People in a Norfolk town are being advised by police to ignore any clowns they might stumble across.

Officers say pranksters have been dressing up as clowns in King's Lynn and deliberately startling passers-by.
Police have vowed to hunt down the clowns to offer them "strong words of advice" - although they stressed that dressing up as a clown is not illegal.
Urging townsfolk not to give the clowns the satisfaction of a reaction, police said: "That's what they are after."
There have been clown sightings in the market town on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Police believe the clowns aim to startle passers-by before chasing them.
The King's Lynn clowns are the latest to plague the unsuspecting citizens of towns across England.
A clown spotted in Northampton in September became a global internet sensation, and since then there have been sightings in Burnley, Scunthorpe, Mansfield and Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.
Norfolk Police are interpreting the King's Lynn clown activity as "anti-social behaviour being fuelled by reports on social media".
Supt Carl Edwards said: "Firstly, I'd like to stress that it isn't against the law to dress up as a clown.
"Nobody has been assaulted and it appears that the people involved are waiting for a passer-by to be startled by their appearance and run away, and then the clown runs after them for a short distance."
He pointed out that some people, especially the young or elderly, could be worried be any clown encounters.
"We will be out in the areas where reports have been made to attempt to find those responsible and offer them strong words of advice," he said.


The number of people using Twitter has risen and the firm's losses narrowed in the first three months of this year.

Its most famous frequent user, Donald Trump, is taking to Twitter less since assuming the US presidency, but active users of the message-in-brief platform have still risen by 14%, the firm said.
However, revenue from advertising fell by almost 8% from a year earlier.
"We continue to face revenue headwinds," said Twitter's chief executive, Jack Dorsey.
"We believe that executing on our plan and growing our audience should result in positive revenue growth over the long term," he said. The firm said the number of people using the service actively every month was up 6%.
Mr Dorsey said the increase in users was in part because the service had been streamlined to make it a better experience for users, including measures to reduce abusive content.
The company has been trying to convince advertisers that it can strengthen its user base and has launched new features, including live video broadcasting.
The results were better than expected by market analysts and Twitter shares rose 11%.
The 7.8% fall in revenues was mitigated by the news that net losses had fallen to $61.6m (Â£48m) in the first three months of this year from $79.7m in the same quarter of 2016.
Twitter said 328 million people logged in to use the platform between January and March.
"We continue to expect revenue growth to meaningfully lag audience growth in 2017," the company said.


Syrian government forces have regained control of a military airbase on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, activists and military sources say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said soldiers retook Marj al-Sultan airbase on Monday, and were trying to secure the adjoining town.
But a military source told the AFP news agency that the town had also fallen.
Rebel forces seized the airbase, in the Ghouta agricultural belt around the capital, in November 2012.
Its capture is a rare victory for the government in an area considered an opposition stronghold.
The Syrian Observatory, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that the government offensive on Marj al-Sultan began about a month ago.
The army was backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, it added.
On Sunday, at least 45 people were killed as government forces bombarded the nearby rebel-held suburbs of Douma, Saqba, Arbeen and Harasta, according to the Syrian Observatory and the opposition Local Co-ordination Committees.
The attacks came after rebel shellfire killed six people, including two children, in government-held areas in and around Damascus, state media reported.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O'Brien said he was "deeply saddened" by the violence during a visit to the capital on Monday.
"This is a tragic reminder of the urgency of finding a political solution and security, a nationwide ceasefire," he told a news conference. "Such indiscriminate attacks are unacceptable and we must do our utmost to protect innocent civilians."
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began four and a half years ago.
Mr O'Brien said a further 6.5 million Syrians were now internally displaced, two million children were out of school, and 72% of the population had no access to drinking water. More than 4.3 million Syrians have also fled abroad.


A terminal cancer patient who has been told he has just months to live has conquered Mount Everest.

Ian Toothill said he believes he is the first cancer patient to scale the world's highest mountain.
The Sheffield Wednesday fan planted a flag of rivals Sheffield United at the summit for charity.
The 47-year-old personal trainer, who reached the summit on Monday, has raised almost £31,500 ($40,600) for Macmillan.
He tweeted: "Nothing to see here, just some cancer dude [Sheffield Wednesday] fan on the summit of Everest with a @SUFC_tweets flag."
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Mr Toothill, originally from Sheffield, lives in Willesden Green in London and has climbed in the Himalayas.
He was diagnosed with bowel cancer in June 2015 and told in early 2016 that he had beaten the disease, but later found out it had returned.
He said he has been told he has "just several months left to live".
Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield in February, he said: "I'm determined to prove anything is possible."
He reached the top of the North Col route on 16 May and the summit of Everest on 5 June.
Miss NJP tweeted: "What an amazing achievement and a wonderful moment for @IanToothill. Feeling emotional. So glad you made it to the top #climbingforcancer".
The Sheffield Wednesday fan planted the rival Sheffield United flag at the summit after a friend donated £1,000.
Mr Toothill was accompanied part-way of the climb by Leslie Binns, from Rotherham, who abandoned his climb to the summit after saving the life of a fellow climber last June.
His fundraising bid raised almost £31,500, beating the target of £29,100.


Spain's economy grew by 0.9% in the second quarter thanks to improved exports and household spending.

The growth figure, a first estimate from the National Statistics Institute (INE), suggests the country's economy has finally grown back to the size it was before the credit crunch of 2008.
Spain was bailed out in 2012 by the EU at the height of Europe's debt crisis.
Its figures were among the strongest of a batch of European economic data released on Friday.
France's economy grew by 0.5% in the second quarter of the year, the same rate as in the previous three months, helped by higher exports, notably the sale of a 700m euro (Â£626m) ocean liner, the Meraviglia.
Confidence levels in France were boosted by the recent election of President Emmanuel Macron, although that has abated somewhat since.
Nonetheless, the country is on track to meet forecasts for growth of 1.6% this year.
Meanwhile a preliminary estimate from Sweden's statistics office suggested the country's economy grew by a faster-than-expected rate of 1.7% in the April-to-June period.
Spain's exports have been growing and unemployment falling in recent months.
The unemployment rate, which was about 25%, has dropped steadily, although it still stands at 17.2%.
Raj Badiani, economist at IHS Markit, said: "We believe consumer spending growth appeared to regain some momentum in the second quarter, continuing to ride on the back of strong employment creation and a comfortable financial climate."
The Spanish government has raised its forecasts for economic growth this year and now expects the economy to grow by at least 3% in 2017.
Separately on Friday, the European Commission said economic sentiment within the eurozone had risen again in July - the third increase in a row - to a new 10-year high.
The sentiment indicator in the 19-country currency bloc rose to 111.2 after an increase in confidence in the service sector.


Formula 1 heads off on its official summer break at the end of this week but away from the cameras there will be plenty going on.

The teams have to officially close their factories down for two weeks and are not allowed to do any work on their cars, or even use work email.
But team bosses and drivers have mobile phones, and there is a lot to sort out in the coming weeks.
Driver contracts need to be sorted out for 2018, some teams could change engine suppliers and while they may be relaxing on the beach, or wherever, senior figures will be plotting how to maximise the second half of the championship.
Not least those at Ferrari and Mercedes, with the title battle between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton finely poised.
So let's take a look at what could change before the Belgian Grand Prix on 25-27 August - and what could happen next.
Eleven races into the world championship fight, a clear pattern has emerged in the performance of the Ferrari and Mercedes cars.
While they are closely matched everywhere, there is a trend in terms of which car performs best on which types of track.
Tight and twisty tracks, such as the last race in Hungary, favour Ferrari. The red car is already an easier car to work with, with a wider operating window. On top of that, it has a more effective high-downforce package.
In trying to match the Ferrari on these types of tracks, the Mercedes runs up against its performance limits, and as the drivers push to try to match the Ferrari, the car becomes difficult to drive, prone to snaps at the rear in some corners, understeer - a lack of front grip - in others.
As Hamilton said in Hungary: "When you drive it to a certain limit the car feels fine, but then you see Ferrari's time, you think you need to push further. So you drive 100% and the car is more on a knife edge. You are taking it into places you don't want to go."
The Mercedes, by contrast, excels on flowing, high-speed tracks, such as Silverstone, where Hamilton dominated. This is because it has better aerodynamic efficiency.
So how might this pan out over the next few races?
Mercedes should have the edge at the next two races in Belgium and Italy, on the classic Spa-Francorchamps and Monza tracks, giving Hamilton a golden opportunity to head into the Asian part of the season with an advantage.
But then comes Singapore, where Ferrari are likely to be pretty much unbeatable. Malaysia is hard to call, but might edge towards Mercedes. Japan's Suzuka is very like Silverstone and clearly a Mercedes track. Rain is common in Japan and Malaysia. The cars' relative performance in the wet is unknown, but they are conditions in which Hamilton excels.
That leaves the final four races in the USA, Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi, all very hard to call.
It is, in other words, going to be tight - very tight. All the more reason for Hamilton, who admitted on Sunday he has given away more points than Ferrari, to focus over his holidays on how to stop doing that.
An unusually large number of top drivers are out of contract at the end of the year - both Ferrari drivers, Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
If it was only about performance, both Ferrari and Mercedes would be looking at Alonso, still at the peak of his considerable powers even though he had his 36th birthday over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend.
But there is too much history there, and they are not.
Nothing is set in stone yet, but it is highly likely that both top teams will retain the same driver line-up.
The key is Vettel. There have long been rumours that he has some kind of pre-contractual arrangement with Mercedes, negotiated when he was doubting Ferrari's potential towards the end of a difficult 2016 season. But as far as this writer can ascertain that is not true.
And while Hamilton is at Mercedes - he has a contract to the end of 2018 - it is hard to imagine Vettel going there, too. Partly because Vettel would be unlikely to fancy taking him on in the same team; and partly because Mercedes would be wary of putting two big beasts together (part of the reason why Alonso is not going there). And that's without considering the mammoth salary bill it would create.
Insiders close to Vettel say there is no chance at all he won't stay at Ferrari. He has gone there to emulate his friend and childhood hero Michael Schumacher and rebuild them into title winners, and they may even do it this year. He even admitted himself in Hungary, when asked whether he wanted to stay with the team: "I don't see why not."
If Vettel stays, so does Raikkonen - Ferrari, sources say, have already offered the Finn a new one-year contract on that basis.
At Mercedes, team boss Toto Wolff has strongly implied he wants to keep Bottas alongside Hamilton, but that he just wants time to think it over - which he says he will do over the break.
The reason is not so much this year's market as next year's - when both Red Bull drivers might be getable. Daniel Ricciardo's contract expires at the end of 2018, like Hamilton's. And while Max Verstappen's runs to 2019, it does contain clauses that could potentially mean he was free, depending on certain performance criteria which are not publicly known.
Outside the top three teams, much will have depended on Robert Kubica's test with Renault in Hungary - where he was setting apparently competitive times, and giving "excellent" feedback to the engineers.
The 32-year-old Pole and his former team are assessing his ability to come back to F1 more than six years after the horrific rally accident that left him with only partial use of his right arm.
If Kubica and the team are happy he can perform as before, there is no obvious reason why they would not sign him for 2018 - he's surely too good to turn down. Kubica could even race this year in place of Jolyon Palmer, who continues to struggle alongside team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.
The word is that Renault have offered Palmer a pay-off settlement, but it remains to be seen how this situation plays out.
The Kubica comeback would be one of the greatest sporting stories ever were it come off. But if it does not, Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz is said to be top of Renault's list.
The Spaniard would need to be bought out of his contract, but that could be facilitated by a potential engine swap for the Red Bull junior team, more of which in a moment.
At Williams, they face a choice of whether to continue with Felipe Massa, who missed Hungary because of illness, or choose someone else to partner Lance Stroll. And the question then is, how good a driver do they go for?
Stroll is young and raw. He has the potential and talent to be a solid and deserving F1 driver over and above the 10s of millions he brings to the team, but he is not there yet.
So there is a temptation not to aim too high and set a difficult standard for him to match. In terms of the team's overall performance, though, that approach has to be questioned - and is being by many, outside the team at least.
Alonso? He does not appear to have a lot of choices. He says he wants a competitive car next year, but with Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull not available, his realistic options are only Renault and McLaren. And Renault are not going to pay him the sort of money he commands at McLaren - $40m a year for the last three seasons.
McLaren want him to stay, and would be prepared to pay him significantly more than anyone else, but whether he re-signs may depend on which engine is in the back of the car next year. Which brings us on to…
It is no secret that McLaren's relationship with Honda is strained, following three seasons of poor performance.
Honda started the season with worse performance than they finished last year, despite a major engine redesign, and reliability has been shocking.
Only with the latest 'Phase Three' development, introduced competitively at the Austrian Grand Prix in early July, has the Honda matched the performance level it had at the end of 2016.
Unsurprisingly, then, McLaren have been casting around for a customer engine deal. First it looked like they would get a Mercedes, but that chance has now gone, as has Ferrari. That leaves Renault.
No-one wants to see Honda leave F1, though, and the Japanese company are in talks with Red Bull about supplying junior team Toro Rosso.
Red Bull's motorsport boss Helmut Marko was not even bothering to deny this last weekend. "Let's see," he said, smiling, when I asked him whether Toro Rosso would have Honda engines next year.
Red Bull's strategy is clear - get the Honda in the Toro Rosso, the overall performance of which does not really matter, as the team exists to blood young drivers, and if and when Honda get their act together, switch it to Red Bull and become the Japanese company's works partner.
At McLaren, they have lost faith Honda can do the job. And while it might not seem such a bright idea to swap the worst engine in F1 for the second worst, and give up a net $100m a year in the process, performance-wise it might make sense.
The Renault is said to be 10-15kw (13-20bhp) off a customer Mercedes engine in race trim. The Honda is just over 60kw down (about 80bhp). That's a 60bhp power jump. Which as an average is about a second's worth of lap time.
That would have put Alonso on the second row in Hungary and the third row at Silverstone. And that makes selling sponsorship deals - all but impossible for McLaren at the moment - much easier. And it would probably be enough for Alonso to feel it was worth staying in F1.
McLaren are said to be optimistic a Renault deal can be done - and some senior figures also believe it is close. However, there are others who suspect that McLaren's Renault option will go the way of Mercedes and Ferrari - why, they argue, would the French manufacturer give engines to another team besides Red Bull who might beat them?
If that happens, McLaren would be stuck with Honda.
And Alonso? Well, a year in IndyCar and a second shot at the Indy 500 might suddenly take on a new appeal.


Poet Simon Armitage has spoken of his pride at being awarded an honorary degree by the University of Leeds.

Armitage, who previously lectured in creative writing at the university, was made an honorary doctor of letters.
He said: "This is a special day and it is an honour to join all the students graduating. I'm proud to be awarded this honorary degree."
He is one of 10 people to be honoured including boxer Nicola Adams and Leeds carnival organiser Arthur France.
In June Armitage was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.
Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor of the University, described the 10 recipients of honorary degrees as "truly inspirational people", saying: "They are excellent role models for the 5,700 students who are graduating from the university this year, all ready to take their place in the world and to make a difference."
Adams, from Leeds, claimed the first ever women's Olympic boxing gold medal at the London Olympic games in 2012 and last month won flyweight gold at the European Games in Baku.
Mr France founded the Leeds West Indian Carnival, now in its 48th year, in 1967 as a cure for homesickness after leaving St Kitts and Nevis, in the Caribbean.


A Dutch-Turkish journalist has been detained in Turkey after posting tweets critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, her newspaper said.

Ebru Umar wrote a column for the Dutch Metro newspaper criticising President Erdogan's clampdown on dissent.
Since 2014, prosecutors have launched cases against more than 1,800 journalists for insulting Mr Erdogan.
Last week, Germany allowed the prosecution of a prominent TV satirist for insulting Mr Erdogan to proceed.
Jan Boehmermann had read a crude poem on TV, aimed at testing German law.
Germany and the Netherlands have old lese-majeste laws against insulting the head of a friendly state. Both governments have said they will change their laws so that lese-majeste is no longer an offence.
Ms Umar was in southern Turkey on holiday when she was arrested. On Saturday night, she tweeted (in Dutch) that police were at her door.
She was taken to the nearby resort of Kusadasi for questioning and was later released but not allowed to leave Turkey.
Last week, the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam had urged Turks in the Netherlands to report insults to Turkey or its president.
The consulate later withdrew its call after it was criticised by Dutch MPs and Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Mr Rutte said (in Dutch) he had been in contact with Ms Umar since her arrest.
Ms Umar was detained as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and an EU delegation were in Turkey for talks about the implementation of an agreement on migration.
Under the deal, Turkey will take back some migrants who have crossed illegally into the EU. In return, the EU will liberalise visa rules for Turkish nationals.
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Police in Australia believe a lawyer who represented some of the country's most notorious organised crime figures was the victim of a contract killing.

Joe Acquaro was shot dead in Melbourne in the early hours of Tuesday. Investigators believe underworld bosses may have put a price on his head.
The lawyer was well-known in the city's Italian community and his body was found outside a cafe he owned.
Clients included crime bosses accused of extortion, drugs and arms offences.
A vicious gangland feud that claimed at least 28 lives in Melbourne ended more than a decade ago, but detectives say that underworld tensions still fester in Australia's second biggest city.


Gloucestershire may rebrand themselves as Bristol for the T20 Blast.

In an end-of-season questionnaire, supporters are being asked if the change would make them more likely - or less likely - to attend matches.
Warwickshire are the only first-class county to play under a different name - Birmingham Bears - in T20 cricket.
"We just wanted to put it out there to get people talking about it. This issue comes up again and again," club chief executive Will Brown said.
Gloucestershire are based at the County Ground in Bristol, with Cheltenham the only other venue in the county currently used for matches.
"We want people's suggestions and opinions," Brown told BBC Radio Gloucestershire. "I'm not sure how it would change Gloucestershire - but other counties have done it.
"I would be extremely surprised if it happened, though. We have a unique problem in that we've been playing in Bristol for 126 years and I don't think there is enough awareness of that.
"My natural inclination and gut feeling is that it shouldn't change - but we'll see what the fans have to say. Ultimately, we are a membership society and members have the final say."
Glamorgan rebranded themselves as Welsh Dragons for limited-overs cricket in 2012, but reverted to their county name for all forms of the game after only one season.


Prime Minister David Cameron has said the international community should use "everything at its disposal" to fight terrorism, on a visit to Algeria.

The recent hostage crisis, in which some 37 foreigners died, was "a reminder that what happens in other countries affects us at home", he said.
He also defended Western intervention in the conflict in neighbouring Mali.
He is the first British prime minister to visit the North African country since it became independent in 1962.
Following the recent siege at the In Amenas gas plant in the Sahara, in which up to six Britons lost their lives, Mr Cameron discussed the threat of terrorism with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmalek Sellal in the capital Algiers.
He announced that two had agreed a security partnership, including co-operation on border and aviation security, as well as joint action on trade, investment and education.
The UK has also invited Algeria to participate in a joint contingency planning exercise to share experience in responding to crisis situations.
"Both Britain and Algeria are countries that have suffered from terrorism and we understand each other's suffering," he said.
"What we have agreed is a strengthened partnership that looks at how we combat terrorism and how we improve security of this region. This should be about sharing our perspectives, about the risks and dangers that there are, but also sharing expertise."
Before holding talks with senior government figures, he told reporters that the UK's focus was "very much about helping this neighbourhood to help itself".
He said he wanted to "work with the Algerian government and with other governments in the region to make sure we do everything we can do to combat terrorism in a way that is both tough and intelligent, and uses everything we have at our disposal, which will make them safer, make us safer, make the world safer".
The UK announced on Tuesday it is to send 330 military personnel to Mali and west Africa to support French forces battling Islamist militants.
The deployment will include as many as 40 military advisers in Mali and 200 British soldiers in neighbouring African countries, to help train the Malian army.
Critics have warned of "mission creep", but Mr Cameron said the UK was an "open, international" country and, linking instability in north and west Africa to British national interests, said the country's "posture" was to protect its citizens around the world.
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But Mr Cameron said the UK and its allies "don't look at this region of the world and think that the answer is purely a military one".
"What is required in countries like Mali, just as countries like Somalia on the other side of Africa, is that combination of tough approach on security, aid, politics, settling grievances and problems."
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the prime minister, who earlier laid a wreath at the martyrs memorial in Algiers and met British Embassy staff, was keen to use this trip to address fears that he is risking a protracted military engagement in north Africa.
He wanted to stress the situation in Mali would not become "another Afghanistan or even another Libya", our correspondent, who is travelling with the government entourage, added.
The PM's national security advisor Kim Darroch, the head of foreign security service MI6 Sir John Sawers and trade minister Lord Risby are accompanying Mr Cameron.


A giant hedgehog mural is being created in a town that has been identified as a hotspot for the mammal.

Street artist ATM is painting the artwork on the side of a pub in Ipswich.
The mural is part of Suffolk Wildlife Trust's campaign to make the town more hedgehog-friendly.
The trust has already appointed a hedgehog officer for Ipswich and is overseeing the project with the artist, who is known for his wildlife murals.
ATM said he agreed to paint the mural of the mammal to "communicate how unique and beautiful these things are".
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The London-based artist specialises in painting endangered species in urban environments
The acrylic artwork was started on the side of the Swan pub in King Street on Tuesday and is expected to be completed on Thursday.
Almost 12,000 hedgehogs, dead and alive, have been recorded in Suffolk over the past two years, with about 2,500 of these around Ipswich.
The trust said there was a "rich natural network" for hedgehogs to move around the town.
Artist ATM said: "I just hope people think about hedgehogs and wildlife in general.
"For example, not use weedkillers on their plants, not use slug pellets... think about hedgehogs' needs."
The mural is being created during Hedgehog Awareness Week, a national campaign run by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.


The giant bluestones of Stonehenge may have been chosen because of their acoustic properties, claim researchers.

A study shows rocks in the Preseli Hills, the Pembrokeshire source of part of the monument, have a sonic property.
Researcher Paul Devereux said: "It hasn't been considered until now that sound might have been a factor."
The study, by London's Royal College of Art, was to try and record what "Stone Age eyes and ears" would have heard and seen in a prehistoric landscape.
Since the 1920s, it has been known stones quarried in Mynydd Preseli were hauled 199 miles (320 km) to Wiltshire by its makers.  But, trying to establish why has been more difficult.
With this study, thousands of stones along the Carn Menyn ridge were tested and a high proportion of them were found to "ring" when they were struck.
"The percentage of the rocks on the Carn Menyn ridge are ringing rocks, they ring just like a bell," said Mr Devereux, the principal investigator on the Landscape and Perception Project.
"And there's lots of different tones, you could play a tune.
"In fact, we have had percussionists who have played proper percussion pieces off the rocks."
According to Mr Devereux, the discovery of the "resonant rocks" could explain why they were selected for Stonehenge.
"There had to be something special about these rocks," he said.
"Why else would they take them from here all the way to Stonehenge?"
Built between 3,000 BC and 1,600 BC, it has remained a mystery why the monument's bluestones were lugged all the way from north Pembrokeshire.
But Prof Tim Darvill, who has undertaken hundreds of excavations at Stonehenge, insists "pre-historic attitudes to stone" must have been very different to those of today.
"We don't know of course that they moved them because they rang but ringing rocks are a prominent part of many cultures," he said.
"You can almost see them as a pre-historic glockenspiel, if you like and you could knock them and hear these tunes.
"And soundscapes of pre-history are something we're really just beginning to explore."
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The global war on drugs is fuelling a hepatitis C pandemic causing millions of needless infections, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has warned.

Repressive drug law enforcement is driving high rates of infection among injecting drug users, it said.
Resources need to be redirected into treatment and prevention.
The Commission estimated that of 16 million people worldwide who inject drugs, 10 million are living with hepatitis C.
This puts them at risk of fatal and debilitating liver disease.
The Global Commission called on governments to decriminalise drug use and provide schemes, such as those which give access to sterile needles, to halt the spread of the disease.
The group, which includes seven former presidents, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan and other world leaders, has previously linked the "failed" war on drugs with the spread of HIV.
In its latest report it says in some countries with the harshest drug policies more than 90% of people who inject drugs are living with hepatitis C.
Eastern Europe and Central Asia have seen the fastest spread of infection and the highest number of infections has been reported in China, the Russian Federation and the USA.
Strongly enforced policies criminalising drug use force users away from public health services and locking up vast numbers of injecting users perpetuates the spread of the infection, the Commission warned in the latest report.
Hepatitis C is highly infectious and around a quarter of those with chronic infection will develop fatal liver disease.
But the disease can go undetected for several years with no or few symptoms and many people are completely unaware they are infected.
Governments "must immediately redirect resources away from the 'war on drugs' and into public health approaches that maximise hepatitis C prevention and care", the report recommended.
"Hepatitis C has to be one of the most grossly miscalculated diseases by governments on the planet," said commissioner Michel Kazatchkine, who is also the UN secretary-general's special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
"It is a disgrace that barely a handful of countries can actually show significant declines in new infections of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs."
The report highlighted Scotland's national Hepatitis C Action Plan as an example of best practice.
Launched in 2006, the strategy has led to a four-to-six-fold increase in the provision of sterile injecting equipment and an increase in the number of people, mainly in drug services and prisons, being tested for the infection.
The provisions put in place, which also include an eight-fold increase in the number of prisoners receiving treatment for hepatitis C, have led to falling rates of infection.
The Commission also highlights the potential for dramatic savings to countries' health and welfare budgets in the long term from preventing cases of liver disease.
"The war on drugs is a war on common sense," said commissioner Ruth Dreifuss, who is also the former president of Switzerland.
"Repressive drug policies are ineffective, violate basic human rights, generate violence and expose individuals and communities to unnecessary risks.
"The hepatitis C epidemic, totally preventable and curable, is yet another proof that the drug policy status quo has failed us all miserably."
The World Hepatitis Alliance said: "It is incomprehensible that hepatitis C, along with hepatitis B, is so consistently ignored.
"If you compare rates of hepatitis C in drug users in countries with good harm reduction and more enlightened drug policies with those in countries without, it is clear that regarding drug use exclusively as a criminal justice issue is a health disaster. Hepatitis C, its prevention, care and treatment must be addressed and must be addressed as the health issue it is."
A UK government spokesperson said: "This government is committed to breaking the vicious cycle of addiction and drug usage remains at its lowest level since records began.
"The best protection from drugs is not to take them in the first place, but we must ensure good healthcare is available for those who want to treat their addiction - and we are seeing a rise in the numbers of users exiting treatment programmes free of drugs."


Plaid Cymru has been urged to remove its general election candidate for Ceredigion over claims that he once compared some English-born residents of rural Wales to Nazis.

Mike Parker said he was "younger and angrier" when he wrote in 2001 that parts of Wales were inhabited by "gun-toting Final Solution crackpots".
Plaid said he now recognised the language he used was "inappropriate".
Labour said Mr Parker was "not fit" to represent Ceredigion.
Following press reports about the article written for Planet magazine, Mr Parker defended his actions in a statement on Facebook.
He said he had been writing about a minority of people he had met who said they had moved to rural Wales from England to "escape multicultural communities in more urban areas".
"My anger at these racist attitudes fuelled some high-octane language that I wouldn't use to express myself now - however, I maintain the view that racism should never be ignored nor accepted, and should always be challenged and tackled," he said.
A Plaid Cymru spokesman said: "He was reacting to some very negative and belittling comments he heard at that time as someone who had moved to Ceredigion from Kidderminster himself.
"Plaid Cymru has always worked against those divisive forces and we're very proud of our record in doing so."
Labour's candidate for Ceredigion, Huw Thomas, called on Plaid Cymru to replace Mr Parker, saying: "There should be no place in our politics or our society for such divisive and hateful language."
The area's Conservative candidate, Henrietta Hensher, said: "What he's actually done is tarnish a section of the population within Wales as a whole, suggesting that they are racist."
Welsh Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black called on Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood to "show some leadership" and demand a "full public apology" from Mr Parker.
"Either he withdraws these remarks or else she needs to explain whether he is representing Plaid Cymru policy," said Mr Black.
"His offensive views shouldn't just be swept under the carpet."
Meanwhile, UKIP's candidate for Ceredigion, Gethin James, said: "If a UKIP candidate had written an article in such a derogatory manner, even though it was some time ago, they would be asked to consider their position as a parliamentary candidate."
The candidates so far declared to be standing in Ceredigion are: Henrietta Hensher (Conservative), Jack Huggins (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition), Gethin James (UKIP), Mike Parker (Plaid Cymru), Huw Thomas (Labour), Daniel Thompson (Green Party), and Mark Williams (Liberal Democrats).


A Carmarthenshire taxi driver has had his licence suspended for seven days for refusing to take a woman with multiple sclerosis on a short journey.

Barbara Stensland, 43, from Cardiff, travelled to Carmarthen on 5 August for a meeting of the MS Society.
When she tried to get a taxi from the railway station to the venue less than one mile (1.6km) away, she said driver David Maynard refused to take her.
Mr Maynard said the allegations were a "total fabrication".
He said Ms Stensland told him she would walk "as it was a nice day".
Carmarthenshire council made the decision to suspend Mr Maynard's licence at Thursday's licensing committee.
It found he had refused the fare despite being made aware of Ms Stensland's condition.
The council had considered suspending his licence for longer, but decided against it after Ms Stensland said she did not want Mr Maynard to suffer hardship, especially before Christmas.
Speaking after the meeting, Ms Stensland said: "I'm not a vindictive person.
"All I wanted was an apology. I still haven't received an apology, but I wouldn't go back on saying I wanted as low a sanction as possible."
She said she was pleased her case had raised awareness not only of MS, but of other disabilities.


More than a third of schools in England are failing to provide pupils with age-appropriate sex-and-relationships education, the schools watchdog says.

Ofsted inspectors warn this could leave them vulnerable to sexual exploitation.
Too few teachers have the expertise to discuss delicate issues such as sexuality and domestic violence, they say.
The warning comes after teaching unions raised concerns about the effects of a sexualised culture on pupils.
At unions' conferences over the Easter holidays, teachers shared their concerns about the negative impact pornography and pressure to have "the perfect body" was having on their pupils and called for better training to help teachers to deal with such issues.
In a report examining personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education, Ofsted found it was good or outstanding in 60% of schools, but requiring improvement or inadequate in 40%.
In primary schools, the report says, too much emphasis is placed on friendships and relationships when teaching sex-and-relationships education and this can leave pupils ill-prepared for the physical and emotional changes of puberty.
And in secondary schools, too much emphasis is placed on the "mechanics" of reproduction rather than the importance of healthy sexual relationships.
The report says: "A lack of high-quality, age-appropriate sex-and-relationships education in more than a third of schools is a concern as it may leave children and young people vulnerable to inappropriate sexual behaviours and sexual exploitation.
"This is because they have not been taught the appropriate language or developed the confidence to describe unwanted behaviours or know where to go to for help."
Ofsted found that most secondary schools cover topics such as puberty, reproduction, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, abortion and pregnancy in PSHE lessons, but there was "less emphasis on sexual consent and the influence of pornography."
"The failure to include discussion of pornography is concerning as research shows that children as young as nine are increasingly accessing pornographic internet sites, and ChildLine counsellors have confirmed an increase to more than 50 calls a month from teenagers upset by pornography," the report says.
The report calls for better training for those teaching PSHE, particularly over "sensitive issues".
"Too many teachers lacked expertise in teaching sensitive and controversial issues, which resulted in some topics such as sexuality, mental health and domestic violence being omitted from the curriculum," it says.
"This was because subject-specific training and support were too often inadequate.
"In 20% of schools, staff had received little or no training to teach PSHE education. Teaching was not good in any of these schools."
Ofsted's report found the development of pupils' personal and social skills was good or outstanding in 42 of the 50 schools inspected, but in the weaker schools "casual use of homophobic and disablist language was commonplace".
"In just under half of the schools, pupils learnt how to keep themselves safe in a variety of situations but not all had practised negotiating risky situations or applied security settings to social-networking sites," the report says.
In March, Education Minister Liz Truss announced  PSHE would remain a non-compulsory subject, saying it should be down to schools and teachers to decide on the topics covered in lessons. Sex and relationships education is, however, compulsory.
PSHE Association chief executive Joe Hayman said the report  painted a realistic picture of provision across the country.
"The reality is that while there is outstanding practice in many schools, far too many teachers go into PSHE lessons ill-equipped to deal with the extremely important and challenging issues the subject covers.
"It is obvious from the report that teachers need more help than they are currently getting and as a result many pupils do not get the high quality PSHE education they deserve."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "The quality of PSHE teaching is not good enough.
"Our curriculum reforms have given teachers the freedom to tailor their teaching so it meets the needs of their pupils.
"We are funding the PSHE Association to work with schools to develop curricula and improve the way it is taught.
"The best people to fix this problem are teachers on the ground - not politicians in Westminster."
The findings of the Ofsted report were based on inspections of 24 primary, 24 secondary and two special schools between January and July 2012.


A pair of original pieces of cine reel from Walt Disney's first animated feature-length film could fetch up to Â£23,000 when they are sold at auction.

The cels, from the 1937 release Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, were brought along to a valuation day in Leicestershire.
One image includes the moment the Wicked Queen hands Snow White the poisoned apple.
Auctioneer Charles Hanson said that one alone could fetch up to Â£15,000.
Snow White was released in 1937 and was briefly the highest grossing film of all time, before being overtaken by Gone With The Wind.
The cels will go under the hammer in Etwall, Derbyshire, on Saturday.
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It is believed the images were first sold in 1938 at an exhibition in London of the original paintings for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Charles Hanson, from Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers, said: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Walt Disney is a film that has provided so much joy to so many people over the generations.
"Such familiar and famous characters are right here at the very beginning of this success.
"Of all the scenes that could be captured on a cel the famous poisoned apple takes some beating - it's the very heartbeat of the film."


The Gaia telescope is helping to make the most accurate map of our galaxy ever seen.

The map won't just be more accurate, and with greater detail, it'll also be in 3D too.
Launched by the European Space Agency in 2013 the Gaia telescope has been studying the stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
The camera on the telescope is so powerful it can photograph a human hair from a thousand miles away!
Researchers have been looking at the data it has found, which has pin-pointed the location and brightness of over a billion stars.
However, despite this being a huge number, it is still only around 1% of the actual stars in our galaxy.
Scientists have said that the Gaia telescope has sent back so much information, they need the public to help them look through it.
The Gaia telescope has been building on the previous research of the Hipparcos satellite, which was sent into space in the 1980s.
It helped scientists to map around 100,000 stars.
The Gaia telescope's mission will carry on for the next few years, meaning that the map of our galaxy will keep getting bigger!


Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in a forthcoming Superman sequel, bringing together the two superheroes in one film for the first time.

The 41-year-old will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who will reprise his role as Superman from the most recent film, Man of Steel.
Director Zack Snyder revealed the big screen superhero mash-up at a comic convention in San Diego last month.
Production is expected to begin next year for release in the summer of 2015.
"We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics' most enduringly popular super heroes, and Ben Affleck certainly fits that bill and then some," Warner Bros President Greg Silverman said in a statement.
Mr Snyder, who also directed Man of Steel, said in a statement that Mr Affleck will provide an "interesting counter-balance" to 31-year old Cavill's Clark Kent.
"(Affleck) has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne," said Snyder. "I can't wait to work with him."
The sequel - which has yet to be given a title - will reunite Man of Steel stars Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Laurence Fishburne (Perry White) and Diane Lane (Martha Kent).
Christian Bale most recently played Batman in director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
Michael Keaton and George Clooney have also donned the black mask and cape in previous Batman films.
Ben Affleck's film Argo, which he starred in and directed, won an Academy Award for best picture earlier this year.
The superhero genre is not new to Mr Affleck, who previously starred as the blind hero in the 2003 Daredevil film based on the Marvel Comics.
Batman and Superman are part of DC Comics universe, which is part of the Warner Bros Entertainment division.
Revenues from the latest films featuring Superman and Batman have exceeded $1bn (Â£655m) in recent years.


The Southern Health saga has opened up a whole range of questions for the NHS about how it investigates deaths amongst patients with learning disabilities.

Health chiefs acknowledge that there is not "parity of esteem" in this area and there is much work still to do.
They also admit there is a dearth of official data on unexpected deaths which would allow comparisons between different trusts.
There is a suspicion this might be a systemic issue and that Southern Health was not out of line with many other trusts.
A report commissioned by NHS England, a version of which was originally leaked to BBC News, showed that of 722 unexpected deaths at Southern Health over four years, only 272 had been investigated.
Investigations which did take place were said to be too long and of "poor quality".
Fewer than 1% of deaths of Southern Health people with learning disabilities were investigated.
Southern Health, in turn, argued that "in most cases referred to in the report, the trust was not the main care provider".
The trust accepted that its processes for reporting and investigating deaths were not as good as they should have been and offered an apology.
Now the Guardian newspaper has reported the results of its own research on the issue after Freedom of Information requests to 58 mental health trusts in England.
They were asked for data on the number of deaths amongst patients with learning difficulties while in hospital since 2011.
There were 45 responses and of those 15 trusts said there had been no unexpected deaths. The remaining 30 reported 276 unexpected deaths of which 100 were investigated - just 36%.
While some trusts had investigated all such fatalities, at least one had not investigated any.
The Guardian research, while not presented as the definitive analysis on the subject, adds to the sense of large variations between trusts in the handling of these cases.
The Care Quality Commission, as well as planning an inspection of Southern Health in the new year,  has launched a review in England of unexpected deaths amongst people with learning disabilities.
This review had already been planned but I am told the process has been "accelerated" by recent revelations.
The question now is who should take responsibility for establishing the extent of the problem and forcing publication of data by trusts.
NHS England commissioned the report on Southern Health but it is the CQC which will take up the reins with its brief to regulate quality and safety.
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has strongly condemned Southern Health and said the NHS must learn lessons.
What is becoming clear is that there are system wide problems which might take some time to resolve.


Doctor Who Lego is about to become a reality - and production is starting later this year.

The successful pitch, which was sent to Lego's Ideas website, included plans for a Tardis and figures including Peter Capaldi and David Tennant.
Lego have yet to reveal exactly what will feature within the set.
The initial concept, created by Doctor Who fan Andrew Clark, included monsters and villains like the Angel and a Dalek.
The images he has shared are of models he has made, rather than pictures of what the final product will look like.
"Both Doctor Who and Lego enjoy a particularly close relationship with their fans and I can't wait to see what Lego produce," said Marcus Arthur, managing director at BBC Worldwide UK.
Along with the Doctor Who set, Lego also announced plans for a new design based on Wall-E.
Emma Owen, UK spokesperson for Lego Ideas said: "We're extremely excited to announce that a Doctor Who and a Wall-E set will be released as our next Lego Ideas fan based sets, congratulations to the designers Andrew Clark and Angus MacLane!
"After receiving over 10,000 votes from the online community and having gone through rigorous toy testing from our expert panel, these awesome sets are on track to be on shelves later this year.
"The final set designs, pricing and availability are being worked out as we speak, so watch this space for the final details."
Previous Lego Ideas sets, which have now become a reality, include one based on The Big Bang Theory and another featuring a a range of birds.
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LA's skyline will be lit up with the Bat-Signal on Thursday to honour Batman star Adam West, who died last week.

Mayor Eric Garcetti and LA Police chief Charlie Beck will be at the public event at City Hall, which starts at 21:00 local time, Hollywood Reporter said.
The signal originated in the DC Comics strip as a sign that the caped crusader was needed to save the day.
Animated comedy Family Guy will also honour West this weekend.
He played its eccentric Mayor West for more than 100 episodes on the hit cartoon show. On Sunday, US TV network Fox will show the episode The Dating Game, which features West winning an auction for the Medieval Castle restaurant.
It was originally broadcast in March and the show will air a tribute just before the episode begins.
West was in Family Guy from 2000 until this year, voicing Quahog's mayor - a satirised version of the actor, in the series created by Seth MacFarlane.
MacFarlane paid tribute to the star on Twitter, describing West as "irreplaceable".
"Family Guy has lost its mayor, and I have lost a friend," he said.
West, who also famously donned his black cape for the hit 1960s TV show, died last week after a "short but brave battle" with leukaemia, his family said.
Actor Burt Ward, who played Robin alongside Adam West's Batman in the hit 1960s TV series, also paid tribute to his co-star, telling the BBC that the two had enjoyed "an amazing friendship", describing the actor as "a lot of fun".
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It has been a tough week for the refugees camped out on the northern Greek border with Macedonia.

First some were hit by tear gas as they tried to cross the border into Macedonia, then the stormy weather played havoc with their fragile tents. Most of the tents here were donated by charities but they are not fully waterproof.
Despite the squalid conditions, the makeshift camp of Idomeni is witnessing something of a marriage phenomenon. In the past few days, a handful of couples have become engaged and the camp has become a wedding venue for the first time.
Many of the refugees and migrants at Idomeni have been here since the main refugee route to northern Europe was closed off almost two months ago.
They stayed hoping the borders would reopen, but nothing has changed and they are trying to work out how to move on with their lives.
They are among more than 50,000 people stranded in Greece. While others have relocated to temporary camps organised by the government and the army, those at Idomeni are staying put.
They fear being forgotten and demand safe passage to continue their journeys.
"Life here is still tragic," explained one woman from Damascus. "At least in Syria if you die, you die once. Here you die every day."
But life at Idomeni is also about survival and a constant search for normality.
Among the migrants and refugees here are a man selling Greek coffee for a euro, a barber with one solitary chair for his clients and a falafel-maker, who left his restaurants behind in Syria - to be destroyed.
The community even has a TV reporting team which regularly uploads videos to social networking sites.
Saher and his fiancee, Roquia, had been engaged for four months. They wanted to wait until they reached Germany to be married but, as they realised that might take years, they decided they could not wait any longer.
"The borders won't open anytime soon, so we thought why not marry now?" said Saher. "I am happy of course to be married, but I am sad too.
"My only wish is that eventually the whole of Syria will be safe and I can return."
As word got round that the couple were to have a party, the news also reached the deputy mayor of nearby Paionia, who also happens to own a wedding dress factory. Without hesitation, he donated a dress, on the condition it be used afterwards for other women wishing to marry.
"People are living in a period of difficult times - they don't have money, they don't have food, they're displaced, they're damaged," said the deputy mayor, Ioannis Avramopoulos.
"It was nothing to donate this dress. I hope the couple grow old together in love."
For once, there were no tears of sadness in the camp, but tears of joy and an atmosphere of celebration. With dancing and music blaring from mobile phones and small speakers, a fire was lit.
Small lamps were brought by volunteers, rose petals were thrown onto a makeshift honeymoon suite - a tent raised on wooden planks so as not to get flooded. Inside it, a little table had been set up with perfume and cigarettes.
"My parents are still in Syria and cannot be with me - and that makes me very sad," said Saher. "But the people of Idomeni have become my family now."
The guests at the party, eager to congratulate the couple, brought with them wishes for a happy future and prosperous marriage, but no gifts. Many have spent their life savings on escaping violence and have few euros left.
They often show visitors to the camp pictures and photographs of what they left behind. Their homes are now a pile of grey rubble.
One woman is permanently reminded of the horrors she managed to escape. Her seven-month-old baby bears the scars of cigarette burns inflicted by so-called Islamic State militants.
The EU is still struggling to reach a viable solution to the migrant crisis, and those trapped in the middle are beginning to understand two certainties. One is that the borders opposite are not opening any time soon. The other, that although they may no longer have much, they at least have each other. And life must go on, somehow.


Lewis Hamilton has pledged to bounce back after an off-form weekend for Mercedes in Singapore ended with his first retirement of the season.

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Hamilton's championship lead was cut to 41 points by team-mate Nico Rosberg, who finished fourth, and 49 by Ferrari's race-winner Sebastian Vettel.
Hamilton said: "It's still a long way to go. I know I lost some points today.
"But I was fast and on form and I will make sure I bring that to Suzuka next weekend to fight back."
The Japanese Grand Prix is the first of six remaining races, with a maximum of 150 points still available.
Asked whether he thought he could mount an unlikely title challenge, Vettel said: "If we have more weekends like this yes. We have to look at ourselves, can't control them (Mercedes).
"We will give it everything, maximum attack and try to make the impossible possible."
Vettel added: "I'm surprised they weren't on top of their game, I don't think anyone can give you an answer. Even them.
"But they have to be the favourites going into Suzuka. If that is the turn of the page I wouldn't mind, but we can't expect that because they have a very competitive package."
Hamilton had won seven of the 12 races before Singapore and been on pole 11 times.
But he qualified fifth in Singapore, more than a second off Vettel's pole position, and was running fourth when he started to lose pace because of an engine problem which forced him to retire a few laps later.
Hamilton said that he felt he was in with a chance of winning the race, because he was keeping pace with the three leaders in front of him despite being on harder tyres.
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But he did not know that Vettel was at the time driving deliberately slowly controlling the pace to look after his tyres.
Rosberg admitted Mercedes were still mystified as to the reason for their lack of pace in Singapore.
"The worst bit is we don't understand it," Rosberg said. "That's the worrying bit.
"We just hope at the next track it will come towards us again, and the chances are extremely good because at all other tracks we've been so fast."
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said: "You cannot write it off and say it was a one-off. On the other hand you cannot say we are terrified now; then you go into panic mode and that would be inappropriate and wrong."


The abolition of the Youth Council of Northern Ireland is "deeply disappointing", its chief executive has said.

Education Minister John O'Dowd said that all youth services funded by the Department of Education will now go through the Education Authority.
Ulster Unionist Party MLA Sandra Overend said the decision was "short-sighted".
The body was established in 1990 and has an annual budget of more than Â£3m.
More than 80% of this funding goes to groups like Boys Brigade, Girls Brigade, Scouts and Girl Guides.
The Youth Council provides grants to 37 services in regional areas and helps them to lever more than Â£7m from non Department of Education sources.
Mr O'Dowd said there was a duplication of services provided, and he will now negotiate with executive colleagues to repeal the legislation that governs the body.
Its chief executive, David Guilfoyle, said: "We are obviously deeply disappointed that the minister has gone ahead with his decision to abolish the youth council."
He added: "What we are really concerned about is the future of the services which we provide."
Mr O'Dowd said staff employed by the Youth Council could transfer to the Education Authority.
"I also intend to launch a voluntary exit scheme as soon as possible for Youth Council staff who would wish to consider it," he said.
Mr O'Dowd said he acknowledged there would be a transitional period, but he hoped the "new working arrangements" would "provide the impetus for further improvement across the youth sector".
Mrs Overend said the move was a "power grab" by Mr O'Dowd, "passing increasing powers to an Education Authority which has no policy development function in youth work".
"The fact is that the Youth Council has expertise, experience and a track record of providing support and training for all the major local voluntary youth organisations," she said.
"The Education Authority, like the old Educational and Library Boards, does not have the necessary level of engagement with the voluntary groups who provide valuable services to our young people."
DUP assembly member Peter Weir said Mr O'Dowd's decision was "a cynical exercise in kite flying that he knows is going nowhere".
"It is disappointing that he has chosen to wait until the assembly is no longer in session to make this announcement, presumably to avoid the criticism and opposition within the chamber," he said.
Mr Weir said Mr O'Dowd had ignored the results of a consultation process.
"It is hard to see how this will yield any savings at all, and will put at risk the successful work that is currently in place," he said.
The funding changes will take place in April 2016.


Andy Murray blamed his mum for having taught him his bad habit when asked what she thought about his swearing on court.

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The world number two was being interviewed by Julia and Melissa during a Davis Cup trophy tour event at Stirling University.
Among the questions, Murray was asked what was the naughtiest thing he did as a kid, what was his favourite holiday when he was young and who was his inspiration when he was 11.
If you want to find out more about getting into tennis, take a look at our special guide.


England men secured a bronze medal by beating Germany in the EuroHockey Championships.

They emulated the women's team who secured bronze, also against German opposition in the third place match in Amsterdam.
Men
Classification 5-8
Spain 2-1 Poland
Ireland 2-2 Austria
Bronze final:
Germany 2-4 England
Final:
Belgium 2-4 Netherlands
Women
Classification 5-8
Spain 7-2 Ireland
Scotland 0-1 Czech Republic
Bronze final:
Germany 0-2 England
Final:
Belgium 0-3 Netherlands
Men
Classification 5-8
Austria 1-1 Poland
Spain 1-0 Ireland
Semi-finals:
Germany 2-2 Belgium - Belgium win shootout 2-0
Netherlands 3-1 England
Women
Classification 5-8
Czech Republic 1-3 Ireland
Spain 2-1 Scotland
Semi-finals:
Germany 0-1 Belgium
Netherlands 1-0 England
Men
Germany 7-3 Poland
Ireland 1-2 England
Spain 2-0 Belgium
Netherlands 6-0 Austria
Women
England 2-0 Scotland
Ireland 1-5 Germany
Spain 1-2 Belgium
Netherlands 10-0 Czech Republic
Men
Spain 2-2 Austria
Ireland 7-1 Poland
England 3-4 Germany
Belgium 5-0 Netherlands
Men
England 6-0 Poland
Germany 1-1 Ireland
Women
Spain 5-1 Czech Republic
Ireland 0-0 Scotland
Germany 1-0 England
Belgium 0-1 Netherlands
Women
Germany 4-1 Scotland
Belgium 6-0 Czech Republic
England 4-1 Ireland
Men
Belgium 4-1 Austria
Netherlands 7-1 Spain
Women
Netherlands 3-1 Spain


A bus crash which killed three students on a trip to South Africa in 2010 was an accident, a coroner has recorded.

Eleanor Payne and Samantha Lake, 19, and Daniel Greenwood, 22 died when their tour bus skidded and overturned near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.
They were among a group of students and teachers from Brooksby Melton College in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
After the hearing their families said the condition of the bus as an "accident waiting to happen".
Previously, tour guide Trevor Dearlove denied failing to tell the passengers to wear seat belts and the bus driver was cleared of culpable murder.
The three-day inquest at Loughborough Coroner's Court heard the group, who were studying for a degree in animal management and welfare, were on their way from Swaziland to visit a chimpanzee sanctuary.
Students who survived the crash, told the hearing their guide did not tell them to wear seat belts and encouraged them to take in their surroundings.
The court heard that as the bus came down a steep hill at speed, it had no way of slowing down because the vehicle brakes had burnt out.
The coroner said while the families were critical of the bus, its condition did not contribute to the crash.
Coroner Robert Chapman, recorded all three died as a result of the road traffic accident.
A statement from the families read by Rob Greenwood, criticised the vehicle.
"The fact is, that if this vehicle had not been issued with a road worthy certificate, it would not have been allowed on the road and the accident could not have happened," he said.
"This vehicle was a tragedy waiting to happen."
He described the students as "creative, loving and clever people at the start of promising careers and lively adventurous lives".


HMS Queen Elizabeth has been floated for the first time at docks in Rosyth.

The giant aircraft carrier was released from a dry dock at about 03:00 on Thursday.
The ship is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy and was formally named by the Queen in a ceremony earlier this month.
It will remain in Rosyth until it is handed over to the Ministry of Defence in 2016 ahead of being put into service in 2020.
Six shipyards from across the UK and more than 10,000 people were involved in building parts of the vessel.
The estimated cost of the ship and its sister ship, the HMS Prince of Wales. is Â£6.2bn, well over the initial projected cost of Â£3.65bn.
The warship is as long as 25 buses and can carry 40 jets and helicopters at a time. It will have a permanent crew of almost 1,600.
Once the carrier has been fitted out with equipment, it will make way for the assembly of its sister ship which is set to start later this year at Rosyth.


Valencia lost in their first game since the sacking of former boss Gary Neville as they suffered an away defeat at Las Palmas to remain in relegation trouble.

Neville left the club this week after less than four months in charge and was replaced by Pako Ayestaran - a man Neville had brought to the Mestalla.
Valencia went ahead when Rodrigo scored after goalkeeper Javi Varas's error.
But Jonathan Viera's penalty and an own goal from Valencia's Shkodran Mustafi gave Las Palmas the three points.
The result leaves Los Che 15th in La Liga, only six points above the relegation zone with seven league matches left this season.
Valencia, who finished fourth in the table in 2014-15, have not played in the second tier of Spanish football since 1986-87.


John Swinney should have published his draft budget in mid-September, for MSPs to deliberate on it over winter, with a big rubber stamp in plenty time for the start of the financial year.

But he did not know the size of block grant coming from the Treasury in London until George Osborne's autumn statement on 25 November.
So with few sleeps and bargain-seeking days to Christmas, the budget process is being delivered this week, and the legislative timetable squeezed.
What can be expected of John Swinney's taxation and spending plans? Let's play budget bingo.
"Osborne's austerity is wrong for Scotland": There will be a squeeze of more than 5% (the Scottish government prefers a slightly different calculation rounding it up to 6%) in current or revenue (non-capital) spending.
"Difficult decisions have to be made": If the health service is protected from cuts, and schools too, departments with less than half the budget have to absorb all the cuts.
That is likely to feature local government, which has been told to brace itself for some deep cuts in grant funding over the next five years.
John Swinney could sweeten the pill by allowing them to raise council tax - as George Osborne did south of the border, allowing a 2% council tax rise if it is to pay for social care.
But it will be tempting to stick to a ninth year of freezing council tax, even though that will cost him a cumulated Â£630m out of next year's budget, and even though it is more generous to those with the biggest bills.
"Taxes for a fairer Scotland": That'll be the reason for not using the new Scottish Rate of Income Tax. Both Mr Swinney and the first minister have said they want to use income tax powers only when they are sufficiently flexible to tilt the burden towards those most able to pay it.
That will probably, eventually, mean a rise in higher rate tax, or changes to thresholds. That flexibility won't be added to this year's new powers until 2017.
"A healthy private rented housing market": Mr Swinney could choose to follow Mr Osborne's example last month, by raising property transaction tax on buy-to-let homes. It would be a progressive move.
But the Scottish finance secretary doesn't need to burst a house price bubble in and around his capital city. He may also want to give landlords something they like, to make up for the boost to tenants' rights they are soon to face.
"ESA10": Technical jargon for public finance nerds, but it matters a lot. Mr Swinney has to give more detail than he did last month on the constraints placed on capital projects by a European accounting rule that makes significant capital projects a public liability rather than the private one that had been planned.
"Scottish Fiscal Commission": This independent, new-ish body will publish its reckoning of Mr Swinney's fiscal projections at the same time his draft budget is delivered. Watch for a shortfall in revenue from Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (the successor to Stamp Duty).
"The A9": The road is busy, it's being dualled, slowly, and it runs right through Mr Swinney's constituency.
"PFI on steroids": Labour's Jackie Baillie will complain about the "debt mountain" being built up under the SNP. Quoting a report from The Guardian about Â£15bn of council debt and the liabilities resulting from the Public Finance Initiative and its successors, she probably won't explain that a lot of it was built up while she was a minister.
"Capitulation to the powerful roads lobby": Greens will complain that insufficient money has been directed towards household energy efficiency, and too much is going on building a new Forth crossing and Aberdeen ring road.
"Eye off the ball": Conservatives will blame any and all shortcomings in public sector performance and economic performance on the SNP government's campaign for independence. It's a way of rallying 'No' voters. Watch Ruth Davidson for pointers towards manifesto tax cut pledges.
"Budget for fairness, for growth and for Scotland": Whatever is announced, and whatever the reality, Mr Swinney will present his draft budget as all these and more.
"House!" (Yes, more housing too. It will be a theme of the SNP election campaign.)


Voters in six states go to the polls on Tuesday to choose their preferred presidential candidate, with California and New Jersey the big prizes.

As it stands, Donald Trump is all but certain to become the Republican party's official candidate, while Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead over her Democratic Party rival Bernie Sanders.
Full results from the Associated Press news agency are available below.


Exeter City have signed centre-back Luke Croll on a permanent deal after his release by Crystal Palace.

The 22-year-old made 20 appearances last season while on loan with the Grecians, who were beaten by Blackpool in the League Two play-off final.
He featured three times for Exeter's Devon rivals Plymouth during a loan spell in the 2015-16 campaign.
"Even at the back end of last season, when I wasn't playing that much, I wanted to stay at Exeter," Croll said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A driver who had a "staggering amount" of drugs in his system when he killed a passenger in a car crash has been jailed for two years.

Christopher Backhouse, 26, from Scarborough, admitted causing the death of his friend Alexander Baron.
York Crown Court heard Backhouse, son of a former Scarborough mayor, was 130 times over the new drug-driving limit after the crash on the A64 in 2014.
Police said he had a "potentially fatal level" of MDMA in his system.
The court heard Mr Baron, 22, from Scarborough, was in the back seat of the Renault Clio as Backhouse drove back from the Boomtown Music Festival in Winchester, Hampshire.
As the car left the road near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, a piece of wood from a railing struck Mr Baron. The vehicle was found overturned in a ditch.
Results of a post-mortem examination indicated he would have died instantly.
Traffic constable Zoe Billings, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "The amount of drugs found in Backhouse's system was simply staggering - the highest reading our force has ever seen.
"How he thought he was fit to drive is just beyond comprehension. To then agree to take passengers and put their lives at risk was just plain irresponsible and sadly had very tragic consequences."
In a statement, Mr Baron's family said: "To learn that the driver of the car had been found with a very high level of an illegal substance in his system was difficult to comprehend, the thought of someone being so irresponsible and the fact that this accident could have been so easily prevented, infuriates us.
"The new drug-drive laws were not in place at the time of Alex's death, but to learn that the driver's level was in excess of 100 times the new drug drive limit shows the severity of his ways."
At the court hearing, Backhouse was also banned from driving for three years.


The summer transfer window closed on Tuesday, 1 September, while the loan transfer window for Football League clubs closed on Thursday, 26 November.

Any club can still sign unattached players if they left their old clubs before the summer deadline.
Clubs can buy players again on a permanent basis in January.
Signings confirmed in September,October and November can be found on previous transfer pages.
For all the latest rumours check out the gossip page and, for all the manager ins and outs, see the current managers list.
Sam Johnstone [Manchester United - Preston] Loan
*Liam Ridgewell [Portland Timbers - Brighton] Loan
*Matt Jarvis [West Ham United - Norwich City] Undisclosed
Jordan Nicholson [Histon - Peterborough] Undisclosed
*Michal Zyro [Legia Warsaw - Wolves] Undisclosed
Chris Dagnall [Kerala Blasters - Hibernian]
Andy Rose [Seattle Sounders - Coventry]
Ryan Stevenson [Partick Thistle - Ayr United] Loan
Luke Varney [Unattached - Ipswich]
Martin Lorentzson [Unattached - Coventry]
Ron Vlaar [Unattached - AZ Alkmaar]
Nathan Ferguson [Unattached - Burton]
*Transfer will go through on 2 January, 2016


German carmaker Audi is offering a free software upgrade for 850,000 diesel cars in order to improve emissions.

Audi said the upgrade would "improve emissions behaviour in real driving conditions further beyond existing legal requirements".
The carmaker added it was convinced the programme would counteract possible bans on diesel cars.
In recent days, rival German carmakers Mercedes and Daimler issued recalls involving three million vehicles.
The Audi recall affects cars fitted with six- and eight-cylinder diesel motors meeting the Euro 5 and Euro 6 emissions criteria, including some models made by parent company Volkswagen and sister firm Porsche.
The upgrade is available for Audi cars with affected engines in Europe and other markets outside North America.
The Reuters news agency reported that German car industry officials and politicians had agreed to improve diesel vehicles' emissions through software updates in order to avoid diesel bans in cities.
Arndt Ellinghorst, an analyst at investment bank Evercore ISI, said there could be many more of these fixes to come: "What Audi and Mercedes have announced is just the tip of the iceberg. All other carmakers will follow and offer improvements to the engine management software.
"If this isn't an industry-wide action, city driving bans might be the painful alternative."


Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett has said front-line policing in South Yorkshire should not suffer as a result of legal fees incurred by the Hillsborough inquests.

The ex-Sheffield Brightside MP said he fears residents could end up "paying the price" for costs of the two-year hearings.
South Yorkshire Police's legal bill for the inquests totalled £25.1m.
The Home Office said it had paid £20m of legal costs incurred by the force.
Figures released by the office of the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner show that the force's legal costs for the inquests amounted to £25.1m.
Of those costs, £20.4m was covered by special grants awarded by the Home Office, meaning the force has had to pay £4.3m to cover the outstanding legal bill.
It is unclear whether the force or the Home Office will pay £400,000 in remaining unpaid fees.
An analysis of the force's legal costs by the BBC has determined that each household in South Yorkshire eligible to pay council tax has effectively contributed £12 towards the payment of the force's outstanding legal bill.
Lord Blunkett called on current Home Secretary Theresa May to ensure front line policing in the region does not suffer financially.
"The force has already had to deal with a reduction in its budget as part of the government's austerity programme," he said.
"But then on top of that they are having to deal with the costs of Hillsborough, an investigation into child sexual exploitation and grooming in Rotherham, and also allegations of malpractice during the Miners' Strike.
"The people of South Yorkshire were not responsible for the disaster in 1989. They should not be at the receiving end of a reduced police service and that is why the Theresa May must work with the PCC to ensure that South Yorkshire people do not pay the price for what happened in the past."
The latest accounts for the force show that it has already begun to draw on its financial reserves in order to pay its legal costs.
In 2015/16, South Yorkshire Police had overall reserves worth £44m.
It directly withdrew £2.4m in the same year to pay its legal fees in connection to the inquests, while its 2016/17 budget shows the force is expected to draw a further £3.9m from its coffers.
It is unclear from the accounts if all of the money withdrawn from the reserves will be spent on legal costs.
Public bodies such as local councils and police forces keep financial reserves in order to make up short-term budget deficits.
£12 per household
The amount each council tax paying household in South Yorkshire has contributed towards the force's legal costs
£25.1 million The total amount South Yorkshire Police ran up in legal fees during the inquests.
£4.3 million The amount the force have directly paid out to cover the legal costs.
£400,000 In legal fees remains unpaid.
After the ruling that all 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed, concerns were raised about the effect future legal proceedings could have on South Yorkshire Police's finances.
Writing in the 2016/17 Budget report, Allan Rainford, the Police and Crime Commissioner's Chief Finance and Commissioning Officer, said the force "cannot depend on grants from the Home Office to fully meet its legal costs".
As a result, the latest budget shows the force is planning to set aside at least £7.2m a year for the next four years to deal with "legacy issues".
When asked if the Home Office would continue to cover the force's future legal costs in relation to the Hillsborough disaster, a spokesperson said: "Any subsequent requests will be considered in the normal way."


Workers on the Luas, Dublin's tram system are to step up their industrial action.

They plan to strike on 8 March and on 17 March - St Patrick's Day, which is a national holiday in Ireland.
Last week, the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (Siptu) workers stopped work for 48 hours in a dispute over pay.
It caused major disruption for 90,000 commuters in Ireland's capital city.
There are also plans to strike again on Thursday and Friday, 18 and 19 February.
The union said its members believe they are underpaid, particularly when compared to workers doing similar jobs in Irish Rail.
Workers are seeking pay rises ranging from 8% to 53%.
However, Transdev, the private company that operates the Luas, said a workers' pay claim of up to 53% was not sustainable and would add 6m euros (Â£4.65m ) to its costs.


Guided by the belief that the Democratic Party takes the African-American vote for granted, some black Philadelphians are using the final days of the campaign to make the case for Donald Trump.

Inside the wood-panelled sanctuary of a small, North Philadelphia church, a group of men - and one woman - are busily folding handouts and talking strategy.
"I'm gonna be the one they attack," says Bruce Carter, gesturing to his T-shirt which says TRUMP in large red lettering. "They're comin' for me."
Calvin Tucker, a tall, nattily dressed Trump surrogate in a coat, tie and Make America Great Again cap, acts the moment.
"'Wow - you're supporting Trump?' â€¦ 'Man, what are you doing?'" he says, then answers himself: "Hey - we gotta try something different."
Parked just outside of First Immanuel Baptist Church in North Philadelphia is a line of vans and SUVs wrapped in various slogans, like "Black Republicans for Urban Communities", and "Famous Black Republicans" over photos of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
Then there's the lead van, plastered with pictures of the billionaire candidate's face.
"TRUMP for Urban Communities," it proclaims.
In neighbourhoods that vote overwhelmingly Democratic, in a city that hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1952, the vehicles are sure to draw plenty of attention, especially since there are pockets of these predominantly African American communities where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote in 2012.
"It's real simple," says Carter, the founder of Trump for Urban Communities. "Your district has some of the deepest poverty in America and you've only voted for the Democrat. So it's reasonable for you to try something different."
This has been Trump's pitch to black voters as well: "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?" He's called the inner cities of America war zones, and blamed Democrats - who often hold local power - for the cities' decline.
Trump's 58% youth unemployment figure is inflated and critics says his characterisation of black life in America as "hell" is out of touch with reality. But the predominantly African-American neighbourhoods in North Philadelphia do have the highest rates of violent crime in the city. The streets are lined with empty homes and businesses. A 2012 estimate for unemployment among high school drop outs in the area came close to Trump's figure: 50%.
While the message has not resonated with most black voters - various polling around the country shows Trump's African-American support somewhere between 0% and 4% - Tucker heard it loud and clear. A lifelong Republican, Tucker was Trump's lone black delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
As a loan officer and financial services contractor, Tucker loves what he sees as Trump's business acumen.
Back in September, Tucker moderated a panel discussion with Trump and black Philadelphian business owners as anti-Trump protesters demonstrated outside. At the time, Tucker thanked Trump for "being brave enough to come" to the neighbourhood.
"Typically, Republicans don't travel in the heart of the underserved communities and talk about issues," he says. "He's also talked about the solution, and the solutions are jobs and employment and opportunity and entrepreneurship - those are the kinds of things that our community needs to eradicate poverty and unemployment and reduce crime."
Ten minutes further north, the head of the Philadelphia GOP is leading a poll-watching training in the dim offices of an anti-violence non-profit called the Urban Crisis Response Center, which also houses a headquarters for the Trump campaign.
"I don't think we could have opened a Romney office [here]," says Joe DeFelice, Philadelphia's Republican Party chairman. He says black voters don't identify Trump as a Republican so much as his own brand of politician.
"Do I think he's going to win this neighbourhood we're standing in? No, I'm not naÃ¯ve. I get it. Do I think he's going to do a hell of a lot better than Romney did? One-hundred percent."
Daphne Goggins, a North Philadelphia native and lifelong Republican, is in a bright orange "Hillary for Prison" T-shirt, handing out poll-watching packets  The tiny former barbershop is filled with both the politically engaged as well as people with no love for Trump, just eager for the $100 pay.
"Donald Trump is already creating jobs in the black community," she points out.
Goggins resents the way that Democrats in Philadelphia have always been able to rely on the black vote, despite the fact she says most people she talks to don't even know why they vote the way they do. She is a social conservative - pro-life and against gay marriage - and wants lower taxes. Many black Democrats she speaks to agree with her.
"You're a Republican," she informs them.
"We have a violence problem - the Democrats [have done] nothing to really address these murders," she says. "There's no legislation, there should be a curfew, something - we're losing our babies just like in Chicago.
"Black children are just doomed to die and that's OK with America."
Back outside the church, the Trump for Urban Communities group doesn't even make it into their vehicles before the fireworks begin.
"You've got to be kidding me," one woman snarls, brushing past the men and refusing to talk.
"Trump is evil, Trump do not care about us," a young woman in a denim jacket calls out. "He is ignorant!"
Two women in a passing car flip the Trump van off, then drive away as Carter knocks on the windows calling, "Sister! Sister!"
In a nail salon with a Clinton-Kaine sign in the window, the group finds a captive audience - women with their hands under heat lamps.
"Dallas, where I'm from, we're number two in poverty in the black community - it looks similar to this," Carter tells the sceptical salon customers. "I know he understands economic development and I know he understands business - that's why I support him."
"Where were you guys the rest of the year?" a young woman with her feet in a bubbling bath chimes in.
Tucker turns to her.
"This is hard work getting folks to listen to a different philosophy," he says. "You've heard all this Hillary Clinton stuff - what are they going to do for your community? That's why we gotta bring young people like you into this process, that think differently, that's going to ask the hard questions."
Carter pays for one of the women's manicures and they leave, to a chorus of anti-Trump shouts from a man across the street. Standing outside, Tucker says he knows no one in the shop will likely vote any differently.
"I'm not necessarily here to convert, I'm just here to educate," he says. "When you are 95% in one party, Democrats take you for granted. When you're 2% Republican, they say, 'You don't make a difference, therefore why should we provide opportunities for your community?'
In front of the Trump van, Carter looks around at the blighted buildings, the mattresses and smashed TV sets laying in a vacant lot - he catches a whiff of what smells like raw sewage seeping out of an abandoned building.
"There's no way you can walk through these communities and not get mad," he says. "Yes, the Republican party has failed the black community because they have given up on them. But Democrats - they failed them far worse. The blacks belong to them, but they get nothing for it. It's political slavery."


No official approaches for a "retirement home" for the Channel Islands' most famous aircraft have been made locally, Aurigny has confirmed.

G-Joey, a yellow trislander, flew for the last time in June having served the Channel Islands, Southampton and Dinard for nearly 40 years.
Euan Mahy, Aurigny's media relations manager, said "a number of aviation museums in England" were interested.
He said it was important that wherever it was housed it had the "proper care".
Mr Mahy said: "We would want the aircraft to be housed and displayed inside to preserve its airframe and fittings.
"We are negotiating with one specific enterprise, but it is too early to release any further details. That will be done jointly, at a later date."


A bet placed on Wimbledon champion Roger Federer nearly a decade ago has netted more than £100,000 for Oxfam.

In 2003 Nick Newlife, from Oxfordshire, made a wager of £1,520, at odds of 66/1, that the Swiss tennis star would win seven Wimbledon titles by 2019.
Mr Newlife died in 2009 but had left the betting slip to Oxfam in his will.
Federer's defeat of Britain's Andy Murray in Sunday's Wimbledon final means the charity will now collect a payout from William Hill of £101,840.
Andrew Barton, from Oxfam, told
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 that it had been a difficult match to watch because his loyalties were split.
"It's just so unfortunate that he nailed it against Andy Murray," he said.
"I was just sitting there watching the tennis and I kept finding myself calling for Murray, particularly in that long game in the third set.
"And then my head is telling me: Andrew, remember Oxfam gets the money if Federer wins."
Mr Newlife, from Tackley, who was 59 when he died, had written to William Hill requesting the bet in 2003.
Spokesman for the bookmaker Graham Sharpe has described the wager as "unique".
William Hill said it had already paid out £16,750 to Oxfam from another bet placed by Mr Newlife, of £250 at 66/1, that Federer would win 14 Grand Slam events.
The Swiss reached that mark at the 2009 French Open and is now a 17-time Grand Slam champion.


Bolivian President Evo Morales' former lover has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged corruption, the interior ministry says.

Gabriela Zapata is a top manager at a Chinese building firm which recently won government contracts in Bolivia.
No details of possible charges were given and no comment from Ms Zapata was immediately available.
Opposition media have accused Mr Morales of peddling influence linked to the firm - a claim he denies.
This week he lost a referendum aimed at allowing him to run for another term.
Mr Morales - Bolivia's first indigenous president - accepted defeat in the ballot.
He also said a dirty war was now being waged against him, asking a parliamentary commission and state auditors to investigate the contracts with the CAMC Engineering company.
Official results of the referendum show that 51.3% of voters rejected the proposal to change the constitution to allow Mr Morales to run for another term.
He has been in power since 2006 and his current term runs out in 2020.


Plans for a night out meant Lee Harris took the Tube to work with his girlfriend Samantha Badham on the morning of 7 July 2005.

The architect left his bike at home, mindful of a site meeting in Heathrow later that day and plans to meet up after work with his partner and four friends for dinner in London's Soho district.
Ms Badham left her car at home and the couple travelled together on the Underground that morning, from their home in Tottenham.
The Tube train exploded near Russell Square, leaving Mr Harris partially trapped under the train.
The 30-year-old was taken to the Royal Free Hospital with serious head injuries and was in a coma for eight days.
He died on 15 July 2005, a day before his girlfriend's body was recovered from the wreckage of the mangled train.
At the inquest five years on, medics recounted finding the couple lying next to each other on the tracks, in severe pain and with their legs twisted and entwined with each other.
Lee Harris grew up in Westfields, Hereford, and went to Holmer Primary School and Whitecross High School.
He followed Ms Badham to Hereford Sixth Form College, but he was about five years younger and they did not meet until 1991.
Their romance began at Hereford Lads' Club when he was preparing for his Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award and she was on the club's committee.
At the inquests into their deaths, his mother, Lynne Harris, said in a statement: "Lee and Sammy were always together.
"As far as their future was concerned, it was to be together and to get married and have children."
Ms Badham followed Mr Harris to London after he decided to take up a university place in the city. They shared a flat in Crouch Hill, north London.
She got a job as a web content designer for SPSS Limited, while Mr Harris studied first at the University of North London, then Bartlett University, where he continued his architecture studies.
The hard work paid off when he got his dream job at Reid Architecture, where he worked until his death.
Away from work, the couple loved to go walking in Wales and would spend time in Ms Badham's hometown of Ledbury, in Herefordshire, restoring a property she owned there.
Mr Harris, at 6ft 4in, would work on the plans, drawings and the heavy work. But Ms Badham, more than a foot shorter, would do just as much.
Tennis, squash, pool and cricket were all interests of Mr Harris's and he particularly liked food - Ms Badham was a great cook.
Mr Harris's parents, Lynne and Brian, said at the inquest: "As a family, our lights have gone out. We miss him so much it hurts.
"Our son and daughter have been taken away and to know how much they suffered is unbearable.
"But to have loved them so deeply, we know what they would say. They would say: 'You have to keep going.' So we do, but it is so very hard."
During evidence given at the inquest, Mrs Harris listened intently as her son's harrowing ordeal was described in court.
Later, she broke down in tears as she thanked paramedics for their work.
"To relive it now, what they did then, is just a nightmare for them. It's bad enough for us but for them, they've got it in their heads," she said.
A joint funeral service was held at St Michael's Church in Ledbury on 5 August 2005, with two hearses driven side-by-side to and from the church.
Their families made the trip to London to visit the site where the couple were last together. Relatives hugged each other as they bade a silent farewell in Russell Square.
A former schoolfriend, Lisa Merrick, 31, from Hereford, was on the same train as the couple, two carriages behind them, and survived.


Zika virus can enter the brains of mice in the womb to stunt development, the first animal tests show.

The trio of studies provide crucial experimental evidence that backs up fears the virus is behind the surge in babies born with small heads in Brazil.
They showed the virus could cross the placenta during pregnancy and kill cells to slow brain growth.
Experts said the findings add to the weight of evidence, but studies in animals with bigger brains were needed.
There have been around 1,300 confirmed cases of microcephaly - babies born with small brains - in Brazil, with thousands more under investigation.
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Chinese scientists injected the Asian strain of Zika, which is closely related to the one circulating in south America, into the brains of mice foetuses 13 days after fertilisation.
The results, published in Cell Stem Cell, found the developing brain was smaller five days later.
Neural progenitor cells, which build the brain and nervous system, were particularly vulnerable to infection but the study showed "almost all cells in the brain" tested positive for Zika.
Dr Zhiheng Xu, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "The most surprising part of this study is that it was mostly neural progenitor cells that got infected in the beginning and mostly neurons that became infected at a later stage.
"However, almost all cell death was found in neurons."
Meanwhile scientists at Washington University have performed the first animal experiments showing how the infection spreads from a pregnant adult to the developing foetus.
It showed Zika preferentially targeted the placenta with viral levels 1,000 times higher than in the blood.
Their study, in Cell, found the virus damaged the placenta and was able to leak over to the foetus.
And a study, published in Nature, used the virus currently spreading in Brazil in animal tests. Again the research team showed mouse brain development was impaired.
Dr Alysson Muotri, one of the researchers in the third study from the University of California San Diego, said: "The media and some of the health agencies were ahead of themselves by concluding the Zika virus was causing microcephaly.
"Experimental and clinical proof that Brazilian circulating Zika virus causes microcephaly is only being presented now."
Dr Derek Gatherer, from Lancaster University, said the findings "add to the weight of evidence that Zika virus is the cause of the apparent spike in microcephaly".
"However, the differences between mouse and human development mean that larger experimental animals that are more similar to humans - such as monkeys - must also be tested. "
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