The Brutalist style of Sheffield's Park Hill estate has divided opinion in the city for decades.

The 1960s concrete block has been hailed as the most ambitious inner-city development of its time and a visionary piece of modernist architecture.
But by the 1980s it was being condemned as an eyesore, having become dilapidated and notorious for drugs and crime.
English Heritage surprised Park Hill's critics by giving the entire complex Grade II-listed status in 1997, making it Europe's largest listed building and preventing it from being demolished.
The decision was hailed by those who regarded it as a building of architectural importance, and the structure is now being given a Â£134m makeover by developer Urban Splash.
Taking on the contract in 2008, the firm accepted Park Hill had flaws, but said it was "better than a lot of the mediocrity that is defining our cities in their renaissance race".
It added: "Besides, getting rid of it is not a sustainable solution, not when it can be saved, repaired and made good again."
Phase one of the project is complete and has now been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects' highest accolade.
The architects have kept the structure of the building in place and the wide, long walkways dubbed "streets in the sky" remain, but the external brickwork has been replaced with bright aluminium.
Judges said the reinvented building "stands as a beacon for imaginative regeneration, quality mass housing and the bold reuse of a listed building".
In true Park Hill style, reaction to the announcement has been mixed.
Former Liberal Democrat council leader Paul Scriven has criticised the renovation from the start.
He said: "I'm still of the view that you can't polish a turd, to put it bluntly.
"This is a set of London luvvies who have wafted into Sheffield and wafted out - they have looked at it with rose-tinted glasses and thought part of it is worthy of an award.
"At the same time the first phase isn't sold, they have been on sale for nearly a year-and-a-half.
"The whole scheme is a financial and aesthetic mess. What Sheffield's going to be left with? A half-finished project."
Reaction on Twitter has been largely positive, though one user criticised the project's "infantile bright colours" and another said it was "possibly the most ugly British building ever, even renovated".
James Mills, who lives at Park Hill with his wife Emma, disagrees.
He said he thought the building was "beautiful".
Mr Mills, who works in the architecture industry, said: "I suppose I am enthusiastic about it because, to me, it's what old buildings need. They have turned quite a dark building into quite a light one.
"I know that some people don't like that contrast Brutalist style but when you offset it with the colours that are shown now, you marry two aspects and I think the contradiction that you have got really makes it an eye-opener."
Another resident, Catherine Fletcher, a lecturer at Sheffield University, said people were fascinated by the estate.
She said: "People who have lived in Sheffield for quite a long time have a mixed feeling about the flats.
"There's a bit of cynicism but anybody who knows anything about architecture thinks they're fantastic."
When completed the scheme, which has received about Â£30m of government money, will boast 874 flats - a mixture of private and social housing.
About 50 of the 78 completed flats are occupied, however Urban Splash has said it is "pretty happy" with the rate of sales.
The company reported financial problems at the beginning of the year, but said it was committed to the Park Hill project and was preparing to start work on phase two later this year.


Politicians, entertainers and others have come to the defence of a US civil rights campaigner, Congressman John Lewis, who has become embroiled in a row with President-elect Donald Trump.

Mr Trump tweeted that Mr Lewis was "all talk" and should focus on his constituents, after he said Mr Trump was not a legitimate president.
But Mr Lewis' supporters reacted with anger, saying he was a hero and icon.
Mr Lewis was a leading figure in the 1960s civil rights movement.
He is the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, led by Martin Luther King.
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The row came as civil rights activists led by Rev Al Sharpton began a week of protests ahead of Mr Trump's inauguration on 20 January.
Several thousand protesters braved near-freezing temperatures to march to the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC, chanting "No justice, no peace".
In a separate development on Saturday, African American Broadway star Jennifer Holliday pulled out of performing at the inauguration after pressure from followers, many of them from the LGBT community.
Holliday, who has sung for both Republican and Democrat presidents, apologised for her "lapse of judgement" and said she did not realise her participation would be seen as expressing support for Mr Trump.
Mr Lewis, a Democrat, said on Friday he would not attend the inauguration on the grounds that he did not see the Republican as a legitimate president.
"I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected," he told NBC's Meet the Press. "And they helped destroy the candidacy of [Democrat] Hillary Clinton."
Mr Trump responded in tweets on Saturday: "Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime-infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad!"
But Mr Lewis' supporters were quick to rally round.
California Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat, said it was wrong to treat him in this way.
"John Lewis is an icon of the Civil Rights Movement who is fearless in the pursuit of justice and equality," she tweeted. "He deserves better than this."
Others mentioned Mr Lewis' bravery and the fact that the exchange had taken place on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, on 16 January.
Many of them linked to photos of the two men, or to the 1965 so-called Bloody Sunday march in Alabama, in which Mr Lewis received a fractured skull as the protest was violently broken up by police.
Republican Senator Ben Sasse tweeted his support, saying Mr Lewis' "talk" had changed the world. However, he said he disagreed with his decision to boycott the inauguration, adding: "It isn't about a man. It is a celebration of peaceful transfer of power."


A woman has died in a three-car crash in County Down.

The incident took place on the Belfast Road, Saintfield, at about 17:55 BST on Thursday, and involved a Mini, Mercedes and Mitsubishi Outlander.
The main road between Carryduff and Saintfield remains closed, and police are appealing for witnesses.
Officers want to hear from anyone who may have been driving on the A7 Belfast Road at the time and saw any of the cars.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on the non-emergency number 101.


French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has refused a police interview about her alleged misuse of EU funds.

The far-right leader denies wrongdoing and claims that the allegations are a plot to derail her campaign.
On Wednesday, Ms Le Pen's aide Catherine Griset was placed under police investigation over the payments.
The European Parliament alleges that more than €300,000 (£257,000; $321,000) of its funding was misspent by Ms Le Pen's National Front (FN) party.
"I will not respond [to the summons] during the election campaign," said Ms Le Pen on Friday.
"During this period, there cannot be the neutrality or calm necessary for the justice system to function properly," she added.
As a European member of parliament, Ms Le Penn was allocated the money for costs, on condition that the work was carried out in Brussels or Strasbourg.
However, it is alleged the money was largely used to pay the salary of Ms Griset, who is said to have spent most of her time at the FN headquarters in Paris.
Ms Griset is a close friend of Ms Le Pen as well as her cabinet director. Ms Le Pen's bodyguard, Thierry Legier, was also detained on Wednesday, but later released.
A deadline to repay the  money elapsed at the end of January.
Ms Le Pen said then that she had no intention of complying, and as a European member of parliament police cannot force her into questioning.
She has repeatedly claimed that she is a victim of a politically-motivated vendetta.
The BBC's Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, said Ms Le Pen's enemies hope the scandal will damage her reputation, but so far there is little sign of that, partly because there is no allegation of personal enrichment in the affair.
Ms Le Pen is one of the front-runners in the French presidential election to be held in April and May. If she wins, she has promised a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership of the EU.
Polls suggest that she will make it to the run-off where she is likely to face conservative candidate Francois Fillon or centrist Emmanuel Macron.


Everton manager Ronald Koeman has no new injury or suspension worries following Friday's 2-2 draw at Hull.

Offside, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse tries a through ball, but Jay Rodriguez is caught offside.
Corner,  Everton. Conceded by Jordy Clasie.
Attempt blocked. Seamus Coleman (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Everton. Conceded by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt saved. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Foul by Leighton Baines (Everton).
Dusan Tadic (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Seamus Coleman.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Ashley Williams.
Attempt blocked. Dusan Tadic (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leighton Baines.
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) header from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Dominic Calvert-Lewin because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) because of an injury.
Corner,  Everton. Conceded by José Fonte.
Substitution, Southampton. Jack Stephens replaces Cédric Soares because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Davies (Everton).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenberg is likely to miss a third successive game because of a dead leg.
Jose Fonte will return for Southampton, taking the place of the suspended Virgil van Dijk.
Nathan Redmond is available after a ban, while Ryan Bertrand is back in the squad after being rested for the defeat by West Brom.
Mark Scott: "While both clubs occupy decent positions in the table, there's an air of dissatisfaction amongst them as we hit the halfway stage of the season.
"Ronald Koeman has made it clear that he expects to be busy in the transfer window, and Everton look in need of reinforcements, with time seeming to be catching up with their ageing squad judging by some of their lethargic displays.
"There were boos from Southampton supporters after their loss to West Brom in another showing that lacked in penetration and purpose.
"Claude Puel's team look short of ideas and belief right now - another defeat would represent their worst losing run in the league for more than two years."
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Everton manager Ronald Koeman on facing his former club: "Of course it's always special. I was manager at Southampton for two seasons in a row.
"But we (Everton) had a really poor game there [in the reverse fixture]. Maybe it was one of the worst of the season, the whole team performance.
"You know if you go behind in just one minute it's always difficult because they play with a lot of organisation.
"But this game will be totally different."
Southampton manager Claude Puel: "It's important to keep calm, maintain good spirit and produce a good reaction for the next game.
"We must have strong character. It's a difficult moment, but I have confidence in all my players."
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Billy Joe Saunders put in a sluggish performance to retain his WBO world middleweight title by beating Russia's Artur Akavov on points.

Saunders, who twice had his first title defence postponed because of injury, looked second best in the early stages and struggled to let off his shots.
However, the Englishman picked up the pace in the second half of the fight to win on all three judges' cards.
The undefeated 27-year-old is targeting a fight with Gennady Golovkin in 2017.
"I should be embarrassed to talk about Golovkin after that performance, but I want that big fight in 2017 to put that terrible fight right," he said of the WBC, WBA and IBF champion.
Saunders extended his record to 24 wins, with 12 knockouts, after the judges called it 116-113, 116-112, and 115-113 in his favour.


A service to say goodbye to Wales' first missioner in residence has taken place in Wrexham.

Youth and community activist Mark Yaconelli held a six-month residency in the Diocese of St Asaph to help churches reconnect with their local communities.
He ran youth worker training, storytelling workshops and spiritual retreats.
The service took place at St Giles' Church on Sunday.
The Bishop of St Asaph, Rt Rev Gregory Cameron, said: "Our missioner in residence has shared with us some profound truths about the role and purpose of church in our society.
"We've been challenged to consider how we can better demonstrate and communicate the life-enhancing message of the Christian faith."


American Claressa Shields retained her Olympic title as she beat Nouchka Fontijn of the Netherlands in the women's middleweight final in Rio.

Shields, 21, won by a unanimous points decision to become the first American, male or female, to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in boxing.
Fontijn defeated Great Britain's Savannah Marshall in the quarter-finals but was outclassed in the final.
Shields' gold medal is the 44th for the United States at the 2016 Olympics.
One judge gave her the verdict by 40-36, with the other two scoring it 39-37 in her favour.
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"If you're an Indian reading this book in English, it's probably because of Thomas Macaulay," says the front cover blurb on a new biography of a man who foisted the Queen's language on India.

I am a "Macaulay's child" - usually a pejorative term for an Anglicised Indian - who went to an English medium school, read Dickens and Greene and listened to The Beatles and Stones.
It sounds a bit fey to attribute all this to a man who took on the Orientalists and won the argument for making English language education the basis of a "class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect".
But, as Zareer Masani writes in the biography, history has proved Macaulay right.
More than 60 years after independence, English has become a passport to upward mobility in the wildly aspirational former colony, and more Indians are learning the language than ever before. As Masani points out, India has endured linguistic division of states and language riots, but English medium schools thrive in towns and villages today.
Masani's admiration for Macaulay, a complex man of protean talents - historian, statesman, scholar, poet, essayist, parliamentarian, colonial administrator, intellectual - is evident in this highly engaging book.
But he's also careful to point out that Macaulay was racist, harboured prejudices about native Indians and customs and, despite being a linguist, did not attempt to master any Indian language. "Macaulay was notoriously dismissive, if not downright hostile and contemptuous, about native Indian, and particularly Hindu, customs and religious superstitions," writes Masani.
Macaulay spent four years in Calcutta, the imperial capital that was at the centre of an intellectual and cultural renaissance, but very little of that is mentioned in his writings.
He grumbled about the heat, public entertainments in the city - "vile actingâ€¦ viler opera-singingâ€¦ and things which they called reunions" - and "dull" formal dinners peppered with "deplorable twaddle". The life-long bachelor also had a misogynist streak - he found the lawyers and civil servants he knew in Calcutta had "disagreeable wives". He steadfastly believed that India was not ready for self-rule, and what it could really "have [is] the next best thing - a firm and impartial despotism".
Yet, in what was the first imperial education policy in British India, Macaulay aggressively pushed for English as the medium for as many Indians as possible to be given a Western education.
Masani finds this vision "more egalitarian and inclusive" and less elitist than his arch critics who wanted to promote English among a small elite. Macaulay took a personal interest in running five new English medium schools which opened in Bengal, a year and a half after the reforms began in 1835 - in a single town in Bengal, he wrote, 1,400 boys were learning English. He disliked an excessively pedagogic approach to teaching English - "Give them Jack the Giant Killer and Tom Thumb", he wrote, "and then let them have Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver".
By 1838, when he returned to Britain, Macaulay's reforms had led to the setting up of 40 English medium schools in Bengal which were open to all, quite revolutionary in a society "where lower castes had been strictly forbidden to study". Later, in 1853, his father Charles Trevelyan told a parliamentary committee that some Indians now spoke purer English "than we speak ourselves". More than a century and a half later, many of Macaulay's children can still make the same claim and some of the world's finest writers in English are Indian.
Macaulay: Pioneer of India's Modernisation by Zareer Masani is published by Random House India


Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown said that if Scotland were to chose independence then it would mean the country having no access to the UK single market.

18 March 2017 Last updated at 11:30 GMT
He made the claim during a speech in Fife where he set out his "third way" option for the constitutional future of Scotland.
Mr Brown believed there was a strong case for more powers to be handed to Holyrood once the UK's exit from the EU is completed.
He explained to his audience at the Festival of Ideas in Kirkcaldy that an independent Scotland today would face greater consequences then it might have done in 2014.
Mr Brown said: "If we leave the British single market, which was not the proposal in 2014 of the Scottish National Party, then a more dramatic set of consequences follow."


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Benjamin Harvey, Bloomberg's Istanbul bureau chief, recently tweeted: "Considering unfollowing Turkish politics completely on mental health grounds."

Today could be just another day he may have felt the same, as events moved with dizzying speed.
First, it was the news that the government had reassigned 350 police officers in the capital Ankara to different posts (mostly demotions) by a government decree published at midnight. They included chiefs of financial crimes, anti-smuggling, cybercrime and organised crime units.
This was followed by other breaking news - a simultaneous corruption operation in five cities across Turkey, with more than 25 people, businessmen and state officials, detained on suspicion of bribery and fraudulent tenders.
Then the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), which appoints senior members of the judiciary, decided to investigate Istanbul's newly appointed police chief and several prosecutors overseeing the corruption probe started in December last year.
Later, the top police officers in charge of the operation conducted earlier in the day were dismissed from their posts. An opposition MP called for the president to intervene in the crisis.
A former Turkish president had once famously said "24 hours is a very long time in politics". Even he probably could not have predicted such a day.
All these moves come as the AKP government led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tries to contain the massive political fallout from the corruption probe into four government ministers, several businessmen and bankers.
This has become the biggest challenge to the AKP government's 11-year rule and Mr Erdogan has been quick to retaliate, condemning the probe as a "dirty plot" to topple his government.
Mr Erdogan said he would not permit "a state within a state", a phrase apparently referring to the movement led by the highly influential Islamist cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999.
Mr Gulen is said to have millions of followers across the world and extensive influence over the state bureaucracy, the police force and the judiciary in Turkey.
The government accuses him and his movement, referred to as "Cemaat" in Turkey, of being behind the graft probe - a charge Mr Gulen denies.
However, the recent crisis in Turkey is increasingly seen as not only a corruption investigation which is alleged to involve the closest circles of Mr Erdogan, but a bitter power struggle between AKP and Cemaat.
Some believe that Cemaat's support was crucial in the election victories of AKP for three consecutive terms; that they have helped the government in curbing the powers of the military by their influence within the judiciary with the help of high-profile cases like Ergenekon and Sledgehammer which saw hundreds of military officers - including the previous chief of staff of the armed forces - jailed; that as the "common enemy" was driven out of the picture they started to become wary of each other's power and hence a fight for holding the ropes of Turkey started.
Many commentators in Turkey label the recent fallout as a "state crisis" since the government is perceived to be intervening in the judiciary, and the principle of separation of powers does not seem to be as intact as it should in a democracy.
On the other hand, Cemaat is not a transparent movement; no-one knows the extent of its financial power, how many millions of followers it has, how influential it is in key offices within Turkish state and what would happen if it gained further influence.
Neither does anyone know who might win this full-scale battle: Mr Erdogan or Mr Gulen.
Supporters of both sides accuse each other of undermining democracy and the rule of law; the media has become increasingly polarised with either pro-Erdogan or pro-Gulen voices leaving little space for others and the Turkish public increasingly feeling as if they are watching a fierce tennis match, holding their breaths.
Recently, it was alleged that there could be detente between Mr Erdogan and Mr Gulen through a letter Mr Gulen sent to the president of the country. But that option does not seem to be on the table any more.
Now there is speculation that there might soon be an investigation into Cemaat, with accusations it is a "terrorist organisation". On the other hand there is a possibility that people affiliated to Cemaat could leak new allegations involving influential people close to the government.
With the local elections in two months time, a presidential election this summer and a general election next year; with Turkish lira falling to a record low against the dollar and the foreign investors watching events nervously, many people in Turkey fear the path ahead with bitter power struggles, may cause political and economic instability in the country.


A man whose home-made drug lab exploded - injuring people and causing £1m of damage to a Glasgow tenement - has been jailed for six years and four months.

Scott Peden, 30, was bidding to make a super-strength form of cannabis at the flat in Tollcross when the equipment caught fire and blew up on 21 March.
Several people were badly injured and a dog and cat were killed.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Peden admitted culpable and reckless conduct and producing a controlled drug.
Jailing him, judge Lord Armstrong told Peden that he had shown "gross irresponsibility" and that his actions had "traumatic and devastating consequences".
The court heard that Peden had set up the lab in his girlfriend's flat in Fairburn Street in a bid to produce "shatter", the street name for Butane Honey Oil, which is a concentrated form of cannabis.
Prosecutor Iain McSporran said this involved using "laboratory grade equipment" such as tubes, butane gas and a specialist "vacuum oven".
On 21 March, a gas released during the drug-making process ignited and caused an explosion.
The court was told this could have been caused by a light being turned on.
Windows and the front door of the flat were instantly blown off due to the power of the blast.
As the resulting fire quickly spread, Peden and two friends fled while neighbours also tried to escape.
One neighbour, Alexander Elder, was badly injured after climbing out of his second-floor flat window.
Two others, Ewa Uscitowicz and Robert Andrezjewski, were knocked unconscious as thick smoke engulfed the building.
Firefighters arrived following a flood of 999 calls and eventually rescued those still trapped.
The operation to extinguish the flames took about two hours.
A total of eight residents required hospital treatment for injuries including burns, smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning.
It was initially feared Mr Andrezjewski and Ms Uscitowicz may die.
Mr Elder suffered multiple broken bones from his fall. A cat and a dog were also killed.
The court heard that Peden's two friends were also badly burned.
Peden could not initially be traced after he fled and it was only on 31 March that he handed himself in to police.
He admitted being in the kitchen at the time of the blast, but said it was an "accident".
Peden - who also had minor burns - added his girlfriend had not been at the flat for around two months.
After Peden was jailed, Det Insp David Stewart, of Police Scotland, said: "When emergency services attended at the scene of the incident at Fairburn Street they were faced with scenes of absolute carnage.
"It was determined that Peden had been manufacturing a concentrated cannabis derivative.
"An explosion followed as a result of his idiocy."
The detective added: "I cannot emphasise enough the stupidity of his selfish actions.
"It borders on the miraculous that his neighbours, his friends within the flat and Peden himself were not more seriously injured, or indeed killed, as a consequence. The sentence handed down today reflects the gravity of his crimes."


The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has unveiled a collection of restored television adverts from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The IFI described the adverts as "a rich treasure trove of national memory and cultural artefacts".
The project, which involved the preservation and digitisation of the adverts, took 18 months to complete at a cost of 362,000 Euro (Â£307,000).
Over 200 adverts are available to view on the institute's website.
The collection, numbering nearly 8,000 rolls of film, had suffered physical deterioration and contracted a mould infestation after been held in damp warehouses for decades before being transferred to the IFI's archive in the mid-1990s.
The IFI's archive team "salvaged this material, through a combination of painstaking processes including frame-by-frame assessment, extensive physical and chemical conservation, followed by scanning and digital restoration".
IFI director Ross Keane said: "This project has been a huge undertaking for the organisation, and we are particularly pleased to be able to share the results with the public through our new IFI Player."
Michael O'Keeffe, CEO of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), which supported the project financially, added: "The preservation aspects of the project, together with the historical and cultural value of the advertising material, are commendable.
"It epitomises the aims of the BAI's archiving scheme by contributing to the preservation of Ireland's broadcasting heritage, and record of Irish culture.'


The UN's newly-elected Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he will make ending Syria's civil war his top priority.

"I believe it is the international community's first priority to be able to end this conflict," he told the BBC.
Mr Guterres said the world now faced a dangerous moment, with even countries far from warzones threatened by acts of terrorism.
He called the drive to end armed conflict "a battle for values".
In his first interview since his unanimous election, Mr Guterres told the BBC's Lyse Doucet world leaders had a "vital shared interest" in ending Syria's war, and the global strife that is linked to it.
He added that Syrians were victims not just of their own problems, but of all the contradictions of today's world.
Asked if he feared worse bloodshed in Syria, he replied: "I hope not. I sincerely hope not because we have seen such a terrible level of suffering. To think that this will even get worse... I believe it is the international community's first priority to be able to end this conflict."
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Mr Guterres will become the world's top diplomat on 1 January, when Ban Ki-moon's second five-year term ends.
Trained as an engineer, he entered politics in 1976 in Portugal's first democratic election after the "Carnation Revolution" that ended five decades of dictatorship.
His nomination came despite a concerted effort to appoint the UN's first female secretary general. Of the 13 candidates, seven were women, among them Unesco director-general Irina Bokova from Bulgaria, and Helen Clark, 66, a former prime minister of New Zealand and current head of the UN development programme.


Four Republican senators have said they will not vote for a new healthcare plan to repeal Obamacare, throwing the bill's fate into uncertainty.

Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Rand Paul said they were "not ready to vote for this bill", but were "open to negotiation".
Republican senators unveiled a draft of their plan to overhaul the US healthcare system after weeks of talks.
They can only afford to have two defections to pass the plan.
Republicans, who released the bill after drafting it in secret, need to secure 50 votes when the bill comes to the floor next week. No Democrats are expected to support it.
"Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor," said the statement from the four senators, who are from the more conservative wing of the party.
"There are provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current healthcare system, but it does not appear this draft as written will accomplish the most important promise that we made to Americans: to repeal Obamacare and lower their healthcare costs."
Two other Republican senators viewed as moderates have also raised red flags with the bill.
Senator Dean Heller - who faces re-election next year - said he had "serious concerns" about the bill's impact on his home state of Nevada.
He added he would share his reservations with Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and talk to residents about whether to vote for it.
"As I have consistently stated, if the bill is good for Nevada, I'll vote for it and if it's not - I won't," he said in a statement on Thursday.
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine said it was "too soon" to decide on whether she would vote for the bill.
She expressed "concerns" about the proposed cuts to Medicaid, a government medical programme for low-income Americans, and eliminating funding for the women's health group Planned Parenthood.
The 142-page "discussion draft" repeals most of President Barack Obama's 2010 signature health law, including dropping the requirement for individuals to have health insurance and repealing taxes on the wealthy.
Repealing Mr Obama's law, called the Affordable Care Act but also known as Obamacare, was a central promise of Republicans throughout his presidency.
Senators wrote their own version after their colleagues in the House of Representatives passed Obamacare repeal legislation six weeks ago.
The legislation affects tens of millions of Americans and nearly a fifth of the US economy.
Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, who crafted most of the plan in secret, presented the Better Care Reconciliation Act Of 2017 to the upper chamber on Thursday.
"Republicans believe we have a responsibility to act - and we are," Mr McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor.
The bill mostly aligns with a measure passed by the House last month, but ties federal subsidies for individuals based on their income rather than age - as the Affordable Care Act currently does.
It would make it more difficult for recipients to qualify for those subsidies, however, by implementing more restrictions on income requirements.
Critics of the House bill, which tied the subsidies to age, say it unfairly penalised older Americans.
The Senate plan phases out the expansion of Medicaid more gradually than the House bill.
But it would impose deeper long-term cuts to the programme.
The bill also gives states more latitude in requiring insurers to provide essential health benefits guaranteed under Obamacare, including emergency and maternity care and mental health services.
Details of the draft also include:
The great unveiling - Anthony Zurcher, BBC News North America reporter
The curtain has finally come up on the Senate healthcare bill, and the product of weeks of back-room negotiations looks a lot like the oft-derided House version.
Sure, there are a few key differences. In some places, it's more moderate - keeping in place income-adjusted subsidies to help less affluent Americans purchase insurance, for instance.
In other areas the cuts are actually much more aggressive.
It appears Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hopes to mollify moderates and hard-liners by pushing the painful changes to low-income insurance programmes farther down the road.
Whether that's enough to cobble together the bare-minimum 50 votes necessary from the 52 Republicans in the Senate will be the big question next week.
Moderates and at-risk senators up for re-election last year are the ones to watch - folks like Susan Collins of Maine, Dean Heller of Nevada and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
The others may groan, and try to wrangle a few last-minute deals to sweeten the pot, but they face the same reality as their House brethren.
They've spent the last seven years saying they'd tear Obamacare up "root and branch", in Mr McConnell's words, and they can't risk walking away empty handed.
Senator McConnell expects the bill to come to the Senate floor as early as next week, when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office releases the plan's estimated cost and impact on Americans.
The Republican Senate leadership is hoping to pass the measure, before sending it back to the House for approval of the new draft.
The House would need to pass the bill as it stands and send it to President Donald Trump's desk to sign into law or draft another version, which both chambers would again have to approve.
Mr Trump has previously referred to the House version as "mean" and implored senators to draft a more "generous" version.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi denounced the Senate bill on Thursday, calling it "mean and heartless".
"It is still - as the president called the House bill - mean," she said. "So sad, Mr President. Heartless. Mean and heartless."
Meanwhile, protesters railed against the Senate healthcare bill during a sit-in outside of Mr McConnell's office on Capitol Hill.
Protesters were heard chanting, "No cuts to Medicaid - save our liberty!"


Sam Allardyce is still seeking his first win as Crystal Palace boss after his former club Bolton Wanderers forced a replay against their Premier League opponents in the FA Cup third round.

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Palace's Mathieu Flamini blazed a great chance over while Loic Remy hit a post against the League One hosts.
Bolton's James Henry was twice denied by Palace keeper Julian Speroni, 37.
Palace, losing finalists last season, had a lucky escape when Josh Vela headed against the post for Bolton.
Reaction from all of Saturday's FA Cup third round ties
It means another game for Palace, something Allardyce could do without as he battles to keep his side out of the Premier League's bottom three.
Allardyce, 62, played for and managed Bolton, steering Wanderers to a top-six Premier League finish and a place in Europe during his eight years in charge between 1999 and 2007.
It was no surprise he received a warm reception from home fans as he took his place in the dugout before enduring an uncomfortable 90 minutes.
Palace, who have drawn two and lost two of their first four games since the former England manager took charge, did enough to avoid an upset and might even have nicked it.
Remy, on loan from Chelsea, was their most threatening player before the break.
As well as being denied by the woodwork, the France international forced two fine saves from Ben Alnwick before being replaced by Yohan Cabaye at the start of the second half.
Speroni was making his 389th appearance for Palace, a club record, and he was required as Bolton threatened an upset through the industrious Henry and Gary Madine.
Bolton were a top-flight club as recently as 2012 but the past five years have been bleak - financial problems coupled with relegation to the third tier.
Yet there are signs they are finally heading back in the right direction under manager Phil Parkinson.
Third in the league with games in hand over both teams above them, Bolton offered further evidence in this entertaining tie that they are a well organised unit as they came close to causing an upset.
Henry, on loan from Wolves, could have had a hat-trick inside the first 20 minutes alone. Madine and Vela also caused panic in the Palace defence.
Bolton's main aim this season is to win promotion back to the Championship yet Parkinson and his players certainly will not be ruling out making further progress in the FA Cup.
Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: "We're still in the hat. Parky's side gave us a real good game. I want us to get better - I wouldn't say I was satisfied with what I saw.
"We haven't kept a clean sheet for a while at this club, so we've got that.
"I changed the team about and that can disrupt things a bit. It was a tough game and we had to battle it out."
Bolton boss Phil Parkinson: "When the draw came out we thought it would be interesting to see how we could acquit ourselves against Premier League opposition and we didn't look out of place.
"It was a good team performance and it was a shame we couldn't have found that moment to win the game."
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 0, Crystal Palace 0.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 0, Crystal Palace 0.
Offside, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor tries a through ball, but Josh Vela is caught offside.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor replaces James Henry.
Attempt saved. Jamie Proctor (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jay Spearing with a cross.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Ezekiel Fryers.
Attempt blocked. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Jamie Proctor replaces Gary Madine.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Sullay Kaikai replaces Fraizer Campbell.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Max Clayton replaces Zach Clough.
Attempt missed. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jay Spearing.
Attempt missed. Fraizer Campbell (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Yohan Cabaye with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by David Wheater.
Attempt blocked. Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andros Townsend.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Lawrie Wilson.
Attempt blocked. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Damien Delaney.
Attempt blocked. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Zach Clough.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Lawrie Wilson.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Jay Spearing.
Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Thorpe (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Andros Townsend replaces Joe Ledley.
Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by James Henry with a cross.
Attempt saved. Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordon Mutch with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers).
Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lawrie Wilson (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jay Spearing with a cross.
Attempt missed. David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andrew Taylor with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Yohan Cabaye.
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers).


The Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules.

Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned, said Xinhua news agency.
The party has in the past warned its officials to refrain from extravagant dinners and purchasing moon cakes using public funds.
China has been conducting a strict anti-corruption drive since 2012.
The new rule on golf states that members are banned from "obtaining, holding or using membership cards for gyms, clubs, golf clubs, or various other types of consumer cards, or entering private clubs".
If caught, members could either receive a warning or be removed from the party, depending on the severity of the violation.
The new regulations (in Chinese) did not explain why the joining of golf clubs is banned, but such clubs are often seen by the Chinese public as places where officials have cut shady deals.
In September, local media reported that at least 60 employees in state-owned companies were punished for spending public funds on playing golf.
Earlier this month, Lin Chunsong, a vice-mayor in the south-eastern Fujian province, was sacked for belonging to a golf club and playing golf while he should have been at work.
China and golf
One owner of a golf equipment store in Shanghai, who was only identified by his surname, Huang, told Reuters that his store's sales had dropped at least 30% last year.
Golf in China was "about the social interaction", he said. "If a company boss can't play with a government official, there's little point in him spending his money."
Another new rule states that party members cannot "violate official provisions on hospitality management and engage in over-the-top entertaining, or take advantage of opportunities for extravagant eating and drinking".
The Communist Party has also rephrased a previous clause banning adultery and mistresses, which now says that members are banned from "having improper sexual relations with other people which have bad repercussions".
The party's strict rules for officials have in the past affected business for restaurants and luxury goods retailers in China and elsewhere.
President Xi Jinping has led a major anti-corruption campaign since taking office three years ago.
He has previously warned of unrest if corruption and perceived privilege within the Communist Party are not tackled.


Arsene Wenger says his Arsenal players have been "shocked" by some of their results this season, but insists his squad are capable to fight in Sunday's north London derby against Tottenham.

Arsenal are sixth in the Premier League and five points behind Manchester City in fourth, with six games to play.
The Gunners boss described February's 5-1 loss to Bayern Munich and the 3-1 defeat by Chelsea as "big knocks".
"We were a bit like a boxer who got put on the floor twice," he said.
"We lost and people interpreted that as them not caring," added the 67-year-old Frenchman.
"No. Maybe it's because they care very much that we were like that - shocked. We were shocked.
"I think the players care. The players have a good mentality. I love the attitude of this team. There's a good atmosphere compared to one or two months ago."
Of Wenger's 49 north London derbies, his Arsenal side have won 22, drawn 20 and lost seven, but Tottenham are unbeaten in each of their past five league games against Arsenal.
Mauricio Pochettino is the first Tottenham manager to remain unbeaten in his first five top-flight north London Premier League derbies.


A Moray man has been jailed over footage of his sexual assault of a crying baby.

Ryan Simpson, 29, of Elgin, sent the video of him kissing the infant to his boyfriend.
The hotel worker admitted sexually assaulting a child, and indecent images charges.
Simpson was jailed for a total of 16 months at the High Court in Aberdeen and was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
The case had previously been dealt with at Elgin Sheriff Court but was referred to the high court for sentencing.
At the earlier hearing, fiscal depute Alison Wylie said: "The baby was distressed and crying during the video footage."
Defence lawyer Jonathan Crowe said his client had a difficult upbringing.
Mr Crowe said Simpson had been pressurised into committing the child assault by his then partner and was horrified by his own behaviour.
Lord Woolman told Simpson: "It is in your best interests that you engage in every social work programme which is recommended to you."


After the result of the UK's snap general election on 8 June has been announced and the dust has settled, the focus for whoever holds the keys to No 10 will turn to the issue of Brexit.

One of the crucial questions following Britain's vote to leave the European Union is what will happen to the land border separating Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland.
There is widespread agreement among UK politicians that there should be no return to what they call a hard border and that the Common Travel Area (CTA) should be maintained after Brexit.
These objectives have been echoed by leading European politicians, such as the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, and chief Brexit negotiator for the EU Michel Barnier.
But as things stand, no party has yet put forward a workable plan for ensuring that both people and goods can continue to cross the border without checkpoints. And we still do not know what Brexit will actually look like.
The exact number of individuals that cross between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland every day is difficult to quantify, but the figure is likely to be in the tens of thousands.
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, which has offices in Armagh and Dublin, has estimated that between 23,000 and 30,000 people cross the border daily for work.
This includes non-Irish and non-UK EU citizens living and working on different sides of the Irish land border.
The figure is believed to be a conservative estimate, with many more making the journey to and from the Republic of Ireland to attend schools and hospital appointments.
Speaking at a House of Lords select committee in 2016, Bernie McCrory, the head of Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT), said that the health and social care group's nurses routinely crossed the border several times a day.
The days of the Troubles are gone, and the border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic lie rusting and unused.
But now the UK is getting ready to leave the EU.
Hospital patients and schoolchildren and cross-border workers are among those who have to make the daily journey. How do they see the road ahead?
Special report: The hardest border
If the rest of the UK is not included, then Northern Ireland's biggest export market is its nearest neighbour, the Republic of Ireland.
While just under one-third of its total manufactured goods - Â£2.4bn - were sold across its land border in 2016, of Northern Ireland's Â£7.7bn export total for the same period, the majority of sales - Â£4.2bn - were to the EU.
The agri-food sector - trade in food and farm produce - dominates trade in goods between the north and south.
A 2016 UK parliamentary report, citing the Irish Farmers' Association, says that 350,000 lambs went from north to south, 500,000 pigs from south to north, and millions of litres of milk travelled in both directions over the course of a year.
Almost 30% of Northern Ireland's milk is processed in the Republic of Ireland, where it is made into butter and cheese or used in infant formula.
For members of the EU, goods and produce such as these can cross borders freely.
But if negotiations between the UK and the EU fail to reach a trade agreement, or if the agreement is less favourable than that enjoyed by member states, it could mean that tariffs - taxes imposed on imported items - could become costly.
In the EU referendum, Northern Ireland voted to remain by a majority of 56% to 44%.
Some - but not all - of the parties supported that view.
Here are some details from each of the main parties' manifestos, stating their aims in terms of Brexit and the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
The DUP is in favour of Northern Ireland leaving the EU but says that Brexit does not mean "leaving Europe".
It adds that it will prioritise maintaining the CTA between the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Aims:
DUP manifesto in full
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
The SDLP is a pro-European party that campaigned for Northern Ireland to remain part of the EU.
In its manifesto, it states that Brexit will create an unprecedented situation in which one member of the CTA, the Republic of Ireland, is part of the EU while the other is not.
The SDLP says it will oppose the hardening of borders, in order to protect cross-border workers, farms that straddle both sides and businesses that rely heavily on trade with the south.
Aims:
SDLP manifesto in full
Sinn Fein
The party says that the "only credible approach" to Brexit is for Northern Ireland to receive special status within the EU that will uphold the democratic vote of citizens, but will also ensure that "the frontier between the EU and Britain will not be on the island of Ireland".
Aims:
Sinn Fein manifesto in full
Alliance Party
The pro-European Alliance Party supported a Remain vote.
It opposes a hard Brexit and supports a second referendum following negotiations, to allow citizens to decide whether any agreement reached is better than EU membership.
The party also argues that Northern Ireland is a special case because its citizens have an automatic right to be Irish citizens and, therefore, to be citizens of the EU.
Legally, Northern Ireland would, post-Brexit, have the capacity to opt back into the EU through joining a united Ireland, it says.
Aims:
Alliance Party manifesto in full
Ulster Unionist Party
The UUP's view on Brexit was that, on balance, it was beneficial for Northern Ireland to remain within the EU.
The party says it has a vision to make Northern Ireland the "UK's Gateway to Europe".
Aims:
UUP manifesto in full
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Jockey Barry Geraghty is at the centre of an injury scare just 17 days before jump racing's Cheltenham Festival.

The 37-year-old suffered a punctured lung and a broken rib in a heavy fall at Kempton's BetBright Genius Adonis Juvenile Hurdle, which was won by Master Blueyes.
The Irishman is due to ride a string of fancied mounts at Cheltenham, including Unowhatimeanharry and Yanworth.
Doctors hope he may be fit for the festival, which starts on March 14.
The jockey was taken to hospital for further examination after he appeared to take a kick to the upper body from a following horse.
"Charli Parcs just stepped at the flight and came down. I got a bit of a kicking from Harry Skelton's horse Bedrock who was coming behind us," Geraghty told www.attheraces.com.
"I was sore afterwards so I gave up the rest of my rides in the day.
"The prognosis is not too bad. The doctors are hopeful that I will be back in time for the Cheltenham Festival. I'm hopeful too."


Failure to protect funding for homeless people with complex needs in Wales would be a "catastrophe", according to a major provider of supported housing.

Rhian Stone, director of care and support at Newport-based Pobl Group, said some services in England reported a rise in rough sleepers after cuts resulted in fewer homeless support workers.
The UK government removed the ring-fencing of the "supporting people" budget in England in 2010 and some councils subsequently reduced outgoings on extra help.
The Welsh Government described the money as "important" but that funding decisions beyond 2017-18 would be considered in the future.
Pobl Group includes housing associations such as Charter Housing, and sheltered accommodation providers like Gwalia and Solas, which runs education and support groups.
The group said "supporting people" funding has been protected by the Welsh Government in recent years, but was only guaranteed until 2017-18.
Ms Stone said: "We're very grateful that the budget is staying at its current level next year, but the demands are getting greater - we're seeing more complex needs coming through all our schemes.
"Things like domestic abuse, mental health problems, substance abuse, welfare reform."
She added that equivalent organisations in England have reported problems when some councils reduced the funding for "wrap around" services for homeless people.
"In our accommodation services there are support workers 24/7, but I've heard of services being reduced to 9am-5pm in England.
"These are people with potentially very complex and risky behaviours.
"If I had a pound for every person I spoke to who said 'if it wasn't for the service I'd be dead' I'd be very rich - and we're just one provider.
"The programme regularly saves lives, turns lives around, prevents people from being re-admitted to hospital, admitted to prison, preventing young people going into care.
"The costs associated with all that are astronomical."
An allocation of around Â£124m is given by the Welsh Government to local councils which they must spend on helping "vulnerable people live as independently as possible".
That includes things like enabling older people to stay in their own home for longer, helping someone with a learning disability or providing support for housing-related issues.
Preventing homelessness is the ultimate aim, but for those who sleep on the streets or have substance misuse issues, the programme often provides more.
In England, the ring-fencing of the fund for specific areas was removed in 2010 by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Some English councils chose to spend less than before on housing-related support, with many receiving larger cuts to their grant from Westminster than Welsh councils received from Cardiff Bay.
At Albert Street Hostel in Newport, Dave Howell shows me around what feels like student accommodation with kitchens, lounge areas as well as private rooms for informal counselling.
Single men and woman stay here, instead of the streets.
Nicholas Lane, 36, slept rough for a year in Newport, after taking drugs from the age of nine.
Now he's trying to stay clean and to be able to see his daughter again.
He said woodwork and DIY courses funded by the "supporting people" programme have made a big difference.
"It's about getting you back into the swing of things, interacting with people again," he said.
"They help you in every sort of way really, with depression, key worker sessions, just a lot of support here basically - and for when you leave as well."
Many in this centre also have problems with drugs or alcohol, some have had traumatic experiences as children or as adults.
Trained support staff can help talk things through and help address substance abuse.
All the help that isn't directly to do with housing is paid for via the Welsh Government's "supporting people" fund, which no longer exists in England.
Some, but not all, councils in England have reduced what they spend on similar services.
Some providers told me that means more flexibility on how they work and less paperwork than before, even if some of the more intense outreach work now relies in part on reports from volunteers.
St Paul's hostel in Worcester lost its contract for some support services with the council a few years ago.
Chief executive Jonathan Sutton admits the old system was far from perfect - there were several services which had some crossover between what they did.
He also accepts the city's new drop-in centre - with a new provider running it - has many positives.
But he still feels some vulnerable people are losing out, especially those who have deeply entrenched behaviour problems, often related to drugs or alcohol.
"I took over here three years ago and in that time I've seen the number of services and the breadth of services available to people has drastically reduced.
"Our staffing levels are now so low that to take the most vulnerable and the most chaotic puts other people at risk.
"We're having, unfortunately, to say to people 'here is not the place for you'.
"For a charity like ourselves that's a very difficult decision to make."
Worcester City Council said it has worked with partner agencies to support people who are sleeping rough.
It said it expects the number of recorded rough sleepers in the city to drop this year as a result of some of the work it has commissioned.
Worcester County Council said while there had been reductions in staffing levels in its wider area, services were "adapting and changing" to prevent homelessness in the first place.
In a warm Worcester flat overlooking the city's skyline, Peter Shirley tells me about very different times.
He spent four and a half months living in a car after his marriage broke down.
"I was on medication for depression, I was self harming, I was drinking just to stay warm and help me sleep it was so cold," he said.
"I woke up stiff and had terrible back problems from lying in a two-door car all night, but it was my safe place."
He was offered a place in a hostel in Birmingham, but said he felt the area was unsafe for him to stay.
Eventually, he accepted an offer to stay with two people he thought were friends but he said they sexually assaulted him.
"I remember it well...I tried to kill myself and ended up in hospital. I didn't tell anyone about it for ages," he said.
An outreach team spoke to Peter several times before the incident, then visited him in hospital to offer him a safe place to stay.
He said it was their persistence that gave him the confidence on his road to recovery, but the outreach team is now smaller in size and relies in part on volunteers.
"It's heartbreaking," he said. "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them."
Work is ongoing in Worcester to prevent homelessness.
But many providing that council-commissioned help admit that with increased demand and fewer staff they are concerned, or least, anxious about the future.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "The Supporting People programme plays a very important part in improving the lives of vulnerable people, tackling homelessness and reducing unnecessary demands on other public services.
"Funding decisions beyond 2017-18 will be considered as part of the budget setting process in future years."


Screening all post-menopausal women for ovarian cancer may not reduce deaths from the disease, say researchers.

Almost 40,000 US women were checked annually over a 10-year period, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported.
During the following nine years, the number of ovarian cancer deaths matched those in an untested group of the same size.
Cancer Research UK said it was seeking new methods to detect the cancer.
While ovarian cancer is not the most common in the UK, it causes more than 4,000 deaths a year.
This is because it is often far advanced by the time that symptoms become obvious.
If caught early, up to nine out of 10 women can survive.
Two types of test are at the centre of hopes for a successful screening programme - a blood test looking for a high levels of a chemical associated with the cancer, and an ultrasound test which looks directly for abnormalities.
The University of Utah study, which started in 1993, used both tests in combination, with women given the blood test once a year for the first six years, then annual ultrasound examinations for the remaining four years.
By the time the study closed in 2010, slightly more cases of ovarian cancer had been diagnosed in the screened group, compared with the group offered no screening.
However, there were 118 deaths among the screened women, and 100 in the unscreened women, which amounted to no real difference in statistical terms.
In addition, the screening programme threw up 3,285 "false positive" results, in which the tests suggested cancer might be present, even though this was not the case.
Of these women, more than 1,000 underwent unnecessary surgery, many opting for surgical removal of one or both of their ovaries. These operations led to 222 cases of "major complications".
The researchers suggested that using a different combination of blood tests and ultrasound might improve the outcome.
However, they said that the fast-growing nature of many ovarian cancers could mean that even annual tests might not offer enough women the chance to catch it at an early stage.
A similar UK-based trial is still some years away from giving its verdict on the effectiveness of ovarian screening.
The UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) delivered encouraging results at its halfway point in 2009, with both types of test proving accurate in detecting cancers.
Like the Utah researchers, British teams are now waiting until the middle of this decade to see if this has any positive effect on overall deaths from the disease.
Dr James Brenton, an ovarian cancer specialist at Cancer Research UK, said that the charity was funding research into different methods of spotting tumours in their early stages.
He said: "This important research suggests that having a yearly ultrasound test along with a blood test, which provides a snapshot of the levels of protein associated with ovarian cancer - the serum CA125 test - is not going to cure more women.
"We are testing whether smaller rises in CA125 over time can be a better predictor, and working with international groups to identify common genes that might slightly increase the risk."


Three families lost their homes when fire engulfed a row of National Trust cottages on the Blickling estate in Norfolk.

The three Grade II-listed thatched houses at Silvergate caught fire late on Saturday afternoon.
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service incident commander Simon Mason said crews may remain at the scene for a second night.
A National Trust spokeswoman thanked firefighters who "worked tirelessly".
Residents from two houses have gone to stay with family and friends, while the third family has been re-homed in a holiday cottage, the National Trust said.
"We do not know the cause or full extent of the fire yet but, most importantly, there have been no reports of any injuries and all of the tenants were able to get out of the cottages," said the trust's spokeswoman.
"We are enormously grateful to the crews who reached the cottages quickly, worked tirelessly to tackle the fire and have maintained a constant presence."
About 70 firefighters attended the blaze as it ripped through the roofs of the cottages.
"We expect to be on the scene for the remainder for the day and maybe over the night," said Mr Mason.
An investigation into the cause of the fire has been launched.


Manchester City have signed Nigeria international Olarenwaju Kayode from Austria Vienna on a four-year deal and sent him on a season-long loan to Spanish side Girona.

The 24-year-old striker finished as the top scorer in Austria's top flight last season with 17 goals in 33 games.
Kayode had been linked with a move to Newcastle United.
Four other City players are to spend the 2017-18 season at newly-promoted La Liga side Girona.
Brazilian £10.7m midfielder Douglas Luiz, right-back Pablo Maffeo, midfielder Aleix Garcia and Colombian winger Marlos Moreno have all signed loan deals with the Spanish club.
Girona have officially confirmed the loan deal for Kayode, but City are yet to make a formal announcement.
He scored 24 goals in 48 matches for Vienna last season, including two goals in two games against Roma in the Europa League.
Kayode, who has also played for ASEC Mimosas in the Ivory Coast, FC Luzern in Switzerland Maccabi Netanya in Israel. He represented Nigeria at the 2009 and 2011 Under-17 and Under-20 World Cups respectively.
He made his debut for Nigeria in a friendly against Senegal in March and has three caps for the three-time African champions.
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Residents in more than 300,000 homes are entering a fourth week of boiling drinking water after a parasite discovery at a treatment works.

Water firm United Utilities will assess hundreds of test results later, in discussions with Public Health England.
Action was taken after the microbial parasite cryptosporidium was found on 6 August, near Preston in Lancashire.
Water is being treated with ultra violet (UV) light to kill the parasite, which can cause diarrhoea and cramps.
United Utilities previously said it would have an idea of when restrictions could be lifted once UV light treated the water.
A petition calling for a parliamentary inquiry into how the bug entered the water supply has been signed by about 12,000 people.
Affected areas include Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.
Levels of cryptosporidium are "very low" but United Utilities urged people to continue boiling water.


(Close): Shares in education publishing group Pearson dived 16% after it warned that its full-year earnings would be at the low end of expectations.

Pearson blamed lower enrolments at some US colleges and a drop in school textbook purchases in South Africa.
The FTSE 100 opened lower, but then recovered to close 3.29 points or 0.05% higher at 6,348.42.
Shares in chip designer ARM Holdings rose 6.5% after it reported a 27% rise in third-quarter profits to Â£128.4m.
The firm - whose designs can be found in iPhones, tablets and many consumer electronic goods - added that full-year revenues were set to hit market forecasts.
Shares in Sky were also among the top risers, climbing 2.5% after the satellite broadcaster reported another strong increase in subscriber numbers.
In the three months to the end of September, it added 77,000 customers in the UK and Ireland - its best performance for four years.
Merlin Entertainments rose 4.7% after the company announced it would open a Legoland amusement park in Shanghai after signing an agreement with China Media Capital.
The deal is being announced as part of the state visit to the UK of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Home Retail Group sank 15.8% after it issued a profit warning. The firm - which owns Argos and Homebase - said uncertainty over the impact of Black Friday and investment in the Argos delivery service meant full-year profits would be slightly below forecast.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.14% against the dollar to $1.5467 and gained 0.15% against the euro to â‚¬1.3635.


There are seven candidates standing for the leadership of the Green Party in England and Wales, including two standing on a job share basis.

All paid up members of the party are eligible to vote in the election. Voting closes on 25 August and the winner will be announced on 2 September.
Former leader Caroline Lucas, the party's only MP, is bidding to be leader again, this time as a job share with Jonathan Bartley, the party's work and pensions spokesman.
Ms Lucas became the party's first MP in 2010 when she took the seat of Brighton Pavilion from Labour. She was re-elected in 2015 with a much-increased majority of nearly 8,000.
At Westminster Ms Lucas has raised the party's profile with her opposition to the so-called "bedroom tax", the benefits cap and the renewal of Trident.
The Spectator named her "newcomer of the year" in 2010.
Ms Lucas, who has also served as an MEP for South East England, was elected as party leader in 2008.
She stood down in 2012, saying: "I want to give other people the opportunity to get well known, to have some profile in the party, hopefully to use that to get themselves elected as well."
She was replaced by Natalie Bennett but the new leader failed to get elected to the Commons in 2015.
Ms Lucas was the Greens' first solo leader in England and Wales, after it switched from a system of having two principal speakers. Standing again on a job share ticket recalls the previous arrangement and has echoes in the Scottish Green Party, which is led by two co-convenors.
The Green Party's spokesman on work and pensions is standing on a joint ticket with Caroline Lucas because, they say, both are candidates who have "considerable experience of campaigning and winning".
Active in the Green Party in Lambeth, south London, Mr Bartley stood for the party in the recent London Assembly elections but failed to win a seat.
A year before that, he stood as a general election candidate in Streatham, coming fourth.
Mr Bartley campaigned for the alternative vote in the 2011 referendum, as vice-chairman of the Yes to Fairer Votes Campaign.
Simon Cross was the Greens' 2015 general election candidate in the Essex constituency of Rochford and Southend East, coming fourth.
Before moving to Southend he lived in South Yorkshire and was active in the Green Party there.
His general election campaign profile said he campaigned "in the areas of the NHS, young people and education, poverty and homelessness".
Writing in 2014, he said he would "oppose NHS privatisation and treating healthcare as a market" and campaign to "keep the health service free - abolish prescription charges, reintroduce free eye tests and NHS dental treatment for all".
On the economy, he wrote: "The Green Party wants to rehabilitate progressive taxation. This requires two things: raising taxes fairly and explaining them honestly."
Clive Lord describes himself as "almost a founder member of the Green Party", having joined the party (then called PEOPLE) in 1973, five months after its formation.
At the age of 81 he says he is "the longest serving member still active" but his campaign website hints heavily that his leadership would be about preparing a favoured successor for the role.
He supports deputy leadership candidate Andrew Cooper, going as far as to say Mr Cooper "will be a much better leader than me".
Mr Lord hoped that Mr Cooper would run on a joint ticket with Caroline Lucas but, as that has not happened, he says he would transfer much of his work if elected leader to a deputy, which he hopes would be Mr Cooper.
Mr Lord backs a Citizens' Basic Income and greater redistribution of wealth. "I pointed out to the actual founder members in March 1973 that they had just founded a socialist party, whether they liked it or not," he wrote.
Film-maker and lecturer David Malone is calling for "a serious debate in the party, first and foremost, about finance and economics".
In a campaign statement, he wrote that the Greens should prioritise "bringing our economy, our financial structures, corporate tax and our currency back under effective democratic control",
On the leadership election, he added: "I doubt I will win. Caroline Lucas is a very good MP, will make a very effective leader and is far better known than I am.  But I  thought running anyway could still serve a purpose, in hopefully spurring a debate."
During an online Q&A during the leadership campaign, he commented: "Why not have a very good and well known MP in addition to a good leader? If Caroline does both jobs (even as a job share) I think we look like a party that only has one good person and has no depth of talent."
He is the son of the late producer and director Adrian Malone, who worked on such landmark shows as The Ascent of Man and Cosmos with Carl Sagan.
Parish councillor Martie Warin stood in the 2015 general election at the age of 27 as a candidate in Easington, County Durham, coming sixth is a very safe Labour seat.
He has described himself as an "EcoSocialist", tweeting: "Socialism is the philosophy of caring, Capitalism, the philosophy of the greedy, EcoSocialism is the philosophy of caring for the future!"
Mr Warin wrote in an opinion piece about the impact of the closure of Easington's pit: "People suffered then, and continue to suffer the effects now. The cuts of recent years continue to rub salt into the wounds of these once proud people. Now I know coal mining is certainly not Green, but compassion and justice are."
Salford-born David Williams is the leader of the Green Party group on Oxfordshire County Council.
The former Labour councillor and parliamentary candidate said his "politics were challenged with Labour moving towards Blair's political agenda" and he joined the Greens in 2003.
In his campaign statement he wrote: "I'm standing because we need a debate on the direction of the party post-Brexit. I am a great supporter of Caroline Lucas who is an excellent MP. However, as a democrat I don't believe we should have 'coronations' of leaders."
He has said the Greens must maintain what he describes as a "sensible left of centre stance" and does not rule out working other parties.
"We must not retreat into promoting only a simple ecology message," he argued. "We are a political party not an environmental pressure group."


Argentina has been told again it must pay back more than $1.3bn (£830m) to a group of investors - 11 years after its record debt default.

A New York appeals court unanimously rejected every Argentine argument against the payout.
The decision is the latest twist in the long-running legal saga.
Argentina refuses to pay anything to investors who declined to participate in a previous debt reduction deal involving most of the nation's lenders.
"What the consequences predicted by Argentina have in common is that they are speculative, hyperbolic and almost entirely of the Republic's own making," the judges said in their decision.
But the appeals court held off forcing Argentina to pay pending an appeal to the Supreme Court  - which is considered unlikely to hear the case, but puts off any decision to 2014, well after Argentina's congressional elections in October.
The appeal came after a Manhattan court ruled last February that Argentina had violated its contractual obligation to treat all creditors equally. That meant the country would have to pay the bondholders, led by NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management.
Argentina defaulted on some $100bn of debts in 2002, and has since restructured its debt twice, cancelling around 75% of the nominal value of the bonds.
Almost 92% of the country's bondholders agreed to write off most of the amount owed to them.
NML Capital and Aurelius are demanding 100% repayment of the $1.3bn, plus interest.
The investors were so determined to get their money that they went to court to have an Argentinean ship, the Libertad, impounded in Ghana last year. After several weeks, the ship returned home.


Barcelona beat Manchester City 2-1 in their Champions League last-16 first-leg tie on Tuesday - but who were the standout performers?

Luis Suarez scored twice for the Spanish side on his first appearance in England since leaving Liverpool last summer, while Joe Hart saved Lionel Messi's late penalty.
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4-4-2: Hart; Zabaleta, Kompany, Demichelis, Clichy; Nasri, Fernando, Milner, Silva; Dzeko, Aguero
He gambled by playing two up front against a team with the midfield might of Barcelona and paid the price as they turned their possession into chances and first-half goals. It took until the second half for City's attacking line-up to start to threaten - when they did, they looked dangerous but by then they were already 2-0 down.
Had no chance with either of Barca's goals and his brilliant penalty save from Lionel Messi means City have at least a glimmer of hope in the second leg. Hart also made a fine block to deny Luis Suarez with the score at 1-0.
His duel with Neymar down City's right was one of the few even contests in a one-sided first half, even if the Brazilian escaped him twice with some fancy footwork. But Barca still found space down that flank for their second goal and his tackle on Messi to concede Barca's late penalty was the challenge of a tired man.
City's captain improved after half-time but this performance only increased the doubts over his current form. Before the break his judgement was poor and his positioning even worse. He was perhaps unlucky that the ball rebounded off him and fell for Suarez for Barca's opener but he was frequently found wanting when Barca came forward.
A better night than the last time he faced Barca, when he was sent off and conceded a penalty but still looked far from comfortable and was dragged from pillar to post by the movement of Barca's front three.
Booked for two clumsy second-half tackles and his dismissal ended any hope of a City comeback, capping a mostly miserable night.
Defensively, he was given a torrid time down his flank by Messi and Alves, and going forward his crossing was not good enough, save for one delivery that did find Dzeko's head.
His most positive contribution was when he tackled Messi near the half-way line, starting the attack that led to City's goal.
Like Silva, Nasri was virtually anonymous for most of the first half. One of the few times he got on the ball in an area where he could do any damage, he fired straight at Ter Stegen when he had time to do far better. Disappeared straight down the tunnel when he was taken off with half an hour to go.
Fernando was not helped by Pellegrini's decision to play two strikers but, if he was chasing shadows in midfield, he did not catch many of them.
Sluggish and seemingly unable to pass the ball forward, it meant that again, we saw how much City miss Yaya Toure when he is not playing, especially in games of this size.
Put in a shift and at least tried to find his strikers on the few occasions he had possession but could do little to prevent City being out-numbered, out-manoeuvered and out-played in midfield in the first half. His hard work helped City get back into the game in the second half.
Silva simply could not get a foothold in the game before half-time. His darting runs began to be more effective after the break, none more so than when he burst into the box before playing in Aguero to pull a goal back for City.
City's biggest threat in the first half, although that is not saying a lot. He had six efforts on goal, more than any other City player, and his best attempts were all headers.
Dzeko sent two of those wide either side of half-time but should have done a lot better with the one he did manage on target - a header straight at Ter Stegen when he was unmarked and about eight yards out.
Did not get a sniff of goal in the first half - his first shot of the game came when he curled an effort wide in the 54th minute - but kept running and eventually got his reward, with a fine finish from Silva's lay-off. His quality means City are not out of this tie but they need to find him far more often in the second leg.
Fernandinho for Samir Nasri (62 mins) - 7
Added more bite to City's midfield and was the only player trying to drive forward with the ball, although he did so with mixed success.
Wilfried Bony for Edin Dzeko (68 mins) - 6
Not a classic Champions League debut for the £25m striker. Gave the ball away with his first touch and skewed a scuffed shot well wide with his second. He came on seconds before Aguero scored but was not involved in the goal.
Bacary Sagna for David Silva (78 mins) - 6
Brought on as an emergency left-back following Clichy's dismissal and managed to get forward well.
4-3-3: Ter Stegen; Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Alba; Rakitic, Busquets, Iniesta; Messi, Suarez, Neymar
If Lionel Messi had put away his late penalty, this tie would be all but over, as it is, Barca return to the Nou Camp with it firmly in their grasp. Asked after the game if his side's first-half performance where they over-ran City was their best of the season, he replied "no" ... I would have loved to have seen the matches where they played better.
Barca's German keeper had little to do for an hour, apart from keep out efforts from Samir Nasri and Edin Dzeko that were placed straight at him. Blameless for Aguero's goal.
Solid defensively and a constant menace with his runs and inter-play with Messi down the right. He scored Barca's second goal in their 2-0 win at Etihad Stadium a year ago and came within inches of repeating the trick when he broke clear and hit the bar before half-time. Kicked out at a bottle in frustration at being substituted.
Edin Dzeko got the better of him in a couple of aerial duals but on the deck Pique made two vital sliding blocks to stop crosses from Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero from reaching their intended target as City fought back after half-time.
A couple of no-nonsense early tackles on Dzeko and Aguero set the tone for his all-action performance that saw him come out of defence to battle for the ball in midfield in the second half. He was rarely beaten, by fair means or foul, even when City came into the game.
Came forward frequently and made good use of the ball when he got it in space on the left. His cross was met by Luis Suarez for Barca's second goal.
A willing and intelligent runner, who tackled back and denied City space in midfield but also looked to get forward. His run made space as Suarez, Messi and Alba combined for Barca's second goal.
Found enough space in City's midfield to drive a bus through, let alone play an inch-perfect pass. He did plenty of that when Barcelona were on top and was disciplined enough positionally to help keep City's attack-minded midfielders subdued too.
Played more passes - 99 - than any other player on the pitch and 93 of them found their intended target, a statistic that shows the influence he had in establishing Barca's midfield dominance in the first half as he orchestrated play, with City unable to get close enough to stop him. He did not get near City's area himself but he did not have to thanks to the willing runners he had ahead and to either side.
His late failure from the penalty spot and subsequent miss with the rebound took a slight shine of an otherwise wonderful performance which was full of flicks, tricks and fantastic close control. At times in the first half he might have been on the same pitch as City's players but he appeared to be from a different planet.
His first game in England since leaving Liverpool was never going to be short of fireworks and he was the perfect player to make the most of City's unconvincing centre-back pairing. Suarez was alert enough to capitalise when Messi's cross hit Kompany and fell for him and his second goal was another poacher's finish after a superbly-timed run into the box. His movement and runs on and off the ball made him a handful for City's entire defence.
The least effective of Barca's front three, with only one shot at goal, but still dangerous and still a handful for City's defence. He felt the full force of a couple of hefty Zabaleta tackles early on but never stopped looking for the ball and trying to take on City's right-back.
Jeremy Mathieu for Ivan Rakitic (71 mins) - 6
Brought on to firm up the Barca defence after City pulled a goal back, allowing Mascherano to push into midfield.
Adriano for Dani Alves (75 mins) - 6
Replaced Alves on the right but did not get forward with the same conviction.
Pedro Rodriguez for Neymar (80 mins) - 6
Did not have enough time to have an impact on the match.


A health and safety officer who suffered a fractured skull trying to jump between two hotel balconies while on holiday is suing a tour operator.

Philip Clay, from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, fell 20ft (6m) at the 4-star Guayarmina Princess hotel, in Tenerife, London's Appeal Court heard.
He had been trying to reach the other balcony after he and his wife were locked out and she needed the toilet.
He is appealing after a judge rejected his claim for damages from TUI UK Ltd.
The court heard Mr Clay had been on a Thomson package holiday in July 2011 when he and his wife, Valerie, decided to join his parents, who they were holidaying with, for drinks on their balcony after putting their children to bed.
However, they were all locked out on the balcony and, after his wife said she needed the toilet, he decided to take action rather than let her "suffer the indignity of urinating on a small balcony in front of his parents," the court was told.
The hearing was told the normally "sensible" Mr Clay, who was wearing just his pyjama bottoms, tried to cross to his own balcony next door, where he knew the door into his room was unlocked.
But he fell two floors to the ground below after stepping over the balcony guardrail on to what he thought was a solid concrete ledge, but which collapsed.
The "ledge" turned out to be a decorative cornice - made largely of polystyrene, the court heard.
He was knocked unconscious and was left lying in a pool of blood for 30 minutes as his wife and parents shouted for help.
Mr Clay, a fire safety and security officer with responsibilities for health and safety at a refinery near his home, has since "fully recovered" from his injuries.
At Cardiff County Court last year, Judge Seys Llewellyn QC dismissed his claim that the cornice was "part of the balcony" and should have been weight-bearing or featured a warning sign.
But he challenged the decision before  Lady Justice King at the Court of Appeal on Thursday, insisting the hotel breached safety standards.
She has reserved her judgment on the case and will give her ruling at a later date.


Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer.

The 37-year-old mother of six has explained her reasons for having the surgery in the New York Times.
She said her doctors estimated she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. "I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much I could," she wrote.
Her partner, Brad Pitt, praised her choice as "absolutely heroic".
Ms Jolie said the process began in February and was completed by the end of April.
In an article entitled My Medical Choice, she explained that her mother fought cancer for nearly a decade and died at the age of 56.
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She said she had sought to reassure her children that the same illness would not take her away from them, "but the truth is I carry a 'faulty' gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer".
She said that once she "knew that this was my reality", she had taken the decision to undergo the nine weeks of complex surgery required to have a double mastectomy, followed by reconstruction of the breasts with implants.
"There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful," she wrote.
Her chances of developing breast cancer have now dropped from 87% to under 5%, she said.
She praised her partner, actor Brad Pitt, for his love and support throughout the procedure, and said she was reassured that her children had found nothing in the results "that makes them uncomfortable".
"I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity," she said.
"For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options," Ms Jolie went on to say.
"I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices."
In an interview with the Evening Standard, Brad Pitt said: "Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie's choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic.
"All I want for is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family."
Ms Jolie, an award-winning actress and director, is also a long-time supporter of humanitarian causes. She is currently a special envoy for the UN Refugee Agency.
During the period she was undergoing the double mastectomy procedure, Ms Jolie visited the Democratic Republic of Congo with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and attended the G8 summit of foreign ministers in London to raise awareness over sexual violence in conflict.
She also helped launch a charity to fund girls' education set up by the Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban last October.
Ms Jolie has three biological children and three adopted children.
Emma Parlons, a 38-year-old mother from London who had the operation three years ago, welcomed her decision to raise awareness of the issue.
Ms Parlons said her risk of getting breast cancer was the same as the actress's. "If somebody said your flight across the Atlantic was 86% likely to come down, you wouldn't get on that plane would you?" she said in an explanation of her reasons for having the operation.
Professor Gareth Evans, of the Manchester Breast Centre in Britain, said the two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 (breast cancer one and two) "were the first two majorly breast cancer pre-disposing genes that were identified" and are also linked to an increased risk of ovarian cancer.
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"The risk associated with the genes isn't simply an exact figure like 87%," he told the BBC.
"It does depend on other risk factors, and so the risk for someone with a BRCA1 mutation could vary anywhere between 50 and 95% for breast cancer."
Currently, women facing a strong likelihood of developing breast cancer have only two real options - to have both of their breasts removed (a double mastectomy) or hope that it will never actually happen.
In January, the drugs watchdog in England and Wales, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, recommended women at a high genetic risk of breast cancer should be given the option of taking the drug Tamoxifen, or another one called raloxifene, for five years to cut their lifetime risk of the disease.


"Serious, persistent and systemic failures" have been found at Reading Council's child protection services, a watchdog has warned.

Ofsted said there was no assurance vulnerable children were safe or "adequately protected" by the authority.
It rated children's services inadequate and said standards had deteriorated since inspections in 2012 and 2013.
The council said a "robust improvement plan" was under way.
Reviews carried out in May and June rated children's social care services inadequate in three out of five areas, including children who need help and protection, children who need a permanent home and leadership.
They highlighted "too many examples" where children at risk had either not been seen by social workers. Those who had said their experiences "were not understood and acted upon with sufficient urgency".
Ofsted said the council had taken appropriate action to a number of immediate concerns.
But it said management oversight of individual cases - particularly of child sexual exploitation and missing children - was "variable and often poor".
"In examples seen by inspectors, a referral concerning a child who reported a serious sexual assault had initially been lost," the report said.
Inspectors added children had "far too many changes" of social workers and that the Labour-run authority had a "high reliance on agency staff".
"This means that children and families get frustrated with the changes, having to tell their stories over and over again, and cannot trust that their social workers will stay for very long," Ofsted said.
Jan Gavin, the council's head of children's service, said "solid foundations" had been laid to act on the recommendations and a permanent senior management team had been appointed.
"I can assure residents that the safeguarding of children in Reading is a top priority for the council and a robust improvement plan is already in place.
"We are addressing our recent over-reliance on agency staff with an aggressive, and so far successful, recruitment campaign to attract permanent staff.
"We are not complacent and we recognise there is much to be done and we do not underestimate the challenges we face."


The cancellation of a party marking the retirement of Sea King helicopters has been met with anger.

Members of 202 Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth organised the Elgin celebration so personnel and the local community could say a joint farewell.
The Sea Kings will be mothballed next month and replaced with helicopters run by the private sector.
The RAF said concerns about election rules were behind the decision to cancel the celebration.
It is now looking at alternatives.
The Sea Kings at Lossiemouth have been used for more than four decades.
They will be taken out of service next week.
Moray SNP MP Angus Robertson said: "It is a great shame that the Moray community are being denied the opportunity to personally thank personnel.
"There is massive respect from the public in Moray and right across Scotland for the RAF, with the familiar yellow Sea King regularly seen in the air heading to challenging rescues in the North Sea, in the Cairngorms and further afield."


Fossils of the first "winged" mammals, from 160 million years ago, have been discovered in China.

They reveal that mammal ancestors evolved to glide between trees in a similar way to some mammals today.
This adds to evidence that mammals were more diverse during the age of dinosaurs than previously realised.
The work is published by an international team of scientists in this week's Nature.
The two new fossil species exhibit highly specialised characteristics, including adaptations that allowed them to climb trees, roost on branches and glide.
This means that the ability of mammals to glide evolved much earlier than previously thought.  Prof Zhe-Xi Luo, from the University of Chicago, US, said: "These Jurassic mammals are truly the first to glide.
"In a way, they got the first 'wings' among all mammals," he told BBC News.
The wings are the preserved remains of a skin membrane that stretches, parachute-like, between fore and hind limbs, allowing the creatures to glide.
The evidence of this volant, or flying, lifestyle in these fossil species occurs 100 million years before modern mammal fliers.
The new species are named Maiopatagium furculiferum and Vilevolodon diplomyl. They belong to the haramiyidans, an entirely extinct branch on the mammalian evolutionary tree, but which may have been to a forerunner to modern mammals.
The fossils have an unusual mix of characteristics: some, like the fossilised wing membrane and fused wishbones of Maiopatagium are reminiscent of those found in birds. Other skeletal features, like the shoulder girdle, are more similar to those in the modern egg-laying platypus than in other mammals or marsupials.
Gliding is different from powered flight which involves flapping wings, as employed by birds and bats.
Today, gliding mammals include the flying squirrels in North America and Asia; the scaly-tailed rodent gliders of Africa; the marsupial sugar gliders of Australia; and the colugos, or "flying lemars" of Southeast Asia.
Gliding from tree to tree may allow more efficient and safe foraging and provide rapid escape from predators. It's likely the new fossil species benefited from gliding in similar ways.
A series of spectacular fossil discoveries have transformed our understanding of Mesozoic mammals in recent years. There appears to have been an evolutionary explosion of mammalian life styles that occurred deep in the Jurassic.
Dr Roger Benson, from Oxford University UK, who was not involved in the study, told BBC News:  "We think of the Jurassic as 'dinosaur world'. But fossils keep showing us the great diversity of small mammals doing many of the ecological jobs they do today."
"The new fossils combine features of flying squirrels with those of herbivorous fruit bats. This adds to the list of early mammals that also includes burrowers with mole-like hands; beaver- or otter-like swimmers; and dog-like predators."