Saturday has been the hottest day of the year so far in Wales, as retailers say soaring temperatures are helping boost the economy.

The hottest place was in Powys where temperatures reached 30C (86F) with parts of south Wales just behind.
And the weather is offering a helping hand to many businesses.
Shops said items such as paddling pools, barbecues and outdoor furniture had been snapped up and more holidaymakers were booking breaks.
Major events were also enjoying bumper attendances.
Llangollen's international eisteddfod recorded a 40% rise in visitors and tens of thousands were expected at the Wales National Air Show in Swansea over the weekend.
The Wakestock music festival near Abersoch, Gwynedd - which last year was a washout - and Cardiff's food and drink festival were hoping for a similar boost.
The Met Office confirmed that Saturday was the hottest day so far, with Llysdinam near Llandrindod Wells recording the highest temperature of 30C (86F)
Nowhere else topped 30C but several places were close to it including Usk in Monmouthshire and Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent which both recorded temperatures over 29C (84F).
More hot weather is expected on Sunday but temperatures are expected to be slightly lower.
Thousands of people headed to the coast at the weekend to make the most of the sunshine.
No major incidents were reported on Saturday but the RNLI in Rhyl, Denbighshire, said it was kept busy with parents becoming separated from their children and people being cut off by the fast incoming tide.
Meanwhile, shops, supermarkets and online retailers said the hot weather meant demand for summer goods was significantly higher than last year, when July saw unseasonably heavy rainfall and floods.
Department store John Lewis in Cardiff said sales of outdoor furniture and barbecues had climbed more than three-fold.
Fashion accessories have also performed well, increasing 74% on last year, with sunglasses especially popular.
"This week's hot weather has resulted in good sales for all things summer," said Chris Earnshaw, managing director at the Cardiff store.
"Outdoor furniture and barbecues have been extremely popular this week, with sales increasing by an amazing 340% versus last year.
"Recent sporting events such as Wimbledon and the Lions tour have encouraged customers to get active outdoors with sports equipment seeing sales increase by 60% against last year."
Morrisons said it expected sales of burgers to rise by 500% this weekend with the weather ripe for barbeques.
Christopher Ellis from the supermarket said: "We expect to sell 300,000 burgers this week and we expect to sell 700,000 packs of sausages over the weekend."
Online retail giant Amazon, which has a large distribution warehouse in Swansea, reported huge rises in sales of summer stock.
It said demand for paddling pools had gone up by more than 800% compared to July last year, while sprinkler and outdoor furniture sales were both up by more than 500%.
Elsewhere, it is shaping up to be a good summer for ice cream producers and sellers.
Mary Hursey of Mary's Farmhouse, a sorbet and ice cream maker in Crymych, Pembrokeshire, said demand had increased 30% in comparison to this time last year.
"We are distributing 3,000 litres (of ice cream) a week instead of 2,000 litres," said Mrs Hursey, whose company has 400 customers and 11 staff.
"Obviously, we have been busy and everybody has had to work a little bit harder.
"We employ students to help us over the summer and last year we hired one, but this year we have three."
The Wales Tourism Alliance said last minute short breaks had been on the rise since the sun reappeared, with coastal and rural areas seeing most visitors.
"This week we have had a really good rise in the bookings," said caravan park owner Tim McIlveen.
"We get a lot more people thinking about buying caravans and staying in the UK for their holidays.
"Overall it's a very good story for the moment."
Meanwhile, Jen McDonald of Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, said it was coming up with innovative ways of keeping its animals cool in the hot weather.
"Our chimps, spider monkeys, lemurs, gibbons and European brown bears are all receiving cool treats," she said.
"They're not ice lollies as such but fruit encased in iced water. They get the goodness of the fruit and the iced water keeps them cool."
Ms McDonald said the zoo's visitor numbers had increased too.
"Visitors are up 16% on this time last year and in the first week of July alone we had 40 groups of visitors," she added.


Nigeria were held to a 1-1 draw as Ghana fought back from a goal down in their women's Africa Cup of Nations match on Wednesday.

The Super Falcons took the lead when Asisat Oshoala challenged for a header and the ball bounced in off Ghana's Portia Boakye.
But three minutes before half-time Ghana won a penalty and captain Elizabeth Addo the equaliser.
Ghana's Samira Suleman and Florence Dadson missed chances to win it.
The result leaves both teams on four points, with one game each remaining.
Kenya and Mali, both looking for their first points, play in Group B's late game on Wednesday.
Mali were vastly improved from their 6-0 loss to Nigeria in their opening Group B match as they overcame Kenya 3-1 in Limbe on Wednesday.
The result means that Kenya cannot progress to the semi-finals at their first ever Women's Africa Cup of Nations finals.
Mali now know a win over Ghana in their final group match on Saturday in Yaounde will see them progress.
The Malians opened the scoring in the 34th minute through Coulibaly Sebe's free-kick.
Seven minutes after the break, Mali doubled their lead with a well taken finish by Bassira Toure.
Toure then sealed the scoring from the penalty spot after she was fouled in the box.
Kenya, who once again impressed with some neat passing moves, pulled a goal back as Cheris Avila fired home from inside the area.
After the match, former Kenya player Doreen Nabwire, who is now part of the coaching team, said: "Today's display was the worst because we have had very good preparations ever since we qualified for these finals and we only have ourselves to blame."
Mali and Ghana both now travel to Yaounde where they will play their final group match on Saturday while Nigeria face Kenya in Limbe.


Five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has confirmed he will return to competitive snooker at the Masters at Alexandra Palace in January.

He has not played since losing a World Championship quarter-final to eventual winner Stuart Bingham in April.
"Looking forward to playing the Masters," the 39-year-old wrote on social media.
The former world number one has won 27 ranking events in his career, including five Masters titles.
O'Sullivan recently told BBC Sport: "I am reluctant to give up this easy life I have at the moment which is very enjoyable.
"I am dithering but at the moment I am enjoying life so much I haven't really got the time to practise or give the game 100%."
The Masters begins on Sunday, 10 January, with the final on the following Sunday, 17 January.


Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says "every player has a price" after being asked about Raheem Sterling's contract wrangle at Liverpool.

The Portuguese said he understood the stance of Reds boss Brendan Rodgers, who said Sterling would not be sold.
But Mourinho said: "I don't like players that don't want to play for me and my club, clearly."
Chelsea are among the clubs linked with the England forward, 20, after he rejected a £100,000-a-week contract.
Mourinho said striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sold to Barcelona when he was Inter Milan boss after asking to join the Spanish club.
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"Every player has a price. It doesn't matter which player," said Mourinho. "If you ask me now, for example, Eden Hazard, we can speak about him because he's signed a new contract.
"Do I want him to leave Chelsea? No. If he wants to leave, if he doesn't want to work with me, if he doesn't want to play for Chelsea, does Eden Hazard have a price? I think he has a price."
Sterling has two years left on a contract worth £35,000 a week and Mourinho added: "I also understand the philosophy of managers and clubs who want to keep the players at any price, who want just to say, 'there is no price to sell - the player stays, whatever'.
"My philosophy is not better than that - it's just different. Either way, when a player has a contract with a club, the club, the manager and the board have the power to decide what to do."
Mourinho admitted he faces a difficult decision over Petr Cech after the long-serving goalkeeper said he did not want to remain second choice behind Thibaut Courtois at Stamford Bridge.
"Chelsea gave him a lot, but for what he is giving to the club still, he deserves a special perspective," he said.
"I think he won the right to be part of a discussion and a decision."


Police officers in Ecuador will be made to take lie detector tests in an effort to root out corruption in the force, the country's police chief has said.

Gen Wilson Alulema said he wanted all 42,000 officers to take the test.
Under new anti-corruption efforts, officers will also have to declare their assets so investigators can spot illicit payments more easily.
President Rafael Correa ordered a modernisation of the force after a police mutiny last September.
Thousands of police demonstrated against cuts to their benefits as part of a government austerity drive.
The protests turned violent and President Correa had to be rescued by the military after being tear-gassed and held for several hours in a hospital.
He described the events as an attempted coup and vowed to purge the police.
Since then, his administration has taken administrative control of the force.
Gen Alulema said he hoped the government would give senior police officers the power to sack those linked to corruption.
The general complained that 300 agents who had been suspended from their duties over corruption allegations had been re-instated by judges, who argued there had been judicial irregularities.
"Those judges don't understand the gravity of their decisions," Gen Alulema said.
He also announced that incentives would be offered to officers who denounce corrupt colleagues.


Outlander star Grant O'Rourke has been named best actor at a theatre awards ceremony for his performance on the Scottish stage.

O'Rourke won the Best Male Performance Award for his role in The Venetian Twins at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.
The Royal Lyceum dominated the 2015 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS), winning six of the ten awards.
Its production Caucasian Chalk Circle took four awards.
The Brecht play won Best Production, Best Female Performance (Amy Manson), Best Ensemble and Best Director (Mark Thomson).
The judges said: "In a remarkable season at the Lyceum, Mark Thomson's production of Brecht's great play stood out for its scale, ambition and unabashed theatricality."
Another Royal Lyceum production, Bondagers, picked up the Best Design Award.
O'Rourke plays Rupert MacKenzie in the US-produced TV show Outlander, which is a historical time-travel series set in 18th century Scotland.
The Edinburgh-born actor won his award for playing twins Zanetto and Tonino in the Royal Lyceum production.
CATS co-convener Mark Fisher said: "This has been another wonderful year for theatre in Scotland, and it speaks volumes about the quality of the work being produced at the Royal Lyceum that no fewer than three of its productions have triumphed against such strong competition."
In 2015, 196 productions were eligible for the CATS including 78 new plays.


There were celebrations 120 years ago at Llanfairpwll on Anglesey, when the last ever turnpike toll road in Britain was removed after more than 200 years under the hated system.

Turnpike roads were named after the frame of pikes that could be turned to allow horses through.
It was fitting that the final toll road to be returned to public ownership was in Wales, as arguably it was here where the system brought both the most benefit and the most hardship.
Between 1839 and 1842 farmers in mid and west Wales waged the Rebecca Riots against the tolls which threatened their livelihood.
Although 50 years before, the spread of the turnpikes had helped kindle a fledgling industrial revolution in the south Wales valleys.
But after surviving decades of protests, the turnpike trusts were eventually rendered obsolete by the railways and canals their roads had helped to build.
By the late 1600s British roads were in an appalling state, having had no major investment since Roman times.
In 1656 the boroughs of Hertfordshire, Huntington and Cambridgeshire faced bankruptcy with the cost of maintaining the Great North Road into London, so they lobbied parliament for the right to raise tolls to pay for the upkeep.
The system spread throughout the 18th Century, until at their height in the early 1800s, about 1,000 trusts controlled 18,000 miles (29,000 km) of road in England and Wales.
Transport expert Professor Stuart Cole said nowhere was their impact felt more than in Wales.
"Until the turnpikes, Britain, and in particular Wales, was entirely dependent on rivers and the sea for transport, but with the new roads Wales suddenly became important.
"In the north, Thomas Telford's Holyhead Road - now the A5 - became vital in supplying troops to Ireland, and the time taken for mail coaches to travel to London almost halved, from 45 hours to 27.
"In south Wales the new tarmacadam roads helped start the iron and coal industries.  Whilst there wouldn't be mass extraction until the railways, the roads were significant in allowing equipment to be brought in to the coalfields to at least start the process of industrialisation."
But these gains came at a cost to ordinary people, as corruption spread amongst the poorly regulated turnpike trusts.
"Side bars" were introduced to catch farmers who only used sections of the roads between turnpike gates, and tolls rose so rapidly it was said the price of carting a load of lime out of Cardiff was 10 times greater than the cost of buying it in the first place.
Dissatisfaction with the turnpike trusts peaked in 1839, when groups of farmers disguised in women's clothes ripped down toll gates in what came to be known as the Rebecca Riots.
Although historian Professor Chris Williams believes it isn't necessarily fair to lay the blame for all the farmers' grievances at the toll gates.
"Some turnpike trusts certainly did abuse their power, and the tolls did have an impact on the livelihood of the farmers, but the situation was much more complex than that.
"The farmers were facing poor harvests and falling prices for their produce thanks to easing of restrictions on foreign imports, but at the same time their tithes, tolls and poor rates were increasing.
"The turnpikes were just the visible face of a much wider problem, a tangible object on which the protesters could vent their frustration."
Nevertheless, as a result of the Rebecca Riots the Turnpikes act of 1844 amalgamated Welsh trusts and reduced tolls.
Although it proved something of a hollow victory for Rebecca, as by then the rapid spread of railways throughout Wales was already forcing the turnpikes into bankruptcy.
The Local Government Act of 1888 handed responsibility for roads back to councils, with the very last turnpike trust at Llanfairpwll wound up in 1895.


More bad news for Greece this evening, and again it is from the European Central Bank.

It has told Greek banks they have to lodge more collateral or assets with the Bank of Greece as security against the €89bn of emergency lending or ELA (emergency liquidity assistance) provided to the banks.
What does this mean?
Well it reduces the spare cash-raising capacity of the banks from €17-20bn to between €5-7bn. Or so I am told, by well-placed sources.
Now in one sense this is academic, because the ECB has also announced that the freeze on the total amount of ELA it will allow the Bank of Greece to do, which was announced on June 26 - and forced the Greek government to close the banks - will stay in place.
Or to put it another way, the tap of additional central bank support for the banks remains firmly turned off.
But I understand that one of the Big Four Greek banks has already almost run out of cash. So the ECB statement means that bank has no ability to replenish its dwindling cash stocks.
In other words, the ECB has brought forward the fateful moment when the Greek banking system ceases to function in any meaningful way, for want of cash.
The Greek government and Bank of Greece today agreed with the banks that until Wednesday night, they will continue to allow cash withdrawals of up to €60 per account - for those banks that still have paper money. And the ban on overseas transfers will be sustained until then.
Wednesday night therefore becomes a hard deadline for the Greek government to make serious progress in bailout negotiations with creditors - in the hope that the ECB is then persuaded to end the freeze on lending to banks.
Because without the ELA tap being turned back on, Greek banks will be out of cash. And it would be economic suicide for Greece to stay in the euro if the price of that is a banking system that is crippled for months, causing recession and even depression.
In other words, the ECB has reinforced what the economy minister Georgios Stathakis told me earlier today: there are just two days for progress in urgent negotiations to keep Greece in the euro.


Plans to build a new hotel in Inverness have been recommended for approval by Highland Council planning officers.

Carlton Rock Ltd proposes constructing the seven storey property on the site at Glebe Street, overlooking the River Ness.
The hotel would have 165 bedrooms, a restaurant and lounge bar, gymnasium and conference rooms.
The site of a demolished public swimming pool has been vacant for several years.
Planning officers said a number of 17th Century gravestones nearby would need to be preserved and protected from the construction work.
Highland Council's south planning applications committee will consider the hotel plans at a meeting on 21 January.


The inquiry into the deaths of dozens of elderly patients at a Hampshire hospital will cost more than £13m, the Department of Health has revealed.

Additional funding of £5m has been allocated to the budget of the Gosport Independent Panel for 2017/18 after the timescale of the inquiry was extended.
Relatives had called for a public inquiry which they believe would have been quicker and cheaper.
Launched in 2014, the investigation was originally due to end in December 2017.
A review of the deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1988 and 2000 found an "almost routine use of opiates had almost certainly" shortened the lives of some patients.
Police investigated the deaths of 92 people but brought no prosecutions.
The end date of the review was pushed back in November 2016 with the work likely to end in spring 2018, the government previously said.
The Gosport Independent Panel is headed by the former Bishop of Liverpool James Jones, who led the Hillsborough inquiry.
Bridget Reeves, whose grandmother Elsie Devine died at the hospital, is among the relatives who criticised the decision for an independent panel.
She said: "The frustration is that when we started we wanted a public inquiry but we were told very clearly that the cost would be far too great."
Department of Health allocated budgets to the Gosport Independent Panel:
The Department of Health said: "Budgets may be reviewed by the new government following the election on 8 June."


Former Manchester United footballer Andrew Cole has undergone a kidney transplant operation.

The 45-year-old, who also played for Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers, suffered kidney failure after contracting an airborne virus in 2015.
The operation at Manchester Royal Infirmary was part of his treatment for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a spokesman for Manchester United said.
He added that Cole would be "taking a break" from his club ambassador role.
The illness is a leading cause of kidney failure in adults and causes scarring in the organ.
Requesting the former England striker be given "privacy" during his recuperation, the spokesman added: "Andrew and his family would like to thank the club and fans for their support."
Speaking in 2016, Cole said kidney failure had been "tough to accept".
"Putting on all the weight has been the toughest part," he said.
"When I retired, I promised my kids I will never put on weight because when [footballers] retire they eat and drink.
"Seeing the change in my body, that has been tough, it wreaks havoc with yourself. You get comments like, 'Andy Cole's let himself go, who ate all the pies?'"
The forward, who scored 121 goals in 275 appearances for the Old Trafford club, played for 12 clubs in his career and made 15 appearances for England.
He remains the third highest scorer in Premier League history with 187 goals.


Salford Council has said it must save £56m over the next two financial years.

After revealing 2015-16's final draft budget, Mayor Ian Stewart warned the council "cannot avoid major impact on local residents and council services".
It plans to cut 200 posts in 2015-16 from its 8,500 workforce and the same number again during the following financial year.
Planned savings include merging adult care services with the National Health Service.
The council said in November it would be cutting £30m from its budget for 2015-16 and £24.5m for 2016-17.
Following the government's local government finance settlement in December, however, the council must save an additional £1.5m during the financial year which begins in April.
Part of the first round of job cuts will be met by not filling 120 vacancies. A council spokesman said the rest of the job losses were likely to come from voluntary redundancies.
Since 2010 the local authority has shed 1,200 posts.
It is also planning to cut £3.2m from Children's Services and £4.7m from Community, Health and Social Care.
Mr Stewart said: "We have already been forced to make £118m savings since 2011 and now the government says we have to save a further £56m over the next two years.
"I hope people understand the magnitude of the challenge the council faces - and that if we don't make the savings, the government will step in and make them for us."
The council said it would make savings from its plan, announced in November, to provide a single organisation for all adult health and social care services across the city.
It will unite with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Clinical Commissioning Group and Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMW) to do this.
The Unison trade union, which represents about 3,500 Salford council workers, said it wanted to see more details about the implications of the cuts for vulnerable adults and children.
"Obviously we are concerned about the effects of these cuts and so are the people who are affected by them," said Steve North, of Salford City Unison.
The proposals will go through further scrutiny and are open for further public comments until 30 January before the final decision is taken at a full council meeting on 25 February.


A woman has been pulled to safety after falling overboard from a dinghy in the Firth of Forth.

A member of  RNLI Kinghorn Lifeboat crew jumped into the water to rescue her after she was found clinging to the back of the boat south of Inchkeith Island on Saturday morning.
It is thought she had been in the water for up to half an hour and was in the early stages of hypothermia.
She had been on the boat with a man and a nine-year-old girl.
The lifeboat took the woman and the girl to shore, escorted by a Police Scotland boat which was working in the area, and both were taken to hospital by ambulance as a precaution.
Lifeboat Helmsman Scott McIlravie said: "Communications between us and the casualty were difficult, although they thankfully had a VHF radio on board so we were able to use our direction finding equipment to quickly locate the boat which was around half a mile south of the island.
"We quickly assessed the situation on arrival and found a female in the water clinging to the back of the dinghy. One of our team jumped into the water to get hold of her, and she was then brought to safety on the lifeboat.
"The second crew member on the boat was a young girl and she was also taken onto the lifeboat to be taken back to Kinghorn where an ambulance was waiting to assess both casualties.
"Both casualties were cold and distressed, with the woman who had been in the water suffering from the early stages of hypothermia."
He added: "It was fortunate that this vessel had a VHF radio on board today.
"There was very little chance that the woman would have got back onboard the dinghy today without third party assistance.
"Since the vessel was able to call for assistance immediately, and we were then able to find the boat quickly, this lady fortunately had a very lucky escape."
All three people on board the sailing boat were wearing life jackets.


As Americans in the west woke up to the awful news from Florida, I was on my way to the Ben Avery shooting range in the desert north of Phoenix Arizona, to meet three gun enthusiasts - Carol Ruh, president of the Arizona Ladies' Shooting Association, her husband Pete Ruh, and the group's Treasurer Debbie Arnold.

Carol, a licensed instructor, teaches gun safety. She had brought a selection to show me from her collection of nearly 50 weapons, including exactly the type of firearm used in the Pulse nightclub, the AR15 semi automatic rifle.
Carol bought it to take part in an Arizona state competition that involves target shooting at 200 yards.
"It's just like buying a new pair of shoes - I wanted to add it to my collection. I love it," she said.
For Carol, the answer to the Orlando shooting is not to ban such weapons.
Her husband, Pete Ruh, wanted me to hear again a line that I have heard over 20 years from many American gun rights advocates: "It's not the gun that kills people. It's the person behind it".
He was also very clear about this: "If any of us had been in the nightclub that night, this would not have happened".
Carol told me that if she finds herself in such a horrific situation, legally carrying her own gun, she is prepared to kill the attacker.
Her reaction to the Orlando attack?
"If there were no police inside, no SWAT team, I might have taken the shot. It's a difficult thing to do. It's not something I would wish to do. But if I had a clean shot, I might have taken it."
These three Americans have decades of legal gun ownership and experience between them. So what do they think can be done to stop more mass shootings?
Background checks? Yes. They all nod emphatically. "We totally agree with background checks". They should cover convictions and they should cover mental illness.
There are also buyers' loopholes to be tightened. Carol said "straw purchases" are still a real problem, where a front person purchases the gun, purely in order to pass it on.
Carol adds that "the secret to all of it is education". She believes proper safety training should be compulsory for those who buy guns, "just like a driving test".
Debbie Arnold wants more punitive sanctions for gun crime. She worries every day about her 23-year-old son, a police officer who could one day be in the line of fire.
She became tearful when telling me about the threats he faces. She is angry at the Obama administration for what she sees as a failure to crack down hard on illegal gun ownership.
"The criminals, the felons, will always get the weapons. The rules should be about checking the people who aren't meant to have the firearms. And stiffen up the laws on gun crime".
But what if an attacker does have a legal right to his semi-automatic rifle?
Even then, the answer from this Arizona gun range today is definitely not to ban the weapon itself.
Carol Ruh believes President Obama, and maybe Hillary Clinton after him, want to tear guns away from their rightful owners, from what she calls right-thinking Americans.
"They're trying to rip the constitution down, destroy our constitution", Debbie believes. "She's already told everybody the Second Amendment will be abolished".
Limiting the legal ownership of guns? For these Americans, and many many more like them, the answer is "absolutely not."
I ask Carol for her reaction if any government tries to limit guns to ranges, or stop citizens carrying them.
"I would resist that to my dying breath."
And Carol concludes: "This is not a country that will be invaded. Because the common person, the majority of us, owns a firearm".


A wildlife film maker had a close call with a polar bear in the Arctic, after it tried to hunt him.

5 January 2013 Last updated at 15:10 GMT
Gordon Buchanan was sitting in a specially designed polar bear proof box called the 'ice cube' when a female polar bear spotted him.
The hungry bear tries to break through the 'ice cube' but the specially designed Perspex plastic is too tough and she eventually gives up.
Cameras inside the 'ice cube' captured the dramatic moment for a new series called The Polar Bear Family and Me, which starts on Monday 7 January on BBC Two.
Check out the video above to see Gordon coming face to face with the polar bear.


Claims hospital evidence given at the inquest of a new born baby was tampered with are being examined by police.

Benjamin King died after being starved of oxygen before birth. Tamara Podemski was due to have a Caesarean the night before his birth but was sent home.
His father, actor Jamie King, said they heard "altered accounts, deflection and diversion" at the inquest.
The Avon Coroner has contacted police after claims witness statements were changed by the hospital's legal team.
Coroner Marie Voisin said she "remains very concerned about this very serious matter" - which emerged at the opening of the inquest in November.
"This decision, [to delay the birth] together with the decision to send his mum home, resulted in Benjamin being born in a poor condition and his subsequent death," she said.
Recording a narrative conclusion, she added she would be writing to the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust in her capacity as coroner to prevent future deaths.
Speaking outside court, Mr King said he had been informed by the coroner "that the matter of the altered witness statements has been reported to the police".
"Rather than hearing the truth, we've had to listen to misremembered stories, altered accounts, deflection and diversion," he said.
"Left with so many unresolved issues and unanswered questions, we feel compelled to appeal directly to expectant parents in the hope that this does not happen again."
Mr King urged expectant parents to stand their ground if they had any concerns about their baby's health, to stay, take names and write down every detail.
"That way, no-one can twist your story or play with the facts at a later date," he said.
The inquest at Flax Bourton was told Ms Podemski's pregnancy was assessed as high-risk and she was due to have a Caesarean section.
Her case was rated as a "C3", meaning the procedure should be undertaken as soon as it was safe to do so, it was said.
But when an emergency case took priority the decision was made to re-schedule Ms Podemski as first on the elective list for 0800 BST the following morning, 5 May.
She was sent home but rushed back into hospital and Benjamin was born by emergency Caesarean section at 06:55, the two-day hearing was told. He was resuscitated but died five days later.
A trust spokeswoman said it offered its sincere apologies to Benjamin's family which faced a "regrettable delay" to the conclusion of the inquest.
"As it was detailed in court we have made improvements to our systems as a result.
"We will now look closely at the coroner's findings to identify any further opportunities for improvement."


Tributes have been paid to a 41-year-old man who died after being found unconscious on a street in Newport.

A statement from Jan Jedrzejewski's family described him as "an amazing, caring and sincere son, brother, brother in law, uncle and friend".
Mr Jedrzejewski, who lived in the city, was found on Keene Street, Lliswerry, at about 23:00 GMT on Thursday.
He was taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital, where he later died. Police have arrested four people.
His family released a statement in Polish and English, which said: "We will never forget the smile on your face when your favourite football team Real Madrid scored a goal.
"You will forever stay in our hearts. We love and miss you, until we meet again."
Two men aged 18 and a 17-year-old boy were arrested on Friday and a 43-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder.


Two people have been rescued from a sinking boat in the Humber estuary after a collision with another vessel in the fog.

A mayday call was made at about 05:00 BST from the Pegotty, a motor cruiser taking on water just north of Grimsby dock, the Humber coastguard said.
A pilot vessel from Grimsby took two people off the boat, which sank about 25 minutes after the emergency call.
The Humber and Cleethorpes RNLI lifeboats were also launched.
The pilot vessel, Venus, and the two lifeboats returned to Grimsby after the rescue.
"The casualties were checked over and found to require no medical attention", said the RNLI.
Daniel Cooper, Cleethorpes RNLI Lifeboat operations manager, said: "Our volunteer crew managed to respond very quickly and launched the lifeboat within six minutes of the request for their assistance."
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch has been informed.


A book about Adolf Hitler by a University of Aberdeen historian is to be turned into a major television series.

Prof Thomas Weber's book Hitler's First War, which was released in 2010, claimed his image as a brave soldier was a myth.
The producers of the Oscar-nominated film Downfall - also about the Nazi leader - will make the show after a French TV network purchased the series.
The show will be called Hitler.
Production of the 10-hour series begins next year.
Prof Weber said: "It is a privilege to see my book and the research behind it dramatised in this way for a large TV audience.
"Over the years a great deal has been written about Hitler but so little of this focused on his life in the years of the First World War.
"Hitler's First War uncovered many myths in regard to his service and motivations following the conflict. More importantly it demonstrated how Hitler's lies about his war years became political tools in his hands for the rest of his life.
"The series is a great opportunity to demask Hitler."


Plans for a large solar farm in Lancashire have been approved by councillors in the Ribble Valley.

Nearly 20,000 solar panels will be installed across three fields on farmland in Gisburn following the decision at a meeting on Thursday.
The scheme was opposed by some local residents and Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans, who said it would damage the rural landscape.
Developers Island Green Power say their plans will provide clean energy.
Spokesman Mark Dickinson said: "Naturally we are very pleased and we looked at a huge amount of sites nationally."
He acknowledged that the farm will have a "minor visual impact" but said they had to get things into perspective as it was a "new technology that is not destructive, recyclable and temporary."
Mr Dickinson said Island Green Power were not interested in any other sites in the Ribble Valley.
Local resident Helen Heslop, who opposed the plan, said she was "really disappointed" by the council's decision and that the outcome "seemed to be a foregone conclusion".
Another protester, Graham Hardman, said he had received a lot of support and was extremely disappointed.
There was "no chance of an appeal", he added.


The final cost of repairing Glasgow School of Art's fire-damaged Mackintosh building is likely to be between £20m and £35m, MSPs have been told.

The art school's director, Professor Tom Inns, told Holyrood's education and culture committee that the restoration would probably take up to four years.
He said the cost could be met by government, insurance and donations.
Meanwhile, a £750,000 fund will be made available to students to recreate works they lost in last month's fire.
The blaze broke out in the world-famous Mackintosh building on Friday 23 May.
Students were putting the final touches to their end-of-year projects at the time.
The library was destroyed, but the Mackintosh Museum and the archives survived.
Firefighters managed to save about 90% of the iconic structure and about 70% of the contents. Many degree students, however, lost their work.
Members of the Scottish parliament's education and culture committee held a special one-off session on Tuesday to examine how the school, which was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh more than a century ago, will be restored.
Prof Inns told MSPs: "We have been in discussion with the insurance company and a team of people appointed to deal with the immediate securing of the building, and the estimates are probably somewhere between £20-£35m.
"In terms of the actual accident - or the incident - itself that is still under investigation by the police and the fire service so they still haven't reported back on that.
"We have a good sense of what actually happened but there's certain details of that which are still unknown, and we will have to reflect on what actually happened with that particular incident."
It will take 12 to 18 months to reopen the east wing of the building and 36 to 48 months to reopen the west wing, Mr Inns said.
He is "reasonably confident" they will be able to fully fund the restoration, he added.
"I say reasonably confident because there are unknowns in that because we have an insurance policy on the building - the building is well insured," he said.
"The insurance will cover certain things, it won't cover other things. Obviously it's a very complex insurance case.
"We will have to raise funds so we will be setting up a fundraising campaign, so I think if all of these things come together we will be able to cover the cost of that restoration.
"I am an optimistic person."
He added: "We originally marked the fund at £1m, but bear in mind we marked that up on the Saturday after the fire but that was before we sat down and actually worked it out.
"We're going to formally launch the fund on Wednesday and we're looking to raise probably between £10m-£20m depending on what we will actually be needing to be reasonably comfortable with the situation.
"We've had some very generous contributions from individuals, one or two pledges from trusts and organisations but it's a bit too early to say exactly what that is.
"But I think we can be reasonably confident that if we worked that well and effectively we would be able to raise the funding."
Prof Inns said the Scottish government had said it would match-fund up to £5m to support the restoration, but there had been no more detail from the UK government.
Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon said the UK government had said it was waiting for detail before it would make a contribution "in the millions if necessary".
Prof Inns said that the fire broke out as the deadline approached for students assessments.
"The assessment process I think was going to get frozen at 5pm that Friday afternoon and that was when all the work was going to be inside the degree show spaces and then the assessment teams would be going in on the Monday," he said.
Prof Inns said that all 102 students affected had since been assessed under "mitigating circumstances" and awarded their degrees.
The committee also heard that the Scottish government had contributed £750,000 towards the art school's Phoenix Bursary scheme to help students affected by the blaze to recreate lost work.
The bursaries, along with donations to the school, will help fund affected students' short-term living costs, academic supervision and the provision of studio space.
Earlier, Education Secretary Michael Russell said: "As well as doing very serious damage to one of Scotland's most iconic buildings, last month's fire put the future opportunities available to some of Scotland's most talented young artists in doubt.
"The Scottish government has pledged to help the school through this very difficult period and I am very pleased to offer financial aid for their final year students.
"These are truly exceptional circumstances and no student should have their chance of potentially flourishing career affected by this awful incident."
The education and culture committee heard evidence from Prof Inns, Sam De Santis, the president of Glasgow School of Art Student Association, along with Diana Murray, joint chief executive and Ranald MacInnes, head of heritage management from Historic Scotland, which will play a leading role in the salvage, storage and restoration of the building.


A prize-winning photograph of a hillwalker gazing out from inside a snow cave was taken as the battery ran out on the photographer's camera phone.

David Brookes' image won the Mountains of Scotland category and overall award in the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival photography competition.
It shows fellow hillwalker Juliet Harris looking out over Loch Avon in the Cairngorms.
Mr Brookes had 5% of battery life left in his phone when he took the picture.
The climber, who is originally from Cumbria and lives in Edinburgh, said: "This photograph was taken in October 2015 in the Cairngorms. Remarkably the snow had lasted from the previous winter.
"We had hoped to climb on Hell's Lum Crag but the rock was too slippery after a long wet summer. Instead, we decided to walk up Ben Macdui and came across this snow cave at Feith Buidhe."
Mr Brookes added: "I wasn't intending this to be a photography trip so I hadn't brought my usual camera.
"All I had was an iPhone with 5% battery left - and with that, I took this picture."
Another of the festival's winning images was a photograph of ice climber Kev Shields which was taken by Euan Ryan, of Scottish adventure film-making company Finalcrux Films.
Mr Ryan's picture won the People in Wild Places category.


A county council has set aside £1m to fix almost 3,000 portholes created during Storm Desmond flooding.

Northumberland County Council said the weather was now warm enough for its Jetpatcher machines to tackle the holes.
It is hoped that 145 potholes each day will be "filled in" over the next four months, the council said.
Extra staff will also be out repairing drainage systems damaged by heavy rain and to clear debris from gutters.


A parasitic-worm-killing drug, whose discovery won the Nobel prize, may also cut cases of malaria, say researchers.

Early data coming out of trials of ivermectin in Burkina Faso suggest it leads to 16% fewer cases of childhood malaria.
Scientists at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's conference, said the drug was toxic to blood-drinking mosquitoes.
They said their findings were pretty exciting, but still at an early stage.
Ivermectin is already used to kill parasitic worms, which affect a third of the world's population and cause illnesses including river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
Its discovery won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Mosquitoes, which spread the malaria parasite, are weakened or die if they drink the blood of someone recently treated with ivermectin.
So the US Colorado State University and the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la SantÃ© in Burkina Faso are trying to see if it can be used to save lives.
Eight villages are in the middle of a trial in which everyone in half of the villages are being given ivermectin every three weeks.
It started in July and finishes next week, but an early analysis has been presented to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Dr Brian Foy, from the Colorado State University, told the BBC News website: "The early signs are looking pretty good. Children in the treatment arm of the trial are getting less malaria.
"We're pretty excited about this and it doesn't look like there is any kind of adverse effect, but the data is not done until it's done."
In the untreated villages, 16% of children did not develop malaria during this rainy season compared with 25% in those being treated.
The scientists estimate that 94 bouts of malaria have been prevented in the 325 children in the villages being treated.
The drug seems to kill both parasitic worms and mosquitoes in the same way - by attacking their nervous systems so they cannot control their muscles.
"It is like having a big turkey dinner - it just wants to sit down and not move which is not good for the mosquito so it dies," Dr Foy told the BBC.
The fact that ivermectin works on both mosquitoes and parasitic worms could be an opportunity to tackle both diseases.
But it also raises the spectre of the worms and mosquitoes becoming resistant to the drug if it was used more widely.
Dr Foy concluded: "Resistance is certainly a concern, not only against worms, but also against the mosquitoes.
"There has never been an insecticide that mosquitoes haven't evolved resistance to, so we'd have to be careful about that."
Global deaths from malaria have fallen by 60% since 2010, however, the success is being put under threat by the rise of artemisinin-resistant malaria in south-east Asia.
The president of the ASTMH, Christopher Plowe, said: "We're at a critical moment in the fight against malaria where drug and insecticide resistance is threatening hard-won progress.
"It's important to actively develop new tools and strategies, including re-purposing old tools, to keep pushing down malaria."
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President Donald Trump is continuing to back a ban on people from seven countries entering the United States despite mass protests against it.

The new rules, brought in on Friday, stop people coming to America from countries in the Middle East and Africa for 90 days. They include stopping Syrian refugees travelling to the US until further notice.
Mr Trump said the plans were about keeping America safe from terrorism, and said it was not a ban against Muslims.
There have been big protests against the ban across the country over the weekend.
We think the ban is wrong because these countries are in a bad situation and their people should be able to seek shelter here. President Trump says that it is not about religion but he keeps using the word Muslim, which sounds like it is about religion.  Not all Muslim people are bad, there are more good people than bad people, so if we keep all the people out from those countries then we are keeping out a lot of good people.
2nd grade class from Hunter Elementary School, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
I think Trump is very right to do what he is doing because it is going to better security in the USA and to stop crime!
Ben, Scotland
I do not think it is right to ban people from different countries as it is not a good sign of welcoming others! Trump is also punishing others, for example Syrian refugees, who need a safe place to stay. He does not realise what he is completely doing to others than keeping America safe from terrorism. Rather than setting up rules quickly, he should think how it affects others!
Nicole, Dorchester, England
I think it is wrong because even though he says he is doing it for safety, he is really being racist. He is a bad and dangerous president.
Hope, Aberfeldy, Scotland
I think everyone should be allowed to travel wherever they want.
Lois, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
This is not acceptable. Trump may think this is correct for America but many more countries suffer from this ban. As well as this, America is one of the wealthiest countries so why not use that money to help those countries. I wouldn't do this despicable thing if I was him, would you?
Isobel, Oxford, England
We think Trump is trying to do the right thing but going about it completely wrong. Terrorists are extreme people who have been brainwashed into a certain way of thinking. Not all Muslims are terrorists so they shouldn't be treated like they are. If Trump was going to impose a ban like this, he should have held a referendum with all the American population to see if they wanted to do it or not. It is too big for one person to make this decision and cause so much controversy.
Class 1 from Colden J & I School, West Yorkshire, England
I disagree with President Trump's US travel ban because people should have the right to visit the country. He is being very mean.
Jessica, London, England
I don't think it's right. It's not fair for other people just because where they are from because people need to go to America. They might be Muslim people living there and it's not fair for them to have to move house, get a new job and have to find a new school. I would be very sad.
Sara, Scotland
I think he shouldn't because a war is happening in Syria so people escaping need shelter.
Henry, England
I think that he shouldn't be doing it. Everyone is the same even if they have a different religion.
Freya, Godalming, England
I think he is just really mean. They are just regular people and they don't deserve to be treated differently.
Millie, Huddersfield, England
I think this is not right what Trump is doing and it's kind of racist for Muslim people.
Habib, United Kingdom
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A large bomb has exploded near the Russian embassy in the west of the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.

So far there are no confirmed reports of casualties, although the interior ministry said they were feared.
The explosion sent black smoke billowing into the sky, with emergency services rushing to the scene.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, but the Taliban will be the main suspects as they have launched attacks on the city in the past.


About 70,000 deaf people in the UK have British Sign Language as their first language, and at this school in London, everyone is learning it.

22 March 2017 Last updated at 06:14 GMT
Deaf pupils at the school have been helping their hearing friends to learn sign language.
More than 30,000 people have signed an online petition saying that everyone should learn sign language at school.
The Department of Education says that it would be too difficult for all schools to have to teach sign language, but "schools are free to teach it if they choose to do so."
The kids at this school told us what they think.


Indian artist and activist Jasmeen Patheja always wanted to be a photographer.
So years ago, when her grandmother Inderjit Kaur said she wished she had been an actor, the two decided to fulfil each other's dreams.
And the result of their collaboration is "Indri and I" - a stunning portfolio of images that shows the 85-year-old  dressed in fantastic costumes.
"I can't really put a date on when the project began. It possibly started when I was just three years old," Ms Patheja told the BBC.
She remembers the hot summer days of her childhood spent in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) when she would come back home from school.
"We lived in a large joint family. My granny never took an afternoon nap, so I grew up playing with her, her directing me. I grew up hearing how she could have been a doctor, a nurse, a school teacher or even the prime minister. And every afternoon, I would become one of these characters," Ms Patheja says, adding that "daydreaming was encouraged and facilitated".
Mrs Kaur was a housewife, her education interrupted by the uncertainties of World War Two.  Born in Burma (now Myanmar), she escaped with her family to Lahore in what is now Pakistan at the age of nine when Japan attacked British-ruled India. It was six years before the family could return home.
"At times she would say, 'I wish I had studied more.' She had this regret, a sense of missed opportunity about not having studied. But she made up for it because she was very curious and deeply engaging."
Also, she enjoyed being photographed and was "a real natural" in front of the camera, Ms Patheja says.
"So a few years ago, one day when she said, 'I wish I had been an actor', I said to her, 'Ok, you act and I will take photographs'."
And thus was born "Indri, the actor".
Together, they started creating characters for photo shoots that Indri had always dreamt of becoming.
"Indri the actor started taking risks in the way she was dressing up, with the way she was putting up her hair, with her make-up," Ms Patheja says, adding that, "one thing I was always clear about - 'I didn't want to 'cuteify' her."
Over the years, she saw her granny transform into a politician, a princess, a fairy, a scientist, and a dozen other characters.
Ms Patheja says the first image for the collection was taken sometime in 2004 or 2005 and after thousands of photographs, it's "still a work in progress".
The images, at one level, are very personal, on the relationship between a grandmother and a granddaughter, two women who wanted to be part of each other's journey.
But at the same time, they are a commentary on ageing and desire, challenging and raising questions on the invisibility of the elderly.
"Every one is growing old, ageing is an inevitability. But the issue is between being old and invisible versus being old and having agency," Ms Patheja explains.
"We need to think about ageing and its future, our future, to look forward to it. Our bodies will change and we will become vulnerable through age. So we as societies, need to move towards building, demanding, envisioning, inclusive spaces, environments that enable our changing bodies, instead of forcing us to be invisible."
The response to the project, she says, has been "pretty amazing".
"Since the time I published this piece in early April, lots of women, especially elderly women, have written to me, praising the project. It has also been appreciated by women who are close to their grannies or granddaughters."
I ask Ms Patheja if there's a finish date for the project?
"It will go on as long as she wants to pose; and as long as I want to take photographs."


Three goals in the second half by Aaron Burns gave Premiership title contenders Linfield victory over Lurgan Celtic in Saturday's Irish Cup semi-final.

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Championship One side Celtic posed David Healy's Blues plenty of problems before Burns netted from close-range in the 60th minute.
Burns scored again on 80 minutes after Stephen Lowry's free-kick near the bye-line set up the chance.
A stoppage-time penalty gave Burns the chance to complete his hat-trick.
It was the midfielder's 23rd goal of the season and came after Lowry was fouled in the area.
Linfield, who have won the cup a record 42 times, will play 2014 winners Glenavon in the final on 7 May. They last clashed in the decider in 1992.
Lurgan Celtic had gone into the semi-final without first-choice goalkeeper Conor McCorry who was suspended and reserve team keeper Jamie McAtavey who had a broken wrist.
Gavin O'Neill took over in goals and was described as outstanding by Celtic boss Colin Malone.
The Blues last won the cup in 2012 when they lifted it for a third season in a row by beating Crusaders.
Now former Northern Ireland striker Healy, who starred in many memorable matches at Windsor Park, will lead his side out at the international stadium for a major cup final less than seven months after taking over as manager.
Healy's men are still in with as chance of a league and cup double as they are second in the Premiership and five points behind champions Crusaders with five fixtures left.
Linfield manager David Healy: "The boys were very professional in the way they went about this game.
"Lurgan Celtic were difficult to play against  and caused us problems but we expected that because we had done our homework.
"We are in the showpiece final of the year and that is something to look forward to.
"We are still in there fighting in the league although Crusaders are massive favourites."
Lurgan Celtic boss Colin Malone: "I think we should have had a penalty for a foul on Aaron Haire before half-time.
"But we are at Windsor Park and you don't get too many things down here. I felt it was clear enough that he had been brought down but the referee said he fell over."


The UK will not enter into "a briefing war" with the European Commission over Brexit talks, Tory sources have said.

It follows reports in a German paper of repeated clashes between Theresa May and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker at a Downing Street dinner.
EU sources claimed UK misunderstanding of the talks process, and ignorance about how Brussels works, could lead to no deal being agreed on the UK's exit.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the reports were "tittle-tattle".
She said the emergence of the reports was "not the right way" of negotiating, but the UK was committed to negotiating in "good faith".
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the prime minister and Mr Juncker reportedly clashed over Mrs May's desire to make Brexit "a success" and whether the issue of protecting the rights of expat UK and EU nationals could be agreed as early as June.
The newspaper claimed Mr Juncker said: "I leave... 10 times more sceptical than I was before."
In a speech later on Tuesday, Mrs May - who has dismissed the account as "Brussels gossip" - will cite the need to stand up to the other 27 EU countries
"We have seen in recent days, it will not be easy," she will say. "The negotiations ahead will be tough. Across the table from us sit 27 European member states who are united in their determination to do a deal that works for them."
The German newspaper's report of the dinner last Wednesday, which looks to have come via European Commission sources, said that after the PM said she wanted to "make Brexit a success", Mr Juncker's response was: "Brexit cannot be a success. The more I hear, the more sceptical I become."
And when she said the UK owes no money to the EU, the president informed her that she was not leaving a "golf club".
The article said that, after last week's dinner, Mr Juncker was shocked at Mrs May's suggestion that a deal on citizens' rights could be achieved so quickly.
The German newspaper report also suggested Mr Juncker said there would be no trade deal between the UK and the rest of the EU if the UK failed to pay the "divorce" bill which it is expected to be asked for.
Reports also claim that the morning after the dinner last Wednesday Mr Juncker told German chancellor Angela Merkel that Mrs May was "on a different galaxy".
A senior Conservative source told the BBC that the party would "rise above" all the media coverage but rejected accounts of the dinner, saying: "We really, really do not recognise those reports."
Ms Rudd said the UK would not be responding to the claims but the government had set out a clear plan and priorities for the talks and Mrs May was the best person to negotiate a Brexit deal that was in the UK's "national interest".
"Once you start engaging in gossip, in tittle-tattle in this way, it (will) carry on and who knows where it will lead?" she told BBC Breakfast.
"Nobody knows how much truth there is in gossip. But there are ways of conveying what is going on and this is not the right way.
"I do not recognise the tone in which this has been reported but I come back to the fact that it does make it clear that it is going to be a complex, potentially difficult negotiation at times and who do we want leading those - we want Theresa May leading them, not Jeremy Corbyn."
Welcome to the EU/UK dominated Brexit Galaxy of Spin and Counter-Spin. A crazy old place. The galactic atmosphere is such these days that the dimensions of truth are elastic; at times, distorted.
Take the arguments this weekend over whether the Downing Street dinner last Wednesday at which Theresa May hosted European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker was a complete disaster or not.
Not at all, insists Downing Street.
But according to an EU diplomat, speaking to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and thereafter hitting Twitter and headlines across the UK, they went "badly, really badly".
He reportedly went as far as to say the British government was now "living in a different galaxy" to the EU when it came to Brexit expectations. This all seems rather inflammatory, so who's right and who's stretching the truth?
The accounts of the dinner were seized upon by European politicians and opposition parties in the UK.
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister who leads the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, said it was time to "get real". He tweeted: "Any Brexit deal requires a strong and stable understanding of the complex issues involved."
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said Theresa May's desire to pull the UK out of the single market and other EU institutions was leading to an "increasingly belligerent" atmosphere with the EU.
"No 10 appears to be treating the rest of the EU as if they are running the Home Office, just barking instructions and expecting them to fall into line," he told BBC Radio 4's Today
"This is a complex, Rubik's Cube negotiation which requires agility and charm to be successful. None of that appears to have been in evidence at that dinner last week."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May was sending out "rather mixed messages".
"To start negotiations by threatening to walk away with no deal and set up a low tax economy on the shores of Europe is not a very sensible way of approaching people with whom half of our trade is done at the present time."
However, UKIP leader Paul Nuttall urged Mrs May not to give any ground, tweeting: "We don't owe the EU a penny and in fact there is a pretty good case that they owe us."
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Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat's Everything's Getting Older has been named the Scottish Album of the Year.

The duo won £20,000 for their work, which was eight years in the making, beating acts such as Mogwai and Conquering Animal Sound.
The Scottish Album of the Year (Say) prize is a new award billed as the equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize.
The winning album was awarded by the Scottish Music Industry Association at a ceremony in Glasgow Film City.
Judges described Everything's Getting Older as a "bruised and beautiful wonder".
Written by composer Wells along with Arab Strap member Moffat, the album is a mixture of jazz-inspired love songs and spoken word pieces.
Aidan Moffat, said: "It's fantastic. I still can't quite believe it. Obviously we're very, very happy.
"It was a great shortlist. The Scottish Album of the Year Award is all about introducing people to a wide variety of different types music - the award is very, very important from an industry point of view too and we hope there are many more of them."
The award was presented by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop, who said it was a new way to promote Scotland creative talent.
She said: "In our Year of Creative Scotland, this new award is a fantastic celebration of Scottish contemporary music talent, which enhances our international reputation as a hugely talented and creative nation."


Transgender people are known to have existed in almost every society in the world throughout history yet in our society they have been made to feel ashamed, says Jo Clifford.

Jo, who spent most of her life as a man, is still hurt by the newspaper headlines describing her as a "sex swap playwright".
For a BBC Scotland radio documentary Transgender Lives, Jo talked to some of the thousands of trans people across Scotland about their experiences.
Alice now lives an open and happy life as an IT consultant and complementary therapist in the Highlands.
But there was a lot of suffering before she got to this point.
She says she knew she was a girl from her earliest years but grew up in a society where the slightest hint of being a bit feminine marked you out as a "poof".
According to Alice, gender reassignment was not something she thought was possible in 1970 when she became an adult.
So instead she spent the 1970s as an "uber-male" while being a woman in private.
It was when she moved away from Edinburgh in the 1990s that she began to investigate changing gender.
She says: "I was very scared that I was going to lose my wife. We did marriage counselling and she said to me, 'you are killing the person I used to know'."
Then Alice had to tell her family.
She says: "We drove over to my mum and dad's. In fact, my wife drove because I was in such a nervous condition. My hands were shaking.
"It's the most nerve-racking and stressful thing I have ever had to do in my life.
"I was grateful that my wife actually told my parents that this is who I was and who I was going to be. I thought my dad was going to have a cardiac arrest. My mother was absolutely livid."
It was not just Alice's own family that were stunned by the move. Her sister-in-law told Alice's wife to choose between "us or it".
"My wife said 'if I have to choose, I'll choose her'."
Alice, who has now been transitioned for almost 17 years, says that over time many of the rifts have healed.
Jan Irvine still lives in the same east of Scotland mining town where she grew up.
She says that when she came out to her father at 15 "all hell broke loose" and she was forced to get on with her life as a man.
She married and had a son, telling her wife about her gender three years into her marriage.
Jan finally transitioned at the age of 48.
At the time, she was a traffic warden, working for the police.
As recently as 2002 a trans-gender traffic warden was a story that caused her to be hounded by paparazzi.
Jan says: "I was walking along the street and all of a sudden this reporter appeared and flashed his press card and said he knew who I was.
"He said I'd be better speak to him because if I didn't he'd just make it up. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a photographer with a long lens.
"At that time I just felt my knees collapsing underneath me. I knew it could happen but when it does happen it is like getting punched in the stomach."
Despite losing contact with her wife, son and grandchildren, and having to leave her job, Jan says transitioning was worth it as she can now look in the mirror and recognise who she is.
She has trained as a counsellor to help other trans people and speaks at colleges and university to educate and inform people.
Jan says: "One of the main groups I talk to is the beauty therapists and the hairdressers because they all come across transgender people.
"The idea is to speak to them so that when somebody walks in and they look different they are not like a rabbit in the headlights.
"They can just look at them and talk about ordinary things because at the end of the day I lead an ordinary life. Unusual but ordinary."
Amy is a 23-year-old in the early stages of her male to female transition.
She says she can't pinpoint the exact time she knew she was transgender but when she was in high school and saw the other girls developing differently to her she was incredibly jealous.
Before she came out at the age of 21 she could only dress as a woman at home.
When she did go outside as a woman she says she got abuse on almost every street and had things thrown at her.
She says: "When I first started, and I went into Asda and stuff, people would look at me as if I was some sort of sex offender.
"Parents moved their kids out of the way as if I was some sort of monster."
Amy is now studying drama at Fife College and has her own YouTube channel charting her transition.
Nicholas is a transgender man, who grew up as a girl in northern England but moved to Edinburgh several years ago.
He transitioned in the 1960s and is one of the oldest transgender people in the country.
He says: "For anyone, growing old can be a real challenge and problem.
"Of course being trans, that's just an extra problem because, for instance, if you have been on hormones for a lot of your life, if you have had any surgery, they can affect you."
He also worries about elderly care. Will the carers be trained to deal with the body of an elderly trans person sensitively? Will he have to deal with different carers finding out on every visit?
And then there is his mental health.
He says: "If I do get dementia, I hope that can be addressed by people that know me.
"It's a known fact that people with Alzheimer's or dementia quite often revert back to their childhood so in my case I might perhaps feel I am a girl again.
"Obviously that could cause confusion and embarrassment all round."
But in general, Nicky is optimistic about the future.
He says: "I am completely blown over sometimes when I meet, see or hear, and on the media too, all the young people who are non-binary.
"They don't worry so much about female/male.
"That's really quite positive.
"I'm hoping it is all heading the right way."
Transgender Lives in BBC Radio Scotland on Tuesday 31 March at 13:32.


A Scottish MP who revealed in the House of Commons that she was raped as a 14-year-old has contacted police about the attack.

Michelle Thomson said she had been "overwhelmed" by messages of support since reliving her ordeal.
Ms Thomson moved fellow MPs to tears on Thursday when she told how she was attacked 37 years ago by someone she knew.
The Edinburgh West representative said: "I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor."
She spoke out during a debate on the UN's International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women.
Campaigners and fellow politicians have praised her for her bravery in speaking out.
In a tweet on Friday, the independent MP said: "Humbled by the responses and support.
"Thanks also to @policescotland for their rapid response and with whom I have made contact."
Police have not commented on the message. However, it is understood officers would make an approach to an individual to see if they wanted to take matters further if they publicly disclose they have been the victim of an offence.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Speaking out about sexual abuse is incredibly difficult and disclosures are often made many years after an incident took place.
"Police Scotland will listen to any such disclosure, regardless of the passage of time, and will investigate.
"Our response is always victim-focused and every investigation will be tailored to meet their individual needs."
The MP told the Commons she had known her attacker and afterwards had "bottled it all up inside".
Ms Thomson said the rape had "fatally undermined" her self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth, and said she had not sought help until her mid-40s.
"I carried that guilt, anger, fear, sadness and bitterness for years," she told MPs.
Ms Thomson later told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that a decade ago she wanted to "go after" her attacker. But seeking help had given her "a liberty to move on".
She said: "I'm not doing this to try and go after somebody, it's not what it's about for me - hence the 'I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor'.
"Had it been even 10 years ago I would have probably said 'No, I want to go after him' and I remember after it happened I used to idly daydream - 'If I could do this to him, if I could do that' - because I was so angry and bitter. I'm not now.
"That, I would stress, is a personal perspective I'm taking and everybody must take their own view about how they want to move forward. I would encourage everyone to do what they feel is right for them."
Ms Thomson's decision to share her story publicly was hailed as "brave and important" by Rape Crisis Scotland.
National co-ordinator Sandy Brindley said: "Someone speaking so publicly about rape can send a strong message to other rape survivors - that the shame is not theirs and it is okay to talk about it and to seek support."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the speech as "very moving and incredibly brave", and said it would help give strength to others.


Three young males who racially abused a US army veteran on a Manchester tram have admitted going on a "rampage".

Juan Jasso was told to "get back to Africa" after tackling the trio for using foul language on the Metrolink tram. Beer was also flicked at him.
Aaron Cauchi, 19, Robert Molloy, 20, and a boy, 16, had been "looking for trouble" when they abused Mr Jasso and two other people on 28 June.
Their abuse of Mr Jasso was filmed by a passenger and was widely viewed.
Joseph O'Connor, prosecuting at Manchester Magistrates' Court, said the racist attack came just five days after the EU referendum.
He said that this resulted in a 41% increase in hate crime, according to government statistics.
Trouble first began about 07:45 BST when a passenger heard "disgusting, vile abuse" on the tram packed with mothers with babies, schoolchildren and commuters, the court heard.
After the trio got off the tram following the confrontation with Mr Jasso, they surrounded Alistair Lambert, "with their chests stuck out and shoulders back, striking him with a cigarette lighter to intimidate him, said Mr O'Connor.
Shortly after, Andrew Guest was cycling to work when he passed the trio and one or more spat in his face and down his body, the court heard.
Cauchi, of no fixed address, was charged with two public order offences and assault over what happened on the tram, and two assaults later in Trafford.
Molloy, of no fixed address, was charged with racially aggravated assault, common assault and using threatening words or behaviour.
The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named, was charged with using threatening words or behaviour and common assault.
They are due to be sentenced on Tuesday.


England have "a way to go" to find the consistency needed to top the Test rankings, says coach Trevor Bayliss.

A thumping 241-run victory in the first Test in South Africa was England's sixth win in 14 matches this year.
They regained the Ashes in the summer but lost to Pakistan in the UAE and drew with New Zealand and West Indies.
"There is still a lot of improvement in this team. It's only just the beginning of a journey for this young team," said Bayliss, who was appointed in May.
England, who are sixth in the Test rankings, needed only 24 overs on the final day in Durban to beat the team who top the standings.
"If you want to be the best team in the world you've got to put in consistently good performances and I think we've got a way to go in that," Bayliss told BBC Sport.
"We can by no means rest on one win. We know it's going to be a tough series.
"We've only got to look back at the Ashes. We were up and down in results and that's one of the things we want to work on - consistency over a series."
Nick Compton, playing Test cricket for the first time since May 2013, made a watchful 85 in England's first innings, while James Taylor scored 70.
Joe Root hit 73 in the second innings to take his total for 2015 to 1,385 Test runs, while Jonny Bairstow added 79 from 76 balls to ram home England's advantage.
Moeen Ali was named man of the match after taking 7-116, but all of England's frontline bowlers took wickets.
Bayliss said: "I thought it was a team effort. Most guys scored some runs and the wickets were shared around as well."
The Australian added he was "a little disappointed" with England's scores of 303 and 326.
He said: "I thought we left 100 runs or so out there in both innings so we've got things to work on. Our bowling before tea on the fourth day was a little ordinary as well, but we regrouped and hit those right areas.
"The very best teams that get to the number one position in the world have one or two guys that will make 130.
"We had some guys bat very well for 70s and an 80 but if one goes on and gets 130, 140, 150, it could mean 100 extra runs and then the result is completely out of reach. That's something we will work towards.
"Most of the guys in this team are fairly young and inexperienced, so I think naturally that will come, but we've got to keep challenging them to do that."
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South Africa's parliament is due to vote on an opposition-sponsored motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) said he was no longer fit to govern after the country's highest court ruled last week that he had breached the constitution by failing to repay public money used to upgrade his private residence.
The governing African National Congress (ANC) is expected to defeat the motion.
It denounced the impeachment proceedings as a publicity stunt.
The DA said it would demand a secret ballot in the hope that ANC backbenchers would defy the party by helping it obtain the two-thirds majority - 267 MPs out of 400 - required in the lower house, the National Assembly, to impeach Mr Zuma.
However, speaker Baleka Mbete has rejected the proposal, saying it is not allowed in terms of parliamentary rules, local media reports say.
The DA has 89 seats in parliament and all opposition parties combined 151.
Mr Zuma is the first president to face an impeachment vote since minority rule ended in 1994.
He has been dogged by allegations of corruption since before he was elected president in 2009.
He was accused of taking bribes over an arms deal, but he denied the allegation and the charges were controversially dropped just before he took office.
He later found himself at the centre of controversy over the use of $23m (??15m) of public money to upgrade his private home in the rural area of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province.
In 2014, South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog Thuli Madonsela ordered him to repay a portion of the money.
How the votes are divided in parliament
Mr Zuma had "unduly benefited" from the building of a swimming pool, amphitheatre, cattle enclosure and chicken run, Ms Madonsela said.
The DA and left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party went to the Constitutional Court to challenge Mr Zuma's refusal to pay the money.
It ruled against Mr Zuma, and said the law was the "sharp and mighty sword that stands ready to chop the ugly head of impunity from its stiffened neck".
The court also condemned parliament for failing to hold Mr Zuma accountable, and rejecting the public protector's findings.
In a televised address to the nation on Friday, Mr Zuma apologised for the "frustration" caused by the long-running controversy and said he would abide by the ruling.
He had acted "in good faith" and "never knowingly and deliberately set out to violate the constitution", he added.
What Mr Zuma must pay for
How Zuma's Nkandla home has grown


National League side Leyton Orient have signed Motherwell midfielder Craig Clay on a free transfer.

Clay, who has agreed a two-year deal, made 39 appearances for Scottish Premiership club Motherwell last season after joining them in June 2016.
The 25-year-old had spent the two previous seasons with Grimsby, playing 74 National League games.
Clay is Leyton Orient's ninth signing since being relegated from League Two last season.


A man who told police he had a home-made gun at his farm in Aberdeenshire has been jailed for two years.

Raymond Panton, 54, was earlier convicted of possessing two improvised shotguns, without authority at Parkhill Stores, Greens, New Deer.
Ian Robertson, 40, also of New Deer, was acquitted following a trial.
The minimum sentence for possessing prohibited firearms is five years unless there are exceptional circumstances.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, Panton's defence counsel David Moggach argued that this was such a case where it was open to the judge to make such a finding.
Lord Bannatyne said the case was "incredibly odd" and that he found exceptional circumstances were established.
The offences were committed between April 4 and August 15 in 2014.
He claimed to police that he had discovered two metal tubes in a bedroom at the farm and after looking at them realised that if slotted together shotgun cartridges could be fired.
Mr Moggach said Panton had phoned the police and co-operated as to where they might find a second weapon.
The defence counsel said: "This is a case where there are most unusual and exceptional circumstances pertaining to the facts and circumstances of the case."
He said there was no evidence of the firearm being used or intended to be used in "a criminal context".
"There were two improvised, home-made firearms found in the property that he owned, although he did not always stay there," he said.
Mr Moggach said Panton had struggled with "mental health issues" but had been assessed as currently posing a low risk.
Lord Bannatyne said: "This all resulted from him bringing the police to his house and showing them the gun. If, for no other reason, the case was incredibly odd."


A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after an explosion on the top floor of a block of flats.

Windows were blown out on the eighth storey of Sandown Tower in Northfield, Birmingham, said firefighters.
The top two floors were evacuated and the occupant of the flat at the centre of the blast accounted for, the fire service said.
West Midlands Police said the blast was not terrorism-related or a gas explosion.
The force said a man was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
Structural checks to the building were made as a precaution, a spokesman for West Midlands Fire Service said.
The emergency services and Birmingham City Council have started organising the return of residents to their homes.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "Police have cordoned off part of Cressage Avenue at Willetts Road in Northfield after an explosion at a flat just before 10.30 GMT.
"The cause of the explosion is not known at present but the fire investigation team and forensic experts are investigating."


A firm that has helped "build Nottingham" including the construction of about 6,000 houses is celebrating 150 years.

Thomas Bow City Asphalt built landmarks including the Raleigh factory extension and the University of Nottingham's Trent Building.
It was set up after founder Lawrence Bow arrived in Nottingham in 1867.
Chairman Alistair Bow said the company's connection to the city was a source of pride for the family.
Mr Bow, who is among the sixth generation to run the firm, said: "You can't drive more than a quarter of a mile without going past an old Thomas Bow landmark.
"It's something I'm immensely proud of and I know my dad would have been, to think you could still be working and operating with the same company name 150 years later."
The company, which was named after the founder's son, is trying to track down former employees to help extend the Thomas Bow archive.
Commercial manager Andrew Jackaman said: "It could be as simple as a picture of a relative on a building site or it could be anecdotes.
"All this pieced together to give us a bit more of a history."
The firm was responsible for the Raleigh factory extension, which was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1952, and the extensions to the former Wilford Power Station.
The company also built a number of smaller buildings all over the city including the former branch of Barclays Bank in the Old Market Square.
Thousands of homes and some schools were also built by Thomas Bow in Nottingham city between 1921 and 1960.


Uefa president Michel Platini has taken his appeal against a six-year ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Platini and ex-head of world football's governing body Sepp Blatter were barred from the sport after being found guilty of ethics breaches over a $2m (£1.3m) "disloyal payment" between the pair.
Both men, who deny wrongdoing, had the bans upheld but cut from eight years.
Former France captain Platini, leader of European football's governing body since 2007, wants the verdict annulled.


Medecins Sans Frontieres is to launch a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean to save migrants trying to reach Europe by boat.

The aid agency will operate a 40m ship, the MY Phoenix, from May to October, when thousands more people are expected to attempt the perilous journey.
It will be a part replacement for Mare Nostrum, which ended in November.
MSF has rejected UK government claims that such services encourage more people-smuggling ships.
Its small operation, to be run with the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), will see the Phoenix equipped with a medical team including two doctors and a nurse as well as high-speed inflatable boats and surveillance drones.
MSF expects that most of the migrants it rescues will be taken to Italian shores.
The Italian navy's search and rescue mission, Mare Nostrum, was abandoned last year after some EU members said they could not afford to fund it.
Last year an estimated 3,400 migrants, mostly from Africa, died while trying to make the treacherous crossing into Europe.
MSF says the death toll is likely to be even higher this year as there is less assistance available to boats in distress, while thousands of people continue to flee conflicts in the Middle East and Africa.
Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF's general director, told the BBC the situation was "dire".
"Europe has turned its back on people fleeing some of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. "Ignoring this situation will not make it go away."
The Migrant Offshore Aid Station was set up by a Maltese family - the Catrambones - who have spent millions of euros to save migrants in danger of drowning at sea.
They say their 60-day mission, using the Phoenix, helped to save around 3,000 people in 2014.
The decision to end Mare Nostrum sparked warnings that it would lead to more deaths.
But other European countries, including the UK, said a rescue service could encourage more migrants.
The EU now runs a border control operation, called Triton, which only operates close to Europe's coast and has fewer ships.


Australia have included "once-in-a-generation" fast bowler Pat Cummins in their 15-man squad for this summer's Champions Trophy in England and Wales.

The 23-year-old is selected alongside fellow fast bowlers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and James Pattinson in captain Steve Smith's squad.
Australia are in Group A alongside Bangladesh, New Zealand and England, and former bowler Brett Lee says their opponents should be "scared".
"It's a serious pace barrage," he said.
"What Pat Cummins can bring is pace, aggression, control and anything between that. He is a once-in-a-generation bowler and you have got to harness that amazing talent.
"Hazlewood is more of hitting the good length, day in and day out. With Starc you will be getting full, short, good length, yorkers, the whole thing."
Cummins is capable of bowling at speeds in excess of 95mph.
The 50-over Champions Trophy competition begins with England against Bangladesh on 1 June.
Australia squad: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa.
Australia's group fixtures: 2 June v New Zealand (Edgbaston), 5 June v Bangladesh (The Oval), 10 June v England (Edgbaston).


England overcame a disjointed first half and a resurgent France to come from behind and get their Six Nations defence off to a winning start by securing a national record 15th victory in a row.

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Eddie Jones' men were fortunate to be level 9-9 at half-time and were four points down with time running out after a fine try from Rabah Slimani.
But, kept in touch by Owen Farrell's three penalties and one from Elliot Daly, their strength off the bench gradually seized control of a match that had been slipping away.
With their forwards at last making inroads with ball in hand and a tiring defence stretched, Ben Te'o's try finally brought Twickenham to full voice.
The win saw the team pass the record of 14 straight victories set by Sir Clive Woodward's men in the run-up to their 2003 World Cup win, and means they are only three wins away from equalling the all-time record set by New Zealand last year.
It also extended France's dismal run in this fixture to six successive defeats on the road, yet the men in blue were transformed from the stodgy outfit of recent memory, and England will be hugely relieved to have found a way through.
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After an early exchange of penalties, Jonny May was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle on Gael Fickou, Camille Lopez making it 6-3 and the hosts again uncertain out of the blocks.
France scrum-half Baptiste Serin was enjoying his Twickenham debut, his big runners making inroads and George Ford struggling to exert any control.
England were grateful for Farrell's boot to be within three points half-an-hour in, and a long-ranger from Daly levelled up an uneven match at 9-9.
Desperate defence kept Virimi Vakatawa and Scott Spedding out just before the break, France without a lead to show for six clean breaks and 344 metres made in those first 40 minutes.
France came again after the interval, Vakatawa breaking down the left after a Farrell penalty came back off the post, the impressive Louis Picamoles marching it deep into England territory and Courtney Lawes producing a huge tackle to keep the blue shirts at bay.
A fabulous delayed pass from Ford appeared to have put Daly into the left-hand corner only for the TMO to rule, correctly, that the winger's foot was in touch as he dived over, and a fraught contest broke further open still.
Ford was into his rhythm, space opening up as his dummy runners stretched the French defence, Farrell kicking his fourth penalty on 54 minutes after sustained pressure to nudge England ahead for the first time.
France coach Guy Noves went to his bench, swapping out his props and opting for the experience of Maxime Machenaud over Serin, and it was the visitors who struck back in style.
In classic French style, offloads from first Sebastian Vahaamahina and then his fellow forward Kevin Gourdon sent prop Slimani under the posts, Lopez's conversion making it 16-12 to Les Bleus.
Now it was Jones who threw on fresh legs, James Haskell and Te'o bringing the much-needed muscle, Danny Care and Jack Nowell the pace, Farrell to fly-half, Daly to outside centre.
After a series of drives that battered holes in the French defence, Farrell took quick ball and sent Te'o smashing over for his first Six Nations try, the talismanic Saracens man adding the conversion for 19-16.
At last Twickenham had its voice, with France wearied by their earlier efforts, and England will travel to Cardiff for Saturday's encounter with Wales knowing they must improve significantly if a second Grand Slam is to follow.
Maro Itoje pushed him close, while Picamoles and Spedding were a constant menace for France, but Farrell's accuracy under pressure and remorseless defence saved his side from a chastening opening-day defeat.
England captain Dylan Hartley: "We got through that one and a huge amount of credit needs to go to our finishers today. Ben Te'o and James Haskell gave us some go-forward at the end there.
"Week one of the tournament we'll take that win, but there's plenty to work on. It keeps us grounded, keeps us ready for next week and we'll have to be a lot better to prepare for Wales."
England head coach Eddie Jones: "I felt some players were still in their club mentality so that's something we need to work on. We were disjointed in attack and we lacked urgency in defence.
"Now we know what we've got to work on, we will get there. The finishers made a fantastic impact on the game - that is the strength of our team, we have a brilliant 23-man squad."
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Matt Dawson, 2003 World Cup winner: France were better than England in a lot of areas, but the strength of this England side was in their fitness and ability to play under pressure.
I have got to give huge credit to the substitutions for England because they were the difference in the end.
England: Brown; May, Joseph, Farrell, Daly; Ford, Youngs; Marler, Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Lawes, Itoje, Wood, Hughes.
Replacements: Te'o for Ford (69), Care for Youngs (66), Mullan for Marler (66), George for Hartley (55), Haskell for Launchbury (64), Nowell for Joseph (69)
Not Used: Sinckler, Harrison
Sin Bin: May (13).
France: Spedding; Nakaitaci, Lamerat, Fickou, Vakatawa; Lopez, Serin; Baille, Guirado, Atonio, Vahaamahina, Maestri, Chouly, Gourdon, Picamoles.
Replacements: Huget for Lamerat (72), Doussain for Lopez (72), Machenaud for Serin (57), Slimani for Baille (46), Maynadier for Guirado (72), Chiocci for Atonio (46), Iturria for Vahaamahina (72), Goujon for Chouly (64).


Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are to hold rival protests in Kiev, amid fears of possible clashes.

Activists and opposition parties are hoping hundreds of thousands of people will take part in a "Dignity Day" rally in the central Independence Square.
Mr Yanukovych's backers will gather in the nearby Mariinskyi Park.
Protests began last month after the president's last-minute move to pull out of a landmark deal with the EU.
Mr Yanukovych has said he fears the association and trade agreement will put at risk many enterprises dependent on trade with Russia.
The president - who says he eventually aims to sign the deal - has also admitted being under heavy pressure from Moscow, which wants Kiev to join a Russian-led customs union instead.
Several thousands pro-EU protesters remained overnight in Independence Square ahead of their rally, which is expected to start at 12:00 local time (10:00 GMT) on Sunday.
Barricades around the perimeter of the main protest encampment in the heart of the capital have been strengthened following an attempt by special police to dismantle them earlier this week.
Opposition leaders have urged protesters to remain vigilant, fearing "provocateurs" could trigger clashes between rival demonstrators.
The opposition has also accused the authorities of bussing people into Kiev for the pro-government rally and providing them with money and food.
The authorities officially deny this, but a number of participants in the rally have said they were forced to take part.
The two rival camps held demonstrations close to each other on Saturday. There were no reports of any clashes.
In a separate development, Mr Yanukovych suspended his deputy security chief and Kiev's mayor over the police violence against pro EU-protesters on 30 November.
Prosecutors are investigating Volodymyr Syvkovych and Olexander Popov - alongside another two senior officials - on suspicion of abuse of office in the crackdown.
This has energised the pro-EU protesters, who are demanding that all those involved in the clampdown be sacked and punished. They also want the government to resign.
While pro-EU protests have gripped the capital and other cities in western and central Ukraine, President Yanukovych retains support in the east and south.
However, that backing may be dwindling, correspondents say, and there have already been pro-EU rallies in the south-east.
Protesters say Mr Yanukovych's U-turn on the EU deal triggered the mass demonstration, but they now want the total "reload" of what they describe as a corrupt system of governance.
They believe signing the EU deal would root out corruption and make Ukraine's economy more open and transparent, citing as an example Ukraine's neighbours to the west who are now EU members.
However, the government and its supporters fear that economic liberalisation would hurt the country's economy, especially the industrial south-east which relies on trade with Russia.
Moscow has already put economic pressure on Ukraine, with customs delays and a ban on Ukrainian chocolates, and there are concerns it could escalate such measures if Kiev drew closer to Brussels.


A paediatric pathologist has resigned over interventions by NI's attorney general on abortion laws surrounding fatal foetal abnormality.

Dr Caroline Gannon investigated the deaths of babies including those in the womb or stillbirths.
She said the final straw was having to advise a couple to use a picnic cooler bag to return their baby's remains to NI following an abortion in England.
The attorney general said the law was under consideration.
A family can have a post-mortem examination carried out in England - but they are difficult to arrange.
Dr Gannon's resignation leaves Northern Ireland with only one paediatric pathologist.
She said the recent interventions by Attorney General John Larkin made her position untenable.
"The workload we had was manageable, but then when these rulings came out - that was the tipping point and for me, professionally," she told BBC News NI.
"I just felt I was acting unethically by taking part in this system where parents are denied a voice in what happens to their baby."
AG's interventions in NI abortion law:
Dr Gannon cited the example of one couple who wanted a post-mortem examination to find out why they had been told their baby had a fatal foetal abnormality.
As it remains illegal in Northern Ireland for an abortion to be carried out on the grounds of such a diagnosis, the couple had to travel to England for the termination.
The only way they could find to transport the remains home was in a cooler bag with ice packs.
"They're on their own in a strange town, a strange country in a private clinic with no support," said Dr Gannon, who has worked in Northern Ireland for almost 30 years.
Had the couple been in Northern Ireland, there would have been midwives present and hospital processes in place so they could sit with their baby, she added.
"Somebody else would be responsible for bringing their baby down to the mortuary to ensure the post mortem is carried out," she said.
"But they had to organise that themselves and transport their own baby's body back in a picnic cooler, in the boot of the car, on the overnight ferry."
The father of the woman involved said he travelled to England the day after his daughter with the cooler bag.
Describing the whole experience as traumatic for his family, he told the BBC's Talkback programme that he hoped the attorney general would never have to know what it felt like.
"It was horrendous and it's a terrible, terrible shame that Northern Ireland, in this day and age, has to look people straight in the eye around the world and say this is the way we deal with these things," he said.
"I just please hope that this will change the legislation because at least something good would have come out of the the most awful experience."
Attorney General statement
Mr Larkin previously argued that allowing terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormality discriminated against children with disabilities.
He has also said there is no agreed clinical definition of fatal foetal abnormality.
The BBC understands several couples have used various modes of transport, including a parcel courier company, to transport the remains of their babies home.
Dr Gannon said she felt it was unethical to work in a system where women and couples were being "denied information and choice".
"I cannot reconcile the legal system I am having to operate under with my own personal ethical beliefs," she said.