The RNLI hopes to raise £1m to pay for a lifeboat station to be built on the shores of Loch Ness.

Since the introduction of the lifeboat in 2008, its volunteers have been using a building the size of a small garage near Drumndrochit.
Loch Ness RNLI is Scotland's only inland lifeboat service and took over coverage of the loch from the Maritime and Coastguard Service.
The volunteers use an Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable lifeboat.
They work out of what is known as an Observe class station, which are stations in locations that are difficult to reach.


A shipyard which builds navy vessels has seen 70 workers transferred to another site because of a shortage of work, unions say.

About a third of the workforce from Appledore Shipbuilders in north Devon have been transferred down to Babcock's sister yard at Devonport, Plymouth.
The yard near Bideford has finished some major packages of work on Britain's new aircraft carriers.
Large parts of the yard are currently standing idle for lack of new orders.
Heathcliffe Pettifer, regional union officer with Unite said: "The likelihood is regardless of the arrangements around work, if an order was announced tomorrow we're still looking at a blip which means that more than 100 people are likely to be transferred by the end of March."
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Mr Pettifer said workers were finding digs in Devonport and were not sure of their rates of pay.
"This is all against a backdrop of potential voluntary redundancies," he said.
A statement from Babcock said: "Our priority is to offer our employees at Appledore who wish to continue to work with Babcock a way to do so and have provided opportunities on our other sites in the expected workload dip.
"We remain focused in our efforts to successfully secure future work for the yard."
Conservative MP Geoffrey Cox said: "Appledore and Babcock are making enormous efforts with the assistance of the government to find alternative work streams."
The last main vessel being built at Appledore, for the Irish Navy, is due to float out later this year.


Former chancellor George Osborne says he is quitting the House of Commons "for now".

The Conservative MP for Tatton said he was "very excited" about becoming the new editor of London's Evening Standard newspaper.
He told his local Tory party he would be using the role to provide "straight facts and informed opinion" through the paper's general election coverage.
MPs have backed Theresa May's call for a snap election on 8 June.
Mr Osborne told the BBC's John Pienaar he would be fighting for the same values he had as chancellor and an MP of 16 years standing.
But as Evening Standard editor he would also "speak for London, speak for my readers and speak for this country and its future".
"Our country has got some big decisions to make now about the kind of Britain we want to be and those values of openness, tolerance and enterprise are ones I hold dear," he said.
Asked if he believed Mrs May understood the concerns of people who voted for Britain to remain in the EU, he said: "We have got to make sure that not just London's voice is heard, but the voice of a Britain that wants to play a big role on the world stage, that celebrates the fact we have a diverse society, that is optimistic about the future, not afraid about the future - those are things I have always believed in."
Earlier, in a letter confirming he would not be seeking re-election, Mr Osborne said: "It's still too early to be writing my memoirs."
At the age of 45, he did not to spend the rest of his life "just being an ex-chancellor", he said. "I want new challenges. I'm very excited about the opportunity to edit the Evening Standard."
He added: "More so than at any time in my life, the public need from the media the straight facts and informed opinion to help them to make the big decisions Britain now faces about the country we want to be.
"That starts with the coverage of this general election."
Following last month's announcement that Mr Osborne would be taking over as editor of the London-based free newspaper from Sarah Sands, questions had been asked about how he would combine that role with being an MP for a northern constituency.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the appointment as a "joke" and called for an immediate by-election in Tatton.
"The appointment makes a mockery of the independence of the media," he said at the time. "It takes multi-tasking to a new level and is an insult to the electors he is supposed to serve."
But Mr Osborne defended himself, adding that he believed having MPs who could draw on outside experiences was good for Parliament as it enabled former ministers, in particular, to "continuing to contribute to the decisions we make".
Mr Osborne, who was chancellor for six years, had ambitions to be a journalist as a young man.
He failed to get a place on The Times' trainee scheme after graduating from Oxford University - at which he edited its Isis magazine - and was briefly a freelance reporter on the Daily Telegraph's diary column.
Since being axed as chancellor by Theresa May when she became PM last July, Mr Osborne has picked up a number of other jobs.


The sister of kayaker Dominic Jackson learned that his body had been found from a woman she met through social media.

Ellie Jackson was in Australia when her brother went missing during a solo trip from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire.
But when his body was found after a four-day search, she said she did not receive the news from the police.
Instead she was told of the discovery by a "lovely, kind lady" who watched his body being pulled from the water.
Ms Jackson told BBC Radio Scotland the woman saw the operation unfold from a cliff top at Lybster in Caithness.
Speaking on The Stephen Jardine Programme, she said: "She was in touch with me on social media and she said, 'I'm standing on the cliff top, I can see the helicopter, they're hovering over and here comes Wick lifeboat and yes, I'm sorry to say they're pulling him out of the water and they're heading back straight up to Wick.
"I could hear it as she was describing it to me so I felt that connection for him with the people who were there at the last part of his journey.
"My first instinct was relief, I was so glad they found him. I couldn't imagine the pain of not knowing where he was and never finding him."
Ms Jackson said her younger brother loved nature and the outdoors and he had learned to kayak while he was a scout.
It was not a hobby he had actively pursued over the years but he bought himself a kayak as a "Christmas present to himself".
She said it was his third or fourth trip out in the vessel when he loaded it onto his campervan and drove from his home in Fettercairn to Portsoy in February.
When he did not return home as planned, his flatmate posted a note on Facebook asking people to look out for him.
Ms Jackson said she spotted the post after dropping off her son at his first day at pre-school.
She knew "straight away" that it was out of character. "Instantly we knew this was something much, much more serious," she said.
While family members in the UK travelled to Aberdeenshire, Ms Jackson quickly took on a co-ordinating role from her base in Australia.
"While my family were organising travel arrangements, I could be looking at things on the internet - maps, weather forecasts those kinds of things," she said.
"I could instantly get all this information and relay it straight back to my family over Skype and Dom's friends who also volunteered to come up to search.
"I felt like even though I was so far away, I actually had a really key role in the whole search and while everyone was going through their own ordeal on the cliff top, I was going through my own version of that.
"I was literally stuck to that computer for 22 hours a day for at least 11 days."
Ms Jackson also paid tribute to local communities around Portsoy who quickly offered to help the family.
"That, from the other side of the world, was overwhelming," she said.
She said the family get comfort from the fact that he died doing something he loved.
"Far better that than some awful long-suffering illness," she added.
"It was his own choice, it was his own passion, he was surrounded by nature, which he loved and he was at peace, I think, when he went."
Since Mr Jackson's death, the family have set up the PlanB charity in a bid to promote the use of personal locator beacons (PLBs) to prevent similar deaths in the future.
Ms Jackson said the small, wearable devices can be activated in an emergency situation and can help rescuers quickly and accurately locate someone in difficulty.
"I'd like to share the awareness of these beacons through the charity to try and make sense of the tragedy of my brother and have some good come out of this," she said.


A giant panda cub, who is a star attraction at Washington's zoo, is recovering after bowel surgery to remove a "lemon-sized mass of bamboo".

Zoo officials say one-year-old Bei Bei is now stable and the "prognosis is very good".
The emergency surgery was required after an ultrasound revealed a blockage "at the top of the small intestine".
Bei Bei earlier showed signs of stomach discomfort and nausea, and was sleeping more than normal and not eating.
"I'm extremely proud and thankful for our team of keepers, veterinarians, animal care staff, volunteer medical experts and all staff who have helped facilitate the urgent response," said Dennis Kelly, director at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC.
"Bei Bei's prognosis is very good. The challenge will be for our team to monitor him safely and that requires his co-operation."
The giant panda cub will be given water overnight and later will be "transitioned" to soft foods such as sweet potatoes and pears, the officials say.
Bei Bei was born on 22 August 2015. People around the globe monitored his mother's pregnancy on the zoo's "panda cam".
The name - which means "precious" - was chosen by the first ladies of the US and China, Michelle Obama and Peng Liyuan.


The former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, says he will go back to Ukraine to mobilise his supporters there, in defiance of Kiev's decision to strip him of Ukrainian citizenship.

Mr Saakashvili moved to Ukraine in 2013 and served as governor of Odessa under President Petro Poroshenko. Both have championed pro-Western market reforms.
But the two men have since fallen out.
Last year Mr Saakashvili said corrupt oligarchs close to Mr Poroshenko were blocking the reforms.
Speaking to the BBC's Newshour programme from New York, Mr Saakashvili, who heads an opposition party in Ukraine, said Mr Poroshenko was trying to remove his most serious opponent.
However, according to opinion polls, Mr Saakashvili's Movement of New Forces (Rukh) has less than 2% support among Ukrainians.
Accused of corruption in his native Georgia, he lost his Georgian citizenship in 2015 after becoming a Ukrainian national.  Mr Saakashvili rejects the Georgian corruption charges as politically motivated.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, he put false information on his citizenship registration form in 2015.
He told the BBC that he would strive to "get rid of the old corrupt elite" in Ukraine. But he denied any ambition to become Ukrainian president.
Mr Saakashvili said corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs were annoyed by his campaign to clean up the economy, which has been stagnating for years.
"I'll do my best to return to Ukraine," he said, calling President Poroshenko "extremely unpopular".
The former Georgian president has close ties with some US politicians, but said he would not seek asylum in the US, despite the risk now of being stateless.
Last year, he resigned as the Odessa governor, expressing fury at rampant corruption, and launched his political party in Ukraine.
In a statement (in Ukrainian) on Wednesday evening, Ukraine's migration service said that "according to the Constitution of Ukraine, the president takes decisions on who is stripped of Ukrainian citizenship based on the conclusions of the citizenship commission".
It did not provide the exact reason, but stated that this could be done if a Ukrainian national acquired citizenship of another country or submitted false documents.


A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped and thrown from a train in the northern state of Bihar, police say.

The teenager told police that two men abducted her from an isolated spot near her home in Lakhisarai district and brutally raped her on Saturday.
They later took her to a railway station and boarded a train where three others joined them and also raped her.
Police told the BBC that she was being treated for serious injuries. One suspect has been arrested so far.
The men boarded the train at Chanan railway station and threw her out near Kiul.  Some people found her near the tracks and took her to a local hospital.
She was then transferred to a government hospital in the state capital, Patna.
She has reportedly suffered fractures and serious injuries.
Senior police officer SK Singhal said at least two of the men knew the victim and lived in her neighbourhood.
Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.
However, brutal sexual attacks against women and children continue to be reported from across the country.


A US court has given its initial blessing to a plan for VW to pay $1.22bn (Â£0.98m) to fix or buy-back 80,000 cars from the emissions scandal.

Volkswagen could be forced to pay more than $4bn unless it gets regulatory clearance for the plan, which covers three-litre diesel engines.
The company, which has already agreed a deal covering 475,000 two-litre cars, will receive a final ruling in May.
The court also gave preliminary backing to a separate deal involving Bosch.
The German car parts supplier to Volkswagen had proposed a settlement of $327.5m to US diesel VW owners.
"This settlement marks an important milestone in Volkswagen's efforts to make things right in the United States," said Robert Giuffra, an attorney representing VW.
US District Judge Charles Breyer, in San Francisco, is due to hold a hearing on 11 May on whether to grant final approval for the VW and Bosch deals.
VW has now agreed to spend up to $25bn in the US to settle claims from car owners, environmental regulators, US states and dealers.
The US has also charged seven current and former VW executives with wrongdoing.
VW previously agreed to spend up to $10.03bn to buy back up to 475,000 polluting two-litre vehicles that are fitted with software that allowed them to evade emissions rules during testing.
The Federal Trade Commission said said earlier this month that US customers who bought the three-litre diesel cars would be fully compensated "through a combination of repairs, additional monetary compensation, and buybacks for certain models".
Owners of 2009 to 2012 models could get between $26,000 to $58,000 for a buyback, depending on the model, mileage, and trim of the car, the FTC said.


I grew up about 10 minutes from the Michelin factory and passed it every day on my way to school.

The thought that it will soon fall idle is shocking.
A place that has been around so long, employing so many people becomes part of the fabric of a town.
There is Michelin FC who play in the local Saturday morning league and there is the social club where thousands of people have attended functions over the years.
But, most importantly, there are the jobs.
When the Ballymena building firm, Patton, went into administration in 2012, I emphasised to colleagues that this was not a one-company town.
There were also the big manufacturing employers at JTI/ Gallahers, Michelin and Wrightbus.
JTI will be gone next year and Michelin by 2018, leaving locally-owned Wrightbus the last big manufacturer standing.
The departure of those two multinationals will mean at least 1600 jobs leaving a town of 30,000 people.
It is hard to quantify what the long-term impact will be on a town which has been prosperous by Northern Ireland standards.
Some people will find new work, new jobs will be created, but the prospect of attracting large numbers of new manufacturing jobs looks remote.


Hundreds of migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, survivors have told the BBC - although there is no official confirmation.

The 41 survivors say they were transferred to another vessel when it sank in the middle of the night.
They said that up to 500 people died, but coastguards in the region have been unable to confirm their accounts.
Numbers of migrants making the dangerous sea route from Libya to Italy have surged this year.
The survivors, from Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Egypt, spoke to the BBC from the southern Greek city of Kalamata, where they are being held after their rescue.
According to the group, about 240 migrants left the Libyan port city of Tobruk heading for Italy.
"My wife and my baby drowned in front of me," is the first thing Muaz from Ethiopia tells me, before insisting that at least 500 others died.
"Two hundred and forty of us set off from Libya but then the traffickers made us get on to a bigger wooden boat around 30m in length that already had at least 300 people in it," said Abdul Kadir, a Somali.
"I was one of the few who managed to swim back to the smaller boat," added Muaz.
Migrants recount harrowing crossing
Once out in the Mediterranean, they said they were transferred to a larger boat already packed with more than 300 people, which then capsized.
The survivors were then picked up by a cargo ship, whose crew told the BBC that the migrants initially refused to be handed over to the Greek coastguard as they were determined to get to Italy.
A Somali woman living in Egypt told the BBC Somali service that three of her relatives, whom she had not heard from since they set out for Europe on Thursday, had died.
The presidents of both Somalia and the self-declared Republic of Somaliland offered their condolences over the incident. The Somali embassy in Cairo put the death toll at almost 400.
But the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has cast doubt, tweeting that the information hundreds had died appeared "inaccurate".
The fact that the boat capsized at night in open sea may well have contributed to the lack of clear information available, correspondents say.
9,600
migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Italy in March 2016
26,460
arrived in Greece from Turkey
In March 2015:
2,283 made the sea crossing to Italy
7,875 made journey from Turkey to Greece
In a separate incident, six bodies were recovered and 108 migrants rescued when a rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, according to the organisation SOS Mediterranean.
The boat was partially deflated, taking on water and its engine was out of use, the rescue group said.
The number of migrants arriving in Italy from Libya has surged recently - about 6,000 made the journey alone over a three-day period last week, the International Organisation for Migration said.
The deaths come on the eve of the first anniversary of the sinking of a migrant boat in the waters between Libya and Lampedusa in which up to 800 people may have drowned.
About 180,000 people have attempted to reach Europe by sea this year, with nearly 800 lives lost, the UN says.


An explosion has rocked the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, police have said, with at least 12 people killed and 60 injured.

Police say it was a suicide attack on a foreign military convoy which was travelling through the area.
A health ministry official said nine Afghans were among the dead.
A senior Nato official confirmed that three American contractors had been killed in the attack in the Macrorayan district.
No group has said it carried out the attack, although in recent months Kabul has been regularly targeted by the Taliban in a series of bombings.
The explosion took place not far from Kabul airport and the presidential palace. Witnesses said that children were among the injured and some foreigners were trapped in a destroyed vehicle.
An interior ministry spokesman quoted by the AP news agency said the blast destroyed more than a dozen civilian vehicles.
The bombing, close to a civilian hospital, is the latest in a series of recent deadly attacks following the announcement of a new Taliban leader.
Earlier this month, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in Kabul, killing five people.
Before that, there were three deadly attacks in the city - on a police academy, a Nato base and an Afghan army base that killed at least 50 people.
The Taliban has stepped up its campaign of violence in recent months, taking advantage of the warmer weather of spring and summer. It has made some military gains, especially in northern Afghanistan.


Security arrangements have been stepped up at music and sporting events across Wales in response to recent terror attacks in London and Manchester.

There was a major security operation in Cardiff for the Champions League final on Saturday, with 2,000 police officers deployed across the city.
Organisers of forthcoming events said they are reviewing their security procedures.
Some are asking visitors not to bring bags and to expect to be searched.
The UK has been subjected to three terror attacks in as many months, and the current threat level for international terrorism is severe, which means an attack is highly likely.
There are dozens of major events taking place in Wales over the next few weeks, including Robbie Williams, Justin Bieber and Coldplay concerts at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, with tens of thousands of people due to attend.
A stadium spokeswoman confirmed there would be a meeting with South Wales Police on Wednesday to discuss security arrangements.
Enhanced security checks are in place upon entry to the stadium, and only small handbags will be allowed inside.
A statement from the stadium said: "Due to the current unprecedented security situation, it's better for everyone if you do not bring a bag at all.
"Each and every threat is assessed by South Wales Police and appropriate police resources are put in place around the stadium and city centre."
Sniffer dogs are also used to assist searches, along with CCTV and road closure plans.
Assistant Chief Constable Richard Lewis said there were a number of "key music and sporting events in the coming weeks which will attract large crowds".
"We will continue to work with organisers and review our response to these events depending on the intelligence and information which we receive," he said.
"People going to these events will see both unarmed and overtly armed officers on patrol and we will also being using tactics which are not obvious to the public, but are designed to keep them safe."
The annual Royal Welsh Show takes place in Llanelwedd, Powys, from 24-27 July.
Steve Hughson, a former chief superintendent with Dyfed-Powys Police, is the chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, which organises the show.
He said they meet regularly with the local Counter Terrorism Security Advisors, the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit and Dyfed-Powys Police "to continually assess the threat levels".
Mr Hughson said while there is no specific intelligence that suggests the show is likely to be a target, they continue to work with their partners to make sure they have access to an "effective response".
St David's Hall in Cardiff is due to host BBC Cardiff Singer of the World from 11-18 June and Cardiff council said it was working closely with the BBC to ensure "appropriate security is in place".
A council spokesman said advice had been taken from the relevant authorities and the full programme of shows at St David's Hall and New Theatre would continue as planned.
He said both venues would tighten procedures, including having "vigorous" checks upon entry. Visitors were being asked not to bring bags and to allow more time to accommodate the searches.
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod takes place from 3-9 July in Denbighshire and organisers were "in consultation" with the police over whether additional security measures were needed.
The festival's chief operations officer Sian Eagar said: "To assist with security arrangements this year, visitors should be prepared to have their bags searched and avoid bringing unessential items, such as camping chairs."
The Swalec Stadium in Cardiff is hosting four Champions Trophy cricket matches in June, with the match between England and New Zealand taking place on Tuesday.
A statement released by the International Cricket Council following the most recent attack in London said the "enhanced security around venues" remains in place.
"The security situation has been very much front and centre of our preparations," it added, and procedures are constantly reviewed "to guarantee they are as effective as possible to keep everyone safe".
People taking part in the Swansea half marathon on 25 June have been contacted by the race director David Martin-Jewell, who said they too have reviewed and increased their safety procedures.
Runners are advised not to bring a bag unless they have to, and that any bags will be inspected before being accepted into the tent.
The Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff is due to host some big names in coming weeks and Live Nation has posted a security statement on its website with advice for visitors.
"All arrangements are in continuous consultation and review with local authorities and the police," it said.
It added there are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes, including new security measures, and asked people to be patient "if things take a little longer that they're used to".
Visitors are asked to plan ahead, travel as lightly as possible and if they "really need to bring a bag, make sure it's small".
Swansea council, organiser of the Wales National Airshow in Swansea Bay on 1-2 July, said "safety will always be of paramount importance".
A council spokesman said: "As with all major events, the airshow is reviewed on a regular basis. We will continue to work with our partner to ensure security at the event is appropriate."


Home Secretary Theresa May has unveiled a reform of the UK's asylum rules during an uncompromising speech to the Conservative Party conference.

Mrs May pledged to reduce the numbers claiming in Britain while taking in the "most vulnerable" refugees from conflict zones around the world.
She also said high migration made a "cohesive society" impossible.
Her speech was criticised by business groups, with the Institute of Directors attacking its "irresponsible rhetoric".
Net migration into the UK currently stands at a record high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March.
The home secretary told the Conservative Party conference Britain "does not need" net migration at current levels, saying the net economic effect was "close to zero" at best.
In other developments:
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mrs May's comments on immigration were "extraordinarily tough" and "utterly uncompromising".
Beforehand, Prime Minister David Cameron had said he agreed with what she was to say.
Addressing the party conference in Manchester, she said the main way of claiming asylum - by people already in the country - had failed, and rewarded "wealthiest, the luckiest and the strongest".
The UK would not adopt a common EU policy "in a thousand years" she said, promising a "new British approach", including tougher treatment for people who have travelled to the UK from other safe countries.
People who have "spurned the chance to seek protection elsewhere" will not have an automatic right to stay in the UK, she said.
Instead, priority will be given to "helping the most vulnerable people in the world's most dangerous places", she pledged.
The first ever "annual asylum strategy" will be published next year, along with a register of people and organisations able to accommodate refugees.
The overhaul also includes a new system of "safe return reviews" so asylum seekers can be returned home when their country is assessed as being safe, and the use of alternative ID documents to remove failed asylum seekers who do not have their own passports.
Mrs May also said refugees should not be "conflated" with economic migrants.
The "desire for a better life is perfectly understandable" she said, but "there is a limit to the amount of immigration any country can and should take".
Controls are needed, she said: "Because when immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society. It's difficult for schools and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to cope."
Wages are also forced down and some people "forced out of work altogether", she added: "But even if we could manage all the consequences of mass immigration, Britain does not need net migration in the hundreds of thousands every year."
Mrs May said immigrants could fill skills gaps, but said "not every person coming to Britain right now is a skilled electrician, engineer or doctor".
She said evidence showed that "at best the net economic and fiscal effect of high immigration is close to zero" and that there was "no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade".
The home secretary hit back at critics of her planned crackdown on student visas, saying "too many" students were not returning when their visas run out.
"So I don't care what the university lobbyists say: the rules must be enforced.
"Students, yes. Over-stayers, no. And the universities must make this happen."
Analysis by Dominic Casciani
Read more: What's the direction of Tory immigration policy?
Institute of Directors director general Simon Walker said he was "astonished" by the home secretary's "irresponsible rhetoric and pandering to anti-immigration sentiment".
"It is yet another example of the home secretary turning away the world's best and brightest, putting internal party politics ahead of the country, and helping our competitor economies instead of our own," he said, adding that "the myth of the job-stealing-immigrant is nonsense".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, John Cridland, of the CBI, said the government was ending up penalising skilled workers who "add hugely to the collective economic strength of the economy".
Refugee Council chief executive Maurice Wren said the asylum changes were "thoroughly chilling".
"The home secretary's idea that the few refugees who reach Britain's shores under their own steam are not in need of protection is fundamentally flawed," he said.
"Becoming a refugee is not solely the privilege of the poor or infirm."
UKIP accused the Conservatives of "meaningless targets and use PR bluster", saying immigration could only be controlled by leaving the EU.
Ministers have admitted missing their target to reduce net migration below 100,000, blaming the scale of migration from within Europe.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cameron said he agreed with Mrs May's comments on the subject, saying integrating new arrivals was "more difficult if you have excessive levels of migration".
The PM also said he was "incredibly proud" the UK had built one of the "most successful multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracies anywhere in the world".
But he said that for an "integrated, successful society you have to make sure there are enough school places and that hospitals aren't overcrowded".
According to the latest figures released in August, net migration of EU citizens was 183,000, up 53,000 from the year ending March 2014.
The number of those arriving from countries outside the EU was still larger, with net migration measured at 196,000, up 39,000 on a year earlier.


Zambia's President Michael Sata has gone abroad for a medical check-up amid persistent speculation that he is seriously ill.

Mr Sata's office said the 77-year-old leader flew out on Sunday but it did not disclose his destination.
Mr Sata made a rare public appearance last month to tell parliament: "I am not dead."
The BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo says this is the first time the authorities have said he is seeking medical treatment.
Defence Minister Edgar Lungu has been named acting president.
Known as "King Cobra" for his venomous tongue, Mr Sata was elected Zambia's president in 2011.
It is unclear whether he will return by Friday to preside over celebrations to mark 50 years of Zambia's independence.
Mr Sata has not been seen in  public since returning from the UN General Assembly last month, where he failed to make a scheduled speech, the AFP news agency reports.


A driver who lost control of his car on a bend and ploughed into a motorcyclist has accepted he was responsible for the fatal crash, Mold Crown Court heard.

Christopher Davies, 52, from Holywell in Flintshire died in hospital last August following the collision at nearby Carmel.
On Monday, Gareth Ifan Ritchie pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving during the hearing.
Ritchie will be sentenced in July. He was given an interim driving ban.
The court was told that he was travelling at speeds of between 52 and 63 mph on a 60 mph stretch of the A5026 at Carmel.
As he negotiated a bend, the car drifted across the carriageway into Mr Davies.
The motorcyclist was taken to Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, but died from multiple injuries.
Ritchie, from Caerwys, told police he did not have any memory of the accident, except that the motorcyclist was travelling at speed.
But prosecutor David Mainstone told the court that the speed of the biker was irrelevant.
"The fact is that the defendant lost control of his car and strayed into the opposite lane," he said.
"That is the cause of the accident, not the speed the deceased was travelling at."
Describing the defendant as a man of good character with a clean driving record, his barrister Daniel Oscroft said: "He does not remember the accident at all.
"He knows that in the absence of any evidence to the contrary he must accept the prosecution case."
Sentencing was adjourned until 23 July.


More than 150 previously unseen photographs of life at a World War One airfield have gone on display.

Servicemen stationed at East Boldre Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force training station in Hampshire, known as RFC Beaulieu, captured aircraft, crashes and comrades on camera.
One photo shows an aircraft that made a soft landing on the roof of the local post office.
Airfield chairman Mike Husband said of the exhibition: "We're just delighted".
He added: "[The photos] paint a much better picture of what life was like 100 years ago."
The airfield, near the New Forest, became a flying school in 1915 and was home to a number of men training to become pilots, some of whom had already served as soldiers on the Western front.
Most of the photographs come from private family albums or have been "gathering dust" in attics.
In total 33 servicemen and civilian flying instructors are known to have lost their lives in flying accidents at the airfield.
Many of the photographs on display at this exhibition were taken by Russel Lang and Brian Tomlinson who were stationed at East Boldre during World War One.
The original photos were tiny and many were in poor condition, but East Boldre resident Robin Street spent "hundreds of hours" at his computer, enhancing, repairing and enlarging them for the exhibition.
The exhibition, which commemorates the centenary of World War One, can be viewed at East Boldre village hall, formerly the airfield's mess hall.


Jim Broadbent will play the detective charged with tracking down the Great Train Robbers in the second of two BBC dramas marking the 50th anniversary of the August 1963 raid.

The actor said he was "thrilled" to be asked to portray Tommy Butler in The Great Train Robbery: A Copper's Tale.
The drama will follow A Robber's Tale, which will view the heist from the perspective of its perpetrators.
Luke Evans will star in that film as Bruce Reynolds, the raid's key planner.
Broadbent said it would be "great fun" to play Butler, "a fascinating copper of the old school", in the drama, to air later this year.
"I have such strong memories of the massive impact of the actual robbery and it is wonderful to find out from the script so much of the real story."
Chris Chibnall, executive producer and writer of the Great Train Robbery dramas, said Broadbent was "a dream piece of casting".
The actor won an Oscar in 2001 for playing the husband of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris and a Bafta in 2007 for playing the campaigner Lord Longford.
Butler, whose astuteness earned him the nickname "Grey Fox", led the investigation into the Great Train Robbery which resulted in several of the robbers receiving lengthy sentences.
He retired in 1969 and died the following year at the age of 57.


Sex offenders at a Nottinghamshire prison are waiting up to two years for treatment because of "inadequate" funding, a prison watchdog says.

HMP Whatton faced a "a considerable backlog" with 250 of its 840 inmates treated last year, the Independent Monitoring Board said.
The IMB said the behaviour programmes were a key part of the prison's rehabilitation scheme.
A prison spokesman said it was looking at increasing treatment programmes.
An HM Inspectorate of Prisons report has confirmed the funding for sex offender treatment at the prison was "inadequate", he added.
John Webster, of the prison's monitoring board, said the number of inmates on waiting lists for courses was "between two and five times higher - depending on the type of course - than the number of places actually available".
"Prisoners regularly tell us they have been waiting for up to two years to get on the course," Mr Webster said.
"Our concern is that people ostensibly come to Whatton to go on this sex offender treatment programme and because of cutbacks generally they sometimes have to wait for up to two years to get a place on the course."
The Ministry of Justice said it was looking to "increase the availability of treatment programmes and had created the Sex Offender Management Board to address this."
In a statement, it added: "As highlighted in the Independent Monitoring Board's report, HMP Whatton is operating well."
An IMB report said the prison offers "a range of offending behaviour programmes with particular focus on cognitive treatment, such as the Sex Offenders Treatment Programme, Thinking Skills Programme, Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it (CALM)."
The prison, which has the largest sex offender treatment centre in Europe, also offers anti-libidinal drug therapy to about 60 prisoners.
The IMB said the drug treatment, which suppresses sexual thoughts and urges, was "encouraging" and was having "a positive effect" on inmates.
The medical treatment process, which started as a pilot scheme in 2009, is completely voluntary.
The IMB report praised staff at the prison but said a funding shortfall was to blame for lack of training.


The Wales Rally GB will continue until at least 2018, it has been announced.

Organiser International Motor Sports confirmed it had reached agreement with the Welsh government over hosting the event for the next three years.
Wales Rally GB is the UK's round of the World Rally Championship.
This year's event is due to take place in November in north and mid Wales. It brings around Â£10m to the Welsh economy each year through tourism and business.


This summer's Champions League final at Cardiff's Principality Stadium could be the first played under a closed roof.

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But Uefa will have the final say, according to Football Association of Wales project director Alan Hamer.
He expects the roof to be open unless bad weather hits the event on 3 June.
"I've not been made aware of any decisions so I assume that other stadiums didn't have roofs so the roof would be open unless we're told anything different," said Hamer.
The stadium in Cardiff City centre will be the first with a retractable roof to stage European football's showpiece club match.
Asked if there was any possibility the roof might be closed, Hamer added: "Potentially yes, it's a question I've been asked several times by people.
"It's an interesting one, it's Uefa's decision it's their event.
"Normally it's only closed in football when the conditions dictate really.
"I think if we had really poor weather that would put the pitch in jeopardy then clearly it's an obvious decision, but on a day like today where we can see the blue skies we'll see what comes out of it."
Hamer says the FAW hopes bringing the final to Cardiff will lead to an increase in participation.
"We were very clear from the outset that one of our three objectives was to leave a lasting legacy," he added.
"There'd be no benefit for the FAW to stage an event for the kudos. There has to be a tangible legacy.
"For the FAW the true test I guess will be in 2019-2020 (if) are there are more people playing football that were in 2015?
"After the Euros last year we've already made a difference.  With Champions League and Women's Champions league final we'd be disappointed I think if it didn't make a difference.
"That's why we're putting a lot of time into community programmes we're doing.
"We don't have to do these things they're not obligations for the FAW, they're things we choose because of our legacy plan."


Tributes have paid by people on the Isle of Man to a woman who was killed while out cycling.

Kathryn Burge, 41, died when she was in collision with a car on Main Road, in Kirk Michael, on Monday evening.
Police said a dark blue Range Rover was involved in the crash.
A spokeswoman from Noble's hospital, where Ms Burge worked as a physiotherapist, said she was "a valued and much loved member of staff", whose loss was "a shock".
She added: "We are so sad today- all of our thoughts are with Kate's family, friends and close colleagues at this difficult time".
Richie Stevenson, chairman of Manx Fell Runners, where Ms Burge was a member, said: "[She was] a very pleasant and likeable person and a talented athlete who could perform to a very high standard on fells, road and cross country.
"Manx Fell Runners would like to pass on their condolences to all Kate`s family and friends," he said.


Uber has offered £20m ($28.5m) to settle two US lawsuits which argued that its safety claims were misleading.

As the lawsuits represent around 25 million US Uber customers, this amounts to an individual payout of just over a dollar each.
The proceedings claimed that the lift-hailing app was charging a "safe ride fee" but not carrying out adequate background checks on its drivers.
Uber said it would rename the charge a "booking fee".
It also pledged to change the wording of its advertising to avoid safety-related language.
The settlement requires court approval and applies to journeys booked in the US between 1 January 2013 and 1 January 2016.
"We are glad to put these cases behind us and we will continue to invest in new technology and great customer services so that we can help improve safety in the cities we serve," the firm said in a statement.
Uber track its drivers' cars via GPS and shares a photo of the driver with customers before they get in the car.
"No means of transportation can ever be 100% safe. Accidents and incidents do happen," it added.
"That's why it's important to ensure that the language we use to describe safety at Uber is clear and precise."


A rediscovered original Robert Burns manuscript is to go on display at a Renfrewshire museum in the new year.

The short verse has been in Paisley Museum and Art Gallery's collection for almost 100 years.
It was verified last year by Professor Gerard Carruthers of Glasgow University Centre for Robert Burns Studies.
The parchment will go on display at the museum in January to coincide with Burns Night and when light levels are low enough to protect the delicate ink.
The verse, which was written in reply to a party invitation, is said to be in typical Burns style and uses wordplay combining the tradition for indicating the day of writing, with something that suggests he is worse for wear, in "Foorsday".
The Bard also highlights his joy at the invitation and promises to attend whether by horse or by cart.
Prof Carruthers said: "The manuscript is clearly in the handwriting of Robert Burns. The ink and paper are a good match to other authentic Burns manuscript productions.
"The poem dates from 1785 to 1786.
"The first publication to give an indication of its origins and how it came to be in the collection of Paisley Library is The Works of Robert Burns Volumes 1-5, edited by The Ettrick Shepherd and William Motherwell."
The poem will be on display annually at the museum between 17 January and 19 February starting next year.
Councillor Jim Harte, chairman of Renfrewshire Leisure, said: "I am absolutely delighted that the only existing manuscript of a lovely piece of Burns social verse will be on display in Paisley Museum in the new year for a limited period and each subsequent January thereafter.
"We are proud to possess this charming piece and thrilled to share it with visitors during what is an extremely important time for Scotland's largest town."


Wales have suffered a fresh world ranking blow after dropping five places down the latest Fifa list to 117th.

Gary Speed's team have fallen below Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Guyana, Korea DPR and Haiti in the August standings.
Wales were overtaken by the Faroe Islands in July and were among the sixth and last Uefa seeds for the recent World Cup draw.
England climb from sixth to fourth, with Scotland in 55th and Northern Ireland in 59th place.
1  Netherlands
2  Spain
3  Germany
4  England
5  Uruguay
31  Republic of Ireland
55  Scotland
59  Northern Ireland
111 Faroe Islands
116 Haiti
117  Wales
Rob Earnshaw recently challenged his Wales team-mates to prove they were better than their lowly Fifa world ranking, before Gary Speed's men lost 2-1 to Australia at the Cardiff City Stadium
Wales now face a tough task to qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil after being drawn in Group A with Scotland, Croatia, Serbia, Belgium and Macedonia, who are managed by former Wales boss John Toshack.
The Republic of Ireland have risen to 31st in Fifa's list, while the Netherlands swap places with Spain at the top of the rankings.
Brazil drop out of the top five into sixth place.
Meanwhile, Wales Women remain in 47th place in the Fifa rankings.


Ireland skipper Rory Best has been ruled out of Saturday's Six Nations game against Italy because of illness.

Ulster hooker Best, 34,  is suffering from a stomach bug so Munster's Niall Scannell, 24, will win his first cap at the Stadio Olimpico.
Leinster's James Tracy, who earned his first cap against Canada in November, has been promoted to the bench.
Best's regular Ireland understudy Sean Cronin has been ruled out of the entire Six Nations by a hamstring injury.
Skipper Best missed Friday's captain's run in Rome after feeling unwell overnight.
The Ireland management expressed optimism on Friday that Best would recover sufficiently to lead the side but he was ruled out of the game just over an hour before kick-off.
Vice-captain Jamie Heaslip will now skipper the side in Rome as Best's run of 51 successive Six Nations games comes to an end.
Ireland are aiming to regroup in Rome after their surprise opening defeat by Scotland last weekend.
The Irish line-out misfired during the first half at Murrayfield and there will be fears that Scannell's late call-up could put the visitors under further pressure in the crucial set-piece.
Italy clinched their first Six Nations victory over an under-strength Ireland in Declan Kidney's final season in charge in 2013 but Joe Schmidt's side have won four subsequent contests against the Azzurri.


A Canadian-Iranian academic has been released from prison by Iranian authorities, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed.

The release was given on "humanitarian grounds", Iranian state media report.
Homa Hoodfar, 65, was one of several dual nationals being held for alleged "acts against national security".
She was ill and is being returned to Canada via Oman, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported, citing the foreign ministry.
Mr Trudeau said the federal government had been "engaged at the highest levels" with her case.
"Canadians are relieved that Dr Hoodfar has been released from jail and will soon be reunited with her family, friends and colleagues," he said.
Canada, which cut diplomatic ties with Iran in 2012, worked closely with officials from Oman, Italy and Switzerland to help secure the academic's release.
Those Iranian authorities which assisted "understand that cases like these impede more productive relations," Mr Trudeau said.
Iran does not recognise dual nationality, which prevents those detained from receiving consular assistance.
Three others - Iranian-British national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Lebanese-US permanent resident Nizar Zakka and Iranian-US national Siamak Namazi - were all formally indicted alongside Ms Hoodfar in July.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker, has been jailed for five years on secret charges, her husband said last month.
Mr Zakka, an information and communication technology consultant, was sentenced to 10 years on 19 September by a secret tribunal, his supporters say.
Ms Hoodfar, formerly a professor of anthropology at Montreal's Concordia University, was initially detained in March but then released.
Three months later, she was arrested again and transferred to Evin prison, notorious for its treatment of detainees.
Her family said she has been accused of "dabbling in feminism and security matters".
The recent arrests of dual nationals appear to be part of a campaign by hardliners in Iran, BBC World Service Middle East Editor Sebastian Usher says.


Leicester City defender Marcin Wasilewski has signed a new one-year contract with the Premier League champions.

The 36-year-old Poland international provided cover for first-choice centre-backs Wes Morgan and Robert Huth last season, starting just eight games.
He said on Instagram: "Signed a new contract. I am glad I will be one year longer part of this team and club."
Wasilewski joined City on a free transfer in the summer of 2013.
He has made a total of 72 appearances for the club, scoring two goals.
The centre-half has won 60 international caps but last played for Poland in 2013 and is not in their squad at Euro 2016.


The actor Robert Hardy, star of TV series All Creatures Great and Small, has died aged 91, his family has said.

Hardy, they said, had a "tremendous life" and "a giant career in theatre, television and film spanning more than 70 years".
He was also known for numerous portrayals of Winston Churchill.
In more recent years, he appeared as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, in four of the Harry Potter films.
His family said: "Gruff, elegant, twinkly, and always dignified, he is celebrated by all who knew him and loved him, and everyone who enjoyed his work."
His children Emma, Justine and Paul said in the statement: "Dad is also remembered as a meticulous linguist, a fine artist, a lover of music and a champion of literature, as well a highly respected historian, and a leading specialist on the longbow.
"He was an essential part of the team that raised the great Tudor warship The Mary Rose."
With his instantly recognisable voice and British bulldog manner, Robert Hardy enjoyed a distinguished acting career which spanned seven decades.
By the time he endeared himself to television audiences in the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small, he had already carved out a reputation as one of Britain's most versatile actors.
While his earlier career gave him a firm grounding in the theatre his best known roles were in front of the camera - particularly in television, a medium he obviously enjoyed.
Hardy, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, started his acting career at the age of 24 with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Stratford, later the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring in a stage adaptation of Coriolanus.
The RSC said it was "very sorry" to learn of his death and posted a picture from one of his productions.
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Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films, described Hardy as "a very kind man who told wonderful stories".
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The official Twitter account of Westminster Abbey shared a tribute on social media, remembering his reading from Henry V to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, in 2015.
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The British Film Institute also posted a message in response to the "sad" news, while Magdalen College, where Hardy attended university, also paid tribute to him on Twitter.
One of Hardy's earliest TV roles was portraying Cassio in Othello in 1955.
He went on to become a household name in the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small, which ran for 12 years, in which he played senior vet Siegfried Farnon.
Co-star Christopher Timothy remembered him on Thursday as a "fascinating" actor who had been "a joy to work with".
"He didn't suffer fools so he was sometimes quite tricky," he told Radio 4's PM programme. "But I was most grateful for his experience, confidence, wit and style."
Timothy said he had last seen Hardy 18 months ago and found him "frail, yet still sparkly and twinkly."
"He was a very clever fellow," he went on. "I remember once on set he was talking about manure, and his description of the smell was poetry."
Nick Betts, director of scripted production at BBC Studios, said Hardy was an "iconic British actor of stage and screen".
"We are very sorry to hear of his passing today and our thoughts go out to his family and friends."
Other TV roles included Arthur Brooke in Middlemarch in 1994 and Tite Barnacle in Little Dorrit in 2008.
On the big screen he was seen in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and 1995's Sense and Sensibility.
He played Churchill several times, including in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, for which he won a Bafta in 1982.
He portrayed the wartime prime minister for preview performances of The Audience, alongside Dame Helen Mirren, in 2013 before withdrawing from the role.
Most recently, he took the lead role in Winston Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain in 2015.
Hardy believed actors were born rather than made, telling the BBC's Desert Island Discs his ambitions were formed when he appeared as a page boy at a wedding.
"I walked down the aisle with my head held high and as I went, every eye was turned towards me and something inside me said, 'that's it, get every eye on you'."
Hardy was made a CBE in 1981 for services to acting.
He died at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in the outskirts of London.
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Republican President-elect Donald Trump has described an impending recount of votes in Wisconsin as a "scam".

Mr Trump, who narrowly won the state, said the results "should be respected instead of being challenged or abused".
Green Party candidate Jill Stein had initiated the recount. She also wants recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, citing "statistical anomalies".
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign has said it would participate in Wisconsin's recount.
Results would need to be overturned in all three states to alter the outcome of the 8 November presidential election.
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In a statement released by his transition team on Saturday, Mr Trump accused Dr Stein of trying to "fill her coffers with money" on the pretext of asking for donations towards a recount.
"The people have spoken and the election is over," the statement said.
Dr Stein defended her recount initiative, telling CNN that "the point to drive home here is that having a secure elections process benefits us all".
She also suggested that she was open to looking at recounts in other states - not just Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign's general counsel, Marc Elias, said the camp and outside experts had been "conducting an extensive review of election results, searching for any signs that the voting process had been tampered with".
He said there was no evidence to conclude the election had been sabotaged, but "we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to participate in ongoing proceedings to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported".
Mr Elias noted that the number of votes separating Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton in the closest of the three states - Michigan - "well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount".
However, he said the campaign would join in "on principle" in the Midwestern states if Dr Stein followed through on her promise.
The Green Party nominee reportedly wants to be sure computer hackers did not skew the poll in favour of Mr Trump.
Concerns over possible Russian interference had been expressed in the run-up to the vote.
The US government has said Russian state actors were behind hacks on the Democratic National Committee, a claim denied by Moscow.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission said it had received recount petitions, and the process would begin after Dr Stein's campaign had paid the fee, which the commission was still calculating.
Dr Stein's campaign needs to raise millions of dollars to cover the fees for the vote recount in all three states.
Her website says nearly $6m (Â£4.8m; â‚¬5.6m) has already been raised toward a $7m target. It says this is enough to fund the recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The deadline for the petition for the recount in Wisconsin was Friday, while Pennsylvania's deadline is Monday, and Michigan's is Wednesday.
Michigan is yet to declare its final results.
Wisconsin provides only 10 votes in the crucial electoral college that gave Mr Trump victory in the 8 November election.
Wins there for Mrs Clinton, as well as in Michigan (16 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), would have clinched the presidency for the Democrat.


Two anti-corruption hunger strikes in India this summer have been largely ignored by the authorities and the public but the anti-graft movement does seem to be worrying politicians and civil servants.

Last summer, the government was rattled by evidence of corruption, including massive sums of money mis-spent on preparations for the Commonwealth Games and the exchequer losing perhaps as much as Â£24bn ($40bn) by selling mobile-phone frequencies cheaply to favoured operators. So when the campaigners fasted in protest against these and other scandals, ministers lost their nerve.
In April last year, crowds poured into the streets of Delhi in support of the fast by Anna Hazare, a social worker who has emerged from the obscurity of rural western India to become the figurehead of a national movement against corruption.
Mr Hazare demanded the establishment of an ombudsman.
Seeing the public support for him and fearing that - at the age of 74 - he might die, ministers hurriedly agreed to set up a committee to establish an independent body to investigate misappropriation of government funds.
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Hardly had the fast ended before the saffron-robed yoga guru Baba Ramdev came to Delhi to protest against corruption.
Knowing of the popularity of his televised yoga classes, four ministers rushed to the airport to greet him but they failed to persuade him to call off his fast.
Alarmed by the crowds Baba Ramdev attracted, the home minister sent the police in the middle of the night to disperse them.
This they did with considerable brutality, arresting Baba Ramdev as he tried to escape dressed as a woman.
When Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev returned to Delhi to fast this year, the government decided that the steam had gone out of their movements and the best policy was to ignore them.
Mr Hazare was protesting because there was still no agreement on the ombudsman he wanted.
This time Delhi did not turn out to support him.
After three days, he called off his fast amidst confusion about whether he had asked his colleagues to form a political party or not.
When I visited the camp in the middle of Delhi which Baba Ramdev established this year for his fast demanding the recovery of all the illegal Indian funds deposited in foreign banks, police officers were relaxing in chairs and constables leaning on their lead-tipped lathis or staves.
I found very little evidence of support from the general public. The only backing I could find was among his dedicated disciples.
The government ignored Baba Ramdev until, seeing that his fast was going nowhere, he called on his supporters to march on parliament.
He managed to turn his temporary arrest into a drama which brought traffic in central Delhi to a halt.
The police treated him with kid gloves.
With the fasts over, can the government revert to the Indian tradition of accepting corruption as a part of life?
That tradition goes back 3,000 years to the political theorist Chanakya, known as the Indian Machiavelli.
He said: "Just as it's impossible not to taste honey or poison when it's on the tip of the tongue, so it's impossible for a government servant not to eat up at least a bit of the king's revenue."
Bringing it nearer to our time, Indira Gandhi dismissed corruption as "a global phenomenon" and, the other day, a minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, told officials it was alright to steal but not to loot.
The limited support for Mr Hazare's fast indicates that middle-class anger against corruption is not the potent force that it was said to be at the height of his popularity last year. Although Baba Ramdev can rally his own supporters, there is little evidence that his movement enjoys mass support.
But during this fast by the Baba, the main opposition party - the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party - and some of its allies came out in his support.
They clearly believe he wields a big enough stick to help them defeat the governing coalition in the 2014 elections.
It is not just the politics of the anti-corruption campaign which worry the government.
Businessmen openly - and officials privately - say the whole administration has slowed down perceptibly because, in the present feverish atmosphere, civil servants are reluctant to take decisions for fear of being accused of corruption by the opposition or indeed the media.
But there seems little the ruling Congress party can do. As one senior congressman put it to me: "Baba Ramdev and Anna have brought corruption centre-stage and it's likely to stay there."
Doubtless the Baba will produce more dramas to keep himself in the frame.
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Welsh Commonwealth Games swimmer Rob Holderness is using crowdfunding to attempt to make the Rio 2016 Olympics.

The 25-year-old was seventh in the 200m Commonwealth games breaststroke final and sixth in the 4x100m medley in 2014.
Glastonbury-based Holderness, along with English swimmer Tristan Slater, has so far raised almost £2,000 to swim in April's Olympic trials in Glasgow.
"The training costs associated with swimming are just incredible nowadays," he told BBC Somerset.
"You've got all the travel costs, accommodation, entry fees, and I have a job that I just can't do enough hours to make the money.
"We got told by the coaches to try this crowdfunding website and within two or three days we had two thousand pounds and that goes a long way."


Cutting councillor numbers when local authorities are merged could damage democracy, an independent review says.

The report by Cardiff Business School warns of "implications for community representation" and says higher workloads could deter people from standing for election.
Ministers have said that reorganisation plans will mean fewer councillors.
A Welsh government spokeswoman said "effective community governance" is being considered.
Dr James Downe, from the business school, was asked to evaluate the standard of scrutiny in local government.
There are 1,264 local authority councillors in Wales - around 40 more than the number serving Scotland's larger population.
But Dr Downe said reducing the numbers would make it harder for councillors to do their jobs properly.
The Welsh government spokeswoman said ministers are "considering the legislation and consultation which will be required in preparation for local government reforms."


A "scarce" grassland around the ancient ruins of a Denbighshire castle has been protected as a site of special scientific interest.

The rare plants around Dinas Bran, a medieval castle and iron age hillfort above Llangollen and the Dee Valley, have been awarded national recognition.
Natural Resources Wales says important species of birds and butterflies "rely on the grassland and other habitats".
It is also home to upright chickweed, shepherd's cress and greater broomrap.
"The grasslands found here are scarce in lowland Britain," said Richard May, conservation officer for NRW.
"And Dinas Bran has the second largest area in Wales of one type of acid grassland."
The remains of Dinas Bran castle and hillfort date back to the occupation of the princes of Powys Fadog in the mid 13th century and they have been protected since 1957.
"Dinas Bran is hugely popular with walkers, attracting thousands of people a year to visit the iron age hillfort and medieval castle set in a spectacular landscape," added Mr May.
"By working in partnership with landowners, we look forward to helping to manage the site's special features so that we and future generations can continue to enjoy Dinas Bran's rich natural and historical heritage."


About 40 people have protested outside the BBC Sports Personality of the Year venue in Belfast over the nomination of boxer Tyson Fury.

Fury has made controversial comments about women and has appeared to equate homosexuality with paedophilia.
The protest at the SSE Arena has been organised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups.
The event has attracted some of the biggest names in sport.
John O'Doherty, director of the Rainbow Project, said: 'It is very disappointing that the BBC have ignored public opinion and refused to remove Tyson Fury from the shortlist.
"An excellent boxer Tyson Fury may be, however his extremely callous and erroneous remarks about our community make him an unworthy candidate to be recognised among the UK's excellent sporting personalities and ambassadors."
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Stormont Sport Minister CarÃ¡l NÃ ChuilÃn met the protesters and expressed solidarity with them.
"We believe that the remarks that were made by Tyson Fury were disgraceful, they were appalling, they were misogynistic, they were homophobic, and they have no place in a modern society," Mr McGuinness said.
"I think that those remarks should be withdrawn and an apology should be made. But apart from that it's hopefully it's going to be a great night."
Fury was one of 12 contenders in the running for the award.


Rio Olympic medallists Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge suffered defeat in the first round of the India Open on a mixed day for English players.

Ellis and Langridge, who won Olympic bronze last summer, lost 21-18 21-18 to Taiwan's Jhe-Huei Lee and Yang Lee.
Ellis progressed in the mixed doubles alongside Lauren Smith, while Chris and Gabby Adcock also advanced.
Smith earlier teamed up with Sarah Walker to reach the second round of the women's doubles.


Two men who sold a lost iPhone 4 prototype to technology blog Gizmodo have been sentenced to one year of probation, avoiding jail time.

Brian John Hogan, 22, and Sage Robert Wallower, 28, were fined $250 (Â£159) - but allowed to keep the $4,750 (Â£3,014) they made from the sale.
They will also have to do 40 hours of public service.
An Apple engineer left the device at a bar in Redwood, California in March 2010, before it was unveiled.
Mr Hogan and Mr Wallower both pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour charge of theft of lost property.
Gizmodo journalists, including the editor Jason Chen, whose home was raided by police after the blog obtained the device for $5,000 (Â£3,173), escaped prosecution.
Technology website CNET reported that San Mateo county DA Richard Wagstaffe asked for jail time, but the judge ruled otherwise.
"The judge considered that Mr Wallower had served in the armed forces and Mr Hogan was enrolled in San Jose State, and neither had any criminal record, and decided that jail time wasn't required.
"This was a couple of youthful people who should have known better."
A California law states that anyone who finds lost property and knows who the owner might be but "appropriates such property to his own use" is guilty of theft.
Gray Powell, the Apple computer engineer who lost the phone, forgot it while out celebrating his 27th birthday at a German beer garden called Haus Staudt.
The phone was disguised as an iPhone 3G version, but the people who obtained it worked out its true identity.
After Apple discovered that the handset had been sold to Gizmodo, it demanded that the device be returned.
The Cupertino-based electronics giant even contacted police who searched Mr Chen's home and confiscated three Apple laptops, a 32GB Apple iPad, a 16GB iPhone and a Samsung digital camera.
Gizmodo eventually did give the prototype back - but only after it published photos and a video of the device on its website.
The story became known as The Complete Lost iPhone Saga.
Former Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam reflected on the incident in his blog.
"An hour after the story went live, the phone rang and the number was from Apple HQ," he wrote, adding that the call was from the former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who died on 5 October 2011.
Mr Jobs asked to have his phone back.
"He wasn't demanding. He was asking. And he was charming and he was funny," wrote Mr Lam.
"I appreciate you had your fun with our phone and I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the sales guy who lost it," continued Mr Lam, quoting Mr Jobs. "But we need the phone back because we can't let it fall into the wrong hands."
"Before he hung up, he asked me, 'What do you think of it?"
"I said, 'It's beautiful."
When Mr Jobs unveiled the iPhone 4 at an event in San Francisco on 7 June 2010, he joked about the lost phone incident.
"Stop me if you've already seen this," he said, as he introduced the device.
On his blog, Mr Lam wrote that although the story was a huge scoop and he did not regret the way Gizmodo handled it from a professional point of view, he was still sorry.
On 14 September, a few weeks before the Apple co-founder died of a respiratory arrest, Mr Lam sent him a letter of apology.
"Steve, a few months have passed since all that iPhone 4 stuff went down, and I just wanted to say that I wish things happened differently.
"I probably should have quit right after the first story was published for several different reasons.
"I didn't know how to say that without throwing my team under the bus, so I didn't.
"Now I've learned it's better to lose a job I don't believe in any more than to do it well and keep it just for that sake.
"I'm sorry for the problems I caused you."
He never received a reply.


Jenny Lewis has been photographing artists who live and work in Hackney - but rather than setting out with a list of names, she asks each sitter to suggest the next person in the chain.

This gives the project a vitality that sees her moving from established names to those on the first rung of the ladder, and back again.
Lewis says: "Hackney is still full of creative people working down side-alleys, tucked behind residential streets, in old factories and warehouses as well as new studio communities."
She is aware that as time passes, the area is changing, and this could be last chance to capture this creative community.
Lewis says that even some of those she has photographed have since had to move out.
"The borough is evolving so quickly it sometimes feels like historical documentation, recording the way things once were," she says, "capturing a studio with the 20 or so years build up of detritus before the slate is wiped clean and a block of flats takes its place."
You can see more of Jenny Lewis's work on her website.


Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend hailed a "seminal weekend" for Scottish rugby after his side clinched first European Champions Cup quarter-final by hammering Leicester Tigers.

Glasgow inflicted the Tigers heaviest-ever European defeat with a 43-0 six-try thumping at Welford Road.
Warriors will play Munster or Saracens away from home in the last eight.
"I know how important a day this is for us a club, but also for Scottish rugby," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"This is a seminal weekend. It'd be great to build on this, in the next few weeks during the Six Nations, but also over the next few years.
"We've started something over the last couple of years. It started in Belfast and Dublin with the number of supporters that went over to watch us in Pro12 finals. This is how it starts.
"The noise they make, it's not like they're just any supporters. Scotstoun is a special atmosphere, today was so noisy. The Glaswegians love their city and love their sports teams and it's great they get behind our rugby team."
Townsend feels the occasion comes close to matching Glasgow's Pro12 title triumph in 2015, when his side thrashed Munster at Belfast's Kingspan Stadium.
"The Pro12 final, its hard to top that, but in many ways today reminded me of that day," he said. "The support, the way the players delivered in such a big occasion. We were just sitting back watching with pride at how well the played."
Glasgow will travel to Pro12 heavyweights Munster, or defending champions Saracens in the quarter-finals.
Warriors lost narrowly to Munster, who finished top of Pool 1, in a gruelling battle at Scotstoun last weekend.
"Munster are a team we know really well," Townsend said. "Last week was a really high-quality game. I watched all the other games in Europe last week, and I felt that one was the closest to Test quality.
"That shows you how good a team Munster are, but we played a big part and were disappointed not to win. Whoever we play, it's going to be tough, we're away from home, but we have won two big games away from home in Europe this season (against Racing 92 and Leicester)."
Glasgow fly-half Finn Russell says, in becoming the first Warriors side to reach the last eight, the squad have fulfilled their primary aim for the season.
"At the start of the year, qualifying for Europe was probably the club's main goal," he said. "After a narrow loss to Munster we knew how tough it was going to be. There's still a long way to go yet but today was a brilliant performance.
"Everything we planned for all week and the way we predicted the game was going to go happened. It's not often you get that. We scored early on and kept the foot down.
"The confidence we had, the forwards with the line-out drives and set-piece were outstanding. We're on the bus back up the road tonight - we'll hopefully get a couple of beers, but we're back in camp tomorrow!"


Ex-Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard says he has "options on and off the pitch" after announcing he will leave MLS club LA Galaxy.

Gerrard, 36, joined Galaxy in 2015 and scored five goals in 34 appearances during two seasons in America. His contract expires next month.
"It's certainly not the end of me in football terms," said Gerrard, who has been linked with Newcastle and Celtic.
"I'm going home to spend time with family and decide the best challenge."
He added: "I've got options on the pitch, off the pitch and I've got a bit of thinking to do over the next two, three weeks."
Galaxy were beaten on penalties by Colorado Rapids in the MLS Cup play-offs on 6 November and Gerrard admitted he was disappointed at not fulfilling his "objective" of helping Bruce Arena's side win the trophy.
But he said he was "proud" of his accomplishments in the US, adding his time there was an "incredible experience".
Arena said Gerrard - who won 114 England caps - was "one of the most iconic players of all-time".
Gerrard's move away from MLS comes a day after former England team-mate Frank Lampard, 38, announced he would leave New York City FC.
Neither have offered clarity on their futures, although Gerrard is adamant he will "be back involved in the game".
Gerrard made 710 appearances for Liverpool between 1998 and 2015 and trained at their Melwood base during the MLS off-season.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said the club legend is "always so welcome" and Gerrard is known to be studying for his Uefa A coaching licence.


A hunt for five gold art works, which can only be found by cracking clues in five paintings, has started.

Artist Luke Jerram is behind Treasure City where artworks worth at least Â£1,000 each have been hidden around Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
To find and keep the pieces, visitors to the 20-21 Arts Centre in the town must study paintings with codes - some of which are "extremely hard" to crack.
Mathematician and code-setter Dan Fretwell has encrypted the messages.
There was a queue of people eager to see the paintings with the codes as the arts centre opened at 10:00 GMT.
Bristol-based artist Mr Jerram said: "There is no way I could crack the most difficult one, I could certainly crack probably two or three of the paintings.
"Some are really easy to decode, whereas the most complicated painting, it would take maybe a month for someone to perhaps work it out."
Mr Fretwell added: "One of the puzzles may take some months or even years to solve, if indeed it is ever cracked."
The five objects cast into gold for the project are replicas of objects from North Lincolnshire Museum and were made from gold worth Â£1,000. The finished pieces could be worth even more.
The Treasured City exhibition runs until 29 April.


Opposition parties have questioned why an investment deal worth up to £10bn signed by Scotland's first minister and a Chinese consortium was "kept quiet".

The agreement was signed on 21 March by Nicola Sturgeon and representatives of SinoFortone and China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group.
It was not announced by the Scottish government at the time.
But details of the "memorandum of understanding" were posted on the website of the SinoFortone Group.
The investment and infrastructure company said the deal paved the way for "significant investment" in areas such as clean energy, transport and affordable housing in Scotland.
Opposition politicians questioned why MSPs were not told about the agreement before the Scottish Parliament was dissolved ahead of the election on 5 May, and called for full details to be published.
Speaking publicly about the agreement for the first time on Sunday, Ms Sturgeon said: "What we have done is sign a memorandum of understanding that commits us to explore possible investment.
"So there is actually no agreement on the substance of any of this at all, and if there is any proposals in the future to have investment into actual projects then they will be scrutinised in the normal way by the Scottish Parliament."
SinoFortone is already involved with projects including the new London Paramount theme park development, the proposed Crossrail 2 rail line running through London into Hertfordshire, and new metro systems in Abu Dhabi and Kuwait.
The company's website quoted Ms Sturgeon as saying the Scottish government had "continuously made the case that Scotland is open for business and we have an economy that is rife with investment opportunities".
She added: "We have been co-operating and engaging with China since 2007 and I further progressed Scotland's business credentials during my trip last year, and this memorandum of understanding will strengthen our economic links with China in a number of areas.
"New innovation collaborations between Scotland and China can deliver a boost in business growth for both countries and deliver benefits to Scotland as a whole.
"We have high hopes for Scotland's economy and it is in a strong position, but if we can drive further growth by looking beyond our shores and building relationships with firms across the world then we will seek to make that happen."
In a joint statement, the two Chinese companies involved in the deal said they were "delighted to act as a bridge between Chinese infrastructure expertise and finance with Scotland".
They said: "We believe that the enthusiasm that we have found amongst our many Scottish friends for the project guarantees its success."
Pan Xinchun, the Chinese consul general in Scotland, said: "I congratulate all sides on this agreement as this project will benefit not only Chinese enterprises but also the Scottish people."
Sinofortune also quoted Stagecoach founder Sir Brian Souter, who is a prominent donor to the SNP, as saying: "It is a very positive step for Scotland to attract investment of this nature.
"SinoFortone's investment will be good for our economy, create jobs and enable growth. We look forward to hearing more about the specific projects and infrastructure that they are aiming to invest in."
The Scottish government said Mr Souter was not present when the agreement was signed at the first minister's Bute House residence in Edinburgh.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said it was "extraordinary that a deal of such magnitude has been kept private by the SNP".
He added: "What have they got to hide that they signed this covert agreement with the Chinese when parliament was unable to scrutinise it?
"We need to know what the SNP have signed up to. What have they given in return for this investment?"
Jackie Baillie of Scottish Labour said: "This stinks. This secret deal needs to be published now. Voters deserve the facts on deals the SNP government have signed on their behalf and it is unacceptable to refuse to tell people what is in this deal.
"It simply isn't good enough to blame the purdah election period. The SNP signed this deal before that but kept it quiet - people deserve to know why.
"It simply isn't acceptable that a millionaire SNP donor knows the details of this deal but the people of Scotland don't."
And Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont asked: "Why did the SNP keep this under wraps, and why was parliament not informed?
"It appears as if the SNP simply tried to hide this away until after the election. It's not good enough - Nicola Sturgeon must now set out exactly why this has only come to light now."


Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal says those who criticise their demotion to the Europa League from the Champions League are "living in the past".

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United, who play Liverpool in the last 16 on Thursday, are in Europe's second-tier competition for only the second time in the past 20 seasons.
"It was another time. You live in the past," said Van Gaal of United's regular recent appearances in the Champions League knockout stages.
"It happens in football. It's normal."
Manchester United have won three European Cups - most recently in 2008 - while Liverpool have lifted the trophy on five occasions.
After defeat by Wolfsburg in December condemned United to the Europa League rather than the knockout stages of the Champions League, former captain Rio Ferdinand said the club should be "embarrassed," while ex-striker Michael Owen claimed they had gone backwards under Van Gaal.
But the United boss insists it is inevitable that the two clubs' fortunes change after a period at the top of the European game.
"It's not normal that one team dominates for 20 years in a row as champions," he added.
"You are talking about Manchester United and Liverpool, and we are happy to play in the Europa League, but City, Chelsea and Arsenal are still in the Champions League," he said.
"Six clubs are representing the Premier League. You have to be very proud of that because not many countries have so many clubs participating at that high a level."
Manchester United are three points and two places off the Premier League's top four, but could qualify for next season's Champions League by winning the Europa League in this campaign.
Van Gaal's predecessor as United manager David Moyes was sacked by the club two days after defeat by Everton in April 2014 confirmed the club would miss out on Champions League football for the first time since 1995-96.


Voters have a choice between a prime minister who will put working people first - and one who favours the rich and powerful, Ed Miliband has said.

But the Labour leader says he believes the public will "make the right judgement" at the ballot box on 7 May.
With less than 24 hours to go before polls open, he insisted he would go "right down to the wire" to persuade wavering voters to back Labour.
His party won 258 seats at the 2010 election. It needs 326 to win outright.
Blair support
However, polls suggest no party will win a majority in the House of Commons following Thursday's nationwide poll.
With less than 24 hours to go, former Labour prime minister Tony Blair joined the final appeal to voters by tweeting a photo of himself holding a placard saying: "Vote Labour".
And Mr Miliband, campaigning in north-west England and Yorkshire, warned that a fresh coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats posed a "huge risk" to working families.
'Right down to the wire'
He also insisted that only Labour could "rescue our National Health Service, which needs rescuing, from David Cameron".
"Many people are making up their minds in this election and my message to all those undecided voters is you can have another five years of a prime minster who will put the rich and powerful first in our country - or if I'm prime minster I'll put working people first," he told the BBC.
He sidestepped questions about potential deals that Labour might make in the event of a hung parliament to stress that he was going "right down to the wire" to talk about issues that matter to British people, such as the NHS and family finances.
Asked if he really believed he was going to be prime minister, he said: "I'm optimistic but it will be in the hands of the people come tomorrow and I know the people will make the right judgment.
"And I hope people make a judgement on the basis of what's best for them and their family because I'm not just asking people to vote Labour, I'm asking people to vote to put their family first in this election.
"I think on the ballot paper is the National Health Service, tax credits and child benefits, family finances, our young people and that's why I ask people to vote Labour."
NHS survival
Mr Miliband made his appeal as Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman insisted the 7 May poll was a "crucial watershed election for the NHS".
"I don't think it will survive how people want it to survive under the Tories," she said.
She spoke out as the Labour Party revealed that it had engaged in five million conversations with voters since the beginning of the year.
The Labour leader has visited 50 different constituencies during the election campaign, compared with David Cameron, who has visited the most at 68 and Nick Clegg, who has been to 35. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been to 12.
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Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has revealed the schedule of World War One centenary commemorations to be held in Scotland this year.

Activities are planned in Gretna, Leith, Stirling and Dundee.
Ms Hyslop said the focus of the second year of events would extend from the capital out to other parts of the country.
She said World War One had had a "significant and broad impact on our nation".
The calendar of events for 2015 is:
Ministers are liaising with Stirling Council, Dundee City Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council and the Royal Scots Regimental Association on arrangements for each event.
Further details will be announced later in the year.
Ms Hyslop said the events were part of the "busiest year" of the five-year commemoration programme.
"The Quintinshill Rail Disaster, Gallipoli campaign and Battle of Loos each had a profound and long-lasting impact on Scotland and it is right that we pause to remember each event, and the Scottish communities who were affected," she said.
"The First World War had a significant and broad impact on our nation.
"Through our national commemorations the people of Scotland will have opportunities to reflect on its lasting social and civic legacy."
Norman Drummond, who chairs the Scottish Commemorations Panel, said the events would take place in the communities most affected.
"2015 will be the busiest year in Scotland's five-year commemorations programme," he said.
"We will further pause to reflect on the horror of war, the service and sacrifice of our servicemen and women and of those at home, and the lessons we continue to learn from World War One."


Dundee took a significant step towards Scottish Premiership survival by earning a home draw with Ross County.

Darren O'Dea's thunderous 76th-minute penalty maintained manager Neil McCann's unbeaten start and ensured his side move five points clear of second-bottom Hamilton with two games to play.
County, who led after Liam Boyce's fourth-minute opener, confirmed their top-flight status with the draw.
Jim McIntyre's side are now eighth - eight points clear of 11th place.
County join Kilmarnock among the bottom six teams in being safe from relegation and this point came as a result of a positive start.
Michael Gardyne signalled the Dingwall side's intent when he cut in from the right, and shot with his left, but goalkeeper Scott Bain tipped over.
And a goal soon followed when prolific Northern Irishman Boyce stretched to poke a knock-down into the net for his 22nd goal of the season.
County looked certain to add that with Dundee disjointed, but Craig Curran failed to covert two good chances before the hosts came to life.
A break in play gave Dees boss McCann a window to talk to his team and it seemed to spark a response.
Faisal El Bakhtaoui fired at goalkeeper Scott Fox, then shot narrowly wide, before Paul McGowan screwed a volley across the face of goal with only Fox to beat.
Dundee were in control but struggled to apply the finishing touch until Cammy Kerr broke into the box, was fouled by Curran, and earned the penalty which skipper O'Dea smashed in off the bar.
It felt deserved given their assertiveness and they might have had another spot-kick when Kevin Holt looked to be caught late, but referee Nick Walsh was unmoved.
They should have had a second goal late-on, though, when McGowan picked out Marcus Haber with a brilliant cross, but the striker could only nod straight into Fox's palms.
Dundee interim manager Neil McCann: "We should've won it. When things happen and you're tested, it shows a lot of character to come back from it.
"That group, maybe on the run they were on, maybe wouldn't have come back from it. I'm delighted with them because they did show character.
"It's a good point. We wanted three and want three on Wednesday. We're not there. You can see our game starting to develop. We are not a side that are prepared to be beaten."
Ross County Jim McIntyre: "We started the game in great fashion. Dundee were struggling to cope with us. We got really sloppy after that and gave them a lift.
"We went from control of the game to hanging on and that was really disappointing.
"We're delighted [to be safe]. We're relieved it's not going to go down to those last couple of games."
Match ends, Dundee 1, Ross County 1.
Second Half ends, Dundee 1, Ross County 1.
Reghan Tumility (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin Holt (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Reghan Tumility (Ross County).
Attempt missed. Mark O'Hara (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
James Vincent (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
James Vincent (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Attempt saved. Kevin Holt (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Dundee. Craig Wighton replaces Faissal El Bakhtaoui.
Attempt saved. Marcus Haber (Dundee) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Mark O'Hara (Dundee) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Foul by Nick Ross (Dundee).
Alex Schalk (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Mark O'Hara (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Ross County. Alex Schalk replaces Craig Curran.
Attempt missed. Marcus Haber (Dundee) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Darren O'Dea (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Dundee 1, Ross County 1. Darren O'Dea (Dundee) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Craig Curran (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Dundee. Cameron Kerr draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Craig Curran (Ross County) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Ross County. Reghan Tumility replaces Jim O'Brien.
Kevin Holt (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jim O'Brien (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jim O'Brien (Ross County).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Dundee. Kostadin Gadzhalov replaces Kevin Gomis because of an injury.
Delay in match Kevin Gomis (Dundee) because of an injury.
Michael Gardyne (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Vincent (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Vincent (Dundee).
Martin Woods (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Paul McGowan (Dundee) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Paul McGowan (Dundee).
Martin Woods (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.