The achievements of two brothers could be marked by Guernsey's fifth blue plaque.

Plans to place the plaque at their former home in the Fosse Andre, in St Peter Port, have been submitted.
John Herbert Le Patourel was a leader in the field of medieval studies, a professor at the University of Leeds and a fellow of the British Academy.
His younger brother Herbert was serving in Tunisia in 1942 when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions.
Helen Glencross, secretary to the blue plaque panel, said of John Herbert Le Patourel: "He was an eminent professor in medieval history archivist, he wrote about Guernsey and its history and was also archivist to the Royal Court [of Guernsey] and one of the founding members of the Guernsey Society."
Born in 1909, John Herbert Le Patourel attended Elizabeth College and Jesus College in Oxford before becoming a lecturer.
His most well-known work, The Norman Empire, published in 1976, has been called a major landmark in Anglo-Norman studies.
He also wrote about many aspects of the history of the Channel Islands including flora and fauna as well as political, economic and administrative history.
Herbert Wallace Le Patourel was born in 1916 and after attending Elizabeth College worked in banking for four years, during which time he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Guernsey Militia before joining the regular army.
On 9 March 1943 was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for "conspicuous gallantry" after he led four volunteers to silence several machine gun posts, continuing the attack on his own after the others had been killed or injured.
Later on he was found to be alive as a prisoner of war in Italy and he was repatriated in 1943.
Later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel he was given an official welcome to the island in 1948.
A public consultation on the plans runs until 16 January with a decision due to be taken after that date.
Victoria Cross citation
Herbert Wallace Le Patourel, Captain (temporary Major) 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
"On the afternoon of the 3rd December 1942, the enemy had occupied an important high feature on the left of the company commanded by this officer. Counter attacks by a company of another Battalion and detachments of Major Le Patourel's company had been unable to regain the position.
This officer then personally led four volunteers under heavy fire to the top in a last attempt to dislodge several enemy machine guns. The party was then heavily engaged by machine gun fire, and Major Le Patourel rallied his men several times and engaged the enemy, silencing several machine-gun posts.
Finally, when the remainder of his party were all killed or wounded, he went forward alone with a pistol and some grenades to attack enemy machine guns at close quarters and from this action did not return. From reports received from wounded men, this officer died of wounds.
Major Le Patourel's most gallant conduct and self sacrifice, his brilliant leadership and tenacious devotion to duty in the face of a determined enemy were beyond praise."


The US said it "expects" Pakistan to act against perpetrators of a deadly attack on an Indian air force base.

The state department's John Kirby said Pakistan must target militant groups.
The United Jihad Council - a coalition of militant groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir - has claimed responsibility.
The attack on the Pathankot base near the Pakistani border is seen as an attempt to derail recent peace moves by Pakistan and India.
"The government of Pakistan has spoken very powerfully on this and it's our expectation that they'll treat this exactly the way they've said they would. We have been clear with the highest levels of the government of Pakistan that it must continue to target all militant groups," Mr Kirby said.
Five militants and seven Indian soldiers have so far been killed during four days of fighting.
The army is still conducting clearing operations inside the 2,000 acre base.
The United Jihad Council was formed in 1994 to co-ordinate resources and plans to hit military targets in Indian Kashmir among more than a dozen groups based in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Those groups were widely seen as being brought together by Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency.
The UJC is led by Mohammad Salahuddin, the leader of the pro-Pakistan Hezbul Mujahideen group, the largest in the alliance. The leadership of most of these groups is based in Pakistan, and they have been largely dormant since the 2003 ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto boundary dividing Kashmir.
So the claim by the UJC to have carried out this latest attack is likely to strengthen the view that it was authorised by the Pakistani army to undermine Mr Modi's recent peace overtures to Pakistan's civilian government. The Pakistani military has been accused of sabotaging the civilian-led normalisation process with India on several occasions in the past.
The UJC could also be trying to remain relevant even after India strengthened the LoC to stop infiltration of militants from the Pakistani side.
On Monday evening, a senior security official told a press conference that all families living on the base were safe and "all strategic assets [helicopters, aircraft and other military hardware] were secured".
Maj-Gen Dushyant Singh, from India's elite National Security Guard, said it would take a "long time" to declare the base completely secure, because of its size and geography.
Meanwhile, police in Punjab's Mohali district said they had arrested three men with illegal arms and recovered a Pakistani "SIM card" from them. It is not yet clear whether the men had any connection with the attack, police said.
The Pathankot assault started before dawn on Saturday when a group of gunmen - wearing Indian army uniforms - entered the residential quarters on the base.
Hours of heavy gunfire followed and a helicopter was seen firing at the facility on Sunday.
The attack is being seen as a blow to an apparent Indo-Pakistani peace initiative launched just days ago.
Hopes for a thaw in relations were raised after Mr Modi paid an unexpected visit to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
Pakistan's foreign ministry and the US state department have condemned the attack.
Pathankot air force base is about 430km (270 miles) north of the Indian capital, Delhi, and is on the road linking Indian-administered Kashmir with the rest of the country.
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a long-running insurgency against rule from Delhi, and Kashmir has been a flashpoint in relations between Pakistan and India for nearly 70 years since independence.


A team of researchers has developed a facial recognition system that can identify individual lemurs in the wild with high levels of accuracy.

The plan is to use the technology to help radically improve the way the endangered species is tracked.
LemurFaceID proved 97% accurate when comparing the faces of two different lemurs.
The animals were named the world's most endangered group of mammals in 2012.
The system was developed by a team of lemur experts and computer scientists.
The researchers have published a paper detailing their work in the journal BioMed Central Zoology.
Co-author Rachel Jacobs, a biological anthropologist from George Washington University, said: "The ability to consistently study individuals over long periods of time, as well as integrate data across different studies, are some of the challenges we face when studying wild animal populations.
"Senior author Stacey Tecot, (University of Arizona), and I weren't particularly satisfied with the common approaches used in lemur research, so we aimed to do something different with red-bellied lemurs, and we sought the expertise of our computer science collaborators."
Previous efforts to track wild lemurs usually required researchers to trap and individually tag the animals.
Identifying individuals relied on cataloguing unique identifiers such as differences in body size or shape or the presence of scars or injuries.
The system, developed by Prof Anil Jain and his students at Michigan State University, used 462 photographs of 80 red-bellied lemurs living in Madagascar. The system also contained 190 images of other lemur species. Using a modified version of human facial recognition software, it was able to correctly identify the 80 individuals.
Dr Jacobs said that the method could be applied to other species such as red pandas and other bears.


Ministers are considering whether homeopathy should be put on a blacklist of treatments GPs in England are banned from prescribing, the BBC has learned.

The controversial practice is based on the principle that "like cures like", but critics say patients are being given useless sugar pills.
The Faculty of Homeopathy said the therapy had "profound effects" and patients backed it.
A consultation is expected to take place in 2016.
The total NHS bill for homeopathy, including homeopathic hospitals and GP prescriptions, is thought to be about Â£4m.
Homeopathy is based on the concept that diluting a version of a substance that causes illness has healing properties.
So pollen or grass could be used to create a homeopathic hay-fever remedy.
One part of the substance is mixed with 99 parts of water or alcohol, and this is repeated six times in a "6c" formulation or 30 times in a "30c" formulation.
The end result is combined with a lactose (sugar) tablet.
Homeopaths say the more diluted it is, the greater the effect. Critics say patients are getting nothing but sugar.
Common homeopathic treatments are for asthma, ear infections, hay-fever, depression, stress, anxiety, allergy and arthritis.
Source: British Homeopathic Association
But the NHS itself says: "There is no good-quality evidence that homeopathy is effective as a treatment for any health condition."
The Good Thinking Society has been campaigning for homeopathy to be added to the NHS blacklist - known formally as Schedule 1 - of drugs that cannot be prescribed by GPs.
Drugs can be blacklisted if there are cheaper alternatives or if the medicine is not effective.
After the Good Thinking Society threatened to take their case to the courts, Department of Health legal advisers replied in emails that ministers had "decided to conduct a consultation".
Officials have now confirmed this will take place in 2016.
Simon Singh, the founder of the Good Thinking Society, said: "Given the finite resources of the NHS, any spending on homeopathy is utterly unjustifiable.
"The money spent on these disproven remedies can be far better spent on treatments that offer real benefits to patients."
But Dr Helen Beaumont, a GP and the president of the Faculty of Homeopathy, said other drugs such as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) for depression would be a better target for saving money, as homeopathic pills had a "profound effect" on patients.
She told the BBC News website: "Patient choice is important; homeopathy works, it's widely used by doctors in Europe, and patients who are treated by homeopathy are really convinced of its benefits, as am I."
The result of the consultation would affect GP prescribing, but not homeopathic hospitals which account for the bulk of the NHS money spent on homeopathy.
Estimates suggest GP prescriptions account for about Â£110,000 per year.
And any decision would not affect people buying the treatments over the counter or privately.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was criticised for supporting a parliamentary motion on homeopathy, but in an interview last year argued "when resources are tight we have to follow the evidence".
Minister for Life Sciences, George Freeman, told the BBC: "With rising health demands, we have a duty to make sure we spend NHS funds on the most effective treatments.
"We are currently considering whether or not homeopathic products should continue to be available through NHS prescriptions.
"We expect to consult on proposals in due course."
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The first dedicated police drone unit in the UK has been launched.

Devon and Cornwall Police began testing the drones with Dorset Police in 2015, but have now established a permanent unit with three full-time staff.
It is hoped the drones could be used to track suspects in firearm incidents as well as in counter-terrorism operations.
The unit's six drones have already been used to find missing people and gather evidence to secure court convictions.
It is aiming to have 40 officers complete their Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) drone training and up to 18 drones in operation by the start of 2018.
Some of the drones have a police livery and are equipped with zoom cameras and thermal imaging.
As well as crime scene and road searches, the drones will help scour the forces' 600 miles (900km) of coastline and extensive woodlands to help combat wildlife crime.
Drones have been trialled by other police forces, including Merseyside, Gwent and Kent for various uses including monitoring drug raids and searching for missing people.
Ch Supt Jim Nye, who leads the new unit, hopes the team will be able to shape how other forces used drone technology in the future.
"The helicopter isn't always available and you want to have it available for life-threatening situations," he said.
"I think the public would expect that if we can get value for money with a drone over a helicopter, that we do so."
In November 2016, the UK's drone code was revised and updated to help pilots ensure they fly the gadgets safely. It is:
UK revises safe flying drone code


Police in Florida on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Cuban fugitive who had been on the run for 26 years, earning himself the nickname The Ghost.

Anibal Mustelier, 66, was detained in Hialeah, near Miami, on charges of armed robbery and grand theft.
He is also suspected of having worked as a contract killer, officials say.
Police say they were led to Mr Mustelier by an informant who had knowledge about a jewellery theft on 7 August which allegedly involved him.
US Marshalls first issued an arrest warrant for Mr Mustelier in 1990.
Hialeah Police Sergeant Carl Zogby said arresting officers had not at first realised who they had in their custody because Mr Mustelier had given them a false name.
"We went fishing for a grouper, and we caught ourselves a whale," Sgt Zogby said, adding that Mr Mustelier had become known as The Ghost for his ability to hide in plain sight.
"He was an international fugitive from ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives], FBI and the US Marshals."
Sgt Zogby said Mr Mustelier was wanted for his alleged participation in two murder attempts in 1989 and 1990, during the heyday of the Miami drug wars, when rival drug dealers fought over control of the city.
Officials believe Mr Mustelier was hired by fellow Cuban Orestes Blanco Lima to kill another Cuban in Miami, Francisco Condom-Gil.
But an attempt to shoot Francisco Condom-Gil dead and a subsequent attempt to blow him up in his car both failed.
Francisco Condom-Gil was a veteran of the 1961 Bay of Pigs failed military invasion of Cuba and claimed that he was being targeted for his anti-Castro views.
This gave rise to the theory that Mr Mustelier had links to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
But Blanco Lima later said he wanted Francisco Condom-Gil dead because he had once kidnapped Blanco Lima's son.
Blanco Lima was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder and Mr Mustelier, who could not be found, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to murder in his absence.
Police believe during his time on the run, Mr Mustelier went on to become a prolific bank robber.
He is suspected of being behind one of the largest robberies in Florida, when about $5m (Â£3.9m) worth of jewels were stolen from safety deposits in a bank in Brickell.
Police originally thought that after the 1996 robbery he had fled to either his native Cuba or to Venezuela.
But they now suspect he may have been hiding all along in the Miami area, using a number of aliases.
For the past 18 months, Mr Mustelier had been sharing a small, single-storey, detached home in Hialeah with his girlfriend, Sgt Zogby said.
Hialeah police suspect him of being behind a recent string of jewellery store robberies.
He was arrested on Sunday after police managed to infiltrate his alleged gang, officials said.


Visitors to a nature centre complained of a "horrid smell" after about 100 dead fish were discovered in its lake.

Staff at the Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham, Berkshire, removed most of the fish on Sunday after complaints from members of the public.
They said about 100 carp and perch died after an increase in algae reduced oxygen levels in the water.
A spokeswoman for the centre said it remained open despite "very difficult circumstances".
Dr Kate Dent, conservation director at the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, said its priority was "maintaining safety and access".
She said: "The appearance of the lake and the dead fish has obviously been distressing.
"We believe the reduction in air temperature and breaking up of the bloom should help return the lake to normal very shortly."
Dr Dent added the smell was due to the "algal bloom" breaking down, dead fish they could not retrieve and a delay in the centre's commercial waste collection.
Leigh Bremner posted pictures of the dead fish on Twitter and said here was a "horrid smell this weekend".


The final episode of Planet Earth II goes out tonight and it is all about animals living in cities.

11 December 2016 Last updated at 13:41 GMT
A busy city might seem like an unusual place for animals to call home but leopards, hyenas and peregrine falcons are just some of the animals living close to humans.
Many animals though, struggle to cope in a busy city environment and the programme looks into whether humans can build and adapt cities suitable for wildlife.
Leah spoke to Planet Earth II producer, Fredi Devas, about what to expect from the last programme in the series and to find out whether there will be a Planet Earth III.


Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says his first season in the Premier League has not been good enough but promised "in the future I will be better".

City are fourth in the league following defeat at Chelsea on Wednesday, all but ending hopes of a league title in the Catalan's debut campaign in England.
"In future I will be better - definitely," said the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach.
"This season has been a massive lesson for me."
He added: "We have a lot of beautiful things to fight for and to qualify for the Champions League will be a huge success. But we have to be honest with ourselves. We were not good enough to compete for the Premier League [title]."
Defeat at Stamford Bridge left City just four points ahead of Arsenal and Manchester United, both of whom have a game in hand.
With the FA Cup being City's only realistic chance of winning a trophy this term, it is likely to be the worst season of Guardiola's managerial career.
The 46-year-old has never gone a single season without winning a trophy - he has won the title in six out of seven attempts and his sides have always reached the last four of the Champions League.
Guardiola has also responded to questions about a row between City and Chelsea coaching staff at Stamford Bridge following the defeat on Wednesday night.
There have been conflicting claims about the precise nature of the row, but stewards were needed to calm the situation down after Chelsea's 2-1 win.
The incident centred around a disagreement between Chelsea fitness coach Paolo Bertelli and Manchester City masseur Mark Sertori, both of whom speak Italian, as the Premier League leaders celebrated their victory.
Guardiola said: "We are so polite in our defeats and we are so polite when we win. When we win, normally we celebrate a little bit, then we go to the locker room.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte was not involved and has played the incident down.
He said: "Respect is the most important thing in football."


An interactive map monitoring Oxford's river levels has been launched online to act as an early-warning system for flood-prone areas.

The initiative between Oxford-based company Nominet and the Oxford Flood Network is designed to enable people to take action when water levels rise.
Sensors around the city give real time data which is then displayed online.
Nominet CEO Russell Haworth said: "If this can work in Oxford, it can work anywhere."
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"Recent events have underlined the importance of effective monitoring systems when flood waters begin to rise," he added.
On the map, which has been released in a beta version, red indicates high water, followed by amber, green, and white.
It also uses data from the Environment Agency's sensors mounted at nearby locks, and its makers intend to add more sensors over time to give a street level view of water levels.
Ben Ward, from the Oxford Flood Network, said: "You don't need to get out on your bike and go and have a look in dangerous floodwaters.
"It shares that information with others in the community, who can actually see what the water levels are like under neighbours' floorboards, and that could be used by local authorities to make their decisions on where to put their limited resources."
Flooding caused widespread disruption in Oxford in February 2014 with homes and major routes cut off for days.
Its two main arterial routes, Botley Road and Abingdon Road, had to be closed. Train services also had to be stopped due to flooding on the line.
In September the Environment Agency carried out tests for a Â£120m flood relief channel to protect the city from flooding.


The family of an 11-year-old girl murdered last week in New Jersey have implored President Donald Trump to let them into the US to attend her funeral.

AbbieGail Smith was allegedly stabbed in the neck by her neighbour while taking out the rubbish on 12 July.
Her father, Kenroy Smith, was deported from the US to Jamaica in 2001 following a cannabis arrest.
Last week Mr Trump intervened to help grant visas to Afghan students who wished to attend a US robotics event.
"Please let me see my daughter for the last day before she goes under," said Mr Smith in a tearful video, ahead of her funeral on Monday.
Mr Smith has yet to learn the status of his visa request, he told APP.com from his home in Kingston.
AbbieGail's big sister, Kenish, has been denied a visa to enter the country from Jamaica to attend the funeral.
A spokesman for the US Department of State would not confirm the status of their visas, citing confidentiality.
"All visa applications are adjudicated on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and other applicable laws", the official said in a statement to the BBC.
AbbieGail's body was found the day after she vanished, wrapped in a blanket on the rooftop of her apartment building in the town of Keansburg.
Her 18-year-old neighbour, Andreas Erazo, was arrested hours later and charged with her death.
"Every time I close my eyes, I see her in front of me playing," said Mr Smith. "She just loved to play because she was such a lovely girl."
"President Donald Trump I am asking you, please sir, if you could assist us by getting us to the United States of America to pay our last respects to AbbieGail Smith."
AbbieGail's other older sister, Latisha Smith, who lives in the state of Maryland, has been writing letters to local officials, begging for help.
"We're a family. We all need to be together for AbbieGail," she said.


Andy Murray says he wants Tennis Scotland to deliver on plans to build 10 new indoor facilities in the next five years.

The governing body aims to develop a lasting legacy from the success of Andy and brother Jamie.
Chairman Blane Dodds is to submit proposals to funding partners in a bid to realise the project.
"It's important to capitalise on the momentum we have just now in British tennis," Murray told BBC Scotland.
"There's a lot of positive stuff going on.
"We haven't been in this position for a very long time, so it's a good opportunity to try to inspire some kids and get more of them into the sport."
Andy, 29, ranked second in the world, won his third Grand Slam title this year at Wimbledon and made it back-to-back Olympic golds, while Jamie, 30, is fourth in the doubles rankings, also with three majors to his name.
On the plans for more indoor facilities, Murray added: "While we are still playing and still visible, it's probably a good time.
"Me and Jamie won't be playing forever. I've maybe got three or four more years at the top level. Maybe Jamie, at doubles, can go on a bit longer.
"The more facilities the better. The weather in Scotland isn't great and it can be expensive to play indoors. Hopefully, they follow through on that promise."
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The Murray brothers led Great Britain to Davis Cup glory in 2015, ending a 79-year wait for a 10th title.
The defence ended with a 3-2 semi-final defeat to Argentina in Glasgow at the weekend, with the siblings continuing their unbeaten record in doubles.
"It's an unbelievably hard competition to win," said Murray, who was troubled by a thigh strain in Sunday's singles win over Guido Pella.
"Argentina, who are in the final now, are trying to win for the first time and they've had great players for a very long time.
"I think it has brought more fans into tennis. When we are playing as a team and playing for your country, the players and fans are passionate.
"The atmosphere at the ties is incredible and people enjoy that. It's something different from week-to-week tour life."
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Murray, who played on each day against Argentina, including a marathon singles loss to Juan Martin Del Potro, will go ahead with a charity exhibition match in Glasgow on Wednesday but stressed that he is in need of a break after a punishing schedule.
Prior to his surprise quarter-final defeat against Kei Nishikori at the US Open, he had a run of reaching seven consecutive finals, winning the Rome Masters, Queen's, Wimbledon and the Olympic singles.
Murray is due to play in Beijing, Shanghai and Vienna before ending the season with the Paris Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals in London but may now alter those plans.


Carlos Tevez has been granted permission to go to Argentina, but only after agreeing in writing to return to Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua by 30 August.

There have been reports that Tevez, 33, who joined Shanghai from Boca Juniors in December, wanted to leave the club.
The ex-Manchester City striker has asked Shanghai to allow him to return home for treatment on a calf injury.
Tevez, who signed a two-year contract, has scored twice in 11 games.
He is one of the world's highest paid players, earning £634,615 a week, according to the Sun.
"According to the request from Carlos Tevez to our club, after discussion, we now approve his request," Shanghai were reported as saying in the South China Morning Post.
"He's permitted to go back to Argentina and receive treatment at the Clinica Jorge Bombicino and he must rejoin the team on 30 August and participate in training."
During the 2010-11 season, Tevez fled to Argentina for three months following a disagreement with Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini.
He lost almost £10m in wages, fines and lost bonuses during the dispute.


Newcastle United winger Rolando Aarons will be out for eight weeks after breaking a bone in his foot.

The 20-year-old broke a metatarsal in the 21st-minute of the Magpies' 2-0 win against League Two side Cheltenham Town in the EFL Cup second round.
The former Bristol City trainee has played five games for Newcastle so far this season, starting twice.
Aarons, who joined from the Robins in 2014, recently signed a new five-year contract at St James' Park.
The Magpies have also announced that England Under-19 midfielder Adam Armstrong, 19, has signed a new four-year deal.


A new 'North v South' of England one-day series, featuring players picked by a computer programme, has been unveiled by the England and Wales Cricket board.

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The three-match series will be played in Abu Dhabi next March.
Four players plus a spinner will earn automatic places on each team via the Professional Cricketers' Association's Most Valued Player ratings formula.
The remaining players will be chosen by the England selectors with an eye on the national team's "strategic needs".
"This is a good opportunity for England, domestic players and the game," said England's managing director Andrew Strauss.
"Finding the best players outside the current England set-up, playing them against each other in overseas conditions and placing them in an England environment will help us see if they're ready for international cricket."
The series, which will act as a warm-up for the County Championship's 50-over competition, the Royal London Cup, will be staged in the UAE for the next three years.
The PCA's MVP rankings were launched in 2007 and reward players for their contribution to the overall team result.
Batsmen receive points for run rate and percentage of team's score as well as bare average, while bowlers earn higher points for dismissing top-order batsmen.
The teams will be chosen using the MVP rankings from this summer's Royal London Cup, with the games aimed at uncapped or peripheral England players.
A first-class North v South fixture was part of the English calendar between 1836 and 1961.
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A US Navy minesweeper is stuck on a coral reef off the Philippines after running aground early on Thursday.

The USS Guardian struck the reef in the Sulu Sea south-east of Palawan island after completing a port call at the former US naval base of Subic Bay.
The reef is in the Tubbataha National Marine Park, designated a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
Efforts were made to free the Guardian at high tide on Friday but were not successful, said the US Navy.
In a statement, it said the ship had 79 crew on board when it ran aground, but that 72 were being transferred to a smaller vessel "as a precautionary measure".
"A small complement of engineering and bridge personnel will remain aboard and work with a US Navy team in an attempt to free Guardian with minimal environmental impact," it said.
The remaining crew, which includes the commanding officer, would also be transferred "if conditions become unsafe".
The cause of the grounding is still under investigation. No-one was hurt in the incident.
Philippine coast guards were being sent to check for damage to the reef, local media said. Park rangers had earlier been prevented from inspecting the ship, the reports said.
Washington and Manila are allies, and have been strengthening ties in recent months amid concern over territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea.
According to Unesco, the area the ship is grounded is a "unique example of an atoll reef with a very high density of marine species". Part of it serves as a nesting site for birds and marine turtles, it says.
Environmental group Greenpeace was fined almost $7,000 (Â£4,380) in November 2005 for damaging a coral reef in the park after its flagship Rainbow Warrior II ran aground.
Greenpeace paid the fine but blamed the accident on outdated maps provided by the Philippine government.


After 10 weeks of negotiations, a deal has been reached between British and Irish governments and Northern Irish politicians to resolve the political crisis at Stormont.

Agreements have been made on the issues of paramilitarism, finance and welfare reform, but the legacy of the Troubles remains unresolved.
Politicians and other key figures have reacted to the announcement of the deal on Tuesday.
"At the outset of this process I indicated that we needed to make Stormont fit for purpose and to secure an agreement that would deliver a stable and long-term basis upon which to operate.
"I believe we have secured that outcome.
"Today represents another milestone along the way as we normalise and build our society.
"We must ensure that through co-operation and common purpose the spirit, vision and promise of the document is fulfilled."
"At the heart of this agreement is our common commitment to a better future for all of our people.
"Peter and I are at one in our determination to defend core public services, to continue to attract foreign direct investment, support indigenous businesses and to provide more and better jobs.
"The legacy of the past remains a huge gap in this work. The onus remains on the British government to live up to their responsibilities to victims, in particular full disclosure."
"This agreement deals with the issues that have cast the greatest shadow over the future of the devolved institutions here.
"This deal means that Northern Ireland's finances can be put back on a sustainable footing, ending the long-standing dispute over the budget.
"There will be a fresh emphasis on tackling paramilitarism and organised crime and clear declaration that such activity will never be tolerated."
"Today's agreement is another significant step in normalising politics and society in Northern Ireland, consolidating the hard won peace on this island.
"Devolved government in Northern Ireland is now placed on a more sustainable footing.
"This, together with the firm commitment to working for the ending paramilitarism, will help build the peaceful, reconciled, prosperous Northern Ireland its people deserve."
"This breakthrough today is an important turning point for Northern Ireland.
"The agreement secures sustainability for Northern Ireland's budget, sets out how we'll deal with paramilitary groups, and could provide a basis for a shared future for the people of Northern Ireland.
"What is vital now is that the parties in Northern Ireland use this agreement as the platform for stable devolved government that delivers on the day-to-day issues that matter to people."
"The agreement provides the people of Northern Ireland with a chance to have the burden of thuggery, intimidation and sectarian hatred taken off their backs once and for all.
"[It is] a chance for peace to mean more than the absence of violence, 21 years after the ceasefires.
"[It is] a chance for a prosperous and inclusive society to flourish to its full potential."
"I urge all of Northern Ireland's political leaders to support and fully implement this agreement.
"It was carefully constructed to deliver better and sustainable governance, as well as to advance Northern Ireland's peace process for the benefit of all the people of the region.
"I strongly encourage the UK and Irish governments and all the parties to continue their vital work to deal effectively with the past by creating the institutions set out in the Stormont House Agreement."
"We all signed up to a process where we would have all the parties around a table, trying to come up with a comprehensive deal, and then two parties went off and did their own deal.
"We're not going to sign up to anything until we've had a proper chance to look at it, but we're very disappointed that the issue around the past has once again been left out.
"The absence of comprehensive proposals on the past is a very serious failure. Those who persist in impeding truth and accountability cannot prevail."
"This document may be called A Fresh Start, [but] in terms of the feelings of the victims of the past, it's another false dawn."
"At this stage, it is not possible to credibly support a plan which doesn't detail where the money is coming from, no details where the money is to be spent, and which doesn't necessarily cover all the issues that need to be covered around paramilitarism.
"It's a half-baked plan, it's not a real move forward. It's not what they promised."
"There are, of course, a number of key questions that we will need answered to allow us to make that final decision [on whether or not to support it].
"For example, there's a startling omission of victims, there's nothing on the legacy of the past being addressed, we don't see paramilitary shootings, the IRA doesn't even get a mention, and that's before we even get into how the money is being handled."
"Sweeping murder under the carpet is the abiding message of this Sinn Fein/DUP manifesto.
"There is no mention of IRA murder. There is no mention of decommissioning the weapons still held by the IRA.
"That shameful state of affairs will not be forgotten by the unionist electorate."
"If additional resources are now to be allocated to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, it would be the wish of this Federation that an adequate amount is ring-fenced to finance a long overdue expansion of the service.
"The Â£160m is promised over five years when actually that amount is required right now."
"A reduced rate of corporation tax will open doors for us to be able to compete for, and seek to attract, new operations, which are tax sensitive.
"Today's announcement will provide a welcome boost to local, profitable businesses which will have additional finance to invest in their future growth."
"This new deal must ensure there is a fully functioning executive which can deliver good government and make decisions in the best interests of Northern Ireland's future prosperity and all its citizens.
"I hope this deal will ensure we have brought an end to the series of standoffs and showdowns."
"Political stability and a Northern Ireland Executive pulling together on the economy is vital for business growth in Northern Ireland.
"With a [corporation tax] rate and date now in place, businesses can plan for growth and Invest NI can start selling the proposition to potential inward investors across the world.
"Whilst the agreement on welfare seeks to protect the most vulnerable in our society, many of whom are victims and survivors, the failure to agree over the legacy issues is a bitter pill for victims and survivors to swallow.
"The much campaigned for pension for the most severely injured is one of a number of critically important steps that need to be taken now to meet the needs and expectations of those who have suffered most."
"Those who lost loved-ones in the conflict will be privately grieving and angry at London's insistence that it must be able to redact/censor reports from the proposed Historical Investigations Unit on "national security" grounds.
"If London had this right, it could mean that families would never discover that state agents, informers, UDR soldiers and RUC men had a role in their relatives' murders."
"We pray that this particular accommodation, reached in the interests of all, will be the basis for beginning to restore hope to those who are struggling and re-establish the trust that has been slowly ebbing from our political institutions."
"The two governments and political parties have said that dealing with the suffering of victims and survivors is central to Northern Ireland moving forward.
"They can no longer say that with any credibility.
"The reality is that they have abandoned and betrayed victims and survivors who have repeatedly been promised that there would be an inclusive and comprehensive way found to deal with the legacy of the past."


I woke to a phone call telling me that "a BBC minibus" had been caught up in the Kabul truck bomb attack.

But we did not know for sure how bad it was, and how many of our colleagues were hurt.
The immediate feeling was so familiar: a racing heart beat and a thousand simultaneous thoughts going through my head.
My heart felt heavier. I felt it was sinking down to my feet.
I desperately made phone calls any way I could - through Viber, WhatsApp, Facebook, and my mobile -  but to no avail.
The whole network was down, another indication that something horrendous had happened.
I was torn between hope and fear. Fearing the loss of another dear one and hoping that all would be fine.
It is devastating when fear wins over hope; I soon found out that one dear colleague, Mohammed Nazir, our driver, had been killed and four other colleagues wounded.
The truck bomb exploded close to Kabul's "Green Zone", the most secure place in the heart of the city protected by guards, blast walls and security boom gates. It killed and wounded dozens of people.
I can imagine what Nazir's family, his wife and children, were going through as they were waiting for news from BBC colleagues who were searching hospitals and morgues to find him.
As they prayed for good news, they too were battling fears and hopes.
And they are not the only ones. The friends and family of the hundreds of victims of today's attack, like those of Mohammed Nazir, will have had the same experience.
Mohammed Nazir was young. He was the father of four children and the only breadwinner in his family. He had a gentle smile and a warm personality.
I knew Nazir for years and I worked with him most days of the week.
BBC journalists, support staff and visitors remember him as an honest and reliable person. Most colleagues deploying from Kabul to dangerous provinces would prefer to go with Nazir.
The irony is he survived decades of war, conflict and hostile environments but was killed by a bomb in the most secure diplomatic enclave in the heart of Kabul.
Many BBC colleagues find it hard to believe that the smiling face that drove them to work this morning will be buried by the end of the same day.
The thought that he is no longer with us is hanging over everyone. We think of his children, his wife and extended family and how they will survive without him in a country that does not have a welfare system.
At least Nazir's family will receive financial support from the BBC. But what will happen to those of the others killed and wounded? The attack today not only took lives, and caused injury. It also in an instant changed the future for hundreds of families.
Soon, the carnage of today will linger only as another casualty figure from yet another attack. Life will carry on.
But what happened here in Kabul is simply a reflection of what Afghanistan has been experiencing over the past 38 years in various different forms and guises.
The early post-2001 years were a brief period of hope when many believed the country would finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief from constant chaos. But it did not last long. Today, Afghanistan is as much a battleground for proxy wars and regional arm wrestling as it was decades ago, with ordinary Afghans feeling like victims of an unchosen fate.
Although Nato military boots on the ground are present to provide training and support to the Afghan security forces and the government, the situation has not improved. The insurgents enjoy similar covert support today from regional players.
As Wednesday's devastating events proved, security, even in the most protected areas, is fragile.
Vulnerabilities in the security forces, or the sophistication of the insurgent groups, or both, could be to blame .
But for the public the situation represents one continuous, and lifelong, nightmare.


David Moyes said his first game as Real Sociedad boss was a "great experience" despite his side being held to a goalless draw at Deportivo La Coruna.

The former Everton and Manchester United manager inspired his new team to their first clean sheet of the season, though they have still yet to win away.
The Scot, 51, said: "I am very happy to have made my debut in La Liga.
"I wanted to win and I am not happy with the draw because we worked hard. But in the end it was a fair result."
Moyes, who was sacked by United in April, has signed a contract to June 2016 with the Basque club to replace Jagoba Arrasate, who was dismissed following a poor run.
He continued: "It is true that I don't know the players that much, but I am delighted to be here and little by little we will improve."
Moyes will make his home bow when Sociedad - 14th in La Liga - host Elche on Friday.


The UK government aims to publish a draft Wales Bill next week, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has said.

It comes a week after First Minister Carwyn Jones called on him to postpone the process.
The two met in Cardiff on Monday, with Mr Crabb vowing to reach agreement with the Welsh government on the content of new devolution legislation.
A spokesman for the first minister said it was "a constructive discussion".
The UK government hopes to publish the final bill in February, with Royal Assent anticipated for early 2017.
Mr Crabb said both he and the first minister were "on the same book, not quite on the same page" regarding any future devolution settlement.
"We have made progress in the last seven days and I think there is greater understanding certainly on our side of the concerns that the Welsh government have got - I think there is more understanding on the Welsh government side of the concerns that we've got," he said.
"I think what we need to do now is continue the talks and work purposefully towards a successful outcome and I think that is achievable."
The first minster had called for the publication of the draft Wales Bill to be postponed in order to reach a settlement "that stands the test of time" - but that request has been denied.
"We haven't changed the timetable for publishing at all, it's my aim to publish a draft bill next week which won't be the final bill but we'll provide people with the opportunity to feed in their thoughts, ideas and concerns," Mr Crabb added.
A spokesman for the first minister said: "It was a constructive discussion. It will be difficult to come to a settlement without properly addressing the issue of a single jurisdiction, but talks will continue."
The Welsh government wants to see a a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction, saying that such a move "would simplify devolution to everyone's benefit".
But the UK government and former Labour Attorney General Lord Morris of Aberavon have questioned the need and the cost of such a change.
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas claimed devolution had now become "a race to the bottom" between the two governments which he feared could limit the scope of new powers for Wales.
"Right around Whitehall departments there are attempts to claw back powers as part of the reserved powers model," he said.
"We do expect to see a very weak bill now which undoubtedly will start some people discussing the need for yet another bill almost immediately."


Activists have voiced hopes that a strong Black Lives Matter movement can be built in Britain following the growth of the campaign in the US.

Organiser Joshua Virasami said black people should come together "to achieve justice and equality in Britain".
The movement has grown over the past three years in protest at police killings of black people in America.
Small-scale protests have been held near Heathrow and in Nottingham on Friday, resulting in some arrests.
Protesters purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement obstructed traffic en route to Heathrow Airport, meanwhile in Nottingham some protesters have laid down on tracks in the city centre causing delays to the tram network.
The Met Police said they had attended the scene at Heathrow, and 10 people had been arrested. The aviation policing team later tweeted that the last cones were being removed from the M4 spur road, and that the road "should be completely open shortly". Heathrow Airport has apologised for any delays.
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Black Lives Matter activist Adam Elliott-Cooper, 29, from London, said the Heathrow location was appropriate as "many people are either being killed at our borders or being sent back to certain death".
He made reference to Angolan deportee Jimmy Mubenga, who suffered a fatal heart attack after being restrained on a flight, in October 2010. Three G4S guards were found not guilty of manslaughter in 2014, having denied acting dangerously or negligently during the incident.
The protests come the day after the fifth anniversary of the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police in north London, sparking riots which spread to several English cities.
In 2014, an inquest jury concluded that Mr Duggan had been lawfully killed by police, but his family won the right to appeal in October 2015.
Last month hundreds of people marched through central London to the Houses of Parliament in protest at the shooting of two black men by police in the US.
Mr Virasami said: "We need black people all over the world to come together, groups and individuals, to build this movement to achieve justice and equality in Britain and all over the world.
"We're asking the government to take responsibility, not just to investigate the statistics but to hear the demands of the communities."
Dr Tony Sewell, from the Youth Justice Board, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that in England and Wales 21% of young men under 18 in custody were black - though black people only made up 4% of the general population.
Conversely, he said, 60% of men under 18 in custody were white, when that racial group made up 82% of the population.
"That is a scandal, that's what we should really be looking at," he said.
Kadija Sesay - who is the cousin of Sheku Bayoh, 31, who died after being arrested and restrained in Kirkcaldy in May 2015 - said more needed to be done.
"People need to realise that this happens in the UK all of the time, in state institutions - it happens," she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Toyin Agbetu, who is a British-African social rights activist, told the programme that since the Brexit vote there had been "increased racism" within the UK, and said the problem was "more hidden" compared with the US.
He added that the UK's Black Lives Matter movement was saying "treat us with dignity", and he described deaths after police restraints as a "normalised form of terrorism" that black people faced.
Activist Marcia Rigg said: "It's absolutely vital that there is a platform for the families in the UK and BLM [Black Lives Matter] is perfect for that."
Her brother Sean Rigg, who suffered from schizophrenia, died at Brixton police station in 2008.
An IPCC investigation identified no police misconduct but in 2012 an inquest jury found that police had used "unsuitable" force after arresting Mr Rigg.
Five police officers could face criminal charges following the death of Mr Rigg while in police custody.
"Families like mine have been suffering for a long time and there has been an injustice," Ms Rigg said.
"Deaths are not just happening in the US at the hands of police; they are happening in the UK too, and so therefore it's the perfect platform to highlight those deaths in Britain because people are not aware of them."
Cdr Mak Chishty, National Police Chiefs' Council lead for Race and Religion, told the BBC: "I know that cases like Sean Rigg are infrequent and few and far between, but that doesn't mean they're any less important to us.
"Cases like that are extremely important - we want to learn, we want to improve and we want to give confidence back to the whole of our communities."
In recent weeks in the US, two white officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killed a black man during an incident and an officer in Minnesota shot and killed a black motorist during a traffic stop, sparking protests.


A man danced around his fallen victim after delivering a fatal blow during a street attack in Stirling, a court heard.

Jamie Spendiff's attack on Craig Logie, who was out with friends on a stag night, was captured on CCTV.
Spendiff took part in a further assault on other men with a co-accused after killing the married 36-year-old last August.
Spendiff, 26, was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing in July.
In CCTV footage shown to the High Court in Edinburgh, Mr Logie could be seen lying motionless on the ground after the assault.
Advocate depute Andrew Brown QC told the court: "Witnesses speak to hearing the sound of a crack as the deceased's head hit the ground and he did not move thereafter."
The construction manager suffered a brain injury and fracture to the back of his head following the attack at Friars Street on 7 August.
Spendiff, of Cullercoats, North Tyneside, admitted assaulting and killing Mr Logie by punching him on the head causing him to fall to the ground where he struck his head.
He also pled guilty to committing a breach of the peace along with Shaun McCarthy by conducting themselves in a disorderly manner and fighting with others.
Both also pled guilty to assaulting Paul Stubberfield and Stuart McKee in a taxi in Friars Street.
The court heard that Spendiff and McCarthy had gone out drinking for the evening after working together as technicians on wind turbines.
Mr Brown said that everyone appeared to be in good spirits, but a member of the stag party and another drinker then became involved in a heated argument.
After patrons left the pub, a general melee broke out which ended with the fatal blow to Mr Logie.
Mr Brown said: "Spendiff punched the deceased, who again had his arms up and out to the side, once on the face with force causing him to collapse to the ground.
"He swung another punch at the deceased as he fell but missed.
"With the deceased now on the ground Spendiff initially moved away before returning and danced round the deceased, at all times being moved away by the accused McCarthy and at one stage a female passer-by."
Mark Stewart QC, for Spendiff, said the killer had expressed his sorrow for the victim and his family.
Judge Lady Stacey remanded both accused in custody, saying the culpable homicide charge had "led to tragic consequences and a man has lost his life".


One of Denbighshire's top tourist attractions, Bodelwyddan Castle, is expected to be sold by the county council.

Denbighshire council is in talks with an unnamed party over the sale of the castle, which is currently run by a trust as a museum and art gallery.
In March the council said would be cutting the trust's annual grant of Â£144,000 from next year.
The council has been asked to comment.
This led to the trust having to sever its links with the National Portrait Gallery, with its collection of 130 paintings returned in April and seven trust staff being made redundant.
Set in 260 acres, the first castle on the site was built in about 1460 before it was rebuilt in the 1830s.
The freehold sale includes the castle, lawns and event arena.
The council will retain the woodland and parkland which includes the recently reconstructed World War One trenches.
Running alongside the castle's museum and gallery is the Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel which recently underwent a Â£6m upgrade.
It is run by the Warner Group, which is understood to be interested in taking over the whole complex.
A spokesman for Warner Leisure Hotels said: "We have spoken to the Denbighshire County Council about the future plans for the castle and those discussions continue".


A security guard who doused homeless people sheltering in an entrance with cold water has been suspended.

Norwich shopping centre Castle Mall investigated reports that a "laughing guard" threw a bucket of water over a group taking refuge in a doorway.
The group were left with clothes and sleeping bags drenched as temperatures fell.
The company providing security guards to the centre apologised and pledged to donate to a local homeless charity.
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The event came to light after Peoples' Picnic volunteers, who provide meals for homeless people, posted on their Facebook page.
The post said: "A few of the guys seeking refuge in a doorway round the back of the Castle Mall were subjected to having a bucket of cold water thrown over them by a laughing security guard.
"Not only did he leave them in soaking wet clothes, freezing and exposed to harsh declining temperatures, but also drenched their sleeping bags which were the only other means of keeping them warm."
Amanda Phillips, centre manager, said Castle Mall had carried out a joint investigation with Interserve, which provides its security guards.
She said: "One of Interserve's employees in the security team has been suspended on the grounds of gross misconduct and is no longer working at Castle Mall."
An Interserve spokesperson said: "We are very sorry for what has happened and are extremely disappointed with the behaviour of this individual, which is against everything we stand for as a company.
"We work closely with several charities for the homeless and take the issue very seriously. We will be making a donation to local homeless charities by way of an apology."


Highland Council has deferred by a year a plan to cut 15 secondary school teacher posts.

The jobs were to go over two years starting next year.
The local authority announced the delay at a briefing held ahead of a meeting of the full council on Thursday when a range of savings will be debated.
Highland Council is trying to find savings of £55m over the next five years. Councillors will meet in Inverness to discuss planned cuts.


Warmer weather helped Britain's retailers sell more in July than during the same period last year, defying predictions of a post-Brexit slump.

Total sales increased by 1.9%, according to the British Retail Consortium and KPMG's latest survey.
A separate report, by Barclaycard, showed that spending in restaurants, pubs and cinemas had also increased in the month following the vote.
However, Barclaycard found that overall spending fell by 1%.
David McCorquodale, head of retail at KPMG, said sunny days had "helped blow away some of the post-referendum blues, boosting the UK feelgood factor and giving consumers a sense that 'life goes on' following the initial shock of the Brexit vote".
He added that picnics and barbecues had helped lift sales of food and drink, while summer promotions and holiday preparations had helped boost fashion sales.
Helen Dickinson, the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the rise was not surprising, given that "little has materially changed" for most UK households since the EU referendum.
A monthly report by Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of all the nation's credit and debit card transactions, found that consumer spending growth fell to 2.6% in July, down from 3.6% in May and June.
But the warmer weather may have played a part in a 12.2% increase in spending in pubs and a 12.8% rise in what card-holders spent in restaurants, it said.
There were some less positive results in the company's consumer confidence research, which found that Britons were more cautious about their future spending plans, with nearly 50% not confident in their ability to spend more on non-essential items.
Paul Lockstone, managing director at Barclaycard, said: "These are the first full month's figures since the EU referendum, so it's too early to say if this is the start of a long-term trend, but it seems likely consumers will be watching the external environment carefully ahead of any major spending decisions."


A zoo that inspired a Hollywood film has become a charity, its boss says.

The news comes after an online crowdfunding appeal to raise £1.6m for Dartmoor Zoo in Devon closed on Monday after raising nearly £340,000.
Director Ben Mee said the gaining of the new status meant the zoo's future was "as secure as it has ever been".
Launching the appeal last month, Mr Mee said becoming a charity that focused on research meant it could apply for grants.
The zoo launched its crowdfunding appeal as part of moves to become a charity and also to avoid job cuts.
It raised £339,930 from 745 backers in its 35-day appeal, which closed on Monday morning.
Crowdfunding backers included people pledging private donations, and Plymouth University also said it would provide £2,000 of match funding.
Launching its appeal, the zoo said: "Two global recessions and five of the wettest English summers on record have shown that this zoo needs to shift its centre of gravity from dependence on seasonal tourists towards becoming a charity focusing on research and education."
Dartmoor Zoo
1968: Opened as Dartmoor Wildlife Park
2006: Bought by Mee family for £1.1m
2011: We Bought a Zoo released starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson
2014: Gains charity status
Employs: 35 people
Animals: Tigers, cheetahs, lions, wolves, raccoons, foxes, bears
Mr Mee's family, from Surrey, bought the zoo in 2006.
The 2011 film We Bought a Zoo, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, was based on a book by Mr Mee describing his experiences.
But it had been "running reliably at a loss" for most of the time it had been in his family's possession and three staff faced losing their jobs if its finances did not improve, he previously said.
Although falling short of the crowdfunding target, Mr Mee said enough money had been raised to "ensure a smooth transition" to becoming a charity.
"The sense of relief is only beginning to wash through me," he said.


The arrest of General Karenzi Karake in London is bound to strain what is increasingly becoming a fragile relationship between Britain and Rwanda.

Like two best friends, harsh words are exchanged from time to time, but on this occasion it feels like a smart slap whose sting may last for some time.
It is perhaps not surprising that the detention of Rwanda's head of intelligence is being flagged up by London as a European "obligation" rather than a British decision.
There is a strong ambition in Whitehall that the matter simply goes away. After all it was a Spanish high court judge that made the accusation of war crimes, not a British one.
Rwanda has long been considered by Britain as one of its closest allies in the region and "an African success story".
Following the genocide in 1994 in which 800,000 mainly Tutsis perished in unspeakable violence, Britain has pumped millions into development aid and Rwanda has responded with impressive rates of economic growth.
The Rwandan government is said to be "furious" with Britain, as much for the style in which the arrest was made as the substance of the indictment itself.
Broadly speaking, Rwanda's view is that the Europeans, by issuing an arrest warrant, have been hoodwinked by pro-Hutu sympathisers.
It feels energies should be better channelled into chasing the Hutu militia - known as the FDLR - still wreaking murderous havoc in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, rather than pursuing alleged war criminals from Rwanda's troubled past.
It is a well rehearsed argument.
When Britain temporarily suspended direct budget support to Rwanda in 2012, following allegations by a UN group of experts that Rwanda was funding the Tutsi-dominated M23 militia waging war in eastern DRC, it also suggested its long-term friend had been influenced by genocide deniers.
Rwanda is still deeply haunted by its past and European leaders, who acknowledge they didn't do enough to intervene in one of the worst atrocities of a generation, are silenced.
Britain is Rwanda's biggest bi-lateral donor contributing Â£66m a year in aid to Rwanda.
That figure swells to nearly double when European contributions are added.
British businesses are increasingly looking for new investment opportunities in Rwanda from real estate to mining to financial services and the conservative "wealth agenda" in Africa has put Rwanda centre stage.
But Britain is often criticised by some activists for pursuing a policy of wealth creation at any price - not doing enough to challenge President Paul Kagame's human rights record in his dealings with his opponents and the media.
Andrew Mitchell - Britain's former international development secretary - for whom Rwanda has become something of a poster boy for development - has been the most outspoken on the British side so far, since Gen Karake's arrest.
He told me it was "extremely embarrassing" that the intelligence chief was arrested during "official diplomatic business" and said that he and others were still trying to figure out "why now?".
General Karake is a frequent visitor to the UK and has been for many years.
Twitter users have suggested that the arrest of such a prominent figure is "revenge" for a recent dispute with the BBC, following a controversial This World current affairs programme questioning the historic record of the genocide.
This is patently not true as the BBC has no influence over European arrest warrants or the police. But it does beg an important question.
How does Britain navigate a relationship based on trust and mutual respect, when the execution of a European Arrest Warrant is seen by some in the Rwandan leadership, not as a legal practicality but the ultimate act of betrayal?


Pedro Caixinha has been granted permission to join Rangers from Al-Gharafa, the Qatar club have announced.

The Portuguese, 46, had been heavily linked with the vacancy following Mark Warburton's departure last month.
Under-20s coach Graeme Murty has been in charge of Rangers' first team for their last five matches and they play Celtic on Sunday.
Rangers are also keen to appoint a director of football.
However, Southampton's director of scouting and recruitment Ross Wilson declined an offer to take up the role earlier this week.
The former manager of Uniao Leiria and Nacional in his home country, Caixinha led Mexican side Santos Laguna to the 2014 Copa MX Apertura trophy, the 2015 Liga MX Clausura title and the 2015 Campeon de Campeones trophy, as well as the 2013 CONCACAF Champions League final.
Before moving into management, he spent six years as assistant to Jose Peseiro at Sporting Lisbon, Al-Hilal, Panathinaikos, Rapid Bucharest and the Saudi Arabia national team.
Caixinha, who speaks fluent English, earned some of his coaching qualifications at the Scottish Football Association's coach education centre at Largs.
Since being put in charge of Rangers' first team, Murty has overseen Scottish Cup wins against Greenock Morton and Hamilton Academical and a Premiership victory over St Johnstone as well as league defeats by Dundee and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
The Ibrox side are third in Scotland's top flight, six points behind Aberdeen and 33 off runaway leaders Celtic, who can clinch a sixth straight title this month.
Warburton, who led Rangers to promotion by winning last season's Scottish Championship, parted with the club at the same time as assistant David Weir and head of recruitment Frank McParland and McParland has since become director of football at Nottingham Forest.


More than 900 authors are making a public appeal to Amazon to end a bitter publishing dispute that they say has been "hurting" writers and readers.

Authors including James Patterson and Donna Tartt have signed a letter to the retailer that is due to appear as a full-page advert in the New York Times.
Amazon is in a battle with Hachette, one of the world's biggest publishers, over the terms of e-book sales.
The authors said their books had been "taken hostage" by Amazon's tactics.
The online retailer has delayed delivery, prevented pre-orders and removed discounts for books by some Hachette authors, who include JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer and David Baldacci.
The letter said Amazon had singled out a group of authors for "selective retaliation" and was "inconveniencing and misleading its own customers with unfair pricing and delayed delivery".
"Many of us have supported Amazon since it was a struggling start-up," the letter continued.
"Our books launched Amazon on the road to selling everything and becoming one of the world's largest corporations.
"We have made Amazon many millions of dollars and over the years have contributed so much, free of charge, to the company by way of co-operation, joint promotions, reviews and blogs.
"This is no way to treat a business partner. Nor is it the right way to treat your friends.
"Without taking sides on the contractual dispute between Hachette and Amazon, we encourage Amazon in the strongest possible terms to stop harming the livelihood of the authors on whom it has built its business."
The letter concludes by asking readers to email Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to urge him to end the dispute. The New York Times said the letter was scheduled to appear as a full-page ad on Sunday.
Other Hachette authors to have signed up include Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Jeffery Deaver, Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Handler, who writes as Lemony Snicket.
Lee Child, Paul Auster, John Grisham, Philip Pullman and Stephen King - who are published by other houses - have also added their names.
But some of Hachette's biggest names, including Rowling and Meyer, have not.
In a recent blog, Amazon said e-books were too expensive and most should cost $9.99 (£5.95) rather than the current $14.99 (£8.92) or £19.99 (£11.90).
"That is unjustifiably high for an e-book," the company wrote.
"With an e-book, there's no printing, no over-printing, no need to forecast, no returns, no lost sales due to out-of-stock, no warehousing costs, no transportation costs, and there is no secondary market - e-books cannot be resold as used books. E-books can be and should be less expensive."
If prices were lowered, Amazon said, more books would be sold and total revenues would be higher. Hachette was also "sharing too small a portion with the author", it added.
Meanwhile, a petition in support of Amazon, which claims Hachette wants to keep e-book prices "artificially high", has attracted 7,600 signatures, including a number of self-published authors who praised the retailer for creating a more democratic industry.
One, Theresa Ragan, wrote that she had failed to get the attention of established publishers until Amazon allowed her to self-publish.
"They allowed readers to decide whether or not they wanted to read my books," she wrote. "What a concept! Since that time, I've sold over one million e-books."


One of nature's most puzzling spectacles - the "fairy circles" of Namibia - may have been explained by a new scientific theory.

The circles consist of barren ground, ringed by grass and measuring 2-15m (7-49ft) in diameter.
Computer modelling and field work suggest they could be caused by plants taking advantage of termite activity.
Researchers from the universities of Strathclyde and Princeton outlined the theory in the journal Nature.
Until recently, the phenomenon was thought to be confined to the Namib desert in southern Africa. But in 2014, similar circles were observed in western Australia.
For many years, scientists have debated the possible causes.
Some have argued they are the result of sand termites eating the roots of vegetation while others have suggested that competition between different plant species is the cause.
The new explanation seeks to unify both theories by suggesting it is the interaction between the two that gives rise to the fairy circles.
Termites remove vegetation above their mound in order to conserve water. Vegetation at the perimeter of the mound then takes advantage of the increased moisture levels to grow taller.
Dr Juan Bonachela from the University of Strathclyde's Department of Mathematics and Statistics, said: "There have long been two theories on how these regular patterns, and especially fairy circles, are formed, and both theories are normally presented as mutually exclusive.
"Our findings harmonise both theories and find a possible explanation for regular vegetation patterns observed around the globe.
"In the case of fairy circles, termites remove vegetation on their mounds to increase moisture, which is essential for the insects' survival in dry environments, thus creating the bare disk.
"Vegetation around the mound takes advantage of this water accumulation to grow, and this taller vegetation forms the circle. Regular repetition of the pattern results from different termite colonies competing next to one another.
"This behaviour affects the whole ecosystem, allowing it to survive harsher conditions and recover from droughts much more quickly than if there were no termites."
The research used field data from four different continents and computer simulations.


Parramatta Eels full-back Jarryd Hayne is leaving Australia's National Rugby League to pursue a career in America's National Football League.

Hayne, 26, is one of rugby league's highest-paid players and was voted the best player in the NRL this year.
"I believe right now the time is right. It's the hardest decision I've ever had to make in my life," he said.
Hayne added his move is a 12-month project and he will rejoin Parramatta if an NFL deal does not materialise.
No Australian top-flight rugby league player has ever made the switch.
"For the past 24 months I've been thinking about having a crack in the NFL," said Hayne, who heads to the United States as a free agent. "In the past 12 months, I've been seriously considering it.
"I didn't feel like (my career) was challenging me to the point where I'll now be challenged.
"The easiest transition would be a punt returner or kick returner. This isn't going to be an easy transition and I'm aware of that."
Hayne has pulled out of the national side for the Four Nations tournament with England, New Zealand and Samoa, which starts on 25 October.
He is not the first rugby player to head to the NFL with Australian-born American second row Hayden Smith swapping rugby union at Saracens for the New York Jets in 2012 before returning to the Premiership club a year later.
American Miles Craigwell came the other way, having been in the practice squad for the NFL's Miami Dolphins before switching to rugby sevens in 2010.


A new combination of chemotherapy drugs should become the main therapy for pancreatic cancer, say UK researchers.

The disease is so hard to treat that survival rates have barely changed for decades.
But data, presented at the world's biggest cancer conference, showed long-term survival could be increased from 16% to 29%.
The findings have been described as a "major win", "incredibly exciting" and as offering new hope to patients.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers, with patients often given just months to live after diagnosis.
It is aggressive, resists treatment and, because pancreatic tumours cause nondescript symptoms, is often found only after it has spread throughout the body.
In the UK alone, 9,400 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 8,800 die from the disease each year.
The trial on 732 patients - in hospitals in the UK, Sweden, France and Germany - compared the standard chemotherapy drug gemcitabine against a combination of gemcitabine and capecitabine.
The results, released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual conference, showed that average survival times increased from 25 to 28 months.
But there was a far more dramatic impact on long-term survival with 29% of patients alive for at least five years with combination therapy compared with 16% normally.
There was no difference in side-effects.
Prof John Neoptolemos, from the University of Liverpool, who led the study, said: "This important trial shows that this drug combination could give pancreatic patients valuable extra months and even years and so will become the new treatment for patients with this disease.
"The difference in short-term survival may seem modest but improvement in long-term survival is substantial for this cancer.
"This drug combination will become the new standard of care for patients with the disease."
It is not entirely clear why there is the difference in survival rates, but one idea surrounds the new drug being less toxic allowing patients to tolerate higher doses.
Alex Ford, chief executive of Pancreatic Cancer UK, said: "These are incredibly exciting results from a major trial for those diagnosed with this dreadful disease.
"The outlook for pancreatic cancer has been grim. With few treatment options, survival rates have barely changed in 40 years in the UK. Currently just 5% of pancreatic cancer patients can expect to live for five years.
"At the same time, incidence is set to soar by a third to more than 12,000 people being diagnosed every year by 2030.
"The possibility of increasing survival for those who have undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer will give great hope to hundreds of patients and their families who may benefit. The importance of clinical trials to help transform the outlook for pancreatic cancer cannot be over-estimated.
"We now need to see these results quickly translate to a change in approach by clinicians so that patients start to benefit more widely straightaway."
The study was funded by the charity Cancer Research UK.
Its chief clinician Prof Peter Johnson said: "Pancreatic cancer remains a very difficult disease to find and treat.
"Despite this, we are making steady progress, through trials like this one, where the use of better chemotherapy after surgery was able to increase the number of people surviving the disease."
Around 340,000 people worldwide are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year with the highest incidence in North America and Europe.
Dr Smitha Krishnamurthi, from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, said: "Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most hard-to-treat cancers.
"It is a major win to find that adding a generic chemotherapy not only improves survival for these patients, but does so with little effect on patients' quality of life."
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A storm surge has caused the worst flooding on Germany's north-east coast since 2006, leaving streets and cars submerged and causing major damage.

Towns and cities along the Baltic coast were flooded, from Kiel in the far north to the resort island of Usedom near the Polish border.
Sea levels were recorded in the port of Wismar at 1.83m (6ft) above normal overnight.
Severe winter conditions also hit Sweden and Finland.
The overnight temperature fell to -41.7C at Muonio in Finnish Lapland, near the north-western border with Sweden, the coldest night of the winter so far.
Further west in northern Sweden, temperatures fell as low as -41.3C and road conditions were treacherous in much of the country.
A passenger train became stuck without power and heating for several hours in the north-eastern Norrbotten region with outdoor temperatures at -38C. Swedish media said no replacement buses were prepared to venture out because of the cold.
Some of the worst flooding in northern German was in the historic centre of Rostock and in Stralsund, as well as on Usedom, where major damage was reported. Outdoor staircases were washed away and snack bars badly affected.
"This is no children's tea party," said one local official. However, water levels were expected to fall in the coming hours.
Storm Axel was also responsible for the arrival of several hundred thousand plastic eggs on the island of Langeoog on Thursday.
Local reports said the eggs contained little toys with Russian messages inside and appeared to have come from a container that had fallen off a ship.


England's next manager will "not just be a mercenary for short term gain", says Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn.

In the last 20 years, only Roy Hodgson and Sven-Goran Eriksson have managed England through three tournaments.
Gareth Southgate has been in temporary charge since Sam Allardyce left his post after a newspaper investigation.
Glenn said: "In the past we've gone for foreign managers who'd be attracted as they might help us win a tournament."
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Glenn added: "They haven't maybe left the international set up in a better place.
"We want somebody there for the long term."
Glenn said the next manager would have to address the "fear factor" of playing for England.
"We have been very successful at winning tournaments in the development teams," he said. "The under-21s, the under-19s, when we put our boys up against the best in the world we are winning.
"We're not translating that enough when it comes to the senior team.
"We think the difference is psychological preparation, this fear factor when you put on the England shirt.
"The manager we hire will really understand that and will have detailed plans to address it."
England won their first game under interim manager Southgate, a 2-0 success over Malta in a World Cup qualifier. They drew their next qualifier away to Slovenia 0-0.
Southgate will remain in charge for the qualifier against Scotland at Wembley on 11 November and the home friendly with Spain four days later.
"He will almost certainly be a candidate. It's up to him to decide whether he wants to do it," added Glenn.


Indian cartoonist Paul Fernandes has drawn a series of watercolour cartoons depicting life in the southern city of Bangalore in the 1960s and 70s.

The series includes Bangalore's landmarks as well as the artist's ancestral home.
"Ten years ago, our old house was torn down to build a set of apartments for me and my nine siblings. It was a huge house, with beautiful gardens and 40 fruit trees," Mr Fernandes says.
"When it all came tumbling down, it compelled me to look at the changing city. And I started drawing places that I remembered fondly while I was growing up."
The result is a collection of about 75 paintings and drawings - "completely nostalgia driven" - looking at the "good old days" in a happy, humorous way.
Here, Mr Fernandes explains the stories behind some of his works.
The Bangalore Club, one of the finest examples of British architecture in the city, is still looked after well. Established in 1868 by a group of British officers, the club boasted some exclusive members, including former British prime minister Winston Churchill who still owes the club 13 rupees (20 cents; 14 pence) in unpaid bills. It is also the place where famous filmmaker David Lean filmed parts of his critically-acclaimed Passage to India.
"It is still looked after very well and it still has very exclusive members," Mr Fernandes says.
In the "good old days", people didn't have to go to barbers; they instead came to people's homes.
"He would ride in on a bicycle, carrying his tools in a cloth bag. A chair would be brought out and placed under a tree and the entire family - men, boys and girls - would queue up to get their hair cut."
There was one disadvantage though, Mr Fernandes says. The barber knew only one style and he would cut everyone's hair in the same fashion.
"My sisters would show him fashionable hairstyles from international magazines and ask for a similar cut. They would, of course, never get one.
"And then in the 1970s, we all started to grow our hair, hippie-style," says Mr Fernandes. "The barber didn't like it one bit, he said it was bad for business."
The Coffee House on MG Road was "the centre of our universe", it was "very popular" and often frequented by journalists, Mr Fernandes says.
The place did - and still does - great coffee, it served dosa and omelette and was always packed at meal times.
"Sometimes, we would have journalists sitting on the next table and they would chat about headlines and it would be in the next day's papers. It was so thrilling."
Commercial Street was the centre of shopping in Bangalore - it's a place where one could buy anything, from clothes to jewellery to household stuff to footwear. It also had toyshops and many tailors.
"My mother would drive me and all my nine siblings there once a year at Christmas to buy us clothes," says Mr Fernandes. "She would buy the same bale of cloth, take us to the tailor who would take our measurements, and all of us would get identical clothes."
The Cubbon Park police station is a "very beautiful" building. It was an old British house that was converted into a police station in 1910 and it is still "pretty much the same".
"In the 60s and 70s, Bangalore was a very laid back place and there was no real crime, occasionally maybe a cycle would be stolen," Mr Fernandes says.
"I was in school then and my friends and I would cycle around the city and the policemen looked so silly in their flowerpot hats, so we would tap them and run away. But once I got caught and was detained in the room you see on top here. I was let out only after my mother came to the police station and apologised," he remembers.
This house in this illustration is the cartoonist's ancestral home and the girl was one of his sisters.
"She was very pretty and young boys would come by to greet her. A protective uncle would be hovering nearby, scowling, with an airgun, trying to scare away the boys," Mr Fernandes says.
Just below the British Council in Bangalore was the very popular Koshy's bar and restaurant. It is still hugely popular, so much so that even the state's chief ministers come here for a coffee or a drink. During a visit to the city in the 1980s, Britain's Prince Charles dropped by for a cup of coffee.
"This very picturesque railway line crossing is barely half a kilometre from my present home," Mr Fernandes says.
In the 1960s and 70s, a daily train from Madras (now Chennai) to Bangalore used to pass through the area and the gates would shut for 10 minutes.
"Whenever we were at the gate, we would wave at the passengers, and they would wave back at us."
The Brigade Road was Bangalore's "most iconic hangout" place in the 70s - all the city's fashionable people would go there in the evenings for fun.
An Indian-American couple set up a restaurant there and introduced Bangaloreans to apple pie and waffles, there were a couple of pinball machines and musically-inclined people would hang out with their guitars; and there was a coffin-maker nearby.
"In those days, we used to say you come to Brigade Road for recreation, sustenance and death. Unfortunately, it's all gone now, replaced by a huge mall," says Mr Fernandes.
The cartoonist's "sprawling home ground" was filled with trees, birds and dogs and this artwork shows a corner of that house.
"It was customary for gentlemen in the house to have a good lunch and a siesta in the gardens. It was a man's domain - by some unwritten rule a lady would never sit out there. I was told it was considered not dignified for a lady to sit there."
The Plaza was the iconic cinema hall where the finest Hollywood movies were shown.
"My favourite story of the theatre is when an aunt went there with her family to watch Gone With The Wind. When she came out of the cinema, she found that all four tyres of her car had been stolen.
"They were gone with the wind," he says.
Russell Market was built in 1927 by the British and was named after civic engineer TB Russell.
"It still exists as one of the busiest markets in Bangalore. It's crowded and wonderfully chaotic and you can buy nearly anything you want here," Mr Fernandes says.


A man who was convicted of 13 charges including child rape and sexual abuse has been jailed for 12 years.

John Foley, 71, from Hurlford, East Ayrshire, carried out a series of sexual and physical attacks on children and two women dating back to 1973.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the offending ended in 1993 and there had been no repetition since.
A judge said, however, there was no alternative to custody. Foley was also placed on the sex offenders' register.
Jailing him, judge Lord Kinclaven told Foley: "The court requires to mark the seriousness of the offences."
"You have been found guilty by the verdict of the jury of a catalogue of serious offences."
The court heard that one girl was raped between the age of eight and 11 by Foley at an address in Ayrshire during occasions between 1973 and 1976.
Foley also assaulted a different child when she was aged between one and three and grabbed her by the hair and swung her round in the air.
He exposed himself to another little girl when she was aged five or six.
He also carried out sex acts on a girl from the age of about nine and threatened to kill her mother if she revealed his abuse.
Foley also repeatedly struck and punched a boy and hit him with a belt and held his hand in the flame of a lit gas cooker, burning him to his severe injury.
He assaulted another girl who was repeatedly punched in the face, grabbed by the hair and kicked and hit with a belt.
Another girl was made to undress while he watched and was shown pornographic videos and forced to take part in sex acts.
She was also grabbed by the hair and dragged into a bedroom and repeatedly punched and kicked.
Foley also attacked two women, both of whom were repeatedly punched and kicked during assaults.


Calling West Indies "mediocre" on the eve of the Test series gave them their team talk, claimed England captain Alastair Cook.

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England were dismissed for 123 in their second innings on the way to losing the final Test by five wickets - and drawing the series 1-1.
England and Wales Cricket Board chairman-elect Colin Graves said there would be "some inquiries" if England did not beat the hosts.
"It's not ideal timing," Cook said.
"That's a Yorkshireman for you - they're quite happy to talk a good game," Cook told BBC Sport.
"A comment's a comment, and it's his right as chairman to say what he wants, but it's never ideal against an opposition you're about to play.
"It gives everyone else a team talk, we know that. But we can't control anything about that. If we'd played to our potential and taken our opportunities it would have been irrelevant."
West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder also referred to Graves' comments after the final Test, tweeting "not bad for a mediocre side".
Coach Phil Simmons had put a poster with Graves' quotes on the home dressing room door ahead of the first Test in Antigua, describing them as "an underestimation of what we could do".
Cook claimed that Graves' comments had not put any extra pressure on him or coach Peter Moores and that they "don't worry about external stuff any more".
"For the majority of the series we did a lot of good stuff but when the pressure came on in the third innings we didn't bat very well," Cook said.
"It was a bit of a common theme in the series in terms of absolutely nailing them when we had the opportunity."
However, former England captain Michael Vaughan - who has been linked with the new director of English cricket role - tweeted: "Losing a Test and drawing a series against a very young West Indies team. I can't accept that the team are getting better."
And former England opener Geoffrey Boycott, speaking on Test Match Special, called for an inquiry.
After a drawn first match, England took the lead in the series with a nine-wicket win in Grenada.
Asked about not playing specialist spinner Adil Rashid in the final match in Barbados, Cook said: "The spinning thing will always be an issue when we don't pick a specialist spinner but that's a bit harsh on Moeen Ali with the amount of wickets he has taken.
"He hasn't quite got it right. It's another lesson for him and he'll get better for that."


Spending on agency nurses in the South West has soared from about £12m to more than £59m in the last four years, it has emerged.

The Royal College of Nursing, which made Freedom of Information requests to 27 NHS trusts, said the NHS was being "crippled" by a shortage of nurses.
The biggest rise was at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, which spent £6.1m in 2014, up from £390,000 in 2010.
The hospital trust said it only used agency nurses "when necessary".
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said there were fewer nurses than in 2010, so NHS organisations have had to look for ways to address the shortfall.
As a result, trusts have been paying high rates to agencies to supply temporary staff and recruiting nurses from abroad.
RCN regional director Jeannett Martin said: "An already overstretched workforce is trying to carry out even more work in even less time, so NHS trusts are trying to plug the gap to ensure patients get the care they need, and it is costing the NHS a huge amount of money.
"It takes three years to train a nurse so we need action now to ensure that the UK has the nurses required to provide patients with the care that they need."
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital's trust said in its last board report in March it was facing an overspend on staff pay of £3.8m, which was partly due to additional agency staff required to cover vacancies.
Deputy chief nurse Tracey Reeves said: "Our priority is providing safe, high quality care for our patients, and we are working hard to ensure that safe staffing levels are maintained.
"A sustained increase in patient demand year on year has increased the need for nursing staff and we have invested over £3.5m over the last two years to increase our nursing establishment."
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust blamed a high volume of patients and "recruitment challenges being experienced across the NHS".
The Department of Health declined to comment.


A former councillor who posted a picture of himself holding an AK-47 rifle on Twitter has been been removed from his role as a magistrate.

The photograph of Ajit Atwal, who used to represent the Liberal Democrats on Derby City Council, was taken on holiday in India last year.
In April, Mr Atwal apologised but was still suspended as a magistrate.
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said his behaviour "amounted to serious misconduct".
Labour colleagues in Derby made calls for Mr Atwal to resign as a councillor when the photo appeared in a national newspaper in March.
Later, he apologised if he had "caused anyone any alarm or distress" but refused to resign as a magistrate.
Mr Atwal lost his other role as a councillor in May's local elections.
A spokesperson for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said: "Mr Ajit Singh Atwal JP, a Magistrate assigned to the Derbyshire Bench, uploaded photographs of himself holding an automatic weapon, which is illegal in the UK, on his Twitter account.
"The photographs were deemed by a conduct panel to have brought the magistracy into disrepute.
"The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice concluded that this behaviour amounted to serious misconduct and have removed Mr Atwal from the magistracy."
Mr Atwal has yet to comment.


Pakistani authorities have restored access to the social media website Twitter, hours after blocking it for messages deemed "offensive to Islam".

No clear reason was given for the ban, which came into force shortly after Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there were no plans to block Twitter.
Correspondents say it appeared to stem from tweets about a 2010 competition on Facebook to submit images of the Prophet Muhammad.
Islam forbids images of the prophet.
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) lifted the ban on Sunday, about eight hours after it came into force.
No reason was given for the about-turn.
The ministry of information technology had talked of "blasphemous and inflammatory content" on Twitter.
On Saturday, PTA chairman Mohammed Yaseen told the Associated Press (AP) on Saturday that Twitter was blocked after it refused to remove the material.
A few hours earlier,
          Mr Malik had tweeted
: "Dear all, I assure u that Twitter and FB will continue in our country and it will not be blocked. Pl do not believe in rumors," it said.
US-based Human Rights Watch called the ban "ill-advised, counterproductive and futile".
Despite the ban, AP reported that many people in Pakistan had still been able to access Twitter by using software that disguises the user's location.
In 2010, Pakistan blocked access to about 1,000 websites because of the "Draw Prophet Muhammad Day" competition on Facebook.
That ban remained in place for about a fortnight until Facebook blocked access to the controversial page in Pakistan.
Over the past year thousands of websites have been blocked without warning in Pakistan. Pornographic sites have been targeted, as have sites that are considered "anti-state".
The BBC's World News channel was taken off air from November 2011 until March 2012 after it broadcast something the Pakistani establishment saw as objectionable.
But while there may be those worried about freedom of speech here, there have also been many who, in the past, have raised their voice in support of such restrictions on the media and internet, says the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad.


A credit company has been fined £80,000 for sending nearly one million nuisance texts in six months.

Bradford-based Provident Personal Credit Ltd employed third party companies to send 999,057 unsolicited text messages to promote personal loans
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposed the fine as the recipients had not agreed to receive the messages.
The BBC has contacted Provident for a response.
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An investigation was launched by the ICO after the regulator received 285 complaints to a spam reporting service between April and October in 2015.
The watchdog said it thought the number of texts sent was higher than the one million figure "as it is likely that other affiliates sent out many more".
ICO head of enforcement Steve Eckersley said the law was clear.
"You can't send marketing texts to people who have not signed up to receive them," he added.
"Being bombarded with texts you didn't ask for and don't want is an intrusion into people's privacy, an irritation and, in the worst cases can be upsetting.
"Companies have no excuse whatsoever for sending nuisance texts, whether they do it themselves or employ someone else to do it for them."
Provident has the right to appeal against the fine.


A disabled cruise ship that caught fire off the coast of Mexico has arrived in San Diego and disembarked its 4,500 passengers and crew.

Passengers said they had endured limited amounts of food and backed-up toilets during the three nights they spent adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
The Carnival Splendor was 200 miles (310km) from San Diego when the fire broke out in its engine room on Monday.
"I love being back on land," passenger Ken King told the Associated Press.
The 952ft (290m) ship, which is owned by Carnival Cruise Lines, was pulled into San Diego Bay at about 0830 local time (1630 GMT) by six tugboats and escorted by several Coast Guard vessels.
Individuals on the ship and about 100 people onshore cheered loudly as the Carnival Splendor reached land.
By mid-afternoon on Thursday, about 2,500 passengers had disembarked the ship, which a Carnival Cruise Lines official said was better than anticipated.
The evacuation of the passengers and crew was slowed by disabled elevators.
"The staff was excellent. Only a few people on board were rude. The food was horrible. Starting at 5am on Monday, we didn't have toilets for 13 hours," Mr King said.
The cruise line has promised to refund the passengers' fares, reimburse them for their travel costs and give them a voucher for another cruise.