The governor of California has declared a state of emergency in a suburb of Los Angeles over the leaking of methane gas from an underground storage field.

Jerry Brown ordered "all necessary and viable actions" be taken to stop it.
More than 2,000 families have been moved from their homes and many people have reported feeling ill because of the leakage, which began in October.
It stems from a vast underground storage field in Porter Ranch, on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Gas is spewing into the atmosphere at a rate so fast that the well now accounts for about a quarter of the state's total emissions of methane - an extremely potent greenhouse gas.
The well is situated in a mountainous area more than a mile away from residential areas, but residents have complained of health effects like headaches, nausea, vomiting and trouble breathing.
"Let's call it an environmental and public health catastrophe," Tim O'Connor, a lawyer with the Environmental Defense Fund, told the BBC's environment correspondent, Matt McGrath.
"In terms of timelines this is going to surpass the gulf oil problem by a mile. What we do know is that that climate equivalent of this leak is like burning thus far almost 700 million gallons of gasoline or it's the same amount of pollution as 4.5 million cars put out every day, it's tragic."
Methane - the main component of natural gas - is a very strong greenhouse gas, capable of trapping solar radiation in the atmosphere.
It belongs to a category of gases called short-lived climate pollutants.
While methane and other short-lived pollutants remain in the atmosphere for a relatively short time compared to other gases, the California Air Resources Board says that "when measured in terms of how they heat the atmosphere, their impacts can be tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times greater than that of carbon dioxide".
The BBC's Matt McGrath says the large amounts of powerful gas that are leaking could have a significant impact on climate change.
Residents have been complaining of nausea, headaches and other symptoms, but the utility company says that "scientists agree natural gas is not toxic and that its odorant is harmless at the minute levels at which it is added to natural gas".
Health officials in the area have said the long-term effects of being exposed to the gas are unknown.
The utility company is providing temporary accommodation or funds for the displaced residents, and several thousand people in Porter Ranch have been relocated while the gas continues to leak and repairs take place.
But, according to CBS News, only 2,200 families have been relocated even though 6,500 have applied for help.
"You have kids going to school outside their neighbourhoods, families that are living in hotels" says Paula Cracium, president of the Porter Ranch Neighborhood Council. "The longer this goes on the more stress there is."
A broken injection-well pipe about 500 ft (152.4m) below the surface is believed to be the culprit behind the leak, reports say. Pipes like this are used by utility companies to insert gas into the ground for storage until a later time when it can be withdrawn and sold for use.
It is not known why the pipe ruptured.
The facility, a depleted oil field, was acquired by Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas) decades ago for use as a natural storage facility for gas piped in from as far away as Canada, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Using former oil fields as storage for natural gas is quite common in the US. The US Energy Information Administration says that "most existing natural gas storage in the United States is in depleted natural gas or oil fields that are close to consumption centers," like the large metropolitan Los Angeles area.
Repair work has been slow due to the nature of the leak.
SoCal Gas has tried to plug the leak on several occasions, according to the LA Times. Their first attempt was foiled by ice formations that prevented a cocktail of chemicals and mud from reaching the leak point. Another seven attempts failed because the upwards pressure of the leaking gas was greater than the pressure that they could use to push the mud-chemical cocktail into the earth.
Engineers then began to worry that if they applied any more pressure, they may damage the pipes further and worsen the leak.
The new plan is to drill two new "relief wells" that would use less-obstructed and bigger piping to insert the mud-chemical cocktail into the system far below the point at which the pipe is believed to have ruptured. But the company says that this plan could take months and would not be completed until February or March.
In the meantime, the company is installing large mesh screens around the leak site to try and hinder the oily mist from spraying down on the community.
"The stain of this disaster is going to be felt for quite some time," Ms Cracium says.


A football coach has been jailed for nine years for grooming and sexual activity with teenage boys.

Robert Ellis, 50, denied one charge of meeting a boy aged under 16 after grooming and six counts of sexual activity with a boy aged under 15.
Ellis, of Church End, Harlow, also denied three counts of sexual touching. He was convicted of all the charges at Chelmsford Crown Court in February.
The court heard Ellis met one 15-year-old victim online in April 2015.
He invited him to football matches, claimed to have talent-spotted goalkeepers and offered to coach the teenager, who was from Lincolnshire.
Ellis, a civil servant, arranged to meet him in a park in July 2015 where they played football and later went for a meal.
The boy's mother reported Ellis to local police after finding out and banned her son from contacting him again.
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However, they resumed contact in December 2015 and arranged to meet.
This was reported to police and Ellis was arrested in January 2016, before the meeting could take place.
During the course of their inquiries, officers spoke to another young man who said he had been in a sexual relationship with Ellis when he was 15 after they met online.
During the police investigation, it was also found Ellis had been banned by the Football Association from taking part in any FA-football related activity involving under-18s, since December 2013.
However, he continued to take part in informal football sessions in Harlow that were not covered by this ban.


Legendary Mexican singer Juan Gabriel has died aged 66 of a heart attack in California, days after performing to 17,000 fans at the Los Angeles Forum.

Born into poverty, Alberto Aguilera Valadez (his real name) rose to sell more than 100m albums and had his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In his glittering mariachi outfits, he won hearts with hits like Amor Eterno.
Latin American leaders rushed to pay tribute to a singer sometimes likened to Elvis Presley.
"His music was his legacy for the world," Mexican President Pena Nieto said on Twitter. "He left us too soon."
He wrote his first song at the age of 13 and went on to compose more than 1,500, often love ballads.
His mother, he said, was one of the people he most loved in his life even though he had spent most of his childhood away from her.
Unable to support him on her own when his father was placed in a psychiatric hospital, she had sent him to an orphanage. She died in 1974.
Amor Eterno, Juan Gabriel said, was written with her in mind. "Even though I don't have my mother's love today, I have the love of millions,'' he told the newspaper La Jornada in an interview in 2012.
"Her love comes through all the mothers of Mexico."
As a struggling teenager, he spent time in prison for robbery, and in later life, he had problems in Mexico and the US for not paying taxes.
In the rare interviews he gave, he avoided talking about his private life so fans were surprised when it became known that he had fathered four children with a woman friend, Laura Salas, the Associated Press news agency said.
A six-time Grammy nominee, he was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and received industry awards that included ASCAP Songwriter of the Year in 1995 and Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year 2009.
He had just started an extensive American tour and a Billboard magazine review of his Los Angeles date had hailed him as "the ultimate showman". who provided a "bucket-list worthy show" and had no fewer than four thrones on stage for those songs he performed sitting down.
The tour's next date - in El Paso on Sunday night - had already been cancelled before news of his death was announced. The tour, titled MeXXIco Es Todo, had also been due to visit major venues in cities such as Las Vegas, Dallas, Hidalgo, Miami and New York over the coming weeks.
Juan Gabriel wrote many hits for leading Latin singers including Angelica Maria, Aida Cuevas, Lorenzo Antonio, Jose Jose, Luis Miguel and Rocio Durcal.
Juan Gabriel also acted in several films after his debut in 1975 in the movie Nobleza Ranchera.


China has blocked several popular services that let citizens skirt state censorship systems.

Three providers of Virtual Private Network (VPN) systems reported that updates to China's firewall had hindered people using their services.
The providers affected are Astrill, StrongVPN and Golden Frog.
Many Chinese people use VPNs to visit websites outside the country that they would not be able to reach without the aid of such tools.
Sites blocked in China include services operated by web giants such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.
China operates a very sophisticated net censorship system that both limits the places people can go online and what they can search for and discuss.
A VPN works by setting up a dedicated, encrypted link between a person's computer and the website or service they want to use and makes spying on the data flowing across the connection difficult.
Chinese state media said the blocks had been imposed "for safety". Reuters reported that a cybersecurity expert at a state-backed think tank said the upgrades to the nation's firewall had been carried out to preserve China's "cyberspace sovereignty".
The renewed attempt to stifle use of VPNs comes as the ruling Communist party seeks to clamp down on corruption by top officials, Prof Xiao Qiang from Berkeley's School of Information told AP.
The clampdown was "a very clearly related fact with the amount of political rumours and information related to China's high politics showing up in websites outside of China,'' he said.
The services that have been hit are almost exclusively used by individuals and are often accessed via mobile phones. China has not put any restrictions on the use of VPNs inside large corporations.
Sunday Yokubaitis, president of the Golden Frog VPN service, told Reuters: "This week's attack on VPNs that affected us and other VPN providers is more sophisticated than what we've seen in the past."
Despite this, Golden Frog said access to some of its servers was still unimpeded.
StrongVPN said via its blog that it was "working diligently" to restore access to servers it had in China. In addition, it said customers should attempt to connect at non-peak hours to limit the load on its network.


The legality of the war was not a question addressed in Sir John Chilcot's long-awaited report on the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The inquiry chairman clearly felt that it was not within his terms of reference to do so. But what he did say about the process is highly revealing.
The report states that "the circumstances in which it was ultimately decided that there was a legal basis for UK participation were far from satisfactory".  What were the reasons for this?
The war began on 20 March 2003.  Sir John said "It was not until 13 March 2003 that [Attorney General] Lord Goldsmith advised that there was, on balance, a secure legal basis for military action."
So, just seven days before war commenced the government's chief legal officer changed his mind and came to the firm view that military action was legal.
Sir John catalogues a number of failures in the circumstances leading up to that advice, including keeping some key ministers in the dark about the attorney general's earlier legal advice, and a critical final judgment on whether Iraq was fundamentally in breach of UN resolution 1441 - seemingly taken by former Prime Minister Tony Blair alone.
Does any of this expose Mr Blair to criminal prosecution or other legal action? Some of the lawyers I have been speaking to believe there is little possibility of any legal action against him. Others think he is potentially vulnerable in some areas.
Modern international criminal law was born in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Leading figures in the Nazi regime were tried at Nuremberg for waging an "aggressive" war.
It remained possible to prosecute individuals for the crime of aggression until the 1998 Rome Statute which created the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Although it provided for prosecuting the crime of aggression, it delayed bringing the offence into force until a modern definition was agreed by its member states.
This was done in 2010 when it was agreed the offence was one of planning or preparation "by a person in a position effectively to exercise control or to direct political or military action of a state" of an act of aggression, "which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the charter of the UN".
However, it was also agreed that there should be no prosecutions until further agreement in 2017. This means that it would not be possible to prosecute Tony Blair for aggression now or in the future, because even when the offence is in place and prosecutable, it will not be legally possible to apply it retrospectively.
"Aggression" is not a crime in our domestic law and so could not be prosecuted in our courts.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) can and does prosecute individuals for three distinct crimes - genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In order for a leader to be prosecuted for war crimes on the battlefield, it would be necessary to prove that they knew or should have known of the crimes and failed to take necessary and reasonable steps to prevent them.
It is possible to bring such a prosecution in our courts, and at the ICC if our domestic prosecuting authorities are unable or unwilling to bring them.
Nothing in the Chilcot report would suggest that there is any prospect of prosecuting Tony Blair for war crimes.
Of the possible criminal offences Mr Blair could face in this country, the most likely is misconduct in a public office.
It is committed when a public official acting in the course of their duties wilfully neglects to perform that duty, or wilfully misconducts themselves to such a degree that their behaviour amounts to an abuse of the public's trust in them.
The offence was used frequently in the phone-hacking scandal to prosecute police officers and other public officials who took money from journalists in return for providing stories.
The former Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord MacDonald QC, believes Tony Blair's conduct in the build-up to the Iraq war could amount to misconduct in public office.
Speaking to The Times, he highlighted an example of "particularly egregious misconduct" set out in the Chilcot report.
It occurred about a week before the war and days before the final legal advice of 17 March 2003 from the then Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith.
Through his official, David Brummell, the attorney general informed Mr Blair that it "was an essential part of the legal basis for military action without a further resolution of the Security Council that there is strong evidence that Iraq has failed to comply with and co-operate fully in the implementation of resolution 1441".
Lord Macdonald said: "Yet, without seeking any advice whatsoever, or calling for any evidence to determine whether this critical condition was met, Mr Blair simply expressed 'the unequivocal view' that such further breaches had indeed occurred."
Sir John said: "It is unclear what specific grounds Mr Blair relied upon in reaching his view.
"In his advice of 7 March, Lord Goldsmith had said that the views of (weapons inspectors) UNMOVIC and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be highly significant in demonstrating hard evidence of non-compliance and non-cooperation. In the exchange of letters on 14 and 15 March between Mr Brummell and Number 10 [Downing Street], there is no reference to their views; the only view referred to was that of Mr Blair."
He concluded: "Senior ministers should have considered the question posed in Mr Brummell's letter of 14 March, either in the defence and overseas policy committee or a 'war cabinet', on the basis of formal advice. Such a committee should then have reported its conclusions to Cabinet before its members were asked to endorse the government's policy."
Based on that, Lord Macdonald said: "In behaving in this disreputable way to win tainted legal backing for massive armed conflict, it seems very likely that Mr Blair roundly abused the trust placed in him by the public."
It is a defence to misconduct in public office that the office holder had a reasonable excuse. Lord Macdonald concedes that Mr Blair would be able to argue that Saddam's continued rule in Iraq would have created security Armageddon, but believes that "Chilcot and history have combined to expose his defence as a busted flush".
There are other aspects of the Chilcot report which might also provide grounds for a prosecution for misconduct in a public office, for example the failure to provide ministers "whose responsibilities were directly engaged", with the attorney general's earlier legal advice of 7 March 2003 on the legality of the war, which concluded that the safer route would be to seek a second UN resolution.
However, it should be recognised that the offence is not meant to criminalise what amounts to poor political judgment or decision making. The behaviour concerned must amount to an abuse of the public's trust.
There is a potential civil claim for "misfeasance in public office". This is almost the civil equivalent to the crime of misconduct in public office.
It is based on proving that the office holder abused their power in a way that injured the claimant.  Judged on the lower civil standard of proof, the balance of probabilities, it requires that the office holder owed the claimant a duty of care, breached it and that resulted in harm to the claimant.
Often the claim will involve the office holder having acted unlawfully while knowing that what they were doing was unlawful. Mr Blair has always maintained that he acted in good faith. That would be a successful defence to a civil claim for misfeasance.
Lawyers for the families of those who lost loved ones in the war and its aftermath are studying the 2.6 million word report to see whether it provides the basis for civil claims against the former prime minister. It will be a long and challenging task.
A statement from Matthew Jury, managing partner at McCue and Partners, which represents some of the families who lost loved ones, said: "In the coming days and weeks, the families will undertake a full and forensic review of the report's content and conclusions. If state officials are determined to have acted unlawfully or in excess of their powers, then the families will then decide on whether to take any necessary and appropriate action at the proper time. All options will be considered.
"Just as importantly, as well as examining the culpability of individual state officials, we must also look at the process that led to the Iraq War so that we never make such grave mistakes with such tragic long-term and far-reaching consequences again."


There is an urgent need for policies to improve the job prospects for the over 50s, the Welsh assembly's enterprise and business committee has warned.

There are 1.2 million people over 50 in Wales and more than a third of 50 to 64-year-olds are not working.
Chairman William Graham said this was "alarming" while work was "now a necessity - not a choice for the majority of this age group".
There was a need to dispel "myths" that older workers were less productive.
In Wales, 53,000 people aged 65 and over are employed, an increase of 14% over the year to March 2014.
People over 50 are more likely to be unemployed for more than a year than any other age group in Wales, the committee found.
Older People's Commissioner Sarah Rochira told AMs she found this "quite alarming".
They were "undervalued, underappreciated and very much an afterthought" in terms of programmes to help them.
The proportion of over 50s out of work in Wales is the highest in the UK, apart from in Northern Ireland.
Of those who are working, one in three are working part-time, with women more likely to be working part-time than men.
Barriers included care responsibilities but also ageism, and stereotypes that the over 50s are in poor health, are less productive or are slower to adapt to new technologies.
Prime Cymru, a charity which helps older workers find work or set up their own businesses, told the AMs that the employers' group the CBI has forecast that the UK will need 13.5 million new workers in the next 10 years and that there are only 7 million young people entering the workforce.
The report makes 11 recommendations, including:
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "We will consider the report and respond in due course."
CASE STUDY - A NEW DAWN - FROM 'SCRAPHEAP' TO BUSINESS OWNER
Dawn Wilcox helped children struggling with reading in schools when she was made redundant at the age of 52.
Her daughter, 26, was also made redundant at the same time in March 2014 and they pooled their redundancy money to start their own cafe business in Ystrad, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
"I was quite scared when they delivered the news. When you lose your job it drains you of everything, you feel so worthless. You think 'all these years I've put into training and that's not needed anymore'.
"I had a lot of family commitments besides so I didn't feel like going through the retraining route.
"It's nice to come into work knowing you're your own boss and doing something totally different."


Aldershot continued their 100% start to the National League season with a thumping of Guiseley.

The hosts dominated the early exchanges and thought they had taken the lead in the 14th minute as Bobby-Joe Taylor headed in a James Rowe cross, but the goal was ruled out by an offside flag.
Just six minutes later the the home side took a deserved lead thanks to Matt McClure's curled effort which went in off the inside of the far post.
Guiseley then had a goal disallowed, but shortly afterwards Aldershot added to their lead with goals from Callum Reynolds and Jim Kellerman and there was even time for the Shots to make it 4-0 before the break as Shamir Fenelon grabbed his side's fourth.
Rowe added his name to the scoresheet with a low 20-yard drive into the bottom corner, before McClure rounded off the scoring with his second of the afternoon to make it 6-0, Aldershot's biggest league win since December 2013.
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Match ends, Aldershot Town 6, Guiseley 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 6, Guiseley 0.
Connor Brown (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Callum McFadzean replaces Lee Molyneux.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 6, Guiseley 0. Matt McClure (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Scott Rendell replaces James Rowe.
Will De Havilland (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jake Gallagher replaces Shamir Fenelon.
Substitution, Guiseley. Reece Thompson replaces Euan Frank Mulhern.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Nick Arnold replaces Cheye Alexander.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 5, Guiseley 0. James Rowe (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Guiseley. Kayode Odejayi replaces John Rooney.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 4, Guiseley 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 4, Guiseley 0.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 4, Guiseley 0. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Goal!  Aldershot Town 3, Guiseley 0. Jim Kellerman (Aldershot Town).
John Rooney (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 2, Guiseley 0. Callum Reynolds (Aldershot Town).
Robert Atkinson (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Aldershot Town 1, Guiseley 0. Matt McClure (Aldershot Town).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A court-appointed psychiatrist has testified the gunman who carried out a 2012 attack on a Colorado cinema was mentally ill but "legally sane" when it happened.

James Holmes is on trial for killing 12 people and wounding 70 others.
Dr William Reid also testified that Mr Holmes sometimes cries before going to sleep because he regrets the shooting.
Mr Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
But Dr Reid said on Friday Mr Holmes could not be considered insane under Colorado law.
He conducted nine interviews with Mr Holmes at a mental health hospital last summer. Mr Holmes showed some signs of "humour" and "wit" during the interviews, Dr Reid said.
Prosecutors maintain that Mr Holmes was sane at the time of the deadly shooting and are seeking the death penalty.
In the interviews, Mr Holmes talked with Dr Reid about going to church and visiting a Mexican orphanage as an undergraduate student.
A judge denied a request for a mistrial, after Dr Reid said that Mr Holmes' mental illness "did not prevent him from forming intent and knowing the consequences of what he was doing".
When asked whether Mr Holmes had "the capacity to know right from wrong", whether he had the capacity to form the intent to act and whether he met the legal definition of sanity at the time of the shooting, Dr Reid answered "yes" to all.
State mental health hospitals officials had Dr Reid evaluate Mr Holmes after an earlier review was deemed flawed. Both Dr Reid and the original evaluator, Dr Jeffrey Metzner, determined Mr Holmes was legally sane at the time of the shooting.
Defence lawyers are expected to call other psychiatrists who will testify that Mr Holmes was insane.
Mr Holmes suffered a "physical and mental breakdown" in November 2012, five months after his arrest from the attack, Dr Reid said. He was then treated at a hospital and started taking anti-psychotic medications.
Prosecutors showed jurors a notebook in which Mr Holmes described his own mind as "broken" and sketched out what he might do - a mass or serial murder; attacking a theatre or airport using guns, bombs or biological warfare.


Colchester United scored four goals in a stirring second-half display as they fought back to beat Doncaster and climb off the bottom of the League One table.

Debutant loan signing Gary McSheffrey put Rovers ahead in a drab first half, running through and calmly slotting in.
The U's did not manage a shot on target but were rampant in the second period and Chris Porter's strike made it 1-1.
A Elliott Lee curler and Alex Gilbey's fine strike earned a commanding lead before Richard Brindley sealed victory.
Doncaster would have moved out of the relegation zone with a win following Blackpool's draw with Bury and seemed well set after McSheffrey's cool finish.
But Colchester's astonishing second-half response earned just a seventh league win of a miserable season to take them above Crewe, who lost to Sheffield United.


British sailor Giles Scott won in the Finn class at the Olympic test event in Rio as 470 pair Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark took silver.

Scott, 28, continued his two-year winning streak by pipping Pieter-Jan Postma on the final day of racing at the Aquece Rio International Regatta.
Scott finished fourth in the final race to take his second consecutive test event victory at the 2016 venue.
Mills and Clark led into the medal race but finished second after a penalty.
The 470 pair - who won silver at the London Games - were forced to take penalty turns after infringing another boat at the start and could only finish 10th.


Dagenham & Redbridge have signed forward Morgan Ferrier on a two-year deal from National League rivals Boreham Wood.

Ex-Arsenal trainee Ferrier rejected a new contract with the Wood, meaning his transfer fee will be set by a tribunal.
The 22-year-old was Boreham Wood's leading goalscorer last season, with 11 goals in 30 National League games.
Ferrier is the second Wood player to join Dagenham this summer, following the arrival of defender Ben Nunn.


An Afghan insurgent group has released video of a kidnapped North American couple, featuring two children apparently born to them in captivity.

The footage from the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network shows Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman with two young boys, who appeared healthy.
In the clip Ms Coleman begs for an end to their "Kafkaesque nightmare".
The couple were abducted in Afghanistan in 2012 during a camping trip, while she was pregnant.
The insurgent group is demanding the release of three of its prisoners in Afghanistan.
In the four-minute video, the couple were shown with two young boys sitting on their laps.
Ms Coleman, 31, said: "We have waited since 2012 for somebody to understand our problems."
She appealed to President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump to rescue her family.
"My children have seen their mother defiled," she added, without clarification.
In the footage, uploaded to YouTube on Monday, Ms Coleman also made an unexplained reference to her two "surviving children".
The couple last appeared in a video in August, without the children.
Michael O'Shaughnessy, spokesman for the Canadian Department of Global Affairs, said officials were "deeply concerned" for the couple and called for their unconditional release.
Taliban spokesperson Zabullah Mujahid said: "We are currently investigating about the video - at this stage we don't confirm or deny the release of the video."
There was also no immediate reaction from the US State Department or the Afghan government.
Mr Boyle and Ms Coleman set off in July 2012 on a hiking trip that took them through Russia, Central Asia and into war-torn Afghanistan.


This vaguely philosophical question recurs during many of the parliamentary debates on Brexit.
The UK government's answer, as voiced by Wales Office Minister Guto Bebb is this: "To claim that promises made in a referendum campaign are binding on government is in effect a nonsense."
The promises in question concern the future of funding that currently comes from the EU for the poorest parts of Wales. Aberavon Labour MP Stephen Kinnock told a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday: "While the leave campaign made promises that all EU funding would continue to flow to Wales at the same levels, I think we know that those promises are about as valid as what could be printed on the side of a bus."
Torfaen Labour MP Nick Thomas-Symonds wasn't the only "remainer" to begin his remarks by acknowledging the referendum result before adding a "but".
He said: "I totally respect the result of the referendum of 23 June, but it does not mean that the leave campaign can escape from the promises that were made in the weeks and months leading up to it. What promises were made? I have with me the letter written on 14 June, released under the headline, "Leave Ministers commit to maintain EU funding".
"What did they say exactly? The letter states: 'After protecting those now in receipt of EU funding, we will still have billions more to spend on our priorities. We propose that at least ??5.5bn of that be spent on the NHS by 2020, giving it a much-needed ??100m per week cash transfusion, and to use ??1.7bn to abolish VAT on household energy bills'."
Some of the ministers involved are now in the government. Mr Bebb told Mr Thomas-Symonds the letter of June was trumped by a Treasury guarantee of October - and that the issues he raised implied a lack of understanding of how a referendum campaign works. "It is not about electing a government," he said.
"In the referendum campaign there were members of the Labour party on either side of the argument, and the same was true of the government. To claim that promises made in the referendum campaign are binding on government is in effect a nonsense, and I think that you know it".
So that promise is presumably as irrelevant now as George Osborne's promise of a "punishment Budget" if Britain voted to leave. And all promises made by ministers in the "remain" camp seem to have been trumped by the public vote for Brexit. Hence we now have a pro-remain prime minister having to deliver a policy she voted against.
Theresa May is also trying to deliver an airports policy she thought would "devastate" her constituents.
The decision to expand Heathrow (despite David Cameron's promise not to go ahead) has been welcomed by Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns who said he was pushing for that option in cabinet (although, unlike the Scottish secretary, he was not given a seat on the airports cabinet sub-committee).
Mr Cairns has also defended the UK government's refusal to give the Welsh government control of air passenger duty. The Vale of Glamorgan MP, whose constituency includes Cardiff airport, said: "We've looked closely at this and because South Wales uses both Bristol airport and Cardiff airport we've assessed there would be a potential net loss in the flights that leave both airports."
He added: "People who are calling for the devolution of air passenger duty are assuming that the Welsh Government would cut it. Now our experience is that every tax that they control up until now has led to an increase so we're determined to protect the passengers that use Cardiff airport."
In Welsh politics, the default response to large infrastructure projects in England is, understandably, to see if Wales can get a cut of the cash.
Mr Cairns said Wales would get its "fair share" of extra public spending on infrastructure work linked to the expansion of Heathrow but stressed that the project would be "almost entirely privately-financed" so the Welsh Government shouldn't draw up its wish list just yet.


A pilot scheme to try and tackle loneliness through music has been launched in rural areas of Gwynedd.

Gwynedd council-backed Memories Through Music is run by the William Mathias centre in Caernarfon and is designed to stop older people feeling isolated.
The weekly sessions give participants the chance to sing and play music together.
A trial has started at Awel y Coleg residential home in Bala and a similar scheme will take place in Gellilydan.
Children from Ysgol Bro Tryweryn in the nearby village of Frongoch will join the project early next year and work with the elderly in an attempt to "try and enrich the lives of both generations".
Project manager Meinir Llwyd Roberts, of the William Mathias music centre, said: "We felt that working within these two communities would give different opportunities to deal with and to try to tackle loneliness.
"Individuals can be lonely in a busy town, especially if they have moved there later in life, as well as individuals who live in quiet, isolated areas.
"We believe that this project gives the opportunity for us to experiment with a scheme that will bring the oldest and youngest generation of our communities together through the arts by giving the older generation a voice within their community."
Awel y Coleg resident Sylwen Davies, who attends the singing sessions, said: "You wouldn't know how much it enriches our lives. It's really, really wonderful."
Fellow resident Lily Williamson said: "It makes us feel more active - in fact, more normal."
Heledd Owen, head of Ysgol Bro Tryweryn, said: "It's going to be a great opportunity for the children to get out into the community and to meet new people."


Volunteers in New Zealand have managed to refloat about 100 of the 400 pilot whales that swam aground on a remote beach on Friday.

Many of the whales died overnight at Farewell Spit at the top of the South Island, but those that survived are now swimming in the bay off the beach.
Hundreds of locals managed to rescue the survivors after forming a human chain to refloat the whales.
The incident is one of the worst such cases the country has seen.
On Friday, a number of the whales that had been refloated returned to the beach overnight, but high tide and the arrival of a new pod of pilot whales on Saturday morning improved rescue efforts.
"Fingers crossed, the new whales are going to lead them out into deeper water," said Andrew Lamason, the department of conservation's regional manager.
However, he added that there was still a chance that they might turn back into Golden Bay.
Mr Lamason said improved weather and clear waters also helped with the latest rescue attempt, but added that he had to warn volunteers about the possibility of stingrays and sharks after one of the dead whales appeared to have bite marks.
Officials on Saturday were also considering how best to dispose of the whale carcasses. Mr Lamason said that simply towing them out to sea could be problematic as they may become gaseous and buoyant and float into populated bays.
Scientists do not know what exactly causes whales to beach themselves.
But it sometimes happens because the whales are old and sick, injured, or make navigational errors particularly along gentle sloping beaches.
Whales that become beached will send out distress signals attracting other members of their pod, who then also get stranded by a receding tide.
The latest incident in New Zealand was first reported on Thursday evening, but conditions were too dangerous at the time to launch a rescue operation.
The surviving whales were kept alive after "being kept cool, calm and comfortable" by medics and members of the public.
New Zealand has one of the highest stranding rates in the world, with about 300 dolphins and whales ending up on beaches every year, according to Project Jonah.
Many of these incidents happen at Farewell Spit. Experts say its shallow waters seems to confuse whales and hinder their ability to navigate.
In February 2015 about 200 whales beached themselves at the same location, of which at least half died.


Lightning appears to be killing and injuring increasing numbers of people in developing countries, meteorologists and experts say.

The total casualties could even be higher than other weather-related disasters like floods, landslides and droughts.
"The frequency of lightning has somehow increased from what it used to be," says Michael Nkalubo, commissioner at Meteorological Department of Uganda, a country where lightning storms are common.
"I cannot say that a study has been carried out on this but I am saying this on the basis of my general observation.
"It is something increasing every year and we think this is a manifestation of climate change but we also need to establish whether deforestation has also contributed."
South Africa is another country in the African continent where lightning-related deaths and injuries are or the rise, officials say.
In South East Asia too experts believe lightning incidents and casualties are going up.
"It is a growing problem in the region," said Hartono Zainal Abidin, a lightning protection expert in Malaysia.
By Luis BarruchoBBC Brasil
The replacement of the forest by urban areas has been causing an increase in the lightning activity in the Amazon region, Brazilian researchers suggest.
According to a study led by scientist Osmar Pinto Junior of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, the city of Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, has seen a 50% rise in lightning strikes in the past 30 years, reaching a current rate of 13.5 strikes per kmÂ² per year.
Looking at satellite images, Mr Pinto Junior and his team have found that, over the city, the lightning activity is larger than that in neighbour regions.
"Our results indicate that such changes have been caused by what we call Urban Heat Island (UHI)", he said.
"While in the last three decades the surface air temperature in the tropics has increased by approximately 0.4C, it has increased by 0.7C in Manaus."
Pinto Junior explains that this phenomenon occurs when green areas are replaced by buildings and other urban features, pushing the temperatures up and prompting more lightning storms.
Although "very likely", he says, it is still unclear whether the lightning enhancement has been causing more fires in the Amazon forest.
The research was published in the American Journal of Climate Change in December.
"Lightning incidents are indeed going up and so are the deaths and injuries but the problem is many countries in the region including Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand don't even have proper experts and so the issue is left unaddressed."
Meteorologists in South Asia have also noticed the trend.
"My observation is that in the last few years, we have seen increasing cases of lightning," said Shamsuddin Ahmed, deputy director of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.
"Of course, it is not a big disaster like cyclone, but we cannot ignore it and we should take up special programmes to study this phenomena."
Scientist Osmar Pinto Junior of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research said lightning in Brazil and other parts of Latin America has been on the rise and so have the casualties.
Meteorologists from the developing world say lightning incidents and their impacts remain under-reported as they are sporadic, making them difficult to record.
Some scientists believe that, with the increase in global temperature, thunderstorms and lightning will grow more common.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the supreme authority in climate science, has said: "It is generally expected that lightning will increase in a warmer climate, although a study for the 2030 climate finds no global increase but instead a shift from the tropics to mid-latitudes."
Professor Colin Price, a lightning and climate researcher at Tel Aviv University, says climate models show about 10% increase in lightning for every one degree of warming.
More than a hundred lightning bolts hit the earth every second, experts estimate, and more than 70% of those take place in tropical and sub-tropical regions.
Prof Price said: "The underdeveloped world is where you have the maximum frequency of lightning and thunderstorms - in places like the Central African Republic and DR Congo, the Amazon region of South America, the Indonesian islands and Borneo in South East Asia.
"When you add the figures up, there may even be more people killed or injured by lightning than most of the other natural hazards we have on the earth today."
Meteorologist Ron Holle, who works for a Finnish company Vaisala that makes weather equipment, also said lightning fatalities were high in Africa.
"In the last 10 years our finding in Malawi, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and some parts of South Africa is that the lightning fatality rate is what it used to be in the US 100 years ago.
"We have seen a major reduction, to almost a zero, in the developed world. In contrast, in the developing world, people still are involved in labour intensive agriculture and are living in houses that have no lightning protection.
"So it is mainly a population and lifestyle issue."
Professor Price agreed that rising population is a factor.
"We passed the seven billion mark last year so there are more people out there who can be hit by lightning.
"We cannot separate the climate and population effects. But, whatever is happening, the observations on the ground are correct that there are more and more deaths and injuries due to lightning."
Not all scientists agree with that.
"I haven't seen the statistics to show that actually the total number of deaths or events from lightning is increasing," says Prof Robert H Holzworth of the University of Washington, who also heads the World Wide Lightning Location Network that has about 80 detection stations.
"What we found was that in the last several years, the number of thunderstorms in the world seems to be relatively stable. But the number of lightning strikes we are detecting with our network has been zooming up.
"And that's because we are more efficient at detecting lightning and not necessarily because there is more global lightning."
Experts say the science of lightning is quite complicated.
"Under a changed climate scenario there will be more lightning but there is a sort of paradox between drier environments where there will be more lightning and less rain," said Giles Harrison, professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Reading.
"So maybe what happens is we get much more explosive thunderstorm events which will generate a lot of lightning but overall our rainfall rates are not particularly changed.
"Droughts associated with El Nino seem to be also associated with increases in lightning and that's the contradiction and the paradox to think about. It's not a simple picture."
Experts say politicians and policy makers' indifference to the subject has not helped either.
"They immediately respond to disasters that impact many people at the same time," said Prof Arun Kulshrestha who heads the Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries.
"The total lightning casualty figure may be more than that of other disasters but they are always in ones and twos, so politicians' positions are not at stake and governments don't fall."


Cornish Pirates coach Gavin Cattle says his side already has strong links with Exeter, amid talk that Premiership and second-tier clubs could 'buddy up'.

Reports have suggested the top-flight could abandon the A league, instead allowing Championship sides to loan up to 12 of their first-team players.
Pirates signed seven Exeter players on loan deals ahead of this season.
"There's a lot of talk going around, are we going to have a buddy up system with a Premiership club?" Cattle said.
"But I think one of our strengths is our relationship with Exeter - it's a two-way thing.
"I think we're doing a good job in terms of helping them with their development, and they're giving us a player that not only has good attributes rugby wise, but good men as well."
With London Welsh going out of existence and several clubs, including Pirates, experiencing financial difficulties, questions have been asked about the future of the Championship.
A potential 'buddy up' arrangement could see the Championship sides involved become ineligible for promotion.
"There are so many opinions on dual-registration or the buddy up system, but I think the overall matter is that Championship clubs do need, overall, more funding," added Cattle to BBC Radio Cornwall.


Authorities in Western Australia are searching for a dolphin believed to have been deliberately wrapped in a shirt.

The Department of Parks and Wildlife said the bottlenose dolphin was spotted off Bunbury, 170km (106 miles) south of Perth, on Australia Day last week.
A member of the public took images of the animal before alerting authorities.
Australian laws prohibit people from interfering with dolphins or whales without approval.
The public has been urged to report any sightings.
The photos appear to show the dolphin "wrapped" with a shirt or singlet vest, the department said.
"It is unlikely that the dolphin swam into the singlet, so this appears to be an intentional act," it said in a statement.
"This could have been catastrophic for the dolphin if it had covered its blowhole and restricted its breathing.
"Unfortunately the animal has not been seen since."
The department said the maximum penalty under the Wildlife Conservation Act was about A$4000 (Â£2400, $3000).


Viral infections in newborns "cripple" part of the immune system and increase the risk of asthma later in life, US researchers studying mice have said.

They showed infections by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) stripped immune cells of their ability to calm down inflammation in the lung's airways.
They say their findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, will help develop ways of preventing asthma.
The charity Asthma UK said the study had "really exciting" potential.
When something irritates the airways of a patient with asthma, the airways become tightened, inflamed and produce too much sticky mucus. All of this can make breathing difficult.
Previous studies have shown a link between repeated lung infections with RSV and developing asthma later in life.
One Swedish study showed showed 39% of infants taken to hospital with RSV had asthma when they were 18. However, only 9% of infants who were not ill developed asthma.
How the virus might be able to do this was, however, unknown.  Now a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine believe they have an explanation.
Their experiments on mice showed the virus impaired the ability of a specific part of the immune system, called regulatory T cells, to calm inflammation.
Inflammation is an important part of dealing with an infection. However, for asthma patients, chemicals in air which come from ordinary things like dust mites, pets and mould can trigger an inappropriate inflammatory response.
Infection with RSV led to a "complete loss of suppressive function" of the regulatory T cells, after which the mice developed asthma-like symptoms," researchers Prof Anuradha Ray and Prof Prabir Ray told the BBC.
They said there might be a window in early life when the cells were vulnerable to being "crippled".
They think the finding could help scientists devise treatments which prevent some people developing asthma.
"We feel that both prophylactic and therapeutic approaches can be developed.
"This is especially desirable in infants who have a strong family history of asthma."
Malayka Rahman, from Asthma UK, said: "This research provides vital information on how viruses interact with our immune cells and why this might lead to an increased risk of asthma.
"What's really exciting is the potential of these findings to translate into new treatments for asthma in the future."


A 28-year-old man has died after he was stabbed in the early hours of this morning in Waterford city.

At around 3.20am gardaí (Irish police) were alerted by a member of the public to a man who had been seriously injured on New Street in the city following an altercation with another man.
The victim was taken to University Hospital Waterford where he was pronounced dead.
A 35-year-old male was arrested nearby.
He is currently being held at Waterford Garda Station.
The scene is currently preserved for a technical examination and the Irish State Pathologist have been notified.
The Garda Technical Bureau is scheduled to attend the scene this morning.


Vladimir Putin's spokesman has denied a report that the Russian president mistakenly pocketed a Super Bowl ring during a 2005 visit by a US tycoon.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was quoted as saying he had shown Mr Putin the 4.94-carat, diamond-encrusted ring while in St Petersburg.
"I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket," Mr Kraft told an awards gala, according to the New York Post.
But the Kremlin spokesman insisted the ring had been a gift.
The ring was one of around 70 given to the Patriots team after they won Super Bowl XXXIX in February 2005, five months before Mr Kraft's trip to Russia. It is said to be worth $25,000 (Â£16.000; 18,700 euros).
The Post reported last week that Mr Kraft had told a ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York how he had wanted the ring back but had been advised by the White House to treat it as a gift.
"I took out the ring and showed it to [President Putin], and he put it on and he goes: 'I can kill someone with this ring'," the Patriots owner was quoted as saying.
Mr Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said he had himself seen Mr Kraft present the ring to the president and suggested that any suggestion that he was put under pressure should be an issue for "detailed discussion with psychoanalysts".
"If the gentleman is really experiencing such excruciating pain from his loss... the president is ready to send him any other ring he can buy for that kind of money," he told reporters in London, where Mr Putin was having talks with UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
A Kraft Group spokesperson played down the story on Sunday, telling the Associated Press that Mr Kraft was very happy his ring was at the Kremlin and that it was a "humorous, anecdotal story that Robert retells for laughs".


Eurozone inflation has risen above the European Central Bank's (ECB) target rate for the first time in four years.

Inflation in the 19-nation bloc hit 2% in February, according to Eurostat, up from a rate of 1.8% the month before.
The rate is the highest since January 2013 and is slightly above the ECB's target of just below 2%.
However, the increase in inflation is largely due to rising energy prices, and analysts do not expect the ECB to alter its current stimulus programme.
In December, the ECB said it would extend its bond-buying programme until at least December 2017, although the â‚¬80bn-a-month quantitative easing (QE) scheme will be trimmed to â‚¬60bn a month from April.
The bank has cut its main interest rate to zero and embarked on the bond-buying programme to try to  stimulate growth in the eurozone and avoid deflation, or falling prices.
Although inflation is now above its target rate, February's core inflation rate - which strips out the impact of energy and food prices - was unchanged at 0.9%.
The ECB is due to meet next week, but Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Markit, said: "We believe the ECB will remain wedded to its current monetary policy stance.
"The ECB has made it very clear that it wants to see sustained, decisive evidence that underlying eurozone inflationary pressures are picking up."
Separate figures from Eurostat found that the unemployment rate in the eurozone remained unchanged at 9.6% in January, which is the lowest rate since May 2009.
Eurostat estimates that the number of unemployed people in the eurozone fell by 56,000 to 15.6 million.


Moray Council has awarded a £17m contract for the refurbishment of four primary schools.

The schools which will be upgraded are Applegrove in Forres, Millbank in Buckie, Seafield in Elgin and St Gerardine in Lossiemouth.
Refurbishment will include new roof coverings, windows and doors, new toilets and modernised heating and electrical systems.
Work will begin in the summer break, with completion slated for spring 2017.
The programme is being funded by a £10m government grant, with the rest being provided by Moray Council.
The work will be carried out by Galliford Try, the parent company of Morrison Construction, which recently undertook the £1.2m refurbishment work on the Elgin Town Hall and the construction of Moray's flood alleviation schemes.


China has condemned as a "smear" a New York Times report saying Premier Wen Jiabao's relatives have accumulated billions of dollars.

The article said Mr Wen's family members "have controlled assets worth at least $2.7bn (Â£1.7bn)".
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the report had "ulterior motives".
Both the NYT's Chinese and English sites are being blocked inside China, as are references to the report on micro-blogging sites.
"Some reports smear China and have ulterior motives," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said when asked about the story in a daily press briefing. On the blocking, he said the internet was managed "in accordance with laws".
In its report, the New York Times said Mr Wen's relatives' holdings included property, insurance and construction firms.
By John SudworthBBC News, Shanghai
Often referred to as "Grandpa Wen" by state media, the premier is one of the few senior Chinese politicians with the popular touch, usually the first to appear at the side of victims of earthquakes or other disasters as a kind of consoler-in-chief.  But there have long been rumours that his decade in the job has brought more tangible benefits to his immediate family, and now the New York Times has put a figure on it.
The more than $2.7bn in controlled assets reported by the newspaper are held not by the Chinese premier himself, but by his wife, mother, siblings, children, and their in-laws.  The figure though may not come as much of a shock to Mr Wen. A WikiLeaks cable dated 2007 quoted a source as saying the premier was "disgusted" by his family's activities.
But whether he disapproves or not, the investigation shows that much of the wealth has been accumulated in areas of the economy over which he has direct authority.  Mr Wen is not the only senior leader over whom that kind of suspicion lingers, but given his position, his public standing and his own championing of the anti-corruption cause, the Times report will be seen by the authorities here as highly sensitive and potentially damaging.
Bloomberg's website is still being blocked after it published, back in June, a similar expose of the family wealth of the man tipped to be China's next leader, Xi Jinping.  It may be a while before readers in China get to see the New York Times online again.
"Many relatives of Wen Jiabao, including his son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law, have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership," the newspaper wrote.
"In many cases, the names of the relatives have been hidden behind layers of partnerships and investment vehicles involving friends, work colleagues and business partners."
The family's investments reportedly spanned several sectors. The newspaper cited one holding as Ping An, an insurance company which it said had benefited from reforms enacted in 2004 by a state body over which Mr Wen had oversight.
It said that partnerships controlled by Mr Wen's relatives, along with their friends and colleagues, had bought into the firm before its IPO, or stock market flotation, in 2004, and held as much as $2.2bn in the company in 2007.
The newspaper said both the Chinese government and Mr Wen's relatives declined to comment on the investigation, which was based on corporate records from 1992-2012.
No holdings were found in Mr Wen's name, it said, nor was it possible "to determine from the documents whether he recused himself from any decisions that might have affected his relatives' holdings, or whether they received preferential treatment on investments".
China is sensitive about reports on its leaders, particularly when it comes to their wealth.
A growing wealth gap is causing public discontent, as are the frequent corruption scandals involving government officials.
When, in June 2012, a Bloomberg investigative report examined the finances of the relatives of president-in-waiting Xi Jinping, the company's website was blocked in China - even though the report said there was no indication of wrongdoing by him or his family.
Mr Wen has been the Chinese premier for almost 10 years. He is due to step down in a power transition that begins on 8 November.
Is 'Grandpa Wen' as nice as he seems?
He is seen as a popular figure with the common touch, and is portrayed in state media as a leader with great concern for the lives of ordinary people.
A spokeswoman for New York Times said she hoped that full access to the websites would be "restored shortly" in China.
The BBC has also been affected, with the BBC World News channel blocked when a correspondent was asked about the story during a report, and the BBC News website blocked later on Friday.
On China's Twitter-like weibo platforms, keywords such as Wen Jiabao and the New York Times are blocked.  Mr Wen's name, like most other Chinese leaders, has always been a screened keyword.
Some netizens did manage to post the article despite heavy and rapid censorship.  A Sina Weibo user tweeted about the article from Kawagoe city in Japan, but his post was removed after 11 minutes.
"The Twist Your Waist Times says the best actor has $2.7bn of assets.  I just wonder how will he spend it?" asked a Tencent Weibo user registered in the British West Indies territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
"Twist your waist" in Chinese characters sounds like New York when spoken, while "best actor" refers to Mr Wen, who critics say only pretends to be a people-first leader.


A Spitfire that crashed in Cambridgeshire while on a training mission during World War Two is to be dug up by archaeologists.

The Rhodesian Squadron Royal Air Force plane, based at RAF Wittering, crashed at Holme on 22 November 1940.
Pilot Officer Harold Penketh, from Brighton, did not bail out and died.
The Spitfire remains were found after a geophysical survey of the area. It is hoped the recovered parts will be put on public display.
The cause of the crash was never fully established, although witnesses said the Mk 1A Spitfire X4583 broke formation and nose-dived into farmland in the village of Holme, south of Peterborough.
An investigation concluded either the pilot's oxygen system failed or there was a physical failure of the plane.
Pilot Officer Penketh, 20, made no attempt to use his parachute. His body was recovered from the wreckage and returned to his family.
The "enormous crater" created by the Spitfire quickly filled with water as the water table in the area is high, eyewitness John Bliss, who was a child at the time, said.
The spitfire remains have lain in their watery grave for 75 years.
The crash site was located after a geophysical survey and metal detecting carried out by Cranfield University in August.
The excavation, which started on Monday and is expected to take a week, is being led by Oxford Archaeology East.
The remains, which are still the property of the Ministry of Defence, will be cleaned and documented. Some are expected to be put on display later this month.
Following the excavation, the land will be restored to a mix of fenland habitats and managed as part of the Great Fen reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.


A hospital has been told to transfer more than half of its junior doctors to ensure patient safety because of a lack of consultants to train them.

Health Education England said 42 out of 76 trainee doctors at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital should be moved.
East Kent Hospitals trust said some emergency services will be affected.
The junior doctors are to be transferred to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and the QEQM in Margate, also run by the trust.
The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has admitted some emergency care would be affected at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital over the next few months, particularly in acute stroke care and services for elderly patients with serious illnesses such as pneumonia.
Julie Screaton, Health Education England's regional director for London and the South East, said: "Quality supervision of junior doctors is key to ensure patient safety.
"The lack of consultant cover meant that trainees were not adequately supported in their clinical practice and were consequently unable to receive the education and training for which they were placed in the trust."
A spokesman for the trust said about a quarter of those attending the Kent and Canterbury's urgent care centre would be taken to the trust's hospitals in Ashford and Margate instead.
He said: "The changes will be temporary and will not be immediate, to allow time for the trust to develop its plans and test them to make sure patients will be safe and well looked after."
The Trust was put into special measures in September 2014.
The latest report by the Care Quality Commission in December 2016 concluded the trust "requires improvement", but recommended it be taken out of special measures.


Two men who died in a plane crash off the coast of Kintyre have been identified.

They were Anthony Woodward, 62, and Robert Archer, 57. Police officers dealing with the crash have said no further details will be released.
The alarm was raised after their light aircraft, which took off from Oban Airport at 11:30 on Thursday, failed to arrive at Carlisle Airport.
The crash took place about two miles off the Kintyre coast near Skipness.
The bodies of two men and wreckage from the aircraft were recovered from the sea following an extensive search.
The search operation involved a coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Prestwick, as well as Police Scotland, Arran Lifeboat and the Tarbert and Campbeltown coastguard rescue teams.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is also conducting an independent safety investigation.


I think it is shocking that in 2017 a club the size of Manchester United does not have a women's team, and what is even worse is they will not properly explain their position.

Look around the world and every other major football club has a women's team, or plans for one. Two of the biggest, men's Champions League finalists Real Madrid and Juventus, are about to set up theirs.
Most of those teams are fully integrated with the rest of the club and being backed financially too - a few miles from Old Trafford, for example, Manchester City's commitment to their women's side is clear.
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Southampton are the only other Premier League side not to have an affiliated women's team, although they have just announced a new under-21 team for next season, giving a pathway for the young female players in their girls' sides - something United's girls do not have.
Locally, nationally or globally, whichever clubs United compare themselves to, they are allowing themselves to be left behind.
I don't understand why.
When people have talked about this issue in the past, they have focused on how, with the club's vast resources and worldwide profile, a United team would help develop the women's game.
That is still true, but it now works the other way too - United are missing out on an easy way of engaging with their huge female fanbase, in Manchester and further afield, and promoting the importance of women in the make-up of their club.
A women's team would do all of that. The game is growing fast and other clubs have demonstrated they believe it is a big commercial asset, at very little cost.
Why do United think differently?
When the BBC asked United last week about the prospect of them forming a women's team, the club responded by saying: "It is a matter that is under review and a detailed analysis is currently being undertaken."
Taken in isolation, that reply gives the impression it is an issue being actively discussed by the club.
The problem for me with just accepting that is the case and leaving them to get on with it is that United have been saying the same thing for several years now, since 2013.
Whoever asks them about a women's team - and many people from United fans to MPs and national newspapers have done so down the years - United's stock reply is the matter is "under review".
Hearing it repeated again and again makes it feel like a brush-off.
The BBC's request for an interview was turned down but, if I was given the chance to ask United any questions, I would like to know who is actually carrying out this review and analysis.
Who have they been talking to since 2013, what have they found out so far, is there any evidence a review has been happening - and, crucially, when is it likely to end?
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United did have a women's team until the Glazers scrapped it in 2005, with a spokesman saying "it was not part of their core business".
I can actually understand why they may have made that decision at the time - United were outside the top two divisions of the old Women's Premier League and the Glazers might not have considered them a good representative of their brand.
Also, the profile of the women's game in the UK was a lot smaller then.
But that was 12 years ago and things are very different now - from the level of professionalism at the top level of the women's game here to the way it is marketed and the commercial opportunities that come with that.
So, if United's decision-makers are purely concerned with financial matters and still basing their views on women's football on what was happening when they ditched their women's team, they are well out of touch.
I also wonder if the demographic of United's board has anything to do with the club's current stance.
Of the 13 members listed on the United website, their average age is almost 50 and only one is female - Darcie Glazer Kassewitz, who is rarely seen at Old Trafford.
United are not the only Premier League club whose board is predominantly male and middle-aged, but maybe their thinking boils down to the fact there is nobody in a position of power at United who believes women's football is important enough to be a proper part of the club. If they think that, why not just say it?
Then there is the question of whether they are also scared of failing on the pitch.
It is only four years since Manchester City obtained a Women's Super League licence. Since then, their investment in their women's team and its integration with the men's facilities and resources, has proved a great success. They won the domestic treble last season, and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.
City's men's team have finished above United in each of the past four Premier League seasons - could United be frightened that, if they had a women's team, it would be overshadowed by City too?
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At the moment, United do have girls' teams, up to the under-16 age group.
Those sides have been very successful, something that is rightly trumpeted by United but, unlike the boys' sides, they are run by the Manchester United Foundation as a Regional Talent Club, not the club itself.
That's an important difference - the girls' teams wear United shirts but they use separate facilities and rely on separate funding and grants, only some of which comes from the club.
When I talk to parents of girls who play for those teams, some of them say they don't feel a full part of the United family. I can understand why.
Before the Women's Super League was set up in 2014, some clubs tried running their women's team through their community arm and, with that set-up, it almost feels like they are associated with the club but being kept at arm's length.
Thankfully, things have moved on and girls' and women's teams are now far more integrated at most other Premier League clubs including Spring Series winners Chelsea, whose girls' teams are also run as a Regional Talent Club but are based at the club's main Cobham training ground.
United's girls train in Eccles, nine miles away from the club's Aon Training Complex in Carrington, which is where the United boys' teams play.
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Whoever United are talking to as part of their ongoing review about a women's team, it does not appear to be anyone at the United Foundation involved in their girls' teams.
When I've spoken to people who work there, it is almost a taboo subject. Nobody wants to go on the record to say they think the club needs a women's team, even if privately they are frustrated and think it is long overdue.
As well as the fact United are missing out financially by not having a women's team, there is a human cost too.
The talented local girls, who United are developing as they come through their ranks in their teams from under-8s upwards, have nowhere to go past the age of 16.
They have the same dream as the likes of United striker Marcus Rashford - to play professionally for their local team, who they grew up playing for and supporting.
Women's football is a career now but, unlike Rashford, girls cannot pursue it at United.
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England Under-17 goalkeeper Emily Ramsey is a United fan from Salford and had played for them since the age of eight.
But, now she is 16, she had to leave this summer because she did not have a team to play for, and joined Liverpool instead.
I spoke to Emily and her mum, Kate, as part of Women's Sport Week, and Kate explained the different opportunities available to her daughter at Liverpool.
United are one of the top regional talent centres for girls and Emily grew up there, and had some amazing experiences.
But she has gone from being the oldest and best keeper there to being part of a much bigger - and fully professional - set-up at Liverpool, where she can train and learn from England goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain.
Emily is in a great position now and clearly enjoying her football with Liverpool but it must have been very hard for her to leave United. For someone in her position, it must seem like the club you love does not love you.
Not every girl who plays for United is as lucky as Emily. Most of her former team-mates are going through a succession of trials to try to find a new club, at the same time as sitting their GCSEs.
If they get an offer - and they will not find out for several weeks and after several trials - they might not be able to accept it because of logistical issues - transport, travel time, expense - the sort of thing that did not affect them at United.
It is hard enough to make it as a professional anyway and the reality is that some of them will stop playing at a high level, and not because of a lack of ability.
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Every year, the same problem occurs and, whether United like it or not, their lack of clarity over settling the issue is affecting younger girls too.
As her mum explained, when Emily joined United to play for their under-9 team, they knew there wasn't a women's team then but they were hoping there would be by the time she was old enough.
United stalling over whether they will set one up has probably influenced a few other players about whether to play for their girls' teams or not. They are also hoping that the situation will change.
That's not fair, if there are better opportunities out there. Women's football is a career now - not a hobby - and United need to give their talented young players a route that lets them keep progressing, rather than stunting their career opportunities.
Nobody can force United to set up a women's team - not at the moment anyway.
But it would be different if it was stipulated that having a women's team was one of the requirements for clubs to get a licence to be a member of the men's Premier League.
That seems a fair suggestion to me, and would fit in with the Premier League's own commitment to equality.
The funding that Premier League teams would need to run a women's team would surely not be a problem, with the mind-boggling sums that clubs get just by being in the men's top flight in this country.
I don't think United would struggle to attract sponsors for a new women's team, although the club's principal partners, Aon and Chevrolet, their kit supplier Adidas and feature film partner 20th Century Fox did not respond when asked about the issue by the BBC.
Something has to change, though.
At the moment, while boys like Rashford can grow up supporting United and dreaming of playing for the club, girls cannot.
For all the positive work that United do in their local community, there is nothing inclusive or equal about that.
Rachel Brown-Finnis was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.


Former Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup has denied he was sacked because of concerns he and his agent stood to profit from player transfers.

Danish newspaper Politiken claims it has seen documents suggesting Laudrup's agent, Bayram Tutumlu, could have made more than £3m during the Dane's reign.
It claims Swansea accused the two of trying to "benefit from transactions at the expense of the club".
However, chairman Huw Jenkins said he sacked Laudrup for "football reasons".
Laudrup told BBC Wales Sport: "I have never received any payment or commission related to any player transfer in any of the clubs I have coached. Never."
The former Denmark international was appointed in June 2012 and led the Swans to their first major trophy when they won the 2013 League Cup - but he left the club after less than two seasons in charge.
The Swans cut all ties with Tutumlu in June 2013 following concerns he was trying to dictate transfer policy, with the club perturbed by his attempt to sell then-captain Ashley Williams without the board's consent.
A poor run of form left Swansea two points above the Premier League relegation zone and Laudrup was sacked in February 2014 - but he insists his departure had nothing to do with any irregular payments.
"I have read that Swansea stated that they have not found anything that indicates that I have done something wrong or illegal regarding the player transfers in my period as a manager in the club," he said. "I knew that but it is a relief that the club confirms it."
The Politiken article was based on documents it says were obtained in collaboration with Football Leaks.
According to the article, Swansea wrote a letter to the League Managers' Association (LMA) when Laudrup was sacked, claiming there were "a number of transactions and dealings with players about which the club has concerns".
However, speaking to BBC Wales Sport, Jenkins said the club did not suspect the former Barcelona and Real Madrid player of any wrongdoing.
"There were discussions with the LMA but that was done in the context of negotiating a settlement and it should be taken in that light," he added.
"As far as we are concerned that is the end of the matter and we agreed a settlement and we move on."
Tutumlu has represented Laudrup since the 52-year-old played for Barcelona from 1989 to 1994.
According to the Politiken article, the documents show Jenkins signed an agreement which would give Tutumlu 7.5% of the net profit from all player sales when Laudrup extended his contract in March 2013.
Tutumlu has yet to respond to BBC Wales Sport's request for comment, but Jenkins says that particular clause never came into effect.
"On that particular point it was never acted upon and as most people know transfers in and out of the club are controlled and decided by myself, always in conjunction with the manager," he added.
"But ultimately we had the control and from that date to Michael's departure in 2014 that point in particular was never active.
"All I can say as far as I am concerned is we dealt with everything in the right way as we saw it and in good faith."


Theresa May has urged Iran's president to resolve the case of a British mother detained in Tehran since April.

The prime minister "raised concerns" about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during a phone call with Hassan Rouhani, Downing Street said.
The British-Iranian charity worker, 37, of north London, is due on trial on as yet unspecified charges.
She was arrested while she was at an airport with her daughter Gabriella after visiting her family on holiday.
Iranian officials have previously accused Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe of leading a "foreign-linked hostile network"
Her British husband Richard Ratcliffe, 41, of Hampstead, has dismissed the accusation.
He has previously said she has suffered dangerous weight loss, lost some of her hair and became virtually unable to walk since being imprisoned.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "The prime minister raised concerns about a number of consular cases involving dual nationals, including that of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and stressed the importance of resolving these cases as we worked to strengthen our diplomatic relationship."
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, travelled to Iran on an Iranian passport.
She is being prosecuted in Tehran's Revolutionary Court and her case is to be handled by judge Abolghassem Salavati.
Her two-year-old daughter had her British passport taken away and is staying in Iran with Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's parents but is unable to leave the country.
Mr Ratcliffe said he believes his wife and child are being used as a "political bargaining chip".


A sick sea turtle believed to have been pushed towards the UK by stormy seas has been found stranded on a beach.

The rare juvenile loggerhead turtle was discovered on Gwithian Beach near Hayle, in Cornwall, on Wednesday.
Steve Matchett, from the Blue Reef Aquarium, said a vet, who was an expert in marine turtles, was trying to stabilise the animal.
He said the species was used to warm seas and becomes lethargic in the UK's cold waters.
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The aquarium, based in Newquay, said most loggerheads were born along the coast of Mexico, Florida, in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
- The loggerheads name refers to its extraordinarily large head, which houses powerful jaw muscles and large beak for crushing crustaceans.
- The species is listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- They nest at sites in the Mediterranean and along the coasts of Oman, South Africa, Australia and southeast USA.
- Adults can weigh up to 28st 4lb (180kg)and grow to over 3ft (1m) long.
Mr Matchett said the turtle, which is about 8 inches (20cm) long, could have been washed up in Cornwall following a severe storm, causing it to be pushed out the warmer water of the Atlantic and further north.
He said: "Turtles only strand in UK waters when there is something seriously wrong with them.
"They tend to fall victim to our chilly waters and gradually become more and more lethargic until they lapse into unconsciousness."
The turtle is now receiving emergency treatment.
"The next few days are absolutely crucial but we have to face the fact that it has been through a lot and the fact it has stranded means it was no longer able to swim or fend for itself," he said.


It was needing to have her large intestine removed that inspired Nicola Dames to start her own underwear business.

As the former intensive care nurse adjusted to life with a colostomy bag 10 years ago, one of the things that upset her was no longer being able to fit into the fashionable underwear she loved.
"I could always see my bag sticking through at the top or bottom," says Ms Dames, now 39.
"[Then] I realised the problem wasn't me, it was the underwear."
Annoyed by the lack of decent underwear for women in her position, she decided to create her own - fashionable, but with a pouch to carry a colostomy bag. And so her business Vanilla Blush was born in 2008.
To get the company up and running from their kitchen table, Ms Dames and her husband Simon remortgaged their Glasgow flat to raise £11,000, and started selling 12 products for women.
Today, they sell more than 200 garments for both men and women, ranging from underwear to swimming costumes and sportswear.
In addition to a shop in Glasgow's East End, orders come from around the world via Vanilla Blush's website, and the business is on target to start turning over more than £1m a year.
"We've come a long way," says Ms Dames.
While Ms Dames' story is certainly inspirational, she is actually just one of numerous entrepreneurs around the world who have been inspired to set up successful businesses following a brush with serious illness.
New Yorker Jon Loew, 44, was facing death when he came up with his idea for KeepTree, an online system that allows users to capture, securely store, and schedule video messages for release in the future.
A bad reaction to an antibiotic meant that, within a month, he went from a healthy dad to his body gradually shutting down. Doctors were puzzled, and Mr Loew was contemplating his imminent demise.
With children of eight and five at the time, he was worried that they would grow up with few memories of him.
Mr Loew says: "I'd be this guy that they vaguely remembered, so I started recording videos... and labelling them with the dates when I wanted my wife to give them to our children, because I wanted the videos to be appropriate with things going on in their lives."
When doctors got his condition under control, the idea of using videos as a means of communicating from beyond the grave stuck.
On a 2011 business trip for his TV company, Mr Loew mentioned it to his now co-founder Hiroshi Nakata, who raised a few hundred thousand dollars overnight.
KeepTree has now raised more than $5m (£3.5m) from investors and has offices in New York and Tokyo.
It's a profitable business and it isn't just used by people who are terminally ill. Instead, users do everything from recording a birthday wish to be delivered in a month's time, or filming a bedtime story for your children while you are away with work, or sending a video of a singing grandchild to proud grandparents.
KeepTree has also indentified new areas for growth and recently launched Vift, a video gift messaging service for online retailers.
If you are buying a gift for someone from a shop that uses Vift you can also record a video. And when the physical gift is delivered to the recipient the video is then emailed out.
Mr Loew says: "It's a way of personalising an online gift. Once the courier delivers the gift, that triggers the video to be delivered."
For Anikka Burton, it was having breast cancer nearly five years ago that prompted business inspiration.
She began her online gift business Not Another Bunch of Flowers in 2013 when she realised there was a gap in the market for get-well presents specific to people with cancer.
"Flowers are banned from hospitals because of the infection risk, so I returned home to find a lot of dead flowers," says the 38-year-old, who is based in Sussex, in southern England.
"It was quite depressing, yet flowers are the go-to option."
After her treatment ended Ms Burton spoke to suppliers, began going to trade shows and decided to invest an initial £5,000 in products that she had found helpful or would choose herself.
"I lost my mum to breast cancer, so I have an understanding of what it's like to be the loved one as well as the patient," she says.
"But I was cautious at first. It took about £15,000 to start up, but I put a small amount in at the start; and as I had more confidence in the business, I released more money."
Her website now sells 530 gifts, ranging from get-well cards, to hampers and toiletry products free from chemicals that people with cancer are told to avoid.
Ms Burton says her business broke even in its first year and for 2016 she expects to see its turnover top £330,000.
Selling cups of coffee has been the route to recovery from anorexia for 30-year-old Canadian Lindsay Brock.
Her eating disorder had been so debilitating that she had been forced to give up her work managing coffee and tea shops.
When a long-awaited treatment programme in Toronto didn't work, she says she began to have thoughts of suicide and decided that she needed something other than her illness as a focus.
So she decided to fulfil her lifelong dream and open her own coffee shop.
Amuse Coffee Co, a Parisian-style cafe in the Ontario city of Peterborough, opened its doors in August 2015, and Ms Brock runs it with her husband and two part-time employees.
Although Ms Brock has to be careful not to overdo things for the sake of her health, the business is on target to turnover 135,000 Canadian dollars ($104,000; £72,000) in its first year.
She says: "My mantra right now is 'do less with more focus'. Baby steps."


John Boyega, James McAvoy and Sir Ben Kingsley are among an all-star cast set to provide voices in a new adaptation of Watership Down.

The four-part CGI animated mini-series will bring an original interpretation to Richard Adams' classic 1972 novel.
It tells the story of a band of rabbits in search of a new home after the destruction of their warren.
Commissioned by the BBC, it is the first blockbuster drama made as a co-production between the BBC and Netflix.
The series will also feature the vocal talents of Olivia Colman, Nicholas Hoult , Miles Jupp, Freddie Fox, Anne-Marie Duff and Gemma Arterton, and will be written by Bafta-nominated Tom Bidwell.
"Before there was Harry Potter, there was Watership Down," said the BBC's drama commissioning editor Matthew Read.
"Richard Adams' novel is one of the most successful books of all time and one of the biggest selling books in history. It is fantastic to have the opportunity to bring a modern classic to a mainstream BBC One audience with such an incredible roster of actors alongside the talented team overseeing the animation."
The book was first adapted for screen in 1978, and was notoriously frightening for young children, with its adored rabbit characters killed in graphic scenes.
This version, the show's executive producer told the Telegraph, "will not just tone down the levels of on-screen violence to make it more appropriate for children, but give a boost to its female characters."
The series is due to air on the BBC in 2017, and worldwide, outside of the UK, on Netflix.


David Johnston has been sworn in as the 28th governor general of Canada.

Mr Johnston, 69, will be the Queen's representative in Canada, charged with performing the constitutional role she fulfils in Britain.
In a speech after an pomp-filled ceremony in Ottawa, the prominent legal scholar and academic administrator called Canada "the envy of the world".
Mr Johnston replaces Michaëlle Jean, a former journalist appointed in 2005 who is to be UN envoy to her native Haiti.
"I see my role as a bridge in bringing people of all backgrounds  and ages together to create a smart and caring nation, a nation that will inspire not just Canadians but the entire world," he said.
Mr Johnston was born in northern Ontario, the son of a hardware store owner. He has had a long career in the Canadian legal academy, with postings at some of the nation's top law schools.


Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind the campaign to stay in the EU, claiming it is "not British to retreat to Europe's sidelines".

The former prime minister argued that Britain needed to be in the EU to shape the continent's responses to terrorism, immigration and climate change.
And it was "not in tune with the Churchillian spirit" to "disengage".
Leave campaigners said Mr Brown's arguments "rang hollow" given his "disastrous record" while in office.
The British public will decide in a referendum on 23 June whether to remain in the EU or to leave.
With just over six weeks until the vote, campaigning has been stepped up by both sides. In other EU referendum developments on Wednesday:
This issue covers defence and the extent of Britain's influence in the world
In a wide-ranging speech at the London School of Economics, Mr Brown invoked Britain's history of standing up for human rights and fighting fascism and anti-Semitism.
He said the EU referendum should be an opportunity to make the positive case for Europe and the UK's "outward looking internationalism" and said Labour voters were more likely to respond to positive arguments for staying in.
The Remain campaign, he added, would have to secure the backing of Labour, Lib Dem and SNP voters if they were going to win - and the campaign should stress the benefits to ordinary people of EU membership over pay, working conditions and employment rights.
He echoed Prime Minister David Cameron's comments about the EU's role in preserving peace and stability.
"For 1,000 years nations and tribes of Europe were fighting to the finish and murdering and maiming each other. There is no century except this one where Europe has been at peace and nations... were not vying for supremacy," he said
But for the last 70 years since World War Two, nations now "battle with arguments and ideas" and not "with weapons and armaments".
"It is like we have not just exchanged swords for ploughshares, we have made it possible so that people never think that swords will be used again."
There are two silent concerns inside strands of the Labour Remain camp.
First that the focus on the economic message, Project Fear as it's nicknamed, isn't enough.
And second, Labour voters who might be a bit fed up with the EU but are reluctantly supportive might not turn out to vote.
During the Scottish independence referendum Mr Brown's last minute fiery political sermons were a shot in the arm for the Unionists.
He is intervening now (as ever) on his own terms, but the former prime minister's interventions this time might have some effect.
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In the first of a series of planned speeches in the run-up to polling day, the former Labour leader said: "If this referendum is about anything it is about what kind of Britain we are and what kind of Britain we aspire to become.
"We should be a leader in Europe, not simply a member. We should not be fully out and we should not be half out. We should be fully in.
"We should recognise that the world has changed since the first referendum and we should be advocates for cooperation in an inter-dependent world."
In a question and answer session afterwards, Mr Brown said the EU was moving to a "more flexible" model, adding: "The future lies in a united Europe of states rather than a United States of Europe.
"Too much cooperation and people will feel their identity is at risk, too little cooperation and it will not be possible to solve the economic, social and environmental problems we face."
Ahead of his speech, Mr Brown used articles in the Mirror and the Guardian to argue that Britain must be at the heart of European policy making.
Mr Brown, who has been credited with stopping Britain joining the euro when he was chancellor in the 1990s,  told the Mirror the British must stop being "reluctant Europeans" and shape the continent's responses to terrorism, immigration and climate change.
"I think most people would agree that it's not British or in tune with the Churchillian spirit to simply disengage when Ukraine is in turmoil. It is not British to retreat to Europe's sidelines when there is a common fight against illegal immigration and terrorism," he wrote.
"It is certainly not British... to allow ourselves to be on the periphery when important defence and security decisions are made, not only in Nato but in the European Union."
In a separate article for the Guardian, Mr Brown urges the EU to use its clout to take concerted action against tax havens.
In response, a Vote Leave spokesman said: "Gordon Brown was in a government that gave away part of our rebate and opened our borders across the EU. Lessons on the patriotic case for the EU will ring hollow from a prime minister with such a disastrous record in Europe."
Boris Johnson kick-started a UK-wide bus tour in Cornwall, a part of the country that has historically been eurosceptic.
Mr Johnson said of his Remain opponents: "They think they have got the big battalions because they have the taxpayers' money.
"We have got the passion, we have got the commitment.
"Let's make June 24 independence day for Britain," he cried, waving a pasty handed to him by a well-wisher.


Up to 2,000 people have taken part in a march in Dublin against ownership of a new Irish maternity hospital.

It was announced in April that the Sisters of Charity would be given ownership of the 300m euros (Â£250m) state-funded National Maternity Hospital.
The Sisters of Charity are major share-holders in the firm that owns the land.
The order has, so far, failed to pay its share of a compensation scheme for victims of institutional abuse.
It has been argued they will have no say in what medical procedures are provided.
The 'We Own Our Hospitals' march was organised by Parents for Choice, together with Uplift, the National Women's Council, and Justice for Magdalenes.
Participants walked down O'Connell Street and finished in Merrion Square.
The new hospital is to be built on the campus of St Vincent's University Hospital in south Dublin.
Irish Minister for Health Simon Harris, has said the proposed hospital will have "full clinical independence" when it moves from Holles Street to the Elm Park campus next to St Vincent's Hospital.
Mr Harris has also said he intends to ensure the hospital's independence is further underpinned in legal arrangements.
A former master of the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin resigned from its board over plans in April.
Dr Peter Boylan said he could not "remain a member of a board which is so blind to the consequences of its decision to transfer sole ownership of the hospital to the religious Sisters of Charity and so deaf to the concerns of the public which it serves."


The embattled mayor of Tower Hamlets has said he does not believe an investigation into his council will find any serious wrongdoings.

The government is investigating claims that Lutfur Rahman had disproportionately funded Bengali groups in order to get their vote.
Speaking to BBC London 94.9, the re-elected mayor said: "I have done, and we have done, nothing wrong."
The report is due to be published by the end of June.
The investigation into the east London authority was launched following the broadcast of a BBC One Panorama programme that claimed Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities.
Separately, the Metropolitan Police is investigating 84 complaints into the election which was held on 22 May.  It said in the majority of cases, no criminal offences had been committed.
Two people have been arrested - a 24-year-old on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud in relation to postal vote applications on 3 June, and a 38-year-old man in connection with an allegation of potentially false declarations on nomination forms on 13 May.
Both have been released on bail.
The Electoral Commission has also launched a review into the count.
Mr Rahman exclusively told presenter Eddie Nestor: "I don't believe they will find any serious irregularity in any of our governance, our financial structures or the way we run the council.
"If there is any issue here, of course we will look at it and try to learn from it and try to improve on it, but don't forget, if he was looking for fraud, he will find no fraud.
"The police have already said there's no evidence of criminality in Tower Hamlets; this is about governance issues, this is about value for money and who we are."
He added: "Twice I've had a mandate to serve the people of this borough. On that basis, give me a chance; look at my policies, look at what I've delivered and look at my philosophy and vision. Judge me on that."