A Russian company has unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a "cosmic hotel" for wealthy space tourists.

Orbital Technologies says its "comfortable" four-room guest house could be in orbit by 2016, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reports.
Guests would be ferried to the hotel on a Soyuz shuttle of the type used to transport cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
The Moscow-based firm did not reveal how the hotel would be built or funded.
Up until now space tourists, such as American businessman Dennis Tito, have squeezed into the cramped ISS, alongside astronauts and their experiments.
The new hotel would offer greater comforts, according to Sergei Kostenko, chief executive of Orbital Technologies.
"Our planned module inside will not remind you of the ISS. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes," he told RIA Novosti.
The hotel would be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space, Mr Kostenko said.
It would follow the same orbit as the International Space Station.
The first module would have four cabins, designed for up to seven passengers, who would be packed into a space of 20 cubic metres (706 cubic feet).
Mr Kostenko did not reveal the price of staying in the hotel.
However he did say that food would be suited to individual preferences, and that organisers were thinking of employing celebrity chefs to cook the meals before they were sent into space.
It is not clear how the "cosmic hotel" would be built, but the company's website names Energia, Russia's state-controlled spacecraft manufacturer, as the project's general contractor.
Energia builds the Soyuz capsules and Progress cargo ships which deliver crew and supplies to the ISS.
Mr Kostenko said that "a number of agreements on partnership have already been signed" with Energia and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
The project has Russian and American investors willing to inject hundreds of millions of dollars, he added.
Alexey Krasnov, head of manned space missions at Roscosmos, told the Associated Press news agency the proposed hotel could provide a temporary haven for the crew of the ISS, in case of an emergency.
However, doubts about the project were raised by Jim Oberg, a Houston-based space consultant and expert on the Russian space program.
"Why Russia would spend the required funds is a compelling question that has significant implications for its future commitment to the ISS," he told AP.
This latest plan is not the first time a space hotel has been mooted.
In 2009 the Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort said their orbiting hotel was on target to accept its first paying guests by 2012.
In 2007, Genesis II, an experimental spacecraft designed to test the viability of a space hotel, was successfully sent into orbit by Bigelow Aerospace, a private company founded by an American hotel tycoon.


Stourbridge struck three second-half goals as they beat Whitehawk to earn a second-round tie against League One side Northampton Town.

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Chris Lait's fierce 18-yard left foot shot just inside the left upright put the Glassboys ahead on 51 minutes.
Lait was then denied by Spanish keeper Adria, only for Luke Benbow to drill in the rebound from the edge of the box.
Benbow then curled in a right-footed free-kick from 18 yards to seal victory in the 76th minute.
Northampton manager Rob Page was among a 1,993 crowd to see seventh-tier Northern Premier League side Stourbridge upset their sixth-tier National League South opponents.
The first game in Brighton nine days ago had ended in controversy when the home side thought they had hit a late winner, only for substitute Javier Favarel's 30-yard strike to be ruled out by referee Robert Whitton as he had just blown for full-time.
Home keeper Ross Flitney was so angry that he ran more than half the length of the field to remonstrate with the official, earning himself a red card, a three-game ban - and a call-up for Adria as his replacement.
In a quiet first half, neither keeper saw much action, the closest to an opener being when Benbow flashed a shot across the face of goal.
But it all changed when Lait broke the deadlock, before two-goal Benbow ended hopes of a reunion for Whitehawk boss Richard Hill against his former club Northampton.
Match ends, Stourbridge 3, Whitehawk 0.
Second Half ends, Stourbridge 3, Whitehawk 0.
Attempt saved. Luke Benbow (Stourbridge) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Luke Benbow (Stourbridge) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Reid (Whitehawk).
Attempt missed. Mike West (Whitehawk) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Luke Benbow (Stourbridge).
Javier Favarel (Whitehawk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leon Broadhurst (Stourbridge).
Marvin Hamilton-Omole (Whitehawk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Stourbridge. Drew Canavan replaces Matthew Dodd.
Substitution, Whitehawk. Ramon Marimon replaces Chris M'Boungou.
Substitution, Whitehawk. Mike West replaces Sergio Torres.
Marvin Hamilton-Omole (Whitehawk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Duggan (Stourbridge).
Attempt missed. Lucas Santos Rodrigues (Whitehawk) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Luke Benbow (Stourbridge) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Stourbridge 3, Whitehawk 0. Luke Benbow (Stourbridge) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Jack Duggan (Stourbridge) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marvin Hamilton-Omole (Whitehawk).
Foul by Chris Lait (Stourbridge).
Sergio Torres (Whitehawk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Whitehawk. Lucas Santos Rodrigues replaces Reece Connolly.
Attempt missed. Danny Mills (Whitehawk) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high.
Corner,  Whitehawk. Conceded by Darryl Westlake.
Substitution, Stourbridge. Brad Birch replaces Tom Tonks.
Substitution, Stourbridge. Jack Duggan replaces Kayleden Brown.
Foul by Luke Benbow (Stourbridge).
Paul Reid (Whitehawk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke Benbow (Stourbridge) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ben Strevens (Whitehawk).
Attempt blocked. Sergio Torres (Whitehawk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal!  Stourbridge 2, Whitehawk 0. Luke Benbow (Stourbridge) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Foul by Tom Tonks (Stourbridge).
Sergio Torres (Whitehawk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Leon Broadhurst (Stourbridge) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Javier Favarel (Whitehawk).
Darryl Westlake (Stourbridge) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Mills (Whitehawk).
Goal!  Stourbridge 1, Whitehawk 0. Chris Lait (Stourbridge) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner.


People questioned about a possible £10,000 pay rise for AMs have said ordinary workers should get pay rises first.

25 November 2014 Last updated at 12:31 GMT
BBC Radio Wales spoke to people in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire.
One woman said nurses like her in Glangwili hospital in Carmarthen had not had a pay rise in five years.
A man suggested NHS staff, teachers and emergency service workers who were struggling were more deserving of extra money.
They were speaking to Sarah Moore.


Indian social media users are criticising the chief minister of southern Telangana state for using $750,000 (£610,790) of public funds to offer gold at a famous temple.

K Chandrashekhar Rao on Wednesday offered gold to "thank the gods" for the success of his decade-long campaign to create India's newest state in 2014.
But Twitter users said the extravagant offering "made no sense".
Mr Rao faced similar criticism in 2016 when his new home cost taxpayers $7.3m.
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Speaking on condition of anonymity, an official told the AFP news agency that the offering was "from the government of Telangana and its people".
But Twitter users said Mr Rao, popularly known as KCR, could have used the money on public welfare schemes instead.
Mr Rao caused similar outrage after he moved into a palatial new home last year.
The house, spread over 9,000 sq m (100,000 sq ft), has bulletproof bathrooms, an auditorium which seats 250 people and a meeting hall that accommodates 500.
Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh state in 2014 after prolonged protests by its residents, who felt the region had long been neglected.
With a population of more than 35 million, it comprises 10 former districts of Andhra Pradesh and the city of Hyderabad.


The public make more than 3,600 contributions to the fight against terror every day, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism police officer says.

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said co-operation between police and the public was the "greatest advantage".
He cited anti-terrorist hotline calls and the reporting of suspicious online content as ways to keep the UK safe.
But he said with the terror threat ranked as "severe" since 2014, "even more public assistance" was needed.
The threat to the UK is at the second highest of five possible levels, meaning an attack is highly likely.
Mr Rowley said some were passing information to authorities about people behaving unusually in public places, while others were raising concerns about neighbours and friends becoming "more extreme".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "really important" for authorities to be able to intervene before people's beliefs become too extreme - saying about 60 to 70 cases a month were being resolved.
About one sixth of those came from public referrals, he added.
Asked if some of the referrals were stopping people being murdered or falling victim to acts of terrorism, he replied: "Yes."
He added: "We are drawing people back from a path towards extremism through partnership activity. Even if you take a view that 90% of those people may have self-treated or not gone on to become terrorists, that is still a massive effect."
In a blog post for the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), Mr Rowley said: "Every call, every referral, every briefing is part of our joint fight against terrorism.
"The information we receive helps our investigations, intelligence-gathering and preventative work; they help us carry out significant protective security operations; they help us get the right support for vulnerable people, and they undermine the plans of terrorists."
Other examples of the "collective effort" referred to by Mr Rowley include people visiting police and government websites for advice on how to protect homes and businesses or stay safe in the event of an attack.
On Sunday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe warned a terror attack in Britain is a case of "when, not if".
In his blog, Mr Rowley - a Met assistant commissioner and the NPCC lead for counter-terrorism policing -  said officers were not complacent and he "couldn't agree more" with Sir Bernard's assessment.
He said the UK's tight gun laws and a close working relationship between police and the security services were an advantage.
Mr Rowley said: "But for me our greatest advantage is the co-operation between the public and the police.
"It has often been said that 'communities defeat terrorism' and now that's more important than ever before."


Scotland's Intercontinental Cup match against Hong Kong has been abandoned due to heavy rain.

Play in Hong Kong was washed out for all four days of match without a ball being bowled.
Hong Kong are currently fourth in the table, seven points above Scotland, who are searching for their first win in the tournament after a draw and a loss.
Scotland drew at home with Afghanistan in rain-hit Stirling last June before losing in the Netherlands in September.
Scotland are scheduled to play one-day internationals on 26 and 28 January, followed by two Twenty20 internationals on 30 and 31 January in the build-up to the ICC World Twenty20 in India, which begins on 8 March.
Meanwhile, spinner Con de Lange has returned home from the tour following the birth of his second child.
Scotland squad: Preston Mommsen (capt), Alasdair Evans, Bradley Wheal, Calum MacLeod, Con de Lange, George Munsey, Josh Davey, Kyle Coetzer, Mark Watt, Matt Machan, Matthew Cross, Michael Leask, Richie Berrington, Rob Taylor, Safyaan Sharif.


Two former Microsoft employees are suing the company for not protecting them from the psychological effects of viewing disturbing material.

The two men were left with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after working at the firm, the lawsuit alleged.
Their jobs involved viewing and reporting material, communicated via Microsoft services, that had been flagged by automated software as being potentially illegal.
Microsoft told the BBC it disputed the claims, and that it offered industry-leading support.
"Microsoft takes seriously its responsibility to remove and report imagery of child sexual exploitation and abuse being shared on its services, as well as the health and resiliency of the employees who do this important work."
It said the balance of protecting internet users while minimising the impact on its employees was a continued learning process.
Saving children’s lives
Henry Soto and Greg Blauert worked for Microsoft’s Online Safety Team, a division responsible for upholding the firm’s legal obligation to pass on any illegal images to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
When an image is reported, or automated software has “spotted” an issue, a human being is required to view the material and forward it on to the authorities, a Microsoft spokeswoman said.
The company said people with this role are only required to do this particular task for a short period of time - and that they are kept in a “different office” from other staff.
But in papers filed on 30 December 2016, the two men said the company did little to warn or prepare them for the disturbing images they were required to view.
The lawsuit says both men’s efforts were “instrumental” in saving children’s lives and securing prosecutions, but that both were paying a serious psychological toll.
But the documents described Mr Blauert as suffering greatly from this work, contributing to a mental breakdown in 2013. When he expressed his discomfort, it is alleged that he was told to "smoke", "go for walk" or "play video games" as a distraction.
'Horrible and inhumane'
Mr Soto viewed "many thousands of photographs and videos of the most horrible, inhumane and disgusting content one can imagine," the papers said.
"Many people simply cannot imagine what Mr Soto had to view on a daily basis as most people do not understand how horrible and inhumane the worst people in the world can be."
In an internal employee review, Mr Soto was praised by his bosses for having "courage". However, he said the work resulted in him suffering "panic attacks, disassociation, depression, visual hallucinations" as well as the inability to be around young children, including his own son.
Doing so would remind him of "horribly violent acts against children that he had witnessed," the court papers said.
Mr Soto alleged that when he requested a transfer out of the team in 2014, he was told he would have to apply for a new job within Microsoft "just like any other employee". When he was eventually moved to a different section of the safety team, he said he was still being asked questions related to his prior role.
Microsoft disputed this particular detail, saying: "If an employee no longer wishes to do this work, he or she will be assigned other responsibilities."
Wellness
Employees on the Online Safety Team are automatically put on a “Wellness program”, Microsoft said, which included mandatory monthly one-on-one sessions with a counsellor to combat what is referred to as "compassion fatigue".
The company said many measures are taken to minimise the psychological impact on people viewing the material.
The measures include efforts to reduce the "realism" of the content.
Microsoft’s software automatically blurs imagery, lowers the resolution, makes it black and white and separates the audio from video. Images are only seen as thumbnails, not full size.
Furthermore: "Employees are limited in how long they may do this work per day and must go to a separate, dedicated office to do it; they can’t do this work at home or on personal equipment.”
However, a spokeswoman could not speak to whether employees undergo any psychological assessment prior to taking on the work.
Collaboration
Technology companies, particularly those offering web storage or social networking, are under continued pressure to do more to remove images depicting a variety of problems - from terrorist propaganda to child abuse.
The companies are working on better ways to share data so that an image flagged by one company would automatically be removed by another, minimising the number of people exposed to the material.
The lawsuit in this case is suing for an unspecified amount in damages, but also for its suggestions on how to improve the Online Safety Team to be taken on board.
Microsoft confirmed to the BBC it will oppose the lawsuit, but has not yet made its response to the court.
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Police have identified a woman whose body was discovered at a house in Leicester.

Mumtaz Member, 56, was found in Holmfield Avenue on 12 December. An inquest into her death was opened and adjourned six days later.
Mohammed Member, 25, Shafiq Member, 29, and Fatima Patel, 27, all of Holmfield Avenue, are charged with her murder.
The two men have been remanded in custody after appearing in court, while Patel was conditionally bailed.
All three will appear at Leicester Crown Court on 15 January.


Glamorgan maintained their promotion challenge in Division Two of the County Championship with a 137 run win over Leicestershire at the Swalec Stadium.

It means the Welsh County remain unbeaten in four-day cricket this season, and lie third in the table - 11 points behind second-placed Surrey with a game in hand.
The last time Glamorgan won four consecutive County Championship matches was in 2004.
Coincidentally, that run also culminated in a win over Leicestershire in Cardiff.
So what has brought about the change in Glamorgan's form?
Head coach Toby Radford, who succeeded Matthew Mott in 2013, promises there is "more to come" from his side.
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"It's all been about fight, we've been on the ropes many times but we don't know how to lose," said Radford, whose team has won four and drawn four at the halfway point of the season.
"We're on a terrific run but I know there's more to come because I'm sure at some point the top order (batting) is going to fire and when it does, it'll get even better."
Wicketkeeper Mark Wallace is the only member of the current Glamorgan team who played in the winning streak of 2004, when Leicestershire were beaten by 404 runs.
"We haven't had this sort of success for a long time in championship cricket and the great thing about the season as a whole and these four victories is that everyone's contributed in some way," he said.
"It's been far from plain sailing, some real ups and downs and there've been positions in every match when we could have ended up losing. But four wins and four draws sets us up great for the second half of the season."
"I can remember the final win (of that sequence) against Leicestershire with one of my pals Jonny Hughes getting his maiden first-class hundred and Matt Maynard getting one of his many hundreds.
"The parallels would be great if we can have a season like we did in 2004 when we got promotion and won a one-day competition.
"There were some fantastic players like Robert Croft, Adrian Dale, Matthew Maynard but also some younger players like Dave Harrison and myself."
Glamorgan's target is promotion back to the top flight for the first time since 2005.
Wallace acknowledges it is still a tough challenge in spite of Glamorgan's fine form.
"With two going up, it's a very competitive second division and it's a very high standard to get yourself promoted," he added.
"But you get a lot of points from winning games and we've been putting ourselves in a position to do that with a side of people who can win games for you."
Captain Jacques Rudolph said it was important to maintain pressure on the teams above them in the table.
"It's very good for us to get the win in this game to stay close to Surrey," said the South African.
"We've got to keep doing what we've been doing and with a few more wins under our belt, who knows where we might end up?"
Glamorgan now face a run of T20 Blast matches with Surrey at home, Somerset away on Sunday 28th June and Hampshire away on Friday 3rd of July.
They return to Championship cricket against Derbyshire at Chesterfield on Monday 6th July.
Still around
Mark Wallace - Wicketkeeper played in the victory against Leicestershire
Dean Cosker - Bowler was 12th man this time
Robert Croft and David Harrison - both now on the county's coaching staff
Alex Wharf - played for England in 2004, Wharf is now a first-class umpire
Matthew Maynard - now Somerset director of cricket after spell in charge of Glamorgan.
Mike Powell - after spell with Kent, now Glamorgan T20 matchday host and BBC Radio pundit
Johnny Hughes - captain of Pontypridd CC and works in plumbing trade
Down Under
David Hemp - running women's cricket in Victoria, Australia
Michael Kasprowicz - director of Cricket Australia, works on Australian/Indian business links.
Matt Elliott - also back in Australia, played in Phillip Hughes' Memorial match in 2015


Nottingham Forest midfielder Andy Reid has joined the club's coaching staff following Dougie Freedman's departure.

Reid, who has not played since September 2014 when Stuart Pearce was manager, will be part of Paul Williams' backroom staff until the end of the season.
The 30-year-old said: "I've been asked to help out in any way I can.
"I would urge people to get behind the chairman, the manager and the team and see where that takes us."
Freedman was sacked on Sunday night following a run of five Championship defeats in six games that leaves the Reds nine points above the relegation zone.
The Scot was the seventh manager used by chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi in his 44 months at the club. Paul Williams, who has taken over until the end of the season, is the eighth.
Long-serving midfielder Chris Cohen added: "We haven't been good enough and we feel that we've let Dougie down. We've apologised to Fawaz for that.
"The way we've been playing and the run we've been on is down to the players."


A single to raise money for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire has hit the number one spot on iTunes two hours after it was released.

More than 50 stars including Stormzy, Craig David and Liam Payne, recorded Bridge Over Troubled Water to support victims' families and survivors.
The cover of the Simon and Garfunkel classic was organised by Simon Cowell.
Residents and survivors of the fire-ravaged tower block also appear as part of a choir led by Gareth Malone.
"Seeing how emotional the local residents became while singing was really moving," he told The Sun.
"Some of them actually lived in Grenfell Tower, Their homes have been destroyed. It's very raw for a lot of them."
The song was made available to download at 08:00 BST on Wednesday - a week after the fire - and donations can be made directly on artistsforgrenfell.com.
At least 79 people are now missing, presumed dead, following the fire in west London.
Cowell lives in the same London borough as Grenfell Tower and announced the single last Thursday.
The song opens with a verse by Stormzy, who says: "I don't know where to begin / So I'll start by saying I refuse to forget you.
"I refuse to be silenced / I refuse to neglect you."
The London-born MC goes on to say, "That could have been my mum's house / Or that could have been my nephew", concluding, "I just hope that you're resting and free up there".
Others performing include music legends Brian May, Nile Rodgers and Roger Daltrey, with lines also sung by Ella Eyre, Labrinth and Paloma Faith.
Payne's One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson has also loaned his vocals to the track, as has Skepta.
Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones said the choice of Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 song was "very apt", adding: "All these things that are happening in London at the minute, and Manchester and everywhere, I think the main thing is people are pulling together."
X Factor winner Louisa Johnson said she felt "honoured" to be involved with the "beautiful" single, which also features local choirs.
Intro: Stormzy rap
When you're weary - Robbie Williams
Feeling small - James Blunt
When tears are in - Rita Ora
Your eyes - Craig David
I will dry them all - Dan (Bastille)
I'm on your side - Liam Payne
When times get rough - Emeli Sande
And friends just can't be found - Kelly Jones (Stereophonics)
Like a bridge over troubled water - Paloma Faith
I will lay me down - Louis Tomlinson
Like a bridge over troubled water - Labrinth
I will lay me down - Jorja Smith
Rap by WSTRN
When you're down and out - Leona Lewis
When you're on the street - Jessie J
When evening falls so hard - James Arthur
I will comfort you - Roger Daltrey (The Who)
I'll take your part - Ella Eyre
When darkness comes - Anne-Marie & Ella Henderson
And pain is all around - Louisa Johnson
Like a bridge over troubled water - Robbie Williams, all voices
I will lay me down - James Arthur
Like a bridge over troubled water - Choirs
I will lay me down - Rita Ora
Emeli Sande, who has just been made an MBE, said: "I hope it shows the power of community and the strength of people.
"That is the beauty of London, the integration makes it so incredible."
Pianist Tokio Myers, who recently won Britain's Got Talent, has also recorded part of the single, as have Bastille, James Blunt and Dua Lipa.
Meanwhile, West End stars are taking part in a benefit concert next week. Dame Judi Dench, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child's Noma Dumezweni will be among those taking part in the event at Trafalgar Studios in London.
Proceeds from the show will go to the Grenfell Tower Fire Fund.
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Eugene has defended its role in winning the right to host the 2021 World Championships.

The American city, linked to sportswear firm Nike, was given the event by the IAAF without a bidding process, a decision being investigated in France.
Gothenburg, which missed out, described the process as "bad ethics".
But Eugene said it "adhered to all ethical and legal standards for organizing, presenting and advocating for our bid, according to IAAF rules".
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IAAF president and former vice-president Lord Coe severed his links to Nike after questions over his role in the decision.
But in a statement Eugene said it had submitted identical bids for the 2019 and 2021 World Championships, losing out to Doha in 2019.
It added: "The decision to award the 2021 World Championships to Eugene was made by the IAAF Council in a vote of 23-1."
French officials are already investigating corruption allegations involving former IAAF president Lamine Diack, with Coe quitting the Nike payroll two days after a BBC story suggested he had held talks with Diack and Nike about the awarding of the 2021 event.
Coe, who was reportedly paid £100,000 a year by Nike, said at the time that he "did not lobby anyone" over Eugene's bid, but simply "encouraged them to re-enter another bidding cycle as they had a strong bid".
Gothenburg bid chief Bjorn Erikkson said awarding the World Championships to Eugene had made him "really upset and for very good reasons".
He told BBC World Service: "What happened is bad ethics at least and definitely not professional.
"In the worst of cases it's maybe also criminal, if somebody were there influencing the process, and that's a question that I really want a good answer to."
The former police officer also said he was not sure if Gothenburg would re-enter the bidding process, should it be re-opened.
"It's up to the Gothenburg people, they don't want to answer that question until they know why the last procedure was so unacceptable," he told BBC World Service.
"If you are going to make business with these people you wish to know if they are professional, honest and serious, otherwise maybe you don't want to do business at all."
Coe said that awarding a World Championships without a bidding process "was not without precedence" - the 2007 World Championships in Osaka was one such occasion.
But Erikkson described that as "nonsense".
He added: "If you behave idiotically and unacceptably is it better if you do it twice rather than once? Secondly there are no arguments for doing this, because we who are engaged in the sport wished to have a transparent process, to do it in disguise is not acceptable."


The route of a heroes' parade to celebrate the achievements of Yorkshire's Olympic and Paralympic athletes has been announced.

The Rio Heroes homecoming event is to be held in Leeds from 17:45 BST on 28 September. Some roads will shut.
Athletes taking part will tour the city centre on open-top buses.
Paralympic wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft and Olympic triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee will be among the medallists taking part.
The parade will start at The Headrow, outside Leeds Art Gallery, and then go on to Park Row before heading to City Square, Boar Lane and Briggate.
Buses will then return to The Headrow and art gallery, before the athletes head to a civic reception.
• Olympic rowers Andy Triggs Hodge and Paul Bennett, who both claimed gold
• World, European and Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft, who has now won two golds in Rio
• Diver and Olympic gold medallist Jack Laugher
• Olympic triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, who earned gold and silver medals respectively at Rio
• Fellow Olympic triathlete Vicky Holland, who won bronze
• Gymnast and Olympic bronze medal winner Nile Wilson
• Olympic rowing silver medallist Zoe Lee
• Paralympic cycling pilot double gold medallist Adam Duggleby
• Paralympic swimmer Jonathan Booth
Source: Leeds City Council
As the parade travels along the route, several roads are to be closed temporarily to all traffic for up to one hour.
Longer-term road closures are also required at key points along the parade route including:
After the parade, all the athletes will be welcomed at Civic Hall as part of a reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Leeds.
Yorkshire athletes contributed 14 Olympic medals (five gold, five silver, four bronze) for Team GB in Rio and the Paralympics is still under way.
Sir Gary Verity, of tourist organisation Welcome to Yorkshire, said: "Our Yorkshire athletes have entertained us, inspired us and made us proud and we can't wait to welcome them home in style."


Anthony McGill would prefer to be the Morrissey of snooker rather than its James Bond as he attempts to gun down defending world champion Mark Selby.

The 24-year-old was billed "Licensed To Thrill" ahead of his Crucible debut win over compatriot Stephen Maguire.
"My walk-on is The Smiths' 'This Charming Man' and I think I am pretty charming," joked McGill.
"I think my nickname should be 'The Charming Man'. It's as good an effort as 'Licensed To Thrill' I think."
Commentator Rob Walker's introduction at the World Snooker Championship was the latest attempt to thrust a nickname on flame-haired McGill.
He has rejected being dubbed McNugget through comparisons with former world champion Steve Davis - and the Ginger Ninja.
"Some players have names that you can just get nicknames naturally, but there doesn't seem to be one with me," McGill told BBC Scotland.
Morrissey and The Smiths broke up before McGill was born.
"Why The Smiths? Just listen to them, they are just incredible - the best music I've ever heard," he said when asked about his love of the Manchester band.
"When I walk out and I hear that, it makes me feel a little bit more comfortable as well."
McGill has no plans to adopt a Bond theme instead but admitted: "Licensed To Thrill? It rhymes, it's catchy, it's cheesy, it makes people smile, so I don't mind it too much."
The Scot came through the qualifiers before edging out former UK champion Maguire 10-9 in his first appearance at the Crucible.
"It was just amazing," he said. "When you walk down that little corridor and the Crucible opens, it was just the best experience ever.
"I could do that a million times and not get sick of it.
"Considering it was my debut here, I thought I played a pretty good match and it was a terrific win.
"Stephen wasn't at his best. He let me off the hook a little bit, but take it when you can get it."
McGill insisted he did not feel under any pressure on his debut.
"I was extremely calm," he added. "I wasn't nervous at all in the dressing-room.
"When I could hear the crowd, my heart started jumping out my chest at that moment.
"But, when I took my seat and started playing, I was fine again."


Two men dressed in blue boiler suits escaped with a quantity of cash after robbing an Oxford bank.

The two suspects, who had their faces covered, demanded cash at Lloyds Bank in Headington in a "frightening" crime, police said.
Thames Valley Police said the robbery took place at 10:30 GMT at the London Road branch.
One man was believed to have been carrying a firearm. They made off in a white BMW 1-Series.
The first suspect is described as white, 5ft 7in (1.7m) and of slim build.
The other is black and 6ft 2ins (1.8m).
Both men are thought to be in their 20s.
Det Sgt Parsons said: "This was a frightening crime which took place in broad daylight on a Saturday morning.
"Although no one was injured, staff and customers are obviously shocked by the experience."


Pope Francis has strongly defended the Roman Catholic Church's record on tackling sexual abuse by priests.

In a rare interview with an Italian newspaper, the Pope said "no-one else has done more" to root out paedophilia.
He said the Church had acted with transparency and responsibility, yet it was the only institution to have been attacked.
Last month, the UN strongly criticised the Vatican for failing to stamp out child abuse and for allowing cover-ups.
In his interview with Corriere della Sera published on Wednesday, Pope Francis said: "The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility.
"No-one else has done more. Yet the Church is the only one to have been attacked."
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The Pope, who will celebrate his first anniversary of his election later this month, also praised his predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, for changing the Church's attitude towards predatory priests, saying he had been "very courageous".
He also questioned the focus of the debate, saying: "The statistics on the phenomenon of violence against children are shocking, but they also clearly show that the great majority of abuses are carried out in family or neighbourhood environments."
A UN report into the abuse scandals published last month called on the Pope to "immediately remove" all clergy who were known or suspected child abusers.
It also accused the Vatican of systematically placing the "preservation of the reputation of the Church and the alleged offender over the protection of child victims" - something it has strenuously denied.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the Holy See should open its files on members of the clergy who had "concealed their crimes" so that they could be held accountable by the authorities.
Pope Francis has set up a commission to investigate sex crimes committed by priests and to care for victims, but so far he has made very few public comments about the scandals that have rocked the Church in recent years.
The leader of an Italian group representing victims of clerical sex abuse claimed there had been little action from the Vatican and said there had been no "big changes" under Pope Francis.
Francesco Zanardi of Rete L'Abuso, told the BBC: "The cases of child abuse by priests continue to happen, all around Italy, and of the cases that we've denounced we have seen no results."
"The Pope may make this statement, but then the Vatican doesn't reply to the UN or impose the obligation that bishops should denounce accused priests in the courts and not deal with the cases internally."
The founder of the US-based website, BishopAccountability.org, Terence McKiernan, was more direct in his criticism, complaining that the Pope had not merely failed to apologise to the children who had been abused but had not even expressed sorrow.
"It is astonishing, at this late date, that Pope Francis would recycle such tired and defensive rhetoric," he said.
Pope Francis also used the interview with Corriere della Sera to admit that he was uncomfortable with the depiction of him as a "superman" who leaves the Vatican at night to feed the homeless.
He told the newspaper: "The Pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person."
His comments came as a new weekly magazine devoted entirely to his life, called Il Mio Papa - or My Pope - hit the news-stands in Italy.


An Adele "doppelganger" who posed on stage for a selfie with the singer says she has been inundated with messages from fan groups around the globe.

Emily Bamforth, 27, from Northampton, said her "Instagram had gone insane" after her moment of fame on Tuesday.
Adele, also 27, got her up on stage after Ms Bamforth's fiancÃ© said people claimed she looked like the singer.
She returned to see Adele perform again in Birmingham the following night - but stayed "up in the Gods" that time.
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"I've had loads of Adele fan club people tagging me on Instagram, and people congratulating me on the selfie," she told the BBC.
Her photos of her moment in the spotlight have garnered hundreds of likes on Instagram and retweets on Twitter, and have been shared by fan groups in Ireland, Australia and California.
"The moment itself is very hard to describe - at the end, when I was leaving the stage, she called me her doppelganger.
"As I left I hugged her and said I wish she could experience her own music as we do as fans. She's a living legend."
Ms Bamforth said the star had to take the selfie as she was "shaking with nerves" and could not keep the camera steady.
"She said to me, 'let's pull the same pose'. I tried to, but I was beaming like a cheshire cat."
On Wednesday, Adele received her first Bafta nomination for the TV special Adele At The BBC.


British number three Aljaz Bedene is considering switching his allegiance back to Slovenia in order to compete at the Olympics.

Bedene, 27, became a British citizen in 2015 but has been unable to overturn a ban preventing him from representing Great Britain in the Davis Cup.
To go to the Olympics, a player must have been available for the Davis Cup.
"That's a dream for every athlete," said Bedene after beating Ryan Harrison to reach the French Open second round.
Bedene represented Slovenia in three Davis Cup ties before becoming a British citizen - and rules were introduced shortly after his switch barring players from representing more than one nation.
"I'll have to see what can be done," he added. "At the moment I'm representing Great Britain, but I do want to play Olympic Games."
Bedene moved to Britain in 2008 but Dan Evans said earlier this month he still considered himself to be the British number three despite being overtaken by Bedene in the rankings.
"At the moment, for the clay season, I spent quite a lot of time in Slovenia," Bedene said on Monday.
"My fiancee said she wants to move back. She wants to have her career there.
"I'm travelling a lot, so it's not easy - but I do want to spend as much time as I can with her.
"I've still got a house in England. My home is still there. I have always been known as Slovenia-born - but I love Britain.
"I feel Slovenian and British."
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Bedene would need to play three Davis Cup ties for Slovenia between now and the Tokyo Olympics to be eligible for the 2020 Games, and so realistically would need to switch back in time for the 2019 competition.
He has a Slovenian passport, but also needs to be in "good standing" with the country's Olympic Committee and would have to rebuild relationships broken when he started playing under the British flag.
In March, an arbitration hearing upheld the International Tennis Federation's ruling that players can no longer represent more than one country, but expressed the hope the governing body could one day be persuaded that Bedene is worthy of an exemption.
That appears a long shot in the time available, and any switch back to Slovenia is likely to go down very badly with those at the Lawn Tennis Association who have spent so much time and resources on his case.
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Earlier on Monday, Bedene won 6-4 6-0 3-6 6-1 against American Harrison - a player ranked 10 places higher at 42 in the world.
Afterwards, he accused his opponent of "tanking", saying the American effectively gave up the second set to help him win the third
"That is in a way a tactic, and it worked," Bedene told BBC Sport. "That was his decision. I'm not doing that.
"It's never easy to start off the third set after someone's tanking."
Bedene has now won 21 of 24 matches on clay this year, winning two titles on the second-tier Challenger circuit and reaching an ATP Tour final in Hungary.
He will face Czech player Jiri Vesely in the second round, with Rafael Nadal of Spain a potential fourth-round opponent.
Fellow Britons Andy Murray, Kyle Edmund and Johanna Konta start their challenge on Tuesday, but Dan Evans lost on Sunday.


Drinking more than three large glasses of wine can push people over a "tipping point", meaning they consume about 6,300 extra calories in the following 24 hours, a report has said.

The extra calories could lead to gaining 2lb a week (900g), the survey of 2,042 people suggested.
About half (51%) of those who drank alcohol said crossing the threshold had made them binge on fast food.
But experts warned the study showed trends and not "hard science".
Slimming World, which commissioned the research from YouGov, said 50% of the people who said drinking impacted their food choices had also cancelled physical activities the day after drinking more than 9.3 units, equivalent to slightly less than four pints of beer.
They had opted for bed, TV and using social media to stave off the hangover - along with another extra 2,051 calories, on top of their usual diet, the next day.
On the night, they had consumed about 2,829 calories extra in food and 1,476 extra calories in drink, the survey said.
And the following day, the drinkers ate on average 2,051 extra calories.
Dr Jacquie Lavin, head of nutrition and research at Slimming World, said alcohol loosened self-control.
She said people who had consumed more alcohol tended to eat at a greater rate and for longer.
"Alcohol makes the food even more rewarding. It tastes good and feels even better than it would do normally," said Dr Lavin.
She called for the government to launch a communications campaign to inform people of the impact of drinking on weight gain, and for calories to be included on alcohol labels.
Bridget Benelam, nutritionist at the British Nutrition Foundation, said: "The survey is very interesting. But it is a survey and not a scientific study.
"It is useful as well as the hard science, to be aware of what people are thinking in the real world, to get messages out there."
She said the survey confirmed a link between alcohol and obesity.
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England (PHE), said: "The report raises awareness of the high calorie content in alcoholic drinks.
"Excess calorie intake can lead to being overweight and obese which increases your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers."
She said PHE's campaign, Change4Life, encouraged people to "eat well, move more, live longer" and to manage their alcohol and food intake.
Luciana Berger, shadow health minister, said the survey showed more needed to be done to raise awareness about the "ways excessive alcohol impacted on weight".
She added: "With health problems associated with being overweight or obese costing the NHS more than Â£5bn every year, it is time the government took the bold action that the scale of this threat to our public health demands."


A new publication is offering a comprehensive guide to end of life care facilities across Scotland.

The Scottish Atlas of Palliative Care has been compiled by academics based at the University of Glasgow's Crichton campus in Dumfries.
It includes maps, tables, lists and diagrams showing which services are available, at what level, and where.
The atlas contains previously-unavailable data on palliative care services across Scotland.
The team behind it is led by Prof David Clark of the Crichton-based End of Life Studies Group.
He said it would be a vital resource for policy-makers, decision-makers and "thought leaders" across Scotland.
The project was part-funded by the Scottish government.
A spokesperson said the atlas would support a range of work to fulfil a vision that, by 2021, everyone in Scotland who needed palliative care would have access to it.


A recently restored 1940's brakevan at a volunteer-run Angus railway has been destroyed by fire-raisers.

Caledonian Railway said the cost of the damage to the LMS brakevan at its Brechin station could be as much as £25,000.
It said last night's blaze was a "huge blow" to the volunteers who operate the railway.
Dundee Museum of Transport said the incident was "stomach-churning" and offered support "in any way we can".
Caledonian Railway runs steam engines and diesel locomotives between Brechin and Bridge of Dun.
In a statement posted on social media it said: "The wooden body of our recently restored 1940's LMS brakevan was set on fire and has unfortunately been completely destroyed.
"This has been a huge blow to the volunteers who operate the railway and costs of the damage are estimated to be in the range of between £20,000 and £25,000.
"Details on damage to the vehicle's underframe and the culprits behind this are still being collected and we would like to thank the police and fire and rescue service for their assistance. "
Dundee Museum of Transport posted: "As a trust, we are extremely disappointed at the lack of respect shown towards the restoration and work that goes into the preservation of our transport heritage.
"We hope the culprits behind this abhorrent attack are caught.
"It's stomach-churning to think we have absolute fiends in our society that would carry out such an unprovoked and pointless act."
A police spokeswoman said: "Police Scotland is appealing for information after a fire at Caledonian Railway, Park Road, Brechin yesterday evening.
"The carriage of a train was damaged sometime between 10.45pm and 11pm."


Successive Challenge Cup triumphs at Wembley have restored Hull FC to rugby league's elite, says Lance Todd Trophy winner Marc Sneyd.

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Sneyd's influence at half-back guided the Airlie Birds to victory over Wigan on Saturday, having done the same against Warrington in the 2016 final.
Last year's win against the Wolves secured Hull's first trophy since 2005.
"The club's huge, and to win this twice on the bounce puts Hull back probably where they should be," said Sneyd.
While Sneyd was key with his kicking and prompting in the win against the Warriors, he highlighted the impact made by the forwards such as Liam Watts, Gareth Ellis and Scott Taylor, as well as the all-round defensive effort.
Wigan threatened a late comeback victory, but Hull did enough to repel their threat.
"We've got a bit of everything in every department," Sneyd, 26, continued.
"It's an unbelievable group to be playing in. We were clinging on at the end, and we've got people who are willing to work hard for one another."
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Securing the Lance Todd Trophy for a second time ensured Sneyd added his name to an exalted list of just six players who have twice been named man of the match in a Challenge Cup final.
Warrington's Gerry Helme (1950 and 1954) was the first, before Wigan pair Andy Gregory and Martin Offiah both did it twice during the club's glorious eight-year reign as Wembley winners in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
St Helens legend Sean Long went on to win it three times, while his Saints team-mate Paul Wellens did it back-to-back in 2007 and 2008, the first of those being shared with Leon Pryce.
But Sneyd is the first to achieve the award, which is voted for members of the Rugby League Writers Association, outright in successive years.
"Leon Pryce was actually the one who told me no-one had won it twice outright before," said Sneyd, who is in his third season with Hull.
"It's unbelievable when you see the names that are on the trophy. You can't quite believe that your name is on there. To be there twice - I'm over the moon with that."
Hull coach Lee Radford said Sneyd's personal achievement was "a phenomenal effort from a phenomenal player".
"Look at the impact he's had on our club since he walked through the door," continued Radford, who also said he believes Sneyd is the "most criticised half-back" that the club has ever had.
Former Castleford and Salford player Sneyd has previously spoken about online abuse he receives on social media following matches.
"I genuinely quite enjoy going home and seeing what they say about me on Twitter," said Sneyd. "It really doesn't bother me.
"You give them a little favourite and you imagine what they're like at home, while I'm there laughing my head off."
Wigan head coach Shaun Wane praised Hull after the match, saying they deserved their 18-14 victory at Wembley.
The Warriors were on the wrong end of a contentious decision midway through the second half, when prop Tony Clubb had a try disallowed by the video referee.
Clubb was adjudged to have dropped the ball under pressure from a Hull tackler, although BBC Sport's pundits suggested the ball had been illegally dislodged from Clubb's grasp and the score should have been awarded.
Wane said: "I didn't understand that. He said Tony had just dropped it and I thought that was a poor call, but I don't want that to take away from what Hull have done. They deserved to win the game and I'm not saying we should have won the game.
"What we dished up in the second half wasn't good enough. Quite rightly, Hull were the winners.
"We needed to build pressure and we didn't do that in the second half - not enough to win a game of this magnitude."


A half-Indian woman has been crowned Miss World Japan, the second year in a row a biracial person has won a beauty pageant in the country.

Priyanka Yoshikawa, 22 and who also has an elephant training licence, said she would use her win to "change perceptions".
Last year, Ariana Miyamoto was the first mixed-race person to win the Miss Universe pageant.
Critics complained then that a "pure" Japanese should have won.
Only about 2% of babies born every year in Japan are biracial, or "haafu", the Japanese word for half.
"We are Japanese," Ms Yoshikawa told AFP news agency. "Yes, my dad is Indian and I'm proud of it, I'm proud that I have Indian in me. But that doesn't mean I'm not Japanese."
She credited her win to Ms Miyamoto, saying she had helped show "mixed girls the way".
"Before Ariana, haafu girls couldn't represent Japan," said Ms Yoshikawa. "That's what I thought too. Ariana encouraged me a lot by showing me and all mixed girls the way.
"I know a lot of people who are haafu and suffer," she said. "When I came back to Japan, everyone thought I was a germ."
"Like if they touched me they would be touching something bad. But I'm thankful because that made me really strong."
A few years ago, a woman of Indian descent, Nina Davuluri, faced Twitter abuse after being crowned Miss America. Some called her an "Arab", some a "terrorist", and some an "Arab terrorist". Indians, in large numbers, came to her defence.
Now, Ms Yoshikawa is being criticised for having an Indian father and some Indians have taken to social media to advise the Japanese to "get over it". One Twitter user said she won because she "must have deserved it" while another said "after Gautam Buddha, Ms Yoshikawa is the only Indian to make it big in Japan".
In Ms Yoshikawa's case - as in Ms Davuluri's before her - the biggest complaint seems to be the "lack of purity". But some are wondering whether this debate over purity has any relevance in today's globalised world.
As one Twitter user said: "Talent cannot be controlled or ruled by caste, colour, gender or country of origin."
The pageant winner, also an avid kick-boxer and qualified elephant trainer, said that she hoped to change perceptions.
"When I'm abroad, people never ask me what mix I am. As Miss Japan, hopefully I can help change perceptions so that it can be the same here too."
Ms Yoshikawa's win did not trigger the backlash that Ms Miyamoto received on social media.
There were however, several on Twitter that expressed unhappiness.
"It's like we're saying a pure Japanese face can't be a winner," said one user.
"What's the point of holding a pageant like this now? Zero national characteristics," another complained.
Ms Yoshikawa however, was not letting the doubters get to her.
"There was a time as a kid when I was confused about my identity," she said. "But I've lived in Japan so long now I feel Japanese."


Gareth Bale has taken part his first training session with Wales since winning the Champions League for a second time with Real Madrid.

Manager Chris Coleman says Bale could face Sweden but dismissed injury fears.
The 26-year-old suffered with cramp late on in Real's win over Atletico Madrid.
"We'll see how the trip to Stockholm is physically and mentally before we decide whether he starts or comes on," he said.
Coleman continued: "In the Champions League he went down with a bit of cramp and we were going 'oh here we go' but thankfully he was OK.
"We haven't had Gareth since the Andorra game [in October] which seems like a long time now."
Bale nor Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey took part in  in full training on Wednesday.
Joe Ledley, Joe Allen and Hal Robson-Kanu all have injuries and did not take part in full training although midfielders Ledley and Allen trained on their own.
The trio will miss Sunday's friendly againts Sweden in Stockholm, with Emyr Huws and Wes Burns now travelling to France to provide cover to the trio.
Coleman is monitoring midfielders Ledley, who suffered a fractured leg in Crystal Palace's 2-1 win against Stoke City on 7 May, and Allen as well as forward Robson-Kanu with the trio now fighting to be fit for Wales' opening game against Slovakia on 11 June.
Wales also face England on 16 June and Russia on 20 June in their Group B fixtures.
"If we needed to really push the players we could, but we don't need to do that," Coleman told BBC Wales Sport.
"Hal and Joe won't play in Sweden. We know what we are getting prepared for. The injured players' rehab will be lined up to get them training with us the week leading up to Slovakia."
Coleman, who recently signed a new deal to stay as Wales boss, says Ledley is ahead of schedule in terms of his rehabilitation after including him in his 23 man squad and even thinks he could be fit for Wales' opening game.
"At the moment he is looking very good," Coleman added, "He's a little bit further ahead than where we expected and physically he is looking fantastic, probably the best I have seen him.
"It is a credit to Joe that he is ahead of the curve for this type of injury.
"We have between now and Slovakia and let's hope we see an improvement and he keeps going the way he has been going and he will be available for us.
"It would be an incredible credit to him and the medical team for getting him ready."


The assembly's outgoing standards commissioner Gerard Elias has told AMs he has had no complaints about lobbying in Wales.

AMs on the standards committee are holding an inquiry into whether there should be tougher regulation.
Both Scotland and Westminster have introduced registers but Wales has not.
One campaigner said Wales would maintain its reputation best if it opened the sector up to scrutiny now.
Lobbyists are companies or individuals paid to influence government decisions.
Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy used an assembly debate earlier this year to call for lobbying in Wales to be regulated and for lobbyists to be required to register.
He argued regulation would ensure a transparent culture in the assembly so it is known who commercial lobbyists work for.
But Mr Elias, who is due to be replaced by Sir Roderick Evans in December, told the standards committee: "There have been no complaints to me in relation to any aspect of lobbying at the National Assembly".
His comments are part of a briefing he wrote for the committee ahead of his appearance before AMs on Tuesday.
The standards commissioner also told the committee that setting up a statutory register of lobbyists would "undoubtedly" have "significant resource implications".
Tamasin Cave, who leads the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, said: "One of the chief concerns surrounding lobbying is that it is happening covertly. We simply do not know who is having a quiet word with whom in government, nor what deals are being done.
"That goes for politicians in Cardiff as well as Westminster."
A straightforward way of opening up lobbying is through a lobbying register, she said, requiring paid lobbyists to state who they are, who they are lobbying for, who they are lobbying in government and what they are seeking to influence.
"Wales has not suffered anything like the scandals involving lobbyists that routinely dog Westminster. The best way to maintain this reputation, however, would be to open lobbying up to scrutiny now," she said.
Huw Roberts, chairman of prominent commercial Welsh lobbying company Deryn, said his company published a list of clients and employees and followed a "strong code of conduct" as members of the industry's self-regulatory body, the Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC).
The chairman of the APPC, Mark Glover, added it was "vital" the consideration of any new Welsh register "provides consistent levels of transparency for both consultant and in-house lobbyists and is not overly bureaucratic or costly".
In 2013 the then assembly standards committee concluded AMs should face tighter scrutiny but not a full official register.
First Minster Carwyn Jones has said lobbyists do not have access to Welsh ministers.
Assembly members on the committee agreed to hold a written consultation on the issue at its meeting on Tuesday.


England's cricket captain faces Australia in the Ashes in Cardiff on Wednesday, but he now has more than one commitment in south Wales.

Alastair Cook has been unveiled as a patron of the Friends of Newport Cathedral Choir.
Cook spent five years as a member of St Paul's Cathedral School's choir as a boy.
He said: "Music was a huge part of my life growing up and created some very special memories for me."
Director of music at Newport Cathedral, Dr Emma Gibbins, said: "I am delighted that Alastair Cook has agreed to be patron... as a former chorister of St Paul's Cathedral who has gone on to great things, he can be an inspiration and role model for the current choristers and future generations of choristers at Newport Cathedral."
Cook, England's leading Test run scorer, added: "It is great to be asked to be a patron of the Friends of Newport Cathedral Choir. I still use many of the skills I learnt as a chorister today."


A man who killed three children and impaled their bodies on garden railings has had his application for release from prison turned down.

David McGreavy was jailed for life in 1973 for the murders of four-year-old Paul Ralph, two-year-old Dawn and nine-month-old Samantha.
Their mutilated bodies were found on garden railings at their home in Gillam Street, Worcester.
The Parole Board rejected his application for release.
A board spokesman said McGreavy - who became known as the Monster of Worcester following the attack - would next be eligible to apply for parole in two years.
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Dorothy Ralph, the mother of the murdered children, previously said McGreavy should never be freed.


An appeal to pay for cancer treatment for the lead singer of indie band Delays has reached its £100,000 target in 48 hours.

Father-of-two Greg Gilbert, 39, from Southampton, has been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer.
His fiancée Stacey Heale said his only chance of survival was to go abroad for treatment which she said was not available to him on the NHS.
GoFundMe said the appeal was one of the "fastest ever" campaigns on its site.
More than 4,000 people have so far donated to the fundraising page, posted at 10:30 GMT on Wednesday, including music stars Craig David and Ellie Goulding.
In a Facebook post, Mr Gilbert said the response was " truly humbling".
"I can't begin to express our gratitude - not a penny is being taken for granted and we've been moved to tears many times over the last few days reading the supportive messages from not only friends and family but also strangers from all over the world."
Ms Heale said she and Mr Gilbert had been "in tears and holding hands" as they watched the pledges come in.
She said: "It's been overwhelming; our phone has been ringing off the hook. I was refreshing the page this morning and were just like, 'oh my God, we've done it'.
"Grateful doesn't cover it. We've had one person donate £2,000. After such a difficult year for people, to have this at Christmas is so hopeful for us."
Ms Heale said she was researching options for treatment, including personalised immunotherapy in Germany and the USA.
She said she was considering posting a new fundraising target of £250,000, after a private specialist warned that Mr Gilbert's medical bills could amount to £100,000 a year.
Writing on the funding page, Ms Heale said her fiancée had begun chemotherapy for the cancer, which had spread to his lungs.
She said she was disappointed the drug Avastin, for advanced bowel cancers, was currently not routinely available on the NHS.
A fundraising gig has been organised on 5 January at the Southampton venue, the Joiners, where Delays have played many times during their career.
The band was formed in Southampton in 2001 by brothers Greg and Aaron Gilbert with Colin Fox and Rowly.


Nicola Sturgeon has said the opposition will not "undermine" the SNP's authority, despite her party being two seats short of an overall majority following Thursday's election.

She told BBC Scotland there was "no doubt" the SNP won the Scottish Parliamentary elections.
Ms Sturgeon insisted the SNP's mandate for the new parliament was unequivocal.
But the Scottish Conservatives said Ms Sturgeon was "asserting a position that is defied by the actual result."
The SNP leader made the comments during an interview on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme.
She also dismissed suggestions the idea of a second referendum on independence had been "put to bed" after the SNP failed to secure another majority.
She instead re-affirmed her commitment for a campaign to be launched in the summer to change minds on the issue.
However, Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the idea was now firmly off the table.
To listen to the full Nicola Sturgeon interview you can watch again on the BBC iPlayer over the next seven days.
Ms Sturgeon has already ruled out coalition talks, saying on 6 May that the SNP's haul of 63 seats gave "a clear and unequivocal mandate" to govern as a minority administration.
As the dust settled on Thursday's election, she was quizzed on the politics programme.
Interviewer Gordon Brewer said: "You talked about having an unequivocal mandate. That's the bit you don't really have."
Ms Sturgeon responded:  "I think I do. The SNP polled to just short of 50%  - more than one million votes. More than double the number of votes of Labour and the Tories combined.
"We didn't win this election narrowly - we won the election comprehensively.
"If you look at the arithmetic of the parliament in terms of the SNP's strength there's virtually no change.
"We ended the last parliament with I think 64 MSPs, we've now got 63. The relative strengths of the opposition parties have changed.
"I'm fairly relaxed about the parliamentary arithmetic. There's no doubt the SNP won the election."
She added: "I want to govern in an inclusive way because I think it's the right thing to do to, try to find common ground and build on that common ground where we can.
"What I'm not prepared to do, given the scale of the SNP's mandate that we achieved in that election, is to allow opposition parties to undermine our ability to implement that manifesto.
On the subject of compromise, she said: "Government is about reaching out. Government is about trying to build alliances and I'm signalling very clearly that I'm going to do that.
"But I'm also saying very clearly to the opposition parties that I think they also need to recognise the scale and the emphatic nature of the mandate that the SNP has achieved.
"We were elected on a manifesto and as first minister I'm intending and absolutely determined to implement that manifesto."
Also on the programme. Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw said: "I think "unequivocal" is to overstate it.
"I don't think there's any doubt in our mind that the preferred government in Scotland is one that is run by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.
"But I think the public have a way of correcting things, and I think they were slightly uncomfortable with the slightly overbearing arrogance of the SNP government and they've decided that they want a proper opposition.
"I don't think she's got the right to stand there and say it's all about 'I'. It's about the parliament.
"I think she is asserting a position that is defied by the actual result."
Labour MSP Anas Sarwar, who also on the show, admitted he had been confident Labour would hold its  place as the main opposition.
The party was reduced to 24 MSPs and pushed into third place by the Conservatives in Labour's worst result in Scotland for over a century.
He said: "If we're honest about it, it's a disappointing result."


Japanese shares ended the year on high note, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 index climbing more than 9% in 2015.

The stock market's rise over the year ranks it among the world's best-performing major indexes.
For the day, it closed up 0.3% to 19,033.71, taking the strong lead from Wall Street overnight.
The index's performance over the year was driven by the economic recovery in the US, a weaker yen, along with the Bank of Japan's asset purchases.
Japanese markets will be closed on Thursday for a public holiday.
The rest of Asia also headed mostly higher, following US shares where rising oil prices led to a rebound in the market.
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones indexes both gained over 1% as oil prices rallied overnight to climb by around 3% after Monday's declines.
Encouraging economic data such as housing and consumer confidence in the US also boosted investor sentiment.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 1% to 5,319.9, hitting a two-month high and leading the gains in the region.
The index also finished higher for the ninth consecutive session - marking its longest winning streak since January.
Chinese shares traded mixed. The Shanghai Composite closed up 0.3% at 3,572.88 points. However, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended down 0.5% at 21,882.15 points.
Investors are looking ahead to manufacturing data due on Friday for clues on the extent of the slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
South Korea's Kospi index closed down 0.3% to 1,961.31 on its final day of trading in 2015, but gained 2.4% for the year.
Investors' confidence was dented by data that showed industrial production saw its worst decline in 10 months in November on slumping global demand for exports.
Factory output fell a seasonally adjusted 2.1% from a month earlier, according to Statistics Korea.


Two "barbaric" men have each been given life sentences for beating a couple and dousing them with boiling water during a burglary at their home.

John and Janis Buswell were tied up with cable ties and tortured during a two-hour ordeal in Halstead, Kent.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard they were also threatened with a knife and a hot iron last April.
Daniel Wallace, 33, and Kacey Adams, 34, were told they would serve a minimum of seven-and-a-half-years each.
In a victim impact statement, Mrs Buswell said: "What these criminals did to me was barbaric."
"This will affect me every day for the rest of my life. The injuries I have suffered have left me permanently disfigured.
"I now have no confidence in myself and feel worthless and can't even do the simplest of things," she said.
Her husband said: "They have destroyed my life and wife's too.
"I'm physically and mentally scarred, not just from the attack but from seeing her being tortured and then in a coma fighting for her life."
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Mr Buswell, 66, had been watching TV and his wife, 64, was knitting clothes for her expected great-grandchild when the intruders smashed their way into their bungalow in London Road at about 21:00 BST, demanding the codes to their safes.
The court heard how Wallace, of no fixed address, and Adams, formerly of Covert Road, Hainault, Ilford, London, poured two kettles of boiling water over Mrs Buswell and threatened to sever her fingers and gouge one of her eyes out.
They also poured one kettle of boiling water over Mr Buswell, punched him repeatedly in the face and threatened to cut his ears off.
Another defendant, Drew Morris, 27, of Downhall Road, Rayleigh, Essex, was jailed for four years and three months after admitting burglary.
He admitted to being the getaway driver but said he did not enter the house or know what was going to happen.
Sentencing, Judge Charles Gratwicke said Adams and Wallace had used "gratuitous violence for no reason at all".
"Nobody... could feel anything but revulsion, sickness and a deep anger," he said, adding they had "ruined the lives" of both pensioners.
Adams and Wallace, together with another man who has never been caught, fled with about Â£50,000 and jetted off to Dubai.
They were arrested on a return flight in May 2016, and their luggage was found to contain more than Â£18,000 of luxury goods.
The pair were each handed three life sentences.
Two were for aggravated burglary and causing grievous bodily harm with intent - which they admitted at an earlier hearing at Maidstone Crown Court.
The third, with a minimum jail term of 12-and-a-half years for conspiracy to murder, was related to a drive-by shooting in Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, in May 2016 which their victim survived.
All sentences will be served concurrently.


Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and 31 wounded in a suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants, the Turkish military says.

A tractor laden with explosives was driven at a military police station, a statement said.
The attack happened early on Sunday near the town of Dogubayezit in Agri province, near the border with Iran.
Since 24 July, Turkey has carried out hundreds of air raids on PKK bases on both sides of the Iraq-Turkey border.
A Turkish state news agency, Anadolu, said the tractor was carrying two tons of explosives that were detonated by a suicide bomber.
Turkey's army said in a statement that "long-range guns" were also found. Four of the injured were in a serious condition.
The statement said the Karabulak Gendarmerie Station was hit at around 03:00 local time on Sunday (midnight GMT).
Images in the Turkish press showed a badly-damaged building with the roof destroyed.
One report said the blast was so strong that houses in a village several hundred metres away were hit by debris and some residents were slightly injured.
The Dogan news agency added that militants also set up ambushes on roads to prevent medical teams getting to the scene.
There has been no comment from the PKK so far.
AFP news agency said it would be the first time the group was accused of deploying a suicide bomber during recent clashes.
Turkey says the group was behind a number of attacks in the last two weeks:
Turkey's official news agency says about 260 Kurdish fighters have been killed in strikes in northern Iraq and Turkey since 24 July. It has also targeted positions held by the Islamic State group.
At least six people were killed and several wounded in further Turkish air strikes on Saturday east of Erbil, said local officials.
The pro-PKK Firat news agency described an attack on the village of Zerkel as a "massacre".
Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said: "We condemn the bombing, which led to the martyrdom of the citizens of the Kurdish region, and we call on Turkey to not repeat the bombing of civilians."
The Turkish military on Sunday said it had investigated the incident and dismissed claims that there could have been civilian casualties in Zerkel, Reuters reported.
Turkey considers both the PKK and IS terrorist organisations.
The PKK has been fighting Turkey for an autonomous homeland for the Kurds.
More than 40,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since the PKK began an armed uprising in 1984.
In 2012, the government and PKK began peace talks and the following year a ceasefire was agreed.
However, the ceasefire ended in effect when Turkey launched raids against Kurdish separatist camps in northern Iraq last month.
The raids came after the PKK reportedly killed two Turkish police officers in retaliation for an attack claimed by Islamic State and what the PKK sees as Turkey's collaboration with IS.


A French satellite system has imaged the destroyed Temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra in Syria.

The ancient building, which dates to the 1st Century AD, was blown up by Islamic State militants.
The "before" image was acquired on 22 May by the PlÃ©iades Earth-observation system, which is managed by Airbus Defence and Space.
The "after" view comes from 25 August. Even with the slight difference in angle, it is clear the temple has gone.
The UN training and research agency (Unitar) said its satellite system had also confirmed the destruction of the temple.
"It has been flattened," spokesman Einar Bjorgo told AFP news agency.
IS took control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears for the Unesco World Heritage site. The group's fighters had previously levelled a number of ancient monuments in Iraq.
The militants believe any shrines or statues implying the existence of another deity are sacrilege and idolatry, and should be torn down.
Unesco has called the deliberate destruction of Syria's cultural heritage a war crime.
Its director-general, Irina Bokova, accused IS of seeking to "deprive the Syrian people of its knowledge, its identity and history".
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Robbie Keane has announced that the Republic of Ireland's friendly against Oman in Dublin on 31 August will be his last international.

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Earlier on Wednesday Keane was named in the Republic's squad for the Oman game and the opening World Cup qualifier against Serbia on 5 September.
However, the ex-Spurs striker later released a statement confirming his impending international retirement.
Keane, 36, has scored a record 67 goals for the Republic in 145 appearances.
The LA Galaxy striker was a late substitute in the Republic's Euro 2016 games against Sweden and Belgium but is no longer a regular starter for Martin O'Neill's side.
"It has been a wonderful journey for me to have played with the Irish national team for over 18 years since I made my senior international debut back in 1998," said Keane.
"I have enjoyed it all. It has also been a great honour, for both me and my family, to have been given the opportunity to captain my country for over 10 years.
"As a young boy growing up in Dublin playing football on the street I could never have imagined the path my life would take. It has exceeded my wildest expectations."
The Dubliner made his senior international debut against the Czech Republic in March 1998 four months before helping his country win the European Under-18 Championship in Cyprus.
"I would never have believed all those years ago that I would get the opportunity to play for my country 145 times and to score 67 goals," added Keane in his statement.
"I have been on the most incredible journey with the Irish team and fans over the last 18 years and words cannot express how proud I am to be Irish.
"I look back at the 17-year-old kid making his international debut, taken under the wing of Mick McCarthy and the FAI, and think of the person I am today and realise how playing for Ireland has been such a huge influence in my life."
During McCarthy's reign, Keane scored a memorable Republic equaliser against Germany in the 2002 World Cup finals, which the LA Galaxy striker recalled fondly on Wednesday.
"One (memory) in particular stands out - the 2002 World Cup and scoring the late goal in Ibaraki, Japan against Oliver Kahn.
"The atmosphere, the adrenaline and the buzz from the fans that night is something I will always remember."
Keane became only the fourth Republic player to reach 100 caps when he started against Argentina in 2010.
Commenting on Keane's announcement, Republic manager Martin O'Neill described the striker as "undoubtedly one of Ireland's finest ever players".
"I do not see his international goal record being beaten for a very long time, if ever," added O'Neill.
"It will take us some time to get over his absence."
Another Keane goal against Oman next week will move him level with German great Gerd Muller, currently the fourth best European marksman in international football history behind Ferenc Puskas, Sandor Kocsis and Miroslav Klose.


Police searching for a missing RAF serviceman have traced three people who might have seen him the night he disappeared.

Corrie Mckeague, 23, based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, vanished after a night out in Bury St Edumunds two weeks ago.
Suffolk Police said it had identified three young people they had been looking for.
The force said they were being spoken to as potential witnesses.
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CCTV showed they had been in the town centre when Mr Mckeague, originally from Dunfermline in Fife, went missing on 24 September.
Footage revealed the area was "comparatively busy" between 3am and 6am and the force wants to speak to anyone who was there during that time period.
Officers have carried out further checks in the Brentgovel Street and Short Brackland area over the weekend and spoken to a number of people to identify possible new lines of inquiry.
Mr Mckeague was wearing distinctive light clothing - a pink shirt and white jeans or trousers - when he was last seen on CCTV walking alone and eating fast food at 03:20 BST.
It is thought he stopped for a brief nap in a doorway before setting off to walk the nine miles (15km) back to the RAF base alone.


Jos Buttler could be encouraged to play in this year's Indian Premier League by England coach Trevor Bayliss.

The Lancashire wicketkeeper, 25, is second choice in the Test team behind Jonny Bairstow, and England are keen to give their players more exposure to white-ball cricket.
"It's something we've spoken about," Bayliss, a former IPL coach, said.
"If the opportunity arrives and he is not in the Test team and the IPL window is a possibility, I'd be all for it."
England have been reluctant to release their players for the lucrative Twenty20 tournament because it clashes with the beginning of their international season.
This year's tournament is scheduled to be played between 8 April and 29 May, meaning players would miss England's first two Tests of the summer, against Sri Lanka, if they were to commit to the full tournament.
Buttler holds the record for England's fastest one-day international century - smashing an unbeaten 116 off 52 balls against Pakistan last November.
However, he has a batting average of only 13 in the seven Tests he has played since the start of the Ashes against Australia in Cardiff last July. He was dropped during October's series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.
England leg-spinner Adil Rashid was recently encouraged to play in Australia's Big Bash in preparation for the World T20 in March, and is the joint second highest wicket-taker in the competition with 10.


Large numbers of emergency service personnel were called to a popular entertainment area in Glasgow after reports of a gas leak.

Police officers and firefighters attended the Quay, on the south bank of the River Clyde at about 19:00 on Friday.
The area includes a cinema, casino, bingo hall and several restaurants.
Police said later no evacuation of buildings had been necessary during the incident.


Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species.

The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found.
There is also evidence that this group was widespread in Eurasia.
A study in Nature journal shows that Denisovans co-existed with Neanderthals and interbred with our species - perhaps around 50,000 years ago.
An international group of researchers sequenced a complete genome from one of the ancient hominins (human-like creatures), based on nuclear DNA extracted from a finger bone.
According to the researchers, this provides confirmation there were at least four distinct types of human in existence when anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) first left their African homeland.
Along with modern humans, scientists knew about the Neanderthals and a dwarf human species found on the Indonesian island of Flores nicknamed The Hobbit. To this list, experts must now add the Denisovans.
The implications of the finding have been described by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London as "nothing short of sensational".
Scientists were able to analyse DNA from a tooth and from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia. The individuals belonged to a genetically distinct group of humans that were distantly related to Neanderthals but even more distantly related to us.
The finding adds weight to the theory that a different kind of human could have existed in Eurasia at the same time as our species.
Researchers have had enigmatic fossil evidence to support this view but now they have some firm evidence from the genetic study carried out by Professor Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
"A species of early human living in Europe evolved," according to Professor Paabo.
"There was a western form that was the Neanderthal and an eastern form, the Denisovans."
The study shows that Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of the present day people of the Melanesian region north and north-east of Australia. Melanesian DNA comprises between 4% and 6% Denisovan DNA.
David Reich from the Harvard Medical School, who worked with Svante Paabo on the study, says that the fact that Denisovan genes ended up so far south suggests they were widespread across Eurasia: "These populations must have been spread across thousands and thousands of miles," he told BBC News.
One mystery is why the Denisovan genes are unique in modern Melanesians and are not found in other Eurasian groups that have so far been sampled.
Professor Stringer believes it is because there may have been only a fleeting encounter as modern humans migrated through South-East Asia and then on to Melanesia.
"It could be just 50 Denisovans interbreeding with a thousand modern humans. That would be enough to produce this 5% of those archaic genes being transferred," he said.
"So the impact is there but the number of interbreeding events might have been quite small and quite rare."
No one knows when or how these humans disappeared but, according to Professor Paabo, it is very likely something to do with modern people because all the "archaic" humans, like Denisovans and Neanderthals disappeared sometime after Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on the scene.
"It is fascinating to see direct evidence that these archaic species did exist (alongside us) and it's only for the last few tens of thousands of years that is unique in our history that we are alone on this planet and we have no close relatives with us anymore," he said.
The study follows a paper published earlier this year by Professor Paabo and colleagues that showed there was interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals as they emerged from Africa 60,000 years ago.


The first bishop of a new cathedral for Indian Catholics in Preston is to be ordained at the home of Preston North End.

More than 12,000 people are expected at the Ordination Mass of Fr Joseph Srampicka, which begins at 13:30 BST.
Pope Francis created the new diocese - or eparchy - in July, making it one of only three worldwide.
The Grade II-listed St Ignatius Roman Catholic Church, which shut in December 2014, was designated as a cathedral.
It reopened to serve an Indian branch of the Roman Catholic Church.
Twenty-five bishops and more than 200 priests and many nuns will attend the service, with people expected from Australia, Canada and South America.
The Indian community are from the Syro Malabar Rite, which claims to have been founded by St Thomas The Apostle in India and is one 22 Eastern Catholic Churches in unity with the Pope.
St Ignatius was built in 1836, seven years after the legalisation of Catholicism in England, and was staffed by the Jesuit Order.


(Close): Wall Street closed its final trading day in January on a high note buoyed by developments from global central banks.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 390.08 points, or 2.43%, to 16,459.72.
The S&P 500 climbed 46 points, or 2.43%, to 1,939.36 , while the Nasdaq Composite gained 107.28 points, or 2.38%, to 4,613.95.
Global markets were boosted Friday by news that the Bank of Japan introduced a negative interest rate.
Data released on Friday showed US gross domestic product in the fourth quarter rose an annualised 0.7%, falling short of expectations.
The figures have led to speculation that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates again in the near term.
"This basically sets the tone that central banks are going to have to boost the economy," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial.
Stocks have fallen sharply in January. The S&P 500 recording its worst start since 2009.
Microsoft was a bright spot for the Nasdaq. Its shares gained 5.8% on Friday.
Office-supply company Xerox also saw its share price rise 5.6% after it announced it would split into two companies.
Chevron shares managed to pull off a modest rise of 0.64% despite reporting its first money loosing quarter since 2002. The company pledged to continue cost cutting measures, including layoffs, to offset the falling price of oil.


A man sustained life-threatening injuries after a "domestic incident" in Merthyr Tydfil, police have said.

While he is being treated in hospital, he remains under arrest and in police custody.
Officers were called to the "domestic-related incident" at an address in the Abercanaid area at 04:00 GMT on Sunday.
The 58-year-old from Galon Uchaf was described by South Wales Police as being in a serious condition.


A senior judge has strongly criticised an IVF clinic in London over errors with paperwork for a lesbian couple.

One of the women gave birth to twins after the treatment.
But her partner, who was the biological mother, had to go to court to be declared a legal parent - because the wrong forms were filled in at the clinic.
The case is among 15 similar ones brought to the High Court.
The president of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, said the clinic's lawyers had been "grossly insensitive" in their handling of the case.
He granted the woman - identified only as X - a declaration that she was a legal parent of the twins in February.
Giving his reasons for Wednesday's judgement, he said the women had been left "shocked and angry" when the clinic's error came to light.
Sir James said the women had paid more than £15,000 for their treatment with IVF Hammersmith Limited.
He described how the clinic's solicitors sent a "crass and insensitive" letter to the women, offering them £1,000 in compensation.
Sir James said in his ruling: "The offer of money, whatever the amount, was merely adding insult to injury.
"If an offer of financial compensation was appropriate at all, the idea that £1,000 began to approach a realistic figure was so wide of the mark as to be not merely insulting but almost offensively so.
"If ever there was a situation calling for empathy, understanding, humanity, compassion and, dare one say it, common decency, never mind sincere and unqualified apology, it is surely this."
The clinic's director had expressed regret in a witness statement and said there were now procedures to try and avoid any repeat of the situation.
Sir James described this as a "mealy-mouthed observation".
This case is among eight, involving a number of clinics, which have been resolved at the High Court, after the UK's fertility regulator identified the form-filling errors.
A further seven cases are still awaiting a final court hearing. It is thought as many as 85 couples could be affected in total.
A spokeswoman for IVF Hammersmith said: "We understand the stress the process and hearing has caused and we are sorry for this.
"We would like to reiterate that we have learned from this case.
"To safeguard all other patients receiving donor sperm, since 2013 we have introduced witnessing to the process, run dedicated staff training and operated continuous audits."


Wakefield Trinity Wildcats have signed back rower Matty Ashurst from Salford Red Devils on a two-year-deal from the 2015 season.

Ashurst, 24, has made 17 league appearances, scoring four tries for Iestyn Harris's side this season.
He joined the Red Devils from St Helens in October 2011 and joins Craig Hall and Mickael Simon in James Webster's squad at Belle Vue for next term.
"I'm excited for a new challenge," said former Chorley Panther Ashurst.
"Webbo [Webster] really sold the club to me and the work ethic that is in place there - and I'm just looking to come and work hard and do my part for the squad."


Since its revival in the 1980s, Pre-Raphaelite art has found a cherished place in the hearts of the gallery-going public, one as strong as its original Victorian audience, but had it not been for Liverpool's wealthy merchants, the movement may never have thrived to begin with.

Quite why the port became such a solid patron of Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1850s and 60s forms the basis of a new exhibition at the city's Walker Art Gallery.
Christopher Newall, who has curated the Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion show, says a boom in trade and banking in the 1850s and 60s enabled the newly rich of the North of England to furnish their homes with art.
In cities like Manchester and Newcastle, that meant buying up the old masters, such as Velasquez and Titian. However, in Liverpool, "there emerges this picture of an incredibly fertile, exciting art world which didn't exist in the other Northern cities".
"There's a real interest in contemporary art that was quite challenging and desire to feel modern.
"They were not attempting to have the traditional kind of thing but throwing themselves into having collections of the most modern paintings that British art could offer."
That desire for modernity led the city to the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - a cabal of painters, poets and critics founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who were at the cutting edge of the art world in the 1850s and 60s.
The city's interest in the movement was driven the Liverpool Academy, which "was run by artists who were extraordinarily generous and well-disposed towards Pre-Raphaelitism", Mr Newall says.
"They really embraced this new art movement, even though it originated in London.
"The academy's exhibition took place in the autumn, so works that failed to sell at the Royal Academy's summer exhibition could be sent to Liverpool or artists who had been rejected for that could show in the city.
"There wasn't another institution in the country that offered that kind of welcome.
"The academy even instituted a system where if a work came up to Liverpool, they would pay the return carriage costs if it didn't sell.
"That was either very generous or very self-confident, as they assumed works would be sold and they had a good market, a beady eye for what was going to attract public interest.
"It meant there was this shop window for Pre-Raphaelitism in its most up-to-date form, which meant in turn there grew up in Liverpool and Birkenhead an extraordinary generation of patrons.
Source: National Museums Liverpool and The Tate
The patrons "had walls thick with pictures and were very proud of it". George Rae, a Scot who had cashed in on Liverpool's economic growth, and his wife Julia had more Rossettis in their collection than were anywhere else in the world, while tobacco merchant John Miller also became an avid collector, as did shipowner Frederick Richards Leyland and soap magnate Lord Lever.
"There were lots of people who made lots of money in their generation and didn't have a preconception of what kinds of art they should have on their walls.
"They came to it with a delightful open-mindedness. They were often people of independent frame of mind, perhaps because of the traditions of non-conformism and Unitarianism that existed in the city.
"There was a sense that you didn't need to be in awe of the past."
Crucially, the curator says the "generosity of spending of those men and women really made Pre-Raphaelitism viable".
"Artists like Brown and Rossetti were hugely dependant on their Liverpool patrons."
However, the patrons "weren't just indulging their wealth", he says, but "were totally immersed in the lives and careers of the artists" - Miller and Leyland, for example, both had a friendship with Rossetti.
The University of Liverpool's Dr Matthew Bradley, an expert in Victorian culture, says the reasons for their deep involvement may have been self-serving.
"If you're a self-made man, as people like Frederick Leyland and Lever absolutely were, then that's a natural bit of self-positioning - being a patron confers status if you haven't got a tradition to rely on.
"There's a class element too, particularly if you've made your money in soap, or even worse tobacco or beer, which is where the money for the Walker Art Gallery itself came from.
"You can show off your cultured patron of the arts-ness if you have personal relationships with the artists, and many of the patrons did, and it's interesting how far sometimes the power was with the artists
"Famously, it's Leyland that makes all the running with Rossetti - Rossetti keeps promising to visit Leyland at Speke but rarely does, and then says in a letter that he doesn't want to go because it's boring."
Dr Bradley says the city's new rich magnates were not alone in having such relationships, but Liverpool merchants "cultivated these relationships to a greater extent than other collectors, and were more public about them".
"They're also a bit quicker off the mark in supporting the Pre-Raphaelites than some of the wealthy patrons in other cities, who come to the party a bit later; Birmingham merchants only really start getting interested in the movement in the 1880s and 1890s, for example."
And so Pre-Raphaelitism flourished and became central to British art for the whole of the Victorian era, but as with all art movements, public taste eventually moved on.
Source: National Museums Liverpool
Mr Newall says that in a wonderful postscript, the movement's eventual revival was also driven by the city that had largely funded them in the first place.
"The person who really started the ball rolling on this Pre-Raphaelite rediscovery thing was a wonderful woman called Mary Bennett, who was the keeper of art at the Walker in the 1960s.
"She did a succession of pioneering exhibitions for Millais, Holman Hunt and Brown and really put those artists back on the map with her research and her exhibitions.
"She was more or less on her own and it was probably considered quite eccentric, but those exhibitions lead onto a huge exhibition at the Tate in London in 1984 and the Pre-Raphaelites became accessible again."
And with the Walker's exhibition bringing together over 120 works from the movement, it seems the city's love affair with the Pre-Raphaelites continues apace.
Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion is at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool until 5 June