Mae'r Prif Weinidog Theresa May wedi dweud ei bod eisiau dod o hyd i farchnadoedd newydd i fusnesau o Gymru yn dilyn Brexit.

Dywedodd arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr ei bod eisiau'r "cytundeb gorau posib" i Gymru a gweddill y Deyrnas Unedig.
Yn y cyfamser, mynnodd Mrs May mai mater i'r grŵp Ceidwadol yn y Cynulliad oedd sefyllfa cyn-aelod UKIP, Mark Reckless, a'r drafodaeth ynglŷn â'i ganiatáu i gael eistedd â'r Ceidwadwyr yn y Senedd.
Daw ei sylwadau wedi ei hymweliad â Chymru ddydd Mawrth - ymweliad gafodd ei ddisgrifio gan Lafur fel "stynt".
Mewn cyfweliad ar raglen Good Morning Wales ar BBC Radio Wales ddydd Mercher, dywedodd Mrs May: "Nid yn unig ydw i eisiau'r cytundeb masnach gorau gyda'r Farchnad Sengl Ewropeaidd ar gyfer busnesau a ffermwyr Cymru a'r Deyrnas Unedig, 'dwi hefyd eisiau i ni agor marchnadoedd newydd ar draws y byd i bobl yma yng Nghymru gael masnachu gyda nhw.
"Bydd pob pleidlais i mi a'r Ceidwadwyr yma yng Nghymru ac ar draws y DU yn bleidlais fydd yn cryfhau fy sefyllfa yn y trafodaethau pwysig hynny."
Cyn i Mrs May gyhoeddi'r etholiad cyffredinol, fe ddatblygodd ffrae ym Mae Caerdydd wedi i'r Aelod Cynulliad, Mark Reckless, adael UKIP ac ymuno â grŵp y Ceidwadwyr yn y Cynulliad fel aelod annibynnol.
Pan ofynnwyd iddi a oedd ganddi hyder yn arweinyddiaeth Andrew RT Davies, dywedodd Mrs May: "Andrew Davies yw arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig yn y Cynulliad."
Ychwanegodd: "Mae wedi bod yn gwneud gwaith da yn y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol. Nhw sydd i ddewis pwy sy'n eistedd gyda nhw.
"Mae Mark Reckless yn aelod annibynnol o'r Cynulliad."
Ddydd Mawrth, disgrifiodd y Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones benderfyniad Mrs May i ymweld â chadarnle'r Blaid Lafur fel "stynt".
Dywedodd ei fod yn bwysig i bobl "weld y Torïaid am yr hyn ydyn nhw, eu syniad nhw o arwain yw dweud dim a gwneud dim".
"Rydyn ni eisiau cynnig gobaith," meddai, "a dweud wrth bobl nad oes rhaid i bethau fod fel hyn."
Dywedodd arweinydd Plaid Cymru yn San Steffan, Hywel Williams na fyddai ei blaid yn caniatáu "dinistriad bwriadol o ddiwydiant Cymru a chreu llwydni i genedlaethau o bobl ifanc".
"Bydd y Torïaid yn ennill yr etholiad yma," meddai. "Dyw'r blaid Lafur gwan a rhanedig ddim yn barod i ffurfio llywodraeth felly mae'r etholiad yma am yrru'r bobl gryfaf i San Steffan i sefyll i fyny yn erbyn y Torïaid i amddiffyn Cymru.
"Plaid Cymru yw'r unig blaid fydd yn sefyll i fyny yn San Steffan a sicrhau bod gwaith y llywodraeth yn gweithio dros Gymru, nid de-ddwyrain Lloegr yn unig."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol bod Brexit eisoes yn cael effaith yng Nghymru.
"Mae'r etholiad yma yn gyfle i newid cyfeiriad y wlad ac atal Brexit caled," meddai.


Boris Johnson has said suggestions he could resign from the cabinet over Brexit tensions are "lies".

The foreign secretary's spokesman said Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable should stop "making stuff up" after he claimed  Mr Johnson might quit his role.
Sir Vince's comment came amid reports of cabinet differences over what will happen to immigration after Brexit.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC he "didn't recognise the picture" of Cabinet splits being reported.
The latest prompt for reports of splits came after International Trade Secretary Liam Fox insisted the cabinet had not agreed a deal on a three-year transitional period after the UK's departure in March 2019 in which free movement would continue in all but name.
He told the Sunday Times the unregulated free movement of labour after Brexit would "not keep faith" with last year's EU referendum result.
On Friday, Chancellor Philip Hammond acknowledged that rules requiring the free movement of people within the EU - which the UK is signed up to as an EU member - would no longer apply after Brexit and all EU nationals coming to the UK after its exit would be expected to register.
However, he said it would take "some time" before a system of full migration controls was established and British firms must be able to "get on with their lives" without "massive disruption" - prompting speculation that the status quo would pretty much continue until 2022.
Sir Vince, whose party opposed Brexit and wants another referendum on the final Brexit settlement, has challenged Mr Johnson to say publicly whether he would back a settlement in which free movement continued until the date of the next election, scheduled for May 2022.
He suggested there was a state of "civil war" between "fundamentalists and pragmatists" in the cabinet and questioned which side of the table Mr Johnson - who was a prominent Leave supporter in the referendum but is regarded as being liberal on immigration - was sitting.
"There is no Cabinet consensus for moderation," he said on Sunday. "And the rumours of Boris Johnson being about to resign fuel the uncertainty."
Responding to the claims, a spokesman for Mr Johnson said: "Vince Cable is making his stuff up and maybe he should take more time to think up some policies rather than wasting his time on peddling lies."
Asked about the comments on Monday on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hunt said there was unity in the Cabinet on delivering a Brexit that restored control over Britain's laws, borders and money, which could involve an implementation period of no more than three years.
"We want Brexit to make Britain more global, and not more insular," he said. "That means that it has to be a Brexit that works for business, it has to work for the NHS, the NHS needs to recruit doctors and nurses from all over Europe and that is going to continue after we leave the European Union."
And Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the issue of immigration policy during a transitional period would be "one of the details" of the Brexit negotiations.
"We have always understood that we have to ensure immigration is managed properly, that's what the public expect to see - that there are controls of it," he said. "That's one of the details that's going to be sorted out during the negotiations. It's not an argument raging around the Cabinet table."
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury has called for outside experts to be drafted in to de-politicise some of the arguments surrounding Brexit.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today, Justin Welby said that while key issues, such as trade and immigration, were fundamentally political, there were thousands of other areas needing agreement in the next 18 months and some of these should be taken "off the political table".
"Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?" he said.


Heroin addicts are to be given the Class A drug in supervised "shooting galleries" as police bid to tackle drug-related crime.

Durham Police is to become the first force in the country to introduce a scheme in which users are treated with diamorphine - medical grade heroin.
Ron Hogg, County Durham's Police, Crime and Victims' Commissioner, says such treatment lowers offending levels.
Opponents claim trials have not shown significant benefits.
Mr Hogg told BBC Newcastle existing national policies had not been effective and pointed to six-year trials in Darlington, London and Brighton which he said had helped wean users off the drug.
Addicts were given the opiate in consumption rooms, often referred to as "shooting galleries", supervised by medical professionals.
"It got them back into a normal life and it cut crime," he said.
"We saw health benefits for the individuals, we saw needles being taken off the street, so there's an awful lot of evidence both in the UK and across the world that such schemes do actually work.
"All police and crime commissioners spend a lot of money on what we call diversionary work - community projects and youth offending schemes - because we know this will stop people committing crime.
"This is just an extension of that rationale. The controversiality is because it's drugs."
Mr Hogg said the UK had the highest rate of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy use across the European Union with drug-induced deaths totalling 45 people per million compared with 17 per million in the EU.
Aiming to introduce the scheme "by the end of this year", he added the force's public health partners were working out the cost of administering the drug to users twice-daily.
He previously mooted such a move in 2013.
"If we go back to the 1960s, doctors used to prescribe heroin as a means of treating someone back to recovery. It's not that unusual," he said.
"We've got to consider the Misuse of Drugs Act has been in since 1971 and we haven't arrested the way out of the problem, have we?"
A Home Office spokesman said there was evidence "supervised use of [diamorphine] in a medical environment as part of a treatment plan can help keep patients in treatment and out of criminal behaviour".
However, David Raynes of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, warned the move "will not stop addicts being addicts".
"It doesn't stop people using street drugs," he said.
"It may reduce crime marginally, but it doesn't reduce crime permanently."


Archaeologists are drafting a volunteer army to help map every ancient hill fort across Britain and Ireland.

It is part of a project to create an online atlas of around 5,000 of these Iron Age monuments.
Prehistory enthusiasts are being asked to identify and record features such as ramparts, ditches and entrances.
Prof Gary Lock, of Oxford University, said: "We want to shed new light on why they were created and how they were used."
Despite their large numbers there has been little academic work on hill forts, how they were used and how they varied across Britain and Ireland, the researchers say.
Prof Lock, who has studied and excavated a number of the forts in England, said that despite their name archaeological evidence suggests they were not primarily used for military purposes.
"We have found pottery, metalwork and evidence of domestic activities like spinning and weaving, also of agriculture, crops like wheat and barley and of keeping pigs, sheep and cattle," he told BBC News.
Researchers believe they may have been meeting places for religious festivals or market days.
The oldest hill forts are in Ireland and Wales and are up to 3,000 years old. Many were abandoned after the Romans arrived in Britain, but in areas that the Romans did not occupy they were used for longer.
The research team want information not only on well-preserved forts but also on sites where only crop marks indicate their existence. The idea is to build a free online database.
"We are hoping that local archaeology societies will get involved," said Prof Lock.
"Rather than going to a hill fort on your own, it would be better, with a group of people, to talk about what you are looking at, which should make it easier to identify the various details," he said.
Dr Jon Murden, director of the Dorset museum in Dorchester, which is owned and run by the county's natural history and archaeological society, told BBC News: "We would love to be involved.
"There are at least 50 hill forts to explore and understand on the South Dorset Ridgeway alone."
Volunteers will be able to feed information on their local hill fort into an online form on the Atlas of Hillforts project website from Monday.
"We are keen to see what the citizen science approach may reveal," said Prof Ian Ralston, of Edinburgh University, the project co-director.
"We hope that the public, including archaeological societies, will get behind this project as it should lead to the discovery of new sites and new information about sites that are considered to be well known.  We expect the results of this project to change our vision of these iconic monuments."
The four-year project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The maps will be freely available to the public, searchable by region and linked to Google Earth to show the hillforts in the context of the landscape.


A police operation in which an unarmed man was shot dead was not "brought to a head" because of pressure on resources, a senior officer told an inquiry.

Assistant Chief Constable Steven Heywood said Greater Manchester Police (GMP) reviewed surveillance of Anthony Grainger three months before his death.
Mr Grainger, 36, of Bolton, was shot by a GMP firearms officer in a car park in Culcheth, Cheshire, on 1 March 2012.
Mr Heywood was giving evidence for a second day at the inquiry in Liverpool.
It has been told Mr Grainger was monitored as part of Operation Shire, which focussed on a gang thought to be conspiring to commit armed robberies.
Officers believing he and others were planning a robbery at a premises in Culcheth.
Mr Heywood, who now works for the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, gave the authority for firearms to be used in the operation.
Jason Beer QC, counsel to the inquiry, said Mr Heywood's notes on the day appeared to show the only tactical options discussed were intervention or interception.
Mr Heywood said other options were discussed, such as placing an armed vehicle in Culcheth or doing nothing but neither seemed appropriate.
Mr Beer said an organisational review of Operation Shire, requested by Mr Heywood in January 2012, suggested there was a concern about the "expenditure of precious resources".
He said: "By March 1, was there a feeling by you that this operation had run long enough?" He asked if the operation "needed to be brought to a head".
Mr Heywood replied: "We have had operations in the past that have run longer."
The officer said he thought it was "professionally appropriate" to order an organisational review.
But he added: "If this hadn't culminated in the outcome it did would we have continued? Probably."
The inquiry, chaired by Judge Thomas Teague QC, is expected to run until 21 April.


Bristol City playmaker Lee Tomlin has insisted he has not fallen out with head coach Lee Johnson, dismissing rumours of a bust-up between them.

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Former Middlesbrough and Bournemouth forward Tomlin, 28, has been used as a substitute for struggling Bristol City's past two Championship games.
"I don't know where people get it from. Me and the gaffer sort of laughed at it," he told BBC Points West.
"There is nothing going on. Niggles in training have kept me out of the team."
Bristol City have lost a club record eight straight league games and Tomlin has not scored since 3 December's win over Ipswich, the Robins' only league victory since October.
Tomlin starred during a loan spell at Ashton Gate last term, netting six goals in 18 games, prior to signing a three-year deal in July - but has been in and out of the starting side in recent weeks.
"I've been ill. I'm in a bad way at the moment," he added. "For me personally, from the the first month or two of the season, my standards have been nowhere near [what I expect].
"I've not been buzzing as much as I should be. I take full responsibility for that. I'm desperate to get back to where I was last season, when I loved everything."
Owner Stephen Lansdown has given Johnson his backing despite a run of 11 defeats from 12 league games that has seen the club slip to 20th in the table.
"The gaffer is doing the right things," continued Tomlin. "We speak to each other every day. I have so much respect for him.
"I want to get to the top again. I'm working so hard to do it. I'm desperate to win."
Johnson's side face Burnley away in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday before consecutive home league games against Sheffield Wednesday and Rotherham on 31 January and 4 February.


BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of different guests.

Lawro's opponent for this week's Premier League fixtures is four-time Olympic cycling champion Laura Trott.
Trott is a Tottenham fan and told BBC Sport: "My mum and dad support Spurs but my sister supported Arsenal because my granddad was a Gunners fan.
"You know how it is with siblings - I just chose the team my sister didn't like."
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You can make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got six correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 90 points.
He beat comedians Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson, who got four correct results, with one perfect score, for a total of 70 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
This is an interesting one. Going forward, Tottenham have not really started firing properly yet but they have still shown why they are very hard to beat.
Mauricio Pochettino's teams always protect their back four and summer signing Victor Wanyama does that job very well because he covers so much ground.
I don't think Liverpool's defeat by Burnley will knock their confidence, but the way that game went for them could happen a lot this season, especially against teams from the bottom half of the Premier League.
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The way the Reds are set up and with the players they have got, I think they are going to win quite a few games easily but, when teams score against them first, it is going to be difficult for them.
Burnley were very rigid, and very well organised and defended very deep. Although Liverpool have lots players that can give them options up front, they are all quite similar and do not allow them to mix up their style of play when they are chasing a game.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Laura's prediction: I'm going with Tottenham but I don't think we are going to run away with it. 2-1
I was at Burnley's defeat at Accrington in the EFL Cup on Wednesday for BBC Radio 5 live but I effectively saw the Clarets' reserves because Sam Vokes was the only player likely to start on Saturday who started that game too.
So I don't think that result will spoil Burnley's week after their excellent win over Liverpool, but this is still a tough task for them.
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Chelsea have just done enough to win both their league games so far and the way they have done it, with late goals, will have given their players a lot of belief.
They know they are fit and competitive already at this stage of the season and, on top of that, even if they go behind in the future they will now think they will still go on and win.
I don't see them having to do things the hard way on Saturday, though.
I expect Burnley to be in their usual 4-4-2 formation. They will be hard to break down, and will not care about not seeing much of the ball after winning last week with only 19% possession.
But that was after they scored an early goal and I don't see the same thing happening again at Stamford Bridge.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Laura's prediction: 2-1
I think it is ridiculous that Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew is already perceived to be under pressure.
We have only had two league games, but supposedly it is because of Palace's poor run in the second half of last season - they did not win a league game between 19 December and 9 April.
I always think you should take the season as a whole anyway, but just looking at the above ignores Palace's run to the FA Cup final.
Also, Pardew has just spent £27m on Christian Benteke - why would you give him that sort of money and then give him two games to save his job?
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Like Palace, Bournemouth are yet to pick up a point this season, but thankfully nobody seems to be saying Eddie Howe's future is in doubt.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Laura's prediction: 1-0
The scoreline was a bit harsh on Stoke in their 4-1 defeat by Manchester City last week but I agreed with the penalty decision for City's opener because Ryan Shawcross has been doing that for years.
Everton have made a strong start and have integrated their new players in nicely, and I am backing them to continue that on Saturday.
I think Ronald Koeman is an excellent manager and he was really clever when he made Ross Barkley captain for the Toffees' EFL Cup win over Yeovil.
Koeman was basically saying 'you're a local lad and a great talent, go and show me what you can do'.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Laura's prediction: 2-1
Swansea worry me a little bit after seeing their first two games of the season.
They were rather fortunate to beat Burnley on the opening weekend, and then they got turned over at home by Hull.
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Against the Tigers, they did not look like a team that had gelled - they were more like a bunch of strangers. It is early days, of course, but they have a lot of work to do.
I not predicting the Swans will be relegated, but what I am saying is that, as things stand, would I be surprised if they finish 15th or 16th? I would say no.
I also do not see them getting anything at Leicester. The Foxes' draw with Arsenal was a bit of a nothing game but I think they will be back on song for this one.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Laura's prediction: 1-0
What I have seen of Southampton so far does not change my opinion that this is going to be their hardest season for a while.
I know their recruitment is very good but if you keep selling all of your best players then, sooner or later, it catches up with you.
As far as this game is concerned, I'm going for a draw, which will be a much better result for Sunderland. They are still trying to strengthen, especially in midfield.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Laura's prediction: 1-2
Here are two more teams who are without a win but we know that with Arsenal it will just be a matter of time. Watford might have a longer wait.
The Gunners looked a lot stronger defensively with Laurent Koscielny back in the side against Leicester and I think they will pick up three points here.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Laura's prediction: 1-0
Hats off to Hull for their start to the season with six points out of six, and the way they are playing too.
But this is the Tigers' toughest game so far by a long way. This Manchester United side can score goals from all over the pitch and they are starting to get their swagger back too.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Laura's prediction: 0-2
Middlesbrough have got four points from their first two games and look solid defensively but I still expect West Brom to find a way through.
The Baggies are looking to do some business before the transfer window shuts because I think Tony Pulis knows he has to strengthen, but their set-piece strength should see them through on Sunday.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Laura's prediction: 1-2
It is a case of so far, so good for Pep Guardiola and Manchester City, who are safely into the group stage of the Champions League and have won both Premier League games so far.
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It is brave of Guardiola to let Joe Hart leave but my worry for City is up front. Wilfried Bony has been linked with West Ham and, if they let him go, they are short of cover in attack.
If anything happens to Sergio Aguero, that only leaves Kelechi Iheanacho to lead the line - and he is a doubt himself after picking up an injury against Steaua Bucharest.
I still fancy City to win this one, though.
West Ham have been hit by a few injuries and were pretty ordinary for long spells against Bournemouth last week, although the most important thing for them was winning the game.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Laura's prediction: 1-0
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.


A woman has given birth on the hard shoulder of the M42 in Warwickshire.

The mum-to-be unexpectedly went into labour three weeks early while stuck between junctions 9 and 8 on Saturday.
Her husband pulled over and called 999 but the baby was born before police arrived.
PC James Barry found her sitting in the back of the Vauxhall Zafira holding the new arrival and helped the couple and their two other sons meet an ambulance crew nearby.
The Central Motorway Police Group officer said the family were caught in traffic after a diesel spillage on the motorway.
"By the time we arrived, mum had done all the hard work and we were there to make sure everyone was ok," he said.
"The husband did the right thing and pulled over onto the hard shoulder and called us for help.
"He told us that it had all happened so fast, that within 20 minutes of his wife going into labour she had given birth."
The family had been in touch to thank the officer for his help, he added.


Austrian Felix Baumgartner fell even faster during his historic skydive last October than was originally thought.

Subsequent analysis has revealed that the daredevil attained a speed of 1,357.6km/h (843.6mph) when he leapt from his stratospheric balloon.
It is about 15km/h (10mph) above what was initially reported.
Baumgartner's stated aim was to become the first person to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle. This he did. His final Mach number was 1.25.
But although his vertical velocity has been revised upwards, the 43-year-old's jump altitude has been corrected downwards slightly.
The additional analysis shows the Austrian stepped out of his special capsule at 38,969.4m (127,852.4ft), a reduction from the previous estimate of 39,045m (128,100ft).
Baumgartner's "space jump" was made over the New Mexico desert, US, on 14 October. Millions across the world followed his progress on internet video feeds as he climbed slowly into the sky in his 55-storey-high helium balloon, before making a rapid, 10-minute descent to Earth, with just under five of those minutes spent in freefall.
The biggest moment of drama came when the Austrian went into a spin as he hurtled towards the ground, turning at a maximum rate of 60 revolutions per minute.
He had to use all the skills picked up in more than 2,500 career skydives to recover a stable configuration and complete the dive safely.
Baumgartner's feats bettered the marks set 50 years previously by Joe Kittinger.
The now-retired US Air Force colonel leapt from a helium envelope in 1960. His altitude was 31,300m (102,800ft), but his top speed was just short of the sound barrier.
Kittinger, now an octogenarian, was integral to Baumgartner's team, providing the Austrian with advice and encouragement throughout the project.
Although the jump had the appearance of a stunt, Baumgartner and his group of experts continually stressed its high scientific relevance.
The researchers said it provided invaluable data for the development of high-performance, high-altitude parachute systems, and that the lessons learned would inform the development of new ideas for emergency evacuation from vehicles, such as spacecraft, passing through the stratosphere.
"Together, we proved that a human in freefall can break the speed of sound returning from near space, going through a transonic phase and landing safely on the ground," said Dr Jonathan Clark, a former space shuttle flight surgeon and the Red Bull Stratos medical director.
"That was a big part of the programme, and monitoring the mission was a meaningful event in aerospace medicine and physiology."
The revised data will now be submitted to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), the official world body that oversees these types of records:
Maximum Vertical Speed*: 1,357.6km/h (843.6mph/Mach 1.25)
Previous estimate: 1,342.8km/h (833.9 mph/Mach 1.24)
Highest Exit (Jump) Altitude: 38,969.4m (127,852.4ft)
Previous estimate: 39,045m (128,100ft)
Vertical Freefall Distance*: 36,402.6m (119,431.1ft)
Previous estimate: 36,529m (119,846ft)
*without drogue or stabilisation device
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos


Plans for a £5.5m National Marine Centre for Scotland have been unveiled in East Lothian.

The Scottish Seabird Centre wants to expand its education and conservation programmes to include all marine life in a bid to remain viable.
A National Marine Centre for Scotland is designed to be built at the existing Seabird centre in North Berwick.
An interactive experience is planned to inspire people to care for the natural environment above and below the waves.
The Scottish Seabird Centre said it needs to evolve to remain viable, it has more education requests than it can cope with and visitor expectations are at an all-time high.
It has secured £3.3m Heritage Lottery funding but needs another £2m if its vision is to become a reality with the centre planned to open in 2020 for Visit Scotland's year of coasts and waters.
Grace Martin, project director for the National Marine Centre, said: "The Scottish Seabird Centre currently offers visitors an opportunity to engage with nature in a sustainable way.
"As a conservation and education charity, we welcome 4,000 schoolchildren a year and lead projects such as SOS Puffin.
"But, as with all charities, we must move with the times to remain viable and to achieve our objectives of inspiring people to care for wildlife and the natural environment.
"We have more education requests that we can accommodate and visitor expectations are at an all-time-high.
"Our vision is to create a centre that is of national significance and one that the local community is proud of."
Professor John Baxter, principal advisor at Scottish Natural Heritage and a trustee of the Seabird Centre, said: "The marine environment of Scotland supports a fantastic array of habitats and wildlife.
"Under the surface of the seas is a hidden and very special world that we want to reveal and bring to life, for people of all ages, in exciting and engaging ways.
"Scottish universities are at the cutting-edge of marine environment research but there are at present limited opportunities for the public to share in this work.
"Through public engagement we know there is a high level of interest in our seas, coasts and wildlife.
"This new attraction will provide an immersive and interactive experience, communicating the latest research and inspiring people to look after our natural world. It is vital that we protect and conserve our seas and their wildlife for future generations."


The construction firm JCB has left the business lobby group, the CBI, reportedly because of its anti-Brexit stance.

A JCB spokesperson confirmed that the company had ended its membership of the CBI, but did not give reasons why.
Sky news had earlier reported that it was due to the group's response to the referendum outcome
JCB's chairman, Lord Bamford, was a prominent supporter of the Brexit campaign.
During the campaign he said: "The UK is the world's fifth largest trading nation. We therefore have little to fear from leaving the EU."
He also wrote to his 6,500 UK employees to explain why he favoured a vote to leave the European Union, saying he was "very confident that we can stand on our own two feet".
The CBI, on the other hand, warned that a UK exit from the EU would cause a "serious economic shock", potentially costing the country Â£100bn and nearly one million jobs.
A CBI spokesman said: "It's always a shame to see any member leave the CBI, but we recognise that businesses have competing priorities and we respect that."
A spokesperson for JCB said only: "I can confirm that JCB is ending its membership of the CBI."
The Sky report said that the Staffordshire-based company had ended the membership in the summer, after the referendum.


Mae dyn wedi ei gael yn euog o lofruddio ei gariad 24 oed yn eu fflat yng Nghaerdydd.

Roedd Jordan Matthews, hefyd yn 24, wedi cyfaddef dynladdiad Xixi Bi yn ardal Llandaf ym mis Awst y llynedd, ond roedd yn gwadu llofruddiaeth.
Roedd Ms Bi wedi torri ei gên a'i hasennau yn dilyn yr ymosodiad, a bu farw yn Ysbyty Athrofaol Cymru ddiwrnod yn ddiweddarach ar ôl ataliad ar y galon.
Cafwyd Matthews yn euog yn Llys y Goron Caerdydd ddydd Gwener a bydd yn cael ei ddedfrydu ddydd Mawrth.
Roedd yn dweud ei fod wedi taro Ms Bi am ei fod yn credu ei bod mewn perthynas â dyn arall.
Ond clywodd y llys ei fod yn ei tharo yn gyson, ac wedi'i galw yn "ddiwerth".
Fe wnaeth Matthews gyfaddef ei fod yn ysmygu llawer o ganabis ar y pryd, a'i fod yn teimlo'n "ansicr" pan oedd ei gariad yn teithio i China i weld ei theulu.
Dywedodd ei fod wedi bod yn pryderu bod Ms Bi yn canlyn dyn arall a'i bod wedi derbyn neges gan ddyn o'r enw Ben ar ap cymdeithasol Tinder.
Ond clywodd y llys nad oedd gan Ms Bi yr ap, ac nad oedd hi wedi bod yn cysylltu â neb o'r enw Ben.


Teenagers taking part in the annual two-day Ten Tors challenge across Dartmoor in Devon have crossed the finish line.

About 2,500 teenagers aged between 14 and 19 hiked distances of up 55 miles (89km), visiting 10 nominated tors.
The first team to cross the finish line was from the Combined Cadet Force at Churcher's College in Hampshire.
The teams left Okehampton Camp at 07:00 BST on Saturday and must complete the challenge before 17:00 BST.
The challenge is organised by the Army and assisted by the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and the Dartmoor Rescue Group.
A spokesman from the group said about 150 members had assisted and there had been a "handful" of sprained ankles and minor injuries, but nothing major.
Organisers said Radzi Chinyanganya and Lindsey Russell from Children's TV programme Blue Peter also took part, with the third presenter, Barney Harwood, also present at the event.
Source: BBC/Ten Tors


The latest outing for Europe's new small satellite launcher, Vega, has been postponed until an unspecified date because of bad weather conditions.

The lift-off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana was originally scheduled for 23:06 local time on Friday (02:06 GMT, Saturday).
Controllers decided the high altitude wind conditions were unacceptable.
The mission is part of series planned by the European Space Agency (Esa) to demonstrate the rocket's capabilities.
Vega's one and only outing so far was conducted in February last year.
This second mission is supposed to loft the Proba-V satellite to collect data on land cover and vegetation changes over the entire globe every couple of days.
The satellite is also expected to drop off two secondary "passengers" - an Earth observation spacecraft for Vietnam and a "nanosatellite" built by students in Estonia.
"Esa continues to offer European states easy access to space. Last time, we had the first Polish satellite launched into orbit," Antonio Fabrizi, who is the director of launchers at the European Space Agency, said earlier. "This time it will be the case for Estonia to have a satellite in orbit."
To get the three satellites into their correct orbits, Vega will have to initiate a number of burns of its Avum fourth-stage.
Esa believes this flexibility of handling multiple missions at once will prove attractive to future commercial customers, not least because sharing a rocket ride helps to constrain costs for all the payloads onboard.
The agency's member states, together with their industries, are investing about a billion euros in the introduction of Vega.
The maiden launch of the Vega vehicle last year was all but flawless, but some changes have been made for this second launch.
Engineers have written new flight software for the rocket. They have also had an additional ground station built in the north of French Guiana to improve the reception of telemetry sent down from the vehicle. Drop-out was experienced for a short period during the first launch.
"There are no modifications on the rocket design that resulted from the first flight," explained Stefano Bianchi, Esa's Vega programme manager.
"The only point we noticed during the first flight was that we had a problem with the link between the launcher and the ground during the operation of the second stage and the start of the third stage. It was a temporary shielding due the physical effect of the [rocket] plume, which has a high aluminium content."
The 30m-tall Vega comprises four stages.
The first three burn a solid fuel. Its fourth and final stage uses liquid propellants.
It is the re-startable capability of this fourth segment that allows Vega not only to put several spacecraft in different orbits, but enables the rocket segment also to bring itself out of the sky at the end of the mission.
This ensures Vega does not add to the growing population of redundant objects that now litter the space environment.
The latest launch is the start of what Esa calls the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment (Verta) programme - a sequence of flights intended to demonstrate the rocket's capabilities whilst at the same time moving it towards full commercial service.
VNREDSat-1, which is to be launched for the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, represents the first fee-paying payload on Vega.
The spacecraft is expected to return images of the Earth at a best resolution of 2.5m for environmental monitoring purposes in the Asian country.
The main payload, Proba-V, is an Esa mission.  It carries a vegetation imager that will provide continuity of data for the researchers who have been using the French Spot 4 and 5 satellites.  The Proba instrument is smaller than its predecessors.
"For scientists, it's very important to have continuity and long time-series, and to carry on beyond Spot 5's vegetation observations. But for the requirements of our Proba missions, there has to be some additional performance," said Frederic Teston, Esa's Proba programme manager.
As part of Proba's aim to push satellite equipment in new directions, the 140kg platform will also demonstrate a number of technologies that are likely to fly on future missions. These include space radiation monitors, fibre-optic wiring, and an instrument to track aircraft from orbit.
Vega is now one of three rockets launching out of French Guiana.  The South American country already hosts Europe's workhorse heavy-lift vehicle, Ariane-5, and the medium-class Russian-built Soyuz rocket.
The Kourou spaceport is managed by Arianespace.   Speaking about Vega's potential to win business on the international launch market, Louis Laurent, a senior vice president with the company, said: "The core of this market is Earth observation, but we have also opportunities in telecommunications and science.
"Our target - and we think it is feasible - is to increase the launch rate of Vega up to three launches per year."
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Singer Gary Barlow has said he has completed his surprise wedding appearances for 2015 after dropping in at a reception in Oxfordshire.

The Take That star shocked Natalie Purkis by turning up to her wedding reception at Aston Rowant on Saturday.
In January, Barlow initially promised to sing at the weddings of three fans - but has gone on to sing at more.
He tweeted: "I'll look back fondly at 2015 as the year of the wedding crasher!"
The couple, from Andover in Hampshire, were celebrating their wedding at the Lambert Arms hotel in the Oxfordshire village when Barlow arrived and serenaded Mrs Purkis with the Take That hit Rule the World.
Mrs Purkis's husband Martin had contacted him via social media to persuade him to come to their wedding, after his announcement at the start of the year that he would surprise selected fans on their special day.
She said: "The DJ started playing Rule the World, I heard screaming, turned round and Gary Barlow was on his knees singing to me. I asked him 'are you real?'!"
She later tweeted: "I can not thank @GaryBarlow enough for finishing off mine and @mjpurkis wedding day perfectly. No words can ever be enough to thank you x".
Barlow has "gatecrashed" other weddings including that of Berkshire bride Danielle Jones and Anita Morrissey-Booth from Liverpool.
He posted on his Twitter feed: "Well that completes my wedding appearances for 2015! Thank you to everyone who invited me to their special day!
"What started out as just a bit of fun turned into something much more meaningful and amazing."


Over the next two days, four cities will make their final pitches to succeed Londonderry as the next UK City of Culture.

Leicester, Hull, Swansea Bay and Dundee are all competing to hold the title in 2017.
Representatives of each of the shortlisted bids have travelled to Derry to hand in their submissions.
The trip is also a chance for the cities to learn lessons from those involved in running 2013's events.
The government set up the UK City of Culture competition after the success of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Those behind Derry's bid happily acknowledge they were "guinea pigs" for the concept, but they say there was no shortage of enthusiasm in the city.
"You could multiply the official programme by about a factor of four," says Sharon O'Connor, chief executive of Derry City Council.
"The community here just came out en masse and started doing events."
The list of shows, exhibitions and concerts held since January 2013 is impressive, and big events have certainly brought attention to the city.
Tens of thousands of people attended BBC Radio One's Big Weekend, while hundreds of thousands travelled to the city for the Irish music festival, the all-Ireland fleadh. It was the first time the event had ever been hosted north of the Irish border.
The Turner Prize, which is taking place in the city, also marked a first. The Turner had never been held outside England before.
However, smaller, fun events have also added to the general sense of celebration. There have been attempts to set world records for the longest Riverdance, the greatest number of Annies and the greatest gathering of brides.
That sense of coming together has been very important in a city where wall murals can still give an impression of sectarian division.
If anything showed the potential for problems it was the name of the bid. It was titled Derry/Londonderry 2013 because of the age-old disagreement about what to call the city.
Getting wide support for events across both unionist and nationalist communities was seen as vital.
"It has done amazingly well - it has brought both sides together," said one woman about Derry's year as City Of Culture.
"It has made the town and community one and it has put us on the map for a change."
However, some had hoped that millions of pounds of funding would have a greater impact on Derry's economy.
It is a city that has suffered in the downturn, having faced long battles with issues like unemployment and deprivation.
"Whilst we had great marketing around City of Culture it has had no impact on jobs," says Conal McFeely of Creggan Enterprises.
"The jobs situation has actually got worse."
Critics have called this a 12-month party for Derry and questioned if enough was done to attract tourists and their cash.
The organisers say that businesses have benefitted.
"We already know that there have been over 75 nationalities represented in the city over the year," said Shona McCarthy, the chief executive of the Culture Company 2013.
"From May right through to September we have broken all previous records for hotel occupancy.
"So that tells me we have got visitors. That tells me people are coming here."
However, on occasions the City of Culture has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons.
There have been artistic frustrations. Rita Duffy, who set up a gallery in an old shirt factory, almost walked away from the project over funding issues.
"It wasn't the most welcoming place," she told BBC Northern Ireland's political programme, The View.
"I had major problems with individuals from Derry City Council. I couldn't get money to the project. In fact, at one stage I was leaving."
She criticised, in particular, the high levels of bureaucracy that existed between the Culture Company and Derry City Council.
The council said that it did deliver on what it set out to achieve.
Nonetheless there have been some very public rows between the two organisations responsible for making 2013 a year to remember.
"I think you need to be very clear from the outset," says Shona McCarthy of the Culture Company.
"If you are going to have an independent company (to run events), have an independent company to do it.
"If it is going to be run by the local council, let it be run by the local council.
"But I think this hybrid model has not really worked."
Even before 2013 has ended, the focus is moving to the future.
All those who have been involved in organising events are now using the word "legacy" and discussing how people can build on what has been achieved.
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After a year when funding has been an issue often discussed, that will inevitably lead to many more questions about cash.
But some believe that it is too easy to forget the simple feelgood factor created by Derry's success in becoming the first UK City of Culture.
"I think the legacy of it, is that it has changed Derry," says Mickey Bradley of the Undertones, one of the city's most famous bands.
"There is not another one for another four years, so it is a bit like Brazil winning the World Cup.
"We are the UK City of Culture until 1 January 2017."


An NHS boss is being investigated over an "irregular" redundancy deal for a midwife involved in baby death scandals.

Jeanette Parkinson was overpaid when she left Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust in 2012, an internal review found.
Ms Parkinson and other midwives were accused of colluding over evidence given to an inquiry into baby deaths.
Now former HR manager Roger Wilson, who signed off the deal, is being probed by the Care Quality Commission.
A spokeswoman for the trust said he was being investigated under the fit and proper person test.
This regulation, introduced in 2014, means that all people with director-level responsibility for the quality and safety of care, can be deemed unfit if they have been involved in "serious misconduct or mismanagement".
Ms Parkinson, a maternity risk manager, was one of the midwives caring for newborn Joshua Titcombe, who died at Barrow's Furness General hospital in Cumbria in November 2008.
He was one of 11 babies and one mother to die after being treated at the trust's hospitals over a nine-year period.
A later inquiry led by Dr Bill Kirkup found that a "lethal mix" of failures at the trust led to their "unnecessary" deaths between 2004 and 2013.
Last month it emerged that in 2012, Mr Wilson signed an exit deal for Ms Parkinson which allowed her to leave without an investigation into her performance.
At the time Mr Wilson, who now works at Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust, told the Health Service Journal: "I would like to record that I strongly refute any allegation of impropriety on my part while employed at UHMB or at any other role that I have held in either public or private sectors."


A former priest from Newcastle, County Down, has denied sexually abusing a boy in the 1990s.

Daniel Curran, 64, pleaded not guilty to charges of indecent assault and committing an act of gross indecency with or towards a male child.
It relates to a date unknown between 8 August 1990 and 7 August 1995.
A defence lawyer told the court he planned to ask the court to dismiss two further similar charges, later this week, through a no bill application.
He said he also plans to ask the court to stop the prosecution on the two charges that Mr Curran denied on Monday.
This is on foot of an abuse of process application, as due to the length of time between the allegations and now, the former priest "doesn't have any recollection".
However, the lawyer agreed with the judge's comment that it would be a "difficult application to make" and that Mr Curran, from Bryansford Avenue in Newcastle, had been "fully advised" regarding the credit a court gives for pleading guilty at the first opportunity.
Releasing Mr Curran on continuing bail at Downpatrick Crown Court, the judge ordered him to come back to court on Wednesday, when he would deal with the no bill application and schedule the further abuse of process application.


Louis van Gaal says Manchester United's top-four hopes would have been over had they lost to Manchester City, but believes they now have a "big chance" of Champions League qualification.

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Marcus Rashford's goal earned a 1-0 derby win over City on Sunday.
Van Gaal's side are sixth in the Premier League, but lie just a point behind their local rivals in fourth.
"The gap would have been too big if we had drawn or lost. It would have been very difficult," said the United boss.
"Now it is in our own hands but we have to win our games. We have more home matches than away and we don't lose so much at Old Trafford - so we have a big chance."
United won at Etihad Stadium for the first time since December 2012, just three days after being knocked out of the Europa League by Liverpool.
"I thought we played fantastic in the first half and the second half was a test of survival because we were very tired," added Van Gaal.
"We had only two days to recover after the Liverpool game and that is almost not possible.
"We have seen the result from Southampton today. Liverpool were 2-0 up at half-time and at full-time it was 3-2 to Southampton.
"I have not seen the match but I can only conclude it was because of tiredness and that is what we have done to them."
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James Anderson and Joe Root shared the highest last-wicket stand in Test history as England mounted a superb fourth-day fightback against India.

They put on 198 in the first Test at Trent Bridge, beating the 163 between Australia's Phil Hughes and Ashton Agar at the same ground last year.
Anderson made 81 - the highest score by an England number 11 - with Root unbeaten on 154 as England made 496.
In their second innings, India closed on 167-3 - a lead of 128.
"It's still sinking in what we've achieved. It's the first time I've enjoyed batting," said seam bowler Anderson, whose previous highest Test score was 34.
"I got 49 not out once for Burnley when I batted through a 50-over game."
Root and Anderson had helped England recover from 298-9 to open up a first-innings lead of 39.
They came together at 17:30 BST on Friday after an England batting collapse, and resumed on Saturday with the hosts 352-9.
Root, who began the day on 78, completed his fourth Test hundred off 186 balls as he and Anderson frustrated the India bowlers on a flat pitch.
Anderson, 23 not out overnight, was dropped on 46 but thrilled a capacity crowd in recording the highest first-class score of his 168-match career.
His innings surpassed the previous highest score by an England number 11, the 59 not out made by John Snow in 1966.
India's total featured a record last-wicket stand of their own, as Bhuvneshwar Kumar and last man Mohammed Shami put on 111, and this match is also the first time two number 11s have scored fifties in the same Test.
"The game has been turned on its head," former England captain Michael Vaughan said on Test Match Special. "England were in a real hole."
Former England football captain and BBC presenter Gary Lineker tweeted: "Well played Anderson and Root on their record last-wicket stand. Great stuff!"


A Brazilian teacher has come up with a unique way to help a schoolgirl who was being bullied because of her hair.

Ana Barbara Ferreira, from Sao Paulo, said her student was "sad" after being ridiculed by a boy, who had said her hair was "ugly".
"At that moment, the only thing I could tell her was that she was wonderful and shouldn't care about what he was saying," she wrote in a Facebook post that went viral.
A bigger show of support came in the following day, when she went to work wearing the same hairstyle as her pupil, much to the girl's surprise.
"When she saw me, she came running to hug me and say that I was beautiful," Ms Ferreira said.
"I told her: 'Today I'm beautiful like you!'"
She posted a picture on Facebook of her with the pupil - both smiling and with similar hairstyles.
The teacher has been widely praised on social media. Her post has been liked by more than 142,000 people and shared 30,000 times.
Ms Ferreira said: "Yesterday, my student told me there was a boy saying that her hair was ugly. She was very sad. At that moment, the only thing I could tell her was that she was wonderful and shouldn't care about what he was saying.
"Today, I woke up and remembered what happened and decided to wear the same hairstyle she used to wear. When she saw me, she came running to hug me and say that I was beautiful, and I told her: 'Today I'm beautiful like you!'."
For more information about bullying and how to seek advice and support in the UK, visit BBC Advice. If you are in Brazil, you can find similar information at Instituto Saude e Sustentabilidade.


Islamic State appears to have released a promotional video for its own health service featuring NHS-style branding and an Australian doctor.

The video has not been verified but was being circulated by IS-affiliated social media accounts and bears all the hallmarks of previous IS productions.
Using an NHS-style logo, it introduces the "ISHS" - or IS Health Service.
It appears to have been filmed in Raqqa General Hospital in the Syrian IS stronghold of Raqqa.
The first doctor in the video talks about the establishment of a health ministry that regulates medical facilities across IS territory, including the Raqqa hospital, which he says has been refurbished.
A second doctor introduces the intensive care unit, which he says treats victims of military conflict and car accidents. A third speaks about the X-ray department, which includes a women-only unit.
The Australian doctor, who calls himself Abu Yusuf, says he travelled from his home country to join IS and is using his medical skills "as part of my jihad for Islam".
He is shown treating newborn babies in incubators, in a section of the video set in the hospital's apparently well-equipped paediatric ward.
Speaking directly to camera, he says he wished he had joined IS sooner. He calls on doctors and other medical professionals in the West to join the group.
The video also includes commentary on the hospital's physiotherapy and dialysis services.
Amidst the growing tide of IS propaganda videos, this is one of the more striking. The production values are - as we have now come to expect -  high-end and glossy. The opening titles look more like a TV drama about life in a hospital than a documentary from a war zone.
But while some IS videos - notably those featuring the beheading of hostages - are aimed at spreading terror, this one is clearly designed to encourage recruitment. The idea is to present IS as something akin to a normal state, with a health service like that of Britain's NHS - even with a similar logo.
The film also carefully focuses on some of the technology available in the hospital - dialysis, X-ray and ultrasound machines.
The ability of IS to upload such videos remains a real source of concern to western governments who fear that many are still trying to go out to IS territory in Syria or Iraq - even if some are stopped.


A professor has said there is "no risk of any donor affecting results" after it emerged a project tracking Cecil the lion was funded by a pro-hunting group.

Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit was researching lions including Cecil, which was shot dead in Zimbabwe.
Dallas Safari Club which "absolutely" supports sustainable trophy hunting but "abhors poaching", donated $20,000.
Prof David Macdonald said: "We simply do our work."
"There is no risk of any donor affecting our results - we report our results regardless of whether they state any particular point of view or not."
Cecil was a well-known tourist attraction in Zimbabwe and was shot by dentist Walter Palmer from Minnesota, USA.
Chris Macsween, a trustee of the conservation charity LionAid, said it was "unfortunate" that organisations allowed pro-hunters to sponsor their research.
He said: "This is equivalent to a tobacco company accepting research from their stable of scientists to say that smoking is not damaging to health."
A spokeswoman for Dallas Safari Club said it "absolutely" supports sustainable trophy hunting, but did not provide further comment.
In a statement on its website following Cecil's death it said: "Lawful, ethical, vigilant hunters play an important role in public acceptance of sustainable hunting as a vital tool for modern wildlife conservation and management."
Donations for Cecil reached more than Â£550,000 and more funding was pledged by Ty Warner who founded Beanie Babies.
Profits from the sales of a Cecil Beanie Baby will go to WildCRU.
Prof Macdonald said: "We will devote ourselves, supported by the incredible generosity of these donations, to working for the conservation of lions in Hwange and, with this marvellous support, the surrounding landscapes in adjoining countries."
Cecil's death sparked outrage across the world.
Zimbabwe is seeking the extradition of Mr Palmer.


Militants of so-called Islamic State (IS) are on the verge of being ousted completely from their stronghold in Libya's central coastal city of Sirte.

Militia groups aligned to the UN-brokered Libyan Government of National Accord launched an operation in May to rid Sirte of IS and regain control of the city. The battle to expel the jihadists has achieved more success recently with the help of US air strikes.
It has damaged the jihadists, but does not spell the end for their presence in the country.
Losing Sirte is a blow to the group's image. In its propaganda, IS had repeatedly portrayed the city, close to western Europe, as a key position outside of its main areas of operation in Iraq and Syria.
IS turned key buildings in Sirte into its own institutions and prisons, and used the local radio station to air its propaganda.
The city, which was the birthplace of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, also brought IS close to Libya's oil-rich area.
No, but it is still present elsewhere in the country.
Its militants have long been fighting other forces in pockets of Libya's second city, Benghazi, and have recently launched several attacks on its western outskirts.
IS took complete control of Sirte in June 2015 after it was pushed out of its initial stronghold of Derna in Libya's far east by rival militias aligned with al-Qaeda
There are no reliable figures about the number of IS militants in Libya but it is estimated that the group has about 5,000 fighters in the country, many of who were thought to have been deployed in Sirte.
Caught on the back foot, the group may initially dissolve into desert areas and revert to earlier tactics.
Before it lost Derna, the group made its presence felt elsewhere in Libya by carrying out repeated bombings in the key cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, as well as of oil installations partly run by Western companies.
And now, putting up resistance as it loses the battle in Sirte, IS has again been employing suicide bombings as a means of attack.
Some believe IS fighters might flee to remote areas in the south. If they choose this route, they could head for the Sahel-Sahara area, where other jihadists are present and operate relatively freely.
Libya's importance to IS means that the militants may eventually regroup and emerge in another part of the country, seeking to take land that they can then showcase as a major gain.
Bani Walid, another former Gaddafi bastion, is one option for IS fighters. Local media recently indicated that air strikes hit a road in the city's south-east, which reports said were "often used" by IS fighters.
The militants may seek to boost their forces in and around Benghazi.
Or they may head towards Sabratha in the west, where they used to run a large training camp. This site might not hold much appeal, however, as it was the target of a US air strike in February.
Another option is Ajdabiya, which lies between Sirte and Benghazi, where they previously had a presence. There, however, they would have to confront al-Qaeda-linked rivals and the Libyan National Army of the Tobruk-based parliament.
But while the group might want to seize territory, it may struggle achieve this in the face of mounting pressure and US air strikes.
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The first person to windsurf around Britain alone will complete his sail today.

Jono Dunnett fished for food, sailed with dolphins and was put up by strangers who read his blog during the 2,200-mile (3,540 km) journey.
He is the fourth person to windsurf around Britain, but the first to do so without a water-based support team.
Mr Dunnett began the fund-raising trip on 7 June at Clacton Pier in Essex and will return there later.
He said: "I got to see places I've never seen before and got to see this island I call home in a unique way."
The 41-year-old was inspired by Tim Batstone, the first windsurfer to sail around Britain, with a support boat, in 1984.
Mr Dunnett took advice from windsurfers and a round-Britain yachtsman and "painstakingly risk-assessed" the project.
He also received "some van-based support" and used a GPS tracker.
The longest distance he covered in one day was 100 miles as he travelled along the south coast.
The windsurfer slept in a makeshift tent made from his sail, but was sometimes given a bed by people who took pity on him when he was pitching his tent in cold, wet conditions.
He said: "Doing something like this, you appreciate the fundamental niceness of people."
But he added: "There are parts of the journey, like Land's End, I would never do again."
Mr Dunnett was also raising money for two charities, the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund and Supporting Tanzanian Orphans and Widows.


A further arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of a businessman at his luxury Dorset home.

Guy Hedger, 61, was killed at his home in Ashley, near Ringwood, early in the morning on Sunday 30 April.
Dorset Police said a 45-year-old man from Poole had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary. The force said he is helping with its inquiries.
Three men appeared in court on Tuesday charged with the murder of Mr Hedger.
Kevin Downton, 40, of Winterborne Stickland, near Blandford, Jason Baccus, 41, and Scott Keeping, 44, both of Verney Close, Bournemouth, appeared at Winchester Crown Court for a preliminary hearing.
Judge Keith Cutler set a date for the defendants to enter pleas on 26 July and identified 14 November as a potential date for a trial to begin.
A 40-year-old woman previously arrested in relation to the incident has been released under investigation.
Mr Hedger was shot when at least two intruders entered his home and a post-mortem examination concluded he died as a result of gunshot wounds, the force said.


A woman was sexually assaulted twice in one evening by the same man, police said.

The first assault happened on Durnsford Road in Middlesbrough on Wednesday after the man asked the 29-year-old for the time.
He then followed her onto Carisbrooke Avenue, which joins the first road, and sexually assaulted her again.
She was shaken but was unharmed, Cleveland Police said. They are appealing for witnesses.
Both attacks happened between 17:20 and 17:30 GMT.
The man is said to be about 17, with blond hair and blue eyes.


Pakistan's military says it has launched a major operation against so-called Islamic State (IS) in the north-western region along the Afghan border.

A spokesman said militants had gained ground inside Afghanistan and had to be stopped from extending their influence.
He said the "Khyber 4" operation, backed by the air force, would focus on the mountainous Rajgal Valley area in Khyber Agency.
Pakistan has previously denied the presence of IS on its territory.
However, the growth of the group - often referred to as Daesh - in neighbouring Afghanistan has alarmed Islamabad and the group has claimed several attacks in Pakistan over the past two years.
"This operation was necessary because Daesh is getting established there and we have to stop the influence spreading into Pakistani territory through the Rajgal Valley," military spokesman Lt Gen Asif Ghafoor said.
IS in the region is mostly made up of former members of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban and Gen Ghafoor reiterated the government's stance that the group has no established presence inside Pakistan.
"There is no organised infrastructure and we shall not allow them to establish themselves," he said.
"As regards inside Afghanistan, yes, Daesh is getting stronger there, is gaining strength. But still, we feel that it is not purely the Daesh which is there in the Middle East."
He said that the operation would first secure the border near Rajgal Valley and forces would then clear the rest of the area. He said multiple "terrorist" organisations with links to recent attacks in Pakistan had safe havens on the other side of border.
The Rajgal Valley and Khyber Agency are part of the volatile Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
IS controls some territory in Afghanistan and has been seeking to strengthen its presence in Pakistan since 2015 when it carried out its first attack in the country.
At about that time, IS announced the establishment of its Khorasan branch - a historical name for Afghanistan and the surrounding areas. It marked the first time that IS had officially spread outside the Arab world.


The UK government will not move to block a referendum on Scottish independence, the Secretary of State for Scotland has said.

Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore said there would not be constitutional questions raised about the rights or wrongs of holding a vote.
The newly-elected majority SNP Scottish government intends to bring forward a referendum in its five-year term.
The Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems all oppose independence.
Mr Moore told BBC Scotland's Politics Show it was now up to the SNP to bring forward the referendum, which First Minister Alex Salmond said would come "well into the second half" of the new, five-year parliament.
"I firmly believe the Scottish Parliament, if it so decides, can proceed with a referendum," Mr Moore said, adding: "There will be the normal electoral rules that have to be followed and it will have to be discussed carefully with the relevant authorities."
The Scottish secretary added: "We could, I suppose, try to make a constitutional issue about where the powers lie or don't, but I don't think that would be a sensible use of anybody's time.
By Andrew BlackPolitical reporter, BBC Scotland
It's all very well for the UK government to say it won't stand in the way of an independence referendum.
But the bottom line is this is happening, whether the coalition likes it or not.
The minority SNP government in the last parliament tried to win support for a Referendum Bill at Holyrood - even offering an olive branch to include an extra question on more powers for Scotland - but the parties didn't go for it and, in the end, the plan was dropped.
But the SNP will shortly be in majority government. That means no more bartering - the party's MSPs will simply vote through the bill, no matter which way Labour, the Lib Dems and Tories go.
The opposition parties say the SNP has played down the issue, so as not to scare the horses.
And a vote for the SNP doesn't necessarily mean a vote for independence.
But, the SNP, in the wake of its stunning and decisive election win, is still committed to the vision of a "free and just" Scotland.
The UK government would become involved in the event of a referendum "Yes" vote.
Such a result would not mean automatic independence, but a mandate from the people would provide a rock-solid platform on which to negotiate a settlement with Westminster - albeit one it would be unable to refuse.
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"If the issue of the day is to decide the future of Scotland within the United Kingdom, then that's more important we have that debate, rather than have a debate about whether or not we can have the debate."
Rather than the referendum, Mr Salmond has decided to concentrate for the moment on further devolution of powers to Holyrood as part of the Scotland Bill, currently going through Westminster.
The first minister told BBC Scotland his party had received an "overwhelming mandate" from the people for "job-creating powers", namely control over borrowing, the Crown Estates Commission and corporation tax.
But he added: "Even if we gained all these things, that would give the Scottish Parliament control over approximately 20% of the revenue base of Scotland.
"Independence would give the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish people, control over almost 100% of the revenue base of Scotland."
Challenged on why the referendum was not being held sooner, Mr Salmond said: "That's the plan we outlined to the Scottish people very clearly in our election campaign - we did so consistently. We've been backed overwhelmingly by the Scottish people on that prospectus.
"So you don't change it now just because you have an overwhelming majority.
"The people have showed faith in the Scottish National Party, and therefore the SNP government will repay that faith and keep faith with the people."
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show his party must set out an alternative vision to independence, adding: "I don't think the majority of people in Scotland want independence or separatism."
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Murdo Fraser called on the UK government to give "very serious consideration" to launching its own referendum on the future of the UK constitution to prevent a "damaging" and long-running debate.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox, said: "Whether the result in Scotland was the Scottish voters actually positively having a view on independence is, I think, very much up for debate."
The Conservative minister told the Sky News Murnaghan programme: "I think it was very much more about Labour having taken voters in Scotland for granted and the old Labour fiefdoms rebelling."


Barnsley fought back against Crewe Alexandra to make it nine wins from 11 games and close in on the League One play-off places.

Struggling Crewe went in front when defender Jon Guthrie deflected in Marcus Haber's effort.
Barnsley levelled after Sam Winnall fired in from Conor Hourihane's corner.
Alfie Mawson won the game for the Tykes with a 20-yard free-kick after the hour, finding the top corner beyond Crewe goalkeeper Ben Garratt.


The head of Australia's Commonwealth Bank will step down by the middle of next year, the firm has said.

Chief Executive Ian Narev will retire after six years at the helm of Australia's biggest mortgage lender.
It comes amid pressure from regulators over 53,700 alleged breaches of anti-money laundering laws.
The board said it brought forward details of its succession plans to end speculation over his tenure.
Mr Narev had faced calls to step down after the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) launched a civil action against the bank over what it described as "serious and systemic" breaches of anti-money laundering laws.
The bank's chairman Catherine Livingstone said in a statement on Monday that Mr Narev would leave the bank by the end of the 2018 financial year.
The bank's board also recently scrapped short-term bonuses for all senior executives this year in response to the allegations.
Most of the alleged breaches related to the bank's deposit machines, which could accept up to $20,000 Australian dollars (£12,160; $15,820) in cash at a time, anonymously if the person depositing was not a Commonwealth customer.
The bank failed to meet deadlines for reporting transactions over the legal threshold of A$10,000, according to Austrac.
Commonwealth Bank said the breaches were due to a coding error, which meant the machines failed to automatically report the transactions.
Last week, Australia's corporate regulator said it would open a separate investigation into the bank's handling of money laundering suspicions.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission said it would look at whether the bank's board complied with its obligations to tell shareholders about all potential liabilities.
Despite its ongoing legal tussles, last week the bank beat forecasts to report profits of A$9.88bn (£6bn; $7.8bn)
The figure was 4.6% higher than last year's results and the eighth straight year of record profits for the bank.


Hull FC coach Lee Radford says England's players will be "bent, knackered and fatigued" by the time the Rugby League World Cup in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea comes around in October.

He blames the botched plans for the pre-season training camp in Dubai as a direct cause for damaging England's tournament chances.
Radford has been left fuming by the recent run of fixtures that have seen his team - and most of the other Super League sides - having to play three games in just nine days.
The second congested week of the season - just a month after a similar fixture pile-up over Easter - was created to accommodate an England pre-season camp that did not take place.
"I sat in a room with [England coach] Wayne Bennett and all he did was tell us that Super League isn't as good as the NRL," Radford told the 5 live rugby league podcast.
"So, come to a Monday game and come to the following week's game and there's your reason why it's not as intense as the NRL. Half my team's in the stands.
"Don't criticise our competition when you you're had a massive impact in changing the comp, ultimately harming the comp.
"Nobody wants England to win the World Cup more than I do. But you're going to send our troops over there bent, knackered and fatigued."
Clubs have also accommodated England's mid-season Test match against Samoa amid their own fixture commitments, with players heading to Australia in May on the cusp of the Easter break.
Leeds coach Brian McDermott also believes the recent run of games has been beyond the limits for players in such a physical sport.
McDermott said in the podcast: "You can't keep getting them to go out and run a small marathon with some collision in there. There's a limit to what the human body can take.
"We're halfway through a 30-round season and this is our second catch-up weekend and my blokes have gone. They're wasted at the moment."


A man has admitted murdering his neighbour near their homes in Glasgow after a row relating to a dog.

Martin Carroll, 28, stabbed 36-year-old Stephen Gannon in the neck near their tenement block in the city's Springburn area on 14 August.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the victim died outside his home. Carroll later told his grandmother: "I've done something stupid."
He faces a mandatory life term when he is sentenced at a later date.
The court heard that Mr Gannon lived downstairs from Carroll at the flats in St Monance Street.
Carroll once had a disagreement with another neighbour about her dog misbehaving.
On 14 August, Mr Gannon was chatting to the neighbour who had the dog, inside the tenement when Carroll walked by.
The court heard that Carroll was already wanted by police at the time after failing to turn up for a court hearing in connection with an attack on his mother.
Mr Gannon followed him and shouted: "Don't you be giving abuse to the woman in my close."
Carroll initially ignored the comment - but then turned and confronted his neighbour.
Prosecutor Ross McFarlane said: "In a sudden movement, Carroll produced a large knife and struck out a number of times.
"He stabbed Mr Gannon in the neck area...blood started to spurt from the wound and he tried to run back towards his flat."
The victim collapsed blood-soaked in the street and never recovered from the attack.
An apparently-upset Carroll then appeared at his grandmother's home and said: "Something's happened. I've done something stupid."
He later admitted to a friend he had stabbed Mr Gannon "a couple of times", but that he did not think it was "that bad".
Carroll went on to state: "I'll take responsibility for what I have done."
It was three days later when he was finally held in connection with the outstanding warrant.
Police later questioned him about the stabbing, but he denied being involved and claimed he had only read about in the newspaper.
The court heard that Mr Carroll's fatal wound cut through his carotid artery and jugular vein.
It emerged Carroll, who has a 666 tattoo, already had a violent past including convictions for assault and having a knife.
He was jailed for 60 days in September for the assault on his mother.
Carroll will be sentenced for the murder in the new year.


Four women were thrown off their Manchester-to-Ibiza flight after allegedly threatening other passengers and using racist language.

They were scheduled to fly to the Balearic island on Tuesday on Monarch Airlines flight ZB504.
But after police were called to Manchester Airport at about 19:10 BST all were removed from the aircraft and no further action was taken.
The airline said they were "offloaded due to disruptive behaviour".
One witness, passenger Amber Ferguson, described the women as "disgusting human beings".
Photographs of the incident posted by her on social media have drawn thousands of critical comments about the four women.
Ms Ferguson, a teaching assistant from Manchester, said the women used racist language and threatened other passengers.
She wrote: "If you know them or are related to them you should be ashamed to know such disgusting human beings!!"
A spokesman for Monarch Airlines said: "The flight, which was being operated by Smartlynx, on behalf of Monarch, had 158 customers on board.
"Monarch takes a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive behaviour on board all of our flights.
"The safety and security of our passengers, crew and aircraft is our absolute priority."


Scotland's accident and emergency departments have met a key waiting time target for the first time since weekly reporting began.

Official figures indicated 95.4% of patients were seen and then admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
The latest numbers cover the week ending 12 July. The government's interim target set a figure of 95%.
Health Secretary Shona Robison called the news "extremely promising".
The controversial 95% target was introduced by the Scottish government as a stepping stone towards its full target of 98% of patients being dealt with in four hours or less.
When weekly reporting started in February, only 86.1% of A&E patients were treated within four hours.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde missed the target in the latest figures. It met its four hour waiting time target in 93.9% of cases.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran (94.6%), NHS Grampian (94.7%), NHS Lothian (94.7%) were also slightly below the target.
Across the country, a total of 61 patients waited in A&E for more than eight hours, while another seven people waited for more than 12 hours.
Ms Robison said: "It is extremely promising that our core A&E departments are seeing and treating 95% of patients within four hours. NHS staff have been working extremely hard to cut waiting times and deliver a first-class service, and the figures published today are testament to this.
"It is also good to see that every health board in Scotland treated nine out of 10 people within four hours, with 13 reaching around 95%. In addition, long waits continue to remain low.
"We now need to maintain this improvement and continue to achieve 95% nationally throughout the summer to ensure that all health boards are in an optimum position as we head in to this winter."
Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: "This is welcome news and Scottish Conservatives congratulate all those who worked hard to make it possible.
"However, as we all know, one swallow does not make a summer and it would be hugely complacent to think that all must now be well when figures improve in a week while many may be away on holiday. Good news certainly, but so much more still to do."
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume claimed the minister was "spinning" the figures as four out of 14 health boards missed the target.
Mr Hume said: "That it has taken 100 weeks to achieve this interim target demonstrates the scale of the problems faced by many hard-pressed health boards. It has been some 300 weeks since the SNP's original target has been met."
The weekly figures showed that the hospital site with the best performance record was Ninewells in Dundee (99.1%).
The lowest percentage of patients treated within four hours was Inverclyde Royal Hospital (88.2%).


A Belfast man consumed drink and drugs before driving his van and striking and killing a student, a court has heard.

Enda Dolan, 18, from County Tyrone, was in his first term at Queen's University when he died after being hit on Belfast's Malone Road in October 2014.
David Lee Stewart, of Gray's Park Avenue, drove with the teenager on the roof of his van for about 800 yards before he stopped.
The 31-year-old has admitted a series of charges linked to the collision.
Belfast Crown Court heard on Friday that Stewart said during a police interview he "would give up my own life for that wee lad".
"I am deeply sorry for it, deeply, deeply sorry," he told police.
"If I could turn back the clock I would."
Stewart is due to be sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving and four other motoring offences.
The court was told that Stewart's passenger, 21-year-old William Ross Casement, who he had been drinking with in the hours leading up to the collision, got out of the van when it hit Mr Dolan.
Witnesses saw him standing close to the student's body, which was on the road, before he returned to the van, which was then driven from the scene.
Prosecutors said he "must have been aware that at least very serious injury was caused".
Casement, from Belvoir Drive in Belfast, admits aiding and abetting dangerous driving, and aiding and abetting failing to remain at the scene of an accident where an injury had occurred.
A prosecution lawyer told the court that CCTV footage had shown both men were in a Belfast bar on Thursday 14 October.
Stewart took 13 drinks, including six pints of beer and four Jagerbombs, a mix of a spirit and an energy drink.
The men were later seen to "stagger on the road" before getting into the van.
It was driven to Donegall Square East, where the men went to a nightclub.
They left at 02:20 BST, and less than 10 minutes later Mr Dolan was dead.
Witnesses saw the van being driven dangerously, undertaking a taxi and speeding through a red traffic light.
Mr Dolan was walking to his student accommodation when the van mounted a footpath and hit him.
He sustained a broken neck and head injuries.
One witness said the van had taken off at speed and it crashed further up the road.
Casement was able to get out of the vehicle and Stewart had to be cut from the driver's seat.
The prosecution said Stewart was taken to hospital, where he twice refused to give a blood sample, claiming he had only drank two pints of shandy.
But a sample taken later that morning indicated he was three times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers.
Traces of drugs, including cocaine, were also found in his system.
The prosecution said Stewart was "highly intoxicated" at the time of the crash and had "made two decisions to drive in that condition".
He added that Mr Dolan, from Killyclougher in Omagh, was "talented" both academically and in sporting terms and was "generous with his time with his family and the wider community".
A defence lawyer for Stewart said the father-of-three was "so intoxicated that evening that he was uncertain as to the events that occurred".
Stewart revoked his own bail while on remand, and his wife Samantha told the court: "He couldn't go out, after what he had done.
"He had no life. He took somebody else's, he just couldn't get on with his own."
A barrister representing Casement said his client "reflected on a daily basis" about the incident.
He said Casement "deeply regrets becoming involved in the course of events that led to the death of Mr Dolan".
Both men were remanded in custody ahead of sentencing.


Some key data about bond purchases by Bank of Cyprus - now the focus of a controversial EU-IMF bailout - is missing, investigators have found.

The gaps were found in computer records studied by a financial consultancy, Alvarez and Marsal, Cypriot media say.
Bank of Cyprus - the island's biggest bank - bought Greek bonds which turned into some 1.9bn euros (Â£1.6bn; $2.4bn) of losses in the Greek debt crisis.
Depositors with more than 100,000 euros in the bank are now facing a big loss.
The "haircut" for such deposits in Bank of Cyprus is expected to be about 60%.
The money taken from those accounts, and from deposits above 100,000 euros at Laiki (Popular) Bank, will be used by the government to contribute billions towards the bailout.
Strict capital controls - unprecedented for the eurozone - are in force in Cyprus, limiting cash withdrawals to prevent a run on the banks.
The "haircut" - hugely unpopular in Cyprus - is a condition for the EU and IMF to grant a 10bn-euro bailout to rescue the Cypriot economy.
The Cyprus Mail website says information provided by Bank of Cyprus was incomplete and data-deleting software was found on some computers there.
There were significant gaps in computer records for the period 2007-2010. It is not yet clear whether the wiping of records was accidental or deliberate. There were signs of mass deletion of data.
The Central Bank of Cyprus says that Alvarez and Marsal are now investigating Laiki too - Cyprus's second largest bank, which is being wound up and folded into Bank of Cyprus.
"The investigation will continue and cover: the purchase of Greek government bonds by Laiki Bank; the expansion of Laiki Bank outside Cyprus; the role and responsibilities of all parties involved," the central bank said on Friday.
The consultancy's report on Bank of Cyprus has been leaked to Cypriot media, but not yet published.
Besides the Greek bond purchases the consultancy also scrutinised Bank of Cyprus operations in Romania and Russia.
The consultancy's findings have been handed over to the Cypriot parliament and the attorney-general, Petros Clerides.
The Cypriot government has appointed a special judicial panel to clarify what happened in the country's financial crash and pinpoint any wrongdoing.


A UN official has resigned after saying the UN had pressured her to withdraw a report accusing Israel of apartheid over its treatment of Palestinians.

The report was published by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), led by Under Secretary General Rima Khalaf.
She had said it was the first to conclude Israel was a racist state.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had distanced himself from the report, saying it reflected its authors' views.
As of Friday, it was no longer visible on the ESCWA's website.
Speaking in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Ms Khalaf, a Jordanian, said she had submitted her resignation to Mr Guterres after he insisted on the report's withdrawal.
"We expected of course that Israel and its allies would put huge pressure on the secretary general of the UN so that he would disavow the report, and that they would ask him to withdraw it," she was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
Israel has condemned the report. "The attempt to smear and falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East by creating a false analogy is despicable and constitutes a blatant lie," Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement.
The report itself said it had established on the "basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence, that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid".
It was published on Wednesday by the ESCWA, which promotes economic and social development in 18 Arab countries, and is based in Beirut.
In 2014, the then US Secretary of State, John Kerry, warned that Israel risked becoming "an apartheid state" if a two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians was not found soon.
Relations with the Palestinians have been a major factor in Israel's foreign and security policy.
The Palestinians in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem have lived under Israeli occupation since 1967.
The settlements that Israel has built in the West Bank are home to nearly 500,000 people and are deemed to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.


The use of unqualified teachers in schools is not a problem in Wales, a teaching union representative has said.

At the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff this weekend, the union said the use of unqualified staff was on the rise.
Rex Phillips, however, said that was not true in Wales and it was only in England that such staff were recruited.
He said the Welsh government had stuck to "the principle that pupils should be taught by qualified teachers".
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Mr Phillips accepted there were instances of unqualified support staff working in Welsh schools, but not teachers.
He said: "That's a matter of the management within a school, and where we know about that, and where we are told about that, we will go in and we will challenge that."


It is "more important" for the Welsh language television station S4C to remain on air than "any other BBC channel", a Conservative MP has said.

S4C gets most of its income from the licence fee and UK ministers have announced a major review of the BBC.
Monmouth MP David Davies told BBC Wales S4C was a "special case as it promotes the Welsh language".
Ministers have said S4C should aim for similar cost savings as the BBC.
On Thursday, Labour warned that cuts to the BBC's budget threatened S4C, but Culture Secretary John Whittingdale told MPs there was a commitment to the channel "within the next couple of years", and he hoped to have discussions with its management in the near future.
Mr Davies told BBC Radio Cymru's Rhaglen Dylan Jones, on Friday: "The government realise the importance of S4C and that it's more than a station, it's important to the future of the Welsh language."
Mr Davies also hinted that the Welsh Affairs Committee, which he chairs, could consider conducting an inquiry into broadcasting, including S4C.
"These are personal views but I believe S4C to be a special case as it promotes the Welsh language and I believe it to be more important that S4C caries on more than any other BBC channel," he added.
S4C has said it has experienced "substantial cuts" since  2010 and would emphasise the "uniqueness" of its service, and its "value and importance, both culturally and economically", in talks with ministers.
A green paper on the future of the BBC released on Thursday noted that "audience reach has been falling across some indigenous language services over the last few years, particularly in Wales".
It added the higher hourly cost of Welsh-language radio programming compared to English-language output "raises concerns about value for money".


A man infected with the novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-nCV) has died in a UK hospital.

The patient, who was 49, was being treated for kidney failure and acute respiratory syndrome.
He was flown to St Thomas' Hospital in London from Qatar in September last year.
There have now been 41 deaths from the virus, which emerged last year and is similar to those that cause Sars and the common cold.
A hospital statement said: "Guy's and St Thomas' can confirm that the patient with severe respiratory illness due to novel coronavirus (MERS-nCV) sadly died on Friday 28 June, after his condition deteriorated despite every effort and full supportive treatment."
Around the world, 77 people are known to have been infected with the virus. It causes fever, a cough and breathing difficulties. Most patients have developed pneumonia.
Cases have been confirmed in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Italy, Tunisia and the UK.
In a statement in May the World Health Organization (WHO) said: "The greatest global concern is about the potential for this new virus to spread.
"This is partly because the virus has already caused severe disease in multiple countries, although in small numbers, and has persisted in the [Middle East] region since 2012.
"Of most concern, however, is the fact that the different clusters seen in multiple countries increasingly support the hypothesis that when there is close contact this novel coronavirus can transmit from person to person."


The body of a Polish girl was not seen during a search for another pupil at a school in Cornwall, an inquest heard.

Dagmara Przybysz, 16, died at Pool Academy near Redruth in May last year.
School pastoral manager Marie Exelby opened the main door to the toilets where Dagmara was later found hanged, but "didn't see anything".
The inquest was also told that since Dagmara's death every pupil in the school has been given a search-enabled iPad that shows their location.
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The hearing at Truro's Coroner's Court heard Dagmara was being bullied and subjected to racist taunts including "stupid Pole" and "go back to your own country".
On 17 May 2016, after receiving a radio call to look for another pupil, pastoral manager Marie Exelby opened the door to the toilets where Dagmara was later found hanged but "didn't see anything" as she had not gone far enough in to see if all the cubicles were open or shut.
This search was just before 13:00 BST - about 45 minutes after Dagmara had gone in to the toilets and about 35 minutes before the alarm was raised about her.
Devon and Cornwall Police said CCTV footage from the school showed Dagmara's body was not found for more than 90 minutes, despite the manager checking the toilet block.
School co-ordinator Paula Hosking told the inquest Dagmara was found after two pupils raised the alarm about a student being in the toilet for a long time.
She said she could see shoes under the cubicle door, but there was no response when she asked if anyone was there.
When she looked over the cubicle door she saw Dagmara hanging and staff broke down the door.
A 999 call was made, but Ms Hosking, who did not make the call herself, said no CPR was attempted by school staff despite advice from the ambulance service.
"Paramedics asked us to carry out CPR while they were on their way," she said.
"We knew Dagmara had died and decided not to carry out CPR. We knew it was all too late."
Christopher Rogers from South Western Ambulance Service Trust said he met with the school and contacted Ofsted to find out the guidance currently in place.
As a result, he created a document entitled 'Ringing 999 for an ambulance: Guide for Education' which was sent to all Cornwall schools in September.
Assistant principal Lisette Neesham told the inquest that radios are no longer used by staff as all have mobile phones, and pupils have been issued with an iPad "with the student location search engaged".
Changes have also been made to the school's system of recording pupils absent from lessons and the procedure for looking for them.
Dagmara, who lived with her parents and younger sister in Redruth after the family moved from Poland in 2009, had won a place at Truro College to study photography.
The inquest heard Dagmara had confided to both her parents, Jedrzej and Ewelina Przybysz, and boyfriend Lewis Simpson that she was being bullied because she was Polish.
However, the school's pastoral support worker Susan Kent said to the best of her knowledge Dagmara had "never mentioned any problems with racism to me or any other person at school".
She added Dagmara had felt under pressure from her parents to do well at school.
Zelma Hill, Pool Academy's principal, described Dagmara as a "beautiful, bright and creative" student who had a promising future ahead of her.
The day before her death, Dagmara injured her hand by punching a wall after becoming angry because some girls were laughing at her.
The inquest continues.


People with heart failure must be screened for signs of depression and offered counselling, scientists say.

A small study presented at the European Society of Cardiology suggested patients with depression were more likely to die within a year.
Though many factors are likely to influence this - including the severity of the disease - researchers say managing depression is important.
And charities advise people to seek help through specialist nurses and GPs.
Prof John Cleland, chief investigator in the study, who works at both Imperial College London and the University of Hull, describes heart failure as a "modern epidemic" that affects 900,000 people across the UK.
But despite trying to find better drugs and improved procedures there is no cure, Prof Cleland told the BBC: "Being heart specialists we have focused on trying to find medicines, devices, and operations."
"They work but not as well as we would like.  So we have decided to step back and look at the bigger picture," he added.
Heart failure can happen when the the muscle of the heart becomes too weak or too stiff, making it harder to pump blood around the body.
And as this becomes worse patients can feel very tired and short of breath.
As part of a continuing investigation, Prof Cleland's team asked 96 patients, who had been admitted to hospital with heart failure, a series of questions to assess whether they were depressed.
Those who showed signs of moderate or severe depression were more likely to have died in the 300 days that followed.
Though this link has been shown before, scientists generally thought this was down to people with depression suffering from a more severe form of the condition.
While the Hull scientists acknowledge this is likely to play a part, they say it is does not account for the full picture.
For example, while measuring NT-proBNP -  a hormone that can be used to help monitor the severity of the disease - they found little difference between people who had severe depression and those who did not.
It is likely that other factors are important as well; some people with depression may not feel motivated to take their pills or seek help quickly, scientists suggest.
Researchers say these questions, and their early findings, need to be explored and evaluated in bigger studies.
Meanwhile Julie Ward at the British Heart Foundation, said: "We know depression is both a risk factor for heart disease and is often experienced by people who have had a major heart event."
"Every person with a long-term physical health condition, like heart disease, should be treated for both their physical and psychological symptoms equally.
"Talk to your GP or heart specialist nurse and discuss the options that could be available to you," she said.