A man has been refused bail after appearing in court accused of trying to poison his ex-girlfriend.

Luke Waudby, 20, with an address at Hosford House hostel on the Newtownards Road in Belfast, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday.
He faces a total of seven charges.
It is alleged that he "administered a poison or other noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy" his ex-partner on 19 October.
He is also accused of supplying heroin, assaulting his ex-girlfriend, threatening to kill her, and stealing Â£230 from her on the same date.
He is further accused of supplying class B cannabis and class C diazepam to another on 1 April last year.
Giving evidence to the court, a police constable testified that he believed he could connect Mr Waudby to the offences.
He said that PSNI were objecting to bail on the grounds that they believe there is a danger the accused would reoffend, fail to turn up for a court appearance or would interfere with the witness.
Mr Waudby's solicitor said he completely denied the offences telling the court that Mr Waudby suffers from autism and had problems with drug addiction.
Refusing to release Mr Waudby, the judge said she had to "take the case at its height" and that it was a "serious aggravating factor" that he was already on bail for other charges.
Mr Waudby will appear again in court via videolink on 21 November.


The boss of Wales' largest company has backed the Conservatives - but admits many of his staff and customers will disagree.

Iceland chief Malcolm Walker said they were "the right party for the country", as Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb visited the food firm's Flintshire HQ.
Mr Walker stressed it was a "personal opinion, not a company opinion".
"Lots of our customers will support the other side; lots of our staff in this office do," he said.
Speaking to BBC Wales on Friday, the food stores boss said: "We have seen a fantastic recovery and people have short memories about the state of the country five years ago."
He said both he and Iceland paid all their taxes in full, and the firm had never used zero-hours contracts - which the Labour party has pledged to scrap.
"I don't see the point of them," Mr Walker said of zero-hours contracts.
"In the last three years we've been voted the best company in Britain to work for, and having happy staff makes happy customers, and happy customers put cash in the tills.
"You are not going to have happy staff if you are unsure about next week's pay packet."
Mr Walker, a Conservative Party donor, was one of 100 business leaders who signed an open letter earlier in April backing Tory economic policies.
Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said it was "no surprise" the Conservative Party's "big business donors" wanted to back "the party of big business".
"It's a straight choice at this election between the Tories, the party of the business bosses, and Labour, on the side of hard-working people, pledged to raise the minimum wage, end zero-hours contracts, and scrap the bedroom tax," he said.
"Britain does better when working people do better."
This issue includes the wider economy and deficit reduction but also employment and the role of business.
The Liberal Democrats insisted their "balanced approach" in coalition with the Conservatives had ensured "record numbers of people in work and an economy that is growing by the day".
"We are the only party that can stop Labour and the Tories lurching to extremes and ensure we continue to build a stronger economy and fairer society with opportunity for all," a Welsh Lib Dem spokesman said.
Plaid Cymru candidate Osian Lewis said: "What Wales cannot risk is another five years of slashing investment.
"17,000 of the jobs created in Wales since 2010 have been part-time and until we increase people's wages and increase people's disposable income, our economy will continue to be skewed towards London."


A group of families in Fife have formed a new choir in a bid to urge, through song, more people to become foster carers.

The Foster for Fife Choir is performing a song which was written for them by Fife composer Ian Hammond Brown.
It is called "Help a Child Belong" and the message urges people to come forward to give a child a home at a vulnerable time in their life.
The choir has been singing in halls and shopping centres in Fife.
It is estimated about 800 foster families need to be found in Scotland in the next year to meet demand.
Rae Ormiston, of Fife Council's children and families department, said: "We are constantly looking at creative ways to recruit and bring fostering to the attention of the wider public and that's exactly what the choir is doing.
She added: "Across Scotland there is a reduction in people coming forward. We've seen a slowing down of numbers, which is why we have to to publicise our need more and more often."
Nikki Perry, of the Foster for Fife Choir, who has taken on more than a 100 children in her 17 years as a foster mum, said she hoped the choir would emphasise to potential carers it was a very rewarding job.
She said: "It's a huge experience for everybody, seeing the children being able to move on and grow up and have children of their own and have a secure life which they've possible never had previously.
"If I had a bigger house I'd take another 20 children.
"But I don't unfortunately and we definitely need more foster carers in Fife."
Nine-year-old Brooklyn, who is a member of the choir, told what finding a foster family had done for him.
He said: "I like having a place to stay and I like having a family to take care of me. They're always kind to me."
The Foster for Fife Choir is thought to be the first of its kind in Scotland.


Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has taken the Rhondda seat from Labour in the Welsh assembly election.

Ms Wood said her victory was a "new dawn" for Rhondda, with a majority of nearly 3,500 over Leighton Andrews.
Elsewhere in south east Wales, Labour has held onto 15 seats including Bridgend, which was retained by First Minister Carwyn Jones.
UKIP's Mark Reckless, David Rowlands and Gareth Bennett became AMs via the regional lists.
Mr Jones said it was "difficult to know" what went wrong for Labour in Rhondda and that it was "not something we saw coming".
Seats retained by Labour include Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West, Islwyn, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Ogmore, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff North, and Torfaen.
In Cardiff Central, Labour's Jenny Rathbone increased her narrow lead on Liberal Democrat Eluned Parrot to just under 1,000.
In the Vale of Glamorgan, Finance Minister Jane Hutt's lead over the Tories was cut from nearly 4,000 to just 777 votes.
Also for Labour, Julie Morgan held off a Conservative challenge in Cardiff North, while Health Minister Mark Drakeford held on to Cardiff West by 1,176 votes over Plaid Cymru.
The Conservatives held on to Monmouth.
In the South East Regional vote, UKIP took two seats, Plaid Cymru took one and the Conservatives took one.
Mark Reckless and David Rowlands are among the first ever UKIP members of the Welsh Assembly.
On the South Wales Central list, two Conservatives, one Plaid Cymru and one UKIP member were elected.


Reading have completed the signing of Manchester United defender Tyler Blackett on a three-year contract.

The 22-year-old was handed his United debut by former manager Louis van Gaal in August 2014 against Swansea.
He spent six months on loan at Celtic last season, making eight appearances in all competitions.
Blackett becomes Reading's 11th signing of the summer following the arrival of fellow defender Liam Moore from Leicester City on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A scrapyard that caused "misery to local people" must close down.

Residents living near Bidwell Metals Ltd (BML) in Radstock, Somerset, complained about noise from a shredding machine, forklift trucks, angle grinders and mechanical grabs.
An Environment Agency expert said the noise nuisance was the "worst he had ever experienced in his career".
The company argued it had a right to cause noise because of the length of time it had been trading on the site.
The Environment Agency told BML in February 2016 that it had to close down.
It said it was the first time it has had to take such action against a waste site because of the "extreme levels of noise pollution".
The company challenged the decision and applied for a judicial review ,arguing it had a "prescriptive right" to cause a noise nuisance because of the length of time the business had been in existence.
However, following a hearing at Bristol High Court, BML withdrew its claim and agreed to case trading by April 2017 and clear the site.
Pete Hart, from the Environment Agency, said the company was "simply in the wrong place" and it caused "misery to local people".
Bidwell Metals told the BBC it did not want to comment on the case.


The first houses to be sold through a Turner Prize-winning renovation scheme have been given "anti-gentrification" clauses so locals can afford them.

Design group Assemble won the art award in 2015 for their work regenerating derelict houses in Toxteth, Liverpool.
Three houses have been sold for Â£90,000 each, with locals given priority and a condition added saying they must always be sold at an "affordable" price.
This year's Turner Prize winner will be announced in London on Monday evening.
Assemble have completed work on eight houses owned by the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust so far, with five let out and three sold.
A covenant on those three houses, which are on Cairns Street, means that if they are sold on in the future, it must be at below market value, as calculated using average wages in the area. The average house price in Liverpool is Â£121,000.
Erika Rushton, chair of the land trust, the residents' group that has worked with Assemble and has sold the houses, said they wanted to find a legal way to ensure the houses remained affordable in the future.
"We don't want them to become 'Turner houses', if you know what I mean," she said. "Because we want local people to live in them forever."
The Turner Prize victory attracted interest from potential buyers from outside the area, Ms Rushton said.
"We've definitely had interest, but the houses have gone to people who had been on the waiting list long before Turner who wanted to buy one," she said.
"They tend to be people who used to live in the area or children of people who used to live in the area and who want to come back to the area.
"We've used that as one of the criteria that we used to prioritise people. And we've found more demand than we could have met."
The trust's vice-chair Hazel Tilley, who has lived on Cairns Street for 25 years, said: "What we don't want is gentrification. We don't suddenly want all the white middle class investors.
"So we've also applied criteria to the sale which matches social criteria - a connection with the area, first-time buyer, in need of decent housing at an affordable price.
"So people can't buy it to rent out or anything like that, because it's really important that we don't price out the people who live here."
Assemble are due to renovate three more houses and convert two that are beyond repair into a winter garden.
They are also turning a boarded-up corner shop into a permanent workshop to allow the fixtures and fittings that were designed for the houses to be sold online.
This year's Turner Prize nominees are Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde, with the winner of the Â£25,000 award to be named at the Tate Britain gallery just before 22:00 GMT.
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Administrators say work will not resume on an unfinished block of flats on Ipswich waterfront until 96 completed apartments are sold.

The Regatta Quay development, which includes a 20-storey building known locally as the 'wine rack', was taken over by administrators in 2010.
The Irish government owns the site after buying Irish bank debts.
The administrators said completing the ??100m buildings was dependent on the property market.
Work on Regatta Quay started in 2007, but it stopped as City Living Developments (Ipswich) Ltd, which had borrowed from the Anglo Irish and Allied Irish banks, went into administration.
Ben Gummer, Conservative MP for Ipswich, said it was "almost a metaphor" for the British economy.
"It's property speculation gone mad and a banking system which is bust, so it's going to take a lot of time to put that right," he said.
"The administrators are actively trying to find a developer to take on the work, so things are moving now but I'd like to see them move quicker."
Baker Tilly were appointed administrators for Regatta Quay by Ireland's National Asset Management Agency.
The accountancy firm is also the administrator for The Mill development next to Regatta Quay.
Regatta Quay has 118 flats built, with space for 150 more in the 'wine rack'. The Mill has 194 completed and 140 uncompleted flats.
Nigel Millar, from Baker Tilly, said: "It's very difficult to say when building work could resume.
"We'll certainly be in administration for two years. How long we'll be in administration depends on how sales progress."
Savills, which is the estate agent for the sites, said sale prices for a two-bedroom apartment had dropped from about ??300,000 in 2008 to ??175,000.
Andy Redman, from Savills, said: "If we can continue to sell at the rates we're achieving of 3-4 flats a month, then it may bring things forward, but it's dictated by market conditions."


Mae dyn wedi ei gael yn euog o achosi marwolaeth bachgen pump oed drwy yrru'n beryglus yng Nghaerdydd.

Bu farw Joseph Smith yn y gwrthdrawiad ar Rodfa'r Gorllewin yn y ddinas ym mis Medi 2015.
Clywodd Llys y Goron Caerdydd bod gan lystad y bachgen, Dean Collins, 24, gocên yn ei waed pan darodd gerbydau eraill.
Yn ogystal ag achosi marwolaeth, cafwyd Collins yn euog o bedwar cyhuddiad o achosi anafiadau difrifol drwy yrru'n beryglus.
Cafodd pedwar o bobl anafiadau i'w cefnau, breichiau a choesau, ac fe wnaeth un person gael ei ddallu mewn un llygad.
Clywodd y llys bod Collins yn gyrru'r Ford Focus yn wyllt cyn y gwrthdrawiad, ac nad oedd Joseph yn defnyddio sêt arbennig i blentyn gan nad oedd Collins yn meddwl ei fod angen un.
Dywedodd Collins wrth y llys ei fod yn cofio teithio tuag at y goleuadau traffig ger archfarchnad Tesco ond ei fod yn cofio dim ar ôl hynny nes iddo ddeffro yn y car gydag anafiadau difrifol.
Bydd yn cael ei ddedfrydu ddydd Mercher.


A sadomasochistic killer who filmed his victim has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of her murder in the Republic of Ireland.

Graham Dwyer, 42, from Foxrock in south Dublin, had denied the murder of Elaine O'Hara but was convicted by unanimous verdict at the Central Criminal Court, last month.
The remains of the 36-year-old childcare worker were found in the Dublin mountains in September 2013.
Dwyer was sentenced on Monday.
A judge told the court Dwyer had preyed on Ms O'Hara to satisfy his "perverse and debauched desires".
"We may be thankful a dangerous man is now out of the way," he said.
During the trial, the married father admitted having an affair with his vulnerable victim, whom he met through a website.
She was last seen on 22 August 2012, the day of her murder and had been missing for more than a year before her remains were discovered.
The jury found that Dwyer stabbed Ms O'Hara to death on Kilakee Mountain in Rathfarnham on 22 August, 2012, the day she left a psychiatric hospital.
He sent her a series of texts in the days leading up to the killing.
Dwyer told her she would be punished for trying to kill herself without him.
Her skeletal remains were found on Kilakee Mountain in Rathfarnham on 13 September 2013, the day of Dwyer's birthday.
Three days after that, her keys and other items were found in Vartry Reservoir in Roundwood, which had dried up due to a heatwave.
Dwyer was arrested on 17 October 2013 and he has been in custody ever since.


They travelled across America to make their new album Sonic Highways and now Foo Fighters have said they'll be touring the UK in 2015.

Announcing the tour with Zane Lowe on Radio 1, frontman Dave Grohl said: "Now we get to go out and do the thing that we really love to do.
"I can't wait. It's pretty awesome."
A string of five dates will start at Sunderland's Stadium of Light on 25 May, before a show at Old Trafford in Manchester two days later.
The band will then play at Wembley Stadium on 19 and 20 June, with a final show at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium on 23 June.
Talking about their shows at Wembley, Grohl said: "You get a little nervous excitement about two minutes before you go on.  It's great."
Iggy Pop and Royal Blood will support the band at Wembley -  with the Little Monster duo also performing at the Edinburgh gig.
With the UK tour ending the day before the Glastonbury festival kicks off - and with no other shows in the band's schedule before 4 July - the UK tour announcement has added to speculation that Foo Fighters will be performing at the festival.
But speaking to Nick Grimshaw on the Radio 1 Breakfast show, Dave Grohl said the organisers hadn't been in touch.
He said: "Michael [Eavis] hasn't called me."
When asked about rumours about Prince and Oasis also being on the line-up for next year, the singer said: "If Prince does it and Oasis do it - you've got Foo Fighters."
Foo Fighters UK 2015 tour dates are as follows:
Sunderland, Stadium of Light - 25 May
Manchester, Emirates Old Trafford - 27
London, Wembley Stadium - 19 June
London, Wembley Stadium - 20
Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium - 23
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An investment company has pulled out of another development in Pembrokeshire, this time a cinema and retail complex in Haverfordwest.

Conygar had submitted planning applications to build 10 shops, a hotel, multi-screen cinema and restaurants on land at Slade Lane.
But a letter to Pembrokeshire council on 1 June said it wanted to formally withdraw those applications.
Conygar said it was "extremely disappointed" in making the decision.
Earlier this year, the company pulled out of a £100m waterfront development in Pembroke Dock and wrote off its £4.8m investment, saying the project was no longer viable.
In a statement, Conygar said it was "most unfortunate that it has, again, been unable to find common ground with the council on Slade Lane" where it said its plans would "considerably benefit both residents and businesses in Haverfordwest".
It said it had already invested £4m on facilitating the infrastructure at Slade Lade, and remains "committed to delivering a successful development".
This is the second time plans for Slade Lane have fallen through.
Supermarket chain Sainsbury's had planned to build a superstore on the land, bringing 500 jobs, but it pulled out following a review and sold the land to Conygar.
Conygar does still have outline planning permission to build 700 new homes at the site.
Another company is still considering bringing a multi-screen cinema to Haverfordwest.
Fairacre proposes the part demolition and reconfiguration of the Wilko store to provide a multi-screen cinema and four restaurants along the River Cleddau.
That application is yet to be decided.


There has been a gorse fire in south Armagh.

Black smoke was seen billowing from Slieve Brack mountain above Forkhill on Sunday evening.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze is inaccessible and was left to burn out.


Golden State Warriors' top scorer Kevin Durant will be out "indefinitely" after injuring his knee in his side's 112-108 loss at Washington Wizards.

Durant, 28, limped out of Tuesday's game after team-mate Zaza Pachulia fell on his left leg and caused a sprained medial ligament and leg bruising.
It is hoped he could return before the end of the regular season on 12 April.
The 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player joined the Warriors this season in a deal worth a reported $54.3m (£43.9m).
Durant had spent the previous eight seasons at Oklahoma City Thunder, where he was a four-time NBA scoring champion.
Western Conference leaders Warriors went into the game with a league-best 50-9 record and have already booked their place in the play-offs.


Blazing sunshine and a red carpet lined with potted palms greeted Prince Harry as he arrived in Antigua on a Caribbean tour billed as formal but fun.

The prince will spend 15 days touring seven island nations as the Queen's representative.
The governor general of Antigua welcomed him with a reception at the newly restored Clarence House.
The prince re-opened the building - designed for King William IV when governor general in the 18th Century.
He also read out a message from the Queen in which she recalled her "fond memories" of visiting Antigua on three occasions between 1966 and 1985,
The prince also congratulated the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on their 69th wedding anniversary.
Earlier he made an unscheduled stop at Nelson's Dockyard, a Unesco World Heritage Site where Admiral Lord Nelson was based for four years in the 1780s.
Later, Harry is to join West Indian cricket legends Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts and Sir Curtly Ambrose at a sporting event near Antigua's capital St John's.
A Kensington Palace source said the tour would have a "formal feel" but there would be "plenty of fun".
Its build-up has been overshadowed after it emerged the prince was dating US actress Meghan Markle.
Earlier this month Prince Harry, 32, hit out at the media for subjecting Ms Markle to a "wave of abuse and harassment", issuing a rare but strongly worded statement.
Who is Meghan Markle?
The palace source added that Prince Harry had been "looking forward to the tour for many months" and was "honoured" at being asked to represent the Queen.
"While this tour will necessarily have a more formal feel, he's pleased that he'll have plenty of opportunities to meet people from all walks of life. There should be plenty of fun along the way."


A new species of moss has been found growing on 10 maple trees in a Carmarthenshire car park, but experts are in two minds about its origins.

Welsh Bristle-moss was discovered near Dryslwyn Castle, close to Llandeilo, by the Countryside Council for Wales.
It said it might have evolved from a genetically similar moss.
But it could be an undiscovered species that was imported from the Continent on maples used to landscape the car park in the 1990s.
There are about 900 species of moss in Britain and 587 of those are found in Wales.
The Welsh Bristle-moss was discovered during a survey which is recording mosses growing on trees in south Wales.
Experts said the moss had a unique combination of distinctive traits. It differed from related mosses because of its round-tipped leaf tips and flat leaf edges.
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) moss ecologist Sam Bosanquet, who made the new find, said: "Welsh Bristle-moss highlights the need to be ever vigilant and open-minded, even when looking at plants in mundane places like car parks.
"This is a high-point in our regular work of recording mosses which grow on trees in south Wales.
"Over the last decade, we have also discovered three mosses that had not previously been found in Wales and which are more typical of continental Europe.
Mr Bosanquet said he had been recording mosses for 15 years and had found 25 new species never before found in Wales, but which had been found in England and Scotland.
"Now that the species has been recorded, I hope that more research will determine whether the moss is extending its range to other areas of the county and beyond," said Mr Bosanquet.


A woman has gone on trial in France for leaving her infant daughter on a beach to die on a cold November night.

The 15-month-old's dead body was found by fishermen the next morning.
Investigators tracked Fabienne Kabou down using CCTV in a northern seaside town. She is believed to be suffering from hallucinations and depression.
She said: "I put an end to her life because it was easier that way. It was as if I felt carried along, I just couldn't say stop."
According to court documents, the baby's father, Michel Lafon, did not take an interest in his child.
She was given the name Adelaide but was never officially registered, and nobody apart from the couple knew of her existence.
In November 2013 Ms Kabou travelled from her home in Paris to the town of Berck-sur-mer where she asked local people about the tide times, then left the baby near the water.
She has at times said she left her daughter there because it caused difficulties in her relationship with the baby's father. At other times she has said she was influenced by hallucinations and witchcraft.
One psychologist said her background of growing up in Senegal had given her "an individual history linked to witchcraft" in the West African country, and "radically altered her view of the world".
Her lawyer said before the start of the trial that Ms Kabou "sees her act as we all see it, that is to say, something utterly horrible, and she considers herself indefensible".


A pedestrian who died when a car mounted a grass verge and struck him was "wonderfully caring", his family has said.

Nicholas Farrimond, known as Nick, suffered multiple injuries after being hit in Pope Lane, Whitestake, Preston, shortly before 01:00 BST on Monday.
The 35-year-old died at the scene.
His family said: "There is a void in all our lives that will never be filled," adding he was "a kind and most especially funny young man".
A 32-year-old man, from Preston, arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drink-driving remains in custody.


People are being urged to find out their "true" heart age in order to cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Leading UK doctors say we need to look beyond biological age to consider what toll a lifetime of risk factors such as smoking will have on the heart.
If not, we will continue to miss early opportunities to intervene to prevent ill health, they told the journal Heart.
They have come up with a new risk calculation, called JBS3.
This, they say, should reveal a person's "true" heart age and risk.
Currently, doctors look at short-term risk to judge who they should help, and people who have a high chance of a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years are their priority. But experts now say this is too narrow.
New guidelines issued by the Joint British Societies say doctors should look at the risk throughout a person's lifetime - and assess their "true" heart age.
The JBS3 sum used to calculate true heart age takes family and lifestyle risk factors into account to predict how many more years an individual can expect to live before she or he has a heart attack or stroke, depending on the future actions they might decide to take.
For example, a 35-year-old woman who smokes, has high blood pressure and raised cholesterol, plus a strong family history of heart disease, will have a true heart age of 47.
Using current heart assessment methods, which look at short-term risk of heart attack and stroke (within the next 10 years), her risk would be deemed low - less than 2%.
The JBS3 test would suggest she could live to 71 without having a heart attack or stroke
But if the same woman stopped smoking and lowered her cholesterol and blood pressure, not only would her "heart age" fall to 30, she could also expect to live to the age of 85 without having a heart attack or stroke.
And she would cut her risk of heart attack or stroke within the next 10 years even further - to less than 0.25%.
The UK experts behind JBS3 - the Joint British Societies, which includes the British Cardiovascular Society , the British Hypertension Society and nine more - say their approach is based on the growing body of evidence showing that there is a long build-up to cardiovascular disease, and that most heart attacks and strokes occur in people who are in the "intermediate" risk category.
It will be used by the NHS Health Check programme in England aimed at 40- to 74-year-olds, but is not intended to prompt blanket prescribing of statins and other heart health drugs, say the authors.
For the majority, the recommendation will be to lead a healthier lifestyle rather than pop a pill, they insist.
Dr Iain Simpson, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, said: "By only using short-term risk estimates, which are heavily dependent on age and gender, younger people and women tend to be overlooked even if they have substantially elevated modifiable risk factors and are consequently at high lifetime risk."


When so-called Islamic State announced on 8 June that it had killed a Chinese man and woman in their mid-twenties in Pakistan's most volatile province, many would have assumed they were two of the thousands of workers that Beijing has sent to the country in the last few years.

China is investing more than $55bn (Â£43bn) in Pakistan, a key beneficiary of its grand plan to connect Asia and Europe with a new Silk Road paid for by Beijing.
Such an ambitious project involves risk, and China is building major infrastructure projects in Balochistan, a Pakistani province home to a long-running separatist insurgency and an array of militant and jihadist groups.
But Meng Lisi and Li Xinheng were not there to work on Chinese-funded projects.
They were in the capital, Quetta, on a clandestine mission: to spread the word of Christianity in the unlikeliest and most dangerous of places in conservative Muslim Pakistan.
Their story draws attention to an unintended and often overlooked by-product of China's aggressive drive to develop new trading routes and carve out influence across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Hundreds and possibly even thousands of the country's growing cadre of Christian missionaries are along for the ride too - even if Beijing doesn't want them there.
The province of Zhejiang, on China's eastern coast, is one of the country's Christian centres.
There are thousands of protestant churches here, both official ones permitted by the atheist Chinese Communist Party and so-called "underground" or "home" churches, whose members often meet private homes.
Neither of the pair who ended up in Quetta were originally from Zhejiang, but they did join home churches in the province.
Meng Lisi, 26, was originally from Hubei while Li Xinheng, 24, was from Hunan.
Mr Li's mother, who only wanted to be named as Mrs Liu, said her son did not know Ms Meng before he travelled to Pakistan in September 2016.
She says she thought he was going there to teach Mandarin, but quickly adds that as a Christian she would be "proud" if it was true that he was proselytising there.
After armed men masquerading as policemen kidnapped the pair in Quetta on 24 May, the Pakistani military launched a three-day operation in a region south of the city called Mastung, targeting fighters allegedly linked to IS.
It is in Mastung that IS later said it had carried out the killings, and Mrs Liu questions why the Pakistani government launched an attack in the area instead of trying to negotiate their release.
"Why didn't the Chinese government tell the Pakistan side to save our children?" she asks.
Mrs Liu says her phone is monitored, and authorities have been investigating the family. The leader of her local protestant home church, meanwhile, has "blacklisted" her.
Since the young missionaries were killed, the Chinese authorities have repeatedly said they are continuing to investigate in response to queries from journalists.
Why Chinese Christians have turned to underground churches
But the government has responded with a crackdown at home, detaining at least four preachers from church groups in Zhejiang as part of a targeted blitz against house churches connected to overseas missions, says Bob Fu, whose US-based China Aid group supports Christians in the country.
They have been released but are not allowed to continue their activities and are banned from giving media interviews, he says.
China's up to 100m Christians have been subject to increased scrutiny and harassment since Xi Jinping became president in 2012, Mr Fu says, adding: "He has been worse than any leader since Chairman Mao".
Crosses were torn down from more than 1,000 churches in Zhejiang between 2014 and 2016.
Dismay as church crosses removed in China
But incidents like the killings in Pakistan present a tricky dilemma for Chinese authorities. As a self-declared atheist government, news of Chinese Christian missionaries getting into trouble abroad is embarrassing. But at the same time, Beijing needs to show it can protect its citizens as it goes global.
As Fenggang Yang, an expert on religion in China at Purdue University, puts it: "They thought Christianity was a western religion imported into China, so how can you export Christianity from China?"
"This is new and the Chinese authorities are still struggling to figure out what to do with this."
When Meng Lisi and Li Xinhen were abducted in Quetta, they were first reported to have been working at a language school run by a South Korean.
It was only after they were killed that Pakistani authorities accused the pair of being preachers who had misused business visas.
Two Koreans were detained by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, and another 11 Chinese believed to be part of the missionary group were deported.
Locals in Jinnah Town, a wealthy area of Quetta where the language centre was based, said the group, while distinctly visible, kept a low profile.
They travelled around in rickshaws without security and stayed in a simple hostel in the centre of the city.
"Sometimes I saw them singing and playing guitars," a local garbage collector said.
In Kharotabad, a very conservative area in Quetta's west home to Pashtun tribes and Afghan refugees, some of the Chinese women went door-to-door speaking with women about Christianity.
One boy said he overheard them saying "we are all sinners", and that they distributed leaflets, rings and bracelets. Another said he saw three women who spoke some Urdu and Pashto, and were "doing something about Christianity".
He said his mother asked them if they were Chinese, and "they said yes".
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But once local police got wind of this, the group were taken out of the area and told foreigners should not be there.
Their efforts at proselytising didn't make much headway. Many locals given booklets and leaflets said they tore them up and threw them away.
In the 1940s, a movement began among Christians in eastern China to bring the gospel westwards - in the direction of Jerusalem.
Evangelists travelled to China's western provinces but when Mao Zedong proclaimed the communist People's Republic of China in 1949, ushering in a repressive era for Christians, they settled there and the "Back to Jerusalem" movement lay dormant for decades.
In the early 2000s, coinciding with China's emergence onto the global stage as a major power, the movement revived and Chinese missionaries began travelling out to what some evangelists call the "10/40 Window" - a zone between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator that stretches from West Africa to South East Asia and is home to the least-Christian countries.
This zone overlaps significantly with the new Silk Road that China is trying to promote and in the last few years, as Chinese workers have gone overseas to these countries in droves, hidden among them have been hundreds, perhaps even thousands of missionaries, according to members of the movement.
In countries like Iran, Iraq or Pakistan, Chinese missionaries have little trouble getting in, says Pastor Danny Lee, the director of Back to Jerusalem in the UK.
"They let them straight through. They last thing they would think [a Chinese person could be] is a missionary," he said.
The movement's ambitious goal, Pastor Lee says, is to eventually have 100,000 Chinese missionaries serving across 22 countries in the 10/40 zone.
"Many of them have already left and are serving in places like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Burma and many other places as well," he said.
And violence like that seen in Quetta does not appear to put them off.
A young Chinese Christian couple sent to northern Iraq as missionaries told the South China Morning Post after the Pakistan killings that the incident was a reminder that they needed to be careful and sensitive in their work.
But they said they still intended to stay there indefinitely, despite the risks. "I actually feel safer here," 25-year-old Michael said, referring to the repression faced by underground churches in China.
Pastor Lee says Back to Jerusalem missionaries know the risks when they go abroad, and accept them. "They feel this is their calling and purpose and the plan that God has for them."
Since the killings came to light, Pakistani authorities have vowed to better regulate the inflow of Chinese nationals to Pakistan.
Militants have targeted Chinese nationals before but the attention the case received appears to have triggered significant concern among top-level officials about implications for relations with China.
In Quetta, Chinese individuals could occasionally be seen on the streets before the May kidnapping but since then they have vanished.
In the port of Gwadar, the centrepiece of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, frequent attacks by separatist insurgents have denied Chinese workers the freedom of unguarded movement on the streets, reporters there say. They remain in secure compounds and move under heavy security escort.
Professor Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Pakistani political and security analyst, said that Chinese and Pakistani officials would have robustly discussed the Quetta case behind closed doors.
"The likeliest outcome would be a combined set of procedures on both sides to ensure this doesn't happen again," he said.
Indeed, China has continued to stress that it and Pakistan are "all-weather strategic partners".
But Beijing knows that as more and more Chinese missionaries follow the new Silk Road, other cases like this are bound to occur.
On 9 June, the day after IS announced the killing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying responded to a journalist.
"You asked about the risk in the building of the Belt and Road," she said. "I shall say that going global comes with risks."
Reporting by the BBC's Kevin Ponniah in London and M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad, BBC Chinese's Yashan Zhao in Hong Kong and BBC Urdu's Muhammad Kazim in Quetta


Bath have signed Cardiff Blues' Welsh wing Harry Davies ahead of next season.

The 21-year-old scored one try in two appearances for the Welsh region but crossed eight times in 26 games for Welsh Premiership side Cardiff RFC, who come under the umbrella of the Blues.
Bath have also handed a new two-year contract extension to back row Levi Douglas, 20, who joined the English Premiership club's academy in December.
He has made three senior appearances since signing from French side Oyonnax.
On Tuesday, Bath announced Argentina wing Horacio Agulla will leave the club at the end of the season.
Mike Ford's side are ninth in the table ahead of their final match of the season against Leicester Tigers on Saturday,


David Cameron and Ed Miliband have faced tough questions from a Question Time audience over their economic plans in the final TV event of the campaign.

The PM said he had rejected Â£8bn in child benefit cuts the Lib Dems claimed the Tories had proposed in government.
Ed Miliband said Labour did not overspend when in power and that he would not lead a government if it involved a deal with the SNP.
Nick Clegg was grilled over tuition fees, trust and coalition deals.
While insisting they could both win outright, the Conservative and Labour leaders gave the clearest indications to date of the terms of possible post-election deals, with Mr Cameron saying his pledge of an EU referendum in 2017 would be a "red line" in any negotiations.
Three other leaders also faced audience questions:
The prime minister was first in the firing line at Leeds Town Hall.
Mr Cameron said he did not want to cut child benefit or child tax credits if he won the election, but that it was possible to save more from the welfare budget.
Asked if this amounted to an "absolute guarantee," he said child tax credit "would not fall" and child benefit was "one of the most important benefits there is" and did not need to change.
Brandishing the note left in 2010 by outgoing Labour Treasury Secretary Liam Byrne, stating there was "no money left", Mr Cameron said:  "It takes a long time to fix the mess that I was left."
"We are half way through a building job," the PM added.
Asked if his vow to pass laws preventing tax rises was an admission he usually lied, Mr Cameron said he wanted to put the policy "beyond doubt".
He said he had not agreed to a head-to-head debate with Mr Miliband because: "This, giving you the chance to answer questions directly, this is more powerful than a televised debate."
Mr Cameron was then asked why people did not trust the Conservatives on the NHS, replying that improving the health service was "my life's work" but only possible with a strong economy.
He refused to speculate on what might happen in the event of a hung Parliament, saying he did not want to do a deal in a "darkened room with Nick Clegg", but said an in/out referendum on the EU would be a "red line" in any coalition negotiations.
The Labour leader said nothing he has not said repeatedly before - explaining his view that the deficit resulted from the financial crash and not from over spending by the last Labour government. He gave no new hostages to fortune but it was, nevertheless, the toughest ride he's faced in this campaign.
With David Cameron looking confident the Tories and the Tory press will claim that this was the night the election turned.
But - and it is a big but - the prime minister's performance relied on either ignoring or dodging the hostile questioning he faced about welfare cuts, the bedroom tax, food banks and the morality of his policies.
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Ed Miliband faced tough questions, with one man accusing the Labour leader of lying and telling him it was "absolutely ludicrous" to suggest his party had not spent too much in government.
Mr Miliband said: "There was a global financial crisis, there was a high deficit. That deficit has not been cleared. It will be the mission of my government to cut the deficit every year and balance the books."
He dismissed Liam Byrne's letter as Mr Cameron's "regular prop".
Mr Miliband then rejected the PM's claim that the Conservatives would not cut child tax credits. The issue was "on the ballot paper" in light of Mr Cameron's earlier response, he suggested.
On the prospect of a post-election deal with the SNP, he said: "If the price of having a Labour government was a deal or a coalition with the Scottish National Party then it is not going to happen."
ComRes, having registered Conservative leads in its three earlier campaign polls, put them neck-and-neck with Labour on 35% each this time. YouGov suggested a one-point Conservative lead (35% versus 34%).
However, the drama came with Mori's five-point Conservative lead - 35% as against 30% for Labour.
Some interest was aroused when its entrails revealed 63% of 2010 Labour voters remaining loyal to the party, compared with much higher numbers in other polls. A breakthrough for the Conservative campaign or a detail that provokes doubt about the findings? I suspect the latter, but we shall see.
The instant ICM poll assessing the performances of the three leaders on Question Time suggested 44% thought David Cameron had come out on top, compared with 38% who nominated Ed Miliband and 19% Nick Clegg.
No game-changing campaign moment here, it seems. Oh well, back to the national polls we go.
He also ruled out a "confidence and supply" arrangement, with his party trying to win SNP support on an issue-by-issue basis.
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"I am not going to start bartering away my manifesto, whatever the outcome of the election," he added.
Mr Miliband refused to set an immigration target, telling one questioner: "I don't want to stand on this stage in five years time and explain why I have broken my promise."
As he walked off stage when his half-hour was up, the Labour leader briefly lost his footing - something that was seized on by his critics in the press.
Nick Clegg was immediately quizzed about the Lib Dems' U-turn on tuition fees.
He then faced pointed questions about why his party had not revealed an alleged Conservative proposal to cut child tax credits on Thursday earlier.
Mr Clegg said the Conservatives had "a very unfair plan to balance the books, which departs from what we've done in coalition and I think we are entitled to say: 'What are you going to do? Who are you going to hurt?'".
The Lib Dem leader defended his decision to go into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010, after an angry former Lib Dem voter said he would have preferred a deal with Labour. Mr Clegg said it had been the "democratic" thing to do so and a "plucky and brave way to put country before party".
However, Mr Clegg said that this year he had been "much clearer" on the "red lines" he would insist upon in any coalition negotiations with Labour or the Conservatives, such as a requirement for education spending to increase by Â£5bn by 2020.
He indicated he would seek to form another coalition with the party that got the most seats in next Thursday's general election.
But Mr Clegg said he would only back an EU referendum if more powers were handed to Brussels, potentially putting him at odds with Mr Cameron.
At one stage an audience member asked if he had plans to find a new job when he became unemployed next week. "No I don't," the Lib Dem shot back.
Mr Clegg managed a quip at the expense his rivals, saying: "He (David Cameron) keeps talking about darkened rooms, as does Ed Miliband.
"If either of them still think they are going to win a majority they need to go and lie down in that darkened room."
An instant poll of Question Time viewers conducted by ICM for The Guardian found that 44% thought Mr Cameron had "done best", against 38% for Mr Miliband and 19% for Mr Clegg.
Responding to the Question Time show, Green Party Natalie Bennett - who was not invited to appear in a TV event - said each of the three leaders signed up to the "many facets of business-as-usual politics".
The event was "a clear example of why we urgently need a real alternative in British politics", she said, arguing that none of those appearing in the event offered "a genuine alternative to the failed policy of austerity".
"No-one was truly standing up the vicious rhetoric on immigration that has infected political debate in this country," she added.
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Global carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have reached a new monthly record of 400 parts per million, according to scientists.

The milestone was announced by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
They said it was the first month that the entire globe broke 400ppm, reaching levels that haven't been seen for about two million years.
Noaa's Pieter Tans said that reaching the mark was "a significant milestone".
Scientists announced that CO2 had passed the 400 ppm level for the first time in the Arctic in 2012, and then at Mauna Loa in Hawaii in 2013.
"It was only a matter of time that we would average 400 parts per million globally," said Mr Tans, lead scientist at Noaa's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network.
He added that CO2 has risen more than 120 parts per million since pre-industrial times.
"Half of that rise has occurred since 1980," he said.
Noaa collects its data on global carbon dioxide concentration on air samples taken from 40 sites around the world, including some remote islands.


Environmental campaigners say they believe that cheating similar to what happened at VW is going on in Europe.

The German car manufacturer admitted to using a "defeat device" to rig emissions from its cars in the US.
But green group researchers told BBC News that their analysis of some European diesel cars pointed to a "different sort of defeat device being used".
Industry bodies deny there is any deliberate deception in European tests.
While there has been widespread indignation at the scale of VW's manipulation in the US, the number of diesel cars being used across the states mean the impact on the environment and air quality is likely to be limited.
But in Europe it is a different story. Over half the cars purchased in the EU in 2014 were diesel powered.
Several European cities, including London and Paris have had significant issues with nitrogen dioxide, a harmful gas produced as a result of diesel use and linked to increased deaths from heart attacks and asthma.
But according to the latest research from Brussels-based Transport & Environment, only one in 10 new diesel cars sold in Europe meets the standards for emissions for nitrous oxides (NOx).
"New diesel cars should be achieving 80mg of NOx per kilometre, typically an average diesel is producing five times more than that at the present time," said Greg Archer, a former UK government adviser and now head of clean vehicles at Transport & Environment.
Testing in Europe is said to be more open to manipulation than in the US because the evaluations are carried out by companies paid for by the manufacturers, and they are generally done before the cars go into full production.
Many researchers acknowledge there is widespread "gaming" of the system.
"There is a widespread appreciation that there has been gaming going on," Prof Alastair Lewis, from the University of York, told BBC News.
"But what VW shows is the extreme lengths to which manufacturers are going, way beyond what a reasonable person would appreciate was an appropriate level of gaming."
According to Greg Archer at Transport & Environment, there is much more than gaming the system going on in European tests.
"There are car models out there which are 50-60% difference between tests and real world performance," he said.
"We think that gaming will give you about a 25% difference, we can't explain how these vehicles are achieving real world performances 50% higher, unless something weird is going on in the way they are being tested, that would point to something similar (to VW), a different sort of defeat device being used."
Mr Archer refused to name the manufacturers that he believes are cheating the system in Europe.
Motor manufacturers were quick to deny that any organised or deliberate cheating was going on in EU car tests.
"The EU operates a fundamentally different system to the US - with all European tests performed in strict conditions as required by EU law and witnessed by a government-approved independent approval agency," said the chief executive of the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes.
"There is no evidence that manufacturers cheat the cycle."
Be it gaming the system or outright cheating, researchers including Prof Alastair Lewis say the impact of dodgy data on UK government attempts to clean the air are significant. The UK is currently being prosecuted by the European Commission because of its inability to reduce levels of nitrogen dioxide in many locations to safe levels.
"The UK has terrible problems with nitrous dioxide in city centres but the government can only work with the data provided by manufacturers and that has proved to be highly unreliable," said Prof Lewis.
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Scotland's largest health board has said a leaked paper outlining £60m of possible cuts is a "discussion paper" rather than an "approved plan".

The NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) document outlined options for jobs and service cuts, including the closure of Lightburn Hospital, near Carntyne.
The health board said the leak had "caused unnecessary concern" to staff, unions and patients.
It said service delivery plans would not be ready until the end of February.
The leaked document was reported in the Evening Times newspaper on Thursday.
The paper said some nursing posts and specialist positions such as radiographers were under threat.
It reported that the plan also covered the closure of Lightburn Hospital in Glasgow, a paediatric ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) in Paisley and a transfer of emergency care from the Vale of Leven Hospital to the RAH.
NHS GGC chairman John Brown has now said he is "concerned that recent media reports" have "caused unnecessary concern to our patients, our staff and their trade union representatives".
In a statement issued on Friday, he said: "The main purpose of this paper was to give the board some early indication of the potential challenges...to help us make an early start on planning our services for next year."
Mr Brown went on: "It is important to note that the discussion paper that has attracted media interest is not a definite proposal or an approved plan that the board intends to implement.
"None of the contents have been approved by the board or referred to the Scottish government for consideration.
"This includes the reported closure of Lightburn Hospital or changes to the services provided by the Vale of Leven Hospital."
Mr Brown said that the financial information in the paper "were estimates" and "should not be seen as the final position".
He added: "In common with all the NHS boards in Scotland, we are in discussion with the Scottish government to finalise our budget allocation for the next financial year.
"Until those discussions are completed it is not possible to make definitive statements on the resources available to us.
"Once budget allocations have been agreed we will share that information with the public, our staff and their representatives."
Mr Brown said he expected to have final budget allocations to develop delivery plans for 2016/17 by the end of February.


A cap on the cost of payday loans enforced by the City regulator has now come into effect.

Payday loan rates will be capped at 0.8% per day of the amount borrowed, and no-one will have to pay back more than twice the amount they borrowed.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said those unable to repay should be prevented from taking out such loans.
Many payday lenders have already closed down, in anticipation of the new rules, a trade body has said.
And the amount of money being lent by the industry has halved in the past year.
Christopher Woolard, of the FCA, said the regulator had taken action because it was clear that payday loans had been pushing some people into unmanageable debt.
"For those people taking out payday loans, they should be able to borrow more cheaply from today, but also we make sure that people who should not be taking out those loans don't actually get them," he said.
The changes mean that if a borrower defaults, the interest on the debt will still build up, but he or she will never have to pay back interest of more than 100% of the amount borrowed.
There is also a Â£15 cap on a one-off default fee.
Russell Hamblin-Boone, of the Consumer Finance Association, a trade body for payday lenders, said the landscape of payday lending had changed.
"There will be fewer people getting loans from fewer lenders and the loans they get will no longer be the single payment loans for less than 30 days," he said.
"The loans that are available now will be for three months or more and they will be at slightly higher values as well. Very few loans will be rolled over."
The FCA's research suggests that 70,000 people who were able to secure a payday loan under the previous regulations would be unable to do so under the new, stricter rules.
They represent about 7% of current borrowers.
Mr Woolard argued that only a very small number would seek credit from unregulated loan sharks instead.
He added that the regulator would be monitoring the situation carefully.
He also said that the reforms needed time to bed down before their effect was assessed. There has been some criticism that the initial review is scheduled in two years.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of Which?, said that the changes came "not a moment too soon".
"The regulator has clearly shown it's prepared to take tough action to stamp out unscrupulous practices, and they must keep the new price cap under close review," he said.
"It is now time to turn the spotlight on unfair practices in the wider credit market. We want to see an end to excessive fees that also make it hard to compare different loans, including those charged for unauthorised overdrafts and credit cards."


Former UK PM David Cameron has stood down as an MP, triggering a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney.

Mr Cameron, 49, who resigned as prime minister after June's EU referendum, said he did not want to be a "distraction" for new PM Theresa May
He said Mrs May had "got off to a cracking start", while she praised his "great strides" on social reform.
Mr Cameron, 49, has represented Witney since 2001, becoming Conservative leader in 2005 and PM in 2010.
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Speaking in his constituency, he said it had been a "great honour" to be an MP for the area, but said it would be difficult for him to remain on the backbenches without becoming "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government.
He denied his announcement was related to the government's moves towards allowing new grammar schools, a policy he rejected as PM.
He said the timing was coincidental, adding that there were "many good things" in the proposed education reforms.
"Obviously I'm going to have my own views about different issues," he said.
"People would know that and that's really the point. As a former prime minister it is very difficult, I think, to sit as a backbencher and not be an enormous diversion and distraction from what the government is doing."
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Friends say that David Cameron's decision has not been made in a fit of pique, he has not merely flounced out because he doesn't like what his successor is doing.
But there was a "very real danger", particularly because he does not support the UK leaving the European Union, that anything he said, any comment he made could "drive a real wedge" between him and the government which could make life harder for Theresa May.
It is not that surprising that the man who used to be in charge has decided to go.
But his departure adds to the sense that May's Downing Street feels more like a new administration after a general election than a continuation of David Cameron's tenure - "it IS a new government", one senior Tory told me, "not everyone has understood that yet".
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Mr Cameron said Mrs May - his former home secretary - had been "very understanding" when he told her of his decision.
Asked about his legacy, and whether he would be remembered as the prime minister that took the UK out of the European Union, he said he hoped his tenure would be recalled for a strong economy and "important social reforms" and that he had transformed a Conservative Party that was "in the doldrums" into a "modernising winning force".
Mr Cameron won a 25,155 majority in 2015 in Witney, which has been held by the Conservatives since 1974.
He said he had not made any "firm decisions" on what to do next, adding that he wanted to continue to contribute to public life.
Mrs May said: "I was proud to serve in David Cameron's government - and under his leadership we achieved great things. Not just stabilising the economy, but also making great strides in delivering serious social reform."
She pledged to continue with his "one-nation government" approach.
Ex-Chancellor George Osborne said he was sorry his "great friend" was stepping down.
"We came into Parliament together, had a great partnership and I will miss him alongside me on the green benches over the coming years," he added.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he wished David Cameron "all the best for the future", adding he got on well with him on a "human level".
Speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn said: "We should respect people who move on to do something else with their lives. I want to wish him all the best for the future."
But Labour's Angela Eagle declined to add her voice to the tributes, telling the BBC Mr Cameron had "put his whole country at risk to settle a debate in his own party" through the EU referendum.
"He has now walked away leaving others to clear up the mess."
Ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister in coalition, said Mr Cameron had shown "great skill" in negotiating and listening to other views during their time in government.
Mr Clegg's successor as Lib Dem leader Tim Farron added: "He has lots of things that he should be proud of but sadly his legacy will be one of accidentally removing us from our closest friends and neighbours in Europe."
Former cabinet minister Ken Clarke told the BBC: "I'm a friend of David's, so I regret to say, I think for history his legacy will be he's the man who accidentally caused Britain to leave the European Union.
"There's no getting away from the fact that that will overshadow every other feature of his premiership."
Mr Cameron initially became prime minister in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, before securing an overall majority in 2015.
He pressed ahead with his pledge to hold a referendum on the UK's EU membership - campaigning hard for a Remain vote and warning of the economic and security consequences of Brexit.
But he finished on the losing side, announcing his resignation the day after the vote, saying outside Downing Street that "fresh leadership" was needed.
At the time, he said he would continue as an MP until the next general election.
The last prime minister to resign, Gordon Brown, remained in the Commons for five years after his general election defeat in 2010, while Tony Blair stood down as an MP when he resigned as PM.


Archaeologists are to investigate the remains of a turf house building that they believe could have a connection to the Massacre of Glencoe.

The ruin was recently discovered at Achtriochtan, one of the places where some of the 38 murdered members of the MacDonald clan lived.
The killings in Glen Coe in February 1692 were carried out on the orders of the government.
A National Trust for Scotland team will visit the site next week.
The discovery was made during a routine inspection of known archaeological sites in the area by trust staff.
Little of the building survives, but the workers were able to see the rough rectangular outline of it.
The trust's head of archaeology Derek Alexander said: "We were very excited to discover these remains.
"Most of the archaeological sites in the glen are stone-built structures, likely to date to after the agricultural changes of the mid 18th or 19th Century.
"Prior to then, most buildings would have been built of turf, perhaps with one or two stones included in the base of the wall."
Mr Alexander added: "It is impossible to provide a precise date for the Achtriochtan structure from their surface remains alone, but by carrying out a detailed drawing of the site and undertaking a comprehensive photographic record we will provide a basis for any future research."
The members of the MacDonald clan were killed on 13 February by a detachment of government soldiers led by Capt Robert Campbell of Glen Lyon.
The events played a part in mobilising popular support across the Highlands for the Jacobite cause in the years leading to the 1715 uprising.
Years later, Sir Walter Scott wrote a poem about the events of 1692.
In February last year, lines from the poem were beamed on to the landscape of Glen Coe.


Police have said a driver involved in a fatal collision in Edinburgh may not have realised they had hit someone.

A 57-year-old man died after being struck by a car in a hit-and-run on Edinburgh's Comiston Road.
The incident took place at about 20:10 on Thursday.
The man who died had fallen onto the road before being hit by a small dark-coloured vehicle and police said the driver may not have realised what happened.
Ch Insp James Jones said: "Our investigations have shown that it is possible that the driver of the vehicle may not have been immediately aware they had struck a person.
"We would ask that anyone driving in the area of Comiston Road (Buckstone Terrace) around 8 pm on Thursday get in touch with us."


A motion of no confidence in South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has been defeated in parliament despite a spate of recent corruption scandals.

An anti-corruption probe last week raised allegations of misconduct against Mr Zuma.
Mr Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) has a huge majority in parliament and the opposition motion was defeated by 214 votes to 126.
This was his third time no confidence vote in less than a year.
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An investigation by the country's anti-corruption watchdog said a judicial inquiry should be set up to further investigate allegations of criminal activity in Mr Zuma's government.
The investigation found evidence that the Guptas, a business family with links to Mr Zuma, may have wielded undue political influence over the appointment of ministers.
Both Mr Zuma and the Guptas have denied any wrongdoing.
There have been a number of recent attempts by opposition parties to have Mr Zuma removed from the highest office - from protests to votes in parliament - but all have failed.
Several ANC stalwarts and members of Mr Zuma's government have called on him to resign following the release of a report by former public protector Thuli Mandosela into allegations of corrupt relations between his loyalists and the wealthy Gupta family.
But why does he continue to survive? Simply, the people who want him to go do not have the numbers to push him out of parliament.
Analysts have always said that the decision to sack Mr Zuma would need to come from the ANC itself and for that to happen, certain processes would need to be followed.
These include consensus from the ANC branches around the country and even a party congress where a new candidate would be put forward. The ANC is simply not united or even organised enough at the moment to successfully bring together all its members.
There are too many factions and none of them have the support of the masses - except one man.
So in the midst of the chaos, Mr Zuma who might be concerned about the rumblings within his party, knows he is still ahead of the pack.
"To put it plainly, we can choose Jacob Zuma, or we can choose South Africa," Mmusi Maimane, leader of the main opposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) which tabled the motion, told parliament during a heated debate.
"Many of you have been speaking out against him in recent weeks... I know that there are men and women in these ANC benches who want to do the right thing."
ANC minister Nomvula Mokonyane said the motion had been introduced "to distract the ANC... from dealing with the challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality".
In order for the motion to succeed, a large number of ANC MPs had to vote with the opposition - something which analysts said was always unlikely.
The ANC has been in power since 1994, after leading the fight against white minority rule.
However, last month, ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu called on the entire leadership to step down.
"When I said the entire ANC leadership that has already taken collective responsibility must take the fall, I meant everybody, myself included, including President Zuma," Mr Mthembu said.
Before the vote, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe defended Mr Zuma, noting that the report had not found anyone guilty.
Earlier this year, the Constitutional Court ruled that Mr Zuma had breached the country's constitution by refusing to repay government money spent on his private home in rural Nkandla.
This followed another report by the anti-corruption watchdog.
The DA also tabled a motion of no confidence in him then but it was defeated by 225 votes to 99.


Nigel Farage should take a break "as leader" of UKIP but not a break from being leader, the party's only MP says.

Douglas Carswell also told the BBC's Sunday Politics that the party needed to ensure it got the "tone" right in order to attract more voters.
It comes after Mr Carswell said in an article in the Times on Saturday that Mr Farage "needs to take a break now".
A bitter internal row has developed within UKIP after Mr Farage's resignation was rejected by the party.
Mr Carswell said: "I'm suggesting he takes a break as leader. I'm not suggesting he takes a break from being leader.
"Clearly the national executive has the authority, they're the ruling body.
"I'm told that they made a decision. I'm told it was a procedurally correct decision, he is the leader but I think it's important that as leader he takes a break and I think it's important that we work out how these complex questions are answered by a team.
"No one person has all the answers. I'm particularly concerned about tone, making sure we get a tone that ensures that the 27 million people who didn't vote for UKIP last week may be persuaded to vote for us in future."
The party has been beset by wrangling since Mr Farage agreed to stay on as leader, days after standing down after failing to get elected in Thanet South.
He had pledged before the general election that he would quit the post if he failed to get elected to Parliament.
Senior aide Matthew Richardson has left the party, following claims from MEP Patrick O'Flynn that Mr Farage had fallen under the influence of "inexperienced" advisers.
UKIP has also confirmed the departure of Mr Farage's chief of staff Raheem Kassam.
Mr Farage ruled out quitting as leader on BBC's Question Time on Thursday, saying he had "phenomenal" support, and has challenged his critics to decide whether they want to stay in the party.
In his article, Mr Carswell had said that "knowing how difficult it is to lead a party makes me admire Nigel Farage all the more".
"I know that I never could," he added, stressing that he would find it "impossible to simultaneously lead UKIP, be the voice of the party in the Commons, represent my Clacton constituents and at the same time be a husband and a dad".
However, he said that "even leaders need to take a break", adding: "Nigel needs to take a break now."
UKIP got nearly four million votes at the election, but returned only one MP - former Conservative Mr Carswell in the Clacton constituency.


The holder of a jackpot-winning EuroMillions ticket bought in the UK has come forward to claim their £93,388,943 prize, lottery operator Camelot has confirmed.

The identity of the winner is still unknown, and they can choose to remain anonymous if they wish.
The prize is the biggest in the UK this year and the sixth-biggest ever in the country.
The winner could receive their money by Monday, Camelot said.
"We're delighted Friday's ticket-holder has come forward to claim this truly life-changing prize," a National Lottery spokeswoman said.
The winning numbers in Friday's draw were 5, 8, 10, 11 and 37, with Lucky Stars numbers of 7 and 9. The jackpot had not been won since 26 May.
EuroMillions began in 2004 and the biggest prize in UK history was £161m, won by a Scottish couple in 2011.
Chris and Colin Weir, from Largs in Ayrshire, said they were "tickled pink" when they realised they had won the record-breaking prize.
The couple gave large donations to several causes, including £1m to the Scottish National Party's campaign for Scottish independence.
There was also a Thunderball draw on Friday, but no-one scooped the £500,000 top prize or the £5,000 second prize - and the biggest prize won was £250.
The unknown winners of the £93m are now in a position to buy everything from private islands to superstar footballers.
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At least 13 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Khost, officials say.

At least two children were among the wounded, the information ministry said.
The attacker targeted police vehicles in the centre of Khost. So far no group has claimed responsibility although the Taliban and the group known as Islamic State will be the main suspects.
There has been a surge in violence in several parts of Afghanistan recently - much of it involving the Taliban.
On Friday at least 15 soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar province.
Saturday's bombing took place as the country marked the first day of Ramadan, a month of prayer and fasting for Muslims.
It was detonated near a military base, officials say.
A public bus station bore most of the force of the blast which targeted Afghan security forces working with American troops in Khost province, ministry spokesman Najib Danish told the AFP news agency.
"The bodies are not recognisable and it is hard to say if they are civilians or security forces," he added.
The latest violence is a challenge for Nato-backed Afghan forces and raises further concerns about their ability to see off the militant threat.
Both the military and security forces have sustained unprecedented casualties recently in addition to a high level of desertions and numerous corruption scandals.
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The Taliban began their yearly spring offensive at the end of last month and soon afterwards the US said it was  considering the deployment of at least 3,000 more troops to bring a measure of stability to the country.
Last month, the Taliban killed at least 135 Afghan soldiers in a military compound near the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
US combat operations against the Taliban officially ended in 2014, but special forces have continued to provide support to Afghan troops.
The Taliban is believed  to control up to a third of Afghanistan, after gaining ground in the past two years.


A speeding driver who hit and killed a 78-year-old man during a police pursuit has been jailed for more than 10 years.

Gavin Dawes, 33, ploughed into Jonos Sasvari while driving in excess of 80mph in a 30mph zone, a court heard.
Pedestrian Mr Sasvari was killed when Dawes went through a red light at a crossing on Brighton's seafront.
Sentencing at Lewes Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Gold said: "This was an appalling course of driving as is possible to imagine."
He added: "You, Gavin Dawes, are solely responsible for the death of a 78-year-old man."
Officers began to pursue Dawes when he failed to stop for them in the Bear Road area.
After mowing down Mr Sasvari, he drove away with his front windscreen smashed, bonnet dented and number plate hanging off.
Dawes, of Phoenix Rise, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing.
He was sentenced to nine years, but will serve an additional 15 months for a previous dangerous driving incident which he was sentenced at the same time. It will run consecutively, totalling 10 years and three months.
He was also disqualified from driving for 10 years after his release from prison.
Daniel Frier, defending, said Dawes felt "guilt, remorse and sadness".
Richard Woolgar, 35, of Donald Hall Road, Brighton, was also jailed for 12 months for dangerous driving.
He was seen driving erratically alongside Mr Dawes, in the minutes before the crash, but the vehicles went separate ways.
There is an ongoing investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into what happened, including "the actions and decisions of the police officers who were in the area at the time".


A bill allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in the Scottish and local government elections has been passed unanimously at Holyrood.

The move follows a similar extension for the independence referendum last year.
The age extension was also supported in last year's Smith Commission on further devolution for Scotland.
The voting age will be lowered next spring, allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to take part in May's Holyrood election.
Extending the franchise to 16 and 17-year-olds during the referendum was widely considered a success in terms of engaging young people in politics.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "It has been a long-standing policy of this government to lower the voting age to 16 where we can and that policy now has, I am pleased to say, cross-party support across the chamber.
"I am delighted to have reached consensus on the principle.
"Building on that, I have been impressed by the thoughtful and passionate contributions that young people have made to the debate on the current proposals to extend the franchise permanently."
He said the Scottish Elections (Reduction of Voting Age) Bill  "provides a detailed, workable and practical framework to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to register for and vote in Scottish elections", replicating the work done during the referendum.
He added: "I think it is a real missed opportunity on the part of the UK government not to enable 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in the EU referendum."
Labour's Lewis Macdonald said: "This bill is notable in delivering a significant amount of change with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of agreement.
"In passing this bill we should celebrate the democratic participation of all our citizens, the 100,000 or so 16 and 17-year-olds, the million over-65s and everyone in between.
"We are extending the franchise precisely because we know from experience that democracy works."
Conservative MSP Annabel Goldie told MSPs that the bill was an important moment for young people and democracy.
"This bill heralds an exciting era for our young people," she said.
"I think it is an opportunity for them to continue their high level of engagement in topical affairs that we saw with the independence referendum."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "The ball is now in the court of Scotland's 16 and 17-year-olds to demand a fairer deal from all of Scotland's political parties.
"The right to vote comes with a responsibility to take part in our democratic debate.
"From cuts to college places to the crisis facing our hospitals, there are many issues which will benefit from the voice and power of 16 and 17-year-olds."
MSPs rejected a plea from Liberal Democrat Alison McInnes for the legislation to be altered so that Scottish ministers could decide if some young offenders could vote.
Young people aged 16 and 17 were not allowed to vote in the recent general election, and they will not be able to take part in the forthcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.
The UK government used a so-called "section 30" order, which avoids primary legislation, to pass power to the Scottish Parliament.
This mechanism was used to lend Holyrood the unequivocal legal authority to hold the independence referendum.


This is the moment two sheep were rescued after getting stuck on a cliff edge in Iceland.

10 October 2013 Last updated at 11:01 BST
Emergency teams had to tie ropes around the sheep and pull them to safety, as they dangled over the sea below.
The sheep had been stuck for several days.
All the action was caught on cameras attached to the rescuers helmets.
The rescue went to plan and the animals are now fine.


American Dustin Johnson became world number one for the first time with victory at the Genesis Open.

Johnson, 32, carded a par 71 on the final day to finish on 17 under with compatriot Scott Brown and Belgium's Thomas Pieters tied second on 12 under.
The US Open champion had to play both his third and fourth rounds on Sunday after storms disrupted the tournament.
England's Justin Rose finished in a five-way tie for third as he shot a fourth-round 68 to finish on 11 under.
"I believe in myself. I think I'm a great player," said Johnson after Sunday's victory in California. "To finally get a win at Riviera feels good because I've finished second here a couple of times, lost in a play-off, and felt I should have won a couple of other times."
Nearly seven hours of play were lost during Friday's storms with the second round delayed by a further two hours on Saturday to clear up the course.
Johnson was unable to start his third round on Saturday evening as bad light suspended play 17 minutes before he was scheduled to tee off.
But the American continued his fine form from the first two rounds, dropping only two shots over the entire weekend.
Victory preserves Johnson's record of having won at least once in each of the 10 seasons he has been a professional.
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Broadchurch is back for its third and final series - and has gone down well with TV critics.

Olivia Colman and David Tennant are back as DS Ellie Miller and DI Alec Hardy, this time investigating the rape of a woman in the fictional Dorset town.
She's played by former Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan return to play Beth and Mark Latimer, along with Arthur Darvill as local vicar Paul Coates.
Other cast members include  Lenny Henry, Georgina Campbell, Sarah Parish, Charlie Higson and Mark Bazeley.
The first episode, shown on Monday night, drew 7.5 million viewers.
That fell slightly short of the first episode of series two, which launched in 2015 to 7.6 million.
The debut episode of the first series, shown in 2013, pulled in 6.8 million.
Here's what the TV critics had to say about the start of the new series.
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A 4,000-year-old skeleton found on farmland in West Sussex was probably a warrior chief who was killed in battle, scientists have revealed.

Tests on the Bronze Age skeleton showed he was over 45 when he died, probably grew up in southern Britain around what is now West Sussex, and was 6ft tall.
The skeleton was found in 1989 during a dig near Westbourne led by archaeologist James Kenny.
It is now on display at The Novium Museum in Chichester.
The skeleton, known as Racton Man because of where he was found, was discovered with one of the earliest known bronze daggers in the UK, leading scientists to believe he was a tribal chief.
Experts said that wounds to his upper arm made around the time of his death which had never healed suggested he had died during a fight.
Mr Kenny, Chichester District Council's archaeologist, described the results as "staggering".
"The fact that this man had a bronze dagger would have been phenomenally rare then, let alone now," he said.
Specialists from England, Wales and Scotland analysed the skeleton's teeth, bones and weapon to learn about the man.
Some of the details learnt about Racton Man:
Dr Stuart Needham, a Bronze Age specialist who took part in the study, said Racton Man would have been "someone of great seniority".
"We don't understand the social structure of this time, but he would have been a very prominent member of society," Dr Needham said.
Isotope analysis on the skeleton's teeth revealed where he had grown up while radiocarbon dating showed he lived during the Bronze Age.
Racton Man was also found to be displaying signs of spinal degeneration, thought to be due to his age, and had suffered from a chronic sinus infection as well as an abscess and tooth decay.
While the skeleton was found in the 1980s, tests have only now been carried out after funding was made available by Chichester District Council.
Councillor Myles Cullen, a cabinet member for the council, said: "To think that we can discover such detail about a man who died more than 4,000 years ago, while learning more about the country's history, is just incredible."


Starbucks said global sales increased 18% to $4.9bn in the quarter to 28 June - its highest ever quarterly revenue.

"Among the strongest and most remarkable quarters in our over 23 years as a public company," is how boss Howard Schultz has described its third quarter performance.
The rise was mostly thanks to it buying out its previous Japanese partner Starbucks Japan and new store openings.
The world's largest coffee chain opened 431 new stores in the period.
Like-for-like sales - which strip out the effect of new store openings - increased by 7%.
And total net profit rose 22% to $626.7m.
Mr Schultz said the sales increase meant it had served 23 million more customers in the quarter compared to the same period last year.  Of those 18 million were from the US.
It said its loyalty programme had helped to drive its strong performance. The chain has worked with other firms such as ride-sharing service Lyft and music streaming firm Spotify.
Both firms give their customers a chance to earn Starbucks "starts" which can be used in the coffee chain's shops.
Shares rose more than 3% in after hours trading.


Harry Redknapp is open to the possibility of extending his spell in charge of Jordan beyond an initial two-game deal.

The former Tottenham boss, 69, has agreed to oversee upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bangladesh and Australia.
Jordan must win them both to reach the third round of Asian qualifying for the 2018 finals in Russia.
"If we win them and everyone is happy I'd love to come back," said Redknapp.
"We have to make sure we win. At the moment it's two games but we'll look to the future after these two games. There's nothing I would like more than to be successful in these games."
Jordan, who have never qualified for a World Cup, are second in their group in the second of three phases of Asian qualifying.
Redknapp, who has also taken up an advisory role at Championship side Derby County, was approached by Jordan Football Association president Prince Ali bin Al Hussein earlier this month about taking charge of the side ranked 82nd in the world.
It is Redknapp's first managerial position since leaving Queens Park Rangers in January 2015.
"He is a world-class manager and he has proven that throughout his career," said former Fifa presidential hopeful Prince Ali.
"It is very rare you have people of this class. I spoke to many people but immediately it became evident Harry is the man for the job."


Thieves who stole five World War Two medals from an Edinburgh house while the elderly homeowner was asleep are being sought by police.

The break-in happened on Sunday morning in The Grange area.
The veteran woke to discover that five medals were missing, along with a large quantity of cash, two gold wedding bands and three antique watches.
Police said the medals had "great sentimental value" and appealed for witnesses.
Det Insp Alan O'Brien, of Police Scotland, said:  "This is an upsetting incident for the elderly occupant, who is understandably concerned at the loss of several items carrying a great deal of sentimental value.
"We are eager to speak to anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity in The Grange area overnight from Saturday into Sunday morning.
"The owner is very keen to see the property returned. Anyone who can help us with our inquiries is urged to come forward."


Wakefield missed out on a top-four finish to the regular season on points difference after defeat by St Helens.

A 14-point loss would have been enough for fourth place, but they trailed 24-6 at half-time after four Saints tries, including one from James Roby.
Scott Grix and Mason Caton-Brown went over to make it 28-16 and put Trinity above Salford on points difference.
But Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook and Zeb Taia scored and a late Danny Richardson drop goal extended Saints' margin.
Their victory in the final Super League game before the Super 8s/Qualifiers split was only their second away from home this season, but their fifth in a row at Wakefield.
The result also confirmed Salford Red Devils in fourth, their highest regular-season finish since 1976, despite a 25-0 loss to struggling Leigh Centurions on Friday.
Richardson had earlier begun the scoring with the first try of the match, and that was followed by further Saints tries from Roby, Tommy Makinson and Regan Grace - with Matty Ashurst replying for the hosts.
And despite a brief fightback from Wakefield, Justin Holbrook's side pulled further away to firm up their position in sixth.
Wakefield boss Chris Chester:  "We didn't get off to great start. They came out of the blocks a lot quicker and got some momentum.
"We couldn't contain their pack and we got taught a few lessons from a red-hot team.
"It hurts that we've thrown away third spot and thrown away fourth spot but I'm also proud of this group of players because we've achieved what people thought we couldn't, the top six.
"We've made it a little bit tougher for ourselves with only three home games (in the Super 8s) but we've been written off all season and we'll use that to motivate us."
St Helens coach Justin Holbrook:  "We're showing we're right in the mix, which is exciting. We're heading in the right direction for sure.
"I would have liked to carry on but unfortunately we're not in the Challenge Cup semis so we'll have a week off.
"It was a really good performance from us today. The first half was really pleasing.
"We knew how big a game it was for both teams and we really turned up. We lost our way a bit in the second half but found it again at the back end."
Wakefield: Grix, Jones-Bishop, Lyne, B Tupou, Caton-Brown, Williams, Finn, Walker, Wood, Huby, Hadley, Ashurst, Arona.
Replacements: Kirmond, Hasson, Fifita, England.
St Helens: Lomax, Makinson, Morgan, Percival, Grace, Fages, Richardson, Douglas, Roby, Thompson, Taia, Peyroux, Wilkin.
Replacements: Walmsley, Amor, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Knowles.
Referee: James Child


Two hundred body bags have been placed on Brighton beach in a protest to highlight the UK's response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.

Amnesty International supporters are zipped into some of the bags in the first few rows, alongside a banner saying #DontLetThemDrown.
Bags are lined up in rows in front of the East Sussex resort's Big Wheel close to the pier.
The protest comes ahead of an EU leaders' meeting over the crisis.
David Cameron will attend the summit in Brussels, which will discuss a response to the growing problem.
Amnesty UK director Kate Allen said: "Until now, the UK government's response has been shameful but finally they have been woken up to the need to act.
"EU governments must now urgently turn their rhetoric into action to stop more people drowning on their way to Europe."


Shelley Kerr is to take over from Anna Signeul as Scotland head coach after the women's Euro 2017 finals.

Signeul, who has been in charge since 2005, will leave following the summer tournament in the Netherlands, having agreed to manage Finland.
Kerr, 47, has been in charge of Lowland League side Stirling University since 2014.
Capped 59 times for Scotland, she was also manager of Arsenal Ladies, winning the FA Women's Cup twice.
Kerr's coaching career began while playing for Kilmarnock in 2004 and she had spells in charge at Hibernian and Spartans, while looking after the Scotland Under-19s from 2009-13.
The BBC expects an official announcement on her appointment on Monday.
Scotland's women are taking part in their first major finals and have been drawn in Group D alongside England, Portugal and Spain.
They continue their preparations for the finals with a friendly against Belgium on 11 April in Leuven.
Kerr will be in charge for the 2019 World Cup qualifying campaign, which begins in September.
Scotland will be seeded in Pot B along with Belgium, Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, Austria and Russia for the draw for Europe's qualifying groups on 25 April.
Top seeds Germany, England, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland and Italy are in Pot A.


She has treated malaria in Uganda, works in pre and post-op surgery and was once late for football training after delivering a baby.

It is a busy life for Dr Helen King, the Oxford United midfielder.
While her team-mates were in pre-season training, the 24-year-old was in East Africa where - in graphic detail - she recalls being among a small group of medical students on hand to deal with a patient affected by severe malaria.
"One night a guy, about 18 years old, was basically unconscious and not really protecting his own airway, fitting, and he was repeatedly throwing up and inhaling his own vomit," said King, who is just weeks into her career as a doctor at the £430m Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
"There were three of us medical students, a couple of nurses, and about 12 of the patient's family all standing around watching us.
"Although we had done simulation training in med school, obviously in the UK as a med student you are right at the back of the room in any of those situations, so it was kind of my first experience of trying to take control in that situation and deal with the problem."
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After that kind of life or death experience, facing a Notts County side led by an all-star cast of England's bronze medal-winning World Cup players is not such an intimidating prospect.
And while the shift patterns of a junior doctor have forced her to miss matches, King managed to put down her stethoscope long enough to put her boots on and score against Women's Super League One side Notts in their midweek Continental Cup group game.
It is a juggling act the Oxford University graduate is used to, having travelled countless miles, clocked up long hours at work, along with writing essays, training for and playing matches.
"I pride myself on being pretty efficient with my time-keeping, but there was one time I had to text Rich (Blackmore), our general manager, to tell him that I would be late because I'd been waiting all day to deliver a baby, which had come at the most inopportune time, so I obviously stayed for the delivery," King told BBC Sport.
Increasingly, trying to be in two places at one time is an issue for the young medical professional.
"It has been an eye-opening experience. I was thrown in a bit at the deep end as my first shift was a night shift, and you tend to be one of not too many doctors in the hospital and are dealing with whatever issues come up at that time.
"At the moment I'm taking it training session by training session and game by game, really clinging on to my football career as long as possible."
The former Bristol Academy midfielder is pleased to be playing the game at a time when is it still possible to build a career off the pitch without compromising on anything but sleep.
"For the women's game, it is amazing that it is becoming increasingly professional," King said.
"Obviously it is driving up standards and means that the majority of WSL 1 players can make a living out of football.
"I've been fortunate to play at a time when there is a real professional attitude and the standard is higher than it has ever been, but if you are determined enough you can just about manage to combine that with starting a career in another area as well.
"Personally, I would have hated to not pursue one or the other."
Last season, King was part of a diverse squad of part-timers, including a dental nurse, accountant and teacher, who featured for Oxford in their first season in WSL 2 - the second-tier of English football.
The unheralded outfit finished second from bottom, but this season have already surpassed last term's points tally and are on track for a mid-table finish.
Playing for Oxford in the newly-established semi-professional league is something she never imagined would happen.
"Having the experience to play at a high level and with the level of professionalism that women's football has got to now was something completely new and nothing I thought I'd experience," she said.
Life on the pitch and shifts looking after the sick are worlds apart, but be it in an Oxford United shirt or scrubs, King has found plenty of joy.
"I don't score too many goals, so they are pretty special when they do come along," she smiled.
"In medicine it is a massive privilege to be dealing with what, for a lot of patients, is one of the most significant events in their life, getting ill or having an operation. Obviously it is not usually a good event for them, but being there to help people through that is massive.
"It is rarely as exciting or dramatic as Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs make it look, but just occasionally you get some pretty exciting moments and sometimes feel that you have actually intervened directly and positively. That is hard to beat."


Robbie Keane and Anthony Pilkington have been ruled out of the Republic of Ireland's friendly against Switzerland on Friday night at the Aviva Stadium.

Keane has taken longer than expected to recover from a knock sustained at the weekend while Pilkington has been troubled by persistent knee concerns.
Jonathan Walters will not play because of a hamstring injury but should be fit to face Slovakia on Tuesday.
Bournemouth's Harry Arter will miss both games after damaging his Achilles.
Republic manager Martin O'Neill has vowed to use the first of two games in four days to run the rule over some of his squad's fringe players.
With skipper Keane and Cardiff midfielder Pilkington out of contention, it may free up the boss to experiment.
"Robbie's still sore," said O'Neill at his pre-match press conference on Thursday.
"He got a bit of a knock and he's taking a little bit longer to get over it than he expected. He probably won't be available for Friday but we'll look at it again over the weekend."
Pilkington will also be reassessed ahead of the clash with Slovakia.
O'Neill is keen to get a look at Blackburn defender Shane Duffy and Brentford midfielder Alan Judge over the two games.
There will be also a start in one of the games for Newcastle goalkeeper Rob Elliot.
O'Neill said it would take some effort for a player to emerge from the pack to make the squad as James McClean did ahead of Euro 2012 four years ago, but has reminded his hopefuls that a new World Cup qualifying campaign is just around the corner.
He added: "Let's be fair about it, the players who are coming in late here have a bit to do, I must admit. Everything would probably have to go pretty well for them individually.
"But it's not impossible and it's happened before, and that's why I'd like to open the door for them, to feel as if they have got a chance.
"And for instance, one or two of them - let's say they didn't make it - they know they are right maybe for the World Cup campaign coming up almost immediately."