British scientists exploring an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean have discovered a treasure trove of rare minerals.

Their investigation of a seamount more than 500km (300 miles) from the Canary Islands has revealed a crust of "astonishingly rich" rock.
Samples brought back to the surface contain the scarce substance tellurium in concentrations 50,000 times higher than in deposits on land.
Tellurium is used in a type of advanced solar panel, so the discovery raises a difficult question about whether the push for renewable energy may encourage mining of the seabed.
The rocks also contain what are called rare earth elements that are used in wind turbines and electronics.
Known as Tropic Seamount, the mountain stands about 3,000m tall â€“ about the size of one of the middle-ranging Alpine summits â€“ with a large plateau at its top, lying about 1,000m below the ocean surface.
Using robotic submarines, researchers from the UK's National Oceanography Centre found that the crust is dark and fine-grained and stretches in a layer roughly 4cm thick over the entire surface of the mountain.
Dr Bram Murton, the leader of the expedition, told the BBC that he had been expecting to find abundant minerals on the seamount but not in such concentrations.
"These crusts are astonishingly rich and that's what makes these rocks so incredibly special and valuable from a resource perspective."
He has calculated that the 2,670 tonnes of tellurium on this single seamount represents one-twelfth of the world's total supply.
And Dr Murton has come up with a hypothetical estimate that if the entire deposit could be extracted and used to make solar panels, it could meet 65% of the UK's electricity demand.
He says he is not advocating deep-sea mining, which has yet to start anywhere in the world and is likely to be highly controversial because of the damage it could cause to the marine environment.
But Dr Murton does want his team's discovery, part of a major research project called MarineE-Tech, to trigger a debate about where vital resources should come from.
"If we need green energy supplies, then we need the raw materials to make the devices that produce the energy so, yes, the raw materials have to come from somewhere.
"We either dig them up from the ground and make a very large hole or dig them from the seabed and make a comparatively smaller hole.
"It's a dilemma for society - nothing we do comes without a cost."
Scientists are now weighing up the relative risks and merits of mining on land as opposed to on the seabed.
Mines on land often require forests and villages to be cleared, overlying rocks to be removed and roads or railways to be built in order to extract ores with relatively weak concentrations of minerals.
By contrast, mines on the seabed would extract far richer ores, covering a smaller area and with no immediate impact on people - but instead killing marine life wherever digging machines are deployed and potentially devastating a far wider area.
One major concern is the effect of plumes of dust, stirred up by excavation of the ocean floor, spreading for long distances and smothering all life wherever it settles.
To understand the implications, the expedition to Tropic Seamount conducted an experiment, the first of its kind, to mimic the effects of mining and to measure the resulting plume.
Deploying from the UK research ship James Cook, a remotely operated vehicle deliberately pumped out hundreds of litres of sediment-filled water every minute while other robotic sensors were positioned downstream in the ocean current.
According to Dr Murton, early results indicate that dust was hard to detect 1km away from the source of the plume, suggesting that the impact of mining could be more localised than many fear.
But this comes as different disciplines within marine science are coming up with a range of perspectives on this emerging development.
A study led by Dr Daniel Jones, also at the NOC, reviewed evidence of seabed exploration and found that in the wake of mining many marine creatures would be likely to recover within a year but that few would return to their previous levels even after two decades.
Another study focused on tiny organisms on the floor of the Pacific Ocean in a region known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, which stretches in a belt south of Hawaii.
Much of this zone has been licensed by the UN's International Seabed Authority to companies from more than a dozen countries to search for minerals in the potato-sized rocks or "nodules" lying on the seabed.
Prof Andy Gooday, also of the NOC, and colleagues found that among the metals-rich nodules, there is a far greater diversity of single-celled organisms called xenophyophores than previously thought.
Their research identified as many as 34 species of these lifeforms that are new to science.
These organisms occupy one of the lower rungs in the food chain and also play an important role by forming hard shell-like structures, like miniature coral reefs, that provide habitats for other creatures.
Prof Gooday says that the range of life in the sediments of the deep ocean can be compared with that of a tropical rainforest and that "life on the ocean floor is more dynamic" than anyone expected.
He believes it is unlikely that seabed mining would cause species to go extinct but that the impact locally would be severe.
"If you eliminate these xenophyphores, which are very fragile and would certainly be destroyed by mining, it would destroy habitat structure for other organisms.
"It's difficult to predict and, like everything in the deep sea connected with the effects of mining, we need to learn more â€“ we still know so little about what's going on down there."


A dairy in Wrexham is to create 70 new jobs following £22m investment.

Tomlinson's Dairies is expanding its cold storage facilities after receiving £5m from Welsh Government, £2m from Finance Wales and £14.5m from HSBC.
The dairy, established by two brothers in 1983, turns over about £45m a year and is now the largest milk processing business in Wales
"We're proud to expand and create 70 new jobs for the local area," said managing director Philip Tomlinson.
The dairy created 60 jobs after a £14m expansion in 2016 as the company, which employs about 170 staff, planned to double its production to 25 million litres of fresh milk a year.
Tomlinson's, based on the Five Crosses Industrial Park in Coedpoeth, was created when Philip and John Tomlinson expanded their doorstep milk round from the family dairy farm in nearby Minera.


Portugal have won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in the competition's history.

Salvador Sobral, 27, won with his love ballad Amar Pelos Dois, which was written by his sister.
He said on receiving the trophy: "We live in a world of fast food music. This is a victory for music... music isn't fireworks, music is feeling."
Lucie Jones, representing the UK with I'll Never Give Up on You, came 15th. Bulgaria came second and Moldova third.
Jones, a former X Factor contestant, received 111 points for her performance but didn't seem too upset, tweeting: "I wonnnnnnn!!! Oh no wait..."
It is a considerable improvement for the UK, after last year's entrants Joe and Jake came 24th with 62 points.
Jones secured the UK's highest placing since 2011, when boyband Blue came 11th with 100 points.
Sobral, who has a serious heart condition that saw him miss the first week of rehearsals, reprised his song at the end of the show and was joined by his sister Luisa for a duet.
Their song, which translates as For the Both of Us, won top marks from both from the televoters and the countries' professional juries, getting 758 points altogether. This dwarfed Jamala's win last year for Ukraine with 534 points.
Portugal had been one of the favourites to win, along with Italy's entry, which came sixth.
It wasn't all about the singing, though - last year's winner Jamala had her performance briefly interrupted by a man flashing his bottom.
BBC Monitoring reported that Ukrainian TV identified him as "scandalous" Ukrainian prankster Vitaliy Sedyuk. Jamala continued to sing "unfazed", the broadcaster 1+1 TV said.
The stage invader, wrapped in an Australian flag, was swiftly wrestled off the stage by a security guard.
Graham Norton, who was guiding UK viewers through the contest on BBC One, apologised to anyone who was offended by the incident.
The contest this year took place in the Kiev International Exhibition Centre in Ukraine. The host country could only manage 24th place out of 26 this time round.
Portugal will now host the contest next year.
By Neil Smith, entertainment reporter, BBC News
The noise in the press room at Kiev's International Exhibition Centre was deafening as Salvador Sobral from Portugal became his country's first ever Eurovision winner.
To say the 27-year-old is a popular victor is an understatement. Where others brought slick precision sheen and dancing gorillas to the contest, he brought heart, sincerity and a simple, guileless charm.
He also brought something of a sob story - a recent bout of ill health and a serious heart condition. Yet it would be an injustice to him and his songwriting sister Luisa to suggest that sentiment was behind his triumph.
He is, simply put, one of a kind - an antidote of sorts to Eurovision's history of short-lived fads and trashy kitsch, and all the more refreshing for it.
A journalist I know choked up when discussing how he felt when he saw Salvador sing Amar Pelos Dois (Loving for the Both of Us).
Sabral entered the contest with the stated aim of making "people outside of Portugal know and recognise my work."
Job done, sir.
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Two Ulster rugby players who were questioned by police investigating alleged sex offences are suing over media coverage of the case.

Reporting restrictions which had prevented the players being named in the privacy lawsuit have been lifted.
Ireland international Paddy Jackson and club teammate Stuart Olding were arrested and released in June 2016.
Mr Jackson, 25, and Mr Olding, 24, deny any wrongdoing and have not been charged with any offence.
Lawyers for the pair also stress their complete co-operation with the police investigation.
Writs seeking damages for misuse of private information were issued against the BBC after details of their questioning were broadcast and published by the BBC and other media last autumn.
Their legal teams contend they were not given sufficient notice for a right of reply before the story appeared.
They claim it was a private matter and raise issues about how the information was obtained.
With no date set for the hearing of the civil action over privacy, the players also sought an injunction to stop further press reporting of the case.
A High Court judge refused their application earlier this year, citing the widespread coverage by other media outlets following the initial article.
However, she imposed tight reporting restrictions to stop either star being identified in the litigation.
Her anonymity order was aimed at ensuring no risk of prejudice to the ongoing police investigation.
Appealing that decision, the BBC argued that it had been a disproportionate step.
Counsel for the broadcaster emphasised both the public interest in reporting the case and the principle of open justice.
Following confirmation that the players were no longer seeking to maintain anonymity, the Court of Appeal ruled that the restrictions should be lifted.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan said: "In our view there's nothing to indicate there was a substantial barrier which ought to have interfered with the right of the press to publish the judgment that was given.
"We are satisfied that we should allow the appeal in relation to that matter and discharge the orders made."


Defender Dani Carvajal scored a fine solo goal a minute from the end of extra time as Real Madrid beat Spanish rivals Sevilla in a dramatic Super Cup.

Champions League winners Real took the lead when Marco Anensio scored with a thunderous long-range strike.
Europa League winners Sevilla levelled through Franco Vazquez and Yevhen Konoplyanka's penalty gave them the lead after Sergio Ramos fouled Vitolo.
Ramos made it 2-2 to force extra time before Carvajal won it for Real.
The former Bayer Leverkusen player scored after a powerful run into the penalty area to earn Zinedine Zidane his second trophy since being appointed Real boss in January.
Sevilla, who beat Liverpool in last season's Europa League final, have appeared in the past three Super Cups and lost all three.
Jorge Sampaoli, who took over after Unai Emery was appointed Paris St-Germain boss, looked set for a fine win before Ramos made it 2-2 with a header three minutes into stoppage time to force an additional 30 minutes.
Real were missing key players, with Cristiano Ronaldo having been injured playing for Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, while Welshman Gareth Bale and Germany's Toni Kroos had extended breaks because of their involvement at the same tournament.
"We were trailing for all of the second half, but Madrid never give up and a goal in 90 minutes allowed us to become champions," Carvajal, 24, said.
"Today we had a lot of players missing but we have a great squad of homegrown players."
Real Madrid, who have not won La Liga since 2012, start their 2016-17 campaign away to Real Sociedad on 21 August, while Sevilla are at home to Espanyol a day earlier.
Match ends, Real Madrid 3, Sevilla 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Real Madrid 3, Sevilla 2.
Foul by Franco Vázquez (Sevilla).
Casemiro (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal!  Real Madrid 3, Sevilla 2. Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcelo.
Franco Vázquez (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid).
Attempt saved. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross.
Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Real Madrid. Conceded by Nico Pareja.
Attempt saved. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Hand ball by Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla).
Foul by Franco Vázquez (Sevilla).
Casemiro (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Karim Benzema with a through ball.
Second Half Extra Time begins Real Madrid 2, Sevilla 2.
First Half Extra Time ends, Real Madrid 2, Sevilla 2.
Corner,  Sevilla. Conceded by Raphael Varane.
Attempt blocked. Franco Vázquez (Sevilla) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Franco Vázquez (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Attempt missed. Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Franco Vázquez.
Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Adil Rami (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid).
Corner,  Real Madrid. Conceded by Mariano.
Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Attempt saved. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second yellow card to Timothée Kolodziejczak (Sevilla) for a bad foul.
Foul by Timothée Kolodziejczak (Sevilla).
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Rodríguez (Real Madrid).


A woman has been taken to hospital after falling down a 50ft (15m) cliff face in the Malvern Hills.

The woman, in her mid-20s, fell at about 11:10 BST, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
Members of the ambulance service were training 65ft (20m) away and were called over by her rock-climbing group. She was treated for back and neck pain and taken to hospital.
Another woman who fell was treated at the scene for a minor face injury.


Matt Harrold scored the only goal as Crawley Town earned a narrow win at managerless Stevenage in League Two.

Pat Hoban could have put Boro ahead, but his shot from the edge of the area was well saved by Jamie Jones.
Harrold gave the visitors the lead moments later, firing low past Jones from Roarie Deacon's cross.
Tom Pett squandered the best chance of an equaliser when he shot wide from inside the box, as Stevenage's winless run was extended to nine matches.
Stevenage caretaker manager Darren Sarll told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"The most frustrating afternoon, no fairytale ending unfortunately. I thought the game was frustrating as a whole, but I thought in the first half we were very comfortable. I thought the goal was one of the only efforts they had on target.
"I was quite happy and content at 30-odd minutes. To concede the goal before half-time just changes the complexion of things. I think the second half was nowhere near the standard we need to attain.
"We need to improve, the club needs to improve, the team needs to improve. I think it's important that we understand that there are improvements that need to be made."
Crawley Town boss Mark Yates told BBC Surrey:
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"We just needed a performance of hard work, grit, determination, organisation and I got that.
"We played the conditions rather than worrying about too much and it was vital to stick together to get the result.
"We talked about platforms and building blocks to put into place to make sure that when we go to Accrington next week that we're in a good frame of mind and in a good place. The confidence the players will get from that will be massive."


An apparent ban on staff speaking any language but English in a Sports Direct store in Bangor is to be investigated by the Welsh language commissioner.

It is understood a notice was posted on a wall telling staff to only speak English for health and safety reasons.
The move has also drawn criticism from Plaid Cymru AM Sian Gwenllian who said it was "discriminatory" in an area where a lot of people speak Welsh.
But the firm said there was no ban and it was looking into what had happened.
The notice, which was printed on Sports Direct-headed paper, said it wanted to remind staff that English was the "official language of the company".
"It has come to our attention that some members of staff are speaking to each other in languages other than English whilst carrying out their duties," it said.
"We would like to take this opportunity to remind staff that they must speak in English at all times when they are at work, in order that they can be understood by all members of staff."
It added: "Staff speaking in languages other than English can pose a variety of risks to the company, including health and safety issues arising out of not being understood by those around them."
Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws said she had instructed her office to investigate whether the company had broken any rules under the Welsh language measure of 2011, which made it illegal for companies to stop people speaking Welsh to one another.
Ms Gwenllian, who represents Arfon, called for an apology from the company.
"In an area such as Bangor where there is a high number of Welsh speakers, it is highly likely that such a policy would deny staff members the right to converse in their own language," she said.
"I will be submitting a formal complaint to the owner of Sports Direct."
Sports Direct insisted the ban was not the result of a directive from the company.
A spokesman said an investigation was under way into the notice, including its origin, authenticity and context.
"Sports Direct is an international business, operating in many different jurisdictions. We encourage the use of the native language and would never instruct our staff otherwise," he said.
"It is not company policy to restrict the use of the Welsh language or that of any other country."


Burton Albion boss Nigel Clough says turning down the chance to manage Nottingham Forest was a "matter of principle" and nothing to do with his former club's off-field problems.

Clough met Reds owner Fawaz Al Hasawi but said he could not leave with Burton in a Championship relegation fight.
"I cannot tell you how attractive a proposition it is to go to Nottingham Forest," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"But it's not the right time or the right thing to do."
Burton are just three points clear of the bottom three following Wednesday's 2-0 home defeat by Fulham, while Forest are eight points above the relegation places.
Many Forest supporters have become increasingly angry and disillusioned with the Al Hasawi reign, which has seen the club fail to pay bills on time, be placed under a transfer embargo and part company with seven managers.
Academy director Gary Brazil is in interim charge following the sacking of Philippe Montanier last month, but the club are still without a chief executive, there have been two failed takeovers in the past 12 months, and fans have staged protests at the City Ground in recent weeks.
Clough said uncertainty at Forest did not influence his decision to stay with the Brewers.
"I had a chat with the chairman (Al Hasawi)," the 50-year-old said. "He came across very well, no problems at all. It was totally down to staying here.
"It was choosing a matter of principle. It was loyalty not to jump ship mid-season with the position we are in."
Clough ended his first spell with Burton in January 2009, when he left to take over at Derby County.
He said being asked if he wanted to go to Forest was a bit "mixed-up", explaining that the right question was 'is it right to leave Burton Albion at this time?'.
He added: "Once that answer's a no, then that answers the other question.
"Last time we left, we were 13 or 14 points clear in the Conference in different circumstances. Had we been halfway up the table and nearly safe by now it might have been a different question to consider - but not when we are battling away.
"All of the staff thought about it. We came in Monday morning and we were all agreed that it didn't feel the right time to leave.
"But you never say never. Football is far too unpredictable to say things like that."


US and other diplomats joined a rally in Hungary against a planned statue honouring a pro-Nazi minister who fomented anti-Semitism in the 1930s.

The diplomats were with several hundred Hungarians at a candle-lit protest in Szekesfehervar, southwest of Budapest.
The city's mayor says a private foundation is entitled to honour Balint Homan with a life-size bronze statue.
The US government's special envoy for combating anti-Semitism, Ira Forman, said "we're shocked by it".
Hungary's Jewish community has urged the right-wing Fidesz government of Viktor Orban to prevent the statue going up.
Nazi Germany and its fascist Arrow Cross allies in Hungary murdered some 565,000 Hungarian Jews during World War Two, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum says.
As a government minister in the 1930s Balint Homan spearheaded anti-Semitic legislation and in 1944 called for the deportation of Hungarian Jews.
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944 some 424,000 Jews were deported to the Auschwitz death camp, where nearly all of them died.
Homan, a historian, was in the Arrow Cross, which also slaughtered thousands of Jews on the banks of the Danube.
In communist-run Hungary in 1946 a court sentenced Homan to life imprisonment for voting to declare war on the Soviet Union in 1941. He died in prison in 1951.
In March this year the Budapest municipal court posthumously rehabilitated Homan.
The Jewish population of Hungary is estimated today at 35,000-120,000, the World Jewish Congress says. The higher estimate is the figure given by the Hungarian Jewish organisation Mazsihisz.
Establishing a precise figure is difficult because definitions of Jewish identity differ and many Hungarian Jews are married to non-Jews.
The project to erect the statue is an initiative of the private Balint Homan Foundation.
Szekesfehervar Mayor Andras Cser-Palkovics, a Fidesz member, said the foundation "has a right to do so in a democracy", but he asked them to return the funding they had received from the city and government.
European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor condemned the project as "a shocking display of insensitivity towards the Jewish people".
"A man who played a direct role in the killing of so many people is being honoured in such an open and public manner - it is sending a strong message that Jewish lives do not matter."
He said it was "disturbing and unconscionable" to call Homan a Hungarian patriot.


Veteran Crewe Alexandra striker Ryan Lowe says his partnership with Chris Dagnall is working well and they are relishing the chance to unleash it on League Two this season.

Lowe, 37, and Dagnall, 30, joined the Alex this summer and will be key figures if the club is to challenge for promotion in the forthcoming campaign.
"I've known Daggers since he played at Tranmere with my cousin," Lowe said.
"We're building our partnership and hopefully we can score some goals."
The two Liverpudlians live only a few miles apart and have been travelling together to training during pre-season.
And Lowe, who is in his third spell at Gresty Road, says the fact that they have scored 315 goals between them in their careers should stand them in good stead when the season kicks off next month.
"We've shown a few signs of what we can do - we've scored goals and had some nice link-up play," Lowe told BBC Radio Stoke.
"We're paid to score goals and potentially get us out of this league and we're relishing it."
Despite all his experience, Lowe knows there is decent competition for places in the Crewe squad, with players such as Callum Saunders and Daniel Udoh looking for an opportunity.
"There's four of us fighting for two places but whoever's playing the best will probably play," he said.
"You got try to get these combinations together - whoever it's with."
The arrival of Alex Kiwomya from Chelsea on loan has bolstered boss Steve Davis's attacking options and Lowe says the 20-year-old has an important role to play.
"He brings something new - he's direct and will hopefully supply some crosses," Lowe added.
"Hopefully he's got a bit of a natural striker to him too - when I was at Crewe the first time (then manager) Dario Gradi turned me from a striker into a goalscoring winger and I'm sure the gaffer will teach him the same and he'll even get a few goals himself."


Manchester United are acquiring the most prolific young forward Europe currently has to offer this summer.

With a goal tally that matches his age, 21-year-old Memphis Depay is the youngest player to have scored more than 15 goals in the continent's top 10 leagues this season.
The Red Devils are also snapping up one of the most sought-after attacking talents in the world, with senior figures at Paris St-Germain and Liverpool reported to be disappointed that the Netherlands international will be at Old Trafford next season.
But what exactly are United getting for their reported £30m outlay to Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven? And where is he likely to fit in to Louis van Gaal's starting XI?
Depay left hometown club Moordrecht for Sparta Rotterdam in 2003 at the age of nine and then joined PSV three years later. It was a move that was vital to his development, according to Dutch journalist Thijs Slegers, who covers PSV for Voetbal International magazine.
"Memphis was hanging round the streets of some of Rotterdam's bad areas with people who were a bad influence on him," Slegers told BBC Sport. "So when PSV came for him he realised that even at 12 he had to break away from these people.
"Life in Eindhoven is a lot more sedate than Rotterdam - Memphis came from the wild west in comparison."
Depay has a colourful back story and plays with the name Memphis on his shirt having dropped his surname as a result of a strained relationship with his Ghanaian father, who separated from his Dutch mother when he was four.
Slegers says Depay's "off-the-pitch antics" when growing up - prompted by a "tough" upbringing - had to be curbed by PSV.
He made his debut aged 17 in a Dutch Cup match in 2011 having been straightened out, partially at least, by then PSV assistant Fred Rutten.
"Rutten knew how to press the right buttons and told Memphis to stop to doing strange things, grow up and focus on football. He was a key figure," says Slegers.
"He was hanging around with some rap artists and he was in music videos and stuff. People the club thought he should not be with."
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Once described as "very angry" by a life coach PSV provided to him as a youngster, Depay is big into body art and has the words "dream chaser" tattooed across his chest.
Such lofty aspirations came to the fore when news of his move to United broke on Thursday and he tweeted: "I always say; Dream, Believe, Achieve. I was dreaming and believing of becoming the champions of the Eredivisie with PSV and we achieved it. Now it's time to set my goals again on winning trophies with Manchester United."
Depay is not short of confidence, according to Slegers, who has watched his development at close quarters and got to know the player.
"Memphis is also a very individual person. He recruited his own financial advisers when he was young because he was spending money on silly things, and his own nutritionist as well," he adds.
"In some ways he's still a kid and an idiot but if you are look at what he's done, making those steps into the big world, that is a really professional thing."
Simply put, because he's quick, he's strong, he's skilful and he scores goals.
A record of 38 goals in 88 league appearances for PSV may not stack up that impressively against the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but when you consider that 21 of those have come in 28 games this season his promise becomes apparent.
Slegers says his contribution has been a major factor in PSV winning their first Eredivisie title since 2008, and believes he has all the attributes to be a success in England.
"He has a lot of qualities suited to the Premier League," Slegers said. "He is fast, he is strong, and so he can win the sprint duels with almost anyone. Mentally he is strong.
"His technique is OK, not impressive but OK. Sometimes in the last phase he lacks a little bit with his decision making."
Depay has also impressed on the international stage. Last summer, he scored two goals for the Netherlands at the World Cup finals in Brazil, despite not being first choice for the side that reached the semi-finals.
Slegers says: "Memphis is full of self-confidence and self-belief. His background has shaped who he is - he plays with no fear, no hang ups."
But, the journalist warns, he is not quite the finished product.
"Memphis needs to develop a lot things in his play. I think he's ready for the Premier League, maybe I don't think he's ready for Manchester United yet," Slegers adds.
"But he will be a success at that level. It will depend on chances he gets in that first season with United."
Depay's record this season is even more impressive when you consider that he has not even been PSV's main striker this season.
He has largely operated on the left side of a front three, with Luuk de Jong taking the central spot.
Van Gaal has utilised a number of formations at United this season, but his favoured set-up is 4-3-3, which should suit Depay's instinct to cut inside from the left in pursuit of shooting opportunities.
"He can play left, right or in the centre. He's versatile but his best position is left outside, cutting inside to the right side," Slegers says.
"His left foot isn't that impressive, and he shoots all the time which is irritating for some people - there is no one in the Eredivisie who shoots at goal more than Memphis. Maybe with not the greatest conversion, but he still scores goals."
He may thrive on Van Gaal's no-nonsense approach to training as well.
Slegers recalls: "Last year Memphis gave an interview with me during a tough time for PSV and I said 'what's the problem here?'
"He said 'our coach needs to be tougher with us' which caused a few problems when the coach read it. Van Gaal is tough and that's what Memphis needs at the moment.
"Van Gaal is always looking for players to model into his own insight. What he sees in Memphis is a player that wants to learn from him and Memphis likes the way Van Gaal works."
Southampton boss and former Dutch international Ronald Koeman: "He has had a great season. He still has to develop himself. It will be tough for him because the Premier League is tough in a physical and mental way.
"It's a big step for him. But he's a great talent, a fast player and a very good signing for Manchester United."
Dutch former Wigan and Portsmouth defender Arjan de Zeeuw: "It's a massive step, but I think he'll do well. People regard him as a little bit arrogant, a little bit cocky, but I think he is a very good player, a very promising player, a very strong, very quick player and he's got some skill.
"He's been the player of the season really in Holland. He stood out for PSV, he's been the main guy who got them the championship this year - without him they would have struggled."
PSV Eindhoven sporting director Marcel Brands: "Memphis has gone through all the teams of the PSV youth academy and has played an important part in the national title this year.
"He's a wonderful exponent of our training and will make a nice transition to a magnificent club in a beautiful competition."


A man has died following a crash involving a motorbike and a car in Aberdeenshire.

Police said the victim was in his 50s.
Emergency services attended the scene of the collision on the A947 Aberdeen to Banff road at Plaidy at 07:44. A black Victory motorcylce and a grey Audi A1 were involved.
The road is expected to be closed for some time to allow for investigation work into the collision. Drivers have been advised to avoid the area.
Road Policing Inspector Ewan Innes said: "Both vehicles were travelling south on the A947 and we are appealing for anyone who may have seen the vehicles prior to the collision to speak to us.
"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who has died and a full collision investigation will be carried out to establish the circumstances."
Traffic diversions are in place. Traffic for Macduff is being redirected along the B9105 and on to the A98. For Banff, traffic is being diverted to the B9025 on to the A97.


Labour has been winning back support all over the country since Ed Miliband became its party leader, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna says.

He said almost 2,000 Labour councillors had won back seats and the party had "tens of thousands" of new members.
The party had made "huge progress" but had a "lot more work to do", he said.
Earlier, Labour deputy leader Lord Prescott said the party had failed to get its case across. The Tories said this was more evidence of "discontent".
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Lord Prescott said Labour had wasted an opportunity to set the news agenda, and urged Mr Miliband to "kick out" under-performing shadow cabinet members.
He called for a "radical change" to shape up the policy of organisation and delivery alongside a clear set of policies and principles.
"There are millions of people looking to us as the only alternative to this heartless coalition," he added.
Mr Umunna dismissed recent criticism of the party as "hysteria" and insisted Labour were capable of winning the next general election.
"We have got a big job to do. We are looking to make history - to achieve the remarkable feat of being re-elected to office after one term in opposition and so we are seeking to do something very big," he told BBC News.
"We all know we can do it, but of course we have got a lot more work to do over the 90-odd weeks before the next general election to put our case forward to the British people - but that is precisely what we have been doing all over the summer."
He said it was difficult to foresee every policy detail that would be in a manifesto for the 2015 election.
"I have been on the road with my leader since he became the leader of the Labour party and seen the fantastic response that he gets from people all over the country," he added.
During a campaign visit to a south London market earlier this week, Mr Miliband was pelted with eggs.
He did his best to laugh it off, saying: "I'm always looking for new ways to connect with the voters."
Further criticism this weekend came from Labour peer Lord Glasman - who was given his peerage at Ed Miliband's request.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, he said the party "gives the impression of not knowing which way to turn" and that it was time for the party leader "to show he is a grown-up politician big enough to lead this country".
Earlier this month, the shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said Labour must "put its cards on the table" and produce attention-grabbing policies by next spring or risk losing the next election.
He called for his party to "shout louder and speak in a way that captures how people are feeling and thinking".
But Mr Umunna said Mr Burnham's comments had been "overplayed".
"The point that Andy was making is of course by the time of the next general election we need to ensure that people know what Labour's agenda is."
Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps said Labour grandees were lining up to "take a shot" at a "weak" Mr Miliband.
He said: "The Labour leader's deepening summer of discontent is further evidence that he's not even capable of leading his own party, let alone standing up for the hard-working people of Britain."


Tata Steel's Port Talbot chief Stuart Wilkie is to launch a management buyout of the company's operations in the UK.

Tata is selling its entire loss-making UK business and has asked for expressions of interest as part of the sales negotiations process.
Mr Wilkie was one of the main people behind a survival plan that was rejected by the Tata board in India and the UK business was put up for sale.
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The steel union Community said it would welcome "prompt discussions with Stuart Wilkie and any management buyout option".
BBC Wales business correspondent Brian Meechan said that, as with any potential buyer for Tata, the management buyout would require significant financial support from the UK government.
"It's believed though that any management buyout would involve retaining the blast furnaces and making steel from scratch as opposed to the proposal by Liberty to turn it into a recycling facility," he added.
Tata Steel directly employs 15,000 workers in the UK and supports thousands of others, across plants in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby and Shotton.
The company has sold its Long Products Europe business at the Scunthorpe plant, safeguarding 4,400 UK jobs, but workers are being asked to accept a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements.
The government has resisted calls from unions and opposition politicians to nationalise the Port Talbot plant, Britain's biggest steelworks, to safeguard thousands of jobs.
Steel company Liberty House, owned by Sanjeev Gupta, has publicly expressed an interest in buying the Port Talbot works.


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League One Fleetwood Town have signed midfielder Markus Schwabl from German side VfR Aalen for an undisclosed fee on a two-and-a-half year deal.

The 26-year-old, who can also play right-back, had been playing in the third tier of German football.
Schwabl is the son of former West Germany international Manfred Schwabl.
"He's very fit and very professional in his day to day work and he will offer us a lot of energy in midfield," boss Uwe Rolser told the club website.
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America is preparing for the event known as the 'greatest show on earth'.

3 February 2013 Last updated at 12:10 GMT
The Super Bowl is the biggest game in American football and is as famous for its half-time show as much as the game itself.
This year Beyonce will be performing and tens of millions of people are expected to tune in to watch the action.
Leah's been finding out more about one of the most famous sporting events in the world.


Pep Guardiola is to leave Bayern Munich at the end of the season and will be replaced by Carlo Ancelotti.

Guardiola, 44, has been linked with Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
The former Barcelona coach has won two league titles and the German Cup since joining Bayern in summer 2013.
Ex-Chelsea boss Ancelotti, 56, has been on a break since being sacked by Real Madrid in May 2015 and has signed a three-year deal with Bayern.
The German champions are eight points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and will play Italian club Juventus in the last 16 of the Champions League.
"We are grateful to Pep Guardiola for everything he has given our club since 2013," said Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
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"I am convinced that Pep and our team will now work even more intensively towards achieving our major sporting goals - especially as it is now confirmed that Pep is to leave FC Bayern."
Ancelotti has won the Champions League three times, twice with AC Milan and once at Real Madrid, and guided Chelsea to the Premier League title and FA Cup in 2010.
He recently suggested a preference to return to the English top flight but has instead decided to join Bayern.
"I am very honoured," said Ancelotti." I'll be in next season to coach the great FC Bayern."
Rummenigge added: "Carlo is a calm, balanced expert, who knows how to deal with stars and favours a multifaceted style of play - we were looking for this, and we have found it.
"We are looking forward to working with him."
If Ancelotti wins the Bundesliga with Bayern next season, he will become the second coach to have won league titles in four of Europe's top six leagues.
Jose Mourinho has won league titles in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain.
The 44-year-old has not revealed where his next destination will be.
Chelsea sacked Mourinho on Thursday and have appointed Guus Hiddink until the end of the season. United boss Louis van Gaal is also under pressure following his side's recent slump in form, which has seen them exit the Champions League at the group stages and lose to Norwich on Saturday.
Guardiola has also been strongly linked with taking over from City boss Manuel Pellegrini in the summer.
Pellegrini's contract has 18 months to run and the Chilean thinks Guardiola might follow him to the Etihad Stadium.
"I hope he will have the option to work at Manchester City," he said. "I say that because I love this club and I hope, in the future, he can work here also.
"Pep Guardiola will work in England, I don't know if it is next season at City or at another club. Some day he'll come here."
The Spaniard was appointed Barcelona boss in 2008 and became the Spanish club's most successful manager as he led the Catalan club to 13 trophies in his four-year tenure.
He won three league titles, two Champions Leagues and a Copa del Rey while at the Nou Camp.
The former Spain international took a year-long sabbatical before taking over at Bayern Munich on the back of the German club winning the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup under Jupp Heynckes.
As well as the league and cup titles, Bayern have also reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in Guardiola's two seasons in charge, with Real Madrid knocking them out in 2013-14 and Barcelona the following season.


Lloyds Banking Group has announced plans to close its contact centre in Dundee with the loss of up to 252 jobs.

In a statement, the group said it would end operations at its base in the city's West Marketgait in December.
Lloyds is moving the majority of the centre's work to its contact centre in Dunfermline, as it seeks to "focus on larger centres of excellence".
It is understood some Dundee staff will be given an opportunity to transfer to Fife.
The Bank of Scotland branch which stands underneath the West Marketgait offices will remain open with "no immediate changes" planned, Lloyds said.
A Lloyds spokeswoman said: "As we continue to adapt to the changing needs of customers and ensure we remain as efficient as possible, we are developing our business with a focus on larger centres of excellence.
"As a result of this, we have announced that, from 8 December, we will no longer undertake contact centre work from West Marketgait, Dundee.
"We will provide ongoing support for all colleagues affected by today's announcement as they work through what this change means for them."


The words: "Don't leave me this way," in English, and the Union Jack splashed across the front page of Wednesday's edition of the best-selling daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reflect the general view of the Dutch establishment about a possible Brexit.

The Dutch currently hold the presidency of the EU, but it is not just the prospect of an unprecedented crisis happening on their watch that is causing jitters in the Netherlands.
Dutch politicians, especially on the right, regard Britain as a bulwark against the more protectionist tendencies of some of the bigger EU states.
As one of the grand old men of Dutch politics, the former leader of the centre right VVD party and former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein told me: "Holland and Britain look at the seas.
"We are maritime people and believe in trade with other parts of the world.
"Continental powers, like France and Germany, very important members of the EU, think differently."
So, what if Britain left the EU?
"The Dutch would feel they've lost an important ally in the balance of powers within the European Union," he said.
"Our message is, 'Hang in there, don't leave Holland, support free trade.'
"Try to be less Minnie the Minx, moaning on the sidelines, but come in there with both feet and fight."
A politician who has been less of a minx and more of a menace to the established parties for the past few years sees things very differently.
Geert Wilders is the leader of the populist, right-wing PVV, which currently tops Dutch opinion polls.
Overtly anti-Islam and anti-EU, he is hoping that a British vote to leave the EU would start a domino effect; that a Brexit would lead to a similar referendum on a Nexit.
"I think it will be a good thing if people from the UK vote to leave this political project," he told me in the Dutch parliament, where he is accompanied by ever-present security guards.
"I believe it will mean that other countries, like perhaps my own, will find it an enormous incentive to regain their national sovereignty.
"I'm talking about a patriotic spring.
"If we want to survive as a nation, we have to stop immigration and stop Islamisation.
"We cannot do that inside the European Union."
Although the Netherlands is seeing increasing numbers of Central European arrivals, the immigration debate tends to focus on larger communities that originally came from outside the EU - Morocco and Turkey - and their level of integration.
It was a debate that had existed in the background for decades, but only reached the forefront of Dutch politics about 15 years ago
And now it is taking parts of Dutch society in unpredictable directions.
Here is one example.
According to the Dutch-Turkish journalist Gulsah Ercetin, who covers integration issues for the state broadcaster NOS, some of the young, third-generation members of the country's large Turkish community are turning away from the Netherlands and towards the country their grandparents left.
"I find it interesting that some of them are feeling an emotional connection to Turkey," she told me.
"They follow everything there.
"When you ask them what's going on in Dutch politics, they're not well informed.
"Some of these young Turks who were born and raised in Holland don't feel Dutch.
"They feel more Turkish than Dutch.
"They say they're floating around between two cultures and two countries.
"They're constantly reminded they're from another country and they have another religion."
Despite being one of the founding members of the EEC, it is hard to find much love for the European Union in the Netherlands.
The VVD party of Prime Minister Marc Rutte calls itself Eurosceptic.
But the world-renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who recently chaired a 12-hour debate on "what is Europe?", argues the EU has been a good thing for his country and for the UK, where he began his architecture studies in the 1960s.
Sitting in his Rotterdam office, he told me the Brexit camp was full of people who "fundamentally want to change England back to the way it was before" and lamented the way, as he sees it, the EU has been used as a scapegoat.
"It is the nations and prime ministers that take the decisions, but because of this myth of Brussels, they are also able to blame Brussels for the decisions they took themselves," he said.
But Mr Koolhaas seems to be an increasingly rare voice in a country re-examining its own relationship with the EU and where fears are rising that the club of nations opposed to a more federal, political union is about to lose a member.


Crystal Palace's Julian Speroni and Damien Delaney have signed new contracts to remain at the club for a further 12 months until 2017.

Speroni, 37, equalled John Jackson's club-record 388 appearances for a goalkeeper on the final day of the Premier League season.
Defender Delaney has been a regular since joining from Ipswich in 2012.
Meanwhile, Palace confirmed that striker Emmanuel Adebayor is among six players to be released.
Goalkeeper Chris Kettings, defenders Brede Hangeland, Adrian Mariappa and Paddy McCarthy and forward Marouane Chamakh will also leave Selhurst Park.


Motherwell manager Mark McGhee was incensed by a disallowed goal scored by Scott McDonald during his side's 2-1 loss to Celtic.

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McDonald netted from Louis Moult's cross, but was flagged offside.
"Once again we feel we've been let down by the officials, which is horrendous given the importance of the situation," said McGhee.
"It's a shocking decision. We have video replays, we know it's onside, we know it's level."
McGhee appeared to refuse to shake hands with counterpart Ronny Deila on the full-time whistle but later told BBC Scotland the snub was due to a "misunderstanding" on his part and that it had been resolved.
"What actually happened was, at the beginning of the game, I felt as if when I went over to shake hands with the Celtic staff they blanked me," explained McGhee.
"I've spoken to Ronny about it and it was a total, 100% misunderstanding on my part, and I accept totally he didn't see me. That's fine, and he and I have shaken hands."
Defeat leaves the fourth-placed Fir Park side's top-six berth uncertain, with Dundee, St Johnstone and Partick Thistle all capable of usurping them in Saturday's later kick-offs.
"We'll take what comes," said McGhee. "If we're in the bottom six, we'll deal with it. If we're in the top six, that's fantastic.
"We've come close. St Johnstone, Dundee, Partick Thistle - they've had great seasons as well and if they all end up in the top six then good luck to them and well done, because they deserve it every bit as much as we do."


The mother of a schoolgirl who was murdered 20 years ago has said finding her daughter's killer would give her "closure".

Caroline Glachan, 14, was found dead on the banks of the River Leven in Dunbartonshire on 25 August 1996, about a mile from her Renton home.
Her killer has never been found, and police are now re-examining evidence from the initial investigation.
Caroline's mother Margaret McKeich said she wanted answers to "who and why?"
Speaking at a news conference in Bonhill, close to where her daughter died, 60-year-old Mrs McKeich said: "I've been here before and it's 20 years down the line. What can I say that I haven't said before? What can I do that I've not done before?
"It's things like this but I'm a wee bit more hopeful than I've been for a long time.
"I also believe the public have a part to play in this as well and I'd urge anybody to come forward just to give me that peace, just to let Caroline rest in peace and to give me closure because there are two questions I need to answer - who and why?"
Despite numerous appeals before no-one has been arrested over Caroline's death.
Mrs McKeich has previously said she believes her daughter knew her killer.
She urged anyone who might have information about her daughter's death to "Take a look back, and have a think back, and take a look in the mirror and look to your conscience.
"Twenty years has passed and it's a fair amount of time, but for me it's just yesterday.
"I think 20 years is long enough. Just let this year be the last year, the last time."
Mrs McKeich was joined at the news conference by Caroline's friend, Joanne Menzies, who was one of the last people to have seen her alive.
She urged those "shielding" the killer to come forward.
Ms Menzies said: "There's people who know who done it, who are shielding whoever done it, and I would ask these people to come forward now."
The appeal was held as Police Scotland's Homicide Governance and Review team begins a fresh investigation into Caroline's death.
Forensic scientists are now re-examining more than 300 items collected at the time of her death on the River Leven towpath.
Police have also re-appealed for help in tracing a man in a hooded top who was seen standing about 30 yards from Caroline as she walked along Dillichip Loan at about 00:15 on the night of her murder.
Someone fitting the man's description was spotted about half an hour later running down the main street of Alexandria in West Dunbartonshire with another male.
At the news conference, Det Supt Jim Kerr appealed to the local community to break the "wall of silence" surrounding Caroline's murder.
He urged the man in the hooded top to get in contact as he was "probably the last person to see Caroline alive".
The detective added: "There's people in this community that know exactly happened. I feel as if it's a black cloud over Renton and Bonhill and we need to get it lifted."
He also revealed that a fresh appeal would be aired next Monday on the BBC's Crimewatch programme.
Part of the fresh investigation will also involve modern DNA tests being applied to the case.
Amanda Pirie, lead forensic scientist with the Scottish Police Authority, said new DNA profiling tests could get results from samples which experts were previously unable to interpret.
She said samples could also be lifted from evidence that had been immersed in water.
Ms Pirie added: "All of this combined will enable the cold case team potentially to recover and detect trace amounts of DNA which will hopefully enable us to identify individuals with whom, for instance, Caroline Glachan may have been in contact at, or around, the time of her death."
Following her death, more than 500 people attended the funeral of the schoolgirl, who was a pupil at Our Lady's and St Patrick's school in Dumbarton.


The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would introduce strict abortion limits.

The plan to restrict terminations to the first 20 weeks after conception was approved by 228 votes to 196, largely along party lines.
But it has no chance of becoming law as Democrats control the Senate and the White House has threatened a veto.
Most US states allow abortions to when a foetus becomes viable outside the womb, considered to be some 24 weeks.
The Republican leadership pressed ahead with the abortion bill after the case of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was recently sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing three babies delivered alive.
The legislation passed on Tuesday makes exceptions for victims of rape and incest, as long as they first report the crime to authorities.
Republican congressman Trent Franks, the bill's sponsor, provoked outrage last week when he said in a committee hearing that the "incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy [is] very low".
BBC Washington correspondent Jane Little says that while the bill has delighted the Republicans' core social-conservative supporters, it may alienate the female, young, and independent voters that party bosses hope to win over.
Controversial remarks about abortion by Republicans provoked a backlash during the November 2012 elections.
One candidate said women's bodies could prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape"; another said pregnancy resulting from rape was "something God intended to happen".
Ten US states have passed laws similar to the House bill, although several are facing legal challenges.


Batsman Chesney Hughes has left Derbyshire after failing to agree terms on a new contract at the County Ground.

The Anguilla-born 25-year-old joined the club in 2009 having previously played for his home island and the West Indies Under-19s side.
Hughes made his first-class debut against Middlesex in 2010 and scored 6,657 runs across all formats.
He hit a best of 270 not out against Yorkshire in 2013, four runs short of Derbyshire's first-class record.
"We would like to thank Chesney for his efforts for Derbyshire over the last seven years," Derbyshire's cricket advisory director Kevin Dean told the club website.
"He produced some memorable innings for the club, no more than his unbeaten 270 in 2013 at Headingley.
"Whilst it's disappointing that we were unable to agree terms on a new deal, we wish Chesney well for the future."


Commonwealth Games and European silver medallist Kirsty Gilmour is worried badminton will no longer be able to attract future stars if proposed funding cuts go ahead.

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An appeal against UK Sport's decision to end all backing ahead of the 2020 Olympics will be submitted this month.
A final decision is expected in March.
"It's hard to motivate kids and tell them they'll be OK if they really want to go for it without that top tier to aim for," Gilmour told BBC Scotland.
"If I ever do school talks I can't go in there and say 'if badminton is your dream and if you reach a certain level you are going to be funded'.
"I can no longer preach that message."
Glasgow-based Gilmour, 23, made her second Olympic appearance in Rio last summer and is determined to keep going towards Tokyo 2020 and beyond.
And her plans for the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast 2018 are unaffected by UK Sport policy, with funding coming from Badminton Scotland, who are supported by Sportscotland.
"For the most part, GB and UK sport took care of most of my tournaments, so that's a full programme, as well as expenses while away, plus the coaching input from GB," said the Scot, who is recovering from knee surgery in October.
"Going forward, I will have to rely solely on Badminton Scotland to provide that same level of care and support but that link I had with the GB system and the next Olympic cycle goes away.
"It makes things tougher and more uncertain. If you are worrying about anything other than performance then it's a bad sign. You want everything settled in the background, no stresses.
"After [the 2018 Games] we will have to regroup and reassess where we go from there.
"I will do everything in my power possible to keep going. I'm hoping to continue for many, many years. It will just be a lot more difficult getting to all of these tournaments around the world."
UK Sport made its announcement in December despite Great Britain winning its first Olympic badminton medal since 2004 in Rio.
"Seeing the boys [Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge] get that men's doubles bronze medal, just thinking about it gives me goosebumps," recalls Gilmour, who exited the singles in the group stage as the 11th seed.
"Everyone was thinking 'yes, we've done it, medal - check. This is amazing'. We showed we could compete on the world stage.
"I don't think any other sport has overachieved on their set target and then had their funding withdrawn. It's still a shock."


Plans have been lodged for a £3m dementia unit in Kelso which developers claim would create about 30 jobs.

The 18-bed Murray House facility would be built next to the Queen's House nursing home on Angraflat Road.
A design statement said about 30% of the Borders population was forecast to be over 60 within 20 years with rising demand for care services.
Subject to planning permission, it is hoped work could start in August and be completed by autumn 2018.
The new unit would be separate to the current home in order to meet the "different needs" of dementia residents.
The design statement said Queen's House's 60 staff, existing residents and families, as well as neighbours had all been consulted and were favourable to the "new and worthwhile development".


A man suspected of setting off a bomb at Brussels Central Station on Tuesday has been identified as a 36-year-old Moroccan from a city district that has spawned a number of jihadist attackers.

The suspect came from Molenbeek and was carrying a bomb armed with nails and gas canisters, officials said.
He was shot and later died after the explosion, which is being treated as a terrorist attack.
He was known to police but had not been linked to terrorism, reports said.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told reporters that a "terrorist attack had been averted" at the station.
Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said the suspect, identified only by his initials O.Z., had approached a group of passengers beneath the main concourse and attempted to blow up his suitcase. It partially exploded and caught fire before blowing up a second time.
The man had then run towards a station-master and targeted a soldier, screaming "Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)", before being shot. He was not wearing a suicide belt.
He later died of his injuries and his home in Molenbeek was searched by special forces in the early hours of Wednesday. Officials were seen leaving the man's home hours later with what prosecutors said were potential bomb-making materials. "Preliminary results... showed that he probably made the bomb there," said Mr Van der Sypt.
The man was named by Belgian media as Oussama Zariouh and the mayor of Molenbeek said he was known for drugs offences but was not on any jihadist watch list. The prosecutor said there were indications that he had sympathies for so-called Islamic State.
After convening a security cabinet on Wednesday, the prime minister said extra measures were being taken to secure stations, public places and major events.
Major concerts by rock group Coldplay were due to go ahead in Brussels as planned on Wednesday and Thursday. Belgium is currently at its second highest level of security alert. The capital is also due to host a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday and Friday.
Brussels was hit by a double bombing in March 2016 in which 32 people died. The attacks on Zaventem airport and the Brussels metro were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Many of the jihadists involved in the 2016 Brussels bombings and the Paris attacks in November 2015 came from the Belgian capital, and several from Molenbeek in particular.
The district just west of the city centre was home to Paris suicide bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam and his brother Salah Abdeslam, seen as a key figure in the attacks. Brussels attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was a childhood friend.
Interior Minister Jan Jambon said the problems that had built up in Molenbeek over decades "cannot be put right in barely 10 months".
Defence Minister Steven Vandeput praised the soldiers for following their guidelines to the letter when they opened fire on the attacker.
A bystander who took a picture of the suitcase when it caught fire said he did not at first realise it was a bomb. "It was only when I heard the second blast and then shots being fired that I thought I'd better run," said lawyer Rémy Bonnaffée.
Nicolas Van Herrewegen, a railway sorting agent, said he had gone down to the station's mezzanine level when he heard someone shouting.
"I was behind a wall when it exploded. I went down and alerted my colleagues to evacuate everyone. He [the suspect] was still around but after that we didn't see him."
"It wasn't exactly a big explosion but the impact was pretty big," he added. "People were running away."
Several attacks have taken place in Paris and London in recent days.
The French capital was jolted on Monday when a man with an Islamist background died after ramming his car into a police van on the Avenue des Champs-Élysée. The Brussels prosecutor said on Wednesday that the Paris attack was not being linked to the Belgian explosion "for the time being".
London has also been on edge since a van was driven into Muslim worshippers outside a mosque on Sunday night, with one man dying and nine people injured. It followed IS-claimed attacks on London's Borough Market in June and a pop concert in Manchester in May that together left some 30 people dead and more than 100 injured.


Sinn Féin North Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly has been the victim of an alleged assault.

It happened in Belfast's Gordon Street at about 23:30 GMT on Saturday.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned on suspicion of common assault.
Mr Kelly, who is understood to have suffered facial injuries, said: "I have made a formal complaint to the PSNI after I was assaulted in Belfast city centre last night."


The stakes involved in the UK leaving the EU are too high to let "emotions get out of hand", European Council President Donald Tusk has said.

PM Theresa May has accused EU politicians of making "threats" to try to influence the UK general election.
At a press conference in Brussels, Mr Tusk said talks would "become impossible" if arguments continued.
Meanwhile Brexit Secretary David Davis has accused the European Commission of trying to "bully the British people".
Speaking on BBC One's Question Time, he said there had been a "deliberately misleading briefing" following a Downing Street dinner last week and said the "line was crossed" when stories appeared suggesting the UK could face an exit bill of 100bn euros (Â£84.5 billion).
"Clearly what was happening was the commission was trying to bully the British people - and the British people will not be bullied, and the government will not allow them to be bullied," Mr Davis said.
"So she [Mrs May] made the point she made, and she was right to do so."
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His comments came as Mr Tusk appealed for calm ahead of Brexit negotiations.
"These negotiations are difficult enough as they are," Mr Tusk told reporters.
"If we start arguing before they even begin, they will become impossible.
"The stakes are too high to let our emotions get out of hand because at stake are the daily lives and interests of millions of people on both sides of the channel.
"We must keep in mind that in order to succeed we need today discretion, moderation, mutual respect and a maximum of goodwill."
The call for discretion is thought to be aimed at EC President Jean-Claude Juncker, who reportedly called Mrs May "delusional" following a Downing Street dinner to discuss Brexit.
Mrs May's attack on the "bureaucrats of Brussels" was delivered from Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon after her meeting with the Queen.
"Britain's negotiating position in Europe has been misrepresented in the continental press," she said, referring to a German newspaper's account of her dinner with Mr Juncker.
"The European Commission's negotiating stance has hardened.
"Threats against Britain have been issued by European politicians and officials.
"All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election that will take place on 8 June."
Afterwards, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused her of "playing party games with Brexit" and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was "irresponsible" to "poison" the atmosphere with the EU.
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani rejected the prime minister's claim and a spokesman for Mr Juncker said his office was too busy to meddle in the UK election.
On Wednesday, a senior EU source told the BBC the PM's suggestion that officials were trying to affect the election result was "pure fantasy".
Mrs May's statement came during a day in which UK Brexit Secretary David Davis and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, had appeared at odds over the size of the "Brexit bill" the UK would owe when it left the European Union.
Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Brexit was challenging for not only the UK and the EU but for her country too, whose biggest trading partner is the UK.
She said she was "very concerned" about future arrangements between the EU and the UK, but believed it was "possible to find good arrangements in the future".


Shares in the AA motoring group suffered a disappointing debut on the London Stock Exchange.

The stock dropped around 5% in its first day of conditional trading to 235p, after being priced at 250p per share by the firm.
Shares opened at 244p and dropped as low as 231p at one point, even though it had been over-subscribed.
Its owners, private equity firms Permira, Charterhouse and CVC, sold their entire stakes in the AA.
The motoring association initially said the company would be valued at about £1.385bn, but its market capitalisation dropped to £1.313bn on Monday.
Institutional investors, including Aviva, Blackrock, Legal & General, Invesco, and Lansdowne Partners, backed a management buy-in led by former Green Flag boss Bob MacKenzie, who has been appointed as the AA's executive chairman.
"We will work with the existing management and the AA's loyal workforce to deliver an enhanced experience for all our members and customers, and to serve the broader needs of the UK motorist," Mr MacKenzie said in a statement.
"Our offer will enable the AA to become an independent publicly-listed company and we look forward to creating substantial value for all our stakeholders."
The firm's stock market flotation echoed that of sister company Saga, which closed flat on its debut.
The AA was formed by motoring enthusiasts in 1905 primarily to avoid police speed traps. It is best known for its breakdown recovery service, but also sells insurance and financial products.
The organisation voted to demutualise in 1999 and to be acquired by Centrica for £1.1bn.
Private equity forms CVC and Permira bought the company from Centrica for £1.75bn in October 2004.


Sports channel ESPN announced it is cutting 300 jobs or 4% of the company's workforce.

ESPN  has been struggling as younger audiences choose outlets like Netflix and Amazon Prime over cable television.
In a statement president of ESPN, John Skipper, said though sports viewership was not diminishing cuts were necessary to keep a "competitive advantage".
Disney, which owns ESPN revised its profit expectations in August after the channel saw a decreases in subscribers.
ESPN gets money from cable companies when subscribers buy bundles that include the sport channel. As more people choose cheaper cable packages or opt for online subscription TV such as Netflix, ESPN is having to rethink its strategy.
Disney said in August it was considering selling access to ESPN directly to viewers in the way outlets like HBO and Showtime already do.


Instant messaging service Whatsapp has announced it will encrypt all its users' communications from Tuesday.

With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled as they leave the sender's device and can only be decrypted by the recipient's device.
It renders messages unreadable if they are intercepted, for example by criminals or law enforcement.
Whatsapp, which has a billion users worldwide, said file transfers and voice calls would be encrypted too.
The Facebook-owned company said protecting private communication was one of its "core beliefs".
Encryption was thrown under the spotlight after the FBI asked Apple to help it access data on an iPhone used by California gunman Syed Farook.
Whatsapp said: "The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us."
Users with the latest version of the app were notified about the change when sending messages on Tuesday. The setting is enabled by default.
Amnesty International called the move a "huge victory" for free speech.
"Whatsapp's roll out of the Signal Protocol, providing end to end encryption for its one billion users worldwide, is a major boost for people's ability to express themselves and communicate without fear," the organisation said in a statement.
"This is a huge victory for privacy and free speech, especially for activists and journalists who depend on strong and trustworthy communications to carry out their work without putting their lives at greater risk."
Whatsapp's decision was also welcomed by security professionals.
"Wire-tappers lament, law-abiding citizens rejoice, for WhatsApp's latest update is a victory for communications privacy," said Lee Munson, a security researcher for Comparitech.
"With the ability to access data removed even from the company behind the app, only ill-informed law enforcement agencies are likely to mutter 'terrorists' as the masses enjoy the encrypted text messages, photos, video and phone calls they've been demanding ever since Edward Snowden blew the lid on government surveillance."
The move is likely to irk law enforcement agencies, particularly the US Department of Justice which has recently expressed concern over "unreachable" information contained in devices. The DoJ did not respond to the BBC's request for comment on Tuesday.
Indeed, FBI attorney James Baker has reportedly criticised the move saying encryption threatens the work of law enforcement.
"It has public safety costs. Folks have to understand that, and figure out how they are going to deal with that," he said, according to the US News and World Report news site.
"Do they want the public to bear those costs? Do they want the victims of terrorism to bear those costs?"
Mr Baker was speaking at the International Association of Privacy Professionals summit.
Other messaging apps with end-to-end encryption include Telegram, which is known to be used by the so-called Islamic State to share information.


A UKIP AM will chair the assembly's Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee under a cross-party deal.

The news has prompted anger from Labour AM Lee Waters who described the move as "appalling" given the party questions whether climate change is man made.
But UKIP said the group was "allocated to us without our being consulted".
It is one of 13 committees divided among the parties based on the number of AMs they have.
A Labour AM will chair six of the committees, including education, Plaid Cymru three, including health and the Conservatives two, including economy.
UKIP's sole chairmanship will be the climate change committee - with the group agreeing that Mark Reckless will be the party's candidate.
Assembly committees scrutinise the activities of the Welsh Government.
Llanelli AM Mr Waters said: "I am appalled that a party that doesn't believe in climate change is man made... should be chairing the assembly committee responsible for it.
"Lots of people are very unhappy about it.
"The fact is that people voted for UKIP in large numbers and they have a significant group here. The way the assembly works is on a consensual basis and as a result they are entitled to one of the chairs."
But he added: "UKIP are a party that don't believe that human activity has worsened climate change, and they don't believe in supporting policies to tackle its worst effects.
"It's a responsibility we have to future generations, which is one of the reasons I came into politics."
Welsh Party leader Nathan Gill, now an AM, said last year: "We don't agree that man is responsible for changing the climate.
"We think it's hubris and we also think that governments have realised this is a great way of taxing people and people will say 'thank you for taxing us because you're going to save the world'."
Wales Green Party leader Alice Hooker-Stroud said putting a UKIP politician in charge of a climate change committee was "absolutely ridiculous".
"It makes a complete mockery of Welsh politics and today I am ashamed to be governed by a group that could make this decision," she said.
A UKIP spokesman said the party was "exceptionally committed to the responsibility we have for future generations, which is why we advocated leaving the EU, and are pleased the majority of voters in Wales agreed with us".
He added: "If Mr Waters has any objection to UKIP chairing the committee, his criticism is of his own party's business manager, Jane Hutt, who agreed this allocation without consulting us.
"As a smaller group we were able to agree amongst ourselves who should be chair of the committee, and the consensus was it should be Mark Reckless."
AMs approved the deal on Tuesday, with the individual chairs being elected by secret ballot on Wednesday.
Presiding Officer Elin Jones said: "This move will result in an open and transparent process for electing committee chairs which significantly increases their authority and independence.
"That provides the assembly with a firm foundation from which the Assembly Commission's ambition of delivering robust and meaningful scrutiny can be achieved."
Deputy Presiding Officer Ann Jones will chair the Scrutiny of the First Minister Committee.


Assembly members have failed to elect a new Speaker after all three candidates fell short of a cross-community majority.

Previous Speaker William Hay has retired because of ill health.
Sinn Féin said the DUP should honour an agreement to support its nominee Mitchel McLaughlin.
However, DUP leader Peter Robinson said the appointment of Speaker should be dealt with at the upcoming talks along with welfare reform.
In the absence of a replacement for Mr Hay, Mr McLaughlin will remain in the chair as principal deputy speaker, along with deputy speakers John Dallat of the SDLP and Ulster Unionist Roy Beggs.
The DUP promised Sinn Féin the post as a result of a deal that dates back to Ian Paisley's time as first minister.
Therefore, Sinn Féin expected Mitchel McLaughlin to be elected. However, some DUP MLAs are known to be strongly hostile to the notion of a Sinn Féin Speaker.
Sinn Féin's Caitriona Ruane criticised the DUP over the failure to elect Mr McLaughlin.
"The refusal today to honour that deal by refusing to back Mitchel McLaughlin raises serious questions about DUP sincerity in any negotiations process," she said.
Ulster Unionist chief whip Robin Swann described Monday's events as a "pantomime".
"When is a deal not a deal? When it is between the poisonous Sinn Féin/DUP coalition at the heart of our government," he said.
Alliance leader David Ford said the DUP should have backed Mr McLaughlin.
"The DUP should have honoured the deal that they made in 2011. They are attempting to politicise the office of the Speaker," he said.
However, the DUP's Arlene Foster blamed the failure to elect a Speaker on Sinn Fein's inability to "stand by their agreement" on welfare reform.
"If Caitriona Ruane is looking for anyone to blame for today's actions, then she should cast her eye southwards to those in Dublin currently controlling her party," she said.
Last week, the DUP tried to get the vote postponed, arguing that the appointment should be discussed during inter-party talks.
Mr McLaughlin took on the role of Speaker last month in a temporary capacity.
In Stormont on Monday, MLAs paid tribute to Mr Hay who was elevated to the House of Lords in August but then fell ill with heart problems.


A four-year-old boy who stole the show during an organ donation discussion on BBC Breakfast will receive part of his father's liver.

Harry Maceachen's infectious laughter and excited energy captured hearts - and distracted presenters.
Born with a rare liver disease, Harry needed a transplant for his first birthday and now needs another.
His father Simon will become a living donor as no suitable match has been found from the organ donor register.
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Harry, from Shrewsbury, was born with biliary atresia which meant he had blocked bile ducts.
He was treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
"The first transplant was a success, there was no problem with rejection or anything like that," said his mother Clare Maceachen.
"He's had a very rare mechanical failure - more of a plumbing issue - but hopefully after the next transplant he won't need another.
"We could still get a call right up to next week saying they've found a match, but it's looking increasingly likely it will be Simon."
"Children don't need a full liver and Simon's will grow back," said Mrs Maceachen.
"We've explained to Harry what is going to happen and I think it's been easier for him to understand he is going to be having part of daddy's tummy rather than the alternative."
Simon is a volunteer at Shrewsbury Parkrun and he and his family fundraise for the Children Liver Disease Foundation.


Senior Indonesian officials have taken part in an unprecedented meeting to discuss the killing of 500,000 communists and their supporters during an insurgency 50 years ago.

Security Minister Luhut Panjaitan said the country must make peace with its past, but ruled out an official apology.
The meeting brought together victims and members of the security forces.
The massacre began in 1965 after an apparent coup blamed on the communists.
Conference organiser Agus Widjojo, a retired general, said at the meeting that the killings had "torn apart" Indonesia and called for the government to establish a commission for truth and reconciliation.
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"Let's open this history together so we can all find out what has been wrong in our national system, why this nation could have the ability to commit mass killings," he said.
Mr Widjojo's father was among six right-wing generals whose assassinations during the abortive coup were blamed on Indonesia's Communist Party.
In the bloodshed that followed, researchers say the military and religious groups killed half a million people as the former dictator Suharto rose to power.
Suspected Communist Party members and sympathisers were hunted down, tortured and killed in one of the worst massacres of the 20th Century.
Rivalries between the Indonesian military and the Communist Party came to a head when six generals were killed in an overnight attack by soldiers allegedly sympathetic to the communists
A group of officers led by a colonel in President Sukarno's palace guard was accused of trying to launch a coup
General Suharto led bloody anti-communist purges in which hundreds of thousands of suspected leftists were killed
Many more were detained and imprisoned without trial
In 1966, President Sukarno was forced to hand emergency powers to Gen Suharto, who took over as president the following year, ruling Indonesia for 31 years
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About 100,000 more suffered years of imprisonment without trial or exile in remote corners of Indonesia because of a tenuous connection to the Communist Party.
During his 32-year rule, Suharto depicted the communists as a threat to bolster his own authoritarian hold on power.
Descendants of Communist Party members are still discriminated against and are banned from holding government jobs, despite calls from rights groups to end the practice.
There were scuffles between police and protesters outside the Jakarta Hotel where the conference is taking place. The protesters fear it could help revive communism in the country.
However, the conference is being supported by government figures and was attended by Indonesia's attorney general, police chief and justice minister.
After his election in 2014, Indonesian President Joko Widodo promised a state-sponsored inquiry into the killings.
Rights groups have also called on the US to release its secret files on the killings.
At the time, the US saw Indonesia as an important part of efforts to counter the influence of the Soviet Union and China in South-East Asia.
Documents held in the National Security Archive of George Washington University show the US embassy in Jakarta was aware of some of the killings, AP news agency reported.
The embassy also passed lists of communists it had compiled to Indonesia's military, supplied Indonesia's military with radios and secretly gave money to a military-linked group involved in the repression, AP added.


Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil is suffering from a lack of confidence after an eight-match goal drought, says Gunners manager Arsene Wenger.

Ozil, who cost a club-record £42m fee from Real Madrid in 2013, has struggled to make an impact in recent games.
The Germany star, 28, has not scored for the Gunners since 10 December.
"I don't know why he is underperforming - it can happen," said Wenger, whose team visit Bayern Munich in the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday.
Ozil has scored five league goals this campaign, one short of his previous best tally, which he recorded last season.
However, he has not found the net in his eight top-flight matches since a 3-1 home win against Stoke in December, which moved Arsenal to the top of the Premier League.
The Gunners have lost four of those matches to drop to third position and 10 points adrift of leaders Chelsea.
"It's time for him to score again," added Wenger, who saw Alexis Sanchez score both goals in Saturday's 2-0 win against Hull City.
"Maybe he will find confidence back as well, because he misses chances. He has chances and he misses the chances that don't look not feasible for him.
"I felt he did not feel confident against Hull. It's always a problem because you think he can deliver something special but it's true that technically he missed things that he is not used to."


The race is on to build Islay's first new distillery in a decade after plans were revealed for an £8m venture.

Hunter Lain and Co has submitted a planning application to develop a new malt whisky distillery at Ardnahoe in the north-east of the island.
If the plans go ahead construction could start in May with the first whisky flowing by the end of 2017.
Distiller Jean Donnay is also hoping to start work on a new distillery west of Bowmore later this year.
Hunter Laing is a family-owned business, formed in 2013, which now distributes to 65 markets in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia.
Director Scott Laing said: "The opportunity to bring fresh investment to the island and provide a new chapter in Islay's illustrious whisky-making history is tremendously exciting all of us."
"The distillery could drive Islay's economy by creating several full-time jobs on the island as well as many seasonal positions."
If Hunter Laing is given permission for the project, land owned by Islay Estates will be transferred to the bottler.
Lord Margadale, chairman of Islay Estates, said: "Islay is a beautiful island that is famed for its distinctive whisky; this is an exciting opportunity to build on this reputation and to help secure a strong economic future for the island."
There will be a 21-day public consultation period before Argyll and Bute Council makes a decision on the application.
Jean Donnay, owner and designer of Glann ar Mor distillery in Brittany, also has plans for a new distillery, on Loch Indaal, just west of Bowmore.
The Gartbreck project was delayed by a problem "from a missing plot of land" but  Ms Donnay has said she hopes work will start this spring.


On the greatest driver's track, Nico Rosberg drove a Japanese Grand Prix befitting a world champion, a title with which he looks increasingly likely to end the year.

And yet somehow the Suzuka weekend was all about the German's Mercedes team-mate, who provided drama both on and off the circuit.
As Rosberg dominated the competitive action, Lewis Hamilton made headlines for the wrong reasons. On track, he looked out of sorts for much of practice. And although he came oh so close to beating Rosberg to pole position, another bad start led to a difficult race and a third place that takes the title race out of his control.
Rosberg will not approach it this way, but all the German needs to do now is finish second to Briton Hamilton in the four remaining races and a first world title will be his.
They say that an elite sportsman should clear his mind of unnecessary distractions - Sir Jackie Stewart calls it mind-management. Hamilton, though, was not taking that approach in Japan.
There have been questions about how Hamilton handled the Singapore weekend where he was dominated by Rosberg two races ago, with it leaking out that he was "not really on it" there.
But according to insiders at Mercedes, there was no questioning his commitment to the task in terms of his work in private with the team in these past two races in Malaysia and Japan.
In public, though, things did not go so well at Suzuka.
Hamilton was, to put it politely, disengaged from his primary responsibilities in the official pre-race news conference on Thursday.
Rather than answer questions about his remarks following his retirement with engine failure in Malaysia, he referred questioners to his social media outlets, where he had posted messages in support of his Mercedes team.
While other drivers answered questions, Hamilton spent considerable time on his smartphone. It soon emerged he was posting on the social network Snapchat pictures of himself and fellow driver Carlos Sainz with bunny ears and rabbit faces.
Hamilton said he found this "quite funny". Some will agree; others won't. Such is the way of humour.
In terms of his general detachment during the news conference, some journalists felt it inappropriate and wrong; others were not bothered. Again, such is the way of things.
Afterwards, though, a respected journalist went down to the Mercedes area to tell Hamilton he thought he should not have behaved in such a manner.
Later, Hamilton posted two messages on Twitter. "Today was meant to be fun," he said, "not at all disrespectful. Some people take themselves too seriously. I had a blast, highlight of my day!
"Re press conference, it's been the same for 10 years. It's not the media or mediator, it's the format. Fans should be asking the questions!"
Inevitably, Hamilton's behaviour was highlighted more on some media outlets than others. None of the reports went particularly hard on him, in the way they sometimes can. But he seemed to take offence at some of them and on Saturday he made his feelings clear.
At his post-qualifying news conference in the Mercedes motorhome, he sat down, tapping his fingers on the small table in front of him. He was smiling. The journalists were smiling back. So was the Mercedes communications boss. Hamilton turned to his colleague: "You're not going to be smiling in a minute.
Then he addressed the media: "I'm not here to answer your questions, I've decided.
"With the utmost respect, there are many of you here who are super-supportive of me and they hopefully know I know who they are. There are others, unfortunately, that often take advantage of certain things.
"The other day was a super light-hearted thing, and if I was disrespectful to any of you guys, or if you felt I was disrespectful, it was honestly not the intention. It was just a little bit of fun. But what was more disrespectful was what was then written worldwide.
"Unfortunately, there are some people here who it is not them who has done it. And unfortunately the decision I will take affects those who have been super-supportive, so that is why I am saying with the utmost respect.
"But I don't really plan on sitting here many more times for these kind of things so my apologies and I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your weekend."
And with that, he walked out.
On race morning, I went down to Mercedes to ask team boss Toto Wolff what he made of the events of the weekend.
"Let him do his talking on the track," Wolff said. "His performance in the car justifies some collateral damage."
Wolff is an approachable and likeable man with an easy manner and a strong sense of humour, and he was genuinely relaxed about the situation.
After the race, he sat down in his own news conference as a couple of journalists were sharing a joke about an unrelated matter.
"You are laughing now," Wolff joked, in obvious reference to Hamilton's remarks the previous day, "but you won't be laughing later."
Be in no doubt, though, that Wolff's charm is allied to a streak of steel. In the nicest possible way, he made it clear that he would be sitting down with Hamilton before the next race in Austin, USA.
It is unlikely their chat will be confined to building Hamilton back up again after the disappointments of an engine failure in Malaysia and a defeat by Rosberg in Japan left him 33 points adrift in the championship and needing some kind of major problem to befall the German to get back into the fight.
Later, Wolff made a particularly perceptive observation: "Lewis is very strong. He needs the enemy. Sometimes more than one. That's how he functions."
Hamilton is not the first F1 driver to do so, but why he needs to make his enemy the media is not clear. The same can be said for his apparent lack of understanding - after 10 years in F1 - of the fact that it is not the media's job to support him. They are there to report what happens objectively and fairly.
The suggestion from some who should know is that Hamilton's actions on Saturday were a reaction to the pressure of the weekend - the combination of his irritation at some of the coverage with the fact he had been out-qualified by Rosberg at a race at which Hamilton badly needed to beat his team-mate.
There is no doubt that his behaviour has put Mercedes in an uncomfortable situation. They cannot afford to have their major star at loggerheads with the media, especially over what is essentially a storm in a teacup, and it is hard to imagine they will let the tension linger for too long.
For all his wealth and star status, Hamilton needs his team and has an obligation to them.
As a result, it would be a surprise if the situation was not resolved sooner rather than later. How exactly that will happen, though, is another matter.
Now F1 is getting to the business end of this season, the shape of the new one is falling into place. The line-ups of most of the major teams have been resolved, but there are still question marks over, particularly, Renault.
While there is no official word, several sources said in Japan that Nico Hulkenberg would next year join the French team from Force India.
Renault is keen to have an established and proven quantity to lead their team as they enter what will effectively be the first real season of their new venture, this one being very much a transition year after their late takeover of Lotus last winter.
Hulkenberg has a contract for 2017 with Force India, who are far more competitive at the moment than his likely destination. But he has been tempted by a multi-year contract on serious money with a factory team and is expected to make the move, and the word from inside Force India is they will not stand in his way.
Meanwhile, it is looking increasingly as if Jenson Button's announcement last month that he would not be racing next year is in fact retirement by another name.
That impression was already building as a result of an inconsistency of the message coming from Button, the odd slip in some of his answers making him sound less likely to be involved on any significant level next season. In Malaysia, he said it was "quite possible" he would never race in F1 again.
In Japan, two sources told BBC Sport over the weekend that it was indeed the case he was effectively retiring.
It is a fact that McLaren have a contractual option for Button to race in 2018, but the chances of them taking that up seem at this stage to be almost zero.
Of course, it's possible that Button's replacement Stoffel Vandoorne will struggle - although it would be a major surprise given how impressive he was on his debut in Bahrain this year.
And even if Fernando Alonso decides to call it a day at the end of next year, Sebastian Vettel will be on the market. The German's honeymoon at Ferrari is well and truly over and even though a new contract is on the table, it is far from clear it will be signed.
The best evidence is that Button is heading into the final four races of an illustrious career. For his sake, one has to hope they go better than the dire performance the entire McLaren team showed at engine supplier Honda's home race.