An MP has urged the UK government not to "pull the plug" on plans for a £1bn tidal power project in Swansea.

Swansea West MP Geraint Davies said it was vital for a "greener future", and accused ministers of "back-pedalling" on their commitment to the lagoon.
The company behind the scheme warned in October that building work was being delayed by a year to 2017.
Tidal Lagoon Power said it was still negotiating with ministers over an agreed price for the energy generated.
Press reports on Thursday said the company had cut workforce numbers at its base in Gloucestershire.
Swansea council said it would exert all the pressure it could to make sure the project stays on track.
Council leader, Rob Stewart, said he had written to the prime minister to request a "positive and speedy decision".
Labour MP Mr Davies said: "The chancellor specifically mentioned and supported the lagoon in his pre-election budget, and the prime minister came to Swansea during the election campaign on the pretext of supporting the lagoon.
"Now we face this back-pedalling from the government as we fast approach the Paris COP (Conference of Parties) climate change conference where all governments must show willing to engineer a sustainable future.
"It is important that the government gives its full backing to the Swansea tidal lagoon, as the first step for lagoons around Britain and a major export opportunity to help play our part to deliver lower emissions.
"Having said he's for it a year ago, if the chancellor pulls the plug on it, it'll be a disgrace."
Tidal Lagoon Power said in a statement: "Our short-term priority is the construction of the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon and the progression of plans at Cardiff and Newport to harness the country's best tidal range resource in the Severn Estuary.
"Our team needs to align with these objectives and regretfully that involves some redundancies.
"Our vision is to provide 8% of the UK's electricity from six tidal lagoons and we have grown quickly so as to take forward these plans.
"However, our first project is now scheduled to start on site one year later than planned and that inevitably impacts the development of the fleet."
A spokesman for the Department for Energy and Climate Change said negotiations on the tidal lagoon were ongoing.


Police near Seattle are hunting for an attacker who shot a Sikh man and told him to "go back to your own country".

The gunman approached the 39-year-old victim - a US national of Indian origin - outside his house in the Kent suburb.
The pair spoke briefly before gunman shot the victim in the arm, police said. The attacker was described as white, 6ft tall (182 cm) and stocky.
The attack has prompted fresh outcry in India following a deadly gun attack on two Indians in Kansas last month.
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj says she has spoken to the father of the man shot in Seattle, Washington, and that the victim is recovering in hospital after sustaining non life-threatening injuries.
At a news conference on Sunday, Kent police chief Ken Thomas told reporters the attack as "a crime of opportunity".
The assailant reportedly wore a mask covering the lower half of his face.
Police have contacted the FBI and other law enforcement about the shooting, which may be treated as a hate crime.
A prominent US Sikh group, the Sikh Coalition, has called for precisely that.
In a statement, the group said: "While we appreciate the efforts of state and local officials to respond to attacks like this, we need our national leaders to make hate crime prevention a top priority."
Seattle-based Sikh community leader, Jasmit Singh, said: "Investigating this as a anti-Sikh hate crime is critical, because without our government agencies recognising hatred for what it is, we can't combat the problem."
The incident follows the fatal shooting of an Indian national in Kansas City last month, in which the shooter allegedly shouted "get out of my country" before opening fire.
That attack is now being treated as a possible hate crime, and the suspect is in custody.
The fallout from the Kansas shooting reverberated across India, with some seeing it as a result of anti-immigration rhetoric from the Donald Trump White House.
Many in the Indian community in the US have voiced concerns over Mr Trump's diatribes against Muslims and foreign workers accused of stealing American jobs.
Sikhs are sometimes confused with Muslims in the United States. Attacks against Sikhs were reported in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in 2001.
Following the Seattle shooting, the Sikh community in Kent offered to help people understand their religious practices.
"We would be willing to teach them or answer any questions that they have - about our community, about our faith, about why we tie the turban, why we look the way we do - or anything," local Sikh community leader Satwinder Kaur said.
Separately, in another incident, another US national of Indian origin was shot dead outside his home in Lancaster County, South Carolina.
Harish Patel owned a convenience store in the area.
The Press Trust of India news agency quoted sheriff Barry Palle as saying that he had no reason to believe the attack was racially motivated.


The village of Exeter lies 89 miles south-west of Sydney and according to the most recent census had 831 inhabitants.

Meanwhile, 10,713 miles away the Australian population is growing at Sandy Park, home of Exeter Chiefs.
Prop Greg Holmes and back-row Dave Dennis have committed to joining the club for next season, while winger Lachie Turner made the move last month.
The Chiefs could have as many as eight Aussies in the squad next season - so why are so many players from down under being lured to the Devon club?
"The weather" was the reason former international Turner jokingly gave to BBC Sport last month as his reason for making the move.
But the former Toulon, Queensland Reds and New South Wales Waratahs back's main reason became clear shortly afterwards - and it has nothing to do with long romantic walks on Dartmoor.
"For me the decision was easy after five minutes of speaking to Rob Baxter.
"He gives his philosophies and the way he runs the club and the important things that he puts a lot of emphasis behind," said Turner.
"It's about working hard, but also enjoying yourself. I don't think you can be successful in anything unless you enjoy what you're doing, and that's something they really strive for here."
The Chiefs head coach has been in charge since the summer of 2009, guiding them to an unlikely win over Bristol in the inaugural Championship play-off final in 2010 and then gradually building a side that this season seems nailed-on for a first-ever place in the play-offs and have also made the last eight of the Champions Cup.
Baxter's first Exeter side was packed with good Championship players who had a point to prove, but as the seasons have worn on, more and more experience has been brought to the club.
England's Geoff Parling became the first British and Irish Lion to don an Exeter jersey, while other international players such as Tom James, Ceri Sweeney and Sireli Naqelevuki have all raised standards.
"The culture here is based on honesty and trustworthiness," said another Aussie, Julian Salvi, after he joined the club last summer.
A former Wallaby youth player he became the latest in a line of high-class back-row forwards to leave the traditional powerhouse of Leicester for the Chiefs - following Parling and Thomas Waldrom, who has had a new lease of life at the back of the Exeter scrum and was the league's top try-scorer last season.
"You look from where they've come five or six years ago, from a Championship team they've made it to the Premiership," Salvi added.
"Now they've gone from that side to being a real top-six quality contender and that's one of the things that attracted me to the place, the fact that it is a team on the rise and wanting to be there or thereabouts in the top four and pushing for championships."
In 2012, Exeter made arguably the biggest signing in their history when Australia lock Dean Mumm left the Waratahs for Sandy Park.
Three years later he left, having led the club to the first silverware in their 143-year history as they won the 2013 LV= Cup.
"He's a pretty a honest guy and he couldn't speak highly enough of his time at Exeter," Dennis told BBC Sport.
"I've know Dean for a decade now, so I take his word for it. He gave me a few little insights around living over there and he also talked about how the club operates."
His sentiments were echoed by another of Mumm's former Waratahs' teammates Turner, who said: "Dean Mumm is a very close friend of mine from back home.
"The way he speaks about the club I knew it was something I wanted to be involved in."
Exeter's reputation has grown hugely in the last few years.
As well as homegrown players such as Jack Nowell, Henry Slade and Luke Cowan-Dickie getting England call-ups, time at Exeter has seen international recalls for Wales winger Tom James, and most famously Dean Mumm being recalled to the Australia side and starting the 2015 World Cup final.
"It was a great achievement from Dean to come back and I definitely thought he developed as a player," says Dennis.
"I won't be signing off or closing any doors on an opportunity, but I do really want to get over to Exeter and contribute to the club and really rest myself in a foreign environment.
"If I end up seeing my career out overseas and never making it back to Australia, so be it, I can be happy with that."
Head coach Baxter says the fact that players are starting to get recognised at the Chiefs - there was talk that Australian-born Mitch Lees could be involved with England before he sustained an injury on New Year's Day - is a huge incentive for potential signings.
"If you're a player and you're playing in Australia and you see a player like Dean Mumm who'd perhaps dropped out of the international picture, come to Exeter and three years later play in the World Cup final,  you're going to think there's something pretty attractive there, not just in the lifestyle way, but also that we can help them improve themselves as rugby players," he explained.
"The important thing for me when we sign a new player is that there's a genuine feeling that we can improve them as a rugby player and that the player wants to improve as a rugby player.
"I think that's what we've got with the signings we've made. There is a bit of a connection that they're Australian, but the truth is that the connection is they seem to be similar characters."


A hospital trust in Cornwall has declared a "black alert" for the second time this year due to "extreme" pressure on its services.

The Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust said it was overwhelmed over Easter and is struggling to discharge patients.
A ward closed at Truro's hospital on Monday because of an outbreak of Norovirus. People are being urged to avoid A&E unless absolutely necessary.
In February, the trust declared a "black alert" for about a week.
A black alert is the highest level of alert and means hospital services are unable to cope with demand.
Dr Andy Virr from the trust said there were some issues with the NHS 111 phone system during the weekend which prevented calls getting through to the Cornwall GP service, which caused delays.
That "led to people voting with their feet and coming to A&E" which meant some patients remained on trolleys for 10 or 11 hours and operations were cancelled, he said.
Debbie Pritchard, from patient group Healthwatch Cornwall, was not surprised the alert was declared.
"There is still a lot of confusion around what services people should access out of hours," she said.
The county's Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS Kernow, is now asking people to consider the most appropriate place to go for treatment when unwell.
Peter Stokes, deputy director of operations at the CCG, requested "relatives and friends be available to pick up people who have been inpatients and are ready to be discharged to free up beds".


Russia badly overplayed its hand last year when it tried to bring Ukraine into the Eurasian Union against the passionate opposition of many Ukrainians.

The European Union is now risking the same thing by trying to bring Ukraine into the West without reference to economic reality or the willingness of European publics to bear the enormous costs involved, and at a time when the EU itself is in deepening crisis.
Russia is suffering badly as a result of Western economic sanctions - but Ukraine's situation is far worse, with a predicted fall in GDP of 7% this year.
If this decline continues, the Ukrainian state will face collapse,
Throughout the 23 years since the end of the Soviet Union, too many members of the Western media and policy worlds have ignored or misrepresented key aspects of the Ukrainian-Russian economic relationship.
This allowed them in turn to ignore crucial features of the economic balance of power in Ukraine between Russia and the West.
In their zeal to denounce Russia for putting pressure on Ukraine over gas supplies, Western commentators usually neglected to mention that, through cheap gas and lenient payment terms, Russia was in fact subsidising the Ukrainian economy to the tune of several billion dollars each year - many times the total of Western aid during this period.
This allowed the same commentators not to address the obvious question of whether Western states would be willing to pay these billions in order to take Ukraine out of Russia's sphere of influence and into that of the West.
Western commentators were not wrong to portray Russia as supporting a deeply corrupt and semi-authoritarian system of government in Ukraine - but they too often forgot to mention that trade with Russia has also been responsible for preserving much of the Ukrainian economy.
It is not just that Russia remains Ukraine's largest partner, with trade in 2013 exceeding that with the whole of the EU; it is also a question of what is being traded. Ukraine exports manufactured goods to Russia, thereby supporting what is left of Ukrainian industry.
To the European Union, Ukraine mostly sends raw materials and agricultural products - with the latter in particular heavily restricted by EU quotas and tariffs.
Ignoring this enabled Western commentators to ignore the question of how - in order to move towards the EU - Ukraine could restrict its trading relationship with Russia without ruining its economy in the process; or, on the other hand, whether the EU would be willing to change its own rules so as to admit Ukrainian imports.
Finally, very few Western commentators indeed have mentioned what is perhaps the most significant aspect of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship, namely that Ukrainians are entirely free to move to Russia to work, and to work in the vast majority of jobs and professions.
As a result of Russia's much more successful economy, more than three million Ukrainians are now working in Russia, and sending remittances to their families in Ukraine - a vital contribution to the economies of several Ukrainian regions.
This is at least three times the number of Ukrainians working legally in the whole of the European Union.
In order to bring Ukraine into the West, would EU members be willing to allow free movement of Ukrainian labour?
And - as is necessary if the EU is to turn Ukraine into a strong anti-Russian ally - to do so not in some almost impossible future of Ukrainian EU membership, but tomorrow?
The answer is obvious.
The UK Independence Party is soaring in the polls and mounting a strong campaign to take Britain out of the European Union in a referendum backed by the Conservatives and scheduled for 2017.
All over the EU, right-wing parties are gathering strength.
In France, sober commentators are warning that there is a real chance that in 2022 the National Front could win the French elections and Marine Le Pen could become President of France.
And all of these developments are driven above all by hostility to immigration.
On the one hand, therefore, the West is clearly not prepared to make the economic sacrifices necessary to support the Ukrainian economy in the face of Russian hostility.
On the other, the existing conflict in Ukraine makes it impossible for any Ukrainian government to conduct the kind of economic and political reforms on which the EU is insisting, and on which Ukrainian progress towards the West depends.
By slashing subsidies and closing down much of Ukrainian industry, such reforms would drive much of the population of eastern and southern Ukraine into the arms of Russia.
By attacking corruption, they would destroy the position of oligarchs in those regions who are key to enforcing Kiev's authority there.
Kiev's dependence on these oligarchs and on nationalist militias to fight the war in eastern Ukraine represents a serious and growing threat to Ukrainian democracy and to the spread of liberal values in Ukraine.
A worrying sign in this regard was the appointment last month of Vadim Troyan as regional chief of police in Kiev. His regiment, the Azov battalion, is known for links to the far right and his promotion seems largely in reward for his group's participation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
This was counter-balanced by the appointment of a Jewish speaker in Parliament.
But the lessons of all this should be obvious.
The West simply does not have the means or the will to integrate Ukraine into the West while isolating it from Russia.
The effort to do so is not strengthening but undermining Ukrainian democracy.
If there is to be any chance of Ukrainian economic and political progress, a compromise must be found whereby Ukraine can continue to trade as openly as possible with both the EU and Russia and Ukrainians can continue to work freely in Russia.
That would leave Ukraine free to carry out the internal reforms that it needs to undertake, whether or not it is headed for EU membership.
This will be impossible unless at the same time there is a political compromise with Russia; and the terms of such a compromise are equally obvious.
In the first place, Ukraine should be neutralised.
This cuts both ways. Russia would formally have to abandon - as in effect it already has - hopes to bring Ukraine into a Russian-led bloc.
The West would formally have to abandon the possibility of bringing Ukraine into Nato; and the West too has in effect already done this by demonstrating again and again its unwillingness under any circumstances to fight to defend Ukraine.
As far as Ukraine's eastern Donbass region is concerned, any solution has to involve very extensive autonomy for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, guaranteed by the international community - not the ridiculous offer of temporary three-year autonomy which Kiev has offered so far.
In addition, the EU should back the guarantee of Russian language rights in Ukraine - not because Moscow is demanding it, but because the West badly needs to assert its own values in the face of the growing power of neo-fascist groups in Ukraine.
Opposition to such a deal in certain Western quarters will be bitter; but once again, these opponents need to ask themselves just how much they are prepared to sacrifice and to risk in order to turn Ukraine into a pro-Western and anti-Russian state.
The time for blowhard posturing is over. The time for hard economic calculation has begun.
Anatol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is author among other books of Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry.


Google is launching Android Pay, its tap-and-go contactless payment service, in the UK.

Nearly 60% of the country's smartphone users own an Android handset.
Devices running Android 4.4 or higher and fitted with an NFC (near field communication) chip will be able to use the service.
The firm said it had chosen the UK as the next place to offer mobile payments because of British familiarity with contactless payments.
Until now, the facility had only been available in the US.
Apple Pay has been in use in the UK since last summer, with thousands of retail outlets - from sandwich shops to the London Underground - now accustomed to customers using their phones to pay.
I've had a preview of the Android Pay app, and if anything it is even simpler to use once you have uploaded your cards to the app.
Your phone has to have some kind of lock - a fingerprint, or pattern or Pin code - but when the device is on, you don't even need the app to be open to tap-and-pay on a contactless terminal.
For now, just as with Apple Pay, most retailers will only allow payments up to Â£30 using your phone. The promise is that a software upgrade to payment terminals will allow higher amounts, although you will then need to use your unlock method to authorise the transaction.
Given that Apple last year listed a number of retailers that would be accepting higher payments, and only a handful have so far done that, I would be surprised if there is rapid progress on this front.
At launch, many Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards will work with the app, although Barclays customers will not be able to use Android Pay. That is because the bank is going it alone, making contactless payments available through its own mobile banking app.
To add to the confusion - or perhaps choice -  the leading maker of Android phones is launching its own payments service. Samsung Pay arrives in the UK "later this year" and, according to a spokesman, will offer a uniquely simple solution combined with special offers for users.
Here's where the closed nature of Apple's operating system, compared to Android, may prove an advantage - for Tim Cook's business at least.
I'm sure that Barclays would prefer that its iPhone-wielding customers could use its mobile banking app to make contactless payments, but because Apple does not allow outsiders to come anywhere near the NFC functionality on its phone that is not possible.
So, is this the moment when the dream of your phone becoming a mobile wallet - promised for at least a decade - becomes a reality?
That was supposed to happen with Apple Pay but a source in the payments industry tells me that was a bit premature. "Last time I looked at our figures, one in 10 payments was contactless, but fewer than one in a 100 were from a mobile phone," he said.
But he went on to point out that contactless cards, first launched in the UK in 2008, had also been slow to take off. The decision of Transport for London, Europe's biggest single retailer, to allow the use of contactless credit and debit cards on buses and tube trains, had been the tipping point.
Nowadays, shop staff in the capital seem embarrassed when they tell you that they cannot take contactless payments.
Android Pay, with a huge potential audience in the UK, could do for the mobile wallet what TfL did for contactless cards. For the first time, just about anyone who owns a smartphone can use it to pay.
If they discover it is simple, convenient and that they can get access to money saving deals via their phones, then paying by card could begin to look as old-fashioned as writing a cheque.


The body of a vulnerable pensioner who went missing from his Glasgow home for several days in sub-zero temperatures has been found near a farm.

Edward Gallagher, 78, went missing from his home in Barlia Drive, in the Castlemilk area, on Monday morning.
Mr Gallagher, who had dementia, had last been seen getting off a bus in the early hours of Tuesday.
His body was found near Mid Netherton Farm, in Glasgow's Carmunnock Road, on Friday afternoon.
His relatives have been informed.
Police Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.


Teachers are warning that young people are being damaged by an over-sexualised culture.

The National Union of Teachers annual conference heard claims sexism is being “rebranded” as something fashionable and mainstream.
Delegates criticised the “raunch culture” of lap-dancing clubs and pole dancing.
Teachers, meeting in Liverpool, say it can have a “disastrous effect on the self-image of girls”.
The National Union of Teachers heard warnings from teachers that “sexism and inequality are still a huge factor in shaping women’s lives”.
The conference heard claims that old-fashioned sexism has not gone away, but has been re-invented into something that appears to be “ironic or empowering”.
Teachers warned that pole dancing clubs and beauty pageants are turning back the clock on decades of campaigning for sexual equality.
There are concerns that pupils are growing up in a culture where pornographic images are widely available, cosmetic surgery is advertised and there is a “fixation” with staying slim.
Teachers fear this can undermine young women’s self-confidence and contribute to problems such as eating disorders and anxiety about their appearance.
This can disrupt both girls’ school work and their social life, say teachers.
The motion said: “Growing up in a world where it is normal for women’s bodies to be seen as sex objects affects the way that girls in our schools grow to view themselves and their place in society.”
There were also claims that this is linked to the number of sexual assaults and incidents of domestic violence.
Delegates called for recognition of the negative impact of sexism and the need to protect equal rights for women.
In an earlier debate on the conference on Sunday, teachers described the problems of young people living in an environment with such widespread access to pornography.
A teacher from east London talked of pupils setting up websites showing sexual images of teenage girls in their schools.
NUT delegate Kiri Tonks said social media was making it easier for sexism to be spread and better sex education for both sexes was needed.
"It is having a real impact on behaviour," she told BBC News.
"Girls and women internationally are victims of violence that has come out of these kinds of attitudes, but if we want to change the behaviour, we have to talk to boys as well."
Sex and relationship education is compulsory in state-funded secondary schools, but it is up to primary schools to decide if they want to teach it.
Last week, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference also heard warnings of pupils viewing aggressive sexual images.
Teachers said they feared pupils could be “desensitised” by such images and called for more guidance on how schools should tackle such an over-sexualised youth culture.
Even very young children were inadvertently exposed to such images, the ATL conference heard, either by watching video games with older children or watching late night television.
Teachers said that they had heard sexually explicit language from young children.
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: “It is important for all children and young people to learn, in an age-appropriate manner, about respect for their own and other people’s bodies and emotions.
“This is all the more important given the rising levels of pornography which is very much in the public domain. There also continues to be a high rate of sexual harassment and homophobic bullying in society at large, despite efforts in schools to address and reduce it.”
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said ministers were clear about the importance of PSHE (Personal, social and health education).
"PSHE encompasses a number of different areas, many of which are compulsory," she said.
"Beyond that it is right that teachers are given the freedom to tailor PSHE to the pupils whose needs they know best. We are funding the PSHE Association to demonstrate best practice in covering the subject."


A former councillor from Pembrokeshire has been jailed for sending obscene text messages to a teenage girl.

Stephen Evans, 57, who was elected to Haverfordwest council in 2010, sent the girl messages without revealing his identity.
He admitted two offences of inciting a child to engage in sexual activities.
On Wednesday, Evans, of Haverfordwest, was jailed for 16 months at Swansea Crown Court.
The court heard two of the messages were sent before the girl's 16th birthday, with the victim discovering Evans' identity after researching his telephone number.
Robin Rouch, prosecuting, said the messages had upset the victim so much she failed to achieve the exam grades she had expected.
Jim Davis, representing Evans, said he had suffered extreme shame and embarrassment.
Judge Peter Heywood said he would be failing in his public duty if he did not send Evans to jail immediately.
"You blighted her life in what was an important school year," he said.
Evans was ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years and, on his release from prison, he will be banned from working with children.
He was also made the subject of a restraining order banning him from contacting the girl.


The States of Guernsey spent £1.8m on PR and advertising over 22 months, figures released to the BBC show.

The sum, covering January 2013 to October 2014, included money spent on in-house staff, third party companies and advertising agencies.
Some residents said this was a "waste of money" and the States would need to "measure its effectiveness".
Deputy Heidi Soulsby said when it comes to advertising "we've got to think in a modern way - this is the digital age".
Ms Soulsby said currently States accounts do not show what is spent on advertising and promotion.
She said the States hoped to produce a set of accounts that were "more meaningful and transparent".
The figures, from an access to public information request, showed in-house staff costs came to just over £397,000 for the time period.
The cost of third party public relation companies was just over £300,000 with two thirds going to tourism marketing spend and other promotional work.
The total cost for advertising was just over £1.1million, which includes legally required adverts. Nearly £800,000 of the advertising cost was for States recruitment and advertising purposes.
Guernsey's States chief executive, Paul Whitfield, said £300,000 being spent on third party public relations firms would be subject to a States-wide procurement policy.
He said civil service public relations roles could be changed to reduce costs for taxpayers.
Adam Riddell, chair of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Channel Islands, said any organisation needed to justify its spend on public relations activity, and that justification needed to be based on "whether that spend has produced the desired outcomes".


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed "deep regret" over Indonesia's execution of eight people convicted of drug offences.

The seven foreigners and one Indonesian were executed by firing squad on Wednesday, sparking diplomatic fury.
In a statement, Mr Ban said the death penalty had "no place in the 21st Century" and urged Indonesia to spare all other death row prisoners.
Indonesia has staunchly defended its actions as part of its "war on drugs".
"Execution is not a pleasant thing. It is not a fun job," Indonesian Attorney General Prasetyo said on Wednesday.
"But we must do it in order to save the nation from the danger of drugs."
Among the executed prisoners were two Australian men - Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - and Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, all convicted of drug smuggling.
Australia, a key ally of Indonesia, has recalled its ambassador in protest.
Mr Abbott on Wednesday described the treatment of the Australians as "cruel and unnecessary", calling it a "dark moment" in Australia's relationship with Indonesia.
"We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply business as usual," he said.
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Brazil said the execution of Gularte - who had been diagnosed with severe mental illness - was "a serious event in the relations between the two countries".
He was the second Brazilian to be executed for drug smuggling in Indonesia in four months. A priest who was with Gularte as he went to the firing squad has told the media he did not appear to understand he was about to die.
Nigeria also expressed "deep disappointment" at the execution of four of its nationals, one of whom was originally reported to be from Ghana.
There were celebrations in the Philippines, however, after a Filipina woman was spared at the last minute.
Mary Jane Veloso's execution was postponed after the Indonesian government agreed to let her testify in the case of the woman she has accused of planting heroin in her luggage.
Maria Kristina Sergio turned herself in to the police unexpectedly this week and has been taken to the capital, Manila, for investigations.
A French man, Serge Areski Atlaoui, remains on death row. He has an outstanding legal complaint over his request for clemency.
France has said it is "fully mobilised" on his case.
Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.
It says it takes a hard line because of the country's own drugs problem - 33 Indonesians die every day as a result of drugs, according to Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency.


David Templeton has extended his contract at Hamilton Academical until the end of next season.

The 28-year-old attacker joined Accies at the end of March on a short-term deal, after a long spell out through injury.
The former Rangers and Hearts player made his debut as a substitute in the defeat by Motherwell last week.
Templeton came off the bench to score in the 3-2 loss to Ross County in Dingwall on Tuesday night.


A former journalist has told a court he was a suspect in the murder of a French filmmaker because he was English.

Ian Bailey is suing the Irish State for wrongful arrest over the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
The 57-year-old  claimed he was victimised in custody.
He said he was given a black and tan shirt to wear, suggesting a reference to British auxiliary forces dispatched to Ireland during the War of Independence.
"It was not a complaint so much as an observation on the colour," he told the jury at the High Court in Dublin.
"It was a black and tan colouring and I just thought it was possibly a coded message ... because I'm English."
Mme Toscan du Plantier, 39, was found beaten to death on a hillside outside her west Cork holiday home on the morning of Monday 23 December 1996..
Mr Bailey was arrested in February 1997 and again in January 1998 as part of the investigation but never charged.
The former freelance reporter denies any involvement in the unsolved killing.
Giving evidence for a sixth day in his civil action against the state, Mr Bailey said he thought he was being victimised because he was English.
"It was made quite clear to me in the interrogation, if you think an Englishman is coming over here and is going to get away with this," he said.
"It definitely was. There was very strong xenophobia."
Mr Bailey was born in Manchester and brought up from the age of nine in the Gloucester area before embarking on a freelance journalism career in Cheltenham in the 1980s and some spells in London.
He moved to west Cork about 23 years ago.
Almost 20 years on from the killing of Mme Toscan du Plantier, Mr Bailey is suing the Garda (police)Commissioner, the Minister for Justice and the Attorney General for wrongful arrest and a series of other alleged failings in the murder investigation.
The state denies all claims.
The hearing in front of a jury of eight men and four women is set to run for several more weeks.
The court was told that Mr Bailey was in Bandon Garda Station on 10 February 1997 when he alleges the black and tan shirt was given to him.
Mr Bailey was questioned on transcripts of a series of interviews that took place on the day, and police took a blue sweatshirt, a beige jacket, denim jeans and a purple-brown checked shirt from his house, in Liscaha, Schull, west Cork.
The court heard he was told there was blood on the clothes taken from the house and he replied that the tests would clear his name.
Mr Bailey was also asked about discrepancies in his statements to detectives including whether he had got out of bed in the middle of the night when Mme Toscan du Plantier was murdered.
He said it was correct to say he had left his partner, Jules Thomas, in bed at some point in the middle of the night to write.
The interview transcripts noted that Mr Bailey repeatedly denied any involvement in the murder.
The court also heard that Mr Bailey described Mme Toscan du Plantier as "plain" during one police interview.


Scientists are pioneering the use of 3D printers to create drugs and other chemicals at the University of Glasgow.

Researchers have used a Â£1,250 system to create a range of organic compounds and inorganic clusters - some of which are used to create cancer treatments.
Longer term, the scientists say the process could be used to make customised medicines.
They predict the technique will be used by pharmaceutical firms within five years, and by the public within 20.
"We are showing that you can take chemical constituents, pass them through a printer and create what is effectively a chemical synthesiser in which the reaction occurs allowing you to get out something different at the end," researcher Mark Symes told the BBC.
"We're extrapolating from that to say that in the future you could buy common chemicals, slot them into something that 3D prints, just press a button to mix the ingredients and filter them through the architecture and at the bottom you would get out your prescription drug."
The 3D printing process involves the use of a robotically controlled syringe which builds an object out of a gel-based "ink", into which chemicals and catalysts are mixed.
"Chemists normally put chemicals in glassware to create a reaction," said Prof Lee Cronin, who came up with the idea.
"What we are doing is mixing the concept of the glassware and the chemicals together in the 3D printer to create what we call 'reactionware'.
"It's almost like a layer cake - you print the last reactionary agent first and then build other chemical layers above, finally adding a liquid at the top. The liquid goes to layer one making a new molecule which goes to the next layer creating another and so on until at the bottom you get your prescription drug out."
Until now the researchers have used bathroom sealant to create their reactor, and the substances created have not been suitable for human consumption.
But the scientists say their next step is to switch ingredients and replicate drugs already available in pharmacies. They also hope to work with engineers to increase the printer's speed and resolution.
If successful, they say doctors and individuals could ultimately download pre-set recipes and even tailor medicines to their individual needs.
"This would not only place traditionally expensive chemical engineering technology within reach of typical laboratories and small commercial enterprises, but also could revolutionise access to healthcare and the chemical sciences in general in the developing world," they wrote in a paper published in the Nature Chemistry journal
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The RBS banking group has withheld bonuses from 18 of the staff it is investigating for their possible role in rigging the foreign exchange market.

The bank has been conducting its own inquiry into the affair and six staff are already being disciplined.
RBS has been looking at more than 50 former and current RBS traders along with dozens of managers and executives.
The bank was recently fined £400m by the UK and US authorities for its role in the scandal which emerged in 2012.
RBS was one of six banks that were fined £2.6bn last month by the UK, US and Swiss authorities after being found guilty of trying to rig the forex market for several years.
A separate inquiry into the role of Barclays bank and its own forex traders is still underway.
Jon Pain, the head of conduct and regulatory affairs at RBS, said the aim of the bank's inquiry was to "rebuild trust" in the bank.
"We are undertaking a robust and thorough review into the actions of the traders that caused this wrongdoing and the management that oversaw it," he said.
"This is a complicated process but also an essential one in order to identify culpability and accountability for this unacceptable misconduct.
"To be clear, no further bonus payments will be made or unvested bonus awards released to those in scope of the review until it has concluded and its recommendations have been considered," he added.
Two RBS traders were first suspended in October last year.
In a report last month which accompanied the huge fines, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the attempts to rig the forex market, by colluding with each other to manipulate the daily setting of "spot" prices for individual currencies, had taken place between 1 January 2008 and 15 October 2013.
One man, thought to be a former RBS forex trader, was arrested by City of London police and Serious Fraud Office staff last Friday.


He may have won at home, but on the level where great nations contend, President-elect Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" now goes head to head with China's favourite catchphrases, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the China dream.

At precisely the moment Mr Trump was giving his victory speech, Chinese TV channels were running extensive coverage of a space mission and President Xi even chose US results day to talk to China's astronauts by satellite link.
It was hard to escape the sense that this was his version of the John F Kennedy "we choose to go to the Moon" moment, a message to remind his public that whatever is going on elsewhere in the world, the narrative of rising Chinese might is on course.
In private, President Xi is probably celebrating a win in the US too.
As I and many others have noted before, the American election race has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party. In a giant one-party state which enjoys no public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of its own system, the United States has often been the unspoken benchmark of all that is most materially, culturally and politically advanced.
It's no accident that President Xi's China dream slogan echoes the American dream. For a rising superpower, the United States is the nation to beat.
Over recent years, Chinese commentators have often said that American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq damaged Chinese faith that the US could be trusted to lead on the world's geopolitics, and that the 2008 financial crisis damaged Chinese faith that the US could be trusted to lead on the global economy.
Now a bitter and scandal-ridden presidential race has damaged Chinese confidence that Americans can be trusted to run themselves.
Although the Chinese government has been careful to avoid direct comment on the candidates or the campaign, its tightly-controlled media have given full play to the rancour and division of the race. The president-elect has repeatedly echoed Beijing's argument that the American system is rigged in favour of moneyed elites.
And Chinese media have discussed at length the experience and meritocratic advance of public servants in their own one-party pyramid as a comment on shallow demagogues in electoral democracies.
For a nation which within living memory has suffered civil war and the terrors of the fanatical Cultural Revolution, the bitterness of the US campaign has tarnished any fairytale that American democracy once represented.
But on the president-elect himself, the public view is mixed.
Many Chinese admire Mr Trump as a businessman, a straight talker and an outsider. If in four years from now, he has "made America great again", then the political system which produced him will regain some credibility.
But if the team behind "the China Dream" are making the Chinese public rich, sending rockets to Mars and dominating Asia, then 9 November 2016 may mark the moment when China left the American Dream behind forever.
And in the meantime, the Chinese government has to come to terms with a US president who has no track record, no known team and no concrete China policy.
We'll get along great with China, said Mr Trump on the campaign trail. But he also said: "They come in, they take our jobs, they make a fortune. We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world."
And occasionally he also seemed to find a middle way.
"I have done great deals in China. China is wonderful. I'm not angry at China. I'm angry at our people for allowing them to get away with this... China is wonderful, but they are getting away with murder."
As part of Mr Trump's promise to "Make America Great Again" he's often said the US must "win" in its economic relations with China.
But over the past four decades, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party  have learned to take US campaign promises with a pinch of salt.
They've watched many American presidents come and go, making fierce threats against China on the campaign trail, and then quietly returning to a policy of engagement after their first few months in office.
At a time when China's economic growth is faltering, access to US markets remains vital and protectionism from an incoming Trump administration would alarm Beijing.
But its trade negotiators have had many months to game every possible Trump move on tariffs, market access or exchange rates. And Beijing will have logged that many of the long-time Asia experts in the Republican Party have already ruled out working for a Trump presidency. When it comes to fighting Mr Trump's economic game, Beijing will be ready for him.
It may also calculate that trade is a game in which it can afford to give Mr Trump some wins in exchange for its own coveted wins in the great game of geopolitics in Asia.
This is where Mr Trump represents opportunity for China. On the campaign trail, the president-elect sounded much cooler on US commitments in Asia than his rival.
He was fiercely hostile to the economic dimension of the Obama administration's effort to pivot to Asia.
And even in the military dimension, Mr Trump has said that longstanding US allies like Japan and South Korea should pay more to maintain a US military presence.
Critics in the region warn that any increase in US isolationism or protectionism, or any grand bargain with Beijing, will make Taiwan and the South China Sea vulnerable, and diminish American leadership in Asia at a time when states like the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand are all calculating where their strategic interests lie.
China's geostrategists will now hope that a Trump presidency plays into their ambitious plans to diminish American power and remake the map of Asia. They may well be right.


England's Jodie Stimpson stormed to the first medal of the 2014 Commonwealth Games as she took triathlon gold with her compatriot Vicky Holland in bronze.

Stimpson timed her surge on the final 10km run leg perfectly to pull away from Canada's Kirsten Sweetland 300m from the line and make up for her Olympic disappointment two years ago.
The 25-year-old from Oldbury had missed out on a place at London 2012 through a controversial British selection policy but won England's first ever Commonwealth triathlon medal with a dominant piece of front-running to finish in one hour 58 minutes 56 seconds.
Sweetland took silver and Holland hung on for bronze in a race that provided a thrilling start to these Glasgow Games just 10 hours after the spectacular opening ceremony.
The exhausted English pair crawled over to hug each other as the unexpectedly hot conditions and fierce racing took their toll.
The summer heat was so intense that the opening 1500m swim in Strathclyde Loch was made non-wetsuit, and England's Lucy Hall went out hard early to tow team-mates Stimpson and Holland with her, just as they had planned.
Within the first lap of the 40km bike a group of 10 had come together that also included Northern Ireland's Aileen Reid as well as double world champion Emma Moffatt and her Australian team-mate Emma Jackson.
On a tough, hilly course no breaks could stay away, and it became apparent from some way out that the gold medal would come down to the 10km run.
Stimpson set a telling pace and within 2km the large group had whittled down to just six, Hall and Moffatt dropping off as New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt came through.
With 4km to go Reid was the next to drift away and, as they came through transition for the final time, Stimpson tried to stretch the pace further, dropping the dangerous Jackson and hurting Hewitt.
Holland could not keep the pace and, as the runners turned for the final long drag towards the finishing blue carpet, neither could Sweetland.
Stimpson's gold was later matched by Yorkshire's Alistair Brownlee, who beat his brother Jonny into second place in the men's race.
But after Stimpson was denied a crack at gold in London two years ago when the British selectors opted to pick two domestiques to aid medal contender Helen Jenkins rather than a team of three individuals, her moment of triumph in Strathclyde Country Park is likely to be savoured.
She said: "Get in England! Come on! Now the boys have got to do it.
"All my family are already crying, it's awesome they got to see me in a championship race after missing the Olympics in 2012.
"The support from the crowd was awesome. No matter what country you were from they were behind you."
Holland, an outsider for the podium before the race began, produced one of her finest performances to take the bronze.
She said: "I knew Jodie would be the biggest threat in the field and I am really pleased she won, not just because she is English but because she really deserves it.
"My legs were failing me towards the end - it was so hard to hold and win this medal I've worked so long for."


Former All Blacks Dan Carter and Joe Rokocoko were cleared of anti-doping breaches by the French Rugby Federation.

Their Racing 92 team-mate Juan Imhoff and was also cleared.
Racing had always denied reports their players had breached anti-doping rules, or had therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for "anomalous" drugs tests.
"I hold my integrity and the game of rugby's integrity in the highest regard," Carter, 34, said.
Carter, a World Cup winner in 2015, added: "I love this game and owe so much to rugby that I would never do anything intentionally to bring it into disrepute."
The French club's doctor Sylvain Blanchard was also cleared by the federation.
Fly-half Carter and winger Rokocoko, 33, along with Argentina wing Imhoff, 28, were part of the team who beat Toulon 29-21 in June's Top 14 final.
French newspaper L'Equipe reported the trio tested positive for corticosteroids before the final in Barcelona.
A Racing statement said the coverage of the case was "reprehensible", and that "the aura of negative perceptions inevitably falls back on the club and its players".
The statement said: "The term corticosteroid has strong emotional connotations because it can correspond to immoral and illegal conduct.
"The ignorance shown by those who dealt with the subject, the confusion, approximation and blatant mistakes published without reserve have severely damaged the image of a club and its members."
TUEs allow sportspeople to take prescribed medicines - which would otherwise be banned for their performance-enhancing properties - if there is a medical need.


New Qatari media ventures in London are raising questions - and controversy - about the intentions of its backers in the wealthy Gulf state.

Some Arab governments are wary that they will be a new mouthpiece for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement, which they view as a destabilising threat.
The Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera network has been accused of pro-Brotherhood bias, something the station has denied, but it lost a lot of its audience last year, especially after the crackdown on the movement in Egypt, and Islamists' political setback in Tunisia and Libya.
"Qatar lost the political and media prestige which was created by Al-Jazeera over almost 20 years," said a well-known journalist close to the Qatari decision-makers.
Egypt, Saudi, UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Doha last March, accusing Qatar of supporting MB efforts to topple their regimes.
All but Egypt recently agreed to return their envoys after reaching an agreement believed to include written commitments from Qatar to stop media campaigns against them.
Last March, a new media project funded by a Qatari-owned private holding company, emerged, first with a website called Al-Araby Al-Jadeed - The New Arab.
Last September, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed  started publishing a daily newspaper, followed by an English version of the website, and it is now preparing to launch a television channel.
The project is supervised by Azmi Bishara, a prominent Palestinian secular academic, who is close to the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Writing on the website when it launched, Mr Bishara talked about the need for a new project because "we live in a new Arab era" in which Arab youths dream of "freedom, equality and a dignified life".
Mr Bishara did not explain the needs for a new platform in addition to Al-Jazeera, on which he regularly appears as a political commentator.
In a book he has written about Syrian conflict, Mr Bishara admitted that the Qatari government interfered in the editorial policy of Al-Jazeera.
However, Islam Lotfy, Al-Araby Television Network CEO, told the BBC that while Al-Jazeera "is a party in a political battle, we are not".
"Up to this moment, there is no interference in the editorial policy from Qatar," he said.
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper CEO Abdulrahman Elshayyal said claims that the project was subject to any political influence were unsubstantiated.
"Our funding is from a Qatari-owned private holding company. We have no qualms about this nor have we ever denied it. Nor are we a political party or affiliated to any group of any kind," he said.
"Our editorial teams, who come from a varied background, have one thing in common; a belief in the highest editorial standards and in our editorial philosophy: a strong and transparent media can only strengthen and support people in their search for democracy and self-determination - whatever their background may be.
"We should be held to account on the basis of our commitment to our declared values and on professional performance and not judged by our source of funding."
Al-Araby TV is set to launch in London in January. Its main target, Mr Lotfy said, was the youth in the countries of the Arab Spring.
The diversity of cultures and backgrounds of the new project's staff is obvious in the channel's newsroom. However, this is not enough to dispel the suspicions of some, like Shadi Salahuddin, the London bureau chief of the official Egyptian Middle East News Agency.
"Would they be able to criticise Qatar policy?" he asked, before adding: "The Arab audiences are not gullible any more."
Mr Salahuddin drew his conclusion from what has already appeared on Al-Araby Al-Jadeed's website and newspaper.
He insisted that "they are just like Al-Jazeera in the way they are covering the main issues in the Arab world".
On Edgware Road, a road with a significant proportion of Arabic shops and visitors in London where Al-Araby is located, it was clear that the newspaper is not popular yet.
An Arabic newsagent told the BBC that he does not even sell one copy a day. This despite the fact that the paper has been on news shelves for three months now.
"It's still new to the market," said Mr Elshayyal. He rejected the suggestion that the paper's "political agenda" is the reason for its unpopularity.
"We are doing well on the website," he said.
According to the Alexa index, which measures website traffic, Al-Araby's global rank was 6,967 last week. Despite the fact that it is not allowed to operate in Egypt officially yet, 44% of the visitors are from there.
The Egyptian President, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has accused the new media venture of "targeting Egyptian stability," a charge denied by its management.
However the website's coverage of Egypt's affairs appears to show a dislike of its new rulers. Its daily news reports focus on what they describe as the "repression" and "corruption" that characterise the "coup leadership".
The newspaper's Egyptian editor-in-chief Wael Kandil, attacks President Sisi in his column on an almost daily basis.
Mr Kandil's columns appear sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, although he is not a member of the movement.
"It is not just in Egypt, the political stance of the newspaper is obvious wherever the MB exists," Mr Salahuddin said.
Observers say it is a stance closely linked to Qatar's policies in the Middle East.
The journalist close to Qatari decision-makers, who did not want to be identified, said there was "no future for this [new media] project without supporting the political Islam movements. Qatar cannot abandon this policy, or else they will be without any political weight".
Update 2 December 2014: The article has been modified to include a statement from Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper CEO Abdulrahman Elshayyal, to make clear the media venture is funded by a private company and to remove any suggestion that it may be part of an investigation into Muslim Brotherhood activities in the UK or that Wael Kandil has any association with the movement.


Proposals to expand one of the UK's major science hubs include redeveloping the land around Didcot Power Station.

Science Vale incorporates Harwell Campus, Culham Science Centre, and Milton Park in south Oxfordshire.
The Science Vale Area Action Plan intends to regenerate "large brownfield sites, such as the former power station site at Didcot A to provide an opportunity to help improve Didcot".
Plans include 20,000 new jobs and 20,000 homes by 2031.
The site of the former Didcot A power station, which was demolished in 2014, has been identified as a "key site" for growth.
Other "strategic" sites include Crab Hill, Grove Airfield, Monks Farm, Valley Park, Milton Heights, and east of Sutton Courtenay.
The planning policy document was jointly prepared by South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District Council.
The authorities outline a vision of "diverse, high quality, attractive housing developments" as part of the expansion.
However, they aim to protect the "distinctive character and heritage of Science Vale's market towns, villages and countryside".
Science Vale is home to major scientific projects such as the national synchrotron Diamond Light Source.
The goal is to fill many of the jobs required in the research and development sectors, including space, life sciences, advanced engineering and cryogenics, via local recruitment.
The first Oxfordshire University Technical College opens in Didcot in September.
A series of public consultations are being held until 17 April.


The Scottish Challenge Cup is being expanded to include teams from Wales and Northern Ireland from season 2016-17, following approval from Uefa.

The tournament for teams outside the top flight will also include an under-20s side from each Scottish Premiership club in the first round.
Four teams from the Highland League and four from the Lowland League will also enter at that stage in August.
Two Welsh sides and two from Northern Ireland enter the last 16 in October.
It is expected these will be the top two from the Welsh Premier League and Northern Ireland Football League, meaning places for The New Saints and Bala Town and Crusaders and Linfield.
One Welsh side and one from Northern Ireland will be guaranteed a home tie.
Draws will be regionalised throughout the competition and seeded for the first three rounds, with the final to be played in March.
"We are very pleased to be supported by Uefa in delivering an element of cross-border competition through the invitation to our colleagues in Northern Ireland and Wales," said Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster.
The SPFL say the majority of fixtures will take place during international weekends, while BBC ALBA, S4C and Premier Sports will all show live matches.
Championship winners Rangers lifted the trophy last season, beating Peterhead in the final at Hampden.


An alleged anti-Semitic incident at an election hustings in the Bradford West constituency is being investigated by police as a hate crime.

Comments can be heard in footage of the event, organised by human rights group JUST Yorkshire on Wednesday.
It is understood the word "Jew" was shouted at Labour candidate Naz Shah after she spoke of her support for "Israel's right to exist".
All confirmed candidates in the constituency took part in the event.
JUST Yorkshire reported the incident, which took place at the Carlisle Business Centre, to police who are investigating.
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Ms Shah said: "I didn't hear it at the time because the heckling was so bad.
"But I have seen the video now, I've heard it with my own ears and I'm glad it has been reported as a hate incident."
All confirmed candidates in Bradford West took part in the event.
Nadeem Murtuja, chair of JUST Yorkshire, which organised the hustings, said in a statement: "JUST Yorkshire condemns every form of hate, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
"If I had heard the comment on the night of the hustings, we would have immediately brought an end to the proceedings."
A spokesman from West Yorkshire Police said: "On 2 June, police in Bradford received a report of a hate incident.
"Inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances."


A crew member of the bin lorry that killed six people in Glasgow has spoken of his frantic efforts to awaken its unconscious driver.

Matthew Telford told a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) at Glasgow Sheriff Court of "panic" as Harry Clarke slumped unconscious at the wheel.
He said he hit Mr Clarke on the back and screamed "you're killing people Harry" as the tragedy unfolded.
The inquiry will focus on the vehicle, its route and the health of Mr Clarke.
Mr Telford was the first witness called before the inquiry, which got under way before Sheriff John Beckett QC on Wednesday.
He said he had been a council refuse collector for 18 years and served on bin lorries in the city centre for seven years.
The witness said he and fellow crewman Henry Toal spent most of their time at the back of the vehicle and had no knowledge of the driving area of the vehicle, or its controls.
They had no training on what to do if someone fell ill in the truck, he said.
Mr Telford and Mr Toal would load bins on to the back of the truck and Mr Clarke, whom he described as laid back, would sometimes help.
Mr Telford said that, to his knowledge, Mr Clarke had had an operation on his hands but had no other health problems, such as dizziness or fainting, in the previous three years.
He could not recall anything out of the ordinary on the day of crash and said the crew were all wearing seatbelts.
The witness said the crew had been talking about Christmas and football when he felt the vehicle veer to the left.
Mr Telford said he turned to Mr Clarke and said: "What are you doing Harry?"
He described seeing Mr Clarke's head slumped to one side, then told how "his whole body slumped to the left", adding: "It didn't seem right to me."
The crewman said the driver's hands were not on the wheel and his seatbelt was holding him up.
Mr Telford said "a bit of panic set in" and he started screaming at Mr Clarke and hitting him on the back to try to get a response.
He recalled the bin lorry hitting the pavement, then a bin, then pedestrians, before he shouted: "You're killing people Harry."
The lorry continued and hit walls, pedestrians and vehicles before crashing into a hotel.
"I was hoping we'd hit something and stop," Mr Telford said.
When the lorry stopped, the witness said he and Mr Toal got out and saw Mr Clarke was unconscious and "groaning".
He said he spoke to Mr Clarke as he was being treated after the crash and the driver asked him what had happened.
The court was shown pictures from the lorry with unopened bottles of beer in the cab.
Mr Telford said he did not know anything about them as there was no drinking in the vehicle and he did not drink at all.
He said that taking alcohol on to the lorry would be against council policy and he did not know how it got there.
The court will hear from the other bin lorry crewman, Mr Toal on Thursday.
Earlier, the FAI was told that there was no mechanical fault with the lorry before the crash.
It was also shown CCTV footage of the crash, during which some family members chose not to be present.
Sheriff Beckett QC began proceedings by telling family members of those who died: "I can only imagine the shock, pain and anguish which you have suffered following your sudden and terrible loss."
Following a minute's silence to remember the victims, a joint minute of agreed facts was read to the court.
It detailed the road layout around George Square and noted that Christmas decorations and an ice rink were in place on the day of the tragedy.
The road surface was described as being in a "good state of repair" and said to have had no effect on the incident. The weather and visibility were also both fine.
The minute listed the crew members on board the lorry and detailed the path it took as it hit buildings, cars and pedestrians.
It said "numerous" members of the public saw Mr Clarke apparently unconscious behind the wheel, and there was "nothing to suggest the incident was a deliberate act".
In terms of the technical specification of the lorry, the FAI was told that it had been fully inspected before delivery and had various safety features fitted as required by the council.
The lorry had foot and hand brakes and an engine brake designed to slow it on hills, although the FAI was told the latter would have had "minimal effect at road speed".
The minute described "major impact damage" to the lorry following the crash and said that there were "no pre-collision defects".
Its mechanical condition prior to the crash was not a factor.
The court was also played DVD clips of the lorry following the crash, which showed exterior and interior damage, including broken glass on the dashboard with the keys still in the ignition.
Solicitor General Lesley Thomson QC, Scotland's second most senior law officer, is leading the FAI and has previously said the inquiry would examine three main areas.
One is the medical background, employment record and training of the driver, Mr Clarke, who has since said he has no memory of the crash itself.
The second is the technical aspects of the vehicle and whether any measures could have brought it to a controlled stop, and the third is the safety of the route taken by the vehicle given the time of day and year.
Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died in the incident in the city's Queen Street and George Square.
Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed when the truck mounted the pavement before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel.
A further 10 people were injured.
The Crown Office has already concluded that there will be no criminal prosecution over the crash, with senior lawyers deeming it a "tragic accident".
The FAI was originally to take place before Sheriff Principal Craig Scott, but he withdrew earlier this year after realising he knew one of the victims.


Former Derby County boss Paul Clement has been appointed as Bayern Munich assistant manager.

Clement links up again with Carlo Ancelotti, who has succeeded Pep Guardiola as boss of the Bundesliga champions.
The pair have previously worked together at Chelsea, Real Madrid and Paris St-Germain.
Clement was sacked by Championship side Derby in February following an eight-month spell in charge.
Bayern have also retained long-serving assistant coach Hermann Gerland, who worked under the reigns of Louis van Gaal, Jupp Heynckes and Guardiola.
Ancelotti's son, Davide, has also joined the German side's health and fitness team as part of the coaching restructure.
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Swedish intelligence service Sapo is investigating a possible terror threat to the capital, Stockholm, local media say.

Iraqi authorities had informed Sweden that seven or eight militants from the so-called Islamic State group had travelled to Sweden, newspapers reported.
A Sapo spokesman would not confirm the nature of the information received.
But he told Swedish Radio the information could not be "dismissed".
The national terror threat level is unchanged at three, or "elevated", on a five-point scale.
National agencies and police are said to be on stand-by, though Sapo has cautioned that it receives this type of information "quite often".
Stockholm is the largest city in the Nordic countries, with a population of some 900,000.


A former boys' football coach has been jailed for five years for the sex abuse of a young player.

Mark Ellis abused the 10-year-old during a series of attacks in 1991.
The 57-year-old, who lived in Biggar at the time, had been running a football team and training school in South Lanarkshire.
Ellis, who now lives in Birmingham, was jailed after being found guilty of lewd and libidinous behaviour at the High Court in Glasgow.
During the trial, his victim told the court that Ellis had threatened to kill him if he told anyone.
More than a decade later, he travelled nearly 300 miles to confront Ellis at his home in the Midlands.
His abuser told him: "I'm sorry - I knew this day was coming."
The jury heard that Ellis had also coached boys at Birmingham City.
Ellis finally appeared in court in June 2015 after his victim, now 37, went to the police, but he denied the charges and claimed he was innocent.
Passing sentence, Judge Johanna Johnston QC told him: "You were trusted by his parents, you were treated as a friend of the family.
"You abused that trust in the most grave manner."


A campaigner has said he has no regrets over making a personal battle against cancer public in a fight for treatment.

Irfon Williams was forced to move to England to receive the drug Cetuximab to treat bowel cancer.
A medical review of the drug followed a campaign by 45-year-old Mr Williams and it is now available in Wales.
But the cancer patient, who lives in Bangor, Gwynedd, has learnt that despite initial treatment success the disease has now spread.
"I have wondered, very, very occasionally, whether I should have gone so public - should I have just gone quietly and got on with things," Mr Williams said.
"But very quickly I think back to the impact that some of our campaigning has had, and I've no regrets at all.
"Nothing but good can come out of the campaigning."
Mr Williams highlighted the decision to hold an independent review of how patients in Wales access drugs not normally available as one of the victories for the Right to Live campaign.
He was invited to sit as the only patient on the panel by Health Secretary Vaughan Gething in September.
"I think it shows the government has listened to patients' voices and understood that the process was unfair and a very difficult one for families to go through."
However, his focus has now shifted from his campaigning following the news his cancer has spread to his lungs and other parts of the body, and can no longer be cured.
"I need to concentrate now on staying healthy, enjoying my life and living as long as I possibly can - I'm not planning on going anywhere in a hurry."
The father-of-five said that included preparing his younger sons for the worst, at the age of five and seven.
"It really is on their mind, especially Sion who is seven. One of his biggest fears is that daddy is going to die, and unfortunately I can't reassure him that daddy isn't going to die.
"We are preparing them for that in a way that is appropriate to their age and development without being too morbid about it."


Police in Scotland are understood to be investigating claims Labour peer Lord Janner abused a boy there in the 1970s.

Det Ch Supt Lesley Boal said Police Scotland officers were investigating a historical complaint - but did not confirm a name.
Lord Janner was accused of abuse allegations during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s - but was deemed unfit to stand trial in England because of dementia.
The former MP has consistently denied all allegations against him.
BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the allegation had first been made in 1991 by a Leicester man who told police that Greville Janner sexually abused him during the 1970s - including in Scotland.
Police in Leicestershire investigated allegations against the politician - who represented two constituencies in Leicester between 1970 and 1997 - in the 1990s but no charges were brought, he added.
However Scottish police have reviewed files from the original claim relating to the alleged abuse in Scotland and are now carrying out their own investigation, our correspondent said.
"Because Scotland has a separate and independent prosecutor, it would be able to make its own decision about whether to charge Lord Janner," he added.
In April, the Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales, Alison Saunders, decided allegations against the peer by nine men were strong enough to merit a prosecution.
However, she said the prosecution should not go ahead because Lord Janner would to be unable to take part in his defence due to his poor health.
Last month, the Crown Prosecution Service, covering England and Wales, said it would review the decision. A senior prosecutor unconnected to the original case will review the decision.
Justice Lowell Goddard - who is leading an independent inquiry into child sex abuse - has also said she would investigate claims against Lord Janner.


There was success for Wales in the pool with a first gold medal of the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.

Swansea swimmer Lewis Fraser won the 100m butterfly, adding to his earlier bronze in the 50m butterfly.
Medi Harris also won her second medal of the games with bronze in the 200m backstroke.
There was also a bronze in the girls' rugby 7s, as Wales beat Fiji 19-14 in the third-place play-off.
Wales are now ninth in the overall rankings with seven medals in total.


Timetabled services on a world-famous railway line have been powered by steam for the first time in decades.

14 February 2017 Last updated at 15:39 GMT
Tornado, the newest steam locomotive in Britain, will pull 12 Northern services on the Settle-Carlisle line over three consecutive days.
It is part of celebrations to mark the upcoming reopening of the line after landslides closed a long stretch.


Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov has issued a pardon to all politicians embroiled in a big corruption scandal that sparked a major political crisis.

He also cancelled an investigation into claims of abuse of power revealed by covert recordings, saying he wanted to "put an end to the agony" ahead of early elections in June.
But his move was condemned both by the opposition and by EU officials.
Macedonia has been in turmoil since the recordings were released in 2015.
In a televised address on Tuesday, President Ivanov said he acted to "defend national interests".
"I've decided to put an end to the agony and, metaphorically speaking, to cut a knot,'' he said, without referring to any politicians by name.
Opposition leader Zoran Zaev said the move was illegal, urging protesters to gather in the capital Skopje. A crowd of several hundred people later gathered outside the prosecutor's office.
Meanwhile, EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said: "Today's actions of President Ivanov are not in line with my understanding of rule of law."
Mr Hahn added that the move put Macedonia's EU membership ambitions at risk.
The crisis was sparked by covert recordings which appear to show ministers plotting vote-rigging and the cover-up of a murder.
Mr Zaev has been releasing a steady stream of recordings since February 2015, accusing the government of wiretapping 20,000 people, including politicians, journalists and religious leaders.
He says that scores of leaked recordings reveal corruption at the highest levels of government, including the mismanagement of funds, dubious criminal prosecutions of opponents and even cover-ups of killings.
The government denies the accusations, and in return has accused Mr Zaev of trying to "destabilise" the Balkan nation.
He rejects the claim.


A 37-year-old man has been charged in connection with the deaths of a man and woman at a Dundee flat.

The bodies of Ronald Kidd, 40, and Holly Alexander, 37, were discovered at a tenement in Rosefield Street, in the city's west end, at about 21:00 on Sunday.
The property was sealed off by police while detectives and scenes of crimes officers investigated.
The man is expected to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
Detectives said a review of CCTV in the are was being carried out, while house-to-house inquiries are continuing.
Police have also appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
Det Insp Brian Geddes, who is leading the investigation, said: "I would be keen to hear from anyone who heard or saw anything suspicious in the Rosefield Street area, in the days between Thursday 8 December 2016 and Sunday 11 December 2016."


Japan Post is seeking to raise as much as 1.39tn yen ($11.5bn, £7.4bn) in a stock market listing that would be one of the world's biggest this year.

The plan for the state-owned giant would be one of Japan's largest public share sales in more than 30 years.
The share sale is aimed at boosting Japan's economy and stock markets.
The country's economy shrank in the second quarter of the year - a setback for the government's reform policy.
"We are hopeful it will lead to a virtuous economic cycle," a senior government official said.
Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said the share offering would encourage a shift of savings out of bank deposits and into the stock market.
Earlier this month, Japan said its economy contracted by 0.3% in the three months to June, compared with original calculations of a 0.4% contraction.
The revision beat market expectations, which were for a contraction of 0.5%, but analysts said it had not eased concerns about the state of the economy.
Lagging exports and sluggish consumer spending were the biggest contributors to the drop in growth. Consumer spending makes up some 60% of Japan's economy.
About 80% of the shares in Japan Post Holdings would go to domestic investors, reports said.
Japan Post is headed up by Toru Takahashi, employs some 195,000 people, and has 24,000 post offices.
It also controls the country's largest bank, Japan Post Bank, and Japan Post Insurance, the biggest insurer.
In February, the Japanese giant announced a $5.1bn offer for Australia's Toll Holdings, the largest transport and logistics company in the Asia-Pacific region.
The deal, which went through for $4.6bn in May, has helped Japan Post become a leading global logistics player.
The Japan Post triple market debut, including its bank and insurance arms, is expected to occur in early November.


A baseball fan has died after falling from an upper stand at Turner Field in Atlanta, during the Braves game with the New York Yankees.

The fan was given emergency medical treatment including CPR at the scene but Atlanta police later confirmed his death.
The man fell close to the where the players' wives and families sit and many could be seen in tears.
Police said the man was in his early 60s but they have not named him.
A security guard said the man appeared to be hanging on to a wire but then fell on to the lower seats during the seventh inning.
An Atlanta Braves statement read: "We have received confirmation that the fan involved in an accident at this evening's game has passed away. The Atlanta Braves offer their deepest condolences to the family."
Spectator Greg Shiver told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he had told his son to watch Yankees batter Alex Rodriguez come to the plate when he heard a thud.
"I saw a guy falling from the top. I grabbed my son and ran for security," he said.
Another fan died in a fall in 2013 at Turner Field that was later ruled to be a suicide.


Linfield started the season by securing a 3-1 victory over Coleraine in the Charity Shield game at the Oval.

The league and Irish Cup winners had to come from behind after Josh Carson slotted in against his former club to put the Bannsiders in front.
Linfield were quickly level when Aaron Burns fired home after a one-two with Jordan Stewart.
Andrew Mitchell volleyed in to make it 2-1 in the second half and a Paul Smyth lob sealed success for the Blues.
Burns headed wide from the first opening before Darren McAuley volleyed just off-target for beaten Irish Cup finalists Coleraine.
Jamie McGonigle created the opener, his run and delivery across the face of goal setting up midfielder Carson to net on 33 minutes.
Burns equalised four minutes later after a classy move with former Glentoran player Stewart.
Blues keeper Roy Carroll made good save to keep out an Aaron Traynor snapshot early in the second half.
Two goals in five minutes ensured the first silverware of the 2017/18 campaign was destined for Windsor Park.
New signing Andrew Mitchell connected with Kirk Millar's cross at the backpost to give David Healy's side the lead after 73 minutes.
Millar also set up the third, his throughball putting Smyth clear and the forward lifted the ball over Chris Johns and into the Coleraine net.


A man released from prison after nearly 30 years on death row in Alabama has blamed his conviction on being black and poor.

Prosecutors dropped the case against Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, when new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence that linked him to the murders of two restaurant managers in 1985.
He told the BBC the case against him was "built around racism and a lie".
His advocate Bryan Stevenson said the case demands a review.
Mr Hinton walked free from Jefferson Country Jail in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday.
His lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, had argued for years that the case against Mr Hinton was flawed: that he had an alibi for when one of the crimes was committed, passed a lie detector test when he was first arrested, and no evidence corroborated the ballistics results used to convict him.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Hinton said: "I was at work when one of the crimes took place. That wasn't good enough for them. They didn't even begin to check my alibi.
"They just had a young black man - I was 29 years old - and I didn't have no money and in the United States, especially in the South that spells conviction.
"This whole case was built around racism and a lie."
He said he was told by police the crime would be "put on him" and there were five things that would convict him.
"The police said: 'First of all you're black, second of all you've been in prison before, third, you're going to have a white judge, fourth, you're more than likely to have a white jury, and fifth, when the prosecution get to putting this case together you know what that spells? Conviction, conviction, conviction, conviction, conviction.' He was [right] and that's what happened."
He said: "I think if I'd have been white they would have tested the gun and said it don't match and I would have been released, but when you're poor and black in America you stand a higher chance of going to prison for something you didn't do."
Lawyer Mr Stevenson, who has been described by Desmond Tutu as America's young Nelson Mandela, said when he first looked at the case against Mr Hinton he was shocked that he could be convicted of murder and sentenced to death based on the false allegation that bullets could be matched to a gun owned by Mr Hinton's mother.
"Had he had the money to get the experts he needed to expose that lie he would never ever have been convicted," Mr Stevenson said.
Mr Stevenson added that when "the best experts in the country" proved the bullets could not have come from the Hinton gun, Alabama would still not re-test the evidence and reopen the case.
He said: "For 16 years Mr Hinton spent additional time locked down on death row simply because the state was not willing to risk the perception that they are not tough on crime and instead decided to risk the execution of an innocent person and that for me was the most shameful part of this case."
He added: "Mr Hinton is the 152nd person to be exonerated after being sentenced to death.
"It's a shocking rate of error. No system would tolerate that rate of error that cared about the people that were at risk but because most of the people on death row are poor or people of colour we seem to not care as much that some of them are innocent."
He wants a review of the case, compensation to be awarded and conviction integrity units to be established.
Mr Hinton said: "To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights."
He described the feeling of being free as like a child having his first Christmas.
On his first day from prison he visited the grave of his mother who died while he was incarcerated.
He said he is shocked by seeing the technology in use today and seeing the different kinds of clothes being worn now compared with when he went to prison in the 1980s.
Asked if he felt angry about the people who imprisoned him he said: "I am a joyful person. I have a good sense of humour and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.
"I couldn't let them steal what I had left which was joy. They had robbed me of my 30s, my 40s and my 50s so if I get mad and hate them I'm letting them steal my joy."
He said he was taking life "one step at a time" and wanted to "just try to live within my own means, try to bring joy to someone else, live a fruitful life and just be happy".


Switching mobile phone providers should be made simpler, the regulator says, under plans that mirror bank account swaps.

Ofcom's preferred option is for responsibility for the switch being placed entirely in the hands of the new provider.
That would mean an end to the process of contacting the existing provider in order to end the current contract.
A final decision will be made in the autumn.
There are an estimated 47 million mobile phone contracts in the UK, and approximately 5.9 million people have never switched provider at all, nor considered switching in the past year.
Ofcom research suggests that, of those who have switched, some 38% have been hit by one major problem during the process. One in five of them temporarily lost their service, and one in 10 had difficulties contacting their current supplier or keeping their phone number.
The regulator has outlined two options to improve the process:
Sharon White, Ofcom chief executive, said: "It is unacceptable for people to be missing out on better mobile deals because they fear the hassle of switching, or are put off having had a poor experience in the past.
"We want mobile customers to benefit from speedier, simpler switching, making it easier for them to vote with their feet and take advantage of choice in the market."
Dan Howdle, from switching company Cable.co.uk, said: "I am elated that Ofcom is finally looking to expose the convoluted switching process for what it is - not merely a series of laborious administrative hoops, but a set of sticking points designed to actively dissuade us from switching provider."
The regulator also wants customers to be given the chance to defer a switch to prevent double paying on both contracts during the handover process.
Customers can already switch without a penalty during a 30-day period after a provider announces an unexpected price rise.
The plans will now go to consultation before a final decision later in the year.


Two kittens were "coloured in" in what an animal charity described as a "dreadful act of cruelty".

The four-week-old kittens, called Smurf and Shrek, are thought to have been inked by permanent marker pens.
They were brought to Bradford Cat Watch Rescue on Monday after being found by West Yorkshire Police at a property in the city.
The charity said it was bathing the kittens in the hope the ink could be gradually removed.
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Children are not thought to have been responsible.
Charity volunteer Katie Jane Lloyd said: "This is a dreadful act of cruelty and who knows what untold damage this may have caused.
"While there is still a lot of ink on them, I have been very lucky to liaise with the veterinary poisons information service, who have offered me much advice to safely and systematically remove it."
Police had been responding to an animal welfare issue involving another animal at the property when the kittens were found.


A man has been airlifted from a mountain in Snowdonia after injuring his leg while out walking.

He had been making his way down the south ridge of 3,000ft-high Tryfan when he slipped on Saturday afternoon.
An RAF Sea King helicopter, based at Valley in Anglesey, was called at 15:00 BST to help him back down the mountain.
The man, in his early 50s, was flown to the Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team base after it was determined he did not need hospital treatment.


Newport County caretaker Mike Flynn is determined to "finish the job" and keep the club in the Football League.

Exiles' 1-0 win over Accrington Stanley lifted them out of the relegation zone for the first time since November 2016.
They were 11 points adrift of safety when Flynn took over in March and have won six of their 10 matches since.
"I want to finish the job. Getting this close now and not doing it would be heartbreaking for me and the club," Flynn told BBC Radio Wales.
Ryan Bird's goal lifted Newport two points clear of Hartlepool who lost 2-0 at home to Barnet and they could secure Football League football for another season if they win at Carlisle on 29 February.
A week later the Exiles face Notts County at home in their final game of the season.
Hartlepool have matches at Cheltenham and at home to Doncaster to come.
"It's a great three points and I'm over the moon," said Flynn.
"If fingers are crossed and lady luck smiles on us we could be safe, but all we can do is take care of what we can look after and we'll see what happens at five o'clock next week."
He also played down the fact that his record since taking over could lead to a permanent position as manager.
"It's a good record, but there's nothing achieved yet," he said.
"It's not about Michael Flynn it's about keeping Newport County in the Football League and we'll worry about people's views after that.
"It has been a great turnaround and the boys have been fantastic. Again today, their work rate, their application and togetherness was everything that we've asked for.
"I would have wanted a few more goals because I'm going greyer by the minute but I'll take another couple of 1-0 wins before the end of the season, definitely."


High-speed cameras have revealed how jumping spiders use a dragline of silk to stabilise themselves mid-air and control their landings.

Slow-motion footage revealed the spiders used their silk draglines to stabilise their bodies and to brake, enabling them to land poised and ready to pounce on prey.
The discovery, the scientists say, could inspire new robot design.
It is published in the Royal Society journal Interface.
Kai-jung Chi, from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, and her colleagues investigated the jumping ability of Adanson's house spider, a common arachnid that jumps when it hunts, in order to surprise its prey.
Ultimately, Dr Chi and her team hope to learn exactly how these creatures fine-tune and control their jumping manoeuvres, to aid the design of miniature robots able to move in similar ways.
Dr Chi's colleague, PhD student Yung-Kang Chen, filmed the spiders at 1,000 frames per second, and slowed down the resulting footage. They compared the movements of the Adanson's spider with those of a species of jumping spider that does not use a silk dragline.
"We analysed the motion and body orientation throughout the jumps," Dr Chi told BBC News.
This revealed that the Adanson's spider used its dragline to control the orientation of its body mid-air and to brake as it landed.
The non-silk jumping spider would often lose balance - tipping forward and onto its back upon landing.
"[The silk means that the spiders] can land in the optimal position to rapidly initiate prey capture," Dr Chi said.
The results, she said, suggested that the spiders were taking up the slack in their silk dragline by using the valve in their spinning system.
These super-fast adjustments mean that silk provides more than just a safety line for a jumping spider.
Dr Chi said that the "adjustable silk tension" could provide "biological inspiration" for future manoeuvrable robot design.


"Love locks" are to be removed from a bridge in Leeds over concerns they could cause damage.

The padlocks, inscribed with the names of people, usually couples, have been fastened to the Centenary Bridge.
Leeds City Council will cut off the locks claiming they can cause "structural problems".
In 2014, part of the Pont Des Arts bridge in Paris collapsed under the weight of thousands of padlocks attached to a parapet.
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The council said the locks started appearing on Centenary Bridge in 2013 but had recently "appeared in much larger numbers".
In a statement, the authority said: "Although we understand that people have attached them to the bridge as a sign of affection, the locks can cause corrosion to metalwork and structural problems for bridges.
"The number of locks fixed to the bridge in Leeds is now significant and after careful consideration it has been concluded that in order to avoid any future safety or maintenance issues they should be removed."
The council said the removed padlocks would be stored to allow people to reclaim them.


Steven Gerrard says his relationship with former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was "distant and emotionless".

The 35-year-old midfielder, who left Anfield in May after 17 years, revealed the details in his autobiography.
"I can pick up the phone and speak to all of my previous Liverpool managers, except for Rafa," said Gerrard.
"It's a shame because we shared the biggest night of our careers - the 2005 Champions League victory in Istanbul - yet there is no bond between us."
Former England captain Gerrard insists the "frostiness" made him a better player as he had "a hunger" to get a compliment from the Spaniard.
"On a basic human level I prefer a likeable manager, such as Gerard Houllier or Brendan Rodgers, but in terms of football I really don't mind working with a colder man," added Gerrard, who joined LA Galaxy this summer.
"An emotionless and distant relationship with the likes of Rafa Benitez and Fabio Capello can sometimes produce more success."
In January 2009, with Liverpool top of the Premier League, then-Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson commented that nerves might ruin the Reds' title bid.
Benitez, in a bizarre and passionate news conference, responded to this by pulling out a sheet of paper and reading out a list of accusations about Ferguson's conduct regarding referees, the FA's Respect campaign and fixture lists. Benitez backed up his points by saying "this is a fact".
But Gerrard, who played 710 times for Liverpool, was left cringing by the exchange.
"Rafa kept saying 'fact, fact, fact' and I could not believe what I was hearing," said Gerrard. "I was grabbing the couch, digging my fingers into the arms, feeling embarrassed for him.
"When I met up with England, all the Manchester United players told me Fergie was just laughing at Rafa, saying: 'I've got him, I've got him'."
Benitez left Liverpool in June 2010 and is now in charge at Real Madrid.


The head of a yacht management company, who denies manslaughter, said his firm always had a "strong ethos of safety".

Douglas Innes ran Stormforce Coaching and was responsible for the Cheeki Rafiki, which capsized in the mid-Atlantic killing all four crew members.
The 42-year-old of Whitworth Crescent, Southampton broke down in tears as he took the stand during his trial.
Winchester Crown Court heard he was "horrified" when the US Coastguard called off the rescue mission.
The yacht lost its keel as the crew were returning the 40ft vessel from Antigua to the UK in May 2014 when it got into trouble more than 700 miles from Nova Scotia.
The four crew members who died were skipper Andrew Bridge, 22, from Farnham in Surrey, James Male, 22, from Southampton, as well as Steve Warren, 52, and Paul Goslin, 56, both from Somerset.
Mr Innes was the sole director of Southampton-based Stormforce Coaching and when questioned on his company's approach towards safety he said: "Undoubtedly things have got to always be safe."
Mr Innes said he received a number of emails and phone calls from skipper and employee Andrew Bridge before the Cheeki Rafiki capsized discussing possible reasons the yacht was taking on more water.
He received a final call in the early hours of 16 May in which Mr Bridge said: "This is getting worse," before the Coastguard received a signal from the skipper's personal location beacon at 05:10 BST.
Later that morning Mr Innes contacted the four sailors' next of kin.
He told the court: "That's not something I was ever prepared for.
"The first phone call was very difficult, the hardest.
"I called James's mum and I couldn't get the words out.
"I just said, 'I think there may be a problem, your son may be in a life raft.'"
Mr Innes became emotional in the dock as he recounted how he had spoken to an expert on cold water shock to discuss the crew's survival chances.
Mr Innes, a married father-of-two, denies four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.
He and his company Stormforce Coaching, also both deny failing to operate the Cheeki Rafiki in a safe manner between 18 March 2013 and 18 May 2014.
The trial continues.