Bosses of UK energy distribution firms have been accused of "complacency" as they defended their response to storms that led to power cuts over Christmas.

About 750,000 properties were affected, and many left without power for days.
UK Power Networks' Basil Scarsella said "tried and tested" plans struggled to cope in worse-than-forecast weather.
But Commons Energy Select Committee chairman Tim Yeo said there seemed to be a lack of any "expression of real concern" by firms for those affected.
After the first 45 minutes of the hearing, Mr Yeo told the bosses that the "tone of this conversation and its contents has been utter complacency".
He criticised trade body the Energy Networks Association for failing to be able to confirm whether it stood by its earlier report suggesting that 75,000 customers were left without power for more than 24 hours.
The ENA could not provide the "most basic information on a totally predictable question", he said.
Mr Yeo concluded the session by saying there was "no sense of urgency" in plans to improve capacity to respond to severe weather, despite "clear warnings that extreme events are likely to take place".
He said: "I've heard nothing at all this morning which reassures me that you are taking this problem seriously enough...
"I have to conclude that you are exploiting your privileged monopoly position and you have displayed a neglect of your customers which I personally find absolutely astonishing."
Strong winds brought down power lines just ahead of Christmas, with the south east of England, particularly parts of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and northern Scotland worst hit. Winds on the evening of December 26 affected residents in north Wales and north-west England.
The committee examined how the companies reacted to the weather and communicated with their customers.
Bosses from Scottish Power, Scottish and Southern Energy, Electricity North West, and Western Power Distribution - the companies behind the networks that carry electricity - also gave evidence.
Mr Scarsella, chief executive of UK Power Networks, which maintains cables across the South and South East of England, told the MPs the storm turned out to be more severe than forecast.
"We have a methodology that estimates the damage expected on the network based on the wind speeds. But the wind speed and the weather forecast escalated significantly."
Stormy December: In numbers
He said: "The damage was not caused by weak points in the network."
Mr Scarsella said another issue was "that this was a national storm and it lasted over two or three days. There is a well-tested mutual aid system which enables any of us to call on our colleagues to send additional resources.
"But because of the severity of the storm and the national nature of the storm we were not able to provide additional resources to other networks or indeed receive additional resources."
The committee heard of repairs in some flooded areas taking place on boats and how engineers were unable to begin their work because hundreds of trees needed to be cut through.
Mark Mathieson, managing director of Scottish and Southern Energy's electricity networks, praised the efforts of staff who turned out to reconnect properties.
He added he felt affected customers were understanding of the problems caused by a "unique" weather situation.
But he said the industry has to "learn lessons".
"We as an industry clean these events up much quicker than we used to. But we also recognise the impact that has on customers," he said.
"We are sorry and I did go out to communicate with customers that we were sorry that they were off."
The MPs also quizzed the energy chiefs on the compensation paid to customers.
They confirmed they will pay out higher than usual compensation to people who were without power for long periods and on Christmas Day.
The committee was told that planning for the 999-style emergency number which customers could call to report power outages was "in its early stages".


Peter Womersley has been described as an architect whose work you either love or loathe.

His designs are regarded as "exacting" - but also an "acquired taste".
The buildings are scattered across Scotland - ranging from a football stadium in Galashiels, to an organ transplant unit in Edinburgh, to a boiler house at a former district asylum near Melrose.
The modernist structures, characterised by concrete construction and strong geometric shapes, have influenced architects across the globe - but he is largely unknown in Scotland outside architecture circles.
He also designed numerous houses in the Scottish Borders, most of which are still being used as private homes.
Shelley Klein - who lives in the house designed for her father, the textile designer Bernat Klein - said she was unaware of the building's significance when she was younger.
"I was rather annoyed that I didn't live in a Victorian house like all my friends did. They seemed far more interesting to me when I was little," she told BBC Scotland.
"It's only now that I really appreciate how beautiful this building is."
Womersley was born in 1923, studying architecture at the Architectural Association in London after being called up for service in World War Two. He was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1952.
His first commission was to build a house, Farnley Hey, for his brother John near Huddersfield, which won a RIBA medal in 1958.
Klein and his wife came across the house in the 1950s and were instantly impressed, commissioning Womersley to design their home, High Sunderland, near Selkirk. The architect also designed a studio for Klein nearby in 1972.
Klein's daughter said it was their subsequent friendship that brought Womersley up to the Borders frequently. He built a home for himself at Gattonside, near Tweedbank, after falling in love with the Borders landscape.
"He has not really been lauded at all for his work. He's almost forgotten outside a small set of architects who obviously appreciate his work. I'm rather pleased he's getting some recognition now - I think it's overdue," she said.
"We've got his wonderful cache of extraordinary buildings here in the Borders so we should celebrate and treasure them."
A few miles down the road in Galashiels is one of Womersley's best known works - the football stand he designed for Gala Fairydean FC in 1963.
The A-listed stand is built with concrete and has a cantilevered structure that creates the effect of a floating canopy. The club's match secretary, Robert Fairburn, said the terrace provoked a "mixed bag" of reactions - being either liked or loathed.
"Some people think it resembles something out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. But then again we get visits from architects just spontaneously turning up at the ground and from football supporters the length and breadth of the country just wanting to see what is an iconic football grandstand," he said.
"There's nothing like it anywhere else in the world we think."
But the 52-year-old stand is starting to crumble and the club is working with Historic Environment Scotland on a programme of works that it is hoped will help preserve it for future generations of fans.
The structure, built by engineers Ove Arup and Tom Ridley, was upgraded to its A-list status in 2013.
Simon Green, an architectural historian for Historic Environment Scotland, said the stand was typical of the designs produced by Womersley, who died in 1993.
"It was a revolutionary idea, working closely with Ove Arup, and pushing engineering of concrete into its absolute highest possible abstraction.
"He pushes everybody and Tom Ridley writes very eloquently about being forced and contorted to design this very, very high-spec building - which in effect is a for a modest small football club in a small Borders town.
"But being Peter he pushed and pushed and created something unique."
Mr Green is leading a seminar and tour of Womersley's work in October, which he hopes will raise the profile of an architect almost unknown to the wider public in Scotland.
"Womersley was always fascinating because every building he built, he built with passion and integrity - to the infuriation of his clients and his friends and other architects. He was exacting," he said.
"His body of work is quite small but each one has its own particular character and style."
Mr Green said he accepted Womersley was an "acquired taste" who would never penetrate the mainstream like Charles Rennie Mackintosh has done.
"I don't think unfortunately it will ever reach the heights of Mackintosh devotion," he said.
Despite this, the historian believes it is crucial that Womersley's buildings are still used as they were intended by the architect.
"The idea that a building can still be used for its original purpose is really exciting - and I think that has to be encouraged and preserved as long as possible.
"That's the excitement of most of his houses as well, as they have stayed as residences. Particularly High Sunderland which Shelley Klein is preserving very much as her father lived in it."
For Ms Klein's part, she says she still loves living in a house designed by Womersley.
"It still instils me with joy and it did so for my father throughout his life - he loved this building. Every day he would get pleasure from it, as do I," she said.


The European Tour has announced that the Lough Erne Resort will not host the 2017 Irish Open.

There were doubts in January that the Fermanagh course may not stage the event and this was confirmed on Monday.
The Lough Erne Resort said it was extremely disappointed, adding that the European Tour had decided to "change the venue to a links course".
Tour officials have already visited Portstewart to check its suitability to stage the Irish Open.
In April 2014, it was announced that the 2017 event would be held at Lough Erne and supported financially by the Northern Ireland government.
"During a recent visit to the Lough Erne Resort, I was delighted to meet with the owners and to learn more about their significant investment plans for the golf course and hotel," said Keith Pelley, European Tour Chief Executive, on Monday.
"It is a beautiful facility with an outstanding championship golf course designed by Sir Nick Faldo.
"While the 2017 Irish Open will not be staged at Lough Erne, the European Tour looks forward to working with the new ownership consortium, and I am confident that the Lough Erne Resort will host an event with the European Tour in the future."
The Lough Erne Resort failed to persuade the European Tour to keep the event at the Fermanagh venue.
It added: "Over the last several months, senior tour officials began telling us that European Tour management was considering a 'traditional links course strategy' for future Irish Opens.
"We have remained steadfast in our position not to accept this change from the Tour, and we have spent the last few months trying to work with Tour officials at the highest level to persuade them to keep their commitment to Lough Erne Resort and the region.
"However, despite our willingness to work with the Tour in every way to convince them to maintain their commitment, they have made the decision to change the venue to a traditional links course in 2017."
Meanwhile, Danny Willett's first European Tour appearance since winning the Masters on Sunday will be next month's Irish Open at the K Club.


We're starting to get an idea about what East Anglian devolution will look like.

The devolution agreement, published by the treasury and signed by 22 of the 23 council leaders in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, outlines how the new combined authority will work and the powers of the new directly elected mayor.
The agreement stresses that there is no intention for the new authority to take existing powers from local authorities.
County, district and borough councils will continue to exist. The combined authority and its mayor will be responsible for the powers which are being devolved from Whitehall.
These are transport, strategic planning and skills training. There is also a hint that at some stage health and social care may be added to the list.
The mayor will be chosen by voters in the three counties next May. He or she will have the power to increase business rates to fund infrastructure projects. The mayor will be answerable to a cabinet made up of nominees from the 23 local councils.
The cabinet will be able to reject any of the mayor's strategies or spending plans, but only by a two thirds majority.
As well as overseeing the building of new infrastructure (the government will give Â£30m a year towards this), the new mayor will be responsible for maintenance of the main road network which is currently run by the Highways Agency. He or she will also oversee all local transport with a view to bringing bus services and perhaps even train services under the one umbrella. There will also be integrated ticketing.
The agreement says dualling the A47 Acle straight should be seen as a priority.
When it comes to strategic planning, the mayor will decide where new homes should go but it will still be left to local authorities to approve or reject the plans. But planning appeals will probably go to the mayor who may have the final say.
The new authority will be expected to deliver 69,000 new homes by 2021, and is being given an extra Â£175m to fund the building of mainly shared ownership housing. The agreement also talks about creating a new garden town in Fenland and West Norfolk.
The mayor and new authority will be responsible for all training programmes in the region. They will work closely with the Local Enterprise Partnerships and local colleges to focus particularly on the needs of young people and those with disabilities.
The new authority and mayor will also oversee flood defence spending in the region and try to attract private funding. There is a promise by the government in the agreement to protect the Norfolk villages of Bacton and Walcott from coastal erosion.
The agreement recognises the importance of places like the Cambridge business sector, the Norwich research park and University Campus Suffolk and it agrees to support their development.
It also announces plans for an East Anglian Productivity Commission - a national pilot which will bring together companies to share best practice and find ways of boosting the local economy.


Labour has retained control of Cannock Chase and Newcastle-under-Lyme councils.

But Newcastle's leader, Gareth Snell, was beaten by UKIP in Chesterton - one of four seats lost by Labour. The Conservatives retained Tamworth.
UKIP is now the main opposition in Cannock Chase after Jodie Jones gave notice on Friday that she had left the Tories.
Her seat was not up for election and she has become independent.
Labour won six of the 13 seats that were contested there, leaving it with 25 seats, while UKIP have six and the Tories five.
The Labour leader of Cannock council, George Adamson, kept his seat in the Hednesford Green Heath ward.
He got 524 votes. His nearest competitor Mick Sage of UKIP got 335.
Mr Adamson said: "I'm not surprised. On the canvassing I've done a lot of people said they would vote UKIP as a protest, a vote for none of the above, if you like."
The Conservatives held Tamworth with 16 seats, despite losing Stonydelph to UKIP's Tony Madge.
Mr Madge said: "I'm very proud to be the first UKIP councillor on Tamworth council, I'm very happy."
Labour, the opposition in Tamworth, has 12 seats.
In Newcastle, the Conservatives, the opposition there, have 16 seats, while Labour now has 32 of the 60.


Concerns about plans to exclude people from the UK if they go abroad to fight with extremist groups have been raised by the UK's reviewer of terror laws.

David Anderson QC said his "central concern" about the proposals first unveiled by David Cameron in early September was: "Where are the courts?"
Temporary Exclusion Orders are one of the measures in the counter terrorism bill published by Theresa May.
It also includes tougher powers to stop people going abroad to fight.
It will include plans to stop some British citizens returning to the UK, and others from leaving the country.
In other developments on Wednesday:
Analysis by Political Correspondent Robin Brant
The government proposes the law, parliament passes it, then David Anderson reviews it - and sometimes makes recommendations. That's the usual sequence of events.
But today the independent reviewer was criticising the process before the new Counter-Terror and Security Bill was published.
The QC used his customary polite, sometimes understated, tone - but this was a criticism of politicians whom he said hadn't fully thought through some of the proposals announced in early September.
Read more from Robin
Mrs May's new measures to tackle terrorism come days after she said the UK faces a "greater" terror threat than ever before.
The measures include requiring airlines to pass on details of their passengers and changes to the way TPIMs - Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures - work to monitor terror suspects who cannot be prosecuted.
But campaigners have condemned it, saying it threatens civil liberties.
'A more sensible way'
Mr Anderson - appointed by the government to be its independent reviewer of terrorism legislation - said the new anti-terror legislation was "nothing like as dramatic" as David Cameron had proposed earlier this year.
He told the Joint Committee on Human Rights the original plan to block suspected British jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria as "an announcement waiting for a policy".
But he said it soon became clear such a move would "neither legally or practically" work and the current plan was now much "closer to managed return".
He argued there could be "a more sensible" way of dealing with some people suspected of being involved in terrorist activities.
"One could look at it in terms of young, possibly vulnerable people caught up with the wrong crowd in Syria - didn't really know exactly what they were doing," he said.
"Do you want to throw the book at them straight away in terms of arrest and charge? Or is there something to be said, even though you do suspect them of having fought, of keeping them under a very light regime where they might have to report daily to a police station?
The new Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill includes:
"They might have to notify their residence; they might have to go along to meetings with probation or with some similar which perhaps might be for some people be a more sensible way of dealing with them than putting them straight into the criminal justice process."
Mr Anderson said the use of exclusion orders would require the cooperation of carriers, such as airlines and of states where these people might find themselves.
"But certainly presented with an order at the check-in desk, the person might say: 'I want to come home,' or decide not to come home," he said.
"The concern I have about this power and the central concern about it is: where are the courts in all of this?
"If the home secretary wants to impose a TPIM she has to go to the court first and if the court says she's got it wrong, it will say so.
"One will want to look very carefully to see if this is a power that requires the intervention of the court at any stage, or whether it's simply envisaged as something the home secretary imposes.
"If one is abroad when this order is served on you, then it's a little difficult to see in practical terms how a right to judicial review could be exercised."
Mr Anderson spoke out as a week-long counter-terrorism awareness campaign enters its third day.
'Changing threats'
The UK's terror threat level remains "severe" after it was upped from "substantial" earlier this year in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, Mrs May said: "We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a deadly terrorist ideology. These powers are essential to keep up with the very serious and rapidly changing threats we face.
"This bill includes a considered, targeted set of proposals that will help to keep us safe at a time of very significant danger by ensuring we have the powers we need to defend ourselves."
The government wants to "fast-track" the bill through Parliament, citing the need to tackle the direct threat posed by the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) and the increasing number of Britons travelling to Iraq and Syria to fight on its behalf.
But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said more was needed to be done to stop British citizens from being radicalised and to deal with any threat this posed to national security.
Amnesty International called the powers "draconian", adding none of the measures seemed "properly thought through".
And Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said: "Yet again, politicians resort to high talk and rushed legislation in an attempt to look tough in the face of terrorism. Another chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote."
The Home Office says communications data has played a major role in "every Security Service counter-terrorism operation over the last decade" but gaps in the UK's access to such information need to be filled.
Mrs May has warned that even the new data retention powers will not fully address the threat, reiterating the need for a Communications Data Bill to bring in more wide-ranging web monitoring powers.
That bill - labelled a snooper's charter by critics - was scrapped following Lib Dem opposition.
Technology firms said there had been insufficient consultation on the more limited proposals in the bill requiring firms to keep information to help the authorities to match internet protocol (IP) addresses to an individual user or a device.
The Home Office said it had met internet service providers and other groups to discuss the measures but the Internet Services Providers Association said there had been "a distinct lack of engagement" with the industry.
Ministers want to amend legislation passed earlier this year to require firms to retain data, including that "required to identify the sender or recipient of a communication, the time or duration of a communication, the type, method or pattern of communication and the telecommunications system used".
However, the bill stresses that the content of messages and details that would "explicitly identify" what websites someone had visited would not have to be stored.
On Tuesday a report into last year's killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby raised questions about whether social network providers should have to report details of extremist activity.
David Cameron said companies had a "social responsibility" to act on terrorist material posted online after the report detailed how Michael Adebowale, one of two men convicted of Mr Rigby's murder, spoke on Facebook about wanting to murder a soldier.
Facebook said it did not allow terrorist content and aimed to stop it.


Northern Ireland manufacturing continues to struggle, according to newly-released data on the economy.

Output, new orders and employment numbers all declined in February among manufacturing firms surveyed on behalf of Ulster Bank.
Its monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) says the NI manufacturing sector "is enduring more difficult conditions than its counterpart in Great Britain".
However, the NI service sector is "outperforming" its UK equivalent.
As a result, overall the private sector has maintained a "solid start to the year".
New orders picked up to their fastest rate in eight months.
The bank's chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said: "It should be remembered that whilst Northern Ireland is enjoying stronger rates of growth than the UK as a whole this is from a lower base.
"We are playing catch-up. Our recovery until now has been slower and is therefore at a less advanced stage."
The bank's monthly PMI is a survey of firms that tracks indicators such as new orders, employment and exports.


Guiseley midfielder Simon Walton has signed a new contract until the end of the season.

The 29-year-old joined the National League club as a free agent in September and signed a short-term deal in November, set to expire in January.
The ex-Plymouth and Crawley man, who previously made 38 appearances in all competitions for Leeds, has started 14 league games for Guiseley this term.
The Lions are 23rd in the table, four points below 20th-placed Maidstone.


On Oscar night the winner of the award for Best Foreign Language film probably won't get much publicity - it seldom does.

Yet compared to only a few years ago the category is no longer a byword among Oscar voters for baffling obscurity.
And this year one of the films shortlisted is already lined up for a Hollywood remake.
Here's a look at this year's nominees:
Country: Denmark
Language: German with some Danish and English
Denmark's track record in this category: 11 nominations including 3 wins
Director: Martin Zandvleet
Story: Immediately after World War Two on Denmark's west coast, a group of teenage German soldiers are to clear some of the two million landmines which Germany deployed on beaches and along the shoreline to deter an Allied invasion.  They are supervised by the Danish Sergeant Rasmussen who at first seems filled with violence.
Will it win?   Voted Best Danish Film at last year's Danish film awards.  It's well acted both by Roland Moller as the sergeant and by the young actors who play the Germans.  When early on Rasmussen delivers a savage beating for no clear reason, we guess that the story will see him humanised by his contact with the soldiers he appears to despise.  A couple of incidents late in the film seem there only for dramatic convenience and don't convince.  The scenes of defusing mines are impressively tense and hard to watch.
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Sweden's Track Record: 14 nominations including three wins (all for Ingmar Bergman)
Director: Hannes Holm
Story: Ove is a cranky old widower living alone. He expends a lot of energy trying to police the behaviour of his neighbours, who treat him warily. Ove's not pleased when the house opposite is taken by a new family: he finds it hard to accept the warm-hearted Parvaneh (who's Iranian) and her Swedish husband. Yet a relationship builds and in flashback we encounter the younger Ove, a man more open to life's possibilities who marries the beautiful Sonja.
Will it win?  The film is attractively shot and Rolf Lassgard makes Ove sympathetic as an old man without totally sentimentalising him.  Some of the humour is a bit clunky and the process of discovering Ove's latent nice guy within runs along predictable lines.  But in the extensive flashbacks Filip Berg and Ida Engvoll make an attractive and likeable young couple which gives the film an unexpected sweetness.
Country: Iran
Language: Persian
Iran's track record: 2 nominations including a win for the same director in 2011
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Story: Emad and Rana are middle-class inhabitants of Tehran: he teaches but their joint passion is acting. After a tip-off from a fellow actor they find a new apartment. It seems a good move until they discover more about the previous occupant who left one room locked. As they work on a production of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, the couple's relationship becomes more tense. There is a violent incident and Emad becomes obsessed with revenge.
Will it win?  It may be that no film can overtake the German nominee this year. But Farhadi has written a superbly tense and unsettling screenplay whose mastery of dread Alfred Hitchcock would have relished.  The couple are superbly played by Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini.  Previous winner Farhadi has indicated he will refuse to attend the Oscar ceremony in protest at President Trump trying to restrict Iranians entering the USA: could this create a sympathy vote for him?  The most memorable of this year's films.
Country: Australia
Language: Nivhaal (The film was shot on location on Vanuatu.)
Australia's Track Record: First nomination in this category
Directors: Martin Butler and Bentley Dean
Story: On a Pacific island, Dain and Wawa live in a primitive village where life is virtually untouched by the modern world. The spirited young Selin watches as her sister Wawa is betrothed to a man outside the village - but Wawa wants to be with Dain. The lovers run away. Selin follows as the villagers set off to find her sister - and tragedy looms.
Will it win?  The least mainstream of this year's nominees  is exactly the kind of film the Academy hoped would benefit from reforming the voting system.  It's a well-shot and mainly well-acted story filmed on a South Pacific island far from the usual movie-world support systems.  The story, with its echo of Romeo and Juliet, is engrossing and in its early stages charming.  Locations are attractive without resembling an ad for upmarket beach holidays.  It won't take the Oscar but it's worth catching.
Country: Germany
Language: German, English and Romanian
Germany's track Record: 18 nominations (including one for East Germany) and a total of 3 wins
Director: Maren Ade
Story: Winfried (who adopts the name Toni) has a distant relationship with his daughter Ines, a business consultant working in Bucharest. He decides to leave Germany to pay her a visit, not wholly to her pleasure. Ines is climbing in her career and finds some of her eccentric father's activities a pain. But she tries to tolerate him and passes him off to colleagues as her life coach. A late scene suggests they have re-established some kind of family intimacy, but the question is left open.
Will it win?  The film got a lot of attention at last year's Cannes Festival - often along the lines of 'Amazing - a German comedy!'.  The fact that large sections are in English won't harm its chances and it's built up a head of steam which may well grab it the Oscar.  The simple description comedy underplays the story's ambiguities and some audiences will be surprised that certain scenes are far from comic.  The film's half an hour too long.  A Hollywood remake has been announced, to star Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig.  Could that incline Academy voters to back the original?
The Academy Awards are held on 26 February.
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Plays don't come much more epic than Angels in America.

Set amid the Aids crisis in 1980s America, Tony Kushner's "gay fantasia" lasts roughly the same duration as a flight from London to New York.
Over eight hours, it packs in angelic visitations, burning books and surreal trips to icy continents and, of course, heaven.
And let's not forget a stellar cast that includes Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane and Russell Tovey.
After weeks of previews, the play officially opened at the National Theatre in London on Thursday.
Spider-Man star Garfield told us after the show:  "You don't often get to work on a character like this or on a story that has so much humanity in it.
"It's the whole human experience in one seven and a half hour play. No one would turn that opportunity down."
The critics seem to love it, with four and five star reviews appearing on Friday morning.
Here are eight reasons why Angels in America is such a heavenly show.
On Thursday, both parts of the play played back to back - and lasted seven hours and 32 minutes.
Part one - titled Millennium Approaches - kicked off at 13:00, but it wasn't until after 23:00 that the second part - Perestroika - had reached its emotional climax.
But it never dragged. Much of the interval chat was about how quickly it seemed to go.
The cast may disagree.
Speaking after the show, Russell Tovey admitted: "On a two-show day, it's insane. It's like a 12-hour Zumba class!"
The way the play is broken up gives it an episodic feel. Each part has two 15-minute intervals.
That makes watching the play feel a bit like you are working your way through a TV box-set.
With plenty of loo and coffee breaks.
The ex-Spider-Man is unforgettable as Prior Walter, a man who discovers he has Aids and is then abandoned by his boyfriend Louis Ironside (James McArdle).
We see him early on as an elegant drag queen, later he's a spectral hooded figure dressed top to toe in black.
In the harrowing hospital scenes, he can switch from rage to despair in the course of a single line.
Back in January, Garfield found out about his Oscar nomination for Hacksaw Ridge while he was starting rehearsals for Angels in America.
It would be astonishing if he's not nominated for more awards for this performance.
Nathan Lane plays foul-mouth lawyer Roy Cohn who is in denial about his sexuality.  Told by his doctor that he has Aids, he storms: "No. Aids is what homosexuals have. I have liver cancer."
Tovey plays Joe Pitt, a closeted gay Mormon Republican whose Valium-addicted wife Harper is played with gusto by the Olivier-winning Denise Gough.
McArdle is excellent as Prior's tormented lover, as is Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as hospital nurse Belize.
With more than 30 characters in this play, all of the main cast play multiple parts and it's fun to try and spot them under the costume changes.
Marianne Elliott is the award-winning talent behind the National Theatre's West End hits War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Enough said.
The story begins quite modestly, with a simple revolving set showing us how the lives of the main characters connect.
Later it all goes much larger scale and a lot more surreal.
We get a fantasy Antarctica - complete with falling snow - and a neon ladder that ascends to a heaven filled with angels.
Yet many of the most memorable scenes are the intimate ones where Prior Walter and lawyer Roy Cohn are sick in their hospital beds and visited by both the living and the dead.
Angels in America had its British premiere at the National Theatre in 1992 (with a cast that included James Bond actor Daniel Craig).
The play is set in New York in the mid-1980s when Ronald Reagan was starting his second term as president and the world was in the grip of the Aids crisis.
While there is much that is upsetting, Kushner's script is packed with zinging comedy lines.
"It's very funny," said Garfield after the show.  "You need to laugh to keep from crying in a situation as devastating as these characters  are going through.
"It was amazing putting it in front of an audience for the first time because we were all surprised how funny it was.
"On the first preview it was shocking how many times we had to stop for the audience laughing."
You won't forget Amanda Lawrence's Angel in a hurry.
She crashes dramatically through Prior's apartment ceiling on massive wings that are operated - War Horse style - by six people.
She flies, she swoops and she even has sex with Prior.
Little wonder he later introduces himself to Harper Pitt as "an angel-ologist".
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is at the Lyttelton Theatre until 19 August.
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Morocco has been readmitted as a member of the African Union (AU) after months of intense lobbying.

Morocco left the organisation in 1984, after it recognised the independence of Western Sahara, regarded by Morocco as part of its historic territory.
It was the only country in Africa that was not a member of the continental body.
AU leaders also voted for Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat to be the next head of the AU commission.
Mr Faki Mahamat beat Kenya's top diplomat Amina Mohamed.
The race is usually settled behind the scenes before the vote but this went to seven rounds of voting.
Outgoing commissioner, South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, stayed in the job an extra six months after leaders failed to agree a candidate in July.
Mr Faki garnered 39 votes in a hotly contested election at the ongoing heads of state summit in the city.
While campaigning for the job, he said he dreamt of an Africa where the "sound of guns would be drowned out by cultural songs and rumbling factories" and pledged to streamline the bureaucratic AU during his four-year term in office.
Analysts say he was considered an outsider but being at the forefront of the fight against Islamist militants in Nigeria, Mali and the Sahel may have worked in his favour.
Western Sahara is the last African case on the United Nations decolonisation committee.
A referendum was promised in 1991 but never carried out due to wrangling over who is eligible to vote.
BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall says the issue is likely to remain contentious despite Morocco's readmission to the AU.
Kitesurfing in a danger zone


Twitter is making two major changes to the way its users' timelines appear.

The app will show a selection of prioritised tweets, based on what it thinks users are "most likely to care about", ahead of the normal list of posts shown in reverse chronological order.
And a new First View feature will let marketers place a video ad high up in the feeds.
The announcements came ahead of the company's latest financial results.
They are designed to make users more engaged with the platform and appeal to advertisers.
But one expert said the extra prominence Twitter was giving to video ads might backfire.
"The reason why Facebook has been so successful of late is that it has been able to put sponsored posts and videos into people's feeds," commented Richard Holway, chairman of the TechMarketView consultancy.
"But Twitter is a different affair as people typically spend a much shorter time looking at each post, and putting intrusive videos at the top of their feeds, making it more cluttered, is going to upset a lot of people."
Unlike normal ads on the platform - which algorithms target at specific users - a First View video will be shown to everyone within a region or country who uses Twitter over a 24-hour period.
That makes it a potentially more effective way to build mass awareness of a product over a short period of time.
But another company watcher also expressed doubts about the idea based on the examples Twitter had posted online.
"The whole point of in-feed ads is that they should seamlessly roll through and not interrupt your experience," said Sarah Vizard, Marketing Week's news editor.
"Brands will love [First View] as it sits across the top of the page and everyone will see it, but for the users themselves, they will think: 'It takes over most of the feed. I came here to see what the people I follow are posting and to find information, and to get to that I now have to clear the ad.'"
Twitter is due to post its full year's earnings after the US markets close.
The loss-making firm's shares are trading about 69% lower than where they were a year ago, partly because of concerns that its number of users is not growing fast enough.
Last month the Recode news site reported that the service had cut the number of ads being shown to some of its most active users as part of an effort to keep them engaged.
More recently, the hashtag #RIPTwitter began trending on the service after Buzzfeed reported that the platform planned to change the order tweets were presented in.
The firm has since clarified that a toggle switch in its app's settings will allow the new function to be turned on and off.
If left selected, the "never miss important tweets" setting will affect up to the first 60 tweets shown at the top of a timeline.
If the user pulls to refresh the feed, it will return to its normal reverse-chronological ordered state.
Twitter said that users would see an on-screen prompt to alert them to the feature the first time they encountered it.
"No matter how much time you spend on Twitter, you probably feel like you've missed important tweets from accounts you follow," it said.
"We hear this from people every day. As a content consumer, the new Home timeline feature will help you catch up on tweets you don't want to miss from the people and topics you care about.
"As a content creator, it means your followers are more likely to see and engage with your best tweets. We've already noticed that people who have used this new feature tend to retweet and tweet more."
The firm's chief executive Jack Dorsey is expected to be quizzed about the expected impact of both the new changes during a conference call with analysts following its earnings announcement.


A rare car that was stolen during a break-in at a house in which jewellery and cash worth more than £150,000 was also taken has been found in London.

Police in Scotland had alerted forces across the UK to look out for the purple Nissan Skyline, which had the registration N40 SKY.
It was taken after a theft at a house in Livingston on Wednesday morning.
The car was said to be worth £47,000 and one of only about 20 of its kind in the UK.
Officers said they believed the car was immediately driven south and had been investigating reports of it being seen on the M6 in north west England in the early afternoon.
Police Scotland confirmed on Thursday evening that the car had been found in London with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police.
A spokesman said: "Enquiries are continuing into the associated housebreaking and officers are working to recover the other high-value items and cash which was stolen, and to bring those involved to justice."


Leicester Tigers captain Ed Slater will be sidelined for up to nine months because of a knee injury.

Second row Slater was part of England's Elite Player Squad last season and was injured playing for the England midweek side on the summer tour of New Zealand.
Director of rugby Richard Cockerill told BBC 5 Live: "The likelihood is seven to nine months and that's probably his season over.
"It's pretty horrific for Ed and pretty average for us."
Slater, who signed a new two-year contract with Tigers in November last year, has had surgery and started his rehabilitation.
Cockerill felt the 26-year-old would have been a strong contender to win full international honours this season.
"Certainly competing with Joe Launchbury, it would be a good contest between the two of them," Cockerill said.
"He's had some really, really bad luck. We'll look after him, get him right, and no doubt he will push for England honours again.
"He'll come back fitter and fresher than ever, hopefully that will be by this time next year."


Pop star Sir Elton John talks about his "joyous" new album, and insists he will never retire.

Sir Elton John's work rate might have slowed since the 1970s, when he regularly released two albums a year, but the star shows no signs of stopping.
Somehow, amid the charity tennis matches, phone calls to Vladimir Putin, Aids initiatives  and 94 concerts he's undertaken this year, the star has found time to write and record his 33rd album, Wonderful Crazy Night.
And he says he couldn't imagine abandoning his first love.
"Some people don't make records any more, like Billy Joel," he tells the BBC. "They still have wonderful careers but I'm not like that. I want to be creative. It keeps you young.
"I'm not retiring. I'm still enjoying myself so much. I'm 68 and I feel like I'm in the prime of my life."
The star says the hit-strewn success of his 1970s purple patch means he has the "freedom to do exactly what I want".
"I don't have to worry about the record company saying, 'You need a hit single,' and that's a wonderful position to be in."
But the musician admits he has come under pressure to copy his friend Rod Stewart by putting his spin on the great American songbook.
"I've been asked to do Motown covers, Christmas records. It's not going to happen," he says.
"I don't want to sing standards. They don't mean anything to me. They're music from an era gone by. If I want to hear them, I'll put on Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra and I'll enjoy them.
"But I couldn't sing them because that would just be a commercial exercise and I don't want to do that."
Instead, the 68-year-old immerses himself in new music. His current playlist includes alt-rock singer St Vincent and Scottish electro wizard Hudson Mohawke, while his album of the year is Blur's The Magic Whip.
"Why wouldn't you want to listen to someone with a new idea?" he asks, genuinely puzzled.
Yet his latest album marks a return to his roots as a vaudevillian rock star. Packed with pop riffs and vamping piano chords, Wonderful Crazy Night is designed to be slotted into the set list of his Las Vegas residency.
"It needs to be played loud," the star laughs. "It's not Enya."
The album was written and recorded in at Los Angeles' Village Studios in a 17-day flurry of activity.
"I don't like messing about," Sir Elton says. "Studio time is valuable, it's expensive. I like to go in there and make the most of my time.
"I won't beat about the bush - it's a very odd way of doing things compared to everyone else. But the moment that music all comes together and the red light's on… It's just something very, very special. Instantaneous. Adrenalin-driven. That's why I love doing it."
The star began the way he always begins, with 20 pages of lyrics from his writing partner Bernie Taupin.
"I don't see the lyrics before I go in the studio," he says. "And it's wonderful because I don't know what I'm going to get.
"Then I sit down at the piano and look at them, and it just comes out. I don't know how it happens. I just look down and I come up with the riff. Something comes through my fingers."
Sir Elton and Taupin have an almost telepathic relationship after 48 years of working together - and, this time around, both men found themselves taking stock of their good fortune.
"I wanted to do something joyous because I was so happy with my children and my husband. Happy with everything," the star says.
Lyrically love-struck, he sings of happiness and devotion on tracks like Blue Wonderful, In The Name Of You and The Open Chord ("you're the open chord I want to play all day").
There is a lazy assumption, he says, that songs can only be autobiographical if they're downcast.
"It's easy to be miserable. And I love being miserable. As a keyboard player, it's much easier to write miserable songs.
"So the challenge on this one, as a piano player, was to say, 'right, I've got to write up-tempo songs and I've got to try and write them in guitar keys like A, B and E, and not write in flat keys,' which is what I normally do.
"It's great for my guitarist. It saved a lot of time for him."
Indeed, the record sees John bringing his touring band into the studio for the first time in nearly a decade.
The line-up includes drummer Nigel Olsson and guitarist Davey Johnstone, who have been playing with the musician for more than five decades, while T-Bone Burnett produces.
Of the 14 tracks they recorded together, 10 made the final cut.
"I think 10 tracks is the only way to go," he says. "Jill Scott had 17 on her new album, and I love Jill Scott, but I can't wade through that.
"I think 42 minutes is the perfect length because people don't have the attention span they used to.
"In the old days it was different - you could put out double albums and people would sit there and really listen. They don't do that any more. They download, they listen to two minutes of a single. Times have changed."
He is ruthless about editing his music, insisting the four rejected songs simply "weren't as good" as the rest.
"There was a song about my children and Bernie's children, called Children's Song, which was really sweet. But it's very hard to write a song about children without feeling a little saccharine.  It's too schmaltzy. You've got to be careful.
The release of Wonderful Crazy Night next February will be accompanied by a world tour, which reaches the UK in June.
But a long-proposed biopic of the musician, starring Tom Hardy, may not arrive as planned.
"It's in limbo at the moment," admits John. "To give a really honest answer, it's going to take $60m to make this film the right way and, at the moment, the film industry has had a few flops musically - Jersey Boys, James Brown.
"They're like sheep and lemmings. They're like, 'Oh no, we don't want to do music any more'. Then they suggest doing it for $30m. I'm not doing it for $30m. I want to do it for $60m."
The star's film company is currently making a sequel to the hit animation Gnomeo and Juliet - with Johnny Depp playing a puntastic new character called Sherlock Gnomes. John says he "hopes" profits from that movie can be ploughed into filming his life story.
"It's still got Tom Hardy attached to it. It's still a viable proposition. But only if we can do it the right way."
Wonderful, Crazy Night is out on Virgin EMI  in February 2016.


The Lost Glasgow page on Facebook has become a big hit by sharing archive images of the city and its people.
Since it began three years ago the page has attracted 137,000 likes from people attracted to its documenting of Glasgow's colourful past.
The history buffs behind the online page have now gone back to old school methods themselves by organising a gallery exhibition.
It is being held at 54 Bell Street from 29 June to 31 August.


MPs have rejected possible UK military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to deter the use of chemical weapons.

David Cameron said he would respect the defeat of a government motion by 285-272, ruling out joining US-led strikes.
The US said it would "continue to consult" with the UK, "one of our closest allies and friends".
France said the UK's vote does not change its resolve on the need to act in Syria.
Russia - which has close ties with the Assad government - welcomed Britain's rejection of a military strike.
The prime minister's call for a military response in Syria followed a suspected chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on 21 August, in which hundreds of people are reported to have died.
The US and UK say the Assad government was behind the attack - a claim denied by Damascus, which blames the rebels.
Assad said Syria would defend itself against any aggression.
The UK government's motion was in support of military action in Syria if it was backed up by evidence from United Nations weapons inspectors, who are investigating the attack.
They are due to finish their work on Friday and give their preliminary findings to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the weekend.
After the vote Prime Minster David Cameron said it was clear Parliament did not want action and "the government will act accordingly".
Chancellor George Osborne told Radio 4's Today programme there would now be "national soul searching about our role in the world".
He added: "I hope this doesn't become a moment when we turn our back on all of the world's problems."
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond had told BBC's Newsnight programme that he and the prime minister were "disappointed" with the result, saying it would harm Britain's "special relationship" with Washington.
But he said he did not expect Britain's decision to "stop any action" by other countries.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said on Friday that the House of Commons had spoken "for the people of Britain".
"People are deeply concerned about the chemical weapons attacks in Syria, but they want us to learn the lessons of Iraq," he said.
"They don't want a rush to war. They want things done in the right way, working with the international community."
He said Britain "doesn't need reckless and impulsive leadership, it needs calm and measured leadership".
Mr Miliband said Britain's relationship with the US "remains strong" despite the vote. He said there is a lesson that Britain must do what is in its national interest, even if that means doing something different to America.
He also said that Mr Cameron must "find other ways" to put pressure on Mr Assad.
The result of the vote was condemned by former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown, who tweeted that in "50 years trying to serve my country I have never felt so depressed [or] ashamed".
He later told the BBC that by doing nothing President Assad will use chemical weapons more "those weapons will become more commonplace in the Middle East battlefield" and "we will feel the effects of that as well".
Thirty Conservative and nine Liberal Democrat MPs voted against the government's motion.
The defeat comes as a potential blow to the authority of Mr Cameron, who had already watered down a government motion proposing military action, in response to Labour's demands for more evidence of President Assad's guilt.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said the prime minister had now lost control of his own foreign and defence policy, and as a result he will cut a diminished figure on the international stage.
He added that some strong advocates of the transatlantic relationship were worried that America may now question the value and reliability of Britain as an ally.
During the debate, Labour had seen its own amendment - calling for "compelling" evidence that the regime was responsible for chemical attacks - rejected by MPs by 114 votes.
But, unexpectedly, MPs also rejected the government's motion.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said the government defeat was down to the "fatally flawed" case put to MPs by Mr Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, claiming the pair's credibility was now diminished.
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said so many of Mr Cameron's own MPs had voted with Labour because they were now "unwilling to take him at his word".
Conservative rebel Crispin Blunt said he hoped the vote would "relieve ourselves of some of this imperial pretension that a country of our size can seek to be involved in every conceivable conflict that's going on around the world".
In other developments:
In a statement, the White House said President Obama believed "that there are core interests at stake for the United States and that countries who violate international norms regarding chemical weapons need to be held accountable".
Obama administration officials on Thursday told a group of US lawmakers in a conference call that it was "beyond a doubt that chemical weapons were used, and used intentionally by the Assad regime," said Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the US would "continue to work with Britain and consult with Britain as we are with all our allies".
On Friday French President Francois Hollande told the newspaper Le Monde that he would still be willing to take action without Britain's involvement.
He said he supported taking "firm" punitive action over an attack he said had caused "irreparable" harm to the Syrian people.
Germany, however, has ruled out taking part. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told the Osnabruecker Zeitung newspaper that "such participation has not been sought nor is it being considered by us".
Meanwhile, Mr Assad told a group of Yemeni MPs on Thursday that Syria would defend itself against any aggression, according to Syria's Sana news agency.
"Syria, with its steadfast people and brave army, will continue eliminating terrorism, which is utilised by Israel and Western countries to serve their interests in fragmenting the region," he said.


Greece's creditors are holding a crisis meeting with the Greek finance minister after Athens called a referendum on the terms for a fresh bailout.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called the referendum for 5 July, but Greece's current bailout expires on Tuesday.
On Saturday, creditors are expected to address a Greek request to extend that bailout until the vote is completed.
As the Greek parliament debates whether to ratify the referendum, queues have formed outside banks in Athens.
Many fear that Greece's central bank might start restricting withdrawals.
It is unclear what would happen if Greece does not get a temporary extension.
Greece has to make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, and there are fears Greece's economy could collapse if no new deal is struck.
EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Saturday that "where there's a will there's a way", but German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the "negotiations apparently have been declared at an end'' by Mr Tsipras.
In a televised address late on Friday, Mr Tsipras described the bailout plan as "humiliation" and condemned "unbearable" austerity measures demanded by creditors.
Some opposition figures accused Mr Tsipras of using the vote to push Greece out of the EU.
Throughout the ups and downs of the recent negotiations, Greeks have by and large resisted the urge to withdraw money from their accounts, pinning their hopes on a last minute deal with the country's creditors.
But as the deadline for Greece's €1.6bn payment to the IMF looms, and with Mr Tsipras calling for a referendum next week, lines have begun to form outside ATMs and bank branches in Athens.
One bank has imposed withdrawal limits of €3,000 per account, and many ATMs have handwritten "empty" signs on them.
I visited half a dozen bank branches in the city centre, where the demand for withdrawals was so strong that customers were given a ticket number, and told to come back in a few hours.
One man told me he was 170th in line. "The game is over," Peter, one of those queuing, told me. "Greece is going into uncharted waters, and the banks will be closed on Monday, I suspect."
Anxiety is mounting in Athens. "Everybody's really scared," Elena, a woman in her 20s, tells me as she waits to withdraw cash from an ATM that is still dispensing. "We need to have enough money to last the week."
The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, said that creditor institutions had "always showed flexibility to adjust to new situations in Greece".
Speaking ahead of Saturday's meeting between creditors and Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, she said she would again be recommending a balance between structural reforms and fiscal consolidation.
European finance ministers had to consider "whether there's a possibility or not of an agreement", said Mr Moscovici.
"Greece's place is in the eurozone," he added. "When I look at where we are I see differences but they are quite limited and well identified."
But Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads the group of European finance ministers, said he was "very negatively surprised" by the Greek government's decision on the referendum.
The government portrays the referendum as yes or no to austerity. The opposition says it is, in effect, yes or no to Europe. Some of them say the referendum itself is unconstitutional, and are urging the Greek president to reject it.
But Mr Tsipras will argue that he had no other option. He was elected to get a better deal rather than no deal at all. But no better deal was on offer.
As for Greece's creditors I think they will be one part flabbergasted, one part anxious, and one part wondering what on earth they do next.
But several eurozone finance ministers, arriving in Brussels for their fifth meeting on Greece in little more than a week, said there was no question of accepting Mr Tsipras's request to extend his country's current international bailout by a few days, to prevent the Greek economy collapsing before a referendum can be held.
Some of the ministers will now want to focus on Plan B instead - how to ring-fence Greece and protect the rest of the eurozone from any potential economic shocks ahead.
BBC economics editor Robert Peston said that if the European Central Bank continued its emergency support, some members of its governing council feared it would be breaking all central banking rules.
Of the meeting with Mr Varoufakis, Mr Schaeuble told reporters: "We'll see what he says. With Greece, apparently you must never rule out surprises.
"But to be honest, none of the colleagues I spoke to beforehand sees any possibility for what we can do now.''
What if the Greek talks fail
Can Greece stay in the euro?
Chris Morris: Tsipras may face impossible choice
How did Greece get in this mess?


Roman Catholic priests have read out a letter in each of the Church's parishes in Scotland criticising the Scottish government for plans to introduce gay marriage.

Last week the leader of the Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, broke off personal discussions on the issue with the First Minister, Alex Salmond.
The Church has declared 26 August as National Marriage Sunday.
The Scottish government says it is right to introduce same-sex marriage.
But it has stressed no clergy would be forced to carry out the ceremonies.
The letter criticises the Scottish government for trying to change what Cardinal O'Brien considers to be the only legitimate definition of marriage - the lifelong union of a man and a woman.
The letter also announces the launch of a National Commission for Marriage and the Family to co-ordinate a campaign against gay marriage.
It says: "We reaffirm before you all the common wisdom of humanity and the revealed faith of the Church that marriage is a unique life-long union of a man and a woman."
And it asks the Church's congregation to "pray for our elected leaders, invoking the Holy Spirit on them, that they may be moved to safeguard marriage as it has always been understood, for the good of Scotland and of our society".
In March, Cardinal O'Brien described gay marriage as a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".
The Scottish government has pledged to bring forward a bill on the issue later this year, and has indicated the earliest ceremonies could take place by the start of 2015.
Same-sex couples in Scotland can already enter into civil partnerships. The Scottish government has promised to protect religious freedoms, and says any changes would not see churches forced to take part in same-sex ceremonies.
A Scottish government spokesperson said: "We intend to proceed with plans to allow same sex marriage and religious ceremonies for civil partnerships because we believe it is the right thing to do.
"We are equally committed to protecting religious freedom and freedom of expression, and ensuring that religious celebrants opposed to same sex marriage do not have to solemnise same sex ceremonies."
The Equality Network, which is campaigning in support of same-sex marriage in Scotland, said politicians should stand firm over the plans.
'Sad day'
Tom French, the charity's policy co-ordinator, said: "It is increasingly clear that the Church has an anti-gay agenda that it wants to impose on the rest of society.
"We urge the Scottish government to stand firm on plans to introduce equal marriage and not give in to demands that would discriminate against LGBT people."
Other Churches in Scotland have also expressed concern about the same-sex marraige plans. The Church of Scotland has said it is concerned the Scottish government is "rushing ahead on something that affects all the people of Scotland without adequate debate and reflection".
And the Free Church of Scotland described the decision to introduce gay marriage as a "truly sad day for Scotland" and urged the Scottish government to reconsider its plans.
The UK government's consultation on allowing civil marriages for gay and lesbian couples in England and Wales closed in June.
The coalition is analysing the results before publishing its formal response, but Prime Minster David Cameron has promised legislation before the next election.
There are currently no plans for similar legislation in Northern Ireland.


The Catholic and Church of Ireland bishops of Derry have called on anyone with information about the murder of Paul McCauley to come forward and put the "truth on the table".

Mr McCauley died nine years after he was severely beaten in a sectarian attack in the city in 2006.
He died in a care home on Saturday.
Among those attending his funeral at St Columb's Church on Thursday afternoon were Bishop Donal McKeown and Bishop Ken Good.
Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown said the family had shown "enormous dignity", particularly in the days since Mr McCauley died.
He said the attack had been particularly "savage" and "sectarian".
"I think we need to have some ability to know what happened, why it happened and clearly there are many people who are aware of the background to this," he said.
"This wasn't a secret thing done by one person up a dark alleyway, this was done by a large group of people. Large numbers are aware of what happened.
"I think we all need to have the truth out on the table so that the McCauley family can know what happened and then move on, and that those who were responsible for the death of another human being can accept responsibility for that and take whatever is coming at them."
The Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry and Raphoe Ken Good said: "This day has struck a really deep chord in the hearts of the community and in my own heart too.
"There's a lot of soul-searching going on, there's a lot of deep wondering about what kind of society we are and we want to be and I think it is a time for examining of conscience.
"It's a time of grief, it's a time of sadness. I feel particularly for the McCauley family, for Jim and Cathy.
"They have responded to this whole situation with dignity over the years, with remarkable inspiration for all of us and yet now we have to ask the question about our society as we examine our consciences of why have people not been brought to justice.
"Are there people who need to face deep realities about what has happened?
"It's a sobering time."
Bishop Good appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
"It's too late for Paul but it's not too late for the family, nor us as a society for people to come forward," he said.
During the funeral service, Father Michael Canny told mourners that Mr McCauley's life had been cruelly cut short and his death was a poignant tragedy.
Fr Canny said it was only natural that there was an air of denunciation and an outraged sense of injustice.
"There is a pervading righteous anger here, but let it be the anger of a heart of love, a heart broken by the bitter brutality of men," he said.
Mr McCauley was 30 in 2006 when he was attacked by a mob at a barbecue in the Waterside in Derry, and never regained consciousness.
The civil servant suffered multiple injuries, including a brain haemorrhage and a fractured skull, when he and two friends were beaten by a gang of youths.
He also had two heart attacks on the way to Altnagelvin Hospital.


Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to announce she is running for president on Sunday, various US media report.

Mrs Clinton is expected to make the announcement on social media.
The 67-year-old will then travel to Iowa and New Hampshire, two early primary contests in the 2016 race.
The former first lady previously ran for president in 2008 and is already considered a strong contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Mrs Clinton is expected to release a video outlining her campaign themes but will put off a large, formal speech.
Analysis - Anthony Zurcher, North America reporter
Hillary Clinton is ready to run. Are voters ready for her?
In 2008 she came close - oh, so close - to winning the Democratic nomination, falling to the once-in-a-generation candidacy of Barack Obama.
Despite her near success, however, her effort exposed some worrisome flaws - bickering among her advisors, a veil of guarded aloofness that was only occasionally lowered and the perception that she lacked an explanation for why she sought the top office.
With a Democratic field devoid of compelling alternatives, Mrs Clinton likely has a much clearer path to the Democratic nomination this time.
This gives her the luxury of time to find her footing on the campaign trail after a long hiatus.
Come next summer, however, a battle-hardened Republican candidate will be waiting. She came up short last time. Soon we'll learn what, if anything, she's learned from past mistakes.
She recently faced criticism over using a private email address to conduct official business as secretary of state and having personal staff decide what emails should be given over to public records.
Mrs Clinton was a politically active first lady during her husband's two terms as US president and then served in the US Senate for several years.
She lost out to President Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries.
Mr Obama later named her as secretary of state, a position she held until 2013.
Two major Republicans, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, have formally announced their campaigns, but many more are expected to run, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush - whose father and brother were both president.
Another Clinton-Bush election - the first was won by Mrs Clinton's husband Bill in 1992 - would revive the debate in the US about powerful political dynasties.
The Democratic field looks more narrow than the Republican one, but Mrs Clinton could face former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and possibly Vice-President Joe Biden.
Many in the left-wing of the party are urging Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to run.
But she has repeatedly said in media interviews that she is not running for president.
Only Cruz and Paul have formally declared but here are some names to watch:
Meet the 2016 hopefuls


Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker Dani Lopez has apologised for spitting at an opponent in an Under 20s match against St Johnstone.

The Spaniard was handed a two-match ban by the SFA for the incident, and fined by the Highland club.
"With my poor behaviour, I let down the club, supporters and teammates," Lopez told the club's website.
"This was very out of character for me and I assure everyone that it won't be repeated."
Inverness chairman Kenny Cameron said: "We believe Dani's actions were indefensible. However, we've taken into account his apology and sincere regret for his inappropriate behaviour.
"He has assured us he has learnt a salutary lesson  with regard to his future conduct while with this club."
Lopez signed for Inverness in the summer and has scored once in nine senior appearances for the club.
"I would also like to extend my apology to St Johnstone FC," Lopez continued.
"In addition, I regret the stress caused to my family.
"As an experienced player in a relatively young squad, I should set a good example to others and on this occasion I failed to do so."


Bydd trafodaethau ffurfiol Brexit yn dechrau ddydd Llun, yn ôl Llywodraeth y DU a'r Undeb Ewropeaidd.

Cafodd y datganiad ei wneud gan Ysgrifennydd Brexit, David Davis, a phrif drafodwr yr UE, Michel Barnier, yn dilyn trafodaethau cychwynnol ym Mrwsel ddydd Iau.
Dydd Llun oedd y dyddiad gwreiddiol yr oedd trafodaethau i fod i ddechrau, ond roedd amheuon am hynny yn dilyn canlyniad yr etholiad cyffredinol.
Mae'r trafodaethau rhwng y Ceidwadwyr a'r DUP wedi golygu y cafodd Araith y Frenhines ei symud o ddydd Llun i ddydd Mercher yr wythnos nesaf.
Fe wnaeth Theresa May danio Erthygl 50 ym mis Mawrth i ddechrau'r broses o adael yr UE.
Mae disgwyl felly i'r DU adael erbyn Mawrth 2019.
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Two horses have been saved from drowning in rising tides near Fleetwood, Lancashire.

The horses got stuck in mud as they were being ridden on a beach by the slipway near Quail Holme Road, Knott End at about 10:30 BST on Sunday.
The Fleetwood-Knott End ferry and two kayakers helped with the rescue operation along with RNLI, coastguards and Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service.
HM Coastguard Fleetwood said the horses were rescued "in the nick of time".
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The coastguard said on its Facebook page the ferry to transport the rescue team over the river "saving a good 30 minute dash".
It added: "After a huge effort both horses were saved from drowning.
"Excellent multi agency teamwork, 2 relieved riders and 2 very excited horses when they were reunited."
One of the coastguards said: "I will be shouting the horses name in my sleep tonight. It was unbelievable the sound both horses made when they met afterwards they were very pleased to see each other to say the least."
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service warned of the dangers of the riding by the edge of the water.
It said: "We don't want anyone going riding out there because it's extremely soft sand."
Sue Carr who said her daughter owns one of the horses thanked emergency services involved in the rescue on Facebook.
She said: "Can't thank you enough. We were so terrified. That horse is my daughter's baby. Endlessly in your debt."
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If labelling Sinn Féin as "crocodiles" was the Arlene Foster phrase that stuck at the start of the spring assembly election campaign, then the DUP leader was determined not to make the same mistake again at the outset of the Westminster battle.

The ad lib "crocodile" comment emerged during answers to the press, so the DUP's Gavin Robinson was only half joking when he advised party activists that the longer they cheered the better, as it would cut down the time for those pesky enquiries from reporters.
Mrs Foster originally made her "crocodile" quip after vowing there would not be an Irish Language Act under her watch.
On Inside Politics last week, I questioned her several times about whether this remained her position - she did not repeat the formula, instead insisting that few people other than political activists had told her they wanted such an Act.
Questioned by the Newsletter's Sam McBride, the DUP leader clarified she had ruled out an Irish Language Act "in the context of nothing else happening in terms of culture and language".
She emphasised the need to respect all cultures in Northern Ireland, including "the Ulster Scots, the Orange and British cultural identity".
She added that any moves forward had to be within this overall context.
This change of tone on the Irish language appears to imply greater flexibility in the negotiations on restoring devolution due to recommence after the Westminster election.
A senior DUP figure told me: "There's a deal there to be done, provided Sinn Féin want to do it."
Previously the DUP suggested a "Public Duties Act," which would have incorporated both the Irish and Ulster Scots languages and the implementation of the Military Covenant.
That was rejected by both Sinn Féin and the SDLP, on the grounds there should be a stand alone Irish Language Act.
The latest Arlene Foster comments may point to a compromise, which would see an Irish Language Act introduced alongside separate legislation dealing with the Ulster Scots, Orange and British identity issues the DUP leader highlights.
However, movement on the language issue is not going to take place without Sinn Féin dropping its refusal to share power with Mrs Foster until she's cleared of responsibility for the Renewable Heating Scandal.
It's now clear that Sir Patrick Coghlin's inquiry into the Renewable Heating Incentive Scheme (RHI) will take at least a year if not longer.
It's unimaginable the DUP leader would contemplate sitting on the sidelines for such a lengthy period.
Will Sinn Féin moderate their position on the RHI in the same way that Mrs Foster has changed her tone on Irish?
Or will they add to their "red lines" perhaps by elevating the importance they attach to other matters, like EU Special Status for Northern Ireland after Brexit or the introduction of same-sex marriage?
What the candidates and party leaders say during this campaign should provide us with plenty of clues about whether the next round of talks is for real or just another exercise in going through the motions.


Barcelona lost to Sevilla as they suffered their second La Liga defeat of the season, despite Neymar's penalty.

The Brazil forward converted a 74th-minute penalty after Sevilla left-back Benoit Tremoulinas handled inside the penalty area but Barca could not level.
Striker Michael Krohn-Dehli put Sevilla ahead in the 52nd minute and he then set up midfielder Vicente Iborra to score for the hosts six minutes later.
Sevilla's victory was their first at home against Barca in seven years.
Barcelona have now lost consecutive away games in La Liga following their 4-1 defeat to Celta Vigo on 23 September.
Luis Enrique's side have 15 points from seven games, a point behind leaders Villarreal who are away to Levante on Sunday.
Also on Sunday fourth-placed Real Madrid, on 14 points, take on city rivals Atletico Madrid who are one place and two points below them.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Granada held Deportivo La Coruna to a 1-1 draw.
The La Liga season may only be seven games old but there are signs that Barcelona's defence of their title might not be as straightforward as they hoped.
Barca are still serving a 14-month transfer ban imposed by Fifa after being found guilty of breaching rules on the transfer of players aged under 18.
They added defender Aleix Vidal and midfielder Arda Turan to their squad in the summer, but neither player is eligible to play until January.
Coach Enrique will hope they can inject fresh impetus into a side that perhaps feels a little stale without new blood.
Barcelona are without Lionel Messi until the end of next month as he recovers from the knee ligament injury picked up in last weekend's 2-1 win over Las Palmas.
The Catalan club made hard work of their opponents on that occasion and had to come from behind to beat Bayer Leverkusen by the same scoreline in the Champions League during the week.
Against Sevilla the defending La Liga champions were a little unfortunate as they struck the post five times at the Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium.
Nevertheless Barca missed the Messi's brilliance and clinical finishing despite the presence of Uruguay forward Luis Suarez and Neymar.
Match ends, Sevilla 2, Barcelona 1.
Second Half ends, Sevilla 2, Barcelona 1.
Attempt missed. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Coke (Sevilla).
Foul by Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona).
Fernando Llorente (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez.
Foul by Sandro Ramírez (Barcelona).
Michael Krohn-Dehli (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Barcelona. Conceded by Coke.
Substitution, Sevilla. Mariano replaces Benoît Trémoulinas.
Offside, Sevilla. Michael Krohn-Dehli tries a through ball, but Reyes is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordi Alba.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.
Attempt blocked. Sandro Ramírez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Barcelona. Conceded by Reyes.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Benoît Trémoulinas (Sevilla) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Sandro Ramírez (Barcelona) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luis Suárez.
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Coke (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernando Llorente (Sevilla).
Fernando Llorente (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Michael Krohn-Dehli (Sevilla).
Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Coke (Sevilla).
Goal!  Sevilla 2, Barcelona 1. Neymar (Barcelona) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Benoît Trémoulinas (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Penalty conceded by Benoît Trémoulinas (Sevilla) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Sandro Ramírez (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Neymar.
Substitution, Sevilla. Fernando Llorente replaces Kevin Gameiro.
Attempt missed. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Neymar with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Barcelona. Conceded by Coke.


Police investigating the murder of a County Antrim man have said the "shadow of paramilitary involvement" may be stopping witnesses from coming forward.

Brian McIlhagga was beaten by a gang of masked men and then shot in both legs in Ballymoney on 5 January 2015.
On the second anniversary of his death, detectives have appealed for help to bring his killers to justice.
Last year, police said they believed the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) had played a role in the murder.
Mr McIlhagga, a father of five from Ballymena, was visiting a friend's house in Riverview Park at the time of the attack.
There were four children under the age of 13 in the house when the masked gang entered the house and began to assault the 42-year-old victim in the kitchen.
He was then dragged outside and shot in the legs.  He died at the scene.
The officer leading the murder inquiry, Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey, said: "These young children heard his screams of terror and pain while the violent injuries were being inflicted.
"That is going to affect them for the rest of their lives. The 13 year-old would also have had some sight of Brian lying injured in the front garden."
The officer repeated his statement from last year which said: "There was certainly paramilitary involvement in this attack but another line of inquiry is that there may well have been some sort of personal grudge also."
Twelve people have been arrested as part of the investigation but no-one has been charged.
Det Ch Insp Harvey said: "It may be that the shadow of paramilitary involvement which hangs over this incident is putting people off coming forward. But I would say to those people with information - put yourselves in the place of those children, Brian's friends and family and the trauma they've been through.
"It is important for people to come forward. Nothing justifies this murder in any way whatsoever. People know who was involved. People know where they went afterwards. They haven't come forward. They are protecting those killers.
"I would appeal to those with information, no matter how small, to contact detectives at Maydown on 101 or, if you do not wish to provide your details, please use the independent Crimestoppers charity number 0800 555 111."


A 14-year-old girl died after taking a drugs overdose, a coroner has ruled.

Nyah James was found motionless in her bed by her mother at their home in Blaenymaes, Swansea, on 6 February.
A post-mortem examination showed Nyah had taken a large amount of prescription drugs and a narrative conclusion was recorded at Swansea Coroner's Court heard on Thursday.
Bullying was not a factor in her death, the coroner ruled, contrary to what her family had thought.
Det Con Paul Harry said a thorough investigation found "no evidence of bullying whatsoever".
Mr Harry told the inquest that Nyah's friends told officers she had previously self-harmed and "hated herself".
Nyah's mother Domique Williams had gone to wake up her daughter but could not, the hearing was told.
Paramedics were called but she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
Several empty blister packs were found in her bedroom and internet searches about overdoses were on her iPhone.
Acting senior coroner Colin Phillips said he could not be sure Nyah intended to take her own life as the overdose could have been a "cry for help".
He said there was "no substantive evidence to suggest that Nyah's death was caused by bullying" and a possible trigger may have been the breakdown of her relationship with her boyfriend.
"I am not satisfied that she intended to take her own life. She died as a result of an overdose but her intention was unclear," he added.
Offering his condolences to Nyah's family, Mr Phillips said: "I am so sorry, my heart goes out to you. It is especially tragic to lose a child at such a young age."
After the hearing, a spokesman for Bishop Gore Comprehensive School said: "As a school community, the past months have been very difficult for us as we continue to grieve and come to terms with Nyah's passing."
In May, Nyah's brother, Jordan Clements, was spared jail for sending abusive messages to four girls he felt were responsible for his sister's death.
The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment and two counts of sending offensive communications but the judge described him as being "irrational with grief".
After Nyah's death, South Wales Police warned people about posting "abusive, threatening or insulting" messages on social media.


The match commander at Hillsborough told football chiefs Liverpool fans forced open a gate to "break in" to the ground, a court has heard.

Glen Kirton, who was the Football Association's press chief in 1989, said Ch Supt David Duckenfield made the remark inside the police control box.
At an earlier hearing, the jury heard an order was given by Mr Duckenfield to open an exit gate at 14:52 GMT.
Ninety six people died as a result of a crush at the Sheffield stadium.
Mr Kirton's witness statement, made in 1989, said: "Chief Superintendent Duckenfield told us the gate had been forced and an in-rush of Liverpool supporters had caused casualties".
Reports of fans breaking in were carried by the media until a press conference held on the evening of the disaster, the inquests heard.
The jury heard Peter Wright, South Yorkshire Police's chief constable, told journalists "a gate had been opened by police".
Mr Kirton told the Warrington inquests he went to the police control box with the FA chief executive Graham Kelly and Sheffield Wednesday's secretary Graham Mackrell as the disaster was unfolding.
Asked why they went to the control box, Mr Kirton said: "Because we thought that was the place where we could get the most accurate information about what was happening and also be able to ascertain whether the match was going to continue or not."
Mr Kirton said Mr Kerry and Mr Duckenfield had a conversation, with the match commander then pointing to the monitors and saying "there had been a break-in".
Under questioning from Mr Duckenfield's barrister, John Beggs QC, Mr Kirton accepted the police commander had not identified a specific gate.
Mr Kirton said it was not until the press conference that "it became apparent" a gate had not been forced, although he was earlier aware that some fans believed it had been opened by the police.
The witness also spoke about a conversation with Mr Mackrell about the possibility of delaying the kick-off at about 14:40 GMT.
He said: "Graham said to me that there was a lot of people still to come in. My recollection was that the figure was around 20,000 people, which seemed a lot at that stage in the afternoon.
"I asked Graham whether, as there were many people still not inside the ground, the police were likely to ask for a delay to kick-off.
"He said that they did not like to do that because of the potential problems that caused at the end of the game with getting spectators away."
Jonathan Laidlaw QC, who represents the FA, asked him about a suggestion made by a former police inspector on duty at the match that the ground was a "death trap" and that the FA was playing "Russian roulette" with fans' lives.
Mr Kirton said he "can't think that there would be anybody" who would have regarded the stadium as a death trap and that he could see "no justification" for saying that the FA was risking the safety of supporters.
The inquests continue on Thursday.
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A woman jailed after being accused of posing as a man to dupe a female friend into having sex with her, has had her conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal in London.

Gayle Newland was jailed for eight years on 12 November after being convicted of three sexual assaults.
The 26-year-old from Willaston, Cheshire watched proceedings via video link from prison, and wept as the decision was announced.
She has been released on bail.
The appeal was allowed on the basis of direction given to the jury by the judge at her trial at Chester Crown Court last year and a re-trial ordered.


A nurse accused of murdering patients described himself as a "Robin Hood guy" because he would help people in Philippines slums get medical care.

Victorino Chua denies murdering three patients and poisoning 18 others at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, between 2011 and 2012.
Manchester Crown Court also heard he told police he wrote a letter in which he said "I'm evil" to release tension.
In the letter, he said he had been prescribed anti-depressants.
The father-of-two told police after his arrest in January 2012 that he partly wrote the letter to help his niece studying journalism in the Philippines by describing his life in the UK.
He said he began writing after seeing an occupational health counsellor in June 2010.
Mr Chua was asked in his police interview why he had written: "Got lots to tell but I just take it to my grave."
He said it was not concerning "illegal activity" at the hospital, but about a girlfriend at a care home where he had previously worked.
He said: "I didn't want my wife to know because I was going to keep a secret to myself until I died."
The 49-year-old was also asked in the police interview why he had described himself as "evil at the same time angel."
He replied he would help slum-dwellers to get cheap medical care through his connections but was also "dealing under the table" for other goods like car accessories.
He suggested his interpretation of evil was "doing the wrong things" and "not playing fair" and not the same as it meant to the police officer.
Mr Chua, of Churchill Street, Stockport, is charged with killing Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Alfred Weaver, 83.
He is alleged to have killed his victims by secretly injecting insulin into saline bags between June 2011 and January 2012.
The trial continues.


Italian prosecutors want to indict the Bank of China's Milan branch and almost 300 people over a money-laundering scheme.

Prosecutors in Florence allege €4.5bn ($5.1bn, £3.2bn) was transferred from Italy to China.
It was earned through prostitution, counterfeiting, tax evasion and labour exploitation, they say.
The Ansa agency said (in Italian) that four senior managers with the Bank of China could be indicted.
Close to half the €4.5bn, transferred between 2007 and 2010, went through the bank's branch in Milan, investigators say.
The Bank of China received €758,000 in commission for the transfers, it is claimed.
There were millions of transactions, Ansa said, that were below the €2,000 threshold that would have triggered money-laundering checks.
That threshold has since dropped to €1,000.
A judge will now decide whether the Bank of China and 297 individuals will face trial.
Neither the bank nor the Chinese government has yet responded.
"The maxi-laundering strengthened the economic capacity of the Chinese mafia organisations devoted to illegal immigration from their country," said Ansa.
In December 2013, a spotlight was thrown on working conditions for Chinese migrants in Italy when seven workers died in a fire at a garment shop in Prato, near Florence.
Some factories were linked to Chinese organised crime, Tuscany's regional governor said.


Developers have submitted plans for a £2bn garden city in Cardiff which includes 7,000 homes.

Redrow Homes says Plasdŵr will also include shops, schools, leisure centres, pubs and restaurants.
The proposed development would be built on 900 acres of land bordering Radyr, Fairwater, St Fagans and Danescourt.
It would have one main and three smaller centres, each with its own high street and public square, and have a network of roads and cycle paths.
If the development and Cardiff council's local development plan are approved, work could start in 2016 and last up to 20 years.
A consultation on the proposals is now open.


The Irish and British governments have held talks to ensure Irish nationals in Britain are not affected by benefits restrictions that could emerge as part of a deal between the UK and the EU.

Prime Minister David Cameron is currently in Brussels for an EU summit.
He aims to return with a reform package he can put to the British people in a referendum on EU membership in June.
He wants to restrict migration and limit benefits for those coming from Central and Eastern Europe.
The Irish ambassador to the UK, Dan Mulhall, told Bloomberg television that Ireland's arrangements with the UK regarding Irish nationals working there were "separate".
"We will continue to discuss this issue because it's recognised on both sides this is a particular issue which is a little bit separate from migration from other European countries which is a more recent phenomenon for Britain," he said.
"The issue of Irish people living in the UK predates the EU by many years. We have, of course, discussed this issue with the British government, and depending on what the outcome of this whole process might be, obviously it is a matter that will have to be continued.
"We'll have to continue to discuss it with Britain and with other member states in order to ensure as far as possible that Irish people continue to enjoy the same advantages as they currently enjoy."
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he is "quite confident" European leaders can reach a deal with Britain over its future membership of the EU.
Mr Cameron said: "We've got some important work to do today and tomorrow and it's going to be hard.
"I'll be battling for Britain. If we can get a good deal I'll take that deal. But I will not take a deal that doesn't meet what we need.
"I think it's much more important to get this right than to do anything in a rush. But with goodwill, with hard work, we can get a better deal for Britain."


Relations between Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder and honorary president of France's far-right National Front (FN), and his daughter, Marine, the party's president, have steadily deteriorated in the full media glare.

BBC News looks at how their relationship has become strained and how their language towards each other has reflected it.
Last summer, father and daughter had a public disagreement over a remark about Jewish singer Patrick Bruel which was condemned as anti-Semitic. Marine Le Pen said his words may have been misinterpreted, but she denounced them.
8 June 2014: "The fact remains that, with Jean-Marie Le Pen's long [political] experience, the fact that he did not anticipate the interpretation that would be made of this formulation is a political mistake for which the National Front suffers the consequences."
As Marine Le Pen sought to assert her authority as leader, he hit back, reminding his daughter that he could not easily be removed.
18 June 2014: "She was not the one who named me honorary president, it was the FN congress. As a result I am president for life."
By September relations appeared to have smoothed, and Marine Le Pen publicly praised her father.
1 September 2014: "I don't believe at all that we could do without the wisdom and experience of Jean-Marie Le Pen," she said.
However, within weeks Ms Le Pen was reported to have moved out of the estate outside Paris she shared with her father, after his Doberman dog reportedly killed one of her Bengal cats.
It was not until 2 April 2015 that relations turned truly sour after Mr Le Pen gave a couple of interviews in which he repeated an old anti-Semitic slur that the Nazi gas chambers were "a detail of history".
Marine Le Pen said she would prevent her father from standing in the regional elections later this year, because of his comments.
8 April: Ms Le Pen said her father "seems to have entered a veritable spiral between a scorched earth strategy and political suicide".
"Given this situation, I have told him I will oppose... his candidacy in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur," she said.
She added his "crude provocations seem aimed at harming me but, alas, they have dealt a very heavy blow to the whole movement".
9 April: Mr Le Pen replied by saying that "the prestige that I obviously still have within the Front National would provoke a considerable stir, and a loss of influence for [Marine] that she probably doesn't gauge...
"Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation."
On 13 April, Mr Le Pen finally announced he was pulling out of the regional elections - although he said he thought he was "the best candidate for the National Front".
Unabashed, Mr Le Pen appeared on stage during the party's traditional 1 May rally in Paris, uninvited, to be greeted by the crowd.  But on 4 May, during a meeting of the FN's executive committee, chaired by Marine Le Pen, he was officially suspended as a party member over his earlier remarks about World War Two.
On 3 May, Ms Le Pen said: "Jean-Marie Le Pen should no longer be able to speak in the name of the National Front, his comments are against the fixed [party] line".
Of Mr Le Pen's unexpected appearance at the 1 May rally, she said: "I think that was a malicious act, I think it was an act of contempt towards me.
"I get the feeling that he can't stand that the National Front continues to exist when he no longer heads it."
Following his suspension on 4 May, Mr Le Pen said: "I've been disowned.
"I've never spoken in the name of the FN. I speak freely and that shocks a certain number of people," he said.
And on 5 May,he said it would be "scandalous" if Ms Le Pen were to be elected president of France, adding:
"I am ashamed that the president of the National Front has my name and I would wish for her to lose it as quickly as possible. She can do this either by marrying her partner, or perhaps [Vice-President] Mr [Florian] Philippot or someone else... As for me, I do not wish for the the president of the National Front to be called Le Pen."