Welsh football fans in Paris have said they are "buzzing" and "confident" ahead of the team's last-16 Euro 2016 tie with Northern Ireland.

The game will kick off at the Parc des Princes at 17:00 BST on Saturday.
Reports have suggested up to 50,000 Welsh fans could flock to Paris, with many heading to the city's 90,000-capacity fan zone.
Fans already there said they are starting to believe the team could go even further.
Thomas Frederick, 30, of Penygraig, Rhondda Cynon Taff, said he was feeling "cautious optimism" about the game.
"I think we've earned the right to be favourites [against Northern Ireland]," he said. "I'm buzzing, I can't wait."
Wales finished top of Group B after two wins and a loss. If they win on Saturday, they would face either Hungary or Belgium in a quarter final in Lille on 1 July.
Mr Frederick said he was "secretly" starting to think Wales could even lift the trophy.
"We couldn't have asked for a more favourable draw. To see Spain, England, Italy, France, Germany on the opposite end, I think that breeds confidence in itself," he said.
"Just to know that a passage to the final, if we play to our capabilities, is probably within our targets."
Steffan Griffiths, 24, of the Swansea valleys, is also in Paris ahead of the game and said he was also starting to believe something big was on the horizon.
He said: "Welsh football has had some bad luck over the years... but if we get a bit of luck here we've only got one big team to face and that would be in the final. One game then, who knows?"
Ryan Everson, 32, of Tonypandy, who travelled to Paris after watching Wales' 3-0 win over Russia in Toulouse, was also confident. He predicted a 2-0 win against Northern Ireland.
"It'll be 60-40 in our favour, we'll have more possession, I think," he said.
Antonio Costanza, 28, of Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, said he was "very excited" about the match but also nervous.
"I don't like being favourites. I like being underdogs. We've lived with the underdog tag for so many years."
Welsh fans staying in France for the championships awoke on Friday to find the UK had voted to leave the European Union after Thursday's referendum.
Mr Constanza, who was among the majority of Welsh voters who opted to leave, said he was "happy" to receive the news.
"When we're in the EU we can't save the steel industry, because of the quotas that China have with the EU, but also the fishing industry, we've seen that go downhill with the EU," he said.
But fellow Wales fan Paul Jones, 59, of Llandrindod Wells, Powys, said it had been "strange" to receive the news while staying in the French capital.
"I voted to remain in," he said. "I don't think the full truth has come out of the impact of it [a Brexit] will be.
"It's been maybe rushed through. I was a bit 50/50 myself but I thought better the one you know."
And those travelling to France for the knockout stages could find their pounds buy less than before the vote as the currency has seen fluctuations in light of the perceived uncertainty the result has created.
But Mr Jones was more certain about Wales remaining in Euro 2016 after Saturday's game.
"I think we've got a good chance of getting through," he said.
Wales fans with a Follow My Team voucher have been collecting their tickets for the game from the official exchange at Theatre du Chatelet across the city.
Some 5,000 will have to head to the voucher exchange, with fans being told each individual voucher holder must attend with ID to collect their ticket.
The fan zone, situated near the base of the Eiffel Tower, is able to hold 90,000 people - almost double the capacity of the stadium. It has a 420 sqm screen, entertainment and amenities.
Security at the site, located at the Parc du Champ du Mars, is extremely tight, with a perimeter guarded by law enforcement authorities and tight checks and restrictions on items allowed inside.
The fan zone will be open from noon till midnight on Saturday.


Hong Kong has joined China in suspending meat imports from Brazil.

They are the top two consumers of Brazilian meat and have suspended imports over allegations that companies have been selling unsafe produce for years.
The European Union has also said it will stop buying from companies implicated in the scandal.
The crisis was triggered by a huge federal police operation on Friday.
It found evidence that meat-packers had been selling rotten and substandard produce for several years.
Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety said it had temporarily suspended the import of frozen and chilled meat and poultry "in view of the fact that the quality of the meat from Brazil is in question".
Brazil is the world's biggest red meat and poultry exporter and the meat industry plays an important part in the economy.
President Michel Temer held emergency meetings over the weekend and even invited foreign diplomats to a steak house on Sunday evening to try to reassure them.
"The Brazilian government reiterates its confidence in the quality of a national product that has won over consumers and obtained the approval of the most rigorous markets," said Mr Temer.
But the effort was in vain. China, the EU, South Korea, Hong Kong and Chile have now announced restrictions on Brazilian meat products.
Together they account for nearly one third of Brazilian meat exports in 2016, O Globo newspaper reported.
Friday's federal raids at meat-producing plants ended in the arrest of more than 30 people.
The government suspended more than 30 senior civil servants who should have spotted the unhygienic and illegal practices - they are being investigated for corruption.
Three packing plants have been closed and another 21 are being investigated.
Mr Temer said the plants under scrutiny represented a tiny proportion of Brazil's meat industry.
"Only 21 units out of 4,837 in Brazil subject to government inspection are facing allegations of irregularities. And only six of them have exported in the past 60 days," said Mr Temer at a meeting with foreign diplomats on Sunday.
Operation Weak Flesh was launched in the early hours of Friday in six Brazilian states after a two-year investigation.
Federal police carried out raids in 194 locations, deploying more than 1,000 officers.


A body has been found during the search for a British tourist who disappeared after a beach party in Thailand.

Andrew Apperley, 38, from Eastbourne, was reported missing after failing to return to his hotel four days after going to the Full Moon party.
Formal identification has not yet taken place but Mr Apperley's family, from Gloucester, have been informed.
"The circumstances of the death are unknown at this time," said a Gloucestershire Police spokesperson.
Mr Apperley was staying at a hotel in Bophut and went to the full moon party on 12 February. He has not been heard from since.
He told his mother he would be returning the following morning, but the hotel reported him missing four days later.
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said: "Following inquiries with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) we can confirm that a body has been found in the search for Andrew Apperley.
"Our thoughts are with Andrew's friends and family."
Mr Apperley had flown into Ko Samui from Bangkok to go to the party in Ko Phangan, his brother told the BBC.
Richard Apperley said his brother checked in on the morning of the party and left his passport and driving licence with the hotel reception.
Before going out Andrew had a conversation with his mother Linda on the messaging app WhatsApp and said he would be be getting the boat back to the hotel the following morning.
Staff at the Hotel ibis Samui Bophut confirmed earlier he had still not been seen and his documents were still in their possession.
His bank told his family his cards had not been used since going to the party.
Mrs Apperley sent a message to her son's mobile phone, but did not get a delivery report to say he had received it.
Speaking before the body was discovered, a spokeswoman for the FCO said: "We are providing support to the family of a British national who has been reported missing in Thailand.
"We are in contact with local authorities."


Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal answered their critics with a "strong and united" performance as they beat Manchester City to reach a third FA Cup final in four years.

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Alexis Sanchez scored an extra-time winner as the Gunners came from behind to win 2-1 and reach a record 20th final - and an eighth under Wenger.
"People questioned us, we went through tough times," Wenger said.
"You can be divided or united and we have shown the right response."
Wenger, 67, has come under more scrutiny this season than at any other time in his 21-year reign at Arsenal, with the Gunners lying in seventh place in the Premier League and on the receiving end of a 10-2 aggregate thrashing by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
The Frenchman is out of contract at the end of the season and has been offered a new two-year deal, although he is yet to announce whether he will continue.
Some sections of Arsenal fans have protested against Wenger in recent months, but the manager was pleased to see his side rally after falling behind to Sergio Aguero's opener.
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"You know I feel the club is in a very strong shape, and that we have a very strong overall situation and a very strong team," he said.
"One day I will leave anyway so the most important thing is that Arsenal will always be a great club that everybody admires.
"I felt it was a big test for us today, a mental test because many people question if we can turn up on an occasion like this.
"It was a very tight game but overall I think we deserved to win the game. The players showed great togetherness."
Sanchez and Mesut Ozil have been linked with moves away from the club this summer, and the Chilean highlighted his importance with his 24th goal of the season which settled the tie,
Wenger expects the former Barcelona forward to extend his stay at the Emirates.
He said: "Alexis Sanchez was like the team. He had problems at the start and became stronger and stronger.
"He is an animal, always ready to kill the opponent. He will never give up.
"He will be here next year because he has a contract and hopefully we will manage to extend him."
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he had no regrets after seeing his side beaten, a result which means the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss will end a season without a trophy for the first time in his coaching career.
"We performed like we would want to in a final," he said.
"We did absolutely everything. Congratulations to Arsenal. We'll improve next season.
"We competed here, we had more chances but the finishing was like it has been throughout the season."
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty at Wembley:
Arsene Wenger's mask slipped as he pumped his fists in triumph repeatedly at the conclusion of Arsenal's win.
Wenger has never been under greater scrutiny or pressure than he has been in recent months, dealing with the toxic combination of growing unrest among Arsenal fans and a collapse in form that leaves their Champions League ambitions under threat.
And yet here, with the pressure at its highest, Wenger coaxed the sort of performance out of Arsenal that puts him on course for an historic FA Cup win when they face Chelsea in the final in late May.
Yes, his Arsenal side enjoyed large portions of good fortune with Raheem Sterling's disallowed goal and efforts against the woodwork from Yaya Toure and Fernandinho - but Wenger deserves credit for persevering with a three-man defensive system that goes against his natural instincts.
This was an Arsenal display of steel, grit and resilience topped off by a comeback crowned by Sanchez's poached winner.
And Arsenal's players played for their manager, with some dedicating the victory to the man who has been a convenient shield for their own shortcomings during the recent slide.
Reality dictates that Arsenal's ills and the uncertainly surrounding Wenger cannot be wiped away by one win. He will need a trophy and/or that top-four place otherwise they idea of him staying on and signing a new deal will be a hard sell to that disgruntled strand of Gunners support.
As for Wenger's opposite number Guardiola, he may have had a hard luck story to tell as he left Wembley but the bottom line is the man brought to Manchester City to move them on to the next level in succession to Manuel Pellegrini will end the season empty-handed and that is a serious disappointment.
This was not how it was meant to be but this City team simply has too many flaws. For all their attacking riches, they are not ruthless enough, are insecure at the back and uncertainty continues over the goalkeeping position, where Guardiola's choice to replace Joe Hart, Claudio Bravo, has not convinced.
And now the pressure is really on - if Guardiola fails to guide City into the top four then this season will be nothing other than an abject failure after the exit at the last 16 stage to Monaco in the Champions League.
City are currently fourth, a point ahead of Manchester United before Thursday's derby at Etihad Stadium.
A top-four place was the very minimum requirement for Guardiola and his players before the start of the season - failure to deliver would not be well-received by the club's fiercely ambitious Abu Dhabi-based hierarchy.


Rising temperatures could boost mercury levels in fish by up to seven times the current rates, say Swedish researchers.

They've discovered a new way in which warming increases levels of the toxin in sea creatures.
In experiments, they found that extra rainfall drives up the amount of organic material flowing into the seas.
This alters the food chain, adding another layer of complex organisms which boosts the concentrations of mercury up the line.
The study has been published in the journal, Science Advances.
Mercury is one of the world's most toxic metals, and according to the World Health Organization, is one of the top ten threats to public health. The substance at high levels has been linked to damage to the nervous system, paralysis and mental impairment in children.
The most common form of exposure to mercury is by eating fish containing methylmercury, an organic form of the chemical which forms when bacteria react with mercury in water, soil or plants.
Levels of mercury in the world's ecosystems have increased by between 200 and 500%, since the industrial revolution say experts, driven up by the use of fossil fuels such as coal.
In recent years there are have been concentrated efforts to limit the amount of mercury entering the environment, with an international treaty, called the Minamata Convention, signed by 136 countries in place since 2013.
But this new study suggests that climate change could be driving up levels of methylmercury in a manner not previously recognised.
In a large laboratory, Swedish researchers recreated the conditions found in the Bothnian sea estuary. They discovered that as temperatures increase, there is an increased run-off of organic matter into the world's oceans and lakes. This encourages the growth of bacteria at the expense of phytoplankton.
"When bacteria become abundant in the water there is also a growth of a new type of predators that feed on bacteria," lead author Dr Erik Bjorn from Umea University in Sweden told BBC News.
"You basically get one extra step in the food chain and methylmercury is enriched by about a factor of ten in each such step in the food web."
Under the warmest climate scenario suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there would be an increase in organic matter run-off of 15-20% by the end of this century. This in turn would see levels of methylmercury in zooplankton, the bottom link in the food chain, grow by between two and seven fold.
Different parts of the world will suffer different impacts say the researchers, with lakes and coastal waters in the northern hemisphere being the most likely to have significant increases in methylmercury levels in fish, while the Mediterranean, the central US and Southern Africa will likely see reductions.
Researchers hope that the Minamata treaty will be successful and countries reduce the amount of mercury that is being produced. Otherwise this discovery of a previously unknown source could have impacts for human health.
"If we reduce mercury emissions, then we need to know how fast will ecosystems recover," said Dr Bjorn.
"If we don't do anything and mercury doesn't decrease, and we add this on top then the implications would be severe."
Other researchers in the field say that the new study highlights important issues that have previously been little known.
"This work experimentally proves that climate change will have a significant effect of methylmercury budgets in coastal waters and its concentrations in fish," said Milena Horvat from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia.
"This work will also have an important impact on future scenario simulations on the presence of mercury in fish in response to global mercury reductions from emission sources (primarily industrial)."
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London has "nothing to hide" over its successful bid to stage the 2017 World Championships, says the boss of UK Athletics.

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The bid has been called into question after a damning report into IAAF governance claimed "corruption was embedded" within the organisation.
Authors of the report want police to investigate past bidding processes.
But UKA boss Ed Warner insisted: "All I know is that London's bid was completely by the book."
"We have nothing to hide and we would be delighted to spend any amount of time going through our processes with the investigators if that helps root out any miscreants," he added.
Richard McLaren, a member of the independent panel that produced the latest report on the world governing body, wants an investigation into how world championships were awarded under the regime of Lamine Diack.
The former IAAF boss, who stepped down in August last year, was accused of allegedly taking bribes to cover up positive drugs tests.
Information gathered by McLaren and the independent panel regarding the championships has already been passed on to French prosecutors.
"We don't have hard evidence, but it's enough information that we think it bears a serious investigation," he said.
McLaren, a renowned sports lawyer, added: "The process by which those decisions were made - who made them, why did they make them and why did other cities not get selected - needs to be investigated."
Asked if he would be prepared to make all emails and documents available, Warner said: "Absolutely."
He added: "It's right that these things are fair battles and the right city wins for the good of the sport and nothing more.
"There has been a very unhealthy smell at Fifa with some of football's World Cup bids and now it appears there may be some of that stench with some IAAF World Championships - and that is very unpleasant."
The report into IAAF governance was highly critical of Diack, who was in charge for 16 years.
It also said there "may be reason to believe" senior officials at the International Association of Athletics Federations and others acting on their behalf "may have benefited from decisions of the IAAF to award certain cities and countries" a world championship.
Moscow hosted the 2013 championships, followed by Beijing in 2015, with London and Doha due to stage the event in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
The decision to award the 2021 event to the American town of Eugene without the usual bidding process is already under investigation.
The report also raised questions about Tokyo's successful 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid.
The Japanese beat the Turkish and Spanish capitals of Istanbul and Madrid.
The report claimed that Diack allegedly dropped his support for Turkish city Istanbul after it did not pay sponsorship money of up to $5m (£3.5m) to the Diamond League or IAAF.
However, Japan did pay the sponsorship money, according to transcripts obtained by the independent panel.
In response to the report's claims, Hikariko Ono, spokeswoman for the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, insisted the bidding process had been fair.
She said the Games were awarded to Tokyo because the city "presented the best bid", adding: "The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee considers that the note in the report is beyond our understanding."
Tokyo collected 60 to Istanbul's 36 in the final round of voting.


Pearson, the major international publisher and education firm, is to become a for-profit private higher education provider in the UK.

The firm is opening Pearson College, teaching a degree course validated by existing London universities.
The business and enterprise degree, taught in London and Manchester, will have about 40 places this year.
The college says it will be for "students who are serious about succeeding in business".
Pearson says this will be the first time a FTSE 100 company has directly delivered a degree course.
It will be seen as a significant symbolic step into UK higher education from a major player in the education market.
Pearson owns the Edexcel exam board, along with educational publishing interests and digital education businesses. It owns Penguin and the Financial Times.
The BSc degree course, which will be taught in Pearson's offices, will offer places from this autumn.
Tuition fees will be Â£6,500 per year - below the average for universities, many of which are now charging Â£9,000 per year.
There will be an option of an accelerated two-year course, as well as studying over three years.
The college will not have its own degree-awarding powers - so the degree will be validated by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, which is part of the University of London.
Pearson wants to provide a degree course which will teach practical, hands-on business skills.
"We have a network of blue-chip industry relationships, many of whom are working with us on the design and delivery of our degree programmes," said the college's managing director Roxanne Stockwell.
"This gives us an inherent understanding of the modern business environment and employer needs."
But Sally Hunt, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, raised concerns about the expansion of private providers in the UK university system.
"Opening the door to for-profit companies in higher education is very risky, especially given this government's failure to regulate provision and monitor courses run by private providers," she said.
Pearson will become part of a growing but still relatively small private higher education sector.
There had been ambitions for a much bigger shake-up in higher education - with the expectation of more private providers offering degree courses.
But the White Paper which set out plans for a more competitive market did not become legislation.
Despite this there have been some signs of private providers playing a bigger role.
Last month Regent's College in London gained its own degree-awarding powers.
And BPP University College, a for-profit university with its own degree-awarding powers, announced it was expanding into health-related degree courses.
Although there had been an expectation of more overseas providers offering courses in the UK, there are indications that technology is changing more rapidly than regulations.
This year has seen the rapid emergence of online university courses in the United States, headed by partnerships involving institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Princeton.
The California-based Coursera consortium, set up by academics at Stanford University, reported last week that since launching earlier this year it had signed up a million students around the world.
This included an estimated 40,000 students based in the UK.


Samuel L Jackson has clarified comments he made about British black actors earlier this week.

The actor had criticised Hollywood for casting black British actors in films about US race relations.
On Monday, he told radio station Hot 97: "I don't know what the love affair with all that is... we've got a lot of brothers here that need to work too."
Jackson has now said his criticism was not of other actors but the Hollywood system in general.
"It was not a slam against them, but it was just a comment about how Hollywood works in an interesting sort of way sometimes," the actor told the Associated Press.
He was complimentary of the work of black British performers in American roles, but said things were rarely the other way round.
"We're not afforded that same luxury, but that's fine, we have plenty of opportunities to work," he said.
Speaking about his British counterparts, he added: "I enjoy their work... I enjoy working with them when I have the opportunity to do that."
In his original interview, Jackson said he wondered what the film Get Out would have been like with a US actor.
The film is about an African-American photographer, played by British actor Daniel Kaluuya, who has a white girlfriend.
Jackson said: "I think it's great that movie's doing everything it's doing and people are loving it. But... I know the young brother who's in the movie, and he's British."
"I tend to wonder what that movie would have been with an American brother who really feels that."
"Daniel grew up in a country where they've been interracial dating for 100 years," he added.
"What would a brother from America have made of that role? Some things are universal but [not everything is]."
Jackson also referred to the Martin Luther King Jr drama Selma, which starred the British actor David Oyelowo as King.
His comments sparked criticism, and Star Wars actor John Boyega made reference to the debate on Twitter, saying it was a "conflict we don't have time for".
Earlier in the week when Jackson was asked why British actors were getting the roles, he joked: "They're cheaper than us, for a start.
"And [directors] think they're better than us because they're classically trained."
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New Brentford head coach Dean Smith believes the job at Griffin Park will be a "similar project" to the one he undertook at previous club Walsall.

Smith, 44, joined the Bees, who are 11th in the Championship, on Monday.
"There is a strategy in place and we need to think differently from other clubs in this league to compete with them," he told BBC Radio London.
"It is no different to the job I was having to do with Walsall in League One. As a club, it is so progressive."
Smith had been in charge of Walsall since January 2011 and was the fourth longest-serving manager in the top four divisions prior to his departure from the Banks's Stadium.
Last season he led the Saddlers to their first-ever appearance at Wembley, where they were beaten by Bristol City in the final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, and he left with the team challenging for promotion from League One.
"The job I was doing at Walsall was a long-term project," Smith said,
"It is a project I took great pride in and I look back at it and see a legacy there. I really hope they get promoted.
"I see this club as a similar project but in a higher league, and the opportunity to get into the Premier League."
The situation which Smith has walked into at Griffin Park is very different from that when Marinus Dijkhuizen, Brentford's choice as head coach in the summer, was sacked on 28 September.
Lee Carsley was placed in charge following the Dutchman's departure and inherited a side who were 19th in the Championship table, one point above the relegation zone.
The 41-year-old transformed the Bees during his short spell in charge, winning five of his 10 games and lifting them to 11th, just three points off the play-off places.
"I will implement new ideas, but I won't stray too far from what Lee has done because he has done a great job," Smith said.
"He is handing me a team who are playing some good stuff and are full of confidence with the results they have been having.
"It is important the club keeps improving and hopefully I can help do that."
Brentford owner Matthew Benham said the club "didn't get it right whatsoever" when they appointed Dijkhuizen this summer, but co-director of football Rasmus Ankersen thinks Smith's character and attacking style of play will suit the Bees.
"The job of head coach of Brentford is not a job for a guy with a big ego," Ankersen told BBC Radio London.
"It is a job for a guy that is able to collaborate - someone who is willing to involve other people and their expertise in order to make the best possible decisions for the club."
He continued: "We have defined some overall principles for the expression we want to have on the pitch and we want a head coach that shares that.
"We don't want a guy who plays destructive, boring football. What Dean and Richard O'Kelly have done at Walsall is impressive, in terms of playing attacking football.
"We are very confident that on the football philosophy side that there is a great match here."


A Church of England theological college has expressed regret after trainee priests held a service in the antiquated gay slang language Polari.

The service at the chapel of Westcott House in Cambridge was to commemorate LGBT history month.
The congregation was told the use of the lexicon was an attempt to "queer the liturgy of evening prayer".
But officials said it had not been authorised and was at variance with the doctrine and teaching of the church.
Polari is thought to have originated in Victorian London but fell out of use as homosexuality began to be decriminalised in England in the 1960s.
Its words, however, were brought to wider public attention in the same decade by comedian Kenneth Williams in the BBC radio series Round the Horne.
One person present at the service told BBC News it was led by an ordinand - a trainee priest - rather than a licensed minister.
The congregation was also made up of trainees.
While they had been given permission to hold a service to commemorate LGBT history month, a Church of England source said the college chaplain had not seen the wording of the service.
The translation was based on the Polari bible, a work compiled as a project in 2003 by the self-styled Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
The scripture and liturgy were printed on to an order of service.
An Old Testament reading from the Prophet Joel which says "rend your heart and not your garments, return to the Lord your God" was printed in Polari as "rend your thumping chest and not your frocks - and turn unto the Duchess your Gloria: for she is bona and merciful".
Instead of the traditional "Glory be to the father, and to the son, and the Holy Spirit" the prayer offered was: "Fabeness be to the Auntie, and to the Homie Chavvie, and to the Fantabulosa Fairy".
Services in the Church of England are legally required to be conducted using the church's approved liturgy.
The principal of Westcott House, the Rev Canon Chris Chivers, said the liturgy of the service had not been authorised for use.
He said: "I fully recognise that the contents of the service are at variance with the doctrine and teaching of the Church of England and that is hugely regrettable.
"Inevitably for some members of the house this caused considerable upset and disquiet and I have spoken at length to those involved in organising the service.
"I will be reviewing and tightening the internal mechanisms of the house to ensure this never happens again."


Plans to redevelop and modernise the country's biggest fresh produce market and build thousands of new homes have been given the go-ahead.

Wandsworth Council granted permission to upgrade the 40-year-old New Covent Garden in Nine Elms, south London.
The plan includes 11.5 acres (4.6 hecs) of market facilities and 135,000 sq ft (12,540 sq m) of office space.
More than 3,000 homes and 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) of retail and leisure facilities will also be built.
A visitor centre and education space focused on the food industry will also be included in the development.
Sarah McDermott, chairman of the council's planning committee, said: "The market is the biggest single development site in Nine Elms and an incredibly valuable source of local jobs.
"Its revival is key to our vision for the area and the redevelopment of its perimeter sites will fuse together key sections of the new people-friendly environment we are creating here. "
The government-owned New Covent Garden Market Authority was set up in 1974 to oversee the move of the Covent Garden Market from its famous Westminster base to 57-acre site at Nine Elms.
The authority is a statutory body that reports to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The plans have been developed by St Modwen Properties, VINCI Construction and the Covent Garden Market Authority.
The first phase will be works to upgrade utilities and other infrastructure in preparation for the construction in 2016.
In 2011, the government secured agreement for a Â£10bn release of public sector land to build 100,000 homes and redeveloping the Nine Elms site is a key part of the plan.
Work is expected to start on site in spring.


Internet giant Google has reported a large rise in profits and revenue, well ahead of market expectations.

Net profit for the three months to June rose 36% on the same period last year to $2.5bn (Â£1.5bn), while revenues rose 32% to $9bn.
Last month, Google launched its social networking site Google+, in an attempt to take on Facebook.
The results were the first under chief executive Larry Page, who replaced Eric Schmidt in April.
Mr Schmidt had held the role for 10 years. Analysts said the decision for Google co-founder Mr Page to take over was made because he now carries more weight with investors and could re-energise the search giant.
The results will help reassure investors that the company is still thriving under his leadership.
"We had a great quarter," said Mr Page. "I'm super excited about the amazing response to Google+."
Shares in Google surged 11% in extended trading.
Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, said the results were "well beyond expectations from Wall Street".
"Clearly, the combination of mobile search, Android, ad exchange, YouTube, and the core search businesses, they're all doing well," he said.
"Google is no longer a one-trick pony. You might say six-trick pony if you count Google+."


England and British and Irish Lions prop Joe Marler has signed a new deal to stay at Harlequins until 2021.

The 27-year-old, whose contract had been due to expire next summer, has played 152 times for the Premiership side since his debut in 2009.
He was part of the Lions squad in New Zealand this summer, appearing in five warm-up matches on the tour.
"I strongly believe we have a squad capable of going places and I'm really excited for the season," Marler said.
Marler, who came through the Quins academy, is a former club captain and helped them win the 2012 Premiership title.
He has been part of the England team which has claimed back-to-back Six Nations crowns, including the Grand Slam last year.
"Joe is now established as one of the best loose-head props in world rugby," added Quins director of rugby John Kingston.
"He has displayed a real commitment to the Harlequins cause over many years and as an academy protege, he is another member of the squad who has only ever known one club."


Rotherham United have signed Ipswich Town full-back Josh Emmanuel on a season-long loan deal.

The 19-year-old, a former West Ham trainee, played 15 times for Ipswich in the Championship last season.
Emmanuel made his professional debut in August 2015, 10 days before his 18th birthday, and later that season had a brief loan spell with Crawley.
He is the second Ipswich player to be signed on loan by Rotherham this week, after striker Kieffer Moore.
In total, Emmanuel has made 24 appearances for Ipswich.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A 32-year-old man has been arrested after a six-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from her home.

The girl was reported missing in the Barrowfield area of Glasgow on Friday evening and was returned later the same night.
The man is currently in police custody over the incident.
A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.


Zlatan Ibrahimovic could become king of Oberhausen if he signs for the German city's fourth-tier football club.

The striker, 34, is considering offers after leaving Paris St-Germain but few will be as creative as what Rot-Weiss Oberhausen have put forward.
The club says the striker's signature on a two-year contract would see the city introduce a monarchy that Ibrahimovic will head, while a local beer will be renamed to feature his name.
Sweden captain Ibrahimovic is known to be a confident operator, so could a seat on a newly-formed throne tempt him?
If this is not enough, a local swimming pool - which closed over 20 years ago - would again be filled with water and opened for the former Barcelona player whenever he needs it.
In a statement, the club referred to their target as "God" and confirmed they have "made an offer" featuring an "attractive package".
After finishing fifth last season, Oberhausen are in the market for "a powerful forward who's good in the air" and Ibrahimovic - who scored 156 times in 180 games at PSG - fits the bill.
"In a football province like Oberhausen, there are a few things which other places wouldn't have," club president Hajo Sommers told German broadcaster Sport1.
"If he wants to expand his horizons, let him come."
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Rot-Weiss Oberhausen have also offered to construct a new stand using materials sourced from a Swedish retailer if Ibrahimovic moves to the city and Sommer even agreed to pick his man up from the airport.
This chauffeur service once worked for Manchester United in their pursuit of Dimitar Berbatov and the Red Devils - heavily linked with Ibrahimovic - may well need to again pull out all the stops if they are to acquire the former AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus front man.
United can of course offer average attendances in excess of 75,000 compared to the 2,100 Oberhausen pulled in last season, not to mention sizeable financial initiatives.
But crucially, they are yet to put forward a 'king of Manchester' proposal.
"In the coming days the player will decide. We are cautiously optimistic that his decision will be positive," concluded the German minnows.


A new £100 coin featuring London's Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben has been minted to mark the start of the new year.

The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, has produced 50,000 of the special coins.
The coins, which contain 56 grams of silver, will be available at the value of £100.
The design was chosen in celebration of Big Ben's distinctive sound, which for many cues the start of the new year.
The design shows the clock tower from street level from the view of a person staring up towards the sky.
The coins have been designed as collector items and will not be something people will use to pay for things at the shops.


A virtual private network (or VPN) is a secure connection between your device and another computer over the internet.

18 January 2016 Last updated at 19:54 GMT
VPN services are useful for securely accessing your work computer systems while you are away from the office.
But they are also commonly used to circumvent government censorship, or location blocking on movie streaming websites.
BBC Technology reporter Chris Foxx explains what some people use a VPN service for.


Aberdeen City Council has said it did not plan to reprint thousands of polling cards which contain a prominent spelling error.

The cards, for the Scottish parliamentary election on 5 May, spell Scotland as "Scotalnd".
The error was not spotted until the official notification started to be delivered to voters in the city.
The authority said it accepted the mistake was "disappointing and embarrassing".
A spokeswoman for the Returning officer said: "This is a very disappointing, and of course, a very embarrassing proofing error.
"The 175,000 poll cards distributed will not be replaced as this unfortunate spelling mistake in no way invalidates the poll cards."


Nasa's next Mars rover will be aimed at one of the planet's deepest craters.

MSL-Curiosity weighs almost a tonne and is the size of a Mini Cooper.
It will carry instruments to study whether Mars had the conditions in the past to support microbial life.
The US space agency has selected an equatorial depression called Gale Crater to investigate that question.
The $2.5bn rover will launch from Florida in November.
It should touch-down at the Red Planet in August 2012.
Gale Crater is about 155km in diameter, and its lowest point is about 4.6km below datum, the reference point on Mars from which all other elevations are measured.
The landing zone will be much narrower than the crater's width. But Nasa has high confidence the rocket-powered descent system designed for MSL-Curiosity can put it inside a target zone less than 20km across.
If this Skycrane, as it is known, works as planned, the rover will be delivered close to the central peak of the crater.
This is a huge mountain that contains layers of deposits that should offer an impressive view of millions of years of Martian geological history.
"What we've learnt over 150 years of exploration is that if you start at the bottom of the pile of layers and you go to the top, it's like reading a novel," said mission project scientist John Grotzinger from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"We think Gale Crater is going to be a great novel about the early environmental evolution of Mars that offers strong prospects potentially for the discovery of habitable environments, and maybe even a shot at discovering organic compounds."
Dr Grotzinger stressed that MSL-Curiosity is not a life-detection mission; it cannot identify microbes or even microbial fossils.  But it can assess whether ancient conditions could have supported organisms.
This means Gale must show evidence for the past presence of water, a source of energy with which life forms could have metabolised, and a source of organic compounds with which organisms could have built their structures.
Gale has been chosen because satellite imagery suggests it may well be one of the best places on Mars to look for these biological preconditions.
The Skycrane will lower MSL-Curiosity on to the relatively flat valley floor on the end of tethers before blasting away to a safe distance.  The robot will then drive up to the base of the central mountain.
In front of it, the rover should should find abundant quantities of clay minerals that will give fresh insight into the very wet early epoch of the Red Planet.  Above the clays, the deposits change to sulphates, which relate to a period in time when Mars was still wet but was beginning to dry out.
In addition, there is evidence water flowed down the mountain at some point in the past, cutting a deep gully and depositing sediments out on the plain.
The rover will get to investigate all of this.
"The suite of things that we can see at Gale represents a diverse number of environments over a long period of time, possibly tens to hundreds of millions of years, plus the modern environment," said Dawn Sumner, a geologist at the University of California Davis, US.
"It's also going to be just an incredibly beautiful place - it will be a lot like the southwest of the US, areas like Monument Valley where you have steep-sided cliffs with the rover going in the shallower valleys between them," the co-chair of the landing site working group explained.
Gale was selected after a rigorous investigation of some 60 competing sites. The selection process took five years and involved about 150 researchers.
High-resolution imagery was acquired of the best sites, and Nasa even built models of some of the site surfaces and dropped a simulation rover on to them to assess their suitability.
Michael Watkins, the mission's project engineer, said the expected precision of the new entry, descent and landing system meant that the space agency could have chosen any of the top contenders.
"We can control the lift of the vehicle a little bit during entry and we can cancel out some unexpected differences in atmospheric drag that would cause the landing zone to be large," he told reporters.
"Previous missions have had landing zones that have been up to 10 times larger than MSL.  MSL is going to land in a 20km-across spot."
MSL-Curiosity has been funded for an initial surface mission of two years. But the fact that Nasa's Opportunity rover continues to roll across the Red Planet today, seven years after landing, suggests the new vehicle may have a very long life ahead of it.  What is more, the new vehicle carries a nuclear battery that will provide ample power on a planet where dust storms can blight the operation of solar panels.
MSL-Curiosity is currently being prepared for its November launch at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk


Danny Kent became the first British motorcycling Grand Prix champion for 38 years as he sealed the Moto3 Championship by six points in the final race in Valencia.

The 21-year-old from Wiltshire needed to finish 14th in Spain to secure the title and began 18th on the grid.
He finished ninth on his Honda, with race winner Miguel Oliveira of Portugal second in the final standings.
Barry Sheene was the last British champion, winning the 500cc in 1977.
Kent won five of the first nine races of the season, but two retirements and a highest finish of sixth in the last five events saw his commanding lead reduced to 24 points going into the final weekend.
Oliveira's third successive victory was his sixth of the season, matching Kent's tally of wins, and the pair will be team-mates in Moto2 next season.
"The emotions are so high, in the last four races there was a slight chance of being world champion and it's normal to be disappointed each time but for sure we are going to have a great evening," Kent said.
"It's an amazing feeling, a dream come true. You need luck, a great bike and a great team behind you."


Double European indoor champion Laura Muir opens her outdoor season in this weekend's Diamond League Prefontaine Classic meeting in Oregon.

After a spell of high-altitude training in Flagstaff, Arizona, Muir will race in the women's 1500m.
Fellow Scot Andrew Butchart takes on four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah in a congested field of 28 runners in the men's 5,000m.
Lynsey Sharp, the in-form Chris O'Hare and Eilish McColgan are also in action.
Last year's Diamond League series winner Muir, 24, has the fastest personal best time in a competitive field, with over half of the competitors posting best times of sub-four minutes.
Meanwhile, Butchart could better his own Scottish record of 13.08.61 in Oregon, with half the field boasting a global medal in track, cross country or road running.
In the women's 800m, Sharp will be hoping to open her account proper. After descending from Flagstaff, a bout of altitude sickness meant she failed to finish last week's race in Eagle Rock, California.
Following a week at sea level, Sharp will take on the formidable South African Caster Semenya - a double Olympic champion who set the season's fastest time of 1.56.61 in Doha earlier this month.
In the international mile race, O'Hare arrives in the form of his life - just last week, he achieved a personal best and qualifying time for the London World Championships in August.
The event begins on Friday night with Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba chasing the world record in the women's 5,000m. Also in the impressive field is European indoor bronze medallist McColgan, who was a finalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics.


West Ham's hopes of qualifying for the Europa League group stage suffered a setback as they were held after leading 2-0 against Romania's Astra Giurgiu.

Goals by Enner Valencia and Mauro Zarate put the Hammers in control of the third qualifying round before James Collins's dismissal changed the game.
Fernando Boldrin made it 2-1 before debutant Angelo Ogbonna headed past his own keeper while attempting to clear.
West Ham now face a tough test in the second leg in Romania on 6 August.
A section of home fans at Upton Park vented their frustration by booing at the final whistle.
The Hammers had been control for almost an hour before Collins's red card turned the tie upside down and left Slaven Bilic's side with it all to do to reach the play-off round.
They also lost Valencia to a knee injury to compound Billic's problems.
Having required penalties to see off Birkirkara in Malta in the previous round, West Ham are not making life easy for themselves in Europe.
They qualified for the Europa League through the Fair Play League but have now had three players sent off in five Europa League games - one in every round.
Forward Diafra Sakho was sent off against Lusitanos in the first qualifying round while defender James Tomkins was suspended against Astra after being red carded in Malta.
Collins, who had already been booked, could have few complaints after pulling Constantin Budescu's shirt in the 59th minute.
The Hammers should have been more than 2-0 up by that stage, Ogbonna and Mauro Zarate both frustrated by keeper Silviu Lung Jr.
As if losing a 2-0 lead was not bad enough, West Ham lost goalscorer Valencia to what looked like a serious injury.
The Ecuador forward was carried off on a stretcher soon after falling awkwardly, moments after defender Joey O'Brien had gone off with a suspected hamstring problem.
Valencia's powerful header had set the tone for a dominant Hammers first-half performance before the hosts imploded.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "We were dominating the game. It was a very frustrating evening because we played well until the moment we had a player sent-off. We had chances to score the third goal.
"It was a professional foul from Collins and I can't blame him [referee]. The second yellow was harsh.
"We definitely played well in the first hour, but the game lasts 90 minutes and we had to react better to going down to 10 men."


A Glasgow primary school has been forced to close to older pupils on Monday due to widespread sickness among teachers.

Pupils from P4 to P7 at Merrylee Primary in Newlands have been told to stay at home because 12 members of staff are unwell.
The city council said it was drafting in education department staff to assist at the school.
They hoped to have the primary open as normal on Tuesday.
Parents were notified on Sunday via text message and on social media.
Glasgow City Council said 12 staff were ill with sickness and diarrhoea.
A spokesman added: "Senior staff will be drafted in from the education department to help run the school for primaries one to three tomorrow.
"Apologies for this unavoidable inconvenience, however, please make alternative childcare arrangements tomorrow if your child is in P4-P7 at the school. Notice has also been given via the school's text messaging network and social media.
"We hope to reopen the school to all pupils on Tuesday."
The director of education at Glasgow City Council, Maureen McKenna, tweeted: "Apologies to all parents @MerryleePS we will have senior managers at the school first thing to assist. We will confirm Tuesday opening tmrw."
A post on Merrylee Primary School's twitter feed said the head teacher was also unwell.
A spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said they were offering advice and support to the school.


After 85 days of rain, the sun is finally shining in a Pembrokeshire village.

Miserable residents of Eglwyswrw, near Cardigan, have had to endure the wet weather since 26 October.
The village was five days short of beating the British record which is 89 days set in Scotland in 1923.
But the Met Office confirmed no rain fell in the last 24 hours and farmer John Davies joked villagers were singing "Bring Me Sunshine".
"There's mixed emotions," he said.
"Once the Met Office and media homed in on us possibly breaking the record... I thought we've had it all this time let's suffer a bit more and get the title.
"It was relentless until the new year and then not so much.
"This is weather we have now we're not really used to but it's not meant to last."
A Met Office spokeswoman said: "We have just had the reading through and there was no recorded rainfall at Whitechurch recording station yesterday so it was 85 days up until and including 18 January."


The long-term effect of what is known as "broken heart syndrome" is to be probed by University of Aberdeen researchers after the award of a grant.

Acute stress induced cardiomyopathy is said to often follow bereavement, involvement in an accident, or divorce.
Sufferers experience heart attack-like symptoms despite there being no blockage in the coronary arteries.
The study, led by Dr Dana Dawson, has been awarded a British Medical Association grant.
A previous University of Aberdeen study suggested sufferers still felt the effects up to four months later.
Dr Dawson said: "Whilst the condition was originally thought to be self-limiting, we were surprised to see that, later, patients still lack energy or are unable to return to work.
"There are also reports from other groups that these after-effects continue to linger with sufferers.
"At the moment, we believe the condition is underdiagnosed because many front door physicians don't consider it as a possibility. Certainly we feel the number of cases diagnosed is far smaller than the real amount of sufferers."
She added: "We will recall many of the previously diagnosed patients and hope to examine thoroughly to what extent their hearts have recovered.
"Do they ever recover fully? Do they remain at an intermittent level of recovery, explaining why they couldn't do what they did before? Or is it a psychological issue?"


The economy secretary wants Westminster to deliver electric trains from Cardiff to Swansea - or give Welsh Government the power and money to do so.

Ken Skates said unless a commitment was honoured now "we may never see it".
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the latest hybrid electric-diesel trains would run to Swansea from this autumn.
One leading transport expert warned there was a risk electrification would be costly to re-start again if the current programme stopped at Cardiff.
Network Rail has called the electrification of the line to south Wales "the biggest single investment in the Great Western railway since Brunel".
It is working to deliver electrification between London and Cardiff by December 2018, shaving 14 minutes off a typical journey.
To get the railway ready for the overhead posts and wires, some bridges - including Splott Road bridge in Cardiff - need to be reconstructed as they are currently too low to accommodate this new equipment.
It would not be before 2024 that the project reaches Swansea under existing projections.
WHY ELECTRIFICATION?
Improving the rail system for quicker, quieter trains is seen as important for the economy and to meet growing demand.
Passenger growth is forecast as increasing 142% over the next 25 years between London and Cardiff.
Up to 32m passengers are forecast to be using Cardiff Central Station by 2043.
Between Swansea and London, the number of passengers is forecast as more than doubling in 25 years.
The numbers commuting from local stations into Swansea is also anticipated to almost double in the same period.
Mr Skates said Wales had been "under-funded incredibly" in terms of railway infrastructure. He said Wales had about 6% of the network but only received about 1.5% of the funding in the current period.
"Undoubtedly we need to modernise the infrastructure and in fact we've stepped in as Welsh Government during that period and invested something like Â£200m," he said.
"Our call on UK Government is to honour commitments already given to modernise the railway network, including the main line in south Wales.
"It's crucially important to get people better connected between places of work, services and home. We need modernisation all the way through not just to Cardiff but to Swansea. So it's absolutely imperative the UK Government honours commitments.
"Now is the time to deliver. If we don't see modernisation delivered now, we may never see it. If they're not going to deliver it now, and on time, they should hand us the money and powers to deliver the upgrades that are required."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns on Monday took a look inside the new hybrid trains which will start operating on the Great Western service this autumn.
To start with, they will run on electric between London and Swindon and then switch to diesel for the rest of the journey.  Each train will have an extra 159 seats.
Mr Cairns would not be drawn on further electrification west of Cardiff but said the new trains would bring benefits to Swansea passengers sooner than envisaged.
"Passengers won't know if they're running on diesel or electric," he said.
"When the original decision was made to electrify the Great Western main line there was only the view of running an electric-only train.
"We're now using the latest technology, it would've been foolish not to have a bi-modal train. So as a result of the change in government emphasis, we're focused on outcomes.
"Now they've electrified to Swindon, we're having the latest trains available this autumn, so Swansea will be benefiting from new trains much, much sooner from a government shift in policy."
Stuart Cole, emeritus professor of transport at the University of South Wales, said if electrification had to be re-started from Cardiff to Swansea at a later date rather than be part of a continuing project it could prove costly, whether it was the UK or Welsh governments paying for it.
"Any delay requiring a restart of construction will incur the set up costs of a new project," he said.
The set-up costs would include pulling together a new technical team with staff having gone to other projects. It would also need to procure materials and equipment, with the likes of Network Rail's Â£5m wiring erection unit having gone to other projects in England.
"At present these set up costs are included in CrossRail and electrification to Bristol Parkway. They would then be incurred again," added Prof Cole.


Premiership side Sale Sharks have signed utility back James O'Connor from Toulon on a three-year contract.

The 26-year-old has won 44 caps for Australia and has been playing Top 14 rugby in France since 2015.
O'Connor was arrested in Paris, and subsequently suspended by his club in February for drug offences but has since returned to playing.
"He is a world-class, versatile back that will add a lot to our game," said Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond.
"He is the type of player that, alongside a group of incredibly talented home grown lads, will help us a club to push on and achieve the vision of our owners Simon Orange and Ged Mason."
O'Connor has previously played in the Premiership for London Irish and also has Super Rugby experience in the southern hemisphere with Western Force, Melbourne Rebels and Queensland Reds.
Although O'Connor can play a number of positions, BBC Sport understands Sale have signed him to play primarily at fly-half next season.
"I have no doubt Steve Diamond and the coaching staff at Sale will help O'Connor channel his talent to help him and the club achieve something really special, and I know he is looking forward to getting started with the lads," said co-owner Orange.
"We have put down good foundations and we are excited to see James O'Connor add that extra bit of sparkle we have been looking for."


Captain Scott Brown insists Scottish Cup final starting jerseys are at stake in Celtic's five remaining league fixtures.

Brendan Rodgers' treble-chasing side will face Aberdeen in the showpiece, after booking their return to Hampden Park with a 2-0 win over Rangers.
Celtic have already romped to the Premiership title, and eased past the Dons in November's League Cup final.
"Everyone's playing for a place in the final now," Brown told BBC Scotland.
"We've got five games before that. Aberdeen have done really well to get to the final; they're a great team, but so are we. If we turn up on the day you know what can happen. It showed [against Rangers].
"We fancy our chances in every game, but we need to make sure we keep hitting those heights in the next five."
A dominant first-half display laid the platform for Celtic's fourth victory of the season over their city rivals.
Callum McGregor slotted home a sumptuous finish from the edge of the box, before Scott Sinclair's 51st-minute penalty put the tie beyond Rangers.
The Ibrox side did create a string of final-quarter chances - most falling to Kenny Miller - but Brown says he was never concerned Celtic would let the game slip from their grasp.
"It was a very professional performance from start to finish," he said. "We knew the last five, 10 minutes they were going to put a lot of pressure on us but we dealt with that really, really well, and could have scored a couple more goals.
"It's great pace from Leigh Griffiths for the second goal as well - great ball down the line from Patrick Roberts, wee touch, we got a penalty.
"Sometimes when you're under the cosh and you've got people like Patrick to control the game and Leigh to run in behind - it's a phenomenal feeling and a great win for the fans as well.
"People are scared of our counter attack if they press us high up the park, we've got a lot of pace and people that can pick passes. When you bring on people like Tom Rogic and James Forrest, it shows you what a top quality bench we have got. Everyone's fighting for a first-team place and it's the way it should be at Celtic."


The Nigerian government has reported two cases of polio - the country's first in two years.

It said two children had been paralysed by the disease in the north-eastern Borno state, a part of Nigeria where Boko Haram militants are active.
The development is seen as a major setback for Nigeria, which was on track to be declared polio free in 2017.
Polio is an infectious viral disease that usually affects children. It can only be prevented through immunisation.
The disease is spread by poor sanitation and contaminated water.
A UN immunisation programme in Nigeria has had to contend with rumours that the vaccine was a plot to sterilise Muslims.
Polio vaccination centres in the country have also been attacked by Boko Haram Islamist militants.


It's got six choruses, it's sung with a dodgy Caribbean accent and UKIP supporters are hoping it will go to number one.

In case you haven't already heard it, the UKIP Calypso song has been recorded by former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read, who is a big supporter of the party.
Some people have said that they have found his mock accent insensitive.
He's released the track to help raise money for UKIP.
But the party's leader Nigel Farage has appealed to supporters to help get it to the top of the official chart.
Not surprisingly, it's full of claims about the EU and immigration and what UKIP would do if they got in power, so we decided to check if they got their facts right.
1. "Tax payers money, where does it go?  Not even George Osborne knows"
We're off to a questionable start. Knowledge of how taxpayers money is spent is fairly high up on the job description for any Chancellor of the Exchequer. However, UKIP would claim the government don't know where taxpayers money ends up if it goes towards the EU.
2. "When we're in power and we engage there will be no tax on minimum wage"
True.  The chances of UKIP getting into power might be slim but they have promised to not tax those on the minimum wage if it happens. Last month, UKIP leader Nigel Farage told the BBC  "We're going to push very hard for there to be no tax on the minimum wage."
3. "Our leaders committed a cardinal sin. Open the borders let them all come in. Illegal immigrants in every town"
It's difficult to measure how many people are living in the UK illegally but a study last year by the London School of Economics estimated the number to be around 800,000 with the majority (70%) living in London.  We might be nitpicking here but it's very difficult to work out if there are illegal immigrants living in every town of the UK.
4. "With Jean-Claude Juncker we're giving away 55 million every day"
In case you didn't know, Jean-Claude Juncker is about to become the next President of one of the EU's top institutions, the European Commission. The claim that EU membership costs Britain Â£55 million everyday has been made on several occasions by Nigel Farage's party.  What he doesn't mention is that after you deduct the money we get back, it's closer to Â£33m per day.
5. "The EU live in wonderland tried to ban bent bananas and British jam"
You could argue the bananas claim is sort of true.  Several years ago the EU said anyone who wanted to sell bananas in Europe had to make sure they weren't 'abnormally' bent.  It didn't define how bendy an 'abnormally' bent banana was.  The jam ban claim is more straightforward. EU officials say it's completely untrue.
6. "The daily polls suggest somehow UKIP are the third party now"
True. UKIP may only have one MP in Parliament but they've been polling ahead of the Liberal Democrats for the last two years. In May, the party came first in the European elections
7. "Meanwhile down at on Clacton-on-Sea UKIP are making history. Douglas Carswell is quite adamant he will be the first MP in parliament"
In case you missed it, this has already happened.  Former Tory MP Douglas Carswell was elected as UKIP's first MP after his victory in the Clacton by-election.
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A victim of a former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing boys between 1959 and 1983, said he thought he was in love with the man who called himself Father Jim.

Richard John James Robinson, 73, originally from Aldridge in the West Midlands, encouraged the altar boy with gifts, outings and rides in his sports car.
"I was so much in love with the man. Everything was planned. We were going to run away together. He told me that he loved me as well."
About three years later the now adult victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, began to suspect he had been used, when he found out Robinson was seeing other boys.
"I was just broken hearted. He was my first love, if you like."
The effects of the abuse stayed with him for decades.
Robinson was found guilty of 21 charges relating to offences against six boys in the West Midlands parishes he had worked in.
He changed parish often and worked in Walsall, Coventry, Birmingham, Staffordshire as well as various places in Wales.
He chose his victims whenever the opportunity arose, meeting them through the church, at a butchers and through the elder brother of a boxer.
Another of the men who testified against the former priest said he was scared about giving evidence.
"I thought my voice was going to break down in court, that I would stutter or stammer," he said.
"I've had nightmares about this case it has been horrible."
He said the sexual abuse made him doubt his sexuality and for years he thought he was gay and only realised when he was older that he was not.
Now married with children he said: "Eventually I will forgive him. At least I am still alive, thank God I am still here."
He said he hoped Robinsons' conviction would give his other victims the strength to come forward.
"I believe there's a lot more children who haven't come forward to speak out, the silent ones."
A victim he met by offering him a ride on his motorbike said: "He's pathetic. Yes he's an old man and has probably got a dickie heart but he is pure evil. I don't feel sorry for him."
All six boys shared the feeling they alone had been chosen, or singled out for special attention, and were unaware for many years their abuse had been a shared experience.
After abusing another boy during a trip to Snowdon, in north Wales, Robinson drove him back and greeted the victim's parents "as though nothing had happened".
The victim said: "I felt absolute confusion, fright, disgust, even at 11 I liked girls and I knew this wasn't right.
"There was a real feeling of helplessness. I knew I couldn't say anything.
"The fear of saying anything was almost as bad as what had happened to me."
The last time it happened, the priest dropped him back home as before.
"I ran upstairs, went into my sister's bedroom and put my feet against the door and tried to block it out.
"My mum and dad were saying 'come down and say goodbye', but I just couldn't. My sister was asking why not but I just couldn't go there with her."
He told his family some time later, but said ignorance was the reason he had not immediately informed police.
He eventually reported the abuse seven years ago after watching a BBC Kenyon Confronts programme, which had tracked Robinson down in the US and brought him face to face with another of his victims.
"That blew me away because I realised I had not been on my own all these years. In 2003 I realised I wasn't the only one," he said.
Det Ch Insp Steve Bimson, of West Midlands Police said Robinson was a "calculating, callous individual".
"On the other hand he gave the impression to quite a lot of people that he was a caring member of the community. He became a priest and fulfilled a role as a priest for a number of years.
"He used that role to become part of the community and ingratiate himself with families so that he could groom young boys."


Four "very different" projects across Scotland are to share more than £1.7m from the Big Lottery Fund.

The schemes, based in Fife, Edinburgh and Glasgow, focus on giving a "fuller role" to "some of the most overlooked people in our society".
Alison Magee, who chairs BIG Scotland, said it wanted to help people who might feel "excluded, alienated or isolated".
She said the grants would mean "people really do a have a greater chance to be all they can be".
In Fife, two projects share awards worth more than £1.2m.
West Fife Enterprise Limited, based in Newmills, works across former coalmining communities to support, help and advise people who are neither employed nor in education or training.
Chief executive Alan Boyle said the funds would help them to continue to support disadvantaged young people to "find their place in the modern workforce".
One person to benefit from the service already is Rebecca Vickers, 20, who is studying an applied science course at Carnegie College in Dunfermline.
"Working with the team here, little by little, I've begun to believe in myself and now I'm on course, if I work hard, to go onto Dundee University," she said.
"My dream job is to be a zoologist but there was a time when I couldn't ever believe that would happen."
The Princess Royal Trust Fife Carers Centre receives an award of £472,731 to continue its work with families.
It said it would help to meet a "rising demand for support and information".
In Glasgow, a grant of £193,000 means the St George's and St Peter's Community Association (SGSPCA) Daffodil Club can continue to expand.
It offers older people a place to meet and learn while also gaining information in terms of income and services available to them.
The final group to benefit is the Edinburgh-based Living Memory Association which has been awarded £372,314 for its "memory exchange" project.
It will work with older people using "reminiscence activity" to build confidence and self-esteem and help to keep minds active.


New Burnley midfielder Joey Barton says he regrets sending a tweet mocking the town while at QPR last season.

Barton tweeted a Clarets fan: "We may well be really overrated but at least we don't have to live in Burnley".
The 33-year-old joined Sean Dyche's side in August, after West Ham pulled out of a deal to sign the former Manchester City and Newcastle player.
"I wish I hadn't done it in a social media space because it was taken out of context," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"They're passionate fans, I'm a passionate player and we had a disagreement where they targeted me and I stood and fought my ground, and I think most people see it for that.
"If it was taken in a derogatory manner by some people it wasn't meant that way - it was me sort of poking fun and having a little fun with it.
"My early impressions of Burnley are very, very positive and I think in time Burnley fans will get to appreciate me as much as I get to appreciate Burnley."


The family of a woman murdered by her ex-partner are calling for a public inquiry into how complaints of domestic violence are handled.

Maria Stubbings, of Chelmsford in Essex, was strangled with a dog lead in 2008 by Marc Chivers, who had already killed a previous girlfriend.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has criticised Essex Police for not protecting Ms Stubbings.
Her brother Manuel Fernandez said he did not want her death to "be in vain".
"In Maria's name we would like to try to force a public inquiry into the failings of Essex Police and police forces as a whole into domestic violence in the hope that we can actually gain some protection for victims and future victims," Mr Fernandez said.
The family's call comes as a second IPCC report into Ms Stubbings' case is published.
The first one had to be scrapped after inaccuracies were identified in 2011.
Ms Stubbings, a 50-year-old mother of two, had started a relationship with Chivers in early 2008.
She was unaware he had only recently returned to the UK after serving 15 years in jail in Germany for killing a previous partner.
She learned about his murder conviction after he was charged with assaulting her.
He received a four-month jail sentence in October 2008 but as he had already served time on remand was released almost immediately.
By this time Essex Police had removed a panic alarm from Ms Stubbings' home.
In its report, the IPCC says there was no assessment of the risk Chivers posed to Ms Stubbings or her teenage son.
"No one visited Ms Stubbings to review the safety plan and no actions were taken to try to ensure her protection," the report says.
On 11 December 2008, Ms Stubbings contacted Essex Police to report Chivers had burgled her home and taken her medication.
There was further contact and a week later officers called at the house, where Chivers told them Ms Stubbings was not there.
The officers looked in her bedroom but did not search the property.
The next day the police returned and discovered Ms Stubbings' body in a downstairs toilet.
Ms Stubbings' daughter, Celia Peachey, said: "I know that the police can't save every woman who's a victim of domestic violence but there were so many missed chances to save my mum.
"She was crying out for help and was led to believe it was on its way. But it never materialised and she was left isolated and in fear of her life.
"As for my little brother, we're lucky he's alive. He was in the house with our mum's body hidden under a pile of coats in a downstairs toilet, and our mum's killer, who was following him round in case he found her."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, she said her mother had been at high risk and Essex police knew Chivers was a convicted murderer.
"The failings and errors by Essex police are monumental," she said.
"Since my mother's death there has been more murders in the same jurisdiction and that's why we are calling for a public inquiry."
Her brother, Bengi, who was 15 at the time of the killing, told BBC Radio 5 live that prior to the assault, he had not been aware of any issues between the couple.
"Marc was like a friend to me. I never saw any signs of violence," he said.
But after the assault and Chivers' spell in prison, he said the police showed "no sense of duty".
"I find it hard to understand why they didn't protect me or my mum," he said.
"They clearly knew there was a massive danger as he'd previously murdered in Germany and come here and done the same thing and assaulted her.
"They failed to act and I find that disgusting."
The family is asking the public to support their call for a public inquiry by signing an e-petition.
Stephen Kavanagh, chief constable of Essex, told BBC Radio 5 live the true tragedy was "much of what took place was foreseeable".
Three officers identified in the report as having failed in their duties had been subject to "management action", he said, and the force had taken on board the report's findings.
"There is exactly as described a catalogue of errors both individual and organisational that let Ms Stubbings down at the moment she most needed the police.
"But victims do need to know that we are continuing to change, call handling has changed, the way we use intelligence has changed, my commitment to work with other agencies so that women feel they can pull themselves out of those violent relationships is absolute."
Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex, Nick Alston, said domestic abuse was the only specific area of focus in his police and crime plan.
"In Essex, over 80 domestic abuse incidents are reported to police every single day," he said.
"Whilst there are individual examples of good and professional work, the police response to domestic abuse incidents both in Essex and across the country needs to be better than it was or currently is."
He added that he would welcome any efforts to further develop a national best practice for police forces and partner agencies on tackling domestic abuse.
Domestic violence charity Refuge has backed the call for the home secretary to launch a public inquiry.
Chief executive Sandra Horley said there had been two other fatal domestic violence cases in Essex since Ms Stubbings was murdered.
In 2011, Christine Chambers was murdered with her two-year-old daughter, Shania, and in the same year Jeanette Goodwin was stabbed to death by an ex-boyfriend.
"Every week in this country two women are killed as a result of domestic violence," Ms Horley said. "That's two women too many."
Chief Constable Carmel Napier from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said one man every 17 days was murdered by their current or former partner and the statistics for all domestic violence were "too high".
"The police service has committed significant resources and taken action to try to reduce this number as well as protecting people who face abuse of any form at the hands of a partner or family member.
"This has had a positive impact with a 65% increase in the volume of domestic abuse prosecutions from 2005/6 to 2011/12 and a corresponding 99% increase in the volume of defendants convicted."
All agencies could still do more to protect people from domestic abuse, she added.
Chivers was given a whole life sentence for Ms Stubbings' murder at Chelmsford Crown Court in December 2009.


Wales captain Sam Warburton will have surgery on a fractured cheekbone and faces a race to be fit for the Test against Australia on 5 November.

The 27-year-old suffered the injury in a clash of heads with Josh van der Flier during Cardiff Blues' 13-16 defeat by Leinster on Saturday.
Warburton will have a small plate inserted in his face. The Blues say he will be out for two to four weeks.
Wales play Australia, Argentina, Japan and South Africa in November.
"It's disappointing for Sam," said Blues backs coach Matt Sherratt.
"He was getting a run of games and getting into some form, so I'm disappointed for him.
"It's not too serious and as far as the Blues are concerned it's chance for someone else to come in and start some games."
Sherratt will be part of Rob Howley's Wales coaching team this season.
Warburton's injury is believed to be similar to one suffered by Dan Lydiate during the 2016 World Cup.
The Ospreys flanker missed only one match - the 15-6 loss to Australia - before returning to play in the quarter final against South Africa.
However, the surgery adds to a back row injury headache for Howley, who is in the Wales role while head coach Warren Gatland takes charge of the British and Irish Lions.
Lydiate has not played yet this season after undergoing surgery on a shoulder in June, while number eight Taulupe Faletau has been out since injuring knee ligaments on his Premiership debut for Bath on 3 September.


Ni fydd ysgol newydd yn Y Bala yn cael ei ddynodi'n ysgol Eglwys yng Nghymru yn dilyn penderfyniad gan gabinet Cyngor Gwynedd.

Roedd cynlluniau i agor ysgol eglwysig wedi achosi ffrae yn lleol, gyda nifer yn galw am ddynodi'r ysgol fel un cymunedol.
Mae'r gwaith yn parhau i adeiladu'r campws newydd gwerth £10m i blant 3-19 oed ar safle presennol Ysgol y Berwyn.
Ddydd Mawrth, fe wnaeth cabinet y cyngor bleidleisio'n unfrydol dros dynnu'r statws eglwysig oddi ar yr ysgol.
Dywedodd cynghorwyr y bydd argymhelliad am ddynodiad yr ysgol yn cael ei wneud ym mis Medi.
Y cynllun yw uno dwy o ysgolion cynradd y dref, sef Ysgol Bro Tegid ac Ysgol Beuno Sant - sy'n ysgol eglwysig - gyda'r ysgol uwchradd.
Ond bu gwrthwynebiad mawr ym mhum plwy Penllyn i'r bwriad i ddynodi'r ysgol newydd yn ysgol eglwysig, ac fe wnaeth 500 o bobl arwyddo deiseb yn gwrthwynebu'r dynodiad.
Ym mis Chwefror gofynnodd Cyngor Gwynedd am farn corff llywodraethol chwech o ysgolion dalgylch Y Bala ynglŷn â'r statws, ac roedden nhw'n unfrydol eu barn am dynnu'r statws eglwysig a chael statws cymunedol.
Roedd cabinet Cyngor Gwynedd wedi cael eu hargymell y dylid tynnu'r statws eglwysig yn ôl.


A man has been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of another man in Derby.

Satnam Singh, 74, was found with serious injuries on Coronation Street in the early hours of 23 July.
Mr Singh, a Sikh volunteer who was a community leader, died later in hospital.
The man, 34, from Derby, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and was released on police bail.
He was found injured on Friday morning near the Sikh temple where he worked as a volunteer.
Detectives are trying to trace a dark hatchback car seen in the area.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died from head and chest injuries "consistent with being hit by a vehicle", Derbyshire Police said.


Outgoing Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard says he regrets never winning the Premier League title.

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Gerrard, 34, plays his last game at Anfield on Saturday, against Crystal Palace, before joining Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy in June.
"It is not the only regret, I think it is the biggest," former England skipper Gerrard told Football Focus.
"I would love to say that I have got the full collection, it would be the icing on the cake."
Having made more than 700 appearances over 17 seasons, Gerrard ends his association with the Reds this summer, admitting his exit has "happened maybe slightly quicker" than he thought.
Last season, Liverpool could have clinched their first title since 1990 but fell two points short of eventual champions Manchester City, with Gerrard's slip against Chelsea contributing to a 2-0 defeat.
"You are always going to have incredible moments and you are also going to have some cruel lows as well," said Gerrard.
"I also look at other FA Cup finals that I have missed out on and the second Champions League final in 2007.
"Nobody's journey ever goes smoothly, mine certainly hasn't, but I am certainly proud of it and I wouldn't change it for anything."
Gerrard, who has signed an 18-month deal to play in the USA, leaves Liverpool having won the Champions League, Uefa Cup, two FA Cups and three League Cups.
"I think it will be emotional. I think it will be worst at the end of the game," added Gerrard, who is scheduled to play his final game for Liverpool at Stoke on Sunday, 24 May.
"I realise that come the end of the game when it is time to say goodbye to the supporters for the last time the emotions are going to kick in for real.
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"I have never been in this situation before so I don't really know what it is going to be like.
"I want to try and manage it, try and control it but I also want the opportunity to say thanks to the people who have supported me for a long time."
You can watch the full interview on Football Focus on Saturday, 16 May from 12:10-12:50 on BBC One.


The pound saw its best day's gain in more than eight years against the dollar on Tuesday, helped by rising inflation and the Prime Minister Theresa May's major speech on Brexit.

Official figures showed inflation rose to 1.6%, a level that may usher in higher interest rates.
That boosted sterling and Mrs May's speech spurred on that rally.
Its best move was against the dollar, against which it closed in London trade up almost 3% at $1.2392.
Dealers said that rise, which was the best for the pound since October 2008, had been helped by a weakening dollar.
Nevertheless the pound gained strongly against all major tradeable currencies, including notching up a 1.8% rise against the euro to reach 1.157 euros.
According to Thomson Reuters data, the pound had its best day's gain against a basket of major currencies since 1998.
The pound has been hammered by dealers since the Brexit vote in June last year and remains 16% below its level of $1.47 the day before the referendum.
Also on Tuesday, the benchmark FTSE 100 share index, which was already in negative territory for the day, fell further to stand 1.46% lower at 7220.38.
In her speech, Mrs May said the UK would leave the EU's single market, but stressed that it would seek new international trade opportunities and be open to global trade.
The pound had already made gains in early trading on Tuesday, but surged as a result of the prime minister's speech.
"News that the Brexit deal will be put to a Parliamentary vote has seen sterling rocket, as have assurances from [Mrs] May of Britain's global intentions," said Dennis de Jong, managing director at online foreign exchange broker UFX.com.
"While the announcement that Britain will leave the single market isn't what traders wanted to hear, it doesn't come as a shock.
"With markets bracing themselves for a worst-case scenario, the better-than-expected news in [Mrs] May's speech should help to buoy the beleaguered currency - at least for the time being."
Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the last time the pound was up so sharply against the dollar, it was also a "turbulent" time for the currency.
"If you look at both periods - October 2008 during the financial crisis, and today - there's a lot of volatility in the currency markets," he said.
The pound rose more sharply against the dollar than it did against the euro because the US currency had been weakened by remarks made by President-elect Donald Trump in the Wall Street Journal.
The dollar fell 1% against the euro and was down against most major currencies after Mr Trump said US firms could not compete with China "because our currency is too strong. And it's killing us".


Warrington have re-signed England prop Mike Cooper from NRL side St George Illawarra Dragons on a three-year contract starting from next season.

Cooper left the club to join Dragons in 2013, with an agreement to rejoin the club when he returned from Australia.
The 27-year-old played all three matches in England's home series win against New Zealand last year.
"It's great news and a great signing for the club," Warrington head coach Tony Smith said.
"It's something that we hoped for a few years ago, that Mike would eventually return to our club, but it's probably a little sooner than we thought considering how well he's done."
Warrington are currently second in the Super League table, two points behind leaders Hull FC after 17 games.


Hundreds of thousands of people have been attending a huge Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the last day of his five-day trip to Poland.

At the World Youth Day gathering, the pontiff urged young people to embrace hope and put prayer at the centre of their lives.
The event took on a carnival atmosphere with pilgrims dancing, singing and waving flags.
The visit marks the 1,050th anniversary of Poland's adoption of Christianity.
Some reports said as many as three million pilgrims, mostly young people, were at the mass, held in a vast field called the Campus Misericordiae near the southern city of Krakow.
Police declined to give an estimate of numbers.
Hundreds of thousands were seen arriving at the site on Saturday, many with tents, sleeping bags and umbrellas.
Pope Francis urged pilgrims to "believe in a new humanity" that rejected hatred and refused to use borders as barriers.
God "demands of us real courage, the courage to be more powerful than evil, by loving everyone, even our enemies", he said.
Using technological metaphors, he described negativity as a "virus infecting and blocking everything" and urged young people to put prayer and the gospel at the centre of their lives.
"Trust the memory of God: his memory is not a hard disk that saves and archives all our data, but a heart filled with tender compassion, one that finds joy in erasing in us every trace of evil," he said.
"May we too now try to imitate the faithful memory of God and treasure the good things we have received in these days."
The Pope has drawn large crowds throughout his visit.
But the highpoint is regarded as being Friday's trip to the Auschwitz death camp, where he offered a private prayer.


More than 18 months after the Trojan Horse allegations first made the headlines, the arguments over claims of a take-over of Birmingham schools are being fought out in a series of disciplinary hearings.

The claims of an organised covert attempt to impose a hardline Muslim ethos on a group of state schools emerged in a letter describing a so-called Operation Trojan Horse.
There have been investigations by the Department for Education, Ofsted and the local authority - and disputes about the plausibility of the letter. But there has never been any consensus about what really happened.
You can talk to people close to events who will say the entire story was an overblown hoax, unsubstantiated claims built up by a climate of fear about Islamic extremism. They say it's been more Salem than Birmingham, with high-achieving schools being unfairly condemned.
Or you can talk to others privately who will say that this was only the tip of the iceberg. They say teachers have been bullied and schools have been manipulated by closed groups, operating to their own religious and cultural agenda. They also suggest that this isn't only a problem for Birmingham.
Nothing so far has brought these deeply-held and contradictory views any closer.
The claims and counter-claims are now being heard in a series of misconduct hearings for 11 teachers, held under the auspices of the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL).
One of these cases has already been withdrawn. A teacher at Park View, facing claims along with others of acting in a way that could undermine "respect for the faith and belief of others", has been told he has no case to answer.
There have so far been no decisions in the remaining 10 cases, some of which will continue until mid-December.
These professional conduct panels, acting on behalf of the secretary of state, can issue "prohibition orders" banning people from teaching.
They can impose indefinite bans, or else there can be a prohibition with a time limit, so that after a specified number of years the banned person could seek permission to return to teaching.
In 2014-15 these panels heard 150 misconduct cases, with 108 leading to prohibition orders.
So what is the case being brought against these former staff?
Opening the misconduct case, Andrew Colman said this was "not about an evil plot to indoctrinate young children in extremist ideology or anything like it".
"We say the education of children in a number of schools in Birmingham was led at the instigation of a group of like-minded individuals who shared deeply held religious beliefs, sincerely held.
"We don't suggest they were malicious or ill-willed but it looked as though they believed the best way to educate the children of their community was to make them mirror their own image of what a good Muslim was."
But what is suggested is that "improper pressure" was put upon "unsympathetic" staff that they wanted to remove, that there was segregation of boys and girls, an over-emphasis on religion and a lack of tolerance towards other beliefs.
A former assistant head gave evidence that she had been isolated and excluded by the changing culture of a school. And it was claimed that jobs were being "passed around" between friends.
Exchanges on WhatsApp are claimed as revealing evidence of private prejudices. A former head of department has claimed that the use of derogatory language was not adequately challenged, including anti-semitism.
Another accusation was that pupils were told that wives had to obey husbands.
Representatives of the teachers have said the claims against them are over-simplified and lacking in context or in one case "frankly bonkers".
Some of the evidence has been given anonymously and again there has been a gulf in interpretation.
There were accusations of "excessive disciplinary punishments", including "stress positions" and pupils being left to stand in the rain.
And one of these alleged punishments was "being made to stare at bushes".
A representative of one of the teachers said "some pupils were placed in detention" and that meant "they have to look out towards bushes".
The misconduct panel has still to reach any decisions - that will emerge in the weeks and months ahead.
But even though the names of some of the schools have changed, and the control of the schools has been put into new hands, and there have been multiple inquiries, don't expect any agreement on the outcome.


A significant slice of works being carried out in a £3.65m overhaul of a Borders park is set to be completed ahead of schedule.

Construction of a new cafe and bridge is already under way at the Wilton Lodge Park in Hawick.
Agreement has now been reached to allow work to start on a new play park three months earlier than anticipated.
It should ensure that all the facilities are ready to open ahead of their target date in April next year.
The overall project completion date remains in April 2018.


The Church of England has been told to "urgently" update its approach to sexuality, during a discussion at the general synod in York.

On the second day of the synod, member Prof Joyce Hill said there was "a lot of long grass growing" in its plans.
She spoke after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the Church would spend three years on a document outlining a new stance.
Current rules ban the marriage of same-sex couples in church.
Services of blessing for civil partnerships are also prohibited, but informal prayers are allowed.
The re-drawn plan follows the synod's rejection of a previous document on sexuality at its meeting in February.
It would be based on what the Church has called "radical inclusion founded in scripture", the archbishop said.
The Church's future policy on sexuality will be decided by two committees: one to consider the ministry the Church offers to same-sex couples; and one to consider its theological teaching.
Prof Hill questioned whether Mr Welby and his fellow bishops were aware of the "great importance" of the matter.
During a question and answer session, she asked: "Are the bishops sufficiently aware of the urgency of this issue?
"The issue is one which is of great importance to the nation; great importance to the relationship between the Church of England and the nation.
"I am very concerned that there's a lot of long grass growing in the programme that is being put before us."
He said: "We believe very firmly that a timescale of two-and-a-half to three years both does justice to the depth and range of the questions that need to be addressed... and to the need to begin to draw some conclusions for the Church.
"This clearly will not satisfy everyone, but already to do a document of this size in such a time is a remarkably short period to attempt a process."
It came as the synod voted in favour of a motion calling for "conversion therapy" - aimed at altering a gay person's sexual orientation - to be banned by the government.
The private member's motion gave the Church's support to a 2015 statement by the Royal College of Psychiatrists which said the practice "had no place in the modern world".
Christian gay rights campaigner Jayne Ozanne, who introduced the motion, told the synod: "Conversation therapy is harmful, dangerous and just doesn't work.
"People may be able to alter their behaviour but they can never alter their innate desire."
During the debate, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, said the sooner the practice was banned, the sooner "I can sleep at night".
The synod - the governing body of the Church - is currently holding a four-day meeting in York.


A series of transfer tests for primary seven children began in Northern Ireland on Saturday.

Thirty-four grammar schools hosted the Association of Quality Education (AQE) exams for 7,285 pupils.
This year, there are more pupils than ever taking the unregulated tests.
Northern Ireland's Department of Education abolished academic selection with the final official 11-plus test held in 2008.
However, many grammar schools use unregulated transfer tests to select pupils.
There are two unofficial replacement systems for the 11-plus in operation.
The single, multiple choice GL Assessment is used mostly by Catholic schools and the AQE  sets a different exam for other schools.
The GL test will be held next week. The number sitting that examination has also increased, to 7,255. That test is free.
There is a charge of Â£45 for the AQE test, but pupils who get free school meals are exempt.
Attempts to create a single examination have failed.