A contractor installing an underground pipeline between two Oxford hospitals has been told it needs planning permission for the work.

Last month Vital Energi started a Â£14.8m project to upgrade the heating and hot water systems at the John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals.
But Oxford City Council said the company needs planning permission and none has been granted.
The firm has suspended work while it investigates the situation.
In a letter to Vital Energi the council's head of planning Patsy Dell said it has "no record of specific planning permission being sought or given".
She added: "At the current time our position is that planning permission appears necessary for the proposed works.
"I would urge you and the trust to address this situation by the submission of a full planning application at the earliest opportunity."
A council spokesman added that the contractor was informed it need planning permission before the work started. He said the authority supports the project in principle.
In a statement Vital Energi said: "Works associated with the energy link underground utility services and the formation of the service trench have been suspended whilst discussions with the local planning authority continue."
The Hospital Energy Project is an 18-month scheme and the pipeline will be 1.6 miles (2.2 km) long when it is finished.
Works are planned in Woodlands Road, Sandfield Road, London Road, Latimer Road, All Saints Road, Stapleton Road, Old Road and Churchill Drive.
Residents have previously complained about a lack of information regarding the project.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust believes the pipeline will mean the buildings are less reliant on the national power grid during the winter months.
The trust said it was unable to comment.


Commons Speaker John Bercow has spent thousands of pounds on entertaining other MPs and foreign politicians since April 2012, including £1,600 on a lunch for his Lithuanian counterpart.

The Press Association has published details of expenditure from Mr Bercow's official House account, obtained under Freedom of Information rules.
It includes £1,023 for beeswax candles and £286 to tune a grand piano.
The Speaker's office said spending was 19% lower than under his predecessor.
Mr Bercow has been Speaker since 2009, when he replaced Michael Martin - who stepped down amid the Commons expenses scandal.
He is not subject to such stringent rules on expenses as other MPs, whose claims for food and drink are capped. MPs travelling outside their constituency on parliamentary business can claim £25 a day on food and drink, excluding alcohol.
According to the Press Association, Mr Bercow spent £2,223.34 on a dinner for the "panel of chairs" - a group of MPs who chair public bill committees - in January 2010. In 2015, he spent £2,057 on a dinner to mark the retirement of former Deputy Speaker and Labour MP Dawn Primarolo.
Up to £7,400 has been charged to the taxpayer, since 2012, on annual receptions for members of Parliament following the State Opening of Parliament while £3,000 was spent on a reception for new MPs in July 2015.
Spending on functions for foreign parliamentarians are also recorded in the figures. A lunch for the Romanian Speaker in December 2012 cost £1,521.37 while a similar event for the Slovenian Speaker a year later cost £1,444.74.
A dinner in honour of the Australian Speaker in May 2014 cost £1,954.38.
Other miscellaneous items of spending included £286 on tuning the grand piano in Speaker's House which is "available for members to use upon request". Official postcard-size portrait photographs of the Speaker and senior officials taken at the State Opening of Parliament, which are available "on request", cost £307 to produce in November 2014 and £210 in December 2012.
An order for "hand-finished" beeswax candles was made in July 2012, to be used for official gatherings in the State Rooms.
A spokeswoman for the Speaker's Office said they were not querying the figures but defended the outlay, saying every Speaker in modern times has hosted receptions for MPs after the State Opening and the cost of doing so had fallen by 77% since 2009.
She said it was "long-established practice" for the Speaker to pay for drinks ahead of the panel of chairs' annual dinner, which he did not routinely attend, while the Speaker was traditionally expected to host occasions for foreign dignitaries and to mark the departure of retiring and new MPs.
She said the Speaker was committed to cutting costs wherever possible and total spending by the Speaker's Office had fallen from £626,029 in 2009-10, the year in which he was elected, to £504,737 in 2014-15.
"These costs relate to nearly four years of expenditure including, among other things, staff pay, office supplies, telephone calls and rental as well as the official entertainment of foreign dignitaries and parliamentarians traditionally provided by the Speaker's Office," she said.
The Press Association said the Commons was unable to supply any information prior to April 2012 since it had been "destroyed in accordance with the parliamentary records disposal policy".
Pressure group the Taxpayers Alliance said no-one "begrudged" the Speaker for footing the bill for official functions he was responsible for hosting and it was encouraging that overall spending by his office had fallen.
But it said all spending by the Speaker's office should be made public as a matter of course so it could be subject to "proper scrutiny".
Details of Mr Bercow's travel expenses are published every year. Between April 2014 and April 2015, he claimed more than £31,000 in travel and accommodation expenses, figure published last July showed.


It has been billed as the crunch summit where David Cameron battles to secure agreement for his EU reforms.

But as the talks have dragged on, a sub-plot has kept waiting press entertained, with a succession of "English" meals dangled before the 28 leaders - only to be whisked away as negotiations extend longer than planned. First up:
This was how aides to European Council president Donald Tusk billed what were to be Friday morning's triumphant talks sealing the deal. Had it been called an "all-day breakfast" they would have been covered. But the 8am fry-up was touted as the key to reaching a deal if there was no agreement on Thursday night.
With "no real progress" made, it was pushed back to 11am, giving it more of an air of a brunch. As it happened though, the bilateral talks carried on.
As announced by European Council president Donald Tusk's spokesman, it was then put back to 14:00, before going the way of the breakfast and the brunch.
Or, as an EU spokesman put it, "late English lunch". With Europe's leaders still at loggerheads, tired and surely starving, would a plate of sandwiches and scones help bridge the gap? It was meant to take place at 15:30 Brussels time, 7.5 hours after the promised breakfast.
But the scones never materialised.
No sign of a deal, and no sign of that meal, as the breakfast/brunch/lunch morphed into an "English dinner" - with the time to be confirmed:
The "English" tag attached to each meal did not go unnoticed, as some wondered why other parts of the UK were not contributing.
Speculation raged as to what the dinner could consist of:
We might find out, with an EU source suggesting a "good chance" of a deal over dinner. But German chancellor Angela Merkel was taking no chances as she popped out for a bag of chips.
She might need the extra sustenance, as leaders have been told to book a hotel room for an extra night - so they could be contemplating that English breakfast all over again.


Former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has announced he will resign as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, to become director of the V&A Museum in London, triggering another by-election in a Labour seat.

It's a decision that's easy to understand: The offer of a dream job. A chance to run one of the world's most important museums - a job that will be easier to marry with family life and young children.
And in his resignation letter, Tristram Hunt says he couldn't turn the V&A down. He also says his departure from politics should not be interpreted as a desire to rock the boat.
However, it's a move that says a lot about the current condition of the Labour party.
Labour's Tristram Hunt quits to head V&A
Tristram Hunt would once have been called a Blairite. A thinker and historian who was close to Peter Mandelson and friends, long before he entered Parliament.
Mr Hunt must have hoped for great things from his political career. He was made shadow education secretary by Ed Milband and thought about standing for the leadership when Mr Milband quit.
He had pride and affection for his potteries' constituency but in Westminster cut a rather different figure from most.
Academic, wry and detached. A book-writer not a ladder-climber. And in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, Tristram Hunt's political centrism is alien.
Days after the EU referendum Mr Hunt wrote a fierce piece for the Guardian saying Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was a "self-indulgent" experiment that had to end if the party was going to keep its traditional working class voters.
His resignation follows that of Jamie Reed last month - another Labour MP who had been critical of the party's shift to the left - and it leaves Mr Corbyn facing another difficult by-election that UKIP will be fighting to win.
I don't think Jeremy Corbyn will mind in the slightest that Tristram Hunt has gone.
But Mr Corbyn's critics in Parliament face a dilemma: to follow Tristram Hunt out of politics or to stay and fight for a party they believe is in deep trouble.


One of the things I've learnt over the last 25 years as a journalist is that a lot of people really hate London - even some of those who live in it.

As a presenter in regional news for London and the South East of England, I used to receive green ink postcards of protest whenever I referred to Southall as being in west London. The author - and, unhelpfully Royal Mail - insisted it was in Middlesex, a county abolished 40 years ago in belated acknowledgement of London's growth.
The same is true to the east, in Romford where people insist they're in Essex, and in Bromley where they'll tell you, my aunt included, that it's not London but Kent.
To be fair, it can be confusing. Surrey, for instance, continues to be administered from County Hall in Kingston, even though that is now a London borough.
If some Londoners are not exactly proud of belonging, many outside are downright hostile. They dislike the way London seems to dominate politics, media and the economy.
It's hard to argue that house prices elsewhere in the UK haven't been distorted by the capital. In my native Devon, demand has been stoked by people selling up in London and heading west.
A report by Knight Frank, the real estate consultancy, said that in the two years to June 2013, some 49% of prime new-build in central London was sold to people not residing in the UK.
In 2013 it was estimated that in property terms London's top 10 boroughs were worth more than all of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales combined.
According to The London Plan, the mayor's development strategy, the UK's capital city generates about 17% of the country's wealth (more than Â£565bn).
It's not a popular thing to say, but tax receipts help subsidise less prosperous parts of the UK. The Centre for Economic and Business Research suggests London makes a net contribution to the Treasury of Â£34bn. (To which the riposte is that we might be able to generate more of the country's wealth outside of London and the South East of England if the capital didn't lure away so much of the talent born elsewhere in the UK).
Little wonder, then, that being elected mayor of London has, for the last 16 years, been regarded as a passport to influence. The four previous London elections have been more talked about nationally than any other local council election, and not merely because the national media is concentrated in London.
Last week in the lift, I bumped into a former colleague. Probably the best political journalist on the London beat, he was lamenting covering his fifth mayoral election.
One factor, of course, is the absence of Ken or Boris. Sadiq (Khan) and Zac (Goldsmith) lack the name recognition and headline-grabbing appeal of their predecessors as Labour and Conservative candidate.
London mayoral election: The contenders
How do you define a Londoner?
Celebrity doesn't equate to effectiveness, of course, but it gets you noticed and that tends to force central government to respond.
Ever since I first interviewed Rudy Giuliani as he signed Halloween pumpkins during his 1997 re-election bid, I've been visiting New York and following politics there, a city where no vote-raising photo opportunity is ignored.
New Yorkers are savvy enough to know that the most colourful mayors aren't always the most effective.
Michael Bloomberg, who's just abandoned plans to run for the White House, achieved results in an uncharismatic, un-showy way.
In the early 1990s, David Dinkins was more capable than people thought at the time, but sandwiched between the mayoralties of Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani, his was destined to be forgotten.
London, though, has its problems. It needs a gobby, headline-grabbing mayor because in such a centralised political system, it's the only way to get anything done.
Even then, and even if the incumbent government's politics are more or less the same, that's no guarantee of success.
Ken Livingstone, whilst technically an independent in his first term, had a constructive relationship with Tony Blair, but the public-private partnership (PPP) financing model for the Underground was imposed despite the mayor's opposition because Gordon Brown's Treasury wanted it to be.
The chaos and failure that followed had been widely predicted, but the mayor of London's electoral mandate to do something different counted for nothing.
City mayors in the United States can be dull yet still effective because real political power is dispersed; Washington's political reach is nothing like as powerful as Whitehall's.
So the London mayor has limited power; and more than a decade after city-wide government was restored (having been removed in 1986 with the abolition of the Greater London Council, successor to the London County Council), neither Ken Livingstone or Boris Johnson was able to do much to close the gap between London's rich and its poor.
The New Policy Institute estimates that 27% of Londoners live in poverty after housing costs are taken into account, compared with 20% in the rest of England.
Still, the political parties are fighting for all their worth to secure the lease on City Hall. A Conservative peer in London, who knows a thing or two about elections in the capital, told me he doubts Zac Goldsmith will be taking up residence there.
The disadvantage he is under is not of his making. In the last 20 years, London has become an increasingly Labour city.
The trend pre-dates Tony Blair's 1997 landslide, a point when the Conservatives were so unpopular that it also opened up an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats to establish themselves in London, a city where they had tended to be electorally weak.
David Cameron's success elsewhere in England at last year's general election wasn't matched in London, despite Labour's failure to snatch some of the Tories' most marginal seats.
It isn't the marginal seats, though, that suggest Labour is dug in; it's the way it has held on to a swathe of seats in outer north and west London that in the days of previous Conservative governments would have been Tory.
The mayoral election, though, isn't like a Westminster election. Voters rank the candidates in order of preference.
So far, no one has won outright by being the first choice of Londoners. In 2012, Boris Johnson's lead over Ken Livingstone in the first round was less than four percentage points; he edged ahead by being the second choice of voters whose preferred candidate had been eliminated.
Supporters of the Lib Dems, Greens and UKIP may well make Zac Goldsmith their second preference after their own party mayoral candidate (he's socially liberal, environmentally aware, and eurosceptic) but that still may not be enough to counteract Labour's "get the vote out" operation. Even with Mayor Boris on the ballot paper, turnout in 2012 was only 38%.
Labour may be running City Hall for the next four years up until the general election, giving the party a useful power base. Yet the party would be unwise to read too much into that.
London's political value is set to diminish. The reduction in the number of parliamentary constituencies, as well as making the number of voters more equal between them, means that London will elect 68 MPs at the 2020 general election, not 73.
Five fewer may not sound like much, but for a Labour Party scrabbling to assemble a parliamentary majority, it just might make all the difference.
Come 2020, there could be another group of people joining the chorus of London-haters: Labour supporters elsewhere in the UK.


A "dominating bully" who led a gang which smuggled a machine gun, semi-automatic handguns and ammunition into the UK has been jailed for life.

Muzaffer Ali, 39, from Maidenhall Road in Luton, Bedfordshire had denied importing prohibited weapons.
Judge Jonathan Carroll told St Alban's Crown Court the weapons were to be used for "terrorising, intimidating and causing serious injury and death".
Four other men were also jailed for their part in the gun smuggling.
The court heard the men brought two shipments into the UK in February and September 2016, unaware they were under police surveillance.
Ali sourced the weapons from criminals in Amsterdam while other members of the gang provided security, delivered the firearms and collected money, the jury was told.
In May 2016, two gang members were stopped at the UK border at Coquelles in France and a search discovered firearms hidden behind the dashboard.
The court was shown evidence from mobile phones, automatic recognition data and police surveillance, gathered in an investigation by the Eastern Region Special Operation Unit.
Ali was found guilty of conspiracy to evade the prohibition on the importation of a prohibited weapon and conspiracy to evade the prohibition of the importation of ammunition.
He was told he must serve a minimum of 11 years before he can be considered for parole.
The judge described him as "a dominating bully" who had never had a legitimate income and had an "utter disregard" for the effects the weapons would have when used by criminals.
Ali's three "lieutenants" were found guilty of the same charges.
His older brother Khalid Hussain, 49, of Maidenhall Road in Luton was sentenced to 19 years, as was Haroon Khatab, 41, of Jasmine Road in Luton.
Sajid Khan, 25, of Manx Close, Luton was sentenced to 18 years.
Ali and Khan were also convicted of transferring a prohibited weapon and transferring ammunition.
A fourth man, Faisal Mahmood, 20, of Maidenhall Road in Luton pleaded guilty to importing guns and ammunition and was sentenced to seven years and 10 months.


A financial services company is to invest up to £100m in a project to build a power-generating tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay.

The Prudential will become one of the main investors in the £850m scheme to harness tidal energy, which could power 120,000 homes for 120 years.
The 240MW project is currently being examined by the Office for National Infrastructure Planning.
The Prudential said it would become a "cornerstone investor" in the project.
The six-mile-long U-shaped seawall would go from the docks to near Swansea University's new Fabian Way campus.
It would take two years to build and create 1,850 construction jobs.
Work is scheduled to start next year if the project is approved, and energy would be available for the National Grid from 2018.
Part of the Prudential's investment could be made available by next year.
Swansea's lagoon could be the first in a series of six coastal lagoons - the other five being much larger - including one near Colwyn Bay in Conwy, and one in the Bristol Channel.
That network could generate up to 30 terawatt hours of power per year, or 8% of the UK's electricity needs.
Tidjane Thiam, Pudential's group chief executive, said: "Prudential is committed to invest in infrastructure projects that benefit the national economy.
"We are also proud to play our part in the development of this world-leading renewable energy technology."
Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd chief executive Mark Shorrock said: "Securing the backing of a world-renowned investment institution marks another major milestone for the Swansea Bay project and is a clear endorsement of our vision to introduce tidal lagoon infrastructure into the UK's low carbon energy mix."


Campaigners have said they hope Wales can lead the way in banning the use of wild animals in circuses.

The Welsh government is carrying out a review on whether the likes of lions and elephants should be used in circuses.
Animal rights campaigners hope if Wales goes ahead with a ban, it will push the UK government to bring one in too.
But some Conservative MPs argue the animals' welfare is already covered by existing laws.
MPs in Westminster have been debating for years whether or not to ban circus animals.
Last year, the RSPCA launched a campaign to stop the "outdated practice", raising concerns about the temporary housing, forced training and performance of the animals.
An independent review into the use of circus animals, commissioned by the Welsh government, is due to end in a few weeks.
Chris Draper, from wildlife charity the Born Free Foundation, told BBC Radio Wales' Country Focus programme: "I would be delighted if the Welsh government were the first to take action on this.
"Someone needs to stand up for these animals and I suspect strongly that, if Wales were to lead the way, Scotland may follow and then it may force the hand of the government in Westminster to complete the British ban."
Rebecca Evans, deputy minister for farming and food, said the Welsh government had received "numerous requests to consider banning the use of wild animals in circuses that visit Wales".
She said the review would look into the latest evidence of animal welfare, both physical and mental, of wild andr non-domesticated animals in travelling and non-travelling circuses.


A family have had their home fumigated due to an infestation of "deadly spiders" they say arrived in a bunch of bananas from their local Asda.

Ashley Gamble, from Leicester, told the Sun that dozens of the creepy-crawlies emerged from a cocoon on the fruit.
There is speculation they were Brazilian wandering spiders, a bite from which can cause an "extremely painful" erection and possible death.
Asda said finds like this were "rare" and it was investigating further.
Mr Gamble, who moved his family out of the home for a brief period, said it was like "something out of a horror movie".
"All our bananas are washed and sprayed before they are transported to the UK and every single piece of fruit is manually checked for quality and stowaways," a spokeswoman for Asda said.
"We sell one billion bananas every year and the chance of finding a spider is incredibly low, but very occasionally one hangs around to give us a fright."
To rid the property of the spiders a pest control firm heated the house up to 60Â°C to neutralise them.
Paul Gale, from the company, said Brazilian wandering spiders were "potentially lethal".
"They are from a humid, moist climate.  The heat we're putting in is a dry heat and they are unable to live."
Matthew Holden, from the Nottingham Reptile Centre, said their venom could cause an "extremely painful" erection.
However, he added that the "spiders in fruit stories" could be "blown out of proportion" as they were probably more likely to be harmless and from the UK.
There has been no independent confirmation of what species was found at the house.


Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the Netherlands has rejected "the wrong kind of populism" as he celebrated victory in parliamentary elections.

With nearly all votes counted his governing centre-right VVD party easily beat the anti-immigration, anti-EU Freedom party of Geert Wilders.
The race was seen as a test of support for nationalist parties that have been gaining ground across Europe.
Mr Wilders insisted "the patriotic spring" would still happen.
With more than 90% of votes counted, the VVD had won 33 out of 150 seats, a loss of eight seats from the previous parliament.
Mr Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) was in second place on 20 seats, a gain of five, with the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the liberal Democrats 66 (D66) close behind with 19 seats each.
The Green-Left party also did well winning 14 seats, an increase of 10.
The Labour Party (PvdA), the junior party in the governing coalition, suffered a historic defeat with only nine seats, a loss of 29.
Turnout was more than 80%, the highest for 30 years, which analysts say may have benefited pro-EU and liberal parties.
In the run-up to the election, some opinion polls had forecast the PVV winning the biggest number of seats, sending alarm bells ringing across European capitals.
Mr Wilders had pledged to take the Netherlands out of the EU, close all mosques and ban the Koran.
"The Netherlands said 'Whoa!' to the wrong kind of populism," said Mr Rutte, now poised for a third successive term as prime minister.
"We want to stick to the course we have - safe and stable and prosperous."
Mr Rutte's victory was warmly greeted by other European leaders.
French President Francois Hollande said Mr Rutte had won a "clear victory against extremism" while German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, tweeted: "The Netherlands, oh the Netherlands you are a champion! Congratulations on this great result."
Many had been watching the vote in the Netherlands closely, as an indication for how populist parties may fare in other elections in EU countries.
France goes to the polls next month to elect a new president, while Germany is due to hold a general election in September.
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament until earlier this year, said he was "relieved" Mr Wilders' party had lost.
"We must continue to fight for an open and free Europe!" he added on Twitter (in German).
However, Mr Wilders warned that Mr Rutte "has not seen the last of me".
"It's not the 30 seats I hoped for but we have gained seats," Mr Wilders said, adding: "This patriotic spring will happen."
As parliamentary seats are allocated in exact proportion to a party's vote share, the VVD party will need to go into coalition with other parties.
The VVD had ruled out a coalition with the Freedom Party but not with the other two runners-up, the CDA and D66, which are both pro-EU.
Coalition talks could take weeks, or even months.


South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is standing trial accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model and law graduate, at his home in Pretoria on 14 February 2013.

The double-amputee sprinter, 27, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including the "wilful and intentional murder of Reeva Steenkamp".
Here are details of the key evidence put before the court so far.
Mr Pistorius has told the court that on the night of the shooting the couple had dinner at about 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) before watching television and falling asleep between 21:00 and 22:00.
He said he woke in the early hours and Ms Steenkamp asked him: "Can't you sleep, my baba?"
He told the court he could not sleep and that he had brought in two fans from the balcony. Mr Pistorius then described how he heard a noise from the bathroom.
"That's the moment that everything changed," he said. "I thought that there was a burglar that was gaining entry to my home."
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Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains.
Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'.
Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars.
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police.
The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her.
Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet.
He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him.
'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said.
The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom.
Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat.
When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours.
3D animation of the apartment
Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his 9mm pistol from under his bed and moved towards the bathroom on his stumps, telling Ms Steenkamp quietly to call the police.
"I got to the entrance of the bathroom, at the end of the passage. At this point I was certain that an intruder or intruders were there in my bathroom."
He said he saw the bathroom window was open and he screamed for Ms Steenkamp to call the police.
"I wasn't sure if somebody was going to come out of the toilet and attack me," he told the court. "I wasn't sure if someone was going to come up the ladder and point a firearm and start shooting. So I just stayed where I was and I kept on screaming.
"Then I heard a noise from inside the toilet - what I perceived to be somebody coming out of the toilet. Before I knew it, I fired four shots at the door."
Mr Pistorius said the gunshots left his ears ringing, and he kept on shouting for Ms Steenkamp to phone the police. He said he retreated back to the bedroom and found Ms Steenkamp was not in bed.
"At that point, the first thing I thought was maybe she got down onto the floor like I told her to, maybe she was just scared... I can't remember what I said but I was trying to talk out to her.
"It was upon that time, my Lady, that it first dawned upon me that it could be Reeva that was in the bathroom or in the toilet. I jumped out of the other side of the bed and I ran my hands along the curtains to see that she wasn't hiding.
"I didn't want to believe it was Reeva in the toilet, I was so scared that someone was coming in to attack us. I made my way inside the bathroom... I tried to grab the handle, rip open the door. I pushed the door to open and it was locked.
"I ran back to the room, I opened the curtains, opened the doors and shouted from the balcony for help. I screamed, 'Help, help, help.' I screamed for somebody to help me.
"I put my prosthetic legs on. I ran as far as I could back to the bathroom, I ran into the door. It didn't move at all. I tried to kick the door but nothing happened."
Mr Pistorius told the court how he went back to the bedroom, picked up a cricket bat and started hitting the toilet door in a bid to open it.
He said he hit the door about three times and then managed to pull a plank out of it. Eventually he found the key on the floor and unlocked the door.
"I sat over Reeva and I cried, I don't know how long... I don't know how long I was there for," he told the court.
The prosecution says Mr Pistorius deliberately shot dead Ms Steenkamp after the couple had had an argument on Valentine's Day.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said Mr Pistorius's account of the night was a fabrication and the pair had been arguing just before the shooting.
"You fired four shots through the door whilst knowing that she was standing behind the door," Mr Nel said.
"She was locked into the bathroom and you armed yourself with the sole purpose of shooting and killing her."
"That is not true," replied Mr Pistorius.
During cross-examination the prosecution has focused on the athlete's character and enthusiasm for firearms.
The court was shown a Sky News report showing Mr Pistorius at a shooting range.
Mr Nel also showed the court a photograph of the effects of the shooting on Reeva Steenkamp's head.
Mr Pistorius refused to look at the photo saying: "I will not look at a picture where I am tormented by what I saw."
However, Mr Nel has repeatedly accused Mr Pistorius of using his emotions "as an escape" after he broke down a number of times in court.
"You're getting emotional now because you're getting frustrated because your version [of events] is improbable," Mr Nel said.
The prosecution has also highlighting a number of apparent inconsistencies between Mr Pistorius' bail application and his evidence in court.
The defence and prosecution also disagree about bangs heard that night and whether they were made by Mr Pistorius hitting the door with a cricket bat, or whether they were gunshots, or both.
A forensic analyst contradicted Mr Pistorius' claim that he was wearing his artificial legs when he tried to break open the toilet door with a cricket bat after realising Ms Steenkamp was inside.
Police Colonel Johannes Vermeulen said the angle and location of the marks on the door suggested Mr Pistorius was on his stumps. In court, Mr Vermeulen knelt down to swing the bat at the door to demonstrate.
"The marks on the door are actually consistent with him not having his legs on and I suspect they must be similar to the height that he was when he fired the shots," he told the court.
Ballistics expert Captain Christiaan Mangena told the court he believed Ms Steenkamp was standing up in the toilet cubicle, facing the closed door when she was hit in the right hip. The hole made by the bullet is labelled as A in the diagram below.
Ms Steenkamp then fell back onto a magazine rack next to the toilet before three more bullets were fired at the door, he said. One bullet missed her and ricocheted off the wall twice. Capt Mangena said fragments from this bullet (from bullet hole B) caused bruising on Ms Steenkamp's back - although the defence rejects this.
The expert said Ms Steenkamp was then hit by two more shots (causing bullet holes C and D), one in the arm and the other went through her left hand into her skull  as she crossed her arms over her head to protect herself.
Capt Mangena said that after being hit in the head, she fell down and her head ended up on the toilet seat.  He said the gun had been fired from at least 60cm (23 inches)  from the door and no further than 3m. He added that Mr Pistorius was most likely not wearing his prosthetic legs at the time.
Correspondents say this is in line with Mr Pistorius' testimony that he pulled the trigger while standing at the entrance to the bathroom.
However, Capt Mangena said he believed there was a gap between the first and second bullet being fired, which contradicts the athlete's version of events.  It corroborates evidence given by a neighbour who said she heard a shot, then a pause, then three further shots. It also suggests that Ms Steenkamp may have had time to scream before she fell to the floor, supporting the neighbour's testimony that she had heard a woman screaming.
However, pathologist Jan Botha, the first witness for the defence, said that if Mr Pistorius had fired his weapon in two quick bursts, as the defence suggests, Ms Steenkamp probably would not have had time to scream.
"If the shots were fired in rapid sequence, and these four shots could have easily been fired in four seconds, I think it's highly unlikely that she would have called out,'' said Mr Botha.
But, he said, he was "not a ballistician".
Some of Mr Botha's evidence also contradicted testimony given by state pathologist Gert Saayman who said vegetable matter in Ms Steenkamp's stomach suggested she had eaten around two hours before her death. Mr Pistorius' team says she had been asleep for longer than that.
Mr Botha said analysing gastric contents was "a highly controversial and inexact science".
Prosecution witnesses - including one who lives on the nearby Silver Stream Estate - have testified to hearing a woman scream followed by gun shots, but the defence disputes their testimony, saying the only scream came from Mr Pistorius - after he had fired.
As there are no juries at trials in South Africa, Mr Pistorius's fate will ultimately be decided by the judge, assisted by two assessors.


Spain has confirmed that a pregnant woman has been diagnosed with the Zika virus - the first such case in Europe.

The health ministry said the woman had recently returned from Colombia, where it is believed she was infected.
Zika, which is spreading through the Americas, has been linked to babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the microcephaly condition, linked to the mosquito-borne virus, a global public health emergency.
The WHO on Thursday also advised countries not to accept blood donations from people who had travelled to Zika-affected regions, the AFP news agency reported.
The link between Zika infection and microcephaly has not been confirmed and the risks at different stages of pregnancy are unknown."
In a statement (in Spanish), the health ministry said the pregnant woman was diagnosed as having Zika in the north-eastern Catalonia region.
It did not release the woman's name, saying she was one of seven confirmed cases in Spain.
It said two more patients were in Catalonia, two in Castile and Leon, one in Murcia and one in the capital Madrid.
"All are in good health," the ministry added.
It also stressed that "the diagnosed cases of Zika virus in Spain... don't risk spreading the virus in our country as they are imported cases".
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The historic city of Groningen has got all the things you'd expect from somewhere picturesque and Dutch - canals, bridges and bikes.

If there is any graffiti, it's almost certainly going to be in perfectly punctuated English.
But what it also has is hundreds of students from the UK - and the number is rising.
This is the university application season for UK students - and open day visits now include trips to Dutch universities, which are pitching themselves as if they were offshore Russell Group institutions.
Since tuition fees rose to £9,000 in England there have been repeated forecasts that students would head for cheaper European universities.
Now it seems to be actually happening.
Across the Netherlands, there are 2,600 UK students in universities this term - up by a third in a year. And independent school head teachers want Dutch universities to be included in the Ucas application form.
The University of Groningen is a microcosm of this - up by 33% to around 300 UK students, for whom it has had to put on special open days.
This 400 year-old university, second oldest in the Netherlands and in the top 100 of international rankings, now designates itself as an English-speaking institution.
It is running more degree courses taught in English than in Dutch, with students from Germany, China, the UK and the Netherlands itself, all learning in English.
For families from England attending the open day in Groningen, the question of tuition fees is never far from the surface.
Phoebe Watkinson and her father Phil had travelled from Wirral.
Phoebe said that as well as being less expensive, going to a European university would give her an "edge" in the jobs market.
"It shows a certain quality, it shows bravery to go to another country and it's not that far from home," she said.
The distance does not seem daunting, she says, as it is as quick to get home from the Netherlands as from some other parts of the UK.
Her father says he is from a generation when higher education was free - and he finds it "difficult to fathom" the level of debt being piled up.
"I would be extremely pleased if she came here," said Mr Watkinson. He says it would benefit her academically and socially as well as financially.
"If you ask most people what their primary driver was for looking at foreign universities, probably most of them would say straight off  'lower fees'," he says.
"But I think there's a lot more to it than that. If people look further than just the cost and see the other advantages, a lot more people will start to look at it seriously."
Saskia Dutton from Sheffield said her concern about studying at home is that she might "end up with £40,000 of debt" for a university in England, regardless of its quality.
"I thought do I want to settle for paying £9,000 to go to a university that is not going to give me the same quality of education as somewhere that costs 2,000 euros (£1,400)?
"The hesitation would be that I would be far away from my family... University can be quite a lonely experience," she said.
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Nick Verspeak from Wiltshire says the attraction is learning in an international environment, as a step towards working in a globalised jobs market.
But what's it like to be an English student at Groningen?
Gemma Scott from Newcastle says the initial draw was the cost, but it's been a different experience than she expected.
"It's made me a different person, made me much more confident in my own abilities, because I moved country when I was 18," she says.
She adds that her friends leaving universities in England will face immediate pressure to find work and begin paying off debts, while she will leave debt-free.
"I think I'm the only student to come out with savings."
Gemma is studying English literature, in a Dutch English-speaking university, and admits to having learnt almost no Dutch while studying there.
She says that the distance from family is a real factor - "you can't just hop on a train". But she says social media and video links like Facetime can fill the gap.
"I'm physically separated, but I talk to my mum every day and I say good night to my sister."
Holly Jane Shaddock from Shrewsbury, who is studying languages, says she is "embarrassed" telling other European students how much fees cost in England.
"They find it incredible, they are shocked. It's similar to my reaction when my American friends tell me how much their tuition costs. It's the same: 'How can you pay that much?' But you realise people don't have a choice."
But she says even though the fees are lower: "Financially it can still be a bit of a struggle."
It's a misunderstanding to think that studying in the Netherlands is free.
There are tuition fees of 2,000 euros (around £1,400) per year and students from the UK can apply for support for this.
But they cannot get financial support for living costs, so parents will have to pay for accommodation or students need to get part-time jobs.
The typical room cost is about 360 euro (£254) per month, says the university.
But why would Dutch universities want to attract so many more UK students?
Groningen's rector, Elmer Sterken, says being an international institution improves the quality of teaching and research.
But there's also a practical motivation.
"The number of Dutch students will drop, so we're interested in attracting more international students," he says.
Adopting English as the first language - apart from subjects such as Dutch literature or Dutch law - is now accepted, says the rector, after "some resistance at the beginning from some of the staff".
"The lingua franca of universities and research is English and maybe 90% of Dutch people speak English to some extent," he says.
So is studying abroad going to become more mainstream?
Chris King, chairman of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference, in a report from Maastricht University, said the big change was that it was no longer just about a year abroad.
"Heads are emphasising to more students the benefit of enrolling for a complete degree programme abroad," he said.
The government has signalled that fees are going to rise again above £9,000. An unintended consequence could be rising numbers of English students cycling around Dutch cities.


Crossbows, rifles and pistols dating back to World War Two are among thousands of air weapons surrendered during a police amnesty.

Police Scotland said 11,569 weapons were surrendered during a three-week amnesty which ended on 12 June.
An additional 1,000 have been handed in to officers across Scotland since then.
The force will continue to accept them until 31 December, when new laws make it a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit.
Anyone found guilty of the new offence could be fined or face up to two years in prison.
Chief Constable Phil Gormley hailed the response to the three week campaign as "fantastic".
He added: "Every weapon handed in had the potential to cause serious harm within our communities if misused, and to have more than 11,000 fewer weapons in existence has made Scotland a safer place.
"I am pleased to say our officers are still able to accept unwanted air weapons, and would ask those responsible members of the public who no longer wish to keep a weapon, or to apply for a licence, to do so [hand them in], preferably in daylight hours, covered and in a way which does not alarm other people.
"All of these guns, and an assortment of other harmful weapons including crossbows, shotguns, rifles and several pistols dating back to World War Two, will now be taken away and destroyed to ensure they are off our streets forever."
North east - 1,562
Forth Valley - 800
Tayside - 1,018
Edinburgh - 616
Glasgow - 1,020
The Lothians and Scottish Borders - 1,210
Renfrewshire and Inverclyde - 470
Argyll and West Dunbartonshire - 517
Highlands and Islands - 1,287
Fife - 784
Lanarkshire - 933
Ayrshire - 739
Dumfries and Galloway - 613
Source: Police Scotland
Scottish Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said the response to the amnesty was "extremely encouraging".
"The new licensing regime is not a ban on air weapons but a means of ensuring people can use air weapons in a regulated way without compromising public safety," he said.
"We believe this legislation strikes the right balance between protecting communities and allowing legitimate shooting in a safe environment to continue.
"I would encourage anybody with an air weapon to stay on the right side of the law by applying when applications on 1st July. For anybody who plans not to have a licence, Police Scotland will support them to hand in their weapon safely."
The legislation was passed by MSPs in June 2015.
It has been estimated there could be 500,000 airguns in Scotland, with the weapons used in 182 crimes in 2013/14 - about half of all firearms offences.
The Scottish government pledged to introduce the licensing scheme following the death of Glasgow toddler Andrew Morton, who was shot dead by an airgun in 2005.


Supporters of a Cardiff school for children with speech and language difficulties have been protesting against its planned closure.

Meadowbank School in Gabalfa is the only council-run school in England and Wales focusing solely on speech and language needs but has seen pupil numbers fall to 23.
The council is consulting on plans to close the facility in August 2017.
Parents have handed a 3,500-name petition to councillors.
The council said there was a general trend for children with moderate speech and language difficulties to attend mainstream schools.
But parents have argued the school offers specialist support and a secure environment for vulnerable children and claimed the council was not making people aware the school was an option for their children.
Faye Dale's 10-year-old son William has been at the school since he was five.
She said: "I don't think they really understand the complexity of our children's needs. They're just looking at statistics.
"When William went to the mainstream school he said he had friends but they weren't true friends - he just used to play alongside them. He didn't have the social skills or the language skills to make proper friends.
"Now he's got real solid friendships. When he says he's got a best friend - it's a real best friend."
Cabinet member for education, Sarah Merry, said: "I want to reassure all parents at Meadowbank that a final decision will only be made once the consultation has been completed, the results are known and the best interests of all are fully taken into account."


Arsenal have almost £200m in the bank after making an increased profit of £25m last year, the Premier League club's latest accounts have revealed.

The figures, covering the year ending 31 May 2015, show the Gunners spent a record £114m on new players.
But they have been criticised by some fans for only making one signing - keeper Petr Cech - over the summer.
"We're focused on delivering more success," said Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
The cash reserves of £193.1m are intended to cover costs for a full season and are not solely designated for player transfers.
However, the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association insists the strong financial figures must be matched by positive results on the pitch.
Arsene Wenger's team lost 2-1 at Dinamo Zagreb in their Champions League opener on Wednesday.
"The financial figures will only add fuel to the fire for those calling for further squad investment," said AISA chair Lois Langton.
Profit before tax was £24.7m, up from £4.7m in 2014, while the north London club say they have no short-term debt.
Total turnover was £344.5m - an increase of £42.6m from the previous year, boosted by a new kit partnership with Puma.
"We continue to look to develop every aspect of our operations while remaining true to our principles around being self-funding, investing in youth, our style of play and our commitment to our fans and to our place in the community," added Gazidis.


Throwing herself into her new life in London, Monika Suchocka had found a job and joined a choir.

The 23-year-old trainee accountant had only arrived from Poland two months before the bombings.
She lived in Archway with two other Polish women - friends from school and university - and on the morning of 7 July was on her way to work at an accountancy firm in West Kensington.
The last contact she had with anyone was at 0840 BST, when she sent a text message to a colleague to say she was having problems on the Northern Line and would get a bus.
Friends distributed posters of her in an attempt to track her down, worried she may have boarded the Number 30 bus which was ripped apart in Tavistock Square.
But police later said she was killed on the Piccadilly Line Tube travelling to Russell Square, and her inquest was held with fellow victims who died in that blast.
Ms Suchocka was part of a family of five with an elder brother, Marcin, and a younger brother, Maciek.
She grew up in Dabrowka Malborska, in northern Poland, where her mother was a primary school head teacher and her father worked for the local authority.
The book of tributes to those killed on 7 July described how she looked after her young cousins with great affection and was like a second mother to her little brother, born in 1992.
Because of ill health, she did not start school until she was six years old. It was her tenacious pursuit of goals that was said to set her apart.
In the tributes she was said to be "hard-working, scrupulous and reliable" and she always achieved top grades at school.
After leaving school, she completed a masters degree at the Academy of Economics in Poznan.
Ms Suchocka first went abroad in 2002 to study in Germany, and in summer 2003 she travelled to the United States to study English.
Just two and half months before the blast, she left for her new job in London.
The job was due to last until October that year, after which she would decide whether to stay in London or return to Poland.
Ms Suchocka continued to indulge her love of music after settling into her new life in the city, by playing the piano and joining a choir.
The book of tributes described her as "unassuming, gentle and sensitive, always ready to offer help to those in need".
Friend Tracy Purdon said: "This was her first time in London and she was really enjoying the excitement of it all."
Her elder brother Marcin said the siblings were in constant contact with each other, regularly sending text messages and emails.
The last time they spoke was on the Sunday before 7 July.
In his statement about his sister to police, he described the difficulty in accepting that Monika would never be at any future family gatherings.
Three Metropolitan Police officers returned her ashes to her family in Poland.


Uefa has charged the English and Lithuanian Football Associations over crowd disturbances at their Euro 2016 qualifier in Vilnius on Monday.

Riot police quelled skirmishes between rival fans behind one of the goals just before kick-off in England's 3-0 win.
An English FA statement said the incidents had not taken place in the area where fans who bought tickets from the FA were located.
The cases will be dealt with on Thursday, 22 October.
"We would encourage the authorities to identify anybody involved in disorder and deal with them appropriately through the criminal system and with banning orders," the English FA said.
"We will, of course, fully cooperate with Uefa."
When fighting broke out, local police quickly intervened to form a barrier between fans to prevent the violence escalating.
Some England fans appeared to have purchased tickets for sections of the ground designated for home supporters.
Lithuania's FA has also been charged by European football's governing body over breaches of ticketing rules and for having blocked stairways.
BBC Radio 5 live reporter Alan Green reported he had seen missiles being thrown by fans.
And BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty added there had been "a few brief skirmishes between rival fans at one end of this tiny stadium where some England fans have posted themselves near Lithuania supporters".
England won 3-0 with goals from Ross Barkley and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, either side of an own goal from Lithuania keeper Giedrius Arlauskis.
The victory meant Roy Hodgson's side won all 10 of their qualifying matches for next summer's European Championship in France.


A team of former military personnel, who where all injured during their service, are hoping to become the first all-disabled team to compete in Le Mans.

4 April 2017 Last updated at 16:10 BST
The four drivers showcased new hand control technology at the Bedford Autodrome racetrack.
Team BRIT stands for British Racing Injured Troops.
The four drivers that make up the team are Warren McKinlay, 35, from Braintree; Jimmy Hill, 34, from Bournemouth; Tony Williams, 32, from St Helens, and Andy Searle, 24, from Torquay.
Founder Dave Player said: "A lot of people told us that the modification we needed was too difficult.
"I hope that colleagues in the wider automotive industry will be interested in our development, which will revolutionise the way in which disabled drivers can control their cars."
The hand control technology uses an electronic throttle, clutch, gear changing and braking system.
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Families forced to leave their homes on Christmas Eve due to flooding have returned to their properties.

A total of 22 households had to be evacuated from Crossway Point in King's Road after a burst water main left many flats "uninhabitable".
Now 18 of the families have been able to return, according to the housing association that manages the building.
Catalyst Housing said it was "very sorry for all the distress that this flood has caused" to residents.
Spokesman Neil Cross added four households currently remain in temporary accommodation.
He said: "Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by the flood at Crossway Point - at what should have been a happy time of year.
"Some of the homes are still very wet, but we are continuing to do all we can to make these homes as comfortable as possible.
"As well as doing all we can to support our residents, we are also investigating exactly what caused this flood."


A tram driver who struck a pedestrian in Manchester "may have been daydreaming", a report has found.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into the collision said the driver, who had been involved in eight previous incidents, did not brake quickly enough.
But it also said the pedestrian made no effort to move away from the tram.
A Transport for Greater Manchester statement said Metrolink had an "excellent" safety record.
The pedestrian, who was "facing away" from the tram, was struck in Market Street at about 11:13 BST on 12 May 2015, despite the driver sounding his whistle.
The RAIB said: "The driver may have been distracted by his own thoughts. This is sometimes referred to as 'mind-wandering' or daydreaming."
The report found the driver had been involved in four collisions with vehicles and four other "operating incidents" since he joined Metrolink in 2003.
He pleaded guilty to driving without due care attention over the May crash and had been disciplined by his bosses.
He was found to be not at fault for three of the collisions and two of the other incidents.
The report stated that although the driver had been involved in a "relatively high" number of incidents, Metrolink had advised that his record "had not given any particular cause for concern".
However, it highlighted the importance of tram drivers' appraisals in order to identify "any issues that might affect their driving performance".
The report also recommended "improved care" for drivers involved in an accident, and further examination of "the need for additional risk control measures in the Piccadilly Gardens area".
Chris Thorpe, TfGM's safety and assurance manager, said: "We have met with the RAIB on a number of occasions throughout the investigation and continue to liaise with them on this matter."


Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Willie Rennie has said he would vote to block holding another independence referendum.

Mr Rennie said holding another poll would be "divisive, unhelpful" and not good for Scotland's future.
His comments contrast to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who said on Saturday that another referendum would be "absolutely fine".
Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly warned a fresh vote is "highly likely".
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Mr Rennie said: "We stood on a platform last May when we said we would oppose independence and oppose another independence referendum.
"You and others have criticised me and our party before for not sticking to our word. We're going to stick absolutely to our word on this."
Asked if he wished to block a referendum taking place - rather than simply opposing Scottish independence - Mr Rennie answered: "No independence referendum, either at Westminster or in the Scottish Parliament - that's the view of the Liberal Democrats.
"You're asking me to go against what I believe. I believe that we shouldn't have another one because it's divisive."
He added: "I would vote against the Conservatives at every possible opportunity just like I'd vote against another independence referendum."
Mr Rennie said the Brexit process alone was going to cause "economic chaos" and so he would oppose any moves to authorise another independence referendum he said would bring "even more chaos".
"Of course I'm not against democracy but we've had the democratic experience three years ago. We decided we wanted to stay," he said.
The Scottish Lib Dem leader also accused Mr Corbyn of a "casual indifference" to the future of the United Kingdom.
"He just doesn't seem to care about the United Kingdom sticking together.
"I know that's not the view of my colleagues in the Scottish Labour Party. They must be tearing their hair out this morning at what he said yesterday.
"I find it astonishing that he can be so casual about the future of the United Kingdom just as he's been so casual about the future of the European Union."
Mr Corbyn told the Press Association on Saturday it was not the job of Labour "to prevent people holding referenda".
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn later told the BBC: "Jeremy reaffirmed our position today that if the Scottish Parliament votes for a referendum, it would be wrong for Westminster to block it.
"Labour continues to oppose a further referendum in the Scottish Parliament and would campaign against independence if one were held."
But Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has said her party would oppose any attempt to hold a referendum.
The party's justice spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, also described his comments as "misguided and irresponsible".
Commenting on Mr Corbyn's remarks, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "At this time, people in Scotland who voted No to independence in 2014 want pro-UK leaders to demonstrate resolve against the SNP's threat of a second referendum.
"Instead, the Labour leader has demonstrated that he is happy to let the SNP roll over him.
"It is a complete betrayal of the many thousands of voters who once looked to his party to defend our United Kingdom."
Mr Corbyn's remarks came amid speculation that Ms Sturgeon is about to demand a Section 30 order from Westminster, allowing another legally binding vote on Scotland's place in the UK to be held.
Prime Minister Theresa May has so far avoided saying whether or not she would grant permission - instead saying only that she does not believe a second referendum should be held.


A doctor who was suspended as a surgeon for carrying out operations "beyond his competence" five years ago is at the centre of new concerns about his treatment of patients.

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Dr Gideon Lauffer is alleged to have misdiagnosed a man with acute kidney failure at the West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth after allegedly misreading blood tests.
The patient, Nick Johnson, was sent home and told he was suffering from constipation, but he was later re-admitted to hospital and treated for blood cancer.
Dr Lauffer had been a consultant surgeon and was found guilty in 2010 of serious professional misconduct and dishonesty. He then retrained as a non-surgical hospital doctor.
Dr Lauffer said: "Following an extensive investigation, the General Medical Council decided to close the case with no action on my registration.
"I owe obligations of confidentiality to patients and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further."
The General Medical Council said Mr Johnson's complaint could not be taken forward due to a lack of evidence.
But Mr Johnson, who is still recovering from cancer treatment and is awaiting the removal of his gallbladder, said he is considering how he can take the case further.
BBC London's Ayshea Buksh reports.


Residents in parts of Paisley are being warned about possible problems to their water supply due to a burst main.

Scottish Water engineers have been working through the night to repair the burst to a 24in main in Brediland Road.
A spokesman said measures had been taken to maintain water supplies, but customers may experience poor pressure, discolouration or loss of supply.
He said: "Our squad have been on the scene since 11pm working to repair what is a complex burst on this major main."
The Scottish Water website recommended that customers in the area should avoid using washing machines, dishwashers or electric showers until the main was repaired.
It said this was to ensure filters, that may be fitted to appliances, do not become blocked.


Chilling details have emerged about the daily life of Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi SS chief who sent millions of Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust.

The German tabloid Bild is serialising excerpts from Himmler's wartime diaries, recently discovered in Russia.
One day, Himmler wrote, he had a massage before ordering the execution of 10 Poles. And he says he enjoyed a snack at Buchenwald concentration camp.
He also told the SS to train dogs that could "rip people apart" at Auschwitz.
Historians will publish the diaries in a book next year, with background notes.
Himmler was in Adolf Hitler's elite circle, and had the official title "Reichsfuehrer SS". He commanded the death squads who murdered Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners-of-war, Roma and others categorised as "racially inferior".
The diaries are being studied by the German Historical Institute Moscow. They cover the years 1938, 1943 and 1944 and were found at a Russian defence ministry archive in Podolsk, a town just south of Moscow.
Historians had earlier examined Himmler's diaries from the years 1941, 1942 and 1945 - but they were unaware of the missing ones until recently.
The find is seen as highly significant and has been compared with the diaries of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
German researcher Matthias Uhl said he was struck by Himmler's enormous concern for his elite SS, family and friends - while meticulously implementing mass murder.


(Close):The London market closed lower, with mining companies and fashion group Burberry among the biggest fallers.

At the end of trade, the FTSE 100 was down 1.97 points at 6,165.80.
Shares in fashion group Burberry slid 2.71% to 1112p after it reported a fall in full-year profits and said profits this year would be at the low end of forecasts.
Burberry said it expected "the challenging environment for the luxury sector to continue in the near term".
Mining shares were hit by a fall in copper prices as the value of the US dollar recovered. Anglo American fell 3.59% and Glencore dropped 2.60%.
On the currency markets, the pound jumped after a poll for London's Evening Standard newspaper suggested a big lead for the Remain camp ahead of the EU referendum vote.
Sterling rose 1.04% against the dollar to $1.4613, and was up 1.41% against the euro at â‚¬1.2964.


Rickie Fowler warmed up for next week's Masters by taking a one-shot lead after the first round of the Houston Open.

The American, 28, hit eight birdies in a bogey-free 64 to lead Sung Kang, with Stewart Cink, Jhonattan Vegas and Kyle Stanley another shot back on six under.
England's Justin Rose shot a five-under 67, with 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth two more shots adrift.
England's Luke Donald carded a one-under 71, while compatriots Chris Wood and Andrew Johnston are one over.
"They've done a great job here with conditions around the greens and making it as similar as possible to next week," said Fowler, who will be aiming to win his first major at Augusta.
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Five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the quarter-finals of the World Championship with a 13-5 victory over Matthew Stevens at the Crucible.

Resuming with a 12-4 lead, O'Sullivan took the frame he needed at the second attempt and faces Stuart Bingham next.
Shaun Murphy beat Joe Perry 13-5 to reach the last eight, while Judd Trump defeated Marco Fu 13-8 to set up a match against China's Ding Junhui.
Australia's Neil Robertson ended with a 145 break to beat Ali Carter 13-5.
With O'Sullivan and Robertson holding such commanding leads, the evening session comprised of just four frames, and took about 40 minutes to complete.
Welshman Stevens, runner-up in 2000 and 2005, looked to be struggling with a neck injury in the final session, but still managed to make a break of 63 to reduce the deficit against O'Sullivan.
But the damage had been done in the first session and a 77 break saw O'Sullivan, 39, reach the last eight for a 17th time.
"I built up a good lead so was happy just to come back for that," he said.
"When you have won it five times and won everything, you don't really get that excited. I am just happy to still be playing."
Stevens said: "I took a bit of hammering really. I made a couple of mistakes and before you know it he has capitalised on it."
Murphy, who completed the 'Triple Crown' of World, UK and Masters titles in January, comfortably beat Perry in their last-16 encounter.
The 2005 winner was 12-5 ahead overnight and made a break of 68 to progress to face Anthony McGill in the next round on Tuesday (10:00 BST).
With champion Mark Selby exiting from his side of the draw, the Englishman is confident of repeating his feat of 10 years ago, when he won the event as a qualifier.
"I am playing the best snooker of my life," said the 32-year-old.
"Being 12-5 in front is difficult to approach but I tried to prepare in exactly the same way as I would normally do and hope I got the chance to get over the line."
Perry said: "Shaun is a great front-runner and I never recovered from a bad start. The game can turn around, but at 7-1 you are just trying to get some pride and make it respectable."
Trump, beaten in the 2011 final by John Higgins, showed no nerves when close to the winning line against Hong Kong's Fu, stroking in a superb 133 break to advance.
"If I continue playing like that I will be tough to beat," said Trump, 25.
"My game is there, it is just whether I can keep it up for the rest of the tournament."
Robertson compiled a stunning 145 break - the highest of the tournament - to beat Englishman Carter and faces Barry Hawkins next.
It was his fourth century in a match he dominated.
"Comebacks have happened before but being 10-3 up, I wanted to win with a session to spare. An 11-5 lead I was happy with though," said Robertson.
"Someone will need to make a 147 to beat my high break now, and I am very pleased to win the match."


Scotland's Catriona Matthew has been named as vice-captain of the 2017 European Solheim Cup team in Iowa.

The 46-year-old from North Berwick has played in eight Solheim Cups, earning 19 points from 33 matches.
Matthew, who is in the Great Britain team at the Rio Olympics, will assist Annika Sorenstam.
"It's a great honour as she's probably the best woman golfer there's ever been and I'm really looking forward to it," said Matthew.
Matthew could potentially make her ninth Solheim Cup appearance as a playing vice-captain at the event from 14-20 August next year.
She added: "It's a long way off still but it's a possibility. I'll see how I'm playing next year and go from there.
"I love the Solheim Cup and it's my favourite week each time it comes round every two years. It's just so different for a golfer to be in a team environment where you've got your team-mates and the captains and vice-captains.
"Golf is such an individual sport that it just makes it great fun. I've got great memories from it."
The USA are the current holders of the Solheim Cup after winning 14½-13½ in Germany last year.
The 2019 Solheim Cup will be returning to Scotland at Gleneagles.


A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after two pupils were shot with a pellet gun, police said.

A spokesman said officers were called to Waverley School, in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, at about 10:30 BST.
A Year 11 pupil suffered a minor head injury, a force spokesman said, with another in the same year being shot in the hand, West Midlands Police said.
Both pupils refused medical treatment and left school shortly after.
The suspect was later arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage.
Police said they were investigating what happened but believe it was "an isolated incident and that the pupils involved are known to each other".
Waverley School said they were "unable to comment" as it was a "police matter".


The Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan is in Belfast on Tuesday, as talks to form a power-sharing executive continue.

Legacy issues and an Irish Language Act remain two of the biggest stumbling blocks.
Snap elections on 2 March resulted in Sinn Féin coming within one seat of the Democratic Unionist Party.
The talks are showing little sign of progress towards achieving a deal between the main parties.
NI Secretary James Brokenshire has said he will bring in legislation after Easter to collect rates if there is no agreement.
If an agreement is not reached, he is obliged to call a fresh election within a reasonable period or introduce direct rule.
The Northern Ireland Office said on Tuesday that the government wanted to see the parties "come together to reach an agreement to form an Executive", but that if they could not "clearly the UK Government has responsibility for political stability in Northern Ireland".
"As the Secretary of State has stated, if no agreement is reached following the Easter recess then he would seek to bring forward legislation to set a regional rate to enable collection of the rates to go ahead, and take steps to provide further assurance around the budget for Northern Ireland," it added.
"The government's priority is for parties to continue to engage over the coming days to ensure devolved government is restored as quickly as possible."
Mr Brokenshire recently stated that there was "no appetite for another election".
Northern Ireland's two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, blamed each other for the failure of initial talks.
The political deadlock came after a snap election on 2 March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the DUP's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party putting forward a candidate for first minister.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness quit as deputy first minister in January in protest against the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
The party said it would not share power with Mrs Foster as first minister until the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Mr McGuinness died last month at the age of 66.


Wayne Madsen passed 9,000 career first-class runs but Derbyshire struggled on day two against Leicestershire.

Ned Eckersley reached his century before he was out for 117 to Callum Parkinson (4-90) as Leicestershire were all out for 380 at Grace Road.
Derbyshire suffered a frustrating start as they were reduced to 40-3 off the first nine overs.
Madsen added a useful 76 before he was removed by Charlie Shreck (2-37) as the visitors ended the day on 199-6.


Trainer Gary Moore is out of intensive care as he recovers from being kicked in the back by one of his horses.

The 59-year-old was helping wife Jayne onto a horse at their Cisswood Stables in Sussex on Thursday morning when another horse kicked out.
Moore, whose sons Ryan, Jamie and Joshua are all jockeys, spent Thursday night in intensive care with fluid on his lungs and damaged ribs.
"He's a bit groggy, but nothing worse than that," said Joshua Moore.
"I think he's pretty OK. He's out of intensive care. He's having a lot of antibiotics and painkillers, but he doesn't need any operations or anything like that, as far as I know."
Among the trainer's charges is Sire De Grugy, who Jamie Moore rode to victory in last year's Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.
Ryan Moore, a three-time Flat racing champion jockey, was sidelined for more than a month earlier this year after injuring his neck at Newmarket's July Festival.


Finance Minister Arlene Foster has told MLAs she hopes to have a budget for the next financial year in place by the end of January.

She said the Stormont Executive was going to set a one-year budget.
This was because it would be wrong to "tie the hands" of new ministers who might want to set fresh priorities after the Stormont elections, she said.
Mrs Foster said there was now a clear picture of Stormont's finances after the comprehensive spending review.
She told MLAs during Question Time in the assembly that she expects day-to-day departmental spending to be reduced by 5% in real terms by 2019/20.
But she also anticipates spending on infrastructure projects to rise by 12% in real terms by 2020/21.
The finance minister said she would be discussing the budget with other ministers before Christmas.
Mrs Foster said: "Colleagues will have to look at efficiency savings again in 2016/17."
In response to a question from Sinn FÃ©in MLA Daithi McKay, Mrs Foster welcomed the Chancellor's decision not to proceed with cuts to tax credits.
She said she was looking forward to having discussions in the executive about what to do with Â£240m which was set aside in the recent Fresh Start Agreement to lessen the impact of tax credit cuts in Northern Ireland.


Bristol have signed Tonga international Sione Faletau and Edinburgh's Jack Cosgrove for next season.

Front row Faletau, 28, has three caps for his country and will arrive from Championship club Yorkshire Carnegie.
Fellow prop Cosgrove, 22, is a former Scotland Under-20 international who is also eligible to play for England, and will arrive from the Pro12 outfit.
"The Championship has some excellent players and Sione is in his prime," said interim Bristol boss Mark Tainton.
"Both players were impressed that there's a clear understanding about what we want to achieve, and they're eager to be a part of that."
Bristol are bottom of the Premiership, seven points from safety with five games remaining.


A £5m fund to help mothers return to work after a career break will be set out in the Budget, which falls on International Women's Day.

Announcing the move, Prime Minister Theresa May said return to work schemes would be extended to industries where women were under-represented.
She also said domestic violence organisations would receive £20m.
A £5m fund to mark the centenary, in 2018, of the act that first gave women the vote will also be in the Budget.
The prime minister said return to work schemes were open to both men and women, but told parenting website Mumsnet: "More often than not, it is women who give up their careers to devote themselves to motherhood, only to find the route back into employment closed off, the doors shut to them.
"This isn't right, it isn't fair, and it doesn't make economic sense.
"So I want to see this scheme extended to all levels of management and into industries where women are under-represented."
The schemes aim to give those who have taken long career breaks the opportunity to refresh their skills and build professional networks.
The government plans to work with business groups and public sector organisations.
Mumsnet chief executive Justine Roberts said women faced a "motherhood penalty" after having children.
"Whether £5m will be enough to tackle the discrimination returning mothers face is moot," she said.
"What's crucial is that workplaces embrace flexible working, which is what many parents tell us they most need."
On the domestic abuse funding, Mrs May, who is working to oversee a new Domestic Violence and Abuse Act, said: "There are currently thousands of people across Britain who are reading this right now and who suffer at the hands of abusers.
"I know they feel isolated and do not know where to turn for help.
"Raising awareness as well as strengthening the law will prove crucial in the fight against this life-shattering and abhorrent crime."
The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave some women the vote for the first time.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said it was "important" to educate young people about its significance.


Truro City have appointed ex-Eastleigh boss Chris Todd as assistant manager following Rory Fallon's departure.

Truro, who are 17th in the National League South, parted company with New Zealand international and player-coach Fallon by mutual consent in December.
Todd joined Truro in October on a short-term playing contract, but will now assist manager Lee Hodges instead.
"It's a challenge that I have accepted with relish and excitement," the former Exeter defender told the club website.
Since being sacked by Eastleigh in August, Todd has opted to take a teaching role, rather than return to professional football.
Meanwhile, the White Tigers have signed Exeter City full-back Connor Riley-Rowe on loan for a month.
The 21-year-old, who has made 14 appearances for the League Two side, has previously had a spell at Treyew Road.


A penalty deep into stoppage time from Katlego Mashego helped South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns beat Zimbabwe's Chicken Inn 2-1 on aggregate to reach the next round of the African Champions League on Saturday.

Before Mashego's strike, the tie was level at 1-1 and was heading towards a penalty shoot-out after Wayne Arendse's first half goal for the hosts.
Arsendse's effort had cancelled out Chicken Inn's shock first-leg 1-0 lead from two weeks ago.
Mashego slotted in the dramatic penalty after the lively Khama Billiat was brought down in the box.
Sundowns will next face Congolese side AC Leopards.
Elsewhere, Two times African champions Enyimba of Nigeria also avoided a shock exit, beating SC Vipers of Uganda 2-0 at home to go through 2-1 overall.
Two goals from Mfon Udoh - one in each half - proved enough to give Enyimba the win.
Ethiopia's St George were held to a 1-1 draw in Seychelles by St Michel United but still advanced 4-1 on aggregate.
St George took the lead through Ramkel Lok in the first-half with the hosts equalising after the break.
The overall win for the Ethiopians means they advance to play current African champions TP Mazembe of DR Congo in the next round.
Morocco's Olympique Khouribga beat Gamtel of The Gambia 4-2 on aggregate after a 2-1 win in Bakau.
Olympique Khouribga opened the scoring after 26 minutes when Najib Koumya headed home a corner for the visitors.
Gamtel equalised with 18 minutes left to play as Modou Sarr also scored with a header but an injury-time winner from Ibrahim Bezghoudi sealed the win for Khouribga.
The Moroccan victory sets up a tie against former African champions Etoile du Sahel in the next round.
Earlier on Saturday Kenya's Gor Mahia were beaten 1-0 by hosts CNaPS of Madagascar, who won the tie 3-1 overall.
Tanzania's Young Africans beat visiting Cercle de Joachim of Mauritius 2-0 on Saturday to complete a 3-0 aggregate victory.
Burundian Amissi Tambwe scored the opening goal of the second leg for the Tanzanians after just three minutes with Zimbabwean Thabani Kamusoko adding the second shortly after half-time.
Next up for Young Africans will be APR from neighbouring Rwanda who easily beat Mbabane Swallows 4-1 to wrap up a 4-2 overall win.
Central defender Abdul Rwatubyaye was the hero for APR as he scored a hat-trick before Patrick Sibomana completed the goalscoring
Sanele Mkhweli had given Swallows some hope with an away goal that made it 2-2 on aggregate but the goals in the second half saw APR win the tie
Former African champions Club Africain of Tunisia advanced in this year's tournament with a 2-0 aggregate win over Tanda of Ivory Coast.
The second leg on Friday in Abidjan ended goalless but victory two weeks ago at home was enough for Club Africain to progress.
Al Ahly Tripoli also played out a 0-0 draw against visiting Onze Createurs of Mali with the Libyan side advancing thanks to a 2-1 victory in the first leg.
The Libyan side will now face Al Hilal of Sudan, who were given a bye, in the next round.
The only goal in Friday's Champions League ties was scored by Zambia's Zesco United who beat hosts Al Ghazala of South Sudan 1-0 to complete a 3-0 win overall.
Substitute John Ching'andu headed home the only goal of the game in injury time at the end of the match.
Nigeria's Warri Wolves and Ferravario Maputo from Mozambique have already qualified for the first round after they enjoyed walkovers.
Defending champions TP Mazembe, Etoile du Sahel from Tunisia as well as Egyptian giants Al Ahly and Zamalek will all feature in the first round of the competition between March 11-20 after they were handed byes.


Cuban President Raul Castro has led final tributes to his brother Fidel at an event in the city of Santiago.

Tens of thousands of Cubans attended the ceremony, as well as world leaders.
Raul Castro vowed to honour the socialist principles and goals of the revolution led by Fidel, who died on 25 November aged 90.
He also announced that Cuba would ban naming any monuments or roads after Fidel Castro, at the request of the late leader.
"The leader of the revolution strongly opposed any manifestation of cult of personality," said Raul Castro.
No statues or busts of Fidel will be erected in Cuba, he said.
The urn with his ashes will be interred on Sunday in Santiago, known as the birthplace as the Cuban Revolution.
It arrived on Saturday in Santiago, after a four-day journey from the capital, Havana.
Large crowds shouting 'Long live Fidel!" and "I am Fidel!" greeted his funeral cortege through the streets of Santiago.
The leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have attended the ceremony.
"All of us who love Fidel, who is a father to us. He cleared a path for us and the people will follow him," Tania Maria Jimenez told Reuters.
She was among thousands of Cubans watching as the urn with Mr Castro's ashes was driven past the historic Moncada barracks in Santiago.
Fidel Castro was part of the small group of revolutionaries who launched an attack on the barracks on 26 July 1953.
The attacked failed, but it was considered the first act of the revolution that would depose the US-backed government of Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959.
Opinion on Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century, remains divided.
Supporters say he returned Cuba to the people and praise him for some of his social programmes, such as public health and education.
But critics call him a dictator, who led a government that did not tolerate opposition and dissent.
Raul Castro took over when his brother's health deteriorated in 2006.
Fidel Castro's ashes will be placed in the Ifigenia Cemetery, where Cuban independence hero Jose Marti is buried.


Diageo has been ordered to pay £107m by the UK tax authority as part of a long-running investigation into moving profit between its global businesses.

The drinks giant said that under the new Diverted Profits Tax regime, HMRC will ask for more tax and interest for the past two financial years.
Diageo said it would challenge the HMRC's assessment.
However, the company said it will have to pay £107m then work with HMRC to resolve the issue.
Diageo, which owns brands including Johnnie Walker whisky and Tanqueray gin, said: "The payment of this sum is not a reflection of Diageo's view on the merits of the case and, based on its current assessment, Diageo considers no provision is required in relation to Diverted Profits Tax."
The company does not expect the situation to have an effect on its tax for the current financial year to June, and expects the rate to be 21%.
The dispute centres on profits that have been moved between the UK and the Netherlands.
The Diverted Profits Tax regime was introduced in 2015 and levies a 25% charge on taxable profits that have been diverted from the UK.
The company said: "Diageo does not believe that it falls within the scope of the new Diverted Profits Tax regime."
Shares in Diageo fell 1% to £22.68 on Wednesday but have risen more than a fifth this year.


Two men have been spotted on the roof of Swansea Prison.

Onlookers said the men were prisoners but this has yet to be confirmed.
Fire engines are at the scene but Mid and West Wales Fire Service would not give any details of an incident. South Wales Police said it is not involved.
Bob Griffiths, from Bridgend, who saw the men on the roof, said: "They are shouting at each other and the other prisoners are shouting from the cells."
He said there were initially three men on the roof but one had come down.


Ospreys' Wales flanker Dan Lydiate is battling to be fit for the start of the 2017-18 season as he recovers from knee and shoulder surgery.

The 28-year-old was taken off on a stretcher during Wales' win over South Africa in November.
Lydiate subsequently missed the rest of the 2016-17 campaign.
"Dan is continuing his rehab from knee and shoulder surgery having been out of action since November," Ospreys medical performance manager Chris Towers said.
"The objective now is to make every effort to have him available for selection at the start of the season."
Dafydd Howells will miss start of next season as the Wales wing recovers from injury.
"Daf failed to recover from a shoulder injury picked up in training at the end of the season, which meant he has gone on to have surgery," Towers added,
"As a result we expect him to miss the start of the season."
But there is better news on wing Jeff Hassler, who will miss part of pre-season after keyhole surgery on a knee problem but is expected to return for the start of the new season.
Hooker Sam Parry (neck) has returned to limited training, while senior players Dmitri Arhip, Ma'afu Fia, Ben John and Rob McCusker have all rejoined the squad after injury.
Hanno Dirksen (knee), James King (ankle), Brian Mujati (shoulder) and Eli Walker (back) have yet to return to training because of their injuries.


A concert hosted by comedian John Bishop is to be held in Liverpool to raise money for those affected by the Syria refugee crisis.

The With Love From Liverpool event, at the Echo Arena on 19 September, will raise funds for the British Red Cross.
Among those performing will be local acts The Farm, OMD and John Power.
The event's co-host, BBC Radio 2 presenter Janice Long, said she had been "blown away" by the city's response to the crisis.
She said: "People across Liverpool have shown that they really care in hundreds of different ways, and they've come together to do what they can to ease this terrible situation."
Peter Hooton, lead singer of The Farm, said: "When we were approached to perform at the concert, we immediately said 'yes' - it was a no-brainer, no matter how short the notice was. We've all been moved by what is a humanitarian crisis and we've all got a role to play in supporting those in need. I just know Liverpool and its people will come out in force to support this concert - it's what we do, it's who we are."
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said: "Liverpool's response to last week's horrifying revelations surrounding the ongoing refugee crisis has been nothing short of overwhelming. When it comes to reaching out and offering solidarity to the families whose homes have been ripped away from them, Liverpool is leading the way.
"Now, Liverpool is stepping up to the plate once more with the With Love From Liverpool concert. We're using our reputation for world-class music to now help save lives across the globe."


A Swedish top-flight match was abandoned on Monday after Ostersunds goalkeeper Aly Keita was attacked by a pitch invader.

Ostersunds were drawing 1-1 at Jonkoping Sodra in the closing stages of their Allsvenskan match when the intruder ran on to the field and grabbed Keita, who fell to the ground.
Players and security tackled the man, who was escorted away.
Keita was given medical attention before being led off the pitch.
The 29-year-old later told reporters he had been struck in the temple, saying: "I am shocked and angry. It is awful that something like this could happen."
Match delegate Nicklas Bengtsson said Keita was "not fit" to play on.
Ostersunds coach Graham Potter, a former West Brom player, added: "Keita is shocked. He's not doing so well."
Police said a 17-year-old male had been arrested.
"He is under arrest, we have informed the prosecutor of the arrest and interviews will be conducted with him about the suspected breaches of the law," Jonkoping police commander Peter Nordengard added.
This was the second time a game in the Swedish top flight had been abandoned this year.
In April, Gothenburg's match against Malmo was halted when a firework exploded at the feet of a substitute who was warming up.


A memorial to the victims of the Holocaust will be erected in Victoria Tower Gardens beside Parliament, David Cameron has announced.

Downing Street said an international design competition would be launched and the monument built by 2017.
The prime minister told MPs the memorial would "show the importance Britain places on preserving the memory of the Holocaust".
The announcement comes as Holocaust Memorial Day is marked worldwide.
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Mr Cameron said the memorial would be "a permanent statement of our values as a nation" and something that would be visited "for generations to come".
An education and learning centre will be also built beside the structure with Â£50m promised for the project.
Sir Peter Bazalgette, chairman of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, said it showed "we are doing the right thing for Britain's Holocaust survivors".
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said it would "send the strongest possible message... that the lessons of the Holocaust will forever form a part of our national consciousness".


Glasgow Warriors' Champions Cup destiny is "still in their hands", says head coach Gregor Townsend after his side were displaced at the top of Pool One by Munster on Saturday.

The Irish side's victory over Racing 92 moved them on to 16 points, three ahead of Glasgow as the sides prepare to meet at Scotstoun on Saturday.
Speaking after Glasgow's 29-15 Pro12 victory over Cardiff Blues, Townsend said: "We've got to play Munster and Leicester now and we'll just have to play really well to beat them."
He added: "Our destiny is still in our hands."
Townsend refused to be critical of Racing's performance in the 32-7 home defeat by Munster.
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With their Champions Cup campaign already over after three straight defeats - two of them to Glasgow - the French champions made several changes to their side. They were 25-0 down by half-time before offering more stern resistance after the break.
"We watched it, the coaches, and switched it off after half-time when the result was a foregone conclusion," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"Munster played really well. Racing were out of the tournament. They chose to mix up their team and there was only one team that dominated the game.
"The tournament is what it is. You have to play the opposition you're up against. We played Racing at the beginning and that's just the way it is. We played really well to win both those games."
Peter Murchie got two tries for Glasgow in their Pro12 match on Saturday, with Pat MacArthur and James Malcolm also crossing for Townsend's men against Cardiff.
The bonus-point win took Warriors to the top four of the Pro12, and Townsend feels it sets up his team nicely for the crucial meeting with Munster.
"Munster have played really well this season," added Townsend, who will replace Vern Cotter as Scotland head coach at the end of the season.
"They came very close to beating Leicester away in the last round. They lost that in the last kick of the game and I think that's their only defeat in their last 10 games. So we know what a tough team Munster are. We've played them twice already this year.
"It does make it tough for us in that we'll have to win our last two games to qualify. This group [of players] are capable of that and what we showed [against Cardiff] through the set-piece work of the forwards and through our energy and high-tempo attack - if we can play like that we'll have a very good chance next week."


The start of a 24 hour general strike in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has shut down public transport, with demonstrators blocking city streets.

Unions said turnout was high as workers protested against job cuts and the economic policies of the conservative president, Mauricio Macri.
Protestors scuffled with police as President Macri hosted an economic forum for Latin American leaders.
About a third of Argentines are living in poverty.