gets any worse."
Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "Armed officers, stop and search, the M9 tragedy - the single force is struggling.
"Now, just two years after creating it, this SNP government is forced to concede today that it now needs reform.
"The creation of a few new committees simply won't cut it. We need local accountability restored to a service which - to much of the country - now feels utterly remote."


The Department of Finance's most senior civil servant is to give evidence to the committee investigating the £1bn sale of Nama's Northern Ireland loan portfolio later.

David Sterling will appear before Stormont's Finance Committee.
He is expected to be asked what the department knew about the sales process and what contact it had with bidders.
The portfolio was sold to the US investment fund Cerberus for more than £1bn last year.
An Irish politician, Mick Wallace, has alleged that £7m was due to be paid to a Northern Ireland politician in the wake of the deal.
The National Crime Agency (NCA), which is leading the criminal inquiry into the loan sale controversy, is concerned its investigation could be undermined.
Last week, Stormont's Finance Committee had to postpone its first hearing so it could work out how to proceed without prejudicing a police investigation.
The committee has now drawn up a draft terms of reference.
Its chairman Daithí McKay said they had to ensure the committee's scrutiny role does not interfere with any investigation or potential criminal trial.
On Thursday, the committee is due to consider papers provided to it by the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP).
It is then scheduled to question Mr Sterling and another senior civil servant.
A hearing by the Irish parliament's Public Accounts Committee has already established that a firm interested in buying the portfolio approached the then-Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson in June 2013.
The international law firm Brown Rudnick, acting on behalf of the Pimco investment fund, wrote to Mr Wilson "seeking guidance" before engaging with Nama.
Mr Wilson forwarded the letter to the Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan who advised that Brown Rudnick should contact Nama directly.
Pimco later dropped out of the bidding, after it revealed that Nama's former Northern Ireland adviser Frank Cushnahan was due to receive a £5m fee if its bid was successful.
Brown Rudnick then went on to act for the successful bidder, Cerberus.
Brown Rudnick paid £7.5m to the Belfast's solicitors firm Tughans for advice on the deal.
Tughans' then-managing partner, Ian Coulter, later moved the bulk of that fee to an Isle of Man bank account.
Mr Coulter said the money was moved for "a complex, commercially and legally sensitive" reason.
He said that no politician, nor any relative of any politician, was ever to receive any money from the deal.
The money was later moved back and Mr Coulter left the firm.
He remains in dispute with his former partners about the events surrounding the Isle of Man transfer.
All parties involved in the deal deny any wrongdoing.


A doorman has been stabbed in the neck in a "vicious assault" after refusing to allow a group of men to enter a bar.

Police were called to Modo bar in Concert Square, Liverpool, at about 22:00 BST on Saturday.
The doorman was taken to Royal Liverpool University Hospital, where he is being treated for a serious injury.
Officers believe the offender had approached the bar earlier in the evening with a group, but they were refused entry.
He later returned and assaulted the doorman, police said.
Det Insp Lee Wilkinson, from Merseyside Police, said: "This was a vicious assault on the doorman.
"Medical staff who are treating him have said that he is extremely lucky and this could have been a lot worse."
The offender is described as white, 5ft 11in (1.80m) tall, in his early 20s with a "heavy" build and short brown hair. He was wearing dark tracksuit bottoms, a navy t-shirt and a hoodie.


A foreign student living in London has admitted trying to travel to Syria or Iraq engage in acts of terrorism.

Cubeyda Hassan Jama, 19, a London-based Finnish national, was arrested as he tried to fly from Stansted Airport to Romania on February 5.
Appearing at London's Old Bailey, he pleaded guilty to one charge of preparing an act of terrorism by gathering equipment and making travel arrangements to go to Syria or Iraq.
He will be sentenced on 28 July.


So before any of you get too gloomy, the recovery is not over.

GDP or national income increased at an annual rate of 2.4% in the first three months of the year, which looks pretty good by international standards - and is only a touch slower than the 2.5% forecast for this year made in the Budget by the government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility.
But the quarter-on-quarter growth rate does not look quite so rosy: the economy expanded by just 0.3% in the three months to the end of March, compared with the previous quarter.
That was half the growth rate we enjoyed in the last three months of 2014 and the slowest rate of growth since the end of 2012.
What's going on?
For reasons no one can quite explain, construction in Britain has been lousy for six months.
The production industries have been especially hurt by the oil price collapse, which has led to something of a crisis in the North Sea. Excluding oil and gas, quarter-on-quarter growth would have been 0.1 of a percentage point higher at 0.4%.
But nor has manufacturing been sparkling: it showed growth of just 0.1%. And perhaps because of the strengthening pound, the growth rate of our manufacturers has progressively decelerated in a straight line from 1.4% a year ago
More unexpectedly, some service industries in which the UK is a world leader - finance, engineering and architecture - have had a poor few months.
One possible explanation of their slowing growth is that demand for our services and goods in important export markets - especially China and the US - may be a bit worse than official figures show. That could be a sign of trouble ahead.
So thank goodness for our domestic-facing services.
Or to put it another way, if we weren't a nation of shoppers and restaurant eaters, there would be very little growth at all. The output of distribution, hotels and restaurants increased by 1.2% in the quarter - only slightly slower than at the end of last year.
In fact shops, hotels and restaurants contributed two thirds of all growth in the latest quarter.
Which brings us to a couple of big and important points.
The most politically resonant one is that the Tory and Lib Dem government has failed in its ambition to rebalance the economy more towards manufacturing.
The last official figures before the general election show that the manufacturing sector is still 4.8% smaller than before the great crash and recession - whereas the much larger service sector is now even bigger: 8.5% bigger than before the crash.
In other words, we are more dependent on service industries than we've ever been in our history.
And not only have services become a big proportion of the economy, some 78% of it, but they actually contributed more than 100% of all the growth we enjoyed since the end of December (because production and construction made negative contributions).
To be clear, the ascendance of services may not be a disaster: we have many world-beating service businesses, many services are capable of being exported, and services can therefore help the UK to pay its way in the world (something which hasn't happened for 30 years, as you know).
But since the Business Secretary Vince Cable and the Chancellor George Osborne both set great store on increasing the importance to Britain of manufacturing, it is worth pointing out that the shift to the makers has not happened - or at least not yet.
Point number two is a related one: although we should all probably be grateful that we are still spending in shops and cafes, and keeping the economy moving forward, history suggests it will all end in tears if we don't see a revival of other sources of growth - namely exports and business investment.
Right now much of our spending and consumption is being spurred by the windfall we've received from lower prices of essentials, namely food, petrol and energy. That's given us more spending power.
But the concern would be that we'll start to buy too much on credit once again, at a time when millions of households are still burdened by record debts - and are only able to afford those debts because the official Bank of England interest rate remains close to zero.
So hip hooray that the recovery continues.
But what the figures show is that there remains a massive job for the next government to reconstruct our economy so that prosperity can be generated in a more sustainable long-term way.
No government can magic away boom and bust. But governments do have the ability to flatten the business cycle so that busts become less pronounced - and that goal has not yet been achieved.


Faugheen warmed up for the defence of his Cheltenham Champion Hurdle title with a comfortable victory in the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.

The eight-year-old is odds-on favourite to retain his title in March and won by 15 lengths under jockey Ruby Walsh.
Stablemate Nichols Canyon, who had beaten him at Punchestown in November, challenged at halfway.
But an error at the second-last ended his hopes as he finished third behind Arctic Fire.
The win for the 3-10 favourite gave trainer Willie Mullins a sixth consecutive win in the race after Hurricane Fly's five successes.
"Faugheen was explosive," said Walsh, who had ridden Hurricane Fly to four of those wins.
"He travelled and jumped really well. We went at it from the word go - he jumped like a buck and you saw what he did when they tried to take him on - he destroyed them.
"I was riding the Champion Hurdle horse and if they are going to beat me they are going to have to come and get me."