Fans of blues legend BB King will be able to pay their last respects to the late singer at a public viewing in Las Vegas, before his body is moved to his native Mississippi to be buried.

King's business manager said a separate private family funeral would also be held in Las Vegas.
The guitarist and singer, known as the "King of the Blues", died in his sleep at his Vegas home on Thursday, aged 89.
He was known for hits My Lucille, Sweet Little Angel and Rock Me Baby.
Plans are also being made for funeral services in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi next week.
He will be buried on the grounds of the BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, which opened in 2008 and celebrates the cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta where the blues was born.
In Las Vegas, fans will be able to pass King's open casket to pay their respects at the public viewing at Palm Mortuary West on Friday, according to a post on the late musician's website.
A private service will be held for family members on Saturday at a larger Palm Mortuary chapel, but the media will be excluded.
King had been admitted to hospital several times in recent weeks. His doctor and coroner said he died of a series of small strokes connected to his Type 2 diabetes.
King was born on 16 September 1925 to sharecroppers and worked in the cotton fields as a child before picking up the guitar.
He was considered one of the world's greatest players, known for his sharp single notes and vibrato on the electric guitar he christened Lucille.
He was married twice and had 15 natural and adopted children.
Daughters Shirley King, Rita Washington, Patty King and Karen Williams all complained that King's business manager of 39 years, LaVerne Toney, prevented them from visiting their father in his final days.
Toney has power-of-attorney over King's affairs.
Musicians paid their respects to King during a special tribute at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Awards host Ludacris spoke, while the camera panned to King's beloved guitar Lucille, alone on the stage.
Rolling Stones star Mick Jagger reminisced about playing with King at The White House during the a Twitter Q&A with fans on Monday.
Keith Richards added: "Sad loss. One of the greats, I mean, beautiful style and BB was a great guy.
"He was one of the true gentlemen and I shall miss him a lot. What can you say now, at least we have his records and farewell BB."


An agreement for US firm Google to pay £130m in UK back taxes has been labelled as "derisory" and a "sweetheart deal" by critics.

The payment covers money owed since 2005 and follows a six-year inquiry by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
George Osborne hailed it as "a victory" for the government, but Labour's John McDonnell said the sums were "trivial".
Meg Hillier, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said it was "a small amount of money" for Google.
The tax agreement comes after years of criticism of Google and other multinational firms over their tax arrangement in the UK and across Europe.
Mr Osborne told the BBC the agreement was "a real vindication of this government's approach", but he added that details of the deal were "confidential".
"These are taxes paid on profits when there was a Labour government," the chancellor said.
"Not a single penny was collected and now to have Labour politicians complaining about it is a bit rich."
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However, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Labour's Mr McDonnell called for greater transparency, saying it looked like a "sweetheart deal".
"HMRC seems to have settled for a relatively small amount in comparison with the overall profits that are made by the company in this country.  And some of the independent analysts have argued that it should be at least 10 times this amount," he said.
Mr McDonnell said he would raise the issue in Parliament next week and called for the deal to be investigated by the public spending watchdog.
"It looks to me from all the independent analysis that this is relatively trivial in comparison with what should have been paid. In fact one analysis has put the rate down to about 3%, which I think is derisory," he added.
Google is not the only company to have been named for avoiding paying taxes on its British sales:
Starbucks, which runs 843 coffee shops in the UK, came under fire after it was revealed the company paid £8.6m in corporation tax in its 14 years of trading in Britain, despite sales worth billions of pounds. In 2014 it paid more than £8m in tax on the back of record profits of £34.2m.
Facebook paid £4,327 ($6,643) in corporation tax in 2014, according to its latest UK results. It showed the company as making a pre-tax loss of £28.5m last year, but the firm also paid its 362 UK staff a total of £35.4m in share bonuses. It means Facebook's UK corporation tax bill was less than the tax the average UK employee paid on their salary.
Amazon attracted anger after it emerged that the UK arm of the business paid £11.9m in tax in 2014, despite taking £5.3bn in sales from British shoppers.
Conservative MP Mark Garnier, a member of the Treasury select committee, said the agreement represented a "relatively small" amount of money compared with Google's UK profits.
Richard Murphy, from the independent Tax Justice Network, estimated Google should be paying £200m every year in Corporation Tax.
He said the figure was based on the firm's declared profit margins and sales in Britain in 2014 of £4.5bn.
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The Tax Justice Network, which has been the scourge of creative tax arrangements, says Google should ordinarily be paying more than £200m every year - rather than £130m for a decade in back taxes.
By using Google's own declared profit margins of around 25%, it would appear as if the technology giant could be paying more Corporation Tax in Britain on its £4.6bn annual sales.
We don't know exactly how much profit Google makes here every year before the tax creativity kicks in.
But Google also knows it doesn't live in a vacuum, despite its near monopoly on internet and mobile search. So there are many people who believe that this additional £130m is pre-emptive.
Google knows that the Diverted Profits Tax (known as the "Google Tax") which came into force last year will mean it will have to pay more to HMRC.
On top of that, the OECD has come up with much stricter international rules for 'Base Erosion and Profit Shifting' or aggressive tax avoidance.
Taxes on profits should soon be paid where the economic activity takes place rather than where the company is domiciled. So if you sell internet adverts or frothy coffee in Britain, you can't book the sale in Dublin, Amsterdam or the British Virgin Islands.
Labour MP Ms Hillier labelled the agreement a "cosy deal", saying she would call Google and HMRC before the Public Accounts Committee to explain the deal.
The deal showed HMRC had admitted collecting "too little tax from Google for nine out of 10 years", she added.
Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP and former chair of the same committee, said HMRC had "a duty" to explain details of the agreement.
The government needed to "assure us that everyone is treated fairly before the law and confidence in tax system is restored", she added.
Google paid £20.4m in UK taxes in 2013. The value of its British sales that year was £3.8bn. Google makes most of its UK profits through online advertising.
In March's Budget, Mr Osborne announced the introduction of a so-called "Google tax" targeting firms that move their profits overseas.
Google has its European headquarters in the Irish Republic, which has a lower corporation tax rate than the UK. It has also used company structures in Bermuda, where the corporation tax rate is zero, to shelter profits.
Such moves are legal and Google - a US business, which pays the majority of its taxes there - says it has abided by international tax rules.
The agreement with HMRC will also see Google start to pay tax "based on revenue from UK-based advertisers, which reflects the size and scope of our UK business", the US online search firm added.
Matt Brittin, head of Google Europe, told the BBC: "Today we announced that we are going to be paying more tax in the UK.
"The rules are changing internationally and the UK government is taking the lead in applying those rules so we'll be changing what we are doing here. We want to ensure that we pay the right amount of tax."
An HMRC spokesman said: "The successful conclusion of HMRC enquiries has secured a substantial result, which means that Google will pay the full tax due in law on profits that belong in the UK.
"Multinational companies must pay the tax that is due and we do not accept less."


Marvel Studios is planning to create a storyline focusing on Spider-Man as a teenager.

President of the studios, Kevin Feige, who has also been responsible for the Spider-Man films since 2002, revealed: "We want to play with Peter Parker in the high school years".
He told Collider: "So many things have not been done yet from the comics."
Feige said: "The most obvious being the 'young, doesn't quite fit in' kid before his powers."
The 'new' Spider-Man, the first time the character has been produced in a film by Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is expected to make his debut in Captain America: Civil War, while the superhero's first solo Marvel film is currently due for release on 28 July 2017.
The deal came after Sony's Amazing Spider-Man 2 under-performed at the box office last year.
Speaking about the direction the Marvel Spider-Man storyline will take, Feige continued: "In some of my favourite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he's in high school for a lot of it.
"We want to explore that. That also makes him very, very different from any of our other characters in the MCU, which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters."
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Rumour had it that Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin had been taken to the Sheshan Seminary, the old church on the outskirts of Shanghai, where he trained to be a priest.

He is said to have so upset the government that it felt the need to remove him from public view.
When we visited the seminary, we found a quiet church set high up on a hill, and a sleepy priest training centre undergoing construction work in the valley below.
There was no sign of the missing bishop and no sign of any security officials.
Most priests, we were told, had left for their holidays.
But wherever he is, the newly appointed Catholic bishop certainly appears to have been silenced after seeming to challenge the authority of the state-run body that controls the church, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA).
Bishop Ma announced his surprise resignation from the organisation during his ordination ceremony this weekend, here in Shanghai, in front of senior officials.
Shanghai is a strong centre of Roman Catholicism and three Jesuit bishops there have fallen foul of the Chinese authorities for their loyalty to the Pope:
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A close friend has told the BBC that Bishop Ma has now been forced to undertake "a period of reflection" in private, and one that might last for months.
"He has chosen belief over freedom" the friend said.
Some news reports say that Bishop Ma sent a text message to priests and nuns saying he was "mentally and physically exhausted" and needed to make a "personal retreat".
It seems an odd decision for a man who was ordained just three days ago and appeared full of enthusiasm for his new appointment at the time.
In his speech at the ceremony he told the 1,000-strong congregation that due to his new responsibilities he could no longer be a member of the CPCA.
That remark, which can be found at the six-and-a-half minute mark
          in a Youtube video
drew loud applause.
But it also seemingly sent shock waves through the official hierarchy.
The CPCA has controlled China' s official Catholic Church since 1957.
It means the atheist state reserves the right to appoint its own bishops, a power of course that the Vatican strongly contests.
Chinese Catholics are estimated to number between 8 million and 12 million but are divided between the state sanctioned church and an "underground" church that rejects the role of the party and the state in its affairs.
Members of the underground church face surveillance and sometimes arrest.
But for a bishop who has risen to prominence in the official church as a senior member of the CPCA to seemingly turn on the organisation is very rare indeed.
And to do so in such a public way would therefore probably be seen as a direct challenge to the authority of the Chinese state to involve itself in church affairs.
Recently relations between the Vatican and the Chinese state were said to be thawing, at least a little.
Many Chinese bishops in fact now have the backing of both, although last week the CPCA pushed ahead with the ordination of one of its own in the face of strong objections from Rome.
Now the mysterious case of the missing Thaddeus Ma Daqin shows that the old tensions remain.


The panel of eight judges, resplendent in red robes and hats, have to decide on one of the biggest cases in post-war German history, not only in the number of plaintiffs but also in the importance of the decision.

Thirty-seven thousand people signed a petition to the court against the way the new eurozone bailout fund was set up, and against Chancellor Angela Merkel's plan to get commitments from the governments of the eurozone not to go into debt.
Politicians and lawyers from across the political spectrum joined the case against the government - from the left party, Die Linke, to dissidents from within the government party.
There have been demonstrations on the steps of the court.
On Saturday, hundreds of people chanted: "We are the people". There were placards reading: "Merkel who will pay for this?"
The number of interested parties in the hearing is matched by the magnitude of the cause.
If the judges take a hard line against the government and in favour of the plaintiffs, then the elaborate and laborious efforts to keep the euro together will be dealt a severe blow, perhaps a fatal one.
The case turns on two parts of the euro rescue effort.
Firstly, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) - the new bailout fund for eurozone governments in trouble, like Greece.
Secondly, the so-called "fiscal pact" by which Chancellor Merkel is trying to get a binding commitment from European Union governments not to go into debt.
The plaintiffs claim that Chancellor Merkel has exceeded her power, and they want the court to instruct the president of Germany not to sign the two measures into law because, they say, the measures breach the country's constitution.
The "fiscal pact", for example, binds future governments, according to Michael Efler of the More Democracy movement which organised the petitions to the court.
He told the BBC: "The problem is that both treaties have no exit clause. That means that even if there is another government that has a different view on the treaties, they couldn't get rid of the treaties and that is not OK in our view.
"We want to have a democratic choice and this means that a government or parliament can say 'No' to this treaty or change the treaty, and that's not possible and that's why we try to fight them."
So will he win?
Few think that the court will block the treaties completely - if it did, then German participation in the eurozone rescue fund would have been declared illegal.
The markets would no doubt go into a spin - downwards - and there would be political, and perhaps economic, chaos.
More likely is that the judges will say that the treaties are within the constitution - but then put a string of caveats constraining Chancellor Merkel if she, for example, wanted to have the bailout fund expanded.
Professor Ingolf Pernice of Humboldt University in Berlin, a lawyer who has argued cases before the Constitutional Court, said that if the court did put new conditions on future changes to the bailout fund, one possibility would be that increasing its size would have to be approved by the Bundestag.
"There cannot be any extension without the consent of the German parliament," Professor Humboldt said.
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That, he felt, would tie the government's hands.
On top of that, virtually any significant move by Chancellor Merkel would have to be debated by parliament and that would take time and a lot of political energy.
Even though a court decision giving Chancellor Merkel approval of her current policy but with strings attached would be welcomed by the government as a victory, her opponents would draw comfort from it too.
Michael Efler of More Democracy said that he expected more attempts by the German government to give more power to the European Union, so any constraints on them would be important.
In the end, he said he hoped there would be a "referendum or maybe a better treaty with more parliamentary control, with more transparency and with more people participation".
Government MPs are being cautious about saying what will happen if the court rules against the ESM, and so their policy.
But a partial victory - the "yes, but" option - would show the strength of German democracy, according to CDU MP Dr Michael Meister.
"We have a democracy with balanced power. The government and parliament have to be in line with the constitution, and I think it's a good thing for democracy if we are in line with the constitution.
"It shows that in Germany democracy works."


Campaigners protesting against plans to tarmac and widen a gravel cycle path have taken their case to court.

The group opposes the plans for a disused railway track in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, and wants to register it as a designated village green.
Vale of Glamorgan Council wants to widen a path to 2.5m (8ft) down the middle of the grassy verge between Sully Terrace and Archer Terrace.
The council said the application will be considered.
Residents claim obtaining protected status would stop the local authority carrying out its plans.
They have to prove a significant number of community members have used the land as a right - a piece of common land - for the past 20 years.
The path runs a couple of miles from Penarth town centre to Cosmeston.
Hazel Bransfield, of Sully Terrace, took the campaign to Cardiff magistrates court on Wednesday, which affirmed her request that the path be given village green status.
She said residents feared a tarmac path would attract competitive road cyclists.
"The ordinary cyclists don't want the path changed and we all get along together," she said.
Mrs Bransfield added that the magistrates were interested to hear of the path's use during filming for TV programmes including Doctor Who and the Sarah Jane Adventures.
The request for village green status has now been sent to the Vale of Glamorgan council which will decide on the matter.
A council spokeswoman said: "If an application for the registration of land as a town or village green is made it will be given appropriate consideration."


A bogus faith healer who defrauded three women out of £145,000 has been jailed.

Abdoulie Gassama claimed to have "40 years' experience and guaranteed results", Birmingham Crown Court heard.
The 34-year-old, from Erdington, pleaded guilty to 18 charges of fraud and one of money laundering.
Following complaints to Trading Standards, Gassama was prosecuted and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
Gassama, of Slade Road, advertised his services under the pseudonyms Shaikh Jammal and Shaikh Riyad in several local and Asian newspapers, said Birmingham City Council.
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He would meet clients at a flat in Handsworth where he would charge £20 for the initial session. Subsequently, he would ask for more money for special medicine, prayers and sacrificial animals including cows and crocodiles.
Fees would vary between £377 and £17,000, with Gassama charging one woman more than £134,000 over seven months with the promise her husband would give up drinking.
He told the woman her daughter would go blind and her husband would not give up alcohol if she refused to pay, the court heard.
Several women who responded to the adverts complained to Trading Standards between December 2014 and March 2015.
The head of Birmingham Trading Standards has praised the victims for helping to put him in jail.


A prison has been described as safe and well-run, but does not always celebrate its successes, says a report.

The Independent Monitoring Board said HMP Parc in Bridgend gave prisoners and young people the opportunity to develop skills and gain qualifications.
But it said Parc needed to make more of an effort to inform the board and local people about its "excellent projects".
HMP Parc, which is also a young offenders' institution, houses 1,038 prisoners.
It was one of the first prisons to be built under the UK government's private finance initiative.
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) comprises of 20 volunteers from the community, appointed by the UK's Minister of Justice.
Its report said Parc prison was well-run and safe.
It added: "There is a great deal of good work going on at HMP Parc but as reported in previous years HMP Parc does not always celebrate its own successes.
"More effort is needed to inform the board and the local communities of the excellent projects going on and the effect this has on the prison population at HMP Parc."
The IMB said it was impressed by how the prison had maintained links to the community and the number of awards made to prisoners for artistic and cultural activities.
Janet Wallsgrove of G4S, which runs Parc, said: "The safety and welfare of all prisoners in our care is our top priority, and the IMB's comments are testament to the hard work and dedication of our staff, who are committed to helping every prisoner to serve their time constructively.
"G4S believes the prisons we run should be places of both punishment and rehabilitation, with prisoners given the opportunity to turn their lives around so that they are less likely to reoffend on release.
"We are proud of the successes we have had at Parc and agree with IMB that we should do as much as we can to promote these - particularly in the local community - and we look forward to working together with the IMB to make this happen."


The estranged wife of a man accused of murdering their five-week-old daughter has told a court he sounded "panicked" when he told her to call an ambulance.

Wendy Ruddock, 37, said partner Ian, 34, shouted out after baby Olivia stopped breathing during a feed.
Mr Ruddock denies compressing Olivia's chest, shaking her and inflicting blunt force trauma to her head.
The attacks are alleged to have taken place at the family home in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, in March 2011.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Mr Ruddock performed CPR on the baby before she was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill, Glasgow.
Mrs Ruddock said she remembered seeing the infant "hooked up to a lot of machines" at the hospital.
However, the court heard that doctors concluded she could not survive her injuries.
Mrs Ruddock told the court her husband had got up from bed in the early hours one morning to feed their daughter.
But Olivia became unwell during the feed, prompting him to shout for her.
Mrs Ruddock told prosecution lawyer Ashley Edwards: "I knew something wasn't right.
"He shouted on me to phone an ambulance which I did immediately.
"The person on the other end of the phone was trying to talk us through CPR. But it was just panic stations."
Mrs Ruddock said her husband performed CPR on Olivia "as best he could".
She also told the court that Mr Ruddock was "good" with children.
"He certainly was very good with children," she said. "He was good with my nieces and nephews. Whenever there was a family get together they would go to him.
Mr Ruddock is also accused of attempting to murder another child in 2013 at an address in Glasgow.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and the trial before judge Lord Bannatyne continues.


Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected calls to re-run disputed parliamentary elections but said he accepted "lawful" protests.

In a televised live chat, he proposed installing web cameras at polling stations to prevent fraud at the March presidential poll where he is standing.
But he insisted the parliamentary results were valid and was scathing about some protesters.
Opposition supporters appeared unmoved by Mr Putin's comments.
Mr Putin also strongly attacked US foreign policy, and sought to dismiss warnings of his own downfall after more than a decade dominating Russian politics.
After serving two terms as president from 2000 to 2008, Mr Putin was obliged under the Russian constitution to step aside after his second term but is now entitled to stand again.
"The fact that people express their opinion... is an absolutely normal thing as long, of course, as everybody acts within the framework of the law," he said, after protests on Saturday which saw around 50,000 people turn out in Moscow alone.
"If this is the result of the Putin regime I am quite happy and quite content with that. I don't see anything wrong with it," he added.
Thursday is the deadline for would-be independent presidential candidates to declare their bids, which must satisfy rigorous criteria at the central electoral commission (political parties have until Tuesday to submit their candidates).
Established opposition party leaders Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Mironov and Grigory Yavlinsky are all expected to stand, as is billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
One surprise candidacy is that of Putin ally Dmitry Mezentsev, who is governor of the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia, and other names include radical opposition figure Eduard Limonov.
In another development on Thursday, senior Kremlin strategist Vladislav Surkov was promoted to acting head of the presidential staff, where he was hitherto deputy head.
By Steve RosenbergBBC News, Moscow
This telethon is Vladimir Putin's annual opportunity to reinforce his image as Russia's national leader.
But his comments on the country's controversial parliamentary election, and the subsequent street protests, will infuriate those who are demanding a fresh ballot.
He described the white ribbons worn by some of the protesters as reminding him of condoms and suggested some of the younger protesters had been paid to come on to the streets. He also claimed that some leading Russian opposition activists had played a role in the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine.
Mr Putin's proposal to install webcams in all Russian polling stations to prevent fraud is unlikely to convince the opposition that future elections will be free and fair.
But the aim of today's marathon phone-in is not to win over the opposition: it is to boost Mr Putin's image with the wider public, to present him as a competent manager and the only serious candidate in March's presidential poll.
Instances of ballot-stuffing were identified widely by Russian activists using social media to report them.
Concern over the conduct of the December parliamentary elections was expressed by foreign observers from the OSCE and others.
After meeting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Brussels on Thursday, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy voiced concern at the reported "irregularities and lack of fairness" as well as the detention of protesters.
Speaking at the same news conference, Mr Medvedev refused to comment on a call by the European Parliament for an "immediate and full investigation" into allegations of poll fraud, saying the parliament had "nothing to do with" Russia's elections.
Mr Putin said: "As regards vote-rigging and the fact that the opposition are not pleased with the election results, there is nothing new here, this has always been the case.
"The opposition is there to fight for power and is fighting for power. That is why it is seeking any opportunity to come closer to power, to edge the current authorities out, to accuse them, to point to their mistakes."
Mr Putin appeared to mock some opposition protesters, likening their white ribbon symbol to a condom.
"I decided that it was an anti-Aids campaign... that they had, excuse me, pinned on contraceptives, only folding them in a strange way," he said.
Without naming any foreign powers, he condemned "coloured revolutions" such as the Orange movement in Ukraine as a "tested and tried scheme to destabilise society".
He said he was asking Russia's central electoral commission to install web cameras at all polling stations, saying he believed there were more than 90,000 of them.
"Let them operate round the clock, night and day, transmitting everything to the internet, so that the country sees what is happening at a specific ballot box, to remove any falsifications altogether," Mr Putin said.
Mr Putin laughed off a Russian press row over a photo of a spoilt ballot-paper on which was scrawled an obscene message addressed to himself.
Referring to the report in Kommersant Vlast magazine, which led to the sacking of two top executives by its owner, he said: "The ballot-paper was photographed in London and you and I know who lives in London.
"Their wish to tell me to go you know where is linked to the fact that they want to come back here themselves and, while I'm here, they can't come back."
It was not clear whom Mr Putin was referring to, but the UK is frequently accused by Moscow of harbouring fugitives from justice in Russia.
One Moscow tweeter, going by the name Aafinogen, claimed that during Mr Putin's speech, the number of people signing up to a Facebook page for a protest rally in the city on 24 December had risen by 3,500 to 21,500.
Liberal opposition figure Boris Nemtsov said Mr Putin's live show had been carefully planned in order to present him in the best light.
"Everybody knows that this is not a real reality show," he said.
"Everybody knows that everything was prepared: questions and answers, all of them. They prepare and it looks like a cynical spectacle to show that he's still strong, he's still popular, he knows how to run the country in the future."
The Russian prime minister dismissed a warning by former US presidential candidate and Vietnam veteran Senator John McCain that he faced being overthrown like Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
"McCain was captured during the war and kept in a pit - it would drive anyone nuts," Mr Putin said.
Sen McCain tweeted in response: "Dear Vlad, is it something I said?" before retweeting his statement on Russia from last week in which he talks of the "growing frustration that Russians feel for their rulers".
On US foreign policy, the Russian leader said: "America doesn't need allies, it needs vassals."
"Did anyone in the States consult their allies about what to do in Afghanistan?" he asked rhetorically. "Damn right they didn't!"
Russia, by contrast, had "more friends than foes" abroad despite attempts to "shunt" it aside, Mr Putin said.
Warning against perceived threats to Russia, he paraphrased a famous saying by Tsar Alexander III, saying: "They all fear our hugeness."
Mr Putin suggested the US military had organised Gaddafi's death.
"Who killed Gaddafi?" Putin asked. "Drones! American ones! They struck his convoy. And then by radio, via special forces that should not have been there anyway, they brought in so-called oppositionists and fighters and killed him without trial or investigation."
Washington responded by saying the suggestion that US special operations forces had been involved was "ludicrous".
"We did not have American boots on the ground in the Libya operation," US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's spokesman, Captain John Kirby, told AFP news agency.
"All our support was done through the air and on the seas."
In other points Mr Putin
Asked to explain why spectators had booed when he entered the ring at a martial arts contest in Moscow last month, Mr Putin said: "Maybe the sight of my face in the ring didn't please somebody? I quite accept that.
"Maybe they were unhappy with [defeated fighter] Jeff Monson? Maybe they were unhappy with the fight? Maybe they thought it had been rigged!"
Asked for his views on the internet, the medium favoured by opposition activists, Mr Putin said: "Shutting the internet is technologically difficult and wrong politically."
Over four hours and 33 minutes of live broadcasting, the Russian prime minister was also asked about his personal life. Asked what made him happy, he said: "I find my happiness in love."


US Congress has unanimously passed a bill allowing 9/11 victims' families to sue the Saudi government, on the eve of the attacks' 15th anniversary.

The House of Representatives held a voice vote on legislation that the Senate approved in May.
President Obama vowed again to reject the measure, but lawmakers could overturn one of his vetoes for the first time if they secure enough votes.
Saudi Arabia, a key US ally, has denied any role in the attacks.
Democratic New York lawmaker Jerrold Nadler, the bill's sponsor in the House, said of Friday's vote: "We wanted it to come to the floor, symbolically before the 15th anniversary.
"We've been aiming toward that the entire session.''
President Obama has warned of retaliatory lawsuits against the US government if American citizens are allowed to take the Saudis to court.
But Terry Strada, national chair for 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism, disagreed that the bill could backfire as the White House has warned.
"If we're not funding terrorist organisations and killing people, then we don't have anything to worry about," she said.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a former New York senator, is among backers of the bipartisan legislation.
Riyadh reportedly threatened earlier this year to pull hundreds of billions of dollars from the US economy if the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act was enacted.
The Saudi foreign minister warned the bill would strip the principle of sovereign immunity and usher in the "law of the jungle".
Separately, a bipartisan group of US senators announced on Thursday they will attempt to block the Obama administration's proposed sale of more than $1bn (Â£754m) in weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh has never been formally implicated in the 11 September 2001 attacks.
But two months ago Congress released 28 declassified pages from a report that reignited concerns a few of the attackers had links to Saudi government officials.
Last year, a confessed 9/11 plotter in US custody, Zacarias Moussaoui, claimed a Saudi prince had helped finance the attack.
The kingdom said it was a baseless accusation from a "deranged criminal".
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.


The rescue of allied troops from Dunkirk remains the central focus of this weekend's 70th anniversary commemorations, but the story of those days in May 1940 extends far beyond the beaches.

When Operation Dynamo was formally wound up, more than 100,000 men were still in France, some fighting with the rearguard against the advancing German army, others looking for other ways to escape.
John Borland was a Cameron Highlander serving with the 51st Highland Division. He never reached Dunkirk but was forced to hold the line further west.
At his home in Glasgow, he recalled long, hungry days on the road.
"You really got used to it as the days went on... taking up your positions... being ready," said Mr Borland, now 90. "The odds were stacked against us, but we fought on.
"You're not really afraid, because you know there's a job to be done, though today I get scared just thinking about it."
Bert Evans, serving with the Warwickshire Regiment, was facing an elite German SS division near the town of Wormhout.
"We were the ones who stopped them breaking through," said the 89-year-old from Redditch, Worcestershire. "And we suffered for it.
"We'd heard about the SS and we knew they didn't take prisoners."
Mr Evans's fears were well-founded: after he and 80 other soldiers were herded into a small barn, the SS threw hand grenades into the building before firing indiscriminately.
"I was saved because I was under a pile of bodies," he told me. "I thought I was lucky to be alive."
Fewer than 20 of the men forced into the barn came out alive.
Mr Evans's injuries would eventually cost him his right arm, but he managed to escape by crawling along a ditch and taking cover in a small pond.
The company commander hiding with him was gunned down when he tried to make a run for it.  The memories haunt Mr Evans, visibly upset at their recollection.
"It's an ordeal and I don't wish to remember it, I wish to forget it," he said.
"It's an ordeal just thinking about it... I don't want to remember what happened, but it keeps me awake at night."
Mr Borland and the Highlanders eventually ended up in St Valery, a tiny fishing village near Dieppe.
"There was quite a bit of wreckage lying about and then after that came a lot of refugees, which hampered us quite a bit," Mr Borland said.
"We were very, very much exhausted because of being alert 24 hours a day. There was very little sleep."
The rearguard now had little chance of escape, with the town ablaze and the Germans shelling them from the clifftops above. The ships waiting offshore could not reach them.
The scene was littered with the bodies of dead and injured allied troops, many having tried to reach safety by climbing down the towering cliffs.
Surrender was now the only option to prevent more lives being lost.
"There was a major who informed us that the word had come from Britain that we must lay down our arms," said Mr Borland. "There was quite a bit of argument about it but, coming from a major, we had to obey orders."
By the time of the surrender it was mid-June, more than two weeks after the start of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Of the Britons left behind by Operation Dynamo, 11,000 died and 40,000 were captured and imprisoned.
As he was marched away to five years of captivity, Mr Borland spotted a scrap of paper blowing across his path. He has it still.
"It was a biblical text, with the words 'Don't give up' scrawled in pencil, probably by the man who'd dropped it.
"Those words stayed with me through my time in the POW camps."
Had he ever given up, I asked him. The answer was unequivocal: "Never."
A BBC News special programme on the 70th anniversary of the "little ships" evacuation of Dunkirk will be shown on Sunday 30 May at 1130 BST on BBC Two.


Peterborough United midfielder Jermaine Anderson is likely to miss the rest of the season after suffering knee ligament damage.

Anderson was injured in the first half of Posh's 2-2 League One draw with Port Vale on Saturday.
The 20-year-old suffered ligament damage in his other knee in December which kept him out for eight months.
He also missed the final three months of the 2014-15 season after breaking his foot in February 2015.


The original Severn Bridge is to be reduced to single lanes for seven months while its cables are inspected for corrosion.

Lane one westbound will be shut between 07:00 GMT on Monday, 14 March and 17:00 BST on Friday, 2 September.
Lane one eastbound will be closed from 09:30 GMT from Monday, 16 May until 09:30 BST on Monday 17 October.
The inspections will be carried out by Highways England to ensure the bridge's continuing safety.
Chris Pope, Project Manager for Highways England, said: "During the period of lane closures, vehicles over 2.9 metres wide will be prohibited from using the M48 Severn Bridge, and the bridge will also be closed totally over four weekends to enable the lifting of an inspection gantry to a high level on the suspension cable."
The first full closure is planned for the weekend of 16-17 April and diversion routes across the M4 Second Severn Crossing will be in place.


A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an international team of astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, 400 km above earth.

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The six-hour flight blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It had been delayed for two months by the failure of an unmanned cargo rocket.
Footage courtesy of Nasa


Exeter remained in the hunt for an automatic-promotion place with a well deserved win at Crawley in League Two .

Second-half goals from Ollie Watkins and Jordan Moore-Taylor moved City four points behind third-placed Carlisle and condemned Town to a third consecutive home defeat.
Watkins, who scored in Exeter's 2-2 draw at home to Blackpool last Saturday, should have tested goalkeeper Glenn Morris early on when he fired over when well placed.
Midfielder Ryan Harley was also off target for the Grecians before Watkins put a left-foot shot over from just inside the area.
Crawley striker James Collins, on target in seven successive previous home games, had an opportunity to put his side ahead at the far post, but his header from a cross by Dean Cox lacked power .
Exeter goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik made an important save just before the break, keeping out an attempted lob by Enzio Boldewijn after Kaby Djalo's pass.
Watkins put Exeter ahead five minutes after the interval with his 13th goal of the season, bringing the ball down before scoring with a deflected shot into the corner.
The Grecians doubled their advantage in the 68th minute when, from a cross by Jake Taylor, Moore-Taylor slotted the ball home from the middle of the goal.
Crawley pulled a goal back in the last minute when defender Mark Connolly firmly headed in a cross from substitute Billy Clifford, but Exeter hung on.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Crawley Town 1, Exeter City 2.
Second Half ends, Crawley Town 1, Exeter City 2.
Corner,  Crawley Town. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Josh Payne (Crawley Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Oakley (Exeter City).
Billy Clifford (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  Crawley Town 1, Exeter City 2. Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) header from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Billy Clifford.
Corner,  Crawley Town. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town).
Jordan Tillson (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Exeter City. Jordan Tillson replaces Lloyd James.
Foul by Lewis Young (Crawley Town).
Liam McAlinden (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Exeter City. Matt Oakley replaces David Wheeler.
Attempt missed. Conor Henderson (Crawley Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Andre Blackman (Crawley Town).
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Billy Clifford (Crawley Town).
Jack Stacey (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Lloyd James (Exeter City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Josh Payne replaces Jimmy Smith.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Billy Clifford replaces Dean Cox.
Attempt missed. Ryan Harley (Exeter City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Hand ball by Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town).
Substitution, Exeter City. Liam McAlinden replaces Reuben Reid.
Goal!  Crawley Town 0, Exeter City 2. Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Wheeler.
Corner,  Exeter City. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ollie Watkins (Exeter City).
(Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Attempt missed. Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Rhys Murphy replaces Kaby.
Goal!  Crawley Town 0, Exeter City 1. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner.
Kaby (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kaby (Crawley Town).


The government has become too dependent on a handful of "quasi-monopoly" private sector contractors to provide public services, MPs have warned.

The Public Accounts Committee said the fact Whitehall departments continued to award work to Serco and G4S while they were under investigation for overcharging highlighted the problem.
It said ministers had placed "too much trust" in a small pool of large firms.
The Cabinet Office said there was "more to do" to support smaller providers.
But it insisted that progress had been made over the past four years.
In a new report, the cross-party committee said there needed to be more competition in the £90bn market for private outsourcing of public services.
The MPs said contracts should be split up to give small and medium-sized firms a better chance of getting business and to prevent a situation where a handful of firms were "too important to fail" despite questions about their performance.
"Departments have taken their eye off the ball and placed too much trust in contractors and relied too much on the information contractors supply," said Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP who chairs the committee.
"Government's current approach to contracting gives too much advantage to contractors. Open book accounting and published contracts should be the norm," she added.
The committee said ministers had wrongly created the impression that all business with G4 and Serco had been suspended after it emerged they had been overcharging the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for years in relation to electronic tagging contracts.
G4S and Serco were stripped of responsibility for tagging criminals in England and Wales last December after the revelations, for which they have apologised and re-paid nearly £180m in total to the public purse.
The two firms were, in effect, barred for bidding for public sector work for a time following a government review into their other contracts, which recommended there should be limits on the size and duration of contracts as part of a wider shake-up of Whitehall procurement.
The Cabinet Office said in May that G4S would be considered for government business again following changes to its business practices and that reforms undertaken by Serco showed it was on "the right direction of travel" towards rebuilding confidence.
But the committee said the government should be taking a much harder line on firms whose "ethical standards have been found wanting".
It suggested a host of government departments, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Health, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and HM Revenue & Customs, all continued to award the firms additional work while a criminal inquiry by the Serious Fraud Office into overcharging was continuing.
It said the electronic tagging contracts were not isolated cases, with two other G4S contracts with the MoJ having been referred to the SFO while another Serco contract with the MoJ was being investigated by the City of London Police.
"The fact that government gave the impression that all discussion with Serco and G4S were halted whilst investigations took place... is evidence of the over-reliance on these larger suppliers," the report concluded.
Ms Hodge said the contractors had not shown "an appropriate duty of care" to the taxpayer and to users of public services.
The Cabinet Office said changes made to the government's procurement and commercial management since the last general election in 2010 had brought savings of £5.4 billion last year, but acknowledged that more needed to done.
"At the time of the last general election, departments simply didn't know how much business they did with strategic suppliers," a spokesman said.
"Despite our excellent progress over the past four years, we have long argued that there is more to do, including to strengthen transparency further and support SMEs.
"Public service providers should act with integrity and our action over the past year shows how seriously we take breaches of those high standards."


A World Cup qualifier between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia was abandoned just before full-time on Tuesday because of crowd trouble.

Visitors Saudi Arabia were winning the Group A Asian qualifier 2-1 at Shaha Alam Stadium when flares and fireworks were thrown onto the pitch.
"We are extremely disappointed with the events which took place and take such matters very seriously," said the Asian Football Federation.
Fifa has not announced any sanctions.
The disturbances mean Saudi Arabia could be awarded a 3-0 victory, the host nation fined or ordered to play matches behind closed doors in empty stadiums.
Malaysia suffered a record 10-0 defeat by United Arab Emirates last week, which left them bottom of their group and led to Dollah Salleh resigning as head coach.
Interim coach Ong Kim Swee had urged fans not to disrupt the game in protest at the UAE result.
Meanwhile, Syria - who are playing all their games away from home because of the civil war in the country - won their third straight World Cup qualifying match on Tuesday, beating Cambodia 6-0 in Phnom Penh.
Syria, who have scored 13 goals without conceding any, are top of Group E with nine points. The country has never qualified for a World Cup.


Michel Temer, a 75-year-old law professor, has taken over as Brazil's interim president, following the approval of an impeachment motion against current President Dilma Rousseff.

He will run Brazil amidst some of its most turbulent and eventful times.
The country is facing its worst recession and political crisis in 25 years and in August will host the Olympic Games for the first time in its history.
Ms Rousseff could still come back to office later this year, when she will be tried. But if she loses that battle, Mr Temer will become Brazil's seventh president since the end of the military dictatorship in the 1980s, with a mandate to rule until 2018.
Whether his tenure is short or long, it will be full of challenges.
Brazil's economy is a mess. It grew 7.5% only six years ago, but last year it contracted 3.8%. A similar number is expected this year.
Inflation ran above 10% last year and more than 10 million people are unemployed, with many jobs closing in the past 12 months.
Mr Temer's answer to the crisis is not different from Ms Rousseff's in principle. He believes Brazil must bring down its level of public debt, which could amount to 80% of the country's GDP three years from now, according to the credit ratings agency Moody's.
A lower debt ratio would mean consumers and investors regaining confidence in Brazil's ability to pay off its debts without having to print more money (which would push inflation even higher).
The key to achieving that is by cutting spending, as there is no political support for raising taxes. Ms Rousseff committed to achieving a budget surplus in 2015 and 2016, but failed to deliver on that promise - which got Brazil downgraded to junk by credit ratings agencies.
Henrique Meirelles, the man Mr Temer has chosen to become finance minister, says Brazil must set realistic budget targets and effectively meet them to regain consumer and investor confidence.
To be successful, they will need to work with the country's Congress, which seems very volatile in its opinions at the moment.
The Workers' Party implemented a host of social programmes that have benefited the poor - schemes that promote better housing, minimum income, technical education and access to universities.
In times of budget cuts, Mr Temer says the scope and effectiveness of all these social programmes will have to be reviewed.
Even for a popular president, those would be tough decisions to take. In the case of Mr Temer, who was not directly elected to office, this task is likely to be even harder.
Ricardo Paes de Barros is chief economist at the Instituto Ayrton Senna charity and professor at Insper Business School, and has close links with the people who will run Mr Temer's social policies. He says programmes must be carefully reviewed, but spending should not go down.
"In general the government budget should be countercyclical, so you should have higher social spending when you are in a crisis. When the economy is booming you should have lower social expenditures," he told the BBC.
Mr Temer is not being formally investigated in the massive probe into corruption at state oil giant Petrobras, but his name has been mentioned in some of the testimonies of people who are under investigation.
But his presidency is facing two formal challenges.
Brazil's electoral court will rule next year whether the Rousseff-Temer ticket received illegal donations.
And the country's Supreme Court is looking into whether Mr Temer himself should be impeached for breaking the same fiscal rules that brought down Ms Rousseff.
And then there is the fact that many Brazilians simply do not want him as president. One poll suggests that only 8% are happy with the current solution to the political crisis.
He will face strong opposition from the Workers' Party and unions, who say Ms Rousseff's impeachment is nothing but a coup and have branded Mr Temer a "golpista", or putschist.
Mr Temer's party, the PMDB, has been seriously implicated in the Petrobras scandal.
Many of the party's top officials - including the Speaker of the Senate, Renan Calheiros - are being formally investigated for corruption.
The federal police, who come under the Justice Ministry, have played a key role in the investigations that seriously aggravated the political crisis.
Many in Brazil have raised concerns that Mr Temer could undermine the efforts to bring corrupt politicians to justice, in order to stave off the political crisis.
Mr Temer will also not be able to afford to make enemies in Congress, because the future of virtually all his policies depend on getting approval from MPs and senators.


A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Colin Horner outside a Bangor supermarket last month.

Ryan Smyth, 29, from Windsor Gardens in Bangor, was also charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
He applied for bail but was refused during a hearing at Downpatrick Magistrates Court.
A detective told the court: "We believe the murder was part of ongoing mounting tensions within South East Antrim UDA."
He said the police had carried out a number of searches, but had yet to find the murder weapon.
Mr Horner, 35, was shot in front of his three-year-old son outside Sainsbury's on the outskirts of Bangor three weeks ago.
Ten days ago, a 28-year-old man from Newtownards, Alan Wilson, was also charged with the murder.


The Police Service of Northern Ireland's chief constable has dismissed claims that its predecessor, the RUC, had advanced warning of the Shankill bombing.

On Monday the police ombudsman confirmed it had received a complaint alleging that the RUC had information which would have allowed them to prevent the bombing.
It followed an Irish News report that the IRA leader who planned the 1993 Shankill bomb was working as a police informer.
Nine Protestant civilians were killed in the 1993 attack in Belfast, as well as one of the IRA bombers.
Responding to the claims at an event at Queen's University, Belfast, on Tuesday,  George Hamilton said he was "100% convinced that the police service at the time had no knowledge of the Shankill bombing that could have prevented it".
The Irish News said it had seen files stolen by the IRA from police special branch offices in Castlereagh on St Patrick's Day 2002.
It said the files had been decoded by IRA members.
This led them to discover the alleged informer's identity, the paper said.
At the same event, Mr Hamilton said he is not sure his officers will be able to deliver justice to victims of the Troubles.
He said that as time goes on, the likelihood of a criminal justice outcome "will be reduced".
His comments came during as a major review of inquests is taking place into some of the most controversial killings of the Troubles.
There are 56 cases involving 97 deaths.
They include killings by police officers and soldiers, and others where there are allegations of state collusion.
Lord Justice Weir, the presiding judge of the Coroners' Service, is spending two weeks conducting preliminary hearings to assess the state of readiness of each case.
Pointing the finger at Stormont politicians for failing to address Troubles legacy issues, Mr Hamilton said dealing with past cases "saps the energy out of the peace process".
"It drains the energy out of the progressive elements on all sides," he said.
He claimed that the PSNI's current infrastructure is inadequate to deal with the sheer weight of material under examination.
"When you get a tsunami of requests coming in from the courts through judicial reviews, the coronial system and other challenges - and every single one of those is a compelling case and it's got legal weight behind it and judicial authority - for us to do this, actually, the whole organisation it going to ground to a halt and that is the mess that we are in," Mr Hamilton said.
He added that as witnesses pass on and exhibits go missing, the prospects of justice for victims will be diminished.
"I'm not sure we can deliver it," he said.


Scotland centre Matt Scott says a positive mental attitude has revived his international rugby career.

Scott, who moved from Edinburgh to Gloucester last season, played no part in Scotland's three-match autumn Test series and only featured briefly in one game in the  Six Nations - a try-scoring cameo against Italy.
Gregor Townsend has selected Scott from the beginning against the Italians in Singapore on Saturday. It will be his first start for his country in a year.
"It's been a target of mine to get back in the team," says Scott. "I'm delighted to get a chance to impress the new coach."
"Not being involved at all in the autumn was really horrible and hard to take," Scott added. "I took on board the feedback from [former coach] Vern Cotter and thought I really needed to have a positive attitude.
"Everybody around me - family and friends - were saying, 'You're not in the squad, you must be raging' but I had to use the disappointment to try to get better. I used it to drive me on.
"I had a chat with the defence coach at Gloucester and he said, 'Right, defence is one of the things they want you to improve, so let's improve'.
"You're maybe grumpy for a day or two but I had a chance to put the past to bed. I think I've improved on the field and off the field as well. I've grown as a person."
Scott says that, effectively, there has been an internal ban among the players about complaining about the soaring heat and humidity in Singapore ahead of the Italy game.
"We got in the huddle at training and [Scotland captain] John Barclay said, 'Boys, I don't want anybody talking about the heat anymore, nobody can moan about it, we all know it's hot but it's going to be hot for Italy as well'.
"We need to go in with a positive attitude. If we go in saying, 'It's going to be hard' we might lose 10 percent energy-wise and we might start thinking we're more tired than we actually are.
"We said we've got to bring each other on during the game, encourage each other, make sure we're always chatting.
"It's probably going to be one of the hardest games we're going to have to play in terms of the conditions, but we've got our heads around that."


Designs for the major redevelopment of an Edinburgh park are to be unveiled at a special exhibition.

The first impressions of a new-look Saughton Park and Gardens will go on display to the public on Tuesday between 16:00 and 20:00.
Visitors will be able to ask about the plans with designers Ironside Farrar.
The consultants, who were involved in the design of The Helix in Falkirk, have been appointed to develop a design plan for the Â£5.3m park renovation.
Lesley Hinds, Edinburgh city council's environment convener, said: "This is a very important stage in the project to revive Saughton Park and its wonderful gardens, as we get a first glimpse of designers' vision for restoring it to its former glory.
"We have been eager to involve local people throughout this process, and now the community can come along and tell us what they think of these exciting new ideas."
The design team also includes Sutherland Hussey Architects, Peter McGowan Associates, Richard Shorter Architect and David Narro Associates.
In 1908 the park was redesigned for the Scottish National Exhibition, resulting in a range of new features, including sports facilities, a bandstand and winter and botanical gardens.
A project to restore the park secured almost Â£400,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop a design plan.


As a special treat for the EU referendum debates, the Reality Check team brings you EU claim Bingo.

The first of the BBC's big debates ahead of the EU Referendum takes place in Glasgow on 26 May at 8pm.
You can watch it live on BBC1 or listen in on Radio 5Live.
This debate will be aimed at younger voters, and will be in front of an audience of 18 to 29 year olds.
Each time a participant mentions one of the things in the grid above you get to check it off.
And if you want to find out more about the topics on the card, you can follow the links below.
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A former senior trader at Rabobank has pleaded guilty to interest rate rigging in the US.

Paul Robson is the second trader at the Dutch bank to plead guilty to trying to rig the Yen Libor rate and the first Briton to do so.
Last year Rabobank paid $1bn (Â£597m) to US and European regulators for its part in the global rate-rigging scandal.
Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank have all previously been fined for rate rigging.
Mr Robson conspired to manipulate Libor submissions to benefit trading positions between 2006 and 2011, the US Department of Justice said.
Libor - London interbank offered rate - is one of the interest rates use by global banks to lend money to each other. It supports hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions, and is used to set interest rates on credit cards, student loans and mortgages.
Regulators in the US and Europe have been investigating whether banks attempted to manipulate this and other key interest rates to benefit their own trading positions.
Nine people, including Robson, have so far been charged by the Justice Department.
US prosecutors said Robson pleaded guilty to one charge out of the 15 he had faced.
Takayuki Yagami, another former senior trader at Rabobank, in June became the first to plead guilty for his role in the scheme.
Robson worked as a senior trader at Rabobank's money markets desk in London, and also served as the bank's primary submitter for the Yen Libor calculation, the Justice Department said.
He used his position to submit rates requested by Yagami and other traders, according to prosecutors.
In 2007 Yagami asked Robson by email for a high submission for one of the rates, Robson answered: "no prob mate let me know your level."
After Yagami made his request, according to the Justice Department, Robson confirmed: "sure no prob... I'll probably get a few phone calls but no worries mate... there's bigger crooks in the market than us guys!"
In a statement Leslie Caldwell, who heads the Justice Department's criminal division, said: "The scope of the fraud was massive, but the scheme was simple. By illegally influencing the Libor rates, Robson and his co-conspirators rigged the markets to ensure that their trades made money,"
In July Lloyds Banking Group was fined Â£218m for "serious misconduct" for its part in interest rate rigging.
Lloyds manipulated both the yen and sterling Libor rates and tried to rig the rate for the US dollar, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and US financial regulators said.
At the time Bank of England governor Mark Carney called the misconduct "reprehensible".


There will be fewer sailings available for TT fans during the 2016 motorcycling festival than this year, Isle of Man ferry operators have said.

The Steam Packet Company said this was because the P&O fast craft, which is usually chartered to deal with the busy period in June, will not be available.
A spokesman said timetable changes mean fewer sailings from Ireland and the UK.
He added: "Given the current situation, we expect to see a reduction in the total number of bikes we will carry."
The loss of the ship from the Manx fleet next year means fewer sailings from Ireland, Heysham and Liverpool.
"The Ben-my-Chree and Manannan [Steam Packet-owned ships] have already been scheduled to operate additional Belfast sailings to accommodate Irish fans heading to the races," said ferry chief Mark Woodward.
"Adding these extra Irish services means the number of sailings from Heysham and Liverpool is slightly reduced.
'We will keep looking for a replacement charter and have already approached several companies - none at present has indicated a willingness to release vessels".


It is impossible to know whether the £52m the Welsh government paid for Cardiff Airport was the right price, the airport's chairman has told AMs.

But Roger Lewis said that buying the airport in 2013 was "absolutely" the right decision by Welsh ministers.
In January, the Conservatives accused them of wasting tens of millions of pounds by purchasing it for around double an initial valuation of £20-30m.
Mr Lewis said "one will never know" if the price was correct.
Giving evidence to the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday, he said: "Could one have paid less for it? Perhaps.
"Could one have paid more for it? Perhaps. One will never know.
"Because what's in the mind of the seller - and you need a willing seller as well as a willing buyer - one will never know."
Mr Lewis added: "The headline for me, was this the right decision for Wales? Absolutely, absolutely.
"Can we enhance the value of the enterprise going forward? Yes."
Debra Barber, the airport's managing director, said the site was becoming "worn down" under its Spanish owners Abertis, and the idea of closing it had been raised at board meetings.
Ms Barber, who worked for Abertis as operations director, said the airport had submitted a £3m programme for "critical infrastructure" that needed to be replaced.
"We actually got about a fifth of what we required, which just about enabled us to do the stuff that we were required to do by regulation," she said.
Mr Lewis told the committee: "Was it heading towards a tipping point where it could have headed for closure? The answer is yes."
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies has accused Labour of a "stunning failure to safeguard taxpayers' money" in paying £52m for the airport.
A Welsh government spokesman said reporting of the £20m-£30m valuation had been "entirely selective and misleading" and accountants KPMG had "modelled a range of scenarios during the due diligence process".


Ivory Coast international Max Gradel has told BBC Sport he wants to leave Premier League side Bournemouth.

The 29-year-old is yet to start a league game this season despite overcoming a hamstring problem.
Gradel has made just 11 appearances for the Cherries in all competitions this season, and wants to leave to secure more first-team football.
He joined Bournemouth from French side St Etienne in August 2015 and signed a new four-year deal a year later.
It is understood Bournemouth want to keep Gradel but he is worried his lack of opportunities will affect his international career.
He played in all three of Ivory Coast's games at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon as the defending champions failed to get past the group stages.
He has played in four African Cup of Nations tournaments with the Ivory Coast and was a member of the 2015 title-winning squad in Equatorial Guinea.
Gradel was part of the squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, featuring against Colombia.


A thresher shark has been photographed leaping out of the water off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

The Sea Trust, which took the picture, said the "very large" shark was estimated to be four metres (about 13ft) long.
It was spotted with a large pod of common dolphins during a survey in the Bristol Channel on Monday.
The Trust says the species is a rare sight in UK waters, with just six spotted in 2012 and two in 2011.
Thresher sharks have distinctive long tails and are known for breaching - or leaping - clear of the sea surface.
During the same trip, from Milford Haven, Sea Trust volunteers saw "pod after pod" of dolphins, many of which were pregnant or with newborn calves.


The mother of two boys killed in a house fire started by their father has handed in a petition at Downing Street calling for a change in the law governing access to children.

Jack and Paul Sykes, aged 12 and nine, died when their father Darren, 44, set fire to the property in Penistone on 22 October 2014. Mr Sykes was also killed.
The children were on a weekend access visit after the family had split up.
Their mother Claire Throssell said that "children's voices needed to be heard".
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More than 40,000 people have signed the petition, supported by Women's Aid, which calls for "the government and family courts to ensure there are no further avoidable child deaths as a result of unsafe child contact with a perpetrator of domestic abuse".
Ms Throssell said she had previously warned a judge that her ex-husband would "either kill or significantly harm the boys".
"He was on the edge", she said.
"He threatened to commit suicide a couple of months earlier and he just wasn't in the right place at the time to have safe contact with the two boys.
"What we need to do is to make sure children are at the heart of every decision made and they are allowed their voice.
"Jack never had his voice heard until he was in the fire and he said to the fireman 'my dad did this and he did it on purpose'.
An inquest into the boys' deaths heard they had been lured to their father's home with a new model train set before Sykes, who had recently separated from Ms Throssell, set fire to the building.
Sykes and Paul died in the fire, while Jack died in hospital six days later.
A coroner ruled both boys had been unlawfully killed and recorded a verdict of suicide in the case of their father.


Gulnara Karimova, the once-powerful daughter of late Uzbek ex-President Islam Karimov, has been in detention since a corruption conviction in 2015, officials have confirmed.

Ms Karimova, 45, was tipped to succeed her father, who died last year, until she fell out with her family in 2014.
The prosecutor-general's office said "a five-year restriction of liberty order" was imposed nearly two years ago.
It is thought she has been under house arrest. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Once the country's ambassador to Spain, Gulnara Karimova's name became the international face of Uzbekistan, running significant business interests, including a fashion label and jewellery collection, and recording pop videos.
But she became embroiled in bribery and money-laundering investigations.
The prosecutor-general's office has now detailed two corruption cases against her, concerning assets of around $1bn (Â£760m) belonging to her in 12 countries, including the UK, Russia, Malta and United Arab Emirates.
It said the restriction of liberty order was imposed when she was found guilty in one case. A second is ongoing.
Ms Karimova was also being investigated for fraud, money laundering and concealing foreign currency, it said, adding that officials were looking to freeze her assets.
In an interview with the BBC in December, her son denied reports suggesting his mother had died, and accused the Uzbek security services of keeping her in isolation.
Islam Karimov Jr, who lives in London, urged officials to make her whereabouts public, but no details were given.


British amateur champion Scott Gregory hopes to keep things simple on the links of Royal Troon as he prepares to tackle his first major.

Hampshire's Gregory will tee off on Thursday having already secured places at next year's Masters and US Open.
A chance to secure the silver medal for leading amateur is an added incentive.
"My goal this week is to just play the best I can," the 21-year-old told BBC Sport. "I've just got to go out there and shoot the best score."
Sandy Lyle and David Duval will partner Gregory for the first two rounds. But he has another major champion in fellow former Hampshire amateur Justin Rose to thank for raising his profile.
"My Twitter followers went through the roof once Justin started following me after the win at Royal Porthcawl," said Gregory.
Rose first grabbed headlines when he finished tied fourth as an amateur at the 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale, a day before turning professional.
"I'm hoping to catch up with him this week for an insight into that, but so far our only real chats have been on Instagram and Twitter.
"But it's been great to meet all the guys I have so far, who I'm used to seeing on television."
A practice round on Tuesday with 2012 US Open champion Webb Simpson also offered Gregory a glimpse into the potential professional world that awaits.
"It's just seeing how someone like him goes about playing four weeks consecutively and how you manage your body through it," he said.
"Those kind of things about life on tour and are going to be useful going forward."
While Gregory is playing in his first Open, he will be in the presence of two former winners of the famous silver claret jug, Sandy Lyle and David Duval, who number 59 past appearances between them.
1985 Open champion Lyle, now 58, is playing in his 41st Open. Only Gary Player, with 46 consecutive appearances from 1956 to 2001, has played in more.
American Duval, 44, who won at Lytham in 2001, will be competing in his 20th Open, having only missed two since the former world number one first jetted over in 1995.
The threeball are scheduled to go out out fourth on the first morning, at 07:08 BST, with a more civilised tee time of 12:09 on the second day. And, although the weather forecast is not great, Gregory will have plenty to talk about with them on the way round.
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Announcing the group resignation by the Hezbollah-led opposition's 10 cabinet members, Christian minister Gibran Bassil said they hoped President Michel Suleiman would take the necessary steps towards the rapid formation of a new government.

That is about the last thing that is likely to happen, and everybody knows it.
Assuming the situation cannot be retrieved - and it has gone so far that it is hard to see that happening - Lebanon is clearly in for a lengthy period of political deadlock and tension.
Forming a new government on the debris of Saad Hariri's collapsed national unity cabinet, which lasted barely 14 months and never functioned properly, is going to be anything but rapid.
President Suleiman will no doubt hold the ritual round of consultations with parliamentary blocs to see if they can agree on a replacement to try to form a new administration.
Mr Hariri and his allies, who won a narrow majority in the 2009 elections, will clearly continue to nominate him, and will not endorse anyone else in the absence of a broad entente.
It will not be possible to form a new government without their support.
Hezbollah and its allies could bring the old government down, but they cannot simply replace it on their own.
So there is bound to be a prolonged period of gruelling, angry politicking as a way forward is sought.
As the internal balance of power is fought over, outside players are also bound to pitch in, knowing as they do that the balance in Lebanon reflects wider regional and international currents.
A great deal will depend on how far Syria and Iran, which support Hezbollah and its allies, want to push their advantage.
Up until recently they appeared content to keep the Lebanese situation unresolved but on hold, contained.
Syria was working closely with Saudi Arabia, the regional patron of Mr Hariri and his Sunni community, to find a formula to defuse tensions in advance of indictments which the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is expected to issue within a matter of days, naming some Hezbollah members in connection with the murder of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.
Both the basic sides in Lebanon were supporting what they called the "S-S" (Saudi-Syrian) initiative, which had reportedly been crystallised into a concrete though highly secret accord.
But on the ground, a dispute appeared to arise over who should take the first steps to implement their obligations. Each was waiting on the other.
There was meanwhile a growing number of reports that the Americans did not want to see a settlement reached which would let Hezbollah off the hook in advance of the STL indictments.
But for Hezbollah, not coming to terms before the indictments constituted a red line.
It has never concealed the strength of its hostility towards the expected indictments, which it sees as an existential slur on its status and appeal as a heroic liberation movement.
As the indictments grew more imminent and inevitable, neither side budged, and Hezbollah and its friends made their move.
President Suleiman is reported to have made an 11th-hour appeal to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to save the government from fragmenting, only to be told that he had no control over events.
Senior figures from Hezbollah and its closest ally Amal - both Shia movements - also reportedly went to Damascus and met President Asad only hours before the drama reached its denouement.
Whether the S-S initiative was blocked by the Americans - as Hezbollah and its allies insisted - or was never solid enough in the first place, it does seem to have nosedived, with so far unclear consequences for Syrian-Saudi relations.
But the consequence for Lebanon is clear.
As Hezbollah intended, the indictments will come out with no empowered prime minister able to give them any kind of credence, even if only tacit.
Hezbollah had demanded that Mr Hariri and his allies renounce the STL and denounce its indictments in advance of their appearance, something he proved unable to do.
Fears have been expressed that the indictments could trigger the kind of sectarian Sunni-Shia tensions which exploded in 2008, when Hezbollah fighters took over West Beirut and crushed pro-Hariri elements.
While friction on the ground cannot be excluded, it is not inevitable.
If Hezbollah is worried about its image, using its arms - supposedly to be employed exclusively against Israel - to bully and punish fellow-Lebanese would compound any damage the indictments might do to its reputation.
It appears to be sensitive to that issue.
It has been careful to avoid the impression of a militant Shia takeover.
Most announcements from the opposition side in the current crisis have been made not by Hezbollah itself but by Christian figures such as Mr Bassil, from the movement headed by the Christian former General Michel Aoun, who is allied to Hezbollah.
The coming days will no doubt see intensive efforts by outside parties to try to rescue the situation.
The Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, on a visit to Turkey expressed fears for the local and regional repercussions of a collapse in Lebanon.
Turkey itself shares those concerns. Qatar, which mediated a resolution to the conflict in 2008, has also been in touch.
France is strongly interested too. It recently hosted President Assad of Syria, and Mr Hariri stopped off to consult with President Nicolas Sarkozy - he had broken off his visit to the US to rush home after the opposition pulled the rug from under him as he was meeting President Barack Obama.
But it seems likely that the next substantive act in the drama will be the issuing of the indictments by the STL sometime in the coming days.
The impact may not be immediate and may in any case be mitigated.
Unless there are leaks - not an unlikely eventuality - the identity of the potential accused should not be made known until six to eight weeks later, when the STL's pre-trial judge may endorse the draft indictments and issue warrants.
Hezbollah has also done much to prepare the ground and denigrate the STL's case, which is reportedly based largely on evidence gleaned from telephone records.
The opposition has spent much energy documenting the degree to which Lebanese telecommunications have been penetrated by Israeli intelligence, and numerous alleged Israeli spies have been arrested.
The latest developments mean that any arrest warrants issued by the STL will be even more of a dead letter than they would have been anyway.
The idea of Hezbollah members being dragged off by Lebanese gendarmes to face trial in The Hague has always been far-fetched.
While the STL may be a professional international judicial body, it was conceived in highly politicised conditions at a time when the balance of power in the Middle East had been heavily tilted by the US invasion of Iraq and implied threats to Syria, Iran and other "hostile" powers.
The balance has now shifted in the opposite direction, but the STL is still there, to the discomfiture of some. These include the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, who pushed for it at the time but now finds himself threatened by its time-lagged consequences.
The question now is whether Syria and Iran want to see the kind of subservient government installed in Beirut that existed at times in the past, or whether they would entertain a more balanced accommodation.
Either possibility is going to take a long time to reach, as conditions are not yet ripe.
Nor is the regional balance of power - as reflected also in Iraq - yet clearly established and stabilised, especially in terms of the US-Iranian contest.
So the best the Lebanese can hope for is that there will be an implicit understanding to continue keeping the streets quiet for an indefinite period, however acute political differences and invective may become.
It is not going to be an easy time.
And as if all that were not enough, there is Israel on the southern border, ever ready for another attempt to deal a death-blow to a resurgent Hezbollah which declares itself stronger than ever.


It is a rare moment in a large crowd when everyone puts down their smart phone and just listens.

That rarity occurred when Captain Peter Kelleher, a soldier from Cork, re-read the 1916 proclamation of Irish independence outside Dublin's GPO.
Social media went on hold in the crowd.
The 'selfies' stopped. There was a Twitter ceasefire.
It was a re-enactment of history, 100 years after the actual event.
Watching it happen had a profound effect on many people in the crowd.
"That's why I came home this weekend, to be able to hear that today," said Helen Healy, a Dubliner who went to live in London 30 years ago.
She brought her husband and teenage son too.
One young boy in the crowd came not just with his family, but a gun. He pointed it at me.
"It's not a real one," he assured me, with a smile.
When the Twitter truce ended, I tweeted a picture of him.
There was a measured reaction from some quarters.
"Remember the fallen, but please don't glorify," came one reply.
For anyone squeamish about the sight of weaponry, it was not a good day to be on the streets of Dublin.
The centenary parade was dominated by the tanks and guns of the Irish army.
So why was it primarily a military parade rather than a civic parade?
"One of the reasons is we wanted to send out the message that the real descendants of the 1916 volunteers are not the various republican paramilitary groups," said one Dublin politician.
"There's only one real army in Ireland."
Among those watching the Irish nation commemorate the 1916 rebellion against British rule, was the current British ambassador in Dublin, Dominick Chilcott.
He had a front-row seat outside the GPO. So was he sitting a little uncomfortably?
No, he said afterwards, adding: "Today had a very inclusive feel to it."
The ceremony was not just to remember the rebels, but everyone killed during the Easter Rising.
Indeed, among the relatives of the dead were the descendants of 23-year-old policeman Charles McGee from County Donegal who was shot during the rebellion.
For decades, his relatives felt embarrassed talking about him. The prevailing public mood in the Republic of Ireland was that if you were not on the side of the rebels, you were one of the bad guys.
However, his grand-niece Madge O'Boyle was among the guests invited to the GPO ceremony.
"Charles is not one of the forgotten victims. Not any more," she said gratefully.
Unionist leaders from Stormont were invited but decided not to attend.
Apart from that, the event took place with barely a hitch.
Even the weather was kind.
Now Irish politicians will turn their attention to trying to form a new coalition government.
"That could take another 100 years," said one weary Dubliner.


Worcester Warriors have made their third short-term signing inside a month by bringing in Canada fly-half Connor Braid.

The injury-hit Premiership strugglers have signed 26-year-old Braid on a contract until the end of the season.
The versatile back, who can also play at centre or in the back three, won the most recent of his 21 caps in last weekend's 21-16 defeat in Romania.
He is due to join Worcester following Canada's match with Samoa on Friday.
Head coach Carl Hogg said: "With the recent injuries to Ryan Lamb and Tom Heathcote, we're delighted Connor is able to come in and bolster the side in the number 10 position.
"He has plenty of experience in goal-kicking while his versatility across the backline will also be of great benefit."
Warriors, who played adaptable youngster Jamie Shillcock at 10 for the first time in the Premiership in Friday's 18-17 home defeat by Northampton, have a lengthy injury list.
Skipper GJ van Velze has been missing since the second game of the season following a concussion injury, while Francois Hougaard has been ruled out for three months after shoulder surgery.
They began the month with a 15 first-team players sidelined following injuries, which prompted moves for Australian scrum-half Michael Dowsett and full-back Auguy Slowik.
Former Glasgow Warriors, London Scottish and Doncaster Knights goal-kicker Braid has also represented his country on the World Sevens circuit.


Endangered rhinos in Kenya are being monitored with the aid of several Raspberry Pi computers.

The bare-bones machines are controlling cameras to help form a cyber 'safety net' watching remote areas of the Tsavo National Park.
The cameras will help rangers keep an eye on regions they do not usually patrol to spot rhinos or poachers.
Images grabbed by the gadgets will be uploaded via satellite and available to anyone via a mobile app.
The Instant Wild project has emerged from a collaboration between the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS), the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and technology development firm Cambridge Consultants.
Patrick Omondi, deputy director of wildlife conservation at KWS, said the cameras would vastly extend the reach of the agency.
"We manage around 8% of the total land mass of Kenya - and these cameras will be critical in helping us monitor the well-being of rare animals and ensure their habitats remain protected from poachers," he said in a statement.
Prof Jonathan Baillie, head of conservation at ZSL, said the cyber 'safety net' was a big part of a plan to significantly reduce poaching in Tsavo over the next two years. Poachers have been stepping up their activity in Africa recently, he said, and had killed more than 1,000 rhinos in the last 18 months.
The project has led to the creation of small self-contained units that use the Raspberry Pi to monitor input from motion sensors, snap images as animals or people pass by and upload the pictures via the Iridium satellite network.
The Pi was chosen because it uses so little power and will be able to get the most out of the onboard batteries, said Jonathan Pallant, senior engineer at Cambridge Consultants.
"These cameras are going to be installed in locations where you really don't want to have to go and change the batteries all that often," he said.
In order to ensure the Pi computers could withstand conditions in the field, Cambridge Consultants subjected them to the extremes of temperature and humidity found in Africa and even simulated attacks by the wild animals they will be helping to photograph.
The cameras are being placed near water-holes and on game trails to snap animals as they drink and move around the bush. Images are uploaded to the Instant Wild website and distributed via an app to smartphones. Followers are helping to identify the species seen by the cameras.
The Instant Wild project won Â£500,000 from Google in early 2013 to help get the idea off the drawing board and into the field. Other Instant Wild cameras have been placed in regions in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. There are further plans to put them in the Himalayas and the South Pole.


Northampton Town have signed former Newcastle United striker JJ Hooper and ex-Coventry City and Hibernian midfielder Gary Deegan.

The pair have been given one-year contracts after trials at Sixfields.
Manager Aidy Boothroyd believes 6ft 1in Hooper, 19, has a lot to learn but does have genuine potential.
"JJ is a very talented individual, I expect him to be challenging for a first team place towards the end of the season," he told the club's website.
"We are giving him an opportunity to make a name for himself and to get his career going."
Deegan, 25, began his career in the Republic of Ireland playing for Shelbourne, Longford, Galway and Bohemians before joining Coventry City in 2010.
He scored five times in 43 appearances for the Sky Blues, but moved on to Hibernian in the summer of 2012, where he played 23 times before being released at the end of last season.
"Gary is a player with a good pedigree and I am pleased to have signed him," added Boothroyd.
"He will give us bite and aggression in the midfield and he is a good blend with the midfielders we already have here."


Widnes Vikings inflicted a fourth consecutive defeat on Wakefield, scoring seven tries to get their first win since the start of the Super 8s.

Both sides were already out of play-off contention but defeat leaves the Wildcats two points adrift of Widnes at the foot of the table.
Patrick Ah Van crossed for two of the hosts' tries as Vikings dominated.
Wildcats' consolation tries through Craig Hall and Ben Jones-Bishop came only after they were 38 points behind.
Rhys Hanbury, Matt Whitley and Corey Thompson's scores added to Ah Van's early opener to put Vikings 24-0 up at the break.
After half-time, Stefan Marsh and Lloyd White - who kicked five goals - bolstered the hosts' tally before Wakefield finally got on the scoreboard through Hall.
Sunday's home win was in stark contrast to the 38-0 thrashing Widnes suffered in their previous outing at home to leaders Hull FC.
Widnes coach Denis Betts: "The job was done and dusted at 24-0. They had some injuries but I was pleased with the roster that they brought here and we did a really professional job.
"The players spoke about the Hull loss a week ago and they wanted to put a few things right and they did that today. We are making progress.
"We were really disappointed with the Hull game and we reacted well. For us it's about improvement, year on year, game on game and I'm pretty satisfied with what we've done."
Wakefield coach Chris Chester: "I do feel sorry for the fans. They know where we have come from, but today's performance was disappointing.
"Widnes marched us up the field far too easily and put us under pressure which we didn't handle well. We have four weeks now to turn this around.
"There are players out there who are playing for contracts so they should be looking over their shoulders. We don't want to finish this season on a downer - but it's up to them."
Widnes: Hanbury; Thompson, Dean, Marsh, Ah Van; Mellor, Brown; Burke, White, Buchanan, Whitley, Houston, Cahill.
Replacements: Chapelow, Dudson, Heremaia, Farrell.
Wakefield: Jowitt; Hall, Tupou, Lyne, Jones-Bishop; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Moore, Arona, Molloy, Walton, Sio.
Replacements: Fifta, Yates, Batchelor, Arundel.
Referee: Gareth Hewer


Ronny Deila admits he will have regrets from his time at Celtic, but will never rue his decision to join the club.

The Norwegian manager, 40, will leave Glasgow this summer after two seasons in charge and three trophies won.
On Sunday, Celtic beat Aberdeen to clinch a fifth straight top-flight title and Deila's second Premiership success.
"I would do a lot of things differently, but there are a lot of things I did really well," he said.
Champions Celtic lost 2-1 at St Johnstone on Wednesday evening and have one game to play this term.
Deila intends to make a sharp exit after his final match in charge, Sunday's visit of Motherwell, after which the club will be presented with the Premiership trophy.
He will return home to be with his family as it is a national holiday in Norway.
And while he has not ruled out a return to Scottish football, Deila says he needs a few months off to reflect, recharge the batteries and "get the hungry look again".
He says he has learned from the Scottish game, although has found the amount of fixtures less than ideal.
"I'm sitting here today much more mature, much more experienced - a better person and manager," he explained.
"[I will miss] being part of a club like [Celtic] and all the games, the fans and the intensity that goes into it. I love it and hate it. You're afraid to lose but at the same time you love to win.
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"You are really on a high all the time, and so alive."
Deila believes, after 20 years of club football, not having the weekly routine will be strange for him, but wants to take time to carefully consider his next move.
And he joked he might take a job in television as it looks "easy".
"It has to be something that excites me," he said. "It was like that when I came to Celtic. There was no thought in my head that I was not going to do this and I will never regret that decision."
On advice for his successor, he says that very much depends on who it is, their experience and personality.
"I can tell them things but it's like with kids, you tell them but they're going to do it anyway," he added.
"This club is special and they need to understand how special it is and protect it, because everybody now wants to drag it down. They want us to lose.
"It's important we have unity. The players, the staff, the new manager coming - they need time and support.
"If they do that people will grow and they will get the best out of them and there will be a lot more trophies here at Celtic."