A terminally ill boy should be moved to a palliative care regime proposed by specialists despite his parents' objections, a judge has ruled.

The Family Division of the High Court said the boy should receive care to minimise suffering in his final months.
He was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2012. His parents had argued that doctors could still treat his symptoms.
He is expected to live for three to six months, and specialists said "curative treatment" was no longer possible.
Doctors told the court the boy should have "palliative chemotherapy" to reduce pain, and medication.
But his mother, a former nurse, said she thought the tumour was slow growing, and was worried about the side effects of chemotherapy and a "cocktail of painkillers".
The boy's parents had appealed for their "beautiful" son's "right to life", and his father wept as the judge outlined the decision.
Mr Justice MacDonald said the case was "unbearably sad" and said the youngster's parents were suffering "unimaginable agony".
But the judge said he was satisfied the boy's prognosis was terminal and that pain could become unbearable if not treated.
The treatment put forward by doctors was in the boy's best interests, he added.
The hearing was not open to the public and the judge banned the reporting of anything which might identify the boy, including his age, address or name of hospital authority with responsibility for care.
Mr Justice MacDonald said: "Neither the mother or the father in this case are anything other than loving parents who are simply trying to stay upright in the darkening storm which has engulfed their family."


One of the brothers who launched a deadly attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been buried in an unmarked grave.

Said Kouachi was buried secretly late on Friday in the eastern city of Reims, where he had lived before the attack.
The mayor of Reims said he had opposed the burial, fearing a grave could become a shrine, but had been forced to accept it by law.
Attacks in Paris killed 17 people last week, 12 of them at Charlie Hebdo.
On 9 January, two days after attacking the magazine, Said Kouachi and his younger brother Cherif were killed by police at an industrial estate north of Paris.
Cherif Kouachi is expected to be buried in his hometown of Gennevilliers, outside Paris.
There has been no announcement on plans for burying Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four people at a Jewish supermarket in Paris on 9 January and is suspected of killing a policewoman in the French capital a day earlier.
Earlier in the week, Reims mayor Arnaud Robinet said he would "categorically refuse" a family request for Said Kouachi to be buried in the city.
He said he did not want "a tomb that could become a shrine for people to gather around or a pilgrimage site for fanatics".
But on Saturday he said he had been forced by the government to accept the burial. "He was buried last night, in the most discreet, anonymous way possible," he told French TV.
The city said in a statement: "Given the risk of disturbance of the peace and in order to quickly turn the page of this tragic episode, it was decided to do the burial quickly."
A lawyer for Said Kouachi's widow said she had not attended the burial for fear that journalists would follow her and the location of the grave would be discovered.
Touring a market in Tulle on Saturday, French President Francois Hollande said the nation had "come through the ordeal with a great deal of dignity and efficiency".
"We are of course aware that there are still threats," he said, "but life has to go on and we even need to emerge stronger".
"That's the best response we can give."
Almost 15,000 extra police and troops have been mobilised to boost security across France since the attacks.
Soldiers have also been sent onto the streets in neighbouring Belgium, where officials said they had foiled a possible attack against the police when they shot dead two suspects on Thursday in the eastern city of Verviers.
Some 150 soldiers were deployed in Brussels and Antwerp on Saturday, a number that is expected to double over the coming week.
Meanwhile, there have been protests in several countries against a cartoon in this week's edition of Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
In Niger, churches were set on fire in the capital, Niamey, a day after at least four people were killed in the second city of Zinder.
Seven million copies of the edition are being printed in view of extraordinary demand, distributors announced on Saturday. The magazine's print run before the attack was 60,000.


David Cameron will call for a new diplomatic drive to end Syria's civil war as he meets world leaders at the United Nations in New York on Sunday.

The UK prime minister is expected to drop his opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad playing a role in any transitional government.
But he is expected to insist Mr Assad stands down to allow reconciliation.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said he hopes the talks can help find a political solution to Syria's crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama will be among other leaders attending the 70th anniversary meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Mr Cameron is expected to use a series of meetings with other leaders - including Mr Obama - to argue that a peaceful solution will require a different leadership which the whole country can unite around.
"Our view is very clear, Isil (Islamic State) and Mr Assad are both the enemies of the Syrian people," one senior British official told the Press Association. "The prime minister's view is still very clearly that in the endgame you need a different leader to build a peaceful and inclusive Syria."
UK officials also warned finding a solution to the four-year conflict had been made more complicated by Russian military build-up in support of Mr Assad's regime.
Russia is reported to have moved warplanes, helicopters, tanks, drones, artillery and troops into a military airbase near Latakia and the seaport of Tartus in recent weeks.
Mr Cameron is not expected to meet Mr Putin.
But British officials have acknowledged they will need to work with Russia to find a diplomatic solution.
"There has always been the idea that there will be a political transition and there are differing views between members of the international community... what the steps are in the process. That is where there is more discussion ongoing," a senior British official told PA.
"There does need to be more thinking in capitals on what it would be," the official said. "This is complex and challenging and at the moment we are still trying to work out and agree what that solution might be."
Mr Cameron is also expected to urge other leaders to do more to support the millions of refugees still in the region.
France's foreign minister, meanwhile, told the General Assembly that President Assad should not play a role in Syria's future.
Laurent Fabius said Western countries would be exposing themselves to failure if they told Syrians their future lay with Mr Assad.
On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Mr Assad should be involved in peace talks, but Mr Fabius urged a united European strategy against such involvement.
Mr Kerry said he had discussed the crisis with Iran's foreign minister and would do the same with Russian representatives on Sunday.


US stocks inched up on Friday, returning to form after a sell-off earlier in the week triggered by tensions between the US and North Korea.

The Dow Jones rose 0.06% to 21,858.32.
The wider S&P 500 index was up 0.13% at 2,441.32, while the Nasdaq climbed 0.64% to 6,256.56.
The modest daily gains failed to overcome losses earlier in the week, sending all three major US indices down more than 1% from last Friday
Stocks have surged this year, with gains attributed to strong corporate earnings.
The S&P 500 is up 8% since January, the Dow is up almost 10% and the Nasdaq by more than 15%.
But high valuations have had some investors bracing for a correction.
Analysts said the war of words between Washington and Pyongyang provided impetus for this week's losses. Weak earnings from companies such as Macy's and Snap, also contributed.
On Friday, shares in JC Penney sank more than 16% after the retailer reported weaker than expected sales.
Second quarter sales at stores opened more than 12 months dropped 1.3%, the fifth quarter in a row they have fallen.
Its net loss for the quarter widened to $62m from $56m a year earlier.
Reaction to new inflation data was muted.
Prices rose by just 0.1% last month, below expectations, with the annual inflation rate up to 1.7% from 1.6%.
That's below the target of 2%, which could convince the Federal Reserve to move more cautiously when it comes to raising interest rates.


Afghanistan is observing a day of national mourning after a suicide bomber killed 80 people and wounded 230 in an attack on marchers in Kabul.

So-called Islamic State (IS), the Sunni Muslim militant group,  has said it was behind Saturday's attack on members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority.
In a televised address, President Ashraf Ghani vowed to take revenge against those responsible.
The UN mission in Afghanistan has described the attack as a "war crime".
Tadamichi Yamamoto, head of the UN assistance mission, said the attackers had specifically targeted a large number of civilians.
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On Saturday, the IS-linked Amaq news agency said two fighters had detonated explosive belts at a "gathering of Shia" in Deh Mazang square.
Correspondents say the statement suggests an intention to foment sectarian strife.
Thousands of members of the Hazara minority were protesting over a new power line, saying its route bypasses provinces where many of them live.
The Taliban, Afghanistan's most prominent Islamist militant group, condemned the attack.
IS has a presence in eastern Afghanistan but this is the first time it has admitted carrying out attacks in the capital.
An Afghan intelligence source told the BBC an IS commander named Abo Ali had sent three jihadists from the Achen district of Nangarhar province to carry out the Kabul attack.
Only one attacker successfully detonated his explosives, the interior ministry said. The belt of the second failed to explode and the third attacker was killed by security forces, the source said.
Declaring Sunday a day of national mourning, Mr Ghani said: "I promise you I will take revenge against the culprits."
He had earlier issued a statement saying that peaceful protest was the right of every citizen and that "opportunist terrorists" had infiltrated the crowd.
The Hazaras - mostly Shia Muslims - live mainly in the centre of the country.
They have long complained of discrimination. During Taliban rule in the late 1990s, many of them fled to Pakistan, Iran and Tajikistan.


An outbreak of norovirus has led to the closure of several wards at Southampton General Hospital.

Forty beds in eight wards have been affected, with four wards fully closed.
Visitors have been asked to stay away unless absolutely necessary. People suffering from sickness and diarrhoea have also been urged to call NHS Direct on 111, instead of visiting A&E.
It follows the closure of Bassett Green Primary School in the city on Friday because of a sickness bug.
Dr Sarah Schofield, of West Hampshire NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, said: The principals for any diarrhoea and vomiting illness is to have basic hygiene - be fanatical about your hand washing - and to drink plenty."
Infection control teams at the hospital were expected to reopen one of the closed wards on Sunday.


Marathon peace negotiations have resulted in a new ceasefire deal for eastern Ukraine in the Belarusian capital Minsk.

The 16-hour talks went on through the night, between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A previous Minsk ceasefire deal collapsed within days of its signing on 5 September. And there was heavy fighting just hours before this one, between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebels controlling a big swathe of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Here are the key points of the new plan (as released in Russian):
To take effect in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, from 00:00 local time on 15 February (22:00 GMT on 14 February).
To equal distances to create a buffer zone of: at least 50km (30 miles) separating both sides for artillery systems of 100mm calibre or more; 70km for multiple rocket systems and 140km for the heaviest rocket and missile systems such as Tornado, Uragan, Smerch and Tochka.
Ukrainian troops to withdraw heavy weapons from the current frontline.
Separatist forces to withdraw theirs from the line of 19 September 2014.
Heavy weapons withdrawal must start no later than day two of the ceasefire and be completed within two weeks. The OSCE security body will assist in the process.
To be carried out by the OSCE from day one, using all necessary technology such as satellites and radar.
In line with the Ukrainian law on temporary self-rule for parts of Donetsk and Luhansk. There will also be a dialogue on those areas' political future.
On the basis of "all for all". To be completed at the latest on the fifth day after the military withdrawal.
Including social transfers, such as payment of pensions. To that end, Ukraine will restore its banking services in districts affected by the conflict.
To begin on the first day after local elections, and be completed after a comprehensive political settlement, by the end of 2015. (Local elections in rebel-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions will be based on Ukrainian law and a constitutional reform.)
To be monitored by the OSCE. All illegal groups to be disarmed.
A key element of which will be decentralisation (taking account of the special features of certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, agreed with representatives of those regions), and adoption of permanent laws on the special status of those areas.


The Scottish government is being urged to push ahead with proposals for a "smart ticketing" system for public transport across the country.

Campaigners believe the move would encourage more people to leave their cars at home.
This could help to tackle pollution and congestion.
Smart tickets, such as London's Oyster card, allow passengers to use one plastic card to make journeys on different types of public transport.
The card is loaded with cash in advance and can also be automatically topped up from a bank or credit card account.
About 43 million Oyster cards have been issued since they were launched in 2003 and Oyster has eight million regular users.
Figures show that about 80% of all journeys on public transport in the London area are made by passengers using Oyster cards.
Calum McCallum of Transform Scotland, which promotes public transport use, believes there is no reason why a Scottish equivalent should not prove to be a success and would make life much easier for passengers.
He said: "If you have the flexibility to jump on and off the buses and trains, or whatever mode of public transport actually suits you, then we believe you're more likely to use public transport.
"There clearly needs to be government intervention to push this thing along.
"It's not something which will happen by itself. It's just too complicated for all the organisations involved to come together but a lot of the pieces are already in place."
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport plans to have smart ticketing in operation on the Glasgow subway by summer 2013.
SPT's ambition is to see the system extended to include Scotrail and private bus companies.
SPT's assistant chief executive Eric Stewart also expects the system will lead to increased passenger numbers, benefiting commuters and operators.
He said: "If you look at the Oyster example in London, there's been a huge increase in bus usage, a huge increase in Tube and rail usage. There's absolutely no reason we can't do exactly the same in Scotland."
SPT's smart ticketing system will rely on technology provided by the East Kilbride company, Ecebs. Work there is said to be well ahead of schedule.
The firm's managing director, David Burdett, said: "The heart of the system is in place, the operational systems are tried and tested and everyone agrees that a smartcard for Scotland makes sense.
"By delivering it quickly and efficiently to the entire SPT area we hope to demonstrate to others what can be achieved."
The technology needed to operate an integrated ticketing system is already in use on buses across Scotland. It is used to provide the Scottish government's concessionary transport scheme for older and disabled people.
A spokeswoman for Transport Scotland said: "Having equipped the entire Scottish bus fleet with smart-enabled ticketing equipment, we have a substantial platform from which to accurately reimburse operators and to support the delivery of commercial smart and integrated ticketing.
"We aim to capitalise on our Â£40m investment in smart ticketing on buses by working with organisations such as SPT in their plans to develop smart and integrated ticketing across modes."


(Close): All three key Wall Street indexes ended the day higher on Thursday amid encouraging figures on the jobs market.

The Dow Jones rose by 15 points or 0.07% to 20,662.95, while the S&P 500 was at 2,357.49, up 5 points or 0.19%.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 14 points or 0.25% to 5,878.95.
Earlier, new weekly US claims for jobless benefits fell to 234,000 from the previous week, down 25,000, the biggest weekly fall since April 2015.
However, shares had retreated from earlier highs by the close, with some commentators noting uncertainty among investors about President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in Florida.
The markets are particularly keen for pointers on trade relations between the world's two biggest economies.
"People are concerned because this could go south in a hurry because the Chinese president is a savvy politician with a lot of experience in these types of things and you have a novice (U.S.) politician on the world stage," said Peter Costa, president of Empire Executions Inc..
"The meeting is going to set the tone for what comes ahead and you don't want the tone to be negative," he added.
On Friday the important nonfarm payrolls figures for March will be released.
Investors will scrutinise them to try to assess whether the jobs market is robust enough to cope with the interest rate hikes which are expected in the US this year.


Two care homes in north Sutherland could be closed and the residents moved to a new, single "hub" complex, NHS Highland has said.

A group set up by the health board to examine the future of health care in the area has recommended shutting the homes in Melness and Melvich.
A location has still be to suggested for the new building.
However, it has been recommended that other health services could be relocated to the hub.
NHS Highland and Highland Council expect to consider a more detailed proposal early next year.


The US state of Connecticut has created an online resource for undocumented parents who are worried about President Donald Trump's threats of mass deportations.

Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy unveiled the Connecticut Family Preparedness Plan on Wednesday.
He has already clashed with the White House over immigration policy.
The plan is a "step by step" toolkit, in English and Spanish, for parents in case they are detained or deported.
Titled "Family Preparedness Plan: Preparing Your Family for Immigration Enforcement", it contains advice on legal rights and emergency child guardianship forms.
State officials have created the resource in response to President Trump's hard-line rhetoric on illegal immigration.
The state's website says: "We hope that you never have to use your plan, but having one may help reduce the stress of the unexpected."
Children of undocumented immigrants are legal citizens if they were born in the United States, even if their parents are not.
"We want to make sure that people have a plan in place should immigration action separate their families," Governor Malloy said.
"It is estimated that there are around 22,000 US citizen children of undocumented immigrant parents living in Connecticut."
It comes just one month after Governor Malloy traded public blows with the White House over Trump's immigration policy.
He issued a memo to Connecticut police authorities telling them they "should not take action that is solely to enforce federal immigration law" and that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detainer requests are requests, they are not warrants or orders".
Press Secretary Sean Spicer in February said it was "troubling" and "concerning" that Mr Malloy "chooses not to follow the duly passed laws of this nation".
Politico quoted Governor Malloy as saying it felt "really good" to be targeted by the White House.
"You should probably be known by your enemies," he said.
The governor's latest document recommends that families decide in advance who will care for their children if they are detained by immigration authorities.
It also contains guidance on what legal rights undocumented immigrants have if ICE officials approach them in person or come to their door.


A tour operator has offered a full refund to a couple who complained about a "disaster" coach holiday in the Highlands.

Derek and Julia Limbert hoped to visit Iona, but missed their only chance to visit the Isle after a driver gave them wrong information about ferry sailings.
Other visits on the five-day trip were either cancelled or cut short.
After BBC Scotland contacted the company, it offered the couple a full refund, which they accepted.
They plan to visit Scotland again, with another tour operator.
Mr Limbert described the five-day tour of Oban, Mull, Iona and Skye with Diamond Holidays as a "disaster from start to finish."
The coach collected the couple from their home in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands on 15 July at 06:20 but took nearly 15 hours to arrive in Stirling at 21:00, because passengers were picked up in other parts of England.
"We had to visit Lichfield, Burton-upon-Trent, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Durham and Newcastle, picking up other passengers en route to our overnight stop," said Mr Limbert.
The couple had booked the trip because they wanted to see Iona, and had hoped to join the local community there in a church service in the abbey.
However, Mr Limbert said the couple missed the trip on 17 July after the driver gave them inaccurate information about ferry times.
Mr Limbert said: "We were told by our driver that the ferry to Iona was every ten minutes.
"We nipped to the toilet but when we got back on the coach we missed it and were then told the ferries were in fact every hour, which meant it was too late for us to visit."
Mr Limbert said a trip to Tobermory advertised in the itinerary was cancelled during the holiday.
The couple said that despite the itinerary suggesting they would spend a "full day" on the Isle of Skye, a 10-hour coach journey meant it was only possible to spend one hour there.
Following a complaint made by the couple to Diamond Holidays about these issues, the travel company initially offered them two Â£20 vouchers as compensation, which they did not accept.
Diamond Holidays then offered a full refund, which the couple have accepted.
Mr and Mrs Limbert have planned another trip to Scotland next month, using a different tour operator.
Mr Limbert said he and his wife love visiting Scotland because it is a "friendly country with beautiful countryside and nice food".
Diamond Holidays managing director Kevin Riley said the company took customer complaints "very seriously".


Moving all driving records online could reduce the cost of car insurance for most people, ministers have said.

The migration, which will be complete by mid-2015, will end the need for the "paper counterpart" document drivers have to keep with their licence.
Insurers said "honest" motorists could see premiums fall by up to Â£15 a year.
At the moment, insurers cannot check licence or traffic offence details when they sell policies, meaning they have to "price in" risk factors.
The Association of British Insurers says premiums are pushed up by the fact that firms have to take account of the risk that drivers either do not tell the truth about speeding points to get a lower quote, or simply make a mistake.
"Significant cost savings" would also result from "reducing the need to obtain paper copies of licences from policyholders", the association added.
By Brian WheelerBBC News
Most of us would struggle to find the official document we are meant to keep with our driving licence. But from the middle of next year we will not need to.
All the information on it - such as speeding points - will be available online. It is one of 25 public services set to go digital by 2015.
Cabinet Office minster Francis Maude says the days when government IT projects were a by-word for disaster are over.
Britain now leads the world. And it has already saved taxpayers more than a billion pounds a year.
But critics point to universal credit.
The government's flagship welfare reforms rely heavily on new IT systems - and these have been hit by cost over-runs and delays straight from the bad old days.
A system due to be launched by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will allow insurers to access the information using an individual's licence number.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said anyone with a driving licence would be able to use the online database while there will be an assisted service for those who find it difficult to use the internet.  They will be able to get help from a call centre, library or post office.
Most of the UK's 40 million drivers would see falls in premiums, he suggested.
"This will enable insurers, for example, to price much more accurately, because they will not have to take anything on trust," he said.
Driving records are one of 25 public services set to go digital by 2015, with Mr Maude claiming the UK now leads the world in online migration of public services.
The paper counterpart to the driving licence photo card is due to be phased out by 2015 while it was announced in December that paper car tax discs would also be scrapped.
The DVLA said that "although some services cannot be delivered digitally, such as assessing a customer's fitness to drive, we can improve the processes supporting the delivery of these services through making greater use of digital tools".
It has not ruled out job cuts at the DVLA headquarters in Swansea, after the new digital system launches in June, but is awaiting the outcome of a review of staffing levels.
The car rental industry will also be affected by the new system - but it denied government claims that it would reduce the cost of hiring a vehicle.
"There are around 10 million car rental transactions in the UK each year and the majority of rental bookings are approved very quickly and at no cost by checking the driver endorsement and qualification information contained on the driver licence counterpart," said a spokesman for the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association.
When that is not available, rental companies rely on the DVLA's expensive telephone-based system to access driver information.
"The DVLA has confirmed its plans to withdraw the counterpart from 2015 and has promised the industry that it will provide a viable online database.
"This project has not yet begun, but we hope that any solution will be cost-effective and provide real-time, 24/7 access. Even if this is achieved, it is very unlikely to be quicker or cheaper than the current system of checking the paper driver licence counterpart."
Initially, the new system will check users' identities by asking for their postcode and National Insurance number but, in common with other digital government services, it will eventually allow people to use their bank's system to prove their identity on websites providing government services.
Clicking on an icon will allow people to complete the check required by their bank, mobile phone company, or other service provider.
The approach would cut the number of passwords people need to remember, and avoid the need for a central government system to establish identities.
"This is something that is a problem for countries that do not have an ID card system and a national ID database," said Mr Maude.


A food bank network provided almost 1.2 million batches of three-day food and basic supplies in the past year.

These are the highest figures on record from the Trussell Trust network of food banks.
The Trust has linked increasing demand with the rollout of the universal credit benefits reform.
But the Department for Work and Pensions says food bank use has "complex" causes and it is "misleading" to point to any one cause.
The food bank figures, from April 2016 to March 2017, show an increase of about 74,000 emergency supplies provided compared with the previous year, based on a network of more than 400 distribution centres.
The charity says that delays in benefits, debt and insecure employment are among the reasons that people have to turn to food banks for help.
In particular, the charity says that the introduction of universal credit seems to be causing a gap in benefits which causes families to turn to food banks.
Trust chief executive David McAuley said the findings provided an "early warning" about "unforeseen consequences" from the benefits changes.
But a Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said there were more complex reasons underlying the use of food banks.
"Under universal credit people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer than under the old system," he said.
The food bank charity reports that more than 400,000 of the recipients were children.
Official figures published last month show that most child poverty is now concentrated in working families.
More than two-thirds of children classified as living in poverty are in families where at least one parent is working - the highest levels on record.


An Angus man sent photographs of his private parts to girls as young as nine via social media, a court heard.

Michael Grimes also sent "inappropriate sexual messages" to girls under the age of 16.
Grimes, 25, from Montrose, sent one girl indecent pictures after she refused his request for photos of herself.
He was placed on the sex offenders register ahead of sentencing at Dundee Sheriff Court next month.
The court was told Grimes' youngest victim, who was completely unknown to him, was nine-years-old when he started sending her private messages on Facebook after she accepted his friend request.
Fiscal depute Donna Brown said Grimes had asked the youngster to assess the size of his private parts in the messages.
Miss Brown said the girl told her mother, who contacted police.
A search of Grimes' home had revealed pictures on his laptop and his mobile phone, as well as the pair of pink boxer shorts he had been wearing in some of the indecent pictures.
In another incident, Grimes met up with a 14-year-old girl at his home after saying he would give her cigarettes, but the victim left when she "got freaked out" by him.
The court heard Grimes asked the girl to send pictures of herself over Facebook, which she refused to do, but he sent her four or five pictures of his private parts to her.
Grimes, 25, of St John's Place, Montrose, pleaded guilty to using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards a 14-year-old girl between March 2011 and October 2012.
He also admitted sending written sexual communications and pictures to another 14-year-old girl between April 2012 and April 2014.
Grimes also admitted a further charge related to a nine-year-old girl who he caused to look at sexual images by sending a picture of his private parts over social media in March 2015.
Sheriff Alastair Brown deferred sentence for background reports and released Grimes on bail.
He said: "Girls who are or maybe under the age of 16 are off limits for any sexual conversation.
"Girls who are over 16 are off limits unless they consent explicitly.
"Unless you observe these rules you will find yourself in jail for a long time."


Seven books by new children's authors have been shortlisted for the annual Branford Boase Award.

The "exceptionally diverse" shortlist - whittled down from more than 60 entries - includes a gothic mystery and a teenage romance.
The award recognises both author and editor of a debut novel for children aged seven and over.
The winning author will receive a cheque for Â£1,000 at a ceremony in London on 10 July.
The shortlist includes Winter Damage by Natasha Carthew (edited by Rebecca McNally), CJ Flood's Infinite Sky (Venetia Gosling) and Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones (Mara Bergman).
Other contenders include Julie Mayhew's Red Ink (Emily Thomas), Alex the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Montgomery Ross (Rebecca Lee & Susila Baybars), Fletcher Moss' The Poison Boy (Imogen Cooper and Barry Cunningham) and Geek Girl by Holly Smale (Lizzie Clifford).
The winner will be decided by a judging panel led by Julia Eccleshare, children's books editor of The Guardian.
"This year's shortlist is exceptionally diverse," said Eccleshare.
"Here are seven very different books. But, not only are they all very well written, they all feel exceptionally fresh and original: these are stories we haven't read before, and that is very exciting."
Judges include Wendy Cooling, Tamara Macfarlane, author and owner of Tales on Moon Lane bookshop, former librarian Alec Williams, and last year's winning author Dave Shelton.
Shelton won for his enigmatic tale A Boy and A Bear in a Boat. Previous winners include 2012's Annabel Pitcher for My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece and 2001's Marcus Sedgwick, for Floodland.
The award is unique in honouring the editor of the winning title, highlighting their role in bringing new work to the fore.
The award was set up in memory of the prize-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase - who both died of cancer in 1999.


A teenager who was paralysed after falling off a horse is suing her ex-boyfriend's mother for £3m.

Ashleigh Harris was 14 when she broke her back after falling from Polly Perks, owned by Rachel Miller. She now has no function in her legs.
She was riding Polly in a field in Mathern, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire, when she was injured in 2012.
Miss Harris, 18, of Lydney, Gloucestershire, is suing Mrs Miller at London's High Court.
She claims Polly "misbehaved" and broke into a canter of her own accord, throwing her off in the process.
But Mrs Miller says the horse was blameless and Miss Harris fell after losing her balance as she descended a "short and gentle slope".
The court heard Ashleigh had been taken to a field on 22 September 2012 by Mrs Miller, the mother of her then boyfriend, Keiran Miller.
Miss Harris described Polly as "fidgety" and said the thoroughbred mare had been nipping at her and others.
She added: "She then went to canter and I held her up because I didn't ask her to. She was throwing her head around and bucked, then I came out of the saddle and went over the horse's head."
Her barrister, David Westcott QC, said she should never have been allowed into Polly's saddle as she had only ever ridden ponies.
He also said the mare was "bred for racing" and had not been well schooled.
Mrs Miller said the teenager fell as she was riding Polly at a walking pace down a hill in the field.
She also said she spoke to Miss Harris's mother before letting her ride Polly and believed Ashleigh was a more experienced rider.
Winston Hunter QC, for Mrs Miller, said: "Ashleigh gave Keiran an impression that she was indeed a competent rider.
"There's no evidence Mrs Miller was aware that she had only ridden ponies."
Judge Graham Wood QC will give his ruling on the claim at a later date.


Police in Ferguson have stopped protesters angry over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager last month from trying to block a nearby highway.

Police said 35 people were arrested as they tried to reach the Interstate 70 highway, but added that the protest was largely peaceful.
Many in Ferguson have demanded the arrest of the white police officer who shot Michael Brown, 18, on 9 August.
Officer Darren Wilson has been on administrative leave since last month.
Police said 32 people were arrested on charges of unlawful assembly, with four people arrested on assault charges.
Organisers said the protest was specifically held in the same location as a similar demonstration in 1999.
On Tuesday, city leaders, mostly white, were heckled by the largely black crowd of residents at Ferguson's first city council meeting since the shooting.
"You've lost your authority to govern this community," said St Louis activist John Chasnoff. "You're going to have to step aside peacefully if this community is going to heal."
Many of the audience held up their hands in a gesture that has been used to protest at Brown's killing.
His supporters say the teenager was trying to surrender when he was shot by Officer Darren Wilson after being stopped for walking in the middle of the street.
Ferguson, which has a population of 21,000, is a majority black city. Many residents questioned why the mayor, James Knowles, and five of the six city council members were white.
"I heard the mayor say Ferguson doesn't have a race problem,'" said resident Taurean Russell. "There must be two Fergusons."
Before the meeting, council officials announced proposals to reduce the revenue collected from court fines.
Critics have said this discriminates against low-income defendants who cannot afford private attorneys and who are often jailed for not paying the fines quickly enough.
But the proposals were drowned out by anger from the audience who said nothing had changed since Brown's shooting.
There were demands for the arrest of Mr Wilson who is currently on administrative leave from the Ferguson Police Department while a grand jury determines whether charges should be filed against him.
Last week, the US Justice Department announced it was launching a broad investigation into whether there was racial discrimination in the department.
This is separate from a federal inquiry and the grand jury investigation into Brown's killing.


The US Republican presidential front-runner, Donald Trump, has cancelled a rally in Chicago because of angry protests at the venue.

It is not the first time that things have turned nasty at a Trump campaign event.
When asked about it at a debate on Thursday, Mr Trump blamed unruly protesters for the violence.
Speaking after Friday night's scuffles, his rival for the nomination, Ted Cruz, said Mr Trump was responsible.
"When you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence... you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse," the Texas senator said.
Here are some of the most recent incidents - and how Mr Trump has responded.
What happened: Fighting broke out between Trump supporters and protesters at the venue before Mr Trump was due to speak. The campaign decided to postpone the event, and there were more scuffles.
What Mr Trump said: Mr Trump told MSNBC that he cancelled the rally because he "didn't want to see anybody get hurt".
He later told CNN that he had no regrets about his rallies, describing the protesters as "bad dudes". "They were rough, tough guys," he added.
What happened: Protesters repeatedly interrupted Mr Trump's speech at a rally in Missouri. More than 30 people were arrested.
What Mr Trump said: "They're allowed to get up and interrupt us horribly and we have to be very, very gentle. They can swing, they can hit people but if we hit them back it's a terrible, terrible thing."
What happened: Video footage from a rally showed a Trump supporter punching a black protester in the face as he was led away. A 78-year-old man has been charged with assault.
What Mr Trump said: "Uh oh, so early. So early. Alright, get him out, thank you.  We're gonna have such fun, such fun tonight," Mr Trump said from the podium, though he is unlikely to have seen the punch thrown.
Later in the same speech he said of protesters: "They put their hand up and they put the wrong finger in the air... and they get away with murder. Because we've become weak."
What happened: Mr Trump reportedly encouraged people at the rally in Warren to get rid of a protester who had interrupted him.
What Mr Trump said: "Get him out. Try not to hurt him. If you do I'll defend you in court," the contender said, according to CBS.
What happened: A protester was escorted out of a Trump rally on the eve of the Nevada caucuses while the billionaire was addressing the crowds.
What Mr Trump said: "I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you," Mr Trump said. "You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in in a place like this?" Mr Trump asked. "They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks."
What happened: Mr Trump had apparently been warned by his security staff that there could be someone in the audience with tomatoes.
What Mr Trump said: ""If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?" Mr Trump told his supporters at the rally. "I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees."
What happened: A Black Lives Matter protester who disrupted a Trump speech at a rally was assaulted by a group of white Trump supporters. The protester also claimed that the assailants used the N-word.
What Mr Trump said: While his campaign was quick to condemn the violence, Mr Trump told Fox News that the protester was obnoxious and loud, adding: "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing."


When you sign up to have a social media account, you may have to tick a box saying that you agree to the terms and conditions.

But did you ever stop to think what this means? What are terms and conditions, and why do you have to agree to them?
Read on to find out more.
Terms and conditions are rules you have to agree to before you can use certain products or services, like social media.
Last year, Newsround found out that many of you have signed up to have social media accounts.
The companies that run these networks - for example, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or WhatsApp - all have their own terms and conditions that you have to agree to before you can have an account with them.
For example, they might say that you have to be a certain age to have an account, or that the company is allowed to use any pictures you post however they like.
You might hear of terms and conditions being referred to as Ts and Cs.
You aren't allowed to use these sites without agreeing to the terms and conditions.
So many people - including adults - don't read them because they just want to get on and use the site or app.
They don't think that there's any point wasting time to go through them, which means they don't know what they've agreed to.
Also, the list of rules can be extremely long and complicated - and written in technical language - which can make them difficult to understand.
This means that many people may not know what they've actually agreed to.
It is important to make sure you understand what you are agreeing to so that you know exactly what you've signed up for.
You don't want to get a nasty shock later because you didn't fully understand something that you'd agreed to a while ago.
Jenny Afia, a lawyer who knows all about terms and conditions, says that to make sure you don't get caught out: "Get help from parents or teachers to understand what the terms and conditions mean."
"It's important to be aware of what you're signing up to."


As you approach the front gates it is clear this is not an ordinary school.

The pupils do not look twice at the camera or recording equipment; TV and radio crews are here all the time.
In the playground some of the children whisper in English.
They know they should not be speaking the language, even though the school is in the very heart of the British Isles.
About 70 pupils attend Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, the world's only Manx-speaking school.
The primary school is situated in St John's village in the Isle of Man and the children are taught all their lessons solely in Manx Gaelic.
"We weren't sure where to start," says head teacher Julie Matthews.
"We thought we'd go across to Northern Ireland, have a look and see what's there, because the Northern Irish Gaelic is similar to the Manx Gaelic.
"We went to Belfast, looked at the CultÃºrlann (cultural centre), went to two or three schools there, and had a really good time, finding out what they do," she says.
Their fact-finding trip took them to schools in Ballycastle, County Antrim, and Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast.
Staff at Bunscoill Ghaelgagh are now helping to lead a revival of Manx Gaelic in the Isle of Man.
In the 1980s, just a few dozen speakers of Manx remained.
By 2009, a United Nations report incorrectly stated the language was extinct; a claim the UN has since amended.
There are now hundreds of speakers, and the number is growing.
Manx Gaelic has the full support of the island's government and can be seen on everything from street signs to buses.
Fluent speakers are still modest in number but the revival has not proven to be culturally divisive.
On the contrary, it is embraced by the vast majority of residents. This is perhaps surprising, as half the island's population was not born there.
The support for Manx Gaelic is catching the attention of influential figures in Northern Ireland, including Prof Ailbhe Ã“ CorrÃ¡in, who is head of Irish and Celtic Studies at the University of Ulster.
"One thing that we could really learn from both Scotland and the Isle of Man is to see the Gaelic languages as something that is not political, that is not the preserve of any particular faction, political grouping, political ideology or viewpoint, or of any particular religion," he says.
Pupils of the Bunscoill have the choice to continue to learn in Manx when they progress to high school, but the available subjects and resources are limited.
This is something the education authorities are trying to develop.
"When they ran out of Manx to teach me they started teaching me Irish," says Christopher Lewin, who has spoken Manx since an early age.
"I then did a GCSE in Irish from an exam board in Belfast.
"Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic are very similar to each other, you can almost call them dialects.
"If you know Irish already, you'll find Manx strange for a while, but it's fairly easy to get into and vice versa," he says.
The island also has a series of popular pre-school groups called Mooinjer Veggey, which have a strong Gaelic ethos.
So what is the secret to the language's revival?
Every senior figure in teaching I spoke to said the same: Manx is not forced on students.
People who want to learn the language come to it organically and it is not imposed on those who have no interest in it.
The Bunscoill Ghaelgagh recently celebrated its 13th anniversary and the Manx education service is continuing to expand.
When the last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in the 1970s some people declared the beginning of the end for Manx Gaelic.
It seems they, like the UN, have been proved wrong.
You can see more on this story on BBC Newsline, BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday 15 September at 18:30 BST.


Donald Trump has appointed key adviser Kellyanne Conway as counsellor to the president.

The US president-elect said Mrs Conway, who was his third campaign manager, had "played a crucial role in my victory".
She will have an office in the West Wing, where she will be the highest-ranking woman in the White House.
Mrs Conway, who is a regular on television news programmes, joined the campaign in July.
The president-elect also appointed three other top aides to White House roles.
Sean Spicer will be press secretary, Hope Hicks will be director of strategic communications and Dan Scavino will serve as director of social media.
Of Mrs Conway, Mr Trump in a transition team statement: "She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message."
The 49-year-old Republican strategist had previously suggested her other role as mother to four young children might deter her from taking on a high-level White House job.
"Mom of four is not [in] most job descriptions," she tweeted earlier this month.
Mrs Conway - who has been dubbed the "Trump whisperer" - was the first woman in American history to lead a successful US presidential campaign.
A veteran pollster, she was credited with helping to steady the Trump campaign after a 2005 video leaked to the media in which the businessman was heard making obscene comments about women.
Earlier this month, Mrs Conway suggested that she was seeking an outside advisory role similar to David Plouffe or David Axelrod, who both served as outside advisers to President Barack Obama after helping in his campaigns.
"I want to thank the President-elect for this amazing opportunity," Mrs Conway said in a transition team statement.
"A Trump presidency will bring real change to Washington and to Americans across this great nation."


New findings suggest that the famous cooperation between honeyguide birds and human honey hunters in sub-Saharan Africa is a two-way conversation.

Honeyguides fly ahead of hunters and point out beehives which the hunters raid, leaving wax for the birds to eat.
The birds were already known to chirp at potential human hunting partners.
Now, a study in the journal Science reports that they are also listening out for a specific call made by their human collaborators.
Experiments conducted in the savannah of Mozambique showed that a successful bird-assisted hunt was much more likely in the presence of a distinctive, trilling shout that the Yao hunters of this region learn from their fathers.
"They told us that the reason they make this 'brrrr-hm' sound, when they're walking through the bush looking for bees' nests, is that it's the best way of attracting a honeyguide - and of maintaining a honeyguide's attention once it starts guiding you," said Dr Claire Spottiswoode, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who led the study.
She and her colleagues wanted to test what contribution this sound actually made.
"In particular, we wanted to distinguish whether honeyguides responded to the specific information content of the 'brrr-hm' call - which, from a honeyguide's point of view, effectively signals 'I'm looking for bees' nests' - or whether the call simply alerts honeyguides to the presence of humans in the environment."
To make that distinction, the team made recordings of the "brrrr-hm" call, as well as of general human vocal sounds such as the hunters shouting their own names, or the Yao word for "honey".
Then, Dr Spottiswoode accompanied two Yao honey hunters on 72 separate 15-minute walks through the Niassa National Reserve - a protected area the size of Denmark - playing these recordings on a speaker.
"This was great fun," she told BBC News. "We walked hundreds of kilometres through beautiful landscapes and occasionally bumped into elephants and buffalo and lions and so on. It's a really remarkable wilderness where humans and wildlife still coexist."
Sure enough, walks accompanied by the "brrrr-hm" recordings were much more likely to recruit a honeyguide (66% of the time, compared to 25% for the other vocal sounds).
The special call also trebled the overall chance of finding a beehive (a 54% success rate, up from 17% for the other sounds).
"What this suggests is that honeyguides are attaching meaning, and responding appropriately, to the signal that advertises people's willingness to cooperate.
"We already knew very well... that honeyguides communicate with humans, using special calls and behaviour to lead honey hunters to bees' nests. What our work has done is to complement those findings, by showing that humans communicate back to honeyguides too.
"It seems to be a two-way conversation between our own species and a wild animal, from which both partners benefit."
Prof Richard Wrangham, a biological anthropologist at Harvard University, said the new study greatly strengthened the idea that honeyguides had evolved to cooperate with humans in this way.
He said a previous explanation, that the teamwork originated with another species - such as honey badgers or baboons - and was then co-opted by humans, had fallen from favour because the birds had never been witnessed guiding these animals.
"[This study] shows just how tightly attuned they are to human sounds," Prof Wrangham told the BBC. "They're not just generally interested in weird noises - anything loud or unusual or whatever. They have been trained, as it were, to look for humans.
"That really supports the notion that this is an evolved, co-evolutionary relationship."
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A chef accused of murdering four men by giving them drugs overdoses tried to frame one of his victims for the death of another, a court has heard.

Stephen Port, of east London, planted a fake suicide note on the body of Daniel Whitworth, the Old Bailey was told.
The note, purported to have been penned by Mr Whitworth, said he blamed himself for the death of another of Mr Port's alleged victims Gabriel Kovari.
Their bodies were found in the same churchyard. Mr Port denies murder.
The 41-year-old, from Barking, has pleaded not guilty to a total of 29 offences, including four counts of murder and seven of rape, relating to 12 men over three-and-a-half years.
The Old Bailey was told that in an "extraordinary" twist of fate, Mr Port's second and third alleged victims, Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth, were found by the same dog walker in a churchyard 400m from Mr Port's flat.
Mr Port is accused of having dragged their bodies there after murdering them.
Mr Kovari, who had been living with Mr Port, was found dead from a drugs overdose on 28 August 2014, then on 20 September the body of Mr Whitworth was discovered near the same spot clutching an apparent suicide note.
The court heard Mr Port made a "wicked attempt" to frame Mr Whitworth for the death of Mr Kovari.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told jurors the note was written to give the impression Mr Whitworth had taken an overdose because he blamed himself for Mr Kovari's death.
At the time, police accepted the apparent suicide note on face value and did not investigate further, he said.
The trial has heard that Mr Port used the internet to find his victims, whom he plied with the drug GHB/GBL so he could have sex with them while they were unconscious.
His alleged victims were Mr Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Mr Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London, and Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull.
Earlier on Thursday, the trial heard how Mr Walgate was found dead outside the defendant's block of flats in Barking in the early hours of 19 June 2014.
The court heard that Mr Port called an ambulance, claiming to have returned home from a nightshift to discover an unknown male lying unconscious by the front door to the communal entrance.
Mr Rees said officers investigating Mr Walgate's death later realised the defendant had hired the 23-year-old as a male escort and arrested Mr Port on 26 June on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
The jury heard that in a police interview that day, Mr Port asked a detective: "Can I just say for the scenario - if it was an accident, and if he did have a fit in my place, is that still my fault?"
Initially, Mr Rees said, the defendant denied having met Mr Walgate but later admitted spending time in his flat with him, where Mr Port claimed Mr Walgate willingly took GHB/GBL.
Mr Rees said the defendant's account was that he had later found Mr Walgate "stiff" and "rigid" in bed and had panicked before placing him outside the flat and calling an ambulance.
Mr Port pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to eight months in prison in March 2015. He was released on an electronic tag in June 2015.
The prosecution said it now alleged that "it was the defendant and not Anthony Walgate who added the liquid GBL into the drink that Mr Walgate consumed".
Mr Rees said it "was not a case of Mr Walgate unintentionally taking an overdose that killed him".
"The considerable lengths to which the defendant went when attempting to cover up his association with Mr Walgate reveal the guilt he felt about what had happened," Mr Rees said.
Mr Walgate, an occasional escort, had told a friend details of a planned sleepover with a man he had met online, jokingly saying it was "in case I get killed", the court heard.
The trial continues.


Key parts of new legislation to combat slavery in the UK - including life sentences for those guilty of people trafficking - have come into force in England and Wales.

The Modern Slavery Act has increased the maximum custodial sentence for offenders from 14 years to life.
It also gives courts powers to impose orders to restrict the activities of suspected traffickers.
Anne Read, of the Salvation Army, said thousands remain trapped in slavery.
The new legislation also gives victims extra protection against prosecutions for offences committed as part of their exploitation and provides slavery victims access to civil legal aid.
Powers to encourage reparation orders, for courts to use seized assets from perpetrators to compensate victims, have also come into force.
The bill - which was given Royal Assent in March - aims to consolidate offences used to prosecute those who enslave others into a single act.
The plans were first unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May in August, last year.
Home Office figures estimate there could be between 10,000 and 13,000 people who remain trapped in modern day slavery in the UK.
They including women forced into prostitution, domestic staff who are imprisoned, and people forced to work in fields, factories and on fishing boats.
To coincide with the new legislation, the College of Policing has published new national guidance on investigating slavery and human trafficking.
It says the "primary objective" of investigating allegations is to safeguard and support victims. and includes guidance on how officers can identify people who may be at risk of becoming a victim of trafficking or forced labour.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the guidance warns officers that victims may be experiencing so-called "Stockholm syndrome", where they have positive feelings towards their captors.
It warns it may take "months to obtain evidence from them", our correspondent said.
Ms Read, anti-trafficking and slavery director at the Salvation Army, said: "Everyone engaged in this work is pleased that something is being done, there is now an escalation in effort.
"There are thousands of people trapped in situations not of their choosing, doing things they do not what to do and things need to be done to help them and to stop anybody else being sold in to slavery."
The Salvation Army - which holds the Home Office contract for managing safe houses for adult trafficking victims - says it has helped more than 2,500 men, women and families over the past four years.


Parks, gardens and green space in urban areas can improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people living there, says a University of Exeter study.

Using data from 5,000 UK households over 17 years, researchers found that living in a greener area had a significant positive effect.
The findings could help to inform urban planners and have an impact on society at large, they said.
The study is published in the journal Psychological Science.
The research team examined data from a national survey that followed more than 5,000 UK households and 10,000 adults between 1991 and 2008 as they moved house around the country.
They asked participants to report on their own psychological health during that time to estimate the "green space effect".
Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health found that individuals reported less mental distress and higher life satisfaction when they were living in greener areas.
This was true even after the researchers accounted for changes over time in participants' income, employment, marital status, physical health and housing type.
Dr White compared the scale of the effects of living in a greener area to "big-hitting" life events such as marriage.
"We've found that living in an urban area with relatively high levels of green space can have a significantly positive impact on wellbeing, roughly equal to a third of the impact of being married."
The effect was also found to be equivalent to a tenth of the impact of being employed, as opposed to unemployed.
Even when stacked up against other factors that contribute to life satisfaction, living in a greener area had a significant effect, the study said.
"These kinds of comparisons are important for policymakers when trying to decide how to invest scarce public resources, such as for park development or upkeep, and figuring out what bang they'll get for their buck," said Dr White.
While the effect for an individual might be small, he pointed out that the potential positive effects of green space for society at large might be substantial.
"This research could be important for psychologists, public health officials and urban planners who are interested in learning about the effects that urbanisation and city planning can have on population health and wellbeing."
Beth Murphy, information manager at the mental health charity Mind, said: "For people living busy lifestyles in densely populated areas, being able to get outdoors and access green space is a great way to escape the stresses of day-to-day life.
"Our research has shown that 94% of people who took part in outdoors 'green exercise' said it benefited their mental health and can have huge impacts on physical health.
"We believe this is food for thought for any policymaker involved in urban planning, or local authority developing its public health strategy."


Cardiff City head coach Paul Trollope apologised to travelling supporters after his team's 3-0 defeat at Preston.

The Bluebirds dropped to 21st in the Championship and have won once in their opening seven matches.
It is Cardiff's worst start to a season in 12 years after what Trollope agreed was the team's poorest display so far.
"Apologies to the supporters, they have travelled a long way and seen a performance that was unacceptable," he said.
"I'm not going to stand here and give any excuses.
"We can stand here and talk about systems and ways of playing but there are some basic requirements in football to do well and win games and those were lacking.
"We were probably worthy of a goal in that second period but I'm not kidding myself, the game was done."
Trollope was appointed at the end of last season, taking over from Russell Slade who guided the team to eighth in the table.
But they have not won since the 2-1 victory over Blackburn on 17 August, with their only other points coming from draws at Birmingham and Fulham.
Cardiff face Leeds at home on Saturday following their 2-1 win over Blackburn on Tuesday.
"We've got a lot of work to do before Saturday," admitted Trollope.
"We're of course concerned. We didn't deserve to be going home with anything tonight.
"There's pressure on every manager every game and on every coach.
"The pressure is always there and everyone knows the situation and I believe in how I work and I believe in the group of players."


Two men have been convicted of kidnapping a drug dealer off a street in Brighton.

Ilir Hasa, 24, of Denmark Villas, Hove, and Saimir Nezaj, 24, of no fixed abode, bundled their victim into a car in Prince's Terrace on 12 April.
Their victim Ardi Murataj, 20, was found safe and well.
A third man, Gazmend Mula, 29, of Temple Street, Brighton, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap at the trial in Lewes Crown Court.
Murataj - who was also known by the name of Tony Kurt - pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
In April Sussex Police appealed for information as to who Murataj was after CCTV showed him being kidnapped.
He eventually contacted police himself after seeing the appeals, which were in both English and Albanian.
Another man, Redon Sadria, 19, of New Steine, Brighton, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply drugs.
A date for sentencing has not been set.


A landmark documentary about the Holocaust is to be shown on a satellite TV channel which broadcasts into Iran.

Claude Lanzmann's 1985 film Shoah is to be dubbed into Farsi and shown from Monday on the private Pars channel, which broadcasts from Los Angeles.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as a myth and has called for an end to the Israeli state.
Satellite TV dishes are illegal in Iran but enforcement is patchy.
The film will be shown in 50-minute segments over two weeks.
The broadcast is being organised by the Aladdin Project, a Paris-based group which seeks to increase understanding between Muslims and Jews. The Aladdin Project is backed by the UN educational and cultural organisation, Unesco.
Mr Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied the Holocaust, in which six million European Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War.
In September 2009, he described the Holocaust as "a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim".
"The starting point for Aladdin was the total lack of sources of information available in the Arab and Muslim world when faced with [Holocaust] denial," Anne-Marie Revcolevschi, Aladdin's president, told the AFP news agency.
As part of the same initiative, Shoah has also been translated into Arabic and Turkish.
It will be shown at the Istanbul film festival next month and on the Turkish state TV channel TRT a week later.


Lawrence Okolie has become the first member of Great Britain's 2016 Olympic boxing squad to turn professional.

The 24-year-old heavyweight was beaten in his second fight in Rio by bronze medallist Erislandy Savon of Cuba.
Okolie, from London, has now been signed by Matchroom Sport and is expected to start his professional career in the cruiserweight division.
He quit his job at McDonald's to take up boxing after seeing Anthony Joshua win super-heavyweight gold in 2012.
"I want to be the best cruiserweight that Britain has seen," said Okolie.
"David Haye has done great things, so has Johnny Nelson and many others, but I want to cement my legacy, have my name go down in history and maybe follow Haye by winning the heavyweight crown too."


The UK's European Commissioner Lord Hill is to stand down, saying "what is done cannot be undone" after the UK voted to leave the European Union.

He said he did not believe it was right for him to carry on with his work as the commissioner in charge of financial services.
But he will stay on for a period of weeks to ensure an "orderly handover".
A close ally of Prime Minister David Cameron, Lord Hill had argued for the UK to remain in the EU.
He will be replaced by Latvian politician Valdis Dombrovskis, currently European Commissioner for the euro.
Asked whether the UK would be sending anyone to Brussels to take Lord Hill's place on the Commission, Downing Street said: "It will be for the next prime minister to decide, following discussions with European partners, what role the UK plays in the European Commission, given we remain a full member of the EU until we have left."
Lord Hill's announcement comes as EU foreign ministers urged Britain to hold speedy talks on leaving the bloc, after it voted to end its membership on Thursday.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was not in favour of pushing for a hasty withdrawal, adding there was "no need to be particularly nasty in any way" in the negotiations with Britain about its exit.
In another development, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would be seeking "immediate discussions" with Brussels to "protect Scotland's place in the EU" following the so-called Brexit vote.
Ms Sturgeon has said a new Scottish independence referendum is "highly likely".
European Commissioners are among the most powerful officials in Brussels, with the ability to propose laws across a range of policy areas, but the UK will cease to have one when it leaves the EU.
Conservative peer Lord Hill told the BBC: "When something as huge as the decision in the British referendum takes place, actions have consequences.
"It's not possible for me to carry on properly.
"You have to listen to the will of the British people. The right thing to do is to stand down and that's what today I am announcing."
In a statement, he said he was "obviously very disappointed" about the result of the referendum, adding: "I wanted it to end differently and had hoped that Britain would want to play a role in arguing for an outward-looking, flexible, competitive, free trade Europe. But the British people took a different decision, and that is the way that democracy works."
He said he did not believe it was right for him to continue as commissioner "as though nothing had happened", but that there needed to be "an orderly handover" in the weeks ahead.
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said he had accepted Lord Hill's resignation "with great regret," hailing him as a "true European".
He said he had put the Conservative peer in charge of financial services "as a sign of my confidence in the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union" - but "to my great regret, this situation is now changing".
By James Landale, diplomatic correspondent
There is lots to discuss with our EU colleagues: what to do with half-used EU budgets and EU citizens living in the UK and British citizens living in the EU. There is also, of course, the thorny issue of Britain's future trading relationship with the EU once we leave.
So you might imagine everyone will want to crack on as quickly as possible.
And certainly that is the view of many EU leaders. They want to end the uncertainty for the markets and begin formal talks.
The only problem is that David Cameron wants to delay the start of exit talks until a new Conservative leader has been elected in October.
Read more here.
Earlier, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said negotiations on the UK's exit from the EU should begin as "soon as possible".
He made the comments after an urgent meeting of the six EU founder members to discuss the decision.
David Cameron has said he will step down by October to allow his successor to conduct talks and trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which will formally take the UK out of the EU after two years of exit negotiations.
Chief executive of Vote Leave, Matthew Elliott, told Reuters news agency there was no need to "swiftly invoke" Article 50, adding it was "best for the dust to settle over the summer, and during that time for there to be informal negotiations with other states".
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said one expert believed the European Council - representing the 27 other member states - could trigger the negotiating process as soon as the prime minister discusses Brexit with other EU leaders.
But a European Council spokesman said triggering Article 50 was a formal act which must be "done by the British government to the European Council".
In other developments:
Earlier, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon hit back at claims the UK government had been left rudderless following Mr Cameron's resignation statement.
He said: "The prime minister goes on, the government goes on until the autumn, until there's a new leader and a new government.
"We'll remain at our posts and we have a big agenda. We were elected only a year ago and we've set out fresh legislation which we're taking through Parliament at the moment."
A timetable for a Conservative leadership election is to be announced on Monday, with former London mayor Boris Johnson - who spearheaded the campaign to get Britain out of the EU - the favourite to get the job.
MPs will select two candidates to go forward to a vote of Conservative Party members, with the winner becoming the UK's next prime minister, as well as party leader.
Pro-EU Conservative MP Sir Alan Duncan warned that MPs must not be "railroaded" into choosing Mr Johnson.
He said party members liked the "excitement and notoriety" of Mr Johnson but electing him would be a "permanent ride on the big dipper".


Dementia patients on a Kent ward had to wear incontinence pads whether needed or not, care inspectors have said.

The ward at Littlestone Lodge in Dartford was singled out in a report on the wider Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
The mental health trust required improvement in four out of five areas.
Trust chief Angela McNab welcomed the report which she said showed where improvements were needed. She said action had been taken at Littlestone.
Dr Paul Lelliott, the Care Quality Commission's deputy chief inspector of hospitals and lead for mental health, criticised some of the trust's environments including too-small seclusion rooms, and wards with high bed occupancy.
He said inspectors were particularly concerned about Littlestone Lodge and managers should have acted sooner.
Inspectors there found unsafe administration of medicine, patients wearing incontinence pads when they were not needed, and two patients who needed immediate action to address their needs.
Across the trust, there was high use of agency staff, varying quality of care plans, failure to meet guidance on same-sex accommodation and processes that were not identifying risks.
But he said the trust was rated "good" for being caring.
Ms McNab said: "What the report really clearly articulates is those areas where we're providing very high quality, really good services.
"It also shines a light on those areas where there's a little bit further to go, and some improvements that we need to continue making."
She said some buildings were not fit for purpose, some systems had gaps, and the trust was under pressure and trying to recruit more staff.
At Littlestone Lodge, the trust had begun action when the CQC came in, she added.
Managers there referred the BBC to the mental health trust for comment.


Dozens of residents in Farnborough were forced to leave their homes after a gas main caught fire.

The fire broke out in Reading Road shortly after 03:30 BST.
Firefighters used cooling sprays to protect properties from the blaze which erupted from the road and is believed to have started within roadworks.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said at its height the fire reached temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius and flames reached 6m (20ft).
SGN engineers disconnected the gas supply to the pipe and the fire was extinguished by about 08:40 BST.
The fire service said people would be allowed to return to their homes shortly.
About 48 residents were taken to a local village hall in the early hours for their safety.


Equipment for detecting volcanic ash is to be installed at three sites in Scotland.

The Met Office proposes installing light detection and ranging systems (LiDARs) at sites in Stornoway on Lewis, Lerwick on Shetland and Glasgow.
They will be among 10 locations across the UK where the equipment will be used to help better forecast the impact of volanic eruptions on air travel.
Flights were cancelled in 2010 and 2011 following volcanic activity in Iceland.
There were concerns grains of volcanic ash thrown into the atmosphere by the Eyjafjallajokull and Grimsvotn could harm aircraft engines.


Leicester Tigers are still seeking to sign a first-choice number eight, but director of rugby Richard Cockerill says there is no need to rush.

The departures of Opeti Fonua to Newcastle and Jordan Crane to Bristol has weakened Tigers in the back row, but Lachlan McCaffrey and Ed Slater have both played as a number eight.
McAffrey started the first Premiership match of the season against Gloucester.
"We have got good coverage," Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester.
"We have guys doing a very good job there but they are probably a hybrid of all three [back-row] positions.
"But we are looking for someone to potentially come into that starting slot.
"When we find the right person we will try to make that signing. If we don't find the right fit, then the lads that are there now are doing a great job and will get better the more they play.
"There is no point rushing in and getting the wrong person. The quality of the person and the dynamic of the fit with the profile of the player we want is the key part."


Glasgow Warriors wingers Rory Hughes and Junior Bulumakau have signed new one-year contracts that tie them to the Pro12 club until May 2017.

The 23-year-old Hughes won his first Scotland cap last summer and is, along with 25-year-old Bulumakau, a member of the Scotland Sevens squad.
Hughes has made nine appearances this season and Bulumakau four.
"It's a boost for the club that they will be with us again next season," said head coach Gregor Townsend.
Glasgow-born Hughes joined Warriors from Stirling County in 2013 while Bulumakau, who moved to Scotland from Fiji aged 10, signed last year from the British Army.
"Rory has really progressed over the last 12 months and his hard-working approach has enabled him to play in a number of important games for the club and win a cap for Scotland," added Townsend.
"There is much more to come from him and we are going to have some excellent competition for places on the wings next season.
"Junior came in earlier this season and made some very good contributions during the Rugby World Cup period, with the Munster game being a particular highlight.
"This was Junior's first season as a full professional and he's learned a lot about what it takes to succeed at this level.
"We're looking forward to him using this experience to improve even further next season."


Players who commit a foul to deny a goalscoring opportunity will no longer automatically be sent off, football's rule-making body has confirmed.

The previous 'triple-punishment' rule required a red card - and therefore a suspension - as well as the award of a penalty under those circumstances.
However, players committing accidental fouls that deny a goalscoring chance will now be cautioned instead.
But deliberate fouls will still incur a red card.
Those include holding, pulling or pushing, not playing the ball, serious foul play, violent conduct or deliberate handball in order to deny a goalscoring opportunity.
The change has been ratified by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) - a body made up of the four British football associations and Fifa - which decides on changes to the Laws of the Game.
It follows a comprehensive, 18-month review, led by former Premier League referee David Elleray.
Meanwhile, the IFAB has selected the Italian Football Federation to carry out a new trial of video replays.
The technology will be used to help referees decide whether a goal has been scored, whether a penalty should be awarded, whether a player should be sent off, or in cases of mistaken identity.
Italian Football Federation president Carlo Tavecchio said: "We were among the first supporters of using technology on the pitch and we believe we have everything required to offer our contribution to this important experiment."
Tests initially will be in private before moving to a live pilot phase with replay assistance by the 2017-18 season at the latest.
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"Potentially dangerous" mine shafts are being fenced off in a national park following safety fears.

Landowner, the Duchy of Cornwall, said a "comprehensive survey" of mining activity on Dartmoor had resulted in 22 sites which needed to be fenced off to protect people and livestock.
Dartmoor National Park Authority said after heavy rain the mine shafts "had the potential to collapse".
Previously, sheep and ponies have had to be rescued from the shafts.
Derelict mine shafts are capped with timber and rubble, but many are unfenced and unmarked.
Head ranger Rob Steemson said heavy rainfall during winter 2013/2014 had caused some shafts to collapse.
He said to "mitigate any risk to grazing livestock and the public's safety" the Duchy planned to fence the sites using local materials.
Mr Steemson added there were hundreds of capped mine shafts across the moor.
- There is a long history of extracting tin from Dartmoor
- The earliest form of extraction was by streaming - taking tin from the stream and river beds - which was first recorded in the 12th Century
- Deep mining was probably not practised until the early 18th Century
- Tin mining continued at certain sites well into the 20th Century and there are people still alive who can remember going underground to work these mines
Landscape historian Peter Herring said the shafts were "potentially dangerous" if they collapsed and could prove to be fatal.
He told BBC News tin from the area's many mines was exported around the world, with several of the original buildings still well preserved, including mills and engine houses.
Mining expert Tom Greeves added: "It was the best quality tin available to the Medieval world, with the largest mine employing about 200 people in the mid-19th Century.
"There's always a risk some shafts will collapse because they didn't have health and safety laws in place."
Mr Greeves said one mine was 500ft (152m) deep with most being between 100ft (30m) and 200ft (61m).
The Duchy of Cornwall said: "There is no new or increased risk, but by combining historical data with modern mapping and GPS, we have identified a small proportion of new sites which will be fenced off as a precautionary measure."


Burnley boss Sean Dyche believes diving would be eradicated from football "in six months" with retrospective bans.

His comments come after two recent incidents in Premier League matches.
Robert Snodgrass apologised for going down without contact to earn a penalty for Hull against Crystal Palace, while Dele Alli won a debated spot-kick in Tottenham's 5-0 win over Swansea.
"Introduce retrospective bans and it will be gone. I'm stunned it's not been introduced," said Dyche.
"Certain teams would have three or four players done immediately, from a warning in private to the manager up to a three-game ban.
"It's simple to officiate. You have a panel of experts and give out bans.
"Within six months the panel would be defunct because people wouldn't be doing it anymore."
Hull boss Mike Phelan believes it is only a matter of time before video technology is introduced to ensure that correct decisions are made in Premier League games.
"I think video technology is just around the corner," he said.
When asked why, he added: "I think because of the high demand for the correct decisions and because the rewards are so great now.
"We've created this environment now where everything is scrutinised so closely, because it can be, that it's just a matter of time before things are going to be judged in real time."
Earlier this month, Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino was quizzed about Alli's penalty against Swansea and said he could not give a "definitive view" about whether the England international had dived while under pressure from Kyle Naughton.
Meanwhile, Snodgrass was already on a yellow card when he won the penalty in the 3-3 draw with Palace at the weekend, and would have been sent off had referee Mike Jones thought he dived and issued a booking for unsporting behaviour.
The Scotland international later tweeted: "Apologies from my end, it was never a penalty. But genuinely thought defender was going to slide, so tried to ride the tackle."
Phelan commended Snodgrass for apologising and said he had spoken to the winger about the incident, but Dyche continued: "It's got to a level now that it is so theatrical that I'm surprised people don't just start laughing.
"It's gone too far. It's ridiculous. There are fans out there who must be tired of seeing it and I'm tired of how it's crept into our game to become accepted.
"My son plays and I can assure you there are kids diving all over the place. That cannot be right. If you caught your kid cheating in a maths test what would you say? You'd go mental, absolutely mental.
"Seemingly in football it's OK if little Johnny dives, it's clever. But is it clever to cheat? I don't think so.
"Kids copy the coloured football boots, the haircuts, the skills, they're going to copy the way they act as well."
Under current Football Association rules in England, players who pretend to have been fouled should receive a caution for simulation, which comes under the category of unsporting behaviour.
The rules are different in Scotland, where players can be banned for diving retrospectively. At the start of the current season, Hearts' Jamie Walker was handed a retrospective two-match ban for diving to win a penalty against Celtic.
The Scottish FA found him in breach of disciplinary rule 201 as the "simulation caused a match official to make an incorrect decision". The player contested the charge, but the compliance officer's verdict was upheld.
However, incidents of diving are not currently retrospectively punished in English football.
No, it's not. The highest number of yellow cards dished out for diving was 33 in the 2012-13 season - 2.64% of the total for the campaign.
The second highest was 27 (2.13%) in 2008-09.
This season, there have been eight bookings for diving - 1.28% of the total of 623 yellow cards. That ratio would be the second lowest since 2007-08 if it continues.
We asked Match of the Day Facebook followers for their views on what was the best and worse things about British football. Here are the responses on the subject of diving:
Joshua Thomas: Bans and fines have no impact. If you want to see it stopped (and I do) then take three points off a team where video replays show a player has dived and cheated to try and con the referee. Alli last week, Snodgrass this week. Neither came under any contact. Take three points off Spurs and Hull and I guarantee the managers will put a stop to it within a week.
Sam Cope, in response: As much as I hate diving, a punishment like this would be crazy, and would just lead to massive appeal situations that would on go for weeks.
Andrew Bates: Straight red for diving. If a keeper touches a striker he's off so it should be the same for a striker trying to get a penalty. If it's not caught in the game and brought up after, then a red card should be applied as well.
Timothy Cormack: Give each manager two calls per half. If a manager sees a ref has got a decision wrong, he can challenge the decision. If the manger gets the challenge right he gets to keep the call and the decision is made there and then. If he gets it wrong he loses that challenge.


Hopes are growing for a new, inexpensive, heat-proof vaccine to protect against a disease which kills 1,300 children a day following a successful trial in Niger.

The vaccine was found to be almost 67% effective in preventing gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrheal disease in the world.
The two existing vaccines require refrigeration and can be costly.
The new drug would be half the price.
Medecins Sans Frontieres medical director Micaela Serafini described the vaccine, called BRV-PV, as "a game changer".
"It's a vaccine that fits much more with what we believe are the needs in Africa," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
More than 500,000 children die each year from dehydration and complications of rotavirus, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
But the current vaccines are difficult to transport and administer as they must be refrigerated at all times. A vaccine which does not need to be refrigerated would be able to reach children in even the most remote areas.
"This trial brings a vaccine which is adapted to African settings to those who need it most," said Sheila Isanaka, assistant professor of nutrition at Harvard University and co-author of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"When the vaccine becomes widely available in Africa, it will help protect millions of the most vulnerable children."
BRV-PV, which is manufactured in India and licensed there, needs final World Health Organisation approval before it can be used worldwide.


Despite a career that also embraced directing, writing and photography, he never managed to escape the character that came to define him.
At times it seemed the actor and character were becoming one and the same person and Nimoy battled with alcohol abuse as a result.
But he eventually derived great satisfaction from the role that dominated his life.
Leonard Simon Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 26 March 1931.
His parents were Orthodox Jews who had emigrated from an area of the Soviet Union which is now part of Ukraine.
He began acting as a child and quickly developed an ambition to pursue the stage as a career, much to the dismay of his parents.
Nimoy began attending a  local drama school but gave up his studies, moved to Los Angeles and made his first, and uncredited, film appearance in 1951
A year later he was given the title role in Kid Monk Baroni, where he played a boxer.
It was, said Nimoy, the type of film that "made unknowns out of celebrities".
A complete flop at the box office, it was instrumental in condemning him to a decade of bit parts.
Such were his meagre earnings from acting that he began delivering newspapers to make ends meet.
He was drafted into the US Army in 1953 where he reached the rank of sergeant, returning to acting after his discharge.
While serving, he married his first wife, Sandy. It was she who persuaded him to stick with acting when his thoughts turned to more secure employment.
He appeared in a variety of films and TV series, always in small roles, and it seemed it would be his lot to remain as one of acting's many also-rans.
In 1964 he played the villain in an episode of the TV spy series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. where, for the first time, he worked with William Shatner.
At the same time, Gene Roddenberry was attempting to pitch his idea for a new science-fiction series to US TV networks.
Called Star Trek, it drew heavily for inspiration on the Hornblower novels of CS Forester.
Roddenberry eventually persuaded Desilu Productions to take on the project and the US TV network NBC agreed to screen a pilot entitled The Cage.
Nimoy, then known as a capable character actor, was approached to play Spock, the ship's science officer who has a human mother and Vulcan father.
At the time he had also been offered the role of Steven Cord in the US TV soap Peyton Place. He decided to ignore small-town America and reach for the stars.
It fell to Nimoy to speak the first lines in a Star Trek episode.  "Check the circuit!", followed by "Can't be the screen, then."
Unfortunately, NBC decided the plot was too intellectual and too slow - but was enamoured enough to commission a second pilot.
Spock was the only character kept from The Cage and Nimoy appeared in the second pilot, which NBC decided was good enough to risk commissioning a series.
This second pilot introduced many members of the familiar Star Trek cast, including William Shatner as Captain Kirk and James Doohan as Scott, the engineer.
"For the first time," Nimoy later recalled, "I had a job that lasted longer than two weeks and a dressing room with my name painted on the door and not chalked on."
It was Nimoy who created the famous Vulcan salute that first appeared in 1967.  He based it on his childhood memories of Jewish priests giving the blessing.
It was usually combined with the Vulcan greeting: "Live long and prosper."
Nimoy's portrayal of Spock in the pilots was far removed from later characterisations.
The early Spock was quite carefree and not at all like the much more serious, and usually emotionless, character that he later became.
Nimoy found that the intensity of the role was such that it was becoming difficult to separate himself from the character.
He described how he would go home at weekends and it would take him until Sunday afternoons to finally shake off the role, only to have to begin all over again on Monday mornings.
He began to take solace in drink - "just one after a show and then more" - and eventually had to go into rehab.
NBC dropped Star Trek in 1969 and Nimoy was hired for the cast of Mission: Impossible, whose producers needed to replace the lead character originally played by Martin Landau.
When that role ended, he went back to playing a variety of roles in various films and TV series and made a large number of stage appearances in plays as varied as Caligula and My Fair Lady.
But he was unable to shake off Spock and he voiced the character in Star Trek: The Animated Series, which aired in 1973.
Two years later he published the first volume of his autobiography, entitled I Am Not Spock, in which he conducted imaginary conversations with his character.
"The question was whether to embrace Mr Spock or to fight the onslaught of public interest. I realise now that I really had no choice in the matter."
In the end he decided to embrace him; the second volume of autobiography was called I Am Spock.
In 1979 he was back on the Enterprise in the first feature film in the franchise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Nimoy directed two of the subsequent films, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home, as well as contributing to the screenplays.
He also made two appearances in character when the franchise returned to television in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Away from the Enterprise, he directed the 1987 film comedy Three Men and a Baby, one of the top-grossing films of that year.
He announced his retirement in 2010 but was coaxed back a year later to reprise his role as Dr William Bell in the US TV science-fiction series Fringe.
He continued to make regular appearances at Star Trek conventions but admitted he didn't always share the encyclopaedic knowledge of the show.
"Star Trek fans," Nimoy confided, "can be scary. If you don't get this right you're going to hear about it."


Striker Matt Tubbs is among seven players released by National League club Eastleigh.

Tubbs, 32, rejoined the Spitfires for a second spell in March and scored in their final league game of the season against Wrexham last Saturday.
David Pipe, Ryan Burge, Jack Smith, Jack Masterton, Connor Essam and Scott Wilson have also been released.
Loan signings Sam Matthews, Ben Close, Hakeem Odoffin, Joshua Barnes and Nick Hall have all returned to parent clubs.


Sir Edwin Landseer's iconic Monarch of the Glen has been saved for the nation.

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) said donations had come from as far afield as Los Angeles and Hong Kong to raise £4m to secure the painting.
Public donations totalled more than £260,000, with the biggest donor the Heritage Lottery Fund, who gave £2.65m.
The work, which was being sold by drinks giant Diageo, will be hung in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh before going on tour.
The fundraising bid was launched in February after Diageo announced their intention to sell it.
The 163.8cm x 169cm painting, which features a Highlands red deer stag with 12 points on its antlers, has been in private or corporate hands since it was painted in 1851.
NGS said it was overwhelmed by the public response to the campaign, with donations made from across the world, including from Anchorage and Queensland.
Private trusts and foundations also gave £634,000, while the Art Fund donated £350,000 and the Scottish government £100,000.
Sir John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland said: "We are thrilled that we have been able to secure this iconic work for the national collection.
"The enormous support from the public has been incredible with donations coming from all over the world and from the length and breadth of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
"Thank you so much to everyone who has donated. Your gift has helped to ensure that this magnificent work will be enjoyed by millions of people for generations to come."
The National Lottery and Scottish government have also given £175,000 to enable the painting to go on tour across Scotland. NGS said plans were being for the tour to a "number of venues across Scotland", starting later this year.
Diageo first said it was selling the painting in November, leading to speculation it could fetch in excess of £10m on the global art market.
The drinks firm later agreed to reduce its selling price from £8m to £4m to help it remain in public view in Scotland.
The Monarch of the Glen, which features a "royal stag", is thought to be set in Glen Affric.
The NGS describe the work as "an important Victorian picture that has taken on various layers of meaning, which include its use in advertising and as a Romantic emblem of the Highlands of Scotland."


Phobia sufferers in Cardiff will be able to access help in overcoming their fears with the launch of a self-help group.

Triumph Over Phobia (TOP) offers support to sufferers of phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and other anxiety-related issues.
Trilby Breckman, from the charity, said it hopes to combat the current lack of support for sufferers in south Wales.
The group will meet at 18:30 every Wednesday in the city centre.
The charity, founded in Bath, said 10% of people in south Wales suffer from phobias and 3% have OCD.
TOP uses exposure therapy - which involves facing fears in a controlled way - alongside cognitive behaviour therapy, to help change ways of thinking.
"It's wonderful news at long last that people suffering with anxiety-related disorders will be able to access support," Ms Breckman added.
"We welcome any adult with a phobia or OCD who would like help."