Groups that rely on European funding for tech projects have been told the money is "on pause" in the wake of the Brexit vote.

An email warning about the funding freeze was sent to a large group of stakeholders by Coast to Capital, a group that allocates European funding around the south-east of England.
It blamed the recent Brexit referendum and the change of government.
The Treasury insisted that funds had not been stopped.
But the BBC understands that some government departments are waiting for a formal government announcement about how funding will continue before signing any new agreements.
"The Treasury has not stopped any payments from the European Regional Development Fund and to suggest it has is simply untrue," said a representative.
"The UK remains a member of the EU, and that means no immediate change to EU programmes.
"We recognise the need to bring any uncertainty to an end as soon as possible, however, and we have been working urgently to understand the future implications to programmes.
"We will make an announcement on EU funding soon."
The email from Coast to Capital - seen by the BBC - warns that it will not be able to allocate its current round of 60m euros  in "the near future".
"A combination of the recent 'Brexit', the change of prime minister and the cabinet changes resulting in a new secretary of state has led to a 'pause' on issuing new calls and on signing new grant funding agreements nationwide," it says.
Coast to Capital's funds are allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
John Spindler, who runs Capital Enterprise, an umbrella group for 600 technology start-ups that had been due to receive £3.7m from the European Regional Development Fund, was one of those to receive the email.
"We have been told the money is on pause and, as the funding needs to be matched by the corporate sector, we are concerned that they will also withdraw," he said.
"It is not a great signal to be downsizing the tech community," he said.
Other groups that allocate funding, including the Greater Cambridge Growth Hub, have also been told signing agreements on new projects is being paused, pending a decision on how future funds will be allocated.
"We are waiting for further guidance from the DCLG," a representative said.
Cumbria, South Yorkshire, Scotland and Wales have all in the past benefited from the European Regional Development Fund to build superfast broadband networks.
Cornwall is one of the biggest beneficiaries and has been given a total of £2.5bn since 2007.


The deaths of two people whose bodies were found at a house in Lincolnshire are being treated as murder, police said.

The bodies were discovered in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, at about 12:15 BST on Friday. Their identities are yet to be released.
Two people arrested on Friday in connection with the deaths remain in police custody for questioning.
Lincolnshire Police said they believed it was an "isolated incident".
The force appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area on Friday to come forward.
Supt Paul Timmins said: "I would like to make clear that this type of crime is extremely rare and not something we often see.
"There is still a lot of police activity in the area and extra officers in the neighbourhood and I would encourage anyone who has any concerns to please talk to our officers."


Twitter is working with media firm Bloomberg to create a 24-hour rolling news channel for the messaging service.

The live video stream will be made up of original programming as well as feeds from Bloomberg bureaus.
The deal builds on the live-streaming deals Twitter has done with others that spreads content via the social network.
The deal could also help Twitter compete more with giants such as Google and Facebook, which already make a lot of money from video ads.
Bloomberg's chief executive Justin Smith said the video stream would be "broader in focus" than its existing output.
He said it would build on the habits of many Twitter users who send tweets as they watch live events.
"Viewers have already embraced a multi-stream experience with live events and marrying those experiences seemed like a very powerful thing to offer to consumers," he told the Wall Street Journal.
Twitter's chief operating officer Anthony Noto said the stream would be designed for mobile audiences so people can focus on it when they see something interesting to them.
The deal builds on other efforts Twitter has made to beef up the live video streaming available via its service. In the first three months of 2017, Twitter broadcast about 800 hours of live video. Many of those streams were connected to specific events.
Neither Twitter nor Bloomberg would be drawn on the terms of the deal. The ad-supported, 24-hour service is due to be working by the autumn.


At least 140 people died in India's worst train accident in six years, when the Indore-Patna Express came off the rails at 03:00 local time (21:30 GMT Saturday) near the northern Indian city of Kanpur.

Another 180 people are injured with 56 in critical condition.
BBC Hindi's Zubair Ahmed spoke to some survivors of the train accident of their experiences:
Why do India's trains keep going off the rails?
In pictures: Train derailment
Mr Kumar lost five members of his family, including his mother, sister, uncle and grandmother, in the crash. He only found out that his family members had died a day after the accident.
"My cousin and I were sleeping in a different coach to the rest of my family. This decision saved our lives.
"We woke up because the train suddenly stopped and we all fell to the floor. When I got out, I saw the coach that my family was in, had broken into three pieces."
Mr Vishwakarma lost his mother and two other family members in the accident.
"There was a loud sound that woke me up. I don't remember how I escaped, but within seconds I was out of my coach. I was looking for my family when I saw that my brother was trapped under the debris. I tried to pull him out, when I realised that my right arm was broken.
Mr Vishwakumar said he had lost consciousness at that point and woke up in a hospital room.
"I visited the hospital morgue and saw my brother's body lying there," he said.
Ms Devi, who has suffered multiple fractures and was not speaking to anyone except the nurses taking care of her.
She was with 20 people who were returning from a religious pilgrimage. She is one of only four survivors in the entire group.
"Her son and daughter-in-law are among the dead," a hospital staff member told the BBC.
"She has not been informed about the death of her family members. Relatives fear she will be go into shock if she is told. She keeps telling people who are visiting her to help her find her son and his wife."
A four-year-old boy and an 18-month-old girl were also found - lying unconscious outside two train carriages.
Doctors said the children were grievously injured and dehydrated when they were brought to the hospital.
"They have now recovered," a doctor said.
The children are unable to give authorities the names of their parents or any other information that could help identify who they are.
Hospital authorities have been circulating pictures of the children on WhatsApp, in the hope that their parents or relatives will come forward.


A teenager born without fingers on his hand has had a £30 artificial version created for him on a 3D printer.

Joe Oxenbury, from Leamington Spa, was born six weeks premature with an upper limb deficiency in his left hand.
His father Chris said he had found out about 3D printing techniques on Facebook and contacted a network of volunteers to access the technology.
He said traditional prosthetic hands were very expensive and "more cosmetic than workable".
Mr Oxenbury said he was "lost for words" when he saw the printed hand, which is made from chrome and cost £30 to produce.
"When Joe was born, I thought some kind of technology would be able to help him, and now, 15 years on, we are there," he said.
He said the 3D-printed version was "more organic" than previous prosthetics.
"This new hand feels like part of him," he said.
"When he rotates his wrist, his fingers clench."
Mr Oxenbury said he now wanted to invest in a 3D printer and use the design to help other children.
"As his fingers get bigger, or if anything breaks down on the hand, this technology means you can just print it out," he said.
James Holmes-Siedle, a volunteer from 3D-printing website Enablingthefuture, owns the printer that created the hand.
"The hand takes about 20 hours to print," he said. "It's a complicated bit of technology."
Charities said that if the technique improves it could revolutionise prosthetics.
"It's something that's moving really fast because printers are so accessible," said Jo Dixon, the national co-ordinator at Reach, a charity that works with children with an upper limb deficiency.
"The 3D hands are not as all-singing, all-dancing as they could be, but prosthetic hands for children can be very heavy and cumbersome.
"The 3D printed ones are much lighter and they look funky and robotic."


"We, the leaders of the G7, met in Elmau for our annual summit on 7 and 8 June 2015â€¦"

The opening words of the declaration at the end of this two-day meeting hardly set the pulse racing.
"Guided by our shared values and principles, we are determined to work closely together to meet the complex international economic and political challenges of our times. We are committed to the values of freedom and democracy, and their universality, to the rule of law and respect for human rights, and to fostering peace and security. Especially in view of the numerous crises in the world, we as G7 nations stand united in our commitment to uphold freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity."
The language offers little competition to Shakespeare, Goethe, Voltaire or Abraham Lincoln, but then the heads of some of the world's richest democracies are careful not to aim too high.
Each year, when they assemble at some remote luxury resort hotel - and Schloss Elmau is really that, not a great historic Bavarian castle at all - they can always be confident they'll face charges of generating little more than hot air.
So loyal diplomats from almost any of the seven member countries (the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom) are cautious too if you ask them to justify these vastly expensive gatherings.
In whichever language you're talking, they tend to stress some variant of the British Foreign Office mantra. It's about achieving "movement in the right direction".
So, what was the movement this time in the Bavarian Alps?
When the leaders talk about meeting the complex challenges of our times, they don't come more complex than these.
The eye-catching proposal here from the leaders of the highly industrialised countries, which have historically been most responsible for pollution and global reliance on fossil fuels, is that there should be a "decarbonisation of the global economy over the course of this century".
In other words, we must wean ourselves off oil, gas and coal over the next 85 years, and rely instead on clean energy, renewable sources of energy and nuclear power.
Critics say these are mere words, as empty as many uttered in the past, and definitely qualifying for the 2015 Hot Air award. Oxfam was a little more generous, crediting the G7 with "a stuttering start on climate change" with new and significant steps, but the organisation also says the G7 is still not pulling its weight and must put words into action by phasing out coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.
Supporters of the G7 outcome say that it's really important to encourage investors to recognise the coming reality and put their money into clean, not "dirty" fuels. The G7 leaders hope their collective ambition to limit global warming will encourage others at the next big UN conference on climate change in Paris at the end of this year to aim high and do far better than merely agreeing on lowest common denominator goals.
When the leaders talked in their declaration about "our commitment to uphold freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity", at whom, in particular, were they aiming those words?
No prizes for guessing the target was Russia's President Vladimir Putin. This is the second time they have had an annual summit as the G7, not G8, after suspending Russia for "the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula".
Now the G7 preoccupation is with events in Eastern Ukraine. "We expect Russia to stop trans-border support of separatist forces." It's clear to me that the G7 relationship with Vladimir Putin is heading in only one direction: from estrangement towards divorce.
President Obama was deliberately lurid at his end-of-G7 news conference: "He's got to make a decision. Does he continue to wreck his country's economy and continue Russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to recreate the glories of the Soviet empire, or does he recognise that Russia's greatness does not depend on violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other countries?"
Despite Moscow's rejection of all that and its insistence the Russian economy can be strengthened by the self-reliance which comes from having to make products yourself that you can no longer import because of sanctions, the wider story is of steady divergence between President Putin's Russia and the West.
The G7, which regards itself as "a community of values", will continue to urge the maintenance of sanctions and the threat of more if Mr Putin moves even further in what they regard as "the wrong direction".


A 28-year-old mixing desk used by BBC Essex is to be stored at the Science Museum in London as part of a move to help preserve a bygone era of radio.

The Mark III mixing desk used by the BBC in Chelmsford since 1986 is being replaced with new technology.
The desks, designed in the 1970s, were among the last to be designed and built by the BBC, and are still in operation at a handful of stations.
A Science Museum spokesman said the desk was an "exciting new acquisition".
John Liffen, of the museum, described the equipment as "a valuable device to explore how people's relationship with radio has changed over time".
The desk was designed ahead of the rapid expansion of the BBC local radio network.
Geoff Woolf, a technology development manager at the BBC, said: "The Mk III is entirely analogue as digital audio was very much still in its infancy, with CD players considered to be luxury items.
"Accommodating PCs, screens and keyboards was not on the agenda when these were designed as in 1986 computers and software to provide studio solutions was still 15 years away.
"It is more a piece of furniture than a technology solution; the carcass that accommodates the electronics being hand crafted from solid wood, it looks like a sideboard with buttons and switches.
"It undoubtedly has a certain charm."
Editor of BBC Essex, Gerald Main, said: "After 28 years using the same desk, we will be shedding a tear when the Mark III desk leaves the building.
"I am delighted that BBC Essex's desk will be going to a good home to be treasured, for the nation, by the Science Museum."
The change is part of the BBC's Virtual Local Radio (ViLoR) project to upgrade stations while reducing running costs.


A nun who saved Jewish families during World War Two has been made the first Swedish saint in more than 600 years.

Pope Francis canonised Roman Catholic convert Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad at a ceremony in St Peter's Square on Sunday.
Ms Hesselblad hid Jewish families in the convent in Rome where she was the mother superior.
The Pope also canonised Polish monk Stanislaus Papczynski for supporting the poor in the 17th Century.
He founded the first men's religious order dedicated to the Virgin Mary's immaculate conception.
How does someone become a saint?
Ms Hesselblad, a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism, is only the second Swede to become a saint, following Saint Bridget 625 years ago.
A former nurse, she is credited with saving at least 12 Jews during the war, concealing families inside her Rome convent for about six months before the war ended.
She also won praise for promoting better relations between Catholics and non-Catholics and for encouraging both Christians and non-Christians towards the church.
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre honoured her as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in 2004, an award given to non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust.
Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad died in Rome in 1957, aged 87.


Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people ahead of elections next year.

A huge crowd gathered for Friday's rally in a stadium at Marondera, a small town east of the capital, Harare, the state-run Herald newspaper reports.
It adds that the president is planning nine other similar rallies this year.
Mr Mugabe has been in power since 1980 and is due to run again in 2018.
At the rally, he told those who are vying to succeed him to "be at peace".
He added: "The time will come, it's certainly coming".
The country has a youthful population with more than 70% under 35, according to the last census.
There have been some recent concerns about the president's health. He has been seen sleeping at several recent meetings but his spokesman said he was resting his eyes.


A tipper truck driver has admitted killing a cyclist in a rush-hour crash in central London.

Claire Hitier-Abadie, from Westminster, was hit by near Victoria station on 19 February 2015. She died at the scene next to the Victoria Palace Theatre.
Alan Warwick, 61, from Rayleigh in Essex, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to causing death by careless and inconsiderate driving.
He is due to be sentenced on April 18 at the same court.
French national Mrs Hitier-Abadie, 36, moved from Paris to London last year with her husband Pierre.


Colombia has announced it will stop using a controversial herbicide to destroy illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine.

The decision follows a warning by the World Health Organization (WHO) that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic".
The product has been used in US-sponsored crop-spraying anti-narcotics programmes in South America.
President Juan Manuel Santos has said Colombia will need to find other mechanisms to combat coca production.
Anti-narcotics officials in Colombia will have until October to prepare an alternative plan.
"I am going to ask the government officials in the National Drug Council at their next meeting to suspend glyphosate spraying of illicit cultivations," Mr Santos announced.
"The recommendations and studies reviewed by the Ministry of Health show clearly that yes, this risk exists," he added, making reference to the WHO warning on cancer.
But Colombia will not "lower the guard" in its combat against drug trafficking, said Mr Santos.
The Colombian drug eradication programme began in 1994.
The authorities target mainly areas controlled by the country's largest rebel group, the Farc.
They say the Farc use the income from cocaine production to finance its armed struggle.
Other coca-producing countries in the region, including Ecuador and Peru, have also used the herbicide to destroy coca fields.
Farmers say aerial fumigation has destroyed entire fields of coffee and other legal produce.


A cold case investigation into the death of a teenager who was beaten with a baseball bat has led to a second man being charged with his murder.

Paul Croft, 19, died in hospital in March 2005, a week after being attacked in an alleyway in Pendlebury, Salford.
Greater Manchester Police's Cold Case Unit reopened an investigation into his death in 2015.
Paul O'Neill, 35, of Broomhall Road in Pendlebury, was remanded into custody by Manchester magistrates.
A 28-year-old man from Swinton was charged with Mr Croft's murder in November.


Astronaut Tim Peake has been quizzed by Powys high school pupils via a live link with the International Space Station (ISS).

Builth Wells High School had eight minutes to question Maj Peake -  who became the first Briton to walk in space on 15 January.
They used amateur "ham" radio equipment to communicate with ISS as it travelled 215 miles (346km) above Wales.
Signing off, Maj Tim told the students: "It's been great talking to you."
Eight of the school's pupils asked questions on Saturday, with two more from Gwernyfed High School near Brecon also taking part.
Gwen Davies, head girl in Year 13 at Builth Wells, asked Maj Peake - who watched England's Six Nations rugby match against Scotland from space - whether the signal for the broadcast was any good.
He replied: "I really enjoyed watching the rugby up here and I was very grateful to get it sent up,  but I assure you it probably wasn't a better picture than the one you got on Earth."
Pupils also asked scientific questions, such as one about the materials the mission is testing to see how they weather in the the space environment.
Maj Peake said he exercises for two hours a day in space to keep fit.
He also explained it could take up to two years before the density of his bones is back to normal after he returns home.
More than 200 people attended the event at the school.
On Tuesday, Maj Peake sent Wales a St David's Day message.
He was previously questioned by Rhys Maguire-Stokes, eight, of Blaenymaes Primary School, in Swansea, via Twitter.


Developers who have still not fixed homes damaged during the building of a shopping centre two years ago are to reveal repair plans within a fortnight.

A chapel and 10 homes and businesses, next to the Regent Circus complex in Swindon, were affected by construction work by developers ISG.
MP Robert Buckland set up a meeting for residents and ISG after complaints ISG had not "fulfilled its promise".
The BBC has contacted ISG, which is yet to comment.
Rehoboth Baptist Chapel and people living near the Regent Circus complex, which opened fully in February, are still waiting for their properties to be fixed, despite reassurances from ISG at a meeting in March 2014 that any damage would be "put right".
Residents claim subsidence and cracks have affected their homes since the start of the work in April 2013.
Swindon South MP Robert Buckland arranged the meeting after local residents complained to him that ISG had still not repaired the damage.
Mr Buckland said ISG had "agreed a two-week timetable within which they would write to the 10 properties that are covered by the Party Walls Act with details of the remedial works that they will carry out".
He said: "The lack of action on behalf of the developers to help local residents who have been adversely affected by their work concerns me, however.
"By bringing ISG directly to the table, I hope that progress can finally be made to rectify any damage caused, and I will be doing all that I can to ensure that this happens."
Peter Green, from the Back Garden residents group, said: "We are pleased that ISG are again talking to residents. Only time will tell if ISG will this time deliver on their promises."


National League leaders Cheltenham Town have signed Cameron Burgess from Fulham on a loan deal until the end of the season.

The 20-year-old has made four first-team appearances for the Championship club, who signed him in 2014.
A versatile defender, Burgess can play across the back four and has also played in midfield.
Burgess, an Australia Under-23 international, could make his Robins debut against Bromley on Saturday.


The number of households where no adult aged 16 to 64 is in work has fallen for the second year in a row, official figures show.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there were 3.7 million such households in the UK between April and June this year, or about 17.9% of all households.
That was down from 18.7% last year, about 3.85 million households.
In total, five million people aged 16 to 64 live in workless households.
The number of children living in workless households also fell to 1.8 million from 1.84 million.
Workless households are defined as those which include at least one person of working age (16-64) where no one is in work.
The fall is largely down to a reduction in households where people are inactive and a rise in mixed households - those containing some people in work and some who are not.
The ONS data is derived from the quarterly Labour Force Survey, in which 53,000 households across the UK, containing more than 100,000 adults, are quizzed about their work or lack of it.
About 1.45 million, or a third, of workless people cited long-term sickness or disability as the main reason behind their inactivity.
The second most common reason given was being unemployed, accounting for 1.03 million people. After that, the next most common factors were looking after the family, retirement and study.
If fully retired and student households were removed, the number of households in the UK that were workless was 2.92 million, the ONS said.
The lowest percentage of workless households was in 2006, at the height of the global financial bubble, when the ratio stood at 17.3%.
However, there were sharp differences among regions as well as the financial profiles of households.
"There are some stark differences across the country. For example, in the north-east of the country, 24.5% of households are workless and in the south-east, just over 14%," the ONS's labour analyst Jamie Jenkins told the BBC.
In addition, just 4% of households that live in homes paid with mortgages were workless, compared with 45% of households living in social housing, he said.
At the same time, the ONS also issued statistics showing that people in the UK are now living in good health for longer.
Healthy life expectancy (HLE) increased by more than two years in the period 2008-10 compared with 2005-07.


EU foreign ministers have extended economic sanctions against Russia until the end of January 2016.

The aim is to make Russia comply with the Minsk ceasefire accord signed with Ukraine in February, EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic tweeted.
EU and US sanctions target associates of President Vladimir Putin and Russian state banks, military and energy firms.
The ministers also launched a naval operation called EU Navfor Med, to track Mediterranean people smugglers.
Initially European warships will just monitor the smugglers' activities - focused on Libya - and alert national authorities. Military intervention to stop the migrant boats would require UN authorisation.
The EU foreign ministers extended the sanctions against Russia at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.
A statement said the decision was taken without debate in response to "Russia's destabilising role in eastern Ukraine".
Russia condemned the move, warning that it would respond reciprocally.
"Russia naturally considers these sanctions groundless, unlawful. And we have never been the initiators of the sanction measures," President Putin's press secretary was quoted as saying by Russia's Echo Mosvky radio station.
Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter, speaking during a visit to Berlin, Germany, said the sanctions were having an effect in countering Russia's "aggression" in Ukraine.
But he added: "We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot war with Russia.
"We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake: we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us. We will stand up to Russia's actions and their attempts to re-establish a Soviet-era sphere of influence."
EU sanctions were imposed on Russia after Moscow's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. They have been escalated because of Russia's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Nato says hundreds of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles have gone into eastern Ukraine, along with regular Russian army soldiers.
Moscow denies direct involvement, but says some Russian volunteers are helping the separatist pro-Russian rebels.
Under the sanctions regime Russian state banks are excluded from raising long-term loans; exports of dual-use equipment for military use in Russia are banned; and future EU-Russia arms deals are banned.
There is an EU-US ban on exports of some oil industry technology and services, though gas remains unaffected.
The sanctions also target many senior officials in Russia and in the separatist leadership, including Crimean leaders, and organisations linked to them.
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the EU Navfor Med operation would initially involve "information-gathering and patrolling on the high seas to support the detection and monitoring of smuggling networks".
But she said the ultimate aim remained intercepting the boats and breaking up the smugglers' network.
"We've been working, both with our regional partners and the UN framework, to make sure that this can happen in the most reasonable time we can foresee."
Plans for the operation were agreed last month, as unprecedented numbers of migrants arriving by boat have put huge pressure on Italy and Greece.
The naval headquarters is in Rome under an Italian admiral.
The EU has pledged to crack down on the smuggling gangs. Many migrants come from Eritrea and Syria - and the EU considers them to be refugees in need of assistance.
But thousands more come from sub-Saharan Africa and Asian countries, many of them economic migrants escaping poverty.


A dog owner who admitted ordering her Staffordshire bull terrier to attack another woman in Peterhead has been jailed.

Vickilee Galloway, 37, set her dog on Stacey Findlay after the two women started arguing in February last year.
Part of Ms Findlay's ear was torn off and a man was also attacked.
Galloway admitted assault by inciting her pet to attack Ms Findlay. She was jailed for three years at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Judge Lord Kinclaven told her: "There is no alternative to a custodial sentence and it requires to be a significant custodial sentence."
The judge ordered that the dog be destroyed, as he was not satisfied it would not constitute a danger to public safety.
Galloway had also admitted being the owner of a dog that was so dangerously out of control that it attacked Brian Pennie.
Both victims were left with parts of their ears missing and needed hospital treatment.
Advocate depute Gillian Ross had previously told the High Court in Aberdeen that the incident happened after Galloway fell out with Ms Findlay while drinking in Mr Pennie's flat.
She said: "The accused started telling the complainer that her name was not in fact Stacey."
Ms Ross said Galloway then told her pet dog Jake to attack the other woman.
She told the court: "She used the words 'get her', 'Jake attack', or something similar.
"She was bitten on the arm which caused her to fall to the ground.
"The dog then started biting and attacking her left ear."
Galloway eventually managed to get the dog under control by grabbing his collar after it injured Mr Pennie and an ambulance was called.
Defence counsel Emma Toner said Galloway had been a responsible dog owner in the past.
She said: "Her position is she had no expectation that the dog was capable of causing such injuries or would behave in that manner.
"The dog was never trained by her to attack anyone."
Miss Toner argued that a non-custodial disposal was appropriate for Galloway who was considered suitable for a community payback order.
Judge Lord Kinclaven told Galloway, who sat dabbing her eyes throughout the proceedings, that he would also ban her from owning a dog for life.
He said: "By your actions you have indicated you are not a fit and proper person to have custody of a dog."


A former Saved by the Bell actor has been convicted of two charges after a bar fight on Christmas Day last year during which a man was stabbed.

But Dustin Diamond - who played Screech - was cleared of recklessly endangering public safety by a jury in Wisconsin.
Diamond had told the US court he was defending his fiancee and had not meant to stab anyone during the altercation.
The 38-year-old actor was found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct.
He could face up to nine months in prison on the first charge. The second carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in prison.
The fight happened on 25 December in Port Washington, while Diamond was with partner Amanda Schutz.
Diamond said a group in the bar wanted to pose for pictures and shake his hand.
But he said others were badgering him and Schutz, and he tried to help her by brandishing his pocketknife to deter the group.
Other witnesses told the court the incident began when Schutz pushed a woman at the bar and grabbed another woman's hand.
Diamond, who as well as his role in the American television sitcom also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK in 2013. told police he may have struck a man with a pen.
The man was not seriously injured.
Schutz was also convicted of disorderly conduct and faces up to 90 days in prison.


Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has told his party's conference that voters in Scotland who are against austerity should "come home to Labour".

The MP was addressing delegates four months after the general election which saw Labour lose 40 of its 41 Scottish seats.
Left-winger Mr McDonnell said he was "devastated" by the results north of the border.
The politician went on to say that his was the only anti-austerity party.
Mr McDonnell insisted that Labour's plans for economic growth would reach "all regions and all nations of our country".
He also criticised the Scottish National Party.
Mr McDonnell told the conference: "Let's be clear the SNP has now voted against the living wage, against capping rent levels and just last week voted against fair taxes in Scotland to spend on schools.
"So, here is my message to the people of Scotland - Labour is now the only anti-austerity party.
"For those in Scotland who want to campaign against austerity, now is the time to come home - come home to Labour."
Elsewhere in his speech, Mr McDonnell announced that Labour would launch an "aggressive" drive to ensure that multinational corporations like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google paid "their fair share of taxes".
He added that Labour's strategy would be based on growing the economy by strategically investing in key industries and sectors.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has also been highlighting business and economics at the conference in Brighton.
She insisted that her party needed to develop a "renewed relationship with those who generate the wealth Scotland needs to make our country a fairer place to live".
Labour came under attack from businesses during this year's general election campaign after pledging to freeze energy prices, break up high-street banks and place workers on executive remuneration boards.
In contrast to that, Ms Dugdale said she wanted entrepreneurs to see Scotland as a "good place to do business".
She made the comments ahead of an address at the Guardian fringe event.
Earlier, Labour's Shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray reiterated his stance against the renewal of Trident nuclear weapons.
He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: He said: "My position on Trident has not changed - I will not support the renewal of Trident.
"My party leadership has changed, my party is changing, the Scottish party is changing - my view on Trident has not changed. I will not vote to support it.
"I have had the view for a long time, Jeremy [Corbyn] holds that view.
"If we all supported the same position it would make democracy a much less important part of British life. We should welcome the debate."
The SNP said the shadow chancellor had offered Scotland nothing new from Labour as he continued to commit the party to voting for George Osborne's austerity plans.
SNP depute leader Stewart Hosie MP said: "Mr McDonnell's comments confirm that when it comes to Scotland Labour haven't changed.
"Rather than learning from their mistakes and setting out a positive vision for the country, they are repeating the same negative and ill-informed rhetoric that saw them all but wiped out in Scotland at the last election.
"They may have changed the messengers but it's the same tired old message.
"Labour's economic plans are all over the place. While the SNP went into May's election opposing austerity and campaigning for a real terms increase in public spending, Labour ran scared of the Tories and backed their draconian cuts and welfare reforms.
"While the SNP remain firmly opposed to George Osborne's pro-austerity fiscal charter, John McDonnell just last week mandated Labour MPs to troop through the lobbies with the Tories yet again to back the plans, just as they did when they voted for Â£30bn of cuts in the last parliament. Labour have now lost all credibility and no one will take these claims."


The chancellor announced today that Whitehall departments have found £3bn of savings this financial year, which is equivalent to around 3% of unprotected departmental spending this year.

During the election campaign, David Cameron talked about how the government needs to save £1 from every £100 it spends - so 3% should put it well ahead of where it needs to be.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Today's announcement highlights why that 1% cuts figure was not entirely helpful.
The first problem is that things get more expensive, even at a time when the official measure of inflation is negative.
The National Health Service gets more expensive every year because the population is growing and ageing and because as medical science advances there are more things that can be treated.
Indeed, the government has promised an extra £8bn above inflation to the NHS by 2020, which will presumably have to be made up through further cuts in other departments.
Education spending is protected for children aged five to 16 in terms of cash per pupil, so rising pupil numbers would also need to be made up for by cuts elsewhere.
And international aid is protected and will rise in line with the amount the economy grows.
There are other areas of spending that the government will struggle to cut. Although the amount it is borrowing each year is falling, the total amount it has borrowed is still increasing, which means interest must be paid on more money, albeit at a very low interest rate.
The cost of public sector pensions keeps growing as more civil servants retire and live longer.
And the state pension is triply protected, rising by inflation, wages or 2.5%, whichever is the higher.
To deal with all this, the government is planning to cut £12bn from the welfare bill and save £5bn by cutting back on tax avoidance, but most of the rest comes from cutting spending in unprotected departments. And 3% cuts would not be enough.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies reckons that the current plans to cut spending by 1% for the next two years and then freeze it for a third will actually mean cuts for unprotected departments averaging 5.4% a year for three years.
Which is not to say that the government will not be able to achieve such cuts. The last government was fairly successful at achieving the cuts it targeted, although it may be a bit harder this time because any easy cuts have presumably already been made and this government has a relatively small majority if any of its cuts are controversial on the backbenches.
But it is important to distinguish between the 1% figure we heard during the election and the 3% we heard today.


The other day I was chatting to one of my editors who was dutifully framing a response to a letter of complaint from a viewer exercised about my colleague Mark Carruthers' handling of an interview with Arlene Foster on "The View".

I peered over her shoulder and was surprised to realise I'd read the letter already - in that morning's News Letter.
It was word for word the same, but the BBC's missive was signed by a different individual with a different address from the one on the bottom of the News Letter's version.
Of course "pro forma" letters are not unknown, but what made this coincidence even more intriguing was that a web search could not verify the existence of either individual or either address.
Our viewer got his reply anyway, whether he exists or not.
If the letter does turn out to be less than authentic it would not be the only example of fakery we have had during this campaign.
The Ulster Unionist, Danny Kennedy has complained he has been the victim of a bogus handout, which appeared to have him stridently criticising his DUP opponent William Irwin.
You might wonder what the problem would be with a hand out ostensibly attacking your opponents.
But Mr Kennedy has been to the forefront in telling his supporters to transfer to other unionists - in contrast to his leader Mike Nesbitt's declaration that he plans to give the SDLP his number two vote.
So it is obvious that someone is seeking to make mischief by seeking to jemmy open a crack between unionists in Newry and Armagh.
In Mr Kennedy's case it is unclear who might be behind the fake.
However, one party, Alliance, did get caught red-handed discussing how to try to manipulate a BBC phone-in during exchanges on a closed Facebook page.
The fact that people will go to such lengths shows how high the stakes are in any election.
But, given the days of "voting early and voting often" are now behind us, one thing it is extremely hard to fake is your vote.
Turnout in May last year was just under 55%.
That is part of a falling trend in voter numbers since Stormont's halcyon days when 69% took part in the 1998 election.
There is undoubtedly a lot of public anger stirred by the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal, but will that translate into people queuing outside our polling stations or wishing a plague on all Stormont's houses?
Fake handouts and other tactics may have an impact on the margins, but their influence is nothing like campaign set pieces such as Tuesday night's BBC leaders' debate when voters could see for themselves how the parties handled issues like the RHI saga, voting transfers, Brexit, direct rule and same sex marriage.
And, to be honest, other factors will come into play in determining turnout.
These include how organised the parties are in transporting their supporters to polling stations, and the mundane but all important matter of how wet and windy, or dry and sunny a polling day in early March turns out to be.


Launceston have appointed former player Jimmy Tucker as their new head coach.

The dairy farmer from South Petherwin played 13 seasons at Polson Bridge and has been helping coach the club's colts section for the past few years.
Tucker's appointment comes a day after Mike Lewis stepped down from the job after being offered a different role.
Lewis, who took over in the summer after Neil Bayliss left due to budget cuts, led Launceston to eight defeats from eight games in National Two South.
"I'm kind of thinking what the heck have I let myself in for, but I shall be very proud when I lead the team out for the first time. I'm determined to 're-Launceston-ise' Launceston Rugby Club," Tucker told the club website.
"I want the boys to put some pride back into their shirts and do themselves justice and try to draw back some excitement from the town and the rugby community. I want to bring back some old spirit - but let's call it new spirit.
"As a player I was up for any challenge. My mind doesn't work around the word 'relegation'. As a coach I'm taking that challenge on. If we can avoid going down a league that would be a supreme achievement. That's not a challenge given to me by the club, that's a challenge I have set myself."


Audiences at the final performances of War Horse in London have been given leaflets from campaigners fighting to save World War One stables.

The stables on the Shorncliffe camp in Kent housed the original war horses before they were shipped across the English Channel to the Western Front.
The barracks are now being redeveloped for housing and campaigners are trying to save the stables from demolition.
Roger Joyce, of the Shorncliffe Trust, said he did not want the heritage lost.
"We know that countless thousands of Canadian troops, for instance, used these stables. They had veterinary stables up here and horse stables, and they trained the horses.
"The Canadians want to come back and see that story. If they're demolished there's nothing to show them," he said.
"They want to come back and see where their forebears came and where the horses were trained.
"We're very desperate. We get one chance. Once it's gone, it's gone. The heritage has gone."
The work by home-builder Taylor Wimpey is well under way, and in a statement it said its "conservation strategy" had been approved by Shepway District Council with some structures, such as a library and officers' mess, being preserved, but not the stables.
The stage show of War Horse, which tells the story of Joey taken from a farm to the World War One battlefields, ended its eight-year run at the New London theatre in London on Saturday night.
The Shorncliffe Trust said its leaflets were aimed at raising awareness and funds to save the stables.


Gangnam Style has become the first video to clock up more than one billion views on YouTube.

The South Korean dance track was posted online in July, propelling pop star Psy to worldwide fame.
It has inspired hundreds of parody clips, from members of the British army, Thai navy and Minecraft gamers, among others.
YouTube's owner, Google, said the video had been watched seven million to 10 million times a day on average.
It overtook the previous record holder - Justin Bieber's music video Baby - on 24 November.
"Psy's success is a great testament to the universal appeal of catchy music - and er, great equine dance moves," wrote Kevin Allocca, YouTube trends manager, on the service's blog.
One industry watcher said the fact so many people continued to post their own versions of Gangnam Style had played a huge part in the clip's success.
"I've seen a statistic which reckons the one song will have generated something like $8m [Â£5m] by the end of the year from money that comes directly from YouTube through advertising plus download sales, its uses in adverts and TV programmes," Chris Cooke, business editor of the CMU music news site, told the BBC.
"It shows that YouTube - which is a free-to-use as a promotional platform for the music labels - can lead to substantial income.
"Should every artist be trying to think of a funny video that will go viral and be mimicked? I don't know whether it's a template that can be copied, but it certainly shows how quickly an eye-catching clip can spread thanks to social networks and YouTube."
Sir Martin Sorrell - chief executive of advertising giant WPP - paid tribute to the achievement by making a link between Psy and one of the west's most influential economists.
"Another great example of Theodore Levitt's 'globalisation' and the power of K-pop," he told the BBC.
Scott Mills, the BBC Radio 1 DJ who championed the song on his show, said he was amazed by the phenomenon that the song had become.
"The thing that interests you in the video is the fact that you don't understand the lyrics.
"The first time I saw it was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in America and I just thought it was a bit of fun, but I didn't expect it to be as big as it was.
"Psy came into my Radio 1 show and The Guinness World Records presented him with a plaque for the most 'liked' YouTube video of all time and the amazing thing is he is just a guy, he hasn't tried to do any of this."
D C Han, a South Korean hair stylist who worked in Gangnam before starting a business in London, added that he was proud to see the song become such a massive hit.
"I was amazed" he told the BBC.
"K-Pop is getting stronger and stronger, everywhere in Asia they are listening to it - China, Hong Kong, Taiwan. Maybe even in Japan but they might not admit it."
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According to official figures, the chances of a Scottish university applicant being offered a place have slipped.

Free tuition for Scottish students at Scottish universities comes at a price.
The price is that there is a cap on the number of places - otherwise the cost of the policy could spiral out of control.
The overall number of university places available to Scots is around a record high - but the increase in supply is not keeping up with the increase in applications.
It's worth noting though that these places are also available to students from EU countries outside the UK, as a result of European law, although only a small proportion of free places go to EU students.
We cannot, however, easily say who the unsuccessful Scottish applicants are.
Were they judged unsuitable for the courses they applied for? Did they apply for places at "top" universities unsuccessfully when they might have been better off applying for a course with lower entry requirements?
If an applicant fails to secure a place this year, it should not mark the end of their dreams of a higher education.
They could start a college course - then either reapply or even benefit from schemes which allow students who successfully complete some college courses to go straight into the second or third year of a university course.
Universities broadly support the Scottish government's free tuition policy.
However, if supply and demand get out of kilter, an important political debate could open up - one there is currently little appetite for in academia or amongst left of centre politicians.
Could they even help youngsters from disadvantaged areas secure a place?
The argument has never been that free tuition alone would help someone from a disadvantaged background - rather the argument is that free tuition removed a potential obstacle and that free university tuition was a right.
South of the border, universities can charge fees of up to Â£9,000 a year. Universities can decide for themselves just how many students to admit.
Tuition fees are, in effect, paid back through a scheme which operates rather like a graduate tax - they are not like normal loan repayments.
Graduates pay back 9% of anything they earn over and above Â£21,000 a year until the debt is cleared.
Tuition fees in themselves do not leave any current student better or worse off. The issue is the support towards living expenses.
It can be argued that a non-graduate would be doing well to be earning significantly more than Â£21,000  in their 20s.
Graduates are paying back money they might not otherwise have earned so, despite the repayments, are still better off overall after investing in their future prospects.
The challenge for anyone who does not support the current system of free tuition will be to win over hearts and minds.
They would have to persuade people - especially people in areas where a low proportion of youngsters go to university - that the idea of a graduate paying back the cost of their tuition is fairer than the idea of getting it for free.
Otherwise an argument for tuition fees would risk looking reactionary rather than equitable and progressive.


The appointment of Pakistan's new army chief, announced on Saturday night by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had been awaited with extraordinary interest and nervousness by politicians and the public alike.

The army is the most powerful institution in the country and its chief is the most influential figure in the country.
Ultimately the appointments of General Qamar Javed Bajwa as the new army chief and General Zubair Mahmood Hayat as Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Committee were carried out according to seniority, and with a welcome absence of politicking.
By being the first army chief to step down on schedule in recent years, General Raheel Sharif had in fact set the tone for the smoothest transfer of military power in decades. The reshuffle comes at a sensitive time when Pakistan's relations with India are near an all-time low.
Initially at least General Bajwa is likely to pursue the same policies as the retiring General Sharif who had - perhaps more than any of his predecessors - moulded the nine Corps Commanders into a unified and pro-active team in his own image.
General Sharif was eulogised and turned into a hero by the Pakistani media for his commitment to attacking terrorism. However it would be more beneficial if the power elite viewed the army's counterterrorism strategy as a long term venture that will occupy several generations of generals, rather than a one-off achievement by a single officer.
Pakistan's most powerful man steps down
General Raheel's offensive against terrorist groups in the northwest tribal areas and Karachi was an extension - albeit a more aggressive improvement - on what his predecessor General Ashfaq Kayani had achieved. Now General Bajwa has to go further and deal with the still strong remnants of terrorist groups.
However his first task must be to develop a more equitable sharing of policy and decision-making with the civilian government, with whom General Sharif was frequently at odds. Infighting between them prompted severe bouts of political and economic instability.
At the same time the army's criticism of Nawaz Sharif's failure to provide good governance and deal with corruption had wide public appeal and appeared to be justified. Yet Pakistan cannot stabilise its polity unless a more responsible civilian government is given greater authority over policies the army now believes are its sole prerogative.
The army's dominance over foreign policy means General Bajwa will have to deal with the deteriorating state of Pakistan's relations with its neighbours and the region. Two major sets of extremists remain in the country, which negatively affect relations with two neighbours, India and Afghanistan.
The first are the Afghan Taliban and its appendage the Haqqani network whose leaders remain ensconced in Peshawar and Quetta. Afghanistan, the US and Nato, which still has 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, are highly critical of the army's refusal to end this sanctuary.
Efforts to broker peace talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government last year failed. Since then Islamabad's relations with the Kabul government and even peace-seeking groups within the Taliban have drastically deteriorated.
Pakistan needs to reassess its Afghan policy with the primary aim of winning back the trust of all parties and then allowing a neutral body such as the UN or China to sponsor any future dialogue between Kabul and the Taliban.
However too much of the military's Afghan policy is made through an Indian lens - in the desire to keep Indian influence out of Afghanistan. Unless that changes and Pakistan helps the peace process on its own terms a catastrophic meltdown in Afghanistan would first affect Pakistan.
The second group of militants, such as  Lashkar-e-Tayaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, are based in Punjab province and dedicated to attacking India. By their actions they have the capacity to hold Pakistan hostage to Indian military and economic retaliation.
Their role becomes more dangerous due to India's aggressive shelling of civilians in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Delhi's declared support to Baloch separatists.
India's actions have convinced many Pakistanis that it is trying to undermine and surround Pakistan with hostile forces. The two countries need to de-escalate tensions on the border and enter into a long term dialogue between their respective spy agencies on how to curb covert interference in each other's state.
On the Pakistani side a long-term policy reassessment towards India is needed by both the army and the government.
Hopeful signs are that General Bajwa knows the Kashmir conundrum well, having served there many years, and much earlier while on duty with UN troops in the Congo he served alongside a former Indian army chief General Bikram Singh.


A rampant Manchester City thrashed Tottenham to reassert their title credentials and move six points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal.

The hosts went ahead after 14 seconds when a poor Hugo Lloris clearance led to Jesus Navas brilliantly chipping in.
Alvaro Negredo's shot went in off Sandro and Sergio Aguero turned in a cross to put City 3-0 up at half-time.
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Aguero again slotted in before Negredo's 18-yard strike and a side-footed Navas shot completed the rout.
City have struggled on their travels this season but at home they have been an irresistible force and they were once again in sublime form at Etihad Stadium, where they have a 100% record in the present campaign with six wins from as many games.
The movement and ruthlessness of Aguero, the invention of Samir Nasri, the midfield power of Yaya Toure and pace of Navas was too much for a shell-shocked Spurs as they suffered their biggest league defeat since losing 7-1 to Newcastle in December 1996.
The defeat left Tottenham with just one point from their last three top-flight outings and the drop in form has put them ninth in the Premier League.
Spurs had only conceded one league goal on the road this season - and six in total - but any hope they may have had before the game evaporated after just 14 seconds.
"Tottenham have taken a hammering from a Manchester City side who have achieved an emphatic win with an exhilarating performance. City have won six out of six in the Premier League this season and scored 26 goals in the process. They were brilliant from the start."
Lloris sent a clearance straight to Aguero and, even though the Tottenham keeper parried the Argentine's resulting 22-yard shot, he was beaten when Navas got to the loose ball ahead of Younes Kaboul and brilliantly scored with a first-time chip.
The visitors tried to respond and City centre-back Martin Demichelis cleared an Erik Lamela shot off his goal-line after keeper Costel Pantilimon had missed a low Kyle Walker cross.
However, that was as good as it got for Tottenham as City stunned their rivals.
Aguero latched on to a Nasri cross and, despite Lloris getting a hand to the striker's chipped shot, the ball fell to Negredo, whose shot rebounded off Kaboul and Sandro on the way into the net.
City right-back Pablo Zabaleta then released Navas on the right flank and the Spaniard's inviting low cross was expertly turned in from Aguero as the hosts all-but wrapped up the game before half-time.
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Pellegrini's side continued to dominate after the break and Toure played a one-two with Negredo before surging into the Tottenham box and squaring for Aguero to slot in his 14th goal in 11 games for the club this season.
A Nasri effort came back off the crossbar before the quality of Negredo's finish for City's fifth then epitomised the home side's confidence.
The Spain forward produced a drag back from Fernandinho's through ball to leave defender Michael Dawson trailing before rifling a shot past Lloris from the edge of the box.
Pantilimon had to save an angled shot from recalled Spurs striker Emmanuel Adebayor but it was a rare chance for the visitors, whose misery was compounded when Navas raced clear and slotted in a sixth for City.
To see a photo gallery from the Manchester City v Spurs match go to the BBC Sport Facebook page.


Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson says it would be good to see Leigh Halfpenny return to Wales

The 27-year-old left the Blues for French Top 14 side Toulon in 2014 but his contract expires in the summer.
The Wales international full-back was sat in the stands at the Cardiff Arms Park as the Blues beat the Dragons 27-16 in the Welsh derby on Boxing Day.
"It was great to see him and I know he was quickly back on the plane to his duties in France," Wilson said.
Blues chief executive Richard Holland said earlier in December that they offered Halfpenny a deal to bring him back to Wales.
Speaking after Toulon beat Scarlets in France in the European Champions Cup earlier in December, Halfpenny said he was "weighing up" his options.
"Leigh's obviously got a lot of colleagues and friends from his time with the Blues at the Arms Park," Wilson continued.
"Being home for Christmas I'd imagine with the derby being on his doorstep it was a natural game for him to go and watch."
Halfpenny, who has won 66 caps for Wales, played for Blues for six years before his move to France two years ago.
"I saw him briefly after the game and had a catch up. It's been well documented and I think everybody would like to see Leigh back in Wales," said Wilson.
"Those things are very much ongoing."


Crystal Palace winger Yannick Bolasie's "heart and soul is elsewhere" as he prepares to leave the club, according to manager Alan Pardew.

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Reports suggest the 27-year-old - a second-half substitute in Palace's 1-0 home loss to West Brom - is set to join Premier League rivals Everton.
"We know there is a big offer and a big club in for him," Pardew told the BBC.
"The deal is close and he will go with my best wishes. There's no medical done or agreement 100% done."
Pardew said Palace would miss Bolasie should he leave.
"It's fair to say we know his heart and soul may be elsewhere," he added.
Bolasie, a DR Congo international who joined the Eagles from Bristol City in 2012, was warmly applauded by the home crowd when he came on in the 66th minute of Saturday's match.
"It was good he put himself up for the game and it showed the love he has for Palace," said Pardew.


A free academy principal who was arrested over fraud allegations has been dismissed following a disciplinary investigation by the school.

The Kings Science Academy in Bradford said Sajid Raza Hussain, who founded the school, would be replaced by an interim principal.
He is on bail following his arrest over alleged fraud offences at the school.
The school's governors also said they had asked the government to help find a suitable academy trust to join.
The academy, one of England's first free schools, opened in September 2011 and was praised by Prime Minister David Cameron when he visited it in March 2012.
The Department for Education (DfE) investigated the school after a whistleblower made allegations about its governance, and found nearly Â£80,000 of public money had not been used for "its intended purpose".
In a report, the DfE said it had found "serious failings" with the school's financial management.


Four environmental protesters breached security at New Zealand's parliament building, by climbing up to the roof and sitting on a ledge.

The Greenpeace activists hung a banner to protest against what they say is the government's failure to act on renewable energy and climate change.
They have secured themselves with climbing ropes and harnesses.
A review of security procedures has been ordered but authorities said the protesters must climb down themselves.
The protest began at dawn when the four climbed to the ledge above the main entrance with the banner and solar panels.
Speaking from a mobile phone, Greenpeace activist Johno Smith told the Associated Press that they were experienced climbers and would come down Thursday afternoon once they had got their message out and "before it gets too cold".
"We need to take clean-energy action," he said. "Our society is based around fossil fuels."
David Stevenson, the general manager of Parliamentary Service, said he had ordered a full review of security procedures as a result of the breach.
"Trespassing in or on the buildings is totally inappropriate, regardless of the motivations of those involved," he said in a statement quoted by the AP news agency.
"We are therefore taking this incident very seriously and will be looking for any lessons we can draw from it," he said.


A rainbow gay pride flag has flown at a Stormont government building for the first time.

The flag was raised beside Stormont House on Friday morning to mark Belfast's Pride festival on Saturday.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire approved the flying of the flag.
The move comes amid the continued deadlock over Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage.
It also coincides with the first official visit of Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar to Northern Ireland.
Mr Varadkar is the Republic of Ireland's first openly gay taoiseach and will attend a pride festival breakfast event on Saturday morning.
Thousands of people are expected to take part in the main Belfast Pride parade on Saturday afternoon.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is still banned.
The issue is one of the major stumbling blocks in the ongoing Stormont crisis, with Sinn Féin demanding that the DUP stop blocking a law change.
Before the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed in January, the DUP had used a Stormont veto known as a petition of concern to block motions to change the law on same-sex marriage.
The party has rejected accusations that it is homophobic and said that it is protecting the "traditional" definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
Stormont House is Mr Brokenshire's base within the grounds of the wider Stormont estate.
He said that while same-sex marriage was a matter for devolved government at Stormont, he hoped that the law would change.
"I voted for equal marriage in England and Wales and, like the prime minister, hope this can be extended to Northern Ireland in the future," he said.


A man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV) in Tunisia, in what is believed to be the first such case in Africa.

Tunisia's health ministry said the 66-year-old had visited Saudi Arabia, which is badly affected by the virus.
About 20 deaths and 41 cases have been reported worldwide since 2012, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.
NCoV is from the same family of viruses as the one that caused the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003, killing about 770 people.
However, NCoV and Sars are distinct from each other, the WHO says.
It appears likely that the virus can be passed between people in close contact, it adds.
The Tunisian man, a diabetic, had been complaining of breathing problems since he returned from Saudi Arabia and he died in hospital in the coastal city of Monastir, AFP news agency reports.
Two of his children also contracted the virus, but had responded to treatment, the health ministry said, in a statement.
"These Tunisia cases haven't changed our risk assessment, but they do show the virus is still spreading,'' said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, AP news agency reports.
Cases have been detected in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, the UK and France.
"All of the European cases have had a direct or indirect connection to the Middle East, including two cases with recent travel history from the UAE," the WHO Update says.
Twenty-two of the 41 cases reported worldwide are in Saudi Arabia, it adds.
Out of the 20 deaths, nine of them have been in the kingdom, WHO says.


Nigeria's interim coach Samson Siasia has given up in his bid to lure keeper Vincent Enyeama and Emmanuel Emenike back from international retirement.

Both players quit the Super Eagles last October after falling out with former coach Sunday Oliseh.
When Oliseh resigned on Friday Siasia asked the duo to reconsider but they have rejected the idea of a return.
"You can't force them to rescind their decision and we have to respect that." Siasia told BBC Sport.
"I felt they left under a cloudy circumstance. It was only an opportunity for them to reconsider their stance but it appears they've both decided to stick by their retirement.
"Nigeria is blessed with talented footballers and we need to work with those players. We have to live away from the past and focus on a promising future."
Goalkeeper Enyeama retired from international football in October last year when the captaincy was taken away from him by Oliseh.
"I don't want to talk about this issue again. I think my earlier decision [to retire] stands," Enyeama told Lagos-based radio station Brila FM.
Striker Emenike followed Enyeama's lead and quit the Super Eagles a few days later.
Siasia and his assistants Salisu Yusuf and Emmanuel Amunike are expected to finalise and name the country's squad for the game against the seven-time African champions this week.
Siasia refuses to confirm whether China-based Obafemi Martins, and premier league duo Victor Moses and John Mikel Obi still have a Super Eagles future.
"We can't rule out anyone at the moment. The games against Egypt are crucial matches and we are keeping our focus. We need the support of everyone to succeed.
"This is a big task for us and we want to give our best like those players who are prepared to give 120 percent on the field for their country."


The number of people using tourist information centres in the Scottish Borders has fallen by more than a fifth over the past five years.

Figures have revealed that footfall at five local VisitScotland facilities has dropped by more than 26,000 since 2010.
The agency claims an increasing number of tourists access information online.
Changes are likely to be made to the visitor centres (VICs) as part of a national review, according to a report to Scottish Borders Council.
It singled out facilities in Jedburgh and Peebles as "fully performing" centres with good footfall.
However there appeared to be little demand for services at Hawick, Melrose and Kelso.
The report also revealed that total booking numbers through VICs in the Borders fell from 738 in 2010/11 to 311 last year.
Senior managers from VisitScotland are expected to be invited to address the council on their plans for information centres in December.
They could include the installation of interactive visitor information screens at locations across the region.
Two have already been put in place in Kelso and the Galashiels Transport Interchange, at a cost of Â£13,000.
More screens are planned for Tweedbank, Stow, Melrose, Hawick and Abbotsford over the next 12 months.
Paula McDonald, VisitScotland's regional director for the Borders, confirmed that a review of "information provision" is underway.
She added: "We will continue working closely with Scottish Borders Council to provide high-quality information and inspiration to more visitors than ever before through the channels that they use the most, connecting them with businesses, and creating growth and jobs across Scotland."


A robotic mannequin that can run, sit and even mimic the movement of a soldier has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

The £1.1m robot - developed using Formula 1 technology - will test protective suits and equipment.
The "Porton Man" has more than 100 sensors over its body to record data during tests.
Developers said it would help them create the next generation of protective equipment.
The Ministry of Defence said the new animatronic mannequin was unique to the UK.
It has been made for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) - where clothing systems for soldiers are tested against chemical warfare agents.
The robot can raise its arms to imitate signals given by soldiers and can also march and kneel.
Previous mannequins were brought into use in the late 1990s and helped to influence the design of the chemical, biological and radiological suits currently used by the armed forces.
But the latest has a better movement range than previous models, including of its head.
It is hoped tests involving the latest mannequins will help produce a new, lighter protective suit for the miltary.
Dr Colin Willis, principal for the Chemical Biological Protection Group at the DSTL, said testers would be able to put "more realistic stresses" on the robot to achieve better results.
"It's really the materials and the fact he will be exposed to chemical warfare agents, so the material design has been very important obviously," Dr Willis told the BBC's Today programme.
"It sounds simple, but when you see the mannequin and the computer controls, it really is a complex piece of machinery."
Dr Willis said the goal with the robot, which he described as "much more realistic" than a 10-year-old mannequin that had been in use, was to create suits that strike a balance between protection and physiological burden.
The Porton Man - named after the location of the DSTL in Porton Down, Wiltshire - was made by i-bodi, a technology firm based in Buckingham.
The company also makes animatronics and robotics for film and television.
Its chief executive Jez Gibson-Harris said the mannequin was based on data collected from 2,500 soldiers and that the company had used similar techniques to those seen in Formula 1 cars.
He said: "Our brief was to produce a lightweight robotic mannequin that had a wide range of movement and was easy to handle.
"Of course there were a number of challenges associated with this and one way we looked to tackle these challenges was through the use of Formula 1 technology.
"Using the same concepts as those used in racing cars, we were able to produce very light but highly durable carbon composite body parts for the mannequin."
Jaime Cummins, from DSTL's chemical and biological physical protection group, said the new Porton Man is much lighter than its predecessor at 14kg (30lb), rather than 80kg (176lb).
That will make it easier to move the model in and out of its test chamber.
He said: "It's a better, more realistic test system, and we are now in a better position to design and develop the next generation of CB (chemical and biological) protective suit equipment."
Philip Dunne, minister for defence equipment, support and technology, said: "This technology, designed by a British company is enabling the UK to lead the way in this important testing.
"Increased investment in science and technology by the MoD (Ministry of Defence) is not only enabling battle-winning and life-saving equipment to be developed but also helping innovative companies like i-bodi Technology to develop cutting edge capability."


Leicestershire have been deducted 16 points and fined £5,000 on the eve of the County Championship season after bowler Charlie Shreck was found guilty for a breach of player conduct.

Captain Mark Cosgrove has also been banned for one game after the incident against Loughborough MCCU last month.
The points deduction and fine come after Leicestershire incurred a fifth fixed penalty in 12 months.
The club also have a further eight-point penalty suspended for 12 months.
Fast-medium pace bowler Shreck, 39, who has been suspended by Leicestershire for two games, was found guilty at a disciplinary hearing held at Grace Road on Friday for "using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting and/or making an obscene gesture".
Cosgrove, who was handed the one-match ban as he was captain of Leicestershire for each of the five incidents in the past year, is set to serve his suspension in the Championship match against Glamorgan, starting on 21 April.
The captain pleaded guilty to the charges.
"We've got to get better be be more disciplined - 16 points is a big deal to us. It's a game," Cosgrove told BBC Radio Leicester.
"Hopefully we can get some positive points on the board. This hurts the boys. We need to learn and get better.
"Charlie is very disappointed and very apologetic. He overstepped the mark. He knows he did the wrong thing.
"We've just got to take it and move on and get busy into the season."
In August 2015, Leicestershire were deducted 16 points and given a suspended fine for similar breaches.
In a statement from the cricket discipline commission on Friday, it was "noted that actions taken by the club since the previous disciplinary panel hearing have not been effective".


A man who beat his homeless love rival to death in a "jealous rage" has been jailed for life.

Brian Sharp, 55, of Manor Road, Folkestone, was told he would serve at least 18 years for murdering Tim Clayton in the Kent town last November.
Sharp's trial at Canterbury Crown Court heard he had become jealous about 45-year-old Mr Clayton's close friendship with his on-off girlfriend.
His victim was asleep behind a building when Sharp began his 12-minute attack.
Kent Police said Sharp, accompanied by his Staffordshire bull terrier, had attacked Mr Clayton as he slept at the rear of Europa House in Pound Way in the early hours of 9 November.
Sharp punched and kicked Mr Clayton for 12 minutes, before leaving the scene.
CCTV showed Mr Clayton, a father of two, getting up and checking himself in a car window before returning to go to sleep.
He was found unconscious several hours later by bank staff arriving for work and died in hospital the following day.
After the guilty verdict last week, Det Ch Insp Paul Fotheringham said: "This was a violent, callous and premeditated attack on a vulnerable man in the middle of the night.
"Sharp became consumed by jealously after learning of his girlfriend's friendship with Mr Clayton and he went out that night to hurt him.
"Mr Clayton didn't have a chance."


The man who killed 12 people at a Washington DC Navy installation had received treatment for mental health issues, US media report.

Former US Navy reservist Aaron Alexis, 34, had been treated for paranoia, hearing voices and sleeplessness, the Associated Press reported.
The military contractor had a valid pass for Washington Navy Yard, where the attack unfolded, authorities said.
Alexis was shot and killed by police during Monday's assault.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel acknowledged "there were a lot of red flags" in Alexis's background that had been missed in the security clearance process which ultimately resulted in his having access to the secure building where he undertook the attack.
"Why they didn't get picked up, why they didn't get incorporated into the clearance process, what he was doing, those are all legitimate questions that we're going to be dealing with," he told reporters.
He said he had ordered the Pentagon to conduct a wide-ranging review of the physical security at all US defence installations across the world and of the security clearance process.
"Where there are gaps, we will close them," he said. "Where there are inadequacies, we will address them. And where there are failures, we will correct them."
Alexis reportedly approached the US Department of Veterans Affairs in August to seek psychological help.
It has also emerged that last month he called police from a hotel in the US state of Rhode Island to say he kept hearing voices.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
According to a Newport police report, he told officers he believed people were following him and "sending vibrations into his body".
Alexis said he had twice moved hotels to evade his pursuers, who he believed were using "some sort of microwave machine" to stop him from sleeping.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has ordered a physical security review of all Navy and Marine Corps installations, a Navy official told the BBC.
On Tuesday, the US capital remained in a state of shock and mourning.
Defence Secretary Hagel laid a wreath at US Navy Memorial Plaza in honour of the Navy Yard victims.
The attack took place on Monday morning at Building 197, headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which builds and maintains ships and submarines for the Navy.
Profile: Aaron Alexis
Witnesses said the gunman sprayed bullets in a hallway and fired from a balcony down on to workers in an atrium at the heavily secured installation in the US capital.
The attack only ended when police stormed the building and shot him dead.
Alexis was armed with a shotgun legally purchased in Virginia, as well as a handgun authorities say he may have taken from a guard inside the naval complex.
Previous reports suggested he had used an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. But officials said on Tuesday that although the weapon had been found at the scene, it was neither carried nor used by the gunman.
In addition to the 12 shot and killed, three people - a police officer and two female civilians - received gunshot wounds, but all were expected to survive. Five others were treated for minor injuries.
On Tuesday, authorities said they believed Alexis had acted alone and that all victims - ranging in age from 46 to 73 - had been identified.
As an employee of an IT contractor, Alexis apparently had a card granting him access to the building - even though he had had several run-ins with the law and had been discharged from the Navy under a cloud, authorities said.
"It really is hard to believe that someone with a record as chequered as this man could conceivably get, you know, clearance... to be able to get on the base," Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray told CNN.
Alexis left the Navy as a petty officer 3rd class, after serving full-time in the naval reserve from 2007-11, under a general discharge, a status that suggests misconduct.
Profiles of the victims
He had been cited for insubordination, disorderly behaviour and excessive absences from work at least eight times during his Navy career, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
According to media reports, Alexis was a Buddhist convert who had had previous gun-related brushes with the law.
On Tuesday, his employer, an IT contractor called The Experts, said the military should have made his record known.
"Anything that suggests criminal problems or mental health issues, that would be a flag. We would not have hired him," Thomas Hoshko, chief executive officer of firm, told the Washington Post.
The company confirmed Alexis had worked since July at six different military installations and had only been at the Navy Yard for a few days before the shooting.


A 59-year-old man has been convicted of trafficking illegal drugs with a street value of more than £500,000.

George Thompson was convicted of supplying cocaine and amphetamine between 18 July and 21 November 2014.
A jury found him guilty of two charges at the High Court in Livingston.
Judge Lord Ballantyne told greyhound breeder Thompson, of Livingston, he would be remanded in custody until sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh in July.
Thompson's son Stuart, 36, from Uphall, West Lothian, walked free from court on Wednesday after being acquitted of the same charges after the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
Thompson senior had denied handling and dealing in the Class A and Class B drugs at various locations in the central belt and the Scottish Borders between 18 July and 21 November 2014.
The jury heard he had been under surveillance by Police Scotland's serious crime and counter terrorism squad for months
Officers watched as he made contact with three men who were stopped in possession of controlled drugs shortly after they met him. All three associates were later prosecuted and convicted of drugs offences.
Police also monitored Thompson as he made daily visits to West Cairns Farm at Kirknewton, where Alexander Cameron was killed by his tenant James Smith.
Smith's wife Helen had reported suspicious late-night movements at the farm which resulted in the major police drugs investigation focusing on Thompson.
Police stopped his white Transit van on the A7 near Heriot in the Borders on 20 November 2014 and found half a kilo of cocaine hidden in a compartment above the driver's seat.
A search of the accused's home uncovered two bags containing amphetamine in his freezer drawers.
A search of the farm uncovered three kilos of high purity cocaine and a kilo of amphetamine, commonly known as 'speed', in kennels used by Thompson.
It emerged after Thompson's conviction that he had previously served a three-month prison sentence for being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs.
Det Ch Inspector Kenny Gray from the East Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit said: "There is no doubt that George Thompson was heavily involved in the distribution of drugs throughout the Lothians and Scottish Borders, given the significant quantity of Class A drugs we seized from vehicles and properties linked to him.
"The cocaine was of a very high-purity and we are delighted to have recovered it before it could cause untold harm to our communities.
"Tackling drug crime is a priority for Police Scotland and we robustly gather and investigate all intelligence from the public relating to those involved in offences of this nature.


The death of dozens of miners in a crackdown on industrial action has exposed deep divisions over workers' rights in South Africa, 18 years after the end of apartheid.

Nandipha Guniza sat motionless in the front row, wearing a headscarf and clutching her 16 day-old baby boy, Mihle.
Just across the aisle from her, in an enormous marquee set up on the edge of a shanty housing area alongside the Marikana platinum mine, were senior members of the South African government.
The minister of mines was there, along with the minister of police. Nandipha never looked towards them.
After all, this was a memorial service for the 34 striking miners shot dead by police a week earlier, and for 10 others, including two policemen, who died in violent clashes a few days before that. Nandipha's husband Bonginkosi was one of those killed by the police.
At home in her one-room rented shack, she told me what had happened.
She and her husband had moved here from the Eastern Cape, in the south of the country, because he could find no work there.
At Marikana he was employed as a rock-driller, earning around 5,000 rand ($596, Â£376) a month.
He joined the strikers who are demanding a tripling of their wages, because he wanted better conditions for his family.
Nandipha told me that she had to pay 500 rand for the little shack, and though there was electricity, water had to be collected from a stand pipe.
And even this was unreliable. If there was heavy rain, the dirt road outside became impassable.
In the yard outside, striking miners all had similar complaints, and several of those earning similar wages to Bonginkosi explained how they had to send money home to pay for support and schooling for their relations or extended families.
They said they supported the breakaway mines union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which has accused the more established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) of being too cautious.
It is criticised too, as being too close to the governing African National Congress (ANC) and the new black South African elite, and even to business leaders, including the London-based Lonmin, who own the mine.
Resignation call
For the ANC and for President Jacob Zuma, the killings at Marikana have turned a run-of-the-mill strike-and-wage dispute into a crisis, and the government has responded by announcing a Judicial Commission of Inquiry, looking into the role played by Lonmin, the rival unions, police and government departments.
It is a move that has been welcomed by opposition parties, but the violence here has  brought local and world attention not just to the miners' pay and living conditions, but to what is being seen as a growing gulf separating the government from ordinary people who are asking for more jobs and better services.
After 18 years in power, the ANC faces growing criticism and not just from militant groups.
The man who has achieved the greatest publicity through the Marikana tragedy is of course Julius Malema, the firebrand former leader of the ANC Youth League, now expelled from the party because of his views.
He has demanded that President Zuma, who visited Marikana this week, should resign over the killings, and that all the mines should be nationalised.
When I met him last week, he was at the Marikana police station, with a group of striking miners, laying charges against the police over the killings.
When I asked him about police claims that the miners who were killed had been charging at police lines carrying spears, machetes and possibly guns, he responded by taunting Mr Zuma with jokes about the traditional weapons carried by the president himself at his weddings.
Later, Mr Malema and his supporters disrupted the memorial service in the marquee by taking over the stage, with Mr Malema using the occasion to launch yet another attack on the president, but calling on the striking miners not to turn their backs on the ANC.
"We need to return government to the people," he said.
Mr Malema can certainly be accused of opportunistically using the killings to further his own career - and a possible return to the ANC if Mr Zuma was no longer president - but he is not alone in seeing the Marikana tragedy as symptomatic of greater problems in the country.
Over the past week, one of the most important figures in the Marikana dispute has been the quietly spoken but forceful Bishop Jo Seoka, president of the South African Council of Churches.
He has driven up from the capital, Pretoria, almost daily, quietly organising meetings between Lonmin management and the striking miners, with whom he clearly has some sympathy.
He also works for a foundation that monitors mine workers' living conditions, and he told me that housing for some mine workers has not improved since the Apartheid era.
He talked too of greedy politicians and employers, and warned that "the workers have told me this is just the beginning of things to come".
There could, he told me, be "conflict, with the poor rising up against the rich".
The killings at Marikana are being seen as a wake-up call for the ANC leadership.
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A former Swiss bank employee has been convicted of money-laundering offences, in a corruption inquiry linked to football's world governing body Fifa.

Jorge Arzuaga, an Argentine, used to work for Julius Baer bank. He admitted managing accounts that enabled football executives to receive multi-million-dollar bribes.
It is the first Swiss investigation to be completed in the Fifa scandal.
US prosecutors helped in the probe and Arzuaga appeared in a New York court.
The Swiss Attorney General's Office (OAG) said Arzuaga would forfeit $650,000 (Â£509,000) he had received in criminal payments - money that would now go to the Swiss Treasury.
Arzuaga was found guilty of falsifying documents and facilitating money-laundering.
He was released on bail after his plea hearing at the Brooklyn federal court on Thursday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on 4 January, Reuters news agency reports.
In a statement, the OAG said it was conducting about 25 separate investigations in football-related cases, and was examining seized documents totalling some 19 terabytes of data.
Fifa has been co-operating with law enforcement since May 2015 when Fifa members were arrested in Zurich.
The US court found that between 2010 and 2015, Arzuaga managed accounts controlled by Alejandro Burzaco, acting for an Argentine sports media and marketing business.
Those accounts were used to pay $25m in bribes, which prosecutors said went to the late president of Argentina's football federation.
Burzaco pleaded guilty to racketeering and other offences in November 2015.
Commenting on the Arzuaga case, Acting US Attorney Bridget Rohde said that "by facilitating the flow of bribe money through the Swiss and American banking systems, the defendant provided a critical service to those involved in corruption in international soccer".
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney, quoted by the Courthouse News Service, said "our work is nowhere near finished, and we will continue to pursue each and every corrupt member of this scheme until each is brought to justice".