Shannon McDonnell's hat-trick helped St Helens round off the regular Super League season with a routine home win over Wakefield at Langtree Park.

Saints finished fourth and Warrington's victory at Hull means they will face the League Leaders' Shield winners away from home in their play-off semi-final.
Tries from Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook and Jack Owens put Saints 12-6 up at the break, with Craig Hall responding.
McDonnell's treble after the break helped to seal the win.
Theo Fages added the hosts' sixth try to complete the victory, while Wakefield - who suffered a ninth successive defeat and finished bottom of the table at the end of the Super 8s - managed only a Tom Johnstone score in reply after the break.
Victory extends St Helens' winning run to four matches leading up to the play-offs, with their only defeat in their past 12 games coming at Warrington in August.
They now travel to face the Wolves at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on Thursday, 29 September, looking to return to the Super League Grand Final for the eighth time in 11 seasons.
St Helens assistant coach Sean Long: "Shannon had a great game and went really well against Widnes last week. He's given us a headache for next week.
"Full credit to Wakefield who had a real dig at us. We were a little bit off and it wasn't a great spectacle, but we would have taken 32-12 before the game.
"The main thing is we came through unscathed for next week."
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester: "We played some really good football at times. We wanted to throw the ball around and enjoy ourselves and there was a lot of spirit and pride.
"We probably tried too hard in the second half but the final scoreline didn't reflect our effort.
"We have got into the top eight through hard work and we now have to continue with our progression."
St Helens: Lomax; McDonnell, Percival, Peyroux, Owens; Turner, Walsh; Vea, Knowles, Amor, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Greenwood, Thompson.
Replacements: Walmsley, Wilkin, Fages, Davies.
Wakefield: Jowitt; Johnstone, Lyne, Arundel, B Tupou; Hall, Finn; Simon, Sio, Fifita, Molloy, Ashurst, Harrison.
Replacements: A Tupou, Arona, Crowther, Yates.
Referee: Joe Cobb


Detectives investigating the murder of a woman who died more than 20 years ago have said they now have a DNA profile of her killer.

Julie Pacey, 38, was found dead in the bathroom of her home in Longcliffe Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 26 September 1994 by her teenage daughter.
She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
Police said DNA evidence, recovered from the scene at the time, could now be used to identify her attacker.
Det Insp Helen Evans, senior investigating officer, said advancements in DNA technology has allowed scientists to come up with an almost complete profile of an individual.
"This means that if we can link that DNA to a person, it is entirely possible that we may have found Julie's murderer," she said.
"The one drawback is that the DNA does not match anyone presently in our databases. For that reason we are asking the public for help and urging them to give us a name."
Mrs Pacey's husband, Andrew, said: "It's 21 years ago now - a long time to be free when you've committed this crime."
"To find and bring to justice the person who murdered Julie after all of these years would, I hope, finally offer some closure to the people who loved and cared for her," Det Insp Evans said.
Detectives are also keen to trace a man who was seen in the area at the time of Mrs Pacey's death and find a BMW parked on the driveway of the family home, next to her Audi.


Searches are continuing off the coast of County Antrim following the discovery of wreckage from a missing light aircraft.

Two people who were travelling on the microlight are feared to have died.
The Ikarus C42  disappeared after leaving City of Derry Airport for Scotland on Thursday.
Wreckage, including the tail fin, was discovered by a Dublin couple who were on holiday in their yacht, 1km off the coast.
The search was called off on Friday night due to poor visibility, but has now resumed.
Insp Michael McDonnell said: "PSNI are co-ordinating the operation to recover the missing microlight aircraft from the sea off Glenarm.
"PSNI officers and members of a community search and rescue team are involved in the operation."


The trade in fake goods is putting hundreds of jobs at risk, experts have warned, as a BBC investigation shows the extent of the black market in England's biggest cities.

Trading standards figures showed hotspots in Manchester, Birmingham and Newham in east London.
Commonly copied items included Beats by Dr Dre headphones, branded phone covers and cigarettes.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Group said some fakes were "potentially lethal".
Our investigation revealed:
BBC News asked for records from the 10 most populated cities in England under the Freedom of Information Act. We contacted councils in London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Leicester and West Yorkshire, where a joint trading standards team covers Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford.
Liverpool City Council and Sheffield were unable to provide a full breakdown and Bristol City Council has yet to respond. London boroughs Westminster, Waltham Forest, Richmond and Merton refused to answer.
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Clothing and accessories made up almost a third of all goods seized. The next most common category was mobile phone accessories, with covers often depicting either products, such as the Apple iPhone, or other famous brands.
According to the latest UK Intellectual Property Crime Report, the five main countries of origin for counterfeit goods are China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India and Turkey.
A spokeswoman for the Anti-Counterfeiting Group said it was difficult to get a true picture of the scale of the problem because of differences in the way councils record their figures.
However, she said: "We have seen a reduction in anti-counterfeiting activity because of the serious cutbacks trading standards have and still are facing.
"There is definitely a rise in counterfeit items on the UK market.
"We would like to see a change in strategic priorities by recognition of the link between organised crime and counterfeiting.
And she warned that people buying fake goods are putting themselves at risk.
"The criminal gangs that make these products have no regard for health or safety and as such, products are not being tested to the high UK standards and are therefore potentially lethal to the British consumer," she explained.
Leon Livermore, Chartered Trading Standards Institute chief executive, said people did not realise the damage they were doing to legitimate businesses.
"Hundreds of jobs are being lost in sectors that encompass many small businesses, vulnerable to collapse," he said.
"Worryingly, 24% of people have knowingly bought counterfeit goods and a further 21% would consider it to save money."
Since 2013, trading standards in seven of the 10 biggest cities revealed they had seized at least 6,531 sets of headphones or ear buds sold as either Beats or Beats by Dre.
The figure is likely to be even higher as in some cases the headphones were seized among other goods and a breakdown was not available.
Genuine headphones sell for up to £270 a pair.
In one incident alone in the M8 postcode area of Manchester, there were 2,115 fake sets found in May 2014.
Trading standards in Hillingdon in London also found 1,651 sets of counterfeit headphones in February 2013.
Apple, which owns Beats, has been approached for a comment.
Other notable seizures included:
£39,000
value of a Rolex watch copied and confiscated in Greenwich
£35,075 value of 7,015 tobacco items seized in Birmingham on one day
25,612 clothes in one haul in Manchester, value unknown
£7,500 lost VAT from £30k of phone accessories in Wandsworth
In a report on the counterfeit trade in Cheetham Hill in January 2016, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, minister for intellectual property, said: "This trade, where income tax and consumer safety is simply ignored, undercuts and undermines legitimate businesses and allows other criminality to be funded and flourish."


A Metropolitan Police investigation into allegations of abuse at UK charity Kids Company has been closed after it found no evidence of criminality.

Officers carried out "extensive inquiries" into claims of physical and sexual abuse at the now closed south London-based charity, but found no evidence to reach the threshold for criminal prosecution, a statement said.
No-one was interviewed under caution or arrested during the inquiry, it said.
Kids Company always denied the claims.
The children's charity, which was founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh in 1996, and had centres in London, Liverpool and Bristol, closed in August after questions over its management and finances.
Ms Batmanghelidjh said she "burst into tears" when police told her about their investigation.
"That's the reason the charity closed. We had money confirmed. But the philanthropists said they couldn't support us when we were informed there were allegations," she said.
"I'm very grateful to the police for acting honourably and fairly. I now think there needs to be an inquiry into how this situation came about, why was it in the hands of Newsnight and what happened after that and why weren't we properly informed."
The investigation into Kids Company was believed to have been triggered by claims made by a former employee to a BBC Newsnight and BuzzFeed News investigation.
An independent expert advised the BBC that the claims raised concerns about the safeguarding of young people. Details from the interview were passed to the authorities, with the former employee's consent.
The charity - which relied on individual donations and government grants - closed after concerns were raised about its financial management and general administration.
Kids Company said its finances had become stretched because of the great number of children "pouring through our doors" for help.
But donors had been steadily withdrawing support, alarmed by stories of mismanagement.
Ms Batmanghelidjh said one donor who had offered Â£3m pulled out after learning of the allegations for which police have now concluded there is no evidence.
Last summer, the charity said it wanted to restructure and sought new funds from the government and donors.
But it closed in August when ministers finally pulled the plug, rejecting further funding.
Read more on the fall of Kids Company
The Met said it launched the investigation after receiving information from a journalist in July, and detectives from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command investigated 32 pieces of information covering a period from 2008 to 2015.
The majority were "third party reports which were vague in detail", the Met said.
Officers also did not find any evidence of failings by the charity in its duty to safeguard children or vulnerable adults.


A lorry carrying several tonnes of teddy bears has been involved in a major collision involving four HGVs on the A14 in Cambridgeshire.

The crash happened at about 05:45 BST westbound at junction 31 for Girton. The road is closed between there and junction 36 for Nine Mile Hill.
Two of the lorry drivers were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The road is expected to remain closed until about 13:00. Diversions are in place via the A11 and M11.
Cambridgeshire Police said none of the lorries shed their loads during the collision but confirmed one was carrying a cargo of seven-and-a-half tonnes of teddy bears.
Staff from a nearby shop have been seen handing out muffins to drivers stuck in the queues along part of the 16-mile closure.
At least 15 motorists were caught filming or taking pictures of the crash site with mobile phones and are due to be prosecuted, Cambridgeshire Police said.
Recovery of the vehicles is now taking place.


A man has appeared in court charged with causing the death of a 25-year-old man by dangerous driving.

James Gilbey, from Bramely, died after he was hit by a car, which allegedly failed to stop, while crossing Stanningley Bypass on 13 July.
Majid Malik appeared at Leeds Crown Court charged with causing his death.
Mr Malik, of Silverhill Avenue, Bradford, did not enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear at the same court on 2 October.
Eight other men arrested in connection with Mr Gilbey's death have been released on police bail.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has revealed the first members of his foreign policy team.

The advisers include academics and former military officers with expertise on the Middle East and energy issues.
Mr Trump told the Washington Post that he would name more advisers in the coming days.
Several of his advisers have served as experts for other Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney and Ben Carson.
On Monday, Mr Trump named retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and retired Gen Joseph Schmitz.
The team is led by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama who has helped shape Mr Trump's policies, most notably on immigration.
Mr Trump has come under criticism in recent days over his policy credentials. When cable news network MSNBC asked him who was advising him on policy, Mr Trump named himself.
Donald Trump recently boasted he was his own top adviser on foreign policy matters, noting that he had a "good instinct for this stuff".
After more than a month of hints and promises, however, the Republican presidential front-runner has announced who else has his ear on international affairs.
The names are hardly a who's who in the Republican foreign policy firmament - which could be good or bad news depending on one's perspective.
Mr Trump's positions on trade deals and military intervention put him decidedly outside the Republican Party establishment, and this list of advisers will do little to change that perception.
If Republicans hoped they could bend Mr Trump to party orthodoxy, this may be their latest Trump-related miscalculation.
Unorthodox foreign policy goals
While some of his team are not well known in Republican academic circles, others are seen as controversial figures.
Gen Joseph Schmitz resigned from the military in 2005 amid accusations of misconduct. However, Mr Schmitz was never charged with wrongdoing.
Another adviser, Walid Phares, was criticised when he was named as part of Mr Romney's foreign policy team in 2011.
Muslim advocacy groups took issue with Mr Phares's close ties to right-wing Christian militia groups during the Lebanese civil war.
He is an outspoken critic of Sharia, or Islamic religious law, and has appeared on Fox News and other conservative media outlets as an expert on the Middle East.
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George Papadopoulos recently served as an adviser to Mr Carson, who dropped out of the race in February. Mr Papadopoulos has worked as a consultant for energy companies in the Middle East.
Also on Monday, Mr Trump told the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue that he believes the UK may leave the European Union when a referendum is held in June.
"I think they may leave it based on everything," Mr Trump said. "I have a lot of investments in the UK, and I will tell you I think they may leave based on everything I'm hearing."
He also said the US should spend less money on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato).
"We are paying disproportionately," he told CNN. "It's too much and frankly it's a different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea."
Retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg
Carter Page
George Papadopoulos
Walid Phares
Retired Gen Joseph Schmitz


National League North winners Solihull Moors made a promising start to life in the fifth tier by beating southern champions Sutton 3-1.

The Moors, playing at this level for the first time in their history, drew first blood at Gander Green Lane when Darryl Knights set up Ryan Beswick for a close-range opener in the 38th minute.
Sutton were level two minutes before half-time, though, Dean Beckwith heading home from a corner after the U's had enjoyed a dominant spell.
Marcus Bignot's Solihull secured all three points with two second-half goals.
Debutant Omari Sterling-James volleyed a 53rd-minute strike past Ross Worner and, 14 minutes from time, Shep Murombedzi flicked the ball into the path of Andy Brown, who scored in the far corner.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 3.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 3.
Liam Daly (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Omari Sterling-James (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Andy Brown.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Ryan Beswick (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner,  Solihull Moors.
Danny Lewis (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal!  Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 3. Andy Brown (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Sutton United. Bradley Hudson-Odoi replaces Roarie Deacon.
Chris Dickson (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Bobby James Moseley replaces Darryl Knights.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Akwasi Asante replaces Stefan Moore.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Dan Fitchett.
Substitution, Sutton United. Chris Dickson replaces Simon Downer.
Goal!  Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 2. Omari Sterling-James (Solihull Moors).
Corner,  Sutton United.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Second Half begins Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 1.
First Half ends, Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 1.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Goal!  Sutton United 1, Solihull Moors 1. Dean Beckwith (Sutton United).
Corner,  Sutton United.
Goal!  Sutton United 0, Solihull Moors 1. Ryan Beswick (Solihull Moors).
Corner,  Sutton United.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Corner,  Sutton United.
Corner,  Sutton United.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A rapist has been acquitted of sex offence charges against underage girls after a judge upheld a no case to answer submission.

Ryan Henderson, 28, formerly of Fort Augustus, was last year jailed for 18 years in England for raping a three-year-old and a woman.
Henderson has been on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh facing further sex charges beginning when he was aged 12.
The proceedings have come to an end with his acquittal.
Judge Lord Ericht decided that rules on mutual corroboration could not apply because of the time gap of almost eight years between the alleged offences.
Previous legal authority had held that the Moorov doctrine, where evidence from different witnesses linked in time, circumstance and character can establish a course of criminal conduct, did not apply with such an interval between charges.
Lord Ericht told jurors when they returned to court after a legal debate: "The issue which had arisen was whether the Crown had led sufficient evidence in law to justify any possible conviction of the accused."
He said he had made a decision to the effect that in law Henderson had no case to answer in relation to the matters on which he was charged and acquitted him.
By that stage of the trial Henderson was facing two indecency charges and one of attempted rape against a girl alleged to have been committed in Fort Augustus between 2000 and 2003.
The abuse was alleged to have begun when the girl was aged nine.
He faced a further charge of sexually assaulting a teenager at a house in Bannockburn, near Stirling, in 2011 with intent to rape her.


A police crackdown that saw 22 dangerous dogs rounded up and destroyed across Merseyside was "unlawful", a court has ruled.

The dogs were seized in March as part of an operation against owners who failed to comply with rules allowing them to be kept.
The owners took legal action, claiming officers had no authority to take the pets because they had no court order.
A High Court judge agreed, ruling that Merseyside Police had acted unlawfully.
The hearing in Manchester was told magistrates were the only people who had the right to order the dogs' destruction.
The ruling, which came following a judicial review of the force's actions, could allow the owners to claim compensation.
James Parry, a solicitor acting on behalf of the owners, said: "There's nothing that can be done to bring these dogs back.
"However, what this case does do is to prevent Merseyside Police, or any other police force in England and Wales from continuing to embark on this sort of unlawful action."
Dogs banned under the Dangerous Dog Act can be exempted from the law if their owners satisfy certain conditions.
The destroyed pets, described as "pitbull type dogs", belonged to owners who had not complied with some of those conditions, such as failing to renew insurance.
Merseyside's Assistant Chief Constable Andy Ward said the force had acted in "good faith".
"We believed the dogs in breach of the ongoing requirements of the exemption represented a danger to public safety," he said.
He said it was in the public interest for the law to be clarified, and the force has "noted" the ruling.


Five people have been charged in the US with scheming to steal trade secrets from the drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline with the intention of selling them in China.

The five include two former GlaxoSmithKline researchers.
The charges were announced by the US Attorney's Office in Philadelphia late on Wednesday.
It lists charges of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, theft of trade secrets, and wire fraud.
The stolen information, which contained details of drugs for cancer and other serious diseases "potentially could be sold for millions of dollars to rival pharmaceutical companies".
The documents said the information would also be useful for a start-up pharmaceutical company.
The alleged conspirators established three corporations in China, all under the name Renopharma, to sell the stolen information, the complaint said.
The documents filed say the intention was to use that to reproduce Glaxo products and drugs in development.
One of the five, Yu Xue, was a senior-level manager and biotechnology expert at a Glaxo research facility in Pennsylvania with access to a wide array of secret information.
She was fired earlier this month.
Her lawyer said she denied the charges and would contest them "vigorously in court".
The others named were Tian Xue, Yu Xue's twin sister, Lucy Xi, a Glaxo scientist who left the company in November, Tao Li, and Yan Mei.
GSK said in a statement that it did not believe the breach has had any material impact on the company's business or R&D activity.


Organised criminal gangs are believed to be behind the thefts of more than 100 sheep and other animals.

North Wales Police have warned farmers after livestock was taken from farms in Gwynedd, Conwy county and Denbighshire in the last few weeks.
Officers have said 80 sheep have gone missing in Bala, Llanrwst, Betws y Coed and Rhuallt in the last week
They said the thefts appeared to be a professional operation.
Rob Taylor, from the force's rural crime team, said the animals are likely being sold on or slaughtered illegally.


Four people have been treated in hospital after an outbreak of E. coli linked to a farm shop in Lancashire.

Public Health England (PHE) said it was investigating 11 confirmed cases following visits to Huntley's Country Store, Samlesbury, near Preston.
PHE advised anyone feeling unwell after attending a lambing event staged at the farm outlet between 29 March and 24 April to seek medical help.
It said the farm store no longer posed a risk to the public.
The health body said three people remained in hospital following complications from the E. coli O157 infection. A fourth person has been discharged and is recovering at home.
Source: Public Health England
PHE said all contact between animals and the public at the premises had now ceased so there was no longer any risk to the public.
PHE consultant for Cumbria and Lancashire Dr Ken Lamden said the outbreak is believed to have started before Easter.
"Investigations are still on going and all public health measures have been put in place," he said.
"The owners are co-operating fully and we are working closely with them and with colleagues across health and local authorities."
He said symptoms of E. coli O157 included bloody diarrhoea, which could be serious, or milder forms of the infection which are usually "self-limiting" and clear within seven days.
Dr Lamden said the best protection against E. coli O157 was thorough handwashing particularly after contact with animals, after going to the toilet, after handling raw meat products and before eating.


Marcus Trescothick, Tom Abell and Tom Cooper all hit centuries as Somerset piled up 569-5 on day two against relegation rivals Hampshire at Taunton.

Trescothick made 153 and Abell hit 131 - his maiden first-class hundred - as they put on 272 for the first wicket.
Cooper struck 118 at number three and James Hildreth made 71 as the hosts built a huge first innings lead of 329.
Somerset, who led eighth-placed Hampshire by five points at the start of play, have eight bonus points.
Hampshire on the other hand have only taken one batting and one bowling bonus point from the game.
Resuming on 147-0, Trescothick and Abell took the hosts past Hampshire's first innings total of 240 before Abell was trapped lbw by Gareth Berg.
Skipper Trescothick, who signed a new one-year deal with the county on Wednesday, struck 29 fours in his 261-ball innings which came to an end when he was bowled by West Indies paceman Fidel Edwards.
Cooper then continued the fine work of the openers in glorious batting conditions as he brought up his first century for Somerset off just 103 deliveries and put on 142 with Hildreth.
Hildreth passed 1,200 Championship runs for the season before he was bowled by Liam Dawson (3-130) shortly before the close on a day in which 422 runs were scored.


A BBC Spotlight programme has again exposed the underbelly of republicanism, and what Gerry Adams himself describes as the "inadequate and inappropriate" way the IRA dealt with allegations of sexual abuse in the past.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was more colourful, calling the treatment of County Louth man Paudie McGahon an intolerable "kangaroo court".
The carefully considered on-air interviews with Gerry Adams and Raymond McCartney on the distressing case of Mr McGahon were undermined by a tweet from Francie Molloy.
The Mid Ulster MP described the Spotlight programme as "another load of rubbish".
Mr Molloy's subsequent apology and deletion of his tweet doesn't expunge the impression that many republicans would prefer it if victims like Paudie McGahon and Mairia Cahill had obeyed the IRA's initial orders by  maintaining their silence.
Expect more discussion about the development of some kind of north-south process to examine the cover-up of abuse during the Troubles and the movement of abusers across the border or across the Irish Sea.
Fianna Fail's Micheál Martin wants "a cross-border mechanism to at least facilitate other victims to come forward, who might not want to go public".
Rather than being the party in the dock, Sinn Féin has tried to seize the initiative by advocating an "all-island process to deal with the issue of providing support mechanisms for all those who were victims of sexual abuse during the conflict".
Micheál Martin is dismissive of the Sinn Féin suggestion, arguing in the Dáil (Irish parliament) that it had been developed by republicans "just to dilute your culpability".
Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford and his Irish counterpart Frances Fitzgerald are wary of sanctioning any process that might cut across investigations or reviews already under way involving the Garda (Irish police), the Police Ombudsman or the former DPP, Keir Starmer.
Mr Kenny is prepared to work with the first and deputy first ministers to consider a process related to the cross-border abuse allegations, however he emphasises that such a process "has to be independent of the court proceedings".
Whilst we await an outcome to these somewhat convoluted discussions, the public north and south will no doubt make up their own minds about cases like those of Paudie McGahon and Mairia Cahill and their handling by both the IRA and the Sinn Féin leadership.
Although no party would welcome such adverse publicity, Sinn Féin can take heart from their poll ratings in the key battleground in the Irish Republic.
Recent Irish opinion polls have placed the party on anything between 20% and 24%, fighting it out with Enda Kenny's Fine Gael for top spot.
When Mr Adams declared at his ard fheis (party conference) last weekend that Sinn Féin wanted to lead the next Irish government, those poll ratings dictated that his ambition should be taken seriously.
If more conventional politicians had to deal with the kind of skeletons rattling around Sinn Féin and the IRA's cupboards, they would be expected to implode.
But Mr Adams and Martin McGuinness have many years' experience of standing their ground against all comers.
Perhaps a drip drip of further revelations will eventually dent Sinn Féin's appeal, but right now it is striking how resilient the party is proving to be.


A British man has reportedly died fighting with Kurdish forces against so-called Islamic State in Syria.

Dean Carl Evans, 22, from Reading, died on 21 July during fighting in the city of Manbij, Kurdish reports suggest.
His father, John, posted a statement on social media confirming the death and added: "He was loved and will be missed by all his family and friends".
The Foreign Office is looking into reports of the death - the second involving a Briton fighting against IS.
In a second post, Mr Evans, who lives in Oxford, said: "I would like to say a massive big thank you to all my friends and family who sent their condolence for the loss of my son.
"He would have been very proud and would have regarded you all as his brothers and sisters, thank you again."
Mr Evans was one of many foreign volunteers who joined the People's Defence Units (YPG) - the Kurdish military force fighting in northern Syria.
Dean Carl Evans has become the second British man to die in the fight against IS with the Kurds in Syria.
The first UK casualty, Erik 'Kosta' Scurfield, died during fighting to take back the strategic Til Hamis town in the Hasakah province in north-eastern Syria.
Mr Evans died fighting for another strategic town, called Manbij, in north-western Syria.
Kurdish YPG units were among forces which started an attack on Manbij, which has become the new epicentre of the fight against the IS Group in Syria, in April this year.
Capturing Manbij from IS would cut the corridor between the town and the group's de-facto capital city, Raqqa, in central Syria.
A UK-based pro-Kurdish activist, Mark Campbell, told the BBC Mr Evans had travelled to Syria in 2015 and again in March this year.
He said his contacts near Manbij told him Mr Evans had been fighting on the frontline and sheltering behind a wall when he was fatally struck by a bullet.
In a statement, the YPG described Mr Evans as a "man with the noblest of intentions who planted a seed of love into the hearts of [his] friends and all the peoples of Rojava [Western Kurdistan]".
Jac Holmes, an IT worker who left the UK to join the fight against IS, posted a tribute to Mr Evans online.
He said the pair had met twice, and described Mr Evans as a "great man" who had "moulded himself" into a soldier during his time in the Middle East.
A number of well-wishers replied to John Evans' post on social media announcing his son's death.
One user said: "Feel for you soldier. Sorry to hear your sad news John. My thoughts go to you and your family. RIP young man."
Another added: "So so sorry to hear your sad news John. Keep strong and remember we're all here if you need someone to talk to."
A statement from the Foreign Office said: "As all UK consular services [in Syria] are suspended, it is extremely difficult to confirm the status and whereabouts of British nationals in Syria."
It said it had advised for some time against all travel to Syria.
"Anyone who does travel to these areas, for whatever reason, is putting themselves in considerable danger."


A British man described as a "top cyber jihadist" has been killed in a military drone strike in Syria, US officials say.

They said Junaid Hussain, 21, a convicted computer hacker from Birmingham who fled to Syria in 2013, had been a "high-value target" within the Islamic State group.
The US called it a serious blow to IS.
Michael McCaul, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said his death sent an "unmistakable message".
"We need to maintain vigilance and good intelligence to stop future plotting, and ultimately we must destroy the group's terrorist sanctuary," Mr McCaul said.
Earlier, a UK government spokesman said: "We are aware of reports that an Isil terrorist of British nationality is believed to have been killed in a coalition air strike in Syria."
Hussain's activities made him a key target for the US military, who included him at number three on a Pentagon "kill list" of IS leaders.
He became one of the most important western recruits for IS, playing a key role in radicalising and recruiting others to join the movement and plan attacks.
Whitehall officials have said in the past that his actions caused them great concern and his death would be "significant".
Hussain, a skilled computer hacker, was jailed for six months in 2012 for leaking former Prime Minister Tony Blair's private contacts online and making hoax calls to a counter-terror hotline.
In June, the Sun newspaper reported Hussain was also linked to an IS plot to detonate a bomb made with a pressure-cooker at an Armed Forces Day parade in London.
Hussain was married to former punk musician, Sally Jones, and was a known member of a computer hacking group called Team Poison.
The group has claimed responsibility for more than 1,400 offences where personal and private information has been illegally extracted from victims in the UK and around the world.
It claimed to be behind online hacking attacks involving foreign politicians, major international businesses, and an international humanitarian agency.
US officials say the drone strike that killed Hussain took place near to the city of Raqqa.
Security officials in the UK estimate about 700 Britons have travelled to Syria, and about half have since returned home.
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A warning that some social workers in Wales have workloads which are too high has been raised by unions.

They are worried mistakes could be made with vulnerable adults and children resulting in a situation like Baby P.
Toddler Peter Connelly died in north London in 2007, after suffering more than 50 injuries. A report found he was "failed by all agencies".
Some staff in Wales have 43 child cases to deal with, which Unison said is double the recommended number.
Concern has also been raised over the "relentless" cutting of social work budgets.
Councils said there was a real need for government "at all levels" to ensure the system can meet demand.
The figures, which were obtained by BBC Wales, were described by the British Social Workers' Association (BASW) as "worrying".
BBC Wales asked each council about social workers who had been allocated the most cases - and what their caseloads were.
This included cases classed as being "on review" which may not need constant attention.
One social worker in Ceredigion had 29 cases, while another in Conwy had 144.
Conwy council said the 144 cases were adults and many did not require checking more than once a year.
When asked specifically about child social work, seen by some as more complex cases, numbers ranged from 22 in Newport to 43 in Merthyr Tydfil and Gwynedd.
Robin Moulster, from BASW said: "I don't think I could guarantee with those sort of numbers that there couldn't be another big public inquiry.
"This may appear a bit overdramatic but I think sometimes it's a bit like 'there for the grace of God' that we haven't got another Baby P situation."
Mr Moulster said it should not have to wait until councils are put into special measures for issues to be addressed.
He said he had heard of some councils with newly-qualified social workers given large caseloads "in very high pressured areas of work".
"There is a risk things can get missed and serious situations can happen," he added.
Dominic MacAskill, head of local government for Unison, said there were some worrying signs.
"It's possible perhaps to retain a fairly large caseload and juggle things around a bit, but juggling is not appropriate in this type of profession," he said.
Concern about the impact of "relentless" budget cutting was raised by Gwen Carrington from the Association of Directors of Social Services in Wales.
"We are very mindful that social care isn't being protected in the way that health is," she said.
"We are often treating the same people as the health service, but our budgets are not protected.
"Given the scare resources, are we doing the right things with our money? The question is how sustainable is it in future?" she added.
The Welsh Local Government Association said budget cuts, rising demand and increasingly complex legislation would place "a significant amount of strain on local social care services over the coming years.
"There is a very real need for government at all levels in Wales to continue to work closely with professional social care bodies to ensure Wales' social care system can meet current demand," said a spokesman.
The Welsh government said it was investing an additional Â£10m in local government funding in "recognition of increasing demand for social services" and taking other steps with its Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act to help reduce pressure on services.


Flash flooding across the West Midlands has caused chaos with hundreds of homes, businesses, cars and roads becoming submerged under water.

West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) was inundated with more than 1,000 flood-related calls when the deluge started shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday.
It said 1,000 homes in Birmingham either flooded or were at risk of flooding.
Worst affected areas were Selly Park, Harborne and Woodgate Valley.
The radiotherapy section of the former Queen Elizabeth Hospital also had to be cleared of 5,000 litres of water.
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It is the latest bout of flash flooding to hit the region in the last few days, with Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital declaring a major incident when its accident and emergency department was hit.
In the latest deluge, firefighters evacuated a children's home and helped eight youngsters into alternative accommodation.
Residents in Sir John's Road, Selly Park, had to move upstairs when 100 homes were flooded. The nearby Selly Park Tavern was also forced to close when water poured into its cellar.
Train services were cancelled and delayed through Lye in Stourbridge because of significant flooding on the track. Bournville railway station was also badly affected.
Network Rail said the lines had now been cleared, although passengers have been warned to expect some delays on services.
Fire crews warned drivers to stay away from roads around the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley after roads became impassable.
A number of Birmingham schools are closed today, including Moor Green Primary School in Moseley, Oaks Primary School in Druids Heath and St Mary's Primary School in Selly Oak.
The Environment Agency has 10 flood warnings in place. More rain is expected later today but forecasters say it should then begin to clear.
WMFS area commander Ben Brook said: "Although we believe that the worst of the weather has now passed, we are still asking people to be vigilant and to beware of the likelihood of intense rain with little notice.
"There is also likely to be a lot of standing water on roads, and we would remind people not to enter floor water either in vehicles or on foot. There will also be debris and waste on some roads, so drivers should be alert."


Cameroonian inventor Arthur Zang has won a £25,000 ($37,000) prize for his device that does heart examinations.

The Cardiopad is a tablet computer that takes a reading and sends it to a heart specialist.
It allows health workers to give heart examinations and send the results to heart specialists far away.
BBC Africa's Mamadou Moussa Ba says there are just 50 cardiologists in Cameroon, which has a population of 20 million people.
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Mr Zang's invention was awarded the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering at a ceremony in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam.
The results from his Cardiopad are sent to a cardiologist via a mobile network and can be interpreted within 20 minutes.
Cardiopads are distributed to hospitals and clinics in Cameroon free of charge, and patients pay $29 (£20) yearly subscriptions.
"My uncle died from a stroke after I had already started working on the Cardiopad and this gave me extra motivation to see the project through to the end", Mr Zang told the BBC earlier this month.
The device is already being sold in Gabon, India and Nepal.
Last year's winner of the award was Tanzanian chemical engineer Askwar Hilonga who invented a sand-based water filter that absorbs anything from copper and fluoride to bacteria.
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Jonathan Pryce and other original cast members of Miss Saigon have joined its new cast on stage at a gala performance marking the musical's 25th anniversary.

"Matron said I'd enjoy it!" joked Pryce, now 67, after performing one of the songs he first sang in 1989 in the inaugural Cameron Mackintosh staging.
Lea Salonga and Simon Bowman, the first to play Kim and Chris, also sang during a special post-show encore.
Afterwards, Salonga said the audience response had been "deafening".
"We expected a big hand but nothing like this," said the Manila-born actress, now 43. "I was trying to keep it all together."
Written by Les Miserables duo Claude-Michel SchÃ¶nberg and Alain Boublil, the original production of Miss Saigon opened at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in September 1989 and ran for 10 years.
A reworked production of the show, which tells of an American GI and a Vietnamese girl who begin an ill-fated romance amid the fall of Saigon in April 1975, returned to the West End earlier this year.
"We never thought we'd get the chance to do it all over again," Sir Cameron Mackintosh told a sell-out audience that included actor and broadcaster Michael Ball and Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood.
West End star Ruthie Henshall and dancer turned choreographer Louie Spence were among other Miss Saigon 'alumni' to attend Monday's gala at London's Prince Edward theatre.
The original show provoked a storm of controversy for casting Welshman Pryce as 'The Engineer', the sleazy half-Vietnamese pimp who helps bring Kim and Chris together.
When the musical transferred to New York in 1991, Pryce was initially refused permission to recreate his performance by the US branch of actors' union Equity.
Speaking after Monday's performance, Pryce said the dispute over his casting had been "an argument that was worth having" and that "a lot of very positive things happened" as a result.
"In America especially, a lot of people are now seen for things they wouldn't have normally been seen for," he told the BBC News website.
Pryce and Salonga went on to win Tonys for performances that had already earned them Olivier awards two years earlier.
Pryce, who will be seen next year in HBO fantasy Game of Thrones, said it had been "a great experience" to celebrate the show 25 years on from its premiere.
"I didn't exactly strut my stuff, but I did my best," he continued. "We had this idea of The Engineer coming on with a Zimmer frame."
Miss Saigon continues at the Prince Edward theatre, while BBC Radio 2 will broadcast a complete recording of Monday's gala performance on 3 October.
A film version may also be forthcoming, according to Sir Cameron.
"I've always thought this could make the best film of all the musicals," he told reporters.


Two men are dead, including a gunman, following a shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles, police say.

Investigators do not believe there are any outstanding suspects and a lockdown has been lifted.
The two dead were found inside a small office in an engineering building. Neither has been identified.
A gun was also recovered from the scene, LA police chief Charlie Beck told reporters.
"A homicide and a suicide occurred," he said.
"It appears to be entirely contained... There are no suspects outstanding and no continuing threat to UCLA's campus.
"[There is] evidence there there could be a suicide note but we don't know at this point."
Staff and students were slowly returning to the campus grounds on Wednesday afternoon, the police chief said.
Earlier a researcher working in the northern part of the extensive campus told BBC News she and her colleagues had barricaded themselves inside their building.
About 43,000 students are enrolled at UCLA.
The university has cancelled classes for the day. They are expected to resume on Thursday.


A 24-year-old Mexican man with a valid work permit who was arrested by US officials last month has been released, authorities say.

Immigration officials alleged Daniel Ramirez Medina had gang ties and should be deported. His lawyer denied this and called his arrest unconstitutional.
He has no criminal record.
Mr Ramirez was brought to the US illegally at the age of seven and was protected from deportation under one of President Barack Obama's policies.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was established in 2012 to allow those brought to America while young to attend school and work without fear of deportation.
His case is being closely watched by the more than 740,000 people in the programme, who fear they may lose their protections under President Donald Trump's government.
Those protected are often known as "dreamers" - a name taken from the failed 2010 Dream Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) - a bill which aimed to help young illegal immigrants become US citizens.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had intended to arrest his father at home in Seattle, but also detained Mr Ramirez on 10 February. Officials then revoked his protected status, AP news agency reported.
An immigration judge earlier this week granted his release on a $15,000 (Â£12,000) bond pending a decision on his immigration status.
Supporters welcomed Mr Ramirez in the lobby of a detention facility after he was freed on Wednesday. He nodded and smiled at reporters.
In a statement, Mr Ramirez's lawyer Mark Rosenbaum said this was "an important first step toward justice."


A pedestrian has been struck and killed by a car in Sussex.

The 35-year-old man, who has not been named, was walking on Coopers Green Road in Uckfield at about 01:00 GMT on Saturday.
A vehicle believed to have been involved was later traced by police to a nearby address.
A 26-year-old man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He has been released on bail until 28 February.


A 67-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder after a fire at a hospice was a patient there, managers have said.

Two people died in the blaze, which broke out at St Michael's Hospice in St Leonards, East Sussex, in the early hours of Saturday.
Police are currently unable to question the suspect because of his ill health.
Jill Moon, 62, and David Denness, 81, from Hastings, died in hospital. Tests are continuing to establish the cause of their deaths.
A 78-year-old woman also died after the fire, but her death is not thought to be linked to the blaze.
Police first arrested the man on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life, and later on suspicion of two counts of murder.
Celia Pyke-Lees, hospice chief executive, said police were still waiting to question the man.
She said: "Our main priority now is supporting the patients and their families along with all the hospice staff and volunteers."
Twenty three patients, some terminally ill, were evacuated from the building and are now receiving round-the-clock care from hospice staff at five other sites.
Ms Pyke-Lees said the hospice nursing team, who got all the patients out of the hospice on the night of the fire, were "true heroines".
A social media appeal for items needed by the patients is continuing.


Two people died when they were hit by a minibus as they crossed a road after getting off a bus in North Yorkshire.

Police said the 52-year-old woman and a man, 51, were struck by a black Renault minibus on the A64 at Crambeck, near Malton, close to midnight on Saturday.
The pair, who were pronounced dead at the scene, had just got off a double-decker Coastliner bus.
The minibus was heading towards York at the time and police have made an appeal for witnesses.


A prisoner who slit the throat of a fellow inmate who had himself attempted to murder Soham child killer Ian Huntley has been jailed for life.

Kevin McCarthy, 49, had admitted trying to murder Damien Fowkes, 41, in October last year. The attack left Fowkes with life-threatening neck injuries.
Fowkes is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 20 years for slashing the throat of Huntley.
McCarthy must serve at least 18 more years, Cambridge Crown Court was told.
Both McCarthy and Fowkes were inmates at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, at the time of the attack.
Peter Gair, prosecuting, said McCarthy grabbed Fowkes from behind and cut his throat with a homemade blade while lunch was being prepared on 2 October 2016.
He said there was no clear motive for the violent assault, but some prisoners had complained about McCarthy not taking his turn to clean the kitchen earlier that morning.
It was the third time McCarthy had tried to murder a prisoner, Mr Gair said.
In sentencing, Judge David Farrell told McCarthy: "This was a premeditated, planned attack... It only failed to kill him because the cut wasn't deep enough."
McCarthy, who appeared by videolink, sipped from a mug during the sentencing and showed no reaction.
He was already serving time for attempted murder, and has convictions stretching back to 1990.
Huntley is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire in 2002.
Fowkes is serving a minimum term of 20 years for the attempted murder of Huntley at HMP Frankland in Durham in 2010.
He went on to strangle paedophile and child-killer Colin Hatch in 2011 at HM Prison Full Sutton, a high security unit near York.


Turkey has opened a vast centre dedicated to housing and educating orphans from war-torn Syria.

The complex, in the south-eastern border town of Reyhanli, will house 990 children in what Turkish media say is a cosy, home environment.
They will live in 55 villas and have access to four schools, a mosque, a playground and a sports arena.
The centre was built in less than two years as a co-operative project between Turkey's government and two aid groups.
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) estimates that six million children have been affected by the six-year conflict in Syria.
More than 2.3 million have fled the country and are registered as refugees.
Turkey currently hosts more than 800,000 school-aged Syrian children, of whom only about 60% were enrolled in schools at the start of the academic year.
Orphans City was built with the help of the Turkish pro-government IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation and Qatar's Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF).
Its website says it aims to help rehabilitate the "war-related psychological problems and traumas" of Syrian orphans, particularly those living on the streets.
Eighteen children will live in each two-storey villa along with a "caretaker" and will study at the two primary and two secondary schools built inside the complex.
Another 5,000 children not living in Orphans City will reportedly benefit from services and facilities at the complex.


Manager Brendan Rodgers said Celtic proved their "winning mentality" by defeating Partick Thistle to extend an unbeaten domestic run to 21 games.

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Scott Sinclair scored the only goal on Tuesday to move Celtic 14 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
"You need to have character and that resilience. They're two of the real key factors in top sides," said Rodgers.
"Whenever you're not at your highest level but you get the result, it shows you have another ingredient.
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Celtic's winner came after 16 minutes and the champions might have added to their advantage after the break if it had not been for a series of saves from Tomas Cerny.
However, the hosts looked edgy at times in defence and Thistle, who are bottom of the table, created several chances to equalise, leading to a tense finish.
"We've shown our qualities throughout many games this season, and we showed another side to our performance, which is that ability to stay together when you maybe aren't playing as fluently as you have been," Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"When we failed to take our chances and it stays at 1-0 then of course it's always a little bit hairy towards the end.
"I didn't think in the first half that our pressing was good enough. At times we passed it around but our intensity wasn't there. Second half we were much better.
"Partick are a good side, I don't know how they're bottom of the league because they play really well and they've got good energy.
"So I have to give massive credit to the players for that persistence and energy to keep going."
Rodgers made eight changes to his starting line-up, including a debut for Calvin Miller, who he compared to England defender Ryan Bertrand before the match.
The 18-year-old left-back played for almost 60 minutes before being replaced by Emilio Izaguirre, having looked comfortable at times but also outmuscled on occasion by David Amoo.
"That was one of the reasons for putting him in," Rodgers said. "We felt Amoo, who was quick and strong, would be a good test for where Calvin is at. He did very well.
"Physically it's a different challenge for him, a couple of the duels he lost out on, but I was impressed with his composure. He can be very proud of his performance.
"Now we see his reaction, what he takes away from the game, and hopefully he can continue to improve."
Thistle pressed and harried Celtic, something their manager Alan Archibald felt his side failed to do when they lost 4-1 to Rodgers' team at Firhill on 9 December.
"The players put in a really good shift at a tough place to come," said assistant manager Scott Paterson.
"We created a few chances and gave them a scare. We rode our luck a couple of times as well, but Tomas [Cerny] had a lot of saves to make from outside the box. We're disappointed to lose a goal from a set-play.
"The good thing is that we're creating chances, but we now have to make them count.
"We need the points, but we've still got that belief in the dressing room. The players are all together."


Lewis Hamilton was in scintillating form as he dominated final practice at the Italian Grand Prix for Mercedes.

The world champion was 0.393 seconds quicker than team-mate Nico Rosberg, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel 0.938secs off the pace in third place.
Mercedes seem to have a huge advantage over Ferrari, who have a smaller but clear edge over Williams and Red Bull.
Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa were next, ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen.
Hamilton, fresh from his superb effort in finishing third from the back of the grid in Belgium last weekend, was in crushing form throughout the final hour of practice in warm sunshine at F1's most historic circuit.
He was just under 0.2secs clear of Rosberg in second practice on Friday and doubled that margin on Saturday morning.
Even at this early stage, the race victory looks likely to be a private battle between Hamilton and Rosberg, with Ferrari nowhere near the world champions despite introducing their final engine development upgrade of the season in an attempt to close the gap.
Hamilton is nine points clear of Rosberg heading into the grand prix, with eight races remaining this season.
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Ferrari are also said to have some concerns about the reliability of the new engine, having rushed it through to introduce it in time for their home race.
Force India's Sergio Perez was ninth, ahead of Haas' Esteban Gutierrez, whose team-mate Romain Grosjean had a spin early in the session and was beached in the gravel trap at the Ascari chicane.
McLaren's fears that they will struggle to be in the top 10 on the grid on this power circuit are coming true - Jenson Button was 12th fastest behind the second Force India of Nico Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso was down in 17th after not putting together a lap on his qualifying simulation run on the super-soft tyres.
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Talks over Neil Warnock's future as Cardiff City manger are progressing, according to club sources.

The former Leeds United and Rotherham boss has been seeking assurances over the club's close-season transfer policy before committing to a new deal.
Warnock, 68, whose contract ends in the summer, had a meeting with Bluebirds chairman Mehmet Dalman on Monday.
A source at the Championship club has told BBC Wales Sport "progress" was made during the informal discussions.
Cardiff were in the relegation zone when Warnock took over in October, but have moved up to 12th after three successive victories.
Before Saturday's 5-0 win over Rotherham, Dalman told BBC Wales Sport he was confident of keeping Warnock.
Owner Vincent Tan will have to consider Financial Fair Play regulations when agreeing to make funds summer available in the summer.
Providing Tan gives the go-ahead, the club hierarchy will be keen to reach a new agreement with Warnock as soon as possible.


A new railway station could be built near the Madjeski Stadium in Reading.

The area around Green Park, which also has a large business park, is notorious for its long traffic queues, particularly on match days.
Plans for Green Park Station were put on hold two years ago, but the council now wants work on it to start within three years.
Reading Borough Council is set to re-submit planning proposals for the stop next year.
The stop, by junction 11 of the M4 on the Reading to Basingstoke line, is expected to cost up to ??8m to build.
The plans were pulled two years ago when a key developer dropped out.
Simon Beasley, network manager at the council, said: "I think it will make a real difference, a positive difference.
"Clearly we don't know how it will be serviced by trains but if there's anybody who can divert from the roads to the railways, then of course that's going to be positive."


Leicestershire and Northants claimed one point each after their One-Day Cup game at Grace Road was rained off.

Ben Duckett was bowled first ball but Richard Levi (59 not out) and Rob Newton (55 not out) helped Northants reach 121-1 before rain interrupted.
The players left the pitch at 15:00 BST after a heavy downpour, but were able to return at just over two hours later with the game reduced to 36 overs each.
But only 20 more balls were bowled and the game was abandoned at 19:15 BST.
The draw leaves Leicestershire two points outside the third qualification place with five points, while Northants remain in eighth place with just one win from seven matches.


Parents of children with learning disabilities are being left to struggle alone without support during the summer holidays, according to Mencap.

After we reported on the charity's findings, including that access to childcare was "insufficient" and "inflexible" in many council areas, lots of readers got in touch to share their stories.
Here are some of your experiences.
Matt Sears from Worcestershire emailed to say his family relies on a local charity to help with holiday care for his 14-year-old son Luke, who has learning difficulties.
"The summer holidays are an expensive time for us. Here it costs Â£20 a day for him to attend a weekday holiday play scheme which is run by a brilliant charity based in Malvern. Some days are discounted by the local council but not all, and only then if you receive direct payments for help from a carer. We get eight hours a month.
"I too gave up work to look after my son full time. Caring for him was my priority and it was good to read that I'm not the only one."
Samantha Martin from Staffordshire says her family has been "through hell and back" trying to get help for her five-year-old son Harley who has learning disabilities.
"We live in a much better world with regards to understanding and accepting disabilities yet the services provided are still very much in the dark ages.
"Very little is available with regards to support and families have to fight over and over again to get the support they are entitled to. Nobody seems to want to take responsibility.
"Social services deal with such severe cases of abuse and neglect and these cases are, rightly so, high on the agenda. However, families in severe need through no fault of their own are left to deal with it while desperately trying to keep their heads above water and get through each day with no respite support at all.
"I have found the voluntary services to be far better but unfortunately they are very limited."
Caroline from London has an 18-year-old son with severe autism.
"Ever since I returned to work, when he was five, the type of work and hours I have been able to do has been totally governed by my ability to find after-school and holiday care for him. This has got progressively more stressful and difficult as he has got older.
"After-school care has been impossible since he was 13 when our then local authority stopped the 'Count Me In' funding for inclusive access to after-school activities.
"Now he is 18 I am desperately trying to keep him in full-time education as long as possible so I can continue to do the job that I do and have him living at home with me and his sister.
"This will probably stop next summer when he will come under social care. Supported living has been mentioned but we have a long way to go before he is ready for this."
Natasha from Hertfordshire says her son also has autism but there is no specialised childcare provision locally that is suitable for him.
"I decided to have a look at the local kids clubs for mainstream children and see if they could accommodate me accompanying my son to their sessions. I had a mixed response - some did not allow this, others would for a limited time but one did allow me and it has been fantastic.
"My son was very uncertain and anxious at first but having me with him gave him the confidence to try new things in a new environment and on Monday he went for his first session unaccompanied by me.
"This is a major breakthrough for him and I am truly grateful to the kids cub provider who allowed this flexible approach. I hope now to be able to use this facility for future school holidays and am so grateful."
Caitriona McDermott from Selsey, West Sussex, says it is impossible for her to work and care for her 16-year-old daughter, who is physically and mentally disabled.
"She requires 24-hour care. She has had seven weeks holiday from her school this summer but we have had just five days respite in a local play scheme. The thoughts of our future with ongoing cost-cutting is overwhelming."
Meanwhile Alicia McColl from Surrey says childcare for her autistic son will cost Â£2,200 in August.
"I'm a single parent and this cripples me every year. Childcare costs come before all my bills, except rent, and then I spend months catching up."


A scallop diver in Jersey has returned an £8,000 camera to its owner five weeks after it was lost under water.

Diver and photographer Kevin McIlwee lost his camera in July when the clip securing it to him came off, causing his camera to fall to the seabed.
But while diving at St Brelade on Sunday, Josh Dearing found the device.
Mr Dearing was "amazed" to find the camera still worked despite being "covered in cuttlefish eggs".
Owner Mr McIlwee told the BBC it was a "massive relief" to be reunited with the equipment.
The camera was undamaged during its time under water.
"The saving grace was that the camera was in a vacuum sealed box," he said.
"Once sea water penetrates into equipment it will deteriorate in seconds.
"Everything is working as it was before."


Four men arrested over a fatal stabbing in Suffolk have been released while inquires continue, police said.

Dean Stansby, 41, was stabbed in the abdomen in Ancaster Road, Ipswich, on 8 February. He died in hospital and police are treating the case as murder.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, conspiracy to murder, and being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.
A second 23-year-old was questioned on the same drugs charge.
Two others, aged 24 and 27, were also held on the drugs charge and suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
All the men, from London, have been released while police investigate. Four other men are currently on bail.


Paceman Clint McKay has been offered an indefinite contract offer to stay with Leicestershire as long as he wishes, says chief executive Wasim Khan.

The 33-year-old Australian, whose current deal runs to the end of next summer, has 38 Championship wickets this season, after taking 58 last term.
"As long as we can keep Clint we'll have him because he has been absolutely incredible for us," said Khan.
"Clint's welcome here as long as he wants to play and he can carry on."
He told BBC Radio Leicester that McKay's future at Grace Road beyond 2017 is "entirely" up to the player.
He featured for Australia in all formats of the game, earning his only Test cap in 2009, and playing the last of 59 one-day internationals in 2014.
Meanwhile, Leicestershire have offered Warwickshire seamer Richard Jones a two-year deal.
Since arriving at Grace Road on loan in June, 29-year-old Jones has taken three Championship wickets and two in his solitary T20 Blast appearances for the Foxes so far.


Leaders of collapsed charity Kids Company have said there were four suicide attempts, stabbings and a murder in the wake of its closure.

Chairman Alan Yentob made the claim as he and founder Camila Batmanghelidjh appeared before MPs where they denied the charity had been badly run.
Mr Yentob said the murder of a boy who had been using Kids Company's services took place five days after it shut.
He said it was related to "the absence of a place for these children to go".
The leaders of Kids Company, which had worked with vulnerable young people, also denied claims of financial mismanagement during the Public Administration Select Committee hearing.
The charity collapsed in August days after receiving a £3m grant from the Cabinet Office and in the midst of a Scotland Yard investigation into allegations of historical sexual abuse.
The closure came after ministers said they wanted to recover the grant - with officials saying they believed conditions attached to the use of the money had not been met.
The pair claimed the charity would not have folded if there had not been "malicious allegations" of sexual abuse.
"Only our finance person and the Cabinet Office knew that the money had hit our account. Suddenly out of the blue we get allegations that we don't even know relate to sexual abuse," said Ms Batmanghelidjh.
"That was the kiss of death for a charity dealing with children."
Mr Yentob said that while he believed the allegations had not come from "anywhere near the Cabinet Office", he believed the leak was malicious.
He said that once it became public the charity was under investigation it had been impossible for them to accept a series of donations lined up from private benefactors and they had to shut.
Michael Buchanan, BBC social affairs correspondent
It's clear from these tetchy exchanges that MPs didn't receive the information they were seeking, and in some cases implied they didn't believe what they were hearing.
The admission by Ms Batmanghelidjh that they hadn't handed over to local councils all the files the charity had on clients when it closed was possibly the only new fact to emerge from more than three hours of questioning.
Her habit of providing an anecdote when a fact was requested infuriated MPs. Their annoyance was matched by the controlled fury of Ms Batmanghelidjh and Mr Yentob, who clearly feel their work with the charity has been thrashed and traduced in recent weeks.
Nobody doubts that Kids Company did some fantastic work with very vulnerable individuals over many years; MPs - and many others - simply wonder if it could have done it more cheaply and effectively.
Committee chairman Bernard Jenkin said MPs had been told the suicide attempts and violence mentioned by Mr Yentob was in part because "desperate kids no longer had money to pay their drug pushers".
But Mr Yentob reacted by saying that was a "terrible allegation".
Mr Yentob, who is also the BBC's creative director, also told the committee:
In a series of heated exchanges with MPs, Ms Batmanghelidjh defended the work her charity had been doing, saying:
She also told the committee there were officials in Whitehall who had set out to undermine the charity by briefing against it.
"Some civil servants have been absolutely malicious and unprofessional and have behaved in ways that isn't respectful of a democracy and you need to look into this," she said.
When asked by Mr Jenkin what evidence she had for her allegations, Ms Batmanghelidjh replied: "I will produce it."
The hearing came after documents seen by BBC Newsnight and BuzzFeed News showed the Pilgrim Trust, a charity which disburses about £2m a year, wrote to the Charity Commission in 2002 to raise concerns about Kids Company.
In the letter, Pilgrim Trust director Georgina Naylor noted an "absence of financial acumen from the director of Kids Company".
The National Audit Office is investigating grants given to Kids Company, and the charity is also the subject of a statutory investigation by the Charity Commission and an inquiry by the Constitutional Affairs Committee.


Theresa May has said the US and Europe are "united" in condemning atrocities in Syria and has warned Russia of the possibility of more sanctions.

The UK PM met outgoing US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and four other European leaders in Berlin for talks.
Mr Obama urged them to work with his successor Donald Trump on the basis of shared "core values".
The PM also told Mrs Merkel that the UK's Brexit plans were "on track".
It came as the Supreme Court confirmed that Scotland and Wales's top legal advisers would be allowed to take part in an appeal hearing brought by the UK government against a ruling that it alone cannot trigger Article 50 - the formal process of leaving the EU - without a vote by MPs.
But BBC correspondent Jenny Hill said there were a number of issues on the agenda that took precedence over Brexit, including Syria, Russia's relationship with the West, international terrorism and climate change.
In a joint press conference with Chancellor Merkel on Friday, Mrs May said: "On Syria, looking at Aleppo, we are united in our condemnation of the atrocities that are taking place there.
"We agree on the need to keep up the pressure on Russia, including the possibility of sanctions on those who breach international humanitarian law."
US President-elect Mr Trump has criticised Nato and has spoken of his hopes of warmer relations between the US and Russia - but on Thursday Mr Obama warned him to stand up to Moscow if it deviated from US values.
Mr Obama has been on a farewell trip to Europe at the end of his two terms as US president. On Friday he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mrs May, French President Francois Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy in Berlin.
The White House said Mr Obama had "affirmed the importance of continued cooperation through multilateral institutions, including Nato" and "agreed on the necessity of working collectively to move the transatlantic agenda forward, particularly on bringing stabilisation to the Middle East and North Africa, as well as securing diplomatic resolution to the conflicts in Syria and eastern Ukraine.
On Brexit, Mrs May said: "Our work is on track, we do stand ready to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017.
"I want to see this as a smooth process, an orderly process, working towards a solution that is in the interests of both the UK but also in the interests of our European partners too."
The meeting comes as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble told the Financial Times the UK may have to continue paying into EU budgets for more than a decade after it leaves the union.
He said Britain will "certainly have to fulfil its commitments" to the EU until its departure - and possibly after.
He added: "Possibly there will be some commitments that last beyond the exitâ€¦â€‰even, in part, to 2030."


Police say they have rescued five women believed to be sex trafficking victims after raiding nine suspected brothels in Birmingham.

Two women and three men were arrested on suspicion of managing a brothel following the raids on Monday.
About 40 West Midlands Police officers took part in the raids in Bordesley Green, Hay Mills, Acocks Green, Sheldon, Alum Rock and Moseley.
Police also seized mobile phones, cash and items relating to prostitution.
The force said it was questioning two men and two women from Romania and a man from Germany.
The five rescued women were all offered counselling, help and support which they declined, it said.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: "The problem is that these people don't see themselves as victims, they see the traffickers as people who are trying to help them, and they often don't want to talk to us.
"If they don't disclose any offences to us we can't do anymore except signpost them to other agencies to get help, which we did in this case."
Three of the buildings raided in the operation were found to be vacant, but evidence at the scene suggested they had also been used as brothels, police said.
Det Supt Tim Bacon said: "It's hard to believe that modern day slavery is happening in the West Midlands, but sadly it's on the increase and we're determined to put a stop to it.
"Tonight's action, first and foremost, is about protecting people who more often than not don't even realise that they are victims.
"But we're also sending out a strong message to the traffickers that they're not going to get away with using our area as a place to commit this appalling abuse."
West Midlands Police said the raids were carried out following intelligence gathered from local people.
Det Insp Darren Haynes, who co-orientated the operation, said: "We built up a really good picture of what was going on thanks to information that was coming in from concerned residents and other agencies.
"It's often an unseen, unreported crime, which is why information from the community, no matter how small, can be crucial."


A man from Glasgow has been jailed for 18 months for ordering 10 stun guns disguised as mobile phones from China.

James Jefferson, 37, admitted purchasing the illegal items which arrived in the UK in February 2013.
They were uncovered after packaging was x-rayed by UK Border Force officials at the Parcelforce hub in Coventry.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the items were addressed to Jefferson's partner at their then address in the Scotstounhill area of Glasgow.
Advocate depute Neil Beardmore, prosecuting, said: "The package was inspected and found to contain 10 stun guns, which looked like Nokia mobile phones.
"They are designed as self-defence weapons. They are not lethal, but deliver a high voltage pulse, sufficient to cause temporary incapacity. They were in working order."
The court heard that initially Jefferson denied ordering the items, but subsequently admitted his guilt.
Computers and paperwork, which were seized during a search of Jefferson's home, confirmed that he was using a Chinese website.
Judge Lord Bannatyne told Jefferson he would have been jailed for 21 months but for his guilty plea.


Exposure to high levels of "male" hormones in the womb increases the chance of a baby boy developing autism, according to researchers.

The University of Cambridge researchers say their findings from more than 300 boys help unravel the causes of autism - a condition that affects both sexes but is far more common in males.
But they say it does not mean a prenatal test for autism is near.
Nor will it necessarily be possible to stop autism by blocking the hormones.
The hormones in question - testosterone and three other steroid hormones - were important for foetal development, which meant it could be too risky to block them, they told the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
But the findings did pinpoint an important window in foetal development when autism might be triggered, they said.
The study authors, Dr Michael Lombardo and Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, looked at stored samples of amniotic fluid - the liquid that surrounds a baby while in the womb - to see if there was anything about this early environment that might explain autism risk.
They found that for 128 boys who later went on to develop autism, levels of steroid hormone in the amniotic fluid that had bathed them as a baby in the womb were, on average, particularly high.
In comparison, far lower levels of steroid hormone were detected in the corresponding amniotic fluid of a control group of 217 boys without autism.
Prof Baron-Cohen said: "This is one of the earliest non-genetic biomarkers that has been identified in children who go on to develop autism.
"We previously knew that elevated prenatal testosterone is associated with slower social and language development, better attention to detail, and more autistic traits. Now, for the first time, we have also shown that these steroid hormones are elevated in children clinically diagnosed with autism.
"Because some of these hormones are produced in much higher quantities in males than in females, this may help us explain why autism is more common in males."
The study did include some girls, but the researchers say they need to do more investigating to see if a similar association between sex hormones and autism might exist in females.
Steroid hormones influence how instructions in our genetic code - DNA - are translated into making important proteins.
The researchers believe that altering this process in early life when the building blocks for the brain are being laid down may explain how genetic risk factors for autism get expressed or "switched on".
The exact causes of autism are unknown, although it is thought that genes and environmental factors are involved.
The developmental disorder usually starts to develop in childhood and can cause problems with social interaction, language skills and behaviour.
Prof Richard Sharpe, an expert at the University of Edinburgh, said the work was "an important first step" on the path to discovering what causes autism.
Richard Mills, of Research Autism said: "Despite a growing awareness of the biological and genetic nature of autism, there is currently no agreed biological or genetic marker for autism, with diagnosis made on the basis of early developmental history and behavioural criteria.
"So research that sheds light on this specific area is critical to our understanding of this mysterious and highly complex group of conditions."


Plymouth Argyle have released nine of the squad which helped them gain promotion from League Two, including forward Jordan Slew and Connor Smith.

Slew, 24, cost Blackburn about £1m in 2011 and scored six times in 40 appearances for the Pilgrims.
Striker Jimmy Spencer and midfielder Ryan Donaldson are among the other players who will leave the club.
Midfielder Graham Carey, left-back Gary Sawyer and back-up goalkeeper Mark McCallum have been offered new deals.
David Fox, Jake Jervis and Oscar Threlkeld will all be staying at Home Park, as they are among seven players to have triggered extensions to their previous deals.


A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead his wife and two other people in Maryland, and injuring three others.

Eulalio Tordil, 62, is suspected of killing his estranged wife Gladys outside a high school on Thursday.
The next day, one person was killed and two more injured after being shot near a shopping mall in Bethesda.
In a second incident on Friday, a woman was shot and killed eight miles (13 km) away shortly afterwards.
Mr Tordil is a police officer with the Federal Protection Services, which provides security to US government buildings.
He was arrested by tactical officers "without incident" near to where Friday's second shooting took place.
Police believe he killed his estranged wife outside the High Point High School in Maryland on Thursday as she was picking up her children.
A man who went to her aid was also shot and injured.
Mr Tordil was charged with first-degree murder for his wife's killing and assault for the shooting of the bystander at the school.
The Federal Protective Service says that Mr Tordil was placed on administrative leave in March after a protective order was issued against him.
On Friday, gunfire erupted at the Westfield Mall in Bethesda then the second shooting happened at a supermarket in nearby Aspen Hill.


Former All Black Jerry Collins and wife Alana Madill have died in a crash in France, with their daughter, Ayla, in a critical condition in hospital.

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The couple's car was in collision with a bus near the southern town of Beziers in the early hours of Friday.
Collins, 34, made his debut for New Zealand in 2001 and won 48 caps. The ex-Ospreys flanker had been playing for French side Narbonne.
The All Blacks said they were "shocked and saddened" by the news.
Collins, a tough-tackling blind-side flanker, was called the "Jonah Lomu" of forwards by World Cup-winning England scrum-half Matt Dawson, in a reference to the former New Zealand wing.
The long-term manager of Collins, Tim Castle, said in a statement the family were "distraught at the death of a much-loved son, brother and friend, and his partner Alana, whom I got to know recently".
"I have been in touch with Jerry's father Frank and other members of his family who are in Samoa at the moment. It's obviously a terribly difficult time for them and together with New Zealand rugby we are doing all we can to support them.
"I have also been in touch with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who are also doing everything they can to ensure that baby Ayla is getting all the care and support she needs."
Ex-New Zealand captain Sean Fitzpatrick paid tribute, saying Collins "epitomised everything an All Black should be".
"He was as tough as old boots on the field, very uncompromising and not someone you wanted to play against," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Off the field, he was the nicest guy you could meet."
Collins started his career at Wellington in the National Provincial Championship.
Renowned for his bleach-blonde hair and ferocious tackling, he made his All Blacks debut against Argentina in Christchurch in 2001.
He also captained them three times and played for New Zealand at the 2003 and 2007 World Cups.
His last match for the All Blacks was the 2007 World Cup quarter-final loss to France in Cardiff.
Later that year, in one of rugby's great stories, Collins famously turned out for Barnstaple's second XV against Newton Abbot while on holiday in Devon.
He also wore the team's socks when he played for Barbarians in a win over South Africa in December 2007.
Barnstaple said he would "forever have a special place in our club's history".
Collins quit international rugby in 2008 and went on to join French Top 14 side Toulon before moving to Wales to play for Ospreys in 2009.
He helped Ospreys to a third league title in his first season with the region and was voted players' player of the year.
"He was his own man, a true individual and a giant of the world game," the Welsh region said.
Wales and Ospreys scrum-half Rhys Webb said it was "devastating" to hear of the death of "a true rugby legend".
Samoa-born Collins spent two years in Japan playing for Yamaha Jubilo from 2011-2013, before joining French second-tier side Narbonne in January 2015.
Radio New Zealand news editor Tony Vale told BBC Radio 5 live that the club were "still trying to come to terms with the news".
Collins also played for Super Rugby side Hurricanes. They held a minute's silence before Friday's game against the Highlanders in Napier.
"Jerry was on holiday in North Devon close to where we live and I happened to bump into him in a cafe," explained Kevin Squire, former head coach of Barnstaple Rugby Club.
"I went over to introduce myself and get a selfie and the next thing I know I am having coffee with him and invited him down to our club.
"I never expected him to come down, but two or three days later he was watching the first team and took a training session with our under-13s.
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"After that, he asked if he could play a game the following day. We said he couldn't as he wasn't registered but he said: 'No, not the first team, but the second or third team'.
"The next day, he jumped on the bus and played with our second team. The story went around the world.
"He was on holiday for six weeks in the area and kept coming round to see us. He would call round to our houses, drink with us and party with us. He was rugby nuts.
"He was a bit disillusioned with the game at that point in his life. New Zealand had exited the World Cup earlier than thought and he got in a lot of trouble for playing with us in that game.
"Everyone at Barnstaple will be sad to hear this news. For the guys that played that day with him, it is an experience they will never forget.
"My overriding feeling from that time was what a terrific fella he was. His influence on Devon and Barnstaple rugby will never be forgotten."


Theresa May's intention at this summit was to reassure other countries that life after the EU might be tricky to work out, but in the end, all will be just fine.

That the UK is still 'bold' but 'dependable', 'outward looking' and a bastion of free trade. She has done that in private sessions with several leaders and a press conference with President Obama.
But very frank words from the United States, Japan and Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, will steal plenty of the headlines instead.
Remember she was an advocate, albeit a pretty quiet one, of staying in the EU in the first place, with the economy one of her main concerns. So Downing Street says she hasn't been surprised by the warnings about the future.
And perhaps dealing with public expressions of sentiments that have been already expressed in private isn't really the problem.
Perhaps the real difficulty for the now not so new prime minister is that the biggest demands on her abroad are the same as those at home. Other countries want more details of her plans for Britain's life after the EU.
But with no consensus, or anything like the details of post-Brexit Britain from government, there isn't that much that she can really tell them. The political danger of such a relatively blank page is that others will fill the space.


Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom has emerged from bitter rows with Saudi Arabia and Israel only to sink into a new quagmire over a deal for a Stockholm flat.

Ms Wallstrom, 61, is one of Sweden's best-known politicians, having spent 10 years (1999-2009) as an EU commissioner and held previous ministerial posts.
But now Sweden's top anti-corruption prosecutor has launched an investigation into the Stockholm flat rented by Ms Wallstrom. She obtained it from the municipal workers' union Kommunal, and there are suspicions that she jumped a waiting list.
According to the daily Aftonbladet, she pays only 32 kronor (Â£2.60; $3.70) per month for the 89sq m (958sq ft) flat, taking account of subsidies she gets as a government minister.
Meanwhile there is a housing crisis in the Swedish capital. Residents typically have to wait eight years or more to get a rent-controlled flat.
The prosecutor aims to find out whether Ms Wallstrom's contract with Kommunal could be seen as bribery - if so, she or Kommunal's chairman Annelie Nordstrom could face a fine or imprisonment.
Ms Wallstrom insists that she moved into the flat in April 2015 in good faith, and that Kommunal gave her false information about the deal.
"I welcome the investigation. I have nothing to hide and it is good that this will get sorted out," Ms Wallstrom said.
The affair is a painful blow to the centre-left Social Democrats, who are in a fragile minority government with the Greens.
Ms Wallstrom entered left-wing politics as a teenager, and has long been seen as a potential leader of the Social Democrats.
The party won the 2014 election with just 31% of the vote - among its worst results for decades, just ahead of the 30.7% it got in 2010.
Gone are the years when the Social Democrats dominated Swedish politics and regularly scored above 40% in the polls.
Now politics is more fragmented, and the nationalist Sweden Democrats are seriously challenging the Social Democrats.
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said "it would have been better if she [Ms Wallstrom] had sorted accommodation in a different way", then added: "there's no formal error, as far as I know".
A Swedish politics expert at Gothenburg University, Prof Jonas Hinnfors, told the BBC that "on any issue the Social Democrats are facing potential defeat - a vote of no-confidence could come at any time".
Prof Hinnfors noted that a housing scandal also hit the party's former leader Hakan Juholt, who resigned in 2012. He was accused of claiming more housing subsidy than he was entitled to. In that case, too, it was an Aftonbladet investigation, in 2011, that embarrassed the party.
Margot Wallstrom - key dates
1954 - Born in Skelleftea, in Sweden's far north
1979 - Elected to Swedish parliament, aged 25, after Social Democrat activism
1988 - Appointed minister for consumer affairs, women and youth, aged 34
1990s - Minister of culture, then minister for social affairs
1999 - Appointed to European Commission, in charge of EU environmental policy
2004-2010 - Vice-President of European Commission, under Jose Manuel Barroso
2010-2012 - UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
2014 - Swedish Foreign Minister
Israel: Sweden FM remarks 'outrageous'
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Ms Wallstrom's tenure as foreign minister has been stormy.
Her first significant step in the job was to recognise Palestine as a state in 2014 - a move which immediately soured relations with Israel. Very few of the EU's 28 member states have recognised Palestine.
Israel has found her recent comments about knife attacks by Palestinians to be so incendiary that it protested to the Swedish ambassador and declared Ms Wallstrom persona non grata.
Ms Wallstrom had called for an inquiry to establish whether Israel had carried out "extrajudicial executions" in response to the attacks.
Some 150 Palestinians have been fatally shot in four months of violence, at least 100 of them while they were carrying out attacks, Israel says. More than 25 Israelis have been killed.
On her Facebook site in December Ms Wallstrom sought to defuse the row, saying her words had been "blown out of reasonable proportion".
Responding to angry Facebook messages, her spokesman explained that she had been criticising "disproportionate" reactions to violence, not accusing Israel of "extrajudicial executions".
Earlier last year Saudi Arabia recalled its Stockholm ambassador after Ms Wallstrom criticised the Saudi human rights record, especially the restrictions faced by women and the flogging of a dissident Saudi blogger.
She defended her criticisms of "medieval" Saudi practices, saying she had received many messages of support.
Her outspokenness on human rights is part of what she describes as a "feminist" foreign policy.
The Saudi-Swedish diplomatic quarrel is reckoned to have cost Swedish arms manufacturers millions in lost contracts. Her stance caused anxiety in Swedish business circles.
But Prof Hinnfors said plenty of Swedes - especially on the left - applauded her defence of human rights. "Opinion polls indicate that a majority of Swedes say yes, they are feminists - so her foreign policy is not a break with the general sentiment," he said.
There has also been tension with Morocco, since the Swedish parliament voted to recognise Western Sahara as an independent republic. Formerly a Spanish province, the territory has been under Moroccan control since 1976.
But last week the Swedish government decided against recognition of Western Sahara, pledging instead to help UN diplomatic efforts.
Reports in Sweden pointed out that Rabat had put pressure on Swedish politicians and threatened to block the opening of Ikea stores in Morocco.


A "damning" report has found that millions of pounds of European Union funding failed to create an expected 10,000 new jobs in Cornwall.

Independent consultants analysed the impact of £465m of EU convergence money in the county between 2007 and 2013.
It found private sector investment was £440m lower than expected and labelled the project "poor value".
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) said targets were set "prior to the 2008 the financial crisis".
The report found that 3,557 jobs were created by the investment.
Kim Conchie, chief executive of the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce said: "It's pretty damning in many ways, the vast majority of money that's been spent in Cornwall and the Scilly's over the past 15 years has not resulted in the number of jobs or the value added that we were expecting.
"You've got some absolutely damning statistics for example in the research and development fund the cost per job was £160,000 per person."
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were given €654m from the ERDF and European Social Fund because its economic performance had been below 75% of the European Union average.
The funding intended to "transform the economy to a high value added economy" and was spent on projects including a link road at Camborne and the Wave Hub at Hayle.
Independent consultants found there was "significant under-performance of the programme in achieving its target results regarding jobs, Gross Value Added and private sector investment".
It also found that "the uncertain economic climate" was "a significant factor" in the project's performance.
The ERDF convergence team said: "The targets for the programme were developed prior to the 2008 the financial crisis, but it was decided to keep them in order to aim high and achieve the best possible return on investment despite deeply challenging circumstances.
"The lessons learnt from this programme will be carried forward into the next European Funding Programme".


A driver who killed a woman while speeding at up to 95mph (153km/h) in a 30mph (48km/h) zone has been jailed for 12 years.

Matthew Scrimshaw, 37, was driving on the wrong side of the road when he hit Iris Higginson, 67, in December 2014.
A jury at Nottingham Crown Court was told Scrimshaw was also 1.75 times over the blood alcohol limit.
The judge said it was the longest sentence he had passed for death by dangerous driving in a 30-year career.
Ahead of the crash Scrimshaw's Audi TT was captured on CCTV on Mansfield Road, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, at speeds of 88mph (142km/h) and 95mph (153km/h), the trial heard.
Mrs Higginson died at the scene when her Vauxhall Corsa was hit almost head on.
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The court heard she "had been doing absolutely nothing wrong".
Scrimshaw made no attempt to comfort her, help her or call the police and left the scene to hide the fact he had been drinking, the prosecution said.
Judge Michael Stokes, who also banned Scrimshaw from driving for 15 years, said: "I have had to deal with some appalling cases involving extremely dangerous driving, but I cannot recall a case of a defendant who has demonstrated such an overriding contempt for the law and for the feelings of other people."
The jury also found Scrimshaw guilty of causing serious injuries by dangerous driving in relation to a friend who was a passenger in his car. He suffered a broken jaw and foot.
Speaking outside court, Ms Higginson's daughter-in-law Pauline Hotchkiss described her as "a wonderful lady".
She said the family had received justice "but we will not get over" the death of the great-grandmother.
A decision was taken not to proceed on charges of failing to stop at an accident, driving with excess alcohol and failing to report an accident.
Det Sgt James Greely, of Nottinghamshire Police, said it was some of "the worst driving I have ever investigated".