Millions of rail passengers can now buy cheaper "advance" tickets on the day of departure, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has announced.

Until now, advance fares have generally only been available up until midnight on the day before.
Eight train operators are offering the service, claiming that the cheaper tickets can be bought as little as 10 minutes before the train leaves.
But advance fares are for a limited number of seats and often sell out.
When they are available, they can offer substantial savings.
For example, a single fare on the 10:03 from London to Birmingham for 5 July would have cost Â£52 if bought online on the day of travel.
The same fare bought eight weeks in advance currently costs just Â£11.
Advance tickets can potentially be bought on the day with CrossCounty, Grand Central, Greater Anglia, Northern, Transpennine Express, Virgin Trains East Coast, Virgin West Coast and Caledonian Sleeper.
They are not being offered on Arriva Trains Wales, South West Trains, Southern, Southeastern, ScotRail or First Great Western.
Customers of all long-distance services can now see online how many fares are left at cheaper prices.
Last year 27% of all  long-distance rail fares were bought as advance tickets. They can be purchased either online or at ticket offices.


Campaigners against plans to build a row of 30 colourful beach huts on a stretch of shoreline in Moray hope to take their fight to the Court of Session.

Moray Council approved the proposals for Findhorn in May.
Planning officers had recommended refusal, warning the huts could harm the beach's character. There were also 175 letters of objection, mainly from local residents.
Objectors are taking legal advice.
They ultimately hope to secure a judicial review.
Council development officers had said the huts could significantly enhance the area's tourism appeal.
The plans were approved by eight votes to six.


An Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men's C4-5 road race at the Rio Paralympics.

The International Paralympic Committee said Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, suffered cardiac arrest after the incident on a "mountainous stretch" of circuit.
"The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he passed away soon after arrival," a statement added.
Golbarnezhad also competed at the London Paralympics in 2012.
An investigation into the circumstances of the accident has been launched.
"We're looking to gather as much information as we can and as quickly as possible - it should take a matter of days," said Piers Jones, sports director of cycling's governing body UCI.
The Iranian flag has been lowered to half-mast in the Paralympic Village and a period of silence will be observed during Sunday's closing ceremony.
Masoud Ashrafi, the secretary general of Iran's National Paralympic Committee, said it had requested the body of Golbarnezhad be flown to Iran on Sunday. The Committee also asked for a full report of the incident from the IPC.
Ashrafi added: "He had been cycling for 12 years and he was our best cyclist. He was married and has a wife and one son.
"He was the kind of man who was a family man. He loved his family."
Golbarnezhad's death is the first in competition at a summer Olympics or Paralympics since Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen in the 100km team time trial at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Saturday's race began at Pontal and included the Grumari circuit used in the Rio Olympics road races.
The Vista Chinesa circuit, which included a treacherous descent where Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands crashed and sustained concussion during the Olympics, was not part of the Paralympic course.
According to the IPC, Golbarnezhad was involved in a crash at around 10:35 local time on the first section of the Grumari loop, a mountainous stretch of the course, on a curved descent.
The BBC's South America Correspondent Wyre Davies said reporters were told Golbarnezhad suffered "catastrophic head injuries after falling from his bike at speed on a steep, tight part" of the course.
He received treatment at the scene and was in the process of being taken to the athlete hospital when he suffered cardiac arrest.
IPC president Sir Philip Craven said: "This is truly heartbreaking news and the thoughts and condolences of the whole Paralympic movement are with Bahman's family, friends, and team-mates as well as the whole of the National Paralympic Committee of Iran.
"The Paralympic family is united in grief at this horrendous tragedy, which casts a shadow over what have been great Paralympic Games here in Rio."
The race was Golbarnezhad's second at the Rio Paralympics, after he finished 14th in the C4 time-trial race on Wednesday.
Golbarnezhad, from the city of Shiraz in southern Iran, also participated in the London 2012 Paralympics.
He lost his left leg in a land mine explosion and took up the sport in 2002, competing in events for athletes with lower limb impairments or amputations.
Iranian Paralympic Committee: "He was an exemplary Paralympic sportsman who, with love and energy, tried his best to promote the name of Iran and to make all of us proud and at the end he gave his life for this.
"All members of the Iranian cultural and sports camp here express condolences to his family and the Iranian nation. The name of Bahman Golbarnezhad will be inscribed in the proud history of Iranian Paralympics."
Carlos Nuzman, president of Rio 2016: "This is very sad news for sport and for the Paralympic movement. Our hearts and prayers are with Bahman's family, his team-mates and all the people of Iran."
Brian Cookson, president of the UCI, cycling's governing body: "I am devastated to hear about the death of Iranian rider Bahman Golbarnezhad. Our thoughts are with his family and friends, and the NPC of Iran to whom we offer our most sincere condolences."
ParalympicsGB: "We are devastated by the news of Bahman Golbarnezhad's passing. Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues from NPC Iran."
United States Olympic Team: "Our thoughts are with the friends, family and team-mates of Team Iran's inspirational cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad."
Dame Sarah Storey, Britain's most decorated female Paralympian, also paid tribute to Golbarnezhad in an interview with BBC Sport.
"I'm absolutely devastated to hear of a colleague who hasn't made it home from the Games," said Storey, who had earlier won Britain's 60th gold medal in Rio.
"Everyone expects to come home from a Games and it's no real condolence that he died doing something he loved.
"It's just an horrendous thing. It couldn't be any worse. There are no words that can make it feel better.
"When you lose someone you don't even know but they are in the same world... I was sat opposite him in the pits this morning. I know who he is but I've never spoken to him. It still hits you really, really hard."


Brighton dropped to second place in the Championship table after drawing at Reading, who finished with 10 men.

John Swift's free-kick gave the Royals a second-minute lead but the visitors levelled when Joey van den Berg headed a corner into his own net.
Anthony Knockaert's low drive put the Seagulls ahead straight after the break and Paul McShane made it 2-2 by converting Garath McCleary's pull-back.
Van den Berg was sent off late on for a second bookable offence.
Swift's opener, an inswinging ball which evaded everyone from a wide position on the left, was the first goal Brighton have conceded this season.
McCleary and Yann Kermorgant were constant threats as Jaap Stam's Royals dominated the opening period, with the Frenchman having a shot cleared off the line by Lewis Dunk and dragging another effort wide.
Brighton improved after the break but goalkeeper David Stockdale made a reflex save to tip an overhead kick from Kermorgant behind and keep the scoreline at 2-2.
The visitors could not take advantage when Van den Berg, who had picked up a caution for dissent in the first half, was dismissed by referee Mike Jones with one minute remaining for pulling back Tomer Hemed.
Albion, who finished third last season, remain unbeaten but slipped to second after Huddersfield secured a late win over Barnsley.
Reading manager Jaap Stam: "In terms of energy and creating chances, I think we did very well. We controlled the game in the first half.
"After we came back to 2-2, we tried to go for the third goal. We tried to win the game, which is now in our nature. That's how we want to play.
"My philosophy of playing is that we want to play attractive and attacking football with a lot of possession. And that's what we did today. But we do make mistakes and that's what we need to get out of our system."
Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "I was especially disappointed with our first-half performance. For the levels that we've been at recently, I don't think we reached those levels in the first half.
"There's no particular reason for that. We've made a couple of changes and perhaps that rhythm wasn't there.
"Periods in the game became very open and I thought Reading did it better than us. At times, they looked more of a goal threat than us."
Match ends, Reading 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 2.
Second Half ends, Reading 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 2.
Yann Kermorgant (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Attempt missed. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross following a set piece situation.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Yann Kermorgant (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).
Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Stephen Quinn (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Danny Williams (Reading) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Reading. Jake Cooper replaces Roy Beerens.
Second yellow card to Joey van den Berg (Reading) for a bad foul.
Foul by Joey van den Berg (Reading).
Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomer Hemed.
Substitution, Reading. Joseph Mendes replaces Garath McCleary.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Tomer Hemed replaces Glenn Murray.
Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Liam Rosenior.
Attempt blocked. Garath McCleary (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Williams with a cross.
Foul by Danny Williams (Reading).
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Stephen Quinn (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Substitution, Reading. Stephen Quinn replaces John Swift.
Offside, Reading. George Evans tries a through ball, but Yann Kermorgant is caught offside.
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jamie Murphy replaces Jiri Skalak.
Foul by Paul McShane (Reading).
Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Gaëtan Bong.
Danny Williams (Reading) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Jordan Obita.


Middlesbrough midfielder Adlene Guedioura says Saturday's trip to Selhurst Park, to face his old club Crystal Palace, is a "six-pointer" in their battle against relegation.

Guedioura, 31, played 19 games for the Eagles between September 2013 and September 2015 before joining Watford.
He joined Boro from the Hornets during the January transfer window.
"I have nothing to prove to them, but for sure I'm thinking about three points," Guedioura told BBC Tees.
The Algeria international added: "It's a six-point game really. When you play the teams around you, you have to win because you can take an advantage and start a good run.
"We need to go with a positive mind. We will go there with confidence."
Since joining Boro, Guedioura has made two substitute appearances in the Premier League.


An Aston Villa fan who gave a Nazi salute at a German police officer has been banned from football for three years.

West Midlands Ambulance worker Jason Southall had denied a charge of racially aggravated harassment.
However, he was found guilty at South Sefton Magistrates' Court earlier.
Southall, 44, of Coppice Road, Walsall, was also ordered to pay ??850, which police said took place during an away match against Liverpool.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said Mr Southall has resigned from his job with immediate effect.
Merseyside Police said the incident happened on 13 September during Liverpool's game versus Aston Villa at Anfield.
They said the German officer was attending the game with Merseyside officers as part of a course development.
Det Ch Insp Andy O'Connor said: "This was a despicable crime against a police officer visiting this city who was simply trying to go about her job and develop her skills"
He commended Liverpool's stewards for their work.


The 2012 World Club Challenge between English champions Leeds Rhinos and Australian champions Manly Sea Eagles will be played at Headingley.

But Leeds chief executive Gary Hetherington has warned it could be the last played in England for some time.
Hetherington said Super League champions Leeds would have been prepared to travel to Australia.
He said: "It turned out to be too short a time scale for 2012 but it's very much on the agenda for the future."
The game will be played on Friday, 17 February.
NRL Grand Final winners Manly had proposed a Middle Eastern venue.
Hetherington told a press conference at Headingley: "Whilst there has been talk about [playing outside England] for the last eight or nine years, it's never really got far.
The fact we were prepared to play in Australia probably took the Australians by surprise
"But just recently there does seem to be an appetite, particularly from the Australian clubs, to start to explore that possibility.
"I think the fact that we were prepared to play the game in Australia probably took the Australians by surprise and it made the NRL think seriously about staging it.
"A lot of preparatory work could be done. Indeed, if it was to be in Dubai or the Emirates, work could start now for 2013."
The Rhinos have managed to secure home advantage after playing their four previous fixtures at Elland Road, home of Leeds United.
Huddersfield's Galpharm Stadium, which hosted three Challenges featuring Bradford Bulls, was considered because of its undersoil heating but Hetherington is confident Headingley can be protected against frost.
"We desperately want to win the game and if our crowd and our home stadium gives us that edge we'll certainly take it," added Hetherington.
"Whatever the weather can throw up, we'll make sure the pitch is fit. We now have a lot of technology and we won't have a game here for two weeks prior to that game."
With Headingley's capacity currently set at 20,000, the crowd will be well down on the Rhinos' previous Club Challenge matches at Elland Road. Leeds' meeting with Manly in 2009, which the Aussies won 28-20, was watched by 32,569.
Last year saw St George Illawarra beat Wigan 21-15 at the DW Stadium.


Kenya has deregistered 510 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including 15 accused of links with terrorism, an official has said.

The government has also frozen their bank accounts and revoked the work permits of foreign employees.
The move follows a heated debate in Kenya over a controversial new security bill aimed at fighting militants.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has been increasingly targeting Kenya for attack.
The organisations had been deregistered because of their failure to submit financial records, said Henry Ochido, the deputy head of the government-appointed NGO Co-ordination Board, which oversees their activities.
Fifteen are suspected of money-laundering and financing "terrorism", Mr Ochido told the BBC.
Some of them were linked to the 1998 twin bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and neighbouring Tanzania, he added.
Mr Ochido declined to name the organisations, saying investigations were ongoing.
The board acted against them to help "safeguard" Kenya's security following information supplied by intelligence agencies, he said.
The decision to target more than 500 organisations is bound to cause an uproar in Kenya, where many fear that the government is using the threat posed by al-Shabab to curb democratic freedoms, reports the BBC's Wanyama Chebusiri from the capital, Nairobi.
Many of them appear to be aid agencies and charities which failed to provide financial audit returns, AFP news agency reports.
Several of them seem to be Christian organisations, orphanages or groups working in the areas of health and development, it adds.
"The NGOs with accounting issues can only be allowed to operate if they successfully go through a thorough vetting process. Otherwise, they will remain deregistered indefinitely," Fazul Mahamed, the executive director of the board, is quoted by Kenya's privately owned Standard newspaper as saying.
International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is on a separate list of 12 organisations which has been given 21 days to submit audited financial statements, correspondents say.
MSF said in response that it had complied with all "reporting obligations" and it was in contact with the board "to clear up any misunderstanding".
Last week, Kenya's parliament passed a bill which gave security and intelligence agencies wide-ranging powers, including:
Al-Shabab has killed 64 people in two attacks in the north-eastern Mandera region since last month.
Non-Muslims were singled out and shot dead in an attack on quarry workers and bus commuters.
Last year, 67 people were killed when four gunmen took over the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi.
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has said the government will not "flinch" in the campaign to defeat the militants.


More unqualified workers chasing low paid, insecure jobs is the bleak vision of Wales in 2020, according to a think-tank.

If forecasts are correct, the gap in productivity between Wales and the UK will widen, analysis from the Bevan Foundation suggests.
It predicts more professional but fewer lower skilled jobs, which make up a significant part of Wales' economy.
But the Wales Office said wages and living standards are both improving.
The foundation urges radical approaches.
The Merthyr Tydfil-based think-tank has brought together economic, education, environment and health forecasts.
It gives three scenarios and if the current forecasts are correct, the outlook for Wales in five years is "far from rosy".
The foundation said the Welsh government and public bodies need to re-think how they do things to tackle the challenge to living standards.
The UK government said Wales has the joint fastest growing economy in the UK.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We will consider the issues raised in this report but let's be clear, we are a pro-business government.
"We work very closely with companies to create growth and jobs in every part of Wales. Inward investment is at its highest for decades because investors know that they can rely on a supportive, agile government and a skilled workforce."
"It is highly unlikely that the approaches of the last 15 years will manage to buck the trend in the next five," said foundation director and report author Dr Victoria Winckler.
"We need to ask some searching and fundamental questions about the role of the state, third sector and business; about how to target scarce resources and how to engage with people.
"These are probably the biggest challenges to face Wales in a generation. They are tough individually but, like buses, they're all coming at once."
The report calls for Wales to make use of its environment, history and culture, businesses and institutions and "crucially, the skills and resilience of its people".
WHAT WALES COULD LOOK LIKE
The report said business as usual was not an option and Wales needs to anticipate the future and not just react to the present.
Dr Martin Rhisiart, an economist at the University of South Wales, said it was an interesting and commendable report but there were many uncertainties with economic forecasts.
He said there was a need for more openness when debating the long-term challenges.
"At times we are lacking some self-critique in Wales. We don't have much independence of thought, the state has a disproportionate role in the lives of individuals, we don't have as big a private sector, so very few independent institutions are doing or are commissioning research around the themes of this report.
"That would lead to diversity and alternative ideas."
The Wales Office said Wales was an ambitious nation with a strong future built on solid economic foundations.
"Notwithstanding the fact that many of the issues touched upon in this report are the responsibility of the Welsh government, it completely ignores the dramatic transformation that the Welsh economy has experienced over the last five years," said a spokesman.


Two British medical students have been stabbed to death in Borneo, local police have said.

Newcastle University said the killing of its students Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, was a "huge shock".
Malaysian police said the men were killed at about 04:15 local time on Wednesday.
There had been an argument between a man and one victim before the killings, and four men have been arrested over the murders, police added.
Mr Dalton, from Ambergate, Belper in Derbyshire, and Mr Brunger from Hempstead, Gillingham in Kent, were in the final week of a six-week work placement at a hospital in Kuching, a city in one of the two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo.
In a statement, Malaysian police said the two victims had a drink in a tea shop, where one man rebuked them for being noisy.
"This gave rise to an argument," police said, between the man and one of the victims before they left the shop.
Police said four men then pursued the students in a car, before one man got out and attacked them with a knife.
The police added three suspects were arrested at about 06:00 local time and a knife was also found, and a fourth suspect was arrested at 16:45.
"The case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction," the police statement said.
The area is said to be known for its popular nightlife among tourists.
Police said Mr Dalton and Mr Brunger had been due to complete their placement in Kuching on Friday.
Professor Tony Stevenson, acting vice-chancellor of Newcastle University, said: "We were informed this morning of the very sad news that two of our fourth year medical students working at a hospital in Kuching, Borneo, have been tragically killed.
"Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, were on a six-week work placement along with five other medical students to put the skills they had learnt during their time here at the university into practice.
"This has come as a huge shock to us all and our thoughts are with their families and friends at this very difficult time.
"Two of our members of staff are flying out to Kuching as soon as possible and we are working closely with the British High Commissioner to support the other students and to co-ordinate their return to the UK."
The Foreign Office said it was aware of the deaths of two Britons and was "providing consular assistance to their families at this difficult time".


Batsman Aaron Finch may miss the rest of Yorkshire's season after suffering a suspected stress fracture in his foot.

The Australia Twenty20 captain picked up the foot injury during the T20 Blast victory over Durham on Friday.
The 28-year-old, who has scored 76 runs in six T20 Blast matches this year, underwent hamstring surgery in April.
"In a worst-case scenario, it could be the end of the season for him," director of cricket Martyn Moxon told the club website.
"He set off to run for a ball in the field on Friday and he felt a little crack in his foot.
"He's had a scan and, from an initial reading, it looks as though there's some kind of a stress reaction."
Moxon confirmed that fellow Australia batsman Glenn Maxwell would cover for Finch if he were ruled out for the remainder of the season.
Defending champions Yorkshire have had several issues with their overseas players this campaign, with Pakistan batsman Younus Khan pulling out of a short-term deal with the club.
Khan was replaced by India's Cheteshwar Pujara, who played in the first half of the season.
New Zealand's Kane Williamson will join the club for the final three games of the Championship campaign.


Huge crowds have turned out to watch the Tall Ships sail up Belfast Lough in a final parade of sail to mark the end of the four-day maritime festival.

Belfast is the home port for the start of the Tall Ships Races, which begin off the County Antrim coast on Monday.
The ships were making their way towards Bangor, County Down, before finishing at Whitehead in County Antrim.
Before they set off, crowds were treated to a spectacular aerobatic display by the Red Arrows.
The event featured 50 vessels from 15 different countries.
The Tall Ships will go on to visit six ports in five countries over the course of the competition.
Police had estimated as many as 300,000 people would turn out along the Antrim and north Down shorelines to catch a final glimpse of the boats.
Belfast previously hosted the Tall Ships event in 2009.
The actual race begins five miles off the coast of Portrush, County Antrim, at 10:00 BST on Monday.
After leaving Northern Ireland, the ships will visit Aalesund and Kristiansand in Norway and then Aalborg in Denmark.


Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson wants Gareth Southgate to secure the England manager's job for a long time.

Henderson was skipper for Southgate's second game in charge, a 0-0 draw in Slovenia on Tuesday after a 2-0 win against Malta on Saturday.
Southgate, 46, has the job initially for four games after he succeeded Sam Allardyce in September.
"The manager has been brilliant. The players have got on really well with him this week," said Henderson, 26.
"We need to put in the performances, not just for ourselves, but the fans and him and the coaching staff as well to make sure we keep working together for a long time."
Southgate - who said after the Slovenia game that he has "inherited a mess" - gave the Reds midfielder the captain's armband after dropping Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney to the bench.
Former Middlesbrough manager Southgate said: "It's been a remarkable experience. And I feel stronger and more confident for it, and I recognise the responsibility it brings."
He now has a World Cup qualifier against Scotland at Wembley on 11 November and a friendly against Spain four days later to persuade the Football Association to give him the job full time.
"He gives responsibility to players and he listens. It's been a good week," said Henderson.
"It would have been better with two wins, but we've got to take the positives; beating Malta and getting a good point from this game."
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Southgate stepped up from his role as England Under-21 boss to take temporary control of the senior team following Allardyce's departure.
Allardyce, 61, left his post after just one game and 67 days following a Daily Telegraph investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
That followed England's disastrous Euro 2016 campaign, which saw Roy Hodgson resign after an embarrassing last-16 defeat by minnows Iceland.


A prominent poet from Chechnya, Ruslan Akhtakhanov, has been shot dead in Moscow.

Police said his death appeared to be a contract killing.
The 58-year-old was shot several times by an unidentified gunman as he left his car outside his home in north-west Moscow on Tuesday night.
Mr Akhtakhanov had opposed the Chechen separatist movement, believing Chechnya should remain part of Russia.
"An unknown person shot at Akhtakhanov twice: first in the leg and then in the head," the Investigations Committee of Russia said in a statement.
The Interfax news agency quoted police sources as saying that Mr Akhtakhanov was shot at about midnight and that the killer escaped in a car which was later found several blocks away.
A pistol with a silencer was found in the car.
Mr Akhtakhanov was a professor at the Modern Humanitarian Academy in Moscow.
He received a special journalism prize in 2009 for a book of poems called "I am proud of Chechnya, which gave heroes to the world".
On his website, he describes himself as an educator and an advocate of Chechnya remaining part of Russia.
The Kremlin has been fighting insurgents in the North Caucasus since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
It waged two wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya, in 1994-96, and in 1999-2000.
Since the second Chechen war ended in 2000, the rebels have waged an insurgency, with the unrest spreading into other areas of the North Caucasus.


Rory McIlroy was unable to summon up a final-day charge in The Barclays event in the US as he fired a closing two-over-par 73 at Bethpage Black.

As the world number five again struggled on the greens, he finished poorly with a double bogey at the 16th and further dropped shot at the last.
McIlroy's round include three birdies and two further bogeys and he ended in a tie for 31st.
American Patrick Reed won by one shot on nine under.
It was Reed's first victory of the season and was enough to secure his place in the USA Ryder Cup team.
American Sean O'Hair and Argentina's Emiliano Grillo were joint second while world number one Jason Day was among three players on seven under.
Rickie Fowler led going into Sunday's final round but he finished three strokes behind Reed.


Plans have been put forward for a floating offshore wind project off the Aberdeenshire coast.

Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Ltd - a joint project between Pilot Offshore Renewables and Atkins - wants to put up eight turbines about 10 miles off the coast, south of Aberdeen.
It is claimed that placing turbines on semi-submersible platforms would cut construction and installation costs.
The developers will now enter into a period of consultation.
Kincardine wants to start construction in the second quarter of 2016 and have the wind farm operating by the end of 2017.
It could be the world's first array of floating wind turbines.
Allan MacAskill, director of Pilot Offshore Renewables, said: "This is an exciting project that will demonstrate the potential of floating technology in the global offshore wind industry."
Dr Richard Wakefield, senior marine scientist at Atkins, said: "We have carried out the initial environmental assessments for the Kincardine Offshore Wind project and are really excited by the site, the technology and its potential to open the industry up to deeper waters and more productive turbines."


Germany's Marcel Kittel has claimed the leader's pink jersey in the Giro d'Italia with victory in the third stage in Arnhem.

The Etixx-Quick Step rider followed up Saturday's stage win with another imperious display to power home in a sprint finish.
Kittel won by three bike lengths from Team Sky's Elia Viviani and fellow Italian Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek).
Overnight leader Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) is second, nine seconds down.
Kittel has now won all four Giro d'Italia road stages he has completed and has 13 Grand Tour stage victories to his name.
He told Eurosport: "It was a super tough day with cross winds making the riders nervous to stay in position and then a breakaway that stayed out in front for some time.
"We had to go full gas. My team-mates did an amazing job to get me to the front at the right moment and give me the best possibilities to start the sprint."
For the second year in a row, there are no British riders competing in the race.
Monday is a rest day as the tour leaves the Netherlands and heads to Italy for stage four, a 191km mountain stage between Catanzaro and Praia a Mare.
Stage three result:
1.  Marcel Kittel (Ger/Etixx - Quick-Step) 4hrs 23mins 45secs
2.  Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky)  same time
3.  Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita/Trek)
4.  Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto)
5.  Alexander Porsev (Rus/Katusha)
General Classification leaderboard:
1.  Marcel Kittel (Ger/Etixx - Quick-Step)  9hrs 13mins 10secs
2.  Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Giant)  +9"
3.  Andrey Amador (Crc/Movistar)  +15"
4.  Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe/Giant)  +17"
5.  Moreno Moser (Ita/Cannondale) +21"


The Scottish and Welsh governments have threatened to block the key Brexit bill which will convert all existing EU laws into UK law.

The repeal bill, published earlier, is also facing opposition from Labour and other parties in the Commons.
Ministers are "optimistic" about getting it through and have promised an "ongoing intense dialogue" with the devolved administrations.
No 10 said it had to be passed or "there will be no laws" after Brexit.
Brexit Secretary David Davis called it "one of the most significant pieces of legislation that has ever passed through Parliament".
He rejected claims ministers were giving themselves "sweeping powers" to make changes to laws as they are repatriated.
It will be up to MPs if they want a say on the "technical changes" ministers plan to make to legislation, he told the BBC.
Labour says it will not support the bill in its current form and is demanding concessions in six areas, including the incorporation of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights into British law.
The party wants guarantees workers' rights will be protected and also want curbs on the power of government ministers to alter legislation without full parliamentary scrutiny.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was in Brussels earlier for a meeting with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier, said: "Far too much of it seems to be a process where the government... will be able to bypass Parliament.
"We will make sure there is full parliamentary scrutiny. We have a Parliament where the government doesn't have a majority, we have a country which voted in two ways on Leave or Remain.
"The majority voted to leave and we respect that, but they didn't vote to lose jobs and they didn't vote to have Parliament ridden roughshod over."
The Conservatives are relying on Democratic Unionist Party support to win key votes after losing their Commons majority in the general election, but could face a revolt from Remain supporting backbenchers.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there could be "parliamentary guerrilla warfare" on the bill, as opposition parties and "Remainer Tories" try to "put their version of Brexit, not Theresa May's, on to the statute book".
The repeal bill is not expected to be debated by MPs until the Autumn, but will need to have been passed by the time the UK leaves the EU - which is due to happen in March 2019.
But the Scottish and Welsh governments have to give "legislative consent" to the bill before it can become law - something they have said they are not willing to do.
In a joint statement, first ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones, who also met Mr Barnier, described the bill as a "naked power-grab" by Westminster that undermined the principles of devolution.
They say the bill returns powers from Brussels solely to the UK government and Parliament and "imposes new restrictions" on the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
Ministers at Holyrood will not be able to amend EU rules in devolved areas such as agriculture and fisheries after Brexit until the UK Parliament and Scottish government have reached an agreement on them.
UK Scottish Secretary David Mundell claimed the repeal bill would result in a powers "bonanza" for Holyrood - a comment described as "ludicrous" by the SNP.
Theresa May's official spokeswoman said the repeal bill was a "hugely important piece of legislation" because "we need to have a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU".
The spokesman said First Secretary of State Damian Green had contacted the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the government was confident of gaining their consent.
Asked if there was a contingency plan if he didn't win their backing, the prime minister's official spokesman said "not that I'm aware of".
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, whose party is seeking to join forces with Labour and Tory rebels, said he was "putting the government on warning", promising a tougher test than than it faced when passing legislation authorising the UK's departure from the EU.
"If you found the Article 50 Bill difficult, you should be under no illusion, this will be hell," he said.
Steve Baker, a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union, said the government was "ready" for a fight over the bill but would also to "listen to Parliament".
Speaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Davies predicted the bill "may get amendments here and there", saying he was open to suggestions from other parties for things that should be included.
"If we've missed something and got something wrong, then we'll debate that in the House of Commons," he said.
"That's how this works."
Mr Davis also insisted contingency plans were being made in case the UK and the EU cannot agree a Brexit deal.
"We are planning for all options," he said.
"The ideal outcome... right through to it not working at all and not getting a negotiated outcome at all."
Asked why Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had said the government had "no plan" for such a scenario, he said: "That's possibly because it's my responsibility to plan for it."


The whole care market for older and disabled people in England could be at risk, the official regulator says.

Evidence gathered by the Care Quality Commission, and seen by the BBC, shows the regulator is worried over the "pace" of care home closures.
Over the past six years, the number of homes has fallen by nearly 1,500 to 16,600.
The document also warns about the number of home care providers turning their back on council contracts.
The CQC could not provide figures for this when asked by the BBC, although data compiled by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services suggested two-thirds of local authorities had seen contracts handed back or providers leave the market.
The document though describes "fragility" in this part of the sector, which provides help for daily tasks such as washing and dressing.
The CQC evidence has been compiled from 2015 figures submitted by 39 of the biggest providers in the care market. They represent an estimated quarter of the market and take part in an anonymised monitoring regime run by the CQC.
It has been designed to guard against sudden market failures like the one seen five years ago with the collapse of Southern Cross, which left more than 30,000 older people at risk of being forced out of their care homes. Other providers were eventually found to take on the homes.
The CQC document - shared at an internal meeting of the industry and care sector in September - raises concerns about the future for providers that rely heavily on local authority contracts for their business.
The market is split between council-funded care, which is provided to 1.3 million people, mainly the elderly, and services paid for by individuals themselves.
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Providers have been warning for some time that the fees paid by councils have failed to keep up with the costs of care.
And the CQC document supports this saying recent fee increases have not covered the cost of implementing the national living wage which came in this year.
It says this position is "unsustainable" and raises the concern of standards falling as providers struggle to provide care for the fees being paid.
Housing And Care 21 is one of the biggest home care providers in the country. It works with 150 local authorities to provide care for elderly and disabled people, amounting to 35,000 hours of home care a week.
In September, it announced it would be pulling out of its council contracts. Chief executive Bruce Moore told the BBC it was with a "heavy heart" that he had decided to take the not-for-profit organisation out of the home care market.
But he said the fees being paid by local authorities were simply not enough to maintain "quality of care".
"We're passing the business on to another provider. We're concerned about the quality of care. We were finding it really hard to sustain a service that provided good quality of care. The whole sector is struggling."
CQC social care chief inspector Andrea Sutcliffe said it was important to remember this represented just a slice of the care market - the biggest providers.
But she added: "It does highlight a concern that the long-term sustainability of high-quality care within this sector could be at risk. Given the impact this would have on people's lives, it is important that we continue to monitor these trends closely.
"We know that the adult social care sector faces many financial pressures, which worryingly, could undermine the quality and safety of care that people receive and rely upon every day."
More details about the state of the care market as well as the NHS will be set out in the CQC's annual report, which will be published on Thursday.
Prof Martin Green, of Care England, said it was time for the government to take "urgent action" and provide councils with more funding that would be ring-fenced for social care.
"We have been warning about these problems for some time. There is a lot of churn in the sector. Contracts changing hands as providers leave and services stopping. There is simply not enough money in the system."
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, agreed government action was needed. "Few public services are as important as social care, and yet it is clearly in serious, progressive decline," she added.
But a Department of Health spokeswoman said the government was already taking steps to help. She said ministers recognised providers were "finding the current market challenging" but extra money was coming into the sector through the Better Care Fund, which is largely funded by the NHS to encourage joint working between councils and the health service.
Local authorities have also been allowed to increase council tax by 2% a year this Parliament to pay for social care - although councils have claimed this is not enough to plug the shortfall in their care budgets because of the wider squeeze on their funding.
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Manager Karl Robinson has left MK Dons "by mutual consent", with the club one point and two places above the League One relegation zone after 15 games.

Robinson, 36, has been in charge at the Dons since May 2010, winning promotion to the Championship in May 2015, but was unable to maintain their second-tier status the following season.
Saturday's 3-0 home defeat by Southend extended the winless run to four games.
Head of coaching Richie Barker will take temporary charge of the team.
Robinson was the third longest-serving manager in all four divisions, with only Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger and Exeter manager Paul Tisdale having been in post longer.
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The Liverpudlian said in his final post-match interview that he would not walk away from the job, but that it was chairman Pete Winkleman's decision.
"Robinson fully embraced and immersed himself in MK Dons and Milton Keynes itself, which was reflected in his close relationship with staff at the club and its supporters," the club's statement said.
"However, the start to the League One campaign has been disappointing with results this season not matching the desired standard. Therefore, chairman Pete Winkelman and Robinson have agreed it is in the best interest of both parties to go their separate ways."
Although Robinson's relations with Winkelman, the players and fans was a strong one, there was some discussion from the chairman that he could have left the club in the summer, post-relegation.
But he turned down a move to Leeds United following Massimo Cellino's approach in a bid to steer the Dons back to the Championship.
"I share everyone's frustrations, whether it be the chairman or the fans or my family. Everyone is in a low place," Robinson said after the Southend loss on Saturday.
"Certain players are too weak - mentally and physically too weak. It affects my life, but I don't think it affects certain players' lives. You have to be responsible for your own actions as well. It is not all about the players.
"Me and the chairman will have a chat on Sunday. If it is to be [leaving the club] then I want to say thank you for everyone who has supported me over the last six and a half years."
Robinson's appointment as MK Dons boss made him the youngest manager in the Football League at the time, aged 29.
His playing career was spent exclusively in non-league, but he built a reputation as a youth coach at Liverpool and then Blackburn, where he worked with Paul Ince, who later brought him to the Dons.
That youth development work was continued at MK, with players such as Dele Alli, Brendan Galloway, Patrick Bamford and Benik Afobe going on to play Premier League football after their stints in Buckinghamshire.


The world is running out of one of the most effective snakebite treatments, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk, warn experts.

Medicins Sans Frontieres says new stocks of Fav-Afrique, which neutralises 10 different snakebites that can occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, are desperately needed.
The last batch will expire in June 2016 and there is no comparable replacement.
Manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur says it has been priced out of the market.
Alternatives are available but MSF says they are not as good.
Fav-Afrique is the only anti-venom that has been proven safe and effective to treat envenoming from different types of snakes across Sub-Saharan Africa, it says.
Sanofi said it will share the anti-venom recipe with others.
The company stopped producing the serum last year and has since switched to making a rabies treatment instead.
Sanofi is believed to be negotiating for another company to produce Fav-Afrique, but these talks are not expected to be finalised before late 2016. This means that a replacement product could not be expected to reach the market for another two years, says MSF.
The absence of a broad, safe and effective anti-venom until then will translate into countless deaths, it says.
Polly Markandya of MSF said: "Most people who get bitten by a snake aren't exactly sure what kind of snake it is that bit them and so having an anti-venom that works against a variety of different species is really important.
"We are worried that without that anti-venom available, people will die unnecessarily."
Alain Bernal, a Sanofi Pasteur spokesman, said the company had offered to transfer the anti-venom technology to others, adding: "Nothing has materialised yet."
The World Health Organization says snakebites are a neglected issue that needs more attention and investment.
Each year, an estimated five million people worldwide are bitten by snakes, out of whom 100,000 die and 400,000 are permanently disabled or disfigured.
In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, 30,000 people die from snakebite every year and an estimated 8,000 undergo amputations.


BBC Cymru Wales is to adopt "next generation" web technology at its new Cardiff city centre headquarters.

It will be the first BBC facility in the UK to use the Internet Protocol (IP) technology across both its production and broadcast operations.
It moves away from more-conventional plug-in digital technology.
IP will allow different devices dotted around the BBC's new Central Square building to recognise and "talk" to each other.
It will bring the latest internet technology into different aspects of broadcasting - from controlling cameras, TV editing to output.
IP will also help in producing programmes and items from remote locations.
The new approach to carrying data and signals is aimed at giving the broadcaster greater flexibility - especially as technology further develops, whether in higher bandwidth or better-quality video resolution.
The BBC will work with Canadian company Grass Valley and the US technology giant Cisco on the development.
Unlike the system currently used by most UK broadcasters, IP allows data and signals to flow in every direction.
It could mean, for example, an IP-enabled microphone can be controlled by any sound desk anywhere in the building, while any TV gallery could control any IP-enabled camera.
The technology is also geared towards a better interactive experience for viewers, including the potential for added content.
Gareth Powell, BBC Wales' chief operating officer, said: "This will give us a level of creative freedom about how we produce our content that we've never had before.
"We want to harness the benefits of IP technology to provide the best-possible tools to our content-makers and to free them from many of the historic constraints we've faced at our current HQ in Llandaff."
Prof Andrew Blyth, an expert in forensic computing and cyber security at the University of South Wales, said the BBC would have to take the appropriate cyber security measures to combat risks, but IP was the future for the BBC and other broadcasters.
"Indeed if the BBC didn't move into this area it might be accused of dragging its feet and being a dinosaur," he said.
"You only have to look at the likes of Netflix and the way the world has already changed.  As a viewer, we watch on demand, when we want to, gone are the days when we all sit down and watch EastEnders at 7.30pm.
"This is the future of broadcasting, of TV - and it's already here."
Work started at the end of 2015 and the new building is expected to be fully open in 2019, with 1,200 staff moving to the city centre.


Newcastle midfielder Moussa Sissoko wants to join a "big club", with reportedly interested Real Madrid his preferred destination.

The 26-year-old, who has made 133 appearances for the Magpies, wants to leave following relegation from the Premier League last season.
Sissoko was involved in France's run to the Euro 2016 final this summer.
"I hope Real will come for me, I'm still waiting," Sissoko told World Football.
"If Real Madrid are interested in you then of course you will be happy, but right now I am still a Newcastle player."
Sissoko, who has claimed he has been training alone since returning to the club after Euro 2016, said supporters "need to understand" why he wants to leave.
"I spent three and a half years here. I gave everything for this club and I want to play some big games. For that I need to go somewhere else," he added.
"I want to play in the Premier League, I want to play for a big club who can get into the Champions League. That's why I said I want to leave this year.
"I've spent a lot of time here and now it's time to look forward. The fans need to understand my situation, I hope they will and that everything will be OK."


A man and his pet dog are embarking on a 100-mile kayak challenge to raise money for the RSPCA.

18 July 2016 Last updated at 13:12 BST
John Oakley will travel from Goole, near Hull, to his home town of Warrington in Cheshire, and is taking Max the dog along for the ride.
The journey will take the intrepid pair through more than 130 locks, and they will share a tent at night.
Max even has his own specially-made life jacket for the trip which is expected to take place in September.


The Bank of New York Mellon's London branch has been fined £126m by the City regulator for failing to protect its customers' assets.

It is the eighth largest fine ever imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The FCA said the bank's London and international operations had failed to look after their clients' investments.
BNY Mellon said it regreted its failure, but insisted it had now improved its policies.
The rules, improved after the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, ring fence clients' assets if a firm becomes insolvent.
When Lehman's collapsed, it was difficult to sort out which money belonged to the bank, and which to customers.
In this case, BNY Mellon failed to account properly for shares, bonds and other investments, and, according to the FCA, would have found it difficult to return them quickly to the right clients.
"The firms' failure to comply with our rules was particularly serious given the systemically important nature of the firms, and the fact that safeguarding assets is core to their business," said Georgina Philippou,acting director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA.
And she warned other banks and wealth management firms to take note.
"Other firms with responsibility for client assets should take this as a further warning that there is no excuse for failing to safeguard client assets."
The Bank of New York Mellon Group is the world's largest global custody bank.
The FCA investigated the bank's activities between 2007 and 2013, when the London and international operations of BNY Mellon held client funds worth up to £1.3 trillion and £236 billion respectively.
The FCA said that the risks taken by the bank had been compounded by the stress in the financial markets at the time.
In reaction, BNY Mellon said the fine would be fully covered by its reserves, and the company remained financially robust throughout the period in question.
It said no client lost out as a result of the issues identified by the FCA.
"We have taken clear steps to put in place a framework of new and improved policies and operational procedures, as well as enhance our specialist resources," said a spokesperson.
It said it had been trusted by clients to look after their assets for 230 years, a trust that could not have been earned without "robust regulatory compliance".


Three men have been stabbed in an attack at a house in Wolverhampton.

Two men were found in the street and another in a back garden on Goldthorn Hill in Goldthorn Park at about midnight.
A member of the public flagged down a police car and the men, aged 27,31 and 36, were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The road has been cordoned off while police investigate.
Sgt Carl Russell said: "Several people have told us that a car was seen to speed away from the scene shortly after the attack.
"We are appealing to anyone who may have seen this car to come forward with information.
"The injured men are in a serious condition and continue to be treated in hospital."


A two-year-old boy has been found dead in a river after being reported missing in Perthshire.

The boy's body was recovered from the River Ericht at Cally Bridge, near Blairgowrie, at about 12:35.
He had been reported missing from a property in the nearby Milton of Drimmie area at 11:15.
Police, firefighters, a water rescue unit and air ambulance were involved in the search. No details on the child's identity have been released.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Around 11:15am today, police in Perthshire received a report of a two-year-old boy missing from a property in the Milton of Drimmie area, close to Bridge of Cally, in Perthshire.
"Officers immediately launched a full search of the area, with assistance from the Police Scotland helicopter and Scottish Fire and Rescue Service personnel.
"Around 12:35pm, the child was located in the River Ericht, close to the property. He was removed from the water by fire personnel and treated by paramedics, who had attended the scene with the air ambulance.
"Tragically, the boy did not survive. His family are being supported by officers at this time."
Deputy first minister John Swinney, who is MSP for Perthshire North, expressed his sympathy for the family.
He tweeted: "Heartbreaking news from the River Ericht at Bridge of Cally. My deepest sympathies to everyone involved."
Local councillor Liz Grant, who is provost of Perth and Kinross, said: "It will be absolutely devastating for the family and the community.
"It is a very small community. Bridge of Cally is a small village.
"The River Ericht is fast, the rivers are all fast coming down through that area, particularly at this time of year."


A paedophile at the centre of a forthcoming historical abuse inquiry advised the Home Office on changes to the residential child care system.

Peter Righton gave "considerable assistance" as an expert in child care to a government report in 1970.
He had earlier left a teaching job over complaints of child abuse. He later became a member of a pro-paedophile campaign group. Righton died in 2007.
The Home Office said it was "absolutely committed" to stamping out child abuse.
In July, Home Secretary Theresa May announced an overarching inquiry into how public institutions had handled historical claims of child sexual abuse.
This followed a campaign by MPs whose concerns included evidence of a wide paedophile network in documents seized from Righton's home in 1992 after his arrest over child abuse images.
The report to which Righton contributed led to major reforms of 1970s children's homes.
It was authored by a Home Office advisory committee and set out how hundreds of new homes should be brought under local authority control.
So-called community homes replaced approved schools - residential centres for "delinquent" youngsters - and involved the employment of hundreds of social care staff.
The report credited Righton, who at the time was an academic specialising in social work, for "considerable" help in a chapter on the training of residential workers.
A former care professional familiar with the events has told the BBC that Righton travelled extensively carrying out research work during the period he contributed to the project and had been to children's homes "all over the country" including Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Rochdale and Preston.
"He [used to] go and interview, in approved schools, individual boys and he certainly went to speak to the heads of homes," the former care worker said.
The retired worker - who asked not to be identified - said that Righton "networked" at children's homes, adding: "He was a very dangerous man because he was put in a position where he could abuse trust."
Righton visited the Bryn Estyn approved school in Wrexham where he met staff and children, according to the care worker's account.
The former worker said that Righton had claimed that he "took boys out" and had also said he used "sexual" language with them.
The source added that the words Righton had exchanged with the boys were "not something that you would have in a healthy conversation with a child".
Bryn Estyn was later at the centre of an abuse scandal in which 140 former residents made allegations that they were abused between 1974 and 1984.
An official report described "appalling" abuse at the home and former housemaster Peter Howarth was jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing boys as young as 12. He died in prison.
The Waterhouse report into abuse at north Wales homes described how local councils were "in a state of turmoil" in the early 1970s owing to the new responsibilities imposed on them by the legislative changes of the time.
Howarth had earlier taught at the same special school in Kent where Peter Righton had faced complaints of child abuse.
By the mid-1970s,  Righton had become a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which advocated sexual relationships between adults and children.
At the same time he became increasingly influential in the field of residential child care, according to Ian Pace, a lecturer at City University who has researched historical abuse at music schools and the influence of PIE.
He said Righton was "deeply involved with the cult of the classical world that was very important to... the paedophile movement", focusing on stories of "Greek love" between men and young boys.
Mr Pace said "some of Righton's interests" were reflected in the Home Office advisory report.
The section of the report which credited Righton called for residential child care workers to be trained in "the growth of civilisation" and "aesthetic values".
The Home Office declined to comment on the revelations about Peter Righton.
A spokesman referred the BBC to the home secretary's comments to the House of Commons in July when she said the government would address two concerns: "First, that in the 1980s the Home Office failed to act on allegations of child sex abuse.
"Secondly, that public bodies and other important institutions have failed to take seriously their duty of care towards children.
"As I informed the House on 7 July, the whole government take the allegations very seriously. That is why I announced two inquiries last week."
In 1992 Peter Righton was fined Â£900 for possessing images of child abuse and was cautioned over an earlier assault.


The Scottish government has ordered an independent review of undercover policing in Scotland.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has directed Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland to investigate the actions of undercover officers.
A review is ongoing in England and Wales, but the UK government has refused to extend it to Scotland, leaving Mr Matheson "disappointed".
Victims of police spying had called for a Scottish inquiry to be set up.
Holyrood's parties had been united in calling for an extension to the Pitchford Inquiry, which was set up in England and Wales to investigate allegations of misconduct by undercover officers.
There are allegations that undercover Metropolitan Police officers had fathered children and caused miscarriages of justice, with claims of this activity extending to Scotland.
Mark Kennedy, one of five officers known to have had relationships with women while undercover, is alleged to have infiltrated environmental groups ahead of the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005.
Labour MSP Neil Findlay wrote directly to the policing minister, Brandon Lewis, but was told that it was "not possible" to extend the probe north of the border for "a number of reasons".
Mr Matheson said he was "firmly of the view" that extending Pitchford would be the "right thing to do", and said he was "disappointed" with the UK government's refusal.
He said: "Given the operational extend of the units involved, the Scottish government believes that a single coherent inquiry is the most effective approach to provide a comprehensive investigation into these activities.
"However, in light of the Home Office's decision I have today directed Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland to undertake a strategic review of undercover policing in Scotland."
The justice secretary said this investigation would cover "the extent and scale of undercover policing in Scotland" dating back to 2000, as well as operations carried out by the Met Police units under investigation by Pitchford.
He added: "This review will also give independent assurance on the operation, procedures and safeguards in place by Police Scotland in relation to undercover policing."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats welcomed the news, with Liam McArthur describing the probe as "nothing less than required".
But Mr Findlay said it was "minor progress", calling it "the police reviewing the police" rather than the public inquiry he had called for.
Victims who are participating in the Pitchford Inquiry had hit out at the decision not to extend it to Scotland, calling on Holyrood to order its own probe.
A group of 17 victims issued a joint statement after Mr Lewis refused to extend the inquiry saying they were "extremely frustrated", saying it "sets the inquiry up to fail before it even begins".
One of the group, Merrick Cork, added: "It's outrageous that Theresa May thinks victims of police abuse deserve justice in England but not in Scotland.
"The police admit English officers committed human rights abuses against citizens on Scottish soil. It's absurd to expect public trust in police when abuses of power are swept under the carpet, and it's a snub to Scotland to say it doesn't matter there."
Mr Lewis defended the limited scope of the inquiry, saying it was "extensive and complex" already, and needed to "proceed swiftly" without further delays.
He added: "The Home Office is confident the inquiry can both gain an understanding of historical failings and make recommendations to ensure unacceptable practices are not repeated without a need to consider every instance of undercover policing, wherever it was taken."


Record breaking British astronaut, Tim Peake, has revealed how he makes scrambled eggs for breakfast, in space.

31 January 2016 Last updated at 13:59 GMT
Tim is currently spending six months on the International Space Station.
He shared a little video of himself cooking a breakfast of scrambled eggs in the space lab.
The process for making the eggs seems pretty easy (you just add warm water and they fluff up), but Tim doesn't look particularly excited about eating it!
He Tweeted: "Not quite as good as at home, but they are definitely scrambled! Space scrambled eggs."


A tax on sugary foods and drink is not "off the table", according to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Later this month, the government in England is expected to publish a long-awaited child obesity strategy.
In the run-up there has been much discussion over the benefits of a tax on sugary foods and drinks.
The government has recently appeared to move towards that option, but it is still not clear whether it will be included in the official strategy.
"David Cameron has said that if it isn't a sugar tax then it needs to be something equally robust, but he has not taken a sugar tax off the table," Mr Hunt told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
Why the government is going sweet on a sugar tax
Health experts have been campaigning hard for a sugar tax to be introduced, and Public Health England, which advises the government, has put forward a case for it.
Mr Hunt said the government's strategy was likely to attack obesity from a number of directions.
"Partly it's what food manufacturers do and that's why you have discussion about taxes on drinks. It's also what the retailers do, it's what schools do, it's what parents do," he said.
Celebrity chef and campaigner, Jamie Oliver has been putting pressure on the government to introduce the tax and he wants the proceeds - which could amount to £1bn a year - to be invested in health promotion and schools.
"Anyone you would trust your kids with is in support of this," he told Marr.
"I don't mind not getting the tax, if there is something better and more symbolic because what we need is a change and a moment," he said.
He asked the David Cameron to "be brave and be bold" and to "hurry up".


St Helens have signed full-back Ben Barba, but are "seeking further and final clarification" about whether he must serve a 12-match drugs suspension.

The ban was imposed by Australia's National Rugby League in November 2016.
Barba, 27, recently left French rugby union club Toulon, who he joined in a controversial code switch in February.
The Rugby Football League says the NRL's sanction will apply, but clarity is needed to determine if the ban is applicable outside that competition.
Barba tested positive for cocaine and was suspended shortly after helping Cronulla Sharks win the NRL title.
"The initial stance of the RFL is that this also applies to Super League," said a club statement announcing his arrival on a deal until 2019.
"However, St Helens will be seeking further and final clarification of this position."
Should the suspension stand and begin immediately, Barba will not be eligible to feature for Saints until the fourth match of the Super 8s, which is likely to be in August.
Barba, who was the NRL's player of the year in 2012, has scored 99 tries in 168 NRL matches for Canterbury Bulldogs, Brisbane Broncos and Cronulla.
Saints head coach Justin Holbrook said: "I am confident that he will add a new dimension to Saints and is a great capture for Super League. He is a multi-talented and world-class rugby league player.
"It is not often that players of his calibre become available and the club has pulled out all the stops to fight off competition from both rugby codes around the world."
Barba added: "I feel very privileged to be joining such a historic rugby league club.
"I wanted to make an early decision so that I can get my family settled in England and kids enrolled at school. I have certainly enjoyed my time in France at Toulon, but I am a rugby league player and St Helens, especially with Justin as head coach, have made me very comfortable with the decision."


Whale and dolphin strandings are increasing according to data to be released this week by the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP).

The news comes in the wake of the unexplained mass beaching of 33 pilot whales found dead on Rutland Island off the coast of County Donegal earlier this month.
CSIP's data shows there has been a 25% increase in reported strandings since it began keeping records 20 years ago.
At least 500 dolphins, porpoises and whales have been found stranded on British beaches so far this year.
So is the increase in stranding numbers a sign that something disturbing is happening to these sea-going mammals?
Ian Enlander director of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Research Group (IWDG) said it was a difficult question to answer.
"It may be a sign that awareness of strandings is increasing or perhaps something else is going on. There are sometimes clusters of these events which may be caused by strong weather systems pushing already dead or dying animals towards the shore.
The Donegal strandings have been connected to sonar technology used by the Royal Navy.
Sonar equipment has been the focus of investigations into whale and dolphin strandings for more than 10 years.
It is thought that the artificial sonar may interfere with the natural sonar sense of the animals causing them to be disoriented.
Sonar may also cause sudden pressure changes inside the animals' bodies leading to internal haemorrhaging.
Among the most notable incidents involving sonar was the stranding of a large number of beaked whales on beaches in the Canaries following Nato naval exercises in 2002.
And the US navy was accused of culpability in the deaths of 17 beaked whales which died in the Bahamas following a sonar exercise.
Mr Enlander said that while the relationship between sonar equipment used by navies around the world and cetacean deaths, in the case of the Rutland Island beachings it was hard to prove any link.
CSIP coordinates the investigation of all whale, dolphin and porpoise (collectively known as cetaceans), marine turtle and basking shark strandings around the UK coastline.
More than 9,000 incidents have been investigated and 2,500 post-mortems have been carried out by researchers during 20 years of the Defra-funded CSIP coordinated by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
Now CSIP marine scientists are calling on the public to be their eyes and ears along the UK coastline and report any stranded animals.
Rob Deaville, CSIP coordinator from ZSL, said that reports from the public play a crucial role in making the organisations aware of stranded animals.
"These reports can sometimes prove to be life-saving, but ultimately they all make a valuable contribution to the long-term conservation of cetaceans," he said.
The whale which died while being rescued from the River Thames in 2006 and the mass stranding of common dolphins in Cornwall in 2008 are just two of the high profile cases that the CSIP have investigated during the 20 years that the programme has run.
Dr Paul Jepson, wildlife veterinarian at ZSL, said the work of CSIP and ZSL has allowed scientists to build up a picture of how human activities affect marine life.
"This had led to changes in policy and best practice around fishing activities, chemical pollutants and military operations.  We now need to continue this research to ensure we minimise these impacts in the future," he said.
Marine scientists will meet to review 20 years of data at the CSIP 20th Anniversary Symposium on 25 November at the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) London Zoo.
The IWDG provides a practical guide to helping beached whales or dolphins on their website.
Strandings in Northern Ireland should be reported to the wildlife officer at Quoile Countryside Centre or to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.


The grandson of US political activist Malcolm X has died in Mexico City following a fight in a bar, say Mexican officials.

Malcolm Shabazz, 29, succumbed in hospital to multiple injuries he suffered on Thursday.
Mexico's attorney general's office said an investigation into the incident was under way.
The US state department said that it was in contact with the family and offering appropriate assistance.
Shabazz was discovered with fatal wounds at Plaza Garibaldi, a popular tourist area packed with bars and restaurants, in the early hours of Thursday, officials said.
Miguel Suarez, a union activist who was travelling with Shabazz, said they had been in the country as part of their efforts to advocate more rights for Mexican construction workers in the US.
Mr Suarez said he and Shabazz were invited to a bar on Wednesday night by a woman.
The bar owner later demanded they pay $1,200 (Â£780) for drinks and female companionship, according to Mr Suarez.
He said that he escaped as a fight broke out, before returning to find Shabazz seriously injured on the ground outside the bar.
Mr Suarez said he took Shabazz to a hospital where he died of "blunt-force injuries".
Shabazz was the son of one of Malcolm X's six daughters,  Qubilah Shabazz.
When he was 12, he was involved in a fire that killed his grandmother Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X.
He was convicted of manslaughter and arson and sentenced to time in a juvenile detention centre.
Malcolm X, a black power activist and prominent figure in the militant Nation of Islam movement, was shot dead at a political rally in New York on 21 February 1965.


Imagine a country where it's normal for children to grow up a long way from their parents.

12 April 2016 Last updated at 06:36 BST
That's what's happening right now in China, where 61 million children live apart from their mums and dads.
Newsround has this special report on why it happens.
We meet one boy to find out what it's like to be one of these "left-behind" children.
Animation by Made in Colour


Japanese electronics giant Sharp posted a huge loss in its last annual earnings before being taken over by Foxconn later in the year.

The struggling company announced an operating loss of 162bn yen ($1.5bn) for the fiscal year ending March 2016.
Sharp in March accepted a takeover bid by Taiwan's Foxconn which will take control in October.
Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai, appointed its vice chairman of Foxconn, Tai Jeng-wu, to the Sharp board.
He is said to have played a key role in the takeover negotiations.
Founded in 1912, Sharp is one of Japan's oldest technology firms and officials had been reluctant to let it fall under foreign ownership because of the distinctive technology behind its display panels.
The deal with Foxconn marks the first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics firm.
Despite a downturn in its fortunes in recent years, the firm continues to be a leader in liquid display technology, a key asset for Foxconn.
But waning global demand for its display technology and internal restructuring failures have led to the company getting into deep financial trouble.
In 2012, Sharp came close to entering bankruptcy. It has struggled with heavy debts and has been through two major bailouts in the last four years.


Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has provoked condemnation from across the political spectrum, by saying Muslims should be banned from entering the US.

Republicans, Democrats, Muslim leaders, the UN and foreign leaders criticised the call as dangerous and divisive.
Mr Trump said many Muslims nursed a "hatred" towards America.
He said they should be banned "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
His campaign manager said that would apply to "everybody" - would-be immigrants and tourists. But Mr Trump told Fox News it would "not apply to people living in the country", adding that Muslims serving in the US military would "come home".
Mr Trump's statement was delivered as the US comes to terms with its deadliest terror attack since 9/11.
Last week a Muslim couple, believed to have been radicalised, opened fire and killed 14 people at a health centre in San Bernardino.
Mr Trump's proposed ban prompted a horrified reaction from Republicans and others.
Rival candidate Jeb Bush called Mr Trump "unhinged", while former US Vice-President Dick Cheney said it "goes against everything we stand for and believe in".
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest later challenged the Republican party to denounce the leading candidate, and said that the proposal "disqualifies him from serving as president".
Mr Earnest said that the Trump campaign had a "dustbin of history" quality to it, calling the candidate a "carnival barker" with "fake hair".
The UK's Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron said they were "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong", while his French counterpart Manuel Valls said Mr Trump "stoked hatred".
UN refugee agency UNHCR said it was concerned that the rhetoric was putting an "incredibly important" resettlement programme for vulnerable Syrian refugees at risk.
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"Donald Trump sounds more like a leader of a lynch mob than a great nation like ours,'' said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"These are not just words... Trump and Carson's mainstreaming of Islamophobia in the election is inciting discrimination, hate crimes, violent attacks against Muslims and mosques."
Mr Trump took part in heated interviews on several US television networks on Tuesday, defending the proposal and saying it was a temporary measure to prevent "many more World Trade Centers".
On ABC's Good Morning America, he said "what I'm doing is no different than FDR," referring to policies implemented by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War Two against Japanese, German and Italian people in the US.  Some of those measures saw over 100,000 people detained in government camps.
At one point during a lengthy interview on MSNBC, presenter Joe Scarborough forced the network into a commercial break after the candidate repeatedly talked over journalists, refusing to answer questions.
Mr Trump's statement to reporters on Monday said polling by the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think-tank, suggested that 25% of Muslims in the US believed violence against America was justified.
"The hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why, we will have to determine.
"Until we [do]... our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad."
It is not the first time the New York billionaire has come under fire for anti-Muslim remarks.
After the terror attacks in Paris, he suggested they register on a database and he said the US should refuse all Syrian refugees. Then he said thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheered during 9/11, despite no evidence.
His travel ban pledge sparked loud cheers when he outlined it at a South Carolina rally hours after his initial statement.
A handful of supporters backed Mr Trump online, with controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter tweeting: "GO TRUMP, GO!"
And another of the Republican frontrunners, Ted Cruz, praised Mr Trump "for standing up and focusing America's attention on the need to secure our borders", although he said he disagreed with the policy.
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Greater Manchester is to have an elected mayor to preside over regional issues, George Osborne has announced.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,
The mayor will oversee policies such as transport, social care and housing as well as police budgets.
The announcement comes two years after people in the city of Manchester voted against having an elected mayor.
The chancellor described the deal as "a massive moment for the north of England".
"I have reached agreement with the civic leaders of Greater Manchester to create the first metro-wide elected mayor outside of London," he said.
"This will give Mancunians a powerful voice and bring practical improvements for local people, with better transport links, an Oyster-style travelcard and more investment in skills and the city's economy.
"I want to talk to other cities who are keen to follow Manchester's lead - every city is different and no model of local power will be the same.
"Giving cities power is part of our long-term economic plan to reduce the decades-old gap between north and south; London and the rest," he said.
The first mayoral election is expected to take place in 2017.
The mayor will lead Greater Manchester Combined Authority, chair its meetings and allocate responsibilities to its cabinet, which is made up of the leaders of each of the area's 10 local authorities.
Greater Manchester's leaders have always rejected the idea of a Boris-type elected mayor, but it appears the deal on the table was too good to turn down.
It involves control of budgets and power to decide what happens with transport, housing, planning and policing. One politician told me they were "amazed" at the amount of powers being released to them.
The concern was about one person having all the power over an area where different places have different needs. So what Wigan and Oldham need might be very different to what Manchester needs or wants.
But in order to introduce major changes, the mayor will still need the support of two thirds of the combined authority's leaders.
One council source told me this effectively "puts the brakes" on the kind of elected mayor they were worried about.
Find out what the people of Manchester think
Councils in Greater Manchester currently control Â£5bn of public money each year. This deal would give them control over a further Â£2bn.
The deal was agreed less than two weeks after details emerged of an alternative plan for devolution in the region, which did not feature a mayor.
Sir Richard Leese, vice chairman of Greater Manchester Combined Authority, said: "It was clear that an over-centralised national system was not delivering the best results for our people or our economy.
"We are extremely pleased that we can now demonstrate what a city region with greater freedoms can achieve and contribute further to the growth of the UK."
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: "This landmark agreement shows how serious we are about moving powers out of Whitehall and reinforces the significant authority and finance already given to local communities."
However, Liverpool's elected Mayor Joe Anderson was critical of the plans.
He said: "Manchester and many of our other great northern cities have been absolutely battered by the government's austerity measures and cuts. Whatever they're giving back to the region with this plan is nothing compared to what they are taking away.
"It's like the government taking a house off you and giving you a shed to live in. But a shed is still better than nothing.
"Granting more power to Manchester is a step in the right direction and I'm pleased they're doing it, rather than just talking about it. But it's only a first step."
The plans have called into question the role of Greater Manchester's police and crime commissioner (PCC), as responsibility for setting police budgets would be transferred to the elected mayor.
As mayor of London, Boris Johnson fulfils the PCC role in London.
However, BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said Treasury sources insisted the announcement did not amount to scrapping the PCC position in Manchester, currently filled by the former Labour MP Tony Lloyd.
But it would put an end to the principle of an elected local representative whose sole job is to oversee the police outside the capital, he said.


Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has cut short a visit to an African Union summit to deal with an upsurge of attacks in the Sinai peninsula.

Militants targeted military and police in North Sinai late on Thursday, which officials say killed at least 32 and wounded many more.
The group Sinai Province, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), said it carried out the attacks.
Egypt has conducted a major security crackdown in Sinai in recent months.
Thursday's attacks represent some of the worst anti-government violence in Egypt for months, and indicate a previously unseen level of co-ordination by militants, correspondents and analysts say.
Emergency services were still digging in the rubble for bodies on Friday morning, and two children died from wounds they had reportedly received on Thursday.
Sinai's most active and deadly militant group, the Sinai Province, is clearly on a learning curve. Last October, before it pledged allegiance to IS, it killed more than 30 troops in a co-ordinated attack in the peninsula.
But its latest assault was more ambitious and more sophisticated - targeting several locations simultaneously with a variety of weapons. The bloodshed is a serious challenge to President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
The former army chief is lauded as a military strongman, but his harsh military solutions have failed to quell the insurgency in Sinai. Some experts and many locals say the ongoing military offensive is backfiring and generating more support for Islamist militants.
With the emergence of the Sinai Province group, IS now has a foothold in another troubled corner of the Middle East - a strategic peninsula which borders the Suez Canal, the Gaza Strip and Israel. That is a concern for the region and for the US.
Most of the victims were soldiers in the provincial capital, El-Arish, where police offices, a military base and a military hotel were hit by rockets.
A car bomb exploded at the gate to the military base and several checkpoints in the city were also targeted.
Mr Sisi was returning to the Egyptian capital from an African Union summit in Ethiopia "to monitor the situation", his office said in a statement.
Sinai has become increasingly lawless since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011, and insurgents have intensified attacks since his Islamist successor Mohammed Morsi was ousted in 2013.
Recent Sinai attacks
North Sinai has been under a state of emergency and a curfew since October, when an attack on a checkpoint killed dozens of soldiers.
Major military operations in the region have so far failed to quell the violence, though a military spokesman said in a Facebook post that Thursday's attacks were the result of "successful strikes" against militants.
Sinai Province, which was originally inspired by al-Qaeda, changed its name from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis when it pledged allegiance to Islamic State in November.
The group has called on Egyptians to rebel against Mr Sisi.
As part of its security crackdown in Sinai, Egypt has been creating a 1km (0.6-mile) buffer zone along the border with Gaza in a bid to stop militants smuggling weapons through tunnels from the Palestinian territory.
The project has displaced more than 1,000 families in Rafah and severed an economic lifeline for many Palestinians.
One of the targets of Thursday's attacks was a checkpoint in Rafah, where medical and security sources said an army major had been shot dead.
In a separate incident, a police officer was killed in the canal city of Suez, and officials said a suspected militant killed himself whilst trying to plant a bomb in Port Said.
The US condemned the Sinai attacks, saying it remained "steadfast in its support of the Egyptian government's efforts to combat the threat of terrorism".


Leaders in the fields of climate change, cloning and astronomy are to appear at this year's science festival in Edinburgh.

The theme, Building Better Worlds, focuses on how science, technology and engineering can transform the world and the way we live in it.
Festival officials said Scotland is a world leader in scientific research.
Venues across the capital will play host to more than 250 activities from 26 March to 10 April.
Among the highlights for adults, leading astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees will be joined by European Space Agency astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy and Prof Chris Rapley to share their views and experience on the big challenges of today's world.
To help mark Dolly the Sheep's 20th birthday, Prof Sir Ian Wilmut will discuss how the cutting-edge research continues to influence science developments.
Artist Warren Elsmore will create a Mars habitat display with Lego building blocks at the National Museum of Scotland.
Dame Evelyn Glennie will perform a new composition by composer Jill Jarman in the world premiere of The Sounds of Science.
And the City Art Centre will feature five floors of experiments and activities for children.
Amanda Tyndall, Edinburgh International Science Festival's creative director, said: "In 2016 Edinburgh International Science Festival asks: how can we all collaborate to help build a better world?
"It's a huge question but I'm excited by the mix of world-leading scientists, artists, authors and innovators that will join audiences in Edinburgh to share and debate their visions of a better world.
"Science and technology have the potential to help us address so many of the key challenges we face; from how we feed, heal and fuel the world to how we live happy and fulfilling lives as we do so."
She added: "But they don't work in isolation from the wider world. It is through collaboration with their creative cousins that we stand the best chance of innovating and securing our future.
"This year's Festival celebrates this with a programme focus on the fertile space where science meets the arts, with something for curious minds of all ages."


The Metropolitan Police is creating a team of 90 officers and staff to tackle the increasing workload resulting from allegations of historical child abuse.

The new team will handle 29 separate allegations that previous inquiries were blocked because prominent people were identified as suspects.
It will also deal with work resulting from Justice Lowell Goddard's child abuse public inquiry.
It will consist of reorganised staff rather than new recruits.
The BBC understands the controversial Operation Midland - which is investigating claims of child abuse by establishment figures - will continue as a "standalone operation" because it is also examining allegations of child killings.
Scotland Yard has finished a routine review of the Midland investigation which began in April, partly to consider further lines of inquiry. The results have not yet been made public.
The Met has made no detailed comment about Operation Midland for months. There have been reports it will be scaled back because it has not uncovered substantial evidence, despite a 10-month investigation.
In a statement on Friday the Met said the investigation involved 27 officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, who would remain there.
"As part of their duties they undertake on-call responsibilities where they deal with calls for initial management of new cases. The team are taking no new investigations and their main focus is on Midland," the statement said.
The inquiry began when a man in his 40s alleged he had been abused by MPs, senior figures in the security services and men of high rank in the military.  As a potential victim of sexual abuse he has remained anonymous, known by the name 'Nick'.
Midland's detectives have travelled across the UK and abroad to speak to potential witnesses.  They have visited, with 'Nick', a number of the locations he claims to have been taken to as a child.
In December last year, following an appeal for witnesses, experienced detectives who had questioned 'Nick' said they regarded his allegations as "credible and true".
The statement has been widely criticised, most recently by the former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald who told the Daily Mail it was a "shocking" comment which showed "how far officers have become detached from principles of objectivity and impartiality".
The Met has also been criticised by former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, who has been interviewed twice by detectives investigating the Operation Midland claims. He described the inquiry as a "witch-hunt".
A separate Suffolk Police investigation, Operation Millpond, into the claims of another man, known as 'Darren', has been halted for lack of evidence.
Suffolk Police said some of his claims, which included a description of a murder on a country estate, had been "fully investigated" but were "unsubstantiated".
'Darren' told police he had been abused by a range of people in the county, but also by senior politicians in London - at the Dolphin Square apartment complex.
However, two sources have told the BBC that when questioned by detectives, 'Darren' said he was uncertain of the identities of these politicians and as a result the police decided they could not investigate.
'Darren' denied this and also said he had not been told definitively the investigation is at an end.  Suffolk Police responded that its officers had made this clear during a series of conversations with him.
One of the politicians named by 'Darren' has also been named by 'Nick', who told police last year he was abused at Dolphin Square along with other central London locations and private addresses in the late 70s and early 80s.
However 'Darren' is younger than 'Nick' and because his allegations are from the 90s, his account does not corroborate 'Nick's'.


Detectives investigating the murder of a missing man from West Sussex have made a new appeal for information a year after he disappeared.

Mark Manning, 54, of Brighton Road, Lancing, was last seen on 19 April 2014 before his family reported him missing on 22 April.
His disappearance has been described as completely out-of-character.
Detectives launched a murder investigation last June. His body has not been found.
The former military bomb disposal expert worked for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), a charity that removes landmines and other dangers in some of the world's poorest countries.
Police said extensive proof-of-life inquiries showed that the father-of-one had not withdrawn any money or used his mobile phone since he went missing.
No sightings
Mr Manning lived alone in Lancing but was very close to his family, particularly his son.
Police said he had not turned up for pre-arranged appointments and meetings, and there had been no reported sightings of him.
Det Ch Insp Mike Ashcroft of the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team said: "We want to hear from anyone who may have seen Mark or has any information about what has happened to him.
"We are determined to establish what has happened and to provide answers for his family, who are desperate for any news about him."
Mr Manning is described as white, 5ft 9in (1.75m) tall, clean-shaven, with a tanned complexion and of a stocky build. He has blue eyes and is bald.


A swan said to be "very well known" in its town could die from a crossbow shot to the head, a vet has warned.

The bird known as George was found by a member of the public in Cheltenham's Pitville Park on Tuesday morning.
It was taken to Vale Wildlife Hospital, where the bolt - which was lodged in its left eye - was removed.
Caroline Gould, from the wildlife hospital, said: "He's certainly lost his eye and we don't know whether he's going to survive this trauma."
The male swan is "very well known" around Cheltenham and has been there for years, according to Ms Gould.
She said: "There's a pair - George and Zelda - they've been on Pitville lakes for years and years.
"Hopefully he will make it but at the moment he is critical and I wouldn't like to say one way or the other."
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Gloucestershire Police.