Egypt has sentenced 51 people to two years each in prison for protesting against a decision last month to cede two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

There were 33 defendants present in the Cairo courtroom to hear the verdicts, while the rest were out on bail.
Family and friends of the defendants cried in shock outside the courthouse, reports said.
The decision to hand over the islands to Saudi Arabia sparked a backlash among many Egyptians.
It was made by Egyptian president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi during a rare visit by Saudi Arabia's King Salman, during which the Saudi king announced plans for aid and investment in Egypt.
Critics says President Sisi "sold" the uninhabited islands, Tiran and Sanafir, in return for the investments.
Saudi-Egyptian island deal sparks anger
But the Egyptian government maintains that the islands always belonged to Saudi Arabia, and were only being looked after by Egypt since the 1950s.
Both secular and Islamist activists called for people to demonstrate against the transfer of the islands.
Police dispersed the protests in April, arresting dozens of people, many of whom were later charged with participation in illegal rallies.
Mr Sisi has faced increasing criticism in recent months on a range of issues, including Egypt's lacklustre economy.
The president, a former army general, previously enjoyed broad support after winning the election in 2014, but has faced increasing discontent.


Former tennis star Bob Hewitt has been granted bail by a South African court, after receiving a six-year prison sentence for raping underage girls.

Victims reacted angrily to the judge's decision in the Pretoria High Court to extend bail pending an appeal hearing on 19 June.
The former Grand Slam champion will now be placed under house arrest.
Hewitt, 75, was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting girls he coached in the 1980s and 1990s.
Judge Bert Bam criticised the Australian-born player at his sentencing on Monday for not showing remorse during his trial.
He said justice must be seen to be done, even for ageing offenders.
One of the victims who gave evidence at the trial said that Hewitt had assaulted her when she was just 12 years old.
The judge said at the time of Hewitt's conviction that the striking similarities between the three victims' testimonies showed that his conduct was calculated.
Speaking at the sentencing hearing in Pretoria, Hewitt's wife Delaille had begged the court to show mercy and not award a custodial sentence.
Hewitt had testified that he suffered from poor health.
The BBC's Nomsa Maseko, in Johannesburg, says the tennis champion has also been ordered to pay a fine to the South African Department of Justice, which will help fund its campaigns against sexual abuse.
Hewitt's lawyers say they will appeal against his conviction and sentence.
He was suspended from the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012 over the allegations of sexual abuse.
Hewitt played initially for Australia, later moving to South Africa and taking citizenship there.
He was a member of the South African team which won the Davis Cup by default in 1974.
India, their opponents, refused to travel to South Africa for the final as a protest over the government's apartheid policies.


Long queues have formed outside the Israeli parliament as people pay their respects to former Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres.

The body of Mr Peres, who died on Wednesday aged 93, is lying in state ahead of his funeral on Friday.
A huge security operation is under way for the ceremony in Jerusalem which will be attended by world leaders including US President Barack Obama.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he also plans to attend.
Thousands of Israelis passed by Mr Peres's coffin outside the Knesset (parliament) throughout the day to pay their respects.
"It's important that my children understand and respect what this man did, his values, his love for Israel, his want for peace," said Marielle Halimi, who waited outside for more than an hour to file past the coffin with her three children.
Earlier, Israeli leaders including President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed wreaths in a solemn ceremony.
Former US President Bill Clinton also travelled directly to the Knesset in Jerusalem after flying into Tel Aviv.
Mr Clinton helped to broker the 1993 Oslo peace accords for which Mr Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize the following year along with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Mr Clinton referred to Mr Peres as his "brilliant friend".
Mr Abbas said that by attending Friday's funeral he wanted to "send a strong message to Israeli society that the Palestinians are for peace, and appreciate the efforts of peaceful men like Shimon Peres", a senior Palestinian official said.
The Palestinian delegation will include chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and security chief Majid Faraj.
Other leaders set to attend include UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Mr Peres was one of the last of a generation of politicians present at Israel's birth in 1948.
He suffered a stroke two weeks ago and died on Wednesday in a hospital near Tel Aviv.
The funeral ceremony will be held at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem.


Tesco will close its six remaining Homeplus stores with the loss of up to 450 jobs.

Britain's largest retailer said stores in Bristol, Bracknell, Nottingham, Denton, Bromborough and Preston will close next month.
Six Homeplus stores, which sold clothing, electrical goods and furniture, were included in 43 store closures Tesco revealed in January.
Tesco will try to offer affected workers alternative roles, it said.
"We've taken the difficult decision to close our remaining six Homeplus stores. Our priority is now to explain what this announcement means for our colleagues and wherever possible, offer them alternative roles with Tesco," said a spokesman for the retailer.
Chief executive Dave Lewis is cutting costs and closing and selling parts of the Tesco empire in the wake of stiffer competition from cheaper rivals such as Aldi and Lidl.
Tesco reported the worst results in its history with a record pre-tax loss of Â£6.4bn for the year to the end of February.
The supermarket giant is still being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after it overstated its half-year profit forecast last August by Â£263m.


Ferrari set the fastest lap for the second time in four days as the first pre-season test came to an end.

Kimi Raikkonen was 0.897 seconds quicker than Red Bull's Max Verstappen at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Lewis Hamilton did not run after Mercedes discovered an electrical problem with the car, while team-mate Valtteri Bottas was eighth-fastest.
Williams were unable to test because of damage done to their car in a crash by rookie Lance Stroll on Wednesday.
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A chassis needed repairing after the 18-year-old Canadian spun into the barriers in his third off-track moment in two days.
Williams said they "aimed to be back on track" for the start of the second and final test on Tuesday.
Mercedes were afflicted by reliability problems for the first time in what has been an otherwise impressive first test, with the team stopping Bottas early when it discovered an anomaly in the computer data.
Englishman Jolyon Palmer continued what has been an encouraging first test for Renault with the third fastest time.
"I am driving with such a big smile on my face because the car feels so nice to drive," Palmer said. "Everything at the moment is pointing in a good direction."
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The final day of the first test was intended for teams to try out a new range of wet tyres designed by Pirelli after criticisms last year.
Drivers had asked for changes to the 'extreme' tyre, used in the heaviest rain, because it was too prone to aquaplaning.
Haas driver Romain Grosjean said there had been "a lot of progress made from last year" but said the 'intermediate' tyre "got destroyed a bit too early, so some work is to be done".
Stroll, who is making his debut in F1 this season, is bringing considerable financial backing to Williams - said to be at least £20m this year.
That is in addition to a similar amount last year, when the team provided him with an extensive test programme in a two-year-old car at circuits around the world to prepare him for his debut.
But he has had a torrid introduction to F1 in Spain this week.
On Tuesday, his first day in the 2017 Williams car, Stroll crashed at the high-speed Turn Nine after just 12 laps and damaged the front wing.
Williams had to stop running for the day while the wing was sent back to their base in Oxfordshire for repairs and a new one was flown out for Wednesday.
Stroll then completed 100 laps before crashing again at Turn Six.
Williams engineering chief Rob Smedley said Stroll had been caught out by the lack of grip on cold tyres.
"Lance was out on cold tyres, on an out-lap with a lot of fuel in the car, and the tyre stepped away from him," Smedley said.
"He was an innocent victim of that happening and what should have been an innocuous sideways moment brought him around into the barrier and did some damage. That happens and we expect it to happen, there is no blame on his part."
The second and final pre-season test runs from 7-10 March, with the first race of the season in Australia on 24-26 March.
1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:20.872 *
2 Max Verstappen (Ned) Red Bull 1:21.769 *
3 Jolyon Palmer (GB) Renault 1:21.778 *
4 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Haas 1:22.309 **
5 Antonio Giovinazzi (Ita) Sauber 1:22.401 ***
6 Sergio Perez (Mex) Force India 1:22.534 **
7 Stoffel Vandoorne (Bel) McLaren 1:22.576 ***
8 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Mercedes 1:23.443 *
9 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Renault 1:24.974 *
10 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Toro Rosso no time
Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz, Williams' Felipe Massa and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton did not run.
* time set on soft tyres;
** time set on super-soft tyres
*** ultra-soft tyres


Indian messenger app Hike has won fresh money from investors and a key partner from China.

The latest investment round now sees the company, a rival to Whatsapp, valued at $1.4bn (Â£767m).
China's Tencent and Taiwan's Foxconn were the biggest investors in the latest cash injection.
The tie-up with Tencent - the company behind China's messenger giant WeChat - is seen as key to expanding the range of services on Hike.
Hike is a messenger app similar to many others, offering services such as messaging, voice calls and stickers.
But the Indian app has won over many customers by including features catering to local demands such as higher privacy and the ability to send messages to be received as SMS texts.
Given that many mobile phone users in India do not yet have data on their phones, the feature is a crucial advantage over competitors such as Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger.
The link with China's Tencent as investor is expected to go beyond mere investment and involve  collaboration on technology and knowledge.
Judging by the example that the Chinese giant set with WeChat in China, it is likely to set Hike on its way to become an all-in-one app.
WeChat in China offers just about everything from messaging to calling, mobile games, food deliveries and online shopping.
Hike already offers mobile games, news services, stickers and coupons.
"This shows you that messaging - even in India - can become a gateway to content services," Hike founder and chief executive Kavin Bharti Mittal told the BBC. "So expect us to double down on that path."
The company already has plans to integrate a payment platform into its services.
It is not Tencent's first foray into the Indian market. An attempt to launch their own WeChat app a few years ago was not very successful, despite significant marketing efforts.
Hike was originally a joint project between Bharti and Softbank and has rapidly developed into a success story across India.
The latest round of investments has added some $175m in funding with the majority coming from Tencent and Foxconn.
The new money raised has lifted the company's value to what's referred to as "unicorn" status  - start-ups valued at more than $1bn.
Existing investors in the app, including Softbank, Bharti Enterprise and Tiger Global, also contributed to the latest cash injection.
Market leader Whatsapp says it has some 100 million active users in India. In January, Hike said it had more than 100 million registered users, although the number of active users might differ from that figure.


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The design team behind London's Olympic Park has been been given the task of drawing up detailed plans to regenerate an historic Aberdeen city centre park.

LDA Design has been chosen to breathe new life into Union Terrace Gardens.
Four years ago, councillors rejected plans for a Â£140m transformation of the gardens. Businessman Sir Ian Wood had offered Â£50m towards the cost.
A city centre masterplan, agreed by councillors last year, will be used as a blueprint by the designers.
It suggests that the gardens could be used to stage year-round events and historic arches could house shops, cafes and artists' studios.
It also outlines plans to improve access by providing lifts, ramps and new stairs.
LDA Design said the gardens could have an activity area for children, a horticultural hotspot, a cultural hub, and open air exhibitions and performances.
Project director Kirstin Taylor said: "The city centre masterplan provides a powerful vision to set Aberdeen apart on the global stage and the gardens have a huge part to play.
"The masterplan attracted lots of positive local engagement which we want to harness. We see the community's ongoing participation as key to the gardens' success.
"Union Terrace Gardens have great beauty and charm, and can be revitalised in a way that completely respects and enhances their 19th century heritage.
"They can offer traditional park enjoyment alongside new ideas and uses, and LDA Design is experienced in securing this kind of careful balance."


The Rev Sun Myung Moon founded the Unification Church, regarded by its critics as a dangerous cult.

Its followers, popularly known as Moonies, were once a regular sight on high streets around the world.
Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church is best known through events like its mass weddings, where thousands of couples are married at the same time, having only just met their lifetime partner.
Born in what is now North Korea in 1920, Moon claimed that God had chosen him to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. He founded the church in 1954, claiming he was the New Messiah.
His adherents, shared their leader's strong belief in marriage and his hatred of communism.
They were often to be seen selling peanuts and flowers to raise money for the church, which was constantly accused of brainwashing its members, breaking up families and lining the pockets of its leader - allegations which were fiercely denied.
There is no doubt, though, that Moon was a very wealthy man. He owned large and lavish properties in the United States, founded the Washington Times newspaper and ran arms factories in South Korea.
But the Reverend Moon guarded his wealth, eventually criminally. Convicted of massive tax evasion in the 1982, he swapped his sharp suits for prison uniform, spending 11 months behind bars.
On his release, he joined with other American churches to campaign for religious freedom.
He was outspoken in his beliefs. "God is living in me and I am the incarnation of himself," Moon told one interviewer. "The whole world is in my hand and I will conquer and subjugate the world."
Not everyone was impressed with Moon's sentiments and, in 1995, the British government barred him from entering the United Kingdom.
In May 2001 the Unification Church pulled off a remarkable coup, marrying a Roman Catholic Archbishop, Emmanuel Milingo, to a South Korean bride in a ceremony in New York City.
The Vatican was outraged but, before he recanted and returned to Rome in disgrace, Archbishop Milingo provided valuable publicity for Moon's organisation.
Two years later, Moon provoked outrage when, in a sermon, he condoned the Holocaust because it was the Jews' payment for killing Jesus.
Sun Myung Moon's fervent speeches brought him followers around the world but the debate, as to whether he was truly a great spiritual leader, or a confidence trickster who fleeced the gullible on a global scale, will continue.


The decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to "terminate" charges against Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto and a co-accused radio journalist effectively brings to an end the international efforts to pursue justice for the victims of violence that followed the country's disputed elections in 2007.

More than a thousand people died and half a million were forced to flee their homes during inter-ethnic clashes driven by fierce political rivalries and the pursuit of power.
The ICC's decision - a majority decision made by two of the three judges - will come as a blow to the victims of the violence and their families, who want to know the truth behind what happened, who was responsible - and to claim compensation.
"This ruling does not mean the violence didn't occur, it does not mean that the victims do not exist," said Nelly Warega, a human rights lawyer who represents some of the victims.
"We have been looking up to the ICC and hoping that the victims were going to acquire justice after what they went through. This is a huge disappointment for us."
But she still had hope that the case, which is going through the Kenyan courts, could still bring justice, even though it looks like "that light is dwindling and looks very dim right now."
"What we are working towards is compensation for them," added Ms Warega, who is with the Kenyan branch of the International Commission of Jurists.
The pain and the tribal rifts are still felt, as nobody has yet been held accountable for fomenting the violence which was widely seen as having been organised rather than spontaneous.
The ICC is known as "the court of last resort" and in 2011, after investigating the post-election violence, its then prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo indicted six people on charges of crimes against humanity for their alleged role in the violence - among them the men that shortly afterwards went on to become president and deputy president.
Mr Ruto appeared in court first - in 2013. President Uhuru Kenyatta became the first standing head of state to appear at the ICC in the Hague in 2014, but charges against him and three others were dropped later that same year.
The prosecution said witnesses had been bribed and intimidated, and the Kenyan government refused to hand over documents that could have been used in evidence.
Two cases remained - that of Mr Ruto and his co-accused, Kenyan radio executive Joshua arap Sang.
The prosecution claimed it faced a similar challenge over witness interference, but in February the court denied its request to allow the use of evidence which had been collected by witnesses before they changed or withdrew their testimony.
On Tuesday, two of the three ICC judges agreed with Mr Ruto's lawyers that there was not enough evidence for the case to continue.
"On the basis of the evidence and arguments submitted to the chamber, Presiding Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji and Judge Robert Fremr, as the majority, agreed that the charges are to be vacated and the accused are to be discharged," a statement from the ICC said.
Judge Fremr said there was simply not "sufficient evidence on which a reasonable trial chamber could convict the accused".
The presiding judge declared it should be classed as a mistrial because "the weaknesses in the prosecution case might be explained by the... tainting of the trial process by way of witness interference and political meddling that was reasonably likely to intimidate witnesses".
Judge Herrera Carbuccia disagreed, believing there was still a case to answer.
In 2013, Kenyan journalist Walter Barasa was charged with "attempting to corruptly influence a prosecution witness", after the new chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, alleged he was part of a network of people close to the Kenyan presidency that was trying to undermine the investigation. Two people have been indicted for influencing witnesses.
The prosecution is allowed to appeal against Tuesday's ruling, and it will not prevent a new prosecution in the future if more evidence emerges.
Kenyan High Court advocate Saitabao Ole Kanchory said the process was "bungled" by the ICC, which did not do its own investigation, instead depending on evidence gathered by a third party.
"I think the ICC will have to do some soul searching and the Kenya case has exposed the underbelly of the court," he said.
"It is supposed to be this all powerful court set up by the powers of the world, but it has shown it is powerless.
"If there was a case of witnesses being intimidated they should take the necessary steps against those people - the court has the power to do that."
It is a huge blow to the ICC, which has been criticised for focusing most of its attention on Africa.
It also shows the difficulties of attempting to build a case against a sitting president or deputy president.
Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto were on different sides in the lead up to the 2007 elections.
Mr Kenyatta, an ethnic Kikuyu, was supporting incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, while Mr Ruto, a Kalenjin, was backing opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is from the Luo community.
It is not known who actually won the election, but the Kenyan electoral commission backed Mr Kibaki's claims of victory, and the violence followed his hasty inauguration.
Those in Kikuyu regions were targeted first.
Dozens of people - mostly women and children - were locked inside a church and burned alive on New Year's Day.
Retaliation led to a downward spiral of violence as people from the different ethnicities turned on each other.
Mr Kenyatta was accused in a report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) of attending meetings in early 2008 to plan for retaliatory violence by his Kikuyu community.
Mr Ruto faced three separate charges of crimes against humanity, as the ICC accused him of being a "principal planner and organiser of crimes" against supporters of Mr Kibaki.
Two months after the violence began, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's mediation efforts led to a power-sharing agreement between Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga, and they formed a coalition government.
Once bitter rivals but united against the ICC charges, Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto campaigned together in the last election to form the Jubilee Coalition, which is still in power.
President Kenyatta issued a statement welcoming the ruling.
"This moment is long overdue but no less joyful. I join my brothers in celebrating their moment of justice," he said.
"The victory in this matter is partial and the quest for justice incomplete, because the International Criminal Court elected to blindly pursue ill-conceived, defective agenda at the expense of accountability," he added.
The dropping of charges against Mr Ruto levels the political playing field, but it is hard to predict what impact that will have on the complex Kenyan political arena in the lead up to the next election.


Caledonian MacBrayne and the RMT union are due to hold talks in an effort to resolve a dispute over job security and pensions.

Two thirds of state-owned CalMac's ferry services were cancelled on Friday during a 24-hour strike by RMT members.
The dispute centres on concerns that Clyde and Hebrides ferry routes could be taken over by private firm Serco.
The RMT wants the Scottish government's new contract to guarantee job security and pensions.


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking his pro-trade message directly to Americans.

Mr Trudeau emphasised the benefits of Canada-US trade on jobs and the economy in an interview with NBC News.
It is a well-worn message for Mr Trudeau, but one he is keen to promote before North American Free Trade Agreement talks launch.
Mr Trudeau spoke to the network from New York as he attended Canadian show Come From Away on Broadway.
The musical production is based on the true story of how the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, welcomed some 7,000 air travellers stranded in the days after the 9/11 terror attacks when the US closed its airspace.
It recently opened in New York City after a successful run in Canada, and its heart-warming storyline was the perfect medium to help transmit Mr Trudeau's message of the importance of the longstanding ties between the two countries.
In remarks before the show, Mr Trudeau said: "We have a friendship between our two countries that are like no other".
His press secretary said on Thursday that "we embrace the opportunity to highlight how we are there for each other in times of need".
The audience on Wednesday was filled with political glitterati, included Ivanka Trump as a guest, who sat near to UN ambassador Nikki Haley and Mr Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau during the evening's entertainment.
Mr Trudeau and Ms Trump had met previously when she helped host a summit on women business leaders and entrepreneurs when the Canadian prime minister visited Washington earlier this year.
Mr Trudeau told NBC's Tom Brokaw that there is an opportunity to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in trade talks.
US President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate Nafta, a 1994 trade deal that includes Canada and Mexico.
In February, the president said the trade relationship between the two countries only needed "tweaking" - a word Mr Trudeau clearly remembers.
"(Nafta) has led to a lot of great jobs for a whole lot of people on both sides of the border and I very much take him at his word when he talks about just making a few tweaks," he told the network. "Because that's what we're always happy to do."
Trade relations with the US are crucial for Canada and Mr Trudeau and his ministers have repeatedly hammered home statistics over the past few months that underscore the importance of Canada to American commerce.
Nearly nine million US jobs depend on trade and investment from Canada, while Canada is the top customer for 35 US states.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is expected to trigger notification to the US Congress to start the Nafta renegotiation by the end of March.


Britain's Jamie Murray and Australian John Peers reached their second Grand Slam semi-final in a row with a dramatic win at the US Open.

The Wimbledon finalists beat fourth seeds Marcin Matkowski and Nenad Zimonjic 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4).
Eighth seeds Murray and Peers will now face Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey or Leonardo Mayer and Joao Sousa.
Briton Dom Inglot and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden will play their quarter-final on Wednesday.
Inglot and Lindstedt meet sixth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea, the only pair left in the draw who are ranked higher than Murray and Peers.
"The guys that are left in are all top teams, so I don't really think the seedings play that much of a part," said 29-year-old Murray.
"We got to the final of Wimbledon and it was a great run for us - I guess you get that hunger to do it again, and a couple of months later we've got the chance to get back to the final."
Murray has one Grand Slam title to his name having won the 2007 Wimbledon mixed doubles with Jelena Jankovic.
He and 27-year-old Peers, ranked 15th and 14th in the world respectively, had their best result together when they reached the Wimbledon final, losing to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
They came through a tight quarter-final on the Grandstand court, with one break apiece in the first two sets before dominating the decisive tie-break.


Sam Bailey says her face is "numb" and "a bit frightening", days after revealing she has Bell's Palsy.

The X Factor winner confirmed she is suffering from the illness a week ago, tweeting that she was "feeling very sorry" for herself.
The NHS says the condition "causes temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles in one side of the face".
However, Sam has told BBC 1's Saturday Kitchen that it is not stopping her living her life to the full.
She joked: "I went out trick-or-treating for Halloween, I didn't have to wear a mask cause obviously my face is a bit frightening."
Sam has been keeping her 370,000 Twitter followers updated on how she has been coping throughout the week.
She said the left side of her face was "numb" when she posted a make-up free picture of herself with her baby girl on Monday.
Sam tweeted on Friday that she felt like her condition was improving.
The  mum-of-three said she has had a busy time, nearly a year on since winning The X Factor.
She secured a record deal and was lined up to support Beyonce during her UK arena tour dates
Sam never got to actually meet the singer though and said in the past she was "gutted". She told Saturday Kitchen it was still an "amazing experience".
Things could have been very different for Sam who originally wanted to be a professional footballer.
"I played football for many clubs when I was younger," she explained. "Singing was my passion and I had to make a choice and I think I made the right one."
The former prison officer insists "the fame thing" has not changed her.
"I just wear a bit more make-up and nicer clothes. I still go out shopping, I still do the school run. I still live in my little house," she said.
"All that's different is everyone knows who I am."
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Colchester United have signed former Watford defender Lloyd Doyley.

The 33-year-old was a free agent having left Rotherham after playing three games for the Championship club towards the end of last season.
Doyley won nine caps for Jamaica between 2013 and 2014 and played more than 400 times for Watford in the Championship and Premier League.
Doyley, whose contract length has not been disclosed, won promotion to the top flight with the Hornets in 2006.
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This American student is top of the class when it comes to impersonating future US president Donald Trump.

20 January 2017 Last updated at 08:08 GMT
He goes to a school in Freeland, Pennsylvania, that's mostly Trump supporters - but he's not actually one himself!
He started doing impressions after dressing up as Trump for Halloween.
Watch him do a school announcement in the unique style of Donald Trump.


Cladding from three tower blocks in Newport have failed further fire safety tests carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Tests of the 11-storey blocks of flats at Milton Court, Hillview and Greenwood showed the wall systems "did not adequately resist the spread of fire".
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) tests said they were below the current building regulations guidance.
Newport City Homes says it is "focused" on "making sure residents are safe".
The Newport tower blocks are among more than 100 buildings that have failed the latest fire safety tests set up after the fire in London on June 14.
At least 80 people died in the Grenfell fire and the UK Government demanded urgent fire tests on all tower blocks.
Cladding at four Swansea tower blocks in Clyne Court, Sketty and Jefferys Court in Penlan, which initially failed tests, have been declared safe.
Milton Court in Ringland, Hillview in the Gaer and Greenwood in St Julian's were renovated in 2015 after being part of the Â£12.5m Welsh Housing Quality Standard investment programme.
But the flats in Newport have failed a "second large-scale test" of cladding including aluminium composite material (ACM) with mineral wool insulation, the only samples to have been sent from Welsh properties.
Rockwool, the makers of the insulation, said the test does not properly assess their product.
It is suspected that ACM panels on the outside of Grenfell Tower fuelled the spread of the fatal blaze, acting as kindling once the fire took hold.
Newport City homes are "working with independent experts on a programme of work to remove and replace the cladding" and install sprinkler systems.
"The safety of our residents has always and will continue to be a priority," said NCH executive director of operations Rob Lynbeck.
"At each of our tower blocks we're introducing fire wardens who will carry out frequent inspections of the building, throughout the day and night. They will make sure that escape routes are clear and monitor the safety of the building.
"The tower blocks have a number of fire safety measures already in place including: smoke/fire alarms; fire doors; fire breaks between every floor and vertically; fire retardant paint; two stairways that act as evacuation routes; and emergency lighting."


Former Scotland captain Barry Ferguson has urged Gordon Strachan to ask Andy Murray into the Scotland dressing-room ahead of Friday's game with England.

And the head coach has told BBC Scotland that it "has been mentioned".
The Scots hope the new world number one tennis player will be at Wembley for the World Cup Group F qualifier.
"Somebody said he was going to the game on Friday - get him in to do the team meeting," Clyde manager Ferguson told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"I would love somebody like that to come in and talk.
"If you know he is going to the game on Friday, get him in, or even at the hotel - get him to come in for half an hour pre-match for a chat.
"He is the best sportsman just now and, for him to just walk through those doors, whether it be pre-match or at Wembley, what a lift that would give you."
BBC Scotland understands Murray has been invited to Wembley by the Scotland camp, but his commitments in the lead-up to the ATP World Tour Finals, which start in London on Sunday, may prevent him from taking up the offer.
Scotland assistant Mark McGhee had earlier told a media conference that "my understanding is that he is coming to the game".
BBC Scotland's Chick Young sent a text to Strachan pointing out Ferguson's idea of a Murray team-talk.
"Has been mentioned," was the reply. "Thanks anyway. Really appreciate it.
"Real disappointment is that Leigh Griffiths hasn't grown this week. See you later," Strachan added in reference to the previous comments about the Celtic striker not having the physical presence up front that the head coach requires.
Ferguson thinks that Scotland's players would be in awe of Murray even though they themselves are top sportsmen.
"If he walked in the room, I wouldn't know what to say," he admitted. "I would be nervous.
"That's a guy who hates losing and that's what we need to do on Friday, so let's get him in the dressing-room.
"You wouldn't even need a team talk if that guy walked in. The guys would just look at him and think that's what we've got to do."
Ferguson played in a 1-0 victory over England at Wembley in 1999.
Scotland failed to overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit as the English qualified for the Euro 2000 finals, but the former Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool and Rangers midfielder thinks the underdogs could win again on Friday.
"We went down there with no fear because I think they had a bit of arrogance about them and it was about how many they were going to take off us," he added.
"We knew they had better players. They had world-class players. We had good players, but we played better as a team and I think that's the way it is just now with England.
"England have world class players, but they don't play well as a team.
"So that's our chance. We have to get in their faces, play with a lot of heart and hopefully we can take something away."


A female student gang-raped on a bus in India's capital Delhi has "taken a turn for the worse" at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.

The 23-year-old arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.
"Her vital signs are deteriorating with signs of severe organ failure," hospital official Kelvin Loh said.
The attack earlier this month triggered violent public protests in India that left one police officer dead.
Six men have been arrested and two police officers have been suspended following the 16 December attack.
Doctors had earlier described the woman as "fighting for her life".
Mr Loh said in a statement that the hospital had put her on "maximum artificial ventilation support, optimal antibiotic doses as well as stimulants which maximise her body's capability to fight infections".
"Her family members have been informed that her condition has deteriorated and they are currently by her side to encourage and comfort her," he said.
"The High Commission of India is with her and her family at this critical time. Our medical team continues to provide all possible treatment and care," Mr Loh added.
On arrival at the hospital in Singapore, doctors said that as well as a "prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury".
The government has tried to halt rising public anger by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.
These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.
The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them.
The victim and her friend had been to see a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area, intending to travel to Dwarka in south-west Delhi.
Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, and both she and her companion were beaten with iron bars and thrown out of the moving bus into a Delhi street.
India's Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in a statement on Thursday that the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.
"Despite the best efforts of our doctors, the victim continues to be critical and her fluctuating health remains a big cause of concern to all of us," he said.


Police say the case in which three women are believed to have been imprisoned in a London home for more than 30 years is "unique" and is not like previous human trafficking and slavery cases encountered in London.

But it follows a number of disturbing cases of slavery, captivity and human trafficking in Britain in recent years.
Official figures on the scale of the problem come from the UK Human Trafficking Centre, part of the National Crime Agency.
In 2012, it identified 2,255 potential victims of human trafficking - an increase of 178 (9%) on 2011, according to its report.
Of these potential victims, 778 were either found to have been trafficked or were awaiting a conclusive decision on their status. Of the 778 potential victims, 402 people - or 52% - were found to have been trafficked.
The top five nationalities of those identified were Romanian, Polish, Nigerian, Vietnamese and Hungarian.
Some 71% of the potential victims were adults, while 24% were children. The age of 99 potential victims was unknown.
The two most prevalent types of exploitation reported were sexual exploitation, which accounted for 35% of the potential victims, followed by labour exploitation (23%).
Of the potential child victims, 28% reported being sexually exploited, and 24% reported criminal exploitation.
In October, Azam Khan was jailed for 12 years for assaulting, raping and holding a woman prisoner after she was snatched from Slovakia and trafficked to Lancashire.
Khan, 34, of Burnley, was said to have "bought" the vulnerable 20-year-old and "married" her at a local mosque to try to halt his deportation from the UK to Pakistan.
Five other people -  Imrich Bodor, Abdul Sabool Shinwary, Kristina Makunova and Petra Dzudzova - helped in the trafficking of the woman, who was unable to speak English or ask for help.
Prosecutor Joe Boyd at the trial in Preston Crown Court described the victim's story as like "something from a 19th Century novel by Dickens".
Also in October, a couple who trafficked a 10-year-old girl to the UK, then repeatedly raped and kept her as a servant for nearly a decade, were jailed.
Ilyas and Tallat Ashar brought the girl, who is deaf, from Pakistan and kept her at their home in Eccles, Salford, where she slept in the cellar.
Ilyas Ashar, 84, who was found guilty of 13 counts of rape, was jailed for 13 years at Manchester Crown Court.
Tallat Ashar, 68, convicted of benefit fraud and trafficking, got five years.
Judge Peter Lakin, sentencing, said the couple were "deeply unpleasant, highly manipulative and dishonest people".
In 2010, a BBC Radio 4 File on 4 programme interviewed three victims of domestic servitude.
One of them, Patience Asuquo, from Nigeria, said she was brought to London to work in the home of a solicitor, Kenny Gbaja.
She said she was promised Â£50 a week as a nanny - but was instead subjected to verbal and physical abuse over a period of three years, and was not allowed to leave the house without permission.
"I was treated like a slave, like a prisoner," she said.
Following an enquiry, Gbaja was charged with common assault and given a 12-month conditional discharge.
Section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, which came into force in 2010, created a new offence of holding another person in slavery or servitude or requiring them to perform forced or compulsory labour.
And in 2004, Parliament created a specific offence of trafficking someone into the UK for forced labour.
Former hospital director Saeeda Khan was believed to be the first person convicted under that law when a jury found her guilty of trafficking a Tanzanian woman into the country to work as her domestic slave.
Khan, 68, was ordered to pay Â£25,000 to Mwanahamisi Mruke, 47 - who was flown from Tanzania in 2006 and made to work 18-hour days for Khan, 68, at her home in Harrow, north-west London - in 2011.
The judge at Southwark Crown Court, who also gave her a suspended nine-month prison term, said she was guilty of "the most appalling greed".
Many forced labour investigations have focused on the trafficking of women in to the sex trade in the UK.
But in September 2011, police acting under Operation Netwing raided the Greenacres caravan site in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, and freed 24 people who were being held against their will in filthy and cramped conditions.
Some of the men had been held for up to 15 years, and others for just a few weeks. Some of them were from Poland, Latvia and Lithuania; others were British citizens.
The men were deemed "vulnerable" and had been recruited at soup kitchens and off the street with the promise of paid work, food and lodgings.
In May, Tommy Connors Senior, 53, was jailed for eight years and his son Patrick, 21, for five years at Luton Crown Court.
The pair had been convicted last July of servitude, compulsory labour and assault charges after a trial at the same court.
Five members of the same traveller family were all jailed in December last year.
William Connors, 52, wife Mary, 48, their sons, John, 29, and James, 20, and son-in-law Miles Connors, 24, were convicted of conspiracy to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour between April 2010 and March 2011 following a three-month trial at Bristol Crown Court.
Hungarian nationals Joszef Budai, 24, and Andrea Novak, 20, were jailed for eight years after being found guilty of trafficking young women into Britain and forcing them to work as sex slaves.
They were sentenced at Croydon Crown Court in March 2010, after being convicted of a string of trafficking and prostitution offences.
Judge Simon Pratt described the case as "the closest to human slavery as you could possibly get".
While figures detailing the total number of potential victims of human trafficking in 2013 are not yet available, a report was published this month based on National Referral Mechanism (NRM) statistics - a process used to identify trafficked individuals and provide them with protection and support.
It found that from April to June this year, 383 potential victims of trafficking  - comprising individuals from 52 countries - were referred to the NRM.
As of 1 October, 114 potential victims were found to have been trafficked, while 58 people were awaiting a 'reasonable grounds' decision and 70 people were awaiting a conclusive decision on their status.
Frank Field MP, Chair of the Modern Slavery Bill Evidence Review and Vice Chair of the Human Trafficking Foundation, called for "immediate measures" including a new Modern Slavery Bill.
"All of the evidence to date highlights the need for urgent action," he said.  "Modern slavery is alive and well in Britain, and needs to be stopped."


Two former RUC officers have been acquitted of perverting the course of justice during an RUC investigation of an IRA murder in Londonderry in 1979.

John McGahan, 71, and Philip Noel Thomson, 64, were charged after a 2012 Police Ombudsman report into the case.
Lt Stephen Kirby was shot by the IRA in February 1979.
In the late 1970s the RUC charged four teenagers with the soldier's murder. They were acquitted of the murder charges and other offences in 1998.
On Monday, the two officers charged with perverting the course of justice, in connection with their case,  appeared at the Crown Court in Belfast.
Within minutes of a jury being sworn in, a judge directed the 12 members to find the two former police officers not guilty, after the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) offered no evidence.
In December, the PPS said at the opening of men's trial that it did not intend to offer any evidence against Mr McGahan and Mr Thompson as a result of information it had received from the Police Ombudsmans office.
The PPS said the information was not available to it when a decision to prosecute the two men had been taken.
Responding on Monday to the collapse of the case the four men who were originally charged as teenagers by the RUC, said they had been failed by the PPS.
In a letter to the director of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Barra McGrory QC, they said: "The PPS spent two years reviewing the files and materials before deciding to initiate this prosecution; two more years of our lives where we were forced to sit and wait for institutions of the state to make decisions that profoundly impact on our lives.
"In this two-year period, during which the PPS reviewed, examined, analysed, sought legal advice, sought additional advice, why did the PPS not seek and examine all of the materials relating to this case?
"Why was it left to the 11th hour, once a trial date had been set, for the PPS to finally examine all the materials and then decide not to proceed?"


A man has told how he fought for his life during an attack by a psychiatric patient who was later found dead.

Khoung Lam, 42, who had been at Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, fled from his carer on 25 June 2015.
He attacked passerby David Owen and tried to choke him with a belt, an inquest in Cardiff heard.
Mr Owen struggled free, put the belt around Mr Lam's neck to "render him unconscious" and then got help. Mr Lam was found dead. The inquest continues.
The hearing was told how Mr Lam had been on an escorted shopping trip when he absconded from his carer.
He went to the Asda supermarket in Coryton in the north of the city where he managed to evade three police officers who had found him in the cafe and he "bolted" into a wooded area.
Later as window fitter Mr Owen made his way to a pub along the Taff Trail, a walking route, he passed Mr Lam.
Mr Owen told the inquest jury how he heard Mr Lam repeatedly say: "Do you want to die today? What day do you want to die?"
"I remember him just pulling (his belt) off and I was thinking I was in trouble," said Mr Owen who was 58 at the time.
"My fear was that there was no-one else around. If he overpowered me, I was in trouble."
He told the jury how he tried to escape by going down a footpath that led to the Asda supermarket.
"The man chased me, still saying 'you are going to die' or similar words," he said.
"Then just as I got to where the footpaths joined, I fell."
As he got to his feet, he said Mr Lam swung the belt and the buckle hit him on the head before putting it around his neck, the inquest heard.
Mr Owen described how he was able to pry the belt off by by pulling it over his chin, nose and forehead in three stages while they were wrestling on the floor.
Mr Owen said he was "exhausted" when he managed to take the belt, put it around Mr Lam's neck and apply pressure with "whatever strength I had left".
He said: "He had stopped hitting me on the head and I was just thinking is he going unconscious or is he faking it?
"I was just a bit scared of letting go."
As Mr Owen walked off toward Asda, he looked back and he "thought (from) the way he was slumped I feared he may have died".
He called the police from the supermarket. The jury heard how he had stopped work after the incident and had counselling.
Mr Owen was arrested but released without charge.
He told Mr Lam's family: "I feel I acted as I had to to survive. I wish I had never been there. I never wanted Khoung to die."
PC Gareth Stephenson told the inquest that after Mr Lam had been recognised at the Asda store, three officers were sent to escort him back to the hospital.
He said Mr Lam, who had a history of mental health problems and had been sectioned two weeks before his death, asked to finish his meal.
"I opened the door, I turned to him and I was going to take hold of his arm; at the point he bolted," PC Stephenson said.
The inquest continues.


Jersey were unable to repeat their stunning nine-wicket win over Hong Kong as they lost to Papua New Guinea by 24 runs at the World Twenty20 Qualifier.

Asked to bat first in their opening game, Papua New Guinea posted 145-9 in an innings which lacked fluidity.
But it turned out to be more than enough as Jersey were unable to build any partnerships of note at Bready.
Teenager Jonty Jenner top scored with 44, but the Channel Islanders were all out for 121 in the final over.
"It was disappointing to come out on the losing side, but I think there were a lot of positives to come out of today," Jenner told BBC Radio Jersey.
"Papua New Guinea got off to an absolute flyer and we managed to drag them back.
"Without making excuses for today, yesterday took quite a lot out of us emotionally. To win [against Hong Kong], we were all on a massive high and today is pretty annoying."
Fourteen teams are competing over the next fortnight for the six remaining spots at next year's World T20 in India.
The start was delayed by more than an hour because of earlier rain, and when Jersey won the toss they again chose to bowl first.
Papua New Guinea raced to 40-0 from the opening four overs, but left-arm spinner Ben Stevens stemmed the flow of runs, first dismissing opener Lega Siaka (26) who was caught at deep square leg by Corne Bodenstein, and then taking a caught and bowled chance to send Tony Ura back to the pavilion.
Jersey skipper Peter Gough kept ringing the bowling changes, giving his attack single-over spells, and successfully upset the rhythm of the innings.
Kila Pala was dropped on 17 on the boundary by Corey Bisson, but he was gone in the very next over bowled by youngster Rhys Palmer.
The majority of the PNG batsmen got starts, but they lost wickets at regular intervals, which saw them stutter to 145-9. In all Jersey used eight bowlers, with Stevens and Anthony Kay both taking 3-24.
In reply, Gough and wicketkeeper Ed Farley struggled to get the ball to the boundary in the early overs, and Gough was caught for 14 after pulling a short ball and failing to connect properly.
Sussex academy player Jenner started to find his stride at the midway point in the run chase, including a huge reverse-swept six, but he was caught by Norman Vanua off the bowling of Willia Gavera for 44 soon after.
It left the Channel Islanders needing 55 runs from the last six overs with Stevens and fellow all-rounder Nat Watkins at the crease, but they both went in quick succession and Jersey's lower order never looked equal to the task facing them and Chuggy Perchard was the last man out in the final over.
The qualifier, jointly hosted by Ireland and Scotland, is the most high-profile tournament in which Jersey have competed, having booked their place in the event by topping the ICC T20 European Division One on home turf in May.
Also in Group A, leaders Ireland made it two wins out of two, beating the United States by 46 runs at Stormont.
Top team in each group qualify automatically for World Twenty20 2016 - and semi-finals
Second, third and fourth-place teams qualify for quarter-finals, with a further four World T20 places available


Prime Minister Theresa May is to make a campaign stop in Wales as the general election campaign heads towards its close.

There are now just two days until polling day, which takes place on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron will visit the Montgomeryshire constituency.
Plaid Cymru will visit a GP surgery in Cardiff West, and Welsh Labour and UKIP will conduct local campaigning.
Theresa May has already visited Wales twice while on the campaign trail.
Her earlier visits to Bridgend and Wrexham were both in constituencies the Conservatives are hoping they can take from Labour.
Mr Farron's party will again raise concerns about the effect of leaving the EU as the Lib Dem leader plans to visit a beef and sheep farm to discuss the potential impact on the industry.
Plaid is planning to visit a doctor's surgery in Cardiff to highlight GP shortages - an issue where the responsibility lies with the Welsh Government.


The Malaysian government has released the raw data used to determine that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.

The data was first released to relatives of passengers, who have been asking for greater transparency, before copies were also provided to media.
The document released on Tuesday comprises 47 pages of data, plus notes, from British firm Inmarsat.
Flight MH370 went missing on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
There were 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on board. No trace of the aircraft has been found, nor any reason for its disappearance.
By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent, BBC News
The release document comprises long columns of numbers, including detail on the now famous "handshakes" when Inmarsat's ground network made connections with equipment on board the plane.
The last of these occurred at 00:19:38 UTC. It's a partial handshake, possibly the plane attempting to log back on to the network after a power interruption as the jet ran out of fuel.
The key numbers are the Burst Timing Offset (BTO) and the Burst Frequency Offset (BFO). The former is the time it takes for a signal sent from the ground network to reach the plane, be answered and return. It allows an arc of possible positions for the plane to be calculated.
The latter number describes the drift in the expected frequency of that signal. Combined with other data, it can be used to narrow the possible solutions on the arc.
The data is now open for scrutiny, but it would be a surprise if something new turns up. Independent teams have already assessed it and come to the same conclusion: MH370 lies somewhere far off the coast of western Australia.
The satellite data released includes the hourly "handshakes" between the plane and a communications satellite that led investigators to conclude that the plane ended its journey far off Australia.
"Inmarsat and the DCA have been working for the release of the data communication logsand the technical description of the analysis," Malaysia's civil aviation authority said in a statement.
BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos says although the data is now open for scrutiny, it would be a surprise if something new turns up.
Independent teams have already assessed it and come to the same conclusion: MH370 lies somewhere far off the coast of western Australia, he says.
American Sarah Bajc, the partner of one of the passengers, told Reuters news agency that she did not think it would take this long for the data to be released.
"When we first asked for the data it was more than two months ago. I never dreamed it would be such an obstacle to overcome," she told Reuters news agency from Beijing.
Meanwhile, a sea-bed search for the missing plane is continuing in waters far west of the Australian city of Perth.
The robotic submarine Bluefin-21, on loan from the US, is still being operated off the Australian vessel Ocean Shield.
The Bluefin-21, which can identify objects by creating a sonar map of the sea floor, restarted its mission last week after experiencing technical problems.
It is expected to leave the search area on Wednesday and return to base on 31 May, said a previous statement from Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which is leading the search.
The Bluefin-21 completed the initial search of the area where acoustic signals thought to be from flight recorders were heard without finding anything concrete.
The Australian government is now preparing for a fresh deep-sea search using commercially-contracted equipment.


It was the Lions tour that had it all - glory, drama and controversy aplenty - over the course of six memorable weeks.

In the end, a drawn series that fully pleased no-one may actually have been perversely fitting.
The Rugby Union Weekly team of former England and Lions winger Ugo Monye and BBC rugby reporter Chris Jones analysed every twist and turn of the series on the podcast during the tour.
Now, they reveal their end-of-tour awards, as discussed on the latest episode.
UM: Jonathan Davies was voted player of the series by his peers, and it's hard to disagree with this choice. Brilliant in all three Test matches, playing every minute, and was always a threat in attack and destructive in defence. Wales have dominated this award over the last three tours with Leigh Halfpenny winning it in 2013 and Jamie Roberts in 2009. Sean O'Brien, Maro Itoje, Sam Warburton and Taulupe Faletau get notable mentions.
CJ: Honourable mentions for Sean O'Brien, who until injury in the 3rd Test was a force of nature on the flank, Maro Itoje, whose energy and aura saw him become a cult hero with the Lions support, and Tadgh Furlong, who announced himself on the world stage.
But Jonathan Davies - a hero of 2013 - was wholly instrumental as the Lions unleashed an attacking edge to ally with a confrontational defence. Davies made a line break with his first touch in the first Test and was the best centre on either side across the series. On this evidence he would walk into the All Blacks side - which says a lot.
UM: Lions coach Warren Gatland walking into a press conference with a clown's nose was a stroke of genius. Clearly it was pre-planned… but by who? Whose idea was it? (Gatland said it was his)
CJ: Gnarled veteran Alun Wyn Jones leaving the pitch after the famous victory in Wellington and joining in with the Lions fans singing "Oh Maro Itoje". It was a sign of how the incredible travelling support was an inspiration to players young and old.
And how can we not mention Romain Poite….
UM: The third Test! A game which had everything, well everything bar a winner! A brilliant game played in great spirit by two fantastic sides.
CJ: The midweek meeting with the Highlanders was a roller-coaster game in front of a fervent crowd under the roof in Dunedin, but for sheer drama and jeopardy nothing can beat the Lions leaving it late to salvage the series at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington in the 2nd Test. The noise from the Lions fans flooding out of the ground afterwards and pouring into the city centre - soaking wet - will long be remembered. They now had some glory to go with a brilliant holiday.
CJ: Jack Nowell's brilliant team try against the Chiefs, and the Scotland-inspired score from Tommy Seymour against the Hurricanes were both beauties, but Sean O'Brien's stunning effort in the Test series opener in Auckland will go down in history.
Started by Liam Williams' break out from defence, and with Jonathan Davies and Elliot Daly both prominent, it showed the Lions could take the All Blacks on at their own game.
In fairness to the All Blacks they scored one or two decent tries of their own….
CJ: Rory Best, the experienced Ireland captain, led the midweek side with distinction in often-difficult circumstances (see 'Geography Six'). Off the pitch, by all accounts, Best was a driving force behind the squad bonding socially - which is good to hear.
UM: Sonny Bill Williams. Ultimately his red card proved the decisive moment in the 2nd Test.
CJ: The Lions' communications strategy. Pulling up a drawbridge between the media and the players is surely not the way forward.
Issues with the Head Injury Assessment (HIA) process have also threatened to stall the recent advances in concussion management.
UM: The front page of the New Zealand Herald depicting Gatland as a clown was highly disrespectful,  unjust... and proved to be incorrect.
UM: Gatland responding by saying he was a "happy clown" after the 2nd Test!
CJ: On the evidence of the last few weeks it remains the pinnacle for the supporters, and, most importantly, the players as well.
UM: I know a few off-field decisions, such as the 'Geography Six' upset a lot of people, myself included. But in excess of 20,000 travelling Lions fans making an away game - in the most hostile of rugby-playing countries - feel like home for the Lions speaks volumes. Best support in the world.
UM: The Lions aren't in danger. But perhaps a review is needed to work out how to satisfy commercial partners and sponsors while giving the players the best opportunity to be successful.
CJ: Administration from all sides - Lions, clubs, unions - has left them clinging on to a tenuous place in the congested rugby calendar.
The veil of security and protection around the Lions camp was also unnecessary. They are just rugby players; let them enjoy themselves.
CJ: When a 132-cap All Black pops into your hotel to come on the podcast….
Or when another World Cup winner shows you around his 48,000-acre farm….
CJ: The strength of the dollar and the weakness of the pound….
CJ: The Owens family.
Ken's wife Carys, young son Efan, and parents arrived on 31 May, following every twist and turn of the tour, as well as exploring New Zealand.
"We went to Paihia with Jonathan Davies' parents in a campervan," said Carys.
"That was the point when I rang Ken and said 'I want to move out here now'."
The rest of the family - sister, friends and family friends - then piled out for the Test series...
1. Mako Vunipola
2. Codie Taylor
3. Tadgh Furlong
4. Maro Itoje
5. Brodie Retallick
6. Sam Warburton
7. Sean O'Brien
8. Kieran Read
9. Conor Murray
10. Beauden Barrett
11. Rieko Ioane (includes performances for Blues and Maori)
12. Owen Farrell
13. Jonathan Davies
14. Waisake Naholo (includes performance for Highlanders)
15. Jordie Barrett (includes performance for Hurricanes)
CJ: David Williams, who decided to fly out for the final Test on the Sunday after the second Test victory.
He left Heathrow at 10pm on Thursday, arriving in Auckland on Saturday at 10am (the game was that evening), flying back from Auckland at 7pm on Sunday to arrive back at Heathrow on Monday at 2pm. That's four days away from home for a total of 33 hours in New Zealand.
Honourable mention to Ron and Jan from Slough, who saved for 11 years to follow the tour as a way of celebratating their 25th wedding anniversary, but also to every supporter who spent thousands and made the Lions what it is.
And we can't forget Alex Edwards, whose chance meeting with some friendly locals led to an overnight stay at the home of New Zealand stars Rieko and Akira Ioane.
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Kim Garth starred with bat and ball as Ireland started the Women's World Cup Qualifier with a comfortable 119-run win over Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka.

Ireland rattled up 237-6 in their 50 overs with Garth top-scoring on 63 while Laura Delaney added 47.
Garth also boasted the best bowling figures of 3-24 as Zimbabwe were skittled out for 118 in 37.5 overs.
Ireland, who take on the hosts on Wednesday, need a top-four finish in the qualifiers to make the World Cup.
The Irish lost a warm-up game against Bangladesh on Sunday but they were back in top form in the Group A opener in Colombo.
An impressive third-wicket partnership of 94 between Garth and Delany laid the foundation for Ireland's healthy total.
Clare Shillington (30) and Cecelia Joyce (26) also added valuable runs at the Mercantile Cricket Association Ground.
Zimbabwe struggled in reply with Ashley Ndiraya hitting 35 but only three other players reached double figures.
Garth led Ireland's fine bowling display while Ciara Metcalfe (3-38), Robyn Lewis (2-7) and Amy Kenealy were the other wicket-takers.
"It's just great to start off with a win," said Pembroke all-rounder Garth.
"Zimbabwe bowled and fielded well and we did a good job to post that total in these conditions.
"We were clinical with the ball and will take confidence from that into Wednesday's game against the hosts."
In Tuesday's other Group A game, Sri Lanka beat India by 114 runs, while in Group B, South Africa beat Pakistan while Bangladesh overcame Papua New Guinea.
Ireland will play tournament favourites India on Friday before completing their group games against Thailand a day later.
The top three in Group A go through to the Super Six, and from this the top four secure a place in the eight-team World Cup in England from 24 June to 23 July.
All matches played in Colombo & start at 04:30 GMT. CCC = Colombo Cricket Club; MCA = Mercantile Cricket Association Ground; NCC = Nondescripts Cricket Club.


Hooker George Turner has joined Glasgow Warriors on a season-long loan from Pro12 rivals Edinburgh.

The 24-year-old was one of three uncapped players called up for Scotland's summer tour.
However, he did not feature in the Tests against Italy, Australia and Fiji, with Ross Ford and Fraser Brown sharing the number two shirt duties.
Turner made his Edinburgh debut in 2014 but has only started once in 11 appearances.
"I've seen Fraser Brown develop over the last few years after he came here (from Edinburgh) and hopefully I can do the same," said Turner, who had a loan spell at London Scottish last season.
Turner will provide cover for Brown, who is facing up to four months out after surgery on an injured ankle.


An indefinite strike has paralysed life in India's tea-producing region of Darjeeling. A local party is demanding a separate state for the area's majority Nepali-speaking Gorkha community.
The protests have followed a recent decision by the West Bengal government to introduce Bengali as a compulsory subject in schools across the state, including in Darjeeling.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha or GJM (Gorkha People's Liberation Front), which is spearheading the protest, has threatened "a fight-to-the-finish" for Gorkhaland, the separate state they want carved out of West Bengal's northern hill region.
The strike began last month but was relaxed to allow shops to open during Ramadan, when Muslims fast during daylight.
The strike has disrupted public transport, causing inconvenience to thousands of local residents.
Darjeeling has been hit at the peak of the summer tourist season. Tens of thousands of visitors who were left stranded in the hills when the violence began in June have left.
The leader of the movement, Bimal Gurung, has been in hiding ever since he announced the strike. His supporters are accused of attacking policemen and intimidating shopkeepers to keep their shutters down.
The West Bengal police have raided his many offices and hideouts across the hills and arrested his supporters for burning down government offices and vehicles. Protesters have retaliated by burning effigies of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who leads the Trinamool Congress party which governs the state.
In June, the army was called out to help police tackle the protesters. At least five people were killed and more than 100 others, including 30 policemen, injured in the violence.
Darjeeling saw violent protests for a separate state in the 1980s in which more than 1,200 people died.
That ended when the Gorkhas settled for an autonomous council that promised a degree of self rule for the hill region.
But the leader of the 1980s protests, former soldier Subhas Ghishing, has now been replaced by his former lieutenant, Mr Gurung, who is more hardline.
Long-time Darjeeling residents fear an uncertain future if the hostilities in India's tea bowl continue.


A burst water pipe has cracked open a main road in Ipswich and left 50 homes without supplies.

Anglian Water said a 6 ins (15cm) main had burst at about 12:45 GMT on Woodbridge Road East, near the Lattice Barn pub.
Its engineers were able to stop the leak onto the road by about 14:30 GMT.
Police had to direct traffic around the damaged road, while the water company said it would take two days to fully fix.
Antony Innes, from Anglian Water, said: "Unfortunately, the leak has caused damage to the road surface which will need fixing before the road can be reopened.
"We expect to have things back to normal by Wednesday morning, but will be doing all we can to put things right as soon as possible."
Mr Innes said the road would have to be closed in both directions from 18:00 GMT until the surface was repaired.
He said 30 houses had had their water restored and the rest should be back on later on Monday.


Just outside Riyadh, the dunes fill up at weekends with pleasure seekers, staking out picnic spots safe from the four-wheel drive vehicles that churn up sand as they race through the desert.

Mishan al-Onzi is hanging out with a group of his teenage friends. They are from the north of the country next to Iraq, where Islamic State (IS) controls large swathes of territory.
Mishan tells me that a friend from home has gone to Syria to join IS.
"Those from a lower class, who don't have any awareness, those are the people Daesh looks for," he says, using an Arabic acronym for the group.
"They are easy for Daesh to brainwash."
According to the Ministry of Interior, some 2,600 Saudis have joined extremist groups in Syria since 2011, around 600 of whom have returned. Last year alone, 400 were arrested in relation to IS activities inside the Kingdom.
It is a relatively low number, says Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour Sultan al-Turki, but still a matter of deep concern.
"Whoever made [IS] made it for purposes and one of those purposes is really to attack Saudi Arabia," he says.
"They know that our borders are very well-protected so their idea is to do their best through propaganda, like inspire young Saudis to carry out any terrorist act on their behalf."
Saudi Arabia has invested heavily in its counter-terrorism forces since a wave of attacks by al-Qaeda militants in the mid-2000s.
But until recently it stood accused of empowering Islamist militants in nearby Syria, by permitting funding from sympathetic sheikhs, and backing Sunni Muslim groups in a proxy war with Shia Iran.
Then IS began to seize territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself an Islamic Caliphate.
It has now vowed to take over Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest mosques.
Last year Riyadh made it a crime to join IS. And it mobilised Saudi clerics, who now condemn the group as un-Islamic.
But that has not included any soul-searching of their own ultraconservative creed, one that advocates harsh Islamic punishments which have been taken to extremes by IS.
The recent sentencing of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam prompted Western comparisons between the ideologies of Saudi Arabia and Islamic State.
"This is the basic problem we have with media like yourselves in mixing apples and oranges," countered the former intelligence chief Prince Turki al Faisal.
"Fahash is a terrorist group, it has no legal system," he said, using an Arabic word for obscene that rhymes with Daesh.
"The kingdom is a state, it has a judicial system that traces its history even longer than English common law."
The Saudis argue that they are trying to reform those who join extremist groups.
They gave me rare, but tightly controlled, access to a high security prison said to be holding IS inmates.
I was shown spotless corridors with doors painted a soothing lavender, a state-of-the art hospital, a bookstore, rooms for conjugal visits, even a human rights complaint box, an effort, apparently, to push back against accusations of torture.
The prisoners were kept out of sight though, apart from the one selected to speak to me.
Forty-five-year-old Manna Nasser told me he had gone to Syria to do relief work.
He chose the city of Raqqa as his base, he said, because at the time it was a refuge for those displaced by the conflict. But then it became IS headquarters.
"They threatened they would kill me if I didn't disown the Saudi royal family and the Arab leaders," he said.
"I was forced to pledge loyalty to them and follow their doctrine."
The tour continued at a government rehabilitation centre, a massive complex that brings in social workers, preachers, artists and psychologists in a holistic attempt to reintegrate extremists into society.
One man who had been through the programme told me he had tried to travel to Syria to fight jihad with Islamic State, but his ideas about holy war have since changed.
"I hear that [IS] is now fighting non-Muslims and Muslims," he said. "Thank God the centre lighted the way of truth for us".
But Saudi Arabia's puritanical version of Islam does share a strain of religious intolerance that IS has used to justify its killings of Shia and non-Muslims, says Jane Kinninmont, a London-based Middle East analyst.
"The tendency to declare other Muslims as 'kafir' or non-Muslim, that's something you see advocated by some officially sanctioned and tolerated Muslim clerics in Saudi Arabia," she says.
The message is important because in this socially conservative country, young people live on the internet, which makes them vulnerable to IS recruitment via social media.
And although Saudi youth are commonly perceived as pampered by the country's oil wealth, the state struggles to find jobs for all its young people, who make up more than two-thirds of the population.
Anecdotally, we heard of young men with no work or education who talked of escaping their bleak lives by joining Islamic State.
Getting to the battlefield is increasingly difficult, and the Saudis have also fortified themselves from outside attack.
The Kingdom's frontline with IS, its northern border with Iraq, is demarcated with a double fence that undulates across a vast windswept desert, monitored by high-tech surveillance cameras.
Members of Islamic State did clash with a border patrol early this year, killing three guards. But the threat is more internal than external.
And the Saudis are not questioning whether their ideology is in any way to blame.


A man accused of breaking into Sandra Bullock's Los Angeles home last year has pleaded not guilty to 26 charges.

Joshua James Corbett, 39, is accused of stalking, burglary and possession of a machine gun, among other charges.
Police found an arsenal of weapons at his California home following his arrest at Bullock's Beverly Hills home in June 2014.
Bullock was at home during the alleged break-in and locked herself in her bedroom closet until police arrived.
Mr Corbett is being held on bail and faces more than 20 years if convicted on all counts.
A pre-trial hearing has been scheduled for 8 June, a year to the day of his 2014 arrest.
Mr Corbett was found carrying photos of the Oscar-winning actress and a notebook containing a letter to her.
In the letter, released to the media last month, he describes the Gravity star as his "girl" and describes himself as her "husband".
"You are very special to me and without you in my life there is only misery," the two-page letter reads.
Mr Corbett's lawyer said his client "really thought he was married" to the actress "but doesn't think that anymore".
He said Mr Corbett was "mentally disturbed", had been "getting some help in jail" and had "never intended to hurt Miss Bullock".
A recording of Bullock's 911 call was played at a pre-trial hearing last month, in which the 50-year-old could be heard sounding panicked and tearful.


Prof Stephen Hawking has discussed the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence, at an event in Cambridge marking the opening of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

20 October 2016 Last updated at 14:40 BST
In a short speech, Prof Hawking said: "The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."
Read more: Stephen Hawking - will AI kill or save humankind?


Scott Brown could play for one of the very top English Premier League sides, according to the former England captain Terry Butcher.

The 31-year-old Celtic captain is expected to skipper Scotland against England in the World Cup qualifier at Hampden on Saturday.
"I'm gutted that he [Scott Brown] didn't retire," quipped Butcher.
"The very fact he wants to play against England and come back and lead Scotland is a big boost for the country."
Describing Brown as an "inspirational leader", Butcher added: "It's interesting when you read his quotes about last year when he didn't feel right, he felt drained physically and he felt better coming back this season and you can see that difference.
"It's no coincidence Scotland have picked up because he came back in."
Former England international Paul Scholes queried whether Brown would be comfortable playing in England's top flight, but Butcher is confident he could shine.
"He would do without a doubt," added Butcher. "It wouldn't be a battle between Paul Scholes and Scott Brown - because Paul Scholes couldn't tackle a fish supper sometimes! He wasn't renowned for his tackling. He was renowned for his ability on the ball, his passing, scoring and everything else.
"Scott Brown would win hands down if it came to a physical battle, but Paul had the edge in terms of ability and vision and touch."
"Scott could handle the English Premier League no problem at all. He's a clever player. People think he goes about like a headless chicken, but he doesn't. He's very clever, he's very strong, he's the fulcrum, the point of attack in midfield and the point of defence as well. I wish he wasn't playing!"
Brown recently returned to Scotland duty following a brief retirement. Butcher believes that - even at the age of 31 - Brown has what it takes to play for a top four club in England.
"I think he could. He's an enforcer but he's also a passer of the ball," the former Motherwell manager said. "If he was given a specific role he's got the ability mentally and physically to cope with that. I still think he could do that now.
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"You look at players in his position in the top four sides, the top six sides - and there is now looking like a top six or seven in England - he could handle that quite comfortably.
"You have got Mousa Dembele and Eric Dier that he'll be up against from Spurs in midfield - that's going to be a great battle. I don't know who else is going to battle against Scott Brown in there - because he would take two players on, no problems. He would love it."


A 26-year-old man is to appear in court charged with murdering north Belfast man Kyle Neil.

The body of Mr Neil, 23, was discovered in the boot of a car at Windsor Road, off the Lisburn Road, on Sunday.
The man is due to appear at Newtownards Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
A 25-year-old woman is still being questioned by police.
Detectives say Mr Neil, a father of a three-year-old daughter, was at a party in Comber in County Down on Saturday night.
They believe he was murdered after the party at Church Gate apartments on Mill Street in the town.
His body was then placed in the boot of a blue Ford Fiesta before being driven to Island Hill car park on the shore of Strangford Lough and then on to Windsor Road.
Mr Neil's body was found at around 07.30 BST on Sunday morning after a member of the public contacted police.


The family of former Derry City striker Mark Farren are appealing for financial help after he recently underwent a third brain tumour operation.

Farren's family want to raise around £25,000 which would enable him to travel to a cancer centre in Germany.
In his most recent operation, surgeons removed over 80% of Farren's tumour but the 33-year-old's speech and mobility have been affected.
A biopsy after the surgery indicated that the tumour was highly aggressive.
The ex-Derry City striker turned 33 on Friday and a statement from his family said his former team-mates Kevin McHugh, Ruaidhri Higgins and Ciaran Martyn would be leading a number of fund-raising activities in the coming weeks.
"The six-week treatment programme is his best chance of saving or at least prolonging his life," added the Farren family's statement.
"Treatment will cost approximately €30,000. This is the one goal with which Mark needs our help, any contribution is greatly appreciated."
On Friday night, Farren's former Derry City team-mate and current Republic of Ireland international James McClean was reported to have pledged £1,000 for the fund.
Donegal man Farren was named the League of Ireland players' player of the year in 2005 and went on to become Derry's record goal-scorer in 2012 before joining Glenavon in 2013.
He was initially diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in December 2008 but continued to play on for Derry City until October 2009.
After undergoing surgery, Farren returned to Derry City colours in the summer of the 2011 and broke the club's scoring record a year later shortly before signing for Glenavon.
Farren was named the Irish League's player of the month in April 2013 but had to stop playing later that year in order to undergo more surgery.


An elderly woman died after two vehicles crashed into her house, police have said.

The incident happened at Heol y Gors in Whitchurch, Cardiff, at about 16:10 GMT on Sunday.
South Wales Police said although the householder was not injured in the crash, she had collapsed and later died.
Her family is being supported by officers.


Oil prices have fallen after the Opec group of oil producing nations said global crude stocks had risen.

A surprise output jump from its biggest member, Saudi Arabia, put further pressure on prices.
Gains made since Opec announced output cuts late last year have nearly all been erased.
Saudi Arabia said it was "committed" to stabilising the global oil market, and that its output was still in line with its Opec target.
"Despite the supply adjustment, stocks have continued to rise, not just in the US, but also in Europe," Opec said in its report. "Nevertheless, prices have undoubtedly been provided a floor by the production accords."
Saudi Arabia's production increased to 10.011 million barrels per day in February compared with 9.748 million barrels per day in January.
Saudi Arabia "is committed and determined to stabilise the global oil market by working closely with all  other participating Opec and non-Opec producers", its energy ministry said.
Oil prices fell after the release of the Opec report to trade close to $50 (Â£41) a barrel, their lowest since November.
Crude prices are still higher than $40 per barrel a year ago and a 12-year low of about $28 in January 2016.
The price of Brent crude settled about 0.5% down at $51.09 per barrel, while US crude was at $47.90.


The destruction of police notes on the death of a teenage girl who fell from a multi-storey car park 10 years ago, was "regrettable", police said.

An open verdict was recorded in the inquest of 17-year-old Lauren Eley, who died in 2004, in Northampton.
Coroner Anne Pember was told the police notes were destroyed after seven years.
The Eley's family's legal representative, Sefton Kwasnik, called the way police had handled the case a "disgrace".
Mrs Pember said she would be writing to Northamptonshire chief constable Adrian Lee, to say "when an inquest is still live original notes should be retained".
A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said: "An officer's notebook was stored and destroyed after seven years in line with national guidelines.
"It is regrettable that, due to an oversight, a copy of the notes made within that book that relate to this investigation were not retained with the case papers.
"We accept this would have assisted at inquest."
Police did not offer any apology to the Eley family.
The officer involved in the case attended the inquest, but said he could not remember a huge amount of detail because the events had happened so long ago.
He said his note book had been passed to the police administration department.
Miss Eley died at Northampton Hospital on 11 December 2004 having fallen from the Grosvenor centre multi-storey park.
The inquest was told police could not rule out her death was assisted by another person.
And Mrs Pember said: "I cannot presume that her death was accidental."
Mr Kwasnik said : "I think it's a disgrace the way the police have conducted this investigation from the beginning.
"The family had to endure being told it was most likely a suicide, from the start."
The police spokesman said the force had considered several possible causes of death, including "that of accident, misadventure and the involvement of a third party".


Thousands of pounds-worth of power tools have been stolen from a farm dedicated to disabled children.

Fairytale Farm, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, has been closed for the winter and the tools were being used by staff to get everything ready for its reopening on Saturday.
Owner Nick Laister said: "We're going to try and beg, steal and borrow to get ourselves open in time."
A man was captured on CCTV at the farm after 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.
The footage has been put on YouTube in the hope that anyone who recognises him will contact Thames Valley Police.
Fairytale Farm was designed around the needs of children with sensory, learning and physical disabilities. It was inspired by Mr Laister's daughter Olivia who has cerebral palsy.
Among the stolen haul were angle grinders, drills and jigsaws, and other specialist equipment and attachments, collected since the farm was built in 2009.
Mr Laister called the theft a "big setback for us because we have to secure funding for everything we do".
He added: "The last thing we needed before opening was all our power tools being stolen.
"It's been a real headache for us so we're having to basically work through the night... we're having to do everything manually.
"We've got back ups for everything, but all our back ups have been stolen too... it's just really hard."


Preston North End have signed Cork City defender Kevin O'Connor on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee.

O'Connor will join on 24 July, along with Cork team-mate Sean Maguire who agreed to sign earlier this month.
The 22-year-old Republic of Ireland Under-21 international has played 23 games so far this season for League of Ireland Premier Division leaders.
Meanwhile, Preston forward Tom Barkhuizen has agreed a new three-year deal with the Championship club.
Barkhuizen, 23, signed from Morecambe in January, scoring six times in 17 appearances last season.
"The first week after the season finished, my agent came in and it was the easiest decision I've made for a very long time," he said.
O'Connor added: "I'm delighted to sign, it's a massive opportunity, I'm just looking forward to getting started now.
"It's a great club, a big club and there's a big fan base here so I'm just excited to get started."
O'Connor is Preston's fourth summer signing following deals for Maguire, Josh Harrop from Manchester United and Declan Rudd from Norwich City.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


The pictures emerging from the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, are shocking.

Durbar square, a Unesco World Heritage Site, has been reduced to rubble.  The famous Dharahara Tower has been toppled to leave just a stump.
Nepal is used to quakes – this is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. You only have to look at the Himalayas to understand that.
The mountains are being built as a consequence of the Indian tectonic plate driving under Central Asia (the Eurasian tectonic plate). These two great slabs of the Earth's crust are converging at a relative rate of about 4-5cm (two inches) a year.
The upward climb of Everest and its sister mountains is accompanied by numerous tremors.
David Rothery, a professor of planetary geosciences, at the Open University, UK, commented: "The Himalayan mountains are being thrust over the Indian plate; there are two or three big thrust faults, basically. And some very gently dipping fault will have been what moved, and gave us this event. Casualties are reported in Kathmandu, but we now wait to see how widespread the problems are."
Initial estimates of casualties, even in the biggest quakes, usually start off small, and then grow.
In the case of this quake, the fear will be that the final numbers could be quite high.
That's not just because the magnitude of the main event was large – at M7.8 (numbers will be revised as more data is assessed) – but that it was also very shallow – a mere 10-15km down.
This will have made the shaking felt at the surface extremely severe. And in the four hours that followed the main event, at least 14 aftershocks were recorded, most of them magnitude fours and fives, but including a Magnitude 6.6.
Remember, every step down on the scale constitutes a 30-times drop in the energy released in an event, but when buildings are already damaged, the smaller aftershock may be all that's required to bring a structure crashing to the ground.
And the assessment is that much of the population in this region live in houses that are highly vulnerable to earthquake shaking: unreinforced brick masonry and the like.
One of the big concerns, based on previous experience, will be the possibility of landslides.
In places in this mountainous terrain, there could well be villages that are cut off, even destroyed by mud and rock that has come tumbling off steep slopes.
It will all add to the confusion as the authorities try to deal with the emergency, and will mean that information will be slow to emerge and sometimes conflicting.
Looking right across the Himalaya region, other significant earthquakes include the 1934 M8.1 Bihar event, the 1905 M7.5 Kangra tremor and the 2005 M7.6 Kashmir quake.
The latter two events were particularly harsh, resulting in loss of life that topped 100,000. Millions were also left homeless.


The European Rugby Champions Cup which replaces the Heineken Cup has been given the go-ahead for next season.

The new tournament will involve 20 teams, rather than 24, with six from the Aviva Premiership, six from the French Top 14 and seven from the Pro12.
The final place will be decided by a play-off.
Unrest over the future of the Heineken Cup began in June 2012, when the English and French clubs announced they would quit, unhappy with qualification, revenue distribution and governance.
Soon after, Premiership Rugby signed a TV deal with BT, while ERC extended its deal with Sky.
In October 2013, the English and French clubs announced they were setting up the Rugby Champions Cup, which had the support of the Welsh regions. When the French clubs pulled out, an Anglo-Welsh league was at one stage a distinct possibility.
For much of the last year prospects  looked bleak, but this new agreement secures European club competition for at least eight years.
A new European Rugby Challenge Cup will replace the second-tier Amlin Cup and a new third-tier cup will be introduced, called the Qualifying Competition.
Bill Beaumont, chairman of English governing body the Rugby Football Union, said: "We are very pleased that the challenges off the pitch are concluded so we can enjoy the joys of the game on it, creating more unforgettable memories for players and fans alike."
His views were echoed by officials throughout the European game, with Welsh Rugby Union chief executive, Roger Lewis saying he is "delighted that we can all move forward with a clear and agreed structure in place for European competition from next season".
The heads of agreement - the principles behind the deal - were signed by the nine parties involved on Thursday, bringing an end to a two-year saga.
The signatories are the unions from the Six Nations countries, plus the club bodies for England, France and Wales.
Mark McCafferty, the chief executive of Premiership Rugby, described it as a "historic day for European club rugby", adding that the parties involved "had worked hard to get to this point and the uncertainty is now over".
International Rugby Board chairman Bernard Lapasset said the new competition meant both players and fans could "look forward to a strong competition structure that promotes and celebrates the best of the European game".
And Ian Ritchie, chief executive of the RFU, added: "This equitable, long-term agreement will provide the platform for rugby union to continue to expand across Europe, increasing interest and involvement in the game at all levels."
The tournaments will be headed by European Professional Club Rugby, a new Swiss-based association, which will replace current organisers European Rugby Cup (ERC).
English Premiership clubs withdrew from ERC in June 2012, and have long advocated changes to the present tournament, the Heineken Cup.
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Pro12 representation is cut from its current 10 teams, with one guaranteed representative from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales and the other three places being decided on league position.
ERC chief executive Derek McGrath confirmed he will stand down from his role in October 2014 following the decision.
The issue of who will broadcast the new competitions has been a source of contention but BT Sport and Sky have reached an agreement to share coverage.


Two Chinese fighters have carried out an "unsafe" intercept of a US military aircraft over the South China Sea, the Pentagon says.

The incident happened in international airspace on 17 May as the US maritime reconnaissance aircraft carried out a routine patrol in the area, it added.
However, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson denied any "dangerous manoeuvres from Chinese aircraft".
Several nations claim territory in the resource-rich South China Sea.
Tensions in the region have increased recently, with China and the US trading accusations over military activity.
The South China Sea dispute
A military official quoted by the Associated Press news agency said the US pilot was forced to descend about 200ft (60m) to avoid a collision.
Later on Thursday, Hong Lei from the Chinese foreign ministry responded to the US allegations saying they were "not true".
"The US plane flew close to Hainan Island. Two Chinese aircraft followed and monitored at a safe distance. There were no dangerous manoeuvres from the Chinese aircraft. Their actions were completely professional and safe."
The US defence department said it was addressing the issue through military and diplomatic channels.
"Over the past year, DoD has seen improvements in PRC actions, flying in a safe and professional manner," the statement added, using the initials for People's Republic of China.
Washington has accused Beijing of militarising the South China Sea, which is also an important shipping route.
China in turn has criticised increased US naval patrols and exercises in Asia.
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols, while the US says it opposes restrictions on freedom of navigation and unlawful sovereignty claims - by all sides.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with possible global consequences.


Following a three-year review, the Airports Commission has backed a third Heathrow runway, saying it will add Â£147bn in economic growth and 70,000 jobs by 2050.

Here we share some images of the airport, whose expansion began after World War Two.


A Post Office worker foiled a knife-wielding robber in Cardiff by lashing out with a baseball bat.

Paula Hooper, 52, struck the masked man on the arm when he demanded money from the till at Ely Post Office at about 08:30 BST on Tuesday.
CCTV footage then shows her chasing him out of the shop from behind the counter.
Ms Hooper said she thought it was a "Halloween joke" when she saw the red devil mask.
"I then saw the big kitchen knife he was waving and he demanded I open the till, threatening me with a lot of swearing," she said.
"I screamed and didn't think twice but sounded the alarm and grabbed the baseball bat which we always keep handy for something like this.
"I caught him on the arm and he just turned and I chased him out of the shop."
Postmaster Shady Taha, who was in his office at the time of the incident, described Ms Hooper as the "hero of the day".
South Wales Police called her "a brave woman" and launched an appeal to find the man.


People with eye problems are being urged to visit an optician instead of making unnecessary trips to accident and emergency departments.

Ambulances have recorded a 205% rise in calls since 1991, while attendances at A&E units in Wales has risen 7% in the past five years.
Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said people often dialled 999 when an optometrist was the best place to go.
They offer free advice and patients do not have to be registered with them.
The campaign is being supported by Optometry Wales, Sight Cymru, Wales Council for the Blind, RNIB Cymru, and Public Health Wales.