Taylor Swift signed off the UK leg of her world tour in style with an open-air show featuring one of Britain's top models.

Cara Delevigne waved a Union Jack flag as she joined the singer on stage before a 65,000-strong crowd at London's Hyde Park.
Tennis champion Serena Williams and model Kendall Jenner also appeared in a catwalk-themed section of Swift's set.
The pop star said she would "remember this night for the rest of [her] life".
"I remember seven years ago when I played my first UK show," she said. "King's College [in London] had sold out and there were a few hundred people.
"I was surprised that a few hundred people would come to see me perform and now I'm looking at 65,000 people in Hyde Park.
"This is one of those nights where I'm aware I'm going to be taking mental snapshots so I can remember this night for the rest of my life," the singer continued.
The speech was one of several extended confessionals from a performer whose closeness to her fans became literal during a section where a giant rotating bridge suspended her above the heads of her adoring acolytes.
Swift's fans - nicknamed "Swifties" - were caught on the hop on Saturday when their idol began her gig 15 minutes earlier than scheduled.
Wearing a green sequinned jacket and purple skirt, she opened her set with Welcome to New York, a trademark anthem of emphatic self-assertion.
Supported by 12 male dancers, four female backing singers and a five-man band, the concert featured 17 more songs and seven additional costume changes in the two-hour set.
Sartorial highlights included a figure-hugging black leather catsuit, a summery pink frock lit by LED lights and a silver gown encrusted with crystals.
Props, meanwhile, included an ornate silver piano, a golf club - wielded menacingly as she sang Blank Space, a self-parodying paean to her media portrayal as a serial dater - and illuminated umbrellas used in a Singin' In The Rain-style "brolly ballet".
Swift's decision to distance herself from her country past was illustrated by a setlist dominated by songs from her latest release, the pop-leaning 1989.
Yet she found time to reinvent some of her older material, refashioning Love Story as a 1980s-style synth track and turning We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together into a noisy rock stomp with one booted foot in Glastonbury.
Filmed inserts showed Lena Dunham, Delevigne and others extolling the singer's virtues and Swift herself cradling her two cats, the quirkily named Dr Meredith Grey and Detective Olivia Benson.
The evening ended with Shake It Off, a defiantly upbeat tune which saw "Tay Tay" back on her bridge in a purple crop top and miniskirt.
It was a triumphant climax to an eventful week that began with Swift exhorting tech giant Apple to rethink the artist payment policy of its new music streaming service.
The 25-year-old plays two concerts in Dublin next week before returning to North America to continue her 1989 tour, named after her latest album as well as the year of her birth.
Ellie Goulding and John Newman also performed in Hyde Park on Saturday as part of the British Summer Time series of day-long mini-festivals.


US senators in a key committee have agreed on a draft resolution backing the use of US military force in Syria.

The measure to be voted on next week sets a time limit of 60 days on any operation. The draft document also bans the use of any ground forces in Syria.
Secretary of State John Kerry said the US had to act after the Assad regime's "undeniable" chemical weapons attack.
The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, endorsed Mr Obama's call for military action.
According to a copy of the draft resolution obtained by AFP news agency, the senators wish to restrict the operation to a "limited and tailored use of the United States Armed Forces against Syria".
The resolution states that "the president may extend" a 60-day operation "for a single period of 30 days" if he obtains further specific Congressional approval.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
"The authority granted... does not authorise the use of the United States Armed Forces on the ground in Syria for the purpose of combat  operations," the statement added.
The BBC's North America Editor Mark Mardell in Washington says it is by no means the definitive motion, but it is a strong indication of the way committee members are thinking.
No 'armchair isolationism'
The draft was released after Mr Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The secretary of state said there was evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that the forces of President Bashar al-Assad prepared for a chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August.
Mr Kerry told the senators the President was not asking America to go to war. "He is asking only for the power to make clear, to make certain, that the United States means what we say."
Standing aside, he said, would allow other countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction.
"This is not the time for armchair isolationism," Mr Kerry added . "This is not the time to be spectators to slaughter.''
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Some elements of the Syrian chemical weapons complex may be buried underground but large parts of it can easily be seen on satellite images.
Much of it is reasonably close to populated areas - and this is the problem.
Attacking such sites with regular explosive bombs might well wreak considerable damage but it could also open up chemical weapons stocks to the air, disperse them over a large area, and potentially cause large numbers of civilian casualties
Can US hit Syria's chemical weapons?
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and the top US military officer, Gen Martin Dempsey, also appeared before the Senate panel.
Mr Hagel said that "the word of the United States must mean something", and echoed Mr Kerry when adding: "A refusal to act would undermine the credibility of America's other security commitments, including the president's commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon."
Earlier on Tuesday President Obama met key congressional leaders at the White House. He said a "limited" strike was needed to degrade Syrian government's capabilities in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack.
Mr Boehner said he supported Mr Obama's call for action, and that only the US had the capacity to stop President Assad. Mr Boehner urged his colleagues in Congress to follow suit.
Tough sell
Mr Obama also won the backing of Eric Cantor, the House of Representatives' majority leader.
But the BBC's Jane O'Brien, in Washington, says Mr Obama still faces a tough task winning the support of the American people.
The latest opinion poll shows public opposition to involvement in the Syrian conflict is growing, with six out of 10 Americans against missile strikes and lawmakers also divided.
Mr Obama is now travelling to Sweden, ahead of a G20 meeting in Russia later in the week that is sure to be dominated by Syria.
France has strongly backed the US plan for military action.
President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday: "When a chemical massacre takes place, when the world is informed of it, when the evidence is delivered, when the guilty parties are known, then there must be an answer."
He called for Europe to unite on the issue, but said he would wait for the Congress vote.
If Congress did not support military action France "would not act alone", he said.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron had also backed Mr Obama, but Parliament rejected a resolution on military action.
At the US hearing, Mr Kerry said the possibility of such a defeat in Congress was "too dire" to contemplate.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had earlier said that the organisation's charter permitted military action only in self defence or with the agreement of the Security Council.
Mr Ban said a US military response could create more turmoil, but that if chemical weapons had been used in Syria then the Security Council should unite and take action against what would be "an outrageous war crime".
The US has put the death toll from the attack on the outskirts of Damascus on 21 August at 1,429, including 426 children, though other countries and organisations have given lower figures.
The Syrian government denies any involvement and blames rebels for the attack.
In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro on Monday, President Assad warned that foreign military action could ignite a wider regional conflict.
Earlier, the UN refugee agency said that more than two million Syrians were now registered as refugees, after the total went up by a million in the past six months.
As well as those who have left the country, a further 4.25 million have been displaced within Syria, the UNHCR says, meaning that more people from Syria are now forcibly displaced than from other country.
The UN says this is the worst refugee crisis for 20 years, with numbers not seen since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.


The family members of pop singer Prince have begun the process of dividing up the American singer's sizeable assets.

Prince Rogers Nelson left no known will and his assets are estimated to be worth about $100m (Â£68m).
The singer died at his Paisley Park compound outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 21 April.
His sister, Tyka Nelson, and half-siblings are the apparent heirs to his estate, authorities have said.
Ms Nelson and and Prince's half-sibling Alfred Jackson attended a hearing on Monday at the Carver County courthouse in Minnesota, where lawyers began surveying the singer's estate.
If no will is found, the state will determine how the money is divided up.
During the short hearing, Judge Kevin Eide formally appointed Bremer Trust National Association as the special administration to oversee Prince's probate case.
One attorney said there was an "ongoing search" for a will.
Investigators are still determining how the singer, songwriter and producer died.
Prescription painkillers were in the singer's possession when he died. But it is unclear what role, if any, those drugs may have played.
A law enforcement official confirmed to the Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether Prince died from a drug overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death.
They are also looking at whether a doctor was on a plane that made an emergency landing in Illinois less than a week before the singer died. He was taken to a hospital in Illinois, but was treated and released a few hours later.
A vault containing unreleased Prince songs was found at his estate and will be drilled open by the company with temporary authority over his estate, according to ABC News.
He told US TV programme The View about his unreleased music in 2012.
"One day, someone will release them. I don't know that I'll get to release them," he said. "There's just so many."
Enough music was apparently left behind to release an album a year for the next century.
His former recording engineer, Susan Rodgers, said: "We could put out more work in a month than most people could do in a year or more."


Prince Charles asked the Blair government to consider the culling of badgers, historic documents reveal.

In a 2005 letter, the prince referred to "the most pressing and urgent problem" of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, which was "caused and spread" by badgers.
He wrote: "I do urge you to look again at introducing a proper cull of badgers where it is necessary.
The Labour government later rejected a cull in the English countryside.
The revelations come from private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour ministers a decade ago, which have been published after a lengthy legal battle.
Prince Charles wrote: "I, for one, cannot understand how the 'badger lobby' seem to mind not at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an over-population of badgers - to me, this is intellectually dishonest."
In reply, Mr Blair said he could "personally see the case for culling badgers" but did not want to prejudge a decision by environment ministers".
The coalition led by David Cameron gave the go-ahead for pilot culls in England in 2013.
These are expected to resume for a third year in the Southwest this year and may be rolled out to other areas of England.
Other letters written by the prince reveal more details of his interest in agriculture.
He appealed for support for farmers and British-grown produce, and raised his "anxiety" about the country's lack of self-sufficiency in foods such as meat and vegetables.
He also mentioned "the enormous problem of climate change", praising "the remarkable leadership role" the government was taking in this area.


The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has voted to allow congregations to ordain gay ministers who are in same sex civil partnerships.

Delegates voted 309 in favour and 183 against.
The vote followed a church-wide debate and consultations with all 45 presbyteries, which voted 31 to 14 in favour of change.
A further vote will be held this week on whether or not to extend ordination to ministers in same sex marriages.
Supporters said it was time for the church to be inclusive and recognise the "mixed economy" of modern Scotland.
Opponent warned that the move was contrary to God's law, would prove divisive and lead to resignations.


The sovereign debt crisis continues to unfold in Europe, with every country appearing to get sucked in.

In October European leaders reached another deal to try to stop the contagion. But which countries are most at risk and why?
Three nations in the eurozone - the 17 nations that use the euro - have been recipients of bailouts as attempts to solve the crisis keep stalling.
Italy became the latest to feel the domino effect of the markets when its debt rating was lowered, the latest in a series of downgrades.
Greece, Spain, the Irish Republic and even Cyprus have also had their ratings cut this year. The future of the euro is being questioned in a way it never has since 1999.
Which countries have fallen, and which are feared to be next?
The problem: Greece's huge debts, about 340bn euros (Â£297bn; $478bn).
In late 2009, after months of speculation and sovereign debt crises in Iceland and the Middle East, Greece finally admitted its debts were the highest in the country's modern history.
Since then, a 110bn-euro bailout was passed by the eurozone last year and a second bailout of roughly the same size was agreed earlier this year - but not yet passed.
Most observers remain highly sceptical of Greece's ability to ever repay its huge mountain of debt. Talk persists of an unprecedented default or of Greece leaving the eurozone.
Because of the interconnectedness of the European economy, this would cause huge losses for French and German banks.
Thus, though Greece has been bailed out, fears of it running out of money continue to plague investors.
International credit markets remain wary of Greece because of its sovereign debt rating.
Ratings: Greece is now considered to be "junk" by the ratings agencies, meaning it has a very high chance of defaulting. S&P has cut its debt seven times since 2009, from A to CC, the third-lowest rung on its rating scale.
S&P: CC
Moody's: Ca
The problem: Italy has the highest total debt in the eurozone, amid stagnant growth.
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This affects the interest rate.
Ratings are divided into investment grade and sub-investment grade, and borrowers choose according to the level of risk they are willing to accept.
A credit downgrade can make it more expensive for a government to borrow money.
Of the agencies, Standard & Poor's is the oldest, started in 1860 to rate the finances of US railroads.
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In the summer, the country was charged record levels to borrow, which prompted renewed calls to pass spending cuts.
The alternative, selling more debt, was unsustainable at rates that reached 6%.
Rome laid out 60bn euros of austerity measures and aims to balance its budget by 2013, but markets have been concerned over its growing debt load in relation to GDP - the second-highest behind Greece in the eurozone.
If Italy was to be bailed out, few think that the eurozone (or Germany in particular) could actually afford it.
But Italy has the advantage of having most of its debt owed to its own people rather than external investors. This buys it more breathing room than, say, Greece.
Ratings: Italy was last triple-A in 1995. Since then, its rating has been fairly stable near the top of the investment grade rankings.
S&P: A
Moody's: Aa2
The problem: The housing boom turned to bust, leaving the country's banks loaded with bad debt and the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone.
Spain has also seen record borrowing costs recently, forcing its government to adopt numerous austerity measures to get its finances under control.
Spain, like Italy, is considered too expensive a proposition for the eurozone to realistically bail out.
This is why the eurozone has tried to help lower its cost of borrowing, rather than give it loans as it did to its neighbour, Portugal.
Ratings: Last at the highest rating in 1992, the Iberian nation has been cut twice since 2009.
S&P: AA
Moody's: Aa2
The problem: The country's banks bear a heavy exposure to Greek debt.
While France's public finances have not yet been questioned heavily by the market, its banks have seen sharp falls on the stock market.
In September, Moody's downgraded Credit Agricole and Societe Generale after reviewing their exposure to Greek debt.
Credit Agricole and Societe Generale have seen their share prices fall by about two-thirds since February, while BNP has fallen by more than half.
France has also announced plans to cut spending by 45bn euros over the next three years.
Ratings: France was given the top rating by Moody's in 1988, and kept it ever since, despite anaemic growth.
S&P: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
The problem: Most of its neighbours are broke.
Unlike many of its neighbours, Germany enjoyed vigorous economic growth - GDP rose by 3.6% in 2010. Unemployment is lower than before the 2008 crisis.
And the government plans to cut the budget deficit by a record 80bn euros by 2014.
While that growth has slowed, the main problem is that Europe's largest economy is the biggest contributor to the bailout fund used to help stricken nations.
And Germany's banks have a heavy exposure to debt from Greece, Europe's biggest headache.
This means in the event of a Greek default, Germany would probably have to bail out its own banks.
But having taken the lead in bailing out three nations - Greece twice - how many more can the country afford?
Ratings: Following reunification, the country was given the highest possible creditworthiness by S&P in 1992 and Moody's in 1993.
S&P: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
The problem: UK banks have a heavy exposure to Irish debt.
Other than that, the UK has been relatively unscathed, while its eurozone neighbours endure turmoil.
The coalition government has announced the biggest cuts in state spending since World War II.
UK gilts are viewed as one of the safest investments in the world, with the country's borrowing costs falling to recent lows.
But the situation remains precarious. The country's budget deficit was 10.3% last year - this is just behind Greece, greater than Spain's and more than triple that of Germany.
Ratings: In 2009, S&P lowered its outlook on British debt to "negative" from "stable" for the first time since the agency started rating its public finances in 1978. But the triple-A rating has been affirmed since 1993.
S&P: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
The problem: The country's banking system collapsed.
The country's biggest banks were taken under government control in the financial crisis and recapitalised. The cost of doing that has been about 70bn euros.
The Irish received a bailout worth 85bn euros from the eurozone and IMF, then passed the toughest budget in the nation's history.
Since then, the IMF has said the Irish Republic is "showing signs of stabilisation" and there is a sense that the worst has now passed.
Ratings: The Irish Republic held the highest triple-A rating as recently as 2001. S&P has cut it five times since 2009.
S&P: BBB+
Moody's: Ba1
The problem: A shrinking economy straining its budget.
The country has been the third to get a bailout, worth 78bn euros. The previous government fell after failing to pass austerity measures, which the subsequent government had passed.
Investors have since moved on to ongoing worries about Greece, Spain and Italy.
Ratings: Portugal has been cut four times since 2009. It was once triple-A, way back in 1993.
S&P: BBB-
Moody's: Ba2


Newport County manager Graham Westley has questioned whether the club is getting value for money from its leasing deal at Rodney Parade.

County are tenants at the ground which is also used by rugby teams Newport Gwent Dragons and Newport RFC.
Three football matches have been postponed or abandoned this season and a Football League investigation is reported to have found the current situation unsustainable.
"The pitch is a disgrace," he said.
"It's not a pitch which should be a venue for the Football League.
"For me, if it was a contract that I'd negotiated - and I haven't seen the contract - I'd be asking some serious questions whether the investment has gone in and whether we are getting value for money."
The ground is owned by Rodney Parade Limited, who in 2013 agreed a 10-year lease for the football club to use the ground.
Newport Gwent Dragons coach Kingsley Jones is not concerned about the surface from a rugby playing point of view.
He said: "The pitch was excellent against Enisei (on January 13). It's not perfect, we know that and it's a heavy work-load. But it was a real fast track."
The state of the pitch after heavy rain has been a long-running concern for Newport County though, with previous Exiles manager John Sheridan criticising the club's ground staff when an FA Cup third-round tie against Blackburn was postponed.
This season, two games - against Morecambe and Barnet - were abandoned at half-time and a match against Stevenage was postponed on 1 October.
Westley continued: "If you're our football club and you're saying 'you've accepted a contract to enable us to play Football League games on your pitch' - have you really put the investment in to put this pitch in order?
"'Is this pitch really being looked after in a way that is deserving of you accepting money from us to play Football League matches on it?'
"The guys at the top of the club who negotiated that arrangement, I'm sure they're feeling let down.
"I'm sure they're feeling that things aren't in order but I'm sure equally they're trying to reach a solution."
Newport County are bottom of League Two and Westley believes the state of the pitch is hindering the club's battle to avoid the drop.
"As a football manager you have to try and construct a game of football from the dinosaur age," he said.
"That's no good to you as a coach, you can't show what you can do. You just have to construct a rugby game, for a rugby pitch and do the best that you can do.
"We can't even train there so it's not as if we can get used to the surface or make real use of home advantage."
Rodney Parade Limited has declined to comment.


Fifa president Gianni Infantino has defended the expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams, insisting the change was based on "sporting merit" and not to make money.

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The sport's world governing body voted unanimously in favour of the change at a meeting in Zurich on Tuesday.
Campaign group New Fifa Now described the expansion as "a money grab and power grab".
But Infantino told the BBC: "It is the opposite, it's a football decision."
He added: "Every format has advantages in financial terms. We were in a comfortable situation to take a decision based on sporting merit."
An initial stage of 16 groups of three teams will precede a knockout stage for the remaining 32 with the change coming in for the 2026 tournament.
According to Fifa research, revenue is predicted to increase to £5.29bn for a 48-team tournament, giving a potential profit rise of £521m.
"This is a historic decision which marks the entrance of the World Cup into the 21st Century," added Infantino.
The Football Association has urged Fifa to consider the needs of fans, players, teams and leagues and asked for more information on how the tournament would work, with Infantino admitting much of the detail has yet to be worked out.
The European Club Association (ECA), which represents the interests of clubs at European level, reiterated it was against expansion. It said Fifa had made a political rather than a sporting decision.
New Fifa Now says the governing body needs to reform, and that the change would "dilute the competitiveness of the tournament".
Infantino, however, maintains the expansion will increase the quality of the teams in the competition.
"Costa Rica eliminated England and Italy in the last World Cup, a good solid team and there are many other teams who could make it to the World Cup," he said.
"I believe that the actual quality could rise, because many more countries will have the chance to qualify so they will invest in their elite football as well as grassroots."
Responding to criticism from European clubs, Infantino added: "The game has changed. Football has now become a truly global game. Everyone is happy about investment in Europe, but what about helping outside Europe? They need to be open.
"The key message from clubs I appreciate fully has always been don't touch the calendar, the dates of the World Cup or the burden for the players, and both these commissions fulfil them.
"We will play 32 days like now, we play maximum seven matches like now, 12 stadiums, like now, but give the chance for more countries to dream."
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The number of tournament matches will rise to 80, from 64, but the eventual winners will still play only seven games.
The tournament will be completed within 32 days - a measure to appease powerful European clubs, who objected to reform because of a crowded international schedule.
The changes mark the first World Cup expansion since 1998.
Infantino said the decision on who will get the extra qualification slots has yet to be made but "this will be looked at speedily", adding: "The only sure thing is that everyone will have a bit more representation than they have."
The president said he believed the World Cup could emulate what he felt was a successful Euro 2016 tournament, where the number of teams taking part was similarly increased.
Qualifying for last year's tournament featured a record 53 nations, while the number of teams at the finals increased from 16 to 24.
"It was the most interesting in the history of the European Championship," said Infantino.
"All the other teams started to believe in their chance to qualify and play matches with a different mindset that they could qualify.
"We saw Wales, Iceland, Northern Ireland qualify, some for the first time, some for first time in many years. The Netherlands always qualify, but they didn't. Qualifying created a whole new dynamic and hopefully we will do the same."


(Close): Wall Street sank on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said US growth had slowed down.

Investors offloaded technology companies, already under pressure following a shaky outlook from Apple, as well as consumer stocks such as cruise lines.
There were also disappointing results from Boeing, whose shares fell almost 9%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 1.4% lower at 15,944 points.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.1% to 1,882 points, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 2.2% to 4,468 points.
Shares in Apple fell 6.5% after the technology giant reported only marginal growth for iPhone sales.
Shares in aircraft maker Boeing suffered their biggest one-day loss in 14 years after saying that revenue and deliveries could fall in 2016. Boeing shares ended $11.40 lower at $116.61.
Facebook shares closed down almost 3%, but soared more than 12% in after-hours trading after more than doubling profits for the last three months of 2015.
US crude rose 2.7% to close at $32.30 a barrel in New York, while Brent crude jumped 4.1% to $31.10 a barrel in London. Oil prices also increased about 4% on Tuesday.
The US central bank said it was "closely monitoring" global economic conditions, but would not raise interest rates. It did so for the first time in almost a decade last month.
Since the Fed took action in December, oil has plunged, stock markets have swung wildly and investors have become more concerned that China's huge economy - a major driver of global growth - is losing momentum.
The Fed said US growth had slowed as exports fell because of the strong dollar.


US carmakers General Motors and Ford have both announced strategies geared at taking on the tech world's growing influence in the car industry.

GM will buy Cruise Automation, a firm that creates self-driving technology.
Ford will set up a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary to invest in car-sharing and ride-hailing services.
Both have been making investments in technology to boost their role in the personal mobility market, that is moving away from driving.
GM has not disclosed how much it will pay for Cruise Automation, in a deal expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2016.
The company has been testing its self-driving cars in San Francisco and should help GM in its quest to beat Google to be the first producer of consumer-ready self-driving cars.
Cruise Automation will operate as an independent unit within GM's automated driving division.
"Fully autonomous vehicles can bring our customers enormous benefits in terms of greater convenience, lower cost and improved safety for their daily mobility needs," said GM president Dan Ammann.
Ford has been testing autonomous vehicles and ride-hailing services in London and Kansas City.
The new subsidiary - Ford Smart Mobility - will invest in these sectors further. In a statement, the company said: "Ford is aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities."
The unit will not initially be reported in Ford's earnings statements.
"Our plan is to quickly become part of the growing transportation services market, which already accounts for $5.4 trillion in annual revenue," said Ford's chief executive Mark Fields.
Ford Smart Mobility will be run by Jim Hackett, the former head of office furniture and technology supplier Steelcase.


A driver using his mobile phone who crashed into the back of a car, killing a woman, has been jailed.

Robert Munce, 47, was travelling along the A1 near Newark, Nottinghamshire, in November 2014 when he failed to see traffic was slowing down.
He hit Margaret Nile's car at 60mph, killing the 65-year-old and causing a series of other crashes.
At Nottingham Crown Court Munce admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was given four years.
He was also banned from driving for seven years.
The court was told the crash happened because Munce, of Dunster Walk, Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, was using his phone "for a prolonged period of time".
Det Con Paul Jaycock, from Nottinghamshire Police, said Ms Nile, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, died because Munce was "needlessly distracted by his mobile phone".
"Margaret's family now have to try and rebuild their shattered lives. Their lives... have changed forever," he said.


Indian PM Narendra Modi has accepted an invitation from his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to attend a regional summit in Islamabad next year.

This will be Mr Modi's first visit to Pakistan after he took power last year.
A meeting between the two leaders on Friday came after increased border hostilities and India cancelled secretary-level talks last year.
They also agreed to help expedite the 2008 Mumbai terror attack trial, blamed on Pakistan based militants.
The suspected mastermind of the attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was released on bail from a Pakistani jail in April, a development that India described as "unfortunate and disappointing".
He still faces trial - along with six other suspects - over the attacks, which left 166 people dead and damaged peace efforts between the two countries.
In a separate development, Mr Modi accepted Mr Sharif's invitation to visit Pakistan.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reiterated his invitation to Prime Minister Modi to visit Pakistan for the Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Summit in 2016. Prime Minister Modi accepted that invitation," a joint statement from the two governments said.
Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar told reporters that the two sides had also agreed to hold a meeting of their top security advisers to discuss terrorism.
Friday's meeting was the first between the two leaders since Mr Sharif attended Mr Modi's oath taking ceremony in May 2014.
But relations between the nuclear-armed rivals deteriorated soon after and in August India cancelled talks with Pakistan after accusing it of interfering in its internal affairs.
India's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted about Friday's talks:
On the eve of the talks, India accused Pakistan of killing a border guard in a firing incident along the de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir.
The rivals have fought three wars since Independence, two of them over Kashmir.
Kashmir, claimed by both countries in its entirety, has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years.
A ceasefire agreed in 2003 remains in place, but the neighbours often accuse each other of violating it.
Last September, in his first speech at the UN, Mr Modi said he wanted peace talks with Pakistan but insisted it must create an "appropriate atmosphere".
In 2013 months of clashes left more than 20 Indian and Pakistani soldiers dead. Nearly as many civilians, most of them on the Pakistani side, were also killed.


The ghost of Benito Mussolini, Italy's 20th Century Fascist dictator and Duce, dead and gone now for almost 70 years, is still stalking the country's politics.

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is actively campaigning for re-election in next month's general election, set off a chorus of outrage this week.
He suggested, while attending a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Milan, that the Duce had not been as entirely bad as the history books made out. In fact he had done some "good things".
Mr Berlusconi said that the racial laws, which led to 8,000 Italian Jews being herded off to death camps, were Mussolini's "worst mistake".
Mr Berlusconi was even rebuked by Italy's head of state, President Giorgio Napolitano, who said that democratic Italy knew that Fascism was an "aberration".
The canny media magnate was immediately accused of courting extreme right-wing support for his proposed new People of Freedom party coalition in the run-up to the election on 24-25 February.
He later backtracked, but his tactless remarks - and his even more tactless conduct in dozing off during part of the ceremony - recalled another occasion a decade ago when he appeared to praise Mussolini by claiming that the Fascist dictator had "never killed anybody".
In Germany de-Nazification was actively and officially pursued for years after the end of World War II. Chancellor Angel Merkel said this week that Germany's responsibility for the Holocaust was "everlasting". But in Italy, Fascism was never rooted out with the same enthusiasm.
True, the new Italian republic which succeeded two decades of Fascist rule made it a crime to attempt to revive Mussolini's Fascist party.
But for decades after the war, the right-wing MSI (Italian Social Movement) led by Giorgio Almirante was represented in parliament and managed to keep alive many Fascist ideals while avoiding prosecution under this law. "If being a gentleman means that I am a Fascist," he once told the BBC, "then I am a Fascist."
The distinguished Italian historian of Fascism Emilio Gentile has written that Mussolini raised his political ideology to the status of a religious cult.
Mussolini's grand-daughter Alessandra is still active in politics. She founded a right-wing movement of her own and latterly has been supporting Mr Berlusconi's Freedom Party coalition.
Shouting, she stalked out of a TV political debate this week because a leftist journalist had, in her opinion, insulted the memory of her grandfather.
Italy's political ambivalence over its Fascist heritage has been mirrored in the arts.
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of considerable artistic and architectural endeavour and achievement, encouraged by the Mussolini regime, but political taboos have tended to hinder serious attempts to re-examine the art of the Fascist periods - until now.
This winter, an exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence of paintings and sculpture from the 1930s entitled The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism has attracted large numbers of visitors.
Apart from works of important Italian painters of the period who also circulated in Paris and Berlin, the exhibition included a large composite of four monumental nudes by Hitler's favourite artist, Adolf Ziegler. This was one of the most reproduced works of modern art in Nazi Germany.
The curators of the Palazzo Strozzi exhibition - under the direction of a Canadian art historian who heads the museum - invited visitors to "explore the decade without prejudice", breaking political and intellectual taboos which have endured since Mussolini's ignominious end in Milan in 1945.


Berlin is the latest city that has suffered a "terrorist attack" as a man driving a lorry ploughed into people at a German Christmas market, killing 12.

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A "rare" 18th Century death mask, with eyebrows and eyelashes made from hair, is to go on display for the first time.

The wax model belongs to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and is of Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury.
It is one of two masks in the museum's Treasured Possessions exhibition, 80% of which is taken from its vaults.
Death masks were "standard practice" for "eminent individuals", but co-curator Dr Victoria Avery said one using hair was "so unusual".
The duke's model may have been used for the head of his funeral effigy.
It is not known when Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, acquired it, but it formed part of the art collection he bequeathed to Cambridge University in 1816.
The second death mask will also be seen by the public for the first time and is "incredibly rare", according to the museum.
It is of John Howard, a philanthropist and social reformer, after whom the Howard League for Penal Reform is named.
While examining Russian military hospitals he contracted typhus in Kherson, Ukraine, and died in 1790.
The plaster mask was created in Russia and survived the journey home to be given to Howard's executor, Samuel Whitbread.
His son gave the model to the museum in 1822.
The Fitzwilliam Museum's Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment features 300 objects from the 15th to 18th Centuries, including some of its "least-known treasures".
Co-curator Dr Mary Laven said: "Today... many of our acquisitions end up on the scrap-heap or boxed away.
"Before industrial mass production... the most significant things in life were hand-crafted in homes and workshops, customised for their owners."
Many of the items have not been shown before as the museum normally displays artefacts in the context of similar objects, a spokesman said.
"This is the first time we have been able to devote part of a gallery to mementos and funerary items of this type."
The exhibition runs from 24 March until 6 September.


Cambridge United have signed Medy Elito on a two-year contract after the winger rejected a new deal at Newport County.

The 26-year-old played 43 times for the Welsh side last season, scoring his only goal against Oxford in April.
The ex-Colchester, Dagenham and England Under-19 man has made 217 appearances in English football and also had a season with Dutch side VVV-Venlo.
"I'm pretty sure we'll be in and around (promotion places) because I know what this squad's capable of," said Elito.
He added to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: "(Manager) Shaun Derry is very inspirational, just from the talks I've had with him and what he wants from his team. He wants them to work hard and be fit.
"He's been at the top level playing for QPR and Crystal Palace and having a manager who's been there and done that, you couldn't ask for any more because he knows what he's talking about."
Meanwhile, 22-year-old Danny Carr has left the U's after mutually agreeing to cancel his contract having only made six appearances for them since joining last summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A busy road in Rhondda Cynon Taff which was closed after two lorries were involved in a crash, causing a fuel spillage, has reopened.

The A465 Heads Of The Valleys Road was shut in both directions near Hirwaun, following the incident, which happened at about at 06:50 BST on Tuesday.
The spillage was between the junctions for A4059 Hirwaun Road/Brecon Road and B4276 Merthyr Road.
South Wales Police tweeted there was "only one minor injury".


Handing police new powers to stop and search children for alcohol "may have long-term negative effects", the Law Society for Scotland has said.

A Scottish government consultation on police powers to search children for alcohol closed on 15 July.
In its response to the consultation, the Law Society of Scotland said the searches could alienate young people.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said stop and search was a "valuable tool".
The consultation was carried out after an independent advisory group recommended that non-statutory, or consensual, shop and search should end when a new code of practice comes into force next year.
From that point on, the police will be able to search a person only where they have a specific legal power to do so.
But in their report, the advisory group highlighted a potential legislative gap once consensual search ends, as the police do not currently have a specific legal power to search children and young people for alcohol.
However, the group's members were unable to reach a view on whether a new search power was desirable or necessary, and recommended the Scottish government  should carry out a public consultation.
The consultation document published by the Scottish government stated that only 9.7% of searches of people under 18 resulted in alcohol being found between 1 June and 31 December last year.
The paper argued that "not having a search power could put children and young people at risk of harm", but also stated that: "A new search power would not give the police any new powers to take alcohol away from a young person."
In their response, the Law Society of Scotland said "we do not consider legislation would be necessary, or indeed desirable. "
Ian Cruickshank, convener of the society's Criminal Law Committee, said: "Giving the police new powers to stop and search young people for alcohol could alienate them and may have long term negative effects, both for Police Scotland and young people in general.
"There is a risk that a new power to search a child or young person for alcohol would generate a disproportionate negative perception of children, as evidence shows only a small number of searches actually result in the finding of alcohol."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Stop and search can be a valuable tool in combating crime and has led to the seizures of dangerous weapons, drugs and stolen goods. However, clearly it is important to get the balance right between protecting the public and the rights of the individual.
"The contents of the new Code of Practice have been put out to a full consultation to ensure they are informed by a wide range of views.
"No decision has been made on the power to search children for alcohol.
"As recommended by the independent advisory group a full and thorough consultation has been undertaken to inform the way forward and  any future proposals will be subject to further scrutiny by parliament."


A postbox has been removed from its mounting and stolen from a Fife village.

The small letterbox was on top of a pole at the corner of Sir George Bruce Road and Erskine Wynd in Oakley.
It was removed from its mountings sometime between 18:30 on Tuesday 25 November and 09:30 on Wednesday 26 November.
Police have been pursuing a number of lines of inquiry and have appealed for witnesses.


The US says the Islamic State (IS) group has committed genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said IS was "genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions".
He did not say whether his declaration would lead to a change of US policy in the Middle East.
But he did call for an independent international investigation and criminal charges for those thought to be responsible for the atrocities.
"Naming these crimes is important," Mr Kerry said, "but what is essential is to stop them."
Mr Kerry also said IS was responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq.
He said his conclusions had been based on a wealth of evidence provided by the US state department, intelligence teams and other sources.
They include well-documented accounts of IS attacks on the Yazidi community in Iraq, which led to the deaths of hundreds of men and boys and the abduction of thousands of women.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis became stranded on an exposed mountain, and Mr Kerry said "without our intervention, it is clear those people would have been slaughtered".
He also highlighted the killings of Christians in northern Iraq and Libya, and of Shia Turkmen in Iraq.
"The fact is that Daesh [IS] kills Christians because they are Christians, Yazidis because they are Yazidis, Shia because they are Shia," he said, using an Arabic acronym for the group.
"This is the message it conveys to children under its control. Its entire world view is based on eliminating those who do not subscribe to its perverse ideology."
Mr Kerry admitted that a lack of access to IS areas meant the US did not have a "complete picture" of the atrocities that had been carried out, and said he was "neither judge, nor prosecutor, nor jury".
But he said he hoped its victims would take comfort in the fact that "the United States recognises and confirms the despicable nature of the crimes committed against them".
Article II of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention says genocide means any of the following acts committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such". They are:
What is genocide?
It is only the second time the US administration has declared a genocide during a conflict. The previous time was in 2004 when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell used it to describe the killings in Darfur.
Such a declaration is a powerful signal, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus, and Mr Kerry may hope that it bolsters the fight against the IS and possibly opens the way to action at the UN Security Council.
But in every other sense its practical impact will be limited, our correspondent adds, as the US and its allies are already engaged in a war against IS and the struggle is likely to continue for months and probably years yet.
Mr Kerry had been given a congressional deadline of 17 March to announce whether IS's actions in areas under its control constituted genocide.
Earlier this week, the US House of Representatives voted 393-0 to designate the crimes as genocide.
Some critics have accused the Obama administration of not speaking out forcefully enough about the treatment of minority groups by IS.
IS regards Yazidis as devil-worshippers who may be killed or enslaved with impunity.
In August 2014, thousands of Yazidis living in the Nineveh plains of north-western Iraq were rounded up by IS militants. Men and boys over the age of 14 were separated from the women and girls and shot.
The women and girls were abducted as "spoils of war" and openly sold or handed over as "gifts" to IS militants. Girls as young as six and nine years old were raped, witnesses told the UN.
Boys under the age of 14 were separated from their mothers, transported elsewhere and forced to convert to Islam. They were subjected to religious and military training.
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis?
Raped, beaten and sold: Yazidi women tell of IS abuse
IS considers Shia Muslims to be irredeemable apostates subject to punishment by death for their veneration of the Prophet Muhammad's family and other beliefs and practices.
In June 2014, IS militants summarily killed up to 1,700 army recruits, most of them Shia, after capturing the Camp Speicher military base outside the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit.
Also that month, IS began a siege of the predominantly Shia Turkmen town of Amirli. Its 13,000 inhabitants, including 10,000 women and children, were shelled on an almost daily basis until the siege of the town was broken almost three months later.
Sunnis and Shia: Islam's ancient schism
Christians are considered "People of the Book" under Islamic law, a classification that grants them a certain protection in comparison with other religious groups.
But IS says Christians should not be accorded protection because they are part of a "Jewish- and Crusader-led conspiracy" against Islam. It has forced Christians living in territory it captures to choose between conversion, payment of a protection tax known as jizyah, or death.
In February 2015, IS released a video showing the beheading on a beach in Libya of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian migrant workers who had been kidnapped in the city of Sirte.
Islamic State's stance on Christians
Who were the Copts killed by IS?


BBC radio listeners in the Highlands could find their service affected due to essential transmitter work taking place on Tuesday.

People served by the Rosemarkie transmitter will lose Radio Scotland, Radio Nan Gaidheal, and BBC national radio services for short periods.
DAB radio and TV services are unaffected.
The disruption is expected over the course of the day. BBC Scotland said it apologised for the loss of service.
Listeners in the Inverness and Inner Moray Firth area were expected to be the worst affected.
The final phase of disruption is expected to last for about two hours from 12:45.


Terry Flanagan successfully defended his WBO world lightweight title with a battling points win over South African champion Mzonke Fana in Cardiff.

But Jamie Dickens' WBA world super-bantamweight title hopes were ended as his jaw was broken by top pound-for-pound fighter Guillermo Rigondeaux.
The undefeated Cuban's huge left hook in the second forced Dickens to retire as Rigondeaux kept his crown in style.
Flanagan had to rely on the judges to win a unanimous decision.
The Englishman maintained his unbeaten record as all three judges agreed a 120-106 points success to ensure Flanagan earned a 31st successive win.
Durable Fana rallied after a fourth-round knockdown from a huge left hook but Flanagan's class ensured a third title defence, the second in a row decided on points.
The 27-year-old failed to impress in his defeat of Derry Mathews and he was rocked by a crafty veteran as Fana's forehead cut Flanagan's cheek in the fourth.
But he overcame that setback and now the man known as "Turbo" will hope for an all-Manchester unification clash with city rival Anthony Crolla, the WBA world lightweight champion, who fights Jorge Linares in September.
It is back to the drawing board for Dickens, though, after this step up in class against a fighter ranked fifth in Ring Magazine's latest pound-for-pound rankings.
"I'm not the best, but I'm the most complete," Rigondeaux said afterwards.
"I ripped his jaw out. All those guys that want their jaws ripped out, I'm here!
"Not 100 of those guys add up to 1 of me. I want hard fights. People make it boring [against me] once they feel my power."


A company director who admitted selling "dangerous" so-called legal highs has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Darren Manley stocked products with names such as King B, Cherry Bomb, Blow and Charly Sheen at his shop Red Eye on Oxford's Cowley Road.
They were described as research chemicals and herbal incenses.
He has now been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence by a judge at Oxford Crown Court, who also ordered £120,000 in fines and costs to be paid.
Oxfordshire County Council's trading standards team said the way the products were sold without health risk warnings was illegal.
The council started investigating the business in 2014 after doctors raised concerns about the products' effects upon people using them as drugs.
Jody Kerman, a trading standards manager, said the way the supposedly legal highs were sold meant they were not legal.
He said: "The products were labelled incorrectly and contained dangerous substances with no appropriate warnings or instructions for their safe use.
Manley, 36, of Curlew Place, Portishead, and his firm RAD Trading Limited each admitted eight counts of breaching the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
Both were fined £20,000 and told to pay £40,000 in prosecution costs. Manley also had to forfeit all the illegal products and pay an £80 victims' surcharge.


Struggling Montrose dominated League Two leaders Elgin City en route to a 3-1 Links Park victory.

Christopher Templeman and Gary Fraser struck either side of half-time for the impressive hosts.
Adrian Mallagaray put the game well beyond Elgin five minutes later with a tap-in, courtesy of another good ball from Templeman.
Neil Martyniuk put through his own goal with a misplaced header late on, but it would not spoil Montrose's day.


Kibera, the Kenyan slum infamous for its overcrowding, poverty and lack of sanitation, is getting a major revamp with some modern facilities.

Founded more than 100 years ago, it is said to be home to around a fifth of Nairobi's population and yet has not featured in any government plans - until recently.
Fifteen densely populated villages make up this slum. We're in Mashimoni, home to mud huts and tin shacks.
The only formal structure here is a recently built toilet.
But Boniface Ouma has lived in Kibera for 37 years and says the changes are difficult to miss.
There are now tarred roads, mobile clinics and police stations made from shipping containers, working street lights and even free Wifi throughout the slum.
One of the biggest issues has always been housing.
The residents do not have title deeds, so technically the land still belongs to the government.
That does not stop descendents of the original residents, largely from the Nubian community, from sub-letting their tin shacks to more recent arrivals.
Now, however, the government is building permanent houses, with proper sanitation.
Anne Waiguru, the minister of planning and devolution, told the BBC: "We want these new houses to become the minimum standard for the people of Kibera."
Around 50% of those Kibera residents who have jobs are employed in nearby Nairobi, usually as cheap unskilled labour.
However, unemployment is still high, especially among the youth.
Many sit idle the whole day, often getting themselves into trouble with the police and hooked on drugs and alcohol.
As part of the revamp, some young residents are being encouraged to get into business.
The idea is that they will sell locally produced staple foods such as kale, maize and fish.
But Mr Ouma is worried about the future of such projects.
"We need long-term solutions and some of the projects like the vegetable projects and the fish ponds are not really going to be sustainable in the long run."
Others are being engaged in construction work through the National Youth Service.
Since the introduction of the slum renewal project some five months ago, more than 3,500 people have been employed.
Because all the work is done by residents, the government hopes that once they leave, the community will be able to continue building more homes.
It may take up to two years to cover all of Kibera.
As for the new roads, street vendor Millicent Atieno says it has been something of a double-edged sword.
"This means I can get to the market a lot easier and the transport drops me just in front of my stall," she says.
But because some shacks were removed to make space for development, she now has fewer customers living nearby.
While the shacks and lack of sewage are still a daily reality for many residents, new Kibera is fast taking shape.
Shops made of corrugated iron line the streets. These include clothing stores, butchers, street food stalls, bakers and even a wedding gown shop
Trucks collecting rubbish - still a phenomenon here - whizz down the streets, and graders work on new roads, careful not to knock into the new street lights.
We see about 10 people working to unblock one of the main sewerage pipes in preparation for proper drains.
It is filled with garbage. The stench of human waste fills the air.
"If we can keep the drains and dam clean, there'll be a less chance that our children will get sick. The dirty water can also pass easily," one passer-by explains.
It is a dirty job but one that is necessary.
It seems that one of the most welcome additions has been flushing toilets. Previously, residents were using plastic bags which would then be thrown into the nearest river or even into the street.
They call them flying toilets.
"These flying toilets would make us sick. But now we won't catch diseases as often as we did before," said Catherine Mueni, who has lived her for many years.
Residents have also used a hole in the ground that is shared by more than 30 shacks.
Ms Waiguru says her department plans to build 182 communal toilet blocks here. So far, 90 have been completed.
Until recently Kibera had no running water and it had to be collected from the Nairobi dam. The dam water is not clean and there have been reports of water-borne diseases.
Driving through the slum villages, I saw residents forming queues to use one communal tap. They say it is much better than collecting water from the murky dam.
Officials believe if the residents are directly involved in the renovations here, they will take pride in making sure that they are well maintained.
Maria Kowa, 32 and a mother-of-three, agrees.
"This is our home. If we don't look after it, after everything, we will only have ourselves to blame," she says while hunched over a basin of water doing her laundry.
"It warms my heart to see that my children will not have to struggle the same way I did."
She hopes that soon collecting water from the dam will be a thing of that past, and she is looking forward to the days when she'll have clean running water in her own house.
It is still a long way off but many hope the work done here means that one day, Kibera will no longer be synonymous with poverty and chaos and instead become just another Nairobi neighbourhood - one that its residents can proudly call home.


Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he signed Victor Valdes knowing the former Barcelona goalkeeper will not be happy being back-up for fellow Spaniard David De Gea.

Valdes, 32, has signed an 18-month contract at Old Trafford.
De Gea, 24, won United's player of the year award last season.
"Nobody is happy to be number two and Victor has to have ambition to beat David De Gea - but it shall be very hard for him," said Van Gaal.
Valdes had been training at United as he recovered from a serious knee injury.
De Gea has 18 months remaining on his present deal with United after signing for the club in 2011, but he has recently been linked with a move to Real Madrid.
However, the United boss says he will extend the player's terms with the club rather than succeed the 33-year-old Iker Casillas at Real.
When asked if he thought De Gea would stay, Van Gaal said: "I think so, yes. There is no problem for him to sign."
The Dutchman also does not see an issue with having two full Spain internationals in his squad fighting for one position.
"My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world," he said.
"When we invited Victor in to have his rehabilitation at Manchester United, we did it for him and ourselves, so I could see if his quality is also still the same. He has confirmed both."
Valdes' arrival on a full-time basis is likely to mean the exit of previous back-up goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard.
Unbeaten in 11 games, United play Southampton with their manager able to pick from a virtually fully fit squad for the first time this season.
"We only have one player injured. Can you believe it?" said Van Gaal.
"I have to select, for the first time in my career at Manchester United, the 11 players and the 18."
Van Gaal confirmed England winger Ashley Young would be missing for between four and six weeks with a hamstring injury.


Many of the questions you ask Reality Check are about how much the European Union costs, and where the money goes.

Here's a guide to what happens to the funds the 28 member states contribute to the EU budget.
Every seven years, EU leaders agree a long-term plan for the EU budget, how big it should be and what the money should be spent on.
They all have to unanimously agree, so the negotiations usually take a long time.
The last seven-year plan was agreed in 2012, for the period 2014-20.
Eventually, the leaders decided to cut the EU budget, for the first time in the history of the organisation.
The representatives of EU's 28 governments and the members of the European Parliament, together with the European Commission, agree the precise details of the EU's budget every year.
We examined the 2014 budget, to find out what the EU spends the money on.
That year, the EU spent €138.44bn (£106.13bn).
Of that, almost 80% went to two main areas:
Most of the rest was spent on three other areas:
This received €55bn (£42.16bn), or 40% of the total.
The biggest amount of EU money is spent on direct payments to farmers - €43bn (£32.96bn) in 2014.
The EU sends this money back to member states, who distribute the money.
Anyone in the EU who has land used for agriculture can receive a payment.
The payments are aimed at ensuring the economic viability of the EU's eight million farmers and account for almost half of their income.
There is also a smaller fund, of just over €3bn (£2.3bn), for rural development, which covers various projects, from preserving ecosystems and helping low-carbon production to bringing medical services to people in remote rural areas.
Projects that support fishing, processing and marketing of fishery product get a very small proportion of the money - €90m (£68.99m) in 2014.
Top recipients of the EU money under this section were France, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Poland.
The UK received about 7% of the total agriculture and fisheries payments, ranking sixth among EU member states.
This received €54bn (£41.4bn), or 39% of the total.
The EU paid almost as much towards developing poorer countries and regions of the EU as it did for farming.
It spent €31bn (£23.76bn) on regional development, on projects across all underdeveloped regions of the EU.
It gave €13bn (£9.97bn) to projects in the 15 poorest EU countries:
And €8bn (£6.13bn) was given to the remainder of the counties.
A large number of projects have been funded across the EU, including business start-ups, roads and railways, renewable energy projects, education and health programmes, charities, family projects and many others.
By far the biggest recipient of all development payments was Poland, followed by Hungary, Greece, Italy and Spain.
The UK ranked 11th and received about 3% of the EU's total.
This received €12bn (£9.2bn), or 9% of the total.
This money is spent on research, education and innovation projects, with the overall aim of boosting the EU's competitiveness, economic growth and job creation.
This area of spending received a big increase in 2014 compared with the previous seven-year period.
Horizon2020, the EU's fund for research and innovation, and Erasmus+, the EU's programme for education, training, youth and sport, received most of the money, €6.3bn (£4.83bn) and €1.4bn (£1.07bn) respectively.
The third biggest recipient was the European Satellite Navigation Systems Agency, based in France.
Research projects covering stem cells, early cancer detection, the deep sea, robotics, remote planets, climate projections, air pollution in the cities, innovations in energy, transport and engineering all received funding.
The money for these projects is given on merit, so countries such as Germany and the UK benefit more from research and engineering grants than others.
The Horizon2020 brief by the European Commission published in 2015 shows that roughly 14% of Horizon2020 agreements have been signed with UK institutions and that the UK is the second highest recipient of financial contributions of this programme.
This received €8bn (£6.13bn), or 6% of the total
The EU institution with the highest administrative cost, €3.4bn (£2.41bn), was the European Commission.
It employs 33,000 of the total EU's workforce of 55,000 people.
European Parliament administrative costs, with its interpretation and translation services for 24 official languages, came to €1.7bn (£1.3bn).
The cost of EU pensions was €1.5bn (£1.15bn).
The rest of the money for administration went to a number of other EU institutions, such as the European Council, the European Court of Justice, Court of Auditors and the EU's foreign affairs and diplomatic service.
This received €7bn (£5.37bn), or 5% of the total.
The EU funds international development projects around the world, humanitarian aid and response to the world crises.
Of this €7bn (£5.37bn), €1.6bn (£1.23bn) was spent on projects in the EU's "neighbourhood" countries:
Syria was also on this list in the past, but the funding to Syria has been suspended.
The EU also spent €1.2bn (£0.92bn) on projects in seven EU candidate countries:
The UK contribution to this area of EU spending counts towards the UK government's target of 0.7% of GDP on international development.
Although all the other areas put together account for under 2% of the EU's spending, this provides funding for a number of projects.
Culture projects, food safety, audiovisual art, literary translation, building a network of industrial heritage sites in Europe are some of them.
The London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA), which approves medicines for all EU countries, is run by this funding too.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate


The GAA's Casement Park stadium project looks set for more problems.

The leading UK authority on sports ground safety has distanced itself from a report seen by some as a 'route map' to getting the scheme back on track.
The report was published last month. It is called a "project assessment review" and was compiled by Cabinet Office officials.
The BBC understands that the Sports Grounds Safety Authority is unhappy with parts of it.
That is even though it referred to them as specialist contributors.
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is planning to build a 38,000-capacity stadium at its existing west Belfast sports ground, Casement Park.
However, the project has been dogged by issues of safety in its design.
Paul Scott, a safety chief on the project, raised concerns. He said that any design must allow for the ground to be evacuated in an emergency within eight minutes and that the pitch itself cannot be part of the emergency exiting plan.
His comments prompted several investigations.
Last month the project assessment review, commissioned by the Culture and Leisure Minister Carál Ní Chuilín and carried out by the Cabinet Office, recommended Mr Scott's removal as head of the safety group and concluded the new stadium was still achievable.
It said there could be flexibility on the eight minutes and that the pitch could be used as part of the plan.
Now, information has been provided to Stormont MLAs by the Sports Ground Safety Authority.
Known as the SGSA, it is the leading UK body on stadium safety.
Its chief executive said that while its experts were referred to in the Cabinet Office report, they had been asked general questions and were not asked to comment in detail on the specifics of the Casement plans.
It went on to say the conclusions "should not be taken to represent the SGSA's advice on the specifics" in relation to Casement.
Crucially, when it comes to the disputed eight-minute timescale and the pitch being used as a place of safety, the SGSA appears to agree with Paul Scott.
The SGSA also told MLAs that in new stadia, the exit routes should "allow all spectators to exit the stadium in an emergency without having to exit onto the pitch".
Building the new Casement Park has been hampered by all these technical questions on stadium safety.
DCAL may have hoped that last month's project review appeared to have found a way forward - but  the recognised industry experts in stadium safety are now saying the report reflects the views of others rather than the SGSA.
The SGSA is expected to be called before MLAs some time later this year.


Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has confirmed he will ride in the "vicious" Vuelta a Espana this year in pursuit of a historic double.

Briton Froome, 32, won his latest Tour title on Sunday in Paris.
No rider has won the Tour and Vuelta in the same year since the race moved from April, to August and September in 1995.
"I've got the opportunity and I'm certainly going to go for it," Team Sky's Froome, who has finished second on three occasions in the Vuelta, said.
"The Vuelta is a race I love - it's vicious but it's three weeks that I enjoy. I've come second three times now and I'd love to win.
"To win both the Tour and the Vuelta in one year would be absolutely incredible."
The 2017 Vuelta - the Spanish race that is the third of the three Grand Tours along with the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France - begins on 19 August in the French city of Nimes and finishes three weeks later on 10 September in Madrid.
Froome could face competition in the general classification from many of the same riders who he beat to the yellow jersey in the Tour.
Romain Bardet, Fabio Aru, and Alberto Contador are all expected to be on the start line, as well as Vincenzo Nibali, who missed the Tour de France.
Froome has come close to winning the Vuelta on three occasions in the past - he finished just 13 seconds behind Juan Jose Cobo in 2011 while riding for team-mate Bradley Wiggins, before coming second to Contador in 2014 and Nairo Quintana in 2016.
Victory in this season's race would make Froome the first Briton to win Spain's national tour and only the third rider in history to manage the Tour-Vuelta double - but Jacques Anquetil's victory in 1963 and Bernard Hinault's in 1978 both came when the race was held in April.


Bottom-of-the-table Glamorgan make just one change against division two leaders Essex, despite their 125-run defeat against Gloucestershire.

Graham Wagg is named in the team - who have not won yet this season - despite suffering an arm injury in Bristol, while Craig Meschede returns.
Essex's Nick Browne has recovered from a groin strain suffered during his career-best 255 against Derbyshire.
Experienced seamer David Masters replaces Aaron Beard.
Essex are the only side in the division to have won twice this season.
Glamorgan: Rudolph (c), Wallace (wk), Bragg, Cooke, Donald, Lloyd, Wagg, Meschede, Salter, Van der Gugten, Hogan.
Essex:  Browne, Mickleburgh, Westley, Bopara, Lawrence, Ryder, ten Doeschate (c), Foster (wk), Napier, Masters, Porter.


The Scottish economy contracted slightly last month as a result of a downturn in the oil and gas industry, according to a report.

The latest Bank of Scotland purchasing managers index (PMI) found activity in the private sector dipped in November.
There had been modest growth in the previous month.
The bank's headline index, which measures changes in output in both manufacturing and services, fell to 49.8 from 50.9 in October.
Any figure below 50 suggests economic contraction.
The report found that the decline stemmed from the manufacturing sector, where the rate of contraction was the sharpest in just over three years.
However, service providers reported a slight rise in business activity.
The survey also indicated a fall in incoming new orders linked to a slowdown in the oil and gas industry.
Despite this, the number of people employed in Scotland's private sector grew, although the rate of job creation was said to be "weak".
Alasdair Gardner, Bank of Scotland regional managing director for Scotland, said: "The headline index fell below the crucial 50 mark in November as a slowdown in the oil and gas industry veered the Scottish economy into contraction.
"The drop in activity stemmed from declining new orders, which was affected by unfavourable exchange rates.
"However, this did not discourage firms from further adding to staffing numbers."


Four people accused of offences in connection with the Hatton Garden jewellery raid have appeared in court.

The quartet appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to conceal, disguise, convert or transfer criminal property.
Brenn Walters and Laura Perkins, both of Manor Court, Enfield, and Terri and Steven Robinson of Sterling Road, Enfield, did not enter pleas.
They were bailed and are due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court on 4 September.
Nine other men charged with conspiracy to burgle and conspiring to conceal or transfer the jewellery are also due to appear at the court on the same day to enter pleas ahead of a trial scheduled for November.
The nine men charged with conspiracy to burgle and conspiring to conceal or transfer the jewellery are:
It is alleged they entered Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London's jewellery quarter, with the intent to steal.
The raid over the Easter weekend in April saw thieves drill a hole into the vault, before ransacking 73 safety deposit boxes and making off with the goods worth millions of pounds.


Lottery bosses have warned they will take action against people who attempt to fraudulently claim a £33m jackpot.

Hundreds of people have come forward claiming their ticket was lost, damaged or stolen, including a woman who said she washed her ticket by accident.
Half of the record £66m Lotto jackpot from 9 January has not been claimed, but the winning ticket - with the numbers 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58 - was bought in Worcester, Camelot said.
Camelot is investigating all claims.
A spokeswoman said: "With prizes of this size, it's perfectly normal to receive lots of claims from people who genuinely think that they may have mislaid or thrown away what they believe was the winning ticket.
"However, if we believe that somebody has intentionally attempted to defraud the National Lottery, then, just like any other company, we reserve the right to take whatever action we consider is appropriate."
Shula de Jersey, a criminal lawyer at firm Slater and Gordon, said an intentional attempt to make a fake claim could be deemed "fraud by false representation", a criminal offence under section two of the Fraud Act.
The extent to which it could be deemed an offence or prosecuted would depend partly on the extent to which an individual went to fake a claim - for example by falsifying a ticket - she said.
On Saturday, a woman in Worcester, identified in newspaper reports as grandmother Susanne Hinte, claimed she had the winning ticket, but had put it through the wash in the pocket of a pair of jeans.
Natu Patel, who runs Ambleside News in Warndon, Worcester, where the woman made her claim, said the ticket bore the winning numbers, but the date and barcode were illegible.
A lot of people had been in touch since, which had been "very exciting, and worrying as well", he said.
How does the lottery investigate damaged tickets?
His wife said one woman tried to claim Mrs Patel had sold her the winning ticket - but Mrs Patel was in India at the time.
Another woman rang the shop to claim her son had bought the ticket from their shop, but lost it, she added.
"I said, you tell Camelot, not me!" she said.
Under the terms of its licence, Camelot has discretion to pay prizes in respect of stolen, lost or destroyed tickets if a player has submitted a claim in writing within 30 days of the draw.
If the player could provide sufficient evidence, Camelot would investigate and determine "at its discretion whether the claim is valid, and is able to pay the prize 180 days after the draw", a spokeswoman said.
If the Worcester prize goes unclaimed after a deadline of July 7, the money will be donated to good causes, the lottery operator added.
Camelot said it had not released details of the shop where the winning ticket was bought and no retailer had been informed that they sold the winning ticket.
A spokeswoman said: "We would only release details of the shop if we received a valid claim and the ticket-holder subsequently took publicity. We still would urge all players to check their tickets and contact us if they think they have the winning one."
Married couple David and Carol Martin, both 54, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, won the other half of the £66 million jackpot, the UK's biggest ever Lotto prize.


A road in Londonderry is still partially blocked due to a bonfire being set up overnight.

The bonfire, which is about 20ft (6m) high, has been built near the bottom of the Lecky Road flyover in the city.
Both Sinn FeÃn and DUP election posters were placed on it on Monday evening.
Police have advised motorists to consider alternative routes to the Bogside, other than the Lecky or Brandywell Roads.
Bonfires are traditionally set alight on 15 August in some nationalist areas of Derry to mark the Assumption.
The Catholic feast commemorates the Virgin Mary's death and assumption into heaven.
In recent years, efforts have been made to replace the bonfire tradition with family fun days and live music.
On Friday, police supervised the removal of bonfire material from Meenan Square.
Sinn FeÃn councillor Patricia Logue said the majority of Bogside residents were not in favour of the bonfire.
"This will cause a lot of disruption for local people and motorists, it's not the best place for this bonfire," she said.
"Someone could get hurt. Obviously, parents have a role to play in any young person's life, so they do have a judgement call to make.
"There's more work to be done, but there is excellent work ongoing by the community leaders in the Bogside and Brandywell area."


The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed a section that contains thousands of Islamic religious rulings, or fatwas.

Several websites offering fatwas have recently been blocked, following a decree by King Abdullah.
The decree was seen as an attempt to reduce controversial fatwas issued by minor or ultra-conservative clerics.
Some of these have been a serious embarrassment to the Saudi authorities.
The Saudi newspaper, Arab News, said Islam Today had closed its fatwa pages in order to avoid closure of the website by the authorities.
The decree restricts the right to issue fatwas - usually translated as religious edicts, but sometimes carrying the status merely of advice - to members of an officially approved council of Islamic scholars.
King Abdullah is known to favour reform, but he has faced opposition from conservative clerics and some members of the Saudi ruling family allied with the religious establishment.
Ultra-conservative clerics have sometimes used fatwas to publicly oppose what they see as attempts to Westernise their society.
There have also been a number of controversial fatwas that have embarrassed Saudi reformers.
In one such instance, clerics suggested that the Saudi prohibition on mixing of the sexes could be overcome if a man were symbolically to become a woman's child by sucking on her breast or drinking her breast milk.
In other cases, more liberal interpretations of Islam sparked counter-fatwas by conservatives, leading to what some commentators have described as fatwa chaos.
Islam Today gave no explanation for why it had closed its fatwa section. As of 1300 GMT on Thursday, the closure applied only to the website's more popular Arabic-language section and it was still possible to access the smaller fatwa archive in English.
Salman al-Awdah himself was once a controversial figure, a hardline cleric who was imprisoned in the 1990s for inciting opposition to the Saudi government.
He has since reinvented himself as a moderate figure and has become one of Saudi Arabia's most influential religious figures, with a wide following through the media although he has remained outside the government-backed religious establishment.


A doctor caring for a woman who died following childbirth had made a mistake seven months earlier, an inquest heard.

Frances Cappuccini suffered a fatal haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells hospital after an emergency Caesarean in 2012.
The original NHS report into her death stated another woman had suffered a haemorrhage in Dr Nadeem Azeez' care.
It said he had mismanaged her resuscitation and it was recommended he have a period of supervised practice.
Consultant anaesthetist Errol Cornish was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter last January.
The inquest at Gravesend Old Town Hall heard details of the earlier mistake had been removed from the report given to Mrs Cappuccini's family, the coroner and the strategic health authority.
Neil Sheldon, the family's lawyer, asked Karen Woods, the nurse who compiled the report, if she took it out.
"I don't remember personally taking it out," she answered.
He suggested to her that it was done "because, for the trust, it was an embarrassment".
Ms Woods denied this, saying it "would go against all my personal and professional integrity".
She went on to say no pressure had been applied to anyone at any stage to remove the section from the document.
The coroner will deliver his findings on Monday.


This year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist features one previously shortlisted author, Anne Enright, and three debut writers.

Margaret Mountford, chair of judges, said the final six were chosen after "a long and often passionate debate".
Cynthia Bond, Lisa McInerney and Hannah Rothschild are the debut writers, while Hanya Yanagihara and Elizabeth McKenzie complete the shortlist of six.
The winner of the award - formerly the Orange Prize - will be named on 8 June.
"Our choices reflect a really diverse mix of brilliant writing from new and established authors around the world," Ms Mountford said.
"We hope that everyone will find much to enjoy in them."
The shortlisted books are:
Enright, the first laureate for Irish fiction, was shortlisted in 2012 for The Forgotten Waltz. The Green Road was shortlisted for the 2015's Costa novel award.
Yanagihara's A Little Life was shortlisted for last year's Man Booker Prize.
Rothschild's The Improbability of Love is also shortlisted for this year's Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
But among the novels on the 20-strong longlist that didn't make the final cut were Kate Atkinson's Costa novel prize-winning A God in Ruins.
The Baileys shortlist was announced on Monday evening at London's Royal Festival Hall by novelist Kate Mosse, who co-founded the prize in 1996, and the winner will be announced at the same venue on 8 June.
"We are very proud of our shortlist, all of the books are written with passion," said author Elif Shafak, one of this year's judges.
"Everyone had an equal chance: debut writers and well established authors.  There is an amazing diversity of styles, genres and subjects."
Asked about Kate Atkinson's non-appearance, she told the BBC: "We loved her work very much but the shortlist reflects the choices of all the judges in unison so inevitably the some very good titles do not make it from the longlist to the shortlist."
Shafak said the final six books shared universal themes such as family and dealing with "the traumas and beauties of the past".
The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction is awarded for the best full-length novel of the year written by a woman and published in the UK.
The winner will receive a cheque for Â£30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a Bessie.
Last year's winner was Ali Smith for How to be Both (2015).
Ruby by Cynthia Bond (Two Roads)
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the  woods of Liberty, a small town in Texas. For Ruby Bell, Liberty was a place of devastating violence from which she fled to seedy, glamorous 1950s New York.
The Green Road by Anne Enright (Vintage)
When Rosaleen Madigan decides to sell the family house in the west of Ireland, her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased.
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (John Murray)
One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society.
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie (Fourth Estate)
Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She's an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on.
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (Bloomsbury)
The heroine finds herself plunged into the London art world where skulduggery and big characters abound.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)
The story of four college friends who have moved to New York seeking fame and fortune. At the centre of the tale is the enigmatic Jude, an orphan with a painful past.


Knitting with dog hair, transporting toddlers in donkey carts and dispensing tea and sympathy are just some of the everyday activities revealed in archive images of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) during World War Two.

The service, founded in 1938, was originally set up to train women to be able to help with air raid precautions.
It soon developed into running emergency rest centres, feeding, first aid, and assisting with the evacuation and billeting of children.
The organisation - now known as the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) - is attempting to raise enough money for more than 300,000 pages of diary entries to be digitised.
If successful, the collection will be made available to the public online.
Diary entry: December 1943. Portsmouth division of WVS
ARMY MENDING
During November garments dealt with numbered 263. Two new units are now sending their mending, but one of the previous ones had left the district. A mending class, to teach the men to mend for themselves is held in the Headquarters of one unit, and the men are becoming quite enthusiastic about keeping their garments in repair, and learning all the various ways to do so.
The archive, which has Unesco status, is ranked alongside other historical texts such as the Doomsday Book and the Death Warrant of King Charles I.
"It's often the quiet voices of history which are the most revealing," says historian Ruth Goodman.
"They can be easily overlooked amongst the clamour of parliamentary speeches, gunfire and official pronouncements, but the diaries and letters of a host of less celebrated lives speak of the true temperature of the times.
"It is these unassuming thoughts, feelings and reports which tell us what was really happening behind the rhetoric."
Diary entry: June 1942. Bath division of WVS
KNITTING
The amount of knitting for the Merchant Navy has increased. We have sent off two parcels; containing a total of 54 garments (sweaters, scarves and socks).
Very unfortunately one oAf the parcels, (a hessian sack packed full) appears to have suffered severe pilfering en route. A sack, which appears to be the one we sent, arrived 10 days later with only two scarves in it and nothing else.
We are making enquiries, and will have to claim against the Railway unless the things are found.
Early in the month, we received a request from the local Naval Comforts Committee, to utilise some redundant seaboot stockings by having them unpicked and re-knitted into polo-necked jerseys. The number to be dealt with was considerable, but knitters were quickly forthcoming. All the wool was distributed, and much has already been returned in its new guise.
The Hidden Histories of A Million Wartime Women project tells stories of "everyday heroism" from female volunteers from more than 2,000 cities, towns and villages across Britain.
By 1940, one in 10 women was a member of the WVS. "They held the country together working tirelessly on the Home Front, but now they have been forgotten," the modern-day RVS says.
"They modestly refused recognition in their own time and their voices, those of ordinary women from our shared past, have now fallen silent."
Matthew McMurray, archivist at the RVS, says he's spent six years sorting through "tens of thousands of pieces of fragile paper" to get to a point where the documents can be digitised.
"We want to be able to share these tales of everyday heroism and those million ordinary women who made the difference," he adds.
The RVS has set up a page on crowd-funding website Kickstarter in an attempt to raise Â£25,000.


The impact of George Osborne's shock announcement that police funding would be protected in real terms still has not been fully grasped.

Two months have passed since the chancellor told MPs there would be no cuts in the overall policing budget from 2016-17 to 2019-20, but there has been little recognition of just how significant that statement was.
It has subtly altered the political landscape, fundamentally changed policing priorities and is set to shape the law and order agenda for the media.
The Spending Review announcement came 12 days after the attacks in Paris, which led to a debate about whether cuts to neighbourhood policing would erode intelligence-gathering and if UK police firearms units had the capacity and capability to respond to an attack by marauding gunmen.
Politically, it would have been very tricky for the chancellor to have gone ahead with a cuts programme without acknowledging those concerns, but he went far further than anyone expected.
The move outfoxed Labour, which had argued police could withstand cutbacks of no more than 10%.
They did not think the chancellor would settle for anything less than that and were planning a fresh onslaught of their anti-cuts campaign.
By design or default (and I veer towards the design theory), it also has placed Mr Osborne as the "policeman's friend".
He is seen as the man who saved the 43 forces in England and Wales from cuts they feared would be in the region of 20-25%.
Why the chancellor would want to be cast in that role may have something to do with the unofficial contest to succeed David Cameron when he steps down as prime minister, though I am sure he would deny it.
One of Mr Osborne's likely rivals is Theresa May, the Home Secretary, whose bold programme of policing changes and uncompromising style have made her deeply unpopular among the ranks of constables, sergeants and inspectors.
Mr Osborne's line towards the end of his statement: "The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police," signalled a clear difference of tone from Mrs May.
Indeed, in December, the home secretary told chief constables and police and crime commissioners (PCCs) she would not have "any sympathy" for those who complained about existing budget cuts and that the new funding package did not "insulate" them from the need to make further efficiencies.
"It does not let you off the hook or mean you can slow the pace of change," she said. "Now - more than ever before - there is no excuse not to deliver."
Of course, there are still anxieties within policing circles about the effect of central government funding cuts imposed since 2010, and whether forces can handle the record number of sexual abuse cases they are having to investigate.
Revised proposals for a new funding formula, after the previous bungled attempt, will create losers as well as winners, reigniting the concerns.
But, overall, the media appetite for stories about police budgets is likely to dwindle.
Instead, during the next five months, in the lead-up to the first PCC elections since November 2012, the focus will shift towards Mrs May's latest plans.
They include:
There has also been renewed speculation about a review of counter-terrorism policing, which could see powers transferred from Scotland Yard to the National Crime Agency.
Each proposal by itself may not be agenda-setting or eye-catching.
But the theme is clear.
It represents a further loosening of the grip traditional police structures have had on law enforcement and a recognition that those outside the service have a vital part to play.
The issue that may well dominate the PCC election campaign, however, is crime.
The last set of data, published in October 2015, suggested more than seven million frauds and cybercrimes had been committed in England and Wales in the 12 months to the end of June.
It was the first time there had been an estimate of fraud and online offences by the Office for National Statistics.
If added to the authoritative Crime Survey, which has been showing a decline in overall offending rates for two decades, fraud would add 5.1 million offences to the total and computer hacking an extra 2.5 million, somewhat blunting the government's proud message that "crime is falling".
What may well have happened is that criminals have switched from burgling houses, stealing cars and robbing people to swindling us online.
Source: National Office for Statistics, year ending June 2015
All this has placed fraud and cyber-crime firmly on the law-and-order map, a position that will be cemented in July, when the numbers are automatically included in the Crime Survey, and then in October when provisional year-on-year comparisons become possible.
There are also tentative signs that incidents of violence, recorded by police, may be increasing too, with knife possession up 9% and murders at their highest level for four years.
Police figures, which rely on the public reporting offences and police recording them accurately, must be treated with caution, but the next set of data, published on 21 January, is keenly awaited.